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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
THE SULLONAY PENSION BILL.

The action OF the house in passing
the Sulloway pension bill which calls
for an additional outlay for pensions
OF $45.oOo,000 year is giving rise to
some criticism. For instance, the New
York Tribune says: ITO add s45,000,-
600 year to the present pension out
lay would be a dea lhblow to the plans
OF public economy on which the Taft
administration has been so sedulously
working. What will it profit to save a
Few millions here and a few millions
there II the governments annual obl-
cations are to be increased al one
stroke by $45.000.o0O. and the way is to
be opened for other pension legislation
even more costly?"
It Is nearly torty-six years since the
war of the REBELLION ended, and the ma
ton has paid out in pensions in that
time no less than $3,976,6l1,126. The
annual pension outlay has increased
from $l5,450,549 in 1e65-'66 to $780,
97A,056 in 19O9-'10. The amount ex-
pended in the last fiscal year was ex-
ceeded only by the amount expended in
lS0S-'03. so that the government is now
devotin to pensions, nearly forty-six
years after the close of the civil war.
more money than it devoted in any
year prior TO 19S-'09 and about four
times as much as it spent on the aver
age in the two decades following the
war to relieve those who were directly
disa bled in that contest or to provide
for the widows and orphans Of those
who persisted.
That record leaves no room for the
charge of illberality No nation on
earth was ever more generous in the
matter of military pensions. Perhaps
i, seems a little at odds with the new
policy of economy that thsi big bulge
should be proposed. AT the same time,
it is not at all certain that the con-
sensus of opinion of the people will
not Justify il. Those Of the odd vets
that are still left are rapidly approach
irz the end. They are Old and incapable
Of labor. Their need is greater. The
comparison of the sixties with 1911 is
comparison of young men with de-
crepitude Thousands OF men spurned
pensions in the years succeeding the
war whose necessities are today debt
of honor to be paid not grudgingly but
gratefully. The place to economic is
tot on veteran pensions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

OF his choice. Many think he ought to
have shifted his responsibilities and
gained additional years of life. But he
made his choice deliberately. and with
full knowledge Of the probable conse-
quence. Had he chosen the other al
tentative he might be alive today. but
1t is doubtful whether he would have
ken satisfied or happy.
This man did noe belong to that
c.ass VINO say to the naked and hungry.
BE we clothed and fed On cold winter
nights he would ring up some OF the
city mission headquarters and say, Are
there any boys around there who
haven't got place to sleep tonight?
II there are. just put them somewhere
and see that they have good break
fast in the morning and send the bill
to me- 1t would be real hardship for
A man like that to quit christian work
and seek heal.c, pleasure and happi-
ness. He had happiness already. and
,-at Of a very superior kind. His meat
Master. He that seeketh his life shall
lose it; but he that loseth his life for
my sake shall find it.
Huyler. and he was the head Of the
great confectionery house."
Now the Advance is a religious paper
OF great influence and immense circu-
lation, and such an editorial In such
a paper can well be termed a remark
able editorial. for between the lines
one reads commentator Of the choice
Of the man: stripped Of its sentiment
tality, the writer OF that editorial utters
the argument Of justinable suicide.
More than that 1t has words of praise
for the man who deliberately sacri-
feed his life from a mistaken sense
Of duty of self sacrifice. The absurd
ity Of such argument even by infer
ence is the more pronounced. because
the suicide philanthropist. and his re-
ligious editorial eulogist assumed the
work that he did the work that was the
cause of his death. could not have been
assumed that Huyler was a man Of
children, at any rate had some fam
lily ties. Had his relations no claim
on him? Put 1t another way. had So
ciety at large no claim to make that
he should live every hour his Creator
saw At to give him, and continue his
benefactions every such hour? Mrs.
Russell Sage, even John D. Rookie
feller. Carnegie ana others, finding It
Impossible to personally carry on their
philanthropic work, hire others to as
sist them in wisely giving away their
millions. But Mr.. Huvler must sacri-
flee his life by personal work Not a
word in this Ia to detract from the
great deserved reputation for good
works Mr.. Huyler left behind him.
But IT IS to protest most enphatically
against the use Of the columns of secu-
lar or religious papers to All the minds
Of their readers especially the younger
ones, with such false fetching. It IL
not even christianlike argument It
does not stand the test Of common
sense It's sentimental bosh.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
Outside Point of Views

Under the head Of "a Remarkable
Choice" the Advance Of Oct. 20. prints
the following editorial:
Something less than two years ago
q certain very busy business man OF
New York City was asked to become
the president Of the Industrial Chris
tan Alliance Of that city. In reply. he
said: Let me consider your request
for day or two. I do not like to say
that can not accept the office, and
do not know that should add this
responsibility to those already have
am considering very important de-
cision Of my medical advisers. They
tell me that I can live ten years. or
three; II 60 on as I am, three years
Is the limit. I am undecided what to
do. am not sure but would better
Keep On ana do what can in the three
years. will let yeu know" Hhe chose
the three years with their hard work
rather than the ten with eso<. But even
the full thIoe years were denseA him,
Tor on Oct. he passed to his sOwafd.
People will differ as to the wisdom
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
"REuNr1,Ns" THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

| First off let it be laid down as abb
| solute fact that the democratic party
without Bryan is Hamlet without Ham
let. A democratic candidate lacking
Bryan's active support might be nomi-
mated, but he would find middle west
democrats a chilly proposition early in
November
The s2o plate banquet at Baltimore Is
one OF its ma nifes tations. But Mr..
Bryan was unable to be present. The
main reason of Mr.. Bryan's absence
name of Harm on from the poll list OF
those who voted tor Mr.. Bryan in 1886
and It's presence among those who
voted tor Palmer on that crucial occas-
ION. Al that time Harmon was MEM
Der OF the Cleveland cabinet and his
detection meant something. In connec-
ton with Harmon, then, MIR. Bryans
;orgeetery refuses 10 work. He remetn-
uers MT. Harmon
" noever Is nominated by a
"trium pnant and reunited democracy"
will need Bryan badly. He vii. want
the democracy of the middle west, not
the Daalnan outnt Dul the true demo-
cracy, the farmers and their ilk. Most
of these will tane up Mir. Bryan's quar-
rel with Harmon because it is their
quarrel. Those who have voted Tor MI.
Bryan on three distinct and enthu as
tic occasions are like MIR. Bryan pos
sessed of long memories.
In addition The n1iowestern democrat
is not OF the SO plate variety. He
connects that sum, spent at one time
for eatables and drinkables, with orgy
undemocratic and the reverse OF JET
fersonian. He favors the Bryan idea
OF dollar plate as the true demo-
cracy Of "eatins." To spend the price
OF good suit of clothes on one meal
savors of plutocracy and nigntingales
| tongues and the western democrat
doesn't like it.
Harmon it seems, is in bad with
Bryan; he carouses with plutocrats.
Imagine the democracy of crucified Ne
braska and sockleSs Kansas throwing
servile caps in air over the candidacy
and who eats $50 worth at one throw.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

tion duly authorized by law. and one.
in its preliminary stages. which pro-
ceeds according to the terms Of the
law, then the states possess no power
which federal courts are bound to re-
spect Such doctrine is revolution
AIRY. and its announcement by any
federal judge is alarming to the last
degree"
Every city in the United States I'M
der the commission plan Is interested
in Judge Hanford's action. If a res
ident Of another state may thus check
or obviate the operation of the system
we shall all want very much to know
where we are at.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
Topics of the Times

AS yet there appears to be no way in
which the bargain day" can be applied
TO senatorial circulation.
When he did come back he had the
Ananias wallop with him.
Des Moines wet and the legislature
for Lafe would be piling Ossa upon
Pelion. What?
Uncle Joe Cannon is the modern
Methuseleh. Seven hundred years from
now one Of Macaulay's wandering eX-
plorers may find him dancing clogs
on the ruins of the capitol
One OF surest ways OF avoiding the
payment OF a hunters license next year
is TO drag shotgun muzzle first thru d
woven wire fence.
The main drawbacks to Texas are
drouth and Senator Bailey.
Serene Payne tells Taft he might as
we'll drop his plan for a tariff COM
mission because he will not be permit
ted to pass 1t. The men who are
fighting with Taft are Lenroot and
Good. The men who are fighting his
commission are those who used hun as
bolster to the Payne law.
And onw Senator Purcell proposes
to reinvestigate Ballinger as having
been untrue to his trust" But the
general impression is that Ballinge:
was faithful to the trust"
80
Hamilton county's farm is listed as
worth $4,000. Perhaps 1t was a sense
OF Inconsistency which induced the
change of nomenclature from poor
farms" to county farms" Two hundred
forty acres worth $780, 900 couldn't be a
poor faIlIi.
c. D. Miller. Of Waverly, is in Wash
ington Ito fight the Maine bilp' provid-
ing for . national health board. Chris
ton Scientists, 1t is reported, are send
ing kilograms to Iowa representatives
adverse to the bill. The Iowa delega-
ton should pay not the slightest atten-
ton to either. The lives and health OF
the people should not be overridden
by the hobbies Of any sect or by the
desire for vengeance upon the medical
profession of small man with a small
purpose and q smaller following.
The unexplained fact remains that
Senator Hamiu walked out with the
standpatters. Is it possible that he is
q somnambulist?
Lafe's senatorship is like the Mis-.
.ourian's band. your town boasts Of
band I see," remarked the stranger
We'll no, stranger" replied the Mis-.
sourian We've got q band but WE
don't boast Of It. We kind OF endure
It,"
Forty-dvs million dollars increase q
pensions 10 . lot Of money. HoWovel
tl1It isn't ths question Or SsOn part o.
the question. II the decrepit defender,
Of this country need it this countr,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
Iona Newspapers
SHOULD FARMS BE CHEAPER?
Shenandoah SentiGel-Post.l

Shenandoah Sentinel-Post.l
A man in buying farm to keep
and not sell would give only what he
thought he could make off from 1t. 1t
would make no difference to him what
price IL was rated at after he got it. 1t
would produce just as much II 1t was
listed ct SIS per acre as IL 1t was listed
at 5000 per acre. II you get down to
the bed rock you will find that the farm
prices are mostly speculative. Each
man sees that those who have bought
land have been able to sell at higher
price in a short time, so he tries it, just
as the man speculates ON the board Of
trade. He bulls the market Millions
and millions Of bushels Of wheat that
never grew are bought and sold by
men who hardly know what wheat
looks like The farm prices are largely
speculative the buyers buying in order
to SELL And they sell to each other like
Mike and Fritz did with their dog.
Many farms have been sold in Page and
Fremont Last year, but how many were
sold to men from Ohio and Indiana and
Illinois seeking homes?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

the southern delegates again seeded.
Douglas was nominated. The seceders
met, held a convention and nominated
Lincoln"
Really! this is the hrst time that I
ever heard that Lincoln was nominated
by a seeding democraticc invention.
II the Sioux City man had only used
the name Of Breckenridge instead Of
Lincoln he would have stated the truth.
My only object in writing is to have
this inexcusable historical blunder cor
rected.
STEPHEN WHITED.
Eidora. Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
FEDERAL JUD5Es AND COMMISSION PLAN.

Seattle is under the commission
plan but when 25 per cent OF
it's voters signed petition to
recall Mayor Gill federal judge
granted an injunction restraining
the city from appropriating money
raised the question of jurisdiction and
drew the courts attention to the fact
that the petitioner for the Injunction is
not resident of Seattle but lives in
Illinois, owning some pieces of prop
jerty in Seattle. Some questions OF the
lsenuineness of signatures were brought
quest and question was raised of the
truth Of the charges made and circu-
lated against the mayor in the cam
paisn for the recall petition. The court
held that it had jurisdiction. and de-
clared it's intention to restrain the city
from nseppropriation of public
penses of a special election under this
recall petition"
1t is hard for reasonably intelligent
citizens unframed in the cats cradle of
legal operation to see where the federal
court gets in to the city elections Of
Seattle ordered under Seattle's adopted
form of city government, unless the
commission plan is to be nullif1ed and
set aside by federal judges. 1t would
appear, if this is the case, that the
dream of a centralized government is
in way to come true. The Seattle
Post InteliiSencer speaks with large
freedom in its editorial dealing with
the decision and expresses the feeling
of the ordinary citizen everywhere
when 1t says
The memorandum decision on ap-
plication for An Injunction by Judge
Hanford Is intended to restrain, not
merely the city comptroller, not mere
J ly the city council. but the entire
electorate Of this city, and it was
,prayed for and issued upon a pretext
so thin that the wonder is that any
Judge could have stopped to consider
it. Judge Hanford says that "any
taxpayer, resident or nonresident is
entitled to all the relief which a court
of equity has power to grant," that is
true; but has a federal judge power
to trammel the electoral rights which
the state, in q proper exercise Of its
constitutional powers has granted to
the people Of this city? II 80, It would
seem that there il nothing fedel al
judge may not do to the hurt and de-
structton Of popular rights. II the
equity" jurisdiction Of the FEDERAL
court can extend so far that one nom
resident citizen can prevent an cleo
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
THE PRAYER-cHA1N FAKE.

lHOCK1Of0 HoSlStef.J
1t was supposed that sufficient publ
city had been given the prayer chain"
canard a couple Of years ago 10 that
nobody Of good sense need be disturbed
at receiving one or lose any sleep boz
cause Of a failure to carry out the In
junction which the missive contains.
The thing Is not only an insult to hum
an intelligence but IL q cheap and
coarse PROCLAMATION Of Diety belonging
to an era which determined the guilt
or innocence Of those charged with
crime by having them. swim In hot lard
or walk over hot pillow shares or that
which peopled the air with witches
cavorting around on lat2ls and old
broom sticks People Of sense and piety
the fire ~ soon - they are received
er are a. follows:
This prayer was sent 70 me. send
It on to You. It n an exact copy Of
an ancient prayer. Copy It and see
what happens. It 10 said in Jerusalem
that he who does not write this prayer
will meet with some misfortune, but he
who will write It for nine days begin
ming when received, ana send q copy
each day, will on the ninth experience
some great Joy and will be delivered
from al, calamity. Make wish while
writing II and DO not break the chain.
II must be an exact cory Won send each
Cay and must not be signed"
The ancient prayer" follows: Lord
Jessu. I emplore thee. bless all man
kind, keep us from evil by thy precious
blood and take us to dwell with thee
In eternity
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
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can better afford to paw $45,ooo,ooo to
their support than to build four new
Dreadnaughts.
According to the lawyers for the next
of kin Of Mrs. Eddy where there's a
will there's a way to- break it.
1t is said that ice one and half
inches thick will support man: four
inches thick will support cavalry; five
inches thick will support an eighty-four
pound cannon: ten inches thick will
support a multitude, and eighteen
inches thick will support railroad
train. 1t might be added that few
loads peddled out with. judicious con-
servatism as to weight. ETC., will sup-
port a whole family twelve months in
the year q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
Whit.d Correct. siovx citx

Whited correets Sioux City Paper.
Editor metropolitan: In your
Issue for the 18th inst. on page SIX. IN
an extract from the Sioux City Trib-
tine, columns six and seven appears
the following. (the writer Of the ex-
tract was speaking Of the national
democratic convention held at Charles
ton, 8. c., IN 1900: Douglas received
the highest number Of votes but not
enough 60 nominate him under the
two-thirds vote. The convention "a.
journed to meet again ut Baltimore.
There the Douglas men controlled and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

THE colonel might have resisted the
temptation to come to the assistance
Of Senator Lodge, but he simply
couldn't pass Up the g!ittering oppor-
tunity to initiate another member into
that celebrated club" says the Sioux
City Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

"Fortify the canal" says the Water
loo Times-Tribune. $50 long as we own
the Panama canal; and since the fact is
that our soldiers and sailors have little
to do, and since 1t is also true that tho
canal is a prize worth fighting for. why
not fortify 1t. at least strongly enough
to hold at bay foreign foe until Uncle
Sam can get his fighting clothes on 2"
Young" says the Waterloo Courier.
speaking Of the junior senator, "is In
politics to play the game, ana anybody
| who thinks there is any sincerity in his
soft soap to farmers and the dear peo-
pie should look up his record"
The MaQuoketa Excelsior advocates
| changing the date Of the primary from
June to September
Perhaps says the Burlington
F!awkeye. speaking Of presidential and
other messages, there may be coming
day when we shall discover that the
value and the virtue Of the message do
not lie in the fact that 1t contains 49,
900 or 100 900 or more words. but
! rather in a few pregnant sentences that
will live"
"w. H. Berry does not believe in be-
ing a dark horse" says the Davenport
Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18
Nineteen Years Success
full Practice
DR.. L. z. MILEY,

as a Specialist in Chicago and the
East. Consultation and examination
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

who has been located in Marshalltown
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treatment. Office, SIoddart Hotel,
Third avenue and Main street.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

The Maquoketa Excelsior advocates
changing the date Of the primary from
June to September
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-18

'W. H. Berry does not believe In be-
ing a dark horse" says the Davenport
Times.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27
New Books for Library

The following sixty eight books will
be added to the public library, Monday,
August %, 1911:
Neutrality-suspicious., Growth Of the
French Nation; Baird, Huguenots and
Henry of Navarro, 2 vols; Baird, Rise
of the Huguenots, Q vols; Lloyd, His
tory of Wales, 2 vols; Lodge, Rich
elieu; Maskell. Old Country Inns of
England; Pankhurst, The Suffragette
Perkins, France Under Louis XIV,
vols; Preyer, Development of the In
tellect: Robertson. William. Works, S
vols; Robertson, William, Statesman s
Yearbook. 1911 (ref); Strang, Fa-
nous Stars Of Light Opera, Universal
classics, 80 vols; Winter, Argentina
and Her People of Today
Fiction-Corner of Harley Street;
De la Pasture Master Christopher !;
Locke, Glory Of Clemntina; Lowndes,
Jane Oglander; Morse, Scottie and His
Lady; Ford, Torchy.
Children 3 books-Carpenter How
the World Is Housed; Condict, "My
Ii y Angels -; Gould, Old English
Fairy Tales: Grinnell, Trails of the
Pathfinders; Powell, Scouting for Boys,
Days and Deeds, prose.