Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-07

moves the world. Inc WorlQ wants
ideas more than 1t wants men,"
1.-THE spectacle Of the secretary OF
war, who chances to be the most en-
lightened American on the subject"
says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
pleading with the reluctant ways and
means committee Of the house of rep
resentatives for what amounts to lit
tie more than a testimonial of DISPOSE
ton to be fair with the Philippines, is
not one to gladden. the heart OF the
average American patriot. That plead
Ing or argument, beyond a statement
not gratifying to the American sense
of duty and fair play"
The Dubuque Times charges that
the recent Iowa manufacturers con-
vention at Cedar Rapids was run by
politicians, some of whom have no con-
nection with manufacturing. If the
real manufacturers had been In charge
the Times suggests, the convention
tariff revision, reciprocity with Can
ada, railroad pooling and the Hepburn
bill. The Times states that the Du-
buque manufacturers, realizing the
way things were tending, refused tc
participate in the convention, although
urged to do SO.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette woul6
make 1t felony for railroad corpora
tons to water their stock.
On account Of that bill making foot.
ball a crime the Des Moines Capita
awards to Nebraska, the highes'
premium on legislative idiocy" up tt
date.
The Iowa City Republican notes thai
while ]. w Blythe is in Washington
Burlington Is experiencing a great re.
ligtous awakening.
THE temperature and the price o,
eggs appear to have been trying to gel
as far apart as possible" says the
Keokuk Gate City.
The Webster City Freeman Tribun.
who fails to stand by the Presiden
In his fight for fair play to shippers
and producers ought to be retired a
the first opportunity.
The Waterloo Reporter Is gratif1et
| by the assurance that, while the price
of the necessaries Of life still seem dis
posed to climb higher. golf clubs will
be cheaper the coming summer. "Tha
will help some. maybe" the Reporte
suggests.
Senator James A. Smith, Of Usage
denies that he is incubating guberna
torial aspirations, and the Spirit LAX
Beacon says that the senator's abilit.
| Is entirely out of proportions with hi
political ambition. He would make
model governor, in the Beacon's opin
ion.
Point out the man." says the Masol
! City Times Herald, who said tina
Iowa would never have any more o
those old time winters, when the biz
cards howled and the snow drifted ant
they took the people from the railwa.
trains tin bob sleds. Point them out
| %
Maybe the time will come" say
| the DEBORAH Republican,, commentin,
1 on the fact that Senator elect Burkett
of Nebraska. is a native OF Iowa, "whel
Iowa will be as equally distinguishe,
| a mother Of statesmen as Ohio ha
been Of republican statesmen, or Vir
ginia was in olden time when the poll
teal path of preferment was by an,
through democracy"
| After having. shut up shops on
day to attend church, Burlington 4
now negotiating for Billy Sunday t
come there and complete the re
demption," says the Oskaloosa Herald
IF Burlington keeps on it may reform
its base ball club, which, in the fac
Of the returns, was awfully bad las
season"
Governor Cummins Is being congrat
ulated on the fact that he has decide,
not to take the colonies to Washington
at the states expense" says the Ceda
| Rapids Republican. kentucky ma,
be on hand with all the colonies need
| ed in Washington at the time"
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after twenty years service a.