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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06
BOAT OF DREAMS.

BOAT OF DREAMS.
Like the flap Of sail Or the dip o:
an oar,
fare me away DER sea crossed
before;
Then, the sea of the future thai
stretched from my home,
When my heart was as light as the
pillows white foam;
Now, the sea OF the past as traverse
1t Ger,
Where the lights have grown dim that
see on the shore;
But / long to go back wnere mem.
ory's light CLEANS.
So launch out today in my swift
boat Of dreams
: So light few my bark on that sweet
maiden trip,
As sourneyed away In that bright
shining ship,
While on my life's skyline no door
could e'er open
To a more brilliant structure than
my lighthouse Of hope.
e DHWdiO 4 Sdl&-Q ICY Ds ICY l0~aio
the coast,
When saw splendid visions Of which
] could boast;
would coon reach the harbor
where the flashing light beams,
I And ! longer to alight nrom my
sweet boat Of dreams
But the scene was 80 changed as !
strollsd the long street
OF the beautiful city thought %
complete:
Those castles saw that l helo IN
renown,
Proved only ruins that came crumb
ling down,
And the high tower OF faith that was
buflded for me.
All were like phantom snips seen by
sailors at sea.
A mirage On the landscape that
ftfully teens
With sunshine and shadow from my
hfe's boat Of dreams
Nellie Harrington In the Dell Rap
ids, s. D., Times-Tr1bune.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

All the coke made In New York -
made ia retort ovens from coal mined
in Pennsylvania. There are four es-
Establishments in the state, with q total
OF SIS ovens Although New York
lies entirely outside OF the coal pro-
ducing area, 1t was the first state IN
which were built by-product ovens,
which save the gas, tar. ammonia,
etc. The first IL Semet-Solway ovens
In the United States were
erected in 1893 at Solyay.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

Oats are not going to be cheap this
year, whatever else may te cheaper
The Canadian crop is largely fail
iure and this fact is becoming appar-
ent in the markets of the world. Can
ada will have none for shipment, not
even into the United States and the
limited States will have the export
trade in oats all to itself Presum.
ably the English will want some
American oats for their cavalry
horses.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

For quantity, quality and arrange
ment, The Gate City war news is the
equal Of any of the metropolitan pa
pers-' This compliment was paid to
this paper by we'll known business
man who not only reads the bulletin
boards in front of this office but
reads The Gate City and metropolitan
papers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06
IOWA PRESS COMMENT,
Brother John w. Rowley refuses to
join the ancient order Of good losers, %
observes tho low, City Citizen.


Brother John w. Rowley refuses to
join the ancient order Of good losers"
observes the low, City Citizen.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says that
thus far, notwithstanding his daily
publicity bulletins, Mr. Hamilton has
not given any evidence Of his qualifl-
cations to IDEAL intelligently with the
high tax problem "On the contrary"
the Hawk-Eye adds, "he has shown
lamentable inability, or disinclination,
to make an Intelligent and fair mind
ed presentation OF the facts relating
to taxation in Iowa"
TN California 1t will soon be that
every voter Will have a political party
OF his own" says the Waterloo Times.
Tribune.
Tho Council Bluffs Nonperei1 con-
cludes that IT is the devil In men that
prompts them to seek war rather than
means to avert 1t.
The Waterloo Courier believes that
the woman suffragsts should be con-
tent with advancement by states.
This is the more democratic form OF
attack, and It will serve the move,
ulent better in the end" the cour1e,
continues. Women IN every state
need education on questions OF pub
lie moment before they receive the
voting privilege. And there Is moth
ing so good for the public education
OF women as suffrage campaign"
The Cedar Rapids Republican, com.
menting on Dubuque papers asser-
ton that paid lobby whose purpose
is TO defeat Senator Cummins IL main.
tanned at Washington. says 1t IS un-
able to realize how men OF business
acumen could be so foolish as to
spend money to beat Cummins In
Iowa. "The Cummins men here will
only laugh at such efforts, for they
are wholly Ineffective" the Republi.
can adds. IF money is being CON
trfbuted It will probably enrich the
few. without doing any damage to the
senator"
IT there was ever a useless war in
need OF strangulation, this one is IT,"
says the Marshalltown Times-RepubH-
can.
The Clinton Herald believes that
Mr. Thomas himself wants no parti-
san Endorsement, and is running for
supreme court because he believes he
can fill position or the bench with
credit.
The Dubuque Telegra pb-Herald SAYS
that Senator Cummins has much ex.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

In America this week liz being mob
filled greater army than has been
tput into the field By all the nations
tof Europe. It {. greater in numbers
land immensely greater in the service
at is to render to mankind II is Amer
t1ca's army of school children.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

Former President Taft thinks that
after the great conflict liz over there
will be universal desire for peace.
True, but by that time half the able
bodied men Of Europe viii be enjoy
ting eternal peace
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06
Hard 20 Get the spotIicht.

Mitchell Republican: The South
Dakota political campaign will be
Obliged to develop some first class
sensations II It is to divide attention
with the European war.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

Perhaps the Keokuk merchants do
mot know it but the advertising value
Iof this paper was never so great as II
/ IS today. The circulation Is larger
and worth more to the business man
than ever before. Investigation and
examination welcomed by patrons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

War, with its htdeous loss Of life
and property. teeming grsTeya-ds,
orphaned children, famine, plague and
untold human suffering. Is awful to
think about. II ia deyoutly hoped
that something will happen TO bring
THE European slaughter to an END.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

There is only one way FOR the mer.
lchants OF Keokuk to talk TO Gate City
readers and that is through the col.
'u.nns Of The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06
THOUGHT FoR TO-DAY.

Anyone who shows where the sun.
shine comes from, and how TO get f.
IS the kind OF helper the world Il
! looking tor.-Kate Langley Bosher.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

seasons the fullest ones and her peo-
PIE princes OF the earth. Come SUM
mer or fall or winter, Iowa Is always
Iowa, individual, splendid, fruitful
grand old Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

THE democratic newspapers" says
the Monticello Express. ARE making
short Roadway in publishing the Con-
molly and Hamilton plate matter In
competition with the war news. Every
body is talking war, and grasping for
every scrap Of uncensored news that
is sent out, and nobody Is reading
Conno1ly's tary dripping speech to
the mail carriers or Hamnton's boosts
a. the great nonpartisan."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

History ought TO be one OF the
most interesting subjects IN the
schools this year." says the Davenport
Times, "and It will be II the teachers
show capacity to connect the past
with the present, even Incidentally
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

keo,su,s Iowa September 9. 1914
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

The Alton Democrat says that abb
sent congressman should have been
locked years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06

The Dubuque legrapb-Herald SAYS
that Senator Cummins has much ex-
Evening journal., 1914-07-14
m. Assnclntloa q
TUESDAY JULY IA. 1914
PUBLIC. PARTY AND PRIVATE INTERESTS.

TNh have been criticized by certain parties in in
" terest because suggested several days ago
the economic and political unwisdom Of City Council
increasing the salaries of the Clerk of Council and
certain other city officials. In making that suggestion
we we're not actuated by a spirit Of unfrendliness
toward Of those who hoped TO be the benefcaries
Of the proposed Counolmanic action Rather we felt
that we simply we're performing an important duty
we owed to the taxpayers. the Howell administra-
ton and to the Republican party. Our opinion was
and stll s that the interests Of the taxpaying pub
lie, the present city administration and the Republi-
party are infinitely more important than those
of three or four city officials who sought-and obtained
Offices with full knowledge Of the salaries attached
thereto and who received, neither by promise nor in
ference any assurance that the salaries would he in
creased.
This is a Republican city. The Mayor is a Re
publican. City Council is Republican Those who
hoped to obtain salary increases are Republicans
This is Republican newspaper It viii he seen there
fore that our suggestion that City Council refrain from
embarking upon salary-increasng policy was not
hnctured by unworthy partisan motive II had un-
derlying It the feeling that the Howell administration
should not lay itself open to public criticism now in
the November campaign and in the next city cam
paign by making such increases
Let It be forgotten that the present fiscal year
-1-g2l lead right up TO the next city campaign The
Howell administration has made an enviable record
during the fiscal year just closed. II has been a
period Of purposeful accomplishment The public ap-
preciates IT, That appreciation should impel Mayor
Howell President Of Council White and Councilman
Slower and his associates to strive TO make the show
Ing for the current fiscal year much better and more
worthy Of public appreciation than the showing
for the fiscal year ended June so last Under con-
ditions they exist they do 1t if they will try,
and permit the Republican party to enter the next
city election with the record the Howell admins
traion its best campaign document That de-
sired end will be defeated. however If the Mayor and
City Council permit themselves 10 he led into salary
raisngs and other things that will make the record
for the current fiscal year vulnerable to Democrati,
attack next June The integrity of that record is o
Infinitely greater value than the pecunary Interests
- few individuals who actively sought the Offices
hey hold with a full understanding that the salarie
would be what they are today
Evening journal., 1914-07-14
HARp rIMEs IBROreHr HOME.

r OMMERCIAL and industrial depression has
- thrown thousands OF industrious and willing
Wilmington wage-earners out OF work. The Harlan
and Hollingsworth Corporation, for instance has
laid of 1000 since the period Of depression be-
gan. 10 is only one OF scores OF Delaware corpora
tons, little and big that has been compelled to tell
hTead-winners that their services longer are
needed In other plants men and women are work.
ing short hours and for short pay Most Of them deem
themselves fortunate that they have something to do
and at least little money coming in
Il is useless for Democratic politicians and friends
Of the Wilson administration attempt deny these
things. They exist here in home community. The
diminished payrolls OF the Harlan and Hollngsworth
Corporation and other employers Of labor supply con-
elusive and deplorable proof Of their existence To
the business who have been compelled to lay off
men and women; to the men and women who have
been laid Off and TO those who the bread-winners
Of the homes looking vainly for work the promises
Of prosperity that made by President Wilson and
other Democratic orators in 1912 seem like hol-
low mockery.
Nor should it be forgotten that the condi-
tions that exist here find their duplication in
most other American commercial and Industrial CEN
tres and that wherever they exist they the source
Of widespread dissatisfaction with a national admin
atration that has promised much and given so
little.
Evening journal., 1914-07-14
DEMOCRATIC nIssENsInN.

II lat the fame of political independence burns in
the breasts Of several members Of the Demo
cratic City Committee is pleasing news to Whining
ton Democrats II s doubly pleasing TO them to know
that James Mandamus Salisbury. chairman of the
committee, has been unable TO extngush that flame
by arbitrary other process He finds himself
fronted by who decline to the Salisbury
collar or TO accept him a political Moses, dele
gated by his Senatorial cousin to lead the committee
and the party this Fall
In fact. young Salisbury finds his vicarous polit-
cal undertaking far from pleasant There
Of the committee who resent the fact that he is
chairman; there are others who the arbitrary
and boss-like attitude he has assumed since he he
came chairman, while there are others who dis
satisfied because they realize that he has few
OF the executive qualities which make for pou
cal success In short the committee is honey-combed
with dissatisfaction and dissension, and the same
also may be said of the Democratic party in
our city There arc many elements. in the committee
and in the party which working together to make
the FIRST campaign of Chairman Salisbury a memor
ably disastrous one.
Evening journal., 1914-07-14
rNFAIR TO TIE RANKrRs.

A MERlCAN bankers have good cause 10 resent
certain portions of the speech delivered by
PRESIDENT Wilson in Independence Hail. Philadelphia
IN July a. His utterances were unfair TO them and
Unworthy Of him. He made a deliberate attempt to
place them in false light before the American pub
hc The resentment is pontedly expressed in the fol-
owing letter which appears in the New York Sun:
To the Editor of The sun-sir It is cause Tor ex-
IRENE regret that President Wilson in his address
ast Saturday az Independence Hall showed such lack
bf candor and fairness in his reference to the bank
ng and currency law. He said
1T was universally admitted that the banking sys-
lem Of this country needed reorganization We set
the best minds could find 10 the task of discover
ing the best method of reorganization"
VIII Mr.. Wilson seriously contend that the "best
minds evolved the Glass bin Il introduced
into the House? On the contrary. some OF the best
minds opposed many features of the bill when the
Senate began It's hearings on the proposed egsla-
49, I'VE met with ,s hardly ANYTHING but criticism from
50 soon as that act was passed the very next day.
there was universal chorus of applause from the
bankers Of the United States
Now every candid man knows that the bill was
radically amended before it became law and
amended IN consequence OF the criticisms OF bankers
and the public spirited press. The President further
asked Now II tthe bin wrong the day be-
fore was passed why it right the day after II
was passed? Every man who followed the progress
Or the GlassOWen bill knows that the bill was wrong
'the day before it passed because il held harmful
provisions and lacked many desirable ones Import
ant changes made in the measure after Senator
Roots illuminating speech of denunciation delivered
m the Senate on December 49, 1913 even as late as i'm
the last hours Of the conference committee of both
houses The measure presented to President Wilson
TO sign December %, 1913 was essentiallv and in
many details different measure from the one Glass
tathered; Owen modified and Root excoriated ten
DAYS before. ~"
Mr.. Wilson's Independent Day speech should not he
aiioNed 10 go into the records unchalenged
New York July s. Js II II
Il also is worthy Of note that what the Prssider,
salo m Philadelphia was not due to lack Of knovrl-
edge Of what had occurred Washington with ,esnec
to the currency bill There perhaps is no man in
the United States who has fuller and more acourat,
Attenuation regarding the framing the amending ans
he passing Of that measure Possession of that in
formation made his Philadelphia utteranoes all thu
eEs excusabe.
Evening journal., 1914-07-14
Mr.. Wilson'S Break
With the Senate
lFrom Do New York TrIbunel

to dispute in the abstract the au-
thority Of a Senate committee to sum-
mon nominees and examine them. On
d question OF defending what II con-
siders It's privileges the Senate is
likely TO act as one man, regardless
Of the merits of the individual case
actually before IT,
The same unfortunate interjection
OF side issues has complicated the
jones case The President volun-
teored to tell the Senate committee
what a deserving candidate Mr.. Jones
vas. He said that MIR. Jones had be-
come director in the harvester
trust for the purpose Of reforming
that trust. But according to the
published abstracts of Mr.. Jones
testimony before the committee he
not only disavowed having acted as a
reforming influence but testified that
be had proposed no changes in policy
and had agreed completely with
everything which his fellow directors
had done
II Mr. Jones is onspicuously quali-
fed TO be a member of the Reserve
Board we do not think that It Is very
material whether he was once a
director i'm a trust or not. But the
apparent conflict between the Presi-
dents letter urging his confirmation
aud the published transcripts Of Mr..
Jones's testimony has raised an en-
tirely different issue. The President
intimates that the Jones testimony
reports are garbled. He is shifting
the ground of his criticism Of the
Senate and shifting it to his own dis
advantage. If there is any way to
tempt the Senate into a real fight it
is through attacks on its methods,
which most Senators viii uphold,
whether right or wrong.
In most Of the controversies in
which MIR. Wilson has become en-
gagged in Washington he has had his
opponents at a disadvantage. But
instead OF keeping the Senate at a
disadvantage by putting clearly on
its shoulders the responsibility of
holding up qualified nominees he has
lot it fight behind the rampant Of its
customs and privileges. Behind that
it may be goaded into making a
really damaging fight
Evening journal., 1914-07-14
By Executive Order
tFrom the Washington Post).

SET up which shall not only enforce
the law, but make the law superior
even TO the Supreme Court Of the
United States?
The people have done nothing Of
the kind. Their authority has never
been lent to any man or set Of men
Tor such a purpose.
The people intend TO regulate bust
ness. but they expect the President
and Congress to work through con-
stitutional methods and within
reasonable bounds The people do
not want to destroy business in the
attempt TO regulate it,
If Congress and the President we're
cooperating as the Constitution con-
templates and as the founders pro-
vided. there would be careful consid-
GRAFTON of this legislation. and its
vices would be eliminated after full
and open discussion. The views oil
the people would be obtained before
their servants committed the country
to any experiment
But under the new and growing
rule of executive direction. Congress
irstead OF initiating and considering
President for approval and enforce
ment is now receiving and obeyinl
orders from the executive. The Law
must be according to the admins
tration program" IL must pass wheI
the administration wishes. and 1
must moi he changed by Congress. I
must not wait until next winter. be
cause there may he an overturn II
/ tho November election which woull
! prevent the administration from
! passing the bill through the House
The people must not be given an op
pOrtunity for approving or disap
proving this legislation
This strange perversion Of III
operation of government may hav
reached its most vicious stage, or
may be that the people will witnes
still further abuse of authority j
their name. but without their con
sent. But whether the pendin
legislation marks the limit Of pei
version. or something still NOR
1agrant is to come. il must be appai
ont TO all that the people will soone
or later put heavy hand upon e.
ecutive eXcesses.
Evening journal., 1914-07-14
Another Platform Pledge
IRON the WashingtoR POST i.

THE constitutional rights OF
American citizens should protect
them on our borders. and go with
them throughout the world. and
every American citizen residing
or having property in any foreign
country is entitled to and must be
given the full protection OF the
United States government, both
for himself and his property
This is the strong, clear. American
declaration of the Democratic plat
sorm upon which the President was
elected.
The Mexican question was to be
settled when the Democratic party
was placed in power. There was to
be no more toleration of murder, no
more dilly-dallying with Mexican
bandits who burned and robbed
American property
This platform declaration meant
business. II was not molasses to
catch flies.
The constitutional rights of Ameri-
can citizens extended to the protec-
tion of other property Their lives
we're not only TO be protected by the
United States government, but their
property was not to be destroyed OF
robbed.
The dictator in the City Of Mexico
is about TO fall. from all appearances
and a season of anarchy is to follow
the long series of bloody battles. The
rebels Carranza and villa are about
TO fight over the remains of Mexico
If Carranza should depose Huerta
villa will take to the brush. Il
Villa should take the City of Mexico
he will have Csrrsnza 10 fight. In
Evening journal., 1914-07-14

Not in criticism or in defense Of
the present tariff law. it must be
pointed out that II takes time TO test
such an act. Attacks upon it for the
results Of a few months are beside
the mark. It took years before the
shift OF employment in England
adapted itself to a free trade policy
which lost It's last real opponent with
the death Of Joseph Chamberlain.
AS H. stands, our tariff, full Of in
equahties and defects, is one for rev.
enue only, although incidentally II
carries large degree Of protection to
native industry II must necessarily
involve a radical displacement Of in
dustry. which only in the course OF
years can be re6istributed. Whether
we like It OF not. we shall never, with
the shift of the rural population to
the towns, and the necessity for feed
ing industrial workers as cheaply az
possible, return to the highly pro-
tective policy Of fifty years following
the tariff law passed under the presi-
dency of Andrew Johnson
II this is true of tariff II is true
Of changes which are real reforms,
and not mere restless experiments
conceded to popular clamor. II takes
time for these measures to work
themselves out We are a nervous
and impatient people, with the delu-
sion that results should Immediately
follow on the passage OF an act oi
Congress and its signature by the
President This is why the first re,
suits of our changes are invariabl,
disappointing.