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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
Mr.. Taft,s Example.

Lincoln Journal: From an office
whose windows give a glimpse OF
the white house a former master oil
the white house this week decreed
that a factory in Schenectady, N. Y,
must raise the wages of its scrub
women from $3.50 a week to s1O5O
for five hours work day. Week
after week former President Taft in
his capacity as one Of the two chair
men of the war labor board, works
away quietly at his task of adjust
ing labor difficulties in order thai
the wheels of industry may not be
stopped by labor quarrels while the
war is on. His training as judge
gives him peculiar capacity for this
work, and his famous good humor
has been particularly efficacious
when, as often happens, employers
and employees come before him in a
state of hot antagonism to each
other. Only occasionally does the
board of which Mr.. Taft is a member
fail in its efforts to adjust labor
troubles. The reactionary attitude
of the president of the Western
Union Telegraph company caused one
such failure recently, and as re-
suit the telegraph and telephone
lines of the country are now in gov
working faithfully at what his hand
has found to do in the way OF wa,
service, is one of the evidences 0.
the democracy at the heart o.
America
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

solution has resisted the real inter
ests of its own stockholders. Monopo-
ly always checks development, weighs
Gown natural prosperity, pulls against
natural advance.
by the combination of great in
dustries, manufactured products are
not only being standardized, but they
are too often being kept at single
point of development and efficiency.
The increase of the power to produce
! in proportion to the cost of produc-
ton is not studied in America as it
used to be studied, because if you
don't have to improve your processes
in order to excel a competitor, if you
are human you aren't going to i'm
prove your processes; and If you can
prevent the competitor from coming
into the field, then you can sit at
your leisure, and behind this wall of
protection which prevents the brains
of any foreigner competing with you,
you can rest at your ease for a whole
generation.
Are you not eager for the time
when the genius and initiative of all
the people shall be called into the
service of business? When new
corners with new ideas, new entries
with new enthusiasms, Independent
luSu, Shall De dDle 10 look LOT WdTu "
becoming, not employees, but heads
of some small, it may be, hut hopeful,
business, where their best energies
shall be inspired by the knowledge
that they are their own masters,
with the paths of the world open
before them? Have you no desire
to see the markets open to all? To
see credit available in due proportion
to every man of character and seri-
GUS purpose who can use 1t safely
and to advantage? To see business
ldisentangled from its unholy alliance
with politics? To see raw material
released from the control Of monopo-
lists, and transportation facilities
equalized for all? And every ave-
nue. of commercial and industrial 40
tivity leveled for the feet of all who
would tread it? Surely you must
feel the inspiration of such a new
dawn of liberty!
"The welfare, the happiness, the
energy and spirit of the men and
women who do the daily work in our
mines and factories, on our railroads,
in our offices and ports of trade, ON
our farms and on the sea, is the I'M
derlying necessity of all prosperity.
There can be nothing wholesome
unless their life is wholesome; there
can be no contentment unless they
are contented."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
The SONG | SING.


/ sing the song of the torrent stream,
And the ripping pebbled brook,
Oh its flowerdecked bank, where sit and Dream
Near a festooned, shady nook.
l sing the song OF the summer sun,
With it's flmy, cloud-flected sky,
The August cornfelds' sun-tann'd gold
And the wild birds minstrelsy.
l sing the song of the flaming flower,
OF the pastures rolling green,
Of the scented grasses dewspray shower,
And the gistening raindrops' sheen.
/ sing the song of the tinted fall
Of the wild brier's scented spray.
of the Brookside willow catkin's chrome,
And the mik-white bloom of May.
I sing the song of the purple bloom,
OF the wild, free, open heath,
Where the bee sucks heather, nectar food
And the partridge nests beneath.
I sing the song Of the wander life,
The song of the wild, lone trail,
The song of the scented, evening breath
And the dewmists' bridal veil.
Cyril Stanley BTethsy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

GRANGE we yield belated appreds
ton. We shouldn't do so. Life would
be made easier for all of US if each
would learn from his own experience
to put himself in the others place
A pleasant look and a kind word ar.
often to- one bearing the heat ant
burden like cup of cold water Il
parched lips. We should give flow
ers to the living. The dead do mo-
need them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

them; the bands and fife and drum
corps acted as escort and the business
men of Keokuk stayed up until after
midnight to march to the depot with
the boys.
1t matters not whether they are from
Keokuk or Lee county, or some other
part of the state. Chairman Scott OF
the exemption board manages to ar
range a send-off for them SO the boys
feel that their services are appre-
GATED
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
KEOkUK PATRIOTIC.

Donnel1son Review: Every Increment
of men called to the colors from this
county we believe has started from
Keokuk, and you would naturally
think the people of that city would lose
in their departure, but not So
We were down last week when the
last bunch left, and they We're given
just as good send-off as the first
They gathered there from all over the
southeastern part of the state; the
EIks threw open their building for
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
Flowers For the LIvinu.

Sibley Tribune: We all do it. Even
editors, who of all men ought to
know better, keep their flowers of
comm endation for the dead We let
the living struggle through the hard
spots and sweat and grunt without
pleasant word-som etimes even
we bestow upon them harsh and I'M
just criticism-and when they fall in
the battle we hand them a bouquet.
After the senses are dulled to fra
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

eye and the public sooner or later
to find weak spots in the man and
his tales of blood and war Adula-
ton turns stronger heads and big
money in sight all the time has its
effect upon the strongest characters
So it is not astonishing if the young
men forget themselves
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

criminis to all the hellishness Of junkerism. The
great handspring of human activity is to make
the world better for posterity. The great Jug
gernaut of war is nearing completion. 1t must
roll on and on until evil is crushed from the
heart Of Germany as wine is pressed from the
grape.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

The chief danger at this present moment
seems to be that the Franco-B ritish-American
troops may wear themselves completely out try
ing to keep up with the retreating Germans.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
Will SON VIEW OF FREEDOM

tiles with to the beef trust
THE New Freedom issued as diagnosis OF the
election president ano
Discussing the need OF the couns
by that time:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Des Monies Capital: 1t may be pos
sible to end the war next year. By
ending the war the Capital always
has in mind the complete destruction
of the German empire and the aboli-
ton Of the German emperor and all
his kindred. And by abolition we
mean the use of the guillotine. The
royal family of Germany have been
guilty enough to send their heads to
the block.
Waterloo Courier: The voice seems
to have been that of Lansdowne, but
the message was the message of the
kaiser.
Hampton Chronicle: Germany al
ways urged that war was great
tonic. 1t is being forced to take large
doses of it's own medicine.
Sac City Sun: The long casualty
lists which have begun to pour IN as
the sad aftermath of the glorious vic
tory of the Yankee fighters in the
second battle of the Marine only steel
the heart to greater efforts to make
an end to Prussian autocracy.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t is the
more humiliating to the kaiser and
his generals because it Is the raw
recruits" from America, the mex
perienced, unframed Yankees who
have overmatched the veterans of the
German army. Boosting goeth before
a fall.
Charles City Press: The democrats
of Iowa are exceeding the speed limit
in pushing out army titles as cam
paign assets this fall. Too early,
boys; you had better wait until the
war is over. The heroes whom the
people will want to honor may be
privates instead of officers without
victory. The flames of battle will re-
veal the true metal. They must meet
tn test of steel
Perry Tribune: The alleged post
ponement of politics" will not inter
fere with lot of political funerals
being held.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: We are
spending s50,000,O0O day for the
war. But that's only about 4S cents
a head-iust a few cigars, few ice
cream cones, a movie or SO day.
Marshalltown Times-R epublican:
The low record of business failures Is
an evidence that we are doing pretty
well, thank you, In spite of the war
Cedar Rapids Republican: Some of
us do not seem to care how much
they are going to tax the man who
has an income of $1,000 00-let them
do their own worrying. It is better
that the government take away such
vast incomes, at least at the present
time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

Nobody has accused the postoffice depart
ment of Intentionally delaying the soldiers
mail. 1t is entirely matter of ineficiency-
lack of ability to organize and manage success
fully the largest government service aside from
the military establishment itself.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

With twenty nations in the arena against
Germany there is hardly such thing as an in
nocent bystander left in Europe
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

Waterloo Courier: The voice seems
to have been that of Lansdowne, but
the message was the message of the
kaiser.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

oUi0 w
e consumer should pay 3
appointed by ]. F. EIds
ned with whatever da,
y the food administered
Consumer Should p,
$1.53 to $1.63 per saci
24h pounds or 70 =
pound in less than hi
packages.
&c to CSC per sack Of IA
pounds. or &c per pound
In less than mill pacs.
ages.
s-.S5 to $1.72 per sack q
24h pounds.
TIC to Sc per pound.
1870 to lac per pound
6Ac to 61sc per pound.
TIC to SC per pound
she to SC per pound.
VAC to 9Ac per pound.
SC to 1870 per pound
lac to 141ac per pound
131zc to 14c per can.
&c to 61ac per can.
1910 to zoe per pound
zoe to 21kc per pound
1910 to 15c per pound
l8hc to 22c per can.
1sc to s1Ac per can.
25c to soc per can.
18c to 2S1.c per can.
14Hc to 2S1kc per can.
l6hc to 21kc per pound
TIC to 26c per pound.
Ice to 2Skc per pound.
1913 to $5.67 per case
= .9A per pound.
S2.35 per Is pound sack
5 .95 per 10 pound sack.
$ .4S per S pound sack.
33c to 34c per pound.
S3c to 36c per pound.
2Sc TO 30c per pound.
BIC to 33Ac per pound
34c to 35c per pound.
45c per dozen. i )
40c per dozen. 4 /
Soc per pound
33c to Csc per pound.
&c per pound.
soc to 40c per pound.
40c to 49c per pound.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

Hampton Chronicle: Germany al
ways urged that war was a great
tonic 1t is being forced to take large
doses of its own medicine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

Both thinking and doing essential effective
in life The doer who fails to think will leave behind
aim sad record The thinker who does not act will have
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
THE OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKUK

The following table includes mo ct Of the food st
gives the both the rea er and the
each one the special committee appoint
food administrator county. and published wit
changes for public INF ormation oy the 70
Article Retailers Pay Consu
Wheat Flour .....,. $11.00 $11.S5 per $153
rel OF 8 FAN pound sacks Fan
pound
packa
Rve E1our ......$1225 $3.50 per bar &c to 6.
rel Of twenty 10 pound pound
sacks in les
ages.
Barlev F1o,r ...SlO55 to 81 90 per bar i, SIS to
OF eight 24h pound 24h
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

Sac City Sun: The long casualty
lists which have begun to pour in as
the sad aftermath of the glorious vic.
tory of the Yankee fighters in the
second battle of the Marine only steel
the heart to greater efforts to make
an end to Prussian autocracy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13

Marshalltown Times-Republican {:
The low record of business failures Is
an evidence that we are doing pretty
well, thank you, in spite of the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
New Bond Issues
Find Ready Market
In the Dominion
Sales Thus Far This Year AL
most Equal i'm Volume to
Total for 1917

Especial Correspondence to The Tribune>
TORONTO, June 22.-Forty-five mill
ion dollars Of bonds have been placed
in Canada, exclusive of Federal gov
ernment borrowings, since January 1.
The majority of these have been ab-
sorbed by Canadian investors. It will
be recalled that nearly a year ago the
Dminion government issued a decree
that no bond issues should be made in
canada without a special license from
the Department of Finance at Ottawa.
This was for the purpose of insuring
success of the Victory Loan. For sew.
eral months after that comparatively
lew bond isues were made by munich
paiitles and provincial governments.
Ihls spring, however, has witnessed q
vigorous revival. All the new fiota-
tions were sanctioned by the govern
ment, in view Of the strong financial
condition of The country as a whole.
the long period that elapses before the
n1th war loan appears and because of
the maturity of previous provincial and
municipal loans that had to be re-
funded.
Municipal bond issues in the twelve
months ended December 81 last
amounted to $27,75O,0O0, as compared
with $25,00O,o0O during the first six
months of the current year, while
provincial issues totalled only $5,7Oo,-
zoo, as against $1s,5oO,ooo this year to
date. In 1913 municipal borrowings
amounted to $115,761 900 and provincial
borrowings to $1s,999,O00.
The Victory Loan of $419, 1000, 900
placed last December has carried the
country up almost ia the nresent IN ;fa
war expenditures. Advances from the
Canadian banks will supply the gov
eminent with the funds it requires un-
til late in the autumn, when a new Vic
tory Loan. probably $500, ,oOo, 600, will be
offered. Meanwhile the banks will be
called on for advances Of approximately
?l7S,000,o00, for which they will be re-
imbursed out of the Victory Loan pro-
cseeds. The residue of the fifth war
loan should carry the government into
the late spring Of 1919. The fact that
the government has offered no war loan
this year so far has given the munich
palities and provinces their chance.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

Professor Kemmerer presents a table
to show the rise of wages over tho
same period, which shows an increase
OF Ia per cent in union wages since
1913 as compared with IS per cent in
wholesale prices and 46 per cent in the
retail prices of food. 1--WE have now
examined the more important evidence
as to the extent of imitation in the
United States and as to its causes"
Professor Kemmerer concludes, "and
nave found reasons for believing that
fation of the currency and circulatine
credit of the United States since the
war broke out, but more particularlv
during the years of 1916 and 1917. and
we have seen how this imitation has
found expression in very great rise
in general prices affecting ali sorts of
commodities"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Regular Declarations

American Manufacturing Company.AQuar
seriy dividends of 11s per cent on the com
mon mon ana Ia per cent on the preferred
stocks, both payable July 1.
Atlantic Steel Company.-Quarter,y div;.
oend of 70 per. cent on the common stock
payable July / to stockholders Of record
June %.
Boston & Providence Railroad Comuanv.-
quarterly dividend of 21s per cent, payable
July 10 stockholders of record June 20.
n, California Electric Generating Company
quarterly dividend of / u per cent, payable
July to stockholders of record June %.
Canadian Westinghouse Company.-Quar.
terly dividend of q per cent, payable July
10 stockholders Of record June %.
Cincinnati Street Railway Company.-
quarterly dividend of rs cents share, pay.
able July i. '"'
Company.-Quarterly dividend of $3.50 !
share, payable July 1 to Stockholders of rec.
ord June Is. - e.
Cumberland Pipe Limo Company.-D;v;
aena OF IS share, payable July is to stock.
holders of record June 29.
General Petroleum Company.-Quarterl,
dividend Of 21s per cent on the comnoy
stock. payable July / to stockholders Of rec.
ord June Is.
Great Northern Railway Company.-Quar.
terly dividend of S175 snare. navahis
August 1 to stockholders of record july 3.
International Mercantile Marine Comparv
.Semi-annual dividend of per cent. nav.
July Is. ie'ofo
,, MeCrory Stores Corporation.-ouarterlv
dividend of ~ per cent on the preferrea
stock, payable July 1 to stockholders Of rec.
ord June q.
Mobile & Ohio Railway Cempany.-pivi-
oend Of per cent. payable June 27.
National Light, Heat & Power Comnarx
Quarterly dividend Of u per cent on ~.
preferred stock. payable July to stockholm
ers of record June &c.
New York, Chicago & st. Louis Gas cou-
rany-Quartery dividend of SO cents A, =
share, payable July 20 to stockholders ~ =
record July 10. Oh
Republic Railway & Light Comn.nx
Quarterly dividends of l per cent IN ~.
common and 1s per cent on the prefsrrsJ
stocks. both payable July is to stockholders
OF record July /. ''o'oe1s
VirRfnia Railway & Power Comn.r.
oemi-annuai dividend of 3 per cent IN ~.
prsierred stock. payable July 20 to sto.I sne
holders of record July /.
Msssaehusstts Lighting Company.--n,v,
dend OF 81 SO share on the preferred ,tonn
payable July Is to stockhoiders Of rs."rj x;
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
S u S t e n a n c e
Cereals

Wheat.-The wheat trade is awaiting
the action OF the food administration
on Monday, when it is expected that
the new alignment Of values to he in
effect during the coming season will
be announced. The advance in rail
rates makes this necessary, and it was
thought that some slight differences in
the differentials may be decided uponi
Crop accounts at the close of the week
were favorable. The weather was sat-
isfactory for harvesting operations, and
1t IS believed that new winter wheat
as farmers are informed as to the
prices to be decided upon. Advices
from the Northwest were very opti-
mlstic. The spring wheat crop has an
parently suffered no setback, and, while
there is yet the possibility of a de-
terioration from drouth or blight. the
crop is believed to be in q very favor.
able condition to withstand either of
these. Black rust is also to be feared.
but nothing has developed to show that
this is any more probable than durino
other seasons.
\OAAs itc oPPcoIduCc OF muCn
cooler weather in the Southwest caused
an early selling movement in the corn
market, which sent prices down 1Nc to
1ac from the previous close. Crop
accounts were highly satisfactory, but
the market was narrow one and when
shorts attempted to cover values again
rallied. The close was rather ner-
vous. with a reaction from the ton
of about cent bushel, and final ouo-
tations were only slightly char ged
from those of Friday. Reports from
the, West indicated a slightly better
cash demand, but the local market was
firm. This appeared to be due more
to lack Of offers than to any improve
ment in the demand.
Yesterdays Previous Year
New York: close close 400
Corn, No yellow .s1.7es4 sf.74s4 s,.ssN,
July ............. t.44le 1.44 f.sss4
August 1.Asts 1864 t.47ls
Oats.--The news of the day in the
oats market WaA Of varied eharacfar
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
In d u ustrials
Cotton


The action of the cotton market yes
terday was more suggestive of even
ing-up for over the weekend than of
sny fresh sentiment around the ring.
Fluctuations were due to the execution
of comparatively small orders in the
absence Of general interest, and the
ruling of the market was irregular.
Near months were relatively firm early
but relatively easy later, with July
and August showing net declines of 8
to 18 points at the close, ard later de-
liveries were 8 to 5 points higher and
the final tone steady
The market opened at decline of
to points. Some of the local map
readers thought they saw prospects
tor slightly lower temperatures in the
Southwest, probably accompanied by
scattering showers. This led to selling,
but the offerings were readily absorbed
around the initial figure, and rallies
followed the Western belt forecast,
which suggested cooler weather, with
showers for Arkansas, but generally
fair for Texas and Oklahoma July led
this early advance, selling up to 26.7e,
OF "a points net higher, compared with
advances of 15~to 20 points in the later
months. There was some Southern buy
ing of the near month, believed to be
covering of hedges that had been put
cut against actual dealings on the
break of last May, and there may have
been little trade buying of new crop
deliveries. But as soon as the more
urgent demand from shorts had been
filled the market eased off again under
realizing.
Weekend reviews of the goods trade
indicated that business had again been
restricted by the uncertainties of gov
ernment price fixing. Fall River is stifl
complaining of scarcity Of labor, and
the curtailment of production showed
an increase presumably rcfecting the
situation in this respect. According to
Washington advices official announce
ments giving the result of Fridays con-
fdence on the price-fixing proposition
were to be expected before the reopen
ing Of the market on Monday morning.
The hope of increased trade demand
after the price-fxing uncertainties have
been disposed of is still in evidence and
probably helped to steady the under
tone Of the market. 1t is rLmored that
allotmen.s of freight room ior July and
August sailing from New York are
relatively heavy, and that some of the
certifcated cotton her will be shipped
out There was no change in the news
from the Southwest. Complaints are
coming in from some sections that high
temperatures have checked growth and
that the pant is ANAL. "
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Live Poultry

Broilers.-Colored. via express. 45e;
white Leghorns, via express, 4oc;
Western, via freight, 45c: Southern.
via freight, 45c; ducklings. Long
Island, h., 40c; Long Island breeders
lb, SOC; fowls, via express, soc; via
freight, soc; old roosters, via freight.
21c; turkeys. via freight. 25c; ducks.
Western, via freight or express, 26c;
geese, via freight or express, I7c;
guineas, per pair, via freight, e5c@$l;
live pigeons, per pair. via freight, ~
nS0c