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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
UNIQUE INSURANCE. LAW.

These are great days for all sorts
of insurance 1t has become part OF
nearly every mans life to carry"
some sort of insurance. With the grow
ing popularity of insurance comes a
great variety of kinds OF insurance
and great volume of all kinds OF IN
surance legislation. Norway is experi-
menting with compulsory accident
insurance law. Consul B. M. Rasmus-
EN- Of Stavanger says the law pre-
scribes that all factories shall provide
accident insurance for their employees,
and failure to comply Herewith
lis punishable by fine. He adds
that accident insurance is gradu-
ally gaining in favor with both
employers and employees, though
the former are strongly opposed to the
payment of indemnity and for medical
services to the injured the first four
weeks, as the law requires. The law
gives general satisfaction, and its oper-
alton has caused no sacrifice worth
mentioning; on the contrary, it has
promoted more intelligent under
standing Of ones responsibilities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
4PRoHIe!TloNp IN PRACTICE.

One year ago the city Of Worcester,
Mass. voted to dispense with saloons
under the idea that adoption of pro-
hibition would stop the sale and use
of liquor. The police liquor squad has
just made report showing how the
idea has worked in practice. The re-
port includes an exhibit of the ship
ment Of liquors into the city by ex-
press companies and the number OF
sales of liquor made at the drug
stores, of which there were seven I'M
til May 1.
The figures show that the shipments
of liquors by express through whole
sale dealers, who have an agreement
out of the city for shipments, average
$50 cases and 100 eight gallon kegs
of beer day for 3o6 days, Sundays
and holidays being eliminated Added
to these figures are $50 gallons of
hard liquors, all being classed under
the head of whisky.
The slips from the licensed drug
stores show that to persons who signed
for the liquor to be used Tor medicinal
purposes there were 10000 sales
which the police say mean 290St
quarts or $3.50 pints.
That's the way prohibition pro
hibits."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
All Agreed on Protection.

Buffalo News: Nothing is more con-
clusiveiy proved by the discussion of
the Payne tariff bill in both houses of
Congress than that the old Democratic
principle of tariff for revenue only Is
exploded The best minds in the mi.
.nority are fairly falling over themselves
to get in line with what Is manifestly
the settled policy of the people, that
is, that tariff shall be laid with ex-
pressly protective purposes in addi-
ton to it's revenue intention.
Senator Daniel, who Is the ranking
Democrat on the Finance Committee,
takes issue squarely with Col. Waiter
son, who has been devoted to the idea
that revenue duties ought to be laid on
only half a dozen iof the articles Of
largest importation without regard to
whether they are raw material or man
ufactured. Mr.. Daniel declares that
sort of thing to be revolutionary. He
would conserve and not destroy the
plants and the industries that have
been built up In this country and he
lis not won to foolishness by the fas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
one silent Voice.

Des Moines Capital: The Odd Eel
lows of Iowa celebrated their great
anniversary on April &c. There were
parades. The uniforms glittered.
But there was one voice which for
many years had been heard at these
celebrations that was silent. We re-
fer to the voice of the late Frank w.
Evans of Des Moines. Mr. Evans on
account of his earnest and fervent
oratory was called the little giant. He
was born in Pittsburg, Pa, March II,
1929, and died September, 1908. His
parents moved to Fort Madison, Iowa,
in 1889, residing there until 1S45, when
they located on farm in Van Buren,
county. Frank Evans learned to set
type on the Fort Madison Democrat;
worked as type-setter on the Keokuk
Dispatch Returning to Pennsylvania
he worked on the Pittsburg Gazette
in 1919. He set type on the Genius OF
Liberty at Uniontown, Pa. About the
year 1850 he found employment on the
Salem News published at Salem, Ind.
He also worked on the newspapers at
Springfield, H., returning to Van Bur
en- county, Iowa, in 1851. His con-
version was in the winter OF 1s46. In
the fall of 1851 he was licensed to
preach. During his long ministry he
I filled some Of the strongest pulpits of
I the Methodist church of Iowa. includ-
/ ing old Zion church at Burlington.
While residing at Bloomfield about the
/ year 1855. he became Mason and
also Joined the Odd Fellows. From
1862 to 1864 he was chaplain of the
Thirty-fifth Iowa infantry The last
ten years of his life he devoted to
lecturing, mainly in the interest OF
Odd Fellowship. In 1893 he was grand
master for the Odd Fellows. He be-
came favorite orator of that order
There was scarcely lodge in the
state which had not at some time OF
other called upon MIN for some ser
vice. He always responded and al
ways with ability. In regard to his
later work, Mr.. Evans wrote to q
friend, Il feel that my pastoral work
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
subiuqation Of Our Schools.

Sioux City Tribune: Our system OF
common schools, including the second
airy or high schools, are in the process
of throwing off the subjugation to our
colleges and universities, private and
state, into which they had fallen. 1t
had reached point where 1T was as
sumed that the entire system below
the colleges and universities. existed
mainly to provide them with students.
State boards lent themselves to this
more or less conscious purpose of the
higher schools. The high schools that
had driven out the old time academy,
were designed to supplement and COM
plete the common school system.
They were to round out the training
and scope of studies begun In the
grades. But instead Of adapting
curricula to that end, the were adapt
ed to entrance conditions into the
higher schools. So Latin and Greek
were made part Of the essential
courses. Universities, especially those
maintained by the states, deliberately
played upon the high schools and their
courses. They captured the teaching
force by requiring graduation from
them. or schools of equivalent stand
ing, as a condition of qualification to
teach in high schools. Their alumni
set to teaching accepted their func-
ton and trained the academic
courses in harmony with collegiate re-
1 quirements.
Against this there has been growing
a revolt for years. Elective courses
were adopted in the high schools Man
i ual training and domestic sciences are
/ being introduced. Latin and Greek are
vanishing from class rooms. More and
and more it is being recognized that
education is development of all the
] faculties with which the child is en-
dowed, and teaching is only their train
ing. What is more important, the neg
lected common schools, the grade
schools of cities and district schools
lof the country, are coming to snare
this truer sense of what school edu
eating is, the all round bringing out O
what is in the child and not the pour
ing into 1t of set course of studies
gone over at uniform speed ant
strictly held to regardless of the apt
tude of pupils.
This new movement has not foun'
Il itself. 1t adheres to the error o. tn
, old method, routing all pupils ove-' tn
, same course regardless of aptness.
, will be foundationed only when thes
inherent differences and degrees
: faculties are, recognized in tn
: courses; when the chief effort will b
{ to discover them and the training wi
2 be to unfold them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
THE PoPE's VIEW OF WOMEN.
Exceptions to the standpat Utter
ances OF Plus X.

Kansas City Journal: Any utter
ance by the head of the Catholic
church receives, in the nature of
things, maximum of publicity, and
the adherents of the church Of Rome, 4
as general thing, attach maximum
of Importance to those utterances.
His holiness has recently contributed
to the literature Of the equal suffrage
movement everal declarations which
are notable in many respects. The
first draft of these statements placed
the pope in rather unfavorable light
on the question Of the relative super.
iority of men and women. He was
made to say that woman was obvious
lily foreordained and predestined mans
inferior; but the later and fuller re-
ports considerable modified these
manifestly unjust structures. The self
evident meaning OFFS the \ News ex
pressed is that Woman goes outside,
her sphere when she INDUCES in the
struggle for pnlitleal nSNers
There is noth Yteaa1lYk neN in,
this view, but Pope Plus adds some
curiously anachronistic quotations
from the Bible to govern the status of
modern women. Ultraconservative
views are to be expected from the
head of the Catholic church. and yet
there will be few, even among the
English speaking members OF the
church, who will accept st. Paul as the
arbiter of the position to be occupied
by the women of time 1000 years
later than st. Paul and in countries
whose viewpoint is so far from being
that of oriental lands even Of today.
The rp-to-date thought of the TWEEN
tieth century insists that the statute
of limitations has run against st. Pail
In the matter of the subsection of
women.
| Enlightened critics do not charge 1t
to the Bible as fault that its attitude
toward woman is not consonant with
that of the present day in occidental
countries. Th1t would be unfair ant
illogical, but for all that the modern
western woman will not accept ever
st. Paul as an infallible guide in thu
designation of women's sta,us. Thu
argument is incompetent, irrelevan
and immaterial as the lawyer says
based on heresav calling for con
clusion. the opinion of an individual
who has not even qualified as an eS
pert and subject to other exception
hereby saved but not specifcall
enumerated
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
A Lack Of Information.

Mt. Ayr Record-News: Charles
Stetzle, a man Of good reputation, said
recently in lecture in Keokuk, that
wages were lower in this country, all
things considered than any other place
in the world. He is man who is In
capable of deliberate falsehood and
must have spoken through lack of in
formation. Here carpenters are receiv-
ing from So to So and experts as high
as 81 and SIS day. Plasters S4 and
plumbers SO. In Japan master car
penter receives 65 cents per day and
the best men under him 40 to so cents.
In working power these workmen are
equal to our own. They are strong
and understand all about their bust.
mess. In Japan ordinary laborers re-
ceive from % to 35 cents per day.
Good farm hands are paid 20 cents per
day. In Japan government works,
the wages are 10 cents for women and
from is to 25 cents for men. The
ministers of state receives $4,000 and
the governor general Of Formosa
50, 800 We might pass to many other
countries and find similar conditions
and wages. The wages and conditions
nearly always correspond. 1t is
strange that any man Of average in
telligence should talk as did the lee
turer. 1t tends to create restlessness
and unhappiness, where there should
be content and industry. The wages
and conditions in our land are better
than in any other and they are con
stantly improving. The great draw
back in the way of laborers is lack of
skill and dissipating habits. Skill
and virtue commands good and ready
wages every place in the land. Many
of us feel above the work for which
we are fitted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
PROHIBITION IN TENNESSEE.

From Nashville, Tenn, William E.
Curtis wrote some days ago of the
political situation in that state and
particularly the effect of vituperation
in press, pulpit and on the rostrum,
as one Of the incidents of the prohibi-
ton movement, which eliminated in
the Cooper-Carmack tragedy He
says:
mo previous agitation has ever pro-
yoked such animosities as prohibition,
not as a principle but as political
issue, and, as has been the case in
other southern states, the demagogues
and office seekers have taken advant-
age of the awakening of the public
conscience with great shrewdness and
success No wave of public sentiment
has ever washed up into place and
ROVER SO many cheap politicians and
at the same time there has been the
most extraordinary exhibition of pub
Y confidence. Every man who pro
c aimed himself a prohibitionist, ne
matter what his past affiliations
or practices may have been, has sud
denly become public idol. The mos
conscientious and scrupulous of citi
zels without moments hesitation
have followed to the polls men withou
Conscience or scruple solely because
they made speeches denouncing dis
tilleries and saloons. But when thu
action sets in and the tidal wave re
cedes people will recover their reason
and the imposters who have taken ad
vantage of the occasion will return Il
their proper levels in the body POI
itic /"
Mr.. Curtis remarks it as one of tn
mysteries of Providence .sst gslisiesa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

cination of the word Free He re-
allies that the South is destined to
become not only the great cotton pro-
ducing section of the world. for it is
that already, but it has also such
facilities for manufacturing in the lay
of the land, the course of streams. the
mildness of climate, the fertility of
soil and the wealth Of mineral re-
sources as to forecast an industrial
supremacy without rival in the his
tory of business, and Mr.. Daniel has
in mind what very few Democratic
statesmen have had ever in mind
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

is done. / am trying to serve God
faithfully in private life and in the
business am now engaged in" The
deceased was one of the ablest ex-
ponents of benevolent society work
And though his voice was not heard
at any Odd Fellow celebration on April
26, his memory was recalled, for the
memory of a good man never dies.
He served his fellow men. He served
his country and his God. He helped
to make Iowa and was always proud
Of this state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

In speaking of the tariff the Rock
Island Union truthfully remarks that
there never was tariff law enacted
by congress wherein some interests
did not get more than they deserved,
and others did not receive less than
they were entitled to. The one con,
gress is about to enact will be no ex
ception to the rule, but it will be a
law under which the country will
prosper, and the sooner it is enacted
the better.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

Gratitude is by no means an un-
known virtue in these latter days. St.
Joseph's hospital in Syracuse, N. Y,
which cared for P. F. Collier when.
poor and friendless. he was stricken
with typhoid fever, receives $4,000 by
his will. A Philadelphia physician re-
Gently inherited $4,000 from New
Yorker whom he had once relieved of
financial embarrassment by loan OF
S..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

by the court as not to exceeding $.6S12
per thousand cubic feet, and on this
showing the court refuses to declare
the 80 cent rate confiscatory.
In conclusion the court gives some
good advice as to how to settle similar
disputes between cities and their pub
lie utilities. 1t says:
THE privilege of fixing compensa-
ton for public service should be exer-
cised with keen sense of justice on
the part of the regulating power, and
the company aid by frank and full
disclosure Of its affairs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
MCPHERSON ON RAILROAD RATES.

iUSt - S-nSOtN StN ttSNt.RONS W 49,
Judge Smith Mcpherson of this fed
eral judicial district was one of the
principal speakers at meeting OF the
Traffic Club of st. Louis in that city
Tuesday evening. His subject was
Commerce Between the States and
Within the States" and he took the
ground that the United States SUI
preme court is the only tribunal which
should finally settle the railroad Ques-
ton.
body Of technically trained men
SHOULD be given the power to handle
the railroad question and that the
matter is not one for local jurisdic-
ton. He declared that what the coun-
try needed was some leader in the
matter, who, like Grover Cleveland.
could rise above local prejudice and
handle the matter in broad sense.
He eulogized the late Mr.. Cleveland.
whom he placed in tae same rank
with Washington and Lincoln.
Judge Mcpherson avoided any refer
ence to the attacks made upon him
and Judge Phillips by Congressman
Murphy for their decisions enjoining
the state of Missouri from enforcing
her railroad rate laws, but devoted the
greater part of his time to general
discussion of the need of federal court
jurisdiction in solving the question OF
railroad rates. Some Of the points
made in the course of his address are
briefly summarized below.
Common sense and common honesty
and common fairness require every
man to insist that corporations must be
formed and must be allowed to exist,
and the man who denies these things
is an enemy to his country and man
kind in general.
No honest man can make defense
in behalf of corporations with watered
stock, or corporations organized BY
fraud and perjury or as mere promot
ing and gambling machines.
It will be an epoch in the history
of this country when congress acting
directly or through commission OF
board, fixes the railroad rates fol
what Is now looked upon as purel,
state business to the end that the su
\ preme court of the United States may
determine the momentous question
not yet solved But 1t must be SOLVED
and can only be solved by that angus
tribunal.
We must have absolute equality o
rates for passengers. Free transpor
tation is forever gone. That othel
wicked contrivance, under the pre-
tense that transportation by whole
sale should be sold more cheaply thai
by retail, is utterly indefensible.
It is said that there are fifty-on
devices for rebating. All the fifty-on
must be discarded, or the railway Of
ficer granting them and the shipper re
ceiving them must go to the peniter
tiary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
The spread of prohibition is held re

The spread of prohibition is held re-
sponsible for the closing of a large
glass tumbler factory at Huntington,
w. Va. Yet Atlanta, Ca. under pro-
Inhibition claims to have 1000 places
where liquor is sold, and one of the
express companies thsre is doubling
the capacity of it's warehouse to ac-
commodate the immense business
coming to it since the traffic was out.
lawed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

that is, the idea of protecting, as
says, reasonably and permanently pr
tecting, American labor.
1t is happy augury for the emit
country when men Of large infiuen
in the Democratic party are coming
be of the kind who are in no dang
of being carried away with delusiol
of theory such as have swept over Il
party under the dominance OF NJ
Bryan for the last dozen years. Brya
ism is fatal to Democracy or to az
other political organization that lea
toward it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

1t further develops that Emerson
Hough, who recently criticised the
weather bureau so severely in maya
zine article, is a fisherman. A COM
bination OF novelist and fisherman
could not be expected to adhere very
strictly to facts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

and moral issues are permitted to be
the causes of murder. assassination,
sacrifices and suffering. and that peo-
pie who proclaim themselves Chris
tians and who are organized to work
for Christ and the salvation of the
world should display such animosity
and contentiousness as is often seen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

Tim Murphy, Keokak favorite,
will appear next Sunday night in a
Chicago theater in play written by
Rupert Hughes, former Keokukian,
entitled my Boy" The success OF
the combination is assured
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

A New York man is suing for d.
vorce because his wife spanked him
with a slipper. He ought to get it,
OF course. Any wife who spanks her
husband with slipper instead of a
potato masher or baseball bat
doesn't deserve to have husband
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

A Denver surgeon is said to have
made new nose for a boy out Of
piece Of a rib. That was getting back
to first principles in surgery If Genesis
is authority.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

Professor Pickering proposes to at
tract the attention of Mars by the
use of mirrors; but the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil wants to know, more or
less pertinently, what assurance he
has that the inhabitants are all of
the opposite sex.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

Sassafras is also good spring medi-
cine. The hint is thrown out for the
benefit Of such baseball teams as may
wish to vary the treatment they are
undergoing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
NOTES AND COMMENT.

From Alex Miller's point of view
nothing look more appropriate than
for little darkey to rattle bones.
Up In Washington, Iowa, on the
authority OF the Democrat, whistling
too loud on Sunday sounds about as
bad as shooting.
The Iowa City Citizen says that
those who are complaining of Cover.
nor CAROLS course in cleaning out
the pharmacy commission will find
themselves in deep water If they at
tempt to make that an issue in tie
primary. Graft and misuse OF public
position should be punished wherever
found" continues the Citizen, "and
the incident can only rebound to Car
rolls credit
Eat hard food IL you wish to keel
\ the teeth clean and preserve them,
is the advice OF DR.. George Cunning
4 ham, who has been conducting a cru
SADIE for the preservation of the teeti
| of English children. The best of al
bread, said DIR. Cunningham recently
was that provided in the prisons
Mothers who had the interests of thei
children's teeth at heart should selec
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

The Illinois senatorial situation has
been aptly said to appear to have a
severe attack of sleeping sickness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

The Cedar Falls Record charges that
the daily newspapers have taken the
place Of the old time quilting bee as
the source of gossip. When it comes
to giving family secrets" says the
Record, they have the old quilting
bees knocked out of the box
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06

Mrs. w. j. Beggs of Seattle, Wash,
is credited with having grown thorn
less rose. She is said to have many
rosebushes without thorn, and which
bear rose which is almost perfection
in shape anG coloring. A thornless
rose has been one of the dreams OF
horticulturists for many years, and the
success reported for Mrs. Beggs, is ex-
pected to draw the attention OF rose
growers in all parts of the world.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-06
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A Pittsburs man committed suicide
with the aid of carbohc acid and
iodine. The Des Moines Register and
Leader suggests that the addition OF
bit OF turpentine and tabasco sauce
might have added slightly to the warm
feeling in his stomach.