Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.


Oklahoma is as much entitled to
admission as state as any territory
ever has been in the history of the
United States, says the Des Moines
Register and Leader. 1T has more
first class public buildings, schools
churches and more evidence of thrift
and prosperity than any of the south
ern states and than many Of the east
ern states."
"a right kind of primary may be
all right and have it's good points over
the caucus, but to herald it as the only
true salvation of good government Is
the merest rubbish" says the Mason
City Globe Gazette.
The Marshalltown Times Republican
says the case of John r. Walsh is that
of man intoxicated with his own
success, and it asserts that he is not
the only one. The crash, the Times
Republican believes, is also coming to
others. Those of us who are drink
Ing hard of this kind of an intoxcant
just now" it suggests, Should take
warming from the Devlins and the
Washes and go slower
"Blashfield's statements that he was
compelled to put the driver on the off
side of the oxen to balance the pic
ture will be satisfactory to thos who
believe more in art than they do in
realism says the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican. Occasionally a driver did
walk on the off side 1t is not ply
steal impossibility that has been en-
bodied in the picture"
John R. Walsh's extraordinary faith
in the present era of prosperity APP
pears to have been his undoing," says
the Davenport Times.
I'VE are not qualified to judge him."
says the Dubuque Telegraph, speaking
of John R. Walsh. I'VE only know
that he played with marked cards and
that when he failed an enemy of the
republic went down."
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
hazing ought to be abolished at every
institution Of learning in the country,
even If it is necessary to abolish the
institution itself
Rev. Billy Sunday, during his re-
vival services at Burlington converted
$500 people, for which he was given
over $4,000. Considering Burlington
morals before he went there, he prob
ably earned his salary" says the Clin-
ton Herald.
The Dubuque Times declares that
the navy department should prescribe
discipline for the academy and expul-
sion for every cadet who takes part in |
hazing and every officer who winks att
this unnecessary and vicious practice.
The Cedar Falls Record says the
next question to dispose Of after the
C1Jiri1n fc tel
whether or not wealth stiles love and
makes a devil out of fellow who was
calm, serene anr lovable when in pow
erty.
The Des Moines Capital perdicts
that If statewide primary law is
adopted two classes Of men will come
the millionaire-the demagogue ex-
pecting to lie his way into a nominal
ton and the millionaire expecting to I
buy his way into nomination.
The Cedar Rapids Republican sug-
gests submitting the primary law
question to vote of the people. THAT
the farmers of Iowa want a primary
as well as final election every two
years. 1t would also be in harmony
with the reign of the common peo-
ple.
The Clinton Herald contends that
the republicans of Iowa should give|
their attention to local issues. IL any
can be found. IF there are no local
issues there is nothing the party
should d iffer over" it says.
The Waterloo Courier concludes that
caution is most useful-until it is car
ried to excess.
"The Blashfield painting in the state
capitol has settled one important uues-
ton, and that is that Senator Funk
knows more about driving an OK team
than he does about art" observes the
Webster City Freeman Tribune.
The Atlantic Telegraph expects that
q state primary law will be enacted
but it confesses that it does not like
to give up the old fashioned caucus
and convention, in which so many in
teresting battles have been fought.
Iowa legislatures don't have to look
for chances to stir UP trouble; theyl
are thrust upon them says the
Cherokee Democrat, commenting or
the probability that the legislature
will have to wrestle with the state
primary law proposition.
Among the exhibits at the live (
stock show in Chicago this week." says I
he Davenport Times "the agricultural ]
colleges are proving that they know
low to practice what they preach. fori