Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-01-28

quite a goodly number of democrats
voting to sustain the action of the
president.
Representative Keene, Of Fort
Scott, will introduce bill authoriz-
ing towns to appropriate money for
the support of the local band. His
theory is that good band is worth
all it costs to any town; and as for
a bad band, there is always hope
that it may improve with proper en-
coura gem ent. -Kansas City Star.
Representative Keene has some
thing in his head worth having, as
every band teacher and every band
boy in the country will testify. The
financial end of a brass band is the
end that gives most trouble. Any
body can foot a horn or pound a
bass drum, but when it comes to IL
nancing the average brass band Of
the average town a proposition Of
some proportions is confronted. II
the taxpayers will kindly take that
burden upon themselves, along with
the few others they have to should
er, the brass band question will be
solved.
/ don't like to drop into politics.
/ don't seem to have been grand
success, but the American people
will have to be educated over again
in lessons of liberty and will have
to be taught again the real value OF
the rights we now have and the re-
straints under which we enjoy them.
Taft in a recent speech
in New York.
The American people will general
ly agree with the president in his
conclusion that he has not been a
great success in politics. but when
he says we must be educated over
again in lessons of liberty he will
find many to disagree. Had he been
speaking in Utah or Vermont his
words would have had a different
meaning, as those two states seem
to be the only ones In the union
that are rusty upon the question of
liberty. The other states know
when their rights have been usurp-
ed and they resented such usurpa-
ton in thunderous tones ,at the re-
cent election.
Senator LaFollette is always on
the job looking for jokers in pro-
posed legislation and day or two
ago attacked the conference report
on the immigration bill He attack
ed the clause put into the bill by the
conference committee by which i'm
migrants might be debarred from
the United States unless they
brought certificates of character,
when their native country had law
such certificates. He de-
clared that conference committees
should not have the power to put
new provisions into bills over which
the two houses had disagreed. The
senator declared that such a pro-
vision would prevent people coming
here from such countries as Russia
when that government did not want
them to come. Russia knows that
one free tongue in New York is
more harmful to Russian despotism
than 1000 shackled subjects in ST.
IBERIA. Russia does not want these
people who are seeking freedom to
come to the United States and I be-
lieve that is why some others do
not want them admitted, for these
people are a menace to plutocracy
and there are certain people in this
country who do not favor encourag-
ing the menace to plutocracy." The
great Wisconsin senator always sees
the human side of a question and he
Is not slow in enlisting in the bat
tie for human rights. II we had a
congress composed of LaFollettes.
graft and special privilege would
have rocky road to travel. What
ever may be said in criticism OF Mr..
LaFollette 1t cannot be charged sue
cessfully that he is anything but a
aanuipa o,d fearless friend of the