Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-11

exploration expeditions might render
better service by starting out to dis
cover Aguinaldo instead of the north
pole. aIf discovered something could
be done with Aguinaldo, but not with
the north pole.-Council Bluffs Non
pareil.
For Chancellor.-ln an article re,
garding the prospective vacancy of the
chancellorship of the law department
of the state university the Dubuque
Telegraph mentions as possibilities
for the place the following: Judge
lO'Donnell, of Dubuque; ]. j. McCar.
thy, of Dubuque; Judge Wade,
of Iowa City; L. M. Kean, of Sioux
City; Justice Deemer, of Council
Bluffs, and Senator Blanchard, of Os-
kaloosa. Of Mr.. Kean it says: Hon.
L. M. Kean, of Sioux City, while not a
candidate, is being urged by his
friends for the place. While not very
widely known it can be said that he is
one Of the best read men in the state.
He is Virginian by birth and is a
graduate of the famous university of
his native state. He is a modest, I'M
assuming man engaged in the practice
of law at Sioux City."-Sioux City
Journal
A Good Collector-The battleship
Kentucky, after thoroly frightening
the sultan of Turkey and getting a
promise that 100000 will soon be paid,
has sailed for Morocco to conect bill
LOT $4,000. AS collector the Ken
lucky is making reputation.-Daven-
port Republican.
Another Patriot.-W. G. Todd, a
member of the board of supervisors
of Van Buren, county, has filed his
resignation, to take effect December
81, 1900, for the purpose, as he says,
of giving the proper authorities an
opportunity to appoint to the vacancy
John q. Ferguson, who'was duly elect
ed November 6. Mr.. Todd says he
takes this course in order that a sup
ervisor may be appointed who will
have the right without question to act
legally as member of the board. Mr..
Todd is a democrat, and Mr.. Ferguson,
who is to succeed him, is republican.
Mr.. Todd rises above all personal and
party considerations and does his
duty as a plain American citizen with
no selfish ends to serve. 1t Is an
agreeable and pleasant duty to be.
stow words of praise upon such a
man, for he deseres them all. The
country is safe when such men can be
found in every community setting q
righteous example before the young
men who are just coming into posses
sion of political power. This Van
Buren, county democrats example
should be followed thruout the state;
then the supreme court of Iowa would
have nothing to decide as regards the
Titus amendment All honor to WIG.
Todd, of old Van Buren.-Des Moines
Capital.
Great Debts Swept Away.-The
present bankruptcy law has been eff
fective in sweeping an immense num-
Der of dead claims from the boards,
and has released from obligations
many who have since taken new
heart and new courage in life in be-
ing relieved from burden of debt
they never could have discharged.
Many of these debts, in fact the most
of them, were just obligations that
ought to have been paid, tho it is not
the purpose here to consider the eth1-
cal features of these claims. The law
is as nearly equitable to all interests
as a statnte could be framed. and it
| will probably be continued for some
time to come. AS general feature
| of the statutes, however, bankrupt
law should not be permanently re-
tanned. It ought to be an axiom,
ground into the fiber of all business
men that all obligations should be
met AMI every debt paid; that every
individual must maintain his financial
independence by his own efforts,
without having debts swept out of ex-
istence by legal enactment. For
this reason there is ground for the