The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-13
EDITORIAL Department.

The Poeahontas Record is gloating over the assurance that
its town will soon have a railroad.
The Schleswig Herold is responsible for thisbit ofswvisdom,l
ct is a Credit to any man to pay CASH SIS
s'When a dollar went farther than it does now it was much
harder to get, !" observes the Davenport Republican.
Bryan is forty years DID, We hope he may live to run
for President a dozen times. The republican party does not
want a bigger snap than beating Bryan.
Editor Funk gets his knife into the Sioux City contingent
by announcing that Dickinson county will support Col. Clark
Of Cedar Rapids for Attorney General instead of Mr.. j. W.
Hallan, the 18th district candidate.
Keokuk journalism IS a dangerous thing. Sam Clark
speaks of the many sensations furnished BY the democratic
city administration as follows: at is a great advantage to
the newspaper When it wants interesting reading, it goes
outsand kills somebody The reader is left in doubt as to
who does the killing, the council Or the newspaper.
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Our city treasury is low and the next two years must see
rigid economy practiced by our city officials. This should
not exclude, however, the continuance of those improve
rnents most needed. The workingmen need the employ
rnent and the city needs a number of Improvements before #
can lay claims to being an ideal city. We were not unnind-
fulsof the many advantages we have, but we are. ambitious
for the growth and welfare OF our community.
H AAIutll ldo POIlGQ OLE CLIO norman
bill which isin some ways more favorable to Denison than
the one passed by the house. Should the senate bill pre-
vail, Denison would be in the best possible position to make
the contest and it should do so with energy and determine
ton. That is the only kind of a fight that will win and UNI
less we prepare ourselves for it we might as we'll beat an
ignominious retreat at once. So far the mass Of the people
have not been called upon to contribute a penny towards
the expense of the contest but when they are they should
respond cheerfully4 and readily.
Denison now has its hand to the pillow and must not turn
back. Last year witnessed a business activity beyond pre-
cedent in our city. We cannot hope to have the large for
egn population that we had last summer but there is no
reason Why the town should not prosper and progress along
more solid and substantial lines than ever before. The new
creamery started on a substantial basis will prove a great
help to our town, as will many Of the small businesses which
are springing up about us. We have never. been able to
fathom the reason why our merchants and business men
could not get together in an association to build up the trade
of the town. We have said SO much along this line that we
have no heart to pursue the matter.
Being a rmoral force1' does not mean being a common
scold. There are many things going awry in this foolish
old world, and the man or newspaper that attempts to set
everything straight will find it a herculean and Improbable
task. The newspaper that is always scolding loses its
effectiveness when a real wrong is to be righted. Mr. Ham
ilton of the Odebolti Chronicle is one of the best examples of
this inef6ciency Of wrath caused by over-use. Every issue
OF his paper is filled with fault findings. Occasionally he
gets after the right person and says some really good things,
but whatever he5saysi is always discounted by the fact that
it is Chilly Hamilton who says it.
Among other blessings which the new railroads have
brought to Crawford county is a multiplicity of newspapers.
The newspapers of this county are as follows: At Denison-
Die Zeitung, Der Demokrat, the Bulletin, the Journal. the
REVIEW; at Vail, the Observer; at West Side, the Journal;
at Manila, the Register and the Times; at Dow CITY, the
Enterprise; at Charter Oak, the Republican and the Herald;
at Schleswig, Der Herold; at Deloit, the News andat Kiron.
the Sentinel. Whether our people can support fifteen local
newspapers is a questionRfor the future. We can but wish
for all OUR contemporaries an equal measure of success as the
REVIEW has attained. The latest corners to our newsnaner
world are the Kiron Sentinel, which starts with good adver-
Using patronage and good local pages, and the Deloit News.