Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-10
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Sioux City Journal: 1t will take severa
weeks for the portraits of "Tama Jim
Wilson to overtake all the pictures of tn,
late Senator James f. Wilson that have go
cabinet members and such persons.
Dubuque Times: Hon. "Tama" Jim Will
son is now the best advertised man in the
state Of Iowa. He is not human If pri-
vately he does not feel proud OF the many
good things that have been said about him.
But he has the good sense not to let on that
he knows all of those encomums are spon-
taneous from whole lot OF newspaper fell
lows who know a good man when they once
get acquainted with him.
Sioux City Times: A judge in the district
court at Des Moines discovered accidentally
in looking over the records that a certain
criminal had been committed to the peni
tentiary for three years, when, in fact hi.
sentence was for only eighteen months. II
will take action by the pardoning power tc
remedy the wrong, but the fellow who got
the eighteen months commitment, when he
ought to have had a three year certificate
will not come back to serve out the rest oil
the term.
Burlington Hawkeye: The state of New
Jersey is about to spend another million this
year for the improvement of her roads
That states roads are now the best in the
country and her people like good roads sc
well that they are willing to pay for more
of them. In this state the project Of good
roads is opposed by the old fogies who have
not the slightest idea of what constitutes
a good road because they have never seen
one and have not the slightest conception
of the benefits and blessings Of good roads
Des Moines Leader: Iowa will enter a
most emphatic protest against the attempt
of the st. Louis secretary of the interior to
run his department for the benefit of his
lone city. The order does not go into
effect until September 1 next, and before
that time there will be a new secretary of
tie interior. Every attempt should be
made to secure the withdrawal of this eX-
traordnary order, and if consolidation is
determined upon, to secure the consolidated
agency for Des Moines. Secretary Fran
els will find it more difficult than he at
present suppGses to carry off to his own
city this rich prize.
Sioux City Tribune And now the BARRIERS
of Iowa propose to take hand. 1t is all
the rage to seek to get legislative enact
ments regulating barber shops, or rather
tonsorial parlors, as they are designated in
the bills introduced. Illinois, Minnesota, and
several other states have either passed laws
or are about to do so which elevate the pro-
fession to a level with that of medicine and
law. Since the during which the tom
sorialists practiced the noble art of pie
botomy it has been the opinion of some
in and out of the profession that the trade
has retrogressed and too freely invited the
entrance of blacksmiths and sundry other
artists who WELD the razor with more vigor
than judgment, and inlct upon the cuticle
Of their customers various diseases known by
high sounding Latin names. 1t is proposed
to change all this by law requiring each
would-be practitioner of the art tonsorial to
undergo an examination scarcely less rigid
than that required OF the young medic. The
reformers would transform the barber shop
beg pardon, tonsorial parlor-into an ely
sium of ease and physical safety, where no
man is in danger of contracting sycosis,
profanely called "itch," where an accidental
cut will be impossible; in short, where
man can go to sleep and awake finding him
self $4,000 beauty II he has any basis for
it at the start There can be no objection
to such a law If it doesn't cost the public
anything and the BARRIERS pay the expenses
of it's administration, and 1t does not lead
to the formation Of trust with a 25-cent
shave accompaniment.