Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-27
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J was an Iowa soldier in the Philippines
who wrote the star song OF the mill
! tary order. but this proves not to be
| right. A private, Bruener. from Iowa
! did write a number OF the songs that
were sung by the Carabao boys in the
Philippines: but 1t was a naval officer
! who wrote
Damn. damn. damn the Filipinos. cross
| eyed kaklack ladrones;
Underneath the starry flag, civilize
(, them with krag,
! And return US to our own beloved
! homes.
| But the boys about Des Moines who
are members Of the Carabao society say
| it was sung in Manila before 1902 and
! dates back at least two years earlier.
They also say, and can prove it, that
| the song has been SO thoroughly
changed and civilized since 1T was
taken to Washington that its early
friends would hardly recognize it. Some
of the most touching paragraphs evil
| IDENTIFY never reached President Wilson.
or at least were not printed in the
eastern papers.
The song book which contains the
various songs of the Carabaos has been
made use of in Des Moines frequently
and several copies have long been
known here.
It is declared. also, that suppression
OF these songs IS not original in Wash
ington. General Otis started it. He
ordered the suppression of one song
which seemed to raise doubt as TO
whether Otis or Aguinaldo was boss OF
the Philippines. That aroused his ire
and he forbade anyone singing it in
Manila.
The events at Washington. so it is
declared, will have the effect of reviv-
ing interest in the order OF the Cara bao
and the local society will probably be
got together again.
Incidental to the effort made TO con-
vince Iowa people that the legislature
intended that Iowa should have land
not needed for state purposes sur
rounding the state house, attention is
called to the fact that unQuestionah!y
/ a large part OF the land in the extern
! sion tract would have been bought in
!, later years, for land would he needed
! for the inevitable office building, for
| the Allison monument, Tor relocation
+! of the heating plant, for state armory
! and for hall Of Justice which will be
2 necessity some time.
In this connection, Pennsylvania has
! commenced the clearing Of tract of
; 2e.5 acres in the heart Of Harrisburg. q
/ part of it high priced property: Mime
sofa is tearing down business blocks in
| the heart of st. Paul to enlarge the
! capitol grounds; California has 33.o
acres surrounding the state capitol in
/ Sacramento: and Kentucky bought 40
acres of ground on which to build a
state capitol just few years ago.
! It begins TO look as If Frank GIL, OF
! Sioux City, has the best Of it as can
| didate for United States attorney in
| northern Iowa There are objections
to Representative OConne-, of Chicka-
saw county, because Of location, as
well as for some other reasons that
might prove a little enbarras sing 10
the administration. Now comes the
final blow that has ended the chances
! Of Maurice O'Conner. Of Fort Dodge.
1t is given by JACK Dalton in the Man
son Democrat as follows:
/! Maurice O'Conner. of Fort Dodge,
aspires to become the United States
district attorney for northern Iowa,
vice Judge Van Wagene-. canned. Mr..
/ O'Conner is Ane attorney and could
! Ill the position well. but there is the
danning fact staring him in the face
Of having contributed a check for 500
20 Senator Kenyon's campaign fund
last year. to assist in the defear Of Dan
! Hamilton, while he (Mr. O'Conner)
was himself candidate for justice
! Of the supreme court upon the same
ticket. II The department of justice
appoints him to the position (ne being
Of
will De after it has been fully advised
Of his contribution TO the campaign
fund Of e republican United States
senator TO assist in defeating q demo-
crat for the position"
The attack upon the Fort Dodge man
because he was loyal to his home city
in the matter Of trying to keep the
/ senatorship there rather than to have
it go TO the south part Of the state,
comes pretty close TO confirming what
Z! Senator CUmmins has said about Pres
ident Wilson, that he is the most in
tensely partisan of any man in the
! White House for years, and that part;
sanship is one thing that is counting
above everything else in national poIi
tics.
| An interesting story was related by
the head OF one Of the state institu-
tons at the recent conference here.
/ he was speaking from a strictly scien-
tine standpoint. He referred to the
enormous increase in Iowa in the drug
habit, which has come to the atten-
/ ton OF all the heads of state institu-
tons. He declared that is tracea BILE
20 the drug stores-not 20 all, but to a
few Of them. He declared that he
knew Of certain city Che did not
mention any nance on the main line
OF the Burlington system. which he
said he believed contained larger
number Of dope fends" than any
other city or town of tbs state ac-
cording TO population. He had re-
ceived several victims from that city.
He judges of conditions from what
/ they told him and what he learned
elsewhere. He had traced practically
every case coming under his obser-
walton to one leading drug store Of the
city. He had found that this druggist
made a specially Of handling a Ger
tain preparatory mixture. put up IN
original packages and given fancy
name, which seem ed to be made Of
cheap whisky and morphine and CO.
caine and perhaps other things He
said 1t was much like what the round
ers call Knockout drops" The ease
with which this stuff has been pro-