Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-14

cea for all ills. It's friends believe
however, that it is better than the
old way and they confidently expect
better results than in the past.
THE RIGHT TO SPEAK.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Colonel
Roosevelt made a speech recently at
Plattsburg in which he severely crit
icised the administration for what
he insisted was the inadequately pre-.
pared condition of the country from
military point of view.
This speech has been freely criti-
cised. Some of Roosevelt's friends
think it was ill-advised and in bad
taste. But it was mistake for Sec
rotary Garrison to take notice of the
speech and especially to criticise
General Wood for permitting Roose-
welt to deliver such an address.
This is a democratic country. 1t
is dedicated to prin ciples of free
speech and a free press. Secretary
Garrison criticises General Wood for
failure to suppress Roosevelt's ad-
dress. In doing this he failed to ap-
preciate not only this fundamental
principle, but the propriety of his
own position.
The administration would have
appeared to much better advantage
if the utterances of Roosevelt had
been left to the press and the public
in general to deal with.
There is a sharp distinction be-
tween criticising the things Roose-
welt said and his right to say them.
SUNDAY AT OMAHA.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The
first gun in the Sunday campaign in
Omaha has been fired. Those who
heard it will readily agree that it
wasn't loaded with blank cartridges.
1t was solid shot and we'll aimed.
Sundays sermons are verbal shrap-
mel They entertain spectators by
their brilliance, but their solid
truths wound and main the fellows
who insist on retaining their places
in the ranks of his satanic majesty
where most of the shells from the
verbal arsenal of this gatling evan
gelist fall.
Here are few typical statements
from Sundays first broadsides:
/ say to the forces Of damnation in
Omaha, the Godforsaken, weasle-ey-
ed, pus-gutted hog-jowled spawn of
hell, come on, we're ready for you,
and you cannot harm us, for we are
am bassadors of God.
A lot of people were mighty pious
when they had to walk, but now
hat they can afford a Ford or a
Pierce Arrow or a Packard, it's
goodbye God; I'll see you later"
An angel from heaven couldn't
;ome to Omaha and live for week
md associate with some of the peo-
pie you train with and go back to
heaven without being fumigated,
formaldehyded, dry
cleaned and made over altogether.
If a man doesn't settle his saliva
ion before the undertaken pumps
linn full of embalming fluid, he's all
n.
These statements are picturesque
md strong. The language is not at
III conventional. The individual
Who notes the language and COM
,ares it with the statements he has
,een accustomed to hear from pull
its will find plenty Of excuse for
riticism. But the man who is look
ng for truth will find it in these
tatements clothed in garb to
which he will give heed.
Ministers in all the pulpits in the
ountry are preaching these same
ruths week after week. But con-
entional language doesn't give
hem the force and effect which they
et when they are put into action by
he dynamic base ball evangelist.
uuirrel rifles would never have re-
uced the forts at Liege and Ant
,erp. It required forty-two cent?
meter guns to do this work. Billy
unday is doing to the defenses OF
he demon of darkness just what the