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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
wire puller put in charge Of the post

wire puller put In charge Of the post
offices?
1t has been said many times that
a private corporation could well at
ford to pay the entire public debt for
the privilege of taking the postal bust-
ness Of the United States for term
Of years at the present cost OF postage
and at the present salary scale for the
men who do the work. In the mere
matter of railway mail carriage alone
a private corporation would save very
much of the present deficit, and yet
amply compensate the railroads for
better service than they render.
(, Senator Dolliver need have no fear
that the presidents recommendation
will go further. So long as there Is
man in the senate with courage enough
to publicly hint at an investigation into
the postoffice department there Will be
no urgency about reducing the salaries
of clerks and carriers nor about in
creasing the. cost of delivering news
papers and magazines to the reading
public.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
THE GOVERNMENT LICENSE HOWL.

The Kansas governor has dug UP a
federal statute to the confusion of
bootleggers. Heretofore when boot
for government license" the myrmi-
dons of the revenue service nailed him
carried him away to their dens and
shook him down for the price and the
turned him loose again to be a JOY
forever. Now they must fine him good
and plenty and send him to prison.
Now there is nothing in it." The
fool bootlegger who hasn't sense enough
to buy a cheap protection from the
government isn't in the business to any
serious degree. If he We're he would
gather UP the twenty-five and start
right Governor Stubs may get a few
careless and senseless fellows sent to
prison for a while but he will catch few
of those who most deserve jail
The fact is that when we insist on
federal intervention to enforce state
laws we are as a people trying TO get
out of doing our own work and main
tanning our own law in its integrity.
The fellows who are selling the most
Illicit booze all have the paternaI hand
of the Z. S. behind them. So far as
the revenues are concerned he has paiC.
his money and squared himself If the
list of government licenses in any
county of the state We're to be posted
on a street corner the news the poster
would impart would astonish. The real,
effective, bootlegger, the restaurant
man who keeps beer to serve to safe
patrons along about midnight, the
druggist who is selling whisky against
the law. even the street and alley sales
man who works at the business. has his
'.little old government license" 1t is
too cheap to be without.
And the community hasn't much out
cry coming over this license" It's out
cry is a false one, so far as itself is con-
cerned. The state laws are ample and
sufficient, drastic enough and effective
if they are enforced. The outcry is
Of those who wish to hide in the high
grass and peep out at United States
officers carrying away bootleggers and
illicit liquor dealers. There is no more
sense in asking federal officers to en-
force our laws against liquor than to
demand a United States marshal and
a federal court to seize and try muir
derer or a horsethief.
Not that the government should
issue licenses for the sale of liquor in
that with SO much of paternalisrn it
might be stretched to the refusal to
the bootegger and the law violator of
governmental privilege to take his
chance in hiding crime or escaping
it under local law, but that he is afford
ed this loophole is no excuse to the
community where he f1ourishes in de-
fiance Of local and state statutes. He
fourishes because men talk with bold
mouths and act with weak and coward
ly hands. That is the reason and all
the reason.
When we come to the conclusion that
the law is made TO be observed we shall
not only be careful in the making of
law but bold in its enforcement. The
government is not TO bear the burden
of the shame Of communities which sit
cowardly and quiescent while law is
violated. The community must carry
its own shame And it ought not to
squeal and attempt TO shift its own
patent duty to the shoulders of the
revenue law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

ing in order to make the cost greater,
the Payne bill tariff increased by Is
per cent the tariff on such bibles as
the bound in leather" notes the Sioux
City Tribune. eff bound in cloth the
tax is 25 per cent; if in leather it is
40 per cent. Salvation is free, except
when 1t is imported"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

1t is within the province of state leg
islatures to make this immoral business
(white slavery punishable by such
penalty that men and women will be
driven from it, State and local author
tiles can enforce the law so as to re-
duce and regulate the amount of i'm
morality of this nature. The problem
chiefly is one of local law and local
sentiment directing its enforcement
Boston Herald
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
early Mai, Service In Maine.

In 1895 individuals hired man to
90 from Castine to Wiscasset and car
~ letters and papers once fortnight.
He walked the whole distance over
the route. The next year postmasters
were appointed and mail sent once
week by carriers on horseback. Rufus
Crane. the first postmaster In WarrsA
collected 20 cents a. his pay for III
arst three months Of work-LeMtstnn
Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

source Is tainted If the washington
press and the Washington hotel keep
ers and the people and interests OF
Washington generally had their way
about it congress would never adjourn.
90
It is not quite far enough along
toward spring yet for the icenan to tell
us how short the crop was. but tell us
he will all right before great while.
WARMERS operations were calcu-
lated to make the Big -Four look
rather small.
1t is hoped that the congressional
committees Investigating the cost OF
living will not overlook milady's hat;
as, indeed, how could they.
Des Moines says there is no puppy love
spooning going on among the pupils
there. Maybe the superintendent
doesn't know the article when he sees
it. Why should he, for the matter Of
that? What has puppy love to do with
education?
LATE Young bewails the increased
cost of bibles. Lake does this under
a mistaken notion that the bible is a
standpat document.
For real live issue commend US to
the problem of getting the hens to sit
early.
Perhaps when the summer comes we
will have occasion to reflect that the
chautauqua also has something to do
with the increased cost of living.
Maybe those chorus girls didn't have
TO make much of a change in their
diet when they joined the meat boy
colt.
If the Sabbath bill becomes a law
finger on the ground may be worth
more than finger on the hand.
A Harrison county man has just
sold his farm adjoining Logan for s125
an acre Wonder what he expects TO
buy with the proceeds that will be
worth as much as what he sold?
Keep Jim Hills paraphrase in mind,
the cost of high living 1t may help
some.
Why not borrow the boycott for
Lent?
Dolliver is standing up picking off
his plumase the particles of which ad-
here from his roosting in the last
years birdsnest of standpatism.
But wait until the hens get busy and
the boycotter smells bacon and eggs!
How quickly some Of these editors
rush to the defense of the retailer when
the latter inserts a small ADVERTISE
ment.-Chicago Livestock World.
The Livestock World should have
sufficient commercial common sense,
whatever it's lack of ordinary good
taste, than to give voice to an innu-
endo SO opposed to facts. 1t should
of conditions than would appear from
its giving voice to the sneaking SANDER
of the paragraph above quoted. and
should refrain from a general accusa-
ton against publishers, whatever its
own conception of the purcha stability
of the publisher of a market report or
of a newspaper may be. There has been
general defense of meat retailers-Who
are the poorest of advertisers-by the
press of iowa because editors can not
see where the average retailer is max
ing much money. The evidence is that
he is hiding it securely or that he isn't
making it. To insinuate that every
editor who has defended the retail
dealer whom the packers and the beef
trust would load with it's sins and
send out into the wilderness of public
disapproval has been bought by an adj
vertisement is so utterly untruthful
and uncalled for that it might have
been ordered and paid for by the beef
trust.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT.

He is a poor spender who complains
about the high cost of living when a
prize hen can be bought for only
12,N0O-Richmond Times-Ditpatch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

Lagrippe pains that pervade the en-
tire system, lagrippe coughs that rack
and strain, are quickly cured by FoIey's
Honey and Tar. Is mildly laxative.
safe and certain in results. Mcbride
& Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
Joy In Being Free from Debt

Joy In Being Free from Debt.
Douglas Jerrold said, HE who dimes
out of debt, though his meal be but
biscuit and an onion. dimes in the
Apollo" meaning fancy London
restaurant Of the time. The same Az
thority exclaims: What warmth In
threadbare coat If tho tailors receipt
be in the pocbet!" =
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
IOWA OPINIONS a,,p NOTES.

eff Cannon concludes not to run for
speaker again ii will be for exactly the
same season that some of US never run
for president" says the Brooklyn
Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

Being investigated promises to be-
come a regular side line for the pack
ers.-Chicago News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
DRAG TIE ROADS.

A person letter recently from Prent
Ransom, the noted highway overseer
of Owosa township, Hardin county, re-
quested the T.-R. to point out how and
where it was possible to force road
dragging under the law, to locate the
letter was forwarded to the attorney
generals office and elected the follow
ing reply:
In reply have to say that among
other hings, Chapter 101 Acts of the
SD General Assembly. provides the
following:
The township trustees shall have all
the main travelled roads, including mail
routes, in their township dragged at
such time as in their judgment is most
beneficial, and they shall contract at
their April meeting to have a given
piece OF road dragged at rate not to
exceed fifty 900 per mile for each
mile travelling in dragging"
1t is further provided in the same
chapter that in making contracts for
dragging preference shall be given to
the occupants of the land abu,ting the
road where the work is to be done, and
not less than 40 per cent of the road
tax collected under the road levy on
land abutting the road or adjacent
thereto shall be used in such work if
so much is needed.
These provisions establish the fol-
lowing rules:
First, Upon the twonnshlp trustees
rests the duty to see that the main
travelled roads, including mail routes, in
their townships are properly dragged.
Second In making contracts for
dragging it is their duty to give prefer
ence to the occupants of the land abut-
ting or adjacent to the road to be
dragged.
Third 1t is their duty to use at least
40 per cent of the road tax collected, as
above stated, in dragging the roads
if SO much is needed for that purpose,
and more if necessary.
If the officers above mentioned fail
to perform the duties thus enjoined up
on them they subject themselves to the
provisions of sections 1904 and 1905,
which are as follows:
when any duty is or shall be en-
joined by law upon any public officer,
or upon any person holding any public
trust or employment, every wilful neg
lect to perform such duty, where no
! special provision has been made for the
punishment of such delinquency, is a
misdemeanor.
| Every person who is convicted of a
misdeme amor, the punishment Of which
is not otherwise prescribed by any
s tatute Of this state, shall be punished
| by Imprisonment in the county jail not
more than one year or by fine not ex-
ceeding $500. or by both such fine and
! imprisonment"
Yours very truly,
| H W. BYERS.
Now this a plain enougs. The road
drag must be used. The trustees must
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

Whitewash or no whitewash, Richard
Achilles Ballinger must go!-Louisville
Courier Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

The Manchester News says "Any
body who suspects that the next state
convention is not going to endorse
Cummins and Dolliver in particular
and emphaticaly, is mistaken. That
Iowa has the best and most talented.
the strongest. ablest and most progress
sive representation in the United
States senate. the greatest law making
body in the world, is we'll known and
will be we'll recognized at home at the
first opportunity"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
Yours very truly,
II w PYER

Now this a plain enougs The road
drag must be used. The trustees must
see that it is used. The law is plain.
The attorney generals construction of
it is plain The trustees are liable if
they neglect to perform their duties.
The attorney general has lately an
nounced his intention TO enforce the
law. Drag the roads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

mot content with taxing abcu. ev-
erything that aHectz xhs cost Of ltv-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

Entered at the postoffice at Marshall
town as second class mail matter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

''If butcher or any other line of
business keeps the nose above water, it
is necessary to keep prices up in order
to keep up with and in the procession
argues the Iowa Falls Chronicle. THE
day ia5orc-, the man CT e salary and
the omnye-loaner are getting the dirty
end of the stick. Outside of these three
classes one big price sort of cancels
another"
mo institution can be Of 50 much
service to a community as well regu-
lated hospital- declares the Knoxville
Journal. THE legislature has provided
the method of securing such an insti-
tuition, and the people Of this county
should Immediately take the necessary
steps to insure the construction and
maintenance Of first class county
hospital"
Observing that over at Cedar Rap
ids they are trying to solve the ques-
ton: Is it good business to have
gambling houses in the town? the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil suggests:
| They might find out something to
their interest by putting the query to
H. w. Byers, attorney general Of
Iowa. The attorney general has pro-
vided several other towns with a sat-
isfactory solution OF this problem"
! The Des Moines Register and Lead
! er believes there will be found men
In the senate who will not hesitate to
insist that legislation progressive IN
name shall be progressive in fact, and
who will scTutinize every measure
that comes from the attorney generals
office with great care"
mot content with taxing abcu. ev-
AervfhinR that aAecfcx fho cost Of ltv-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08

Those that have been bored by the
person that persists in reading aloud
the daily paper, this always at the
time and place when others are trying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-17
The World of Finance and Trade.
Washington; New York; London.
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

Uncertainty and hesitation marked the
attitude toward gas stock at the meeting
of the Stock Exchange today, as was the
case Saturday. 1t seemed that those
who had the stock were afraid to sell,
while on the other hand possible buyers
were afraid to buy.
Some inkling as to the feeling that ex-
lists in regard to the current status of
gas stock may be gathered from the fact
that the exchange adopted a resolution
instructing its secretary to ascertain at
what date the holders of the stock lose
the privilege Of subscription to the new
) per cent bonds which are to bear the
date of November l.
The bond privilege. as adhering to the
stock. is of some value, as the stock
holders can get new bonds at par. and
it is supposed they will command a
premium on the market
Today gas stock sold for 1914 and 20,
less than one hundred shares in all
changing hands The bid at the close Of
the trading was 7S13 and the asking price
1914
The trading was not at all active in the
rest Of the list, and 1t is evident the up
ward swing of the bull market that is in
evidence in the general market has. not
as yet reached the local arena
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-17
sei4d.eSu
COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. October 1.-THE cotton
market opened easy at decline of 9a17
points under liquidation and aggressive
bear pressure inspired by the easy
cables, talk of less urgent trade demand
and good weather in the south. Reports
that the West Indian storm was again
heading for the belt. and support from
some of the big interests caused slight
rallies, but there was lot OF cotton
for sale and the market ruled very nerv-
Gus with prices during the middle of
the morning some % to "a points net
lower. Liverpool and the south were
sellers here and a good many private
reports we're receievd claiming less
active demand and freer offerings OF
spots in the interior.
With later weather reports indicating
that there were two tropical storms, one
menacing the south Atlantic and the
oher the central gulf coast. the market
steadied up during the middle of the
morning on support from leading bulls.
covering this fresh buying for long ac-
count. Prices at midday were about 10 to
16 points net lower.
Spot quiet; middling upland. 1890 nomi-
nal: middling gulf. 1915 nominal.
The estimated receipts at the ports to-
day, 1900 bales, against 1858 last week
and S9.98 last year. For the week. 400. :
600 bales. against iii last week and
4S,24 last year. Today's receipts at
New Orleans, 9.241 bales, against 1881
last year. and at Houston, 1852 bales,
against "a, 1913 last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-17
FOREIGN BANKS.

PARIS, October 17.-Closing. 3 per
cent rentes 81 francs 2 confines for
the account.
Exchange on London, 25 francs %
centimes for checks.
BERLIN. October 17.-Exchange on
London, 20 marks 451s pfennings for
checks
Money. 4 per cent.
Private discount rate. AZ per cent.
The weekly statement Of the I'm
perial Bank Of Germany shows the fol-
lowing changes:
Cash in hand increased 51.S01 900
marks.
Loans decreased 22.s65.000 marks.
Discounts decreased 1853, $4,000
marks.
Treasury bills decreased 20.102,000
marks.
Notes in circulation decreased 1872
$4,000 marks.
Deposits increased 1S,784.000 marks.
Gold in hand increased 37,50S.000
marks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-17
SUPPORT FOR PRICES
Buying Sufficiently Heavy to
Offset Profit Taking.
HEAVY DEMAND FOR STEEL
Constitutes One-ouarter of the En-
tire Volume of Business.
READING TAKES BIG JUMP
Advanced to 154 1-8, Gain of 2 Sd
Points-Steel Lifted Until It
Touched II IA.
HEAVY DEMAND FOR STEEL
READING TAKES BIG JUMP

NEW YORK, October 1.-THE opening
dealings in stocks today were active and
broadly distributed. Gains were the rule,
but they were restricted to small frac-
tons except in a few instances and there
was a sprinkling of declines where realiz-
ing sales made their effect shown. Rock
Island was advanced is, the preferred.
Reading and Sloss- Shef1eld Steel 1. and
American Smelling, National Lead and
D'stillers Securities lai ge fractions.
Prices were supported against profits
taking sales by the active demand for
Reading and the Rock Island issues.
Fluctuations Not Wide.
Fluctuations in the industrials were
largely confined to moderate fractions.
Reading and Rock Island preferred ad
vanced points, st. Paul and Corn Prod
ucts preferred. 1as. and Union Pacific.
Chesapeake and Ohio. Atlantic Coast
Line. Chicago Great Western preferred.
Wabash preferred. American Steel Foun
dries and American Can preferred, /.
Business for the first hour was on a large
scale.
The opening of the week found some
response to last weeks rise in stock in a
growth of outside demand. Advantage
was taken of this to distribute holdings
acquired at last weeks lower prices. The
effect was seen in the irregular move
ment of forenoon prices. The September
foreign trade return was a strengthening
influence by reason OF the large balance
OF export values over imports
Large Dealings in Steel.
Dealings were largest in United States
Steel and were at the rate of One-quarter
OF the total That stock was held within
a fractional range by the realizing sales.
Bonds were irregular.
Reading was buoyant and jumped TO
154ie, a gain of "A. United States Steel
was lifted slowly on huge transactions
until IT touched ia. These stocks alb
sorbed the bulk of the dealings, and there
was little interest shown in the rest OF
the market leaders. Norfolk and West
ern showed unusual activity and ad-
vanced Ia. Great Northern preferred
and Amalgamated Copper also gained 1
and Lackawanna % points. Lake Erie
and Western fell 3 points. Peoria and
Eastern and .hackay Companies IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-17
The Safest Investments
Pimlico Entries.
oc15-d.e Su.3o

Special Dispatch to The Star
PIMLICO RACE TRACK, Nd, October
17.-Pimlico entries for Tuesday were as
follows
First race, three-year-olds and upward
selling; six furlongs-"Malatin. 115: Sir
Alvescot. 100; Oxer. 113: Chiffon Queen.
rs; Our Hannah, 10; F1orimel, 40; Belle
Mawr, Ito.
five furiongs-Corinth, 100; O. L. Buster,
100; Cry Baby. 100; Seconke. 112: Wrap.
100: Silly Night. 100: Merry Lad, 113;
Irish Nora. 100: Spin. 100: Semi Quaver.
B faI n narnea 100; Ford Bank H.;
Third race, four-year-olds and upward;
selling: mile and seventy yards-Dr. BARK.
ley, 118: 'Golconda, no; Lad of Lansdon.
10: Hill Top. 107; The Gardener, 1O2:
question 8. ahn Ma Mark ll5; Laughing Eyes. 1o2;
Fourth race. Belvedere steeplechase
handicap: two miles-Diebold, 1876: Water
way, 147: Ontario, 145: Merryman. 146;
Algie. 1875; Aunt julie. 1888; Hylda, 14s.
F1fth race; two-year-oids; six furlongs-
Martin W.. Littleton. 100; seconke, 100;
105: Herbert Turner. los: Adrian. 1ia.
Sixth race; three-year-olds and up;
Pimlico Country Club purse: mile and
furlong.Amelia jerks. 100; Hampton
ia; Everett, 112; Bob R., 112.
Seventh race: maiden two-year odds;
five furlongs-Argo. 100; Glitter CHATTER
100: Great Garry. 100: Foot Lights, 112:
LAppele, 100; Raceweli. liz; Gold Cat.
112: Mr.. Specs. liz; Fezzan, 100; Ynca,
1O9
Apprentice allowance Of five pounds
claimed. Weather clear; track fast.