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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20

brother. | loved him. hope God may
spare me, and [ shall make it my LIES
mission to avenge him by burying his
slayer in the depths of merited pub
| licS eNecration.,
Instead of burying the slayer of his
friend "in the depths of merited public
generation, Senator Blackburn held
him up,to the world as martyr, man
consecrated to thehpeopie' s cause. one
|.who gave his life for their deliverance.
Consistency is apparently not one
of the shining traits Of Senator Black
burns makeup. Viewing the matter as
fairly as possible it would seem that
The utterance over the ssrsa-e of Colonel
Sanford was that of an honest heart.
Sanford was his friend. and there was
NOTHING for Blackburn to gain by
denouncino his slayer. AT the grave
of Goebel, Blackburn was in the posi-
ton of man under obligation to the
dead man and the dead mans friends.
He had accepted favors at their hands
and was senator from Kentucky by
their leave. 1t would have been politi-
cal suicide for him to have failed to
praise his benefactor to. the skies.
Therefore his eulogy has; the ring of
insinceritv.
I Such an Grafton as that pronounced
at the funeral of Goebel by Black
burn could have been. as appropriately
spoken at the grave of Aaron Burr
or OF George Ill. Of England.
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ton, or in keeping up to the point of
highest efficiency the excellent public
school system now in force. To do
this we must have trained teachers.
tin this connection it might be we'll
to say that the old argument that Iowa
can afford to let educational matters
go because in 1890 she stood first in
per cent of least illiteracy, now carries
but little weight. Iowa has been rest
ing on her oars since 1890. while other
states have spent much money and
worked hard in this direction. 1t will
mot be surprising if the. coming census
shows very different results; results
which will not rebound greatly TO
3Iowa's credit. The next legislature
will probably, in the light of the COM
ing census, be able to see clearly the
error of the present assembly's ways.
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SENATOR BLACKBURN VS.. sENA.
TOR BLACKBURN.

j Senator Blackburn said at the fun.
1eral Of William Goebel few days
tago:
Build here over his grave mighty
towering granite shaft that shall defy
the corroding touch Of time. In
scribe upon it an epitaph that shall
be worthy of the man. He earned this
at our hands. In life and death he was
consecrated to the peoples cause. He
lived an honest life, and gave his
life for your deliverance. OF him no
ellogy but truth may say: Earth
never pillowed upon her bosom a
|truer son, nor heaven opened wide
her portals to receive manlier spir-
lits''
! But it appears that Senator Black
|burn's memory is a short one. At Cow
lfngton on August IA, 1895, little less
tthan five years ago, he stood at anotil-
Ter grave and pronounced words OF
leulogy over the remains of another
tman who was being lowered to his last
lsleep. Over the coffin OF Colonel John
H. Sanford, who had been shot down in
q highway by William Goebel, Senator
blackburn said
4 sJoha SANFORD sgas 10 ms like "a
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WHY BRYAN is NERVOUS.

From various quarters within the
last two or three months have come re
ports that Bryan is anxious to set an
early date for the democratic nation
al convention. The hint is sent out
again from Washington, where he has
been comforting with his friends. It is
announced that he wants to be first
~ the field with platform against
trusts. II he will read the republican
anational platform Of 1888 he will dis.
cover that trusts are not new issue
Parties expressed themselves on the
subject q dozen years ago and IRE.
quently at later dates. Bryan's real
reason for an early convention is easy
to understand. He is afraid that some
sudden incident or impulse may de-
Epriye him of the nomination. In a
meteoric sort of way he came to the
front himself in 1896. Then he was sup.
posed to be child of destiny. Now he
is; "a defeated candidate. Tho still popu.
lar with a large element of the demo
cratic party, and sure OF the convention
# it should meet soon, he breads the
unexpected things that may happen
between now and July.
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open to Greater Objection.

Dubuque Times: The ways and
means committee of the house has
properly recommended for indefinite
postponement the bill of DIR. Eiker, of
Decatur, limiting earnings exempt
from execution for debt to S. per
week, this sum to represent the earn
ings of the entire family. 1t is an OBJ
lection to the present law that, dead
beats take advantage of it, but the
Eiker bill was open to the greater OBJ
lection that hard-hearted creditors
would seize upon it to take the bread
out of the mouths of wives and chill
dren dependent on weak and thrift
less husband and father. The retailer
who doesn't wish to become the dead
beats victim can protect himself by
refusing credit and the poorer classes
might be better off if no such thing
as. credit We're known to the retail
business.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
sweet stories of Long Ago.

I told her fairy stories in the old days
long ago;
When we used to go a-fshing in the
creek down below
The old farm house where she was
born and to. maidenhood did
grow;
Long, happy years ago.
I told her sweeter story as she did
older grow, rs
A tale of love and courage, and plead
to be her beau,
And as we watched the shadows like
the. tides incoming flow,
She n,irmured that she loved me,
Long, long sweet years ago.
She hears the sweetest stories at even
tide just now,
Attic they've lost their glamor for
we've changed about somehow,
For we welded one another as we loved
each other so, ss
But she won't believe my stories
LAS she used to years ago.
Mrs. S. Katherine Blackburn.
Ottumwa. FebruarX5. 1900.
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Circuit Judge Taft, of Cincinnati,
has level head. While he refused to
grant the injunction prayed for by
Taylor to restrain Beckham from ex-
ercising the duties of governor of
Kentucky, he took occasion to observe
that while his court had no jurisdic-
ton in the matter, the undisputed
statement of facts alleged by. the PEE
titioners showed an outrageous condi-
ton of affairs to exist in the state.
After citing the law, he reviewed the
Goebel election law as the most infa-
nous, statute that had ever come be-
fore the attention of the court, and
denounced in vigorous terms the con-
ditions that have exisfed Kentucky
and that are cited in the bill of facts.
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E tsAIr. Bryan kindly announces to his
friends in the ''enemy's country, the
eastern states-that he does not pro-
pose to drop the money question in the
discussions of The coming campaign.
He need not trouble himself about that
question. ThejAmerican people will not
permit the money question to drop.
The Developments since 1876 have con-
WINGED them SO thoroly of the unwis-
dom of the financial theories then pre-
sented by Mr.. Bryan and his followers,
that they will take care to see that no
opportunity is. afforded to put such
theories into operation. The money in
circulation in the United States has
increased SO percent in the short three
and one-half years since Mr.. Bryan
was telling the people that free silver
was the only method of increasing our
money, and three-fifths of that in
crease has been in gold.
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Are Under suspicion.

Centerville Iowegian: 1t is said that
the president looks with little sus-
picion on the senator or congressman
who opposes the new English treaty
concerning the Nicaragua canal. For
many years the great railroads that
reach the Pacific coast have openly
fought the canal project, and public
sentiment is now such that they have
to work under cover. The best they
can do now is to put off the evil day
as long as possible and by defeating
the new treaty they may be able to
delay the building of the canal for
years. The men who oppose the treaty
are suspected of being in the interest
of these railroads.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
BUTLER.

The British general bearing the
rname of Butler, has made some mis-
takes, but he is continuing his cam
y paign with the courage and tenacity
Il of the animal from which his cogno-
4 men was derived. Until General Butler
I is formally superseded by his superiors,
Y the responsibility Tor the operations
i on the Tugela river will rest with him,
. and the British opposition press will
continue its bitterly satirical filings at
I a leader who is accused of receiving his
/. first really important command solely
j by reason of his friendship for the
:, prince of Wales. Whatever the final
] result Of the Tugela campaign, and the
fate of Ladysmith, the reverses that
i have been met by General Butler, and
g the losses he has suffered, will tell
against him at home, in the final ac-
counting OF the war. His triumph
must be indubitable and overwhelming
lin order to offset them.
Butler is a sample or product OF the
English military system that is dis
tinctly interesting to watch. He is
the type of man who will brook Meth
d er interference nor criticism upon any
point whatsoever; it is question, in
deed, whether he has ever in all his
life encountered a fellow man with suf.
ficient courage to contradict an opin.
ion or tell him ola fault. With such
IA man, his own will is necessarily his
law; and he will carry out his will in
the face of death, damnation and disas-
ter. His mandates are as inf1eNible as
his courage, and he will exact, from
his troops the last limit of fidelity in
1. the presence of perils he is as ready
Y It'd share as he is to create. If he makes
Errors, he will not admit them. s'This
( must be done in this way, because it is
My way, answer to none"
It is the only way for a military com
mander, and yet the results are pa
thetic. The loss of prestige to The
J British arms under Butler is almost as
melancholy as the sacrifice of life
ithal, the logged persistence of com
/ mander and commanded awakens ad
niration simultaneo usly with amaze
11ent 1T may be called The Butler
.auality, and it is possessed by most
Englishmen particularly those in the
7 habit of going to wars. While it exists
there will be Buffers Tor leaders and
unlimited material for sacrifice. The
same solemn, sanguinary, and impres-
sive spectacle regiment of redcoats
ordered by, a heayy7Jowled gentleman
IN q high stock and much gold lace
10 charge an impregnable kloof, OF
Kop, or berg or what you will. An en-
4 eny humorously Stimulating disorder
end flight until the objective point is
gained. and then, from safe vantage
ground OF powders and trees, shooting
the attacking force to flinders. The
Briton, from colonel to drummer boy
\ meets his doom with the picturesque
lmpassivity OF his race.
There have been several repetitions
aDf this familiar spectacle under the
generalship of the prince of Wales
friend Butler, and it will not, be sur
( prising il there are more. It is all
very magnificent, of course, but scarce
4 ~ war.
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STATE o. OHIO, CRY OF roLnpo, :

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of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
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Sold by Druggists, fsc.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
PORTO RICO IN CoIJRr.

The supreme court may settle at an
early. date the question whether the
constitution extends of its own force
over the dependencies. A suit has al
ready been begun by some Boston, i'm.
porters to recover duties paid on Porto
Rican products. Their claim is that
Porto Rico is part of the Omitted
States" in the sense in which the des-
ignation issused in the clause requiring
all excuses. duties and imposts TO be
uniform turnout the United States
The. customs authorities Wednesday
decided unanimously against the i'm
porters, and it is understood that the
matter will be forthwith appealed &c
the federal courts.
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No Capitalization wanted.

Mt. Pleasant Journals: John Cownie,
member of the board of control, says
that he wants all the state institu-
tons centered in Des Moines. He
gives as the reason that it would be a
great saving to the state. Suppose it
would; Iowa doesn't have TO slimp and
starve to live. For all the state inssi-
buttons to be located in one town
would ultimately lead to the greatest
possible fraud Distribute the institu-
lions around among the people where
they can be watched and where the
whole people of Iowa can share alike
in the benefits and evils incident upon:
their location they are a good
thing for a town, distribute them
around. If they are had thing, by
all means scatter Them OVER the state.
Diffusion is preferable to centraliza-
ton III. ss3s
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
A Roundup.

Washington Press: Roberts, the
polygamist, is a busy man. He was
arrested in Salt Lake City for unlaw-
full cohabita tion, and after being re-
leased on his own recognizance visited
the home of his third wife, DR.. Maggie
Ship Roberts, where he remained
about an hour; then took a private
conveyance and drove to his home at
Centerville, where he visited his first
wife; early Sunday morning he went
to the home of Celia Dibble. Roberts,
the mother of the famous twins; later
he attended the fast day services of
the Mormon church. Time to fast.
He rounds 'em up like cattle.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
The Federal JudeesI,tp.

Oscebla Sentinel: Much uncertainty
reigns concerning the appointments of
federal judge to succeed the late
Judge Woolson. What was considered
to be a cocksure thing last week has
changed to be the yaguest of uncer-
tainties. Tt: had been figured down TO
Smith of the ninth and Judge Towner
of the eighth, but new complication
has arisen and the appointment is put
off indefinitely. McNett, of the sixth
district, and Davis of the first, are con-
sidered live contestants, having support
of their respective congressman, Lacey
and Hedge. IT is said Mr.. Temple, OF
this city, is also still in the race, and
he may surprise the political sprinters
one Of these fine days.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20

SAID IN part in his reply: Judge Kin
ne is correct in his arguments if we
assume that the object in committing
criminal to prison is two fold: first,
to punish him for his crime; second,
to make as much money as possible out
OF his labor and services for the state
and county. On the other hand if the
object is confinement with view to
reformation and retirement, and work
and labor, not so much for profit as for
fair discipline, good health, and the
teaching of useful trades and indus
tries, then the judges conclusions
must be necessarily wrong. New York
has repudiated the contract system
and the state account plan which was
just as bad, and the piece price meth
cd, which was worse, and has taken
the prisoners out of what was known
as the s'prison ring" which was pro-
filing by the labor of prisoners to an
enormous extent. New York has Civ
en- up the idea of making money out
of her prisoners, and has given up the
idea of sending men to prison for long
terms of years, in order that contract
ors might have cheap labor, and make
money out of it.
Judge Kline speaks of the necessity,
if you change your system of pur-
chasing large amount of machinery.
If the object be to reform, then SO
much machinery is not necessary;
more manual labor is desirable. be
lieve the prisoners should be taught
industries at which they could work
by hand when discharged.
Judge Kinne says that our system
does not do away with competition.
That is true-it was not intended to
do away with all competition. It was
intended that prisoners should be en-
|ployed at something useful but does do
away with competition in market
price. When prison made goods were
put on the market, we discovered that
prison prices became market prices,
and that manufacturers who were pay
ing men good wages had to reduce
wages in order to compete with prison
made goods.
"In one of his reports Warden Sage,
formerly Of Sing Sing prison, said in
substance, before the new law went
into effect, that it would result in con-
yerting our three prisons into three
lunatic asylums, as great number of
prisoners would become insane for
want of work. am happy to be able
to state that present facts do not JUS
tify this prediction, as we have no
more insanity than we had under the
old system. We find, also, in this state
that short term prisoners are used to
advantage in road making, and with
out objections from labor organiza-
lions or from farmers. I do not claim
perfection for the New York system.
1t may be bettered very much; but it
is more satisfactory to our people than
anything we have had before"
The pamphlets closes with an extract
from the constitution of the state of
New York, section 90, article 3, which
says: 'The selling or contracting out
Of the labor or the product Of labor of
convicts to any individual or company
| is prohibited"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
Increase on Revenues

Dubuque, Feb. 16.-Internal Revenue
Collector Patterson has received no.
LITIGATION from Washington that his
Office is graded No. 1 on accounts, bal
ancine to cent. Prior to the imposi-
ton of the war tax, the collections of
the Office amounted to $4,000, and
We're only for cigars, tobacco and Ii
quor. Now the collections are $1,000, 900
and many articles are taxed. The re-
ceipts for adhesive stamps alone av-
erage over 81 900 day, and aggregate
100000 per annum. These are for
amounts from one-eighth of a cent up,
and make much work for the collector
and his force.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
muIl,s pioneer Cure.

It plainly states that if you want to
cure promptly Kidney and Bladder
Diseases, Stomach Trouble and Dys-
pepsia, Liver Trouble and Impure
Blood, Female Trouble, Rheumatism.
Take chocolate tablet called Mull's
Pioneer Cure and be sure that the
name on the box fits your case. It's
not cure-all. one remedy for one
disease. Cash the dollar draft in the
box, if it fails to help you. csc and
81. 1t has cured thousands. Sold by
Clark & Mollison.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20

Sac Sun: 1t is not improbable that
the assassination of William Goebel in
Kentucky was done in revenge. In
April, 1895, he shot and killed Col.
John Z. Sanford, president of bank
at CoNington, whom he, had assailed
viciously in newspaper article. San
ford met his enemy and asked for an
explanation. He also was armed and
fired after Goebel had wounded him.
Hence Goebel escaped punishment on
the ground of self-defense.
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Salary None Too Large.

Fairfield Ledger: The legislature
has increased the salary of governor
from $4,1O0 to $1,000 per year. We
may not get any better governors for
the greater salary. but the increase
will save the dignity of the state and
her chief executive on many occa-
sions, and permit "a poor man to ac.
cept the nomination for, governor OF
the best state in the Union. The new
salary is none too much.
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Must Make Him weary.

Carroll Herald: O.; pshaw!s Why
wouldn't Mr.. Cummins accept the vice
presidency? Can it be that we must
give him the presidency? Well; wait
till VIM. Mckinley gets one more term
and Theodore Roosevelt one. Then the
Iowa man will be 'snext!" When will
A. B. Cummins' fool friends quit using
his honored name for every Office Ito
be filled, from alderman to president!
1t must make the sDes Moines man feel
very, very weary.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20

Iowa State Register:s. The address
of Hon. j. g. Hutchison. before the
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, at
Ottumwa last month, has been issued
in pamphlet form and issrwell worthy
"a perusal by all interested in TRUSTS
and Their Promoters" The following
extract from the address proves that
it is his opinion that trusts which sell
goods at higher than competitive prices
will fail:
I We know that by comparison of le-
ultimate business with the business
trusts, there never has been such I'M
reasonable imitation of values as we
find in the trusts. Many of them must
fall. Let us hope that their collapse
may come gradually, and than by their
false foundation for business, they
may subside without bringing distress
upon the country.
Trusts are more expensive to oper-
ate than private companies, therefore
competition will quickly destroy the
trusts which sell goods at higher than
competitive prices. More than three
fourths of all the trusts that have been
organized have failed, and all the 9TH
ers will soon fail if they do not sell
their goods on the competitive basis.
The trusts are organized to sell stock,
and as soon as the promoters have sold
their stock they lose interest in their
trusts. More money has been lost in
trust stocks than has been made by
trust business interests, and the trust
stocks are the worst financial danger
facing the United States today, for
innocent people have purchased many
millions of dollars of such stock, and
all trust stock is inflated.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20

The per cent decrease in the output
of the oil wells, which was put forward
bv Mr.. Rockefeller as iustifying an adj
vance of 25 per cent in the price +
coal oil, does not seem to have been
regarded by him as any justification
for smaller dividends in the Standard
Oil company. On the contrary, if we
are to judge from the 20 per cent, divi-
dends just declared, the rule is to be,
1.-THE smaller the output the larger the
2diyiden3s' 80 IS ;iFy4
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
why ShouIdn,t They.

Cedar Rapids Republicans: The doc
tors of Ottumwa are advertising. Why
shouldn't they advertise? Ii Christ
were on earth today he would, no
doubt, be willing to have the newspa-
pers announce when and where he
would preach.
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THE NORMAL SCHOOL BILL.

1t is to be regretted that the normal
school bill was defeated yesterday in
the house of representatives. Iowa
needs more normal schools, and one
would hardly have been sufficient to
fill the need. The state cannot afford
to fall behind in the matter OF educas
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
New Cattle Disease.

Green Mountain, Feb. 16.-J. w
Runner has lost several head of calves
from some peculiar disease not under
stood by local veterinarians.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20
Founded 9th August. le4e.
SUBSCRIPTION RATEs.
CIRCULATIoN.

The Ottumwa Courier has larger
circulation than any Ottumwa news
\ paper ever had. Larger in the city
and larger outside.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20

"There is no little enemy" Little
impurities in the blood are sources OF
great danger and should be expelled
By Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-20

Pensionfns Soldiers.
, Decatur Jougnall Gladly would svs