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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
Carroll is All Riqht.

Clinton Herald: II Governor Carroll
continues as he has started he is go
ing to do wonders for the state of Iowa.
His latest action, and one which will
bring him tle commentator of all
good citizens, is that with reference
to instructions to the attorney gen.
eral to file an information against
Commissioner keltZ
Mr.. keltz is accused of certifying
to the state for per diem allowance
and travelling expenses when he was
not engaged in work for the state. 1t
amounts practically to malfeasance in
office. He refused to tender his re-
signation when requested to do so,
and the prosecution is to follow, it
having been discovered that the gov
ernor is unable to remove him from
office.
1t is said that there will be little
trouble in proving the charges. In
deed, it is rumored that there may be
others in official positions who have
been following the same practice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
THE PUBLIC UTILITIES BILL.

The senate at Des Moines has wisely
tabled the Sammis public utilities Dill
and thereby preserved to Iowa
cities the right to control the granting
of franchises to public service corpor-
ations and limit the period of their ex-
istence. The bill in question provided
for state commission which should
have charge of all such corporations
within the state, including the corpor-
ations doing business. solely within
the cities wherein they are located.
Had 1t become a law the people of
Keokuk in common with the people
of other Iowa cities and towns, would
have been deprived of the power to
grant franchises and to regulate the
charges OF electric light, gas, water,
telephone and other like operations.
Some of the leading objections to the
measure were clearly and forcibly
stated by City Solicitor Brennan OF
Des MONIES in recent communication
to the Register and Leader. Among
other things Mr.. Brennan said:
"If there is public demand for the
creation of a state utilities commits
sion, | submit the law should be mod
eled after the New York and Wiscon
sin statutes which leave the questions
of the regulation and control of local
utilities and the granting of franchises
in the streets and public places prim-
arily with the municipal councils and
electors. Any measure which has for
its purpose the abridgment or repeal
ing of these rights should be stubborn.
liz contested and its defeat accom-
plished.
The fundamental objection to the
measure now pending known as the
Sammis bill is that for all practical
purposes it takes from the municipali-
ty the power and authority to control
and regulate local utilities and divests
the people of the right to vote upon
franchises and privileges in the streets
and public places OF the municipal
ties That this is the object and pur
pose of the measure to which reference
has been made it is only necessary tc
read the title to become fully convinc
ed In the ninth line of the title We
find the following language:
Also repeating the powers hereto
fore granted to cities and towns ant
cities acting under special charter ant
4 cities acting under the commission
5 plan to fix charges for meters or t
+ regulate and fix the rates or service o
Y water, gas. electric light or other pub
! lie utilities, and the period Of duration
of their franchises.
If the bill is framed to comprehen,
: the purposes specified in the title. i
1 will be readily seen that the munic
: palities are deprived OF any and al
= Jurisdiction over local utilities
/ In the discussion of the bill when
was before the senate is perniciou
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

character was brought clearly to view
by Senator Peterson OF Wright county.
who supposed" case as follows.
Suppose when you go home after
voting for this bill, If it becomes the
law, you meet one of your constituents
on the street OF your home town. The
conversation will run something like
this:
g Hello, John
Hello senator. You got back lone
all right
Yep back again
=" Had quite time down there at
Des MONIES this winter?'
oh, yes
+" Passed that Sammis utilities CON-
mission bill2'
:" Yes
Well, say, is 1t true that that bill
the public utilities plants and makes
them perpetual
Yes. that's right
And there can't be but one plant
of kind in town.
Just one
1t takes away from the council the
power it has had to regulate the
plants, doesn't it?'
: Well yes; ] guess it does =
We have to go down 20 Des Monies
before this commission to deal with
our own local plants, eh?'
Yes, l guess that's right
Well, that increases the value OF
the franchise now held, doesn't it?'
Yes, / guess it does
Now, isn't 1t a fact that it increas-
es their value by millions If it doesn't
allow any competition and makes the
/! franchises good forever?
Well, yes; | guess that's about
right
" Senator, how much did you ge,
for it?'
Senator Peterson warned his col
leagues that this would be the question
they would have to answer, and i,
would be hard to answer, if they voteG
for the Sammis bill and made it law
Happily for all concerned majorit,
of the senators took the right view O
the measure and voted to lay 1t on the
table. Had it been enacted into Law
Iowa patrons Of public service corpor
atoms would have been absolutel,
helpless when confronted by rottel
service and exorbiant rates. 1t wa
one of the most Objectionable bills in
troduced at the present session of tn
Legislature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
How Typhoid Is Spread.

Chicago Tribune: Typhoid, one Of
the most loathsome OF the many
diseases with which human beings
are afflicted, is spread in many ways.
1t is essentially a filth disease. The
dairyman who supplies your milk may
have an infected well. His cans and
bottles are washed with the infected
water and this means that the milk
will be infected. A person sick with
what Is known as walking typhoid
may spread the infection broadcast.
A polluted water supply is not infre-
quently the source of a community cpl
demic of this disease.
Flies are recognized carriers be-
cause of their habits and because OF
their presence in the homes. And yet
typhoid is one of the recognized pre-
ventable diseases. Destroy or abol-
ish the source of infection and the
spread of the disease is stopped at
once. This means that milk, water.
and food must be kept untainted, and
the dangerous little house fly must
be kept out of all places of human
habitation
And remember that every death
from typhoid is due to some ones care
lessness that, in this day of intelligent
sanitary administration, is little short
of criminal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
Government by commission a.

Hannibal Courier-Post: The govern
ment OF the city of Des Moines dur
ing the past year shows some OF the
good results resulting from govern
ment by commission.
When the old council went out a
year ago, there was deficit of $780,
000 The new commissioners have
kept strictly within the appropria-
tions, have wiped out the entire defic.
it and start in the new year with $751;
600 in the treasury. This is the last
and best argument in the chain OF
tests on government by commission.
1t clearly demonstrates that by care
full conservatism, the elimination OF
politics, petty politicians and running
the city on a flat, business basis,
municipality will thrive and prosper
under the commission plan of govern
ment. when the plan was adopted
last year and the commissioners took
charge" says the Des Moines Capt.
tai, they found outstanding bills ag-
gregating $1S0,000 There was no
money with which to meet them.
There was no chance of cleaning up
these debts except by bond issue. "
| This was the condition of affairs that
confronted the commissioners in Des
composed the commission were bust,
ness men of ability and they bravely
took hold of the work. A general
cleaning and shaking up took place
around the city hall and in all OF
the departments of government. The
result has been great object lesson
to the people of other cities. They
abolished many of tae supernumerarJ
offices.
They demanded that every man EN-
ployed by the city in any department
should give a fair days work for {
fair days pay. The system worked
so we'll that there was absolutely M
chance for graft of any kind The.
Topped off number of useless mel
and teams who had hitherto beer
paid not for work done but for thei
influence at the polls. The city ha
been run, as all cities SHOULD be run
/ on sound business lines. Every do
, lar invested was made to do its flu
duty in every department of worl
Notwithstanding of the saving to tn
l city of 5000, 900 more improvement
have been made in the past year tina
have been made during any five pre-
2 vious years and the citizens of De
/ Moines are elated over the new syi
: tenn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
John D. Rockefeller on Business Prin-
ciples and Success.


In the April issue of Tie Worlds
Work magazine, John D. Rockefeller
writes on the Principles of Business
Success Here are some of the
things he says that, coming as they do
from source so authoritative, ought to
have a vital interest for the business
man of today:
The underlying, essential element
of success, in business affairs" de-
clares Mr.. Rockefeller, lis to follow
the established laws of high-class
dealing. Keep to broad and sure lines,
and study them to be certain that they
are correct ones. Watch the natural
operations of trade, and keep within
them. Don't even think of temporary
or sharp advantages. Don't waste
your effort on a thing which ends in a
petty triumph unless you are satisfied
with life of petty success. Be sure
that before you go into an enterprise
you see your way clear to stay through
to a successful end Look ahead. II
is surprising how many bright bust
ness men go into important undertake
ings with little or no study Of the con
trolling conditions they risk their al
upon +"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

That alcohol can not be considere1
as a food: that it's use even moderate
ly decreases the efficiency of muscles,
affects the glands seriously, and
wrecks the nervous system, causing
Ill health and insanity, was the unan-
imous opinion of the meeting of the
American Association for the Study
and Cure of Inebriety and Alcohol
ism. in session at Washington, D. c..
One member even went so far as to
assert that alcohol is dangerous as
medicine, as all its effects are not yet
known to science. Another said that
60 per cent of the tubercular patients
treated with alcohol died. while only
20 per cent Of the cases not treated
in this way were fatal. The use OF
alcoholic beverages was called a com
mon cause of degeneration and dis
ease among the negroes and illiterate
classes in the south. A New York
physician asserted that the pychie
treatment of the inebriate was recog
nized as the most successful.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
A PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION.

Senator Clark, physician, chair
man of the senate committee on pub
lie health, has introduced in the SEN
ate bill which provides for abol-
ishing the state board of health and
the board of medical examiners, to-
gether with several other state boards
and commissions. The work of all is
to be combined under the state public
health commission, consisting of three
men to be named by the governor.
In addition to the board of health
and board of medical examiners the
bill abolishes the newly created hotel
inspection bureau, the board of dental
examiners, the pharmacy commission,
the veterinary examiners board, the
office OF state veterinarian, the food
and dairy commission and the newly
created board of examiners in optom-
etry. 1t provides that the powers of
the board of control having to do with
| the tuberculosis sanitarium at Oak.
dale shall be transferred to the new
commission and that the commission
shall have $4,000 secretary and a
veterinarian and pharmacist who
shall receive $1,000 annually.
/ The commission is to consist oil
three men. no more than two of whom
are of the same political faitl, ant
their salaries shall be $4,000 annually
Examiners may be employed by the
commission to give examinations il
the professions coming under the con
troll of the newly created board.
In view of the near adjournment o
the legislature it is not likely tina
the bill will become law at the pres
ent session.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
Women on School Boards.

Wyoming DAD Journal: The Wyom-
ing city school district is receiving
considerable favorable mention in the
newspapers of the state for electing
women on the board of school direc-
tors. 1t is considered move in the
right direction The mother who gives
to the world an infant, rocks the era
die and watches over and prepares
her child for entrance to our pubic
schools and presents the child to the
primary teacher should also have an
opportunity to express her opinion
as to teachers and methods adopted
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

The work that tells in political
campaign and at the polls is personal
work by the candidates and their
friends. Newspaper admonitions to
vote and to vote right are all well
enough in t. cir way, but individual
solicitation is what rolls up MAORI
ties. Every Republican voter in keo-
kuk should be interviewed in behalf OF
the ticket between now and election
day. The time is short, but a lot OF
effective work can be done il entered
upon in the right spirit and in the
right way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
THE DAILY GATE CITY

are many, very many decent employ
ers, who pay good wages, and while
everybody knows, too, that there are
many, many factory positions which
girls can fill better than anybody else,
and earn good pay at their work, and
without injury to their morals, or
even POSSIBILITY to their physical we'll
being, there is the universal admis-
sion that factory life has not only its
unpleasant, but its positively danger
Gus phases.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

Here is the way Ed Howe OF the
Atchison Globe says the papers will
write up weddings ten years hence:
The bride looked very well in travel
ing dress, but all eyes were conferred
on the groom. He wore dark suit
that fitted his form perfectly and in
his dainty gloved hands he carried
small rose. His curly hair was beau
tifully done, and delicate odor OF
hair oil of the best quality fioated
down the aisle as he passed. The
young people will miss him, now that
he is married. He is loved by all for
his many accomplishments, his ten
der graces and his winning ways. The
bride commands a good salary as
bookkeeper in st. Joe, and the groom
will miss none of the Injuries TO
which he has been accustomed. A
crowd of pretty men saw him off at
the depot
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
two parties who have each made owe,
100 gallons of syrup. The local price
is about $3.50 gallon. ~
Popular Girls.

Columbus Junction Safeguard: The
Washington Democrat says they have
a girl in that town who is so popular
with the boys that in order to get
date with her they have to date her
away ahead, sometimes weeks. That
is nothing. A girl lived in this town
years ago who was so popular that
she made her dates so far ahead that
her granddaughters are now filling
them. Now, Alex Miller, will that hold
you?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

A dam across the upper Connect
cut river, just completed, will supply
$1,000 electrical horsepower to Brat
tleboro, Fitchbur and one town that
is fifty miles away When the Keo
kuk and Hamilton dam is built over
100000 electrical horsepower will be
developed and some of it will be trans
n.itted to st. Louis, It's miles distant.
4 other water power plants, with
the exception of those at Niagara, win
be small in comparison.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

A new effort born of the bad weather
that prevailed on the 4th OF March
to change the date of Inauguration
has now progressed so far that the
proposal has received the Endorsement
of thirteen governors, fifty United
States senators and $50 representa-
tives. The idea is to make the last
Thursday in April the date of future
inaugurations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
sterne For Mayor.

Nauvoo Rustler: Louis Sterne,
one of Keokuk's progressive young
business men, is candidate for mayor
before the Republican city convention.
He is one OF the substantial business
men Of Keokuk and has friends by
the score. He viii make splendid
mayor II elected
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

Stenographers employed in labor
union Offices in Chicago handed down
dose Of home made medicine to the
business agents last week. They
quietly organized a union, drafted
their grievances, demanded settle
ment. and walked out The astonished
union officials assumed fighting at
titude for an hour or two and then
surrendered as reluctantly as any EN-
ployer caught in a corner
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

Keokuk needs the best men avail
able in charge of it's municipal affairs
in view of the probable development
of the water power during the life OF
the administration to be elected next
Monday The Republican ticket is
made up of such men and is deserving
of support accordingly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

"Psychotherapy" is defined by
writer in the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat
as the science by which you cure
yourself of a disease which you
haven't got; and that's about all that
ails lot of people.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

Henry Kesselring was one of the
best deputy sheriffs Lee county has
ever had and he will be the same kind
of a city marshal if elected next Mon
day. He is vigilant, alert, courageous,
impartial and incorruptible He will
give Keokuk a Jack Hardin kind of
administration of its police affairs,
and that is exactly the kind the city
needs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

The optometry bill has been passed
by both houses of the legislature and
signed by the governor. The new
board will not be appointed for some
time as 1t is not necessary until near
July /. The three members repre-
senting the optometrists will be select
ed by the state association, which
holds its annual meeting in Des
Moines in May.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
The Maple SUGAR Industry,

Keosauqua Republican: In spite
of the high price of Van Buren, county
land and the high price of cord wood.
botl OF which items have caused the
depletion of many sugar camps, yet
reports show that quite lot OF maple
syrup and sugar has been made in this
county this spring. We have heard of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
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Messrs. sterne, Kesselring. DeYong

I oIIt5
Tumelty, Christy Mundy, Linstrand
and Roberts compose the Republican
city ticket. All of them are capable
and popular gentlemen and worthy of
election. If placed in charge of
municipal affairs they will give the
duties of their several offices their
best thought and attention and will
conduct the city's business with an
eye single to the public good
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

Vote the Republican ticket and en-
sure Keokuk safe. sane, economical
and business-like administration.
That is what the city needs at the
present juncture in it's affairs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

The Republican city ticket stands
for progress, efficiency and economy
in the administration of Keokuk's af-
fairs. A vote for it is vote in favor
of Keokuk's best interests.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

The election of the Republican
ticket next Monday will be another
feather in Keokuk's cap. There
could not be better attestation that
tn city desires the best local govern
ment available and proposes to go
forward along right lines. Every vote
for that ticket is vote for Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
it ought to have something about i
that a congressman could approve"

Some people," says the Burlington
Gazette. will not be satisfied until
Uncle Serene Payne gives them a
tariff which will furnish the neces-
stiles of life for nothing"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

in the further mental and physical
development of her child. She should
not only be allowed to fll the Office OF
director but also to vote at all school
elections and assist in electing direc-
tors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

The Dubuque Tines Journal con-
tends that one of the best things any
municipality can own is it's own debt.
The Sioux City Journal notices that
LATE Young seems to be feeling
serene, but he has not burst forth into
enthusiastic song about the beauty of
the spring.
Even If prohibition were advis-
able, says the Davenport Times. at
is police matter that has no place in
the constitution of state 1t does
not belong there"
Warned by Mrs. Meyers experience
with Mary Garden, George Fitch gives
notice that he has resolved never to
send a young girl to Paris and spend
$4,000 on her voice.
According to the Washington Demo
crat, couple of girls may work to-
gether all day and yet have lot to
talk about when they meet on the
street in the evening.
Alex Miller says in his Washington
Democrat that when people tell him
he is "the only one who has the nerve
to tell the truth he begins to won
der what their graft is.
IF ali the kidnapers were thrown
into jail and kept there until some one
offered ransom of $4,000 for the re
lease OF each of them" says th'
Council Bluffs Nonpareii, "the public
would be safe for long time to come
Some propositions are preposteron
on their face" says the Davenport
Democrat. Zone of them is the sug
gestion that congress could cover tn
deficit by spending less money. Il
order for plan 10 receive attention
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

Mayor Sterre" sounds all right.
AL that remains is to vote him his
ct mmission next Monday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

Crazy Snake seems to be doing the
b st he can to live up to his name.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01
NOTES AND COMMENT

The Ottumwa Saturday Herald be
lieves that every state should make
kidnapping capital offense.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-01

Champ Clarks complaint that the
Republicans of the ways and means
committee had prepared the tariff bill
thout consulting their Democratic
aagues recalls to the Philadelphia
d one of the cleverest things
id in the house of representa-
-he Mills bill was prepared by
@cratic members of the com
A bout consultation with the
files When that bill was re.
worlle house Thomas B. Reed
cy ols regrets that the con
other measure had been with
- wise and prudent and
LeBrothe babes.