Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-10
Iowa never looked more like the garden
OF Eden than in this June, 1906"


OF Eden than in this June. 1906"
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that the defender of John D. Rockefel-
Ter will not be widely believed, as peo-
PIE prefer to believe that the rich are
scoundrels of some kind or other.
The Waterloo Reporter. referring to
the determination of a defeated post
office aspirant at Sheldon to appeal
from the decision Of the congressman
to the postmaster general, expresses
the opinion that "the appeal will
amount to much in the way of vindi-
eating disappointed ambition" The
Reporter has an idea that the Sheldon
pronouncement will not weigh very
heavily upon the official conscience at
Washington"
Iowa has become the best state In
the whole world, without a city of
100000" says the Burlington Hawk
Eye. commenting on the aspiration of
Des Moines to be a city of that size.
perhaps the fact that she has no large
cities makes Iowa doubly prosperous
and progressive and successful. Per
maps 1T will be just as well for Iowa
perhaps It will be just as we'll for Des
MONIES, If she never accomplishes
what she is aiming att
The Mt. Vernon Hawkeye observes
that both the people who live IN towr
and those who live in the country seem
to be anxious to get bigger taste OF
what the other fellow enjoys than is
their lot at present.
The Mason City Globe Gazette says
that every day of this sunshine makes
the farmers feel as though they had
taken something which exhilarates but
does not intoxicate.
The Creston Advertiser Gazette says
that judged by his own utterances
| there is nothing Objectionable about
Secretary Taft as republican presi.
The Spirit Lake Beacon saws a grea
many good people are coming to be,
lteye that Secretary Taft will be log
ical successor Of Roosevelt.
o.
I'm what particular section Is TIL,
| United States becoming overcrowdet
with immigrants?" ,.sks the Ceda
Rapids Gazette. 1.-THE manufacturin,
the farm regions are becoming les
populous. A mysterious disappearance
of humanity is under way in this coun
try
The Dubuque Times does not thin
the, country needs to worry about tn
1 trust question, because the people ca,
emancipate themselves at any tim
they choose and at an inconsequentia
secrifice. The Times says: "Thos
Who continue to patronize the Standar
/ Oil &company's competitors after tina
company has cut the price know no,
to- deal. with the trust question"
Senator Allison is going to Europ
to get respite from the cares Q
state, and the Dubuque Times explain
that a man Of his eminence in publ
4 life cannot get this respite at home
4 for wherever he goes within the boun
daries Of his own country he Is invite
and urged to, talk shop.
/ o.
i The Cedar Rapids Republican think
that Iowa is always getting the wors
| OF it in the discussion of industrial an
commercial questions. Gov. Boies, I
recalls, advertised corn growing as
failure in the state, and now M
Campbell calls Iowa a graveyard {
factories, Governor Cummings says
is an impossible place for factorie
4 and Mr. Russell holds the great cattl
! industry, Of the state as responsible
y for forty bank failures, when as a mai
!, ter of fact not one Of the banks faile
: on account Of cattle paper. why doe