Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19

more than rely on a citizenry trained
and accustomed to arms. There isn't
any man in Christendom who can tell
what he means, '~
He doesn't mean the national guard
for he speaks of that specifically. He
/ doesn't refer to citizen reserve, for
he says specifically The won't have it.
He doesn't intimate in any way, shape
or manner that he means that the gov
eminent shall get behind this trained
citizenry
| He doesn't intimate that the gov
eminent will pay one dollar to accom-
plish this. We haven't got this train
| ed citizenry nowhere are we going
to get it?
He intimates that all who are in
favor of taking up this matter and do
ing something to get ready are scared
for the country.
He spends good deal of time and
space saying that we shall never have
a big standing army. That is all
buncombe, for there isn't one man
who believes in getting ready who
wants or believes in great standing
army.
st. Louis Globe Democrat So long
as the people shall continue to appeal
to congress for pork barrel appropria-
tons congress can not be blamed for
! trying to provide the money.
La Crosse Tribune: II the Austrian
generals on the eastern front have
names like the towns they are defend
| ing, we can understand why the kaiser
came back from visiting them with
throat trouble.
Peoria Star: Good news to hun
dreds of rural school teachers comes
in the decision of the circuit court in
Springfield that teacher, at her dis
erection, may punish child for infrac-
tion of the school rules. The ordinary
boy fears the rod more than he does
moral discipline. Willard Herin, a
school boy at Buffalo, was whipped by
his teacher, and his father sued her for
$4,000. The court decided that there
was no chance for legal action, no
matter how excessive the punishment.
Philadelphia Bulletin: Congress
man Charles C. Carlin of Virginia,
credited with being a personal as well
as party friend of President Wilson,
expresses his belief to the New York
Herald that when the European war is
over there will need be revision of
the tariff, so that the millions of men
who are now In the armies and who
will then be released for employment
at any wage they can get, may not
dump cheap products on the American
market in competition with American
manufacturers
That is orthodox protection doctrine
not his personal acquaintance with
President Wilson counts for anything.
But it is the more interesting because
sentiment of that sort has been find
ing expression in. democratic quarters
with suggestive frequency of late, in
dicating that the protection propa-
ganda of Norman Mack is finding con-
siderable response in the democratic
party.
New York Post: Owners of British
tramp steamships are deriving great
RFofft from the war For weeks past
Heights have been rising not only
steadily. but sometimes rapidly, and
they now are on very much higher
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instance freights for grain from the
Plate have risen from 13s ton to eos
Sd ton, while freights from the Pa
cific coast of North America have ad-
vanced from about 35s to ASS.
The rise is due largely to the ac-
QUESTION of many vessels by the gov
eminent. Many of the finest British
liners have been converted into armed
merchant cruisers or have been en-
ployed as troop ships; some have
crossed the Atlantic packed with
horses; many have been chartered for
the carriage of stores or to act as col
hers. British shipping has not only
been doing the bidding of the British
government, but it has been at the
service of the French and Russian
governments as well.