Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-29
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA FRESS COMMENl
"The reputation of the Taggarts will
soon look as if it had been between
the factions of a Kentucky feud,'' says
the Oskaloosa Herald.
The Waterloo Report ,r thinks two
year terms IRE long enough for county
or township officers. IF the officer
is faithful and competent it is no trou-
BILE to re-elect I'm as often as the
people want him. says the Reporter.
'If he is incompetent and unworthy
two years Is long enough to wait to
put better man in his place.
The Davenport Times thinks the
President appears to have had some
advance information on the census
statistics about the birth rate.
OF Colonel Hepburn, the creston Ad-
vertiser says he has always had the
opposition of the democrats and there
have been some men Ii. his own party
who opposed him. mo man can be
in congress twenty years without maxi
ing enemies-least Of all William
Peters Hepburn. virile, positive, ag-
gressive man whose courage rarely
tongue never fails to make his mean
ing plain,'' says the Advertiser.
o.
1.-THE negro is not lacking in any
essential qualification CT good citizen
ship, nor is he untitled for distinguish
ed service in many walks of life. AS
he continues to make good the I'M
reasoning prejudice against decent
recognition will die out, and he will be
measured, as the members of other
races ar, by individual merit thinks
the Des Moines Register and Leader
The Marion Register, referring to
the reciprocity conference, says: The
colltry is too prosperous, the people
too busy to get excited. The tariff
sInashers, the reciprocity advocates
and ratemakers are welcome to all the
chickens that will ever come to life
in their incubators. They will never
be able to start g, premium hennery.
but in the end will find themselves
shanghaied, for which they will have
no one to either thank or lame but
themselves"
"The time will never come when
Iowa land will sell for less than it has
been selling the past few years." says
the Cedar Falls Record. An occasional
piece may be forced on the market and
bring less, but the great bulk of 1t
will hold It's own and more too
The Des Moines Capital obse.n es
that an automobile is no respecter of
persons and would as soon kill the
son of millionaire as some luckl ,ss
homespun who happens to be too slow
to make his escape.
In the face of the great prosperity
| that now attends us as a people, the
Cedar Rapids Republican wants us all
to bear in mind that wag's toast:
Here's to our prosperity, and may we
have sense enough to stand it.
The Oskaloosa Herald says it was a
great newspaper feat to get Mr.. Bryan
to say in an interview that Leslie M
Shaw is an impossibility for the pres
idency"
Joe Lanes stock fer goverrorship
never looked better than it does right
now. and Joe Lane will fill the bill in
every particular" says the Mason City
Times Herald.
why does not the Iowa Grocers as
ISOLATION Danish the prize package lot
terry which is cheat on children, and
which under the law Is undoubtedly
gambling. making the grocers and thrir
clerks liable to Indictment" asks The
CEDAR Rapids Gazette.
THE bane of the negro since his
emancipation up to the present time
has been politics. says the Burlington
Gazette. He has allowed himself to
be used by ambitious and designing
politicians to advance their own selfish
| interests and as long as they do sc
they will look in vain for that sym
pathy and assistance to which they
are justly entitled as struggling
race"
1t would be Illuminating to the Sioux
City Journal if Governor Cummins, OF
some one else having information
would explain precisely what the Chi
| CO 20 conference did and for what II
may be understood as standing In the
matter Of practical tariff legislation.
| The Cedar Falls Record says that
| Congressman Birdsall ts measuring uI
to the responsibilities Of his position
| in most satisfactory manner and that
his public utterance made quite re-
Gently shows him to be a man OF
courage and conviction, in touch with
these who Gesire a Square dcaI' in al
| legislative enactments.
The Des Moines Capital observes
lhdL lleIe 10 always Il great rivalry
among professional reformers to see
who can give expression to the most
rabid and astounding utterances.
The washington Press says that Mr.
Bryan received over $500 for an hours
talk at the Washington Chautauqua
and, ut was not intrinsically worth a
$40 note.'
AS to the suggestion of four-year
terms for county officers, the Dubuque
Times says that when the people find
| they have made a mistake in select
ing particular person for particular
office they like an early opportunity tc
correct It,"
| WHEN is A NATION BEATEN?
| Minneapolis Tribune.-The key OF
the Russian position, since their en-