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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
DON'T HURRY.
Upper Des Moines Republican,.

upper lies MOlIleS 1tepuDlCdHJ.
Considerable agitation is being stir
red up turnout the state regarding
changes In the primary law. Both
wings Of the republican party seem to
be dissatisfied with the present work
ings Of this law and now the prohibit
tionists are preparing to make a de-
termined protest to the legislative as
senbly next winter against this law.
claiming that it DISTINGUISHES their
party.
While it is undoubtedly true that
there are defects in the present form
of the primary law there is also much
danger Of not lettering conditions as a
whole by attempting to make TOO radi-
cal changes in the primary system.
The opening of this question in our
legislature would undoubtedly please
the dem ocrats. They are watching for
some opportunity to urge the adoption
Of law providing for the election of
and would attempt to work such a
measure thru while the legislature was
wrestling with the primary law chang
es.
AS has been expressed heretofore. II
would undoubtedly be better for all
concerned II there were but few alter
atoms made and more attention paid
to the education of the rank and file
of voters into a better unders Ia nding
of the workings Of the primary law. AS
matters are now the voters in the rural
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15

gressional districts shall be selected by
tho state convention. This has always
been the case, but It has been IA IN.
written law that the delsgAtss from
zach district shall select the commit.
tssman from that district, and their
seaect1on will be ratified by tho COM
vention. u Is also st1pulated that the
delegates to tho state convention Shall
be selected by the county conventions,
but It has bean an unwritten law that
delegates from each precinct shall Sc
lect the delegates the precinct II en-
titled to, and they will be ratified by
the convention.
For four years Linn county has been
smashing this unwritten law, end ag-
noring precincts not in line with the
majority. Why. then. should the stand
patters Of this county cry stop, thief"
because they fear that the state con-
vention viii follow their lead and also
smash this unwritten law.
The situation of the Republican IS
amusing. It asserts with Mr. Trewin
and the other standpatters Of the coun-
ty on Saturday that what Is sauce for
the goose Is sauce for the gander," but
on the following Friday asserts SER
iously that what is sauce for the gan
der is not sauce for the goose.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
PHASE Of FOOD LAW,

While so much Is being said about
pure food it might be we'll to consider
another phase OF the subject. that has
has not yet been presented The peo-
pie have been educated and public SEN
timent is rising up and crying out
against adulteration or contamination
of the food which we put into our
mouths. 1t is time to protest against
the mental food that is daily being
given our young people and children IN
the form of trashy books, immoral
plays and suggestive pictures at the
10 cent shows. There is poison III
them as surely as in adulterated food.
The need of our young people is to
have high ideals placed before lhetil'
Every parent desires to see his son
grow into a man Of strong and moore
character, and his daughter into tar,
sweet woman. But "as the twig is pelt
the trees inclined" The boy with low
ideals can not make a worthy man, I'M
til he changes them. The girl needs 10
have the picture Of pure womanhooo
ever before her And what Ideals are
the majority of books they read sup
plving to them? What views OF life are
they gaining from the pictures they see
almost daily at the cheap theaters!
Committees have investigated almost
everything made nowadays. but authors
So called-are still permitted to dump
their cheap trash upon the market LOT
the consumption Of the youth OF the
land, and questionable plays meet niue
opposition. LIE, parents realize that 20
read a book or witness a play thae
thrills the emotions is for the youth
next thing to experiencing persohaiis
what he reads or sees, and it may ior
a moment give them pause
Shall we not demand pure mental
food for children-as well as aouits-
that our nations's ideals be kept unfair
n,shed. its homes sacred and the CHAR
acter of its people worthy?
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Iona Newspapers
WHAT'S WRONG?
IDas .Moines Tribune.

k)OS .MO1UeS xS1DuN0J.
What Is the matter with our public
schools?
We are spending annually hundreds
Of thousands Of dollars IN Des MONIES
and Polk county for education. we are
erecting splendid new buildings every
year. we are hiring high salaried sup
erintendents and teachers. and yet
when we send our public school grad
yates to take the examinations for
teachers certificates. they fail wretch
eddy. In June 1877 young people. prac-
tically all OF them from our high
schools, took the examinations; of that
number only forty-one passed and
ninety-six failed, Of the forty-one who
passed, only two ranked high enough
for first grade certificates.
And in what did our public school
boys and girls fail?
Was it in the ologies and other stud
les with high sounding names? If 1t
was, perhaps there is some excuse for
them.
But it wasn't. The failed in plain
spelling, in good. old fashioned arith-
metic, in plain United States history,
in plain grammar and geography and
the like. They were short in the stud
les that are fundamental, the studies
that are most useful in the practical
life of men and women.
Who is to blame?
Not the boys and girls, altogether,
because County Superintendent Huegle
said in commenting upon the situation
that they were as bright lot Of young
people as ever gathered for an exami-
nation in Polk county. They had ability
enough to do better, even if they didn't.
Are the schools to blame. then?
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Germany and America in Asia.
New York Tribuue).

The opposition of Germany to Amer
lean enterprise in Asia Minor is TO be
regretted rather than resented. and it
will probably soon be dispelled. Its
origin IS. of course, not In any general
animosity toward America and Ameri-
cans, which does not exist in Ger
many. but rather to a natural and I'M
objectional solicitude for German in
ton of the American plans might I'M
favorably affect.
This fear seems to us, however, to
be inspired by or based upon a mis-
apprehension Of circumstances. In
Europe, or in the enterprises of Euro
pean promoters in Asia and Africa,
there has generally been a close con-
nection between industrial and COM
nercial exploitation and political in
f1uence. We should do Germany no
injustice in assuming that political
considerations were closely related to
her promotion Of the great Mesopotam-
ian railroad scheme. There is, there
fore, an involuntary and sincere tho
mistaken idea that American railroad
building in that region would mean the
intrusion of Americal political influence
into what has come to be regarded as
German sphere Of influence. 1t is
to be hoped that this notion will be
dispelled and that Germany will real
ize that about the last thing America
would want to do in Asia Minor would
be to play the part that Russia and
japan are playing in Manchuria with
their political control thru railroad
concessions.
There may also be feeling that an
American built railroad in Asia Minor
would be an injurious commercial COM
petitor of the German road That might
be true If it were proposed to- build 1t
parallel with the German line or nearly
So or between substantially the same
terminals. But that is not the case.
AS We understand it, the proposed line
would cross the German line almost at
right angles, and so far as it affected
traffic on the latter at all would prob
ably benefit it by acting as an i'm
portant feeder. When these circum-
stances are correctly understood, it is
to be expected that German opposition
to American enterprise there will be
withdrawn
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real home for unfortunate children, an
institution which carries no stigma but
to which it's product may look back
in the fullness Of manhood and woman
hood with pride and gratitude. The
neglected child is still forgotten and
neglected. Give US a kindly, helpful
and noble refuge for children, a spot
that approximates the home to which
every child is born in its own right.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
IOWA ROLLING IN WEALTH.
IDub,oue Times-Journal1.

dubuque Times y OurnalJ,
Iowa has lost population since 1890,
but not wealth. Back in the days of
Grover Cleyeland's last administration
deposits in the savings banks actually
declined. 1t was not the fault of that
sturdy president. tho he had to take
the blame for it. The mischief was
caused by the deluded citizens in the
democratic and republican parties who
thought themselves financiers and
threw the country into panic by de-
manding the free coinage of silver.
The depositors did not know what was
coming and deposits in the state and
savings banks dropped from about
s4s,00o.OO0 to about s42,000,0o0 Then
President Mckinley came in. confidence
was restored, and the deposits began to
go up. They have been going up ever
since and this week stood at S25O,64S,-
S2s, a gain OF $27479799 in single
year, and this year of exploitation OF
the plain people, the farmers and wage
earners especially. by the monopolfes
and trusts the system" "big bust
ness" special privilege" and the in
terests." 1t seems the farmers and the
wage earners ran that gauntlet and
emerged with $250,0OO,0OO to spare,
which the bankers are holding for them
until they find desirable investments.
OF course this does not tell the whole
story by any means The gain in value
of farm lands far exceeds the increase
in deposits But this latter increase
itself is over half the total deposits fif-
teen years ago. At that the savings
bank habit is not developed In the
Tinted States as in Europe The av-
erage deposit in Europe runs as low as
S33 and in only one county exceeds
$500. while for Iowa last year the av-
erage was 1856. Deposits in Iowa ex-
coed 800 per capita. while for Europe
the highest per capita, SIS, is found in
Switzerland.
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LAND SPECULATION.
[Cedar Rapids Republican,


The wise farmer" said Secretary
Wilson some time ago while in Cedar
Rapids, 'is the farmer who attends to
his own farm in the most modern way,
who puts his surplus earnings into bet
ter buildings and in soil enrichment,
and who keeps a balance Of his profits
invested in good Iowa banks or securi-
ties The farmer who does that will
reap contentment and he will be found
in the course of ten or twenty years, to
be ahead of the farmer who speculates
in other lands, lands that he has never
seen and for which he himself will have
no use"
Every time we have series of wet
years they have good crops far out on
the plains. and thousands rush in to get
the lands, but unless a man can cult
vate them himself he soon finds that
they are not capable of producing
enough. in money, to pay the interest
charges, the taxes and the unkeep Of
them. There is room and there has
been room in Iowa for the investment
of all the money the farmers have
drawn from the soil during the period
of high prices But in the end 1t will
be found that large percentage Of
Iowa profits have been dissipated in
investments about which the investors
know little or nothing.
Yet bankers say that hundreds OF
farmers have mortgaged their home
properties to buy lands away from
home, lands which have been attrac
lively presented to them. but which
they cannot utilize themselves
And it may be added that in the end
1t will be found that thousands OF
others who have left this state during
the years OF It's greatest prosperity will
not have Jared so well as they had hop
ed they would-many of them will be
glad to come back home and begin over
again in good old Iowa.
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Copyright, 1910, b.
July II, 1910.

July IL, 1910.
Peters Confession Matt. xvi:13.
2s
Golden Text-Thou art the Christ
the Son of the living God. Matt
xvi: 16.
Verse 13-Did Jesus ask the ques-
ton for information. or to draw them
out, or for some other reason, as to
whom men said he was?
How much care should we have az
to what people think of US?
What did Jesus mean when he
called himself the son of man?
Verse 14-What is the view of those
who teach the transmigration of the
soul, and did these people probably
hold to that or some similar view?
Where is there any record in the
bible of people appearing after they
were dead?
In what respects did Jesus resemble
either John, or Elijah. or jeremiah.
or one Of the prophets. to make the
people think as they did?
Verses Is, 16 - What was Peters
opinion as to who Jesus was?
What reason is there to believe
that Peter did or did not, at this time,
recognize Jesus as God himself?
Verse 17-How did Peter know that
Jesus was the Christ?
Is there enough evidence to prove
beyond doubt, that Jesus Is the
Christ, apart from such a personal
revelation at Peter had? Sec Cor.
xii:3) Give your reasons.
II the knowledge that Jesus Is the
Christ comes by personal revelation,
then is there any evidence that the
devout heather, who have never heard
the gospel story, ever get such
revelation, or anything like II?
Would, or could, God have revealed
the Christ to Peter. II Peter had not
the evidence that the life and work
Of Jesus afforded?
Verses IS. 19-wffat, according TO
Jesus, Is the rock upon winch God
builds his church?
What Is the Christian churoh?
What Is the chife or central thought.
or foundation stone of christianity!
Suppose we did not know. or were
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
Suggestive Questions the Sunday School Lessor.
by Rev. Dr. L;nscott for
the International Newspaper Bible Study Club.

Rev. T. S. Linscott, D. D.
to lose everything else, but the fact
of God, by his spirit revealing unto
us Christ as the son Of the living
God, how much vital truth should we
lack?
What are tho evidences that the
Christian church 10 the n1ishtiest
force on the earth, and that it will
finally conquer tho world? (This
question must be answered in writing
by members Of the cIub.)
What is the purpose Of key? and
what did the key Of the kingdom of
heaven mean?
Jesus gave Peter the keys Of the
kingdom Of heaven, but what reason
is there to believe that every person,
with like spiritual insight as Peter,
also possesses these keys?
Verse 20-Why did Jesus forbid
them to tell the people that he was
the Christ?
What is the difference. in the de-
gree Of merit between those who re-
frain from preaching Christ, when
God forbids, and those who preach
him when God bids them?
Verse 21-When did Jesus first
realize that the Jews would reject
and put him to death?
Did Jesus offer himself to the Jews,
in good faith, hoping they would re-
ceive him, and could they have done
so, had they been so minded? Give
your reasons.
Verses 20, 23-Was Peters reason
ing IN harmony with common sense,
and was his rebuke Of Jesus prompted
by pure motives?
What was Peters real error?
What reason Is there to believe
that q good man may get divine guild
ance on some things, and then, UNI
Willingly. project his own reasoning
into other things?
Verses A-2s.-which brings the
greater good even in good things.
and why. self denial. or self Eratiaea-
toni
wa.t Is the sum tots; % % -: -: t s:.:siS.,
In which are all good things, for time
and eternityf
Lesson for Sunday. July ~. 1910.
The CHARACTERIZATION. Matt. Will
s., 1920.
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FRANK sHERcLiFF's CHILDREN.

Mrs. Sherman Morris, according to
the Des Moines papers, has turned her
children over to the care of the state
alleging that she can no longer support
them.
Back Of the simple statement is ar
gument for those who insist on a
censorship of marriage and who would
have candidates for matrimony ex-
amined as to physical and mental and
moral fitness to wed. Sherman Morris
alias Frank Snerclife, was one Of the
most notorious criminals written in
the records of crime in this state.
His most notorious crime was the day
light robbery of a diamond merchant
on a passenger train and his recent SEN
sationa escape from a Colorado officer
by leaping handcufTed from a rapidly
moving train on his way to the peni-
Tertiary will he readily recalled. Utter
" without fear and apparently entirely
lacking in moral understanding Sher-
cliffe, or Morris, represented the most
pronounced type of the dangerous
criminal.
He served seventeen years sen
tence for the diamond robbery, was
released and gained further notoriety
as the star witness against Tom
Dennison in that notorious trial Then
a woman whose heroic ideals matched
with Shercliffe's performance married
him. They had children. Shercliffe
fell into his old ways, the woman went
wrong to all appearances, Shercliffe is
in the penitentiary in Colorado and the
woman has rid herself of the children.
Perhaps she has discovered another
hero.
Now if the sire trots and the dam
trots the colts are likely to go the
same gait. The human animal is as
potent to transmit mental, moral and
physical characteristics as are brutes.
When two like Shercliffe and his wife
are mated the processes Of nature are
no more to be diverted than in the
Geo. Wilkes strain of trotters. Great
criminals are as prepotent as great
speed sires. Like begets like is an es-
tablished principle.
Society must train these children
away from inherited tendencies. It
must spend it's money to do it. The
children are now shifted to the state
and with them the responsibility OF
their future The burden belongs now
to organized society. And the fact
carries with it the inherent right of
society to supervise marriage Whether
or not refusal Of license to wed would
result in m ore or fewer children among
the criminal classes is an open ques-
ton. but the right obtains and ex-
lists.
And the fact that many children borr
with q handicap OF parental pervers1or
arA thrown upon society to be cared
tor educated and formed for citizen.
ship accentuates the shameful truth
that Iewa's unfortunate children are
but lily considered by the state. I
IL time that this state established 9
f ~.
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THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.
Hail over 1O6-1o7 West Main.

4 MASONIC NOTICES.
1Hall over 106-1o7 West Main. s
~\visitors always welcome.
MARSHALL LODGE. 1903. A. F. &,
A. M. Stated communication. Friday
July Is, at p. m.
r. w. Chamberlain. W. n. !,
H. s.. Lawrence. Secretary. I
S10NDT CHAPTER No. %. r. A. y. ,
Stated convocation Monday evening,
July Is. ~
George H BogEis, b. n. p.
]. g. Willard, Secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL, No.
TO- r. & s. M.-Stated assembly Mon
day. July Is. p. m i
A. D. Meeker. T. I. N. !,
1. T. Forbes, Rec. j
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERY. No. )
80 K T.. stated conclave Tuesday oven- !.
ing, July 10, 1910. at 8 O'clock sharp.
Fred Wallace. Recorder.
Fred M. Wilbur. d. G.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. Nc. "a, o. p.
Especial meeting Wednesday even-
ing. July 20, p. m.
Mrs. George Downing, w. N j
Edna C. Fularton. Secretary. 4
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
Topics of the Times

Perhaps the reason the golf tourna-
ment attracts less attention than the
prize fight is because it has less blood
and more brains in it.
Colonel Roosevelt is like the little
pig which ran about so fast that he
couldn't be counted.
Talk at Washington is to the effect
that Iowa has slim show to furnish a
supreme court justice New Jersey
seems TO have the lead over Iowa.
The Mississippi river at Dubuque is
more nearly dry than ever before, but
the city can dispense with water, if
enough is left for footbaths.
Just as flying had come to be con-
sidered less dangerous than lodging
automobiles on foot comes the news of
calamity Cave dwelling seems to be
about the safest after all
Aside from it's present effect on prac-
tical politics what Roosevelt has done
is OF more pul poSe anu pa
what he may do.
The reason thal the pictured pug
lists are not permitted 10 hehl IS tHat
the audiences are pound 10 lake d manu-
in the settlement of race supremacy"
,.,,
twenty today and tries to remefn Der 10
morrow where 1t all went.
Every one "it'
oyster Day Si'ii V'0
MS race anu S. ~ -l'4'll
of WISH oy the coioiiei 10 7tS'' my
CasNe'
=. rs 1xro,,,s ,,od ,oh
-.
Tina Cedar Rapids Republican Is in
eayor or . strong rrogressive platform
e,d %, Geo nothing Int covardfce in
aodz,ne the iss,,e The Republican very
e+ror civ. co,nyoends the editorial atti-
+,ae AZ the varshaIttown Times-Re-
-,,,h,;oor
The Teacher (reading-"Then the
girl warrior faced the hooking foe and
unsf ca tf1ed her deadly weapon What
does that mean, children? Well. Elsie?
Elsie-Please, ma'am, think it
means she stuck out her tongue.-Tt-
Bits
It sounds all but ridiculous TO speak
Of preventing widows. yet that was
what was discussed at the National
Conference Of Charities and Correc-
ton held recently in st. Louis. The
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE.

MI. vernon RecOrd1.
Mr.. Trewin had a great deal to say
in his memorable speech before the
county convention about what is sauce
for the goose being sauce for the gan
der. This speech. by the way, was ap-
plauded loudly by the standpat dele
gates, and has been highly commended
by such member of the standpat
press as the Republican.
Yet within a week we find this same
Republican bewailing loudly that Iowa
districts are to be robbed"
And why?
Because this same sauce that was
so popular in the Linn county conven-
ton may be used to give spice to the
state convention.
The primary law stipulates that
committeeman from the different con
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
Readers Are Wise.

Newspaper readers have learned
that It pays to consult the advertising
columns Of their home paper when
they want to buy anything. There
they may md where the bsSt ID sold
and often pick up bargains they would
have missed IL they hadn't looked over
the Advertisements, When . business
man mas something especially .ttr.ct-
i've in quality or price b. makes use
Of printers ink In these days, and It
goes. The merchants know they are
Watching. and that's why thsy adver.
tise.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Jefferson Bee says "the thinnest
reading we can pick up this hot wealth
er Is the railing Of some Of our beloved
brethren OF the press against the pri-
mary election law. Amend 1t II you
will; change the day or date II upon
investigation 1t proves desirable; but
take away from the people the best
and fairest means they have ever had
Of expressing themselves as to candi-
dates? Not yet, nor ever"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15

a quart box of berries shall hold a
quart. Next thing" says the Keokuk
Gate-City, some one will demand a
days labor in return for days pay"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15
a crea. Obstacle.

Land Agent-Water. you know. is
king of the desert.
Alcohol Al-Then, podner, thar amt
no use o. my buyin that lot to put up
q booze tint t. benefit tn boys.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15

'"The longer the colonel holds the
louder the explosion is likely to be
when h efinally let's CO." says the Sioux
City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15

"If the newspapers keep on with
their advice to swat the fy' some fly
is goin gto get hurt before long" pre-
dists the Burlington Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-15

The Waterloo Courier thinks probate
judges or especially designated officials
should be empowered to override the
freakish and impossible requirements
of mentally distorted old men who leave
behind barrels of money"