text: -V« ,:»••» V? nf A t+ *V IX &*< *tr 41^%, j* fv f^!i '-'s i"S' 'V Vns ^y1 •i8S*fcC*\ ^t, wr 5 StmoliqjuHiam. STBLIBBED DAILY BT TB9 TIMES-REPUBLICAN PRINTING COMPANY. TERMK One Tear, by Mail $5.00 By the Month, by Mall 4-" Delivered by Carrier, by the Month.. .50 Entered at the Postoffice at Marshalltown. 1cm a. assrcond-class malll matter. SHAW'S CUSTOMS REFORM REGULATIONS. Secretary Shaw has amended the regulations governing baggage inspec tion at United States ports. While he has endeavored to reform any abuses cn the part of inspectors he has very sensibly ordered the issue of circulars for distribution among outgoing and incoming ocean passengers containing information as to tariff rates on duti able goods, forms of declarations and general customs regulations. Important modifications are those allowing $300 exemption in wearing apparel and oth er personal effects and the free ad mission of all articles taken abroad as baggage. The amendment providing that ladies may have their baggage ex amined in private will obviate great annoyance and save many blushes in future if enforced. Secretary Shaw seems to deserve the slur of "shirtsleeves," thrown at him by the English press. He has had his coat off most of the time since his advent into the cabinet. He works more com fortably that way. THE PUBLIC'S TASTE FOR FICTION. Librarians in charge of public libraries everywhere note an inordinate public avidity for Action, and in library circles the Inauguration of an organized movement looking to the restoration of the public craze for the lighter and more ephemeral literature is being gravely discussed. It is suggested that the remedy lies largely in the capability of the librarian and the influence he may exert upon the public. The librarian at Springfield, Mass., reports that in the past four years of his incumbency he has effected a decrease of 24 percent in the volumes of Action loaned and an increase of 45 percent in the total number of books lent for home use. How this was effected he does not precisely state, but very probably it was accomplished through suggestion and advice and mostly among the younger patrons of the institution. Different plans suggested in connection with this movement are the lending of two books at once, with the provision that but one shall be fiction by advertising the resources of the library in public prints and by excluding from the shelves all unworthy books and those which should not be read. These plans are open to grave objection. The average American objects to a censorship of literature as well as of morals. He has a wide conception of the term public and a founded distaste of anything like censorship or one man power in public affairs, the forced loaning of two books at one time would result. In most cases, in the patron carrying the two home to read the one. It is a hard matter to force a new taste or destroy by violence one already formed. There is much in favor of the exploitation of a book of real quality in the newspapers or by placards on the library walls, however, as an aid to selection and as a standing suggestion to patrons. Assuming that the taste and its indulgence for fiction is inordinate, the plan most apparently effective would seem to consist of personal suggestion and advice on the part of the librarian and an organized campaign of admonition and suggestion on the part of the public schools. There is no doubt that fiction of the ephemeral and erotic sort is too much read by the young, and a movement of the nature noted might and very likely would prove of great and lasting benefit. PARTISAN ATTITUDES TOWARD TRUSTS. There is a decided difference between bombast and accomplishment, between the individual or organization that is given to action and one rich in promises and indigent in performance. Nowhere has this been more largely illustrated than by the attitude of the great political parties on the problem of trusts. The democracy has denounced the republican party as a promoter of trusts and the champion of special privileges. It has been loud in denunciation of combinations and monopolies, but what has it accomplished in the states where its control is hereditary and unquestioned? There is not an effective bit of legislation against trusts remaining in a democratic state. Some of the loudest-mouthed of the critics of the republican party as a trust maker have been exposed as trust mongers and profit takers in the organizations they affected such strenuous effort to destroy. The democratic party's outcry against trusts has been hypocritical upon the face of the returns and its blatant criticism and denunciation not the voice of reform, but the insistent clamor of a beggar crying for the spoils of office. On the other hand, pernicious activity on the part of a trust has been the signal for an attack upon it by the republican party. President Roosevelt is threatened with the united opposition of the trusts because of his determined stand for the enforcement of the laws made by republicans for the restriction of illegal combinations affecting competition. The republican party enunciated in its last platform its condemnation of "all conspiracies and combinations intended to restrict business, to create monopolies, to limit production, or to control prices," and place itself plainly on record to favor such legislation as will effectively restrain and prevent all such abuses, protect and promote competition, and secure the rights of producers, laborers and all who are engaged in industry and commerce," and this proclamation seems to be the sentiment of all republican congressmen. So prominent a representative of conservative republican sentiment as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says editorially: "Every republican congressional convention in the United States in 1902, and there will be 386 of them, should make a robust expression of republican anti-trust doctrines on these lines. The republican party can do this effectively at this time on account of the assaults which are being prepared on the railroad merger and the beef trust. All the resources at the command of the government will be used against those combines in the cases which will come before the courts. The heads of the combines expect an effective assault from the national authorities. Concession talk has been heard from some of them, and protestations of innocence from all of them. The old swagger of the trust magnates has ended." There will be effective and sensible legislation by the republicans against the trusts in the coming congress. Not the crazy, iconoclastic nihilism advocated by the more contumacious of the democratic orators, but a sensible control of trusts based on knowledge and economic principles. Like the lark in the fable familiar to schoolboys, the trust magnates themselves recognize the necessity of moving their nests now that the republican party is ready for action. IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES. The Davenport Republican asks "Have you noticed the beautiful inconsistency? First, there was the attack on the Moros—they must not be allowed to own slaves. Now it is said the Moros are being abused by the soldiers who are attempting to make the savants and dattos obey the laws of the United States." The Cedar Rapids Republican says: "Cut down the packer's profits, if you can, but do not cut down the price of farmer's cattle. They are not getting more than their values as it is." The Keokuk Gate City suggests that quail on toast or terrapin and champagne be substituted for steaks. "And a good thing it is for the farmer, too," says the Davenport Democrat, "that the price of wheat and the price of silver have not gone hand in hand this year." The Clarksville Star notes that "the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald is not pleased with the resolutions passed at the "Waterloo convention." The Star thinks "it's strange that a republican convention can do nothing to please the democratic papers." The Chelsea Independent concludes that "With daily mail at his door, telephones in his house, trolley cars passing his gate every fifteen minutes, electric lights on fence posts, a macadamized road smooth as asphalt all the way to town, when the cows milk themselves, the pigs are fed by an automatic machine and commit suicide when ready for market, when butter is made from self-churning cream, and electric machines plant, tend and harvest the crop," the farmer will not have such a bad time. The Rockford Register observes that nearly every man who leaves Iowa for what he thinks is a better country is sure of two notices in his local paper inside of a year—one telling of his departure, the other of his return. There isn't a newspaper in Iowa with a hyphenated name, says the Marion Register, "that would not be just as good a newspaper if it only had one name instead of two. Storm Lake has its Pilot-Tribune, "Webster City its Freeman-Tribune, Akron its Register Tribune, Central City its News-Letter, Independence its Bulletin-Journal and there are many others, but one name is enough for one paper." KEEPING UP THE PARITY. [Chelsea Independent.] The editor of the Tama Methodist says: "I have been informed by several men that we have some genuine gambling dens in town. It is said that in one place boys are taught this vile work. What are we going to do about it? Gamblers and saloon keepers are two classes of people that ought to be treated as we treat murderers. They ought to be locked up for the remainder of the natural life or until they are ready to live an honest life. Do you wonder that we preachers and the Christian workers are opposed to the cards, and that no card player had a right to membership in our church? If there were less social card games there would be less gamblers." The Bible says something about returning good for evil which seems to have escaped the notice of the writer of the above. If the saloon keeper and gambler were given a life sentence then in order, (as we used to say in 1896) to maintain the parity it would be necessary to give the merchant who sold a dozen eggs containing two rotten ones about twenty-five years the man who lets his chickens run on your garden would have his right leg amputated above the knee, the son of a gun who refused to contribute to the church would be given stychnine and whisky. This would leave no adequate punishment for the inhuman fiend who marks his paper "refused" and sticks it back in the post office. Taken by and large the clipping from the Methodist doesn't show any of that forbearance which is the distinguishing mark of the true Christianity. She's a radiant, witching, wondrous gem, that beautiful, blushing wife mine. She is. An angel on earth, so you. Can be, only take Rocky Mountain Tea. McBride & Will Drug Company. TOPICS OF THE TIMES South Carolina's peculiar success in attracting attention through its senatorial representation should reconcile Delaware to her sorrow. Instead of working up so much indignation over the incidents in Venice and Trieste where United States sailors are alleged to have slapped the faces of a few Italians would it not be reasonable to wait for their story of the provocation that led up to the chastisement? Possibly the Dagos deserved it. Thieves in Chicago stole and carried away a 500-pound church bell recently. Attracted by its ring, probably. The "sea air" tabloid is the latest and is expected by its inventor to abolish the vacation habit. He proposes to put sea air on sale at every drug store. One of these purchasable "tabloids" dissolved in water will increase the oxygen of a room and produce other conditions. Bought by those who find it beneficial periodically to seek a change of scene. Hereafter we may be expected to take our outings in tablets or capsules of assorted sizes. Ten days at the seaside in a tablet or a hunting or fishing trip in a capsule will scarcely recommend themselves to the average man. The Iowa postmaster will find much in today's news dispatches for pleasant perusal. The candidacy of Mr. Ora Williams, Des Moines correspondent, for the position of secretary of Iowa's Louisiana Exposition commission, should receive the hearty support of every member of the commission. Mr. Williams is unquestionably the ablest correspondent doing newspaper work at Des Moines today, a man of careful judgment, long journalistic experience and thorough honesty he would make an able employee of the commission. Mr. Williams has held responsible editorial positions on such papers as the Des Moines Register, Omaha Bee and Sioux City Journal and is at present employed by the two last named papers jointly with the T.-R. to represent them at the capital city of Iowa. The post office department has some strange contracts to award. Last week, it let the contract for carrying mail on a canoe route in the Philippines and the same day closed a contract for a mail delivery in Alaska by dog sled. The men who take the Alaska contract will travel the 414 miles between Eagle and Valdez, making the journey twice a month, and receiving no less than $1,500 per trip. The Cedar Rapids Republican advises every Cedar Rapids citizen to make a garden. But Editor Cole gives no advice on the town cows and neighborhood chickens said to be abundant in Cedar Rapids. Canada does not know whether to be pleased or alarmed by the influx of Americans into the far western end of the dominion. Many thousands of farmers are said to be moving into Canada on account of the abundance of very cheap lands in that region, and the Canadians are afraid these newcomers will put new ideas into the heads of their Canadian neighbors and start an annexation movement. As illustrating the changes and improvement, less than forty years have accomplished in the United States, an incident related by an aged lawyer who has been a resident of this city from its beginning is valuable. This gentleman, who is intending to pass the coming summer in Denver, has a life insurance policy issued in 1864 containing a peculiar clause which, if enforced, would prevent him from visiting any point so far west as Denver under penalty of the invalidation of the policy. Under the conditions, he was enjoined from visiting any point west of 100 degrees west longitude or south of the thirty-fifth parallel of latitude. In other words, he was not to expose himself to the scalping knives of the Indians of the plains, the ready revolvers of the western mining camps, or the yellow fever epidemics of the south. He made application to the company for permission to break the provision and was promptly informed that he was at liberty to go or reside anywhere in the United States that he chose. The fever has been conquered and the Indians are all good Indians now. Mrs. Carrie Nation is now doing her stint at Detroit, and the Detroit newspapers are calling her a "revival of the Cherry sisters." Iowa still leads. The death of Paul Leicester Ford, it really was a serious loss to American letters. In fiction, his "Janice Meredith" and "Hon. Peter Sterling" were great successes, and he had made his mark in biography with Franklin and Washington as subjects, and had won reputations as a magazine essayist. Secretary Root's reply to the Senate resolutions on the orders issued in the Philippines is the frank and emphatic document that was expected from him. The war department and the army have had and have nothing to conceal. Gen. Chaffee, his predecessors and his subordinates have acted under general order No. 100 of 1863, which is law, the army now as it was then. Several measures have been used against the enemy by commanders whenever it seemed necessary for the safety of persons under American protection, and the result has shown them to be more humane to all than milder measures would have been. Where there have been accusations against officers of fighting the rules of war, those officers have been brought to trial. What more is to be asked or expected? The May Atlantic contains a paper by William M. Salter, of the Electrical Culture School of Chicago. Secretary Salter has stated the case of anarchy incisively, and at the same time more dispassionately than would have been possible some months ago, immediately after the assassination of President McKinley. He points out the unsuspected strength of anarchism in this country, and some of the elements of its growth, and indicates with singular precision some of the factors which must be considered in any attempt to solve the problem which the prevalence of anarchism presents. An issue of this year's legislative contest in Florida is the proposed extension to that state of the dispensary system for the state management of the sale of liquor, as already installed in South Carolina. As a means of adding to the state revenue, the dispensary system would be popular in Florida. The Chicago Federation of Labor by a referendum vote of 233 unions has appointed a political action committee composed of ten members. Victories for labor candidates in San Francisco, Bridgeport, Ansonia and Hartford, Conn., account for the action of the Chicago men. I LOOKER-ON IN IOWA. For the Tribune-Republican. Deep River, May 9.—In many of our best Iowa towns, this referring to such towns as trading places for farmers, both in the marketing of farm produce and in the purchase of family supplies, there has been this spring much talk of dull trade, and a few of the chronic kickers, remembering old terms, actually have mentioned "hard times." This kind of talk comes more from towns that have lately established free rural delivery than from others. Still here is an argument heard from a prominent business man in Explain. "Yes, sir, the free delivery in Nexton is killing business here. Before they started those three routes out of Nexton I know of over twenty farmers who got their mail here. Now they don't have to come here for their mail and go somewhere else to trade. The moral of this would seem to be for Explain to have a rural delivery of her own. But the next day the writer arrived in the town that was stealing the trade of Explain. And this is the story heard there: "The rural business here is killing the trade of this town. The farmers are sending to Chicago and buying everything they can of and why, I saw one route carrier come into our post office and buy five different money orders for as many farmers, and we lost just so much trade. These so-called wholesale houses of Chicago are sending all of our farmers their catalogues and now, when they can get the carriers to bring out money orders any day, they send to Chicago for everything from a paper of pins to a threshing machine." So there is trouble all along the line. According to these business men, it hurts, if you don't have a rural free delivery system in your town, and it hurts if you do. Somehow the average business man does not think of "fighting the devil with fire." They do not advertise in their weekly papers prices and goods to meet the prices of these "wholesale" dealers. It never occurs to them that the farmer can be made to buy in New York or explain if prices are quoted to him low enough. It goes without saying that any dealer in an Iowa town can sell a farmer a wagon at as low a price as Chicago can. If he will keep in stock the cheap class of goods, the Chicago firm deals in. One class of our business men have "caught on to the racket," and they are the harness dealers. A farmer comes in and says he can buy a set of harness in Chicago for so many dollars, and our Iowa harness men promptly offers to do the same. Why? Because they carry in stock a few sets of the cheap machine-made harnesses that of Chicago advertises for dollars. Many of our tailors are also doing the same kind of business. A customer now can pick out the cloth, have his measure taken by the local tailor or clothing firm, and then the clothes are ordered and made in Chicago "at wholesale," sent back and the dealer here in Iowa gets a little profit out of the transaction. But if that suit of clothes is made in Explain, by home tailors and workmen, why five to ten dollars are added to the price. And here is a bit of opinion, given here at the risk of being classed with the "hard times" crowd. Merchants must realize that the Iowa farmer and town dweller also, for that matter, has been doing some overtrading for the past three years. Good times and good prices have caused him to buy freely of everything he needs and some things he doesn't. Pianos and organs and sewing machines purchased last year will not be a necessary purchase this year nor for several years. The house that was furnished last year with new carpets, curtains, and new furniture will not be refurnished this year. The frayed bought two years ago is still in good shape. Rural delivery or the lack of it will not help this state of affairs. Put it another way, the good times have now made the demand and supply about equal. In 1900 the demand and the financial ability made big trade. In 1902 the financial condition still good, but the demand is less, because of former large supplies. A Fight to a Finish. [Scribners' Magazine.] Suddenly there is that strange, silent thing up once more, but this time you remember your lesson and take advantage of it. Then you begin to breathe again in the belief that the fight is almost over and your cramped wrists and fingers are about to get a well-earned respite. Over? The ridiculous idea is mocked out of your hand with another snatching leap that takes him a foot out of the lake and shows him to you in the flooding sunshine only thirty feet away. Provided you don't drop the rod out of your hands in admiration at the sight. You have a fighting chance. So as he. "Careful," says the guide, in a trembling whisper. If that fellow's a pounder, hold him there minute. Keep steady. I'll head into deep water." Once, twice, three times your rod slips into the lake, and still the strain over eases, still that swift running creature below keeps up his plucky struggle. You feel the drops of sweat on the treatment of your forehead, the early morning air is as cool as the breath from the snow-clad mountain. Gradually, weakens, and you know that, barring accidents, you have won. Up, as a river and closer, you draw him along till at last he floats there within a foot of your boat. No eyes so wicked as a musky's. They glare up at you like an egg dog's seeming to watch every motion you make, lie careful. Here it comes—his final despairing leap for liberty. As he makes it his powerful tail sweeps against the stern and deluges you with water. But the hooks hold, and once more, for the last time, you draw him again to where the guide walls with a revolver in his hand. A shot back of these glittering eyes, a shiver down the whole length of him, a swift jerk into the bottom of the boat with the gaff hook—and you lie back in an ecstasy of exhaustion. Musolino to Print His Memoirs. Chicago Tribune. The brigand, Musolino, is occupying his time in prison in Writing his memoirs. Several publishers are competing for the honor of giving the book to the world. Musolino demands $50,000, with 20 percent royalty. The Italians continue to worship at the shrine of Musolino. Committees of women have been formed in Florence, Lucac, Aquila, and other towns for the purpose of obtaining signatures for their petition to the queen demanding the brigand's pardon. The police have just seized a manifesto signed by a number of women, which sets forth that Italy is tired of brawnless men and wants to see at the head of the government real men. Holds up a Congressman. 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