Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-12
Topics Of the Times

did not pay dividends? Then what
would be done about a road that paid
dividends on three and four times the
amount actually invested?
fair calendars were obtained in ex-
| change for a pass.
In Des Moines and Sioux City the
business men have joined in using
special editions of their local newspa-
pers for advertising their town. The
showing made is very creditabe and
will prove effective.
For nearly sixteen years German
workingmen have been enjoying Old
age pensions, for which their contem-
poraries in England are even now
fighting, and which their brethren in
America have not even dared ask for
Germany's old age pension forms part
Of a general escheme by means OF
which the workingman is compelled TO
protect himself with the aid of his en-
ployer and the state from all the sur
fering. poverty and disabilities which
arise from sickness and old age.
Thirty days of drouth would now be
worth million per day.
This is a good time of year to let
mother have those improvements mace
to the house. she has earned it.
Telepra nh operators employed by
the newspapers in Chicago are asking
for $50 per week. A great many coun-
try merchants with $4,000 invested
in their stocks, would go on strike.
too. IL they could be guaranteed $50
per week net profits the year around.
President Gompers, speaking at
Colfax chautauqua, asserted that ne
believed that conditions had greatly
improved for the working man.
Now that we will have permanent
international court Of arbitration, VINO
is going to be policeman and force ev-
cry belligerent country to arbitrate?
The increased price which the print
paper trust will exact from the Times
Republican during the next year would
pay the salaries of three good solicit
tors or editors. AS yet, no subscriber
has offered to raise on his subscrlp-
ton rate. so, like the inch off from
mans nose. the tribute will have to
come out of the net earnings.
In the department of WorldPolitics,
in the August End number of the North
American Review there are two COM
munications. one from Berlin on the
topics: The German Ministerial
Changes; "Germany's Foreign Rela-
tons; and the other from Washing
ton on the topics: Japan, Corea and
the United States; Our Delegation
at The Hague; "A Suggested Demo-
cratic Nominee for the Presidency"
When Hoke Smith was seeking
nomination for governor from the DEM
ocratic party in a Georgia primary, the
T.-R. had occasion to remark that the
issues were much the same as in Iowa.
and that Smith was being opposed by
the railroads and special interests
Smith won, as Cumrnins won and like
Cummins got friendly legislature
The program of reforms thus far en-
acted contains a prohibitory law, an
anti-lobbyst law, Acknowledgement
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all leading citizens and now Governor
Smith recommends in special mes
sage a tax of per cent upon the gross
income of railway companies in lieu Of
the valuation tax which has been very
inadequately levied.
The foreign trade in automobiles
shows rapid growth, especially on
the export side. The value of exports
of automobiles and parts thereof was,
in 1902, little less than 1 million dol
lars; in 1903, IA millions; in 1904, l n
millions; in 1905, 21A millions; in 1906.
8 1amillions and in 1907, 81 millions
of dollars On the import side the
value of automobiles brought into the
United States has only within the last
two years been sufficient to justify the
bureau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor in stating their
imports separately, the value of auto
mobiles imported in the fiscal year 1905
being $3,S44,000, and of parts thereof
100000; while in 1907 the value Of
these vehicles imported was $4,041 900,
and Of parts thereof $S01,000. Thus the
growth in exports of automobiles is
much more rapid than that in imports.
and the value of automobiles exported
seems likely in the near future to ex-
coed by far the value Of those i'm
ported.
Next Sundays New York World will
contain a superb Illustration of the
pen work of Charles Dana Gibson, the
most famous of all American artists.
This picture is one of the series of
Gibson Bathing Girls" that has made
such hit on the stage at the New
York Roof Garden.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
Had it been in the power of Judge
Lands to inflict it. the only adequate