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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-06
Meeting This Year VIII be Held From
September oath to September
9th Inclusive at West
Point.
( FORTY FIRST SESSION
List Of Officers Of the Fair Who
Have Been Instrumental in Max.
ing the Event an Annual
Success.

The forty-first annual fair of the
West Point District Agricultural Soc!e-
ty will be held this year on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
September "a, IS, 26, q. This is one
OF the old time fairs of Lee county
and always attracts large attend
ance. The officers of the association
are as follows:
Officers for 1912-J. w. Stewart,
president, West Point, Iowa; John
Shepherd. vice president, West Point.
Iowa; John Wallpaper, secretary,
West Point, Iowa; Henry Stellern,
treasurer Fort Madison, Iowa. Gilbert
Lee, superintendent of privileges,
West Point, Iowa; Theodore Wonder
haar, superintendent of grounds,
stalls, and chief of police, West Point,
Iowa; A. P. Fletcher, marshal, West
Point, Iowa.
Directors-O. B. Wallpaper, West
Point Iowa; AL. Link, West Point,
Iowa; Geo. S. Timpe, West Point,
Iowa; J. w. Blackford, Hilisboro,
Iowa; VIM. j. Francey, Lowell, Iowa;
Henry Jansen, West Point, Iowa;
John Lachman, Viewer, Iowa.
Executive Committee. w. Ste
wart, John Shepherd, Henry Stellern
Al Link, John Wallpaper.
Directors Announcement.
The board of directors has issued
the following announcement concern
ing fair features:
We herewith present to you oul
annual catalogue of premium awards
for the forty-first fair, to be held or
our grounds the last week in Septem
Der.
| We have carefully revised the lis
and have increased several OF thu
awards in the animal departments ant
have also thoroughly revised the lis
in the fine art and pantry divisions.
On Wednesday, September 25 will
occur our colt show. We are offerin'
liberal premiums in the draft and roat
horse divisions, and We invite ever.
farmer to patronize this show ant
make it interesting to every visitor.
I We will also have corn and grail
show during the fair, for v'nch liber
al premiums are offered. The awards
I will be made on Friday, September
/ 81, and surely ought to interest ever,
| farmer and corn and grain grower.
| We are offering liberal premiums
! in all departments. There will b'
races on Thursday and Friday after
noon of the fair, also ball games
every afternoon of September %, 81
and 81.
1 Constitute yourself, dear reader, {
{ committee of one, and see how man.
| you can induce to come with you tt
our colt show, fair and corn show
/! Don't forget the dates and be sure Il
come every day September 25, IS anc
| 81.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28
It's Too Easy to Kill
in Atlanta

Two respectable families fight in dsrepuable place
They fight like with their fists They knives
and one badly cut before they separated.
The seriously wounded subsequently,
and the other to pieces.
The slayer is held in bail ludicrousy months he
has been free
district which the killing wiped out
Practically all witnesses against him
Here is another
Two policemen quarrel. One draws a revolver
other In the back This time the slayer tried
weeka
The jury hears all the evidence Judge whom
Of proof rests the slayer is not
guilty
There presumption here he guilty. Neither
GeRe any presumption that the killed
dineputabe place is guilty.
These cited merely that IT IS TOO EASY
TO KILL IN ATLANTA.
This newspaper is against capital punishment 1t also
against the whose idea of attack defense
here has deduced he would probably get
heavier jail sentence he stole loaf of bread than
If he killed the baker who made it.
Maybe he is right At any the which ay-
escape the main why Atlanta
city in the Union in it percentage of homcdes.
One coward in jail is of to the community than
twenty at large with knives and pistols in their pockets
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28
Where Is the Blame?

Was your mother failure in life
compared to your grandmother?
How would grandma do if she had
to live as you do now?
You take a bath every day;
grandma was considered a trifle
fussy if she wanted more than
one complete bath a week.
In your grandfather's time the
preacher used to come to the log
rolling and go home the worse for
liquor. and no one thought any the
less of him for it, either Have you
ever seen the rector of your parish
ever so little under the weather?
Forty years ago if you were
Democrat and lived in a Republican
community you might expect to
wake up and find your barn burned
and your stock set loose as a gentle
hint to you to go where you were
welcome. If you were a Republi-
can you never even dreamed Of try
ing to live in peace with Demo-
Gratis: you knew it was no use.
Don't you THINK we've gone lit
tie ahead OF that sort of thing?
When l was a little girl, not so
awfuIly long ago, people used to
give litter of kittens to the chill
dren and tell them to go and drown
them, and when we cried at the
idea the grown people laughed. Any
one who would ask a growing child
to DO q cruel thing like that today
would be sent to the juvenile court
for investigation, and quite right,
too.
When my grandmother died the
neighborS came and sat in the
room with her and watched every
symptom of her agony with a kind
Of greWsome interest, and went
home and told the children all
about 1t. Civilized!-they weren't
even partially so.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28
The Last of the InCas
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

\ TAHUALLPA, the last OF the
n Incas, was executed by the
scoundrelly Pizarro August
20. 1888 Than the condemnation
and execution of the Peruvian king
there is no blacker crime in the
whole course of history. Many times
have men been UNANIMOUSLY unjust,
but never to greater extent than
the Spaniards were in the case of
Atahuallpa.
Twelve charges were brought
against the Inca, every one Of them
trumpet up for the occasion and,
from beginning to end, outrag eously
false. Convicted as of course he
was sure to be by the packed tri-
bunal, the prisoner was sentenced
to be burned alive.
When informed of his fate the
Inca turning to PizarrO, eXclaim-
ed: What have ! done, or my
children. that | should meet such a
fate? And from your hands, too,
you who have met with friendship
and kindness from my people, with
whom l have shared my treasures,
and who have received nothing but
benefits at my hands"
Villain as he was, Pizarro was
visibly affected, and conscience
smitten, turned to the F'riar Vicente
de Valverde to know what he should
do. AS might have been expected,
the friar, without hesitation, voted
for the lnca's death. That settled
it, and Atahuallpa was led forth in
chains to be executed.
on the way the friar worked hard
to convert the Inca to Christianity,
but the monarch, Strengthening
himself. replied in naughty tones:
Your God died on cross at the
hands of His own creatures, but my
God (pointing to the SUM rides in
glory and majesty through the
heavens, and is beyond the power of
any man TO kill Never win I for
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28

sake my god for yours
But, later on, in presence OF Inc
stake that threatened to consume
the Inca's mind weakened (aS wen
It might, and he was converted
In consideration Of his CONVEX
sion, the form of death was KiuuN
changed from burning to stape
ling: and after being baptized 'i
der the name of John" IN Ho"0,
Of John the Baptist, on whose Gay
the event took place, the uhoiL''iI
ing king was choked to deaf" y.
the cold -blooded twisting oil Ivy
about his neck. 4.
History is full Of irony ou' .
would be hard to find anyWne'.
more bitter piece of irony than 'l ~,
given in the words of the SPAN
chronicler, Xerez: THUS ne IN
huallpa) paid the penalty OF HE e. e.,
rors and crueIties, for he was VA ~
greatest butcher that the W.T.
ever saw! All Oh HlON
lie, made up for the express pr
pose of covering up one OF 'le AVN ,.n.
infamous crimes that was eEel the
mitted by the strong aga'"''
weak. ,..arrna was
AS a character, AtahuaIIpa ,ns
head and shoulders above %. "l,
to be found among his nuI[ sgsme.
Handsome. of magnlicehl ,i.nous
gentle and refined, g,.,rnerior
and Just, he was intinlte-y ~ ~ his
to the brutes who despoiIegGG. As
kingdom and took away nus W gor5ng
for Figaro. he viii ever stano pS5fip
with Torquemada, AVA, 'front.'
second. and others. in i"y
line of the worlds worst nS". know
It is really refreshing to sD' t.
that Pizarro finally got ",a,4ty
his own medicine: that nus ~ be-
came home to him: an4 ,--..r
fore he had reached his ioiF n by
year his own head was Gu. me- Vi
one of his rivals in the 7''
blood and plumber.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28
Wilson for a Maritime
America

To-day development outside the United States
the and the dcaon As long as
going hopeless disadvantage We have
got develop merchant marine keep con-
fines Of domestic development"
These words spoken business men of Omaha by Gov
Wilson, bear upon political can not
be comprehended without effort of the imsgnaonso
portsnt that IL is apt be overlooked
On the the United States is sernation depend
amt province exploited by foreign sap The spos
ScAn triumph to all the Euro
pesn capitals
We pay humilatng and extorionate of millions
Of dollars year foreign shipping supremacy that has
driven ships from the
Wilson's administration may be expected introduce a new
Of commercial independence through the establishment
cproca tariffs with European and LatnAmercan countries
through the restoration of odme commercial navy
The tradition of the Democratic party maritime tradition
The Federaist party scattered dissolved because it
had opposed the with England indicated the aghs
of the republic In that thirteen British ships
captured by American pvateers These pvateers were
armed merchant ships They numbered carried guns
The years from 1917 to 1925 golden age maritime
America They the of triumphant Democracy
of land Monroe administration the
of good feeling
In 1925 80 per of with
carried on by American ships Today the ships
the Atlantic may be numbered the fingers of a hand.
The time has for of commercial liberty
and land
Thomas Jefferson said For navigating people to purchase
its merchant ships of foreigners would be speculation
Such people would always be dependent foreigners
build our ships for ourselves
The recent legislation of congress permitting the American
isry of ships bought by Americans foreign builders futile
and fatuous We must indeed build ships We
of salomen. We put boldly We
must become seafaring people
The words Of Woodrow Wilson, spoken Omaha nvo
cation to egeneraed Democracy We should expand
width Of wide vision; should the height of majestic
opportunity.
Our present estate the is sarveng what
estate has been But past magnificent
was of the future
In the of commercial liberty the coming days when
we shall the domain OF the should
become rich in the wealth Of the with universal
me- that history furnish eNmpcom Rome Carthage
OF Constnnope city of the stored pasof argcness
and splendor that shall be achieved
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28

States and the statute laws are
powerless to turn our glorious
country into a Garden of Eden.
Even if this power were invested in
them, somebody would be-devil the
situation ana We should be turned
out.
Constitution and laws are not
impersonal things. 1t is because so
many of US think they apply to
the other man and not to us that
our Garden Of Eden is so mussed
up.
If we had enough sense mot
few of US, but every one of us) to
know that citizenship and prosper
ity are not only worth having. bat
are worth all the sweat Of the brow
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28
The Constitution of the United States
Can't Turn Country Into Garden of Eden

THE old coiored man and his
L wife were sitting on the
door step. summing them
selves. The cabin was made of logs,
the chinks between filed with clay
The chimney stood at one end.
rickety and leaning. There was
little corn patch at the side of the
cabin. The old couple were prob
ably worth Seven Dollars or so-in
things they could sell if they had
to cash in; but they looked to be
worth One Hundred Thousand Dol
lars in general contentment.
Near the cabin hound dog was
crouching in the sunshine and yell
ing as if he owned One Hundred
Thousand Dollars worth Of unhap-
piness.
What is the matter with the
dog uncle?"
"Oh, nothing, sub. He's just a
low down, ornery hound dog"
But, uncle, he must have a mis-
cry of some sort, or he wouldn't yell
SO"
NO, sub, he amt got no misery.
He's jest naturally indolcnt"
He sure looks incident, uncle.
Does he yell like that all the timer"
NO, sub, jest part of the time"
Don't you think, uncle, he has a
misery, after aIl?"
NO, sub; you don't appear to
understand that hound dog. He
amt got no misery. You see, it's
this away: He comes out with me
and the old woman here, and goes
to squat down in the sun Being
jest fool hound dog. he goes and
lays himself in a bed of singing
nettles. And they is a-hurting Of
him some. But he's naturally too
lazy TO get up. so he yells because
they keep on a-pestering him"
"How long win he keep 1t up,
unc!e7'
Till we-uns call him in for sup
per Hey, Mandy2"
"Uh. uh," said the old woman.
that's right"
The only place that seems to
have been constructed iu a salts
factory manner from the beginning
was the Garden of Eden But the
population Fl that delec,anle spot
failing 20 obey the ordinances, lost
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28
cause Of the decadence
of the human race is not
hard to find" said a lectur-


hard to find" said lectur-
Ell the other night marrying for
love has done the work"
The lecturer was a driedup,
mincing little person, with large
round spectacles, enormous ears,
and hands and feet that really-it
was plain to see that no one would
ever encourage him to help the
human race to deteriorate.
There is only one thing the mat
ter with the human race today"
announced a woman l know that
same evening, and that's the Gig
arctic. Wipe them out and We'll
be all right"
Wen never pull ourselves to-
gether as a race again until we
stop the baseball craze and the
turkey trot fad" writes a holier-
than thou evangelist. And so ride,
gallop, trot. pace, walk, the hob
bies all go marching by.
It's tobacco, it's whisky, it's too
much starch in the food, it's too
much work. it's not work enough.
it's the bachelors. it's the married
men, it's the babies.
over and over, and round and
round. and under and about, and
through and past, they talk, and
write, and preach, and tell what it
is that makes us so decadent, and
all the time I keep on wondering
whether we really are decadent at
all or not. l can't see that we are.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28

they cost then one party would
not need to curse the other for our
misfortunes
No president, in his Inauguration
speech has ever had the nerve to
promise all citizens pass book to
the savings bank. But this coun-
try of ours offers every man an
opportunity to own 4 savings bank
book ii he wants it. A lot Of US,
however. 90 not want it as much
as we want some other things.
The constitution, the statute
laws and the president have no
power to make a man choose be-
tween saving his money and giving
it to the barlleeper. They have no
power to make a man choose to
earn his living by useful labor as
against taking a handful of dirty
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28


cruelty, so long as the horse wa.
yours. Forty years ago thew u,od
to take little helpless children ont q,
asylums and farm them out FIR
drudges to people who worked them
to death, and If you had dared tn
make a fuss about any such case
you would have been laughed At
for your pains.
And Folks Were Cruel.
We do some Of these same things
today, but we're ashamed Of them
anyhow. Our grandfathers were
not at all ashamed of them, and
would have given you a good dea
to think of if you had tried to
make them so.
"Decadence of the race!" Stun
and nonsense. We are not decading.
we're rising slowly, slowly. Miser-
ably slow, faltering, not sure Of the
strange ground, slipping back every
now and then-but rising, rising, in
evitably. irresistibly.
Dominating the beast, conquering
the animal beating down the brutal
impulses, higher, higher we rise, We
rise, thank the good Giver Of hon
est endeavor and true hearted de.
sire to be better.
Decadence Of che race! Go to the
old countries just for six weeks. See
some Of the old prisons that pol
lutte the free air of heaven, even to
stand there empty. Go through
some of the old castles we think so
romantic. See how the noble lords
and ladies lived, like dogs in ken
mel, without air, without light
without clean water.
Step into one of the cages they
used to hang in the court yards.
Pretty things, those cages. They
were made just big enough to hold a
man crouching, and he crouched
there in the rain and the snow and
in the beating, clustering sun. and
starved. And the women and chill
dren came to see him and laughed
at his means.
When a child Of high degree fret
ted his lady mother took him up TO
the courtyard and let him watch a
starving man Writhe in his agony
And then some troubadour wrote
verses about her lily hands and
heavenly eyes, and she hadn't had
bath for year and wore her coarse
under-linen till it dropped of.
We Don't Deteriorate.
Grand gentles, these, fine spnss
of nobility! The plainest clerk in
the humblest shop in our city today
wouldn't sit at the same table with
one of them any more than he
would dine with a growing, mum
bling, bone cracking, paw-bjtlng
monkey.
No, move do not deteriorate, we
rise, we rise. and our children VIII
rise after us, higher, higher out o.
the mire Of selfish brutality that
bore us.
Higher. higher. see the star
shines in the far, far East, the long
night of sleeping conscience IS al
most ready to break into rosy dawn
Let us be on our knees to welcome
ii.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-28
Bv WINIFRED BLACK.

1t was only fifty years sso +...
the insane were locked in cellars
and starved and, beaten by tbe;.
own families. Forty years ago Won
could whip horse to death in tba
streets Of the biggest cities Of ,bo
world, and no one could do thin,
to make you stop your wanton
cruelty, so long as the horse wa,
yours. Forty years ago they used
to take little helpless children opt q,
asylums and farm them out for
drudges to people who worked them
to death, and if you had dared tn
make a fuss about any such case
you would have been laughed a,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-06
SPEAK THE TRUTH.

The Freeman-Tribune is beinf
condemned by some of the papers o.
the state for defending Theodore
Roosevelt while claiming to be a re
publican paper, but the Freeman
Tribune is going to speak the truth
in its editorial columns, as it under.
stands the truth, and it is not going
to ask what effect such procedure
may have upon the republican OF
any other party This is republi.
can paper. It has been for more
than fifty years That does not
mean, however, that it is going to
defend the conduct of republicans
high in the counsels OF the party
when it cannot conscienciously dc
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-06
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received
by the city of Webster City, Iowa,
at the office of the city clerk in the
city hall up to five o'clock p. m. OF
the 18th day of August, 1912, for
the digging of trenches, laying OF
water pipes, making connections, in
stalling of fire hydrants, filling and
tamping of trenches as per plans
and specifications now on file in the
Office of the city clerk and in the
office of the city superintendent OF
water works, to which reference is
made as a part of this notice, which
bidders are hereby required to ex-
anime for details. The work to be
done will consist of the digging OF
trenches, bell holes and grading OF
bottoms for the laying of four (4")
inch water main, the laying and
caulking of water pipes, fire plugs
and water plugs and making connec-
tions for same. ellis. tees, crosses,
sleeves, plugs, valves and valve
boxes and the filling and tamping Of
the bitches or trenches after the
work has been completed, tested and
accepted, on the following named
streets and parts of streets, to-wit:
Ohio street from Prospect street
thence east about three hundred and
fifty $500 feet.
Elm street from Grove street to
Funk street, six hundred and fifty
(650) feet.
Funk street from Elm street to
Water street, two hundred and sew
enty-flve (275o feet.
Webster street from Wilson Az
enue to Superior street, nine hun
dred twenty-five (925') feet.
Water street from Seneca street to
Wilson Avenue, five hundred min
ty (590') feet.
Odell street from Des Moines
street to Prospect street, six hun
dred 5000 feet.
Prospect street from OdeH street
to Lucas street, one hundred sixty
t160) feet.
Lucas street from Prospect street
to East street, two hundred seventy
five (275) feet.
East street from Lucas street to
William street about one hundred
twenty-five (125') feet,
William street from East street to
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-06

drawn on some known solvent ma
tional, state or savings bank in
Webster City, and made payable to
order of city treasurer Of the city
OF Webster City, in the sum of ten
(10) per cent of the total amount
bid on estimated work. Said check
must not contain any conditions
either in the body OF the check or
endorsement thereon. All envelopes
must be addressed to city clerk and
endorsed with the name of bidder
and the Improvement said check or
proposal are for. Certified checks
accompanying proposals will be re-
turned to the unsuccessful bidders,
and also to the bidder to whom the
contract is awarded, when he shall
have entered into contract in the
form prescribed by the city council,
and given bond in the sum required
which shall not be less than one
thousand ($1, 000.00) dollars to ex-
ecute said work and to indemnify
the city against any liability which
may arise by reason of the negli-
gence of said contractor. his agents
or employees in the performance of
said work. In case the successful
bidder shall fail to enter into con-
tract or furnish bond as required by
law within ten days from the date
of the awarding OF the contract,
said check shall be forfeited to the
city of Webster City as agreed and
liquidated damages.
Proposals received will be acted
upon by the city council on the
18th day of August, 1912, at s
o'clock p. m.
H. M. Sparboe. Mayor.
Attest: r. p. Smock, City Clerk.
Published in the Webster City
Tribune. 10T2