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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05
Mckinley Avenue Line Work is Be
ina pushed Along az Fast as
possible With Good Wealth.
er to Help.
PART OF RAILS ARE LAID
pole, Are Up Along Right Of Way fo'
part Of the Distance-serve
New Residence
section.

satisfactory progress is being made
nm the extension of the Mckinley
avenue street car line. The poles on
each side of the track to carry the
trolley wires have been erected for
some distance. and track has been
laid over the major portion Of the
distance from the present terminal
to where the track will meet Maip
street. Ballast is being spread over
the remaining distance to make the
foundation for the ties and rails.
The track will run parallel with
Main street extension from where it
Joins the street out to Thirty-second
street. The proper excavation has
been made for this, and track will be
laid along this part of the road as
soon as it is possible to do SO.
With the extension of the car track
to Keokuk, Heights, this new residence
district Will be in popular demand, it
is believed. The entire district mere
viii, be served by the street car COM
pany, and the tire company and the
refinery and lead plant employees will
find this a convenience in getting out
to the plants on he industrial tract.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05

thorough Industrial preparation OF the
country for the critical years of eco
nomic development Immediately ahead
of us in very large measure depends.
May l not urge it's early and favor
able consideration by the house Of
representatives and its early enact
ment into law? It contains plans
which affects all interests and all
parts of the country and l am sure
that there is no legislation now pend
ing before the congress whose pass
age the country awaits with more
thoughtful approval or greater i'm
patience to see a great and admirable
thing set in the way of being done.
There are other matters already
advanced to The stage of conference
between the two houses of which it
is not necessary that | should speak.
Some practicable basis ,of agreement
concerning them will no doubt be
found and action taken upon them.
Inasmuch rs this is, gentlemen.
probably the last occasion l shall
have to adore IS the sixty-fourth con-
gress, l hope that you will permit
me to say with what genuine plea
sure and satisfaction 1 have cooper
ated with you in the many measures
of constructive policy with which
you have enriched the Legislative
annals Of the country. 1t has been
a privilege to labour in such com
paay. / take the liberty of congratu.
lating you upon the completion of a
record of rare serviceableness AID
distinction.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05
HIS FRIEND HURT; ]
he HELPED HIM
Injured Man Laughed When Simple
Treatment Was Suggested,
But He Thanked His
Comrade Later.

Once upon a time word came TO
Henry A. Voehl, of Plainfield, N. J !,
that a close friend had been injured,
and full of anxiety he visited the
afflicted man, who was suffering from
a sprained ankle
1T was so bad that the leg had
turned black" said Mr.. Voehl in re-
lating the story. Il told him l world
have him out in week and he
laughed at me. But I took him q
bottle Of Sloan's Liniment, that night
he put some on and noticed the ankle
felt better. told him to use it every
day, and in three days his ankle was
practically well. In four days lie
was working. He gladly admits that
Sloan's Liniment put him on mis-
feet"
Sloan's Liniment can be obtained at
all drug stores, Csc, soc and S1.00.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05

merits. and opportunity to consider
all practicable means Of Cancellation
or arbitration. can see nothing in
that proposition but the justifhble
safeguarding by society of the noes
sary processes OF it's very life. There
is nothing arbitrary. or unjust in 1t
unless it be arbitrarily and unjustly
done. It can and should be done
with a full and scrupuious regard for
the interests and liberties of all con-
cerned as well as for the permanent
interests of society itself.
Three Other Matters.
| Three matters of capital import
ance await the action of the senate
which have already been acted upon
,, by the house Of representatives: The
bill which seeks to extend greater
freedom of combination to those en-
gagged in promoting the foreign COM
merce Of the country than is now
thought by some to be legal under
the terms Of the laws against
monopoly; the bill amending the
present organic lew of Porto Rico;
and the bill proposing a more thor
ough and systematic regulation of the
expenditure Of money in elections,
commonly called the corrupt practices
act. l need not labor my advice that
these measures be enacted into law.
Their urgency lies in the manifest
circumstances which render their
adoption at. this time not only oppor
tune but necessary. Even delay would
seriously jeopardize the interests of
the country and Of the government.
Immediate pas sage Of the bill to
regulate the expenditure of money in
elections may, seem to be less neces-
sary than the immediate enactment
of the other measures to which l
refer; because at least two years will
elapse before another election in
which federal offices are to be filled;
but it would gleatly relieve the pub
lie mind if this important matter
were dealt with while the circum-
stances and the dangers to the public
morals of the present method of OBJ
tanning and spending campaign funds
stand clear under recent observation
and the methods of expenditure can
be frankly studied in the light Of
present experience; and delay
would have the further very serious
disadvantage of postponfng action
until another election was at han1
and some special object connected
with II might DC lHOuBHt u De III tue
mind of those who urged it. Action
can be taken new with facts for guild
ance and without suspicion of parti-
san purpose.
I shall not argue at length the de-
STABILITY of giving freer hand in
the matter of combined and concert
ed effort to those who shall under
take the essential enterprise of build
ing up our export trade. That enter
Prise will presently, will Immediately
assume, has indeed already assumed,
magnitude unprecedented IN our
experience. We have not the neces-
sary instrum entalities for its prose-
cution; it is deemed to be doubtful
whether they could be created upon
an adequate scale under our present
laws. We should clear away all legal
obstacles and, create basis of I'M
doubted law for it which will give
freedom without permitting unregu-
lated license. The thing must be
done now, because the opportunity is
here and may escape US if we hest
tate or delay.
Porto Rico Law.
The argument for the proposed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
TO CONGRESS
CONTINUED from page u

are seetbing over the high cost of liv-
ing problem and interest in this has
oyershadowed all old proposed action,
the president made no reference to it
today. He is making efforts to devise
the best plan for the curbing of soar
ing prices.
It is believed the president will
either deliver special message on the
question later, or take it up personally
with the house and senate leaders
when plan he deemed feasible has
been found.
So serious does the president regard
the high cost of living question that he
has determined to keep it out Of poll
tics if possible
He is understood to feel that repub-
licans and democrats are equally in
terested in a solution of the difficulty
and will make no etlort to put through
party measure.
The Presidents Address.
Gentlemen of the Congress-:
In fulfilling at this time the duty
laid upon me by the constitution. of
communicating to you from time tn
time information of the state Of the
union and recommending to your con-
sideration such legislative measures
as may be judged necessary and ea
pedient shall continue the practice,
which / hope has been acceptable to
you. of leaving to the reports of The
several heads of the executive lie
partments, the elaboration Of the de-
tailed needs of the public service AMI
ccnfine myself to those matters Of
more general public policy with which
1t seems necessary and feasible to
deal at the present session of tho
congress.
realize the limitations of time
under which you will necessarily act
at this session and shall make my
suggestions as few as possible; but
there were so'ae things left undone
at the last session which there will
now be time to complete and which
Il seems necessary in the interest of
the public to do at once.
In the first place, it seems to me
imperatively necessary that the
earliest possible consideration and
action should be accorded the re-
naming measures of the programm g
of settlement and regulation which
had occasion to recommend to you at
the close of your last session in view
of the public dangers disclosed by the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05

perfected as an administrative ir!'ru.
ment.
Country is Exposed.
The country cannot and should hot
consent to remain any longer exposed
to profound. industrial disturbances
for lack of additional means of arbi-
tration and Cancellation which the
congress can easily and promptly sup
ply: And all will agree that there
must be no doubt as to the power Of
the executive to make immediate and
uninterrupted use Of the railroads for
the concentration of the military
forces of the nation wherever they
are needed and whenever they are
needed.
This is a programme of regulation,
prevention, and administrative = eff
cheney which argues it's own case in
the mere statement of it. With re.
gard to one of it's items, the increase
in the efficiency of the Interstate
commerce commission, the house OF
representatives has already acted i its
action needs only the concurrence OF
the senate.
I would hesitate TO recommend, and
| dare say the congress would hest
tate to act upon the suggestion
should l make it, that any man in
any occupation should be obliged by
law to continue in an employment
which he desired to leave. To pass
a law which forbade or prevented the
individual workman to leave his work
before receiving the approval OF so.
ciety in doing so would be to adopt
a new principle into our Jurisprudence
which l take it for granted we are
not prepared to introduce. But the
proposal that the operation of the
railways of the country shall not be
stopped or interrupted by the cor
certed action Of organized bodies Of
men until a public investigation
shall have been instituted which
shall make the whole question ii:
issue plain for the judgment. Of the
opinion of the nation is not to pro-
pose any such principle. 1t is based
upon the very different principle that
the concerted action Of powerful
bodies of men shall not be permitted
to stop the industrial processes of
the nation, at any rate before the
nation shall have had an opportunity
to acquaint itself with the merits of,
the case as between employee and
employer, time to form It's opinion
upon an impartial statement of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05

Hinton Gazette: Sioux City, having
furnished Iowa with governor. and
the eleventh district with congress
man, is now perfectly willing to fur
nish a speaker for the next house of
representatives. I:otb big and gen
erous is Sioux City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05

unaccommodatsd difficulties which
then existed, and which still un-
happily continue to exist, between
the railroads OF the country and their
locomotive engineers, conductors, and
trainmen.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05

to add to it's duties still others equally
heavy and exacting. 1t must first be
perfected as an administrative ir!sru-
ment.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-09

MT. Roosevelt in the summer of 1912 did not dream of the possibility of world war beginning in the summer of 1914-although such a far-seeing statesman might at least have taken the possibility into account in framing a plank on national defense-the won der is, one might say it is the won- der of wonders, that MT. Roosevelt left ''the duty of preparedness entire ly out of his scheme for "a new and, nobler commonwealth" Tn Chicago MT. Roosevelt grieved because ''we have been sinking into the position of the China of the occident;" but by his covenant with the people" in 1912 he himself helped us to sink. How he rages against pacifsm! Yet the plank of 1912 on the national defense of "a new and nobler common- wealth" was shot through and through with pacifsm, even to the two battle ships year flor the present. only. Miss Jane Addams would never have rallied the forces of social justice to the colonel's support if the plank had not squared with her well-known con- victiOns.
 The colonel succeeded in polling 4,000, 900 votes on his pacifst, or near pacifist platform and there was noth- ing to indicate when Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States in March 1913 that the colonel was alarmed because the army Of the United States on this continent was not over 50,0O0 strong and our navy had already fallen behind Germany's in rank among the navies of the world. In heavens name! with such armaments as MT. Wilson inherited from his predecessors in 1913 what actual military weight could any president have cast into the scales of the European struggle which broke out before the presidents term was half through? Preparedness. on the line the colonel now breaches as a gospel of national salvation should have been begun 10 years sooner. in order to have made the United States feared as a military antagonist 5000 miles from our own shores. Yet, as late as 1912. the apostle of prepared ness himself was asking for votes on a near-pa citist platform which made inspiring reading for Jane Addams and Henry Ford.
 There is a republican or progressive editor in rural Illinois who was asked why he had come to prefer Wilson; and a part of his answer was that Wilson had actually done more in Is months to prepare the United States for war than his predecessors had done in 16 years. The approximate truth of that will be established at least when the army and navy bills now before Congress have become law ''
New Britain herald., 1916-05-09
SHOWING UP ROOSEVELT.
The Preparedness of 1916 and the
 Near-PaCifism of 1912.
(The Springfield Republican.)

(The Springfield Republican,
 It occurred to one, after reading MT. Roosevelt's Chicago speech on pre- paredness, to turn back to the na- tional progressive platform of 1912 for an interpretation of the question of national defense as offered by the great founder of the national progress sve party only two years before the world war began. That platform was Covenant with the people" and 1L heralded the building of a "new and nobler commonwealth" l. professed to lay the foundations of the flew re- public.
 In his Chicago speech Saturday night, MT. Roosevelt could not en- phasize strongly enough the duty of preparedness. It is obvious that he regards it as the prime obligation of modern state. It comes first, it comes last, it comes all the time. Unless We prepare in advance" he said we cannot when the crisis comes be true to ourselves. If we cannot be true to ourselves, it is absolutely certain that we shall be false to every one else. If we are not able to safe guard our own national honor and in terest we shall make ourselves an ob- ject of scorn and derision if We try to stand up for the rights of others" In concrete terms, preparedness means to MT. Roosevelt a big navy, stand ing army of 250,000 men and Eni- versal, compulsory military service.
 It is somewhat astonishing, conse- quently, to find in tho national pro- gressive platform of 1912 the colOnels philosophy of preparedness expressed in these terms:
 The progressive party deplores the survival in our civilization of the har- barrie system of warfare among na- tions, with it's enormous waste of re- sources even in time of peace and the consequent impovershm of the life of the toiling masses. We pledge the party to use it's best endeaVorS to sub- stftute judicial and other peaceful means of settling international differ ences. We favor an international agreement for the limitation of naval forces. Pending such an agreement, and as the best means of preserving peace, we pledge ourselves to main- tain, for the present, the pOicy of building two battleships a year.
 That includes every blessed word in the platform of MT. Roosevelt's party, Nlllcn NdS uedltctleu Io tlC upOulltiIiS of a new and nObler commonwealth" ," i on the duty of preparedness. All of the emphasis was placed on the bar ! barism of war upon International i treaties and tribunals for the pacific l settlement of international disputes i and upon the limitation of naval arm ! aments Even the established policy | of two new battleships a year was indorsed only flor the present" As ! for the army of the United StatCS-nO :, one would have known from the con- [ tents of the progressive platform that 1 it existed much less that it needed to i be increased or that universal, com i pulsOry military srviCe was ever to he 1 a necessary part of the American sys- l tenn of government
 The wonder is not so much that 1
New Britain herald., 1916-05-09
THE LAST WORD.

Four short paragraphs are required by President Wilson to answer the German note of almost four thousand words; but in this brief missive is to be found more meat, more substance than in any of the previous state papers. It is a calm, cool, deliberate answer one that puts the case in a one that leaves no room for further bartering, or dicker1ng, or arguing by Germany The President accepts Germany's expressions Of faith in that it will try in the future to confine the operation of the war Tor the rest of it's duration among the Hshtlng forces of the belligerents.
 lolh now on the future relations be-
 tween the United States and Germany rest with the Imperial Government,
 for "the Government of the United
 States will rely upon a scrnn71lous execution henceforth of the new al-
New Britain herald., 1916-05-09

tered policy of the Imperial Govern ment". Nothing could be palmer. Dlsmlssing, in one sentence, Ger many's attempt to adjust her diff ferences with this country by drag glng in the offenses committed by England, the President says that this government cannot for a moment en- certain, much less discuss, the sug- gestion that respect for American rights should be contingent upon the conduct of any third party. It is the old principle of dealing with one of fender at a time, and it is admirably set forth in this phrase: "Respon- sibility in such matters is single, not joint; absolute, not relative"
New Britain herald., 1916-05-09
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER,
Its Humanity Expounded by a Kansas
 Editor. Civilian Allen White in Harper's
 Ma gaZine.l

Civilian Allen White in Harper's
 Magazine.)
 Our papers, our little country pa- pers, seem drab and miserably pro- vincial to strangers; yet we who read them read in their lines the sweet, intimate story of life. And all these touches of Nature make us wondrous kind. It is the country newspaper, bringing together daily the threads of the towns life, weav- ing them into something rich and strange, and setting the pattern as it weaves directing the loom, and giv- ing the cloth it's color by mixing the lives of all the people in it's color pot-it is this country newspaper that reveals us to ourselves, that keeps our country hearts quick and our country minds open and our country faith strong.
 When the girl at the glove counter marries the boy in the wholesale house the news of their wedding is good for 4O-line wedding notice, and the 40 lines in the country paper give them self-respect. When in due course we know that their haby is a 12-pOunder named Grover or Theodore or WOod- row, we have that neigh borly feel ing that breeds the real democracy When we read of death in that home we can mourn with them that m Ourn When we see them moving upward in the world, into a firm and out toward the country club neighborhood we re- joice with them that rejoice. There fore. men and brethren, when YOU are riding through this vale of tears upon the California Limited, and bv chance pick up the little country newsna per with it's meager telegraph service of 5000 or 4000 Words-or, at best, 15.- 900 or 2O,000; when you see it's ar ray of countryside items: it's inter- minable local stories: it's tiresonoa ed 1torials on the water works, the schools, the street railroad, the crons and the city printing, don't throw down the contempt little rag with the verdict that there is nothine, in it. But know this and know if well. if you could take the clay from vour eyes and read the little paper as if is written you would find all of Gods beautiful sorrowing, struggling, asDir- ing world in it, and what vou saw would make you touch the little paper with reVerent hands
New Britain herald., 1916-05-09

place that from all accounts misrepre- sented the name home.
 Granting that the charges against the keeper of the home for the aged and infirm a Windsor is proven guilty, that she administered poison to the many old folk under her care, she must be branded as the arch criminal of creation. Her crime will go down in history as having no par aIlel The killing of innocent babes by the Roman emperor was conducted by a wild man. The murdering of poor, helpless old people merely for the sake of money, or for any other motive, is so dastardly as to be be- yond the power of condemnation. The whole affair will have a terrible effect on those people who are so easily led to trust their loved ones to the care of strangers, to those some times ungrateful sons and daughters who, for various reasons, allow their aged relatives to seek surcease from worldly cares in professional homes. If the happenings of Windsor have this effect on some few people they will have mitigated their own horror.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-09
WINDSOR HORROR.

Allan Poe, in his widest in1- never bethought such a con- affairs as those hinted at in bse' of the Archer Home for m at Windsor. The whole af- horrifying, so appalling, as to sBt unbelievable. Mrs. Amy D. Szilligan, proprietress of the 8s now under arrest, charged lily with the murder of one 2 R. Andrews, a former in Those death is directly attrib- poisoning. Further, the state Helieve that some twenty more were committed in this home. |bnnecticut is shocked at the revelations from Windsor. In bet little New England will #nich may be henceforth as the scene of more whole Irders than were ever before 8ed at one place in this state, ] today a spirit of wonder, of h. No sane man could dream,
 en think of such state of ct the arrest of this woman x With such a heinous crime is
 result of wild rumor or specu- M l2 | comes after an investigation x tate police, a search that ex-
 over a period of two vears x it is shown that at least +
 of the home died as the re E poisoning, for their bodies N ng exhumed and subjected to
 revealed traces of arsenic. M Mases the certificates of death d natural causes, thus fore
 N o suspicion. During a period E ears almost fifty persons died @hor1e, a home that harbored
 he course of each year only @ ge of ten persons. It is be- zzhat many New Britain people
 e victims of violence in this
New Britain herald., 1916-05-09
Curious COndensati0nS.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.)

Recent examination of the coal de- posits of Spitzbergen indicates that they contain more than 1000, ,0G0, ,0O0 tons of fuel of remarkable purity.
 It is estimated that S10,0O0,000 worth of gold is destroyed annually by a Chinese custom of burning small pieces of gold leaf on certain anni- versaries.
 During the six months from April to September, 1915, 62O motOrcars of American make were imported into India as against 4O7 made in Great Britain
 The number of liquor licenscs is- sued in all the five horoughs Of Great CT New York last year was about l2.- 900. The states share, net revenue, was around $5,0OO,00O; the city's about $5,700,OOO.