Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-04-11

the record ne maze as president anu
as candidate for reelection. But
Roosevelt received 6,234 votes in
the poll taken by the Minneapolis
paper and Roosevelt was not cam
didate either. In fact he had de-
MED the use of his name upon the
primary ballot in Minnesota. But
the Journal poll probably fairly rep
resents the sentiment of the country
as regards Mr.. Taft. Out of total
of 1888 Mr.. Taft received q paltry
~. Even Estabrook got go, Fair
banks pulled down 43 and Hadley
secured 81. - ....
Pretty Mary Smith of Oklahoma
City, almost tainted a few days ago
when she discovered she had driven
her motor car through the business
section with union suit tapping
from the rear of the machine. She
picked it off the line when she back
ed out of the garage at home. This
lis a warning to Webster City girls.
The colored troops in Mexico that
remained in the saddle for sixty
hours to save the Mormon colony did
something worthy of mention. Had
white troops made such a record
their praise would be ringing
throughout the land. This act, says
the Times counteracts
any unjust criticism which the
birth of a Nation" might produce.
Down in Mexico the natives are
awfully glad to see United States
money if they are not glad to see
United States soldiers. One dollar
of Uncle Sans circulating medium
lis worth about fifty of the Villa or
Carranza brand. Some believe that
the ratio between the efficiency of
the American and Mexican soldier is
about on the same basis as the
money.
The war is furnishing the bust
ness brigands who increase prices
simply because they can, the oppor-
tunity of their lives. 'On account of
the war generally precedes every
statement to the effect that prices
are going up. The paper mills have
contracted the disease and owing to
| the suppression of thousands OF
newspapers in Europe the price OF
print paper is mounting skyward
Gen. Pershing is a good officer
and very excellent and worthy gen.
tleman. President Roosevelt made
no mistake in advancing the general
over the heads of several hundred
others who were in line for promo
ton, but who were not as good sold
iers as Pershing. Come to think
about it, President Roosevelt made
very few mistakes while in the
white house. He has made some,
however, since leaving the executive
mansion.
Justice Hughes is a man of sound
Judgment and great good sense, a
patriot and scholar, courageous
and clean, an able executive and a
statesman of ability. The country
need not fear him as president, even
though he is not on record upon the
Hive issues that have come up since
his occupancy of the supreme bench.
It is not proper for member of the
highest court to discuss public issues
and for that reason it is not known
just where Hughes stands. But it
is safe to predict that he stands
right, because standing right is a
habit with him.
BY temperament, inclination and
training the Freeman-Tribune is on
the side of the wage Garner, but it is
not on the side of the railroad broth
erhoods that are now asking for
what amounts to large increase in
wages. They are at present and
have been for some years the best
paid workmen in the country. If
the roads could only induce Luis D.;
Brandeis to take up the case of the
trainmen the roads might score an