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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
COLOMBIA FAvoRs THE TREATY

ST. Louis Globe-Democrat: The con-
gress which has just been chosen in
Colombia is in favor of the ratification
of the Panama canal treaty which has
been negotiated between that country
and the United States. Contrary to the
general opinion over here, Senator
Morgans opposition to the treaty has
helped it in Colombia 1t has shown
advantages in the agreement are not
all on our side. There are many per-
sons in the United States, as the Co
lombians have just learned, who would
throw the treaty overheard and build
the canal over the Nicaragua line.
This is circumstance which is cal
culated to make Colombia's congress
ratify the treaty just as soon as it gets
hold of it.
1t ought to be plain to the Colombo
ans for several reas sons that the build
ing of United States canal through
their country would be of great adj
vantage to them. 1t would be an adj
ditional bulwark to Colombia against
attack from Europe. 1t would give the
government of that country certain
prestige and stability which would be
of benefit not only to the government
but also to the whole of the people.
Order, sanity, enterprise is what Co
lombia and most of the other South and
Central American countries need above
all things, and these they have q
chance to get through the new stake
which the United States will have in
the stability and prosperity of that 10
cality.
Colombia, it is safe to say, will rat
ify the treaty quickly when it's con
gress gets to work. OF course, the
treaty was one of the great issues in
the election just held. The convention
has a greater interest for the Colon
bisns even than it has for us. As il
runs through their country, there was
some fear at first that the control Of
the territory Immediately on each side
of it which the United states had in
sisted on would be menace to Colon
bian independence. The recent Vehe
zuelan affair, however, has served, fol
the time at least, to remove Latin
American distrust for the United States
and to make our championship yer!
attractive. There will, on the Colon
bian side, be no hitch in the proceed
ings for the prompt beginning of worl
of construction of the canal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31

be a welcome addition to the BARRIERS
union. To one who has been pinned
down in the BARRIERS chair under the
edge of a merciless razor and has
been compelled to be the object of all
the BARRIERS mental eXcretions, the
new profession will come as an angel
in disguise.
The change to silent workman
from the lSnight of the razor who is
long on garrulousness is likely to be-
come an actuality. Superintendent
Henry w. Rothert of the Iowa School
for the Deaf in Council Bluffs was in
Des Moines few days ago attending
the meeting of the superintendent of
the state institutions with the board
Iof control. While there he read a
paper before the members in which
he stated that in his observations he
had found that the deaf and dumb
take readily to the barber trade, and
that he has found many of his former
Istudents who had drifted into that
work.
Mr.. Rothert states that number
have gone out of the institution in
Council Bluffs and have proven es-
|pecially efficient in any work wherein
ldiligent attention was necessary to
success. Many of his graduates, so he
declared have been sought for by
employing BARRIERS. He suggested to
1.-THE board of control at their meeting
lin Des Moines that the trade of bar
bering be added to the manual train
ling department of the Iowa Shcool fol
the Deaf. 1t has been said that other
similar institutions maintain such de
partments with success, and that the
graduates find easy and profitable EN-
ploym ent. The tonsorial art may thus
soon be added to the Iowa School OF
1.-THE Deaf curriculum.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31

as 10000 tons a day and whose annual
pay roll has been as much a 100000.
But the coal deposit there has been
growing increasingly difficult, danger
GUS and improbable to work. Lately
these troubles eliminated in an explo-
sion underground that killed eleven
men and in fire that swept away the
surface works.
So the owners decided to give up
the struggle and abandon the mine.
Last Monday the shaft was flooded
with water That night carload of
cement was dumped into the opening
that it might not be a danger to wan
dering men or animals. AS there is
no more work in the mine, the $50 men
and their families whom it supported
are leaving for other places in which
to pursue their trade.
It is to be presumed that most OF
them expect no difficulty in finding en-
ployment. AT any rate there is in the
dispatches from the scene no COM
plant of unjust personal hardship. II
seems to be recognized that the mine
owners simply yielded to the newt
able
Yet the suectacle cannot be contem
plated without a feeling of sadness
Here was place where men and wom-
en- loved and welded. where children
were born. where death came, where
prosperity and adversely were expert.
enced, where rose and fell all the joys
and SORROWS of humanity society
that lived as distinct organism and
was not mere chance assembly.
Now this organism is dying and will
soon be dead. Its houses, warm with
human hopes and fears, will be torn
down or left to slow decay It's streets
trodden in toll and pleasure. will be
slowly conquered by the stealthy foot.
steps of the grass. In a few years, on
ly heap of culm in the fields will
mark the spot where it once stood.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
GROWING POWER OF DIRECTORS.

New York Evening Post: A study OF
recent corporation charters discloses
the fact that there has been grow
ing tendency to increase the authority
of the directors and to make it difficult
to effect a change in the original man
agement of the companies. The his
tory of the railroad construction in the
United States affords numerous ex-
amples of the evils that may follow
from intrusting to one set of men, the
entire management of the property oil
another For this sort of enterprise
the issue of bonds has furnished ample
facilities. and it has been possible fol-
body of stockholders to exercise com
plete control of a road that was con
structed chiefly or wholly with Dor
rowed capital.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
WHERE HE STANDS.

Des Moines Capital: The central
thought of the governors speech on
Saturday was that goods produced by
a monopoly should not have the bene-
fit of protection. He emphasized that
statement and made it plain that such
was the Iowa side. The criticism that
will be made to the governors speech
is that he is going against the
national policy of the party. The gov
ernor knows that the republican party
has no intention of taking up the tariff
schedules or the reciprocity treaties
previous to the presidential election,
and yet he persists in his agitation for
tariff changes and denounces those
who disagree with him in unmeasured
terms
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
HuMMINe WITH PROSPERITY.

New York Tribune-Present condi-
lions are not favorable to corners in
wheat, in coal, or anything necessary
to the sustenance of Americans. Every
conspiracy to raise prices of food, fuel
of clothing to exorbitant figures
ought to fall and is likely to fail. But
in spite of the effects of the coal strike
and the high prices of meats this re-
public in the main is buzzing and hum
ming with prosperity. There are not
nearly enough engines and cars for the
rapid handling of the large quantities
of goods which are pressing upon the
railroads.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
THE FARMER AND THE TRUSTS.

j. S. Trigg in the Rockford Regis
ter: In these days of almost universal
combination of business interests we
note just two lines yet left out in the
cold-the farm and the church Each
of these is. Jogging along at the same
old gait, going it alone in the old com
petitive way while meeting the power
of combined interests at every point.
The farmer today is rocked to sleep
as baby in a cradle made by trust,
he. like enough, is raised on bottle
made by trust, he goes to work later
in trust made wamus. overalls, shoes
and hat, he blows with a trust plow,
seeds his fields with a trust seeder,
drags them with trust drag, cult
Yates his corn with trust cultivator,
harvests his crop with trust harvest.
er. thrashes it with trust thrasher,
hauls his crop to market on trust
wagon. has his load weighed on a
trust scales and sells to a representa-
tive of the grain dealers trust: he
loads up in town with load of trust
lumber or coal, buys some trust sugar
and beef and tobacco and goes home
TO sleep in trust bed. When he dies
he is buried in a trust coffin. after be
ing treated by truct doctor and laid
out by trust undertaken, about the
only thing in his whole career not con
trolled by the trust being the funera
sermon by the UNCONVENTIONAL parson
who. alone with the deceased, still
fights his way through life free of any
religious trust. This state of affairs
should operate to turn the granger's
thoughts toward religion when he finds
that the trusts are too many for him
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
SPEECHES. BARRIERS.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: A talk
less tonsorialist, paradoxical as it may
seem, is soon to be one. Of the pro-
ductions of the state of Iowa. More
over, they will be produced in Council
Bluffs, as fast as they become prof.
cient.
The innovation of barber who is
deprived of the right to talk about the
weather, prognosticate upon the result
of the location of the Carnegie library
or tell about the time the Mormons
came and went in Council Bluffs may
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
HYDRocEPHALoUs.

Washington, Iowa, Press.-That's
big word, but then it means big
thing, viz, the kind of big head caused
by dropsical secretions. Now and then
you see boy or girl on the street who
totters pitifully around under such a
load of head. 1t is a calamity,-not
sign of intellect, but of disease. 1t is
an abnormal head.
When we hear orators and editors
in this state blowing about "The Iowa
Idea" we think of that kind of a head.
1t is nearer ricketts, than the idea.
Come, now, what in thunder is "the
Iowa ldea,' if there is any such thing
at all? Governor Cummins has com
mendsd it in sundry and divers speech
es. and in the Polk county convention
Saturday, he reiterated his views, and
said, he was firmer in the faith than
ever. What faith? Why, that the re-
publican party should revise the tariff;
take the duty off some things where it
is not needed and put it on other
things; tighten protection here, in
crease it there; skin it off where reci-
procity treaties can be made. Who dis
putes it? That's what we have been
doing. We have had several tariff laws
in the last 100 years, and no two were
alike. Changed conditions varied the
schedules in the different tariff acts.
A few years ago, before the Iowa
Idea got the Big Head, or had an al
legged Idea, We made schedule pro-
tecting the industry of tin manufac-
ture. You all remember the democrats
| ridiculed and denounced that schedule
saying we could never make tin. We
made it however, but it is not worth a
tinker's mill dam. and every man who
has bought tin roof, or pail or house
spouting, or dipper would like to see
that schedule knocked out. For the
tin we make is as big a fraud as
polygamy. A roof or spout will leak
like sieve in twelve month, and a
bucket or cup will rust over night and
do very well as a nutmeg crater.
| 1t is a historic fact that we have
! varied the schedules time and again
4 and, therefore, to claim that demand
/ for the revision of the tariff is "the
Iowa Idea,'' or any new thing at al
! is a very silly thing to do.
Why an evenings reading would
show our handsome and brilliant gov
ernor that he hasn't laid a new egg
at all, to cackle over SO loudly. Indeed
| at Omaha he was candid enough t.
say that there is no Iowa Idea We
have been revising the tariff in eact
new bill made, and shall continue tt
do So
What's the pother all about then
Why does anybody get hot, affirming
or denying? Two state platforms have
said that we favor tariff revision, ant
as matter of fact, we have been re
vising for century, and shall revise
! for another century, no doubt. Where.
the '1dea?" Where's the issue? Thi
little fuss like tempest in a teapo
or tumult in a pattypan on a no
stove conjures up the image of tina
big headed child tottering round. IT.
a political bogy. To cut off about sucl
a hydrocephalous victim, on the stum]
and in the journals. is like firing rifle,
cannon at a tom-tit.
4 There is no Iowa Idea There seem
to be a hydrocephalous creature on
there, but We fear it is an optical il
fusion, or an insane delusion. Ricket
no Idea Come off. Why sweat TO
nothing?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Williamsburg. a domestic, aged twenty
two years. The defendant is twenty,
four years of age.

two years. The defendant is twenty,
four years of age.
In 1858, a half century ago, a poet
ical geography was in use in the west.
The different states were written up
in rhyme, and we reproduce the
muses. effort for Iowa. The only town
in this immediate section that is men
toned is Delhi Delaware county,
which now has a population of about
500. f}tti f
Iowa City, the first in the state
Up her fair tide cipher and an eight,
Southwark of all by the Mississippis
moan,
Are Keokuk, Montrose and Madison.
From the south limits forty miles or
more,
Is Burlington on Mississippi shore;
AS north of this one is called Musca-
tine,
Montpelier comes, and Rockingham is
seen;
Then comes Davenport and one Co.
manche view,
At Charlestown keep in Jackson with
Bellevue;
Dubuque comes next known for her
mine of lead,
With young Peru, in the same county
bred;
Then Winchester and Guttenburg is
passed;
And Garnaville in Clayton numbers
| last,
And Keosauqua, Bloomfield and Cen
terville,
Westward from Lee their various sta.
lions fill,
And north of these on the main line
we see,
One Abba, Ottumwa and Fairfield
| three;
Mt. Pleasant lives in Henry county
yet;
Wapello in Louisa don't forget;
From Noxville east, is Oskaloosa
known,
Manchester too, and one called Wash
ington.
Dewitt and Upton near each other
rest,
Marengo lives with Montezuma west.
| Then comes Newton with one called
Fort Des Moines
To the same range of country we as
sign;
In Jackson county, Andrew has his
fare,
Marion in Linn; Delhi in Delaware.
Southwest of all, our Muse to DAYTON
HES
Which in Fremont near the Missis..
sippi lies" - Oelwein Regis,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS.

'If you do not believe that Mr..
Roosevelt is the most democratic
President we have ever had, look at
his trousers. l doubt if any of his
predecessors ever wore patched gar
ments while occupying the White
House." This was a remark of WIS.,
itor at the executive offices the other
day as he came out from an interview
with the President Curiosity prompt
ed the man addressed to look at the
presidential trousers when he was adj
mitted and, sure enough, on the left
leg of a pair of neatly creased striped
trousers was the evidence that some
skilled needlewoman had repaired a
rent in the garment. There had been
a triangular tear in the leg of the
trousers just below the knee, which
had been closed very neatly with a
needle and thread. but the extent of
the damage was still plainly visible.
as the patched place was just above
the spot where the President receiv-
ed an injury in the trolley accident
last summer, it looked very much as
if the trousers he then wore are still
doing duty.
AS a sequel to the multiplication
table by Harvard professor, we pub
lish the following, which was sent to
us by Henry Tanenbaum, Of Toledo,
Ohio:
1234567S9 times plus 10-1111111111
1234567S9 times Is plus 20-2222222222
1234567S9 times 81 plus 30--3333333333
1234567S9 times SO plus 40-4444444444
1234567S9 times as plus 50-5555555555
1234567S9 times Sd plus 60-6666666666
| 1234567S9 times 63 plus 70-7777777777
1234567S9 times 72 plus S0-SSSSSSSSS8
1234657S9 times 81 plus 90-9999999999
This table is still more interesting
when it is noticed that each multiple
err is Invisible by 8, and that, when the
| gether and the added number is sub
tracted, the answer is 0. For example,
the sum of LII Ill Ill is 10; 10 min
us 10 is O.
| We also find the following:
9S7654321 times equals S8S88SS8S9.
| 987654321 times IS equals 1777777777S
987654321 times 81 equals 26666666667
9S7654321 times SO equals 3555555555G
9S7654321 times As equals 44444444445
9S7654321 times 81 equals 5333333333334
9S7654321 times 63 equals 62222222229
9S7654321 times 70 equals 71111111112
9S7654321 times 81 equals 80000000001
In this table it will also be noticed
that each multiplier is Invisible by
8, and that, if the figures in each an
swer are added together, they will
form a total which, if added together
will equal 8. For example, take the
second answer, 1777777777S. These fig
ures added together equal ". plus
2 are FEBRUARY Success.
Among other novel features of the
st. Louis exposition will be reunions
of the Smith and Lewis families, which
all the Smiths and Lewises in the coun
try will be invited to attend The
Smiths are raising fund of $4,000
for the erection of a building on the
fair grounds to be used as their head
quarters during the exposition.
| Iowa City, March, 3.-Eightee1
months in the penitentiary on tn,
charge of rape is the sentence passe,
in the district court here on JOSEPH
Balluff. His victim was May Querl, o
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Not pisl1ified.

Sioux City Journal: If reciprocity
IS Improbable, it is because narrow
partisanship makes it so. A two
thirds vote is necessary to ratify a
treaty. 1t is not easy to get a two.
thirds vote against active, persistent
and scheming partisan opposition. The
policy OF anything to blacken the 9th
er fellows eye is not dignifying to
craftsmanship.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
GroMina Strenuous.

The Odebolt Chronicle observes that
Gov. Cllmnins lis more strenuous
than ever" since he returned from
Washington, in consequence OF which
the stand patters are up against
this proposition: Did Cummins con
vert Roosevelt or has Roosevelt been
in sympathy all along with the tariff
sentiments Of Cummins and nine
tenlns OF tie republicans of Iowa?"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Name the Difference.

The Cedar Rapids Republican asks
some Polk county politician to point
out to it the difference between Gov.
Cummins remarks on the tariff and
the speech OF Mr.. Shepard on the
same subject before the democratic
lroquois club. is the republican par
7tE going to try TO crowd the democrat
lie party OF the tariff map?" the Re
publican wants to know.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Hung on Too Long.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Miss Cla-
ra Barton, founder of the Red Cross
society, has resigned its presidency
under conditions that are unfortunate
in view of her long and honorable SER
vice for humanity. Here is another
case OF hanging on too long.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Do the Other Fellow First.

Thd Burlington Journal says that to
stand pat lis an effort to deceive with
poor hand the other man who YOU
have every reason to suppose has a
better one or, put another way is
the idea expressed by David Harum
more completely wnen he said. DO to
the other fellow what he is trying tc
do to You, bat do j, fust
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
BeIonos to the Democrats.

The Cedar Rapids Republican as
serts that the tariff reform issue be-
longs to the democrats and is entirely
different from changing tariff sched-
ulc that happens to be more or less
out of harmony" The Republican ad-
vises republicans TO stay on their
own side OF the issue.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Mronn This lime.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil:' The Des
Russell, the newly appointed pharma-
cy commissioner, knows nothing about
pharmacy. Ii the Capital were to
take the trouble TO examine the state
pharmacy records it might discover
that sometimes it is mistaken and
that this is one OF those times.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Need of lncubators.

Montezuma Republican: There
ought to be couple of thousand in
cubators in active duty in the state of
Iowa as soon as the season opens.
When an ordinary dressed hen sells
for seventy-five cents something is
wrong.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
A Pertinent Question.

Nov does it seem reasonable" asks
the Marshalltown Times-Republican
that Cummins would thus boldly de-
clare his intention to invade the ma
tional convention with the Iowa idea
if he had found the administration
against him."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Why They Were Fired.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette claims
that the city council of Vinton recent
ly fired all the members OF the fire
department because they were too eff
cient. Ninton has an exceedingly dis
reputable court house and when it
caught fire recently the department
made the fatal mistake of saving it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
How RurreII Sees It.

According to the erudite Burrell of
the Washington Press, the word "hel-
10" means just the opposite of 'huzza"
or ''hurrah." Those words are the
Morse war cry, ITO Paradise!" while
to shout "hello!" is equivalent to Pad
dy's salute, ito hell wild ye!" Hello!
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Which Is 1t?

keokuk Gate City: The Sioux City
Journal remarked the other day that
some newspapers can't even go into
the matter OF defining stand pat with
out getting excited about it." And
now a whole lot of people are wonder
ing whether the Journal intended the
remark as critical observation or
confession
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
liidI-er Education,

If Professor Breckenridge of the Uni
versity of Illinois has actually prefac-
ed a workable coal smoke consumer,
he will have indicated higher edu-
cation in the minds Of many practical
people
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31

ed, and the report of the anthracite
strike commission came at about the
same time. 1t was a time when most
people lost interest in the coal ques-
ton and when many had almost for
gotten that there had been a shortage
of coal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Like Enitanhs.

Some of the kind things that are
now being said about ex-Speaker Dave
Henderson by some people, says the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil, ARE much
like epitaphs on tombstones of the de-
parted"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
A Cold Trust.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: In Des
Moines the ice companies have COM
bined and formed very cold hearted
trust. wonder what tariff duty the
Iowa idea cranss in that city will pro-
pose to repeal to cure that trust?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
A DYING TOWN.
(Chicago Inter.Ocean.l

Last week the village of Cardiff, ILL.,,
had population of 1900, and was APP
parently as thriving as the average
town of its size. Today its people
are rapidly deserving it, and indica-
tons are that it will be abandoned by
all save a few who may find employ
ment with the neighboring farmers.
Cardiff depended wholly upon a coal
mine whose output has been as high
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
Ardor Not pamnened.

The Webster City Freem n-Tribune
is pleased that the governor should
stand pat and expresses confidence
that the Governors recent trip to
Washington has not dampened his ar
dor in favor of a reasonable and just
tariff adjudication