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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-22
His Belief.

An Irishman, being asked his reli-
gious belief, replied:
'1s it my belief ye'd be asking about?
It's the same as the widow Brady. I
owe her Il shillings for whisky. an
she believes I'll pay her. and,
faith, that's me belief too.'-Tit-Bits.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
SOME NEWSPAPERS ON ROOSEVELT.

The larger newspapers divide very
definitely on Roosevelt. Some Of them
like the New York Times, democratic,
and the democratic New York World
Ard h!s speech ct Columbus and his
entry into the presidential contest a
charter of dema goguery" and "apall-
ing" The New York American. dem
ocratic, says the issue is drawn be-
tween Roosevelt and Taft and that
Roosevelt is in honor bound to lead
those who agree with his policies. The
New York Sun lists Roosevelt az
dangerous
The Washington Times, republi-
can, says the Columbus speech
is "epochial,' and declares that
never has Roosevelt impressed
so forcibly as in this speech
the realization that his chosen work Is
like that Of Lincoln, one of emancipa.
tion," points to the rugged figure Of
Roosevelt, afame with courage and
conviction as the champion Of the peo-
pie themselves, as never having stoot
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
THE RISE OF PjREn1tl FREEDOM.

Soon all that will be required of
parents will be children. The training
of the child from puny babe to the
marriage altar will be attended to by
the metropolitan dailies, and the "home
journals with some slight attention
on the part of school teachers.
Laura Jean Libbey will comment
ard advise as to those brain storms
which begin about the tenth grade in
high school and which are mistaken for
love affairs. Lillian Russell and the
like give receipts which make every
woman beautiful. Marion Harland
ct al attend to the culinary instruction
of our daughters. Mr.. Box puts on the
finishing touches. Raising young ones
Where It used to create worry and
multiply responsibility the division Of
labor between the schoolIna ams and
the special writers makes for parental
freedom and bridge opportunity. The
schools are at public cost and the big
daily cheap: the cheaper it is the more
specialists in parental relief it en-
ploys
The downtrodden parents are coming
to their own. They have learned the
lesson of the age LET George do it,"
George is the schoolma'am and Lillian
and Laura Jean and Mr.. Box and the
rest Of them. It is a mercy that it is
so. Because if the youngones inter-
fere with parental freedom there is
but two avenues of escape from bond
age. The specialists are one. The 9TH
er would in time make parents as
scarce as children.
1t is in the interests Of the masses,
this world movement toward the free
dom of the parent from the antiquated
notion that deep personal responsible
ity is born with tie children to the pa
rents. It puts Mrs. Small Salary along
side Of Mrs. Millionaire, who can az
ford nurses and tutors and BONES. 1t
raises the 2 cents a day for the daily
and boosts the special holiday rate
on the Mothers Manual to par with
the wages of menage. The children
don't bother. They are in good hands
while they are at school and they can
read Laura Jean and Lillian out OF
| school hours.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
HOW MANY COUNTIES WILL pRAe?

| How many counties in Iowa are now
completely organized for road dragging
next summer? How many? eve are
says Marshall county, but it has taken
no little agitation on the part of the
county auditor and the newspapers to
bring it about. The result will be we'll
! dragged roads on every main travelled
highway in Marshall county. It should
! be SO in every county in the state as
the new law intended it to be, but will
| it be so?
The new road dragging law provided
in the main for 1-mill levy for the
expense of dragging. Have the trustees
of all the townships in all the counties
levied this tax?
"shall' meet in special session on the
first Monday in February to appoint a
superintendent of dragging. How many
of the township trustees in Iowa did
it? If any have failed, let them get
busy and do it now.
The law provided that the work of
dragging shall be let in stations at a
compensation Of not to exceed 80 cents
per mile travelled by the team with a
drag. In fact contracts can be let at
so cents per mile. dragged once up and
once back, for this will give a man and
team wages of SO cents per hour or s.
per day of ten hours But have the
contracts been let?
The law provided that the townships
shall furnish the drags. Are they ready
for spring?
Are the county auditors. county at
torneys, enterprising farmers and
newspapers of all the counties agitating
the strict compliance with all the pro-
visions Of the most practical road law
ever put on a statute book or is Mar
shall county to be the only county in
Iowa in which every road in every
township is to be well dragged next
year? Let the readers of this news
paper check up on their own townships.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
Lover Of Silence.

Representative sulzer. in an inter-
view in Washington. compared Rus
sias silence on the passport question
to an unusually silent, uncommuni-
cative man.
This man." he said, "hated all talk
as Russia hates all passport talk He
went into barber shop recently to. be
shaved and before seating himself IN
the chair he handed the barber a dime.
"Oh, thank you sir" said the
barber. II don't often get my tip be-
fore 1 begin. Thank you. sir, very
much"
THAT isn't a tip" said the silent
man, sternly, its hush money."-Se.
Louis Republic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
Another Skin Game.

Simon Ford. New York's hotel man
humorist, said at recent supper:
These attacks on New York's dis
honesty and extortion usually como
from pikers.
The latest attack comes from Peleg
Pease, of Croydon Four Corners, up in
New Hampshire. Peleg said the other
day at the general store:
Yes. / bin to York, and it's fine
town. but crooked
How crooked:' asked the store
keeper.
WALL said Peleg. bought Marthy
2-cent paper, O pins down to York.
an on the train ride home I counted
'em. They wuz marked 1000, but by
crinus, they wuz fourteen short by ac-
tual COUNT"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
orTosEN OF oTTosEN.


Chris Ottosen, Of Ottosen. was in the
city this week performing his duties as
pure food commissioner, and an
nounced that he would again be a can
didate for railroad commissioner to
succeed Ketchum. 1t will be remem-
bered that in the spectacular contest
Of two years ago. Chris was well up
with the winners and only wholesale
trading for both Thorne and Palmer
prevented his nomination. There is an
insistent demand for man on the
railroad commission who will be some
thing more than a photograph for reg
istering the commands OF the railway
managers; as at present constituted
the commission is only interesting from
a humorous standpoint. II a genuine
tribune of the people could be placed
on the board along with Mr.. Thorne,
something might be done to Improve
conditions and the farmer and shipper
get a chance. AS the railroads nave
nominated and elected the commission
for years up to the advent OF young
Mr.. Thorne. It is not to be wondered
at that the commissioners have realized
that they must be kind to their Great
ors If they wished to hold the Job. the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01

out bigger and bolder." and says:
1.-THE two notable political utterances
Of this year are the Taft speech on LIN
coins birthday. and that of Roosevelt
today.
Taft denounced the progressives as
neurotics.' Roosevelt presents their
case. summons Lincoln to sustain him
in it. accepts full responsibility for
the most vigorous statement Of pro-
gressive demands, and rests his case
with the people upon it.
Roosevelt forward Taft backward
The New York Mail, republican.
agrees with Roosevelt as to "the de-
sirability Of securing a complete degree
Of responsiveness to the popular VIII
in legislatures and in the courts" and
says in the whole address there Is
rot a shadow Of the distrust Of the peo-
pie unfortunately entertained by some
of our highest placed statesmen"
The Mail says tine ex-president does
not repeat. himself. but starts out
where he left off at Osawatomie. and
advances to a further field of progress.
1t predicts:
Things will move forward in this
country on the basis of this remarkable
address. 1t is vital and dynamic. 1t
affords a platform broad enough and
firm enough for all men and women OF
progressive ideas to stand upon. 1t
enunciates principles fit to animate a
campaign that will ring with the en-
thusiasns OF 1910 or 1860. 1t is fit
ting watchword for period OF de-
cisive action
The comment of the press generally
is thus divided. The reactionary and
democratic press condemn Roosevelt as
dangerous" and Roosevelt is danger
Gus at least to reactionaries and dem
ocrats. The progressive republican
newspapers find high good in his can
didacy.
Roosevelt and Cunmins and LaF'ol-
lette represent before the country as
they will before the convention the for
ward movement of the republican
party. That is the conclusion Of the
press generally and of the private citi-
zen who is patriotically interested IN
notifies
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
Topics OF the lines

er is the reason March refrained
from any lionlike demonstration.
About the only excuse for twenty
nine days in February this year was to
provide a birthday for leap year chill
dren.
body offers to pass the beans to Gov
ernor Carroll and William J. Bryan.
1t is going TO be hard to draw an
audience even with singer after
springs work begins.
Other signs of spring: the ranked
packet Of garden seeds and the wifely
suggestion that the house ought to be
reprinted and papered
Mr. Morgan sayi you can't unscram-
bic eggs but the time Is coming soon
when we can afford to scramble OF
boil or fry them straight up or over
without parting from a weeks wages.
Speaking of eggs the bureau of
statistics is reporting a larger exporta-
ton in this line than ever before. The
number of esgs sent to foreign coun-
tries in the year ending with Deem
Der, l91, was 1920, 600 dozen valued at
$3.50, 900 while the highest record of
any earlier calendar year was $780,
600 dozen, valued at s1,750,00O in 1907.
In addition to this, there We're sent to
Hawaii and Porto Rico about 10000
dozen. Meantime the importation of
eggs in 1911 amounted to less than l.
100000 dozen, valued at about $3.50 900
Cuba. Canada, Panama, and Mexico
are the chief countries to which eggs
are exported from the United States.
Hereafter when a man gets drunk in
Des Moines a policeman will be sent to
saved the humiliation Of the station
and the police court. In order to com :
plete the plan some place Of safety
should be provided for his wife and
children and policeman assigned to
escort them to the refuge
A pencil, a sheet of paper and the
exercise Of little arithmetic are all
that are necessary to convince that q
big coal strike costs as much. except
perhaps in blood shed, to carry on as
a big war. Strikes and lockouts and
war are great barbarisms left over
from the primitive man.
1t appears when Roosevelt said VIVA,
goodbye.
The Acknowledgement of women ir
California has brought up a compiled.
ton not thought of when the consti.
tuition was amended. There are man,
women in that state who have married
! foreigners. Under the law they be
come citizens or subjects Of the ma.
| ton to which the husband owes allegi
ance and are no longer citizens Of thu
United States. The women are asking
for a repeal Of this law and Congress
man Kent, of that state, has introduced
bill to restore citizenship to WON
en- who have in that way been expatri
ated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01

Marshal1town, Iowa, in said county, at
o'clock a. M. on the Goth day of
March, 1912, to attend the proof of and
probating an instrument in writing
purporting to be the last will and
testament OF George Trautmann late Of
Marshall county, Iowa, deceased, at
which time and place you will appear
and show cause, II any, why said will
should not be admitted to probate.
In testimony whereof. I have hereto
subscribed my name and affixed the
seal Of the district court, this 23d day
Of February, A. D., 1912.
r. NJ. HARADON.
Clerk of the District Court
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01

can be hung on tn chandelier. or tn
doorknob. or any old place. and every
word that's said in that room can be
heard at the end OF wire three or
four blocks away. Everything them
fellows in tn dynamite conspiracy has
been saying for the past two years was
heard by detectives in a room three
blocks away! What do you think o
that?"
Huh, that's nothing wonderful,
snorted Jack Lish, every old woman
in town knows your business six
months before you've made up your
mind about it yourself"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01

| with the chances largely In favor Of the
latter" says the Algona Republican.
AFTER the nominations have bene made
it is not at all likely that the support
ers Of Taft to any great extent would
switch over to the democratic camp
rather than vote for Roosevelt, and II
that reasoning is true the chances for
electing a democratic president in 1912
have considerably diminished"
The Des Moines Register and Leader
thinks it strange that Roosevelt and
Taft, whose views differ so radically
now, once got along so we'll together"
The Waterloo Courier says "if we
were one of Roosevelt's family we
should tremble for the success of his
unprecedented undertaking. AS it is
we are more interested than inflamed.
We want the best man for the republic
can party and for the nation. Roose-
Welt has chance-perhaps a better
chance Of being both than any other
man.
"In other words, Grant after serving
two terms as president and being out
four years, could not secure a third
romination. Whether Roosevelt can
do what Grant failed to dc remains to
he seen. But Roosevelt is not bothered
by superstitions concerning what may
or may not be DONE" says the Daven-
port Times.
The Fort Dodge Messerg ger says there
is no real necessity for Theodore
Roosevelt to become candidate for a
I,,< t,,1y
the Messenger continues, that he Is
making a grave mistake in allowing
designing people to so persuade him.
This country is too big to be dependent
upon the saving virtues Of one man,
great tho the virtues of this man may
be-"
Teddy may have his hat in the ring,
but he hasn't got the sole of his pants
in the chair-not yet" says the Chero-
kee Dem ocrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Senator Proudfoot is as guileless as
child. or he takes the people for a
race Of simpletons," says the Carroll
Herald. ''He announces himself as the
Taft candidate for governor when as
a matter Of fact the presidential cam
paign will be settled in Iowa long be-
fore the gubernatorial contest reaches
its decisive stage. The senator from
Warren gives a tiimsy excuse for be-
ing a candidate. But 1t Is, perhaps, the
best that can be given"
The Shenandoah Sentinel Post Is "in
favor Of the recall OF judges as well as
of all other officers when they fail to
carry out the will of the, people"
From this time forward It IS prob
able that the nomination of republi-
can presidential candidate has simmer
ed down to either Taft or Hoosevelt.
- y. - * 49,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
Iona Newspapers

SOURCES OF PUBLICITY.
Manson Democrat
Joe Lent was telling the crowd in
the barber shop about the wonders Of
the dictagra2h.
why" said Joe, 9Th burned little
things 30 small you can't see 1t. and It
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01

Probate Notice.
once Of the clerk Of the district
opurt state Of Iowa, Marshall county
- District court, March term. A. d
-1111.
70 VAo0 e may concern:
Zen ~ each Of you arc hereby mott
Asn - aDDear q IL court house in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
"ALL THAT JOINS HIM."
rshenandoah ,sentineI-Post.1


Nearly every paper in Iowa is filled
with advertisements of railroad COM
panies and land agents telling how to
get out Of Iowa and to get homes in
ether states, but where have you seen
any advertisements in the last ten
years for people to come to Iowa? The
very value and fertility of Iowa soil
work to our disadvantage. If Iowa
was half desert and the land worth
cne-fourth what it is we would have
more people. People have gone land
crazy. The big farmer is not satisfied
and he buys out the small farmer adj
Joining and attaches the land to his
farm. while the small farmer takes the
money and buys a big farm in some
other state, and thus year by year the
number of our farms grow less and
less and the number Of people in the
rural districts and villages gets smaller
all the time. When and how is this
going to stop? Will Page county after
while be just one big farm with one
owner and few hired men with auto
matte machinery TO raise corn and hogs
by turning electric buttons from CEN
trail office Perhaps you say that is
ridiculous-but the tendency is in that
direction all the time. There will be
no stop to this tendency until the Iowa
legislature gets nerve enough to make
laws to encourage the small farmer
and to encourage the big farmer to
put his surplus money into something
besides more land. That is plain talk
but it is the truth if there was ever a
true word in this paper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
THE TRUTH IN THE NEWSPAPER.
ICha d. Patrint

THE TRUTH IN THE NEWSPAPER.
IChariton Herald Patriot
A young lady committed suicide in
a town not far from Charlton last week
and some of the home papers did not
say a word about the manner of her
death, writing it up just as tho she
died naturally. But all the other pa
pers in the country. and the larger
papers that reported it. told the truth.
And everybody in the town who heard
OF her death knew just how it hap
pened. The reason the home papers
cn.itted the truth was because the
mother went to the editors and asked
them to suppress it. and no ordinary
editor is cruel hearted enough to with
stand such a request from heart
broken mother. But what we want to
call attention to is that it is absolutely
useless for the home paper to sup
press the truth in such cases, because
everybody knows it anyway, and the
nearby papers will tell it. Similar In
stances, not OF suicide perhaps, but of
other things, happen in almost every
town in newspaper offices. The editor
has to decide whether to make his
PAPER look foolish and untrutffu1 or
please the whim Of some pleading
member OF disgraced or stricken fam
lily. The editor knows that the whole
community will know he is lying. If he
does as requested and that outside
papers not hampered by the requests
of the family. will tell the truth and
save their regulations. If keeping 1t
out Of the home appers lessened the
disgrace in any way, or suppressed the
truth that they want to suppress 1t
would be different. but it does not. 1t
merely makes the home editor look like
a fool. Just because the members OF
the family do not see the truth in the
particular papers they read. they mag
ire that the world will. not know 1t.
But people merely smile at their fool
shness in thinking they can stick their
heads in a little heap of sand and keep
the world from seeing them. And yet
as long as heart broken mothers con-
tinue to ask editors to make fools OF
themselves to satisfy their Whims In
such cases, editors will continue to be
soft hearted enough to do so.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01

The Des Moines Register and Leader
thinks it strange that Roosevelt and
Taft, whose views differ so radically
now, once got along so we'll together"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01

Perhaps awakening Of the lion kill
er is the reason March refrained
from any lionlike demonstration.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01

TEDDY may have his hat in the ring,
but he hasn't got the sole of his pants
in the chair-not yet says the Chero-
kee Dem ocrat.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1912-04-06
J. A. ]. Henderson.

Farmer Jim Henderson, railroad
man, mill man, and somewhat of a
politician; one of the best known
and earnest of South Georgia's pub
lic-spirited citizens is in the race
for Congress from the 18th District,
and the man who doubts that he
will make a good showing in the
nominating convention had better
revise his guesses right now.
Mr.. Henderson is not only man
of good sense and quick discernment,
but one of the most energetic, thor
ough-guing men in all of our ac-
quaintance. He is a success in what
ever he undertakes, and our guess is
that he is going to succeed in this
last undertaking. His indomitable
will and tireless energy will count in
the present co test as it has in all
of his undertakings.
He is the greatest farmer in this
section of the state. He takes
thousand-acre patch of wiregrass
land and produces more than
thousand bales of cotton, and he
does other things in proportion. He
understands how to make big crops
and how to make big profits on his
crops. He knows how to run a big
saw mill, turpentine farms and
stores, and he knows how to run
railroads and to build them. He is
not a live wire, that doesn't express
it at all. He is a great force, a
steam engine, a constructor, a build
er, a man who does things in public
and private life, and our guess is he
going to congress.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1912-04-06
Dalton Plans Printing
OF Dalton Argus

Dalton, Ga. April 4-The chamber
of commerce will meet this evening
to take up the proposition of form
ing a stock company and resumlng
publication of the Dalton Argus,
the plant which was destroyed
by fire several months ago.
Yesterday the subscription lists,
good will, etc, sold t public sale
for $3.50, being bought by II. L.
Heartsill, former editor. Mr.. Heart
sill, former editor. Mr.. Heartsill
will turn the property over to the
chamber of commerce if a stock
company s formed.