Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.


It Is all a mistake-that report that
forty banks went broke in Iowa in 1904.
During the past two years forty banks
have gone out Of business in this state,
but good portion Of them We're con-
solidated with other banks or liqufdated
according to law. The facts In the
case aren't nearly as bad as repre-
scented. Only seven Iowa banks went
to the wall last year.-Keokuk Gate
City.
1.-THE car knows the men he is deal
ing with" declares the Des Moines
Register and Leader. ut is not a want
Of Intelligent leadership that permits
bureaucracy to dominate in Russia.
but the want of a responsive follow
ing"
"The country store is gone with the
candle dip, the stage coach and the
buffalo observes the Marshalltown
imes-Republican. 1t Is to the
community what the circuit rider was
while 1t lasted. In the new order of
things 1t has no place but those who
knew it best will remember always and
regret the broken circle about the
stove in the country store"
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There are good many Diamond
Dick books made respectable by the
possession of expensive binding, and
books of lower moral character can be
found in many of the so-called better
public and private libraries of the
country" declares the Cedar Rapids
Gazette.
The Keokuk Gate City refers to the
grand jury as relic Of barbarism"
and an instrument of injustice" and
asserts that Iowa might do a great
deal worse than follow the example of
Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Da-
kota in abolishing it.
The Iowa Falls Citizen attributes ..ie
increase in the number of insane in
Iowa during the last year to "the re-
cent era Of speculation and invest
ment" It says "the wages CT the
feverish and reckless Spectator and
investor is sometimes mental death"
The Spirit Lake Beacon, disputing
the contention that farmers would
rather pay more for their shoes than
meet the losses that would follow the
removal Of the tariff on hides. says:
st does not need the smartest kind of
farmer such as we are proud here In
ahead If the President has his way as
to the removal or lowering Of the duty
on hides"
1.-The talk about the biennial election
amendment putting quietus on poll
tics for years was a pipe dream" says
the Onawa Sentinel.
The wife of Bishop Talbot says that II
necessary, in the Irvine hearing, "let-
tiers will be given out that will aston
ish the world But she may be mis-
taken. The world will not be aston
ished at anything that may have been
going on in their little parish troubles
The world nowadays Is not easily
astonished. Paul Kruger at one time
threatened to stagger humanity. But
humanity soon recovered from the
staggering. The world in these later
days is not greatly interested in other
peoples troubles.-Cedar Rapids Re-
publican.
About a million messages are sent
over the worlds telegraph lines every
twenty-four hours. According to some
returns recently issued, the number OF
kilograms dispatched in all countries
in 1903 reached the enormous total OF
364,848,474 Great Britain heads the
list with 92,471,000 dispatches, the
United States is second with 1891, 900
and France comes third with 48,1l4 ISL
Germany, Russia, Austria, Belgium
and Italy follow in the order named