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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

primarily allowed because Of mere
differences between the parties. that
there be tribunal established where
both the church and the state are rep
resented, and where the differences
between husband and wife may be sub
mitted. He would have the applicant
or the aggrieved person present to
this body, or to the different COM
mittees of it, his grievances in secret.
He would invest the committee with
power to suggest some new course,
and call the parties before it and put
this new course before them, and
through the aid of the courts enforce
the same in the exact manner persons
to contracts are compelled to perform
specifically, or to suffer the results in
legitimate form Of penalties, that is,
penalties taking the shape Of no out
ward publicity, but of quiet arrange
ment, save as to the parties involved.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
UNIQUE OBITUARY NOTICE.
"onIy Once in Generation is a Com.
nunity Pestered With Such a HUI
man Viper Writes Country
Correspondent.

MIDDLETON. n. Y, Oct. 26.-one
OF the most remarkable obituary no
tees ever printed was published in
the Sullivan County Review from its
Montela ulster County, correspond
ent II is as follows:
Sam Lobdell is dead Some days
ago he was stricken with poisoning
from wound in the neck while fi2ht-
ing with his wife when he was drunk.
Doctors Grindle of Eureka and Butts
Of Claryyille we're in attendance, bur
in spite of their utmost efforts the
poison spread until as a last resort
they used the knife. The operation
was of no avail, however. and now he
amt here any more.
Sam was unique character. Only
once in a generation Is a community
pestered with such a human viper
such moral < he was the unsolvcd
conundrum. What is he GOOD for?
His only virtue was the persistence
OF his wickedness, his cniy excellence
the stability OF his unrepentance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

The legislative committee Of the
State Teachers association has made
public the recommendation they will
make to the association in regard to
reform in the school system. They
will recommend a reorganization OF
the state educational department. The
state superintendent should get a
salary of at least $4,000 year. He
should be elected at the time of the
general school elections and not at
the time Of the other state officers
and nominations should be made only
on petition and entirely nonpartisan.
Other changes will be recommended
in line with these reforms In order
that the educational department may
be improved. The recommendations
go to the State Teachers association,
which will meet in Des Moines next
week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
REMEDY FOR DIVORCE EVIL.

For effectuelly curbing the divorce
evil, which he declares has become a
national menace. Col. James Hamil-
ton Lewis, vice presidential candidate
OF the Democrats in 1900. has pro
posed a Plan closely resembling the
one adopted in Canada. AS to the
rapid increase Of divorces he sounds
this alarum
The time seems to be approaching
when what IS DESIGNATED as the di-
Yorce evil, that is tho rand increase
OF divorces and the freaucat separa-
tion of mothers from their children.
wives from their husbands, and wires
and husbands from their home threat
ems tho stability of the state. When
the Unit of civilization DESIGNATED the
home-is no longer preserved. there
ceases to be that stimulus for in
dividu3l achievement which in the
aggregate makes for the prosperity,
advancement and renown of the
state"
Colonel Lewis sueeests as a solu-
tion that instead Of the divorce being
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

ers in our public and private schools
and educational institutions give spec.
ial attention to the causes. proven
ton and danger of fires; that school
boards, school officers and others who
are charged with the duty Of looking
after school buildings, give special at
tention to the safety of the children
anu youth who may attend school,
that the mayors and councilmen of
the various cities and towns give
special attention to the matter Of bet
ter building regulations, better fire
protection and better fire prevention,
and that they see to it that all pub
lie buildings which are not properly
equipped with fire escapes and suit
able exits, be so equipped, and that
there be general cleaning up of
dilapidated buildings which are es-
pecially liable to fire: and tina. the
owners of property give personal at
tention to the removal of all rubbish
and debris from their premises and
to the setting OF their heating ap-
pliances and chimneys in proper con-
dition for winter use"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
Robinson as an Advertisement.

Davenport Times: Hugh Robinson,
the aviator who was flying down the
Mississippi river from Minneapolis,
has cancelled the remainder of the
trip, and shipped his machine from
Rock Island to the south to meet en-
gagements for the Curtiss people
there. The fight was conceived as
an advertising plan for the Mississippi
river, but it had not been taken too
enthusiastically along the way, and
the judgment of commercial bodies
that the fight would be more of an
advertisement for Robinson than for
the cities where he would stop appears
to have been borne out by what act
TALLY happenes It is true that the
Associated Press, for instance, car
ried columns of news concerning the
flight, but it was news about Robin
son, of course, and nothing about the
river or towns along the river. Con-
sequently those who did not advance
money will not be disappointed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
THE BUSINESS PROBLEM.

The Chicago Record-Herald notes
that a very significant change mas
come over the spirit of the discussion
of consolidated and corporate indus
TRY. 1t sees unmistakable signs of the
rapid evolution of something like
real consensus of intelligent opinion.
Where all was confusion, discord, mis-
understanding and recrimination
few months ago, today, it says, there
/ is tendency to agreement, spon-
taneous recognition of certain funda-
mental propositions. Are light and
reason ahead?" the Record-Herald
asks, and adds:
After the supreme court had hand
ed down its unanimous decisions in
the oil and tobacco cases the hue and
cry was raised that the rule Of reason
would emasculate the trust act and
intrench monopoly. Men like Bryan
and LaF'ollette, quoting Justice Har-
lan's dissenting opinions, demanded
the Strengthening" of the Sherman
act to render it absolute and ALIEN
lbracing. There could be no reason
able" restraint of competition; all
combinations must go, and at any
cost!
What voices do we hear now? What
is the burden of most of the recent
speeches and platforms with regard
| to trusts? 1t is this-that business
must not be throttled or shackled;
that it is absurd and disastrous to
limit the growth of corporations; that
size, as the Record Record-Herald has
lN1nfond1I ;, af hot
combinations must be judged by their
"fruits"-their methods and conduct;
that lawsuits and threats of lawsuits
settle nothing that constructive. sup
Elementary legislation is necessary to
enable corporations to do business
within the law; that industry and
commerce have right to stability and
confidence, which blessings presup-
pose definite, positive "yardsticks"
and standard
Thus we find that an elaborate adj
dress on trusts by George w. Perkins,
a former partner Of ]. P Morgan, is
almost unreservedly indorsed by the
editors of the Outlook and also by
William Randolph Hearst: that the
Republican progressives, in booming
/ LaFollette, deprecate destructive trust
prosecutions and demand constructive
Legislation; that radicals from Oregon
like Bourne vie with eminent lawyers
from New York like LittIeton in advo-
eating supervision and regulation of
combinations instead OF legal attacks
on them for alleged refusals to com
Ipete; that Taft and Wickersham are
planning federal incorporation stat
Iutes and hoping for Democratic coop
Grafton while Democratic governor
land presidential possibility, Woodrow
i Wilson, is criticising them for dis
turbing business by falling definitely
to announce such legislation; that. in
a word, insurgents, progressives, trust
busters are joining men of affairs in
proposing test and rule OF reason that
would give US combination without
abuse OF power, legitimate business,
big or little, without artificial handi-
caps and arbitrary limitations Of
size
Is a consensus developing through
sheer necessity. Is reason coming in
to its own?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
BROWN MAY ENROLL
AT STATE COLLEGE
President Of New York Central Is
Expected at Ames, According
to Report.

AMES, Iowa, Oct. ga great rail-
road president may come to school
at Iowa State college.
Dean Charles E. Curtiss of the agri-
cultural division of the college has
just received letter from w. G.
Brown, who is at the head of the New
York Central system, indicating that
this distinguished transportation
manager will attend the annual agri-
cultural short course in January
Dean Curtiss extended an invitation
to Mr.. Brown, and he answers that ii
business matters permit, he will join
the Iowa farmers who come by hun
dreds every year for the special work
arranged for them.
Il will try hard to be present" he
says, and that may be taken to mean
that he will come.
President w. c. Brown believes in
the short course so thoroughly that
he expects to send two groups of farm
Toys this year, paying their fees for
the entire course. One group will
COluc iIOlI rage equity, WnCIc uC OP
crates fine live stock farm, and an
other from Jackson county. Presi-
dent Browns ambition to understand
agriculture is no mere fancy; it is
deep seated and already he is we'll
informed in many phases of agricul-
tural industry. Down in Page county
other farmers give him credit for be
ing one of them, and among the boys
of Page county, whom he encourages
in every way to stick to the farm, he
is a popular friend.
Two members of the faculty of the
University of Arkansas have entered
the agricultural division OF Iowa state
college to do post graduate work and
get the benefit of the exceptional
equipment of 'owa's great institution
One of them is A. K. Short, professor
of animal husbandry, and the other IL
his associate professor CT animal
husbandry. NJ. P Gates. They wi!
take work in animal husbandry fol
their major study and in farm crops
for their minor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
EXPECTS TO LINE UP
RATE EVIDENCE
Every Section Of Iowa
VIII be Represented at
Hearing.

DES MONIES, Oct. 2G.-Rate ex-
perts from nearly every section OF
Iowa representing all the important
shipping interests of the state were
present yesterday afternoon at
meeting in the Office of Attorney Cen
eraI Cosson to outline plans to be
pursued during the hearings on the
Iowa freight rate complaints which
will commence next Saturday in Des
Moines.
It was desired to ascertain the
kind of evidence that will be present
ed by representatives Of business
houses outside of this city. Ten of
the fifteen Iowa complaints filed with
the interstate commerce commission
are petitions prepared for the Greater
Des Moines committee in behalf OF
the local concerns.
Representatives of other cities will
give their testimony in an attempt to
prove that the rates are excessive,
discriminatory and prohibitive of fair
competition.
Among the other cases are the CON-
plants Of the Fort Dodge shippers
against the first class rates between
Fort Dodge and Chicago Sioux City
Commercial club representatives will
be present in behalf of the complaints
of Sioux City firms against the rates
between Minnesota points and Sioux
City and between South Dakota and
North Dakota points and Sioux City
Another case in behalf of the Missis
sippi river cities in Iowa also will be
brought up. The Cedar Rapids case
which was heard in Cedar Rapids last
year. will be given hearing.
/ Among the men present at the
meeting yesterday were A. W. DowleI
of Fort Dodge, J. B. Browning of OF
tumwa, ". n jones of Waterloo, E. H
Draper of Marshalltown, y. H. Karstel
lof Marengo, Mr. Combs of Marshall
town, E. G.. Wylie OF Des Moines. AT
torrey General Cosson, A. C. Robbins
assistant attorney general. ant
DWIGHT Lewis, assistant to the com
rTerce counsel In addition, Their
! were Representatives OF shipping in
iterests at Clear Lake. Mason City ant
Waterloo. Other cities interested II
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

Booze fighter, liar, wife beater, chick
en- thief. egg stealer, dope fiend, pro-
fame and vile speech to the point OF
nausea, he was the trademark of sin.
the sentiment emblem of vice, with
no crime but work beyond his capac-
ity. He was even worse; but he has
gone hence and it is never our inclina-
ton to kick man when he is down.
yet at death his proverbial luck
was with him. He goes below just as
the whitening frosts and chilling
winds are ushering in a long and
tedious season for the good who are
left. AS was often the case when in
life and when in Jail, he will keep
warm and comfortable at others ex-
pense. Well, So long Sam, and SO long
as it is long. good luck"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
What Is a Progressive?

New York World: Not one word
about tariff reform can be found In
the platform adopted by the progress.
siye Republican conference in Chica'
go, endorsing Senator La Toilette, OF
Wisconsin, as the logical candidate
for President"
The issue was ignored as complete
ly as If it had never been heard Of in
American politics.
Yet the insurgent movement came
into existence on the issue of tariff
reform. Ever since Senator Cummins
began his fight in Iowa, the strength
OF insurgency has been its sturdy OPP
position to the grosser abuses of pro-
lection. 1t was insurgency which
most bitterly resented Mr.. Taft's as
sertion that the Payne-Aldrich sched-
ules constituted "the best tariff ever
enacted" and it was insurgency that
threatened him with political damna-
ton for his vetoes of the wool bill
and the free list bill. Now when there
is chance to make the protest eff
fective, our progressive friends, I'M
der the leadership of the most pro-
fessedly militant of all progressives,
suddenly become as dumb as the
tomb, as silent as the grave.
Their platform proudly declares
that "the progressive movement is a
struggle to wrest the control of the
government in the state and nation
from the representatives of special
privilege" but no forms of special
privilege are enumerated, no repre-
sentatives of special privilege are
mentioned. The only definite policy
of any sort or description which can
be found in the platform drew its in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

spiration from the Osawattomie
speech, and consists in a declaration
that 1T is worse than idle to leave
the question of whether great bust
ness enterprises are legal or not
merely to judicial determination, .
and that industrial corporations
should by affirmative legislative en-
actment be given definite rules of
conduct"
If this is progressive Republican
ism, then Wall street is progressive
Republican. Gary and Perkins are
progressive. So is the head of every
trust who wants congress to obliter-
ate the criminal penalties from the
Sherman law and provide new set
of federal bureaucrats to legalize the
activities of big business.
On the basis of the platform adopt
ed at Chicago there is no reason why
the Protective Tariff league, the Bos-
ton Home Market club and the Ameri-
can Wooden Co. should not imme-
diately become progressive Republi-
cans. There is no reason why Wall
street should not at once begin the
work of raising La Toilette progress.
sive campaign fund, with progressive
headquarters in ]. Pierpont Morgan's
office. There is no reason why Nelson
w. Aldrich, Joseph G. Cannon and
James S. Sherman should not be ex.
allied leaders in the progressive move
ment. If this Chicago platform is
test of progressive Republicanism,
William H. Taft is excluded only be-
cause he is too radical.
1t is evident that real Republican
insurgency had little If any voice in
the Chicago conference.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
WARREN.
. . . . . . . . . - Q . Q

Harry Dresser and wife attended
the Wardlow-Griswold nuptials at
Viele Tuesday evening.
Misses Lula and Nora Kincaid were
Sunday guests of Mrs. A. E. Dean.
Mr.. jenkins and family of Farming
ton were guests of Andrew Kincaid
and family Sunday.
Geo. Meinhardr and family took
dinner with Geo. Green and wife Sun
day.
Mrs. Page and Mrs. Although re-
turned to their home in Blockton,
after sojourn at the Dresser homes.
Miss Laura Seyh visited Sunday at
the Paul Meissner home.
Mrs. Will Landes came out Tues
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

Aviator Robinson furnished an IL
lustration of buffer getting bluffed.
The Waterloo Courier, disinterested
witness, thus states the case:
He essayed to play the hog and
coerce the city of St Louis to increase
its guarantee to $4,000 for the sake OF
seeing him fly over it by threatening
to end his fight at Rock Island if the
city did not come across. The spirit
ed president of the Aero club an
swered by withdrawing the guarantee
already made. This is proper Amer
lean treatment for the buffer who
seeks to swell his gains by threats"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
A HEAL THY,
HAPPY OLD AGE

May be promoted by those who
gently cleanse the system, now and
then, when in need of a laxative
remedy, by taking a dcsc,tspoonful
Of the ever refreshing, wholesome
and truly beneficial Syrup Of Figs
and Elixir Of SIENNA, which is the
only family laxative generally ap-
proved by the most eminent ply
sicians, because it acts in q natural.
Strengthening way and warns and
tones up the internal organs withou,
weakening them. tits equally bene6-
hcialfor the very young and the mid
Ole aged, as tits always efficient and
free fro.a all harmful ingredients. To
get It's beneficial effects il is always
necessary to buy the genuine, bear.
ing the name Of the Company
California Fig Syrup Co.-plainly
printed onthc lron,ofeycrypack
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
Gate Between Two Rooms.

It proved blessing In one house
1t is fastened in the doorway. between
the nursery and mothers room.
There are times when the mother
likes to watch the children wfthou,
being right among them. Often sew
ing or writing may be done more
easily with the gate between the moth
er and the little ones.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

Bishop Quayle ordained a board of
deacons the other day and at the con-
clusion Of the ceremony made each
deacon's wife kiss her husband. The
good bishop evidently doesn't believe
that there is too much kissing going
on among the deacons already.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

The state supreme court has ruled
that the possession of liquor of any
quantity in public eating house or
the possession of unusual quantities
of 1T in private home indicate'a pre-
sumption to engage in the Illegal
selling of liquor. 1t will not be the
fault of the supreme court If liquor
selling in Iowa becomes thing of
the past.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
keokuk, Iowa ..........oet. 2s, 1911
THE MAN WHO is MAKING GOOD

THE MAN WHO is MAKING GOOD.
The man we like is the man who
wins
The man with mighty will;
Who plods away through the heat OF
the day,
And journeys up the hill.
His is the hand we like to grasp;
He is the man that we would clasp
To our breast with friendly zest-
The man who Is making good.
For whether it be on land or sea,
In peace or the bloody fray.
The men we cheer are the men who
steer
A straightway course each day.
Not the man who falters and drops
III aside,
But the man who has boldly stood
In the thick of the fight for the cause
of the right,
The man who is making good.
Then here's to the man today, says l,
Who strives with heart of steel,
With his red blood warm in his man.
ly form,
Though envy's at his heel.
Yes, here's to the man who tolls
right on,
Though he be misunderstood;
make my bow to him right now
The man who is making good.
Detroit Free Press.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
THoUeHr FOR THE DAY.

A laugh is just like music; it fingers
in the heart,
And when its melody is heard, the ills
of life depart.
And happy thoughts come crowding
it's joyful notes to greet;
A laugh is just like music for making
living sweet.
Selected.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

the hearings and which will be rep
resented are Cedar Rapids, Sioux City,
Burlington, Keokuk, Muscatine. Dav-
export, Clinton and Dubuque.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

The disappointed ones are to have
another chance. Another county in
South Dakota will be ratified off next
year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

Kill Devil Hill seems like a queer
place to choose to try out aeroplane
stunts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

The increase in the cost Of living
is becoming really serious. Golf balls
have gone up in price.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

The cars for women only" have
proved failure in London. Suffra.
gettes had to have male heads to
knock
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26

It has been noticed that the gallery
god is never late.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-26


day from Fl. Madison for a visit with
relatives.
Mrs. Rolla Foss and daughter Vera
OF Salem came in Tuesday to visit at
the parental Purdy home.
Walter Roth and family and Miss
Emma Noonan were Sunday guests at
the w l.. Henkle home.
George Green and wife entertained
relatives Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Eva Kirby visited at the Ed
Park home last week.
Miss Elizabeth Kriebill spent Wed.
nesday at the parental home.
Miss Hazel Wedel was passenger
to Keokuk Tuesday.
Walter Roth and family spent Wed.
nesday at the Emil Hennies' home.