Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-31

rer, Spanish liberal, which event
raised storm OF protest throughout
the world and drove the Spanish min
istry from power.
The New Administration.
In America the chief political events
were the transfer of the presidency
from Theodore Roosevelt to William
II. Taft and the passage of the Payne
Aldrich bill. the first revision of the
tariff in twelve years. From its In
fluence ON the future, one of the most
notable features of the tariff fight was
the development of the "insurgent'
group of senators and representatives
in the Republican party. movement
that still exists in the regular session,
although the tariff bill is long since a
law. Another outgrowth of the new
administration is n conflict over the
Roosevelt policy of conservation of nat
ural resources and is popularity known
as the Pine hot Dallinser controversy.
consisting in the main of charges that
the secretary of the interior is per-
hitting valuable coal lands and water
power sites to pass from the control OF
the government into that of private
capitalists. The most recent political
event of note was the decision of the
United States circuit court dlssolvlng
the Standard OH trust.
The year has seen the gradual re-
sumption of prosperity and has been
gratifyiusly free from serious natural
disasters or financial failures. The
! Cherry mine horror in the United
States and the Monterey flood In Mex
leo have been the chief catastrophes.
In the labor world there have been
minor strikes, but no serious disturb
ance except that at Mckees Rocks,
Pa. The grayest event of the year to
labor was the confirmation of the jail
sentences for contempt of court against
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison, the three chief off,
Gals of the American federation.
American naval annals have record
ed the completion of the notable battle
ship cruise around the world, the COM
missioning of the first American Dread
noughts, the Delaware and North Da-
kota, and the reforms which may mean
the practical ending of the naval ring
In Washington.
From Festival to Death.
The year has been rich in celebra
lions. Centenaries have been held OF
the birth of Lincoln, Darwin, Tenny
son, Poe, Holmes. Gladstone and. 9th
ers and Of the death Of Thomas Paine
The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
the Hudson-Fulton celebration, the ter
centenary Of the discovery of Lake
Champlain, the Portola festival ant
others have made 1909 gala time IL
America.
Death likewise has been busy. 1t Il
impossible to give more than few
names of famous ones who have pass
ed, but they have belonged to all de
partments of human effort-in litera
ture, Algernon Charles Swinburne
George Meredith, Edward Everett
Hale and Richard Watson Glider; II
opera and the drama, Heinrich Con
ried, Coquelin and Modjeska; In tn
military and navy, Admirals Rojest
vensky and Cervera, General Henry
Corbin, General Il. NJ. McCook an
General o. o. Howard; in public al
fairs, Carroll d. Wright, Ethan
Hitchcock, Governor John A. Johnso
and Justice Rufus w. Peckham;
journalism, Theodore Barth, Colonel
X. Mcclure, Albert Pulitzer and w. N
Laffan; in finance, Henry II. Roger
and Edward H. Hartman: in othe
fields, Rev. Theodore Cuyler, Lord r
pom, Professor Simon Newcomb, WI
liam Lloyd Garrison. Baron Tweet
mouth and Cesare Lombroso.