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Rear Friend:

Rear Friend:
July 4th will soon be here. Won't
you be glad? We will have a picnic
then. Mama told me this morning
to go down to Clark's grocery and get
a whole lot of things for the 4th.
. They keep everything in the Pre-
ferred Stock and Closet & Deveres
lines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
CHAMBERS FOR RECORDER.

The present efficient recorder OF
Lee county is Mr.. Fred c. Chambers
of Fort Madison. He is candidate
for another term, by Republican en-
dorsement at the primary election,
and should be continued in the Of
fee by an Overwhelming vote. The
county never had more capable or
acceptable recorder than Mr. Cham
bers and cannot hope to gain any
thing by making change. The com
mittee of experts appointed to ex-
anime his books and report upon the
manner in which he discharged his
duties gave him clean bill in every
particular. They found everything
accurate and up to date and all fees
carefully and honestly accounted for.
The same condition was found to ex-
ist in the deputy's Office in Keokuk.
under the administration of Mr..
Edwin G.. Vaughan. In the event of
Mr. Chambers reelection Mr..
Vaughan will be continued in his
present position as deputy recorder.
A vote for Mr.. Chambers is there
fore in effect vote for Mr.. Vaughan
also.
Mr. Chambers is a veteran of the
Spanish-American war He has also
to his credit fine record as a
private citizen and is in every way
worthy support at the polls His
many friends throughout the county,
irrespective of party, should make it
2 point to see that he receives the
large majority he deserves. BY so
doing they will ensure the highest de-
gree of efficiency in the recorders of
fee and at the same time ffttingly
compliment meritorious gentleman.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
AN ALL-ARoUND SURPRISE.
No Ono Was Prepared for Senator
cummins' Plea for Party
Unity.

Chicago Post: Regular Republi-
cans and Democrats found a common
ground today on which they could
stand tremendously. 1t was the speech
delivered last night in Orchestra Hall
by United States Senator Cummins,
high chieftain of the progressiyes.
Both agreed the speech contained no
grain of comfort for Democracy
nothing which could be used advan-
tageously by that party in making
war on Republican candidates.
To the regular Republicans the re-
marks CT the lowan were much near.
er orthodox than they had a right to
expect. To the Democrats the hope
they had nursed that the senator
would cut loose and slambang the Re-
publican leaders was blasted So both
were disappointed, for neither got
what it was inclined to believe it
might get.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
AS Viewed by Tawney.

That master standpatter, Congress-
man James A. Tawney of Minnesota.
openly admitted the Cummins speech
would accomplish good results for Re-
publicans, but possibly he couldn't
help drawing sharp line between
"so-called" progressives and true"
progressives, and intimating that it
was the bogus article which had be-
come alarmed at the threatening
storm and had hot-footed it to shelter,
Chairman John Mccarthy of the
Democratic county committee was
pessimistic in marked degree in his
view of the speech. He said, and it
evidently panied him as he said it.
there was no hope for the country in
what he also was pleased to mention
as the "so-called', insurgent move
ment. Mr.. Mccarthy closed his book
and intimated that now all Republi-
cans look alike to him
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27

cant. 1t shows that the so-called pro-
gressiyes are beginning to realize
the danger to the cause of true pro-
gressive Republicanism II fractional
strife within the party is allowed to
continue much longer
Now that Senator Cummins, in the
interest Of party harmony and party
success, has SO unqualifiedly endorsed
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, as
against the tariff policy of the Demo
cratic party, notwithstanding the
mistakes of that law, no so-called pro.
gressive Republican in the present
campaign can justify his opposition
to his party on account of the enact
ment of the tariff law, concerning
which Mr.. Cummins said:
With all its inequalities and all
it's mistakes. l would rather have the
Payne-Aldrich act for thousand
years than to see the devastation of a
Democratic act in progress for a sim
gle month .
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
RESERVOIR OF STORM LAKE.
May Supply the Des Moines River
With Water.

Des Moines Tribune: Storm Lake
will be made into reservoir to supply
the Des Moines river with water dur
ing the low stages periods, if the
plans of government engineers are car
ried out.
A. o. Rowse, chief of the Des Moines
river survey, has been making close
inspection of all the lake beds in diff
ferent parts of the state. In order to
secure a proper amount of water an
area of 100000 square feet is needed.
The inspection made by Mr.. Rowse
up until the present time developed
that Storm Lake has the sufficient
area and this is the body of water
that will probably be selected, if the
big project materializes. If the lake
is chosen by the government it will
be purchased
According to the engineers who
have gone over the problem, Storm
Lake will supply fine flow of water
for ninety days at time, increasing
the flow of the Des Moines river from
sixty to seventy per cent.
The water from the lake would be
run through canal'to the river. In
the canal would be system of locks
and gates that would control the flow
during the high water periods when
the river did not need the extra sup
ply of water
The increased supply Of water in the
river bed would greatly increase the
value of the stream in Iowa for com
mercial interests and in making it a
navigable stream. Not only would
the stream be used for shipping pur-
poses, but the water would be cold,
pure lake water.
The clean lake water in the bed OF
the river would also mean better and
more fish for the stream. The differ
ent varieties of lake fish could be
easily propagated in the cold and clear
water
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
GORE ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Senator Gore of Oklahoma is billed
for a political speech in Keokuk next
week He comes here for the purpose
of instructing local Democrats as to
their duty to their party Among
other things he will urge the election
of Democrats to congress wherever
possible, In view of these things ii
is interesting to recall what Senator
Gore thought and said about the
Democratic party's last appearance in
the law-making role. In a speech de
livered in Dallas, Texas, in 1896, he
thus expressed his real opinion of his
party.
The trouble with the Democratic
party is, it is a party of statesmen
without craftsmanship, patriots with.
out patriotism, heroes without hero
ism. Their policy begets farmers
without farming. laborers without la.
Dor, freemen without freedom.
The Fifty-second congress had a
Democratic majority of 14S. and If II
redeemed single pledge. observed a
single promise, kent single command
or discharged single Obligation made
to the people of the United States |
will quit the stump and retire from
the canvass.
The Ffty-second congress- VOC
elected on retrenchment and economy
the free coinage Of silver and the re-
peal of the Mckinley law. In the
matter of economy that congress OK.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27

ence. In all it's history Iowa has
never known what it was to suffer
failure of its crops. It's people are
Industrious. enterprising and pros
porous. They have the means to buy
what they want and the disposition to
get the best the market affords Few
er merchants fail in Iowa than in
any other state.
Fourthly-Iowa has model state
government, superior state institu-
tons, all paid for, a low rate of tax
alton. good schools and all the adj
Juncts and concomitants of the high
est civilization. It is all right polite
ally Except in spots) and socially it
is ideal. The homeseeker will not
ind such combination of exec,
ienctes anywhere else.
Furthermore-Iowa should adver-
use to counteract the advertising of
other states. Thousands of Iowans
are being tolled away every year to
their disadvantage because of lack of
DATA concerning the resources and adj
vantages OF their own state MOI
knowing Iowa as they should, they are
unable to compare 1t with the rain.
DOW representations in the advertise
ments of Texas, Oklahoma, Canadian
ana other lands. Iowans need edu-
cation in this matter as we'll as the
people of other states who are looking
for new homes.
In a word, Iowa should advertise
because it has the goods" and needs
TO let the fact be known.
S. w. MOORHEAn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
Why Iowa Should Advertise.

To the Editor Of the Des Moines
Capital:
You ask me to tell briefly why
Iowa should advertise. For the best
reason in the world, to-wit: Because
it has some of the best things in the
world and owes it to itself and the
rest Of the world to give them the
publicity they deserve. Let me enum-
crate few of the more important
of them.
First-It has the best soil in the
world, not excepting even the famous
valley of the Nile The latter Is re-
stricted in the things 1t produces.
Iowa soil will produce anything that
can be grown in the temperate zone
and more of 1t to the acre than any
other equal area anywhere on the
surface of the earth. The diversity of
products which can be grown at a
profit in Iowa is practically without
limit The possibilities of produc-
ton in the matter Of yield have only
been guessed at as yet.
Secondly-Iowa offers unriyalled
facilities for the establishment and
growth of manufacturing industries.
1t is the best market in the world for
breakfast foods agricultural imple-
ments, automobiles, pianos, organs,
boots and shoes, stoves and ranges,
and host of other articles In every
day use. The demand for these
things assures ready home market
for them, and home market is al
ways the best market. This fact
should be advertised far and wide.
Thirdly-Iowa affords unsurpassed
opportunities for merchandising at
profit The salubrity of the climate,
the richness of the soil, and the in
telligence and thrift of Iowa people
combine to make the state an ideal
place in which to conduct business
successfully and acquire compel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
GETTING A PLEASANT VOICE
One Should practices Low, swee.
Tones and Speak Thoughts Of
Kind Heart.

Would you have voice that is mu-
steal and pleasing? Americans should
listen while foreigner talks and then
compare their voices with the soft
sounds of the people of other lands
Practice the low sweet tones that are
possible to every one. If but little
time be taken to give the voice mu
steal intonation. The habit will grow
Ike most habits, and reward the one
who has devoted her thought to 1t.
One must start in youth and be on
the watch night and day, while at
work and while at play. to get and
keep a voice which shall speak at all
times the thought of kind heart
But this is the time when sharp
voice is more apt to be acquired You
OFTEN hear boys and girls say words
at play with quick. sharp tone, al.
most like the snap of whip. If one
OF them is vexed you hear voice
which sounds as II it were made up
OF snarl. whine and bark
such a voice often speaks worse
than the heart feels. 1t shows more
ill-will in tone than in words. 1t is
often In mirth that one gets voice
or tone which is sharp, and which
stays with him through life Some
people have sharp home voice for
use. and keep their best voice for those
they meet elsewhere. Use your best
voice at home. Watch it by day as
pearl OF great price. for it will be
worth more to you in the days to
come than the best pearl hid in the
sea.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
ceeded the Republican s1.ooe,ooo,ooo
cor or A N nan

ceeded the Republican s1,OOs,000, 900
congress by S4O,O00,0O0"
So much for the Fifty-second con-
gress. What of the Fifty-third when
both senate and house were Demo
cratic with Democratic President?
1t Is not to be forgotten that they
gave us the Wilson-Gorman tariff
which brought deficit every year;
which closed our mills, threw millions
out of work, reduced the wages of
those left with Jobs. thereby destroy
ing the farmers market for his pro
ducts and bringing ruin and misery
to the entire country. Do We want a
repetition of that Democratic period :
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27

Members of the Rockefeller Bible
class received further free instruction
in personal economics last Sunday
They were advised to divide their
earnings as follows: One-fifth for
shelter; one-fifth for food; one fifth
for clothing, recreation and self-im-
provement; one-fifth for emergencies
such as doctors bills, drugs, etc, and
the remaining one-fifth should be set
aside for profitable investment. A
member of the class interrupted the
leader to ask: How about man
with a small salary and five or six
children to keep" The report OF
the meeting is ominously silent as
to the answer to this pertinent in
quiry.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
Common Ground For All
Republicans

between the members of our party, |
am more profoundly convinced than
ever before not only OF the Importance,
but of the imperious necessity of adj
miniStering the affairs of this country
through the instrumentality of the
Republican party.
/ assert with all the sense of re-
sponsibility that can attach to one
who has given his best years to the
service of his fellowmen, that the well
fare, happiness and prosperity of the
people cannot be secured or promoted
through Democratic supremacy.
Assuming the personal honesty Of
every candidate, and by that l mean
the purpose to do, under all circum-
stances and against all influences,
what he believes to be right, appeal
for the election of all Republican can
didates. no matter what their individ-
ual views may have been with respect
to the public measures which have
been or are now proposed.
When the voters come presently to
decide between the Republican and
Democratic candidates they will not
be passing upon the merits or de-
merits of our last revision, but they
will be sitting in judgment upon the
soundness of the protective system as
compared with the revenue system.
The consequences are so infinitely
grave that forecast a triumphant Re-
publican victory in state long we'd
ded to the beneficent doctrine of
protection.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
SENATOR cuMMlNs. SPEECH.

Senator Cummins' speech in Chica.
go Monday evening under the suspices
Of the Hamilton Club was a powerful
plea for party regularity and loyalty
AT Marshalltown on the following even
ing he advanced and emphasized the
same arguments why Republicans
should vote the ticket straight. In
both addresses he laid especial stress
upon the danger ahead TO labor. can.
ital and business should Democratic
congress be elected and an attempt
made by that congress to enact new
tariff that would not be protective.
The danger pointed out by Senator
Crnlmins is not one conjured up BY
the imagination. 1t is both real and
imminent The first thing Demo
cratic congress would do would be 10
attack the tariff with a view to sub.
shutting practical free trade for the
protection now afforded American la.
Dor and American industries under
Republican tariff legislation. The fact
that such change could not be made
at once would cut little or no figure
so far as disastrous results were con.
cerned. The mere threat of free trade
would paralyze industry of all kinds
and precipitate period of hard times
rivaiiing If not exceeding the hard
times from which the country suffered
under the last Democratic administra-
ton of national affairs. There could
De no greater menace to American
prosperity that the election of a Demo
cratic congress at this time.
If any Republicans have imagined
that they would have the tacft con-
sent, if not the avowed approval. of
Senator Cummins in refusing to sun
port Republican nominees let them
at once be undeceived The Iowa
senator is a master of language and
ne made it as plain and as emphatic
as he was able to do with all the
wealth of speech at his command that
II is the bounden duty of eve-y Repub-
llcan to support the nominees of the
party with his vote and do all in his
power for their success. The utter
ance is one of great importance and
tlmeliness and should make a pro-
found impression upon every Repub-
lcan in Iowa and the country at large.
NO stronger plea for party unity
could be made and no Republican can
disregard it without having to answer
TO ms country and his conscience for
Wlirul neglect of duty of paramount
Importance at critical time in the
nations history.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
The Battle HYMN

Minneapolis Journal: The Battle
Hymn of the Republic" was but one
incident in the long and useful life
of Julia Ward Howe, and so spon-
taneous was its creation, SO effort
less, that she herself seems TO have
been unaware of it's peculiarly great
quality. For it was not born of
travail. but sprang in a moment like
Pallas from the brain of Jove.
Yet the hymn as a result may be
considered as an end of a long chain
OF causes, reaching back into Puritan
times and running through two cen.
turtles and half of New England.
Only daughter of the Puritans
could have written it, only one in
whose veins coursed the blood of
Roundheads and Ironsides, in whose
brain burned the moral exaltatlon of
the free and humanitarian New Eng
land.
1t is terrible and beautiful and
lovely. 1t echoes Marston Moor and
Naseby; it reverberates with the
thunder of the surge OF Plymouth
Rock: it is mystical and Jealous and
inspired; and 1t is noble, more noble
than any war song that ever was sung
in all the world. Compared with 1t
The Marseillaise" is secular and
The Watch on the Rhine" patriotic
sentiment.
What it needs is 70 be set to a
music as great as are its lines If ever
it be fortunate enough to be set to
such music it ought to be the chant of
million voices and its power greater
than the yolleys Of cannon.
Two supreme utterances have been
inspired by the civil war, Lincoln's
memorial address at Gettysburg and
this hymn of Julia Ward Howe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
Molasses Industry In Van Buren
County,

Keosauqua Democrat: We are told
that man on the old Henry Arson
farm between Douds and Kilbourne
got 102 gallons of molasses off an
acre. Jacob stagers got seventy-slx
gallons off of three quarters of an
acre; j. G. strickling got fifty-fve
gallons off half an acre and one boil.
ing Of the syrup was spoiled in the
making; George Mcbride of Vernon
township had made Saturday seventy
gallons off of half an acre and stated
he would get $50 gallons off an acre
Molasses are selling at Douds-Leando
and here at fifty cents a gallon
Those who do not make the molasses
themselves are paying twenty cents
a gallon for having it made, put
those who have the machinery for
making it themselves do SO at very
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27

1t is announced from Des Moines
that the next legislature will be
asked to make purchase of additional
land for the penitentiary at Fort Madi-
son. The small farm which the state
has there is said to have proved to
be immensely profitable, and without
it the state could hardly have paid
all bills for expense at the institu-
ton With more land the prisoners
can be used to still better advantage.
The legislature should make the pur-
chase by all means.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
A FalIibIe Father-ln.Law.

Two OF the gilded youth of Proyi.
dence, r. l.. were in Newport and
came upon newsboy.
Let me have paper" said one of
them. giving the boy SO cents.
Il can't change that" said the bow.
Lend me a Nickel" the gilded
youth asked his companion.
"Oh. bother, let him have the so
cents"
NO, indeed, You let him have It
If you like. My father-in-law is not
dead and yours is."-Life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27

The float in the recent Ak-Sar-Ben
parade in Omaha that made the great
est hit was one representing golden
stairs on which Roosevelt was shown
with the big stick uplifted over the
Bonded back of st Peter, who was
busily at work scrubbing the gilded
fight. Angels lowered over Theo-
dore, while the devil was making him.
self as small as possible in the space
under the stairs. The spectators
promptly caught on" and the float
brought forth cheers all along the
route of the parade.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27

Experiments have been made in
Germany to determine the cost of
blowing by steam, horse and electric
ity. The soil was plowed in each in
stance to depth of twelve inches.
The cost of blowing sixty acres by
steam was 5000, by horse s1So, s145
with a two machine electric plow
and SIPS with one-machine electric
Dlow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27

Rev. John HASTE. the Cedar Rapids
pastor who preached sermon a
week ago on Hell. and How to Get
There on last Sunday preached a
sequel to it on Hell, and Who Will
be There It beats all how much
first-hand information some of the
preachers have of routes TO his sa-
tanic majesty's domain and the per
sonnet of the lower regions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
The Keosauqua Independent has

The keosauqua independent has q
paragraph to the following effect;
The Keokuk papers are doing q
lot of worrying over the fact that the
present schedule on the Rock Island
does not permit us of the isolated dis
tricts to come down and spend our
surplus Probably keokuk would be
as good a place as any. but, bless
you. our people don't go away from
home to trade.''
Ahem-m, OF course not. Perish
the thought,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27
A PLAIN MAN.

"A plain man prays and goes his ways
and gives his life to toll;
A plain man keeps the grain he reaps
and tills his 1.-THE of soil;
plain man sees the joy of right and
in that life lived well
Breathes that contentment of whose
wealth he cannot sing or tell.
A plain man has one heart to love,
one love to give complete,
A plain man plants the rose of life TO
bloom about his feet.
And in its blossoms, rosy-cheeked,
with childhood's sparkling eyes,
He sees the measure of his joy in
tender blooms arise.
A plain man gives his neighbor hail,
his brother help in need,
A plain mans liberal heart proclaims
a plain mans wholesome creed;
A plain man SCOTS at vain mems
show and comfade of the throng
A plain man learns the latent power
to suffer and be strong.
A plain man envies not his peers nor
nor those beyond him set
In covetous and greed grown zeal to
get and still to get;
A plain man loves his simple life and
for him wealth is but
A rosebud by his garden gate, lilac
by his hut.
A plain man sometimes laughs inside,
as plain men learn to do;
A plain man has an eye that sees, a
heart that pierces through
The thin skin of the lofty guys, and,
plain man still, he hides
In that sweet influx OF the soul DER
LIES Interior tides.
A plain man prays and goes his
ways, and trusts and has content
With little, or that little more, which
eer to him is sent;
A plain man smiles when kings go
down, when fate o'ertakes his
His whole life for brothers grief.
his heart to stay his tears.
' Baltimore Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-27

A lecturer in Cleveland declared
that men talk too little to their
wives. The humorist of the Des
Moines Tribune pertinently suggests
that he might have added that some
men find it hard matter to get their
wives to believe the little they tell
them