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The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-10-25
Restricted immigration

There seems TO BE- two bills before
congress relating 70 immigration 10
our country. one of theso bills is
known a. the Ten Per Cent BIZ and
advocates the admission of immh
grants 20 the extcnt Of ten per ccat
of the people % any certain nation
nov residing IN this country.
The smooth hand Of the Jesuit is
plainly visible In the makeup OF
this bill and Il would DO our country
about as much good AZ a Jesuit would
do Heaven. The aim % restricting I'm.
migration is 20 prohibit mongrel peo-
pies from coming 10 as az a more
rapid rate than No can absorb them
with our own race. and such a bill
means the opening Of the food gates
10 Southern Europe and Western Asia
Tor the admission OF the most mongrel
peoples on the face OF the earth
The other bill Ia known a. II. r.
6osO or Senate s. s453 and IL almost
Identical with the bill Mr.. Taft vetoed,
as 10 wns vaeating the presidential
chair. 20 pay a last debt 20 the pope
OF Rome.
This bin contains the lltoracy clause
and other safeguards and there Is
an encouraging prospect OF this meas
ure passing and becoming a law. Last
year i.42T.2sT immigrants landed on
our shores. slx-sovenths OF whom were
from Southern Europe and Western
Asia.
Statistics show onethird OF this
vast host we're illiterate. Think Of
half a million OF human beings belnE
dumped on US who cannot read and
who have no conception OF the laws
OF our land. largely these people are
graduates In either Roman Catholl
cism or Greek Catholicism and they
come 20 swell the slum districts Of ouI
great cities. which means Just that
much dead weight In our onward march
% a more complete civilization. II
means that our efforts 20 make oui
country what Il ought 10 be will bC
Just that much moro difilcult. II may
mean more cathedrals and parochia
schools. but II also means n host ot
human beings whom We will not b,
able TO absorb in centuries. As we hav,
already said they are now so far mon
grelized that they will not mix with
Americans and become absorbed by
our nation.
There are many and mighty reasons
why we should check this promlscuoul
grasshopper immigration and the bill
referred 10 is the FIRST step In that al
rection. Every reader OF this pape
should Immediately write his congress
man urging him 10 use his influence {,
have this bill passed and thus protec
our land from the dregs OF foreign
lands.
Remember we will have all the Jes
uits In the land lobbying 70 defeat thl,
bill. America Is TO be "ALL CATHO
LIC." and this is one Of the means e
bring about this happy state. Le
every loyal American write a stronl
letter on this subject and there Il
little doubt OF the result.-Americar
Federation Of Patriotic Voters, Mime
apolis, MINI.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-10-25

A new rule regarding mixed mar.
rieges has been made known TO the
various churches in New Jersey. A
non-Catholic who wishes TO marry a
Catholic must receive instruction in
the Catholic faith for one month previ.
Gus TO marriage, the instructions to be
given no less than three times a week.
In this way Rome gets new converts,
but in her list Of converts which is
printed often TO ill space In the Rom
ish papers there Is never the least hint
given as to how she acquired these
new converts; never a word is men
ton that coercion in the form Of this
mixed marriage scheme was brought
to bear upon these victims TO popery.
In her last act Rome betrays more
cunning than pietyl
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-10-25
MENACE MAN a POET.

A railroad man. and friend Of The
Menace. seeing on different railroad
cars the statement, '9sead The Men.
ace" composed a ntSe piece OF his
own and started it Ogt on different
cars. It reads Ike this:
Read The Menace" N the cry.
on nat cars low. and box cars high,
So please, Mr.. Pope. cs not sigh.
You'll read The Menace by and by" /"
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-10-25
asIIent CharIIe's- Rise.

In the history OF Murphy the asser-
tion Is made that he, a graduate OF
'hc Gas-House gang" Is now worth
about $4,000, 600 and owns seven motor
cars. The historian dubs the Tammany
boss silent Charlie" and gives in de-
tail his gradual rise from the saloon
business and the management % two
baseball teams. TO the ownership Of
a large country estate at Good Ground
and a kennel OF bulldogs.
At one point the history reads:
Murphy gathered in a fourth saloon
I1o 1891 and. at the same time. acquired
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-10-25

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16

tax in Saskatoon that the buildings up.
on the land pay. This puts . premium
upon building or penalties the parasite
who holds land unimproved while the
growth of population gives him an I'M
earned increment Of value. 1t takes for
the maintenance of government toll
from values which the government and
the public have created. It is one OF
the things in Saskatoon which make
its bonds good according to the experts
who deal iii bonds. 1t makes taxes low
in Saskatoon for people who build
houses and people who Will bring with
them money to loan to others who will
build houses and start factories may
live in Saskatoon without paying taxes
upon the money. Saskatoon is young
and Saskatoon needs the money
Banks and railroads also are factors
in building a town but money puts
large emphasis upon the schools and
colleges. Special attention paid to the
education of its future citizens" argues
money in big black type upon the bond
brokers circular. This and not the
amount of revenue received from a
mulct saloon tax is given as one Of the
assets OF the town.
Money has no politics. no sentiment
no theories. Money wants things to
pay and upon the one subject of what
constitutes a good business risk money
usually knows what it is talking about.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16
THE DIAGNOSES.

The Evangelical Deaconess Home
and Hospital which is by way OF com
pletion in this city has issued state
ment as to the duties and opportun-
tiles OF the deaconess and call 10
young women to enter the work.
The deaconess 20 the Evangelical
denomination holds very similar po-
sition toward the church and the pub
lie as the various Catholic sisterhoods do
to that church and TO religious CHART
able endeavor. She passes q period Of
probation and undergoes a course OF
training before she is ordained a dea-
coness. The object OF the "Evangel-
ical Deaconess Society" organized by
members OF the German Evangelical
churches of this city and contiguous
towns and country is stated 10 be the
nursing and care of the sick, the poor.
and those who need loving christian
ministry. preparing young women for
efficient christian service, for larger
usefulness and nobler living in any
sphere of life" The deaconess, novice,
ordained, official. is the instrument for
the carrying out of these great pur-
poses.
Briefly stated the young woman who
self for life but for the time she feels
impelled TO serve the purposes OF the
society. She may sever her connection
by three months notice and may De
dismissed on similar notice. She may
if she chooses when she has com
pieted her probationary course. refuse
ordination as deaconess and become
private nurse or take such course
in life as may seem best TO her II
she chooses to remain as deaconess
the home is her home. But whether
she goes or stays she will remain 0,
depart with an equipn ent for nursing
for helpfulness or for motherhood that
should render her a highly efficient
woman.
In a. way 1t is missionary work Of
the finest kind. that missionary work
which sees present and immediate op-
portunity close by. which works TO the
relief Of emergent human need at hand
and not over seas, which is the essence
of human helpfuIness which is itsel.
the most effective dem onstral ton Of tbs
true christian spirit. 1t is service
such service as He wrought for the
sick and afflicted and the weary o.
oody and soul.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16

can count on the fingers of one mana
all who would be in favor OF naiu
roads. have met many farmers from
different parts of the state ana MI.
them invariably opposed to them. IL
my observations are fair representa-
ton of the farmers Of the state, ana !,
unfortunately we would have haro
roads your king boosters" would nave
to be very numerous If they buy out an
farmers who would sell for that rea-
son. am sure of one, and have hearo
others express themselves thus who
have lived where there were hard
reads and know what they mean
Give us we'll underdrained ronds and
kept slightly browning SO the water
can escape, then use the road oras
every Tune when needed, and we Will
have a road for all purposes. far SUI
perior to any hard road you can build,
and will not bankrupt any one.
If you really want to do something
for the benefit of the farmer, then boost
for inrerurbans instead Of hard roads.
Had we interurbans the farmer could
load his stock for market at home,
likewise his grain or any other farm
product regardless Of weather condi-
ton. likewise could make a trip to a
neighboring city or town at much less
expense and quicker and more salts
know of. The cost of the interurban
need not be as great as hard roads.
Very truly yours.
HENRY LUSE.
Liscomb, Iowa, Oct. 13. 1913.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16
axes Are Feared Rather Than
The Hard Surfaced Roads

70 over a million Of dollars to the coun-
ty and the entire cost 10 taxed up to the
lands in the districts 80 improved
Texas ia different from Iowa only In
that down there the farmers have seen
the roads and they vote the necessary
two thirds majorities in spite Of the
fact that their lands are worth scarcely
one fourth as much as Iowa lands.
FORGET THE SNOW.
Snow blockades in Iowa ere no argu-
ments against hard surfaced roads for
they are at their worst all too tempo
rary. Mud and ruts are what make
roads bad most of the time. With
proper engineering country pavements
will be just the same as city pave.
ments only longer and narrower.
AFRAID OF THE TAX BUT NOT
SCARED AT TAXES NOT ROADS.
AS to whether the farmers are in
the majority for or against hard sur
faced roads cuts no figure ~ to the
merits Of the road. Ten years ago nine
out of ten farmers hated IN automo-
bile so fiercely that candidates for Of
fee feared to own automobiles and
merchants soliciting farmer trade were
afraid to be seen in one. Now approx
imately half the farmers own autos.
If they are opposed to hard roads to-
day they will change their minds to-
morrow when they have seen the roads.
But they are not opposed to them II
they can be shown that the cost will
not be too great. 1t is the fear OF
taxes, not opposition to the hard road
that makes the argument. In Column
biana county. Ohio. this summer. MI.
F. r. Benedict inquired among the
farmers as to how they liked their
stone roads and the universal opinion
was that they all wanted a stone road
by their farms. Remember that II the
present road taxes in Marshall county
could be bonded for twenty years we
could pave every mile Of county road
which needs paving and we could
gravel all the rest of the county road
system with special paving tax
against lands nearby of $40 to $40 per
annum for each quarter section within
district. The farmer who is afraid
Of that much paving tax on $4,000
worth of land had better move to town
where his paving tax on single city
lot Will be as much.
THE MANY VS.. THE FEW.
This newspaper once boosted for an
interurban tax for one road three times
as great as would be necessary to put
a gravel or paved surface on every
main travelled road in the county but
times have changed. Today we would
prefer to serve all the people with hard
surfaced roads than few Of the peo-
pie with an interurban. Given the
paved or graveled road and every five
automobiles will bring to town as many
people as one interurban car and our
people would infinitely rather travel
by auto on paved roads than by troll
ley-Ed.1
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16
Seeing 10 Believing.

tMr. Leise's experience with hard
surfaced roads in Indiana must have
been with an old fashioned macadam
on poorly drained swamp land or he
would not have found the water soft
en;ng it up from the bottom. Macadam
has been discarded by the modern road
engineer and practically zone Of it is
now approved. The old macadam roads
are being resurfaced with asphalt or
concrete Furthermore if Mr.. Leise had
seen this road either in Ohio or Illi-
nois or in other parts of Indiana he
would have found a fine dirt road
alongside of the stone road for dry
weather travel and the objections he
mentioned would not apply for dirt
road in dry weather is unquestionaoiy
the best of all roads if well dragged.
In the spring thaw. however. the
water which he mentions under the
stone road in Indiana would have made
dirt road there an impossible
swamp.
WHERE TEXAS DIFFERS.
Mr.. Leise would not find building
roads in Texas SO much different If he
understood it better. In Texas spe-
cial road Improvement districts are
created BY petition and special cleo
ton. Forty year county road bonds are
issued averaging from half million
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16

Editor Times Republican:-1n your
reply to an article written by j. l..
Rails Of Liscomb in Oct 10th issue OF
Times-Republican. If you will kindly
give me space I would like to make
reply.
l have spent several winters in Indt.
ana where all roads are hard surfaeea
and much prefer our Iowa roacs as
they are to the hard roads of Indiana
for many reasons. When the ground
has been frozen and the frost is COINS
out, the users Of these roads are Inn
tied to load of 1000 pounds. for the
reason that the soil beneath the hard
surface is soft and heavy load cuts
thru the hard surface making deep
holes. many of which l have seen hue
deep where the travel was somewhat
heavy. All light rigs such as buggies
and carriages must have rubber tires,
for the noise of steel tires on the hard
surface Is very annoying. Another
thing all horses must be kept shod. and
many evil results follow this practice.
and from the travel on the hard sur
faced roads. There is no small amount
of expense in keeping the horses shod,
and for two sets of rubber tires each
year for every light vehicle used.
Building hard roads in Texas. and In
Iowa is altogether different, and there
can be no fair comparison. Texas de-
rived the benefit from the sale Of her
land to the original purchasers. While
Iowa did not but this money went to
the government. Texas has been and
is still using money thus obtained for
the Improvement of her roads, conse-
quently taxation for the building OF
roads in Texas would be light, while
here they would become an excessive
hardship.
You say that the country roads could
be opened to traffic inside of three
hours after any snow storm. You per-
haps are not acquainted from actual
experience of clearing our roads after
snow storm. l have seen gang OF
men start on a drift six feet deep and
try to open the road for traffic. but the
only ones who passed thru were the
men with the scoops. for when they
got thru to one end the other was filled.
When the snow is deep il IS Impossible
to keep the roads clear of snow, but it
must be allowed TO become packed
gradually until the deep snow can be
driven over. Hard roads beneath snow
does no good.
Comparing paved streets in Mar
shalitown to country roads is no fair
comparison, for the streets are pro-
tected by the buildings and trees so
that the snow drifts but very little.
You say that many farmers are de-
mand.rg hard roads. For every farmer
who is in favor OF hard roads there are
ten who are opposed to them. I AMI
acquainted personally with every
farmer in this township and know his
position in regard to this question, and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16

popular luster Of his glory early.
spotted in places. Glory fades like the
Leaf. And he may console himself
with the thought that while Leonidas
and his three hundred are on the
names Of every school boy after the
lapse of thousands of years, nobody
could name offhand a member of the
Spartan senate
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16
Columbus.

Before him lay the gray Azores,
Behind, the Gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost Of shores:
Before him only shoreless seas.
The good mate said. Now must we
pray
For 10! the very stars are gone.
Brave Admir- speak: VIVA. shall I SAW
Why say: Sail on; sail on! and on!'
My men grow mutinous day by day:
Ny men grow ghastly. wan ana
weak
The stout mate thought Of home: q
spray
OF salt wave washed his swarthy
cheek.
What shall l say. brave Admir-. say,
If we sieht naught but seas at
dawn? Il
why you shall say at break Of day:
Sail on! sail on! and on! and on!'
They sailed and sailed as wind might
blow,
Until at last, the blanched mate said:
Why now. not even God would know
Should and all my men fail dead.
These very winds forget their way,
For God from these dread seas is
gone.
Now speak brave Admir-, speak ana
say
He said: Sail on! sail en-! and ONT
"They sailed. They sailed. Then spaks
the mate.
This mad sea shows Its teeth to-
night. < =
He curls his lips. he lies In wait.
He lifts his teeth as II to bite!
Brave Admir-, say but one good word.
What shall We do when hope 10
gomez
The words leaped like leapins sword:
sail on! sail on! sail on! and on.'
Then pale ana worn. lie paced the
!. deck,
And peered thru darkness. All, that
night
| OF ali dark nights! And then speck--
A light! A light! AT last. light!
It grew. A stariit hng unfuried!
It grew to be Times burst Of dawn.
He gained q world. He gave that world
Its srandest lesson. On: Sail on ..
joaquin Miller.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16
MONEY TALKS ABOUT SASKATOON.

Money talks and likewise money has
very little sentiment in rs philosophy.
Money has but one ideal and that is 10
make things pay. Thus, With a full I'M
Outstanding OF moneys purpose and
viewpoint a circular sent cut by firm
Of bond brokers today advertising
municipal bonds for sale Of the city Of
Saskatoon, Canada will be of general
interest. These bonds are offered at 4
price to net 5ss per cent interest and
the money is TO be used in building
water works extensions, an electric
light plant, sewers. etc.
Now note the points of merit about
the city Of Saskatoon which the bond
house puts forth TO recommend this
city as good risk to investors OF
money:
Only taxpayers vote on city affairs.
No party politics in local govern
ment.
All officers except mayor are ap-
pointive and ciItl service protects their
places.
Tax valuations are figured at full
value on real estate, at ore-fourth on
| Improvements and no personal taxes
are levied.
| The levy for both city and school
purposes is 10 mills whereas in Mar
shalltown it is IS mills.
Manufacturing is growing. Thirty
seven passenger trains daily, sixteen
banks. state university, colleges ane
| fine public schools.
| These are the things which go tt
make Saskatoon q good risk for In.
vestors. Not a word is said as to thu
number of saloons in the town for evi-
IDENTIFY the bond house considers "a.
looms more of a liability than an asse
and saloons in Canada are confined Il
bars in hotels, too.
But note that an approximation o
a single fand tax is endorsed by tn,
money changers as the first asset I,
advertise. Land pays four times tn,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16
TO SECURE GOOD ROADS.
LIowa City Citizen.1


Along the T-anscontinental route
thru Iowa, now a part of the Lin
coin highway. a meeting is to be held
this month on the same day in every
town to consider the best way OF pro-
noting the interest of the road. In
nearly every county commercial clubs
and county supervisors are co-operat-
ing in raising money to improve the
route. Private individuals are making
generous donations for the cost OF
making and advertising the highway
from end to end. The object Is to keep
the Lincoln highway in the public
mind.
When the Iowa City Commercial
Club committee announced river to
river road day last week, advertising 1t
extensively in the newspapers, one Inn
portant result was that practically
every road superintendent. along the
route had It well dragged when that
day arrived. something that has not
happened before this season. The Iowa
City enthusiasts did not secure 80
large a party as they wanted. but they
painted the poles from one side OF the
county to the other. and did a consid-
cradle amount Of repair work in addi-
ton.
These facts are cited to show the
value Of enthusiasm in securing good
roads It IS worth much to the
movement to have something doing
When II is impressed on the public
that many are interested. certain
portion Of the public may be counted
on to take . hand and help the sood
work along.
! Enthusiasm viii not build roads. but
enthusiasm will take hold OF the men
who do build roads. You may NOT Dc
able to do actual road work, but yot
pay your taxes for It and you car
get more for your money II you vii
add to the community stock OF enthust'
asm for good roads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16
HERO HoBs0N's MISTAKE.

Congressman Hobson has gained
nothing ana appears TO have lost
ground by his assault upon Congress
man Underwood. Mr.. Hobson seems
to have descended TO campaign meth
DDS calculated to further his own can
to ernbarrass his rivals chances How
his attempt will be received in Ala
jana is nioTe or less pToblenat! teal
but speaking for the country in gen
eraT Hobson made bad break and
one which will rebound to MS discredit
Hobson seems to have pulled off" a
campaign speech under circumstances
where such speech is of manifest i'm
propriety.
Probably Mr.. Hobson believed HIM
self justified in his bald assertions
against Underwood. Those who have
known Hobson well will i.cline TO this
view, for Hobson is a Thoroughbred
sort, clean in private life, a desperate
fighter who means to fight fair. Hob
SUI As one Ol tilOSS men VINO nave
hobbies and whose hobbies are in their
own minds veritable war chargers. He
is not a great man, but a very brave
and sincere and clean man, a type of
the best that military and naval ser
vice develops. He Is Of the kind that
take Merrimacs into bottle neck pas
sages and sink them under the fire OF
the enemy's guns, the kind of man who
leads forlorn hopes and leads then
with smile under the stress of patri-
otism and duty and the impulse of &
sublime courage, but he is not states.
man, and rather of the class who &C
under impulse more than calculation
This seems to have been one Of tn,
instances when he sought to bottle VI
the Underwood candidacy for the sen
ate by a desperate attack and appear
to have failed very much as that othe1
daring blow failed at Santiago. Lik
Csrvsra, Underwood came out and tn
prospective fortunes Of the fight ar
not especially favorable to Hobson
II this shall be the public end 0
( Hobson he can congratulate himsel
that he has held his place as hero an,
! In politics longer than other feroe
50 The Spanish war. Dewey lost tn