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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

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anxious to haul coal as the people are
TO nave 1t. Its a paying business, but
tneres limit to the hauling power OF
our engines, and that power has been
seriously diminished by the extra de-
mands on them. No engine can do
good work unless it has chance to
rest and our engines hardly get into
the roundhouse. Another man in the
operating department of one railroad
says, the public do not realize how
much the enforcement of the sixteen
hour law has shortened the coal supply.
we start a train load of coal out from
the mines or division point. If because
OF a breakdown, a snow storm or a
hundred other causes this train only
gets hfty miles from its starting point
IN sixteen hours we have Ito tie up"
let the whole outfit lie idle eight hours
OF send a new crew after this train
load. Multiply these ''tie ups" that
occur somewhere every day. On one
road or several divisions by the num-
Der OF all railroads operating west of
chicago and the public suffers from
delayed freight.
The point made by one of these rail-
road men on overworked engines finds
strong proof in the operation of the
chicago Great Western railroad When
the j. p. Morgan syndicate got hold of
this system the first thing was to add
several hundred men to their car shops
and repair and fix up their engines and
rolling stock. And now when this rush
Oh business commenced they were in
conoltlon to handle it. so that the St
faul papers tell US they have given
the best and most regular passenger
Taln service in and out of the Twin
cities OF any of the roads operating
ehere This is also true of Iowa as
iraVellng men are glad 10 testify. In
stead of being the late western" it is
now the one the boys swear by.
one thing the public does gree with
the newspapers and that is the rail-
road commissioners of Iowa amount TO
Just ABOUT as much as the usual reso-
iuuons of prohibition meeting or the
Platforms OF big political party. If
lhey nave done anything to help mat
tiers IN Iowa during this congested
railroad traffic the public ask what is
IT. The public heard they suggested"
to the railroads to reduce the number
Oh passenger trains. and have those
engines maui coal instead of passenger
trains. Then two of the board had
business or pleasure to take them out
OF the state for several weeks and their
SUGGESTIONS were acted upon much
as similar suggestion would be for
lo-Eear-old boy to go to school on
saturday This coal famine" will be
feit IN the next legislation where the
puplic proposes to do something. It's
hard to tell what that something will
be, but it is safe to say that in the
near future a board of railroad COM
mlssloners will have power and use it
or there won't be any board"
- ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
WHAT WOULD WE GET?
IVinton Eagle.

The matter of placing the Iowa rail-
road commission upon the appointive
lists suits the Eagle. 1t never should
have been taken from the appointive list
and wouldn't have been had it not been
for the schemes of men who had an
object to attain. Even after the repub-
lican party declared in its platform for
an elective commission the legislature
refused 10 so place i. If the succeed
ing legislature had had as much back
bone the commission would still be an
appointive place. 1t is impossible for
the people to select commissioners be-
cause of the fact the people only select
from those who have declared their
candidacy before state convention.
The governor has the whole state to
select from and he can select men who
VIII fit conditions as they exist when it
is necessary to appoint.
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THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.

"A MASONIC NOTICES.
Xxx Visitors always welcome.
/VNHall over 105-107 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE, 1903, A. F. s.
A. M.-Work on third degree, Friday,
Jan. rs. 1910, at 1880 p. m.
r. w. Chamberlain, w. NJ.
H. S. Lawrence Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. SO. r, A. M.
Stated convocation Monday, Feb. 81.
1880.
George H. Boggie. E. H. P.
!. s. Willard, Secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL. r. & S.
M.-Stated assembly Monday, Feb. q,
Z: 30 p. m.
A. d. Meeker, T. 1. NJ.
I. T. Forbes, Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERY No.
30. K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday ev-
ening, Feb. %, 1910. Visiting Sir
Knights always welcome.
F. NJ. Wilbur, e. G.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER, No. 81, o. q.
S.-Meets in regular session Wednes-
day evening, Feb. 16, at 1880.
Mrs. George Downing, W. N.
Edna c. Fularton, Secretary.
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SideGghts
on Congress

Washington, Jan. 27.-Members of the
house weigh their remarks carefully
when they are discussing matters in
which Repres entative Lenroot, of Wis
consin. might be interested.
Lenroot is one of the shrewdest pol
iticians in the house. He was speaker
of the Wisconsin house when Senator
LaFollette was governor. He is a dyed
in the wool insurgent.
Whenever Senator LaFollette starts
one of his characteristic attacks on the
senate organization Lenroot is usually
at his side. If the senator is interrupted
by the caustic remarks of one of the
republican regulars Lenroot gets busy
with a pad and pencil For long
time there was wonderment as to what
he was doing. Then some one recalled
that Lenroot had been a court reporter
before he entered politics. He can take
down a debate in shorthand as fast as
the official reporters in the senate
who draw $1,000 year He has lost
none of his speed in making pot-hooks.
The value in making notes in debate
is that he has his opponents exact
language in front of him, without wait
ing for the issue of the Congressional
Record the next day. He can then pro-
coed to dissect every word and SEN
Itence.
I'D be lonesome without this insur-
gency in the house" says Mr.. Len
root. Washington folks think this fight
in the house Is terrific. I find that It
hardly keeps me in training. When
was speaker of the Wisconsin house
no fcrl,+ "a IL.
to put thru the LaFollette program If
Uncle Joe bucked up against some of
them he would know he had been in a
fight This insurgency business here is
childs play.
The Philippine islands are now rep
resented in the house by two country
men who took an active part in fight
ing off the invasion of the Americans.
Both were loyal supporters of Aguin-
aldo. but both later accepted positions
of trust and honor under the American
government
The delegates are Benito Legarda
and Manuel L. Quezon. Legarda Joined
Aguinaldo's army Immediately after
Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish
fleet in Manila bay. He became a
member of Aguinaldos cabinet and was
elected vice president of the Filipino
congress. He resigned from the in
surgent movement in December, 1898,
to return to Manila and help establish
peace. President Mckinley appointed
him a member of the Philippine COM
mission. which position he held until
he was sent to Washington by the
Philippine legislat ure.
Quezon. who is only 80 years old,
was major in the Philippine army
during the revolution and later was
a member of Aguinaldo's staff After
peace had been established he was
prosecuting officer for the American
government in several districts. He
Was elected provincial governor of
Tayabas in 1906, and resigned to be-
come a candidate for the Philippine
assembly. He was elected and became
floor leader of the Nationalist.
There goes Santa Claus" said Pen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
An lmpracticaI Wav.

Mrs. Elmer Blair, president Of the
New York State Federation Of Women's
Clubs, said at banquet during the
Rochester conventions:
u am in sympathy with the move
men under discussion, but ] think that
our sisters are pushing this movement
in an impractical way.
They remind mo of an Albany man
who walked down the street holding
his hands stiftly before him, the palms
facing each other. but about three feet
apart.
IA jocular friend knocked up his
hands and shouted gayly:
What are you doing with your
hands in that position?
You silly ass was the angry re-
ply was taking the measure for I
corner washstand to the plumberi'"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

with money drawn from the public
treasury. When he seats himself in a
dining car, he will not be compelled to
invite bunch of fellows whom he does
not like, to dine with him for political
reasons. He will not have to smile on
those whom he despises. Dawson will
just begin to live. There is plenty Of
time ahead of him in which to show
the business world what he can do, and
his energies will bring their rewards.
Happy Dawson!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
TIE GNLH INCREASE.

The increase in gold and the relation
thereof 10 nigh prices engage atten-
ton. According u the geological sur
vey, gold mining progressed very we'll
in the Gnitei states during 1909
FROM the preliminary figures OF the
director of the mint. which have just
been published. it is estimated that the
output of gold for the year reached
the unprecedented total of ses, 2s2. 200.
an estimated increase OF 1862. 900
over the production of 1908.
According TO the estimates from the
bureau of statistics. the United states
imported in 1909 gold valued at s18,-
51o,5l3 in forgein ore, s26.233, 36S in
foreign bullion, and ss.059,3l3 in for
eign coin. and exported gold valued at
s4ssS22 in domestic ore, s43.02l545 in
domestic bullion s8s, So3. 2s5 in United
States coin. and s2,717.725 in foreen
coin, the excess of exports over i'm
ports thus being sS7.2SS. 323. In 1905
there was an excess orr exports over
imports valued at $30.939, 1853. The
imports in 1909 were made up chiefly
of ere and bullion from Mexico and to
a smaller degree from Canada and
South America. The exports consisted
largely Of coin and went chiefly to
South America, tho large amounts
of gold We're sent to Japan, the united
Kingdom. and France
1t appears, therefore, that the net
gain to our stock of gold for 1909 was
only about SO ooo.ood that is in
round number, the difference between
the s99o0ooO of production ana the
sS7,oc0.0Q0 of excess exports. This i to
be compared with the showing for 1903
That year we produced about s95, 900,
600 and had excess exports of $50, ooo.-
600. Thus the gain in stock for the
year was Sc, 0OA 900, more than five
times as great as for 1909
Then why did not 1909 show a check
in the increase in commodity prices. if
it is true that the more gold the
higher the prices of other things? This
IS not so much of a poser as it might
be, for the simple reason that it is by
no means certain that prices nave ad-
vanced as rapidly during the past year
as during 1903, if, indeed, there abs
been any general advance at all dur
ing the past year, a point on which we
have seen nothing reliable beyond the
statement by a leading packer that
dressed meat is cheaper at wholesale
today than it was a year ago.
But we are not so provincial. Pro-
vincialism in the commercial world is
thing Of the past. 1t is the volume of
gold in the whole civilized world we
should say. that influences the trend
Of prices. The worlds supply of gold
steadily increases, year by year, about
$4,000 for each of the past two
years, and like increase is anticipated
for this year.
Again it is often disputed that the
supply of gold has any direct bearing
on prices. More than nine-tenths Of the
business of the world is done on
credit. But the indirect influence of the
gold supply can hardly be denied. The
free flow of gold makes for prosperity
for credit, if you please. and credit
makes the wheels go round. At bottom
6 tho. it is gold.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
10 mA7~~~
Iona Newspapers
PRICES TWENTY YEARS AGO.


lCdrroll Herald.
How would those who are complain
ing of high prices like to be set back
twenty years? Twenty years ago j. R.
Whitney was shipping out a trainload
Of potatoes bought from farmers around
Carroll for Is cents a bushel A local
dairynlan complained to the Herald
that he had no sale for his calves and
could not even give them away Apples
We're selling in the stores at retail for
81 barrel Fine land was offered in
this region at $50 per acre. Such an
excursion into the past would hardly
go down with the average Carroll
county citizen, producer or consumer
Tor While the farmer couldn't get any
thing for his stuff in those days the
principal reason wag that nobody had
to buy with. But the people
WaXed fat and kicked.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
IOWA OPINIONS sFD NOTES,

The Des Moines Register and Leader
says: There is just one chance for
PRESIDENT Taft, and that has been hint
ed at in some of the dispatches-that
ne gets his eyes opened to the futility
of the Aldrich and Elkins and Cannon
bottles for his reform wine. He has
courage enough, and patriotic purpose
enough, IL he can only take on little
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
FULL OF YEARS AND SIS HAY.
Akron Observation-Disclosures


Old Sam" the Akron Lumber Com
pany's faithful yard horse, is dead
having reached the ripe age of about
% years. N. S. Moore has used the old
fellow during the nearly twenty years
ne has been in business here and he
never was known to finch at load or
shlrk duty. He could walk off easily
with a load that would bother two or
binary horses because he knew all the
tricks of the pulling business, while in
many other respects he was as wise as
some whole families. During late years
sam s. pathway has been made easy
as a reward for past duty well done
Paralysis finally laid him low and Vet
Urinary Brown was called to mercifully
put him out Of misery Monday. 1t was
almost like paI ting with a near relative
to Mr. Moore.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

political sagacity and secure some of
mat discrimination in Judging men
that comes to those who have battled
Tor themselves in life, but that is al
most always conspicuously wanting in
men who have had an easy BERTH"
The good OF the temperance cause
demands, as the next step in the way
of progress, that Uncle Sam shall re-
fuse to issue government licenses in
prohibition territory" insists the JEFF
ferson Bee. That sort of an edict
would be a terrific blow to the traffic,
as it would practically eliminate the
bootlegger. 1t ought to be done"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette thinks
There was some sense to the sugges-
ton of John Cownie for congress in the
Second district. 1t wouldn't hurt con-
gress nor the country one bit to have a
lot more men of the John Cownie
type
I'VE are not fling objection to
Roosevelt for the speakership." ex-
plains the Nevada Representative. but
he is about the last man we would pick
out for the speakership with view to
diminishing the political Importance of
that Office
1t took John Walsh five years to
learn that he was no better than other
criminals" says the Waterloo Reporter
He might have his sentence completed
now instead of justs tarted"
1T may be that it is necessary for
the retailer to have large profit in
order to remain in business, and it may
be that when a full investigation is
made that it will be found that he is
not getting a larger profit than is his
justs hare" says the Clinton Herald
Secretary Ballinger is accusing his
critics of being actuated by low and
selfish motives notes the Davenport
Times and goes on TO say Mr. Bal
linger surely has been in public life
long enough to know that this is the
most common sort of defense. 1t is the
same mothod of retort that a prisoner
uses when he says that society is
against him. Mr.. Ballnger calls the
attacks on him undertaking. Possibly
it is, but it will be recalled that this
was the same reply made by the in
suranoe men before Charles S Hughes
dug down and into the facts which
startled the whole country Some i'm
portant reforms have resulted from
that insurance undertaking"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
Looker-On In Iona

Hampton, Jan. 28.-A good many
railroad men and some others feel that
the newspapers and public attacks on
the railroads for the present coal
famine and late delivery Of other
freight as we'll as the late passenger
trains, are not altogether fair, and
much of the blame is with the public
themselves AS long ago as last Octo-
Der, a business man Of Rockwell was
talking with a passenger conductor of
the Iowa Central. This conductor
wondered that the people along this
railroad line We're not filing the coal
bins" He knew that power was lying
idle in the yards at division points. He
mentioned that there was little coal
moving. Coal dealers We're stocked up
and travelling coal men were getting
few orders. The weather was fine
farmers and town dwellers were buying
from hand to mouth that is when
they were out of coal they bought an
other load.
Then came the switchmen's strike
The whole northwest usually supplied
from St Paul, minneapolis. Duluth and
other lake points, with hard coal found
their supply entirely cut off for a while
and very inadequate quantity from
that time to this. Not only were the
coal supplies for this part of the coun-
try almost entirely ended, but every
other kind of merchandise sold in sew
eral hundred towns, had to be obtained
from other sections of the country.
Conservative estimates place the losses
IN the millions to the wholesale dealers
in the Twin Cities. because of their in
ability to fill their orders from the
country towns. All this changed the
railroad business of the whole north
west Not only were the railroads
leading out of Chicago called upon to
handle supplies for their usual terri
tory, but much Of the traffic from the
territory supplied by the northwest job
bers was added to the Chicago lines.
Then came the coolest December on
record. The people north and west of
Chicago burned more coal in that
month than ever before There was but
little in the hands of the dealers for
reasons heretofore mentioned, SO that
the present famine" was as certain
and sure to come as the days followed
| one another.
! one railroad man says we are as
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

lIOm HIOSu6Fls
ties, terrible drag.
ging sensations,
extreme nervous
ness, and that all
gone feeling in my
stomach. I had
given up hope Of
ever being well
when I began to
take Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound. Then
1 felt as though
new life had hoen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

There must have been somemistake
about reading the insurgents out of the
republican party when one Of them,
Senator Nelson. is already chairman
of the Ballinger-P inchot committee.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

The hesitation of Mr. Charles P. Taft
70 enter the senatorial contest in Ohio
may be caused by the multitude of
complications with which the Buckeye
republicans are already confronted
ST. Louis Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Champ Clark recently delivered an
eloquent defense of the Missouri mule.
This leaves Hon. Gumshoe Bill Stone
as about the only Missouri institution
that has never received a strong de-
fense.-Chicago Record Herald
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

Great power Is now in the hands of
the Irish in British politics. says a
cablegram. Now let the shillalah carom
on the head of the tyrant-Louisville
Courier Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
AFTER
FOURYEARS.
OF MISERY
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Baltimore, Md. -" For four years
my life was a misery to me. I suffered
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

Mr. Taft believes that the president
should be the head Of his party. There's
one Roosevelt policy that has not be-
come impaired Philadelphia Ledger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

Mr.. Taft hands out comfort 10 the in
surgerts in chilly chunks.-Pittsburg
Gazette Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

French aviation stock, according L
the latest reports from Los Angeles
is flying high.-Philadelphia Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

Eight New York dressmakers. hav-
ing been fined an aggregate of $4,000
for smuggling, their customers doubt
less will be surprised at sudden adj
vance in the cost of material
delphia Ledger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28
TT1EsREPUBI1cAN, IOWA. JANUARY g. 1910

political sagacity and secure some of
mat discrimination in Judging men
that comes to those who have battled
for themselves in life, but that is al
most always conspicuously wanting in
men who have had an easy berth"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

Party harmony is doubtless desirable,
as Mr.. Taft has repeatedly declared,
but il seems to demand some things
that it doesn't happen TO have just at
resent-Providenc Evening Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-28

1T took John Walsh five years to
learn that he was no better than other
criminals" says the Waterloo Reporter.
He might have his sentence completed
now instead of justs tarted"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-05-31

Programme of Mrs. crawford's
pupils recital to be given at the Audi
torium Thursday night. June 2. assist
ed by Fri. Rhetua Hesselberg. vio-
linist.
Piano-Reviel de Lion. De Konkski
Miss Hilda Gatewood
violin-Ballad and Polanise. Vieutemp
Fri. Rhettia Hesselberg
voice-Happy Birds Waltz Song
............,..... Hoist
Miss Nell Maloney
Piano II. = Trovatore De Verdi
Fantsasie ................. Dorm
Miss Gladys Jones.
Recitation-The Lighthouse Light.
with Musical settingl. ..........
Miss Leila Slough
Piano-March of the Nations
.................. Engleman
Miss Mabel Clarke
foiNC van sss.s.s. I..s-s..-s AidSg
Miss Sadie Thompson
violin-Schuberts Seranade =. Listz
Fri. Rhettia Hesselberg
Seranade De Amour. ...... Atherton
Miss Verlie York
Piano Duo. Selection from Wagner
Misses Hilda Gatewood and Opal
Burkhalter
Voice-A Dream. $1,000. Bartlett
Miss Irene Miller
Piano-Caprice De Concert. Bartlett
Miss Bessie Franklin
voice-"Sing Me to Sleep" with
Violin Obligato). ........ Green
Miss Norville Racliffe
Piano-Nocturne 9Th Leybach. ...
................ Leybach
Miss Elsie Morrison
Piano Duo-Superba ..... Engleman
Misses Norma Chandler and Mary
Barrett
Voice-Bobolink. ...... Bischoff
Miss Irene Nichols
Piano-Selections from Martha. .Krug
Miss Leota Miller
Piano--Daffodils =. ....La Fargo
Master Allen Myers
Violin-Gipsy Songs. -. Saraste
Fri Rhettia Hesselberg
Medals-Misses Hilda Gatewood, Mary
Barrett and Virlie York.
Seats on sale at Riedemann's.