Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-09-21
IN STATE.
Over 1000 i'm State, Writes Des
Moines Correspondent.
CONDITIONS OF LABORING MEN
Our State News Gatherer Reports on
Several Interesting Subjects
This Week.

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. 20:-In al
address yesterday before the super
intendents of the state institutions
and members of the state board OF
control, DR.. C. F. Applegate, super.
intendent of the Mt. Pleasant State
Hospital, disclosed the fact there
are 1000 epileptics in Iowa or one
for every 500 inhabitants, twenty
per cent of whom have become in
sane and three per cent of whom
have committed crimes. He secured
his figures from state institutions
and 900 doctors throughout the
state. He urged the establishment
of special epileptic colony for
treatment of these unfortunates to
make life easier for them, to pro-
tect society and to protect posterity,
He says there is an inclination
among epileptics to marry as they
grow older and many children are
brought into the world that way
either mental or moral perverts.
He suggests Iowa marriage laws
should also be amended preventing
marriage of the epileptic, the in
sane and the feeble minded.
A glowing tribute to womanhood
was paid this week by Col. David j.
Palmer, chairman of the Iowa
Board of Railway Commissioners,
in his address before the old SOL
diers at Washington, where the re-
union of the Crocker Brigade was
held.
Mothers never went to bed
nights, those days." he said, with
out kneeling down and asking God
to take care of the son, the father
or husband. There, my comrades,
is where we got the strength. We
got it from the rear. from our
mothers and from our sweethearts.
/ submit to you, my fellow citizens,
that there is not a soldier in this
crowd, or in any crowd of soldiers
you might find, that received let
ter from home telling him to throw
down his gun and come home. Was
it encouraging to you and me to get
letter from mother? 1t certainly
was. 1t breathed loyalty from the
first word to the last. All, my COM
rades, we can never forget those
women who remained at home pick
ing lint at the late hour of the
night and doing up sanitary stores.
to send down to the hospitals at the
front"
The International Carpenters
convention, with over 5000 dele
gates, convened in Des Moines Mon
day and will continue here for a
couple of weeks.
The Iowa Fraternal Congress with
nearly 1000 delegates convened
here Tuesday.
The United States Military
Tournament begins at the State
Fair grounds here next Monday.
An effort is being made to get
Theodore Roosevelt to make an ad-
dress at the Coliseum here Novem-
ber 4, on which date he addresses
the state teachers association in the
evening. The movement is being
handled by the Shriners of Des
Moines.
Iowa Democrats are planning on
having Mayor Gaynor of New York,
whose life was recently attempted
by an assassin, speak in Iowa dur
ing the fall campaign.
"The marked advancement of
among laboring men in
Iowa is gratifying in the extreme"
said President A. L. Urick of the
Iowa Trades and Labor Assembly in
discussing present conditions and
prospective legislation this coming
winter. "The demands of labor will
probably be disapproved at first,
but the reforms will come gradually
in the future as they have in the
past. There is no danger of labor
the stability of Americas
welfare. The country
is safe. The judgment of the peo-
pie always turns out right. The
Labor and Capital problem will
gradually be adjusted with no In
jury to the country or to the peo-
pie. 1t is certainly sure that the
link between Capital and Labor is
not broken as is stated by George
Harvey in the September North
American Review. Mr.. TRICKS op-
timistic prophesy came as he read
the discussion in the Review by Mr..
who said:
Financially the country is