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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

Governor. ........ Al5ert B. cunlmtns
Secretary of state. .....W G. Hayward
Auditor Of state. B. T. Carroll
Treasurer of state. 49,. w. w. Morrow
Attorney general of state. H. w. Byers
Supreme Judges OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
.....E Mclean, John C. Sherwin
Superintendent of public instruc-
Clerk Of supreme court. ...........
........... John c. Crockett
Reporter of court w. w. Cornwall
Railroad commissioners .........
....W. L. Eaton. David ]. Palmer
Congressional Ticket.
For congressman. -. John F. Lacey
Judicial Ticket.
For Judges Of Second district
Wapello County-M. A. Roberts.
Monroe County-D. M. Anderson.
Davis County,. w. Eichelberger.
County Ticket.
Senator'S. H. Harper
Repres entative-E. ]. Moore.
y AUDITOR. R. Criley.
\ Treasurer-W. B. Moore.
Clerk Of court--Edwin DUNCAN.
Sheriff.. D. Stephens.
Recorder. L. Swenson.
Superintendent of schools--Miss
Emma Nye.
Surveyor-C. R. Allen.
Coroner-E. L. Scott
Supervisors-Adam Decker, G. w.
Hatch, ]. S. Redfern.
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usually hesitates before it sits in judg-

usually hesitates before 1t sits in judg-
ment upon its neighbors.
Laws are made to preserve the
rights Of individuals. One mans lib
erty ends where another mans liberty
begins. One never hears Of man be-
ing arrested for drunkenness who locks
himself in a room and empties his bot
ties. If he disturbs no one, no one dis
turbs him. There may be warrant for
his arrest in the Iowa code, but officers
are slow to enforce the law against
one who is not trespassing upon the
rights of others. There may be war
rant for the suppression of the theaters
in the moral code, bun legislatures are
slow to enact into laT a restriction up.
on people who are not infringing upon
the rights of others.
1t is the same question that was be-
fore the American Bar association in
it's last session, the American people
demand laws for everything. 1t may be
argued that there should be more laws
of this kind and fewer of some other
kind. But humanity is selfish. Every.
one wants his own grievance covered
and some get it and some do not.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22
RAILROADS AND NEWSPAPERS.

Chicago Chronicle most
of the railroads and most Of the larger
newspapers will welcome the rule
which, according to Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Knapp, is to gov
ern the commission in dealing with
railroad and newspaper relations
Nothing but money may be received
for TRANSFORMATION This provision Is
aimed at newspaper and periodical ad-
yertising, considerable part Of which
has been paid for in transportation
Hereafter it will have to be paid for
in cash, provided. Of course, that the
ruling be judicially upheld
1t is probable, as we have said, that
most Of the railroads and large pro-
portion of newspapers and periodicals
will find no fault with the regulation.
1t will simplify matters good deal by
putting things upon strictly cash ba.
sis, and that is undoubtedly the most
satisfactory basis upon which to do
business. The big trunk line systems
and the larger periodicals will deem
the new departure satisfactory.
But the satisfaction may not be uni.
versal. The smaller railroads and the
smaller newspapers will not be so well
pleased. The small railroads can not
afford to pay cash for the amount OF
advertising that they now do and the
small newspapers can not afford to pay
cash for the transportation that they
now enjoy. There will thus be a
marked reduction both in advertising
and in the amount of transportation
that can be used by newspapers.
It may even be doubted whether the
larger railroad systems will view the
rule with entire satisfaction. A great
deal Of valuable advertising of various
kinds has hitherto been available
through paying for it with transporta
1 tinn- It is advertising which would
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22

days OF the boom made large amount
of money. if they held to it through
the depression, and those who let theirs
go are sorry of it.
The greatest trouble is, that is for
the investors themselves, that they
purchase too much mining stock and
oil well stock and blue sky and post
holes and not enough real estate
There may be danger in the purchase
of great land interests if the man VINO
takes the title does not have IL clear
and is caught in the time of a panic
without enough money to swing the in
debtedness. Naturally he must let go,
and of course in sucn times he lets go
at loss.
Doubtless it is such transactions
that Mr.. Hill sounds the alarm against
He says, THE faster we go the higher
the momentum, the more abrupt, the
more precipitate will be the change
when the turn comes | am not an
alarmist, but we are going it some
you know, and too sudden stop is not
good thing"
| If everyone would take into consid
Grafton the STOP" which is sure to
come, sooner or later, there would be
less of a jolt when it does come. These
have been great years for the specula
tor. Men have been made rich and
men have been made poor by theil
plungings, but the encouraging part Of
1t has been that the man who was
made poor has had a good chance
again Now is the time to go easy
and the ground will not be SO hare
where you light.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22
INTERuRBAN ADVANTAGES.

In this issue is communication
from an Ottumws. citizen on the advan-
tages in the construction of an inter-
urban system with Ottumwa as it's
center. The question has been dis
cussed from various view points, but
more particularly upon the ultimate
advantages that an interurban line
brings to city. This communication
sets forth some immediate advantages
in connection with such movement,
namely the amount of money that will
revert to the pockets of the working
men in the construction of an interur-
ban line.
The statement is first made that the
purpose of the interurban company is
not to conflne it's energies to line
from Ottumwa to Buxton, that that is
only beginning of a system that will
have this city as its center. Accepting
to be limited to one line, but will be
doubled with every line that is brought
in.
In dealing with the Immediate bene-
fits he estimates, o" has secured the
estimates that there will be from
$S5 900 to 100000 expended on bridges
and piers IN the hrSt CWenty-SlX niles
of railway. That means labor for OF
tumwa workmen, and 1t means money
for Ottumwa contractors. There is
the grading and laying Of steel and
construction and setting Of the electric
appliances, which means still more
money. In short, what is voted in
taxes will all be turned back into the
pockets of the workingmen of Ottum.
wa They will have to earn it, OF
course, but it will all come back to the
man who pays the taxes in due time.
1t is sometimes hard to demonstrate
what some people take as such un.
certain quantities as they do the bene'
fits from new railway system, but the
citizen who offers the communication
does not look so far ahead that he is
blinded to the immediate benefits that
are bound to be Ottumwa's If the vote
for the interurban carries.
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LEe,sLATING MORALITY.

The delegates in the Des MONIES
Methcdisr conference adopted resolu.
lions calling upon the next legislature
to enact stringent law against Sun.
day theaters, Sunday baseball and con.
dennis Sunday chautauquas However
no legislation Is asked against the lat.
ter.
The teachings of these resolutions
may be Of high standard, but the at.
tempt to legislate morals into people
has been a signal failure as often as ii
has been tried Governor Folk saws
that the Sunday closing of saloons has
Its good effects as shown on the Grim.
inal records. That is quite different
proposition. He does not measure ii
by the spirituality or the morality OF
those who do not drink on Sunday be-
cause the saloons are not open.
If the Monday morning police court
were filled with theater folk and base
ball folk and chautauqua folk, the same
as it often is with DRINKS, some from
Sundays celebration and some left
over from Saturday night, it might not
be SO hard to get sympathy that would
demand that such amusements be stop
ed by legislation. But in cities where
the saloons are open on Sunday, the
base ball games take hundreds away
from them, as do the theaters
1t is not to be claimed through this
argument that the ball games and
theaters add to their morals by thus
taking them away but neither would
the legislation taking them away
from games and theaters, or taking the
theaters and games away from them
be an uplift to their morality or spirit
ualisn. 1t would simply mean a turn
ing to some other form of amusement
The Methodists at Des Moines may
have the right on their side in the
commandment to remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy, but there are
large large numbers of people whom
1t will be nard to convince that they are
doing anything wrong in sitting in g
theater on Sunday afternoon or ev
ening, In place where those who dc
not desire to go need not go and where
those who do not desire to hear nee6
not hear Who is to judge such sit
uation except each one for himself
and God over all? That is what makes
| it SO hard to legislate against such Z
j situation. The ordinary legislature
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TRAMscoNTINENTAL RAILWAYS.

The idea of the control by one man
Of line of railway reaching from the
Atlantic ocean to the Pacific is not
nearly as incomprehensible today as
the idea of constructing one, even with
the government back of it, was to our
grandfathers. For sncn a thing is ap-
parently about to come to pass.
When one stops to think of it it re-
presents stupendous undertaking, but
the busy world thinks little of it. and
when it is announced that E. H. Har-
riman has about accomplished such an
end the principal attention given to it
Is from railway stock and bond holders.
tration of wealth that is heard so much
about in this age, but under this sys-
TEN the service has been improved,
the rates have been reduced, and the
general public cared little whether one
man owned the system, or whether a
thousand owned it.
There was time when the an
nouncement that one man controlled
a line of railway across large state
would have caused people to wonder
at his great wealth, but the announce.
ment that e. H. Hartman is soon to
control line from the Atlantic to the
| Pacific is not SO startling now.
The line is not quite complete, but a
short time probably will find it So
There is an open space between Chi
cago and Kansas City, but it is pre-.
dicted in railway circles that Mr.. Har.
riman will soon increase his holdings
in the Chicago and Alton to such an
extent that he will then have his trans
continental system complete. The
Rock Island people have control Of the
Alton at present, but it is known that
Hartman is in possession of some
good trading concessions that would be
Of great benefit to the Rock Island fin
anciers. and he has sufficient holdings
SO that ne needs but little more to get
control.
Besides this he has large interests
in the Illinois Central which, if he
should gain control, gives him line
from Chicago to Omaha where connec
ton is made with the Union Pacific
But what is the difference whether
you ride over one mans road across
one state or across all of the states:
\ What the public asks is fair treatment
and fair returns for what is paid, an6
with commerce regulated by the gov
eminent and competing parallel lines
there is probably nothing to be feared
in such acquisition as is announced ir
connection with Mr. Harriman's fnan
ciering.
In this move he is reaching ahead
of the Goulds, who had expected tc
have the first transcontinental line
with the completion of their new sys
! TEN through the west, and it is appar
| ent that soon instead of their being
one system from coast to coast, there
will be two, that of the Harrimans ant
| that of the GOulds.
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WHAT "sTAND.PAT" MEANS.

"What does 1t mean to stand pat?"
nervously inquired the New York Mail
in double-headed editorial in a recent
issue. Prompt answer is made by the
American Economist which explains
that to stand pat means now precisely
what it meant when that non-political
euphemism was projected into politics
by Mark Hanna five or six years ago.
The Economist states the case so clear
ly and concisely that we cannot do bet
ter than make its language our own.
Mr.. Hanna cav q country on the
wave Of sea of unparalleled pros.
perity. "Stand pat" said he.
He saw domestic production In
ceasing at tremendous rate to meet
domestic demand. STAND pat"
He saw domestic labor fully employ.
ed at increasing high wages. "Stand
pat"
He saw savings bank deposits in.
creasing at the rate of half billion
dollars year. Stand pat!"
He saw railroads carrying more
freight and passengers and building
more miles Of new road than ever be-
fore. Stand patti
He saw 100000 farmers with paid
off mortgages on the tariff revision
period Of 1893-'97 and buying pianos
and automobiles. STAND patti"
He saw our internal trade amount
ing to twenty billions year and grow
ing very fast. Stand patti"
He saw a foreign trade pass the two
billion mark and growing at the rate Of
$200,000,000 year. ct is now over
billionsD Stand patti
He saw the outside world taking
more and more Of our agricultural anG
manufactured exports: Stand patti"
He saw big increase in our imports
alike of non-dutiable articles for use II
manufacture and of dutiable goods Of
the competitive sort Stand patti
He saw that the duties collected or
imports were yielding ample revenues
for the governments increasing re
quirements. Stand patti
He saw the excess of exports ovel
imports bringing us annual trade bal
ances averaging more than half a bill
lion dollars. Stand patti
He saw In consequence vast inflow
Of gold which in the last ten years has
added S7O0,000,00O to our supply of thu
yellow metal. "Stand patti"
He saw American securities hell
abroad sent back to aid in settling ou
favorable balances Of trade, and thu
amount of American money sen
| abroad to pay interest and dividends
on foreign capital invested in THU
cauntry reduced to less than half VIVA
1t was ten years ago in tariff revi
sion period. Stand patti"
He saw the United States paying of
its debts to foreigners and rapidly be
coming the Industrial center of tn,
world. Stand rat!"
He saw, in short, the most extraor
binary prosperity the highest rate o
wages. the highest standard of Twin,
that the world has ever known. So b,
said: Stand patti"
What Mark Hanna saw 1--WE year
] ago is to be seen today on much big
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PEOPLES PULPIT.

Editor Courier:-Being especially
interested in grading, piling and such
work, I called at the office of the OF
tumwa and Southeastern Interurban
company and learned good many
| things which the general public is UNI
familiar with. / found that the inter-
urbans entire plan Is to make Ottun-
wa large interurban center, and this
feet was outlined to me so clearly that
am convinced that they will never
build the proposed line to Buxton un-
less they build other lines. Hence I
came to this conclusion II the inter-
urban company will make Ottumwa its
headquarters and build an interurban
/ system out and around Ottumwa the
proposed tax is only a bagatelle to tho
good 1t Will do Ottumwa, and want to
enumerate same, which wish to have
contradicted If not correct.
There will be an office force and the
employing of people for the same. It
Is as natural as water running down
nil that ottumwa workmen and con-
/ tractors will make application for
work and bids on contracts. 1t Is also
/ just as natural that Ottumwa work
men will be preferred, for the Interur-
ban company will be interested In OF
tumwa's welfare and 1t will be to their
interest to have the workmen of OF
/ tumwa in a prosperous enough condi-
| sAoiA eiot IiiCy may Oc dDl6 To TlQ6 ON
the cars and take their families to an
outing occasionally, which all reverts
to their good as well as the good of
| the workmen.
AS to Ottumwa contractors, they
Will naturally have to compete with
outside bidders, but the same argu-
| ment made for the workrnen holds
good In their case, and while I was
assured that Ottumwa contractors
would be preferred I could see that
they would have an inside over other
bidders by virtue Of being on the
ground, which is natural advantage.
My attention was drawn to two IT.
ems. the iron bridges and concrete
abutments and piers. There will be
from $4,000 to 100000 worth Of
bridge work done on the first 26 miles
alone, and. having fine bridge works
here, 1t certainly will be built by them.
which alone is a great benefit to some
/ of our young factories.
The second is the concrete work.
It will take the entire concrete con-
i tractors of Ottumwa and the help they
i generally employ whole season to
complete the abutments and piers for
4 the first twenty-six miles, by virtue OF
the crossing Of the Des Moines river
and number of small streams, be-
sides using up all of the surplus stone
quarried in Ottumwa.
i / could go on and enunaerate as
above, but don't want to take up too
much of your time, and would like to
hear from others, especially workmen,
i on this subject. Thanking you for the
opportunity of getting this notice dis
! cussed. am yours truly,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22
DR.. w. E. Shallenberger,
ger scale. If he were living today he
would again say. "Stand natin
145 lakewood Blvd, Chicago.
Reference: Drexel State Bank.

ger scale. If he were living today he
would again say, Stand patti"
He did not say, nor does anybody
now say. as the Mail seems to think,
that protection is "a hoop of iron," an
inflexible thing that will never permit
of the change Of single tariff sched-
ule. The Mail ought to know better.
That is not what stand pat means. To
suppose 1t is, is to suppose a. silly
thing. Free traders and chronic tariff
reformers ought to be given monopoly
OF that kind Of thinking.
This Is stand pat year. SO will
next year be, and the year after that.
and many years after that, we should
all hope. When a different condition
comes, and when revision Of the tariff
is called for to promote the general
good-when de rease of some of the
schedules and an increase Of some of
the schedules shall obviously work to
the advantage Of the country as a.
whole-then tariff revision shoy
come and will come. 1sss4s sss
Should it come any sooner than
that? The best craftsmanship OF the
country says no. The business inter-
ests of the country says no. The wage
earners of the country say no.
That is what is meant by stand pat.
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Cures permanently the cases he un-
dertakes and sends the incurable home
without taking fee from them. This
is why he continues his visits year
after year, while other doctors have
made few visits and stopped. DR..
Shallenberger is an eminently success
full specialist In all chronic diseases
proven by the many cures effected IN
chronic cases which have baffled the
skill Of all other physicians. His hos
pital experience and extensive prac-
tice have made him SO proficient that
he can name and locate a disease In a
few minutes.
Treats all cases Of Catarrh, Nose
Throat and Lung diseases. Eye and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22
REAL ESTATE AND PROSPERITY

"Real estate and even vast sections
of land are being purchased specula-
lively, and there is craze to get rich
quickly" says James ]. Hill in discuss
ing the times of prosperity. He sounds
an alarm on the amount of speculation
as he finds in that the reason for the
hardest bumps" when the time Of de-
preston comes.
But even the speculation in real es-
tate is not the worst that may happen
Men who bought real estate in large
or small tracts in the Dakotas in the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22
TOWNSHIP CONVENTION CALL

A delegate convention Of the repub-
licans of Center township, Wapello
county, Iowa, will be held In the court
house, at Ottumwa, Iowa, Friday, Sep
TENDER 81. 1906, at 8 p. M, for the pur
pose Of nominating candidates for the
following offices:
One assessor.
One township clerk.
Two justices of the peace.
Two constables.
Two trustees, term commencing
January l, 1907.
Also to select township committee
man.
The basis Of representation in said
convention for the different precincts,
shSS1eabe as follows: III
Delegates.
Center, first ~. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES II
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-22
Office Hours 8 a. m. 10 6 p. m.

Ear, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys.
Gravel. Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neu-
ralgia. Nervous and Heart Diseases.
Bright's Disease and Consumption In
early stage, diseases of the Bladder
and Female Organs, Liquor and To.
bacco habit. Stammering cured and
sure methods to prevent Its recurrence
given. A never failing remedy for Big
Neck.
PILES, FIsTULAE and RUPTURE
guaranteed cured without detention
from business. Special attention given
to all Surgical cases and all diseasos
of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and
Granulated Lids.
Are you nervous and despondent:l
weak and debilitated: tired mornings:
no ambition-lifeless: memory poorS
easily fatigued; excitable and irritable
eyes sunken: red and blurred; p!mples
on face: dreams; restless, haggard
! looking, weak back; deposit In urinS
and drains at stool; distrustful; want
of confidence lack Of energy and
strength?
DISEASES A SPECIALITY.
Blood Poison. Spermatorrhea, vari-
cocele. Hvdrocele, Debility, Nervous
ness. Dizziness. Defective Memory,
ETC., which ruins mind and body, posi-
WONDERFUL CURES.
| Perfected in old cases which have
been neglected or unskillfully treated
No experiments or failures. He un-
dertakes no incurable cases. but cures
thousands given up to die
Consultation Free and Confidential
Address
DR.. w. E. Shallenberger,
145 Lakewood Blvd, Chicago.
Reference: Drexel State Bsnk.
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SECOND plyoRcE coNeREss.

For the purpose of securing uniform
divorce laws in all states of the union
committee is now working upon a
proposed statute, which will be submit
ted to the second national congress
called for this purpose. That the COM
mittee and congress will have no small
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BRUSH, PIANO or HAMPAeNE.,

Cedar Rapids Republican:-It has
been officially decided that chorus
girls are artists. Certainly. Many
portrait painter might envy their deft
touches.
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Chronic Diseases Permanently Cured
DIR. SHALLENBERG
The Regular and Reliable Chicago Specialist Treats Chronic
Diseases Only. Will be at
Otumwa, Balingall Hotel Thursday October II.
zone day only and return every 28 days
Fairfield, Legget House. Tuesday, October 9, 1906.
Abba, Monroe Hotel, Wednesday. October 10. 1906
sigourney Merchants Hotel Friday October H. 1906.
Hours m. 10 o. M
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Total delegates

Primaries to select delegates for said
convention will be held on Tuesday
evening, September Is. 1906. at p. m,
at the usual places, unless otherwise
ordered by the precinct committeeman.
E. G. Sharp,
Township Committeeman.
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