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New-York tribune., 1900-08-04
AmussmeUts.

SASINo-s--Caslno Beauty Mnstrels-Casno Boy.
41AMMERSTEEN'S NICTORIA-N -l5-foof Gardeh
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE-&-S:l5-The CADET GIL
KEITH S-Continuous Performance.
MANHATTAN BEACH-2-Fancullis list Regiment
Bsad-S-Pain's Great Spectacle and Firew"rks-4
9-The Ceisha.
NEW-NORK T3EATRF1-S-Cherry Blossom Grove.
PASTOR Continuous Performance
ST. NICHOLAS GARDEN Summer Night concerts
New-York tribune., 1900-08-04

Respectable" people who are involved In
wholesale arrests made in disreputable resorts
have nobody but themselves to blame for the
unpleasant publicity to which they are sub
jected If the habit of Summing were not so
prevalent among persons of ordinarily decent
manners and morals, many questionable places
Of public amusement would lose a large part of
their present patronage.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-04
gmocr TO ADVERTISEMENTS.
Euefurss X oncc5.

J. H Johnston & Son, Is John St.
Precious stone. ; E,--I-o-9e gg,v \ tlid Gold,
Brorz.s etc etc aal sell I Siiverware
Duplicate wedding P-eszn ms our spec atty.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-04

Doubtless our Bryanite orators who try to In
flame labor against capital would not want to
Kill any capitalists but the seed of anarchy they
plant may have strange growth.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-04

The more that is known of the Goebel trial
the more like political conspiracy to persecute
Powers and the other Republicans it looks
New-York tribune., 1900-08-04

ment. but now there isn't enough of it left ev"~
to hang a slander
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.


Sioux City Journal: A bill has been
introduced in the house of representa-
tives providing for the re-arming of
the national guard with Krag-Jorgen-
sen rifles to be issued by the war de-
partment and to remain the property
of the United States while used BY the
various state militia organizations. The
measure is practical one. The day
of the old Springfield as a fighting
weapon has passed. The guard might
as we'll be supplied with broom sticks
for drilling purposes as with the old,
short range, large caliber rifles. This
lesson waslearned by all the volunteer
regiments In Luzon. Owing to the
poor craftsmanship and the lack of
courage upon the part of the Filipinos
the lesson was not very expensive
one,bu there should be no necessity
of a repetition of it, with possibly seri-
ous consequences. If the national
guard is to be maintained as a fighting
organization it should be provided with
modern fighting weapons. Every cent
spent for ammunition and every hour
devoted to target practice with the old
weapons is virtually wasted.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
THE PORTO RICO ACT.

The change in public sentiment re-
garding the Porto Rican act, now that
its principles and underlying motives
are understood, has been remarkable.
People who month ago were clamor-
ing for immediate free trade with
Porto Rico say frankly now that the
act as passed is vastly better and for
very important reasons. To have es-
tablished immediate free trade with
Porto Rico would have taken away
the easiest method raising revenue
which it could otherwise only have
had by an internal revenue act-a tax
which would have been extremely bur-
densome-or by direct contribution
from the treasury of the United States.
This absolutely necessary revenue will
now be supplied from the collections
under the Porto Rican act on all duti-
able goods imported into the United
States from Porto Rico or into Porto
Rico from the United States. If this
system of raising money is unsatis-
factory to Porto Ricans they can put
an end to it within few months il
they desire, since the act authorizes
them to elect legislature and spe-
officially provides that all tariff between
the United States and Porto Rico shall
cease when that legislature shall pro-
vide the necessary funds for sustain
ing the government of Porto Rico.
An equally important result, however,
of the enactment OF this law, which
retains a mere shadow of tariff du-
ties between Porto Rico and the Uni
ted States, lies in the fact that the
right to determine matters of this
character as they are reached is re-
tanned by congress, and thus no prec-
edent is established by which anybody
could claim. or the democratic party
can successfully assert, that free
trade with the Philippines or other
possessions of that character must or
would logically follow. 1t is only
justice to the workingmen of the
United States, whether on the farm,
in the factory, the mines, or else
where, that congress should retain in
it's hand the absolute power to deter
mine these matters one by one,! as.
they may offer themselves for detet-
mination. ~ +
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
Automobile. aud Good Roads.

Burlington Hawkeye: The plan OF
the Automobile club of America look
ing to the construction of two great
national highways, one extending
from Maine to St. Augustine, Fla, the
other from New York to San Francis
co, is a daring one, and may seem just
a trifle visionary. but in SO far as it
can be made to strengthen the move
ment in favor OF good roads in gen
eral, it affords an excellent subject for
popular agitation. The method pro-
posed by the club is that one-third of
the cost of constructing these high
ways shall be paid by the national
government, one-third by the state
thru which they pass. and the re-
naming third by the cities and towns
lying along the projected lines. This
is an ambitious undertaking. If car
ried into effect it would give the coun-
try two of the finest highways in the
world, and at all events it shows the
progress of the good roads movement.
1t indicates also that the rapidly in
creasing use of automobiles is bound
to exert a wholesome influence for the
betterment of public roads turnout the
country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01

the eight months ending with Feb
ruary 1900; to the British East Indies,
from $2,s45, 1876 to $3,l24,169; to Hong
Kong, from $4,732.072 to $5,136.162; to
British Australasia, from SIP ,525, 1865
70 $l7. 999,403; to the Hawaiian islands,
from $5,60s,000 to $S,546.S59, and to
Japan, from $10,5o5,S54 in the eight
months ending with February, 1899,
to $1S,344.1T9 in the eight months end
ing with February, 1900.
This phenomenal increase in our eX-
portations to the Orient, and especially
to Japan, is the more surprising be-
cause of recent information from Ja-
pan which shows that the general i'm
portations of that country have been
greatly decreased under its new tariff
which is mildly protective. The total
imports of Japan in the year 1899 were
s20,367,622 yen, against 1902, 157 yen
in the preceding year, the value of the
yen being 49.s cents. Thus it is seen
that while Japan is decreasing her
general imports, she continues to rap
idly increase her imports from the
United States.
The remarkable growth of our eN-
ports to the Orient. however. only be-
comes fully apparent when the figures
of the present exports are compared
with those of few years ago Foe
instance, our exports to Japan in the
fiscal year 1893 were but $3,195, 494,
and in 1899 they were S17.264,6SS and
seem likely to be SIG. 100000 in the ifs
Fcal year 1900. To China our exports
|of 1898 We're $3,9OO,457, and in the
present fiscal year will be in round
terms $15,000,0oo. To Hong Kong our
exports during the period have dou-
bled, being $4,216,602 in 1893, and
promise to be over $S.OO0.000 in the
present fiscal year. 10 Australasia the
exports of 1898 were $7,921,22S. and
promise to be fully S24 100000 in the
present fiscal year. 10 Asiatic Russia
the exports of 1898 were less than Il
quarter of million OF dollars, but will
reach fully $2,000.000 in the fiscal year
about to end. Even more remarkable,
however. is the growth in our exports
to the Hawaiian and Philippine Isl
ands. To the Hawaiian Islands the
exports OF 1893 were So, sa7, 500, in 1899
$9,305,470. and in the fiscal year 1900
promise to be fully S12,000,000; while
our exports to the Philippines, which
in 1898 were but $154,37s will in the
present year exceed S., 100000. Consid-
ering our exports to Asia and Oceanica
combined the total for the fiscal year
1893 is $27,421,S31, for 1899, $7s,235, 176.
and for the fiscal year about to end
will exceed $100,000,U00. The following
table shows our exports to the princi-
pal countries of Asia and Oceanica in
the fiscal years 1893 and 1900. the esti-
mate for 1900 being based upon the
actual figures for the eight months
of the wear already reported:
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01

Representative circuit, of Vermont,
has introduced in the house resoau-
ton calling upon the treasury Depart
ment to furnish to congress informal
ton as to the kinds and amounts of
ingredients used in the manufacture
of oleomargarine. 1t is alleged by the
dairymen that the oleomargarine man
ufacturers get the support of southern
interests by claiming that cotton seed
oil is the largest part OF oleomargar-
inc; that they enlist the cattlemen by
claiming that the. by-products of the
beef cattle furnish the principal CON
s1ituent of oleomargarine; that the
hog, raisers are allured by the tale that
a great market for lard is made by the
manufacture of oleomargarine. The
dairymen say they believe the report
will also show the use of some deleteri-
Gus substances, notably stearine, which
they claim, !, an indigestible product
resembling tallow from which candles
are made.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
THE DEWEY TICKET.

admiral Dewey has made name as
a brave and undaunted sea, fighter
With courage undismayed he fought
the Spaniards in Manila bay and for.
ever put an end to Spanish rule in the
Pacific. All problems that arose he
settled with firm hand and sound
judgment. The net of diplomacy did
not catch him in it's meshes.
No. it was left for woman to be the
undoing of him. Dewey is like Nelson
in that, with the great difference be-
tween them that there is no scandal
in Dewey's case. Until the admiral
married he was in fair va to be
the one hero of ancient ana modern
times who was cast OF pure metal in
a faultless mold. There seemed to be
nothing in his composition that would
tarnish or crumble. Since then-well,
we all. know.
This is not the worst oft, however.
Another female has come forward to en-
barass the admiral. She lives in Yer.
mont, and has written to the gallant
old sailor that she is candidate for
vice presiden. on the ticket with him.
Unto the unfortunate cometh misfor.
tune and unto the sorrowful, woe.
Now what will the admiral do? As
long as this ambitious female eandi-
date remains in her habitat among the
green hills OF Vermont things may be
all right. But suppose she should take
it into her head to brave the terrors
of ride on the ''kyars'' down to
Washington. Once she button-holes
the admiral all is lost. He can refuse
a woman nothing. Should this gaunt
New Highlander breathe the word,
there will at once be placed in the
field, regardless of party, creed or
platform, the world beating independ-
ent ticket of cousin George and Aunt
Melissa Hankins.'' Shades of Jackson
and Jefferson, what next?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
Use of Legislatures.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: 1t is appro.
pirate to make inquiry into the use
and abuse of legislatures.
The people of the state are familiar
with the attempt to prevent the oper-
alton of saloons, even when said sa.
looms should observe all the require.
ments of the state law. within five
miles of the campus of the state uni
versity. Stated in another manner
the legislature was asked to prevent in
Iowa City the operation of saloons ac-
cording to law.
The mayor of Burlington has iust
issued TO the chief of police of that
stances, are instructive. Hereafter the
saloons of Burlington are TO be closed
at 6 o'clock in the evening on the Sab
bath. Heretofore they have operated
on Sabbath evening the same as any
other evening of the week. and they
operate all night in utter defiance OF
the state law.
The mayor of Sioux City has issued
an edict that hereafter the saloons OF
that city shall be closed all day on the
Sabbath. On all other days and nights
they will be operated as heretofore
and the saloonkeepers in all other re,
spects will proceed as tho there was
no state law on the subject.
The proclamations of other mayors
will be awaited with interest. 1t is
time for the chief executives of Musca-
tine, Clinton, Davenport, Council
Bluffs, Dubuque, Ottumwa, Keokuk
and other cities of size to come to the
front. The saloonkeepers of Cedar
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
A Republican Measure.

Montezuma Republican: That Porto
RICO tariff as it passed the senate and
afterwards the house and was signed
rs the president becomes Il repuoli.
can measure and the national con. e,.-
'tion will no doubt indorse it as the
4 est solution Of the problems sugg"..-
ed Those who are inclined ia kick
on the proposition had just as well
fall in line and get ready for a great
campaign this fall. Bryan will have
To be put down again and every repub-
llican will want hand in the fun.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
OUR GROWING TRADE IN THE
ORIENT.

Ihe announcement of large wheat
shipment to Japan sent from a Pacific
port, lends interest to some figures
which the treasury bureau of Stats.
tics has prepared regarding the grow.
ing demand for American foodstuffs
and manufactures in the Orient. Near
ly six million dollars worth of our
Hour went to the Orient last wear.
a against about four million dollars
worth in the preceding year, and near
~ all of it to China, Japan and Asiatic
Russia, the largest proportion of that
which reached China passing thru
Hong Kong, to which it was accredited
an our export statements. Shipments
of breadstuffs in the form of wheat
ITO the Orient, however, have been in
the past rare, and the large shipment
r of wheat just announced shows the
& growing demand for our breadstuffs in
+ that section of the world which BUYS
annually a billion dollars worth OF
goods, and which has been in the past
taking less than 6 per cent of its pur-
q chases from the United States.
That our sales TO the Orient are rap
idly growing. however, is shown by the
q latest export statistics. They show
3 that while there has been a continued
growth in our exports during the past
fiscal year, by far the largest percent.
age of growth has been in our trade
with the Orient. To Europe, our ex-
ports during the eight months ending
with February increased 5.4 per cent
as compared with the corresponding
months OF the preceding fiscal year; to
South America, per cent; to North
America, 1913 per cent; to Asia, 6s per
cent; TO Oceanica, 81 per cent, or to
Asia and Oceanica combined, IA per
cent; while to Africa there was a slight
reduction. owing to the disarrange-
ment of commercial conditions there
by reason of hostilities. Taking our
exports as whole. it is found that
the increase during the eight months
has been 9 per cent, while, as already
stated, the increase to Asia and Ocean
aca has been A per cent.
This increase in our sales to the
Orient occurs in every country CLASH
fed under the head of Asia and Ocean
sea, to China the increase being from
S9,247,73S in the eight months ending
with Fehruary, 1899, to $1o,3s5,4s5 in
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
All Talk and No Action,

Keokuk County News: The good
road cranks are going it again. We
suppose that convention composed
iof, a lot of fellows wearing nose glass
es. and fashy shirt fronts is destined
to do great things for the highway in
some locations, bur in this good old
and shovels and muscle to make per-
ceptible showing on bad roads. The
fellows who are always talking about
good roads, but never do anything to
make them better except to meet and
resolve and drink champagne, make us
all fired weary.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
THOSE MESSAGES AND PAPERS.

The Creston Gazette copies para
graph recently printed in the Courier
concerning the published messages
and papers of the Presidents" and
adds to it some exceedingly interest
{ Ing information about this valuable
work. 1T will be remembered that the
Paragraph in question said that, accord
Y ing toa Washington correspondence Iowa
congressmen We're being constantly
asked for copies of the messages and
papers, but We're unable to furnish
them because the edition was long ago
exhausted. The work has. however
been reprinted, and the Washington
4 correspondent says agents have been
travelling about, claiming that the
books We're secured from congressman
or they could not sell them for so low
q price as from $25 to $50 per set, the
price varying according to the guilt
+ bility of each sucker.
Apropos of all this the Gazette says:
The Washington correspondent from
= whom the Courier extracts its Informal
I ton has erected a very large tissue of
Y falsehood on a very small foundation
of fact i'm what he says concerning the
commercial edition of the erstwhile
public document, Messages and Papers
Of the Presidents These books. far
from being of mo value to any home
Z library are the most valuable volumes
ever issued by the public printing Of
/. fee. They are of profound interest not
only to the politician and those looking
to a political career, but to the casual
reader whose object in perusing them
as merely to enlarge his stock of his
/. torical information.
The work was published under an
act of congress which limited the num-
Der OF sets to 5000. Its editor was Con-
gresham Richardson of Tennessee,
then chairman of the congressional
committee on printing, now leader of
the democrats in the house as their
recent candidate for speaker. The
edition of 5000 permitted to each con-
+ gresham eight sets of the messages
I. and papers for gratuitious distribution,
which they disposed of in most cases
by placing them in the public Ii
i braries,
The editor of the work, Richardson,
was popular member of congress. BY
personal influence and the aid of d
obhy he succeeded in passing thru
the house and senate an act granting
him a dulicate set of the government
plates, thus converting to his private
ownership, material which had been
prepared by the government at an ex-
pense of thousands of dollars, which he
intended to use, and has used, under
the protection of copyright, in the
printing and sale of second edition
sof the messages and papers.
Richardson and his pals are now
under congressional investigation and
the leader of the democratic side of the
house is finding himself in position
OF much embarrassment. 1t is doubt
fnlsif he can eXtricate himself from his
fix without being badly handled in the
operation.
Persons should not buy the messages
& and papers, no matter how slick the
story put up by book agents. Congress
I as a way of lettirr Richardson down
easy will probably authorize another
government edition of the work. when
those who have use for the work may
secure it as other government publ
cations are secured.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
SOUTH AFR1cA's COMING BOOM

The British and South African Ex-
port Gazette of London thinks that a
boom is impending in South Africa.
This is the argument: ''1he certain
ty which we have all along insisted
upon that a revival of South African
trade would eventuate in boom I'M
paralleled in it's previous history is
now being recognized on all hands, and
wholly shuts out of sight the forebod-
ing of the few constitutionalIy pessi-
unsteady inclined. The signs of this
revival are plainly discernible to the
least reflective, and are enforced by
the strong expressions of opinion
which find ut1erance in the leading pa
pers thruout the kingdom. The waste
trade, fosters it by the demands it ere
ates for replacement. These affect al
most the whole series of industrial
products. The deprivation and Austen
ton imposed by interrupted commune
the extravaganza of outlay which al
rush TO industrial and other pursuits,
in order to recover the losses caused
by the war, the active resumption OF
business in multifarious ancient and
tried grooves, with the opening up of
new fields of labor, will each and all
stimulate commerce. The release from
trade-burdening fetters, and the bene-
ficence of a wise rule, with the assur-
ance of Il permanent future before
South Africa, will again attract cap
ital and enterprise into old and new
departments-all of which factors will
necessarily and inevitably make for a
huge revival of business beyond any
hitherto parallel. 1t is true that the
full forescence of the revival cannot
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01

be so immediate as that produced by a
magician's wand; but the beginning
the premier pas qui coute-will be
made on all hands with no hesitancy,
and simply from the natural force OF
things. Without drawing on the i'm
agination, or speaking with too great
a flow of optimism, we are justified il,
reasserting that every portent points
to our being on the threshold of the
opening out of the greatest boom in
South African trade that that extra.
ordinary country has ever SEEN"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01

The promptness with which the sem
ate knocked out various propositions
before that body, looking to the grant
of special privileges to corporations
and others at Cape Nome and else
where in Alaska, is encouraging. Not
only We're the advocates of further
special privileges turned down, but as
finally adopted the bill Tor regulating
gold mining in that region provided
for the revocation and cancellation OF
all special privileges heretofore obtain
ed thru a complaisant secretary OF the
interior or otherwise. Let those who
have been in the habit of talking
about the senate as 1.-THE refuge of
corporations and monopolies" take
note.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
oskaloosa Herald: With due regard

Oskaloosa Herald: With due regard
to Capt. Carr's candidacy for congress
sional honors, we believe the with
drawal of Mr.. Waterman will make
Congressman Lacey's renominatio by
reclamation certain. MIR. Lacey will
have the solid delegation from Wapello
county as he was second choice to all
of Mr.. Waterman's supporters. Davis
and Monroe counties which might
have given Mr.. Waterman some votes
will now come to the unanimous sup
port of Mr.. Lacey, He is stronger, now
than he has ever been before and is
daily growing in popular favor thru
out the district.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
Clear Field for Lacey.

Monthly Independent: Hon. H. L.
Waterman retires himself from the
list Of congressional aSpirants. This
leaves practically clear field for Mr.
Lacey, who will no doubt be nomina-
ted by reclamation. Mr.. Lacey, ac-
cordig to Amos j. Cummings, is one
OF Henderson's right hand men; III
other words, he is assistant speaker
Of the house. Lacey is intellectual;
he is superior to Hull, Deliver, or to
any other representative.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01
Dolllver, of the Tenth DIs,r,c,.

Glidden Graphic: Hon. j. p. Dolli-
yer will have no opposition for re-
tive term in congress. This is certain
ly handsome compliment. In twelve
years he has been obliged to choose
among his friends Il comparative few
for public station, while the many
have been disappointed. 1t is certainly
a tribute to Mr.. Delivers ability and
popularity as we'll as to the good sense
of the many able men in the district
that no effort has been made to de-
velop opposition by holding out to
the men the hope for revenge.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-01

1896. On the single item OF live stock
the increase over the year 1896
amounts to $7OO,0OO,OOo, or a gain of
3s per cent. The percentage of gain
in the value of all agricultural prod
uts over the total during the three
years mentioned is 81 per cent, 1t is
hardly necessary to go into the stat
istics more deeply. These figures tell
the whole story.