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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-06
CANADIAN TRADE AND reel.
PROclTY.

Clinton Herald.-our democrats
throughout the country, and es-
pecially Judge Wade, who seems
to be SO eager for reciprocity
with Canada, in order that we may
increase our trade with the people
across the border, should devote a lit
tie time to the figures showing our
trade with the Canadas during the
past fiscal year. In 1902 our sales to
Canada amounted to s129,00O,o 900; in
1893 these sales had increased to $751;
100000, while for the last fiscal year
ending June 80, 1904, they had increas-
ed to $15O0OO,O 900. In the meantime
our purchases from Canada during the
last three of four years have remain
ed about the same, namely, about ST.
100000. Here we see that we are all
ready, without any sacrifice of our
own market, selling to Canada each
year more than twice as much as they
are selling to us. 1t may be that this
view of the situation is a more or less
selfish one, and yet all trades must be
considered from standpoint Of home
advantage. If we are now selling each
year to the Canadas $4,000 900 worth
of commodities in excess Of what they
are selling to us, why should we let
down our tariff bars and enable them
to come into our market of $4,000 900
of people in exchange for their market
of only 100000, and with the result
no doubt that the sales from Canada
to the United States would soon ex-
coed our sales to them? The idea is
simply preposterous, and while it may
be that certain sections of our country
or certain communities, or certain
hamlets might reap some temporary
advantages from deduction of GER
tain duties, yet there is no doubt
whatever that our manufacturing and
agricultural interests as whole and
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MARRIAGE FOR TEN YEARS.

Chicago Tribune.-It Is not the first
time that George Meredith has tried to
make painful situation worse. Both
in Richard Feveril and Rhoda Fleming
he brought his characters to the point
where 1t seemed that they could not
suffer more, and then, with Internal
ingenuity, gave the thumbscrew a last,
apparently impossible turn, and left
both characters and readers insensible
with horror.
Now he proposes to derive marriage
of it's greatest alienation. When a
thing Is known to be permanent 1t is
accepted. A man and woman marry,
and, If they have been properly in
structed, look forward to nothing but
marriage ahead of them all the way to
the grave. Marriage therefore enters
into all their calculations. 1t is like
the weather. 1t may bring storms, and
worse than storms, dull days. But 1t
Is there and what people know they
can't avoid they don't think Of trying
to escape from.
But let people once fall into the
habit of marrying for ten years. A
marriage for ten years would last
mination In sight, and the prospect of
termination means the possibility Of
anticipation. People do the things
that they think about.
The centuries have been right about
1t. The way to make man and wo-
man happy together Is to convince
them that they can never get apart.
If they know that they are shut up for
good they will take to amusing them
selves as best they may within the in
closure.
| Schemes like Meredith's for making
| marriage worse than 1t Is ought to be
quarantined.
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CHARLTON.

Charlton, Oct. 3.-Chas. Lott, ofsLa-l
coma, spent Sunday in the city With
his son, Elmer, and family.
A. Garrett, of Columbia, was q busi-I
ness caller in the city Saturday.
Mrs. Harry Stewart went to Chicago
Saturday morning for a visit with
friends. s
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Mowett,o OF waynel
county, were in the city Saturday onl
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Crozier returned
home Saturday from a two weeks;
stay in St. Louis.
The Womans Relief Corps served
dinner In the basement Of the COURT
house Saturday by which they added
neat sum to their treasury.
Mrs. John Wilson, Of Ottumwa, came
up Saturday for an over Sunday visit
with relatives and friends.
Miss Edith Larimer, who is attend
ing Simpson college at Indianola, spent
Sunday at the parental home.
A large crowd was in the city Sat.
urday and the merchants all report a
heavy business for the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Ensleyi will leave
In the morning for St. Louis to attend
the exposition.
w. J. Prather, of Russell, was bust
ness caller in the city Saturday.
Mrs. r. A. Proudfoot and little
daughter returned home Saturday
from their summers outing in Colora.
do.
Mrs. Robt Downward left this morn
Ing for Cincinnati, Ia, for a visit with
relatives.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-06
CALAMITY HoWLERS.

Davenport Times.-There is no ex-
cuse for the calamity bowler There
is nothing on which he can base an
honest declaration that the country is
going to the bad, or from bad to worse,
or even that it Is making no progress.
The man who deliberately, for the sake
of an end, seeks to make his fellows
believe that they are being robbed,
that they have no reason to be content,
that they are not SO well off as are the
men Of equal capacity and ability in
other countries, is little less than a
criminal. Things may not be just
what they ought to be. but they are
getting better. A few men may be out
of work, but taking the country as a
whole more men are employed with
shorter hours and better pay per day
been able to make progress in these
respects because the conditions made
1t possible for employers to pay more.
The prices of some things are higher.
and If 1t were not so some employers
could not pay higher wages. But off,
cial figures prove that prices have not
advanced as fast as wages. The guam
ity of things produced in factories has
been increased, and more of such man
ufactured articles are consumed at
home than ever before. The rich may
be growing richer but it is not true
that the poor are becoming poorer;
the average man has more money than
ever before. The standard of living is
advancing SO that what was a luxury
for people with plenty of money few
years ago, is the necessity Of the aver
age family today. The calamity howl
err If he is honest, must show that
wages have been reduced out of all
proportion to the relation Of supply
and demand of manufactured pro-
ducts; that the standard of living has
been reduced; that with the lower
standard Of living the necessities of
the family have advanced in price out
of all proportion to wages; that the
poor are becoming poorer; that the
government is bad and getting worse
instead Of better; and, that in othe,
countries better conditions prevail
The calamity bowler has been put oui
of business
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regard them as strong and vigorous

regard them as a strong and vigorous
folk-certainly not as one of the great
nations of the world
But now, since any army or any
navy would think long before encoun-
tering them in battle, the attitude of
the whole world toward them has all
ready changed. This change will
show itself in many ways--in flnan-
cial respect, in commercial treaties and
dealings, in diplomacy, in intellectual
respect And the Japanese leaders not
only know these facts-they are good
practical Judges of men and Of ma
tons, as well as accurate marksmen
and good craftsmen-but this knowl-
the immediate provocation of which
was given by Russian intrigue and du-
plicity. They have fought for recogni-
ton by the western world because
they saw no other way so quickly or
SO effectively to win the recognition to
which they felt that they were entitled.
1t Is facts like these that peace con-
ferences have to consider; and they
must change the very psychology of
nations before they can hope to make
war wholly obsolete. Arbitration and
international tribunals play a useful
part In preventing hostility between
nations whose general standing in the
world is much alike. But when recog-
milton is to be won from the beginning
successful fighting seems yet unfortu-
of nations. And ability to fight, it ia
to be feared, Is yet necessary to hold
such secure place. The world Is
becoming more civilized, but no strong
nation is yet willing to throw away its
big stick.
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actually believed that two, could live
more cheaply and vastly more salts
factorily than one.
But the world grows prudent, canny.
skeptical. 1t talks of the size Of gro
Gerry bills rather than of rose covered
cottages. 1t dwells on the difficulties
rather than on the delights OF the
double state. Matrimony Is not ex-
actly condemned, but 1t Is pictured
more as luxury than necessity OF
life. So the young soldier, the bank
clerk. even the young preacher-he
whose thoughts We're supposed to turn
to domestic partner even as tho
sparks fly upward-are told to wait
while, to be cautious. scan their
bank accounts before taking the risk.
Within half century the average
age of those entering marriage has
increased more than five years. But
this delay is not enough, and the new
school of advisers would lengthen
single life at least another five years
and then have 1t abandoned only when
all material conditions We're favorable.
Thus does civilization proceed toward
a refutation Of the gloomy prophecies
with which one Nautilus once started
the world.
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cELIBAcY OF THE LAITY.

New York Globe.-On the heels of
Gen. Corbin's recommendation that
Junior army officers without private
fortunes-except they catch an heiress
DE required to secure consent of the
war department before marriage
comes another blow at matrimony.
The Bank of British North America
has issued flat order forbidding It's
employees marrying on an income of
less than $1,4O0 a year. The penalty
for disobedience Is instant dismissal.
Thus does the financial world join
with the military one in discouraging
wedlock. Great is the change in opin-
ion indicated thereby. The old theory
was that whatever doubts there
might be as to other things Of life.
there was certainty as to the desira-
bility of marriage. 1t was prescrip-
ton deemed of universal efficacy.
Stngleness was regarded a disease and
a priest it's only cure. Was o man
rich? He should have a wife to share
his wealth. Was he poor? He should
have a wife to enable him to become
rich. The advice to Ego west young
man." was not half as insistently
dinned into adolescent ears as the
advice to get married. Those were
days when a vast number of persons
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-06
ALBA.

Abba. Oct. 8. The members ana
friends Of the Thirty-sixth Iowa regi.
ment are making extensive prepare.
tons for the reunion Of that body on
October 6. A free dinner will be serv.
ed at the First Presbyterian church.
at $3.50 p. M, and at the camp fire In
the evening at Kings Opera House
the following speakers will be heard:t
Hon. John f. Lacey, Hon. H. L.Water3
man, Major Hamilton, Judge 7. M
Fee and others. During the day the
regimental business and other mat
ters will be taken up the meeting
place being Kings hall.
Nine Of the eleven automobiles OF
the Automobile club, which started
from Ottumwa yesterday, reached this
city and spent the afternoon In sight
seeing and visiting friends In the
vicinity.
The district court is still hearina
evidence in the case of the heirs OF
Susan A. Clark and the Iowa Central.
1t may be finished today.
Mrs. Edward Noble received word
from Mrs.Laura Duncan that the train
on which Mrs. Jennie Maiken, Miss
Maude Maiken, John Wycoff and Mrs.
Duncan had taken passage for CALI
fornia was being delayed for Unidentified
time at La Junta, California on &C.
count of washout ahead. She also
states that Mrf Wycoff was standing
the trip as well as could be expected.
but was very tired.
Rev. r. T. Aiken was absent from
his pulpit at the U. P. church yester-
day assisting Rev. A. s. Baily at AIMS
worth.
At the request Of the Bussey oflJ
cials the Little Girls in Blue" a the
atrical company were arrested by|
Marshal Van Schoiack of this place.
yesterday at about 10 a. M, but being
unable to get further word from BUS
sey the parties were discharged at g.
o'clock last night.
w. B. Greenman Of Humeston spent
Sunday in town.
]. A. Mcdonald of Creston was tran
sacting business in town this morn
ing.
VIM. M Trotter OF st. Louis was
an Abba visitor yesterday.
p. l.. Burnapp of Des MoiEs s'ssRssna,,
Sunday In this city 9
G. M. letters of Keokuk transacted
business in town this morning.
The infant child Of Mr.and Mrs. Bias.
sett of Moberly, Mo-, was buried In
Oak View cemetery at this place be.
ing sick for some time and Mrs. Bas-
sett had spent the greater part Of the
summer with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Jones of this place in hope Of
lettering Its condition. The baby; was
thought to have improved somewhat
and the parents had returned to their
home when its death occurred. The
father and mother have the sympathy,
Of their friends In their bereavement
G. w. Hickman of Charlton visited
relatives and friends here yesterday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-06
HOLD A REUNION.
Descendants Of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Groean Meet In Ottumwa.

A reunion for the first time in forty.
one years was enjoyed by the six chill
dren of Michael and Annie Grogan and
their descendants Sunday at the
635 East Main street Mr. and Mrs.
Grogan were pioneers Of Louisa coun.
ty. coming to Iowa when the Indi-
ans inhabited it. A sumptuous
dinner was served at the Mullen home
at noon, around which were seated the
six Grogan children, their husbands
and families. The affair In every In
stance was happy one, and through
out the entire day. "reminiscences Of old
were related. The six children pres-
ent, together with their families, were:.
Mrs. John McMeekin, of Lake City,
Mrs. w. J.. Nash, of Kansas City:f
John Grogan, of sanborn: Malachy
Grogan, of Melrose; Mrs. Thomas Null
len and Mrs. James King of this city,
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"THE eIFTIE GLE U.s."

The Des Moines Register and Leader
has devoted half a column to a criti-
cism of letter written by one Mrs.
Joseph o. Kennedy of Milwaukee to
the Milwaukee Sentinel, which letter
characteriZes Des Moines as an over
grown village and it's people as farm
ers who can talk of nothing but corn
and the weather. Now surely the Regis
ter and Leader can see that Mrs. Ken
nedy is wrong in the beginning and that
she has run into some other town and
has taken it for Des Moines. For Mrs.
Kennedy says it takes "a strong glass
to locate place where the stuff that
made Milwaukee famous is on tap
(Of course she means a telescope)
That is evidence conclusive that Mrs
Kennedy was not, in Des Moines but
probably in Indianola, for Des Moines,
with her scores of saloons, can quick
ly disprove the statement.
= But the Register gees into ecstasies
of indignation because Mrs. Kennedy
has chosen to criticise some Iowa
town and call it Des Moines. Mrs.
Kennedy is good joker but she GER
tainly didn't mean to injure the feel
ings of anyone in Des Moines when
she held up the mirror to them,
quicksilver side first" complains the
defender of Des Moines' reputation.
Mrs. Kennedy Is humorous. Perhaps
she didn't mean to be, but she Is. She
devotes much of her article to crit
icism of Des Moines' saloons She
seems to have learned more about the
thirst parlors of Iowa's capital city
in q n1ycS 1,feit +1,N or,
of that municipality know after living
there for years. 1t is amusing to read
her remarks upon the character of the
places when the reader has in mind
the many articles which have appeared
from time to time in the Des Moines
papers telling Of the awful state of
affairs because of the noisy, lawdefy-
ing places Perhaps Mrs. Kennedy
should be excused for entering them
for after experience in Milwaukee she
probably thought she was in church.
But anyway, she says:
when you have located it (the sa-
LOOM you wont recognize it, because of
it's dissimilarity to anything of the
kind on earth! Not a table, not chair
in sight. They are not allowed in the
building! No screen obstructs your
clear view from the street and no 4jol-
ly bunch of good fellows gets together
round the bar A Milwaukee man, if
he goes in at all, gets out with all pos
sible speed. He feels as If he is in a
house where there is a new baby-and
must tread softly for fear he will
awaken it"
The only possible explanation-if
Mrs. Kennedy really was in Des
Moines, and she says she was-is that
she must have entered one OF the sa-
looms where there was little doing.
Possibly she went into place where
d strike order had set up a boycott.
Surely she did not see any Of the sa-
looms where the noisy crowds excite
the indignation of the good people
and papers of Des Moines. Surely Mrs.
Kennedy is at fault, but not Des
Moines-no, not Des Moines.
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Let it be admitted that Iowa City has
more than the university. There is
wide acquaintance with the fact that
it has Judge Wade.-Sioux City Jour.
nal.
And the voters Of the second dis,
trict are content that Iowa City and
Iowa City alone shall retain the Judge
He is good fellow 1t seems, but as to
going to congress, the second district
has another man for that. His name is
Dawson
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: {. s. 4
things not protected is the kind
OF reciprocity that they want, practi-
cally free trade.
The republican party is not In ia.
vor OF that kind of reciprocity.
Our products grow and grow as the
factory and the farm come closer and
closer together. Under that condition
we save the transportation and under
that policy there is more now manu-
featured in the middle west than there
is in all the balance of the United
States and there is more now manu-
featured in the United States than
there is in any other three nations on
earth. 1t Is coming west. New York
is first, Pennsylvania second, Illinois
third, Ohio fourth, Massachusetts fifth
and Indiana sixth. Iowa comes with
her agriculture products in round mum.
beers worth s3Oo,0oO,Oo0, and first in ag.
rfculture, with now almost half as
much in manufactures as in agricul-
ture.
Parker on Reciprocity.
I'VE always have been ready for
reciprocity with other countries from
i republican standpoint, whenever we
can trade to our advantage and with.
out sacrificing our labor and our pro.
ducts and our industries"
The Misrepresentation in Judge
Parker's letter of acceptance, where
he speaks of McKinley's views of reci.
procity, was exposed by Mr.. Cannon in
his characteristic manner. He said:
Judge Parker in his letter of &C.
ceptance, states that he is in favor of
reciprocity and pretends to quote Pres
ident McKinleys last speech at Buff
falo to make it appear that Mckinley
was in favor Of his plan. This is the
quotation Judge Parker gives as hav.
ing been uttered by Mr.. Mckinley:
eve must have sensible trade ar
rangements if we wish to extend the
outlets for our increasing surplus
THAT is what Parker says that Nc
Kinley said. Now here is what Nc.
Kinley did say.
We must make sensible trade ar.
rangements which will not interrupt
our home production to extend the out.
lets for our surplus
Now Parker left out these words:
Which will not interrupt our home
production
Mckinley is dead and cannot de-
fend himself. 1t has became a prac-
tice of the democratic party that when
a great republican leader dies they i'm.
mediately place his name in the saints
calendar and proceed to quote him and
to misquote him when it suits their
convenience"
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ON THE "ENDLEss HELT!~

Kansas City Star.--The machinery
of the democratic campaign has been
sadly out of order. Its parts are mis-
fits, and seem to counteract one anoth-
err Its motive power has been feeble.
The essential elements of party unity
and enthusiasm have been lacking.
The machine has run but lamely at
best, and at times 1t has "chucked"
altogether. 1t has never lacked "oil''
of course. The finest lubricant that
Wall street can supply has been fur
nished In unlimited quantity. But it
takes more than grease" to run q
presidential campaign. At last the
tinkers have given up in despair. and
the party's new master mechanic, the
man from Esopus. has been forced
to take charge. 1t may be said that
is to be worked treadmill fashion,
with Judge Parker on the endless
belt"
President Roosevelt as the acknowl-
edged general director of his own
campaign, has an easy task compared
with that of Judge Parker. The re-
publican machinery is in good order
and needs only intelligent manage
ment. Mr.. Roosevelt has always
party best when he serves his coun-
try best. And this policy has been SC
successful In his case that Judge Par
ker used precisely the same words In
closing his letter Of acceptance. But
Roosevelt has been consistent. He
has preferred to get along with limit
ed campaign funds rather than secure
contributions, through understand
1ngs' or arrangements" with contrib
utors. He has invariably appealed to
the people rather than to closes or
factions He has taken the broadest
course as becomes the man who Is
president of all the people or who as
pires to be president Of all the peo-
pie.
Judge Parker Is hampered by plat
form that plays both ends against
the middle. He has trimmed to that
platform. Doubtless he thinks this is
good politics, but 1t Is not the kind OF
politics for which he declares in his
letter of acceptance. He cannot draw
fine lines Of constitutional law one day
of black citizens the next; he cannot
weep for the Filipinos and ignore the
negroes: he cannot declare unquali-
fledly for the gold standard and make
concessions to the silver democracy;
he cannot preach tariff reform and
assure the Wall street protectionists
that there Is no danger of revision al
his hands; he cannot wink at the
trusts with one eye and hurl bolts OF
wrath at them with the order-that is
he cannot do these things and estab-
lish and maintain a reputation for di-
rectness, sincerity and courage. But
the time has come when the mac1lin-
cry must be set in motion and keep
in motion. and the silent man has
been forced to operate the treadmill
that Is to furnish the motive power.
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The time is at hand when It will
not be safe for Judge Parker to take
his daily plunge in the Hudson river.
What will the correspondents write
about then?-Cedar Rapids Republic
an
They can certainly find something
to tell about until November S. Judge
Parker's trips to New York after de-
claring he would stay in Esopus until
after election, are interesting. After
November 8, there will be no further
need of news from Judge Parker, or
Tom Watson, or Eugene Debs, or
George Taylor. or Uncle Gassaway, or
any of the other also-rans.