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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
AROUND THE CIRCLE.

Collector of Customs Dozen at No
gales. Arizona has received instruc-
tio-s from the treasury department to
investigate tho declaration of the many
ChiHamen being BROUGHT into the pc
ninsula of Lower California. Hong
Wo, at the head of the local Chinese
colony. lately said, regarding the num-
Der Of Oh namen who have recently
heer captured IN Arizona, that most OF
them have invited capture that they
nav he legally deported and sent back
to China at the expense Of the govern
ment, for they had intended to return
home anyhow.
He said he believed that most OF
them could show cert 'ficates. if they
needed them, but they hal sold them tc
other Chi,amen, who We're not EMIT
led to certificates, so that double pur
pose was served by the fraud. He
says that no Cinnamon expect to die
in this country, so that their certifi
cate Is only certiticate of temporary
residence. When the Chinaman. there
fore, gets ready to go home, nothing i:
more natural than that he should sci
his certificate for whichever he can gel
for it, and then avail himself of the
chance of arrest and deportat on. He
can afford to throw his certificate away
rather than to permit it to interfere
with his chance of getting home at the
expense of the United States govern
mert, which is taking every possible
precaution to keep him out.
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LONG RANGE INTERVIEWS.

DR.. |. N. McCash, Des Moines.--
"There is but one cause which the
sculptures recognize as sufficient
grounds for legal divorce being
granted to any person or persons and
carrying with 1t the privilege OF re-
marriage. This is the crime OF adul.
terry. Any person who secures d.
vorce for other cause than this and
remarries is guilty of the crime of
adultery, and the children of such sec
ond marriage are illegitimate."
These sweeping assertions were
made by Dr. I. N. McCash. pastor Of
the University Place Church of Christ.
in his sermon on Divorce" the sec
ond of a series he is delivering on
1.-THE Ten Plaques of Modern Egypt"
LET me quote" said the speaker
from the government statistics gath.
cred on divorce in this country recent.
! ly. During the period Of twenty years
between 1867 and 1887, there were
granted in the courts Of this country
S2S. 716 divorces. OF this number the
courts of Illinois granted S6,072. In
Ohio there were 26,S67 and in Indiana
25,123 of this number granted. Dur
ing the same period the growth of
the population of the United States
was but 81 per cent while the in
crease in divorce cases was 157 pei
cent.
1 81 leave it to you to say whether
or not this does not indicate thai
there has been a plague of enormous
propositions turned loose upon on
civilization"
/ Next Sunday evening DR.. McCas,
will speak on 'Lynching."
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Observation-Disclosures
! IOWA PRESS COMMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Smallest Vote on Record. That will
be the probable decision of the Off
cial count on governor Of Iowa, in
proportion to population. The
semi-ottlcial returns indicate that
the vote for Hon. A. b.
Cummins will be about 225, 900,
which will be a falling off of 82,SOS
from the vo,e for President Mckinley
last year, and about 14,0u0 votes less
than Governor Shaw received two
years ago. The vote for the demo
cratic candidate for governor this
year will be about $4,000, falling
off of 72,179 from the Iowa vote for
Bryan in 1900, and of 1925 from the
vote cast for the democratic candi
date for governor two years ago The
decrease in the republican vote this
year is about q per cent, and of the
democratic vote about 35 per cent, on
the vote of last year. Or course, the
o1icial count may change the per
centage to some extent, but the Reg
listers figures are based on returns
received by telegra phi from the county
auditors of the state, and are there
fore as reliable as figures can be OBJ
teined by telegraph. The apathy Of
the voters of Iowa this year was un
eGualed and unaccountable-tbe tota
falling off in the republican and demo
cratic vote this year, as shown by the
semi official returns from the county
auditors, is 1549S7, or a little more
than 80 per cent on the vote for pres
lident last year. Tho labor Toy tat
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COUNTY AsYLuMs.

1t Is OF no use to keep porous plas.
ter on we'll man. Neither is it seem
ly that the board of control should APP.
Ply fly blister to the manner in which
the county asylums for the incurable
insane are conducted in this state.
There may be abuses in other counties
where patents are made to battle In
polluted water and where the pro-
prieties are not observed, but this Is
not true of Wapello. And il unfor-
Inmates can be cared for as well by
the county as by the state In this d.
vision Of the state of Iowa. why not in
all parts of the commonwealth? Mani
testify something is wrong and needs
looking into. If the board has no jul
|dicial power the law should be SO
amended that it can correct evils and
conduct such matters in accordance
with the best interests of the county's
wards. Pending that event the board
should not seek to depopulate county
infirmaries, but rather to bend its en-
ergies toward securing authority from
the states lawmakers to correct these
isolated evils of which they talk.
1t is fact that Iowa has an eXpen-
|sive bu .iding at Independence design
ed for the purpose of caring for men
tally unsound persons. 1t is equally
true that the institution needs patients
in order that the expense account per
capita may be reduced and the show
ing of the board thereby be made to
appear more business Ike and more
economical, 1t being patent that CIV
en- number of attendants can care for
certain number of patients as cheap
ly as they can one dozen.
The contract for the asylum at In
dependence was let at time when the
state clearly needed more room for Its
wards. The building was begun be-
| fore the county plan for caring for
them had had a chance to work and
prior to the exodus which has been
greater than even its authors dreamed,
began. In the eyes of legislators the
Independence buildings was neces-
sity and it stands as a monument to
their desire to alleviate the cond ton
CT persons who stand sadly in need of
succor. In years to come 1t may be
a monument to their sagacity, as the
state grow more populous and more
ineed for it is apparent.
But, after all, the board should not
make the present need of patients az
excuse for depopulating those county
asylums where matters are conducted
N the best possible manner and where
money is saved to the taxpayers.
| Wapello county is satisfied with the
way in which her wards are cared for
and desires no change.
If there Is anything wrong in other
places let the legislature correct it.
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GET WELL ENOUGH ALONE"
(From the Washington POST

We do not know for how many
ages or in how many languages and
dialects that adage has been going up
and down the world unchallenged. 1t
probably originated in The infancy of
he human race, and We suspect its
author must have been lazy man, a
tsluggard wiser in his own conceit
than seven men who could render a
reason" 1t has always been popular
with the lazy. In all the wide worlds
literature no other phrase, aphorism,
or maxim can be found that has SO
greatly befriended the indolent in ev-
cry time of need. The reply of the
average cave. dweller to his enterpris.
ing neighbor who urged him to build
a hut of limbs of trees and cover II
with bark and moss must have been
Let well enough alone" When In
vention had been carried so far as the
production of the first tool, its inven
or doubtless heard a grand chorus
ef his neiGhbors' voices condesIans
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his vain pride and shouting, Let we'll
enough alone
Every step in human progress has
been rendered possible by men who
repudiated that maxim. Nothing that
can be bettered is we'll enough and
there are few conditions or situations
possibility of improvement. We
would not recommend painting the
lily or adjoining the rose, but both of
these beautiful gifts of nature have
been most wonderfully improved by
cultivation. Discontinued men-men
who would not be contented to lot
we'll enough, or what the worlS
thought well enough, alone-have
made magnificent flowers out of nox
ious weeds, delicious fruits out of the
most unpromising domestic animals
that they bear but slight resemblance
| to the original stocks. And while
this great work of the discontinued
has been going on, other men have
| left the "well enough" of their fellow
citizens so far behind that our world
of today would be unacceptable BY
our grandfathers if they were permit
ted to revisit it.
The change from cave to palace
from horseback to lightning express
from manuscript to a world full Of
printed books and newspapers, from
the mail coach to the telegraph. from
sail to steam, from hand-drudgery tt
machine-in short, all the upward
movements of mankind have beer
produced by regulators of the lazl
mans maxim, Let well enough
alone"
And now, brethren" as Parsor
Tenthly used to say, "a few words b,
way of application. To the demands
for tariff revision which comes from
every part Of the country, some of tn,
influential statesmen in both houses
of congress reply, Let well enough
alone" To the loud, imperative de
mand for perfecting the gold stand
ard act comes the response from al
influential few, Let well enough
alone"
But neither the tariff nor that badl.
botched currency act is wei
enough" and those reluctant states
men will not be permitted to fall bacl
and rest in peace ON the lazy man
maxim.
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editor of the Des Moines Daily Capital
and the man who nominated Roose-
welt for vice president at the Philadel-
phia convention. The guests always
range from twenty-five to thirty in
number.
An amusing story Is told with refer
epce to the entertainment of Governor
Drake, who preceded Governor Shaw.
Governor Drake accepted jeff Logan'S
'possum supper invitation, but having
never eaten any possum was afraid
he would not like it and requested Mi.
Logan to have quail for him. Logan
did so, bur when Governor Drake was
seated at the table and pressed to just
taste the 'possum he did SO and liked
/ it so much he refused to eat the quail
and sent his plate back for more pos
sum.
D. d. w. Carver in the Dubuque
Telegraph-Herald: | frequently see
accounts of "reminiscences and refer
ence to early day events in Iowa jour.
nalism. Well, if l were to say that
well remember the time when | pur-
chased an old Washington hand press
| in New York. which was shipped out
to East Dubuque, which was the end
of the railroad then, and hauled the
press and other printing material
across the prairies to Charles City
with an OK team, people would say
was not telling the truth. When I
bought this press in New York they
did not then know the railroad had
been built into East Dubuque. which
was then called Dunleith, although
they had been running trains there ov-
er six months. They were slow in
those days. you may be sure, and at
that time there was not foot of rail-
road in all Of Iowa. it being a wild.
trackless prairie inhabited only lit.
tie along the shores of the Mississippi
and at a few places here and there g
little ways back IN the interior. I
went to Charles City and established
my paper. which still exists, and |
still carry with me many pleasant rec.
objections of those early days.
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out Of the college and his theories are
now forgotten by the general public
but it is probable that some of the
poison that he exuded in that public
place is doing Its work among those
with whom he came in contact.
Professor Powers Is not in accord
with the civilization ofthe age in which
he lives. He is able no doubt to solve
problems in mathematics but if he
were turned loose to exercise his will.
there would be reign of terror in his
efforts to exterminate such weak per-
sons as his crack Drained philosophy
would prompt HIM to select for his
experiments. Then there would grow
UP other believers and professors of
his peculiar system of sociology who
would be led to believe that his re,
moNal would be in accord with the
grand principle Of exterminating the
unfit"
The professor has no doubt been in.
f1uenced by Victoria Woodhulls teach.
ings but he has totally mistaken the
philanthropy that guided that extraor.
binary woman who would have not
killed the weakest nor the most insig.
nncant animal, but she would have
prevented it from multiplying itself.
Had her attention beep called to it in
time she would no doubt have prevent
ed the advent of Professor Powers In
to world that does not seem well
adapted to him.
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The telegraph announces under date
of November ID. that Rev. Lyman Alb
bolt and Augustus Belmont of New
York, were guests of President Roose-
vet at dinner on that evening. TIL s
is an announcement, so far as relates
to Belmont, that ought to produce con
vulsions in the republican party. Bel
mont is not negro, as Booker Wash
ington is, but he is democrat which
is worse, and should produce more dis
tress among republicans than the
luncheon furnished to Booker produc,
ed among the southern democrats.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
T. J. PHILLIPS AS A HERO.

Thomas Jefferson Phillips of Of
tumwa, Ia, the defeated candidate for
governor of Iowa, made a campaign
which was unique in its speschless but
effective of its kind and the heroism OF
the man deserves recognition before
he is buried beneath the Oblivion or
Cummius' remarkable plurality. Men
of the Phillips family have been miners
for generations in Wales-are now,
and probably the leader of Iowa's DEM
ocracy was not the first to save lives
in mine accident.
1t musa be remembered that out of
pol tics Mr.. Phillips is mine superin-
tendent, the boss" among $500 en-
ployes. He is tall. sturdy, warm
hea, ted. 1t was in 1862, when he was
in charge of Lucas county mines that
Q cage in shaft two at Cleveland, left
the guides two hundred feet down. Six
men were imprisoned. They could
ne ther escape up or down. Below was
certain death. Down the rope slid Phil
lips where no one else dared go. With
Ratchet and bar to release the cage
The six men were hoisted-back tc
light and life.
A grateful co,ored woman in Lucas
county, Iowa, could tell another cpl
sode. Her husband, Charles Johnson
with Charles Faye, was hosting coah
A block fell on the signal lever. two
hundred feet above: bell rang. up
and the cage shot upward. Faye
jumped but Johnson, caught between
curbing and cage, was dragged fifty
feet upward Three inches was the
space. Miners swarming above heard
the dying man beg to be taken home tc
die. Men looked at the rope aud turn
ed pale. Suddenly big man, with AK
and bar at his waist, slid down the
rope that disappeared in the gloom be
low For two wretched hours in stuff.
ar and odor of a CHASTITY wound hi
chopped until the cage was freed
When it reached the bottom five hun
bred miners cheered. Then there wal
a cry and hush: Mr.. Phillips II
dead" He had toppled and fallen IL
a faint of exhaustion. They carried
his body and Johnson's to the top ant
Phillips soon recovered. Johns pit
eous cry to die at home was not II
vain. By General Superintendent
Phillips recomm endation the widow
was paid sum which kept her com
Portable all these years.-S,oux Cit
Tribune.
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A SAVAGE SCIENTIST.

H. H. Powers, professor of Sociol,
ogy in Cornell University at Ithica, N.
Y, has made the following startling
statement:
Il am strongly in favor Of killing off
the weak in society for the benefit Of
The strong. | would kill off the feeble
minded and all others who may be a
burden, as would kill off so many
rattlesnakes."
Professor Powers went on to say
that he would not kill the weaRmind
they were troublesome to have around
Continuing, he said:
II believe the time will come when
society will see the benefit Of exter-
mating the weak by artificial means.
To be sure, under the present regime
it is impossible to de.ermine who is
to Judge the weak and the fit from the
strong and unit.
Mature formerly welded out the
unfit, but now life is made SO much
easier that a large percentage of those
who are a burden to the better ele-
ment are helped to live.
War the professor concluded,
used to kill off the weak in long cam
paigns, but now war eXterminates the
strong and those most valuable to So
ciety.'
These statements were made before
the professors class October 20 ami
surpasses in radicalism anything that
has heretofore been taught either in
To- lie.
There was wide. condemnation of Vic
torial Woodruff about twenty-five
years ago when she in her lectures
and in published writings called the
attention to what she denominated
"The Rapid Multiplication of the I'm.
fit" and proposed as remedy that
such persons should not be permitted
to marry and thus propagate their fee
| bleness. But Mrs. Woodruff never
went so far as to advocate the rattle
snake policy thus boldly proclaimed
by college professor; her plan was
simply to prevent the multiplication
of the unit but she did not propose to
| kin them.
The colleges and universities have
much to answer for in maintaining
chairs or departments that seem tc
serve as safe fortresses behind which
radicalism may launch forth it's un
savory theories. We hal an illustra
ton of this in Iowa few years age
where professor of what was termed
Applied Christianity" advanced the
cries that were detestable to the civ
ilization of the age and to large ma
jority of the friends and patrons O
Grinnell college. The man was forced
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

county and Legislative tickets was the
only thing which prevented a still
larger decrease in the vote of both
parties, and the official returns will
prove that if the whole republican
vote had been cast the republicans
would have carried every county In
Iowa. The national census of 1900
gives Iowa 635,29S men of voting age.
about 100000 votes were cast for the
republican and democratic candidates
for governor this year, therefore if
the increased numbers of voters, since
the new census was taken, are added
it will be seen that but little more
than half of the total vote of Iowa
was cast in 190l.-Des Moines hegis-
ter.
The Women in Politlcs.--Mrs. Clara
Belle Brown, of Washington, D. c.,
who has come to Iowa to wage war
against the suffrage movement, arriv.
ed at a most oppoltune moment, as
the suffragists are now holding their
state convention at Waterloo. Judg,
ing from interviews with Mrs. Brown,
for the anti-suffragists and with the
there is going to be a lively time in
the legislative halls this winter, and
Iowa is likely to hear more about wo-
men in politics than its people have
heard for some time. Women, by the
way, played very prominent part in
the recent campaign in New York city
that ended in victory for those who
opposed corruption and vice, and the
result there proves that the fair sex
can exert a great influence in such
things, even II they have no vote. The
women there held meetings in every
part of the city, and some of the most
effective addresses made during that
notably stirring contest were made by
them. They distributed nearly 100000
circulars in all parts of the city de
scribing the contemplate license sys
TEN of Tammany, and giving absolute
proof of corruption and of the protec
| ton of vice. There was not pre-
cinct in New York where women were
not organized to do what they coult
/ in behalf of the reform movement. ant
i 1t is not to be DOUBTED but that theil
influence turned the tide against Boss
j Croker and his gang and won the day
| There is no doubt, too, but that WON
an is a factor in the political world
and the only question is whether o.
not it is best for her to have the bal
lot? Mrs. Brown says it is best Il
keep the ballot away from the womel
and she is of the opinion that they car
exert a better influence without it, bu
Mrs. Evelyn Belden, of the Iowa sui
fragists, and all the other good womel
who are fighting for the right of vot
ing, believe the very opposite of this
Fight it out, ladies', but do not get mad
and may the best and strongest sid
win.-Des Moines Register.
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which is promised in the millennium.
So it is, that the philanthropist need
not look upon the recent discoveries
as evidences that his prayers and as
pirations are to come to naught. The
world must progress and mans inven-
tive genius cannot be curbed. but the
wrath of man will eventually be
brought around in praise of the Prince
of Peace through natural processes.
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A DREAM OF UNIVERSAL DoMlN.
ION,

1t Is related as fact and as the lat
est diplomatic sensation. in the publ
eaton by Professor Frederickson, of
Denmark, of hitherto unknown let
ter written by Prince Bismark to
Prime Minister Blizen of Denmark,
that Bismark, as prime minister of
Germany. proposed German-Scandi-
navian alliance. Bismark assured
Blixen that such an alliance could rule
the world. The date of this epistle is
1862 and its authenticity cannot he
doubted.
1t has been given to but few mortals
to aspire to or conceive of universal
dominion. One of these was Alexander
the Great; the other Napoleon The
latter had the more definite ideas and
plans relating to the great scheme but
he pushed too far In provoking hostili
ties with Russia. There are those who
believe that he might have accomplish
ed his plans or came very near to their
accomplishment had he taken the
cars ster as his wife instead of the
daughter of the emperor of Austria
/ 1t seems almost Incredible that Bis
mark would have INDUCED In such 6
dream as is outlined in his letter, but
his world at that time was bound By
the narrow lines of Europe He eyi
IDENTITY took no account of America o.
the United States which was ther
graphing in death struggle WITH
revolution and rebellion
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President Roosevelt has refused to
appoint former lieutenant, w. P.
Crawford of Camden, South Carolina,
a second lieutenant in the regu ar army
because the young man refused to
marry young woman to whom he
was engaged. The President has not
only done that which is right in this
particular case, but has set pace or
rather made an example that will be
of service to the country. The pledge
of man to woman should be regard.
ed as sacred at best, as the pledge of
man to man. The man, therefore, &C,
cording to President Roosevelt eth
les, who disregards his pledge with
woman is not to be trusted in any ca.
pacity. The President is not only
right but is as brave as usual in teach.
ing lesson on honor before the coun,
f,,.y