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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
A NEW SALOON DECISION.

Attorney General Byers has rendered
will sound louder than it will really
bite. A the request of the executive
council which wanted to know
whether to permit Il new corporation
to issue capital stock in exchange for
saloon property the attorney general
has decided that the mulct law pro-
vided that only individuals could via-
late the prohibitory law of the state
under the privileges and provisions OF
the mulct law, hence corporations could
not own saloons or engage in the sa-
loon business.
In view of the fact that about three
out of four saloons are usually owned
by corporate brewing companies this
decision will be taken by many as a
wholesale destruction of saloon bust
ness, but it will not disturb the traffic.
upon individuals, heretofore. who have
actually been convicted and fined for
violating it, but the saloon opened up
for business next day in the name of
the .barlceper and a most formal bill
Of sale was exhibited in public
SO it will be with the corporations
now owning saloons. They will sell to
their employees and get out of the
business" all excepting holding the
employees mortgage note thru the In
strumentality Of some officer or lead
ing stockholder of the company. just
as banks can traffic in real estate thru
individuals. People who really want
to see the saloon evil reduced should
confine themselves to local sentiment
and secure majority against the open
saloon. Whenever the ajority favors
the saloon. the saloon will exist re-
CARELESS of law. and wherever the
sentiment is both opposed and
active there will be no saloons, even
under present law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
THE FORT DODGE INCIDENT

Not since the day Secretary Shaw's
name was Kissed in an Iowa state
convention has there been as vindictive
an outburst of resentment on the part
of the minority press in Iowa republic
can factionalism as has been provoked
blythe Fort Dodge incident. LATE
Yolins. heads it "Hoodlumism," charges
it to Fred Larrabee and proceeds to
say worse things against Ex-Governor
Larrabee than hoodlums could possibly
saw against Allison. Perkins seeks to
cloak it into obscurity by arguing that
if was an insult offered by a few
only
What was the Fort Dodge incident?
A convention of farmers interested in
the cooperative movement had gath
cred. A North Dakota senator had
come all the way from Washington
to speak to them. So long as he stuck
to his text he received respectful at
tention. Just as soon as he diverged
for manifest political reasons and be-
gan to eulogize a man who was then
a candidate before the people of Iowa,
some partisan Of the opposing candi-
date yelled out from the back OF the
room, and clearly had the sympathy of
the audience.
1t should be admitted that Interrupt
tons of this nature are impolite toward
a public speaker, but who ever hopes
to face public meeting and discuss
politics without expecting to have
some one speak out from the audience?
1t is all the special police can do in
the dignified surroundings of house
and senate chambers to prevent ap-
plause or disapproval from the Wis
itors' galleries To interrupt a public
speaker seems to be taken as a priv
ilege in politics by people who would
never dream of doing it to the same
form.
There is really no occasion for froth-
ing or invectve. The farmers of north
west Iowa We're there 10 discuss CO.
operation. Incidentally they had made
up their minds to vote for Cummins
for the United States senate Any pub
lie speaker invading the capital of the
Tenth congressional district should not
have been surprised at this and most
speakers would have had the discretion
to eschew politics, at least while the
primary campaign was on. The man
who yelled for Cummins evidently be-
lieved that the speaker had come all
the way from Washington to speak
for Allison, and one partisan was not
willing to let the other do all the talk
ing. 1t is admitted that the Interrupt
ton was impolite, and so was the
speaker indiscrete. There is no ex-
cuse, however, for the editor of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
EASTERN OFFICE
BORROWING MONEY.

When the owners of three hundred
millions of dollars in New York city
alone come forward with their written
desire to buy city bonds bearing -four
and a. half per cent interest. it should
be an object lesson in finance to every
railroad corporation which needs
money sorely for its Improvement and
expansion.
Why were people willing to loan
money to New York city for fifty years
at four and one-half per cent when
reputable railroads have difficulty Dor
rowing at seven? There can be no
question about an established railroad
running for fifty years to come. Our
population will double in thirty years
and the chances are that in less than
that time every railroad in the country
will be doing twice the volume of bus
mess that it is now doing. Why. then.
must railroads beg at seven per cent
while a municipality finds six lenders
for every dollar it needs to borrow at
four and one-half per cent?
The reply is reasonably simple. Why
does bank stock command a cash mar
ket on a five per cent earning basis,
and why will capitalists seek real es-
tate mortgages at five and one-half
per cent interest? The whole differ
ence is in the security. If railroad
management would make railroad
property as stable in value as munici-
pal governments, national banks or the
real estate which railroad serves,
railroad corporations could borrow at
the same rates of interest. The ut
most publicity of it's business affairs
should be practiced. Government Off
Gals and bureaus should be entreated
to examine, regulate and report upon
the condition of railroad property.
giving to it an official certificate of
character. such as national bank
gets. Railroad presidents and directors
should operate their roads for high
dividends with the watering of stock
actually forbidden by law. They could
then borrow money for fifty years at
the lowest rates of interest, invest 1t
in double tracks, concrete bridges,
overhead crossings, new cars and
larger engines, all of which would in
crease earnings and make the stock
pay handsome dividends. There is
something in government regulation
besides pernicious publicity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18

LOOKER.ON In IOWA !
Observation-Disclosures

Tama. Feb 1S.--While in Toledo last
week the writer attended an auction
sale of pure bred hogs The notice.
able feature of the sale was the in
Simultaneous judgment of the buyers of
the different animals, when driven IN
for inspection. No one seemed paftlc-
ularly to want nice looking two-year-
old SOW that was started, at $50 and
knocked down at S3l. The same
apathetic bidding was shown when
several others We're offered. Then came
two-year- old SOW with no better
pedigree or breeding, and $40 was the
first bid, this going up in jumps of SO
till $50 was the selling price. There
evidently were Il dozen or more men
that wanted that particular hog and
We're willing to give twice or three
times the price of previous offerings.
In this case the auctioneer didn't have
to tell any funny stories, mention the
pedigree or coax buyers to make their
eternal fortune. The hog sold itaelf
and the man who bought it, as we'll
as the other bidders, knew why that
sow was worth $50. while others that
looked just as we'll, i. e., to greenhorns,
were sold for $50.
Speaking of expert knowledge, II the
present interest in seed corn does not
produce big results in Iowa, there is
nothing in scientific farming. For
many years we all had our joke with
Farmer Clarkson and his seed corn
editorials, but that day has passed.
far old
now know what seed is. Their seed
for 1908 was gathered and put away
last November. They have been test
ing it ever since. 1t has been kept dry.
but not too dry. 1t has been kept in
a cool place, but not where it would
freeze Even the cob, this regarding
thickness and length. has been dis
cussed and selected. Still there are
some farmers that will go to the corn
crib next May, shovel up the first lot,
shell it, and plant it. These men at
feet much pity for these scientitic-fad
farmers, and don't have to have Hol-
den tell them how to raise corn They
have raised 100 bushels to the acre,
long before Holden was born, or Ames
College established.
Somewhat in this line, is the peculiar
kind of apples now being sold in Iowa.
1t is well known that the apple crop
of the whole country was failure,
comparatively so. That is for the best
kinds of grated fruit. SO few good APP
pies We're on the market that previous
to the panic the best kinds We're held
at SO per barrel in the Des Moines
markets. And it is true that in a re-
tail dealers store in MarshalltoWn,
fancy Jonathans were sold two for fif-
teen cents. But the panic sent the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
Wholesale price down to IS per barre

Wholesale price down to IS per barrel,
then came the orange crop and now
good apples are retailed 80 to so cents
a peck But to get back to the men
toned peculiar apple crop this year.
Never before have we had such poor
apples put on the market Apples
without names, seedlings and any red
kind, were bought and shipped in and
sold for a dollar a bushel Some you
couldn't bite into. Some our wives
couldn't cook in a week" In word,
all of the poor, nameless seedlings that
usually go to the cider press or which
"the hogs are turned in to eat" were
sold for the family use. Here's the
point. the scientific, the grated stock
could not stand the weather and cli-
mate of the previous winter and spring.
But the worthless Seeding, the ordin-
airy good for nothing sour apple tree
produced as usual. In other words, ma
ture produced a crop and artificial inn
proved stock failed. Query, was this
"a survival of tittest."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
g,,es- 7epubIir, 9larshatnm jonua Fehrarp Is !su3

Capital. in the calmness and delibera
ton of studied comment to malign and
humiliate the name of the venerable
Ex-Governor of Iowa. while pleading
for reverence for the name OF Allison,
even tho he asks it from the enthus-
lasts who yell out from the rear seats
of q farmers convention.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
Topics Of the Times

Has anyone heard of salaries being
cut among railroad presidents or OF
the force being greatly reduced?
The British board of agriculture has
recently published statistics which
show that England's foreign food bill
has doubled in amount during the last
twenty years. In 1886 1t was approx
mately 100000 900 In 1906 the amount
had grown to $1,000 100000. which pro-
duces a smile of satisfaction on Uncle
Sans face, provided the British par
lament does not go to levying import
duties on a reciprocal basis to the adj
vantage of the nations that favor
Great Britain.
Nodd-"There was no be meeting
of my creditors today"
Todd-"Well, wasn't there?"
mo. They unanimously agreed that
they couldn't afford to spend the time
Life.
The vital Importance of an inherit
ance tax becomes more apparent as
the accumulation of larger and large:
fortunes gains with the growth of the
country. Last years public gifts by
rich Americans, mainly to institutions,
Of 15O,OO0,000 might have been doubled
if an inheritance tax were now on
the statute books. Holders of large
N.Y. ,1a cod
to call confiscaton by the state.
nation admits that business pa
ralysis came amid the greatest pros
perity solely because of an imperfect
currency system, and yet congress
talks about being afraid to take up the
question of permanent reform. Who's
afraid of central bank of issue eX-
cept congressman?
Four-cent hogs may have something
to do with the fact that the packing
houses have actually increased the
number of men employed since the
panic while in every other line of
manufacture employment has been
curtailed.
When hogs, cattle or horses are
cheap it is a good time to stock up.
That is the rule observed by the job
Der and retailer in his buying.
New York city put on sale fifty mill
ion of it's Az per cent municipal bonds
and the issue was six times oversub-
scribed. 1t is very plain how hard this
class Of bonds would be to find when
some bank wanted to take out emerg-
ency currency under the Aldrich bill.
The Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
Company, of New York, with seventy
five millions of insurance outstanding
among $4,000 policy holders. has been
declared insolvent by the attorney gen
eral Of the state 1t is one of the COM
panies found rotten at the time of
the legislative inquiry.
The flood of letters got in answer to
my want ad. We're enormous. NO need
of any further ad. SO stop it. Philip
Strecli, Grinnell
President Roosevelt is accused of
shreWdness in the argument he makes
for Taft. His democratic critics say
that he admits that he is a
radical a dogmatst, a fighter and
welder of the big stick. AS such he
seems to concede he is out of accord
with the countrys demand for a period
of quiet and recuperation But so too,
he suggests, is Mr.. Bryan, who an
nounces that he and the president
agree. On the other hand, the presi-
dent holds that Secretary Taft is jul
dicial rather than dictatoral; that he
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
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, 1908-02-18

would bring the Roosevelt policies
safely into port but would do SO in a
quiet and orderly way.
Money is piling up in the banks OF
the country and the time IS coming
when bankers will have to so to the
business men who borrow At the re-
serve center in New York bank re-
serves are S3O,000,0o0 in excess of legal
requirements
An illustration in the March Popular
Mechanics shows to what perfection
and simplicity n small! electrical cold
storage system has been brought The
outfit consists of an electric motor
beltcd to a pump. which keeps cool
ing solution moving thru a set of pipes
which are placed in the refrigerator,
These pipes are similar to the steam
or hot water radiators in the living
rooms. only they cool instead of heat
the apartment The machine is entire
~ automatic, and constantly maintains
whatever degree of cold is selected.
The moment the thermometer rises
above that point the machine starts
up of itself and works until the apart
ment is sufficiently cooled; then it
stops of itself The whole affair is so
simple as to require practically no at
tention. except an occasional oiing,
which is no more difficult than to oil
a sewing machine. At trilling expense
one can also fix up a basement room
as a cold storage for large supplies
such as barrels of apples. jars of but
ter sacks of potatoes. etc. which are
now impossible to keep in the average
residence. In many families the saw
ing effected by purchasing supplies in
would be enough to pay The entire cost
of operating the cold storage system;
il not the amount formerly spent for
ice certainly would.
Farm implements can be sold by
putting a small adj in the T.-R and
it is much easier than hauling them
around to a public auction.
Not long ago letter was written to
the department by a person whose
name is not given alleging undue po-
litical activity against Postmaster
Boyd of Cedar Rapids. The charge
was based on a certain editorial. un-
derstood to be against Governor Cum
Minis, appearing in the Cedar Rapids
Republican Mr.. Boyd was asked by
the department for an explanation. He
replied that he was but part owner
in the newspaper in question. and did
not control its policy. The depart
ment for this reason and for a further
reason that 1t did not consider the evil
dence offered it afforded grounds for
proceedings against MFR. Boyd under
the civil service law and regulations,
concluded to drop the case.
At the Allison conference of Fifth
district republicans AT Cedar Rapids
strong resolutions faNoring Allson's
candidacy were adopted and another
resolution recommending that none nat
Allison men be selected to represent
the Fifth district at the republican
national convention was also adopted
with enthusiasm.
The Republican at Cedar Rapids
grows chesty over the Allison confer
ence. Never before was there such
unity Of sentiment and the paper de-
of the "Des Moines contingent:"
LET them get togethe, and show their
hands" We will meet you at the pri-
maries, boys. Au revoir.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18

The Jefferson Bee tells us that 'it
has passed into proverb that no mar
ever resigns seat in congress if h
thinks he can keep it"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18


Lane is holding his shoulders in posi-
ton to catch Allison's mantle should 1t
fall the flop Of that ex-statesman from
Cummins to the feactionary forces
cannot be taken as a purely lmper-
sonal one" says the Sioux City Trlb-
une.
The jefferson Bee tells us that "it
has passed into proverb that no man
ever resigns a seat in congress if he
thinks he can keep it."
The Review at Denison, where Mr..
Conner is close to the publishing busl-
ness, says: 'The Review editor has
long since gone out of the hero Wor-
shipping business. He regrets to state
that all the politicians of the new
school are not saints. But the schools
the thing, after all. AS Lawson said, it is
the system not the individual that
should be opposed. The old school
produced some wise and able states
men, it produced large hearted men
of undoubted personal integrity"
"Rut in the senate the wise custom
is that a man who has grown old IN
that branch of the public service and
who, by reason of his long service has
attained a position of great national
utility and distinction, shall. unless
physically incapacitated be allowed to
die in the harness." is the explanation
made by the Sioux City Journal.
The Boone News exclams: "The
law never contemplated that the roads
were to be filled with juggernauts OF
human destruction, be they auto1no-
biles or traction engines"
"rhe laws should be made to cover
these cases so completely" says the
Ottumwa Courier, that when it IS
proved insanity was the cause Of a
murder the asylum should be subst1-
tuted for the penitentiary as the place
of incarceration. And the testimony OF
paid experts concerning brain storms
and other latter day freaks should not
be accepted as evidence of insanity.
This kind Of insanity should not be
permitted to stand as a bar to the PEN
itentiary.''
The reason for it is that at Cedar
Rapids the Gazette has for some years
been for change. and that it has had
al along decided preference for Ce-
dar Rapids man. 1t has encouraged the
coming out of some one, and it has
ALWAYS believed that the first man in
the field would he entitled to the pref
erence, provided he We're capable and
worthy With several in the field. and
all capable and worthy, the Gazette )
svmpathies are naturally with the one
that brought about the condition this
paper has been contending for"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18

Foley's Honey and Tar cures the
most obstinate coughs and expels the
cold from the system as it is mildly
laxative. 1t is guaranteed. The gen.
uine is in the yellow package. Nc
Bride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
New Use for 1t.

Cholly--"Why, old chap, what do you
keep that big copying press in your
room for? You don't have any letters
to copy, do you?"
Fweddy-"No, deah boy; I use that
for creasing my trousahs. don't you
know"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
La Grippe and Pneumonia

Foley's Honey and Tar cures la
grippe coughs and prevents pneumonia.
Refuse any but the genuine in the yell
low package. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-18
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

'In view of the disclosure that Joe
Lane is holding his shoulders in posi-
ton to catch Allison's mantle should 1t
fall. the flop of that ex-statesman from
Cummins to the feactionary forces
cannot be taken as a purely imper-
sonal one" says the Sioux City Trlb-
me
The Democratic advocate., 1908-11-13
The Public School.

The public school must be made and
kept the chool for all, without recog-
niton of classes or condition, and it
must shape it's work and plan so as
to close no door, but rather open the
freest opportunity for the best achiev-
ment and the highest advance. The
present rigid system of grade, whose
chief excuse has been economic neces-
sity, must yield to permit the more
rapid advance of gifted and diligent
pupils. The old district school with
out the grades was more humane.
Nowadays the machinery of grades
and courses is wondrously perfect, but
the school exists for the child and not
for the grades The place of child
in reference to the grades is at any
time to be determined not by what
he has gone through in the past,
whether of pages or classes, but by
the work he is able to go on and do
next. Too many minds and too many
wills and ambitions are dulled by the
routine and treadmill of the grades;
and that means bandaging the foot and
strapping the skull to produce a
tanGard size Particularly do the two
last years of the grades need to be
refreshed and readapted. There is too
much threshing of old straw in them;
they are too wooden; they lag behind
the growing life interest, the advanc-
| ing mental cravings of the pupil
After completing six grades boy is
ready for something that will lay hold
upon his opening interest in the pro-
cess of life. If you Withhold it you may
| lose him, or at any rate his interest
in the school; and if you lose that, you
might as we'll lose him. Your boy is
12 years old or more. Now is the
time to offer him the opportunities Of
instruction in the industrial arts, or
the agricultural arts, or in business
practice, and now is the time to begin
language study if any foreign lang
lage is ever to be learned.-President
BENJAMIN Ide Wheeler, University OF
California.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-11-13
Academy of Music.

1t is of special interest to theatre
goers to know that Gertrude Hoffman,
the, original and sensational classic
dancer in America, and who has been
drawing packed houses at Hammer
STEMS in New York, is to be seen here
in "A Vision of Salome'' and Mendels-
sohn's Spring Song" and her imita-
tions, in connection with the greatest
effulgent effusion in years, ''The Mimic
World" the big Shubert-Fields musi-
cal review, containing all the hits of
1903, with catchy music, clever COM
edians, pretty girls and whirlwind
of new tricks and comedy, is announc-
ed as the attraction at the Academy
of Music beginning Monday mighty with
matinee Wednesday and Saturday.
The new review is said to be some
thing very original in conception. 1t
takes the principal characters Of the
big Broadway dramatic and musical
successes of last season and Yields
them into connected story, which
takes the audience over across the seas
The Democratic advocate., 1908-11-13
Uncle Remus' Magazine.

The November number of this ex-
cellent periodical contains "The Sea
Wind" poem, by Joel Chandler
Harris; "My Neighbor, the Sand-Folk,' %
by Leonora Beck Ellis; Miss Briggs's S
Star Lodger," Thanksgiving Eve
story, by Mary E. Bryan; ''The Silence
of the WHISTLE" story, by Julian
Harris; "The Adventure of the Lost
Bathing Suit" story, by l.. c. Hop
kins; "a Glance in Passing" by Don
Marquis; what I Know of the Ku
Klux Klan," by John c. Reed; Father
of Mechanical Refrigeration" by Geo.
D. Lowe; Back to Normal" story,
by Martha Burtchell; Winning snap
shots in first division of photo con-
test; Gilbert Neal,' serial story, by
Will NJ Harlem; ;"An Uncle Remus'
Letter." by Joel Chandler Harris, and
several poems The cover design is
very pretty.