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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
A BOOST FOR T. r.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The younger
Roosevelt is not An orator High
sounding phrases are not in his voca-
bulary. But he uses plain Language
SO forcibly that flowers are not
necessary to impressiveness. He is
preaching 100 per cent. Americanism.
Many people are preaching that these
days. Some of them are practicing it.
Among the latter is young Roosevelt.
And he bears the scars that verify his
humble statements. Offered high
place in the newly organized Ameri.
can Legion, he refused it because ha
felt he could do better work at a
private He was right He is doing
great work as he travels from state
to state, explaining the Legion, what
it is and intends to be, does and In
tends to do.
Before long the American Legion
Is going to WELD tremendous and
well nigh irresistible power In this
nation. And swept along on the high
tide Of that power, whether he likes 1t
or not, will be Theodore Roosevelt Jr
There is a place for him, need for
HMM his own party as much as in
the country at large. His vision IL
practical one, but any vision at all
would be a great improvement oyer
the present status.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
THIN, NERVOUS
FOLKS SHOULD
take BITR0-
PHOSPHATE
Women Need Il to Bring Pink Glow
of Health to Pale Cheeks and Fore.
stall Tell-Tale Lines Of Age.
Men Need II to Make Strong,
Vigorous Bodies and
Steady Nerves.

Weak, thin peopIe--men or
women-are nearly always nervous
wrecks; thus conclusively proving
that thinness, weakness, debility and
neurasthenia are almost Invariably
due to nerve starvation. Feed your
nerves and all these symptoms due
to nerve starvation will disappear. :
Eminent specialists state that one
Of the best things for the nerves Is
an organic phosphate known among
druggists as Bitro-Phosphate, five.
grain tablet of which should be
taken with each meal Being genu
inc nerve builder and not a stimu.
liant or habit-forming drug. Bitre
Phosphate can be safely taken by the
weakest and most delicate sufferer,
and the results following Its use are
often simply astonishing.
By Strengthening the nerves, weak,
tired people regain energy and vigor;
thinness and angularity give way to
plumpness and curves; Steep returns
to the sleepless; confidence and
cheerfulness replace debility and
gloom; dull eyes become bright, and
pale, sunken cheeks regain the pink
glow of health.
CAUTION - Bitro.Phosphate tho
use of which is inexpensive, also
wonderfully promotes the assimila.
ton of food so much so, that many
people report marked gains of weight
in few weeks. Those taking 1t VINO
do not desire to put on flesh, should
use extra care in avoiding fat-pro
ducing foods.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
PASSING Up the Tax Burden.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
In the last few days there has ap-
peared in The Gate City two articles.
ore signed "a Native of Keokuk," and
the other by Major Collins, that
should arouse the people of Keokuk to
a realization OF the dangers confront
ing the city If the vote on the question
of bonds for new city hall carries.
Let us state briefly what the results
will be. Ever since 1854 the city has
been working to the end that We might
be free from debt and induce capital
to locate here and build factories,
homes. etc. Today our Indebtedness
is 1924. 10000 and at the rate il is
being paid off it will be 225 months
before we are out Of the woods; but
if another 1925 100000 is added 1t will
be, Judging from our recent experience,
another 225 months before we are
free. Just think how that operates TO
drive investors away. Men In this
city will tell YOU how we have lost In
the past when investors seeking
location have come here, Quietly In
yestigated our debt learned OF our
taxes which if these measures carry
will be higher than in st. Louis or
Chicago. SO Major Collins states, and
everybody knows orr shipping facrli-
ties are not equal tothose of these
great cities. 1t is generally under
stood that orr state and county taxes
are to be boosted next. year. Every
one in Keokuk knows that our popula-
ton is no greater than 1t was 70
years ago and possibly, YOU can guess
why. Now word tohthe renter: Do
YOU know that If extra burdens are
placed on your landloard he will have
to add to your burdens by raising your
rent? If $225, 100000 is added to our
de5t you will have to help pay 1t.
Another phase of this matter is thai
any help to hard roads or anything
else that might help the city VIII have
to be abandoned.
Think it over and go to the polls
and help yourself.
~ - AN IMMIGRANT.
Keokuk, September IS.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
VOTE YES ON SATURDAY.

One of the needs of this municipality is city
hall, and on Saturday will be decided the ques-
ton as to the attitude of the people toward this
need. The proposal provides for the levying OF
tax not to exceed five mills and the tax period
will be of such length that the yearly total will
be almost negligible in individual cases. Aside
from its unitarian aspect-providing build
ing in which would be centralized all the
departments of the city government-there
is the matter of sentiment. This enters into
consideration owing to the fact that he pro-
posed building will be dedicated as a memorial
to the Keokuk soldiers sailors, marines and
nurses who served in the war that was waged to
preserve human freedom. Their services should
not, must not be measured in terms of dollars
and cents or gagged by feeling of self-lnterest
that would hesitate at contributing one dollar
and twenty-five cents on every thousand for
fifty years to come.
1t will not be to the credit Of the good stand
ing of Keokuk among municipalities of the
state if the city-memorial building proposition
is defeated The right way is the only way.
The only way is to go to the polls and vote
Yes
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
TODAY'S BE OF VERSE
THE KINDLY FRUITS OF THE EARTH.

THE KINDLY FRUITS OF THE EARTH.
For this, the welcome birds returned,
And mist OF fruit-bloom yelled the trees,
And, while the monday summer burned
All pollen-laden hummed the bees.
For this, the clouds and thunders rolled
Through blazing days and sultry nights,
For this we watched each bud unfold,
Nor mourned the close of springs delights.
Toward this the farmer deity toiled.
And spent his seed with lavish hand;
Though scornful crows his fields despoiled,
In laughing bounty now they stand.
They dance these Fields of waving corn,
To mock the miseI's mental throes,
Whose soul by bitter want is torn
The lust for gold; lust that grows
BY what it feeds Lo, the earth
Is Tapped in plenty-need not yearn
dissatisfied. There is no dearth
Save that by created. Learn
While not too late, from natures page,
Or learn too late her Makers rage.
Marie l. Eglington, in New York Time
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18

Washington and Chicago, and now comes the
astounding revelation that the sworn officers OF
great municipality abandoned their posts as
guardians of peace and law under circum-
stances which made their act an invitation to
anarchists and assassins, marauders and Grim
inals of every sort to pillage and terrorize the
city, This action of the Boston police in hand
ING the city over to evildoers was absolutely in
oefensible Nothing can be urged in Justifica-
ton or extenuation of it. They deserted their
posts in the hope and belief that the disorder
ensuing would be such that the panic stricken
city would call them back and justify their ac-
ton by conceding their claims which amount
to an assertion of right Incompatible with the
authority of the municipality and the welfare
of the city But they reckoned without the
governor of Massachusetts and the police COM
missioner of Boston, and seem permanently to
have lost their jobs.
The lesson taught by events at Boston should
not be lost on other cities. The issue raised is
whether the elected municipal machinery OF
cities has the right and power to maintain pub
lie order or whether the authority to protect
their citizens and safeguard life and property
shall pass to private associations organlza-
tons This contention strikes directly at the
principle of American institutions.
The authority of our one big union, the United
States of America, and that of the subsidiary
governments established by the suffrage OF
their citizens is challenged; and the outcome
will determine if government by the people IS
to give way to government by class.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
Who will not mercy unto others show, how
can he mercy ever hope to have?-Spenser.
TESTING OUR INSTITUTIONS.

ssOuly to the penetrating eye of faith is it
clear saws former Governor Mccall, of Mas
sachusetts, '.whether the world has been made
safe for democracy safe for the devil."
Things are happening in America of late
which make it possible to doubt if our republi-
can form of government is not failure. We
need not leap hastily to this conclusion, but we
are able now to get the angle and view of the
Prussian miIitarists from Bismarck down when
they declared that the German people were not
sufficiently developed to rule themselves and
must for their good be governed by the
more intelligent element of the nation. Many
utteTances of the iron CHANCELLOR make plain
his conviction that if the proletariats came to
power they would In their ignorance involve
themselves ana all other classes in the empire
iii a common ruin. He seems to have appre-
hended as ever possible just such a wild orgy
OF misrule and turbulence as has brought meal
culabIe misery on Russia. He knew his own
people and the races of eastern Europe we'll
events leave no room to doubt OF that But we
of America never for moment admitted the
possibility that his conclusions as to the inca
pacity of peoples for self government were ap-
plcable to US. We were different we thought,
were more amenable to reason, more generally
intelligent and more just.
And so we are, undoubtedly. But for de-
cades past our populace has been debased and
its high average of right-mindedness lowered
BY such nvasions from backward peoples as
no other nation in history ever received. With
these newcomers, whose ways and conceptions
were not ours, came malign crew of immi-
grants Of criminal instincts, misleaders, agita-
tors, mischief makers, miscreants, radicals
communists, anarchists, attracted here because
our freer, laXer government gave them oppor-
tunities to spread pernicious doctrines they did
not have under the powerful centralized, merci-
less governments they left behind. They came
here to promulgate vicious teachings for which
they would have been exiled shot or hanged al
home Their influence has been insidious, and
far greater, as we now discover, than had seem
ed possible; and the country wakens suddenly
to find an element in its midst WHICH avowedly
seeks to overturn our institutions and subvert
order and law. a menace whose gravity can
not be overstated confronts the country and our
success in dealing with it will determine if our
republican form of government can still exist.
Events in Winnipeg amazed and profoundly
dsquieted the country a few weeks ago. Men
asked themselves in wonder if such things were
possible on this continent, dedicated to general
education and human freedom On the heels
of the Dominion disorder came the rioting in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18

thinking people of the nation. The
bilr could not go further without
becoming a counterpart of the
Plumb plan which provides for
the equal representation on the
board of directors Of the employees
and the public, with combined
voting force of two-thirds OF the
entire membership. II the Cum
Minis bill gave the employees and
the public three members each,
the combined six would be Il
majority OF the entire membership
OF eleven. That would take the
directing power out of the hands
of the owners and place it in the
com bined bands of the employees
and the public. But the owners
would not stand for such manage
ment of their property by outside
agencies and the men charged
with the framing of railroad leSis-
lation know it. They are COM
PEELED to decide between the man.
agement by the owners or by the
outsiders, and they have decided
infayor of the owners. The min
GRITTY representation is only dust In
the eyes of the public. The owners
will be able to answer the criti-
cism of employees with the asser-
ton that they have their repre-
sentatives on the board of direc-
tors and to make their protests TO.
them. The same line or defense
will be available against the COM
plants of the public. 1t would be
better to eliminate both these
directorate appendices and reg,:-
late the relations of the companies
between themselves and their en-
ployes and the public by legisla-
ton.
An attempt is made to satisfy
the owners for the minority direc-
torate by the insertion of a sec
ton in the bill intended to elimi
nate strikes. 1t Is provided that
while employees have the right to
quit the service without mourning
any criminal penalties for doing
so, two or more of them cannot
conspire together to quit without
being guilty of conspiracy. The
penalty for such crime is fine or
$500 or six months Imprisonment
or both. 1t would require the In
depreciation of court of last re-
sort to determine whether the
legal meaning of conspiracy can be
stretched to apply TO the facts,
which, under the pending bill,
would mako the acts conspiracy.
The definition of conspiracy, ac-
cording to its use in law, follows:
"A conspiracy is combination
of two or more persons, by some
concerted action, to accomplish
some criminal or unlawful purpose
by criminal or unlawful means"
If the statute can be made to
bring within It's punitive meaning
an agreement to strike or strike
vote or any action of labor
union looking towards a strike by
employees of the railroads, it Is
just as easy and just as logical to
bring every labor Union and all It's
activities looking TO strike with
In a statute, and to punish those
who participate in any way in yot-
ing for or advising such a strike.
The Journal is not sitting in.
Judgment on the construction OF
the Cummins railroad bill on this
point at this time. But the reason
ing is inevitable. II is another of
the places where the substance IL
promised, and the shadow deliv-
cred.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
CUA1AlLNS BILL ANAL YZED

Sioux City Journal: The Cum
minis railroad bill, now before the
senate, has promised much to both
labor and capital. Like all con
structiye legislation by radical ad-
vocates of reforms, the bill, as
originally drafted, contains COR
siderable that Is shadow without
substance. The sections which
provide for the return of the lines
to private ownership are academic.
A large part of the bill provides
for the amendment of the act to
regulate commerce, originally
passed in 1887, and amended at
different times since that date.
This act is the development OF
conservative legislation on the
railroad question for the last
thirty years. 1t is the evolution
airy growth of railroad regulation.
The other part of the pending
measure is new legislation and
contains some substantial and
some flimsy provisions.
One of the new provisions Of the
bill as it now stands provides for
representation on the board On
directors of the classified en-
ployes of tile railroad companies.
Provision is made also for two
representatives on these boards
presumed to represent the public,
who are appointed by the railway
transportation board, bouy Gre
ated under the provisions Of the
bill and clothed with extensive
power. On the surface, the provi-
sion for representation of the clas-
sified employees of the roads looks
like long step towards the set
Element of the rapidly growing
danger of disputes between the
railroad owners and their en-
ployes. 1t looks as though FOR the
first time the public, which is in
evitably the goat in such disputes,
would have some means of defeno-
Ing itself. But when the whole
bill is considered these hopes be-
come mere shadows without sub
stance.
The bill provides that the board
of directors Of any railroad COM
pany as it may exist when the
lines are turned back to the pri-
vate owners, or of any company
created under the provisions for
national reincorporation, shall con-
sist of not less than eleven nor
more than fifteen members. If the
minimum number is adopted there
would be two members represent
ing the employees, two represent
ing the public and seven repre-
senting the owners. The two
representing the employees would
have no more effective voice in
determining questions OF admin
istration than if they were not in
existence. The public representa-
tiyes would be as able to control
the direction of the company af-
fairs in the interests of the people
as much as though they remained
at home and attended to their pri-
vate business. If the two sets of
directors representing the en-
ployes and the public were to COM
Bile on certain policies, they would
have four votes against seven OF
the opposition. In the decision of
policies concerning their consti-
tuencies they would be In the
same position as the inconspicuous
persons at a high society affair
who are mentioned in the reports
of the event as "also pres emit"
These sops to the employees and
the public will not convince the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
Wants a Real Memorial.

Wants a Real Memorial.
| To the Editor of The Gate City:
For many years past Keokuk has
endeavored to build a city hall. This
| is nothing new but an old PROPOSE
ton to fill a distinct need. However.
the adding of memorial to 1T is a
new issue and needs very careful con-
lsideration. A memorial should be
something that carries with 1t the per-
sonal sacrifice OF the people erecting
the same. 1t, in this instance, should
be built with the greatest reverence
TO the dead. This question is being
asked by soldier voters: How much
OF this is really an act of apprecia-
ton for soldiers and how much is 1t
| deliberate scheme to use this as q
means to obtain votes for PROPOSE
ton that has failed in the past?"
! How many dollars of this money
will be spent to show our appreciation
of the young men who have given
their lives for us? How much will
be spent for the selfish benefit of OBJ
tanning something that the city needs
and should pay for as distinct
proposition?
Are these boys who have fought and
died, been sick in barns and on the
ground with nothing but the rains OF
France to shield them; who marched
miles and miles through the mud and
rain; who left their families, jobs
II and their future to be remembered
| by building we have needed and
tried to attain for years, where the
firebells ring and the patrol clangs,
or are we going to build them suit
able monument representing per-
scnal sacrifice of each and everyone
| of us?
If the people really knew the. sac
rifices of their boys at the front, IL
they could see the crosses in the
pretty cemeteries of France. in the
poppy covered fields, and lost In the
deep pine woods, they would erect
monument distinctly for the soldiers,
which would point to the sky with
reverence and would represent a real
personal sacrifice on our part and not
tack their memory to something the
lefty must have at this time or some
future time.
A monument distinctly their own is
little enough to give our soldiers,
living and dead
Midst Flanders fields the peoples
grow
The crosses stand there row on row.
DIR. w. FRANK BROWN.
iKeokuk, Iowa, Sept. Is.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18

Kansas City Star: There is no
cheer In the news that the treasury
vaults in Washington are literally
bursting with gold What the coun-
try needs is market stalls bursting
with ham and cabbages and shoes
and sealing wax and things.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Traer Star-Clipper: Many people
think that Iowa is with the president
because we are SO anxious to see and
hear him and because we applaud
his utterances. Iowa VIII pay tribute
TO any deserving president OF the
United States when he visits this
commonwealth A lot of US who
cheered Saturday night did it not be-
cause We sanctioned everything he
said, but because. as president, he
was entitled TO all the honors and
all the demonstration OF generous
people.
Emmetsburg Reporter: Now we can
not say what the sentiment is in Des
Moines in regard to the league of
nations, but here in Emmetsburg and
Palo Alto county it is against the
ratification of the treaty without
amendments. There are no ifs and
ands about this, for any observing
man who can gauge public sentiment
at all knows that this is true so far
as this community is concerned.
Humboldt Republican: Those who
have heard or read President Wilson
say he is a wonderful pnrasemaKer.
His speeches deal in giittering gen.
eralities and charming phrases. But
they lack concrete fact--the sub
stance we can get a grip on. The
president makes us hope that he is
right, but he gives us no facts to
prove that he is right.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The land
lord who gouges is the super
profiteer He can't be escaped. We
must have shelter, and if exorbitant
payment for that shelter is demanded
we must pay. We can become vege-
tarians and wear our last years
clothes, but we can't sleep outdoors.
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune: In July
the railroads showed surplus In
stead Of deficit, for the first time
gince the government took them.
That will never do; the railroad men
will have to strike again.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The demo
cratic national committee Is already
planning for the 1920 ampaign, and
as an important preliminary basis
has set out to raise $5,o00,o00. That
is some money in a period when
economy and thrift is inculcated but
ii indicates how fervid rs the zeal of
the officeholders to retain their jobs.
Sac City Sun: The president will
find few people in the west who
think that he has brought home a
treaty so perfect that any change
would be fatal Moreover, they can
not be frightened into believing that
the amendment or explanation Of 1t,
as proposed, will be likely to re-
open the war. The American people J
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
What La Toilette Lacka.

Minneapolis Journal: Senator La
Toilette spoke twenty hours in the
senate against the oil land Teasing
bill. Then the senate passed it.
What the Wisconsin long distance
speaker needs is condenser.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18
Voice Of the People

[The Gate City does not assume
responsibility for views expressed by
correspondents. Writers OF commune
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication. but
for the information OF the editor.l
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-18

One reason, maybe, why Great Britain is so
arlently in favor of league of nations is that
she is strong enough to appeal from the decision
of the umpire.