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'Mr K" S*J I If" IV I I k, PAGE FOUB Ws ft THE GATE CITY PUBLISHED BY THE GATE CITY COMPANY C. F. 8klrv1n .....Manager DAILY BY tuau One yner ...*a.0O|Four month*...JL 01 ftlx months L60]0ne month Entered in Keokuk poatofflce &> end class natter. PoBtAjre prepaid: terms In advmnca. All subscription orders should girt thrf P. 0. address and state whether ll Is a new or renewal order. If change of address In desired, stats both the old ana new address. Remit oy poatofQos money oraMh express money order, registered letter or draft at our risk. The date printed on the address ol •ach paper notes when the subscription expires. 1 Subscribers falling to receive the» papers promptly will confer a favor by giving notice of tne fact. Address all communications to THE QATE CITY COMPANY, Wo. IS. North Sixth St., Keokuk. Iowa. THE GATE CITY to on sale at tin following news stands: Hotel Keokuk, cor. Third and Johnson. C. H. Rollins A Co- 6» Main street. Ward Bros.. 525 Main street. Depot News Stand. ... Keokuk, Iowa Oct. 15, 1912 WHICH WAY DIO SUMMER GOT Which way did summer go? But Yesterday I called her mine, I felt her breath like new-made wine Fall soft upon my waiting lips She pledged her faith, and yet she slips Away from me, leaving no sign O, winds that blow, Which way did summer go? VjThich way did summer go? ,0, warm "brown hills, you saw her pass: Her swift feet bent your dreaming grass That lies half shadowed, half In light I clasped her close but yesternight O, half stilled brooks, you saw her pass, O, birds, j-ou. know— Which way did summer go? —Floremce Jones Hadley. If King Peter of Servla will put on the Balkan firing line the men who shot his predecessor into a premature grave, the world at large woald take more than languid interest in the progress of the slaughter. The solution of •'he high cost of living, BO long sought by economists and politicians, is at hand. Burbank's spineless cactus is proclaimed the eleventh-hour remedy Cut out sir loins smothered with onions. Chew Bpineless cacti and be happy, 'SM Separated for forty years after a 'quarrel in Kalamazoo, Mich., where they lived, Mark H. Woodruff, 64 years old, and Mrs. Mary E. Jones, 72 years old, were married in Brooklyn, after coming face to face accidental ly on a city stjeet a few days before Anna Collins cooked for the Wil sons at Sea Girt, N. J., this summer. Farmer Albert Weirraan brought the vegetables to the kitchen door. Now she is lira. Weirman, and the first stage of the wedding journey was made in Governor Wilson's automobile —lent for the occasion. John Jay McBevitt, who spent $1, 800 seeing New York in one day, says he will erect a monument to himself in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and dedicate it 02 Thanksgiving day. He has earned some money running a little cigar store, and he Intends to spend it on •ira memorial that will keep his fame alive for future generations. Gene Debs would tax his memory jsome to discover when he did a job witti his hands instead of his mouth, still he chides his opponets on their From which it is to be Inferred that "all three" at the present time are running away from a Job. ,A, Right on the heels of the declara tion of all three parties In New York In favor of submitting to the voters the question of woman suffrage there Men's League, to has been organized In New York City! Woodrow Wilson the Anti-Nagging society, composed of married women, the object of which 1s to have breakfast ready on the minute, dinner on the dot and cease questioning the customary lodge meeting excuse. A year or two of that brand of cheery happiness in* BO jobless careers. "Take all three of!fix responsibility and this community them," be says, "and not one of Is sufficiently well informed to prop them ever had to look for a job." obnoxious that pro tests developed into the necessity for certain citizens to start a clean-up campaign, is not calculated to add to the luster of a commissioner of pub lic safety as a sagacious, efficient or precocious official. This community is not being deceived. It has known and known for months that no inter ference with gambling and illegal ment from whom action was expected and justly so. Men who are in the liquor business in a legitimate way, who by law are required to periodical ly deposit their license money for permission to operate under the mulct provisions, have had no protec tion from that arm of the local gov ernment enforced with power to act. This city does not want any dirty game In politics to interfere with the correct application of the commis sion form of government. The cardin al virtue of the commission plan is to erly place blame. There Is a judgment day coming. J* 1 Ju Appeal to Young Men BY JOHN HAY [NOTE—This Republican classic, written by the late John Hay, author, poet, diplomat, statesman and lover of humanity, has an espe cial value in this campaign, when millions of young men voters will cast their first vote. Its words of wipdom should be read and heeded by every young man.] I WANT TO SAY A WORD TO THE YOUNG MEN WHOSE PO LITICAL LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING— Anyone entering business would be glad of the chance to become one of an established firm with years of success behind it. Everything great done by this dountry hi the last 50 years has been done under the auspices of the Republican party. Is not this a price less asset? Lincoln and Grant, Hayes and Garfield, Harrison and McKinley— names secure In the heaven of fame—they are all gone, leaving small estates in worldly goods, but what vast possessions in principles, mem ories, sacred associations! It is a start in life to share that wealth. BUT WHAT YOUNG MAN WOULD NOT RATHER BELONG TO THE PARTY THAT DOES THINGS, INSTEAD OF ONE THAT OP POSES THEM TO THE PARTY THAT LOOKS UP, RATHER THAN DOWN TO THE PARTY OF THE DAWN, RATHER THAN OF THE SUNSET? For 50 years the Republican party has believed In the country and labored for it in hope and joy Has reverenced the flag and followed it Has carried it under strange skies, and planted it on far receding horizons. Has seen the nation grow greater every year and more respected Has seen the country extend its intercourse and its influence to regions unknown to our fathers Yet it has never abated one jot or tittle of the ancient law im posed on us by God-fearing ancestors. The Constitution of our fathers has been the light of our feet. Our path is, and will ever remain, that of ordered progress, of liberty under the law. But we are not daunted by progress. We are not afraid of the light! The fabric our fathers butlded will stand all shockB of fate or for tune. While there will always be a proud pleasure in looking back on the history they made, the coming generation has the right to anticipate work not less important We who are passing off the stage bid you, as the children of Israel encamping by the sea were bidden, to go forward. We whose hands can no longer hold the flaming torch pass it on to you that its clear light may show the truth to the ages that are to come.?:4K VINDICATION FOR EX-OFFICERS, than does any other living person, as Judging from recent developments tbe statements made by ex-Officer ®fn the sales of liquor has been made by that present prosperity politically assured department of the municipal govern- a, graduate of Harvard, 1884, when asked by the Woodrow Wilson College contribute to the campalg fund. sures the bosses of the house all the proud. But, as a Harvard man, I feel ballots they can stuff Into the box. wrote an emphatic declination. He said: "My failure to contribute is not at all from any lack of esteem for Gov. Wilson. He is an eminent represen tative of the scholar in politics, of whom Princeton men are Justly constrained to give all the support within my power to that son of Yale, Every voter in Keokuk and other whose sturdy, judicial and statesman Iowa cities who erpect to exercise like qualities as demonstrated by his the right of franchise on November 5'record in public offLce, have must register in orfler to do so. Each him, beyond all other presidential presidential election year requires an! candidates, the exponent of thai entire new registration. The first spirit of Harvard which day of registration will be Thursday, October 24, the registration boards •convening in each voting precinct in the city on the morning of that day and continuing in session for three days—Thursday, Friday and Satur day, October 24, 25 and 26. The hours of session are fixed by law and will be published in due time in the city papers. Make it your business, Mr. Voter, to register at your eUrliest opportunity. Don't put it off, then forget it and thereby lose your vote, which you are quite apt to do if you don't take advantage of the first op portunity to get on the books. Mo registration is required In the coun trv precincts. bulwark of our constitutional gdv- men^ a?aI«st Fuqua, and later confirmed by ex- advocated by those who Chief of Police Schevers, are being blindly plunge down the path leading substantiated. The Indictments by inevitably to a tyranny, either of the grand jury of several well known monarchy or democracy, for this na gamblers and the raid Sundr~ on the Wheatley place, only go to confirm what every one who has any knowl edge of civic operations tion." impracticable and I vicious innovations, heedlessly and APPEAL TO BUSINESS MEN. John Wannamaker of Philadelphia has known has issued 'a statement addressed to for many months, that gambling and "the merchants and business men of illegal sales of liquor have been of th United States," in which he urges the most flagrant kind and advertised in almost every publicity vehicle but the newspapers. Only Commission- er of Public Safety Gray seems to tinent-wide rally of the republican have been uninformed. To let a civic condition grow The situation narrows down to thlB: 1. Taft and the top wave of proa, perity or 2. Destruction to industries. 3. The whirligig administration of an unbalanced president in a "star spangled robe with arch-angeno wings.'* Why exchange humanly speaking Wchers WILL 8UPPORT TAFT. other side of the sea. With a new Rome G. Brown, of Minneapolis, and tari" thl?ugh and. the fantastic, un-American projects of the of new JL, party? Let ys rouse ourselves to keep oar republican friends together and by determined efforts scatter our ene mies to the four winds. No new government ought to permitted to check existing prosper ity or to begin new policies that jeopardize the nation's future. If we are ready to sacrifice tne next four years of prosperity we cau shut our eyes and jump in any direc tion we choose, but in my opinion were the phenomenal crops twice as large It would make no difference ex cept thlB particular year when the crops have partially failed on the at 18 Bll0W9 1B signified in its motto, 'Veritas.' Because of his unflinching adherence to truth, Presi dent Taft deserves the support of every Harvard man. He has stead fastly refused to compromise with error. He has kept to the straight course dictated only by wise and de liberate judgment, uninfluenced by any selfish interests or by any mere policies of parties or persons. He has been true to his friends and trua to his noble principles and high sense of duty. "Mr. Taft has fought and la still fighting for th© cause of good govern ment, for the cause of progress and re form under our constitution. He stands today in a greater measure proposed to cure part of the trouble of high prices the rail road companies will not want more rolling stock to haul the grain corn, for the common or plain people will be out of work and have no money to buy with. Mr. Wannamake* devotes the re mainder of his article to a discussion of the tariff, in which he draws ex amples of the hard times which exist re vi us at a istratlons. He tells of industrial pros perity under Harrison in 1892 ana the dismal outlook in 1893 when Clev eland was president. He draws on Bradstreet's for Bupport. Ha then made ^ow under McKinley national prosperity ana confidence again ap peared. He blames democratic ad ministration and free trade agitation for the starvation and unemployment of 1894. He ends bis statement with an appeal in which he says: "Do American farmers, working men, manufacturers and merchants desire a return to the Cleveland con dition? If so the way Is open by the election of a free trade president and a free trade congress." Level Headed. i/OUiBVille Courier-Journal: Secre tary Wilson sees no hope ol beef get ting cneaper. He is not a pessimist. If you show him a doughnut he can see the doughnut as well as the hole, but, being a level-beaded individual, if you show him a knot hole he doeB not see a doughnut surrounding it. V" THE daily gate city In the re-election of President Tqit. part his statement follows Nothing under heaven can stop the havoc of desperate fighters but a con- party able and willing to build in the proper way and proper time on its old stanch timbers as much progres siveness as is safe for the country. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The, attempted assassination of ex Presldent Theodore Roosevelt la ab horrent. In a free and liberty loving country, where personal privileges are vastly In excess of that of any oth er nation on the globe where pros perity abounds and opportunity is open to all mankind, it is Incredible that any man other than a maniac would attempt to destroy the life of an illustrious citizen.' There always has been, always will foe, a divergent thought on political and economic is sues, but in thiB country 6f liberty and tolerance there is no cause for the assassination of a public official and "the attempt on the life of Theodore Roosevelt is deplored by all men of broad and healthy minds. This coun try abounds with the highest order of intelligence and political Issues have always found a remedy in the applica tion of brains and not violence. Dis cussions wax warm and heaied argu ments are common but murder solves no economic problem. It introduces anarchy. Every worthy citizen re grets the attempt on the life of Theo dore Roosevelt and hopes for his speedy and complete recovery. Time to Wake up. Chicago Inter-Ocean: The Amerl* can people have rarely been asked to decide political issues more import ant than those now before them. The Democratic party demands a revolu tion in our fiscal system, which would affect the whole industrial organiza tion. The Roosevelt party demands a downright revolution in our form of government—a revolution to a social istic centralization or a centralized depotism. Yet in the face of issues so grave issues which lay the ax at the root of every household's prosperity and com fort—public indifference to the out come of the contest is widespread and manifest. It seems evident that mil lions of voters have come to no defin ite decision and are even indifferent whether they reach any real decision or not. The registration in Chicago last week is typical of the indecision and sluggishness of the public mind all over the oountry. Last spring, 445,000 voters registered in Chicago. So far this fall less than 272,000 have put themselves in legal position to express an opinion on- the grave issues which will be decided on November 5. So far there has been almost a total failure of the educational pro cess that a national campaign should be and always has been heretofore. The Republican party is only just be ginning to make a really active cam paign. The Democratic party ip ob viously trusting to luck and the Roose velt bolt to bring It ah unearned vic tory. Only the Roosevelters have carried on what can foe called an act ive campaign. While the Rooseveltian reformers by riot are a visible minority in the country there is some danger they may be an effective majority on elec tion day because the people have not been aroused and awakened to the menace to personal liberty and prop erty rights that Rooseveltism is. It is time to wake up, lest a revo lutionary minority gain control of the government and through public indif ference to the gravity of the issuet plunge us all Into disaster. ms&m mMWi be Larger, far larger than either of the men before the country for the presi dency is the one condition on which the good times of the next four years must rest. Landed at Last. A man who w^s much In need of sleep rolled out of bed during the night. The jar did not awake him thoroughly, and his hand wandered in exploration. It encountered the mesh of some protruding springs and a sturdy, iron corner post. "In jail at last," he murmured as he passed away, TOLD IN KEOKUK JOTTINGS FRQM THE 1 ts A Resident Known to all Our Read ers Relatea an Experience. Art ReaderB of The Gate City have been and told again and again of the merits of that reliable, time-proved kidpey rem edy—Doan's Kidney Pills. The ex periences told are not those of un known persons, living far away. The oases are Keokuk oases, told by Keo- 0 8outh Thomas G. French, 200 Eighth street, Keokuk, Iowa, says: "My bftCk was very sensitive and I had pains in my head and neck. Re cently, while suffering in that way, I got a supply of Doan's Kidney Pills at Wilkinson & Co.'s drug store. The re sults of their use were so satisfactory that I willingly give this public state ment." *1 Mr. French is only one of many Keokuk people who have gratefully endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If your back aches—if your kidneys bother you, don't Blmply ask for a kidney remedy—ask distinctly for Doan's Kid ney Pills, the same that Mr. French had—the remedy backed by home tes timony. 50c all stores. Foster-Mllburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. "When Your Back is Lame—Remember the Name."—'Adv, SAGE OF SEVEN PINES phllospphlc point* Pertinently Placed Before the. Readers of The Gate City. A member, of the greatest manufact uring company in our country, recent ly said to the writer that the moat important subject in material affairs is that of improved highways. Busi ness demands certain and rapid move ment ol commodities, and live stock and grain should move to market with daily regularity. As conditions now prevail over the country districts, roads at times become almost impas sable, and grain and live Btock are thereby held on the farms for weekB. Then, again, another factor of im mense importance has entered upon the stage of activities in rural alEairs within the recent years, and thiB factor demands recognition and just treatment. I refer to the automobile, which has become a general means of travel all over the country. Auto mobiles must hive good roadways. In Clark coonty at present there are par haps a hundred thousand dollars In vested in auto cars. The owners want to use their cars regularly. But they demand good roads. Timed will bring changed and better road laws and skilled engineers to build and main tain good highways. The reform should come speedily. Invisible conditions govern, after all. Last year the farmers of Lee, Hancock and Clark counties labored hard to secure crops which proved only partially good, while this year great crops of corn, vegetables and fruits just decorated the country, and all without much study or care. Man kind can do somethings in the way- of aiding, but the great creative prin ciples prevail alone. ." I visited a few days out along the Santa Fe line, last week, and observed how well that great railway maintains its high rank in activity and busi ness. There is«a constant movement of pipe line material westward to the oil fields, and agricultural machinery goes in through trains. I saw freight cars of the company Just new from the manufacturing establishment out on their first journey. They sang a song of steel, clear and valiant, and were out on the firing line for trans portation of a thousand classes of commodities. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway line 1B about perfect. It may well be named the Mississippi of railway lines, for it ie an affair of imperial majesty. Among the real early writers of pioneer history for local papers, was A. W. Harlan, who lived near Croton for so many years. Mr. Earlan served some years in the federal army, and one lonely day while traveling in Arkansas, he met a forlorn looking man who asked aid of Mr. Harlan. A. W. said he had but few dollars himself but being .generous he gave the poor man a share. Then be asked his name, and he replied It was David Blines. Now, this same person had escaped from the confederates who had captured him while serving in the dangerous mission of a spy, and his day of execution had been appointed At the close of the war David married and moved to Texas, and his kindred lost all knowledge of him. One art icle which Mr. HarJan contributed to The Gate City was upon the subject of "The First Drove of Cattle to Pass Through Lee County." A. W. Harlan was patriotic, and one of his special enjoyments was in writing pioneer sketches for the local press. Honor to bis name. Along with the Santa Fe, we may in clude nearby the Burlington. The student of affairs easily notices that the growing business of the Burling ton line will naturally compel the building of a second track between Saint Louis and Keokuk. The route of the proposed Des Moines river canal passes or leaves the, river just below Saint Francls ville and joins the Mississippi a little way north of Alexandria. The line approaches near the home of the writ er. Officials of the survey stated that should the canal be established, one great Influence would be that our val ley would no longer be invaded with floods from the Des Moines and Mis sissippi. The canal would be so pro tected as to prevent damage from high water. Below Saint Francisvllle the river Is a perpetual danger to all, the flood plains on the Missouri side of the stream as well as on the Iowa Bide. The canal would be compelled to leave the Des Moines at that point on account of the absence of rock bed. Between the low hill just wept of the Buena Vista bridge on west to near Saint FranciBviHe, the indurated or stratified rock formation drops to great depths. At the routy hill are exposures of the Keokuk goede beds, and fairly good specimens of these peculiar class of rocks may be ob tained on the south Incline of the hill and along the bluff boundary of the Dea Moines valley railroad. The republic appears not to be re treating. The ship of state sails ipn in power and majesty. The little waves from political voices fall feeb ly away from the grand old ship. The Missouri, legislature which holds one of its biennial and comic sessions this winter, will be a tame affair, as there will not be a United States -senator to be chosen. There will be a feasting on lots by suppers, passing a few laws in place of other laws, and Anally, the best of all, drawing ttjelj- WY being 4}«harg- ed. In comics, the Missouri legisla ture is noted all over the world where ever the Anglo-Saxon and Irish languages are spoken. JASPER BLINES, Seven Pines. VH' If you world nuts Success. TUESDAY, OCT. 15, fij The Woman MakestheHome She makes it best who, looking after the culinary department, turns her back resolutely upon unhealthful, or even suspicious, food accessories. She is econom ical she knows that true economy does not consist in the use of inferior meat, flour, or baking powder. She is an earnest advo cate of home made, home baked food, and has proved the truth of the statements of the experts that the best cooking in the world today is done with Royal Baking Powder. have young children you as he did are beginning to understand! have perhaps noticed that disorders of the stomach are their most com mon aliment. To correct this you will find Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv er Tablets excellent. They are easy and pleasant to take, and mild anil gentle In effect. 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