Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-31
drained is very satisfactory and is
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comparatively cheap where gravel is
easily procured.
W. R. Hearst testified before the
senate campaign investigating COM
mittee the other day that he pro-
cured the famous John D. Archbold
Standard Oil letters from John Eddy
of London. He said he did not know
where Eddy secured them. No mat
ter how they got into the possession
of Mr.. Eddy, they have certainly
been of great value to the people of
this country, as they have proven
conclusively that Senator Bever-
idge's invisible government" is no
myth and that Standard Oil is the
spoke of that government. 1t ought
! to be crime, punishable by death,
for the president of big corpora
ton to influence legislation and the
administration of law as Archbold
sought to influence them. Imagina-
ton would not have to be stretch
ed far to make such conduct treason.
President-elect Wilson may be the
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victim himself He says any man
who brings about panic will have
a gibbet higher than Hamen's. If
the democratic party does to the
tariff what it says it will do there
will be "panic" and the man who
will suffer most from that panic is
the president-elect himself. But the
Freeman Tribune doesn't expect a
|siege with hard times. 1t has too
much confidence in the hypocrisy
and cowardice of the democratic
party. The party dare not enact a
tariff for revenue only. The leaders
l know, regardless Of their pretense OF
| favoring such a policy, that it would
bring business disaster and wide
spread financial ruin. Mr.. Wilson S
threat to hang "panic breeders will
have no effect whatever if the demo-
cratic party pursues a course that is
bound to bring a panic.
President Taft has been offered
the, Kent professorship at the Yale
law school-a position that would
pay him salary Of $4,000 a year.
This is not so much, perhaps as he
can make at the practice of law, but
the position is more becoming the
dignity the public is inclined to at
tach to a retired president of the
United States and it is believed that
Mr.. Taft may accept it.--Sac Sun.
| There is nothing more dignified
than honest toll. If Mr.. Taft chose
to make his living by the practice OF
the law, by farming, by merchandise
ing, by manufacturing or by any
other legitimate business or work he
would sustain the dignity of an ex-
president just as surely as he can dc
it in a professorship at Yale. 1t is
the mans own character and attain
ments that make for dignity, and
not his occupation. Presidential
dignity is being overworked In this
country.
Progressives in congress who pro-
pose "to leave it to the people" SO
far as the selection of postmasters
are concerned, have put the demo-
Gratis in the sweat box. Democrats
love to talk about the "rule Of the
people, DuL ~ ID ulucIcAt Wucu
they have power to take the Offices
regardless of the wishes Of the pop
ulace. According to custom ITO the
victors belong the spoils," and this
is q custom that is very popular in
democratic circles at this particular
time. II the people can elect their
own postmasters they will be apt to
select republicans in republican COM
munities and that is not the sort of
"let the people rule" theory in
which the democrats believe. It will
be time enough, according to the
democratic view, to elect postmas-
ters after the democratic party has
lost the presidency. That will also
be the psychological moment to ex-