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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
AFTER FIFTY YEARS.

TKeokuk Constitution-Demo crat.1
According to the st. Louis Times,
there is an opportunity for Hugo, or
a Dickens. or even a Thomas Hardy,
if there are any such literary giants
dwelling. in embyro, in America in that
story which came from Winstead. Conn.
John Warren. who has spent fifty
wears in the Connecticut state prison.
expects to regain his liberty in few
days-as a Christmas gift" the dis
patches put it.
When John Warren went to prison
the civil war had not been fought
nor had the forces which precipitated
that conflict gained definite form.
Many years were yet to elapse before
electricity. as force, was to be APP
piled to vehicles of any kind. The
west was dotted with Territories"
which did not yet dream of statehood.
The Pacific and Atlantic oceans had
not yet been connected with railroads,
and the Overland Trail was the way
to an unknown region. The golden
quest of the Forty miners had not yet
ended The great American desert
had been untouched In point OF pop
ulation, and power and wealth, the
United States was as a young giant,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
THE MONEY IN IT.

WEBSTER City Freeman Tribune.]
There is not regular newspaper or
magazine in the United States which is
not published as business venture,
for the money that can be made out
of huch enterprises.-Iowa City Repub-
lican.
Conditions in Iowa City must be
different than in some places on the
map in Iowa. We know of papers that
have been published with the avowed
purpose of controlling the politics of
the county, and others that have been
started with no better mission than to
wreak revenge upon men who were
deemed guilty of defeating somebody
for some political office-a postmaster
ship or something of that sort. Is it
possible that Editor Brant has never
heard of such cases: True, such papers
seldom amount to much and are usual
ly shortlived; but that they have had
an existence can not be disputed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27

too. If his union gives him an eight
hour day he will lose the rest of the
time unless he adds side line.
The right and wrong of dancing is
not determined by the creed Of a
church. The dividing line is found half
half way between private dancing
parties and the public dance.
In southern Iowa the small towns
are voting 8 per cent taxes for inter
uraans whlie at Ma shalltown all
Sioux City they vote to 1 to refuse
street railways and gas companies even
the franchise rights TO do business.
There must be something wrong with
the rates.
Cap Hull is about the only farmer
in Iowa who was busy on Christmas
day fixing fences
The Iowa merchant can still hope
Tor loosening up of trade during jan
uary and February. The stuff is in the
country to be loosened. In the mean
time he might join a good roads club.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
1909

the situation for few moments Ave
nickles looked to him like q measly pitt
lance and the thought came why not
have two quarters changed into scent
pieces. The budding spirit of gain was
growing strong within him and fifteen
nickles looked a bigger pile than ten
and accordingly he walked into drug
store, slapped three quarters down on
the counter and asked to have them
converted into nickles. After paying
the washer woman her due he proudly
went home, his pockets bullying with
nickles and the happiest kid in town.
He had violated no agreement made
with his mother and had accumulated
a small fortune by his quick reason
ing and shrewdness. We predict that
this young man will be found among
the leading financiers of his day by
the time he reaches fifty years of age.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27

peared that the capital stock Of the
corporation was 100000. 900, but that
only a small part Of its property was
actually located in the state, and that
a license tax upon all the property was
objected to as unfair. and that it would
cripple and affect its. efficiency as an
agency of interstate commerce. The
Texas court of civil appeals held, how
ever, that a foreign corporation can
not transact interstate business Unless
by authority of the state, which can
impose any conditions as a prerequis-
tie, the reasonableness or validity Of
which the corporation can not ques-
ton, and that the state can exact a
fee, the sum depending upon the cor
poration's entire capital stock, the ma
jor portion Of which lies without the
state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
WILL THE STANDARD GRAB l,rsLINs7

The Standard Oil Company, the old
est and most thoroughly despised. of
the trusts, and the one whose fate
impends with the supreme court-and
with congress, for if the court rules adj
versely, there still will be the chance
that congress will amend the Sherman
law and save the trusts life-this
Standard Oil Company is not only the
greatest industrial concern in the
world, but it is so great that ordinary
mortals who buy their oil by the gall
lon are quite helpless to form any ade-
ouate conception of its greatness; and
for perspective, that is utterly impos-
sible. The gap between Standard Oil
and ordinary human affairs is too
great to admit of comparison. We are
lost in awe
The Standard Oil Company was in
corporated in 1882 as successor to what
was known as the Standard Oil Trust.
The net earnings that year was s12,-
100000, in 1882, sla,Ooo,OOO and in 1902.
$4,000, 600. The estimate for 1907 SS5,-
GOO, 600. From 1882 10 the present time
net profits of sl.o49,oOo,oo0 have been
enjoyed. The capital stock OF the COM
pany is sl0o 900 900 The annual divi-
dend is 40 per cent. In 1901 the stock
sold al sS4S share. The Lands s29,-
100000 find and the panic OF 1907 put
it down TO $500. 1t must be regarded
as significant that the circuit court
decision ordering dissolution of the
company affected the stock only to the
extent OF $50 share and this has been
recovered. The price is now above
500.
Property owned by the company is
said TO be worth s6oo.Ooo.0ooo. Trunk
pipe lines TO the exien. OF 5000 miles.
10000 miles Of feeder pipe line, stor-
age tanks for crue oil holding 100000
barrels, 10000 tank cars in America
and 1000 abroad, sixty bulk steamers
for ocean traffic and twelve for foreign
country ,rade, $50 steamers and barges
in United States waters and 5000 tank
stations in America and 5000 in other
countries-,hese are some Of the items
The pay rolls bear .he names Of $4,000
persons
These are some Of the rough dimen-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
INTOXICATED SELLER.

An ordinance prohibiting junk deal
ers from purchasing from intoxicated
persons was attacked in Grossman VS..
City of Indianapolis. IS Northeastern
Reporter, 945. as being an undue re-
straint of trade. The Indiana supreme
court, upholding the ordinance, re-
marked that the asserted right Of a
sober man to buy of another, while
in a state of intoxication, property
which an ungovernable and Unsuitable
appetite may have prompted him to
steal, and would likely induce him to
sacrifice on any terms. is SO abhorrent
to a sense of fair dealing as TO merit
little consideration in a court of equity.
The special inclusion in city charters
of power TO legislate against such con-
duct is to enable them to make reason
able regulations rather than to restrict
that power
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
THE BALllNGER INV S leATIcN
The president has taken the prop

The president has taken the proper
course in turning over the Ballinger
charges 10 congressional Investigation.
The country was not convinced. tho
the president felt satisfied that secre-
tary Bailiager had done no wrong. The
charges have been made so definite,
have been presented with 50 much APP
parent candor and with 50 much APP
pearance Of truth that neither Presi-
dent Taft nor the republican party can
afford to deny or resist investigation.
Investigation is not conviction. Cen
orally speaking Investigation is ac-
Quirtal; often il is approval Ii the
official has done his duty and been
square WIKI his oash and his oaice the
popular verde. is sor him and the pub
lie has.ens 20 make amends for is
unjust suspicion. Il he hss no.. ne de-
serves contamination ana the public
deserves better ard honesrer rep
res=a,at.ve. Ball.nger Is in no danger
unless he deserves 70 be endangered.
The tendency Is always toward the
whitewash bucket
NOWADAYS he public and the rank
and file Of tas party in power are call
ing for real and no, pseudo tnvestiga-
ton. We are falling away from the
political MAXIM Of he past that the
main business Of one party is to en-
deavor by fair or 1oui means to dis
eredis and the otner 10 defend and
nh!cswash i need be. OF late there
has been awakened a sense OF respon-
sible toward all, a sense that the well
ware Of the country is above parties
and personages and personal ambitions.
The Ballinger investigation should be
open. sincere and complete SO much
is due the ueople at large. the repub-
lican party the president and secre-
tary BaIlnger himself.
L ough, . go TO t1e very roots OF
the controversy. Il Ballinger is inno-
cent lei MIN BE- triumphan.ly estab-
lished before the American people Il
not lei him be ousted from the cabine:
whsre TO weak OF dishonest man be
longs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
AN OLD FASTENED { hR sIMAs.

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. 'i'f>-s=a S'0 ~ ing idii proved pas
- = iie usep s'i'" loiu is" 'aies
d me h'daen ilVes next DAY here
ana there crow had written an IN
Fnlsfakaole autograph with his feet and
set flourish on each side with the
brushing beat Of his rising wings or a
colony Of mice had run pattern
across the snow which would drive a
lacemaker 70 despair Il vas the
auiet Christmas which waits on the
deep snow.
And today under the sun the fields
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
Muscatine on the Water Wagon
gathered by

Fact No. q
Criminal prosecuting expenses
1907 :. 2,134.49
Add to this the cost of the
Jones trial, murder commit
ted in 1907 by a man under
the influence of liquor 10000
Total >. Observation-Disclosures ,134.49
Criminal prosecuting expenses
to Sept. 1, 1909, eight months
without saloons .........$ 717.03
These figures not do include cost of
Imprisonment, etc. Make your own cal
culations and estimate.
Who pays the bill?
Fact No. 5
Large contracts and sewerage and
paving have been let, and are in prog
gress. Substantial increases have this
year been made in salaries Of police
and council employees.
The city levy in the water district
was:
In 1907, with saloons ......41A mills
In 1908, no saloons ..........40 mills
In 1909. no saloons ..........38 mills
Is city bankrupt which can carry
on considerable improvements, raise
the salaries of its workmen, and at the
same time make two successive reduc-
lions in taxes?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
Iona Newspo pers
A BUDDING FINANCIER.
TClarksville STAR

Parkersburg has young lad of ten
der age who bids fair some day to be a
king of financiers, if he sustains his
present reputation for shrewdness and
quick thinking. A few days ago his
mother gave MIN 50 bill to pay for
the washing and told him to get the
money changed before paying the bill.
All the nickles he received in change he
could keep The merchant who changed
the bill gave him silver dollar and
four quarters. This did not look good
to our fnancier as the change contained
no nickles and he needed few to buy
candy and Christmas presents. So he
decided to have one of the quarters
changed into nickles. After studying
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
THE SHIP SUBSIDY.
I.Maquoketa Excelsior.1


When in Monday nights lecture, DR..
Mcdowell advocated the adoption by
congress of the ship subsidy BILL" he
must have felt the disapproval of his
audience. The people of the great ag-
ricultural region of the Mississippi
Valley are heartily in favor of legit-
innate encouragement of the merchant
marine. but they do not favor paying
wholly unnecessary tribute to j..
Pierpont Morgan and his associates
who are to the twentieth century very
much what the English pirate Morgan
was to the seventeenth. If there Is to
be ship subsidy the people of Iowa
want it to go TO some one besides the
great shipbuilding trust controlled by
the men who cooker UP the monetary
panic of 1907 in order that the people
might be frightened out of their at
lacks on Wall street.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
Fine Display Of Heroi.m,

A neighbor of ours, portly gentaes
man, has been guiltless OF any strenu-
Gus acts these many years. Recently
his house caught fire. Volumes OF
smoke rolled in from the kitchen.
Catching up his walking-stlck and
clapping his hat firmly on his head, he
started with firm steps for the front
door. As he went thru the halls he
shouted Justify:
Girls! girls! Fire! Save the piano"
-Womans Home Companion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
THE Ii LODGES.
4 MASONIC NOTICES
Visitors always Welcome
"AHall nvnP 1hK.9 w..A nf.s-

4 MASONIC NOTICES.
XXVisitors always welcome
Mail over loS-7 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE los A. F. q A
M.-Work on third degree Thursday
December 80 at 1880 p. m.
H. q. Hoeck. w. NJ.
II. 8. Lawrence. Sec'y.
sIGNET CHAPTER NO 90. r. A u
Work in Royal Arch degree, Dec. 81,
1909. 1880 p. m.
George n. Boggie. r. q. n
I. s. Millard, Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL R "a
M.-Stated assembly Monday, Dec, "a
iSo p. m. Election of officers.
4. p. Aesksr. T. I y.
!. T. Forbes, Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMUNICATING.
80 e. T. Sir knights and officers meet
At the asylum Wednesday evening,
Dec. 18th at 1880 sharp for installation.
Of officers. Visiting Fraters always
welcome.
F. N. Wilbur. n. c.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. O =.
Sheets in regular meeting, installa.
ton of officers Wednesday evening.
Jan. IL at 1880.
MIA Geo. Downing. ". y
Eona G. Fularton. 0ecS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
Topics of the Times

Improvements aggregat!ng a quarter
u million dollars in the locomotive
works al Davenport are the harblnger
Of an approaching season Of manufac-
turing development Cor Iowa The fac
tories are coming west Mississippi
river towns are the first 10 feel it. then
the inland towns will be reached and
finally the Missouri river points 1t is
compang with the inevitableness of the
tides.
Hanpton's Cooperative delivery sys-
TEN needs emulation everywhere both
in thes mail GOWNS and in the large
ones. If the storekeeper's parcel de-
livery was as we'll organized as the
postof!ce service think of the number
OF daily deliveries that could be made in
each block. Think how quickly you
could get meat for dinner by ordering
on the phone in time for the $3.50 or 10
a. m. delivery!
the Nonparell predicts that as the
progreSsives become more. popular in
congress the executive will develop in
10 tariff revisionlst of real import
4 ance. The tariff commission offers him
the opportunity to put to congress. such
data and information as to costs of
/ production at home and abroad as will
compel revision downward. 1t all de-
ponds upon the inclination of the
/ executive and the growth of progress
sive strength in congress will help the
! inclination to incline.
When do we nominate candidates for
governor anyway?
The Bell telephone monopoly is ex-
periencing very little difficulty in get
ting control of Iowa but now will the
Bell know enough to be good when i,
does control? There is a tremendous
public ownership sentiment in transit
Just now as the means of relief from
public service abuse. Even regulation
sometimes gives the public service con.
lcern nightmare. Just wait until Sen.
dtOi al Law SelS llldl Ulll u MS tlTl
the Iowa legislature compelling public
service companies TO expose their book.
for the information of the public reg.
ulators!.
The suggestion of changing the low:
law 50 as to tax foreign corporation
only on the capital they employ in thi
! state finds favor in many places, bu
what about the capital Of state cor
porations employed to swing the bus
mess they do outside this state?
The wage working man who com
: plains at 40 cent butter. 80 cent egg
and cent milk has only himself t
blame. He can raise enough for hi
family on his own back lot and hay
some to sell if he only has the gump
ton to do it. In the spring he can bea
the meat trust with his own vegetable
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27

increase .............S 41o,4of.So
Is there any better indication of
growing prosperity of city, than the
increase deposits in its banks?
Fact No. e
In 1907, there were over one hundred
empty houses in Muscatine, and more
than twenty-five saloons were in oper-
alton. Since the saloons have closed,
one hundred new houses have been
erected, and there are not ten at this
time, open for tenants. Does this sug-
|gest decrease in population?
Fact No. 3
In 1907, with saloons open. one hun
dred and twenty cars OF liquor were
shipped into Muscatine over one road.
If the other two roads shipped in fifty
cars each, a moderate estimate. con-
sidering their base Of supplies" the
years total would be two hundred and
twenty cars.
In 1908, with saloons open, two and
one half months, forty-three cars were
shipped in, or one-fifth the 1907 impor-
ltation!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
srArEs PoMER no TAX.

A recently passed Texas statute re-
quires every foreign corporation OBJ
tanning permit to do business in the
state to pay $50 for the first $4,000 of
it's authorized capital stock and $40 for
each additional $4,000. IN Western
Union Telegraph Company VS.. State,
121 Southwestern Reporter. 1874, it APP
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
Changing His Mind.

Come up and see us tonight, old
man"
"All right; I'll be glad to-"
Our daughter is studying music.
BY lingo! I have just remem-
oered an engagement. am sorry,
but l can not possibly come.'
Pshaw! AS l was about to say,
Germany. and we got little bit lone
some"
''Tll just cut out the engagement
and come anyhow" Answers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27

Many persons find themselves affect.
ed with persistent cough after an at
tack of influenza. AS this cough can
be promptly cured by the use OF Cham.
berlain's Cough Remedy, 1t should not
be allowed to run on until 1t becomes
troublesome. Sold by all dealers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
Democracy That. Crude.

Strange as 1t may seem, democratic
progress has been much greater in
Europe than in America during the last
twenty years. Economic principles Of
government seem to be unknown to our
public men. Every one who does not
agree with every one else is supposed
to be crank.-From the Boston Globe
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27

If you are suffering from biliousness,
constipation, indigestion, chronic head
ache, invest one cent in postal card.
send to Chamberlain Medicine Com.
pany, Des Moines, Iowa, with your
name and address plainly on the back.
and they will forward you q free sam.
pie of Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. Sold by all dealers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
IOWA OPINION. AND ka1rs.

Carroll county has paid into the
state treasury about $1,000 in hunters
licenses. What does this county get in
return: Nothing compared to what
some counties get complains the Nam
ming Monitor. It's Ike boosting for a
politician that gets a new postoffice in
the largest town in his district. The
people pay for it and one place gets the
benefit. Spirit Lake will get the great
est benefit of the pew game law. The
game law needs such revision that at
least half OF the money raised be in
vested in the county where the hunters
who get licenses live
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
A Life Sentence

OF suffering with throat and luna
trouble is quickly conmuted by Dr..
Kings New Discovery. soc and s1.00.
Mcbride & VIII Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
The Touch Of Forum,

The Touch Of Fortune.
what do you think, dear? Such
luck! We leave for Paris in an hour"
Really"
eyes; we's going to Pasteurs. Ny
husband has just been bitten by mad
dog."-Bon Vivant.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
n biz on 4he se.HoIa

is painless, compared with the weak,
lame back kidney trouble causes Elec-
trio Bitters is the remedy. soc. Nc
Bride 6 Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27

Serious LaeeratIons
and wounds are healed without danger
of blood poisoning. by Bucklen's Arnica
Salve; the healing wonder. 25c.
Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
Important Decisions
1.-THE following notes OF cases are
from the West Publishing Company,
st. Paul, Mimi
HABITuAL CRIMINALS.

dABlTUAL CRIMINALS.
The constitutionality of the law pro-
viding increased penalties for habitual
criminals was assailed in State " LIE
Pitre, 105 Pacific Reporter, 81. The
Washington supreme court decided
that while the habitual criminal stat
ute was a thing of modern creation,
and there are many rules of law which
may seem inconsistent with its purpose
and the procedure adopted to compass
it, it is nevertheless sound in principle
and sustained by reason. Aside from
the offender and his victim, there is
always another party concerned in ev-
cry crime comnitted-the state-and
it does no violence to any constitu-
tional guaranty for the state to rid it
self of depravity when its efforts to
reform have failed. The act is not ex
post facto. 1t does not deny the right
of trial by jury. 1t does not put the
offender twice in jeopardy. 1t does not
infiict a double punishment for the
same offense, or inflict cruel or I'M
usual punishment, or impose penalty
for a crime committed outside of the
state. 1t merely provides an increased
punishment for the last offense. The
spirit of the law is in keeping with the
acknowledged power of the legislature
to provide a minimum and maximum
term within which the trial court may
exercise its discretion in fixing SEN
tence. taking into consideration, as it
should always, the character of the per-
son as we'll as the probability of refor-
nation: or the legislature may take
away all discretion and fix penalty
absolute.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
The Shamrock.

no SHSmFocks
The original shamrock Of Ireland has
long been extinct The plant called
shamrock u the white clover.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-27
PROHIBITION AND SALOON LEASE

1IOA> AMI SeALtJO.N AEAoG
Property was leased for occupation
as a saloon, and not otherwise Before
the expiration of the lease the sale of
intoxicants was prohibited by law. The
lessor refused to receive surrender
of the premises and excuse the lessee
from further rent, but proposed 10 all
low their usage for other than saloon
purposes. The lease provided against
no such contingency as arose. The
landlord could not have terminated the
lease because the tenant would not or
could not sell intoxicants. If the law
still bound the landlord, the tenant also
was bound. Even if the passage of the
law were deemed destruction OF the
premises, it could afford the tenant no
relief. as in that event he would be still
liable for rent. In O'Bryne V. Henley,
so Southern Reporter, SO, the Alabama
supreme court held that, the liability
and loss having lawfully fallen upon
the tenant, there it should remain.