The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-16
IOWA DRESS coMmENr

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Soldering
is surely mans job-and it is diff
cult to understand why 4 man who If
expected to do and to dare and per
haps to die for this fich country
should not get mans pay for such
work.
Boone News-Republican: Hiram
Johnson will not be the next repupii
can candidate for president. He r9n
like house afire in California and he
will be popular idol there as long as
! he lives. But the returns from Cali
fornia do not smell right to made him
| the national standardbearer of the r.
o. P.
| Marshalltown Times-Republica !;
Contemplation of the rising prices
brings the cheering thought that sal
walton is free-but that's about the
only thing that is.
| Sioux City Journal: The New York
/ World confesses its inability to share
INF Bryans vision of the democratic
party as prohibition party. Looking
back, one can not find anything in
which the World and Bryan have been
| in complete agreement, yet a lot OF
democrats out west continue to look to
Bryan for leadership.
| Davenport Times: Please do not
assume that because everyone who can
work Is working at fair wages there
will be no children of poor families In
need of Christmas cheer this year. The
/ high cost of living is making 1t din
cult for the poor even when the bread
winner is employed. But when there
lis no breadwinner at all, what then
Think it over.
Dubuque Times-Journal: 1t is most
encouraging to read in the state news
papers the opinions that meddling with
the next senatorial election in Iowa is
poor brand Of Iowa sentiment.
Sioux City Tribune: Outstanding
influences have wrought more justice
| in the world than force. In attempt
| ing to destroy that influence the social
lists are attacking the chief Oh those
who need its protection.
Des Moines Tribune: II things work
out as the new premier hopes, the gov
ernm ent will be supported by the con-
servatives, the LloydGeorge faction OF
! the liberals, and the labor party. This
combination contains the strongest
leaders in England, and il 1t holds to-
gether will include large majority OF
the electorate.
Cedar Falls Record If it wasn't for
payroll of several hundred per week.
to say nothing of 7-cent print paper,
the local newspaper might print every
=, thing free. A few people have an idea
that is all local paper is for.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Secretary of
War Baker is out feminist" the volun-
teer system. Well. considering his
opinion of Washington and the men
/! who saved the country in his days, it
/ is simply proving that the secretary is
consistent Perhaps he has no better
/ opinion Of the men who were with
Sherman on the march to the sea OF
with Grant before Petersburg and
Richmond, than he had OF the men who
were with Washington at Valley Forge
| Cedar 4,apids Gazette: For a poll
itician whose funeral ceremonies have
been three times-celebrated Bryan at
/ fords remarkable example Of attract
| ing attention in regions remote from
the burial ground.
| Council Bluffs Nonpareil: In many
parts of the United States the people
1 by cooperating in practical boycott
have beat down the price of foodstuffs
But the boycott is a dangerous weapon
! for indiscriminate use.
| Sioux City Journal: The social sea
son in Washington, according to pre-
sent announcement from the capital
promises to be exceedingly quiet. This
may be the presidents idea of the
proper thing, but the country would
like to know what Mrs. Wilson thinks
about it.
| Cedar Rapids Republican: We are
just beginning to learn how valuable
bird and other insect killers are to US
In the Argentine the wise men have re
duced the work of the birds to figures
showing that they consumed In one
year nearly billion tons-think Of 1t
will you?-of insects. That billion
tons Of insects would have ruined mil
lions of collars worth of crops IL the
birds had not destroyed them. The
value of birds is everywhere admitted
now, and yet there are few men whit
are everlastinbly going about will
guns trying to kill those birds and t.
scare away those that they cannot kill
Des Moines Capital: Captain
Hughes, better known as Ruper
hughes, author, believes the mobiliza
u ton of the national guard on the Mex