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Ofllcial Paper of City and County.

When your friend calls himself ; a fool, it is better to disagree with

him than to lose his friendship.— „.rWalter Pulitzer.

The grandstand is a thing that should not be put up in a hurry.

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New York claims to have London' in population and the only thing left to refute the claim is the

census reports.

The Burlington Hawk-Eye evi­dently does not like the name of

standpatters and it calls them "the

Taft republicans."

The Stratford Courier thinks President Taft will be kept very 1>usy on his western trip explaining

why he vetoed the tariff bills. ;

)' Billy Sunday has invested in a line automobile, but assurances are forth­coming that his price for a sermon will remain in the neighborhood of

*1,000. .

The Waterloo Courier, one of the reliable progressive republican pa­pers of the state, is of the opinion that it is a mistake for Iowa to fight

/the renomination of President Taft.

' The corn crop in-this-section of the state is much better than early August predictions would indicate It would be on the first September, iowa crops invariably turn out bet­ter than the farmers think they

will. it:

OtiF' friend across the Canadian line who fear that reciprocity with Uncle Sam will ruin his country Is •ven more agitated and perturbed than his friends on this side who are scared because the same thing Is giving to ruin the United States.

The Washington Press wants to know who the republican is that will be a stronger candidate for gov­ernor than Col. Palmer, present member of the board of railroad commissioners. That's easy. He is legion. One of him is Geo. W. Clarke, lieutenant governor of the state. \

The long dry spell of weather iu Iowa has put a quietus on the good roads agitation, as all the roads are now in good condition and have been all summer. But bad road3 will be with us again and \t would be wise to lay in a supply of the King road drags in anticipation of the coming springtime.

' Justice Charles E. Hughes could easily pull out victory for the repub­lican party if nominated for the presidency. But the cards seem to be stacked for Taft and his backcrs care more for success in the nation­al convention than at the polls on election day. Apparently they would rather lose with Taft than win with some other republican.

{&* Storm lake is to be seined and the carp and buffalo are to be taken out and sold to Chicago and Mlnneapr oils, where there is a good market for the coarser fish. The theory of the game wardens is that the cam and the buffalo destroy the game fish, or that the destruction of the carp and the buffalo is necessary m order that the game fish may flour­ish, Zyf-,

It will keep the average con-* gressman very busy working at his fences until congress meets again In December. It is a continual round when a few special sessions are thrown in for good measure. But had congress acted on the reciproc­ity agreement at the regular session last winter a special session would not have been deemeg necessary by the president.

There is no question of the right of Senator Cummins to support La-Follette for president if he wants to, nor is there any doubt of the right of Senator Kenyon to support Taft.Progre8sive republicans in Iowa are well bred enough , to permit- a difference of opinion and that is one of the reasons they are so strong in

this, state. Men cannot always agree upon methods, though seeking iden­

tical results.

Col. Young is perturbed at the dexterity with which the Register and Leader can change front. Evi­dently the colonel is alarmed lest he will lose the medal won as the quick change artist when thg Ore­gon plan was under consideration and when he flopped to the primary plan of electing senators the day af­ter he had > received the senatorial appointment hot off the governor's bat. It is useless for the Register and Leader to try to equal the colon­

el in weather vane stunts. ^

The announcement that Charlie Miller of Bremer county is to be n candidate for governor of Iowa is not received with vociferous ap­plause by the medical fraternity. The doctors are declaring that Mr. Miller couldn't carry his home coun­ty. There can be no doubt of the genuine rejoicing among the physi­cians of the state if it becomes neces­sary to holdj an inquest over tho political remains of the Bremer county politician' who has made himself famous by fighting the "doc-tor's trust," as he calls it.

Lafe Young told a chautauqua at Fairfield that he is on the platform to "dispel the report given out by ri­val publishers" that he "is seventy-five years old," has his "fifth pair of false teeth" find "is growing de­crepit"—Gate City.

If the colonel is on the platform for no better purpose than the one given he might as well go home. However, the colonel himself fixed the age limit at which to begin a senatorial career at less than sixty-two years when he was fighting the election of Cummins, and he has al­ready passed that age himself.

O. J. Smith, formerly of the EI-dora Herald, used to contend that a man could make a good living from an acre of land. At that time Mr. Smith was only an editor and his agricultural knowledge was not con­sidered profound. However, he went to the far northwest several wars ago, procured an acre of ground Fn a small town and went to work. Re­port is that he is making good and that he is demonstrating that a man can make money on a farm of that size if enough work is put onto it. Moreover, Mr. Smith has recovered his health, which became greatly impaired from the grind in a news­paper office.

"Thrice armed is he whose quar­rel is just." There are various ways of showing disrespect to Shake-stvearo's memory—Sioux City Jour­nal.

Yea, verily; and one of them is the marring of his wonderful dic­tion by an inaccurate quotation "Thrice armed is he who HATH his quaTrel just."—Des Moines Capital.

The Capital is much more con­cerned in getting its quotations cor­rect than it is in getting its facts stra'ght. However, the Capital if. behind the times, as usual. The lat­est version, approved by such re­

nowned authorities as John L. Sul­livan and James J. Corbett is as fol­lows: "Thrice armed is he who gets his lick in fust."

In referring to the Cedar Falls Record's write up of political condi­tion in Webster City, the Boone News Republican observes that "there is always something doing in Webster City politically. It isn't al­ways put in print, but once in a while an editor who knows the con ­ditions airs them to the public. We don't know what struck the Cedar Falls Record to put the Webster City "dope" in black ^nd white, but he makes interesting reading out of it. Hamilton county is In the same district with Boone, and has always had a reputation of being a hard one to manage. The Cedar Falls Record tells why, and holds the mir­ror up to nature."

Dr. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, has had a hard time in trying to enforce the pure food law. Crooked manufacturers do not like the law prohibiting adulterations and the fellows who deal In patent medicines have tried to block tbe doctor's efforts at every turn. There is a feeling that the present fight on the doctor, is due to his efforts to protect the people against manu-

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facturers and dealers who do not care a continental for the health of the public so long as they can make a good profit out of the things they sell. This is the reason the public Is. standing behind Wiley. If the doctor loses his position it will re­quire lots of explaining to make the people believe that he is not a martyr to a principle.

President Taft undoubtedly. re alizes by this time that he can ex­pect nothing from the insurgent ma­chine. He sought for a time to con­ciliate them, but he has learned that they smoke the pipe of p^ace with one hand and sharpen «, knife with the other.—Des Moines Capital.

These insurgents must be grow­ing into something fierce to be able

to smoke with their hands. This re­minds us of a wonderful horse once discovered by the famous Webster City corresp6ndent. The animal kioked a man, seriously Injuring him and the correspondent wrote it up with flaring headlines telling Jhe public that the man "had received dangerous injuries at the( hj^nds of

a horse." f r y , %

To the progressive movement in Iowa credit is due for the abolish­ment of free passes, for the primary plan of nominating public officials, the overthrow of the custom of ex-state officials starting wildcat insur­ance schemes, the pure food law, a more equitable system of taxation, the nomination of candidates for United States senator by primary, the law preventing trusts and combi­nations to discriminate against towns and localities and many other things that might be enumerated. In the nation at laTge progressive republicanism has accomplished more than it is generally credited with. It is responsible for the Income tax amendment now being ratified by the states, the enforcement of the anti-trust laws, railroad rate legis­lation, the revision of the tariff ode schedule at a time, price-fixing by government officials, overthrow of the febate, federal incorporation laws, etc., etc. The men who lead in these movements are called dem­agogues, hypocrites and agitators, but without them there would be little improvement made and there is no telling how far the captains of industry and the trust manipulators would go in corralling everything in sight and carry'ng oft everything not nailed down. Such men as Cum­mins, Roosevelt, La Follette and Beveridge have been the pioneers la this movement and they are entitled to the thanks and applause of the

people.

Implicit and unwavering adher­ence on which we set out can carry us prosperously forward.—Martin Van Buren.

MODERN ROMANCE. Register and Leader: 'Every oiSce

in a while the pessimists get the idea that romance is dead, that all tbe modern man or woman cares about is money and business and that the good old practice of being fondly and foolishly romanlic upon occasion is no longer good form.

But the popularity of a rashly ro­mantic bit of fiction every now and then deals a kind of death blow to this talk about the extinctness of romance. Harold MacGratli's gor­geously imaginative "Carpet From Bagdad" is a timely illustration of a novel which appeals to that love of the strange, the picturesque, the sentimental, in short, tbe general combination of qualities which we have come to lump loosely together under the term "romantic." /

The new MacGrath novel has not had time to test its popular appeal, but one may re3t pretty safely in the guess that it will soon be among the lists of best sellers. It contains delightfully oriental pictures of the Arabian-deserts and for this reason, presumably, it is dedicated to Rob­ert Hitches, the masterful delineator of the same living background In his "Garden of Allah." It contains some luridly fantastic and appro­priate illustrations and it opens with the following sentiment from Kipling: The wild hawk to the windswept

sky. The deer to the wholesome wold

The heart of a man to the lieart of a maid,

As it was in the days of old. But these are only the externals

of the book's appeal. It is because readers have learned to find In the author a man with a heart for the stirring, the imaginative and the ro­mantic that many will turn to his story with a pleasant anticipation

of the delights it will contain. Be­cause he can see the significant, the strangp; the romantic possibilities of anytfiing find everything from an old rug which may skate you per­ilously? across a hardwood floor to the shimmering gold, the gray sad­dlebags, the sapphire skies and the smokihg camp fires of a strange country, Mr. MacGrath appeals to the gypsy love of adventure and sen­timent and , diverse experience which the human mind never loses. Romance cannot properly be called dead as long as such novels have a vital universal popularity.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.—Robert Burns. ,

i_ COL. YOUNG'S HAMMER.

Cedar Falls Rdfcord: The effort of Lafe Young to hammer the price of Iowa land is meeting with just about the same reception that many of his spectacular stunts have. The Capl'tal has stated repeatedly that land today is $10 per acre cheaper than It was a year ago and the Webster City Freeman-Tribune comes back with lists of sales in that vicinity showing that not only has Hamilton county land held its own but that it has actually ad­vanced in price from ten to twenty-five dollars per acre. This same con­dition will be found to exist in oth­er parts of the state. As a matter of fact there are few instances where owners of Iowa lands were compelled to Bacrlflc on their in­vestment.

WRONG, AS USUAL. • The possibility that Hamilton

county .may represent a regular re­publican candidate for congress Is causing the Freeman-Tribune and Jewell Record a whole lot of worry. Don't forget, brethren, that this is a free country and that gag rule is not popular among the common peo­ple.—Journal. '' r s

Of course this is a free country and hence the Journal can deal in misrepresentations to its heart con­tent. The Freeman-Tribune is not In the least worried or disturbed ov­er the prospective candidacy of Sen­ator Kamrar for congress. In fact the Freeman-Tribune is pleased to believe that tfiere is to be a large number of candidates and that the contest will be .one of principle be­tween standpat and progressive fac­tions. Senator Kamrar is a credit­able representative of what are un­derstood as standpat principles and if his faction is the stronger in this district, or if he can get thirty-five pet cent of the vote in a field of candidates, he will win and will be entitled to tbe nomination and an election. The Freeman-Tribune is for Mr. Kamrar in preference to any other standpatter in the district.

SERIOUS TURN OF AFFAIRS. It is useless to disguise the fact

that the independent press, which has stood pretty solidly behind Pres­ident Taft in his campaign for Cana­dian reciprocity, has become frankly critical of his plans for future tariff revision.

In another column appears one o» the most surprising editorials ever published in an American newspa­per, an appreciation of Senator la Follette, by the New York Evening Post, the last newspaper In this country anybody would look to for friendly mention of the Wisconsin .senator. The evening Post has not been moved to such unexampled gen ­erosity towards a western insurgent on his own account. The Evening Post is dissatisfied with the presi­dent.

_ The Springfield, Mass., Republi­can, also friendly to the president In the past, expresses a mild dissent from the president's tariff board programme, as the Wall Street Jour­nal had done before, and Intimates that tariff revision when it comes will come very much as though no thriff board bad ever been created.

The significance of these and sim­ilar hints of lukewarmness is very great. If the independent press is not to stand with the president In behalf of tariff commission revision, his programme will be brushed aside in the coming session of congress with scant consideration. He will again be confronted with the ne­cessity of signing general tariff bills or,of interposing vetoes that will not be popular.

One discouraging fact of the situa­tion Is the natural antipathy of re­publican reactionaries. The Ameri­can Economist and the Influences it stands for have been hostile' to the tariff commission notion from the beginning. They will give it no countenance whatever. They had much rather chance their interest* in general revision where give and take can be practiced on a large scale than in special revisions sched­ule )>y schedule.

Then there is a deep-seated hos-tli:ty to innovations that must be taken into account. The people for

two generations have been accus­tomed to the tariff as a political issue. The democratic leaders will present it 1^ the familiar guise and with the familiar arguments, not only in the coming session of con­gress but in the campaign. Cau tho republicans meet this with some­thing unfamiliar^ and readily sub­jected to ridicule? f

President Taft will have opportu­nity to test public sentiment on his comidg western tour... It is to be hoped that he will pitch his speeches on a little higher plane than he did his Massachusetts speech on Satur­day. It serves no purpose now to draw the line at Senator La Follette. and there is a faint reminder of the Winona speech and a suggestion of the spirit in which the Winona speech was written, in anything the president may say in criticism of the progressive movement or* Its leaders. The president does not have a pro­gramme which can be jammed down the throats of the party. He has great need at this time of what Matthew Arnold called "sweet rea­sonableness."

The report of the tariff- board and the reception given it by congress and the people will have much to do with determining the issue. If the report should be such as to com­mand respect and to really assist congress, that is one thing. If the report should be theoretical, wanting in relevant facts, and doctrinaire, that will be another. Nobody can judge in advance just what sort of a report the present board will make. There is a little overbalance of the college .professor on the board. On the other hand, there is every reason to believe that the board has gone about the collection of facts with method.

In the meantime, republicans of all shades of opinion might well ke getting ready for the new situation. They must bd ready to make a cam­paign for revision schedule by sched­ule on the report of an expert com­mission, and they will find it at­tended with a great many embar­rassments.—Register and Leader.

A VICTORY FOR WILSON. Success Magazine: It has become

apparent that the Democratic Na­tional Convention of 1912 is going to be really democratic. The effort of the old Alton B. Parker wing to gain control and nominate Harmon, has received a crushing blow through the declaration for Gover­nor Wilson by both wings of /the Pennsylvania Democracy.

The Harmon plan was to have the Democratic machines, in a few,-big, doubtful states—Tammany in New York, the Roger Sullivan machine in Illinois, Taggart in Indiana, Wat­son in West Virginia, and so on— bring in Harmon delegations. These organization bosses were then to say to the Southern delegates, "You see how it stands. Your states are Dem­ocratic in any case. To win, you must give up a man whom the Northern States want. We demand Harmon." 3

Indications are, 'however, that that plan is not going to work. The lines of alliance that will dominate the 1912 convention will run from the South, which is for Wilson, to the Middle West insurgent regions, also for Wilson; and, if one m*y prophesy at this stage, tbe nomin­ation will go to the Jerseyman who has^ so wonderfully impressed him­self on the nation during the past year.

. I N J U S T I C E T O T A F T . a

Much has been said In the newpa-pers and magazines of the connec­tion of Mr. Taft with the sale of the Friar lands in the Philippines while he was governor of the island. For the most part the impression has prevailed that Mr. Taftjs part in those transactions reflected no cred­it upon him. But now comes Rev. Homer C. Stuntz with a statement of the facts, gleaned from intimate knowledge. Mr. Stuntz was sent to the Philippines /by the Methodist church, as a missionary, immediate­ly upon the acquisition of * the Islands by the United States and for five or six years was Intimately ac­quainted with what was going on. In a signed article in the Register and Leader Rev. Stunts says:

Mr. Wudenhof of Creston has been fearfully and wonderfully mis­informed about tbe relation of Pres­ident Taft to the purchase of the friar lands in the Philippine islands As a consequence of that misinfor­mation he blames the president when he should praise him.

I was In the Philippines before Mr. Taft was inaugurated as the first governor. I was there during his entire administration, and for about a year afterward. In writing my volume, "The Philippines and the Far East," I had access to all the correspondence, and repeated conferences with all the leading parties to the purchase of these

lands. I was convinced beyond doubt that only by tl\elr purchase could, rioting and public disbrder on these*, estates be quelled. In his letter in your issue of Aug. 22, Mr. \Vuden-. hof makes the following sptemets:

"The government bought the -J ' lands of the friars at '$1$. per acre, \ and put them on the market with' • the- provision that no one party--, should get over 160 acres, yet hisn-employers (the sugar trust) select ed 50,000 acres*^)f the choicest of the lands, and got deed to them at 1 $6 per acre. They would probabjyfelj have got them 'for nothing, only they wanted the $<^-to divide with, ^ ; the boys." ^ /' 1 ^

Now what are the facts? • - -1. That in the public land act,^

passed long before the friar lands?* ^ were purchased, the amount of "public" land—Unimproved land for . homesteads—rthat any person or cor­poration could buy or control wai^r limited to 2,500 acres. This Ilmit'/% was fixed after a long discussion, £ . during which representatives of thefe^ sugar trust, the lumber, mining and I J tobacco "Interests" exerted every in­fluence, legitimate and otherwise, at Washington and in Manila, to havet at least 20,000 acres, the maximum,* as successful sugar-making by trusty" methods requires large estates tot ,£ furnish a constant supply of cane, Mr. Taft firmly resisted all this de- /Sj-mand, and insisted on the maxim, ^ "The Philippines for the Filipino3" —and in so doing brought down up-3»' on 'his head the wrath of "Ameri- ^ can capital," which stood ready to ' exploit the resources of the islands^, with a ruthless disregard of the#-1 rights of those to whom that part ofllffi

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When the friar lands were*"1''^ the wprld is "fatherland.'

» 9 A WtiAft tha #t<law 1o purchased, the legislation authorls-^ lng the transaction and determin-i^ ing their control/survey and. i-esale^vf' specifically declared that such lands -when bought would not be "public*;/' lands," within the meaning of the^j> public land act. , This was right. Public land was unimproved forest, grating and mineral land. It was^1^'^ worth from 50 centB to $2 per acre. The friar lands were, for the most Sv Jf part, improved, and some of the bestah-*" rice, sugar and tobacco acreage un-|^ j der irrigation, and worth from i25(c»f to $200 per acre. Furthermore, the|A * friar holdings were laid out as units f o r c u l t i v a t i o n — a r e g u l a r s e t o f ' buildings, water storage, drains,, - , roads, ditches, mills, etc., etc., so* !

that subdivision would be difficult in many cases, and in all cases the ' value of this land would be greater than the acreage offered for sale as^' "public land." Having paid over, yg $7,000,000 for these holdings the»$dt ~ government was justified in expect­ing to sell It at better prices than* •> could be secured for wild lands, and*'"^ ' in tracts of any size that the nature? " of the estate as bought from the^\ friar owners made most desirable^$ ^ from the viewpoint of the purchas-er. Nor was there the least perl! of a monopoly of the resources of the Philippines in permitting pur-chases of thousands of acres by any'/^. • one person or corporation. The lotal^'J land offered as "public land" is over 60,000,000 acres. Manifestly, If this land could bd acquired and con-: trolled in vast estates by American trust methods the resources of the archipelago would be under monopo­listic control. But there were only 408,000 acres of the friar lands. No / danger of monopoly of Philippine' resources would ensue if the whole acreage were owned by one syndi- . cat®.

3. Instead of the 60,000 acreVtl purchase mentioned by Mr. Wuden-s^a hof being "the choicest of the-vf; lands," they are the very poorest. I ^ know just where they are, and how ,<*£ big a risk any purchaser takes In^'j! attempting to clear and subdue that^.' estate. The land is on the island'*^ of Mlndoro. That island is notor-v"^ iously unhealthful, and Is very* 4^ sparsely populated. It is almost lm-: A

possible to induce Filipino laborer* .* to stay there. The estate was never / more than one-third cleared of trees ~ and jungle brush. Some of this cleared land has "gone back tot^: jungle," and must be again cleared/« ,4 The Improvements are poor and the - ^ equipment antiquated. The *>il good, and in* time, after great ex--pense the corporation or individual^*5

who buys it may get a fair return^ ** upon his investment

I desire to record my deep senseft-w of Indignation that any American citizen will make an attack uponl^f the personal honor, of our chief ex-^4 ecutive with nothing but the bold^* / assertions of clap-trap politicians to&,/ back up his statements. Presid^nt^,? Taft. while governor of the Philip-pines, reflected honor upon the na-7 tlon that sent him, and accompl'sh-" t . et' more for the genuine welfare of%v v * the Filipino people In four years; ̂ than any white official has accom-j^i > plished in Asia In any twenty-five* . years. Homer C. Stuntz

Destiny, which results from duty v formed, may bring anxiety and perils, but never failure and dU-v1 / honor.—-William McKlnley.

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