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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
WANT NO CHANGES.

1t is generally noticeable fact that
as nation advances in the number of
its inhabitants, grows in its CONNER
cial and industrial interests and eX--
tends its influence beyond its own bor-
ders, there follows Immediately in it's
wake contentment and satisfaction
among the people.
The growth of the United States has
been most marvellous during the years
of our history. This is attested by the
recent census bu--olin, which covers a
period from 1900 to 1850 and from that
year to 1902. According to the bullet
in the area of this nation has grown
from S27,S44 square miles in 1900 to
3,025,000 square miles in 1902 These
figures are exclusive of Alaska and the
islands of the sea belonging to the
United States.
AS to the population it is known
that in 1902 this numbered POI per
square mile as compared with 3.6 for
every square mile in 1S10.When the
immense increase in the territory of
the United States is considered the
growth of the ratio of population is
most marvellous. In regard to the
wealth of the nation the report shows
that it has increased from $1,000, O0O,.
600 in 1850 to s94 200, 900, 900 in 1902,
and that the per capita wealth has adj
vanced from 1907 to $1,235.
With these facts in mind there is no
one who can help but realize some
thing of. the greatness of the United
States. With continuation of pres
ent policies and those yet to come
there will be great increase in it's
commercial interests and this advance
promises to be even more rapid than
is has in the past. This consideration
naturally brings the people back to
the realization that they do not want
any radical changes in it's economic OF
administrative plans.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
WAS ovERDRAWM.

Zeal is a good thing and quick
understanding is valuable, but CORE
spondent Of a Chicago newspaper who
was present at conference of repub-
ican candidates and party managers
in Des Moines recently appears to
have the one in abundance and the
other TO much less degree. The
impression was sought to be conveyed
that there was disagreement over the
Iowa platform and that when Govern
or Cunlmins eXpounded the plank
there was Il sensation; that Speaker
Henderson tried to make it appear the
platform means nothing when it refers
70 the removal of protection for mo-
nopolies; that he was unwilling to ad-
nit there is any occasion for chang
ing the tariff schedules, and it was
only after Cummins and Dolliver had
stoutly defended the tariff plank that
the speaker was brought to time.
Nothing could be further from the
truth, according to a Des Moines
newspaper correspondent who was
present at the meeting. He says there
was not any excuse for an attempt to
make it appear that there was sen
sational scene at the conference. He
alleges there was no more difference
of view displayed than one might find
in any small gathering of politicians
and that there was nothing to suggest
that among the candidates there would
be any disposition to ignore the Iowa
platform.
This has the stamp of truth on its
face from which 1t appears that either
the wish was father to the thought OF
else the correspondent was using q
strange pair Of spectacles.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Washington republicans have given
the Roosevelt boom another boost ana
have promised the President their
support in 1904. They most heartily
endorse the Presidents Philippine and
domestic policies and are in full SYM
pathy with the brave stand he has
taken in the interests of the common
people. Loyalty to fearless and up
right manhood is one of the chief char
acteristics of the hardy westerner and
in this case it cannot be misplaced.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
SHORTENING THE COLLEGE
COURSE.

Hereafter a college degree may be
obtained at Harvard university in
three years. University authorities
have come to recognize that only
very insignificant per cent of college
graduates intend to become persons of
leisure. Instead, they are bent on en-
tering lives Of larger activity and pur-
pose. The hermit and cloister meth
DDS. adapted to the demands of an
earlier age, have seen their days of
usefulness.
Above everything else this is an
age of steadily increasing enterprise in
the United States. 1t is time when
the broader views and increased intel
ligence of the great majority of people
demand practicabiiity in the matter of
education. The schools of higher edu-
cation are cognizant of this fact and
are beginning to comply with this de-
cision of the public.
The past few years have witnessed
rapid changes in curriculums of the
colleges and universities The an
cient and dead languages have been
superseded, in the place of prominence
they once held, by studies in science,
economics, sociology and numerous
other subjects which bear close rela-
ton to the every day life of mankind.
This change is now to be followed
by shortening in the time required to
complete college course.
1t will mean reimbursement of the
curriculums not only of the schools of
higher education but of the prepare
tory schools, academies and high
schools of the country.
The vice of intellectual indigestion
and of superficialness that is often no
ticsd in the latter institutions should
be suppressed The students entering
these schools should be classified ear
lier in their course. On entering college
they should select the course they wish
to follow. They will then be required
to pass an examination much more
specific and exacting than has hitherto
prevailed.
Eventually there must be an altera-
ton in the schools of public instruc-
ton. The attempt to make the stu.
dents cram their heads full of some
thing on every known branch of
knowledge will cease. An effort will
then be made to give to each child
practical instruction along lines of its
native ability and aptitude.
The one aim of the institutions of
higher learning will be to give to the
students less of the impractical and
redundant and more specific instruc-
ton in pertinent and essential lines.
For this the people of the United
States will be grateful and the efficien-
cy of the graduates will be much en-
HANGED.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

bureau materials. For its .fundamen-
tai principle the handbook takes the
position that the greatest good to the
greatest number requires that there
be no barriers to trade, in order that
goods may be as cheap as possible and
the cost OF living be reduced to min.
imum.'
In this there is latent sarcasm. In
the United States there are but So
100000 people, in round numbers. In
the other countries of the world there
are many times this number of per-
sons. Ergo, the position of the party
is right.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
MR.. REEsE's POSITION OUTLINED.

In Difference to John P. Reese, the
democratic nominee for congress in
the sixth district this paper has re-
peatedly asked for statement of his
position as to whether he endorsed the
reaffirmation plank in the Oska-
loosa platform or stood on the
first paragraph in the democratic dec
laration of principles adopted at Des
Moines. Mr.. Reese has hedged by re-
fusing to declare himself 1t can be
for no other purpose than to catch the
sound money men coming and the free
silver adherents going.
In view of this the Courier submits
the following:
If by chance Mr.. Reese were elected
he would have to go into democratic
congressional caucus and abide by it's
decision as to the policy he must fol-
low. The democratic congressional
committee is standing on the Kansas
City platform. The inference is plain.
Is it right, Mr. Reese?
1t has interesting phases for
sound money men who are suppos.
ed to have been aligned with the party
by reason of the reputation of the
Kansas City platform at Des Moines.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

IF yer mother don't care for yer
yer amt got no mother" Thus spoke
boy from the streets of New York in
a children's court the other day. He
had been asked by the judge why he
did not send for his mother and re-
piled that he had none. He was told
that the records showed that he had
when ne quickly retorted with the
above epigrammatic statement. With.
in that homely and ungrammatical ex.
preston of that abandoned lad how
many volumes of sermons are writ.
ten
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
THE SMALL BANKS.

The feasibility of the act of March.
1900, which had as its object the en-
enlargement of the people in the es-
tablishment of small national banks,
is slowly being recognized by many of
its most active opponents. Since this
act become operative two years ago
there have been organized more than
1000 national banks OF these institu-
tons about sixty-fiye per cent have
been established with a capital stock
Of less than $4,000 each. Almost in
yariably this capital for such bank
has been drawn from the residents of
the territory in which it is located.
These banks are situated chiefly in
the agricultural districts of the south
and west, in towns OF about 5000 in
l,abitants. Under the old law national
banks III such communities and with
such small capital were almost I'M
known.
This new condition of affairs is
proving most beneficial to the locali--
ties in which these institutions are sit
uated. According to the statement Of
the comptroller of the currency they
are reported to be well managed and
are yielding good returns to the share
holders.
There is always during the fall a
large demand made upon the money
market for currency to be used in the
movement of crops. At various times
this demand has reached such proper
tons that no little difficulty has been
experienced in meeting it. During the
present season these small banks are
expected to furnish a considerable
amount of the necessary money used
in the shipment of the products of the
farms of the west and south.
Money has become more plentiful
since the establishment of these banks
and it cannot be denied that they have
exerted a considerable influence in
keeping down the rate of interest in
the rural districts.
The small banks have place in the
financial problems of this country
They gave to the inhabitants of the
rural districts the advantages and as
sistance that are given the larger bus
iness concerns in the commercial
world by the banks in the, money cen
tiers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

be the result of the infusion OF Amer
lean enthusiasm, push and genius into
the business life these people cannot
even be surmised.
The field now lies open. It is Amer
ica's for the taking. The United
States cannot in justice to itself, its
people or its commercial interests, or
in consideration of its duty to the in
terests of the millions of inhabitants
of that country. fail to take up the
problem of the expansion of it's com
merce with China.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

The Keokuk Gate City rightly con-
tends that democracy does not SO
much hate the trusts as it loves free
trade. In the fifty-sixth congress the
democratic delegation voted solidly
against proposed constitutional
amendment, introduced by the repub-
licans, to give congress more general
powers to regulate harmful combines.
Democracy makes it's trust talk mask
to hide it's free trade movements.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Newspapers which seek to prejudice
the coal miners in the sixth congress
sional district still cheerfully reiter-
ate that Hon. John F. Lacey, the re-
publican nominee, has not raised his
voice against government by injunc-
non. Such statements are proof of
lamentable Ignorance. Mr.. Lacey has
not only raised his voice against gov
eminent by Injunction" but has voted
against it as we'll
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
DESERVED PUNISHMENT.

A st. Louis dispatch announces the
disclosure of one of the most hideous
plots in the history of American Grim
inology which has as it's object the as
sassination of Attorney Folk, who is
engaged in prosecuting the council
men complicated in the gigantic cor
cases of that city.
For years these men have been
langhina at tha idea of honesty in the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
RIGHT ONE TIME.

There are unmistakable signs that
democracy intends to wage the cam
paign this fall upon its absurd free
trade theory about which the country
desires to know as little as possible in
view of the disasters that have over
taken US since the party went into
free trade experiments.
Tie campaign handbook just issued
b. the democratic congressional COM
mite is mainly a mass Of free trade
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
Speaks for Iowa Republicaniam.

The Spirit Lake Beacon insists that
the republican platform emphatically
speaks for Iowa republicanism I'm.
subordination may change the relation
of individuals to the party" says the
Beacon. but the party position is now
unalterable. 1t is simply adding insult
to injury to say the party position is
due to the influence of independents
and democrats. 1t fools nobody to say
republicans on the party platform are
acting with the democrats. It is idle
to indulge in misrepresentation in the
hope of inducing the party to reverse
its deliberate cotton. Party harmony
is important, but it can only be secur
ed through party loyalty"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
Trusts Not Bad as Hunger.

The Shenandoah Sentinel is free to
confess that so far as it is concerned
it would rather take the trusts along
with full stomach than to go hungry
and have no trusts. The trusts ara
bad" continues the Sentinel, but they
are not as bad as poverty and businesf
stagnation. The trusts are like thu
weeds in the cornfield, pretty hard tt
get rid of, but we are in favor of pillow,
ing the corn all under to get rid of tht
weeds"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

The republicans of wapello county
stand with President Roosevelt on
the trust question. Where do Wapello
county democrats stand? They did
not say in their late county conven-
ton.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Crime is hard task master. 1t
drove William Bartholin who slew his
mother and sweetheart, to kill himself.
1t impelled j. K. Murrell to return to
st. Louis from foreign land and I'M
burden himself of his guilty knowl-
edge of bribery among city officials in
that southern town. For fixity of pur-
pose the mills of the gods Of justice
stand as a monument.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

1t appears that democracy in Iowa
wants to bury the free silver corpse
for few months and then resurrectI
the corpse-next fall. A lot OF people
have played at being Jehovah and fail
aa
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

T. M. link, of LeMars, refuses to ac-
cept the nomination for congress at
the hands of eleventh district demo-
Gratis. In Hamilton county every man
on the democratic ticket has refused
to make the race. In view of the seri-
GUS split in the party in Iowa these
men have shown wisdom not usually
evidenced
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

This unanimous silence of John P.
Reese as to which platform he will
take from the democr attic bargain
counter indicates that be wants both
of them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

The anti-imperialists and the Moros
have given notice that they intend to
make all the trouble possible for the
government at Washington, says the
Kansas City Journal. What slam
on the Moros.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
Approves Platform.

Thei alidden Graphic reiterates its
appro wal of the republican. platform.
shelf sr plank and all. 1T is plain and
clear and means just what it says, the
Graphic asserts. 1T has no faint of
evasi on or demogagism. All oyer the
state, republicans are standing on it
squa rely and firmly and the democrats
are admitting that it is invulnerable."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
That Iowa Dragging Habit.

The Fort Dodge Messenger credits
the Des Moines Capital with saying
that Des Moines has the politest set
of burglars in any city in the United
States" Dragging on the burglars,the
Messenger thinks, is but an outgrowth
of the Dragging habit the state has ac-
cumulated recently.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

A national treasury filled with gold,
the amount of which it is said ha {; new
er. been exceeded but once nj tlae his
tory of the world, is the practi cal re-
suits of wise republican policies.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

The worth of organized labor de-
ponds upon its being handled with
courage, skill and wisdom, and the
spirit of fair dealing as between man
and man.-President Roosevelt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Dealing in theories made many a
man go hungry when Grover Cleve-
land was elected and yet democracy in
the Sixth congressional district advo-
cate principles that bring just such
things. The only difference is they do
not put that construction on it now.
But then neither did it then.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

In the long run We are going to go
up or go down according as he aver
age standard of our citizens hip does
or does not wax in growth or, grace
President Roosevelt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

The alleged boodlers who agreed
that their threats may be cut should
they divulge the corruption in city af-
fairs in st. Louis among themselves,
had it in their power to do graceful
act by cutting first.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Tom Johnson should remember that
when it comes to jockeNing for place
in the presidential race that William
Jennings Bryan has hifn handicapped.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Mankind goes ahead but slowly. andi
it goes ahead mostly through each OF
us trying to do the best that is in hi, m
and doing it in the most intellige MT
and sanest way.-President Rooseve at.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
Still an Insursent.

Whatever George E. Roberts may
ssty about it. the Marion Register re-
fuses to believe that President McKin.
E:y approved the shelter plank. Pres.
iient Mckinley never Endorsed tbs
sentiment nor the wording" asserts
rhe Register. His life record is all
against such declaration"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Wonder if Uncle Russ Sage in the
excitement attending the first hours
of his recent illness so far forgot him
self as to call doctor without first
asking for bids for medical attend
ance?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
iso General Revision Intended.

The Charles City Intelligencer as
sert,s that no paper supporting the re-
pull ilican platform has published sim
gle sentence warranting the assump-
ton that they are coming around to
the, advocacy Of a general revision OF
the tariff.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

The silver men in the democratic
party have done wise thing. They
have agreed to keep hands off and al
low the gold bug element in the party
to run things this campaign. Just how
almring the song of the siren will be
remains to be seen.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Well, well; SO Bryai has his eye on
the presidential nomination for 1904.
How would General James B. Weaver
of Iowa do for second; place?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
GEt Together.

The continued controversy over the
tariff plank df the republican platform
wearies the 'Maquoketa Excelsior and
celsior believes that anyone who de-
sires to understand the platform can
do SO readily and easily. In these
days" it says, mo repub--
lican who has less than foot of moss
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
A Bitter Pill.

The Guthrie Center Guthrian says
the nomination by the democrats of ],
s. McLuen, of Guthrie Center, for
state auditor on an anti-silver plat
form but will be bitter pill to that
gentleman, but it presumes he will ac-
cept.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Mr.. Reese still stands with one foot
on the oskaloosa. congressional plat
form and the other on the Des Moines
declaration.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

A vote for John F. Lacey for con-
gress is an Indication that the man
who casts it knows, what prosperity at
home means.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Soap in Chicago has riserl one hun
dred per cent. The idea that washing
is altogether unnecessary will now
take firmer hold in that hnsufferably
dirty city.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
Bit of Advice.

Now that it has been officially decide
ed that Iowa republicans will stand
upon the Iowa platform, the Waterloo
Reporter says there never ought to
have been any doubt about it. The
platform, the Reporter adds, is not
dangerous to those who stand upon it,
but is liable to prove dangerous to
those who try to overturn it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
Time to Quit

The Keokuk Gate City, which has
been classed as anti-shelter offers the
suggestion that it is time for Iowa re-
publicans to cease their pickering and
get together. now that the democratic
battle line has been formed. There is
work to do and there are results to ac-
complish," says the Keokuk paper.
that call for the best efforts of the
party as whole, regardless of faction
al and other differences and interests
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

The worth of a promise consists
purely in the way in which the perfor-
nance squares with it.-President
Roosevelt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Mr.. Boies did not betray his party.
He just led it straight into what it did
at Des Moines. No animal with ring
in it's nose ever baked less effectively.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

Horace Boies has his eyes fixed on
the democratic nomination for presi-
dent. If he materially reduces the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

If J. P. Morgan c;sn settle the coal
strike and don't he ought to be COM
PEELED to memorize a: Henry Watterson
editorial as punishment.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
Was on the Farm.

ut may be little late to inquire
but did anyone" asks the Des Moines
Capital. hear anything about Fred
White at the late democratic state
convention?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

The only way by which any man
can be helped i'm the long run is by
helping himself, Roosevelt
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16
Just Can't Helm il.

President Roosevelt tries to make
his speeches non-partisan, but the con-
ditions are all against that sort Of
talk" says the Hampton Recorder,
When the President or anybody else
points out the country's prosperity and
the great advances-moral, social and
physical-which have come in the pas
few years, everybody knows that thes(
things have been chiefly due to repuk
lican sway, even though the talkeH
make no mention of republicans o.
democrats. This Is how the Pres
ident's purpose to make non-partisaI
speeches is defeated"