Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-13

refer to poor equipment on the branch
lines, overworked train crews and con-
sequent irregular and poor service, and
slow service lit shipments OF live stock
into Chicago" says the Republican.
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"The effort to get through several
constitutional amendments In one vote
is probably unconstitutional" says the
Cedar Rapids Republican. 1.-THE fram.
ers OF the constitution in providing for
constitutional conventions every ten
years, on approval Of the voters had
In mind this means of amending the
constitution and probably sought to
assembly,"
The Des Moines Capital insists that
tariff debate n congress "would stop
the factories and shops"
The Waterloo REPORTER says It would
biennial elections amendment at the
polls, but IL IN not IN sympathy with
the effort to invalidate the measure
through resort to teChnicalities. The
effort to nullify It's adoption, the RE-
porter asserts, Is only fostered and
kept alive by means too inconse-
quential to be entitled to consideration,
Sesuu ~ A5, LUZ giving ZIG new LEW q
chance to make goodo
Carroll D. Wright says the labor
problem can be settled by the univer-
sal adoption Of the golden rule"
THAT MEANS" suggests the Dubuque
telegraph, that 1t may never be set
tied"
The Cedar Republican declares en-
phatically that the end of the smooth
tonged. soft-spoken socialist, Is the
brand in one hand and bomb and
lighted fuse in the other and there is
more need today to talk plainly about
1t and to fight than there has ever
been before in the history Of the ooun-
try.
There is little denial that some
changes in existing tariff rates should
be made" says the Sioux City Journal.
There is no general demand at this
time for general revision or radical
changes. Public demand would be sat-
isfled with few corrections Of the
more glazing inequalities.
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The Dubuque Telegraph says that
the Presidents message Contains
hardly a superfiuous word"
The Burlington Gazette says that the
message is by all odds the ablest. the
most comprehensive and at the same
time most temperate in tone Of any Of
Mr.. Roosevelt's state papers.
o.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
there should be no more partisan poll
tics connected with this matter Of the
tariff than there Is the selection of
seed corn by the farmers OF Iowa.
mo public man has given such
guarantee of peace as Roosevelt" says
the Mason City Globe Gazette. "He
is not in the business of twisting the
lions tail. There Is no Olneyisrn in
him."
The Marshalltown Times Republi-
can suggests that Richard Harding
Davis, when he spoke fiippantly of
Sioux City. was doubtless ignorant OF
the fact that 1913 car loads of hogs had
been received there in a single day.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that IL Iowa ever had good world!
fair commissioner 1t was ex-G Governor
money to devote to the work in which
he interested himself. "The commits
sion as a whole was splendid one
the Republican adds, "and Governor
Cummins is to be commended for llav-
ing appointed such good men. Iowa
was fifty represented at st. Louis
1.-THE fact has been brought out" OBJ
serves the washington Press. that
the Iowa constitution itself was not
really adopted. That is, technical fin
nickyism would have invalidated 1t
But it seems to have answered the
purpose very well.''
Perhaps If the wages of Iowa rura,
teachers were raised sufficiently tc
make them self supporting their rush
into matrimony might be stayed" sug-
gests the Marshalltown Times Repub-
| lican.