Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-06-27

the large employers of labor take
such course it will be necessary for
congress to take drastic measures
towering such cases.
Nine-tenths of the progressive
party men of the country will sup
port Hughes for president. He is
progressive enough for Roosevelt
and is OF course progressive enough
for the rank and file. The republic
can convention made three base hit
when it Invaded the supreme court"
and drafted man to lead the repub-
lican party to victory.
No matter what former admins
trations did in the way of prepared
ness, the present administration has
had the necessity of such course
forced upon it's attention with great
emphasis during the past two years
and should have taken vigorous ac-
ton. The country never realized as
it does now that preparedness is SO
vital to the perpetuity of our ideals
and institutions.
No matter whether company c
sees any real war service or not, the
men constituting the company have
shown their readiness to accept any
thing that may come in the line OF
duty. They have offered their ser
vices to their country, which fact
counts for Just as much as action in
battle. They have done all they
can do. The future is in the hands
of fate and the boys are ready for
what may be in store for them.
Republican leaders who have had
much to say about President Will
sons vacillation with the Mexican
problem may soon have chance to
show how decisive they can be-
There are credible rumors that the
president may put it up to congress
either to declare war with Mexico OF
sanction his policy Of watchful wait
ling.-Sioux City Tribune.
1t is just like Wilson to do that
His policies have brought us to the
verge of war with Mexico and wal
seems inevitable unless C&rranza
backs up. If the president ducks and
lodges now he will lose the respect
of the country, as he should.
Charles E. Hughes is having (:
hard time finding campaign mana
ger. He is so averse to the hyphe1
that he doesn't want Roosevelt-re
publican, a Taft-republican, pro
gressive-republican or a standpat-re
publican. He wants plain repub
lican with no frills or prefixes. Per
haps Mr.. Hughes doesn't yet realiz
that he himself is about the only re
publican in the nation who can quail
ify in that class, and he couldn'
qualify but for the fact that he ha
been buried in the supreme cour
during the past six years. Men cap
able of leadership are not mollycod
dies and those of campaign manage
size have taken stand upon on
side or the other in the factiona
fights within the republican party.
An organized bolt on Harding b,
the temperance forces of the stat
will reduce the vote in favor of tn
prohibitory amendment. The mel
who are leading in the crusad
against the republican ticket ough
to take this feature of the contes
into consideration. It is barely pos
sible that the sentiment in favor O
prohibition is not as strong as ha
been generally believed and it ma.
be the amendment will be defeated
lif any considerable number O
Harding's supporters are turnet
against it by the unwise course O
his opponents. The vote for woman
suffrage was not nearly as strong a.
expected. In fact many we'll inform
ed people believed the amendment
would win by from 10000 to $4,000
majority. 1t is believed that it.
friends injured it in the closing day.
of the campaign by their over-zeal
BUSINESS. The friends of prohibition
ought not to jeopardize it's success al
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