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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

A movement toward worldwide
inquiry into the problem Of the in
creased cost of the necessities OF life
was inaugurated at the round-table
meeting OF the Economic Association
in Washington last week. The con-
sensus of opinion of the experts there
assembled was that the increase is
worldwide and that it is responsible
for the social unrest, The idea is to
have President Taft ask congress for
authority to invite other nations to
join in creating an international COM
mission to deal with the whole subject.
1t is understood that the President is
willing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

First district Democrats are talk.
ing of John H. Pettibone, chairman
of the Des Moines county board of
supervisors, for one Of their delegates
to the Democratic national conven-
ton at Baltimore, June Is. The gen.
tleman has the cordial endorsement
Of the Burlington Gazette, which says
that it is able to think of no one
whose party services are more wor-
thy of recognition. A further claim
to the honor is made on the ground
that Des Moines. one of the two
Democratic counties in the First dis
trict, has not had delegate to a ma
tlonal convention for eight years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
1914

1912
Well, It's the New Year-make it q
true year,
Ever happy and never blue year.
You can't do much. But you can dc
your share,
You can he gentle and kindly and
fair.
You can foxget all your ranfcor and
hate.
You can cut out all your crouch
against fate;
Lets have gay year-not dull
year
Make it a regular hip-hip-hooray
year.
Here's to a glad year. never sad
year,
Get in and help so it WON'T be bad
year,
Make it your business to smile-not
to frown,
Reach out your hand to the fellow
who's down;
Work hard, of course, hut keep this
III your heu.
Ours is a world not of money-but
men!
That means bright year, a laughing
and light year
Yes, and an honest and noble and
right year.
Here's to fair year make It a
square year,
Boost for rich and royal and rare
year.
Play the game hard, but abide by the
rules,
Leave all the cheating to swindlers
and fools,
Here is your place, brother, come and
take hold
Pick up the new burden-throw off
the old
This is the new year-the smiling
and true year.
Let's keep it smiling, blithe-not a
blue year!
ss.g ssT -Berton Braley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
uRoTRoPlN FOR PARALYSIS.

lnfantile paralysis. the deadly dis
ease of unknown origin which annual
ly costs the lives of thousands of
babies in this country, can be cured
with urotropin, newly discovered
drug, according to DR.. Simon Flexner
of the Rockefeller Institute for Med
ical Research, who addressed med
zeal society in Chicago on the subject
a few days ago. But it will probably
take months and perhaps years of
experiments with the drug, according
to the physician, before modification
of the drug can be perfected which
will place the medical profession in
direct control OF the disease.
In the meanwhile, medical experts
the world over are working to dis
cover the cause Of the malady the
germs of which are 80 small that they
cannot be seen through the most DOW
erful microscope now in possession of
the Rockefeller Institute AS yet the
only thing that is known about In
fantile paralysis is that it Is contag-
ious.
In speaking Of urotropin DIR. Flexner
said that it is easily nodded as de-
sired by application of other chem
icals, and the present aim is to make
it more thoroughly antiseptic. Elk
periments are in progress to this
end. DR.. Flexner is quoted as fol
lows:
II think it will be only a short time
before urotropin will be the means by
which we can control TINS disease.
Certain it is that this drug comes
near to being powerful agent for the
destruction of the paralysis germs
We have no serum that we can safely
say is direct control OF this disea Sc.
but in urotropin lie our hopes. Ex-
periments with this drug intricate that
our hopes are not based on too fragile
a foundation. Besides, we have three
or four other drugs, but none gives
us the hope that urotropin affords us.
The experiments to date have been
mostly on monkeys, and it is noted as
peculiar fact that Investigations and
experiments on monkeys prove far
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
QUIT CALoMEL!
Thousands Are Turning From This
Dangerous Drug.
A Safe Vegetable Substitute 10 Olive
Tablets for the Liver.

DR.. F. M. Edwards, a prominent
physician Of Portsmouth, Ohio, has
discovered new laxative and liver
toner in combination Of vegetable
materials, mixed with olive oil, which
Is In effect almost exactly like the
old and untrustworthy calomel, except
that there are none OF the bad after
effects of calomel.
DR.. Edwards has long been foe OF
calomel, though he recognized it's val
ue along with its dangers
His distrust OF the uncertain drug
eventually started him years ago to-
wards experiments with the view OF
discovering substitute, and he is
today Is possession of the long-sought
for combination, which Is in the shape
of little sugar coated, oliye-oil color
ed tablet.
The result Of fifteen years exper-
fence and practice are embodied in
these marvellous little tablets.
Tney are called DR. Edwards Olive
Tablets, adm their effects on the liver
has been the means of relief to many
OF DIR. Edwards, regular patients as
well as to thousands OF others who
have suffered and were afraid of
cafomel.
They are gentle in their action, yet
always effective. They bring, about
that exuberanee of spirit, that natural
buoyancy which should be enjoyed by
everyone. by toning up the liver and
Clearing the system OF harmful impur-
ties.
Every little Olive Tablet has a
movement all its own"
ls,c and 25c per box.
The Olive Tablet Company, Colum.
BUS Ohio. d.. F. NJ. Edwards, Presi-
dent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
WANTS GENERAL HousE.cLEAN
ING,

Former Attorney General Byers,
now corporation counsel for the city
of Des Moines, would like to see
general overturning of present con-
ditions in Iowa In his own words,
he wants "a general housekeeping
all along the line" Professor Holden's
candidacy for governor has his en-
dorsement as far as 1t goes, from
which it is inferred that he thinks
it does not go far enough. More
specifically Mr.. Byers wants com
plete and radical change in court
methods and procedure to cut down
litigation and court expenditures He
desires new legislation regulating
public utilities, transportation, water,
heat, light, ETC., because "the service
furnished by public utilities is not as
good as it ought to be and we pay
too much for what We get"
Mr.. Byers insists on reforms along
certain lines and declares he will not
support any candidate who does not
make public pledge TO work for
of the items On his bill of demands
is the wiping away of unjustifiabIe
political customs. In a recent in.
terview he said:
Since We have primary law In
this state, and since the law rests nm
on the proposition that candidacies
for public place should be submitted
n m Y
extremely fortunate for the state that
Mr. Holden has announced himself
as candidate for governor, basing
his claims 10 the favor OF the voters
OF the state upon a positive and def
mite platform.
What a farce it is TO go on cam
palgn after campaign. voting for can.
didates to fill important public Of
fices simply because the person il a
logical candidate or because he Ia
In line for the place or for promo
ton. 1t may be written Gown as al
most a certainty that in ninety-nine
cases out of hundred when it IS
| understood that there is to be no op-
4 position to a candidate for an i'm
! portant public Office that it is also
understood that after such u candi.
date is elected he is not to let things
alone and not disturb any Of his
friends who NAV be getting some
thing they are not entitled to.
Another thing may be put
down as an absolute certainty, and
that is that there is room for i'm
p1ovenient in the service, both in the
way of economies and increased eff
ficiency in every public office in this
state from township road supervisor
to governor and the really important
thing from the public standpoint ia
not who shall fill the offices, but
how they shall be conducted.
| 7 like Holden's platform as far
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

The Mason City Globe Gazette says
lit looks like the La Toilette move
ment In Ohio had got caught in the
blizzard
The Sioux City Journal declares
that the suggestion that Cummins is
likely to become candidate for
President in good faith is absurd.
The Lord help the country when
those two cranks shall be our only
choice says the Des Moines Stats
Anzeiger, referring to La Toilette and
Bryan
When in doubt, swat the tariff, says
the Castana Times. 1t doesn't make
any difference whether it is a good
thing or bad thing. it's principal use
is for swatting purposes.
The Davenport Times predicts that
Prof. Holden will be surprised to find
that many who we're his warmest sup
pofters in his agricultural extension
work will turn against him in HIS po-
litical campaign.
One OF the big things to be taken
up by the Sage Foundation in 1912 in
the east is a fight looking to the ex-
of the loan shark He is
a curse to society wherever found"
declares the Clinton Herald. Zone OF
the best ways to eliminate him is to
provide system where the poor may
be able at any time to make small
loans on short time on chattel Sc
curity at reasonable rates"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

It is stated in a dispatch from Des
Moines that the average cost for mo-
tor car numbers for the 10000 autos
IN Iowa for the current year will be
about SIS. This year the cost is to he
just double what it was for the half
year for which numbers were issued
last time. There We're issued some
2S,000 numbers for autos and enough
for dealers and motorcycles TO bring
the total up to about $1,000, and the
total cost was s232,440, which would
be about $3.50 for each. The total
amount received in this fund during
1911 should be upwards of 1856, 600.
This will all be, but Is per cent, dis.
tifbuted among the counties for the
special road fund
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

The census bureau has completed
special inquiry into the number and
distribution the insane for the year
1910. From this it is found that while
the population of the United States
grew IL per cent from 1905 to 1910.
the population of our insane asylunls
increased 25 per cent. The State of
Massachusetts had the highest ratio
of insane with 344 to 100000. New
York was almost the same and Con-
necticut close third The present
total of insane asylum occupants is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
TELEGRAPH SPARKS.
. . = = . . = - . 80

limited Press Leased Wire Service. /
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.-That the nomi.
nation OF Theodore Roosevelt for pres
ident would mean one Of the bitterest
campaigns in the history Of the nation.
was the declaration of Oswald CARR
son Willard, publisher OF the New York
Evening Post, here.
The American public forgets readi-
w said Willard, but the bitter an
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

In cmonicling the visit of a Knox
vile young man at the G. A. R. install
lation in that town, the Oskaloosa
Times says He enjoyed himself
among the older people and also the
oysters" With fine show of right
eous Indignation the Knoxville Ex-
press demands to know of the vile
oskaloosa sheet If 1t meant to init
mate that he was in the soup.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

Prof. w, A. McKeever of the Kan
sas Agricultural College has decided
to ask the legislature to authorize
courses in child rearing in all the big
state schools. He argues that the az
erage citizen knows more about hog
raising than about the rearing of men
and women, and he says: Love max
ing ought t. be an exaot science
taught in the public schools, worked
out scientifically in every detail, and
with legal checks on marriage, which
would prevent the marriage of the
unfit"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

Illinois is abolishing it's poor houses
and substituting therefor pension
system whereby families are kept to-
gether and poor mothers assisted to
care for their children. 1t is claimed
that the poorhouses too often be-
come breeding places of crime and
loafing places for persistent vag-
rants. The new plan may be an i'm.
provement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
Political Jokers.

What Is the difference asked
Mr.. Bones. between statesman and
a boss?" "A statesman" replied Mr..
Tambo. puts himself in the hands OF
his friends, but the boss devotes him
self to seeing what he can get his OVID
hands on"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

When you want reliable medicine
for cough or cold take Chamberlain
Cough Remedy. 1t can always be de-
pended upon and is pleasant and safe
to take. For sale by Wilkinson & Co..
Pharmacy and ]. F. Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

Kansas man shot at goat and
hit neighbor by mistake, which
prompts a pert paragrapher to OBJ
serve that those Kansas whiskers are
sometimes very deceiving.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

The more positively Mr. Bryan as
serts that he cannot be a candidate
for a fourth time the more enthusiast
tic many Democrats become for him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
tagonlems and persona enmities which

have marked Mr.. ROosevelt's career
have not disappeared. We may be
perfectly certain that IL Roosevelt runs
again there will be a campaign Of pit-H
ter and bad feeling and one in which
the issues at stake will be obscured
by personalities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

A cold snap is anything but snap,
which is further proof that language
was invented to conceal thought.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
DR.. w. FRANK Brown.

DR.. w. FRANK BROWN.
Surgery and Genito Urinary Disease.
office-4o2 Main street. Hours
1913 to 1870; 1880 to 400; 7:45 to .
NURSING HOME
31S North Fifth street, opened Dec. 10
Hours at Home--1 to 2 p. M, $50 to
7:30 p. nj.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

W. y. 1ARTER, N. D., D. o.
OsteopGthic and Electric treatments
specially. Office 80 North Fourth
street. Ground floor.
Hours-10 to u a. M: 2 to S D. m.
Evenings by appointment
Phone Office Iowa 1254-Red; resi-.
dence, Iowa, Stored.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
IOWA

The Iowa Law provides that bush
ell shall be a number OF pounds indi-
Gated opposite each article, as fol-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
High finance sometimes covers low
deals.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

as it goes, but I hope that as the
campaign progresses 1t may be broad.
ened so as to include general house.
cleaning all along the line.''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
PHYSICIANS.
DIR. w. r. SHERLOCK,
PHYSICIAN AND SJJRGEON

Office Is North Fifth Street, in tho
Howell building.
Office Hours 10 to IL a. M; 2 to (
P. M; evenings. I to $; Sundays, IL
to | p. m.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12

kcokuk, iowa Dan. -, 1912
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-12
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Mason City Globe Gazette says
it looks like the La Toilette move
aent In Ohio had got caught in the
blizzard.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-29
The TAKERS i K AND LISTENERS
Nothing Wears One Out, Uses One Up
$50 Much az Conscientious
Listening.
by GEoRGE3cLlNToN.

The world is divided into takers
and listeners-which are you? If in
deed, silence is. golden, the listeners
should by all the evidence. be the wis
est and the happiest; but with few ex-
cepions, l have come to the .conclu-,
sion they are neither. Il
The really good listener is a patient,
inept creature, humble, and super
fuous human sacrifice. Nothing wears
one out, uses one up SO much as con-
sciontious listening. And the listener,
who, we are informed, learns SO much
more than the ,talker ever can, in
reality works inhumanly hard to gain
one speck of knowledge out of every
bushel OF talk. ~
OF course there always will be list
ehers, thank heaven, just the same
as there are milk delivery men that
seem to work all night for our benefit,
but you don't catch me being one OF
them ever any more. Time was when
/ too, would listen attentiyely for the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-29
VICTIMS OWN STORY
DIR. REiTMAN ASSERTS SAN DIEGO
B vIGIlANTEs ToRTUREDH HIM
Emma eoidman's Manager Declares
~ Men dubbed Him for Refusal
S,s,. M to Kits American Flag. is:s ss

3 Los Angeles. Cal. May 81 was
taken from the I. s. Grant hotel Tues
day night BY IA men and placed In an
automobile. :" said Dr.. Benjamin Reit-
man Thursday. manager OF Emma
Goldman. in telling OF his experience
with San Diego yigilantes. by HON
he was given a coating OF tar-sand
feathersIearly Wednesday morning.
I *''''WhenlI refused to go. four OF them
placed revolvers against my body.
They were well-dressed and apparent
". refined. One slapped his hand over
my mouth and the police cleared .
path to the waiting machine.
+ I'VE drove 80 miles into the desert.
followed BY another automobile. crowd
'e by vigilantes. The torture began
at once. Fingers were thrust up my
nose and into my eyeS they stuck
pencils into my nostrils. tore out hair
BY. the roots. stuffed filth in, my mouth
and applied epithets worse than l
ever heard in the vilest criminal dens
in the lowest countries on earth.
AT q certain spot more men were
awaiting JUS around a fire. The auto
mobile searchlights illuminated the
place. First my clothing was torn on.
Then they committed upon me vile
acts Of fiendish; gross, barbaric iEde-
.cency. the details of which are unfit
for publications. - &: 3s II Eli 5?s
An investigation has been started BY
the federal grand Jury at Los An
geles. .t{ 81 n ,55 = I t. 4.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-29
PASTOR is EXECUTED.
CIV. T. RIcHEsoN GOES 70 ELEc.
TRIO cHAlRAT cHARLEsToWN. L
Doomed Man Does N OF Falter and
Walks to Death With Firm Step
Ministers Are With Him.

: . - -, = = Z n
~ Massachusetts, State Prison, Charles,
town. Mass. May AT 1910 Tues
day morning, In the Charlestown state
prison, former Clergyman Clarence v.
T.. Richeson paid the penalty for the
murder of Avis Linnell by being cleo
trocuted. NJ II
The condemned man walked to the
electric chair with more frmness and
courage than had been expected by.
those who had observed him for the
past few weeks. He had spend his last
hours in seeking spiritual consolation
in the Bible and in conversation with
his spiritual advisers, who were in al
most constant attendance up to the
last moment. Il i : S3s ID sss All
Prison Chaplain Stebbfns and Dr..
Johnson had q nsrve-rack ing experi-
ence with the condemned man before
they succeeded in having him resign
himself to his fate. 81 4 81. D, q "
Only when they. had reminds him
that he was once q minister and ought
to show . sublime faith in, the here
after did the man announce that he
was ready to face the ordeal OF legal
death without \ finching. II b !.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-29
L0:|R|M|E:R .R'|E|:P|OR|'7'||..I|||N|...
MAJORITY OF INVESTIGATORS
SUSTAIN SENATOR'S IiTLETo
SEAT ON EVIDENCE.
o. K. RES ADJUDlcATA 4 PLEA l;'l
Minority Members Declare That Ten
Votes We're Secured 'tl!lesally and
81 Money Was corruptly and Fraudu-
iIentIy Used in Election.

q Washington. May I'll Senator Lor-
liners vindication by e the majority
members Of the senatorial committee
which inyestigatedsshis election was
written into the Official records Of the
United States senate. ~ II. 4
Senator Dillingham;! chairman Of the
committee, presented the report.
signed by five members Of the commit
tee Dillingham;. Gamble, Jones, John.
ston and Fletcher. 1t is a document Of
81 printed pages. detailing at length
the evidence upon which the commit
tee found that. there had been no5cor-
fuption in the election Of the illinois
senator. Il S U IN II IL !,
# Three members OF the committee
Senators Lea. Kenyon and Kern-later
presented minority report. opposing
the views Of the majority and insist
ing that corruption had been proved
They presented a resolution declaring
Senator Lorimer's election invalid and
his seat vacant. Il: " Is ~ z. y
II The minority report holds that Mr..
Lorimer's election was obtained by
fraud and improper use of money. III
Is declared that ten Of the votes cast
for Mr.. Lorimer we're obtained BY cor
rupt methods and that Edward Hines.
the millionaire Chicago lumber man.
was influential in putting Lorimer
over.@ G3i s.s; . 4 IL "a. N &; &
The majority report sustains the
plea Of res ad jndicata, which 10 m eff
feet that the case. having once been
decided by the senate, cannot again
be brought into issue upon the same
evidence. In this connection It is
strongly pointed out that the claim Of
newly discovered evidence was not
substantiated.) 4 /. 81 n, 535 3z Z
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-29
FLOYD ! 20 ALLEN ou Nj GUILTY.
Outlaw Convicted Specifically for
Staying coa,monweaiti1 Attor-
It ss$ ney Foster. 81 81; ii 5s

Vythevfle, Va. May 20.-The FIRST
of the ,Hillsyille mountaineers to be
tried for the Carroll county court
house murders, Floyd Allen. was adj
judged guilty here, Friday. and will
pay the penalty Of his crime in the
electric chair at Richmond.
He was convicted specifically for
the murder Of Commonwealth Attor-
.ney Foster, one OF the FIVE persons
who were killed. The, other victims
were Presiding Judge Thornton L.
LMassie. Sheriff Il F.. Webb. Miss
Elizabeth l Ayres and Juror Augustus
Fowler. 4 N y $s3 54a.&
Y Sentence will not be pronounced on
Floyd Allen for the present. This ac-
ton was taken at the instance OF the
prosecution. who will use Floyd Allen
in the case Of his sons. Claude and
Victor "A lien sss w !. Il
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-29
LOOKING ski 10 tho inevitable In !,

ii Looking 10 the inevitable.
q seventy-hine years old. but with no
thought OF dying for years, q South.
Brooklyn retired windmill dealer spent;
his recent birthday In Cleveland. o.,
looking for a bargain in collins. He
said he never had cared much for
show and thought4h he would care less
when dead. SO he wasted something
that would be durable. not fancy. The
,undertakers wanted more than 800,
for good collins" he told q friend.
none Of which looked to be. worth
more than $50. For 325 I found Il
could get one that looked as II It
might have cost $3.50 to make, You
;don'tjisuppose i could get good sec
ond hand me anywhere.td do YOU? II The
man did not invest. but decided he
would wait awhile and see II the high
cost OF dying might not be reduced.