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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-10-22

If you want to feel thstyour shoes
are repaired right take them to
Frank Raskins at Heilman's Shoe
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
BOTH JUSTICE AND ECONOMY.

The authorities at Des Moines turned
Mrs. Pratt loose after deciding that
she was Justified In the shooting Of her
divorced husband who broke into her
house With the threat that he would
kill her.
The fact II that the woman was
justified. Nobody blamed her. The
authorities might have held the woman
and spent. few thousand dollars try
ing the case IN the courts but they
would never have managed to get a
jury together to convict her Of crime.
1t was economy to turn her loose.
Then why try her? She had de-
Tended her home as best she could. She
had stood danger and annoyance and
borne terror for her children until the
tension snapped. Then she took the
matter Of the defense Of her life and
her home into her own hands, matter
the police and the authorities ha6
shamefully neglected
It was good sense, good law, justice
and humanity to send her out Of cour-
free and justified at her preliminary
examination.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13

OF the separation Of church and state,
and had given the teachers till the flrst
Of next September to discard the re-
ligious dress or leave the schools. Now
the president overrules the commits
sioner and revokes his order until time
may be gained for all parties concerned
to make a full statement Of their cases.
The New York Sun states that there
are twenty-three Indian schools in
which Catholic teachers have for years
been accustomed to wear the insignia
Of their church. Seventy nuns and
several priests would have been af-
fected by the commissioners order.
The president "inferentially rebukes
Commissioner Valentine for taking
sulting his superior officers" saying:
II fully believe in the principle of the
separation Of the church and state, on
which our government is based. but the
questions presented by this order are Of
grea, importance and delicacy. They
arise out Of the fact that the govern
ment has for a considerable period
taken for use Of the Indians certain
schools heretofore belonging to and
conducted by distinctive religious So
cieties or churches. AS a part OF the
arrangement then made. the school
employees then employed, which were in
many cases members Of religious or
ders wearing the distinctive garb Of
these orders. were continued as teach
ers by the government. and by ruling
Of the civil service commission or by
executive action they have been in
cluded in the classified service under
the protection Of the civil service law
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
A SIGNIFICANT VOTE.
mt Vernon Record.1

The most significant vote that has
come to the attention Of the Rerocrd
was that case &: the college Thurs
day. On that day straw vote was
arranged In which all the men stu
dents of the college were eligible to
participate The men were left to
vote their convictions. without cleo
tioneering. and about so per cent of
them participated in the vote. Out OF
24S eligible 1874 voted. The ballot box
was In the library, ~ charge Of the
librarian, who had list of all the men
of the school. and checked off the name
Of each man as his vote was cast.
These arrangements and the way
they were carried out guaranteed
fair expression Of the sentiment among
the students in Cornell. These students
come from Iowa and adjoining states
for the most part so that it Is reason
ably fair to assume that the sentiment
expressed here Is the sentiment Of a
large section of the country. The two
important points, as we view it, was
the fact that there was no electioneer-
ing, so that no one side was repre-
sented at the expense Of any other.
and that the participants were from
no one precinct, but were from all sec
lions Of Iowa and adjoining states.
A first and a second choice were
asked for. The result was as follows:
LET p1t
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
THOSE IDAHO LAND DEALS.
ICedar Rapids Republican

After all has been said that can be
said TO clear up the connection with
Idaho land deals, 1t must be admitted
by all fair minded men that Professor
Holden would stand much better If he
had never permitted his name to be
associated with such schemes. He oc-
cupied an official position. an agricul-
tural position. in which his Judgment
would naturally be taken by those
about 70 buy lands. The fact that the
head of the corn department at Ames
vouched for the land offered for sale
would naturally create favorable i'm
preston and INSCRIPTIONS land sellers
would put all stress upon it. They did
put such stress upon 1t and all who
bit on the lands now have bitter recol-
lections Of the taste Of the bite. for
the lands are in a state of bankruptcy.
Before a man UNDERWRITERS with a state
office promoters scheme he ought to be
mighty certain Of its merits. 1t is
useless now to argue that Holden was
not bound to take such things into
consideration He may have needed
the wealth and the money. but one
should attain those also very carefully.
not by sacrificing or misleading others.
1t is related of one land seller in that
scheme that he was upbraided by his
chief. in Idaho. for not selling more
lands. TITS hard to sell them," he re-
piled. TITS hard to sell anything when
YOU can not look the prospective buyer
in the eyes" That is the kind OF a
conscience that we need in land trans
actions.
We have no desire to take an undue
part in the Des Moines debates over
this question. but this much. at least.
we feel like saying and we believe IT
is eminently fair and right. as between
the contesting parties. The professor
NAV have been misled himself. but II
that is the case, he should make that
confession and ask for mercy. not in
defiance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
Our Daily Bridge.
Ichicaxo Tribune.l

"Give us this day our daily bridge"
might be the prayer Of too many AM
erican women who could md some
thing better to pray for and to do.
The bridge habit-for money, Of
course-has become 50 prevalent that
It deserves to be handled without
gloves. Among our only leisure class
namely: that Of the women whose
means raise them above the necessity
of homework or SELF support-the
bridge game has become one Of the
most important of daily functions
Very few duties, probably no pleasures,
take precedence over 1t. 1t absorbs time
and strength. and in some cases Ill
spared money. Women Of intelligence.
education. and opportunity waste hours
upon It.
Card playing is dismissed by many
as harmless amusement. Society bridge
isn't harmless. In this excessive form
It is a serious vice. The New York
Medical Journal recently has called
card playing a pure and simple mem
tai dissipation which grows upon the
victim like all other dissipattons, to
the eventual exclusion OF logical and
close thinking" The writer considers
occasional card play to be q valuable
asstrec ttnn for the elderly. but adds:
1.-THE legend which attributes the In
vention Of playing cards 70 the neees-
sity for amusing mad king Of Erance
possesses verisimilitude. Appealing pfi-
marily to the unbalanced mind, they
soon reduce that of q better quality 20
I the same level They are comparable
i'm every way 30 the haAtt sfosnniMG
drugs and lead surely to the neglect Of
every sane and healthy amusement to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
HOW ABOUT NEW York;

VIII New York come to the conTen-
ticn for Taft? If the succeeding pri-
maries should further develop the
weakness of the president among the
rank ana Tie what Wili De Tie eAiee'
upon the New York delegation? There
is little doubt that they are playing
the waiting game. The announcement
that New York had instructed for Taft
would have been trump card in the
hands Of the Taft managers. But New
York withheld it. II there Is further
popular dismissal Of his candidacy
what will New York do?
Turn to Hughes? Perhaps. But will
Hughes turn to or away from the dele
CATION? He is a Taft appointee to the
supreme court No doubt he would
hesitate to oppose the president with
a candidacy Of his own who appointed
him. The position he holds is Of the
highest honor and is his for life. Would
he be willing to leave the safe and
honorable eeclusion Of his present Of
flee to engage in scramble for the
presidential nornna ton and especially
in this more or less doubtful year?
II New York were thoroughly and
unaIterab1y attached to the Taft band
wagon it would be inside and hurrah-
ing,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
THE STATES NEGLECT.
IDes Moines Tribune

There will be general commentator
of the ooroner's jury for finding the
shooting of Wylie Pratt tustifiable
The ends Of peace would be served If
every husband Of the Wylie Pratt order
were disposed Of as summarily.
But on the other hand will 1t be safe
to entrust to wives to determine just
when their husbands are entitled to be
shoto And should every woman be pro-
vided with a handy weapon In con-
venient bureau drawer in good work
ing order and we'll primed?
The troubel is. the law today affords
no protection to the woman who is
pursued by a murderously inclined
drunken spouse. What would binding
such man as Wylie Pratt over to
keep the peace amount to?
The state should be in position to
take all such men and set them at
work, compel them to be sober, main
tain their families, and cultivate habits
of industry and sobriety under public
supervision until they could be trusted
to use their liberties wisely.
1t is criminal neglect on the part of
the state to permit such men to run at
large and harrass their families. The
state invites just such caiamtt!es as
the shooting OF Pratt. It is not the wo-
mans fault: it is the Legitimate fruit
of nom enforcement Of law and neglect
of the state to afford protection.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
[Webster CITY Herald.

The results OF the presidential pref
erential primary in Illinois will give
strong impetus to the candidacy Of
Colonel Roosevelt. 1t hardly seems pos
sible that in state like Illinois in
which machine politics has always
been supreme state which makes 1t
possible for the Lorimers and Cannons
to flourish, that such tremendous
majority should be polled for Roose-
welt. With federal patronage and the
great city OF Chicago and it's machine
vote to assist him, President Taft re-
ceived little more than third OF the
votes and the majority will reach one
hundred thousand for Roosevelt. This
is decisive and shows the utter folly
oc nominating Taft: it demonstrates
beyond a doubt that the rank and file
OF the party are against the president
and wherever given an opportunity to
express its will, the president is not in
the running at ALL The result in North
Dakota was not nearly so significant
as the vote Of state like Illinois in
which the president had every advant-
age and where wealth and the special
Interests are strongly intrenched.
The declaration Of Colonel Roosevelt
on the hastings against Lorimer and
his methods must have been factor
in the result: the waters Of Illinois
have protested against the Lorimer
case and the action Of the admins
tration senators in trying to keep him
in his seat and 1t may be that the
venerable Senator Cullom will be de-
feated on account Of his vote in the
Lorimer case. The paramount issue in
American political life is clean public
service and responsibility to the popu-
lar majority. The result in Illinois will
exert wholesome influence on public
men and teach them there is a power
greater than the coterie OF office hold
ers who have constituted themselves
en- oligarchy at Washington. Let the
people rule.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13

lover to the administration candidate q
majority Of the delegates from the
great state OF Illinois which in yester-
days primary showed itself to pro-
gressive.
Had progressive Iowa indicated its
presidential preference in primary.
the two factions OF the republican par
ty In this state would not be engaged
in q hand to hand CONFLICT for control
of the state convention. Manipulation
Of caucuses by workers drafted by adj
herents Of tho Taft machine, such a.
was witnessed close at hand. would
have been eliminated. The returns,
representing the true sentiment Of the
people, would have repudiated the Taft
candidacy as empnatically as did the
republicans of Illinois yesterday. Fur
thermore. the primary does not leave
behind it an aftermath OF personal
animosities engendered in caucus con-
flicts which can not but weaken the
strength Of the party at the polls.
The time is coming when every state
in the union win have presidential
preference primary. Then. and not I'M
I'll then. viii the people determine for
themselves who shall be their nomi-
ness. Eleven states already have made
this provision. The procession Is NOV
ing. Iowa must not lag behind.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
Topics of the Times

Speaking of college farmers. how
abou, the Michigan University COW
which took the worlds record for milk
productions
An Illinois Judge fined his wife s25
for contempt Of court. But what was
the use?
A country club comes close to ne
cessity for Older persons in good town.
And bv the same token a few places to
play baseball on are quite as necessary
to the boys.
On this food question we act like the
Arkansan interviewed by the Traveller
When it floods we can't fix it and when
there is no food it doesn't need it,
The Michigan convention was opened
with a can opener.
When the automobiles are forced to
drive on the right curb. cross on the
right side at corners and forbidden &c
| cross except at street functions. When
these rules are promulgated and en-
/ forced their will be fewer accidents AND
better feeling between autoists and
pedestrians
knocked 'em over the ropes EH-
pressive, Rooseveltian, and fairly de-
scriptive.
Uncle Joe Cannon was renomlnated
for congress- There's something ad-
mtrable about the way Uncle Joe hangs
on amidst the crash of matter and the
crush of world like a superman. Ol
course Uncle Joe holds good many
MORTGAGES in vermilion and other
counties Of his district besides his lien
on the postoffice
Judging from the newspaper com :
ments, the Roosevelt primaries about
polled the Roosevelt strength. The men
who voted against him on that day are
likely to vote against him. if he should
be nominated.-Cedar Rapids Republl-
can.
It's a poor rule, etc. II 1t to be ap-
nlfed to the Taft vote why nominate
sure loser?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13

crowded city street Of every land. Here
was an old maid schoolma am organic
ing the most powerfully humanitarian
society in the world about an idea and
an impulse. Clara Barton's relief plan
grew with the war. She stood at the
front where the yellow flags Of the field
hospitals edged up upon the firing lines.
To her and her assistants belongs the
high credit Of organizing and manag-
ing the soldiers relief work which
every sick and wounded veteran Of our
wars never forgets. She followed war
to Franco Prussian battle fields, and
worked with bloody ringers ove- the
victims Of the days OF the Commune.
And when peace gave her furlough
she came home to urge a world wide
pact Of nations about the 1nerciful pur-
poses Of the Red Cross.
Here are four great organizers but
the sG-aeo=te e .,ese is Clara Barton
by reason Of the grandeur OF her con-
ception and the purposes Of her organ
ization. Mr.. Carnegie may cover the
earth with peace temples but the most
magnificent of them must be lost in
the shadow Of Clara Barton's low field
hospital tents He may build libraries
in parallel lines around the globe but
the Red Cross on the ambulances which
search the purlieus Of poverty
come nearer the common heart
than any pile Of granite money
can build. Carnegie has been
benevolent with money which he does
not need. Barton gave life. When the
billions of Carnegie and Rockefeller
have been scattered, when Gould's NIL
lions have been sown across two hem
ispheres by titled fools and libertines
and the men and their money are as
forgotten like the names of Egyptian
kings the Red Cross will go on under
the impulse given it by woman VINO
had nothing to give but herself.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
l.AFE.S AMAZING ANNOUNCEMENT
MENT,
IGrundy Republican,

Who would believe it? LATE Young
announces in Monday nights Dies
Moines Capital that he is a candidate
for L. S. senator to succeed Senator
Kenyon. Not In years has political
announcement come with such start
ling suddenness into Iowa's political
arena. We note the colonel was born
on Iowa soil, saw his three brothers
depart for the front as union soldiers
and so favors liberal pensions. how
the eolonel-it wasn't colonel then
has jabbed the pen into the ink pot for
twenty-five years in the interest OF
greater Iowa, her educational instltu
tions. her republicanism. her broad
prairies, her wooded hills, her run
ming brooks, her sweet smelling flow
ers, and her river to river road. (Blest
be it's mud in gentle spring. or in
any other rainy season.) We note
further how he was the friend Of Nc
Kinley and the gold standard. OF
Roosevelt and Of Taft, and we observe
how Root praises him. We are glad
for all this-all Of which the colonel
himself told US at Grundys famous
good roads meeting. all OF which his
singer sang to us at the same gather
a heart breaking trip over two hun
dred miles and back again just for
the delightful privilege OF boosting
Iowa and preventing President Taft
from making Iowa the dumping ground
for free Canadian farm products! But
in our simplicity of faith We never
suspected the colonel was going to an
nounce himself for senator and have
already tied ourselves-and as many
others as we can-to Senator Kenyon.
30 we are unable 10 assist the colonel.
Had the colonel told US when he was
here. about his aspirations and de-
sires. it might have been different, but
he so enthused us with boosting Iowa
that we Immediately started boosting
Kenyon. But then, we suppose the
colonel was so busy making those 200
mile jumps to each corner OF Iowa
and back again. with a singer. that
he did not have time to attend to
The Tie That Binds
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
THAT HOLDEN MATTER
I,,,,h,lc. . a,.,yh1inoy,


Since our last issue Professor Holden
has given out an interview supposed to
answer the charges made by the Iowa
Homestead against his connection with
the Idaho land promotion fake. Profess
sor Holden contents himself with the
statement that he is known in all por-
tons of Iowa and he attempts to ridi-
Guile the idea that any one would har-
Dor a thought that he might be crooked
in the matter. At the same time dis
interested reader wonders why, instead
of dwelling on his excelltnt reputation
in Iowa, he Gid not devote the same
space to telling when and where the
Homestead was wrong and when and
where Holden was right. If the Idaho
land was all that Holden claimed for
it, he could easily bring facts to sub
stantiate his claim. The average voters
will be hard to push aside with the
statement that Holden is above such
work. Anything that is all right will
bear investigation, and If Professor
Holden had taken the people a little
more into his confidence he would have
left much better impression.
In the meantime the aged couple who
We're claimed to have been pauperized
by the Idaho investments. strenuously
deny the statement. The gentleman
states that the postmaster from the To-
cal town in Idaho near where his land
is situated. writes that he has faith
in the country. However. a postmaster
that would write anything else should
be driven out of the country. And If
the injured parties at Webster City
have ample means, a statement Of
some of the land or houses they own
would not be amiss. In short. the pub
lie likes the why's and wherefores. They
are close enough TO Missouri to want
to be shown.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
GENERAL FRED GRANT,

General Fred Grant, who died yes
terday, is an illustration Of the handi-
cap greatness leaves to its children
Grant was the son Of his father and
like the sons Of other great fathers
was measured against his fathers
fame Like others he failed 70 measure
up to the exceptional standard thus
established. Lincoln left son whose
nedtocrity is the more apparent by
contrast with hts father Few great
men have left great sons to inherit and
support the family name
But General Fred Grant was a good
soldier, faithful IN allegiance and dis
charge Of his duties. II he had not
been the son Of the old general he
cy. He had excellent qualities as a
good citizen and an honest man and
pubic servant. That Of itself is dis
tlnction II we are willing Co recognize
it as such That he was not great
COLDER like his father is less to the
purpose than that he was an honest
man ana good citizen like his father
Grant nor Lincoln nor Mckinley nor
Washington founded a dynasty. Gar
fedTs son whispers Of his fathers
strel 9Th and activity. There are no
strong dynastic symptoms in the Roose-
welt family. Fred Grant measured up
as well as most Of the sons Of grea.
men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13

posing party it looks to see enrolled
under the banner of socialism. We
shall have to keep our lamps trimmed
and burning in order not to be taken
by surprise. for as this journal sees it,
=; The condition of unrest, the well-nigh
patent preconditions of a social revO-
luton, are manifest in the state OF the
old parties of the present day" We
| read:
I'm continental Europe today. the on
coming strides of socialism are only
! held in check thru a coalition of all
other elements with the clerical forces
| in public affairs. The same thing is
certain to come in the United states.
If this country is not to be swept
into the vortex of socialism with all it's
attendant immoralities, then the Cath
Ollie church thru her members must
save It,
There may never be Eve hope there
never will be) a party in this country
which will be called Catholic, but
there is certain to be a party which
will be a composite Of all the elements
which oppose socialism and which
elements viii have as their largest and
leading unit in that coalition the MEM
bers of the Catholic church.
"Those who timorously recoil even
now from any suggestion that Cath
olics should take an active part in pub
lie affairs. with a saving thought al
ways Of their Catholicity. Will do well
Ito have gone to their reward before
that struggle comes. for it will be one
in which there will be no quarter asked
or given and no compromise possible
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-13
FOUR GREAT ORGANIZERS.

The civil war and the activities
which endured with and succeeded It
produced great organizers 1t was an
era Of the birth Of great enterprises
Rockefeller, born in 1889, Carnegie four
years before him, and Gould a year
after Carnegie, were coming to the ca
pacity OF their peculiar genius and
their dngShip Of oil fields and in
dustriea, railroads and stock markets.
The civil war and it's succeeding period
was Also 10 make immortal as an or
gant1er . woman past forty at the
breathing out Of that conflict a Massa-
chusetts epinster reserved perhaps by
Providence from natural motherhood
to become the mother of the red cross
Clara Barton
This old woman died yesterday at 81
with . mighty history behind her long
life. Like Florence Nightingale she was
permitted to see the seed Of her labor
blossom under her hands and bear
bounEifunU. From the little advertise
msnI u0 fsas. nEer tel iIs a little
iVR0suaoAer Newspaper announcing that
- ~uta receive supplies and money
u - ~0od for the benefit Of wounded
noaG)sO - No Beginning Of the civil
war - NV with her own eyes the
a0c0nrllahod society es the Red Crcs.
ratn ~ Aa1nss1 Of mercy on every
1a1nDnd6A g ~ s3obs and marked its
- - rably On every