Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-24

y departFd&At s~snatorl
8 as aspatrfot Citizen, @business
nj and leading spirit la I'LL helpful
20 e $ers, is n Ssof the very best mem
iowa. We remember when In curl
pc9hood days he returned from the
frfnt with q splendid soldier record
a1d in all the years since he has en-
himself to all with whom he'll
came In contact. He would adorn the
position of department commander and
irhpart life n activity to that grand!
THE talk of decreased wage In event
of reduced freight rates doesn't bring
to \the memory of the Council Bluffs
Nohpareil any wage voluntarily In
creAsed to correspond with advanced
freight rates.
: Congressman Birdsall, Of the Third
dist3ict, has earned the approval Of the
Telegraph. He seems to be
mailing, it says, sincere effort to merit
andA win popular confidence in his de-
votRen to the interests of his constit-
uenks."
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that.
the lobbyist should be listed with the
jury mixer.
The vinton Eagle promises that "the
republican party will, in Its own good
country will go democratic. take up
the work of revising the tariff and
equalizing any Irregularities hat may
have crept into it"
Down with the reserved seat in the
circus" exclaims an Indiana legislator,
whereupon the Mason City Times
Herald asks: How does the gentle
stand upon the question Of pew
he do 1t under protest?"
Making whiskey cheap and COM
mon Is not a road to temperance"
says the Marshalltown Times-Repub-
of twenty-five years ago, made more
drunkards than did whiskey in the
communities they hourished in"
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THE efforts of enthusiasts to prove
that General Grant was a good scholar
at West Point may as well be aban-t
doned," say the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
HE was twenty-lrst in a class Of
twenty-three, and there We're but two
others who could defeat him in avar-
age ineficiency. But when the time
came for actual fighting the twenty
who stood ahead of Grant in that class,
and h several times twenty who had
graduated with better standing in
other classes, did not come to the fore.
Grant very evidently knew some things
that he did not tell his instructors on
the date of examinations"
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In his inaugural address Gov, Alva
Adams states that in his opinion the
Colorado election laws need reforming,
and the Des Moines Capital exclaims:
"The man is showing an almost human
intelligence upon the very threshold of
his administration"
IF you will cross-ouestion your wife
after she has read the paper" says the
Oskaloosa Ti~mes-Journal, you will
find that she is a little hazy about the
status of the eastern war, but that she
has a sharp n clear notion of the
special sales that are In progress in the
different stores"
There are other and more effective
means Of making ~wife-beaters sorry
than the knout," saws the Marshall
man arraigned for wife-beating were
given the fullest penalty now fixed by
law we can get along without the
whipping post and the official brute
necessary to inflict It's punishment"
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The Cedar Rapids Republican says
there Is not in all Iowa a ~discordant
voice on the policies of the President,
which 1t interprets as indicating that
will vote with the President, in order
to represent correctly the sentiments
Of their constituents. And we be-
lieve," the Republican adds, that is
what they are doing, although old Pete
Hepburn Is occasionally suspected and
raked owe the Goals for having some
notions Of his own"
Des Moines Capital.-From the col
umns of our valued contemporary
the East Peru Mail, we CLEAN the fol-
lowing bit of business philosophy
which ought to be emblazoned
across the commercial empyrean
with a regular red line display: IF
Iowa people want Iowa's business
exclusively they want to adopt the
catalogue house spirit of enterprise
advertise in the home newspapers to
beat the band" Many a man has used
more words and said less.
The Centerville Iowegian says that
too much Pennypacker will hurt Penn
sylvania more than too much newspa-
per publicity.
The Cedar Falls Gazette suggests
that the people Of Iowa can console
themselves with the thought that when
the newspapers have finally selected
a man for governor it will be the peo-
pies turn.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says it
may be news to a good many people
to know that Iowa has a full-fedged
anti-cigarette law doing business.
The Iowa men who have launched
the new daily in Chicago" says the
Cedar Rapids Republican, seem to
proceed on the theory that the people
should not know anything except what
the editors approve and edit for them.
But there are a great many Americans
who believe that they can pick the
good from out all the news quite as
easily and as satisfactorily as any
committee can do it."
The beef trust has undoubtedly no.
ticed by the papers that it is being
vigorously prosecuted" says the Des
Moines Capital.