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INJUNCTION ON SCIENCE.

The Anglo-American Telegraph
company has served notice on Marco
nj, that he must discontinue his expert
ments on the soil of Newfoundland
and its dependencies, as the company
has monopoly of rights in that terri
tory. Would it not be as well for the
company to include in it's injunction
the ether that is supposed to pervade
the space between Europe and Amer
lea, and especially that ether which
lies within one hundred miles on each
side of their cable that reposes on the
bottom of the ocean?
1t is very good evidence that the An
glo-American company has serious APP
prehensions that the time is soon
coming when their system of tele-
graphing will come in competition with
a better and cheaper system that will
supercede their own, much in the
same way that the swift moving cars
of steam superseded the old-fashioned
stage coach Heretofore and now,
the ocean cable companies have had
and now have monopoly of the bust
ness of transmitting messages ever
the sea, and made the most of it; but
it is not within the power of even such
great corporations to place an injunc-
ton on science, or limit the spread of
human enterprise. The ignorant and
the selfish have from time to time en-
deavored to struggle against all lines
of progress that seem to threaten
their vocation; yet each great inven-
ton has opened up new avenues and
instead of diminishing, has added to
the general stock of human happiness.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
THE BooTLEGGER.

One of the claims urged by the adj
vocate of the open saloon is that the
bootlegger does more business and
sells more and viler whisky than the
saloons and hence it better to have
the saloon. This is mere statement,
having no other foundation than that
the bootlegger is a reality-a nui-
sance, wart upon the body polite
There are none who live with their
eyes open. in saloon counties but must
acknowledge that the nefarious prac-
tice exists; but that it fills the place
of the legal saloon is not true. The
latter by protection of the law has
a semblance of responsibility, but the
other is a lawless sneak, hiding in
dark alleys, consorting with swine
and COWS and mules in the remote re-
cesses of stable refuse, and only pat
ronized by birds of a feather, old
topers and soaks who have neither
self respect nor decency and whose
condition is not matter Of public
consideration and whose existence
seems to have no other purpose than
as horrid example of the rising gen.
Grafton of the debasing influence of
the liquor habit. This is where the
DOot'S6SSl 6CeS III lis WIN, anu Ills
business is almost entirely to this
class and nobody cares and it is con-
sidered largely in humorous sense.
But it becomes another matter, and
a serious matter, with the open saloon
1t is constant temptation to old and
young, and becomes to too many a
sort OF primary school for the boot
logger.
The graduate of the saloon takes a
lesser degree, descending in the scale
with Prof. Boot Logger helps him to
a post graduate degree in the gutter.
Men may retain their honor and man
hood in an occasional visit to the sa-
loon but they become objects of pity
when they get so low as to consort
with the bootlegger to meet the de-
mands of depraved appetite.
Hence we conclude that the boot
logger is less detrimental than the sa-
loon.-West Union Gazette
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he can get them to do the same
amount of work for less money, it is
certain that he will employ the lower
priced labor.
This fact to which l have just re.
ferred, namely, the depressing effect
Of child labor on the wages of the
workingmen, completely offsets the
objection generally made to prohibit
ing the children working in our facto-
ries; for it is maintained by those
who do not approve of such restric-
ton that we are denying families the
income that the work of the children
bring, and that We are working a
hardship without corresponding ben
eft.
THE contrary is true, however.
There is no doubt but that the father
OF a family can earn sufficient to
maintain an average family, but he is
not benefited when society permits the
younger members of family to enter
into competition with the heads of
families, so that legislative restric-
tlop of child labor is in harmony with
economic laws and the trend of indus
trial development, and Iowa should
not continue longer to be behindhand
IN tlls important matter
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FAvoRs THE ROD.

(From the Atlanta Constitution
1t is healthful at times, to get with
IN sound of strong mans voice, and
to hear good, old-fashioned ideas stat
ed without apology.
Such man is F. L. Sedan. SUPER
intendent of the public schools of st.
Louis. He is in favor of making the
teacher the center of authority. and in
ltiating the pupils into the first prin-
clples of obedience thereto. He holds
the interference of parents with crank
ideas as out of the question. The
school room contains large family.
1t is just as necessary that these chill
dren should be instructed in submits
sion to rule as that they should move
forward daily in arithmetic or gram
mar. The most powerful agent of au-
thority is the rod, all the more need
in controlling some children because
of the absence of it at home. The
pampered child grows up into the re.
bellious citizen, and it is only ques-
tion of time as to when the penalty
will have to be administered Well
laid on in youth it might displace dis
graceful punishment in maturity.
Freak punishment" says the super
intendent, SHOULD never DE allowed in
the schools. A good, old-fashioned
walloping such as obtained in times
of our fathers is the thing when Sc
we're punishment is needed. We still
use it in the st. Louis school, 1 be-
lieve in suasion to certain extent,
but there are times when lC falls fiat
Then the switch is mightier than the
tongue. The expulsion of pupils from
public schools for any cause is thing
heartily disapprove. A change of
schools would be much better. IL is
the disobedient and unruly pupil who
stands in need of the school, and ed
ucators have not the right to shirk
their debt to the public
There is no doubt but that plain
hard sense accomplishes more good
than all the coddling of human pas
sion that can come from dreamers and
impracticables.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
MARcoNPs THEORY.

Briefly stated, Maconi's theory as
to wireless telegraph, is that his cleo
trio apparatus placed at certain ele-
walton sends out in all directions vi
brations OF ether that penetrate any
thing and everything they encounter;
they are not arrested. or rather they
fail to register their presence, except
when they come in contact with the
delicate receiving apparatus that is al
so placed at a certain elevation. Mar
conf has worked out a system by
which only certain instruments can
receive certain messages. The power
in wireless telegraphy is transmitted
in the ether in much the same way as
sound waves in the air.
The layman idea would be to dis
credit any theory that single line
bolt, or discharge of electricity could
be directed to a distant point without
the medium of conductor and this is
right but the theory of vibrations of
ether proceeding from the apparatus
III oil uliSCliOuS, Will Dul one certain
instrument at distance sensitive to
the contact of these vibrations, gives
the mind something to rest upon. This
leads to the thought that although
electricity is the primal cause, yet the
phenomenon of a signal or movement,
at the point of the receptive receiving
instruments, is the vibration of ether
or atoms. These atoms are inconceiv.
ably small, so small that thousands of
them may play upon the point of the
finest cambria needle.
The secret that cannot be explained
except by Marconi nor scarcely even
conjectured, is the preparation of a
receptive instrument that will regis
ter vibrations from certain electri-
cal apparatus and refuse to receive vi
brations from alien, or other sources.
This is as near as a layman in
scienceN can explain, or give anything
like a comprehensive or intelligent
idea of the new discovery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
PROPOSITION TO DlsFRANcHlsE
THE NEGRO.

The Cedar Rapids Republican of
December 6 endorses Congressman
Kitchens joint resolution designed to
secure the repeal of the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution. Mr.
Kitchen, the North Carolina congress
men, wants the fifteenth amendment
repealed in order to settle a fixed uues.
tion in the south so that the color line
may never again be introduced in poll
tics in the southern states The &C.
dar Rapids Republican favors the re-
peal, because the amendment was
passed in the heat of passion and in
a spirit of bitter partisanship and re-
venge." The Republican adds: "That
in all probability if Lincoln had lived
no such measure as the fifteenth
amendment would ever have been pre-
sented, as the one granting the right
of suffrage Unfortunately to all
slaves The Republican also says
ITO all intent all negroes in the for
mer slave states are disfranchised.
The national government long ago
gave up trying to enforce this amend
ment. And what has the repub-
lican party to show for the adoption o.
the fifteenth amendment-nothi but
losses and handicaps. The negro
question has not only kept the south
solid, but it has given every white
southern voter double the power pos
sessed by any individual elector in
the north, for though the negro has
not been allowed to exercise the rights
of citizenship he has always been
counted when it came to make up the
basis of representation in the lower
house of congress"
The views here presented, coming
from one Of the leading republican pa.
pers in the interior of great repub-
lican state will no doubt attract atten.
ton north and south.
That such proposition should eme-
nate from such source is to the Cour-
Ter incomprehensible. The fifteenth
amendment reads as follows:
Section l. The right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account Of
race, color or previos condition of SER
vitude.
Section 2. The congress shall
have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation"
This amendment does not prevent
any state from adopting an educational
or property qualification for the suff-
rage, but it does say that a mans col
or, or race, or previous condition of
seryitude shall never disqualify him
as voter To repeal this amendment
is to "Set the bars against the pro.
. IL
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GERMANY AND VENEZUELA.

There is possibility that there may
be an occasion to apply the Monroe
doctrine down in Venezuela on account
of claims of German citizens preferred
against that republic. Germany has
resolved to make naval demonstra-
ton in the waters of the latter coun-
try. The German emperor, however.
with a knowledge that the United
States will look with a jealous eye on
any such proceedings has ordered the
German legation to notify the Wash
ington government that any landing of
German troops in Venezuela will be
purely temporary affair AS an in
dication of Venezuelan sentiment, the
following will be of interest. 1t is
from La Republica of December IS,
the official organ at Caracas:
IF the German government is in
formed that the presence of few war
ships will suffice to effect an arrange
ment of her outstanding claims, it has
been deceived. Venezuela is conscious
that she is an independent nation, the
equal of the other powers, and she is
determined to defend that independ-
ence and equality She is DESTROYS of
peace, but If necessary she can cause
hurt to her enemies and exercise ter
rible reprisals. General Castro is de-
termined on this. He will in no case
suffer Venezuela to be Inundated or
allow her rights to be despised"
Other Venezuelan papers comment
on the situation in similar strain.
Germany has long sought an oppor-
tunity to gain a foothold in South
America and this may be the plan
adopted. There are divisions of opin-
ion as to what constitutes a temporary
occupation of soil. The Germans may
require but a short time to bring the
Venezuelans to terms and it may re-
quire months or years. There is a
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
A VETERANS RETURN.

Col. S. A. Moore is representative
elect in the general assembly from Da-
Wis county. He was born at Law
renceburg, Ind, December 16, 1921,
making his age now 80 years.
Col. Moore has had long and event
full career. He was member of the
Indiana legislature from Bartholomew
county in 1850-1851; was postmaster
at Columbus, Ind, under President
Fillmore; resigned the Columbus post
Office and removed to Davis county,
Iowa, in March, 1853; was elected
county Judge in August, 1855; was
member of the Iowa senate in the
tenth and eleventh general assemblies
in the years 1S64-1S66; was postmas-
ter at Bloomfield under Presidents
Hayes and Arthur; in the eleventh
general assembly was chairman of the
senate committee on military affairs;
in later years served six terms as one
of the doorkeepers of the senate, also
one term as file clerk of the senate
Col Moore was for many years a mer-
Universities came, he met them bravely
and did not hesitate to accept subordi-
nate places and to do his duty modest
ly and well.
In the military service he served
with distinguished gallantry, enlisting
at the first call for troops and failing
to get into the First Iowa was receiv-
ed in the Second, that gallant regi-
ment whose first colonel was Samuel
R. Curtis. Enlisting as private Mr..
Moore soon became lieutenant. He
was with his company at the battle of
Fort Donelson and led them in the
charge of the Second Iowa where his
company lost twenty-eight men in
killed and wounded out of fifty-five
going into the fight. In the awful bat
tie of Shiloh he was wounded in both
legs below the knees and was carried
OIL the field. Because of his wounds
he resigned in September, 1862 Par
TALLY recovering he again enlisted as
private in May, 1864, in the Forty-fifth
Iowa was elected captain and COM
missioned lieutenant colonel, serving
until the disbanding of his regiment
Lieutenant Moore was carried off the
field of Shiloh by Lieut.. J. B. Weaver
and Sergeant John w. Scott of the
same company and regiment.
At the late election Col. Moore's old
neighbors, among whom he had resid-
ed for fifty years, voted for him with
out regard to party-testifying their
regard.
Col. Moore is of Irish descent, his
language being beautifully touched
with the brogue and is one of the dis
tinguished orators of Iowa. Few men
have the graces of speech, the courtly
manner and the gracious dignity of
this veteran, pioneer and soldier.
Words flow from his lips in musical
strain. He is rarely gifted in his pow
ers of description. In 1898 Col. Moore
wrote letter to Senator ]. R. Gorrell
describing the battle CT Shiloh which
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TERROR OF THE POOR.

The extreme cold of the past few
days awakens sympathy for those who
do not live in comfortable houses and
are scant of fuel. There is something
about cold that is appalling. 1t is a
constant and pressing terror that
creeps insidiously to the heart: the
blood is chilled in the veins and moves
sluggishly on it's attempted mission to
bring warmth and comfort to the ex-
tremities. 1t is trial to the strong
est and most robust human being to
encounter cold in the open air we'll
clothed and when nothing but the most
violent exercise can prevent the un-
fortunate being from freezing to death:
it is a trial to be compelled to remain
in a room into which the cold winds
force themselves through cracks in
the walls, and with but a poor little
stove fed from scanty stock of fuel
So long as the stove is fed, there is a
degree of warmth, but there comes a
time when the family has to go to bed
to save fuel.
Did you ever awaken in bed, with
sensation of cold, when all the cov-
ering you possessed was already over
you and you feared that there was no
hope for relief. Few, if any, Courier
reader, We hope, have ever had such
sensations caused by absolute poverty,
yet there are human beings in this city
who are subject to such sufferings.
The rigors of this climate can be sue.
cessfully combated and scarcely felt.
Heat and clothing for the body day and
night mitigate and can entirely allie.
viate the penalties of a severe winter.
There is even a pleasure derived in be.
ing well provided with the means to
ward off the terror. How pleasant it
is, when the least approach of cold is
apparent, to draw the warm, fieecy
blankets closer to the body, and feel
the gentle and soothing influence. How
delightful it is, after brisk walk in
the open air, that thingles with frost
to enter room radiant with light and
gentle warmth. 1t is a joyous welcome
that is made the more gracious because
of escape from the piercing winds.
Light and warmth Darkness and
cold! Heat is life; cold is death!
In these days that precede the joy
GUS Christmas, when so many are look
ing forward to the happiness of giving
and receiving; in these days when we
look forward to celebrate the natal day
of that One who was the giver of the
greatest Of gifts-his own life--for the
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salvation of the world, why should we
not initiate Him as best we can in CIV
ing life and comfort to human beings
who We're born as we were born and in
the end will share with us the common
lot of all.
1t is not incumbent upon us to make
them rich, nor to make them even
well to do, as is said, in the world,
but it is our duty to preserve them
from the White Terror and to deliver
their lives and little ones from suffer
ing. Thus will we earn the reward of
the Master who spake with authority
when He said: Blessed are the mer-
ciful, for they shall obtain mercy"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24

The ship subsidy bill, introduced in
the senate by Mr.. Frye, will probably
pass that body but it is probable it
will meet with a different fate in the
lower house. Democrats and republi-
cans in the house are willing to do
something to build up the shipping in
terest but there are so many diverse
opinions among them as to how to do
it that it is possible nothing may be
done. The members of the lower
house realize that the people do not
like the word subsidy.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
GOV. sHAw's KINDLY ACT.

The touch Of nature that makes the
whole world kin will be felt by those
who read the story of special
Thanksgiving day proclamation issued
by Gov. Leslie M. Shaw, of Iowa, in
Difference to the request of little
girl who was prevented by illness
from sharing in the festivities of the
November holiday. The governor
mailed the proclamation to her. and
if her family didn't do the rest they
are not the sort of family they should
be. 1t was kindly act on the COVER
nor's part, well calculated to make
him solid with the masses.-Pittsburg
Gazette.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24

One million five hundred thousand dol
lars was bid, but Secretary Gage had
told the auctioneer to withdraw the
property from sale unless 100000
was bid. Then some one in the crowd
said:
Eyes, take what you can get. The
government sold the New York Gus
tom-House to the Bank of America and
has never yet gotten cent, while the
bank has received $4,000 in year
in rent for the building
Quick as flash Secretary Gage was
on his feet peering into the crowd in
the direction whence the voice came,
and pointing his finger he angrily
cried, You're a liar!'
1t was lie, and Secretary Gage may
have for moment let his temper get
away with his usual dignity, but the
American people have great respect
for the man or public officer who re-
sents with vigor an unjust accusation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
A Raging, Roaring Flood

Washed down telegraph line which
Chas. G. Ellis. of Lisbon, Ia, had to re.
pair. standing waist deep in lev
water" he writes, gave me terrible
cold and cough. 1t grew worse daily.
Finally the best doctors in Oakland.
Neb., Sioux City and Omaha said /
had Consumption and could not live.
Then / began using DR.. Kings New
Discovery and was wholly cured by
six bottles" Positively, guaranteed
for Coughs, Colds and all Throat and
Lung troubles by Clark & Mollison.
Price soc. M
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INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.

Samuel Dougherty, of Philadelphia,
at Washington: Comparatively few
people know the exact cause Of the
original trouble in Cuba-the unrest
and dissatisfaction of the people. The
cause was lack of money; hard
times. The people were able to dis
pose of their tobacco In this country
and to England and Germany but they
could find no market for their sugar.
AS this was their great industry, the
absence of the market, of course, af-
fected them seriously. Upon sugar
rests the whole question of Cuba Libre
If reduction of tariff can be secured
from this country, all well and good;
the people viii be able to govern them
selves and live well. If no reduction is
secured, he ever, they may as we'll
hitch onto the United States at once,
for they will II themselves unable
to pay rum : t@Denses.
C. f. Wennerstrum, Iowa's labor
commissioner at Grinnell, last night:
81 do not hesitate moment in say
ing that under no circumstances
should girls be permitted to work in
factories where men and boys are
employed until they have reached at
least IS years of age, unless there is
a woman superintendent or matron in
charge who will suppress anything
like undue familiarity,
''One of the important, in fact, one
of the vital facts in regard to child
labor is it's effect upon the wages of
adult men and the income of families.
Numerous investigations have shown
that the employment of children re.
duce the wages of men and lessen
their employment. Further, it has
been shown that the total wages of
the average family where all the chill.
dren work are no higher or aggregate
no more than where the father is the
sole provider of the family. The rea-
son for this will become apparent if /
indicate to you briefly the process by
which the wages Of adult men are low.
cred, the opportunity for their EN-.
ployment lessened.
Sin these days of labor-saying ma
chinery, whenever an employer dis
covers that he can employ women and
children at the same task as men and
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The Courier has consulted veto

The Courier has consulted veter-
an of the great civil war as to what
would have been the probable results
of using the proposed "testudos," DUR
ing Inc war with Spain; the "testude"
by the way was shield-like arrange
ment made Of steel, a movable breast
work to be pushed in front of an adj
vancing column of infantry. The old
vet was prompt in replying that such
thing would have been disastrous to
the 'pushers;" that solid shot or
even shell would have knocked it to
pieces and demoralized the column
that it was intended to protect. This
is referred to- now because we come
very near being driven into the use
of the "testudo" by an enthusiastic ar
my officer.
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Objections have been raised to the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty in that it is
not sufficiently definite as to the rights
of the United States during time OF
war as against an adversary. Sena-
tor Lodge called attention to the fact
that the former treaty read;
THE canal shall be free and open
lin time of war as in time of peace) to
the vessels of commerce and of war
of all nations" The words in brack-
cts have been left out.
So long as the American navy pre-
serves its present proud position it
will be able to construe and enforce
all the rights and desires of the gov
eminent as against any enemy. So
we need not worry about that phase of
the treaty.