Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-08

can says that Senator Dolliver has as
sNmed the place he should long ago
have taken, the fighting leadership OF
the corn country, adding: Dolliyer
mas made a good senator. He is now
IN the way to become great. He is !
leader No other western leader Is
stronger in or out of his own state
Now that he had added Aggressive
ness to capacity, he will go lar"
Noting that five years" imprison-
ment for stealing nine cents, was the
sentence imposed recently upon two
laen at Binghampton, the Clarion Clip
Fer calls its readers attention to find
the proportionate sentence for steal
ing a Million
THE honor of presenting the meas
IRE should have gone to Dolliver, but
he is content as it is, and now the
fight will be made upon the floor OF
the senate as it is, and 1T will be the
greatest struggle in the history of the
senate" says the Cedar Falls Record.
There is a fear in some quarters
that the deputy who has been on the
trail of Rockefeller has been following
the magnate's tracks backwards. II
this is true some interesting develop
rents may be expected" says the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Sioux City Journal says: THAT
William Randolph Hearst chartered a
special train of ten cars and took 300
New York business and professional
men to Albany to urge the enactment
CT legislation supported by Mr.. Hearst
and his newspapers. This may be de-
scribed as lobbying brought up to
date
The Cedar Rapids Republican does
not question the purity of the motive
tain forms of Sunday amusements.
but it is of the opinion that such mat
tiers should be governed, not by law
but by the individual conscience. mo
good purpose will be served should th'.
state seek to interfere in such mat
ters," contends the Republican. No
one will be made better thereby. Re-
spect for the Sabbath will not be in
creased. Will not this action on the
contrary increase resentment among
the masses toward the Christian re-
ligion."
"It need hardly be said that China
should be handled with great care
observes the Keokuk Gate City.
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The Eagle Grove Eagle asks some
one on the Cummins press to point
out what should be done to the COR
porations in Iowa that Governor Cum
Minis can do if given a fourth term
that he tried but was unable to do In
three terms.
Former Chief Engineer Wallace, OF
the canal thinks the traffic will GO
elsewhere if the work is unduly de-
ilayed. Mr.. Wallace is to be pardoned
if he finds it impossible to take a
wholly roseate view of the canal mat
ter" says the Council Bluffs Nonpa-
reil.
The Mason City Gazette
speaking of the Lyon (democratic)
amendment to the Crossley primary
bill, says: IF ever there was a rank
piece of injustice attempted to be per-
petrated this was one, but the Cum
minis contingent voted for it almost
solidly 1t was a sop thrown for DEM
ocratic votes, but after they had sur
rendered all disposition for the square
deal to catch those democratic votes
the democratic members turned roune
and told them what they thought o.
such a farce by voting against the
Crossley bill.''
o. I
GAS result Of the recent encounter
between Senators Deliver and All.
drich,'' says the Sioux City Journal
"the senator from Iowa looks severa
sizes larger than he ever did, while
the senator from Rhode Island appears
to have fallen off correspondingly."
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"Statistics show that in 1851 1t tool
a bushel of corn to buy pound Of
nails, now bushel Of corn will buy
ten pounds of nails. Then 1t required
sixtyfour bushels of barley to buy
one yard of broadcloth, now the same
amount of barley will pay for twenty
yards of broadcloth. 1t then required
the price Of one bushel Of wheat t.
buy one yard of calico, now one bush.
e, of wheat will buy twenty yards o.
Calico" says the Marion Register.
Colonel Hepburn is planning t.
hand the opposition a package this
spring, and it won't be garden seeds
either" says the Alton Star Enter.
prise.
"A big effort is being made in Iowa
just now" observes the Harlan Repub.
|1ican, ito create the idea that the
name of Roosevelt and Cummins
should always be mentioned in con.
cert. There is one marked difference
between the two men. Roosevelt
promptly announced at the end of his
first term, which was a partial tern
at that, that he would under no cir.
cumstances be a candidate for a third
Apply the same rule as to partia
terms. Cumn1ins is now working over.
time to secure fourth"
PROFESSOR LANGLEY.