Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-05
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
.The republican party is more inn
portant than any OF, Its membership
says the Des Moines Capital. "some-
time the republican party will go back
to its normal membership and then
faithful workers will be in demand.
The party will then be looking for re-
publicans who are real republicans,
wearing no extra brand"
The report that forty banks had
gone to the wall in Iowa In q single
year was gross misstatement of
facts" says the Cedar Rapids Republi-
can. THE state auditors report show
ed that during two years forty banks
had gone out of business, many Of
and with some of which had liquidated.
according to law"
"The General Paper company be-
came entirely too general, and the peo-
pie who invested their actual money
in the concern on the inflated basis are
likely to get liberal dose Of frenzied
finance" is the Cedar Rapids Gazette's.
comment
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Both the New York and the In
diana senatorships were disposed of in
a manner highly disappointing the
democrats" says the Sioux City Jour
nal.
The Iowa city Republican, recurring
to the burning Of the brewery at Iowa
City, states that the brewery has no
evil effect upon the university, for the
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in breweries or saloons to talk college
news and politics. 1.-THE students Of
Iowa university are not freuuenters Of
saloons" the Republican asserts, and
II watch were placed upon the drink
ing places In Iowa City for a week at
a time not half dozen students would
be seen In them"
[. The Fairfield Ledger says It is not
the rates, but the determinations, that
cause the people to complain. IF
everybody stood on the same footing
with the railways" 1t points out. "the
companies would have smooth sailing
for good many years to come"
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The Des Moines Capital says that
the severity Of the recent blizzard in
Des Moines can be measured by the
effect 1t had upon the Des Moines d.
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lutely impossible for two days for pros
pective applicants to get to a lawyers
office in order to swear to their petit
tons for decree"
1T would be pathetic as well as
pleasant to know just how many hum
grv mouths the Salvation Army filled
on Christmas day" says the Marshall
town Times Republican. II any or
| al rro Nffco1 rn1fov{Nyo
1t is the one which has risen above the
jeers OF twent-- years ago to be one of
the great religious charities"
i. Co.
Discussing the absence Of profess
sional Jurors in the Nan Patterson trial,
the Dubuque Times says: AS mat
ter Of fact the professional Juror Is the
best. except in cases involving class,
racial or religious prejudice, because,
having no private business that Is suf-
fering from his enforced attendance on
the trial, he gives his whole attention
to the law and the evidence as pre-
scented by court, attorneys and wit
nesses and the subject occupies his
mind between sessions Of the court"
"The fact is that Nan Patterson is
suffering from her admittedly bad rep
utation," says the Burlington Gazette
! but 1t is doubtful IL she will ever be
/ tried again for the murder Of Caesar
Young, whose death Is no loss to So
ciety, and least OF all to the wife to
whom he proved unfaithful."
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ut is not to be taken for granted
that rural teachers as class are ig-
norant or utterly inefficient" says the
Cedar Rapids Gazette. ut Is the lack
| of system more than any other one
/ thing that is keeping the level Of coun-
/, try school work below what it should
! be, and far below what 1t might be-"
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| The Iowa State Register thinks the
I winter storms will probably never
!! equal in severity and destructiveness
/ the storms OF fifty years ago. 1.-THE
settlement and occupation of the coun-
try. the network of fences, the corn.
fields, the numerous groves, all tend
to break the force Of the. blizzard
which in early days had a clean sweer
4 over the burned prairies Of hundreds
4 Of miles" says the Register.
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| The Des Moines Capital is pleased tt
note that Omaha's. chief of police has
been fully exonerated-by his friends
The Treynor Record is inclined tt
fear that II all the railroads that are
I tdlkGu Ol LOT IOtldW c1tIc1iiliS COQilIy dI
built the county will be SO full Of rail.
road tracks there will be no room fol
4 corn.
Now that Nan Patterson and Ton
] Lawson have disappeared from the
first page there doesn't seem to be an,
/ reason why Togo and Kuropatkin ant
the rest Of them should not have the
position and space to which they arr
L orfif1ad Sava tho KaOkI1lf Cpfa Cff1y
hopefully.
The news from Washington to tht
effect that the whole Iowa delegation
Including Congressman Hepburn, is II
favor of sustaining the rate policie.
outlined by the President VIII tn,