The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-02
Keokuk, Iowa August 2, 1909.
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING.

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING.
The editor Of The Gate City Is In
disposed as the result Of the heat and
prolonged hours of labor and I'M
proves the opportunity to fill these
columns today with the thoughts OF
contemporaries, to the advantage Of
It's readers. The literary menu for
today is as follows:
The Wright aerop' ane appears to
the Burlington Hawk-Eye to be en-
Orville good thing.
The waterloo Reporter wonders If
Mr.. Attorney General Byers and Me
Too Cosson approve Of the tariff bill
or will they veto it?
The Cedar RAPID Gazette notes
that at last reports the Iowa corn
crop was doing quite wen, thank you.
The Smart Set defines a saint as
q man who believes this world is hell,
and makes 1t such for others.
.sThis Is the time of the year." says
TIA Cedar Rapids Republican. when
thou. lands go away from home to be
uncomfortable. to be bitten by mos
uuitoes and to eat food that they
would not eat In their own homes.
But 1t Is q change"
Having seen nothing to the con-
trary in the Burlington Hawk-Eye or
Keokuk Gate City. We take 1t that
those papers are still of the belief
that the foreigner pays the tariff
taxes. Fort Madison Democrat.
Certainly.
The Lynnville Star thinks it has
found the stingiest man on record. He
lost pocket book containing large
sum OF money, and when 1t was re-
turned did not even thank the finder.
but kicked because the man refused
Is pay interest on the money for the
time he had It.
George Fitch declares in the Peoria
Herald Transcript that they sell
pianos on such long time payments
nowadays that man is often paying
for two at time-the new one and
the one that wore out.
Al tariff story headline in an ex-
change reads: Stockings are high
err The Springfield Register says as
to this that most Of us are from Mis-
souri,.
The official name for the tubercu
losis hospital between Cedar Rapids
and Iowa City is aOakdale." A post
Office is maintained In the state in
st.tution there now which the gov
eminent has designated by tat name
and hereafter in speaking OF the
tuberculosis hospital 1t Is incorrect II
refer to 1t as being either at Iowa
City or Cedar Rapids. 1t is at Oak
dale. At Oakdale the state is erect
ing seven new cottages which vii
practically double the capacity of tn,
institution, making 1t capable OF car
ing for 200 patients.
The Cedar Rapids Republican say
that the short and simple truth i
that when the Iowa congressmel
started out to revise the tariff 70
everybody else they got their owl
schedules revised instead.
The Iowa City Republican predict
that the automobile OF few year
hence will have wheels not less tina
thirty-six inches in diameter, and rur
ming upwards from that figure. Tn
body of the machine viii be at tn
same height as at present. 1t say
that the small-wheeled cars are boun
to 90 when the public realizes this
they rack to pieces over rough road
Short-lived cars will pay the mani
facturer only so long as autos are r
stricted to the comparatively well-t
do. who can replace their cars as the
wear out.
The Marion Register says this lor
tariff revision contention and deba
has been more harmful than all the e
cessive tariffs the country ever he
or ever will have.
D. r. Brainard, county superinten
ent of Harrison county, Is announces
as a candidate for state superinten
emit. The Logan Observer speaks
him in the highest terms. He is sa
to be we'll adapted for the duties II
posed by the high office he seeks.
The Waterloo Courier declares tn
yellow Journalism is bad enough. B
ii does not parade in the cloth of
preacher of Christ and custodi
of public morals. 1t sells sensatic
ell news for what the public will p
and makes no further pretensiol
"But yellow preaching! The churt
es should recognize in this their oy
worst enemy and treat it accordingl,
The Fairfield Ledger notes tn
'.the laws of all the states fort
gambling and the United States g
eminent bars lottery literature FRI
the mails, yet Uncle Sam has induc
10000 law abiding citizens to ia
part in the big gamble for lands
Idaho and washington, and it is no
ing but a gamble" The Cedar R;
IDS Gazette suggests that there oue