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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
WELL. WHO DID III

The New York Tribune. In an editor
tal article reproduced elsewhere on
this page. gives its conclusions why
Speaker Cannon should retire. Il had
said that Longworta's protest against
Cannon was justified and his attitude
logical. Neither party principle Tor
party regularity it says IS involved in
the issue as to whether Cannon should
rule or the house rule itself. The Tri-
bune has long considered the powers
rule committee to the membership Of
which the speaker shall be ineligible.
The issue. as the Tribune sees It. was
between Cannon and his supporters,
who desired a czarsllip and those who
demanded freer system. Cannon it
points out, attacked those who asked
for a new deal as traitors to the party
confusing loyalty to him and the ex-
listing system with loyalty to the prin-
ciples of repubicanism and to home
sentiment which had become weary of
the Cannon autocracy and its fruits
in the way of political leadership" The
Tribune refers to the decisive answer
received by Mr.. Cannon in the west
and concludes that few of his former
supporters are so blind not to realize"
that "a revival of the old regime" is
Impossible.
This is all well enough but it fails to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
Standardization of tho Egg.
[Christian Science Monitor.

The New York regulation requiring
that eggs be sold by weight appeals to
the popular fancy with novelty that
conduces 70 POPULARITY: nevertheless 1t
is serious proposition, destined to
have an important effect upon the
poultry business. To the average nom
technical citizen an egg is an egg and
nothing more. But that theory is at
variance with the facts. The grocer
TO whom the raiser ships his egss
grades them according to their size and
fixes his retail prices in accordance
At the season when the value of an
egg approximates the price of street
car ride the best prices are commanded
by the largest and consequently the
heaviest eggs The two-ounce egg Is
highly valued by the fancy trade and
the specimens that run above TINS
standard are carefully sorted out ana
reserved for the most fastidious GUS
toners. ~ crate of eggs that average
a pound ard half dozen brings
enough better price in a fancy market
to make it desirable for the poultry
keeper to breed the class OF mems that
lays that style OF egg.
II is Obvious that the effect of this
policy Will be to produce better egg
laying strains OF hens and to eHml-
nate the layers of small eggs, whfcn
on account of deficiency in weight Will
command so much less per dozen. This
is of practical importance to poultry
men. as it puts premium on the dis
criminative judgment OF the successful
breeder. Whereas the superior value OF
the two-ounce egg has been recognized
and paid for by astute marketmen. the
raisers of such products have not in
yariably received their due reward. In
New York hereafter recognition OF re-
ative egg-values will be obligatory, no'
optional. and when the trade has ao-
justed itself to the new custom Its SUI
periority may cause it to be initiated
generally.
The objection that the smaller eggs
are apt TO be fresher fails to convince
since the freshness of the egg is con-
tingent upon the promptness with
which it is sold. shipped and consumed
after being deposited, and IS not gov
erned by its weight. The large eggs
can be marketed with the same des-
patch as their underweight competitors
If laid in sufficient quantities to com
plete the shipment. and under the slim
illus of the requirement for selling by
weight the heavy egg will form an in
creasing proportion of the general pro-
duct.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
Why Cannon Should Retire.

(NeW y OK lTlDunS.)
We are asked by a correspondent
whose letter we publish in another col
uu7n TO state what Speaker Cannon
has done to make it advisable for other
republican representatives in congress
formerly his supporters. ito repudlate
hinn'-to the extent of announcing that.
If elected, they will not vote for his re-
nomination in the republican caucus.
The Tribune, commenting last Friday
on Representative Longworth's inter-
view, said that his attitude was logical
and that his protest against Mr.. Can
mons efforts to force an irrelevant issue
upon the voters was fully justified. We
gladly give the reasons for that opin-
ion.
We think that the revolt in the house
Of representatives against the system
Of one-man rule in force there has the
approval of large majority of the
voters Of both parties. Neither party
principle nor party regularity was in
volved in the issue raised. which was
whether the speaker should continue
to appoint the committee on rules and
serve as its chairman or whether the
house itself should choose the conn nit
tee, the speaker being made ineligible
LOT membership. Udl was a lHelS oS-
tail of parlia mentary administration in
the house. The Tribune has for some
years past believed that the powers OF
the speaker were excessive and were
being used to discourage freedom OF
thought and action in the lower branch
Of congress and to destroy its sense OF
responsibility to the voters. The
speaker, nominaily the agent Of the
house, had in reality been converted in
to it's master and had become accus-
toned to thinking and acting in it's be-
half. Once elected, his authority was
so unlimited, as to give him absolute
control Of legislation. We considered
that an unwholesome situa ton, and
long before insurgency, as it is now
known, was heard OF in Washington,
we urged an amendment of the rules
which, by making the committees elect
i've instead of appointive, would restore
larger measure Of responsible self
government.
Mr.. Cannon and his supporters pre-
ferred to retain the old system, because
it kept the control of the lower branch
of congress in the hands of the speaker
and few OF his Heutenants. When the
demand for a freer system became
strong enough to upset the autocratic
order, Mr.. Cannon attacked the re-
publicans who favored the change as
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23

the country should enter upon the work
Of building permanent roads. And why
not face the problem honestly? Why
heed the politicians demand for bet
ter roads without increased tsxation?"
Good roads cost money and they can
not be had without increased taxation.
There will be no disagreement that the
present generation should not bear the
whole cost OF good roads. The cost
should be spread over the future be-
cause succeeding generations will pro-
fit more than the present from the ex-
penditure. The fairest and most equit-
able plan is to adopt some scheme
whereby the unearned increment ac-
cruins from the building of permanent
roads shall bear the burden of their
construction. Ii may be only an ir-
ridiscent dream to hope for permanent
roads but it beats supine acceptance
OF present conditions or the childish
folly of good roads without increased
taxation"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23

traitors to the party. He confused 10y
atty to him and to the existing system
with loyalty to the principles of repub-
licapism and to home sentiment, which
had become weary Of the Cannon auto
cracy and it's fruits in the way of po-
litical leadership.
When the campaign for a new
house opened and representatives be-
gan to seek denomination. Mr.. Cannon
went on the stump in Kansas and
elsewhere and assailed republican sup
porters of the new order as traitors
and democrats and asked for their de-
feat on the ground that they had re-
stricted his powers as speaker. Logi-
cally his assault put upon the candi-
dates whose nomination he favored and
on representatives who had stood by
him in the rules fight last March the
burden of seeming to commit them
selves to the speakers vindication in
the next house and to a revival of
the old regime. Few of his former sup
porters are so blind as not to realize
that such a revival is both impracti-
cable and undesirable. The house has
shown a remarkable advance in legis-
lative efficiency since the rules were
amended and the country is thoroughly
TO relapse to old conditions. Many
former supporters of Mr. Cannon have
been defeated for denomination because
of their association with what is popu-
larly known as "Cannonism." Others
who have won denominations feel that
they would greatly weaken themselves
II they should be forced into the atti-
tude of asking their constituencies to
re-elect them for the purpose of re-
storing the speakers autocracy. We
think that Mr.. Cannon ought to see
that such an issue should be kept out
of the congressional campaign. His
availability, as a candidate for speaker
terminated when the system of which
he was the representative was over
thrown. The proprety of his withdraw
al as candidate for the speakership is
obvious, since his continuance in the
field unnecessarily encourages raction-
alism and Injuries the chances of rep
resentatives whose friendship for him
is now subjecting them to serious en-
barra ssment
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
GRADUALLY.
DUBUQUE Telegraph


Gradually science is discovering
cures for the "incurable diseases. Grad
ually sociology is proving that drunk
enness and prostitution are not evils Of
heredity, but products of environment,
bespeaking blood disease in the body
economic.
Gradually humanitarians are discoV-
ering the relation of the wrecked body
to exhaustive labor and excuses in
living to unnatural desires created by
such labor.
Gradually society is recognizing that
high rents and landlords greed make
the tenement a breeding school Of vice
and disease.
Gradually we are connecting high
tariffs which put woolens out of the
reach of the poor, with tuberculosis
and pneumonia.
Gradually we are associating the pos
session of superlative wealth with vice.
corruption and decay.
And gradually we are opening our
eyes to the fact of our individual and
collective responsibility for these evils
which we have laid at the threshold of
heredity as children born of its house.
Ours is the responsibility but the
DEAD HAND draws ven over ou1 eH es
and over our minds weaves a spell with
the wand of the Past.
Il suits the designs of the Predatory
to have it so.
But in this age OF enlightenment
when the aspiration of moral men and
women is TO secure equal footing and
equal opportunity for every son and
daughter of the common Father. the
bugaboo of heredity has no place ex-
cept in museum of antiques.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
THE COLONEL AND TAFT.
[sioux City Journal

The news from Oyster Bay suggests
that President Taft is in sight of un-
ristakable faggots and that he is being
SO surrounded that by the time the
fire is started he will feel the uncomfor-
table sensation Of having the fat fried
out of him William Howard on his
direct responsibility is not charged
with objectionable offense, but the feel
ing is entertained that he has so many
wicked partners claiming membership
in the republican party-most Of the
offensive ones holding commissions OF
some sort from the party-that 1t is
necessary. in the cause of promoting
the public welfare. to lay hold. ruth
lessly and wholly apart from the senti-
mentality Of mercy, Of the largest sac
rife available for vicarious offering. 1t
IS condition rather than theory that
stares the colonel in the face.
The colonel is not after the small
game of 1910 but the kicking Of heels
in his neigh borhood gives him strong
temptation to use his spurs and burn
powder.
On Tuesday the colonel will set forth
on his western trip. It is not his in
tention that his speech shall have bear
ing upon personal politics 1t is not
mis- intention at this time to debate the
Taft administration, the Saratoga con-
vention or events leading that way
But the trip itself must make an
swer. day by day. for the killings to
be found excusabIe in the interest Of
science
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
Topics of the Times

There ought TO be some way to ap-
ply the pure food laws TO juries-at
least in Cook county, Illinois.
California thinks OF sending one over
the plate by electing A G. Sapuidins
to the United States senate.
Mckinley, who failed in his mission
as a standpaS agent in Kansas, has
been nominated by his California con-
stituency to stay at home. That's prob
ably what he wished he had done in
the first place.
About the easiest thing in politics
just now is to declare against Can
non.
Jim Patten sees bullish wheat mar
ket ahead, and il breaks his heart.
The way We build these big drainage
bitches in Iowa is the way we should
build roads. so far as financing the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
WHY EXPRESS coMPAN1Ese
TS;oux City Tribune1

GSioux City Tribunel.
One hundred and twentyfour boards
OF trade have Joined in a request 10 the
interstate commerce commission TO In
vestigate as soon as possible the ex-
press companies and the express rates.
This is very important move, and
coming so soon after the enactment Of
the new railroad law shows a determi-
nation on the part of the business men
of the country 10 force the law into eff
feet Business men are learning from
the example OF the shippers who went
to Washington pending the attempt TO
advance freight rates. that by acting in
concert they can influence hesitating
and inactive department of the govern
ment into motion.
But. as against this prompt move
ment of the 124 boards Of trade. must
be counted the overloaded condition of
the interstate commerce commission
under the new laws. 1t is being given
out now that the commission has more
on its hands than It can do. And that
fact advertises another suggestion
made lately, that the express business
as carried on in the United States is
graft on the transportation business
that should be abolished altogether.
Transportation companies do the ex-
press along with their regular freight
business IN Europe, and why not in this
country"
The general belief that express rates
are entirely too high and that no prac-
tical relief will come thru the overbur-
dened interstate commerce commission.
may make the abolition of the express
companies an issue in the next con-
gress The Hepburn law, enacted four
years ago. was supposed to bring the
express companies under governmental
control. but there has been no percept-
ible effect. We enact laws and the par
~ in power congratulates itself before
the people on the enactment. but the
people. in many cases. wait in vain for
the desired effects.
Men elected TO office have come to
think. or many of them apparently have
come to think, that the only thing ex-
pected OF them is TO win at the polls
and draw their salaries. If they can
win they seem to think they have put
their party under sufficient obligation
TO cancel all other claims. This class
OF men is going out of fashion and out
Of place rapidly, but yet they learn
slowly, and if the people permit 1t they
VIII be succeeded by others who will
do as they have done and not as the in
terests of the people demand.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23

reach the spot. Cannon is very min
or incident His name has simply been
applied descriptively and technically to
a system and gang Of which he was
merely the herald and servant. Now
that he is utterly worthless to the pow
ers which have employed and protited
by him it will be useless to attempt TO
load him with the sins OF the gang and
the system and send him out as a
scape goat TO carry the burden of pub
lie resentment. What of those who
made Cannon and kept him In the face
of popular resentment and general de-
mand? Cannon was but a fugleman.
He may have confused LOYALTY 10 him
self as loyalty to the party. The gang
behind him has and does classify OBJ
lection TO its supremacy as autocrats
of the party as plain rebellion. The
insurgency which has brought about
such marvellous changes in the heart
of Congressman Smith and other
staunch Cannonites which has sent
such newspapers as the Cedar Rapids
Republican Fastening 70 deny Cannon.
not thrice but thirty times between
cock crows is still listening 20 the
chorus Of traitor"
The "od system" Of congressional
procedure Is not the heart Of the mat
ter I; was only sylnptonlatic, an erup
ton which showed the deep seated d.
sease within. The knife mus, go 10
the bottom OF the abscess. A fake op-
Grafton which eliminates Cannon Wi,
no, suffice. The republican party needs
a more thorough housecleaning than
the mere carrying oui Of Cannon on the
shovel Il needs a revival OF Roosevelt
ism. L needs the square deal. Can
mn and Ballinger are the sym pronas.
no more. And Ballinger is still an ac-
tive symptom Of the influences which
should not be permitted 70 make cabi-
nets or control legislatures or con-
gresse-.
If this is ali true. If Cannon:sm and
The system which Cannon and other
corporate representatives typity IS TO be
relega,4d why not give credit where i,
belongs? Why move heaven and earth
70 discredit the senators who represent
81 Iowa in the struggle and put the full
pressure Of administration displeasure
against the Kansas delegation which
boldly proclaimed popular rights? No
body VIII have nerve TO assert that
the standpatrers from Iowa or Kansas
did augh, but oppose the dethronement
Of Cannon until the cowardice OF politi-
cal life sent them scur-ydng to make
peace with the people.
The change Of front has begun. The
system IS sinking and there is great
scurryiag ot rodents, not those rodents
OF reform" Of bibulous and alliterative
oratory, but very different kind Of
RAJ:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
QuARANIINE...A FARCE.

InfantiIe paralysis is not Quaran-
Unable disease IN Iowa Bubonic
plague is. There are probably hun
dred or more cases Of infantile paraly-
sis IN Iowa, perhaps two hundred. Bu-
bonic plague IS at present about as
dangerous in this state as leprosy. Per-
maps some medical man has heard Of a
case OF either perhaps not. But We
can quarantine the diseases we have
not ard may never have within the
state while the most dangerous cpl
,ierllic which ever threatened Iowa goes
absolutely uncontrolled by law.
AsiaStic cholera Is quarantiaable in
Iowa That is Il by any remote posi-
oility a case Of this disease should be
discovered in the state we could by law
guard it from spreading Infection, but
cerebo spinal meningitis is Quaran-
Unable only when II is epidemic. That
IS when Infection has been sufficient
~ spread about to stamp the disease as
epidemic this terrible human scourge
may be Quarantined.
The last general assembly provided
BY law that quarantine snail not be
established or maintained or funigation
CURED except in cases Of scarlet
fever, diphtheria. smallpox, cholera,
leprosy, cerebro spinal meningitis and
bubonic plague" E-ysipelas, typhoid
fever, pneumonia and tuberculosis are
all highly infectious and contagious.
but IN these as in infantile paralysis
the hands OF the health officers are
tied. And until cereoro spinal menin-
gifts becomes epidemic it is free from
quarantine OF any kind.
Il all illustrates what car be done
against the public health and 10 the
public danger by the cry OF a doctor s
trust put up b. those who have
g-udges to feed and ends to serve. 1t
is a disgrace to the state and a ques-
ton mark upon its Intelligence that a
neighborhood row between physicians
should have reached far enough TO en-
danger the lives of children and the
health of communities. The next ses-
sion should repair the mistake ef-
fectually.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
thing goes. But long will it take the
state to wake up to that fact?

thing goes. But long will 1t take the
state to wake up TO that fact?
The latest earthquake In California
damaged none but standpatters.
Defense is made in the Illinois Gen.
trail graft cases that much money de-
clared stolen was used to bride legis-
lators. Talk about Your fine distinc-
tons!
They have appointed a special detail
in Chicago. But who will guard the
detectives?
A hot competition wages among a
dozen western cities to be the one
where Roosevelt defines his political
position"
Why should there be any doubt of
where Roosevelt stands? Did anyone
ever catch him doing or saying any
shing reacuonary? I, isn't riddle
enough 10 puzzle a baby.
Meanwhile, what has become Of
Diekema OF Michigan?
Vice President Sherman has been
exonerated by the Gore-Indian inves-
tiga,ing committee. Well, that's all
right; he needs it.
In Ohio they order out the militia
TO discipline the police. II Iowa the
Cossor. laws do the business.
A New York man bought his bride
a horse and buggy instead OF an auto,
aid she merely slapped him.
A clergyman says auto scorchers
stand no show TO go to heaven. It
isn't Claimed, tho. that they may not
do a good work IN sending others there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
THE LODGES.

n MASONIC NOTICES.
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II. S. Lawrence. Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 80, r. A. n
Stated convocation Monday evening"
Aug. %.
George H. Boggis. b. 81. p.
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KING SOLOMON COUNCIL. No.
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day, Aug. 20. 8 p. m.
A. d. Meeker. T. I. n.
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ST. ALDEMAR COAfMANDERY. No.
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ire. Aug. %. 1909, at 8 o'clock sharp
Fred Wallace. Recorder.
Fred N. Wilbur. E G.
CENTRAL CHAPTER, Nc. a., O. ID.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday even.
ing, Sept. II, p. m.
Mrs. George Downing. W. u.
Edna c. Fuia-ton. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
IoWA'S LOSS OF POPULATION.
Monticello EXpreSS1.


There is good deal OF wasted talk
over the subject of loss of population
in Iowa, and the effort to boost its in
crease. Why should Iowa seek agri-
cultural immigrants? 1t has no unoc-
cupied land. Its soil is all under Gull
tivation and increasing so rapidly in
value that men without capital can no
longer purchase II. Young farmers.
with slender means, and the laudable
ambition to own farms of their own
have done the sensible thing Of going
where they might get what they could
not reasonably hope for in Iowa. The
high priced farms of Iowa will be d.
vided into smaller holdings a genera
ton hence. among the descendants OF
the present owners. Let us keep what
we have for our own. We car support
a much bigger population than we
have. but when the cheap lands OF the
west are gone. the desired increase will
come, in a natural way. without losing
our young men. Where there are now
farms of several hundred acres sup
porting one family, there will then be
farms of a hundred acres supporting
as many.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-23
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