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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
LET'S BE MEN BEFORE THE Law.

The memorial to congress by prom
inent leaders OF organized labor plead
ing that the anti-tru law be amended
so as to exclude from it's authority the
organizations of laboring men or farm
ers who might be convicted of restrain
light than that a class of citizens are
asking for privileges which they admit
ought not to be granted to another
class Of citizens. When business men
engaged in manufacturing or selling
combine and organize so as to RESTRAIN
trade, the public welfare demands that
their operations be regulated by law.
We all applaud such legislation. 1t pro-
tects the wage worker far more than
any other class because his income IS
closer to his necessities.
However, it is quite possible for
workmen to organize and combine to
such an extent as to restrain trade. TO
control production and to stifle COM
petition by running the independent
worker out or by picketing the place
of employment so that other workers
are afraid to go in. 1t is then that the
rest of the public comes in tor lts
rights.
Trade and industry and railroads
must not be tied up by combination
among working men any more than
shall our necessities be controlled ab-
solutely by combinations among stock
holders. Men do not need to invest
in the operation of their business II
they do not care to do so, neither are
other men obligated to work at their
jobs if they do not want to. The or
ganized stockholders who own I'VE
mills can stop two or all of them, but
when they seek to corner production
in that line they violate the law Or
ganized workmen can all stop WORK
together whenever they see fit but
when they boycott, picket and intimi-
date to corner the labor in their trade
and to restrain trade by combination
they become law violators.
The same would apply to the night
riders Of Kentucky The FARMERS
Equity Society can agree to quit rails
ing tobacco but when the organiza-
ton goes to shooting at the independ-
ent and burning his barns so as to
force him to quit raising tobacco, the
combination of farmers will be con-
sidered one in restraint of trade in the
tobacco industry and violation OF
law.
There should be no class privileges
given by law in free mans country.
The law which should not restrain one
class should not restrain another. 1t
is true that our sympathies are aroused
more quickly for a Woodworking class
than for a capitalistic class, because
we feel that the one will take care OF
itself somehow but all men should be
born free and equal before the law
and if we find protection under it from
the aggressives of one class, we ought
to be manly enough to accept its APP
plication to our own aggressions as
we'll.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
FmAscuLA1Ep BUT WRONG YET.

Public opinion, which is sometimes
said to have lost it's power to rule IN
this country, has forced the extraction
of the backbone and central vertebra
system from the Aldrich currency bill
at Washington. AS amended in order
to pass the senate, with nearly every
fearless newspaper and commercial.
BODY opposing it, the bill has been
changed so as to eliminate railroad
bonds from the class Of securities upon
which emergency currency is to be
issued This was suspected to be the
main purpose Of the bill in the mind
of its author, but having started some
dignity to see it thru in some form,
hence the emasculated bill which
passed the senate.
There is much doubt, however,
whether the house will preserve the
senatorial dignity in this matter. All
the leading clearing house associations
are opposed to the bill because 1t
makes emergency circulation so ex-
pensive that it would not be taken out
by the banks. The well informed press
and leading experts upon finance are
opposed to it because it is fundament-
ally wrong. law which fails to per-
nit currency to be retired as fast as it
was taken. out, and which compels the
banks to purchase for collateral class
of bonds which they would not own in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
Looker-On In Iona

1ldora, April 6.--Hardin county can
usually be depended upon to furnish
something interesting in politics. Some
times the rival towns of Iowa Falls
and Eldora Zine up,' but not SO this
year, altho William Weldon who lives in
Iowa Falls, is a candidate for re-elec-
ton, and Mr.. Duran, bank president in
Eidora, are candi dates for representa-
tive. The latter has taken a position
of more than local interest. The fol-
lowing is his statement as published
in the anti-Cumnlins local weekly, the
Eldora Herald:
Dear Sir:-If the people of Hardin
county want me to represent them in
the next Legislature, I am willing to
accept the responsibility, and will do
the best I can as such representative.
1 certainly appreciate the words of
confidence that have come to me, and
if elected would consider it great
honor to represent Hardin county.
| have been asked to define my po-
sitlon on several matters.
As to United States senator: I I'M
derstand the people are to express their
preference at the primary election. II
l were elected representative | should
consider myself bound to vote for
such person as the majority Of the
voters of Hardin county had named,
whatever might be my personal pref
erence.
l believe our primary election law to
be a good law in that it makes NOM
nations come directly from the people.
I believe the use of intoxicating
liquors as beverage has been produce
tive of untold misery and am strongly
opposed to such use and to the sale of
intoxicating liquors except of medici-
nal or mechanical purposes.
I believe in protective tariff, and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

workers can do as we'll as farm fore
men as they can in the shops or Of
fees.
He's quite wealthy and prominent
now" said Mrs. Stlrvem; and they
say he rose practically from nothing
We'll. well.' rem arked Mr.. Border;
that's just what rose fromat the
breakfast table this morning
Davenport has gone democratic on
the saloon issue with notable FIX
leading the movement for the repeal of
the mulct law. Council Bluffs not only
has gone democratic. but has club
organized for the sane" enforcement
of law and prominent "standpatters'
seem to he at the head Of it. The law
enforcement issue was promoted by the
anti Cummins faction for the political
damage 1t could do and they seem to
be enjoying their fun.
The mistake we make of comparing
business this year with that of last is
ply to j. j. Hill. when he cited the fact
that the freight income of all the rail-
roads in the country averaged $50
per mile more for the past seven
months than the corresponding period
in 1905. a year OF presidential election
The howl about the deficit in the
inc IN
less 1t can be shown that some money
has been spent foolishy or dishonesty
million dollar surplus for Des Molnes
bankers to use without interest is not
what some misunderstanding ncWspa-
pers would have us believe. The stand
pat state treasurer says that the states
funds are adequate to meet expendt-
lures. what more can standpatters
ask?
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that leaders of organized labor are in
clined to make trouble for Pat Muir
ply in his candidacy for nomination for
lieutenant governor because when
state printer he opposed the eight hour
day, but the Republican explains that
Mr. Murphy was not to blame for that
trouble Perhaps organized labor has
made mistake.
Says the Register and Leader: ut
will depend on the wisdom of their
choice at Chicago. Not every republic
can who is named will do. The repub-
licans will not be able to elect "A yell
low dog" and the Sioux City Jour-
nal replies:
This indicates the possibility that
the Chicago convention may NOM
mate "a yellow dog. 1t would be in
teresting to know who the Register and
Leader might have in mind as a prob
ability under that head"
Going after business instead of sit
ting down and waiting for business to
come explains the presence Of the job
ber's statesmen on the road and the re-
tailer's newspaper ad as salesman
travelling thru the mails.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
Topics of the Times

I'm a letter to the London Times, the
president of the English Bankers as
ISOLATION explains the panic in the I'm
tied States as follows: CAS- to the
American crisis, that had arisen out of
overconfidence, brought about by an
abnormally prosperous state of affairs,
Americans had an unbounded belief in
the future of their country; they had
also a way Of discounting the future
somewhat too rapidly. Legitimate en-
terprise was followed by speculation,
and speculation based on credit. Vast
undertakings were embarked upon In
the expectation that cash in any guam
tity was always at hand and lenders
willing to provide it; and then sud-
denly it was discovered that the strain
had become too great"
II the Corn Belt Meat Producers as
ISOLATION would accomplish any federal
legislation Of benefit to the meat in
dustry of Iowa they should get a SEN
ator who would give some encourage
ment to the plans proposed for extend
ing markets in Europe. Forty-three
years of silence and compromise gives
everything to the syndicated interest
which can afford to keep a lawyer in
the senate.
Can the average voter presume to
know more about a man in politics
than either the late Judge Hubbard or
J. w. Blythe knew about him? jim
Trewin had served in the state senate
and these two astute railway bosses
selected him for their candidate against
Cummins in 1901. Does anyone sup
pose that Hubbard and Blythe did not
know Trewin accurately?
The abandoned farms of the New
England states are being peopled by
the city jewellers whose wealth enables
them to enjoy rural homes from April
to December. If this is luxury, why
don't men of small means move into
the country and stay there? Wage
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
THE SHRINE TO BE REPAIRED.

When j. w. Blythe took his seat as
a member of the late republican state
convention at Des Moines the dele
gates cheered roundly and waved
American flags MIR. Blythe is chief at
and, until the advent of Governor
Cummins into republican state poll
tics has written the republican plat
forms and nominated the republican
state candidates, except perhaps, Gov
ernor Larrabee whose staunch honesty
was then not known to the republican
car.
In some way the Burlington eft al.
have not been so markedly prominent
in state politics during the past six
years. 1t is not known that this was
due to desire to eliminate politics
from business. 1t was thought to
come more from exclusion than seclu
sion. Anyhow, the Reservation"
wasn't receiving political pilgrimages
as heretofore and the Shrine" was
dropping into decay. Now it is to be
repaired and rehabiitated.
For the majority of the delegates to
the republican state convention
recognized their protector and did
him fitting lonor True. his coming
had been heraded and delegates had
been provided with small flags to wave
What mattered that his right to a
seat as member of the convention
was contested? His is the republican
ism of Aldrich. of Depew. Of Elkins and
of Allison. The war-gods of the sem
ate must not be pulled down. They
have brought victory to the republi-
can party and the spoils to themselves.
They have made the republican party
what it Is today.
Why blame Iowa republicans for
cheering when Blythe marched up an
aisle in their convention hall? 1t is
their privilege to pay due marks of
respect to their chosen leaders. Didn't
we cheer Porter. Wade and Hamilton?
Had Governor Boies been present at
our convention at Cedar Rapids would
we not have paid fitting tribute to his
leadership? Let US not condemn in
others what we claim as personal
rights. We may dislike the using of
American flags for the purpose. but
their Is no law to prevent. Blythe
was entitled to those republican cheers
and no good democrat envies his get
ting them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
Didn't Like 1t.
(Hlrper's Weekly

She had great trouble with a Chi
nese cook who could only be Weakened
by loud knocking and much calling at
his door every morning.
Finally she purchased an alarm
clock, and setting it at the proper hour
presented 1T to Sam. the cook, who
received the gift with profound
obeisance, ard little speech upon the
generosity Of Americans.
The next morning at the breakfast
table Sam appeared and with solemn
dignity returned the clock to his mis-
tress, saying:
t'Me no Likely; him wake me up
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
]. p. HAMMOND,
]. b. WEAVER,
J. A. HARVEY.
Committee

w. c. BARBER.
51S Century Block.
Des Moines, Iowa.
If Mr.. Duren has committed himself
to vote for constitutional amendment
his announcement fails to show it, so
that while he is prohibtionst, he
will not secure that vote unless he
pledges himself for resubmission. But
if he does then he will lose number
of votes, that very much object to the
Introduction of the whisky question in
to republican platforms and policies
Who wouldn't run for the legislature?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

Senator Tillrnan has been advised
by his physicians TO take "a long rest.
One might imagine that the physicians
are in the employ Of the people of the
country" remarks the democratic Wat
erloo Times Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

We're engaged on tn Sioux City Jour
nal When Mr. Boyd arrived in Dies
Moines he naturally sought Mr.. Will
liams out, and finding him we'll versed
in Iowa politics, he asked him for a
statement of ghe situation. Mr.. VIII
iians made a hurried draft, present.
ing the progressive view.
This statement, it seems was given
to Secretary Taft and was considered
at the Taft headquarters in Columbus.
But either before leaving the state on
the occasion Of his first visit, or on
his return for his second visit Mr..
Boyd gave this communication from
Mr.. Williams, evidently personal and
confidential. to the standpat leaders,
and they at once gave it widespread
and simultaneous publication thereby
attempting to give it a political sig
nificance 1T does not possess.
The document itself. allowing for
Mr.. Williams personal predictions,
which properly enough are disclosed
in n personal communication, is fair
statement of the situation as it existed
at the time, when it appeared that the
progressives would not surrender the
Later when tho leaders thought it
good politics to begin the fight ly-
ing down and inserting their noses in
the standpat mouth, Mr. Williams
outline did not mean so much, and
that is all there is of the matter now.
If there was anything politically
worth discussing it would be the pur-
pose OF Mr.. Boyd, as Secretary Tafts
Iowa representative, in giving out a
confidential document for the mani
fest purpose of embarrassing the Cum
Minis campaign No one has vouch-
safed any explanation of Mr.. Boyd's
part, which is evidently of much more
Significance than Mr.. Williams. Ev
erybody can see what Mr.. Williams
had in view. Rut what Mr.. Boyd
hoped to accomplish is an interest,"
ing speculation
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
Iona Newspapers
AS Viewed IN DIES MONIES.

(Register and Leader.)
The Register and Leader has taken
very little interest in the Ora Will
liams incident. Mr.. Williams and Mr..
Court Boyd, who came to Iowa from
the Taft headquarters, were old time
acquaintances when both, we believe,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

The Sioux City Journal notes that
no political matters are scheduled for
next year, and the Iowa City Repub
lican adds that with an open track,
there will be plenty of room for eX-
tras.''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

"The Indiana plank Endorsing Vice
President Fairbanks for the presi-
Dental nomination is a literary gem
But then isn't Indiana the home of
authors anyway" asks the Waterloo
Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

The Muscatine Journal observes
that "a few months ago the walks and
streets in front of a Kansas City bank
We're crowded with people. 1t was a
panic. Yesterday morning those same
streets and walks were again crowd
ed. 1t was restored confidence. Same
crowd, same sire ets. same walks,
even the same money, part of ii, but
the intentions were different"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil be-
lieves Hetty Greene meant a press
agent when she said she would like
to have her daughter marry news
paper man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

Two hundred members Of the Polk
county bar ask that the proposition to
establish a superior court be submitted
at the city election, which causes the
Dubuque Times-Journal to remark
that Gas Des Moines has lawyer for
about every 800 of her people it is not
surprising that they want more courts"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
THERE'S BUT ONE
"R1ST RFMEDy"

"BtST REMEDY"
for bad stomach, a torpid liver or
constipated bowels, and that is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. For absolute
proof of this assertion, it is only nee
essary for every sufferer to get one
bottle and give it fair trial. In this
way thousands have been cured and
thus convinced that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

tack the vital organs, causing catarrh OF,
the bladder. or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost always result
from arrangement of the kidneys and
cure IS obtained quickest by proper
treatment of the kidneys. If you are feel
ing badly you can make no mistake by
taking Dr. kilmer's Swamp-Root, the
great kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
1t corrects inability to hold urine and
scalding pain i'll passing it, and over
comes that unpleasant necessity of being
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and to get up many times during the
right. The mild and the extraordinary
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1t stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases.
Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and Is
sold by all druggists i'll ffty-cent and
one-dollar size bottles. You may have
sample bottle of this wonderful new dis
covery and book that tells all about it,
both sent free by mail. Address. DR.. Kill
mer g. Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When
writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper. Don't make any
mistake, but remember the name, Swamp
Root, DR.. kilmer's Swamp Root, and the
address, Binghamton, N. Y. ON every
bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

Going after business instead of sit
ting down and waiting for business to
come explains the presence of the job
ber's statesmen on the road and the re-
tailer's newspaper ad as salesman
travelling thru the mails.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

is the best for curing Poor Appetite,
Headache, Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Colds, Grippe and Spring Fever.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

pANShS IL ehAs
IS because so decep.
tive. Many sudden
deaths are caused
by it-heart dis
ease, pneumonia,
heart failure or
apoplexy are often
the result of kid
ney disease. If
kidney trouble is
allowed advance
thekidney-poison.
ed blood will at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.

There is disease prevailing in this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-07

is an ordeal which all
women approach with
indescribable fear, for
nothing compares with
the pain and horror of
childbirth. The thought
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-23
 BROUGHT CARLOAD OF CATS.
FeIines Made Music from Pacific
 Coast to New York.

While we were in the yards at Chi cago one fall freight train pulled in," said the old engineer. "We heard most extraordinary noises coming from one of the cars. It sounded as If Bedlam was let loose. Upon inquiry we were told that 1t was a carload of cats shipped from the Pacific coast and consigned to a dealer in skins in New York. The felines were to be slaughtered on reaching their destina. tion. Concerts had been given, much to the annoyance of the train crew, all along the route and had attracted uni versal attention. One would have sup posed 1t good deal easier and quiet CT to have shipped the skins rather than the live cats.
 But the queerest story of unpleas- ant travelling companions was told me by a railroad inspector, who had just returned from trip abroad
 He was travelling on a night ex- press from Vienna to Berlin, when the passengers were aroused from their sleep by the shrieks of woman, who insisted she was being stabbed with sharp instruments in several places. She would not submit to an examina tion, and the guard was at his wits end, because he could not quiet her. A stout man, some distance away, added to the clamor by saying he was be- ing cruelty pricked.
 At that moment the train drew up at a station, and the man and woman were taken out The man was searched and six colossal leeches were found on his thigh. The poor woman tainted from horror and weakness as four of these creatures were removed from her.
 Tt seems one of the passengers had brought an insufi ciently covered jar of leeches into the carriage. and they had escaped. There was no more sleep for the passengers that night"
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-23
Railroad Built on Ice.

The most curious railroad in the world is built on ice. It is laid be- tween Cronstadt and Oranienbaum. and Is In use only during the winter. It's success has suggested the con. struction of similar winter railway between the two important conner cial centers, Krementchug and Ekat arinoslav, which are united in summer by the steamboat traffic along the Dnieper river. This means of com munication Is closed In winter by the ice. A costly, roundabout journey has to be made between the two towns, though they do not lie far apart.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-23
"Gcstor's Stump !"

''Boston's stump" is the local name of the tower of the parish church of St. Botolph, in Boston, England, which was damaged by lightning not long ago. The church dates from the four. teenth century, and it's tower 272 feet high, is the tallest but one among the parish churches of England. It has S65 steps. one for each day of the year and the church has seven doors, 52 windows and 12 pillars, for the days in the week and the weeks and months in the year For the 24 hours in the day there are "A steps in the porch by which the library is reached. Two flights of SO steps lead to the roof one for the seconds, the other for the min. utes; and the tower is in four stories, Tor the four seasons. Thus does time stand still in BostoL Springfield Re. publican.