Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-02
Press Comment

Press Comment
Council Bluffs iIonpareil: by and by
1t may occur to some of the govern
mcnt officials In England VINO have 10
deal with the suffragettes that mice
would be an effective protection to
their ancient buildings.
Marshalltown Times-RepubliCan
Iowa just now Is the "oasis of the
United States" as a business man re-
Gently from the Pacific coast expressed
1t. She has had all the rain she needs
has the finest prospect for crops pos
sible, Is buying stuff of all kinds and
paying for It, About all that Iowa
lacks is more good roads and more
school consolidation. And these are
just around the corner hurrying.
Kansas City journal: President Will
son confesses that he was not a sue.
cess as lawyer. He made his ex-
pertinent as a private citizen, and the
burden of failure fell on himself alone.
He is testing his ability as business
man in the presidential office, and the
whole country is paying the penalty
of his unfitness.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
j. B. Smith of Garner. is after Game
Warden Hinshaw with sharp stick
advising him that he could be of more
use to game protection elsewhere than
at claybird tournament at Mason
City. f3..1t S7
O.
Des Moines Daily Capital: The
Iowa democrats are now thinking up
all kinds of honors to bestow npon
Mr.. Meredith. They feel that his
assistance" will be needed in the
coming campaign.
Des Moines Tribune: When Presi-
dent Wilson expresses confidence that
the mediators will restore peace, some
folks can't help remembering that he
was absolutely certain some time back
that his party would reduce the cost
of living.
Rock Island Argus: Nobody was
surprised when Colonel Roosevelt an.
nounced on his arrival from Europe
that he will continue to stand by Per
kins, despite the attack that has been
made upon him by Amos Pinchot and
other leaders In the progressive party.
Here is simply case of one good turn
deserving another.
Clinton Herald: Iowa is getting cred
it for having a model ''red light" law
that has been adopted elsewhere and
is likely to become the standard regu-
- Sou n,,t
in Iowa the law is non-operative, for it
has been declared unconstitutional ow-
ing to technical fault in its passage
by the legislature. Will Iowa be the
las. state to regulate vice by the Iowa
plan?
Castana Times: Republican papers
are claiming it Is doubtful if Iowa will
have single democrat in the next
delegation to congress. Perhaps they
are right. Iowa democrats seem to be
getting ready for the biennial family
quarrel. They are great bunch when
the shedding is hard, but once on
smooth road they take to batting each
other over the ears-just in fun-and
1t usually ends in q fight.
Cedar Rapids Republican: That
$25,O00,00O gift to Colombia, with an
apology, is not growing more popular
in this country. No senate will dare
to ratify this treaty, even at the be-
hest of an all powerful president and
secretary of state. The United
States has not yet reached the point
of making apologies for what it has
done on the isthmus.
Sioux City Tribune: II anyone
thinks court composed of British
barristers, headed by one of the
British nobility, who OBLIGATED at the
whitewashing of the Titanic disaster,
is going to fix the blame, even in
part, of the st. Lawrence disaster on
the vessel owned by the Canadian
Pacific railroad and exonerate the lit
tie Norwegian collier, he should watch
the papers for the verdict.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: President
Wilson promises a great business re-
vival if congress will now accept his
trust remedies. He cannot, 1t ap-
pears, guarantee complete cure un-
less the patient will take the whole
prescribed course. There Is some re.
sentiment on the part of congress to
this drastic treatment, but there are
surface indications that the president
will have his way-insofar as the leg
islation he desires is concerned. The
results which will follow are not quite
so certain.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: There needs
to be general shaking up in Iowa con-
corning the law forbidding the carry
ing Of concealed weapons. 1t is good
law and peace officers ought to give
more attention to it's enforcement.
Judge Snyder of Council Bluffs re-
Gently sent four men to the county jail
for the offense and took occasion to
declare, that while the theory of the
law making it felony to be caught
with a gun in your pocket may be all
right, in actual practice he has found
that the ordinary peaceful citizen who
NAV have heen carving a gun in the