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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
COMMISSION PLAN WINS.

Trenton, the capital city of New
Jersey, ended sharp and sensation
al campaign over the question of
adopting the commission form of
government, as permitted by an act
of the last legislature under the in
spiration of Governor Wilson, with an
election last Tuesday, the result of
which was victory for the commits
sion advocates. There were 6,792 votes
cast for the commission scheme and
1880 against it, Sc per cent of last
falls vote being polled, or about the
same as that polled at the recent
Bayonne election, where the commits
sion form was rejected In Trenton
the plan was generally opposed by
both the old party regulars and the
brewery interests were ranged in OPP
position. A nominating primary is to
be held in one month and a special
election in two months to choose FIVE
commissioners at salary of $4,000 a
year.
Governor Wilson, commenting on
the result, said 1t was most suspici-
GUS and encouraging, and the fight
would surely go on toward the firm
establishment of popular control. He
thought that no better instrument
had as yet been found than the com
mission form of city government.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Work has been started on $685.
600 G. B. & @. depot at Centerville.
AS to the charges against DIR. Wi.
ley, the Cherokee Times says 1t is
straining at a gnat and swallowing a
camel to see offeffnse in the matter.
A Frenchman who started out to
compile list of fool beliefs found
over two thousand, and that, says the
Des Moines Register and Leader, is
without including La Follette's notion
that he can win next year.
The price of gasoline is going up
and that of champagne is going down
which incites the Council Bluffs Non
pareil to remark that the next thing
we know it'll cost more to run an au-
tomobile than chorus girl.
A friend dropped in on an old
lady who was frying a bit of bacon.
Grand bacon that said the friend
aI1aDly Grand Dacong Well, ] guess
1T is grand bacon said the old lady,
turning the slice In the pan An it's
none oyer murdered stuff, nuther.
That pig died a natural death"
Mrs. Cooney in her book "A Study
in Ebony relates the story of an ar
gument between negro pastor and
one of his flock at Marshall Mo-, ov-
err the question of whether or not the
apostles We're negroes, the layman
taking the negative side of the q,les-
ton. Its jes dis way, pahson, he
argued, "ah don't know nothin' bout
science. but All do know what de
Scriptu's say, and from dat All con
cludes dat de 'Postle Peter was no
Guild man. We'll. what does de bible
say bout Peter dat makes you SO
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
Sunday, July 23rd. 1911,

sunday, jury Zofo, 1911.
On Sunday, July 2Srd, the Wabash
viii run low rate excursion from
Spring field to Keokuk. Iowa, and
Hamilton. H.. to view the Big Dam.
Special train will leave tbs a. m.
Round-trip rate 81 60 to Hamilton and
$l.75 to Keokuk, Iowa.
This is the greatest dam on earth.
Developing 100000 horse power.
Power house 400 feet long. Thirty
acres of the bed OF the river inclosed
by Golfer dam and now dry land. Sixty
thousand horse power contracted for
st. Louis.
The Des Moines Rapids. on which
the United States has expended mil
lions of dollars in improving and max
ing it safe for navigation, will be
buried under lake forty miles long
extending up the river to Burlington,
Iowa
You cannot afford to miss this great
sight. For other information call on
or address R. c. Fleming, Pass. and
Ticket Agent, Springfield. Ill.
The writer of the above advertise
ment is to be congratulated upon the
amount of interesting information
concerning the Keokuk and Hamilton
water power protest that he has COM
pressed within a limited space He
has the art of condensation down to
fine point Keokuk also is to be
congratulated upon both the amount
and the chara ter OF the advertising
it is receiving because of the work
of developing here the largest single
hydro-electric plant in the world
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

they are,-will soon soil these pure,
white souls. We see young boys in
heritors Of all the care love can de-
wise. We see and feel that they
are honest and high-minded. We
wonder how long they will continue
SO after entering the world of bust
ness life
What element comes in to change
purity to impurity, innocence to
guilt; transparent honesty to unblush:
ing deceitfulness? The answer is
found in one word, SELFISHNESS
the selfishness of the youth and OF
older enes about them. Care for self
our first law, becomes care for sell
alone, and our only law. Passion de
sires the qualification of self, and sc
it is satified, no matter what the
cost to innocence. Qualification is
demanded, but it requires wealth
Wealth must be secured even though
friends are lost.
Thus we are led to the conclusion
that there Is no escape from the law
Love thy neighbor as myself This
was commanded because it is the only
way where no pitfalls of selfishness
await us. And when this law is uni
versally observed. there will be nc
sacrifice of innocence and purity or
the affairs OF lust; no honesty swal
lowed in the rapacious NAV of Greed
and then we shall have attained the
I IDEAL.
x TT IOIJIS
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
SMALL INFANT MORTALITY.

A somewhat anomalous condition is
presented by the lessened infant NOR
tality this summer notwithstanding
the protracted hot weather In June
and the early part of July. Usually a
high temperature extending over a
period OF several days is followed by
alarming increase Of mortality among
babies and Young children, but the
torrid period just ended was remark
ably free from ailments among the
little ones. Reports from various
parts OF the country agree in saying
that there has been less sickness
among children than usual at this
time Of year. It may be that the les.
sened number of flies has something
TO do with the improvement What
ever the cause, It is certainly graft
flying change from the experience OF
former yearg
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
kEokuk,s PERSISTENCE.

Keokuk's determination to go ahead
and finish the baseball season, even
il considerable more money is re-
quired than was foreseen at the be-
ginning, reminds one of the prayer
offered by Scotch Irishman once up
on a time The Scotch-Irish, as il
well known, have well-earned repu-
tation for logged tenacity of purpose.
With this in mind one Of their rep
resentatiyes thus addressed tie
Throne of Grace: I'VE pray Thee,
Lord, that we are right in this mat
ter. for Thou knowest Thyself how
hard We are to change once We get
our heads set.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
PRAYING FOR RAIN.

Praying for rain has raised quite a
controversy. The governor of Kansas
declared that he would not butt in on
the Lords business by issuing a proc.
lamation for a general supplication,
and now Des Moines minister takes
the same view of the proposition
However, the praying advocates
have the best of the argument just
now says the Waterloo Reporter
as heavy showers came on Sunday
In Waterloo the heavy downpoul
came in the midst of a prayer fol
rain by an Episcopal clergyman
startling the congregation by the ap
parently prompt response to the ap
peal" But mightn't the rain have
come anyway The Waterloo paper:
argument looks like case of pos
hoe ct propter hoe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
Tho IDEAL.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
Most people are necessarily SO busy
in securing the wherewithal to be fed
and clothed, they seldom think of the
possibility of a higher life to be lived;
of men and women following out the
laws of their natures after a manner
more satisfying to themselves and to
all
If there is possibility of humanity
sustaining itself on a higher plane
and does not, why not? 1t is not
violent exercise of the imagination to
conceive OF the existence of better
men and women than we know our
selves to be- The history of the race
includes the careers or parts OF ca
reers of individuals whose natures
seem all but fIawIess. Many Of us de
light to think OF Mother as one
woman we'll nigh without reproach
We can only think of her as pure in
body, soul and mind.
We see young girls, young women
who have been trained by mothers
nearly as good, we think, as Moth
err and we stand reverent ant
ashamed in the presence of eviden
innocence and purity. What is oui
regret as to these? Not that they are
not purer, truer. but that we canno
have assurance that they will Away!
remain innocent as they now are. Blu
as the dust from the street drifts t.
the lawn and soils the new-blow1
lily, SO do we fear the world, the mel
and women whom we know to be wha
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

suah he was not Guild man?' the
parson asked. Cause IL he bad been,
replied the layman, dat roostah
would nebbah have crowed three
times"
DR. Eliot, one time president oil
Harvard, devotes long article to the
solemn assertion that men are not
created free and equal and cites the
difference in intellect, physique and
opportunities as proof that the
signers of the Declaration of indie,
pendence didn't know what they
were talking about. One of the sad
dest sights of life to the Peoria Her
ald-Transcript is that of splendidly
educated scholar Of DR.. Eliot's sort
laboriously and earnestly driving
home lacks with sledge hammer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

spirit Of exaction. 1t will come only
out of the spirit of. DEVOTION
1t hardly ever is asked of the
schools whether they are preparing
clearer. keener. and more efficient
voters and workers for the state.
Mrs. Blaine declared that this is the
first business OF the schools of the
country. ret it receives but little at
tention from the public who consti-
tute themselves the schools critics.
In running over the high points Of our
national shortcomings Mrs Blaine
mentioned three great avenues Of
weakness. as follows
First is the inadequacy of our gov
eminent. The best pepole are not
sought to fill our Offices. The current
methods are bungling in many direc-
tons.
The right compensation for service
to the community is little thought of.
The subjects needing governmental
care are many of them neglected.
The governmental machinery is left
to be used by any who will. Under
these conditions our leading citizens
are pursuing their way with few
thoughts given to their duties as
citizens and those few weak enough
to be stifled In hopelessness The lack
of responsibility of our most respon-
sible people on this subject is an
amazing fact today.
Next, we are appalled, by the utter
thoughtlessness and careless for 9TH
ers by 80 many of our money makers
In their mad rush for wealth This
means a deep lack OF any true sense
OF the meaning of citizenship. It
BODIES III for the harmonious and real
solution OF the question appearing
with such vast moment in our coun-.
try between so-called capital and So
called labor. 1t BODIES ill for that real
democracy which in it's greater, deep
er unity of man working for man,
makes null and void any such paltry
division of people.
And again. we are confronted by
the general lack of discipline and re-
gard for law. Out of this there
stand two monsters that glare
through 1t all so fiercely that we are
driven to call them the leading spir-
its in our weaknesses-mate
and selfish ambition
-hi - bidiAG SuSScSlcu II dS pIOD-
able that the unwonted success of
American industry, of American en-
terprises, has gone to the American
head and that in the conditions con-
fronting adults come the causes of the
shortcomings. She called upon the
home and school to join hands and
cooperate in the search for the re-
sponsibility of an unsatisfactory ma
tional attitude. Responsibility is the
first quality the right school life
must develop, yet the speaker
said that as she thought our
schools over in general, with
their red tape methods of discipline
she could not see that responsibility
has much chance for consideration or
growth. The speaker complained that
there is thoughtlessness and careless
ness for others in all the relations of
life. How can we even talk Of sup
posing that we are arousing by our
education civic sense of caring for
the whole when the fundamental basis
of the plan for school achievement is
for each pupil to get out all he can
for himself regardless of or even es-
sentially against, all Corners" The
speaker asserted that this Is. ingram
ed in the whole system.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

DIR. Julia Seton Sears says that she
can make woman of sixty look like
q woman of twenty-five The only
thing necessary is to extend the
mind consciousness into the con
seriousness OF the multiple cells of the
body She says woman can stand
before glass and make herself look
any way that she may prefer. She
Is a New Thought preacher and In
evidence of the progress OF her re
hgion says that the grandmother Of
today is a different person from tn,
grandmother Of other days, whei
women were old at fifty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
keokuk. Iowa ......... July %, 1911

OUT IN THE FIELDS WITH GOD.
The little cares that fretted me,
/ lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea
Among the winds at play,
Among the lowing of the herds,
The rustling of the trees,
Among the singing of the birds,
The humming of the bees.
The foolish fears of what may happen,
] cast them all away
Among the cloverscented grass,
Among the new-mown hay,
Among the husking of the corn
Where drowsy peoples nod,
Where i'll thoughts die and good
are born,
Out in the fields with God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
PERTINENT INQUIRY.

Pertinent inquiry by Nixon Water
man in the Christian Science Moni-
tor:
No doubt you're about the most
worthy of men
And all that you should be: but say
If your wife had her choice to make
over again
Would she make you her husband
today?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
Quincy proposes to pave or re-sur

Quincy proposes to pave or re-sur-
face its pavements after the follow
ing fashion: For the down town
streets, creosoted blocks, costing APP
proximately five dollars per front
foot For the residence districts
asphalt or asphaitic concrete, some
times known as the bithulithic pave
ment The mayor states that these
conclusions had been reached after
Investigations in other cities where
the various modern methods of paving
have been given a thorough test.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

When all the returns are in, it is
predicted by post office department
officials that Postmaster General
Hitchcock will show s3,50o,u0o sur.
plus for the fiscal year which ended
June 80. This is the first time in his
tory that a surplus has been shown.
The country never before had as eff
cient a postmaster general as Mr.
Hitchcock has shown himself to be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
Rare Diseased plant.

An exceedingly rare but occasional
ly found plant is the Catueya libiata
alba. 1t is diseased plant, whose ex-
quisite bloom is snow white. Proper
ly packed, orchids will stand from
forty to fifty days confinement and
remain in healthy condition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

A New York physician has recon-
mended baseball as cure for the
feeble minded. 1t will have to be adj
mitted that as it Is sometimes played
1t is exactly suited to their compre-
hension.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

That wasn't a bad definition given
by little girl when asked to state tie
difference between the words re
suits" and consequences" Results, .
she replied, are what you expect,
and consequences are what you get.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

A Missouri man has discovered that
by a process Of steaming he can give
old potatoes that pink glowing appear
ance of new tubers and has been able
10 sell them at the $500 bushel price
quoted for spuds of the 1911 brand.
But where TO get the old potatoes is
the question. They are even scarcer
than new ones.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

Buffalo Bills show Ia billed TO ap-
pear in Keokuk in the near future
This paper knows the parents in Keo-
kuk well enough 70 know that they
will cheerfully sacrifice their comfort
and time in taking their children 10
witness the exhibition Could parental
love 90 further?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

An eastern judge. has fixed ten
days as the limit for visits for moth
ers-in-law. Some sons-in-law are mean
enough as to constrvne this as the
maximum penalty, but there was no
law compelling them to enter into
that relation. The average mother-in-
law is quite as endurable as the ay-
erage son-in-law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

Rock Island is threatened with a
water famine. The Mississippi liver
is very low, and if it continues to fall
a few more days the way. it has during
the past month the intake pipes at
Rock Island will be exposed and it will
be impossible to get water to the
filters. The remedy would seem to
lie in an extension of the intake pipes
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

John D. Rockefeller says his career
is due to his wife. That's right.
Blame it on the woman. as man has
been doing ever since he went wrong
In the Garden Of Eden.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

An Oklahoma man who undertook
to make a livelihood by writing jokes
for magazines and newspapers has
just starved to death. His experience
was no joke.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

Keokuk will stand pat on the base
bail proposition. II set out to finish
the season as member OF the Cen
trail Association and it will do go
whatever the cost Other cities may
blow up but Keokuk will simply
buckle It's Belt tighter and go in to
win,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

Buffalo, New York and Chicago have
domestic relations courts, where wom-
en- with troublesome husbands may go
and not feel that they are criminals,
the court trying to adjust matters or
at any rate to have as little public
ity as possible. 1t wouldn't be a bad
idea to have such a court in every
city in the United States.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

A Peoria court has decided that a
man who never takes a bath is not
insane, only ignorant Hereaway he
would be regarded as filthy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

The latest and best characterization
of the Lorimer testimony is that adj
vanced by the Peoria Herald-Tran-
script, to-wit: that it is getting 10
be a regular katydid argument.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

New York is having its annual
cholera scare. Thes cucumber crop
never fails.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

A fellow feeling should make Mr..
Hines wondrous kind toward the par
rot that talked too much"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

The cost of living is now coming
. down Potatoes are selling eight for
a quarter, instead of six as formerly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

It is to be hoped that the Iowa
couple who were married by telephone
will not get their wires crossed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
ADVERTISING kEokuk.

We print below without charge an
advertisement now appearing in the
Springfield Register and other papers
in central ana western Illinois, as a
sample of the kind of publicity keo-
kuk is receiving at the present time:
BIG DAM EXCURSION
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
THE DAILY GATE CITY

end of the year. 1t takes Sharpening
of wits all the time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

a heart that never hardens, a tenn.
per that never tires, touch that new
er hurts.-Author unknown.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

Paradoxical as it may sound, dam
news is generally good news.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

Work has been started on s25
600 G. B. & @. depot at Centerville.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23
Via wabash

BIG DAM EXCURSION
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-23

AS to the charges against DIR. Wi
ley, the Cherokee Times says 1t i:
straining at a gnat and swallowing
camel to see offeffnse in the matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-01
SENATOR YOUNG OF IOWA
Saws Canadian Reciprocity Is Free
Trade in MASQUERADE.

washington. Feb. 2S.-"The Canadian
reciprocity bill is free trade in masHue-
rade." said Senator Young of Iowa III
the Senate today, speaking IN Oppose
ton to the measure from the stand
point of the farmer. He said that the
n iddlcman may be robhing the pub
lie. hat the farmer is not and should
not be blamed for the high cost "i nv
ing.
This so-cal.ed reciprocity agree
ment practically confers cluzehsHlP
upon the Canadian" said senator
Young. And he is not even asked 70
take off his hat while the oath is ad-
ministered.''
Speaking OF the disposition in some
quarters not 10 consider the interests
of the farmer. Mr.. Young said there
were members Of Congress VINO never
saw a farm except when they pass
through the country in automobiles or
on limited trains.
Formerly all hats went off to HIM.
(tho farmer) said Mr.. Young, but now
his toll is unappreciatcd. He is looked
upon complacentlv. He is NANNY
thought to live in Kansas and II wear
Whiskers.''
Mr.. Young characterized the cana
dian agreement as a calamity and said
the blame for it should be placed on
the shoulders of men who call them
selves insurgents. He said:
THE insurgents having been defeat
eli in Congress decided to carry their
fractional grievances out to the people
not for the sake of the people but III
order to whip any other faction and
establish new leaderships. They infu-
rated the people. Some great neWspa-
pers, broken-hearted because wood
pulp and paper were not put on the
free list, backed up the insurgents and
urged them on Tho insurgents made
the speeches and the inflammatory
arguments and some of the great
newspapers did the rest
1.-THE mournful part of it is that these
insurgents were from the prairie
states. from the states producing farm
products. The insurgents took the com
mercial lives Of their constituents into
| their bands and went forth 10 battle
as / think. for their personal ends
Now the country proposes to respond
| to the insurgents by giving the news
papers what they asked for. and by
giving the farmers what they did MOI
ask for, and giving the insurgents
| what they did not expect.
But the insurgents are genluses
They know the game of politics. They
are preparing to crawl out from unde!
the proposed trade agreement whii'
the newspapers are preparing to en-
JOY cheaper printing paper and th'
| farmers are preparing to get it in ths
neck. The insurgents and the news
papers are guilty. but the blow VIII
4 strike the farmer. The insurgents are
| preparing to tell the farmer that tht
/ trade agreement does not go fdI
/ enough and if they will give them more
\ time. they will make it go further
. Thus does the political game proceed.