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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
HE WILL VISIT AMERICA.
e. w. Hearne, of oskaIoosa, Will Re.
turn From the Philippines.

Oskaloosa, May 10. = Friends here
have received letters from Ed. w.
Hearne, who has been in Manila, P. l.,
for the past year in charge of the Y.
M. G. A. work at that point, stating
that he expects to attend the jubilee
convention of the Christian associa-
lions, which will be held in Boston
June II to 16. Mr.. Hearne will also
visit Iowa, as his parents reside in Ke-
osauQua. He will be united in mar
riage to Miss Mary Myers, of Mt
Pleasant daughter of Rev. Mr.. Myers,
who is the financial agent of the Iowa
Wesleyan university and a gentleman
who has long been prominent in Meth
odist circles of the state. Mr.. Hearne
was formerly secretary of the Y. NJ. C.
A. of this city. He was first lieuten-
ant of Company F, Fifty-frst Iowa;
went through the Philippine compaign
returning to Iowa with his company.
Under the auspices of the international
Y. M. G. A. committee and Miss Helen
Gould he was placed in charge of Y.
M. G. A. work at Manila, only remain
ing in the United States short time
after being mustered out.
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charging him with importing two Aus.
trians to this country, paying their
transportation and contracting for
them in advance, in opposition to the
immigration laws relating to contract
alien labor To this information Mr..
Morrison demurred through Major
Lacey, his counsel. Judge Mcpherson
today overruled this demurrer and will
allow the matter to be tried to jury,
but handed down an opinion plainly
stating that he does not believe an
expert ladies' glove cutter comes with.
In the law, any lncre than a minister
OF the gospel, an opera singer or
sugar chemist.
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This fact has already shown itself in
practical experience to such an extent
that prominent labor leaders frequent
ly declare that they prefer to treat
with these large establishments than
with petty corporations or small bust
ness firms. The normal progress OF
industrial organization, both of capital
and labor, will do away with the black
list and bounding labor unions, while
preserving the economic advantages of
competition, concentration and expert
specification in productive methods;
thus accomplishing by the natural
economic process the very thing that
radical 'reformers" would have us be-
lieve can come only by arbitrary leg
islation, designed to revolutionize our
industrial and social institutions.
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THE CASE OF AUSTRIA.

The Austrian government mas new
er been friendly with the United States
from the time that Commander lngra-
ham with his noble American ship of
war demanded and obtained the re-
lease of Martin Kostza, an American
citizen, who was unjustly detained and
imprisoned by the Austrian monarchy.
From that time on, the Austrians have
had unkind feelings towards the Unit
ed States government; this was mani
tested during the civil war as well as
in the minor difficulties the govern
ment has met, including the disagree.
ment with Chill and the Spanish trou.
bles. The Austrians now effect to be-
lieve that all Europe is threatened by
what it denominates "The New Cont
mental Blockade" in which the dan.
gers of American industrial COMPETE
ton are discussed. The Vienna lei.
tung, the semi-official paper of the for,
eign Office, declares that the Americans
are preparing a bold extension of the
Monroe Doctrine, which mo longer
means America for the Americans, but
America and Europe for the Ameri.
cans"
All of which is unwarranted by facts
or any conditions except those conJur.
ed up in the minds of hysterical and
virulent anti-American sentiment that
had its origin as long ago as the Mar.
tin Kostza incident to say nothing
about the fine burst of patriotism
evoked in the United States by the Wis.
it of Louis Kossuth, to this country
after the Austrians had crushed Hun.
gary and liberty.
Austria is a peculiar country; it is
not German enough to be sturdy but
its population is made up of the odds
and ends of southern Europe, with a
sad sprinkling of Turk and the des.
pendants of Atilla. 1t claims to be a
fighting nation and yet Napoleon the
Great never wanted better parade
ground for the display of his power
than on the banks of the Danube
Austria at one time, and not many
years ago, invited contest with Prus
STA, which ended in a seven weeks war
in which there was as much comedy as
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NOT TO SUCCEED MRS. EDDY.
Alfred FarloW Says That No Mortal
Will Be Her Successor.

Boston, Mass, May 14.-Alfred Ear
low, who has been mentioned as the
probable successor of Mrs. Mary Bak.
er Eddy as head of the Christian Sci.
enlist church, says: "The report that
any mortal will be Mrs. Eddy's suc-
cessor is a mistake. Mrs. Eddy says:
Science and Health makes it plain to
all Christian Scientists who it is that
shall be my successor She contin-
ues: The manhood and womanhood
Of God have already been revealed in
a degree through Christ Jesus and
Christian Science, his two witnesses.
What remains to lead on the centuries
is the coming era that shall reveal the
full reflection or image and likeness
of the Father-Mother, God; in man,
the generic term for mankind"
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going privations and they will readily
respond again, but prate of their pri-
vations, deficiencies and heavy bur-
dens and they will soon learn to dread
the hour that shall disturb their ease
1t is appropriate during these spring
days, when so much of the work of the
Union army in former days was de-
manded and performed, that General
Chaffee's remarks should be printed.
The CHEEKY songs, the camp joker, each
performed part in suppressing the
rebellion. If each soldier had given
up to depression what would have been
the fate of the army of the Union? But
General Chaffee's strategy prevailed.
The boys of the COS were Chaffee's
boys and it will be the glory and pride
of Chaffee that the boys of 1901 shall
follow the lead of the boys of the SOS.
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sTALwARr GENERAL cHAFFEE.

General Chaffee, commander of the
United States army in China, has sent
to the war department (not to mag
azine) reply to unwarranted criti.
cisms of army management in which
the stalwart general calls attention to
the injurious effects produced upon
soldiers by exaggerations of their hard
ships or even by frequent reference to
their privations. General Chaffee is
one of the stalwart soldiers of the
army and we are bound to take his ut
terances as facts in regard to the condi-
tions that may be maintained by prop
er discipline and the exercise of COM
mon sense. And now here comes a
phase of the subject that old soldiers
of the civil war will appreciate. One
of these old soldiers, prompting the
Courier, suggests that it should be
printed in full and the Courier yields
accordingly:
The general calls attention to the
absence OF the CHEEKY songs that for
merly enlivened the hours around the
campfire after hard days march. He
misses the camp joker who was always
on hand in the SOS to provide the best
available substitute for water or food
when the men happened to be deprived
of these owing to some incident of war
or the march. Every honest soldier
knows that hardships are never caused
willfully by his government or his Off
GERS, yet there are now "baleful coun-
tenances when hardships accumulate
and distress surrounds" where formal
ly there was cheerful stoicism and a
sense of pride in being able to endure
discomforts. The change has been
accompanied with marked decay of
individual will power, without which
nothing difficult can be accomplished
by an army"
This weakening of the fiber of the
army is ascribed by General Chaffee
largely to the modern practice of
dwelling much upon the privations or
fancied abuses to which our soldiers
are subjected whenever the army is
called to do emergency work. "Sol-
diers do not like sympathy" says Cen
eral Chaffee. Sympathy is for wom-
en- and children" Yet if soldiers be
perpetually coddled and commiserated
upon the hard time they are having,
they will in time believe themselves
abused and will act accordingly. Com
mend our soldiers for manfully under
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NEW YORK cENTRAL'S WISE La
Dor POLICY.

(From Gunton's Magazine for May.)
AS another evidence of progress and
improved relations between large. cor
porations and labor, the New York
Central railroad is making it a part of
| its policy to recognize that it has a
duty toward the social and civic well
| fare of it's employees as well as an in
terest in their economic efficiency. The
excellent example set by Cornelius
Vanderbilt in erecting building for
the use of the employees of the New
| York Central, furnishing attractive
quarters for social meeting, we'll
equipped dining rooms, sleeping hooms
for the men away from home, library,
reading room, baths gymnasium, lee
lures, ETC., practically free, set the
pace which the company is making it
part of its policy to follow. Accord
ing to recent report, these facilities
are being established along its whole
system. An encouraging feature of
this is that the company expressly rec
ognizes that it is inspired to this pol
icy for social and patriotic as well as
business reasons. They have found
| that the better the conditions under
which the employees live and work the
better and more intelligent citizens
they are and the more trustworthy and
competent workmen. In other words,
the experience is that the best econ
omic policy for large corporation is
that which does the most for the So
cial opportunities and personal welfare
of the laborers; that the bloodless
method of treating labor solely as an
instrument of production, out of which
the maximum work should be extract
ed and into which the minimum
wealth, opportunity and social culture
should be infused, is bad business, bad
economy and ultimately results in bad
craftsmanship which may react disas-
trously upon business; in short, that
it is as uneconomic as it is unpatrotic.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
PROGRAM is FIXED.
State Bankers Convention in June at
Cedar RAPIDS,

Cedar Rapids, May 15.-The local
committee of arrangements for the
Iowa Bankers associations fifteenth
annual convention to be held in this
city June 1918 are making elaborate
preparations for the meeting and the
banquet which is to follow the bust
ness session The committee consists
of the following well known gentle
men: R, Van Vechten. Ed. M. Scott,
George H. Smith, E. w. Virden, r. F.
Forbes, ]. E. Hamilton, J. w. Bowdish
and j. M. Dinwiddie. There will be
two sessions the first day and one the
second-in the forenoon-all to be
held in Greene's opera house. Hotel
Delavan has been named as headquar-
tiers for the delegates. The speakers
for the banquet have not yet been Sc
lected but they will be the best to be
found in the state.
The program as arranged provides
for:
Invocation. Rev S. b. Mccormick, A.
A., D. D., president of Coe College, Cedar
Rapids.
dent, Merchants National bank, Cedar
Rapids.
Response, J. A. S. Pollard, cashier Fort
Madison Savings bank Fort Madison.
Presidents review e. d. Huxford, Cher
okee.
Treasurer's report, Hon. L. F. Potter,
Harlan
seeretary's report, ]. NJ. Dinwiddie, ce-
dar Rapids.
Appointment of committees; Introduction
Address. s.Confdence of Depositors In
Banks" d. l.. Heinsheimer. president
Mills County National bank, Genwood.
Reports from group chairmen.
Address, j. S. McKemy, cashier Iowa
State Savings bank. Fairfield
Address, Hon. J. p. Dolliyer, Fort Dodge
Address, 1.-The Banker and the Lawyer,
Hon. John Sherwin, judge of the supreme
court Mason City.
Address, Bank Supervision, Fred A.
Bennett, bank examiner, Sioux City.
Address, Notes on Some Recent Deci-
sions of Interest to Bankers Hon. H. ,E.
Deemer. Judge of superior court, Red Oak.
Reports of committees.
Discussion of resolutions and questions
Election and installation of officers Ad-
jOurnment.
Another address is being arranged for
in which all will he interested.
The officers of the Iowa Bankers associ-
alton are: President, T.. D. Huxford.
Cherokee Cher vice president. CB. Mills. Sioux
Rapids: treasurer L. e. Potter, Harlan.
secretary, j., NJ. Dinwlddie,. Cedar Rapids.
The association is divided into ten gronps
comprising institutions in various parts Of
the state, Each group has its separate Of
ficers.a 1l5
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The delicate state of health of Mrs,

The delicate state of health of Mrs.
Mckinley and her rather dangerous
condition at San Francisco, where the
presidential train had arrived on May
IL, will have marked effect, no doubt,
upon the excursion. The tender care
that the President bestows upon his in
valid wife will prevent him from TAX
ing any chances whatever in pursuing
the journey. 1t is probable that the
excursion was taken by the President
mainly with the idea in view that Mrs
Mckinley might be benefited The
President, himself, is robust, and
scarcely needs recreation, but Mrs.
Mckinley is now, and has been for
many years in bad state of health.
Her condition now requires absolute
rest and this will be given without re-
gard to prior arrangements. The
country at large will regard with in
terest and keen sympathy the condi-
ton of Mrs. Mckinley and hope for
speedy improvement.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
AN IMPROVEMENT SHOWN.
Board of Control Pleased With Situa-
ton at MitcheIlviIle.

Des Moines, May 14.-"There is evil
dehce of much Improvement in the in
stltution at Mitchellville," says Judge
Robinson of the board of control. For
a time think it was serious question
whether, the girls sent to the reform
atory were made better or worse by be-
ing there. i am satisfied that under
the administration of Superintendent
F. P. Fitzgerald, the conditions tend
to the improvement of the inmates.
There are now 1872 girls lat the in
stitution. The, buildings are filled to
their capacity. 1t will be necessary
for the board to ask the legislature for
an appropriation for another cottage.
| presume the cost of this will not ex-
coed from, $12,000fte SIS 5000. Natural
ly, as the school improves and the peo-
pie of the state come to realize the
girls are better for being committed
there will be an increase in the popu-
lation.
"The girls are not allowed to mingle
indiscriminately as they were former
ly. They are classified so that the
worst element and the better class of
girls are not brought into close con.
tact Nor are they allowed to talk as
they please to each other except in
the presence of an attendant. One fact
that tends to the betterment of the
girls is that they are kept constantly
busy, either at study or work or some
form of recreation.
Music of Great Value.
"There is no question Superintend-
ent Fitzgerald is accomplishing great
deal by the use of music in the institu-
ton. He is a fine musician and music
seems to have a soothing and quieting
effect on the girls. A fine orchestra
has been organized among the inmates
and the members take great interest
in their playing and practicing. In
deed, the orchestra Sas accomplished
so much that the board is seriously
considering having it at the state fair
for day next summer
"The facts seem to be that music is
a most important factor in the care
of the inmates of any institution. I
believe it would be well If band were
organized at each of the state peniten-
tiaries. Indeed, start has been made
in that direction at Anamosa. At all
of the state hospitals--at Glenwood, at
Marshalltown, at Eldora and Daven-
port-orchestras and bands have been
organized among the inmates and the
effect is undoubtedly good"
Will Not Be Transferred to Anamosa.
Jude Robinson was asked whether,
in view of the facts that the buildings
at Mitchellville were filled, the board
of control would not transfer some of
the inmates there to the industrial re-
formatory at Anamosa.
49," he replied. There is no like
lihood of that. superintendent Fitz.
gerald has no girls under his care that
he desires to have transferred now and
the board would not do this unless it
appeared necessary to him. The
board prefers not to send any of the
inmates of Mitchellyille to Anamosa
as it realizes the opportunities for a
girl, when discharged from Anamosa
are much more limited than if she is
sent out from Mitchellville."
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THE NEW ARMY.
Total Strength Fixed at seventy-sev.
en- Thousand Two Hunred and
Eiuhty-seven Men.


Washington, May 10 Secretary
Root has issued an order giving in
full the details of the new army or
ganization. 1t fixes the total strength
of the army as 77,2S7 officers and men,
and determines the proportion of this
force to be made up of cavalry, artil-
lery, infantry, engineers, and the staff
departments. The cavalry will con-
sist of twelve troops of eighty-five en-
listed men, and, together with the
non-commissioned officers and musi-
clans, this force will consist of 1880
men.
There will be 1875 companies of
coast artillery, 100 enlisted men to
each company, making total for this
branch of the service of 1874 men.
There will be thirty batteries of field
artillery, each company consisting of
l6O men, making the enlisted men in
the field artillery corps 1852. There
will be thirty regiments of infantry.
Each regiment will consist of twelve
companies of 104 men each, making a
total strength of $500, this number
including the non-commissioned Off
GERS and musicians.
The engineer corps will consist of
1882 men. This makes the total en-
listed strength in the line of the army
74,504. In the staff departments, mil
itary academy, Indian scouts, and re-
cruiting parties there will be 2,7S3
men, bringing the total up to 77,2S7
AS rapidly as the increase of the
enlisted force of the artillery makes
the appointment of officers possible,
fourteen additional batteries of field
artillery and thirty-two additional
companies of coast artillery will be
organized under the direction of the
division and department commanders
by making transfers from existing
batteries and companies, the non-com-
missioned officers and men to be d.
vided, so far as practicable, in such
way as to give equal promotion to the
non-commissioned officers and to give
to each battery and company the same
proportion of experienced artillerists,
both the old and new batteries and
companies being raised to the
strength prescribed by the assign
ment of recruits or transfers from the
cavalry or infantry.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
THE PRESIDENT TO THE CALI.
FORNlANS,

In his address to the people of San
Francisco, President Mckinley, in re-
spending to the mayors address of
welcome, gave utteranee to sentiments
that will serve to commend the speak
ber to democrats as well as to repub-
licans. 1t will not do to charge upon
a man uttering such sentiments that
there is the least faint of imperialism
about his garments. the following is
q part of what the president said about
the United States constitution:
THAT instrument stands today al
most as it left the hands of its fran.
ers. Few amendments have been
added, and those have only been to
enlarge the priceless blessings of lib
erty and free government to the PEG.
pie, and no amendment can ever be
made to the constitution of this coun-
try that will curtail the supreme and
sovereign power of the people.
I'VE have lived under it for 1875
years, in storm and in sunshine, in
war within and without, amidst pas
sions and tumult, and, after a century
and a quarter, that great instrument
stands unsullied by single lapse of
principle.
ITO us, my fellow citizens, young
and old, the preservation of that CON
stitution is committed. 1t is a sacred
instrument, and it is a sacred trust
given to us to see to it that it is pre-
served in all its virtue and vigor, to be
passed along to the generations yet
ito come. Glorious constitution, glori-
Gus union, glorious flag. Seventy-five
millions of people stand together as
they never before stood to defend
them all.''
The president uttered these senti-
ments at time when his heart was
sore and anxious as to the invalid
wife who had followed him thus far
on the journey but with pain and an
guish. Yet President Mckinley with all
the cares of domestic character
pressing upon him could not for a
moment forget the country that hon
ors him and honors the wife who is so
faithful to him and thus dignifies the
home and family. The country never
need fear imperialism or any other
kind of an ism so long as its interests
are committed to such hands
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tragedy. Austria has a great lot to
learn, both in war and in statesman
ship, before it can rightfully claim to
be one of the powers of the world. 1t
has been too often defeated in all the
fields where nations congregate and
aspire to real greatness. Therefore it
behooves Austria to be modest and
discreet in picking quarrels with young
and virile nations.
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PRESIDENTS COUSIN is POOR.
Alleged Relative Of Mckinley Pub.
lie CHARGE,

st. Joseph, Mo-, May 14-John Nc
Kinley, who claims to be a first cou-
sin of President Mckinley, has been
sent to the poor house of Marshall
county, Kansas. He has for five years
been living with a daughter at Blue
Rapids. Three weeks ago his daugh-
ter died, leaving five small children.
The burden was too much for the SON
in-law and the old man was sent to
the poor farm. He is SO years old,
totally deaf and almost blind.
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THE HOPEFUL SETTLEMENT OF
STRIKES.

(From "ReView Of the Month";" Gum
toms Magazine for May.)
The outcome of these controversies
is most encouraging. 1t gives evil
dence that the increasing organiza-
ton of capital, instead Of crushing
out" labor, is actually tending to make
the pathway of industrial peace
smoother. The fact is, these giant
consultations cannot afford to engage
in costly labor contests. The number
of employees is SO large that if they
should all go on strike it would be
almost impossible to replace them, at
least not until after enormous losses.
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The Sultan of Turkey, that blot upon
civilization, menace to progress and
the embodiment of concentrated use
lessness richly deserves chastisement
at the hands of the powers. He is not
only the instigator of many irritating
troubles that demand the attention OF
the powers but on general principles
he should be tied to the mouth of a
cannon and acquainted with a. few
moments of agony under the belief that
vengeance long delayed is about to
overtake him. This measure is per-
haps slightly drastic, but if the punish
ment cannot be made to fit the crime,
that gentleman from the east should
at least be fully impressed with the
idea that he and Mahomet comprise
but small amount of the population
of the world.
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INTERESTING FIGURES.

The following were the average
monthly expectations from the United
States and England, for nine months
ending with March 81, 1901. These
statistics were obtained from the Unit
ed States treasury, bureau of Stats
tics, and have just been made public:
United States. ......$124, 497 1853
England 80. ............ 117,S16,246
Average Ending With Dec. 1900.
Germany. 80. ....... 1851 900
France. -. ......... 56,467 900
Russia -. ............. 29,550, 900
British India ............ 26,747 900
Austria Hungary ........ 25,743,255
Belgium $500. ........ 23,56S, 900
Italy -. 20,51S,0OO
1t is easy to see that the United
States leads the world. The figures
from all countries except the United
States and England were made on the
average ending Dec, 1900.