Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-02
TO BOARD
Story That q. A. R, Will Interfere in
Soldiers Home Matters Denied
PLAN HAS NOT BEEN DISCUSSED

There IL No Movement to Take Man-
asement From Board of CONTROL
Saylor Talks About Convention
at Clear Lake-CapitalN News.
Des Moines. Oct. 25-The Grand Army
of the Republic has not decided to
make war on the state board of control
on account of the management OF the
Soldiers Home. The sensational story
to that effect in the Leader last week
has been denied by nearly every person
implicated in it. Capt. Z. B. Raymond,
of Hampton, is the latest to repudiate
the alleged plan of The committee to
take the home from the management
of the board. Capt. Raymond was a
former commissioner of the home and
he thoroughly under stands the situa-
ton there. He has steadily supported
the board, though he says that he has
long thought that the national gov
eminent should take charge Of and
support all the soldiers homes. His
4 position has been anything but hostile
to the board. The fact is that the
troubles the board has had at the home
have been largely in the newspapers
more there than in the home. The
opinion is often expressed that the
Soldiers Home must be very hard in
stitution to manage, but Governor Lar
rabee declares that this is a mistake;
that the board has not had any COM
plants OF any consequence from the
inmates, and that nearly all of the
complaints and objections have come
from the employees. This, however, is
now past and the institution is in
contented and smoothly running condi-
ton.
| Capt. Raymond is member of the
committee whichsis said to have deter
mined to make war on the board Of
control, and he says the committee has
held no meeting and he does not believe
any such action is contemplated. Ger
tainly no one is authorized to plunge
the G. A. r. into such a controversy.
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G. f. saylor, beet sugar expert Of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, says the meeting at Clear Lake
last week was quite successful, though.
the. busy season kept many farmers
tended. "Plenty OF capital was offer
ed" said Mr.. Saylor, "to build beet
sugar factories in several towns, and
the prospect is they will be found all
over Iowa in a short time, within a
year or two. The next step is to get
the farmers interested so thew will
raise the beets."
do YOU think there will be any
trouble in doing this?" was asked.
Il don't see why there should be-
replied Mr.. Saylor. "They have been
able to make arrangements in other
places, and as soon as the farmers have
tried it.and find how profitable it is, it
isn't question of getting farmers to
raise the beets, but it is question
among the farmers as to who will get
the contracts. I have visited factories
from coast to coast and studied the
question in all its phases, in all condi-
tons, and 1 know what can be done in
Iowa. Farmers can raise these beets,
and after paying themselves we'll for
their labor, $3.50 day for man and
team and $3.50 day for labor, and
paying all other expenses, can clear in
cash from SIS to $50 per acre every
season-it will average $40 to $40 an
acre. There is no doubt about this,
and if we can once get it started the
farmers will find it out to their profit"
Mr.. Saylor goes in few days to Has
wall to study the sugar question in the
Hawaiian Islands. There is dispute
among authorities as to whether or not
the sugar industry has reached its Linz
its there. It is claimed that it has been
developed as far as it can be carried
probably and Mr.. Saylor goes as an
impartial student to settle the question
beyond all doubt, as he has settled 9th
er disputed points on sugar. He set
tied the cost of sugar production in
Porto Rico beyond further argument,
and his report is accepted in all quar-
tiers as final.
Bryan hurried home with all the
haste OF special trains, leaving Ohio
with less attention than he gave Iowa
and rushing back to Nebraska to try
to stem the tide there fast setting
against Organism. 1t is confidently
claimed by the republicans that they
will carry Nebraska at the coming
ELECTION, and if they do it will have a
worse effect upon Bryan than the loss
of Ohio would have upon Mckinley
Mr.. Bryan stopped for one speech in
Iowa, speaking in Harlan, one of the
places where his date was cancelled on
account of sickness fw days ago.
Then he was taken by special train di-s
rectly to Lincoln. Neb.
Horace Boies spoke Saturday in
Sumner and he will make six other
speeches in which he will Shrek
against that specter, Imperialism, which
lhaunts him. He is not physically equal
to every night work, so he speaks
Thursday, Friday and Saturday in
Postyille, Oelwein and Manchester and
the next Thursday, Friday and Satur-
lday in Sioux City, Carroll and, Jewell
Junction.
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