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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
discredited, with the men who do not
know the difference between fable
and fact.
Iowa at play.

Los Angeles (CaD Express: Ten
thousand sons and daughters of the
Hawk-eye state met in reunion at
Long Beach Saturday-for when the
Iowa society of southern California
counts its membership 1t employs
big units. On the California strand
they celebrate the making
holiday in their new home and loyal
to 1t, they yet glorified the home
from which they come, and revived
the tender memories and dear asso-
Citations that spring to being at the
mention Of old, familiar names OF
home places and home people.
1t has been great year for Iowa
in Los Angeles. The mayor, George
Alexander, put forward in municipal
crisis to lift Los Angeles from pools
of infanly, and set her on the heights
of decency. is an Iowan OF Iowans-
SO much so that in the campaign the
Times ridiculed him as a mere
Iowa farmer. OF course, that didn't
hurt him, any more than shameful
abuse from the same quarter directed
against Dolliver because he stood for
the plain people in the tariff fight, hurt
Dolliver in public esteem
The mayor is a hawk-eyed son Of
Iowa, and when the Elks held their
reunion, son Of Iowa, battling
against great odds, was chosen grand
exalted ruler. So hereabouts this
has been Iowa's year, and such vic
tories lend their citation to such gath
erings as that assembled Saturday. We
would not rob Iowa, hut we have place
in southern California for more of hel
sturdy sons-more of her beautiful
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pendent city ticket against both of tie
regular parties, the effect of the pri-
mary having been to disintegrate
organizations.
The difficulty is in finding out from
the primary process whom the people
want for their officers. Notably in
Terre Haute they say that two lead
ing candidates received together
400 votes out of 10000 votes cast for
mayoralty candidates for nomination.
Republicans cast $500 votes and Demo-
Gratis cast 400 votes. No candidate
received anything like majority OF
votes cast. Then, out of $4,000 voters
in the city, over 5000 did not go to the
polls. Thousands of them declared
that the party nomination being put
in the field practically DISTINGUISHED
all others, making it so difficult as tc
be practically impossible to overthrow
the organization deal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
Tur PRIMARY IN PRACTICE.

The New York commission studying
various primary laws of other states
had an interesting time in Massachu-
sets with the feeling, on the whole,
that such a system as the people have
tried In that state has been disap-
pointing. The returns of testimony
given in Philadelphia are much to the
same effect for. the commissioner OF
elections explains that the organlza-
ton has a stronger grip than ever I'M
der the primary system. The system
in operation in Pennsylvania Is the
best they have been able to work out
in taat state after forty years ex-
perience and it may be that it is as
good as any that is workable.
/ One of the most striking reports OF
the operation of the direct primary
comes from Terre Haute, Ind. They
have had the direct primary in that
city and county for the last five years
10 get rid OF political conditions thai
were markedly evil. 1t has beer
found necessary, they say, as a las
resort to run a regularly made tnde
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

The fruit crop of Iowa is growing
gradually worse instead of better. ac-
cording to the monthly report by
State Horticulturist Wesley Greene,
whose report will be issued tomorrow.
The condition is explained by Mr..
Greene as due to the frost in the early
part of the summer, which prevented
complete fertilization. Much of the
fruit for this reason keeps dropping
off before it becomes matured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
A Call to Arms.

DUBUQUE Times-Journal: Senator
Cummins has given a Chicago paper
an interview in which he says 'ns
fight for tariff revision must cur
tinue and within the Republican pafv'
He would not undertake another sen
eral revision, but he would re',S.
schedules from time to time ana ~
would have a permanent commissoa
appointed to keep congress advised :.
desirable changes. He proposes "
have resolutions along this ilne y,
fered in state conventions in Iowa ana
elsewhere and In the natlonai con''A
ito OF 1912.
While Senator Cummins e1presIs :.
confidence In President Tatt' tn'' -.
terview is a direct slap at him. ".
President having only last week sr w.
out a statement in favor OF the nv W..
law. The next national conVen.v a
could not consistently adopt tne ls tvs
luton proposed by Senator Quinn Jun. 7,
and then renominate the pres'u Iowa
congressional conventions in i 9sov
adopt the course he recommends .hors
will make trouble for several lie. tors
Of the Iowa delegation. the sea :. he
suggestion that reform can ~ narty
secured through the Democfa'io =. 20 !,
will be construed in some qual. o,,e in
an invitation to Democrats ~ Marty,
and help reform the RepuolicaA :
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
PosToFFIcEs ON WHEELS.

A writer in the National Magazine
gives interesting facts and figures re-
garding the origin Of tae travel
ing postoffice which he rightly declares
was one of the greatest advances ever
made in the postal service. This was
started in 1862, and has developed and
grown into the modern railway mail
service Instead of transporting the
mails in bulk and assembling them in
large distributing postofices for separ-
alton and dispatch, they are sent
directly to the railway postoffice to be
distributed on their way to destina-
ton. This postofice is car or cars
operated in trains between important
terminals, fitted UP and furnished with
distributing cases and sack racks, in
which railway postal clerks distribute
and handle the mails carried. Here the
mails are made up for local delivery
en- route, and for dispatch to connect
ing lines.
This railway mail service directs
the dispatch of all mails, determines
the routes over which they shall be
carried, and distributes them en- route,
SO they are ready for delivery to Of
| fees along the line and in some cases
makes separations for city delivery,
upon arrival at large terminals. To
conduct this service there are $1,000
officers and clerks employed in 1t at
cost of over s1S,300.ooO a year. The
railway postof1ice lines cover 20S,4S1
miles of steam, electric and steam
boat lines.
The training OF the railway postal
clerk is acquired by constant study
of the causes and locations of post.
offices and the schemes of distribu
ton, and by the performance of his
duties. His vocation is a hazardous
one. Last year six clerks we're killed
104 seriously and 536 slightly injur
ed in 405 railroad accidents.
Where the distribution space need
ed exceeds thirty feet of car, the
Office authorizes the company to fur
nish specially built railway postoi
fee car and allows additional pay TO
it. The cost of this car service is owe
s4,6O00O0 year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
The burlington Hawk,Eye SAYS:


burlington is practically the CEN
ter of production of the six most i'm
portant cereals-corn, wheat, oats,
barley. rye and buckWheat. The
census of 1900 located the center
about twenty-eight miles north #
Quincy. III. The next census Will
probably move the line a little farther
west, but will still leave Burlington
very near the center.
Twenty-eight miles north of Qun-
CIV is twelve miles south of Keokuk.
The next census will PROBABLY locate
the center within half do4.n miles
of this city, and possibly within our
CITY limits. Speaking of "centers
Keokuk is actually. instead OF prac
tically. the real thing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
H;oh Prices.

Marion Register: There is much
talk of the high prices the consumer
has to pay Everyone likes to buy
cheap. There is not even the "one
exception that proves the rule. But
what is it that really comes under the
head line?
Is it dry goods? If you do not re-
member go ask the dry goods mer-
chant for the prices you paid him in
the nineties and compare them with
the prices of 1909. Go to the cloth
ing store and repeat. The hardware
store the same. Go to the milliner
But no matter about that. for the la
dies go bare-headed now. winter and
summer. If they buy bonnet OF
hat 1t IS just to put ON style and show
the world they still have the mon,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

and the protective tariff Of 1897 II
you will and give the world the OPP
portunity to write silly" under your
name.
Attention need not be called to the
rise in corn and wheat and hay and
horses cattle and hogs. Did you ever
buy a bushel of grain or an animal,
Mr. Consumer that was imported and
that could be tariff "taxed?' Honor
bright, you know that ninety per
cent of all you buy that goes on to the
breakfast table comes from your
neighbours garden or farm-the man
with whom you touch elbows from
sunrise to the rainbow hour of the
evening. Think of all these things
and then when some one tells you
about the robbery of protection tell
him to go back and sit down with the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
SAVE The BABIES.

The Chicago health department has
just issued number of maps, charts
and posters containing useful informa-
ton and advice to mothers of small
children. with view of lessening the
large mortality among the latter
during the hot weather. Diar-
rhoeal diseases are preventable,
yet these disorders kill one out OF
every fourteen babies before they
reach the third year of life. Up
ward Of 5000 babies under two years
of age die in Chicago each year from
these diseases. Sixty per cent OF
these deaths occur in the hot summer
months-July, August and Septem-
Der. Hot weather directly does
not kill many babies, but lis effect on
babies milk is what creates the havoc.
Among the instructions to mothers
are the following:
THE greatest care must be given
to babys food in hot weather.
1T must be pure, kept clean, kept
cool and properly prepared
Never give little babies the least
particle of solid food.
Give your baby pure water to
drink, but never give it beer, COT
| fee, tea, ice cream, etc.
Remember overlooking kills more
| babies than underfeeding.
'.If baby's food disagrres with 1T
consult a doctor.
Don't dope the child with drugs.
advice as to baby's food is what
you need-rather than medicines"
On a poster to be placed in the
street cars are the following lnstruc-
tions:
"Baby's milk must be clean"
Dirty milk kills babies
/ "See that the bottles, cans, wagons.
depots and milkmen are clean-if
not. write u.s.
look for dirt at the bottom of the
bottle
keep flies away from milk"
'If you suspect your milk, bring
sample in original package to city
laboratory
A chart shows that 1863 per cent OF
the deaths of infants are due to dis
eases of the digestive system, 1872 pei
cent to congenital defects and acct
dents and ST. per cent to acute con
tagious diseases.
Another map deals with diphtheria
during December, 1908, when 91I
cases were reported. Concerning thai
disease the map says:
"Diphtheria is absolutely unneces
sary and yet more than 5,400 person
mostly children had it, and 56S die
/ from it in 1908. Diphtherta spread
! because people are careless, or ignol
ant or both. Any person who violate
quarantine and thus wilfully convey
contagious disease to others is dar
gerous citizen-not infrequently
murderer. Most deaths from dipf
], iberia are due to neglect. Earl
: treatment with antitoxin will proven
/ such deaths Parents who wilfull
, neglect to give their children tn
very necessary early treatment are II
human. Never neglect sore throat
Many mild sore throats are reall
J diphtheria. Find out the real trot
e BILE early. If diphtheria give ant
s toxin at once Delay very ofte
s means death. Prompt and prope
n treatment means sure recovery.
d The bulletin explains that the d.
d partment will give antitoxin to thos
too poor to pay for it.
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wa August 10, 1909.
keokuk, Iowa
OPPORTUNITY.

A craven hung along the battles edge
And thought, Had a sword of keen
er steel,
The blue blade that the kings son
bears-but this
Blunt thing He snapped and
flung it from his hand.
And lowering crept away and left the
field.
Then came the kings son, wounded
and sore bestead,
And weaponless, and saw the broken
sword,
Hit buried in the dry and trodden
sand,
And ran and snatched it, and with
battle shout
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy
And saved great cause that heroic
Edwin Rowland Sill
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

william /. Thomas, author Of Sex
and Society, contributes an able and
characteristic article on Votes for
Women to the July American. He
eivae the briefest possible summary of
The stock objections to woman suf-
frage and disposes OF them Wllhoue
ceremony He cites ! few instances
to prove that it has worked Wen where
is has been tried. He believes the OPP
nosition. which persists in spite OF the
fact that the argument is all on the
side of the suffragist, comes from the
worlds dislike of change, its easy adj
aerence to things as they are, and 70
the church's insistence on the submls
sion of woman to the will OF man
Prof Thomas points out how aimos'
impossible it has been for women u
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
a qualification and manifestation

a qualification and manifestation oi
their pride.
What is higher? Lumber. 1t Is
double they say. That means SIS to
$40 more per thousand than during
the blessed, halycon years Of the era
which still bears the names of the
West Virginia professor and the Mary
land economist. The Dingley tariff
was 81 to 50 per thousand Add. Then
account for the remaining SIS and
s1S.
Go to your grocer. Call for the sta
ples-sugar, coffee. tea. butter, eggs,
flour. Note the difference in the
prices now from the prices then on
the imported three and the other three
your neighbor produces. and see
where the climb has been. Then
! charge it up to Mckinley and Dingley
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

Mr.. Henry Funk, leading Shelby
county, Mo-, farmer, lectured at the
Hannibal chautauqua on why Boys
and Girls Leave the Farm One of his
many sayings worthy of reproduction
was that lone touch of nature and
a tax receipt make the whole world
akin"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

daughters. Men and women alike
they have hearts of gold and souls
that know no meanness.
And now that the holiday is over
just one serious word: When the
time comes that Dolliver is named for
the presidency on y platform OF JUS
tice to the consumer, this newspaper
will be right with you.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

Lieutenant Peary is about to be re-
lieved some more, which has prompt
ed the remark that there are only two
conditions in the life OF this explor-
er. One involves the need of relief
and the other the gathering of sus-
tenance whereby he may be enabled
to get into predicament making
relief necessary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

An Indiana preacher who delivered
short sermons has been willed sixty
acres of land by his chief parishioner.
who has just died. The attention OF
Keokuk ministers is respectfully but
firmly called to this incident.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

The first question that Judge Clark
son asked his friend Burns was con-
corning the standing of the Cubs,
which indicates to the Burlington Ga
zette that the Judge is a normal
American citizen with the exception
of his desire to work in hot weather.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

Lest we forget" the Jacksonville
Courier suggests that the next new
coin design should comprise the stork
rampant on the one side and the
Strenuous One regardant on the re-
verse.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

The Iowa City Republican holds that
the state should pay for Pa Smiths
bath. on the ground that II may en-
courage him to take another.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

James j. Jeffries. poet. philosopher
and prize fighter, asks: How is a
man to save his soul if his liver is
out of order?" We give it up What's
the answer?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

George Fitch has discovered that
a woman's won't is about as hard
to change as a mans will.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

The Sioux lily JOURNAL declares
that Iowa is in need of a political
smoke consumer.
"a thirty-fve-foot road is wide
enough if it is good one says the
Mapleton Press. IF it is a poor road
it is no good at any width"
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says the
new tariff will be generally accept
able to all people except those who
wish to oppose it for political rea-
sons.
"The swedes bane purity mad, too
observes the Mason City Globe-Gaz-
cite. The washington spirit of insur-
gency seems to have reached Sweden
by wireless"
"Pa Smiths BATH says the Nevada
Representative, "is furnishing abund-
ant evidence that there is subject
that very many Iowa editors would
rather discuss than the tariff"
The Britt Tribune wants to bet
some reformer new hat against
nickel that boots and shoes don't come
down in price five cent per pail in the
next ten years as result OF tsking
the tariff off hides.
Expect to buy your meat cheaper
IL Won have hinged your expectations
upon the statements of downward tar
if revisionists," says the Burlington
Hawk-Eye. There has been a reduc
ton Of one cent pound upon bacon
and ham. and half a cent upon beer
veal mutton, lamb, pork and lard"
Some queer things happen occasion
a1lv IN the "ol Kentucky home"
Louisville paper tells of drumme
who returned home to find his younl
son dressed in rags and leading pre-
hibition parade. with banner OF
which was inscribed: my father Is
drunkard." What the old man said o.
the spot was suppressed, being to-
warm for circulation In dry district.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

rise to the dignity of human beings IN
the face of the disadvantages under
which they have labored
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
storekeepers Afraid of the Cars.

at was the same story with the
small storekeepers,' he continued
"They thought Judgment day had
struck EN- along with the interurban.
And at first. their trade did fall off
considerable. But bit by bit they saw
peoples wants increasing. SO village
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

The Burlington Hawk-Eye says the
new tariff will be generally accept
able to all people except those who
wish to oppose it for political rea-
cons
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

"Pa Smiths BATH" says the Nevada
Representative, SIS furnishing abund-
ant evidence that there is subject
that very many Iowa editors would
rather discuss than the tariff"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

"The swedes bane purity mad, too. .
observes the Mason City Globe-Gaz-
cite The washington spirit of insur-
gency seems to have reached Sweden
by wireless"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Sioux City Journal declares
that Iowa is in need of political
smoke consumer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-12

"a thirty-fve-foot road is wide
enough if it is a good one" says the
Mapleton Press. IF it is a poor road
it is no good at any width"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-29
SALVATION BY PIPE LINE.

The colored parson had just con-
cluded a powerful sermon on "Sal-
vation am Free" and was announc-
ing that collection would be taken
for the benefit of the parson and his
family. Up jumped an acutely bru-
nette brother in the back Of the
church.
"Look a-year, pahson," he inter
rupted, "yo' amt no sooner done
tellin' us dat salvation am free dan yo'
90 askin' us fo' money. If salvation
am free, what's de use in payin' fo'
it? OATS what I want to know. An
1 tell you pi'ntedly dat I amt goin'
to glib yo' nothin' until I find out.
Now"
Patience, brudder, patience" " said
the parson. CPL 'lucidate: S'pose
yo' was thirsty an come to river.
Yo' could kneel right down an drink
yo' fill, couldn't yo' p
"Ob cou'se. OATS jest what /"
Dat water would be free" contin-
ued the parson. "But s'posin' yo'
was to hab dat piped to yo' house !
Yo'd have to pay, wouldn't yo'?'
"Yas, sub, but"
oval, brudder, so it is wild saliva
ton. De salvation am free, but it's
de havin' 1t piped to yo' dat yo' got
to pay fo'. Pass de hat, deacon, pass
de hat"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-29
UNwIsE MOTHERS.

There are so many wise sermons
preached nowadays about what to do
to make children happy that would
like to say word to mothers about
what not to do, in order to save them
much sorrow and even suffering in
later years.
I have in mind loving and devo-
ted mother, who from ver-zealousness
to shield her daughter from the hard
and disagreeable duties which she
must inevitably encounter later on,
made the child so dependent upon her
that she grew to womanhood cling
ing vine when by different training
she might have developed into stur-
dy oak.
AS long as this daughter lived at
home, and even after she entered a
home of her own, the mother stood
between her child and every hardship
which it was in her power to avert,
so that she never became self-reliant
enough to assert her forcibly in any
event of her after life. Her mothers
devoted care had proved a handicap
where she had sought to make 1t
blessing.
AS child this girl had learned to
expect her mother to do the drudgery
of life wherever it confronted her.
Often have heard the mother say
"Run away and play, dear, and l
will do the dishes; you never can be
child but once"
All, but that was the pity of it IT
the unframed woman only could have
gone back to the days Of her care-free
childhood and learned some of the
lessons which should have been taught
in those early days how gladly would
she have doue so.
A child intuitively learns to as
sumo responsibility or to be a shirk
in proportion as she is trained to do
so. The wise and loving mother is
the one who encourages her child to
struggle with duties which it would
be much easier for her to perform
herself, simply that these duties may
strengthen her as woman for the or
binary affairs of life later on.
The feeble mother who drudges to
save her child from hard work, is
storing up suffering for that child in
after years just as surely as she is de.
meaning herself in the estimation OF
her child by voluntarily assuming the
attitude of a menial towards her, an
attitude which will most certainly
continue to be maintained when the
time comes for affairs to be reversed,
as old age creeps on and the mother
becomes incapacitated for labor. She
has so effectually efaced herself, so
to speak, that her infrmities, even'
cannot command the respect and rev.
erence otherwise due them.