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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
TIE DANGERS of a Primary.

Iowa City Citizen: 1t is evident that
the Des Moines Tribune and the Citi-
zen will not be able to join issues on
til the Tribune gets down to discus
sion of the main point emphasized by
the Citizen AS long as it contends
that this paper is eyading the point
by falling to debate the question OF
the relative merits OF the primary and
convention systems, we cannot see
how it will meet our principal objec-
ton.
The editor OF the Citizen has
been an advocate OF county primaries
for twenty years, and is not discuss
ing the system from a purely theo-
retical standpoint This difference
is evident between the county pri-
mary and the statewide primary:
the former seldom or never calls for
a speaking campaign: the latter al
ways does.
A speaking campaign for nomina-
tons may not always be a bad thing
for party. 1t would be good
thing sometimes If the issues could
be presented without demagogeTy
and with due regard for what comes
after the nominations But in the
present case the Republican party
faces a hard campaign next year.
with the drift against it. Ii the par
" will unite it may win, but IL 1t will
not unite it will sure lose.
Every one knows that La Toilette
campaign to carry primary in Iowa
will be campaign of appeal TO
prejudice on the part of skillful Pc
litical speakers. President Taft, who
will undoubtedly be Tenominated in
the end, will be attacked as tool OF
the capitalists and man unfit to be
President of the United States. To
make an impression for La Toilette
on the state in primary it will be
necessary to drive the battle into
every part of the state, and by news
papers and public meetings arouse
the resenteuIent of the pepole against
the President.
Whether La Toilette carried the
state or not the result would be that
many of the ordinarily Indifferent
or uniformed voters drawn into
such contest would be fixed in their
attitude against Taft. They would
believe what Republican speakers
and Republican newspapers had told
them They would not vote the
/ ticket in the fall election.
1t is Just such condition as this
that party leaders should do every.
thing possible TO prevent Instead
OF fomenting an open factional quar-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
REVISED
SCHEME.
MONEY

In a supplementary statement sub
mitted to the Monetary Commission,
former Senator Aldrich proposes a
change in the plan OF electing direc-
tors of the National Reserve Associa-
ton of Banks so as to prevent ma
jority coming from any one district.
This is supposel to meet the criticism
of those who charged that Wall street
was to have control of the association.
Each of the fifteen districts into
which the country would be divided
is to choose one director. Twelve
others will be elected By the share
holders, and these twenty-seven will
add to the board twelve others not
officers of banks and supposed to rep
resent the commercial and industrial
interests Critics of the new Aldrich
plan still point out that there is
nothing to prevent the big New York
banks from debating the men whom
the various district associations shall
choose. The revised plan also re-
serves to the association the right
to remove the governor by two
thirds vote, instead of giving this
power to the President Of the United
States. Another change is the adj
mission of state banks and trust com
panies to membership when they con-
form to certain requirement Ma
tional banks would have the right to
start savings and deposits and to lend
Al y,er cant NJ &he Same IN IN nov cant
real estate basis.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
FACTORIES FOR THE COUNTRY

The serious proposal of legislation
to drive all factories out of the cities
into the open country near the source
of supply and so that every workers
family can have productive home
with a garden about it is the some
what startling feature OF a speech
delivered by DIR. Harvey w. Wiley,
the recently indicated government
chemist and pure food expert. during
the harvest festival of the National
Farm School near Doylestown, Pa,
Sunday last. DR.. Wiley said he had
heard lot about the soils of the
great northwest. but they were no
better in general than the soils of
4 the east Said Wiley.
I'VE hear a good deal about rus In
urbe, but what we want is urbs in
rure We want TO drive the city out
into the country We are going TO
make life in the country more at.
tractiye We are going TO make the
aristocrats of this country the men
who live on the farms. This We are
going 10 do by means of agricultural
education. The city is not the place
for active production. II is the place
for exchange. II is the environment,
of the city which makes the working
man adopt vicious habits Every cent
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
this vast region and the ports on the
Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and
those on the Gulf OF Mexico.

The dozen Iowa Republicans who
attended the recent progressive"
conference in Chicago are now ex-
planning that they could hardly be
said to have participated In the
meeting. TO quote the words OF one of
them. "All committees and officers
were selected in advance" he went
on to say, land there was no occa-
sion whatever for the conference of
any state delegation" All this was
done in the name OF Reform with
a big r.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

as chief Of the propaganda. In these
dispatches three days before the date
set for the gathering it was said that
the cover was of and that the proper
noun La Toilette would usurp the
place of the common noun progress
sion. Such proved to be the case, and
here and there is belief that certain
progressive senators are not wholly
happy in spirit
Roosevelt's Attitude.
Some politicians still are wondering
what Theodore Roosevelt said to
James R. Garfield when he talked
with him in the Outlook office prior
to the Chicago convention of progress
siyes. Other men besides Mr.. Car
field have talked TO MFR. Roosevelt.
They believe that he will support the
ticket, whether it be headed by Will
liam H. Taft or Robert N. La Toilette.
They believe also that he is perfectly
willing that an out-and-ont fight for
the control of the convention should
be waged by the insurgents.
It is possible that Mr.. Roosevelt
would prefer the nomination OF La
Toilette to the nomination of Mr..
Taft, but 1t is said to be certainty
that the former President not only
will maintain his party regularity,
but that he will use his utmost en-.
deayor to bring success to the Repub-
lican ticket.
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TO ELIMINATE THE MlppLEMAn.

TO ELIMINATE THE MiDDLEMAN.
Ten thousand heads of New York
families, 500 retail dealers In fifty
lines and several hundred farmers OF
the Pennsylvania State Grange have
combined in an association to elimi-
nate the middleman and lower the
high cost of living. While the Penn
sylvania State Grange is completing
negotiations with the association to
handle their output, small army OF
canvassers is enrolling hundreds OF
other families in the movement, and
officers of the association are nego-
tiating with the farmers of New York
state to handle their products also.
The association plans to act as
clearing house between producer and
consumer, dividing between them the
profit of the various middlemen
through whose hands food commod-
tiles have hitherto passed. In the
case of some farm products the as
sociation finds that six middlemen or
brokers have been reaping profits.
The SEQ dealers in almost every
line OF retail trade are members OF
the association and receive their sup
plies, because of such membership, at
lower than market rates. The heads
of families are associate members.
The dealers are divided into seven
groups. Each group is required to
pay into the Golfers Of the association
"a percentage of its gross receipts,
varying from per cent for grocers
to Is per cent for druggists. The
fund thus created is divided into six
parts, four OF which are put aside for
distribution among the consumers,
one part being spent for advertising
and one part for administration and
operating expenses.
Each association member. or head
of family, receives a coupon from
the dealer whenever he makes a pur-
chase, setting forth the amount of
goods bought At the end of stated
periods the consumer surrenders his
coupons to the association to serve
as basis for computing the rebate
which he will receive from the profit
fund. 1t is the plan to reduce the
cost of living by these refunds rather
than by charging the consumer lower
than market prices in the first in
stance
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keokuk, Iowa Oct. "a, 1911
WAR.

WAR.
Nar-and the tramp of the troops
once more.
The blare of bugles. the lannon's
roar.
The waving banners, the swing and
sway
OF men that march to the bitter fray.
Where glory beckons. and honor calls
And brave men batter the fortress
walls.
that summons the soul Of
Rome,
While the women weep with. their
babes at home.
War and the smiling fields are black
Where fire and battle have left their
track
war-and the brave blood running
red.
And the sunken ships and the host OF
dead
WARMTH its wake of wrong and
wrath
With famine and misery in its path.
War that has wakened, long asleep,
While the children wait and the wo-
men weep.
War-red war in the world again.
War with its trail of broken men.
War that gorges itself in truth
On the lands best strength and I'm
est youth.
And for the sake Of barren land
And a cluster of huts on the desert
sand.
The sultan battles the might of Rome
And women weep with their babes at
home.
Berton Braley. in the Des Moines
News.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24


rel within the party on the eve of
election by departing from precedent
and law and forcing a presidential
primary, they should encourage every
means of conference and counsel
among Republicans, and above all
frown on any plan that emphasizes
party differences rather than party
harmony.
OF course, If the Des Moines Trib-
une is inclined to regard factional
victory as more important than par
ty victory there is nothing more to be
said. The Citizen retains its faith
in the mission of the Republican par
ty and believes that the party should
get together and preserve Republican
supremacy In 1912
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
what Was ealnedY

Ottumwa Courier: 1t does not seem
that anything has been gained by the
Chicago meeting. La Toilette was put
forward as candidate for the nomira-
ton, but he was already in the field
and it is difficult to understand just
where his chances are helped by the
endorsement of conference that only
may be considered important because
of Its absentees. An endorsement
from a few men whose names were
never heard before. while the leaders
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

Another new high-water mark in
this nations foreign commerce move
ments was established during Sep
TENDER, merchandise shipments
abroad reaching the unprecedented
total for that month of $195, III SOP.
while imports were also the largest
ever reported for any similar period
at s125,15S,1oS. according to returns
just issued by the bureau of stats
tics at Washington. These figures sur
pass the best previous September
records, attained last year and in
1909, by about s26,90O00O and s4.15o,-
0oorespectively while exports for the
nine months thus far are fully 1922
100000 greater than in 1910, whereas
imports are some s39,ooo,Op0 smaller.
The exhibit as to exports was, in both
respects, the most gratifying in the
history of the country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
Coupons.

Coupons.
He built himself pile of debts
By smoking Turkish cigarettes;
He smoked them night and morning.
His countenance was never still;
There always was glowing pill
His saliow face adjoining.
He gathered coupons by the score;
They Uttered up his bedroom floor.
He smoked box so often.
As coupons grew his health declined,
And when he died he left behind
Enough to win a coffin.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
Baker at the Bat.

You have heard of mighty Casey and
famous Midwife nine,
How the hero of the diamond in
crisis was a shine"
How with bat in hand, he heard the
fans mighty greeting shout
And heard the umpire cali two strikes
and how he then famed out.
Well, that was not circumstance to
what took place of late
Right here on our. own Polo Grounds;
oh, sad and cruel fate.
When the famous Ath-a-letics faced
the Giants great pitcher, Matt"
Oh, would it had been Casey and not
Baker at the bat.
Eight short innings had been finished
and the game was closely
fought,
But the Gi'nts had the advantage
with score of one to naught;
And although the Ath-a-letics on the
day before had won
When this same geezer Baker hit the
pill for home run,
Why, that was off 'Rube,'. who put
one square across the plate
And could not happen to man like
Matthewson the great.
The score was one to nothing, he
would hold them down to
that
Such was the dope of all home fans
when Baker went TO bat.
There was ease in Matty's manner
and smile upon. his face
As he wound him up an inward
curve no batting eye could
trace
When Fam" a ball went sailing BY
as if out OF gun,
A through express that made no stops
this side of Old Home Run.
Some where the sun is shining, some
where the crowds are gay,
Somewhere the bands are playing
in Phil-a-delphi-a;
Down in the Quaker City. there's
ioility and fun.
Bnu here it's just like Midwife since
Bakers great home run.
Richard Linthicum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

witches had marked, t. F. Boudreau
ordered hole bored where the geese
and ducks chose to sit; water was
found, shallow and in abundance. The
man and his peach-tree limb will have
to step down and out. Hats off to the
goose.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

he spends for alcoholic drinks ana
tobacco could better be thrown away.
1t is the condition and not the man
that is to be blamed. We will never
have better conditions in the cities
until we depopulate these populous
cities and we can never depopulate
the cities until we Danish from their
borders all productive industries to
the country, where they belong. Then
We will have an ideal industrial
world"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
See An Lnsurgent Split
Absence Of Bourne. Bristow, Cummns and Borah from
Chicago Conference Regarded as Significant.

:
Washington politicians and office
holders-two conditions in life Tor
each one of the public men here--have
had time to think on the meeting OF
progressives in Chicago. The admin
istration's supporters seem to have
some inside information They say
that Senators Bourne, Bristow. Borah
and Cummins and several others who
have wandered will be found active
~ working to secure harmony in the
party the instant that the convention
Is over and William H. Taft is nomi-
mated
Three Absentees of Note.
While the La Toilette partisans
were In session in Chicago Mr.. Bourne
and Mr.. Bristow placiily played golf
on the course OF a Washington coun-
try club. Mr. Cummins was speeding
away to foreign shores ana Mr.. Borah
was busily engaged in affairs of his
own
II the capita. sees things straight
these gentlemen would have been at
the Chicago meeting did they not
know in advance that it was to re
solve itself into a service of praise of
the deeds of the man OF Wisconsin.
Originally the coming together of
the progressives was announced TO
be for the purpose of spreading the
Progressive faith with no man named
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

According to facts and figures ad.
duced by Mr.. Henry S. Haines, a
recognized authority on railway prob
lens. the American railway system
in mileage about equals the accepted
distance of the moon from the earth;
it's employees number ore out of every
twelve of our adult population: the
capital invested represents one-eighth
of the total wealth of the country,
and its annual revenues are three
times that of the federal government
In a recent book on problems in rail-
way regulation Mr.. Haines declares
that the territory between the Mis-
sissippi Valley and the Pacific Coast
is now entering upon an era of deyei-
opment whose magnitude it is diff
cult for us to appreciate, which must
call for fundamental readjustment
NJ the rates now in force between
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

The most Interesting and important
revelation to date in the Lor1mer in
vestigation is the number of wit
nesses who are equipped with ad-
Unstable memories. The value Of
such an attachment in these parlous
times can hardly be overestimated
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

Mr. Hearst's return to the Demo
cratic party leaves the much-advertis-
ed Independence League in the air,
without either parachute or glider at
its command. 1t is a matter of small
moment, however. what becomes of
it, Like the Democratic mule it has
neither pride of ancestry nor hope of
posterity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
Not to be Taken Seriously.

Eagle Grove Eagle: The joke OF
a primary in Iowa to decide whether
Taft or LaFollette is the choice OF
Iowa Republicans should not be car.
ried so far that some may take it ser.
iously.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

There were $4,000 automobiles in
Iowa on July 1, 1911. the greater num-
Der owned by the farmer and vii
lager. This is five to one as compar-
ed with New York state on the
basis of population. If Iowa roads
are not better than New York roads
they soon will be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
A pecaeence In Small Roysa

Burlington Gazette: If the report
is true that s3,ooo.Ooo worth of ap.
pies rotted in Iowa orchards last year
all that we can say is that the small
boy isn't the same fellow that he used
to be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

Whichever way turn said
Dante, is hell The Sioux City Jour
nal concludes from this that as long
ago as his time-a matter of about
600 years-there was an overflow Of
Objectionable presentations in poll
tics.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

Something New in Water Witchina.
Augusta correspondence Canton
tMo.l Press: Something new in water
witching was developed over near ST.
Patrick recently. After failing to
strike water at several places where
both professional and amateur water
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24

China is awakening all right, and
its disposition, obviously, is to indulge
in high jinks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
The Fuzzy Hat.

The Fuzzy Hat.
When first l saw.
The latest style.
! dropped my jaw
And gaped awhile,
vowed right there.
Right off the bat.
I'd never wear
A fuzzy hat.
] made a try,
But all IN vain.
To rent or buy
A headpiece plain.
Clerks everywhere
Upon me sat,
And now / wear
A fuzzy hat
Seattle PostIntelIigence
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Our idea of nothing IS what a
man has for supper after his wife
spends the afternoon playing bridge, .
says the Humboldt Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-24
other states Iowa seems somewhat
conservative

conservative
In the hearts of hundreds OF thous
ands of stalwart Republicans the in
surgency' of today is devoutly de-
spised because of the elements of
vanity, selfishness, threatened up
heaval of the nations well being COM
mercially and fairness in political
combat" says the Adair News. 1T
should stand alone and fight Republi
canism in the open and on the
square"
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
the ones who ought really to be hap
piest over that Chicago insurgent
conference are not the La Toilette
men, but the Democrats They ought
to be exceedingly happy and they
ought to be preparing to put forward
their best man." the Republican con-
tinues THE La Toilette men know
that they viii never elect their man.
some of them say so, but they think
that they can help defeat Taft"
The Boone News-Republican says it
believes in all good reforms, but it
does not approve the recall Of the jul
dietary. we believe in being progress
sive, but there is such a thing as go
ing too fast" the News-Republican
continues. The sound and sober
judgment of the American people will
recoil in time against the various
fads that are being voted into laws.
The betterment of the public is al
ways to be desired, but there is still
virtue in the old adage to make haste
slowly"
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The trouble with Pinchot." says
the Manchester Press. may be dag
nosed in just FIVE words. He is sore
on Taft Furthermore. it may be said
that he is sore because he was fired :"
The Charles City Intelligencer says
It is convinced that a good many who
accepted the plan for Presidential
primary did SO merely as bluff.
their central and dominating thought
being TO put the other fellow in a
hole.
we have sometimes thought that
Iowa had gone the limit on fool laws
and legislation in recent years. says
the Fairfield Ledger, but when we
look at California and some of the
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are silent cannot be considered much
Of political asset
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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-04-07
N0siee o. Proof Of Completion Of. Works and
Applicstion Of Water 10 Beneficial ,I...

Notice IS hereby given that at 10 a m
on the 18th day of Nav. Io11 a,
BOISE, County of ida, State of Idaho
oerore VIM. b. Davidson, N. p. nroof oil
oe submitted Of the eompletIou of worirs
Tor the diversion of A of / cuhic tooi
per second Of the waters OF an unnanseS
siougn, and OF the application to benefi.
al use OF SAID water in accordance with
serms and conditions of Permit No. 6i5s
ofthe State of Idaho. ''oe'
L.: The name and postoffice address
., the person holding said hermit is.
frank Giudici, Boise, Ada County.
z. Said works of diversion will he
Iuliy completed on the date set for s,ch
completion, and the amount Of water
Whlch said works are.cap pable of conduct.
ing to the place or use, in accordance
with the plans accompanying the annli.
foot per second.
o. The use to which said water has
oeen applied is irrigation and domestic
purposes, and the amount applied to
oenenclal use is 4 Of / cubic foot per
second. ' POI
:; The place where said water is used
IssN1s OF SW4 of SEX Sec. 26, Tp, 8,
NJ, r. l E BIN. -
5. The date of the priority which
salo So user is prepared to establish is
A. E. ROBINSON,
4o-4I State Engineer.