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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
BRYAN,s DANGEROUS PALACES


Policies of folly and disaster; pro-
posing remedies worse than the dis
ease" and Offering schemes which
will not bear sober discussion is the
description which Governor Hughes,
of New York, applies to the latest de-
lusions conceived or plagiarized by
William j. Bryan, and presented as
reasons why he should be allowed to
masquerade as stateman. We
know what we have escaped from
their hands in the past" adds Cover
nor Hughes and escape from their
vagaries is just as essential now as
them
That is, in the opinion of New
York's able governor, the champion of
law enforcement in the Empire state,
a man who weighs every word he ut
tiers and says just what he believes, it
is as essential to the integrity of the
nations interests, of the national
credit and standing at home and
abroad, to reject at the polls the
absurd and dangerous fallacies adj
vanced by Bryan in this campaign as
il was to reject his free silver and
similar fallacies in 1896 and 1900.
Bryan's scheme for confiscating one
per cent of the deposits In national
banks, and as necessary conse-
quence also of state institutions, in
Guiding savings banks, is fully as dis
honest in It's conception, and would
be as calamitous in its execution as
his proposal to scale public and pri-
vate debts and labor's wages one-half
by paying them in fifty-cent dollars
would have been, had not the Ameri-
can people rejected Bryan and repu-
diation at the polls twelve and eight
years ago.
/ Bryan's only standing in the politi-
cal field today is due to the fact that
! he was beaten In the past when he
offered himself as the champion of
free silver, debased currency and ma
tional dishonor When his more re-
J cent vagaries, as Governor Hughes
politely terms his dark lantern device
! for getting into the vaults of honest
! banks to make up the graft" taken
j by dishonest bank officials from the
I institutions in their charge, shall have
+ been rejected, along with the rest OF
his shell-game policies in November
Bryan will have more occasion for
approaching the common sense of the
American people, and thanking them
for not allowing him to do the harm
he would like to do.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
TAFT VERSUS BRYAN.

Governor Hughes made brief but
effective presentation of the superior
claims of Judge Taft to the presidency
as compared with those OF Mr.. Bryan
in his speech at Youngstown, Ohio.
He avoided all denunciation of the
Democratic candidate and did not ques-
ton his motives or his sincerity. In
stead he said:
There are thousand exige neies in
the affairs of this great nation which
cannot be foreseen or attempted to be
controlled by any platform. The
sagacity. steadiness of character, firm
ness and sound judgment of the chief
executive must be the security of the
nation in many trying emergency.
And it is no injustice to Mr.. Bryans
attractive personal qualities, to his eff
fectiveneSs as an orator, his skill as
party leader, nor it is any disparage-
ment of the purity of his motives to
say that the man who espoused free
silver in 1896, renewed it's advocacy
in 1900 and later declared his belief
in government ownership of railroads
cannot be regarded as a safe leader
to whom may be confided the great
power of the President merely becaus )
those doctrines are omitted from his
present PLATFORM. The country needs a
man rockbased in sound conviction
and fundamental principle. in whose
good judgment in any difficulty all NAV
feel secure and such man pre-emin-
emily is William II. Taft.
The argument here set forth must
inevitably appeal powerfully to intel
ligent voters. and it is upon this class
that Judge Taft relies for support The
point made by Governor Hughes in
favor of Judge Taft's candidacy is as
strong as any brought forward during
the campaign. G8 at1le 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

An interesting decision involving
the question of disbarment of an attor-
ney has just been made public. 1t ap-
pears that the attorney for defeated
litigant wrote letter to the chief
justice, discussing his decision, and
using language derogatory to the in
telligence of the members of the Su.
preme court, and in another to the gov
ernor suggested the impeachment OF
the judges. These letters were pub-
lished in the newspapers The COVER
nor appointed five Judges of the dis.
trict courts as a tribunal to hear the
disbarment proceedings based there.
on. In state board of examiners in
law VS.. Hart 11e Northwestern Re.
porter, PIP, the court was unable ia
find reported case where an attorney
was disbarred for any utterance writ
ten or spoken concerning decision or
ruling of Judge in cause after its
final determination, and not addressed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
SOME PENSION FACTS.

The preliminary report. of the COM
missioner of pensions shows that gthei
total number of pensioners ION the
rolls on June 30, 1908. was 951,6S7,
of whom 62S,oS4 are survivors of the
civil war. Widows and orphans, and
soldiers who saw service elsewhere
than in the civil war make up the re-
mainder of the roll Death and other
causes removed 54,366 names from the
roll during the last year; 1852 were
added, and the net loss was 1864.
The number of pensioners from this
time forth will doubtless show a large
decrease.
The report shows that 1SS,445 wild
ows of soldiers have taken advantage
OF the law passed at the last session
of congress increasing to s12 month
the pensions to widows. The actual
expenditure for the year on account OF
pensions was $153,093,OS6, but on ac-
count of legislation increasing the
rate to individual pensioners the val.
re of the roll at the close of the year
was $159,495,701, an increase of $18..
644,S21 over the previous year. This
expenditure is the largest in the his
tory of the pension bureau.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
BANKERS IN OPPOSITION.

The proposals for government
guarantee of bank deposits and for
postal savings banks are both con-
demned by the savings bank section of
the American Bankers Association.
The resolutions expressing this con-
domination We're passed at the annual
meeting in Denver last week. Myron
T. Herrick, formerly governor of
Ohio. introduced the resolution on the
bank deposit plan, and said that if
such a system had been in operation
last fall an assessment of $4,000, 600
would have been required to relieve
the situation in New York alone.
the plan to levy tax on banks for the
purpose of securing a fund to guar
antee deposits was an unjust scheme
to compel the solvent, conservative
bankers to guarantee the depositors
of the reckless and INSCRIPTIONS
bankers. The resolutions say that
/ this plan is economically unsound in
principle. confiscatory in form and
/ inimical to the best interests of de.
4 positors, stockholders and borrowers (;
4 that it is a specious form OF paternal-
ism and socialism and that it would
tend to encourage speculation and an
/ undue expansion of credit.
I OF the postal savings bank plan, the
committee says that although in its
] opinion it would result in no great
detriment to the present savings
banks, yet the previous experience OF
the United States government in con
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

The Waterloo Courier tells of an
evangelist who was holding a meet
ing at Independence. He asked all
who wanted to go to heaven to rise
All rose save one man. After the au-
dience was seated, he asked all who
wanted to go to hell to rise No one
rose. The evangelist addressed the
one man who had remained seated
and asked him where he wanted to
go anyhow We'll boss he replied.
"if 1t makes no difference to you, l
don't want to go anywhere Buchan-
an county is good enough for me-"
The incident is used by the Courier
as peg on which to hang the remark
that no rising vote in any large audi
ence means what it seems to signify
The idea Is thus made clear:
Ninety-nine out OF every hundred
rise just because others rise and they
are afraid to appear peculiar Nobody
feels called upon to rise in opposition
because the leader of the meeting
oversteps his rights in springng any
such vote upon his audience. All such
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

building used for saloon purposes
when such saloon is conducted con-
trary to law Any citizen has it IN
his power to prevent the use ever
again of such building for saloon
purposes. The essential and impor-
tant fact overlooked by the saloon
men, their representatives in the city
council and their newspaper organ is
that the saloon exists in Keokuk by
tolerance, and not by right When
the Democratic organ walls about
rights" and unfair treatment" 1t
voices an imaginary wrong. So far
from helping the cause it represents
it simply calls the attention of the
community to the effrontery OF the
liquor interests and invites the public
wrath
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

Quoting banking institutions. and
notably in the Freedmen's Savings
and Trust Company, do not encourage
the belief that the proposed postal
savings system would be managed
more wisely or with better results
than the existing savings institutions.
The figures for 1906 are the latest
that are available. During that year
the total deposits in savings institu-
tons amounted to 100000; the
losses amounted to s120.UOo or three
-thousandths of one per cent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

The Davenport Democrat said in its
issue Of Thursday
This is the big day of Keokuk car
uival week. Davenport and Rock
Island which have just passed the
commotion and tribution, extend sym
patty"
Keokuk is happy to say 1t has pulled
through all right and, to be perfectly
frank a5out the matter, rather en-
ioyed the experience. There are car
nivals and carnivals, and much de
ponds upon how they are managed
and controlled. Dayenports sym.
pathy was doubtless well-meant and is
appreciated accordingly but the need
for it is not apparent here.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
PROTECTION IN A NUT
SHE'LL.

. Joseph G. Cannon The for 8
= eigners do not pay any of our =
= taxes. They don't help us keep e
= up our schools and public insti- =
. tutions. Then why should we =
= let them come in and share our .
. profits of trade? | say give the 4
. people at home who pay the =
. taxes the inside track on our .
. trade. The Democratic platform .
. wants to tear down the tariff =
= wall. which means that our labor =
. must suffer, also our agricultural .
= and commercial interests. The 9
. Republicans propose to adjust .
. the tariff, cut it down where 1T =
. Is now too high, but in doing so =
= we will fully protect our own la =
. bor We have had protective 8
. tariff ever since the days of Lin .
. coin except four years, and you =
. folks know what happened in =
= those four years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
WAR ON THE WHITE PLAGUE.

The sixth international congress on
tuberculosis which has just been in
session in Washington. brought to-
gether from all the world the most ia
nous of the men who have devoted
themselves to the study of this sub
ject Koch, of Germany; Calmette of
France; Bernard Hang, of Denmark;
Newshole and Woodhead, of England:
Tendeloo. of Holland; Won Inter
berger, of st. Petersburg. and many
more from all parts of Europe, Asia
and all parts of America were present
and the KEYNOTE of every address was
that there is good reason to hope that
medical science will continue the rap
i'd progress 1t has made in recent
years towards a complete triumph
over the great scourge.
The triumph is by no means yet
complete, however. Professor Irving
Fisher of Yale estimated that con-
sumption kills $4,000 every year in
the United States, total equal to the
deaths from typhoid, scarlet fever,
diphtheria appendicitis, meningitis,
diabetes, smallpox and cancer all put
together. 1t prefers to attack the
most valuable and promising lives in
the community, the young adults. AS
cording to Professor Fisher the mere
money loss is annually greater than
the almost incalculable sum of one
thousand million dollars
DR.. Woods Hutchinson of New York
said that the field in which the de
1 cisive battle of our future campaign
against tuberculosis must be fought
I Is the home; our chief enemy, infec
/ ton in early childhood: our heaviest
gun and our most crying need. camps
to be used as "preventor!a' for the
reception and cure of infected child
rem before they have become unms
takably tuberculous. DR.. Won Inter
berger, of st. Petersburg. said that
numerous autopsies show that nearl,
every man over thirty has old remains
Of tuberculous infection. These fact
show how comparatively easily the
human organism can overcome the
tubercle bacilli, and give us the in
dication for treatment, the strength
ening of the organism by hygienic ane
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
AN lMPRAcTlcABLE SOLUTION


In one of his recent speeches Gov
ernor Hughes of New York merciless-
ly exposed the impracticahility of
Bryan's solution of the trust prob
lem and the shallowness of the argu-
ments advanced in favor of it by the
Democratic candidate. Among other
things he said:
In interstate commerce as means
to eXterminate. trusts he (Bryan) pro
poses to limit to 80 per cent the pro-
duction by any one corporation of any
one commodity. SO that if you owned
patent or made an invention yor
could not manufacture more than 50
per cent of the demand for that pat
ented article; that If you were just
starting in business to put it on the
market for the first time you would
first have to wait until somebody else
produced so per cent in order not to
violate the law. What form of
bureaucracy government would we
have to regulate such a complicated
scheme? / have more than once
asked Mr. Bryan some questions about
the scheme hut anrarenflv he has
been too busy to answer them"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY AND
LABOR.

Senator Beveridge of Indiana in a
recent speech refuted the Democratic
claim that the Republican party had
done nothing for labor and referred
as follows to the legislation which
had been enacted by the Republi-
cans:
Organized labor asked that con-
gress pass a law making interstate
railroads liable for injuries to their
employees. 1t asked justice. and 1t
got it. The old rule that the laborer
must take all the risks of his employ
ment, suffer for the fault of his fell
low-laborer for which he was not to
blame, has been made obsolete by adj
vancing humanity. So we passed the
employers liability act, which gave to
all labor, organized and unorganized,
all for which it justly prayed.
"Organized labor demanded that
congress pass law forbidding rail.
roads from making their employees
work beyond their strength. Never
was a demand more righteous. So
We passed law forbidding this prac-
tice.
"Organized labor demanded that
every railroad should be compelled to
adopt safety appliances. This demand
was reasonable and right. SO we
passed the safety appliance act.
"Organized labor asked that a de-
partment of commerce and labor be
established. Today that department
is one of the most important in our
government, and is doing more for
ilabors welfare than any other single
agency in the nation.
"Organized labor demanded the
eight-hour day for government en-
iployes-they have it-a Republican
congress and President gave 1T to
them; an eight-hour day for the men
employed by government contractors:
they have it-a Republican President
and congress gave it to them. They
demanded law forbidding railroads
ito discriminate against union labor
ing men; they have it-a Republican
President and congress passed it. and
today no national railroad dares
blacklist any laborer because he is a
union man.
Each one of these laws is Re
puDliCdH idW coSA OhS was VI 81 w -
by Republican statesmen; each one
urged upon congress by Republican
/ President"
To these utterances the Cresto1
Advertiser adds word directly II
line with them and even more import
ant, to-wit: that the Republican part.
stands for that policy of protection
which will give work to the 'laborin!
men of this country. Its demand IL
| 1896 was "open the mills and no
the mints,' and the years of prosper
ity which followed furnished abund
ant proof of it's wisdom. The Adver
tiser goes on to say:
| Under the policy of protection the
industries of this country have
been built up until they lead the
world and American working men are
the best paid, everything considered
on the globe. There has been al
abundance of work and there has beer
steady increase in wages. For thi:
latter fact organized labor itself de
serves a large share of the credit, bu
: it should never be forgotten that or
ganized labor could never have sue
ceeded in it's attempts to increas
wages if there had not been an abund
ance of work-and this abundance o
work has been largely due to the Re
/ publican protective tariff
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
voting is empty of Significance and
lacks the dignity of straw voting even.

Colonel Goethals states that the
Panama canal will be open to bust
ness about the beginning OF 1915.
This leaves only six years in which to
deepen the Mississippi river as a con-
dition precedent to availing ourselves
of the advantages the big ditch will
afford
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

Eugene v Debs is wisely acting as
treasurer of his own campaign fund
He knows too we'll the practical effect
of his teachings to entrust it to any
of his followers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

Broughton Brandenburg says that
Gompers' statements are stained
glass lies This is a new and for.
midable political epithet. 1t goes with
out saving that stained glass lie is
lot worse than plain one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

never was and never will be an X-ray
machine powerful enough to find
drop of Republican blood In the anon
ymous nonentities who always prac
tice this game, but never deceive any.
bodys, in every political campaign.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

The policy of the Democrats in the
present campaign seems to be: When
IL doubt, call the President some
names" However, there is some ex-
cuse for them. That is their last and
only recourse.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

A Springfield minister will give
vaudeville performance before his
sermon in the hope of Increasing his
audience. Why not omit the sermon
and make the Service" still more at
tractiveo
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

Governor Hughes in his speaking
tour through Kansas was repeatedly
hailed as the successor to President
Taft. Several audiences cheered him
for presidential candidate in 1912.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

to the judge in person, but held that
the letter to the chief justice consti.
tuted a breach of professional con.
duct warranting a suspension from
practice for six months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

Twelve Ohio counties have voted
"dry." At this rate it will soon be so
that there will be no fit place for a
Democratic national convention in
that state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

Noting that some political half.
breed is writing Democratic screeds
Tor Democratic sheets in Iowa and
signing Former Republican
the Les Moines Capital saws. There
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
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One disadvantage OF being candi'
date for President, as observed by the
Topeka Capital, is that going to churfn
on Sunday seems to be compulsory
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

II mind is superior over matter
the Kansas City Times logically con.
cludes that mental healing should be
just the thing for boils.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10

Nat Goodwin secured divorce in
eleven minutes. Practice will tell.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-10
The Daily Gate City

dietetic means. We must seek to de-
stroy the tubercle bacillus, but our
chief endeavor must be directed to-
ward Strengthening the body.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-28
UNION TRANSFERS
ARE CALLED OUT
Business Agent For Union
and Company Have Made
No Settlemet.
COMPANY MAKES A STATEMENT
Delivery of Timber By Nom Union
Driver Is the Cause of the
Excitement.
COMPANY MAKES A STATEMENT

Because the Paxton Lumber Com
pany permitted William Bardon, a non
union driver, to haul lumber from its
yards to a job on the north side, where
Contractor Robert Gordan is said to be
employing non-union labor in the con-
struction of two frame houses for An
drew Peiffer, the business agent for the
Union Teamsters called OFF the union
teamsters employed by the Paxton
Lumber Company which sent it's yard
men out to deliver the lumber.
Company Explains Position.
The management of the Paxton Lum-
ber company explained the trouble and
its origin in the following words to THE
TIMES today:
The Paxton Lumber company hires
only union drivers and union carpen-
ters.. The contract for the delivery of
lumber would have gone to Chicago
bad we not taken the bid and times be-
ing as they are, we could not very
well overlook it. In order not to get
into conflict with the union men in our
employ and the unions we thought 1t
advisable to give the delivery to VIII
liam Bardon.'
1t is understood that the Paxton
Lumber company employ four team
sters.