Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-26

amounts TO nOCQlnS. WQen TIE ClIue
comes that we must import our
wheat supply the tariff will aid ma
terially in keeping up prices here at
home
The senators from Louisiana will
see to it that the high cost of living
is not reduced by the abolition of
the tariff on sugar. Louisianians
are great tariff reformers. They
want free wheat, free corn, free
barley, etc, but not free sugar. Oh,
no. Louisiana raises too much sugar
to believe in any such foolishness as
putting sugar on the free list.
Spreckels knew what he was doing
when he took the lead in the forma-
ton of that Wilson republican club.
If the discussion Of the Shankland
bill shall arouse the people of the
state to the point of desiring to vote
again upon the proposition of state
wide prohibition the liquor inter-
ests shall have accomplished some
thing Gin the interest of true temp
erance." If the people of the entire
state of Iowa ever again get whack
at the saloon, from the silent recess
ses of the voting booth, there will
not be enough left of that damnable
institution to make a respectable
funeral. .a.
The Eagle Grove Eagle is one of
the standpat papers of Iowa that
has frequently said progressive re-
publicans, so-called, were in favor of
| free trade, but it now warns Presi-
dent Elect Wilson against the con-
clusion that this country favors a
purely revenue tariff simply because
he was elected president. 1t points
to the fact that the vote of Roose-
Welt and Taft greatly exceeded that
accorded Mr.. Wilson, hence it is ev-
ident that the country is still
strongly for protection. The Eagle
is right, but it was wrong when it
charged progressives with being OPP
posed to the principle of protection.
Aguinaldo, the famous Filipino
insurrectionary leader of 1889,
has been heard from after long 81
lence. He expresses gratitude over
the democratic victory, and, OF
course, will begin an agitation for
Filipino ndependence.-Burl
Hawk-Eye.
| But it was before election that
the democratic party favored indie
pendence for the Philippines. The
| proposition is, now a condition in
stead of a theory and that makes all
the difference in the world-to DEM
ocrats. They favored one term for
the president prior to November
| fifth, but the next morning they
were explaining that they did not
mean tin the case of Mr.. Wilson.
.rhe Des Moines Capital, with it,
usual gusto and unreliability, comes
out in fiaring headlines for woman
SUFFRAGE and declares it is the first
daily paper in the state to favor the
universal ballot. The Freeman-Trib-
une has been in favor of giving the
women the ballot for years and has
often said so and there are doubt
less other dailies in the state en-
titled to credit for the same thing.
But it remains for the Capital, the
braggart, to follow in the wake of
others and declare it is the leader.
However, the Capital, will probably
have real scoop in few days. 1t
will probably be able to announce
that it stuck to woman suffrage for
three days without turning turtle.
1t will be remembered that the Cap
ital declared for the Oregon plan
once upon a time and in less than a
week it was fighting that plan with
all it's energy.
Roosevelt is terribly mortified
that Notwithstanding in two states
no vote could be cast for Taft, Cali
fornia and South Dakota, his popu-