Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
Looker-On In Iona

Grundy Center May Tits
catchy phrase the high cost of living"
Also the transposed words, the cost
of high living Dressed bullheads %
cents a pound is the sign in an Iowa
meat market. In d Clarion meat mar
ket dressed buffalo fish 10 cents
pound Are bullheads and buffalo fish
high living?" Twenty years ago dress
ed bullheads We're sold everywhere 10
cents a pound and buffalo fish was ped
died out in the country at 3 to cents
a pound. Surely the tariff is not the
cause of the present prices On a re-
cent Sunday a Marshalltown man tele-
phoned to the meat market. how about
dressed chickens. got any? Yes, two
left" What are they worth?" Well
one isn't Very large weighs up dollar.
The other will cost you s1.20." sun
day chicken dinners evidently come I'M
der the head of the cost Of high living.
In one of our Iowa hotels the land
lord was congratulated by one of his
guests on having on the bill of fare
mustard greens and boiled salt pork"
some home ike d DISH and of course
cheap. well it ought TO taste good"
said the landlord, Il paid so cents a
peck tor the greens and % cents a
pound for the salt pork. Ship it in
from Chicago and cost me % cents laid
down. None of the guests could re-
member the tariff rates on greens and
salt pork. Now when one remembers,
there's probably a million bullneads in
every Iowa river, only waiting for the
small boy to catch them. that every
garden in Iowa can produce thousand
pecks OF mustard greens, ana that
there's thousands of hogs IN Iowa
worth not ovcer cents pound,
there's some other reason besides the
tariff which explains the high cost of
living in Iowa
The hotels Of Iowa which have lived
up 10 the law concerning ropes IN each
bed room and fire escapes. shown by
red lights in halls, should have the
benefit Of some free advertising by the
Hawkeye, and I. S. T NJ. A. There acct
dent insurance companies can easily
make up a list of such hotels and send
it out with their printed matter. The
hotels that are not thus equipped can
be made conspicuous by nor peing in
Guided in such list, and II travelling
men continue to patronize such hotels,
they certainly will know where they are
going and the chances they take in
sleeping in such hotels.
An item has been travelling over the
state in the daily and weekly papers
concerning two of the Indians from
the Tama reservation, going to work
in the buoy mandatory at MARSHALL
town. At Montour the writer was told
that the third young Indian would
join them. Also that some of these
Indians had actually worked on the
railroad section. From reports from
Washington, it is evident there will
soon be radical change in the man
agement and affairs Of these Tama
Inrians. Not everyone knows that this
reservation. this land they live on not
off Of, really belongs to them Uncle
Sam is only trustee. And Uncle Sam
is getting tired of his Job. His wards !
are not doing well and he is talking of
dividing up this land and letting them
shift for themselves. Root hog or die
as it were. Such a division will be a
difficult job. Some of the land is
worth $3.50 an acre and some not $3.50.
1t will come hard on some of these
braves too lazy to cut hay for their
ponies, that every winter have to get
along the best they can, by eating
dried grass they have to paw the snow
off Of or eat hazel brush. It is strange
that all of these noble red men, since
the days of the landing of Columbus
an dour Pilgrim fathers, have been
cursed by the bad advice of white men.
Three-fourths Of the trouble that have
come to these Indians on the Tama
reservation, can be easily traced to
such a source. Add to this the effects
of the sentiInentaiists, the country
over. the theorists VINO have been ap-
pointed to take charge of thei raffairs,
and it is no wonder. these Indians at
Tama, Notwithstanding their environ
ment, living in the center of civilized
Iowa, have not advanced in any way,
shape or fashion for the past half CEN
fury. This last statement should be
qualified Nearly all of them make
good material for travelling medicine
shows"
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