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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
OUR OWN TONGUE.

New York Evening Telegram:
Speaking of what language the Fill
pinos will speak If given their free
dom and the possibility of reversion
to dialects, the Philippine Review
says that Spanish, implanted there al
rnost four centuries ago, is mainly the
language of reviews and periodicals
and of the leaders of the present gen.
Grafton.
English. very little known fifteen
years ago, is the governments official
language and the exclusive agency OF
our public educational system, from
the university down to the village
public school; and it is now used in
the social intercourse of about 1000
000 young Filipinos, from among
wbom the leaders Of the nations NOR
row will emerge"
The Review fayors "a practical, use
full. positive Observation-Disclosures
panism."
Whatever that outcome may be it
occurs that if we had started fifty
years ago to teach English here with
as much diligence as has been
shown in the Philippines in fifteen
years it would have been better for us
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

Discontinuance of the liquor bust
ness in the United States, set for
July l, will mark the decision IN
America of one OF the worlds Oldest
and most bitterly contested issues.
Use OF alcoholic beverages prob
ably antedates all recorded history.
And, although the first temperance
society was not organized until l1S9,
advocacy of abstinence is little less
ancient than use of intoxicants.
Mohammed was among the orig
inal advocates of prohibition.
Use of distilled liquors did not be-
come prevalent in Europe till toward
the close of the seventeenth century.
Inception of the temperance move
ment came 100 years later, but its
development during nearly two CEN
turtles was very slow.
Liquors used in ancient times were
fermented beverages
Discovery of the process Of distil-
lation is attributed to the Chinese,
who impaired the knowledge to the
Arabs. Spaniards got the secret
for 1t was kept a secret for a time
from the Moors and in turn gave
it to other European countries. Use
of distilled liquors in the old world
becamfe general and drunkenness
common.
Hard drinking In England came to
be regarded as grave national
danger. In 1875 a London grand
jury held the traffic responsible for
a great crime wave, and regulation
of the liquor business by law was in
stituted. Similar experiments were
in the meantime being made in
America
/ The battle in this country against
use and abuse of liquor began in a
mild way as protest in pulpits
against drunkenness. A New Eng
land society went so far as to bind
its members not to get drunk except
on the Fourth of July and general
training days.
Advocates of moderation gave way
to those who felt that only total alb
Istinence was the remedy. Then the
battle began.
East Hampton, L. l., in 1861, for
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
Fight on Booze Among the Oldest

babe the sale of moro than two
drains of distilled liquor for imme-
date drinking.
The constitution of Virginia. 1919,
prohibited saleS OF vines and ardent
spirits, except in jamestown.
In 1860. Quakers abolished the
habit OF drinking at funerals.
The first congress of TIT recon-
mended that laws be passed stopping
the distilling OF grain.
! Churches took definite stand
against the use of intoxicants.
In 1889 the first temperance So
ciety was organized by 200 Connecti-
cut farmers.
| The first recorded demand for plo-
hibition was made by John Chalmers
Of Nassau. N. H., in 1895. 1t attract
ed little attention.
In 1897 it was announced that 200
/, temperance societies had been form
ed in sixteen states and that 80 600
men pledged abstinence.
In 1888 1t WAS estimated that 5000
temperance societies had 1,250, 900
members.
State legislatures commenced to
pass laws in an effort to limit the
traffic. The Illinois legislature en-
acted local option" law.
The first large temperate society
was founded in Washington In 1870.
Many others soon sprang into being.
Next ''sign-the-pledge" save
swept the country. This movement
was given it's impetus by churcncs in
America and Great Britain.
BY this time the liquor question
had become great national issue in
politics. Maine took a revolutionary
step when It adopted statewide r;o-
hibition in 1916 Other states swung
into line
| But seventy-two years elapsed
! from the time the first state voted
! liquor outside it's borders before ma
tional prohibition was ratified by
thirty-six states.
When congress passed the national
prohibition amendment, November,
| 1918. there were thirty-three dry"
states. Several others were partially
dry. with local option laws in effect.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Dies MONIES Capital: The Germans
are like Eddie Richenbaeker's young
aviator, who, upon coming down,
could not state how high he had
been, but he said he saw the rising
sun for day after tomorrow. The
Germans have had that sort OF an
Illusion. Their defeats were fully
earned. They are getting just what
they should receive. We trust the
allied statesmen will stand their
ground and not give an inch.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: The al
lies claim that the Germans are now
trying their propaganda on them
themselves. Which ought to be the
final test as to its value. as If they
cannot put over on themselves they
ought to quit.
Rolfe Arrow: Just as well stop
booming Kenyon for president He
may be big enough for the job and
all that, but he lives in Iowa.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Speak
ing Of mandatories. we have been in
the game ourselves since 1898 and
our work is eminently satisfactory
both to ourselves and the people we
have been serving If as a result OF
the world war we are given addi-
tional work in this direction Wen DO
it, and do it well.
Mason City GlobeGazette: When
there are so many 1. w. w. that need
Ickings it seems too bad for Messrs.
Willard and Dempsey to waste their
perfectly good wallops on each other.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Seems like this administration might
have RETAINED from taxing the little
boys at their play. the lads who BUY
about two-thirds of the athletic equip
ment sold and who chip IN their
quarters for a baseball or wagon
tongue bat. But the takers didn't
miss a bet big or little unless on war
profits.
Perry Chief: Even If all the roads
were paved the Improvement would
noto keep pace with the rise in land
values.
vinton Eagle: The agricultural
problem would not be SO difficult II
it were possible to farm sitting at
roller top desk with red-headed,
gum chewing stenog close by, and a
bag or two of golf sticks IN the
closet But it isn't done that way.
1t is following the old gray mule out
in the hot sun that discourages
great many would-be farmers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
The Snake at the Hearth.

Lowell Courier-Citizen: The worst
menace Of this country at present Is.
III our judgment. the unbalanced par
lo1 bolshevik," whose delight In
preaching class hatred is comparable
with the delight Of children playing
with matches. With what probably
seem to the cult the most laudable in
tentions in the world, there Is danger
that a fire be started which cannot
be controlled The inequalities OF
social strata are admitted, of course,
for any fool can see that they are
there. The thing needed is sanity In
dealing with them-and sanity is
about the last characteristic that can
be predicated of the average "parlor
bolshevik." II only a few Of our
rlale and female agitators could be
isolated in psychopathic wards where
they clearly belong. the world would
be infinitely better off.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
a Now York View Of cummins.

New York Times: It Is pleasant
for all of us who will take the trouble
to gaze into the dark backward and
abysm of time. and remember the
Iowa idea. sprouting and taking shape
and blossoming and leafing without
fruit, to see Senator Cummins chosen
to the irenic, illustrious, and mostly
otiose place of president pro tempore.
Mr.. Cummins is an amiable gentle
man, of whom 1t may be said truth
fully, as Heine said to Alfred dc Mus
set, that he has great future behind
him. 1t is sufficient evidence OF
Mr.. Cummins's amiability that he
takes a place which Mr.. Hiram John
son, of California, and Mr.. Lenroot, of
Wisconsin, regarded themselves, or
were not regarded, as suitable for.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
TODAY'S BiI OF VERSE
A CREED.

~
hold that when person dled
His soul returns again to earth;
Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise,
Another mother gives him birth,
With sturdier limbs and brighter brain
The old soul takes the roads again.
Such is my own belief and trust;
This hand this hand that holds the pen
Has many hundred times been dust
And turned as dust, to dust again,
These eyes of mine have blinked and shone
In Thetes, in Troy, in Babylon.
All that rightly think or do.
Or make or spoil; or bless, or blast,
Is curse or blessing justly due
For sloth or effort in the. past
Nv life's statement OF the sum
OF vice INDUCED, overcome.
And as wander on the roads
shall be helped and healed and blessed
Dear words shall cheer and be as goads
To urge to heights before unguessed
My road shall be on the road made
All that l gave shall be repaid
So shall fight, so shall tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall glory wreath my head,
So shall faint and show the scars,
Until this case. this clogging mold,
Be smithied all to kingly gold.
John Masefe
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
WOMEN! DRY CLEAN
THINGS AT HOME
Try it! For a few cents you can
dry clean everything.

gave fve TO tcn dollars quickly NJ
Try cleaning everything in the home
with gasoline that would be ruined
by soap and ater-suits, coaI|
waists, silks. la-es. gloves, shoes
fuls. draperies, lugs-everything! \
Place gallon or more of gasoEns|
in a dishpan or washboiler, then pu|
In the things TO be dry cleaned, thsil
wash them with Soivite soap. Short
L. everything corlas out looking liSl|
rev. Nothing fades. shrinks q
wrinkles. Do not attempt to dn|
clean without Solvite SOAP. This gasI
cline soap Is the secret OF all y
cleaning.
A package OF So.yite soap contain
Ing directions for home dry cleanup
costs little at any drug store Du|
clean out doors 81 away from nan'|
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
THE JOYOUS JUNKETEERs.

The department Of commerce boasts Of hav-
ing ninety trade experts" in Europe
'Through reports of the experts the depart
nlent expects to be able to guage accurately the
needs abroad for any specified product" an
nounces Secretary Redfeld. If any of those
chaps ever makes a report, by the time the de-
partment of commerce is through tinkering
with it the nutriment will have been destroyed
The department of agriculture is also planning
to send a commission to England to study Brit
sish markets The number of those who are
seeing Europe first" at government expense
is astonishing Whether they are studying
European markets, finance, laws, religions or
diseases, most of these junketeers appear to
find it necessary for the public service to spend
few days touring the war areas and congratu-
lating themselves that they were bomb-proofed
while the war was on. Europe seems to be a
ground for multitude of second-rate American
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
A Simple Way To
Remove Dandruf

There is one sure way that has new,
failed to remove dandruff at once, any
that is to dissolve it, then you destg
it entirely. To do this, just get aDoaa
four ounces of plain, common lqaas
arvon from any drug store this Is !. !
you will need), apply it at night w ss.s
retiring; use enough to lnoisten the s .,9
and rub it in gently with the finger y.
By morning most, if not all, OF You ~.
dandruff will be gone, and three Or ~
more applications will completely ~ "
solve, and entirely destroy, every sl eys
sign and trace of it, no matter no" hiu'
dandruff you may have. ia,
You will find all itching and dggs
of the scalp will stop instantly and ".
hair will be fluffy, lustrous, glossy s
and soft, and look and feel q hun'i'
times better.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
40 WINTERS -
40 SUMMERS SINCE TM ~
HAVE ROLLED AVA

Forty WHITES and forty summs ~
have rolled a,Say since persons vi
are living and well today flrss ~ n
the prescription for Number ~ y, N
The Blood Number 4O' is W
pounded from ingredients that
set down in the u. S. Dispenser W,
and other authoritative medical po.'|
as follows: employed in diseas,]
of the glandular system, in plooa N
son. mercuria1 and lead poisonl
scrofula, rheumatism, ca'afi ,,.o,s,I
stipation, liver and stomach ai, MA
Under It's use, sores, ulcers, M
tumors and lscrofulous sWeilins,
have withstood all other ttea'
disappear as If by magic. :. pra
No. 40 is sold by McGraln
Drug Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
NO MORAL IN THIS TALE.


Davenport Democrat: One may not
estlng in the Congressional Record
but this is not true Of all govern
ment publications. There's the bureau
of American ethnology, for instance
The bureau specializes in Indian lore
and the music, the stories. and any
thing pertaining to original Ameri
cans goes into its publications.
Reading one today. one makes the
interesting discovery that the Indian
did not feel 1t necessary to point a
moral with his anecdote. For in
stance, here's the tale of a notable
horse-stealing exploit Of the well
known Eagle Shield:
On one occasion when Eagle
Shield led war party against
the Crows they found that the
latter had picketed their horses
within the circle OF tents. Eagle
Shield and a companion. having
entered the village as scouts, saw
these horses. Eagle Shield said
to his companion. Let us go and
get some of the horses. His
companion replied, No. if we do
the rest of the party will be
angry" Eagle Shield then said.
LET us each take one horse"
His companion replied. You do
It," Thereupon Eagle Shield.
creeping into the circle OF tents.
took two horses. a black and
brown, and escaped without de-
lection. Each mounting a horse
he and his companion reached
their camp about daybreak.
The loss of the horses was
soon discovered by the Crows,
who increased their watchful-
ness. SO that the other members
of the Sioux war party were un-
able to secure any horses. So 1t
happened that Eagle Shield and
his companion were the only
ones who returned on horseback,
the rest being obliged to walk.
No wonder the Indians are such an
lot. Think of telling a
story of successful horse thievery
like that, instead of ending 1t with
the hanging OF the horse thieves'
Honesty is the best policy" evi
IDENTIFY does not appear in the Sioux
copybook. Instead, they painted the
horse thieveS as riding home-even
the one who passed the buck to
Eagle Shield-while their less enter
prising companions had to walk
Such devotion to fact seems entirely
tnexcusable, according TO modern
moral standards The influence on
the Indian youth could not but be
bad. We fear that Eagle S1.eld had
a most conscienceless press agent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

there is no factor that SO vitality af-
fects the value Of farm land or the
margin of farm profits as that OF
transportation. And the larger part OF
the cost of transportation from farm
to ultimate consumer Is that incurred
by the haul over public highways.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

bureaucrats shopping around and on the look
out for information--any kind--to write about
as an excuse for spending the public money
it is tough on the countries that have just FIN
shed the war, but the American people can
sympathiz with the Europeans.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

to have abolished the zone syst psnrI
applied to second class mall nsr
sentative Mondell must De pr
to be denounced by Postmasle,h 4
eral Burleson as in league WIN
fish interests engaged in coD
acy against the government.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

The first Massachusetts woman to
graduate from college was Lucy
Stone, the famous suffrage pioneer.
She worked nine years TO earn money
enough to go to Oberlin, then the only
college open to women.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

Germanys attitude toward indenntles APP
parenty is that she is willing to pay them II she
may petend that she doesn It have to-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
INVITING BurIeson,s Denunciation.

New York World: In venturing to
announce that, as one of the leaders
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

Now will someone in authority kindly draw
up a treaty of peace with the prohteersf
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22
WAR FRAUDS.

This is the era of frauds built upon the warm
sympathies of the public for all our fighters and
national servants in the war period. Such an
era ALWAYS follows a national crisis and always
will until the lazy, immoral and rascally folk
are no more Out Of sixty cases of men in uni
form found peddling in the streets of New
York City, thirty-twe were discovered to be
civilians never doing war service who were
in stolen uniforms; sixteen had
seen service, been discharged, offered JOBS at
good wages but preferred to ''get easy money!
twelve were bona fide cases of. necessity. The
tw elve cases were twelve too many; 1t is a shame
to the public of any community and to the ma
ton that returned soldier should honestly fail
of respectable job, if he tries to get it. But
the forty-eight cases where fraudulent appeal
to public sympathy was being coined into a
good living not earned are sufficient majority
to warn the public of wisdom in making sure
that a soldier is compelled to peddle for his
livelihood There is much reason for the dis
content of returning soldiers and sailors; they
find our industries at a standstill where they
had reason to hope that their fight had made
the future secure and stable. But it is doubt
full whether any considerable number OF the
men are yet forced to rely on public sympathy
for a living.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

The peace treaty should be interesting read
ing to that Berlin professor who, year ago,
said that Germany loved the other nations and
was furnishing them for their own good.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-22

The ten-cent loaf of bread is going to die
hard Millers say that Notwithstanding the
threatened big drop in the quotations on wheat
they do not believe it possible to reduce flour
prices sufficiently to make decreased bread
prices possible. And bakers, who because OF
war conditions have tasted the fruit of unusual
prosperity, eagerly second the statement of the
millers. The millers and the bakers do hate to
let go of good thing Yet hope for the con
sumer rests in the statement of Federal Wheat
Director Barnes that an immediate reduction
in the price of wheat reaching all down the
line from the producer to the baker, is assured.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-01-21
INTENSIFICARANSE LAS
RELACIONES COMERCIA-
LES CON MEXICO
La ascciacion de manufactu-
reros proyecta establecer
dos SucurSaleS

\ iniciativa del senior Dick Pra-
seel. p~erteneciente n Ia Association
dc Manufacturers de San Antonio,
cs muy possible que dcntro de breves
dias. la referida a]grupacion sc re-
suclva i establecer sucursaies en- dos
| ciudadcs de Mexico, con ell fin dc
intensificar las relaciones comercla-
les con nuestro pals, como, segun
| hemos manifestado en- otras ocaslo-
nes. Sc proponcn hacer la Camara
de Concrete V un gran numero de
commentaries aislados de los Estados
Unidos.
En- la Ultima session que la Aso-
ciaci6n de manufacturers celebro'
| el refcrjdo scnor Prasscl propuso, Y
fuG su idea a~ccptada con entuslas-
mo. que, para que los trabaJos dc
propaganda cue los manufacturers
de, San Antonio quicren llevar a ca
DO en- la Republica MeXicana. ten
gan GXito cs Indispensable que sc
! cstablezcan sucursales en- aquel pals,
hahiendosc acceptable. como antcs de-
| cimoS, ei proyccto del proponcnte Y,
aunuue no ha Sido aprobado en- 10
particular 81 10 fuG en- 10 general,
crevendose que en- Ia session proxima,
Sc acuerde el gasto de clnco mil o
dieZ mil dolares que 81 estableci-
miento de las casas en- Mexico re-
%quiere. =,
Segun ell proyecto del senior Praesel,
las sucursales deben estabfecerse en-
Monterrey, \. /. Y N Nuevo Laredo,
Tamaulipas, puntos estrateglcos pa
"a dominar el concrete con Mexico,
Y nara estar en- constante contacto
con las casas industriales de San
Antonio.
Ademas. para que esten al fren-
te de las dos casas On question, sc
e~nviaran de esta ciudad dos plantas
suficientcs de cmpleados, los cualeS
deben estar interiorizados de las
condolences V necesidades de nues,
| tro pale, asi como conocer la len
qua espanola, para que las operaclo-
mes que Sc proponcn ilevar a cabo,
tengan ci rcsultado que sc proponen.
Como antcs declines, Ia idea ha
| sido aceptada en- 10 general Y cor
gran cntusiasmo, por todos los MEM
bros de la Association de MaDufac'
~tureros, estando pendientc de apro'
bacion los detaIles. o sea los lugarcs
donde So estahfeccran las sucursales
Y 81 gasto de cinco a dicz mil pesos
que 81 asunto requicrc, pcro sc tie,
ne confianza IN que. dadas las ven,
taias que este proporciora a la in
| dustria dc San Antonio, scan dichos
| dctailcs unanimamentc arrohados.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-01-21

Eh. Don Tancrcdo. pasa 81 i1acno y AZ
o,,iera dicamc dondc VI ;anto hucnu y TN
corr;cndo como 81 10 sisuicra una Par'ada
dc "tccolotcS" . 10 -,
a,e,a.iyo CSC dc Den 1ancrcdo. quo e5ta nuc-
no para mote dc torcros o cornudos' que 6
10 mesmo. Ia vcrsarcTos. II
No Sc enfadc. vale. que solo SC 10 diS"
nor sI linda c~aratula, mesmamcntc como un
panba5o de Pucbla. IA
-Pues S; p cSpetacu!os vanos. cl que "a.
4, es de D%uritita boia. como Gccimos los
ale. de bstan. como Ia han bautizado los
catrines. o de chain. cual olsen nuestros pri-
mos. Ora 81 que el comal le dice 4 lola,
tairn que tizuada estas.
a que chistoso es I'd. vale Panadero-
-Algod0n. vale Jarrc.
-:AIgod6n ha dicho? ;Quc cabeza ia de
&, tocayo! Hascorita me acuerdo que ten
20 que dir por Ia raya de Ia pizea. lara man
dzr los recoIincs 4 Mexico, onque a Ia verda
no Sc como. cstoy escamado-...
-Pues no Sc aEorZome. sinor. como diccn
en- Samantha. 70 VI TRAGIC Ia fierrada y Il
ESQ voy. a mandarIa pa IA vieia y los cha
mcos. que no qUcro que padczcan de jaspia,
como tantos dc nuestros probes compatri-
clos.