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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-20

Our old friend, Senator Elkins, has
announced that there will be no mon
keying with the interstate commerce
act at the coming session of congress-
notes the Knoxville Journal. THAT does
not square very we'll with President
Taft's program, but he can probably
be brought to see the wisdom of SEN
alor Elkins' views when the matter is
presented from the standpoint of party
solidarity.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-20
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

4'It can do no harm IL judgment on
any legislation he tsenator Aldrich)
may propose is withheld until there is
ample time for mature elaboration"
says the Madrid Registers-News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-20

ground from the others OF near pau
pers, without causing an explosion
This the lords ought to ponder.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-20
The Carroll Herald saws. ~, ,

The Carroll Herald saws: '1f both
Prouty and Dowell remain in the race
the captain will not need an automo-
bile to win out in the primary. With
the opposition thus divided he can win
in walk He might be as democratic
&c Governor Hisey' of Tama and make
the rounds with a wheelbarrow," con-
clldes the Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-20

Even the enemies of Senator Cum
Minis will have to admit that he IS
hewing close to the line of consistency,
observes the Hardin County Citizen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-20

few OF them going wrong" says the
Red Oak Express. The devil does not
get busy until after 9 o'clock, but ne
gets awfully busy after that hour"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-20

'If every father or mother would
make sure that every one of her flock
boys or girls-were in tine mouse at
lthat Anae every night. thara would IA
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16
PRIVATE EVENING SCHOOL.
Miss Booker's Worthy Undertaking TO
Help Young Men and Women.

Miss Ruby X. Booker. who won the
championship for accuracy In the class
In stenography and typewriting at the
Young Women's Christian association
in Brooklyn last June. has evening
classes in stenography. typewriting
and elementary studies at l+0 Dutield
street, Brooklyn. for those persons who
desire instruction in such branches
and who may not have the time to at
tend day school Quite number have
enrolled In these classes. which Is an
encouraging sign Of the desire on the
part Of our young men and women to
prepare themselves to Gil better pay
ing positions.
Miss Booker will give personal atten-
ton to each scholar This Of itself Is
q double advantage to the student.
which could not be expected In the
evening classes Of the public schools
because Of the large attendance and
the variety Of subjects which one
teacher has to look after In the course
VI SIup'c s'uuy uoui' niss DUOAet
Is worthy Of congratulation as well
as liberal support for being brave
enough TO undertake such responsi
bllity for the benefit Of the young
people Of the community. We should
like to zee such movement started In
all Of the large cities where so many
Of our young folks are idling away
their time. We munt rise By personal
effort and ambition. and there is no
better time 10 begin than the present
to prepare for future usefulness.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16

case dnuwInG STATE iTrunc
crime to educate white and colored
children in The same institution; the
refusal to act on the Brownsville sol
der case and the decision that the
fourteenth amendment did not cover
lynchins President Taft's inaugural
statement that he would not give COL
ored cluzens federal positions where
white citizens objected and his posi-
tion in regard to the disfrant lasing
constitutions were declared more inju.
rious even than the course Of Presi.
dent Theodore Roosevelt. President
Taft's encouragement of the southern
Lily White party, which is called the
"uDkindest cut Of ALL" is claimed as
a vindication Of the league In opposing
his nomination and election. The opln-
lon Is expressed that many OF the race
have been convinced that the league
was right and that the race can no
longer depend upon the Republican
party after its years of remarkable
loyalty. The race must divide its vote
for men who will stand by the consti.
tuition. especially the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments.
Much enthusiasm was aroused By a
cablegram from Paris by Mr.. William
English Walling. which read. Regret
absence deeply; the world has no
more momentous cause" and a tele-
gram from General Andrew s. Burt.
former commander OF the Twenty.
fifth infantry, who said. Say to the
brethren, Go forth and preach race
patriotism to our people,"
The officers elected were: President.
William NJ. Trotter, Boston; vice presi.
dent at large. ]. II. Magnett, New
Bedford, Mass; first vice president, ].
Il. Wiley. Providence. Il. l.; second
vice president, johnson w. Hill. Bos-
ton; third vice president. Charles King.
Cambridge, Mass: recording secretary,
A. W. Adams. Norwich. Conn: CORE
spending secretary. w. W. Ryan; as
sistant corresponding secretary. Mrs.
George Tyler; treasurer Emory T.
Morris; chaplain, Rev. o. r. DENIES
ton; sergeant-at-arms, George r. Crsw-
ford. and statistician, F. s. Munroe.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16
New England Suffrage League lakes Bold
Stand For the Protection of the Race
hM Cases According to Law as
American Citizens-Ovdiion 10
Editor ". N. Trotter.
By N. 3. DODSON.

In the large auditorium of the st. Paul
Baptist church, Camden street, Boston,
at the closing session of the sixth an
nual meeting of the N. Z. Suffrage
league, from an audience of LOO citi-
zens, chiefly colored, Bishop Alexander
Walters of New York, president of the
National Independent Political league
received a remarkable ovation as he
declared with ringing eloquence that
the great need OF the colored race
more than money or even education
was the free ballot in the hands of the
colored people Of the south. He appeal.
ed fervently for courage and self asser.
ton in all public places and institu-
tions. at the same time declaring that
President Taft's southern policy was
the most injurious possible and con.
Tossing his own greatest mistake in
not sooner joining the radical race
champions opposing the Tuskegee pol
1cies of silence, subserviency and sur
render of rights. The bishop paid an
eloquent tribute to what he termed the
"Garrisonian policy and persistence
OF the editor Of the Guardian. William
Monroe Trotter, the newly elected pres.
ident Of the league. amid great ap.
plause and called upon the audience to
give rising Chautauqua salute to the
editor and his wife. who were present.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16

in the playing of many of the club
members. The club has been handi.
capped by lack of playing room and
proper facilities for entertaining wis.,
itors
1t is hoped that interest next year
will be greater than this and with
combined efforts of the club and few
more financial members it will be pos
sible to procure a double court. Sew
eral young ladies showed marked abil-
ity, and will in time make good play
ers. Miss Mabel Andrews defeated
Miss Sonora Finley for the Ladies'
championship, Mr.. E. Robinson won
the singles for men and in two hard
contested sets r. Gilmore and C. E.
Langston defeated R. Davis and K.
Hayes for the championship of
doubles.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16

Stanley Ketchell, middle-weight
champion of the world, will be deliv-
cred to the Jack Johnson slaughter
house. At least that's the way the
sports think it out on the coast. They
ar, now betting 10 to that Ketchell
will never hear the Goth round unless
1t is in his dreamland. Tommy Burns
has a longer reach than Ketchell and
Tommy don't remember making Jack
Johnson back up. for one can not
see where Kitchell has got look in
with fellow 20 pounds heavier and
with the advantage of heighth and
reach.
The pIeasantest place to spend an
idle hour. The Calumet, 2149 Curtis.
Talking to Bob White the other day
in regards to Young Bruce, champion
lightweight of Colorado, Bob says the
kid still possesses the sledge-hammer
punch, and can send a few of the best
pugs into dreamland. Things are a
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16

opllt
A feature Of the meeting was the
witty and eloquent speech of DR..
Cornelius McKane who has just gone
to Boston from Savannah, Ga. who
said that there were many white peo-
pie In the south well disposed toward
the cOlored people, but they were
afraid to speak out because of the
overwhelming anti-Negro public senti-
ment. and in politics the man who said
Down with the niger" was sent to
congress and the man who said "Fair
play'' was kept at home. He praised
Booker 7. Washington for his great
school and regretted he had not stop
ped at that. He said he did not ask
Booker Washington to be outspoken
In rural districts Of the south, but to
leave his race alone as far as its poll
tics and fight for freedom were con.
cerned. The doctor declared that the
rank and file Of the southern colored
men were honest and manly. but that
they were sold out in politics by the
officeholders and leaders. This WAS
shown by sending delegates to the Re.
publican convention at Chicago. the
colored south being in reality over
whelmingly for Senator Foraker. The
applause was leafening when DIR. Nc.
Kane declared that President Taft was
the worst enemy OF the colored race
ever in the White House, not even ex
cepting President Andrew johnson.
he asserted that In Savannah the col
ored Republicans prevented Savannah
going for Taft because of his treat
ment OF Senator Foraker, the colored
soldiers and his quasi-indorsement OF
southern Acknowledgement He said
personally he went and voted direct
for Bryan.
The meeting was openeu U, sIr. ~.
I. Morris Of Cambridge William VI.
Trotter, president, presided and spoke
Of the npdoing Of the work for free
dom for which John Brown sacrificed
his life fifty years ago. especially sin
Cling ont the increase Of the jincrow
insult. Of disfranchIsement and of
lynching. He declared the league
would continue to agitate and To urge
organized political action until the col
ored citizens had equal civil and po-
litical rights and the necessary pro-
lection OF the ballot in the south as
and Rev. s. w. Smith OF Providence,
r. J., related the strong and finally
unsuccessful protest Of colored citi-
zens against the production Of the
"Clansman' and aroused the audience
by telling how the play slandered the
colored men and insulted colored wo-
men and engendered racial animosity.
Both declared wherever the CLANS
man" was permitted the colored vot.
ers should organize and resent 1t at
the ensuing election, using the slogan.
Remember Brownsvillew
Rev. W. II. Scott OF Woburn eulo-
gized the late Henry b. Blackwell, the
old line abolitionist; the late Rev p. r.
Stanford, past officer OF the league.
and the late William Lloyd Garrison,
who, like his illustrlous father, was an
advocate of freedom and human equal
ity. Mr.. John Daniels OF the African
Anti-slavery society urged the broaden.
ing Of the league and the idea OF world
wide organization Of the Negro race.
The address to the country was read
by the Rev. John l.. Davis OF Maiden.
1t asked the colored people of the coun-
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16
CAPlTOllA TEMPLE NO. 1873,
S. M, T,

Meets the second and fourth We'd
nesdays in the month at 1882 Arapa-
hoe street. Members in good standing
are invited.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16
Y. NJ. c. 3. TENNIS TOURNAMENT

The tennis season closed last week
with very successful tournament, the
result Of which showed improvement
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-10-16

little slow around in Colorado at the
present time but he would like to meet
Young Cans in Thanksgiving bout
He also stated that the kid is in fine
shape to give few exhibition bouts.
Challenges are accepted through this
Office. Sporting Editor.
There are clubs and clubs, but none
like the Calumet club.
There seems to be very little in.
terest manifested in football among
our boys in the city, no particular
cause being given more than the usual
excuse of being afraid to get hurt
There is material a-plenty but ambi-
ton extends no farther than a few
getting together long enough to play
one game on Thanksgiving and imme-
diately leave the arena We feel sure
that a good strong team would gain
recognition with the best amateurs in
the city.
Van Johnson of this city, as far as
can be learned, is the only negro that
has made the big teams, playing tackle
on Dartmouth.
Y. M. c. B. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
The Washington times., 1909-06-26
FIGHT FOR REFORM IN TOBACCO
SALE is THORN IN SIDE OF
COMMITTEE.
COMMITTEE.

Senator Beverages fight for the res
toration Of legal weights in the tobacco
business. for the prohibition of coupons
in parcels. and for large increase in
the tax on tobacco, is proving one Of
the difficult propositions for the FL
nance Committee 10 handle Senator
Aldrich doesn't want to concede any
more than he must. and both sides are
making canvasses of the Senate TO de
termine which can win.
The Beveridge presentation of his case
amounted TO a direct assault on the To-
bacco trust, which he charged with
most uncomfortable intimacy with the
authorities OF the Government. whereby
it was able accurately to forecast the
most important legislation on repeated
occasions. The speech made a profound
impression, and before he had finished
il was apparent that his demands for
reform in the realm of tobacco excise
were not easily to be waved aside.
Senator Aldrich was able 10 adopt the
usual course, OF putting the matter OF;
but he was not able 10 get agreement
TO postpone it until tie rest OF the bill
should be complete. IIstead, it went
ever indefinitely, and is now subject
% call at any time. The report is
rhat the leaders are disposed to attempt
COMPROMISE with the Hoosier. They
are willing. it is stated. TO restore the
iqll legal weights TO all tobacco parcels,
and to prohibit the issuance, in parcels,
of prize coupons; but they don't want
TO impose the additional excise tax,
which 1t Is calculated would raise about
The Washington times., 1909-06-26

1t is safe TO venture that there mas
never been time in the whole history
of the country when a like period has
been marked by an equally extensive
and universal Improvement in business
conditions. It is conceded by all
authorities-the manufacturers. the
importers, the exporters, the whole
salers, the retailers, the railroads-that
the upward turn has been unprece-
denied and phenomenal
And so the clamor for hurried ad-
journment has failed of its purpose.
The men who would have been de-
lighted with a few more weeks of de
preston, Just to prod Congress, have
failed of their purpose. Congress is
still here, and very likely TO remain
till near the opening days of autumn.
The truth is, as Senator Money
made very clear the other day, that
the tariff bill is very far from compile
ton. The administrative features,
most of them still to be reported by
the committee, and all of them yet to
be discussed and digested and acted
upon by the Senate, are of the utmost
Importance. They will demand time.
Hot weather, nor cutlery for hurry, nor
the disgust of gentlemen anxious that
there shall not be especial investiga-
ton of meanings between lines, will
not hasten the end. There is likely to
be three weeks of talk over the in
come, inheritance, and corporation tax
features; and, incidentally, it may be
said that there is growing indication
that Senator Aldrich is carefully plan
ming to have the whole matter 90 over
till the winter session. By that time,
what with this to demand attention,
and what with the possibility of work
ing up a report from his currency com
mission, the Rhode Islander is in a fair
way to absorb all the months of the
long session with activities that may
be elassed as interesting, but not i'm
portant," while the great problems of
corporation regulation, constituting the
basis of the Roosevelt program, viii be
laid aside and forgotten.
There Is the situation of the session
to date, and the outlook for the next
session. The facts may as well be
looked fairly in the face. The posi-
bility of the Taft Administration be-
ing marked by a signal failure of
achievement along those lines to which
the country has been demanding atten-
tion, is growing graver every day.
The Washington times., 1909-06-26
A FAIR CHANCE FOR THE
CHINESE PEOPLE.

a New York Chinaman, whose letter
Indicates that he is both a gentleman
and Christian, writes to one of the
metropolitan papers protesting against
the Sigel case becoming the inspiration
for unjust and unreasOning prejudice
against his people. 'This is not the
first trunk murder mystery" he OBJ
serves, ''and it is probable that Leon
Ling got the idea of concealing his
crime from lessons printed in the news
papers regarding like crimes committed
by those who were born and raised in
this Christian land"
The writer also discusses the evil
denee, with which, as an officer of the
Chinese Y. NJ. C. A, he is familiar,
to indicate that the Sigel girl and her
mother were not real missionaries. and
that Ling belonged to no mission
school. eve cannot believe" he OBJ
serves, that Leon Ling was ever
taught by Miss Sigel even the moral
law, to say nothing OF Christianity,
else why should Chong Sing testify
that on June Miss Sigel went to the
house on Eighth avenue, stayed all
night, and was murdered between u: 80
and / p. m. on June O."
There is something peculiarly revolt
ing about the reports which have been
circulated concerning the relations of
the dead girl with men of another race,
her apparent infatuation for them.
More than all else, the story suggests
the deepest meaning and the most i'm
pressive truth in the lines in Shake
speare:
Vice is monster of such hideous
mien
That to be hated needs but to be seen;
But seen 100 oft, familiar with its
We FIRST endure. then pity. then en-
brace.
The real, final lesson in this case is
not lesson about the peculiar villainy
OF the Oriental people. They are no
worse than other people The Chinese
indeed, if they could be saved from the
opium vice which white men have for
generations forced upon them, would
be race whose example could well be
emulated by others. This Chinatown
case serves merely to enforce the o Id
truth, that frivolous, light minded
women afflicted with an idea that in
gratifying a prurient and morbid curl
Osity they are doing a noble work, need
TO be watched and saved from them
selves. There should be no losing sight
of this, and no attempt to hide it in an
atmosphere of prejudice against the
Chinese people in general.
The Washington times., 1909-06-26
Ia TOILETTE ATTACKS
TAFT BECAUSE OF ATTI-
tube ON TARIFF.

The first open breach between Presi-
dent Taft and the progI essive Repub-
licans in Congress has come. in an edi-
toriaI by Senator la Toilette in the cur
rent number Of La Follette's magazine,
published today at Madison, Wis.
The Senator'S statement is moderate,
but 1t sqUarely blames the President
for his course throughout the tariff re-
vision session. Beginning with the as
suranee Of good will for the President,
the article declares that the Presi-
dents recent message to Congress was
inOpportune, and not in the public in
terest-" It proceeds to point out that
at The beginning of the special session
a message would have been highly
proper. enlightening Congress and the
public as to the Presidents views re-
speeding income and corporation tax.
None such was sent; and "the bill that
passed the House was severely criti-
cised throughout the country
Makes Bill Worse.
The article charges next that the Sen
ate, instead of improving the House
bill, has made it worse; that after 1t
was established in the debates that the
scheme was one of revision upward
Mr.. Aldrich made the defense that the
Republican platform had not promised
downward revision, but only revision.
This assumption caused the public
statements of Mr.. Taft on the subject
of revision. when he was a candidate.
to become an important part of the de-
bate
1T would have been a great help to
the progressives had Mr.. Taft
seen fit to send a special message stat
ing whether the party pledges were in
his judgment being fulfilled by increas-
ing the tariff rates or re-enacting the
existing rates - The progressive
Senators continued their attack on the
bill, meeting defeat on each vote by
al out ten majority"
Mr.. La Toilette discusses next the his
tory of the income tax proposal, show
ing that Mr. Aldrich, though opposing
Il from the start, at length was brought
face to face with defeat. when all
his efforts to hold his forces against
the income tax failed, in order to defeat
it he called on the President for help
10 support a corporation tax. That
the call was hurried and that the mes
sage in response 70 il was hurried, all
the facts prove. If the matter were
carefully considered, the President could
not have assumed that except for the
decision of the Supreme Court the old
law was still on the statute books, when
by its own terms it would have been
imperative for nine years.
This error is unimportant, save as in
The Washington times., 1909-06-26

divisions as pronounced. and probably
more so, than have been noticeable this
special session. InsuTgent Republicans
and Democrats viii be found graVitating
together in an effort to overcome the
conservative Republican element with
the conservatives trying to block the
plans FOR drastic control and regulation
Of corporations and railroads which the
other side Will propose and push.
Are Apprehensive.
Through the Senate debate on the
tariff bill there has run a note OF ap-
prehension among the Republicans that
grave consequences TO the Republican
party would follow the break between
two factions over tariff About the
cloakrooms this talk is much more out
spoken and pronounced than on the
floor. Beyond doubt. far-seeing Repub-
lican politicians view the situation with
disquietude. They are openly asking
themselves whether this is the begin
ming of the breakup Of the parties as
now constituted and whether there is
going to be G reforming of party lines
before there can be once more q re-
sumption of settled party conditions.
It has become clear to nearly every
one that the tariff issue is no longer one
that can be made to constitute the divid-
ing line between the parties. Corpora
ton control. railroad control, and in
general the attitude toward capital and
by the Government is not an issue be-
tween the two parties now cOnst!-
tuted. but an issue that divides bcIh of
them
President Taft hopes TO see his Ad-
ministratiOn signaliZed BY solving the
trust and corporation questions which
are now uppermOst With these re-
moved, present party lines might hold
about as they are, but so long as they
confront Congress in their various "a at
ncatiOns il is the conviction of most
observers about the Capitol that thera
are troubled times ahead for both par
ties, the Republican and Democra &c
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