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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
Ready Made Sermons.

MANY are Indifferent to religion;
there are no partisans. The pastor,
therefore, sends Is cents to the HON.
lietic department of this enterprising
company, and he may have mailed IN
New Yorl. every Friday morning in
plain sealed envelop' what he may use
as a sermon the following Sunday, or.
If his conscience ballss at that, as an
outline. We act says the homilet1o
as your secretary
consult references, gather up the ma
terial. put it in shape. and submit
it to YOU for inhibition (sic) and serv-
ice. We do more than the work of a
secretary. We select the text and out
line it. Can anything be simpler and
more helpful?' We should say not
Note. too, that these outlines are print
ed in large typewriter type. so that the
minister has no labor of copying to
embody in his own work. He can use
the outline as 1t is, or interline, add,
and amplify anywhere he pleases with
the least labor Then, too. the sermons
are strictly up-to-date and the min
ister may have a reduction for time
1t costs only SIS for six
thus placing this unique serv-
ice within the reach of the poorest
Of ministers The Homiletic depart
ment Is further commended to the
and hard-driven pastor on the
ground that it will permit him to get
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

The hold of the distinctive party
paper or 1.-THE party organ as it is
still designated. is no longer strong
The field of general circulation is oc-
cuped by the newspaper The mar
ket demands news, and such opinion
as the editor may supply is incidental
and subordinate. The reader has
come to believe in his own opinions
which he protests he is quite capable
of forming for himself out of the
material the news supplies rs COM
pletely to him as to the editorial
writer. The reader, moreover, has
confidence in his own rectitude of
mind, while he has much temptation
to believe that subsidy, in some form
is a motive power to opinion set forth
in editorial columns. The reader calls
for the news. He wants the facts and
the figures. The newspaper is an aid
but it's reliability is always in question
and it's opinions still more a matter
of doubt.
On the business side Of the news
paper politics is not now a. controlling
influence. Advertisers demand read
efS, ana newspapers are dependent
upon advertisers. Publishers supply
as they are able, or as they have war
rant for conscience. what readers
want the main point being to reach
the advertisers. The newspaper is
not exactly a department store, but it
has its relation. Editorial opinion has
it's place, but the bargains are in the
news columns. Politics is a matter
of opinion, and the profit makers are
in other departments of the business.
All that business men require is that
the newspaper shall be popular, and
as its popularity is measured they ap-
portion orders. They buy space in the
under the same rule used
in buying goods for their counters
That is business. The influence upon
the newspaper to subordinate politics
is by no means singular, and the Won
der may be that it is not more potent.
Yet that is the influence which is in
the minds of the people who speak in
sweeping condemnation of "a subsi-
died press"
No respectable newspaper will make
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

| ing near by. AS result Oh % ' ,',,'
red devils daily snorting on 'he pup'i'
| roads. the average Grumpy eoun' y
horse has submitted to the lneVitapie
and nays little or no attention to them
=, fr,nt or behind And the Grumpy
county farmer too. has become recon
c,Ied to their use of the pppilc hish-
way. and now gives half OF tle roao
this because ne knows how 1t Is MN :
self in other words. several farmers
own and use automobiles. One farmer
explains how he came TO BUY SLooo
machine. you see, when they hrst
began to be common on the ROADS we
had to stay at home because our horses
were SO afraid of them, so 10 go 20
church or town we had to buy an aut-
omobile."
Each succeeding year potato figures
in Grundy county get larger ana 'ars-
err. The crop Of 1908 in round numbers
was EGG carloads shipped out, and
worth on track at Grundy Center Sl5o,-
600. Next year still larger acreage
will b. planted. Land sowed to clover
to turn over next spring, now rents
for sl1 an acre.
Put this in your note book During
Thanksgiving week 1908, dandelloiis
were in blossom in Grundy county, ihe
writer picking several fine specimens
while walking from the depot at eIrun-
DIV Center. Wild strawberries are also
again. Query, are tnose
second growth leaves. vines ana dos
SONS. the result of seed dropped this
wear. or is 1t a second growth from
the old root? Some of us want to
know.
The fact that the railroad commits
sioners of Iowa have the power ana
have used it to order-thats the word
order the c. r. I. & p, h. X. to
build new depot in East Des Moines
is an eve opener stimuant to the
public Who can now say our railroad
commission is entirely ornamental and
want 1t abolished? While the commits
sioners are In the ordering business
why not take up the sanitary condl-
tons of many Of the depots? "A late
decision gives the local board of health
in any incorporated town the right to
clean, disinfect and repair any depot,
which railroad company refuses or
neglects to attend to, and 1t would
seem by reference to the statute books
that our railroad commission has pow
ar in this line, that can be well used
For the benefit of the public. Here's
\ case in point. In one Iowa town. IN
railroad depot on the 14th OF Novem-
Der, 1908 there was no heat for walt
ng passengers. The agent in answer
o repeated requests for heat. said
here were not CRATES for the furnace.
That he ordered CRATES last July and
several times since had written for
hem, and received in return promises
rot CRATES Meanwhile the travelling
public suffers and where's the remedy?
ap MvnD1-~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
cANApA,s NEW EXPERIMENT.

Canada has begun new experiment
that will attract attention and be
watched carefully by other nations by
establishing old-age annuities. These
annuities are not less than $50 nor
more than 5000 annually and do not
mature before the policy holder is SIS
years old. The holders of annuities
must pay into the postoffice savings
bank 25 cents to So per week, accord
ing to the amount of their annuities.
Any person can make full payment of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
Newspapers and Politics.


Sioux City Journal.
merchandise of its opinions, but all
newsnansrs freely offer their adver-
Using SPACE for sale. They are COM
pelled to lock to means for support,
and the modern newspaper is depend
emf upon large revenue. The big end
of tba revenue comes from the adver-
Users newspaper dependent upon
tho nric,, of subscription cannot make
itself a. desirable commodity on the
,o,r,et. it will suffer rejection for
comnarative inferiority. and the conf
da,oa which runs to it is confidence
th.+ if is marked for an early grave.
public opinion will not now tolerate
mere party organ, with whatever
ability IT may be conducted. Pecuni-
,rv contributions for opinions sake
would not be tolerated, for many thus
Maid thru organization would be in
mn better repute than a shameless
corruption fund. Moreover, party
lines have been relaxed, and the
:, ,e, ,,,s,,anar is like proportion is called
,,v,on to exercise liberation and judi
cial fairness.
More than the spirit of commercial
len, is involved. Legitimate demand
for the distinctively party newspaper
hoe been astonishingly decreased by
40 Ealing off in demand from the
areat body of the electorate for the
-, ointenance of strict party lines.
n1nob legislation has been enacted in
tended to liberate the voters. 1t has
nm to the weakening of party ma
WINERY and it is a boast that the
i,onortance of nominations, even un-
der the primary system, cannot be
determined until the election ballots
arc counted. Newspapers are neces-
s.ri,v affected by the change, and it
s.t,ould not be surprising that they are
,ass secure than formerly in their re-
lat lions to what remains of party 10y
altv and obligations.
If IS true at least that the general
newspaper cannot live under condi-
tions ss they have come to be on the
naramountcy of its politics The proof
:, outside of theory. 1t is in expert
nnna in many instances accumulated
At the expense of wasted years and
fortunes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
THE VOTE THAT WAS LOST.

| Just at present there Is Vociferous
demand from number of republican
papers, largely without regard to fac
| tional alignment of the past. for the
restoration of the circle on the ballot.
1t is urged that many votes were thus
| lost because voters neglected or were
to ignorant to mark thru to the end
of the choice offered them between
candidates. The Dubuque Times, one
of the insistent advocates Of restora-
ton, asserts that there is no mora
scratching with the circle off
than with it on, and denies removal
is Of any value as to consideration
of the fitness Of various candidates.
The Times assertion as to scratch
ing is hardly borne out by the cleo
tion evening specials which stated that
''the ticket is badly cut up and the
count in consequence slow in hun
dreds of instances. 1t appears from
the reports of correspondents that
considerable Judgment of one kind and
another had been exercised upon the
fitness lof candidates by the voters.
Some election surprises in the count
bear out the correspondents. By and
large, partisans voted their party ticket
but that they lodged occasionally to
yI,e l,+N h,t
ter man for the office is quite as evil
dent.
Who lodged? Mostly the man who
would have gone down the ticket, given
1t consideration and voted judicially
came to swell his numbers this year
More will come next year. Who failed
to vote out? Invariably the man who
fails to inform himself, the circle
voter who is content to perfunctorly
vote ticket national, state, county
and township with a single cross, the
man who hadn't learned how to per-
form the simple operation of voting
without guide. The old guard
who vote 'er straight, if the devils
on the ticket voted straight down the
side to the end, but naturally couldn't
and can't see any sense or reason in
voting for each candidate separately. !
The vote that was lost was the
ignorant and careless vote, vote that
in strict political morality does not
belong in the box or in the count !.
Under the plain voting procedure Of
the day the voter who does not care
to inform himself sufficiently to exer- /
else the simplest right of citizenship.
deserves to lose his vote and the coun-
try can better afford to lose than count (
it. A schoolboy Of 10 can learn to
vote quicker than he can learn to
harness a horse.
The removal Of the circle was a |
step toward more judicial voting. It
should stay off. And the voter who
finds himself unable or unwilling to /
qualify himself to mark a ballot should
to lose that part of his rights
which he refuses to claim.
Keep the circle of. Let's educate
he voters of whom we have been told
hat the accident Of alphabetical pri-
,rity in a candidates name is suffi-
.ient to secure their votes by reason
# their custom of marking a cross
against the first name they come to
m the ballot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

/ =
err continued: ''e ''i''
eo,,nd 80 90, iean and hungry man was
ioufio VITA such lust for office that
ne was willing to wade thru the
siaush ter or thousand homes to be-
| co'''e = governor And he won. He
was aided by all sorts If n,,trid pol
| itics
S''''sihg with sense of stricken
prioe, tna' his state should have missed
one OIL ,he greatest opportunities in Its
history tflis noble leader, now a mar
tyr-Sena.or Carnack- indulged in
some criticism Of those who had been
prominent In campaign of shame.
For this a whlte-h haired self important,
consequential looking old man, who
should have been preparing himself
TO meet his God, accompanied by his
son. Whon, like coward. he permit
tea 10 perform the act. stood by and
iisleheu' while three bullets were fired
at MS victim and at last Senator Car
mack fell dead.
And all this happened in the splen-
did city Of Nashville, in the great
state OF Tennessee, in front of the
house where President Polk lived for
long tlrae and in sight of the state
capitol Some call it chivalry. No one
VIII be quicker to repudiate the state
ment than southern gentleman The
south has no use for a Tillman who
shot a man in the back, nor for muir
derers that fire from the windows of
rooms in Kentucky, nor for poker play
ers and drunkards and gamblers who
go out to defend an honor they lost
long before, If they ever had it. and
with no excuse or warming. kill their
victims in cold blood Every one of the
Cooper bullets was aimed at a prin-
ciple, at freedom of speech and at pro-
hibition.
But lei. no one be discouraged be-
cause reformer like Governor Hughes
runs 10000 behind his ticket and Gov
ernor Hanly and Governor Folk are de-
feated, and Senator Carmack is muir
dered. We do not know how much
asleep we are how determined and
mean and vllainous the great enemy is,
until these things happen. Then we
wake up.
All sympathy for Tennessee in its
humiliation 1t needs it as much as H.
linois few months ago For this has
been bloody year. All consolation to
the family and friends of the heroic
dead. Now watch the spirit of justice
come out of the grave and utterly
crush the evil that never was hurrying
more swiftly to its DOOM"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

fully, understands the a11egiances res
quired Of him by the pope, can never
sincerely subscribe to the federal COLI
stitution, nor If it does subscribe to 1T.
never can be expected to abide by 1T,
enforce and defend it?
Are the 1000, 900 and more Luthe.-
ans of this country, not to speak of
the millions of other protestants WHO
take this position for the reasons stat
ed, to be accused of bigotry or fail
atheism because of such their stand.
aye. he denounced as being disloyal
American citizens?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
For Sunday Reading
AN Sorts ofObini;on,
ap M~1-.>+
Carmack - A Martyr,

Ex-senator Carmack martyr and
every bullet which struck him a mis-
sile aimed at a principle was the bur-
den of a. sermon delivered by Rev.
Frederick E. Hopkins.
Every shot was an echo Of the
vilest politics which history records"
was one of Rev. Mr.. Hopkins declara-
lions.
After describing the prohibition
movement in the south and declaring
that Senator Carmack had made the
message of prohibition his own and
had ridden forth to spread it over
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
Looker-On In Iowa


Dysart Nov. 2S-On the 23rd inst
the day before the session of the legis-
iature. two men were in hotel office.
One of them, reading from daily pa
per: "Who's this Guss that's going to
be appointed GOVERNOR He was told
that it was Lieutenant Governor Garst,
who became governor because of Cum
Minis resignation. whats Cummins
going to resign for?" asked a travel
ing man And he was told. An &C
tural occurrence.
Grundy Center now has garage
that boards and lodges sixteen ma
chimes, besides two automobiles reg
ularly employed in the livery business.
There are also fourteen other automo-
biles owned in town or by farmers llv-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
Don't Aaree With Preacher Roosevelt.


In letter to be simultaneously with
it's reception by President Roosevelt,
the New York City synodical confer
ence of the Evangelical Lutheran
church of America. body of more
than 5000 clergymen has taken issue
with the president over the letter made
public week ago, in which he de-
nounced as "unwarranted bigotry" any
refusal to vote for a nominee for high
office, because of membership in the
Roman Catholic church.
The letter to the president was
mailed on Saturday night. 1t says in
part:
care you not aware Of the fact that
the Roman Catholic church has again
and again, for centuries back. and
down to modern times. thru it's official
head and other authorities, denounced
as wholly wrong and as things to be
tolerated only so long as they cannot
be changed, the completed separation
of church and state full religious lib
erty, freedom of conscience, OF speech
and Of the press, and that. moreover,
1T proclaims it's teachings and princi-
pies to be Interchangeable and bosts OF
being 'semper idem?'
care we not then compelled to MAIN
tain that a loyal Roman Catholic who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
hsxamethyIenst stramine.

The above Is the name of ,Germ;n
chemical, which is one of the many
valuable ingredients of Foley's Kidney
Remedy. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Is
recognized by medical text books and
authorities as uric acid solvent anad
antiseptic for the urine. Take F'oles's
Kidney Remedy as soon as you notice
any irregularities. and avoid 8 serious
malady Mcbride & Will Drug coln-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

along with fewer books and magazines
and enable him to give more time to
his parish work. No clergyman need
fear detection, for we shall not fur
nish our service to more than one min
lister in any given city or town AMI.
in any case, no patron need fear
an accusation of plagiarism If he
used a magazine or book he might
but in this case he need have no
qualms of conscience: We sell the
clergyman our work. and he has 4
right to use what he purchases as
seems best to him Casuistical effront-
cry could not go much further"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

Bees Laxative Cough Syrup always
brings quick relief to coughs. colds.
hoarseness, whooping- cough and all
bronchial and throat trouble. Mothers
especially recommend 1t for children.
Pleasant to take, gently laxative. B. A.
Morgan's drug store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

ut Is apparent that the dipsomaniac
hospital at Knoxville is a decided fail
ure,' asserts the Eldora Ledger 1--WE
have not in mind a more foolish idea
carried out into action. You cannot
purify stream by cleaning it's banks
at the foot and no man with common
sense will try 1t. Look to the head of
the business and set the brains at
work there. The fountanhead of the
stream springs from the home, the
same as the social evil, and it is a
question first for the fathers and
mothers when the child is young"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28
MEMORY.

n n Y mind let's 60 thousand thin X,
IL Like dates Of wars and deaths
N Of kings,
And yet recalls the very hour
Twas noon by yonder villags
tower
And on the last blue noon in May
The wind came brisify UP this way,
Crisping the brock beside the road;
Then. pausing here, SGT down it, load
or pine scents and shook listlessly
TWO petals from that wild rose tree.
Whom, G Bailey Aldrfc{.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

ut is poor time for republicans
to sduabble over party matters. but
the Humboldt Republican was never
deeply in love with Uncle Joe While
conservatism is a good thing. there
can be too much of anything While a
man must be something af a Czarto
quell the riotous members of the lower
branch of congress. he need not be
stone deaf to the call of the people"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

"The pastor of a Madrid church one
time informed the writer that one of
his members annually deposited a GER
tain amount of money in the hands of
his groceryman to pay for goods which
he wished distributed among the needy
of the community If any We're to be
found" relates the Madrid News Reg
lister and suggests at would be diff
cult to imagine a more thorough eX-
emplification of the true Thanksgiving
spirit"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

Senator Albert Baird Cummins." is
the salutation of the Carroll Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

Since the Onawa Democrat "has
looked over the election returns of
such counties as Calhoun, Sac, Buena
Vista and a few others, it takes re-
newed courage and thanks God it lives
in Monona county"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

"a republican tariff reformer is
rnisnomer" declares the Washington
Democrat "The two terms are incom-
natihle homogeneous; they cannot be
spoken in the same sentence or IN the
same week But you Will be a good
deal older than you are this year when
the tariff is reformed or reduced with
Joe Cannon speaker
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

at were better for the republican
party if Joseph G. Cannon were not in
the limelight of public controversy"
says Senator Funk's Spirit Lake Bea-
con; and the DEBORAH Republican
"heartily endorses the expression. Con-
gress and the country needs a pacif1-
Gator in congress at this time, and not
one who prefers to be known as a
dominator"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-28

Referring to Cummins and Garst, the
Odebolt Chronicle says: "a fine pair,
and we'll worthy of the honors."
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-05
Extensively Partisan.

The public last week informed, through the
ordinary channels, that President Roosevelt
caught of his subordnates in an act of offensive
partisanship and proceeded to regulate him. The
delinquent was the collector of internal revenue
for the western district of New York. Archie D.
Sanders by
To Mr.. Sanders the president the following
telegram:
"Am informed that notwithstanding my telegram
of August 20 you still actively engaged in man
ipulating local politics. [ wish you to understand
distctly that this you cannot do, | shall retain
one in the service who does not comply with the
strict rules of the department and my orders with
gard to factional contests in the party. If you will
not comply with these orders wire your resignation
at once. Wire answer immediately
Mr. Sanders yielded immediate and humble ODE
dience and ceased his manipuations
1t only about two years ago that the president
sent his secretary of into the state of Idaho to
manipulate local politics, although a considerable por
ton of the population of the state protested direct
ly to the president against such official interference
Naturally Mr.. Sanders would suppose that if a
cabinet officer employed in a so often
svely partisan and was afterwards nominated by the
president to succeed to the presidency humble
collector might expect to improve his official
condition by following the example of the illus
trious spellbinder
He knows that an example must be made
and that a revenue collector is much
liable to fall under blow from the big stick than
secretary of war