Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-23
THE OTTUMWA COURIER

personal qualifications to the service
of the government. The act which will
cost him a, good position was not un-
natural, but it seems to be judged as
considerable of an offense."
The Fairfield Ledger says that if1
the Iowa supreme court couldn't find
give "Bilp' Richards another chance.
his case must be very serious one.
indeed
Mistakes the things that can be
explained away by simple acknowl-
edgment of error - do no perman-
ent HARM admits the Cedar Rapids
Gazette. The Intentional wrong. to
which other wrongs are added for it's
defense, is the thing that undermines
the government. The loud-mouthed
anarchist with flaming torch may burn
a building or he may kill one man,
but the government Is not touched.
The genteel hypocrite in place can do
much greater damage"
"The grounding was all right in his
prediction of six weeks additional win
ter" says the Cedar Rapids Gazette,
ruefully. -Four weeks of the addition
al winter have been crowded into the
last two weeks"
The Keokuk Gate City does not
doubt that the majority of the people
are on the side of the President in his
difference with the senate over the ar
bitration treaties. Nobody outside Of
the senate it says, takes very seri-
ously that thing of tremendous i'm
portance within the senate chamber
called senatorial dignity The I'M
pie do not have the deep respect for
the senate which that august body de-
serves"
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
| that some of the abuse visited upon
the senate is very unjust. THE sena-
tors" it explains, sometimes refuse
to get excited simply because every
body else is excited. 1t was the theory
senate should not get excited. 1t was
made the senate's business to be con-
| sentative and not to run away with
every new born issue"
o.
The Des Moines Register and Lead
! er says that in theory the tWo-thirds
vote in the senate which is necessary
\
alive is supposed to stand for the calm
and deliberate Judgment of the Ameri-
can people, but practically it repre-
sents as often as otherwise the whims
| and prejudices, the selfish purposes
and private greed of few men tc
! whom the interests of the nation
broadly considered, never appeal. 1.-THE
courtesy of the senate" concludes the
| Register and Leader, "countenances
endless debate. The two-thirds vote
makes the support of the buccaneers
| indispensable. Treaties are therefore
never ratified that for any reason
whatever are opposed by very few
men, and they are not the men whit
1 ought to decide
The Marion Register, considering the
advisability of standing pat on thu
4 tariff, railroads, ETC., asks whether i
is not better to bear the Ills we have
for a season than to fly to others VIZ
4 know not Of? There is very little t.
worry about" it says, 80 don't worry
The few wrongs there are can b,
righted without a tempest in teapot
on the prairie or anywhere. Wht
wants a storm?"
The Burlington Hawk-Eye observe
that w. A. Richards, the former dep
uty United States marshal, convicte'
: Of robbery, is trying to get rehearinl
Of his case, and it concludes that NJ
matter what the jury or the judge
may say, Richards will not go to prisol
If money and influential friends cal
: keep him out.
1.-THE warm winter climate countrie
have never produced anything NOR
: substantial than bananas and men wit
! breech clouts and sloping foreheads,
! says the Cedar Rapids Republican
speaking of Iowa's mighty good an
I healthy winter"