Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-21

TtdpuS CREAM. why HOI lay d AIltlo GIN
phasis on the condition Of some Of the
alleys?
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The nationi
as rule will commend Iowa republic
ans stand on the tariff-the hackers
of the present administration excepted.
Rock Island Argus: The fellow who
stole the red hot stove will have to
take back seat. The most enterpr1s-
ing thief on record now Is the one who
the other day looted the Clinton. Iowa
pest house of most of it's furniture just
after a number of smallpox cases had
been discharged from the place.
Burlington Gazette: Roosevelt will
run for president in 1916. Democrats
are not inclined to make any objec-
lions to this program. In fact. they
wish the colonel the best of health for
his venture.
Clinton Herald: Iowa has a problem
that of checking the consolidation OF
farms, which are constantly growing
larger. with resulting loss OF rural
population. Iowa could reach this
problem by exempting farm houses
and barns from taxation. This would
make the total tax proportionately
lighter on smaller farms. 1t would en-
courage the building Of farm houses,
and more farm houses mean smaller
farms and greater population.
Muscatine Journal: Harmony, not
only with a capital H, but with a cap
ital Y and with all the intermediate
letters written in capitals marked the
Iowa state republican state convention
which closed at Des Moines last night.
In their deliberations and In the plat
form which they adopted and in every
phase of convention activity the dele
gates gave evidence of their determina-
ton that not single act of the con-
vention should lessen the opportunity
for significant republican success at
the lection this fall.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The re-
publican convention embodied In Its
platform, as the plank on taxation.
recent utterance by Gov. Clarke on
that subject. When the governor has
the next legislature on his hands we
hope. he will have courage enough to
stick to that text, and not drift with
the spenders. We need an executive
who will coordinate in favor of econ
omy, For taxes to grow is the easiest
thing in the world Nowadays it takes
a big executive to keep whiting them
down. Even President Wilson, after
all his talk about such subjects, has
been letting congress increase rather
than decrease public expenditures,
much of it going into pork barrels.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: A man
should congratulate himself when
people begin to throw brickbats ana
swing clubs at him. Did you ever see
gang of boys throw sticks into an
empty apple tree? Not much! They
attack a tree that'sSloaded with fruit.
Des Moines Tribune: We shall never
have weed cleaning nor road repairing
by periodical popular impulse. What
is Needed in Iowa is enforcement OF
the weed law. One or two fines prop
erly applied would bring matters to
focus.
Waterloo Courier: Church people in
New Jersey are going to make the vii
re OF Little He'll change it's naughty
name. There are still few wicked
places in the world to give people their
chance for saying 1t In polite society.
What shall we do with STAINLESS Rot
terdam, DEVILS Lake, He'll Gate, Hell
lespont and worst of all, that Hellovo
mountain range in Greece?
Sioux City Tribune: Winona Park,
Ind, the largest chautauqua in the
middle west. has gone into the hands
of a receiver. Unless congress ad-
iourns and releases some of the fam
GUS spell binders, not to mention few
cabinet officers whose appearance on
chautauqua program mean large gate
receipts other chautauqua associa-
tions may be embarrassed.
Cedar Rapids Republican, The state
convention in Des Moines yesterday
return to republicanism.
The keynote speech of the temporary
chairman. Mr.. Still1lan, was In, good
temper, as affecting republican inter
nal differences, and it was sound In It's
attitude toward the great national
questions before the people.
In Iowa, at least, it is safe to say,
the republican party has come unto It,
self again. And Iowa can make itself
a leader in the return to republicanism
the nation over. The principles of
the party are so broad and so patriotic,
50 in keeping with the spirit of the
times and SO fitted to the needs of the
country that there can be no resisting
them in the coming elections.
Davenport Times: President Wilson
declares that the men who are re-
manning on the Job in Washington this
hot weather to carry out certain leg
islative program are patriotic men, and
there are many other men who hold
none will question that statement. But
that the members of congress could
just as we'll show their patriotism by
going home and giving the country a
rest. The dispute is not over whether
members Of congress are patriotic, but
over how the members OF congress
could best give evidence of unselfish
patriotism. The president insists, not
needed at this time as because the