Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-14


employment. Think of this now, for
Johnny will be ready for work in about
ten days.
Hoping He'll DO II.
Muscatine Journal: Billy kason's
threat to resign if the national repub-
lican convention declares for expansion
is taken so seriously in some parts of
Illinois that petitions are being sign
ed by large numbers of republicans
usging him not to wait for the action
of the convention, but to get out of
Office at once. Yet every one who
knows Billy knows he will stick to his
Office 10 the end of his term. ~
An Example for Us.
Keokuk Gate City: Shall the Amer
lean soldiers be called away from the
Philippines while Aguinaldo and his
followers are in arms against this gov
eminent? After the battle of Majuba
Hill in South Africa, Mr.. Gladstone az
prime minister to England was weak
enough to do that. He called away
the English army leaving an aggravat-
ed condition that had grown steadily
worse, and now England has great
war on its hands, giving ten times
more trouble, both to England and the
Beers, than would ever have been, but
for that weak sentimental act of Mr..
Gladstone.
Judge Not Hastilys
Des Moines Leader: For sake OF ar
gument., let it be granted that the
board of control, being composed of
what an orator once called .human
men," occasionally makes mistake;
even so, is this reason for attacking
the board of control as an institution?
It is granted that governors some
times blunder, but whoever heard this
made the basis for demand for the
abolition of the Officer a Si,,:tif-
As to Prtxe.Fightine.
Marshalltown Times Republican !:
Many pious people are wondering why
their favorite newspaper devotes so
much space to the prize fight, but if
they knew what it was that kept their
husbands out SO late Friday night and
knew that more money was waged on
the outcome than will be put UP on
the coming election they would under
stand that the papers were only giving
the news of those events in which the
public is most interested.
IL Didn't Bother Us.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The English
are greatly troubled at the prospect of
a European coalition against their gov
eminent. Such a little thing as that
did not bother the Americans much
when they had war on their hands at
home and England was one of the
mr. in mol mi nj IN $hn
United States will still be able to take
care Of itself and if the British desire
protection they should ask for annex
alton. Americans have not made the
money for which they are justly noted
by working for nothing.
Gen Grant ON Expansion.
Muscatine Journal: President Grant
in his second inaugural address, when
appealing for the annexation. OF San
Domingo, struck the keynote, not only
of the feasibility of our expansion of
territory, but of the divinely ,contem-
plated expansion Of the republic. He
said (: ii
II say: here, however, that do moi
share the apprehension held by many
as to the danger Of governments De-
coming weakened and destroyed by
reason of their extension Of territory.
Commerce, education and the rapid
transit of thought and matter by tele-
graph and steam have changed all this.
Rather do I believe that our Great Ma
ker is preparing the world, in his good
time, to become one nation, speaking
one language, and when armies and
navies will 'be no longer required"