Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-14
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

The Coon Rapids EnterprisesSays that
so far as anybody can see there are
os many of us as ever, notwithstanding
the reported decrease of 1owa's popu-
la ton.
The G. dSr Rapids Republican says
that If the President We're to make
good fraction of the predictions, made
by the newspaper correspondents con-
corning his message that document
would very much resemble the cele-
brated coat of one Joseph.
eff all the year was like October
there would be no place like Iowa to
live in,'' says the Alta Advertiser.
"The lot Of a life insurance agent is
never pleasant, but he deserves Pc
culiar sympathy now" says the Ha-
warden Independent.
o.
Whats all this fuss over that Shaw
boy doing little work with his
hands?" the Rockford Register would
like to know.
1.-The Iowa farmer" says the Ar
lington News, will not worry about
the revision of the tariff this fall when
he is filling his cribs with the largest
corn crop the state has had in ten
years."
The vinton Eagle says that Secre-
tary Shaw is preaching straight re-
publicanism.
"The person who does not enjoy liv-
ing these days." says the Mt Vernon
Hawk Eye, is such a hopeless case of
pessimism that he might as well be
dead. If he isn't satisfied with the
weather, the crops and the prospects
that surround him in Iowa in this fall
of grace and the year of 1905, there
Isl no use of his looking for a better
place as an inhabitant of this mundan.
| sphere
Several Iowa newspaper men, re-
calls the Iowa City Republican, near
ly choked with indignation when Dob
son was appointed and went to China.
Now let's see them welcome him
| back"
The Marshalltown Times Republican
judges from George l.. Dobson's talk
that the Taft party's record for a
quick trip home is likely to drop into
the "also ram class when George
heads for Iowa.
The man who speaks the truth
and nothing but the truth isn't apt to
be an especially fluent talker," OBJ
serves the Keokuk Gate City.
/ Perhaps it is just as well that
there should be an early check to the
career of the jovial young llumorist
who beat the National City bark Out
of s35o,00O just for a joke" says the
Sioux City Journal. THAT sort OF
humor when fully developed is alto
/ gether too sidesplitting in it's conse.
| quences to be allowed to run al
large
Let the New York newspaper cam
paign for pure, sweet milk for infants
for education of boys and girls, anc
for healthful homes for all families
continue and they will perform 6
greater service than by protesting
against race suicide" says the Siou,
1 City Tribune.
"Of course congress will support
4 Roosevelt, for the President knows
what the people want" says the Du.
buque Times, referring to the railroad
4 rate question. HE has the confidence
Of the people, too, as few president:
before him have had It, He is thor.
oughly convinced that something mus
be done in spite of all the argument.
to the contrary that have been pre-.
sented by the opposition"
i AS to the ques ion of the young
j people going to church together, Thu
Waterloo Reporter concludes that tn,
young man who attends church will
a young woman makes 1t one Of tn.
habits Of his life and is not in i'm,
minent danger of being lost to re.
= ligious teachings because of Cupid ex'