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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

canasas ~6ea- crap a= yes-
would have made t-sfz s55 rifles
long. Il vas grown on cheap a1d zre
Is one Of The things u Eaich DRY
IS laid By the Republican tariff Ar
in the interest II American tzrne-z
70 prevent il from coming into coup
tition in this country With the hone
grown product
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

The present national administra-
ton has converted Al annual deficit
OF SIS .0a0 de7 fnto surplus Of $50.
o00e90- Arr administration doing
that IS entitled 20 the admiration. re
spect and co-E6ezcs q rhe country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

Il Is announced t.zt II means Of
the X--ay and ne 1z-lz-zcros-
Ecop3s Il I'll q ~ co--e-est kf-d
Of thing 70 hare -oTEz 7es ri
brain .act5s1- NeTsIhs.ess Ctzzo
raPa- declares + VII II =E q
s1ue paopIe
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

Mr. Belier AMI Miss Ball we're mar
RED in Harlem, No. the other day
and we are asked 70 believe it was
quiet affair TIE announcement
doesn't sound tat way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06
"But a Knock. to Repub,lcanlsm.

THE Democratic textbook for 1910
will simply be collection Of
speeches knocking-to use an express
sion of the day-the Republican par
ty. It's introduction says: IT intrust-
ed with power it (the Democratic
party will make record which will
mean much for the prosperity OF the
masses and in continuation OF the
principles Of free government
But nothing is said OF the period
when the Democratic party was In.
trusted with power, or the calamity
to the nation. and adversely, instead
of prosperity, that came to the
masses.
In one ext-book we have proud
party record--in the other sneer at
that record as plea for office.
"A Republican campaign textbook
then is primarily record. not an arr
gument: but as every good record
must obviously be a good argument,
the following pages constitute irrefut-
able evidence on which to base an
educational campaign" =
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

The oyster is again in or ni5zt .
The lobster ne have had Win Is
right along. There's 10 sEca -Afr= Is
getting rid of him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

High moral ground K osz 4
bluff admits the 5-s-ss- 1es
Moines News. That Is vhze he Care
City has been saEing III zE1zg
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

1910 it has been 2,p51. e00. The decade
Just closing shows an increase OF 522.
600 greater than that OF its predeces-
scr.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

The Fort Dodge Chronicle wonders
how one cone can ho.d so many kinds
of chemicals and. have room left for
a nickle's worth of ice cream.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

Bristow reminds o-e If PsEg-oes
Moines Capital
And PETER reminds ore o. socklass
Jerry SimPson.-aad there voa are.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

Stopping an advertisement to save
money is like stopping clock to
save time, declares the New Sharon
Star.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06
SEPTEMBER.

Now softened suns a mellow luster
shed.
The laden orchards glow with temp
ting red;
On hazel boughs the clusters hang
embrowned,
And with the hunting horn the fields
resound
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

The best seller in London is a novel
entitled "The Silent Woman" Every
body wants to find out wha shf is.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

It is the consensus OF opinion that
the real trouble with vacations Is
the week after.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

An Iowa man who is IN the tomb
stone business offers to present love
" leather-seated rocking chair to ev-
cry one who buys a monument at his
place.
The Monticello Express says the
insurgents have split the Republican
party open vide enough to permit a
few Democratic congressman to drive
through
The Minnesota supreme court has
confirmed the sentence of st. Paul
bank president TO thirty days in the
Torkhouse for reckless speeding of his
automobile.
According to the Philadelphia In
quirer. there are 731,ooo,0o0 acres left
Of the public domain. on most of
which jack rabbits now have hard
time making a living.
The Waterloo Times-Tribune says
the trouble with the average dirt
road is that t is all right in dry
weather and in wet weather it is not
convenient to work on 1t.
The Iowa CITY Republican says that
If the insurgent congressman could be
taken into a corner and induced to
reveal their real sentiments they
would confess that the Joe Cannon
issue is humbug.
The Dubuque Times-Journal says
that the primary, instead of abolishing
the boss, makes him more necessary
than ever before, and makes it i'm.
perative that his advice be accepted
as the law of his faction.
The Charles City Press recalls that
Roosevelt is on record against a
third term for the presidency, and he
considered that the two-term custom
was a wise one But" the Press
adds. circumstances may change a
mans mind
God hates a coward" SAYS Uncle
Joe, dying with his boots on, notes
the Dubuque egraph-Herald. And
men admire man who sticks courag-
eously by his guns though the heav-
ems fall. Joe Cannon's courage is APP
plauded where his political morals
and views of government are con.
demned."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06
Tables Show Success Of Tariff.

Tables are given showing the lat
est figures concerning imports and
exports and revenues under the oper-
alton of the new law in comparison
with the Mckinley, Wilson and Ding
civ laws; and extracts from various
speeches made in congress explaining
controversial points are given, the
subjects covered being wood pulp and
print paper, structural steel, lumber
prices, etc. Then followed conden-
sation of the report of the select com
mittee of the senate on wages and
prices This is followed by an article
on wages and cost of living by Sam
uel Gompers, reprinted from the
American Federationist.
Then comes chapter under the
caption of The Administration, CIV
ing a complete resume of the work
of each department of the govern
ment and the various economies so
far brought about during the Taft adj
ministration Following this very
+ complete record of the work of the
department comes about sixty pages
! of general statistics, showing the ma,
TONS progress under Republican leg
islation during the past half century,
and particularly since the last admin.
j istration of Grover Cleveland.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Atlanta Journal has noticed
that some men when clothed with
authority show mighty sorry fit
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

An Iowa man who is in the tomb
stone business offers to present a love
" leather-seated rocking chair to ev-
cry one who buys a monument at his
place.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

The Monticello Express says the
insurgents have split the Republican
party open vide enough to permit a
few Democratic congressman to drive
through
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

The Minnesota supreme court has
confirmed the sentence of st. Paul
bank president TO thirty days in the
workhouse for reckless speeding of his
automobile.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06
Department Work is Reviewed.

These figures cover fully all depart
ments of agriculture, manufactures,
mining, forestry and fisheries. as
well as figures concerning railroads,
insurance, banking, army and navy,
pensions, immigration and complete
statistics covering our foreign trade,
revenues, expenditures, ct cetera.
The conservation policy is given
considerable space, as well as labor
legislation, negro citizens and miscel-
laneous statements, which include ex-
tracts from many speeches made at
the recent session Of congress.
The last national platform is CIV
en- in full, as well as the recently
adopted Ohio Republican platform.
The appropriations of the last session
as compared with preceding years,
are given, accompanied by state
ment of Representative Tawney,
chairman of the committee on appro-
priations.
There is copious index covering
several hundred subjects, while
throughout the pages of the book are
found brief quotations from Republi.
can leaders of the past and present.
Democratic Book but a TRADE.
The scope of the book Is clearly in
dicated by the editors note, an ex-
tract from which follows:
For many years during both presi.
Dental and congressional campaigns,
Republican and Democratic commit
tees have issued so-called campaign
textbooks The character of these
publications remains much the same
year after year. Republican text
books have made prominent the rec
ord Of the party, the legislation en-
acted and the accomplishment of the
administration. Facts and figures are
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

According to the Philadelphia In
quirer. there are $4,000, 900 acres left
Of the public domain. on most of
which jack rabbits now have hard
time making living.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-06

The Waterloo Times-Tribune says
the trouble with the average dirt
road is that t is all right in dry
weather and in wet weather it is not
convenient to work on It.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
THE ETERNAL FEMININE.

Consider now our womankind-the
marvels that in them we find. Indoors,
they drive you nearly daft by saying.
Dear, what MAKES that draft" and
drain your purse and wiring your soul
by lavish burning OF the coal. But
while the blizzard RACES loud and all
the earth is wrapped in cloud, and
all the talk by day and night relates
10 minus Fahrenheit, they walk abroad
serenely warm, ignoring all the arctic
storm, in open hose and low-cut shoe,
and yoke quite plainly peek-a-boo.
They make you buy expensive cloaks.
and cite the wives OF other folks, TO
show that bottles topped with fur
are RECHERCHE and DE RIGUEUR;
and when the otter hosts are thinned
and all the seals and check books
skinned, In weather Etah-like they
stroll. quite bare OF head and calm OF
soul, ears, noses kissed by Boreas
rough. and hands in fifty-dollar mum.
We irk our souls with problems
deep. or bread too dear and men too
cheap, and how the tariff will pan out.
and many things OF fearsome doubt.
Our forests soon will disappear; the
coaless age apace draws near; the
wrinkled planet WAKES old, and brings
grave problems manifold. But when
all these shall yield TO man (harmoni-
GUS with cosmic plan), the superman
OF that glad day, may turn TO super
man and say, Consider now our
womankind, the marvels that in them
we hnd!"
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
WHY THEY SMILE.

II Is reported from the national CAPT
tai that Morgan and the railroad presi
dents are satisfied with several fea
lures of Taft's proposed legislation for
government regulation OF the great
traffic concerns. There's at least one
feature that should please them might
lily. We refer 10 the proposition to
amend the Sherman law so as to le-
galize purchases already made by rail-
roads of competing lines.
This proposition is, in effect. that
II shall be lawful for thieves who al
ready have stolen property on their
person to keep It. There shall be no
more pocket-picking. but the rascal
who already has succeeded in flching
your purse is entitled to II. This is
the principle OF the thing and 1t is
something to arouse the shame and
disgust of all honest men and the
scorn and delight OF thieves
Why shouldn't Morgan and Standard
Oil and ravenous robber trusts rule
the commonwealth, when we have a
government which opens the prison
doors to criminals and tells them TO
go forth with their swag. unwhipped
by justice simply because they have
the swag?
Well may the Morgans, the Wander
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
A City Fireman
Gets sig a Week If
lie Lives Three Years
Would YOU Object To An In
crease Of TWO Dollars Week
IN the Pay Of These Brave and
Faithful Protectors Of Life
and PROPERTY

adopted by that body calls the fire commission to include It's
annual budget pay 500 fireman below the
rank d captain
The i therefore put up the estmators.
suggests that they favoab upon
the proposition when it before them.
Take the case year and receiving $500
For two years previous which makes his
weekly pay years than $le
The maximum after three years service in qualifying only
three dollars more or a little $19 week.
dollars for "a hours his time week in and week
su every that time likely be called to his DOOM
through SufOCatiOn through fall ncneraOn to have his life
eushed out under falling wall
called upon daily which few face
lifetime times what
Mould be paid in lifetime.
expected fireman. view of the efficient
service Of the Detroit department protecting lives and the property
the community there should be found few Of the bgudge
s increase in their weekly pay less than two dollars
The pedcamen Of the fireman who has wife and family sup
art $ls living today only
Forth wonder how he do it.
An investigation question should the emators
wanting called upon by
Ne citizen in distress
They intelligent capable boys every
taxpayers Of the city faminded and apprecav citizens should
Insist that the esmatOn respond with willingness
enes to this appeal behalf
Arenen respond when it is the taxpayer
The call boys (r Estmaton), Faplay
Justice
Get to the scene just quickly possible.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
This Action Was Due
The Home Merchants
okiA License viii Have the Effect
~ Keeping Out ltlnerant Con-
ce-ns and Protecting the
Local Buying Public.

The homo merchant under expense year around good
lines and bad giving employment residents his city and paying his
nhaze Of the expense Of running the municipality
He himself pan home industries do those in his employ,
md together the established employer and employee contributors
Nard their city's general prosperity and advancement.
The Detroit merchant has just passed through trying business
During the panic not present yet
places he obliged keep his help dig
Town as deeply for taxes and for his living expenses.
Now that the times have frightened along
g the harvest and take that from storeeeer
be his for having nursed the ground seeded it. it.
The license fee Of 500 which voted i'm
pose itnsrant should prohibit competition establish
INC itself next door to the Detroit future
Both merchant and buyer should profit by legislation for the
s buy always from the who the ground days
year and who aims for established through effort to satisfy
and giving dollars worth of value for a dollar
The action of the council the spirit of fair play
a and to home industries should ALWAYS
CONE FIRST
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
Friday January Il.
1910
CORPORATION TAX WILL NET
UNCLE SAM $25,OOO,OOO A YEAR

WASHINGTON. Jan. THE latest
estimate made by the treasury depart
ment is that about $l5.OOO,OOO will be
derived by July /. 1910. from the cor
poration tax. This will go bnt short
way toward meeting the present $685.
00O, 0OO deficit I'm the government reve-
nues from tariff and other sources.
The largest possible revenues from
the first levy OF the national corpora
ton tax as now estimated by the treas
ury authorities Is $25.000000. OF which
elO, 900, 900 at least will not be paid
In until after midnight June 30. and
will therefore not be entered In the
present fiscal year.
What the treasury deficit at the end
of the fiscal year will be can only DO
estimated. The treasury authorities
are hopeful that IL may decrease, ow-
ing 10 better returns from the new
tariff law in the last three months or
the fiscal year. April, May and June.
The &C districts OF the internal reve-
nue. service have sent out all their
blanks and now have the returns
pretty well In. The taxes are assessed
by the internal revenue commissioners
ON there returns. and they are then
redistributed TO the various collection
districts for collection IL was found
that instead OF 10000 corporations
in the United States, as estimated
originally by the treasury, there are
over 100000. But perhaps one-third
or one-half OF that number Will be
found TO have gone out OF existence or
To be non-taxable on account OF lack
Of net income, which only Is taxable
urder the law.
| Four kinds OF blanks are coming In
as returns OF four kinds OF corpora
ticns. namely. mercantile. miscellane-
Gus. banks and other financial corpor-
atoms, and insurance companies. Each
OF the corporatios must make sworn
returns through the proper officials
which report their gross income from
all sources. all deductions as we'll as
depreciation OF plant for the calendar
year January TO December inclusive.
| 1909, dividends. fixed charges. also
stock issued and bonded or other in
debtedness. Evidence thus furnished
is secret and may not be used except
for collecting the government revenue
from corporations.
II concealment is made OF property
and the commissioner OF internal reye-
nue. has cause TO believe that any cor
poration is making wrong returns or
concealing property. he is empowered
under the law TO make examination OF
the books OF the company or an exam
nation Of any other kind he may
choose to develop the facts. A cor
poratlon's official IS liable for perjury
II he knowingly swears TO false re-
turns OF income.
So far. the returns 20 the treasury
have not indicated improper returns,
but nevertheless some Investigations
will be made In instances where the
corporations themselves prefer the
government 70 make sure that returns
fare being made In the proper way. The
circuit and district courts OF the Unit
ed States have jurisdiction TO compel
1.-The production OF books and 10 sum
mon witnesses.
The penalties provided are fines OF
from 81 900 10 $4,000 against corpor-
atoms, or officials OF companies who
do not make returns within the time
allowed under the law. March l of
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

each year. There are penalties also
of double the amount OF taxation in
case OF fraud or fraudulent intent:
also imprisonment for a year as well
as fines.
The large discretionary powers nre
such that there Is no possible escape
from paying the l per cent provided
on net Income above the amount Of
$4,000.
When estimates were originally
made 10 congress the treasury depart
ment figured that this method OF fay
alton would add about $20, 900 900 to
the gross income OF Uncle Sam. It
Is now estimated without full data
that the sum taken in annually will
approximate S25.000000. However.
other sources OF revenue will have TO
increase greatly, coupled with rigid
economies in the matter OF appropria-
lions by congress. to make Uncle
Sans budget go around.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

bilts and their ilk be satisfied. The
Sherman law, upheld by an honest,
fearless president. meant jail. Taft
proposes not only 10 give them clean
bill of health, not only 20 ensure TO
them the swag they have collected In
violation OF law, but also 10 give them
an exclusive advantage in monopoly
in the merger business. There shall
be no railroad trusts save those that
already are IL Is a cinch' II is one
great. big, fat cinch, 10 be established
by national law,
o, that we might have Hartman s
views on such a proposition!
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
From Another Point of View

is better without voluntarily than TO have 70 % ~
put Il later through not being able - - o. W."
Could anything be
half through learns that reo
egg7 ~ - 'eN1''s'
Theodore Roosevelt will referee JenriesJhnson pze sebt
~ cant put on pair OF gloves at least preliminary
Richard Harding Davis separaton
Pie Wife after sourn IN the married
ing of what really s '
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
Insurance Company Reflects officers,

In the annual meeting OF the
Standard Accident Insurance Co, the
following officers were reelected:
Lem W. Bowen. president; d. NJ. Fer
ry, Jr., vice-president; Dwight Cut
Ter, second vice-president; E. A.
Leonard. secretary; NJ, w. O'Brien.
treasurer. The report for the year
was very satisfactory. the earned
surplus having reached over $1,150,-
900. The company has paid in claims
to policyholders over $12.000,OO0.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

It Is unfair to the established
merchant Of any city that a fy-by.
night concern be permitted to set up
a temporary place Of business in q
vacant store or in a hotel, convert
its goods into cash quickly and
move away without paying a good,
stiff license fee for the privilege.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

Detroit city fremen are paid at
present $500 a year the first two
years in the department.
The third year they receive $500.
After that they are paid $1,000
a year so long as they remain in the
service, which raAy mean until they
are killed.
An ordinance introduced in the
common council by Aid. Watson and
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

Chumpleigh-Well. my dear, had
my life insured for $4,000 today.
Mrs. Chumpleigh-I'm glad you did,
John. Now you won't have TO be so
careful about lodging street cars and
automobiles. Daily News.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

Four thousand fishermen struck In
France. It's different here. Here
the fisherman expects the fish to
strike, so he can be yanked out Of
his element.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

eth telephone trust made $50 mil
lion dollars last year, an still they
say talks cheap"
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

President Taft's ancestry has been
traced back to the Mayfower. Al
least they have spared the genealcgi
cal tree.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
MINSTREL MIDGETS.

Look heah, Eph. why am a haber-
dasher lax a section hand?"
"A haberdashcr am lax a section
hand becaze he handles ties"
Dat am right. Now, how kin a
black man max his color fade?"
Let him quit eatin-dat'll max him
a good deal lighter"
I'VE will now suspend de entertain
men while de Sugah Cane quartet
sings He Allus Comes Eroun When
Dey's 'Possum on dc Plate"
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

Maddened man slew a couple OF
boys who were coasting in New York
Was probably peeved because they
were spelling some snow he wanted
to eat.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

picture OF party
smokestaek the steamboats, then)
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

Come. now. Willie. you must have
your bath tonight. We are gong To
start for grandpa's In the morning.
you know"
YES. but what n I get my bath to-
night and then something happens so
we couldn't go to grandpa's tomor-
row s'-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
SURRENDER OF GEN. LEE.

In ne Tenn r. Lees
OF Va
was Aprf9
Lee udhi
andi IN
OF
in
FROM
he artist made oneI picture.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

I'VE shall be rescued-don't lose your
head"
said the traveller lost on the arctic
shore.
"Oh, I'm Keeping COOL" his compan.
ion said.
AS he shifted his seat on the ice once
more. Puck.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

ion said.
AS he shifted his seat on the ice once
more. Puck.
A valentine factory in Worcester.
Mass, WIS burned at a loss OF $780,
coo. However, the owners loss was
the letter carriers gain.
With every other Wand at top fg-
ures. the price OF rat poison may ex-
perience a boom.
Have you heard about Reggie?"
NO; what's the matter with Reg
gie?"
He has brain fever"
Il don't believe IT,
Why"
For the same reason that a rag
doll can't have appendicitis. Dir
mingham Age-HeralG.
We knew somebody would come
ont with 1t. Chicago professor says
women dress for themselves alone
not for man. Yea. and they even make
man help them button their dresses.
De Broke: Funny thing! | got my
cold sitting I'm draft playing
draughts. and the doctor gave me a
draught to cure II.
Wise: Yes. and probably another
craft will be necessary before he gets
his fce.-Boston Transcript.
Congress has attacked the white
slave" trahlc. on, well, some brute
will invent some other kind OF slay-
cry.
virginia couple married in a snow
drift There was GOODNESS noticed
between them, however.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

A valentine factory in Worcester.
Mass, WIS burned at loss OF $780,
coo. However. the owners loss was
the letter carriers gain.
The Detroit times., 1910-01-21

Virginia couple married In a snow
drift There was a coolness noticed
between them, however.