Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-20

| Dubuque Times-Journal: Judge Nc
Claim, upon his return from California,
declared Iowa the garden spot of the
world, and limited that former Iowans
now in the west would be better off
here. This is the kind of judicial re-
call we can indorse.
| Davenport Times The United
States government will now watch
carefully what the Turks do to the
Suez canal We may have similar
matter of interest to consider some
time in the future.
La Crosse Tribune: While that is not
part Of the Monroe doctrine, the pow
ers of Europe looks to us to inculcate
In American states proper manners to-
ward the nations. His forgetfulness
may take Carranza to Huerta's destina-
tion by slightly different route.
SPANS appeal to the powers to remind
Uncle Sam of his star and billy prob
ably finds our Atlantic neighbors too
busy to NEEDLE with Latin-American
housekeeping; nevertheless the Carran-
"a exodus Is in prospect.
! Burlington Hawk-Eye: The insist
/ ence of the president that the present
congress must pass the ship purchase
bill indicates that he is not 80 sure
of the next congress if he calls an
extra session to pass the measure. The
democratic majority is materially re-
duced in the next house.
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that Spain has called upon the powers
to take some steps to end reign Of
anarchy in Mexico is true, it is inter-
esting, but not particularly important.
The nations most interested in Mexico
aside from the United States and with
the possible exception of Spain, are
engaged in other and bigger business.
The world appears to have accepted
the point of view of the United States
that so long as a reasonably decent re-
spect for foreigners Is maintained, the
factions will be allowed to fight it out.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: A fellow who
claimed to be Ed. Moore, was arrested
at Sioux City. He was hiring tele-
phone linemen for the Milwaukee rail-
road and charging the lucky men $3.50
each for the job. The courts ought to
get busy on that fellow and the Mil
warkee road ought to see to 1t that he
gets what he ought to have. There Is
many a man who "goes over the road"
for twenty years who is gentleman
and an innocent victim of circum.
stances, beside this meanest OF all
crooks-the cur who robs honest work
ers of their last dollar at time when
work is not to be found. The worst
that the court can give this crook will
be much less than he deserves.
Muscatine Journal Second district
democrats who are hoping and attempt
! ing to make party capital with the
"wet" element out of the probable re-
peal of the mulct law should remember
three things.
First, that the bill to repeal the
mulct law was introduced by Senator
Clarksop, democrat.
Second, that the shift of Senator
Voorhees,, democrat, to the dry side
is credited with making possible the
passage of the repeal bill in the SEN
ate. Had not the passage of the bill
been made certain by Voorhees, change
Of attitude, several other votes would
have been cast against 1t.
Third, that eleven of the nay votes
against the repeal in the senate were
cast by republicans and eleven by dem.
ocrats.
Democrats and republicans may
share equally. the credit for making
Iowa dry state, If that result even
tuates.
Springfield, Mass, Republican: 1t
is an unconscious tribute to German
generalship that reports from widely
distant fields should be alike in giving
the impression that the Germans were
present in superior force. Yet the
strength Of the allies has been suppos-
ed to be in their superiority of num-
bers AS matter of fact, that super
iority is less than is commonly i'm
agined, and there is some reason for
crediting the German critics who put
the ratio at not higher than five to
four, which is too little to Offset the
interior lines and more rapid trans
{, portation of the Teutonic alliance.
No other nation has been able to de-
velop its potential resources so fully
as Germany. At the outbreak OF the
war it's strength was generally COM
puted at 100000 men, for few looked
ahead to war in which the unframed
| would be turned into soldiers. But the
military correspondent of the London
Times lately calculated that almost
100000 had been called to the colors,
which, If 100000 have been lost,
would leave nearly 100000 in arms
| now or within few months, and these
figures would help to, explain the won
derful showing which Germany has
been making on two fronts, with
enough men left to send an army to
help Austria. Yet it is of even more
consequence that the general staff has
been carrying out Bernhardi's hopeful
dictum that "The commander who can
carry out all operations quicker than
! the enemy. and can concentrate and