Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-22
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Kansas points proudly to the fact
that her per capita bank deposits
amount to $S615. while the per capita
circulation Of money in the country at
large is only $31.73. rs 1t possible
those Kansans have been exaggeratlng
what Mr.. Rockefeller had done to
them?" asks the Sioux City Journal.
The Decorah Republican notices
that talk of 2-cent fare bill mas SUD- :,
sided at Des Moines. That's right"
II comments: the state is not ripe for
such cut as this would make.
What a fine sense of manhood and
integrity has Senator Dolliver exhib-
ited," says the Corning Union Repub-
lican. Every Iowa citizen should be
proud of the man who has so sturdy
stood by his friend under the great
temptation that was offered him to at
least be silent. if not utterly repudiate
friend
The Creston Advertiser says it Is a
noticeable fact since the Gilliland res
olution was introduced that the SLAM
der has ceased and that the men who
were talking about money being used
to influence legislation have fastened
to deny that IT was being used to bride
Perhaps the President thinks that,
by delaying the appointment OF sue.
cessor to Justice Brown. he can get
the senate to be good in the belief that
one of it's members will cut Taft out
Of the job" is the way the Davenport
Times figures 1t out.
"war is war" declares the .Creston
Advertiser Gazette. ut can no more
be conducted without atrocities and
revolving feature than ships could
navigate without water. The criti-
cism of American soldiers for the re-
suits Of the battle with the Moros is
unjust and cruel"
"Christianity briefly summed up is
love of God and love of man." says
the Cedar Rapids Republican. Many
OF the old creeds contained little of
either, but under whatever name it
may be known the cultivation Of this
spirit is the worlds only chance for
better things"
"Constituents who really have use
for seeds will oblige their congress-
man by not filing applications there
for" says the Silver City Journal
There are no free seeds available, and
there is no use in wearing out the
congressional typewriter confirming
the fact. But il it is only souvenir
ably will be able to oblige. There are
still lot of public documents which
can be sent out in place of those ia
miliar packages of seeds"
"The Japs drank 100000 gallons OF
beer last year" says the Sioux City
Journal. "And they didn't have many
sorrows to drown, either For some
really imposing statistics we probably
will have to turn to the Russian con-
sumption of vodka"
| An Iowa CITY firm has harvested 49,
! 900 tons of very fine ice, and st
Louis firm has offered $4,000 for their
| Crop" The Marion Register thinks
that "the big city down the river must
| be expecting a very hot old summer
time before next winters zero weather
arrives
eff the supreme court has done
right, from whence came the pres
sure?" demands the Des Moines Capt.
tai. There are those in this state
VINO 1HLlI1dCet IQdC uODOuy VIII Whit
tarily do right. One of the chief ac-
cusers says Hepburn did right only
because he could not help it. Who
| has been driving the supreme court?'
when the statehood bill got back
to the house from the senate the other
day it was laid on the table," the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil remarks, "a
feather tick would have been more
suitable, it would seernS remembering
the condition of the bill when the SEN
ate got through with it.
The Iowa City Republican calls at
tcntion to an endorsement of an idea
Of Superintendent Riggs as follows:
i "Wapsie township in which West Lib
i erty is located, at the recent school
election, voted tax Of $4,000 for a
central school. The plan involves
4 hauling the pupils to school. The CEN
4 trail school idea seems to be growing
il, Iowa"
4 The republican victory at Cedar
Rapids was SO overwhelming that the
democratic Gazette at once moved tt
make the vote unanimous
| "The efforts to displant the proprie.
tary medicines are all coming t.
naught.' remarks the Cedar Rapids
Republican. "The proprietary medi-
cines continue to be used by the PEG.
pie. There were some fakes to ex-
lnose- but the reformers made the mis-.