Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-26

al is neutral and the guns are to pro-
tect that neutrality, not to make war
on any one.
Clinton Herald: Uniforms of gold
and glitter were not invented to glori-
fly the art Of war, but to give men an
opportunity to display more vanity
than they charge women with posses
sing.
Mt. Vernon Hawkeye: A Williams
burg paper tells of farmer near
there who got $5737S worth of clover
seed from eighteen acres and hauled
it to town in one load. That's going
some on an Iowa farm, isn't it?
Boone News Republican,: Without
reference to politics, religion or fac
tionalism, the residents of Iowa are
uniting in congratulating Col. David
J.. Palmer on the we'll deserved honor
he has brought to this state by being
elected "a commander in chief of the
national Grand Army of the Republic.
Sioux City Tribune: Australia has
way of stopping the high cost OF
living if it gets higher than the natur-
al market conditions warrant. 1t
seizes all articles of commerce that
are being held from the market in
order to force an advance in their
prices, pays the owner a reasonable
price for the same and then sells them
to the public at just what the govern
ment paid for them. One hundred and
forty thousand bags of wheat were
seized and sold last week under this
law.
Waterloo Courier: 1--WE fight every
day from five in the morning till
eight at night without eating or drink
ing. We get so tired we can
not ride a horse even at walk. To
ward noon our battery was literally
under rain of shrapnel shells that
lasted for three days. We hope for
decisive battle to end the situation,
for our troops cannot rest"
This is the side of the man who
does the fighting and receives bullets
in his body. His heroism is too little
appreciated in this war because his
business is too much cursed.
Des Moines Capital: II tax should
be levied on-some OF the superfiuous
congressional speeches 1t would be
a long way toward settling the en-
barrassing revenue problem now con-
fronting the esteemed democratic
administration.
Burlington Hawkeye: 1t is impos-
sible, in the course of Providence,
that the tremendous sacrifices now
being made by the peoples of many
countries shall not bear some fruit
age for the benefit of mankind. Out
of the boiling caldron of war must
arise freer peoples, better government
and greater love and guarantees of
peace and fraternity.
Glidden Graphic: Look for a dry
Des Moines after Billy Sunday gets
through with 1t in November The
evangelist is now busy reforming
Denver-think of it-Denver-and
that his popularity is not a bit on the
wane is shown by the fact that some
10000 people tried to get into the
tabernacle that only holds 10000. The
anti-saloon interests made a fine
stroke of genius when they secured
Sunday for a meeting in Des Moines.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Mr.. Con-
molly is not going to be able to intro
duce President Wilson to an Iowa
audience this fall but he assures the
voters of the state that Mr.. Wilson
is going to be grievously disappointed
if he Connolly is not elected. 1t is
too bad to grieve the president in a
matter of this kind but inasmuch as
there is no other method by which
the valuable services Of Senator Cum
minis can be retained for the state of
Iowa and the whole country, it will
have to be done. Mr.. Wilson might
as well prepare for the inevitable.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
"atrocities" are now being piled up on
all Sides They are all accusing the
others. Some of us get a little tired
reading about them. Of course, there
are atrocities. The whole war, and
all war, is damnable atrocity. To
cut off some civilians ears for some
misbehavior is, after all, no worse
than dropping a nitro-glycerine bomb
among group Of soldiers and shred