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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
Skeptics.

Skeptics.
When your old dad was as little as you
Was he likely to do
What they wanted him to?
Why, certainly SO! And as quick as q
wink
He did as they bid him before you
could think.
Hey! Hey?
What do you say?
What makes you keep winktng and
grinning that way?
Your uncles been "tellin' you some
thin'?"
Dear, dear!
You mustn't believe all the stories you
hear.
When dad and his playmates were nice
little boys
. The first of their joys
Was giving their toys
To poor little children who needed them
more;
Your dad was so good he gave all OF
his store.
Hey: Hey?
What do you say?
Your mother has some OF 'em now.
put away?
Such nerve was unknown in my day!-
I'll be bound
You imps have been shopping and pry-
ing around.
When daddy was young, he was deaf
dumb and blind;
To pranks unrefined;
He'd a serious mind.
He paid no attention to girls and their
looks,
But gave all his time to his tasks and
his books.
Hey Hey?
What do you say?
Yes, mother was raised in the very
same way.
You found an old letter and read IT,
My Scat!
We used to spank chill dren for mischief
like that.
Burgess Johnson in Harper's Maya
zine for October.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
RARNEY,s BAD BREAK.

Dairy Commissioner Barney is quot
ed as in opposition to scientific con-
clusion. II correctly reported the COM
missioner denies that milk from tub
erculous cows Is dangerous to human
health whether or not the animal reacts
to the tuberculin test and asserts that
the milk does not become unhealthful
and dangerous until the udder itself is
affected.
Commissioner Barney is playing with
fire IN a hayloft. He is the head of
enforcement Of the pure food law a
measure vitality important to the pub
lie health. He is a large breeder of
thoroughbred Holstein cattle, mich an
finals pure and simple, but it is safe
to assume that he Is not a trained
bacterologist. The expert bacterolo-
gists Of the United States government
differ from him. They insist that
even small tubercular LESSONS are suf-
fcient to render flesh unfit for food
and dangerous to health and diseased
tissues OF one part Of the animal con-
demns the entire carcass.
Scientists insist that tuberculosis is
communicable to the human family
thru diseased flesh and milk from dis
eased animals. With the average
thinking man the conclusions OF train
ed and educated specialists will have
weight over Mr.. Barney's mere asser-
ton.
Granting that tuberculosis is thus
communicable 1t Is uncomfortable to
even common understanding that a
mich COW may be rotten with tuber-
cuIosis from lungs to liver and unless
her udder be locally affected remain a
safe source whence the table may be
supplied and babies be nourtshed No
one will give such a theory credence
and few will approve 1t except breeders
OF fancy cattle who dread the posi-
bilities or the certainties Of a test upon
the value Of their herds
A ridiculous assum ption may be
laughable but remain infinitely danger
ous to the public when he who holds it
is Of and In authority. Mr. Barney
should perhaps seek advice Of scientists
OF physicians rather than OF big breed
ers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

Nebraska Over there, the platform II
the test with Bryan. Here. It IL the
candidate, apparently.
After the election democratic orators
might find employment abroad ex-
planning to the peoples Of the old world
how 1t is the cost of living has ad-
vanced with them also.
Bryan is opposed to a tariff commits
sion. Sour grapes.
Towns not big enough to promote
aviation meets are by that very cir
cumstance in some measure compen-
stated for their srnallness.
Senator Aldrich is home from Europe
and it takes only three lines to tell it
in the newspapers: How have the
mighty fallen!
AS between irventing a flying ma
chine and discovering some way to
make hens lay in January. the latter
enterprise seems most commendable.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

Creston has n4ne saloons and In thu
same proportion ehenandoah would
have about seven. Suppose that w
should have a saloon whore Lddd
Drcthers' store -. ono where the school
room 10 on Elm street, ono walsrl
Gauss d eimons' store II, ono in place
OF the Vienna bakery. ono at the Gold
berg store room. one in place OF Poliya
grocery and one at tho Orpheum thea
ter Then, according to this great DEM
ocratic authority, Shenandoah would
be safer for the boys than It II nowl
AS II Is now, liquor 10 not Haunted
in the faces OF the boys or Of tho mon
who are trying to break away from the
drink habit. The liquor traffic Is
looked upon as illegal and not respect
able. but when town licenses q saloon
1t establishes its responsibility by the
city sanction. It says to the men and
boys, the saloon is respectable or We
would not license 1t. 1t becomes q
business institution Of the town Just a.
much as a grocery or a clothing store
Each saloon keeper pays $1,000 or ST.
500 and It Is up to him to get business
enough to pay his license. to pay foz
his liquor and his help and to support
his family and make a profit. II he
succeeds in business he has got to in
duce people to buy his goods and he
naturally goes after business. His bust
ness is to make men drink-we might
say drunk.
Does any man mean to say that un-
der those conditions there will not be
more liquor sold than when there Is
no saloon keeper in town. no saloon
and when every person who wants H.
quor has to stink into some dark alley
to get 1t. ashamed Of himself for the
act?
Tho very statement of the question
refutes 1t. Yet the democratic plat
form of Iowa not only proposes to put
that iniquity up to shenandoah and
Red Oak and Bedford, but to such
smaller towns as Coin and Farragut
and Northboro and Yorktown and Inn
ogene, and put them to the expense
and the hatreds OF saloon election
every two years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

motes heart disease and destroys the
vital organs. It II the main factor that
oils our insane asylums. It Is deadly
to mind, morals and muscless but the
drink bill and the quantity consumed
per capita show no decrease. Men who
acquire the habit or disease Of intem-
perance do not often reform. Cases
where strength of mind and manhood
prevail are numerous but they are Of
the minority. On the average once a
drunkard always a drunkard. Every
child knows what the results are from
whisky, morphine and other strong
stimulants and narcotics but in the
face of it men deliberately commit the
suicide of intemperance.
Count them. Go back ten and twen
ty years to the gay rollicking drinker
who carried it fairly we'll and whom
you and everyone else liked. Count
them. Count those in the cemetery and
those in the gutter Don't say hey
didn't know. They did and do. And
those who are following them know.
And all of them are to be pitied as
those who dared infection uu.il the
disease gripped Few are bad men.
Most of them were good fellows. But
man in the last stages of disease,
whether it is alcoholism smallpox, or
pellagra can't be gay, good fellow or
pleasant companion.
It's a question whether pellag-a Will
prove much of temperance l'orce.
Fear seems to be an emotion unknown
to whisky.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
Icedar Rapids Republican,

The cities OF Iowa arc all Nighttime
railroad rates. Cedar Rapids has Jus,
had rate hearing, before a special
commissioner OF the interstate COM
merce commission. The special COM
missioner has now gone to Sioux City
where similar hearings, bearing espe-
cially on grain rates. will be held. In
Des Moines and Ottumwa cases, OF
similar import, decisions have already
been rendered and victories won.
Cedar Rapids and Sioux City alse
will win-if there Is Justice left in rail-
road rates. The rates complained OF
in Cedar Rapids have already been Sc.
forth in the newspapers. Many gross
inequalities were shown and proved
In Sioux City the complaints have
mainly to do with grain rates. 1t Is
shown there that while grain IL hauled
to Chicago from Omaha for ~. It costs
Is cents a hundred to carry the same
kind OF grain from Sioux City to Chi
cago. To Minneapolis. it costs Sioux
City 12M a hundred. while Omaha
farther from Minneapolis. gets its grain
thru for II cents a hundred.
The strange thing is that Iowa cities
have so long been supine in the matter
If the Iowa cities had taken up these
matters ten years ago, the census re-
turns would have been different and
there would, probably, be no loss in
population in the state
The railroads have made Iowa poorer
than she ought to be, both in money
and in population.
For twenty years. we believe TIE
Iowa railroads have Disseminated
against Iowa During the hrst part
Of this period the discrimination Wa'
Intentional and punitive and during the
latter half OF the period II has been q
relic of that barbarous age when rai!-
roads deemed 1t within their rights to
punish not only individual shippers
but whole communities and states tina:
would not willingly pass under the
yoke.
Iowa enacted a distance tarin, more
than twenty years ago, under the ad-
ministration OF Governor Larrabee. II
was a bitter and prolonged fight. The
rates were. at that time, considered
low. The railroads said they meant
ruin. The late President Ives. Of the
B., C. r. and N. appeared in Des
Moines and said that the rates meant
bankruptcy for his road, which was
largely an Iowa road. But 80 far from
running the B.. c. r. and n. that road
entered on its first unparalsiisA pros.
pertty. It never paid dividends uuta'
tho new rates were In forco.
Nut the feeling that anmietsd Mr.
Ives, animated still more intsnssay
the railroad men In Chicago. II VA
threatened that iowa would 9ay 3oi
those rates.
And Iowa did pay for fhon,-has
been paying dearly for them f0s tWen-
ty years.
The interstate rates were raised. u
ono way and another. while ship.
ments between Iowa points were car
Red ut reasonable and rat1onAl az
tance rates, rates into and ont g lows
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
WHISKY AND THE FEAR OF DEATH,

The Glidden Graphic suggests that,
'If as the editor Of Good Health has
suggested, pellagra, a disease more to
be faared than black death may be
caused by beer 1t may be the means of
accomplishing great good in the bat
tie against intemperance."
Perhaps the Glidden writer is justi-
fed In his tentative hope but the
question may be seriously asked
whether the certainty OF death is a
strong deterrent to tho intern perate
dranksr.
Whether excessive indulgence In
alTong drink brings about this partic-
MAR disease or not It is definite and abb
oelute that it does lead to fatal dis
eeAsa II is Of general knowledge tina,
tntemperance is the prolific and certain
source Of Bright's disease and othel
diseases q the kidneys. chat it pro-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

The cloakmakers' strike was an ex-
pensive affair both for employers and
employees. Now that it' is all over the
price Of cIoaks has advanced about II
per cent. This advance should, in time,
enable both parties to the industrial
conflict, II they shall fairly divide the
spoil, to make good the losses growins
out OF enforced fdleness. But alas
for the cloakwearers! They pay the
piper. but have no share In he dance
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
Iowa Railroad Rates


from points beyond were boosted. Iowa
was treated as hostile territory anc
Its people, its manufacturers and ship
pers were punished accordingly. Mil
lions were taken from the people OF
Iowa unjust1y and the development OIL
Its factories and industries was
thWarted and dwarfed. The Iowa towns
were treated as way stations The
railroad rate makers issued a mandate
that Iowa should remain an agricul-
tural state, and all because the state
had dared to fix its state rates. Iowa
was the first to venture on such rate
making and the railroads wanted tc
show other states the folly and the evi
effects Of such efforts
So Iowa had to be kept down, n
order that 1t might illustrate the evil.
OF legislative interference with the
railroads IN their desire to do as they
pleased in the matter of rates.
The rates that have recently been
called to public attention in Des Moines
Ottumwa. Cedar Rapids, and now In
Sioux City, are all relics Of those punt
tive rates which were put in many
years ago.
But the old order passes away. The
people OF this generation do not pro-
pose to accept any more punishment
Inc Iowa cities are insisting that they
shall be placed on a level with other
cities. They are going to have Justice
because they are entitled to II.
Tho device that has been used IN
Iowa mas been a combination OF q
Joint ana local rate. Freights have
been brought to the borders OF the
state and then the local rate has been
added. The railroads have said. THAT
is your own state rate, why aren't YOU
satisfied with TIT" But the local rate
added to thru rate to the river has
played havoc with Iowa. The thru rate
should have continued to Cedar RAPIDS
and Des Moires. If ths railroads can
not see anything between the Missis-
|sippi and Missouri rivers. it Is time
that daylight WAS knocked into their
arrogant heads.
The old order has passed away.
Iowa now wants justice. Tho rail-
roads ought to do this state Justice.
The railroads owe a great deal to Iowa.
Thru bad weather and fair weather
this state has offered the roads a con-
slant stream OF freight, both IN and
out. At the present time the biz Chi
cago shippers who have been favored
by the railroads. arc hghting the rail
roads on every hand
With the Iowa shippers II has moi
been a question Of the amour, oe the
rates. They would be willing TO pay
the 10 per cent more, provided they
could have the assurance that they
were placed on the same basis, In thu
mstter Of thru rates that arr offered
to other communities.
It's equality that Iowa wants. ant
that It Is going to insist upon.
In Cedar Rapids tho Comn,ercia
Club has undertaken to make tho Hght
Tor the shippers. and every one In the
city and every one In Iowa ought e
get behind them. II Iowa DOES not re-
Justice, she viii suffer ;ndustriaily. Q,
! oise has In the past.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
ROOSEVELT THE DrMAGoa.
[Colfax Cupner. lStandnatl.l

(Colfax Clipper, (Standpat).l
Mr. Roosevelt has discovered that
the chickens come home to roost." The
New York World printed this dispatch:
"1n his Colorado legislature Mr..
Roosevelt resumed his familiar prac-
tice Of attacking the courts for render
Ing decisions displeasing to him. After
calling the Judges OF the United States
supreme court honest but fossilized."
he assails them for denying justice un
der cover Of highly technical subtlet-
les" Fourteen years ago-during the
1895 presidential campaign-in an ar
ticle in Review Of Reviews, Mr.. Roose-
Welt wrote: Furthermore the Chicago
convention attacked the supreme court.
Again this represents species Of ava
tism-that is, OF recurrence to the
ways and thoughts Of remote barbar-
ian ancestors. Savages do not like an
Independent and upright judiciary.
They want the judges to decide their
way and II he does not they want to
behead him. The populists experience
much the same emotions when they
realize that the judiciary stands be-
tween them and plumber. Having
turned agitator and demagogue. Mr.
Roosevelt has Joined the savages and
parDafldnS VINO OBJECT TO an lnQepeno-
ent and upright judiciary.
SHENANDOAH AND SALOONS.
Shenandoah Sentinel-Post.1
Editor w. H. Robb. of the Creston
American, who ran for congress on
the democratic ticket few years ago
and who now runs the represen tative
democratic paper Of this district, re-
plies to the Sentinel-Post, still insist
ing that the legalized saloons are good
for a town. He says:
we would rather raise family Of
boys in Creston. where they passed
the regulated saloon every day. than
to raise them in Bedford. Red Oak or
Shenandoah, where large proportion
of the people carry bottles In their
pockets, and where secret meetings
are held in dark alleys and little club
rooms"
What 60 you think of that. you tenn
perance people Of Shenandoah? That
paper is publishing the free stuff Of
fered to this paper and refused by US.
attacking temperance laws and favor
ing saloons, and carries the demo-
| cratic platform On the liquor question
at it's mast head.
According to that paper shenan-
doah would be better off with saloons
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

IF the people of Iowa who spend
SO much time and money seeking out
side investment for their surplus funds
would spend the same money and en-
ergy seeking and developing profitable
investment here in Iowa in course Of
live years they would be far ahead
from money point Of view from what
they will be by outside experiment. .
says the Spencer Reporter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

Itch relieved In 30 minutes by WOOL
ford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails.
Sold by Chas. J. Lander, drusgizt-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

For More Than Thrse Dseedss
Foleys Honey and Tar has been Q
household favorite for coughs, colds.
and ailments Of the throat, chest and
lungs. Contains no opiates. Mcbride
4 Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
SAYS Pr..oh short s.rnon..

A session Of the central Illinois Meth
odist conference was given up entirely
to meetings Of societies auxiliary to the
conference. Bishop Moore. OF Cincin-
natl. addressed the LAymen's Associa-
ton. saying In part: Preach short SER
mons A man can preach forever II he
10 not prepared. II you can not strike
oil an thirty minutes you had better
quit Do not be afraid Of preaching
too short sermons II they are well pro-
pared. Do not read sermons. Meth
odists are not good sermon readers.
Better make three or four great mis-
takes than to walk on crutches in the
pulpit"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

The Tama News has observed that
there are a lot of men who would be
willing to die for the flag that wouldn't
beat a carpet for love nor money"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

YES" says the Tama Herald. there
are some things on which we repub Bill
cans disagree but II you will get any
two democrats on earth into little
heart heart talk it will be found
that they disagree as to many import
ant questions"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

lone by one the towns Of Iowa are
a awakening to a realization Of the fact
that quagmires will not longer pass
muster as streets" says the Ida Grove
Record Era.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16

The Cedar Rapids Republican con-
i cludes that nothing has been devel
oped that shows to a certainty that Mr.
Lorimer has been guilty of bribery, or
| that he secured his election by the use
of money. The committee can do little
else than return report to this effect.
The evidence which has been brought
out may cause people to have their own
individual opinion as to what was done,
but so far as proving that the election
of Lorimer was brought about other
than by sharp political practice, it is
not sufficient"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
Practical Religion.

Grew. Frederick e. Hopkins.)
"A man may feel he is feeling without
religion. but he Is no nearer the real
thing than the words God 10 love" on
the wall above q pulpit while the
preacher down in 1t is scolding the
congregation or getting scoldad be-
cause 1t does not grow in grace. Get
q big dose Of reasonable old fashioned
religion. and the heart will begin to
work rs 1t ought TO. and the mind Ike
wise, because Of tho circulation Of the
life Of God to every one Of u. It ought
to be enough to say that II there Ii q
God and he has given us any religion at
all 1t Is bound to be q reasonable reltg-
ion. for. in accordance with his nature.
1t could not be anything else. The
trouble is we look at tho invitation,
Come, let us reason together" as tho
1t meant. Come. let us argue" So we
get to wrangling and soon lose our
temper. and in few moments we are
clear out Of sight Of the fact that IN
stead Of talking about religion we are
quarreling over some prejudice.
Sometimes woman neglects her
children. feeds her family cold victuals
and bores them with incessant talk
about church ana missions. To be
practical is one Of tho slightest forms
Of reasonableness, and 1t usually wins.
but It Is often painfully lacking IN folks
who want to be good, but don't know
how.
The Pope and His Policy.
Despite the reports that Pope Plus
*. has been suffering from angina pee
toris. he was well enough last month
to follow with interest and satisfaction
the display Of enthusiasm Tor the Holy
Sec which marked every stage Of the
Eucharistic Congress- In Montreal.
Whatever may be said In anti-clerical
organs Of the misfortunss brought up
on the vatican by IT, diplomacy. OBJ
sels), the religious history Of the pres
ent pontineete has been bright The
propAgatioqof the ideas for which the
EN,charistic ConSTess stands "satiSdes
his Holiness that his reight has been
a success. at least for the faith"
France may perecute the church, tho
Portuguese may suspAbd church Jour-
nails and even faithful Spain may rise
in revolt against q concordat; but the
general Acceptance OF dogma by the
faithful-an Acceptance never heartder
than It IL NOW, say clerical dAilies -
proves that the Holy church IL -four
ishing. Such II the prrport OF a re-
cent conversation between the pope
and French bishop which has found
its way into the Paris Ganlois. His
holiness madS special re6erenDe to the
Eueharistic Congress then ON the sve
Of its ASSEMBLY In the netropolis OF
Canaga. 'The church sustalns none
Of the losses Over which her enemies
sxuit she erows In moral power daily.
ehe makes constant gains oil over the
world a. the reports from the bishops
everywhere indicate" These are the
Impressions OF the pope himself. and
when they are Questioned he quotes the
reports OF the proceedinss Of zach
estherinxs a. that 30 recently and 90
brilliantly concluded at Montreal. -
Current 1Atsrature (October.)
Sermons For Drsadvvinnsrs.
Tho yrortingman 10 taken UP with
his work and its pressing social prob
lens; he II lighting for his bread: Is
oonstantly confronted with conditions
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