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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
Soma Birds or Rahies2

Iowa City Republican: Commits
sioner Lincoln's plan to have song
birds by restricting the use of rifles
in the hands of small boys deserves
hearty commentator. II boys can
not learn to shoot except by killing
song birds. then they should not be
allowed to shoot. Song birds are
far more important than marksman-
ship.
1t is a travesty upon human ma
ture that the plea for the preserva-
ton of song birds should be from
a commercial point of view. They
make this globe inhabitable to men.
Without them we could not live. But
they should be preserved for their
own sake, for the light and life they
put into the world.
The attitude toward the preserva-
ton of bird life is changing Men
realize the value of birds as destroy
ers of insects, but they are also com
ing to appreciate the companionshiD
of the little feathered folk Such
appreciation comes slowly, but it is
coming
The old vikings acquired dexteri-
ty with the spear by pitching babies
into the air and catching them upon
the spearpoint as they descended.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
The FACTS IN The CASE.

An article in the city news columns
of The Gate City of Friday last, in
reference to the AMOUNT of business
disposed of by the district court at
its term just closed, was calculated
TO create an impression not in accord
with the facts in the case. The term
was characterized as "a record
breaking one which included nearly
one hundred cases disposed of in the
short term of only four weeks" The
reader would naturally conclude
from this that this large number of
cases had been finally adjudicated,
whereas the facts are that only two
cases were tried during the entire
term. A considerable number OF
cases were settled and dismissed by
the attorneys representing the par
ties thereto, and all the court did In
reference to them was to make nota-
tons to such effect on the docket. One
divorce was granted by default, and
a number of cases were continued by
request OF the litigants. The remain
ing business disposed of consisted
( for the most part of routine orders
entered at the suggestion OF attor-
negs in probate business. The 'busi-
ness" OF the term when analysed Is
seen to involve the final disposition
II very few cases.
One Of the compelling arguments
in favor of the elevation of Mr.. w.
. Blood TO the bench of the district
court is that he would transact the
business Of the court with prompt
+ ness and dispatch and thus effect a
q large saving to Lee county taxpayers
. MS election would be direct and
effective measure of economy, as was
ni1ftrated by the manner in which
:. =, ~ Hi1eharged his duties as county at
Il ''fNsI the business of the distric'
~ '''3T- needs 10 be brought up to date
1t st - y Blood brought up to date
z w 1,ases 81 the county attorneys
y me FasR he offciated in that ca
y ~ aas the snap and vim to
81 @A1 once 1t was UP to date
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
COLLAPSE OF the Auto Trade.


Bluffs Times: Automobile factories
all over the country are amazed at
the sudden lack of demand for their
machines, which appears to have quit
without any sort of preliminary warn
ing. A number of the big companies
are endeayoring to save themselves
by issuing big blocks OF new stock
a sort of watering process designed to
unload over capitalized property on the
general investing public Factories
everywhere are wild to find buyers at
big per cent off from the regular
LIST prices A Peoria dealer says
rev $1,000 autos are now listed at
$500. and slow sale at that; also that
the farmer trade appears to have dis
appeared in a day All the big city
papers contain column after column
OF advertisements, offering so-called
secondhand machines for sale. many
Of which are actually fresh from the
factory, and the auto business seems
to have entered the last stage which
Drecedes its almost entire obliteration.
pretty much as was the case with
bicycles few years ago. Everybody
knew this collapse was inevitable but
it was hardly expected to come for
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
POSTAL CLERKS SALARIES.

The postal department has decided
hereafter to pay two thousand dollars,
instead of one thousand, to the fam
lilies of mail clerks killed while on
duty, The new amount is none too
large. In fact, ii is not large enough,
as the Cedar Rapids Gazette thus
makes clear:
There is not more faithful set
of employees anywhere than the mail
clerks Their wages are not large
not large enough to be given the dig
nifed name of 'saiaries.' Their oc-
cupation is dangerous. There should
be sufficient recompense for their
work and for the hazard which they
continually undergo"
The Gate City is in full accord with
this view. The wages OF R. P. Q.
clerks should be increased so per cent
at least, and $4,000 would not be an
excessive amount to pay to the fam
lies OF those killed while on duty.
Congress would do well to embody
these figures in law at the first OPP
portunity,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
SHOES AND THEIR COST.

A favorite declaration OF Demo
cratic campaign orators at the present
time is that the cost of shoes has
greatly increased as the result of
tariff action by Republican congress.
What is there to this charge?
In the first place hides were put on
the free list. Secondly, we have the
testimony of a man in the shoe trade
that it is without foundation in fact.
The following from the Kewanee Star
Courier disposes of the matter once
and for all:
"A Kewanee shoe dealer who was
asked as to shoe prices declared that
a better pair of shoes can be bought
today for two dollars than at any
former time within the last twenty
years. So, with the prices of other
shoes. While the prices of many of
the lines of shoes handled has not in
creased cent, the quality of work
manship and material in these same
shoes has wonderfully improved
This is the fact as put against the
charge.
1T is a fact that can be brought
out by inquiry at any shoe store in
Kewanee."
Any shoe dealer in Keokuk will
testify to the same effect. The charge
that the tariff has increased the cost
of shoes is a Democratic invention
pure and simple
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
The Good in Odd Fellowship.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: Inc
odd Fellows are good to the young
and to the old. That's true fratern-
al trait. There is nothing eccentric
about the order, in spite OF its name
being Odd 1t does not exist for
show, nor for parade. 1t is a working
and conserving order. 1t exists to
helm men and women. sUp at Mason
citv there is an Odd Fellows home
for orphans and also for the aged. A
farm of 240 acres is under cultivation
and the foodstuffs, in large part are
grown on the land, the orphans doing
the chores and helping on the farm
and in the gardens. 1t is cheerful
colony Of about sixty members. me
bovs like the home and So do the
Urls They are we'll cared for and
they are given the kind of an educa-
tion that will be helpful to them in
tho future. The order does for the
orphaned children what their parents
would have done had they been per
,nitted to live. The matron Of the
home is said to be so well beloved
among the children that they all adj
GRO her. All Of them call her moth
orr The Odd Fellows speakNof her
&c one woman in ten thousand. Such
woman is a jewel, and such an in
,,+,tution Is the highest tribute that
= fraternal order can pay to itself.
There are $4,000 Odd Fellows in
.,a state and the home at Mason
CITY costs them only twenty cents
ner member. The tax is small but
.h;,I NJ what lot of good is done by
that twenty cents per member, When
al helm. when every man does his
hare how easily such burdens are
Snrne No man can hear the story of
NO home at Mason City and not take
og his hat to the Odd Follows and to
o cd Fellowship. It stands for some
thing. It stands for the good of
humanity, for the future.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
An Issue That Fails.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil. The
Democrats have not been able to
gain much Roadway in this campaign
on the increased cost of living issue
Any appeal along this line must be
to the wage Garner. 1t would hardly
do to preach low prices to the farmer.
AS to the wage Garner, after mis-
recent return from trip through
Europe Mr.. Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in an
article in the American Federationist
the organ of his order, pointed out
that the cost of living, when the style
of living was taken into account, diff
fered very little between the United
States and the leading industrial
countries of Europe, while wages
were much lower taan here. Living
is cheap to the wage worker of Eu
rope" he declared, only because he
does without what in America soon
becomes a necessity to him-food in
good quality and quantity, present
able clothes among his aspiring fell
low workmen and their families, and
a comfortably furnished home in
quarters responding to his awakened
desire for equality with his Ameri-
can neighbors. and in general large
and free life" He adds "If the inn
migrant to this country is willing to
continue living here at the same level
at which he was obliged to accept in
his native land, he can find 1t for the
same money" While saying this he
also said that money wages in Amer.
lea in many trades are double those
paid abroad"
The difference is in the standard
Everything here is on higher scale
including wages. Here, too, we regard
as necessities what pass for Injuries
in Europe. Moreover, it is a patent
fact that the advance in prices In
this country has been accompanied by
corresponding advance in European
countries. Insofar as there Is ally.
thing blameworthy in the matter it
is not to be charged to domestic pol.
lev
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
kENNEpY,s WINNING FIGHT.

The facts as to Congressman Ken
nedy's campaign and its outcome are
admirably stated by the Burlington
Saturday Evening Post. as follows:
Very quietly and hardly with the
cognizance of the press even, there IS
a tremendous struggle going on be-
tween the two political parties in this
congressional district in the effort to
elect a congressman. To our mind,
however, the result appears clear:
Charles a. Kennedy will be reelected.
We say this with full knowledge OF
the two candidates and to the efforts
that are being put forth in each ones
behalf Mr.. Kennedy has built up a
constituency that cannot be voted for
any other candidate for congress. He
has made personal friends of the yo-
ters all over the district by serving
them with prompt fidelity. His SER
vice has not been of the Grassland
variety, and but little of it has got
into the newspapers. With Mr.. Ken
nedy membership in congress has
been sacred trust. His work at
Washington has been one of worthy
service. He has labored to be of as
sistance to the citizenship of his dis
trict. Every citizen knows how true
this is-that he has been single-mind-
ed and single-purposed in doing for
all that which they asked and he could
do. We do not see any way that Char
lie Kennedy ever can be defeated for
reelection while he continues on his
present high plane Of service to all
OF the people of his district"
The Post has not misstated the
situation in any particular. Mr.. Ken
nedys reelection is foregone con
clusion, as far as anything yet in
the future can be. The masses of the
people are for him and are resolved
to continue him as their representa-
tive. They know him personally an6
know that he is worthy their support
They appreciate what he has done
for them in quiet and effective way
and they know that with added ex
perience and increased influence a
Washington he will be of still greater
service to them in future. The de
sire to be of practical benefit to hi
constituents and to be faithful to tn.
trust reposed in him has been hi
dominant motive throughout his con
gressional career. No one was eve
inspired with higher or purer motives
or more earnest determination to rem
der worthy service The success hi
has achieved is ample warrant for hi
4 reelection by an increased majority.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

he would keep it there. He has,
moreover, all the attributes of a
good judge and the rights of every
body would be safe in his hands. The
Gate City is willing TO guarantee.
and is perfectly safe in SO doing
that Mr.. Blood if elected will clear
up the docket in short order and save
the taxpayers of the county thous-
time win golden opinions from all as
one of the very best district judges
in every respect that the county has
ever had
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

couple of years or more. The tre
mendous drain on the resources Of.
this country during the auto craze"
Is shown by statistics issued last
week by the American Automobile
association. which announces that the
output for 1910 reached total of So.
600 cars, valued at s24O,0oO,O0O. A
couple of years hence this will be
junk, and it's cost price figure in tbs
list as mostly wasted, precisely as il
It had been destroyed by fire withou.
being insured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
Lesson in Astronomy.

Columbus Safeguard Billy Moon
over in Indiana married Annie Star.
That happened three years ago and
now they have a little son. Mrs.
Moons parents have come to live with
them and they have the son, moon and
stars. The son sits while the Moon
gets full and the Stars fall or shoot,
as they take notion. We admit that
this isn't much OF joke, but if you
have studied astronomy you may be
interested in knowing that the latest
reports from Indiana advise us that
there will be a new moon about the
first of next month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
I the best business men In the coun
A twentieth Century Lullaby.

A Twentieth Century Lullaby.
Fathers in mis- monoplane, sailing
round the moon;
Mother. in the taxicab won't be home
till noon;
Brothers in his motor-boat, on the
silent sea
Rock. wee motor-cradle. in the nurs-
cry!
See the silver Dream-Balloon, down
the Milky Way,
Floating through the starry drift to
bear you far away!
Aeronauts with peoples crowned at
the helm l see
Rock, wee motor-cradle. in the nurs-
cry!
j. l. NJ. in Life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
keokuk, Iowa Oct. %, 1910
HRQOGERS y

Sirena Humphreys, she en-. tell
More stories, An sometimes, wy
she
en- purt' near almost make you yell
You get as scairt as you can be.
An nen Sirena she'll just sit
An watch you SILVER; an she'll grin
An asst you if she better quit
A-tellin' 'em wifi boogers IN
Sirena Humphreys-her folks say
They don't know what in all tn
earth
Make her tell stories hathaway
An men just laugh for all she's
worth
When you get scairt so! wy, she'll
stop
An roll her eyes an twist her chin
An make you almost purt' near drop
When she tells 'em wifi boogers in.
Sometimes it's graveyards, an ghos',
Or sometimes pi-ruts, at II take
Somebody at was loved tn mos
An cutlass EN-! An, goodness
sakei
Sometimes it's cannibals at won't
Eat people while they are so thin
But fattens 'em. Sirena don't
Tell none wifout booger in!
An, haunted houses oo.-wif lights
AT flashes green on ev'ry floor!
An when | lay awake at nights
7 say l won't asst her no more
To tell me things at make me 'fraid.
But very mex time she begin
/ hope she has ghos' or shade
Or mother kind O. booger in!
Wilbur D. Nesbit, in Harper's Mag
azine for November.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
Tavener AS an Advertiser

Burlington Hawk Eye: There Is
no opposition that Clyde Tavener is a
brave young man. Otherwise he
would never have consented to go up
against Hon. James Mckinney for con-
gress in the Fourteenth Illinois dis
trict." says The Keokuk Gate City
Tavener is newspaper man and
knows the art and value of advertis'
ing. He will not go to congress, but
he may be able to advance CORES.
pondent's space rates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
If Walter Wellman really intends
to try it again the humane society
should interfere in behalf of the cat.

A Colorado paper suggests that II
Postmaster General Hitchcock sue
ceeds in his desire to reduce letter
postage to 1 cent he might maintain
the balance of revenue by raising the
tariff on picture post cards to twice
its present figure. Such action would
be in line with the policy OF protec-
ton, and overvorked postoffice clerks
and a long-suhering public certainly
stand in need of it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
One Of the notable gatherings Of The

One of the notable gatherings Of the
present week will be the thirty-sey.
enth international convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
North America, which will begin its
sessions in Toronto on THURSDAY. The
convention viii be attended by over
1000 delegates. representing 100000
members Of the Y NJ c. A. in the
United States and Canada Mr.. c. r.
Joy will be present from Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
The Forces Against the Catholic
Church

Church.
Cedar Rapids Republican: A writer
In the Catholic Review sounds a note
of warning that has some meaning in
1t. He says that some ultra Protes-
tants may be inclined to believe that
it is serving the Catholic church
right, the fact that it is at the pres
ent time beset with difficulties in any
CT the countries of Europe, especial
of Europe But it should be taken In
to consideration that the ultra-radi-
Gals under various designations of
modernism and liberalism are hostile
to the churches, to the Christian re-
ligion in fact. The Catholic church
is contending with them not merely
for its own salvation, but for the
sake of whatever a Christian civiliza
ton may stand for. He predicts that
the time will come when the world
will thank the old church for having
stood it's ground in the earlier years
of the present century, yielding not
and holding fast those eternal prin-
ciples for which it has stood for near
ly two thousand years.
There is some reason in that view
point. The Latin world has broken
away from religious moorings and
the restraining and conserving influ-
ences for the time being have been
greatly weakened. All sorts OF crimes
even are committed in some OF those
countries in the name of liberalism.
The spirit that is manifested in many
places is the exact opposite of liber-
alism, but that name is given to it for
the sake of counting the sympathy, If
not the aid of the outside world. Re
ligious teachers have been killed in
cold blood and the property of the
church has been looted 1t is, this
writer thinks, the mob spirit which
is in the saddle in many places. That
the church does no. yield ought to be
palced to the credit of the church,
not to it's discredit. The church has
| ideals of its own, convictions of its
own and cannot swerve from the
path OF it's faith which is the path OF
its duty.
The fact is that we are in another
period of transition. The spirit OF un
rest is manifest in all parts of the
world. 1t affects the politics of Amer
lea and England quite as much as II
affects the politics of Spain and Por
tugal and Italy. In America it is
against the things that are, in Eng
land it is the same and in the coun
tries of southern Europe all it's mani
festations are against the Catholic
4 church because it has been the great
est existing force in those countries
But we should not take too direfu
views of these uprisings and revolu
!, tons. Periodically they are bound t.
come and they are bound to modif.
the thought of the world. We shall
be fortunate indeed, whether in poll
tics or in religion, If we accept S,
much of them as is really good, hold
ing fast all the time to the things
that are Of the eternal and eyerlast
ing faith.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
Candidate Carver.

Montrose Journal: Joseph Carver
of Primrose was shaking hands with
friends in Montrose and vicinity
Tuesday. Mr.. Carver is president OF
the southeastern Iowa short course
and he is candidate for state sena-
tor. Mr.. Carver is one OF the substan-
tial farmers of Lee county and one
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
old Notion Abandoned

Sioux City Journal: The old no
ton of giving little business to the
country paper to help it along has
been to very large extent abandon
ed. 1t has been found that it really
pays to advertise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

The Carthage Gazette refers to
Clyde Tavener's candidacy against
Hon. James Mckinney in the Illinois
district across the river to say that
MIR. T. has our sympathy but Jim
gets our votes"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

Problem in arithmetic for the boys
and girls in the Keokuk schools: What
is the difference between six dozen
dozen and half dozen-dozen? An
swers can be sent by mail or left at
The Gate City Office.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24
Gone to a Warmer Climate.

What has become of the old fash-
toned man who had chills every otneF
day?-Topeka Capital
If you have reference to the one We
used to know, he has gone wners
chills are unknown.-Des Moines CAP
ital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

The present year will go down in
history as one that had a succession
of beautiful falls, The truth of his
tory in this matter will be attested
by the ayiators.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

Splitting babies was fine art. These
people were our ancestors. We shud-
der at their barbarity, for have we not
advanced beyond the baby-spearing
era, and taken to shooting birds? 1t
is time for another advance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

A Missouri woman complains that
her husband left home to go to a
show one night and never came back.
Must have been an Al show.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

They've been having a "norther"
down in Texas. Iowans who went
there to escape cold weather would
do we'll to hurry home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

A young man named Edward Burnt
was fined $3.50 for kissing girl at
Avon, S. d. He was Burnt" all
right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

What's the use of congratulating
Walter Wellman if he is determined
to try again?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

Ottumwa fans, on the authority of
the Courier, are wondering If Chicago
didn't send the best end of the Cub
team to Ottumwa after all.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

1t is suggested by the Davenport
Democrat that the Chicago fans prob
ably feel something like the Daven-
porter who said. at makes me SO
- mad that just have to Taught"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

Farmers in McDonough county. Iii.
nois, are Smelling out their cribs Of
cid corn and marketing It at from
fifteen to twenty cents bushel cheap.
er than they could have sold it on a
number of occasions since they gath.
cred it. The trouble" is thus account
ed for by the Macomb Journal:
They have raised an even bigger
crop this year than last; II IS noz
ready to gather and the old corr
must go to get crib room for the ne9
crop. So, even after they empty on
at this reduced price, which fl
money'making one. in thirty days tn
cribs will be as full as ever, Oh, Ii,
poor farmeri'"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

The Quincy small boy is nothing il
not precocious. He told his mother
the other day that he wished he had
wings. whereupon the following con.
yersation ensued, on the authority Of
the Whig
"You may have them come day if
YOU are always a good boy was the
reply
q want lem now" said the Young
hopeful, impatiently Il could cover
a heap more ground at second base.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-24

GAS a general thing notes the Es-
therville Republican, the automo-
bile drivers who have the most time
to throw away are the fellows who
take the least time in going from
place to place with their cars