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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-29

takes up each detail OF his constitu-
ents and follows it very carefully. The
special committee visited the acad-
envy and spent some time there, in
terviewing the officers Of the estab-
lishment and taking testimony from a
large number of the midshipmen. The
various methods of hazing are de-
scribed and to say that some of the
methods are ridiculous is expressing
il mildly. One Of the reasons for the
revival of the sport was the fact that
when Admiral Brownson left the SUI
perintendency of the academy he in
formed the midshipmen that any
pledges they had made regarding haz-
Ing were a personal matter to him and
they We're not bound to these pledges
after he left This was an error in
for renewed energy in the brutalities
practiced on the under classmen. The
new superintendent had this to con-
tend with when he took charge and
thinking that the old pledges were
still in force no did not realize that
hazing had reached such stage until
the fatality at the close of last year.
The committee feels that there are
not enough naval officers in charge.
That too many of the young men are
left in the hands Of upper classmen.
who instead of disciplining In the
proper manner have become snobbish
and treat the under classmen like
dogs. The suggestion is made that
the midshipmen be divided into squads
and a naval officer have general SUI
pervision over each squad, their bar
racks. and their conduct. A bill has
been prepared regulating some of the
evils In existence at the academy and
there is not much doubt but that a
change for the better will result
Congressman Dawson has a right to
feel very proud that he, a young con-
gresham and his first term in con-
gress, should be honored by being
placed on this important committee
and his sterling worth recognized by
the older leaders The fact that the
President himself has recognized the
thoroughness and completeness Of the
report shows that Congressman Daw-
son stands high with the administra-
ton. All Of these things are very
gratifying to his many friends in the
second district and simply demon-
strates what the Journal has always
contended, that Congressman Dawson
| is a man who does things
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MONEY AND BRAINS.

Lord Acton's estate has been anp-
praised at a value below $4,000. The
London newspaper that records this
appralsement notes on the same day
the appraiser ents of various other es-
tates, LETT by tradesmen, lawyers and
nondescripts, all of them obscure, run
ming into the hundreds of thousands,
and some nearly touching the million
mark
1t is curious that man SO eminent
for intellectual power and scholarship
should die SO much poorer than five or
six successful but not especially con-
spicuous bootmakers, brewers and iron
founders whose estates happened to
be appraised at the hame time as the
historians.
The San Francisco Bulletin, refer
ring to the subject brought up by Lord
Actions death, says that the failure of
the historian to amass fortune as
great in comparison as his name. says
that the explanation is easy and that
under the competitive system the mid
dleman, in the broad sense-that is,
the man who organizes and distr
utes, who buys and sells-makes the
most money because he controls com
modities and governs markets. On the
other hand, in the Bulletins review,
the creator, whether he be artist or
artisan, whether. he be poet or printer,
an historian or harness maker, a
teacher or tanner, merely sells his
labor to the middleman and gets what
the middleman chooses to give; and
the middleman is a shrewd, calculat.
ing close buyer.
The middleman, in turn, sells to the
public, which is careless, extrava.
CANT, unsympathetic buyer The indi
vidual consumer recks nothing of his
own minute contributions to the mid
dleman's profits, but the aggregate OF
these minute contributions form null
titude Of consumers makes the hand
some fortunes which tradesmen leave
for their heirs to squabble over. He
is poorly paid who has only one Gus
toner.
Continuing its argument, the San
Francisco paper says:
There are two proletariats the in.
tellectual and the laborious, and they
both are hirelings to the sober, steady
thrifty, commonplace, respected middle
class or bourgeoisie.
.But the whimsy which runs through
all human affairs has so arranged
things that the class which makes the
most money is the least competent, to
enjoy it. The qualities that enable q
man to pursue wealth successfully are
rarely found in conjunction with those
necessary for enjoyment of the finest
pleasures. BY the very exercise of &C
emulation man atrophies the tastes
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pened to be located in Chicago, fizzled
If their millions of customehs have fg.
ured out where they are atty
Now, it is a downright shame, per.
petrated not only upon the business
men of the country who help to build
up their local towns, but on the public
at large, by such arch-dupes under the
mask of the toilers' friend. How long
will the PEOPLE tolerate such frauds?
The old time lightning rod agent ia
revived to us daily in various styles
and usually the latter outdoes the for
mer. both in duplicity and holiness,
| disguised as a benefactor to the ones
they prepare their questionable opera
lions.
| My only excuse for quoting from
this ad. is the palpable misrepresenta-
ton upon the face of it. and believe
any business man or right thinking
person will concur with my conclu-
i sions. There are many so-called mail
order houses and suppose they are
not all rascals. yetkElY not buy from
your local ass is!ssae 0Qt 8 d 2ssellts
is a part and Ds II the community
In which YOU lives mo meets you face
to face, shoN.,j his wares and leaves
you to be the Judge, and should the
purchase MT prove satisfactory bring
the article Jeack and you will find him
at the "cld stand" to face you again.
i Compare this with catalogue trans
action, and you have the logic. AS the
old adage goes, Charity first at
cooperation with the fellow in Chicago,
who likely is looking only at the inter-
est Of the Chicago end of the string
(and like the fsherman's bait, the
catch has a string to it,. This subject
has recently attained considerable at
tention from associations and trade
journals Of Iowa, who not only have
the welfare of the retail business at
heart, but the progress OF every COM
| munity, which must go hand In hand.
commend the Courier for the stand It
has taken at different times upon this
/ injustice and ito boom Ottumwa," and
/ believe, by a concerted action of the
4 press, good results can be accom-,
/ plished. / notice these so.called mail
order houses operate more extensively
in our rural districts, also where the
fellow with "get-rich-quick" scheme
shines. These operations are pest
to legitimate business and should be
i treated as such, for what makes q
town, also makes a home market for
the producer. The farmer is as essen
tial to a good town, as a good town Is
to the farmer. In other words, like in
war, the country depends upon the
man behind the gun; SO in peace 1t
4 is the man behind tho plow to whom
this commonwealth owes it's greatness,
and the square deal" principle Of our
illustrious President shall stand aloft
when so-called "som ething for moth.
ing" schemes shall have ceased and
graft passed into oblivion.
Yours truly,
l
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THE DoLEFuL.

Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, of
Cornell university, in an address at
Philadelphia recently, told his audi
ence that the interest in religion and
Christianity is failing and drew a very
pessimistic picture Of the popular atti-
tude in this direction. He even went
so far as to describe some of the rea-
sons to which the decadence of this
interest might be attributed.
One of them was that men are SO
mean that they stay at home in order
to dodge the collection plate. Another
was that this is an age Of amusement
and that the church is forsaken in the
pursuit of pleasure. He recognized
still another in an impatience Of the
moral restraint which religion exer-
cises, combined with growing resist
authority. These however, he regard
ed as subordinate and relatively UNI
important causes Of the conditions
which he was studying and he thought
that the movement of the masses
away from the church was chiefly due
to the influence of art, science, phi
losophy and socialistic idealism.
Now it isn't pleasant to think that
the professor is right in his view, and
lit isn't sensible, either. It is true that
there are many people who do not
regularly attend religious worship but
that is no proof that they are any less
sincere Christians than their fathers
who believed almost to the point of
superstition in some of the old relig-
ious doctrines. Non-attendance at
services should not be construed ne
cessarily as a lack of interest in Chris
tianity nor to hostility to the teach
ings Of the churches. The fact is that
more people are interested, and deep
| ly interested, than ever before, be-
cause they are giving more sane con-
sideration, more thought and more
study to religious topics and those
allied with religion.
This is shown by the increasing
number of books which are published
dealing with religious questions. These
books are not all on orthodox lines.
May of them are devoted to the exhi-
bition Of independent views and are
open to the charge of being heretical,
but that is immaterial. It does not
vitiate the argument that people must
be deeply interested in a topic on
which so many volumes are written
and read. Once in a while newspa.
l. per opens it's columns to the discus
sion Of some religious problem, and
then what happens? Just this, that
SO many communications Of all kinds
are sent in for insertion that only a
| fraction Of them can be printed.
The world is changing it's daily hab-
its. Sunday was, years ago, day Of
L L,,% %haf !
world moved more slowly than now.
At this time it is exceptional to find
any man who never visits his Office
or, his store on Sunday. Business is
carried on at such pace now that it
| is impossible to strictly observe one
day in seven wholly In religious
way and this fact keeps many people
lnwav from church But it does not
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DR.. PARkHuRsT's VIOLENCE.

Chicago Chronicle.-If soldier with
no knowledge of theology or the Ian
guage OF a. particular sermon preached
some thousands of miles away from
him should undertake to criticise and
harshly condemn preacher and ser
mon and theology good people would
regard that soldier as a very impudeHt
and presuming fellow. II in the course
Of his condemnation he misrepresented
what the preacher said or n1isstated
anything he criticised he would be
branded in still harsher terms.
Yet that is mild and softened i'm
age of what DR.. Parkhurst did in the
sermon he is reported to have preach
ed on Sunday about the recent ex-
RAIDERS and murderers in the Philip
Pine islands by the United States
forces under Colonel Duncan.
Setting aside altogether the charac-
terization Of these savages as out
laws Of desperate type even in the es-
t.mation of the great body of people
of their own blood, it is at least GER
tain that they were savages. DR.
Parkhurst himself so denominates
| them.
The whole history of the conflict OF
civilization with savagery has made II
SO plain that "the wayfaring man
though a fool need not err therein
/ that when savagery sets itself to wal
the event must inevitably be EXTERN
| ination for ore or the other. Amerj
can history is full Of evidences past
dispute, from King Philip to Sitting
Bull though the North American say.
age Is rather superior to the Malay.
DR. Parkhurst and his like are prone
! to speak of women and children
from TIE civilized point Of view utter.
| iy regardless Of the truth that ever
in our savage warfare the savage
| women have always been the perpe.
| traitors Of the most unspeakable, us.
ually unprintable atrocities upon civ.
| ilized victims Of either sex. To de.
as he and others have done is eithe!
objectionable ignorance or more un.
pardonable insincerity, even on gen.
eral knowledge Of savage warfare.
The reverend gentleman's savage
censure Of President Roosevelt for hi:
telegram to General Wood stands or
another footing. 1t is wholly destitut.
Of excuse or palliation. He must know
that 1t was not until two days after
that telegram was sent that there wa!
the least intimation that any woner
or children were present. 1t is a fail
Inference from the way the news o.
the fight was transmitted that theil
! presence was not known to the Ameri.
can officers or men until after thu
1 fighting was over. But whether they
suspected or not 1t is at least certaii
that when the President sent his tele.
gram nobody in this country had an.
reason to think that anybody bu
fighting men were involved In any
way whatever.
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SID ELICIT

"Say, policeman, do you know If
that is SO about some one finding a
skeleton over at the starch works."
The big two hundred and forty
pound protector Of our public peace
withered, the applicant for informa-
ton with scornful glance.
"Huh, what woods was you raised
In, anyway? Don't you know any bet
ter than to bite on one of those pack
ages the high school boys tie up Say,
you ought to go down to Mt. Pleasant
and recuperate."
well, heard something about it up
town." meekly answered the unknow-
ing one. II didn't know but what it
might be true"
ooh, you want to get next to that
gag, do you?" the blue and the but
tons condescended to reply. cit was
a pretty good fake, but Of course I
could see through it as easy as falling
off log. Pm too wise for any of
their gratis. Why, you see, couple
of the boys played hockey the other
afternoon, and in walking down the
Milwaukee tracks they passed the old
elevator at the starch works. In ex-
ploring the building they found some
kind Of little room under the attic
that could be reached only through a
hole in the attic floor, and by going
down ladder. or course their minds
were open to mischief, so when dead
sparrow was discovered they decided
to have a skeleton hunt
They went back and met the boys
coming down from school and fold
them all about the awful skeleton
they had found, and they brought
about seven different gangs Of fellows,
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PEOPLES PULPIT.

!
when you make purchases from
your local grocer, your dry goods
store, your clothier, your shoe store,
the profit which you pay to the dealer
means total loss to you. y = y Our
plan not only returns to you the prof
its on your own purchases, but per-
mits you to share in all the profits
from the trade Of more than million
customers living in all parts of the
world"
Such Is the silly preamble in glar-
ing red print Of a twenty-page adver-
tisement of so-called cooperative
Society,"" with a name as long as the
combined names of all the Ottumwa
banks, with supposed capital cores
pondingly greater, appearing in a
prominent magazine several months
ago. The work Of an artist was
brought into play in the shape of a
cooperative" arch, having for it's key
stone the emblem Of fellowship" on
either side are the typical man with
the hoe, and the man who tolls in the
shop, standing on pedestals with in
scriptions Of Agriculture" and Elm
dustry," respectively. Underneath the
archway is the name of the firm with
q capital Of s5,000,0O0.
BY the way, this concern, which hap
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DANGEROUS LITERATURE,

1t is lar easier to attack and tear
down than to aid and build up, and
though ordinarily most men are clear
headed, there comes times when it be-
comes popular with great many Of
them to seek the path of least resist
ance and join the ranks Of the de-
stroyers. They never think Of the cost
to patriotism, to their fellow men and
to posterity. They never seem to see
any farther than the immediate sell
fish reward. Such is the case Just
now with many so-called correspond
ents who are located at the national
capital and in other cities.
One Of the gravest dangers that now
threaten the peace of society in the
United States is the growth in power
of the so-called literary free lance who
has suddenly discovered that certain
kind Of scribbling pays better than
that to which he has been addicted be-
fore. Cheap magazines and still cheap
er,newspapers, with an ever ready will
to ingratiate themselves into the popu-
lar sentiment for faultfnding and tear
ing down, pay for this new kind
of scribbling at the sacrifice of patriot
ism and honor. The stuff is generally
"syndicated" and purchased at rates
that could not be paid if, for example,
Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker
and David Graham Phillips wrote only
for one publication. Some of their ar
ticles are exclusive, but the sort of
matter sent out by them to various
newspapers is mere merchandise to be
bought by those who want it.
Steffens is a chronic faultfnder who
has made 1t pay. After working along
the lines of civic graft until the field
was pretty well exhausted as far as
the magazines were concerned, he
turned his attention to Washington.
With great flourish of trumpets and
much bowling to the grand stand he
boldly went to the national capital He
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THE OTTUMwA COURTEk

make pagans out OF them, for they
make pagans out Of them
Progress in other lines has
been accompanied by progress in the
understanding Of religious topics and
people are learning that many of the
scriptural mandates can be obeyed in
spirit while the flesh is attending to
the more material affairs. Professor
Schmidt may believe that his pessi.
mistic view is right, but If he were
closer to the bulk of the people he
would lose faith in his idea and gain
faith in the world.
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CANADA AND HER SILVER.

Canada is now banishing from the
Dominion all the American silver that
can be secured, having put plan into
operation at the beginning of the pres
ent month. 1t is estimated that not
less than s1,000,000 in United States
silver dollars, half dollars, quarters,
and dimes are in circulation in Cana
da, to the exclusion of so much Cana
dian corresponding coins. The COM
plant against the American silver
nuisance" has grown 30 great that at
last steps were taken to abolish it.
An arrangement was made between
the finance department of the Domin-
ion government and the banks by
which all American silver coins that
come into the banks are assorted and
shipped to the agency of the Bank Of
Montreal and New York, which puts
them into circulation in the country
where they belong and credits the Ca
madam banks with their face value.
lit is expected that business men in
Canada will discourage the circulation
of the silver coins and that this, with
the action of the banks in receiving
them for shipment out of Canada, will
soon result in the complete disappear
ance of American silver from that side
of the lakes.
One of the reasons given for this
prescription of American silver coins
lis the alleged hostility to Canadian sill
yer on this side. 1t is gravely assert
ed that the American people will not
take Canadian silver coins, although
their own coins circulate freely in
Canada on equal terms with Dominion
coins of the same denomination. That
is not strictly true. Canadian half
dollars, quarters and dimes are, it is
true, accepted at less than their face
value at some places in the interior
of this country. For instance, at OF
tumwa, where many Canadian quar-
tiers put in their appearance, they are
accepted by many people for only 20
cents. However, others take them at
their face value even here, while In
Canadian border and on the great
lakes they are accepted as readily as
American money and at their face
value
1t would not be surprising were the
Canadian crusade against American
silver to provoke retaliation. Many
years ago, when Canada pursued a
similar policy to that now revived, and
!, the attempt was made to drive Ameri.
can silver out of the Dominion as a
nuisance, one of the steps to that end
was the rating Of the American quar-
ter as 20 cents on the Canadian street
cars and in the stores. Retaliatory
action was promptly taken on this
,side, and before long Canadian coined
silver became uncurrent in Cleveland
and practically disappeared. When il
sbecomee generally known that Ameri
can silver coins are discredited II
Canada there will be closer scrutiny
of silver coins here, and those with
the Canadian stamp will be objected
to in places where they are now I'm
hesitatingly accepted.
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that alone can make possession worth

that alone can make possession worth
while.
And, by the same whimsy, it hap
pens that the intellectuals and the Ia
borioIs are. for the most part, free
from the fretting anxieties which beset
the business man by day and night
What college professor or what liter
airy man worries as broker or large
merchant does? What artist or what
mechanic has the cares that trouble a
speculator?"
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IF YOU RE TIRED

weak and run down, or the blood is
impure, there's nothing will do you SO
much good this spring as few doses
Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Thou
sands use it exclusively with crafty
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-29
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

and you make the first step toward
good health. 1t cures Grippe, Sprinq
Fever, Impure Blood, SIeeplessness,
Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Costiveness,
Female Ills and Malaria. FaMAr and
AnliA-
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THE ELkINs-cUMMlNs EPISODE.
: ME battle of words hatmeen III s


The battle of words between U. s..
Senator Elkins and Gov. Cummins has
reached the point where each distinct
ly intimates that the other is a pre-
yaricator and a stranger to the truth.
In order that the people may know
Just what all this controversy is about
the Courier publishes in this issue in
full, Senator Elkins' open letter to
Gov. Cummins and Gov. Cummins open
reply to Senator Elkins. The public
can read these letters, if they are in
terested in. the controversy, and make
up their own minds as to the respec-
tive merits of the points at issue
So far as we are concerned, we are
unable to see just what this whole
affair has to do with Iowa politics.
The entire Iowa delegation in congress
is loyalty supporting the President in
the matter Of giving to the interstate
commerce commission the right to de-
termine whether a specified railroad
rate is fair and just, and the power to
fix a new rate, If they find that it is
not. This is what the people of Iowa
want and this is what their represent
tatives in congress have and will unan-
imously vote for. This being the case,
the natural inquiry is, what is all this
fuss about, anyway?
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The Usage News says that the Dob
son-Hull mixup is "a case Of dog eat
dog, and the public ought to get a
whole lot of satisfaction out Of the
rnyND
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The Webster City Freeman Tribune
says that the kind Of harmony that
prevails in Hamilton county "is the
kind that comes at the end of a hard
fight where no quarter or favors were
asked or given"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-29

The Denison Review signs for the
days when there We're no Cummins re-
publicans and no anti-Cummins re-
publicans, when we were all republic
cans and ready and eager for the fray
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The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
the opponents of Governor Cummins
need not expect to make much head
way against the governor by enlist
ing the support Of men Of the Senator
Eikins stripe.