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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-01-01

LII IoCeut reply TO an article in
the st. Paul Dispatch, the st. Paul
Globe, made the following remarkably
strong argument in favor of North Da-
kota irrigation: @a-s
An evening paper in this city
makesia vicious and unwarranted as
oault upon the people of North Dakota
n account of their demand for such a.
change in the national irrigation at
as we'll permit the funds collected un-
der it to be spent in the states that
contri butte them. AS the act stands,
the proceeds of public land sales in
tie several states are covered INTO the
irrigation. fund.- and th is is available
for carrying ous irrigation projects
wherever decided upon by the federal
authorities. There is no connection
between the origin of the mo.ey AID
the locality where reservoirs are con
stfucted and other improvements
made. At the meeting held IN North
Dakota recentlysit was urged that the
money should be spent ID the states
that contribute d It, and a bilt to that
effect is now before the senate 1-&S
This is what the contemporary re-
ferred to calls remembering the poll
cy with local craft. - It argues that
the public lands are ederal and not
state property; that oney derived
from their sales goes into the federal
and hot the state treasury; that irri-
CATION is a national matter; and that
this demand in which the people Of
North Dakota are practically unani-
nous, and which is seconded not only
by their representative at Washing
ton but by the national authorities as
we'll, is scandalous graft. =
The people. Of North Dakota are not
open tosa any such accusation either in
theory or in fact. Legally the public
lands in the several states do belong
to the United States government, but
there has been shameful inequality in
dealing with the different states in
| this respect When. the older states
Of tne Un;on ,were admitted they
received from the federal government
| free gift Of all public lands within
their boundaries, and these were after
wards disposed Of at their. @pleasu rs
fo1 state purposes At later period
| the federal government asserted its
Ic2atrol over tine public lands; hui
upon the admission Of the state such
large grants were made to 1T to sDe
Iheld in trust for internal improve.
ment and tine like that III amounted
TO gift in the major part il not the
4 whole Of the public lands The new.
est states got nothing. When they
were admitted, the government retain.
Led all Its holding except the custom
airy grant Tor education and those
Estates have been defrauded in COM.
parison with their older sisters. Il
Il we start. therefore, TO argue on
principles Of equity, the funds deriy-
Cd from land sales in the states Of the
Northwest should properly go to the
states themselves instead Of to the
federal government. The claim 81
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Passengers departed.

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dine, Feb 9-F 4 Baldwin, e + Din
ert, E X Bull, w w Chamberlain,
q W Hollioe, Rev j E Kekipi, Mrs
Kekipi, Lum sing.
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media, Feb 10-Edwin B de Cola
aud vile, G Fl HeI man ard wife, B
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Spe7e-, Rev 4 Il B5uh U, S Morris
Idle.
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cvc. ], Ross, Auditor
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KentucEy's famous Jessse Moor,
Whiskey, unequalled for its purity
and excellence. On sale at sry Of
she saloons aud al Lovojoy g. 90
distributing aReAts for the HswslIs
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FoH RENT OR LEASE

Six.Roomed Cottage on King St,
next door to Ssnitarium, Kewslo.
Artesian water laid. Outhouses in
the rear.
For terms. apply to him personal
ly at the HI waiisn Hardware Cos
store.
ABRAHAM FERNANDEZ.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
NOTABLE PROGRESS,

Last evening more than a hundred
business and professional men Of Cen
terville gathered fat the Continental
hotel and enjoyed banquet at which
the future of"Greater Centerville" was
toasted and the banquetters congratu-
lated themselves and each other upon
the progress of their little city. During
the past two months the first 10000
yards of brick paving has been laid,
and 1t was this fact that brought about
the pleasant event of last evening. In
addition to this public Improvement,
however. Centerville boasts that
during the past two years there have
been completed and begun, Ito be COM
pleted next year,. improvements that
will, when finished. reach total value
Of nearly s1,000,OO0. This work in
cludes new court house, public H.
brary, government building, hospital,
fourteen miles Of sewers, three new
churches, the paving and many private
improvements.
Centerville's example is one that
can be emulated by every bright, pro-
gressive county seat in Iowa. Business
Is good throughout the state. times
are ripe for public improvements.
Such improvements are not waste of
money. They advertise the town as
a live" one. They put it In a condi-
ton to enjoy further growth and to at
tract capital. They take 1t out of the
ranks of little towns" which ranks
are always full, and place it on a level
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
UNloNIsTs, nor SOCIALISTS.

The American Federation of Labor
now IN annual convention at San
francisco, has demonstrated that it
mas a valid claim to recognition as a
trustworthy, conservative body of
trades unionists and men who have
studied the problem of unionism thor.
oughly and calmly. Practically since
the organization of the movement
there has been. an effort on the part of
some OF the members to graft the doc
trines of socialism into the doings of
the unions. But always these attempts
have met with failure and the uf1onist
workers who have Influence in the or.
CARNATIONS maintain that they have
no room in their unions for politics,
Socialism is little too dreamy and
far-off for the level headed worker who
Is the back bone of the trades union
movement. But nevertheless these
same level headed men have to keep
watch upon the deliberations of their
several organizations to prevent so.
cialism getting hold that will be
hard to do away with when once Sc
cured
At San Francisco last week the gen
eral resolutions presented to the con-
vention, when reported out of the com
mlittee, were preceded by the follow
ing preamble:
Whereas. The unprecedented con-
centration of wealth in the United
States and the rapid development of
the trusts in almost every branch of
industry make it obvious that capital
ism will soon reach it's elimination
point and will make room for another
phase Of civilization.
This, though 1t did rot mention So
cialism, is the regulation form used
by those who want to get the doctrines
Of that belief into the labor organiza-
tons. But 1t was sighted early and
when voted upon the preamble was
cut off by heavy and decisive vote.
The preamble did not mention social
ism specifically but it's meaning was
very clear.
The Iowa Federation of Labor, at its
two latest annual conventions, has
taken the same action with regard to
similar resolutions and will doubtless
continue to do SO on as many succeed
ing occasions as the proposition is
presented.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
THE IDEAL MANOR

Now that Mayor Harrison, Chicago's
four term chief executive, has spoken,
every city may know just what sort of
a man to choose for the office of mayor
Mayor Harrison seems to base his es.
Inmates upon mans ability to sue
coed himself in Office That is the
good way for politician to look at the
matter, but there is another side. 1t
is a fact that has been proven in
nearly every city in the country, and
often in Ottumwa, that the majority of
the people will not vote for proposed
administration because it will be hon
est and moral if elected 1t is only on
widely separated occasions that re-
form wave sweeps over community
with force enough to seat a reform adj
ministration. Yet it comes sometimes
and the administration generally
proves a success. This, notwithstand-
ing the fact. which is nearly always
evident, that the mayor does not sue
coed himself. Mr.. Harrison is poll
tician and he sees all things with the
eyes of the politician. If a reform
administration is not the popular kind,
then it is unwise to run on reform
ticket except at certain we'll defined
times, and then only once.
Mayor Harrison, despite his denials
is casting fond eyes toward the may
orally of Chicago and would like to
succeed himself in Office again, max
Ing his fifth term. But the people of
the city are turning away from his
style of conducting affairs and there
10 q Cnntir,nrt IN 70 of q hue
man. The republicans have men
toned prominently John G. Fetzer, a
former Ottumwan and for several
years one of the most successful bust
ness men of the metropolis. This
seems to have rather frightened Mr..
Harrison and he is credited with the
following interview:
"This fetch of business man for
mayor makes me tired. The mayor of
Chicago must be something more than
a business man, pure and simple. He
must be broad liberal man to con-
serve the interests of 100000 per-
sons. A man who tries to run this
Office on strait-laced lines will never
be able to succeed himself. His adj
ministration would not appeal to g.
U0O,0O0 people OF divergent IDEAS"
Mr. Harrison led down to set of
specifications for a successful mayor,
embodying his ideas in the following
language.
"He must be an honest man, first of
all.
"He must have common sense.
He has to have broad ideas, al
though that follows from the posses
sion of common sense.
He will require a contain amount
of Imagination to help him figure out
the future and maybe to relieve the
tedium of the office.
Literary ability is unnecessary.
ability to make a good speech does
not harm but it is an attribute that
can be dispensed with. Better es-
tablish department Of oratory."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
GENERAL LEW WALLACE.

At his home in Charlottesville. Ind.
surrounded by relatives and friends
and given every possible aid in his
hopeless fight against fate, General
Lew Wallace, author. soldier. traveller
lawyer. lies dying. Slowly but surely
the shadow, of death is creeping over
the features of this noble American
and a Borrowing public, helpless
awaits the end of that life which has
accomplished SO much but is now be-
ing sacrificed to slow disease.
General Wallace's greatest achieve
ment was the production of"Ben Hur.'
This great work, one of the strongest
stories ever written in the English
language, will live for centuries after
its author and his contemporaries have
been gathered to their fathers. Many
people class Ben Hur" and "Uncle
Toms Cabin as the two greatest
American books, but Ben Hur'' be-
cause it appeals to greater number
OF people and is on universal sub
ject, is greater than Mrs. Stoves
story OF the south. 1t tells, in a Ian.
guage that cannot be initiated nor i'm
proved upon, the life story of the lowly
Nazarene, his trials and triumphs. his
prosecutions and his final victory.
In the death of General Wallace the
world loses one of it's greatest and
ablest men. Even when young man
IN 1861 at the head of regiment of
zouaves. he halted his men on the
streets Of indianapolis, even then on
the way to the front, and had them
swear, on Bonded knee, to Remember
Buena Vista" His distinguished
career had not begun but this act of
an, obscure soldier marks the begin.
ming of that soldiers rise Lew Wal.
lace's death will be mourned. and
most sincerely mourned by all Amer.
lea. But his life work is of the kind
that lives after its authors death and
adds glory to his name and love to his
memory, even among generations yet
unborn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
THE JAPs' OTHER SIDE.

Gradually the tide Of feeling for
Japan which was SO prominent In
America at the opening of the oriental
war, seems to be decreasing. This
may be partially because it started
with so much rush that it could not
last long and it is due, also, to the fact
that Americans are studying Japan
carefully for themselves instead Of
taking the word Of the Japanese o.
M. Lewis Of Geneva, Neb., who has re-
turned to this country recently after
spending four years in Japan as a
teacher. has given the American stud
ents Of the Japanese a new idea to
ponder on. He declares that the Jap
is willing, anxious to learn all he can
about the other nations of the world
but that he wants to learn only what
he considers necessary for his better
ment. Mr.. Lewis in recent article,
makes some statements that are new
and original as compared with the
criticisms of Japan by other writer's.
He says:
"Stoddard and. others write beauti-
full lectures about the japanese, but
they did not stay to see under the
mask. They went from China. a land
of filth and ignorance to Japan and
the contrast was SO great that they
grew eloquent. But China is genuine.
Japan is artificial and continually
wears mask to keep the world from
seeing her real self. / do not believe
the Japanese mind and heart capable
of receiving the genuine Western DIV.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
THE COLORADO MIX.

BY far the most interesting spot in
the United States just now, from a po
l1tical standpoint, is Colorado. The
fight now in progress there, which has
resulted in the arrest of score or
more OF alleged political grafters, is
not only disgrace to the state but a
practical admission by both parties
that dishonesty has for some time ex-
listed in elections in Colorado and that
until now the lid has been kept on by
mutual consent. 1t is as well that it
had been lifted some time and it is to
the credit Of the republicans that they
have been the ones to start the inves-
tigation.
Whatver viewpoint is taken. the
fight is an interesting one. Mr.. Pea
tody now seems to have the upper
hand and his claims that Adams was
elected by illegal methods, if they can
be substantiated fairly, entitle him to
occupy the governors chair until a
successor is duly elected and qualified.
There is no substantiated claim that
Mr.. Peabody was elected by illegal
means at the beginning Of his pres
ent term and there is consequently no
argument against his holding his seat
until some one else is fairly elected.
Judging impartially, however, it
seems that the Colorado fight is sim
ply double accusation. The repub-
licans have been accused of dishonest
methods in the past and they simply
reply that the democrats are equally
guilty. Both the pot and the kettle
seem to be very dark in hue.
There is grain Of good, at least, in
the Colorado matter, which gives re-
publicans good cause for rejoicing.
Though there are ordinations and re-
ordinations flying between both par
ties, there is not the lightest whisper
that duplicates President Roosevelt or
hint that he has profited by the al
legged dishonest work. He carried
Colorado, like he carried Iowa and
many another state. because the peo-
pie wanted him for President.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
SENATOR cockRELL,s RECORD

Probably the most unpleasant fea-
ture, even for republicans, about the
result OF the recent election, Is the
deposition of Senator Cockrell of Mis-.
souri,, which must come as soon as
the new republican legislature of Mis-
souri, gets together and votes upon the
senatorship. Senator Cockrell, had
Missouri gone democratic, would have
no opposition whatever this year nor
any other time so long as he lived. He
was recognized as the senator from
MISSOURI. To deprive him OF his seat
would have been mark of ingrati-
tude on the part of the democracy Of
Missouri. But the big landslide of
this fall caught him with the Others
and he will soon cease his connection
with the United States senate after
an honorable membership of many
years-more than any other senator,
in fact, except William B. Allison Of
Iowa.
1t is indicative of Senator CockrelPs
general popularity that he and Mr.. AL
llson, the two acknowledged leaders
on either side of the United States
senate, though they disagree on almost
if not quite every question that arises
with the division between the two par
ties as an issue, yet their personal
friendship and their mutual respect is
as great as exists between any two
m empers of the body Each one be-
lieves implicitly in the truth and re.
sponsibility of the other although their
views on practically every question are
different.
Francis Marion CockrelI entered the
senate March 4. 1875, under what to
most men would have seemed a heavy
handicap. He was unknown outside
Missouri, and known there only as a
country lawyer who had never held
public office. He was product of the
political revolution that overthrow the
republican party in Missouri, and his
senatorial campaign had seemed
rather eccentric from the viewpoint of
the political manners of the times.
He was democrat at a time when
that party's follies covered 1t with
odium, and not in the least ashamed
OF the fact. He had been a confeder-
ate soldier, and never dream ed of apol-
ogizing for it, although he accepted alb
solutely the judgment of arms and the
fact of an undivided republic.
The sturdy character of the man and
his unassuming integrity have made
his career both long and honorable,
and broadly useful to the whole coun-
try No senator commands greater
personal and professional respect from
his colleagues. Of late years he has
devoted himself particularly to ques-
tions of military organization, on
which he is regarded in the senate as
an authority. 1t Is not too much to
say that the army reforms projected
by Secretary Root would not have been
10 swiftly or com pletely enacted into
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
RECENT NAVAL CHANGES.

Chicago Chronicle. - Rear Adj
miral Evans, who was year
year ago in command of our Asiatio
fleet, is to succeed in March Rear AID.
miral Albert S. Barker as commander
of our Atlantic fleet. This now consists
of three squadrons and a torpedo fio-
tilla. Rear Admiral Barker is in COM
mand of the three squadrons. Rear
Admiral Charles III. Davis commanding
the battleship squadron. Rear Admiral
c. D. Sigsbee the Caribbean squadron,
and Rear Admiral James II. Sands, the
coast squadron.
All told there are in the North At
lantic fleet nine battleships,, seven
cruisers, two of the new monitors.
and supply vessels. Rear Admiral
Evans will in March have command Of
the largest fleet in the American navy
and one Of the largest fleets in the
world. Rear Admiral Davis will re-
main in command of the battleship
squadron and will be second In COM
mand of the fleet.
Rear Admiral T. F. Jewell, who has
been in command of the European
squadron, was retired Nov. 10 and was
succeeded by Captain Harrison G. o.
Colby. The squadron consists of the
Olympia, Cleveland and Des Moines.
The Pacific squadron, now at Pam
anna, under command Of Rear Admiral
Caspar T.. Goodrich, is composed of the
New York, Boston, Marblehead, wy
oming (new monitor), and four other
vessels.
The Asiatic fleet, under command OF
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, is now
divided into three squadrons. The
battleship squadron wisconsin, Ore
gon, and Monadnock) is under the i'm
mediate command of Rear Admiral
Stirling; tie cruiser squadron under
Command of Rear Admiral William M.
Folger, and the Philippine squadron
under command of Rear Admiral
Charles J. Train.
The South Atlantic squadron Crook
Ign, Atlanta, Castine and Marietta) is
under command of Rear Admiral f. E.
Chadwick and the Atlantic training
squadron has been in charge of Captain
Royal B. Bradford, who became Rear
Admiral on the retirement of Jewell.
The battleship Oregon, ready for
service. is still at San Francisco. The
cruiser Chicago left San Juan, Porto
Rico, yesterday for the straits of Ma
gellan. There the Chicago will become
the flagship of the Pacific squadron,
The new armored cruisers West Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania, are approach
ing completion and will soon be a part
of the battleship squadron of the North
Atlantic feet.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29

ilization. They will make you believe
they want it, but they don't They
really shut their minds and hearts to
stranger, when in their conceit they
have opened both to receive as much
as they consider of use to them.
'Therell come a time in the future
when the American who have grown
enthusiastic over Japan, will believe
this. The Japs want simply to learn
of the stranger, but they want none of
his spirit
"Of all the people in the world
whom have found insincere and
tickle in friendship, the Japanese are
the worst. They are polite and affable
only on the surface. In their hearts
they despise the stranger and the
strangers ideas. My Japanese boys
and girls loved me when they were in
the school room with me, but when
they went to their homes they were
filed with bitterness against me and
told their parents both truth and un-
truth about me. They scoffed together
about what l was laboring to show
them and the parents watched care
fully to see that none of my ideas
were established in their young minds
contrary to their own.
''The Jap at home has no morals in
the Christian sense of the word" con-
tinued Mr.. Lewis. ''He is soaking
only for power and for the advance
ment of japan along Japanese lines.
He is willing to use Christian tools,
but not to Christian end. Japan is
Shinto to the core and don't you for
get it. 1t is founded on family. 1t is
governed by the dead, though it has
the tools of modern civilization in its
hands. The Japanese are attractive
but hostile to the rest of the world"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29

The rooms S, 6, Z, and were used
| Tor educational purposes"
Says Mr.. Lawson:
If an outsider could possibly have
obtained the entry to the headquarters
of the Whitney Massachusetts Pipe
Line. say at 8 o'clock any evening
during the session, he might easily
have imagined himself at the Madison
Square Garden or at Tattersalls on
the night of the first day of an inter
national horse sale. This is what he
would see: In Parlor 10, seated at a
long table dozen of Mr.. Towle's
chiefs, all in their shirt sleeves, smok-
Ing voluminously; before each sheet
OF paper on which was printed list
OF the members of the legislature;
against every name blank space for
memoranda; at the head of the table
Towle himself One after another the
chiefs would call of the names of the
Legislators, reporting as they went
along. The outsider would hear droned
monotonously: from
,....... not my man ..... from
......'s man; seen today, stood same
as yesterday ....... from 1855.
falSeu price SEO making 1t $3.50;
agreed; $40 paid on account, total 500
due; raised because .... told him
that he had got $40 more from -
TIE facts as to the passage of the
bill and the veto by Governor Wolcott,
the subsequent signing of the docu-
ment by the governor upon the prom
Use of the promoters to guarantee the
people sixty cent gas, are known as
events of recent history, as is also the
fact of the discovery, the day following
its passage, that the charter was in
valid. Mr.. Lawson enlarges upon these
matters. but declares that the promot-
ers made money from selling stock on
the embryo concern before the scheme
fell through.
If Lawson's story is ever taken up
in legal way and his charges are
proven correct it is up to Massachu-
sets to follow Missouri's example.