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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-02-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
BY CLYDE II. TANENER.
CUngressman.e elect

Washington, Feb. n.-Few per-
sons realize the far reaching import
ance of the fact that the United
States will soon have an income
tax on its statutes.
First of all it means that million
aires will, for the first time since
this nation has stood, bear fair
proportion of the burden of taxa.
ton.
1t Is estimated that one hundred
million dollars will be raised annu-
ally by taxing incomes. This will
mean that that amount OF taxation
is to be taken off of the things that
the people must have in order to
live and placed on wealth.
Under the system of protection as
played in this country, nearly every
penny OF the money necessary to
run the government, maintain the
army and navy, construct public
buildings, etc, is raised by taxing
the things the people eat, wear and
use. The only thing that protection
does not tax is wealth. A man with
a fortune of ten million dollars has
not been required to pay a single
penny Of tax to the national govern
ment. This seems almost unbeliev-
able, but II Is true. The man work
ing on the section for one dollar and
fifty cents per day, with family of
five chilcren, is at the present time
actually contributing more to run
the national government than the
millionaire bachelor, too proud to
marry and raise a family.
The United States of America is
practically the only one of the great
nations where such a condition ex-
lists. Nearly every first class ma
ton on earth levies either an in
come tax or an inheritance tax. We
have neither.
Why have we never been able to
place an income tax on The statute
books, is the question that natur-
ally arises Here is the answer.
High protectionists have prevented
the passage of an income tax law,
because they knew that the more
money the government collected
from taxing incomes, the less ex-
cuse there would be for a tariff tax.
To take protection away from the
tariff trusts is to interfere with their
monopolies. And low could the
tariff trusts gouge consumers with
out having monopolies OF American
markets.
The Cotton Tariff Robbery
The American people are paying
ANNUALLY about SSj,0JJ,OJd more for
their cotton goods than they ought
20 pay, because az thn iuiqr!taus
raync-Aldrich tariff law. The C3rd
Congress j. Preparing to interfere
with this robbery. There will be IA
big downward revision on all kinds
of cotton goods.
The cotton schedule of the Payne
Aldrich law carries an average duty
OF about 80 per cent. This means
that every article of cotton cloth
and every piece of cotton yarn that
comes through the custom house,
has 50 per cent added to It's foreign
price. And on cotton goods that
does not come through the custom
house, but is manufactured in this
country, the SO per cent is added lust
the same By the home manufacturer
When the tariff on cotton goods is
reduced one.third or one.half of the
present rates, this article so much
used by women and children, may
be had at prices more nearly repre-
senting the actual value of the
goods.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-02-13
Lawyer Gets There.

Ignorance of the law does not pre-
vent the losing lawyer from collect
ing his bill.--Puck.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
suHras. Blamed For vies.

lRecOrC- defalO.J
In it's bitter warfare against Votes
for Women" the National Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage now seeks
In place upon the suffragists large
part of the responsibility for fnde-
cent conditions" of the present day.
In a statement issued from the head
quarters Of the "antis" suffrasists are
invited to explain some Of the foi-
lowing phenomena:
'nrlae ordinary forms Of dancing have
become so degraded that frequently
when they are practiced in public, the
police take the place OF chaperons.
Women misled by the present baccha-
MALTA Of fashion are arrested and hailed
into court because of their Indecent
dress.
Magazines print material so salacl'
Gus that they escape only by a. hair's
breadth being barred from the United
States mails.
Theatrical managers produce pays
depicting houses into which neither de-
cent women nor self-respecting mel,
would ever go.
"a few years ago these things we're
the impossible" the statement cont.E-
ues. "Now they are the commonplace
But the suffregists. who claim the abil-
ity to reform all things by the bal.o..
may explain the shocking change IN
our customs and at the same time az
vance, a remedy. Assuming, however.
that the explanation will not be Inn
mediateiy Forthcoming. re venture %
ask the advocates Of. Votes for Voc
mem whether or not they are some
what responsible for the plight
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08

for . full twelve months school term,
hired a superintendent or principal for
the consolidated schools who gives his
time in the summer months mainly to
special agricultural work among the
boys. The pupils specialize, the prin-
c!pal assists. teaches and grades their
work and the students receive school
credits on their individual efforts and
experiments.
In short at Milford the school is to
teach precisely what the school boys
and girls are going to need the day
after their last day of school. At Mil
ford the purpose is 10 furnish equip
ment. When Sim Whites eldest boy
marries liver VERSIONS girl old man
White is going to put them on the 1So-
acre farm he owns down on the county
road. The VERSIONS are going to buy
lot Of household furniture and give
Hilda three cows. And the school is
going to add its share to the equip
ment by teaching young Sim all it can
ing things and why things should be
done so. The school is really doing
more for the pair than the old folks
are. The parents are giving the chill
dren a chance. The school and its
course is making sure that they shall
be equipped to make the most OF OPP
portunity.
Milford got on the map by doing the
thing it could Go. the thing at hand
That is where some communities fall
down. They dream of high conquest
Of great things TO do by and by and
neglect The obvious opportunity at
hand. Communities like men take time
10 grow. If they are kept healthy and
thrifty they grow strong. If under
nourished they shrink, If over fed they
grew big and soft. II isn't size that
counts most in individuals or COM
munities but sinew and nerve and
healthful conditions, plenty of exercise
and the days work in the morning with
the whistles and out of the way at 6
p m. a healthy, thrifty, wideawake
community or man is the best and
most useful.
That is what Milford is doing, clean
ing up the days work, doing the chores
around home, making the most of the
chance Of the day. On the map? Sure
". Such communities are always on
the map. They stick out Of it as the
farm with the good buildings and the
smooth stock and the NEEDLESS fence
corners sticks out Ct the general land
scape. The town and the farm that
keep things up will not fail to at
tract attention. And bigger and better
than that they are such good places to
live in.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
Topics of the Times

'.Murpny must go" but he will take
more hard cash with him than Old
Diaz shipped cut of Mexico.
It's long worm that never turns.
This time they returned from the rice
with the tiger inside and the smile
whlre it belongs.
y headline in the Nv York Times
read 'Adolph Busch Blfisd. Tw aty-
five Truck Loads Of Fog RS Valued al
800. 900 Sent as Tributes" That" re-
marks Golfers, is why III S cialist
vote increases" Perhaps: but isn't
a certain phase Of socialism consid-
erably. Indebted TO Ald-!ph and his
business activities?
One-third Of the entire mernb rship
Of the senate will end their terms a
little more than a year from now.
March 3. 1915. While the end of the
term is more than a year distant, their
campaigns for reelection will g
in the immediate future, and will be
determined b. the primaries and cleo
tons Of the coming months. OF the
thi-ty-two,more than one-haif are re-
pubiicans.
But one can't help wondering what
will happen if New Yo.ks tail hold
on the tiger slips.
Senator Penrose Is going to the Dis
nal Swamp for his vacation. That's
the next place TO Salt River.
Whoever wins, Blease or Tilnlan
nobody north will be glad or sorry.
Your Uncle Woodrow may turn oul
20 be some little dictator himself.
Fred White, like Truth, wher
crushed TO earth, bobs up smiling one
fall after another.
Golfers will appreciate this little
story OF the game, told by Presiden
Wilson: A proud owner Of links hac
General Grant as his guest SO that h,
nights how the great warrior how thu
game was played. Placing the ball il
the tee, he aimed carefully and swunl
! his drives, but missed The ball. Wipins
the pecspiration from his brow he trie,
again anG missed. Undaunted, blu
somewhat nervous. he tried once more
only to miss for the third time. TIL
haI f,1 oh oil
the time, and before his host coul,
make another attempt he said, withou
a smile: There's no doubt about it
that is fae exercises. But what il tn
little ball for?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
TERMS:
THE STORY OF ELolsE.

It sounds little like the title Of a
French novel but it isn't. Eloise is no
Camille but farmers daughter down
in Page county where that Fields girl
was superintendent OF schools several
years ago and started something agri
cultural among the school children.
Cloise did little farming on her own
hook last summer. She had her
father pillow and prepare tenth of an
acre. She planted it TO tomatoes and
first ripe ones on July % and took
thirty-two bushels off the patch UP to
Oct I. She sold six bushels TO the
grocerymen. put up sixty quarts OF
tomato butter, canned sixty quarts in
glass and filed $50 No. 5 tin cans.
Some of her canning went TO the state
fair where she Won first prize OF SIS
on best individul exhibit
Eloises expenses were: One-h
cost of a Gamer" she dividing that
cost with the family; $50 No. 8 cans.
forty hours of work, cost OF plowing
ground all amounting, she says, TO
$500 She has made the biggest kind
of wages for her work. That is the
story of Eloise Parsons, a little girl
down on a Page county, Iowa, farm.
The lesson is plain. Il it pays Eloise
Parsons to cultivate one tenth of an
acre intensively, can $50 to $50 worth
of winter supplies, IL bought at retail,
sell six bushels of tomatoes, pay all
her expenses and have a half interest
in a mechanical canning device left it
ought to have some effect on the high
cost of living were we who have back
lots to emulate the little Parsons girl.
That's all. Eloise's patch is no more
fertile than the garden lots all over
Marshalltown and other towns. Iowa
soil is very much the same in Page
and Marshall. The secret Of il is
Eioise.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
For sunday Readin
AN Sorts of Opinions
From Uncle Georges Sermon.


It Is common to listen to words OF
extravagan promise and to put faith
in them. Men boast of their reason
are all the time manifes.ing their
deficiency; they trust their senses and
take no counsel Of their spirits. Men
blame those who have deceived them
and they fail to make proper reckoning
with themselves. To trust appeal to
the flesh is taking long chance; but
appeal to the spirit offers the best hope
of justice.
Good faith is the safe anchor to
business and many men regard it in
that relation; but. having proved its
quality, they do not accept it for the
guide of their lives. They say they
must have their pleasure. that they
must dispoTt themselves, and that they
must lay aside the weight OF their
responsibilities They observe good
faith to conserve selfish purpose,
and not in honor Of truth or of God.
They seek to do themselves good, and
as to others ahey are not deeply con-
cerned They suggest the discovery OF
Paul at Athens. AS Paul stood IN the
midst of Mars hill Sc said: we
men OF Athens. I perceive that In all
things ye are too superstttious. For
as passed by, and beheld your de-
votions, found an altar with this
inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN
GOD" There are such affairs to this
day. They are found In the marts
Of trade. They are set up and guard :
ed by great corporations. The essen
TALLY of good faith Is all the time
| coming into better understanding; end
it il good faith that Is opening the
way for the subsection of all the
works Of men to the law OF the Lord.
Whom therefore ye ignorantly wor-
ship, him I declame unto you. the
successors Of Paul are none too many
The advancing life of the world II
toward clearer vision OF the truth
inviting faith. The light Of the woric
is with God, and the great office OF
faith Is to point and lead the way.
Faith that Is honest and true nour-
ishes the soul In health 1t II strength
to the hand. and in weakness It - the
comforter. Faith 10 the ftfu1e OF Me
widow and the fatherless; 1t 10 tne
keeper OF a great agency instituted
among men for mutual benefit, tol
ministrat.on to the wounded-for ths
lifting up. in some way and after som'
fashion. Of the mighty emblem OF tn
Cross.
i 30 We Of little faith"
Through faith We understand tina
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
NATURE TAXING.

| lCor. Des MoineS Register and LeaGer.]
When it is merely matter of differ
! ing on unimportant affairs, such as
our Mexican policy, never trouble you
with the intrusion of my own views
however nearly they may approach the
, ideal. / simply read your opinion. and
stick to my own. But against such
gross injustice as was perpetrated in
Your Sunday editorial entitled NO
vember.' l feel I must protest That
unfair and libelous attack upon one of
natures beautiful autumn moods must
not go unchallenged
If you had but come out t. our
neighborhood on Sunday, Nov. 2. you
would easily have been convinced Of
your errors, some of which I may go
so far as TO call nature taking" al
tho mere matters Of fact may some
times De overlooked when an author
would fam be poetic. The oak trees.
SO far from being stripped" of foliage
look like grea, bouquets Of red. tan and
| brown flowers. In fact, many of our
beautiful oaks retain large per cent
Of their leaves ali winter. The sky.
on Sunday. was as brightly blue and
warm as ever it was in October. AS TO
the "impetuous desolation.' l can not
soy, hCNSI having DcNc!C suCL PiS-
nomenon.
Now, the Hrst sentence In The sec
ond paragraph fairly startled me out Of
my usual Sunday conposure, which
even the colored supplement does not
ordinarily ruffle. "Haws lie red among
dull green grasses beneath the oak
boughs." Immediately I started on a
tour of Inspection: was greatly re-
lieved to find that nature ie not so
careless in nv meadow as in the edi-
tors subtle" atmosphere. The grass
vas green as emerald: the haws lay
red it's true but il was obviously an
parent' that they were under the
oak boushs" discnvered--what do you
think? You'n never guess-acorns ard
ak leaves. And DO You know that's
Just what expected. somehow in
spite If what gencra'y truthful editor
had said to the contrary
Please Mr. Editor take II all haok
went you? And about the wan CHEST
Of winter" too TIE spi-it OF wir'er
IS a round muddy cheerr old chan IKE
Santa Claus hinasalf: busterv scme-
times. but he makes yerr bIerd-if it's
red-leap in vow veins nahes you
walk brieklv. hold veur head high give
hearty greetings and he CAD re 'ife.
Nine 'rahs and tiger for November
the month Of cheer OF beautifIl oak
trees Of football ri winters glowing
spirit, of Thanfs giving.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
Protestant p.elin. in Germany.

Protestant Decline ~ 10rmshys
The protestant church in Germany
is in a discouraging state, according to
one Of its pastors Il know that vital
religion is ebbiag from among u.s., ne
declares, and every detail OF satis-
tics proves to me that We are reced-
ing" The name Of the writer, whose
words appear in the Christian Work
and Evangelist (New York;. Is not
given. but he Is described as "one OF
the best known protestant pastors IN
GERMANY" The editor. to draw atten-
ton to his reflections. blue tho they be.
pretixes a note to say that he Is one IN
whom everybody has greater con-
fidence"; that his words are always
needed" His sorrow over the decline
of professionalism is mare more Dill
ter, as he asserts by .he undouoteo
fact that ultramontanism Is growing
in our midst, and that the grave symp-
toms of decay or sts gnation-which
ever you like to call them-whtch az
feet US are not affecting Rome." He
continues with his comparative views
of the two churches:
Whether we turn we find visible
proof Of tn. activity and living growth
OF German Catholicism. A fortnight
ago at Metz in Lorraine, the clerical
ultra montanes held their annual con-
gress. and never before was there so
much enthusiasm displayed. or were
such glowing accounts rendered OF pro-
gress all along the line OF the church's
efforts. Prince and peasant, cardinal
and deacon. rich and poor. were alike
Allied with zeal and belief IN the
destiny OF their church wholly un-
known in protestant Germany. When
we turn to the outward and visible
signs Of progress, to numbers and re-
suits, what do we find? few details
will make clear the reasons which lie
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
Profanity in Magazine. and Plays.


The magazines we read are calcuiat-
ed to encourage a renewal of the dis
gushing and wicked habit OF swearing.
believes the editor Of the New York
Christian Advocate. He had been con-
graduating himself upon the almost
complete disappearance OF profane
language in this country, especially
among cultivated people" But as ne
himself had begun to be alarmed al
the frequent appearance of irreverent
and profane language in some OF the
magazines, he received letter from
a prominent Methodist minister
preaching in New Jersey. with some
emphatic comment On the same point
We give the letter as it appears IN
The editorial columns Of The Christian
Advocate.
Should a magazine swear to sell?
Do the people swallow it's contents
more readily II seasoned with pro-
fanity? Do oaths render it more taking
and impressive? We are familiar with
swearing magazines, because they all
do It, At least we are SO impressed be-
cause the September number OF the last
magazine we should have thought cap
able OF 1t, magazine that sells at more
than twice the price of most OF them
and LAYS claim to the highest literary
luality, contains the first part OF an
deliberately illustrated story which is
soaked with it. The article is twenty
one pages long and contains thirty pro-
fame expressions besides long list
Of 'blankety blanks, 'darns, 'deuces,'
and .thunders' And then it is written
by woman!
Swearing men, who lay any claim
to respectability. suppress their oaths
or choose their auditors, and swearing
, women, we trust, are few and far be-
tween. But a swearing magazine IN
sinuates itself into our homes ana
among our children under the guise OF
respectful ility protesting to be above
the use of slang and yet swearing like
a ganin or a pirate. Is this literary
lis this realism? Is this entertaining!
lis a magazine above the command
iment which says: Thou shalt mol
ttake the name Of the Lord thy God In
Twain; for the Lord will not hold him
Ieuiltless that taketh his name In vain
And should not parents be as careful
Ito exclude 1t from their homes as q
Swearing graphophone?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
WHY LEAVE THE FARM?
ERoono -Rep,lhIfcan


George Hoefie, young farmer who
lives near the Boone-Greene county
line. recently came to Boone and Sc
cured job on the railroad. He worked
a day or two and quit. returning to
the farm. He had enough Of 1t.
He surely had q good example to
follow, for his older brother, John. has
just bought new farm of 200 acres
near the ne-Greene county line,
paying therefor $175,o00 per acre, $685.
900 in all. He has a family OF ten
children, six boys and four girls. They
are all satisfied with life in the country.
The moral is that we need no longer
talk about the hardships OF farm life.
Farming is hard work there IL no
doubt. so Is anything else. especially
hard work with the brain which Is
underpaid. The owners Of land are the
coming barons Of this country. There
is not thing in the world that one
would better possess than good big
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-08
YHE LAYER UNDERSTANDING.

Berry, of the board Of control. is sat
isfed with the convict road labor ex-
pertinent at Ames. He wants more
of it and proposes TO parole the work
ers when they have shown willingness
to work and general fitness for parole
When Berry il satisfied sufficiently to
suggest parole the rest of US may
credit the so-called experiment with
100 per cent.
But it wasn't an experiment. Let us
deny that. 1t had been successfully
tried and proved by other states before
we tried 1t on. So far as that is con-
cerned there isn't a schoolna am in
Iowa who doesn't work on the theory
frmness first and kindness afIerward.
They know that nine children out Of
ten who have been had" are ready
after the disaster falls and their little
worlds crash about their ears, and
anxious to rehabilitate themselves by
better behavior and deserve another
chance. And this is as true Of the
greater number Of convicrs as OF chill
dren.
1t works over in Illinois. When
Joliet sent out its experimental road
gang in September the 1,400 men left
inside begged the chosen ones to make
good" Get the rest of us out doors
was the plea. And one Of the outdoor
gang expressed the feeling Of the forty
when he said, Wen just eat up that
work on Monday"
Just an incident from one Of the
Illinois news reports: A newspaper
photographer, hurrying into Dixon to
mail a batch of photograph left his
coat at Camp Hope. He had intended
to return, but did not. His coat lay
in an exposed place and burglar, who
had been sent up for fifteen years, took
it to Captain Keegan and handed it to
him remarking: Some fellow left his
perfectly good coat here, captain, and
think We had better take care of it
There's so many outsiders coming in
A watch and $40 bill were in the peck
cts.
1t works. Elementally Il must work
Human nature doesn't change muci
with time Men are alike in the long
run, very much alike. Cruelty nev
was the captain of reform. The way
to remake men is to go back so far a:
may be to the simple processes.
Kansas is trying a new plan
which is as old as the first primitiv'
educational processes. 1t is furnishing
20 all convicts in it's prisons who viii
Or may be induced to accept three line
OF vocational teaching, agriculture
engineering and home economies. Spe
ciffc phases of each are dealt with
such as soils, stock breeding, farm
blacksmithing, farm drainage; carpen
try and building, shop mechanical
rdawing, shop mathematics, gasolin
engines; cooking, sewing, home sani
tation.
With all it's complexity the problem
Of rearing children or reforming con
victs is simple. 1t is to do the bes
we can to instill hope, renew ambition
furnish equipment whereby an homes
living may be had.