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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-03

Buck" Howard, the accused
confidence(i) man, horse thief aud
eORaterfeiter; had a preliminary
hearing last Saturday before JUS
tice Stallings. Buck is getting
more publicity than he deserves.
He has been trying to act cute, bu
at his hearing Saturday he admit
ted guilt and be must now lie iu
the county Jail till the Circuit
Court can get to his case. Buck
is young sinner. We imagine
the Scripture would put his case
in about these" words; he went
forward, and fell backward. and
was broken. aud was shared, aud
taken.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-03

Mexico needs another hitch lot. D..
A farmer the other day Who was
looking in vain for a place to
hitch his team said to us: What s
Mexico going.to do about more
hitching room for horses and
teamsi Are we going to be com.
PEELED TO go to Thompson or Rush
Hill They've got the room, all
right" The City Council and
the Business Mems Association
should get together on this aues-
tion at once aud see if something
can't be done.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-03

The item we had in this column
last week calling attention to tie
need of better ventilation for
church houses has been commend.
ed from several sources. Don't
coop up the old baked oxygen and
hold thru the week to breathed by
the congregation at the next meet
ing. Let 1t out. and let Gods
pure air come in. Its free aud the
supply is exhaustible.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-03

Eld. w. II, Hook went down to
Rush Hill Sunday to preach for the
Christian church. II was rainy
gloomy day, but his friend s. p.
Underwood was one OF his congre-
cation and came up again with the
honey for the preacher-two gall
Ions Of the sweet stuff. Hook ap.
preciates the gift too and is wear.
ing q smile like a Republican--one
that won't rub off.
We have been amused at the
following item which appeared in
the Auxvasse Review last week,
A lady entered r. d. Worrell's
iewelry store in Mexico the other
day and asked.
Have You any alarm clocks, y
inquired the customer.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-03

Evangelist Brown gave a very
interesting lecture at the Mexic o
Methodist church last Thursday
night on the subject, my Way of
Thinking" 1t was full Of pith
and fun as well as good Thoughts.
Mr.. Brown is great preacher and
has won thousands of people to
Christ and the church.
Mr.. Brown held a meeting at
Hannibal some months ago and
one of his converts was the noted
gambler Walter Bryant. Bryant
has remained faithful to his Christ
ian vows-is an active church
,worker-and has decided to be-
come an evangelist also and will
take q course of training in the
Moody institute at Chicago.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-03
MEXICO ACTIVITIES.
Preacher Hooks Sweet Smile
Buck Howard'S Undo
ing.

There is some talk of taking the
city elections in Mexico out of
politics-Democrats and Republi-
cans uniting in the selection of a
ticket. Well, it looks like the pro-
per caper. For years we have
wondered why partisan politics
should be brought into city affairs.
Honest. now, if you have never
thought Of it before, the idea is
preposterous, Mexico wants good
government, and she wants pro
gressiveness, but tell us, pray e,
how can she hope to be safer in
getting these things by electing
men to the Offices simply because
they are Democrats, or because
they are Republicans
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
KERR RECOGNIZED CONDITIONS.

Mr.. Kerr, OF Grundy Center, mas
demonstrated to his friends that in his
case an ambition to be nominated and
elected to high office has not blinded
him to the ordinary conditions which
other men could see An ambition to
60 to congress Is a very worthy one.
When it was evident that Cousins
would be a candidate again and the
candidacy of Mr.. Good, of Cedar Rap
ids, was presented in opposition to
Cousins, Mr.. Kerr was for Good. He
had known Good and respected him.
and he had long been disguised with
Cousins service. When Cousins made
his hasty exit to the rear, it then
seemed that the nomination would be
open to any man, and that many or
most OF the counties would present
candidates. Under these circumstances
the way was open to Kerr, and he an
nounced. Then the standpatters got
busy. Kerr was Cummins man from
Cummins county. Good had always
been a Cummins man in an anti-Cum-
Minis county, and altho he insisted
upon the right to seek nomination
for congress independent of state fac
tional lines, the anti ummins stand
patters wanted one of their own kind.
They assembled representatives from
every county and centered upon Trew-
in because he was able and eloquent,
and lived in the pivotal county with
Good, and because he was anti-Cum-
Minis both in record and in political
instincts. Thus with a powerful fac
ton lining up so far as fractional lines
could be drawn. there was no room on
the track for Kerr. The men in the
west end of the district who might
have been for him were inspired by
the situation to line up for Good and
when Mr. Kerr became satisfied that
these conditions had been perman-
emily established, he gracefully with
drew. Ambition was not permitted to
impair his Judgment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
Topics of the Times

If crop of small grain in Iowa was
ever planted in better shape than tina.
of the present season the Oldest inhab-
liant fails to remember when the oc-
currence took place.
If the disinterested reader imagines
he can gain a complete realization OF
the effect of bank failure from the
printed account of it, he should visit
a few of the depositors at their homes
and hear what they have to tell about
the matter.
A man in Switzerland has just made
a watch of ivory obtained from an old
billiard ball Work, hands, and case
are of the same material. And yet it
keeps good time. The first phono-
graphic watch was made in Paris in
1897. 1t was large and heavy, but was
regarded as great curiosity neverthe-
less. Now, however, watches that
speak the hours in place of Ginning
them are not at all uncommon.
Mr.. snapps-Pm entirely out of tenn
per!
Mrs. s.-why, it seems to me you
have an extraordinary amount on
hand!
Ferdinand Schumacher, the oatmeal
king, is dead, but his "breakfast food"
idea still survives along with a few of
the victims.
Nevertheless the average citizen
would be willing to exchange his pres
ent financial condition for that Of a
Gould or a Vanderbilt and take his
chances on domestic infelicity.
II IL noticeable that in cases where
railroad companies are substituting the
telephone for the usual medium Of
communication the telegraph instru-
ments are not being removed from the
offices in which they are installed.
Jones-I don't see where you have
the best of me if l did marry an only
child, and your wife is one Of five sis
tiers.
Smith-Huh, you are up against 100
per cent of mother-in-law. while I
get only 20 per cent.
Some interesting figures concerning
the great Atlantic liners are given
in Engineering. Twenty years ago,
when first vessels of twenty knots were
introduced on the Atlantic, the cost for
each voyage was about $4,000 to $780,
600; ten years ago. when twenty-five
and a half to twenty-tirce knot ships
were put on the service, this was in
creased to about $4,000; and now It
is calculated that the expense OF .
twenty-four and half knot Maure-
tania or Lusitania trip can not be short
of $4,000. AS to the total popula-
ton Of Atlantic ltuersA- the. larger fig.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
BORROWING WITHOUT COLLATERAL,

The Times Republican has already
been approached by several very in
telligent gentlemen who have just
taken few moments to run over and
show the editor where he is wrong in
this matter of insuring or guaranteeing
bank deposits, but the newspaper will
have to confess that, as yet, it has not
been Shown" On the other hand
several very successful, experienced
and conservative bankers have adj
mitted that the suggestion is full Of
merit in that it. would aid the banks
as we'll as protect the public.
The argument advanced by the man
who has given the subject only super
fetal study, is always that the dis
honest, wildcat banker would receive
just as many deposits as the honest,
conservative banker and that If depos-
it's were thus guaranteed no crooked
banker need fear loss of business.
This, of course. is serious objection.
So, too, is the complaint that some
men insure their property for the pur-
pose Of burning it themselves to collect
the insurance, and all fire companies
have to charge the honest policy-hold-
ers enough in premiums to pay their
dishonest losses. but we do not con-
denim the whole institution of fire in
surance. We trust the insurance COM
panies to keep a vigilant watch on in
cendiaries and to refuse them policies
when under suspicion. So would the
banking department watch and exam
inc and refuse insurance for deposits.
Other bankers who are in a position
to detect unsafe banking at its very
inception would report to the insurance
department as a matter Of self protec-
ton.
The justice Of guaranteeing bank de-
posts can never be fully understood
until the fundamental fact is recog-
nized that a bank is a borrower from
every depositor. Every dollar placed on
deposit either in currency, check or
note is borrowed by the bank receiv-
ing it, and the bank promises to pay
the whole sum in currency on de-
mand. 1t then turns around and loans
approximately Is per cent of what 1t
borrows. Now, everybody knows that
banks demand security in the way of
collateral or endorsement for every
dollar they loan, and they collect a
stiff rate of interest At present they
are asking the public to loan to them
largely without interest and wholly
without collateral or endorsement Sc
curity except that in the case of in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

corporated banks certain amount is
invested in the way of capital to make
the bank worthy of borrowing deposits
from the public, and the stockholders
tent of an additional amount equal to
the sum invested in capital. In the
case of the private banker, he borrows
his deposits without collateral or en-
dorsement Of any kind.
If this stockholders endorsement
were sufficient to prevent all losses to
depositors there would be no need OF
guaranteeing deposits with an insur-
ance fund, but the facts are that the
public has been receiving inadequate
security for its loans to the banks and
IS entitled to ask for more collateral
lust as the bank demands more collat-
eral from the men who borrow from 1t.
Experience has taught US that the
average cash reserve is not sufficient
in times of stress, for the reason that
the larger portions of these reserves
are deposited in other banks. loaned
to them in fact, and are IN just as
much danger of being held back when
called as the demand loan to cloth
ing merchant or cattle feeder. II the
public could be guaranteed by an in
surance fund supplied by all the banks,
1t would never make a run for its de-
posts and the weakness of these re-
serves would never arise to embarrass
banks. The effect would be the same
as when banks band together thru
their clearing houses and announce
that each will stand by the other, ex-
cent that this organization for mutual
protection includes only a few banks
while the general guarantee of depos-
its would include all banks.
In practice the cost would be
infinitesimal. One twentieth OF one
per cent tax on deposits of national
banks per annum would have paid all
the losses depositors have suffered in
failures of national banks for the last
forty years. Nor is the system untried
A number Of banks in Georgia and
Florida have a voluntary insurance in
effect successfully. The Mexican banks
under the direction of Diaz, have the
guarantee fund. Oklahoma and Kan
sas both have it in effect for state
it voluntarily. If it is wrong to Sc
cure the public for the money 1t loans
to banks the endorsement of the stock
holders double liability should be abol-
ished and the private bankers Gus
tom Of borrowing without security
adopted. Then. to make it fair all
around, the banks should be prohibited
from asking collateral security or en-
dorsement for the loans they make to
the public If it is right, wise and
scientific finance to secure the public
for deposits borrowed by having the
stockholders endorse the banks prom
Use to pay on demand, the security
should be made as adequate as possible
to prevent loss and the additional en-
dorsement of other banks secured to
the extent Of a guarantee, insurance
fund. Security for the goose is as fair
as collateral for the gander.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

,lres apply to the emigrant ships from
the Mediterrs nean. For 1907 the aver
age is 1859, whereas the previous year
it was 1,056. The maximum average
per ship for any one line this year is
1,99S-the mean of the White Star
Mediterranean liners.
The Burlington Hawkeye has been
smoked out and now admits that as
newspaper it intends to support the
winner after the primaries, but Is not
so sure about the voters. Now who can
pin down the Sioux City Journal or
induce the Nonpareil and Cedar Rapids
Republican?
One thing about the business we
have now it is certainly not inflated.
With everybody economizing and liqui-
dating what we have we have.
The imes-Republican has g. great
many thousand solicitors calling upon
people at their homes every day. How
would YOU like to have them put in a
word for the goods you have to sell?
Advertise!
In the case of the Aldrich bill con-
gress is going to justify the confidence
of the people by doing nothing. NO
law Is always better than bad law.
Davenport's mayor announces that
he will enforce that part of the mulct
law which the people of Davenport are
willing to have enforced. That is what
he was elected for.
The Burlington Hawkeye admits
that the standpatters in the last state
convention We're cheering for Mr..
Blythe and now the only question UNI
answered is: "Why does the great
railway political boss command such
admiration from the standpatters?
Julian Richards admits the Allison
leaders are worried at the things Cum
MINIS is telling the people Of southern
Iowa Can't the cause stand the
truth?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
THEY STARTED SOMETHING.
mt. Vernon Record.)

The standpat papers of the state
seem 10 have started something in the
Second congressional district that they
cannot stop. They made a great ado
about the enforcement of the liquor.
laws in Davenport, for the purpose OF
discrediting Governor Cummins with
the Germans of Davenport, If he went
out of his way to enforce the laws
closely, and with the temperance peo-
pie if he didn't. In fact, they hoped to
play the game both ways against him.
They have probably succeeded in cut
ting Governor Cummins' vote in Dav-
export to some extent, but they have
also succeeded in cutting the vote Of
Congressman Dawson to the same ex-
tent. The republicans must get the
German vote Of Davenport to carry the
Second district In all probability that
vote will go to democratic candidate
this year.
The standpat papers, who have been
working for the good of the party so
long that they have succeeded in al
most disrupting it, have certainly
started something they cannot stop.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
Iona Newspapers
RAILROAD TELEPHONES.
(A11ap sT,irnaS


Within the past few weeks the C. &
N. w. railroad has closed fourteen of
it's telegraph offices in the northern
Iowa division and is contemplating
closing others. 1t is even under con-
sideration to close the telegraph Of
fees at Iowa Falls and Eldora. This
does not, Of course, affect the ticket
department of the depot, which is kept
open as formerly, but it affects the
station agent most pointedly. The
telegraph instruments are replaced by
telephones, and the operator gives
away to q cheap boy who knows
enough to answer a telephone bell
when it rings. The rest is easy. No
such change is likely to come about at
Alden, as this is the end Of a division,
and the regular train orders must be
received here as formerly. The train
orders come from Eagle Grove.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
Make THE DRINKS WORK.
ERauistar and I.eadarl


Making retention at the inebriate
hospital at Knoxville more subject to
police control and compelling labor
on the part Of inmates would again
be a step in the right direction. If
the state Is to attempt to rehabilitate
drunkards it should not stop short of
decisive measures. Labor is a great
corrective of vice, and salutary re-
straint should not be stopped at. If
instead Of filming ordinary DRINKS the
penalty for arrest in cities like Des
Moines should be fixed at stated
amount of labor, and the penalty
should be honestly enforced, it would
be astonishing to note the remedial
influence.
There is a sentiment In this state
as there is everywhere. to surround
the drink evil and suppress 1t. AS eff
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

fective as any way yet tried is to dis
courage those who abuse their liberty,
and turn it into license. When men
find that the community will neither
sympathize with their weakness nor
put UP with their disorderly conduct,
there will be change In the
moral atmosphere that will be notice.
able to the most casual observer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
GIRLS
WHO WORK

Girls who work for their living
are especially exposed to the dmgers
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ingsall day, or sitting IN crAmleA
positions /; walking to and from their
places Of employment In bad weather
all tend to break down their delicat0
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No class Of women are In need
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sands of letters like the follow
ing demonstrate the fact that
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Miss Abby E. Barrows, Of Nelson
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weakness. had been to several doc
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Miss Lillian Ross, of $50 E. saith st,
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II had female trouble, nervous
headaches, and was tired ell the tim4,
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who suffers as did will try it."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
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Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, mass,
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
The New Pure Food and Drug Law

We are pleased to announce that
Foleys Honey and Tar for coughs,
colds, and lung troubles is not affected
by the National Pure Food and Drug
law as it contains no opiates or other
harmful drugs, and we recommend it
as a safe remedy for children and
adults. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

the Thurmans, the Pendletons, the |
Blaines, the Conklings, the Clays, the
Davses and the hundreds of other
senators who added glory to the pages
of American history"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

We are pointing out to the masses
many interesting facts in connection
with our laundry establishment, the
principal fact being that we are
equipped with modern facilities to do
attractive and satisfactory work at
popular prices. A trial will demonstrate
this to you in a most conclusive man
ner. The Meeker Laundry. Kane 3
Willigrod, Props. .
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

'Tf the voters Of the country Want
the trusts regulated effectively, they
must vote for senators, as we'll as con-
gressmen. who will proceed to regu-
late them" argues the Sioux City
Tribune. "The men under whom the
trusts grew up must feel embarrassed
when confronted with proposal to
regulate or to abolish them. Such
proposal looks like criticism of their
own past"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

The Eldora Ledger can see that "the
same forces back of Perkins two years
ago are back of Allison this year. Gov
ernor Cummins has the same enemies.
1t is a question of vindication. Do the
people approve Of the primary, anti
pass law and two cent fare? If so,
vote for the man who recommended
and labored for such laws"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18
Go Somewhere

Go Somewhere
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YELLOWSTONE PARK: Plan now
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tour 1908 tours include one way via
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Describe your trip and let me
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

"In the name of our candidate, A. B.
Cummins, we come bringing the
sheaves with us. We do not give all
of the glory nor all of the credit to
Governor Cummins, but we do give
him the credit of working in season
and out of season for these reforms"
says the Scranton Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane predicts there will be another
car shortage next October. And,
strange as it may appear, most of us
are indulging sneaking hope that Mr..
Lane may be right about it," admits
the Sioux City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

The Cedar Rapids Gazette believes
"there ought to be some way to pun
ish the fellows who drop bottles or
other glassware on the pavement and
leave the fragments to bring grief to
the owners of bicycles and autos"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

"And thus. one by one" observes the
Boone News-Republican, care Iowa
newspapers being brought into a har-
mony atmosphere by agreeing to let
the honestly conducted primary (and
it will be such) end all factionalism.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-18

curity. except that in the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-06-25
The Best pills Ever Sold.

"After doctoring Is years for chronic
indigestion, and spending over two hun
dred dollars, nothing has done me as
much good as Dr.. Kings New Life Pills.
consider them the best pills ever
Sold" writes B. 3. Ayscure, Of Ingle-
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Van Werden's drug store. 25c.