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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
MUST BE RENOVATED.
EKno,criile Journal

The demand for a renovation of the
state board of railroad commissioners
will not down. The recent scandal,
wherein we find the board playing into
the ha nds of the railroads. has fixed
public attention upon the commission
in a way that will bring results. 1t will
not do to assume that the railroads
have retired from politics in Iowa,
simply because they have been 30 de-
cisaveIy whipped two or three times in
recent years. We predict great
struggle in Iowa this year, to see
whether the people or the railroads are
going to control the state commission.
Already Col. Palmer has announced his
candidacy for fourth term. He has
served twelve years and has always
been the head and front of the railroad
manipulation of the commission. The
Journal seconds the demand made by
Henry Wallace, that there be two can
didates for the two vacant places on
the board candidates whose affiliations
are known.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
Snakes to Eiaht Snakes.

Let those slay the offensive ophidian
who will. but the curator of the Col
orado Normal School will go right on
raising reptiles by the hundreds, and
will, furthermore liberate them on the
surrounding country and see them go
wriggling off into the tall grass. This
he is doing in order to assist farmers
in killing off the mice and other field
pests, for the snake considers the field
mouse to be about as dainty a dish as
could be set before him. The varieties
which are being raised are harmless,
so that the lives of the farmers will
not be imperiled by their liberation.
The curator of the normal school an
nounces that he will get some speci-
mems OF the Kansas king and black
snakes and raise some of them for the
purpose of turning them loose on the
rattlesnakes of Colorado. as both are
deadly enemies of the rattlers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
Topics of the Times

The first thing that corporation tax
law knows, it won't have a friend left.
If all these woes are the children of
prosperity, we are bound to say that
prosperity can hardly be arraigned on
a charge of race suicide.
AS long as we get from Washington
such reports as the one now stating
that provision is TO be made for spend
ing $1,000 600 annually on the Missouri
river for ten years, we feel that we are
entitled &c s:r o--a opinion as to the
degree of economy put into practice bJ
the government.
One OF the chief arguments put forth
in favor OF the corporation tax Law
when the measure was pending befort
congress was that it would be an ef-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
The Farmer and the r. r. Magnate.
I IN-aal,l1, ]


The farmer is engaged in competi-
tive business and is not given by the
public any franchise or monopoly priv
ilege. When he has consolidated the
adjoining farms he is still in a COM
petitive business = competing with
every other farmer. consolidated or
otherwise. But Mr.. Morgans railroad
consolidation represents the consolida-
ton OF natural monopolies, endowed
with special privileges, privileges which
are conferred TO be exercised in the
public interest and not against it. Mr..
Morgan as a railroad capitalist is en-
titled to receive, for serving the public.
fair return on his investment, and
no more. When he consolidates COM
peting railroads he does it TO stitie
competition and to enable him to ex-
tort from the people more than he is
entitled to receive for the service rem
dered. So long a $ the public depends
in any degree upon the competition be-
tween railroads to insure rates for
transportation. 70 which the public is
legally and morally entitled, just so
long is the act Of Mr.. Morgan in con-
solidating competing railroads to re-
move the restraint of competition, an
offense morally and legally.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
THE DECREASE IN THE MINISTRY.

According to figures in the American
Review of Reviews in the decade from
1898 to 1908 in the Southern Presbyter-
ian church there was a II per cent in
crease in the number Of churches, a "a
per cent increase in membership, but
only a - Der cent increase IN the num-
Der of cIergymen at work. The ordin-
ations in 1898 were seventy, IN 1908
but forty-two, a decrease Of 40 per
cent. In the Baptist church during the
same period there was an Increase OF
10 per cent in the number Of churches
20 per cent in the number Of mem
hers. and IA per cent in the number OF
ordinations. In the Congregational
church there was per cent increa Sc
In the number of ministers in that
time, as against a So per cent in
crease in members. In Congregations
theological seminaries in 1881 there
was one senior to every 1000 church
members. or one to every 1900 church
families. In 1908 there was one senior
to every 5000 church members, or one
70 every 5000 families. The Presby-
4erian church reports in ten years ar
increase of 80 per cent III membership
20 per cent in the number Of churches
with a % per cent increase in the mum
Der of ministers. In 1885 there .'e-:
200 ordinations, in 1908 but 1872, de-
crease of ~ per cent.
what are the causes Of the decrease
Not from consolidation Of churches
Tor there has been less consolidation
Hhau should be. Not from any lacl
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
WHICH WOULD Y,u BUY?


He drew s1.75 a day and it was
mighty hard to make ends meet. When
the children needed shoes-and children
always need shoes-he didn't always
have il, The kids wore the broken rub
bers thru the rain until the paycheck
came al the end of the week and
some times they wore them thru the
next week over wet feet. His wife was
ashamed TO go TO church or on the
street because she looked shab boy and
even ragged. The grocery bill was
terror and the coal bills settled down
on the family like a nightmare. He
never had money. How can a man
have money on SITS? Poor fellow. He
worked every day He wanted his folks
to look Ike other people. He wished
that he might have the jaunty tailor
made suits he saw and envied. But
how could man have anything on
sl.75 a day?
Three beers a day are only Is cents.
Nobody nagged him at the saloon. 1t
was a pleasant sort of a place and
| what little man drinks doesn't cos.
much anyway Sure his wife objected
| but man must be head of the family
| and anyway he worked hard for that
s1.75 day. O, yes, Of course, some
times the boys were in and man
simply has TO ask the fellows 70 have
one once in a while. No self respecting
| man would drink alone with friend
standing by.
On the whole perhaps, the Is cents
ran up 10 a quarter, at times to a
| half dollar and on grand occasions he
! left a dollar or even two. But life is
hard on s175 a day, and man can't
90 without some pleasures, can he?
But a quarter a day would pay half
the rent. Three beers a day would buy
all the rubbers for the family and
leave enough over TO buy silk DIRE
for Sundays, tailor-made suit and
several other things which look good
on other mems children. A quarter a
day would buy five 200 hundred pound
hogs every year and leave enough over
70 buy three turkeys for Christmas. Il
would buy the potatoes for twenty
five families. 1t would buy more beans
than any twenty-five families in Mar
shalltown are likely to crave in a year
It will buy goo pounds of coffee; buy
more flour than the family would use
in two years; more than half a ton
of sugar; eighteen hundred bars OF
soap; pay for the family washing a
year and leave enough over to pay for
six pairs of good shoes or a better
suit than he has had since he began
10 find pleasure at the bar. 1t would
pay the interest on $500 home
bought on instaiiments and permit the
rent money to pay off the whole debt
in ten years.
But what's the use? Any person who
can use a pencil and knows the multi
plication table can run the three o,
five beers a day into a good home OF
the poorhouse as he chooses direction
VIII the individual who takes the tnres
TO five a day please figure it out? An6
viii the community which backs and
approves the business please do a little
figuring on it's own account and con-
clude whether it prefers city of home
, owners to gang Of saloonists as ar
economical proposition?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
SEX IN THE SCHOOLS.

Mrs. CarrOllS advice and Suggestion
that sociology should become part Of
the school curriculum OF Iowa by COM
puIsion is not likely TO be seriously
taken nor TO be seriously considered
The study of sex does not belong il
the public schools. The parents OF
children and patrons of schools will
wax indignant over the mere sugges-
ton and their attitude will be entirely
justified. There is no prudishness in
the indignation of mothers and the
disgust OF fathers over any attempt 10
make sex study compulsory; it IS
rather from a sense of delicacy among
Iowa mothers and of common sense
and experience among Iowa fathers.
There may be an idealistic frame OF
mind which may approach the study
in absolute purity and delicacy but It
is not found in the average child Of
school age. Parents may be and are
rerniss in teaching their boys and girls
the secrets of physical life but the
home is the place for such teaching
not the public school room. This may
be old fashioned and scarcely up to
date of the lorg haired men and short
haired women who spend their time
upon sex analysis but II is OF goo
human fashion and OF the fashion OF
the gentle mothers who have gone on
in their purity and delicate secretive-
ness to the land where they dwell. We
do not want nor are We likely 10 have
sex study which shall open 10 our
children what III the complete conf
dence Of the nome We hesitate 10 re-
veal. There was philosophy in Aris-
totes assertion that some youths are
unfit for the study Of moral philosophy
The suggestion arises from ten
dency which is a weakness and IS rap
idly becoming a vice in present day
society. The tendency is 10 dodge 81
far as possible parental responsibility
and also so far as possible-and the
bounds Of ina gined possibility are wids
flung, judging by this latest suggestion
impose this neglected and denied re-
SpOnSl DIZZY upon tIle SciiOO4o anu S'--
teachers. Il has become an accepted
fact among some mothers that the
teaching force of the schools are e
be made chargea6le for the character
of the members Of the school. One
most excellent woman and mother no.
long since complained bitterly that
the things are not as they should bs
among the pupils Of a certain higT
school and sharply criticised the teach
ers as responsible for the alleged inl-
morality existant This is a growing
opinion and a growing tendency, giver
strength ny social demands and desires
which must be gratified at the expense
of maternal duties and the sacrifice .:
parental responsibility
Sex study nothing: Let the nother'
of the growing girls teach them III;
beautiful mysteries which are part o
maternity and let the sires of sons
teach them the sacradness and splenco,
of sex. Let US cease 10 shirk T,lt
women who would relegate to TIL
teachers Of public schools the highes
responsibility and privileges of mater
nifty do not deserve 70 be mothers. L.
us hear no more Of the new departur
and le- us hear more of honest wori
in the school room.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
THE DANBURY HATTERS.
GOmaha Bee.J

The verdict of $4,000 against the
Danbury matters for damages to the
business of boycott hat manufacturer
brings this famous case once more to
the fore. The Danbury hatters' case
was the one which, when carried to the
United States supreme court, preclpi-
tated the ruling that the Sherman an
ti-trust law applied the same TO con-
spiracies and combinations in restraint
of trade by producers or employers.
The jury found the amount Of damages
sustained to be $4,000 and under the
anti trust law act the victim is en-
titled to recover three-f fold compensa-
ton, which in this case accounts for
the full verdict of 1922 600
1t was the Danbury hat case probably
more than any other that .instigated
the attempt made in congress TO ex-
empt la Dor unions from the operations
of the Sherman law, and still later the
effort made by the labor representa-
tives to commit the great political
parties in their platforms to grant
them this immunity. 1t goes without
SAYING that when the Sherman law was
passed no one had any idea that its
penalties would be called down upon
the trades unions, but the highest
court in the land has held that there
is no difference, except in degrees, be-
tween a deliberate and systematic boy
colt to injure the business of an en-
ployer and a combine of big copora-
tons 10 drive a smaller corporation out
of business If the Sherman law can
be invoked hv the employers against
boycotts, Of = urse il must be inVoc-
able. too, by the employees against
blacklists and lockouts, altho that
point. so far as we know, has not been
adjudicated.
Presumably the present case will
again go TO the higher court and the
final decision will define more closely
the limits of warfare in industrial con-
fiicts waged between capital and labor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10

fective instrument of publicity. Now
it is denied that it ever was meant
to make the affairs Of corporations
public, and the great worry is just how
to prevent what we were led to be-
lieve less than a year ago was most
desirable and most certain to follow
the passage of the measure. Sometimes
it takes longer time and sometimes
a shorter time TO get around the circle.
Here's hope. A seat on the New York
stock exchange has just changed
hands at about $4,000 less than the
ruling price year ago. The cost of
living is coming down.
Meanwhile. what has become of
Diekema? Don't you know who
Admirers Of Peary in New York
have presented him with purse of
$4,000. That's nothing. Some folks
who don't care for Cook at all gave
him something like 100000 few
months ago.
Events may so fall that Taft will be
in Alaska when Roosevelt arrives at
New York. We suppose, tho, the
president will in that case take with
him the keys to the White House.
Perhaps we can even forget the high
cost of food when we see Teddy COM
ing down the gansplank.
r
A bishop down east wants the peo-
pie of his church to do without news
papers during Lent. But how. without
their newspapers. would they know
from day to day what the require
ments of Lent are as the world moves
on from point to point?
The Keokuk water power has Wig
orous rival in the keokuk wind power.
For the Roosevelt home coming,
New York will rent New Jersey, Con-
necticut and other pavilions in the
neighborhood
Inc farmer VINO LOADS tat porher
into the auto and on the return trip
from town brings a piano is also
bothered by the burden of the in
creased cost of living.
A Yale professor says the gold mar
ket is glutted. Now if we could only
find the entrance to the market.
The report has gone abroad that
Senator Gore. Of Oklahoma. has two
pairs of pants. This MAY not end his
career as things go nowadays, but it
is certain that Jerry Simpson never
could have survived similar circum-
stance in Cores neighboring state of
Kansas in his day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
POSTAL ABUSES.
1Gl;dden Graphic.l

In these matters. the truth is ultl-
mately coming to the surface. and will
prevail when il gets there. In the mat
ter of second class postage rates, all
other remedies should be applied to
make up the postal deficit, before the
rates are raised on newspapers ana
magazines Together these publica-
tons constitute universal university
for all. the people. The common schools
begin with the child at years OF age
and continue until he is IS. In small
percentage Of cases educational work
is continued in the colleges But the
work of "the press begins at the
cradle and ends only at the grave. II
reaches all classes, all ages
all degrees of intellect. II
works ceaselessly. patiently and with
ever increasing efficiency. 1t IS
mighty forum. The press is not mo-
nopoly and never can be such. in no
field of human endeavor is competition
| n, re prevalent or more effective. In
| M department of it's work is the gov
| eminent doing SO much for the people
as it does thru the distribution Of ma g.
azines and papers thru the postofhce
department
4 Doubtless there are abuses to be cor
rected Many improvements are pos
sible in postal affairs. Maybe a slight
increase in second class rates should
be made But the fact that the postal
department is the peoples university
should not be lost sight of. The great
work of education now going on thru
the fundamentally of the press should
not be harnpered or retarded. The mag
azines should not be picked out for
especial treatment in this respect.
Their work justifies all the privileges
they now enjoy. There are no million
aire publishers, no trust made prices;
nothing but strenuous endeavor to get
business by meritorious service. Let
! the muckrakers work; they will not
work long where there is no much to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
runce4en Lamps For Farms.

is doing mu1n TO advance the use of
electricity on farms. 1t is possible for
the farmer with a small plant driven
either by a gasoline engine or by dam
ming a small stream, TO obtain suf-
ficient surrent TO light his house and
barn with this economical type of in
candescent lamp. The use OF electric
ity on the farm. by the way, is growing,
and. as pointed ont by the Electrical
World. farmers wili in time come to
consider electricity a necessity Then
it viii be found profitable to establish
central generating stations for farming
districts 20 take the place Of the small
individual plants now being installed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
Farm Labor.

The difficulty experienced in the
United States in procuring an ade-
quate supply of laborers for work nee
essary to be done in the tillage of the
land has been partially overcome by
substituting machine labor for hand
labor. Yet the demand for muscle con-
tinues to outrun the supply. Produc-
ton does not keep pace with the
growth of population. There are
shrewd economists who insist that we
are already upon the verge of the time
when we shall be obliged TO buy some
part of our food supply which we have
heretofore been accustomed to sell.
These prophets Of coming scarcity
and disaster are no doubt far in adj
vance of the event they predict. At
tention to their forebodings, however,
may help us to mend matters and to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10

KING SOLOMON COUNCIL. r. u
M.-stated assembly Monday. Feb. 2
1880 p. m.
A. d. Meeker. T. / n.
/. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDMENT Nd
80, X. T.-Stated conclave Tuesdaysev -
ening, Feb. %, 1910. Visiting Sil
knights always welcome.
F. M. Wilbur. = q
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. No. 81. q. &
s.-Meets in regular session Wedns1,
day evening. Feb 10. at 1880.
Mrs. George Downing. w. n.
Edna c. Fularron. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
Suppose.


A friend Of the late Father Tabb Of
Ellicott City, Ind, said:
This fine poet and good man
thought that class hatred was due to
ignorance-that the rich knew too lit
tie of the poor, and vice versa.
He once illustrated this Ignorance
with the story of a Methodist bishops
wife who addressed meeting Of slum
housewives on their home duties. The
address made the home life seem all
very fine and ideal, but one housewife
voiced the opinion Of the rest, per-
haps, when she said to her neighbors
with sniff:
shes all right as far as she goes:
but what I'd like to ask her Is this
what does she do when her old bishop
comes home on pay night with his ~.
velope empty and fghtin' jag on Z -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
IOWA VS.. CHICAGO PACKERS.
IM1. Yer non iisseeora.}

MI.
Shall Iowa farmers be mulcted in
order to support Iowa packers?
In this question we have the whole
issue in the controversy about hog and
cattle rates, now going on in the Iowa
press Shall Iowa have fair rates to
Chicago, or shall Iowa have exorbitant
rates to Chicago SO as to force Iowa
farmers to sell to Iowa packers?
This paper upholds no brief Tor the
Chicago packers, but neither does 1t
hold one for the Iowa packers. Both
should stand and fall on their merits.
and the farmer along with every con-
sumer should not be obliged to con-
tribute to the Golfers OF either one or
the other of them.
II the railroads charge rate that
discriminates in favor OF the Iowa
packer the Iowa farmer has been de-
Quoted that amount from the price he
received. He sells on the market in
Chicago and Is Obliged to stand the
freight.
| When he sells to an Iowa packer, he
pays the freight ana he gets the Chi
fcago market less the difference OF
freight In other words the Iowa
packer does not pay him the Chicago
/ market price, as ne 5os::..SS e, BIZ. pays
him just enough to net him the same
as tho he shipped 70 Chicago Which
means that the Iowa packer gets his
stock at lower price than the Chi
cago packer.
| When selling time c0rJee Il would
seem that in Iowa the d0Wa packer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
One Cow Per Acre.

One advantage of agricultural exper-
iment stations is working out the prob
lens of agricultural possibilities. An
other benef, is obtained by unlimited
resources to conduct Experimentation,
which are derived by liberal state ap-
preparations. Problems are being eluci-
dated that will extend over several
years of methodical endeavor, which
when demonstra ted will be Of great in
tereSt to farmers.
Among the experimen ts being con-
Quoted at the Illinois experiment sta
ton Is the endeavor to maintain one
COW per acre. Twenty acres of the
experiment farm has been dedicated to
this work. and alreads progress has
been made toward the demonstration
of the achievement. The proposition
to be consummated is the maintenance
of twenty cows on the twenty acres
without purchasing any extra feed that
is not produced on this ideal and min
iautre dairy farm
The cows are fed enSila ge and al
falfa hay in the winter and are soiled
in the summer from corn. alfalfa and
other crops produced on the farm. The
COWS have comfortable quarters and
are allowed to run in south exposure
yard a part of the day. The water is
piped into the barn and a cooling room
is conveniently arranged for preparing
the milk for delivery to the Urbana
creamery. The cows are fed and watered
in the stable. which is cleaned every
day, the droppings spread Intellectually
on some portion of the twenty acres
The present capacity OF maintenance Is
seventeen cows, which is much above
the average of the state, as they show
around a net profit Of $50 per annum
over operating expenses. 1t is expected
that a careful conservation and appli-
cation of the droppings, in conjunction
with the cultivation OF legumes, will
gradually bring the fertility of the LAND
up to the maintenance Of one COW pei
acre, that will produce net profit OF
$50 per head, or an income Of $50 pei
acre.