The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-29

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much of putting our money in with
you people. You're tinctured with pop
ulism and socialism and don't know
how many other 'isms out there. Oui
money wouldn't be safe. We think
your conditions are unsteady, chaotic
We don't care to sign.
Tho judge listened dumfounded;
felt as il he were closing in with q
lunatic, and said to himself They
may throw me out, but by the Lord
now I'll make a spoon or spoil a
horni"
He isn't the second cousin of Black
Jack Logan, whom he resembles, for
nothing.
Calls New Workers. Ignorant.
Unsteady, chaotic, Mr.. Cromwell!
want to tell you, sir, that the trouble
with you people here is that you're so
damn ignorant! / want to tell you
that you can't get fifteen miles from a
railroad in the whole state Of Iowa.
Cromwell emphatically questioned
that statement.
Bring railway map OF Iowa.
don't talk things / don't know"
The map was brought
Now, Mr. Cromwell, every one OF
these little squares means mile,
You can do your own counting
Makes Cromwell Apologize.
With a pencil Cromwell began run
ming over the map, muttering the
while, Yes yes--no-no-not mere!
Well, well, well! / wouldn't have be.
-. 1is,, f,,r~v in q n H.
other lawyer, Curtis, did you know
these facts?"
'sNo, but / would have know them
before I challenged a gentlemans
word,'' responded Curtis.
well, WELL" snapped Cromwell, =
apologize"
Now, I'll show you" said the judge,
where you can get fhrthest from a
railroad in the state of Iowa. It's
there [indicating] and the distance
is twelve and three-fourths miles.
Cromwell granted that he was
amazed-and convinced. ut reminds
me, in way" he said, how Stewards
purchase of Alaska turned out. was
in Stewards Office, by the way, as a
young man. When he paid S7,0oo 'ooo
in gold for Alaska people thought ne
was mad, but last year we took out OF
Alaska $9,000,G00 in gold alone, to say
nothing Of the fish,. furs, and timber.
Well, well, WE'LL"
"Why, Mr.. Cromwell said Logan
"the years poultry, and poultry PROD
ucts, in Iowa last year amounted to
more than three times that me
women of Iowa with their hens ana
the work they did while the coffee was
boiling for the men in the morning
FILLED up value Of $29, 600; and
Missouri and Illinois both beat us"
Cromwell Learns Some More.
Cromwell was off again.
ooh, tut, tut, Mr.. Logan he said:
Its not believable. Preposrerous:
Get me-" said Logan, naming such
and such an agricultural report, that
volume. You've got 1t here"
The hook came and the Judge Zip
ned the pages to the place he wanted,
merely remarking in ten seconds,
"There you are!'
well" said Cromwell. Il know
/ london and Paris, but I'm behind on
my country. Yes, I've missed some
thing! It's wonderful"
yeah" remarked the judge dryly,
"they tell me you've never peen lur-
Their west in your life than Chicago,
and only one day there
saves Franchise by Thirty Days.
There was more exchange of views
and more argument, Cromwell grow
inc less and less impatient, autocratic
and skeptical; Logan remaining
weighty. slow and hard hitting.
The upshot was that Cromwell be-
gan sending off telegrams-to Boston,
St. Louis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia
Glow long are you going to stay IN
New York;" the lawyer asked the
Iowan when the conference broke up;
until those contracts are signed.
Mr.. Cromwell grinned.
In few days they were signed:
On Jan. 10, 1910, work on the keo-
kirk dam and power house was begun.
Thirty days later the congressional
franchise would have expired.