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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
FEDERAL INDUSTRIAL
COMMISSION
BY Peter Radford.

The recent investigation of the
United States Commission of Indus
trial Relations brought together the
public an opportunity to view the rep.
resentatives of distinct classes, side
by side, and to study their views in
parallel columns.
Capital and labor have always been
glazing at each other over CULTS OF
misunderstanding and if the Federal
Industrial Commission attempts to
bridge the chasm, it will render the
public distinct service.
The farmer has been sitting on the
fence watching capital and labor fight
for many years and incidentally furn.
ishing the sinews of war and it is
quite gratifying to find them talking
with, instead of about, each other.
When honest men smile and look into
each others souls, it always makes
the world better and far more salts
factory to the farmer who in the end,
bears the burden of conflict, than
resolutions, speeches or pamphlets
containing charges and counter
charges.
The love for justice makes the
whole world kin. Understanding is an
arbiter far more powerful than the
mandates of government, for there is
no authority quite so commanding as
an honest conscience; there is no de-
cree quite so binding as that of the
Supreme Court of Common Sense and
no sheriff can keep the peace quite SO
perfect as Understanding.
We suppose the time will never
come when capital and labor will not
be occasionally blinded by the light
ming flashes OF avarice or frightened
by the thunder peals of discomfort.
But Understanding is a Prince of
Peace that ever holds out the olive
branch to men who want to do right.
A mans income is always a sacred
thing for IN it are the hope, ambition
and opportunity of himself. and fam.
lily, but there is nothing in a human
heart quite so divine as Justice and
Understanding is its handmaiden.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
TAINTED POLITICS
BY Peter Radford.

This country is suffering more from
tainted politics than from any other
malady at the present time. There is
scarcely campaign speech made, a
platform demand written or a mea-
sure enacted into law that does not
carry the faint of personal gain of
some politician or political faction
thereof.
There is more "blue sky" in cam
paign promises of many politicians
running for Office than was ever con-
tanned in the prospectuses of the bold
est promoters of chimerical business
schemes. There are more secret COM
binations formed by politicians in the
name of "My Country than were ever
formed under any and all other
aliases There are more political re-
bates hidden in the phrase BE it en-
acted than were ever concealed I'M
der any and all other DISCUSSES.
The inordinate thirst for political
power and unrestrained passion for
mastery has caused more distress in
this nation than the greed for gold,
and it ought to be regulated by law.
No business combination ever pursued
their competitors as relentlessly or
visited more heartless cruelty upon
their customers than political party
that seeks to make junk of an in
dustry, or cripple business for party
success, through tariff measures, po-
litical supervision and ofttimes de-
structive legislation. Many political
platforms are as alluring to the voter
as the story of the rainbow with its
pot of gold and their contamination
about as far-fetched. Selfgain is the
first law in politics. There are many
men in office today who, if they
could not shake plums off the tree OF
American liberty or cut melon taken
from Uncle Sans commissary, would
have less desire to serve the public.
The country is surfeiting with patri-
OTIS, who will bare their breast to bull
lets in defense of their country, but
there are few men in public life who
will bare their breast to voters or run
the gauntlet of party disfavor in de-
Tense of agriculture or industry. No
representative of the people, who will
permit personal prejudice to dethrone
justice, party success to disfranchise
reason or the rancor of political
campaign to influence judgment can
render capable service.
The preservation of our prosperity
depends upon wisdom, courage and
honesty in government and the Amer
lean voter should seek these attri-
butes as implicitly as the Wise Men
followed the Star of Bethlehem and
they will often be found to rest over
the stable; the plow or the staff OF
the Shepherd. The surest cure for
tainted politics and machine rule is
fresh air and sunshine and these i'm
portant elements are most abundant
upon the farm, and when farmers.
bankers and merchants are elected to
membership in legislative bodies, much
of the trouble in government will dis
appear.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
KNOW THY COUNTRY
II-RailrOadS.

| the accepted distance from the earth
to the moon. We had in 1911, the
last year in which figures for all
countries are available, on the
earth's surface, 639,9S1 miles of rail
way divided as follows: United States
241,199. Europe 2O7,432 and other
| countries 191,350 The United States
has 38 per cent of the worlds mileage,
| seven per cent of the estimated pop
ulation and about five per cent of the
area. The total capital invested in the
railways of the world is $4,000, 00O,-
900, divided as follows: United States
S13,0O0,0O0,000 Europe $25,650,0 100000
and other countries $11,35O,OOO 900.
Reduced to mileage basis the cap
italization is as follows: The world
$4,000, United States $4,000. Europe
$124,000, and other countries $4,000.
A comparison of rates is equally as
| interesting and the United States
takes the lead in economy and serv-
ice. The average rate per ton per
hundred mile haul is as follows:
United States 76c. Great Britain $3.50,
France $l.44. Germany $1.44, Russia
92c, Austria-Hungary $1.3O, Italy $3.50
and Switzerland $3.50.
The average yearly pay of all rail-
road employees in the principal coun.
tries is as follows: United States
$757, Germany 1892, Italy $345, Aus
tria 1922, Great Britain $279, France
$3.50 and Russia 1904.
About 80 per cent. or $4,000 miles,
of the railways Of the world are
government owned About half the
railway mileage of Europe is govern
ment owned.
A comparison of the economy, in
time and money and the convenience
in travel. will be made in later
article.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

a bar of iron and bent it into
a reaper and with one sweep Of
his magic mind broke the shackles
that enslaved labor of generations vet
unborn, and gave mankind freedom
from drudgery, and lifted the human
race into a higher zone Of life.
AS Nelson organized the English navy
and made England mistress of the sea,
enabling the British Isles to plant her
flag upon every continent washed by
the oceans waves, and to make foot
stools of the Islands of every water,
Morgan organized banking system
that has made America master of the
worlds finances, brought Kings to our
cashiers windows, the nations Of the
earth to our discount desks and placed
! under the industries of this nation a
financial system as solid as the Rock
of Gibraltar.
There is no study quite so interest
ing as progress; no sound SO magic
as the roar of industry and no sight
so inspiring as civilization in action.
A full realization of Americas part in
the great events of the world past.
present and future will thrill every
human heart with pride, patriotism
and faith in Republican institutions.
Through the courtesy of the Agri-
cultural and Commercial Press SEP
vice, the readers of this paper will be
permitted to study America; her ag-
ricultural, manufacturing and min
eral development, mercantile, bank
ing and transportation systems which
are the wonder of the world. The
first article of the series will deal
with transportation and will appear
at an early date.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
WATERED SECURITIES
BY Peter Radford.

Much has been said and more writ
ten about the evils of watered stock in
big business concerns and the farm
ers of this nation believe that every
dollar written into the life of any
business organization, should be able
to say Il know that my Redeemer
liveth," but farming is the biggest
business ON earth, and there is more
water in it's financial transaction than
that of any other industry. There is
as much water in a farmers note
drawing eight or ten per cent interest
when other lines of industry secure
money for four or five per cent per
annum, as there is in business pay
ing a reasonable compensation upon
the face value of securities repre-
senting an investment of only fifty
cents on the dollar. The only diff
ference is, the water is in the interest
rate in one instance and in the secur-
tiles in the other.
The promoter ofttimes takes chances
and his success is contingent upon
the development of the property in
volved but the usurer, as rule, takes
no chances and his success cripples
the property involved. There may be
industries that cry louder but none
that suffer more severely from fnan-
cial immortality in both law and Gus
tom than that of agriculture.
The farmers of America today are
paying S2O0,O00,000 per annum in
usury ON real estate and chattel
loans, and this interest capitalized
at five per cent, represents s4,OOO,OO0,-
900 of fictitious values which the farm
er is paying interest on. This sum OF
money is almost equal to the annual
value of crops produced in the United
States.
The earning power of the farmers
note based upon his interest rate very
nearly divides likes the earth's sur
ace-three.fourths water and one
fourth land. The largest body of wa
ter that floats upon the financial hem
isphere now rests. upon the farms
and it's waves are dashing and its
pillows are rolling against seven mil
lion homes threatening ruin and dis
aster to the prosperity of the nation.
Will our public servants who under
stand how to drain the liquid off in
dustrial properties turn the faucet and
let the water off the farms?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
RURAL SCHOOL TERM
SHOULD Be EXTENDED
BY p. p. CIaxton,
U. S. Commissioner Of Education.

In most States school days for
country children are fewer than for
city children. The average length OF
school term in cities of the United
States is one hundred and eighty
five days; in rural communities one
hundred and thirty-eight days, diff
ference of forty-seven days. In some
States the difference is much greater
than this average. In many counties
the average length of the rural
school term is less than one hun
dred days, and in some districts it is
less. On the other hand. in the
States of California, New York and
Connecticut, the country schools are
in session one hundred and eighty
days in a year, and in several other
States almost as long The country
schools of Rhode Island are in ses-
sion one hundred and ninety days in
year.
If all children are to have an equal
opportunity for education we must
even up the school terms of the
country and give to all country chill
dren at least as many days as are
now given to city children. One
hundred and eighty-five days OF
schooling a year for all children will
not be too much. There are coun,
tries in which the schools, both for
city and country, are in session from
two hundred and twenty to two hun
dred and fifty days or more in the
year. American children need as
much education as those of any 9th
er country, and this applies to the
rural as we'll as urban districts.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
THE BATTLE Of
THE TIRES

Agricultural and Commercial Press Service1
1t is interesting to watch the forces
of civilization battling for supremacy.
The struggle now going on between the
rubber and the iron tire promises to
be the liveliest contest of the Twen-
tieth Century
The struggle is a silent one and
there are no war correspondents to
write vivid descriptions of the con-
flict but the results are more far
reaching to present and future gen
erations than the war of Europe.
The rubber tire has been maneuver-
ing for point of attack for several
years and has captured a few unim-
portant positions in traffic, but it has
now pitched decisive battle with
its iron competitor by hurting mil
lion "jitneys" at the street railways
and the battle is raging from ocean
to ocean. Upon the result of the
struggle depends the future of the
rubber tire. If it is compelled to re-
treat, it's doom is sealed, but if it wins
the battle it will revolutionize the
transportation methods of this nation.
If the rubber tire conquers the
street traffic it's next struggle is with
the railroads of the country, and then
the greatest battle between economic
forces ever fought out on the face
of this earth is on, for iron is the un-
disputed master in transportation, and
is fortified behind billions of dollars,
and millions of men.
Stephenson applied the steel tire
to an iron rail in 1914, but it was 1869
before the golden spike was driven
at Promontory Point, which bound
the country together with bands of
steel. 1t took the iron tire fifty-fve
years to creep from ocean to ocean.
but the rubber tire while warm from
the creative mind of the inventive
genius sped across the continent like
an arrow shot from the bow of Ulys-
ses. The roadbed was already pre-
pared and therein lies the power of
the rubber tire over that Of iron, for
government builds and maintains the
public highway.
But iron is a stubborn metal and
it has mastered every wheel that
turns; has fought battles with every
element above and beneath the earth
and has never tasted the wormwood
of defeat, and when rubber hurls its
full force against this monarch of
the Mineral Kingdom, it may rebound
to the factory stunned beyond recOv-
cry.
The rubber tire first made it's ap.
pearance on the bicycle, but it proved
a frivolous servant and was dismissed
for incompetency. It has always been
too much inclined to revel in luxury
to be taken seriously as utility ma
chine and it's reputation is not one to
inspire confidence in heavy traffic
performance.
But to those who care to watt into
dreamland, it is enchanting to note
that there will be marvellous differ
ence between a rubber and an iron
age. The rubber tire will scatter the
cities throughout the valleys for with
transportation at every mans door,
why city? 1t will traverse the con.
tinent with net work of Macadam
highways as beautiful as the boule.
ward built by Napoleon. It will par
alyze the law making bodies of this
nation for how could the legislatures
run without the railroads to operate
0po
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Agriculture is recognized is the
greatest of all industries and a pros
agricultural population is the surest
safeguard of civilization.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

It is an admitted economic fact that
there can be no permanent prosperity
without permanent agriculture
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
Crater Lakes Gamy Trout.

Whether it be from the temperature
or the quality of the water is not
known, but it is the testimony of ex-
perienced anglers that. pound FOR
pound, Crater lake trout are harder
fighters than trout found elsewhere.
Around the edges Of the lake. said
the general superintendent of the park,
there is mo foliage to entangle your
hook and line. and it is the ideal place
for the amateur fisherman. When
was there the lake was so clear that
YOU could see to a deptl of forty feet.
The first fish caught / saw take the
fly. | saw every motion of his body
until finally landed him on the bank,
which only did with the aid of one of
the concessioners in the park. i. do
not know Of any other place in the
world where iii amateur fisherman can
swing his fly in any direction without
danger of catching it on some twig
and when he hooks his fish watch
every motion as he fights for freedom.
| agree with Emerson Hough in every
word that he has said about fishing in
Crater lake.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
100000 OF ENTENTE
ALLIES IN SAlONIKI
Berlin Reports Huge Armies Are
Entering Balkans.

LONDON, ENG.-Behind the veil
of the censorship Britain and her al
lies are doing something tremendous
in the Balkans. Just what the move is.
how great force it being landed or
whence the men are coming is not
known, but there is enough evidence
to show that the German drive to Con-
stantinople is not going to he COM
pleted without the fiercest kind of op-
position.
Newspapers of Berlin, according to
the correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph company at Amsterdam,
say the allies have landed 1000 men
at Saloniki, Greece, and that the
transports are still coming i'm.
A dispatch from Athens says:
French and British re-enforcements
are arriving at the front from Saloniki
In greater strength daily"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
Red and Green Liohts.

It is strange how the color of light
makes it more or less visible. irrespec-
tive of his actual brilliancy To test
this place two lights OF the same
power-two candles of the same size
will do-in two tin boxes and in each
box perfOrate Il pin hole Cover one
pin hole with green glass and one with
red and place them in "A perfectly dark
room. To Il normal person the green
light will appear five times brighter
when viewed obliquely than when
viewed directly. but the red light be-
hayes in the opposite way. Most peo-
pie will pick up the green tight when
looking in some other direction and
will be quite conscious of it's presence.
but when they turn their eyes directly
toward it they will not see it at ALL
The faint red light. on the other hand.
will not be noticed at al until looked
at directly. when it appears quite
bright. but the instant the eyes are
turned away from it it is gOne--St.
Louis Post Dispatch
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
MONKEYS and Microbes.

In the geological gardens in London
the anthropoid apes have been kept
alive during recent years by shutting
them in behind glass not TO protect the
visitors from them, but to protect them
from the visitorS-that is to say, from
the microbes that man harborS in his
mouth. Man has more or less success
fully learned how to disarm those in
vaders. but they will readily destroy
those near relatives of his whose bod
les have not learned how to resist
them. Mankind has no better friends
than those who. like Metchnikof. teach
us whatfto do and what not to do in
arming and inuring ourselves against
these sleepless and implacable but as
suredly doomed enemies of our kind
DR.. c. w. Saieeby in Youths Compan-
ion
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
COMFORTING WORDS
Many an Edgerton Household Will
Find Rhem So.

To have the pains and aches of bad
back removed to be entirely free from
annoying, dangerous urinary disorders,
is enough to make any kidney sufferer
grateful. The following advice of one
who has suffered will prove comforting
words to hundreds of Edgerton readers.
James Pollard, retired farmer, Roll
lin and Mechanic streets, Edgerton,
says: IT had dull ache in the small
of my back and the secretions from
my kidneys were unnatural. | began
using Doan's Kidney Pills and was
relieved in a short time" Statement
given in July, 1867
KEEPS DOAN'S ON HAND
More than six years later, Mr.. Pol
lard said: 81 have had no occasion to
use Doan's Kidney Pills for some
time, but always keep them on hand in
case of need
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr. Pollard has twice publicly recon-
mended. Foster Milburn Co., Props,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
Lucky Thirteen.

Once there was a man who found
the number Is most lucky for him
self. His name was John Hatfield.
and he was a soldier i'm the army Of
William and Mary. doing guard duty
at Windsor castle One morning he
was arrested on charge of having
fallen asleep at his post before mid
night. The court condemned him to
die in spite of-or possibly because Of
the fact that he declared he had heard
the great cathedral clock strike thir-
teen times when it tOlled off the hour
of midnight. After the death sentence
he'd been passed score of persons
came forward with the statement that.
on the night in question the clock had
actually Numbered in it's count. inciud-
ing the single stroke for the quarter
hour with it's hour stroke 1t was re-
ported to the king. upon investigation.
that the striking apparatus was weak.
and John Hatfield was promptly par
doned.-St Louis Globe Democrat.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
SEEING Backward.

The hare can see objects behind as
well as in front Its eyes are large.
prominent and placed laterally. It's
power OF seeing things in the rear is
the greyhound is mute while running.
the hare is able to judge to a nicely
the exact moment at which it will be
best for it to double The giraffe.
which is very timid animal. is ap-
preached with the utmost difficulty on
account of its eyes being so placed that
it can see both ways with equal facil-
lily. This faculty enables it to direct
with great precision the rapid storms
Of kicks with which it defends itself.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
Biblical Trunarpets.

First spoken of in the Bible the
bugle IS beaten instrument of silver
for sounding trumpet calls. The Is
raelites used the primitive rams horn
(shofar) from choice, it having a GER
tain significance in the ritual. At the
siege of Jericho the military Calls were
sounded by the Hebrews on a COWS
horn. The Egyptians used the trum-
pet of silver. But the bugle was va
riously built of gold, silver. brass and
bronze, and one of terra cotta-Roman
of the fourth century-and recently
added to the collection of the British
museum.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
Facts For Sufferers.

Pain results from injury or conges-
ton Be it neuralgia, rheumatism,
lumbago, neuritis, toothache, sprain,
bruise, sore stiff muscles or whatever
pain you have yields to Sloan's Lini-
ment-brings new fresh blood, dis
solves the congestion, relieves the in
jury, the circulation is free and your
pain leaves as if by magic. The nature
of its qualities penetrates Immediately
to the sore spot. Don't keep on suf-
fering. Get bottle of Sloan's Lini-
ment. Use it. 1t means instant relief.
Price 25c and soc. $1O0 bottle holds
six times as much as the 25c size.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
BARS WOULD ENJOlN MAYOR
Chicago 6aloonkeepers Go into u S.
Court on Sunday Lid.

CHICAGO = A bill for an In
junction restraining Mayor William
Hale Thompson and Chief of Police
Charles C. Healey from preventing
owners of saloons from selling non
intoxicating liquors and tobacco ON
Sundays and to prevent them from re-
voking the licenses of saloon owners
on this ground was filed in the United
States district court by Attorney w.
G. Anderson on behalf of John Nc.
Laughlin and others.
The bill is directed against the may.
or and the chief of police and is on
behalf of Mclaughlin, about ten other
saloonkeepers and any others who find
themselves similarly situated.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-12
Murphy Probably Understood.

The contractor had been to confess
sion and told the priest that he was
very sorry for the habit he had of
cursing men whenever anything went
wrong, so the priest advised him, the
next time he was tempted, to say God
bless you'll -and he promised that he
would. A few days later, however, he
found one of his rsen loafng on the
job and yelled to him: Murphy, We
omadhaun, phat's the matther wild We?
Git in there; pick up that crowbar,
God bless ye!-but-but We know
phat OF name. "-Exchange.