Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-31
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Those st. Petersburg strikers who
died asked for so cents a day. Is 1t
hard to decide with which side to
sympathize? asks the Council Bluffs
Nonpariel and the Gate City says 1t is
harder still to decide whether those
who were killed or those who survive
are the worse of.
isn't Gar Nicholas a nice head for
a great church," y the Cedar Rap
ids Gazette. isn't he a conspicuous ex-
ample of humility? Doesn't he tally
with the Sermon on the Mount?' May
it not be expected that his blessings
for running water, wooden images and
living men have great weight"
The Des Moines Capital observes
that editors who have not even seen
the Hepburn bill are writing some very
bitter articles concerning it.
Men, disappointed in their ambi-
tons often become reformers," says
the Dubuque Telegraph, but reform
ers are not all men who have thus
been disappointed"
Someone has been enumerating the
offices filed by third district men, with
a view to showing that the district can
hardly ask for another place-that of
secretary OF state, to which Julian w.
Richards, aspires. Commenting thereon
the Waterloo Reporter says: 1.-THE
third district will admit the impeach-
ment that its residents hold some good
official positions. That is a fact not to
be ashamed of, or to apologize for. 1t
may be further pointed out that every
place has been filled with honor and
with ability. and that the state could
have had no better service if 1t had
swept the uttermost corners of the
commonwealth. And 1t may modestly
be mentioned at this time that the dis
trict has not impoverished itself in
the contribution it has made to the
public service"
The Colfax Clipper says that Con-
gresham Hepburn may always be de-
pended upon to stand for a square deal
to everybody-even when the high
pressure newspapers of his own state
are doing everything in their power
to discredit him with his constituency.
The Keokuk Gate City concludes
that bitter indeed must be the resent
ment and desperate the frame of mind
which a wake Russian sluggishness
to sue manifestations as those of the
last few days.
The Cedar Rapids Republican sus-
poets that a great many sour grapes
are mixed with Mr.. Lawson's ex-
posures.
The Mason City Globe-Gazette no.
tees that some Of the strenuous re-
formers are now impatient because
Senator Allison does not set his mouth
talking and then run away and leave
1t.
The more Iowa Is studied in COM
parison with other states the better
satisfied 1owans ought to be" says the
Clarinda Journal.
The Keokuk Gate City a y that the
rural mail carriers union, instead Of
proving a source of strength to them.
been a positive weakness.
"Kuropatkin said early in the war
that behind earthworks and entrench-
ments, Stoessel would defy the COM
btned forces of the earth and helI."I
remarks the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
what was the use? After making
a defiance along came the Jap
anese from somewhere and gave him
the grand boost"
con January % the veneer of re-.
ligion and Of benefcence was stripped
from the White Gear and he appeared
as ne is-a weakling like Louis XVI"
the Des Moines News. He is no
no longer the peasants patriarch.
There Is no car"
With a new city building. a hos
pltal, a national university, a new ho-
a mile of street paving, the inter-
and a possible business block
Or two in prospect, things look rather
promising for Oskaloosa in an indus
trial way this season." says the Oska-
loosa Herald.
Out in Denver some ~rascally wag
NOS anu Liz pull BOOKS
show that the dog voted several times
n various precincts" says the Carroll
"The election was a dog-goned
corrupt affair throughout the whole
The Abba Union says it will cost
$500 to take the census Of Monroe
county this year, or 81, 500 1000 for the
state and, the Fairfield Ledger says
I that is true, the cost is more than
he work will be worth. There are
more frills about the census this year
han Iowa ever saw BEFORE" says the
herald. and the schedules look more
Ike the demands of some theorist
han those Of a practical, common
sense a What's YOU judgment, as
'ou look them over?"
The Des Moines Register and Leader
believes that the future of Iowa rests
n the Iowa factory and for this rea-
on 1T urges that everything that goes
tut OF Iowa should go finished and
compact. can enormous surplus is to
n ~ continues tho Doo{o&a. .-