Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-18
Press Comment

PreSS Comment
Springfield News: At the recent pri.
maries in Minnesota the bull moose
polled 2,S74 votes against $4,000 In
1912. There are few catastrophes SO
horrible that there are not few sur
vivors to tell particulars Of the dis
aster.
Kansas City Journal The interstate
commerce commissioners who are de-
laying action on the railroad rate cases
until they get good and ready are
about as serviceable as the members
of fire department who wait until
they respond to an alarm of fire IN the
heart of the business district.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Trouble Is
said to be brewing In the Philippines
where the natives after watching and
waiting for that declaration OF 1nde-
pendence which the democratic plat
form seemed to promise them, are get
ting tired Of waiting. 1t Is said a plot
has been discovered to cut the cable,
murder Americans and capture the
government with the aid of rifles I'M
ported from Japan.
Des Moines Capital 1t is claimed
that Messrs. Warburg and Jones are
being unjustly treated. Perhaps they
are AS a result of the undertaking
crusade of the past fifteen years 1t IS
not strange that there should be some
innocent victims.
Springfield News: In refusing to con-
firm certain nominations of men for
hieil places made by the president. the
senate is evidently trying to make
Wilson understand that under pres
sure, it can be just as arbitrary ana
exacting as it's chief.
Clinton Herald: A chauffeur at Car
roll Iowa has been held for man.
slaughter because the owner of the car
he was driving was killed when he
smashed into farm wagon. Both men
had been drinking, and in the auto was
found barrel of beer. The case may
prove knotty problem for the courts,
but a solution can be found. II the
chauffeur bought the beer, he is guilty
of manslaughter. If the owner bought
the beer, he committed suicide.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald: AS with
suffrage, 50 with prohibition. They
are matters for the states to deal with
first, and not the national government.
II the people of any state In this union
want equal suffrage they have merely
to amend their constitutions. II they
want prohibition the same course Will
accomplish it. Until two-thirds OF the
states have suffrage and prohibition,
suggestion of federal constitutional
amendment is out of order.
Cedar Rapids Republican: In all the
duck breeding grounds, southwest ana
northwest, we are told the birds are
more numerous now than they have
beer in twenty years past, all due, we
are told, to the national law prohibit
ing spring shooting of migratory birds.
If such results have followed 80 quick
ly then sportsmen, real sportsmen,
ought to be overjoyed about the new
law and even the pot hunters ought
to have sense enough to support law
, that increases the supplies of birds
for fall shooting, when the season Will
be open.
La Crosse Tribune: With Judge
Baldwin sitting on the bench In the
! county court room wife beating" Will
soon be very unpopular in La Crosse.
A man who slapped his wife was given
term of 80 days in the county jail.
and he will not have a vacation while
there, either. He will be put to work,
under the direction of the sheriff and
every cent he makes will be turned
over to his wife.
There is nothing more disgusting
and revolving than the charge prefer
red against that man. His wife, a
sweet faced girl, not much over 70,
| told her sad story in the court room
It is hoped that this one case will
serve as an example to others who
may consider using their fists on their
wives.
| DEBORAH Republican: It is announc'
ed that President Wilson and Score.
tary Bryan will come to Iowa this fall
j to speak in favor of sending Maurice
/ Connolly to the United States senate
Desperate cases require desperate rem
edies. If these two distinguished
gentlemen do come they will be given
! a nearly welcome, DuL IucIc Is AothiA6
in the atmosphere to indicate that
either of them will change any votes
| Davenport Times: The Pan-Hellen1c
union has sent telegram to President
Wilson extending thanks to the United
States for selling two battleships to
! Greece. It is explained that this act
| on the part of the United States has
! probably prevented the outbreak OF
! war in the near east. If more people
could get this point Of view, that pre-
paredness for war prevents war, how
much better it would be for all con
cerned. And 1t is likely that it would
be much easier to get appropriations
through congress for more battleships
! La Crosse Tribune: When DIR. :
Evans Chicago Tribune health expert
finishes with the mosquitoes at Ra
VIVA park, on the north shore Of Lake
Michigan. he is very urgently request
ed to come to La Crosse and repeat
the treatment. The physician says he
is going to kill every mosquito In Chi
cago and surrounding country.
! La Crosse people who go over to