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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
sIGoURNEY.

Keokuk. county politics are begin
ming to look up. The candidates for
the different offices are lining up. /
is said here that Auditor Lynn, Re-
corder Crawford, Treasurer Schwenke
and Clerk Garrett will each be appli-
cants to succeed themselves In their
respective positions. These officers
will ask for third nomination as they
are serving their second term. Super
intendent of Schools McVicker and
Sheriff Grimes will be accorded sec
ond term as they are now on their
first. On the board of supervisors, H.
l.. Snakenberg and James Dunn will
also be candidates for third terms.
Lynn, Crawford and McVicker are
Republicans and Schwenke, Garrett,
Snokenberg and Dunn are Democrats.
Hugo f. Goeldner, county attorney,
will not be candidate for renomina-
ton as he is now serving his third
term. Just who will be in the field, on
either side, for this position, has not
materialized
F. L. Engle of Ollie was business
visitor in Sigourney Thursday.
j. P. Randall of Delta, was busi-
ness caller in Sigourney Thursday
Mrs. Lena Schneider who has been
spending a month at the home of her
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
GIark,s Drug Store. SWenson's Drug Store

imported under the new tariff law en-
ters the United States free of duty
The new act went into effect August
s, 1908, but the bureau of statistics
OF the department of commerce and
labor shows only full months in
statements of imports and exports
Taking the full month of August, the
share of the imports entering free of
duty was 1852 per cent; in September,
1926 per cent; in October, 5O.61 per
cent; in November, 54.11 per cent, and
in December, $3.50 per cent, the aver
age for the entire five months period
being 51.5 per cent. This is larger
percentage of imports free of duty than
under any prior law of this character
except the act Of 1890 which, admit
ting sugar free of duty, showed an un-
usually high proportion of non-dutiable
imports Prior to that time, the high
est annual average importation free
of duty occurred in 1S41, when 1913
per cent of the imports were free Of
duty, the figures for 1910 being 1882
per cent.
In another bulletin dealing with the
principal articles of the foreign com
merce Of the United States in 1909,
which is given in full in another col
umn of this issue, it is shown that the
imports showed a gain of $3.50, ,23S ,493
in 1909 over the preceding year. The
imports Of crude materials for further
use In manufacturing show an i'm
crease of $1T0,000,0Oo over 19OS I'M
ports of manufactures for further use
in manufactures increased $79, 900 900.
Imports of articles ready for conSllmD n
tion increased $66,OO0,O0O.
A good part of this increase in i'm
ports was received in this country
after the new tariff act went into eff.
feet. The increase in the total value
of the articles shipped in is explained
by the statement of the department
Of commerce and labor that more
than half the merchandise imported
under the new tariff law enters the
United States free of duty This
gives reliable evidence that the revis-
ion of the tariff was revision down.
ward -
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03

February 2, for the benefit of the
church. All are invited to attend
Miss Mabel Morgan of Ottumwa is
visiting a few days at the home of her
aunt. Mrs. George Deiters.
The boy social at the Shank school
Wednesday evening was well attend
ed.
Remember, the Courier want ads
will sell farms, horses, cows, chickens,
butter, eggs, as well as everything else
you can think about. One half cent a
word.
Mrs. Mowery spent Thursday and
Friday with Mrs. Thomas Tisdale and
Mrs. Fred Kerfoot
Mr.. and Mrs. George Crawley have
moved from what formerly was known
as the Fred Clark farm to Eldon to
make their future home Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerd Hancock have rented that place
for the year.
Miss Bessie Robertson visited over
Sunday at the Wilkins home.
Little Miss Helen Warren OF OF
tumwa spent Thursday and Friday
with her grandmother Mrs. l. T
Mowery returning home Saturday.
The new home of Mr. and Mrs.
Rossie Turner Is progressing nicely.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
Iona Coal Operators Gipe Reasons
For Demanding Lower Freight Rates

The Iowa coal operators have petit
toned the state railroad commissions
ers for reduction Of rates and March
8 has been fixed as the date of hear
Ing.
1t Is claimed that the Iowa rates on
coal are above those Of Missouri, Illi-
nois and other states, and higher than
many Of the interstate rates. While no
per cent of reduction is asked for spe-
cifically, the coal men are confident
that 1t will be substantial, on their
showing.
Under the present rates, consump-
tion Of Iowa coal by Iowa industries
has not increased even to keep pace
with the increase in the production.
This increase in production has been
taken by the locomotives of the rail-
roads and not by the industries which
have been compelled to depend on
Indiana, Illinois and lakeside coal
supplies. Low, long haul rates have
been responsible, coupled with the
high distance tariff in this state.
Coal Association Backs it.
The Iowa Commercial Coal associa-
tion has begun the action before the
state railroad commission. j. e. Trot-
ter, secretary of the organization, has
signed the petition. N. r. Guernsey is
attorney for the association in the pro-
ceedings. It's other officers are w. w.
Oliver Of Centerville, president; and
A. G. Widmer, also of Centerville, vice
president and treasurer. Mr.. Trotter
formerly lived at Centerville, but the
offices of the association, which are
maintained by him, are located on the
second floor Of the Equitable build
ing.
Last winter in the legislature res
olution was offered directing the rail-
matter of adjusting the Iowa coal
rates. The resolution was ineffective
so far as the commission was concern
ed. The coal men. through their asso-
citation, then undertook the study Of
the situation and Mr.. Trotter for six
months has been engaged in the most
careful compilations which will be Of
fered In evidence before the railroad
commission at the hearing March 8,
to substantiate the claim that the Iowa
coal rates are SO much higher than in
terstate and other state rates as to
make it impossible to develop the
Iowa coal fields. to furnish Iowa people
with an adequate supply Of Iowa coal
at reasonable price and to increase
the number of miners in this state.
Petition is Filed.
The petition as prepared by the
coal officials and filed with the rail
road commission is as follows:
To the Board Of Railway Commits
sioners, Des Moines, Ia.-Gentlemen:
Your petitioner, the Iowa Commercial
Coal association, respectfully states: ::
First--That your petitioner is non
Incorporated association created for
the purpose of furthering the business
and commercial interests of the soft
coal industry Of Iowa.
Second--That Its membership in
cludes the representative commercial
coal mining operators of the state OF
Iowa. It's membership produces in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
Principal Articles of Foreign
Commerce of the u s., in 1909

foreign States during the
department exports by
of articles with preceding
On the side foodsufs
potatoes heay England Ireland Scotland and
s8ooooo cattle
champagne soOoooo; distilled
use shows an Of oo
in % round terms Of which hides and skins
copper undressed and bers
which chemicals dyes amount to approsmaey
oooo diamonds cut but not set $1sooooo various
s4ooo pulp leather about GOO and pup
of about 900 Of which
manufactures ssoooooo
On the @ export side the 00sa
waeat and cattle Th
group
Tor use shows increase
ufaeturng shows
variety of articles
oa and manufactures
about $oooooo
and Electrical appliances ETC. manu-
The following table presents outline the
GROUPS 12 months ending with
IS s4ss7s
% party @ or wholly manufactured 45oo1s 1s2l35os2
manufacturing "
Manufactures
scehaieous 9O6sSS1 1O736642
Total imports s1ss74os7 $475sl25so
Foosuns in condition and food s14ss34
Foodsurs 324S57O57 285067I7s
Crude materials for in manufacturing o42918
Manufactures further
Manufactures ready for consumption
Total domestic 172ss7o1ss 7oo74ssss
Foreign merchahd1se exported 2f165259 2745963s
s152sa5447
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03

criucise poor devil exercising diff
cult responsibility" said the presi-
dent, first give him the same benefit
enjoyed by every criminal-that Of
reasonable doubt" The Chicago Rec
ord Herald. giving emphatic approval
say:
Give not only the president but all
public officials fair show. Do not
jump to conclusions from a rumor and
assume that they are rogues and
scoundrels.
In criticism of them from the presi-
dent down there is far too much of
personal denunciation This Is easy,
1T is sometimes popular, and it is very
often grossly unjust. Two men act
Ing from equally pure motives differ
widely in ideas and policies. It does
not follow because of the difference
in ideas that one of them is liar and
q horse thief and the other saint.
There may be very serious errors Of
Judgment in the performance of ad-
ninistrative work when there Is
not trace of legal or moral wrong.
And IN any case, comment should wait
upon fact, and facts should be inter-
preted jndicially, not with eternal Gym
icism and snarling and an affectation
of perfect virtues
That pose of superiority is much
too common, and those who are it's
victims may well ask wherein they
differ so greatly from other human be-
ings. Have they not eyes, hands, or
gans, dimensions, senses, affections,
passions? Are they not fed with the
same food, hurt with the same weap-
ons, subject to the same diseases,
warmed and cooled by the same win
ter and summer? The superiority Of
the critics is imaginary for the most
part, and in the interest of Justice we
should begin with some effort to ap-
preciate the troubles of the poor
devil exercising a difficult responsible
if1y
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
THE EVENING sToRY4
MISS cAREwE, THE eovERnEss.
BY NELLIE CRAvEY GILMORE.
Copyright, 1910, by Associated Liter

BY NELLIE CRAVEY GILMORE.
Copyright, 1910, by Associated Liter
ary Press.
She was fragile and girlish-a gentle
mouselille little thing, the very anti
been gaunt, be-spectacled person
who numbered her austere years in
the forties, who never wore anything
but black alpaca and whose watch
word was discipline with big D..
Marcia Carewe, was twenty-three, gra-
cious and affectionate, and where her
predecessor inspired only dread, she
commanded instant and abiding devo-
tion.
But the hour had come when the lit
tie governess must leave The two
years she had spent under Chelwick's
roof, caring for Chelwick's children,
had been full Of happiness and CON
tentralmost too full to last. And sud-
denly, in a fash it dawned upon Mar
cia why. She began, at first dimly, to
realize that she had drifted into dan
gerous water. She had no right to find
the house dull when Chelwick was
away. What business had she to
brighten up at his return? Why had
she held her breath and prayed, during
the long spell Of typhoid fever that
threatened to make orphans Of the lit
tie ones? The day he was pronounced
out of danger the world changed for
her-and she knew And now that
things had become normal once more,
when she was no longer necessary,
she would go.
Il was hard to put the things in her
trunk. She recalled, with bitter
heart-pang, that old struggle, before
she found this haven of peace and
rest. What had the future in store for
her? What could it offer-now?
Richard Chelwiclt was out of town.
He would be home on the following
day, and she would wait '~ng enough.
she decided, to thank him for his un-
falling goodness. his generosity, and
to tell him of the new plans she deem
ed were for her betterment.
That night she had her last intimate
hour with her little charges and told
them good >by. Their tears and protes-
tations made it doubly hard for her to
do her duty, but she managed to keep
firm throughout the ordeal Then there
was Mrs. Raymond, Chelwick's aunt
and housekeeper Marcia found it no
easy thing to satisfy this shrewd little
woman's argumentative mind
I'D love to stay" the governess
summed up gently-and ultimately -
but have my own way to make in
the world, and | must make the best
of my opportunities"
But she spent a sleepless. night. She
rose at daybreak and finished the lit
tie odds and ends of her packing
Then she dressed herself and went
downstairs to breakfast
Throughout the meal she was
brighter than usual, under the whip
she had laid upon her shrinking
spirits. But there We're gloomy faces
and silent tongues all about her.
Chelwick came in about 3 o'clock
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
THE CORPORATION TAX TEs

THE CORPORATION TAX TEST.
The supreme court of the United
States will pass upon the national cor
poration tax in an appeal from a case
brought in the Vermont courts by
Stella T. Flint against the Stone
Tracy company. The plaintiff is a
stockholder in the corporation and her
suit was brought to prevent the com
pany from paying the tax. In the low
er court the defendant company de-
INJURED to the petition of the plaintiff
and the demurrer was sustained. Ap-
peal was then taken direct to the SUI
preme court. The plaintiff will be
represented before the supreme court
by Maxwell Evarts Of New York, who
is attorney for Judge r, S. Lovett, the
man who succeeded Hartman in the
management of the Hartman railway
lines. Here are some of the allega-
tions made by the plaintiff in the suit
to enjoin the collection Of the tax:
/. The tax is a burden upon a
franchise granted by the state of Yer
mont, and Is based upon prerogative
and function Of sovereignty belonging
to the state and never relinquished.
2. 1t is violation of the fifth
amendment to the federal constitution,
which protects citizen against be-
ing deprived of property without due
process of law, in that, through the
publicity Of its business, the privacy
of the corporations affairs will be
largely destroyed and it's chief COM
pstitor, general store operating as a
partnership, and all others, will be
able to gain an intimate knowledge
of the company and it's trade secrets,
while no corresponding publicity will
be permitted to the corporation. BY
reason of such unjust advantage the
corporation is dangerously threatened
and will be compelled to surrender
its charter to the state and go into
voluntary dissolution.
8. The tax is unconstitutional be-
cause the private property of the cor
poration will be taken for public use
without just compensation and with
out any compensation whatever, in
that its private books. records, etc.
are taken for publication by the col
lector of internal revenue and given
to the public The corporation will
have no right against unreasonable
search and seizure, and will be com
PEELED to disclose its trade secrets to
competitors.
4. 1t is a violation of the tenth
amendment to the constitution in that
1t Is a burden and a tax upon and
an interference with the power of the
state reserved to 1t to charter and
incorporate corporations.
5. While it is designated in the law
as special excise tax, it is not in
reality a special excise tax with re
spect to carrying on business, but is
a direct tax, and is not apportioned
among the states according to pop
ulation. Neither is it uniform, as re
ouired by the constitution. because it
leaves free from tax all individuals,
firms and partnerships engaged in the
same kind of business as corpora
tions.
This case promises to be one of the
most important in the history of the
constitution, as it amounts to test of
the corporation tax. 1t is expected
that a decision will be handed down
Before June 30 the time set for the
first payments under the corporation
4
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
FOR FAIR PLAY.

President Taft in recent speech
deprecated hasty judgment and intem-
perate attacks on public men. In all
controversies, he urged that there
should be a conscientious search for
and examination of facts. when you
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03

turned to their home in Beatrice, Neh
Wednesday morning.
Cashier A. W. Wadel of the Kes-
wick Savings bank, was transactfns
business in Sigourney Thursday after
noon.
called here last week in consultation
with DIR. Strawbridge in the case oE
little Edna Page and Oswalt Goeldner
who are dangerously ill
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03

mother, Margaret Ritzinger, departed
for her home in Omaha w dnesday
Remember, the Courier want ads
will sell farms, horses, cows, chickens,
butter, eggs, as well as everything else
you can think about. One-half cent q
word.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. II. Schank who have
been visiting at the home of the
Ilatter's sister Mrs. James Williams, re-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
The INCREASE IN IMPORTS,

The following interesting para
graph is taken from bulletin just is
sued by the bureau of statistics of the
department of commerce and labor:
More than half of the merchandise
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03

Sir Thomas Upton is quoted in the
New York World as saying that the
thing he could not get used to in
America ives the great waste at
American tables. Enormous quanti-
ties Of meats" said he, ARE carried
from kitchen to table, to be toyed
with more or less and then be sent
back useless and destined to the gar
bage table" He had noticed this in
the homes he had entered as well as
in the hotels and restaurants. Speak
ing of the waste of meat, Mr.. Upton
said: "a living creature had to be de-
prived of its life to furnish food for
man of which man made the scantiest
use. Huge steaks were served out of
which only the tenderest spots were
cut. The question Of nutrition gave
way entirely to taste or whim. No soil
could furnish produce enough to per-
NIT such waste" Mr.. Upton just hap
pened to notice one Of the factors that
has entered into our living expense
question.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03

Not so many years ago, says a Chi
cago paper farmer" was about as
scornful a slang term as could be ap-
piled to anybody who blundered, stun
bled or 'got in bad" But what, it
asks, would the average man in the
streets say today if someone shouted
at him You Farmer?" He would
throw out his chest and spring smile
as broad as If he owned a gold mine.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-03
MARS HILL.

There will be an oyster supper at
Miller's chapel Wednesday evening
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
The inspirina Raapipea.

1t was at seaside resort. and along
the board walk came marching a band
OF highland bagpipers in full costume.
They were tremendous fellows. but
their music. to my untutored ears, was
like the squealings Of forty stuck pigs.
Yet have never heard strains to COM
pare with theirs for arousing a desire
to die for ones country. think bag
pipe music must have been fashioned
back In the old days by some demon Of
perversity out of the whistle Of ar
rows. the clash Of claymores, the neigh
ing of war steeds and the shrieks Of
the dying. When l hear it l think Of
the wheel of fortune. the car Of Jug
gernaut. the mills of the gods and the
inQuisitorial rack and screw. It
whirls along with a cyclonic rhythm
that sets the feet to tramping and the
blood to boiling.-Robert M. Gay in At
lantic.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
FOREIGN NEWS BITS

The growth in criminality through
out Paris has become SO disgusting
that bill will be introduced at the
reassembly of the chamber Of depu-
ties, providing for corporal punish
ment for attacks on the person.
The Federation OF Master Cottea
Spinners of Manchester. England. Do
clared lockout Of 10000 operatives
and closed the doors OF the TOO mills
owned by its members.
Mail advices from China state that
q Chinese press association has been
formed with headquarters 1t Shanghai
and arrangements are being made to
send correspondents TO oil important
foreign capitals and to al prominent
Chinese eentecs. No loCsdgner0 are
20 DO included among the correspond
ents.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
WASHINGTON, D. c., NOTES

The census OF New Mexico is an.
nounced as 327,396. This is an in.
crease of 81 Per cent.
The interstate commerce commits.
sion ordered the proposed increase in
lumber freight rates from the Pacific
northwest to eastern points suspend.
ed until February 1, 1911.
President Taft has pardoned Ed.
ward A. Boyce, John r. Coyle, Pat
rick j. Hennessey and Thomas Kehoe,
four sugar weighers who are serving
sentences for connection with the GUS
toms fraud at New York.
Bertilhon measurements and photo
graphs of every citizen for public rec
ord were proposed at the American
Prison Association Congress by A. P.
Hall, of Minneapolis, in submitting the
report of the committee on the Grim.
inal law reform.
In receiving the delegates to the
International Prison Congress, Presl-
dent Taft cautioned them against
making prisons so comfortable as to
furnish a motive for violating the law
and also warned against assoc1ating
prisoners who were mere offenders
with hardened lawbreakers.
China - declared to be ON the verge
OF another us,aeaval similar to the
Boxer uprising and the lives Of for
eigners are in jeopardy. Recent ad-
vices from government officials in
China express the belief that an out
break at any time would not surprise
them.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06
BRIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK

The International convention of
carpenters and joiners came to a
close at Des Moines, Iowa. The con-
ventdon turned down q resolution Of
fered b, the Chicago and Milwaukee
delegations to the effect that social
ism Is the salvation Of the laboring
man."
For the first time in fifty years the
doors of the gambling houses in Ne
vada have been barred by the law.
Under the recent action of the legis-
lature of Nevada, gambling is pro-
hibited on and after October l..
The police are convinced that Fred
Wahlenmeyer, who was found at the
home of Mrs. Potter Palmer In Chi
cago, carrying an open knife and with
a bomb lying near by, is demented.
Whether the Milwaukee, Wis, pub
lie schools can be made adjuncts Of
the social democratic party under the
guise of social senters, has become q
legal ques: on 1t is now before
the city attorney.
The Southern Pacific shops at Tue
son, Arizona, were destroyed by fire,
entailing a loss estimated at $3.50. 200.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06

How Romans Took Their Food.
The Romans reclined at their BAN
quets on couches. all supporting them
selves on one elbow and eating with
their fingers from dishes placed in the
center Of the table. Each was sup
piled with a napkin. and knives were
used. though it does not appear that
every one was supplied with one.
Nothing, it would seem. could be more
fatiguing than to partake of repast
In such an awkward posture OF less
conductive to neatness, it being almost
impossible to keep the hands clean
even with water supplied by the slaves
or to prevent the food and wine from
falling on the clothing and the draper
les Of the couch. This manner of eat
ing disappeared during the dark ages
so far as the couch was concerned,
but the popularity of taking food with
the fingers from a common dish con-
tinued afterward for more than 1000
years.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-06

II SUPPOSE all Of us have our little
vanities," says James Hamilton Lew
IL of Chicago. when I was a men,
Der of congress l was called out into
the corridor by a stranger who asked.
Is this Colonel James Hamilton Lew
isr
"'Plain Mr.. Lewis. at your service
I replied.
"'Wen. Mr.. Lewis" he replied. I was
so struck with a speech you made In
the house last week that ! went to the
document room to get copy for my
self and for another friend. They
charge five cents for a copy. and T
haven't cent Of change. Can you
let me have the money to buy two
copiesY
Nov. / had not made any speech.
and they do not charge five cents nor
any cents at all in the document room:
but l gave him the dime he wanted.
and reproached myself afterward for
my stinginess. Such an artist at fat
terry ought to have had a quarter. at
least."-Chicago Record-Herald.