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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
STRIKE ARBITRATION UPHELD.

The return of the striking shop men
to their jobs in the employ of the Ca
madam Pacific railway Is a conspicuous
victory for the principle Of govern
mental arbitration which is being tried
in Canada. BY special enactment there
is an arbitration board established to
which either side in labor contro-
yersy can appeal It's DEGREES are not
binding in law but do have tremendous
moral effect.
When this trouble arose on the G.
P. p. the railroad managers refused
to permit the arbitration board to act
saving that they had nothing to arbi-
trate. The men then appealed to the
board there being some 5000 of them
involved and the transportation system
of the empire in Jeopardy When the
boards decree finally came, altho the
investigation had been made at the re-
quest of the men over the protest of
the proprietors, the, finding was against
the men and they refused to accept it
voting to go on a strike.
After few months Of struggle in
which the road began importing" for
eign labor by the train load and public
officials busted themselves trying to get
the decree of the arbitration board up
held, the strike has been called off
The men will return to work in an
open shop.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
rnr CASE OF FRED RUSSELL.

Fred Russell, member of the state
nlsar1nacy board, whose fate has been
d, doubt since his disappearance has
cleared matters up by a letter written
rom a western state to his wife cast
ngs her OF and limiting at an affinity.
He says she is better off without him,
nat he is call I'M and that she need
,ot expect anything further from him.
Certainly he sis all In" When men
ouch the point reached by Russell and
Hubbard and the others that have
scandalized Iowa of late he is GER
lainly s,all in so far as responsibility,
usefulness, friends and even decency
IRE concerned His wife is better off
without him. The state Is better OF
without him. The neighborhood is bet
Ter of without him.
However this was 81 state official
His disgraceful and shameless conduct
reacts. to some extent upon the state
and the reputation Of the common
wealth. we nave UuL 1OCSteAS Pesr.s'S>AA y
law Furnishing wife de-sertion. 1t is
fairly good strong law and meant for
law louis and men still lower who de-
sert their wives for the smiles OF worse
women. Russell would seem to be ut
subject for its penalties, if he can be
brought under it's operation.
II is time some official notice were
Voluntarily accorded the Hubbard
Russell type. They belong in the same
s class assthe NAVY who refuses to sup
port. his wife and children. They de-
serve more exemplary, punishment. II
ought not to be said that men can de-
ssert the decent wives Of a quarter cen
ssfury as has been done, at least in the
Cedar Rapids case, and come back to
live quietly in Iowa. They should be
..pinched" like other criminals and
given their deserts. No more generally
demoralizing crime exists than that OF
which Russell is accused by his appar-
emf confession and OF which Hubbard
prominent in city and state was guilty
The perpetrators belong in jail.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
Topics of the Times.

Roosevelt has lived with Taft. He
ought to know.
What means that group upon the
street
In wild gesticulation?
Methought some danger threats the
state,
Some foe assails the nation
Men surged in throngs, they threw
their hats
And whirled in wild gyration:
Some stood and glowered, some rent
the air
With yells of fiereeeelation.
Chance had made hit.
Governor Hughes has illustrated the
truth, that the best way to get another
term is to do the right thing during
the first one.
Professional and business men
farmers. laborers, i'll fact men of prae-
.tically every calling. will be offered an
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
Decisions
DISARMAMENT.

The attorney for q defeated ltigant
wrote letter to the chief Justice,
discussing his decision. and using Ian
guage derogatory to the intelligence OF
the members of the supreme court ana
in another to the governor suggested
the impeachment of the judges. These
letters were published in the neWspa-
pers The governor appointed f1ve
Judges of the district courts as tri-
bunal to hear the disbarment proceed
ings based thereon. In state board OF
examiners in law VS.. Hart, 116 North
western Reporter, 212 the court was
unable to find a reported case where
an attorney was disbarred for any ut
terance written or spoken concerning
a decision or ruling of judge in
cause after it's final determination, and
not addressed to the judge In person.
but held that the letter to the chler
Justice constituted q breach OF pro-
fessional conduct Warranting a suspen-
sion from practice for six months.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
pnsTAeE AND POsIMIsTRESsEs.

Thursdays mail steamers carried LETT
tiers to England for 2 cents, the first
ever carried at that rate. We have long
been sending letters to the Philippines
with 2-cent stamp. The same rate
/ mas obtained to Shanghai. to Mexico
and Canada.
E The changes in the postal service
have been so rapid and each so greatly
In advance Of previous methods that
{ younger persons know little or nothing
Of systems antiquated OF forgotten in
reneration Remember, rural mail de-
livery is of the last decade. PRACTICE
ally. and as extended, 1t is of the last
five wears. TWo-cent letter postage Is
far more recent than most Of us think
until we look up the date when the
green, 3-cent stamp went out of exist
ence as letter postage, The growth Of
the present highly efficient system
might be likened to that of the sacredly
historical gourd Indeed the postal sys-
lem that covers the continents has been
developed well within a lifetime.
1t cost Benjamin Franklin four
{ shillings, so cents Of our present cur
rency, and by comparison of the times,
perhaps equivalent to $2-bill of to-
day, to send letter from New York
to London. An ounce of letter mail cost
for carriage between New York and
Philadelphia, three shillings. Less than
100 years ago correspondents paid "a
cents an ounce for 500 miles. Just prev
ious to the civil war cents took lei
ter 900 miles, 10 cents if beyond that
limit, The s-cent postage was for one
half ounce to any point within 3,ooV
miles. City recipients of delivered mai
paid for the service.
Middle aged men remember when
the postmaster kept accounts OF anc
collected postage from the individual
subscriber 10 newspapers and maya
zines. The plan involved inultipiicits
OF troubles until some one with harxf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
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Iona Newspapers
ONE WHO SAW TAFT.

(MechanlCSVllle P1Oneer-EFeSS)
The editor saw Taft at Cedar Rapids
Saturday morning. But we very much
fear that Taft didn't see the editor.
But Taft looks mighty good to us. He
couldn't talk much Saturday because
his voice had gone back on him. But
Taft has things to say, just the same.
and he certainly knows how to make
himself understood. When he makes
a. statement it is so complete that
only one Interpretation is possible.
With all the skill of the finished law
yer and judge, he makes his exact
meaning perfectly plain Taft does
not indulge in high sounding phrases
nor outlandish gyrations He thinks:
and that's whole lot better. He
looks at all sides of the question and
weighs the evidence carefully before
reaching conclusion. One of the
strongest elements in favor Of Taft's
candidacy today is this very charac-
teristic. He never acts on Impulse.
He must have the facts, the condl-
lions, before he reaches a conclusion.
He made a splendid impression on the
10000 or $1,000 people who heard
him and saw him Saturday. He has a
pleasing smile. A good many people
believe that it is this smile that makes
him so popular. We think the smile
is mere incident. 1t is the mans
face in repose that wins him the favor
he meets on every hand. In repose his
face is strong, resnlute and open ana
when lie shakes hands with man he
looks that man full in the eye, long,
steady. searching gaze. ut Is an i'm
preston that breathes sincerity of pur-
nose and conviction and makes friends
of all who come in contact with him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
co1rN1y rREAsURER.

A county treasurer, before the pass
age of law providing for the desig-
nation of repositories. deposited
county funds in a bank in his name as
treasurer. Prior to their withdrawal the
bank became irsolvent and passed IN
to the hands of a receiver. me SUI
preme court of Oklahoma in Watts "
Board of Com'l.s of Cleveland county,
e5 Pacific Reporter III, held that the
money constituted a trust fund which
the county might follow into the hands
of the receiver; that the title to the
money so deposited did not pass to the
bank so as to establish the relation OIL
debtor and creditor between the bank
and the county like the ordinary de-
post: and that the county was entl-
tied to recover an equal amount from
the receiver of the bank prior to the
pavment of the. general depositors.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
BRYAN THE QUACK.
1Ode.bolt Chronicle. J

The greatest political quack In the
country is William Jennings Bryan. He
has a cure for every economic and So
cial ILL., But like the quack who prom
ises to cure your physical ills, he must
have his pay in advance. He will put
YOU on easy street financially. get your
salary raised. increase the value of the
things YOU have to sell and reduce the
prices OF the things you have to BUY
provided YOU give him your vote. Elect
him president and he will raise the
price Of the farmers hogs and AIT the
same time cheaper the cost of pork to
the workingman. How he is 10 do TINS
he doesn't tell you; but If you only
have faith and vote for him he will
surely do It, No auack doctor can out
do him in promises.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06

should never vest in person OF Afri-
can descent or colored person. The
lots were purchased by a corporation
whose stockholders were negroes who
intended making pleasure park for
their race. In Peoples Pleasure Park
company, CInc) ct al. VS.. Rohleder,
CT Southeastern Reporter. 1874, an ac-
ton to cancel the deed and enjoin the
sale, the supreme court of appeals of
Virginia held that the transfer was
not a breach of the covenant as the
corporation, tho composed of colored
persons, was not itself colored per-
SON
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
gles@ 732esh1ra,s 'ua. @rtuher 1908
Inc ate the solid stuff and talked books

he ate the soiid stuff and talked books
to her. How nice it would be instead
of having to serve a bookless break
fast to a man who has hog and horse
on his mind instead of Greek myth
ology on the latest novel in the Smart
Sci. How ticllled Amanda would DE
if her agronomical husband could and
would only talk art music, socialism,
political economy, literature and the
classics, instead of poking around In
the mire of the farm journal or the
daily or weekly paper. II would all
have been SO different had he only
graduated from a high school. He
would shen have been the embodiment
of all that is good in literature and
would now he such good company for
amanda whose soul-hankering runs
so much to books.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
JUDGMENT AS EVIDENCE.

Equitable relief was denied in Ma
thews v. Carman, 107 New York Sup
plement, 694, where it was sought TO
SET aside an order in summary pro
ceedings as being obtained by fraud
and to restrain its use as evidences.
The New York supreme court helo
such relief available in proper case,
but as the facts in this instance showed
that the Justices court in which the
Judgment was rendered had no juris-
diction, it was subject to collateral az
tack, as being the determination OIL q
court not of record. which could De
objected to when offered in evidence.
Corporation PERSON.
Deeds to certain lots contained the
covenant that the title to the ianc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
INFRINGEMENT.

In Bobbs Merrill company, " Straus'
2S Supreme Court Reporter. 722, plain
tiffs, who were publishers of a COPY
righted book, inserted below the copy
right notice the following: The price
of this book is ST net. No dealer is IL
censed to sell it at a less price, and a
sale at a less price will be treated as
an infringement of the copyright In
a suit brought to restrain the sale OF
80 cents each. the court held that the
right to "vend' given by - 1852 of the
revised statutes could not be construed
as attaching to the book after title
had passed, and that the notice couio
no prouce such effect.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
PARDON.

Appellant, an attorney, when tried
for forgery, pleaded guilty, was SEN
fenced. and on filing pardon from
the governor was liberated. Suisse
quently, in a proceeding to disbar him,
he offered the pardon as u defense. In
Nelson VS.. Commonwealth. 100, South
western Reporter, 3S7, the court of APP
peals of Kentucky held that the plea
of guilty on the forgery trial estab-
lished his moral unfitness, and that
the pardon could not restore his char
acter reinyest him with qualities nee
essary for an attorney to possess, nor
rehabilitate him In the trust and con-
fidence of the court
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
LIABILITY OF BREWING Coz

Plaintiff received injuries from fall
ing down a trick stairway in saloon
fine license of which was in a brewing
company's name, and sought to hold
the saloon proprietor and the prev
ing company. The latter had no con-
troll over the establishment IN Mead v.
PHI. Fang Brewing company ct al, 30 Ia
cific Reporter, 2s4, the supreme court
of Colorado held that person was
not responsible for injuries sustained
by another thru a device which ne mas
neither constructed nor maintained
and over which he has no control. Both
may have been violating the law with
respect to a license, but violation OF
the law does not create civil liability,
except for the results naturally foi-
lowing such violation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
spRY OLD FOLKS.

Monticello has two rather spry old
people. Mrs John Matthews walked
across the dam at the east Monticello
mill. walking its long length on a two
by-four with the water roaring be
meath her feet. She did 1t. it Is fur
Their averred, because she likes to cross
such skittish places in her country
strolls. She is nearly so years old.
Grandpa Kelsey of that place. who is
80. was sunstruck while digging po-
tatoes. After few hours in bed how
ever, he rose and dressed himself ana
did himself justice to a hearty meal
and went back then into the potato
match, That displays nerve.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
ExPATRIATIoN.

The United States district court for
the eastern district of Pennsylvania, in
Re Martorana, 159 Federal Reporter,
1910, decided that the wife of one who
was petitioning for naturalization was
not competent as a witness In that
proceeding, altho she had been res
ident of the United States all her lile'
as any American woman that marries
a foreigner takes the nationality OIL
her husband, and by marrying an alien
she became an alien.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
WITNESSES.

The California court of appeal in
People v. oliver, 95 Pacific Reporter,
172. holds that it is entirely proper for
the trial court, in criminal prosecu-
ton. to refuse to exclude from the
court room a witness who is an officer
active in the prosecution. and who re-
mains for the purpose of advising the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
HOTEL.

Under an ordinance imposing H.
cense tax on restaurants, the city IN
New Gait House Co. v. City of Louis
Vile. III Southwestern Reporter, 35l,
commended that a hotel furnishing meals
on the European plan" was restau-
rant, as it furnished meals
to all corners to be paid for as ordered.
The court of appeals held that this
should be considered as mere mel
dent of hotel keeping, and not a sep
arate business, and that only the reg
ular hotel license fee should be charged
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06

discussion of whats Wrong on the
Farm" and that it has been the belief
of many persons, some of them farm
ers. that the accommodating of land and
the attempt to cultivate excessive acre
age has produced much of the discon-
tent among farmers children because
the labor involved made the workday
too long and the money needed for
payments of interest and principal pre-
vented the spending of anything Tor
the pleasures that young persons leel
they should have. In the beginning OF
the discussion this viewpoint found
few supporters among the fathers OF
families. but recently Il change has be-
pun to manifest itself according to the
stars observations. It is claimed that
probably a dozen land advertisements
in country and city papers have been
traced recently. to the determination
on, the part Of family heads to culti-
waite less land and give the wives ana
the bows and girls a chance. II Is sald
that several such instances have been
found in Kansas
There probably Is at least this much
tn the point thus sought to be made
that when the country becomes more
denselv populated. with more inten-
siye farming. and rural houses are not
so far apart, there will not then be the
contrast between urban and rural life,
with respect to several activities, that
there is now, and this should conduce
to contentment.
Yet. while there Is no country IN the
world where the land Is so sub divided
as In France. nevertheless, the rural
districts are being deserted for the
larger cities, so much so that law
has lust been enacted whereby II Is
hoped to get the population back 10
the soil" the object being to give 70
town and country laborers an oppor-
t,nity TO acquire on easy terms a plat
OF land as a homestead.
So, 1t becomes a matter of doubt TO
say the least. whether the size or the
farm has much to do with the prob
lem.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06

sense suggested the easier and simpler
way. The mail came stringing thru tne
villages via star route carried by
stage" the bi-weekly or even weekly
visits of which were eagerly awaited
by the population of township or per-
haps two townships. The stage driver
was usually a jolly soul, successor to
the coach driver of an earlier day. lie
came bustling into the country postof-
fee, often private residence, with
the latest news from the big town and
all the gossip of thirty-tive to fifty
miles of star route. Ii it were cold the
passengers came trooping in to
warm" Sometimes these were distin-
guished personages. Governors often
used the stage line particularly that
one now in the mind of the editor who
writes this Bayard Taylor, Theodore
Tilton, Henry Ward Beecher and other
great lecturers found it the short cut
on their lecture travels. And once Fred
Douglas. clad in black with a yellow
vest, came into the home postoffice to
be greeted warmly by the postmistress
whose father had run niggers to can
ada" via the Underground Railroad.
Sometimes the driver held to his le-
gal privileges. generally when there
had been war between him and the
postmaster Then he sat with dignity
while the postmaster came forth to re-
ceive the mail bag, 1t never occurred
unless relations had been seriously
strained. Sometimes he insisted or his
right to keep the road and forced
meeting teams to turn clear out This
was the direct short cut to unpopu-
larity A stage driver who refused half
the road" found gates closed and bars
up in q time of drifts and bad roads.
He retaliated by carrying an AK and
cutting thru hedges, and acted like the
high handed government employe with
special privileges which he was. To cut
an Usage hedge was the limit of OPP
preston. Only the egis of the govern
ment saved him from personal casti-
cation.
The postmistress was universally
suspected of keeping track of lovers
correspondence, reading the postal
cards and generally keeping tab on the
neighborhood. Perhaps she was sland
cred, but somehow her cronies ac-
CURED itemized information that
pointed toward special opportunity.
How was neighborhood to know that
a grass widow was corresponding with
some man in Chicago that Jones
owed multitude of store bills and
was being billed daily and that Mary
Brown received a photograph addressed
in certain handwriting unless the
P. O. leaked? The postoffice family
Were widely accused of reading other
peoples newspapers and when a paper
missed it was darlllv limited that 1T
came all right but they hadn't got
thru with 1t at the P. o. The salary
lacked much of munificence. 1t came
from all the stamps cancelled UP to
$50, 40 per cent of the next 500, etc.
1t often amounted to s13 a quarter"
And now we send a letter across
1000 miles of land and 1000 leagues of
ocean for 2. cents. We get a letter sent
the same distance and carried to our
doors out in the country where the star
route ran and the postmistress reigned
supreme and ordered us to stand out
side in muddy times. We can send
letter around the world as easily as we
throw tin can into the yard next
door.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
vA1aprTY OF CONTRACT.

In Tuttle VS.. Shuts, 96 Pacific Re
porter, 26O, wife was promised a
cooking stove by her husband If she
would go with his threshing outfit and
cook. In a suit involving the title to
the stove it was contended that, as the
husband had right to the domestic
services Of his wife, the contract to
reward her for them was void as
against public policy, but the conten-
ton was not sustained by the supreme
court of Colorado.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
hwy TAX ON VEHICLES.

Plaintiff in Harder's Fireproof Store
age and Van Co, v. City of Chicago, SO
northeastern Reporter. 245, sought to
restrain enforcement Of taxes on It's
vans and wagons on the ground that
the right to use the streets was priv
ilege not taxable, and claimed that a
statute authorizing an ordinance i'm
posing a wheel tax" on vehicles used
on streets was unconstitutional. The
Illinois supreme court held the statute
and the ordinance valid.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
TARMs TOO LARGE?

The Kansas City Star, which has
been giving the subject considerable
attention, claims to have discovered
one reason for discomfort on the
farm. 1t says that the effect OF sug-
xestiou already lis showing itself in the