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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

conditions. Naturally, the effect of the
primary election law would be to In
crease the progressive republican vote,
for the other side has been dominant
in the district for many years and the
individual voters hav, felt the yoke OF
it's power and influence which now is
thrown off because of the opportunity
to vote for candidates without the In
reference of any influence whatever.
Corporations whose employees have
considered 1t advantageous or fancied
II important to line up with the en-
ployers, will no longer have that sort
of Influence to use at the polls In nom
mating officers In my Judgment. so far
as the senatorial fight is concerned
more stress should be put on the fact
that our foreign markets should be cx-
tended. Fully 90 per cent of the pro-
ducers are anxious for the expansion
Of the foreign market as well as the
preservation of the home market, and
there is no reason in the world why 1t
cannot be achieved hy congress. Indeed
II should have been attended to long
ago. In the senatorial fight 1t should
be explained to the people exactly what
Mr.. Allison has done or failed to do
in this matter"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

retail dealers today, in many towns
are attempting To do business with
their grandfathers brains The new
features which have been installed in
to the mercantile world have given
excellent opportunities for concerns to
get rich because they would adopt
methods which the people demanded.
If we are in business to sell goods the
best thing for us to do Is I" adopt
methods which are attractive to the
consumer who desires tn purchase
goods We might better conduct our
business along some other lines, as we
are in IA business as rule for the
money which we can make out OF IT.
We are all in Il business Tor S"'tlSh
motive. and if we can make more
money by adopting some other meth
cd, no man can suural because he Is
compelled to adopt such methods II
the mail order houses are selling an
article at II lower price than the re-
taller Is and they are furnishing an
inferior grade ii Is up to the retail
dealer to demonstrate this fact hui
the mere assertion which he makes
to the consumer vii convince the
consumer"
"'rhc best thing for the retail dealer
to do would be To advertise the same
article at the same price and then
display the higher quality when the
consumer was about to make the pur-
chase"
In other words the man who would
stay in the race today should get UP
and run with the best of them If Inn
proved methods of transportation are
in use by other contestants he must
use the same methods or be distanced
He must display his goods In modern
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
SOME nARO 1wARe) SENSE.

The hardware dealers in convention
some sound business advice from a
Sioux City dealer upon the subject OF
catalog house competition. This gen
ucman told them plainly that to solicit
trade among the farmers on the plea
that the local merchant paid the
preacher, was to do business with their
grandfather's brains. He insisted that
the consumer is going to buy where he
can buy the cheapest is going to hunt
the best bargain and he advised hard
ware dealers to either get out OF the
game or meet the devil with fire and
advertise.
THE consumer figures his buying
out on exactly the same basis said
this Sioux City man. de is glad to
purchase his goods where he can buy
them the cheapest and he alone must
be the judge of the quality Of the
goods which he purchases. If he gets
'stung' when he purchases his goods
of certain firm, he has the priNlleg"
of not buying any more goods from
this firm, but If he does not get stung,
and their business methods are salts
factory to him, there is no retailer IN
existence who has a right to go to this
man and state to him that they should
purchase goods in his store because he
is a home man and because he is pay
ing the preacher and a few other such
statements that you will hear in al
most any town today. All these state
ments have little weight with the con-
sumers. He has q perfect right to
purchase his goods wherever he de-
sires"
The above plain, common sense from
a business man who is selling goods
every day with the catalogs of the
mail order houses open on his show
cases, will be read with approval by
every person outside a small retail
store.
Then as to the quality argument
this fellow dealer discoursed as fol-
lows:
The facts of the matter are that the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
Lo9ker-On In Iona

LeGrand, Feb ga correspondent
of the T.-R. recently mentioned the
treatment strangers sometimes receive
in passing the country school house.
Hard snowballs evidently were not ap-
preciated. Here is a noticeable thing
that has come to the front in Iowa
during the past ten or fifteen years.
Probably just the same all over the
country. It's this: The large and in
creasing number of young female hood
lums, girls ID to Is years of age, that
frequent the depots in the country
towns and hang around the postoffice;
this is not saying that all such girls
are bad characters, immoral or disrep-
utable, on the contrary, many are the
daughters of "the best people in town."
But they are often misunderstood from
their boldness in conversation and ac
TONS They seem to want to vie with
the other sex in horseplay. loud talk
and a desire to attract the attention
of strangers They seem to think that
if they do something rude. talk slang,
call the railroad agent by his first
name. know the bus driver We'll enough
TO get a free ride, make fun of the
preacher tnal is eoiiuee'iiS 'iie ieNis e.i
in a word, if they act as "loaferish"
as some Of their brothers, they are
happy. Ten years from now they will
be SO ashamed Of their actions that
thew will deny that they ever lived in
Nextown.
No better use of the basement of a
court house has even been made, than
at Hampton, which has been fitted up
for a rest room for strangers and
country people in town TO trade.
Steam heated. we'll lighted. plenty of
easy chairs. toilet room, reading mat
fer and comfort. all invite the women
tn come to Hampton to trade. The lords
of creation, the men that own the
building, have the same accommoda-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
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IONA Newspapers
EMPLOYING WOMEN AND GIRLS.
DUBUQUE Telegraph- HeraldD

EMPLOYING WOMEN AND GIRLS.
dubuque Telegraph Herald)
Now the employment of women and
children and the payment of less than
~ living wage are fraught with con-
sequences so dire as to strike terror to
the hearts of patriots and humanitar-
ians. Macauley saw the day when, as
a result Of the conditions of labor in
the factories of England. and the en-
ployment of women and children, the
standard of physical efficiency would
be so reduced as to imperl the nation
The prophecy was borne out during
the recruiting period for the Boer war,
when practically every man offering
himself for enlistment from England's
factory towns was rejected because he
fell below the liberal physical stand
ards. One cannot surround the Dreg-
nant mother with want and squalor.
mpoverish her and wrack her with
torrents born of poverty without i'm
pairing the child. and the child can
not be put into a factory at tender
years and develop into strong. heal
thy citizen, loving his fellow men and
devoted to the form of government UNI
der which he lives. Nor can these
conditions exist and the moral stand
ards be preserved. for one cannot we'll
offer religion in place of food. nor re-
ligion's solace for privation and dis
treSs to minds that have never known
anything of religious truths. girl
cannot pay So for room rent in great
city, as she must, even in squalid quar-
ters, feed and clothe her body. ride
miles to and from her work, and have
wholesome recreation on $3.50 a week,
and withstand the temptation offered
to get money easy. Figures establish
that 81 per cent of the social crimi-
nails in New York-if they should be
so designated-are that because they
must live or convert their lives into
sacrifices, which they are unwilling to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

in an expression OF disapproval" He
more to do with the affair than did
Allison himself and that Senator Nc
rumber. even, was innocent of amy
wrong intent. Wonder now il lafe
ting McC'umber up to the Job? He
went Il long ways ont of the road to
rip Ex-Governor Larrahoc mp the
back"
The supreme court of Nevada has
in when used by one wounded, means
that his life was near an end. Now will
the supreme court of Nevada tell MS
what is a "standpattor?' After the
June primaries in Iowa the courts Of
Nevada may be appealed to for a def
milton of a bob tailed flush"
The bishops among the colored
brethren are beginning to talk against
Taft. viii the usual happen With the
colorcd delegates from the south?
And now q Wisconsin congressman
has discovered that the Dingley law
protects Standard Oil to the extent of
taxing the people of this country two
cents per gallon more than the people
of Europe pay the Standard for the
same oil. but, of course. the tarin
should not be revised.
The strong probability that Potta-
wattamie county Will be controlled In
the delegate convention by the Allison
men, is the subject Of much rejoicing
among the anti-Cunmins men Wonder
IL they will show equally as much sur
prise when Allison carries Burlington?
Why not publish the whisky pre-
sCription requests as part of the pro-
ceedings of the board Of supervisors%
That nervous, uneasy man who
cranes his neck while studying the
clouds and the weather forecast, is
neither crazy nor a crank. He is a duck
hunter and this is the season for thirty
days of his peculiar antics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

| lions upstairs, only they are denied the
privilege of splitting tobacco juice on
the floor. And that these tax payers
realize the building belongs to them
and not to the court house officials,
came ont on the passenger train, where
a Franklin county farmer going to
town met an old acquaintance also
bound in the same direction. After the
usual Misunderstanding came this invita-
ton: Got to wait in town till B: 40!
Fake your wife and come up to the
court house. She'll find a nice waiting
place You can get dinner anywhere
four hotels and as many restaurants.
close by. Expect my folks will drive
in this AFTERNOON and wei all be over
to see YOU"
In nearly every town In Iowa is a
type of a storekceper that has a stock
of goods out of the ordinary, and a
trade peculiarly his own. Such men
do little advertising. never handle
Schemes have no bargain days, no
red letter sales buy little besides
staple goods. never stock up with
lads" and also buy in just as small
fail to run II delivery wagon. Generally
do a large credit business and the bulk
Of their trade is with mechanics, day
laborerS. and renters. If they are OF
foreign birth, they get nine tenths OF
all the town and country trade of their
nationality. As a rule such men have
no time for politics, take but little in
terest in town affairs or church re-
vivals, and can generally be counted
on to oppose a railroad tax. water
works. paving and a new school house.
Such men stay in the same store, in
the same town, for many years save a
little money every year by not spend
ing it and when too old to enjoy such
business. Quit with a bank account big
enough ito keep them as long as they
live"
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Topics of the Times

A striking instance of the scarcity
re timber suitable for railroad ties in
INC United States is seen in the re-
cent purchas. o. the Atchison, Topeka
4 Santa re Railway company of q
100000 ties Of ohia wood from q lum-
Der company operating in the Ha-
waiian islands 1t has been difficult
for some time for the railroads of this
country to obtain wooden ties satsfac-
tory both in quantity and quality. and
many Of them have been looking about
for an opportunity to purchase the
cent trip of this kind by representa-
tive of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Re Railway company arrangements
were made for the purchase of ties, not
ONLY in the Hawaiian islands but also
in Japan.
1t is somewhat CALLING for the only
republican daily newspaper in the
Eleventh congressional district to find
the republicans perSistently nominating
ind electing a man to congress from
the newspapers own town and against
the newspapers reiterated advice. I'm
der the circumstances it is difficult to
forget the disappointments of the pub
isher's own candidacy.
Grundy county did not want an mis-
understanding to arise, so her republic
ans endorsed Taft and Cummins and
'et Mr. Morrison name his own dele
rates so as to help his own candidacy
FOR delegate to the national convention.
Then. so that no hard feelings would
arise they complimented Allison and
ndorsed him at home in the peace and
iuiet of an honorable old age.
A man put a business ad in the T.-R.
several times offering merchandise for
sale. and he had $50 replies by mail
before they quit coming Another man
published an ad for one whole week,
,sking to rent a modern six room
touse in MarshalltoWn and not one re-
DIV came to him. When no one has
what you want it is difficult to get it
ven by advertising.
Mr.. C. G. Messerole, of GoWrie. an
We witness to the l't. Dodge incident,
confirms the IRIS suspicious. He
;avs that IAN attempt to inject politics
Where politics was not wanted resulted
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

,ciM dortoring the effects, while the or.
.nol disease undermines the system.
What To Do.
There is comfort i'll the knowledge St
often expressed, that DIR. killner
Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy
fultills every wish i'll curing rheumatism
pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladde
and every part of the urinary passage
1t corrects inability to hold waite
and scalding pain i'll passing it, or ba'
effects following use of liquor, wine o,
beer, and overcones that unpleasant ne
cessity of being compelled to go oftc'
during the day, and to get up man,
times during the night. The mild al,'
the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Roo
is soon realized. 1t stands the lrigllc;
for it's wonderful cures of the most d.
tressing cases. If you need nedlcil
YOU should have the best. Sold by dru
gists in fifty-ceut and one-dollar sizes.
You may have sample bottle and
book that tells all EsHf'-
aboutit, bothsentf free 9lEEs s:. ::::
by mail. Address DR.. .tt :tSS
kilmer & Co., BiiIg- ss 1z3sa
ha,llton, n. v. When Home of swamp-noo'
writing mention this paper and don
make any mistake, but remember tn
name. DR.. Kilner's Swamp-Root, an
the address, Bingha1nton, n. Y.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
LYDIA E. PINkHAM

No other medicine for Woman's
ills in the world has received such
widespread and unqualified en-
dorsement as has Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from native roots and herbs.
No other medicine has such q
record of success for woman's dis
eases, or such hosts of grateful
friends as has Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
For more than 3Oyears it has been
the standard remedy for feminine
ills, inflammation, liberation, and
consequent Spinal Weakness.
Ithas relieved more cases OF Back
ache and Local Weaknesses than
any other one reMedy. 1t dissolves
and expels tumors in an early stage
Of development.
Irregularities and periodic pains,
Weakness of the Stomach, Indiges-
ton, Bloating, Nervous Prostitution,
Headache, General Debility, quickly
yield to it; also deranged organs,
causing pain, dragging sensations
and backache. Under all circum-
stances it acts in harmony with tho
female system.
It removes that wearing feeling,
extreme lassitude, don't care and
swami to- be : left alone" feeling,
excitability, irritability, nervousness,
dizziness, faintness, sleeplessness,
flatulency, melancholy orthe sblues."
These are Indications of Feminine
disorders, which this medicine over
comes as we'll as slight arrangement
of the Kidneys Of either sex.
Women who are sick and want to
get we'll should refuse to accept any
Substitute for Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
PRoGREssIvEs TO THE TOP.


mo one can accurately gauge the
political situation in the Fifth district
at this time" said Governor S. b.
Packard yesterday "That is it cam
not be done with final assurance, for it
is impossible to estimate what the
voters of the party are going to do at
4 primary election. 1t is so totally diff
ferent from former practices, that one
cannot tell. The fact that every in
dividual voter of the party will be able
% go into the booth and mark his ball
lot in private and know that it is go
ing to be counted, will free voters from
every species of influence which may
have been used heretofore to control
them l refer, of course, to the inf1u-
ence of association, merely. No one
can estimate how they are going to
line up, exactly, under these changed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
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, 1908-02-25

Because a man signs nomin-
alton paper" says the Estherville Re-
publican. sit is no evidence that he
is going to vote for the candidate at
the primary, neither does 1t place
him under any obligation to the
office seeker. The presumption. of
course is that he is at least friendly
to him"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"a standpat delegation to the nation
al convention at Chicago from this
state would naturally drift to Speaker
Cannon says the Scranton Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

OF Kinney disease
While kidneydis
orders are tn
most Commo
diseases that PR
vail, they ar
almost the la
recognized b
patient and phi,
sicians, arho CO
TENT tIeulse7r
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

Says the Brooklyn Chronicle: at is
too early to say that Ed Hunter is
out of a job, or that the business of
those who have special skill in deliv-
ering votes to needy corporations
which are willing to pay for them is
entirely done in the state. The law may
be evaded. and it will be we'll for the
people to keep their eyes open"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

The Britt News is convinced that
"A man that wants j. p. Morgan. the
man who dominates more railroads
than any other man in the world to
be president of the United States. has
nothing in common with the people of
Iowa +"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect il.

PreyaIency Of Kidney Disease.
Most people do not realize the alarm
ing increase and remarkable prevalence.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
Important Decisions
Compiled by the West Publishing
Co. of ST. Paul, Mimi.
RESTAURANT

eject II patron who annoys other pa
irons of the restaurant is not liable
unless excessive force is used, accord
ing to the recent decision Of the SUI
preme court Of Washington in Chase
VS.. Knabel. 80 Pacific Reporter, 642.
The court says that restaurant keep
er owes 1t to his patrons to protect
them from annoyance.
CARBON COPY AS ORIGINAL EVIL
Dl1NCE - The decision of the
Pennsylvania supreme court in
pany, IS Atlantic Reporter, 67S,
that a complete carbon copy of writ
ing is admissible in evidence without
notice to produce the original, was
noticed sometime ago in these col
unns. The doctrine announced in this
case now receives further support in
the decision by the supreme court Of
Minnesota, in the case of International
Harvester Company VS.. Elfstrom, liz
Northwestern Reporter, 252.
STATE REGULATION OF CON
Meeting CARRIERS The United
States supreme court, in At
lantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Us. North Carolina Corporation Com
mission. 81 Supreme Court Reporter,
5S5, 206 L. S. /, 81 L. Ed 1913, holds
that a ruling Of the state commission
requiring the operation OF an extra
train at loss in order to restore con-
nections at certain station is not
50 arbitrary and unreasonable as to
amount to denial of due process of
the law, or to a deprivation Of the
equal protection of the law, SO long as
the income of the railroad company
from it's business in the state affords
adequate remuneration
STATE TAXATION OF NATIONAL.
SECURITIES - a tax imposed un-
der authority Of section 1922
Of the Code of Iowa, di-
recting that shares of stock of state
banks shall be assessed to such banks
and not to individual stockholders,
was by the United States supreme
of Des Moines, % Supreme Court Re-
porter, 571, 2o5, U. S. SOB, 81 l.. Ed.
901, held to violate the immunity of ma
tional securities from state taxation,
as the substantial effect Of the tax
was to require taxation upon the
property, not including the franchise
Of such state banks, and to adopt the
value Of the shares as the measure of
taxable valuation Of such property,
without permitting and deduction
from such valuation on account of the
bonds of the United States owned by
the banks.
II AM ALL IN"-The supreme
court of Nevada in State VS..
Hennessy. 80 Pacific Reporter,
221, defines the expression, II
am all in as used by a person mortal
ly wounded to bystanders, and holds
that under such circumstances the ex-
preston may be taken to mean that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

INSURANCE - The Iowa supreme
court decides an interesting point
OF insurance law in New York
Life Insurance Co. vs. Chit
tenden & Eastmen, 112 Northwestern
Reporter, SO. An insured had been
absent and unheard of for more than
seven years. and an administrator had
been appointed for his estate. A de-
mand was made on the insurance COM
pany for the insurance, and 1t was
paid. Afterwards It was discovered
that insured was not dead. Thereupon
the insurance company brought this
action to recover the payments made.
but. as these payments had been made
voluntarily by the company, the court
held that it was not entitled to recover.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25

AS the Rockford Register explains
1t I'm securing recruits for his navy
Uncle Sam is simply up against an
economic stone wall when he offers
but SIT month to young men who
must have perfect eyes. teeth and
stomachs. when most any bat-eyed
chap with half his .molars gone wants
$50 month and board working on the
farms of the country"
"There Is no real reason" argues the
Usage Press, why the notion should
be prevalent that the presidential year
should be a duh year There does not
seem to be anything about it that is a
menace to commercial prosperity. The
great industries are calling in their
ing forces. The country Is safe and
there is little danger Of a change in
the economic policies of the gov
eminent"
To the Glidden Graphic it appears
that "MaWkish sentimentality was
pushed to the limit by LATE Young
when he asserted that the funeral of
Senator Allison should be held in the
capitol at Washington. 1t is what a
man does while he lives that counts
not where his funeral is held. We
are not ready yet to ape four thous-
and year old Chinese customs"