Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-08-29
Press Comment

Press Comment
| Clinton Herald: What is a rule Of
| warfare. between nations? And what
is noncombatant, between armies?
Waterloo Courier: Canada knows
now to give her mother country bet
ter prize than battleships. She sent
over 100000 bags of flour as war
contribution
Clinton Advertiser: Gullible Ameri.
! cans should be warned betimes against
smooth-tongued promoters who may
offer to sell stock in those floating
mines In the North sea.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: If the Des
Moines papers are now assured that
somebody was kidding" them when
suggestion was made that the state
fair be passed around, it may be well
to start talking about the holdup prices
expected at fair time--just to keep
things moving.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Connolly never has had ghost Of a
show to win the senatorship. The COM
parison between him and SCummins
us too great. Moreover, this is a re-
publican year President Wilson'S
popularity in Iowa is personal and
does not extend to the party of which
! ne and such as he are the main justi.
! ication for its existence.
Burlington Gazette: The following
from the Quincy Herald might prove a
| fair fit for Burlington:
IF Quincy does not want baseball
there is no use to try to force it down
ner throat. A few years with Quincy
| in the backwoods league will perhaps
give the citizens good lesson and
Imake them appreciate what valuable
| advertising asset good baseball team
is" 81 III +
g. - GS.- ~ p
! Springfield News-The coming of
Bryan and Roosevelt into this state
to take hand in the political cam
paign seems to be arousing no interest
| whatever. Everybody seems to think
| that the secretary of state ought to
remain at his post during these critical
times, to give what assistance he can
problems that are arising daily, and as
| for listening to homilies from Roose-
welt, at this particular time, the pros
pect doesn't seem very inviting.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: There Is q
quiet movement on in congress, which
the country ought to watch. A raid is
being organized in the United States
| treasury to obtain millions of dollars
of civil war claims in the south and to
facilitate 1T it is proposed it shall not
be necessary to prove the loyalty OF
the claimant to the government during
the war. 1t is dangerous innovation
to oppose which is not waving 1.-The
bloody shirt" of the rebellion once
| more; it is merely patriotic prudence
against movement which If success
full will swamp the treasury with a
vast amount of illigitimate war claims
Waterloo Courier: A New York
banker makes the assertion that the
United States could become the banker
nation of the world within the next two
years If everybody would save $50 q
year. This would mean an aggregate
of $4,500,000,000 for each year. The
same amount saved by only one in four
persons would total s9O0,000,ooO.
But there are two kinds of people
who do not save money. Those who
have nothing to save and whose hun
ger keeps slightly in advance of their
income, and those who can save but
spend their surplus on luxuries, style
and ostentation. To the former, thrift
propaganda at this time is almost an
insult. To the latter the request to
economic should be welcome for their
own immediate good as well as for the
benefit of the nation. Misspent money
means moral as well as financial
loss.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Europe has
recently developed one great com
mander-a youth who appears to rise
above Napoleon and wellington in the
field in which he operates-one who
might or might not properly control
vast army but one who certainly has
made a comparatively small force a
prodigious factor-Crown Prince Alex.
ander of Servia.
Virtually the leader Of the Balkan
allies in the victory over Turkey, tri-
umphant over the nerce Buigars 1Ol-
lowing that war, he has now beaten
back superior force of Austrians who
were supported by a great fleet Of gun
boats and monitors while Alexander
fought wholly on land. The Austrians
were unable to even take Belgrade,
which is hardly fortified. They at no
time penetrated near the Servian
strongholds. Alexander overwhelmed
them on the Drina, trapped and slaugh-
tered them like sheep in corral. Now
he appears to have raised Bosnia in
revolt and with Bosnia will go Herr
govina and no doubt Croatia and Dial.
: malta. He has begun an invasion of
Austria, pressing hard on the rear of
Franz Josef's retreating soldiers, who
, are no doubt marching to defend
Vienna and Budapest from the Rus
slams. Tyrol is left open to attack and
a way is opened toward Bohemia by
this intrepid young Slav.
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