Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-12

sometimes better to go Into bank
ruptcy than to violate the criminal
statutes" says the Journal. What is
prudent on the part of the individual,
weak and tempted stimulated and
made desperate, ought to be consider
ed prudent on the part of community
as whole, supposed to be temperate
free Of hypnotic influence and in the
/ fair possession of it's reasoning facul-
ties"
! Mining is for those who can give 1t
personal attention, and who have the
means and the skill to carry on its
operations. 1t is a business of itself
to be managed along business lines by
men of practical experience. The ten
derfoot would better let it alone" says
i the Waterloo Courier.
1t is the opinion of the Creston Ad-
vertiser that DR.. Pearson, the Chicago
philanthropist is doing far more good
with his numerous gifts to the smaller
colleges than he could possibly ac-
complish by donations to the larger
institutions of learning.
Now that William Jennings Bryan
has departed for years trip around
the world, there is grand chance for
the democratic partv to rearrange that
little old play of Hamlet, with Hamlet
left out" says the Jefferson Bee. "In
this day and age g man may be almost
forgotten in a year.
when people tell Iowa farmers that
they ought to insist on a revision of
the tariff in order to secure cheaper
supplies, they answer that they know
their business too well to kill the goose
that lays the golden egg of their pros
perity," says the Burlington Hawk
Eye.
1.-THE expensiveness of the primary
system is self-evident,' says the Cedar
Rapids Republican. That much ought
to be admitted to begin with"
The Iowa State Register has it that
it is said that Secretary Shaw shows
more interest in the proposed change
in the date OF Inauguration day than
he does in revision of the tariff.
o
AS the Des Moines Capital sees It
there was no favor peculiar to the in
surance interests which it was in the
power of the federal administration to
give or withhold and it could be bene-
fitted only in common with business in
general by the preservation Of the goli
standard.
I'VE are better off in this country, 1t
is to be feared, than we give ourselves
credit for suggests the Cedar Rapids
Republican, amen. the discomfort.
O.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sug-
gests that if Virginia should 20 re-
publican as the result of Secretary
Shaws whirlwind of campaign in that
state, various Iowa republicans would
have more cause than ever to view with
alarm.
! The Jefferson Bee says it would be
a good idea If the state fair people
would set aside half Of the net profits
of this year as sinking fund, to be
available some year when the weather
man gives it to US in the neck. But
they won't do it," the Bee predicts
"They will blow in every dollar Of this
money, and trust to the legislature to
make up the deficits as has been done
in the past
! The Denison Review, referring to
i Secretary Shaw's prospective retire
ment, says, 1T will indeed be difficult
for President Roosevelt to find a man
who will conduct the affairs OF the de-
partment with so much zeal and tact
ard firmness and honesty as has Sec
rotary Shaw.
! The Cedar Rapids Republican says
1t is in the Philippine climate and the
Filipino blood to be FESTIVE. But some
bright day." it prophesies, Uncle Sam
may decide that he does not want to
be worried with such unwilling wards
any more and dump them into the
ocean,"
With two or three presidential can
| didates building their fences, gov
ernor and eleven congressman and a
whole lot Of lesser fry to elect in Iowa,
there is fair prospect for lively
time in politics in this state next sea-
/ son." says the Marshalltown Herald.
THE next legislature will probably
enact antipass laws, but we doubt il
any good will come of them" says the
! Estherville Enterprise.