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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10

corporations promotion fund.
II few hundred refused to sign.
preferring to haev their names 60
down on the roll Of dishonor. their
refusal would be Of little consequence
except with respect to their standing
among their neighbors and with the
community in general.
II the agreement to pay were gen.
orally signed, line labeled Pro-
motion tax, one milr' could be print
ed on the regular tax receipt. or up
on coupon attached. or separate
receipt could be issued.
The promotion tax is the most
equitable method of raising promo
ton fund. 1t would burden nobody.
The many and not the few would
pay. all contributing in proportion to
the assessed value of their property
in the city. Real estate, the most
certain beneficiary of industrial pro-
gress, would help to pay for it instead
of leaving a dozen leading citizens
among them to do all that the thou
sands Of real estate owners in Dubuque
have done for this Industrial move
ment
There is no obstacle to the promo
ton tax which little energy and
determination can not overcome.
Where is the man with a homestead
assessed at $4,000 who would object
to paying IS a year into this promo
ton fund?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10
Tho Farmer in Politics.
Washington Post.l

1t is questionable whether the new
tangled political methods instituted in
some of the states are doing as much
good as harm by taking the farmer
OFT of politics" Why should the
farmer be out of politics. Would not
both politics and farmer be better off
II he should go more into politics and
take a personal interest in the adj
ministration of his township. county.
state. and nationo
One of the effects of the new pri-
mary system is to deprive the farmer
Of a legitimate source of income which
reached a large sum in the aggregate.
The farmer formerly furnished his
teams and convevances for political
rallies and conventions, hauled lumber
for band stands and speakers plat
forms, carried speakers from place to
place and otherwise picked up many
an honest dollar for honest service
Now when the primary laws prohibit
the spending OF a cent for "political
PURPOSES" the farmer is kept out OF
politics" with vengeance The for
eigner would imagine that money spent
for political purposes" was corruptlv
used while. as a matter of fact eX-
penditures for bringing the people to-
= e4-'-! W p'Htb~S Iplil!t.1! issues are
not only legitimate. but praiseworthv
It would be we'll if more money were
spent to educate the people. farmers
included. in the matter of government
administration.
There is a heap of hun,bug in the
pretense that politics" is to be avoided
by farmers or ANYBODY else. Every
American citizen. big ard little should
he in politics-politics OF the right sort
He should be always on guard watch
ing the interests of his community and
his country, keeping bad men out and
putting good men in. The American
citizen needs no guardian but him
SELF He is fully able to look after his
own affairs. "politics" included. and he
is not Thoroughly useful citizen II he
does not attend to these matters.
Politics should not he left to the poi-
ificians. 1t should be made the bust
ness or every man. whether ne ne
statesman, merchant, preacher. or
farmer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10

whether he knew who was being
bought and for how much or not. II
his election was tainted by bribery and
the debauching OF legislators he should
be dismissed from the sentae.
The Sioux City Journal is convinced
that Lorimer must be dismissed If dis
missed at all on sentiment" Confess
sion. restitution and corroboratiye cir
cumstancial evidence lead to convic-
ton rather than sentiment. Perhaps
the Journal has confused the terms
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10
TIE LODGES.

4 MASONIC NoTlcgo,
VIVIAN In New 1ssopio Teg1yoA
"\Yisitors always wSlcoms.
MARSHALL LODGE. loS. 4. j. Z
A. NJ. Friday. Jan. ~. 7.30 p. N. state
communication. Also work on third
degree.
r. w. Chamberlain, W. n.
John w. Wells. Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. -. r. A. u.
Regular convocation Jan. 1e. 1880. N
the new temple :.
Fred Wallace, =. n. p.
!. 8. Millard. Secretary.
KING SOLOMON Council, No. 20, r.
& 8. NJ. Stated assembly, Monday.
Jan. is. 1911, 1880 p. m.
]. 7. Forbes. Recorder.
A. d. Meeker, T. I. M.
st. ALDEAIAR COMMANDERY, No.
80. K. T. Stated conclavs Tuesday evon.,
ing. Jan. II. 1911. at 1880 o'clock.
L T. Forbes, e. G.
Fred Wallace. Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, q. 4
S.-Regula meeting Wednesday even.
ing, Jan. IL. at 1880 p. m.
Edna G. Fularton. w. II.
Lillian Norton. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10
AN INDUSTRIAL PeoNAeE.

The Commercial Club of Des Moines
has outlined loan shark bill which
will be presented to the legislature and
Its passage urged upon that body.
The bill will greatly resembel the
Massachusetts law on the same sub
ject. It will put the money loaning
a-encies under a regular license system.
4 here will be a maximum rate Of in
terest which can be charged and any
cvercharge will be simply added on TO
the pricipal. If the proposed bill be-
comes a law there will be a record book
kept which will be open to inspection
from the police officials at any time
I case the law is violated a fine of not
less than $500 will be exacted or
sentence of Imprisonment imposed of
not less than sixty days. The party
TO whom the money is lent must know
the amount of interest he is being
charged, according to the proposed
measure The actual expense of secur-
ing the loan will necessarily be made
matter Of record and due notice Of
arrears must DC SiH ven ~ VIC Patto-i'
The right to change the maximum
rate Of interest will be reserved by the
licensing board as is provided by the
Massachusetts i,w.
+ This legislature should pass a law
along the lines indicated. The loan
shark is multiplying in Iowa. He has
always existed as the "chattel mort
gage" shark, but he is learning from
his type in the larger cities and pur-
suing the methods OF those modern
pirates. He needs regulating He should
be fixed"
Those who go to the larger cities Of
the country seeking certain classes of
skilled employees know somewhat of the
extent to which the loan shark figures
in industrial economics true esti-
mate Of the number of men under abb
solute slavery to the loan sharks would
be rejected as unbelievable. AS our
cities grow and our industrial popu-
lation increases the loan shark -four
fishes and his nefarious business grows
and extends itself.
Take time by the forelock and while
welcoming the man whose skilled labor
and steady industry make his wage the
favorite prey OF the assignment pirate
put up the bars to the loan shark
to whom 10 per cent month consti-
tutes very practical system of peon-
age.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10
IOWA UNIVERSITY AND SALOONS
TMarSop To,,rpa11


Down at Iowa City, there is one Of
the hottest anti-saloon fights in the
state and the whole state is watch
ing the outcome with more than or
binary interest.
Johnson county outside Of the city
has gone dry and a desperate effort
is being made to rid the city of sa-
looms.
What makes the contest Of more
than local interest is the fact that
the Iowa State University is located
there and that it is the only state
school located in a saloon town.
What makes it of especial interest
is also the fact that the State Uni
versity is the only large school in
Iowa that has not made a splendid
growth during the past year
The humiliating truth is that the
university has not only not grown
but has actually gone back in num-
bers while all the other schools
have gained. Friends of the school
declare that the prevalence of saloons
in Iowa City is the reason for this
loss of membership
So far the contest is very close
and neither side has given up the
few names will decide the fate of
the petition. If the temperance peo-
pie lose out in their fight on the Pc
tition, they will take the matter be-
fore the legislature and ask that law
be passed prohibiting saloon with
in five miles of any state school.
The legislature as now constituted
can hardly refuse to pass such a law.
r tIay ,<k
strong enough to carry the point, the
chances are that the friends of the
university over the state will bring
their influence on the members and
some law will be passed to free that
city from saloons.
1t probably can not be proven be-
You'd question that the saloons arc
the direct cause Of the loss of en-,
rollment in the university. but it is
we'll esta hEshed that the parents OF
children who are contemplating send
ing them away to school, are every
year looking more and more into the
moral surroundings of the school
which they choose. 1t is also univer-
sally felt over the state that there is
something wrong with matters at
lowa's great university. There is q
low moral atmosphere and it is we'll
known that drunkenness and the ex-
cessive use OF tobacco Is not particu-
larry frowned upon, In fact. some de-
clare that a young man who does not
get drunk once in a while loses his
standing.
1t may not be as bad as this, but 1t
certainly will not hurt the school to
move the saloons over to Davenport.
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CANDY LOTTERIES.

tCedar Rapids Gazette.]
A business man sends The Gazette
the following complaint:
Lotteries In the form Of selling
chances on candy and other things are
being conducted in numerous Cedar
Rapids stores. Are not these lottery
schemes. nothing more nor less, than
gambling? If so. why are they per-
mitted to continue?"
Every sale in which the purchaser
buys blanks is a lottery: lotteries are
prohibited and the department of pub
lie safety can stop lotteries by promul
eating one order, just as slot machines
We're put out Of commission few
wears ago. and just as the department
can issue orders for the suppression Of
dice and card games, and Just as it
should issue orders for the suppression
of illegal sales Of liquors in drug stores
and elsewhere.
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Topics of tie Times

iowa leads Kansas in farm prod.
ucts,' by ss,ooo.o0O against s. 900 600.
But after all that's big compliment
for Kansas. once the Incubator Of hot
winds and grasshoppers.
Mitchell county has decided to have
county fair which is an evidence that
Mitchell county is learning.
The standpat fea!,y to the caucus
system concisely put is that a caucus is
desirable thing only when its a
standpat caucus.
On account of its being d short ses-
sion and the only one LATE is likely to
attend officially, it would seem that he
hasn't time TO waste in Des Moines.
Even the Outlook lacks the zest OF
superlative adjective.
If Senator Elkins' son is appointed
to succeed him the impression Of a
railroad dynasty in West Virginia will
not be weakened.
The marathon at Des Moine- will re-
duce itself to two or three contestants
shortly after the start is made.
Lorimer's assurance that he didn't
do it is scarcely satisfactory outside
that committee room.
The bank deposit guaranty laws are
neither unconstitutional nor unneeded.
Farms which rent at $40 an acre can
afford to build good roads. Indeed. thew
can't AFFORD to lie alongside a string of
mudholes.
Some Washington fellow announces
the invention Of a system whereby ten
persons can talk at one time on one
telephone wire. There is another in
stance Of effeteness OF the effete east.
That systm has been overworked on
every rural phone line in Iowa for the
past ten years.
Iao s...c.55Sss sS.SS &. operation say-
orable to a parcels post is the express
companies.
The New York Worlds world alma.
nsc" for 1911 10 the biggest and best
it has issued which 10 the hishssa
praise to be given it or any other an
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10
NEEDED, A NEW STATE HOME.

A Des Moines home for friendless
children has made its annual report
Jan. the home was caring for thirty
nine children During the year fifty
have been admitted and forty-two TAX
en- out. The average number cared for,
nine children who have been in the
home fifty-four have been enrolled at
school and of the $500 school days rep
resenting the total attendance which
are but niney- three days absence, less
than two days average. The chill
dren have been fed wholesome food.
have been kept warm and we'll clothed
and have been given new outlook
upon life. And this has been done in
the Des Moines home entirely on chart
tai BILE contributions 1t is being done in
a half dozen homes" in Iowa that are
doing all they can with the means at
their command; being done by sacri-
flee of underpaid men and women and
lile uSSullOIS SllaIllS VI SAOSS w 1IO S11A
be induced to give.
But what they can do is a drop in
the bucket to the great need It is a
matter which Graves attention from the
state Of Iowa. All that the homes
can do is far from sufficient. They
can and do rescue many children, but
o,.tl1 nj n
the number they rescue behind simply
because the boat will NOT hold them. 1t
is time Iowa gave serious and tender
attention to the neglected children. to
the growing boy whose opportunities
are being foressalled, to the girl who is
going wrong for lack Of help and hope
and decent environment
It is time the state established a
home fer children. The schools at
Mitchellville and Eldora are penal
institutions They carry a stigma.
TO which struggling mother would
send her children. We need a different
atmosphere and different attitude to-
ward need than those of the reform
schools.
If any woman deserves help the
widow. who has taken in washing,
scrubbed floors and done hard work to
keep her family together deserves It,
She deserves more. She ought not to
be separated finally or except to her
good and that of her children from her
children. There ought to be a home
where she can send her children in
honor and with trust, knowing that they
will be taught. cared for and kept and
where she will still be their mother.
The reform schools and the homes
do not fill this place. A good woman
and her children should not be en-
tirely separated except with her con-
sent. She has right to remain their
mother.
Let us build more homes and fewer
penitentiaries. The lack OF help for
mothers and children. for fathers whose
burden is beyond their strength and
ability and for children who deserve
better chance-and every child deserves
the best chance-the lack of this aid is
the real reason for addition TO the peni-
Tertiary buildings.
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I, mean temperature for 0sptsmbse waa
67.0seE.. s.43s in excess Of the AveraSe
for the past seven years.
A Newspaper report for 9eptembes
said:
No rain of consequence has fallen for
twenty nine days. For the thirteen days
from September LIST to September 18th
inclusive, no rain fell. An equal num-
Der Of consecutive days without rain
Is not recorded since 1902. A feature
Of the damage from shortage Of rainfall
during the past ten weeks Is the drying
up Of many small streams. The Chip
pewa (the larger Of the two rivers) has
never been SO low.
Prsdisposing Causes.
For some as yet unknown reason
males seem to be more susceptible than
females. DIR. Caverly noted the same
fact in reporting the epidemic at Rut-
land, Vermont, stating that males
were vastly more liable to It," OF 62S
cases reported in Massachusetts,. S65
were males, 2S3 females.
OF the predisposing causes. the his
tory of fall is frequently given, and
many parents today consider the short.
sharp illness with fatal termination, or
milder attack with resulting paral-
ysis of arm or leg, to be the effect Of a
bad tumble. This is not true. The
fall is result, not cause.
The child. Intoxicated with a fearful
virus, and feeling already the incipient
motor paralysis, sturnbles and falls.
Rightly, Inconsistencies, commissions,
and paralysis may ensue and are attri-
buted to the fall.
Swimming unduly prolonged. and ex-
posture to cold and wet, are frequently
given as causing the disease, and here
again most probably the effect is mis-
taken for the cause The high fever
and extreme nervous irritability would
lead child to the relief of plunge
in water-the swimming pool. in many
~ crawled under the garden hose and
remained there for hours
The Paralysis and its Treatment.
Paralysis may be the only symptom
noted. A child fretful on retiring may
wake with paralysis Of leg or arm. The
paralysis usually. however, comes on
at the end of the second day of illness
and gradually extends for the next
seventy-two hours. 1t may appear as
late as two weeks after the initial ILL
ness. The legs are more apt to be af-
fected. as in the record cited above a
trif1e over fifty per cent were para
lied in one or both lower extremities.
This paralysis is usually not total. and
the child himself WIFI make a hopeful
prognosis when he discovers he can
wriggle his toes. The paralysis will be-
gin to clear. in favorable cases. from
the fifth to the tenth day after 1t was
first apparent, and may entirely dis
appear.
BY some wonderful adaptation Of ma
ture there is great effort to make
other nerve channels take up the work
Of the destroyed cells and hence the
value of keeping the muscles arti-
ficially active by the use Of massag e
and mild electrical treatments. This
treatment should be used early in the
case. and then only with the advice
and supervision Of a competent phys
ician.
The destruction Of nerve cells in the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10
FARMING.
WALNUT Bureau.1

walnut Bureau
The farming business is now coming
TO point where 1t is generally recog-
niz@d as the most prosperous business
going. offering the best future and the
brightest prospects. That being so
there will be no trouble about keeping
the boy on the farm for he will be keen
20 see that it IS the best place to
make money. gain the respect Of his
fellow men and obtain that standing
amongst men. which Is the ambition Of
every right min ded boy It Is to gain
these things that he has heretofore
gone to the city, it is to gain these
things that he will hereafter stay on
the farm md that will send the youths
of the cities to join him. All he
wants TO know is as to what paws best
in the sum of human happiness and
comfort and success. Il is now being
demonstrated that in all these things
the farm offers the best opportunities
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10

Analysis Of the Wisconsin Epidemic.
A blank form was sent to every
physician in Wisconsin with request
to report cases Of the diesase to me.
Four hundred and eight cases were
reported, altho there is good reason to
believe that there were twice as many
in the state. OF these, the histories Of
$50 cases were given in detail. The
following classification OF these $50
cases shows the characted Of the cpl
demic and its dreadful results:
Bonth of occurrence and number of
cases: May. 3; June. 4; July. 10; Au-
gust. "A; September, So: October. FL:
November, 2; December, IL: January,
II.
Age: Less than one year, 10: one
to five years, Ga; six to fifteen, 81;
sixteen and older, IA.
Sex: Males, 81; females, 50.
Twenty-Five cases resulted from d.
rect exposure to infection.
Twenty-Five children became Ill dur
ing the time Of or Immediately follow
ing a case in the same house.
One boy slept in a tent with q boy
who died OF it four days later, the day
the second lad was taken i'll.
One case had used milk supplied
Seven cases occurred in families of
physicians.
Symptoms Of onset: Fever, rapid
pulse, vomiting, severe headache and
backache, stif neck. twitchings. and
commissions. Pain and tenderness in
back and extremities
Paralysis: Appearing from second to
fifth day; one lower extremity. 2s;
both lower extremities, 46: both lower
extremities and one arm, 4; both lower
extremities and one arm and dyspnoea,
2; both lower extremities complete
from hips down. including sphinceers. 3:
enc arm and one leg, 3; all extremitfes.
e; facial only. 2; general paralysis -
Il; deltoid ana shoulder group. I; DEL
told and shoulder and one arm, 5:
sterno- cieido -mastoid, 8: left pefonsus
ana bladder, /; no paralysis. consafose
for several days, 4: paresis, motor
weakness. 6: ~pAralysed'' (no furthse
dAfa). II: fatal eases. -. ~
There are several notable points q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10
LoRlMER's SITUATION

Senator Beveridge of the committee
on privilege and elections, has filed a
minority report declaring that Lori
mer's election to the United States
senate was invalid under any possible
view Of the law" and submits a reso-
luton based on that conclusion look
ing to the removal of Loriner as not
duly and legally elected to the senate
by the Illinois legislature.
Senator Beveridse's analysis of the
committees whitwa shing majority re-
port is an excellent analysis of it's weak
ness and characteristic evasion of the
real question at issue-whether or not
Lorimer's election was secured by
committee. it appears, dismissed the
confession Of bride takers on the
ground that they had been driven to
confess and because the men accused
Of paying the briber denied the charge
made against them. The Indiana SEN
ator asks: What else did the majority
expect these accused bride givers to do
except to deny that they gave the
brides; what else could they have
done. unless they, too, confessed? Did
inc maturity expect every body con-
nected with these corrupt proceedings
to confess?" and cites the corrobor-
alive fact that these confessed bride
takers had the money. large sums in
large bills. at the time when the brides
are confessed to have been received.
Senator Owen, also is prominent in the
effort 70 remove Lorimer and with men
Of the character and ability of these
two senators leading the investigation
xofimeF and the country are both in
. way to receive justice.
The country is convinced Of Lor-
izn1r's unfitness to sit in the United
States senate. Few men are ready to
believe that other men, like Holzclaw
49, have all to lose by confession of
1e1bo taking are telling aught but the
seypt1 when they do confess. There
~ MT the slightest doubt in the public
3AlinA thst legislators were bought and
- Tor to secure Lorimer's elevation
ID = a. common knowledge among men
saaMailfaf With legislative sessions at
I gAeId that the market has been
d ve11 IN the Illinois capitol for years.
- 5D01Dot u no now Institution.
o - contrary. It doesn't mstter
~ leos9 whether Lorimer paid tho
tee votes out Of hand or not,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-10
Foley Kidney Pin.

Are tonic in action, quick In results.
A special medicine for all kidney and
bladder disorders. Mary C. Abbott.
wolfeboro, N. H.. says: Il was afflicted
with bad case Of rheumatism. due to
uric acid that my kidneys failed to
clear out of my blood. was 80 lame
in my feet, joints, and back that II was
agony for me to step. used Foley
Kidney Pills for three days when was
able to get up and move about ana
the pains were all gone. This great
change in condition I owe to Foley
Kidney Pills and recommend them 20
any one suffering as I have" Mcbride
& Will Drug Company.
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segment of the spinal cord il some-
times so extreme that total paralysis
Of one or more extreanities follows.
This Is a grave shock to the growing
child. and it may be that all growth
Of that member will stop. The long
bones will not lengthen. II one sroup
of muscles remain active and un-
opposed in their action, deformity will
follow. These deformities can be cor
rected by the orthopedic surgeon, and
can usually be checked If the phys
ician's advice is sought.
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mary: but they 80 an opportunity to
use 1t to serve their ends. II they can
force the state 70 pay S1b0.0O0 for q
special primary, they ngure that
enough Of the voters might become
disguised with the primary to demand
the repeal OF the law.
pursue their usual rule or ruin policy.
And their attitude is as wholly inde-
feasible as 1t 10 utterly senseless.