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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
THE CITIZENS DUTY.

1t is a trite saying that the duty of
every American citizen is to vote, yet
in this remark is to be found the foun-
dation on which is reared the super
structure of American liberty and free
government The franchise was given
to the citizens of this government as a
means by which they might safeguard
their interests and give expression of
their wishes regarding the various pol
icies proposed for adoption in our ma
tional administration
In our political life there is class
of people who is continually finding
fault with existing conditions and yet
who never is to be seen at the polls to
lend aid in selecting the policies to be
adopted or to right any wrong which
may have been seen to exist. This
class of people is profuse with advice
and faultfinding, but is is unwilling to
undertake anything tangible FOR tie
betterment of conditions. Such peo.
pie are dangerous and such negligence
may well be considered criminal.
Above all things there should be no
stay-at-homes on election day. Every
citizen who possesses the right of fran.
cHlse SHouiu see W IL lHdl HIS pdlloI Is
cast in support of the policies in which
he believes and for the candidates who
most nearly represent his idsas. This
is the highest privilege and honor that
can be given to the American citizen
and ne should guard 1t most jealously
II such condition generally prevailed
there would be practically no cause for
complaining and there would be fewer
of these self-appointed critics.
The man who fails to vote. does iiSct
only fail to carry out the highest mea
sure OF his citizenship, but forfeits all
his opportunity to share in rightine
anything in our political affairs which
he may believe to be wrong. No patri
otic American should fail to visit the
ballot box on November 8.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
A PEsslMlsT REBUkEp.

Cyrenus Coles Storm Lake letter to
the Cedar Rapids Republican, very
chatty young woman riding in the
seat back OF mine was saying every
now and then that the fall of the year
gave her the blues. Finally | was
compelled to turn around and look al
he to see what sort of person il
was who was SO addicted to autumnal
sadness. II was mere slip OF a
girl.
Why should anyone be sad in au
tumn when the very leaves are red
with the Wine of the earth? A farmer
looking at the corn field with empty
husks might have reason for regrets
His labors have been in vain-the hail,
bearing clouds of the frosts out OF
clear skies We're his undoing. But why
should landscape in which every
bush is afire with beauty, and every
tree is aglow with golden sunlight
move any one to sadness? A green
landscape is fine to look upon. A red
and yellow landscape is magnificent
TO hehoh. And, il perhaps. it is leaf
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
OHIO POLITICAL SITUATION.

Omaha Bee-There is very general
interest in the Ohio campaign, which
is being waged most vigorously by
both parties. Perhaps no one is bet
ter qualified to judge of the prospect
than Senator Foraker and he predicts
the election of the republican ticket
by from 500 to 100000 majority with
a republican legislature having ma
jority of from thirty to forty on joint
ballot. The senator sad there is not
the faintest likelihood of democratic
legislature and added: Il cannot see
where there is the slightest founda-
ton for some of the stories that have
been floating around that Tom john
son has any show for election. John
son will be showed under, and showed
under for good, too.
This strong expression of confidence
in the result may be fully warranted.
The election to the governorship of
Ohio of man With such views as
those of Tom l.. Johnson seems hardly
possible and there ought to be no
doubt OF his defeat by an oyerwhelm-
ing majority. Yet it will be well for
the republicans Of the Buckeye state
not to allow confidence to make them
apathetic, for johnson is likely to re-
ceive nearly If not quite the full vote
of his party. 1t is probable tnat he
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
CARE OF suPERANNuATEs.

Methodist preachers who have fin
ished their years of active work and
reached the time of merited rest are
known in that denomination as super.
annuates. The support Of these men
is provided for by the church as part
of the obligations. The superannuates
are regarded as pastors emeritus in
the conference to which they belong
and each conference collects funds fol-
their support This arrangement has
long been in vogue throughout Meth
odism.
There is however, a movement now
being advocated in the church to make
a more permanent provision for these
aged pastors The plan is to raise a
large endowment of $5.000,00O or $10,.
100000 the income from which is to be
used in place of or in addition to the
conference collections.
: Many prominent laymen are heartily
in favor of this proposition. In cur
rent number of the Northwestern
Christian Advocate appear letters from
many prominent laymen. as Senator
Dolliyer, Governor Yates, Governor
Bliss, Governor Durbin and others
which give emphatic endorsement to
the plan. 1t is probable that follow
ing out this suggestion the matter
will be brought before the delegates
to the general conference to be held
in Los Angeles in May and an urgent
request will be made that favorable
action be taken thereon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20

new officers and men We're added to
the army, mostly from civil life. These
men have not had the training or ex-
pemence in things military that had
perfected the men in the organization
before the war and there has natural
ly been deterioration from the stan.
dard of efficiency in which the old
members took such great pride. The
department has gone to great expense
in arranging for these maneuvers and
1t is to be expected that they will tend
to greatly inspire the soldiers and Of
ticers with some of the old time spirit.
The military games arranged are
severe and will require high order
OF strength and ability on the part of
the contestants The evolutions will
furnish an opportunity for the effec-
tive training of the soldiers and ac-
quainting them with the conditions Of
actual military service. The effect
OF the maneuvers on the armed force
OF the United States will be watched
with interest by all citizens.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20

De white man worries bout stocks ans
bonds
An money dat's in de bank:
He's Sallus watching de telegraph
An lookin' mighty blank
He worries on de lection day
To know what mans gwine ter beat;
But de only thing Eph worries bout
is jes bout sumpn to eat.
De white man worries bout houses ant
lands,
An bout the great big price
He pays in wintah fur his coal,
An in summah fur his ice.
You'll see him walkin' cross de fo',
Too worried to keep his seat;
But Eph don't worry bout nothin tall
Excep' bout sump'n to eat.
De white man worries bout cats an dawgS
An bout de gran Horse Show;
Sometimes he worries bout de day o.
DEATH
Cause he amt sho' whar he'll go.
OF Eph don't worry bout whar he's q,
gwine-
Don't worry bout de col nur de heat
Cause all he wants is to slap his mour
On sump'n dat's good fur to cat.
-Lppincott's Magazine.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
HON. JOHN mAHIN.

Northwestern Christian Advocate
In electing John Mahin of Muscatine
as leader of the lay delegation to the
general conference, the lay electoral
conference of the Iowa conference
honored itself and the church and
Worthily recognized the services of
one of the most heroic men. Mr.. Ma.
hin has been a leader in the temper
ance movement in Iowa for a number
OF years AS editor of the Muscatine
Daily Journal, he persistently advo-
Gated the enforcement of the law
against the saloon. This brought up
on him the wrath of those supporting
the saloons. Finally they resorted to
violence, and about ten years ago
blew up, With giant powder, the resi-
dence of Mr. Mahin and of two citi-
zens who were associated with him
in the effort to enforce the law. In
these three houses on the night of the
explosion We're eighteen persons,
most of them being women and chill
dren. 1t is a miracle that not one.
was killed and that only one or two
were seriously injured.
For this cnime only one person was
convicted though it is certain that a
large number was involved, the three
explosions, in different parts of Musca-
tine, taking place within few min
utes of each other. While only one
has been punished according to his
desserts the others may well wish that
they had been discovered at the time
and had suffered with the one convict
ed the punishment he endured His
term in the penitentiary expired few
months ago. Shortly after his release
he was found dead and it is not known
whether he committed suicide or was
JIlled by those of whose connection
with the crime he had knowledge.
His death, however, does not remove
from their conscience the dread that
retributiye justice will yet overtake
them. They fear that the exposure
Of their connection with the crime
may be made any day and no peace
will come to their hearts or minds un-
til they find it by confession or in I'M
consciousness.
The destruction of the home of Mr.
Mahin and his associates was the
most diabolical act of the liquor traf-
fic in the history of this country
That those who perpetrated it were
Willis w IiuIucI aWOIHeu anu
dren as well as men, shows the heart
less character of the saloon and of
those who do its satanic work. The
stain which that crime put upon the
good name of the state of Iowa Wi
not be removed until all who planned
and executed it have been punished
The saloons of Muscatine are as law
less today as they were in 1893. Only
a few weeks ago three saloons which
were violating the law prohibiting
their presence within 300 feet of a
church, were closed through the eff
fort OF the pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church in Muscatine, Rev
DIR. C. l.. Stafford, Mr. Mahin and
other members of the First church
DR.. Stafford was threatened by the
friends of the saloons, but he was
not intimidated. The crime of 1893
will not he repeated. The saloon in
terests realize that the people of
Iowa will not submit to that.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
THE SPEECH OF THE CAMPAIGN.

Burlington Hawk-Eye.-Senator Al
lison's speech at Clinton is one of the
strongest, most wholesome contribu-
tions to the present campaign. He
covers most intelligently and com
pletely every point that is involved in
present-day tariff discussion. There
is nothing academic about the address.
1t is plain and practical, fortifying ev-
cry statement by facts, by human ex-
perience and observation. 1t is a
speech not only worthy of reading In
its entirety. but of careful considera-
tion in its details. 1t is masterly
argument for the protective policy.
The Hawk-Eye predicts that neither
Mr.. Sullivan nor the reputable demo-
cratic press of the state will make
any serious attack upon it, There
will be the preliminary fusilade of the
skirmishers, but no democrat of rec
ognized ability will enter the lists
against the calm, deliberate, judicial
and historical presentation of the is
sues of the day by the distinguished
IOWan
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
RECORD OF THE COTTON YEAR,

RECORD OF THE COTTON YEAR.
| The total exports of cotton during
the cotton year" ending August 81,
were a tritle larger than in the pre-
ceding year. This causes interest be-
cause of the recent corner in cotton.
the attendant high prices and the
heavy decline in exports, during the
summer months. Figures given in
the government statistics for August
place the total exports for 1902 at
6,750,213 bales and in 1908 6,766, 1878
bales. The value of this product in
creased from S2s5, 5,oOs,e7o to $s1o,63
$40. 1t is shown that during the
months of June, July and August
there was deficiency of 226, 900 bales
exported, or about one-half of the ex-
ports for those months last year.
Notwithstanding this great decline
the record made during the first seven
months of this year was sufficient to
overcome the difference. According
to the same statistics there was at the
end of March an excess of S48,O00
in the exports up to that time.
1t is shown in the reports that En-
gland, Our largest customer in cotton,
during the year just ended, bought
2,715,o57 bales valued at 1924, 7e7. .24O
During the year previous 262, 900 more
bales were secured by England for
only about $4,000 additional cost.
The effect of the high prices has been
to arouse the British manufacturers
to an endeavor to find some other
source from which they could get their
supply of cotton.
In connection with the cotton man
featuring industry, it is reported by
the Financial and Commercial Chron-
icle, that during the year just ended
there has been an increase of about l
per cent in the spinning capacity of
the cotton mills. The total mum Der of
spindies now used being placed at
III, 7S9,o53 1t is learned, however,
that over one-half of this increase was
made in the cotton mills of the south
ern states and that the advance in
those commonwealth will amount to
something like 10 per cent. This fact
speaks we'll for the energy of Ameri-
can cotton manufacturers,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20

considering currency bill do moi
contemplate proposing an asset cur
rency. Mr.. Allison said there will be
nothing done which would deprive the
government of the substantial control
1t row has over bank circulation. nor
will any modification be made that
will not provide absolute security OF
the notes issued by or under the au-
thority of the government and their
convertibility at the will of the hold
er into gold" The opposition to the
plan of asset currency is partly be-
cause it would operate to revolution.
lze the existing system and at least
impair the control which the
government now has over bank circu
lation.
1t is not to be doubted that the
substantial and legitimate business in.
terests of the country will concur in
the view of Senator Allison that un,
der present conditions there is nc
pressing necessity for great changes
as respects our money circulation
The president of one of the New York
banks, writing in a current magazine
expresses the opinion that it will be
enough for our present necessities il
there is legislation making the trea-
sury of the United States a co-opera.
tor with the business man and which
will make the boarding of money by
the government impossible. Mr.. Ali.
son referred to the inconvenience
caused by the boarding of money in
the national treasury and said that
congress probably will adopt supple
mental legislation SO as to absolutely
relieve this situation. This would
simply allow the receipts from Gus.
toms to go into repositories, as is now
the case with revenues of the govern.
ment from other sources.
AS Senator Allison pointed out, our
monetary laws have operated well
Under them the country has prog.
ressed and the credit of the govern
ment has been maintained. All le-
gitimate business interests find them
to be satisfactory. If faulty in some
details these should be corrected, but
no radical changes are required and
it seems quite certain that none will
be made by the Fifty-eighth congress.
AT any rate such a conclusion is plain
ly warranted by the remarks of Mr..
Allison.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20

here are admitted free. 1t has also
been a part of this policy to levy the
highest rates on all articles of luxury
or voluntary use. AS showing the
working of the republican policy of
protection, Senator Allison says:
OF all the importations under the
present law for the fiscal year 1908,
forty-two per cent came in free of
of duty, and fifty-eight per cent paid
duty, and the average duty paid for
the year 1908 was thirty and one-half
per cent of the value of the articles
imported.
The address, aside from its discus
sion of the tariff deals with all the
questions that have been brought out
by the party platforms and speakers.
Their discussion is clear and decided
and may we'll receive the attention
of every member of the republican
party of Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
THEN VOTE THE REPUBLICAN
TICKET.


Cedar Rapids Republican-Speaking
in Iowa City the other night, Candi
date Sullivan said:
IF the people of the United States
elected their senators as they dc
their representatives you would not
have as many men in the United
States senate antagonistic to tariff
reform as you have today. I wish
my country to be commercial won
der. | wish the fruits of her labor
the products of her soil to enter ev-
cry known port and / wish it to be
welcomed by the hand of the free,
not by the chained hand of the
slave"
Well, if Brother Sullivan wants
these things accomplished the best
thing for him to do is to get in line
and vote the republican ticket. The
republican party has been engaged in
the work he outlines from the very
beginning of its power. The repub
lican party succeeded to bankrupt
treasury and began the administration
of government when the land was
rent with civil feuds and about to be
drenched with fraternal blood. The
Jeil ~ W WHICH NIL DClCiSoo
was responsible both for the bankrupt
treasury and for the terrible state of
feeling that existed because of its
long continued adherence to unsound
economic doctrines and it's defense of
the institution OF slavery.
The republican party put down the
slave holders rebellion and replaced
revenue tariff law with protective
measure. With single interruption
protection has been the unvarying pol
icy of this country from the day the
Morrill, tariff act was passed until
.the present time. The first accom-
plishment was to secure home mar
ket for America; that done, we reach
ed out after foreign trade and today
we are doing exactly the things Mr..
Sullivan says he wants to see done.
We have become the commercial Won
der of the world. The fruits of Amer
lean labor and the products of our
soil do enter every port, and ii they
are not welcomed by the hand of the
free, it is not our fault.
Mr.. Sullivan's party had an unfet-
tered opportunity TO put its theories
to the tests on March 4, ten years
ago After a year of wrangling, they
presented their economic handiwork
to the country in the shape of the
statute known as the Wilson-Gorman
tariff law. Under its operation, our
home industries languished, our for.
eign trade decreased, the land was
filled with idleness and soup houses,
the revenues We're not sufficient to
support the government, and our ma
tional debt was increased in time OF
peace to the extent of S202, 100000. A
single test was sufficient. and for a
decade the free traders did not dare
to show their heads. Now in the hope
that the. people have forgotten the
disasters OF the period from "a to '97
they are again proclaiming the old
heresies.
Go read the history of your country,
Mr.. Sullivan, AMI dwell especially up.
on the trade statistics of the last
six years You will discover that the
things which you profess to long for
are already at hand, the achievements
of the republican party are what you
are dreaming about; wake up and en-.
inv them
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20

less forest, what is more majestic than
the network of tapering branches,
tapering against the skies? Nature is
really never ugly. Nature hates ugli-
ness Her deft weayers work every
where--robing the earth in garments
for every month, Gods beautiful sue
cessions of green and yellow and gray
and white.
Riding through Iowa in September
and October is like drinking wine
like drinking much wine, red wine and
yellow wine, and the wine of much
gladness, wine old as since the days
of King Solomon. The fact that we
are commercial people and not a
poetic people, people who may spec
ulate as to the number of bushels the
corn will husk out and the pounds the
steers have slowed away on their sides
and backs, where the juicy steaks
grow. ought not to spoil for us the
beauty of the land. nor blind us to
the spiritual aspects of material
things. OF what good or benefit are
all the material things with which this
land is so richly endowed il they do
not bear some spiritual blossoms? This
is what was meant when it was writ
ten, What shall it profit man if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?' What are they who garner the
abundance of the soil into great red
barns, or in banks, and never enjoy the
things that wealth ought to bring? BY
how much better are men than the
dumb beasts they fatten and sell and
Kill and eat ii they never raise their
eyes to the green or the red trees and
never catch a glimpse of the blue
skies?
Life is worth while only because of
Its intense moments of aesthetic and
spiritual eXaltations. These are the
moments that are the immortal things,
whether inscribed on paper, or on can
vas OF in marble Genius is simply
the ability to catch and record these
higher things, these exhalations of
beauty and these eXaltations of spirit
There are many ways and many forms
OF record but whether in poetry or in
religion, whether in song or in stone
whether in law or in inventions. the
elemental reduction in each instance
is the same.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-10-20
Real Estate Transfers.

Real estate transfers furnished by
Lowenberg & Co. real estate agents.
107 South Court street
Gray, John w. and wife to A. j.
Hammond-Lot 8, f. A. Langford's,
addition, Ottumwa, $780,
Fletcher, Harrison, to S. A. Kitter-
man-Lot 6, block 3, Janney addition
Ottumwa, $520
Williams, A. B., to John w. Healy-.
Lot 81, A. F. Hammond's second addi.
| ton, Ottmwa, $1,000
Bidson, Barney and wife to Carrie
Lander-Lot 10, northwest additions
Kirkville, S2G.
A. 9. Hammond and husband, ]. A.,
to John w. Gray, south half lot 81,
block Z, Smiths third addition, OF
| tumwa, 5000
| A. P. Anderson and wife to Sarah ].
Hoyt part southeast quarter section 20,
70, 13, S100.
Thos. Traul and wife to VIM. and
Sarah c. Twedell, one acre in north.
east corner, section 80, 72. 13, $100.
| w. N. Kndall and wife to W. j.
Thomas, lots and 6, Halberg's addi.
tion ottumwa, $500.
Thos. Cation and wife to Carl and
AXelina Nord part lot 1. Browns first
addition Ottumwa, 81 300.
Joe Parks and wife to S. v. Hoyt,
lots 5 and 6. of south half northeast
quarter southeast quarter section 20,
| 70, 13. $100.
H. L. Waterman and wife to A. G..
Wallace, lot "a, Dain addition, Ottum-
wa. $3.50.
]. f. Newell and wife to John s.
Reno, southwest quarter northwest
quarter section 7, II, IL, $1.400.
Gertie 2. Russell and husband, C. S.,
to Lizzie NJ. Shreeves, lot 125, Robin
sons fourth addition Ottumwa, $500.
j. G. Hutchison to public part east
half east half southwest quarter Sec
ton 20, u, 13. $100