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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
CONSUMER AND PARCELS POST.
dubuque Telegraph


II your grocer maintained a number
of delivery wagons, delivering your
sugar in one, the sugar wagon. your
potatoes in another, the potato wagon
your brooms in another, the broom
wagon, and so on until everything the
grocer carries in stock has a wagon
assigned to it, that grocer wouldn't be
very long in the business, but would
find himself in the livery business.
The reason the grocer makes deliver
les of sugar, potatoes, brooms and all
the other articles with one wagon is
because ii is the most economical way
to make the deliveries.
Every day the United States govern
ment sends out man, horse and a
wagon on each of tens of thousands of
rural mail routes The wagons carry a
third of a load, and if they carried a
full load the expense of making the
trip would be no greater. The man
would be paid no more wages the
horse would not require more feed
and the wagon probably would be in
just as good repair as when it carried
a third of a load.
The establishment of these rural mail
routes has not been profitable looked
at in the ledger. There is annually
vastly greater outlay to maintain them
than income from business resultant
from them. The only way the deficit
can be overcome is to send the wagons
with a full load.
Now the farmer has practically only
one market for his butter and his pro-
duce. He sells his cream to the cream
cry and his chickens and eggs to the
same buyer. And in determining what
price to pay the farmer the creamery
reckons what it would cost the farmer
to ship his butter, his eggs, his chick
ems or other produce by express, and
makes deductions of these amounts
from the price paid the farmer. Milk
produced by cows fifty miles from
New York and sold to the combination
at 81 cents, is sold by the combina-
ton, with part Of the cream removed
at 8 or 8 cents a quart. The express
companies and the railroad companies
make rates for large shippers very con-
siderably lower than for small shippers
The creamery ships in car load lots
and bulk shipments are the only cheap
transportation.
It would be very different under a
parcels post. II the government should
fix a cent a pound rate for parcels, the
farmer out in Dubuque county could
send crock Of butter or a half dozen
eggs, or a pair of chickens to a buyer
in Dubuque. He wouldn't have to sell
to the produce monopoly on the lat
ters terms, nor pay tribute to the ex-
press monopoly, and could do business
direct with the consumer with profit
to himself and the consumer.
A cent q pound rate would break the
combinations now bleeding producer
and consumer in a month. Every pro-
Queer would have it in his power to
get in touch with the consumer, and
no producer would have to accept the
take it or starve'' price offered by the
! food oos,Ili Si Ina ss.e:::
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
THE pool ROO S AND THE PARENTS,

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil COM
mends as timely the pdotest of the
Council Bluffs Ministerial Association
against enforcement of the curfew
regulations in that city. The Nonpareil
says:
We do not suppose the ministers
bring the matter up at this time with
a view to influencing the coming city
election. but that is nevertheless ex-
actly where the value of the protest
comes in. If we are going to have laws
enforced we must drop from office
men who fail to enforce them and elect
in their stead men committed to con-
trary policy.
The report before the ministers Of
Council Bluffs showed that III boys
and seventeen girls had been counted
in the moving picture shows and pool
halls in a single night after s o'clock.
Many of the boys were under 10 years
of age Policemen were seen in the
places at the same time and they We're
apparently wholly Indifferent to the
cresence of the children.
The Nonpareil points out that the
ordinances which have been practically
atoed by the Indifference or venality
# the police powers were passed under
pressure of public sentiment reluctant
ly by the representatives of the city
adnainistra ton in control when they
were passed. 1t does not wonder over
nances passed with sneers and against
the wishes of misrepresentation should
lack Of enforcement by police officers
who have been selected by an admin
istration opposed to enforcement and
who draw their wages and hold their
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
READ BETWEEN THESE LINES.
burlington Gazette

Huntington IdZSCIe.J
Congressman kennedy's predica-
ment is deplorable. He has played fast
and loose with both factions and as a
result is liked by neither. He has an
tagonized the labor vote and the pro-
gressive wing by the betrayal of his
faith in the matter Of his vote for Cam
non for speaker. That he promised
labor not to vote for Cannon and in a
speech at Let's, Iowa, announced that
he would not vote for Cannon is his
tory. The price for being good in
the case of Kennedy was place on the
rivers and harbors committee.
On the other hand, Smith Brook
hart OF Washington, who has recently
announced his candidacy for the nomi-
nation, is hated by the standpatters.
They can not forget his remarkable
speech delivered in Burlington in
which he took occasion to besmirch
the name of the late j. w. Blythe. Mr..
Blythe was one of the very best citi-
zens Burlington ever had. his repub-
licanism was unquestioned, his politi-
cal and private honor and integrity
always stood the test That they were
questioned by Mr.. Brookhart aroused
a mighty resentment in the hearts Of
his thousands of friends and admirers
turnout the district. That resentment
still lives. Mr.. Blythe is dead but his
followers, and they are to be reckoned
with honor his memory and will see to
it that no man who dared impugn his
honor and his republicanism shall rep
resent the First district of Iowa in
the lower house of congress If their
votes and influence count for any
thing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17

positions by reason Of complaisapce
The Council Bluffs situation is one
readily duplicated. There isn't a city
of any size in the state where the laws
against minors participating in semi
vicious pleasures and haunting resorts
generally conceded hurtful to the
young are enforced or scarcely where
an attempt is being made to enforce
them
Now let us get this straight. The
make the moving picture show, the pool
rooms and other resorts similarly re-
stricted the butt of criticism. They
deserve it if they are breaking ordi-
nances. But let us take into considera-
ton that such a thing as parental re-
sponsibility exists. We can not raise
children in the way they should go
simply by passing city ordinances. The
is morally much more culpable than
the owner.
Perhaps it would be a good plan to
meet a condition as citizens without
waiting for ministerial association to
whip us into line. Possibly it would
be we'll to insist as citizens on enforce
ment of ordinances and not as preach
ers and church members. Indeed it is
within reason that we should look in
dividually after our own children, not
forgetting meantime to make the per-
sistent violator of city ordinances
afraid.
1t might be worth while to create
special officer to look after enforce
ment of city ordinances and state laws
affecting the welfare of children and
minors. And while we are about it
why not. in protection OF society in
general. look to the parent and see that
he does his duty to his own children.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
ALL FOR A PRICE.

Editor Times-Republican: The writer
wishes to endorse the editorial APP
peartng In your paper regarding the
attitude OF the state toward the youth
within Its borders. Another thing the
great state of Iowa will have to answer
for at no distant day. That is the
present law in reference to saloons.
Under the present law If community
complies with certain conditions the
state grants that community the right
to operate q saloon or saloons and pro-
tects the proprietors as such saloon
keepers. Then the state. after the sa-
loonkeeper has made drunkard Of a
man, steps in and says we will fur
nish a home for your product at our
expense. The city Of Knoxville, within
whose domain is located one Of these
homes for the saloonkepers' products.
is today paying a certain way for the
crime committed by the state. How
long are We, as citizens, going to stand
for this unholy thing? AS citizens we
are responsible for it if we do not pro-
test against it's continuance. The in
consistency of giving a fellow the Ii
cense to commit wrong and then
after he has done just what the state,
under certain conditions says he may
90, 10 manu- the IeuOW d bouquet anu
say, Yes. you have made drunkards
of our sons and prostitutes of our
daughters, but you have paid US the
price. therefore you have the right to
dump your rubbish at designated
spot and we will pay the bill" The
state no more than the individual can
escape the whirlwind If it sows to the
wind. We build buildings and throw
the protecting arm of a father around
the cattle and hogs of the state, but
we say to the saloonkeeper, you can
make worse than brutes of our sons
and daughters (for a price) and we
will build palaces in your honor"
Respectfully,
GRANT TYLER.
Eldora, Feb. 16, 1910.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
BACK TO The FARM,

A gentleman who travels the year
around among farmers and writes for
| a newspaper has observed that there
is decided activity this spring in the
movement Of population back to the
farm. He says that as the annual
moving day approaches ex-farmers,
mechanics, clerks, and professional
men in towns and villages are outfitting
! for a return TO the farm where pros
perity is known to reign. The high
/ cost of living is driving men with fam
lilies 10 seek an occupation wherein the
| living expense of family is practi-
cally provided out of the by-products
of the farm and where the prevailing
scale of high prices Of farm products
promises profits for the man in the
, farming business.
Here is an opportunity for the farm
owner Long has he been in distress
in many instances has been compelled
10 pat up with inferior and Indifferent
help. The mechanics and artisans now
open to negotiation for farm work are
be sure, but the chances are that they
are not altogether unfamiliar with
farm life They are very likely to be of
the more energetic and intelligent
members Of their trade hense they are
seeking to better their commercial
condition and they offer higher po-
tentiality or a promise Of better grade
! of service.
Jim Hill. the great financter, has
been saying that people are going to
get hungry before they will return
to the farm and the truth of his state
nent figuratively is before US. Popu-
lation has been crowding the industries
in town at the expense Of farm expan-
/ sion Speaking on national statistics
/ there have been more mouths in town
4 TO feed than could be economically fed
by the men at work on the farms.
We have been brought to period of
abnormal prices by reason of this I'M
balanced distribution Of workers at
food production on the land and at
food consumption in the arts and
trades. Now the readjustment has set
in. There is a movement back TO the
farm. 1t will not end in the present
season but viii go on for several sea-
sons and continue until the balance is
turned the other way.
Land owners should get busy and
put up tenant houses on their farms.
Efficient workers from the towns can
be had FOR the next few years if pro-
vision is made for them TO house their
families on the farms. There is an
economic readjustment taking place.
Jim Hill predicted it. High prices OF
food are forcing it and the newspaper
travellers has discovered it. Farmers
should now square around and take
advantage of it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17

KING SOLOMON COUNCIL, n Z
M.-stated assembly Monday. Feb I
1880 p. m.
A. D. Meeker. 7. I II.
I. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERY N
80, 4. S.-Stated conclave Tuesday Cd
ening. Feb. "a, 1910. Visiting s.
knights always welcome.
F. NJ. Wilbur, y. c.
Fred Wallace. Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. No. 81, o. s
Special meeting Wednesday eve3
ing, March 2. at 1880. Z
Mrs. George Downing. W. M
Edna c. Fularron, Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17

demand for 80 cent gas with less re.
sistance. or what use to him now are
his millions in excess gas profits?
When President Taft says that the
Aldrich tariff bill is the best eve,
passed is he referring to deficiencies
Of former bills or is he whistling to
keep UP his courage over this one?
That handsome young senator from
Iowa. A. B. Cummins. was so years old
on Tuesday. Let's hope that golf will
keep him in public life for many years
to come.
| A Des Moines scheme worth men
tioning is the proposal to exempt abb
solutely fire proof buildings from tax
alton for a period Of five years. In this
way the state contributes rebate as
compensation for additional cost and
gets in return fire wall which may
i stop terrible confagration at some
future time.
practical buttermaker and ice cream
maker and would like to hear from
farmers who will furnish separated
cream to cooperative factory.
Accompanying a cold wave at this
time of year is always the comforting
thought that it can't last long.
The piano has taken the place of the
organ, and that also has increased the
cost of living
Let the moving picture show its bet
ter side
Cheer up. It's only sixty days to
baseball.
If the standpatte haven't Taft
buffaloed, then appearances are meas
ureably deceiving, to say the least.
According to Taft, that Payne-Ald-
rich tariff law gets better all the time
hotel. Perhaps then by going to the
roof it will be possible to find sun
shine in the city.
Maybe 1t could be arranged for the
future to have the auto show and the
live stock show held at the same time,
so that the farmers could save one
trip to Chicago.
The secretary of the Home for Lost
Dogs in London says that only about
ner cant ne tina dnpa lost IN thot n;tx,
are cleaned by their owners, and in
the fifty years that the home has been
in existence, about a million dogs have
been taken care OF. Taken care Of"
Ell? Significant phrase that as to the
remaining 80 per cent. What do the
butchers Of London know about this?
Booker T. Washington says that the
negroes of America have $550,000,0 900
worth of property. That is. the whole
bunch is worth about half as much as
Rockefeller.
A Pittsburg preacher calls the Car
negie fund for the pensioning Of col
lege professors bribe. Maybe so, in
asmuch as when a professor accepts of
it he engages not to starve to death.
A French statistician says matri-
mony is conducive to longevity Then
we may expect to hear from the pessi-
mist that matters are even worse than
had been supposed.
Perhaps a new political party in
America would gather recruits and
gain strength from the single circum-
stance that it wouldn't have any past
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
If YOU ARE A TRIFLE SENSITIVE

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17

desired
dining the kitchen
o
build exclusive Of plumbing and
heating
will
specifications design No sss for SIS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
10 ia Newspapers

BUT SOMETIMES THEY COMBINE
[Cedar Rapids Republican,
Iowa has a bank for every 1905 peo-
pie and in some of the cities they have
a saloon for every 333 people. And
they are quite unlike in their effect.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17

The gas company made Mr.. Averill
half a million dollars and it took ten
years from the best end of his life"
says the Cedar Rapids Republican.
That is what the worry of riches does
for some men,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
AIdino the Census Man,

A Baltimore widower with seven
children has married widow with
five. Some persons collect antiques.
why shouldn't others go In for collect.
ing antnropological specimens?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
IOWA OPINIONS AID NOTES.

THE wonder is not 50 much that a
Kentucky college president gave $780,
900 to the institution OF which he was
the head, but that he had so much
money" says the Dubuque Telegraph.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17

insurgents" says the Scranton
Journal. are as necessary as a cashier
in a bank. for it is necessary to keep
tab on what congress is doing"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17

The Anes Times says the Manson
Journal. which is suggesting Senator
Doiliver for president, would be doing a
greater favor to the senator by helping
him to hang on to what he now has. 1T
is evident" adds the Times, that he
will need help when the time comes"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17

Doiliver for president, would be doing q
greater favor to the senator by helping
him to hang on to what he now has. 1T
is evident" adds the Times, that he
will need help when the time comes"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says the
only way Mr.. Roosevelt can prevent re-
ceiving a great ovation when he re-
turns will be TO say something for Taft
that will be pointed enough to make the
people mad "yyill he do it in order to
prevent the eclipse of his friend?" asks
the Gazette.
"One thing is obvious" says the Wa
terloo Times Tribune, dem. IF Roose-
Welt places his approval upon the Taft
Cannon Aldrich oligarchy he will not
occupy the same place in history that
he would have occupied had he never
returned from Africa"
at is useless to try to get along
without the meat Of the steer and hog"
SAYS the Cedar Rapids Republican.
They were made to be eaten. There
are men who have lived without meat,
but the men who do eat 1t are better
off, better fed and better balanced,
physically and mentally. We would
rather see men Hike lions than like
vegetables"
"President Taft is elected, and IL he
lives he will be our president for three
years to come, and we will have prac-
tically the same senate that we have
now during that time" says the OF
tumwa Courier mo amount Of agi-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
The LODGES.
J MASONIC NOTICES.

4 MASONIC NOTICES.
~ Visitors always welcome.
V\Hall over lO5-107 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE. 10S. A. F. s
Feb. is. at 1880 p. m.
r. w. Chamberlain, w. NJ.
H. S. Lawrence, Secretary.
S1GNET CHAPTER No SO, r.. A. NJ.
Stated convocation Monday, Feb. 81
1880.
George H. Boggie, E. H. P.
I. s. Willard, Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-17
Bargains


We have for sale. properties that will
suit the most exacting, as we'll as
those in more moderate circumstances
either for home or for an investment
We have properties of all kinds for
sale, modern, partly modern and with
no modern conveniences. The follow
ing properties are worthy of your in
vestigation: Nine-room house, furnace,
city water. g good rooms in basement
2 lots with fruit and barn. Price,
$1,000.
seven-roon1 house. furnace electric
lights. full lot and barn. A snap. Price,
81, 400. terms one-half cash, balance
monthly payments.
Three-room house on extra good lot
on car line. paving and good walks.
Price. $1,000. Il cash, balance time
will be given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
THANKSGIVING.

Surely the people of this nation,
and especially that portion OF them
who are so fortunate as to have their
homes in Kansas, have much for
which they can give sincere and hon
est thanks today. Not only has their
bounty during the past twelve months
been large. The prospects for the
immediate future are also most glor-
ious and golden.
All things are not exactly as every
BODY would like to have them. Nor
win they ever be so, as a matter of
fact until that chimerical ideal, the
millennium, arrives. But the trend
with all things is onward and up
ward. And there should be general
rejoicing accordingly.
One might not think that this is
fact after a perusaI of the daily news
papers. Their columns are filled with
tales of wrong-doing. here, there and
everywhere and in pretty nearly all OF
the activities of life. This, however
is not an indication that the people
of this country are growing worse all
the time. It is just the opposite. 1t Is
evidence that they are improving and
getting better. 1t shows that they
are unwilling to tolerate wrong-dolng
of anv sort without exposing it, with
out trying to weed it out. And 1t IS
also a noticeable fact that they are
succeeding in these excellent efforts
The wrong-doers, no matter what
their station may be, are having the
light of publicity turned on their de-
viations from the way of right. They
are being corralled. Honest energy
is being expended to bring them to
punishment. All of it will not be sue
cessful. But all these efforts to rid
society of its sores and cankers will
have a great moral effect. They Will
act as a deterrent to others who might
be disposed to travel the wrong road,
and who would start on such jour
new if they were not aware of the fact,
that the right minded people of the
nation are in the great, the tremen-
dous majority and are alive to the
necessity of exposing and punish1ng
fraud and crime wherever it may be
found. It is only when people don't
care about the misdeeds that are COM
mitted around and about them. that
civilization stands still or recedes.
There is all the more reason, there
fore, for the singing of joyous peans
of thanksgiving today, because of this
Astounding evidence that the people of
this nation, taken as whole, are
reaching out for higher levels in the
conduct of their affairs, in their
dealings one with the other, and their
insistence that all must live I'D to
these larger and better standards or
suffer the consequences of public
shame and disgrace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

themselves, have probably put farther
and farther away the day when the
right of franchise will be accorded to
their. sex. They have now proven
themselves enemies of good order and
should be treated accordingly. They
won't be able to turn their just pun
ishment into martyrdom. Their own
neighbors must be Disguised with
them.
There is reason for congratulations
all around that the earnest women in
the United States who are striving for
their right to vote have not shown
any inclinations to conduct them
selves in the indefensihle way that
has been pursued by some of the wo-
man suffragettes of England. Nor are
they hurting their cause in any way
by the peaceful and dignified methods
they are using to attain it.