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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
FREIGHT RATES In LIMA.

1t was claimed by. one of the can
d1dates for railroad commissioner
during the recent campaign that the
freight rates in Iowa are higher than
IN any adjacent territory, and that this
was what has retarded Iowa's indus
trial development. That this state
ment was erroneous and misleading
is clearly shown by Mr.. w. F. steb-
bins, publisher of Stebbins' Freight
and Shippers Guide, who submits the
following interesting comparisons
Iowa state freight rates for 100
miles:
First Class-24 cents.
Second Class-20.4 cents.
Third Classic cents.
Fourth CLASSIC cents.
Illinois state freight rates for 100
miles:
First Class-3O.S cents.
Second Class-24.8 cents.
Third Class-199 cents.
Fourth Class-15 cents.
Rates from Omaha, Neb., to Sur.
prise, Neb., on C. & N. w. railroad,
ninety-six miles:
First Class-35 cents.
Second Class-31 cents.
Third Glass 81 cents.
Fourth Class-21 cents.
Rates from Sioux City Iowa. to
Trip, S. D., on c., M, & st. P. rail-
road, 100 miles.
First Class-41 cents
Second Class-33 cents.
Third Classic cents.
Fourth Classic cents.
From Sioux Falls, S. D., to Woon.
socket, S. D., on c., M. & st. P. rail.
road. 100 miles:
First Class-369 cents.
Second Class-30.6 cents.
Third Class-24.3 cents.
Fourth Class-14.5 cents.
The above rates apply in proportion
al ratio in the same districts for any
number of miles. AS for comparisons
from an industrial point of view, it
should be borne in mind that the
existence of the large cities of st.
Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota,
Chicago in Illinois, and st. Louis In
Missouri, makes comparison be-
tween the manufactures of Iowa and
of those states absolutely unfair and
unjust.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
JUST MEJUM.u

Mr.. Charles Blanchard, local editor
OF the Wapello Republican, was a can
didate at the recent primary for the
Republican nomination for represent
alive in the legislature from Iouisa
county, but lost out in the scramble.
He takes his defeat in excellent spirit
and sets an example of cheerful resig-
nation that others would do well to
emulate. Apart from the chagrin
which Is natural when defeat is suf-
Tered, he confesses to a sense of re.
lief in knowing just how matters
stand To illustrate his state of mind
ne says he feels something like the
coiored boy who went counting Miss
Clarlnda. When he came home his
anxious mother questioned: well,
sonny, is she done receive YOU cor
dlal, or how is she done?" And her
hopeful replied: She done receive
me kind O. mejum" Mr.. Blanchard
says this is just the way he feels
about his candidacy, and adds.
The margin of loss. however is SC
small, that there is nothing to boast
Of and there is no kick coming. While
the prospect Of Office has it's allure
ments, there is immense satisfaction
IN 1eellng free to think and say what
ones judgment and heart approve
Personally, politics does not appeal IL
me. Factionalism is not TO nv to~4o
Fairness and open mindedness and an
honest purpose to know and loL .
| the truth, wherever found, ure the
I only things really worth while. Party
spirit is never lovely. though perhap.
necessary Partisanship, for the mos
part, is mean. And we are all guilty
But frankly and fairly. the local edi
Tor would rather be free, politically
religiously, intellectually, than to hav,
any office that might by any POSSIBLE
lty come his way. SO 1t is will
simple and sincere gladness that h,
announces that he has fallen out o
politics as easily as he fell into it
And he wants to add, once for all
that he is deeply grateful to all hi,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
RoosEvELT,s RETURN.

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is one of
the contributors of interesting and
timely articles, in the June number OF
the North American Review, on "The
Return of Roosevelt" He is an adj
mirer of the ex-President and a be-
lever in the services rendered by him
to the nation. He reviews these and
then says OF his return that If we
have any concern touching 1t 1t rests
upon the unwelcome observation that
the nation is prone to expect too
much of Roosevelt, that it may ask of
him more than democracy may we'll
ask of any man. Roosevelt returns
to his native shore to take his place
amid the ranks of it's private citizen
ship, and it were lamentably undemo-
cratic to dream of piling upon him
our common problems and our nation.
wide tasks. Rabbi Wise continues.
He can do nothing for us which
We cannot do for ourselves. Ill has
he served the nation If by him we
have been coddled into enervating de.
pendence upon any man The lead
ership of an individual In democracy
however exalted its wisdom and
benign its purpose. must ever be
complemented by the resolutely CO.
operant self-reliance of the nation
Perhaps 1t has not been the least OF
the high services of Roosevelt to his
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
kENDRIck FOR SUPERIOR JUDGE

w. r. c. Kendrick will be a candi-
date before the republican convention
for the nomination for judge of the
superior court in this city. Nothing
is assumed in saying that he will be
popular candidate and would make
fine judge. AS secretary of the Keo-
kuk Commercial club he has done an
immense amount of hard work and
has demonstrated that he has the
qualities that make for success in
whatever he undertakes. 1t is also
recognized in the community that he
has done much to promote its inter-
ests, both In increasing the volume of
local trade and in affording work for
laboring men. These things, combin-
ed with his genial nature and pleas
ing address, have made him popular
with all classes of citizens, who would
be glad of the opportunity to honor
him IN accordance with his deserts.
Mr.. Kendrick has been an active
practitioner at the bar for five years
and has been successful in his profess
sion. If elevated to the bench of the
superior court he will seek to make
that tribunal what it was intended to
be when it was established, The
need of restoring it's usefulness has
been felt for long time, and Mr. Ken
dTick has the ambition. energy and
ability to accomplish the desired re-
form. There is no good reason why
the superior court should not be OF
great value to the business colnmuni-
ty There is large field of useful
ness for it if it is made what it ought
to be. Mr. Hendricks talents and best
efforts are pledged to this end.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

Tuesdays result is rightly interpre-
ted by the Mt. Pleasant Journal to
mean that Iowa Republicans are true
blue when it comes to question of
standing by the head of their party.
and that they do not relish the dicta-
ton of any official whom they have
honored with Office. In speaking of
the fine majority in favor of Congress.
man Kennedy the Journal well says:
THE victory of Congressman Ken
nedy in the First district is another
testimonial to the loyalty of Repub-
licans to the administration. Mr.
Kennedy has been loyal to his party
in congress, and has stood by Presi-
dent Taft against a bitter onslaught
by the progressive and insurgent
press. His victory is well deserved"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12


The results of the Iowa primary on
Tuesday are appropriately referred to
by the Kewanee Star-Courier as evil
dences of "Iowa's returning sanity
After reviewing the denominations of
Carroll, Kennedy and Smith, all of
whom had been marked for slaughter
by the junior senator, the Star
Courier goes on to say:
These things would not be sur
prising. in most other states where
ability and good service are generally
regarded as the best recommendations
OF a candidate but they do carry an
element of surprise as we'll as sat
isfaction, when coming from Iowa.
where politics has of recent years
consisted principally of ascertaining
what Cummins wanted"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

The fire loss OF the United States
and Canada for the month of MAY
amounted to s1S,S33, 200 During the
month there were 239 fires, each of
sufficient destructiveness to cause q,
loss of $4,000 or over. Thirteen OF
these caused a loss of 100000 or more
in each instance. The losses for the
month aggregated about $500, 900
more than the sum chargeable against
the same month in 1909, and the
losses of this year so far are now
only about 100000 less than
for the same period in 1909 Under.
writer's are said to be quite discour.
aged at the present time owing to the
combination of prospective commits.
sion war in the east and fall in the
price OF security values.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

The Cedar Rapids Gazette has this
paragraph:
Walter |. Smith may be speaker of
the next house, provided the house
is Republican and Smith proves &C.
ceptable to the Cannon crowd"
One of the provisos, it will be
noted, is that Smith shall be accept
able to the Cannon crowd Yet the
fight made on the Ninth district con-
gresham by the insurgents, incIud-
ing the Gazette, was made on the
ground that he was not only allied
with that "crowd' but was its ac-
credited representative. Now it is
admitted that an element of doubt
enters into the case. The incident
is but another illustration of the I'M
fairness of insurgent politics.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
friends who made the fall easy. Thank

friends who made the fall easy. Thank
you!''
1t is not everyone who is or can be
as philosophical as Mr. Blanchard has
shown himself to be in this matter,
but he has set up standard to which
all defeated candidates should strive
to attain. Next to the consultations of
religion there is nothing like wise
philosophy to help one over the rough
places in life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

The Independent Cedar Rapids Ga
zette now says that few expected to
see Kennedy defeated in the First
district" This is one way of saying
that few people believed the oft-re-
peated asseyerations of the insurg-
ents in advance of the election that
Kennedy would be defeated beyond a
doubt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

Political parties are necessary I'M
der our form of government; the
primary tends to weaken party ties
and to destroy the party organization. .
The fact here stated is indisputable
and the argument incontrovertible.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

people that we face the problems of
the future with high-hearted and in
flexible purpose and that the forward
march OF the nation has caught some
thing OF his own vigorous and militant
stride,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

An upstate paper, a recent convert
to the insurgent cause, solemnly as
sures lis that Iowa is progressive"
1t will next be telling us that heaven
has surrendered to the hosts OF
Lueifer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

While in Egypt Colonel Roosevelt
reproached Egypt for objecting to
British rule, and later when in Eng
land he reproached the Britons for
ruling Egypt. That was just like
Roosevelt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

1t is learned from careful perusal
OF the much-esteemed Peoria Herald
Transcript that in the case of the
Illinois fishermen Mr. Traut ate up
all the legislative bait.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

AS defined by George Fitch, clown
is man who makes us to laugh at
himself. A joker makes us laugh at
some other man; humorist makes
US laugh at ourselves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

When you come right down to it"
remarks the Montrose Journal, the
Kennedy smile is great deal more
Illuminating than the comet"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
NOTES AND coMMENT.

The Des Moines Register and Lead
er notices that Colonel Roosevelt's
voice gave out In England before his
supply of good advice did.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

Every young fellow is cautioned by
the Springfield Register to bear in
mind that the day will come when he
will know as little as his father knows
now.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

The insurgenh. leaders profess to be
greatly 4 pleased with the "gains"
made at the recent primary. 1t doesn't
take much to make some people hap,
Ply.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
keokuk, Iowa ....... June ~. 1910
A SONG OF OUR FLAG.

A bit of color against the blue;
Hues of the morning, blue for true,
And red for.the kindling light of flame,
And white for a nations stainless
fame.
Or! fling it forth to the winds afar,
With hope In its every shining star;
Under its folds wherever found,
Thank God, we have freedoms holy
ground
Don't you love it, as out it floats
From the school house peak, and glad
young threats
Sing of the banner that aye shall be
Symbol of honor and victory?
Don't you thrill when the marching
feet
OF jubilant soldiers shake the street,
And the bugles shrill, and the trum-
pets call,
And the red, white and blue is over
us all?
Don't you pray, amid starting tears,
1t may never be furled through age
long years?
A song for our flag, our country's
boast,
That gathers beneath it a mighty
host;
Long may it wave DER the gcodly
land
We hold in fee meath our Fathers
hand.
For God and liberty evermore
May that banner stand from shore
to shore,
Never to those high meanings lost,
Never with alien standards crossed,
But always valiant and pure and true,
Our starry flag: red, white and blue.
Margaret E. Sangster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

The thing in order now for time
is to forget politics and boost bust
ness
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

1t has been conclusively demonstrate
ed that Chairman Scott is better
commander than General Apathy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

Mr.. Taft cannot deny that there
would be no muckraker if there was
no muck to Jacksonville
Courier
Nor can the Jacksonville Courier
deny that there would be comparative
ly little muck to rake if the muck.
rakers didn't manufacture it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

The Iowa City Republican says that
the result In Iowa will be measured
over the nation at large by the Smith
Hyers fight. THE victory of Congress-
man Smith will be taken as an en-
dorsemsnt of the administration in
the squarest cut scrap that has oc-
CURED since Taft went into office"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12

American engineers have begun to
excavate the ancient city of Sardis,
about five hours distant by rail from
Smyrna. The work will last two to
i've years, and it is the intention to
lay the entire city bare. Two hun
dred men will be employed eight
months each year.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-05-20
TAFT RAILROAD BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
President Expresses Much Graft
ficaticn at Retention of
Commerce Court
INSURGENTS join REGULARS
And Ten Democrats Come Over, Max
ine the Count 200 to 126-Amend-
ment to Restore Section LegaIizing
Certain Mergers, Fails.

Washington, May 17.-The Republi-
cans Of the House, uniting for the first
time this session, passed the Admins
tration railroad bill. The measure
went through by vote of 200 to 1875.
Not Republican strayed from the
fold-a circumstance that brought a
grin of satisfaction to the rugged
countenance Of Uncle Joe Cannon. Ten
Democrats deserted the minority at
the critical moment
The bill which ended it's stormy
provisions that are Objectionable to
President Taft, but the Administration
leaders are elated over the fact that
the measure is now on it's way to the
Senate. 1t is one step nearer the stat
ute books, and Republicans now gen.
orally agree that "a good railroad bill''
will be enacted.
AS passed by the House the bill
contains the following features:
Prohibits higher rate charge for a
short than a long haul, except in spe
cial cases.
Brings telegraph and telephone
companies under the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Provides physical valuation Of all
railroads.
Places water carriers on the same
footing as rail so far as concerns
mergers, through rates and joint rates
Gives the majority of the justices
of the Supreme Court the power to
appoint the special commerce court.
Severe penalties are provided for
shippers who through false claims for
damages or loss of property obtain
secret rebates.
Under its terms railroad company
must quote freight rate accurately
on the demand of a shipper, and the
shipper has the right to route his
freight whenever it passes over more
than one railroad.
The failure to adopt the Mann
amendment prohibiting railroads from
acquiring interest in the capital stock
of or purchasing another railroad
when the lines are competitive was
due to the votes of the New England
Representatives, who believe that
such merges as the recent one be-
tween the New York, New Haven &
Hartford and the Boston & Maine
should not be prohibited.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-05-20
TAFT EXPLAINS CASE.
Assumes Responsibility for Acts ot
LawIer and Wickersham.

Assumes Responsibility for Acts OF
LawIer and Wickersham.
Washington, May 17.-President
Taft made public a letter which he
has addressed to Senator Nelson,
chairman Of the committee which Is
investigating the Ballinger-Pinchot
controversy, and which conveys to the
committee in detail the circumstances
attending the preparation of the presi-
dents letter exonerating Secretary
Ballinger, the Lawler memorandum
and the antedating of the summary OF
the Attorney General.
Mr.. Taft declares not only that Law.
ler did prepare such letter as Kerby
said he did. but that he did SO by the
Presidents specific direction. When
he received 1t he found, he says, that
1t was not what he wanted to issue.
and he wrote the letter himself in the
form in which he desired it, using
from LAWYERS draft only one or two
general statements.
The President goes still further and
takes up the question of the back
dating" of Attorney General Wicker
sham's summary of the CLAWS charges,
to which Louis D. Brandels has drawn
attention. Mr.. Taft says that the At
torney Generals letter was in fact
"back dated" and that this also was
done BY his specific direction.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-05-20
DOLLAR A HEAD WILL
Be CORPORATION TAX
That is What the Returns Indicate for
the Big Cities of the Country


Washington. May IA dollar for
every citizen in the large cities of the
United States, with few exceptions, is
the way the corporation tax now be-
ing levied in accordance with the Aid
richPayne Tariff law is working. ac-
cording to returns received from tax
agents by the Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue.
In Greater New York the tax is
trifie less than dollar head if the
census of 1905 is used as basis, but
1t is believed by those who have in
charge the collecting of the tax that
in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, ST. Louis, Buffalo,
Baltimore, Cincinnati and New Or
leans the tax will be about a dollar a
head when the 1910 census is COM
pleted and the full returns from cor
porations have been received.
In Greater New York in 1905 the
population was 4,0l4.304; the assess
ment under the corporation tax and
penalties, so far received, amount to
$4,317 ,642.18. The total tax for New
York State will amount to about rs
cents person.
Chicago has population of 1,698,-
575. The assessment on the net in
come of her corporations amounts to
$2.297 .O7S.52, or little less than dol.
lar head. The population of 1910
will show the tax to be about 81 a
person.
The population of st. Louis is $751;
23S, and the tax receipts will be $780,
431.11.
In Philadelphia the tax amounts to
$1,417,174, and the population is L.
293,697.
The population of Cincinnati is
325.902. while the tax amounts to
$392,264.34.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-05-20
P|TTSBURG GRAFT.
ERS SENT TO JAIL
Five City Fathers Get Prison
Terms and Fines-Delay for
Bankers and Financier
EIGHT MONTHS FOR v|LSACk
Pittsburg Banker to JalI-Severai
Former CouncIlmen Also Sentenced
to Fines and Imprisonment-Sen
tences Imposed on Guilty Men.

Pittsburg, May 17.-Ten prominent
men Of affairs of Pittsburg, including
bankers, physicians and former promi-
nent politicians, faced Judge Robert
8. Frazer in Criminal Courts to re-
ceive their sentences on various
charges of bribery and conspiracy in
connection with Councilmanic cor
ruption recently exposed.
OF the ten men appearing in court
to-day all except one have pleaded no
defense to indictments alleging the
giving and receiving Of bribe money.
When court opened the name of A.
A. Vilsack, former cashier of the Ger
man National Bank, was called. Vii
sack was represented by his attorney.
former Governor William A. Stone,
who at once made a motion for an ar
gument to appeal any sentence that
might be forthcoming. At the close
of the argument Judge Frazer imposed
a sentence of eight months in the
County Jail and fine of $4,000.
AS rapidly as their names could be
called and their appearance be made,
five other former Select and Common
Councilmen were sentenced by Judge
Frazer, as follows:
Charles Stewart, former Select
Councilman, eight months in Jail and
fined $500.
Hugh Ferguson, former Common
Councilman, eight months in Jail and
fined $500.
DR.. w. Fl. Weber, former Select
Councilman, six months in Jail and
fined $500.
P. B. Kearns, former Select Coun.
Gilman, six months in Jail and fined
$3.50.
Morris Einstein, former Select
Councilman, six months in jail and
fined $4,000.
Because of illness in their families
the sentencing of E. H. Jennings, pres
ident Of the Columbia National Bank,
and F. A. Griffen, its former vice pres.
ident. was postponed until next week.
The sentencing of G. w. Friend.
vice president of the Clinton Steel
and Iron Company, son of James w.
Friend, the multi-millionaire. and M.
L. Swift, Jr., former Common Council
man, We're also postponed. the first on
account of the courts unpreparedness
at this time to pass sentence, and the
second upon motion Of counsel to ar
que for new trial.
In all Of the cases Judge Frazer,
sitting as president of the court. de-
livered short statements before pass
ipp Saptopca referring tn the DrayiOllS
good record Of the self-confessed brib-
ers, and in each instance saying that
his imposition of sentence was "the
pursuance Of his duty to himself and
to the people of Allegheny county"