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

vast SuulS, d lew cases OF SpeCulaC1On,
trifiing in amount and by subordinate
officers, have occurred there as they
occur in every business. Neither fear
nor favor, nor political or personal in
1uence has awaited to protect the
wrong-doers. Their acts have been de-
tected, Investigated, laid bare; they
have been dismissed from their places,
prosecuted criminally, indicted, many
of them tried, and many of them con-
victed. The abuses in the carriage of
second-class mail matter have been
remedied. The rural free delivery has
been widely extended. 1t Is wholly the
creation of republican administration.
The last democratic postmaster general
declared It impracticable. The first adj
mintstration of Mckinley proved the
contrary. At the beginning Of the ifs
cal year 1899 there were about 200
routes in operation. There are now
more than $4,000 routes, bringing a
daily mail service to more than H.
100000 Of our people in rural COM
munities. charging the circulation of
the newspaper and the magazine, in
creasing communication, and reliev-
ing the isolation of life on the farm.
Agricultural Advancement.
"The department of agriculture has
been brought to a point of efficiency
and practical benefit never before
known. The oleomargarine act of May
9th, 1902, now sustained in the supreme
court, and the act of July 1, 1902, to
prevent the false branding of food and
dairy products farmers
against fraudulent limitations. The act
of February 2, 1903, enables the secre-
tary of agriculture to prevent the
spread of contagious and infectious
diseases of live stock. Rigid inspection
has protected our cattle against infec-
ton from abroad, and has established
the highest credit for our meat pro-
ducts in the markets of the world. The
earth has been searched for weapons
with which to fight the enemies that
destroy the growing crops. An insect
China has checked the San Jose scale
which was destroying our orchards; a
parasitic fly brought from South AT
RIGA is exterminating the black scale in
the lemon and orange groves of Cali
fornia; and an ant from Guatemala is
about offering battle to the boil weevil.
Broad science has been brought to the
aid of limited experience. Study of the
relations between plant life and climate
and soil has been followed by the in
PRODUCTION Of special crops suited to our
varied conditions. The introduction of
just the right kind of seed has enabled
the Gulf States to increase our rice
crop from lie, 100000 pounds in 1898 to
400,000,000 pounds in 1908, and to sup
ply the entire American demand, with
a surplus for export. The right kind
of sugar beet has increased our an
nual production of beet sugar by over
100000 tons. Seed brought from coun-
tries of little rain fall is producing
millions of bushels of grain on lands
which few years ago were deemed a
hopeless part of the arid belt. rs
f"The systematic collection and pub
LEGATION of information regarding the
magnitude and conditions Of our crops,
is mitigating the injury done by specu.
lation to the farmers market.
ITO increase the profit of the farm
er's toll, to protect the farmers pro-
duct and extend his market and. to
life; to advance the time when America
shall raise within her own limits
every product of the soil consumed by
her people, as she makes within her
own limits every necessary product OF
manufacture these have been car
dinal objects of republican administra-
ton; and we show a record of practi-
cal things done toward the accomplish.
ment of these objects never before ap.
preached.
The Freeing of Cuba.
-Four years ago we held the island
of Cuba by military occupation. The
opposition charged, and the people OF
Cuba believed, that we did not intend
to keep the pledge of April TO- $685.