Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-23
body else had dropped. How is man
that lucky ever going to die poor?

body else had dropped. How Is man
that lucky ever going to die poor?
Davenport Times. 1t is said the
British people avoid the use of the
word bloody" in polite conversation.
Probably this is because the word has
been made to do service as an explet-
i've of low order by the average
Englishnlan, and it is merely one OF
the illustrations of the queer turns
that a custom will take. Many a good
word has been robbed Of it's useful
ness by abuse.
Galesburg Mail: Galesburg will be
q cleaner place to live In next week.
This is cleanup week and from all
indications there is very commend
able spirit of cooperation among. the
people of the city. Yards by the
score have been cleaned up and raked
since Monday morning, ash heaps have
been carted away and rubbish of all
sorts buried and burned.
1t is great crusade--this fight
against dirt in Galesburg it is
bearing fruit.
Clinton Herald Objection is made
to the placing Of the national colors
in the new terrazo floor Of the state
capitol building at Des Moines, on the
grounds that this is equivalent to
trampling on the flag. The objections
are we'll founded. No one would think
of stepping upon flag, lying on the
floor and it makes little difference if
the colors are in the floor itself. The
national flag is an emblem of senti-
ment alone. Sentiment demands that
the colors should be aloft, not under
foot.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: What diff
ference does it make to the local cloth
ing merchant whether man spends
his money in an Omaha or a Council
Bluffs saloon? In either case the re-
suit to him is just the same as if the
money had been dropped into the Mis-.
souri, river. When men buy booze with
their money they do not have it to
buy anything else. Of course, the sa-
loon man has his profits and his help.
ers have their wages to spend, but this
is not drop in bucket compared
with the harm this business does to
humanity and to all other lines of bust
ness.
Lincoln Journal: We are opposed
to the great American saloon because
and of unspeakable sorrow to women
and children.
Kansas City Journal: Suffragists
want President Wilson to take stand
on votes for women. AS he has been
both the executive and law-making
branches of the government, they
regard specific declaration from him
as of the highest Importance.
Rock Island Argus: The last words
of Whitley Lewis the gunman,
ought to sink deeply into the mind
of the youth of the land. They were !:
Keep away from bad company
Whitley paid the penalty for not
having himself needed the old admo
milton that every son has heard from
his mothers lips.
Sioux City Journal: Opponents OF
the Colombian treaty probably will not
overlook the opportunity to argue that
Colombia should pay US $25,000 900 fol
benefits accruing from the building OF
that $4O2,0O0,OO0 canal This might
make possible line of compromise by
which Colombia would pay us nothing
and we would pay Colombia nothing.
Des Moines Capital The admins.
tration is disposed to postpone formal
consideration of its antitrust program
until the next session of congress
This is an excellent idea. 1t would be
very embarrassing for the next con
gress to convene only to find that the
United States has been so completely
reformed that there was nothing left
to do but draw mileage and 60 home.
Fairfield Ledger: The Chicago
Record Herald has been converted tc
the anti-saloon movement in Illinois
to such an extent that it proposes to
cut out all liquor advertising. And
Iowa people are disposed to give il
undue credit for it's change in policy
at this late day. Many local Iowa pa
pers, among them The Ledger, cut out
advertising of this kind many years
ago, and we doubt if any of them ever
received word of commentator from
church or temperance organization
We know The Ledger did not.