Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-27
Press Comment

Press Comment
Mason City Globe-Gazette: e. good
many young men think the world owes
them living, but they forget that II
takes work to collect what is coming
to one.
Waterloo Reporter: Just now there
seems to be two classes of men in this
c0untry-those worrying about their
their income tax.
Boone News Republican,: Fear is
expressed that the farmers will not
want to go to the polls in the second
district because it is mid-winter. II
, the farmers haven't time to vote now
when will they have?
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: Mr.
Bryans answer to Representative
Bartholdts declaration that there is
more alcohol, in grape juice than in
beer, is complete. If there were, he
said, Mr.. Bartholdt would drink grape
juice.
Burlington Gazette, A tragic an
amoly is afforded in the news dis
patches in the suicide of the business
efficiency expert because he met with
financial reverses. He could make a
success of everybody else's business
but his own.
Rapids, City Journal: While ordin
airy Indian corn is selling around &c
cents bushel popcorn raised in Mis-
souri, commands SO. A farmer neal
Breckenridge in the state named has
made cultivation of this crop so profit
able that he proposes to double his
acreage next year If everybody now
raising popcorn should do this, OF
course, it would not be so high. Still
at even half the present price it would
be high enough.
| Muscatine Journal: The democrats
have finally aroused even the president
by their raids on the civil service. The
president has expressed his emphatic
disapproval of the rider in the post.
office bill which would exempt 1000
assistant postmasters from the civil
service. It's getting to be pretty hard
to picture those hungry democratic
politicians, crowding up to the pie
counter as representing a progressive
political organization. The Conserva.
tive, reactionary, tory party Of the flu.
ture is slowly but surely taking form
| Cedar Rapids Republican: Senator
Kenyon has been quoting Railroad
Commissioner Thorne of this state as
an authority in finances. Both are
good fellows. but both seem to be a
little visionary. Mr.. 1horne is an ex.
cellent speech maker and something
| of dreamer. AS an authority in fin.
ances he has never ranked very high
But Senator Kenyon has sort of i'm,
pulsive idealism which is creditable to
his heart qualities, whatever some of
his critics may think of it.
Des Moines Capital: AS long as
those Iowa federal appointments con-
tinue to hang fire present republican
Office holders will be, under the pain
full necessity Of drawing the 1a.aries.
| st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Sending
out British warships to capture Mrs.
Pankhurst, and calling out the Colo
RADIO militia to drive off Mother Jones.
gives added force and meaning to the
Kipling line that 1.-The female of the
species is deadlier than the male
Waterloo Courier: Representative
Ben Johnson Of Kentucky never will
be returned to congress by his present
constituency. The idea Of Kentucky
congressman appearing in the national
legislative halls without his gun! The
| idea.
Cincinnati Enquirer: The men who
spend all their time reading the bible
will be surprised when they get to
heaven to find that the men who a.
ways paid thir grocery bills are &C.
cupying reserved seats in front.
Burlington Gazette: Now comes Mrs.
Robert Goelet Of New York and asks
for divorce from her husband, who
is worth $35,000,000. 1t seems that
money isn't everything.
Kansas City Journal: The Japanese
Iseem to lack sympathetic impulses In
the midst Of their own calamitious af.
flictions they fficially find fault with
California which is suffering from
sporadic eruptions Of Hiram Johnson
Fremont Tribune: The democratic
is entitled to great
credit for this magnificent weather.
Even under President Mckinley, the
advance agent Of prosperity, we had
no finer winters than this. Perhaps
lit is because hot air is on the free list.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: The ques-
ton of capitol extension in Des
Moines cannot very well be made a
party issue. since a majority of the
democrats in the last legislature voted
for extension. In the house, we be-
lieve. the vote Of the democratic mem.
bers was 81 for and only 20 against.
The democrats are as much RESPONSE.