Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-27
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that the proposition to tax bachelors
is relic of barbarism. 1t thinks that
rather than punish man who chooses
to live alone the government ought to
punish a great many who choose to
marry, but who are not fit for either
husbands or fathers. The Republican
suggests that a peculiar state of aft
fairs exists: On the one hand the
anti-divorce' advocates propose some-
how to compel people to live together
after they are married, and on the
other hand it is proposed to force men
into matrimony by taxing the bach
elor us married life to become a
matter Of force on the part Of the
state? asks the Republican.
Behold the President" says the
Jefferson Bee. When he hunts, he
hunts all over. When he works, he
works all over-the opposition. The
people love a man who does everything
with all his might and main.'
The Iowa City Republican says that
If all the members of the Iowa con-
gressional delegation were retired and
new men were put In their places there
still would be at least eleven other
men who would favor another change
at the earliest possible date. "It is
hard to please the OUTS" adds the Re-
publican.
Congressman Hubbard has demon
strated that he is standpatter," saws
the Mason City Globe Gazette. "He
wants all the credit and all the blame
for the appointment of postmasters.
He is a brave man sure"
Speaking of the railroad rates hear
ings now in progress, the Nevada
Representative says that if the SEN
October much of the public impatience
with that body will disappear. THE
senate is entitled to its say upon the
question:" continues the representa-
tive, and those who would ask it to
forego the same are not reasonable.
But what the people have right to
ask OF the senate is that 1t shall an
nounce its say, and not merely fool
around and say nothing"
The Manson Journal observes that
President Roosevelt generally gets
what he goes after.
"The right to labor as many hours
as one pleases," remarks the Cedar
| rams RECORD, cannot be abridged by
legislative enactment. That is good
wholesome American doctrine"
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AS to John Cownie's criticism of the
decorative work In the capitol build
ing at Des Moines the Council Bluffs
| Nonpareil says that "Mr. Cownie
comes fresh from the farms of the
Iowa state institutions. where he has
been assisting in. the selection Of seet
corn and seed potatoes, and is there.
! fore In good form to pass on the mer.
it's of artistic decorations"
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says tina
Bernard Murphy, as a candidate FOL
governor, would draw votes as maple
sugar draws the kids at breakfas
| time"
(. Mr.. Bryan predicts that municipal
1 ownership will become democratic doc.
trine, and the Keokuk Gate City say.
that from municipal ownership to gov.
eminent ownership, is but step, anc
that the latter spells socialism.
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/ Fads come and go with unfallint
| regularity" says the Cedar Falls Rec
ord. mo sooner do we dismiss on,
and hope to never see its like agail
than another bursts upon our view
with the radiance and brilliancy Of
meteor. We are given to fads. The,
come upon us unannounced and w,
unconsciously embrace them and joi1
the throng in singing their praises
1t would seem to the Fairfield
Ledger that the state had trouble
makers and liars enough Of her owl
without importing Mr. Steffens.
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Seriously, Bernard Murphy woult
make first class governor says tn
4 Cedar Rapids Republican HE woult
4 tend to business and he would do /
without press bureau, too"
i The Mason. city Globe-Gazett
Il judges by the numerous and strenuou
contests for the office in the D. A. r
that their great granfathers of tn
revolution certainly must have trans
mftted some of their fighting blood.
!. when the final reports have beel
made by Mr.. Garfield" says the Bur
lington Hawk-Eye, st is believed hi
critics will look like the price Of
bleacher seat at third class baseball
game"