Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-25

Springfield News: Beware of pre-
mature war news published in the
penny dreadfuls."
The details of events that are sup.
posed to transpire at o'clock in the
evening, as they appear in sheets pub,
lished at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
are not likely to be authentic, particu.
larry If the grapevine telegraph is used
as means of transmission.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The ar
gument that saloons help business
should he qualified They help police
court, charity and undertaking lines.
So far as other business Is concerned
the answer to the claim that business
is promoted by the presence of saloons
Is clear and conclusive. The man who
spends his money for booze cannot
spend it for groceries.
Rock Island Argus: Automobiles
standing in the roads Of streest at
night in Iowa need not display lights.
The supreme court Of that state has
decided that the law contemplates
lights only when being operated or
driven" However, the prudent owner
will keep his lamps lit to protect the
car from damage by being struck by
passing vehicles.
Burlington Gazette: While we are
discussing war and the possibilities
of war with Mexico brisk little battle
was waged in Colorado between strik-
ing coal miners and the state militia,
with q casualty list that would COM
mand good front page space If the
Mexican situation had not acted as an
eclipse.
Davenport Times: 1t appears to be
unanimously conceded by the republi-
cans of the Second Iowa district that
Harry e. Hull is the man to lead the
party in the congressional campaign
this fall
Clinton Herald: The order of Secre.
tary Daniels, barring liquor from
the battleships, gives new interpreta-
ton to that line by Coleridge. Water,
water, everywhere, and not drop to
drink"
Manson Journal: The bull moose
party of Iowa appears to be made up
of lot of democratic officers and re-
publican privates. 1t is just possible
that these privates will not stand
hitched when the final test comes.
Kansas City Journal: If President
Wilson thought he could throw Huerta
into panic by sending him an ulti-
matum he was mistaken. A man who
has been enveloped in the smoke of
battle for months is not easily STAN
peded.
Oskaloosa Herald: Among the
real benefactors of man is Bossy, the
family cow All the days of her life
she yields him nourishing, healthgiv
ing nectar And when her flesh goes
to mingle with the dust. her outer GOV.
ering becomes the shields, protection
and ornament of the feet of man.
Drink milkshake to the health of the
COW.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: On one day
the newspapers carried dispatches an
nouncing that Harry Thaw has nearly
secured his freedom. that Jack John
son will get new trial and that Lieut..
Charles Becker will also get new
trial. The same day the papers car.
ried news of the death of four gun
men" 1t means something to have
money.
Burlington Hawkeye: Mr. Cannon
is good deal nearer right than are the
republican floor leader, Mr.. Mann. and
his twenty eight republican associates
who voted against the resolution CIV
ing the president power to use the
army and navy in the Mexican trouble.
The Hawk-Eye regrets to see the
names of two Iowa republican con-
gressment in the negative vote They
have made mistake. The people will
stand by congress and the president
in this national emergency. AS Mr..
fyopron mite n. H1'ho nOuntrx, chnrl-1