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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
THE LITERATURE OF WAGES.

Strickland ". Gillian has issued thru
the press of Forbes & Company. of
Chicago, book of Gillian verse In
GLIDING Finnigan.' II IS volume of
verse which its author did" originally
for the various newspapers upon
which he earned wages. the STUFF for
tomorrow's ephemeral column but
which often lives beyond the melting
pot and survives because Of its fitness
Most of our common classic i'll FUN
litter OF newspaper office amid the
clatter Of Jypewriters and aga ms the
strident call for copy in race with the
linotypes. have been born in type next
day to be granted Immortality by the
hearts they lightenad o. the souls they
touched. For The newspaper is the
literature of the commonalty and be it
known that the licera -ure of common
life. hope. JOY. sorrow. ,css ani happ!-
ness is the true literaJur ard the only
one which lives. On the wall as this
i - MI4teell 81 'ttt W -l-Ai -
of American poets. .ie9e Field IN the
center, who has gone 10 greet Little
Boy Blue Jim White o:nb Riley whose
"Old Sweetheart" is he unive- sal
! sweetheart. Poe. shaggy gray Old
Walt Whitman. newspaper workers ev-
cry one. God bless them. True poets
who knew poverty ard loved mar kind.
And of these he who shall call clear
est TO the renlo-esJ generation is the
man who wrote Little Boy Blue and
/ borrowed car fare TO get home with;
fer while children are born and DIM
eyed fathers md .nottcr; touch with
the infinite tenderness of loss the
toys which dropped from tiny fingers
which have long been sacred dust,
row and soo,he a common pain,
So Gllilans little book is con-
tribution to American literature We
/ have been or shall be most of US
.Homesick." when our hands is mighty
| hungry for warm and sweaty fist and
Hips are simply starving to be warmly
wetly kissed" The travelling man and
the man away from home notes "A
Baby the Size of Mine and everybody
smiles at "Finnegan."
If this notice is of value TO Mr.. Gil
ilan and his publishers they are en-
tirely welcome. somewhat because Gil
lilan belongs TO those who toll more
for the love of newspapering and the
opportunity Of expression than for
wage or competence. mainly because
ne has written to the common heart
of the street sweeper and the million
aire
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
Initiative, Referendum, Recall.
(Christian Science ,Monitor).


The circulation Of a petition for the
recall Of Seattles mayor gives promi-
nence again to a m asure seldom APP
piled. but usually mentioned In the
same breath with the initiative and
referendum. Whether the political or
personal rights of a public official are
safeguarded by the recall provision is
still speculation. and there remains
doubt as to whether the initiative has
been vindicated by the course of events.
But there can be no logical ground for
dispute over the merits Of the referen-
dunn. The people may often very we'll
be the final arbiters in the matter
where their interests are directly con-
cerned.
Under the recall provision a small
percentage of the voters may bring
charges against municipal officer, or
a state official, when the constitution
IS amended so as to allow Of such ac-
ton. 1t is possible to imagine a COM
paratively small element opposed to a
city officer obtaining signatures enough
on a petition to threaten his official
downfall when a number Of improved
charges were Haunted continuously be-
fore newspaper readers. There is much
need that whatever defense the accused
sets forth shall not be more than Off
set by the effect of the accusations, ac-
cepted at their face value. Prejudg-
ment should be avoided. There should
be fair consideration Of the facts.
Mayor Harpers recall in Los Ange
les some years ago attracted wide
spread attention in this method Of sup
posedly protecting city against mall
feasance in office. Since then the ddea
Of applying the initiative, referendum
and recall provisions to states, as well
as municipalities, has met with en-
couragement. Oregon now serves as
familiar basis for comparisons, and the
results there have been upheld and
criticised with equal pertinacity. Now
comes the city OF Lynn. Mass, to the
point where the initiative and referen-
dunn and recall ideas are likely to be
incorporated in new charter. The
east, like the west may have a chance
soon to view at close range the open
door" Of the initiative and the curb
Of the recall. Then 1t will be possible
to Judge better whether the whole plan
works out as well in city affairs as 1t
does in those Of the Beaver state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
THE LODGES.
n MASONIC NoTlcHo.
V1Hall over 1os.1o7 West Main.
vialtora alvaya vrolcomA

n MASONIC N0TlC80s
VIVIAN over 1os-1o7 West Main.
"vis1tors always wo1coanA
MARSHALL LODGE. los. ~ r. q
A. M. Work in first degree, Friday.
Oct 81 at 1880 p. m.
r. w. Chamberlain. w. NJ.
II. 8. Lawrence. SecrotAxy.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. -. r. A. ~
Regular convocation Monday evening,
Oct IL. 1880 p. m..
George II. Boggie. a. e. r.
/ 8. 4illard. Secretary.
KING SOLOMON Council, No. 20. R
Z 8. NJ. Stated assembly, Monday.
Oct. II. 1880 p. m.
L T. Forbes, Recorder.
4. .. Nesker. +. !. u.
ST. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY. No.
30 K. T. Stated conclave for business
and work. The Order Of the Temple
Tuesday evening. Oct. 10. 1910. At 1880
sharp. Visiting Sir knights always
welcome.
r. NJ. Wilbur. y. G.
Fred Wallace, Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. Ne "a, q. n
S-Regular meeting Wednesday even.
Ing. Oct. ~. 8 p. N.
Mrs.. George Downing. ~. -.
0dna G. FulAston. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
HE LACKED STAMINA.
lEldora LEDGER.


One of the supervisors of Blackhawle
county in the vote as to whether or not
the city Of Waterloo should have sa-
looms, asked and was granted permits
sion to refrain from going on record
in the vote, shoudering the RESPONSE
bilfty upon the shoulders Of his more
stable comrades. The vote happened
to be four to two against the saloon,
but what would Mr. Straddler have
done had he been obliged to decide
with his record a tie vote? It would
be pitiable to contemplate. The sup
ervisor lived in Waterloo, and probably
If he voted either way. ne would lose
against whom he was so rash to go on
record.
The question remains how is he
viewed with either faction now? Does
he have the confidence of either or is he
looked upon. as a weakened polite
ian. upon whom neither side could
place dependence? Well bet that
supervisor sweat drops OF blood before
he accumulated stamina even to ask
to be excused from voting What an
enviable frame Of mind he must have
been in and how satisfied now with his
manly stand.
This man evidently does not realize
that the day is largely past for the
milk and water man, who endeavors to
carry water on both shoulders and has
not the moral strength to carry It on
either. Waterloo and Blackhawk coun-
ty should say to that man as the rain
drop said to the dust, II am on you,
your name is mud" He lacked stam-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
LONG Newspapers
WHEN PRIESTS WENT HUNTING.

WHEN PRIESTS WENT HUNTING.
lImogene Cox in Shenandoah Sentinel
Father Hayes right eye is all bung-
ed up. He met an unlocked for foe
who hit him terrible blow. 1t Is a
little bit funny-not to Father Hayes,
but the rest of US. He and Father
Adalbert were out hunting Thursday.
Theye were four Of em out, but these
two were on the left wif1g. These
two priests are quick to detect a theo-
logical error. but they didn't know a
hornets nest when they saw 1t so
prettlly hanging on bush. Father
Adalbert fired into 1t and walked up
the slumbering natives. A mad hornet
came like . whizzing MIME rifle ball
and struck Father Hayes Just below
the eye. They always aim at the eye
these meanest Of singing insects.
1t was the worst jab this reverend
father ever had. 1t is still swelling
today. He was down to Shenandoah
yesterday and a good x. c. doctor adj
ministered to the wound. The hunt
ers brought home two squirrels and a
pigeon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
Skeptics.

SkePtlcS.
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
wink
He did as they bid him before YOU
could think.
Hey! Hey?
What do you say?
What makes you keep winking and
grinning that way?
Your uncle's been 'tellin' you some-
thin'?"
Dear. dear!
You mustn't believe all the stories you
hear.
When dad and his playuaates were nice
little boys
The frs, of their joys
Was giving their toys
To poor little children who needed them
more;
Your dad was so good he gave all oe
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 70 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 tt?-
My Scat!
We used to spank children for mischief
like that.
Burgess Johnson In Harper's Maya
zine for October.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15

notes heart disease and DESTROYS the
vital organs. 1t is the main factor that
fills our insane asylums. It Is deadly
to mind, morals and musclesi but the
drink bill and the quantity consumed
per capita show no decrease. Men who
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 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 ntemperance.
Count them. Go back ten and tweu-
~ years TO the gay rollicking drinker
who carried it fairly well and whom
you and everyone else liked. Count
them. Count those in the cemetery ana
these 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 un-il the
disease gripped Few are bad men.
Most of them were good fellows. Put
a 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 pellagra Will
prove much of temperance iorce.
Fear seems to be an emotion unknown
tc whisky.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
ROOSEVELT THE DEMAGoG.

tColfax Clipper, GStandpat).1
Mr.. Roosevelt has discovered that
the chickens come home to roost." The
New York World printed this dispatch:
In 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 fossidzed,"
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
tfsm-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 If 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
barbarians who object to an independ-
ent and upright judiciary
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15

Nebraska. Over there, the platform II
the test with Bryan. Here. 1t 10 the
candidate, apparently.
After the election democratic orators
might find employment abroad ex-
planning to the peoples Of the old world
how it 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 smallness.
Senator Aldrich is home from Europe
and 1t takes only three lines to tell it
in the newspapers; How have the
mighty fallen!
AS between inventing a flying ma
chine and discovering some way to
make hens lay in January, the latter
enterprise seems most commenda BILE.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
BARnEYs BAD BREAK.

Dairy Commissioner Barney is quot
ed as in opposition to scientific con-
clusion. If correctly reported the com
missioner denies that milk from tub
ercuious 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
thorough bred Holstein cattle, mich an
imals 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 70 render flesh unfit for food
and DANCE 70 health and diseased
tissues Of one part Of the animal con-
deTnns the entire carcass.
Scientists insist that tuberculosis is
communicable to the human family
thru diseased flesh and milk from dis
eased animals. With the avera ge
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
comm unicable it is inconceivable to
even common understanding that a
mich COW may be rotten with tuber-
culosis from lungs to liver and unless
her udder be locally affected remain
safe source whence the table may be
supplied and babies be nourished No
one VIII give such a theory credence
and few will a pprove it except breeders
OF fancy cattle who dread the posi-
bf1ities or the certainties of a test upon
the value of their herds
A ridiculous assumption may be
laughable but remain Infinitely danger
GUS 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, 1910-10-15
WHISKY AND TINE FEAR OF DEATH,

The Glidden Graphic suggests that,
IF as the editor of Good Health has
suggested, pellagra. a disease more to
be feared than black death may be
caused by beer it may be the means Of
accomplishing great good in the bat
tie against intemperance."
Perhaps the Giidden 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 the Incorporate
dtfnker.
Whether excessive indulgence in
strong drink brings about this partic-
ulAr disease or not it is definite and abb
solute that it does lead to fatal dis
ease. It is of general knowledge that
intemperance is the prolific and certain
source Of Bright's disease and other
diseases Of the kidneys, that it pro-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
Topics of the Times

When congress comes to fix the rate
of tolls for the Panama canal. then the
railroads will have something to en-
gage their attention
Secretary Ballinger figured in rail-
road collision the other day, but got off
without injured. His luck has i'm
proved.
News from New York is to the effect
that all the corporations. the financial
interests, the big money lenders with
foreign names, the Wall street gam
blers. The railroad magnates and silk
hated habitues Of Fifth avenue clubs
are supporting the democratic ticket in
the Empire state this year. They seem
bent on making it as easy as possible
for Teddy.
Another pleasant pastime taken from
us. No longer can we speculate on
what Roosevelt thinks of the Payne
Ahrich tariff, for now we know.
The Redeemable Investment Com
pany Of Boston is in a condition to be-
lie its name.
President Taft is going down to Pan
anna in November to see how the boys
are coming on with that little ditch.
Doubtless we will soon know whether
it is possible to make schedule of
canal tolls as complicated as a sched-
ule Of railroads freight tariffs.
| The Duveens Of New York, importers
| Of art goods, seem to have had their
| own notions of how to revise the tariff
! downward
| II Bryan's help is any consolation tc
him, Claude Porter Is lucky to Der I'M
ming for governor In Iowa instead Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15

Creston has nine saloons and in the
Same proportion Shenandoah would
have about seven. Suppose that we
should have a saloon where Lddd
Brothers store -, ono where the school
room 10 on ELM street, one whore
Gauss q 6imons' store H., one in place
of the Vienna bakery. one ct the Gold
berg store room, one in place Of Polly's
grocery and one at the Orpheum thea
ter. Then, accordinOto this great DEM
ocratic authority, Shenandoah would
be safer for the boys than 1t IL now!
AS 1t Is now, liquor 10 not Haunted
in the faces Of the boys or Of the men
who are trying to break away from the
drink habit The liquor traffic is
looked upon as illegal and not respect
1t establishes its respectability by the
city sanction. 1t says to the men and
boys, the saloon is respectable or we
would not license It. 1t becomes a
business institution of the town Just as
much as grocery or clothing store
Each saloon keeper pays $1,000 or ST.
500 and 1t Is up to him to get business
enough to pay his license. to pay for
his liquor and his help and to support
his family and make q profit. II he
succeeds in business he has got to in
duce people to buy his goods and he
naturally goes after business. His busi-
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 IL
quor has to stink into some dark alley
to get it. ashamed Of himself for the
act?
The very statement Of the question
refutes it. 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 I'M
ogene. and put them to the expense
and the hatreds OF saloon election
every two years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
SHENANDOAH AND SALOONS.

lon6HduuOdN
Editor w. H. Robb, Of the Creston
American, who ran for congress on
the democratic ticket a few years ago
and who now runs the representative
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 q 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 90 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 its mast head.
According to that paper shenan-
doah would be better off with saloons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-15
[cedar Rapids Republican,

The cities OF Iowa are all fighting
railroad rates. Cedar Rapids has Just
had rate hearing, before a special
com nissioner 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 also
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 is hauled
to Chicago from Omaha for IL. it costs
IS cents a hundred to carry the same
kind Of grain from Sioux City to Chi
cago. To Minnea polls. 1t costs Sioux
City 1212 a hundred, while Omaha.
farther from Minneapolis. gets its grain
thru for II cents 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 the
Iowa railroads have discrim mated
against Iowa During the f1rst part
Of this period the discrimination wa.
Intentional and punitive ana during the
latter half Of the period 1t has been
relic Of that barbarous age when rail-
roads deemed it 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 tariff. moro
than twenty years ago. under the ad-
ministration Of Governor LArrabee. 1t
was bitter and prolonged nsht. 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 Dies
Moines and said that the rates meant
bankruptcy for his road, which was
largely an Iowa road. But % faF rom
running the B.. c. r. ana n. that road
entered on its frst unpa<alsalsd psoa-
perity. 1t never paid Ai31dsods until
the new rates were in Iorco.
Nut the feeling that aximash00 ~.
Ives. animated still more intensely
the railroad men in Chicago. It WAS
threatened that lows would pay TOT
those rates.
And Iowa did pay for tAsm-has
been paying dearly for them for ewsn-
~ yeare.
The interstate rates were raSsed. IN
one way and another. While ship-
ments between Iowa points were car
ried at reasonable and rational as
tance rates, rates into and out - Iowa