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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-13

All parties interested in the Franklin
cemetery are requested to meet at the
cemetery on Tuesday morning Aug. 18th,
for the purpose of cleaning up the
grounds. Come early in the morning
and bring all such tools as are needed
for the work and determination to do
your share toward identifying the last
resting place of our departed friends.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25

of this Protestant age I am not say
ing that its failures in any direction are
complete. They may be summed up
in this Judgment that the Protestant
faith is losing mastery over the con-
trolling forces OF modern life. This Is
apparent to some extent in all the
spheres of life. For one thing Protest.
antism has lost the old authority of
the church 1t has lost 1t in Its own
families. Ronanism has authority in
the family from birth to death: from
baptism to extreme JUNCTION. Profess
tantism has lost the voice Of authority
also in the state: our churches. as
churches, are not accounted to be po-
litical powers. More than this.
Professionalism as organized, or. rather.
as 1t Is disorganiZed in our churches,
has lost control over large areas OF re-
ligious thought. 1t is not merely that
worldlhess i.s coming in. but much
religion is withdrawing itself from our
churches.
professionalism has lost power to
give to the people good religious
education. II is not meeting much re-
ligious thought and questioning among
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
pRourrs REPLY TO ooLLlyER.

At Council Bluffs Senator Dolliver
enumerated the crowning achieve
ments of Allison's constructive states
mamship as six in number, the first of
which was his revision Of the internal
revenue laws, to which Judge Prouty
replied:
LAS to the revision of the internal
revenue laws made under the direction
of Senator Allison, he points out as
the GROWING achievement of his la
bors that the tax had been reduced
from 5000 per gallon on distilled
liquors to 10 cents per gallon, and
that in the last year of the operation
under the old law the government had
collected revenue on about 14,000,000
gallons, and that under the new law.
the first year, revenue was collected
on - 100000 gallons. see in this
declarat ton nothing of which republic
cans should be especially proud. This
is but an amplification of the old DEM
cratic theory that a reduction in the
tariff increases bot. production and
consumption. But whether it is a wise
or an unwise policy that lads to the
Increased production and onsL:nption
of liquor in this country might lie a
question upon which good republicans
could easily disagree"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25

Cath.), "is absurd, monstrous, anomal-
Gus, incredible-but there 1t Is, and
what will come out of 1t Is a perilous
secret to be revealed in the near fu-
ture." With a population of over a
half million, ninety-flve per cent OF
whom write themselves down in
the census book, as Catholics.
Rome, according to this writer. has
done the incredible" thing of handing
itself over "to an anticlerlcal majority
with freemason mayor at their
head" The latter designation derives
from Nathans title of honorary grand
master of Italian freemasonry, his cleo
ton to the grand mastership having
taken place in 1899. He was chosen
to that office says the same writer.
because he was "a most bitter and
subtle enemy Of the Catholic church.
Among his memorable phrases, we read
further, is one in which he declares:
"The Catholic religion is to be COM
bated because 1t is the graft OF SUI
perstition on dogma"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
a@ Ma.z~<
ENDORSES THE SUGGESTION.

Editor Times Republican,:
l have read with interest your edl-
torial relative to the scarcity of hands
at the South Dakota state prison which
prevented the manufacture of binding
Irvine in said institution and, as 1t
appears from your statement, the con-
victs We're all needed to finish shirt
contract. / noted the regret you ex-
pressed that said convicts were en-
ployed in said institution in the man
ufacture of product that was usually
produced by the toll of women, and the
pity that any convicts should be so
employed as to interfere with the hon
est labor of women and girls. And
notice that you infer that if these con-
victs were employed in the manufac-
ture of binding Irvine that honest la
Dor would be less injured.
Now as it happens, / am somewhat
familiar with the manufacture Of bind
ing Irvine, so permit me to state that
the help employed in such factories
are mostly women and girls, so that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25

shifting said convicta from shirts TO
binding Irvine would not altar the
principle OF Interference with honest
labor nor lessen the wrong to worthy
female toilers.
Then too the saving in the price OF
binding Irvine to the consumer. where
manufactured by convict labor. is a
saving so small and Il saving that
benefits so small a PEI cent OF the
total population of Il state that the
gain IL not worth The candle, and
where done is a case of the state put
ting up capital to foster IL monopoly
in an industry conducted for the BEN
eft of the few and so smacks of class
legislation.
But your suggestion to use convict
labor for public highway improve
mcnt is. in my opinion, happy solu-
tion Of the question of convict en-
ploymcnt; for good roads are benc
fit to all men. and all classes of So
ciety can fully appreciate the blessing
Of improved highways Even in our
rugged climate, convict labor could be
employed in road building for al least
eight months in every year without
harsh exposure. The increased cost
of feeding and guarding convcts while
so employed would no. be so material.
as to prohibit such employment for
these unhappy people. Then, too, the
question of the health of those SO en-
ployed, would be we'll worth the eX
pertinent Life out of doors i'm camps
engaged IN clean healthy labor. the
sight OF flowers. of growing crops. the
sight and songs of birds. the sunshine
over all, would be more joyous. more
invigorating to body and mind. than
to be kept penned up n cramped quar-
ters: or than the sight of dingy walls
or the smell OF musty cells; and, more
over such employment of convict Ia
her would have the least possible
harmful effect upon honest labor.
Speed the day when our convict labor
will be so employed in our state.
Very sincerely yours.
j. l.. FARRINGTON.
Jan. "a. 1908.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
qimes- 3lrprhlr1, 3rarslatup, ]una aauarg Is 1908

teen years of service in Washington.
not in congress. has been very
short sighted policy. Bob has been
very successful in looking to his Of
flee holders over the district to manip-
ulate conventions and so far as he has
had no opposition, but at the primar-
les it viii be different
Brant was for several years resi-
dent of the Fifth district; he is now
IA very near neighbor. and is in touch
with the affairs OF the district. AS Is
we'll known. Brant is not taking or
ders from Des Moines," so the friends
of Our Bob. including the latter's o, H.
m, will have to find some other meth
cd Of answering Dawes tribute, above
quoted
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
Iowa OPINIONS AND NOTES.

$40 our befogged mind" explains
the Chelsea Independent, while we
know the principle is right, the primary
law seems cumbrous and unwieldy and
filled with unnecessary verbiage. The
work of men trained in the law in
variably is too full of language. A
right good newspaper man could trim
half of 1t away and yet leave it's pro-
visions intact and much more easily
understandable"
The GAINESVILLE Star comedies "The
way Attorney General BNers goes aft
er law violators makes him man
worthy Of the hearty support of the
voters, should be ever seek further fav-
ors at their hands. He does things"
The Odebolt Chronicle says: ANY
candidate with clean record and rec
ognized ability ought to beat Bob
Cousins out of denomination in the
Fifth congressional district. Bob could
mt have lasted more than one term in
the Tenth or Eleventh, and most re-
publicans have never been able to UNI
derstand why the Fifth has kept him
in Washington so long"
"rhe address Of the attorney general
is Des Moines If any of our readers
care to invite him into the sacred
precincts Of Tama county" suggests
the Tama Herald.
To the editor Of the Grinnell Regis
ter, who has been having the grippe,
there's one thing sure. If Senator AL
lison has the grippe much more he'll
want to resign. Holding office can
have no attraction to man when the
grippe germ has grip on his vitals."
Some of our worthy exchanges are
aggitatng the fact that Senator ALI
lison will withdraw from the senatorial!
race remarks the Fonda Times. and
adds: ''In our opinion he might as
we'll. for from all appearances he will
retire defeated candidate if he does
MT
The Britt News says: mo man who
seeks public office should be afraid
to have his record shown up. If ALI
sons record is spotless, as his adher-
ents claim that is, he will have moth
ing to fear in that direction
The Eldora Ledger believes there
was an opportunity for a certain de-
gree of harmony IL it had been seen
fit to have made the head of the state
republican ticket Garst and Murphy"
and concludes as Murphy and every
other standpatter editor in the state
sees fit to endeavor to pound Garst
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
After Professionalism, What?

The signs OF passing Professionalism
are read by the Rev. DR.. Newman
Smyth, pastor of the First Congl ega-
tional church, New Haven. What may
be expected to follow is something
that he calls New Catholicism His
analytic and prophetic utterances were
contained in his Christmas sermon,
report Of which we find in the New
York Evening Post December 2S).
1--WE have no reason to regard Prot
estatism as necessarily final period
of Christianity" he says. Two dis
tinct ages are to be found in it's his
tory: that of Luther's reformation,
and second, 1.-The time OF the recon-
struction of new churches and creeds
the centuries in which most OF our
existing churches We're formed and
our creeds were defined" For hum
dred years now we have, he says, been
breaking up creeds rather than MAX
ing them, and "the whole period may
prove to be transitional era In the
history of Christianity" He contin-
ues:
There are signs of the passing of
this Protestant age. They are to be
discerned alike in the success and in
the failure of Professionalism. ! need
not lnger to record it's splendid sue
cesses; Professionalism has it's trium-
plant arch. Its browning achievement
is that it has won the victory forever
for the spiritual liberty Of the individ-
ual man. Henceforth the right of pri-
waite Judgment, which the age OF Prot
estant Christianity has won, can never
be abolished Or destroyed. But when
one success in history has been
achieved, another task is at the door.
Another age is at hand. The signs OF
! it are written also across the failure
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
THE AFFINITY EVIL.
(Da>-enD,rt Times.

Judge Brennan at Des Moines. in
deciding the question of who should
haye the custody of little girl. took
occasion to score that new form OF
an old evil-A-the affinity He asserted
with all the emphasis allowed court
that even for an unmarried woman to
correspond with a married man IS
condemned by the laws. society ana
civilization, while for married wom-
an to carry on a clandestine rela-
ton with another man is violation OF
the most sacred commands. However.
while the affinity is Just now FREE
quently exposed in the columns of the
newspapers in divorce courts and VIII
contests. it Is a delight to know that
these things are published because
they are the exceptions, and rare ex-
ceptions at that. for where there is
one leprous home in which house,
hold gods are Knocked. there are thou
sands of others where life is sweet.
true and pure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
Iowa Newspapers
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ms's'nrs.mnn'x-v
THE OLD INHAB1TANT.
lOelMein Register)

We have talked with the oldest in
habitants and none of them claim to
remember anything like the weather
we have been having the latter part
Of January for the past fifty years in
January. Tuesday an old pioneer.
Miner Paign. was met out driving
without an overcoat. and he was ques-
toned relative to mis- recollection. He
stated that he had not known anything
like this weather after the middle OF
January since the year he first hit
the state in the winter of 1S53-5i,
when the boys at school, of whom he
was one, played ball TIL February.
That was few years before most OF
us were introduced into this vale of
smiles and tears, so that statement
will be allowed to stand. Other old
timers are called upon to state what
they can remember of September
weather in the latter half of Jam
llary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25

into the dust. hence Murphy should be
given the medicine his disease calls
for. political Oblivion. We were rather
charitiby inclined to Murphy. regard
less of the company he kept two years
ago, hut he nor any other standpattcr
in the state that has come to our no.
tice, desires harmony nearly as much
as they desire revenge. The lines VIII
again be drawn. progressive and stand
pat and the matter may as well be
looked in the face. We are in favor OF
any respectable and capable progress
sive who may oppose Murphy and VIII
do what we may be able to do In that
direction" concludes the Ledger.
THE tubcrculin test should be en-
forced for all dairy cows, and 1t should
be done even If state aid to compen-
safe owners of condemned animals
should be necessary, and a resultant
advance In the price of milk should not
deter the enforcement of the rule"
concludes the Council Bluffs Nonpar-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
IoHN MITCHELL AND A FUND.

The proposition of per capita tax
on ALI members of the United Mine
Workers to raise a fund of from $780,
900 to 100000 for John Mitchell, IS
manifestation of two prevailing ideas:
that men can be paid for keeping hon
est and THAT half million or there
about is only what a man needs TO
keep him and his family as they ought
to- live. It is also an expression OF
confidence in Mitchell
1T is peculiar phase of human ma
ture that were Mitchell to take adj
vantage of the offer to make him rich
this confidence would fade. When the
fax had been collected and the money
paid over, Mitchell would have de-
scended from his pedestal never to
get up again.
Mr.. Mitchell is too big, too earnest
and altogether too great an individual
TO permit himself to be pauperized into
a half millionaire. Most people who
know much of him admire and trust
him. The secret of his power and the
source of the popular confidence be-
slowed upon him is his unselfishness.
He hasn't been working for money but
for men, not for wealth but for an
idea. Public men who are worthy OF
confidence rarely grow rich. They
haven't time. They can't afford to
be wealthy.
At any rate why should men, most
of whom live in houses that rent for
"a to $40 a month, be panhandled to
create a 100000 fortune for a single
Individual? Why should $150.Q00 be
the sum suggested as the least neces-
sary to provide 3 decent living? The
sums named are evidence of the new
idea that thousand a month is COM
parative poverty and that real, living
consists Of Lavish display in new auto
mobiles or actresses.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25

its own children. There are many or
our best young men who religiously to-
day are very much in the position In
which, when in Constantinople, heard
q traveller was left. After the arrival
Of his vessel he was put in boat and
sent ashore But the Turkish Of
ficials at the landing found something
wrong in his papers and sent him back
to the ship. The officials Of the ship
refused to receive him because he had
not papers authorizing him to EN-
bark And the story left him passing
to and fro between the ship and the
shore, with no power to rest either on
land or In the ship. Such is the re-
ilgious state Of many minds. Pro-
testantism does not attract them, and
Rome repels them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
the VACANCY IS CERTAIN.

II was no easy task to get 1t but by
persistent questioning the T.-R mas
finally secured an answer to its query
why raise the question Of vacancy
in the senate during aarsts probable
administration as governor? me
Sioux city Journal took the bypath
and slipped around It, but the Cedar
RAPIDS Republican, less shifty. even II
more blind, answers direct. 1t says:
zone man, who thinks as the Mar
shalltown paper does, POLITICALLY
stated the exact truth recently when
he said that even If Cummins did not
heat Allison at the primaries, OF Whlcn
he admitted he was greatly IN douDt'
cummins would get to the senate IN
any event. He said that the chances
were that Senator Allison might ole,
sometime during the four years tnat
they hoped to have Garst In the gov.
ernor,s chair--and then, why, Garst
would appoint Cum1nins the day AFTER
the funeral. He boosted OF that, ana
II the Marshalltown paper did not pe-
lieve the same way, that IS chat
carst would do that very thing. 1t
would not support Garst for a min
nte It isn't necessary for Garst to
say what he will do, they know what
he will do"
Exactly. The chances are that there
will be a vacancy during the -FOUR
wears. We are glad the Republican
has admitted it. Now, will the Re-
publican tell us what wisdom there
can be in re-electing to the United
States senate sick and decrepit OLD
man, whom everybody believes must
slncumb during the next four years?
Is our public service of so little ac-
count that we, do not need men OF
yigor and strength to do arduous WORK
In the United States senate? Is II
charitable or humane to keep an old
man in the senate, after he is 80 years
old and carry him into committee
meetings on a cot when his vote IS
badly needed? The Republican has
admitted the main contention that the
vacancy is bound to occur, will 1t now
answer the question: "Why not elect
a, live man to the senate now, and
take it entirelyrout of the hands OF the
next royernor?" The Sioux City Jour-
nal can answer TO this too, if 1t cares
10. but no direct facing of an issue
can be expected from the Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
DAVE RRANT ON COUSINS.
lCedar Rapids Gazette.)

To show the extent Of the feeling
against Bob Cousins and to prove that
opposition to him is not based on fac
tionalism. it is only necessary to re-
produce comment such as the follow
ing from the Iowa City Republican,
Dave Brants paper:
eff Bob Cousins has to go up against
Jim Good of Cedar Rapids for nomin-
alton, he will realize when the votes
in Cedar Rapids are counted that
knowing not to exceed a half dozen
men in Linn county during the six
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
An lnsiduous Dancer.

one of the worst features of kidney
trouble is that 1t is an insiduous dis
ease and before the victim realizes his
danger he may have a fatal malady.
Take Foley's Kidney Cure at the first
sign of trouble as 1t corrccts irregu
Iarities and prevents Bright's disease
and diabetes. Mcbride & Will Drug
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
Topics d the Times

The gentlemen at the, Sioux city
River Improvement congress all fay
ored Improvement of inland waterways
but let us hope that they will never
open the public treasury to make a
navigable stream Of the Des Moines
river.
Why shouldn't the new primary law
require careful study? 1t took us 100
years to perfect our general election
laws and now we are trying to bring
our nominating machinery up from
utter chaos to the election progress Of
a century air at one stroke.
When the Iowa delegation is turned
over to Shaw instead of Taft what are
LATE and Perkins and Cole going to
do to square themselves?
The newspapers which have been
bounding Governor Cummins with per-
sona1 attacks daily for eight years will
now get hysterical at the viciousness
of factionalsm that will dare criti-
else Allison's record.
Secretary Shaw evidently Believes
that the place to campaign for lowa's
delegation Is among the Iowans at
Washington. These are the gentlemen
who have always delivered 1t hereto
fore.
4 =
On great moral issues President
Roosevelt IS unerring in Judgment.
but on a business issue a man like
Shaw could discount him. For this
reason the presidents support of the
Aldrich bond secured currency should
not be given undue Importance. 1t is
likely that he would support an asset
currency Just as quick If able men
from the senate should give 1t their
recommendation.
The democrats attack upon Cortel-
you for what he did to allay the panic
are just about as ridiculous as Lafe
Youngs plant that the state of Iowa
is bankrupt because a Cummins leg
islature appropriated close up to the
states income. What does the state
collect money for if not to spend it for
the public good? Nobody wants his
state government boarding.
And still the cattle are grazing in
the pastures. What matters 1t if corn
does stay above the so cent mark?
Those petitions that candidates cir
culate are merely form required by
law. To attempt to get petition Of
huge dimensions for it's political effect
will prove a frost.
However "the Des Moines plan" has
some advantages over the Sioux City
and Council Bluffs way.
The congressional nomination in the
Fifth district is asking Nov will you
be Gopd?''
Despite laws forbddng intermar-
riage, Professor Giddings says the full
Dlooueu negro is last uisdppes'i MS ny
amalgamation. There is no question
of social equality in vice.
The statement that a Russian named
Jovanovitch owns $4,000 dogs. gives
some idea Of the severity of Rus
sian winter and the depths of poverty
to which a man may sink in Russia.
If congress should conclude to
spend that 40 millions needed to
make the Missouri river equal to
500 railroads." some people along its
banks will begin to see what they
lost when the corporations quit poll
ties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25
The Jewish Mayor of Rome.

Ernesto Nathan, the new mayor OF
Rome, is half English and half-Jew.
and the predicament created by his
election is viewed with much dismay
by Roman Catholic journals The sit
uation, says the correspondent OF the
New York Freeman's Journal Rom.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-25

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