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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
The WAGES OF Sin.

| BY W. j. Burtscher: All the world
is interested In the subject OF wages.
! We all want what ia coming to us for
something we have done for some
body-our wages. The man who does
right anticipates receiving his wages
with pleasure. The man who does
wrong tries to forget that there Is a
payday coming.
The Bible has number OF things
to say about wages. First OF all, we
are to understand that the iaborer is
entitled to his wages. The OK Is not
to be muzzled while thrashing the
corn, because the wages OF the OK
consist OF what he eats, and he is
entitled 20 that while he Is working
and more while he is resting.
The laborer Is worthy OF his wages.
Jesus said that. 1t is true today that
man is worth what he gets. II he
gets q dollar a day, It mus. be be-
cause he is worth but that; If he gets
ten, you may be sure It is because he
is worth that much to the man or
corporation that pays it.
Now, 1t is also true that the sin
worker--the man who does wrong-fs
entitled to his wages He is worthy
Of what he gets. What he does to
society and to the Kingdom OF God
makes him worthy of the wages that
are his-Death!
We further read In the Book that
wages must be paid promptly. They
are not to be withheld even over
night. The wages Of sin are paid that
very day. Death is universal to man.
kind The saint dies as well as the
sinner. But the death referred to in
the text is more than mere separation
OF spirit from body. It is the death
of something now-the continual dy-
ing Of some virtue the sin-worker pos
sesses.
The man who works for the wages
of sin is paid promptly In death OF
conscience. His conscience gradually
dies off. He is paid promptly. each
day. week, month. year. decade, In
death of virtue, contentment, godli-
ness, love, puri.y-indeed. all of the
christian graces. They die and drop
off like dead leaves on a tree. After
"a while there is nothing left but the
bare trunk-a truly dead man.
The Bible goes even so far as to
enjoin US to be content with our
wages. The worker has no kick
coming. He knows what he is work
ing for. Let him be content But il
he is not satisfied with the wages.
ah, he can at any moment resign, quit
on the spot, and go to work where
the wages will be the very opposite
life-and he will then be happy and
content.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19

So confident is former Representa-
tive James Kennedy, of Youngstown,
Ohio, that the Republican party will
come back to power two years hence
that he is seriously inclined to enter
the race for congress again. "The Re.
publican party does not need reorgan-
ling, said Mr.. Kennedy. ut has
now a splendid organization. There
never was party better organized
The Republican national committee is
the organization of the Republican
party; and where could a better or.
ganization be found? 1t is fine body
of remarkably able men. or course,
we lost in the last election, but it was
merely temporary eclipse. We shall
be back again two years from now. |
am seriously thinking of seeking the
nomination in my district. believe
can win, but even If should be de.
feated should consider 1t an honor
to be the candidate OF the party
again
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
kEokuk IN cLARkE's MESSAGE.

| Last Thursday George w. Clarke
was inaugurated governor OF the
state OF Iowa and delivered his inaug
ural address. There is nothing unus.
ual in such procedure. The i'm
usual feature connected with the In.
agural address was that specific men.
ton was made of the great engineer
ing feat now an almost accomplished
fact at Keokuk. The governor knew
about the mighty work before he re-
Gently visited the city in connection
with the coming celebration OF the
water power completion and after a
personal inspection he was deeply i'm.
pressed with the mighty results such
an enterprise would have on the com
mercial future Of the Mississippi val
ley. The governors remarks con
corning the Keokuk project are most
aptly put as follows.
Down yonder at Keokuk where
her civilization frat began TO take
root 10 nearing completion one Of
the greatest triupmhs Of enain.
eering which human history has
yet recorded. The great Father Of
Waters which for unmeasured
ages has wasted his vast energy
as he swept on to the sea, has
been harnessed and his power
captured for the lighting and heat.
ing of cities, for giving power to
manufacturing plants, for the
WhlrIing of unnumbered splnd,es,
the grinding of tho grains Of the
valley and the rapid transporta-
ton Of the people. Manufacturing
in Iowa will receive a great I'M
petus there.
When the Keokuk committee called
on Governor Clarke in Des Moines to
ask him to attend meeting in Keo-
kuk with Governor-elect Dunno and
Governor-elect Major. Hazen /. Saw
yer, chairman of the committee, re-
quested the governor to make some
reference in his inaugural message
to the water power plant, believing 1t
was of such extensive Importance that
it deserved special mention. That
Governor Clarke agreed with him is
fully attested in the utterances made
by the chief executive of the state in
his first inaugural remarks. And
thus Keokuk and the state of Iowa
and the Mississippi valley is brought
further attention by Governor Clarke's
reference to the dam and that 1t will
bring good fruit there is no doubt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
OUR REAL CENTRAL RANK.

II would be difficult, from the eco.
nomic standpoint, to engraft such an
institution as central bank onto our
banking system, already half a cen
fury old. And it is highly doubtful
whether the political temper OF the
American people would permit the
formal establishment of such an insti-
tuition. In view of these facts, the
testimony of A. Barton Hepburn, pres,
1dent of the Chamber of Commerce OF
the state of New York, delivered the
other day before the Glass sub-com.
mittee of the banking and currency
committee, is startling.
The United States treasury is thu
greatest central bank of deposit il
the world today" said Mr.. Hepburn
II issues circulating notes. 1t issue.
three-quarters of a billion notes t.
banks throughout the country. Othe
functions of the treasury are like
wise of a banking character. All tn,
evils of which Jackson compliance
are today in operation"
Mr.. Hepburn speaks as one havin
authority. 1t is undoubtedly tru
that we have the evils of a centra
bank without its benefits. There mus
be some reform eof banking legisla
ton wlsSil will provide rediscoun
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
PUBLIC OPINION
o 80 . 90 90 . 90.
c p. cory,s Reply.
no the EDITOR OF nae Gate City:

10 the Editor OF The Gate City
notice in your issue of the 18th,
instant, a communication PERTAINING
to the petition Of the tax payers and
resident citizens contiguous to the
new river road, filed with the board
of supervisors. The first knowledge
had of this petition was when 1t
was presented to me for signature
and in the aforesaid communication
was the following referring to me:
He was paid for the right of way,
hence he has no grounds on which to
base a complaint as to manner OF
construction or change or breach of
representation as to character OF
road" But the facts are these. When
representatives OF the water power
tried TO obtain an option from me, 1
offered to give what land they reqHir-
ed. providing that new river road
was built in place OF the old one,
which would be overlooked, but they
said that they could not agree for the
Water Power company to build a new
ROAD, SO the matter remained unset
tied for many months until the chief
representatives came and they also at
first refused to agree to build the
new road, but finally decided to build
it, and said that they did not want
to take the land for the overflow and
the railroad right of way, amounting
to T.61-100 acres, without paying some
thing and mentioned $4,000 and /
told them that would not criticise
the amount, since | was willing 10
give them the land, although they
were paying our neighbors more than
double as much per acre as they were
giving me. And then | agreed to
| give them the necessary land for the
new river road, which did, and was
never paid penny for it, for that
new road was the very thing had
been contending for. and I was glad
| to give the land to build 1t on. And
here is another incorrect statement
in that communication. "AIl the way
across Cory's land fet all the Water
Power company paid for the acre II
the old wagon road as well as the
area included in the right of way fol
the Burlington railroad" But our ab
stract OF title and option and deed tt
Z the water power all clearly show tha
my land begins 80 feet west of thu
middle of the old railroad tract, which
is about the middle OF the old rive
road, and the water power paid othe
parties s4,500.00 for about as mucl
land, including the railroad right-of
way east of my line, as they obtaine,
2 from me-
The record that SO far as / am cor
: cerned, January 9th, 1910 The or
ton gave for right-of-way specific
t there should be new river roa
from highway in Keekuk to Sar
g dusky BY subdivision S. section 4
/ OF the code Of 1907, road" include
a bridges, county road, common roat
e state road. But the board of supe,
n yisors, in the spirit OF fairness. save
{ the Water Power company about SIS
II oo0.GD by agreeing to build til
bridges, On the representation OF In
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19

build first class road" Before my
| option Was signed, in answer 70 my
careful inquiries as to the kind OF
road they would build was assured
! by the chief authority that they would
build a grand boulevard. And an
/ article appeared in The Gate City OF
December /, 1911, under a double
column heading Magnificent boule-
ward Will be constructed" And such
expressions as the following were
contained in the article, "A boulevard
scarcely equalled in the middle west.
except by the lake shore drive OF
Chicago. - The material will be the
best OF macadani, which Keokuk street
experience has shown to be the best
road method for this limestone re-
gion. The road will be 40 feet wide
its entire length
Now such flowery representations
as the above, in the public press, and
also repeatedly told. got the residents
/ and tax payers of Jackson and Mont
rose townships to expecting broad
macadamized boulevard, SO when they
heard that the road would be only 20
feet wide and II feet Of macadam, m
accordance with the blue print In the
hands OF the board Of supervisors with
the following head lines and specifi-
cations:
Iowa shore road relocation, sum
mary of quantities and estimated cost
for first class wagon road. Missis-
sippi River Power company, 30 feet
road, IL feet of macadam, Hugh L.
Cooper, chief engineer, Nov, 1911"
and stamped as follows mississippi
River Power company. this print
made Nov. %, 1911 They, the resi-
dents and taxpayers, were somewhat
disappointed, but made no objections
until after they heard something
about "a feather edge" and prosper
to only s or IL feet, then they petit
toned the board of supervisors that
the road be made with II feet prop
erly maeadamed, SO as to make "a
frs. class road" and began their
petition as follows: I'VE the under
signed citizens and tax payers or
Jackson township. outside, Lee coun.
ty, Iowa" And owners of land abut-
ting and contiguous to the new boule-
ward Or roadway, etc"
Now | see no reason why these
citizens and tax payers of Montrose
and Jackson townships should not
petition, just as well as those abutting
on the new road, especially when you
consider that the majority of them
constantly use the road to travel back
and forth between their homes and
Keokuk. and are taxed to maintain
this road.
The signed contract between the
Water Power company and the super
visors, under date Of November 80,
1911, also specifies at feet of ma
cadam,'' but on the blue print with it
is where the feather edge comes in
When I consider the wonderful
magnitude and apparent longevity of
the dam and power plant, for they
certainly have the appearance OF be-
ing built SO that they will last fer
the Water Power company would be
ambitions to make the macadam on
this new river road II feet wide anu
Of suficient depth that 1t will not
only be seryicable but help to hold
the road bed. 80 that it will be
magnificent boulevard" for many
years to come.
Very truly yours,
c. P. CORY.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
FORTY TO GRADUATE
FROM GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Exercises VIII be Given Next Friday
When Students Go Into the
High School.

The final examinations now being
held will determine whether or not
the entire graduating class at the
grammar school will 60 into the high
school next Friday. There are about
forty in the class.
On Friday morning at ten o'clock
exercises will be held at which Rev.
Geo. G. williams will deliver a short
address, Dr. A. B. Hughes, president
of the school board will present tna
certificates. and Superintendent Aid.
rich will make short talk.
In the evening at the George Wash
ington school the cantata OF Ruth
will be given The part of Ruth will
be taken by Jeanette School, that of
Naomi by Dorothy Remand, Orpha by
Edith DeYoung and Boaz by George
Hoffman.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
THE oPriMlsr.

THE OPTiMIST.
4 What great big, beautiful world this
With its gown Of green all fringed
with flowers
Bathed in a flood OF the SUMS pure
gold.
And Gained to sleep by the nights
still hours
Rich with all that man can crave
From the first earth-kiss to the rest
full grave!
What great big. beautiful life this
With It's countless chances to help
and cheer;
With the power it gives to think and
Will;
TO love and learn and conquer fear:
Through honest work to grandly rise
From the lowly earth to the yaulted
skies!
What a great big beautiful chance
In the life of the world to play
some part;
To answer it's needs with willing
hands
Or odd to its cheer with gladstone
heart
This chance is yours, If only YOU
DO well the taks you have to do.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19

The announcement that the Masonic
fraternities will build 500, 900 home
on Blondeau street is directing atten-
ton to that section as one of the com
ing business localities of the city,
That Blondeau Is favorably located
for the development of retail section
is apparent and with the building OF
the new Masonic temple, the Y. w. C.
A. and the already erected new Elks
home Blondeau is demonstrating it's
commercial Importance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
HOUSING CONDITIONS.

Inc problem OF improving the
health OF the low-wage portion of the
population of large cities by securing
better housing conditions is one that
is receiving earnest attention. In con-
nection with a housing exhibition to
be held in Chicago in March, 1913,
the City Club of Chicago has prepar-
ed a program of prize competition
for scheme of development for a
theoretical quarter-sec of land
within the limits of the city of Chi
caga. This scheme contemplates the
development of an open section of
land with houses instead OF apartment
structures. and the conditions OF the
competition require the submission of
plans showing the s.reets proposed to
be laid out in respect to direction,
width. gardens, trees, size and ar
rangement of lots. and the location OF
dwellings on them, the provision OF
public open spaces other than streets,
and the designation of spaces for
business and for recreational, educa-
tional, religious, administrative and
other social requirements The plans
are to provide for population not
greater than 1880 families for the
auarter-section. Competitors are to
be furnished by the City Club with
literature concerning similar projects
and the housing Of wage-earners in
this and other countries, and an ef-
fort will be made to secure through
this competition the best practical
plans for the housing OF the working
portion OF the community, conforming
TO modern standards of hygiene and
sanitation without involving so large
an investment as to require excessive
| rentals. The plan involves the deyel-
! opment of tract eight miles from
! the business center OF the city, re-
curing forty-fiye minutes of trans
1 portation. The tendency Of the moo
ern large industrial plants in cities is
and should be to locate In the out
skirts where land values and rentals
are lower and where more space can
be utilized, and 1t would seem to be
desirablssin this scheme Of housing
to encourage the location of such pro.
jects in the vicinity Of industrial
plants so that the time and expense
of long transportation would not be
required and the undesirable conges
!. ton OF the central portions of the
: city might be relieved, to the i'm
, mensc hygienic advantage of the PEG
pie. One Of the vices OF condition.
I in all large cities is the concentration
> Of business and industries in com
paratively small space This is par
Y ticularly true OF Chicago and is fost
cred by defective transportation ar
e rangemen.s which inhibit, or at leas
n do not encourage, the wider distribu
|. ton of establishments in which larg
8 numbers of people are employed. Tn
0 journal of the American Medical As
r sociation thinks the scheme of tn
= City club is a good one and that
Q VIII no doubt be productive of man
d new and practical ideas concernin
the housing problem. What is enua
g ~ important, 1t will call the attentio
Ie of wider circle of the people to tn
al fact tina. there is housing probley
81 and that it has an extremely impo
a. tant bearing on the health and we
u fare OF the community.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
The hunters license brings to the
state treasury $125.ooo year.

Hungry Democrats have again been
disappointed The house has refused
to restore to the appointive lists the
follrth-ciass postofices recently placed
Under civil service by President Taft.
By the same action assistant post.
masters and clerks in first and second
class Offices remain in the civil lists.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19

market for commercial paper, some
Capitalization of reserves, and Cos
operative agency to act as fiscal
agent for the government, doing
away with our present treasury cen
trail bank.
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-05-24
VEERkAMP VS.. TUDOR

On Thursday the case of j. p,
Veerkamp vs. Milton D. Tudor
was tried before the county court.
This suit grew out of Mr.. Veer-
kamp's connection as attorney for
Tudor in his land suit against
Frank Bennington of Center and
James Bryan of Oklahoma, and
involved practically the same fea-
lures as the Thomas s. Baldwin
land suit recently tried in Colo
RADIO and Missouri.
Jury was waived and the case
tried by the court, resulting in a
verdict for Veerkamp in the sum
of 1910 and costs.
j. |. Palmer and Harry Howard
appeared for defendant and O. E.
Linderholm and j. p. Veerkamp
for plaintiff.
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-05-24
FOREST SERVICE INVITES
FOREIGN BIDS

The government Forest Service
recently purchased quite large
bill of groceries from a Pueblo
firm in preference to giving the
business to a local house. We
understand that the Pueblo bid
was SO under the lowest bid
submitted by Monte Vista firms.
The Service officials probably
consider that it is business to buy
where they can get goods the
cheapest, but it seems unfortun-
ate that with the large Wholesale
and retail department stores in
the valley it becomes necessary to
solicit bids from outside firms. 1t
is generally considered good bust
ness policy to favor the territory
from which revenue is derived
but under the Forest Service
theoretical policy almost any kind
of procedure way be expected.
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-05-24
BOY DIES FROM POISONING

William, the three-year-old son
OF Chris Settlers, ate the heads of
almost half box of matches Tues
day afternoon. The parents were
not alarmed, as no violent symp-
IONS appeared, and did not call a
physician until the following day.
Ahlldotes were administered, but
Tue poison had become 30 thor
Oushly absorbed that they failed
10 prevent death, which occurred
early Thursday morning. Funeral
services We're held Friday at 1000
d H. at the family home and inter-
~eh' was made at the Monte Vista
cemetery.
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-05-24
FRED WARSHAUER KILLED
Well Known Stockman Found With
Bullet Wound in Temple
HAD Been IN POOR HEAL LTH...SUCIDE BEL IEvFD

Last Saturday evening the dead
body of Fred Warshauer of Anto-
nito was found in machinery
building on one Of his farms. His
death was caused by a bullet
which entered the right temple
and came out at the base of the
skull. either an accidental shot or
at the hand of person or persons
unknown at the present time, al
though the theory of suicide is
generally accepted.
Fred Warshauer was perhaps
the most widely known man in the
Valley and his death has brought
great sorrow to his hundreds of
friends. Great crowds attended
the funeral which was held Tues
day morning at the family home.
A delegation of Masons, of which
order deceased was a mber, left
Monte Vista early to take the
special train from Alamosa which
carried three coaches from that
place.
The funeral was one of the
most impressive ever witnessed by
those who attended. The elegant
mahogany casket with silver
mountings, which was too large
for the hearse, was mounted high
upon the seats of an automobile
and was surmounted by the floral
offerings. A most touching Incl
dent occurred as the body lay in
state in the family home which
showed that Fred Warshauer was
loved equally we'll by the poor and
Iowly The Mexicans, old and
poor and crippled, with the tears
streaming down their faces, walked
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-05-24
TOO MUCH WATER

At the risk of giving the Ter
race reservoir the reputation of
having too much water in it, the
county commissioners instructed
the county attorney, at their meet
ing last Monday, to proceed at
once to remove some of the water.
But thereby hangs tale. When
the reservoir people began build
ing their system they secured per-
mission from the county commits
sioners to submerge county road
on condition that they build an
other as good. A road as good as
the one the county built meant an
expenditure of many thousand dol
lars, and to avoid this expense the
reservoir company built switch
back" road, which was condemned
by the commissioners as both dan
gerous and too rugged to be prac-
tical. The company was notified
to build road according to agree
ment, and Monday, when tn cir at
torney, George Corlett of Monte
Vista, appeared before the board
to plead the inability, because of
poverty, of his company, he lost
his patience and berated the COM
missioners and accused them of
nnfair motives. AS the commits
sioners of Conejos county will
stand no personal abuse except
from their wives, they promptly
instructed the attorney to proceed
to lower the water in the old reser-
voir to within the bounds of the
old county road.-Antonito Led
ger.
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-05-24
STOW MERCANTILE
COMPANY BRANCHESOUT

The Stow Mercantile company
has purchased the Kramer store on
Main street at Alamosa and will
open for business this Saturday
with full stock of dry goods,
boots and shoes, and later will put
in a stock of groceries
Carl B. Stow will take charge of
the Alamosa store for the present,
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-05-24
AkERS COMPANY GETS
RAILROAD CONTRACT

The Akers Lumber company of
Monte Vista has been awarded the
contract for furnishing the lumb Der
for the San Luis Central railroad.
This will amount to some 10000
board feet and includes material
for culverts and bridges. Mexican
pine is specified.
This contract is exclusive of the
river bridge and fence posts for
the right of way.
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-05-24
NEWSPAPER AT PLATORO

Among the first to go into Plat
orc is newspaper. E. p, McVey
went out Wednesday and made an
investigation and decided to move
the Antonito Record into the new
camp at once. Mr.. McVey re-
Gently took the Record foreclosure
and will move it to Platoro without
missing an issue.-Ledger.