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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01

with here and there silent figure to
represent the tramp. tramp" OF the
mighty thousands. The burdens OF
years, and all the vicissitudes Of bat
ties. rest upon the shoulders of the
warriors of other days. They can not
we'll keep step any more; there is no
more for them the double quick. They
are as men waiting for the ambu-
lance.
Are republics ungrateful? Let not
that be said. 1t is the fate of all men,
in whatever circumstance and Of
whatever service. to be made hostages
of death, while busy feet move on, and
hope sounds ever and forever Its busle
call.
The composite service Of the old
soldiers will not be forgotten-not SO
long as men can read and men can
think. The real compensation to the
old soldiers is not in eulogy, nor in
flowers, but in the monument their
country is. and in the spread OF power
for the welfare Of all mankind.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
WHERE WAS THEIR MoTHER7s

On the most prominent street corn
er the other night three girls of II to
IS years old were grouped about a
lumpish boy or II or Is. An observer
noticed them as he passed The girls
We're crowded up close giggling, whis-
pering and bridling in a silly fashion
Nearly an hour after he came back to
The same corner 10 catch the last car
The group was still there AS he wait
ed ne caught snatches of low toned
conversation. Il was mainly silly but
thru il and underneath it ran tone
that was prophecy of worse. The at
tttude OF the youth toward the girls
lacked every element of real respect.
He felt that they were below the stand
ard and showed it, II was less his
fault than theirs. They invited that
attitude
Now those girls We're not bad girls
in the strict sense; they were all too
young TO be actually bad, but they were
fools and as directly on the way to
oiSSiaSe ds mo the devil leo them.
There is only one end TO the path they
are treadiag. But they are not bad
yet. Only silly little fools
Where were their mothers?
The same evening on another promi-
nent corner girl of perhaps II stood
very close 10 a young man in the
shadow of the building, They were
whispering. But their faces even in
the shadow told a story and spoke a
prophecy. She was another little fool
who had gone farther along the path
toward the inevitable goal
Where was her mother?
From three dark stairways between
Center and First on that same evening
came suhdued voices and the voices
We're Of the young. so young as to be
childlike. More little fools farther on
the way.
Where were their mothers?
Where We're the fathers and mothers
of these boys and girls? We know
where the boys and girls were at 10
o'clock. Later where they were God
knows. But where were their fathers
and mothers?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01

is paying the immense Expenses OF the
anti progressive campaign?
1t is a desperate reactionary cam
paign pursued in the utter desperation
which stoops to SANDER, blackmail and
plain purchase. It would be to Iowa's
everlasting disgrace should it succeed
in discrediting the Iowa senators and
defeating men who represent the real
Iowa There is but one way to rebuke
the men who are putting money above
citizenship. Turn out every progress
sive vote and bury them under an
avalanche of indignant ballots.
1t is UP 10 progressives TO get out
the vote. not merely safe vote but all
the votes. Il that is done every pro-
gressive candidate in Iowa will be
nominated at the primary.
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THE .LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.

X MASONIC NOTICES.
-xTHall over 105-l07 West Main.
~\Visitors always welcome.
MARSHALL LODGE. 10s. A. =. q
A. M. Work on second degree Friday.
June 8. at 1890 p. m.
r. w. Chamberlain, W. NJ.
II. s. Lawrence, Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 80, r. A. N.
stated convocation, Monday evening,
June 20, 8 o'clock.
George H. Boggie. e. II. e.
I. 8. Miuard. Secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL No.
20, r. & S. M.-Stated assembly Nom
day, June 20, p. m.
A. d. :Meeker, T. 1. N.
]. T. Forbes, Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COAdMANDERY, No.
80 K. T., stated conclave Tuesday even-
ing, June 81, 1910, at o'clock sharp.
Fred Wallace. Recorder.
Fred NJ. Wilbur, b. G.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. Nc. 81, o. p.
S-Regula~ meeting Wednesday even
ing, June Is, 8. p. m.
Mrs. George Downing. w. n.
Edna c. Fularton. Secretary.
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THE COMPOSITE SERVICE.
rSioux City Journal.1

ISfou4 City JOuEu0lI
The old soldiers are not many, and
somewhere, every hour, there Is the
feeble sound Of taps marking the mus
ter out. Il will not be long until
darkness shall enshroud them all.
There are no young men among the
survivors; for the most part they have
reached or passed the allotted time.
and II they do not live on the bounty
of government or the charity Of men,
they endure by reason Of strength.
These old soldiers. while they last,
will not cease to honor Memorial day.
It is ! day that Quickens the memory
Of every one OF them. They remem-
Der the comrades who have fallen,
even az they would be remembered.
They have not many comrades now,
and they wonder much that they are
so alone They gather in little knots;
they speak of what was. perchance of
what snouid Do. and ttl!:s;r gather I'll cir
simple offerings of flowers and seek
out the graves. however humble, that
the spirit which can not speak ms/
have witness.
The ceremonies OF Memorial day
have become pathetic. Strong men
speak where an audience is gathered,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
That Word "Un American"
fchristian Science Monitor.

During a debate at the state house
wednesday one gentleman SAID 'hat
the fining system Of the labor unions Is
"un-American" and another added ms
passioned note 10 the effect that the
power given the civil service com
mission is "un-American." Great as Is
the temptation to linger over the pleas
ing firmness of the civil service com
mission and the vows and threats OF
vengeance that its action calls fortn'
our attention today must be put upon
the curious adjective written ABOVE
To define what is "un- American we
are put to the same shifts that Tayior
says we are in the rules OF evidence
when we define cat by pointing out
that I. is not a dog. At times one
is constrained to believe that In the
eyes of the political orator that IS
..,1n-American" which is not American.
and that what is American is that
which jumps with the speakers wishes
and those Of his following.
Pleasing as it would be to give ev-
erybody everything whenever wanted,
nevertheless we must pause when we
reflect upon the quality of the "un-
Americanism" that will be attacked by
some who may be disappointed In
their desires. The situation Is not
without its humor or without its pro-
fit. for we are now furnished with a
criterion by which we can always tell
almost exactly what is not American
without troubling ourselves with any
cumbrous traditions of ethics or any
trammeling rules Of behavior. What
we want is American; what the other
people want is un-American, even to the
doing away with the harmless capital
and the destruction of hyphens. Upon
the convenience Of this method, 1t is
unnecessary to enlarge beyond point
ing out the fact that the labor OF ma
turalization becomes by it almost SUI
perfiuous. At the same time, If for
a moment we shake ourselves free OF
the wcoing charms of personal politics
and give a formal thought or two to
the needs of our country, very pref
ty argument might be made for the
value of that effort which should be
devoted to showing by words and deeds
what is American.
The world has enough Of negation;
1t is choked with the dust of destruc-
ton, but is emerging from it to the
knowledge that only what, in a short
time, would be the results if all Of US,
hesitation, determined to contribute,
each for the others good, such rules of
practice to the grammar of our coun-
try's glory as we ought, there spreads
before our almost doubling eyes a
prospect that exalts.
If we would be a nation, we must
build, and of that building. stone and
brick are the most perishable express
sions; this work we must do with
what is at our hands, nor can we take
it from others. Asseveration can not
be our mortar, boasting will be a foun-
dation of water, but daily conduct
fashioned on bold honesty, a natural
decorum sprung from single motives, a
disdain for the cowardice of favors,
these are the things that can settle for
all times, and for all the world to
know, what is American.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01

ldCtS tIldt every woman SuOulO KNOW
in a concrete manner that is convinc-
ing. Erman ]. Ridgeway, who is I'm
pressing his personality upon the mag
azine thru the medium of the new
editorial department entitled Conver-
sazione, discusses marriage. There
would be fewer misunderstanding and
more successful marriages If more peo-
pie realized that marriage can be
successful without being perfect" he
says.
George Cosson's candidacy is we'll
received and will be successful If the
low and order vote does not shiftify
Itself by staying at home when it
should be voting.
Matrmony should have no terrors
for that Harvard man who is living on
81 weew. Two can live on what one
wastes
The first OF a series of three papers
by George KEENAN,, reviewing the
events that have taken place in Russia
since the bloody Sundays Of January.
1905, makes its appearance in the June
Century. During the last thirty years
Mr.. KEENAN,. thru his articles published
in the Century and elsewhere, has be-
come one of the leading authorities
on political and social conditions in
Russia His revelations of the bar
barities involved in the convict system
go ~ inv, Of :, a
civilized world, and gained for him the
fear as we'll as the respect Of the cars
government.
An exceptional article in the June
number of The Worlds Work, entitled
The President at Work, is most lavish
ly and interestingly illustrated, Besides
full page picture of President Taft
and his cabinet in session, and one OF
the president with his family, there are
over thirty smaller pictures showing
Mr.. Taft in various characteristic
poses, including pictures taken Of him
in the Philippines. in Cuba, golfing. at
ball games. and on his mount.
out or throw Lorimer, Aldrich, Can
non, Elkins and Payne into the discord
and draw five.
The average American pastor, it is
said, is paid 1868 a year. Wonder
what that extra half dollar over
$685. is for?
The difference between 60 cent and
~ cent corn is more than Is cents.
Thirty-three Ames graduates will
engage in actual farming, not from a
sentimental motive but because there's
money in il; and the more YOU know
the more money.
The senate is said to be in doubt
over Lorimer. Nobody else is.
Whatever may be true of the cost of
living councilmen and legislators seem
20 be held at living prices.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01

statement that the work Of the pension
bureau is slackening and will be great
ly contracted within the next Ave OF
ten years. On the contrary, they har!
monte with our conclusion because
taken together with other facts, they
prove that the supply Of claims against
the government still unadjusted under
present laws is rapidly nearing ex-
haustion.
The dependent pension law Of 1890
vastly extended the pension system. 1t
set up far broader standards OF PEN
sionability, and under it's operations
the numbers of pensioners doubled and
the cost of pensions increased about
so per cent. 1t took fully ten years to
adjust the pension system to the more
liberal standards of qualification and
allowance. The new army of claimants
had to be assorted and the roll mount
ed from 1884 in 1S99-'90 to Ss3.7l4
in 1S97-'9s, and remained near the mil
lion point until 1905-'O6. altho the an
nual losses from death averaged pc
tween $1,000 and $4,000. Since then
there has been recession. altho the
laws of Feb. 6. 1907, and of April 10.
1908. increasing the amounts allowed
to large classes of pensioners. carried
the annual appropriation higher than
ever. The high water marks was
reached in 190S-'0s. The appropriation
for 1so9-'1o was s3.91s.oo0 less and the
appropriation for 1s1o-'11 has been
further reduced about 100000.
The report of the commissioner OF
pensions for the year 19OS-'oS shows
that nearly all of the potential claims
against the government have been tax
en- care Of. From 1s99-1s0o to 1907 'os
the number of claims ad1udacateo
ranged from e26.725 in the first named
year to ss7,es2 in the last named. But
in 10000 only 177,5S1 claims were
acted on In former years the mold
over cases ranged from 4sI.1o4 in 1879
1900 to 123,4os in 1eo7-'0s. But at the
beginning of 1aos-'0s only 66,226 back
claims remained unsettled. the bureau
is ND to its work. and if no new gen.
eraI pension laws are passed there
must soon be marked decrease IN the
pension roll and in pension expendi-
lures. The commissioner has asked
congress to consolidate into one agen-
cy the eighteen agencies thru wnich
payments are now made, ana ne Is
to make other reductions IN
the bureau force. The operating ex-
penses Of the bureau in the five years
from 1900 to 1904, inclusive. We're sls.-
ss4. 900. For the Ave years from 1905
to 1909, inclusive. they were only slo.-
2o7 600 There is. therefore. ample
ground for the conclusion that the
nension bureau will soon find Itself
doing a routine work which could
easily be transferred to one OF the
bureaus of the war department.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
THE DANCE HALL GRADUATE.
rcedar Rapids Republican,


The public dance hall certainly re-
ceived a black eye Saturday night
when three pairs" of susceptibles
went from one of the halls to the po-
lice station, via certain "hotel." Some
of them were only II years OF age
A dance where any one can enter him
self, with his girl. for Is cents head
or so cents a pair is apt to be not
very good place for boys and girls. In
New York the Investigations OF the
Rockefeller grand jury have shown
that the public dance is the recruiting
place Of the white slavery traffic. The
first invitation to the victims is al
ways an invitation to the dance. When
the poor creatures have been danced
into submission they are taken to the
haunts where the traffic flourishes. OF
course, everything can not be regulated
to fit the moral stamina, or lack of
stamina, Of a few little imps who have
little or no brains in their heads, but
their mental and moral circumstances
are to be taken into some consideration
in the regulation of public entertain
ments. There are a great many young
girls, and also boys, who go to such
dances who ought still to be spanked
regularly at home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01

[ Washington Correspondence New ork
Times.l
The hopes of the insurgents that ex
President Roosevelt will come to their
aid in the face of President Taft's open
alignment with the regulars has
brought out a strange but authentic
account of the efforts made by the
house insurgents to get Endorsement
for their fight against Speaker Cannon
from the retiring president. This
revelation throws an interesting light
on Mr.. Roosevelt's information concern
ing his successors political leanings
even before Mr.. Taft took office.
Shortly before March the insur-
gents concluded that Mr.. Taft was
turning from them in their fight on the
speaker, and Messrs. Madison, Card
ner and Nelson were sent to call on Mr..
Roosevelt. They called on March 3,
the day before MIR. Taft's inauguration.
AS to their plans. Mr.. Roosevelt agreed
with them heartily.
Cannon" ne said, has been the
greatest obstacle in the way Of my eff
forts to obtain good legislation for the
country turnout the seven years Of my
administration"
When il came to his taking an active
hand in the fight he hesitated. Throw
ing himself back in characteristic at
titude he said, looking at the ceiling:
Now, boys let me think out loud
He set forth his relations with the
speaker. and the speakers relations to
legislation, but ended by merely prom
Using to sound his successor on the
subject.
I'm tap him and then report" he
said.
The next day the retiring and the in
coming presidents were at the capitol
surrounded by host Of politicians and
diplomats. Mr.. Roosevelt sent page
and summoned three insurgents. As the
insurgents entered the presidents room
Mr.. Roosevelt led them aside.
1--WE tapped him." he told them,
bluntly, land he is .agin' YOU
1t is said that later that day Mr..
Roosevelt led two OF the insurgents to
Mr.. Taft and begged him at least to
keep his hands off the coming fight
According to this account, Mr.. Taft re-
ceived the plea good humoredly and
laughed over the earnestness of his
predecessor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
Topics of the Times

Progressives who stay at home cost
half a standpat vote.
It is manifestiy impossible to stop
Clifford Thorne. He will be nominated.
The effort OF the railroad interests is
now concentrated on Dave Palmer. II
Dave may be nominated all is not lost
by a two-thirds vote.
The Delineator for June makes q
broad appeal, for its special articles
deal with great variety of subjects
and its fiction interprets many phases
of life. The high cost Of living receives
attention in A Brief for the Housewife
by Mabel Potter Daggett, who presents
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
BURRELL IN BERLIN.

Washington County Pressl.
Berlin has far more statues than any
capital in Europe Most of them are
Of rulers. statesrn en-, soldiers, alp dc
signed to stimulate the military spirit.
Tho the garden is animated with mar
BILE and bronze poets, musical compos-
ers. scholars. philosophers, yet the
dominant tone is. I'VE have killed
lot" let us butcher some more" War
is the greatest game in Germany, the
first of the sciences and arts. It be-
tokens a type of civilization and re-
ligion far from the highest: Spurs
and swords clank and jingle ON the
pavements. uniforms color every rod
in the city The police all over Eur
ope thus far dress as soldiers and wear
swords or long daggers. Railway men
are uniformed as generals. Even the
country gatemen on railways have a
soldierly aspect. Where is Jesus
Christ, the Prince Of Peace? Not in
Germany. surely Nearly every other
man in that empire supported by bay
onets, is son OF gun. In every coun-
try on the continent it takes a gun to
support gun, as if the theory OF life
were, the chief end Of man Is to kill
some one:" 1.-The best use to put man
10 Is " XIII 1lii, put open SCnooiS 10
teach the trick Of murder with scienti-
nc and artistic effect. This soldier
business, iti1e world over: one would
think, is the most perfect idiocy on
earth.
Our ladies shopped. as did the men.
and found goods half to two-thirds
cheaper than at home. Berlin has de-
partment stores as extensive as those in
our greatest cities One Jew has three
such in Berlin and twelve in other
places. One, that our girls were lost
in. had 1900 clerks whose wage rang
ed from 50 to $23 month. He sold
parrots, for one thing. and kept a
woman linguist who would teach bird
to speak any language desired. Polly
wants a cracker" in German. French.
English, Turkish, etc.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
A Poultry point.

always ask for the right leg OF .
chicken or turkey" said chef. Elf
the left leg is offered you refuse It.
It will be tough and stringy.
"You see, these birds nearly always
roost on one leg. the left. Hence that
leg becomes very muscular. The
sinews are like steel. It II IN excel
lent leg from the athletic. but . vile
one from the culinary point Of view.
but the favored right leg remains
lander and Juicy. Therefore. a. the
advertisements say, Ask for and in
DIST on getting the righS leg.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
Pensions and the Pension Bureau,
New YORK. srvih,,na


Our neighhnr "rh4 a..c" co.-s...se..-
ing on our remark last Thursday that
the working force Of the pension bu-
reau is decreasing and that the supply
OF claims growing ont Of the civil war
will be practically exhausted in FIVE or
ten years. seems to suggest that such 3
narrowing Of the bureaus functions II
not forecast by the figures in the
Tribune almanac showing the state OF
the pension roll in 1s0s-'s0 and the
amounts disbursed that year to pen
sioners. It is true that the amount
spent in 10000 for pensions and the
pension service was about t3,ooo.o00
greater than ff,e total for any previous
year in the history Of the establish
ment. 1t is also true that the adj
ministrative cost OF the pension bu-
reau was $4,000 more than its cost in
1907-'0S, tho much smailef than the
cost for any other year than 1907-0S
as far back as 1s83-84. But these facts
do 10. at al disprove the Tribune's
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
Noae. Of Our Ancestors.

Ancient white man had immense
bony buttresses like billy goats
bullying out above his eyebrows, he
had brow and no forehead, and no
bony bridge Of the nose to speak Of
So when such An evoiutional grand
daddy got a sockdolager over his eyes
and nose with q list or q club Il didn't
much matter. He did not have to
have the bridge Of his nose raised BY
q surgical engineer, nor have his eye
T PAINTED b. - '!Aeck eye e.etef Tne
same kind Of clubbing today would not
only spoN q mans looks for lie. but
might end him then and there. It 10
pretty clear that the white mans nose
is type Of the white mans mind in
everything bespeaking gentle man
ners.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-01
HERE Do1HEy GET THE MONEY!

thousands and thousands Of dollars
POLITICAL money are afloat and ac-
in Iowa. No standpat congress
al campaign in the state lacks a
There is money to burn in the
! h where Walter I. Smith is making
fight Of his life aided by every
hine politician and postmaster and
honite Of high degree. Il is stated
there is no lack Of money 10 hire
In canvassers and that it is being
expended TO men inside and out
he district. Money is being spent
leaves on postage and literature.
Smith hasn't the money TO spend
is kind OF a campaign. Il would
hbly mortgage his salary for FIVE
or more to finance it. Where does
money come from?
III IS not ,spender. Much as he
les to go back to congress Hull
b hang on hard to even a thousand
a drowning man to a rope. Ger
incidents related to the public
the press a few years ago in con-
lon with the row raised in the
10 House by a member of his fam
ill be recalled as corroborative of
xtreme thrift. But there's no lack
oney for Hulrs campaign. It is
to burn and is blazing Where
It come from? Perhaps the pub
katements made by ex-Secretary
Ute Dobson, when he fell out with
not long ago, connecting the Sew
congressional district with No.
Roadway may furnish clue.
20 is the iui; o.-z1. ps-:s... financed
sses are running night and day
ing off literature" for Dave Pal
The campaign is costing some
more cash than Dawes" $4,000
would pay in five years. Is the
7" David loosening up to this de-
Where does the money come
OILS campaign does not lack
Does any one suppose that the
Who are conducting It and the
cluos'' are furnishing 1t or that
intense activity is actuated by a
led party patriotism and a David
nathan love for Carroll?
e does the money come from
rill believe that it comes from
didates. Every one knows bet
here does it come from? Who