Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-30
.NHOOPS nUP TOR TAFT.
Tar West ut the Presidents
Word Rally Around Secre-
tary as New Leader
HOPE OF FAIRBANKS FADING
Great Demonstrations Planned in All
Cities to the Coast Smoking Habit
Spreads, According to Census Bureau
Western States Appeal for Work.
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Western States Appeal tor work.
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washington, Aug. So.-Word has
4 reached washington that plans were
4 made to have Secretary w. II. Tafts
reception at Denver yesterday and last
night one of the most brilliant affairs
OF the kind ever undertaken in that
city. The enthusiasts say that II
eclipsed anything ever done there for
the president himself,
s. For Portland, Sept. and s, Tacoma
Sept. z and s, and Seattle Sept. and
a 10. similar plans have been made. All
this territory is the territory where the
president is strongest, and the demon
situations for Taft are intended to show
4 the rest of the country that the strong
Roosevelt states are in favor of Tafts
nomination next year, he being the
presidents choice.
Heretofore there has been little or
no Taft sentiment in the mountain
states. All republicans there have
/ been favoring another term for
Roosevelt and Taft has not been talked
about. Now, however, there is a genu-
ME Taft boom on out there ana It IS
said that plans have already been per-
fected to give all the mountain states
5 all the way OUT ito the Pacific to Taft
. In the 1908 convention.
The development of a Taft boom in
tf,e far west is the direct result Of an
animation by the president that he was
In earnest about not running again, and
wanted Taft as the man most certain to
continue the Roosevelt policies.
This word has been spread over the
west within the last six weeks by Sec
retaries Garfield, Wilson and Strauss,
and by letter from the president to his
personal friends. f
1t is said in Washington that If Fair
banks ever had any hopes of getting
delegates from the far eastern states,
they are now gone glfmmering
The bureau Of the census has just
issued a report on the manufacture
Of tobacco.
The value of products increased 25.6
per cent for 1905, as compared with
1900; the cost of materials, 35.S per
cent; and the amount paid in wages,
900 per cent The reported capital
shows an increase OF 1905 per cent
This disproportionate increase in CAPT
tai is very striking. The increase, it
seerns, was mostly confined to the item.
cash and sundries, and may be due in
~ ~, he at h.
Cd Of reporting this item at the two
censuses. But the figures seem to in
dicate that for some reason a very
large and exceptional amount Of capital
was employed in this industry in the
year covered by the census Of 1905 as
compared with conditions FIVE years
before.
4 The number Of wage earners en-
pIoyed in 1905 in this industry was
159,40S; this represents, the average
number employed during the year and
includes 1891 men, 66,30a women, and
7,416 children under Is years of age.
The proportion of women comprised in
the total has greatly increased in re-
cent years In 1880 only, 23.1 per cent
of the total number of wage-earners
In this Industry were women. This pro-
portion Increased to 29.s per cent in
1890, 37.2 per cent in 1900, and 416
per cent In 1905.
OF the reported aggregate value of
products, cigars and cigarets form SAT
per cent and chewing and smoking to-
bacco and snuff 1913 per cent. OF the
total number Of wage earners, IS per
cent were employed In the manufacture
OF cigars and cigarets.
According to the reports of the COM
missioner of internal revenue, the total
amount of tobacco manufactured in
1904 was 44s,511,5s3 pounds, the guam
tity used in the manufacture of cigars
and cigarets being 141,020,029 pounds, 4
as compared with 307,491,554 pounds
used for the production of chewing
and smoking tobacco and snuff. AS re-
ported by the census, the value of the
raw materials-mostly tobacco used in
the manufacture of cigars and cigarets
sS$6S,291, 00D was more than twice the
value of that consumed in the other
branch Of the industry ($31, BAT ,252).
Labor is needed urgently in Illinois
and Michigan. The federal bureau OF
Immigration was advised to this effectby
- vAA AsSS', SOSA Oech III l1lt -UuISdu VI
labor statistics at Springfield and NJ
y. Mcleod, commissioner Of labor at
Lansing, Mich.
Mr.. Ross states that in Illinois there
is very general demand for labor in
most lines of employment at increasing
wages. There is considerable railroad
construction work in progress and the
coal business is better than at this sea-
son for many years past.
In Michigan where the state has free
bureaus at Detroit, Grand
Rapids, Saginaw and Kalamazoo, there
is great scarcity of farm hands and
Of unskilled labor in the larger cities.
Word has been received from Manila
that New York capitalists have become
greatly interested in the report that !
Philippine woods have been found to be
available for the manufacture of LEAD
pencils Samples are now on the way
to the United States.
Lead pencil woods are becoming
scarce and if the philippine woods are
satisfactory there will be large mar