Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-26

There is no proof that any exac-
lions We're made when Perkins made
his contributions, and the way things
are being uncovered would lead to the
conclusion that nobody is exerting
himself in behalf of the contributions
says the Iowa City Republican.
-Four years With a dishonest or in
efficient official would be an eternity"
says the Dubuque Times Herald. 1T
is too long a time to keep custodian
Of public business out of the search
light of public gaze. The comrlunity's
best interests will be served better by
two-year than a four-year term"
Questionable as are campaign con-
tributions by corporations, 1t would
seem as IL they ought to be allowed II
club of some kind when assaulted by
such dangers as 16 to L. says the Des
Moines Capital.
Regarding the proposition for state
aid to the state fair, the Cedar Rapids
Republican says: THE truth is gov
ernments go from easy to easier in
public expenditures. 1t is the same
story everywhere = extravaganza in
public moneys. Nobody cares. But
some day there will be a democratic
opposition virile enough to take advant-
time to check them is now, in the days
of our triumph and prosperity
The Sioux City Journal has perceiv-
ed that what Is wanted is a lseener
sense of public honesty and OF public
responsibility. "In no other way can
the abuse of money as a campaign
agent be materially curtailed and the
evils of politics as a whole minimized,"
saws the Journal
Governor Cummins is a brilliant
man beyond question and he may pos
sess all the virtues which his friends
attribute to him, but that his leader
ship has promoted factionalism is
known of all who are at all familiar
with Iowa politics." says the Creston
There is not small town in Iowa
that could not profitaby spend the
coming winter in an inventory of its
advantages as manufacturing cen
ter, says the Des Moines Register and
Leader. Nearly every crossroad has
already demonstrated that butter can
be manufactured at profit. Many
have found that packing poultry can
be done as advantageously at one rail-
way station as at another Small
canneries are Just as practicable for
one radius of the fertile soil as for
another regardless of the size of the
market town the country Is tributary
to. There is not village in the state
that does not have the surplus money
needed to establish one or more profit
able industries, in fact there are but
few that do not have enough money
invested in Dakota and Canadian
lands.''
"No one would realize from the way
in which Iowa is forging to the front
since the last federal census" says the
Burlington Hawk-Eye. There must
be mistake somewhere Probably
the 10000 were not the desirable kind
anyhow"
The Dubuque Telegraph says the
man who takes the first step on the
stairs of drink will find that the travel
on them is all one way-always down
and never up.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
IL the count In the cities had been ac-
curately made the decrease in the
states population would have been 40
900 or more. Unsteady of only 10000.
There has been great deal of Jug
Cling with the figures" the Gazette
been taken to cast UP the grand total
from ninety mine county totals"
"A TEMPEST in teapot" That is
the way the Mason City Times Herald
regards the Sage-Cownie debate over
the Iowa corn crop.
The Davenport Times, in view of
Des Moines' murder record, wonders
what kind Of police department the
town has. Are suspicious characters
never rounded up or driven out Of
town before they have chance to do
something's" the Times asks.
The Waterloo Reporter says that If
the state fair management is at all
sensitive the suggestion that the leg
thousand dollars for improvements
will not be crowded too closely.
The Creston Advertiser-Gaze be-
lieves that the big insurance compan-
les have lost the confidence Of the
people, not in their ability to pay but
in their wise and honorable manage
mont Of the vast sums committed to
their care.
Speaking Of Senator Dolliver, the
Marion Register says: I'm the earlier
years of his public career he was ac-
cused by some Of being the possessor
of a. good many political foibles, but no
one would thus accuse him now. Dol
liver the politician and partisan, as
partisanship Is commonly understood.
belongs to the past. The Dolliver of
today is statesman, full statured, the
peer of any man in the state or ma
ton. He has had a brilliant career but
there is every indication that the past
will pale in comparison with the record
he will make in the future"
The Cedar Rapids Republican, refer
ring to the poverty of Mr.. Palmer, late
public printer, says it was his own
fault if he failed to live far enough
| within his income to save something