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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

increase is made up chiefly Of increases
of over $500. 600, 900 in the value of
land and Of nearly s215,0o0, 900 in the
value of buildings. There was also an
increase in the value Of farm equip
ment. including implements and ma
chinery and livestock, more than three
fourths of which represents the gain in
the value of livestock. That's part Of
Iowa's falling off, in the last ten
years
The average value of farm with it's
equipment in 1900 was slightly more
than $4,000, while ten years later it
was over $4,000, The average value
of land alone rose from 1855 per acre
in 1900 to sS2.5S in 1910. this advance
being accompanied by increases in the
average value per farm of buildings,
of implements and machinery. and Of
livestock. Such was the serious and
alarming condition of Iowa in 1910.
The total wealth of the state in the
form of farm property is about s3,746.
600 900. of which 81 per cent is repre-
sented by land and buildings, % per
cent by implements and machinery.
and los per cent by livestock, The rel
alive gain G04.2 per cent? in the total
value of farm property from 1900 to
1910 was greater than that during any
other decade since 1870. while the alb
solute gain s1,911.515 .00o) was over two
and half times as great as the largest
increase reported for any other decade
OF the total increase during the last
decade s1.159,s25,O 600 represents the in
crease in the value Of land and build
ings. s37517 goo the increase in the
value of implements and machinery.
and s114173.000 the increase in the
value of livestock.
How are Lafe Young and his calam-
ity chorus to explain the mystery of an
absolute gain of two billion dollars in
the value of farm property, two and
half times as great as that of any ten
years in history in a state TO fastening
ills prey where wealth accumulates
and standpat hopes decay?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
WHEN YOU ARE As.

Many newspapers are coming to the
defense OF the man above As. But why
should they concern themselves so
much? This age problem is one that
is bound to work itself out in the sur
vival of the Attest. A man is only as
old as he feels and acts. Some men
are old at 4o; others are just begin
ming to be of use-sone very young
men are older than As, while others of
better judgment and physique are. tho
they may be IS, of equal power in the
battle of life with the man of 40. It
may be taken as certain that there are
not enough young men under As years
of age of proper judgment to run the
business OF the country successfully.
They may be able to bluff it thru" for
while but it takes more than bluff
to bring lasting results. Enthusiasm.
hustle energy are all right. but they
can not go it alone" There must DE
Judgment back of it. Youth is likely TO
go SO fast that it can not turn the
corners without an upset. The Wild
horse never was good racer. There
are men at IS who can not deliver the
goods. surely, just as there are men Mt
from 25 to 30 who have not such quail
ties of mind and body as are neces-
sary to success. There are extraordi-
nary cases, but most always the sue
cess depends on the man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
Iona Newspapers
WOULD OWN 'EM ALL.
DUBUQUE Telegraph- Herald


This newspaper is for the public own.
ership Of railways and steamship lines
and ali canals because they are natus-
al monopolies. Government, state, or
national, should own all natural re-
sources of supply-coal, coke, iron ore,
salt mines, ETC., all water powers, for
ests,. etc. Because these also are by
their very nature natural monopolies.
In other words. the public should
by ownership OF the sources Of supply
ana the means of transportation in
sure equality in the market place.
This would assure manufacturers their
raw materials on equal terms and give
one access to market on terms equal
with the other. Having a fair field and
no favor, they would be successful
who should deserve success. That ac-
compiished we should have made a
great step forward, tho we should by
no means have taken the last step. The
next step would be to cross the thresh-
old of industrial democracy with par
titionment of the profits of industry
among those who created the profits Of
their industry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
Outside Point of Viep

One Of the dictionary definitions of
socialism, is any theory of social or
ganization aiming at the ambition "
individual action and it's setting up Of
the cooperative action" Admitting this
definition covers the ground, it explains
why the public of late years is taking
so kindly to socialism and is putting
something into action ny the election
to office of many city officials and all
over the country and few here and
there TO state legislatures, as well as
enc assembly socialist to congress. So
cialism of this definition has power
full enemy in Rosne, in religious cir
cles, and an equally strong opponent
in Germany in matters of state. And
It goes without saying that our mon
eyed men ,'"big business" the latest
names for the millionaire class. has no
use for socialism, ANY way, shape or
fashion" We're working out big
/ problem these days and socialism Is
perhaps the result we shall admit as
the solution of that problem. Unques-
tionably while this money power open
! ly lights it in theory and practice, this
! same money power is doing more to
/ make socialists the country over. than
I
] United Steel Corporation with 272.oo0
stockholders so reported, will admit it
or not this big corporation is form of
| socialism. So Is the Pennsylvania
Railway Company. And the New York
and New Haven Railway went before
the Connecticut legislature and showed
! thousands of widows and orphans
| owning inherited stock of that COM
pany, who would be disastrously al
fected by adverse legislation. Every
city. town and village that owns and
operates any water power plant, or
heating or lighting plant Is working
under form Of socialism. Meanwhile
the cause of socialism has today, mare
active workers in the field, and is
making more converts every year, than
any ism ever offered the American
ipuhlic.
The confession of the McNamaras is
an object lesson for all of US. We're
so accustomed to "try the case of any
indicted and arrested person or per-
sons to act as attorney jury and judge
months before the case Is called in the
courts of justice. that 1t is time for re-
Election along this line. Gompers and
the socialist papers all over the coun
try, as soon as these men were arrest
ed, publicly proclaimed their inno-
cence and accused Detective Burns
and the noneyed power of putting UP
a job on them On the other hand
men who are opposed to and fighting
the cause Of union labor were sure they
were guilty and rejoiced over theil
arrest. This suspicion to try case
outside Of court and before regular law
proceeding had the effect in one coun-
, ty, of Iowa, of once influencing men
that were to be drawn on a Jury, where
actually acting as jurymen, of sending
!. a man to the penitentiary for life, fol
murder, and two years after a retria
in the same court house gave him his
freedom. Numerous cases are OF
record where the attorneys for the
prosecution and majority Of the jury
that convicted the man, have within
two years signed, long petition FOL
: the convicted mans pardon and re-
lease. Unquestionably the McNamars
+ case suggests to all, go slow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
FEDERAL PATRONAGE.

[Des Moines Register and LEADER
The Register and Leader can see no
factional advantage to be gained by
any possible disposal Of the federal
patronage. Under present conditions 1t
is purely incidental to what faction any
candidate has belonged. It may well
be believed that few Of the candidates
could satisfactorily account for them
selves.
At just such time it ought to sug-
Iowa. The naming of federal officers
in the states should cease to be mat
ter Of patronage at all, and should be-
come serious and important business.
The federal officers are the men who
enforce national laws, and with the
whole trend toward naturalization. 1t
is tremendously important that the ma
ton command the services Of the
ablest and best.
1t is not necessary to refer to some
Of the United States attorneys and
marshals who have served in Iowa.
Those who have been interested in
politics know how they have regarded
their office and how they secured It.
1t is idle to wrangle in congress for
railroad legislation, and antitrust re-
strictions. and pure food laws, and
protection for child labor, and putting
crimp in liquor traffic into prohibi-
ton states, and closer inspection of
federal licenses, and all the other
things we are asking the nation to
DO, If the right sort of men are not
named to enforce the laws.
There has been altogether too much
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
HOW IOWA "EELl DEE"

There has been SO much and such
loud assertion that Iowa's showing in
the last census indicates an alarming
condition of affairs that a, considerable
number of people who gather alleged
facts and imbibe opinion from such
newspapers as the Des Moines Capital
have come to believe it and reassert it
with confidence, most Of them unsus-
pecting Of the motive which inspires
assertions that Iowa has been ruined
by politics and that latest badly false
and unpatriotic proclamation that Iowa
farms had gone off" 80 an acre. For
mitted himself to be bewildered or de-
ceived by that balder dash the follow
ing census results are the quickest
antidote.
Between 1900 and 1910 there was a
decrease In population Of 1882, or o.3
per cent and decrease in the number
OF farms Of Lists, or 81 per cent. to-
gethef with a decrease Of 643,649 acres
or 10 per cent, in farm land As re-
suit Of the greater relative decrease in
the number Of farms than in the total
acreage Of farm land. the average size
Of the farms increased over acres.
The popoulation loss represents about
0ne-th1rtieth. The gain in the size Of
farms, acres, means than one 100
aero farm out Of thirty had been alb
S0ebed By those Joining it. The popu-
sSSt1on loss IL expiainable several ways
yssi considering tbs exodus which few
years Of good times in states like Iowa
Always stimulate toward the cheaper
lads tho wonder is that it was not
usaAes.
Farm property, which includes land
huildins1 implements and machinery.
aaA livestock has increased in value
Ant1Ag ths decade nearly $4,000, 600 o0e
Moro thAn. 100 Der cent. This great
s.--si
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
SCHEME APPEARS PLAUSIBLE.
IWayelry Indenendentl.

Here is & scheme for which some
body ought to organize a company.
The company is to buy $1,000 acres OF
the cheapest land in Bremen county.
The land is a part of the Big Woods
and can be bought from $40 to $50 per
acre. The land is hills, and is covered
with st,lmps and brush and stones. and
is located in Washington and Jackson
townships. This company Is going to
develop an orchard and a vineyard that
will astonish the most sanguine, and
that will rake the world look our way
for good apples. The land will cost us
$50 an acre by the time we have our
seed bed ready for the young trees
and vines. No person will be allowed
to join our company or invest in this
scheme until he has seen the land
where we are going to start this or
chard. And no one can join this COM
pany who does not believe that Iowa
grown apples are as good as the apples
grown ir any other state. The company
or syndicate will probably be styled
"The Big Woods Development Com
pany."
The land can be cleared without in
vesting in q $4,000 stump puller We
are going to clear the land with a
machine that will cost less than one
tenth of that sum. The money 1t will
take TO develop this orchard has been
made in Iowa, and we are going to in
vest it so that we will make more
money. And in ten years from now.
when this orchard bears fruit. we will
be prouder Of Iowa than ever before.
The Big Woods Development Com
pany will adopt the modern common
sense methods OF culture: it will be
prepared to fight frosts: it will study
a nd practice. pruning and spraying and
II will show you apples that will de-
light the ultimate consumer.
The company will do no grating
except the kind that is approved by the
most successful orchardists and nur-
serymen.
This company will raise strictly first
class fruit: it will show that grown
in-Iowa apples are good. 1t will be an
experiment station and an object les
son that will do Bremen county good.
The company will not employ any de-
coy ducks nor stool pigeons.
The promoters have an idea that
money made in Iowa can be invested
to develop Iowa in a way that will be
profitable to the investors.
This is not "get-rich- quick"
scheme. but the promoters will guar
antee that the investors will make
more money than those who bought
"Badeer' mine, or any other gold
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
This Good Old World.

World was never as sweet as now,
Men are better each day we live;
So many efforts to lift men now
And so much wisdom is what we
give.
World was never as sweet before,
Men were never so prone TO do
Things for helping the weak and poor,
Things for making our lives more
true.
World was never in such good shape,
Swinging on a higher plane,
Warfare fading, and want and woe,
Suffering, sadness and grief and
pain.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
M@:A1zs
PERPETUAL CHRISTMAS.

i Gift That Repeats Itself Every Day
to the Extent Of Complete Library.
The daily Times makes
an ideal Christmas present to give to
anyone because 1t repeats itself day
by day turnout the year. At the end
Of the year 1t will have delivered for
few dollars interesting reading equal
In volume to 326 ordinary library
books such as retail at $50 per vol
ume; complete library which would
fill nye book shelves eleven feet long.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

talk already in connection with the
Iowa patronage" about personal and
factional alignment. There 10 only ona
question that is important. and that -
the quality of service given to the
public. We know that this sounds
academic and that It is usually reserve
ed for the Fourth Of July. But It =
time the people brought 1t down out of
the clouds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
POULTRY In AN IOWA TOWN.

This writer was at Tripoli last Sat-
friday and now we are convinced that
Tripoli is the center OF the goose
population of the United States. All
day long farmers were unloading geese
at the different poultry houses there.
They were brought in dressed and alive
and there was a large force Of men
kept busy looking after them. The
largest single bunch delivered was
brought 10 town by @. e. Alcock, Of
Douglas township. This bunch con-
sisted of $50 pounds of as nice looking
dressed geese as we ever laid eyes on.
They brought Mr.. Alcock l0A cents
per pound.
Another bunch, nearly as large and
just as fine, was brought in by John
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

There would be at least eighteen good
stories which would fill a book each.
and enough other good reading to COM
plete library OF 326 standard sized
books all In one years subscription 20
the Times Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

mine. Besides. their experience will
do their neighbors good. And in hf-
teen years from now The Big Woods
Development Company will be called
one of the greatest Industries that
ever happened in Bremen county.
What think you will be the result II
the same care is bestowed on this or
chard as il bestowed on orchards An
Oregon. Idaho, and Washington?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

Joe-"How are you. old naAi ~
thur--0ot beastly cola. y'0ow.
Joe-"Hard luck. bah JovA Boaa -
ing out In the cold without yoar No.
ocie?" Arthur-''No. Called a Hen
cry at his house. and that wrstchsl
dog Of his persisted In waSgfng his
tail and creating q draught-Tit-Bits.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

A Des Moines man had an attack Of
rheumatism In his shoulder.
A friend advised him to 80 to Hot.
Springs. That meant an expense ok
$3.50 or more. He sought for quicker
and cheaper way to cure II ana founs4
It in Chamberiain's Liniment, ThEos
days after the first application Of this;
liniment he was well. For sale by III
dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

Summarized and Americanized, Won
Bethman- Hollweggs warning 10 John
Bull is: Tie the Bull Outside
Louisville Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

To Dissolve the Unieo
Of stomach. liver ana kidney troubles
and cure biliousness and malaria, take
Electric Bittsrs. Guaranteed % ceots.
Mcbride 4 VIII Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

Perhaps, under the circumstances
the packers did not regard a plea Of
nolo contendere as exactly safe.-Ini
annapolis News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

The trouble with people who don't
like us is that they have such poor
Observation-Disclosures Record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

"The price Of butter is going SO high
that there be a very urgent demand
for the abolition Of the tax on butter
inc, which is very good substitute
foTT butter" says the Cedar Rapids Ca
zette. When one has to pay 40 to As
cents for an alleged pound Of butter
there is disposition to look for sub
stitute and to object a tax on that
SUBJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

Publicity before marriage OF the IN
tend to marry is step in the right
direction. But even with uniformity
of state laws in this respect still would
divorce evil be fragrant The one ef-
fective means of dealing with the evil
Is 70 repeal the divorce statutes which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

Possibly Woodrow Wilson, by APP
plying early, might get a pension from
Senator Stephenson suggests the
Sioux City Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

Palmer or Clarke for governor
would suit every republican, we be-
lieve, in this district, but the ticket
that takes down this way is Clarke
and Palmer says the Iowa City Re-
publican. The republicans here are
tired of factions and they are ready to
get together II given half chance"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

The walters union declares Itself
tired of tips. Shake.-Boston Tran
script.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

"If one thinks the women will not
vote If given the right ef suffrage, &c.
him scan the Los Angeles election re-
turns" advises the Mason City Globe
Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

The man VINO set the mine for the
Maine will now probably come forward
and say he did it just as warning
Columbia State.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

There is danger of the senator at
tempting to do the impossible" says
the Jefferson Free Lance, speaking Of
Senator Kenyon's presence at the La
Toilette conference in Des Moines.
He can't support Taft and continue
with the LaFollette forces. How hap
Ply would be be if either We're t'other
dear charmer away?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

Cray horse sold as he stands" is
Presidents Taft attitude on the tariff.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13
rnEs-REr UB11oAN MABs1zA11uown IOWA DECEMBER

hold out to the married an invitation
to be rid of each other and make d.
vorce as difficult to secure here as it
is now in Canada, where every divorce
must be by parliamentary act" in
sists the Dubuque Telegraph.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

There is no truth in the report that
Editor Box will be made Empress OF
characterised News and Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

AT the end of seven years who will
sign the petitions for the parole of the
McNamaras"" inquiries the Cedar Rap
ids Republican. COR will we have for
gotten all about their fiendish crimes
by that time?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

DO Your shopping now is very
excellent motto, but one better still is.
Let Your wife do your shopping now"
Richmond Times Dispatch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-13

The Gazette has sneered and jeered
at the suffragette." says the Burlington
Gazette, making humble confession. I'm
its self satisfaction. it blindly believed
that woman was only good to bake
pancakes. But it knows better today.
1t is sadder but wiser man. The It'd
ings from Los Angeles opened it's eyes
to the truth"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-08-12
FAR PROSPERITY.

1t was the bountiful crops Of 1897,
together with short crops abroad, that
lifted the country out of four years OF
depression. Since that time, period
of fourteen years, the farmers have
teen continuously prosperous. Every
year has been a good year for them
Crops have been abundant almost uni
formly. Prices have been high; too
high for the comfort of the urban pop
ulation. During this period there was
one very poor cotton crop aad one
very bad corn harvest, hut in both
cases the prices more than made up
to the farmers for the deficiency in
quantities. 1t was rather hard on the
rest of the country, but the farmers
had nothing to complain Of.
The value of farms is determined
by the sums that can be made cut OF
them. Continuous agricultural pros
perity has driven up the prices OF
farm land, with the result of an in
crease OF tenant farming, which has
been going on for twenty or thirty
years, and an actual reduction of the
number of farms in Iowa and New
York. and a slight decrease in popula'
ton in the former. Young men with
out capital, whose fathers do not
leave farms to them, are hiring or go
ing West or to Canada, where land Is
cheaper.
The census has issued the agricul
tural statistics Of Iowa and few OF
other States, showing immense in
creases in the value of farm lands
and even of farm buildings. 1t ha:
now issued the summary figures foi
the entire country. In 1900 farm
lands were valued at thirteen billion
collars. In 1910 they were valued a.
more than twenty-eight billions, ar
increase in ten years of 1l8 per cent
, Farm lands, buildings and implements
have increased from little more thar
seventeen billions TO thirty-five bill
lions, a little over 100 per cent. o.