Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-15
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

The Marshalltown Times Republic
can says that M. White has done much
since his arrival in this country, to
blunt the partially of Americans for
Japan. The more the people read of
White the better they like him." con-
tinues the Times-Republican. HE is
courteous, talks sensibly in an affable
fashion, and might be the representa-
tative from the most democratic ma
ton on earth, instead Of that Of the
most despotic.'
The Mason City Globe Gazette de-
clares tl.at the boys who said that this
was to be wear of rest should be
given a berth in the bastile for obtain
ing legislation under false pretenses.
1.-THE MAJ Who commits breach Of
the law and then desires his name
kept out of police court news on ac-
count of his family-not that he would
care OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES have thought
of the family sooner" declares the Ce-
dar Rapids Gazette. "Such a man
hopes that the newspaper workers
will have greater respect for his fam
lily than he has shown
When Congressman Hepburn re-
turns from the far east some one
should tell him that he has been sub
jected to another political obfu5ca-
ton" says the Des Moines Capital
Pete enjoys good joke"
why" asks the Marion Register,
should the Chautauquas of Iowa en-
gage in the ground and lofty tumbling
act Of falling over themselves to throw
dollars into LaFollette's hat to make
good the Wisconsin deficit?"
Certain republicans seem to think
that there must be a fight to a finish
next year, but the Davenport Times
asks: What about? Does anyone
now know What the issues will be next
year,"
The Cedar Rapids Republican, re-
ferring to assertions in the army.
which have been increasing in num-
Der in recent years, says: can army
is a necessity, but it is not discredit-
able to the people that it is haro to
keep its ranks filed"
THE optimist is the man who is
always hopeful says the Muscatine
Journal IF man is hopeful he is
generally successful
Fifty years ago there We're as many
men as women engaged in teaching
school" saws the Webster City Free
man-Tribune. GO back 100 years and
nearly all the teachers were men. Now
nearly all the teaching is done by
women, and-we have better schools
than ever before"
"Mr. Bryan has become wealthy
man and is now able to spend his time
in pleasure seeking in Europe" re-
marks the Bloomfield News Republi-
can. "This fortune has been made
under republican protection and the
gold standard which is giving us good
prices. He leaves the shores of his
own land where laboring men are re-
ceiving the best wages of any people
In the world, with evidences of pros
perity on every hand, his purse well
filled from the wages of calamity
preaching from one end of the country
to the other. Through the very laws
he attacked the people We're able to
earn the money he has received by
raising the tariff on his own words
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil refer
ring to Iowa's first year of ret m
politics, may be obscured at times, but
anyone who will keep an eye on the
situation long enough will soon or late
distinguish the difference between the
average peace and quiet of this year
and the continual fuss and turmoil of
any proceeding year in the recent past.
Politics in Iowa this year is sporadic.