Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-05

~nouncement that comes from Wash
ington. The more l~evel-headed lead.
ers probably will attempt to avoid the
secret caucus. The storm OF indigna.
ton that followed the senate caucus
on the tariff bill has caused consider
able party concern and 1t would be
better politics II the desired results
could be obtained in q less unpopu-
lar way, or at least In q way not 20
well known to the public.
Des Moines Capital: Thanks to the
~sui7ragists in Des Moines, this city
will have 1T least one public comfort
station for visitors during the state
fair. The city federation of suffrage
clubs has secured the 9 Of the
! Coliseum for fair week. There will
be chairs, free telephones, couches,
/ reading material-in fact, . place
whore women visiting the city may
, rest In comfort. The Capital predicts
that this public comfort station will
be one Of the most popular places in
Des Moines during the exposition.
Cedar Rapids Republican: One
washington dispatch says that the
United States may decide to take .
northern strip Of Mexico In payment
Of damages done to Americans md
American interests during the revoiu-
ton. That looks like q reasonable
seizure Of property. A strip Of Mext-
co would look good attached to the
United States and 1t would give us
control Of tho Rio Grande, which is
now the boundary line. We would
be willing to take the land, even Il
the land included the people who
live On It who can not be very de-
sirable citizens Of the United States.
. But II we ssseYt the hight to take
a strip to compensate us for damages,
what VIII European nations say about
it? May they not also have q desire
to take q piece to satisfy them for
damages incurred to them. or to their
citizens during the revolution which
Is still raging? When we take others
also may have a desire to secure
damages. On the whole, we are ofratd
that taking lands in that way Is An
idea that can not be entirely COM
imonded.
Muscatine Journal: Now that the
new chief Of the weather bureau has
been selected. lets 9 II We can't
have a little rain to save the corn.
Cedar Rapids Republican: It Is diff
| ferent when Mulhall treads on their
own corns. "He IL a liar and q sort
Of blackmailer." shouted Chairman
Underwood, the maker Of the new tarin
I'LL, when Mulhall had complicated
Mr.. Underwood in some Of his state
ments.
Marion Register: Col. Watterson
| has tackled the lion In his den.
Bravo Marse Henri. He IL lighting
| Woodrow Wilson's Nicaragua protec-
torate scheme with -horse, foot and
dragons" with saber, pistols and col
umbiads. When Mexican fights Next
| con and when democrat fights demo
| crat we always feel like shouting bur-
| rah and hurrah!
Waterloo Courier: That gang Of
robbers who held UP q train In Mon
tana the other day. kidnapped the bag.
gage car and then discovered that the
necessary dynamite 10 blow the safe
had been left behind, possibly felt no
worse than the young man who orders
the sundaes for himself and best girl
and then discovers that all his money
is in his other trousers.
Mason City Globe Gazette: MI.
!! underwood did not mince matters with
kulhall. He did not refer to him as
q member of the Annanias club or as q
Baron M~unchausen. He did not say
with southern urbanity, l could use q
| shorter but uglier word. He called
Martin M. Mulhall q "liar and q black
mailer" Underwood must have some
expert muscle as we'll as expert lang
uage.
Sioux City Journal: Every baseball
player knows the umpire has instruc-
tons from tho highest authority not to
| change q decision In response to pro-
tests from players. Every baseball
| player knows that an umpire who
made practice OF reversing decisions
could not hold q job In organized
baseball. Notwithstanding this know
ledge the baseball players continue to
draw fines and suspensions for vain
| endeavors to induce the umpire to
violate his instructions and endanger
his Job by reversing decisions. Why
Go the baseball players continue thus
10 give themselves the worst OF 1t?
Is It that they think the crowd pre-
fers "rag chewing to baseball? It
really would be interesting to know
what is back Of the foolish and futile
umpire batting.
Des Moines Capital: The Rock
! Island railroad announces a special
train through the southwest to en-.
courage the farmers to use silos. Des
| Moines will have nor than an ordin.
airy interest in this movement. because
Des Moines has more silo factories
than any other city and IL In reality
the silo center Of the world. II has
honn nnIv a c0~rn m short time