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THE DAILY GATE CITY,
and Constitution-Democrat.
PUBLISHED BY
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GATE CITY—Established 1854.
CONSTITUTION—Established 1847.
ILN DEMOCRAT—Established 1881
Consolidated March 26. 1888.
OFETTOF—Established In 1812.
'#S Consolidated September 22, 1892.
GATE CITY and CO NST1TU TION-DHMOCRA'P—»
W 5 Consolidated April 3, 1916.
C. F. Skirvin
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Daily, In Keokuk, per week
Daily, except Sunday.
Liong e'er it's time to dress me.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Keokuk, Iowa ...June 3, 1916
I believe In a protective tariff. It is art established pol
icy. A protective tariff is essential to the Inter
ests of our wage earners in that it makes possible the
•j payment of wages on the scale to which we are accus
tomed. The difference in the cost of production
here and abroad is the fundamental consideration.
In order to effect whatever readjustment may be neces
sary to make the tariff schedules consistent with the
principles underlying the protective policy, I fs^or fhe ap
pointment of an expert commission so that the facts may
be ascertained without delay and that congress may dis
pose of the matter in the fairest possible manner.—
Charles Evans Hughes.
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
EARLY BIRDS.
Oh, Robin, with your breast of red.
Say. did you set your clock ahead
That you are up so early?
Your piping penetrates mv dreams
As also do the first sunbeams ,,
And this might make me surly
But somehow echoes of your glee
Rebound somewhere inside of me
And I am glad as glad can be
To be aroused so early.
Oh, Red-head, drumming at my rooof,
Against your taps my dreams aren't proof.
But they do not distress me
Although my dreams are rent in two
I would not hurl my soap at you.
No such desires possess me
For I am glad to be awake
When all the birds sweet music make,
Oh, Bluejay, I have heard you scream
At morning when the first gold beam
Came stealing to my garret
But I've never longed to cast my shoe
Or ink or comb or brush at you—
I never did, I swear it
For when you 'waken me I hear
The gross-beak and the bluebird near
And if I'm feeling out of gear
Their glad songs help me bear it.
Oh, Wood-Thrush, in dreams I hear
At dawn your notes resounding clear,
But this fact does not grieve me
I simply cannot feel Irate
When my beauty sleep you perforate—
1 never could, believe me!
For in my dreams I follow far.
Where the beauties that you sing of are
And their memories never leave me.
—Bayolle Ne Trele.
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers.
The world is advancing.: Advance with it.
SHORT PLATFORM.
Word comes from Chicago that the republi
can platform will be "brief and to the point."
For which, if true, we give thanks. The price
of print paper has reached such a high figure
as almost to preclude the printing of political
platforms in full, and, too, the trouble is that
platform makers have always been prompted
"by men who have had axes to grind in the in
terest of certain projects calling for national
legislation, all insisting upon the endorsement
of their pet proposals. The tendency has for
years been to string out the platforms by add
ing a plank on this or that subject, with a view
to attracting votes or preventing defections.
Conditions seem favorable to eliminating a lot of
these minor declarations, which have usually
been in the class of "bunk." If the platform of
the national republican convention is confined
to live issues it will be read by the man on the
street, thought over and digested. Otherwise,
cot.
KEEP GOING.
Chaunce-y M. Depew of New ork will be
one of the interesting political has beens at the
republican national convention. Time was
when Depew would have attracted attention
now the ex-United States senator, hale and
hearty, rambles about the fringe of stirring
things, satisfied to be a looker-on and com
ment on how affairs conducted "when I was
one of the 'big four' from the Empire state.
Depew, rounding out his eighty-second year, is
a boy at heart, full of homely optimism and
ever ready to give good advice to those who
•will listen. If his hearers heed, so much the
better. To the aged he says: "Keep going."
Why to the aged only? The ability and de
sire to keep going is what makes life worth
•while, at the same time making it longer. Wo
Jhave never known a man with nothing" to do
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who didn't find his lot the most difficult. And
we have never known a man with a lot to do
who had time to figure out how hard his lot
really was. And in each instance the man with
the self-assumed tasks is the man .who sits
down, in later years, with the thing's he likes
to do and is capable of doing. The do-nothing
fags out from the very ennui of inaction. His
later years, which, by the way, are invariably
earlier than the other fellow's, are. long periods
of restlessness and rusf. History doesn't re
cord-the early demise of a single busy man
which might be attribued to work itself. Mr.
Depew early solved the problem of existence
by keeping up the going. His old age advice is
essentially for the young.
ON® MORE BY LONDON.
Keokuk is a book reading community. Wheth
er our people buy the books they read, get them
from the public library or filch them from the
convenient collection of a friend, is neither here
nor there. We read books, and so we want to
know what's the latest in publishers' output,
what's coming from their presses and what's in
the list of "best sellers." So on each Saturday
hereafter The Gate City, on this page, will en
deavor to keep up with the procession in a re
view of what is worth while in the book world.
Last Saturday there was given an Insight into
William Dean Howells' "The Daughter of the
Storage," one of the big books of the year and
one destined to hold high place in appreciation
of those who look for something of value.
Having successfully traversed -fields of so
cial and industrial' reform, as in "The Star
jRover," and "The Valley of the Moon
wrested with scenes of arctic privation and
'painted wondrous word pictures of the south
seas, Jack London has been moved to return
once more to the domain of real romance, with
a tale of high life on a California stock farm,
where the owner can do everything except safe
guard the wife of his bosom, and the menacing
"household of three" is narrowly averted.
Whatever mannerisms London may hang
around the necks of his characters, they usual
ly react strongly upon his readers, if only be
cause of their rude, primitive strength and en
during vitality. And in his new book, "The
Little Lady of the Big House," there are elabor
ately sketched three or four personages likely
to be permanently enshrined as American fig
ures in fiction.
There is scant measure of introduction for
these—the novelist plunges almost at once into
his story.
It is a tale of two men, a passion, and one
woman—the mistress of the big house—no
longer young, childles^, and full of the longings
of the second youth period.
A certain vast amplitude informs and vivifies
Jack London's romance. Within less than one
hundred pages the amazing story of Dick For
rest's education and prelinonary business train
ing is told, his marriage to Paula Desten and
the rural station set for the entrance of Evan
Graham, tempter-in-chief.
Whether the tempter wins in the end is
matter of conjecture,' with divers readers hold
ing diverse views. The drama—
But what's the use? If you want to read a
good story buy or borrow a copy of London's
"The Little Lady of the Big House."
TWO CLASSES OF GRADUATES.
June is commencement month in Keokuk and
almost everywhere else. Hundreds of youthful
graduates will receive diplomas, applause and
large qiiantities of more or less useful advice
as they leave the institutions in which they
have labored and learaed, to face the problems
and battles of the world or to enter higher
schools of learning.
A little more advice piled on.that already
administered or about to be administered sure
ly will not be radically amiss, so we will call at
tention to the idea "that a little learning is a
dangerous thing." Most young people arej
wiser for their schooling and are ready to face
responsibility after graduation from high
school or college with a confidence grounded iu
a conviction of work well done. Others have
simply been exposed to education and have ac
quired merely a veneer of learning which is too
shallow to endure.
Usually those of the first class are eager to
learn more about the things which they have
been studying in school and the further pur
suit of which may lead to honor and prefer
ment. This ambition should be encouraged on
the part of educators and parents. Young men
and women who acquire studious habits in
school are apt to persevere in these habits
after graduation. On the other hand, members
of the veneered class are all too anxious to frame
their diplomas and promptly forget all about
the matters brought to their attention in stu
dent days, and as for further educational de
velopment^ why—nothing happy can be said.
A ljetter way to show friendship for the birds
than even setting up bird houses is to put a bell
on the family cat. As birds acquire confidence
and grow more tame in the presence of man
kind they become easy victims of prowling fe
lines.
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THE DAILY GATE
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Davenport Times: At any rate, if
Roosevelt is nominated, the people
will know what sort of man they are
getting and what he believes In Te
gard to present day issues.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: We'd
like to hear from the candidates for
the. republican nomination for gover
nor on the great issue of turning the
clock ahead an hour. It is well to
know who are progressives and who
are reactionaries.
Sioux City Journal: Senator Tom
Taggert lined up against the pork
barrel. The obvious inference is that
Tom didn't get into the senate in
time to get anything into the bar'l.
Davenport Democrat: The LaFol
lette joker in the river and harbor
bill, knocking out the Illinois water
ways plans, is no joke to the people
of Illinois and the middle west. It
will probably be killed in confer
ence, and may serve the purpose of
drawing out some support for the pro
ject which will connect the lakes and
the Mississippi by a practical water
way.
Logan Observer: If it wasn't for
the sins of the administration that
the candidates on the state demo
cratic ticket will have to answer,
Meredith might become governor of
this great state.
Des iMoines 'Register: The rumor
that Mr. Taft will bolt if the republi
cans nominate T. Roosevelt indicates
that it takes longer than four years
for some wounds to heal.
Cedar Rapids Republican: "The
short skirt is "here to stay," says the
wise man on the Marshalltown Tlmes
ReRublican. But sometimes the wind
will not let it stay, and the same
wind does not always put dust in the
bad man's eyes.
Woman and the Pulpit.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: The Pres
byterian church has decided on dis
approval of woman preachers. Just
why is not apparent. The argument
is that preaching is a man's job—
that is, the church can better pros
per under the guidance of man.
This will hardly suit the women
who h!vre been striving for more
recognition of their sex by the world.
is difficult to conceive why, if
women can make good in other lines
of endeavor, in the professions, in
business, in the labor field, they can
not make' good in the pulpit. Women
are not holding their jobs in any
business institution because of senti
mental reasons they are holding
them because they are doing the work
required of them. If this were not
the case, their work would not be
r.rofltable, and tho moment it was not
profitable women would be displaced.
Coming at a time when there is a
vast movement for recognition of
women in the world's affairs, the ac
tion of the presbytery seems strange.
No woman preacher can force herself
upon the church. Elected as pastor of
a church, she is there at the will of
the membership. She has no claim
the church so far as assuring her
i. i-obltion is concerned. A pa^oi
man or woman, knows when his work
is failing. The pastor feels it some
what sooner than do the members.
No conscientious pastor insists upon
remaining in charge of a clmrch when
thero are signs that others might be
able to do better work in the charge.
Consequently a rule against women
pastors seems entirely out of place on
practical grounds.
Twelve states in the union already
recognize woman on a par with man
in the right of franchise. There has
been a setback to the suffrage move
ment in the east, but it is bound to
succeed in time. It takes reform a
long time to come sometimes, but
real reform always comes slowly. No
percon questions woman's fitness to
•/ne. nor her richt to vole. Some
men are against full 3uf.iagre without
regard to sex because they would help
woman, claiming it would be better
for the sex to not be "mixed up" in
politics. But the American woman Is
always a woman first and always will
be.. Nowhere has suffrage interfered
with American womanhood.
It is strange thfet the Presbyterian
church fails to recognize this new re
lation of woman in the world's af
fairs. It is strange that it fails to
note the signs of the times.
"Lese Majeste" In the Postoffice.
Omaha Bee: For the second
time within the year Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson has "llred" a post
master for "lese majeste." This time
it happens to be Postmaster Porter of
•Bridgeport, capable and popular'with
the patrons of the postofflce he serv
ed, but guilty of the heinous crime of
insisting on naving more help and bet
ter pay for his help, that the services
of Jfciis office might be improved. When
this request was turned down, he
wrote to Washington, commenting on
the fact that pay of high officials had
bfeen increased, while the department
was insisting on rigid economy. This
according to the postmaster general,
shows him to be "grossly disloyal to
the department." and he was incon
tinently bounced.
This action by Mr. Burleson Isn't
exactly democratic, but is more the
whimsical petulance of ~n autocrat.
Mr. Porter might hav onched his
letter in more diploma! terms, but
he followed good precedent in going
straight to the point in the sood blunt
fashion of an American citizen when
criticising his government. This
seems to have been too much for the
testy postmaster general, but his high
and mightv method of enforcing loy
alty isn't likely to prove popular. Hs
may intend it as notice of other post
masters. as was the case of the Vir
ginia postmaster who criticised the
president's second marriage, but this
will not make it any better.
Maybe the time has come when gov
ernment employes are to be deprived
of the right of free speech, but it
seems strange that tenure of office
Is dependent upon endorsement of al*
that a cabinet officer does. This is
un-American, but apparently is good
practice under the present democrat
ic administration.
In India eyeglasses of a greenish
hue have been found to afford better
protection from the sun than either
ihlnut or srar.
Voice of the People
[The Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed by
correspondents.] js
Should Support Mr. Kennedy.
To the Editor of The Gate City:
Republicans should support Hon.
C. A. Kennedy for congress at the
June primary election. It is known
of him that he is one of the hardest
and most efficient workers in con
gress and also one of the most in
fluential. He now holds the respons
ible place as senior member of the
rivers and harbors committee and if
the. republicans are successful at the
fall election he will be chairman of
this important committee, whiph
would give him more influence in
other legislative lines. Mr. Kennedy
is now in Washington giving strict
heed to the important measures
coming up. for consideration and rest
ing his cause for re-election to hie
friends, believing that it is his duty
to remain in Washington to attend to
the business to which his constituents
elected him. Certainly Keokuk can
not find fault with Mr. Kennedy's
services a« he has been very loyal.
While Keokuk and Lee county should
remain practically unanimous for
his re-election the other counties In
the district will only be rewarding
a faithful servant in the vote for him
primary election day, June 5.
A REPUBLICAN.
Keokuk, Iowa, June 1, 1916.
Vote for G. E. Maxwell for Super*
visor.
To the Editor of The Gate. City:
I hope the democratic voters of Lee
county will give their support to
Supervisor G. E. Maxwell at the pri
mary election next Mo-aday. He Is
just the kind of man that Lee county
has needed for many years in this
most responsible position. For too
many years the office of supervisor
has been looked upon as a place of
minor importance and as a result of
this light view Of the office the county
interests have suffered. There is no
more important place to be filled than
that of supervisor and Lee county
was fortunate when Mr. Maxwell was
selected for one of the members of
the board. He is a business man, a
heavy taxpayer and has a broad
knowledge of the various business
transactions that come before the
supervisors. Keokuk and Lee county
voters will conserve their own inter
ests if they nominate arid elect Mr.
Maxwell. He has shown his ability
already and all wh^ have knowledge
of his close and efficient attention to
the duties of the office are strong
supporters. Mr. Maxwell is careful of
expenditures, his purpose is always
to get full value for money expended.
He applies the same business rules to
the county that he does to his private
affairs and the office to him is a trust.
Taxpayer's interests are carefully
guarded. Mr. Maxwell lias all the
essential qualifications for the office
and there is every reason why he
Bhould be nominated. If you want a
competent and trustworthy man in
this office, vote for him.
A DEMOCRAT.
Keokuk, Iowa, June 3, .1916.
What it Costs to be a Candidate.
Vinton Eagle: George Galarno,
head of the state municipal account
ing department of the state, who
likes to delve in figures, in his last
syndicate letter to the press of Iowa
gives some very interesting informa
tion on what it costs to be candidate
for a state office in Iowa under the
primary law. Mr. Galarno has un
doubtedly gotten near the truth
which will be further proven when
the several candidates make up their
expense accounts which must be
filed with the secretary of state. In
his letter Mr. Galarno says:
"If the stories that are being cir
culated as to the amounts being ex
pended by certain of the iandidates
for the republican nomination for
governor are true, the winning of
that nomination alone, at the polls,
will involve an outlay Of something
like $100,000. And all this monefy can
be expended under the primary law
in a perfectly honest and legitimate
way. It will go, much of It for pub
licity in the columns of newspapers,
for lithograph window hangers, for
circulars and cards much of it will
go for reproduction of the photo
graphs of the candidates on the
screens of moving picture houses in
the citios and towns of the state, and
much of it will go for typewriting and
posting of letters by the thousands,
tens of thousands and hundreds ol
thousands, directed personally to the
j'free
and independent electors of the
state. In conversation with one of
the republican candidates for the
nomination for governor, the writer
was informed that the candidate esti
mated his outlay for campaign pur
poses relating only to the nomina
tion, would reach fully $25,000. This
candidate is depending on personal
cftntact with the voters, by letters
and otherwise, and he expects to
reach by first class mail a large per
centage of the voters in each county.
He does this by securing lists from
county chairmen or through person
al friends In the county. These lists
give the names of the republican
voters, with postoffice addresses. An
other candidate it is estimated is
spending sums which will equal the
amount given, in traveling and cir
cular work, and also a large sum for
the display of his picture and his
platform on moving picture screens.
It is said this latter, privilege to
thoroughly cover the state necessi
tates an outlay of $600 a week. The
expenditures of other candidates for
governor may not equal the sums
given, but they will be somewhere in
the neighborhood."
Where the Seeds Were.
San Francisco Argonaut: Over in
the college* city of Berkeley one
morning Perkins looked over his
fence and said to his neighbor:
"What are you burying there?"
"I'm just replanting some of my
seeds, that's all."
"Seeds!" exclaimed Perkins, angri
ly. "It looks more like one of my
hens!"
"That's all right," came from the
man on the other side of the fence.
"The seeds are inside.'*
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