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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
Farmers and Reciprocity.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: When
President Taft began his Canadian
negotiations, oats We're worth al
most 80 cents the bushel and hogs
were selling for ten cents the pound.
There was then loud cry in the land
for cheaper products. The cry
included the charge that the farmers
ting rich too fast. But since that
time oats have sold in Iowa as low
as % cents the bushel and hogs have
slipped down to 6 cents. 1t would
seem that the argument against the
farmer had ceased to exist, but the
demand for competition for the farm.
er goes on in congress. The con
gressmen ought to return home and
study the markets and answer honest
ly whether or not the farmers ought
to have their prices reduced.
We realize that they are now say
ing that reciprocity will not reduce
farmers prices, but if it doesn't how
is it going to make cheaper food pro-
ducts? In the eastern manufacturing
districts the papers are still arguing
for that end of the bargain. AS we
have remarked before, some one is
lying about this matter and some one
is going to be fooled.
1t may be Taft and the grand old
party that will be fooled, and in the
end get the worst of it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
STILL ANOTHER ADVANTAGE

Another particular in which the
proposed new street lighting contract
is much more advantageous to the
city than the one in force at the
present time is in the number of
lights to be furnished the city free of
cost. Messrs Stone & Webster pro-
pose to donate 1000 lights for the
city offices, police and fire stations
and other public buildings and suf-
fcient power to operate the police call
and signal system soon to be estab-
lished. The number of lights provided
for in the new contract is more than
double the number to which the city
is entitled at the present time.
Should additional lights be needed in
city offices and fire stations, owing to
the growth and development of the
city, they would have to be paid for
at regular rates under the contract
now in force. In drawing up the
agreement with Messrs. Stone & Web
ster the number of free lights was
purposely made large in order to meet
conditions as they are likely to pre-
sent themselves in the near future.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
MEMORIAL DAY ORATOR.

The committee of citizens appointed
to select Memorial Day orator in
Keokuk this year has made choice of
Judge W. S. Hamilton of Fort Madi-
son, and he has consented to serve in
that capacity. The selection is an
ideal one and our people and all WIN
attend from abroad are assured a
splendid address. Because of it's init
mate connection with the stirring
events of the Civil war, and also be
cause of the location of one of the Ma
tional cemeteries here, in which are
buried nearly one thousand victims of
that great struggle, Keokuk has al
ways made more of the Memorial Day
occasion than most communities. Es-
pecially has it prided itself upon Sc
curing the finest oratorical talent
available, and the best efforts of a
number of the most talented speakers
in the country are part of the his
tory of the observance of the day in
this city. The choice of Judge Hamil-
ton for orator this year is in keeping
with what has been done in the past
The community is to be congratulated
upon what the speaker of the day
will have to say and his manner OF
saying it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
THE DAILY GATE CITY

too wise to say that they make them
selves ridiculous by the slayish fol-
lowing Of fashions DEGREES, nor had
she time to consider Professor Sar-
gents estimate of savagery in the
sex But when she refers to the
Inobbing of the English prime minister
in the streets of London and (as she
might have done) to the kissing of the
President of the United States by a
woman's suffrage convention, she en-
phasizes the absence in women OF
that subtle sixth sense which would
tell them when they have aroused
the inextinguishable laughter OF. man
kind"
And in New Zealand. where women
vote, that ebullient land has now the
most corrupt electorate in the British
Empire. And the best woman ruler in
modern times, Queen Victoria, saw the
coming storm, in the midst of which
mere man is now blinking around
wondering what woman will do next.
The queen set her face against wom-
an suffrage, being woman who could
think and act like man. like several
men, in fact, when so disposed.
And thus The Ladies' Battle has
freshly started controversy which
will rage for some little time, at least
until an equally diverting fad shall
come along to claim the yociferous
energy of those who are now woman
suffragists
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
The Shoe on the Other Foot.

Washington Democrat: It certainly
makes a Democrat laugh to see these
insurgents back water on Taft's Can
adam reciprocity proposition. They
have howled for years against the
Standpatters for standing in the
way of free trade but the minute they
have chance to show their color they
show that their color is yellow and
they back pedal to beat the band.
We only know of three Progressiyes
who are for reciprocity in Washington,
they are S. w Brookhart, S. B. Dewey
and Ed Carris Henry Stichter is for It
too, but since he stopped his paper
we refuse to mention his name. We
do not care much for people who do
not take the Democrat.
Every last Iowa congressman in
Guiding the good Prouty, voted agains,
reciprocity. Hubbard of the Eleventh
district voted for it, but all the rest
got cold feet and voted for protection
Cummins and the whole kit and bilin
of them went for protection.
1t merely shows what we have al
ways held, namely, few are sin
cere in their claims but the most OF
them are merely for free trade in or
der to get the votes, or they want to
reform the other fellow, but are al
ways for protection when it comes t.
! the Iowa farmer. 1t is touching &c
note the solicitude for the farmer ex
hibited by these politicians. 1t is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
will soon make the clean lawn look

will soon make the clean lawn look
shabby.
But there is no use of grumbling. 1t
is wonderful plant, far beyond the
ken of man to invent. Sometime there
may be found for it larger use than
the making of greens or the prepare
ton of medicine.
But of course until that time it is
good deal of yellow peril and the
man that lets one go to seed on his
lawn is making trouble for the neigh
borhood.
1t might be said that some very pref
ty poetry has been written about the
dandelion and there are some aes
thetic souls that profess to see in it a
world of beauty. as it SO early in the
season smiles up at the passer by. i
might be said that it has very warm
appearing, golden face.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
A MEASURE OF PROSPERITY.
Iowa's Continued Investment in Auto
mobiles Suggests That We are
Still Pretty Well off.

Des Moines Tribune: The records
1t the state house show that over 81
900 automobiles have been registered
in Iowa during the winter and early
spring. At an average price of $1,000
this would mean $3,000,000.
There is nothing in all history to
equal the growth OF the automobile
business Almost as much floor space
Is devoted to automobiles in Des
Moines as to dry goods and clothing.
In every village the garage is a new
brick building on one of the best
corners
The automobile may be described
as a necessary luxury. 1t is one or
the sort of Injuries that once adopted
no one can get along without 1t has
come to stay, not because it is indis-
pensible. but because those who use
them will not do without them. No
body who has bought his first one is
today walking or investing in horse
and carriage.
There are now 26,256 automobiles
registered in Iowa. This means any
where from $26,000.0o0 to s40,000,000.
If it had been proposed in the last
three years to spend $26,000,000 of
Iowa money for any purpose what
ever we should never have heard the
end of it. But here we have spent
this amount without urging and have
thought nothing of it.
The automobile is the measure of
the growing wealth of this western
world. 1t is only when we realize
what state like Iowa can do without
feeling it that we have any measure OF
the resources of the people.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
SOME BRYANIsMS.

Hon. William ]. Bryan spoke in Des
Moines Monday evening to a large
and appreciative audience of Iowa
Democrats. His entire address was
devoted to proving that insurgent Re-
publicans have taken as principles
and that modern thought to large
extent has accepted. the things for
which Democracy has been fighting
for years One of the strong points
he made is that reciprocity is the
deathknell of protection The follow
ing paragraphs are fairly indicative of
the character of his address:
This has been remarkable per
iod of the progress of Democratic
sentiments
1t does not matter what they do
to reciprocity, it is the death blow to
protection"
Reciprocity is beginning toward
general tariff reduction and be-
ginning is half battle
Democracy must be interested
more in ideas than in offices to win
the victory"
The senate has always been the
weak point when II comes to remed-
ial legislation.
~ have thought myself radical In
times and have had to look back to
see how far behind the other fellows
We're. but now have to run to keep
up with the progressives.
why, the progressive Republicans
are so close to us that they have torn
our breaches backs stepping on US.
IF the people, in DAYS passed. re
belled against the bosses of each
party, the bosses got together and sat
down on the people. =
You can't always be trying to pro
tect something and be for tariff re-
form
THE farmers free list prepared b!
Democrats, is the best strategic polit
ical move of the past twenty-five years
and it was made possible by reel
procity."
The Democratic party has right
to live because it never can die"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
Nobody Knows About the Climate.

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: The
man who says the low stage Of water
in the Mississippi will persist through
out the year because there was hard
" any snow fall up North may be
stating a fact as to the water stage,
but he is mistaken as to the reason
The snow fall during the winter of
1909-10 was greater in the Mississippi
valley than during any of the twenty
three winters preceding. yet the stage
of water throughout 1910 was lower
than for any year OF the forty-six years
preceding. Clearly. something else
besides snow fall influences the stage
of water
Old timers say 'the climate is chang
ing" They are right and wrong.
Study of statistics in tile o-hce of the
local weather observer shows family
defined cycles in the weather, but so
faint as to leave doubt that there are
cycles. About the one lone fact which
these statistics prove is the tendency
of the kind of weather we are having
to persist 1t is true of rain that 1T
never knows when to quit because of
this tendency For the twenty-five
years preceding 1876 there was dry
cycle in the upper Mississippi and
Wisconsin valleys; for the ten years
beginning in 1875 there was a wet
cycle, the floods of 1880 and 1881 be-
ing the heaviest ever known in these
parts, the precipitation in the latter
wear being 30 inches, whereas the
normal rainfall is "a inches. In 1855
began the comparatively dry cycle
which has now continued Tor twenty
five years.
The condition of the ground largely
determines how much water will get
to the river. Snow which falls in late
February and March is much more
likely to show on the river gauge than
snow which falls in December and
January, because this snow goes into
+ the ground. or is evaporated, and a
quick thaw usually carries off the lat
er snowfalls The ground now is very
dry and it will have to be water
soaked before the river will
show appreciably the effects of the
rainfall.
There is no telling when the climate,
as the odd timers refer to it, will
4 change. This much is known, that
weather we have had once or twice,
we will have again If we wait long
enough. Very likely, Judging by past
performances, we will have another
wet cycle, but there is no telling
/ when.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
keokuk, Iowa May 4, 1911
THE MEN WHO LOSE.

THE MEN WHO LOSE.
There's voice an shout for the
men who win,
There's a storm of applause and of
wonder;
But never cheer for the men whose
Was only to fall and to blunder.
So here is a song for The men who
With the frowning skies above
them,
And here is toast for the sons of
toll
To the men who lose-God love
them!
oh, what is success but an empty
game?
What is wealth but bauble ever?
Yet right is something more than a
name
Though the wrong rides high for
ever
So here is song for the ones that
And here is a toast for the souls that
strive
To the men who lose-God bless
{. them!
There's a cheer for heroes on land
and sea,
There's fame for the high endeayor-
There's a shout for the knight of
chivalry,
There's praise for the strong and
clever.
But here is a song for the ones that
Though fortune ne'er caress them.
And here is toast for the souls that
strive
To the men who lose-God bless
them!
Edward Wilbur Mason in National
Magazine for May.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
The yellow Peril.

Galesburg Republican, Register: The
Quincy Journal facetiously refers TO
the dandelion as the yellow peril. That
is what it Is to the man who wants 10
keep a fine lawn What more cunning
arrangement could there be for the
perpetuation of the pest? The seed of
the dandelion is constructed to do
business The astute editor of the
Journal could not devise thing more
calculated to take care of itself than
the dandelion seed. 1t is a small UNI
brella. and sails along through the air
and when it descends it comes down
seed first, and then worms itself
through the grass until it strikes the
ground The first rain helps 1t on it's
downward way and then 1t begins TO
act for itself 1t pushes down root
of remarkable length and up its green
foliage, then thrusts UP its pipe stems
and on the top of them bursts into the
yellow bloom, not one flower but
scores of them and each of them des-
tined to be a seed in the dandelion
one sees the pains taken for a wide
distribution. for sure and certain
growth. for rapid production. We
would like to see the editor Of the
Journal count the seeds of just one OF
those dandelion caps, then multiply
this by the number of flower stems OF
one plant and give us the figures. One
\ of the troubles of the yellow peril IL
lint L.
keeps his lawn, that parachute of Z
seed will come floating along from I
mile away. followed by others, ans
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04

1t was suggested by The Gate City
recently, in view of past events, that
the sale of dynamite should be regu-
lated by law The Clinton Herald re
fers to the suggestion TO say:
"The Gate City is right. There at
least ought to be law that would re
quire a plain statement of every sale
of dynamite. the date OF purchase
the amount of the purchase, together
with the signature of the person max
ing the purchase. Such provision
could not work any possible harm OF
any one
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

In the hills of life there are two
trails. One lies along the higher sun
lit fields where those who journey see
afar, and the light fingers even when
the sun is down; and one leads to the
lower ground. where those who travel
as they go, look always over Their
shoulders with eyes of dread, and
gloomy shadows gather long before
the day is done-"The Shepherd OF
the Hills
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
follow than from anything that can be
done by the fair management or any
other state agency.
The slump in Prices of Farm Products.

The Slump in Prices OF arm PRODUCES.
Wallace's Farmer: High prices for
farm products-corn, wheat, oats, hay,
cattle, horses, hogs and sheep-mean
that the farmer has more money in the
hank and greater disposition to
spend it. He finds he wants things he
never thought of wanting before, or Il
he did, knew they were beyond his
reach. He wants better clothes, bet
ter furniture, more and better carpets,
furnace heat, plumbing, better
house, perhaps, or a better barn, bet
ter machinery and more of it. possibly
an automobile, or at any rate new
carriage. So business booms; for
farmers are by far the largest single
class of customers.
About six months ago prices Of farm
products began to shrink. They
shrank faster in the last three or four
months, and are still shrinking; Just
why, nobody knows. There has been
no sufficient increase in crops to JUS
tify it; but already the effect is appar-
ent on business, it cuts here and
there, even on trust manufactured ar
ticles, marked though gradual de-
cline in stocks and bonds, much idle
money in New York, lower rates of in
terest and disposition to buy closer
all around
There may be more of this in the
future, if the lower prices continue;
for If the farmer does not have money
he can not spend it. He will not
usually use his credit except when
necessary, however good it may be. Il
the farmer will not buy. the retailer
can not sell. If the retailer cannot
sell, he will not buy and the jobbera
can not sell, the manufacturers pay
lower wages and limit their output,
The laborer is then out of employment
or has lower wages, and can buy less
of either the farmers or the manufac-
turer's products.
A sure way to prevent hard times
is to give the farmer every chance to
make money. When he prospers, there
is prosperity and plenty all around.
When the manufacturer charges the
farmer at home a higher price than :
accepts from the farmer across the
sea, he is undermining the very foun-
dations of his own prosperity. He
does not see it that way at he time,
perhaps, but should be made to see it.
If he takes undue advantage of the
protection the government gives him
for the purpose of giving the farmer a
home market, that protection should
be removed and the farmer permitted
to buy in the market where he sells.
Any disadvantage under which the
farmer labors, any increase in the
cost of his living beyond that justified
by supply and demand, simply limits
his output and his capacity to buy. II
the farmer prospers, all other classes
will in the very near future share in
his prosperity for in business success
as we'll as in social life, we are mem
bers one of another"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
rhe Booster.

J.
I'd rather be booster than knock
er any day,
I'd rather tinge with hope than doubt
the words have to say.
I'd rather miss my guess
On another mans success
Than to view his bitter struggle and
to prophesy his fall.
would rather say hes coming"
Than hes going" when I'm sum
ming
Up the labors of my brothers, would
rather boost them all.
| would rather speak the kind things|
than the mean things every day.
I'd rather swing baton than a ham
mer, let me say;
I'd rather sing a merry rhyme
In a sort of two-step time
Than to let it drag in dirges in a
gloomy, heavy style.
would rather say God bless you
And with words OF cheer impress
you,
Than to preach about Your follies all
the while,
I'd rather be a booster than knock
er any day,
I'd rather praise than criticise il
what l have to say:
| I'd rather not he wise,
At the cost Of others signs:
I would rather see the good thing
than the evil that men do.
! would rather far be wrong
When | boost a man along
| Than be perfect in my judgment, bu
make everybody blue.
Detroit Free Press.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04

All but one hundred houses in the
carrier district in Cedar Rapids have
been supplied with mail boxes. The
good example of that city in this mat.
ter should spur Keokuk to better re
suits in the same line. If all the
houses in Keokuk were properly
equipped with mail receptacles the
local free delivery service would be
greatly improved
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04

A new discussion of the threadbare
question of how much a family can
live on in these days of the high cost
of necessities has been started by the
statement of member of the Massa-
chusetts Commission on Workmen' s
Compensation that So week is
enough TO support family of FIVE.
The investigator had found no less
than 10000 employees of one factory
in Massachusetts living comfortably
on from 5000 to $12.15 week. OF
this from SIS to IS went for rent, 65
cents for heat and light and from 1925
to So for food.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04

Des Moines Register and Leader:
The Register and Leader would urge
upon the state fair management sep
arate and distinct show of Made in
Iowa so housed and segregated that
every visitor would understand the
significance of the exhibition. We be
lieye that just at this time more Inn
mediate and tangible results would
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04

The talk Of blue-penciling the Dec
alogue reminds the Echoes of the
Streets" man of the st. Louis Globe,
Democrat of story that is worth re-
printing. A primary teacher in Elm
wood Kan, had been telling her pu-
pills about the Ten Commandments.
"Now," she asked, "can any one tell
me commandment of only four
Words" Keep off the grass said a
little girl in the back seat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04
one Trouble With insurgency,

Ottumwa Courier: The great trouble
with insurgency is that all want to
be generals. The passage at arms
between Attorney General Cosson and
Railroad Commissioner Thorne is a
case in point.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04

A Chicago Judge has ruled that a
clean shirt is necessity, not a
luxury. But like all the rest of them
he said nothing about where the mon
ey was to come from to meet the
laundry bills.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-04

Only two per cent of the goods in
the University OF Chicago are in favor
Of marriage The other 9S per cent
presumably haven't been asked.