Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-24
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
1t does not seem unreasonable to the
Sioux City Journal to insist that if the
/ rivate car company is not a common
the railway. which Is COM
vate car in its business, shall see that
rates are maintained and
that the letter or spirit of the inter- |
state commerce law shall not be brok
en- because the railway is relieved of
the burden of furnishing it's own re-
frigerator cars.
THE newspaper publishers can not
be too careful in guarding their col
unans against all sorts of grafters and
free advertisers" says the Cedar Rap
ids Republican apropos many times.
Newspaper publicity is one of the
most valuable things in the world ana
the publishers ought to sell it at its
value instead of permitting themselves
to be worked
Universities and free public librar-
les make fine monuments, but the
praises of the people are reserved for
those efforts which are directed to-
wards helping the afflicted and .he
unfortunate says the Dubuque
Times.
OF the Swedish-Norway situation,
the Dubuque Telegraph Herald says:
What most concerns the world is that
the dissolution has been accomplished
peacefully and without the shedding
of drop of blood. While the war
clouds lowered above the two countries
for time. they blew over and di-
plomacy took the place of cannon"
o.
ut is not probable that with its fer
tile soil and it's other great resources
the state has experienced more than 4
temporary check in the increase of it's
popula tion," says the Sac Sun. The
census of 1910 is likely to show ma
terial increase"
The Webster City Freeman Tribune
explains that when it first suggested
the name of William Larrabee for
governor it knew he was not a candi-
date and had no idea OF becoming one.
1T also had reason to believe, and
still believes" the Freeman Tribune
adds, that if the republican state con-
vention will tender him the nomination
he will accept"
The Des Moines Capital says there
is a possibility that a great many peo-
pie will learn to love Secretary Shaw
| for the enemies he has made.
"Talk about this being an off year III
politics and nothing doing" exclaims
political summer and fall Iowa has
had for years. Every one is getting
squared away for the grand free for al
that is to come off next year.
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| The Keolsuk Gate City says tina
| Norway's vote in favor of dissolution
of the Swedish union has all the pre-
ponderance of an Iowa republican ma
jority.
The governor is demanding that thu
| middle classes shall rule in Iowa, ant
the Cedar Rapids Republican declares
that there is nothing but middl
classes in this state. Every one of it
! common people. There is scarcely
congressman now representing al
Iowa district that was not born upol
a farm" continues the Republican
There is not a corporation in tn
state or doing business in it that |
not under the absolute control of tn
state. Then Why talk as though w
We're a race of slayes?"
Inc MI. Ayr Record says tnat II MI
Bryan will remain abroad and wi
!, keep perfectly still, most Difficult
! thing for him, he may be able to prov
an alibi, and thus get the democrati
nomination in 1908. The Record fear!
!, however, that he can't do it-that
not allowed to talk he might burst.
Iowa wants pure food" says tn
Burlington Hawk-Eye. THE food thi
state produces is pure, but that whic
is imported is too frequently adulter
; ated. 1t is not a fair deal. The motto
( Give and take implies equality of con
ditions.''
) The fairfield Ledger says it is will
ing to How Roosevelt on the rail
!. way regulation issao on the tart
and on ,ciprocity.
Discussin gthe use of the ter,
Z common p-ople," the Nevada. Repre-
l sentative says it doubts if ever yet
politician used the expression withol
trying at the same time to turf. it s
s that it void have some direct and OF
o vious application to the particuls
I cause in which he was interested.
+ Somehow, when things are hig
I people always have the price, OF
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