Webster City freeman., 1913-11-18

Senator O'GOrman or New 1Ork
has been insurging on the admins
tration's currency policy, but it is re-
ported that he has "come across"
and is now supporting the presi-
dents plans. A strange coincidence
is the announcement that the sena-
tors son-in-law has been appointed
collector of the port OF New York by
the president. One incident might
not have any connection with the
other, but when such things happen
ed under republican administrations
democrats were very suspicious.
Thirty millions of pounds of beef
were imported the first month under
the new tariff, which put beef on the
free list. Yet in spite of this i'm
mense addition to the market the
price of beef in the east did not ma
terially change, although an upward
tendency prevailed. The tariff was
taken from meat for the purpose of
aiding in the reduction of the high
cost of living, but up to this time it
has not had that effect. Who was
paying the tariff on beef before beef
was transferred to the free list?
Iowa Falls will get a cement-con-
crete bridge some 800 feet in length,
across Rock Run. The cost will be
less than $1,000. OF course, a
cheaper structure could have been
erected and made to answer for the
present. And in a few years that
cheaper structure would have requir-
ed repairs, and again in few years
it would have become necessary to
replace it with another cheap
structure. And by the time that had
been repaired and worn out, the cost
would have been greater than that
of two concrete bridges.
No question about 1t, If the men,
bers OF the labor unions of the coun-
try were to vote all one way, they
could determine every election in the
states and country.-Waterloo Times
Tribune.
There is some question about it.
If all the labor unions voted one way
it might not be long until all the
farmers voted another way. In that
case the vote of the labor unions
would not cut much figure. Then
again, if the unions united upon
some policy that was not fair to the
general public, everybody would be
against them.
The country wants a president to
lead in legislative matters, not by
coercion or power because of patron
age, but by argument and reasoning.
However, while the president is lead
ing he must not fall into the error
of distrusting those who do not agree
with him. That is what stranded
the Taft administration and it will
and ought to strand any administra-
tion guilty of it. It is not for the
president to set up censorship over
the members of his own party or to
say what constitutes a loyal party
man. individuals must have the
right of independent thought and ac-
tion. In other words, leadership
must not be degraded to mere bos-
sism.
Malcom r. Patterson. governor
of Tennessee, twice elected upon the
wet" platform, announced a few
days ago at the meeting of the ma
tional anti-saloon league that he had
changed his views upon this question
and was now opposed to the saloon.
Among other things he said: 81 am
aware that to have suddenly chang
ed the views of mature manhood
which / once asserted and proclaim
ed from one end of Tennessee to the
other has excited surprise and pro-
voked comment, but this is a world
OF change. I am neither ashamed
nor abashed to stand up before this
great audience and ackn owledge a