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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-30
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Ivory Soap

90 $500 Per Cent. Pure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
in all the other elements Of state
making 1t is at the head or near the
head OF the list summarizes the
Davenport Democrat
OUR lNsuLA Az COMMERCE.


The trade Of the United States with
its non-contig territory is increas-
ing at rapid rate and promises soon
to be a most important item. It has
more than trebled in the last ten
years, being $3.50, 100000 for the last
fiscal year against $50, 100000 in
1898. OF all the outlying territory
Porto Rico leads by a large margin,
taking s24,00O,OOO OF American mer-
chandise and sending to this country
$4,000, 900 worth largely sugar and
tobacco. Hawaii comes next with
s17,5o0.OO0 of american purchases
and shipments of $4,000, 900. Alaska
purchased s16,O00,000 worth and
sent $13,000,O0o exclusive Of gold,
which amounted to $1S,500,000. The
Philippine islands as yet have not
been as extensive purchasers of Amer
lean goods as their population would
indicate they might be. and imports
from there are not large except hemp.
The trade with those islands has
grown rapidly during the last two
years and promises soon to be a ma
terial factor In both the export and
import trade. particularly with the
passage OF the new tariff bill, wflicn
favors sugar and tobacco from that
source.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
THE DAILY GATE CITY

and always the greed equipped BY Guns
ming will outwit greed equipped BY
ignorance The problems that this
nation has solved have been for the
most part simple problems. They
were problems In the production Of
wealth. 1t is true that the abolition
Of slavery concerned tie distribution
OF wealth. It was simple subtraction,
but to deal justly with capital in Its
public uses, to say what is the In
diyidual's share In the public partner
ship and what is the share Of the com
monwealth that is long division q
problem OF distribution. And most Of
our national problems now pending
are problems OF distributions, where
fore II We are to do these complex
problems OF distribution, as nation
at least we must get into the eighth
grade, Perhaps the average now -
nearer the sixth than the eighth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
EXAMINATION OF BOYS.

The Termination OF our educational
system Is now receiving considerable
attention in periodicals and the press
OF the country generally. The belief
seems to be gaining ground that boys
should be taught by men; that the
average school ma'am has tendency
to subdue the virile. lighting qualities
OF the boys, and that In the very ma
ture OF things her instruction would
tend rather to unfit him for the yari-
Gus occupations of business life into
which he must plunge sooner or later
The Rock Island Union comedies there
may be something in this view. but
goes on to ray:
At the same time the woman is the
natural instructor of the young. She
has better control over the pupils, and
she has better and clearer way OF i'm.
parting information to young minds.
his mas been demonstrated over and
over again and is being demonstrated
every day In the public schools.
Most boys have some masculine
member of the family, father or guar
dian, who, If he takes interest enough
in the child, can give him the virile,
pugnacious qualities that he may need
in after life and At him for business.
The difficulty is that the parents, and
those who should be Interested in the
education of the child, do not take
enough interest in the schools and in
the work OF the teachers, who are
devoting their lives to the education
of the young. II 1t is the intention
of parents to turn over the education
OF their children to instructors entire
ly; If they can't give any of their
time to the development of the quali-
tics of manhood but must leave 1t to
paid substitutes then possibly it would
be better to have men teachers for
the boys. But in this western coun-
try most OF US take enough pride in our
/ children to want to have a hand IN
| their education and in the formation
of their lives.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
on The Hip.

On ne TIFF.
Twelve hippopatami In q jungle
heaven;
Bwana Tumbo drew bead and then
there were eleven.
Eleven hippopotami with jaws wide
open, when
Bwana Jumbo showed his teeth, and
then there were but ten.
Ten hippopotanld said, My! the wa.
ter's flne!''
Bwana Tumbo yanked one out, and
then there were but nine.
Nine hippopotami were In sleepy
state;
Bwana Jumbo gave yell and then
there were but eight.
Eight hippopotami a-roaring at to
deafen.
Bwana Jumbo silenced one. and then
there were but seven.
Seven hippopotani all putting in
their licks:
Bwana Tumbo jiu-utsued one, and
there were but six
Six hippopotami tried to escape alive;
Bwana Tumbo drove his knife in one
and then there were but five.
Five hippopotamd athirst for human
gore;
Bwana Tumbo's fingers throttled one
and then there were but four.
Four hippopotami in terror tried to
fee;
Bwana Tumbo gave an upper cut. and
then there were but three.
Three hippopotami attacked the ma
tive crew.
Bwana Jumbo captured one alive
and then there were but two.
Two hippopotand then took ii on the
run;
Bwana Jumbo he outsprinted them
and then there was but one.
One hippopotamus was tangled ii J
net;
Bwana Jumbo pulled him In and
kept him for a pet.
q New York Yorld
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
A Kansas HOGS Auto Rlde.

Marion Register: Unless the WITCH.
tia Eagle is misrepresenter the
farmers of Sockless Jerry's state are
breaking the record. For instance:
One OF them who burned the mort.
gage on his farm the second year the
Dlngley tariff was on the nations law
book harnessed his auto one day LAST
week and gave large fat hog free
ride from the barn yard to the city.
sold him for $ seven S a cwt. and
honked back home within an hour
from the time he babe Mary Jane
good bye That's going some" Go
ask that farmer il he is in favor 81
returning to the good old days when
the Wilson-Gorman tariff OF lower
schedules was on the books and the
mortgage was on the farm and he
Will tell you to Ego to- the birthstone
country. the orthodox name for which
is spelled with four letters by profane
editors, but which Is spelled by those
who do not indulge in such Language
with a-(dash.) Nine tenths Of the
tariff revision talk (downward) is
bosh, pure and simple, and the men
who are back of 1t are the men who
| want to be the beneficiaries of such
| a revision-the importers who want
to food the country with pauper made
goods from other lands at the expense
| of the American factory owners and
their well paid employes-by the men
who want free raw material but a
good stiff tariff on the goods the,
rnake-by the interests which would
see the country 60 x lots into barss
ruptcy if thereby they could make 4
S AXE. Right here we. call attention
to an article elsewhere in this paper
from the Des Moines Capital Of Jul,
18th whose editor, Col. Young, was
welcomed few days ago to the
lower tariff camp by the big chief d
the Iowa tariff rippers' brigade, Har
vey Ingham, of the capital cityis morn
ing paper. 1t begins to look as though
Col. LATE was fishing for suckers and
that he has landed some fine speci
men
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
THE ONLY WAY TO DOT.

In discussing the pending tarih bill
in recent issue the Des Moines Capt.
tai called attention to some things
which should be remembered, and
very aptly said by way Of reminder:
1t is q common mistake which many
make in saying that the tarih was got
ten up to protect infant industries
and should be removed when such in
FAINT industries are established. For
many years the cartoonists have been
busy ridfculing the infant industry
proposition. The truth is that all
American Industries, whether new or
old, would be destroyed il tariff duties
were removed Duties are needed to
preserve the American scale of wages
and the American style off, living.
There is much joking about the Am.
erican scale Of wages and the Amerf-
can style Of living, but every traveller
In other lands knows that this Is the
only country where every man is com
Portable, or can be comfortable II he
is willing to make the effort. The
American public in commercial
sense, is on plane OF its own. The
only question Is relative to the main
tenance Of that standard.
The American people, II they would
reduce their scale of wages and their
style OF living, could compete with any
manufacturing nation in the world =
The Waterloo Reporter adds to this
that the standard OF living is SUI
preme test In the cost OF production.
There is no disputing the proposition
that the American workman is super
Tor in skill and productiveness to the
average workmen Of other countries,
and It seems equally beyond controver-
sy that this superiority is largely the
result Of better standard OF living.
The same paper continues:
The increased cost Of living Is due
principally to two factors-the higher
prices which the products Of the farm
are bringing and the advanced scale
OF wages paid to workers. II those
Items can be reduced the cost OF liv.
ing Will come down to point that
might be satisfactory to those now so
insistent upon cheaper prices. But
It Is Idle to expect reduction in the
price Of what one has to buy while
preserving the present standard Of
what one has to sell, be it produce
or labor. There are not many Am
erican workmen who believe they are
living too we'll on the present income,
and It will be an exception to find one
willing to sacrifice his share In pro-
duction for the purpose of competing
with some other nation where the re-
turns to the worker are much less,
actually and relatively. But In no
other way can an era of cheapness be
expected
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
TIE PROBLEM OF THE CENTURY


1--WE have about fifty million Amer
leans who have remained in school
into the midst of their teens some
thing like two-hfths Of our probable
population in the next thirty years"
says William Allen White, writing
in the August American Magazine I'M
der the title THE Scholastic Main
spring of Democracy" He continues:
Assuming that the average life OF
the college graduate and his post
graduate associate Is thirty years out
of college, we may assume that the
generation now opening will be man.
ned with million men and women
who have at least finished their col
lege work. and assuming that the
same number of juniors. sophomores
and freshmen leave school-about 25.-
900 In each class-that are graduated
we may add three million more to
the total. making four million college
men and women who will participate
in our national life during the first
thirty years of this century Add to
these four million college bred men
and women the one hundred and sixty
thousand high school graduates who
are entering life every year, and the
generation may reasonably be com
puted to hold five million persons who
have taken full advantage of the com
mon schools supported by direct taxes
upon all of the people. Add to this
total those who drop out from the
| four lower classes of the high schoo
"a list as large from each class as
the annual graduating class and one
has fifteen million others who have
come into a somewhat wider field OIL
knowledge than that afforded by the
common schools. Let US add to then
for thirty years the tlree-quarters o.
a million pupils who complete the
work in the seventh and eighth grades
of the elementary schools There will
be 22,500,000 of them. Now adding al
these SUMS allowing for the increase
in population to increase the numbe
OF youth as lne years 20 OI-dHu WI
have about fifty million American.
who have remained in school into tn.
midst OF their terms something lik'
two-fifths of our probable population
in the next thirty years.
This is not enough. Democracy ma.
live, but it cannot thrive upon tina
basis. If we are to solve tae problem
of the century-the restriction of ig
norance and greed in our business
organization-we must solve it in Thu
school house rather than in the lee
islature or in the court room. So lonl
as there is body of the people ig
norant, that ignorance will breed ;
\ greed that will be duped by demagos,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

IN Des Moines they are trying to
persuade the attorney general that a
brewer or a wholesaler has no legal
right to deliver case Of goods at q
consumers home They are wondering
how the stuff will get to the consumer
The Cedar Rapids Republican tells
how in these words:
That will be an easy matter. The
outside brewery will get the business
for he can send his liquors by ex
press and the express company mus
deliver what it accepts. 1t strikes us
that the attorney general is in danger
of discriminating simply against home
manufacturing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

The Iowa City Republican holds to
the view that Roosevelt would take
higher relative rank as mayor OF New
York than as President of the United
States. It's argument is that he has
the intense executive activity and fear
lessness which are needed for that
place. while the precipitation and lack
OF dignity which marred his work as
president would not weigh against MIN
in the mayors Office. There Is mucn
merit in this view.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
OK TEAM AT STATE FAIR.
"BilI' Coop Of Fairfield to Drive Cat.
tie to Des Mones.

FAIRFIELD. Iowa. July 3d. Vim.
H. Coop, or 1Bill. Coop, as he is
known to the old settlers of Jefferson
county, Is going to be the proudest
man at the next Iowa state fair. He
Is going to go to the fair In a wagon
driving all the way his fine yoke Of
six-year-old oxen. Ten of the leading
old settlers OF Jefferson county are
going with Mr.. Coop and will camp
out on the fair grounds. Some OF
them have promised to take taeir
wives, and IL they can arrange to put
up a log cabin they will grind corn
and give away hoe cakes after the
old times OF the hospitable frontiers
man
The oxen which Mr.. Coop will drive
weigh about LOCO pounds each and
they have been used In farming all
summer. The old settler owns an OK
cart all made OF wood, which he can
take. II cabin can be had, he viii
also take along some ancient spinning
wheels. looms, etc.
Mr.. Coop is going to be proud OF an
other thing. He and his son Frank
went last week to Keota, where they
got from the Singmasters pair 81
fine buffalos from the great Singmas.
ter farm. These are to be trained and
will be driven TO the yoke at the falr,
that is, II the buffalo are willing.
Mr. Coop is the first white chiio
born in Jefferson county. He was an
old resident here when the meeting
was held to organize the first state
flair, which was held in Fairfield.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
Wants Rivers improved.

Capt. Thomas is an earnest and long
time advocate OF the Improvement OF
western rivers, and especially Of those.
which drain the state Of Iowa. His
theory, which has come to be general
~ endorsed, is that water Transports
ton is thu cheapest known, and that
the opening OF all Of our inland water
ways VIII at once reduce present rail-
road frelght-rates at least so per cent
Re also maintains that ti,e enormo S
transportation business OF this ~oun-
Try has reached q volume where the
rails'aac : are Enable 10 handle il. He
has made q sIccial study OF the Des
Molnes river and says there In an
ample ,s,n,i -ef,-rr n fl,a, vsi,e,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

A movement which will meet a
warm welcome among housekeepers
and commission merchants is that
which the international Apple Ship.
pers' association will take up at its
forthcoming meeting In Buffalo. 1t is
to bring about the standardization OF
boxes and barrels in which fruits ano
vegetables are packed and Is along
the lines of bills PREPARED for intro
duction IN congress. There is nc
good reason why there should not be
uniformity in weights and measures
throughout the country. it h held, and
there is a hope that it will Ne brought
about by law, strictly enforced.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
a WATERWAYS ENTHUSIAST.
Old Steamboat Captain viii Review
Former scenes.

Burlington Saturday Evening Post:
Capt. julie Calhoun rec lived letter
yesterday from his old friend Capt.
e. II. Thomas, the postmaster at
South ottumwa, Iowa The letter con-
tanned the information that Capt.
Thomas is coming down to Burlington
in a short time to pass his summer
holiday in looking over the scenes OF
his exploits o. former years. Capt.
Thomas lived here during a GOOD por-
ton OF his active life, and was a pilot
and commander on the river. and also
was engaged in newspaper work. AT
ore time he published newspaper
in Burlington called the Monday Morn
ing News. He was q contemporary
in newspaper work here of such vet
Grams of the past as Chas. l. Barker.
rr Beardsley, Frank Hatton, Clark
Durham, George S. Jamison, Frank
PHELPS, C. Y. Wheeler and others OF
generation now gone. And while
Mr.. Thomas knew quite well person
ally such river men as Mark Twain,
Albert Wempner, David Asbury,
Hughes Menaugh, Cephas Gregg,
Frank Meyers and Gran Hill, the read
er must not jump to the conclusion
that he is either feeble or Old. for he
is about the most vigorous PROPOSE.
ton today anywhere in the valley Of
the upper Mississippi.
Gait. Thomas was pilot in these
waters when the Iowa river was open
to boats as far as Iowa City. While
serving as captain and pilot of the
steamer Iowa City in 1866 he gave
julius Calhoun, small lad, his first
Job on river boat Calhoun followed
the river steadily thenceforth. finally
rising to the command of the largest
boats In the Diamond 10 fleet, and
only retiring few years ago on ac,
count of failing health 1t will now
be a great pleasure to him to enter.
tain his old patron and fellow voy'
ager, Capt. Thomas, and many are
1.-The yarns that will be spun by these
two worthless.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
Enchantment.

know a land OF rest for all,
Most excellent for camping
Where through the forest primeval
The startled deer go tramping.
Where trout go leaping up the fans
Or merry, rushing brool1lets;
Where nature. sweet-voiced nature
calls
It's in the railroad booklets.
Boston Herald.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
senator polliver was asked VIII:

Senator Dolliver was asked what
he thought about the tariff bill. He
is quoted as having said in reply:
"'Well. when this session opened
ex-governor Larrabee wrote me and
SO did others that We ought to vote
for free lumber and duty on hides
Now, we've got free hides and duty
on lumber. It's like the case Of Grant
who graduated at the bottom of the
class and was heard to say that all
that was necessary to put him at the
head of his class was to turn the class
the other way"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

"The wealth of Iowa in all natural
and acquired resources is muchSgreat-
er at this time than ever before. There
was never so much land in so high
a state of cultivation. There was new
er SO much manufacturing; never so
much accumulated wealth exhibiting
itself in so many forms. Iowa does not
offer the attraction of cheap land; 1T
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

one movement of the Wright ma
chine is described in the dispatches
from washington as "a gaspy wobble. :
TIL, st. Louis Globe-D Democrat declares
that this phrase is an inspiration
which could hardly have been found
anywhere else than in Washington
where "a gaspy wobble" Is seen and
heard nearly every day. on both sides
of both houses. in the tar'n debates
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

The manager of credit reference
company in Sioux City told meet.
ing Of business men of that place
the other day that $4,000 people in
the city were buying what they wanted
on credit. He based the statement
on cases which had come under his
personal observation,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
Warninu for Jameson.

Fontanelle Observer: Colonel II II.
burn and wife recently drove from
Washington to New York in an auto.
mobile and will make the trip hack to
Iowa in the SAME way II ..Billys
Jameson hears the monk Of Uncle
Pcte's horn he better get Off the right
OF way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

when properly controlled, to provide
a six-foot channel from the city Of
Des Moines to the mouth of the
stream. He says this can be accom-
plished by either the dam or the can
al system, both Of which create slack
water navigation.
Capt. Thomas has many old friends
In Burlington who will be glad to meet
him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

the law, but wen bet q $40 dog ne
hasn't enough to wad shotgut or he
couldn't be chasing around over the
country lecturing. He has twelve LEG
lures IN Iowa, but he has none IN
washington. He is good speaker.
but he fails to draw the crowd.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
An Iowa View of Felix

Washington Democrat. Gov. jos
Folk, who makes lis tired, was ii Des
Moines the other day and got himself
interviewed. Funny how these re-.
formers like publicity He eaid he
was glad to be back in the practice OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
Effect Of Wanton Slaughter.

JEFFERSON Bee: It will be someWllae
difficult to convince the boy who reaus
or the slaughter Of game by the Roose.
vclt party in Africa that 1t is wrong
for him to kill the squirrels, birds anu
other game which habitate the Iwo9s =.
and fields of Iowa. 1t IS not W.,
high appeal TO the best that IS IN 10.
to glcat over the slaughter Of anytnl ~,
witch Is uselessly and wantopy ~
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
All give Il up.

Cedar Rapids Republican: 'How Is
a man going to save his soul II his
liver is out OF order?" is the question
in Joint debate. The preacher gave
it up. So does everyone give 1t up.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30
Navioabillty Of Iowa Rivers.

Dubuque Times-Journal: After ex-
aiming the Iowa, Cedar and Des
Monies rivers, Major Meigs, govern.
ment engineer. has reported that the
two first named are not navigable.
This surprises nobody But these
rivers have water power which may be
,sad more extensively in future. As
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

. bit better than anything else that
walks out Of doors. It is all very
good The supreme confidence Of the.
men OF the state Is an admirable qual'
ity and has much to do with it's con-
tihued growth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

South Bend, Indiana, had twenty
nine cases and four deaths from ty-
phoid fever in June. The state chem
list pronounces the water good and the
cause OF the epidemic is unknown.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

Evidently with the tariff in mind,
the Iowa city Republican is moved to
remark that experience is a poor
teacher except for its own generation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-30

According to William Allen White it
Is practically Impossible to find COM
munity N the United States that does
not spend more money for whisky
and tobacco than for education. The
report OF the U. S. commissioner OF
education shows that there are only
twice as many school teachers as
there are bartenders in the country