Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-01-25

Woods for the nomination will find
he has undertaken a MANS job and
must go into the fight with determ-
ination to carry it into every county.
Gen. Weaver, chief Of the United
States coast artillery, says there is
no gun in New York harbor that can
shoot over twelve miles. What would
New. YorkNdo If Great Britain or Ger
many would send over a fleet of war
ships after the European war is over,
some of them having guns that will
carry twenty miles? They could
stand off eight miles beyond the
reach of our guns and reduce the
American metropolis to a heap of
smoldering ruins. But the fact that
we have had no serious trouble from
that direction in hundred years has
lulled our people into Indifference
and they are resting in fancied secur-
ity. If an old man who had surviv-
ed eighty years would insist that he is
in no danger Of dissolution simply be-
cause he has never died he would oc-
cupy the same position this country
does today. China existed for thous-
ands of years without serious moles-
tation, but curing the past few years
she has witnessed the gobbling Of big
chunks of her territory by France,
Russia, Germany and Great Britain.
IN fact no nation, save those we'll
prepared to take care Of themselves
n a military way, except the United
States, has escaped the raids Of mill
tary pirates and it beh ooves this coun-
try to get ready to resist any and all
attacks that may possibly be made
upon it.
SHOULD RESPECT AGREEMENTS.
Senator Larrabee is one of the
influential men of the upper house
and his district should return him if
he will consent to serve longer" in
sists the Webster City Freeman
Tribune. "The claims of other
candidates should have absolutely nc
weight. The interests of the dis
trict and of the state should be de-
termining factors
The claims sof other candidates
rarely do have especial weight as re-
CARDS the voters. They vote fol
whom they see fit regardless OF
claims But AM agreement between
political leaders usually is consider
ed binding upon the men who make
| it and agreement between counties
as to division of honors has always
been held to carry weight with thos'
who entered into it. If Webster
and Calhoun have had an agreement
! of this sort it can scarcely be dis
missed as of no weight whatever
Times Republican.
If Webster and Calhoun counties
have such an agreement or under
standing as the Times Republican
refers to it should be respected b!
Mr.. Larrabee and his friends. Tha
cannot be classified as a '.claim" o
| a candidate. 1t is the claim" of
large part of the district-of yer!
large minority of the voters. How
ever, if the republicans of Calhoun
county will waive this "claim"' fol
the present, Mr.. Larrabee could b.
returned to the position he is SO wei
fitted to occupy and which he hal
filled SO satisfactorily the past few
years. But this is a question fol
Calhoun county to determine, ant
she ought to determine it upon the
broad basis of the greatest good fol
the entire district and state.
SOCK 1T TO EN-. /.
The Tribune is in hearty
accord with the principle. embraced
in bill introduced in the senate by
Senator Kenyon providing for heavy
taxes upon the income from Ameri.
can sources of the rich people who
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