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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
PAYING THE FINE

RUTLAND, Vt, Herald: The
end has been accomplished in
the celebrated rebate case against
the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana. The governments case
falls fat. the retrial establishes no
proof whatever of the company's guilt
and the whole spectacular affair.
which has cost the country, early and
late. billions of dollars, comes to
thoroughly ridiculous conclusion. Else
where appears a brief and comprehen-
sive history of the case. The Troy
Press. in commenting thereon. utters
the following significant thought:
But let it not be forgotten that the
fine will be paid. A great part of 1t
has already been paid Paid by the
people of the United States. Paid by
our men of business, our laboring men,
our people of all sorts and conditions,
Paid in panic, in industrial depressions.
in suspension of the progress of trade
and industry. in stoppage of the loom
and the mill, the forge and the fac
tory"
foreigner. reading an account OF
this costly and spectacular trial in
our American journals, might readily
ask: Yes, but how does your restless
Mr. Roosevelt become charged with
the conduct of courts in the state of
Indiana" The query is pertinent but
is answered automatically in the mind
/ of those who have followed the sys-
tematic attack on capital that has
been pursued in this country in the
past six years.
! Judge lands, it is true. imposed the
/ fine of Twenty-Five millions, which, is
/ I'VE or six times as great as the entire
value of the company,s property in
Indiana. because it was a popular and
apparently safe thing to do. He re-
fused to admit testimony by which
the defendant company sought to
show that the six-cent rate, in ques
ton, had been in existence for more
than ten years. not only over the
Standards alleged fellow-criminal, the
Chicago and Alton Railroad company
but over the Chicago and Eastern I'LL
nois. Why. Because the genius Of
the Big Stick, which over-rode states
courts and constitution, had infected
even the bench.
The entire conduct of the case wa.
extraordinary and extra judicia
thoroughly in harmony with the smil
ing autocrat in the White House, VIII,
sought to bend even courts and leg
islatures to his imperial will.
The result was hailed with joy b
the lovers of the theatric and triun
phal. 1t was a victory for the pee
pie, they declared. The Springfield
Republican hits it of thus:
The s29.o0O,0oO fine, in a politics
sense, whether or not it was justifie
on strictly legal grounds, came at
time and under circumstances to il
crease enormously the popularity {
: the Roosevelt administration, whic
, received the entire credit for the We
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
Mayhray and the Ankles,

c. E. Game, postoffice inspector, in
Des MONIES Register and Leader: The
old saying that sucker is born every
minute ought to be amended to hun
dred suckers are born every minute.
That old fixed horse race, fixed boxing
match game is SO old that it has lost
all it's hair and still people persist in
being taken in. 1t is hard to say how
many have been bitten by that May
bray bunch of swindlers. Down in
Council Bluffs the mikes" as the vic
tins are called. are the talk of the
town. There was nothing remarkably
clever about the way in which the May
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

dict and the penalty imposed The
Standard Oil Company was the most
bitterly hated corporation in America
and to have nailed it in that style
seemed to the country a tremendously
brilliant achievement for the Presi-
dent and his policies In financial
sense, the fine had, perhaps. an i'm
portant effect in making syndicated
capital the more timid over the gov
lernmental warfare on monopolies and
the interests. =
Two phrases in this paragraph are
especially significant, lin a political
sense" and making syndicated CAPT
tai more timid." The first gives a
positive clue to the motives which IN
derlay all such actions of the late
administration and the second refers
to the exceedingly serious conse-
lquences that followed the Lands de-
cision
Politics dictated the anti-corpora-
ton policy The anti-corporation policy
dictated the Lands fine What fol-
/ lowed
Millions in gold left this country
within a few weeks from the time the
result was announced Millions more
/ followed them. Holders of American
bonds in London, Paris and Vienna, to
say nothing of the tin.id investors
here at home, began throwing the Sc
curities which represented corpora
I ton values into the market for sale.
Prices went down. Money retired to
its strong boxes, safe deposit vaults
and old stockings. The conduct of the
trial determinedly hostile as it was
the confiscatory decision and the
whole attitude of the government to
ward corporate interests frightened
all capital excessively. Then, as
i sisted by some bad banking and other
financial sins, came the panic, when
real money practically retired from
circulation and not even enormous
! premiums for hard cash were able to
coax it out.
There is nothing suppositious about
this: the facts constitute the bitter
: est piece of political and commercial
history ludI has pctu "iitlSh ~
!, decade.
| Yes, the fine mus be paid. In fact
lit has been paid. many times, but no
by the Standard Oil company of In
! diana or elsewhere 1t has been pai'
/ by the wage-earner, by the small in
0 weston. by the homemaker by thu
: manufacturer. the farmer and thu
merchant. Not 80 millions but prob
y ably billions, is the price the countr
l. has paid for one mans lust for powe
D and unbridled ambition. 1t has bee
d heavy toll, fearful tax, and con
merce today lies dormant, fearing
II knows not what.
d Not only months, but years. will b
a needed ere the country RECEIVERS fror
L. the rude shock of that act of confiscs
If ton, illegal and unproven as it is noV
h declared. Let US hope that sane
r times are upon us.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
The Commission Plan Successful.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
The experience of Des Moines, the
most progressive city in this state.
since its adoption of the commission
plan, is marvellous, and ought to stir
up our inert population to adopt the
same plan and receive the same mar
vicious benefits. OF all cities in the
state Des Moines has suffered most
from graft and incapable city govern
ment and yet within ten months after
adopting the commission business plan
of city government there is balance
of $4,000 with all floating indebted
ness paid Whereas under the old
aldermanic system the year before.
there was deficit of from $4,000 to
$4,000, and a floating debt of $780,
000
Do you old moss backs and has
beens see? Do away with politics in
city affairs now at this election and
adopt business systems. Delegate the
politician to the way back seat, ant
let progressive business prevail. dc
! it now" Don't wait and put off til
| tomorrow what can be done today.
w. B. COLLINS.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
coNFEssloNs ARE SACRED.

Mrs. Mary Lavender of the Wood.
lawn Park Methodist church in Chi
cago confessed TO the Pew. E. B. Craw-
ford Of the same denomination that
she had been guilty of misconduct
with her pastor, the Rev. John d.
Leek. Thereupon the Rev. Crawford
made the fact of such a confession
public, with the result that the Rev.
Leek was forced TO surrender his
credentials as a minister and with.
draw from the church. and Mrs.
Lavender is to be tried by the church
with view to her expulsion. The
controversy has attracted wide atten.
ton and caused much comment. One
of the points involved is the ethics If
the confessional. Last Sunday even.
ing sermon preached by the Rev
Frederick E. Hopkins in Pilgrim Con.
gregational church, Chicago, on the
subject of Church Scandals" was
taken by many who heard it to be q
criticism of the Rev Crawford and the
existence of the WoodIawn PARK
church controversy. Regarding tbs
confession" which Mrs. Lavender is
alleged to have made to the Rev
Crawford, and which the latter i:
charged with making public. Dr. Hop
kins said in his sermon
Il have the greatest respect foI
the Catholic church and for one rea
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
Taking Money Out Of Iowa.

Davenport Democrat: Iowa is
probably first among the states, ac-
cording to its population, in the num-
Der of its residents and in the amount
of money and effects, that have gone
to the Northwestern country during
the past few years.
The department of commerce and
labor has just made public some facts
which are of highly significant ma
ture. The immigration statistics of
Canada for the closing ten months of
tae past year show that 1858 per-
sons entered the dominion. Despite
the effort made to increase the popu-
lation of Canada from the parent
country, the figures given mark a de-
crease of As per cent from the same
period of the preceding year. This
shows the Englisamen, Irishmen.
Scotchmen and Welchmen are not
being attracted in growing numbers
in that direction, notwithstanding the
temptation of cheap lands, low taxes,
and other inducements held GU. by
the Canadian authorities.
But, on the other hand. the figures
gathered show that Americans con
tinue to rush into Canada as they
have been doing for several years. It
is noted by the department of com.
merce and labor that 5S,312 people ar.
rived in Canada from the United
States during the past year. They
were Americans of the well-to-do or
der since they carried with Them tc
their new homes and away from their
old ones, money and effects to tae
value of s52,0o0,0o0.
Here is the enormous and telling
drain on American resources that has
been going on. These emigrants from
the United States with their accumu
lation of $4,000 800 did not come
from the southern states, from the
/ Pacific coast, or from the New Eng
land section. They went from thi;
fertile upper Mississippi valley, and
more largely, probably from our owl
good state than from any other. Tlil
depletion. this emptying of Iowa i,
still going on. 1t is, all things con
sidered, the heaviest tax Iowa bears
We all know the cause.-the high
price Of lands here and the cheal
acres across the border There vii
be returning tide in the cours 0
time. The emigrants who are nov
leaving US will become immigrants
But in the meanwhile Iowa must Loo
about and meet the loss by attracting
gains of people and means from othe
directions.
This is question quite as mater
ial and pressing as any one wit
which the assembly at Des Moines i
dealing. what are the Iowans goin
to do about it?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
As to the Continental

Emerson Chronicle: The other day
We heard good old farmer say that a
certain thing wasn't worth cont.
mental" We asked him what con
tinental" was and he couldn't tell
We couldn't either A girl just break.
ing into the high school happened to
come along and we asked her. She
said that a continental referred to the
paper shilling in use at the time OF
the Revolutionary war and that when
George Washington and his soldier
boys were at Valley Forge the con
tinental' was worth about two cents
In fact il was at Valley Forge that the
idea OF contempt was forged to tn,
continental when we remembered
how much We had heard the tern
used and how little We knew of tht
origin of the meaning suggested.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
In Pennsylvania they are consid

In Pennsylvania they are consid-
ering bill to make kidnapping fell
ony punishable by death. 1t can not
be said that the proposed punishment
is too severe. The stealing of child
rem and holding them fci ransome is a
dastardly crime against society. 1t
is holding many parents, especially
l.others, in constant terror. The case
of Charley Ross is still remembered
1t was one of the earliest kidnapping
cases to become prominent. The fate
of the boy was never revealed. He
may be living today, not knowing that
he is Charlie Ross. but. more prob
ably. he is dead If law can be
passed checking this evil it will be {
great boon to parents who are now
so i'll at ease that they have to pro
vide for a constant watch over theil
children.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
A Prophecy.

Harpers Weekly: If they keep on
putting the suffragettes in Jail over
there in London much longer it is dol
lars to doughnuts that the homely bal
lads of other days will soon be super
seeded by some such pathetic lyrical
outburst as this:
o where is my wandering Ma tonight?
O where can my mother be?
She hied her forth to the Suffrage fight
And hasn't came home to tea
The range is cold on the kitchen trail
The cupboard is bleak and bare.
For Mother has gone to the County Jai
For pulling the Speakers hair.
Oh where is my wandering ma tonight
My Mother, 0 where is she?
She dwells in the Box
While Fathers socks
Are holey as they can be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

openly against the saloon, and SO are
thousands of voters in wet" regions.
1t is very doubtful whether any state
can circumvent the interstate COM
merce law Therefore, the latter must
be amended to enable communities to
deal with the drink problem. or else
congress must turn our breweries into
fuel alcohol factories. And the like
lier horn OF the dilemma will be al
most as fatal to tne liquor interests
as country wide prohibition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
Don't Kick the Doc.

Story City Herald: Every man ought
to be kind to dumb animals without
having his attention called TO it A
farmer in an adjoining county kicked
at his neighbours dog one morning
when the ground was soft and his
boots loaded with rich clay. He
missed the dog and the great weight
on his boots resulted in carrying him
over a fence into an old cistern that
had been left open Moral Don't
kick your dog.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
Good Cure for the Blues.

Chicago Tribune: Nature study IN
connection with outdoor walks is
mighty good cure for the blues and for
worry When walking cultivate the
habit Of seeing things Birds. flowers,
insects. the trees with their mar
velous variety of foliage, all have their
lessons 70 teach. And II We only get
into the habit Of studying the meg
sagcs they have for US both the blues
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

bray gang operated. and the most IN.
sophisticated should have fought shy
The only difference between their
game and the cheap game is that they
picked good victims and had the
patience to wait two or three years be.
for starting anything. In a way. Il
serves every man right, who was beat.
EN- out of anything. Not man went
into a single one of the deals without
intending to beat some other man out!
lof a bunch of money. They were tax.
ing chance. and it always turned out
that they got the short end of the
chance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

Keokuk continues to receive favor
able advertising from the water pow
er project. The latest rumor that the
Santa Fe is to enter this city is also
directing attention toward keokuk.
Well, Keokuk wants more railroads
and more factories, and more people
who will buy Made in keokuk
goods.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

The Des Moines plan of government
according to recent report is salts
factory. Cedar Rapids has the system
and it is endorsed by the people OF
that city as being the best. Keokuk in
the near future should enforce such
law in its city government.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

The republicans will hold their
ward primaries this evening at 1880
in the several wards. The time and
meeting places are announced in an
other part of this issue. Republicans
are urged to attend the ward primar-
Use and to take part In their delibera-
lions. 1t is time Keokuk had re-
publican council.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

Kidnappers find it an easy task to
steal a boy or girl but to get away
with the ransom is another matter.
Pat Grove, who has had experience
in this line, told the Sharon kidnap
pers right when he said the would be
caught.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

The adjournment of the Iowa legis-
lature would be agreeable to most OF
the business interests in the state
and the business interests compose
considerable part OF the machinery
of the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
The Daily Gate City

and the worries will vanish as If by
magic. Walking clubs might well be
named Don't Worry" clubs, because
their members are too busy enjoying
themselves. studying nature. and find
ing out how she does things.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

Business interests in the United
States are hopeful that the tariff bill
soon be adopted by congress so an
adjustment of their interests can be
accomplished.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

The Iowa house has adopted bill
making Des Moines a present OF $780,
600 with which 10 acquire land and
new amphitheatre for her amusement
enterprise known as the state fair.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25
keokuk, Iowa ......Mareh 25' 1sos'

Tommorow night the Keokuk re-
publicans should nominate the WIN
ming municipal ticket.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-25

The law making it necessary for all
corporations TO make an expose Oh
their business should be defeated.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-06

PLEASANT FOR THE TRAVELLER
Russian Method Of Safeguarding Gar
Necessarily Led to Some ApPre-
henslon.

The late William E. Ingersoll, the
noted life INSURANCE manager, was an
authority on insurance rates.
Mr.. Ingersoll knew the rates all
over the world" said New York man
ager, recently. THE Russian rates are
very high. Mr.. Ingersoll once ex-
planned to me. with a story, why this
was.
"A traveller in Russia. he said, no
ticed that the train was all deco
rated with flags and banners. and at
every station comapny Of soldiers,
and a band playing the national an
them. The traveller asked brakeman
the reason Of all this ceremony. The
brakeman, lowering his voice, re-
Piled
don't mind telling you, sir-but
in the strictest confidence, be it un-
derstood-that carriage in this train
has been engaged for his majesty But
his majesty. as a matter of fact, won't
set of till this evening. Thus the plot
hatched against him may take effect
on this train, you see, and our gra.
cious sovereign will be saved.
The brakeman touched his can
and passed on. and the traveller, sud
denly grown pale and nervous, stared
from the window anxiously."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-06
DON'T STUDY NATIONAL AIRS
American Visitor In Great Britain Re-
turns with His Feelings
% Perturbed.

Il wish, growled man lately back
from a tour of the British Isles, that
the British bandmasters would take
course of instruction in what con
stitutes the American national airs.
Band concerts are the rage all over
England, Ireland. Scotland and Wales.
During the summer season, probably
as a compliment to the hordes OF
Americans who are flinging away gold
for their benefit, they present daily
what is generally dubbed American
national airs
"The majority Of these bandmasters
think Dixie is the national air, be-
cause they sagely observe 1t is the
cnly one which Americans applaud.
The Star-Spangled Banner is dismal
and lugubrious enough under the best
of circumstances, but to hear the
Scotch bagpipes have fling at it is
indescribable misery. The man who
wrote the Columbia hymn would not
know his own work as performed in
King Edwards domain. and even the
Kentucky Home and other negro bal
lads get a touch between an Irish jig
and Scotch wall which robs the
American visitor OF any pleasure
which he might experience in hearing
songs from home. 1t may be that
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-06

man. Three Women. all OF whom are
Mrs. Smiths, and wives of John Cotton
Smith, are interested.
The case was brought before the
court by Elsie f. Smith, the third
wife, whose action for separation
will be heard in few days. Smith is
now living with Mrs. Smith No. i,
and is not opposing the action. he
claiming that his marriage to Nos. 2
and was void. as his divorce from
No. l was fraudulent and void. OF
the three marriages. only one child,
a boy, was born to wife No. 2. :
The first Mrs. Smith was Lille
Brown of Kansas City. who became
Mrs. Smith in 1888. Three years later
they separated and Mrs. Smith went
home to her parents. Smith says he
met one, John 0. Roop in PhiladeI-
phia in 1892 who got him divorce.
Smith says he learned years afterward
that the whole proceedings were
fraudulent.
Before he learned this, however he
had married Annie Rowe in Brooklyn.
That was in 1894. but divorce fol-
lowed several years later. Then he
married the woman who is suing for
separation now. A few years ago.
Smith says he learned that ne had
never been divorced from the first
Mrs. Smith. He wrote out to Kansas
City, only to learn that she had mar
ried Lieut.. Lorenzo Grodor Russell.
United States army. !. then stationed in
a Kansas army post.
The marriage was not a happy one.
and when Lieut.. Russell was sent TO
the Philippines Mrs. Srith-Russell got
a divorce. She was about to be mar
ried TO wealthy real estate man
when Smiths letter came. Smith left
Mrs. Smith No 3. and Mrs. Smith No.
joined him. They are now living at
the Hotel st. Paul and Smith says
they are very happy together.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-06
OFFER II TO AskEw.

Some time ago the state was adyer-
Using that the job Of state engineer
was open to anyone who would take it
without salary. We suggest that the
position be Offered to Jude Askew OF
this city. We don't know what kind Of
an engineer Mr. Askew would make,
but we believe he would take He is
holding to the job Of state game and
fish warden and paying out five Of six
hundred dollars a month from his own
pocket to maintain his office. The leg
islatnre provided that the expenses Of
the Office should be paid out OF re-
celpts from hunters licenses, but the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-06

knowledge comes, but culture lin
gers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-06

Considering the adverse circum
stances under which it was opened. the
Industrial Institute and College for
Girls has prospered remarkably we'll
Next year when the handsome new
building is opened. the enrolment viii
show a big increase. The l. I. & c.
is destined TO become one OF the states
greatest educational institutions.
chickasha viii never regret the money
she is spending to maintain it this
year.