Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-04

ling the empire states to find them.
selves and their common duty"
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Gas has dropped out of the daily
social converse in Kansas just now and
the bumper wheat crop has first
place" remarks the Burlington Hawk
Eye.
The Sioux City Tribune Is certain
that with billion dollars to his credit
1t would be quite impossible for Mr.
to give 1t away fast enough
to get down to that part Of the fortune
which he has honestly earned.
Somehow or other these long ten
ures and popular officials do not al
ways work" says the Vinton Eagle
Mayor Ross, of Milwaukee, was so
popular that 1t was impossible to de-
feat him. He had the peculiar faculty
OF securing the public confidence and
retaining It, The people of that city
now wish they had not been SO conf
dental with him. The present investi-
cation is developing the fact that his
administration is honey-combed with
graft"
Patriotism is all very we'll and
proper" says the Muscatine Journal,
"but America does not need to fight
rattles with itself in order to prove
Its loyalty. Noise can be made with
cut killing the noise makers"
DO not blame the Lake Shore off,
Gals for restoring the eighteen-hour
train. The public makes the demand"
says the Des Moines Capital. ut is
the business of the enterprising TWEEN
tieth century railway to give the pub
lie what 1t wants.
TT is now discovered that dead men
have been credited with $4,000 salar-
les on the Equitable pay roll" says the
oskaloosa Herald. "Yet there seems to
have been a number of remarkably
live ones in the corporation"
"Tom Lawson has Everybody's. Tom
Watson has his own magazine, Bryan
the Commoner-perhaps Rockefeller
never thought Of defending himself
with magazine Of his own" says the
The Des Moines Capital thinks that
Miss Tarbell probably makes as much
money featuring Mr.. Rockefeller in the
magazines as she would If she owned
several shares of preferred Standard
Oil stock.
There is no excuse for an able bodied
man being without work, the Des
out. when men are needed by the hun
dred in the harvest fields. "Fakirs.
beggars and loafers," the Register and
Leader asserts, ARE in evidence on
the streets Of Des Moines this year
more than ever, while couple of hun
dreds miles away men are shouting
themselves hoarse calling for hands,"
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says it
will be little less than a miracle If so
tremendous job Of public work and
public expenditure extraordinary as the
Panama Is accomplished without scam
dial.
The Marshalltown Times-Republican
says the mere fact hat audiences num-
boring thousands will go to hear Book
osity. but to hear the lesson taught, Is
the best promise of the negro race to
the future.
"A lot Of newspapers that seem to
be hard up for something to print"
observes the Washington Democrat.
are asking the question, What ails
Iowa? Nothing. darn you! Nothing,
at all, except a lot of lazy editors, VIII,
for want Of something to write and
too lazy to rustic for local items, put
in their time slandering the state.
With land worth $125 per acre, what
do you think ails Iowa?"
o.
Discussing the dog nuisance the
Waterloo Reporter expresses the opin-
ion that the dog should be deprived Of
his liberty the same as horses. cows,
pigs. chickens and other animals that
are not permitted to roam at will over
have his way" says the Reporter, but
other animals The dog nuisance will
never be abated until 1t is provided
that they cannot run at large"
-
when 1t is remembered that a gov
eminent Is never better than the peo-
pie governed, we cannot think highly
of those cities which are so graft
ridden" says the Cedar Falls Ga
Zette.
The Cedar Rapids Republican Is
quite positive that there will be no
three-term governors In Iowa, and It
declares that the first man to try 1t
will go utterly to pieces. Instead Of
giving governors three TERMS" says
the Republican, ut would be better to
reduce some OF the other state officers
to two terms. They have gradually
encroached until they regard three
terms as their birthright in politics.
Two terms and out Is good motto In
state as In county offlcesn Tho Re.