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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
THE PYTHIAN STATUS.
(knnNuille In1lrnalN

The political boss is a hateful crea-
ture TO any man with red blood in his
veins but he is not one-half so de-
spicable as the man who resorts to
the tricks and methods of ward
heller to subvert the destinies of
great fraternal organiza tion to his own
uses. The Pythian grand lodge of
Iowa has become notorious as the pro-
perty of one man who distributes the
offices and the honors, two or three
years in advance. The annual issue
in Pythian circles is the election or de-
feat of Sallinger's candidat ties. Nearly
half of the knights in the state have
been trying for several years to throw
off his rule but by the careful distri
button of promises he is enabled to
hang on. Last year at Oskaloosa and
again this year at Sioux City the ma
chine slate won out by a narrow
margin and the use of methods that
are meretricious and unworthy of the
great organization. 1t is not contend
ed that the leaders of the opposing
faction have not been guilty of cen
surable conduct. They may have been.
The point here made is that the whole
internecine strife between factions is a
disgrace to the splendid fraternity
which it will surely destroy if not
eradicated. What is needed is new
deal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
Topics of the Times

The McGregor Times makes vigor-
ously protest against the practice by
the government fisheries bureau of
shining fish from the bayous of the Mis-
sissippi river and shipping them to
other states. A car load of black bass
was shipped to Texas to stock various
streams there and another car went to
Dakota. The Times very properly sug-
gests that the government should stock
the streams from its hatcheries instead
of taking them from a stream where
the supply is none TOO large for home
consumption.
Eggs and poultry sell for more
money in the aggregate than all the
wheat produced; but you can't raise
rorty bushels of eggs to the acre.
is all the fuss over him to be attrib-
uted to the fact that he was an in
cubator baby?
Teddy played neither golf nor policy.
Good old Teddy, we miss you!
Mr.. Hartman is undergoing treat
ment by nerves pecialists. For what?
A Mason City man is in a dangerous
condition from injuries received in a
game Of croquet. What Mason City
croauet needs is a revision of rules to
permit more open play, etc The rude
hoisterousness of the game,is evidently
too strenuous for Mason City.
Senator Dolliver IS talking to chau-
tauquas on the equality of man. having
in mind perhaps the common mans in
equality with Senator Aldrich.
the steel grandstand before they go
over to the cattle pavilion. 1t, at least
has been we'll advertised.
The rain maker is still on his vaca-
ton
Matters are being shaped to draw a
good crowd for the Walter I. Smith
celebration. Leading progressives have
been invited to speak
The Allison monument movement
/, lansuishes. Il is hard to build monu-
ment to individuals in a republic.
/ Walter Wellnan should give up bal,
! looming and take an assignment t,
Rheims
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
THE LODGES.
II MASONIC NoTtcES
Avisitors always welcome.
N\Hal over 1851 West Main.

Il MASONIC NOTICES.
Xvisitors always welcome.
NNHall over 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 1os A. r. & a..
communication Friday ev-
ening, Sept. II, o'clock.
q. Hoeck. W. u.
81. s.. Lawrence, Sec'y.
sIGNDT CHAPTER No. %, n. A. II.
convocation Monday, Sept. 40.
q. II. =sie, II. p.
/ 8. Millard. seey. Z
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL a. 4 ..
M.-Stated assembly Monday, Sept. 20,
p. m.
a .. Ieeksr. Z. I Y.
L T. Forbes, Rec.
ST. ALDEA1AR CoNfSfANDERY No.
80 K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday ev-
enins, Sept. 81, 1909. at o'clock.
F. N. Wilbur, e. G.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. o. 81
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, Sept.
Is, at p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downias. ". v
Edna c. Fularton. eecy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25

has looked across at the Courthouse
yard" and longed to go over with a
blacksnake whip and unlimited power
to gather a gang by force out of the
herd. But he can't do 1t. They don't
have to work so long as they don't
steal and get caught at it.
1t all sums up to this: The man who
can work and won't work should be
made to work for his support and the
support of those naturally and legally
dependent on him. If every able bodied
man were at some sort of honest labor
there would be no labor famine, few
hungry, i'll clad children out of school
and few women breaking their backs
over washboards in the effort to stay
out of the poorhouse.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN WATERWAYS

To the utilization of waterways in
America to anything like the extent
they now are used in Europe will be
found far cry. 1t will come in time,
and the day may be fastened to a GER
tain extent, but the matter is one of
development, growth, evolution When
,-the waterways become an indispensable
! factor in transportation, as they are
gin Europe, then they will be used.
/ Needed Improvements and ma intenance
Twill then come as a matter of course
i AT bottom, the reason we are not using
the rivers to O. greater extent is that
we do not need them, or do not fee!
the need of them.
The way will be marked with sig
nificant and definite steps. One of those
steps is the present visit to Europe Of
the congressional waterways commits
sion, which arrived at Berlin a few
days ago. When this commission has
completed its labors of this tour it will
be in possession of the most compre-
hensive array of facts and figures deal
ing with inland water traffic in exis-
tence.
The membership of the commission
includes Senators Burton, Galhnghe,
and Simmons and Representative
Wanger, Alexander, sparknan and
Stevens. The trip abroad is anything
but a jaunting party. The commission
is declining all dinners and other 81
tertainments. According to Senate,
Burton the work to be done in Ger
many, Austria and France viii be only
preliminary to other Investigations
which viii be especially directed /
disclose how the European waterway V.
systems compare with the American
Land to what extent their best feature,
are adaptable to the conditions in M
fUnited States. A-trip down the iengtl
lof the, Mississippi is one of the pro
i5ects in mind for theacommission whe,
st returns home.
These investigations and comparison
will be of greatsvalue. They will con
tribute directly to the end in view
They will not, however, bring about
revolution, nor will anything else. Thi
ds not expected. This is not in mind
1t is recognized that only in the cours
of time will it all come about. Thes
various steps along the way are es
~sential to the final result. There vii
be many of them; no one of them vii
stand out as of decisive importance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
HOW ABOUT auHEARaeD lscRsmEH1?'

Henry George died too soon. He
would have seen in the new British
land taxes the future triumph of his
theories tho the British plan is far
away from the Henry George single
tax. The British house of commons
has put itself on record by its vote. 1t
has passed the land tax on the I'M
earned increment Of lands. Agricuit-
ural land is not affected or land used
for public purposes. but hereafter
on land held for speculative purposes
the taxes are to lie on added future
value realized or realizible, which
comes by reason of social causes. Thus
growth of city population, adding Of
new industries to the cities, opening
new streets, ETC., which add to the
value of lands affected by these causes
will be considered an unearned incle-
ment and taxed to the amount of 20
per cent of the total increment on land
sold or transferred. It is not new for
Germany has long imposed such taxes
as has Australia. Land owners how
ever are insisting that 1T is unjust.
Many instances will occur to observ-
ing people where the injustice will not
be apparent. For instance UP in north
ern Iowa a wealthy man owned about
1000 acres of land close to a little town
that needed nothing so much as to
see that land divided into farms and
worked by twenty 1--we or thirty fam
lilies. He wouldn't sell, any of it. II
was growing in value every year, rot
Because OF any special effort of his
/; but because the Iitle town was grow
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
Iona Newspapers
WINNEBAGo LAND.


1t is quite evident that Iowa land and
Winnebago county land especially, is in
demand. A landlord closed up two
leases recently, the considera ton for
which amounted to $3.50. This was
not a sale, just a lease. Time was when
that amount of money would buy out
right a fair-sized slice of the county.
Considerable land is being sold but
prices are advancing rapidly and it is
a poor quarter indeed that goes for less
than $4,000. A sale was reported down
the state the other day at $50 per acre.
We are safe in saying that that price
will be equalled if not eNcelled right
here in Winnebago county in less than
two years. Land purchased now at
prevailing prices will earn money for
the purchaser faster than if he was the
president of the Standard Oil Company,
and that too, without thA fear of los
ing the job.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
Purple and Gold.

IF. A. c., Rockwell, Iowa.l
Oh the gold: The purple and gold!
Marvellous colors doth autumn unfold
Adding rich beauty to harvest untold;
Drowning the year with its purple and
gold.
Purple and goldc Purple and gold?
''F'ields white to harvest" call loud as
of old
Grain with a value that can not be
told
More royal than purple, more precious
than gold.
ssCh the gold! The purple and gold!
Harvest quickly the souls, lest the
heart may grow cold.
Gather Them into the heavenly fold:
Then crowned be our autumn with
purple and gold.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25

ing and because other tracts were be-
ing settled by good farmers all about
1T. The railroad when it came thru
1t doubled and trebled the value Of the
land. Every good farm that blossomed
out of the prairie grass on the skirts
1t stayed in prairie grass, mostly and
assisted to hold back the development
OF the country. 1t was hard to get
mail route the big farm cut out the
necessary number of boxes, it was
hard to get many things. 1t was nee
essary to wait until the man who
owned it died. He was getting an IN
earned increment every day. dividing
the value of the development of his
neighbors.
Some man owns dozen lots in a
body out on a street that is developing.
He fights sidewalks, lets his lots grow
up to weeds and is usually of suffice
lent pull with the city authorities that
he gets away without serious expense
by reason of his neglect He bought
them cheap and can afford to hold
them until 81 sufficient number of pep
pie have gone beyond them and made
homes enough to render his lots high
" desirable and valuable. He doesn't
pay taxes on improved property. He
just waits for his unearned increment.
The men whose wives and children
wade for months and years past his
vacant and, sidewalkiess lots earn i.
for him.
Some fellow owns a lot right in the
heart of residence district. He doesn't
want to sell, doesn't Improve Improve
it, just waits until the unearned incre-
menr grows big enough. His side.
walks on the vacant lots are a foo,
deep in snow. He doesn't care. Oc-
cas1onally the city crew comes out at
the Indignant demand of some out
ragged householder and digs it off, but
1T doesn't happen often enough to hurt
'-Ao 4 vi maps ne ives d lNOuSdlU
miles out OF town. Some times he has
forgotten that he owns it. But the
neighbors who are spending money
and labor to improve that part of town
are earning for him a good incre-
ment
Perhaps were these owners of I'M
improved property facing the loss Of
one fifth of their unearned increment
they would get out of the way or do
some running themselves. 1t has long
been the opinion of many pretty sens
ible and honest men that unimproved
city property might well be taxed to a
degree that would induce its owner
| 10 improve it or sell it, 1t is we'll
enough TO shout spoliation and col
| fscation but whom does the man who
waits for unearned Increment despoil.
| The community made the value for
him when it made value for itself. WHY
hasn't it right to a division. What
good do the business and realty
| interests of the community ACQUIRE
from the resident or non resident land
owner who refuses to sell or improve
his property? Whence comes the value
and who ought to have it?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
ENeLAND's FEAR OF WAR.

Even Children DriIk.tn- Parks In Play,
Says General Hawkins.
General Rush C.sHawkins, q. s. A.,
retired, who recently returned to New
York from visit abroad, visited Eng
land and Germany.
There are evidences Of war scare
In England" he said. sThe most re-
markable one is the sight of children
playing at being soldiers in the parks
Their play is a war game, and the
youngsters drill in the parks and
charge fancied enemies
Germany has no more intention Of
going to war than we have, but it Is
hard to convince the average English
man Of that fact"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
Now Mail Catching Device.


Albert Hupp of Kansas City, Mo-,
has invented device for catching mail
pouches and delivering them from
fast mail. trains. The postoffice de-
partment has been experimenting with
various devices for many years in the
hope Of finding an improvement over
the old system Of the iron arm extend
ing from the door of the mail car to
catch the pouches hung on a crane at
the stations. Mr.. Hupp has invented a
collapsible tube device for the mail
cars which, he says, has a capacity to
conduct several pouches at a time
from the station to the mail car. 1t
delivers pouches into a receptacle
without stopping the trains. He is
trying to interest@the railroads and the
postodace department in the new In
vention.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25

against divorce and the divorce court
mistake, among other errors, the cause
for the consequence. Divorce is the
consequence of habitual drunkenness,
cruelty, Gesertion and other crimes
which are justifabfe grounds for d.
vorce and not the cause OF them.
"The divorce court is an institution
Of civilization. Barbarians are not
troubled by the laws delays or a
process Of q, court. They dispose Of
an undutiful spouse more s,lz1marily.
1t is only within the last half century
and under government purely secular
that married women have had ade-
quate protection in respect to stheir
property or persona
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
REAL AR1sTocRATs.
lSihlev Tribune }


This is great country for hogs and
cattle and horses. This statement has
no reference to tariff revision. We re-
fer TO the ordinary quadrupeds raised
on every farm. The farmer is careful
of them. He looks out for their COM
fort better in some instances than he
takes care of his family.
He is not alone in this. The state
pampers the four footed beasts. 1t
takes thought of their health when
they travel. No glandered equine Or
disea sed bovine or swine can get
transportation on the railroads for fear
that they might spread disease among
their kind. But humans afflicted with
any old disorder are permitted to ride
in the vanished cars and swap germs
without let or hindrance.
The hog or the horse is worth few
dollars and must be preserved. But
man! What's man worth in these
! days?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
PRESIDENT TAE=Ts FUTURE U TCfsI;

CScrantOn JOurnal.)
Depends largely upon the course he
shall pursue from this time forward.
He now has the income tax measure
upon his hands, in fact, he is more
than a Godfather to the measure. It
was his influence that submitted It to
the states for adoption. So now it be-
comes his bounden duty to see, IL pos
sible, that this child is properly adopt
ed. It is currently believed, thru
the west, at least, that many Of the
leaders in the republican party never
intended that such a measure should
prevail Good judges say that the
fact that the Bailey and Cummins in
come tax measure was sure to pass
the senate If allowed to come to vote
in that body was the real cause Of
bringing the present measure OF sub
uniting it to the people.
President Taft, before and, since his
election, has placed himself on record
as favoring an Income tax. It L. a nact
patent to all reading and thinking
minds that corporations and combined
wealth Is opposed tofan income tax.
1T is within the power Of President
!Eef.t4o have CHS measure adop6ed, but
te hasn't q day to spare: he must-keep
llhe proposition before the people.
| gf tho president shall content him
SELF as sirnply being an idle spectator
Observation-Disclosures measure 41hes lost
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
THE LOUIS AND THE LABOR FAMINE.

Sioux City is complaining over the
labor famine. Railroads can not get
men to move freight, the city is I'M
able to properly clean its streets be-
cause it can not get men. The farm
ers are driving in and out of town
offering all sorts of inducements TO get
men. It's the same at Sioux City as
L Marshalltown and in every other
Feod live community. Contractors are
7ffering a bonus on wages. The house,
holder who needs a man for a couple
II days can't get him. When he does
Ne pays top wages and takes his
hance In the language of the street
It's fierce. ferce!"
Anything with two legs and arms
md the power of locomotion asks and
generally receives $3.50 per day for the
conmonest kinds of common labor.
everyone can work for the work is
begging and everyone can get coed
wages for the need is great and service
east occasion to go abroad looking for
work If there is town in Iowa
where a man who wants to work and
will work enough to approximate his
wages IS idle perforce it's a curiosity.
Men able to work and willing to work
are in demand on every street corner
| And Yet trip about the Square
and down along the loafing places will
show enough idle men to restore the
balance if they were all working
| Notice when the fire wagon goes by
| that dozens of grown men seem to have
nothing to do but to follow it, Walk
down the levee and be astonished al
the number of men, big husky fellows
who are laying around" waiting nc
one knows for what unless for some
one to buy another drink They .aii
all right but they toll not, neither d.
they spin. Perhaps at home the wife
is doing six washings a week.
| This is a free country. If you ash
one Of these fellows whether or no
he wants a job and he tells you tt
go to a warmer country than Iowa ir
August, it's free country and n:
doesn't "have to work unless he want!
to-" It's free country for him. 1
isn't a free country for the woman wht
bore children of whom he is the faith
er and who is working her fingers t,
the bone to keep them in school in tn,
hope that they may be decent and use
full. It isn't free country for the kids
When, next winter, the county buy
coal and -four and shoes and food TO
the children Of lazy, worthless an,
drunken louis who have "laid around
; all summer it isn't a free country Co
the taxpayer. He had ito work. Whel
: we come right down to- brass tacks th
personal liberty to refuse labor, ii
lazy about tho street and hang aroun
the booze egnporiums always encroach
! es on the rights Of others.
Still theaiabor famine continues. n,
doubt many q desperate contracto
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
II1EsREPUBIICAN AIARsHALLTowN IOWA AUGUST 25 1909

he will find great numbers OF the men
who in the past have unconplainingly
paid the running expenses of the gov
eminent entering protest and asking
the question: why Is 1t that corpora
tions and the rich are exempted from
taxation? And why didn't Mr.. Taft
put forth every effort within his reach
to secure the adoption of that income
measure?" President Taft is facing
Condition and not theory"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
use Concrete Gin Polee.

Use Concrete Gin Poloo,
One Of the leading railroads Of the
eastern part of the United States has
recently adopted reinforced concrete
gin poles for use IN heavy erection
work. For instance, such q pole was
used recently In the placing Of four
35-ton, 109-foot girdsFs used In build
ing a bridge near Philadelphia. It
was the first time that poles Of this
character had been subjected to such
severe test. but the same pole was
used for all four girdars and its be.
havior was all that could be asked.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
THE X. OF P. SITUATION.


B I. sallinger, of Carroll, appears
to be the author and finisher of the
grand lodge of Iowa, Knights of Py-
thias. Some of the ablest young poll
iticians of the state are prominent K
P.'s and the present trouble in that
order is the growth of eight or ten
years. For several years Sallinger
had no trouble in managing affairs
But gradually the other clans began
to get together for the purpose of
throwing off boss rule. The fight
which has just. closed at Sioux City
was the frecest that has taken place.
Sallinger's man received 332 votes and
anti-Sallinger man received ga votes.
This means that Sallinger won out by
a majority of eighteen votes. Further
more, Sallinger names all the other Of
f1cers What the effect upon the order
will be Is not yet appare But it is
reasonable to presume that there will
not be another such fight If there is,
the usefulness of the order in Iowa
will come to- an end. No man, whether
he be sSaliinger or Tobin, has any right
to demoralize so useful an organiZa-
ton. Whether there is any graft at the
bottom of the fight, we do not know.
But We do know, that it ought to come
to an end. Half the men who. go to
the K. P. grand lodge are politicians
and it is barely possible that they are
enjoying the fight.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
FOUNDED ON MERCY.
Boston Juds. Says That Is the Ba.i.
of Divorce Law

OF OIVOTC6 Law.
"The divorce court Is an institution
of civilization" according to Judge
Richardson Of the superior court in
Boston. He was hearing the petition
Of wife who sought an injunction
against her husband from interfering
with her personal liberty pending di-
vorce proceedings, in which cruelty
was alleged.
Judge Richardson said: "The laws of
Massachusetts in respect to divorce
are founded on mercy-in large ma
jority of cases, as to practical results,
mercy to woman.
...fh..sn nnreons who talk much
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
cranuIated sor. Eves Cured

For twenty years suffered. from a
Martin Boyd, Of Henrietta, KY. I'm
February, 1908, a gentleman asked me
to try Chamberlain's Salve. I bought
one box and used about two-thirds Of
it and my eyes have not given me any
trouble since" The salve is for sale
by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25

"If the terms standpat and progress
sive could be obliterated forever, it
would help materially in the solution
of many great problems of public con-
cern," says the Iowa Falls Citizen.
Many standpatter and progressive
differ only in name, and the name
makes the difference bitter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Creston American (dem) saws:
Neither the president nor a single
member of his cabinet are in Washing
on. but then what's the difference.
.Aldrich runs the government when it
needs running and he has it wound up
10 run until December next when he
returns TO Washington
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-25

Need Of Play for Children.
Play is the great social stimulus,
and It is the prime motive which
unites children and draws them into
comradeship.-Jane Adams.