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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard
in September McClure's warmly urges
the adoption of the Canadian system
of compulsory arbitration as the best
known remedy for the industrial war
fare which is constantly disturbing
the American public. He finds that
out Of the fifty-five applications which
have been made for board of arbi-
tration during the two years that the
law has been in force, 9s per cent Of
the disputes were settled without re-
sort to strikes. The law does permit
the final resort to a strike If the ar
bitration board can not satisfy both
sides to controversy, but no strike
is lawful until a board has been ap-
pointed and tried to adjust matters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
William E. Curtis writes interesting

William E. Curtis writes interesting
ly in the Chicago Record-Herald of
Twin Falls, Idaho, where farmers
wives cook, wash and churn by cleo
tricity, and where no man has been
murdered, lynched or died with his
boots on" The first house was built
in 1904. Today 5000 people are living
in comfortable, and in many cases, ar
tistic homes, with the most advanced
and modernized conveniences that can
be imagined The electricity is trans
mitted from the great Shoshone Falls,
owned by Former Senator William A.
Clark of Montana, over wires which
run in every direction. There is
scarcely farm house in all the valley
that is not connected with the power
house for light and other purposes.
The picture is suggestive of future
conditions in this part of the Missis-
sippi valley if the Keokuk water
power project succeeds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
keokuk, Iowa -. September I, 1909

FOR THOSE WHO FAIL.
"All honor to him who shall win the
prize"
The world has cried for a thousand
years,
But to him who tries, and who fails
and dies
/ give great honor and glory and
tears.
Give glory and honor and pitiful tears
To all who fail in their deeds sub
lime,
Their ghosts are many in the van OF
years,
They were born with time in ad-
vance of time.
Oh, great is the hero who wins a
name,
But greater many and many time,
Some pale-faced fellow who dies in
shame,
And lets God finish the though sub
lime,
And great is the man with sword
undrawn,
And good is the man who refrains
from wine,
But the man who fails and yet still
fights on,
Lo; he is the twin-born brother OF
mine.
Joaquin Miller.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

to be LOT consolidation freight engines,
each weighing 100000 pounds without
the tender.
The Frisco system is to secure a
portion of the equipment and power,
its quota consisting of fifty locomo-
tives, seventy passenger cars and 2,100
freight cars. The orders for cars were
divided among the American Car and
Foundry Company. the Standard Car
Company and the Pressed Steel Car
Company. The Baldwin Locomotive
Works and tie American Locomotive
Company have secured the building Of
the engines. Delivery on both cars and
engines is to begin early in September
and continue throughout the balance
of the .-ear.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
increased from $4,000 to s2s,25o,ooo,

Increased from $5li,UUU TO @Ao,1ou,Voo,
emitting odd hundreds.
But the growth of the rural dellv-
cry is even more remarkable, the
record showing eighty-three routes,
covering 1,S43 miles and costing $l4,-
4SO twelve years ago, when the service
was instituted, to 39,14S routes cover
ing Ss1,432 miles and costing S4S,5oo,-
600. 1t cost Uncle Sam last year little
more than s25,5OO,OOo to pay the sal
aries of postmasters alone; he sold
nearly 500, 100000 postal cards and reg
istered few more than 40,150.009 let
tiers. There were 13,145,172 letters sent
to the dead letter office and almost
$500, 100000 was transmitted through
money orders at home, while $SS,9I2,-
600 was sent abroad. More than lS,-
100000 pieces of mail matter were
handled last year and 7,651OOO,oOo
stamps were issued, besides 1.266,O Oo,.
900 stamped envelopes and wrappers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The governor of Alabama has sign
ed all of the prohibition bills passed
by the legislature, including the Full
Ter law, which permits the raiding of
all suspicious places. Other laws for
bid the use or distribution of liquors
in clubs, apply to foreign corporations
doing business in the state, provide
for the impeachment of sheriffs who
fail to execute the laws. prevent the
use of screens by soft drink places
and prevent the use of barred doors
In any public place
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
he could get on the wrong side now
that he has grown gray in the sefV-
ice of his country"

he could get on the wrong side now
that he has grown gray in the sefV-
ice of his country"
The st. Louis Glope-Democrat IS
surprised to hear that Mr.. Bryan IS
having windbreaks built around q
good part of his farm in Texas.
The Omaha board of education, IN
deciding what the high school pupils
should eat for luncheon, decided IN
favor of pie, which they regard as a
brain food.
The Waterloo Times-Tribune thinks
the chances are it will be several
years before suitable installment
terms are made by the automobile
manufacturers.
The most discouraging symptom
noted in the condition of Mr.. Harri-
man by the Sioux City Tribune is
in the good things that are being
said about him.
An unfeeling Judge rules that Jack
Binns has outlived his wireless fame
and may be pulled off as moving pic
ture without giving him a mortgage
on the nickelodean till.
The Des MONIES Register and Lead
err thinks that the Maine man who
predicted that the world would come
to an end in September must be get
ting trifle nervous by this time.
A Greene county farmer sold deal
er lot of eggs, some of which proved
to be over-ripe. The farmer refused
to make the bad eggs good and was
arrested, convicted and fined $50 I'M
der the pure food law.
Even at the risk of offending dis
gusted' and "Old SUBSCRIBER the
Chicago Tribune considers it neces-
sary to mention Mr.. Harriman's name
occasionally. 1t says he is one of the
proprietors of the country.
Emma Goldman and Marie Corelli
are two women who have announced
themselves as opposed to woman suf-
frage. Neither Of these ladies think
that women will be benefited by being
allowed to vote, although the ways
of reasoning are different by which
they arrive at the same con elusion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
HIGH GEAR IN AUTOMOBILES

The New York World would stop
automobile speeding by enacung legis-
lation preventing the gearing of the
automobile above the speed specified
by law. This inspires a correspond
ent to the World to write:
so long as autos are geared up to
high speed the driver is sure to use
the speed whenever he thinks the con-
ditions are favorable. Why should
autos be geared to speed that is
prohibited by law? 1t is not a ques-
ton of power, for when extra power
is needed the high gear is shut off
and a lower gear Is used. There 10
no justification whatever for the nigh
gear. The possession of this high
high gear, which cannot be legally
used, is as clearly an evidence of in
tention to break the law as is the pos
session of kit of burglars tools. I"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

1t is worthy of note that the Min
neapolis baseball team won the game
after listening to a sermon on the
grounds by a local minister. What's
the matter with having like services
in advance of the next game the
Keokuk team plays with Waterloo?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
Had Been stunu Before.

lndianola Advocate-Tribune: Some
fellow asked Clarence Litzenburg why
ne blew the whistle at the electric
light plant SO long, and Clarence re-
pied that 1t was long whistle. You
might imagine 1t made the fellow mad,
but 1t didn't-he had been stung be.
fore.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The Oklahoma State Federation of
Labor has made provision for labor
organizer to work among the negroes
of the state, and determined effort
will be made to enroll them in the
ranks of union labor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The Omaha Bee calls attention 70
the fact that Congressman Water l..
Smith also has few friends at home
who approve of his course during the
short -erm of congress 1t is likewise
worthy of remark that they took pains
to let the fact be generally known and
thoroughly understood.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
The penltentlarv.

Waverly Democrat: II tn peniten.
tiary should not be place for pun
ishment, what's the use OF peniten.
tiary? Why not save the money that
the institution costs? Why not load
every evil-doer UP with .ot OF flow
ers and kind words and let him 60
his way in peace?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The Rock Island has motor car in
successful operation between vinton
and Iowa Falls. The attention of the
Burlington is respectfully called to
the fact in the hope that it will see
its way clear to establifh like service
between Keokuk and Mount Pleasant
and Fort Madison and Ottumwa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

Rev. Charles Stelzle, head of the
labor department of the Presbyterian
church, has begun movement look
ing to the organization of national
total abstinence society of walking
delegates and officers Of unions with
the particular object of preventing
the holding of union meetings in halls
with saloon attachments.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The New York Financier makes
what it calls roll of honor" of the
national banks of the United States.
There are 1,o1s of these distinguished
institutions whose surplus and undi-
vided profits are in excess of the cap
ital Iowa has twenty-three such
banks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The king of Spain has shaved his
side whiskers because the queen said
they made him look too much like
an English butler, which has prompt
ed the suggestion that her majesty
evidently thinks there may be such
thing as too much dignity even in
king.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

There is some talk that the courts
will hold that the Moon law limiting
the number of saloons does not apply
to special charter cities. The matter
is of small interest one way or the
other as far as Keokuk is concerned.
This CT will abandon its special char.
ter next spring and operate under the
new commission law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The south is gaining in agriculture
as well as in manufacturing. Louis
lana and Mississippi will raise more
corn this year than ever before in
their history.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The Burlington Hawk-Eye calls at
tention to the fact that the aviation
races will give the "up-look" clubs
a great boost. They will also do much
to promote the "up-lift'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

Judge Preston, in deciding the Hen
derson case, ruled that mayor is al
ways on duty. No one who has ever
served in that capacity will take ex-
ception to this ruling.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

We shouldn't wonder if George
Fitch is more than half right in his
contention that more character is
moulded on fathers knee than is per-
fected in Sunday schools.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
Carroll and CONGRESS.

Tndianola Advocate-Tribune: The
report that Governor Carroll is to run
for congress sounds good deal like
another cabba. :e worm story.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
lions, instead of wasting so many Of
them in politics, we believe we will at
tain these greatly to be desired ends.
ROAD GIVES BIG ORDER.
Rock Island Contracts For 100000
Worth Of Equipment and

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-The manage
ment of the Rock Island has just
placed orders for equipment and power
which will necessitate an expenditure
OF approximately s9,000,000 The or
ders consist of all kinds of freight
cars, locomotives and passenger equip
ment, and are among the largest given
by any western railroad system In sew
eral years.
A large portion of the equipment and
power will be in the nature of addition.
al facilities and will not be to replace
old and worn out equipment. The Of
ficials OF the Rock Island hold to the
same belief entertained by President
B. l.. Winchell to the effect that the
prosperity of the countr.- will soon be
as great as it was when shippers were
last besieging the railroads for trans
portation facilities which they could
not get. This belief is engendered by
an investigation into crop and general
trade conditions throughout the west
and southwest Tie officials at first
prepared to order only about 1000 cars
and few additional locomotives, but
the reports which their experts made
decided them to increase the order
for box cars to 5000 cars.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

Besides, Walter Wellman feels con-
fident that the pole will not get away
meanwhile.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
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THE GATE CITY COMPAHy1 T..
No, IL North Sixth St. keokuk' Low
THE GATE CITY is on sale at the 10Y
Hotel Keokuk. cor. Third and Johnson Johns.
e; H: Rollins -s & Co. g. s.r MAN suse
Depot News Stand
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Mt. Pleasant has let a contract for
brick paving in the amount of s37, 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

Bishop Fallows has given it as his
belief that the continued identity of
persons after death has been clearly
established.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The Des Moines Capital notes that
a GOODNESS sprung up between Friday
and Saturday last week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that Secretary Wilson will be found
to be in the right in the benzoate of
soda dispute. He has had the habit
OF being on the right side so long,
continues the Republican, that 1t
Is not belieyable or conceivable that
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

Good fair week advice by the Des
Moines Register and Leader: Don't
try to drink all the red lemonade dur
ing your first day in town.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The only hour svss had any luck WITH
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

Concise Short Story.
Angelina Smith loved Edwin Jones.
Edwin Jones was poor.
Angelina smith is Mrs. Robinson.
Lippincott's.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01
Passenger Cars Of steel.

In addition to the freight equipment,
which will cost approximately $5,OO0,-
900, the Rock Island lines have or
dered 1876 locomotives, which will cost
about $1,6s0,0o0 and ITO passenger
cars which will cost about $4,000, 900.
A significant feature of the order is
that the passenger cars ordered are
to be all steel. The passenger order ia
the largest single order for ail-steel
pass niger cars given in the history of
railroads with one exception, that Civ.
en- by the Pennsylvania system.
The Rock Islands order for freight
cars Is divided as follows box cars.
2,1oo, coal cars, 1000, cabooses 200
furniture cars, 500, and flat cars ZOO
q the locomotives, twenty-cight are
for the passenger service and are Is
be Of the Pacific type Weighing 2o4 no,
pounds without the tender. There ara
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The Omaha board of education, IN
deciding what the high school pupils
should eat for luncheon, decided IN
favor of pie, which they regard as
brain food.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The st. Louis Glope-Democrat is
surprised to hear that Mr.. Bryan IS
having windbreaks built around q
good part of his farm in Texas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-01

The Waterloo Times-Tribune thinks
the chances are it will be several
years before suitable installment
terms are made by the automobile
manufacturers.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-14
DIRECT NOMINATIONS.

Of course the Kings County Republican Com
nittees unanimous Endorsement of direct pri-
naries is only a declaration for the principle
and binds no one to the terms of the bill that is
10 be introduced Still, ii indicates real senti-
ment in that county for Governor HugheSs pro-
posed reform. This is the second or third time
tne Kings County Republicans have gone on rec
ord in favor of direct primaries. They did so
first when the Governor was advocating per-
missiye direct primaries. The Brooklyn organi-
zation then declared for mandatory direct pr1-
maries q bill providing for which was pending
in the Assembly. with considerable support from
the Assembly organization. The Governor after
ward changed his position so as to favor man
datory system. The Brooklyn Republicans, II
we are not mistaken, again declared for direct
primaries last fall These reiterated declarations
have committed the party over there pretty
strongly to the principle. and when the Gov
ernor's bill is finally presented there will proba-
bly, be found little colorado basis, If any 1s
sought for opposition to It in Brooklyn on ac-
count of its details.
The Governor will probably have some strength
elsewhere from the fact that the organization in
certain other parts of the state has also accus+
toned its followers TO regard with favor the
principle Of direct nominations. In BuffaIo they
are an alternative Of the convention system 10
be used in the discretion Of the leaders 1hey
have not thus been uSe0- Out lHelI very IeNOSAi-
ton as an alternative means something. 1t
means that the idea sufficiently commended itself
10 Republicans to make its way TO that extent
without public agitation or discussion In THIS
county. too. if we are not mistaken the idea
made progress even before Governor Hughes
lent the force of his great influence to it. y
number of local leaders have in the past favored
direct nominations as an alternative system.
These are merely strawS indicating what
strength the proposed system has developed with
In the ranks of the organization. Indeed, re-
form which the first time it was advanced by
the Governor and without his interesting himself
nerticularIv in its fate, had such inherent
strength that it was deemed expedient by It's
opponents not to reject IT outright, but 10 COM
pass its defeat by having the Senate support 1t
only in the perInissve form, while the Assembly
was 50 jealous that 1t would be content with
nothing less than a mandatory enactment, IS
certainly not TO be despaired Of. The Gov
ernor's fight will probably be not to get dlrec'
nominations Legislation, but 70 get it in the form
which he approves
New-York tribune., 1909-01-14

one class upon the fields Of those OF olher
classes will receive attention from the NaIlohdi
Monetary Commission when it reports II Is
co-4oinlv an clement of weakness in American
banking.
The gunerintendent calls attention also to the
desfrabiIity of the admission of the trust COM
panies into the Clearing House in this city
NO supervision" he remarks, over banKng
'instttutions can be more effective than that e1-
''ercised BIZ a committee Of members OF vol
..11ntary association" If they are not to be ao-
rnitted to the existing association. then trust
companies, he urges, should form clearing
house of their own. This is the one lesson OF
the panic that has not yet been acted upon ana
il is to the discredit Of the banking OF tnis
city that the one defect which cannot be cur>su
by state action. but is q matter OF lndlVloual III
itia tive remains uncorrected.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-14
NO "TERRIBLE SHRINKAGE.'

In an article contrasting the pluralites or
Roosevelt in 1864 and Taft in 1908 The New
York Sun yesterday gave It's readers an I'M
pression not at all justified by Its figures. lt
said, referring to the pluralities table:
The following table gives in almost every in
stance the evidence of a terrible shrinkaee III
the Republican national vote in 1908 as COM
pared with 1908.
There was a shrinkage in Republican plurali-
ties. due 10 Mr.. Bryan's general gains over
the Democratic vote for Parker in 1904. which
WAS abnormaly small. AS is we'll known, Mr..
Parker was not very seriously supported ny
Democrats In the states west of the Alleghanies
and north OF the Ohio. But the Republican
national vote did not shrink terribly between
the elections of 1904 and 1908. In 1901 the
nonuIar vote for Roosevelt was 762140T The
popular vote for Taft in 1908 was ''0H'o44.
Taft, in fact. gained 6137 votes. Excluding
Oklahoma which was admitted to the Union IN
1907. Taft got in the other forty-fve states
only 54421 fewer votes than Roosevelt got n
those states in 1904.
..Tha Sun is in error in giving Taft plural
itv of only 537 in Pennsylvania. His plu-
rsIitv was 96.994. The Taft plurality IN Iowa
was "A 439 instead of S.S52 1t is also illogical
70 allow Roosevelt 81 plurality in Mary
land in 1904 and to say that Taft lost the state
in 1905 by 21O3 The elector in Maryland re-
ceiving the highest vote in 1903 was Taft
eIector and his plurality over the highest electOr
on the Democratic ticket was 6o5. If Taft did
not have a plurality in 1908 Roosevelt did not
have one in 1904 The decrease in the Repub-
Ican pluraties in many states last fall was
no surprise to any one who recalled the
traordinary conditions of the Parker canvass.
But in commenting on that decrease II should
NOT be suggested. contrary 10 plain facts. that
the Republican national vote of 1908 showed a
terrible shrnkage" compared with 1904.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-14
4nuSeme ents.

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AIEANBRA A-2-S-Eaudeyille
kSTOR-S-i5-The Man from Home
PELASCO-S -aO-The Devil
BsyoU-s.l5--A gentleman from MISSISSIPPI
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COLOSIAE-2-S-EaUdev
FTERION-s-SauEOn.
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EArPIPF,-s .lz-gEhsr Evfry woman Knows, e.,..
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IPPODRoNE-2-s-sPortin Days-ssrtie IN 'he
skes-Faliet Of BT6.an1
FT-DSON-S .3O-LsG- Frederick
KEREOCEEF--S- 1.-THE AOL4He-
75--Tia V'i-sIsss
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MAJESTIC 1.-THE Pies Piper-
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NENpET ssoHN HALL,-s.l5-ConceIts -,,.,,-.-.
METROPOIITaN OPERA HOUSE ,4o--Dle "a1A4''
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SAVOY -15-s -2O-TLe Battle
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