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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
THIS DOUBT SHOULD BE Rryovrp.

In an inrervitw at Des Moines a few
days ago, Attorney General Byers dis
cussed the causes OF the increased cost
of living and named among other such
causes the tariff. AS a remedy at this
point he suggested.
Let congress create permanent
non-partfsan tariff commission with
ample funds and facilities for ascer-
tanning the necessary information upon
which an intelligent readjustment OF
tariff rates may be based
Now. we find this quotable and fl
for Endorsement, not because General
Byers said it, but because it is right,
no matter who said 1t or who may
say it.
The powers Of the tariff board ere
ated under the Payne-AIdrich law Of
last summer are in doubt. When the
standpatters Of congress permitted the
provision to go thru they supposed it
would be possible for the board only
to confer with and assist the president
in applying the maximum and mini
mum provisions of the law in a harm
president takes a different view. He
thinks the law gives him power to use
this board for every practical purpose
of a tariff commission ayowedly au-
thorized by congress.
This uncertainty should be removed.
Either the present tariff board should
be given unquestioned powers or it
should be superseded We must have
a real tariff commission about whose
authority and powers there can be no
question. It is notorious now after the
fiounderings of a year ago, If not even
earlier, that congress is helpless in
telligently to 1egislate upon the tariff.
The need is for information Informal
ton gathered by a careful, painstak-
ing, judicial, non-partisan body, not in
q, hurry and in the limited time posi-
BILE to be devoted to the actual work of
revision, but in a deliberate, orderly
way, while the people are thinking
about something else, free from the
bias OF political campaigns and popu-
lar discussion.
And we don't see why this 1egisla-
ton should be delayed. 1t was stated
by President Taft last summer that il
would take two or three years for the
work contemplated. Certainly thi:
necessary delay should not have added
to Il unnecessary delay. Congress a
It's present session should remove the
doubt described. A real, live tarif
commiss1on should b provided at once
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
GETTING Acquainted With Missouri.

s. Louis lODe-DeIilcCTdlJ
New York has an area of 4s,17o
square miles and Massachusetts an
area Of s,040. Missouri's area is So
AS square miles. or more than New
York. Massachusetts, and New Jersey
com bined PENNSYLVANIA, the second state
in the union. has an area OF 4o'4lo
square miles. The third state in popuia-
+;on Illinois Is smaller than Missouri
in area by over 10000 square mics
which is about the size of Maryland
Ohio. the fourth state, with an area
of Al .oSo square miles, is smaller than
Missouri by an area greater thah
that of Massachusetts,, New Jersey
and Maryland taken together. MIS-
souri's Importance in Its natural d.
mansions is not fully comprenenoeo
even within its own limits. If the ad-
dresses at the Missouri Land and IN
austria, Congress, now in session
Springfield. are carefully read. this
state will be held in higher apprecia-
ton for it's undeveloped resources
and opportunities are scarcely eQuaieu
in any part of the country.
But little more than half OF Mis-
sourrs $4,000 900 acres are improved
md unGer cultivation. The part as
We. untouched by the plow can be
drawn upon for a greatly increased
food supply, a subject OF exciting IN
terest al present and of Importance
at any time The state possesses Is
900 .oco acres of forest, and 5000 miles
OF ryayieable rivers are within or run
along its borders. By drainage IL can
add $1,000 900 acres of the richest fer
tiiitv to its arabic lands. The con-
gress at Springfield has large sub
iect in hand. It is asked there why
Missourrs dairy products amount TO
| only SO 900 900, while several adjacent
states have a dairy output OF Sao'-
900 600. Lands are higher In some
adjoining states, but certainly not bet
ter Missouri has no desert tracts. It's
extensive manufacturing and mining
interests help to maintain a hne nome
market. The state is now the nftn II
/ population. Its area 3 much larger
than that Of any OF the four states
ahead OF It in this respect, ana Its al
vantaxes, as bestowed by nature
stand forth strongly by comparison
The conclusion is inevitable that Mis-
souri, IL destined to climb much higher
in rank.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
AS TO sTANDPATTERs.


Now there are few of us who con-
denim Washington and Lincoln for the
part they played in our nations his
tory. yet at the time they were on the
scene of action they We're far more
extreme than some of our far-famed
radicals today. They made their cause
good in the face of great odds; with
caiumny heaped upon them by conserv-
atives, the fellows, who desired Ito let
we'll enough alone they forced their
policies to the forefront and today we
are enjoying the fruits thereof.
There is moral in history, and 1t
is this: No nation or individual ever
remained stationary without being at
fected by dry rot, and in time being
forced to a minor position Of activity
It is peculiar, but man has to move
forward or lose his influence as a ma
ton. 1t has been the progressive man.
who has gained for the human race
all that has assisted to uplift him from
his ancient serfdom, not the conserva-
tive: he is rather the one, who would
have gained by permitting man to nave
rtained his former status. We look
with horror upon the French revoid-
ton. the civil war. the campaigns IN
stituted by the nihilists in Russia to-
day They are but movements inaug-
urated by men of liberal tendencies
a against the citadels of conservatism
History does not falsify and is but re-
peating herself 1t is just evolution;
there is no need of kicking against the
pricks" It only will cause injury to
the kicker The human family is ad-
vancing and all problems win ultir7 q e.
~ work out for the benefit of the hui
man family as a whole; and not for
few individuals.
Man has been years in evolving and
will require years more. and no less
certain is it that every time the wheel
of evolution gains another cog the
dogma of "let we'll enough, alone" is
crushed a little fiatter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
po111vER FOR PRESIDENT.
TSioux CITY Journal.1


The Manson Journal has nominated
Senator Dolliver for president. The
Manson paper is led to take this step
under conviction that the nomination
Of Taft to succeed himself would be "a
fatal error Taft, it says, was never
the choice of the republican party" but
was forced upon the party by Prest-
dent Roosevelt" Dolliver is the man
for 1912, as the situation is disclosed
to the Manson paper-"a man whose
good judgment would not destroy or
hamper the great financial interests OF
the country, but who would. by con-
sentative and just administrative
ability. conserve the interests Of the
people and check and control the ra-
pacity of corporate greed" With Dol
liver in the lead. the Manson paper
promises "a glorious victory. Before
becoming too enthusiastic, however. it
would be interesting to know what
Senator Cummins thinks about it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
WHEN THEY FALL OUT,

The ancient saw which asserts that
''When thieves fall out honest men gel
their dues seems to be twisting
over TO apply 10 the interests which
Theodore Roosevelt was wont 10 class
as predatory" When Aldrich and Ell
kins fall out, whether the public gets
its dues or not, II receives somewhat.
of Illumination when the predatory
senator of the south squeals.
Senator Elkins broke out in con-
demnation last week of the New Eng
land members Of the finance commit
tee complaining that Aldrich is abso-
lutte master over the building of the
new tariff and that nobody got any
thing out of it other than what Aid
rich saw 1T 70 dole out to the corpo-
rations and interests he favored. Ell
kins Numbered on the gates of Rhode
Island. He ragged at the outra geous tar
if with which Aldrich protected his
own.
Now few would give credit TO e.
kins except as he turns states evil
dence. With rate laws crowding home
upon him, limitation OF passenger
fares, investigations at hand upon coal
and railroad combinations Elkins,
angry, outraged and robbed of his
share of swag might be a credible
witness in a way. When he testifies 70
facts already established he is certain
to be credited at least so far as he IS
corroborated.
But Elkins is no recruit to 'insur-
gency." Let it be known that "insur-
gency' would be as much ashamed Of
an Elkins squad as Falstaff of the
ragamuffins. pick purses and cut
threats whom he refused TO march thru
Coventry. Elkins may be admitted as
states evidence, but he doesn't belong
to the prosecution. Let him testify and
turn him loose He doesn't belong in
the camp.
Perhaps Elkins' partial squeal may
get him something he is looking for
Perhaps he is making a fierce four
flush to establish the impression down
West Virginia way that Aldrich doesn't
own him. The high prices are the OPP
portunity of political knaves And Ell
kins is pretty we'll considered in this
state as a shining example Of political
knavery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
heluira the Minister.

A Scotch preacher had in his con-.
gregation an old woman who was deaf.
In order to hear the sermon each Sum.
day, this old lady would seat herself af
the foot of the pulpit stairs. One day
the sermon was about Jonah, and the
preacher became very rhetorical.
"And when the sailors threw Jonah
overheard" he said, "a big fish swal-
lowed him up. Was it shark that got
i'm? Nay, my brethren. 1t was neser .
shark. Was It as wordfish that eat
him? Nay"
1T was a whale" whispered the old
lady excitedly.
Hush, Biddie," said the preacher In
diknantly. Would ye talk tn word Of
God out o. yer ane meenister's mouth e
Success Magazine
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
THE FARMERS INNING.

ISlouX CITY Journal
The Clinton Herald on the strength
of the following testimony, concludes
that the farmers are not to blame:
One Of the leading farmers of this
state has called attention to the fact
that the farmer never fixes the price OF
anything he sells and for this reason
can not be held even partially account
able for the present high prices of food
products And this is absolutely true.
The price received by the farmer for
his cattle, his hogs, his sheep, his
wheat, corn, oats, potatoes and every
thing else is fixed by someone else. His
views are never asked. He Is told
what will be paid him. and he can take
it or leave it alone. This would seem
to eliminate the farmer from blame al
together for the present high prices.
The investigators must look elsewhere.
The farmer, however, is not dis
posed TO sell to the lowest bidder, and
sometimes he stays away from the
market because he thinks prices VIII
be higher. Having reached that de-
gree Of independence that he is able
to stay off the market if he wants to,
he has something to do with regulating
demand.
But Secretary Wilson, who has the
agricultural department Of the govern
ment at his disposal in his study Of
conditions has another way OF getting
at the respO1si S;:...y ss ssss farmer 15e
isn't numerous enough, according to
Secretary Wilson. Perhaps he has re-
tired to live in case on the rental o1
the farm, thereby putting himself In
touch with the bondholder. Too mans
for one recon. or another. ~ the sec
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
ONE SMALL RED PIG.
Terrill. Iowa. Jan. 1s.

Terrill, Iowa, Jan. 10, 1SAV-
Editor of the Register-Ne News: After
seeing the account of the sale of hogs
that our friend Yearnshaw made. We
thought we would even up with him
and in doing so will say that / gave my
daughter. Mrs. Dan Hively, we'll known
in Madrid. small red pig which was
we'll cared for, and at the age Of one
year it had twelve white pigs. AT
the age of six months and ten days
old he took six of them to market
which weighed $50 pounds each. The
price was s7s5 per hundred. making
S11775 and he has six at home as good
as those he sold. If any of our friends
in Madrid could beat that. we would
be glad to hear from them.
Yours respectfully,
w. B. Dotson.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
THREATENED THE EDITOR.
IOcheyedan Press. ]

With the primary progressive repub-
licanism asserted itself in the election
two years ago. This took the snap out
of the standpat whip; and because
Cummins brought the primary they
now have little use for the man. AL
ready the remnants of the old crowd
that ran the county have attempted to
intilnidate the editor of this paper be-
cause we have come out square footed
for representative progressive repu biz
canism as against Cannonism and des-
potism. Already these fellows are con-
niving how to read us out of the re-
publican party" because we will not be
traitor to principle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
A PIONEER WINTER.
IRlairstown Racord.l

In the year 1S43- "A snow fell in
October over a foot deep and remained
all winter 1T was so deep in north and
east Iowa that deer were driven from
the prairies into the tim Der land for
protection and feed. They followed
roads to farmers feed yards and fed
with the stock Farmers in the morn-
ing would drive them out by the doz-
ems.
They could walk ON the hard crust
Of snow. but could not run. as they
would break thru at every jump
Wolves Jared well that winter. After
a deer has lain in the snow week its
hide is not worth anything, and the
deer We're not fat enough to Kill for
meat Men went on sleds to spring
elections the first week in April.
Starts For Fort.
In 1856 there was not enough snow
to track a rabbit. The summer OF 1s47
there was a light frost every month
and men went in the harvest fields with
oyercoats on. In February OF 1897 i
went from Muscatine to Fort Dodge
with a load of dry goods for Major
Williams. who was trading with the
Indians, and furnished what goods the
government did not furnish to the regu-
lar soldiers who were at the station
there. / was ferried over the Cedar
river There was no ice, and at Iowa
City there was no ice on the Iowa river.
The Skunk river west of Newton, in
Jasper county forded AZ there was no
ice and all small creeks were clear OF
ice. At the mouth Of Boone river above
where Stratford IL now located, near
where it empties into the Des Moines
river, the ford was hfty-two feet deep,
with send and gravel bottom. There
was q little shore ice. perhAps three OF
four feet, a half inch thick on either
shore.
| Reaches Fer4 Dodge.
| When / reached Fort Dodge, the
horses stood all night hitched TO the
feed trough, as there was not shelter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
Topics of the Times

In nGe1 we trust
The boycott's bust.
Senator Elkins is ducking for the
cyclone cellar and holding the door
against Aldrich from the inside.
Those polka dot wells with red spots
ought 10 be fashionable and popuar
in communities afflicted with small
pox epidemics.
DR.. Cook appears TO have gone with
the buffalo and the man VINO hit Billy
Patterson.
If that Yale professor who is utter
ing bowls because the country is be-
ing flooded with gold' were searched
do you suppose they'd find the evil
dence on him?
English suffragettes are to quit
throwing rocks and refusing to eat;
but the Iowa sufragette needn't let
that spoil the sport she has in pros
pect.
Did you ever notice that the man
who tries 10 get ahead steps on some
ones heels and the fellow who lags
stands on someone's toes? The fact is
we are in a crowd,
Anyway Iowa is not navigable for
snip subsidies.
Those meat boycotters act like men
who fail TO realize that the numblest
citizen has a steak in the government.
The franlzing privilege is SAID to cost
ouIy a half million, but frankly isn't
that half million too much?
80 she sued him for breach of
promise?''
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne I'm
afraid the get-rich-quick spirit is be-
coming very general. People don't seem
willing to wait for alimony. wash
| ington Star.
| The most sacred things must make
way nowadays to the demands OF pro-
gress. Among the sights Of the city
/ of Orleans the house in the Rue de
/ Taour where Jeanne dare lived has
been conspicuous. In order to facilitate
street widening, Figaro says, this
| house has been demolished and the ma
tarel of which it was constructed ha:
been scattered. The facade escaped
/ the vandals' hands and has been re-
moved to another part of the street
where it will be erected and preserved
| my husband is the kindest man
lets baby break his watch or pull hi!
n1ustache, and never scoids it at all"
But did the baby ever get hold O
one of his pipes? That's the real test
Buffalo Express.
Every time you get cold feet say
a. Chicago health department bulletin
mark it down and see how often yo'
get a cold. Do the same thing ever.
time you get your feet wet. You vii
find that your ideas about cold feet o
wet feet nave D-en Iiore wTons-fia
right"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
ESCAPING TAXATION.

State Auditor Bleakly claims that a
great many state and savings banks in
this state are avoiding assessments by
sending large sums of money to Chi
cago just before the assessors make
their annual visits. He claims that
they convert their undivided profits
into unassessable bonds and carry
them until the assessor comes, after
which time the bonds are sold for cash.
How many we'll -to-do people there are
who want other people to bear the
burden of taxation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

A few minutes delay in treating some
cases of Group, even the length Of time
it takes to go for a doctor often proven
dangerous. The safest way Is to keap
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the
house, and at the first indication OF
Group give the child dose. Pleasant
TO take and always cures. Sold by all
dealera
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
HUMAN cowAR1CE.


Men are cowardly, whether their
deeds be righteous or whether they be
evil. Not only have they deficient
faith in other men, but they have de-
fcent faith in themselves. Their fears
move them and they go in and out in
search OF escape. They are weak and
they are strong: they fall back and
they advance, and for the most time
they are in sore perplexity.
DISPOSITION to go with the crowd IS
well nigh UNIVERSAL: and so strong IS
this disposition the wonder may well
be that the world is a good as it is
In the face OF all fear. in the presence
of all contumely, there is gain Tor
things good and for the life approved
by the consciences of men. The COM
promises with evil are for the better
ment Of relations; and in all conten-
tions of public character the claim
must be made that the end sought
whether it be good or whether 1t be
evil. is that conditions shall be made
better. not worse. Men are 100
cowardly to stand openly for evil. 1t
is something inspiring to know that
men do not dare to put aside the de-
lenses of honorable Intention
Too much is undertaken on the side
of evil under the influence OF fear
that the fruits of evil, may be lost; and
too much is undertaken on the side
aga inst evil, out of fear that the hosts
of evil are about to set aside the law
Of God and reverse the order.
Men carry about with them great
burdens of borrowed trouble. and their
hearts are troubled by reason of their
load. They are under great fear that
they may lose, and they assume that
they have pleasure in the struggle Tor
much goods and against those VINO
covet their possessions. They fear
death because of the inevitable separa :
ton. and it is a concern with them
what shall become of all when they
take their place, with all the poor, IN
| the restitution of the grave.
| On this great level of fear the humble
and the proud jostle, without trust In
/ one another and without courage. And
with this fear. alas. the hands OF men,
weak and strong, are made nerVeiess'
| and other hands bear them TO the place
| of humility and earthly poverty, where
there is separation from all distinction
except that OF Righteousness, shining
on the earth above the grave as the
light of a star out of the sky.
And fear not them which Kill the
body, but are not able to kill the SOUL
but rather fear him which is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

Do you know that Group can be pre-
vented? Give Cham berlain's Cough
Remedy as soon as the child becomes
hoarse or even after the croupy cough
appears and it will prevent the attack.
It is also a certain cure for Group and
has never been known to fail Sold by
all dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER.
[Ackley World.l

The country newspaper is not to be
moderated. In the middle SOS twenty
country newspaper men in Illinois met
at Decatur and organized the re-
publican party. They We're addressed
by Abraham Lincoln. Not city edl-
tor was present. No one can deny that
the republican party has not been quite
an achievement
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
Iowa Newsra peTs
THE STRAW VOTE.
[Nexaaa Ranrasentatiya.1

A radical standpatter said the other
day, that Governor Carroll did not
measure up to the standard. and failed
to compare favorably with the govern
ors of other states, and that he hoped
a stronger man would oppose him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
OwhtI,h.LNs 40 NOTES.

why are not the commissioners
chosen to their respective depart
ments by the people?" inquiries the
Sioux City journal referring to the
comission plan of city government.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

The Atlanta Journal reports the
trade, by a Texas real estate agent,
OF 100, 900 acres Of land for 100000 gal
Ions of LIQUOR. Dry land, of course?
Courier-JournAl.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

Dynamite Wrecks Buildings
Is completely as coughs and colds
wreck lungs. Cure them quick with
DR.. Kings New Discovery. soc ana
600. Mcbride & VIII Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

Naturally. with the brightest wealth
err the spirits of Paris are rising. be-
ing. as is well known, nercurial.-1n-
dianapolls News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

Meat is meat nowadays, tho persons
accustomed to eating il declare that II
tastes like gold.-New York Mail.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

Hon. Champ Clark maintains pos
ture very much resembling that Of
man with probe concealed behind his
back.-SaIt Lake Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

There is reluctance about even con-
ceding that a coldstorage egg is bet
ter than no shington Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

The Manson Journal is convinced
that Senator J. P. Dolliver, of Iowa, Is
the man whom the republican party
should take for its standard bearer In
1912, if it wishes to serve the people
best and be insured of glorious vic
tory"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

1.-The standpat opponents of the
primary law have terrible tllhe
whenever there is an effort on the part
of the progressives to eliminate sur
plus candidates for the purpose OF get
ting a square showing on the prop
osition," remarks the Belle Plaine
Union. ut seems to make them angry
if they are not allowed to take advant-
age of huch situations and win with
out showing on merit
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-07

The short ballot is little brother to
the big stick.-Brooklyn Eagle.