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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
SUGGESTED TO DoLL1vER.
Games Intelligencer.)

| -
In Senator Delivers next speech
| IN the senatorial campaign he might
include the things which Senator AL
| lison has done, the maintenance on
| river lines for figuring freights. Du-
buque and Omaha have enjoyed dis
| eliminating rates against interior
| Iowa. Senator Dolliver, who has
| great influence himself, has not been
able to give TT. Dodge and central
Iowa points rate that would permit
the infant industries to compete with
those at Dubuque, Omaha or other
parts OF the country. The railroads
have been permitted to have a COM
mon rate for Dubuque and then an
other rate for Omaha. Shipments
for the west from Chicago consigned
to Fl. Dodge have been paying the
Omaha rate and shipments for the
east have paid the same rate as
tho billed and loaded out Of
Omaha. Shipments going west and
from the west have paid the Du-
buque rate. Senator Allison. as the
leader Of the senate, has permitted
this discrimination to continue
against all of his constituents except
those in his own longitude.
Senator Dolliver has been in con-
gress since 1888 when he defeated
that grand old soldier, Major A. j.
Holmes. He has been helpless to
bring about a reform. This might
also be said of Col. Hepburn. who
for years has been at the head of the
important committee which has in
charge the regulations of railroads.
tic TO 10
are located in central Iowa Col.
Hepburn entered congress in 1881.
The reform in transportation mat
ters was not undertaken until the
pressure from Iowa and the interior
states became so strong that the lead
ers found it was too strong to longer
resist. This work is not yet completed
and will not be is Brother Payne's
program is carried out of putting
on the brakes"
Central Iowa cannot establish
protective tariff against other COM
peting points. Central Iowa points,
however, have a right to expect from
the men who are claiming that there
shall not be any tariff tinkering, an
equal show in railroad rates with the
full grown concerns which endeav-
ors now to kill off the competition
of the real infant Industries of Cen
trail Iowa.
Senator Dolliver might tell how
Senator Allison has succeeded in de-
feating the strenuous campaigns of
himself and Col Hepburn in their
efforts to equalize rates.
If the principles of the Do1liver bill
in the senate and the Hepburn bill
in the house were good in 1907, this
ought to have been good in 1888, or
in 1873.
If. as Senator Dolliver claims, Sena-
tor Allison is responsible for all the
good things we enjoy thru his lead
ership he must be logically responsible
for some of the things we have not
enjoyed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
HOW ABOUT IT?
(Mayerly Independently


A few years ago perfectly reliable
and honest "woodchuck' in the big
Woods" said to this commentator:
:'Ill take the Independent four years if
you'll take in payment one cord of
strictly body, hard maple wood to be
delivered at your home any time be-
fore the end of the four years" We
accepted this proposition and before
the end of the four years he brought
the wood and took a receipt showing
that he had paid for the Independent
four years. If Bro. Meyers ruling is
good law then we can nevermore en-
ter into such contracts with any Of our
friends of the woodchuck variety. Oh
bosh! Bro. Meyer. Somewhere we
have read that printers have certain
inalienable rights, among which are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness, besides little fun with our
friends in the Big Woods!"
Four years ago a good farmer who
is worth at least $4,000 said to US
banteringly: "I'll give you Sc for the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
Iowa Newspapers
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AN oLD-FAsHloNED MOTHER,

AN OLD-FASHIONED MOTHER.
(Rev. Bosley in Chelsea independently
Mother is dead. Sad are the words
Mother is dead. The gentle smile
with which she greeted all is hidden
from sight In the grave; the busy
hands are folded: the loving heart is
still. But from the depths of our
grief we thank God it was our good
fortune to have had an old fashioned
mother. Not a woman of the period
enameled and painted with her great
chizon, her curls and hustle; whose
white. jewcled hands never have felt
the clasp Of baby fingers but dear
old fashioned. sweet voiced mother.
with eyes in which the love light
shone, and brown hair long since
turned white. lying smooth upon her
faded cheek. Those dear hands, worn
with toll. gently guided our tottering
steps in childhood and smoothed our
pillow in sickness: reaching out to us
in yearning tenderness when her sweet
spirit was baptized in the pearly spray
of the river.
Blessed IS the memory of an old
fashioned mother. 1t floats DER us now
like the beautiful perfume of the
woodland blossoms The music of other
voices may be lost, but the entrance
ing memory of hers will echo in our
soul forever. Other faces will fade
away and be forgotten, but hers will
shine on until the light from Heavens
portals. mayhap, shall glorify our own.
When In the fitful pauses of busy life
our thoughts wander back to the old
and in memory we cross the
well worn threshold and stand once
more in the low. quaint. room. as hall
lowed by her presence. how the feel
ing Of childish innocence and depend
enee comes over us. and we wish we
could again kneel in the molten sun
shine streaming thru the western
windows-just where long years ago.
we knelt by mothers knee lisping
Our Father" How many times when
the tempter lured us on has the mem
DRY of these sacred hours with moth
er's words, her faith and prayers
saved us from sin. Years may fill great
drifts over between her and US, but
they will not hide from our sight the
glory of her pure. unselfish love.
Farewell, mother. We know that
your sleep will be tranquil, and your
awakening glorious.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
GOD HELP THE POsrmAsTERs.

While Secretary Shaw refused to
discuss personal politics with the
newspaper men Thursday, he did find
time to utter one truth which is of
great Importance. He mentioned that
republican leaders were mindful of the
fact that the party has fight on Its
hands this year to carry the general
elections. Few voters at large realize
the full significance of this statement.
It means, il it means anything, that
the republican nominee must be the
kind Of man who can be elected at
the polls or else Bryan will be the next
president, and God help the postmast-
ers.
It also means that no man publicly
known as reactionary, an anti
has demonstrated himself to be. ear
stem the popular tide if nominated
When a man like Shaw or Cannon
shout their standpatism from the
house tops. sneer at rate regulation,
primary election reforms. and go to
explaining that the railroads can't
borrow money because of the two cent
fare laws, 1t is something more than
for them to ask the repub
lican party to make them the nominee
for the next campaign unless they are
willing to admit that the present is "A
good time for the republican party
to commit political suicide. And in
that event, again. God help the post
masters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
For Sunday Reading,
Al sorts 81 Opinions.
Observation-Disclosures
JUDGE on Sunday Observance

Jud9e on sunday observance.
Judge Wallace in his statement
says:
1T is a mistake to suppose that the
Sabbath Is purely a religious institu-
ton, and that its enforced observance
is for the benefit of the church. The
Sabbath was ordained before man had
fallen or there was church or the
need for a Redeemer By divine ex-
ample the Almighty ordained it by
resting from the work of creation on
the seventh day and he impressed for
ever upon it its sacred character by
hallowing it. The Sabbath would be
with us had sin never entered the
world.
Hence, when we think logically and
historically, it is easy to perceive how
it is that desire for day of rest is a
latent intuition with the laboring man.
avarice has not Grad Gated it. Justice
Field, so long a member of our United
States supreme court, was right when
as one of the supreme judges of Cali
fornia. he declared that Sunday laws
are enacted primarily for the protection
of labor. we cannot wonder. therefore,
that men who work for wages in all
the departments of human industry
are sending in the unanimous indorse-
ment of the labor unions to which they
belong. Nor should we wonder that
avarice is turning its guns upon the
friends of Sunday observance. 1t can
on Sunday glut it's ravenous nav with
more of the wages that have been paid
the laborer than on any other three
days of the week combined. The Sun
day theater, as rich harvest as the
Sunday saloon, is proof of this fact.
ut seems to me that as the abuse OF
the liquor traffic is aiding the cause
of prohibition, so the open and de-
fiant Dissertation Of the Sabbath is OPP
ance of Sunday observance. Then, too
the truth contained in, the statement
OF Daniel Webster that the Sabbath
is the bulwark of our liberties because
it is the bulWark Of our morality is
pressing Itself upon the attention of
patriotic Americans.
when the grand jury was convened
here in September last over 600 retail
groceries were open on Sunday. Now
they are closed. Every barber shop in
the city is closed. Retail merchants
have closed, except very few, who
observe some other day as Sunday, as
permitted by our statutes. The 1000
places where cigars and tobacco were
formerly sold are obeying the law,
excepting now and then a clandestine
sale. Only three pool halls and the
aters defy the law, and two of the lat
ter have recently closed. The credit
for this result is due largely to
grand jury composed of fearless, mag
nit1cent rnen."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
BIZ. Abbott's "EncyclicaI."

Following the example of the pope,
The Outlook publishes an "encyclicap
on "Traditionalism VS.. Modernism"
DR.. Abbott, the presumable author,
calls attention to the pope's recent
pronouncement, and also to Father
Tyrrelrs Much Abused Letter." and
invites his readers Ito compare the
three documents with one another and
with the teachings of Jesus Christ
and come to theil. own conclusion"
Recalling that the pope has character
ICED modernism as the "synthesis of all
heresies,'' he suggests, tho with mod
esty, that he has attempted to define
"the synthesfs of all orthodoxies." He
proceeds:
Religion is not series of dogmas
imposed on man by authority. Belief
in such dogmas is not faith, disbelief
in them is not infidelity Religion is
not set of rules for the government
of human conduct. Obedience to such
rules is not religion, disobedience is
not irreligion. Religion is a life
springing up within the soul-the life
of God in the soul of man. If this
definition seems too vague, then let
us say that it is the life of faith, rev.
erence, conscience, hope. love; or, to
borrow Edward Everett Hale's defini-
ton, religion is to look up, not down;
forward. not Backward; out, not in, and
to lend a hand.
Religion is natural-as natural as
spring, Religion is supernatural-as
supernatural as spring. Religion is
life; and life is beth natural and sup
ernatural, for it is the natural mani
festation of the supernatural. There is
something in nature more than APP
pears; this something is supernatural.
There is something in humanity more
than appears, this something is sup
ernatural. To be in harmony with
this power who is more than the sum
Of all the powers. with the life who is
more than the sura of all the living, is
religion"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
gi,rea-5 rpuhle, 5larshulltuaur jn1ua aa,arp 1908

Independent four years, provided you
will wait for your pay until the end of
the four years" We accepted his
proposition, and few weeks ago the
good farmer sent his check for st,
with a request that we do so some more,
and we sent him receipt in full from
Jan. 1, 1904. to Jan. /, 1908, and told
him we'd come again. Now, Bro.
Meyer, if we continue in the newspa-
per business forty yeas longer we are
liable to do such tricks some more.
and what are you going to do about
it? But to just show that we are not
belligerently inclined, and that we are
still willing to compromise with you,
Bro. Meyer. we'll promise never again
to take soft soap on subscription.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
a~mA~7~A
The Birds Christmas sheaf.

A great sheaf of grain is stuck up
in every Norwegian garden on Christ
mas day. 1t is a Christmas gift for
the birds.
Norway's streets, the day before
Christmas, are crowded with carts full
Of grain from the country. All grain
for the birds, it's buying and selling
constitute q big business.
1t is odd and pleasant to think of
the thousands Of Norwegian carts
trundling in from the outlying farms
on Dec "a for the birds benefit, of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04

legislature. He is muddled in the
American plan of government. That is
ALL
1T really looks as tho Mr.. Roebling
would have to move or become cit
izen and take his chance with other
citizens at the polls Even Asheville
rebels at being told how to vote by a
man who has spent million of his
fathers money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04

the big grain market that is held on
the birds account alone, and OF the
joyous surprise in the Norwegian
birds hearts when on Christmas day,
all over that frozen, bleak, snoW-cov-
cred land. they obtain without trouble
all the eood they can possibly desire.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
DR.. Parker's "AII Souls Church."

DR.. ParkerS H1T SOUS VnurcH'
4 man occupying such position IN
the community as DR.. Parker occu-
pies could not preach the sermon
which he preached Sunday morning
without it's being subject of general
comment even if it were preached as
This one was at e. communion service
when the audience is presumably that
of his own church membership. In
asmuch as it is sure to be discussed,
as we'll as because of it's large intrinsic
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04

Belle Plain Union suggests the Re-
publican would more speedily estab
lish it's claim to share of the honor
were 1t to name the date when it gave
support to any of the men responsible
for the legislation in question"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04

The observant Oskaoosa Times has
registered a vow that henceforth the
Times will support no candidate for
office. either in city or county. who
does not support the Times
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04

Commenting on the statement from
the state superintendent of schools in
Iowa, giving the results of one year
under the new teachers certificate law,
the Waverly Independent says, 1T does
not reveal anything alarming. We
suspect that the severest criticisms of
the new law We're made by people who
know 1t air and don't care what they
talk about"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04

Senator Delivers proof of Cover
nor Cummins' written pledge not to be
candidate against Senator Allison has
not appeared as yet, and some move on
the part of the Fort Dodge statesman
is in order" suggests the Usage Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Senator Allison, grand old man
that he is, does not live under spe-
cial dispensation Of the CREATOR" points
out the Waterloo Courier. He is not
exempt from the operation of Deific
law. He must die the same as all, and
because some recognize this fact and
i try to make the best of it, should they
| be called disrepectful toward age,
should they be maligned as possessing
brutal instincts and prejudices against
| the infirr1? 1t hardly seems fair that
| they should be SO criticised. They
| harbor no enmity or i'll will toward the
venerable senator. They appreciate
his past, but they feel that his USE
fulness is sufficiently impaired to
warrant his removal They would be
glad to see this come about upon his
own volition.''
good man to take care of your bust
ness, would you hire man over 70
years of age?" inquiries the Mason
City Times Herald If you had man
past this age in charge of your busi-
ness, would you feel that you were get
ting as much out of it as tho you had a
young ana vigorous man III Charge.
1T is patent that the time has ar
rived in the state of Iowa, as well as
in many other sections of the coun-
try, when the saloons and saloon in
terests have got to toe the mark as
regards an observance of existing
statutes or may be put out of bust
ness entirely" declares the Rockford
Register. The limit of endurance has
been reached, and patience would no
longer seem to be virtue. If the sa-
loon interests are wise they will con-
suit the barometer of public senti
ment and thus avoid a storm that in
the end can only be disastrous to
Themselves
Observing that the Cedar Rapids
Republican insists that Garst divide
with that organ the honor of having
secured the enactment of those meas
t,res which are made the basis of
C,arSt'S claim To the gOyernOrShip the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
BEGIN YOUR MEAL

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do you Beside sharpening the appe-
tite and toning the stomach it will also
prevent any after eating distress.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04
DO Y ~ GET vP
WITH A LAME BACK?

Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads the news
oapefs is sure to know of the wonderful
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-04

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-24
Maine and Indiana.

1t is a far cry from Maine to Indi
ana but the voters of those two states
appear to be of the same opinion pc
litically this year. The great gains
made by the democrats in Maine, whQ
have broken all records for genera
ton. have been repeated in Indiana,
where elections of more than ordinary
significance have been held in several
legislative districts.
These elections, which were for the
purpose of filling vacancies, were made
necessary by reason of a call for a
special session of the legislature The
republicans made strong fight to
elect their candidates. sending their
star orators. such as the governor OF
the state, into certain of the districts
Much interest centered in the result
in the Muncie district, manufacur
ing center of $4,000 population. The
democrats came near electing theii
candidate. The republican majority
of 5000 four years ago was cut down
TO 273. In the Jasper, White and
Newton county districts the demo
cratic candidate was elected by 500
majority, which was democratic gain
of LOO. In the Crawford county dis
trict the democracy made gain OF
500 votes.
Vice Chairman John z. Lamb oil
the democratic executive committee
was highly gratified when he received
the returns from his home state He
communicated the good news to Chair
man Mack. who was delighted witt
the good work of the Indiana demo
Gratis.
AT this ratio of gain, the democ
racy will carry Indiana by from so,
600 to $4,000 majority was Vict
Chairman Lambs comment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-24
Roosevelt Crashes His Teeth.

The sum and substance of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's reply to William Jen-
nings Bryan's challenge to the presi-
dem to verify his accusations as to
Governor Haskell's relations to the
Standard Oil company is you are an
other" The president then goes into
a personal attack upon Bryan and
seeks to draw a contrast between the
democratic and republican candidates.
Bryan's telegram to the president sim
ply took him to task for libeling the
treasurer of the democratic national
committee. The president evades ref
erence to Sheldon, the treasurer of the
republican national committee, and
skillfulIy avoids CortelyOu's course in
the last campaign and his own letter
to my dear Mr.. Hartman" whom
he had previously termed "an undesir
able citizen
The people know whore the corpor
alton contributions are coming from
in the pending presidential campaign
and they know that while the demo
cratic party proposes publishing every
cent the republicans have SO fal
evinced no disposition 10 do likewise
In the meantime, the presiden
amuses himself by setting forth il
voluminous discourse. why he prefers
Taft to Bryan. a proceeding in which
he has a perfect right to indulge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-24
Labor in the Campaign.

Chicago Journal: Organized labor
will take a more active part in this
national campaign than in any before,
and it is not difficult to guess which
party will derive greater benefit from
this activity.
AS yet party machinery has hardly
been put in motion, while the labor
movement seems to be in full force.
In every part of the country those
Headers of organized labor who are
seeking to commit it to the support of
the democratic presidential candidate
are vigorously at work, and indications
are that they are meeting with success.
Their appeals have not succeeded in
levery instance, but they have found
such wide support as to pretty defiNite-
| ly determine where most of this large
vote will go in November.
The vote of organized labor will in
| some states, if united, hold the bal.
ance of power If the full union labor
vote of New York, Ohio, Illinois and
| Indiana, for example, should be cast
| for the democratic candidates, they
would be pretty certain to carry those
states, and it now looks as if a very
large proportion of this vote will be
with the democracy.
There is very good reason, there
fore, for anxiety of republican mana
gers. The political activity of organ
lied labor is the most formidable men,
| ace to republican success.
While organized labor is chiefly, con,
cerned with the Injunction issue, There
are millions of other wage earners to
whom the question of tariff reform
makes a powerful appeal They have
grown tired of the oppressive eXtortion
of the Dingley law and very many OF
| them have no doubt determined to i'm
prove this opportunity to register their
condemnation of policy that fosters
trusts and monopolies which merci
lessly plumber consumers.