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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
THE OTTUlMWA SITUATION.
Newton Herald

| Since the open saloons in Ottumwa
were put ont of business on July /, no
less than 112 government licenses have
been issued to persons in that city. AS
men do not pay for liquor permits for
their health, the presumption is that
they propose to engage in the sale OF
intoxicants clandestinely, without pay
ment Of the mulct tax and without re-
strictions of any kind. While the blind
pig and the boouegger are thus waxing
fat the municipality will worry along
as best it can without any revenue
from that source 1t is easy to foresee
that Ottumwa's second state, like that
Of the man in the scriptures, will be
worse than its frst-Keokuk Gate
City.
That is the old, old story. When a
town votes out the saloons. the liquor
interests do everything within their
power to discredit the temperance
movement The officials are largely
the old set whom the saloons have
| selected because of their usefulness to
them and instead Of trying to enforce
the law. they do everything they can
to prevent law enforcement. A howl
is set up. The town is given all the
adverse advertising possible and ev-
erything is done that can be done to
make 1t unpleasant for the law abiding
element of the town If malefactors are
brought to trial the saloons pay the at
torney fee or pack the jury as the case
may seem easiest. 1t is the old, old
story. Every town that has gotten rid
| of the saloon has had to pass thru it.
| All the decent people of OttumWa need
do is to remain steadfast and wear
the liquor interests out. They will die
| hard and keep up terrific groaning
while they are 1t but they Will as sure
lv die as the moral and religious imiu-
ences in the town stand firm. Just now
Ottumwa is in the midst Of the con-
test and are having the usual expert
ence. It Is only a question Of a little
, time TIL it all Will pass over. 1t will be
necessary to get rid Of bunch of sa
loon hangers-on on the police force. 1t
will be necessary to put some new
blood in the city council. 1t will be nee
essary to elect some new county Of
ficials-a county attorney or a sheriff
perchance-who will inforce the law,
but 1t will all come about in due time
and when 1T does come to pass that
Ottumwa Is freed fro msaloon infu-
ences the business men and leaders in
public thought as in Newton and 9TH
er towns that have gone thru 1t, will
! wonder that they even thought of such
thing as having saloon In teir city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
Thinks Waterloo Courier Funny

IlrleS- kepubIlcan:
Il YOU can spare short space in
Your columns would like to inquire
when the Waterloo Courier became a
humoris, publication. I notice in the
July 10th issue Register and Leader an
article from the Courier entitled From
Reform to Bush Whacking" Thought
it might be calculated TO he hulno-,
Every one knows this political aggre-
cation" as the Courier is pleased to
call them. La Toilette. Cummins. and
a number Of good hard headed, honest
men stand for exactly the same things
for which they stood last year,
when it had the thunder Of righteous
ness in its policies" All they ask
for is legislation for the masses. not
class. Yet the people cheered the in
surgents when they stood for principle
and they are going TO cheer them
again for standing for principle nov
even tho some such onery publication
as the Courier and q few other equally
bush whacking papers do endeavor 70
lambast them for standing for a
Square deal
The Courier says at washes its
hands Of any rotten mess that any
politicians may get into at Washing
ton" How about BaNinser and the
conservation mess who We're responsible
for the discharge Of CLAWS Pinchot,
both good honest men who were smp-
ly doing their duty and got fired for
doing 1t? Who Is requiring the SER
vices of several Iowa newspapers MAX
ing apologies and telling what he
meant to do" II isn't La Toilette.
Cummins or men Of that stamp. They
need no apologies. They We're right
and are right.
Mr.. Courier. stop your tommy rot
talk Re honest for once. You evil
IDENTIFY do not know just how nice II is
to feel that YOU have been entirely
fair with Your fellow men. who have
been standing for your rights and my
rights Don't get peaved because our
senator's will not he corrupted and are
going to try to have the treaty with
Canada broadened to help our farmer
brothers as we'll as the manufac turer
voted for Taft for president May
Cod forgive me and earnestly prom
Use not to do so again
James c. Armstrong
Clemens, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
ARE SUCKERS BORN OR MADE?

Dubuque women have paid for an ex-
pertence and the delivery has been
made They bought something for
nothing and got it
A fellow protesting TO represent a
furniture firm came TO town. BY pay
ing % cents week the thrifty ladies
were assured that they would receive
and premiums worth several times
what they bought. The women fell
for It, paid out sums ranging from a
ascent payment or two to $40 and got
cents to people who are looking for
chromos.
Corn and wheat may fail, murrain
may destroy livestock, pestilence rage
to the destruction Of human life and
earthquakes shatter the earth but the
crop Of suckers keeps up to the mark
Once minute on the tick of the clock,
the birth rate holds true. Flood or
drouth the bunco man whistles happily,
| secure in the knowledge of a never fall
/ ing harvest. Ana IKE altalta there
should be at least three cuttings
year. perhaps under proper irrigation
] nve.
The easiest money on earth is that
/, which insists on trading itself for twice
as much as it Is worth. The Dubuque
women permitted their greedy anxiety
to buy something for nothing to over
ride their judgment and common
knowledge. They don't do 1t when they
go down town to deal with men they
know and whom they know will be
there next week and probably next
year. In this case they see the goods,
finger them. insist on verbal assurances
and hang on to their money until the
purchases are wrapped up. What is it
about a total stranger with bunco
l'sams which makes tor common conf
dence?
sucker IL q sucker, born that way
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

mission Of Canadian farm products
free into the American markets would
not hurt the farmers Of Iowa any. but
they certainly have never looked at
the map of North America. The great
est buying market for farm products
in the United States is New York City
and vicinity, seven millions Of buyers
right there. 1t is only 200 miles to the
Canadian line for them; 1t is only 1900
miles to Iowa. Poultry and dairy pro-
ducts and vegetables can be produced
in the Canadian province of Ontario,
200 miles from New York City. just as
well as in Iowa. The freight rate Is
less and those Canadian farmers can
undersell US in the New York market
If the tariff is removed. That Is n
truth so self evident that 1T seems a
waste of time to argue it. II those
New York citizens buy their butter and
eggs and vegetables from the Canad-
ians near by they will not buy from
Iowa,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
THE SCHOOL QUIZ a FARCE

In Cirundy county more than one
half OF the would-be school teachers
failed to pass the examinations. pre-
scribed by the state inquisition, famil-
iarly known as the educational depart
ment at the mead of the public school
system of the state. Among those who
failed TO pass the examinations were
many women who know as much about
education as one who is likely TO be
elected state superintendent under our
present primary system.
These educational quiZzes are about
the worst farce in modern politics.
Some OF the questions that asked
are merely trick catch phrases In
! the geography class there might be a
question about the population OF Tim
| buctoo. a matter that would have about
! as much relation TO teaching school in
Iowa as rat has to the tides caused
| by the moon. 1t is an old saying that
! any sort OF a fool can ask questions
that the wisest men can not answer.
! The ability TO teach school depends
great deal more on character than II
does on the ability to know the an
! swer to every question that might be
submitted in such a test. The state
board that judges school teachers by
| their answers to such trick and test
! questions is not going to get very good
! results There is not one man In a
! thousand who could answer all such
questions correctly. three months after
he had come from a examining school.
1t is not necessary that he should be
able to answer them all without being
tripped. We have lost sight Of the real
essential qualifications in school teach
ers and that is character, manhood
, Nd r,a
ability to get along and to influence
! children. But no one of these are re-
| vealed in the quizzes that are now is-
sued or withheld at the supreme pleas
ure OF somebody in Des 'Moines where
| our present centralized school man
agement emanates from. The whole
! thing is farce.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

far more than does the pact. The bills
In some form. are certain to pass. What
will be their reception by Mr.. TAFT
| VIII he approve them? VIII he veto
| them? VIII he extend to his demo-
| cratic allies some Of that reciprocity
| they enabled him to give Canada?
The questions are pertinent to the
present and their answers will run out
| into the coming year. More than any
other class, the farmers are looking
| for the answers. BY Mr.. Taft's triumph
In the purpose. the single purpose. for
which he convened congress in special
session. the farmer has been stripped
of every shred of whatever shelter he
had from competition. He asked no
compensatory relief for them in his
message to congress. Progressive SEN
ators strove to secure for them in this
agreement some compensatory lessen
ing Of their burden. The threat Of a
veto baked them.
The impression is unofficially con-
veyed that he will veto the wool bill
because his tariff board is studying
that problem. The same reason would
lead to a veto OF the free list bill. the
articles OF which are also within the
boards field of investigation. But one
may go further The same reason held
as to the wood pulp. print paper and
other articles he put upon the free list
in his reciprocity agreement. Why
didn't he wait for the report OF his
tariff board on them"
II the president had intended or
wanted any compensatory legislation
for the farmer he would have included
the demand in his cali Of an extra
session. There is that much to justify
the fear of a veto. But fear Of veto
will not excuse the progressive con-
gressmen who may vote against any OF
the compensatory bills offered.
1t is up to them to now make rec
ord that will count with the farmers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
Topics of the Times

Woodrow Wilson has the best of the
start in the democratic free for-all,
Harmon appears 10 be having tire rrou-
bic and Bryan is busy sowing the
broken glass of his campaigns.
Whether from inside or out that
Marie explosion brought outside con-
sequences and jostled the atlas OF the
world
Will Canada pass it or pass it up?
The International Harvester Com
pany processes TO BE- shocked by allega-
tons that it is bound up with the steel
trust.
The state firemen are doing the best
they can with Des MONIES water But
ii is hard on hose
How would il do TO label the wealth
the retired merchants and farmers are
carrying TO California Made in Iowa ?"
The Des Mones Capital is asking
that Cummins to endorse its reciprocity
attitude. Late is likely 10 meet about
the same success as that other occas-
ion when ne thought Cummins might
favor his senatorial aspirations. If he
would promise TO be good as a uuid
pro quo.
Any time before or after the aviation
meet Mr.. Ranman.
Texas went wet but it looks like a
drouth to Senator Bailey.
Win Canada please register?
Jack Johnson says he will live no
longer in tie United States. He's prob
ably been running around with William
Waldorf Astor over in Lunnon don't
YOU knaw. But il certainly is hard to
lose both of them.
The cut out muftler and the Gabriel
norm must go to the discard.
Well. what about that Wiley case?
Is ne to be dumped or justified. Let's
have the verdict
Taft is TO be nominated. Make the
best or the worst YOU can of it.
The remarkable thing about the fol-
lowing expression Of opinion is that it
appeared as original editorial in the
Des Moines Capital. Listen "Attor-
ney General Wickersham was twenty
years defender of trusts before he be-
came a trust buster. Now he IS going
around telling how to save the country.
People generally are laughing at what
he is saying. When a man has defend
ed trusts twenty years he makes a
sorry spectacle when he attempts to
change front"
This dry weather has put the good
roads movement out of business. There
/ is nothing left to do to Iowa roads now
/ but to sprinkle them and the farmers
would steal the water cart IL spriniliing
were attempted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
The Country of The Wishers.

The Country Of The Wishers.
The country OF the wishers-below the
hills it lies.
a country Of the fresh green wales and
of the sunny skies,
They go down 10 il dreaming.
And some come back forlorn--
The country OF the wishers.
That land beyond the morn.
The country of the wishers-all on the
road they go.
By ones. by twos. by threes and fours.
In laughter and in woe.
They go down to it singing.
And some come not at all
Out OF its shadows and its shine
Out of Its looming wall"
The country Of the wishers-oh, there
1t is they stray
TO find the dreams they dreamt come
true all on pleasant day.
They go down to it trusting.
And some lie trusting still.
All underneath the soft green gra SIS
Beneath the low green hills
Baltimore News
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
Prohibition in 1.x.s.

The result OF the vote In Texas last
Saturday on a prohibition amendment
to the constitution Is altogether indie
cisive. Apparently the amendment
has been defeated by majority of
| less than 5000 in Il total vote Of near
ly 100000. Such a reverse will be GER
tain to encourage a new submission
m ovement. and the legislature Is not
likely to have the courage to resist the
demand for another test Of opinion.
The anti ppohibitionists were over
confident OF victory. Governor Col
quit rashly predicted a majority OF
| 100000 and The Houston Post" has
| been talking about landslide OF 200,
! 900 against prohibition. The extrava
| CANT expectations Of the antl-prohibi-
| ton leaders make their actual major
! ity seem painfully Inadequate.
There can be no doubt that the
economic reasons which drove other
southern states to adopt state wide
prohibition operated strongly in Texas
The cities as rule protest firmly
against a policy which 1t is not practi-
cal to enforce within their limits and
which tends merely to substitute un-
licensed blind tigers" for licensed sa-
looms. But the country districts. which
lack sufficient police machinery to deal
cation. have little sympathy with the
home rule argument of the municipali-
ties They want the traffic made un-
lawful, trusting to the added cost and
difficulty OF getting liquors to keep
them out OF the hands Of those whose
consumption Of them constitutes a
menace to public order.
The democratic machine which now
controls Texas politics Is tied up with
the liquor interests In the cities. and
the success OF the prohibition move
ment would probably bring about a
new rule within the party. This. It
Will be generally conceded. Texas
needs. The vote Of Saturday there
fore augurs III for Governor Colquitt
and the powers which nominated him
last year at the Galveston convention.
| IT is serious blow not only at high
license in the cities but at the perpet-
uity Of the Bailey Colquitt machine.
A Fierce Attack.
Of malaria, liver arrangement and kid
ney trouble. Is easily cured by Electric
Bitters. the guaranteed remedy. so
cents. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
THE SHAME OF sPRECKLEs.


The late Claus a. Spreckles was a
great moneymaker His associates in
the sugar business called him 1.-The
Hard Nut"
He robbed not only the consumers OF
sugar. but he also robbed the stock
holders in his company BY original
methods of high finance" he "milked''
them Of 100000. ali of which went to
his own individual benefit.
These facts were shown by Spreckels
son. who testified on the stand at the
congressional sugar inquiry the other
day. It was plain to see that he had
little of love or respect for the old
man who is now in his grave He
said frankly that his fathers methods
We're such that he refused to have any
thing to do with them and that made
trouble between himself and his
father"
SO Spreckles made his millions at
the cost Of his own sons confidence
and respect. Many a magnate has
done the same MANY man not a
maenate has made smaller gains at
the same cost
Yet it is still true that a good name
is rather to be chosen than great
riches And it is also true that mil
lions Of men could not he tempted by
millions of money to shame them
selves in the eyes of their own sons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
Original Notice.

Original Notice.
To Joe Shepardson:
You are hereby notified that on or
before the 18th day Of July A. d. 1911.
there will be filed in the Office Of the
clerk OF the distric, court Of the state
OF Iowa. within and for the county Of
Marshall, the petition Of Ethel May
Shepardson, claiming Of you a divorce
from the bonds OF matrim ony and the
custody of the minor child, Lionel
Shepardson. For further particulars
see said petition.
Now. unless you appear and make
defense thereto, at or before noon of
the second day OF the next AuguS term
of said court. to be begun and held at
Marshalltown. Iowa. on the 2sth day
Of August A. D. 1911. your default will
be entered and a judgment and decree
rendered thereon as prayed for In said
petition.
Dated this 18th day OF July A. d.
1911.
ETHEL MAY SHEPARDsoN,
Plaintiff.
". T. BENNETT, Attorney.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

will enable her to manage the worst
husband that ever happened.
Here's pointer, girls. and 1t will be
worth much to you fl your future life.
Learn to milk the family COW. and
whom you get married. II the husband
will not stand when hitched, swat him
with board, as you will frequently do
with the cow-and by and by he will
become so gentle that all you will have
to say to him will be, Now. stand
still. consarn yet" And all marital
troubles will disappear from the land,
and all married couples will live happy
ever after.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
Tho Footpath to Peace.

BE glad Of life because it gives you
the chance to live and TO work and to
play and to look up at the stars: to be
satisfied with your possessions. but not
contented with yourself until you have
made the best Of them: to despise
nothing in the world except falsehood
and meannees. and to fear nothing ex-
cept cowardice: to be governed by your
dissusts: to covet nothing that Is your
neighbours. except his kindness OF heart
and gentleness OF manners: to think
seldom of your enemies, often Of your
friends. and every day Of Christ, and
TO spend as much time as you can with
body and with spirit in Gods out OK
doors-these are little gudeposts on
the footpath to peace.-Henry Van
Dyke.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
Iona Newspapers
IN sPR1NGr1ME. GENTLE ANNIE.

webster City Freeman Tribune1
The Dies Moines Capital is suffering
with another acute attack Of Cummins-
phobia and sees in the senator's re-
cent letter to the Marshalltown Times
Republican a scheme of the senator to
grab the presidency. Cheer up. colonel
next year we may have a beautiful
spring again.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

As the Manson Democrat rythmically
puts 1T:
Count that day whose setting sun
Sees no corpse made by the auto SON.
ofagun.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

the bunco men assure us. Will some
scientific authority please investigate
this claim. Is the sucker congenital
or cultivated?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

Never leave home on journey with
out a bottle OF Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is
almost certain to be needed and can
not be obtained when on board the
cars or steamships. For sale by all
dealers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

Noting that LATE Young takes great
satisfaction in the belief that President
Taft has disrupted the insurgent band,
the Mason City Times will not be-
sruIge this small joy to LATE. for the
present political situation has little
enough in way of satisfaction to him"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

f"The state board Of health is going
to look into conditions in railway
camps. And very properly" says the
Cedar Rapids Gazette And il filthy
conditions are found there is just two
things to do-enforce a change and
mulct the railroad companies for main
tanning nuisances."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

a mans two great ambitions are to
be chairman of something and to have
his portrait painted for it-Eew York
Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

Any man who growls during roast
ing ear time should be exiled to the
bad lands.-Columbus (Ohio) State
Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

You can't judge a mans generosity
by what he spends on himself-Phila-
delphia Telegrap phi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT.

And it went thru without the big
stick and the patronage club having
been overWorked,-Wa shington Post
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

Neither the center of population nor
the 1926 net" historical novel exhih-
its any intention of moving out Of Ind
iana.-Christian Science Monitor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

e.The oder Canadians and the Amer
lean farmers are the parties whose
sentiments and welfare are ignored in
this reciprocity deal" insists the Ne
vada Representative. THE American
farmers have been over-ridden-for
the present-but 1t is yet TO be made
clear how much Of protest may be
made by the Canadians who have
cherished the idea of greater Canada
for Canadians"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

There is only one thing that Is
worse than a piece Of three Inch plank
nailed over a hole in bridge, and
that is the hole itself" says the Waver-
ly Independent. "A bridge with three
inch thick patches is an ahominable
thing, and should be tolerated only for
short time. A workman who has any
respect for the eternal fitness of things
may nail a three-inch plank over a
hole in bridge. but he will remove it
as soon as he can get a good plank for
the place.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

DR.. Wiley is irving 10 discover what
is contained In the nirce pie of COM
merce Is there no mystery so ahys-
MAJ that this man will not plunge
boldly into it?--Kansas City Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

1t is no, we'll to be arranging now
for resolutions to be adopted next
year says the Des Moines Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

king?" asks the Davenport Democrat
Wait a few months and we Americans
will go down into our pockets for more
money than a kings crown represents.
1t will be counted as patriotism to blow
1t in for presidential campaign"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-28

where IS the wisdom in so much
moralfzing over the coronation of q