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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12
CARRYING OUT ITS PROMISES

Omaha Bee.-Cuba is acting in good
faith toward the United States. The
promises given this country + being
carried out. Although there was some
hesitation about granting a naval sta
ton and a coal depot in these islands
we are to have them, a treaty giving
these privileges having been signed
the past week, the question of compen-
sation being left for future determin-
alton. The naval station at Guantan-
amo will be on an extensive scale and
of course will be of great Importance.
Having a naval base on one side of
Cuba and a coaling station on the 9TH
err side the United States will practi-
cally command the north and south
passages to the Gulf of Mexico and
will hold mastery yer all that region.
Cuba has recognized the d%esirability
of having this country in a strong po-
sition there, since that will count for
it's protection against any outside en-
envy and also for the preservation OF
the domestic peace.
The tendency of this should be to
strengthen friendly relations and with
an increased commercial intercourse
Ine TWO republics VIII Ailu muludl pcu-
eft of a substantial kind. Cuban con
ditions are said to be improving. The
industries are reported to be fairly
active and the people as a whole doing
well. The government is being admin
istered, to all appearances, intelligent
ly and prudently SO that the expendi-
lures are within the income. There is
some opposition to the administration
but it is not very serious, the people
generally being very well satisfied with
the course and policy of President Pal
ma. Cuba has a very earnest friend
in President Roosevelt and he car be
depended upon to do all that is prac-
ticable for the promotion OF the good
will and the establishment Of close
commercial intercourse between that
country and this.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12
THE UNKNOWN AND THE KNOWN

Brooklyn Times: There is much
that is startling in the am in
which democratic journals have rush
ed to the support of the Alton B.Park-
er boom for the next democratic presi-
dental nomination. The eagerness
with which they grasp at Parker is the
eagerness of despair. While startling,
that boom is also amusing, for his
party organs are turning to the justice
as though he had always been a man
of great prominence in his party's
councils, as though he had always
been a man of weight within this
great commonwealth, when he is a
mar of one election, and was then
victorious only because the republic
"a party within the city of New York
was torn into shreds. But Parker.
makes an ideal man around whom the
tattered democracy can rally. Parker
is a Judge, and as such is necessarily
confined within his judicial closet. He
should not discuss public questions.
He should not take part in the old
party quarrels, any perhaps both wings
of his party ma.S be brought to take
him upon trust or upon faith. Then,
still continuing as a judge, he can
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12
ExPEDIrINe TRUST LEGISLATION

Sioux City Journal.-That the anti
trust legislation enacted by the present
congress is not so mucous as has
been alleged it is suggested by the
promptness with which Attorney Gen
eral Knox has taken advantage of the
new law to expedite the hearing Of
the antitrust cases. Although the law
took effect only a couple of weeks ago
the attorney general has already taxi
en- steps to apply its provisions to
bring about a speedy determination of
the suit against the United States Sc
curities company, commonly referred
to as fthe merger case"
Although this case is now more than
q year old 1T has not progressed beyond
the circuit court of Minnesota. AS
provided in the new law, the attorney
general las served notice on the cir
cult court officials of st. Paul that the
case in question is one Of great public
Importance and is entitled to the right
OF way in the federal courts as pro-
yided in such cases. The effect will
be the prompt hearing OF the case on
Its merits by a court OF three judges,
the action being given precedence over
all other pending cases. After a rul-
a"g has been made by the circuit judy
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most part are engaged in the humblest

most part are engaged in the humblest
employment.
To this it may be added that not on.
ly in America and other foreign coun
tries are scions of noble German fam.
lilies to be found in the lowest strata
OF society, but even in the Fatherland
the names of the very Oldest mobiles
which apepar in the highest ranks OF
the army, court and officialdom are
encountered among coachmen, copy
lists and common laborers.
In all Berlin one lawyer only is OF
noble birth, while the city directory
gives lists of hundreds of agents, con
stables and skilled and unskilled Ia
borers with fine old noble names
Marriage with commoners in these ar
istocratic circles is always regarded
as, and generally really is, marriage
for money. The German nobility, un.
like the English, cannot separate from
such marriages the odium of mesalli-
ance.
In German noble families unlike the
English nobility, the fathers title is
inherited by each of his children, re
sulting in an endless posterity OF
counts, countesses, barons and baron
eSSes
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and right that the director of that war
should occupy a high place in the his
tory of the world.
Andrew Jackson is the hero of the
battle of New Orleans, and the world
knows and speaks of him as such.
Winfield Scott became famuos in the
Mexican war, and goes down in his
tory as a great general, while but few
people can tell who was President at
that time.
General Grant is placed in history as
the grandest warrior since
Napoleon. He was President twice
as many years as he was engaged in
war, yet it was war that made it pos
sible for him to be President.
Admiral Dewey fought half a day
a thousand miles from anywhere,
yet in the years to come he will have
pages in history devoted to him, while
Rutherford B. Hayes will have to be
content with a couple OF lines about
IS to T. and the dates of the begin
ming and ending OF his term
Yes. Uncle Elihu. there will always
be plenty ''doin'" and when the time
comes there will always be some man
here to do it
There is no use denying that the
world loves a fighter. C. P. G.
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CHRISTIANITY AND GROCERY
WAGONS.

st. Louis Globe-D emocrat:-Indiana
home of the higher life and some other
queer things, has a new grocery store
which is conducted " as Christ would
run it." Its owner will sell for cash,
will pay his clerks at the close of each
day and will not deliver goods. Where,
in his researches. biblical and other
wise, this groceryman finds divine en-
dorsement for a%bstaining from deliver
ing goods is not to be discovered. This
is a question IN which Moses and all
subsequent writer's seem to have been
silent, and the Interpolation of such
a principle into rules of conduct by the
grocer appears to be without warrant.
1t is an implication that a grocery
store run on divine principles would
put the purchaser to the trouble of
carrying home his bushel of potatoes
or his sick of flour, a physical impos-
sibility in most cases. But that the
practice of delivering goods is unchris-
tianlike must be deeply impressed on
this groceryman since he has singled
it out so c~onspicuously for abolition.
That life is daily endangered by groc-
er's delivery wagons, which like time
and tide, wait for no man, and scat.
ter pedestrians at the street corners,
even as a flock of chickens, may have
made a deep impression on the project.
or of this grocery store. A single case
of manslaughter or even a broken leg
would wreck his purpose. and the char
acter of his business. 1t may be a
shrewd foresight that makes him dc
away with the possibility of evil.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12
POPE LEO AS AN INSTITUTION.

New York Sun: The whole world,
Protestant as well as Roman Catholic,
is interested in the jubilee celebration
of Leo XIII. The pope has been ac-
cepted as a type of Christian gentle
mar by those outside as well as those
under his spiritual jurisdiction. He
has lived a sanity life and has been
a power for good in Christendom. He
has reigned so long that he has be-
come an institution, a symbol, as the
late Queen Victoria was. A pathetic
interest attached to the plain little old
lady who represented the great British
empire. And just as she stood for the
noble qualities of womanhood, so does
the genial recluse of the Vatican stand
for whatever is good in manhood. The
courage that Leo displayed as a bish-
OPP has marked his reign in the seat
of Peter as a statesman and an admin
istrator. But he appeals to us most of
all because of his kindness Of heart,
his humanity and his b~enevolence.
May the conclave which shall select
his successor be far off.
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IN THE AGE.

Chicago tel -Ocean-This is indeed
a period of the thingless things. We
have the wireless telegraph. We have
the girlless telephone. We have the
sinkless tunnel. We have the stubless
street. We have the %solveless trac
ton problem. We have the moneyless
city treasury. We have the sewerless
intercepting sewer. And, of course,
we have the reformless reformer.
Moreover. experiments now making
in the agricultural department of the
Unites States government have Sc
demonstrated the fact that it is pos.
sible to so prevent species as to pro.
duce a bristleless hog, and to give
promise of a featherless chicken. The
work of the department on the chicken
we are informed will be conducted at
the experiment stations in the south
and, while the result is as yet a mat
ter of conjecture, those having the af
fair in charge are sanguine of ultimate
success"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12
ROOSEVELT AND YOUNG MEN.

Washington correspondence of the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: There was
a murmur of opposition when Presi-
dent Roosevelt, through the advice OF
Mr.. Shaw, the secretary OF
the treasury, proposed to ap'
point Bob" Armstrong, a newspaper
man, who had but recently come to
Washington as the secretary to Mr.
Shaw, assistant secretary Of the treas
ury. 1t was suggested openly that
Armstrong was too young and inexpor
fenced for the place.
Here the other day again dignifed
senators were wondering where the
President would be able to get a law
yer big enough and broad enough for
the place as head of the bureau of cor.
porations of the new department OF
commerce and labor. While they were
coming over names and rejecting mar
after man as not being fitted to cope
with the tenacles OF the octopus as
represented in the great corporation
attorneys the President quietly sen,
to The senate the name of James r
Garfield, q member of the United
States civil service commission, and
asked that it be confirmed. There were
not a few expressions of criticisms OF
the appointment and direful were the
predictions of some of the solons as
to the work of the new bureau which
was designed to play such an import
ant part in the administration pro
gram for tanning the trusts.
But it was the conclusion of one
member of the&house who was about
to retire as a result of the verdict Of
his constituents that he would tall
over the nomination with the Presi-
dent and learn from him his motive
for giving young Garfield this plum
The President told him in the kind
Hest way that he had the highest re
gard for young Garfield, that he hat
watched him carefully and believed
that he had material in him for the
making of a great future. The only
criticism the President heard was tina
Garfield had made the mistake of hav
ing an illustrious father, a handicaI
which both he and Fred Grant hat
striven nobly to overcome. In conclu
sion the President added:
What | wan to do is to promot,
and encourage coming young men,"
The aged congressman looked out O.
the window of the executive Office!
with a dreamy eye, as though hi:
thought had turned to his own early
retirement from congress sand his ad
vancing years, and then mildly breath
ed The suggestion:
Yes, l see, Mr.. President, but wha'
is to become of the men who have al
ready Gomez"
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TEXAS SHOWS MISSOURI.

llFrom the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.)
{ In the Texas house on Abraham Lii
COINS birthday the following was pass
ed: Resolved. That when this house
%adJourns today it do so in honor of the
memory of Abraham Lincoln, this be-
ing The nin%ety-fourth anniversary of
the birth of that unique man of Ameri-
can history. whom all nations call
statesman, hero and martyr" This Just
n well expressed resolution was
passed without a dissenting vote, and
the Texas house adjourned according
~ at the noon hour. Last Wednesday
a resolution was introduced into the
Missouri house to adjourn over the fol-
lowing day in honor of Lincoln's birth
day. 1t was voted down. One demo.
cratic member, in a %satirical spirit,
moved that the resolution be referred
TO the committee on federal relations,
but the democratic majority c%ontented
itself by putting the motion to death
without rubbing it in. If a dozen dem
ocrats had reinforced the republican
vote the resolution would have carried
but, of the more than eighty democrats
In the house, none would do it rever-
ence.
The character of Abraham Lincoln
has grown upon his countrymen every
where in the United States except
among a certain class OF Missouri dem
ocrats. which unfortunately for the
good name of the state compose the
majority of the legislature Of the pres
ent state legislature. They cannot for
give Lincoln for having been a repub-
lican, even though he was of southern
birth and descent. Men of every cline
and civilized race on earth
except those Missouri democrats, rem
der homage to Lincoln for those quail
tiles that lifted him above the narrow
lines and considerations. He loved his
fellow men, with charity for all and
malice toward non He was a man of
mercy though Of supreme action. He
was the soul OF simple truth. Intel
lectually, as human wisdom, percep-
ton and noble impulses go, he was the
giant of his time. He fell at the post
of duty. History everywhere, except
in one locality, gives him a towering
place as a leader and be~nefactor of the
human race. That exception is found
in the records of the present Missouri
legislature coupled with an attempted
Smartness in sarcasm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12
VERY TRANSPARENT.

burlington Hawk-Eye: A remarka.
pie series OF special kilograms have
been going out of Iowa recently to
eastern papers. They are based
chiefly on an imaginary political con.
d1tlon in the state involving Governor
Cummins, Secretary Shaw, and i,,ci..
dentally various members of tie Iowa
delegation in congress.
These dispatches emansfo from ono
source the identity Of which is NOT
dlflcult to imagine. 1t has apparent
~ organized q system of special dis.
patching pSfnts, including Sioux City,
Couhcll oIuffs and Des Moines.
Inc object of the special informa.
tloi service seem to be to foster the
9oiltlcal welfare of Governor Cum.
minis. First specials were sent east
from Sioux City, announcing that Sec.
rotary Shaw vas engaged in a desper-
ate u~nderhanded fight with Governor
Cummins for the vice-presidency. This
statement was laughed out of print.
Second, specials were sent from
council Bluffs to papers north, east and
south to the effect that the whole state
OIL Iowa a risen up in enthusiastic
endorsement of Mr.. Cummins for vice
president, claiming no man was bet
ter ntted to run as a ticket-mate with
MI. Roosevelt. This story fell fiat.
NO ore paid any attention to it. Only
few papers considered it of sufficient
authenticity to give it space in their
columns.
Third, now comes a most amazing
special story from Des Moines to
Washington and other eastern papers
declaring that Shaw, Henderson, Hull,
and Cousins We're plotting to sidetrack
Cummins for governor and later for
United States senator, by working up
a fictitious boom for him for vice
president in 1904, and the presidency
IN 1908. Each one of the men named
above explicitly denied the story and
branded 1t as a ~falsehood. Some as
cute observers of recent newspaper
notion in and Il of Iowa, pointed out
the significant fact that this last alb.
surd story not only came from Des
Moines, but also was given to the
world from Sioux City, clearly show
ing that they We're SEN out with au--
thority of some one interested in the
ultimate result.
II Governor Cummins' friends would
leave him alone a while, he would not
be IN so much danger of utter politi-
cal extinction. If any man has cause
to cry out, deliver me from nv
friends" that man is the present o
of Iowa.
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keep the door of his closet closed,
and can pass through a campaign ut
tering not SO much as a single word
upon any public subject. The condi-
ton would certainly be a peculiar one.
but it is the only means that offers
the divided democracy any hope. Its
candidate must be an enigma, and
Parker seems to fill the bill.
He need only continue so to do, and
he may have the Joy and the felicity
of being defeated by Theodore Roose.
welt, the man OF action, the mar whose
long public service is in view of ev-
cry voter. The contrast between the
two candidates would be striking, and
Mr.. Parker would receive the full
force of the blow the morning after
election. Then he could continue to
preside over our court of appeals.
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THE cLANe OF THE BELLS.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: An Ameri.
can business man is the slave of the
bell. In obedience to it's harsh call,
he drowsily arises in the morning. AT
the sound of another brazen tap he
hurries down to his breakfast. He
scarcely gets a chance to start reading
his mornings paper before he is again
interrupted by the angry command of
the telephone bell. Once more back
to the breakfast table, and he is in.
t%errupted by the sharp clang of a pass.
ing fire engine. The meal is almost
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ABOLISH THE SYMPATHETIC
STRIKE.

Kansas City Journal: The various
building trades unions of Chicago have
signed contracts with the master build
ers agreeing not to engage in sympa-
thetic strikes this year. 1t is believ-
ed this sounds the death knell of the
sympathetic strike in the building
trades Of Chicago. The unions are
expected to find the new system 80
much better both for their members
and the master builders that they will
never return to the old one.
1t has always been impossible for
fair, sensible and di%sinterested men
to refrain from looking with the great
est disfavor upon the sympathetic
strike. 1t has always seemed unfair,
unjust and senseless to them for one
body of men who had no grievance
against their employers, but on the
contrary, were satisfied with their
wages and conditions. to thrown down
their toofs and quit work because an,
other body of men, who were, per
haps, engaged in an entirely different
line of industry, did have a grievance
against their employers, or were not
satisfied with their wages or condi-
tons of labor and had struck. If one
manufacturer should throw 1000 Ia
borers who had given him faithful SER
vice out of their jobs because a fellow
manufacturer was having trouble with
his employees, he would be called a
fool and a brute from one end of the
country to another; and workingmen
would be the loudest and most bitter
in denouncing him. 1t is strange that
workingmen cannot or do not see that
they put themselves in exactly the
same category as this imaginary fool
ish employer when they strike, not
because they think they are being
treated unfairly, but because some.
body else has struck.
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DESTROYED GERMAN NOBILITY

According to the annual edition of
Perthes' Almanac of the German nobil.
ity, thousands of walters, coachmen,
barmen, miners and other workmen in
the United States are recruited from
the ranks of the German nobility.
Herr Won Nordegg, an eminent all.
thority on the ~aristocratic world of
the Fatherland, says, in commenting
on the book, that a glance over its
contents reveals the ominous fact that
practically blue-blooded family of the
empire is now represented in the Unit
ed States, where their scions for the
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ed treaty does not give the Cubans
all that they should have and does not
reflect popular judgment as to the de
gree OF help to which these wards OF
the nation are entitled. The honor OF
The country must be vindicated. This
demand is quite as urgent as the hui.
name considerations toward the Gu.
bans. 1t will be interesting to note
whether the sugar trust will continue
It's light against the ratification of the
Cuban treaty, and if so, the methods
that shall be employed.
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st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Senat-
or Morgan is old enough to have more
sense. He is 80.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12

Minneapolis Journal: Willie Hearst
really seems to think he is presiden-
tial material.
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FAR AND NEAR.

Chicago Record-Herald: All that
now remain is for the trusts to begin
busting.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12

Minneapolis Journal: Will the We
~nezuelans be grateful this time for
more than a year?
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st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Is Min
lister Bowen now a vice presidential
possibility?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12

Chicago Tribune: The White House
Alice has had a splendid time in the
New Orleans wonderland.
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Denver News: The Sultan of Tur-
key is long enough on promises to
make a Yankee politician.
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"The matter of getting up a manu-
featuring exhibit from Iowa for the
st. Louis exposition is a difficult one"
said S. M. Leach of Abel, chairman of
the committee in charge of the manu-
featuring exhibit. In many respects
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Chicago Evening Post: And it may
be remarked that Tillmsn's way will
not solve the negro problem.
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Buffalo Express: One of the Lon
don newspapers, commenting on the
exposure of the t1ogging system in
the Grenadier Guards, says a great
sensation has been caused by the fact
that such a revolving custom could
prevail among gentlemen" | don't
see where the gentlemen come in.
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Minneapolis Times.-A Philadel-
phia doctor be it remembered, has dis
covered that the pituitary gland is quite
an important part Of the human econ
cmy, but what is he going to do with
about it?
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Kansas City Journal.--lf Col. Bryan's
can 20 arms is not responded. to sat
irtaetorily, he might repeat it in his
next address to a body OF women.
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Chicago Post.-Mabini took the oath
OF allegiance yesterday, but vas any
ore watching to see if his fingers were
crossed.
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Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune An
Iowa chautauqua is arranging for adj
dresses from Senators Tillman and
Mason. 1t will be carefully noted
that it is an Iowa C~hautauqua.