Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-02
Looker-On In Iowa

Written, Oct s1.-The campaign
that closes Nov 8. is an object lesson
of the power of printers ink. 1t is an
advertising campaign that contains
many pointers for the business man
that has things to SELL Here in Iowa
as we'll as over the country, thous-
ands of copies of Bryan's prince of
Peace" lectures have been received
by ministers and others prominent III
religious work. Mr.. Bryan shrewdly
figures that some, whose hearts and
souls are fun of religious zeal, will
reason that q man that can write such
a beautiful Grafton, one soefull of re-
ligious thought. will make good
Christian president. This especially
when Taft is Unitarian. On the
other hand many are disguised with
the injection into a political campaign
of any feature of religious controversy.
Bryan is working another advertis-
ing scheme equally good as a vote
catcher. A Hardin county farmer
showed the writer today letter. a
from William j. Bryan. His name
and address We're apparently put In by
the same typewriter that filled the
body of the letter. 1t was apparently
signed in ink with pen by the peer
less one" In this personal letter Mr..
Bryan went on to say che had been
informed that the recipient of the let
ter was inclined to vote the democrat
ic ticket etc. etc. giving page OF
reasons why the inclination was a
good one This farmer wondered how
Mr.. Bryan got his name, and happened
to write him. Now If the writer had
told the farmer that probably 100000
such personal" letters had been
printed and sent over the country, 1t
would have been put down as an
other campaign lie.
John F.. Lacey. candidate for United
States senator, is also working the
advertising part of a campaign to the
queens taste. His two printed cuts
of Lacey as the young soldier and the
other as he is today, is an open bid for
the old soldier vote, hut like Bryan J
prince lof Peace" campaign dodger,
is disgpsts as many as it pleases
II Is a question whether the potato
business of Iowa has just commenced
or will be overdone in a year or two.
| 1t all depends on markets and freight
charges, not on the quantity we can
raise in Iowa, for we can feed TIL,
! world if necessary and are notified tn ?
fall before. For the successful potato
grower wants to SOW clover in the
| fall on the land that is to be useil
| for potato planting the following
spring With an ordinary yield. potato
raising pays better than other crops.
| The seed costs but a trifle more, and
| otherwise excepting it is heavier work.
! there is no more labor or time required.
| OF course this year corn and oats pay
better than usual, but even then, land
worth 500 an acre has not paid for IT
self this year as has In in many acres
| of potatoes. A potato buyer near
Hampton told the writer he paid one
| farmer near Hampton over $1,000 for
| the potatoes the farmer raised on ten
acres At that time potatoes We're
| sold in the Hampton market Tor OF
cents. per ,bushel, and many acres
around Hampton yielded $50 bushels tn
| the acre. A big fortune is ahead of the
man that will invent a practical potato
picker one that will not pick up
chunks Of dirt, and also a practical
| loader. to take the potatoes from the
wogan into the car. Remove the
handling of potatoes by hand, do 1T all
by machinery and potato raising viii
be just fun.
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