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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02
COULD USE THEIR MONEY

1t now appears that there are many
people in Zion City who could use
some of their savings that we're
turned over to Dowie if they could get
hold of them. Mr. Hately, who was
appointed receiver for the Industries
of Zion City by Judge Lands, has is
sued an appeal to the weather. mem
bers of the community for funds to be
used in clothing and feeding those
who are insufficiently clothed and fed,
of whom there are many, according to
Mr.. aately. The land into which they
put their savings has little value under
the existing conditions.
The receiver is undoubtedly right in
taking the position that the wealthy
followers of Dowie should come to the
assistance of those who were less for
tunate; to those who laid all their
savings at the altar of an imposter
that he might live like king. 1t may
be lesson to them and to the present
generation, although it can not be ex-
pected to put an absolute end to the
success of such men as Dowie. There
is periodically crop ready for the
harvest and if an Elijah does not get
them some other kind of Dowie will.
1t has been weakness and hardly
crime, and humanity must be cared
for, the weak being taken in hand by
the strong 1t is not probable that
much outside of lions gates could be
secured for these people, but Mr.. Hate
Iy is first asking that the assistance
come from the others who have fol-
lowed Dowie and who are still able to
give to the poor and help the needy.
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country" they urge, although tho best
craftsmanship has decided that poll
tical parties are necessary to the coun-
try's welfare. However, voters are
rarely misled by the Independents. In
Kansas, for example, the republican
voters know that republican rule is
best for the state and that disloyalty
to the party means its overthrow and
the triumph Of a party whose princi-
pies are fundamentally wrong. AS a
campaign expedient it is all well
enough to tell them to turn against
their party and help to beat it, but the
advice doesn't change any votes. Even
when it is echoed by a weakened
and weak-headed republican editor
here and there, the result is not ma
terially different.
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matter much, so long as we are borne
away from the scene of our daily grind
to new places and different surround
ings. This is but the natural result
Of continuous and steady labor, the
repetition and sameness of daily tasks
which brings on state of nervous
restlessness that finds it's cure in
change Of environment.
Hence comes the vacation season,
that break in the monotony that recon
Giles us to a return to work and the
prospect Of which schools us to en-
durance. Whether we tire ourselves
out chasing around after recreation in
arduous sport, just loll around drink
ing in country ozone, or go to the
lake or climb mountains, wearing a
tired look and an outing skirt, we
come back with change of spirit that
puts new zest into our labor and gives
the mind pleasant food for reflection
and Renaissance.
Lucky the man, and luckier the
housewife, then, who can take this an
nual outing. The office man and office
girl have their allotted time and 9TH
ers manage to get away for a while at
least during some part of the year,
but the mistress of the family is too
often denied this much NEEDED rest
unless the whole family can share it
and go away with her. Her duties
can not be neglected and as rule the
summer is the hardest time for her,
for the family must be looked after
and fed. This aside, however.
Far different from the vacation long
ing is the danderlust, that discomfort
which pervades the soul of man and
woman and drives them restlessly
from place to place for the mere sake
of change and new sensations; the
lever of the rolling stone; not the dis
content that father progress, but that
i turbulence of soul which allows no
permanency In design or execution;
not the allurement Of the pioneer, ex-
/ plorer or searcher for hidden wealth,
but the evil genius of the hobo and ad-
l venturer.
4 The man who goes on vacation;
the traveller in search of knowledge
and recreation; the wornout house.
wife relieved for a space; the invalid
} in quest of health; the pioneer blazing
new trails for civilization and the dis,
coverer of new roads are all useful
members of society, and they have our
sympathy. But the wanderer, the rest
less worker, the transient, the unsatis
fed worker and the hobo add nothing
to the worlds wealth. They belong
: to different category.
Take vacation, but don't be
tramp.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02
THERE ARE OTHERS.

Kansas City Misunderstanding to
the ordinary significance Of terms, the
independent newspaper is one that has
no party ties; it fearlessly approves
the right and condemns the wrong, re-
CARELESS of political considerations and
special interests. AS matter of fact,
the "independ ent' paper, as we find it
hereabout, is one which puts In large
part Of Its time trying to keep it's in
dependence on straight. It wobbles
from side to side, striving to maintain
balance. If it indorses one political
party in state or county, it must CON
denim that party in some other state
or county as an Offset. Too much in
dorsement of one party, although that
party is clearly in the right, must be
carefully avoided, otherwise the news
papers and politicians of the opposite
party will be denouncing the independ-
ent paper as a party organ.
There is an example here in Kansas
City. A professedly independent pa
per has been giving warm support to
President Roosevelt. To prevent be-
ing called a republican organ it sup
ports democratic governor In Mis-
souri, and is trying to elect democrat
is governor in Kansas. When Cleye-
land was president it supported him,
but was careful not to indorse any
democratic governors or candidates for
governor in the states mentioned. The
balance must be maintained. Probably
not all so-called independent journals
have as much trouble in preserving
their reputation for independence, but
they all feel the Importance of either
keeping on top Of the fence or climb.
ing over it, back and forth, at frequent
intervals.
The so-called Independent paper usu-
ally decries party loyalty. The more
traitors there are in party the more
influence and power such a paper has.
Vote. not for the party, but for the
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fers from the reasons originally ad.

VduCGQ.
Mr.. Coburn is raising crop Of sun
flowers and he does not propose to
give up task we'll begun in Kansas
to begin saving the country in Wash
ington. He has been experimenting
with his sunflowers for a long time,
although other Kansans have never
been able to find any use for them. He
believes that the flower is good for
something and he proposes to find out
what it is.
1t is reported that he said at the
time the place was offered to him that
he could not bear to associate with
politicians. But perhaps he had been
reading the magazines. Perhaps he
had seen some special interest placard
tackled onto every senator, no matter
where he hailed from, and knowing
his own failing for sunflowers was in
deadly fear that he would be adver-
tised as representing exclusively the
sunflower interests instead of serving
the Kansans who refer to his flower
as a weed. Perhaps he foresaw an is
sue in Kansas few years hence in
which be would be compelled to go be-
fore the people of his state and defend
his attitude on the "sunflower'' ques-
tion, for it is as easy to make an is
sue in Kansas as it is in some other
states.
What horrible thing it would be
to have his opponent going back and
forward across the state branding him
as 'tool" of the sunfower interests.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02
HILLsBoRo.

Hilsboro, July 25.--Miss Copeland,
who has been visiting her brother and
family, returned to Batavia Monday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Mundelins of Chs
cago who visited the Swink and Sam
Downs families the last few weeks,
returned home last evening.
Steve Douglass went to Fort Madi-t
son last evening.
j. w Blackboard transacted business
in Birmingham yesterday.
Hugh Horne was severely hurt the
first of the week by falling from a
load Of f1av.
Mrs. Ora Laird is visiting at @. W.
Atoms
The Royal Neighbors expect to in
itfate two members at their meeting
this evening.
George McGreer was considerably
hurt and bruised in a runaway Sun
day evening.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02
THE TREND OUTWARD.

Sioux City Journals the future
principal port of the United States to
be on the gulf? The present trend Of
outward-bound commerce is more and
more via southern ports, and enthusi.
astic southerners have ground for op.
timistic prophecies. In the shipment
of breadstuffs alone the port of New
Orleans has almost doubled it's bust
ness during the last year. The port Of
Galveston has multiplied it's business
by four. Mobile also shows a remark
able increase.
Four influences chiefly are bound to
work for the advancement of the
southern ports, namely, the growth of
South American commerce, the 18TH
mial canal, the advantage in distance
from most of the producing districts
Of the middle west, and the growing
density Of population in the territory
adjacent to these ports, with attendant
increase Of local products.
With the completion of the canal
Galveston and New Orleans will be
the natural ports for both the out
going and the incoming commerce be-
tween the eastern half Of this CONT
nent and Pacific and trans Pacific
ports. With the enlargement Of
South American business they will be
the natural outlet to shipments to all
the north and west coast of the south
ern continent, and the outlet Of the
middle and western regions for the
shipments of the eastern coast as we'll
Railroad builders have not been blind
to the future possibilities of these
southern outlets, and lines are more
and more converging to the promising
ports of the south. They are offering
a great stimulus to the settlement Of
the hitherto sparsely populated regions
of the southern states lying west Of the
Mississippi, and these states are being
rapidly filled up. What may be called
the natural trade territory of Calves
ton was not long ago much Of it waste,
partly grazing land, partly Indian for
aging ground, partly uninhabited jun
gle. Now the country is threaded by
railroads, dotted with small farms, in
tensely productive.
That the effect of the growth of
southern ports will seriously affect the
commercial centers of the Atlantic
coast is not anticipated, for there will
| always be eastern demand sufficient
to keep up the standard of Atlantic
coast commerce. The southern ports
will grow through the requirement of
new business more than through the
absorption of that from some other
section. The industries Of this coun.
try are capable of infinite intensifica-
| ton, and the products of immense in
crease. The future is bound to see a
sufficiency of business to NOT only koan
the ports of New York and other east
ern shipping centers crowded with
business, but also to build up a new
business on our southern coast that
will vie with 1t in volume and will add
to the general prosperity of the entire
country.
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BRYAN ON ARBITRATION.

Philadelphia Press.-William J. Bry-
an seized the fortunate and happy mo-
ment, and every American Is grateful
to him for doing it, when he eloquent
ly urged in the international parlia-
mentary union at London mediation
and arbitration before every war. 1t
was a great service we'll performed.
Mr.. Bryan has again shown his ability
and his capacity to serve a great
cause when he is on the right side and
is himself right.
But the re;son why Mr.. Bryan's
words have weight is because he
speaks for the third navy in the world
Who cares for the opinion on peace or
war. mediation or arbitration, of weak
nations?
Why was Mr.. Bryan heard? Be
cause he is great American. Why is
great American heard and needed
in the council chamber of the nations
Because the thunder of our guns was
heard in Manila bay and Santiago be-
fore him.
Behind the court the sheriff. Behind
the sheriff the posse. Behind the pos
Sc the armed force of a free people.
This makes the court Obeyed without
resistance.
Behind arbitration and mediation
the English, French and American
fleets. Behind these fleets puissant
power of three free nations, ready to
justify their words by their acts. If
the interparliamentary union had not
had behind it the moral weight OF
three great fleets, twice as strong as
all other fleets put together, who
would care for the academic opinions
Of Mr.. Bryan and his associates?
II arbitration and mediation loom
large today it Is because the worlds
sea power rests today absolutely in
the hands of three great, free nations
Great Britain. France and the United
States. If they chose they could today
close the sea militarism, and because
they can universal arbitration draws
near.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

H. B. Boies, son of Former Governor
Boies, is prominently mentioned as a
possible nominee for governor by the
democrats when they meet in state
convention at Waterloo. The former
governor has reared some worthy sons,
but they have paid more attention to
business than to politics. The late
Louis Boies was urged to receive hon
ors short time before his death. but
he chose to stick to his law business
and let somebody else save the coun-
try
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s. s. CURES ECzENA


action OF those members of the whose
OF the and of
system fermens and
blood ovharging this vital fluid with acid
TEN healthy the blood throws off the through glands
and burns the skin producing
hed sticky fluid
causing the most intense itching
> s.
circulation
blood rich and healthy When symptoms
cooled
acts promptly pleasantly all
the tne tonic to the entire Book Skin
ADVICE iee 7NE SWIFT SPECIFIC GOsa ATLANTA GA.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

Now Governor Folk has gone over
into the state Senator La Toilette gov
erned SO long and whose governor is
governing it now, and severely criti-
cises the non-enforcement of the Sun
day laws. Each reformer better stay
in his own state, or ne is liable to
make trouble for a brother reformer.
But La Toilette is not the same kind Of
reformer that ok is. 1t gets more
votes to HIT the railroads than it does
to hit the people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02
after the Cedar Rapids convention five


With thousands Of people coming
into the city Saturday to see the circus
and thousands of others already here
during the day for general celebration,
the order maintained was a notable
feature of the day. Some credit is I'M
doubtedly due the police department
for the conduct of the large crowds.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The last ten days have seen numer-
GUS railroad wrecks, some of them
very serious With double tracks,
block systems, interlocNng switches
and various other Improvements the
problem has not yet been solved.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02
suNFLoWER AND SENATE.

The secret is out at last with refer
ence to Foster Dwight Coburn, who
declined appointment to seat in the
United States senate, a situation al
most inconceivable in Iowa at present.
The tale is told in Topeka, and it diff
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

J. Wesley Conner, ,one of the old
time Mississippi river pilots, died Sat
urday in New Albany, Ind. For nearly
sixty years he guided the boats on the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and was
well known from ST Paul to New Or
leans. Only lew of the men who
were engaged in the river traffic in the
days when he began are left, and they
have lived to see tt steady decrease
Of the traffic on the upper Mississippi.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The fight between Hartman and
Fish for the control of the Illinois
Central is announced as concluded
with Stuyvesant Fish as the winner
and it has called forth considerable
comment in some circles. But the
people who pay the. fare and the
freight tariffs are caring little which
owns it,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

If Pat Grove wasn't known to be on
that automobile trip those Russian
train robberies might be laid to him.
He has been accused of everything
else of the kind in the criminal cate
CORY
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The Sioux CITY Tribune says that
Secretary Shaw. once figure in Iowa
politics, is nowlmerely cipher How
much that sounds like the Sioux City
Tribune and the Des Moines Leader
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PRESS COMM EMIT.

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil hopes
that in the press of other matters the
platform at the republican state con-
vention will not be overlooked
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THE WANDERLUST.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil.-Once in
a while most of US are seized with a
desire to get on the cars and go some.
where The objective nnint doesn't
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

IF Jerome would show little more
interest In the prosecution of the rich
insurance sharks and other public
plunderers the public would be more
likely to applaud his evident purpose
to prosecute Thaw to the limit" says
the Waterloo Courier.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02
COFFIN, CANDIDATE

FEATHER" COFFIN, CANDIDATE.
Father" L. S. Coffin of Fort Dodge,
long resident of Iowa and one of it's
highly respected citizens, has formally
accepted the nomination for the Office
of governor on the prohibition ticket
Mr.. Coffin has taken his stand on a
high plane and says that one reason
why he has occepted it is that it gives
him broader field to work in He
says that he does not expect to be
elected, but he is willing to sacrifice
himself for the goo of the people in
an ATTEMPT to show that the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic is far above
all others.
If he does not expect to be elected,
It is not probable that anyone else ex-
poets him to be, but it is probable that
considerable attention will be paid to
what he has to say on the question.
He doubtless realizes that the persons
who were once engaged in fighting for
and against prohibition in Iowa are
now engaged in a battle of much the
same kind with different issues. Some
Of the men have gone out of politics,
but the principal persons involved in
the former struggle are still in the
foreground and they have forgotten all
about the Importance they attached to
the liquor issue at that time. And with
the disappearance of the issue and the
men remaining, one looking back upon
it is almost led to the conclusion that
it must have been more political and
personal" than principle
But Father" Coffin is taking up a
proposition that seems to have been
practically settled in Iowa for some
time to come, and it seems to be in &C.
cordance with the will of the majority
or the operation of the mulct law
would not have been so lasting. The
fact of the matter is that until the Pc.
litical future Of some man or men is
involved the prohibition issue will not
come to the foreground again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

"Of course, the majority should rule,
but in the first place find out the To-
cation Of the majority" says the Clin-
ton Herald
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The Glidden Graphic. referring to
Senator La Toilette, says: you can
trace his trail across the state by the
blueness of the atmosphere arising
from the standpat camps in his wake
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

There is no use for. the chairman
of the convention this week to attempt
to rule the convention with a gavel"
says the Britt TRIBUNE. Give him a
gatling gun and a basket full of dyn-
amite bombs, he will need them TO
preserve order"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

Governor Cummins abhors the lob
by, but the governor has taken pains
to arrange that his headquarters shall
adjoin the lobby observes the Sioux
City Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The Omaha Bee remarks the fact
that Colonel Bryan is having really
new experience. "In this country all
people have applauded his oratory but
found fault with his theories. while
the Interpaliamentary union adopts his
idea, but changes his language"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The Waterloo Reporter observes that
1T is beginning to dawn upon a few
republicans that maybe
Secretary Shaw did make a social call
upon the President before his recent
visit to Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

We are all hoping STILL" says the
Cedar Rapids Republican chat tina.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

This has been a campaign to be re-
GREETED; g sort of civil war; battle
between brothers-and we hope its like
may not soon be seen again" says the
Harlan Republican.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

at is not question Of the man SO
much as it is the right" says the Pom
eroy Herald. Let that prevail"
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THE OTTUMWA COURIER

outcome of the state convention will be
such that all republicans can take off
their coats and go to work for the
whole ticket. That is the kind of re-
publicanism we would all like to see
restored to this fair state
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The Keosauqua Republican says tha
a harmonious convention seems re.
mote possibility.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

Secretary Shaw refers to five dol
lar and ten dollar bills as "of small
denomination" The Clinton Herald
declares that to some people they look
as big as horse blankets"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

Someone has said that Pittsburg is
hell with the lid off" The Macomb
Bystander says that Bushnell is diff
ferent in that the lid is off but a part
of the time
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st would be too bad" says the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil eff the man
who became a candidate for governor
in response to an overwhelming public
sentiment should be compelled to go
outside of the state convention for
support
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

Good crops in Iowa this year will
give the calamity bowler a black eye,"
says the Parkersburg Eclipse.
Calamity and prosperity make mighty
poor bedfellows.''
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The Dubuque Times thinks that the
new postmaster at Clear Lake who
was asked to put up a $4,000 bond and
sent on one for $4,000 did 1t proba-
bly, by way of emphasizing Iowa's lux
uriance of prosDerity
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

The Burlington Gazette, dem, says
that the election of a democratic gov
ernor and legislature is pretty well as
sured, and it believes that even a
large number of republicans will hal
the change with satisfaction"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

Evidently there was a mistake in
the first dispatch to the effect that
the democrats were to give Bryan a
reception in New York" observes the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil. ct is Bryan
who is to give the reception to the
democrats
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02

Perhaps Captain Rathbun didn't
mean that he must be considered too
big a man for the lieutenant COVER
norship,' says the Waterloo Courier.