Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
REPUBLICAN, MARsHALLrowN IOWA. JANUARY g.

P. S. Sever, of Guthrie county, former
member of the republican state COM
mittee, an extensive breeder and ship
per of livestock, declared that the
farmers are not making big profits nor
getting extraordinary prices for live
stock. They are getting fancy prices
for few fancy animals he said, but
for the majority of the stuff shipped
they are getting but little more than in
other years. For the perfect steers that
top the market they get from to .
cents pound, but for all the other
cattle they get from 21s to 31s
cents pound. The farmers are not
getting the best of the situation at
ALL"
An attack on the Iowa delegation on
the ground that it has no farmers has
been started in southern Iowa. The
Bloomfield Republican, which reflects
sentiment in the south end of the Sixth
district where the progressive tenden-
cies of the Iowa delegation are not
relished, published a communication in
which it is stated that there has been
but one farmer on the Iowa congress
sional delegation in twenty years. IF
the republicans and democrats can't do
little better pob than they have been
doing" says the writer, they should
step down and out at the next election
and let the socialists and populsts try
it awhile. Why not send a few farm
ers to congress and let them spend the
farmers money!"
That this is a concerted movement
is evident from the fact that the Des
Moines Capital is out with a significant
attack upon Nate Kendall and virtual
warning that unless he is good" he
will be supplanted by democrat. He
is virtually told that he will have to
make peace with the standpatters of
the Sixth district, which means that he
will have to get in line for the Cannon
system and cease to represent his own
views. AS it is supposed there will not
be distinctly standpat candidate. un-
less Rominger finally makes up his
mind to go into the race, it is expected
that the plan to beat Kendall will be TO
elect Dan Hamilton again.
Ninety per cent of all the complaints
that have come to the state officers in
regard to failure to secure COAL" says
road commission. relate to cars of coal
that We're bought outside of Iowa. Very
few of the complaints, upon investiga-
ton are found to be in the shipment of
Iowa coal. Or in other words it is be-
cause Iowa consumers have permitted
themselves to be convinced that Illi-
. nois coal is better than the home pro-
duct that they have found it hard to
| keep bins filed"
| Another report is that at some of the
Iowa coal mines the sidings have been
filed with loaded cars of coal most OF
the winter. Either the coal has not
been wanted by the consumers or the
| railroads have not been willing to move
| it promptly. There is some indica-
ion that the railroads have encouraged
the longer hauls of the eastern coal.
At the last session of the Legislature
Senator Savage of Adair received Pc
tition from his constituents with over
500 names asking him 10 oppose reform
in school legislation. This week State
Superintendent Riggs was introduced
by the senator TO a fine audience ir
Adair and after the head of the state
provement of the rural schools vote
of the audience showed three to one ir
favor of the change. From this MIR
Riggs concludes that it is largely {
matter of education of the people ane
an understanding of the situation By
the voters.
The reports which are coming in t.
the office of state auditor from the in
surance companies doing business il
Iowa indicate that the past year ha
been one of the most prosperous eve
and that despite that some of the in
surance people feel that the Iowa law
are unnecessarily strict, they are push
. ing their Iowa business and making
great profit thereon. The securities oil
file in the office of the state audito
show an increase greater than in an.
5 previous year, which is fair measur
of the amount of insurance in force.