Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-19
Topics of the Times

Johnson's "slats."
Congressional contests will be on
shortly after the present tariff bill gets
to workign. And those contests are not
waged under Cannon's rules.
The senate is to meet an hour earlier
from now on. However, it can't charge
time and a half for overwork. The
senate never overworls.
The Missouri senate dealing with a
bill regulating the length of hotel bed
sheets cut the length down nine inches
from nine feet Marked it down to
ninety mine inches as it We're.
| Web Byers thus describes the man.
ner of service given by the new sena-
tor from Iowa: Each day Senator
Cummins knows what schedules are
to be discussed and by working night
and day he prepares himself to dis
cuss them. He is not centering his at
tention on two or tire or half dozen
commodities, but is awake all the time.
For instance the bin as it came from
from the senate fixed a duty on all oil
cloth in widths of nine feet or more.
In the finance committee of the sem
ate the rate was left the same, but
the width was changed to three feet
Senator Cummins called attention to
this change and showed that while the
rot ~, -
would provide a tariff for the cheaper
kinds of oil cloth which are in uni
versal use by the poorer class of peo-
Pile"
Upton claims to head the list on
eggs at the end of last week One COM
pany shipped twenty cars of eggs,
424 cases to the car, thirty dozen to
the case, 234,4oO dozen eggs since
March IL, and figures it will handle
forty cars of eggs all told this sea-
son. Upton seems to have good cause
for loud cackling.
The commercial traveller had been
summoned as witness, and the coun-
sci for the defense was cross examin-
ing him, and eliciting many interest
I ing details as to "exes," etc you
travel for Jobson, Hobson, Slobson &
Co, don't you?" said the lawyer. eyes,
sir" How long have you been in their
employ?" ".Aheut ten years" "And you
you?" Well no, sir" confessed the
nothing-but-the- truthful witness maxi
! ing a hasty mental calculation, mot
actually travelling. I have put in about
4 four years of that time waiting at rail-
way stations"
| In eighty-five years Chicago grew
from village of 100 to a city of over
100000.
In 1900 the United States had only
six cities of 5000 inhabitants, or more.
In 1880 there were twenty-six cities
having 5000 or more pepole In 1890
there were 443 such cities; and in 1900,
I545.
In 1900 Montreal. Canada, had a
population of 1000 in 1850 of $4,000 and
in 1907 of 100000.
Toronto had 5000 Inhabitants in
1884, $4,000 in 1850: and 100000 in 1907
an increase of 1,000-in less than six
ty years.
London, England, is two thousand
years old, yet four-fift of its popu-
lation was added during the last CEN
fury.
The latest attack upon alleged radi-
cal and revolutionary teaching in AM
erican colleges and universities is a
series of reports now appearing In the
Cosmopolitan Magazine by Harold
Bolce, who made a secret itinerary of
the principal institutions of learning,
sometimes entering as a special stu
dent and at other places attending
lectures as a visitor or interviewing
lecturers. He asserts that in many
classrooms it is being taught that the
lDecalogue is no more sacred than the
syllabus; that the home as an institu-
ton is doomed; that there are no alb
solute evils; that democracy is a fail
ure and the Declaration of Independ-
ence only spectacular rhetoric; that
the change from one religion to anoth-
er is like getting a new hat; that to
social climbers children are incum-
brances, and that there can be and are
holier alliances without the marriage
bond than within it. Such is, in sub
stance, the analysis of the writer's
conclusions, given by the editor of the
magazine. Among the more prominent
professors quoted as advancing these
teachings are carp of Syracuse, Cid
dings of Columbia. Patten of Penn
lsylvanla, Sumner OF Yale, Matthews Of
Chicago, Fetter Of Cornell, Ross of
Wisconsin, Cooley Of Michigan, Black
lmar OF Kansas, Wendell Of Harvard
and Wilson of Princeton.
Clarence M. Pepper, special agent
tof the department Of commerce and
labor, who has ben studying the fiscal
systems of Europe, reports that Great
Britain raised s165,0o0.0o0 in revenue
from the income tax law during the
last fiscal year, that being the largest
single source of revenue. Mr.. Pepper
analyses the various sources Of the in
come tax and shows that the principal
one is the corporations and large bus
mess and professional interests, the
next thing the owners Of houses and
Hands.