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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
CONDITION OF BANKS.
Last Report Shows Large Increase in
Iowa Deposits.

Last Report Shows Large Increase in
Iowa Deposits.
Des Moines, July 24.-The consolida-
ted bank statement, showing the condi-
ton of the state and savings banks OF
Iowa at the close of business June 80
of this year, is being prepared in the
Office of the auditor of state. 1t is not
near enough to completion to give an
accurate estimate of what it will show
as to the amount of deposits. From
the figures already at hand, it is GER
tain, however, it will show a large in
crease in deposits over those shown by
the last preceding statement of Febru-
airy ID, 1900, and over the statement of
June 20. 1899.
The statement of February 10, 1900,
showed there were 215 state banks
and 215 savings banks, total of 430.
These had deposits of $82,277, 758. so.
The statement now being prepared
will show $50 banks reporting to the
auditor, there being 266 savings banks
and 224 state banks. This, however,
does not include all the state and saw
ings banks in Iowa, since ten new
banks that were chartered in one
bunch June 80, were not asked to make
a statement, and few have been
chartered this month.
An Indication of Iowa prosperity in
the last four years is shown by exam,
ination of the bank statement of June
80, 1896. At that time $40 state and
savings banks reported to the state
auditor. Their total deposits were
$60,S26, O33.21.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26

uation of either? They are under the
flag OF the republic, and there they will
remain. This means work and thought
and craftsmanship for the people Of
the United States, but it means bless
ing and liberty, justice ami opportunity
for the islands placed under our care
by solemn treaty obligations that were
approved by the senate Of the United
States and urged by Mr.. Bryan. Meth
DDS of administration and of govern
ment are legitimate objects of party
differences. But annexation is a fact.
1t is for all purposes as much an &C
ACCOMPLISHED fact as is the abolition of
slavery, another republican measure
for which the party was hated and mis-
represented.
The people will learn that imperial
ism, as employed by the democrats,
means that they would have the coun-
try shirk it's duty, turn it's back on
destiny, count all bloodshed as lost
furl the flag and withdraw it's protec-
ton from the people who need it today
more than ever before in all their his
tory.
The charge of Imperialism, when
properly translated, means duty. And
the party of Lincoln, of Grant, of Har-
rison and of Mckinley, is willing to
be charged with doing its duty no
matter how hard that duty may be.
Stripped of all glamor, the demo.
Gratis have entered upon a f1ag-furling
campaign. They condemn expansion,
yet welcome Hawaii, because it, one
vote alone enables them to again
attempt to overthrow the stable cur
rency of the country. They decry
imperialism" yet shout themselves
hoarse over an Hawaiian prince"
They are welcome to all the votes and
glory they can make out of such du-
Elicity and treachery, which will naus-
cate but never deceive the true Amer
lean people.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
MEN WANTED.

"The great want of the age is men, .
says Dollars and Sense, men who are
not for sale; men who are honest,
sound from center to circumference,
true to the hearts core; men who will
condemn wrong in friends or foe; in
themselves as well as others; men
whose conscience is as steady as the
needle to the pole; men who will stand
for the right tho the Heaven totter and
the earth reels; men who can tell the
truth and look the devil right in the
eye; men who never flag nor finch;
men who have courage without shout
ing; men in whom the currents of ey-
erlasting life run still. deep and
strong; men who do not cry nor cause
their voices to be heard in the streets;
but who will not fail nor be discour-
aged until judgment be set in the
earth; men who know their message
and tell it; men who know their places
and fill them; men who will not lie;
men who are not too lazy to work
nor too proud to be poor; men who are
willing to eat what they have earned
and wear what they have paid for"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
and refer to the table,:

me men VINO own real estate
amounting to the latter figure are not
objecting to the library. They can
we'll afford to buy all the books they
can possibly read, but rather than de-
prive their poorer brother and his
children of the advantages that they
would derive from free public libra
~, they will cheerfully pay the tax.
1t might be well for the man of mod
est property interests, from whom the
objection to the matter is said to come,
to carefully consider what free pub
lie library means to his own immediate
family of boys and girls. If love for
good reading is created in them, they
would be safely under the parental
wing at night, instead of perhaps MAX
ing undesirable acquaintance upon
the streets. "The sins of the father
shall be visited upon the children, and
the parent who does not give his chill
dren all the advantages he possibly
can, consistent with his income, is
committing a crime by omission just
the same as tho it were by commission.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
A Money Order Convenience.

Business houses receiving money or
ders in large numbers are often incor-
venienced and embarrassed because
OF the receipt of orders unaccompanied
by letter of transmittal, or because
such letter is without signature, leav-
ing them in ignorance of the name of
their correspondent or customer, the
remitter of the order. In one instance
recently brought to the notice of the
department, sixty-five orders received
by business house in single day,
were unaccompanied by the informa-
ton necessary to enable the firm to
credit the account of the customer
with the amount of the remittance. To
remedy the difficulty as far as prac-
ticable in such cases, it is the desire
OF the department that the name of
the remitter as given in the advice be
furnished the payee upon application
at the paying postoffice. To that end
the postotfice department has prepared
a blank form which will be supplied to
the public free of charge on applica-
ton to posfmasters. The instructions
on this blank are as follows: pin
this slip to the order when it is depos-
tied thru a bank for collection. When
the order reaches the postoffice the
money order clerk will fill in the re-
ply, and will return this slip by mail
to the person by whom the request is
signed"
Many people do not realize the fact
but it is nevertheless true, that money
transmitted by postoff1ce money order
can not possibly be lost. If the order
should be lost or be destroyed, the
government will issue another. If the
paying postmaster should pay the or
der to the wrong person, he would be
compelled to pay it over again to the
right person. There is, in fact, no pos
sibility of losing money which is trans
mitted by money order. The same
holds true of money sent to foreign
countries in this way.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
LIFE IN IRON.
Implement Makers Are Placing Orders
for Bessemer.


New York, July 21.-"The mid-sum-
mer vacation has already disposed of
the prophets who gave it week or
two but there are few signs to in
dictate it's probable duration. The
compact of lake ore producers not to
sell standard Bessemer ore below
$3.50 at lower lake ports this year,
with coke held at $3.50, much lessons
the probability that the market will
wait for Bessemer pig to go far below
$15, and some increased buying al
ready appears by makers of nipple
ments, not as yet in season contracts,
but enough to give hope" according to
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade, issued today. Continuing, the
report says:
Not much beyond waiting is proba-
bic until wages for the coming year
can be settled. The halt in the great
iron industry necessarily affects both
business and prospects in some others.
The same extensive building strikes
which have cut off the use of much
structural steel have also prevented a
vast use of lumber, which was, like
iron, extraordinarily advanced in
prices. The eastern association tried
without avail to hold prices, and the
North Carolina association caused ex-
tensive curtailment of output, while
the lake association two weeks ago re-
solved to maintain prices, but the
needed market does not yet appear"
Weekly Bank Statement.
New York, July 21.-The weekly
bank statement follows: Surplus re-
serves increase. S4,121.7 IT'S.
Loans decrease, $3,381,50O.
Deposits decrease, $1,315, 100.
The banks now hold s24 800 in
excess of legal requirements.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
Senator Gear Died Poor.

Burlington Gazette: There is no ar
gument so infallible in determining
the absolute and rigid honesty of a
member of the United States senate
as by the amount of his earthly riches.
The entire estate left by John H. Gear,
both in real and personal property,
amounts to less than $4,000. For fif-
teen years he served in the congress
and senate of the United States. In
congress he was an important member
of the committee on ways and means,
position which. in the hands of
some, leads to enormous wealth For
years he was chairman of the senate
committee on Pacific railroads. anoth-
er position in which the temptation to
make the slightest departure from the
rigid paths of rectitude meant a colos-
sal fortune. John H. Gear died a poor
man. What better argument could be
used?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
AS to Sunday VISITING.

Sheldon Sun: Say, we love our
friends just as well as anybody, but
we don't want them to come visiting
on Sunday; that is, an all day visit, nor
do you want visitors on Sunday, either.
It's all right to drop in for little
while, but not for a regular sit down
visit. AS we say above, we love our
friends. and believe few men have
more in this community than we, but
on Sunday we want to go to church,
after which we want to take off our
collar, let one gallus down, take out
our false teeth maybe, and lop around
on the floor or anywhere else where
comfort and ease may be found. But
II we have to entertain company we
are epected to sit as straight as cow
bell, talk about our neighbors and
other matters of little importance.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
IMPERIALISM.

imperialism presuppoSeS an empire,
and the magnificent domain over
which our loVely@banner flies is imper-
ial in its beauty, in its products and in
Its extent. Such wealth of hill.
plain and prairie, such an
abundance of crystal lakes anu such a
network OF commerce bearing rivers
We're never before bestowed upon any
people. Every state is an empire; ev-
cry county is a principality, for which,
as true Americans we are proud, and
for which as Christians, recognizing
God as the God of nations, we should
be deeply grateful.
Z This domain has been given to us
by power that is higher than any
party or policy, tho the republican par
ty was called into being in order to
protest and battle against the division
OF this mighty empire, which democ-
racy declared, in the press, in its plat
forms and on the bloody battlefields,
should be divided. TO this extent the
charge of Imperialism can with truth
be made against the republican party.
Abraham Lincoln was the embodiment
of that imperial idea, and martyr to
StAS ",
one imperial destiny.
Imperialism, il it means anything
the democracy would have the
people believe, implies an emperor, a
dynasty, throne, a crown and a
scepter. This feature of imperialism,
by no stretch of partisan misrepresen-
tation, can ever be charged against
our honored president and candidate
for the presidency. He was the choice
of the people; he was honestly elected
in constitutional manner and has
been so loath to oppose the will of the
people, as expressed by legislation
enacted by congress, that in the four
years of his administration he has We
toed but four bills. He will serve his
two terms as many other good presi-
dents, both democratic and republican,
have done, and will then give way to
his successor, chosen as he was chos-
en-, by the free votes of a sovereign
people.
The partisan accusation of imperial
ism, when translated into plain, every
day English, in the light of the history
made during the brilliant administra-
ton of President Mckinley, is simply
this: The republicans declare that
it is their policy not to blindly abandon
the islands transferred from Spanish to
American sovereignty by the treaty of
Paris. The democracy, SO far as it has
a policy, would have the master nation
builder of the world abandon it's plain
duty, furl our triumphant flag and hunt
an easy future rather than a working
future. Porto Rico, recognizing the
fact that she cannot stand alone, does
not wish to become an indeper dent
power, and the only thing possible is
for the United States to continue it's
sovereignty, which is republican, or in
vite Spain to reenter the western hem
isphere and commence anew her policy
of misrule, robbery and extortion from
which we have delivered Cuba. To
plant the customs of the seventeenth
century in the dawn of the twentieth
century is democratic. This is the
logical conclusion when the democrat
ic cry Of the democratic platform is
analysed.
The same is as true of the Philip
pines as Porto Rico. Will the dem
ocrats dare to fix date for the eyac-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
THERE is NO ncHlNA.u

We are so accustomed to speaking of
China" and "the Chinese" as if they
we're distinct entities that many of us
10 not realize how misleading are the
Terms we use. A writer in the Nine
teenth Century Review says:
This is an error at the bottom of
many of our mistakes and Commissions.
We may use the word China as con-
venient expression to denote certain
vast portion of the earths surface, but
IN no more exact sense. What figures
as China on the map is a number of
districts often separated from each
other and from the center by immense
distances, differing widely in climate,
resources and configuration, inhabit-
ed by people of largely varying race,
temperament, habit, religion and Ian
guage.
The Mohammedans, of whom there
are thirty millions, regard the Budd-
hists as irreligious foreigners. "The
inhabitants of the central and north
ern provinces" says Mr.. Keane, "scar-
cely regard those of the extreme south
east districts as fellow counerymen at
all" A native of Shanghai was heard
to say, There were seven Cinnamon
and two Cantonese" A man from Tien
Tsin and man from Canton can no
more talk to each other than can a
Frenchman and a Dutchman. More.
over, there exists between them yir-
ulent race hatred. lost the best Chin
ese servant ever had because, being
from the north, nothing would induce
him to accompany me in the south of
China where his speech would have
betrayed him. Cantonese velly bad
man, master, he said to me. II go
home" This curious inter-hatred is
conspicuous where Chinese from diff
ferent parts of China meet together,
as, for example, in Bangkok, or on the
plantations in Malaga, or in the Dutch
Indies. Savage faction fights are of
frequent occurrence. Consequently it
is easy to raise force of Chinese in
one place to fight Chinese in another.
It is because there is no such thing
as China" that the military caste
of the Manchus, comparatively infinit-
esimal in numbers have been able to
impose their rule upon the enormous
masses Of Chinese. Thus it is unwise
to predict anything of China as a
whole, or to believe that what suits
one spart will necessarily suit another.
Over the Heterogeneous and conflict
ing masses of China there has never
been any effectual central control,
and what control there has been has
steadily grown weaker. The 1Mermil-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

Here is something for property own
ers who are opposed to the library to
think about
1t is said that the average mans
home is worth about $500. This is
rather high. The assessment would
be one-fourth of that amount, or 5000,
the tax on which would be 40 cents
each year. The fund to support the
library will be raised by levying not
to exceed two-mill tax, which makes
just 20 cents on each hundred dollars
worth of real estate within the city
limits. The following table will show
at a glance what it will cost each tax
payer, because he knows the value of
his property and can divide it by four
o,,d ,.ofa,, 10 tho 10
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
The Issues in Verse.

L. w. Dickson, of Los Angeles, Cal
ifornia, has sent to his father, Felix
Dickson, in this city, the following
clever bit of verse which bears upon
the issues OF the coming campaign:
DOSE TEMOCRADS-MIT MINE RE
CARDS.
So dey got dem now platforms,
Undt der mems to climb dot too,
So now ohf you read dot platforms,
You know yot dey SAY" dey do.
But der temocrads undt progress
Vas red rag undt bull.
Undt DER cup NIT mouldy shesnuds
To der lasd straw-dot vos full.
Imperi' -dot-dey says
Der issue paramount;
Veil, We know dot vonce ov Glevelands
Undt my own" commissioner Blount,
Dots a sdory OF Hawaii.
Undt of Honolulu down.
When der hireling ov dot Glefelands
Dared to pull Old Glory down.
Veil, like some mans to tolt me,
Vat vos honest, undt speak true.
Nit out new far-off possessions,
Vat dose temocrads like to do?
Will de youst sit down on progress,
Undt choke off our nations breath,
Undt der broad Pacific Ocean
Strew dot NIT commercial death?
Undt dot flag, NIT Lawton's plood
stained,
Undt Ply odder soltgers true
Yah, dot flag in dose Philippines
Would dau n owe null. dot 5oury,
Steadfast stand, oh, We, der beebles,
Dose hands can't dot flag pollute-
Nit der pallot-not der pullet-
We shall "soc ct tuum" goot.
Hans Won Dunkerfoodle.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
Is Your Life Worth 5o,cents.

We defy the world to produce a
medicine for the cure of all forms Of
kidney and bladder troubles, piles and
all diseases peculiar to women, that
will equal Smiths Sure Kidney Cure.
Ninety-eight per cent. of the cases
treated with Smiths Sure Kidney
Cure that have come under our obser-
walton have been cured. We sell our
medicine on positive guarantee, if
directions are followed. and money will
be refunded if cure is not effected.
Price so cents. For sale by w. w.
Ennis.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
CIRCULATION.
REpUBL1oAN COUNTY ooNvENr1oN

There will be- convention of the Republica MS
OF Wape1lo county, at the Turner Hall i'll the
city OF ottumwa Iowa, August 25, 1900, at
2 1880 O'Clock p. nj
3 This convention is for the purpose of placing
in nomination candidate for each of the fol
lowing offices:
County Auditor.
Clerk of the District Court.
County Recorder.
County Attorney.
One member of the Board of Supervisors
The representation in this convention will be
OF the following basis:
One delegate for each voting precinct and
one additional delegate for each IS votes or
fraction over II votes cast for Hon. Leslie NJ !.
Shaw for Office of Governor of the state of Iowa
at the general election held November Still, 1890.
This will give the following representation
by precincts:
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
For the Seventh Time.

Sigourney News: Hon. John r.
Lacey was renominated for congress
at the Abba convention Wednesday,
July II. This makes the seventh
time he has been nominated by the re-
publican party, and at each conven-
ton it was by reclamation.
In the six elections he won five times.
Fred E. White, of this county, beat
him in 1890 when so many congress
men went down to defeat. When Major
Lacey in 1888 was nominated the first
time the old Sixth district was looking
for candidate to pull the party from
out of the clutch of greenbackism and
redeem it from Weaverism. They
picked out the major as the man. He
did not seek the position, but yielded
gracefully to the will of his party.
You know the result of the battle.
Major Lacey was triumphantly elect
ed.
Since his first nomination and elect
ton he has endeared himself to the
people of this, the Sixth congressional
district. He has proven himself a
statesman in the broadcast sense of the
word. He has made record in the
halls OF congress that the Sixth dis
trlct, the state of Iowa and the nation
are proud of. He is considered one of
the ablest men in congress-; is
the trusted adviser of President Nc
kinley. 1t would be a national calam-
lty to defeat Major Lacey at this par
ticular time, when the country is in
need of it's best men and ablest states
men. Perhaps in thenear future he may,
as he ought to, be called up higher
to a seat in the United States senate.
He is the proper man to succeed the
lamented John Henry Gear.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
HERE'S JOHNNIE.

A little green apple hung up in tree,
Singing Johnnie, come johnnie.
come Johnnie?"
And it was as modest as modest could
be.
Singing, Johnnie, come Johnnie
come Johnnie"
And Johnnie he came, in his sweet
childish way,
And ate up that fruit as his own law.
full prey
The angels in heaven are singing to
day:
Here's Johnnie! Here's Johnnie!
Here's Johnnie!" Elk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
SANDER On ottumwa CANNES

Waterloo Reporter: cover $500
worth of dogs" are said to have been
poisoned in Ottumwa within few
weeks past. From this we infer that
fifty thousand dogs have died in OF
tumwa recently, unless the average
value of the dogs in that place is
higher than in other towns.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
A Valuable Man.

North English Record: Congress-
man Lacey has received another unan-
imous denomination, an honor which
not only does credit to the energetic
congressman but to the people of the
Sixth district as well. Major Lacey has
brought tn the district large influence
in the national congress, which can
only be accomplished by long and able
service.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
Parsons New President.

Washington Journal: Rev. F. w.
Hinitt, Phi. d. of the First Presbyterian
church of Ottumwa, a classmate of
Rev. H. r.. Stark. has decided to ac-
cept the presidency of Parsons col
lege at Fairfield. DR.. Hinitt is
young man of unusual ability, and the
college is to be congratulated upon Sc
curing him as it's administrative head.
1t is to be hoped that under his able