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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
RAILROAD REGULATION uPHELr

Z
That interstate railroads may ae-
cept only money and not services, ad-
vertising, releases or property In pay
ment for transportation is the final
Interpretation of the federal rate Law
contained in decision handed down
| by the United States supreme court
one day last week along with several
other opinions of Importance.
The supreme court also decided mat
| interstate railroads may not issue
passes for interstate transportation
even though they may have made
contracts to do so prior to the pas
sage of the Hepburn rate law.
| Another ruling of the highest court
/ upholds the Iowa law providing that
mo contract between railroad or al
employe may be used to prevent the
employe from suing the railroad for
damages on account of injuries receiF-
ed in the performance of duty. That
lis. no insurance or benefit system
may so operate as to deprive the in
jured worker of his rights to seek
damages.
The court also held that state
law regulating the size of crews or
trains within the state is not an OBJ
struction to interstate commerce, bu
is rather enacted in aid of such com
Imerce. and hence may be passed b!
a state for the public safety. Sucf
{ law in Arkansas was involved Ii
the case, and is therefore upheld.
} It held that railroad may not es
cape regulation because one OF it
parts is wharfage company, operat
] ed under the form of holding com
pany.
: That the commerce commission ma
q not reduce rate because it is inequi
able under some circumstances.
That the orders of the commerc
I commission might be reviewed by tn
l. supreme court after the two-year lin
k it on the life of the order may haT
e expired.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
Relief for Supreme Court.

Des Moines Register and Leader:
Senator Gilliland, chairman OF the
judiciary committee in the senate,
has introduced bill which is intend
ed for the relief of the supreme court.
1t is understood that this measure is
one that has been prepared by the
committee appointed by the State Bar
Association. That committee is COM
posed of Hon. II. E. Deemer, Hon. Nj.
A. Roberts of Ottunwa, Hon. j. ].
Clark of Mason City, Hon. w. 2.
Briggs of Sheldon, Hon. A. n. Hob
son of West Union. Hon. G. H Van
Law OF Marshalltown and Carroll
Wright of Des Moines.
It is urgently claimed by the bar Of
the state that the supreme court must
have some relief 1t appears now that
each of the judges OF the supreme
court is expected TO write 100 opin-
ions each year and it is impossible to
do this and, at the same time, gre
proper attention to the work of the
court and to the cases submitted u It,.
The supreme court OF Iowa is now
handing down more opinions each
year than any supreme court in the
! United States.
The bill under consideration pro-
iyides for an increase in the number
OF judges il the supreme court from
six to nine and then provides that the
court shall be divided into two sec
tons, the chief justice presiding with
each section and that each section
shall hold open court separately and
/, that cases shall be submitted to each
section separately. In this way all
cases will De submitted to at least
4 five judges. It is further provided by
the bill that in case difference shall
arise in either section, or in case the
chief justice shall consider the case
of sufficient Importance. the same
shall be submitted to the full bench,
either upon the original submission OF
upon rehearing.
At present the court consists OF
six judges and is divided into two
sections, but the entire court listens
TO the submission OF all cases and at
the time the case is submitted. Meth
er the parties to the suit nor the
judges OF the court know what judges
will have the case for determination
or what judge will write the opinion
This is very unsatisfactory both te
the bench and TO the bar.
Suggestions have been made al
times for the organization of tive
courts; a conrt of appeals and su
preme court, but it is thought an in
termedfate court would be nnwise ant
that this plan Of dividing the supreme
court of nine judges into two sections
! will be much more satisfactory ant
will certainly tend to relieve The
court and permit speedy determine
ton Of all cases. tits claimed that I'm
less the court is relieved in SOM
! such manner it will necessarily, with
: in short time, be two or three year
, behind it's docket
The bill introduced by Senator Gil
l liland is the result of the work of tn
j entire committee and that COMMITTEE
5 and the bar association will doubt
less earnestly urge the passage Of tn
measure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
ADKINS ON LEGAL FADs.

Last Friday evening at Rock Island,
Charles Adkins, speaker of the Hi
nois house of representatives. deliv-
cred an address which the Rock
Island Union says was filed with food
for thought. 1t was an open, frank
statement of his feelings in regard to
many Of the legislative enactinents
now proposed in that state, and which
have been adopted by a few others.
Mr.. Adkins started out in his polit-
ical career favoring the direct plural
ity primary law. He is against it
now. According to his own state
ment he has changed his opinions
about many matters and is free to
confess that he is not one Of the sort
who does not change when convinced
in his Judgment that he is wrong. The
Union in speaking of his address says;
1T was of the primary law and the
initiative and the referendum that he
spoke specifically. These laws, he
declared, are for the purpose of hedg-
ing about the representatives of the
people on the theory that every pow
er comes directly from the people and
that those chosen--those elected Of
the people-are willing and anxious to
barter their sacred trusts for their
own personal aggrandizement. Now
after having hea-ed their elective
officers about with laws they come
in with still another, the corrupt
practice act, which in effect says:
We the supreme people, from whom
all these rights emanate hereby de
clare lack of confidence in our
selves and ask that you hedge us
about so that we may not sell our
selves out to you in squads These
were not his words. but they We're IN
substance what Mr.. Adkins said y
The speaker demanded to know how
many voters really understood the
different matters which We're put III
to them. He declared that there were
legislators who did not. The ranf
and file of voters are busy earning {
! living. They are not studying politi
/ cal economy and civics "Of the forty
OF Oregon were called upon to ex
press themselves at the last genera
I election how many voters in thu
/ state had made a study of any con
4 siderable proportion OF theme' h
wanted to know How many voter:
understood the reasons for sucl
laws?' The Union goes on to say;
This is a side of the question tina
has not been brought to the front t
any great extent heretofore. In tn
! face of the present attitude OF tn
people on public questions it takes
good deal OF nerve. Speaker Adkin
has given food for thought. We ar
not in position to say that he j
wrong. It may be that the enactmen
of such laws has been carried to
far. It may be that the remedy lie
in other directions"
Speaker Adkins does not believe il
the enactment Of complex Legislation
The simpler the better. He doesn'
believe that all elective officers ar
dishonest, or that even majority G
them are He is undoubtedly right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
Personal Injury Cases.

Dubuque Times-Journal: The city
served with numerous notices OF
actions or claims for damages in per-
sonal injury cases resulting from falls
on defective sidewalks. The law en-
courages such actions. II is altogetb-
er too severe in its requirements on
the city government. If the trouble
were due wholly to neglected side
walks it might be avoided by penaliz-
ing the neglect, but in many cases
this is merely constructive. A side.
walk from which the snow has been
removed with ordinary care may re-
tain a thin coating of ice for weeks II
1t is on the south side of the street
and shaded by building or wall If the
weather has been severe. Public
sentiment would not justify the city
in requiring the abutter to keep the
sidewalks absolutely free Of ice under
all conditions Yet if personal in
jury results from slipping on. the ice
the city is liable. Again liability may
result from an imperfect joint givinl
the pedestrian chance to stumble
Public sentiment does not require
action by the city unless the side
walk is in VIGOROUSLY bad condition
and therefore the city should not b.
liable under the law except unde
such conditions. The League of lows
Municipalities should interest itself il
/ procuring legislation that will modif,
/ the liability of the city in such mat
I tiers.
Meanwhile no distractions in tn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
To Canada.

To Canada.
We're on the jump from morn till
night, endeavoring to put things
right,
We've got a lot of problems here that
we must straighten out;
Our courts are camping on the trail
of grafters who should be in
Jail,
And every scientific man is putting
germs to rout.
Most every day we find trust for us
to muckrake and to bust,
With whitewash brush and pail we fly
to statesmen in distress.
Miss Canada, wipe off your brow; wo
really can't annex you now:
At present we have troubles of our
own, l must confess.
10, we are working like the deuce, the
price of living to reduce;
Our natural resources we are striy-
ing to conserve,
We're trying to cheaper railroad
fares, to tame and harness bulls
and bears, s,
To teach our reckless chauffeurs how
to slow down at curve.
/ Oh, when you go to bed tonight, Miss
Canada, put out the light
! And sleep a sweet, untroubled sleep;
don't restless toss and moan,
Forget your worries and your cares;
we shan't annex you unawares,
| Because you see. Miss Canada, we've
troubles of our own.
Miss Canada. take it from me, this
] splendid nation OF the free
lis much too busy row to pause and
j wink an eye at you:
Upon my honor, assert, we haven't
even time to flirt,
Besides, most every one Of us has
something else to do.
Well recipross with ham and eggs
and garden truck and pals and
kegs,
And let you buy our motor cars, in
that our friendships shown.
But groundless are your awful fears
so calm your nerves and dry
your tears.
We shan't annex you right away
we've troubles of our own.
Detroit Free Press.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01


Political gossips at Washington
have figured out that in case Judge
Deemer is selected for United States
senator from Iowa Hon. James Trew-
in, president of the state board of
education, will succeed him on the
supreme bench, and Mr.. Trewin's
place on the educational board will
be filled by some standpatter. There
isn't anything in this arrangement
that should cause riot. Mr.. Trewir
is qualified for the supreme Judge
ship and eminently deserving as
well. And there are plenty of stand
patters who would be worthy sue
cessors to him as head OF the educa
tional board of control.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

AT Hampton recently Franklin
county farmer paid 500 at an auction
sale for Poland China brood SOW,
which prompts the Waterloo Reporter
to say:
"The tendency Of the farmer of
Iowa is to procure the best in every
thing but seed corn. and in this Inn
portant respect, he is mighty careless.
If the land could be made to produce
in proportion to the stock there would
be no difficulty in maintaining land
values. Work all sides of the indus
try is a suggestion, il followed. that
will return good results"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
DoNNELLs SON.
, - : . : . : : : : :

Miss Anna Wiegner and niece.
Winona Barnes, visited at the NJ.
Harnagel home in Pennington Sat
urday
Miss Anna 'empel of Keokuk visit
ed home folks Saturday.
Miss Stella sollars Of Warren spent
Sunday at home.
Hon. f. H. Krebill of Des Moines
visited home folks Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. V. M. Schmidt and
sons We're Pennington callers Satur-
day.
Miss Hazel Trump Of Franklin visit
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

streets should be permitted except by
those who give bonds to hold the
city blameless The obstruction OF
the street with cordwood, vehicles,
ETC., is against the ordinance and pub
lie sentiment would applaud the en-.
forcement of the ordinance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

On February 22d everybody hurrah-
ed for George washington and glori-
fed the truth. On the 23d Dr. Cook
lectured in Des Moines. This = the
Knoxville Express idea of lightning
change.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

In the Inlcag0 tribune says Paris
shouldn't let the harem-scare EN-
Democratic senators are said to be
gleeful over the prospect Of an extra
session. In fact remarks the Sioux
City Journal, isn't it easy to mention
a topic over which the Democrats are
not inclined TO be gieeful nowadays.
The Arlington News says that
should the President call the Demo
cratic congress together some eight
months before IL would ordinarily
meet he may find he has something
besides the Canadian treaty on his
hands.
4 New Orleans lawyer left viii in
which he requested that he be buried
face downward. Il is suggested by the
Des Moines Register and Leader that
during life, perhaps, he demonstrated
that he could lie in every position
but that.
j "To have let that plan become q
law says the Cedar Rapids Republi-
can, speaking Of the governors veto
iof the Oregon primary bill, would
have been TO make political confusion
worse COMPOUNDED in this state. Even
now it is q wise man Who knows his
i own political party"
I The Cedar Rapids Republican points
out that President Taft, If he shall
call an extra session, viii have a
4 Democratic house on his hands. He
viii have his hands full the RepubIi-
can continues. IF he calls 1t, it will
signify that he has not had trouble
enough, but that he wants more a
great deal more. And he will get it."
The Spencer News says it cannot
agree with Senator Cummins in his
opposition to the proposed increase o.
magazine postage rates. Many of the
. magazines are run almost absolutely
in the interest OF the advertisements,
the News continues, ;"and because o
the large revenues should justly b.
! taxed up with larger proportion o
the postage"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

The mayor of Kansas City vetoed
an anti-hatpin ordinance with the re-
mark that the whole United States
army couldn't enforce it. AS might
have been foreseen, there is now a
practically unanimous demand on the
part of the newspapers that that
mayor be put on the supreme bench.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
But He Doesn't.

Davenport Democrat: The expect.
ant reader ought to find the name
and telephone number Of every law.
yer, doctor, clergyman. architect, and
other public professional in the daily
paper, but he doesn't.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
AN INVITATION TO FOOLS.

Sing song Of foolishness. laugh
ingstocks and cranks.
The more they are the merrier,
come and join the ranks.
Life is dry and stupid: whoop her
UP bit!
Donkeys live in clover: bray and
throw fit,
-Gelett Burgess.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

A German professor announces II
as his opinion that rag time is not to
be scorned. What would he have us
do with it? Make soup Of it?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

One difference between hen and
a experimenting congressman, the
Sioux City Tribune thoughtfully ex-
plains, is that the former lays an
egg before she cackles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

Society women at Washington want
to take lessons in aviation, just as
IL some of them weren't flying toe
high already.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

ii has been aptly remarked that
The 'makin's'' of a cigarette are
often the unmakiug of the user.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

graves:
The golden seed that bore her came
Swift-winged with prayer Ger ocean
waves.
The forest bowed his solemn crest,
And open flung his sylvan doors;
Meek rivers led the appointed guest
To clasp the wide-embracing shores
Till, fold by fold, the broidered land
To swell her virgin vestments grew.
While sages, strong in heart and hand,
Her virtues fiery girdle drew.
q exile of the wrath of kings!
o pilgrim ark of liberty!
The refuge OF ciyinest things,
Their record must abide in thee!
First in the g.ories of thy front
Let the crown-jewel, truth, be found
Thy right hand fling. with generous
wont,
Loves happy claim to farthest
bound!
Let Justice, with the fautless scales,
Hold fast the worship of thy sons
Thy commerce spread her shining
sails
Where no dark tide of rapine runs.
So link thy ways to those of God,
So follow firm the heavenly laws,
That stars may greet thee, warrior
browed,
And storm-sped angels hail thy
cause!
@ land, the measure of our prayers,
Hope of the world, in grief ane
wrong,
Be thine the blessing of the years.
The gift of faith, the crown of song
Julia Ward Howe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Noting in a headline that paris is
stirred by the harem skirt B. L. T..
in the Chicago Tribune says Paris
shouldn't let the harem-scare 'em-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
DA1Ly BY MALL.

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entered in NeokuK postoffice as secoi'u
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Postage prepaid; terms IN advancet ~ a
Al, subscription orders snouiu BY ,s n
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expires. .,e.,a their
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TEE GATE CITY is on sale at ,ne
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
OUR COUNTRY,

On primal rocks she wrote her name
Her towers we're reared on holy
graves;
The golden seed that bore her came
Swift-winged with prayer Ger ocean
waves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01

keokuk, Iowa .......' March = 1877
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23

IN farm If the watersupply is kept
lure. Such purity Is assured by the
driven we'll" sunk deep enough to
De secure against the contamination
If surface drainage. And II often
happens that such a we'll Is cheaper
than a dug we'll. the security of which
gainst seepage from barns and out
houses is always a matter of doubt
unless tests have proven that the drift
of contaminated underestimate waters
is away from and not toward the we'll
AS for the house-fy, the protection
of the house by screens over doors
and windows. and the quick removal
to the fields of the manure heaps, of
which 1t breeds, will add not only to
the healthfulness. but to the general
comfort of the home.-C. r. Barns
University Farm.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23
Consistency Thou Art a
Jewel

Wateryille is to get her special
charter providing for a commission
form of government, but the bill to
permit other cities to follow suit is
to be turned down. That may be
good politics for the Democratic par
ty to play in the Legislature, but
from this distance we fail to see it.
1t doesn't match up with Jefferson's
motto of equal rights for all and
special privileges to none worth a
cent.
If the majority members of the
Legislature think that they are not
being watched while they try to pull
chestnuts out of the fire for the Cum
berland county ring. they are badly
mistaken. The progressive Republi-
cans who voted for a new deal last
fall knew what they wanted, and
sooner or later they are going to
get it. The old political game is
played out, and if our Democratic
friends can't resist the temptation
and let it alone, then they will have
to be otherwise restrained.
All this hullabaloo about the State
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23

Maine, they are not making them
selves conspicuous.
During that period when the farm
ers of this country we're exploiting
the virgin soil of the great west, it is
4 debatable question whether our
fundamental industry enjoyed any
real benefit from the tariff, but all
that is now history. The free lands
are gone and prices are seeking the
level where farming can be put upon
a business basis The entire effect of
Canadian reciprocity cannot be fore
told. but the mere uncertainty that 1t
would surely create, might damage us
immensely
Particularly in Aroostook county,
where land values have been inflated
to correspond with exceptional years
in the potato industry, any re-adjust-
ment must be accompanied with great
loss. The lands over the border are
just as productive. much cheaper, and
taken in connection with the lower
cost of labor and machinery. make up
a combination with which our farm
ers cannot Immediately compete
We're there any compromising ad-
vantages it might be worth while. but
they do not now appear.
The whole deal originates in the
desire of sundry office seekers to APP
pease the clamor which has arisen
over the increased cost of living.
We're it an honest attempt to alleviate
distress among the poor there would
be less ground for criticism, but the
way in which the interests of the
great trusts were safe-guarded, is in
defensible. Free cattle and protected
beef. free wheat and protected flour,
are but two of the items that were
not arranged for the benefit of the
workingman. Let's have a square
deal or none at all
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23
Progressive Government and
Business

More automobiles are built in De-
troit than in all the rest of the coun-
try put together. One of the reasons
why was explained by John L. Sewall
of Worcester, Mass, in his remarks
before the State Board of Trade at
Wateryille Wednesday, March 10. 1t
set some of the listeners thinking.
1t seems that for a number of years
back, Detroit had men in her city
government who thought that it was
their business to serve the PEOPLE.
They did so to the best of their abil-
ity, and succeeded so well that the
citizens got into the habit of saying
Life is worth living in Detroit" Next
they took to writing it to their
friends, and finally the Board of
Trade put this slogan into all their
advertising literature. Meanwhile
the city government kept on doing
more and more along lines of social
betterment, to an extent that would
doubtless scandalize the conserYa-
tive East.
Now building automobiles requires
some very highly skilled labor, and
in the early stages of the business
some of this labor was imported from
other industrial centers The new
corners liked Detroit so we'll that
their friends and relatives followed
them. Then the capitalists found
that there was large supply of skill
ed labor in Detroit, so they located
new automobile shops there to get
/ the benefit of it. That brought more
mechanics and then more factories
and then more mechanics again.
This illustrates extra we'll what
students of history have known for
years, that population flows away
from poorly governed localities, and
towards those where humanity re-
ceives the better consideration. Good
government is a business asset, and
we cannot afford to go without it.