Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-28
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

LATE Young has let the cat out Of
bag" says the Marshalltown Times
Republican. "It was the Missouri re-
publicans who insisted on the Dobson
appointment. This lets Iowa down
easy, but alas! poor old Missoury!"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette offers
condolences to the Iowa towns that
made the effort to secure the cereal
plant from Cedar Rapids, and states
in an effort to soothe their sorrows
that Cedar Rapids intends at no dis
tant day to make each of them a
Christmas present that will enable
them to build almost anything they
want"
Congressman Hull continues to re-
ceive columns of editorial mention
with reference to sentiments which he
never uttered" says the Des Moines
Capital. IA lie speeds thither and yon
on wings Of electricity. The refuta-
ton moves onward. with all the cele-
rity of a messenger boy"
The Buffalo Center Tribune declares
that farmer hits the nail on the head
when he says that nothing pays bet
thing to secure them but they are the
arteries that connect village and coun-
try along which the current of business
ness prosperity safely and solid COM
fort, perpetually flows. Bad roads.
full of chuck holes, sloughs and bot
tomless mud, kills time, teams and
temper" says the Tribune.
Anyway Kuropatkin is a man clear
through and high quality Of man at
that" declares the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil. IF he can't be the whole show
he is content to carry a spear in the
rear rank
"In Missouri there are 5000 children
named after President Roosevelt. In
Germany there are 319 statues of the
kaiser. So much for strenuosity,"
says the Clinton Herald.
AS to George E. Roberts conclusion
that the retailers of meat are our real
oppressors, the Cedar Rapids Repub-
lican says: "As has been remarked
before: If this be true, the butchers
as class have the art of hiding
wealth down to fine point"
The Boone Republican says that ex-
Cows. Adams and Peabody con go out
to some quiet spot and exchange con-
CALCULATIONS that they are out of it.
"Addicks is in favor of any sort of
compromise that shall give him what
he wants." says the Sioux City Jour-
nal. But somehow the other fellows
are bit slow about realizing that such
a solution really would be a compro-
mise"
THE addition of an apostrophe to
the Japanese field marshaTs name
O'Yama-would be presumptive evil
dence of his right to march in Saint
Patrick's day parade" says the Keo-
kuk Gate City, and again it calls
Oyama the high muck a-muck of
Muckden."
"a local railroad man has lost all
respect for Oyama," says the Council
a man who would take another mans
railroad away from him and would
then deny him a Tie pass is too mean
to live. 1t does look stingy."
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"Linevitch may be short of supplies
and ammunition, but he has bridges
to burn" notes the Sioux City Journal
The Davenport Times notes that 1t
is announced that Rojestvenskv is
to meet Admiral Togo.
Possibly the Russian commander has
made his WILL says the Times.
ANY cause must be In mighty bad
way that needs to be thus bolstered
up with perjury" says the Keokuk
Gate City, commenting on the admis-
sion Of President Smith, of the Nor
mon church, that he had given false
testimony in Washington.
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