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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
be influenced by many things that are

be influenced by many things that are
temporary or abnormal
"There are tests, however, which can
be applied. prominent among which is
the cost of production. With the ex-
ception, believe, of the single in
stance of monopoly. the relative
value of things is determined by the
cost of producing them. do not mean
the cost Of single mine or a single
year. but a long. general average.
"Guided by these lights, | would as
certain the value ratio existing be-
tween gold and silver. I would fix this
as the coinage ratio, and then would
coin them as freely and as rapidly as
the metals were brought to the mint"
Thus Cummins admitted that 1--WE
may disagree" he and the free silver
ite, and he explained that he was for
the free coinage of silver at its intrinsic
value, that is at its gold standard
value Like all republicans he wanted
to do something for silver. to coin it
freely but to keep it at the gold
standard Of value. He was a gold
standard republican and knew when
he wrote Gorrell, that the latter was
not going to be satisfied.
Three years later our public men
had studied the money question. The
best of them were for the gold stand
ard in plain language and out of 26
delegates from Iowa to the national
convention at ST. Louis in 1896, which
nominated Mckinley. Cummins and
two others stood against the remaining
% delegates, from Iowa for gold
plank in the platform. There was
stormy caucus. Henderson and Hep
burn insisted that they could not run
for congress in their districts if gold
was in the platform and they told
Cummins to go home and shut up. 1t
was at this juneture that Allison sent
in a monumental straddle plank which
was adopted as an instruction to the
Iowa member of the committee on res
olutions The New York delegation
forced gold into the platform and gold
subsequently became republican doc
trine. The only, Importance of the
episode is that Cummins was for gold
at st. Louis when Allison was not and
in the Gorrell letter his free coinage Of
silver was at the gold standard of in
thinsic value, not the heaven born
ratio. The Allison circular is just
plain lying.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
LAFE KICKS ON ELECTORS.
/noe N6ojooc Canifo11


The progressive faction of the re-
publican party, so-called is taking adj
vantage of the situation and is at
tempting to name practically all the
district electors and the two electors
at-large. Just who is doing the nam
ing we do not know. The matter has
largely gone by default. But some
body is busy and they have named for
the head of the electoral ticket w. w.
Copeland of Burlington. The state does
not know much about Mr.. Copeland
except that he has never used repub-
lican methods in his movements in the
party The feeling of prejudice
against him is wide spread. He ought
not to head the electoral ticket Thou
sands of republicans would feel unsafe
with Copeland at the head, especially
if a man like Joe Cannon should be
the nominee Of the national republic
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
OUR FAULTY TRAITS.
(Muscatine Journal.)


We are the most arrogant, the most
needless people on the face of the
globe. We think only of the present
never of the future. We think of fores,
preservation, only when our forests
are exhausted We take steps to utilize
our waterways only after the railroads
have secured a strange hold on the
nations commerce. We build battle
ships, or try to, after war has been de-
clared.
We rush headlong into crises and
then If they take turn unpleasant
to our national pride, we "cuss" the
government We get so busy max
ing money that we have no time for
politics. Then some day we awake 10
the fact that the men who we have
been letting run politics. when
means run our political affairs, nave
been holding US up and forcing the
business interests of the country IN
to bribery and intrigue to secure the
right to exist Then we cuss the
politicians for not working for moth
ing and the corporations for doing
what we by our neglect have f'rced
them and ourselves to do.
Thank God, we are possessed win
the iron will and dauntless courage
to meet, face and conquer all crises
as they arrive. But how many
countless hundreds of lives may be
offered some day, as sacrifice TO
our heedlessness time alone can tell.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
TO THE APPRENTICE.
(Des Moines Capital)


When President Eliot was in the city
he did not tell the high school boys
and girls that they were especially en-
bowed and that each and every one
could accomplish whatever was under
taken. He told them that every man
had some measure of talent; that some
were fitted for leadership and that
Others were not; but that all were
endowed with some qualifications by
which they could make themselves use
full President Roosevelt, in many
speeches has practically advocated
the same belief. The public schools
demonstrate capacity or the lack of it
in pupils. In the public schools boys
and girls come to know their talent
their limit of endowment 1t is wise
person who will admit the limit of en-
dowment and proceed accordingly. In
the workshop the apprentice demon
strates his capacity or the lack of It.
His foreman soon learns how much in
telligence he has. Every youth can
make up for lack Of endowment by
hard work. Hard work is the great
source Of power on the road to sue
cess. Many a poorly endowed youth by
hard work succeeds where a more bril-
liant one Is not willing to follow
persistent course. 1t is the demagogue
that tells every man that he is fit to
be president. Men like Eliot and Roose-
Welt proclaim the truth. Our advice to
the apprentice is to be diligent and
then, if he is also brilliant, tremend-
GUS success is within his reach; If he
is not brilliant, reasonable success and
the result of contentment and happi-
ness are within his grasp.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
TAXING NEWSPAPERS.
(Tama News.]


The American Newspaper Publish
ers' association is making heroic ef-
fort to have the Stevens bill in con-
gress, reported from the ways and
means committee that it may be taken
up and passed this session. This is the
bill putting wood pulp and printing pa
per on the free list. Hon. John Dali
zell and Hon. Serene Payne have de-
clared that under no circumstances
will they permit the Stevens bill to be
reported from the committee. These
republican congressional brigands who
are the leaders of the party in the
house, insist on this country paying
millions of tribute to the print paper
trust and the surprising thing to US is
that the members of the American
Newspaper association, mostly repub-
lican papers, continue to support these
villainous accessories to the robbery
of all the people term after term Tor
congress. John Dalzell, Serene Payne,
and ten out of eleven Of the congress-
men from Iowa, including Senator A.
lison, are in the same class. They not
only sit by and serenely let the trusts
rob but they aid and abet the robbery
by refusing to put these products and
other trust controlled products on the
free list. We have received an urgent
request to telegraph Bob Cousins to
support the Stevens bill
Not much. Bob Cousins has been
there sixteen years and all that time
the law has been in effect and If he
has not by this time walked up to the
fact that it Is a robbery measure then
our telegram wouldn't wake him.
We will save our ammunition and
use it to prevent another such misfit
getting into congress from this dis
trict. We don't for the life of us I'M
derstand how any we'll balanced and
consistent newspaper publisher can
support w. B. Allison for the United
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
Topics of the Times

The standpatters would make a
graveyard of the United States senate.
Of Governor Cummins fails to disclose
any reference to the depletion of the
state treasury that has taken place
during his administration Nom
pareil.
Technically correct. The governor
mentions a cash balance of 100000,
and asks his accusers to name one APP
preparation bill which they think he
ought to have vetoed.
Talk about billion dollar congress!
The city of New York now confronts
a billion dollar debt in its own name.
The editor Of the Commoner lectur-
ed before the Associated Press BAN
queters upon their subservience to
money getting. Any newspaper man
who ever say copy of the Commoner
would appreciate the Joke.
The Register and Leader might as
well quit trying to catch creased
pig. Perkins fairly squeals with pleas
ure at the chase.
Not word Of complaint is uttered
against the legislation which has been
accomplished by seven years of Cum
minsism. but the charge is that he Is
not going to do so much for good
government if nominated for the sem
ate.
Secretary of War William Fl. Taft
is Unitarian, and has pew in the
Church of All Souls. 1t is at this
church that DIR. Edward Everett Hale
frequently breaches. While the secre
tary of war is Unitarian, his wife
and children are Episcopalians, and the
secretary frequently accompanies them
to ST. Johns church, where also he has
pew While MIR. Roosevelt goes to
the German (Dutch) Reformed church,
his wife and family, who are Episco-
palians, attend the historic St. Johns
church. where they sit only one or two
pews from Mrs Taft and her children.
Like Mr.. Taft, Mr. Roosevelt frequently
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
Sle bostoffice mt Marshall
sOnd Glass mail matter.
sRAnAh DEFENDS RAILROADS.
y. Hanrahan, head of The Brother

y. danrahan, head OF Ine brotHeI-
of Firemen and Enginmen, has
~ to the defense Of the railroads.
At the convention Of his organization
In st. Paul this week he denounced
the attitude of legislatures towards the
railroads and declared that they had
been attacked like pirates. Loyalty TO
the interests one serves is common
dable, but Mr.. Hanrahan knows that
IL railway corporations have been at
tackled like pirates, it is because they
are piratical.
Antagonist on the part of the pub
lie and its representatives in the law
making bodies of the states and ma
ton is not antagonism to railroads as
such. 1t is opposition to their illegal
practices; their disposition to ignore
the laws on the statute books and
the laws of justice to their patrons;
their efforts to shape legislation favor
able to the selfish interests Of. the few
men who control the larger systems
and to nullify existing laws.
An example of the pira.tical tenden-
cies of railway arrangements has just
come to light in Iowa, where the Bur
lington road is openly defying the
anti-pass law and the attorney general
is seeking some means to punish for
its bold violation.
Mr. Hanrahan knows that suspicion
exists between the members Of his
organization and the managers of
railways. Probably this has been
lessened during the past few years.
thru the enactment of legislation fav-
orable to the train and enginemen and
the appreciation and fear Of the
strength Of the various brotherhoods
among the employees. But once the
railroads encroach on tho rights of the
employees and defy the laws of their
unions as they do the laws Of the state.
and Mr.. Hanrahan's organization will
be much quicker to treat the corpora
tions as pirates than are the people
thru their legislative representatives.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25

goes to the services at ST Johns with
his wife and children. Miss Helen Taft
and Miss Ethel Roosevelt were con-
f1rmed at st. Johns church at the same
time not long ago. Secretary Taft
spends his vacation at Murray Bay,
Can, where there is Union church
attended by the summer colonists OF
all denominations. The secretary of
war is one of the trustees of the sum-
mer colony church, where people of
many faiths gather for worship.
The Cedar Rapids Republican croWed
Justify when Allison's petition was
filed with 4,4OO names, but is now
sore because Cummins filed 10000, and
accuses Cummns of hiring men to
campaign for him. The facts are every
name on the petition was obtained by
volunteer workers.
Some of the state laws governing
threshermens traction engines now
appear Anticipated since other engines
of all kinds are speeding over our
highways.
Estimates Of the surviving volunteer
31,250 to 1900. The former are the
figures of the adjutaant general, who
states that $4,000 commissioned officers
were in the volunteer service of the
United States between 1861 and 1865.
At most only one-fourth of the number
are still living.
81 see by the papers" said Mrs Nc
Sosh, chat the tendency of the stage
nowadays is toward one-act plays"
EYES," muttered Mr.. McSosh, that's
another piece of this darned prohibi-
ton movement. How can man go
out for drink between one-act
play?'
The American parent will soon be
listening to essays on the problems
confronting graduates, but the mind
will be fixed as usual on the problem of
what to do with the offspring during
vacation.
The solution of great national prob
lens by the federal legislative bodies
appears easy when compared with
some of the struggles in which boards
of supervisors in several Iowa counties
are engaged in an attempt to adjust
the smallpox and other quarantine
bills submitted to them.
There was $550,000 in the state
treasury on April 81. At that date
the standpat papers were printing
stories to the effect that the treasury
was bankrupt. Just ten years ago
Governor Shaw and State Treasurer
Herriott were issuing and selling state
warrants of which they sold about
100000 at four per cent interest to
pay the state expenses.
If you know that your neighbors and
yourself have to pay for newspaper
you can depend upon it that its list
of subscribers read the paper and its
Papers thrown on
the poarch unsolicited or sent to a
postoffice uncalled for are of no value
for advertising purposes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
PARTICULARS LACKING.
<yyys%..Joo C0~-lo,~N

1t is especially interesting that the
headquarters" has concluded to drop
the argument that the senator has
been the leader of Iowa reforms as
some of his blind followers assert. 1t
is less dangerous to declare that he
has done grand work at Washington.
But it would be most interesting II
the same source would supply bill
Of particulars reciting just what this
grand work" has been. In what way
has it directly benefited the farmers
of Iowa? 1t is easy to generalize as
to matters which have or have not
TRANSFERRED as the Des Moines dis
patch does, but clear statement prov
ing Senator Allisons initiating sim
gle reform measure in late years is
lacking. On the contrary there is
strong circumstantial evidence that
he has ever been content to go with
the tide of affairs. whether ebbing or
flowing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
FAVORED FREE SILVER.
Cummins Letter to DR.. Gorrell in 1893
Clear and Positive

Cummins Letter to DR.. Gorrell in 1893
Clear and Positive.
In September, 1893, after Senator AL
lison had voted to repeal the silver
purchase clause Of the Sherman law,
Governor Cummins, then as now a
candidate for the United States senate,
wrote as follows to DR.. Gorrell of
Newton, Iowa, free silver state SEN
ator:
aThe experience Of nations has, I
think, demonstrated one fact beyond
reasonable ontroversy-namely, that
all currency must be convertible or re-
3deemable in coin, having intrinsic
value. To create the requisite conf
dence among the people the currency
other than coin must not be dispropor-
tionate to the amount Of coin available
for use. These considerations render
single gold standard absolutely impos-
sible or at least excessively dangerous
For there is not enough Of that metal
to give stability to the large volume
of currency or subsidiary coins that
must rest upon 1t. Therefore am in
favor Of the free coinage Of silver, not
only of American silver, but of all sill
YER being absolutely sure that 1t will
not and cannot be coired to excess"
The above standing alone would
convict Cummins of the vagary Of
free silver in 1893, altho God knows
the republican party was innoc-
ulated with it so strong in those days
that had the democratic party not
beat them to it it is doubtful if any
thing could have saved the republicans
.of the west adopting some form of a
s.lver declaration in their national
"a tform of 1895. Bat presented in
y half quoted form the letter is a
lin political lie. Clmmins was, in
1t, a gold standard man then as he
s. been since. He was a candidate
senator. Gorren had vote in the
sislature. Gorrell was a red hot
lie silverite at 16 to /, altho a repub-
gan. He voted for Pete Hepburn in
sad of Cummins, as the best free
b Aerite of the two. Why?
because the next paragraphs of that
ss.ummins letter read as follows:
s .Iet us now take one step further,
Ind here we may disagree.
y 1.-The only reason for using gold and
Eilyer rather than an exclusively paper
currency is because they have intrinsic
q alue, that is because labor has been
xpended to produce them. Therefore
8he coinage ratio should correspond to
ne intrinsic ratio. Mark you. I do moi
~ the market ratio; the latter may
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
THE MARTINS, MOVING DAY.

QOwa City Republfcan)
For the fifteenth consecutive year
the Martins have returned to the Da-
Wis drug store in this city to resume
their summer quarters in the large tin
mortar that hangs before the we'll
known establishment on Washington
street and the time of their coming
this year did not vary by more than
two days from the various times on
which they returned in the past years.
This Is a remarkable fact from many
standpoints and especially so from the
standpoint of the animal psychology.
1t demonstrates quite conclusive1y
that birds have memory and that they
use it year after YEAR 1t demon
strates also that the habits of the
old bird becomes the habit Of the
young.
The birds returned this year on the
18th and one remarkable thing about
this date is that in the past fifteen
years they have not varied from it
by more than two days. One year
they returned on the 10th. this being
the earliest instance. When the big
hailstorm swept this city in 1898,
hole was punctured in the big tin
mortar before the Davis drug store.
One year later Mr.. Davis noticed mar
tins around the store front and dis
covered that they were nesting in the
mortar itself. For the BIRDS conven-
fence he placed more boxes on the
fire escape landing and more at the
rear of the building with the result
that he has yearly a whole colony of
beautiful whistling martins who never
forget their Iowa City home and who
nest in the same place each year with
out any of the fuss that men and wom-
en- are subjected to when they start
housekeeping.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
PLAIN LYING.

The T.-R. predicted yesterday that
the anti-Cummins crowd would be
sending out circulars before long lying
about Cunmins' position on the money
question iii 's5. The reason the T.-R.
made the prediction is that the anti
Cummins weekly newspapers have
been running the Same lie and 1t
seemed certain that it would be cir
culated in pamphlet form. A subscriber
read the prediction and sends to the
T.-R. the very pamphlet which the
newspaper suspected. 1t seems that
the work has already heen begun.
The lie consists in printing one
paragraph from a letter and emitting
what followed in the same letter. AS
circulated in the Allison literature 1t
stands:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
Iona Newspapers
A CLosE-RANGE ARGUMENT.
(West Union Argo.)


A bunch of democratic United
States senators from other states have
written letters saying they want their
personal friend, Mr.. Allison. returned
to the senate-that's natural And
some corporations owned newspaper in
Washington, d. c., thinks Iowa is go
ing contrary to some good and freely
rendered advice in choosing another
man-very well. But listen: Right
out here in good old Dover township,
Fayette county, Iowa, Isaac johnson
circulated A. B. Cummins' nomination
papers. and out of ia republican vot-
ers seen, Ill signed the petition. For
real bearing on the result We'll trade
the Dover township fact for the two
facts from Washington, D. c., and
have something left over.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25

nessee to the gulf Of Mexico. without
looking down upon a legalized saloon.
Great Britain and Ireland could be set
down over this space without covering
it. There would be 10000 square miles
of dry" territory left as border
From 1.-THE Nations Anti-Drink CRU
sade" by Ferdinand Co'vle Iglehart, in
the American Review OF Reviews for
April
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
This Nav Interest YOU.

No one is immune from Kidney
trouble, so just remember that Foley's
Kidney Cure will stop the Irregular
tiles and cure any case of kidney and
bladder trouble that is not beyond the
reach of medicine. Mcbride & Will
Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25

,o;th factoring the efscts, while the Greg
inaI disease undermines the system.
What To Do.
There is comfort i'll the knowledge SO
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Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy,
fulflls every wish in curing rheumatism,
pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder
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It corrects inability to hold water
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YOU should haveuhe best. Sold by drug
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You NAV have sample bottle and 2
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writing mention this paper and don't
make any mistake, but remember the
name, Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp-Roots and
the address, Binghamton. N. Y.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
BEGINNING to Be Apprehensive.

Spoonamore was counting them up.
That's the eleventh girl I've been en-
gagged to within the last sixteen years.
he reflected. I'd better stop right now.
First thing I know I'll get the habit"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25

States senate and at the same time
have spasms over the matter of getting
the Stevens bill passed.
Allison could have passed a meas
ure of this kind at any time within
the past twenty years had he the in
terests of the publishing and reading
public at heart.
The American Newspaper Publishers
association is screaming for free trade
now. Go on and take your medicine.
Keep on electing such fellows as Payne,
Dalzell, Allison, and Cousins, and keep
paying tribute to their controlling in
fiuences, the trusts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, Irregularities, periodic pains,
backache. Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write. her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-25

OF kidney disease.
While kidneys dis
orders are the
most common
diseases that pre-
vail, they are
almost the last
recognized by
patient and ply
sicians, ssAo con-
flnk themselve0