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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
PLACE 4 BLAME.

The Insurgents, which when it has
been said is only another term for the
men who are not only voicing pro-
erosion but insisting on progress, are
to bear the blame" for blocking the
administration railroad measure.
p~rogressives ave borne the blame for
the rate law, for the increased powers
of the interstate commerce commission
and the legislation generally which has
curbed and regulated corporations. The
opposition to the administration bill is
all in progressive history before some
president adhered it. Those who de-
feated it did not move against the adj
min~istration. A bill which had in it
the elements Of repeal of the results
accomplished was brought to them; 1t
was advanced before other administra-
ton measures on which regulars ana
progressives were largely agreed; it
was forced for the purpose Of putting
the insurgents in the attitude of OPP
position to the administration; they de-
Tended the ground they had won, killed
the most obnoxious features of the bill
thus rendered it useless to the in
terests who most favored it. Let the
tail go with the hide.
Blame if blame there be should
be put where it belongs. The insur-
gents fixed the railroad bill. Tell it in
Iowa. Then listen to the reply.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05

! from $40 to 100 bushels, Of corn from
2,460 to $3.50 bushels and of hay from
| 63 to rs TONS. But this was not enough
! to prevent higher food prices.
We see why then we look at the pro.
duction Of animals. From 1856 to 8 o
the production Of 100 farm workers
| changed from ESQ mich wv to 249
from $40 other meat cattle to $50, ant
from $50 swine to $40 and from 80(
sheep to $40. AS cattle are fed or fat
tened on grain 1t is evident that high
er meat prices are ultimately due II
failure of the grain acre yield to keel
up with population.
While the total volume Of crops ha1
so increased as to give an exported
surplus of farm products rising In vak
ne from sos, 353,74s in 1858 to $1,017s
1856, 404 in 1909. American invention
stimulated by the scarcity Of laboi
combined with an abundance of land
has tended to delay a~cre-yield increaS
and keep our farming extensive.
BY the methods Of fifty years ago
would take two weeks work by ever1
man aged IS to As to harvest our pres
ent wheat crop. Yet because OF labor
saving machinery and other causes thu
percentage of farming to total populae
ton has fallen from 44.3 in 1880 to 35j
in 1900 and is probably lower now
There are not enough farmers to keen
God prices down.
Professor Price boldly asserts thai
there are not enough because the pros
fits of farming q not, until lately
been proportionate to the profits q
other industries-that the gains q
farmers until lately have been rathes
from increase of land values h from
operating profits. If he is correct y
his computation that farming has mol
returned, until lately. more h cur
rent wages n 6 per cent on the In
vestment it is evident that farm OPP
GRAFTON has not been highly profitable
and we see why the boys left the farm
Higher prices for farm products vii
draw more people to the soil and kee1
more there. With this will come I
higher acre yield and an equalizing ad'
justment of profits. But city dwellen
must not expect to be able to live a
lavishly and wastefully as in the past
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
the CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE NEGRO

The Catholic church is turning tow
is much hope.
Not to go deep into analysis which
might be misapprehended or misun-
derstood, it may be argued openly that
the Catholic church is pre-eminently
fitted to assist the negro into not more
enthusiastic acceptance of religion but
a more practical and e%levating practice
of its principles as well, perhaps. as a
better understanding of it's precepts.
The p%aternal attitude of Catholicism
toward its communicates, n especial
ly toward the more ignorant of these,
can not fail to force better conditions
OF family life and relations than now
obtain among negroes in the black
belt.
and other competent observers without
number. the relationship of marriage
and the responsibility of ~parentage are
unheeded to an alarming degree in the
sections where the negro population is
densest and this disregard of the moral
virtues is taken much as a matter of
course by the whites who see in the
colored people nothing but a race of
enfranchised helots. The uplifting Of
the race must begin in the family and
with individuals. 1t needs the strong
hand In religion as in law. The Cath
one cnuron IS essentially wei nrtea 10
tmpfess and control it.
II south is full Of ignorant and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
usino Animal Residues.

A Bulletin on Animal Residues as a
F Cd for Farm Stock" is a discussion OF
the use of meat and fish meals as feed
for stock. An experiment is also re-
ported, the object of which was to COM
pare the total protein of dried blood
with an equal amount of protein in cot
ton seed meal upon the yield Of milk
and milk ingredients.
Two lots of two COWS each We're fed
by the usual reversal melno1 for two
periods of two weeks each separated
by an interval of seven days. The ay-
erage basal ration consisted Of 20
pounds hay, 8 pounds bran, 3 pounds
hominy, while the supplementary ra-
ton was / pound tommy and 1.13
pounds Of blood, against 2.25 pounds Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05

lOuS interest W0lCh cannot ne llSHCy
dismissed. and while we may not ac-
cept all his reported conclusions, the
subject is worthy OF an effort to discern
how much or how little ground there Is
for such f~orebodings.
Mr.. Hill is reported a. estimating
that 400,0 0 automobiles, costing $780,
100000, will be purchased in this coun-
try this year, not one cent OF that
thing which will produce one bushel of
grain. Another speaker invites us to
/ consider the effect Of the removal Of so
much capital from the field Of business.
The idea seems to be that the money
non-productive luxuries. To a certain
extent that is doubtless rue, but not al
together. 1t Is to be borne in mind
that the bulk of the money which is
paid for automobiles goes to pay for
materials and labor expended in the
manufacture and sale of them, thus
affording profitable markets for goods
and profitable employment for a multi
tude of persons. We surely cannot re-
gard such none as wasted or even as
withdrawn from profitable use. OF
course, it does not reasonably go for
anything which will raise grain. but
then neither does the money which is
expended in building railroads or ships
or houses or in making boots and shoes.
The chief perils in what is-perhaps
with dubious wisdom-called the auto
mobile craze would seem to be in the
purchase Of machines beyond the prud-
ent ability of the buyers and in the too
rapid deterioration Of the machines and
consequent loss of value. It is doubt
less an evil for persons to buy ma
chimes when they cannot afford them,
just as it is to buy pianos or dining
tables; and If a large number OF per-
sons in any community should thus
purchase beyond their means the re-
suit both to them and to their neigh
bors would be unfortunate. 1T IS true,
also, that automobiles often seem to
lose value very quickly, either because
they wear out or because the fashions
in them change. This is indicated by
the great number of second hand ma
chine which are on The market at a
small fraction Of their original cost. A
man may buy a 5-year-old horse Tor
$500 and use him steadily and nave
him retain his valu unimpalred Tor
years. Indeed, after a few years use
he may sell him for more than he cost.
But if he pays $4,000 for an automobile
and a year later sells it for $1,000 he
suffers a heavy loss for which there
does not seem to be compensation else
where.
To predict a national financial panic
because of numerous purchases of au-
tomobiles appears -extravagant. But
there is perhaps reason for exporting
individuals not to be SO swayed by
fascination as to invest in them
imprudently. And it would seem to be
the part IF ultimate economic wisdom
tho for the moment it may not appear
to be to the advantage of manufactur-
ers, to get beyond the experimental
stage as speedily as possible and to de-
velop a standard type which will re-
main practically unchanged, so that a
car will be used year after year with
entire satisfaction, just as is a sewing
machine or a typewriter or a reaper.
On such a basis there would be no fear
of a panic, no matter how many auto
mobiles were made and purchased.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
for recently. We are curious whether
16 to / would be found in the list.

tol ACSSneAys we eA0 VAOSA
16 to / would be found in the list.
What's in a name? Ask Kansas. The
newspapers down there are pleading
with the people to call them wind
storms instead of cyclones.
1T becomes palmer and palmer day
by day why the railroads didn't want
Cummins in the senate.
AS a tactical move for getting into a
position to put something over on the
public, increasing the wages of en-
ployes is becoming quite popular
among railroads.
AS retiring senate leader, Aldrich
won't have much of a mantle to put
off if the progressives keep on pick
ing holes in it in this fashion.
IF women would only be bolder,"
Declared the s~uffragette,
And just stand shoulder to shoulder,
Wen win the ballot yet"
But one woman candidly told her
When she at last had hushed:
We can't stand shoulder to shoulder
We'd get our hats all crushed"
Washington Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
The Coming Change in Farming.

Higher prices must prevail in order
to develop the potential agricultural
of the country declares
Professor Homer c.. Price Of Ohio
State University in the Popular Science
Monthly.
This is not consoling to the city
jewellers with whom the present high
cost of living is a daily problem. But
1t is the factor, according to Profess
sor Price, that will hasten the solution
of the most important problem before
the American farmer-the reorganiza-
ton of farming methods that the
changes in agricultural conditions are
making absolutely necessary"
From the beginning American farm
ing has been extensive rather than in
tensive. This was natural, n indeed
inevitable, in a country where lane has
been more abundant than labor. I'm
der such conditions there is more pro-
fit in small yields per acre with a large
acreage lightly titled than in large
yields per acre from a small acreage
closely titled.
The acre yield Of American farms is
proverbially small. For instance, Of
wheat, the universal crop, the Ameri-
a acre yield for the decade ended
with 1907 averaged but 1919 bushels,
while in France it was 20.S. in Ger
many 2S.4 and in the United Kingdom
1926 bushels.
The American acre yield has no de-
clined, but has not increased so fast as
in other countries. While the British
increase has been 2.5, the French 80
and the German ST bushels per acre
the American has been but IL bushels
as compared with the decade ended
with 1897.
The change toward greater acre
yield, which becomes not only possible
but necessary is population becomes
denser, has only just barely begun in
this country. 1T will have to be quick
ened, for population is growing as fast
as farm acres.
In 1900 we had, in round figures.
1913, 900, 900 farm acres to IS. 000, 900 peo-
pie or II farm acres a person. Since
1900 we have added about Is, 900, 600
farm acres, but We have also added all
of Is, 200, 900 people. Our farm acres,
per person, have sunk to 10.5 or less. 1t
is evident that the acre yield must be
increased for food prices to decline or
stop rising.
Our farmers are not less industrious
or skillful than they were. From 1866
to 1908 the increase of 100 farm work.
ers' annual production Of wheat was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
The Years.

The years, the years, the little years,
the wild, sweet years of hoping;
The years, the years, the toiling years,
the dark, drear, deathless cropping;
The years, the years, the olden years,
the golden years of dreaming,
With arms of love to guide and hold
and eyes of love far-gleaming;
The years, the years, the mighty years
and downward thru them flowing
The ghosts of ong on lips of rose in
~childhood's morning glowing;
Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
Commander julius A.. Pratt Post No
143 Dept. Ill, e. A. r.

Mr. Isaac Cook, Commander Of above
Post, Kewanee, III, writes: "For a Iona
time I was bothered with backache and
pains across my Kidneys. About TIVE
months ago I started taking Foley Kid
ney Pills and oon saw they were do.
ing just as claimed. / kept on taking
them and now I am free from back.
ache, and the painful bladder misery
is all gone. I like Foley Kidney PilA
so well that I have told many OF mi
friends and comrades about them and
shall recommend them at every oppor.
tunity." Mcbride Will Drug Com
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
Generosity With a String.
New York World).

The ultimate consumer would view
with equanimity h prospect OF higher
commodity prices due to the advance
of freight rates made by the railroads
to offset their increase of wages If
he could receive some guarantee that
his w income will be increased to
correspond. The spectacle of the rail-
roads enjoying a reputation for liberal
ity in a wage increase which they are
merely passing on to the public is cal
culated to occasion certain ironical re-
nectiOnS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
Use Of Sod in TranspIantins.

A scheme that is practiced quite ex-
tensively is to plant seeds under cover
on small pieces of sod. When the plants
have attained the proper size for trans
planting, the sod and all are carried to
the garden and Put into the ground.
The plan is c~ommendable in that there
is practically no disturbing or break
ing Of the roots by tearing then from
the hotbed soil. Beans, cucumbers,
squashes, melons, and other plants that
do not transplant we'll readily lend
themselves to this treatment.
BY working a plan of his kind it is
possible for the gardener or farmer to
have these crops much earlier. He can
carry many tender plants through a
season when frosts threaten and give
them an advantage that will be pre-
ciated when the crop is harvested. The
time necessary to 10 work of this kind
is very small. The only essential is to
get at it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
Panic in Automobiles?

The vast development of the automo-
bile industry and the now practically
indispensable utility OF the machine for
a variety Of purposes have doubtless
seemed to many persons symptoms of
increasing prosperity in this country.
and the suggestion that automobiles
or their rapidly increasing use may be
a harbinger Of panic and financial dis
aster may seem to them fantastic. The
making Of that suggestion by so a
tical and expert a man as Mr.. James
]. Hill, however, invests it with a ser
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHARACTER.

Council Bluffs chief of police, Major
Richmond, has just been removed from
office for cause under the Cosson laws.
It was shown that he deserved removal
richly enough M he was connected
by evidence with the operations of the
celebrated Maybray gang, tho he was
not convicted of certain completely.
Altogether he appears to hav been a
very good sort of man to put out and
keep out of the office of chief. He
accounts with the city are correct and
is quoted as saying that he is glad his
private character is safe whatever may
have been done to him officially.
Major Richmond's differentiation be-
tween private and public character
gives insight into the causes Of his
down fall. His viewpoint is not an
one, put it is one which will
not stand analysis. Like many other
chiefs of police and public officials he
figures out a Jekyll-Mr. Hyde relation
UCl Tx l1Sl III Liz ~
theory that ar official may do and
leave undone things which would damn
his private character is not confined
to Major Richmond. 1t is held by many
others in many other places besides
Council Bluffs and is acted upon too
generally for the public good not only
by police chiefs, but officials in higher
places. The police chief is usually the
creature of the mayor: the mayor that
of politicians and interests. All are
equally guilty.
Can a man be an unfaithful public
officer and character as a private citi-
zen! Can he pander to vice that all
decency condemns and pose as a man
Of clean private character? Did the
deceived by a shallow sophism which
would scarcely stagger a schoolboy?
Does ne actually believe that a man
unfit to hold office, false to his charge
and conviC-ed not of incompetency,
but as a violator of the laws he was
sworn to uphold, can show a clean bill
of private moral health Would the
private character of a cashiered army
officer be considered good! Can he be
watchdog and run with the wolves?
If the whole story could be un-
earthed it would probably be found
that K, ''mond banked largely on in
~1uential persons who have profted
upon his derelfctions and who are now
trembling in an agony of fear lest he
weaken and give them away. If not
the Council Bluffs case is unique. It is
a pity that they can not be reached
except thru confession which is not
likely to be made. But it is of graft
flying moment that the laws of the
state at last la been corrected to the
extent that decency can make vice
afraid and Dust from office those who
protect and partnership with the VIII
lainy they are paid to suppress. Rich
mond's case is the first among police
chiefs but it will not be the last.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
A Minute Lamp.

Physicians occasionally use. for the
purpose of Illuminating parts OF the
interior Of the body, a delicate electric
lamp. called the pea lamp" because
its little glass bulb resembles a small
pea in size, being only one-quarter OF
an inch in diameter II Ia. naverfhe-
less, a complete incandescent lamp,
having q carbon film one-eighth OF an
inch long and about n two-thou'
sandths of an inch in diameter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
The Strawpile

I cotton seed meal. The extra pound O.
hominy was added to make UP the de.
f1ciency Of carbohydrate material il
the blood.
h yield Of milk, total solids and "a
were practically identical in each PER
iod n practically the same amount
Of dry and digestlble matter were re-
quired. The blooi-meal ration favored
a notable increase in live weight. Is.
timating the hay to be worth SIS, brar
$22, hominy $24, cotton seed meal $2s
and blood $55 a ton, the milk cost 1.04
cents n butter TT cents per pounc
with the bloodmeal ration and 1.O2 anG
1863 cents respectively, with the cottor
seed meal. It was not possible to de-
tect any Objectionable flavor which
could be attributed to the blood. The
blood ration in no way interfered with
the normal condition Of the animals
all of which consumed it readily.
The following conclusions are drawn:
Dried blood contained So per cent
of protein, and when properly prepar-
ed (not ~overheated) has proved itself
to be highly digestible and well suited
as a concentrated protein nutrient for
farm stock.
For cows in milk it nay be fed in
amounts varying from one to two
pounds daily, mixed with concentrates
of vegetable origin. A satisfactory
combination for a days ration consists
Of two to three pounds of wheat bran,
two to three pounds of corn or hominy
meal and n and fve-tenths pounds
of dried blood. Other mixtures can be
made containing blood as a constituent
TT is believed to be the part Of econ
omy to first utilize blood as an animal
food rather than to apply it directly as
a fertilizer.
its lack Of distribution in local markets
and the ignorance of the consumer con-
corning its merits as a foo have thus
far prevented it's general use for feed
ing purposes"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
Foolish Principle.

There is a principle which is a bar
against all information, which is PROOF
against all argument and which can
not fail to keep a man in everlasting
ignorance; this principle Is contempt.
prior to COMMUNICATIONS Spen.
Ger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
Value Of

True friendship is one of the great
est blessings upon earth. It makes the
cares and a~nxieties of life sit easily:
provides us with a partner In our af-
6icttons. and is a sure resort against
every accident and din culty that al
happen to us.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
Iona Newspapers
WHISKY DRUG STORES.
[Cedar Rapids Republican,.

The other day a laboring man who
had imbibed on the recent election day
was asked how he could get liquor on
a day when the saloons by law are
closed. He told his employer that Is
no trouble at all. He knew four drug
where he could get all he want
ed on any day and no questions We're
ever asked of him. Is this informa-
ton worth nothing?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
I.ek. Something.

Those who have tried say that beef.
steak smothered in onions without the
beefsteak somehow seems to lack
something.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
Back to Hog Raising.

(DrOVefS JOurndl).
I've been buying and shipping stock
to the Chicago market for a good many
years and l w knew a time when a
carload of either cattle or hogs was as
hard to pick up as at the present time
remarked NJ. H. Kelly Of Iriquois coun-
ty, I'LL, who had butcher cattle On Fri
days market. u buy over a pretty
wide territory and it takes some fgur-
ing IN these days Of scarcity to handle
to advantage the small scattering
punches a shipper is able to pick up.
The farmers are too busy and too in
dependent to deliver the stock to any
but their nearest loading station, par
ticularly if they have only a few head
to sell, and I've found it necessary in
nearly every shipment I've made re-
Gently to start loading my car at one
station and finish the load out at one
or more stations down the line. A few
years ago I frequently had six carloads
of cattle and hogs in Chicago for a sin
gle days market while I now find it
hard work to secure that many within
a month. Hogs in marketable condi-
ton are very scarce in my section,
but I've noticed the farmers who quit
the hog raising business in the fall and
winter of 1908 when the market went
so low, and Who the past winter nave
either been buying their pork or going
without, are pleading with their more
fortunate and far-seeing n%eighbors to
sell them a sow or two, and most OF
them are getting another start with
the mortgage filters. We will have
a good pig crop this spring. and bar
ring bad luck we will have an average
supply on hand within another year.
This is we'll for there is not a better
way for the farmer to increase the size
of his bank account than the raising
and fattening of hogs"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05
FEEDING Work Horses.

The Iowa experiment station has
been conducting a series of experiments
in feeding work horses. 1t has been
found that oats are too expensive to
feed in large quantities, and that the
ration may be greatly cheapened by
substituting oil meal, cottonseed meal,
or gluten feed. The health, spirit, and
endurance of the horses was the same
when fed corr in combination with one
of these feeds as when oats were FED.
These experiments show that oil meal
may be worth as much as $50 a ton for
horse feeding, and cottonseed meal a
little more. The horses did a hard
summers work on these feeds without
any considerable loss in flesh. These
experiments are of great value to farm
ers everywhere,as the question of feed
ing the work horses cheaply and at the
same time in such a way as to keep In
good flesh, is an important one.