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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21
The Real Solution.

The Real Solution.
The members of the city council
have after months Of careful consider
alton passed an ordinance providing
for an adequate water system for OF
tumwa. This ordinance has been APP
proved by the manufacturing and
business men Of Ottumwa and with
in short time will be submitted to
the voters of the city for ratification
or rejection. In going to the polls
on this occasion every voter should
put aside any Individual ideas he may
have on the subject. rise to the higher
plain Of public interest and cast his
ballot in way that will cause speedy
action to be taken for the relief of
the people Of this city.
Mere talk will no longer avail. 1T
IS A TIME FOR ACTION.
River is Dry.
Today the condition is alarming.
The river from point above the first
dam to the channel leading to the
second dam is nearly dry. At the boat
house the channel is barely thirty
yards wide and at the Morrell ice
house it is possible to walk across the
river bed without wetting the soles Of
your shoes, while directly above a
strong current winds down to the Sec
ond dam
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21

FOR SALE, FARMs-boR SALE ONE OF
the best farms In North Missouri. Must
be sold in thirty days. 626 acres gently
rolling prairie. Soil ricn. dark loan. Two
$3.50 per acre. Price $45 per acre. Write
for farm list. Clarence Evans, Paris, Mo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21

Boys REFER overcoats at half price,
sizes 4 to 9, at The Hub.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21

FOR SALE-24o ACRES FINE LAYING
land 100 in cultivation, four miles county
seat; large orchard fine spring improve
ments, worth $500, price $1,000 Send
for list of bargains. Frank Landers, Dom
iphan, Missouri, Ripley county.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21
THE NEW MANAGERS
PLANS OF INTERNATIONAL HAIR.
vEsTER CO.. IN IOWA MADE
PUBLIC.
Announcement Made Of General As.
ents in the Nine Districts In Iowa.
Territory Greatly curtailed - Cedar
Rapids Office Closed.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The changes in the Iowa forces Of
the International Harvester Co.,
brought about by the recent consolida-
ton have been announced. The entire
state has been redistricted and the
most sweeping changes have been
made in the working forces. The only
Office closed up was that at Cedar Rap
ids, the entire business at this place
having been transferred to Dubuque,
while the former Cedar Rapids terri
tory has been divided among the other
agencies. The local territory, as has
been stated previously is in charge of
A. III. Leinbrook, formerly of East St.
Louis, ILL.,, as general manager, and H.
e. Larrimer, formerly of Peoria, Ill.,,
as assistant general manager. The
Ottumwa territory was more than cut
in half, part going to the Davenport
and part to the Council Bluffs agen.
cies.
Agents at Other Stations.
The general agents and their assis-
tants for all the different tions of
the International compap. !. iowa be-
sides Ottumwa, are as follows:
Cedar Falls-General agent, H. S.
Murphy, form erly Deering agent at the
same place; assistant general agent,
John Hughes, formerly Champion
agent at Sioux City.
Council Bluffs-General agent, w. II.
Town, formerly Mccormick agent at
the same place.
General agent, j. T. Ut
ley, formerly Mccormick agent at the
same place; assistant general agent,
B. r. Sizes, formerly Champion agent at
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque - General agent, j. E.
Mount, formerly Deering agent at Des
Moines; assistant general agent, Geo
Hughes, formerly Champion agent at
Cedar Falls.
Fort Dodge--General agent. M. j
Rodney, formerly Mccormick agent al
| the same place; assistant general
agent, G.. A. Morrison. formerly Cham
pion agent at Sioux Falls, s. D.
Sheldon--General agent, A. E
Browning, formerly Mccormick agent
at Sioux City.
| Sioux City-General agent, G. p. Kill
bourne, formerly Deering agent at the
same place; assistant general agent, r
L. Robinson. formerly Milwaukee agent
at Sioux Falls. S. d.
| Des Moines-General agent, M. p
\ Spronl, formerly Mccormick agent al
East st. Louis. H.; assistant general
agent, c. N. Carper, formerly Plano
agent at Des Moines.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21
MANY DEFENDANTS NAMED.
Suit Grows Out Of Attachment of Fish
err store-Divorce Case Filed.

Sheriff J. H. Cremer, F. G. Orelup, G.
A. and Lucinda Fisher, J. A. Phillips
and l.. e. Stevens are named as de-
PENDANTS in suit filed yesterday by
P. A.Loveland through Attorneys HI.
Manion and Jacques & Jacques.
The plaintiff claims that the defend
ants, G. A. and Lucinda Fisher, execut-
ed to him their promissory note for
5000, giving him chattel mortgage on
their retail establishment to secure the
note. He claims that the defendant,
f. G.. Orelup, began suit against the
above named defendants and caused a
writ Of attachment to be issued, not
withstanding the chattel mortgage.
The sheriff is named as defendant as
he levied the attachment and L. p. Ste
vens and j. A. Phillips are named as
the sureties on the lndemnifying bond
filed by F. G. Orelup.
Divorce Suit Filed.
A petition for a divorce from his
wife. Ollie Morris was filed yesterday
by Verlin Morris, through his attorn
ey, D. H. Emery. The plaintiff gives a
statutory charge as the grounds for
the action.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21

FOR SALEM SOUTHEASTERN IOWA
200 farms in Jefferson, Keokuk, Wapello
and Mahaska counties, farms ranging
from so to 800 acres. Send for descrip
tion list or call on c. L. Dean, Hedrick,
Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21
FOR SALE.

HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF I'M.
proved prairie. timber and mineral farms,
50 to S36 per acre, and town property for
sale in central Missouri. For further In
formation call on or address Jay Jones,
Real Estate Agent, Olean, Mo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21

FOR SALE-FARM, 227 ACRES, ONE
mile from Ottumwa, suitable for stock
or dairy purposes at price that makes
1t a good investment. Call on or address
s. C.. Cullen & Co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21

FOR SALE-TwO YEARLING STEERS
and two calves, II. F. Michael, South OF
tumwa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-16o ACRES, $40 PER ACRE.
one mile from Springdale, Stevens county,
Washington, twenty acres cleared, bali
ance virgin forest, timber alone WORTH
$1,000; chance of your life. Sherlock, Chi
cago Heights. III.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21

FOR SALE-TwO LOADS HEAVY FEED
ers, weight 100, two loads weighing 900
one load yearlings, eighty high grade
Hereford Kansas cattle. Address Albert
]. Baldwin, Eldon, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21
NO WATER SUPPLY
CONTINUED From Page ~

without steam. And aside from this
the city will be left to the mercy of
flames with practically no fire protec-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-21
Iowa Appreciative.

Iowa was one of the first states to
appreciate the value of this exposition
and it's legislature speedily authorize
ed an appropriation of $125,000 for use
in providing proper representation for
the first state of that vast territory.
Therefore. it is with sincere gratitude
that ] recall Iowa's part in this great
movement. Your presence here at
this time and your interest but mani
tests the interest Iowa and Iowans
may be expected to take during the
coming year. | am greatly pleased
that you are here and | would again
most heartily repeat the welcome the
exposition management extends to
YOU
Other Addresses.
Following President Francis, Toast
master Wilmer introduced a number
of other speakers. e. e. Egan, of the
Atlantic Telegraph, was called upon
to respond to the toast. Southwestern
Iowa Editorial Association" Next was
|. N. Beard, of Osceola, who made o
short and pointed toast of the subject
Iowa. "The Ladies" We're toasted
by Mark Bennett, of the publicity dc
partment. Prof. W. j. McGee, for
merly an Iowa man and now connect
ed with the fair as the chief of anthro
pology, spoke most interestingly He
was followed by Fred w, Lehman, q
prominent attorney of ST Louis and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1908.

To a number of Senators President
Roosevelt has expressed a desire that
vote be taken in the Senate on the
adverse report of the Committee on
Commerce of DR.. Crum for collector at
the port of Charleston. He insists That
it is but fair to the nominee and fair
to the appointing power that the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate be OBJ
served in this case as in all others OF
a similar nature.
1t is stated on good authority that
if no vote is taken in the Senate that
the President will make recess ap-
pointment. In this he is backed by
the precedent set by Democratic Presi-
dent Cleveland whose nomination OF
C. H. J. Taylor, Ia man who did not in
any way measure up to DR.. Crum). to
be recorder of deeds of the District OF
Columbia. was rejected by Senate
committee by vote of to 2, but final
ly confirmed by the Senate.
President Roosevelt is all right in
his position in regard to the nomina-
ton OF Dr. Crum as collector OF Gus
toms at Charleston, s. c. The only
real opposition to him is on account
of color and it is really glorious to feel
that at last this country has Presl-
dent who will not allow prejudice or
policy to influence him into doing a
wrong act. The cry that DR.. Crum is
not the choice of the people is not so,
as there really are only a few preju-
diced politicians who are opposing
him. Long live President Roosevelt.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21
"RE.ENSLAViNG THE NEGRO"
"There Is No Halfway House Be-
tween a Slave and a Citizen"

A Republican committee of Re-
publican Senate devoted LincOln's
Birthday to the shutting of one more
door of hope in the face of the slaves
whom Lincoln freed. DR.. Crum has
been pronounced unfit to hold federal
office-simply because he is black
man. 1t is agreed that his character
is above reproach and his ability out
of the common. He is the type OF
those livery intelligent" Negroes upon
whom Lincoln wished to confer the
suffrage long before his party was
ready to, and upon whom he would,
by necessary inference, have been
glad to bestow Office. Lincoln could
not have failed to sympathize with
Summers later position-namely, that
fit colored man in proper office
was a constant testimony and argu-
ment" for equal rights. No wonder
that our latter-day recreancy to the
principles of Lincoln should have
called : from Archbishop Ireland in
Chicago yesterday the indignant
words, "To announce that the citizen
who is black must not aspire to a
political life, must not approach the
ballot box, is to war against Ameri-
can institutions"
The two things go together. Dis
qualification for Office means, for the
Negro, Acknowledgement. The New
York Sun is bold enough to speak out
openly what many are saying private
ly. It would have the ballot taken
from the black man. To have given it
to him at all was. it says, blunder.
Senator Hoar tells us Of Republican
colleague who goes further, and main
,tains that it was a mistake to have
abolished slavery. That is logical, for
the movement to deprive the Negro OF
his political rights is really move
ment to re-enslave him. People talk
glibly about preserving to him his
civil rights"-the right to life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of happiness
after his political rights are extin-
guished, but this is to fly in the face
of history. Have we got to argue
over again the reconstruction debates
of 1867? Must some new Sumner
arise to tell us that "a righteous gov
eminent cannot be founded on the ex-
clusion of race"
Disabilities cannot be effectually re-
moved except by comforting privileges.
There is no halfway house between
a slave and a citizen. Every attempt
to stop short in the process of free
dom is a confessed failure. Look at
Catholic emancipation in England. 1t
began with the removal of positive
stigma, of political pains and penal
ties inflicted upon Catholics as such.
But for a long time the disqualified
ton to hold office remained. Against
that lingering injustice humane lovers
of liberty had to contend. To say
that Catholics had all their civil rights,
vet could not hold Office, was felt to be
an absurdity. What have you done?
asked Wilberforce, whose sympathies
for the oppressed knew no white or
black. ''.You have let them out OF
prison, but you still compel them to
wear prison garb. New York Even
Ing Post lind.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

We do not subscribe to all Mormon
doctrines, but if all Mormons have
the spirit to do unto their fellow men
as they would have their fellow men
do unto them, as Apostle Smoot did
last week at a banquet given in his
honor in Salt Lake City, in making no
color distinctions among his guests,
we must say they are not bad lot.
We were at first inclined to the be-
lief that Apostle Smoot ought not to
be seated in the U. S. senate, but we
now withdraw any objections we may
have had With Senator Smoot in the
senate there will be another objector
to the methods of the lowest thing in
the United States, albeit he is a mem
Der of that august body-Ben Tillman
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

- If it were not so very damnably ex-
asperating, it probably would be anus
ing to note the excrutiatingly comical
gyrations some white people indulge in
in their efforts to force the Afro
American, as well as themselves, into
the belief that he, the Afro-American,
is inferior. Because white man says
a thing is so and SO that does not,
necessarily, make it an absolute fact.
We will admit that the whites in
America have had q notable advantage
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

While there is such wave of color
prejudice rolling over this country it
is pleasing to note that Rev. P. Thorn
as Stanford, A. M, M. D., D. D., LII. D.,
an Afro-American of Boston, has re-
ceived a call to the passionate of the
Wilberforce Memorial church, Birm-
ingham, England, which is Caucasian
congregation entirely. Stanford was
born a slave at Hampton, Va, in 1860,
and was educated through the kind
ness and help of Henry Ward Beecher,
Harriet Beecher Stowe and William E.
Gladstone.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

Dr. J. L. NJ. Curry, who died recently,
distinguished himself especially by his
work for the education and betterment
of the Afro-American. The recent gift
of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller OF 100000
a year for period of ten years, to be
used for educational purposes in the
South, was secured through the ef-
forts of DR.. Curry. He was general
agent for the Peabody and the John
Slater educational funds and had more
to do with their distribution than any
other man.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21
SAYS "GIVE HIM A CHANCE"

SAYS "GlVE HIM A CHANCE"
Senator Quarles Admits Disappoint-
ment, but Holds Out Hope for the
Future-South Must Learn to Be
Tolerant. 49,. IT,.
Senator Joseph v. Quarles wis,
Rep.)-I am strongly inclined to agree
with Secretary of War Root in regard
to his view of Afro-American suffrage.
It has not accomplished for the Afro
American all I thought it would when
the amendment granting him the right
to vote became q law. am in hopes,
however, that the people of the south
will, like Paul, see a new light and be
come converted to the doctrine that all
men have equal rights under the law.
AS for the Afro-American himself,
while he has not performed prodigies
In all the walks Of life, sidering
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21
NEGRO'CONF ERENCE.
Continued From First Page.

Conn.,; Pres. ]. S. Hathaway, n. & L.
Institute, Frankfort, KY; Pres. George
Sale Atlanta Baptist College; Hon.
Cyrus Field Adams, Asst. Register of
U. S. Treasury.
The subject for discussion at the
Workers Conference was the teaching
of agriculture in it's broadcast sense.
The discussion was divided into three
general topics-in the city schools, in
the country schools, and by extension
work, mainly in the country. The
methods considered outside school
room work were Farmers Institutes,
instruction from travelling agricultural
experts, travelling libraries, and farm
ers' bulletins
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

A prominent Mississippi banker
claims that a number of Democrats in
that state had intended voting for
Roosevelt, but that the President has
queered himself because of the Book
er-Washington incident and the Indi-
anola affair." If half of the Democrats
in the state voted for Roosevelt it
would not give him the electoral vote,
because the clique of Democratic state
officials who count the votes would
see that an overwhelming majority
was returned for the Democratic presi-
dental candidate
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

The Mobile Register says: We are
trying an experiment in settling the
race problem which serves to differ
entiate the Afro-Americans and puts a
premium on their intelligence. We do
not know how it is going to work, but
we. think it should be given a fair
trial ,5 90 .,s4s
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21
CONDITION NOT A THEORY.
A Marked improvement Noted
AD,cpo tho AZ .AmQric9nS Of Cali


Among the Afro-Americans of Cali
fornia.
Representative julius Kahn, Califor-
mia (Rep)-In my state, where the
Afro-American population is compare
lively SMALL I notice marked i'm
provement. There are about 1,5OO
Afro-Americans in San Francisco out
of a total population of 100000. Per-
haps these conditions are peculiarly
favorable to their advancement. At
any rate, I know among them men OF
force and education. I can under
stand, however, that under different
conditions progress might be slower,
but the quality of the Afro-Americans
in San Francisco shows that the race
is susceptible of culture and ciyiliza-
ton. Perhaps if the fifteenth amend
ment had been considered in 1870 in
stead of at the close of the civil war
it might have failed of passing, or it
might have been less broad. but we are
confronted with a condition which,
though difficult Of solution, need not
discourage us. 49,,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

Mrs. Thomas Hamilton Burch a
prominent society woman of New York
City. who was, deserted by her hus-
band. testified in court recently that
she paid $40 for drug guaranteed to
win back the affection of any husband,
and yet they talk about the Afro
American being superstitious.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

Old bentillman got off some more of
his billingsgate at the press club ban
quet at New York Saturday night.
The press dispatches state that the
language used was so filthy that a
number of ladies left the hail. This
fine specimen OF the superior CD eau
casian devoted his entire time to abuse
of the American, and we are
much gratified to know that his SEN
timents were not concurred in but re-
ceiyed with hisses
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

A lot of turnkey Afro-Americans,
headed by Chief Flunkey of Huntsville,
Ala. have announced that they will
call a meeting at Birmingham in May
to declare that the "white people of
the South are our best friends" These
fool Afros ought to be more solicitous
about their own rights instead of at
tempting to guard the interests of the
Southern Caucasian who is able to
take care of himself.