Webster City freeman., 1914-01-20

Ford is doing, but there are not
many who can. Rockefeller could,
so could Carnegie, but the list is
small.
According to the lowe City Repub-
lican a prominent member of the
legislature, just before the last ad-
journment, lost $500 in a poker
game in Des Moines. This is import
ant If true, and indicates that there
should be special legislation by the
legislature to protect its innocent
members. The Freeman-Tribune can
assure the people of Hamilton coun-
ty that the member who lost his wad
was not from this county.
Uncle Joe Cannon has erected his
own monument in the cemetery at
Danville, Illinois. Uncle Joe proposes
to have everything in readiness
when the final summons comes, but
everybody will hope the day may be
postponed many years. He is dead
politically, as he should be, but he
is such a jovial old gentleman that
everybody wants to see him live to
be one hundred years old, as he de-
clared a few years ago he was going
to do or die in the attempt.
Miss Bradley, the seventeen year
old girl who eloped with Joel M.
Foster, a married man, and went
with him to Mobile, Alabama, where
the two were arrested, has poor opin-
ion of the law and the laws enforce
ment. She says she loves Foster and
Foster loves her, and that their love
is beyond the sordid reach Of courts
and policemen. A bedslat welded
by a strong right arm of a kind but
firm father is evidently what Miss
Bradley has needed in the past.
Mayor Mitchell of New York is be-
ginning to realize that Tammany Is
not dead though badly defeated at
the election last fall. Tammany is
perhaps the strongest as we'll as the
most corrupt political organization
in the country and it cannot be
eliminated by single defeat. II
the people of New York want i'm
munity from the grafters and hench-
men OF Tammany they must repeat
the dose given last fall at each elec-
tion for the next ten or fifteen years.
1t is not likely they will do it. The
people become Indifferent and only
upon certain occasions are they
aroused sufficiently to look we'll af-
ter their own interests.
1t is reported from Ohio that
Former Senator Joseph Benson For
aker is going to try to get back into
the senate. Mr.. Foraker is one OF
the ablest men in Ohio, but it re-
uuires something more than ability
to fill the position of lawmaker. For
satisfactory service in such a posi-
ton a man must have honesty, de-
sire to serve the people and a prop
er view of public questions. Foraker
does not possess these qualifications.
He belongs to that line of statesmen
who brought reproach upon the re-
publican party by toadying to spec
ial privilege and by serving special
interests. Such down-and-outers as
Foraker must stay down and out and
the party must see to it that others
of his ilk, now in responsible posi-
tions, are sent to join him. There
is no use of the party talking of
progress and reform if such men are
going to have influence in its coun-
ellis.
A man by the name of Julius Kunz,
who lives in Kossuth county, near
Wesley, is the possessor of big
heart and he finds lots of pleasure in
making children happy. 1t is his
custom at Christmas time to invite
all the children of Wesley and ad-
Joining country, under sixteen years
of age, to come to his home and en-
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