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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
Romance of Cotton Production.

What would John Jay say If he could
take q glance at leaflet on cotton
production which has just been issued
by the census bureau at Washington
When Jay was framing his commercial
treaty of 1894 with England he did not
dream that the United States would
ever be a producer of cotton to any
considerable extent. Therefore. he did
not deal with 1t in that pact. And he
was as farseelng as any other man of
his day. Out Of cotton production
turnout the world which was tnflnites-
simally small compared with that Of
our day, the United States produced
much less than 1 per cent in that time.
The East Indies furnished 20 per cent,
the Mediterranean countries 20 per cent,
Brazil per cent, and the rest of the
countries in the aggregate. including
the United States, the remaining 2 per
cent.
Out OF an aggregate Of nearly 49,
900, 900 bales Of 500 pounds each IN 1910.
the United States produced $50 per
cent, British India 1873 per cent, Egypt
8 per cent, Russian Iurkestan ~ per
cent, and other localities smaller guam
titles. But our proportion Of the worlds
cotton crop was larger than this q few
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
LaFolIette's Prophecy.

The first time LaF'ollette made
speech in the senate-and he did it
when he hadn't been senator much
more than twenty minutes-they walked
out on him, just as they had done in
the case Of Beveridge. The gallery re-
manned lust as it had done before.
When he found himself deserted by
practically the entire senate member
ship, LaFollette briefly interrupted his
speech to observe:
n can not be frsenstble to the fact
that senator's absent themselves during
my remarks want to say that tho
my observations may have no interest
to the senate, they have q very keen
interest to the country. AND take the
liberty to observe that seats which are
now temporarily vacated will later be
vacated permanently"
Prophecy u rather dangerous busi-
ness unless you are good suesser;
but LaFollette was AZ reckless In In
dulging in prophecy as he was In court
ing defeat or the men who were sena-
tors, and who walked out Of the cham
Der that day, the following have since
been defeated and retfred:
Ankeny Of Washington, Foraker OF
Ohio, Fulton Of Oregon, Hansbroush OF
North Dakota, Ffemerway OF Indiana.
Hopkins OF Illinois. Kittredge OF North
Dakota, Long Of Kansas, McCreAry Of
Kentucky, Platt Of New York. Teller OF
Colorado, whyte Of Maryland, Aldrich
of Rhode Island, Buckley OF Con-
nectfcut, Burkett Of Nebraska, Bur
rows of Michigan, Carter OF Montana.
Depew or rev Iorn, E:>.... ee::::ss;,
Flint Of California, Frazier Of Tennes-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
BOOSTING BRYAN.

Mr.. Bryan has been turned down in
Douglas county, Nebraska, and Har-
mon has been exalted. The reasons
given for repudiating Mr.. Bryan in ia
vor Of the Ohioan is that Bryan refused
to support Jim Dahl1nan and Is thus a
traitor to his party.
William Jennings Bryan can afford
the Republication much better than Mr.
Harmon or the democratic party can
afford the endorsement. When he re-
of Omaha and the saloon gang which
made the recent campaign in Nebraska
Bryan stood for the real democracy of
Nebraska, which is neither Dahlnan
nor the liquor interests OIL that state.
Neither is Douglas county and Omaha
the voice Of Nebraska democracy. 1t
may make moro noise but it does not
cast the vote Of the state as was exem-
plified in the recent election Douglas
may assist to the nomination of Har-
man, if he is to be nominated which
can not count the Nebraska democratic
vote fo< him II he were to be nomi-
mated. Mr.. Bryan can cut the Harmon
throat and from all appearances has
! the knives ground and the arrange
ments made at the slaughter house.
Bryan is the first political citizen of
Nebraska. He is the first democrat OF
his party. Douglas county and Omaha
have assisted and are assisting to make
his position more secure. Bryan seek
ing nomination Is one man. As a can
tlftfate he Is more or less forced to neu-
trality except upon the larger issues
which may be raised. But as a leading
democrat and the most influential and
most trusted memper vi Ills party he is
q power. That he refused Dahhnan
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17

decades ago. 1t was 80 per cent Of tho
aggregate at one time. but it IL. shrink
Ing, relatively. While our output REL
fuses to grow. the population Of tle3
United States and OF the world keeps
steadily expanding. Demand increases.
but supply, so far as regards the I'm
tied states, remains virtually station
airy. In 1904 we produced almost. II, -
100000 bales, but that figure has mot
been reached since then. Thru the
earnest efforts which Eng land. France.
Germany and the other consuming
countries OF Europe are making. I'M
their tropical and subtro ptcal possess,
sions, to get supplies OF their own. the,
old monopoly in the United States Il,
steadily losing its grip on the wosld' 8,
market. a. !.
One OF the reasons why Waslling<
ton. jay. Jefferson and the other AM
orleans Of a century and a fifth ago did
not dream OF the leading part which
their country would play In the after
day in cotton production Is that they
failed to foresee Eli Whitney. His oot-}
ton gin, which first took practfcak
shape in 1893. enabled a negro to SORT
the seeds out OF twenty t7nes as much
cotton in a day az could have been,
done by hand, under the former condi-
tons. This invention. with the tm-i
provements upon it by Whitney ana
others. had vast sociological and pos
lttical as we'll as economic conse-,
quences. BY making cotton growing
Immediately and immensely profitable.
it increased the production At . rat1oy
of which nobody could have guessed,
and at the same time It gave the slave
a. commercial value which he lacked
along to that time. The abolition So
cities in the south soon lost their
clientele, and slavery. which before that
time had been merely tolerated ~ an
evil which was deemed to be in. tho
course OF peaceful extinction, at last
came to be defended as positive
good. Secession and civil war were
among the consequences OF the little
device which that Yankee inventor
handed over to the world.-st.. Louis!
Gfobe-Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
THE INSPECTOR WILL GET YOU,

The arrest and prosecution of several
cafes and restaurants at Mason City
charged with selling milk which fell
below the standard of law emphasizes
the need Of closer inspection Of public
eating places. 1t should also serve as
a warning to restanteurs.
DR.. Thompson. Inspector, says that
dairymen complained that they were
selling whole milk and getting credit
for poor milk on account of the quail
ity served at tables and over lunch
coutners of restaurants. He tested the
dairymens milk which ran from a
little above the 3 per cent test to over
4 per cent. He then tested samples from
seven -eighths of l per cent to little
over per cent. Then he made trouble
for the swimmers
According to the inspector restau-
IS cents. A gallon furnishes sixteen
glasses or over of milk served to Gus
toners That is a gross receipt of so
cents a gallon and a profit of g. cents
on an 1S-cent investment Skinned
of the cream the price Of the cream
may DE added to the profit The in
spector figures that to buy whole milk
at IS cents and sell it at so cents at
fords sufficient margin and is sufficient
profit. And he is right about it. If the
restauranteur can not succeed without
descending to this petty fraud he
should get out and let somebody who
can run the place. Many Of the better
class of cafes and eating places serve
the milk direct in the sealed bottles OF
the dairymen. And this is an excellent
and sanitary method.
The purchaser has right to what he
buys. He pays for it and ought to get
it. The law takes that position. If the
restauranteur desires to sell skinned
milk he must sell il as skinned milk
and must SO label the receptacle in
which he keeps his supply and have the
receptacle in sight of the customer. so
says the inspector. The point in the
entire case is that the person who calls
Tor milk calls for per cent butter fat
also. If ne doesn't get it he is cheated.
The inspector will get you if you
don't watch out.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17

opposed the saloon influence, and has
held to the ideals Of the true partisan
repudiating the sordid issues and
STAINLESS candidates has strengthened
his leadership with vital forces Of the
democracy. When Dahlman and the
Douglas county alleged democracy re-
pudiate Bryan they might with rs
much party consistency and as much
hope Of success deny jefferson.
Bryan is strong because he is sincere
in his political belief, consistent in his
policital and private morality. His
greatest strength is in his public and
private righteousness. When the Dahl
mans attack him they merely elevate
him by comparison. Every knock from
that quarter is 4 boost.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17

see, Hale of Maine. Kean of New
Jersey. Piles Of Washington, Scott OF
West Virginia. Taliaferro OF Florida,
Warner Of Missouri. Spooner of Wis
consin. Alger Of Michigan. Alec of Del
aware Berry Of Arkansas. Blackburn
Of Kentucky. Clark OF Montana, Dry
den Of New Jersey. AIillard Of Ne
braska.
Thirty-nve-count 'ean-thirty-five,
and almost to a man they were retired
because they didn't understand what
LaFollette was talking about, didn't
understand what the country was
thinking about, didn't understand. or
We're unwilling to do, what the country
demanded and expected Of them. 1t is
not necessary to introduce testimony
on this point. Everybody who has
maintained the most casual touch with
politics during the last five years is
familiar with the uprising of progress
sive opinion that drove these men out
of their senatorial seats.-Judson G.
Welilver, in Munsey's Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
DIR. COOK EN- TOUR.
tSioux City Journal.


DR.. Frederick a. Cook, near discov-
erer of the north pole is enjoying him
self these summer days. He Is not
forging nortnward to recover the in
struments and records left buried in a
cache at Etah-the possible proofs that
he did get TO or near the pole. He is
not leading an expedition up the
frozen summit of Mt. Mckinley to find
the tin box he claims to have left bur
led there. alleged to contain proofs
that his first claim to fame was not
founded on fake. He IS travelling
over the country in Pullman cars from
chautauqua to chautauQua. He is now
booked for every afternoon or evening
until the second week In September.
Every day he meets people who are
eager to shake hands with q man who
has had his picture in all the papers
all over the world-many Of them glad
to tell him that they don't like
Peary." Every day he talks to large
audiences. whose members listen to his
story with interest and curiosity, tick
led at the opportunity to pay for the
privilege. Every evening he glances
over the proofs Of his new book of 500
pa ges. soon to be Issued for which the
public as indicated by the chautauqua
attendance. will blithely exchange per-
fectly good dollars. And every night
before passing to dreams Of purple
snow" and the like, the doctor places
beneath his pillow a wallet consider
ably fatter than it was in the morning.
Yes, the doctor IS having as good a
time as any Of our chautauqua heroes
and is apparently spending more
profitable summer than Rear Admiral
Peary, retired.
The moral Of which IS that we are a
good-natured bunch. and are good at
forgetting and forgiving. When the
charge that DR.. Cook had faxed the
discovery of the pole was first made to
stick it appeared that the faker would
have to spend the rest of his life a
Wandering Jew" avoided by and
avoiding his fellow men. How quickly
that foolish motion has been dfssipat-
ed, The doctor Is just as much Of a
faker as he was last summer, but we
have become used to him in the role
and are now willing to admit that in
his way he Is celebrity we'll worth
seeing and hearing. Perhaps. on the
whole. we are investing our time and
money as probably as If congress were
not in session, and we were going to
see some OF the more conventional
chautauqua heroes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
He is tust a newborn baby,
THE END OF THE PRIMROSE PATH.

A disorderly house was raided in
Des Moines Saturday night and its in
mates and one Of its proprietors
Reynolds, the male proprietor escaped
hut will probably be captured and held
to the grand jury with his wife. Opium
outfits and the paraphernalia as well.
of the character OF the dive. And
1isten--the newspaper report says:
Reynolds was at one time one Of the
city's most prominent druggists"
Few cities there are wherein the
story will not stir recollection and find
it's application to similar instances of
the downfall Of men once prominent
and respected. 1t is the legitimate
aside when its cloak has grown too
ragged to hide their real character.
Once a prominent druggist or farmer
or business man hiding a life of vice
beneath the mask, later the open com
panion OF the vicious. at lest the police
court wreck acknowledged partner Of
panders and at the end the penitentiary
or the potter's field. II the older men
of any city were to recall the instances
they might name Of men and even of
women who We're once prominent and
trod the path that begins among the
priroses and ends in the dark, the list
,Sn,,l1 ooraf NV
1t is an easy way. F'acile is the dis
cent to Avernus. And it isn't long
way. AS it descends the ground falls
faster under the feet and the speed
quickens- 1t isn't far from the silver
laughter and the cham payne in the
private dining room to the barrelhouse
and the brotheL Both are Just around
the concentrating.
It's short cut from vine to booze,
from vice in high life and under cover
to open and uncovered shame. It's a
short step from prominence to dis
grace for those who start wrong and
keep the direction.
''Once one Of the prominent drug
gists Of the city, with a pleasant home
no doubt, and friends and high hopes
and ambition and the respect of his
fellows What did he get in the
trade?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
RABBLE GOVERNMENT?
ITraer Star-Clipperl.

II was the farmers who opened the
armed struggle for freedom at Licking
ton. who rallied for the unequal con-
test at Bunker's Hill. who filled the
re nks for the years of conflict until the
18th of July 1876. ushered the new ma
ton into formal being. 1t was the
farmers and mechanics. yea the labor
ing men of every class who formed
the great body of the two million SOL
ders who saved the nation in the war
of 1S61-65 while thousands of farmer
women took their husbands places at
the plough and helped to feed the
hosts who We're in the field Men from
the farms became captains. colonies.
brigadiers and major generals and
made g,orious records. not alone Of d
splendid patriotic devotion but also of
the highest skill, capacity and eff
cheney in the most important positions.
And yet when it is proposed to give
these men a voice in the primary Sc
lection of officials and lawmakers, we
hear a senator sneeringly characterize
it as government by the rabble." We
nigh. not have been surprised to hear
this from a rotfcise politician. but to
hear it from a grave and reverend
senator is ,ulniliating.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
Topics of the Times

The bankers have paraphrased Pinck-
ney's famous millions for defense but
not one cent for tribute into "thous-
ands 10 buy cattle. corn, land or for
productive investn1enr but not red
cent loaned to buy automobiles
Those Holy Roller Cocktails" seem
to draw the crowds quite as thick and
from as great distance as ever the old
fashioned fighting kinds were able to
do.
Certainly. a flying machine is curl
bile ten years ago, a photograph TWEEN
~ years ago and electric light thirty
years ago.
DR.. Wiley may have made some mis-
takes but the real source of the bitter
movement against him is in pure food
opposition and the cause is Wiley
fight against adulterators.
The Standard Oil is breaking up like
wild morning glory in a corn field
, Every piece grows new one The way
TO get rid of the trust and the glory"
! is to take them out by the roots.
The magazine trust Is simply another
another repetition Of the truth that in
dividuals are willing to do what they
are unwilling others should do: but
! it is not an argument that combina-
ton to control rates or prices should
be permitted.
Note. then, that the circus not the
saloon is the real attraction which
brings the crowd. Good market rea-
sonable prices and general attractive
ness are the real drawing cards. Mark
that. The saloon was simply a para
site on a dogs tail proclaiming loudly
and untruthfuny that it was the whole
dog and responsible for all the wag-
ging and barking
1t takes two to make a bargain but
it takes a T.-R. want to bring them to-
gether in a hurry.
LATE has the opportunity Of chautau-
qua and cinch on the blue Grass
Road" and "Waubonsic Trail speak
ing dates; but Kenyon has the sena-
torship, the chautauaua and all the
rest of it. Thus to him that hath shall
be given and from him who hath not
shall be taken away-gradnally.
Only eighty-six saloons in Des
Meines. VIII this result in driving the
state democratic convention to meet
| outside Of Iowa?
The Des Moines Capital brings the
! deadly parallel into use in comparing
prices Of produce between Des Moines
and Dubuque. New potatoes at Du-
buque We're $3.50 per bushel as against
SO at Des Moines 40 cents a peck as
against 10 cents; green beans 10 cents
a quart as against 20 cents; blackber-
ries S1.75 per crate as against $3.50;
creamery butter % cents as as ea1.sss 90 ~
and 80 cents: apples 81 per bushel ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
MahIers Stormy Career,

Mailer was nothing but a bundle OF
nerves. He worked and fought too
hard. and now he is no more" Thus
H +. F'inck, of the New York Even
ing Post, sums up the character and
achievement Of one Of the most remark
able figures in the musical life OF our
time. For America the words may be
said to have a special meaning. The
last months Of NLahler's life We're those
in which he directed the Philharmonic
concerts in New York. His death is
attributed by the Berlin Mittag-Zei-
tung to the "nerve-rackin& and pecul-
lar demands OF American art
From the beginning. Mailer lived
ana worked with feverish intensity. He
was born in Kalischt, Bohemia, in 1850,
OF Jewish parents AT an age when
most children would have been absorb
ed in school studies. he was playing
the piano in way that amazed his
elders, and was giving lessons. At fl
teen he was in the Vienna conserva-
tory, winning prize after prize. Before
he was 20 he was conducting summer
operattas. A performance Of Wagner's
'Parsifal" fired his ambitions, and he
wrote to Angelo Neumann applying for
q position as conductor. His request
was granted, and he became associated
with Anton Seidl. Subsequently he
conducted, with growing authority and
increasing success, in Leipsic, Ham
burg and Budapest.
Even in those days Mailer was ex-
hibiting the Independent traits Of char
acter which later created many enemies
for him. Some men loved Mailer and
others hated him. The Musical Cour-
Ter observes, but no one connected in
any way with him or his music could
remain Acknowledgement Litera-
ture
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
SAINT. 2. Haa psss.nt.

The distinctive feature Of the cele.j
bration at Santa Fe was q histTiot
pageant to commemorate the re-con.i
quest Of Santa Fe by Don Diego DE-
Vargas in 1893.
Descendants Of the Spanish settlers
in the costumes Of the seventeenth
century, and the Pueblo Indians, o.
Tesuque. Taos, II Defonso, santa Clara, !
San Juan and Santa Domingo and Col
chit. in war costume. participated.
The program halted before q huge;
wooden cross, erected on the plaza, bel
fore which Don Diego, represented byd
George w. Armfjo, read 4 proc1amation
in Spanish in the name of King ChaSle0
II Of Spain.
Indian sports and races were included
ed III the afternoon p7ysz.z. Tie red Fl
and yellow of Spain was intertwinsd
with the stars and strtpes turnout ths4
city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17

against $40. Consumers In other cit
les no doubt will compare the prices
they are paying with thosA ofsDObuQue
and wonder why ana how. It happens.
Don't send a boy to nllil- or lot him
drive an automobile.
zone touch Of nature makes the
whole world kin" quotes the Dies
Moines Capital contemplating the
wreck of an English sparrow's nest,
ana possibly recalling with acute an
guish the collapse Of a senatorial meat
house.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

There will soon be a stronger de-
mand for positions in the schools in
the country than there is in town.
predicts the Grundy Democrat.
Tea cheers used to prefer the school
positions in town because they paid
better. but in late years in the matter
of pay the country schools have raised
the pay on par and in many cases
in advance of what town teachers are
receiving
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
PRAYING FOR RAIN.

washington County Pressl.
Des Moines pastors prayed for rain,
and it came, and now they are strut
ting around, as If saying. "See what
we did with the Almighty. b'gosh." If
they thus tardily brought rain, they
ought to be sued for the damage caus-
ed by not doing it sooner.
Bishop Davis. Of Davenport. is the
last Of the Stiles on this line, to order
prayers all thru his diocese till rain
comes. Might as we'll hammer on
barrel heads and other drums.
A few years ago, in our Crawfords-
Vile. a church prayed for rain, and
rain came in deluges, and drowned
three or four men! SO It would seem
the utmost caution should be used in
petitioning for rain, not to pray too al
mighty hard. Who wants the Lord to
drown our fellow citizens? Thats
worse than drouth.
Isn't 1t astonishing. that way into the
twentieth century we keep up this
superstitious performance?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17

AS the Sioux City Tribune figures it
out. LATE has a prima facie case. He
went swimming in Okoboji and when
he came out Kenyon had his recipro-
city suit
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17

roots it was found that where the
plants were far apart the roots went
down seven to eight feet, while in the
case OF the plants that were close to-
gether the roots did not SO down more
than three feet.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17
Good Omsns in Mexico.

Reports from Mexico thru various
channels are encouraging. There was
a widespread fear, founded upon ex-
perience and analogy, that the recent
revolution would be followed almost
Immediately by chaotic conditions, and
many persons who earnestly desired
radical reforms deprecated the course
Of the Maderists, lest it should lend to
a return Of the anti-Juarist regime. 1t
would be a. mistake to be extremely
confident, but at least those fears have
not thus far been realized, and there
seems to be increasing reason for
hope that the revolution which dis
placed Diaz win be followed by tran
guilty and prosperity, as was that Of
a generation ago when Diaz displaced
Lerdo and put himself ia the presiden-
tial chair.
The state Of the national treasury
and the general condition Of business
affairs turnout the republic dispose OF
the suspicion that e9be country had
been exploited II not looted for the
benefit Of Diax and Ills friends. On
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17

Where the roads are not dragged
now, the laws of the state are violated
The laws say they must be dragged
But who pays any attention to laws in
Iowa." Historically breaks out the
Cedar Rapids Republican.