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The Washington times., 1904-12-21
An Ice Box Necessary.

In this age of aecessions the woman
VINO lives alone will find her comfort
enhanced If she possesses an ice box.
even though it be very small one OF
the nursery variety, and il will save it's
cost by keeping fruits, meats and milk
1t will not be possible for her to buy in
quantity any. perishabie foods; nor is it
wise to purchase dry groceries IN bulk
unless she has ample storage facilities
Of course, buyiIfg in this fashion In
ereases the expense; yet, in the end. it
costs less than the sd me grade of meals
at a boarding house or restaurant. Plan
ming ahead and common sense In buying
viii give her wide variety of menus
When gas Can be had a two-burner.
fiat top stove with small oven will not
cost over s.. and will do all the work
necessary; # gas is not accessible. a
small, blue flame oil stove will give
equally good service. The woman who
can have electricity on tap Is more than
fortunate, properly attached saucepan
than ample for her needs. A good sized
chafns dish is admirable. and alcohol.
expensive -
The Washington times., 1904-12-21
A laps RATION.

The statements 50 often repeated. that
Jap viii fight for twenty-four hours
on i RATION of two or three beans and u
sip OF tea. has been at last explained.
The japanese bean is not the common.
horticultural bean with which our gar
dens are acquainted, but vegetable
often a yard in length. and large enough
10 fill a quart measure. A single bean
makes meal for a hungry plowman.
The Washington times., 1904-12-21
BIG WOMAN EXPIRES;
WEIGHED 400 POUNDS

SCRANTON. Pa. Dec. 21.-Airs. Lena
Race. o. Yandiing, who was visiting
her dassssitsr on the Moosic Mountain.
near Winton. dropped dead.
she weighed 400 pounds, and seven men
were employed by the undertaken IN
place her body in the wagon ia whfci,
IT was brought down the mountain
special co.in will be made for her.
The Washington times., 1904-12-21

steak, boiled potatoes, Charlotte
russo (baker's). coffee
Suppers
/ Dreamed potatoes. bread and butter.
baked custar1, tea
,. Scrambled eggs and tomatoes, mar
maIade, cocoa.
g. Bread, nut and apple salad. baked
zsss5 banana, tea
4 seanoped tomato. lettuce salad,
fT1it, cocoa
The Washington times., 1904-12-21
DRENCHES HER VIEiFIER
AND THEN BEAT HIM

MAHASoY CITY, Pa. Dec. 2l-Tak-
ing Isabella Roman TO task for some
fancied wrong George Peters, her
neighbor, was set upon by the woman
who first doused him with a pail of
water and then belabored him with the
business end of a broom until he begged
for mercy. Peters had her arraigned FOR
assault before a justice of the peace
This man called me name said
the woman, that would have justified
me IN Killing him on the spot .
The Washington times., 1904-12-21
a Satisfying Breakfast

plate of fresh or stewed srnj+ ~,
cooked cereal with good cream mn tai
loi! +tpa ker's). buttered toast or b;s'
cunt and cup of clear. Fragrant 80 s-s.
, ,,iahe a sa tisfying breakfast W.,
80; - liked, a chop. Clipped baef sl,it
&c. eloppeo raw oeef or eggs in so,1a
Iolh. may be added For diner s et..n
- tiefe are many simple sVyoerS u,bsdgI
49, pe quickly made. Many TASTY lar =
o ,ls can be prepared which ysyS1If5' -. =
ai IrtD impossible in a large family NC
fiFSt class cafes serve eos
ilie'Hy names, and in WAYS tnfHorqbf ~
Dy most nouseEeepers. and the 60, ,a,e VI
VINO caters Tor herself and IiIses 60
VII md IT 10 her advantages to et,7s3,,
some standard work on the s1.flieot II
poaching, for instance, use milk str-,i--
60 tomato or thin sauce or eraX-v in
Eidce OF water; or place "A few sr,oon-
fcls of thick sauce in > ,ifsb = -, aooi ~
the egg ana stand in a stea rnet. or in ~
oven The result will be an addition ~
the menu list. In place of milk. ,,se
iTult iulce or the syrup from preserves
IN making a baked castard When hofI-
ing potatoes or rice, cook enough To-,
TWO meals. n slice of halibut or !. small
liSh can be steamed or boiled whole a
portion served hot with egg sauce. The
remainder set aside for a scallop or =
salad Use nuts and fruits freely: the
former VIII now and then serve as a
substitute Tor meat. In short vary the
menus. and interest and appetite will
not only survive. but increas,-
The Washington times., 1904-12-21
A Stock of Canned Goods Useful.

To make possible quick and simple
menus. it is well 70 keep on hand a can
or TWO each of soup, salmon. or other
fish, roast beef or boned chicken. snin-
ach, peas or tomatoes, a lar off haef
extract, a bottle of clam Juice and a
variety OF seeasonings, such as kitchen
bouquet catsups, favored vineesrs
GROUND and whole spices. cocoa. coffee
ana tea. n little can of plum pudding
ana Few half pint jars or small "a rs
OF preserves and fruits Manufacturers
are beginning 10 eater 10 this sort of
Idoe; ana a great variety of foods ran
low De obtained in what are called half
In planning 10 nave fresh meats the
question l Is frequently raised regarding
1ne Feasibility of having n good sefaaES
ihfs Is quite possible The Ont 9ebosa,,
shouid be thick slice from the sr,,s,ii
Gnu OF the porterhouse When recaiI.ed
remove the bone with a sfarD knife e,,f
me outside, or back norton in ,,,.o
IN aleces, brush each with a IittIe oiive
o on ana lemon juice or vinegar. mixed l.,
b bauai proportions, and put in the ice
- out the surplus far very fine and
,,s,la ~ our. from the bone and tough end
49, 49, nttie stew, which. with the al
o,tion OF a cupful OF cut MECHANICS Lii
t .n ne Almost meal in itself. a chi@s
b,r VIII give meat for three meals ~,
t -, 80 proued, creamed or named 80
b,ls lIs ana legs deTiled or stea med 49,
f i.Su III the oven; and n hash ~, -, M
eoe carcass and scraps
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
HE O1'TUMwA COURIER

the affair. To accomplish this all
kinds of means have been resorted to.
Colombians were finally lead into the
belief that there was enough members
OF the senate opposed to the treaty to
accomplish its defeat.
The fact is that at no time since the
commencement Of negotiations with
the republic Of Panama the treaty has
been in no danger of defeat. When the
opposition of the democratic senators
became open it did not take them long
to discover that they were pursuing a
course directly at variance with the
wishes OF the people Of the south.
Caucus after caucus has been held by
the democratic senators in an attempt
to fix some line of opposition to the
treaty, but to no avail. Many of the
southern men refused to line UP with
the German plan inasmuch as they
knew the sentiment of their constitu-
ents favored the contamination of the
treaty.
Recently several of the state legisla-
lures in the south gave explicit in
structions to their senator's to give
their support and vote to securing the
passage of the treaty. This places be-
You'd all question of a doubt the ratifi-
cation of the treaty.
In recent years no question has come
before the Legislators of the nation
that has been of so great Importance
to the United States as Is that of the
building of the transisthmian canal. 1t
has long been recognized by the peo-
pie as an American, not partisan
question. The attempt of some of
the democratic senators to infuse par
tisan politics into it can only be char
acterized as the height of political
folly. that will receive its just and de-
served rebuke from the American vo-
ters.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
THE BEST TARIFF ARGUMENTS.

THE BEST TARIFF ARGUMENTS
Prodigious growth has marked the
trade and commerce Of the United
States under the policy of protection.
On the other hand under the rule of
free trade the commerce Of England
shows steady decline during the
past quarter Of a century and the
business and INDUSTRIAL conditions Of
that country are now greatly de-
pressed. Putting these two PROPOSE
lions into figures their truth becomes
Immediately apparent.
In 1880 the imports of manufactured
goods into the United Kingdom were
$416,000,000; in 1901 they were $713,-
100000. In 1880 it's exports Of such
goods were 1891 100000 and in 1901
they were $1,105.000. At these same
periods the imports of manufactured
goods into the United States were
$279, 100000, and $336,5O0,000 respec-
lively, and its exports $107, 100000 and
$428, 900, respectively. This means
that England has increased it's imports
TIA per cent. while the United States
has increased its exports 300 per
cent and its imports only 20.2 per
cent
Not only when compared with the
United States has Great Britain lost
in the competition Of commerce, but
the conditions existing within itself
are short when measured by the stan
dard Of any protected country. Fol
lowing the reversal of the commercial
statistics there has been a reduction
of wages in England and an Increased
cost of living, especially in foodstuffs.
These conditions have given rise to a
spirited tariff war in that country and
America is being held up as the bright
est example of the advantages that
accrue to the people of protected
country.
Well did Hon. Charles Dick portray
the situation that exists in his address
in congress recently: Great Britain
learns from experience but the democ-
racy of America does not" Despite the
memory of the American people back
to the days of free soup houses from
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
WHERE VI is THE WISDOM OF lTq

Wnere IS the wisdom OF reciprocity
IN competitive products, OF practically
free trade, with Canada? What
would the United States gain by
adopting such acourse? These are per
tinent questions that must he decided
by the people Of this country, and up
on their decision MIST rest III a large
measure their future prosperity.
II the arguments put forward in
Canadian reciprocity are sound, why
will they not apply to England, France,
Germany, and other nations of the
world with whom the United States
does business? In short, why not
adopt free trade with The world? The
only answer necessary to such q.es-
lions is contained in another question,
do you not remember what happened
to the United States during tho years
from 1893 to 1896? In the light Of this
m emory is it not strange that the peo-
pei of the United States should ask,
where is the wisdom Of our deliber-
ately adopting a policy that would
destroy our own home market and in
dustry.
The people may, listen to this agfta,
ton. They will hear the appeals made
in behalf of this free trade PROPOSE.
ton, but they will then ask, where Ifs
the wisdom of 1t, and their votes will
record their decision in the matter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
GOVERNOR CUMM|NS' "REMEDIES''

Des Moines Capital.-Governor
Cummins commenced prescribing rem
edies for what he believed to be eco
nomic ills at Minneapolis in 1901, soon
after he had been elected governor.
Prices of farm products at that time
were tremendously high and every
body wanted to hit all kinds of trusts.
The governor proposed some rene
dies for what he believed to be the
ills of the hour. He advocated the
removal of tariff duties from all trust
made goods. He said there ought to
be a commission appointed to take the
duty of all trust made goods and to
restore the duty again when compete
ton had been restored. 1t other
words, he would destroy the factory
by removing the duty, and when the
factory was ruined he would restore
the duty in order to put new life into
the factory. He also said that there
We're only two ways of fixing prices.
One way being by competition, and
of fixing the prices of commodities by
law when competition failed. The
doctrine of fixing prices by law is a
thousand years old and was abandon
ed when people began to govern them
selves. The governor also asserted that
when American competition failed he
was in favor of inviting the COMPETE
tition we will have; at home If possi-
BILE; with the world If necessary" He
also asserted that the Consumer was
better entitled to competition than the
producer to protection" The above
positions made up the Iowa idea" and
We're exploited by all of the independ-
ent papers and some of the republic
can papers, and the governor found
himself on what seemed to be a wave
of popularity
But his Minneapolis position could
not stand the debate which followed,
and notwithstanding the governors
strong personal and social popularity,
he felt compelled to both reassert and
then modify his Minneapolis opin-
ions.
He stood by these opinions in
speech at Detroit one at Denver. and
when President Roosevelt made a
speech at Minneapolis and asserted
that the tariff was not the mother of
trusts and that the removal Of tariff
duties would simply destroy American
manufacturing industries, Governor
Cumnlins rested quietly and seeming
ly abandoned his position. In his
he satisfied republicans reasonably
we'll. But now that times are not as
tpuoyant as they We're in 1901 and now
that the trusts have cut their own
throats and the mergers and COM
bines are no longer available for po-
litical denunciation, the governor
strikes out on his new lead.
He is no longer in the trust destroy
ing business. His former remedies for
high prices are not needed. The com
petition which he sighed for came
about when the. supply of things be-
gun to exceed the demand.
Now the governor, Instead of try
ing to strike 2, blow at Amarican in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
WHAT ARE WE scRAPPlNe

On his return home from Washing
ton, Governor Cummins is reported to
have stated in an interview with the
Des Moines Register and Leader, the
following:
II had long talk with the Presi.
dent, but / have not word to say
upon that phase of my trip, save this:
There has never been, and is not now,
SO far as am aware, the slightest diff
ference of opinion between the Presi-
dent and myself respecting the tariff
or reciprocity, and no such supposed
differences were ever mentioned in
any conversation 1 ever had with
him.
If this is the case, what are we
scrapping about? The republicans of
Iowa are for the nomination Of Mr..
Roosevelt to a man. They are for a
tariff plank in the republican national
platform that shall be in accordance
with the Presidents utterance upon
this subject in his famous Minneapolis
speech last year If Governor Cum
Minis is in accord with President
Roosevelt upon the subject of the tar
iff as the President himself enunciated
his belief at Minneapolis, then that
ought to settle the matter and there
should be no further controversy as to
the Iowa delegation to the national
convention. But unfortunately Mr..
Cummins goes further and states that
there is difference between his opin-
ions and those of other prominent re-
publicans in the state and that the
state convention should select dele
gates to the national convention from
one faction or the other. depending
upon the makeup of the state conven-
ton itself. In other words, this seems
to carry out the idea of the Washing
ton correspondent, who, during the re-
cent visit of the governor to that city,
telegraphed the Chicago Tribune that
the Iowa delegation to the national
convention would be a Cummins' dele
cation first and then it would also be
for Mr.. Roosevelt. This idea is simply
intolerable, and will not be approved
by the rank and file of Iowa republi-
cans. Iowa republicans will not stand
for bossism by Mr. Cummins or any
one else and they have so expressed
themselves in no uncertain terms on
numerous occasions during the past
few years.
Let the state convention instruct its
delegation to the national convention
for Roosevelt and tariff plank in ac-
cord with the Presidents utterances,
and thereupon select delegation
without any acrimonious discussion
or division whatever. If we are all
of the same opinion, what in the name
of common sense, are we scrapping
about, anyway?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
DEMocRAcY's PERPLExING CUES
TION

In view of the declaration of MT.
Bryan that no man shall be nominated
: for president at the st. Louis conven-
ton, who was bolter in the cam
paigns of 1896 and 1900, it is interest
Ing to note the comment that Is being
made on this phase of the democratic
situation. 1t appears that in the DEM
ocratic ranks there are boilers and
Z boilers, the question as to who are the
boilers depending altogether on the
view point. Mr.. Bryan no doubt con-
siders himself sound democrat and
the principles for which he and his
followers stand the only "all wool'
doctrines. This being the case it is
certain that he will oppose any demo-
GRAFT, who stood forth for the cause Of
sound money in the two last national
campaigns of the nineteenth century.
Regarding this question the Chicago
Chronicle of a recent date says:
From the populistic faction of the
so-called democratic party comes the
reiterated assertion that no man shall
be nominated at st. Louis who was a
bolter in 1896 or in 1900.
This is supposed to be sweeping
enough to exclude as candidates most
of the conspicuous democrats from Mr..
Cleveland down who did not hail with
Joy the program Of reputation and
revolution set forth at the Coliseum in
Chicago in the year first mentioned.
Yet the convention of 1895 nomin-
ated a bolter in the person of Mr.. Bry-
an; he was renominated four years
{ later at Kansas City, and, if words and
actions mean anything he is boIter
even now.
Mr.. Bryan and his populists in Ne
braslla bolted Mr.. Cleveland in 1892
and Mr.. Bryan came to Chicago four
years later as a member Of a boiling
delegation.
1t is true that he and they have
since then set up the claim that they
voted for Weaver, the populist, in 1892,
in order to deprive Harrison of the
electoral vote of Nebraska, but it will
require only glance at the returns
from that state in that year to show
the fallacy of this assertion:
harrison ..... .............. 1927
weaver $50. ................ g., l34
cleveland 1905. ......'........ 4943
If Mr.. Bryan and the other populists
who admit that they voted for Weaver
had been particularly in earnest in
their protested desire to deprive Har-
rison of the electoral vote of Nebraska
they could have done it easily by vot-
ing for Grover Cleveland.
The fact is, of course, that Mr..
Bryan was not then and is not now
democrat. He would bolt Mr.. Cleve-
land today just as he bolted him in
1892 in favor of Weaver, and the prob
ability is that he and his populistic fol-
lowing will bolt any nomination made
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
"PAssING oE wALsH.v

commenting on the outlook for
the political career of Hon. Charles
A. walsh, OF Ottumwa, secretary of the
democratic national committee since
1895, the Davenport Times says:
In Ottumwa lives a man who sees
the handwriting on the wall 1t is
not because he has raised golden ves-
sci in revelry, but because he has been
the chief lieutenant Of one who has
made god of silver. The mind of
Q. A Walsh, secretary of the national
democratic committee, must be of i'm
agination all compact, if he believes he
can escape the inevitable destruction
that will come to his king who has
hurled defiance to all without the walls
over which floats the banner of the
Kansas City platform.
With his chief he has been weighed
in the balances and found wanting.
He has been unable to keep his own
state in line. The silver democrats
have been engulfed. The gold men
have marched under the wall, and tax
en- the stronghold. 1t is battle royal.
And as Bryan, In his Lincoln speech,
showed disposition to fight, and an
nounced that no quarters are to be
given, the eastern leaders of the party
will take him at his word Bryan will
be overthrown, and with him will go
those who have been the mainstays of
his leadership. And Walsh is of them
the chief. His bodyguard among the
silver men Of Iowa has been able to
protect him. Walsh has become an is
sue in the Hawkeye state, because he
n nroys rs p,>Vyn mic Nd
showing no disposition to compromise,
must go.
The rise of Walsh was in 1896. Since
then he has been national commit
teeman from Iowa. He has represent
ed the 16 to 1 idea in this state. 1--WE
propose to break his political back,
is the forceful, If not elegant, way one
of the prominent democrats puts it.
He will look in vain for reinforce
ments from the Second district. Exit
Walsh.
1t is not difficult to discern the hand
writing on the wall. AS the Times
promises that Mr.. Walsh will look in
vain for support in the Second dis
trict', it is equally as certain that the
same fate will await him when he
comes to the Sixth district asking to
be continued in his present place Of
power in the democratic organization.
AS everywhere the strongest and most
substantial men of the democratic
party in the Sixth district no longer
look to Mr.. Bryan as the saviour Of
their party, and he cannot count on
their support in the coming campaign.
Good politics will demand that the lieu.
tenants of the champion of free silver
shall pass from power within their
leader.