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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
is visit to the fair made so expensivs7

is visit to the fair made so expensivs7
They say:
1T has gotten 80 that a poor man
can not go to tho fair. The charges
have become SO excessive that our own
people here in Des Moines have to stay
away. A charge Of 50 cents Is made 1t
the gate. so and Is cents and 81 for
the grandstand for the afternoon. ana
if you want to see the evening per-
Torrance. another charge is made. The
association places tax for tho show IN
the pavilion.
THE association does not pretend to
accommodate the people. The poor
man who goes to the fair with his fam
lily can not afford 20 pay for grandstand
seats and re is deprived entirely OF
seeing the races and the vaudeville
stunts on the track. He can only walk
around the grounds and look at the
stands until he Is tired and then go
home"
These assertions call for reply.
There is something in the statement
that a man with family Of four must
pay so cents admission for each. If he
desires to see the races and the vaude-
VILE comfortably must add so cents
each for setts in the grandstand and
see s. depart as the mere price of ad-
missions TO the show. And it does
suggest that With the state building the
-s4anlAfands and Xerx largely support
ing the fair that these prices seem 10
be much higher than the ordinary purse
is able to afford Thus the common
person who works for wages and VINO
might take his family of four to the
fair from a distance of nifty miles must
figure on IS railroad fare, and 81 a day
for admission money. 1t does seem a
little strong to the man whose pay Is
perhaps $3.50 per day. but who pays
taxes and feels that he helped build the
grandstand And he is likely to ask
why. if a county fair association can
build its own grandstand and sell
seat for % cents it becomes necessary
for the state fair 70 get from 80 cents
TO 81 for a seat in a grandstand for
which the state of Iowa paid something
like 100000.
There is plenty of protest going on;
and where there is much smoke of pro-
test there rs usually some flame OF
cause.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
"1HE OLD FAMILIAR FACES"

II is too late this fall to begin to
talk over and lay plans for home
coming week for Marshall county but
not too early for next year Whether
it would be better to make the dates
of such an event even with those OF
the county fair or not is a matter TO De
canvassed by proper committee But
the fact remains that the Old Home
Week should be given start toward
becoming q permanently Instituted
Marshall county function.
II Is emTnenrty ~ eisifs tt4e-aas'.';i 'al .
and duty of the Old Settlers Associa-
ton to make the beginning and it be-
longs to all Marshall county to fall in
and do the work and give the welcome.
There is considerable work to be done,
but the accomplished fact Of an old
home week which would bring back to
the county hundreds and thousands
perhaps Of once familiar faces, which
would bring old friends together again
and reunite old neighbors is worth all
the trouble and expense it is likely TO
involve Perhaps as a purely practical
business proposition it would pay; but
let's forget business and build an old
home week for Marshall county on a
sentimental foundation, which after all
is the only true foundation. From end
to end of the world the men and wom-
en- of Marshall range in their activities.
The west and the south and the north
west blossoms with their willing toll
and canny commonsense. And they are
all somebody's sons and daughters.
somebody's brothers and sisters, some
body's school chums and somebody
neighbor Of old days who wait in old
Marshall for their home coming and a
sight Of the old familiar faces.
They want TO come back to the old
home and We want them to come. Why
don't We 60 about it?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
The BAR AND THE COLOR LINE.

The American Bar Association draws
the color line against negroes. That
is what the resolutions adopted at Mil
waukee mean. Hereafter the race Of
the applicant must be given with the
application: and this provision Is pre-
ceded with the significant statement
that 1T has never been contemplated
that members Of the colored race
should become members OF this asso-
ciation." Three colored men were al
ready members, having been voted in
1t is to be presumed without knoWl-
edge of their color. The association
did not go to the length OF throwing
these out, but 1t dropped the bar In the
faces of all succeeding coiored appli-
cants.
Much is being said in criticism OF the
association for its action. The as
sumption Is that 1t has made color the
test Of fellowship. Technically that is
SO. but it is fair assumption that a
body of men like the American Bar
Associa ton considered character as
much as color in its denial Of privi-
lege. There Is considerable number
Of colored lawyers Of high character
but what IS the general character OF
colored attorneys and taken as a
whole are they Of a class and kind to
make their admission advisable to the
American Bar Association and the GER
tificate Of competence and character
that admission carries?
The probabilities are that a really
high class lawyer will not be denied
admission because Of his negro blood
and that the resolution is simply be:
against general application and admis-
sion Of a class Of attorneys who do not
belong in such company and Of whom
a great many do not properly belong
in the practice Of law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
Topics of the Times

\ fair question: Why should it cost
those who paid for the grandstand on
the Iowa state fair grounds from so
cents to 81 every time they get into 1t?
a county fair association builds and
pays for a grandstand and is glad to
sell % cent tickets. Why need big
fair which got it's grandstand via leg
islature appropriation charge dollar
and put all it's special attractions in
front of the dollar seats?
The bull mooser should look careful
~ over the state for Roosevelt news
paper which does not condemn the
third ticket scheme. Can Roosevelt men
afford to disgust and ALLEVIATE the
sources of their publicity?
AS matters stand the fight in Iowa M
between Wilson and Roosevelt with the
prospect OF a cfose finish. With third
ticket in the field it would be Wilson
alone with Taft inside the distance
flag. Why throw the race against
Roosevelt:
The Sioux City Journal pays fine
compliment to the altruistic tenden-
cies Of the Times Republican and
Council Bluffs Nonparei. 1t is most
gratifying to receive the approval OF
the Sioux City Journal which knows a
good newspaper when it sees it.
] 2 Morgan says. Taft is the least
of three evils" which may be assumed
to mean that If Mr.. Morgan can't be
the government he can come closer to
it with Taft than with Roosevelt or
wilson
No one can better describe the salient
features and dramatic incidents Of a
great spectacle than Richard Harding
Davis In the September number OF
Scribners Magazine he describes THE
Two Conventions at Chicago'-the reg
ular republican convention and the
Orchestra hall convention at midntgh:
that marked the birth OF a new party
Mr. Davis was accompanied by the
artist, Wallace Morgan, whose sketches
give vivid impression Of the person
alities. The humor and the vivacity OF
both author and artist make these
historic conventions reality. 1t is not
a narrative but picture
One Of the things that grinds man
out OF job is to read that somebody
lost a $500 dog in Chicago.
80
Why not cut out that 20-cent a
mile mileage graft and buy tickets FOR
congressman at the 2-cent rate?
1t may be that those congressional
wiseacres who descended into vaude-
VILE during the last hours Of the ses-
sion realize that chautauqua Is over
crowded and were laying the founda-
tons for nickleodeon engagements later
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
STATE FAIR PROTESTS.

Secretary Botsford Of the Des Moines
Commercial Club has filed protest
against the manner in which the rail-
roads crowded people in damned trains
and compelled them to wait for hours
In order to get into train at all on
their way to the state fair. Secretary
Botsford for the Commercial Club, OBJ
jects to such conditions when passen-
gers are paying first class fare and are
thus entitled to first class passage.
Mr.. Botsford's interest is primarily
In Des Moines. The more fair visitors
the merr1er for Des Moines business
interests. AS secretary OF CONNER
cial club he is looking after the COM
mercial interests of his city much more
than the comfort of passengers.
But In these later days comfort and
proper equipment and a crowd go to-
getier There isn't much doubt that
the state fair was short many thous-
ands in attendance this year because
OF the attitude Of the railroads which
proposed to carry the crowds higgledy
piggledy as in the past and get the full
price for carrying them in comfort. A
very large number Of good Iowa people
who otherwise would have gone to the
fair stayed at home rather than TO re-
peat the waiting on crowded platforms,
the lam in the hot and dirty and over
crowded cars and the general dis
comfort Of trip Of an Iowa fair
train.
Int another protest is in progress at
HaS a...o:.::.es. The labor leaders are ask
~ Why, Il the state owns the fan
arouadD and this Is state fair, why
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
eo-rEST GAS.
Toes Moines Trihune.l

IDeS MONIES 1rlhuhe.1
In Des Moines they have Just at
tained sO-cent gas, but the company
wants it to be for trial period OF
no longer than one year. The Judge
wants to make the period OF trial
three years. 1t will not make particle
Of difference, as matter Of fact.
whether the period Of probation is one
year or three years At the end OF one
year or three years the decision win be
in favor Of 90-cent gas. Ib;can be made
and sold for that In Des Moines as
we'll as In Cedar Rapids.--Cedar Rap
ids Republican. ~
This whole potteratfon and bother
about how long Des Meines shall ex-
pertinent with 9o-cent gas Is laugh
able.
The gas company Of Des Moines Is
one OF the most protabla-p public services
in Iowa. 1t can make and sell gas al
so cents thousand.
The chances are mitch amore that be-
fore three years are up the city Will
be fighting for lower than se-cent gas
than that we shall ever go back again
to the old rate.
1t is hard for corporations engaged
in the public service to get away from
the notion that there - million or
two lying around loose In Eullible cit
les which may be had for the taking.
The eullible cities are gradually get
ting their eyes opened.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
For Sunday Reading
al S. Of Otinisss
THE RURAL CHURCH PRoHLNA

THE RURAL CHURCH PNOHLDA.
[0rinnau ReGister.J
The conditions Of the rural churches
are giving the leaders Of all danomin-
atoms serious concern. The supsrin-
tendent Of the department. Of church
ana country life Of the Prasbytsrian
church says that, from IN actual sur
vey which included 500 rural churcnss:
the estimate was made that 1.7oO fufei
churches Of the state of Illinois STANDS
unooeupied to-day. This does NOT M
cIuds those that have bssn turned ID.
to barns. pigsties and corn cribA oot
means only churches which are usasis
but unused.
Coming soi....ss ..ss &c: home a. Powesniek
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
PERSONAL INJURIES.


A workman is injured. cruelty in
Jured by an explosion, manning him for
life. The ambulance takes him to the
hospital. and he lies on bed OF pain
for weary months. and is carefully
cared for by trained nurses and gwen
every assistance that skilled surgery
affords to win his way back to posi-
ton Of health, that will permit OF his
once more earning a living in mod
ern world that demands the best
strength Of strong men.
What about his legal rights? No one
looks after them but the attorney who
is out for SO per cent OF whatever may
ne recovered, or the attorney OF the
corporation in whose employ he was
injured, who carefully nurses the
thought that he Is in the hands OF
friends and that II he will only stick to
them he Will get a large sum OF money
from the insurance com pany that In
sures them against loss because OF
their legal responsibility for the injury.
The corporation attorney tells him that
they will furnish him an attorney and
look after his interests IN every par
t1cular.
In due time the cause must be got
ten ready for trial and the lawyer
is introduced, by the president Of the
corporation. or some other dtsttn-
guished individual who can make an
impression Of disinterested solicitude
for the poor fellow that has been
crippled for life, and the case u dis
cussed.
It comes out in the discussion In a
most casual way that the philanthropic
attorney, instead Of asking the regular
so Der cent, will only take ono-third ol
what Is recovered It also develops that
it semes wise to sue for large
amount, but the president Of the cor
poratioa or other philanthroptst repre-
senting the corporation intsrtects q,
this point the condition that al that u
recovered over the amount for when
the corporation II protected by It's ia
| bility insurance will be returned
| thru the attorney to them.
There remains the doctor bill. hos
pital bill, the slow, hard night back e
an economic independence under ab
solutely new conditions. and under m
handicap of q MANNED body where
perfect body il none too strong.
| The poor fellow sees little more tnai
a meal ticket for him al the resul
of such philanthropy and rebels. Ihel
the president Of the corporatioi
! gnashes his teeth and swears tAaA tne'
Will fight him thru the supreme cour
e the United States and spened none:
like water to prevent a recovery "i
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
ARE YOU 4 PROGRESSIVE?
ITleS MoineS NeWSl


Do you think you can be good citi-
zen without being = progressive?
This isn't matter OF politics alone.
endeavor.
Nations go up or down. Nothing
stands still. He who fails to hitch his
wagon to Q star la Already on the
creased plank. and oblivion Is Just be-
yond.
We have just been thinking Of a
brorzed. rugged type Of the old school
OF farmers. Industrious TO the limit.
and Just always. and his 20 acre farm.
The fine old citizen farmed as did his
fathers before him. Generation after
generation lived of that plot OF land. 1t
was plowed and titled ana harvested
by tradition. Things were done be-
cause they had been done before. New
tangled ideas and mechanical helps
were scorned. both on the farm and In
the rambling farmhouse. All in defer.
ence to tradition.
When a son suggested securing in
formation from the agricultural de-
partment at Washington. he was
hushed at once. Why should y farmer
be interested in soil analysis, crop re-
ports. printed information from the
shArps in office? The old farm was
good enough as It stood.
A progressive bought the adjoining
farm. He used muscles and brains and
mixed them to make them count. The
agricultural department was run for
him. As = taxpayer no had right to
every fact It possessed. He had soil
Analysed. He soaked in Information.
He always wanted to know why. He
sprayed and dug and drained. He made
sour land sweet. He was good to the
farm and in return 1t smiled with crops
that were the wonder OF the section.
He VS. scorned by the neighbors ~ q
! book farmer, who had 40 respect for
tradition.
One day the old man stood casing 1t
his neighbors bllowing acres Of wheat.
He turned his old eyes to an orchard
that was weighted with perfect fruit.
His vision took in an automobile that
stood at the door.
i've lived too long," he said. 1.-The
| world has changed and have not
changed with it. I'm 10. and I'm con-
WINGED that I'm q failure" He buried
his face in his hands.
| OF course he was wrong. No man
who has done hts best can ever be .
failure. But don't you see what part
progressiveness plays In human en-
| deavor?
| If the world ia to grow It must be
| thru those who are not satisfied with
conditions. in government. in all mu-
nicipal affairs, In the standard Of living
in education, in merchandising, In home
life and in the care and upbrinGtng Of
children - well AZ the breeding OF
livestock
| Be q progressive. Demand better
things. Demand more Of honor and
less Of scoundrelism. Demand more and
better food and less poverty. Demand
better wages and give better service
Insist upon more Of human kindnesa
and less of sordid greed
| No matter how humble your occupa-
ton, hitch your wagon to . star. use
your brains and your hands. and re-
ALIKE that
Tho uplift Of humanity lies In thu
hands of the p1oEfOaivee.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
Iona Newspapers
PERJURERS.

WASHINGTON County FTes&.l
A certain Hilles who. labors under
the Authorization that he is managing
a presidential campaign for a certain
Taft. yelled out loud and said Cover
nor Johnson Is intending to perjure
himself when he sWears he will sup
port the republican ticket in California.
because the aforesaid Taft Is not on
said ticket. After fully considering this
proposition we are entirely convinced
there are over 100000 perjurers in
the United States today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
AGAINST THIRD TICKET.
(Ocheydan Press

To be honest with ourself we must
say We believe that the state ticket
should be left alone, and no matter
who is at the head Of the movement
to further disrupt the ticket placed in
the field by the ross-S &: The primary
election We do not believe their act
Will be upheld by the progressives In
the state. Every move thus being
made is just SO much against the pro-
gressive national ticket and against
the success Of the republican ticket in
Iowa. We believe it is all right to
make change In the Old method or
conducting the selection Of ofticehoid-
ers, but we believe there IS time TO
apply a little common sense and fore
thought as well.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31
= prssent day Justice that the pro-
grsssive party cries ook against
THROW up FOUR HANDS
I4foux City IournAl.1

tefoux City Journal.l
It n absurd. Of course. to pretend
that support can be given to the ma,
tional bull moose ticket and platform
in the interest Of the republican, party,
state or national
Il does not so much matter what
Carl y. FRANKIE says In hin own right.
He is chairman Of the progressive
state committee. and a. saach he speaks
BY the card. ANY candtdate for Of
nca," he says, speaking offtciaAy.
'Awho n using hts influence TO slect Nf.
Taft certainly 10 an enemy to the pro-
Rressive cause" Therefore It would De
Inconsistent for q progressive to sup
port q candidate who 10 openly OPP
posed to the election Of Theodore
Roosevelt" The Inconsistency would
be to an extent submerged II the can
didate was a good enough man to TOOL
them.
From tho moose standpoint Senator
Kenyon made stupendous blundsr. he
has been progressive all right. but he
ha, not reached the point where he Ii
willing to leave the republican party.
whose candidate he Is No complaint
of his record: but he can not be de-
Tended unless he is willing to move
over into the new party with all the
luggage he can carry. That the senator
would rather resign than DO thief
does not matter.
"The progressive party" the FRANKIE
statement runs, sis just as distinct a
party organization as the democratic,
republican or any other party. and
must be recognized as SUCH" Harvey
lngham is peurile. then. when he says
he will split the difference He must
go the whole hog, just as Kenyon must
go the limit. or get 1t in the snoot. IT
is clear enough, under Interpretation.
that one might as well say he will sup
port the democratic national ticket and
platform and the moose state ticket
and platform.
The point resolves itself to the COM
plete extinction of the republican
party, or the democratic party, or
both, in behalf OF Roosevelt party.
Those in favor are commanded to hold
up their hands No opportunity 10 OF
fered for parleying. 1t IL r. and me.
and nothing besides. II FRANKIE does not
understand the orders, he has Judge
Stevens to help him. II Harvey lngham
is to receive a blessing. he must kow-
tow in perfect harmony: and yet ne
must affirm that bosses are his par
ticular dread in all his meditations
upon the best means Of preserving the
republic.
The republican party bs damned.
says T. K. II refused to nominate
me" The republicans Of Iowa will
play the fool and the poltroon if they
shall turn tricks;ers and deserters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-31

and back Of Taft ana the straight re-
| publican state ticket, ana It may mean
the defeat Of all or part Of tho state
| ticket"
The Baskerville Republican. (strictly
standpat.) says: "A third party state
ticket in Iowa may be good thing.
1t will be q good lesson for the strad-
der office seekers on the republican
ticket, who are asking for republican
votes ono minute and denouncing the
head Of tho ticket the next"
Senator Penrose u now about to
! learn the difference In hunting the tiger
and having the tiger do little hunt
ing in his direction" suggests the
| Webster City Herald.
Having voted for the 'absolution'
clause tn the recent republican state
convention we are not inclined to be
inconsistent enough to call Kenyon
| to task for his recent stand" says the
Grundy Republican. He is as much
entitled to his view as we are to ours
and we are for w. S. Kenyon for
Iowas next senator
I'VE certainly hope that the progress
sives will not put a third state ticket
In the field" says the Grinnen Regis
ter. Republicans Of all shades Of po-
liticl beliefs united In selecting a
state ticket at the primary election and
fractional lines were not drawn. SO 1t
-is-xezx reasonable to conclude that the
ticket chosen is as satisfactory TO the
republican voters as any that can be
vi, 11IyiS hpt"pan
standpatters and progressives seems
inevitable but. as long as they have
started in to run the state campaign
on the mutual plan we believe it would
be we'll to wait until after the cleo
ton before permanently dissolving the
firm
IF the nomination Of Clarke is not
deserving Of our approval at the polls
! then" says the Shenandoah Sentinel
I Post there is no merit tn the primary
system no merit in the declaration for
majority rule, no merit in our protest
sainst Taft no merit in the nomfna-
ton Of Roosevelt and We might just
as we'll 30 back to the old boss rule
system against which we are pretend
ing to protest"
Many Of the people who are Joining
! the new party bother the weather bu-
f, reau a good deal for report on the di-
rection OF the wind in their neighbor-
hood" asserts the Sioux City Journal.
! Lincoln was accused Of being guilty
tof every crime in the calendar, SAYS
the Marion Register. so was Grant
| So Is Roosevelt. but as the poisoned
arrows fell harmless at the feet OF Lin
! coin and Grant so they will in this
| campaign. History will repeat
! The Sheldon Sun says: Senator La
Toilette did not prove to be good
| loser. He has been sour and grabbed
ever since his defeat in The Chicago
convention"
| The Britt News says: THE third
party may not be made up entirely OF
dissruntled office seekers, but it seems
that about all Of the disappointed ones
are now running with the bull
moosers.'
Mr.. Hilles may predict victory for
his side. but if he has grain Of COM
mon sense he will not bet any OF his
salary on it," says the Des Moines
| Tribune.