Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-05


organizations an Combinations iv CAPT
tai is perhaps tn best example iv what
upright an earnest business men can
do whin they are let alone. They can
not be stamped out be laws or tn de-
to say about it, or hostile ligislachion
which is too frindly. Their desthruc-
ton cannot be accomplished be dina
gogues. Miraboo, Frinchman, wanst
excited tn Frinch prolotoory to ray
volt. What good came iv it? They
made France a raypublic. that's all.
But something must be done about TIL
thrusts. They must be destroyed or
they must not How to do it. TIL
answer is found in TIL histhry ip Yale.
Whin steam was discovered, she was
nestlin' undher tn ellums iv New Ha-
ven. Whin tn tillygraft was invinted,
she nestled. She nestled two humid
herd years ago. She is still nestlin'.
I ask her sons to profit be tn example
iv their almy mather an nestle. Whin
things go wrong, nestle. Whin tn
country is alarmed nestle. Do not
attimpt to desthroy tn hateful thrusts
with harsh laws or adverse ligislach-
ion. Nestle. An there are worse
places to nestle in thin good thrust.
An If We feather tn nestle, It's aisier
on ye.'
well, sir, think twas good advice
an I'm sure, Hinnissy, that tn assem-
bled hayroes iv culture thought well
iv their degrees whin they got thin.
What's degree. says We? A degree
is a CERTIFICATE firm ladin' univar.
sity entitlin' We to wear mother
Hubbard in spite iv tn polls 1t makes
we doctor iv something an enables We
to practice at ye'er proofission.
don't mind tellin' We, Hinnissy, that
if l was law which I'm not, I'd lave
to be pretty sick before I'd call il
many iv the doctors iv laws l know
an as FIR American lithrachoor, il
don't need doctor so much as cor
oner. But anyhow degrees is good
things because they livils all ranks
Ivry public man is entitled ex-officic
to all tn degrees there are. An nc
public or private man escapes. W
haven't got wan, We say? Ye will
though. Some day yell see a polls
man firm TIL University iv Chicago al
tn dure an yell hide undher tn bed
But he'll get We an haul We out. Vel
SdS HAVEN uOle oluS du
he'll say: 'Ye'd betther come alons
quite. I'm sarvin' degree on W
firm President Harper Some of the
thriftier universities is maxim de
gree tn alternytive iv fine. Five
dollars or docthor iv laws.
"They was nanny handed out b.
Yale an to each man tn prisidint sait
a few wurruds explainin' why he go
it, SOS he'd know. l r-read all tn
speeches: 'Kazoo Kazama pro-fisso
iv fan paintin' at tn University iv TAX
eco because We belong to an ldhe
civilization thin ours but are losin' it,
to William Beans, wanst iditor iv th
Atlantic Monthly but not now t
Arthur Somerset Soanso who wrot'
many long stories but some short
to 'Markess Hilkiboro Tito because h
was around to Fedor Fedorvitcl
Fedorivinisky because he come SO far
''An thin they was gr-reat iubilatiol
an shootin' off iv fire wurruks an
PONIES be Oh graduates with TIL doct
hors iv lithratoor sittin in tn ambu
lances waitin' f'r hurry call. An
thin ivry wan whit home. l was glat
to r-read about it, Hinnissy. 1t dom
me heart good to feel that boys mus
be boys even whin they're men. An
they're SO NANNY things in tn wurrul,
that We ought to believe even if "
think they're not SO"
Dye think TIL colleges has nue.
to do with tn progress in tn wul
, ruld?" asked Mr.. HenneSsy.
/ Dye think" said Mr. Dooley, "ti
, tn mill that makes tn wather run?