Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-08-08

lowed the KassOn tn ,,sa l.
into ''innocuous des thies ~
dealing further with my neo;al |
knowledge of this subject p e esa re-
member that my mind nct
broadened and deepened and -
ucation obtained by licking stage
stamps and looking through the
general delivery window of the
postoffice in small town.
Your advice as to selling Hamii-
ton county land and buying Canada
land is bad, yet many will no doubt
take it only to repent when this
unjust treaty is wiped from the
statute books as it will be as soon
as the grand old republican party is
returned to power as 1t is sure to be
after we have a full dose of free
trade now in sight.
AS to my shrewdness in deals
and dollars / must admit that do
my own thinking along these lines
and when I get my next dividend
from the Freeman-Tribune stock I
may consider Canadian investments.
You see do not control a "soulless
corporation" with the right to fix
my own salary and absorb its earn
ings which 1t is expected can be
further increased by free admissions
under the reciprocity treaty. How
ever, it may turn out to be a bless
ing in disguise to the minority
stockholders. Who knows?
J. L. Kamrar.
The Freeman-Tribune is not only
surprised, it is shocked, at this dis
play of temper on the part Of Sena-
tor Kamrar, gentleman usually Of
moderation, even poise, genteel
manners and refined conversational
qualities. This paper disclaims all
intention of trying to belittle the
senator. or of questioning his
knowledge and mastery of the prob
lens that so often battle lesser
lights. 1t was merely pointing. to a
few things that he had forgotten for
the moment, not presuming that he
did not know. He had evidently
forgotten that President Mckinley
had recommended the ratification of
the Kasson agreements when he
transmitted them to the senate, else
he would not have made the state
ment that the president permitted
them to die because they were not
worth saving.
The Freeman-Tribune has not
presumed to define the attitude eth
er Blaine or Mckinley would take
in regard to the reciprocity agree
ment urged by President Taft. 1t
has no way of knowing what they
would think of it. Both gentlemen
favored, as everybody knows, reci-
procity when in their judgment
lust agreements could be arranged.
Mckinley said in his last address in
Buffalo that the day of exclusiveness
had passed. and that If we had tar
ifs no longer needed for protection,
they might be used to increase our
markets abroad. Whether or not
Mckinley would now believe the
tariff upon farm products is
needed longer no one knows OF
course it is easy to assume what he
would believe, and Mr.. Kamrar can
do that if he so desires.
In speaking of the futility of try
ing to establish the real attitude OF
public men by quoting only short
and disconnected paragraphs from
their writings and addresses, re-
CARELESS to times and occasions, the
Register and Leader of recent date
we'll says:
Mr.. Cousins gave the state an il
Illustration of what may be done by
this method of Interpretation in his
quotations from the speeches Of Sem
ator Dolliver. Probably nobody In
the audience failed to understand
the course Dolliver had pursued
with regard to the tariff. And yet
Mr.. Cousins succeeded in making q
record that, taken by itself, would
nut the senator in wholly wrong
light.
There has never been a more
heated dispute in our politics than
over what Blaine meant by reciproc-
ity, Blaine had been the champion
Inn a