Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-27
TIE OTTUMWA COURIER: TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 1900.

certified that everything was all right,
and this certificate was paraded be-
fore the public in the attempt to re-
store the confidence which whispering
gossip had somewhat shaken. 1t re-
NAMED for the ever-yigilant, press to
ferret out and expose the crookedness
and when the newspaper account OF
the facts was presented to the public
then came the explosion.
Bank inspectors who fail to in
spect should be promptly dismissed.
Those who simply go thru the formal.
ity and who perform their duties SO
slightingly as to make it possible lor
month and year after year should be
displaced by those who will render
faithful service.-Council Bluffs Non
pareil.
Two Wrongs Never Made Right
The supreme court of Iowa has unfor-
tunately committed itself to the wrong
policy to carry out Attorney General
Remley's excellent suggestions that
the intent should govern in regard to
the TITUS amendment. The court in
deciding the prohibitory amendment in
1885 said in effect that the intent was
not TO be considered but only the Ian
guage of the enactment as it appeared
oG the legislative enrolled bill. The
intent was not disputed in that case
The court erred then, but will it fol-
low that precedent now? We hope
not, two wrongs never made right
Muscatine Journal
Our charlottesville Walsh, who
has been drawing a prosperity salary
for his WORK as secretary of a certain
national committee, announces that
every consideration must be shown Da.
vid B. Hill, Richard Olney. Bourke
Cochran, and some Others. When they
hear of this they will be inclined to re-
pent and ask forgiveness for the mis-
taxes they have ommitted.-Daven-
port Democrat.
A Beacon Light.--The Protestant
Episcopal church speaking thru spe-
cial committee, has taken what is not
more advanced step, but a firmer
| step on the question of divorce!. At
the next triennial convention of the
church, October, 1901, these new can
ons will be considered, and it is be-
lieved they will be adopted. The ex-
pressions of leading bishops and cler-
gymen all point to that conclusion. I'm
der these new .canons the church will
| still recognize legal separations, that
| is husband and wife may live apart
and be legally separated, but while
either one is living the other cannot
marry again, without committing, un-
der the holding of the church, the sin
of adultery. There is some question
whether immunity should be granted
to even the innocent party in a divorce
based on the scriptural ground, that is
adultery. Many Aold that the limo.
cent in such marriages should suffer
with the guilty That seems to be out
doing the scriptures.
The growing evils of the divorce
courts make these steps seem in the
right direction. If marriage could be
returned to it's early sacredness, all
men interested in morals and in the
perpetuity of the institutions of state
and church and school, would gladly
see it done. The action of church
is still potent over many minds and
to that extent is potent for good, but
the church can hardly reach the evil
for the, church is meaningless to the
many. Roughly, speaking the few who
would consider themselves bound to
dispose of their lives according to the
canons of the church, are not the ones
who need to be reached. They are not
apt to be the men and women who
lightly regard the VOWS of the mar
rage altar. The church's attitude
will be beacon light in morals and
matrimony, but mismatings and mar