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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
Whites Idea Of It.

When l get done with breakfast l
jest go right out and play
And root around and maik mud pies
and have great fun awl day,
And get my face all durtied up and
get my hands awl black,
And then when get hungry why l
come a sliding back.
And paw he never bats an eye When
come .edging in.
But NAV grabs me with yell and
most wears off my skin;
She scrubs my fingers and my ears
till ! am weak and pale,
Fer the female of the speeshus is
more deadly than the male.
I'VE got smear of relatives, awl
aunts and uncles, too,
And when they come to VISIT us II
makes me mighty blew.
The unkles | don't mind at awl;
there nice as they kin be.
But say, you ought to see the things
those darned ants do to me.
| half to sit in each ones lap and lei
her hug me tight,
And then they start to kissing me
and say 1t is a fright.
And when / see an ant you bet VI
and hit the trail,
For the female of the speeches is more
deadly than the mail.
George Fitch in Peoria Herald
Transcript
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
THE M,NAMARA CONFESSIONS.

The plea of guilty entered by the
Mcnamara brothers, James and John,
at Los Angeles. Friday afternoon,
came as a great surprise to the coun-
try The McNamaras were charged
with dynamite outrages and murder
and ever since their arrest have been
making desperate efforts to establish
their innocence. Their sudden change
| of front appears to have been due to
three factors, mainly If not entirely:
IL. The utter hopelessness of their
case. 2. The hope of avoiding the
death penalty b. throwing themselves
upon the mercy of the court. 3. De-
sire to forestall the effect of the reve-
lations of bribery of jurors by the de-
Tense and to prevent further revela-
tions being made Whatever the mo-
tives that influenced them their con-
fession has caused a profound sensa-
ton.
When the McNamaras were taken
into custody mistaken sympathizers
all over the country raised the cry OF
plutocratic persecution and oppres-
sion" The whole matter, it was as
serted and reasserted, was frame
up" Union labor, under the leader,
ship of Samuel Gompers, president OF
, the American Federation OF Labor
, joined in this baseless charge, and
, without proper investigation began
5 raising large sums of money for the
, defense of the accused. This practice
, was continued up to the hour that
the McNamaras confessed that one Of
them had wilfully and wantonly de
stroyed valuable property and the 9th
/ er was guilty of deliberate and bruta
murder of twenty-one persons. II
! thus allying itself with the McNamaras
and making their cause its own organ
lied labor did itself great injury ant
its cause great injustice. The grea
mass of organized labor is composed
of peaceful, law-abiding patriots
men and women who have no sym
pathy with violence and corruption
/ They were misled and betrayed by ia
] Dor politicians and their accomplice
e who committed the most dastardl
!, crimes under the pretense of further
y ing the cause of organized labor
' There is but one honorable cours
y open to organized labor in this emers
ency, and that is to repudiate the M
/, Namaras and all their ilk and d.
!, mand that they be made to suffer tn
" extreme penalty OF the law. Murde
If is no less murder when committe
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
BUSINESS MEMS DEcALoeuE.

Following are ten commandments
for business men prepared by Chi
,cago minister:
/. Thou shalt not corner the PEG
pies bread
2. Thou shalt not put more on the
labe. than there is in the can.
8. Thou shalt not coin the blood OF
thy neighbours child into gold in order
that thine own children may swell the
ranks of the idle rich
4. Thou shalt not underpay thy fe-
male employees SO that they may be
driven to sell their virtue.
5. Thou shalt not MAIN or destroy
workman with thy machinery OF
wear out his strength in building uI
thy fortune and send his family to the
poor mouse.
6. Thou shalt divide with thy EN-
Iployes the product of thy joint labors
land shalt not take refuge behind the
law of supply and demand to lower
wages and shorten hours.
Z. Thou shalt not use thy vote as
a director to order corporation te
% what thyself wouldst not do open
Ily in the sight of all men,
s. Thou shalt not rent thy proper
t. to white-clad drink dispensers
SCARLET women or black-legs, neithe
shalt thou plead ignorance when TIL.
agent pays over holden tribute from
the underworld.
8. Thou shalt not buy Legislators
corrupt judges, nor intimidate execr
tives.
10. Thou shalt not deaounce anal
chy in a red shirt for violating lay
and wink with the other eye when tn
Zig business. in the silk hat and broad
cloth, violates law.
These commandments speak fc
themselves and should be obeyed b
every business man. In their fin;
analysis they are an elaboration {
the Golden Rule OF doing unto other
as you would have others do unit
you. That rule has never been III
proved upon and never will be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

own hearts and make everybody else
do the same or be consigned to an end
jess hell Now we call on the Marion
Pegister for a more specific statement.
Is this Keokuk man crank because
Re says people who do not believe as
lie does will go to hell-or merely be-
cause he reiterates it with rather more
than the usual persistence? We are
willing to hear testimony as to the
excessive reiteration, but if the mere
holding of the belief indicated by the
lI-eokuk gentleman's statement Is to
be a cause for divorce we tremble for
the perpetuity of the American
Ihearthstone"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
by Marx FieId.l

There are now, and have long been,
in the way of the progress OF Chris
tianity, number OF lmpediments that
Chiist would swiftly remove ii He
were now on earth, and were recog-
nized by modern Christians as He was
by His original disciples. What, in
that event, would become of the num-
erous creeds in which He has been so
egregiously misinterpreted? Does not
every independent student OF the New
Testament know that immediate de-
struction would be the fate OF every
church doctrine that contravenes the
right of all men to be their own in
terpreters?
/. When Jesus came up dripping from
the water of Johns baptism dove
perched upon His shoulders, and a
voice from heaven proclaimed: "Outos
Estin no uios mou no agapetos en- no
eudokesa.' This is my beloved Son
in whom | am we'll pleased" And
Peter, probably having heard the
proclamation on the Jordan, answered
his Lords question" Whom say We
that Amply saying, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God"
This simple statement, neither more
nor less, is what the follower OF
Christ Is required to believe. But
along comes an orthodox divine and
says: Hold on. That isn't enough
You must believe that Christ is God. T"
At once the reasoning inquirer turns
away and says: well, if | must be-
lieva that Christ is His own father
and His own son, at the same time, |
guess I'll have to give it up" And
thus for centuries has proceeded the
breeding of skepticism throughout the
civilized world. Now the doctrine of
the trinity is not the only one that is
in the creeds, but not in the book.
There are lots of them that were never
ia ght by Christ. nor preached by
Paul, who was the truest inscription
of his master when persuading men to
repent, and accept the Redeemer as
a faultless pattern of life.
| Perhaps one of the worst of these is
| the doctrine that reads: THAT we
are justified by faith only is whole
some doctrine, and very full of com
fort Very full of comfort it doubtless
is to those who don't want to work
for the publication of society and the
promotion of human happiness. I'm
fortunately for this dogma the Apostle
James says, in his general Epistle
.Ye see then how that by works {
man is justified, and not by faitl
only"
i This doctrine of justification b.
faith alone has been pushed to al
extreme that is both ridiculous an,
despicable, especially by some of TIL
orthodox evangelists. A few years ag
one of these gospelers, in a reviva
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
"ervlNe AWAY WATER POWERS"

Chicago ana Iowa capitalists have
scheme to build series of dams in
the Des Moines river from Des
Moines to Keokuk, the dams to be
f,,,.rteen in number. They want to
use the Jams for power purposes, but
The government can utilize them for
canals. if Il sees fit to do SO at any
time. The Cedar Rapids Republican
feels called upon to say concerning the
matter:
! THE proposition involves to the
company the water power for two hun
idrcd miles OF liver, which :ooks like
fine concession. After doing great
deal of worrying about conservation
iu Alaska, &c ale now giving away
the water power in our streams and
no one seems to think there is any
thing wrong about It. The water
power of the Mississippi, opposite
Keoluk, which is the greatest water
rover in the country. except at Mag
ara, has been given to a corporation
which Is spending s25,000,0o0 to util-
ize it. 1t will be a great thing for
the country to have thai power utiliz-
ed. 1t has been going to waste for
more than a century. But, neverthe-
less. 1t is being given away"
! We don't know how it Is or will be
with tie Des Moines river proposition
but we do know that it took Engineer
Hugh l.. Cooper, the most forceful
man in the United States at the pres
ent time. five years of the hardest
kind of work to induce capitalists tc
accept the Keokuk and Hamilton wa
| ter power franchise and oam the Mis-
, sissippi river at this point. Nor was
, he alone in his effort. He was seconu
ed by leading citizens of Keokuk, two
Of whom sacrificed their lives in the
interest OF the project. The Others
: gave it their best thought and theil
best individual efforts to the neglec
Of their private business. Back o
them was the moral support of tn,
community. the purses of th,
! business and professional men, and, /
may be publicly acknowledged at thi
late day, the funds in the city treas
ury. All this was required to enabl
: Keokuk to give away the waite
|. power now in process of development
! If anything that was done had bee
8 omitted the work of financing the pr,
ject would have failed. Even afte
+ Keokuk had done all 1t could do 1
the matter Mr.. Cooper was "turne
e down" fifty-seven times in successio
= before he finally succeeded in gettin
2 capitalists to accept the CONCESSION
g. had to offer. Talk about "givjT
e away valuable rights and all thi
II sort of thing is exceedingly cheap Ia
d when 1t refers to project Of the ma
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
CLEAR He WAY

that he was carrying on in Decatur,
H., said in one of his famous ran
dom shots: Some people believe
that their parents and grandparents
are in heaven just because those an
cestors We're theirs. Now | had
grandmother that was as good a wom-
an as ever lived; but know she is
in hell this minute, because she did
not believe that her salvation depend
1 ed on faith without works." At this
point an Irish horse boy arose, put on
his hat, and started for the door. The
evangelist pointed at him and yelled:
There goes a man to hell direct.
The boy turned quickly and replied:
Well, sor, have yez any wurred to
| sind to yer grandmother" Instant
| ly there was a roar of applause thai
shook the church to it's foundations,
and congregation of two thousand
rushed out in disgust inexpressible
! The meeting was at once declared
off, . but the amount of harm then and
there inflicted upon the religion OF
] Christ will never be known.
Such are few of the many OBJ
stacles that block the way of the pro-
| gress of Christianity at this time. The
fundamental error on which they stand
| is the notion that all men should be-
| lieve the same things in the same way
| Theologians have stubbornly refused
/ to see that this is an impossibility;
1 that there are some things which
many men cannot believe; and that
i there are some things in the creeds
which no man can intelligently believe,
| because they are at war with reason
| and common sense. Before any SUD-
stantial good can be done by the
clergy who are working in the pres
ent Men and Religion movement they
will have to be brought to understand
that Christianity, as taught by its a.
vine founder on Mount Olivete, is
! pre-eminently democratic and practic-
al; that it is full of dos" and con-
tains no mere believes" that Its
creed is as we'll adapted to the child
of twelve as to the philosopher OF
Sir Isaac Newton's caliber; that
i Christ, as shown in the case OF
Thomas, never laid an objective creed
on any man, but left everybody free
to choose subjective creed; that He
exacted pure life and fruitful love
of man for Gods sake and of God for
mans sake; that He appealed to His
4 own great works in behalf of man as
constituting the proof of His messiah
ship, and left the human conscience
unfettered as to all matters OF faith
and Interpretation.
When the preachers and promoters
of progress and union come to fully
! recognize this they will be able te
! clear the way to a work that will belt
, the globe, and bring untold millions te
} Christ.
l Granger, Mo-. Dec. 2.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
PRAY.

PRAY.
Don't fear that the world will laugh
if you pray.
Don't care IL it does. Let it have its
way
Remember the softness and beauty |,
brings
When round you enfolding Its COM
forting wings
It carries you out of the dark and the
care
To the thoughts of happier life
somewhere.
Don't be afraid If they scott and they
At the thought Of your praying. 1t
leads to the morn
Through sleep so refreshing, rest
SO divine,
Like path in the summer beneath
bloom and vine,
Ending down in a garden somewhere
that doth seem
In a dusk OF old magic that drifts
through dream.
Don't mind and don't worry, whatever
they say.
Kneel down or stand up, but stop
talking and pray.
Don't be coward to cringe at the
word
OF the cynics whose voices in taunt-
ing are heard
Wherever men gather; remember how
sweet ss9
The peace after prayer. like the rain
after heat!
Don't let the world turn your pur
pose aside
From the prayer that flows in on the
tumult and tide
OF strife and of worry, but let 1t pre-
vail
Over all that may tempt you, attacl
and assail;
Remembering its gentle and mellow
ing spirit
When you pray with a faith in thu
One that will hear it.
Baltimore Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

nitude of the Keokuk water power.
These facts are recalled to show that
capital is not at all anxious to invest
in such an enterprise. On the con-
teary, it looks askance at anything and
everything of the kind, and 1t required
Glmost superhuman efforts to induce
it TO accept charter, even as gift.
j. is to be hoped we will hear less in
future about giving away" anything
in connection with the local project
here.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

Several weeks ago George H. Shoaf.
a special correspondent of the Appeal
to Reason, the socialist weekly, who
had been assigned to report the McNa-
mara trial and who claimed to have
found new evidence in favor of the de-
fsndants, suddenly disappeared. The
Appeal to Reason made great hula
baloo over the mater, charging that
lie had been kidnapped by the prose
Icution. Now it develops, on the
authority Of the New York Call, a
socialist daily, that Shoals disappear
ance was not due to smuggling or kid.
mapping as was suspected by the Ap-
peal editors, but was due to his deser-
ton of a young girl whom he had
ruined, the daughter of a prominent
socialist writer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

The talk about penny postage has
alarmed The advocates of a parcel post
and they are making frantic appeals
for the friends of the latter to make
their voice and influence felt in its
favor. Senator Jonathan Bourne.
chairman Of the senate committee on
Ipostoffices and postroads. is out in a
public statement to the effect that
the greatest danger to the parcel post
movement lies in the demand for a
Ione-cent letter rate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

Kansas City has more than forty
widows pensioned through the efforts
Of the juvenile court and the result is
being awaited with great interest in
other cities of the country. Some of
The husbands are in the penitentiary
and others have simply deserted their
wives, leaving them with children to
support and send to school. No
widow is paid more than $40 a month
and the amount is limited to $4,000
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

trust in Nature for the stable laws
OF beauty and utility. Spring shall
plant
And autumn garner to the end OF
time,
I trust in God-the right shall be the
right
And other than the wrong, while He
endures,
I trust in my own soul, that can per
ceive
The outward and the inward-Na
lures good
And Gods.
Robert Browning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

The receipts of the Keokuk postof-
fee continue to increase steadily.
During November, 1910, the sales of
stamps and stamped paper aggregated
s5,410.25. During November this year
they amounted to s6,019.99-a gain Of
s6O9.74, an increase Of S.9 per cent.
For tho past twelve months the re-
ceipts have been over $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

An eastern paper has an article on
Mr.. Rockefeller's Chances" The
discussion is of course purely academ-
ic. Mr.. Rockefeller takes no chances.
A Sure Thing is the only thing that
appeals to him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

The mayor Of indianapolis sold tur-
keys &c the people at less than the
market price and did the largest bust
ness. What the butchers and retail
grocers ,f indianapolis will do to him
lin the next mayoralty campaign in
that city will be good and plenty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

ostensibly in the interest of organic
ed labor than when committed for the
furtherance of private ends. If union
ism is to continue to exist it must
protest vigorously and Indignantly
against dynamite and assassination
and refuse to be led longer by false
and unworthy men For it's own good
it can purge itself none too soon and
none too thoroughly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

A Charlton church that is running
q revival has sign up, saying I'VE
are Working to Beat He'll! Will You
Help Us?" The editor OF the Knoxville
Express, who was the first to call
public attention to the sign, says that
he has been working that way for
some time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

Frank Garner, mayor of Quincy, is
talked of for congress in the Fifteenth
Illinois district. He is making an ex.
cellent city official and has all the
qualities of a capable and popular
representative.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

Ten Methodist ministers were pois-
oned by eating chicken in Denver.
But anyone who imagines for mo
ment that this will prevent Methodist
preachers from indulging in their ia
vorite article of diet has another
guess coming.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

The advantage of being woman is
we'll illustrated by the acquittal of
Mrs. Patterson by a Colorado jury. AS
1t interpreted the law it isn't murder
for a woman to kill her husband by
shooting him in the back.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

1t is the concensus of opinion
among European nations that Italy
wants more than it's proper share of
Turkey. There always have been gour-
mands and there probably always will
be-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

There is large element of truth in
the remark of the Ottumwa Courier
that by the time man is old enough
to know anything worth telling he
has sense enough to keep his mouth
shut.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

The work of dehorning the beef
trust is progressing slowly. The oper-
alton doesn't appeal to the "critter,"
which is interposing all sorts of de-
lays.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

Abe Martin tells of an indianapolis
woman who Is the mother of sever
grown-up children-all married excep
six
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03

The confession wrung from the Nc.
Namaras is another great triumph for
Detective Burns. He always makes
good.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
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keokuk Iowa Dec. 3, 1911
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-09-25

Go on and sag It--Pa.ii.t.z
k.a-i.a. You cant. hnh7 Well.
never mind. Anyhow. she's The
wife Of Mikail Morxikin. the Rus
sian dancer who aatoninhed Amer.
leans last year. She II was who
had such prominent place on the
dance programs that Pavlowa.
Mordkln'H dancing partner. goi
mad and declared that she would
never appear In America again
but paviowa has taken back that
threat. American dollars are No
biz. you know' And when the
New York miiiiouaires who keep
the Metropolitan Grand Opera
house running. asked her 10 re.
turn again she weakened. The
quarrel Is ended and. on Oct rs. at
q three day musical carnival NJ
Madison Square garden IN New
York Pavlowa ~ going 60 dance
peace dance with Mordkin Just 10
show that her mad" has gone.
but here are some more names
TO Hay: Better learn them be-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-09-25

Trixie Friganza. somewhat stout
or than we have known her In the
past, is at the Moore for the week
In THE Sweetest Girl In Paris" a
title selected by the authors. very
likely. because II sounded as well
as anything else. The title hasn't
the slightest connection with the
two-act music show. but that doesn't
jar upon ones nerves at music
show.
The piece Is happily satisfying
enough, for there Is a very choice
collection of broilers or squads or
whatever you want to call them;
tho little girl type of show girls, you
know. The music Is catchy, and
everybody works hard to make the
offering go well. Miss Friganza
sings three or four good songs. and
there IL coincidence. Cathryn
Rowe Palmer, who has the stage
all to herself several times. greatly
to the general gaiety of things.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-09-25

cause. Just like sporting folks
stumble over the name OF Zybysxco.
the wrestler. 80 dance and opera.
loving folks will be stumbling over
these names the coming season.
lamar KRrsnvina iKn't 80 hard.
Julia scldowA II pronounceabie.
Ca,rina Ceitzer can be gotten over.
but Mathidic kncbenlnska IL hard
one.
These four girls have delighted
Russian imperial circles for sever
al years. They. too. have been en-
gagged by the grand opera million
aires. They will appear In most Of
the larger cities during the season.
Karsayina IL said TO be the most
beautiful woman that ever gradual
ed from the cars ballet school.
kscheainska was known az solo
dancer to the ear and. until this
season. saving one appearance In
Paris for the Messina earthquake
sufferers. she has never been per.
mitted 10 appear before other than
a Russian audience.