davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1916-08-17
Ma Bafkanie.

Paryz, 17-go sierpnia. - Ra,
port 7 salonickiego frontu dono-
81 O zajeciu przez Sprzymierzo-
nych stacyi kolejowej Dorian
pieciu innych wsi i miasteczek
w oko1icy. Pozycvc bufgarskie
? szachowane ma linii dlugiej o.
koio stu mil, ia calem pograni-
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1916-08-17
Walk ma Ba1kanie,
Gadania aPokojowe
INNE TELEGRAMY.
z T e a t r O w
Wojennych.

Ma zachodnirn Teatrze Woj-
ny zdobyli Sprzymierzeni
400 yd. okopow niemieckich
najwiekszy to jednodniowy
sukces w ofensywie pikardyj-
skiej.
Ma wschodnim Teatrze Woj-
ny Rosyanie powoli, lecz sill
ME posuwaja sic pod Lwow; /;
rapport podaje, IL w 10 tygo-
dniach wofynsko-galicyjskiej
ofensywy Rosyanie wzieli
$4,000 Niemcow Austrya-
kow do niewoli.
Wfosi statecznie poSuwaja
sic ku Trystowi, nowe pozy-
eye biora: Niemcy maja bro
mic TryeStu.
Ma Ba{kanie Sprzymierzo-
rzonych poczatkowa ofensywa
zdobywa punkty przez Bu}ga-
row trzymane.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1916-08-17

(Dokoiczenls ma strUnicY 2ej).
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1916-08-17
Obiecuja Filipin niepo.
dlegfosc.

Washington, II. sierpnia. -
Ma wczorajszej sesyi senat przy-
Jai 81 giosami przeciwko 22 bill W
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1916-08-17
Ma Morzach.

Londyn, 17-go sierpnia. -
Donosza re zrodet dobrze infor-
mowanych, IL diva wielkie nury
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
UNA 1O9hfETA AzOTO COS
C'NPAHfNTOS AMERICA
NOS IN CHIHUAHUA
c,Hi} &NA 5P,HFLTaS N I0DA
Ia MGn cAapsEsolGA Vi COlOsIA
CUBAN slA Bat OF Il VAilt

WASHINGTON. Dicicmbre "
En- los deSpachos enviadCs I ID, Sc
cretaria de Guerra. procedentes dc
Columbus. SC ia cucnta de que una
fucrte tormenta que azot0 la region
on que sc ~enc2cntran acampadas las
,ronas americanas en- Mexico. cause
unv serios desperfectos en- los ,parai-
tos dc Ia ~estaci6n radiografica Y ell
general en- los :ampamentos de "a tro-
pa.
In ;orme,.ta azoto cl dia % y abar-
"a m extcnsa area desde Colonla
Dunljn a la base de f. Vale. En- el
nr;mero de los lugarcs citacos ell
verdaha! echo por terra los mast'les
de Ia estaci0n inalambrica, Y en- el
seoundo los depart2mcntoS proVIslo-
males que kabian sido destlnados pa
W 81 Hospital Dc campana numero
2 cucdaron completamente destrni-
dos.
Las bodcgas Y alrlacenes de la Co
mi.aria y a.gunos otros ed!liclos que
AS tr,pas nan leyontato en- esa re-
riue. sufricron tamhien dcsperfect"s
4e con<iLeraci6n. pies los techoS de
aleanos de cllo3 fueron volados y EN-
otr..s Gestruidas parte de les paroles.
Fl numero de ticnias De canpana
re~vantadas en- Q! campamento de Co.
loria Dullin. az" fuaron dcstrdidas
DOL Ell cicl0n So calcula en- I'm Setenta
Y c;nco por ciento de las que forn'a-
han eli camremen,o. Las comunlcaclo-
mes teIcgraflcas ~qucdarcn interrump'-
das a 10 largo dc toda IL liEea.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
In Academic escandalo-
SO en- Encinal, Tex.

LAREDO. Tex. Diciembrc II
Como resultado de un disturbio ma
Dido en- Encinal, Condado de Lasa-
lie, anteayer. Roberto Odamr perdid
Ia vida y Juan Torres y Grrsorio
Escamilla Salieron Grayementa he
ridos. FL ,liputado Sheriff J. \. Pa
mcs y olros c~mpleados dc la poll
ria fueron .lamadoS al siIio dondc
q desUrirn teuia !usar para que
pu,lrran ordcn, pero cuaudo llc=a-
ron los oricialeS y arrcStaron Il al
@unos miivIduuS. unO de los alil
prrsru,"S di>par6 81 ptStola y comen
III i"sdc csc momrntO una rcnida
ru que lubo inuumerablcS dis
pal,,s. Cuauiu 81 hume del rombatr
- dr>N3nrcii. uu houbrr mucrtO y
dos 5IrriioS rStaban trmirdoS Ell e.
campo.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
I'm CENTIKElA AMERICANA DID
NNTRTE 4 IN SOLDhDO RASO

COLUMBUS. n. NJ, Diciembre =.
Fl so:dado raso Albert 4. Strel-
pe,. t,ia muerto por un centincla el
marte<. al intentar aqnel huir del lu-
ga en- do,.de hahia siGo conflnado
por mala conducta.
!Strcigel pidio pcrmiso para il Il
,racr Il" ST. tien.!a a!gunas frazadas
pa.a abrigarsc. pero al rcsre<ar in
tea,6 es-apar. en- vista de 10 qua! ell
ea,cl ,l:. }1izo fucgo ;obrc q, cau-
-aadoic Il mucrtc.
II ccntinela dice que Lam" d"
S;rc:rel Dor tres vcccs para que Sc
d,tuvic,a. poro que aQicl n" MO
ca.2, ra vista dc 10 cual sc VIC obII'
4ado . haccrlc fIcg0.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
r DE- .nyCiCioN.

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,.--. ..-~..r n- --s... ....- @.F
t". "' -' -'
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b.. A.,- -.:' H.. a...-i --- ... e.. u''
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80. .~.....l. ..- =. AMI 1e4
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- ~ rn,
Car. &. s..E"r-s .- "" H-,'s ...
'a.. -a- "a -..-. .... TO-
1..'. ~ "a
a-Ia-> ----. ~ &c. ~
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
TRES AMIGOS

Tn homtre tcnia res amigos 81
dinero, 81 mujcr = Il bucnaS az
clones. Estando = pUnto de MORN.
envio a busca., Z los tres para dcs-
pcdirse de ell0s.
Dijo al primero que Sc prescrt0:
-;Adios, amigo. me mucro! T.
amigo lc respondio:
-Adi6s; cuando hayas muerto,
hare que luzca un cirio por Ell dcs
canso dc tt alma.
Llega el segundo amigo, dcsnidIo-
Sc g.: lc prometi6 qu' lie acompanu-
ria hasta Ia tumba.
Por fir lego ell tcrccro.
-: Muertc soy..-dijole agonizan-
te.--:Adiost
No digaS adios. lie respondio 81
amlgo.-~To 70 me separara dc Il
nunca: i wives, vivire; 81 mueres,
&c SECURE.
Murio 81 hombrc; su dincro lc
dio IN GIRO. ST. mujer le sigulo has
ia la tumLa, Y sus buenas acri9ncs
acompanarironlc, igual que cn vida.
despuas de muvrto.
LEON TOLSTOI.
SuscrjbaSr listed IL IA PRENSA va
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
La PKONINA SEMANA
Cienc &c Ia IA. pIana)

Segdr dichC diario, esos planes
comprcnden cl envio de refuerzos a
la columna del general Pershing. la
expedition de ordcncs concretas z las
fucrzas rcgularcs del cjcrcito para
cFUzar la frontcra en- cuaIquicr mo-
mcnto rcqucrido en- persecution dc
la, partldas armadaS que cfcctueu
raids" or Ia frontcra y cl mantcni-
micnto de los ultimos cuarcnta mil
soidaGoS regularcs. juntamentc con
ctras tropas milicianas, en- diversas
potlaciones de IL frontcra.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
PALABRAS DE R

rs original la famoSa Erase de
Alfonso Karr: "Suprimiria la pena
de mucrte: pero cue cmpiczcn los Sc
horcS ascSinos'', mas cS Ia mas genial
Ge las paradojqs.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
NOTICIAS OFICIALES DE LOS
PASSES EN- GUERRA.
Nicnc dc la 2a.)

e. III rcgidn del Carso. al u de
Nlonrcfai. enderezamog nuestra Inca
en- una extension dc 300 metros, por
medic de IN ataque por sorpresa so
brc LIS l;neas encmigas."
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28

La riudai dc Mexico est" coioc&du
q 7.ll5 pics sobrc c. nivoI dc! mar.
La mCrtalidad en- esd ciudad Ia Sido
notab.cmente grandc.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
GERMS pOEIICis TX YEA.

Ga-- &C., Hg-ar ... ... ... -. e. NJ
f. N-.s .IrI Amor. EI!rl6u .ic lllO 90. l.
Las rl.E.E- -" Mexico .-..-.........- ~
s,,u.'.a- Ne!.s!l-s : He;ralos. FrOSdS -
a.g-egtas : ~Gspevanzas. Ed. de lu.O l.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
No.rias a ~ CcnlayOs

are Is bUSCaT 'n3ridO.
Amor ' mariiTio.
C4lvsriO de amor.
e novI0 1~reSfado.
E! DurgalOFiU de las sOlteraS
FL plrslso he las mulsTes.
FL inferno de los hom0Tcs.
~ haia DC los mares
II Collar dc "SFucrfdHs
r. nido dc T~uiSeNorcS-
Fl = dc las n!l3S-
II alma en- Tin hc>o.
Ia MA dc las flores
Z ntfa de los iazm!les-
Ii yiuda allegro.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28

~RI8ntWTII. 81 pirafl del lamesls.
Jsrk 81 Gr-''lpaupr.
H. ,nDnr.!rrn- ral~oS de Lhndres.
IA 'g4ir.t >GnET!nuit.
IN uG1lrD criminal.
Fl '-,tamrnt0 del nIT"riur.
sherlock Holmes q. II CODt!a11HdI>la lS
Cpto.
IN Ia Esruela Del Cr.msH de Pi'shur1.
4 la pu-rtas ae Ia muerie.
la ri.ta roia ic Far.E.
La hest.a muIRanl.
Una nOChe d. terror.
Fl O b del collar 4" - las.
Ia Iurame pySada del Cairo.
FL uaurrlg!o de Corfu.
Fl rey de los Dandldos-
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28

LORCSA ST. SAN ANTONIO. TE-
MAS. Q229)
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28

LAREDO. T"X.. Diri"mbrr IL
N.rna- Ir las promiu"mtr> familias
rar~ranrI>ta> j" ia capital de- G0ahui-
la ">tin abandonanio la riudad por
trmnr il IN aialur de- 10, viIlistaS,
i'll" -. dice m%arrhan Sobrc Ia citada
pch.ari6n.
Al-una> ,ir "SaS familias nan lie
-a,in q ">ta riudaf y otra> Sc han
",iu'daI" rn la capital de- Nuevo
I.'iu. >r-tin dircn alg1ln"> de los
pa>ai"ro- III" vicncn del sur.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
a,ENFURNS De JOHN {. RhFFLEs.
"a 20 ccntsvos Cada tomo)

Fl iuc6-ni'o mistcr!OSO.
in roho Ell q PaiaclO Real.
ii principe jLgldoT.
FL aszI'O IN 81 sleeping.
Il gmO TC.O.
e. heTede-o de EaZleStone.
Ell secTrto del anillO.
FL P~reS,denIe Dc las COlOnia>.
Fl ralsO %salieadOT.
La dyncelll rapl2tG.
e. rusil del negro.
Fl iesorO del ROghl.
In ylate Dc hOCl>.
FL teScro del EStadO.
FL SaceriG;e del sol.
En- Is raiunera.
FL SecTctO De, I"sOrG.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28

Hb!nah : Jy.i"il 80. -. ...-... ...... n.2i
IN hltO natural ... %. q. =. .. e. 0.S
/ Ia rb;..r rir-'prrH't. 10
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
A,ENTURN> DE sHERLOCh HOLMES.
"a 80 centayoS l0mot

ri EcudCIOr iic IEJsEtres.
ri ~1A0 Del tIana1i: UTul.
La MIA Tel us1EEro.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-28
LEON TOLSTOl.

S~uscribasc listed IL IA pRENSA Il
L. 30 ce,talos a. mes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
pEEENps GRAIN FARMER.

Cyril G. Hopkins, Of the depart
ment of agronomy of the university
of Illinois, made a defense of the
grain farmer in an address before
the Farmers Grain Dealers Associa-
ton at Des Moines a few days ago.
While the Freeman-Tribune doesn't
claim to know much about farming
or the way to conserve the soil. the
published report of Mr.. Hopkins ad-
dress sounds like good, sense TO US.
He combats the theory that the
grain farmer is "soil robber,' as
many authorities say he is. Mr..
Hopkins said:
1.-THE decision between grain farm
ing and live stock farming should be
based upon preference and profit.
The world does not live upon milk
and meat. There is need for bread
and instead of calling the grain
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
SENSIBLE VIEW.

Charles City Press: Our dealings
with Columbia over the Panama can
al strip can be twisted to suit the
disposition of the party or parties in
the controversy, but at the worst 1t
cannot be charged that it was case
of land hunger, but rather the OBJ
ject was to further world enter
prise in which Columbia would pro-
fit along with other nations. The
man who holds fictitious price on
a piece of property merely because
he can, although he may by so doing
interfere with the development OF
the community, has little sympathy
from his neighbors, and Columbia
persisted in delaying great enter
prise involving the entire world, in
the effort to play a hold-up game,
but Roosevelt intercepted the plot,
and at the same time offered iiber-
al price for the territory, over which
they still continue to ha2gle.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
ONLY A HABIT.

In spite of all the newspaper talk
about Frank P. Woods popularity in
the Tenth district, if he does get
elected for the fifth time, he merely
will have equaled the record OF
James P. Conner, his predecessor,
and that of Jonathan P. DolliVer,
who preceded Judge Conner. The
Tenth district has habit of keeping
its representatives in Office for COM
Portable periods of time.-sioux City
Journal.
But Mr.. Woods made his first
fight upon the ground that no rep
resentative should have more than
two terms unless he possessed unus-
ual ability and had to his credit d
record of unusual accomplishments.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
REASON FOR DEMOCRATIC
DESPONDENCY.

Washington, Feb. 8. Especial
Correspondence From the West
and the Northwest comes the inter-
esting rumor that large numbers OF
Democrats refuse to follow Mr.. Will
sons sudden change from pacihsm
to militarism and that they are
planning to join with the few Re-
publicans who favor peace at any
price in an independent political
movement which will nominate Bry-
and and Ford as presidential tick
ct. y
The originators of the plan admit
that the larger portion of whatever
support the ticket may secure will
come from the Bryan. element of the
Democratic party, bat they are hope
full that enough Republicans will
Join them to enable the Bryan-Ford
ticket to carry several states in that
part of the country. The territory
in which this movement is spring
ing up is naturally Republican and,
with the reunion of Republican
strength which has taken place, has
been counted sure for the nominee
of the Chicago convention. If Bry-
an-Ford party should gain any con-
siderable number of electoral votes,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
kBOUTAR ARMIES.

Charles City Press: Holland has
a population of 100000 with an
army, including the reserves, Of AGO.
900, and her navy stands twelfth
among the nations of theaworld. On
the same basis this country would
have an army of about 100000,
and on the German basis, which was
credited at the breaking out Of the
war with an army Of 100000 and
a population Of 65,000,000 or one
soldier to every ten people, we would
have an. army Of 1O,O00,00O men, OF
course no one contends for such an
army, but it is interesting in the
way of comparison. France and Aus
tria work on the, same basis as Ger
many. European \ nations talk OF
their armies in millions while Amer
lea talks in thousands.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
ARTHUR BRISBANE.

If Arthur Brisbane, editor OF the
Hearst publications, said to be the
highest salaried editor in the world
doesn't know any more about other
things about which he writes than
he does about prohibition in Iowa,
Hearst better pay him off and get a
cheaper man, who doesn't talk Sc
much about something of which he
knows so little. The prohibition
question in this state is working it.
self out very satisfactorily and the
people are finding that prohibition
does prohibit, Mr.. Brisbane to the con-
trary Notwithstanding What do all
his theories and academic PROPOSE
tions amount to when they do not
square with actual experience? Pps-
sibly prohibition would be a failure
in New York City, the home of Mr..
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
..sPEED-WEIGHT."

Speed weight is the name given
by Col. e. A. Stevens, Commissioner
of Public Roads of New Jersey, and
recently elected president Of the
American Road Builders Associa-
ton, to newly designated factor in
road building which must be more
carefully considered by highway en-
gineers in the future. The rate Of
speed at which commodities of given
weights can be carried over road
las a definite relation to the value
of the road, the commodities to a
community, in dollars and cents;
and to construct roads which will
stand under the present heavy au-
tomobile and motor truck traffic, a
most careful study of speed
weights" is required.
The vast amount of money being
spent every year in road and street
construction and maintenance
amounting to several hundred mil
lion dollars, and the constantly
growing necessity for a greater mile
age of improved roads which will
sustain modern traffic, and the rap
i'd development of motor vehicles to
handle both commodities and passen-
gers at high speed, all tend to slim
ulatel highway officials and engineers
to higher appreciation OF the
economic and scientific principles in
volved.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22

7 . = = r
farmer a soil robber, we should be
just as ready to encourage soil en-
richment in grain farming as in live
stock farming.
"The common teaching that live
stock on the farm. is essential for the
maintenance of soil fertility is en-
tirely erroneous. 1t is also an err
roneous assumption that the manure
produced in live. stock farming is
sufficient for the permanent main
tenance of fertility on such farms.
animals and animal products are
not made out Of nothing. Bone meal
is worth $25 or $50 ton because OF
the fertility it contains, and this fer
tility was taken from the soil by the
crops and removed from the crops by
the animals, not all Of the fertility
in the crops fed being recovered in
the manurial excrements.
IA ton of clover may be harvest
ed, hauled to the barn, and fed to
cattle to produce $50 pounds in
crease in the live weight Of cattle,
worth perhaps $12;s or it may be
plowed under without harvesting
and thus fed to a succeeding crop OF
wheat, perhaps increasing the yield
by fifteen bushels, which at eighty
cents bushel is also worth s12.
''Both the science of soil fertility
and the results of long continued
farm trials fully establish the fact
that the productive power of nor
NAL soil can be maintained on grain
farms as we'll as on live stock farms
by means of ground limestone, fine
ly pulverized natural phosphate
rock, and homegrown organic mat
ter, which may be farm manure, OF
it may be legume crops and croE
residues plowed under"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
PASTECRIZED MILK.

That there is no valid objection to
pasteurization of milk when proper.
ly performed and that the process
makes safer even the most carefully
handled and inspected milk, is the
conclusion of a new professional pa.
per of the Department of Agricul.
ture, in which are set forth the mos1
recent conclusions of scientists in
regard to this matter. 1t seems prob
able, says this paper, that within
the next two years large proper
ton of milk supply in the large cit
les will be pasteurized. There is al.
ready marked tendency in this di.
rection. About ten years ago only
5 per cent of the milk supply Of New
York City was pasteurized. In 1914
IS per cent was treated in this way
at present so per cent of the mill
Of Boston is pasteurized, and there
are corresponding increases in many
Of the smaller cities.
Before the value of pasteurization
as 4 hygienic measure was as well
recognized as it is today, according
to the authority, it was practiced il
secret by a number of milk dealers
as a means of preserving milk and
preventing it from souring. It's COM
mercial value in this respect is un-
doubtedly great, but its chief func-
ton is the destruction of diseasc-pro-
ducing organisms. roper pasteur-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 90, 1916.

" ! (, /. y. = Z
either there or elsewhere, 1t might
result that no candidate. would gain
a majority Of the electoral college
and that the choice of a President
would again be thrown into the
House Of Representatives the first
time that such thing has happen
ed, it is recalled, since the election
of John Quincy Adams.
In such an event each state would
cast one voteto be determined by
the majority vote of its representa-
ton in the lower branch Of Con-
gress. This would produce a Repub-
lican President.
Twenty-four states have Repub-
lican majority in their COMPRESSION
al delegations. They are Connecti-
cut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa,
Maine, Massachusetts,, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey,
New York, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, Vermont, Washington. Wis
consin and Wyoming.
Twenty states are Democratic In
their Congressional delegations.
They are Alabama, Arizona, Arkan-
sas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia. In
diana, Kansas, Kentucky, LOUISIANA,
Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia.
Three states are tied. They are
Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia.
And one state, California, has a del
egation in Congress comprising
three republicans, three democrats,
two Progressives, one Progressive
Republican, one Independent and
one Prohibitionist.
Consequently, the report of Bry-
an and Ford movement arouses only
an academic interest among Repub-
licans here-while the Democrats
are already so respondent over their
prospects at the next election that
nothing can add to their gloom.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22

Brisbane, but in Iowa it is a success.
At least that is the way it looks now.
Possibly the New York editor want
ed to start controversy in order to
keep his name before the public fol
a time. If that. was his purpose in
interfering prohibition into his ie-
marks at the recent editorial meeting
at Des Moines he has succeeded ad-
mirably. The whole state is talking
about it and it is being demonstrated
that Mr.. B. didn't know his subject
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
NEW JOB FOR WOODS.

Carroll Herald: Newspapers are
taking undue liberty with Fred Lar
abee. He is now mentioned in con-
nection with nomination for con-
gress in this district. There is but
one reason against his going to con-
gress that we think of just now;
that is Frank Plowman Woods. That
gentleman bars the passage along
the Washington route at present.
Perhaps he will get out of the way
when made United States senator to
succeed President Cummins. But
for the present he obstructs the
avenue. 8S4
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-02-22
RURAL CREDITS

The Hollis rural credits bill,
which provides for loans to farmers
on farm lands at not more than five
per cent, has been reported favorab-
ly to the senate. It is not a party
measure and it's friends believe it
will become a law, regardless OF the
fact that the big loaning institutions
and the big banks are against It..
Farmers in the west ought to write
their representatives in congress to
support the measure. 1t would be
great thing for the agricultural in
terests of the country. 1t proposes
to establish non-partisan loan
board, with the secretary OF the
treasury as one member, the others
to be appointed by the president.
The board charters farm loan banks,
locally, which will take mortgages
from actual farmers and issue bonds
with the>mortgages as security. This
plan, the committee claims, will
standardize farm loans all over the
country. Of course this does not
mean that Iowa land will be taken
as security upon the same basis of
value as cheaper.land. That will be
governed by value, as it is now by the
loaning companies. Land worth 500
per acre may bs given as security for
perhaps forty per cent of its actual
value. or $40 per acre. The mort
cages may run for a long term OF
years, the limit in the bill being
thirty-six years. The borrower will
not be required to pay commissions,
renewal fees, discounts or anything
Of that kind. 1t has been urged up
on congress for. many years to enact
some legislation of this character,
but heretofore the opponents of gov
eminent credit loans have been able
to block every bill providing for
such plan. One of the arguments
used against such legislation is the
charge that it would be "socialistic,'
"populistic," or "paternalism, "ar-
guments" that are usually resorted
to when there are no good reasons
to advance. But the country is get
ting to point of knowledge where
| it is not "scart half to death by the
threat of socialism or populism. The
people now know that these isms en-
brace many doctrines that are sound
and for the good of all.