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


after all the bosses except himself.
This was the sum and substance of his
talk, and with that the inconsolable
: Teddy" sat down and felt that Pitts.
burgh had been honored by his pres
ence and the country as whole bene.
flied by his utterances.
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: The
city council of Sioux City is going to
establish silence zones to take in two
blocks square in the vicinity of each
hospital. One observation this will
provoke is that there would be less
need Of hospitals if every zone was a
silence zone.
Clinton Herald: Those who want to
see the primary law wiped out will do
well to remember that the wiping out
will have to be done by 1913 men who
obtained their Office through the afore-
said primary. 1t will be moderately
difficult job to convince them that
different system is necessary.
Colfax Clipper: The primary was
originated for the sole purpose Of
wrecking the party and making it ut
terly impossible for a poor man, or q
man of moderate means, to make a
successful campaign for any otnce
worth having, and the sooner voters
came to realize it the better it will be
for the county, the district, the state
and the nation.
Kansas City Journal: The aviator
who is undertaking to fly across the
Atlantic is reaping good deal of no.
toriety, chiefly for the reason that he
will never reap again probably.
Des Moines Capital: 1t is rumored
that split is liable to occur among
some of those Mexican factions. That
would indeed be sad and might nee
essitate the organization of another
mediation get-to-gether board.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
The average government salary in
Washington is $1O79 and the average
for the whole country is $94S. Hardly
worth energy expended in breaking in.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: That
London doctors injunction to Roose-
welt not to talk didn't count for much
when placed alongside Bryan's pro-
posal to pay Colombia twenty-five mil
lion dollars and offer an apology be-
sides for things Roosevelt did in the
Panama case when he was president
Clinton Herald: One thing that is
the matter with the railroads is the
number of automobiles owned in the
United States. One family out OF
every seven in Iowa owns an auto.
They are the wealthiest people, in
general, and consequently do the most
travelling. 1t is undoubtedly true that
the automobile costs the railroad twen-
ty per cent of it's former passenger
traffic, during the good weather
months. This may help account for
the financial stringency.
American Review of Reviews: It
would seem a lavish grant of money to
pay Colombia $25,0O0,0O0; for no man
can argue ingeniously enough to make
the punishment At the crime. But the
mistake of giving Colombia this large
sum of money Is nothing at all COM
pared with the astounding short
sightedness of involving future genera
TONS The special privileges accord
ed to Colombia would sooner or later
make serious trouble and would al
most certainly lead to war. For it
would be held that these rights per-
tanned to the people and territory Of
Colombia regardless of future political
control. And if Great Britain or Ger
many should acquire control of Colon
bia we would-for pure sentimentality
and without rhyme or reason-have
given away to great foreign empire
certain rights in the canal superior to
those of our own people. If that coun-
try had any resources it could well
have afforded to pay $200,000,O0O In
consideration of the perpetual rights
we have conferred. The very fact of
our abandoning the Nicaragua route
and going to Panama has of itself
placed Colombia under perpetual obli-
CATION to us. All the apologies are due
in the opposite direction. Colombia's
bad faith was due to her. deplorable
and corrupt political conditions in
that period, and the separation of Pan
anna was the right and necessary
sequel.
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