Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-15

treatment is good investment even
when considered from the viewpoint
of dollars and cents. It would not be
bad idea for the travelling public to
also cultivate the same virtues. Some
people think they have license to say
what they please to railroad men.
Waterloo Courier: The United
States senate has taken the last step
In that political frame-up Of congress
to increase the membership OF the
house against the will of every right
thinking citizen of the United States,
In passing the reapportionment bill In
creasing the house by forty-two mem.
bers, congress has saddled bill OF
probably half million annually upon
the government to pay for an arrange
ment which will decrease the efhc-
iency Of the already too cumbersome
house OF representatives
Cedar Falls Record: A great many
people. after travelling extensively
over the states where get-rich-quick
schemes are Matched out in a twink
ling, finally come to the conclusion
that Iowa is q pretty good place to 1--we
after all. And this conclusion Is no
joke, either. Iowa has Its drawbacks,
as some people regard the cold win
ters. We don't raise bananas or grape
fruit, but Iowa does produce the MAJ
una necessary to buy all she wants
to eat of these delicacies. Some peo'
pie don't know . good thing when
they see it.
Dubuque Times-Journal: The fact
that good roads increase the value OF
farm lands is not the potential argu.
ment in favor Of good roads. Good
roads make farm lands more valuable
by bringing the market closer to the
farm and because they keep the mar
kets accessible to the farm every day
in the year. That Is the reason why
farmers should have good roads. 10
the man who does not want to sell his
land at any price, the value of that
land is matter of secondary con
sideration But good roads give the
man who does not want to sell his
farm the same advantage that they
give the man who does want to sell
They give him an increased value fol-
his products and pay 9 dividend every
time he needs the market
Keokuk Gate City: Iowa will be fol
Taft without an If, an an, or q but
The Iowa delegation to the national
convention will be unit on the sub
ject and it ought to be chosen without
a contest. The man who suggests q
fight, on the eve of a presidential cleo
ton, should be summarily thrown
down the back stairs.
Mt. Pleasant Free Press: Reel
procity will stand out in the Taft ad
ministratiOn as the chief accomplish
ment Of the administration. 1t is the
paramount issue. 1t is the thing
around which Taft hopes to rally his
political army He either wins OF
loses with that as the Issue. Yet every
Iowa congressman was against it with
the exception noted. How can they b.
Taft men and desert him at tim'
when his very political life depends Of
the result of the vote? But 1t is quit
plain that Taft will be the next nom
iflee in spit OF the strenuous efforts o
| the LaFollette and the Cummins AM
the Bourne men to beat him, in tn
COuVSuClOu 1$OUI dSho, do OAO VI tA'
straws, points the way.
Iowa City Republican: Joe Hovlik
an Oxford Junction, Ia, boy. who hal
been playing ball with Peoria In the
Three-I league has Deen sold to Com
iskey's White Sox for $4,000. Rails
ing boys like that is pretty near al
good as producing fancy short horns.