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the credit capacity of the leading ma

the credit capacity of the leading ma
lions of the globe.
Even admitting, as 1t is argued bv
some, that the increase in the gold
supply may ultimately work to the
disadvantage Of the business commun.
ity rather than to its benefit: admit
ting that the worlds stock of money
may be increasing at too rapid rate.
and that the International scramble
for immense gold reserves involves the
danger of a yellow peril" akin to the
silver peril from which the United
States has only recently emerged, adj
hitting that 1t Is impossible to deter
mine definitely how much or how iit-,
tie may be the effect of the imitation Of,
gold upon the prices OF commodities.
nevertheless. no one can doubt for an
instant that the enormous output Of,
gold which has been experienced In
the last ten years, and which is prom
ised for years to come, must have
prodigious effect upon the business
and speculative activities Of the Lead
Ing nations of the globe.
AS a matter of fact 1t may be
doubted whether even yet the markets
have fully realized the effect Of the
money imitation which has already
taken place and they certainly have
not yet discounted the effect Of the
money imitation which is yet to take
place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-17
THE coRTELYou "scANDAL."

Harper's Weekly.-It was part of the
sarcasm OF politics that so much
should have been made in the last
fortnight Of the campaign of Chairman
Cortelyou and the corporations. We
don't believe there has been a more
upright man selected to manage a ma
tional campaign since the republican
party came into being than Cortelyou.
We don't believe that there has been
candidate in the same period less
tolerant Of crooked means to compass
his election than President Roosevelt.
We believe that one principal reason
why Roosevelt chose Cortelyou was
That Cortelyou was sympathetic with
his desire for clean campaign.
Nevertheless, the choice Of cabinet
officer for campaign manager produced
a situation. The corporations have
long, been in reliance Of the republicans
when 1t came to collecting campaign
funds. Cortelvou left the cabinet to
be manager and 1t has been UNDER
stood that he would return to the cabi-
net as soon as possible after election.
To pay money to him was the very
next thing to paying money to the
government itself. When railroad
was invited to contribute, its officers
could say: I'VE have very important
postal contracts We knew Cortelyou
was slated to be postmaster. We paid
up" That was the situation, and its
weaknesses are obvious. That the
democrats should not have made the
most of it was hardly to be expected.
They certainly worked for all it was
worth, yet we doubt IL the claim that
the late secretary Of commerce was
chosen manager because he knew the
secrets Of the corporations affected
many votes. PLENTY Of confirmed dem
ocrats believed that story, but no
voter who was intelligently doubtful
did. The facts suggested the infer
ence, but they did not compel it, and
very few, IL any, discriminating doubt
ful voters accepted it. The great fact
that the trusts and the concerns that
find profit in the Dingley tariff ex-
pect, and are expected, to put up
money to support the Dingley tariff af-
fected many votes, but we can't be-
lieve that the bugaboo Of Cortelyou
as blackmailer was really worth the
trouble that was spent to rig 1t out.
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DEATH OF Ex.eov. SHERMAN.

Ex-Gov. Buren, R. Sherman died at
his home in Vinton Friday night. He
was GO years old on May % last; he
was native of New York, but had
lived in Iowa since 1856. He had long
been in poor health, and in recent
years he has not been actively con-
nected with public affairs.
Mr.. Sherman was elected auditor of
state in 1874 and served three terms.
In 1881 the republican state conven-
ton, meeting in Des Moines in the lat
ter part of June, nominated him after
sharp contest for governor. His
strongest competitors were William
Larrabee, of Fayette county, and
James Harlan, of Henry county. Mr..
Larrabee had had long and conspicu-
Gus service in the state senate and Mr..
Harlan had been in the United States
senate and in the cabinet for nearly
eighteen years. On the twelfth ballot
Mr.. Sherman was close to nominal
ton. He had 500 votes to ASS for Lar
rabee and 60 divided between Harlan
and Frank T. Campbell. The latter
had served in the state senate and as
lieutenant governor. There was fear
that the Larrabee and Harlan strength
great confusion. Col. Henderson, of
Dubuque, mounted chair, announced
that he was requested to withdraw the
name of Larrabee and moved that
Sherman be nominated by acclama-
ton, and he was so nominated Gov.
Sherman served two terms and in 1885
Senator Larrabee was nominated, and
he served two terms. Gov. Larrabee
is now serving as president of the
Iowa commission at ST. Louis, but, like
Governor Sherman, he has never held
an elective Office since his retirement
from the governorship. Governor Sher-
mans opponent for the governorship,
both times, was Judge L. G. Kline
now a member of the state board of
control.
Mr.. Sherman. soon after the out
break of the civil war. enlisted in Com
pany G, Thirteenth Iowa infantry; he
was soon after promoted to- second
lieutenant in Company E. He was Sc
verely wounded at the battle of Shi-
lob; some time later he was promoted
to captain, but in few months he was
compelled to leave the service in con-
sequence of his disability.
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INCREASE IN GOLD SUPPLY.

Wall Street Journal-The statement
published by our government that
English enthusiasts are looking for a
future output of gold in the Transvaal
of from S120,000,000 to $150,000,OOO a
year is stimulating to the imagination,
Just as the realization Of this predic-
ton would be stimulating to the specu-
lation and business of the world. In
the first six months Of this year the
output of gold in the Transvaal
amounted to about $4,000, 900. This is
at the rate Of $4,000 900 for the year.
Last years production amounted to
over S61,0O0,000. The largest produc-
ton was in 1898, being S79,213,Oo0.
The prospect Is, therefore, that the
production Of 1904, will nearly equal
that of 1S9S--in other words, will re-
turn to the normal yield of this region.
Coolie labor has just been introduced
into the Transvaal, and with this So
luton of the labor problem there
output of the yellow metal in the
Transvaal. If the production should
ever reach the enormous total of $780,
100000 the effect on the business world
can hardly be overestimated. With a
Transvaal production last year Of $751;
100000 the worlds output of gold
amounted to approximately $330,000,-
WV. AL lICIcotSe III Tie lThIlSNddl pIo
duction in the near future to $120000,
900 year would lift the total annual
product Of gold in the world to the
stupendous sum of s40O,000,00O.
Even product of 100000, 900 year
is an enormous addition to the worlds
supply of money. Allowing about rs
per cent to meet the demands of the
arts and sciences, that leaves 1925, 000,-
900 to enter into various reservoirs of
money. Inasmuch as the use Of gold
in the monetary systems Of the world
against credit. 1t may be said that an
addition Of s225,OOO,O00 to the worlds
supply means an added credit capacity
of over $1,000,0O0,OO0. If, then, within
two or three years, by the promised
increase in the production. Of the
Transvaal, the worlds output of gold
is expanded to 100000. 600, 1t is easy to
see how enormous would be both the
increase in the supply of money and in
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KodoI Dyspepsia Cure

country and if Port Arthur does not
capitulate soon 1t will be too late,
when the news does come, for the ar
mics in the northern field to do any
thing but continue waiting for spring
to come.
Using the events of the past sum
mer as criterion, Russia is reaping
the benefits of this delay. All the ar
rangements have been made for bat
tie near Mukden, with the same forces,
practically. which were engaged in the
fighting at Lao Yang and the Shake
river. Both of these battles resulted
In victory for the Japanese and it is
only natural to expect that, If the ar
mics We're again to clash, the Jap
anese would again come off in the
lead. Meanwhile, during the coming
winter, Russia will have an opportun-
ity to rush throngs of recruits into the
field and prepare for an offensive cam
paign. If the battle which has seemed
imminent for several days is delayed
until next spring the Russians will have
much the better opportunity for win
ming. They have more men to draw
upon for their army than has Japan,
their winter quarters are good and
they can well afford to wait until
spring will bring them another oppor-
tunity to make good against Japan
and retrieve their lost credit as fight
ers.
The result Of the surrender of Port
Arthur will have an international eff
feet which has almost been lost sight
of since the time of the first reports
that the citadel was about to fall The
treaty which was signed several years
ago between Russia and England gave
Russia the right to hold Port Arthur
and England the same rights at Wei
Hal Wei but provided that when one
is evacuated the other must also be
allowed to revert to China. Thus, when
the Russian flag is hauled down in
Port Arthur, the British warships must
leave Wei Hal Wei and the stores now
kept there by the English government
must be removed Stoessel's hold on
Port Arthur has been beneficial to
England, and the capture of that place
by Japan will strengthen that nations
hold upon the commercial interests of
China by removing the watch kept by
other nations as the result of the
treaty.
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A NEW DIVORCE CURE.

A chicago woman. Mrs. Homer F.
Stone, created no little sensation in
her social set yesterday by her argu
ments against the acknowledgment of
women in the course of a debate on
the proposition and during her re-
marks she touched upon subject
more important, probably, than the suf-
frage questior-that of the divorce.
Mrs. Stone was opposed to the major
ity of the members of the club in her
views but this fact did not prevent her
from making known her views and
from laying down formula which, if
followed will, she gays, do away with
the divorce evil and the servant girl
question. Her directions include the
following advice to wives and moth
ers:
Let your daughters take the place
Of servants In your home.
Remember that you are only your
husbands helpmeet, and, remembering
this DC not drift away from the home
and home duties, compelling him to
seek social life which is separated
from you.
do not sacrifice the home for the
club.
DO not sacrifice your husband for
ANYTHING.
DO not forget that you were created
for your husband"
Mrs. Stone, naturally, looks at the
divorce question from the woman,s
point only but she seems to forget that
there are two sides to this, as to all
questions. If she could secure obedi.
ence to her list of rules on the part of
all women there would still be need
for divorce courts and divorce law.
yers. For the men are not perfect
Though 1t is probably true that many
Of them are driven away from home
by the lack Of inducements to hold
them there or the tendency, as Mrs.
Stone says, Of women, to drift away
from the home and home duties" this
Is not the only cause for divorces.
Do what they will, the women alone
cannot stop the divorce evil. The men
must lend hand. Mrs. Stones ad.
vice Is good as far as it goes but It is
not all that is needed to solve the
problem.
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kNoxvlLLE,s coMPLAlhr

Knoxville, appointed by the state
legislature at the last. session as. the
home Of the .'jag cure" institute. more
properly designated the state inebriate
hospital. doesn't want the honor and
dispatch today says that an attorney
from the Marion county capital will
represent the town in strenuous eff
fort to dodge the "jagatentiary.,
The plan is unique. AS yet there is
no little dispute over the constitution
atty OF the law which allows courts to
declare citizens of the state inebriates
and to send them up for term of
year, more or less, to be cured of
the habit. 1t is announced that the
citizens of Knoxville will raise a fund
to be used in an effort to secure a
legal release for the first man or
woman sent to the hospital and thus
prove in test case the unconstitution-
atty of the measure.
Though Knoxville has every right to
do as she pleases in the premises her
objection does not strike a casual OBJ
server as being very well founded.
True, If the hospital is located there
will be several people brought to it
each month who are well entitled to
claim positions on the lower rungs of
the ladder of morality and civiliza-
ton. A dope fend, accustomed to the
use Of morphine. cocaine and such
drugs. Is neither a useful citizen nor a
pleasant person to look upon, but this
fact hardly enters into the question. 1t
is not the object Of the state to send
inebriates to Knoxville to call upon
the residents nor circulate around the
streets. The state buildings erected
there some years ago and now stand
ing idle are to be used for the shelter
for the unfortunate wards of the state.
Meanwhile Knoxville will reap the
benefits in trade and prominence
among the cities Of the state generally
inuring to the towns where any state
institutions are located. The objec-
ton seems to be founded on nothing
more substantial than dislike for the
fnebriate law ITSELF
Since the law was put upon the stat
ute books the inebriates have been
sent to Mt. Pleasant and kept at the
hospital for the insane, located at that
city. There has been little or no OBJ
lection from that quarter and 1t is
hard to see why Knoxville should OBJ
ject unless 1t is because of dislike
for the law itself.
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III TU, MISSOURI
Des Moines Capt

Des Moines Capital.-Democrat will
be long recovering from the dazed
condition into which they Were thrown
by the discovery that Missouri had
gone republican by substantial plu-
rality. To be thus deprived of what
for 80 many years they had regarded
as, theirs In fee simple has over
whelmed them.
The incident is one which certainly
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tority Of o.S1s indicates to the oska-
loorn Herald that 1t was census of
the voters instead that was being
taken.
"The democratic party will continue
on The trail. prophes!es the Sioux City
men and sthings no longer in need OF
Endorsement and to stand for things
that are inexpedient or impossible"
Bryan IL the only commanding flg-
ure left in the democratic party" says
the odebolt Chronicle. III 'ene has
following readv to fight iii re-
H 1;nns snd the ne ;asmosrasy ,opulist
presidency in 1908"
Mr.. Parker, good man that he Is,
and good democrat that he Is, Is no
leader" declares the Dubuque Tele-
graph. Nature did not fashion him
for one"
Expressing its regret over the death
OF Judge Thayer Of the Clinton Age,
the Cedar Rapids Gazette says: The
younger men OF the trade should con-
slider the few who have become illustri-
Gus even within the borders of their
own state, They Were men OF such
ability as all do not have. But they
were men of such character as all may
have and as all should have. Charac-
ter is something in the hght for rec
ignition. and unless man has char
acter, knows that he has character, and
means to give it full scope he should
leave the newspaper business alone"
o.
1.-THE people OF Illinois should not BE
so amazed at the way Deneen, the re-
publican candidate, sprinted in the
race for governor" says the Oskaloosa
Herald. He was born and reared in
Iowa."
Noting that investors have been
pinched In a mining fake promoted by
preacher, the Nevada Waterman
says ut serves them right When a
servant Of the Lord begins carrying
side lines. blind man should be able
to spot him as one having lost interest
In the ten commandments.
The Marshalltown Times Eepubli-
can prophesies that next years social
ist vote will show decrease, perhaps
less distinct than its present gain, but
not the less conformatory Of the fact
that ballots OF thousands Of votes fell
perfunctorily into the socialist column
because they followed the plane Of the
last resistance, not through any faith
IN or allegiance to the principles of, the
socialists. The big increase was
democracys donation to the socialists"
| declares the Times Republican
Mr.. Bryan guessed right for once"
| says the Keokuk Gate City. ''He pre-
dicted that Parker's campaign would
end In a rout-and 1t did,"
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The Sioux City Tribune notes that
Harry Lehr has a parrot which thinks,
the parrot thinks for Harry, and If this
be the case he will not look SO foolish
in the future"
ITO Mr. Bryan must be accredited
the remarkable feat of having sur
vived his pallbearers," is the way the
Des Moines News sees it.
o.
"That will be about all for Arthur
Pue German" says the Des Moines
Capital.
The Oskaloosa Herald thinks that
H. G. Davis, of West Virginia. is prob
ably 80 thoroughly Disguised that he
will never run for the vice presidency
again.
Here is hoping that during the next
| two weeks the st. Louis fair may pick
up enough visitors to leave a balance
in the treasury for the benefit of those
ton with their money" says the Cedar
Rapids Republican.
"Thos. Taggart as campaign man
ager was as complete failure as was
the nominee Of his party as candi-
date" says the Clinton Herald.
The Marshalltown Times Republican
believes that the democratic party Will
heed Mr.. Bryan's call. Its need Of
leadership will turn naturally and
logically to Mr.. Bryan" the Times
Republican concludes.
The Des Moines Capital says 1t is
too early to preach the funeral of the
Democratic party. "The democratic
party never takes off It's life preserver,"
it suggests. TT has a charmed ex-
istence."
A stronger man than Parker might
have been nominated, in the opinion Of
the Algona Courier, DEM The demo-
cratic should have been Mcclellan and
Folk, it thinks.
ut was a great landslide and every
thing seems to have been especially
creased for the OCCASION" observes the
Keokuk Gate City
The Burlington Gazette, dem,
mournfully concludes that with a few
more occasions like that of last Tues
day the necessity for any election viii
have passed.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that Mr.. Roosevelt has done many
things to stamp him as man truly
and magnifcently great. but never did
anything more magnificent than when
in the flash Of victory he announced
that he would not be candidate for
another term.
The Denison Review confesses that
the republican victory In crowford
county is more tremendous than any
republican had dared to hope" 1t was
accomplished, 1t explains, with the CO.
operation Of thinking democrats.
The Des Moines Capital notes that
the silent vote is capable of making
pretty loud noise sometimes when it
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as his own Ideals. and proclaimed the
sincerity with which he was advo-
eating both the platform and the NOM
inae OF 1904
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1t was generally understood that an
election was being held in the Sixth
district on Tuesday, but a glance in
the direction Of Major Lacey's ma
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The Des Moines Capital notes that
the silent vote is capable of making a
pretty loud noise sometimes when it
gets ready to drop.
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"That will be about all for Arthur
Pue German" says the Des Moines
Capital.
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rM mM Mu9 =
:" piIssiE: ] S !,
Altoona, Pa. Tune 90. Ioo3.

ALTOONA, "a, June 20, 1903.
was afflicted with letter in bad shape.
It would appear in blotches as large as my
hand, yellowish color, and scale off.
You can imagine how offensive it was.
For twelve years was afflicted with this
trouble. At night it was case of scratch
and many times no rest at all. Seeing the
good the medicine was doing friend
who was taking it for Eczema, COM
menced it, and as result the eruption be-
gan to dry up and disappear, and to-day
I am practically we'll man. Only two
ti,E spots are left on the elbow and shin,
,SSefe once the whole body was affected.
I have every confidence in the medicine,
and feel sure that in short time these
two remaining spots will disappear.
S. S. S. is certainly great blood puri-
fer, and has done me world of good.
am grateful for what it has accom-
plished, and trust that what have said
will lead others who are similarly af1ict-
ed to take the remedy and obtain the
same good results that I have.
I25 East Fifth Ave. JOHN F. LEAR.
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While washes, soaps, salves and powders
relieve temporarily, they do not reach the
real cause Of the disease. The blood must
be purified before the cure is permanent.
SIS. contains no potash, arsenic or min
eral of any description, but is guaranteed
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The Oskaloosa Herald thinks that
H. G.. Davis. Of West Virginia is prob
ably so thoroughly Disguised that he
will never run for the vice presidency
again.
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ITO Mr.. Bryan must be accredited
the remarkable feat Of having sur
vived his pallbearers." is the way the
Des Moines News sees it.
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The Denison Review confesses that
the republican victory in Crawford
county is more tremendous than any
republican had dared to hope" It was
accomplished, 1t explains, with the CO.
operation Of thinking democrats.
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Here is hoping that during the next
two weeks the st. Louis fair may pick
UP enough visitors to leave balance
In the treasury for the benefit Of those
who backed the stupendous PROPOSE
ton with their money" says the Cedar
Rapids Republican.
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

The Sioux City Tribune notes that
Harry Lehr has parrot which thinks
SO says Harry, and says, Perhaps
the parrot thinks for Harry, and If this
be the case he will not look SO foolish
in the future"
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"Thos. Taggart as campaign man
ager was as complete failure as was
the nominee Of his party as candi-
date" says the Clinton Herald.
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1.-THE people Of Illinois should not BE
so amazed at the way Deneen, the re-
publican candidate, sprinted in the
race for governor" says the Oskaloosa
Herald. He was born and reared in
Iowa"
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The democratic party will continue
on the trail" prophesies the Sioux City
Journal. 1T will continue to indorse
men and sthings no longer in need OF
Endorsement and to stand for things
that are inexpedient or impossible"
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Mr.. Bryan guessed right for once"
says the Keokuk Gate City. "He pre-
dicted that Parker's campaign would
end in q rout-and 1t did"
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Bryan Is the only commanding flg-
ure left in the democratic party,' says
the Odebolt Chronicle. III 'ene has
following rcadv to fight, ill re-
organize the democracy ,opulist
lines and be It's candidate for the
presidency in 1908"