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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
PUCK AND IT'S VENOM.

The Sioux City Journal which generally is
well-inforned as to happenings past and pres
ent asserts, in referring to the demise Of Puck,
the humorous weekly which flourished and en-
riched its owners for two decades before it
showed signs of disintegration, that its satire
was never venemous.'' But, on the other hand,
those who have a lively memory of the presi
Dental campaign of 1884 viii recall the bitter
ness and venom with which Puck assailed, in
cartoon and comment, the republican candidate,
James G.. Blaine. One of the most outrageous
cartoon conceptions ever perpetrated was print
ed in Puck, having for its subject the man who
was later defeated by Grover Cleveland. OF all
others, Puck shares with Pastor Burchard the
honor or otherwise of being foremost in aiding
in the downing of the ''Plumed Knight" The
Puck cartoon and the Burchard remarks were
spread broadcast on posters throughout the
country; and newspapers politically opposed to
Mr. Blaine caught the spirit of the cruelty that
flowed from the pencil Of the artist and repro
duced the picture in all its ugliness Puck con
tinued its pictorial assaults on Mr.. Cleveland S
opponent until the end of the campaign. Was
not its satire venomous7
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
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THE CASE OF THE PACKERS.

Minneapolis Journal: Either the
pa ckers are guilty of a real crime, OIL
they are the victims OF an outrageous
charge by the government.
II is easy to believe any charge
against great corporations The
demagogues told the public they were
being robbed by the railroads. The
railroads denied the charges. The
government came into control and
found the railroads had told the
truth. The public was assessed at
once with the costs.
On the day the government made
| its charge of exorbitant profit against
the packers, the department of jus
tice announced that it's ''investiga
lions have failed to give cause for
criminal prosecution of officials Of the
American International Shipbuilding
corporation" regarding matters at
Hog island.
The packers are a great agency for
winning the war. In June they sent
to Europe 92,173,0 900 pounds of beef
and 169,331 900 pounds of pork. The
average sent before the war was l..
O66 900 pounds of beef and Al, 531 ,00C
pounds of pork.
Had the packers been broken into
small companies this great life sup
port to the army could not have been
found. 1t is the ability to fill these
great orders that, more than any
thing else, entities the packers to a
hearing. They deny the charges put
against them by the federal trade
commission.
| The packers say the error arises as
to capital Their profits based on
capital stock are large, but they say
the federal trade commission omitted
to mention that the packers have
borrowed immense sums for added
capital, and the profit on their total
capital was less than 8 per cent
They are entitled to hearing on this
point.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

imm easurably better of even militar.
ism at its maddest. They no more be-
lieyed that Germany or France would
strike a treacherous, deadly blow at
Belgium than that a football player
would begin the game by stabbing a
spectator When the cowardly thing
was done, they gasped. incredulous-
anu then took another long, accusing,
Mortified look at this land of Goethe.
Schiller and Wagner.
But this assassination of a nation
was only the beginning. Horrors fol-
lowed thick and fast. Where were
the chivalry, the high courage, the
knightliness of war? The Germans
were fighting like brute beasts. It
would be idle to go over the sickening
catalogue again; but of this Germany
may be sure when she asks, as defeat
darkens the horizon, why she has mo
friends murdered civilian,
every shamed woman, every manned
child, every decorated and destroyed
home strewn along the first terrible
march through Belgium and France
has been long since ressurrected as a
regiment of avengers whose massed
armies will one day compel Germany
to pay the uttermost.
Third-Gradual1y the German pur-
pose emerged from the smoke of bat
tie so menacing and monstrous that
none could mistake ii. Germany
meant to master mankind. The Ger
man ambition was to establish Ger
man rule throughout the world by
force or the fear Of force. She has no
friends now because she proposed to
know no friends in the day of her tri-
umph Her soldiers sang "Deutsch-
land Ueber Allies" as they smashed
their way across two Of the finest in
dustrial districts in Europe. And that
was her preconceived, imperial poll
cy-Germany over all.
These are probably the three chief
vision clearing shocks to the universal
human consciousness which has made
every people-free TO choose its
course-align itself with the original
entente allies whose heroism averted
! the greatest disaster of civilized
times. We think instinctively of many
other German acts than those men,
toned, but they all fall into one or
other category. The atrocities have
been unnumbered, unceasing and Of
ten nmentionable-the Lusitania,
the hospital ships, the torture of pris-
oners, the maiden tribute of Lille--but
they all merely go to show how Ger.
many makes war. Brest-Litovsk elbows
how she makes peace, with the insane
purpose of world domination always in
mind Germany has challenged man.
kind to fight to a finish TO settle who
shall be master-the German race or
"the common sense of most" On such
battle ground, where could Germany
expect to find friends-excert in the
kingdom of that other arch enemy of
the human race whom the kaiser bias
phemously defines as "our good Ger
man God?"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE

YOUTH.
| met Youth faring up the hill
Twas thirty years ago
And ne was singing with a will,
.'Yo he, my lads, yo no!
For soon, said he, 81 shall grow gray,
And life will lose its song
So Up the hill l sing my way,
sing my way along"
met Youth faring on the road
Twas twenty years ago
Upon his back he bore q load,
let still he sang ''Yo ho!'
Right merrily he sung:
What matter ten brief years to me
II still my heart is young?"
met Youth on the mountain trail
Twas Just ten years ago
And he had breasted many gale
And many a night Of snow.
But still I heard above the storm
The carol of his song!
For still with youth my heart is warm
And still 1 sing along"
met Youth on the downward nliI--
Twas only yesterday
And he was singing with a will
The old accustomed way
''For have found" he said, said he
CNow gray his hair of gold)
For have found" he said, that we
We never do grow old!''
Douglas Malloch, in American Lumoernar
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

on war orders; Chicago has few Of
these. Outside of the stockyards dis
trict little war work is being Gone
And, too, excepting the meat pack
ers, war profits are insignificant
Chicago's population has headed To-
wards the cities where profits are
being cornered and wages are nigh
So it is that Chicago is now setting
in motion a somewhat belated pro-
gram of war effort. The federal gov
eminent is to be besieged with pleas,
entreaties and pressure to send war
factories to Chicago. Munition plants,
and what else the government may
want in war orders. are desired by
the Illinois Manufacturers associa-
ton
That's how. war without war
wofk--can 'depress a city's directory.
The other side-how it can initiate
its found down in Tennessee
corn field and an Alabama cotton
patch.
When this year dawned Jackson
vile, Tenn, was a well cultivated
corn field. The government substi-
tuted powder for corn, and instead
of few hundred bushels. of the lat
ter will make 100000 pounds of the
former. Today Jacksonville has 49,
UOU MONIES where COTH CIlDS StOOu,
and over $4,000 men, women and chill
dren travel over paved streets, ride
in electric cars and earn big wages.
Also, there's Sheffield, Ala. On
January 1, 1918, that was one mans
cotton patch. Two tenant families
lived on it and dozen people had
a hard time making a living. Now
Sheffield has $4,000 population,
street cars, miles of paved streets,
suburbs, and young army of real
estate experts are selling subdiyi-
sions so fast that the street naming
bureau can't keep up with them. The
governments nitrate plant did all
this.
When Chicago's million has gone,
maybe thereIl be enough good farm
ing land near Michigan boulevard to
grow quite few bushels Of corn. and
being grown near the feeding pens
of the stockyards, will be worth more
than if raised in Tennessee or Ala
bama. Chicago yet may become
fine little agricultural center.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

E. C. Rodgers, in Quincy Herald:
1t is a mighty good thing for Chicago
that the census bureau isn't out
gathering population statistics now.
For Chicago, second of American
cities. each day sees its citizens pack
| their trunks and stream eastward
and southeastward.
Chicago is being depopulatei"
cries the Chicago Tribune. And Chi
go business men are worrying.
Charles A. Munrow, Illinois direc-
tor of the U. S. labor reserve, says
more than 125,000 Chicago men have
quit the big city by the lake to work
in eastern and southern war indus
tries, shipyards, munition factories,
coal mines and other Hun-defeating
establishments. Within three months
5000 men have been sent to the gov
ernment's high explosives plant In
West Virginia. The employment
service will take at least $4,000 more
men out of Chicago within the next
six weeks.
1t is estimated that Chicago will
lose over 100000 workers, mostly
men, this year. If they remain PEI
manently they will send for their
families and thus reduce Chicago's
population by million or SO. Should
the drain extend over the next two
years, and it may if the war lasts,
Chicago's 1920 census figure may en-
title her to third place in the lis.
Philadelphia, doomed by the war, 60
ing into second.
This population loss does not take
into consideration Chicago boys who
have gone into army or navy, but
only workers who have left the city
for employment elsewhere.
In one small section Of Chicago a
survey made showed 5000 vacant
flats, 500 unoccupied houses and 12,-
600 rooms for tent. Other parts OF
the city have about the same pro-
portion of vacant dwelling places.
This has had the effect OF reducing
rentals, and now it is possible 20 get
cheaper flats and houses in Chicago
than in any other large city east of
the Mississippi.
Chicago's dwindling population IS
due to Chicago's lack of war work.
Other cities, east and south, are
filled with men and women working
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
Ministers Should Serve.

Rev. DR.. G.. H. Combs, Kansas City:
believe it was a mistake to exempt
ministers from the draft. / regret
that / am not to go as a soldier.
deem it an honor to go with the Y.
NJ. G. A., but feel that the minister
should not use his profession as a
means to escape military service. The
world has too long been divided into
men, women and preachers. In France
the clergy was not exempted and by
sacrifice, wounds and death they
have brought the church fnuch nearer
the hearts of the people. The minis
ter who has shouldered the rife and
borne his full part will find his in
fiuence UNNECESSARILY widened when
he returns home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
GENERAL ORDINANCE No. so,

An ordinance regulating the weld
Ing and sale of coal and coke, Al
regulating the inspection and mea(
| uring of wood for sale in the City
keokuk, Iowa
BE 1T ORDAINED, BY the Gil
Council of the City of Keokuk, Iowd
Section L. That General Ordinan}
No. 375, being Chapter XVI OF I'd
Revised Ordinances of the City
keokuk adopted March 81, 1912, d
and the same is hereby amended
adding thereto the following sd
| tons:
Section IL. The City weighers wi
shall be appointed by the City Cod
Gil shall also be denominated an
spector and Measurer of Wood.
shall be the duty of said Inspector
measure all wood offered for sale
the City of keokuk; and for evei
load or cord of wood so measured \
shall demand and receive from til
person having the measuring done
fee of fifteen cents: provided til,
the terms of this ordinance shall nj
apply to lots or loads of wood pI
chased and delivered, the value
which shall be one dollar or less,
at the option of the purchaser
does not desire it so measured.
Section IL. Every person offeri1
wood for sale on the wood mark
or any other place within the Gil
of Keokuk, shall provide himse
with an open wood rack: the sid,
and ends of which shall be perpe
dicular, in which the wood shall
piled one way. 1t is hereby made ii
Inspectors duty, in every instand
when wood is measured by him,
make all proper deductions for III
loose or improper pilins, and II
crooked and uneven wood.
Section 10. For all fire wood sol
by the load or cord, either on tl
wood market or other place in TIL
city. and that shall be inspected an
measured in accordance with Sectid
II. said Inspector shall give CD
tificate to the seller, showing I'll
amount of wood so measured by hin
together with the date; said certii
cate the seller shall give the pu
chaser.
Section IA. Any person who sha
violate or fail to comply with IN
provisions of this ordinance shall 9
OIL al IHlSUeUeanOT.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED:
Section 2. That Section 8 of Gel
eral Ordinance No. 375, being Sectid
3 Of Chapter XVI, Revised Ord
nances Of the City of Keokuk, adop1
ed March 81, 1912, be, and the SAM
is hereby amended by striking on
the words and figures ~ ct" folloT
ing the words "at the rate of" AM
preceding the words and figures "pd
100 pounds and inserting in liel
thereof the words and figures "thred
eighths (3s) cents" and by strikinI
out the word five" which follows N
words less than" and preceding IN
word cents" and inserting in liz
thereof the words seven and on
half CID" so that said section
amended shall read as follows:
Section g. Every City Weigh
shall demand and receive from U
person having weighing done a
at the following rate, namely:
weighing and marking each lot
coal or coke at the rate of thru
.eighths (7s) cent per 100 pound
Provided that no fee for weight
shall be less than seven and one-ha
Gh) cents"
Section 3. All ordinances and PAT
Of ordinances in conflict with
provisions hereof are hereby
pealed..
Adopted August 90, 1918, by
following vote:
Lofton-Aye.
Hemmy-Aye.
Hickey-Aye.
ED s. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor |
o. w. SANDBERG,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
DESERVING GERMANY.

The sentiment of neutral nations is manifest
" changing in favor of the allies. It may have
secretely favored them before; but while Ger
many was holding her own and might conceiv
ably triumph, the neighboring neutrals con-
sidered it expedient to preserve livable rela-
tons with her by remaining quiet. Now, how
ever, that the war is going against her and her
defeat is only matter of months, Spain informs
the imperial government that she intends to take
over a German interned vessel for every Spanish
ship sunk by submarines. Sweden has recently
signed commercial treaty with the allies by
which she agrees to give them four hundred
thousand tons of shipping and two million tons
of Swedish iron ore. Even the German-speak-
ing cantons of Switzerland, naturally sympa-
thetic with the central empires, have changed
their viewpoint and have become pro-ally as the
French-spealzing cantons are. They realize,
it is explained, that Switzerland depends on the
allies for bread and cannot hope to prosper
without industrial relations with them after the
war.
Nothing succeeds like success; and if Ger
many has been beaten to her knees and is nc
longer able to menace helpless states there prob
ably is no nation which will not rejoice to see
her get her deserts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

is over He looks to the west to furnish the
democratic candidate in the next campaign,
but not even that view is important So many
things may happen in two years that Senator
Lewis calculations may be upset. Nobody
knows what 1920 has in store
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: No matter
what treaties may be made, agents for
German made goods in America will
find an atmosphere of dislike and
hate. II Germany could appreciate
the fact that American children
prefer TO dispense with toy rather
than have one of German make, the
leaders at Berlin would get some sort
of idea as to what their commercial
interest have lost.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
Traitors to Democracy

St Paul Pioneer Press: 1t will be
poor peace which does not inclu,
the shooting OF the Hun creature
Lenine and Trotzky.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

Cherokee Times: Iowa people are
unable to understand the logic of the
government officials who place all
government war contracts with east
ern manufacturers and then proceed
TO draft the men from Iowa factories
TO go east to do the work. There are
hundreds of factories in Iowa that
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

This is going to be not by the eombination OF
nations which the most ana but by the side
possesses highest spiritual qualities The same
is true of the countries which will wipe out the effects OF
quickly when the is ended. The first
countries will be those which fight In new
way peace signed for the ideals for
they their bood.-Lieut. Connssby Daw-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

Minneapolis Journal: Frightful suf-
fering we are undergoing in having
to eat honey and cream On the break
fast food
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

Germany made mistake when she sunk the
Lustania,' - says the unafraid editor Harden, of
Berlin Perhaps she thought it was hospital
shin
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

However wicked the kaiser may be, it never
can be said of him that he is not good father
and doesn't take good care of his six sons.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

Des Moines Register: Those 10000
600 pounds of sugar sunk by a U-boat
off the Atlantic coast recently have
been followed by a shipload of booze
in order to make the joy of the fishes
complete.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

food staples on sals AZ
he consumer should paw \
Q appointed by ]. F. Eld1
shed with whatever ar
oy the food administered
Consumer Should PAD
$I.63 to $1.65 per sack 4
24h pounds or 70 n
pound in less than III
packages.
67c to 69c per sack OF 1o)
pounds. or 7c per poun|
in less than mill pac
ages.
$1.65 to SLIP per sack !
24h pounds.
TIC to TIC per pound
1SKc to 14c per pound.
&c to SIC per pound.
INC to TIC per pound.
S1sc to Sc per pound.
SIC to 9Azc per pound.
&c to 13hc per pound
14c to 14kc per pound
12hc to 14c per can.
&c to SIC per can.
1870 to zoe per pound
zoe to 21hc per pound
1870 to 15c per pound.
lS1sc to &c per can.
1sc to 21hc Per can.
Csc to soc per can
1Sc to 28hc per can.
14hc to 281xc per can.
16hc to ZINC per pour
tic to 26c per pound.
lee to 2S1zc per pound
1913 to $5.67 per case
s -9A per pound.
$2-35 per Is pound sack
s .s5 per 10 pound sack
s .ls per 5 pound sack.
33c to 34c per pound.
34c to 37c per pound
csc to soc per pound.
s1c to 1910 per pound |
35c to 36c per pound
40c per dozen.
55c per pound
33c TO 35c per pound.
&c per pound
30c to 43c per pound.
40c to 49c per pound.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
Making and Unn1aking 7o.Uns

What War to Chicago
Plantation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

The Germans arc beginning to understand
that an American army in the field is worth two
in the trainin9 ca1uDs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

Marshalltown Times Republican:
Talk Of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
what sort Of crowd could a man
gather with porterhouse steak. fried
potatoes and a bootleg of real beer in
Austria?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

Webster City Freeman-Journal: 1t
is estimated that there are approx
imately 23,00O.0o0 men in the United
States of military age and probably
half of these could qualify for mill.
tary duty under present plans. Some
armYi
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

Davenport Democrat: All we need
in this country is a fraction of the
fighting spirit that the boys are show
ing over in France. and we will fur
nish the men, the food, the munitions
all that is needed to win the war,
and to win it in next years campaign.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

might be employed on government
war work, especially the manufacture
of munitions, and contracts placed
here would help to relieve instead of
increasing the problems of labor
supply in Iowa. Iowa is not getting a
square deal.
Atlantic NewsTelegraph The man
who is appointed by the government
to have charge of any branch of war
work and who uses his place to squan-
der money should be taken before a
drumhead courtmartia1 and given the
limit of the penalty to which he is
entitled.
Council Bluffs Nonpariel: The fell
low who used to go round insisting
that the place for women is in the
home has gone out of business now
since women have demonstrated the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30

ability to do almost anything in the
line of work that men can do.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-30
THE OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKUK

The following table includes the food staples
gives the retailer the
special committee appointed
county. and published with
changes public the
Artlcis Retailers Pay Consumer
$12.05 bar $163
relof IAN pound sacks 24h pound
pound in l.
packages.
Rye Flour per 6c
rel OF twenty pound pounds.
In less tina
Gilpin observer., 1918-12-05
RAT is FRIEND OF MINERS
Workers Warned Of Coming catas-
trophe When the Rodents Leave
Tunnel-Are Fed by Men.

Investigators of mining conditions
and the peculiar dangers to which
miners are subjected recently have
taken much interest in the practice
of Western gold miners to make pets
OF the rats which commonly infest
mines. On the mother lode Of Cali
fornia 1t has been found that the
miners invariably feed the rats and
take care of them. believing that the
rodents are source Of protection
against accident, says Our Dumb Ami
mails. This is due. the men say. to the
instinct of the rats, which warns them
when tunnel Is unsafe. And when
the rats leave a tunnel 1t is almost i'm
possible to get the miners to work
there. This recalls the belief among
sailors that rats will leave doomed
ship, The miners also have found that
rats are much more susceptible than
humans to the dangerous gases that
so often cause loss Of life in the Mines
Long before the miners themselves are
affected by these gases the rats be-
come sick and show symptoms Of dis
tress. So the men keep close watch
of the rats good health.
Gilpin observer., 1918-12-05
Calculating Youth.

Margaret's uncle had taken party
of small children nutting, and when
they were to distribute the nuts he
told one of the boys to give each child
SO many handfuls. Margaret would
not accept the nuts from this boy. say
ing she wanted her uncle to give the
nuts to her. He felt little flattered
to think she would take them from
no one but himself and asked why she
felt that way. She came over to him
and whispered: "'Cause, uncle, your
hands are bigger"