Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-11


must see that Japan becomes a Chris
tan power, too. 1t is a fine nation.
There is a splendid manhood there.
England didn't stoop one iota when
she took the hand of Japan and formed
an alliance with her China is look
ing to Japan for leadership; she trusts
and Is depending on Japan.
Ezra P. Savage, governor of Nebras-
ka-People are denouncing the trusts
Just as they did the Introduction of all
most every invention that has enabled
manufacturers and producers to keep
up with the demands of trade. No
one intends to return to the conditions
that prevailed before the advent of
electric cars, nailmaking machines
typesetting machines. and other labor
saving inventions. Trusts will in a
short time, be so popular that we will
be as 10th to give them up as we are
to give up our labor-saving inventions.
Rabbi Henry Enelow, of Louisville,
Ky.-The sway that books have over
human minds is a most singular phe-
nomenon. To no other possession are
we apt to grow SO profoundly attached
as to our favorite volumes. There are
various hobbies and passions that en-
slave us, but none is "a more willing
slave, a more passionate lover, than
the devotee of authors. 1t is the one
passion, | have observed, that human
beings always are proud of. 1t is the
one thralldom none fears proclaiming
| from the housetops. Old and young
alike glory in it's rule. 4 whole fam
| lily | have ofttimes found pining in
the exquisite slavery to some one5yol
ume. Be it a novel or book of poems
or some new drama. you frequently
hear itsacclaimea the hero of the day
all the world doing it homage. This is
an incompatible power that books car
boast, superior to the might OF rulers
and kings.
1 Booker T. Washington-The negro
/ in his present condition is,to my mind
/ vastly better off industrially, physi
I cally and morally in the country thar
4 in crowded city. At the Tuskeget
i institute we believe in giving the stud
ent such an idea of the dignity ant
beauty of agricultural life that afte1
he gets through with his course o
training he will return to the countr!
and there spend his time in raisins
:. forty bushels OF corn on an acre o
land where only twenty bushels Wer'
growing before, instead of yielding Il
the temptation to go to city and TT.
to live by his wits The idle class o
our people in the cities, those VIII
u hang about the street corners and bal
rooms and dens of sin and misery, ar
to large degree the curse OF the race
Rev. ]. T. Coffee, of St Johns Cath
| Ole church, ST. Louis-The vicious So
, looms are at the very bottom of al
our municipal corruption. From thes
hell holes come the expert manipuls
tors OF The ballot box; in their bee
laden atmosphere live the moder
tribe of political Indians" they ar
the council chambers of the house Q
delegates combines, and the roosts G
ward heelers, police, etc. 1t is her
the boodlers meet to discuss the cas-
: est methods of preventing surplu
: from accommodating in the city Golfers
: In these same dens our laws are draf
ed. candidates selected for most {
out public Offices and bonds signed fo
:. the thieves and scoundrels who fin
: their haven of rest within their reel
ing walls These are our Ausean ST.
n bles, and until we wipe them out {
existence we may hope for little or n
municipal reform.
Rev. Robert l.. Paddock, of Ne
York-It is strange that ministers d
; not talk politics. 1t is pathetic col
. dition of society and Christianity
preachers fail to take their part in tn
, discussion of political subjects. P;
rishioners should demand that the
ministers interest themselves in pol
tics. A man cannot be a good Chri
tan if he does not exercise all tn
, privileges and duties of good citizel
: ship.
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