Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-16
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Southwestern Iowa editors will break
Lent with big banquet at Des Moines
next week. But as newspaper editors
are popularity supposed to fast nearly
all the time, the Burlington Hawk Eye
thinks there will be q general DISPOSE
ton to excuse them in this case.
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The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sug-
gests that the Cedar Rapids papers
will have to quit abusing the trusts
until they get that oatmeal factory re-
built.
The Carroll Herald comedies that
Julian Richards Is not the best man in
Iowa to remember names or faces, but
1t asserts that he is of a genial, social
nature and Is not stuck up a bit. and
that those who think differently do
not know him.
The Mason city Times-Herald says
that Editor Payne the foe of biennial
elections, is both interesting and
amusing but few people are taking
him seriously
The Muscatine journal believes that
''the horn Of plenty ought to bulge at
the top and bottom during the next
four years."
The Cedar Rapids Republican con-
siders it exceedingly unfortunate that
the first extensive report filed by the
commissioner of corporations should
receive such reception as Mr.. Gar
fields report on the beef trust is re-
ceiving at the hands of the public.
"It contradicts the assumption of
practically everybody" continues the
Republican. "and even the most con-
servatively minded-those who believe
that a report Of this kind should be
accepted in good faith until it has
been disapproved-f1nd it difficult to
refrain from criticism"
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zone trouble with the demands OF
the public" says the Iowa Falls Citi-
zen, lis that their efforts are spas
modic. Today they are astride one
hobby and tomorrow they are astride
another hobby
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes
that of women assessors are elected
in the places where it is proposed to
tax bachelors the income from that
source would not be large. Thirty
fcents would be the maximum valua-
tion."
The Burlington Hawk-Eye believes
that Secretary Shaw has established
remarkable record for administrative
efficiency in the treasury department
and it says that he will relinquish his
office at the end of four years with
the respect and approval of the big
and brainy people of the country
especially of that class who are in
touch with the financial world. 1.-THE
Utmost confidence is placed in his
country's large affairs" continues the
Hawk Eye, ''and If in the future he
may seek a larger recognition by the
people than he has yet had it is not
to be doubted there will be very many
who will give him hearty support"
"Col. Bryan may explain that his
long but vain pursuit of that Bennett
legacy was persisted in solely on &C.
count of the principal involved" re.
marks the Sioux City Journal.
The Keokuk-Gate City Is not sur.
prised that Generals Kuroki and Ok,
should accomplish such results agains
great difficulties. Their names wher
properly arranged spell Keo-ku-k.
"It seems hardly right for the czal
to blame all the ills from which he 1!
suffering upon providence" says the
Sioux City Tribune.
"It Is so unexpected and shocking
to learn that a bride has been Offered
J by somebody to somebody in Colo.
rado," says the Des Moines Capital
aghast.
What irony Of fate it would BIZ
should Rockefeller be sentenced to the
anti-trust laws and then have to worl
in the state oil refinery" suggests the
Carroll Sentinel.
The Sioux City Journal has noticed
that whenever the railroads run w
against the interstate commerce com
mission the roads are convinced tina
the commission is. an unpractica
body"
The Cedar Rapids Republican say:
that Colorado can scarcely be said tt
be enjoying republican form of gov,
eminent, as contempt for law seems tt
| be almost universal in that state.
Recurring to the Hepburn Wallace
| incident, the Humboldt Independent
says that when Col. Hepburn had fin.
ished "our Uncle Henry looked like
! the chicken picked and drawn ready
to SINCE for the boiling pot; there wa!
really nothing left Of him but skin ant
bone"
The Dennison Review doesn't know
whether Secretary Shaw contemplate!
leaving the cabinet to become candi-
date for president or not, but"
says, I'VE know that he is worthy O
| the nomination and that he will fine
many willing hands in Dennison to con
| tribute their mite of influence ant
J help toward his nomination."