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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
JASPER BLlNEs' JorrINes.
County Fairs Old and New-The New
Bridge at Buena vlsta-New
Corn on Market.
To the Editor Of The Gate City:

To the Editor OF The Gate City:
The so-called county affair is large
ly modification Of the principles and
mission of the real county fair Of thir-
ty and forty years ago. One likes to
review the days and ways of the
earlier gatherings when such rulers
as l. N. Lewis, George K. Biggs and
their class were in control. Nowadays
the occasion has assumed the colors
of the sport and the arena
Coming up to Keokuk observe how
the general country has improved
within the recent months The ag-
ricultural interests are regaining nor
NAL balance, and the final estimate
will show near the average.
The fine superstructure at Buena
Vista is nearing completion, and this
will be the greatest bridge enterprise
that ever decorated the river at this
point. The west passway is being
finished and then all vehicle traffic
will move across without delay or in.
terruption. One splendid feature of
the new work is that the railway
lIdCh 10 sOJ anu
are thus eliminated
The tomato crop is delayed this
year, and it's season of fruitage will
be brief.
On Tuesday farmer Gilka, who Is
in the business on Ballinger's Island,
below Alexandria, hauled to Keokuk
load of new corn which had reached
condition of maturity to entitle the
grain to be marketed. This is unusual
" early for the sale of new corn
Visited the pioneer Wood Wilsey
who is located in his large gasoline
launch on the beach near the Talbot
elevator company. Wood and his
brother Harve are pioneer settlers in
Clark and Lee counties and they can
relate enough reliable history to COM
pose a large book.
Our ferryboat, the Meeker, is having
liberal business and is serving the
public to near perfection
Called on Charley Becker, whom
have known since the days of boyhood,
and found him as sociable and com
panionable as ever. Charley manu-
features the most durable and per-
fret brooms in all the United States.
The new paper of Warsaw bows to
the public this week. After a silence
of some weeks, the recent Alexandra
Delta Sun blows out as the New Era.
! In surveying for the drainage of the
Wyaconda district organization the
civil engineer, w B. Hazen, started
the survey elevations from the court
house in Kahoka. After a series OF
years of high taxation, the land own
ers of the drainage district will dis
cover that the financial survey also
began at the court house.
The summer Is a long time visitor
Of fine presence. It's benediction to
one to be in harmony with the wealth
er and its various colors and qualities.
JASPER BLINES.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
ORDINANCE NUMBER ss4.

Reading waived by consent of all
the council.
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING
KEEPERS OF INTELLIGENCE OR
EMPLOYMENT OFFICES. BU-
REAUS AND AGENCIES.
Be it ordained by the City Council
of the City of 1.eokuk:
Section l.. That no person, firm,
company or corporation shall hero
after maintain an intelligence or en-
ployment Office, bureau or agency or
engage in the business of seeking en-
ployment for others or procuring or
furnishing employment for others or
of giving information whereby en-
ployes or employers may be obtained,
without first having procured IL
cense from the City Clerk 30 to do;
provided that no benevolent or frater
nal organization, who shall engage In
such business for the purpose Of rem
dertng assistance to its members for
charitable or benevolent purposes
| and whose office is maintained under
the auspices of some benevolent, fra
ternal, religious or charitable organ
| ization, shall be required to secure
and pay for said license, but they shall
be subject to the other provisions of
this ordinance.
Section 2. Any person, firm or cor
poration who shall agree or promise,
or who shall advertise to furnish en-
ployment or situations to any person
or persons in pursuance of such adj
vertisement agreement or promise
and who shall receive any money,
personal property or other valuable
thing whatsoever therefor, and who
shall fail to procure for such person
or persons acceptable situation or
employment within the time stated in
said contract, or as agreed upon,
or IL no time be specified, then
within one month after registra-
ton or application, shall upon de-
mand, return all such money, personal
property or valuable consideration of
whatever character, except an amount
not to exceed one dollar ts100) which
may be charged as filing fee.
Section 3. Any person, firm or cor
poration receiving any application for
employment from or entering into
any agreement with any person to
furnish or procure for said person any
employment shall at the time of re-
ceiving said application furnish and
deliver to the person or persons max
ing said application a full and true
copy of such application or agree
ment, written or printed both in the
English language ard also in the ma
tive language of the person making
said application, or agreement, which
application or agreement shall SPECIFY
the foe or consideration to be paid by
the person seeking employment, the
piece where said employment is to be
secured, the nature of said employ.
ment and the compensation to be re-
ceived for such employment.
Section 4. Every person, firm or
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
SPEAKING OF ENGINES AND
THINGS,

While going through the canning
factory at Mt. Pleasant the other
day the editor of the News published
in that city ran across little two
horse steam engine that In days for
gotten he used to run his first over
newspaper press. He had lost track
of the faithful seryitor and supposed
1t had been consigned to the scrap
heap. It's continued existence and
usefulness inspired him to write de-
lightfully in reminiscent mood of
some of his earlier newspaper ex-
periences. He says he has put in a
good many and some expensive ma
chimes since that little engine was
bought, but he never felt quite so
proud as he was Of that little en-
CINE. It's advent elevated the office
from the hand-motive class to the
power press, wherefore the moment
he got 1t going he put in his imprint
News Power Print to distinguish it
from "the lowly and unprogressive
shops that still hired some lusty col
ored man to run OF the daily editions
and Kicked the jobbers."
When he threw out the little steam
engine he put in a four-horsepower
gasoline engine, then changed to a
six-horse power gasoline engine, then
helped 1t out by putting in another
two-horse power engine, but this was
the straw that broke the camels
back. All who have had experience
with such contrivances will thor
oughly appreciate the following per-
sifiage:
"One gas engine is bad enough, but
when you have two bucking at the
same time you are driven into cor
ner and lose judgment and self re-
spect. 1t can be stated on good au-
thority that the gasoline engine has
done more to demoralize men relig-
iously than any other known cause.
How many men who own and operate
gas engines are pillars of the church?
How many men who own and operate
gas engines, whether stationary or
under the bonne. of an auto, serve
time in the Sunday school or prayer
meeting room? None. They do not
have time. On Sunday they have to
repair the ravages of the weeks run.
We have long since thrown out the
gasoline engines and now have six
electric motors which run silently
and calmly and conscientiously and
religiously. And the men and women
who work in our Office are affected
the same way, which is somewhat diff
ferent from the days when two gaso-
line engines coughed and sputtered
and smoked and steamed and bucked
life and raise1 the dickens generally
and all the time
There is one serious fault to be
found with Editor Rogers writing in
the News. There isn't half enough Of
It.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
The Strike Situation

Atlantic Telegraph: The crux of
the fight between the workmen on the
Hartman lines, which include thu
Union Pacific, the Oregon Short Line,
the Southern and Central Pacifics and
the St Paul and Illinois Central rail
ways, seems to be whether or not the
company will agree to dealing direct
ly with the United Brotherhood of
Car Men instead of with local unions,
crafts or even employees of individual
lines of road. The high up union off,
Gals desire that kick may be made
by any small branch Of the service
on any of these great lines and it
shall Immediately become almost ma
tional question. They insist that fore
men be named in their order of length
of service, regardless Of fitness, and
that all employees not now member
OF this great union be discharged
within thirty days and no more nom
union employees be hired. This means
the closed shop for those great sys-
TENS of railways. An increase of
wages is also demanded, amounting to
Z cents per hour per man and other
arrangements Of scale and hours are
demanded which would increase the
labor cost OF the Union Pacific alone
one and one-half million dollars
year. II the Hartman lines submit to
the demands now being made by the
Garments union, bunch of boiler
makers In Wyoming may have trouble
and tie up this whole system of rail
ways to settle 1t. This regardless of
whether the demands made by this
small section Of employees be identi-
cal with the interests of other crafts
employed on other parts of the road
or not. 1t looks very much like a self
constituted band OF union office-hold-
ers want to make themselves bigger
than the railroad lines where they are
employed. They want to do this re-
CARELESS of the fact that winter Is ap-
preaching and regardless of the ter
rible losses that will follow for the
men, for the road and for business
interests in many states If strike
should come. In all of the statements
union and otherwise, which we have
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

! read, there is no charge that the men
have been improperly treated. The
wages are good on all these lines and
the treatment of the men uniformly
good The main interest at stake
seems to be the unfolding OF COM
pany Of union officers in cushioned
chairs in the top story of some office
building and permitting them to die
tate, between periods of drawing high
salaries. what the men over this sys-
tenn, and what the system itself shall
do.
If it is shown that the company has
been paying starvation wages the men
will get the sympathy of the public.
If it can be shown that the laborers
along these lines are SO poorly paid
that they cannot provide good homes
for their families, good clothes and
plenty to eat, there may be ground
for row.
If it could be shown eten that the
railroads were piling up great for
tunes at the expense of the laboring
people and the public there would be
little sympathy for Vice President
Kruttschnitt and his associates.
Labor is entitled to it's rights. The
working man is entitled to decent
hours, decent treatment and decent
surroundings. Given these we see no
reason why he should be entitled to
say who shall be foreman of the COM
pany's shops; who shall be engineer
or fireman on any particular train;
whether they shall be paid by the
hour or the piece; or even who shall
be employed, so long as he Is re-
spectacle citizen, and does not inter
fere with the rights of anyone else. 1t
is altogether probable that not one
man in ten on these great lines of
railroad is dissatisfied with his job or
wants to strike.
It would be cheaper and better to
send some of the union leaders to Da-
homa as special ambassadors or min
listers plenipotentiary and let the
governor pay the bills, than to have
them constantly stirring up trouble at
home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

A list of Van Buren, county farm.
ers who have recently had the names
of their farms recorded is printed in
the Keosauqua Republican for the
current week. Samuel Locke of VII
lage township has named his 100 acre
farm Plain View Farm; Leo Wolfe
ninety-six acres in Van Buren, town
ship, Long View; Henry Wallingford
159 acres in Harrisburg township
Cherry Vale Poultry Farm; Ada D.
Stong, 800 acres in Van Buren, town
ship, Linwood ]. T. Syfert farm in
Washington township, Woodland
Home; John w. Wheatley, 100 acres
in Cedar township, Prairie View Stock
and Grain Farm. Lee county farm
ers would do we'll to emulate their
example In giving names to their
farms.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

But just as soon as We get to the
Canada boundary line such doings
would not only be loyal, but even
patriotic. And yet to look at citi-
zen of Canada, you could not tell
him apart from New Yorker, nor
could you tell him clearly by his
English, his clothes or his religion.
In our day both the labor and capital
of commerce are SO closely related
that we really have no more real right
to collect our tariff tax to support our
government from the Canadian than
the Indianian. If we have such real
inherent and legal right would like
to have some one would show where
it is and how it is sustained We
Republicans do not move ahead and
catch our tariff plank in party pol
itics.
AMOS STECKEL.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
John callan o'Laughlin declares i,

John Callan O'Laughlin declares in
the Chicago Tribune that the parcels
post will in all probability become a
reality at the next session of con-
gress; according to his observa-
lions. the measure will be passed by
Democratic house, endorsed by the
senate and approved by the Presi-
dent. The chief possibility of failure
lies in differences as to the question
of abolishing the express companies,
which will be raised in certain
quarters
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

The Illinois Association, opposed to
woman suffrage has issued pamph-
let entitled: Men For the State;
Women For the Home" in which
some strong points are brought out
against the woman suffrage move
ment One contributor expresses
i herself as follows:
Woman has her own ultimate stat
us as the mother Of men. the examplar
and expounder of all noble, moral and
spiritual gifts, her GROWING adorn-
ment at the hands of her Maker. If
YOU give her besides the uttermost
stroy the equality between them. What
have you left him, as his distinguish
ing trait? He sinks at once to the
level of the working women's ineffic-
ent husband, the commercial woman's
errand boy, the worthless dissipated
duke OF the multi-millionaire's heiress.
What true woman would ever, even for
bread and buffers sake or for the sake
OF strawberry crown marry man
SO shorn of his manhood? What wo
man wants man whose power of
law-giving Is no more than equal to
her own She has her great gift from
Gods own hand, which man has no
power to take from her except at his
own eternal loss. Equally inalienable
Is his birthright. If he we're thought.
lessly or foolishly to rob himself of it.
what would become of that mutual
homage and respect which is the nat
ural bond between the sexes? No
let him keep for himself something by
which we may still reverence him, the
horns OF Moses. his manly power Of
law-giving."
1t is suggested by another that man
belittles himself when he imposes on
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

The much mooted question of when
a young woman ceases to be young
has been settled by the directors of
the Cambridge Young Women's Chris.
tian Association at Cambridge, Mass,
after a long discussion. They voted,
in connection with the question of ad.
mitting candidates to the new home
there, that no woman is young after
she has passed the age of thirty-five
years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

The experience of Iowa cities that
have established market places has
been that they have greatly increased
the consumption of fruits and vege-
tables. The lower prices at which
these things are available encourage
more liberal purchases and use. Thir-
ty or forty years ago Keokuk had a
market and 1t was literally patronized.
Perhaps some old resident can tell
us why 1t was abandoned.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

The city council Of Des Moines has
passed an ordinance making it un.
lawful for any person driving an auto
mobile or motorcycle or other vehicle
to blow whistle of loud piercing or
shrill sound; 1t is also unlawful for
any person driving motorcycle or
automobile to open the cut-out there.
on. Keokuk needs like local enact
ment rigidly enforced.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

women the duties that belong wholly
to himself. The effect, it is claimed,
is to make woman the worker, the
slave, and the man declines to a po-
sition which depriyes him of the
larger half of his manliness, courage
and ambition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

The Ida Grove Pioneer tells of
hearing a man in central Iowa town
proclaiming against the trusts. Lets
see," we asked, who run the other bus
line in this town. There is no 9th.
er line,'' he replied, Il bought one fel.
low out and put the other out of bust.
ness because was better hustler. "
Monopolies are bad things unless you
own one yourself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

corporation engaged in the business
specified In this ordinance who shall
receive an application or make an
agreement as specified in the proceed
ing section hereof, shall retain a
copy of said contract giving the in
formation required in said preceding
section; and shall also keep a reg
istration book showing the name, ad-
dress and present or former employer
of said applicant, and the same shall
be subject to inspection and examin-
alton at any and all times by the
mayor or the councilman In charge OF
the department Of public safety. o. any
one designated by said mayor or coun-
Gilman, or any police officer in the
City. of Keokuk.
Section 5. No person, firm or cor
poration and no person employed Or
authorized by such person, firm or cor
poration to hire or discharge en-
ployes, shall receive any part Of any
fee Or any percentage of wages or any
compensation of any kind whatever
that is agreed upon to be paid by any
employe OF said person, firm or corpor-
alton to any employment bureau or
agency for services rendered to any
such employee in procuring for him
employment with said person, firm or
corporation.
Section 6. No person, firm or cor
poration engaged in the keeping of an
intelligence or employment Office,
bureau or agency, as provided in this
ordinance shall publish or cause to be
published any false or fraudulent no.
tice or advertisement, or give any
false information or make any false
promise concerning or relating to
work or employment to any one who
shall apply for employment. nor shall
they make any false entries in the
register, contracts or other records to
be kept as herein provided: nor shall
they conduct said business office or
agency in or in connection with any
place where intoxicating liquors are
sold.
Section Z. Every person, firm or
corporation securing license as re-
quired by this ordinance shall pay
therefor the sum Of FIVE hundred dol
lars ($500.00) per annum, payable in
advance, and said license may be re-
voked by the City Council for any
violation OF any of the provisions
hereof.
Section 8. Any person, firm or cor
poration violating any Of the provis-
ions of this ordinance or any section
hereof. or who shall refuse access to
the records, books or other papers
relative to the conduct of such agency
or bureau to any person having auth
ority to examine the same, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by fine of not less than Ave
dollars (s500) and not to exceed one
hundred dollars (s10O.00) or imprison-
ment in the city Jail not to exceed
thirty 500 days for each and every
offense.
Section 9. All ordinances and parts
of ordinances in conflict with the pro-
visions hereof are hereby repea cd
Section 10. This ordinance shall
be in force and be effective ten days
from it's passage and after it's publ.
cation in THE Daily Gate City, and
"The acknowledgements, news.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
nrHE DUEL,

1.-THE DUEL"
The bingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat;
Twas half-past IL, and (what do you
thinkD
Nor one or t'other had slept wink!
The old Dutch clock and the Chinese
plate
Appeared to know as sure as fate
There was going to be terrible spat.
q wasn't there; simply state
What was told to me by the Chinese
plate!)
The Bingham dog went "bow-wow-
wow!"
And the calico cat replied "mee-ow!'
The air was Uttered, an hour or SO,
With bits of Bingham and calico,
While the old Dutch clock in the
chimney place
Up with his hands before its face
For 1t always dreaded family row!
(Now mind; I'm only telling you
What the old Dutch clock declares is
trueD
The Chinese plate looked very blue,
And walled, "Oh dear! what shall we
do"
But the Bingham dog and the calico
cat
Wallowed this way and tumbled that,
Employing every tooth and claw
In the awfulest way you ever saw
And, oh! how the Bingham and calico
flew!
fDon't fancy l exaggerate!
got my views from the Chinese
plate!)
Next morning where the two had sat
They found no trace Of the dog or cat;
And some folks think unto this day
That burglars stole the pair away!
But the truth about the cat and the
pup
Is this: They ate each other up!
Now what do you really think OF
that!
(The old Dutch clock it told me SO,
And that is how l came to know
Eugene Field.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

Last year the United States pro.
duced Is per cent of the corn of the
world, SO per cent Of the oats and 90
per cent OF the wheat, and 1t was
done upon per cent OF the land. The
average annual production Of cereals
In this country is about five thousand
million bushels. OF all the corn grown
in this country, and there were 1885,
100000 bushels Of it, only about 2 per
cent was exported.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
TAFT is GAINING.

Washington Press: President Taft
is growing on the people of the United
States. They see that he has fighting
qualities in him and that he is not
afraid to put the administration
measures up to the people for their
approval. Taft, before he leaves the
white house. after he has served two
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
Commerce Makes Customs cosmopoI.
Itan,
To the Editor Of The cate CITY.

To the Editor of The Gate City.
II attempt were made to levy and
collect tariff duty. that we call Gus
toms, on wheat shipped between
producers and consumers between
the people that live and move and
have their being in the forty-odd sep
arate states of this American United
States. We would soon be stopped on
SUSPICION of treason and disloyalty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01
Representative Miller of

Representative Miller of Bremen
county is mentioned as a probable
candidate for governor on the Demo.
cratic ticket. The doctors of the
state would hail his candidacy with
great enthusiasm. What they would
do to him would be good and plenty,
as the boys on the street say.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

1t is remarked by caustic writer in
the Peoria ald-Transcript that
many man who takes vacation on
the theory that the change will do
him good, finds at the finish that he
gets the vacation while the railroads
and landlords get the change.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

Look to the baby's teeth" franti-
cally exclaims newspaper health au-
thority. Just as matter of precau-
ton it might be well to be sure that
the baby has teeth. They are usually
absent up to the fifth or eighth
month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-01

II a parcels post is established, as
seems likely. the express companies
will be to blame. The real impetus
of the parcels post movement in re-
cent years has come from their
rapacity.