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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
The KALEIDOSCOPE.

Talk about your moving picture
chow. the confusion of things a man
VIII see when he lights on his head on a
pavement from fall from the second
story window: talk about the medley OF
horrors that confronts a man in bad
case Of tremens; can anybody stir UP
more chaos or imagine more of a mix
up than the present political kaleido-
scope in Iowa?
Here is the Cedar Rapids Republican
shoulder to shoulder with Cummins in
criticising the presidents remarks on
reciprocity when it used to falsely call
Cummins a boozer in order to beat him.
Here Is the Register and Leader roast
ing Cummins whom 1t once helped to
make politically. and boosting for Taft
whom 1t has always criticised. Here
10 Billy Payne whooping 1t up for LA
Toilette rs against Taft simply be-
cause the people once refused to follow
the Neveda statesman in support OF
Fairbanks. Garst comes out for reci-
procfty and Taft while Cummfns is
feminist the present reciprocity bin and
has no love for Taft. Kenyon, owing
much to the Register and Leader, re-
fuses to support the presidents reci-
procity with Canada, but is for Taft
for president. Lafe sets his lamp in
the window and claps his hands under
the delusion that he is welcoming Cum
minis and Prouty home to his kind OF
republicanism. Bill Muse has become
a red hot progressive and postmaster.
Lafe still scolds because jim Davis
was for Kenyon and yet Joe Allen was
for him, too. Tobin fully expects Jim
Good to boost his reappointment, altho
he worked like a Trojan to defeat Good
in the primaries. Bert" Smith, Of
Usage, says that he has retired from
politics and actually believes it. Perkins
says that LATE is going to convert John
Kelley. One would almost think that
Towner would be invited to make an
other temporary address in state con.
vention.
Oh! the heat prostrations during the
present summer have exceeded ar
former records of the weather service.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
can see ii. collateral ana watch the

can see the collateral and watch thu
borrower
More than loco automobiles passed
in review at q parade in Minneapolis
Thursday evening which is an annual
event in that city. and furnished en-
tertstnment for countless Thousands ii
people who lined the streets Of the
parade route. This is q !ete which
every city could adopt with pleasure
and profit
Bryan's scheme to leave 1t to the
option OF the several states as to
whether they eject United States SEN
ators by popular vote or thru their
legislatures. is not bad one at all.
1t might furnish q compromise be-
tween senate and house bills now I'D
IN Washington.
Many town councils turnout the
state are turning to the water meter
for relief from distressing conditions
that exist at their respective water
plants. At Carroll with a population
of a little more than 5000 it has been
discovered that the water waste has
been so universal that 100000 gallons
per day have been necessary to supply
the town.
If political conditions in this country
had remained absolutely unchanged for
the past dozen years. some of the bit
ter charges of inconsistency that are
y,af Wfo1
in this state might deserve moment 8
consideration.
1t IS not yet matter of publ, rec
ord that would-be depositor has
been turned down by postal savings
bank because of the $500 limit.
The land locker who goes west with
the idea of investing in cheap land
comes home brinsN with him the
deed for his newly acquired property.
The one who goes in search Of some
thing just as good as Iowa. returns
without the deed.
Last Thursday night Henry WilIer. of
Akron, Iowa, shipped four carloads Of
fat cattle to Fry & Co, large Pacific
coast packers at Seattle, Wash. They
stopped for feed at Madison, S. D.,
Deer Lodge, Mont. and at a couple
of other points on the 1,400 mile jour
ney The freight charges were $40
per car. This was the first consign-
ment of livestock as vet reported from
Iowa to Pacific coast point for pack
ing purposes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
Resolution Of Neo,,a,ty,

.
Be 1t resolved, BY the mayor and
city council OF tho city u MarsA1ll-
town, Iowa, that 1t IS deemed advisable
and necessary TO make Improvements
TO the following named streets BY the
construction OF concrete pavement,
the construction Of . cement CT .lnG
where no curbing now exists. Tie
method Of constr,ctton and material In
general way to be, coacsste boss
FIVE (6) inches thick made Of ono part
Of cement, three (3) parts cIsan siliH-s
GUS sand and five (SI parts crush06
rocks. with q wearing surface OF two
inches in thickness, made OF .one az
part cement and two 81 parts clean
silicious sand, brushsd rough and @-
vidsd with crossed sectional expansion
joints not to exceed {venty~hve feet
apart or closer. II In the JUDGMENT sAf
the city engineer II deemed a4visabls.
for Jerome street between Fourth and
Fifth streets. and to be compoSed OF .,
base five CO. inches thick made Of
one part cement, two parts sand and
five 80 parts crusl1ed rock, with .
wearing surface two inches thick. made
Of one part cement and two parts sharp
river sand. for Park street from Fourth,
(4th) street to Firth (6th) strest:
Fifth (5th) street beginning 1t the
alley which runs west from Fifth
strest) 20e fest north Of Park street To-
Jerome stsest: Fourth street from PA1ks
street south TO end Of present pavlnes-
and four inches Of con6rste on . throoi
inch base and two inches wearing 90.
face for East Main street, from wet
side Of Fifth 9th avenue east 70 cd
OF present pavement sbstWeen MghlA
and Ninth AVENUES,
The expense of making said -.
provemenas, except cost Of streets lndI
alleys Intersections, @ - a1De6Dso
against tho private propOty- ab1tsln6
thereon. in accordance with the laI!
governing tlsb SaaBe. 4 81 r.:
BE It further resolved, That tAlss -
ton - taken In part upon the psttA1oni
of majority Of Me owners Of III
linear front fest abuttdn6 upon. esseaiA.
OF seid streets. ana - % D6et alas1
street undsr the necessity Of seceh-
strucfi0n II y g. NJ
Bo 1t further resolved. That EsInO
mayor and ci<y council viii NEE 90
nine co. O'Clock .. N. on the Nh Aays
OF July "A. ID. 1911 N the oouucil !.
Der in the city OF Marsha1itoWA 161o,
for the pufpoid ~ conSideflhg 6H6S1.
lions to the passsge Of The aAjA 1eo-
posed resolution, and 70 the cone
struetion Of the said innprovomesl<. q
which hearing the i AhOvo roSolutjoel
may be amended and paased. or $500
- Dropoosd 80 Il sgs -:
n Il furthsr. resolved, TnA& ~ .oeay
clerk Be, and he Il hl9Sby instructed u
cause notice OF the p4adSney III -
above reooluAien ana tn time &C Wh5ch
the proposed resolution win ~ COT
sidseed by the mayor ara city ooesclls
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
WISCONSIN seeIxs STATE INSURANCE.

The governor of Wisconsin signed a
bill Thursday in which his state in
augurates a function in state govern
by all state governments. Altho not
new in the world it Is new for one Of
the United States to go into the
life insurance business as the state Of
Wisconsin has done. Hereafter people
IN Wisconsin can take out life insur-
4nce at absolute cost. On policies from
$500 to $4,000 they will need to pay
only the death loss assessment accord
ing to old line mortuary tables. Sal
aries Of managers. high toned rents.
pFincely commissions to agents and all
which now eat up so large a share of
the cost OF life insurance, will be first
trimmed down or eliminated entirely
and then borne by the state from gen.
eral taxation. The result will be to
bring life insurance Of moderate
amounts within the reach of every citi-
zen however modest his income. In
time It will keep countless thousands
Of orphans and widows of from the
county and will educate a race of prov
tdent people.
In European countries, life insurance,
accident Insurance health insurance
and old age endowment Insurance has
long been conducted by the govern
ment Accident insurance is even made
factory laws. In England such a thing
~ tho American life insurance COM
pany with it's exorbitant premiums.
IT'S princely salaries and general mag
nficence is wholly unknown. The gov
eminent offers insurance at cost and
citizens insure their lives in the same
commonplace manner as they might In
sure their homes from fire. Accident
insurance has been sold in our eastern
states thru the savings banks with
success, and recently the Dominion of
Canada has inaugurated most COM
prehensive system Of old age pension
endowment insurance which it Offers
to it's people at actual cost: the expense
Of management being borne from gen.
eral taxation as one Of the ordinary
functions Of government and the pub
nc schools being used as an agency
thru which to educate the rising gen
srations In the wisdom OF thrift and
provident preparation for old age.
Insurance Of every form and descrip-
tioN = fundamentally cooperative
distribution Of the big hazards of life
L y ~ legiumately q function Of or
Ganissd government as the policini
aOsinst attack or - the regulation o,
: TIE public healtK. Insurance scienc,
& 1as nowssbscsms % standardized a.,
Gstabilshsd n principle that a stat,
q SD not engage IN experiments whel
{ Snterins tn insufance business. No
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
Topics Of the Times

The ministers of Des Moines were
praying for rain Wednesday evening
when the rain actually came. They
are now certain that their appeal to
the Almighty did the business but II
they could establish this fact they
ought to be sued for many millions
actual damages for not getting busy
weeks before when the crops could
have been saved.
Lafe says that Editor Ingham has
gotten into the Taft bandwagon after
years of abuse while all the states
men he has created have gotten out
of the Taft handwagon which prompts
LATE to call it great mix-up
In Iowa just when the crops are all
burnt up it rains and the crops are
saved. In other states they burn up
and it doesn't rain.
President Gary, OF the steel trust,
has hit upon scheme to circumvent
federal antitrust laws. He is in Bel
GUM organizing an international con-
federation Of steel mills. This will get
beyond the laws of any one govern
meni.
Washington. D. c.. is to be still more
marvelously beautifed by government
buildings in an $4,000. 900 group for the
departments Of state. commerce and
Justice, to be erected between the
present treasury building and Wash
ington's monument. In time the cap
ital OF the United States is to be the
most wonderful city in the world ar
chitecturally.
President Brown Of the New York
Central Railway Company In l1arbor-
ing an ambition to go to the United
states senate from Iowa, confirms
Professor Macey's idea that United
States senators need not necessarily be
citizens Of the states which they rep
| resent and it is also a recognition OF
q recent Iowa precedent that distin-
guished railway service commands pre-
eminence in political prefernent.
People with money to loan need no,
tbd affAid ef lows any longer. The
I tar rate has now bsen reduced to one
half Of one per cent. It is worth THU
: 70 be able to loan ut home where one
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
DANGER OF BOYS WITH AvrosostEs.

Ihe state or iowa mas statute pro-
hibiting boys under Is years OF age
from driving automobiles unless ac-
companied by the owners of the car.
The law was intended to protect the
public from fifty-horse power engine
OF destruction in the hands OF child
Someone attempted to maintain that
the wife of a man owning a machine
could qualify as an owner and hence
If the boy under Is had his mother
along the new law would not reach
him. but Special Counsel Nels Lee, in
the employ of the attorney generals
office. promptly holds that this is an
evasion which will not evade; that I'M
less the woman can actually show that
she Is herself the owner of the machine
can not legally drive the car along the
public highway.
Nels Lee Is rapidly establishing a
reputation for common sense. This is
he has rendered which apply the rule
of reason to his departments interpre-
tations of law. There may be boys
under Is who can safely be entrusted
with an automobile unattended. but
they are exceptions. So long as the
kid does not get smart with his ma
chine or so long as no crisis confronts
the juvenile driver accidents may be
deferred but it is at the critical turns
Of the road which sooner or later must
be encountered by all drivers that the
judgment Of a boy under Is generally
is not to be trusted. The law applied
generally is in the interest of public
safety and was not intended to be sus-
pended whenever some fool woman
was willing to risk her darling Willie
at the throttle
There is still another danger in en-
trusting automobiles to boys under Is
which can never be safeguarded by
law. 1t is the breeding of disregard for
expense and the insidious cultivation
of extravaganza which unrestrained In
diligence with an automobile is sure
to cause. An automobile is an expen-
sive machine. 1t costs generally from
$1,000 up, and it wears out terrifcally
fast in proportion to its use. Counting
gasoline, repairs and wear, a big car
win cost 10 cents per mile to operate.
A boy with an automobile and nothing
else to do but ride around will reel of
ten miles in twenty minutes just driv-
ing up one street and down another. He
has burned up 81 for nothing More
than he could earn il he worked all day.
And yet he thinks nothing OF it for dad
pays the bill and dad is fool enough
single day of just riding around, this
same kid can burn up "a to IS or the
wages Of a full days time for a skilled
mechanic. The boy takes it as mat
ter OF course and wastes capital. When
he becomes young man his disregard
for expense, his wastefulness, his ex-
travaganr tastes, keep his expenses be-
yond the income from any job he can
hold. and he is united for a fair start
in the world Of independent self sup
port. Boys whose dads never had auto
mobiles go right past him now in the
business Of getting on in the world,
and the old man who once did we'll
enough to afford a car hobbies aloAs
toward the setting sun broken in spirit,
the disappointed father of worthless
son.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sort, Of Obinisns
PASSING Of the Shakers.

1t 10 reported that the Shakers are
winding up their financial affairs" in
the state OF Ohio and in the one re-
naming colony of that sect In the state
of New York. These facts, observes
the ST. Paul Pioneer Press, call at
tention to the final failure of one Of
the longest existing of the many COM
munistic experiments that have been
tried in this country" At present
remnants of once ffourishing Shaker
settlements existed In Mt. Lebanon,
N. Y, and Enfield. Conn, besides those
referred to in Ohio. The Pioneer Press
notes these history data:
THE Shakers first established them
selves In this country just before the
revolutionary war and have kept their
organization more or less intact since
that time, in spite Of the fact that
the fundamental basis OF their organ
ization offered nothing to promise pro-
lonsed existence Of the sect.
+ THE Shakers were the followers Of
Mother Ann Lee. They believed that
she was the feminine counterpart OF
Jesus Christ. She died in 1884 and the
society was recognized on a COM
munistic basis. Ceifbacy, non-resist-
ancs, and equality for women are the
simple tenets Of the Shaker creed.
Their affairs are managed by groups.
the authority being vested In two men
and two women chosen by the colony.
All of their religious and business at
fairs are discussed in open meeting.
They do not worship Christ nor Ann
Lee, but the highest good wherever It
may be found The Shakers had a
membership of 1000 in 1887, but their
membership decreased to 1000 in 1902.
and it appears now that they are on
the point of dissolution.
"In the years following the American
revolution more than score Of COM
munistic sects and colonies were es-
tablished in the United States. Some Of
them appealed to the sensualities and
some Of them were plain swindles. The
Shakers held out no sensual or hnan-
cial allurements and it is surprising
that they have endured so long, except
on the theory that their simplicity IN
living attracted recruits, ana made
them the sole survivors OF all these So
cial experiments. With their passing
will close one Of the most interesting
chapters Of social experiments in the
history Of any country"-LfteraryD Dr.
gest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
THE PROGRESSIVE REDsKIN.
FTama Heraldl.


Are the MusQuakies progressing?
That is foolish question for q man to
ask who has seen them riding in their
own automobiles. Last week Joseph
lesson. the interpreter of the tribe.
snapped a bunch of horses for David
Jewetts Mason automobile. and nearly
every day since Joe and his family
have filled that auto and enjoyed trips
to town. With an Indian at the steer
ing gear and with nothing bI. Indians
in the machine. all gaily decked out
with their gala attire. one is tempted
to believe as he sees them that he has
just awakened from a Rip Van Wrinkle
slumber Of many years and Is back
again in Tama for the second time.
The Musquakies are certainly pro-
crossing Maybe the little old automo-
bile will do more for their regenera-
ton than generations of school teach
ers and missionaries have been able
to accomplish.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08

only should iii states follow the lead
Of Wiscosin but they are actually losing
valuable time ana are falling short Of
the reasonable possibilities Of govern
ment az long as they fail to adopt state
endowment insurance for old ase; ana
state accident and fire insurance az
we'll.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
Iona Newspapers
AND TT WOULD SEEM so
rnes .Noino. C.n,%.,l

The Register and Leader will not
criticise Senator kenyon's reasons for
deciding to vote against the Canadian
reciprocity pact.-Register and Leader.
Certainly not. It will simply use its
ANN unition to IRE away at LATE
Young who assumed the same position
and fought the doctrine from the day
Governor Cummins proposed 1t in his
inaugural address in 1904 until the day
the insurgent stampede in the other
direction began. Uncle Harvey knows
what he Is here for. {.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
u.x Fever and Summer cefJs

Must be relieved quickly and Foley'a
Honey and Tar Compound win do It.
e. N. stewart. 1884 wolfram street
Chicago, writes: II have been greatly
troubled during the hot summer
months with Hay Fever and find that
by .ssing Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound / get great relief" Many othera
who suffer similarly win be glad to
beneflt by Mr.. Stewards experience
Mcbride 4 VIII Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08

Idle Ike tko oss1.
Jeremy TayIor writes that "aA JdIo
.arruu II the same - . dsaA Dsg1ou;
both SsG merely passing Tie dDA"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT

The house fy receives its sentence
Of ex-communication in about the
same way that Mr.. Roosevelt would
regard grand jury indictment.-Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
Meanwhile, the Georgia woods are
literally full Of timber Of senatorial
size and fber.-Savannah News.
What's consistency where principle
Is concerned? Port1and's new mayor
10 named Rushiight, but he believes in
q municipal illuminating plant Just the
! same.-Milwaukee News.
A minister says 9eorg3s ~ ON the
way to hell. So6tly. There II hope at
| least until the bon wesvN arrives. -
lAtianta Journal
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08

The Davenport Democrat trusts that
Mr.. Pepper will not forget that the
national convention is stiu to be call.
ed, and that he will not rise in his place
in Washington to nominate Speaker
Clark"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08

Guggenheim u . truthful cuss. in
advertently. He said he did not own
and he didn't. he was Just holding on
to it.-Memphis COMMERCIAL Appeal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-08

1eC4pfoC3ty, tnero WILL be q long, loud
call to it to adjourn" asserts the Sioux
City Tribune. This call will be start
ed by wire. The message win originate
in Wall street and the echoes will be
from ocean to ocean. The progressive
senators know how 1t will sound. This
knowledge is one reason why they
in ahead Of the reciprocity bill II pos
sible."
1T involves nothing of civil rights
but presents 80 many difficult problems
and affects so many conflicting in
terests that there Is legitimate ground
for difference of opinion among men
who believe in the principles of reci-
procity and protection" says the Web
ster City Freeman Tribune.
Vhe Brooklyn Chronicle can see that
The democratic leaders are maneuyer-
ing to make the tariff the issue in the
coming presidential campaign, and to
dodge all other direct Issues, because of
the dissention in their own party. II
this Ia done Taft and his republican
postmasters may rest in peace for he
Will be Reelected
The average Iowan Is not seriously
afraid of competition with Canada on
agricultural products. but he objects to
being made the victim of an unfair
trade, and of approving treaty which
is not treaty. but merely a mass OF
concurrent legislation that is inequita-
bic, imperfect and illogical" insists the
Jefferson Bee.
Every once in awhile some paper
will publish a list of ridiculous answers
to ordinary questions taken from school
examinations and will announce with a
great flourish that our school system is
all wrong" says the Newton Record.
Really the wonder is, not that there
are some failures among the public
school pupils, but that the instructors
can, from the good. bad and indifferent
material. turn out SO large a per cent Of
| successes. Some people-not imbeciIes
by any means-are simply incapable
I of acquiring an education"
I'VE will hear less hereafter about
! popular election OF senator's" asserts
| the Dubuque Times-Journal. The
! democrats of the north will not con-
slider 1t good politics to boast Of the
/ defeat OF tbs 2c!stoW amendment. II
represents northern sentiment and a
| principle upon which the republicans OF
| the people have been able to get to-
gether, go that the question may be
said to be no longer at issue within the
pafty.