Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-31


ago exposed and corrected the abuse
Of forced labor which had taken roo
| in his jurisdiction. Judge Brawle,
now condemns and sets aside a state
law which has sought to subject to in
voluntary seryitude agricultural labor
ers in South Carolina who incur debts
to employers or break contracts with
them. The law in question, passed in
1904, provided that any farm 1aborer
receiving advances in money or sup
plies for services and failing to per-
form those services according to con-
tract should be liable to prosecution for
a misdemeanor and to punishment, as
well as fine. In brief, it made debt on
the part Of such laborer a crime and
sought to secure payment Of the debt
to the employer by giving him the
power to enforce a status of peonage.
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A fresh Jersey COW will always sell
If people Only knew you had one. Try
an ad in the T.-R. and see how quick
ly buyers stop at your gate.
Every person is adapted to some one
line of employment better than to all
Others. All he needs to DO is to adj
vertise for the sob to his liking and
let the world come to him with its Of
fers.
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Those employers who are insisting
that the help easiest to secure at $12
week is the college graduate, fall to
furnish the story. It's also the hardest
to keep a s1s a week.
YES" said the young man rensively,
"a dog I once had saved my life"
Tell me about it, said the young
woman, with eager interest.
Il sold him for e." said the young
man, when I was nearly starving
Bits.
In a report to the foreign office the
British consul at Baltimore mentions
that within the last five years the ex-
cessive indulgence in cocaine by the
poorer people in that city, and espec-
tally by the negroes, has increased
enormously, bringing with 1t its usual
Decentralization and degradation and,
according to some observers, an in
crease in the death rate among the me-
gro population. The evil became SO
apparent, especially in the police courts.
where it was estimated that 10 per
cent of the prisoners were users Iof the
drug, that the Maryland legislature
passed a law in 1905 prohibiting the
sale of it in any quantity, either In a
pure state or combined with other ar
.ticles. unless prescribed by a physi-
clan.
The "Joliet Plan for the building
OF the deep waterway from Lockport
to the Mississippi offers a unique So
luton to the problems of financing the
project and is likely to have consid-
Grafton turnout the state. II the
state of Illinois, say the advocates Of
the plan, will bond itself to the
amount OF $500, 600. the estimated
cost OF the link from Lockport to Lake
Joliet, a water power can be developed
to 4o.ooO-horse power,
which would sell, according to the
state commissions estimate, for $25 a
year. making a total of $1,0oO,OoO an
nuaI revenue with which the bonds
could be In retired. Future isAues of
bonds for extensions Of the waterway
also could be paid without taxing
owners cent. Gradually
the various interests are becoming i'm
pressed with the facts concerning wa
terways in general, for which the ma,
tional rivers and harbors congress,
under financial difficulties, has been
waging a campaign urging the I'M
perative need of the expenditure of at
least s50,o00,00 in the improvement of
the rivers and harbors of the coun-
try.
The Chicago theological schools say
fewer young men than ever are enter
ing the ministry and some attempts
are being made to determine the rea-
son. 1t is pointed out that churches
have not followed the general order of
the day and consolidated. but instead
have divided into SO many small
churches that the demand for young
men with university and special edu-
cation who can live on $500 a year.
but be competent to raise money, has
far exceeded the supply. Clergymens
salaries have not increased, altho liv
ing expenses are Al per cent higher
than ten years ago. Prominent church,
men there say that few families now
adays have family prayers, that they
have ben supplanted by bridge whist
and that naterialism is rampant; the
third son is dedicated, not to the min
istry, but to the board Of trade. The
reason for the shortage in
the annual crop of preachers seems to
be the development of the west, the
starting Of new towns where churches
require pastors. Attention was called
to the fact that only young men were
wanted, that years and experience in
the pulpit do not in this country, as
in England, count in a mans favor;
that at so or so a minister is superan-
nuated.