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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

If you are farmer or dairyman
and some smooth-looking stranger Of
fers to show you how to make two
pounds of butter out Of one, and to
sell you the machine with which to
do it, have a heed, for you may get
into trouble with the internal revenue
officers. After making profits to the
extent of about 5000 out Of his device,
vender came into the clutches OF
the revenue officers and had to pay
penalty of $500. A pound Of butter
that contains more than 16 per cent OF
moisture is held to be "adulterated
within the meaning of the internal
revenue regulations. and heavy tax
is imposed upon the vender of such a
product, and if he fails to take out
a license in advance he may be sub
ject to heavy penalties. The commits
sioner of internal revenue has deter
mined to wage a relentlss war on the
butter blenders.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
THE PUBLIC DRINKING cup.

The public drinking cup is severely
but justly condemned as an undoubted
source OF communication of infectious
diseases by DR.. G. H. Sumner, secre-
tary of the state board of health, in
the latest issue of the Iowa Health
Bulletin. AS corollary to this, Dr..
Sumner demands that it be abolished
forwith in the interes of the public
health. There is no question that the
use of the public drinking cup on
trains. in railroad stations, in public,
parochial or private schools and in
other educational institutions of the
state Of Iowa and all other states,
should be abandoned. DIR. Sumner
thus voices his demand:
Let every corporation in charge of
any railroad train, or station; any
school board, board of education
township board of school directors
board of trustees of any public, paro
chial or private school, or educational
institution; any person or persons re
sponsible for, or having in charge
public drinking fountains see to it that
the common drinking cup is speedily
abolished. Let the generous, broad
Intelligence of the people of Iowa as
sert itself and come to the help OF
the Iowa state board of health, which
is trying to keep before the people
of our great commonwealth all the
advanced ideas which are destined to
keep her inhabitants from sickness
and death. There are comparatively
few people who will not admit that
the germ diseases are to be found in
the mouth and on the lips of these
suffering from such disease, hence the
germs are constantly communicated
to any drinking cup or vessel tat the
person may use. This being true. NO
one can deny that the commol drink
4 ing cup, in public places, must inevita,
bly, be the constant medium of such
diseases and as truly poisoned or
infected cup at times as though fl
contained arsenic cd strych1ine."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
PROTECTION FOR AMERICANS.

~
1t has long been the pride of every
Englishman that wherever he might
go the strong arm Of his country was
around him to protect him. Let wrong
or injustice be done him, no matter
where he might be, a British warship
was certain to put in an appearance to
demand and enforce reparation, If not
promptly made. Since the United
States became a world power, with
its men of war on every sea, it has
followed the British example with in
finite credit to itself and to the salts
faction of every American at ZONE
and abroad 1t should be understood
by everybody, however, that the pro-
lection here contemplated is rot for
wrongdoers. A writer in Harper's
Weekly states the case Alright III these
words:
ITO secure at least fair treatment
for Americans anywhere abroad-that
is one privilege Of great power
which we ought to exercise. Lord
Palmerston's famous civic Romanus
speech of 1850 has never been effec-
lively answered Nobody has ever
given a good reason why an English
man should not be permitted to feel
wherevere he may be, that the watch
full eye and the strong arm of England
will protect him against injustice and
wrong Neither is there any reason
why an American should not have the
same feeling provided always, 0
course, that he doesn't get tie notion
he is going to be protected in doins
wrong or injustice to people of othe'
countries"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
"MAasE HENRY" ON. SUFFRAGE.

Colonel Watterson has decided opin-
ions on the subject of woman suffrage
and has the courage of his convictions
in expressing them In conversation
with newspaper interviewer the 9th
er day he said:
Il deplore the agitation on woman
suffrage and other kindred subjects,
because | think it tends to promote
sex discord. Woman is tie moral
light of the world. Without her in
fiuence men would be ravaging
wolves. ! believe in the widening of
wonlan's field of work. There is prac-
tically no profession today in which a
capable woman. cannot succeed Thew
are paid less for their work and that
lis wrong but the ballot is very
much overestimated benefit in NV
oninion and often an unpleasant duty.
| II I could re-maka the constitution 7
think would +"lya the votinr nowar
away from half the persons who exer-
ciee It ard void rot i-f1icl II rho,
-varoar hold bar to- ti~', - -rish
to eee her dehauefed by notifies
Colonel Watterson was asked II poll
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
SQUARES ON THE Pastors.

In personal letter to the editor of
the Cedar Rapids Republican Attor-
ney General Byers explains that his
decision about the ballots for dele
gates, used as pastors, has been mis-
understood. He says he did not hold
that squares could be printed on the
pastors and marked. His decision was
that squares were not illegal. If print
ed on the pastors, but that any ballot
mat was marked except by the voter
himself in the booth would be illegal.
In short, there may be squares on the
pastors, but they must not be marked.
That is in accordance with the law,
according to the attorney general.
What the Republican says in com
menting upon this explanation is of
general interest. Promising that 1t is
glad to have this point made clear
by Mr.. Byers and to give him credit
accordingly, the Republican proceeds
to point out, as follows, the abuse
to which squares on the pastors has
led:
What this paper objected to was
marked pastors. The writer saw a
number of ballots of that kind in the
hands of one of the workers at the
polls. The names of the pastors
clearly had crosses in them and the
voter who took such ballot had
nothing to do except to paste it on
the official ballot. 1t was argued that
| if they were not marked many would
| forget to do SO. But the law Is plain
/ that the crosses in the squares must
be made by the voter himself and
that within the secrecy of the booth
i Would it not be we'll to change the
law on this matter by not permitting
squares on the pastors The squares
are on the official ballot and wher
the paster has been placed there the
squares on the official ballot fall op
posite the names on the pastors. The
voter can then mike the necessary
marks. If the law permits squares or
the pastors, some one is going to d.
the marking before they are turned
over to the voter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
A Sinister SANDER.

Mt. Ayr Record-News: One John
J. Hamilton, graduate of a recent
defunct Chicago-Des Moines maya
zine, uses large space in Des Moines
paper to prove that the c.. B. & @.
dictation and influence was a decid-
ing factor in favor of the nomination
of Governor Carroll and the defeat of
Mr. Garst in the recent primary con
test It is sinister insinuation and
casts slanderous reflections on the
voters of the counties of southern
Iowa thus represented We venture
to say that not a single soul was in
any way approached by the agents of
said road and not particle of in
fluence was used by any one. No men
were sent out to push special inter-
ests and no posters were used to adj
wise men how to vote, and for whom
to vote, while thousands of these
were sent out and pushed in the faces
of voters from the associated Hamil-
ton headquarters at Des Moines In
mean mood we might say that the
Rock Island and Great Western used
influences for Mr.. Garst and others,
while 1t is presumed that like the
CO. they never once thought of do
ing So Such thoughts only come to
those who are in the habit of hunt.
ing for scurrilous filth. It. all merely
proves that the man who ran Chi
cago magazine into the ground is a
.'falsifier of high. repute.''
1t is hard to find all illustration
that will do the subject justice. One
drawn from the life of Henry Ward
Beecher comes the nearest to it, He
was asked if indeed on hot day he
had used profanity in the introduc
ton to a sermon and at the same
time it was claimed that an excel
lent woman said that she had heard
him do so. In answer Mr.. Beechel
said that saddle was first made fol
DR. S. H. Cox and that the old sad
die was now put on new horse ant
he forcibly added: You may tel
that lady that she lied; that SAL
she lied; that she knows she lied
that / know she lied; and that nov
she knows that | know she lied.
The same NAV be said as to thu
charges made against the integrit.
and manhood of all the people o
southern Iowa and all the roads cor
ccrned They are free agents an
call no man master. They indie
nantly resent Hamilton's cheap an
stale slanderous insinnations. 1t !
peanut politics and of the wormies
kind A higher and nobler manhoo
cannot be found in the union than |
the counties so maligned. Instead {
/ doing that which is imputed to then
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

tics was necessarily debauching. His
reply was that politics is muck" He
declared that in any close contest
where the woma1's vote was determin-
ing, the will of the bad women would
control. He conceded that woman suf-
frage may work fairly well in sparsely
settled communities like Colorado. but
If it prevailed in the country at large
he said, it would debase womankind.
You Will find that most of the advo-
Gates of woman suffrage are discon-
tented or childless,' the colonel, con-
tinued,S unless they are society wo-
men, who, having exhausted tha ex-
citement of other movements, have
taken it up as fad"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

Pleasant was guest last week OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Long drove rom
Mount Pleasant and spent SUNDAY
with relatives here.
Miss Eva Eighme is In Chicago, tax
ing a course of study at Mary lhomp
son hospital.
William Sipplegoes of Kansas oies
Is guest of DR.. Rawhouser.
Frank Weimer came from Missouri
to attend the funeral of his mother
Mrs. Cynthia Weimer
Salem nine went to Hillsboro sun
day to cross bats with Hillsboro team
Mrs. Wyatt is visiting her son ONE
and family at Fort Madison.
Mrs. Eva Rock Field came from
Mount Pleasant and spent "Wednesday
with Salem friends.
Miss Elsie Parkins returned to FAR.
held Thursday following visit WIN
relatives here
Mrs. Julia McMaster went to Ne"
London Friday to visit friends.
A. Lamm was a Mount pleasant
business caller Saturday.
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The Black Mans Victory,

Quincy Journal Jack Johnson tri-
umphed. He defeated Jeffries, the
hero of twenty-five championship bat
ties, in manner that makes the ne
gro the undisputed heavyweight cham
pion of the world. Johnson showed his
superiority in strength, CELEBRITY and
skill
Jeffries is described as fair to the
eye and awe-inspiring, but without the
vigor of his former days, while john
son was like a black panther" pow
erful, alert, quick, aggressive and
equally skillful in offensive and de-
fensive tactics. 1t was very soon evil
dent after the fight began that the
big white man whose friends and
hackers had represented him as an in
vincible, had no chance to win. jeff
ries showed the effects of time and
waste of energy. Even in his prime,
it is declared by experts, he would
not have been able to overcome his
antagonist, but in the condition in
which he entered the ring, confident
as he seemed to be, defeat was inevi-
table.
Now the big Californian, SO long
idolized for his prowess, is a back
number. So passes away the glory of
the prize fighter. The reviled negro
takes the white mans place as the
champion among the big prize fight
ers of the world
If muscular power and skill in the
manly art of self-defense" merit adj
miration then Johnson has earned it.
If victory in the ring over the man
who has been regarded as the worlds
greatest pugilist, is enough to entitle
the victor to high honor as hero,
then Johnson is hero A black man
today stands at the head of all pugil-
! lists.
Whether the result of the battle at
Reno will have tendency to dim the
glory of victory in the ring among
| those whose unconcealed prejudices
against the race that Johnson repre-
sents, may enter into the considera-
ton, remains. to be SEEN If it shall
have this effect, the result will not be
wholly bad, for it is evident that the
ring has been invested with an impor-
lance beyond all reason and the pugil-
ist exalted to position to which he is
not entitled.
Besides the mercenary spirit and
many bad associations have become
connected with these fistic contests
which have aroused against them a
strong moral sentiment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
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SALEM.


Mrs. M. D. X. Weimer arrived from
Harrison, Neb., Friday morning, bring
ing with her the body of her mother
in-law, Mrs. Cynthia Weimer. The
deceased had been in i'll health for
months and had gone to the home of
her son Marion in February, where
she departed this life, June %. She
was an aged and highly respected
lady, who had spent many years near
and in Salem. The body was taken
to her late home Funeral was held
from the NJ. e. church at 2:3o o'clock,
Saturday afternoon, Rev. Johnathan
Lee of Ottumwa conducting the SER
vices. Interment was made in Salem
cemetery.
Mrs. Dora Bridge and two sons, All.
fred and Albert of Sheridan, Wyo.,
who were guests of the formers sister
Mrs. William Weeks, left for their
home Thursday Miss Carrie Weeks
has returned to Keokuk to resume her
duties as nurse.
July was very quiet at Salem
Some of her citizens piclsnicked in
nearby groves: others attended the
celebration at Hillsboro, and quite {
few have gone to visit relatives ant
friends.
Misses Maude Collatt, Kate Mathew.
and Laura Cammack departed Wednes
day to attend TIT National Teachers
association convention held at Boston
Mass.
Rev. G. w Barber has accepted
call to preach at tie NJ. z. church a
Chillicothe, until conference time.
| Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Safer came fror
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
The Mornino After.

Oh, say can you see. by the dawns
early light,
Quite as well as you could early
yesterday morning?
Are your members all here? Is your
hearing all right?
Are no plasters or stitches your
features adjoining?
Did the rockets red flare and the
pinwheel's fierce flare
Pass you happily by as they shot
through the air?
If SO, thank your stars that once
more you have tricked the
grave,
In the land of the free and the
home of the brave!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
independents Of Partisanship.

Hillsboro CID News: Honesty,
probity, integrity are not matters OF
party affiliation they are personal and
individual qualities. They are what
makes up a mans character. They are
independent of partisanship. There
are honest Democrats and honest Re
publicans just as there are dishonest
Democrats and dishonest Republicans
and a mans political preference
does not determine his moral standing
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

State Auditor Bleakly has issued a
call for the conditions of all state
and savings banks and trust compan-
les in Iowa at the close of business
June 80. In connection with the call
for the condition of the banks Audi
tor Bleakly has also sent to every
bank and trust company in the state
special blank furnished by the fed
eral comptroller of currency on which
is to be reported their condition, in
different form, at the close of bust
ness June 80 This report is for the
use of the federal monetary commits
sion. Attempts have before been made
by the federal comptroller to get this
information, but with only partial
success. He sent the blanks directly
to the various banks. This year he de-
cided to have this special call for the
state and savings banks and trust
companies sent out in the name of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY.

Aphorisms from Colonel Roosevelt's
Oxford address: Willingness to adj
init ignorance is a prime factor in de-
veloping wisdom out Of knowledge
:, Free people can escape being mas
tered by others only by being able to
master themselves"
mo implement can ever take the
place of the guiding intelligence that
yields It,
Though hardness of heart is great
evil, it is no greater an evil than soft
ness of head"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

Des MONIES advices say that the
temperance forces of the state find
themselves suddenly divided in the
matter of how to proceed to secure
statewide prohibition in Iowa. The
representatives of the Anti-Saloon
league have issued statement to the
effect that the recent balloting shows
that there is no hope of securing the
passage favoring constitutional
convention next year. The represent
atives of the amendment association
and of the prohibition political party
are out in denulciation of this scheme
and say they will fight it. They say
the cost would be at least 100000 for
convention and there would be no
assurance of a good constitution.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
the state auditors, believing that bet
ter results will be obtained.

Southwest Missouri sent to market
this season about 200 cars of straw
berries and received for them $3.50, 600.
Thanks to the difference in latitude
and time OF ripening, the southwest
Missouri berries are marketed and con-
sumed before those grown at Montrose
and elsewhere in this vicinity are
ready for shipment. There is therefore
no competition between the two in the
northern markets. May the southwest
Missouri berries continue to increase!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

Iowa Socialists met in convention
in Des Moines on Monday and put a
complete state ticket in the field.
With the exception of John NJ Work,
candidate for governor, the nominees
are not generally known outside the
localities in which they reside.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

A Pennsylvania hamlet with 500 ill.,
habitants has thirty-four automobiles.
And there are still some people who
do not understand why money is
scarce in this year of Our Lord eigh-
teen hundred and ten.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

There we're $4,000 births in st. Louis
during the census decade, not count
ing the accouchment of the Folk
boom. It is such little thing that
the enumerators are excusable for op.
erlooking it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

New baked bread is said by chem
lists to contain small quantity of al
cohol. The attention of the profess
sional prohibitionists is respectfully
called to this startling discovery.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

they have never thought of it. The
old proverb says, THE unknown is
always great" Hamilton does not
know southern Iowa and judges us by
himself and Des Moines where Demo-
Gratis vote in Republican primaries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

Thomas A. Edison says that the
helicopter is the thing needed to make
aviation safe and sane. 1t is now up
to some one to invent a helicopter
that will copt at all times and under
all circumstances.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

No sane man will waste his ener-
gies pounding corpse. Yet many edi-
tors say Speaker Cannon is political
ly dead and at the same time keep
on pounding him The Quincy Wing
logically concludes from this that
they are either crazy or else they do
not believe what they say when they
say he is dead one
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

In the town of Garnett. Mo, a man
was arrested recently for threatening
to kill a lawyer. 1t has been suggest
ed that Missouri is getting to be
mighty thin-skinned.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

tional lines are disappearing. We pre-
dict that there will not be another
such contest as the one held this
year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

In tho view of the Quincy Wing the
case Of Jeffries is simply another
case of the pitcher going once too Of
ten to the WELL
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

It is worth while to remark in pass
ing that the First district Of Iowa
continues to be master of itself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

The Mail tells of Galesburg man
noted for his plain talk who always
calls a spade spade, but to farm
mower on hot day he gives a series
of names unfit for publication.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

A Des Moines minister preached the
other day against spooning in the pub
lie parks. What does he think public
parks are for, anyway?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

At latest accounts the ice man was
bearing up under the hot weather
with christian fortitude and resigna-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

If in doubt, call the doctor. Mean
while let the wound remain open ana
keep it clean.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

The Sioux City Tribune reasons
that since poets are born, not made,
they are not entirely to blame.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

The report that murderer Junkin
had sold his body for $50 to medi-
cal school proved to be erroneous.
"The price did seem unreasonable,
remarks the Waterloo Reporter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Kin Hubbard says: "Of all the wo-
mems clubs, the rollin' pin is the
worst"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

The Cedar Rapids Gazette's notion
of nothing to get excited about is a
Glidden tour.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

The Dubuque Times-Journal says
there is no justification for Mr.. Flem-
ing's i'll tempered explosion, Which
ever side secures a majority in the
state convention by proper means
will be entitled to. govern its delibera-
lions and should be expected to do
So" the Times-J Journal continues.
Loose talk about stealing the con-
vention is ridiculous. The whole mat
ter is now governed by law and there
need be no contests before the con-
vention respecting the seating of dele
gates
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-06

"The individual who goes away
from home in search of cooler wealth
err" says the Charles City Intelligent
Ger, SIS making a grave mistake
there is no place like home, particu-
larly In hot weather.