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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
WHY SPECIAL TAxEs2

An increase of five hundred mil
lions of imports and a decrease o
one hundred millions of customs reve-
nue. is the reason why this admins.
tration is compelled TO impose mum
erous special taxes designed to raise
$205, 0O0,0 900, besides selling bonds for
$3.50, 100000 and mourning indebted
ness which undoubtedly will necessi-
tate far greater bond sales. In a
word, the Underwood tariff bill is a
complete failure as a revenue pro-
Queer Many inquiries as to the ne
cessity for these special taxes, wheth-
er they are solely the result of demo
cratic extravaganza, or whether they
are caused by the preparedness pro-
gram, have been made. The simple,
fundamental fact is as stated. While
democratic extravaganza has doubt
less played an important part, an(
while the preparedness program may
be held to account for a part of tn
need, the tariff statistics issued by the
Treasury Department really tell the
story. Contrary to a popular i'm
preston, the European war has not
decreased imports. On the contrary
AS compared with the fiscal year end
ing June 80. 1912 (when the Payne
tariff bill was in effect), the imports
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1916, show an increase of $544, 800,
900; but the tariff revenue collected
thereon shows a decrease, as COM
pared with that collected in 1912, of
$99.391 900. Obviously, with a tariff
bill which falls so far short of even
the democratic ideal, "a tariff for rev.
enue only, the most rigid economy
should have marked the appropria-
tions of Congress, and equally obvi-
ously, the grossest extravaganza has
marked those appropriations; but if
the Payne duties were still in force
with an increase of over five hundred
millions in imports the entire pre-
paredness program could have been
cared for without the imposition of a
penny of special taxes.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
A $4,000, 900, 900 CONGRESS.

We denounce the profligate waste
OF the money wrung from the people
by oppressive taxation through the
lavish appropriations of recent repub
lican congresses, which have kept
taxes high and reduced the purchas.
ing power of the peoples toll. We
demand a return to that simplicity
and economy which BELTS a demo.
cratic government and reduction in
the number of useless Offices, the sal.
aries of which drain the substance OF
the people" Democratic National
Platform, 1912.
Nothing more clearly exemplifies
the radical difference between the
platform pledges OF the democratic
and its performances than the plank
quoted and the performance OF the
Congress just ended which has Great
ed innumerable new and useless of.
fees and appropriated $1,000, 000, 900
OF the peoples money. With only
the first session of the Sixty-fourth
Congress completed, the democrats
have appropriated. In exact figures.
$1.94z, 259. 04S The democrats have
spent over ss.0o0.0 900 day for every
ono OF the 245 days life Of this SEES.
sion. including .Sunaay8 and holidayg
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
WAR.MApE PROSPERITY.

Roumania declared war against Aus
tria-Hungary on Sunday, August 27
The next day wheat prices on the Chi
cago market broke eleven cents bush
! ell
The reason assigned for the slumL
is that the entrance of Roumania into
the European war indicated defeat for
the Central Powers in the Balkan re-
| gion, at least-pointed to the isolation
and overthrow of Turkey and presaged
the opening of the Dardanelles.
This would ensure a clear water
passage from the Black Sea into the
Mediterranean, would free the Rou
manian and Russian ports to extended
commerce and would send into the
markets of Western Europe the &C
cummulated stores of wheat which
clogged the storehouses of the Black
Sea for two years.
Throwing this Russian and Rouman.
ian wheat upon the market will dis
place just so many bushels of American
wheat-which has been forced to "A
high level of prices because the Euro
pean War has closed the ordinary
channels of wheat supply for the en-
tire Mediterranean and Levantine coun
try and which has sent to Chicago the
wheat trade which formerly conferred
at Constanza.
Democrats have claimed that the
prosperity, which the American farm
er has enjoyed since 1914 is due to
Democratic policies The Chicago
wheat pit knows better. 1t has been
caused by the European war.
We have been looking to the end of
the European war to bring an end to
the spurious conditions of prosperity"
which have been prevailing here-but
we now know that, even before the
war is ended, that the false basis
of our prosperity" may be overthrow
Roumania entered the war-and the
mere threat of releasing the wheat of
Russia and of Roumania was sufficient
to upset the American wheat market.
How will it be when the war is real
ly over and when the output of the
mills and factories of all Europe is
released for sale at free trade prices
in the American market?
King Ferdinand of Roumania has
disproved all that President Wilson of
the United States has claimed.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
MEXIcO,S RuRnEN-

A compilation by the Journal of the
American Bankers Association shows
that the external debt of Mexico, due
mostly to England and France
amounted to nearly 5000, 900, 900 al
the beginning of 1916. Her internal
debt amounted in American dollars to
over $S0,00O,000. These are vast
amounts, but not anything like what
the average American was led to sus
pect after the years of devastating
revolution to which the republic has
been subjected.
These obligations, however, mostly
antedate the Madero revolution ex
cept in the case of suspended inter
est payments and a foreign loan OF
$50, 100000 issued in 1913. There is
no record of other revolutionary debts
because there were practically none
In the disturbed condition of the coun.
try no foreign loans could be obtain
ed.
In the last five years Mexico has
subsisted on her own vitals, with
whatever help could be obtained from
her foreign trade which was maintain
ed in surprising fashion through all
the fluctuations of civil strife. The
internal havoc has been tremendous
The country is virtually PROSTATE
most of her industries destroyed her
agriculture almost ruined, nearly all
her national activities rendered stag
nant and unproductive.
In addition to her national debt and
her internal destruction there are
great quantities of paper money which
must be redeemed If Mexico is to
live up to her previous record. In
all her history, it is said she has new,
er repudiated debt and it is there
fore probable that the deprecated
Carranza currency at least, will be
redeemed.
1t is a vast burden that the shat
tered republic is called upon to bear
and the outlook is dark for her
wretched, starving people. But it is
not hopeless. There is no country
in the world today more potentially
rich. She has vast, inexhaustible
resources of oil and minerals and
tropical products that are in constant
demand abroad. With just and en-
llghtened lands laws that would give
back the soil to the people and few
short years of peace Mexico would
very soon take a proud place among
the nations of the earth. Her pres
ent rulers, however have displayed
little capacity for visioning such a
bright future or for laying the Sound
atoms that will make it possible.
Mexico's grieyous misfortune is that
the best and brightest of her sons are
in exile and that she herself is bound
hand and foot in the tolls OF an un-
scrupulous military clique of adyen-
turers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

ears grew are strong and vigorous.
The ears hanging about waist high
Remove all husks and silk. Gather al
least twice as much as will be needed
/, for seed next year. Take it at once to
your dwelling house and store in a
room that has good ventilation and ar
tificial heat, that it can be fire dried
Place the ears on racks or Slated
shelves or hang them with Irvine that
/ will insure a free circulation of air be,
tween the ears.
Open the windows in dry weather
close the min wet or damp weather
Keep up the fire heat until the ears
are thoroughly dried.
Fire dried seed corn has much more
vitality than air dried Seed grows
stronger and yields better.
Never allow any dampness where
seed corn is kept. While moderate cold
may not materially injure seed corn
when we'll dried, the temperature OF
the room. attic or basement if dry and
warm. where seed corn is kept, should
never fall to the freezing point.
When Smelling seed corn, just before
nails, also any ears that may have
nodded or appear unfit for seed from
any cause.
Sort the ears according to the size
of the kernals and shell separately to
insure uniform dropping by the plant
err.
BY following strictly the foregoing
methods during more than 40 years on
an Iowa farm I never had poor stand
or replanted on account of poor seed
and with an almost perfect stand of
three stalks to hill.
While there were three serious fail.
ures was member of the Board of
Control the saving of seed corn at our
state farms received my personal at.
tention and the foregoing method was
the rule. u gHAnQ
Result: Not single hill was re.
planted on account of poor seed and
invariably a full stand secured, with.
out waste of time in testing.
During the last 25 years the farmers
Of Iowa have lost hundreds of millions
Of dollars by failure to gather and save
their seed corn in proper manner.
Had my advice in regard to saving
seed corn been taken, now given for
more than an average life time
through the press and at farmers and
other meetings, the additional yield of
corn in Iowa if sold at market price,
would have hard surfaced every public
highway in the state.-John Cownie.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
Notice Of Referees Sale.

BY virtue of an order of sale direct
ed to the undersigned referee, from
the Office of the Clerk OF the District
Court of Mahaska County, Iowa, OH a
decree obtained in said Court, on the
4th day of April, 1916, in favor of
Hannah V. Clark, as Plaintiff VS..
Demeretta Graham, ct al, Defendants,
for the partition of the real estate
named and described in the said
Plaintiffs petition, | will on the 14th
day of October, 1916, offer for sale to
the highest bidder, the following real
estate, to-wit: Government Lot l, in
Sec. Is, Twp. rs, N. of Range II, West
of 9Th F. M.
Terms of sale cash. Said sale to
take place in front of the court house
door, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, at, the hour
of 2 o'clock p. m, OF said day, when
and where due attendance will be CIV
en- by the undersigned.
Dated at Oskaloosa, Iowa, Septem-
Der 49, 1916,
Geo. w. Clark, Sole Referee.
(9d4)
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
HAVE FIRST SHOW DOWN
American Peace Commissioners Tell
Mexican Representatives FIatIy
What Is Expected by v. S.

New London, Conn, Sept. 12.-Mexi-
can and American commissioners in
conference here on the international
situation, had their first "show down."
The Mexican representatives were
told fatty that unless the United
States was assured that Mexico would
guard its border effectively and that
the property and lives of Americans in
Mexico would be protected American
mining and ranching interests in that
country would be unable to furnish any
part of the revenue of the de facto
government.
The American commissioners also
advised the Mexicans that the order
imposing confiscatory taxes ON certain
foreign-owned mining in Mexico, ought
to be rescinded.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
NO DECLINE IN IOWA.

That Iowa has not, in - J decade
or in any 5 year period, suffered a
real loss of population, as a whole, is
one of the conclusions that must be
drawn from the latest edition of the
Census of Iowa, just issued by the
state, and edited by Ora Williams
Not until the facts regarding the
1915 Census we're available and the
comparisons were made with previous
enumerations, could this be inferred
When the latest state count is com
pared with those of each decade OF
the past it is found that the state has
shown a steady increase of population
not as great now as in the past but
still an increase. 1t is when compari
son is made with the Federal census
figures that trouble commences. The
fluctuations which this comparison
shows cannot be accounted for by any
condition in the state. While there has
been for a number Of years a decline
in the rural population, there has
been an increase in the urban popula
ton to more than Offset it all So the
conclusion is forced that the trouble
was with the enumerauons.
There are on an average 42.4 persons
to the square mile of land area in
Iowa, or 1914 per square mile of rural
population only. The present rural
population is 1,277950, an increase of
210,014 in the decade. The rural popu-
lation new is 45.8 per cent of the
whole population, though ten years
ago it was 51.2 per cent.
The number of births in Iowa aver
ages about 1880 per year and the
deaths about $4,000 per year, so that
there is a satisfactory increase from
this sourse.
The number of males in the state is
1,212,9SS and the number of females
1,145,O78.
The voters number 684,939. This is
all males of voting age who are nat.
uralized, except the Indians. The mum.
Der of males of militia age is 500, 421
Iowa is prominently a state of ma.
tives. There are in the state 2,O93,897
persons who were born under the
American flag, and of these 1851 ,914
were born in Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
DUTIES OF LAWYERS,

Annual gatherings of Bar AssocIa-
tions, such as was held at Washing
ton last week, are sources of infor-
nation to the laymen as well as oc-
casions of interest to the lawyers.
For instance, discussion led by II
M. Eicher of Washington developed
the duties of an attorney as laid
down In the code. As the average
fellow seldom has access to code
he will be interested in knowing what
is expected of the lawyer Here are
the Duties of Attorneys and coun-
selors" as laid down in Section BIT:
!. To maintain the respect due to
the courts Of justice and judicial Off
GERS:
3 TO counsel or maintain no other
actions proceeding or defenses than
those which appear 70 him legal and
Just, except the defense Of person
emerged With public ofiense;
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
Notice Of Levy Of execution.

State of Iowa, Mahaska County, IS.
Theodore Bakachelos, Plaintiff,
Against
James Taylor and N. K. Taylor, De
PENDANTS.
NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS:
TO James Taylor and N. E. Taylor:
Sir:-You are hereby notified, that
by virtue Of an execution issued by
he Clerk of the District Court of
Mahaska County, Iowa, in the
lbove entitled cause to me di'
rected, have levied upon and exc.
cuted as your property, the following
described real estate, in Mahaska
County, Iowa, to-wit:
The undivided interest of James
Taylor in the described real estate,
lots No. 72, II, 70, So, 6S, block X, of
O'Neilps addition to the City of Os!ia-
loosa, Iowa; lots Ct, 66, 65. 81, SO,
block |, O'Neills Addition to the City
of Oskaloosa, Iowa.
And | have advertised the same to
be sold on the 10th day of October,
A. D. 1916, at 200 o'clock p. NJ, at the
door of the court house, in Oskaloosa,
Mahaska County, Iowa.
WITNESS. my official signature,
this 18th day of September, AID. 1916.
D. e. HENLEY,
Sheriff of Mahaska County.
9w2-Advertisement.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
- MR.. AND MRS. J. r. JAMESON.
e.. (Des Moines Register)

Here are photographs of John r..
Jamison and Sarah Jamison, his wife,
who recently celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of their wedding day.
They have lived in Mahaska county
since 1858 and are among our best
known and highly respected pioneer
residents. Mr. Jamison has a fine farm
short distance southeast of Oska-
loosa where they have resided since
the early days of the county. They are
the parents of ten children, four Of
whom passed away early in life.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
Williamsburg Journal.Tribune

Williamsburg JournalTribGne ::
Even now the early falling leaf her.
aids the approach of those sad, sweet
days in which the glory that was June
and the grandeur that was July will
pass like bright exhalation of the
evening to the Valhalla of their kind.
The first bud or flower of spring and
the first tinted leaf of autumn preach
their little sermons to the SONS of
men-but very few stop to listen to
the homily of the one or the other.
The world has Grass ear and is sci.
dom arrested by the concord of sweet
touch or its correlated harmony"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

Sewers, after spending about two
weeks at the parental home, returned
to their home last week.
J. d. Thomas was hauling baled hay
all last week to Oskaloosa.
VIM. Roberts. and family have re-
turned home after spending two
weeks in Missouri with d. Roberts.
The watermelon season is about
over in this section. .. e..
John Bucher is suffering with mala-
ria fever. DR.. McCrea of Eddyville
is in attendance.
The homecoming at Givin this year
was grand success. Relatives and
friends from far and near were pres
emf.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
Gets Damage From City.

Ida Stella Dow of Nora Springs re-
covered 1857 from the town for in
juries received when thrown out of
a buggy in an accident caused by a
pile of rock in the road. The town
has appealed to the Supreme court.
Arguments have been filed.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
-Roumania is famous for its So

-Roumania is famous for It's salt
mines and could supply all Europe
with this commodity for hundreds of
years. In some mines the beds are
from 600 to $50 feet thick and at Sa-
rat there is a salt mountain whose
sides are quarried with electric ma
chimes which cut out blocks each 2
cubic yard in size, while the frag,
ments are scooped up in steam SHOW
els
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
Notice of Expiration.
To M. C. Dory:

To M. G. Dory:
You are hereby notified that the fol-
lowing described real estate situated
In Mahaska rounty, Iowa, to.wit:
Lot rs and Lot 81, Ridge Place, os-
kaloosa, Iowa, was sold for the taxes
of 1910, 1911 and 1912 on the LIST day
OF December, 1913, to Carl Johnson;
that the certificates OF sale thereof
are now owned by Carl Johnson and
the right of redemption will expire
and Treasurer's Deed for said land
VIII be made unless redemption from
such sale be made within 80 days
from the date Of complete service of
THIS notice. You VIII govern yourself
Accordingly. III s1sGr
e Dated seiHcinhcf S.aa9leA ,fA
tHYUfV lIHHNtff4ttl 4 i| fr..ff a Il Z.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

washington county mas HaI
county hospital for the past four
years. 1t is located in Washington
and members of the bar association
who attended the annual meeting
there last week were told that during
the past four years one in twenty of
the population of the county had come
there for treatment. This institu-
tion is deserVedly popular in that
county" declares the Montezuma Re.
publican.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
RUSS TROOPS ARE SHIFTED
All Except One Division Transferred
From France to the saIoniki
Front.

Berlin, Sept 12.-"Swiss newspa.
pers." says the Overseas News Agency,
publishes a PeTograd dispatch stat
ing that all except one division OF the
Russian troops sent to France have
been withdrawn from the western
thcater and sent 70 salQniki,'
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
TBE PASSING OF SUMMER.


Upon September's dawn
The cry of Summers gone!"
Is sounded everywhere
With sad and solemn air.
Not so is it with me
/ rather sing with glee:
THE Summers tasks are done.
Her prizes rare are won,
Her fields and pastures titled.
Her promises fulfilled,
BY Natures own command
To Autumn's outstretched hand
She passed on the toll
OF garnering the spoil,
The while with smiling zest
She turns herself to rest.
Not one, as some have grieyed,
But all her tasks achieved,
She joys in the content
OF full accomplishment"
John Kendrick Bangs.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
The Hiah School Library.

Several new books have been add
ed to the High school library which
will be big help to the students in
their work. Advance Projects. in
wood work, problems in farm wood
work and furniture, and craft wood
work are the three new books which
are the last word in their line.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

According to the Register, Z
Grinnell woman has made the request
that when her time comes she doesn't
want to be taken to the cemetery in
any motor hearse. I've hurried al
my life" she said, "and when | die
and am on my way to the cemetery,
want to go slow for once"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

The Enterprise tells of Bright.
on man who has the individual drink
ing cup fad so bad that he carries a
collapsible cup in his pocket all the
time with his tobacco and other trash,
and never takes a drink without using
it, for fear of swallowing some one
else's microbes.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

Can you guess what this means
"One,half of a pumpkin, three eggs,
one pint of milk, one-half teaspoonful
of grated nutmeg, one tablespoonful OF
powdered mace, four ounces of SUI
gar"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

Two and one-half billions of dol.
lars are spent every year in the Unit.
ed States for liquor. That would
build one million, two hundred and
fifty thousand homes costing $4,000
each.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
G. 0. P. TICKET
WINS IN MAINE
ProgressiVes Return to the Old
Party.
HEAVY VOTE IS RECORDED
Republican Governor and Two United
States Senators and Three Con-
gressmen EIected-one Office
Doubtful.

Augusta, Me-, Sept 12.-Indications
are that the Republicans made clean
sweep in Maine yesterday, carrying the
state at least by 10000 and electing
two United States senators, governor
and three out of four congressman.
Early returns show that about 90
per cent of the Progressive vote has
gone back to the Republicans, with
the Democrats gaining the remainder.
Fair weather prevailed and reports
from various parts of the state show
than an unusually heavy vote has been
cast
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

The Reformed church of Pella
his just held a successful lending
feest., Will the Knoxville Express
please explain?
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

Oskaloosa is growing in a way
that is most pleasing. 1t is growth of
permanent kind. 1t is built on
needs, and not merely on hopes.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14

During hot weather about nine
men out of ten believe they have the
hardest job.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-09-14
State Normally Republican.

Maine however, is normally Reppb-
lican and the Democratic leaders in,
sisted that something more than a
scant Republican victory would be re-
CURED to constitute population of the
administration, while Democratic
plurality, however small, would be ac-
copied by them as an Endorsement.