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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
4 she eNJRANCE.

The discovery that nineteen United
States senator's are striving to become
delegates in the next national conven-
ton from their respective states in
order to exert their influence against
Rooseyeltism, discloses what was to be
expected from the class of men VINO
dominate the United States senate.
The senate, as everyone knows. is re-
dictionary. Nearly every great ana
powerful special interest. from Stand
ard Oil to railroads, timber land grab
bers and sugar trust, has a shrewd at
torney sitting as a member of the SEN
ate, and in states where the old ma
chine remains in power it is quite nat
ural to find these men getting ready to
sit in the nominating convention for
the purpose of downing Roosevelt or
any candidate Of Roosevelt an procliv-
tiles.
However, this is not the whole story.
In states in which the old machines
are OUT Oh repair anu WueIS tHe re-
dictionaries are in temporary eclipse,
all hope is not lost. There the public
is sung to sleep by the harmony that
we are all for Taft, but the slate maxi
ers get busy to send as district dele
gates and delegates at-larlye men who
are known to favor the safe and sane
candidates Of the old school. In the
event that Taft can not win on the first
ballot these men would then throw the
vote of the slate to a reactionary. In
the case Of Iowa it might go to Shaw
as an Iowan only recently expatriated,
or to Cannon because Of his neighborly
proximity, but never to l4aFollette or
to Cummins or to real Rooseveltian
man.
This Is the political game now on in
states where the special interests are
not supreme. 1t is born OF determine
alton to get into power by the side
entrance if the approach to the front
entrance seems to be booked. 1t is.
politics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
IT,. MEEkER, CITIZEN.

Not how men die in the weakness
Of mental and physical deterioration,
but how they have lived in their
strength is the true measure Of human
life. No greater words Of praise are
ever said above a coffin lid than
these: He was good man." While
men live and pursue the active duties
Of life no balance sheet may be drawn.
When death comes, communities add
the totals of the past life and justly
estimate their loss. 1t is an axiom
in human nature that few lives are
priced at their full value until they are
finished.
A good man passed when j. r..
Meeker died; a good, strong capable
man. He had lived in this community
since his youth, spent here the strength
of his maturity AMI here ripened to
decay. In all these years he had been
a good citizen and an honest man.
That he was successful in his profess
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
A Lazy L.

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drastic drugs A torpid liver Is but an
indication OF an ill-nourished, enfeebled
body whose organs are weary with over
work. Start with the stomach and allied
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
QUIT KNOCKING" IOWA.

When men go away from home they
are apt<to talk too mucn. The aver
age American has a passion for being
interviewed An instance in point APP
wears in an Iowa paper. A Davenport
man, anxious no doubt TO please. said
to a reporter that certain series of
excellent cartoons had attracted so
much attention in Davenport that he
feared the cartoonist would not be
safe in that city. were he to be rec
ognized there. OF course the paper
published 1t. 1t was an acknowledge
ment Of effective cartooning too good
to be wasted.
much playing up for one purpose
and another, good and bad. have car
ried abroad wrong impression Of
Iowa and given Iowa communities the
idea that conditions In other cities and
communities are much worse than
they really are. 1t is a gratuitous be-.
fouling OF the home nest.
No one believes that the cartoonist
could not walk Davenport streets as
safely as he might have strolled thru
Des Moines when he was employed on
a rival sheet and turned the point of
his satirical pencil against the foibles
of the capital and the capital city.
There is no occasion TO paint Daven-
port as city plunged into savagery,
where citizens go about the street
looking for faces to punch and heads
to break. It isn't true. Neither is it
true that lawlessness is rampant in
Iowa, that every mans hand is against
another, and murder, violence and
sudden death simply incidents Of an
Iowa day.
In fact Iowa is lawabiding state
one Of the highest in the union In its!
general citizenship. The unceasing In
sistence that a large part of the popu-
lation ranges like Calmuck Tartars,
eager to pursue decency with
slaves, is plain SANDER. Much in Iowa
needs amendment. Much has been
amended. More is In the way of
amendment. To take pains to publish
Iowa as the hotbed Of violence is
simply libel on the best citizenship
in the world. Quit It! 1t isn't so.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
Topics Of the Times
It's a long straight lane that has nc

It's a long straight lane that has no
turn.
A T-R ad. is cross-cut 10 a
chance to buy and sell.
Notice that when these old men
pick up new affinities that they wear
the same false teeth? There's no al
finity between old age and tooth cut
ting unless possibly the cutting of eye
teeth.
When the standpat syndicated press
begins to pound public man IT may
be taken for granted that the people
trust him.
Uncle George Perkins Is in favor OF
the open door in politics That Is.
he is mighty anxious to hear all Shaw
might say to Cummins.
The federation of labor is now en-
gagged in advocating no seat no rare.
And there is nothing unfair about
such agitation.
Rev. II. c. Prescott. of Prescott
Mich, is a. millionaire preacher ana
stock raiser. He owns land in SIX
states and Canada. and he has spent
his whole life either in preaching or III
building up the country. If the ce-
lestial deposit slips were as public as
the tax records one might get pel.ef
idea as to his account of treasure
by moths and safe from
real estate men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
SsSsSSSW n
Decisions!
Er,K1NS LAW.

The question is whether or not the
Hepburn law operated to repeal the FL
itins law so as to bar prosecutions
commenced after the enactment of the
Hepburn law, for acts committed prior
thereto and in violation OF the Elkins
law, has been up for consideration IN
several federal courts, and 1t has been
held that such prosecutions We're not
barred, in United States VS.. Standard
Oil Company. las Federal Reporter
7l9; United States VS.. Chicago, ETC.,
r. Co, 151 Federal Reporter. 81; I'm
tied States VS.. Delaware, L.ackaWanna
& Western r. Co. 152 Federal Re-
porter, ESQ; and United States vs. New
York Central & Hudson River K. Co..
153 Federal Reporter. 63O.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
NOTE OF NOM PRESIDENT.

A perplexing and novel question re-
lating to the taxing power of state
was decided by the United States SUI
preme court in Buck VS.. Beach. u :Su-
preme Court Reporter. H., 206 U. s.
1872, 81 l.. Ed.-. In this case 1t APP
years that resident of New York
had made loans to residents OF Ohio
on notes given and payable in Ohio
and secured by mortgages on land In
the latter state. The payee of the notes
had an agent in Ohio to look after MS
interests there, and another in Indiana
to take charge of his investments In
that state. For some reason 1t appears
that the notes given and payable in
Ohio We're, for a considerable length
Of time, kept in the possession OF the
Indiana agent. While the notes were in
the possession of this agent. the e In
diana authorities assessed them for
taxation and attempted to collect taxes
thereon. principally on the ground
that the notes were transferred from
the Ohio agency to the Indiana agency
in order to escape taxation in Ohio,
But the court denies the right of in-
diana to collect taxes on such notes,
Mr.. Justice Day. however. filing a dis
senting opinion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
RIGHT TO SELL.

The supreme court of Colorado, In
City of La Junta VS.. Heath. SS Pacific
Reporter. 1859, held an ordinance re-
quiring persons peddling artesian wa
ter to obtain a permit and to pay IL
cense ta,; to be void, as interfering
with the right to pursue lawful call
ing. The court said that the business
OF selling water was lawful occupa-
ton and distinguishable from the bus
mess of selling liquor, where the char
acter Of the person applying for the
privilege became a proper subject OF
inquiry. Granting the right to city
to make the proper health regulations
relative 10 It's water supply, the court
held that the ordinance in question
was not enacted for that purpose.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
4irs- 3lrpuhlra, lars,a1ltuu, jo,ua january 10 1903

Tomplins, 20 Northeastern Reporter,
1896 In this case the court of appeals
of New York reaffirms the doctrine of
McCord VS.. People. As New York, 40.
that prosecution for larceny by false
pretenses cannot be sustained where
the person parting with his property or
money does so for any legal purposes.
The court admits that the weight Of
authority Is to the contrary, but feels
bound to ,oloW the doctrine as settled
by the earlier decision. the duty of
making a change resting with the leg
islature and says that to change the
existing rule would. in effect. be en-
acting an expost facto law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

Judge Hazel OF the United States
district court for the western district
of New York. in United States vs..
New York Central & Hudson River
Railroad Company. 1853 Federal Re-
porter. $40, holds that railroad COM
pany which has entered into an ar
rangement with other railroad COM
panies for the continuous interstate
carriage of oil is bound to comply with
the interstate commerce act as to the
publication OF rates, even tho the line
operated by the railroad company 1T
self is wholly within one state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
RAILROAD RATES.

In determining the reasonableness OF
railroad rates, expenditures for per-
manent improvements and equipment
should not be charged to the current
or operating expenses Of a single year,
according to the recent decision Of the
United States supreme court In llli-
nois Central Railroad Company VS.,
Interstate Commerce Commission. 81
Supreme Court Reporter, 700. 206 U. s.
AL, 81 L. Ed -. The court is OF
the opinion that such expenditures
should be reimbursed by all of the
traffic they accommodate during the
period of their duration. and not by
the revenues Of single year
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10

know little about farming and less
about land values. Real farmers arc
paying SIPS per acre for land In Mar
shall county and must consider the
land worth that and little more. and
must expect good interest on the In
vestment, for surely. IL that were not
the case. they would put their money
into something else"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10

riers agent his engagement, and may
have been told that the train would
arrive on time The carriers obliga-
ton to run it's train in conformity to
schedule is not an absolute and UNI
conditional one and the mere taking
of ticket does not Of itself prove a
contract or impose the duty to have
train ready to start as scheduled. Fur
thermore, ticket agent cannot make
a special contract that a train will ar
rive on time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
DUTY OF CARRIER.

The New York supreme court in
Gerrardy vs.. Louisville a. N. II. Co.,
l02 n. Y. Supplement. 54S. holds that
musician, who boards train two
hours late and arrives at his destina-
ton two hours and twenty minutes
late. and thereby is unable to keep his
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"Somebody has been fooled" asserts
the Mason City Times-H Herald. Either
the state railroad commission are try
ing to smooth over the express raee
situation. or else the express COM
panies have handed them a lemon.
The papers all over the state were
told that the express companies had
made twenty per cent reductlon'
When the old-blooded facts come 10
the surface we find that the rate re-
duction has been so small that II
will not benefit any one"
ut does not follow that If a man
does find his affinity he can get his
hair back" states the Sioux City
Journal.
'If GinI Byers is going to act in
this manner about holidays, what IN
Sam Hill is the use of having holi-
days?" asks the Burlington Gazette.
what Davenport will do next Sat
urday remains to be seen after the
votes are counted says the Daven-
port Democrat. about what Daven-
port ought to do there is no doubt.
II ought to show by large and de-
cisive vote that It is not afraid to try
another form Of city government,
simply because it is new. These are
the days of progressive ideas IN all
lines. Davenport has tried the Old
plan for a great many years; 1t has
served it's purpose and ought to be
discarded. A city Of the size of this
cannot be successfully run by keep
ing in office those who want to stay
there"
"These opponents Of the commission
plan cannot avoid this issue: Either
they think Davenport is incapable of
governing itself, or they think the ma
FORTY should not rule" insists the
Davenport Times.
"After ALL" inquiries the Cedar Rap
IDS Gazette, chow many of Captain
Kulp's critics would have done any diff
ferent than he did had they been in
his shoes?"
zone Of the things of the next leg
islature should do is to abolish the
offices Of state printer and binder"
insists the Iowa City Republican. 1.-THE
officers are now sinecures and they
cost the state fully $4,000 year. If
some of the reform efforts Of the last
few years had been directed toward
these offices it would have been to good
purpose Why should the state pay
each of these officers about $4,000 a
year without getting something in re-
turn?"
Noting that an eighty-acr. farm
near Dillon in Marshall county, has
just been sold for $4,000, the Burling-
ton Hawkeye comments: "Still there
are people who complain that Iowa
land is too high. AS a rule, they are
either chronic kickers or people who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
statesmen.

The right Of state to impose IL
cense tax on the business of selling
intoxicating liquors within the state
by travelling statesmen, who solicit or
ders for wholesale houses in theic
state, is upheld by the United States
supreme court, in Dalamater vs.
South Dakota, 81 Supreme Court Re-
porter, 447. The regulation by state
of the business carried on within its
borders to solicit proposals to sell in
toxicating liquors, even tho such IL
quors are situated in other states, can
not be held to be repugnant to the
commerce clause of the constitution
because directly or indirectly burden
ing the right to sell in the state-a
right which by virtue Of the Wilson
act does not exist.
STARE DECISIS.
A case forcibly illustrating the leg
islative departments reluctance to
remedy defects in the law disclosed by
judicial decisions is that of People VS..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10

Flow many people work in your es.
tablishlnent?"
Work? Perhaps two-thirds OF
them" -I','cs-s-1o Rinttpr
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10

engagement. cannot recover from the
carrier his loss occasioned thereby. tho
he may have made known to the car
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10
The
Employer

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Many IN employer has bitterly re.
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Remember that other Surety Com.
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and spend little in capturing de.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10

IF GinI Byers is going to act in
this manner about holidays. what IN
Sam Hill is the use of having hol1-
days?" asks the Burlington Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10

1T does not follow that if a man
does find his affinity he can get his
hair back" states the Sioux City
Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-10

Noting that an eighty-acn. farm
near Dillon in Marshall county, has
lust been sold for $4,000, the Burling-
ton Hawkeye comments: still there
are people who complain that Iowa
land is too high. AS rule, they are
either chronic kickers or people who
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-05
shaken. and he was aware OF the fact.
secrst Vslta Cease.

He now feels cure. however that he
has regained NIL the lost ground, and
the secret visits In the weird costume
have ceased.
1t was nuthoritatvely declared to-
day that the engagement OF Nine.
Gould and the prince would not DO
announced, on this side OF the water
When Nine. Gould definitely promlses
10 be his wife, the prince wants tho
promise in writing, and as that would
provoke storm of rldicule and abuse
in America. ne is willing to walt I'M
III they return to Europe, where writ
ten promlssory notes TO wed are the
custom.
The marriage Is definitely expected
to take place within IL month.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-05
WILL PROTESTRGAINST
ACTION OF COMMITTEE
General Manager Butler Thinks Pu5
lie ie Satisfied With Ratios and
License Tax.

Mr.. w. W. s. Butler, general man
ager OF the street railways and cleo
trlc light company, said last night
that he would appear before the II
nance committee of the council tomor-
row night to protest against the COM
mittees proposal to increase the II
cense tax upon the light company un.
less the company rescinds the recent
increase In rates TO larger customers.
Mr. Butler says he Ia confident that
the public Is satisfied that the COM
pany Is paying a sufficiently high IL
cense tax. and that the rates are low
as compared with other cities OF this
state and others.
a large amount Of data in connec-.
ton With this matter has been com.
piled by Mr.. Butler. and much OF the
information is given in the adyertls-
Ing columns of this paper today.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-05
SPECIAL MEETING OF
W0RKiNGMAN'S LEAGUE
Prominent Speakers WIN Discuss
Matters Of Importance to
Organized Labor.

A special meeting of the Working
mems Voting League will be held at
tho Central Labor Union hall We'd
nesday night. Matters of vital i'm
portance to organized labor will he
dacussed by prominent speakers. and
II IL expected that there will be n
large crowd In attendance. One OF
tho principal matters to he consider
ed by the league Is the proposed am.
endment TO tho constitution. allowing
working men who are not affiliated
with trade organizations TO become
members.
Among the speakers will be Messrs
John M. Ryall and ]. j. Dreamer. o
Richmond. and possibly. State I.abo
Commissioner J. u. poherty.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-05
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WILL CONSIDER OFFERS FOR

WILL CONSIDER OFFERS FOR
the following valuable improved
property: No. 1902 and 1904 Wash
ington avenue; Nc. $40 49th street /;
No. 1928 10th street: No. $50 goth
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Two (2) on Goth street near JEFF
ferson avenue; ono (D on eth
street near Jefferson avenue; six
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of A. d. Wallace. bankrupt. 3-7-tf.