Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-10-29

attention to the matter that at any
tlme VIII actually be of the greatest
good to the people of the United
States. The democratic party Is not
the party Of opportunism." r.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says that
the Iowa supreme courts decision that
street railways are not railways will
be rather puzzling to the laymen.
The editor Of the Parkersburg
Eclipse says he has been voter for
over twenty years and this is the
quietest presidential campaign he has
yet witnessed.
Council Bluffs school exhibit at ST.
Louis and the exhibition given by the
Council Bluffs library board at home
are fine examples Of literary extremes"
declares the Marshalltown Times Re-
publican.
And who Is there that will value
peace less and will dc less to bring
about the so devoutly to he wished
consummatlon, because he has hon
estly confessed his admiration for
Stoessel and his heroic defense of the
position which has been entrusted to
him." asks the Burlington Hawk Eye
The Muscatine Journal notes that
Secretary Taft points to the fact that
war department records show our ex-
pense in the Philippines to have been
$3.50 100000 instead OF e5O.OO0 900, as
Judge Parker would have us believe,
got his figures. Secretary Taft
weighs over 800 pounds, ard when he
alights on a man with both feet the
man Is likely to know It," says the
Journal.
"The basis for the present optimistic
feeling at the financial centers Is found
In two conditions" says the Sioux
City Journal. THE money supply is
adequate, and the crops are bountiful.
high prices will prevail here After the
crops have been marketed the
money now utilized in moving them
will flow back to the financial centers
and will become available for all sorts
of Investments. The present outlook
Is that the business year Of 1905 will
see catching up all around in COM
pensation for the depression prevailing
for the past year OF more"
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The Cedar Rapids Republican notes
the argument that the mere finding Of
guilt and imposing of sentence is al
most sufficient punishment in the case
of man like s. F. Smith, the Daven-
port embessler--a man of good breeding
and culture and fine sensibility But the
Republican contends that he ought to
be made to suffer about ten times as
much as the man who did not have
such opportunities to stay in the
straight and narrow path as he had.
If he has more sensitiveness now, so
he also has more reason for not going
wrong" says the Republican. "He
knew better, and that is more than
some criminals do
Journalistic vanity in New York
leads the newspapers of that city to do
preposterous things to attract public
attention." remarks the Dubuque Tele-
graph, dem. commenting on the fact
that the New York Herald Comedies"
Mr.. Parker's defeat.
liant Maj. Rathbun in the Marion Regis
ter, commenting on the report than an
editor down in Georgia went buggy rid
Ing with his best girl and let her "fall
out" Where was his arm when the
catastrophe occurred?" the major
would like to know. mot where it
should have BEEN"
The Keokuk Gate City says the fact
is that Fred White did his best to fool
the people of Iowa, is "sore" because
they refused to be misled, and the
venom with which he expected to in
oculate them has reacted upon himself
and he presents the pitiable spectacle
of a man without confidence in his fell
lows or hope for his country.
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The Iowa Stats Anzeiger says that
Congressman Wade is no more beaten
than Kentucky will go republican.
Senator Dolliver innocently told his
newspaper interviewers that eyery-
where he has been the republicans are
going to bury the democrats, and the
Davenport Democrat responds by
charging the senator with having the
big head "Dolliver's opinion of him
self is out of all proportion to what he
is WORTH 1t says. His principal asset
is his vanity"
The only doubtful factor remaining
is the size Of the republican madority."
says the Spirit Lake Beacon.
AS for Smith, we have no tears for
him." says the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil, speaking of the Davenport en-
bezzler. HE is sorry spectacle going
to prison, with his whitened locks, but,
having once sacrificed himself to the
law, he passed beyond consideration.
1t Is hard for him, to be sure, but in
his falseness he made of himself the
instrument through which the majesty
OF the law and the vitality of right are
to be exemplified, and it is mawkish
and maudlin to talk Of tenderness for
his years.
The Waterloo Courier suggests that
II the divorce business at Des Moines
continues to increase it might be we'll
to augment the district court by an
ofnclal whose special duty it will be to
sever the matrimonial knots that chafe
unhappy couples.
When one-third the people who
marry in Des Moines ask for divorces
It Is plain" says the Ida Grove Pioneer
that there is plenty of opportunity for
nome missionary work. Let the
heathen of Africa alone for a while and
look after our own heathen."
The Des Moines Register and Leader