Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-04


quitoes.
Chicago Record Herald: Last Wed
nesday fifteen persons were Frustrated
by the heat in Boston and this is a
hint of the weather they had through
out the east. When you feel that your
home town is extensively hot consider
the others.
Des Moines Capital: While adjoin.
ing states are complaining of too much
rain or too much drouth Iowa has
showery nights and hot days and
moves steadily forward in her annual
purpose to be the leading corn rails.
ing commonwealth in the union.
Keoklk Constitution Democrat:
Harry Thaw's guards are to accom-;
pany him to summer resort for the
heated term. That ought to be some
recompense for the trouble of listen
ing to his conversation.
Kansas City Journal The Colonel
says he subsisted on monkeys In
Brazil And he will have to repeat
the performance in this country if he
keeps himself alive politically.
Clinton Advertiser: 1t is reported
that General Villa has his picture TAX
en- every day. This Is undoubtedly
true, and by comparing the photo
graphs as they are printed, day by day,
it is apparent that he only shaves once
a week.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
A billion dollars has been spent on
the public roads of the United States
in the past ten years with very little
would have paved half of all the main
travelled roads in the entire country
so that the problem of road improve
ment is not to raise more taxes so
much as to make the mo " we are
now spending count for something
worth while. 1t was true when we
quit building board sidewalks in town
and plank bridges in the country.
Waterloo Courier: Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds' record in trying to
stay the California white slave cases
some months ago and his recent efforts
to stop the inquiry into the financial
manipulations that wrecked the New
Haven railroad bid fair to win him
something of the popularity enjoyed
by our forgotten friend, Richard
Achilles Ballinger.
Keokuk Gate City: The general
apathy In the state over the primary
election is another good reason why
the primary should be eliminated. Too
much politics isn't good for any COM
monwealth Aside from the Meredith
Connolly senatorial contest which has
developed largely into personal
fight there is little interest in the corn
ing primary.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Give business rest has been catch
phrase with big business lately seek
ing to saddle upon the press and upon
statesmen responsibility for business
depression. But now comes an expo.
sition Of rOttenness within the N. Y.
N. H. & H. Ry, which justifies all that
has ever been said or done In the de-
mand for common honesty in the bust
ness world.
Iowa City Republican,: The belief
of Senator Borah that the republican
party will win back the Roosevelt vot-
ers of 1912 and again become the great
est political force In our national life
is regarded with more interest now
than it would have been year ago.
For the trend of political events In the
year has been distinctly In that direc-
hon. If the way Is left open for the
Roosevelt men to realign themselves
as republicans, 1t is evident that most
of them will do so.
Sioux City Tribune:I With the ex.
ception of four southern states every
commonwealth in the union has re-
sopnded to the call of humanity and
taken some steps to prevent the In
dustrial exploitation of little children.
However, in the two Carolinas and
Alabama children IL years of age may
be worked either day or night, In IL
hour shifts, while in Georgia this slow
murder of. children In the cotton. mills
may be commenced when they are 10
years old.
Clinton Herald: Every day or two
youth commits suicide somewhere,
leaving note for a girl, OF, otherwise
coupling her with the affair, and
straightway it is announced to the
world that Mary Jones was his sweet
heart and she had Tilted him, or he
died for love of her, or something like
that
In half of these cases, probably, the
youth and the girl are scarcely more
than acquaintances, or If she turned
e, q =. L. = ~ 700 orSVn
for doing so, and it is an injustice to
have her labelled sweetheart"
Furthermore, no real gentleman
would drag girl into the publicity
attending a suicide. And no one with
manhood enough to deserve a girls
affection would kill himself because
she proved faithless.
There Is very little OF the spirit OF
Brutus among modern suicides.