Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-03
TIE OTTUMWA COURIER

though d federal Judge WnlttleS the
Penalty down below the demands OF
and energetic house cleaning humble
officials and clerks are sure to be dealt
with vigorously. The smaller the boy
caught by the policeman, the harder
he is shaked as a rule. The little fell
| lows are sure to get their deserts ii
| not more, and the natural anxiety is
about those near the top The signifl.
canoe of the Mitchell case is for his
fellow grafters of the senate
IF your antipathy to the beef trust
holds out you can go a long way to-
ward getting even by eating plenty of
Corn on the cob says the Sioux City
Journal.
"Tke Iowa farmer does not seem en-
tirely without his day in court" re-
marks the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
while the railroad assessment was
raised, S1,600.000, the farm lands as
sessment was cut down $50 000, 900"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette is con !.
WINGED that the legislature of Iowa will
never be just what it should SO long
as mon are elected because they arc
good fellows or because they have the
money to spend to assist in the cleo
C]On or weak CandlQateS.
The Mt. Ayr Record says that Tom
Lawson is not an original thinker, but
merely grotesque agitator. He is
himself the insane product of that
which he opposes continues the Rec
crd. "He will soon pass away and the
people will wonder why they for a
time followed his flaming TORCH"
AS to the predictions that Secretary
Wilson would resign, the Marshalltown
that he was born in Scotland and Il
they could see the CLINT of his eye and
that quiet Iowa grin that he sometimes
wears they would change their minds.
The Rockford Register says the fact
that man like Joseph Folk can COM
mand $1,000 for an hours talk on good
government is one of the most hopeful
signs of the times.
The Arlington News fears that with
every office to be filled next year the
Australian ballot will be as long as ths
moral law. IF a man begins to scratch
his ticket he will not get through in
time for supper it suggests.
The Fairfield Ledger, commenting on
the decrease in the assessed valuation
Of Iowa farm lands and personal prop
are any such losses. THE fact is" it
reasons, that the executive council
under the former assessment was
hammering county auditors to bring
Up valuations. while it has let then,
alone this year."
"No Iowa man runs when charges
are made against anything he is con-
nected with" says the Cedar Rapids
cabinet fights it OUT
ut is our opinion says the Creston
advertiser Gazette. that the railroads
have a perfect right to attempt to
create public sentiment against the
railroad rat legislation which the
President has recommended. But
while we believe the railroads have the
right to attempt to defeat the regu-
lation of rates, we very much doubt
their wisdom in doing So"
The Washington Democrat doesn't
think for a moment that Mr.. Depew
would be in the senate if the people had
an opportunity to vote on the matter
The Denison. Review says that the
most unpopular thing any man or any
ncwspa per in the United States can do
today is to attack President Roose-
welt.
The Dubuque, Telegraph says that the
day Of the fgurehead governor has
passed.
Until the people of Iowa become j
great deal lazier than they are a do
rothing candidate for governor will not
be popular" declares the Cedar Rap
ids Gazette.
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald,
(dem.), comes right out at last and de-
clares, frankly that it doesn't care a
rap for harmony in the republican
party.