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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
country needed Hubbard and it was
his duty to stay as long as he could,
or as long as he could be of use.

According to the publicity depart
ment of the National Liquor Deal
ers Association, 12S persons were
killed in this country by automo-
biles during the month of April and
the same authority asks If this will
lead to the prohibition of the use OF
automobiles. Of course not, but il
the loss had reached 10000 during
April and no living being got any
good out of the automobile except
the man who made it and sold it,
perhaps the people might rise in
their might and demand it's destruc.
ton.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

The Sioux City Journal observes
that w. l.. Harding does not go up
into the air every time a newspaper
says something unfavorable about
him. And in that respect Mr.. Harding
shows good judgment. Had he the
air climbing penchant under such
circumstances he would never set
foot upon terra firma.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

The Manson Democrat wants to
know if it isn't about time for the
democrats of Iowa to be talking
about candidate for governor.
Well, if the democrats expect to go
through the motions next year it is
time for them to be thinking about
the pawns they are going to sacri-
flee. Why wouldn't John F. Dalton
be good man to lead the host to a
glorious defeat? John would make a
dashing leader and a loser in who
democracy could be proud. Dalton
for governor and Clarkson for lieu
tenant governor would make good
combination.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Uncle Sam is finding it no easy
job to be neutral, but the fact that
all the European nations are dis
satisfied with his course shows that
he is doing a pretty good Job.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Just as the prosecution in the
Roosevelt-Barnes libel case starts in
upon it's side to rebut the evidence
of the colonel the newspapers are so
full of war news that the public has
no time for the legal contest at SYRIA
cuse. Thus the colonel is meeting
with good luck again.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Germany is certainly very reck.
less to tempt the United States gov
eminent at a time when Colonel
Young is in the war zone. The col
onel may be depended upon to be
loyal to his country and there is no
telling what would happen to Ger
many should he get into action.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

BRO. Mayne," said recent num-
Der of the Emmetsburg Democrat
"arose at 4 o'clock Monday morning.
and sewed three or four acres of oats
before breakfast. For industry
there is perhaps no other agriculture
al editor in Iowa in his class. Up
per Des Moines-Republican.
We submit that an editor who
spells it Sewing" in that connec-
ton has no license to comment on
agricultural affairs.-Algona Ad-
vance.
It surely wasn't "wild oats" that
Editor Mayne was sowing. That
kind is generally sowed in the dark
of the moon.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
Henry Ford has been suggested a

Henry Ford has been suggested as
a candidate for president. If he
would enter the contest and insist
that wages should be as high as SIS
per day he would go in with a
whoop. After he got in, however, he
would find that while he might be
able to pay the employees in his fact
DRY that wage, it would be impossi-
BILE to devise means by which all
workmen could secure steady en-
ployment and big pay. The trick
simply can't be done.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Word comes from Chicago that
women sold votes in that city at SO
while the men got $12. But the
women are new on the job. Give
them little time and experience
and they will demand the higher
price.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

them. Some cars are now being OPP
Grated without any means Of their
Identification, thus giving irrespon-
sible drivers better opportunity to
escape the just consequences OF
their carelessness or indifference.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Nobody questions the ability of
Senator Root. He would make a
strong man in the presidents chair.
But could he carry New York? Could
he be elected? These are the ques-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

The suggestion of Gov. Clarke for
third term is not setting the coun-
try on fire up this way. The people
have not yet forgotten his arbitrary
and illegal method of increasing the
assessed value of property.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Well, of course, if Spain had done
it it would make a lot of difference.
But Spain didn't do it. Neither did
Mexico. Therefore, your Uncle Sam
is going to take care not to be too
particular.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

On the theory that a taxi party
was organized as a beer drinking
function, but without scintilla of
evidence to back it up, the authori-
ties at Des Moines arrested four
young men and four young women,
the former being released the same
evening, the girls being held in Jail
over night. No charge was prefer
red against them and the girls were
simply and without explanation or
ceremony released the following
morning. Affairs in Iowa have
reached a pretty pass when an Of
fetal suffering an attack of over
zealousness or afflicted with a lazy
liver is permitted to pick up citizens
without a spark of justification in
fact and hustle them off to jail
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald
If the Dubuque paper is stating
the case correctly it is matter of
much public concern. 1t is a serious
thing for anybody to be arrested and
a very serious thing for woman.
Any officer who would arrest per-
sons without good and sufficient rea-
son ought to be relieved from duty
and the city responsible for his con-
duct ought to be made to pay liber-
al damages. 1t is a great disgrace
to a girl to be held in jail and she
can never throw off the stigma.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

peace to all the world and show a
willingness to go more than half
way with any country to insure
peace. We can afford to bear much,
to suffer much, to be tolerant, etc.,
but there must be a line drawn
somewhere.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

China, being wholly unprepared
for war, had to submit 70 the de-
mands of Japan, no matter how un-
just and unfair those demands were.
Isn't it time for the United States to
realize that our safety lies in a
strong and effective navy?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
FUTURITY.


Clinton Herald: How would you
like to be the man who sank the
Lusitania?
Think of the remainder of his
life, if he is a human being in any
thing more than outward semblance.
He obeyed orders. There was no
choice for him, no choice except
that which a real man would have
taken-suicide. o.
The bloodiest deed enacted since
the rise of western civilization comes
home as the personal exploit of one
man. His hands are crimsoned, and
he can no more wash them clean
than could Lady Macbeth.
Would the man who sunk the Lus-
itania dare visit America? His crime
would rise before him at every step,
to call him damned. The people of
this nation would fall back before
him in loathing silence. The mark
of Cain is upon his brow.
He obeyed orders. And there
were forty children less than a year
old upon that boat. Which will
come before him the oftener in fut-
ure years, his orders, or the faces Of
those murdered babies?
Here's to the man who sunk the
Lusitania, and here's to the man
who wrote the orders! May they
live many years with their spectres!
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Had you ever thought of it? Sup
pose President Wilson should die and
Thomas Marshall should become
president? But let's not think of
such a thing. 1t is too bad to
contemplate.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Take note of the hour ere it slips
past; so seldom does the moment
come which is truly fateful and
great.-Schiller.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Poor old Spain. Jack Johnson has
decided to make his future home
there.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

If you can't be neutral be as neu-
trail as you can.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Attorney General Cosson seems tc
be onto Cady's curves.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Much of our dissension is due to
Misunderstanding, which could be
put right by few honest words and
a little open dealing.-Black.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
The national forests contain mos

The national forests contain most
.of the picturesque wilderness in the
country, and their recreational re-
sources are practically unlimited.
More than 1000 cottages have been
built in the forests by summer resi-
dents under the permit system, which
has been supplemented by law pro-
viding that tracts of five acres or
less may be leased for periods not
to exceed thirty years. This law,
under which leasing regulations
have just been promulgated by the
secretary of agriculture, is expected
to stimulate recreational develop
ment of the forests Already large
number of applications to lease ma
tional forest land for summer resi-
dence sites has been received, and
even communities are beginning to
take advantage of the forests situat-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

knowledge is, indeed, that which,
next to virtue, truly and essentially
raises one man above another.-Ad-
Olson.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Gov. Clarke has signed the Thomp-
son loan shark bill and hereafter
loan sharks who charge more than
two per cent a month will be liable
to fine and imprisonment. The law
does not make two per cent month
legal, but leaves the penalty for us
some of the cities of the state a rate
much higher than two per cent
month has been exacted II the past.
1t is thought this statute will stop
that practice. 1t is hoped that it
will.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

How sweet and gracious, even in
common speech, is that fine sense
which men call ourtesy?-James T.
Fields,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

If reports are true, Alfred G. Van.
derbilt, who lost his life when the
Lusitania succumbed to German
torpedo, was something of a man in
spite of the fact that he was many
times a millionaire. It is said that
he gave his life belt to young wom-
an with whom he was talking when
the boat received it's death blow. AS
a result he was lost. After all,
money neither makes or unmakes
real men. Mr.. Vanderbilt didn't
allow his wealth to unman him.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

While practically all of the towns
of the state show substantial in
creases in population some of them
have not increased anywhere COM
mensurate with the increase in i'm
provements in residential districts.
This is accounted for on the theory
that many new residences have been
built upon the sites of old ones and
that the families occupying them are
not as large as the families used to
be. This is due in a measure to the
prosperous condition of the country.
The "old folks" build better houses
than they used to and the young
folks strike out for themselves and
leave the old home oftener than of
yore. This increases the demand for
homes without increasing the popu-
lation. Yet the population of Iowa
is increasing at very satisfactory
rate and the prediction sent out
from Des Moines some time ago by
officers who are in touch with the
census department that the increase
will reach nearly 100000 stands in
4 fair way of being verified.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

G. T. McCAULHT, II. D.
Office over Browns drug stsrs,
corner Of Des Noines and Seesld
ttreets. Calls attended day Or nigkA
2oth phones. Is
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

ed near them by obtaining tracts for
use as picnic, camping, and play
grounds.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

Time is the stuff that life is made
of.-Benjamin Franklin.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18

~ LIE AAoASSA NooAASsoS A'ASA .
w. F. Hunter ............. Editor
knowledge is, indeed, that which,
next to virtue, truly and essentially
raises one man above another.-Ad-
Olson.
If you can't be neutral be as neu-
trail as you can.
Attorney General Cosson seems to
be onto Cady's curves.
Poor old Spain. Jack Johnson has
decided to make his future home
there.
Uncle Sam is finding it no easy
job to be neutral, but the fact that
all the European nations are dis
satisfied with his course shows that
he is doing pretty good job.
Had you ever thought of it? Sup
pose President Wilson should die and
Thomas Marshall should become
president? But let's not think of
such a thing. 1t is too bad to
contemplate.
Well, of course, if Spain had done
it it would make lot of difference
But Spain didn't do it. Neither did
Mexico. Therefore, your Uncle Sam
is going to take care not to be too
particular.
The suggestion of Gov. Clarke for
third term is not setting the coun-
try on fire up this way. The people
have not yet forgotten his arbitrary
and illegal method of increasing the
assessed value of property.
Nobody questions the ability of
Senator Root. He would make
strong man in the presidents chair.
But could he carry New York? Could
he be elected? These are the ques-
tons for republicans to consider.
Word comes from Chicago that
women sold votes in that city at SO
while the men got s12. But the
women are new on the job. Give
them a little time and experience
and they will demand the higher
price.
China, being wholly unprepared
for war, had to submit TO the de-
mands of Japan, no matter how un-
just and unfair those demands were.
Isn't it time for the United States to
realize that our safety lies in a
strong and effective navy?
Just as the prosecution in the
Roosevelt-Barnes libel case starts in
upon it's side to rebut the evidence
of the colonel the newspapers are so
full of war news that the public has
no time for the legal contest at SYRIA
cuse. Thus the colonel is meeting
with good luck again.
Germany is certainly very reck-
less to tempt the United States gov
eminent at a time when Colonel |
Young is in the war zone. The COL
onel may be depended upon to be
loyal to his country and there is no
telling what would happen to Ger
many should he get into action.
John D. Rockefeller VOL his case
against Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in
which the county sought to collect
s1,500,0OO in taxes, asserting that
was a citizen of that
county. Mr.. Rockefeller set up the
claim that he was not a citizen Of
the county and the court sustained
it.
The Sioux City Journal observes
that w. L. Harding does not go up
into the air every time a newspaper ,
says something unfavorable about
him. And in that respect Mr.. Harding
shows good judgment. Had he the !
air climbing penchant under such
he would never set 9
foot upon terra 1rma. |.
Every loyal American citizen, nat f
lralized or native, will stand by i
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-25

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
Ell PASO. Texas, Aug. 25.-Vllia
forces. Numbering nearly ten thous
and, have inflicted decisive defea'
upon the Carranzistas around Monte
rey, driving them from Villa Garcia
back to the Neuvo Leon capital, ao'
vices today said.
The Carranzistas are reported 10
have lost more heavily in this en-,
gagement than in any for severa,
months. Over 1000 were killed anu
the Monterey hospitals are fiiled 20
capacity with wounded. and private
homes have been commandered ior
the wounded.
This battle, apparently the same
one outlined briefly in dispatches 70
the state department this WEEK. ,oi.
lowed Carranzista successes In tha'
region.
At the outset, the villa forces. u,l.
der General Madero. were driven IN
from their outer fortifications, but
reorganization OF tie Viliistas result
ed in a sweeping victory. -,
Madero has announced that ne VIII
not follow his present advantase py
capturing Monterey, as he regards II
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-25

r1rnited Press Leased Wire Serv1ce.J
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Aiarn
among the financial leaders OF all the
beIliserent countries at the ceaseless
destruction Of wealth caused by the
var is becoming evident. Reports
however. of secret meetings In Bernn
and Petrograd, at which the posslpia
bankruptcy of Germany and RUSSIA
was admitted. must be accepted Win
reeprye The fnanciers of the war
ring nations do not fear bankruptcy,
but rather impoverishment IN the
coming days of peace when the war
bills must be paid. "a
Russia cannot become bankrupt II
for no other reason than that france
and England are underwriting her.
%either is there danger of German
b,nkruntcv while Germany has her
state-owned railways to mortsage as
anal resort to secure funds for
ca arriving on the war. Nations haEe
seldom allowed the danger OF nank-
runtcv TO stand between them and the
1rosecution of a war; and 1t is not at
ali nrotable that the fear OF nsoiv.
encv is causing uneasiness IN any Oh
the European capitols.
Rut the belligerent nations nave as
vet scarcely begun to- pay for the waE.
Almost the whole of the Sto,uoV'oov
a day which the German minister oi
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-25
The War in Mexico
Latest Developments Among Our kevoiut'on-
arv Neiqhbors of the South

too great responsibility to hold the
city. with food extremely scarce.
such holding he declared. would seri.
ously hamper other military opera
tfons he plans in that vicinity.
Americans Reach Texas.
LAREDO. Texas, Aug. 25.-A spe-
cial train OF eighteen cars, bearing
s5o, 600 worth of gold, silver and
lead bullion from Guanajuato, Mexico,
and accompanied by twenty-five Amer
nans fleeing from that section, arrived
here today. The Americans Will be
furnished transportation to their
homes by United States Consul Gar.
rett They say conditions In central
Msx,co are greatly disturbed. The
b;,llion is consigned to Perth Amboy,
N. ].
Would Recognize carranza:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2s.nAssur. ,,, sur
ances that Great Britain Will not
recognize General Carranza unless
recognition is accorded by the unitea
ct.tes we're understood to have been
riven bv the British embassy to the
state department !.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-25
BALKANS

r1Jnited Press Leased Wire Service,l
LONDON, Aug. 25.-The Serbian
council Of ministers met at N'sh 'oaay
to frame a reply to the proposal ina.
Serbia cede territory TO ou'sa..a ~
secure the Iatter's participation IN the
war. In some quarters It was predict
ed that serbia's decision will be made
known within forty-eight hours.
The London press today was very
optimistic over the Balkan situation
l., shared by diplomatic circles. The
Daily Telegraph for instance, printed q
= Rome dispatch saying that the Bal.
kan league is to be reconstructed and
that the combined armies would o'.er
one million men to aid the a''les. no
Ss,,.,.tehe. came from Athens early TO-
dav on the Balkan situation. II was
assumed that the government was
exercising strict censorship penang
the outcome Of the meeting al Nlsn'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-25
What the War Moves Mean
Bv J. w. T. Mason, Former European Man
aeer of the United Press.

finance estimates the war is costinE
is being raised by loans. Hardly any
war taxation is being imposed IN Eu-
rope, The German government has
announced It will fight the war to the
end on loans and although there Is
much urging in England that heavy
taxes be imposed to relieve the our-
den on posterity, the cabinet Is reiuc-
tant to act. IS
As soon as the war ends, the pro
cess of payment must bo begun. lor
the interest charges will have to oe
met. At present. they are being PAID
ont OF the loans themselves, but TINS
nrocess must cease when the soldiers
return 10 their normal industries. 1T
the war continues much longer, the
soldiers on their return will md the
chief result of the war has been 10
nile debts on the belligerent coun-
tries. which will require the douoiing
of uresent taxes to meet IN interest,"
and sinking fund.
The abiect poverty when the "ar
is preparing will be felt and epoch
making economic revolutions will be-
come possible. 1t is possible the need
IN lessen this inevitable distress after
the war. rather than to guard against
banl,ruptcy to which the financiers or
the warning nations are now secretly
calling attention
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-25
Arabic Incident Which Loomed up as Threat
Against Continued Friendly Relations
is Being Smoothed Over.
EXPLANATION EXPECTED TO Be ACCEPTED
Outcome Will Probably Result in Better Under
standing Between the Two Nations
Over Submarine Warfare.

each succeeding incident In the war
zone was fresh, seaprate threat;
that the settlement of one contro-
versy constituted no guarantee that
another and perhaps more serious
one would not arise Immediately aft
erward.
Sooner or later, it was the general
sentiment, unless the two countries
came to some broad agreement, that
clash was inevitable.
Yesterdays communication, it was
thought, looked as If the way was
being paved for such broad agree
ment, or understanding.
Much stress was laid on the fact
that the note, though 1t came from
Ambassador Bernstorff, did not origi.
nate With him. '''-saSas @
"The German ambassador" said his
announcement, received the follow.
ing instructions from Berlin which lie
communicated to the department OF
state"-and then followed the ofiicial
message.
It was true that the German gov
ernment did not profess to know the
circumstances yet of the Arabic's de-
struction, but, through confidential
CnannctS CulS lulOTMdIloA uou AooSii-
ed the Observation-Disclosures the Berlin
admiralty gave instructions to its
submarine commanders some time
ago. to observe all the rules Of war
fare on which President Wilson In
sisted in his latest note to the kaiser.
II was felt that this was all the
United States could ask.
Starting on such basis Germany
unquestionably would not find 1t hard.
said officials. to make showing salts
factory to the Washington govern
ment.
Various possibilities were sug.
gested:
The attack on the liner might be
denied and its destruction attributed
to striking mine; 1t might be rep
resented that the Arabic executed a
maneuyer which justified the subma-
rine commander to believe the ship
was about to ram him or attempt an
escape.
The White Star bow was perhaps
accidentally hit by torpedo intend
ed for the Dunsley.
Or 1t might be that the submarine
commanders action would simply be
disavowed and he would be called to
account for violating his own admir-
alty's orders.
Tn any event a settlement OF the
incident was considered reasonably
assured.
More than this, an outcome was
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