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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
THE CENTER OF POPULATION

The center of population of the
United States is over on an Indiana
farm about sixty miles from Indianapo
lis That Is the mathematical center
OF population Is there on Stevens place
of 1856 acres. That's where the hub of
the whtrling wheel Of population would
60 thru If there were any hub.
But as TO all practical purpose the
Stevens farm isn't different from? any
other farm whether in Indiana, Illinois
or Oregon There is just one TRUE CEN
ter Of popula ton Wherever there is
q home the hub Of the universe re-
wolves around It's axis. Each mans
chimney Is his golden milestone" The
the chimney. Town or country, the
real centers of society, government,
thrift. happiness and all that goes 10
make Up great country are the
and to them lead all the roads. Multi
piled they make the world go round
Don't worry over the exact center OF
population on the map. The center OF
population for you Is at your own front
doo In the center Of your own town;
in your corndeId and grainsracks; and
in the homes Of your neighbors. their
homes and their interests. You are
the center OF population. You are
one Of the bearings in the hub Of things
AID the wheels will never run straight
unless every bearing runs true.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
Protesting the Ballot Box.
[Chicaso Record Herald.l

The scrupulousness with which the
English guard the purity Of their cleo
tons has been the envy of observing
Americans The care taken to protect
the ballot box from the undue influence
Of money is ssatehful and the penal
ties for violation of the law are imposed
tmpartially Great Britain had to have
intolerably corrupt elections before 1t
awoke to the necessity OF making them
honest and just.
In the United States we are working
toward the same high standard The
action Of the senate in strengthening
the house publicity bin and in limiting
the amount OF money which candidates
for either branch of congress may
spend in their campaigns is evidence
Of that.
In Chicago we have seen to what out
rageous limits the expenditure Of
money may be pushed. There has been
criticism OF the large fund subscribed
igor Charles E. Merriam when he was
the republican candidate for mayor
a criticism which entirely lacked sin
cerity in that 1t was made by partisans
who ignored the equally large campaign
fund raised for the opposing candidate.
The Merriam fund was given publicity.
The other was Q1UOel as a Champaign
secret.
The serious thing Is not that Mr..
Merriam was able to command such a
sum in his campaign. but that such a
sums should be required Political con-
ditions are unhealthy indeed when can
didates need working funds OF such
proportions. To have denied Mr.. Mer-
RAM the use of money while permitting
his opponent to spend as much as he
could raise would have fitted in we'll
with the schemes Of his hypocritfcal
enemies. Neither candidate should
have been permitted to spend so much
money.
That sentiments Is turning strongly
against such practice is indicated by
the senate action. Large campaign
funds cvontain potential frauds and
scandals. They tend to restrict politi-
cd opportunity to wealth. Not only
con gressional elections but all elections
need the protection Of laws compelling
nublicity and limiting expenditures.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21

bors still fulfilled his most aFduouA
functions with undated ability ther3
is an irresistible appeal to admiration
1t is as railroad builder, perhapsi
that his hold is strongest on contem-
porary gratitude in the dominion and
that his services have been most sig,
nifcant. We may grant to Sir John
Macdonald the first exploitation Of
the vision of q railway linking Quebecf
with Vancouver but it remained a
vision until Donald Smith transmitted
It into terms of gold and steel. Just 49,
a little earlier men said that the Suezs
canal could never pay operating ex-
penses, so they said that the Canadian
Pacific railroad would never pay for;
it's fuel and axle grease. What Les
seps did in the one case Smith did In
the other. with similar success. Tho
meaning of that achievement to Can
ada. TO the British empire. and Incl
dentally to the United States. could not
easily be exaggerated. Some men are
now idly talking about the American
lzation' of western Canada. There
would have been occasion to talk Of i'll
IL that railroad had not been built and
Manitoba had not been developed a!
generation ago as a link between east
and west.
1t is fitting that this great empire
builder has spent the last fifteen years
Of his public career as high commits
sioner for the dominion. OF which he,
was more than any other, save per-
haps one or two, the creator. In that|
capacity he has manifested the truel
imperial spirit. seeking the develop
ment Of Canada as permanently In
tegral part of the empire, striving tot
lead the United Kingdom to a. realtza-
ton OF the opportunities and response
biHties OF IT'S imperial hegemony. and
endeavoring to make che relations OF
the dominion with fts southern neigh
Dor and with all nations arnicable and
reciprocally profitable, and-above all
Just and honorable. His has BEEN a
great career. and in its transforma-
ton from aggressive activity to the
otium cum dignitate Of an "elder
statesman" It commands the adnniIin1
congratulations OF the whole world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
Another Pinehot Affair.
Isl. Paul Dl.patch),

Already there are Indications that
the effort at removing DR.. Wiley, the
governments pure food expert, will
prove another Pinchot affair to those
behind the movement. Clifford Pincflot
technically was very tnsubordinate and
merited dismissal for contending that
the Cunningham claimants were about
to get possession wrongfully of valu-
able coal lands In Alaska. Still, his
contention has been confirmed and the
coal lands saved to the government in
spite Of those who considered him per-
niciously active. DR.. Wiley also seems
to have been perniciously active. to
the very great detriment Of those Of
some poor food manufacturers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
HAS PERJURY BECOME A CUSTOM

A Judge Of long experience as law
yer and jurist asserted in conversation
the other day that perjury is the
commonest OF crimes.
The Lorimer investigation is a daily
confederation Of the judges statement.
Men lie under oath before that investi-
eating body with glib assurance which
is appalling when we consider that
they are supposed to be representative
of American citizenship and the
springs Of government. One after an
other in assertion and fiat denial
Somebody Is lying, lying deliberately
under oath. The public is pretty well
convinced as to who are the liars Of
course, but these who are committing
perjury are "af honorable men," rep
resentatives OF great business and po-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
Topics of the Times


Mr.. Bryan's list of questions TO be
dates are probably intended as
groundwork for exceptions and de-
nland for new trial,
New York is distiIllng noonshine
whisky. The Infant industry of the
east. Tennessee and Kentucky noun
tains should demand protection.
The sources of opposition to Wiley
are the main pillars of his popular
strength. When popularity is needed
bad public protest is often needed. And
popularity is in demand just now
Hoke Smith resigned from the cab
met to support you Mr.. Bryan. What
are you going TO do about that?
So many people are so pleased with
GaI,inger's retirement that il is pity
SO simple and lasting a pleasure has
been SO long denied
Simply because the doctors knew
more than they did is no reason why
the country at large should not take
every precautionary measure against
the possibility of a cholera epidemic.
That Chicago doctor who saw
mans soul leave the body must have
picked his subject Some souls would
be invisible TO the Lick telescope.
The Das Moines plan as operated in
Des Mones seems better adapted to
hot air advertising than TO city bust
ness. However, that isn't the fault of
the plan, but Of Des Moines.
Over In Philadelphia they pick 49,
year-oId boy off the street. make him
president of two insurance companies,
and secretary of third at lump sal
airy Of S. week That's one of the lit
tie things "'big business does.
The Marshatlown Times Republican
remarks that the existence OF the mag
azine trust goes TO show that indi-
viduaIs are willing to dc things that
they are not willing to permit others
to do. That is putting it mildly that
the uplift magazines have been playing
the roles of arrant hypocrites. They
have been exposing every one else
while they were themselves busily en-
gagged in doing the very things they
were condemning in others.-Cedar
Rapids Republican.
But if the magazines are culpable
Al frlth of eXDOS.
ures. Nor does it justify silence as to
the things they were condemning" on
the part of the Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
THE TEXAS ELECTION,

Texas is now in the throes of an cleo
ton to decide whether state wide pro-
hibition shall obtain or not. The last
submitting this important question 10
a vote Of the people. This vote will be
cast tomorrow. Orators advoca ting
statewide prohibition and other orators
vigorously opposing this measu have
been going up and down the state. and
this contest has been the paramount
topic of interest. The advocates Of
state wide prohibition point out the
fact that the majority OF the counties
of Texas, especially Of the populous
north Texas counties, are dry. The
anti-pr ohibitionists on the other hand.
assert chat many Of the voters in these
dry counties are firm believers in local
option but bitterly opposed 10 state
wide prohibition. The anri-prohibition-
lists are making their fight along the
lines of local self government, declaring
that local option and the proper -egu-
lation of the liquor traffic is the true
that state wide prohibition Is econom-
ically unsound. practically ineffective,
and morally wroug-since II does viO-
lence 10 the genius Of American gov
ernment. And both sides are claiming
victory in advance.
A former Marshal.town man who has
favored saloons In Marshaltown and
who has been in Texas looking For a
business location is awaiting the result
Of the Texas election anxiously He is
not a prohibitioniS:, quite the contrary.
but if prohibition wins he wi. hurry
back 20 Texas 10 establish a jobbing
business His view Of the Texas situa-
ton is purely a business view. He
wants to start in business there and
tho opposed 20 prohibitory laws and
sharp restriction Of the liquor traffic
by individual preference he doesn't
want to put his money into the business
he has in mind unless the prohibition
lists win. He wants TO sell cigars and
presumably he wants the cigar trade
which would be booze trade IL the sa-
looms Were running.
The Texas situation is distinctive
from that in Iowa but 1t it not radically
different. Texas has a great deal of
negro labor and colored laborers of var
iouS shades and more than one nation
aIiry. These men buy booze with their
wages: if they buy cigars they buy
the cheap. makeshifts OF the saloons
Blu there isn't really great deal Of
business difference whether the man is
black or white who spends his wage for
liquor. When he does he can't spend
it sor cigars or groceries or clothing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21

denounced by the Douglas county
(Omaha) democrats in their conven-
ton Of last Saturday. Dahlman CON-
erolled that convention. aud. sznarting
under his deserved Reputation at the
polls. gave orders to his hencfnen to
denounce Mr.. Bryan formally as a
party traitor. He further decreed that
Judson Harmon. candidate Of the Wall
street democrats. be endorsed for
president. His orders were obeyed. the
purpose being to give aid and comfort
to the corporation democrats OF the
east. and furnish coloring for theiS
claim that Mr.. Bryan has lost the lead
ership OF his party in his own state.
The delegates who Endorsed Harmon
have no more idea of his fitness. ability,
personality or qualifications than they
nave of the similar qualifications Of a
ruler on one of the planets Their
beau ideal OF statesmanship is Dahl
man. and their sole idea OF political
economy is embraced in the free and
unlimited sale of the cup that inc
briates.
They do not know that Mr.. Bryan's
leadership is practically the sole asset
CT the democratic party in Nebraska:
they are ignorant or disregardful OF
.Ae AaSe liidl ilo QeHhoCTdtlC Nominee
Tor president ever carried the state ex.
cept him. and that If their party re-
puolates him now, Ii will result in
turning the state over to the republican
party for the lifetime OF this genera
ton.
The democratic state convention
meets at Fremont on July 26 It will
nave TO choose between Bryan and
l'ahiman. and upon it's choice depends
the life OF the party in Nebraska.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
Plain Men and the Laws Delay.
New York Trfbunel.

A Dallas county CTexas) grand jury
has been inauiring into the delay in
enforcing the criminal law In the cot1n-
ty. It found on the docket cases
enough to keep the courts busy for
three years surely 4 scandalous situa-
ton where conditions are as simple
and rural or semi-rural as they must
be in Dallas county. Upon the situa-
ton the grand jury speaks It's mind
with great freedom, condemntng the
lawyers for their sharp PRACTICES and
scolding the courts for their dwelling
upon tcchnicalities.
What the jury has to say about the
law and its procedure is best worth
quoting. This is it's characterization
Of the system which, in conjunction
with other causez. it blames for the
failure of justice:
"a code OF criminal procedure that
belongs to the dark ages, il not to the
prehistoric times: q code which was in
vogue 200 years ago in England, but
which has been abandoned Tor ct least
$50 years: a code which recognizes tho
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
La FoIIe+t. to TAFT.
LA Toilette Weekly

Liza roulette Weekly.
The presidents course has been
vacillating and without definite policy
because apparently there has been
turnout his administration no deep con-
viction other than the hour makes ap-
pear expedient"
His conduct of the pending leeisla-
ton Is of the same kind and quality
course as president. Reciprocity is a
popular catchword. The president
seized upon it."
This bill is more than a question OF
tariff rates. 1t is bigger than a mere
opportunity for party advantage. 1t Is
the fight between the plain people and
confsderated privilege"
I'm letter and spirit. this measure
violates every principle and every
promise of the republican platform.
express or implied. and every printed
or spoken word and inducemeut en-
pieyed to secure the votes necessary to
elect William H Taft president OF che
United States"
This bill. and the Canadian pact up
on which it is based. is cruelty unjust
to SO .000,0000 people engaged in and de-
pendent upon agriculture. They are
fighting for simple justice, with their
back to the wall In such a warfare
they are entitled to employ every lagitt-
mate weapon.
And for whose benefit is agriculture
to suffer? All. sir, the real bened-
Charles are coming into view a little
more clearly day by day. Since the
presidents admission at Indiana polls
July that this bill promises nothing
for the consumer, the real parties to
profit are beginning to be a little more
clearly distinguishable. They are all
poWerful-cal the roll!"
Joined with the executive TO force
this bill thru congress are the news
papers, frankly admitting their selfish
interest amounting to many millions Of
dollars, the railroads, the over-pro-
tected manufacturers, and practically
every trust and combination, backed by
Morgan and Morgan influences
The president allied himself with
these same interests in the tariff legis-
lation of 1903; with these same inter-
ests when he defeated the tax on In
dividual incomes, that session: with
these same interests when he proposed
and attempted to force thru congress
teh railway rate bill tn 1910; with these
same interests in the long and heart
sickening affair in Alaska, the end Of
which no man knoweth; and with the
power greater than all back Of these
same interests, when be recently and
openly announced his support OF the
A1drich- Morgan credit-controlling mo-
nopoly Of all monopolies."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
Canada. Empire Builder.
(New. York Tribune).

l.
lord Strathcona's retirement marks
an epoch in Canadian history. Per-
haps we should say that 1t marks the
ending Of an era which includes the
entire modern history of Canada and,
of course. the entire history Of the do :
minion as such. To appreciate this
we have merely to remember that Don :
aid Alexander Smith was born ninety
one years ago; that he entered the
services of the Hudson's Bay Company
at about the time that Victoria be-
came queen Of England and was Its
last resident governor before It's gov
ernmental functions were surrendered
to the dominion; that he was special
commissioner in the first rebellion OF
Louis Riel and that he was the creator
of the Canadian Pacific railway. In
such a career there is much to inspire
the imagination. and, in the spectacle
Of a man after 80 many years and la :
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
WHO'S AFTER DIR. WILEY {?

davenport beIuOcIdlJ.
The thought will not down that the
attacks upon DR. Wiley emanate from
sources that have been hit by his cam
paign in favor OF pure foods and hon.
est measure. The charge against him
scen.s &c he simply that e his zeal &c
protect the people he employed talent
which could not be secured at low fig
ures and therefore authorized certain
payments for such services that were
in excess OF the amount allowed by
law. At it's worst, It is a technical Of
Tense that he is charged with. For
him to be thrown out at the behest Of
the interests that have wilfully been
poisoning and cheating the consuming
public for years would be the height
Of folly and the limit of ingratitude.
An enthusiastic and faithful servant Of
the people deserves better treatment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
wOODHOUSE AGAIN.

There is a newspaper correspondent
in Des Moires who imagines himself to
be quite srnooth-but he isn't. His
name Is woodhouse and he sends out
q bunch of literary junk to the editors
Of Iowa to run in their papers as 0rigi-
nal editorial matter His stuff tells
about how much money the railroads
are losing how poorly paid they are
and all that sort Of rot. He gets at
what he wishes published In a very
Iadroit sort Of way, but It does not take
long to discover what he is after. His
work Is boon to those arIIilhJe. indif-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
Patriotism

suit Of haoeiness" ehan most pessAs
vi.h.tad hsaSes but dyspepsia Th: ecsd dss-
psoso ff for trea.on, seraeafems cd sDei 1ho
who foes to d. for his oory Viii weak seosacA
will b . weak colder and . iault Andsr.
sound stomach akss for Good eieissnD wen 6e
health aad hspDiness.
Diseases stensch and other of6a. o Digestion 90
pfooDy and psrmasenely cnod By the q
D. PIER0P9 G0k0EH 1EDIOAL 0EB0OERRY.
ls bul1AD ~ tie BODY WIN soaad Na6A SO
SoU9 00naaA.
The de.aer Vie o0ess ssbsests ios IL Diaooy"i b
only seeinf make little pro61 noa10a de
sale Of lees nesieosious preparatons.
Dr. Pierce's Counaoa Sense Medical Adviser $50 ss
recspt a samps % expease q maikne ee1. 80
q soips ~ - osvssS6 eoek. so
for H. cioek boe.d. Add.ess Weside Disgaes..y Al
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
Putting 1t Politely.
New York Tribune 7

Mr.. ]. c. Dahlman. the cowboy"
mayor of Omaha. once the most de-
voted and boisterous of Bryanites. has
persuaded the embattled Omaha demo-
cfacy to pass resolution censuring Mr.
Bryan for treachery to the democratic
state ticket last fall. The Dahlmanites
then endorsed Judson Harm on for the
presidential nomination. Only the most
olymplan among our politicians can
rise above the weakness of allowing
their policies to be shaped now and
then not by principles or expediency
but merely by desire for personal re-
venge.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
BRYAN OR DAHIMAN

Jim Dahlman was made the demo-
cratic nominee for governor OF Nebras-
ka last fall by republican votes. His
margin, which was small one. was
furnished by that small and peculiar
element Of republicans In Omaha to
whom his riotious platform made 4
powerful appeal. They invaded the
democratic primaries for the purpose
of nominating him, and they succeeded.
Had only his own party voted, Cover
nor Shallen berger would have defeated
him easily. However Shallenberger
was justly punished for approving the
emascuIation OF the republfcan-made
primary law.
Mr.. Bryan, to his everlasting credit,
refused to support Dahlnan and
brought about his defeat. The election
gave the democrats-half the congress
sional delegation. the legislature and a
United States senator. but It Rave the
republican nominee for governor 15'ooe
majority because he stood for eood Or
der and public morals.
Mr. Bryan was justified on every
conceivable ground in refusing to sup
port Dahlman. The man was not fairiy
nominated. and the invasion OF the pfi-
mary by slum republicans ahsofved de-
cent democrats from their obligation
to support the nominee. Then, too,
Dahlman proclaimed from every stump
that IL elected he would not enforce
certain laws of the state. This released
all good citizens from any claim which
he might have had upon them as demo
cratic partisans.
Election night. when Dahlman
thought he was elected, he made
speech on an Omaha street corner. He
told a ribald crowd that on the day Of
his Inauguration he would give a free
beer barbecue on the statehouse
grounds, altho the law then forbade the
sale or giving away OF Intoxicating
liquors in the city Of Lincoln. He fur
Their declared that IL any member OF the
W. c. T. L. presumed to give him ad-
vice Or his duty as governor he would
kick her out Of the office"
It was for helping to defeat this DIS
graceful ca ndidate that Mr.. Bsysn was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
H.o,,... Girl in Lincoln.

At Lincoln, Neb., girl writes: Il had
been ailing for some time with chronic
constipation and stomach trouble. be-
gan taking CHARACTERISTICS Stomach and
Liver Tablets and in three days I was
able TO be up and got better right along
am the proudest girl in Lincoln tot
find such a good medicine" For sale
by all dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21

rights Of the criminal, but absolutely
fails to recognize the rights of society,
the private citizen or the taxpayer"
When the plain men who make up
grand juries recognize the faults Of
mediaevalism in the administration Of
Justice so plainly as that. how long will
it be before lawyers. courts and legis-
latures take warning?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-21
LACKS A "DEYIL {"

[Rolfe Arrow.
Our attention was called 10 the
shortage OF apprentices in the trades.
and the question asked Why" We
have discovered the reason. Young
men now days who desire 20 learn
trades want mans wages from the
start. Tradesmen are unable to pay
the price and an apprentices isn't worth
it. Young men will be standing around
looking for something to do. not know
ing how to do anything. When the
writer was a boy he worked at the
printers trade for year at 81 per
week and he finds now he didn't learn
it any too Well Boys. take an older
fool's advice and learn a trade. Per-
haps when ditching fails YOU can then
find employment at something else.
Put in the time YOU now spend 1oafiing
tearing to do something and don't ask
BRIDESMAIDS wages while YOU are
learning. It win be money IN your
pocket in the end.