Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-06
Press Comment,

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Manson Journal: 1t Is admitted that
Iowa is suffering from too many laws.
How would it be to petition the legis-
lature to repeal all laws and enact the
ten commandments?
Davenport Times: There has not
been much said about the Colorado
mine strike since the United States
troops went into the field to maintain
peace but the strike Is no nearer set
Element than 1t was at the beginning.
Burlington Hawkeye: Senator
Cummins has presented his tariff
views in so many ways that every
body ought to be able to pick out some
thing that suits his taste.
Mason City Globe Gazette: Unless
things have changed considerably
from former years, lot of people in
Iowa will help the republicans select
their candidates in the primaries to-
day and will help defeat them in the
election next fall.
Kansas City Journal: 1t Is intimat.
ed that Colonel Roosevelt might accept
the republican nomination in 1916.
Possibly Mr.. Bryan would accept 1t.
also, or Champ Clark or Eugene Debs.
But the republican nominee in 1916
will be a man whom the republicans
of the country can support without sac
rificing their principles or their self
respect
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle has come to America
with his wife to spend several months
in this country. He has undoubtedly
been attracted here by the wonderful
CT work of Sleuth Burns.
Kansas City Journal: An optimist
is one who refuses to bother his mind
with disagreeable subjects. Governor
Hodges is an optimist. The offer OF
the republican state committee to for
felt 800 if it fails to show that the
Hodges administration is guilty OF
gross extravaganza and incompetency
doesn't interest the governor mo-
ment. But isn't the wheat crop lovely?
Upton Advertiser: A big eastern
automobile factory let out 5000 work.
men the other day on account of the
business depression in many places
which has led to decreased buying OF
cars. There are only few states
like Iowa which 60 right on never no
ticing these little financial distur-
Dances. The secretary of state Is au-
thority for the statement that Iowa
bought an average of 400 new cars ev-
erv dav during this month,
Clinton Herald: At the opening OF
the next primary campaign the news
papers of Iowa should furnish every
candidate with rate card, and suggest
that they spend in advertising an
amount equal to the postage on the
letters which are dumped into the
waste basket every day. AS most of
the letters come under special de-
livery stamp, the advertising appro-
priation would be large.
Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t must
be confessed we have not had great
primary campaign, for there are not
many great men concerned In 1t, and
the average voter of all the parties
has remained almost entirely indiner-
ent. There have been no rousing meet
ings. Apathy has marked the contests.
The people, it seems, do not care much
what the results may be. 1t is the spir-
it of contempt for politics and for the
primary as part of our present political
system.
Clinton Advertiser: In tho baseball
diamond he is "bonehead" in the
yU
has an infinite body Of resources for
resisting the introduction OF know
,edge." The new definition lies be-
tween President Wilson and a Yale
professor, each modestly disclaiming
the discovery.
Clinton Herald: The easiest kind
of defense for murder Is for the &C
cused to claim that his mind was
blank at the time of the deed and for
some time afterward. All he has to
do is to stick to his story and remem-
Der nothing of his actions. 1t would
be well for juries to consider that q
man who lets his mind go blank and
has disposition to murder while IN
that condition Is better off behind
prison bars. He should be penned up
for the protection OF society.
Waterloo Couried: With all the
brilliant devices to safeguard life at
sea, with miraculous instrument tick
ing through space, regardless of dis
lance, on the wings Of nothing, and
with the conquering of the storm king,
maritime man Is still helpless IN the
thick Of fog. Human wizzardry can
span thousand miles with the click
of q key. It cannot discern an object
through fog more than two hundred
feet
Here, indeed, is problem for an IN
ventor. An instrument which could
extend the vision OF the eye for Few
hundred feet more, or else, by some
magnetic process, register the pres
ence of an object at q certain distance
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