Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-30
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
The Burlington Hawk Eye recalls
that Billy Sunday says what the
church needs today are dignitaries who
will dig" and the SIOUX City Tribune
suggests that when the church gets
through with them, Uncle Sam might
with profit send them down to Pan
anna
Noting that Mayor Mcclellan has
employed twelve attorneys to look after
poets that this will lead some people
to think he feels guilty.
Discussin~ gambling and football,
the Des Moines Register and Leader
says: "The authorities of our COL
leges and high schools are heard from
time to time In mild protest against
this open and notorious gambling, but
not in a way TO terrify the guilty, nor
of young America The real moral
stamina of the educational world
seems to have been grievously under
mined in these days of competition for
students at any cost"
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There is popular confidence that
the President will act with prudence
and wisdom. and there is great faith
that he will come out from this trial
suits to his credit and to the credit of
his party" says the Sioux City Jour-
nal.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil notices
that Senator Plat is so enfeebled that
he had to be practically carried before
the insurance committee but thinks
that 1t Is likely that the McCalls and
the McCurdys regarded his testimony
as quite strong when he told of those
campaign contributions.
Russia may have to wade through
a sea Of blood to learn what liberty is, y
says the Des Moines News, but the
gain will be worth the cost. hlgArty
never yet failed in the end to make q
people better and happier
1.-THE people Of the west need not
worry about the tightness of money in
New York" says the Cedar Rapids
Gazette. ut is only tight with the
spectators, a class who are often will
ing to pay 10 per cent for the use Of
money over night"
mo tlLOII Is uelIS llldue ny tLlS
powers to hurry the car in the mat.
ter of getting the second peace con.
ference at The Hague together" says
the Davenport Times, "for the reason
that the car is somewhat busy along
these lines within his own bailiwick
And anyhow, the powers are rather
busy themselves building new war.
ships and stocking up on the winter.
supply Of guns"
4
zone effective argument agains
football" says the Sioux City Tribune
| would be to show pictures of tn,
Thanksgiving battles to the younger
generation. as most of them would
think it more fatal than a battle will
| Cossacks."
PLAT and Odell, of New York" oc
cupy the position toward each other o
the pot and KETTLE" is the way tn,
Clinton Herald figures it out.
Next Thursday" says the De-
Moines Register and Leader, "the maj
who has been bowling about the ballo
boxes being stuffed will be passing w
his plate to set little more Of thu
stuflng."
AS 1t will require $16,ooo,0o0 to com
1 plete our coast defenses. the Masol
City Times Herald suspects that SONS
of the Notifications must be built OF
a gold basis or with silver lining.
The Fontanelle Observer observe!
that Senator Allison stands with tn
President and isn't asking the privil
eye of interpreting the Presidents pc
! sition.
4 Prince Louis of Battenberg paid tn
dentist of New York's smart set $1,00
for plugging four teeth" remarks TIL
Des Moines News. For little NOR
Louis could have gotten into Fads an
i Fancies."
i AS the Rockford Register sees 1t tn
weak spot in football as an athletic i
that it is entirely too strenuous TO
i the undeveloped student and break
the necks of altogether too many VIII
would be husky without it.
Champ Clark says that Jerome Is
coming man, which is taken by tn
Council Bluffs Nonpareil to indicat