Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-27

vided they have the price" declares
the Cedar Rapids Republican. "They
ought to be made to show under the
strictest safeguards that they have a
legitimate use for 1t and are competent
to be entrusted with such things
How many would vote for Parker
next month If they knew his election
would destroy business conditions, ruin
prices, throw workmen out of employ
ment, and destroy values" asks the
Carroll Herald. mot many? 1t might
be well in this connection to recall the
prosperity Of '92 and think of the dark
days and months and years that fol-
lowed the election of Cleveland. 1t Is
pretty safe to let we'll enough alone"
Bryan is not vet out" says the
Burlington Hawk Eye. His theories
smolder and are letting off a consider
able smoke during the present cam
paign; that flames will follow seems
nightly assured, and there are gold
democrats, men who properly
supported Mckinley in 1895 and
they continue their present unholy al
lance with the great silver advocate
from Nebraska, for his fires are not
yet out. He will capture the party or
ganization in the next campaign"
1.-THE doings Of Smith will tend to
Increase the lack of faith in human
nature" says the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican, discussing the lamentable
failure is made conspicuous, there are
hundreds of stewards of trust funds
who have proved faithful and efficient.
Mr.. Smith has touched the high places
of life and now, in Anamosa, he can
get taste Of the lower"
The thought of Helen Kellers
achievements inspires the Marstl IL
town Republican to say: LET us not
such things are done before our eyes.
A century or SO ago this baby would
have been herded with other unfortun-
ates and learned obedience only
through the whip. We have learned to
do much for each other in hundred
years and have learned more in the
past quarter of century than ever
before. Helen Keller at the worlds
fair is q star of hope in the future
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HAD Mr.. Smiths speculations been
fortunate. the world had never known
his moral weakness" said the ODE
bolt Chronicle. discussing the Daven-
port citizens fall, she would have re-
NAMED the foremost citizen in Daven-
port, and at his death the city would
have put on mourning. But he failed
to stand the supreme test Of misfor-
tune; and SO he goes to a living death.
execrated by his victims, with the good
he did forgotten and the evil surviving
In the memories OF his townSmen 1t
is the old story; but how inexpressibly
sad!"
Read your insurance policy" urges
the Dubuque Times. ut may contain
clause that absence from the house
for ten days vitiates the policy. even
| though the fire does not occur until
six months after the return of the
family On this ground Judge Better
of Philadelphia, has held for the COM
pany. There Is enough competition in
the insurance business to secure an
equitable contract to the man who will
accept nothing less"
"It was the intention of the men who
drafted the constitution" says the
Fairfield Ledger, speaking in behalf of
the representative amendment, "that
every county should have representa-
| ton in the popular branch of the leg
islature, and that Is plainly shown by
/ the debates. Polk county Is not a
whit better than Dickinson in matters
of this kind"
| The Des Moines Register and Leader
expresses its satisfaction with sem
tence given S. F. Smith, the Daven-
| port embezzler. 1T might be said in
behalf of Mr.. Smith," it says, "that the
detection of his guilt was doubtless
| his severest punishment, and that one
day behind prison bars would mean
more to him than ten years to some
hardened criminal. But the law =
awards Its penalties in recognition OF
the crime committed without regard
to rank or station, and the number of
years Mr.. Smith Is asked to spend in
prison Is not fixed to measure the
effect Of the punishment upon him.
! but to express the public sense Of the
seriousness Of his criminal act"
Congressman Wade says he isn't q
free trader, but the Iowa City Repub-
lican recalls that last winter in con-
gress he introduced bill for absolute
, free trade with Canada in every article
the farmer produces.
"Mr. Riis wrongs the democratic
members of the library board" says
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, 'wher
he asks IL they pick out the new books
with their elbows. They pick them out
by means Of the democratic campaign
book and the bindings"
| Tho Cedar Ranids Panrh1icap co,e