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Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
TINE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

While evidences accumulate of the
reactionary trend Of business, a dis
position is manifest in some quarters
to take more hopeful view of the
general outlook. Sentiment in financial
circles has improved noticeably of
late, and it is significant that bet
ter feeling exists in the iron and steel
trade, particularly in the Pittsburgh
district. Reports from that center in
dicate larger buying Of railway equip
ment than for several months, and
concessions in prices are of less fire.
quent occurrence, thus suggesting that
the bottom point has about been
reached. Additional encoura cement is
derived from the fact that the decrease
in the untitled tonnage of the leading
interest last month was considerably
smaller than anticipated, altho restric-
ton Of output held the decline decline
in check.
Certain other statistical comparisons
for November were not so favora BILE,
an increase of over 100000 pounds
appearing in surplus stocks Of copper.
while there was an unusually large
AS partial Offset, however. the official
cotton ginning figures showed a total
in excess of year ago, and the gov
ernment estimate on Friday gave
promise of another gratifying yield.
Advices from strictly mercantile
lines indicate generally satisfactory
results from early holiday trade. ana
in some sections distribution Of season
able merchandise has felt the stimulus
OF lower temperatures. In many cases
dry goods iobbers' inventories show
larger profits than last year, and tho
cotton goods markets are at present
quiet, a large business is noted in
staples. There is less apprehension OF
labor troubles in cotton mill centers.
but a scarcity of operatives exists in
many place.
The strongest feature Of the situa-
ton continues to be the absence Of ac-
c,l,nulations Of merchandise for spot
sale Fair activity prevails in wool.
altho manufacturers are disposed to
operate cautiously until the effect OF
the tariff changes can be more clearly
defined. 1t is the exception where New
England footwear factories are not
running to full capacity. but in some
/ instances new orders will soon be re-
quired to keep machinery active.
| With the complete restoration OF
banking reserves at New York there
was some relaxation In money rates
yet offerings of funds are restricted
and the general situation continues
firm.
| Figures OF railroad gross earnings
for November disclosed loss Of 1.s
per cent. as compared with last year
but an increase Of 6.s per cent over
1911; bank clearings this week were
15.3 per cent smaller than year age
and 81 per cent less than in 1911.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15

to one as the law down thsss so4ulfsl
two thirds majority bat judSei
counted the ballots - three to one 9oz
the bonds.
A good Job 10 whole lot better thar,
strike at this time Of year.
Whatever President Wilson has done
to congress he hasn't olavpsd the
whole batch in jail-yet.
THAT fellow certainly Is a dub"
For why?"
II told him I bossed my wife. and he
went and told her."-Louisvllle Cour-
ier-Journal.
The pessiunist F1etcherises hia
quinn pills. The optimist gets treed
By bear and enjoys the view.-Yale
Record.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
is Mr.. BRYAN A MONOPOLY

Mr.. Bryan says a man can honestly
earn $4,000 year. Attention is called
to the confession made by Mr.. Bryan
that his income averaged just about
that sum before he accepted the pow
erty- y-stricheu post ol secIeiar, ui state
and was obliged to go forth at odd
times picking up some thing to keep the
famiIy alive on.
Mr.. Bryan is like the rest of US. We
all incline to put the limit of homes:
earning somewhat close to our own in
come bearing capacities. What Mr..
Bryan would have set as the limit of
honest earnings when he was alIegedly
eracticing law at Jacksonville and
skirmishing for such income as he
might attach is another thing. Maybe
he would have put It much lower. Were
his income from all sources three or
five times $50, 600 he might extend his
estimate to cover the increase. Who
knows?
Mr.. Bryan of late years has been by
way OF a public utility. At any rate
chautauquas and lecture courses and
the listening public generally seem to
have been convinced that they must
have him up to at least so cents adnais
sion and the aggregate of those clink-
ing half dollars appears to have
amounted to about $40, 900 annually.
Mr.. Bryan in those old days at Jack
sonville and elsewhere wouldn't paid
lights and heating, ,et alone profit
on an engagement, to lecture anywhere
between Sundance and Chicago. The
public has made Mr.. Bryan. From his
nomination for the presidency to the
neeeAnt time he has been entirely a
creature Of public liking, public curl
osit5 4n1 public faye-. It has paid
zoe haafing him. His capital stock has
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE THRIFT.

When a clerk or workingman of
any sort buys a lot and builds house
thru the building and loan association
or on any other installment plan we
agree that he Is a thrifty soul and IS
taking the right way to own his own
home" He might better pay for it in
instailments than to pay rent and have
nothing left at the end of the ten-year
period that such contracts usually run.
Moreover he has better house than
he would otherwise have. He has con-
veniences that he might go without on
q rental proposition. The place is his
and he keeps 1t up. AL he puts on it
is clean gain for himself. And when
it is over and the place is his own he
looks back and sees with amazement
how easily he did 1t.
The same thing holds true Of good
roads. There is no good reason to hg-
ure on the cost of good roads in a
lump. That isn't the way to pay for
them. We should have as much sense
for the public as We have for the man
who builds on the installment plan,
figure income and set aside SO much of
it for period Of years, build the house
now and pay for ii while We are using
1t.
The matter of bonded debt for
road building has been discussed often
in this column and it has been made
plain that we can have real roads now
TO bs paid for on payment of ridicu-
lously small instailments stretched
over a long period, installments to be
paid by us who shall use the roads
next year and very justly and properly
by those who shall use them thru the
succeeding years. Why isn't II as SEN
sible for the public to build a good
road now and pay for it thus as for
the workingman to take advantage Of
the building and loan? Why isn't it
quite as foolish for US to go on pay
ing an outrageous rent in maintenance
as 1t is for the workingman to pay 5000
year rent for ten years and have
nothing to show for it but the neces-
sity TO hunt another house for the
next year at perhaps a higher rent?
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
IN. Yer. Cruz Trail.

had a friend in Mexico,
A man Of rare intelligence,
who knew by psychologist sense
Just when to come and when to 60;
Old Huerta liquored up one oay,
and cursed the gringoes out OF s1gne;
NV friend had not a word to say
Rnt left for Vera Cruz that night.
Where Montezuma once held sway,
stern Diaz grasped the reins OF power
And held them every day and hour,
For Ave and twenty, years, they say.
Madero took another view,
And claimed the people had the right
To rule themselves; but Diaz knew
And left for Vera Cruz that night.
A gracious friend. gentle foe,
Madero went the bloody route;
He might have saved himself, no doubt,
If he had known just when 20 go;
There might have been another tale.
But having lingNed IN his fight,
Madero never reached the trail
That led to Vera Cruz BY night.
Young Diaz donned his sombrero.
And buckled on his uncle's sword.
And took the cunning Huerta's word,
And made him presidentio;
But when the presidentio.
In language not at all polite.
Told Uncle Sam just where to go
He left for Vera Cruz that night
And thus 1t is In Mexico,
That men Of wealth and consequence,
Possess the psychologist sense
OF knowing when and where to go:
And when the proper time arrives,
Unless they're shot to pieces quite
Or carved with inartistic knives,
They land in Vera Cruz that night.
VIII T. Whelan in Washington Post.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
Topics of the Times

Three years ago Williamson county,
Texas began spending 100000 OF bond
money on $50 miles Of graveled roads
and today her roads are completed 1or
service. Everybody IN this county wiz
have a hard surfaced main Travelled
road to use for the rest of his days
and even after that he will have bet
ter chance at finding easier travelling
than had he been content with he'll
of road on earth.
Stiu, whatever the legal facts may
be. there are Thousands Of women and
children in Des Moines whose Christ
mas would have been much happie;
had the saloon closing held over
Christmas. The profit CT the saloon
comes directly from the tiny Christmas
stocking.
When golf players are demanding
that the Temporary green's" shall be
moved on Dec. Is in Iowa the Caro-
linas and CALIFORNIA; and Floridas
seem a long way to pay railroad fare.
Clarence Darrow's crowd at his lee
ture in Sioux City was not UP to ex-
pectations. So far as that is con-
cerned neither is Clarence.
Nine more days to do It. Do It now.
Spread 1t oyer the next few days and
give the clerks q chance.
II you haven't bought them get them
right away. The parcel post man is
only human.
All they needed in Walker county
Texas to carry their $4,000 Of. road
bonds at the lection was a vote Of two
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
THE NIGHT SCHOOL.

The demand here for instruction in
the night school inaugurated under
the direction of the board of educa-
ton is exceeding all anticipati9ns.
Enr o.lment is now near the 500 mark
and the school officials are consider
ing whether to cease enrolling new
scholars in order that the school ma:
settle down to earnest and efficient
work. which is interrupted by the
steady accessions to the classes each
evening. The prospects are for a
most successful night school, for
while Davenport waits until 1t is en-
tirely ready to do anything OF this
kind, it always does it we'll when It
undertakes it,
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15

do the fair thing it will at once offer
to pay the money back to her.
Mrs. DoGson was one Of the three Ia
dies who were recently in Davenport
delivering addresses in the interest OF
equal suffrage In Iowa. 1t seems that
she. after an informal talk with mem
bers OF the county board. raised the
pay of the two cheif clerks In her OF
flee from S75 a month to 500 month.
Neither OF these clerks was in any way
related to her, nor was she paying any
personal obligation. She was mercy
getting them on q scale OF compensa-
ton which the county board has since
sc--.sIls ratified for her 'ofKice.
Because the county board had not
at that time forrnelly ordered this In
crease. Mrs. Dobson is liable for 1t per-
sonallv in the eyes OF the law.
To enforce such a claim against her
is unjust and unbecomirg, and sus-
gestiye Of a determination to diseredit
her service as public official. which
the Des Moines Tribune says. every
BODY knows was admirable, efficient
and economical for the county.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
lowa Newspapers
WHERE ANGELS FEAR, ETC
TYaRovuo~ pa

We do not feel like OVERRIDING" the
thing in commenting upon church
suppers. Our good wife says we have
already said too much. and she further
latimates that it is none Of our con
founded business if the ladies' want
to have church suppers, and sell them
at 25. IS. 10, 5, or even / cent, or give
them avyay
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15

The Sioux City Journal recalls that
'early day packers in Sioux City used
to give away spareribs, and the early
day markets used to give away liver.
The science OF trade has eliminated all
that regretfully concludes the jour
nal
1--WE have heard talk OF the injustice
to saloonkeepers in closing their busi-
ness houses and making fixtures that
cost thousands Of dollars practically
valueless,' says the Grand Junction
Globe That is the risk anyone as
sumes who enters the liquor trade. Any
man must see the trend of the times is
inevitably toward prohibition into con-
sideration with every drink he sells
across his bar He protects himself
thru large profits"
The warning the saloon men have
had has been warning they could
not mistake says the Des Moines
Register and Leader. The dry terri
tory has not become wet again. while
the wet territory has steadily become
dry. Anybody who can put two and
two together can read such sign Of
the times as that. II is entirely pos
sibie that the nation will prohibit the
saloon during this administration" pre-
diets the Register and Leader. 'It Is
sure that more and more states will
come to total prohibition. The saloon
is doomed. and the wise man will not
waste his time quarreiing about it. nor
will he long kick against the pricks.".
The S!gourney Review, democrat.
SAYS: If this community is fair in
dex to the sentiment thruout the state
Governor George W. Clarke will be
third in three cornered race for gov
ernor next year"
The CtnterviIle Journal thinks "any
democrat who can't alnd some reason
to be proud OF the Wilson administra-
ton is certainly suffering with a sour
stomach"
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
s,cSs OF DEMOCRATIC TINES.

waterloo Hines Tribune democrat
The following is the announcement
cf Mr.. w. H. Hamilton, Of SiSourney
tl,at he wishes to represent the Iowa
Sixth district in congress:
~ wish to announce to the voters Of
the Sixth congressional district o.
Iowa, that will be candidate on the
dernccrat ticket at the primary eiec-
ton. 1914, for the nomination for con-
aress in this district.
. 81 make this announcement because
I want the office: secondly, because
after making investigation and con-
sulting with numerous democrats over
the district, ind strong demand fof
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
SMOKING EAST AND WEST.
fyy-oforJno Courier

w a
The crusade azatnst smoking on the
streets IN Cedar Falls IL interesting as
bringing out radical provincial differ
ences regarding the small habits. The
state of Iowa is anti -cixaret to the es-
tent that the sale, OF the pill is for
bidden by law To be seen smoking
one on the street IL only one degree
remover from damnation.
In the cas-. nearly everybody OF mas
culine persuasion smokes. Indeed the
practice is in such general good repute
that some growing youths fall to see
anything attractive In II and leave IT
alone. The cigaret IN preferred by the
light smokers for what 1t is-a light
smoke. We fear that some OF the Iowa
people whc are trying tn interfere with
the personal habits OF others would be
on the program for faintins fit II they
should happen to run across the rama
liar sight in the east OF professor
smoking with his students within the
walls CT learning Of great university.
MAYOR AND COMMERCIAL CLUB.
lottumwa Review.1
The other afternoon. In all good IN
tent. no doubt, an invitation was con-
yeyed by members of the Commerc.a'
Association to Mayor Leeny. request
ing his presence in a conference ar
ranged by said members, the object
being to discuss the question OF hre
apparatus purchases that have been
entertained with an idea of being made
in the near future.
Mayor Leeny sent back word that
he would meet them as individuals
bu. would not confer with them -
an organization at the commercial
rooms, therefore the meeting was al
journed to Wednesday Afternoon.
The Review IL informed by the
mayor that he believes the association
membership, or its committee, would
be observing the fltness Of things
more II they appeared at the city hall
council chamber where their suggest-
ions would be received In . most cor
dial and considerate spirit. by the com
missciners. you may ray that think
It very unwise to place the city cpm-
missioners at the beck and call Of any
collection Of citizens. That the place
| to attend city business u At the city
hall. Again, the people Of Ottumwa
have reposed confidence In 10 tO the
extent that I imagine they are willing
for us to 90 ahead and make par-
chases on the strength Of our invostt-
cations. At the same time neither ms
! self or either Of the conncilmen would
| be otherwise than pleased TO receive
| suggestions, properly submitte1. at the
place they should Be presented.
i - -
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
APPROVES "BECKS" ENGLISH.
fCafrnll Hera1d.1

F. w. Dscxman. the capAnse IN
structor Of agricultural journalism 1t
Amss, has started q nationwide dts
cusotoh over the comparative worth OF
newspaper English and the h1ed
usases Of schoIastics Ana writer's OF
books. The Iowa journalist has made
. strong case for the clear. tsrss. sx-
pressive style Of the profession that
has been hammered out by actual ex-
perience,
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15

II the Iowa democracy 10 filled with
desire to capture the United States
senatorship 1t will select or name as its
candidate Martin j. Wade" declares
the Williamsburg Journal Tribune.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
TALKING ABOUT ROADS.
IWayerlY lndependent.l

Talking about roads the people
who did not have to get out on the
roads the past te. days were lucky. ::
But the milk khauiNfs VINO aaVs ~
make a trip every. day. AMI the rural
mail carriers. ws' feel for them ana
their hard worked horses. Aud cio
YOU notice that the auto Gus went
out Of business about two weeks ago
and a couple Of faithful horses hao
to drag the bus to the L c. station ana
back several times a day. That road
over Bremen avenue from Oak street
to the I. c. statios beats them all. u
you know worse road than that place
keep It to yourself, and II you have any
tears to shed. shed them in silence. our
sympathy is for the faithful hofses
The automobile IS out OF commission
O, a, the hospital for repairs. But Te
find no fault with this December
weather. The weather is fine and. may
be, the roads will be fine sometime.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15

This is no time for politics" says
the Sibley Tribune, but we wonder II
the third party is going to hang its
stocking up"
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15

tsss e theoe petit1oa1 thoe : wt0s
marcia ol e1rplus nAaaSo snues - -
cured 70 make the effort worth while
becauSo Of the number that Will IN.
evitably be stricken OF on account Of
mistAkes IA the poll books.
Probably nothing the people do in
their organized capacity 10 more care
lessly and negligently done than hold
Inc IN election. counting the ballots
and making ~ the returns.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15

ence In a legislative or congressional
caucus held for the purpose of nomina-
ting candidates for the various offices
within the gift OF the legislature or
congress and caucus held for the
purpose Of determining the action OF
party members upon economic policies
or principles 1t is conceded that the
majority party is entitled to the offices
and 1t Is right and proper that they
hold caucus to determine what cam
didates shall have the party vote.
There is really no other way open. But
when II comes to a matter OF principle,
a matter OF judgment in methods, the
individual members ought to be free
to exercise their own convictions. When
the secret caucus steps in and says
democrat must vote for a certain thing
merely because a majority Of demo-
Gratis are for that thing the secret eau
Gus is dangerous expedient and the
people of the country ought to over
throw any party that resorts to 1t. Leg
islation should always be in the ope I.
But much OF it is conceived in coE;-
mittee, pushed thru in caucus and rat. :
fed Ia the open by gag rule. 1t is time
to get away from such methods, but
when a door keeper or page is chosen
the caucus is an expediency in which
there Is no serious menace.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
IN A SALOON TOWN.
dubuque Telegraph

lDuOuNNc LIE = opAA'i
Chief OF Police Raesli in the presence
OF the mayor told a Telegraph Herald
reporter that he did not order police
men not to go into saloons IN uniform
unless called there on business. put
that II they went into saloons in un'-
form they went at their own peril
Well, they're going in the same as
ever. Just what peril they expose
themselves to in so doing Is not ap-
parent. Certainly not to the wrath OF
the chief. Nor to the wrath OF the
mayor. both OF which officials. 90 lar
as their records show. see no'nins OF OF
scandal In the pfssence OF officers in
uniform lying up agAins; bar taking
a drink on = bibuicus companion when
not ION the house"
One needn't be a prude or Puritan
to insist that policemen on duty snonio
be exenplars In proper department
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
BEANS CHEESE AND HENS.
[Cedar RAPIDS Republican,

While you are boycotting the honor
able hen or rather the men who have
corhered the products Of the hens OF
last summer. don't forget the advice OF
the honorable secretary of agriculture
and eat cheese. And also the humble
bean. Dietary experts say that beans
contain as much nutriment az eggs and
at one ninth OF the cost. OF course the
humble bean that grows In the garden
does not put up her substances In as
neat package or in as delicious a NOR
sci as the hen. but the bean is there
with the real life sustaining stun.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
UNJUST TO A WOMAN OFFICIAL.
(DayenDort Democrat.l

Iowans have watched with Some In
terest what has looked like the per-
secutfon OF Mrs. Frank Dodson and
Jennie Steele Hue8le, former office
holders OF Polk county. Mrs. Doason
has just settled a dispute wit hthe Polk
county authorities by agreeing to pay
to the county $500 which she paid to
subordinates illegally, from a purely
techina1 standpoint. Des Moines pa
pers saw that II Polk county desires to
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
ROCKY PATHS"

tIowa City Republican,
In waterloo the school board have
arranged to have medical attention
given to the school children. The trou-
BILE has just began. The allopath's
don't want treatment by homeopaths
chiropractics. napropaths or Christian
scientists, and the lattre do not want
ailopa.hs, chiropractics, napropaths or
christian scientists. The chiropra cites
don't want allopaths. homeopaths, nap
ropaths, or Christian scientists. The
napropaths don't want allopaths, fom-
eopaths, chiropractics or Christian
scientists, and the latter do not want
allopatns, homeopaths, chiropractics or
napropaths, and taking 1t all in ali the
board is going to have some hard
, paths to travel.
GETTING CLOSE TO THE BOARD.
lDes Moines Capital1
It is time the state board Of educa-
ton had an office in some central To-
cation, accessible to the people who de-
sire to transact business with the
board. 1t Is understood conditions will
be better when the new secretary, Prof.
w. H. Gemmill, Of Carroll, takes the
reigns Jan. l and comes to Des Moines.
Just now the main office Of the board
is under the hat of one d. D. Murphy
OF Elkader. president OF the board.
The main office was recently transfer
red from wherever Senator J. II. Ire
win happened to be to where D. D. MUIR
ply happens to be. Murphy at ElkadeF
is about as accessible as the Black
Hills or the heart OF the Ozarks. Every
one will welcome Secretary Gemmill,
and hope that he will at all times
maintain an office at some central
point where he may at least be reach
ed by mail within q few days.
THE FRUITS OF CARELEaSNE0S.
[Des Moines Tribune.J
II the saloon petition II Aled today
the community wil a. once BE- brought
face to face with the careless and
Incompetent way in which our election
machinery is handled
For it will at once appear tina;
thousands Of names on the election
rolls are improperly entered.
1t Is well known among the circula-
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15

with some girls . clear complexion
is moro important than q clear con-
cience.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-12-15
A CASE FOR THE WHIPPING POST
Huntington Hawk Eye.1

At Quincy a young fellow has been
sent to the work house for 10l days for
attacking his mother with knife. The
court ought to have made it ten years
The cur ought to be put at work and
he ought to be allowed good pay and
the money ought to go to his mother.
There are a humber OF people who have
an attack approaching AT, every time
the whipping pest is mentioned. This
fellow ought to have a long sentence
in the pen and he ought to get an oc-
casional whipping after the most APP
proved style. What good will SEN
tence Of 1o4 days do a fellow so de-
prayed, SO lacking in human feelings.
II will take much more than hum
dred davs to make ANYTHING worth
while out of such material.