Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-06


Our old friend Gen. Coxey is In the
bankruptcy court again" remarks the
Sioux City Journal, land will soon be
at liberty to lead in another movement
against the plutocrats with whom he
has been associating for the past, few
years."
The form of the ballot should not
be changed with the idea of making
to take the time or who lack the intel
ligence to master the subject" says
the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
THE same people who are now
clamoring for tariff revision have al
ways been in favor of tariff revision"
says the Des Moines Capital. ut is
not a new impulse with them You
could not make a tariff so low that
they would not want it made lower"
The Burlington Hawk-Eye predicts
that Iowa is not always going to ship
its live stock to other states to be
slaughtered and packed. I'm very
short time" 1t says. there will be lit
tie, very little, meat shipped out Of
Iowa on the hoof."
There is not room for argument
Moines Capital. earnestly. Congress
should enlarge the powers OF the inter-
state commerce commission at the
earlist opportunity possible"
THE next time we are establishing a
holiday to be devoted to prayer and
meditation" say the Sioux City Jour
nal, "let us take care to select a date
in mid winter, when the temptation
ff>,,, all lAfi CHI ,,l1 Ia ut
the minimum"
Thomas, old boy has done some vo-
ciferous laundering in the index says
the Des Moines Capital, reviewing
Lawson's "Frenzied Finance" The
reading public has been entertained.
With ill-oncealed impatience they will
await forthcoming chapters to see If he
makes good"
Let us not be in too much of a
hurry about revising the tariff" pleads
the Fairfield Ledger. There are in
justices and inequalities in the Dingley
schedules, thing we all admit and
there will be in any of the schedules
which any congress may promulgate, q
thing on which all of us will agree"
Senator S. H. Harper, Of wapello
county, who introduced the biennial
election law, believes the objections
made in regard to the omission of the
phrase of Iowa is not good" says the
Bloomfield News Republican. "He
thinks the adoption of the amendment
by the people, for the second time.
by majority of the votes cast on the
question, should settle the question.
There is merit in the view the senator
takes. That is the acceptance Of the
will of the majority He has no fears
that the amendment Will be declared
lnValld by the courts,
The Oskaloosa Herald observes that
the state again and is putting Johnson
the only democratic county IN Iowa,
into the sixth district. IT is com
fortlng 10 recall, however, says the
Herald, That the schemes matched by
Des MONIES polltlclans are usually
tender buds IN January.
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School teachers are evidently even
scarcer in northern Iowa than in this
part of the state. The Keokuk Gate
townships are advertising Tor teachers
at sfo 1lontn ana aauitlonal coHpen-
satlon LOT Jahltor work.
o.
is responsible In great measure for
what some people called the apathy of
the last campaign" says the Fairfield
Ledger probably so per cent of the
patrons of rural routes In Iowa take
daily papers. They read them and
study public questions at home. Most
of them are as we'll posted In current
newspaper literature as the resident of
the city"
o.
The Des MONIES Mall and Times
wishes to predict that Iowa will con-
tinue to have two members of the cabi-
net, the same two she has now.
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When the interstate commerce COM
mission makes a rate" suggests the
Cedar Rapids Republican, at ought
not to be necessary for the commission
to be put into effect. It would be bet
ter to make it the duty Of the railroads
affected to prove that 1t is unreason-
able that it ought not to be enforced.
The burden of the proof ought to be
on the railroads, not on the shippers"
O.
What an impatient people re of
this generation are observes the