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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
THE PRESIDENT IN THE SOUTH.

The progress of President Mckinley
and suite through the country and es-
pecially through the southern part Of
the republic, is to be taken as evidence
that the prejudices of the civil war
have practically ceased to exist. The
president has been greeted in the
south with SO many warm testimonials
of esteem and consideration that one
cannot be deceived as to their import.
1t is true that the south voted against
Mckinley in 1900 and the majority Of
the southern people would do SO again,
but the voting now would be on the
same lines as were exhibited in the
years long before the war on princi-
pies that would not bring into! peril
the very existence of the republic We
have passed that period in the history
of the republic where candidates and
men are regarded as hostile to the in
terests of any section. The south may
not accept Mckinley as it's favorite or
choice, but it no longer has fears of
him as one who would, if he could, dc
injury to southern interests.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07

The survivors of the Grand Army
have right to complain when their
sacred Memorial day is made the oc-
casion for baseball games and a holt
day for sports, instead of that for
which it was designed to commemor-
ate. Memorial or Decoration Day was
secured as holiday mainly through
the efforts of John A. Logan, who
would not have wasted much time or
thought on it, if he could have fore
seen the uses to which it has been
consigned in some localities. The
boys and young men of the present
day have their privileges on many
days during the year aside from Deco
ration Day and they should be willing
to aid in celebrating the day accord
ing to the designs of the partiots who
secured it as holiday and for the
noble purposes to which it should be
consecrated. The Courier believes
the holiday feature, legal or otherwise,
of Decoration Day should be abolish
ed and that the Decoration Day exer-
cises proper, which are Of semi-re-
ligious character, should be held on
the Sabbath preceding the LIST day of
June each year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07

American fruits. Still later further
legislation with reference to grades
of meat was had, and this was follow
ed by increase of duties in certain Eu-
ropean countries against the classes
of breadstuffs of which the United
States is large producer and export
er. Our dairy products have also
been the subject of more or less at.
tention from Europeans who had look
ed askance at oleomargarine butter
and filled cheese. The sugar legisla-
ton and laws of the United States
have furnished basis for certain re-
strictive regulations with reference to
certain products of our manufactures
and the war with Spain was looked
upon by many as likely to practically
destroy the commerce between that
country and the United States.
What has been the result of all this
commercial friction, commercial hos
tility, and of these national and inter-
national combinations against Amer
lean commerce? To answer in a word:
a steady increase of American ex-
ports to the countries in question and
in many cases decrease of American
imports from those countries.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
Aggregate Amount at End of Century
Was Over ,O0O,0Oo,0oo.

Washington D. c., April 30.-The re-
cent announcement of a new British
loan of $300,000000 lends interest to a
statement just issued by the treasury
bureau of statistics regarding the ma
tional debts of the world. This state
ment shows in brief that the national
debts, of the world aggregated more
than $30,000,0 100000 at the close of the
nineteenth century, or ten times as
much as in the closing years of the
eighteenth century.
In 1898, at the beginning of the Ma,
poleonic wars, the national debts OF
the world amounted to approximately
50, 100000 900; in 1900 they were, &C.
cording to the best information OBJ
tainable, $31,00O,0 100000.
In general terms it may be said that
the worlds national Indebtedness in
1900 aggregated ten times what it did
at the beginning of the nineteenth CEN
fury. Meantime, population has in
creased $50 per cent, and gold and sill
yer, which form the basis of money
with which debt payments are made,
800 per cent, though the proportion of
the existing gold and silver, which is
turned into coin, is now much greater
than at the beginning of the nine
teenth century, while the utilization of
the various forms of credit as currency
may have increased the worlds circu-
lating medium quite in proportion to
the increase in it's national debts.
This enormous increase in national
Indebtedness is chiefly the result of
wars, standing armies and works of
public utility.
| In our own history, the increase of
the Understanding debt from $751;
100000 in 1860, to $2,3S1, 100000 in
1865, and from $S47, 100000 in 1898 to
81 ,046, 900 in 1899, further evidences
| the relation of war to the growth of
national Indebtedness.
4 The relation of war with it's ever-in-
| creasing cost, to national indebted
ness is further shown by study of
the detailed debt statements of the
world at various periods during the
century, presented in the following ia.
BILE. From 1893 to 1S4S national debts
only increased from $2,433,000,000 to
$S,419,OO0,0 1000. The latter half of the
century, however, has experienced
great and costly wars-the Crimean
the civil war in the United States, the
Franco-P russian, the war between
China and Japan, and those of the
closing years of the century-and &C.
companying this period the national
debts have grown from $8,419,O00,O0
in 1S48 to $31, 100000 in 1901, as
will be seen from the table which fol.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07

gain on either, YOU cease fighting, the
identical old questions, as to terms of
intercourse are again upon you"
There is thus laid down, in a simple
proposition, all that could be stated
by a full corps of diplomatic repre-
sentatives, in favor of peace. Abra-
ham Lincoln was inspired to the ut
teranee OF such propositions as should
be uttered now. 1t ,semes incompre-
hensible 1.-THE people of the present
day that such a proposition should be
subject to controversy; Lincoln was
not a prophet but he was the advance
thinker who gave speech to truths
that we're at that time incomprehensi-
BILE but are now as plain as though
they; had been taught from time i'm
Lincoln could see at that time far
enough in advance to realize that tho
northern states would become united
together for the union and that the
southern states would not be strong
enough to stand against such a union
welded together against 2 slavery.
There were few who could see this
far in advance but Lincoln was among
those who could foresee that which
seemed TO MIN lneVlJaDle.
The. proposition of Lincoln in 1861
is as. true now as was it then. The
warsproblem is the same as it was in
the days when few millions stood
against MANY millions and in direct
opposition. There had even at that
day come to the knowledge of the
world, great invention for the destruc-
ton of human life but nothing in com
.parison to- that which is now known.
Suppose you go to war, you can
not fight always, and when after
much loss on both sides and no gain
ron either, you cease fighting the idep.
tical old questions as to terms of in
tercourse, are again upon you
How true is every word in this ut.
teranoe 1t was realized after the
thirty years war, in Europe; after the
seven years. war in America; after
the four years. war of the rebellion
1t was even true in the long wars Of
the Romans and Greeks, and the Car
| thagenians. There came settle
ment at last, based upon the total de
struction of either one of the nations
or upon compromise. So it seems
that there must be an arbitration o.
| international difficulties at the pres
ent day. and especially in the pres
ence of, and in realization of the fac
that one nation or the other must nee
essarily yield. There will be no Ions
drawn out wars in the future and {
speedy settlement of difficulties mus
follow all disagreements. Why should
there be slaughter pens to precedt
such settlements?
Again are the words Of the wis
president made eloquent. Suppose
you go to war,you cannot fight Away
and when after loss on both sides ant
no gain on either you cease fighting
the identicalold questions as to term
of intercourse are again upon you."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
MAJOR coNGER AND THE COVER
SHIP.

A Des Moines dispatch states that
Major Conger will determine definite
ly before he starts east next Sunday,
what his attitude will be on the gov
srnorship. The same dispatch says:
A constant stream of people has
been flowing to and from his house
day and evening, composed not only
of his friends in Des Moines, but of
politicians from all over the state. A
large majority of these are urging him
to be candidate for governor, or at
least to stand by what he has already
said, namely, that II the people OF
Iowa want him he will be glad and
proud to serve them as their COVER
nor.
AS was to be expected the friends
Of Mr.. Cummins are seeking to pre-
vent him from being candidate by
urging that it is not fair to Mr.. Cum
minis for him to come into the contest
at this hour after Mr.. Cummins has
carried the most of Polk county, and
they claim that Conger will not have
much of the Seventh district outside
of Polk county. Major Conger is as
sured, however, by influential republi-
cans in these counties that he will
have their support, and that the Polk
county primaries were called early by
the Cummins people expressly to shut
out Major Conger before he returned
home. Mr.. Cummins and his friends
are claiming that Mr.. Cummins, as
member of the republican national
committee, secured for Major Conger
his appointment as minister to Brazil
but the minister and his friends credit
Senator Allison and the Iowa delega-
tion in congress with doing this. The
preponderance of opinion is to the eff
feet that Major Conger will permit his
name to be used, and that he will be
nominated.
It is to be greatly hoped that this
conclusion will be reached by Major
Conger after full and careful con-
sideration of the matter. We are con.
f1dent that there is no man in Iowa
who can do so much for the republic
an party, or for the people of this
state, as Major Conger, if he can but
see his way clear to accept the nomin-
alton for governor, which if he but
says the word. will be rendered to him
unanimously by reclamation by the
republican state convention which
meets at Cedar Rapids on August 81.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
TALK OF RETALIATION.

Especial Washington Correspondence
The talk of an international alliance
against the United States with the
purpose of depressing her export trade
seems unlikely to cause serious ankle
ty il considered in the light of recent
commercial history. Frequent an.
nouncements have been made during
the past few years of combinations or
legislation against the United States
with reference to our export trade. A
few years ago American meats were
the subject of legislation in several of
the European countries with the ap.
parent purpose of discriminating eth.
er against certain classes of our pro.
ducts or of aiding certain classes of
producers in the countries in which
the legislation was had. A little later
came similar action with reference to
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
CALLING THE ROLL

Call the roll of those who distin-
guished themselves in the civil war,
either as Union men or Confederates
and how few there would be to answer
Here" Grant, the great commander
of the Union is dead; SO is Robert E;
Lee, the Confederate; Phil Sheridan,
w. T. Sherman, w. S. Rosecrans, +.
c. T. Beauregard, Fred Steele, Kirby
Smith, John S. Marmaduke, Joe Shel1
by, Jubal Early, George B.iMeCaelland,
George Meade, Benjamin Prentiss, b.
o. c. Ord, Fitzpatrick Crook, Albert
Sidney Johnson, Joe johnson, John A.
Logan, McClernand, Curtis Blair, Hook
er, Burnside, Pope, Stonewall Jackson.
Shields, Fremont, Hunter Price Custer,
Conner, Thomas, Holmes, all dead as
we'll as Lincoln and Davis, and every
member of the cabinet of each, with
one exception. There are few, very
few members of either the Federal OF
Confederate congress that survive
The roll if called would be sadly in
complete. Those who yet survive OF
either Federals or Confederates are
men who were either quite young when
they entered on the greatest war Of
the century, or are extraordinarily en-
dowed with physical strength. These
reflections belong to the present sea
son and the near approach of Decora
tom day. In the course of nature il
will not be many years until the last
survivor will have passed away and tc
the sons of the veterans will be com
mitted the duty of concentrating the
deeds of their fathers.
Call the roll of soldiers of the civi
war with whom you have been &C
quainted. The list grows smaller year
by year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
Will some of the surviving

Will some of the surviving demo-
Gratis of the Cleveland Boies period
please point out the distinctive demo.
cratic doctrines enunciated by the re.
cent conference at Des Moines? If
there be anything democratic in eth
err one of the declarations there made
or anything else than populism, will
any authorized representative of the
democratic party in Iowa please speak,
now, or hereafter hold his peace!
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.

The ordinary human intellect had
not then grasped the great truth
,enunciated by Abraham Lincoln.
when in his inaugural address, speak
ing to his dissatisfied countrymen"
he uttered this sentence that will live
ter much loss, on both sides and no
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT

conger the Man.-Mr. Conger's atti-
tude has been wise and manly, and
such as to arouse the respect and adj
miration of all his friends and fellow
partisans. He has shown spirit of
fairness to the other candidates by re-
fusing to enter a struggle to wrest a
prize from them, and, at the same time
has shown an unwillingness to deprive
the party of his services if it wishes
them.
The matter now rests with the party,
and if the under-current of sentiment
can be judged accurately, the party is
likely to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to add fame and luster to it's
already fair name as an ideally gov
erned state by making Mr.. Conger it's
candidate for governor, and electing
him. . Mr.. Conger is not parts
an in the party. He is too large man
for that. All parts of the state and
every section of the republican organ
ization own him. Not only this, but
his service to the country in China, has
given the people, irrespective Of party,
right in him, and his election as gov
ernor of Iowa would be more than a
party victory. 1t would be popular
event in the fullest sense of the word.
1t would be an achievement of which
Iowa would well be proud. His
strength as a candidate would be very
large. A man of highest integrity;
one in whom the government has plac-
ed the greatest confidence, and the one
diplomat in Picking whose statements
were accepted as absolutely trust
worthy by all the nations of the world,
and whose name was on more lips and
held in higher respect than any other
man connected with the far eastern
trouble. Minister e. H. Conger is in
every respect a man worthy to bind
the republican party Of Iowa into an
unyielding whole and enable it to
achieve still further honors before the
world.-Burlingto Hawkeye.
No Wine Seryed.-No wine was serv-
ed at the Conger banquet in Council
Bluffs yesterday. The guests who
gathered from far and wide to greet
the distinguished envoy on his return
from Picking sat down to 81 feast
without drop of wine in sight. 1t
l is explained in dispatch that this ac-
i tion was taken, not because SITS was
too much to pay for fifty quarts of wine
4 for $50 people, but because it was
thought that the progress of the age
denies that wine is the thing for a
banquet. The sentiment was that
i twenty years ago wine might be all
4 right for such an OCCASION but not at
j the present time Keoknk Gate City,
j y ~ j lr &. ~ eai e
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
HoW,s ThisI

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The Burlington, Cedar Rapids G
Northern Railway has gotten out a
neat booklet descriptive of the beauti-
full summer resorts at Spirit and Oko-
boil lakes in northwestern Iowa. Free
copies will be mailed upon application
to Jno. G. Farmer. Assistant General
Passenger Agent, Cedar Rapids, la.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07
Sketch of Major conaer.


Edwin H. Conger was born in Knox
county, Illinois, in 1884. He attended
the public schools in Galesburg md
afterwards entered Lombard univer-
sity of that city. He was graduated
from there in 1862 and it was his tia-
tention to Immediately enter the AL
bany law school, but volunteers to Ell;
list for the war of the rebellion We're
called for few months after his COM
'mencement and instead of beginning
his professional work Conger enlisted
as private and gave the next four
years of his life to the service of his
country. From Chattanooga to Allan
ia he saw hard service, and partici.
pated in many of the great battles.
When the war was over he returne l
to Galesburg to take up his work
where he left it four years before He
entered the Albany law school and was
graduated from it in 1856. AS a stu.
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The contract has been let for Tole-
dos new hotel.
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CIRCULATION.
The Ottumwa Courier guarantees
more than double the circulation of all
other Ottumwa papers combined.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-07


Des Moines, May 4.-Fully 10000
people attended the reception given
to Minister E. H. Conger and his fam
lily at the state house last evening. 1t
was given by the Federation of Wo-
mems clubs of this city and the ladies
certainly deserve great credit for their
work. 1t was not a formal reception,
and the fact was recognized by the
people. Thousands of people who
were anxious to shake hands with
Minister Conger and would have been
unable to do so under any other cir
cumstances took advantage Of the op-
portunity to greet him and congratu-
late him on his safe return home. 1t
was happy thought to have this re-
ception, and the ladies of the city
who interested themselves in it's sue
cess must feel well repaid for their
| work.
| Was Gratifying.
1t was certainly gratifying to Minis.
ter Conger to observe the general
character of the immense company
The society people We're there, the
business men were there. Soldiers
We're there, civilians were there, and
the working people were there, by fal
the greatest percentage of the crowd
No one stayed very long, but few lief,
without shaking hands with Minister
Conger and his family. Owing to the
fact that the crowd changed SO rapid
lily, it was impossible to make an intel
ligent estimate OF the number pres
ent, but 10000 is conservative. This
lis of those at the capitol at one time
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

Notice is hereby given that tat certain
mortgage executed and delivered by Ann
Guinan, a widow, Mortgagor. to the Guarantee
Loan and Investment Company Of ST. Thomas,
North Dakota, Mortgage, tel the 90 tn. day
OF April A. u. eighteen hundred and ninety
eight and filed for record in tho Office of the
Register of Deeds for the County uf Cavalier
and State OF North Dakota. on the Nth. day Of
May A. d., 1898 at one o'clock y. III and re-
cor:ied in Book 30 of Mortgages on page 202 and
by SAD BY an ms
of October A D. 1900. and filed for record in
said Office dated the, 18th day of February 1901.
and recorded in Book 40 of Mortgages on page
IL Will be foreclosed by sale of the premises
in such y ortgage, and hereinafler described,
at the front door of the Court House in the
City of Lnngdon, in the County of Cavalier,
and State of North Dakota, at the hour two
o'clock p. M, on the 9th day of April 1901, to
satisfy tho amount due upon said Mortgage on
the day of sale
The premises described in such Mortgage. and
which will be sold to satisfy the same, are de-
scribed IS follows to witt
The south ha'f Of sonth west quarter of Sec
ton tiirty three 1887 in TOWNSHIP o one hundred
and. sixty (t60) north of range, ffty-nint (59)
west, also government lots number three (33
and four "a of section four a. in township one
hundred f1fty-nine (159) north of range fifty.
nine (59) west
There will be due on such mortgage at the
date of sale, the sum of Forty Two and 60-1oc
Dnted at LAM, ion, North Dakota this goth day
OF February, 1901.
1885 CATHERINE WILD.
CLEARY g. MCLEAN Assignee of Mortgagee.
Attorneys for Assignee of Morteagee, Lang
don North Dakota.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21

ing neighboring family stricken with
typhoid fever. Tho deceased was in her
fifty-ninth year and tho wife of David
McGregor, one Of Cavalier county's old
residents, moving here from Manitoba in
"a and having lived in this city since
1898. Her life of usefulness in the com.
muuity that has been her home for go
many years is testified to by the esteem
in which she was held by nll who knew
her. OF a family of eight girls and one
boy, six are left to mourn loving
mothers death. The funeral held Sun
day afternoon from the Presbyterian
church was largely attended and the
family has tho sympathy of the entire
community in it's loss. Among those of
the immediate family who we're at the
bedside at the time of death were her
daughters Miss Lille McGregor, Mrs
VIM. Russell, of this CITY, and Mrs. Alex.
Russell. of Fremont, also VIM. Helem
whose deceased wife was daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. David McGregor.