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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-29

Therefore Mrs. Virgins stopped Mrs.
Grain on the stairway, and talked i.
over q BIZ with her, TO the end that
they constituted themselves d commit
tee for investigation and dissemination
Of the truth. They called IN their
ueIgh5ors, whether they knew them or
not. and asked them IN TO discuss
things. and they also invited some
pcoilc who ancH lotc about tue vi
Ject than they did. to help them ret
~ the bottom Of ,ne matter And m
the little psrior OF her fat the twenty
or thirty women assemble in their best
clothes and work out the immediate
destinies Of their nation. Sometimes
Miss Younger IS the one who has been
called IN 10 talk 0 them, and the chair
man. all doubtful and hesitating, know
ing nothing Of procedure, or the like.
says, "Er, this is Miss Younger" and
leaves her 70 her fate.
And there is any number Of these
little meetings going on throughout the
city as election time draws near.
N.-.. motherly women, with sensible.
Woodworking husbands, proper mum
Der Of children and flowers GROWN ,
i'm the window Of their comfortable,
loN San Francisco flats, feel keeniy the
new duty which has fallen upon them
ard enjoy 1t. Sometimes one woman
offers her home, because the room Is
larger. and her dearest friend is APP
POINTED chairman because she has the
better dress. 1t is all very nice and
friendly, and feminine.
Indirect Influence Increases.
And more than that. 1t is direct
influence for coed. For, while ! feel
that men honestly want to do the very
best that they can for women, women
have personal interest in matters that
afec. them most closely, and they con-
centrate on these things. such as vari-
Gus public institutions and the like.
"Ard the indirect influence is ire
mcndously increased" laughed Miss
Younger. "The wife goes home after
on C these meetings, and says TO her
husband What is the meaning OF this
and that? and her husband spends
part Of the next day finding out the
meaning Of something which he as a
citizen should have known long ago"
Many a woman." corroborated Mr.
Heney. "has discovered that her hus-
band has been deceiving her wilfully
for . good many years. She learns,
By questioning him, that he knows less
about the bond question. for example
than she does.
The New Kind of Conversation.
by the way. do you know about
the bond election which took place in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-29
Kitchen Politics and New Conversations
Food Is the Wholesome Contribution
OF CALIFORNIA; Women Voters
SAYS One Of Their Leaders,

Questions Of the Day Are Now
Discussed Over the Fence
and Political Meetings Held
i'm the That ParlOr, and Even
the Indirect Influence is
Greatly Increased for Good
Both Maud Younger and
Francis Heney Declare.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-29

by the way. do you know about
the bend election which took place IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-29

II ITCHEN politics is the California
IL solution. And a most sausfag-
tory one. IT seems. For two
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

In January the order Of the year
brings about the making Of new I'M
dermuslins, house dresses, kitchen
aprons, and all the white work re-
quired by the household and the house.
And in the annual January sales, all
over the country;o white goods, mer-
chants present the stocks of cotton
fabrics which they have assembled in
anticipation of the demand for them.
There is no better season in which
to buy cotton products than at the
beginning Of the year.
There has been steady advance
in the standard Of quality in many
lines of cotton goods, and in the In
PRODUCTION Of high-class novelties, the
mills are making q rapid progress.
A kitchen apron that may be made
of cotton. crepe, as we'll as of the
usual percale or Bingham, is shown in
the picture, and hardly needs de-
scription., It covers the figure and
; fastens at the back, unlike many of
the late patterns. which fastcn at
one side. Blue is the favorite color
for the apron ofgcotton crepe, and it
is finished with white braid bindings
The chief claim. to attention is based
upon the fact that this kind Of apron
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
+, Bailey has a Remedv.

Britt Tribune: What is it? Simp-
ily sort Of wanderlust that strikes
certain men at certain times of the
year to go out and let fly a dose OF
shot at every chicken, duck and
goose that the law allows them to
shoot at Why? More than half Of
the game killed is only wounded at
first and then sinks off into some
hiding place to die simply because
the man with terrible gun wants
to crafty his desire to shoot some
thing. Our birds are getting scare
er, millions of insect destroy crops
just because some one wants to go
out and shoot bang at the birds. IL
Iowa would pass a law that every
sportsman seen with a gun on his
shoulder should be fined s25 and
then dismiss every game warden in
the state 1t would be worth millions
of dollars. Grant no licenses what
ever now or ever for killing any kind
of bird at. any time. If it were not
for the fact that insects prey on each
other they would destroy every liy-
ing vegetable and incidentally all
animal life in a few years. They
breed by the million and billion.
Birds are the friends of humanity
and they ought to be freed from be-
ing the prey of human beings.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

Was Capt. Wilkes disgraced for
having committed such an act with
out any authority and thus having
brought the United States to the
verge of third war with Great
Britain, while it already had for
midable contract on it's hands to
suppress the rebellion? He was not.
Everywhere throughout the north
he was hailed as a hero. Even con-
gress endorsed his act and heaped
honors on him. In 1866 he was made
a rear admiral This, mind you, was
all in spite of the fact that the seiz-
ure of Slidell and Mason was-tlre
quotation is from Blaine again" in
violation of those principles of mari
time law for which the United
States has steadily and consistent
ly contended from the establish
ment of its national life"
Even Secretary of State Seward,
in his reply to Great Britain, took
the ground that the United States
had the right to detain the Trent
and to search for .contraband per-
sons and dispatches, and, moreover,
that Slidell and Mason and the dis
patches on their persons were con-
traband It was On the ground that
Capt. Wilkes had neglected to
bring the Trent into prize court
abd to submit the transaction to ju-
'dicial examination that he released
the prisoners. Blaine declares the
doctrine laid down by Seward was
in conflict with the practice which
the United States had sought to es-
tablish since the foundation of the
government, and that he could not
be maintained on sound principles
of international law. He expresses
regret that we did not base our sur
render of the prisoners on "franker
and truer" ground, viz, that their
oClGulC was III sIUtdttph VI plInSIPISo
which had been steadily maintain
ed by the United States and (which
we would not abandon either for a
temporary advantage or to save the
of our national pride"
What does it all prove but that
war is war and and that each side plays
it's game to its own advantage and
sees things pretty much from the
angle from which, it wants to see
them? In the Trent affair and the
light in which it was viewed by the
American people, may we not bet
Ter catch the viewpoint Of the sew
sral present day European belliger-
snt nations? To the French the
seizure of Germans and Austrians
IN American ships does not seem at
Ill like an atrocious crime, for the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

requires almost no ironing.
Although the subject Of kitchen
aprons is not one to arouse a great
amount of enthusiasm, it is not by
any means without interest. Many:
aprons manage to be attractive, while
they cleverly fill all that is required
Of them in the way Of usefulness.
This means that they must cover the
figure, be plain and easily adjusted,
good looking and shapely. They must
be neatly finished and provided with
at least one pocket and made of ma
terial that will stand any amount Of
tubing.
All Of the new aprons are made
with elbow sleeves except those that
are sleeveless. Very shapely and at.
tractive models have large bib at
the front of the body fastened by fiat
bands Of the material to the belt at
the back. A favorite finish for all
edges is fiat band of material in
contrasting color. All the fast col.
ors are used with white, and striped
effects prevail.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

simple reason that the French are
at war with Germany and Austria.
To the Austrians the action of an
Austrian submarine commander in
attacking an Italian vessel does not,
seem to call for punishment. but
rather for praise, for the simple rea-
son that Austria is at war with It
ally. 1t impressed the people OF the
north as a most laudable act for
Capt. Wilkes to kidnap two agents
of the south, even though they were
sailing under the protection of the
British fag--for the simple reason
that the south was in rebellion
against the United States.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
PREPAREDNESS A WINNER.

President Wilson's preparedness
plans may not be popular in the
west, and may cost him many votes
in this section Of the country at the
election next fall, but people who
think the program for defense as
mapped out by the administration
will lose votes where votes are most
needed for success at the polls are
very apt to find their. view a mis-
taken one. The democratic party
will, of course, get the solid south,
no matter what the democratic adj
ministration does or fails to do. The
south is controlled entirely by its
prejudices. The voters down that
way do not bother in studying What
is best for the country and vote ac-
icordingly. They PUNK in a straight
democratic ticket on election day
and let it go at that. If Bryan, the
peace advocate who is against pre-
paredness, should be the nominee Of
the democratic party, he would roll
up the usual democratic majorities
in the southern states, and that is
just what Wilson will do regardless
of the fact that he stands for pre-
paredness with big p The plant
ers of Louisiana were terribly in
censed at the provisions Of the pres.
ent tariff law putting sugar on the
free list. They met and passed reso-
lutions denouncing it and threaten
ed to do terrible things. But every
last mothers son OF them will march
up to the ballot box on election day
and PUNK in a straight democratic
ticket. They have no better sense
and never will have. Agar or two
ago the Freeman Tribune received
letter from some organization in New
Orleans asking that the newspapers
If the north use their influence to
lefeat the sugar tariff schedules in
he bill then pending in congress,
is its passage meant the destruction
VI the sugar cane interests of the
outh. The Freeman-Tribune wrote
reply to the scnders that was not
ouched in very court eous language.
t told them that it was glad to see
he political hypocrites of Louisiana
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
MORE QUESTIONS.

| Editors FEeeman-Tribune In as
much as Senator Cummins is a strong
favorite of your paper as a presiden-
tiaI candidate in 1916 the writer
would like the editor to inform him
where the senator stands on the fol-
lowing questions:
| How does he stand on prepared
ness? 81 How about increasing our
revenues through raise inA the in
come tax? Is he in favor of a re-
vision of the tariff with a, sharp up
ward turn? Last, but not least,
what is the senator's. attitude in re-
gard to woman's SUFFRAGE? Now if
the senator will be gracious enough
Ito give those questions his personal
attention, I am sure that the read
ing public will be much interested in
what the senator has to say.
Thanking the Freeman Tribune
for this space, am. yours resp,
H. B. Hummel.
I 10 q ID = o.. d. g. a.t
The Freeman-Tr is not auth
orized to speak for Senator Cummins
or any other man, but as Mr. Hum
meTs questions are fair ones we
shall give our opinion as to the at
titude of the senator upon certain
policies. Mr.. Cummins has stated
in newspaper and magazine articles
that he is heartily in favor of a pre-
paredness plan that will enable this
country to fully protect its inter-
ests. He does not agree with some
of the plans of the administration
for preparedness, believing that 9TH
er methods would be better.
The senator has for years been in
favor of an income tax. During the
administration of President Taft he
a bill providing for such
a tax. Taft, in order to defeat the
Cummins bill, had Attorney General
prepare corporation
tax bill as "a substitute, which was
only makeshfft, but Taft's influ-
ence was sufficient to defeat the
cummins bill, which was the best
income tax measure that had been
before congress in years.
There can be no doubt Of Senator
yummins position upon the, tariff.
lie has stood for years for a protect
We tariff, a tariff based upon the
Inference of the cost of production
n this and competing counties. Such
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
THAT TRENT AFFAIR.

. Z i . n
Sioux City Journal: In demanding
of France the release of Germans
and Austrians taken off American
ships, the United States quotes from
a protest which France made in
1851 against the action of the Unit
ed States in taking representatives
of the confederate states off Brit
ish ship.
John Slidell had been named by
the confederacy to- represent 1t at
Paris, and James NJ Mason to rep
resent it at London. They boarded
the British steamer Trent at Ha-
vana, Cuba, to make the trip to Eur
ope. Thus they set sail from a nen-
trail port on a neutral ship, bound
for a neutral port. On November s,
1851, Capt. Charles Wilkes, of the
United States frigate San Jacinto,
stopped the Trent, took Slidell and
Mason prisoners and carried them to
Fort Warren in Boston harbor. Great
Britain, whose feeling toward the
United States had been none too
peremptorily demanded the
release of the prisoners and threat.
ened war as an alternative. Blaine
declares in Twenty Years of Con-
gress' that Great Britain even vent
so far as to send troops to Canada,
On January /, 1862, the United
States released the prisoners.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

tdIlu SCHEDULE Is not HOW upon
our statute books. The present tar
if law was enacted without ,consid-
Grafton being given to this most i'm
portant feature. The senator has
steadily opposed the tribute feature
of tariff ,enactments, the features
that permit benefciaries in this
country to combine and exact unjust
and unfair profits. This is where
Cummins differs from such standpat-
tiers as Taft, Root, Cannon, Penrose,
ct al.
i The Freeman-Tribune doesn't
know what Senator Cummins' views
are upon the question of universal
suffrage.
Now perhaps Mr.. Hummel will
tell us what he thinks of the tariff
issue. Is he in favor of tribute
tariff, the kind that Taft favors? Is
he for a genuine graded income tax?
Is he for Wilson's preparedness
plans? Is he for woman suffrage?
SALES OF FOREST TIMBER.
Bids have been accepted by the
Department of Agriculture for two
large bodies Of National Forest tim
Der estimated to contain 11 sss,1,oolo,-
900 board feet One is in California
and the other in Utah, With one
exception, these are BY far the most
important sales made this fiscal
year, which is expected by forestry
officials to run considerably above
last year in receipts from timber
sales, the first five months having
shown an increase of nearly 40 per
cent.
The California ;, sale is on the
Plumas National Forest, in the Ser
ra Mountains. The most valuable
timber is sugar pine, for which
1925 per thousand was bid, with an
. r. .
estimated total Of nearly 26,O0O,00O
board feet on the tract. For yellow
pine, of which the amount is put at
over 37,OOO,0OO feet, $3.50 was bid.
Douglas fir, white fir, and incense
cedar, which have a much lower
market value, brought an average OF
only about 70 cents thousand for
a total Of over 43,OOO,OOO feet. The
purchaser will be allowed an operat-
ing period of fifteen years, besides, a
year at the beginning for the con-
|struction of necessary improve
ments; but the prices to be paid are
subject to readjustment every five
years.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
Negro Shoots His Wife.

Enterprise. Ia, Dec. 27s-J. w.
Brooks, Negro, shot and fatally
wounded his wife here Christmas
eve. She died Christmas afternoon
at the Methodist hospital. Jealousy
is supposed to have been the cause.
Brooks escaped.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
Fire Losses 100000

San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, Dec.
estimated at 100000
resulted from a fire which started
early yesterday morning in the BUSH
ness section Of Granada.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

.
A. j. Drexel, late of Philadelphia,
who is now living in ease in London
upon the money other members of
the family made in America, says
he wouldn't live in the United States
under any circumstances, because
this is no place for a gentleman to
live. Wonder how Anthony knows
anything about how a gentleman
should live? Perhaps he made that
remark under the impression that he
could make people believe he had at
some time during his eheckered ca
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

The papers over the state will not
always have opportunity to poke
fun" at Webster City because of our
commercial league motto. Some day
the league will get up spunk enough
to change it to something that the
town is not ashamed Of.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

Perhaps the Turks, too, are fight
ing for a place in the sun. But what
is to become of the Armenians?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

Even the Danes do not care to lis
ten to Henry Ford's tale of woe. The
Danes have good memories and have
not forgotten the redoubtable Doctor
Cook.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

Congressman Good of the Fifth
Iowa district, says that President
Wilson has lined UP with the rail-
roads.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

Beware, SO long as you live, Of
Judging men by their outward APP
pearance.-La Fontaine.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

If the farmers of Iowa who have
lost their rural mail service can
pierce the rhinoceros hide Of Post
master General Burleson they will
have performed great public SER
vice.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

According to latest dispatches
from Germany and Austria there APP
pears to be what is called public
sentiment in those countries.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

The, Dubuque Telegraph Herald is
convinced from Representative Tom
Steele's attitude toward a new fed
eral building for Sioux City THAT
he is opposed to pork and that he
possesses a well developed con-
science that the exigencies of poll
tics cannot sway"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

reer associated with gentlemen. But
no matter about that, the American
people are glad that he has decided
to live outside of the United States,
though we do not have any partic-
ular grudge against England.
Some standpatters are scared half
to death over the report that Col.
Roosevelt is to be in Chicago during
the dates of the Republican and pro-
gressive national conventions. But
there is nothing to be alarmed over.
The colonel has very small follow
ing now compared to what he had
in 1912. The unpopularity of Taft
gave the colonel much power dur
ing the last presidential campaign.
4; Now that President Wilson and
Mrs. Norman Gait are married, we
hope the newspaper gossips will al
low them to settle down to life OF
contentment and the pursuit OF lib
erty and unalloyed happiness
Stanhope Enterprise. a.
] Well, of course, when the presi-
Edent goes to church or loses his col
lar button the big papers will be ex-
|pected to tell us all about it and II
Mrs. Wilson should happen to sneeze
an impatient public ought be APP
prised of the fact by big headlines
seross the pages of the New York
and Chicago dailies.
The Freeman-Tribune is in re-
|ceipt of a five page typewriter COM
|munication from Henry Ford's peace
ship, signed by Mr. Ford himself
The communication contains about
II 500 words and would occupy If
published little more than two
columns of space. If Mr.. Ford paid
1.-THE usual price of five cents a line
flor advertisements it wouldsseost him
lin the neighborhood of .$12 in the
Freeman Tribune alone. II pub
Z d + . = q f"
Ilished in all the $4,000 newspapers
lin the United States at approximate
Ily five cents line the cost would be
about 100000. Billy Sunday, who
may be accepted as authority upon
1.-THE matter of free advertising, says
Mr.. Ford's peace propaganda is for
that purpose only. AS the Freeman
Tribune doesn't believe its readers
are interested in Mr.. Ford's wild
goose chase and do not care for his
opinions upon world politics his let
ter is respectfully. consigned to our
oyerburdened waste basket, there to
|repose with other nostrums of
doubtful value and Importance.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
WEBSTER CRY FREEMAN.

get a dose of their own medicine and
advised them to kesp right on vot-
ing the democratic ticket, because
that is the ticket their fathers had
voted and it is the. ticket their sons
will vote. Hence the democrats in
congress and the president need take
no notice of what the south thinks
upon any proposition so far as the
vote of the south at the polls is con-
cerned. Therefore President Will
sons preparedness plans will cost
him no votes in that section of coun-
try, no matter whether the people
agree with him or not. So he is sure
of the south in any event and with
the south carefully tucked away in
his vest pocket all that he has to
do is to get two or three eastern
states, and preparedness is very pop
ular along the Atlantic seaboard.
George Kuhns, vice president OF
the Bankers Life Insurance com com
ipany, Des Moines, has Just returned
home from visit in the, east. He
says wilson's preparedness plans are
very popular down there: The cab
ital quotes Mr.. Kuhns as follows:
t"Republicans, democrats, prohibit
tionists, and the members Of all spo-
litical parties In the eastern states
are alike in standing for prepared
ness. because the question of prepar-
e1ness is not a political issue in those
states. The men of the seaboard are
back Of President Wilson to a man ian
and they do not consider the propo-
sition from a partisan standpoint.
""The sentiment in the east is that
the preparedness plans of President
Wilson, as mapped out and present
ed to congress and the people should
be carried to a finish, regardless OF
party considerations"
If the republican party would win
it must not oppose preparedness.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

"The probabilities are that the
next legislature wiN study over the
matter considerably before chang
ing the state passenger fare rate to
conform to the interstate rate"
thinks the Marshalltown Times-Re-
publican.