Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14
Press Comment.

Kansas City Journal: Governor
Hodges regrets to report that no re-
duction can be made in the Kansas
tax rate this year. 1t may comfort
the governor to know that his report
is not at all Disappointing Nobody
expects tax reduction under a demo-
cratic administration - In Kansas Or
else.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Texans are
proposing raising a sum Of money for
Mr.. Bryan. The Texans will pardon a
large part Of the country II 1t re-
fuses to fall over itself raising mon
ey for a man who is pretty we'll fixed
and who Is getting a salary Of $12, 900
q year. +.
Sioux City Journal: 1t is reported
I'M Washington that 1t was Secretary
McAdoo's first intention not to offer
any crop moving funds to Iowa banks
and that Iowa was brought directly
into the matter only by the activity
Of Representative Connolly. OF
course, Iowa wants her share Of any
good thing that is being passed
around, but, at that, Secretary Nc
Adoo's failure to see any need for
help out this way was not wholly un-
complimentary.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: II can now
and then forgive a mar arrested for
drunkenness, or for fighting, or tor
anything else that he may do with.
out generalization, but I cannot see
-1y NJ = 1loo~ - frAA a -or x1,hn r,1no
q gambling house." That was the
announcement Of Municipal Judge
Mahoney ]. Welch of Chicago last
week. It Is a wise use OF judicial dis
erection. Gambling Is q cold-blooded
proposition and has no place In the
thrift of a community.
Des Moines Capital: Too much
c~arelessness in the driving Of autos Is
evident on the streets Of Des Moines
every day. The situation becomes
acute IN the evening, for it Is then
that the machines are out In force.
Despite frequent warnings from the
police, crowded thoroughfares are
into speedways and smart
aleck drivers dodge In and out with
reckless abandon that presages IA.
talities unless their silly habits are
changed. Most Of the drivers Of this
class are kids who are driving cars
belonging to other people. A shingle
properly administered would do much
to cool their ardor.
Cedar Rapids Republican: With
women wearing less and less why does
not the cost Of high living come down
more rapidly? VIII women have to
omit all clothes in order to really re-
duce the cost Of living?
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: A report
from Washington says the democrats
have been obliged to modify their
plan Of currency reform to the extent
of making the federal Vel board
non-partisan. This was a political
merit possessed by the Aldrich plan.
Des Moines Capital: The disclosures
being made In the Frawley investfga-
ton place Governor Sulzer In a pretty
sorry plight. OF course nearly every
one In New York Is supposed to deal
the stock exchange, but Governor
Sulzer is a reformer and when he used
campaign funds with which to answer
margin calls, he was playing with fire.
Grinnell Register: II only 1owans
were like native and transplanted
Californians, they would forget all the
trifling weather vagaries. No true Call.
fornian would admit that the weather,
climate and crops of that state were
anything but the best. Californians
minimized the orange crop failure;
1owans enlarge on weather and condi-
lions and deplore the crop failure that
thei. pessimistic eyes see
Washington Press: What are the
serious disturbances which these rate
cases will cause? In the first place
they will take off several million dol
lars per year OF railroad revenue. In
the next place they give the shipper Of
Iowa almost an equal chance with the