Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-27

bends how easy they are in Omaha,
that city is sure to be made headquar-
tiers. declares the Sioux City Journal
admiringly.
Noting that the river Is going down
again, the Des Moines Capital says:
The esteemed city, council will of
course be able to see in this pleasing
situation a complete vindication of its
do-nothing dike-building policy"
In reviving the Nicola Reporter the
new owners explain that while the pa.
per is one Of the Oldest publications in
the county it is not yet old enough to
die.
The Cedar Rapids Republican gets
so discouraged with things as to de.
clare that hypocrisy and Mysteries rule
in Iowa, at the present time from the
highest Office down to a constable
"Populism has not won any national
victories in this country. but it has
finally conquered the leading men and
papers of the state" says the Republi-
can. The people are being taught to
believe that everybody who has any.
thing in the world Is = robber and is
robbing him. Hatred Of corporations
is being spread among the people and
hatred Of the rich goes with it,
Dispatches declare that the Des
Moines river almost reached the dan
ger line, as though that could be any
thing new" remarks the Cedar Rapids
Gazette. did not the river at all
times court danger by rambling
through Des Moines and Ottumwa
without police protection at all hours
of the day and night?'
The Des Moines News anticipates
that will you have your whiskers dis
infected" will soon become as popu-
lar as will you have massage?"
Undoubtedly" says the Keokuk
Gate City, noting that 1t is stated in an
eastern paper that the automobile has
become a valuable auxiliary to the
undertaking business.
TT is wise man who can come any
ways near guessing who will be Iowa's
next governor" says the Wall Lake
Blade.
The determination of certain poll
tlcians at Des Moines to appeal the
Young case to the supreme court
says the Keokuk Gate City, has all
the symptoms of case of ingrowing
conscience complicated by virulent
affection of the spleen"
The Creston Advertiser Gazette
speaking of primary law, suggests
that each county be permitted to have
what it wants. I'VE know that it is
badly needed In some counties" 1t
upon the counties that are satisfied
with the present system does not ap-
peal to u.s.
The Fort Dodge Post says that for
pure. downright skulduggery III poll
tics it has never. seen the primary sys-
tenn discounted "a state primary
system" it continues, offers no Sc
curity to people from the purchase
ing conventions over and above the
old-fashioned ward or township eau
GUS" ~
Whatever you do don't whine
says the Des Moines News.
The Dubuque Times accuses the Des
a vivid Imagination because it sees the
Iowa of the future cut up into garden
plots, with inter-urban railways run
ming through practically continuous
villages.
| ut is the very best Of advice which
| tells us to write no epitaphs for the
living" says the Burlington Hawk
1 Eye. No man knews how he or any
other man is going to end. And the
last chapter may compel a rewriting
| of the whole book, or perhaps better
STILL the book will simply remain I'M
written"
IF yacht races will Undue an era
of good feeling, then by all means let
us have yacht races" says the Du-
war clouds o'erhanging the horizon,
there cannot be too much amity among
1ations.'
Late advices from Chicago indicate
that the situation Is again normal
that is to say, highly complicated" ex-
plains the Sioux City Journal
The Onawa Sentinel feels moved to
remark that a newspaper may devote
a column in praise or commentator
of man and he will forget it In a
couple Of weeks, but two-line item
that is not altogether pleasing will be
remembered by the average reader for
two years"
| America is finding better market
year by year in the orient" declares
the Des Moines Register and Leader
The relations existing between the
two governments America and China
are friendly and must be maintained
SO If American commerce Is to pros
per- Minister Rockhill is considered
to be the man to accomplish this re-
suit. Certainly he goes to his new
post with the confidence Of the Ameri-
can people,
Divorce is another subject on which