Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-23
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
'Those newspapers that are still
discussing the Iowa Idea" saws the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil, apparently
have a fondness for the burying
grounds"
Whatever turns up in regard to
that worlds fair loan," observes the
Sioux City Journal, Secretary Shaw
may console himself with the refiec.
ton that it was congress that decided
to loan the money to st. Louis. If
the scheme devised by congress for
reimbursing the national treasury fails
to work it will not be the fault of the
secretary of the treasury"
Certain newspapers are wasting
time and space" is the opinion Of the
Des Moines Capital, Sin trying to
make out what the Illinois democratic
platform means. What an unpardon-
able sacrifice of thought tissue Mea-
sured by any standard of logic or Ian
guage construction, the platform does
not mean anything and was not calcu-
lated to mean anything. What seri-
Gus use could Hearst convention pos
sibly have for declaration of princi-
pies?
The Chicago Chronicle suggests this
stanza as an appropriate addendum to
the Illinois river song:
BY the rivers gently flowing,
1l1fnnic T11inojc.
You are making fine showing.
Illinois, Illinois;
Lincoln, Douglas were your first,
You have had the best and worst,
Land of William Randolph Hearst,
Illinois.
The Burlington Hawkeye suggests
that Iowa might come in on the cho-
rus.
An awful wall goes up from the Des
Moines Register and Leader in the
following form: at has been figured
out that in two billion years no more
girls will be born in Polk county. Then
in about two billion years and a week
life won't be worth living"
o.
Having figured it all out, the Keokuk
Gate City presents its readers with
the following: 1.-THE full name of the
sultan of Morocco is Muley Abdul Az
ziz. And yet there are people VINO
wonder why civilization doesn't make
greater progress over there"
The Cedar Rapids Republican sug-
gests that it would have been a great
deal better for the state university If
the alumni had left the management
of that institution to the board of re-
gents, who have been duly selected for
that purpose.
divorce is not necessarily an evil"
contends the Marshalltown Times
Republican. "It is common sense ex-
pediency. 1t is the loophole whereby
thousands of women have been freed
from a shameful slavery and honest
men have escaped from false women.
1t is a blessing in more instances than
it is evil"
"The next governor of Iowa, who
ever he may be" says the Marion Reg
lister, Should know enough to know
that his position will be that of chief
executive of the state and not mem
Der of the national congress-"
Among other things" says the
Sioux City Journal, "the Illinois demo-
Gratis find a strong woman's suffrage
plank in their platform. Most of the
Illinois democrats are greatly sur
prised to find they are in favor of
Womans suffrage.
What Colorado needs is more Of the
grace of God and more downright hu-
man fellowship" concludes the Cedar
Rapids Republican.
The Marshalltown Times Republican
says that a play built along the lines
followed by the Colorado drama in real
life would be condemned as improb.
able
The Dubuque Times says the long
continued popularity of baseball rests
in popular confidence that every game
is real contest.
ut seems absolutely necessary to
protect the labor unions against them
Selves" says the Cedar Falls Gazette.
A St Louis democratic paper is talk
ing about the likelihood of Iowa going
democratic this year, but the Wash
ington Democrat ridicules the SUCCESS
ton. about as likely as for Texas to
go republican" it says. "One is as
probable as the other. And do you
say it is bad politics to admit it? We
say it is good politics to face the truth.
To talk of Iowa going democratic this
wear fools nobody who lives here but
might mislead someone who does not
know any more than the editor of the.
Republic.
The Cedar Rapids Republican OBJ