The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-26
THE DAILY GATE CITY
norsa AND COMMENT.

NOTES AND COMMENT.
The washington Democrat has no |
ticed that ''t0uchy' people do not ex-
pect others to be touchy. too.
aLambasting the rich always has
been and probably always will be |
popular game" says the Des MONIES
Capital.
when 1t comes. to the hog, he Is
receiving the respect always shown
the dollar mark" says the Davenport
Democrat.
The Macomb By-Sfander calls atten-
ton to the fact that we are hearing
from the tariff legislation at Washing
ton chiefly through the tariffs
enemies.
The Woman's college in Rome.
Italy, needed good teacher, ana
wisely came to Iowa for her. Miss
Bessie Harris, of Boone. was secured
for the position
The LeMars Sentinel says 1t is no
more uncommon to read OF sales OF
Iowa farms at 1925 to $40 an acre in
these days Of prosperity than it was TO
hear Of land going at 500 an acre
few years ago.
The Iowa City Citizen does not
know whether Mrs. Howard Gould IS
entitled to the separation she is asking
for, but from the press reports It says
it would seem that the jury could give
Howard a divorce without leaving the
box.
aThere are SO called Republican pa
pers in Iowa." observes the Cedar
Rapids Republican, that have been
going fart..er in denouncing protection
than ever Democratic papers did in the
palmy days of tariff reform as
preached by Grover Cleveland"
Colonel James Rusl Lincoln OF
! Ames, commander Of the Fifty-first
Iowa. Is the only candidate for the
| position Of brigadier general of the
Iowa National Guard, position Great
ed by the legislature and soon to be
tfilled by Adjutant General Logan. i
| is believed that Lincoln will be ap
pointed.
There's a voice that calls when the
springtime falls,
And 1t lures vita its siren song;
There's q beck'ning hand from mys
tic land
i to answer its signal long.
For feel the fire Of wild desire
4 To be off to the far beyond,
| Where there's none to say must go o
stay,
Il Where I'll be vagabond.
Chicago News.
The Washington Democrat predict
: that the Democrats will win congress
in 1910 and the presidency In 1917
"And then" the Democrat continues
twill come the hard times. We Sea
Z pect it as much as we expect tn
millennium, and that is sure to come
The panic is about due, for any int
! ligent man knows that lard times ar
due every twenty years and the tim
will be up in 1912. and it will be OH
!. Democratic luck to get In just in tim
for the concert"
: e. B. Hale, a st. Louis negro, d
: clares that after ten years of effol
: he has perfected plan to coloni2
:. 100000 negroes in southwest Mi
!. Esouri. 1t has been the dream of Hale
), life to establish colony for his rae
I that might be self-supporting and i
! dependent of the white man. Mo-
= he says, his dream is about to |
realized. 1t is Hale's plan to bui
= homes for the negroes on $1,000 acr,
= of land in Carter and Butler countie
= on which he says his company has ;
y option. This land will be divided in
= building lots and these will be sold
negroes for S. down and So mont
9 One of the first improvements to
= made on the land. Hale says. will
~ the erection of brick plant, whe
= !. material for the negroes homes M
: be obtained.