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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
PARAMOUNT uNsELFIsHNEss.

WHAT the future may have in store
for w. H. Taft, governor of the Phil.
lppines, Is impossible to say. It is
enough however. that he has won the
gratitude OF the island inhabitants and
the esteem of his fellow countrymen
by the unselfishness and magnanimity
OF his character manifest in his refus-
al to leave his post to accept a place
on the supreme bench of the United
States.
1t is we'll known that his ambition
has been to round out his public career
as judge of the supreme court of the
nation. Once has this opportunity
come to him, but on account of the
condition of affairs in the eastern
archipelago he deemed it inopportune
to accept the appointment He re
manned at his post and through the
most efficient management of the insu-
lar affairs has accomplished mar
Vicious results in giving to the people
of the islands a most exemplary gov
eminent. By the justice of his admin
istration he has won the confidence OF
the Filipinos.
Again there has arisen an opportuni:
ty for the qualification of his aspira-
tons. Undoubtedly there has been
communication between himself and
President Roosevelt concerning the
judgeship. Upon the intimation that
such negotiations were going on, the
dark skinned Inhabitants of the east
ern islands expressed their wish that
Governor Taft should remain in charge
OF the island affairs. They realize that
through his efforts order has been
brought out of chaos, good govern
ment has been established and mater
ial prosperity has come in a country
that for centuries has been rent by in
ternal strife and devastated by war.
Can it be wondered then that they
should Indicate their loathness to see
the man, who has been instrumental
IN bringing about these changes leave?
But what OF Governor Taft? The
desire OF his life is apparently his for
the taking. His country was calling
him to position Of honor and trust.
such as comes to but few men in a
generation. But on the other hand was
people, raised to their present state
OF advancement largely through his
efforts, praying him to forego the prof
fered honor and remain in his present
office, truly most trying position. BY
following the one course he gains am
bition. By listening to the latter he
possibly gives up all hope of ever at
taing his desire, but he gains some
thing worth more than any public
office or honor-the good win and graf
ltude OF whole people and will be in
a position to accomplish things for the
betterment of the Filipinos, such as
another could scarcely hope to do.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
PROPOSED TRUST LEGISLATION.

The stern determination exhibited
by President Roosevelt in settling the
great anthracite coal strike by arbitra-
ton, has had a salutary effect on the
minds of j. Pierpont Morgan and those
associated with him in the trusts. Mr..
Morgan has let it be known that he
and his friends will not resist conser-
vative legislation like that proposed by
the subcommittee, which is formulat-
ing bill which will meet the admin
STATIONS policy.
The Pierpont Morgan combination is
evidently attempting to make a virtue
OF necessity; the members of this
gigantic trust have the, knowledge be-
lore them that the President intends
to call an extra session of congress if
he does not secure some legislation
for the regulation of trusts at this
session. The bill which will be report
ed from the trust committee within a
very few days will provide for four
principles OF regulation. There will be
a modified provision for publicity as
suggested by the President in his mes
sage. There will be another provision
for making effective the law against
preferential rates of TRANSPORTATION
and to punish severely not only the
glvers but the receivers of such pref
erences. There will be another provi
sion dealing in the same way with
corporations that seek to interfere
with the price making power by secret
arrangements or contracts or provi-
slons to evade investigation. There
will also be a provision for govern
mental investigations of trust methods.
1t is not to be supposed that there
will be altogether plain sailing when
the measure comes before congress;
although the Morgan people have had
discretion enough to avoid a direct
conflict with the administration, vet
there are other trusts that will insid-
lously seek to defeat the bill in the SEN
ate by obstructive tactics but the sen.
tlment OF the country is SO thoroughly
aroused on this subject that there will
be but few senators who will openly
oppose the measure.
If, however, they should succeed in
crowding out the bill. there can be no
doubt as to what the President will
do; he will call an extra session when
there will be nothing else to do ex-
cept to give due consideration to
measure that is demanded not only by
the country but has the hearty and
honest support of the administration.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Roies a Blackslider.

The Waterloo Reporter, in its edi-
torial comment on the address of ex-
Governor Boies at the Waterloo jack
son day banquet, notes the change in
the eX-governor's attitude on the tar
iff. He has not only abandoned free
trade, the Reporter says, but the tariff
for revenue doctrine also, and plainly
expresses himself in favor of a declara
ton by the party that, in the event OF
its success, the tariff schedules would
be adjusted to furnish protection
where protection is needed 1t is the
Reporters opinion that this declara-
ton will seem to many like whole
sale concession to the very theory OF
protection which they have SO long
combated, and it does not believe they
will not find it possible to accept it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
WHERE CREDIT is DUE,

In this day of general publicity, there
is marked tendency on the part OF
people to form hasty judgments OF
their fellow beings. These first opin
ions. whether or not they appear to
be true in the light of later develop,
ments or larger acquaintance, bear a
potent influence in the ultimate esti
nation OF persons, or of their actions
In speaking of acquaintance and their
work there is an ever noticeable ten.
dency to question their motives OF
doubt their sincerity. This is charac.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
MAKING THE BEST OF THINGS.

DR.. F. Newall of Sioux City recently
took the theme for an address from
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch, .
and in speaking of Making the Best
of Things" said:
Rightly understood that represents
life at its highest Religion asks for
no more. Christianity holds up no
loftier ideal. But the finest things are
always being caricatured, and making
the best Of things is no exception to
the rule. We have no right to make
the best of anything that can be made
better
We know what that means do we
not? Making the best of things in pop
ular usage, is an equivalent, nine times
out OF ten, to making the worst of
things;it is one and the same thing
with taking the world as you find it
and letting things slide.
Friends We never make the best of
things until we make the best out of
things; or better, until we make the
things the best. Word the phrase in
that way and you see at once that max
ing the best of things is not negative
attitude but a passive acceptance of
things as they are, not a cowardly
knuckling down to knavery, nor yet a
good natured endurance of anything
that can and ought to be mended or
ended; but making" something of
positive doing, an aggressive cam
paign for the best
What it it? 1t is the Wesleys, gene
rating the moral enthusiasm that
made possible in England the philan-
thropy of Howard the slave emancipat-
ing work of Wherefore, and the hui
name legislation of Shaftsberry; it
is the Jacob Riis, waging his thirty
year battle with the slum till Mulberry
Bend becomes a great breathing place
for the children of the poor; it is Book
er Washington fairly burning into his
race the conviction that their redemp-
ton lies not in unavailing protest
against social ostracism, but in making
themselves industrially so necessary
that the people of the land will ulti-
mately and gladly accord them every
privilege of which they are proved
worthy; it is Charles Lamb fighting
with misfortune, burning his own
smoke, becoming the prince of genial
humorists, finding happiness and dis
tilling joy that is the bread of the
world" it is Paul turning the world
upside down because it was already
wrong side up; it is Jesus Christ los
ing his life that he might find it in
the saved lives of his fellowmen.
am not pleading for the fanatic,
the crank the restless agitator, the
reformer with one cut and dried pan
acea for the ills of humanity. But
do plead for the spirit serene, confident
aggressive, conquering, that sees the
world needing to be made sweeter,
saner, more beautiful, the spirit that
accepts no situation as final and no
combination of circumstances as des-
potic or compulsory; the spirit that is
no soft evasion of duty, no cowardly
surrender to sloth and ease, but he
roic graphing with difficulty; the spir-.
it that transmits every handicap into
wings to speed the feet; the spirit that
loves men too much to let them alone
even when that is the one favor they
ask; the spirit of Jesus Christ; the
spirit In a word, that makes the best
OF things by making the things best.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
MR.. DEEMS ADVANCEMENT.
Schenectady On. " Union.

John r. Deems, who for the past
ten months has been the general SUI
perintendert of the Schenectady
branch of the American Locomotive
company, has begun his official con-
nection with the Vanderbilt lines in
the capacity of general superintend-
ent OF motive power. The scope af-
forded Mr.. Deems in his new position
is one limited only by the outwork.
lngs OF the years that make I'D the fu-
ture, and it would not be surprising
for the hand of the chronicler of the
worlds annals in the next decade to
lind allotted to it the task to write of
many accomplishments that have
made the name of Mr.. Deems still fur
Their famous.
No man, it safely may be said, oc-
cuples a place nearer the great heart
OF the people of this city than Mr.,
Deems, and the fact that he no longer
is to be reckoned among the business
men OF Schenectady causes general
regret here.
The spirit that dictated the gift of
loving cup to Mr.. Deems as a token
of the esteem, love and respect in
which he is held by his associates in
the local works, whatever their capac-
ity, is to be recommended. Although
living here less than a year, Mr..
Deems has demonstrated his great in
terest in all who served under him and
proven his claim to the highest need
of respect Men of his stamp are all
too few in this world of striving and
hustle, and the undisputed fact that
his advancement has followed the
practice of principles of the highest
order of morality as well as of the
grandest, widest acceptance of the
splendid ethics of brotherly kindness
and generous-minded regard for the
welfare of all with whom he comes
into contact, makes his recognition
all the more gratifying.
The Union joins with everyone in
this new Electric City in congratulate
ing Mr.. Deems on his good fortune
or rather, on the fact that his sterling
worth and splendid personal charac-
teristics have been granted the recog.
milton they deserve.
(Mr. Deems is former Ottumwan.
where he was in the service of the
Burlington road.-Ed)
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Stay on Ton.

The Dubuque Times says Judge Van
Wagenen's new issue is not new at all,
but is an idea the Bryan democracy
borrowed from the populists in 1896.
The Times does not believe the Judge
will be nominated on his proposed
platform, however. His nomination.
it argues, would be considered a VIC
tory for the Bryan democracy, and for
this reason is not likely to occur.
The Cleveland democrats got the
Bryan men down last year." the Du-
buque paper adds, "and they intend
to keep them down"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22

apparently invincible disbelief in the
hunt for happiness has long kept alive
our interest in his fortunes. Alas, he
TOO is fallen. According to an esteem
ed Iowa contemporary, he has gone to
Sour Lake, Texas, as president of an
oil company. Sour Lake has a name
congenial to the old Weaver, but we
rear that the new Weaver is destined
to be an optimist and perhaps mil
lionaire.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Is Unurateful.

Willis Overholsers Ireton Clipper
has been selected as one of the official
papers of Sioux county, for the sixth
time, and it makes due acknowledge
ment to it's loyal subscribers. Some
one has been mean enough to say,
1.-THE Clipper remarks in this connec-
ton, that if Lot Thomas had been on
the board of supervisors the Clipper
would not have been selected"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
MEXICAN TRADE WITH UNITED
STATES.

The public discussion of possible
change in the standard of currency Of
Mexico adds interest to the statement
of the treasury bureau Of statistics
regarding the trade relations between
the United States and that country.
With no part of the world has our
commerce grown more rapidly in re-
cent years than with Mexico. Exports
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
SAYS THE COURIER is RIGHT
(oskaloosa Herald.)

The Ottumwa Courier Says: "This
talk about an anti-Cummins fight in
the sixth district is stuff and non.
sense" And the Courier is right. The
sixth district reserves the right to
criticise Mr. Cummins if it wants to,
but 1T has knife out for nobody.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
ct Tu, Weaver.
New York SUM

One by the sons of calamity get
tangled UP with the Octopus and let
the prosperity bacillus undermine their
heroic principles. Hon. Jacob Coxey
of the Irregular Army, o., has been a
man of corporations and bloated
bond holder for years. Hogg, Towne
and Bryan are plethoric of purse. And
here is our old greenbacker, Gen. Jas.
B. Weaver. of Iowa. statesman whose
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
TiIIman Great When Alone.

The Creston Gazette says Senator
Ben Tillman sis simply great when he
can have the floor to himself, or, what
is the same thing, address people of
his own paleolithic state of develop
ment"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Keep Henderson Busy.

THE way the newspapers are fixing
a program for Colonel Henderson," re-
marks the Mason City Globe Gazette,
will keep the one-legged veteran pref
ty busy to fill each number"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Early Bird, Almost Too EARLY.

'Early bird, almost too early Cor
the worm says the Washington
Press, commenting on the plan of the
United Christian party to nominate
it's presidential ticket for 1904 on
May 1 of this year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
NAV Have lob.

Several gentlemen are at unneces-
sary bother" says the Cedar Rapids
Gazette, "to find something for Hon.
d. B. Henderson to do after March A.
1t is possible that he has job Sc
lected.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
skill in BOOSTING Price is WORKING,

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil notes
that the coal dealer adds SO cents or
81 to the price of ton of coal with
all the equanimity of man skilled by
long practice in boosting prices.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Gives the Women Credit.

Fifty years ago." recalls the Web
ster City Freeman-Tribune, there
were as many men as women engaged
in teaching school. Go back 100 years
and nearly all the teachers were men.
Now nearly all the teaching is done
by women, and--we have better
schools now than ever before"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
The Advance Agent.

mo person" says the Burlington
Hawk-Eye, ought to feel too old intel
lectually to go to Sunday school; for
the Sunday school is the advance
agent of the Bible-and who has mas
tered the Bible?"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Remember.

The Northwood Index reminds the
political newspaper correspondents
who are so active just now that the
boomlet which is tempted out during
the January thaw is always liable to
be smitten by January frost.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Perhaps.

"a man may be protectionist and
still not think every import should
pay 100 per cent tariff for a thousand
years." says the Usage News.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Is Makina Trouble.

''The man VINO drinks to excess is
always costing some one or other a
lot of trouble and money" the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil observes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
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How?

Cheerfulness pays, it is said, but the
Cedar Rapids Republican would like
to know how the man who has invest
ed mis- all in some swindle and finds
out that he has lost it is going to be
cheerful?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Hopes for Reunited PARTY.

The Clinton Herald hopes for a re-
publican state platform this year ION
which the party can stand united in
opinion"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
"PokeriaIIy" Speaking.

"Those stand pat fellows" asserts
the Wall Lake Blade, "only hold a
bobtail flush, and are running bluff"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Torn by pissension.

The Marion Register contrasts the
condition of the democratic party, di-
vided by discussions and factional
leadership, with that of the republican
party, with a president so satisfactory
to the country and SO popular with all
elements of the party that no other
standard bearer is even thought of as
a possibility for 1904.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
judge Not by Looks.

hope that woman with Monte Car
10 coat on feels better than she looks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Another Idea.

The Boone Republican says Web
ster City is "the Venezuela of the
tenth district"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Savings Bank a civiIizer.

The Burlington Hawk-Eye speaks of
the savings bank as great civilizer.
mo one, man or woman, rich or poor,
should be ashamed to make small de.
positsc in a savings bank it asserts.
"The American citizen needs to cult
vate the habit of thrift by saving the
pennies as well as the dollars Too
many people do not think it worth
while to save the dimes and quarters
the idea of saving is limited to dali
lars and multiples thereof. And thus
hundreds of dimes and other minor
coins slip away for needless expendi-
lures"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22

hours. If it is so essential to have a
limited day for work, why not limit
ed day for drinking?"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
Must Experiment on Trust LesisIatio
Booze Hours Long Enough.

ut is needless to pretend that the
hours provided for in the mulct law
are not sufficient for the worst top.
ers," asserts the Cedar Rapids Repub.
lican. From o'clock in the morn
ing until 10 at night, six days in the
week, is long enough for men to sup
ply their demands for liquors. 1t is
also long enough for bartenders. The
bartenders' union ought to step in and
demand the keeping of the state
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22

John Hamilton of Macedonia is dead
after being in a trance-like condition
for six weeks. His case puzzled ply
sicians.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
1t Does.

"If Illinois really claims Bob Arm
strong" remarks the Boone News,
docs not that entitle Iowa to another
swipe at the pie counter?"
-
Must Experiment on Trust Legislation
1.-THE trust problem says the Knox
vile Journal, will not be solved this
year by legislative enactment, or any
one year. 1t will require great deal
of experiment and years of study"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22

Different Diet Cause for Thankfulness
"The democrats of Iowa should take
courage" says the Des Moines Regis
ter and Leader. They enjoy rare
prosperity. While they were banquet
ing off the fat of the land last week,
the best the great men of European
nation could supply for banquet on
the same night was horse meat"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22
FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS

Webster City Journal: In these
days of little coal and extreme cold,
people go to any trouble and expense
to secure a few hundred pounds of the
valuable fuel. One resident of the
city received twenty sacks of hard
coal by local freight from Marshall.
town the other day. e. E. Valentine
found ton and half at Woodstock,
paying SIS per ton. August Mueller
also secured a ton at the same place.
Hampton Chronicle: Another man
let his conscience get the better of
him one day this week. Mrs. James
Johnson received through the post.
office letter which contained $75 in
bills. The letter was hand printed
and all the information it contained
was that this money should have
been paid to your husband years ago"
Mrs. Johnson is at loss to know
where the money came from and can
only think of one instance, when her
husband went security for $50 on a
bill of goods for a neighbor, which he
afterward had to pay, and she thinks
this might be where the SIS came
from. However, outside of this Incl
dent she has no idea who owed her
late husband the amount.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-22

Published semi-weekly on Tuesdays and
Thursdays.
Office: liz South Market Street.
Telephone editorial or business office
No. "A.
Address the Courier Printing Co., ottum.
we, Iowa.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-10

lowing dispatch appears in the Mime.
apolis Journal, sent from Luverne,
the home of the Clegg brothers:
"The arrest of Chester and Bernie
Clegg at Billings, Mont, will be news
of much interest to citizens of Luz
verne, as it was generally supposed
their delinquencies had been smooth
ed over and covered up to a large ex-
tent. Chester, 'Chet,' as he is known
in Luverne, was employed in the
Handy Grocery a branch of Nelson
Bros big department store. He is
charged by the Nelson's with embez-
zling $500. The firm, however, is
short over $1,000, all of this amount
having been taken in little over two
months. No reason is known for the
arrest of Bernie Clegg.
There was no secret that the boys
we're going to Billings to make a
irish start in life, and surprise will
be general that they are to be brought
back on warrants which indicate regu-
lar court trials"