Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-23
Press Comment.

Press Comment.
Kansas City Journal: At this dis
lance it looks as II 1t were up to Gov.
Sulzer to enter mild protest against
the effort Of his devoted wife to take
all the blame upon her own shoulders.
Rock Island Argus: President Will
sons diplomacy is simply that this
government doesn't care to recognize
as president man who obtained his
office by assassinating his predecessor.
Cedar Rapida Republican: They
figure now that the corn crop will fall
300,O00,000 bushels short OF last year.
But there is probably that much of
last years crops In the bins and ele.
yators of the country. Many have
been holding on to their corn pending
the outcome Of the weather during this
crop season.
Keokuk Gate City: The Columbus
Safeguard objects to English ''as she is
spoke in the effete east. Its COM
plant IL as follows:
IL common scrub country Jake
calls yellow 'yaller' he Is called q
pinhead and uncultured, but high
brow from the east can get up on
the lecture platform and call calf
'cof' and get away with it,
Marshalltown Times-Republican !:
In motorcycle contest one cycle car
ried five people and the other carried
six up the steepest hill near MARSHALL
town, q hill that chokes the average
automobile. This demonstrates what
can be done with motor cart made of
bicycle frame on four bicycle wheels
propelled by motorcycle engine. The
time Is coming when for $3.50 anybody
can own q two-passenger motor cart.
Des Moines Register and Leader:
In Maryland, where joint committee
Of fifteen progressives and fifteen re-
publicans have been cooperating to Sc
cure a basis of union against the
dominant democracy, working agree
ment has been reached whereby the
republicans are to furnish the names
and the progressives the principles of
the reorganized party.
How would that do for Iowa?
Sioux City Journal: Tammany
couldn't have cut Suffers throat If
Sulzer hadn't furnished Tammany with
butcher knife.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa Is so
good to look at that we can't under
stand why every person in the United
States doesn't want to live in the state.
Mason City Globe Gazette: Governor
Foss is talking about coming back
into the republican party. The party
has stood good many things since
the death of William Mckinley, so let
him come, but he ought not to think
he will be made bishop at the first
conference.
Burlington Gazette: 1t Is estimated
that the people of this country are ex-
pending annually on the public roads
upwards OF $2OO,0OOOOO a large per-
centage Of which by reason OF lack of
system, ignorance Of proper methods
complishing results at all commensur-
ate with the outlay. It's a large sum to
throw away every year.
Davenport Times: It is fortunate
both for the Mexican people and the
United States that the report to the
effect that Huerta had given John
Lind one hours notice to recognize his
government proved to be without
foundation In fact. Such an ultimatum
would have resulted in breaking of all
diplomatic relations, grave danger to
Americans in Mexico and might have
so inflamed public opinion as to have
precipitated q war Of Intervention.
i Sioux City Tribune: 1t would sur
prise some people to be told that
Americans are mainly responsible for
the recent wars in the Balkans and for
the revolution In China, but the spread
of the news of the civil and religious
liberty in the United States Is the