Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-06
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
IOWA PRESS COMMENT
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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isn't. 1t is hardly commenced. Only
a few county conventions have been
held.
The advantage has appeared to bel
with the Des Moines machine, simply
because that organization punched a
lot of its counties and held early con-
ventions to play the band wagon act
on the rest of the state.
The Des Moines machine has been
operated in those early counties very
much as they tried to operate 1T here
in Linn. A gang travelling on railroad
passes and supplied with plenty of
has invaded each county and
Systematically claimed everything
resulting in all others lying down, as
they did even in Marion. The real SEN
timent OF Marion was 80 per cent anti
Des Moines machine, but the other 10
per cent held the caucus. And then
they talk about people" doing it.
Money and bluff can do many things
but they can not long over ride local
Why should an or
ganized band of politicians travel out
of Des Moines telling counties what to
do politically? If Mr.. Cummins is anti
machine and anti-railroads, why send
a Tom Way-Jack-Man band to fix coun-
ties? Why not present the case and
leave the people themselves to decide
the question.
The Way-Jackman-Br iar-U rick- Suth-
erland-Smythe political combination
opened the eyes of Cedar Rapids as to
machine politics. And they got their
answer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rapids
Republican.
Great is Iowa-"My, but Iowa is a
great state. 1t makes me think Of
central Ohio every time | ride across
it,"
So. said President Mckinley as he
rode across Iowa few days ago. Yes,
Iowa is a great state and it is never
greater than it is in May and June
when the green is on all the fields
and on all the trees. If it is greater
at any other time of the year, it is
when the crops are ripening in Iowa
and when the harvesters are in the
fields gathering in the golden grain,
which is richer than all the gold of
the Rand or the Klondike.
Yes, Iowa is a great state. 1t makes
no difference in which direction you
choose to go - it is everywhere the
same great state, the state of fields
that yield and of men who do. Hills
and valleys and valleys and hills, mea.
dows filled with flowers as the skies
are filled with stars at night and
groves that are cool and refreshing.
And the best of the greatness OF
Iowa is that it is only in its begin
ming. Iowa is still child among the
states and the nations. The first rude
crops have hardly been all gathered.
When science has been fully applied
to these vast fields and when the
cities TEEN with people - then Iowa
will be still greater. The people OF
Iowa, however, have had as much tc
do with the greatness of Iowa as the
fields Iowa has been fortunate in hav
ing the right kind of people for its
early settlers. They have given thu
stamp of sanity and permanency tt
everything that is in Iowa.
Nature first, and then men hav'
made Iowa great,-Cedar Rapids Re
publican. =,
Raising the Angora Goat.-R. C
Johnson, who owns big farm nea
| Lawrence, Kansas, says that mum
! Der of Angora goats make a good in
vestment for any farmer, and that al
an instance of their value he can nov
i show 200 acres of good pasture lane
on his farm that two years ago wa
overgrown with brush and was prac
ticaNy worthless. To have cleare,
the tract by means of the ak woul
have cost several hundred dollars, 81
Johnston determined to try an exper
ment by purchasing 1000 Angora goat
and turning them loose on the vast
land Today the tract is the fines
pasture in Douglas county and it
i, clearing did not cost the owner CEN
In fact he made money on the deal TO
the fleeces from the goats more thai
paid for their original purchase. Asid
from the value of the animal in clear
ling land the Angora goat is money
maker with a great future on tn
farms of the west, as it produces fin
quality of mohair, used in the man,
facture of plush and fine dress goods
which can be readily sold at pric
ranging from 80 to 40 cents pound
and the best pelts, which make sol
and beautiful robe that can be dye
any color, sell for $3.50. Angora mea
J, is said to be most palatable dis
without trace of that woody flavor
which makes mutton Objectionable t
many, and Mr.. Johnson says that Al
CORA meat is frequently seen on tn
, market advertised as well dresse
!, mutton" The Angora is browse
rather than grazer, and will eat e
, cry native weed, except mullen an
burdock; and passes by the best gras
r to eat smartweed, Unison, and Cana
!. ian thistles, while brushwood is il
!, favorite article of food. The capit
required to begin raising goats
small, and with little care the her
will double in size each year. VIII;
has been done in Kansas can be dor
in Iowa, and in fact is being don
+ Judge Hubbard's goats are famous, bl
. in a year or two such herds will
f common in this state.-Des Moint
Register.
CUPID DOES QUEER WORK.