Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

The Gazette does not at this time
believe that the candidacy of Geo. d.
Perkins is genuine. There is evidence
of this in the suggestion of Perkins
and Brant in the Sioux City Journal,
when that paper states that Brant
would be available for the reason that
he lives on the Northwestern road.
The Journal knows that Brant is not
inclined to bend the knee to any road
and there is no reason to believe that
Perkins has been assigned to stab
Cummins and Brant in the back, so
that he will be rewarded with the
senatorial office.-Cedar> Rapids Ga
zette. :
Now, what may not enter into the
pure mind of independent and exalted
journalism? If the Gazette would
turn the making of it's editorial para
graphs over to its cartoonist, they
would have less stomach and more of
humor. ASPIRATIONS appear to some
| men because they are not sober en-
| ough, and to other men because they
carry sobriety to an extreme.-SiouX
City Journal.
The American jury system is prob
ably the most beloved, the most exc
Grated, the most cherished, the most
derided, the most revered and the
most lampooned institution with which
the great masses of the people of this
country are intimately associated.
The grim solemnity with which great
| issues are submitted for the considera-
ton of men of minutest intellectual
| capacity: the promptness with which
| men are dismissed from the panel II
confessing to the slightest knowledge
| of the facts in pending controversy,
and the incongruous findings which
are frequently presented in open court
after long hours and perhaps days of
tedious elaboration, are features
which have been well calculated to
| stir the disabilities, invite the shafts of
i ridicule and surround the jury system
win certain amount of reproach.
and yet this anomalous condition of at
fairs is presented, that, if there should
be anything like an aggressive move
ment for it's adjustment 1t would
doubtless plunge the nation into a
revolution. Or even if there should
be an attempt to bring about any spec.
ial change OF innovation only in GER
tain particulars, it is safe to say that
a storm Of protest would go up which
would discourage if it did not terrify
the champions of the proposed depart.
: ure.-Des Moines Capital.
The, Presbyterian creed revision
, seems threatened with the same trou
bIes which prevented definite accom-
plishment last time revision was I'm
dertaken. The general committee or
| ieiN is,e lot ie,I ir;Ia hnr
is general willingness to adopt sup
plement to the old creed, adding some
new points; but there is opposition tt
taking out some of the Calvinistic doc
trines. The points it is desired tt
add to the confession are, first, ;
, statement of the love of God for al
fuence of the holy spirit, and third
/ forth to preach the gospel to all Thu
world. The point on which there i
difference concerns the doctrine O
preterition-literally, passing over;
{. that is, the doctrine that God havin,
, elected to eternal life such as SHOULD
be saved, passed over the others. Thu
revisionists wanted the supplement tt
the confession to contain an eXplana
ton of this doctrine which, while no
!, exactly indicating that the path whicl
: good Presbyterians have followed
since the days of John Calvin was Thu
wrong one, would yet enable a create
: number of people to accept the confes
: sion. With this doctrine Of preter
= ton is involved the fate of non-elec
infants dying in infancy. The ant
: revisionists are in the minorit
J, among the committee and among clel
f gymen generally, but curiously enoug
q are strong among the laity of tn
church, where great reverence is er
! tertained for the things which are ole
}. Sioux City Tribune.