Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

CeuCS d uuonSl dAu CAO SOAsuAnCA
pays 81 to $3.50 for them, as hap
pened last year. 1t is now up to
the democratic party to regulate
these things. They have been telling
how it could be done for years and
they are soon to have the opportun-
ity. But they are warned not to re-
duce the price of the things the peo-
pie have to sell. Let 'em cut on the
things we must buy. Then every
body will be happy.
The fifty thousand votes cast for
Judge Stevens for governor in the
recent election represents the num-
Der of Iowa republicans who were
favorable to third party move
ment. The other one hundred thous-
and who voted for Roosevelt repre-
sents the colonel's personal follow
ing and those who wished to rebuke
the theft of presidential nomina-
ton. If the republican party does
as it should these 100000 republi-
cans will be back in the fold. Other
wise they will remain loyal to the
colonel.
ANY tariff legislation that can get
past the yreactionary democrats in
the senate is not apt to send the
country to a free trade basis on
tobaggon slide. The reactionaries-
whether republicans or democrats
know what they are in the senate
for. It is all right to talk about
tariff reform before election, but II
is quite different proposition to en-
force it after the goods have been
delivered. Were it not for the un-
certainties in tariff legislation the
country has nothing to fear from
what the democrats will really do
They dare not enact a purely rev.
enue tariff. They know that would
mean another twenty years without
jobs.
According to a Pittsburgh dis
patch, VIM. Finn, the Pennsylvania
political leader who was SO active IN
the interest of Roosevelt during the
primary campaign and who later
was one of the enthusiastic follow.
ers of the colonel in the organiza
ton of the progressive party, an
| nounces that he will return to the
| republican camp. He proposes tc
take possession of the wing OF the
republican party in Pennsylvania
that overthrow Penrose. If 1t be
true that Mr.. Finn is to return tt
the republican party such Iowa pa.
| pers as the Des Moines Capital
Sioux City Journal apd Dubuque
Times Journal will probably look al
him through more charitable spec.
| tacles.
There is altogether too much
sympathy expressed for the poor
democrats who have not been at the
pie counter for sixteen years. AS a
matter OF fact there are more repub.
licans in the country who never held
Office than there are democrats. In
119O4, according. to election returns
| there were two and half million
! more republicans than democrats
and in 1908 there were one and a
quarter millions more. AS there are
only a few hundred thousand offices
within the gift of the administra-
ton, including postofices of all
classes, it is apparent that fewer
democrats are suffering from hunger
| for Office than there are republicans,
granting, OF course, that politics is
no respector of appetities.
Some one got of a Joke" in
Ames the other night that was no
joke at all. Such things might lead
to serious consequences and should
be condemned. A straw man was
placed in the street, lying prone up
on the ground, put there to fool
some automobile drivers. 1t worked
all right and two young men were
scared half to death by it. They