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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25
A WARNING IN DISGUISE?

Fort Dodge Chronicle: Jules
Verne's fictional fantasy of a giant
submarine able to navigate the globe
has come true with the docking in
Baltimore harbor of the German sub
marine merchantmen Deutschland,
after crossing the Atlantic and COW
ering a distance, with detours, of
more than 1000 miles The exploit
may have little bearing upon the
final result of the war in Europe,
but it cannot fail of being recorded
as an epochal event in maritime his
tory, marking the beginning Of act
ual freight trafice by submarines.
There is a disposition in some
quarters, not wholly unshared in Of
fetal Washington, it is said, to read
another significance into the visit of
the German U-boat to American wat
ers. A yelled warning to the United
States of the Imperial German gov
ernment's ability to bring its naval
power to bear upon the United States
in the event Of war; a demonstration
of the fact that the supposed ad-
vantages of isolation are not to be
depended upon by this country, is
thought by many to have been one,
if not the main purpose, Of the visit
of tho nautcchJaud
We do not pretend to fathom the
workings of the Teutonic official
mind, but we are certain that If the
big submarine was sent here on an
ostensibly friendly mission but for
the real purpose Of showing us that
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25
THE INEVITABLE.

Charles City Press: The Des
Moines Capital has not only advanc-
ed it's price from 50 to 50 a year on
account of the high price of paper
but it has eliminated all compliment
airy copies of every nature. The
Denison Bulletin has increased it's
price from $3.50 to $500 year and
the Cedar Falls Record has advanc-
ed it's advertising rates two and a
half cents an inch for the same rea-
son. The advance in the cost of pa
per has also sent the Sioux City
News into the hands of a receiver,
it has been on the ragged
edge for sometime, while the Musca-
tine News-Tribune has gone the same
way, and the Davenport Times, sniff
fling the situation at close range, is
preparing for the worst. But print
paper is only one of the sources of
trouble. Metal used in the linotypes
has advanced 100 per cent. Paper
used in stereotyping has gone up
from SO to $50 per cent. Ink roll
ers have made jump of SO per cent.
And this only begins to tell the tale.
The big dailies will also have to re-
duce the number of their pages and
increase their subscription price.
Eventually the subscriber will have
to pay the price.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25
MORE TEMPORIZING.

The want of a stable and respon-
sible government in Mexico, capable
OF suppressing and furnishing marau-
ders and bandit bands, who have not
only taken the lives and seized the
property of American citizens in
that country, but have insolently in
vaded our soil, made war upon and
murdered our people thereon, has
rendered it necessary temporarily to
occupy by various armed forces q
portion of the territory of that
friendly state. Until by the restora-
ton Of law and order therein renders
repetition of such incursions i'm
probable, the necessity for their re-
naming will continue.-Mexican
plank of st. Louis platform.
That plank was dictated by Presi-
dent Wilson less than a month ago
and was adopted by the democratic
national convention on his insist
ence. When President Wilson with
draws the troops from Mexico ac-
cordingly we may make two assump-
tons. The first is that the presi-
dent believes Mexico has now attain
ed stable and responsible govern
meht The second is that he believes
law and order to be restored in Mex
leo in such a degree as to make a
repetition of border raids improba-
BILE
Does President Wilson actually
believe that Mexico has attained a
stable and responsible government
within a month? The de facto gov
eminent is the same government
that was in power when the presi-
dent dictated the Mexican plank of
the st. Louis platform. The only
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25
IMPROVEMENT.

Up to the moment we galloped to
press the republican political bu-
reaus had not succumbed to the
temptation to blame the epidemic Of
infantile paralysis in New York and
other cities upon the Wilson admin
Dodge Chronicle.
And as strange as it may appear
neither the Fort Dodge Chronicle
nor the Sioux City Journal has
charged that scourge up to Theodore
Roosevelt. 1.-THE world do move
for q fact
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

Germany can if she chooses attack
American coast cities and visit upon
the property and livesfof persons liv-
ing in these cities the same deeds OF
frightfulness which have been d.
rected against British coast residents
during the present war--if there is,
in brief, sinister shadow back OF
the apparent friendliness of the
Deutschland's visit, we are certain
that Americans are not going to lose
their heads over it. Only small
portion of the American public has
lately Rugged the fond delusion of
our immunity from attack by rea-
son of our isolation, and if the visit
of the German submarine shall sue
coed in convincing this stubborn mi
nority of the faulty of their reason
ing, we owe the German government
thanks rather than resentment.
At any rate, and whatever real
character the U-boat's visit may
possess, Americans are not going to
withhold their admiration of Ger
man daring, ingenuity and achieve
ment as exhibited in the remarkable
trip of the Deutschland. We take off
our hats to the Yankees of Europe
for their accomplishment, whatever
their feelings may be toward us.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

IOWA REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The republicans of Iowa, in con-
vention assembled, hereby reaffirm
our steadfast belief in and we pledge
our unWavering support to the wise
and far-reaching principles of the
republican party; party whose
honest and able administration dur
ing the greater part of the last CEN
fury has been the chief cause of our
country's progress and prosperity;
upholding our national honor in
peace and in war, exercising charity
and forbearance when the weak or
misguided would involve us in con-
troversy; strong, unwavering and de-
termined when the rights and liber-
ties of American citizens have been
threatened or the cry of oppressed
humanity has made necessary a call
to arms, the republican administra-
lions have ever safely piloted the
ship of state over troubled waters,
preserving unsullied the flag of our
country, and strengthening our hon
or and dignity as a world power.
NATIONAL POLICIES.
We unqualifiedly indorse the prin-
ciples of the republican platform as
announced by the national conven-
tion at Chicago, and pledge ourselves
to uphold these principles at the
polls. We recognize in the nominee
of that Chicago convention, a match
less leader-the man of the hour; a
man whose unblemished private and
public life, whose honesty, whose
fearlessness, whose wonderful men,
tai achievements, and whose true
Americanism, have inspired in the
mind of all patriotic Americans such
unlimited confidence that behind him
We find a united party, all factions
having disappeared in support of the
general good. In such a union we
hail the old time strength of the re-
publican party and confidently pre-
dict sweeping victory at the No
vember election for our nominee,
Charles f. Hughes.
IOWA IN CONGRESS.
We most heartily commend our
distinguished, able and courageous
senators, Hon. Albert B. Cummins
and William S. Kenyon, and bespeak
the continued support OF a people
whose confidence they hold. We in
dorse and approve our distinguished
and able representatives in congress
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25


Let it be said of me
Wherever there was holy cause t.
serve,
Or hearts that ache, or perils thai
unnerve;
Wherever there was arduous tai
to do,
A patch to light, duty to pursue,
Wherever there was child to wrest
from wrong,
Or weary soul athirst for love and
song,
Wherever slaves of time cried to
be free,
My hand was reached-let it b.
said of me.
ANONYMOUS.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

There is nothing wrong with the
platform adopted by the republican
state convention. 1t is brief and to
the point and will be endorsed by the
people of Iowa by at least $4,000 ma
iority
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

Well, Orpet has been freed but he
liar and libertine. He might about
as well be dead as alive. There may
have been some excuse for the orig
inal sin, but there can be no excuse
for his refusal to stay by and pro-
tect the girl with whom he was a
partner in trouble.-Iowa Falls Citi-
zen.
That is the right view. Will Or
pet is cringing coward, disgrace
to man and reproach to decency.
There may be some sympathy for the
boy and girl who falls by the way
side, but there should be none for
the young scoundrels who will DELHI
erately ruin a confiding girl and
then desert her in the hour of her
trouble. 1t is said that Orpet is to
marry another girl. This simply but
emphasizes the double standard in
this country. Orpet wouldn't think
of marrying that "other girl" had
she been caught in the dirty trick
Orpet was caught in, nor would that
"other girl" permit brother to
marry a woman who had been guilty
of the conduct Orpet has been gull
ty of if she could prevent it. How
long will it be before the world looks
upon such companions in crime
through the same glasses.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

The single tax policy in practice
would not hit the newspaper offices.
Possibly some of the boys behind ed
itorial tripods have been thinking
about that and concluded to vote for
Mr.. Meredith.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

Well, to it's credit it may be said,
that the Register and Leader is not
now running any of the villainous
anti-Harding cartoons that did so
much to nominate Mr.. Harding.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

thing that has changed is the dispo-
sition of the de facto government.
At the time of the st. Louis ultima
tum it seemed to be bidding for
trouble with the United States. Now
it seems to be trying to avoid
trouble. Whether this is due to Lat
in-American mediation, European
pressure or the mobilization of the
American national guard on the bor-
der is not clear. Granting the pres
ent good intentions of Carranza,
however, number of other ques-
lions remain to be answered before
one can credit him with ability to
run a stable and responsible govern
ment Can he win the support of
the faction torn Mexican people as a
whole? Can he gain the confidence
Of American financiers who will be
willing to back their confidence by
lending him the half billion dollars
that may be needed to place new
Mexican government on sound fin
ancial footing? Can he, even if fin
ancially rehabilitated and well but
tressed in the esteem of the better
elements in Mexico, put an end to
the professional outlawry that has
now become an established institu
ton of the country? These are SER
iOus questions. They must be an
sWered affirmatively before there can
be any reasonable expectation of
seeing a responsible and stable gov
eminent established in Mexico City.
One doubts whether President Will
son himself would be able to bring
any emphasis to bear in answering
any one of them positively, to say
nothing of all three.
According to the ST.. Louis plat
form, present withdrawal of the
troops can be justified only on the
ground that Carranza, in his new
frame of mind, will be able to police
the northern provinces and prevent
a recurrence of the border raids that
drew the troops into Mexico. With
drawal of the troops will amount to
an expression of confidence that Car
rama, can and will do this. That
President Wilson has any real con-
viction s~that effect is not indicated
by the way the mobilization of the
militia is continuing on the border.
If Carranza is going to protect
American interests on the border it
is a useless waste of money and an
unnecessary imposition on the ma
tional guard to keep it on police du-
ty. If CarranZa is not going to be
able to protect American interests,
the sooner American troops are dis
posed for businesslike effort to dc
IsO the better for all concerned, in
Guiding Carranza.
It will not do for President Will
son to have the whole regular army
and the whole national guard guard
ing the border from Mexican bandit
raids when election time comes
around. II real solution of the
Mexican problem is not under way
by that time the political interests
of the administration are bound to
suffer.-Sioux City Journal.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

The editor of the New Orleans
States has discovered a substitute for
gasoline which is cheap and safe. 1t
is nothing more or less than shoe
leather.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

If pretty Billie Burke doesn't soon
stop her free advertising crusade
some of the old newspaper grouches
will be calling her Billie Berkshire.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

e. T. Meredith, declares an Iowa
City newspaper, says he is in favor
of good roads 365 days in the year
and concludes that the only road
that is good all the time is paved
road. Is that the kind Mr.. Meredith
has in mind? The people want to
know.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

While the cars armies are max
ing advances in the direction of Ger
many's capital, the car is not brag-
ging about eating his Christmas din
ner in Berlin. The car has learned
something by experience.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

Columbus discovered America and
Col. Harvey discovered Woodrow
Wilson, but who is the patriot that
Meredith in the single tax league?
The single takers, you know, want
to tax only land. The farmers Of
Iowa and other real estate owners
of the state are about as fond of the
single tax idea as Digger Indian is
OF a bar of soap. 1t is now in order
for Mr. Meredith and his supporters
to get busy making explanations.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25
HARDING AND HIS PARTY.

Sioux City Journal: HAS Hard
ing, in his attitude in the legislature
and on the stump, fairly represented
Iowa republicanism? inquiries the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.,
The answer to the Nonpareil's
question is Eyes"
This answer is not rendered now
by The Journal. 1t has been tender
ed by the republicans of Iowa them
selves.
The question asked by the Nonpar-
ell was put up to the republicans of
Iowa-leaders and rank and file
on June 5 last. The Council Bluffs
newspaper and it's companions in
arms at Des Moines and Marshall
town were free with their prepri-
mary advice to the republicans as to
how they should decide the ques-
ton. The voters were told Mr.. Hard
ing had misrepresented them during
his four years in the lower-house of
the legislature and his two terms as
presiding officer of the senate. They
were told he was wrong on the sa-
loon question, wrong on the road
question and could not be trusted to
take good care of the public's inter-
ests in the governors chair. The
voters were advised that it didn't
matter especially whom they nomin-
ated, so long as they didn't nomin-
ate Harding. Harding went about
the state talking to the people. So
did his opponents. Just as the, cam
paign was closing one of Harding's
bitterest opponents testified that he
could go into any county after his
opponents had campaigned there and
take it away from them.
After the voters had heard what
all the candidates had to offer, had
read the literature put out by them,
had listened to what their respective
friends had to say for them, had
weighed the editorials in the Coun-
ell Bluffs, Des Moines and Marshall
town papers, the voters rendered
their verdict. That verdict gave
Harding the largest popular plural
ity ever given a candidate in an
Iowa primary contest. 1t was not a
plurality as between Harding's two
principal opponents. 1t was an act
ual majority. Harding got more
than the combined votes cast for
both of the candidates whom the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

farmers are for the saloon. Harding
stands for the kind of road building
in which the farmers believe and
when the day of election rolls round
the Freeman-Tribune will be surpris7
ed if the farmers of Iowa do not give
the head of the republican ticket a
rcusing majority. The farmers and
voters generally are not looking to
the county conventions for instruc-
lions and if every county conyen-
ton in the state should take it upon
themselves to tell the voters where
to head in the result would at the
polls show that the aforesaid
voters know their own mind and are
not seeking instruction from dele
gates they sent to county conven-
tiOns
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

comparatively lew county COnVen-
lions endorsed the republican nomi-
nee for governor. Why? If Hard
ing has made such wonderful
sweep over the state as his hackers
claim, why didn't the conventions
declare for him? Are they ashamed
of the head of the ticket ?-Clarion
Clipper.
Comparatively few county conven-
lions endorsed any of the primary
nominees. 1t is not customary in
late years for county conventions to
adopt resolutions and there is no
reason why the usual course should
attract unusual attention The rank
and file of the republican party nom-
mated Harding. He received prac-
tically half the vote in field of four
candidates. Who is it, then, that
can be ashamed" of Harding? 1t
must be politicians that the Clipper
refers to. The Freeman Tribune did
not support Harding in the primary.
It believed that Senator Allen should
have had the nomination, but very
large majority of the people of the
state preferred Harding to- Allen and
SO far as the Freeman-Tribune is
concerned it is going to accept the
verdict of the people in this matter,
as it believes that Harding on the
whole is right and will make a good
governor. 1t was not the wet and
dry issue that controlled the nomin-
alton. 1t was the road question and
the economical expenditure of the
Taxpayers money. The farmers of
the state were largely for Harding
and it is foolish for the extreme pro-
hibitionists to contend that the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

One Of our good prohibition
friends took it upon himself the 9TH
er day to tell the Freeman-Tribune
that 1t is hurting itself by support
ing Harding. Well, the Freeman
Tribune is not supporting Harding
for its own benefit or in the hope Of
being rewarded. The Freeman-Trib-
une has had quite enough of the
democratic party and it proposes now
to stand by the nominees of the re-
publican party and do all it can leg
Ultimately to return the party to pow
err throughout the nation. A vote
for Meredith is a vote against this
program and in the Judgment of this
paper Mr.. Harding is the equal of
Mr.. Meredith in every essential re-
spect and would fill the governors
chair of Iowa in an acceptable man.
ner. He is associated with the right
party and ought to win this year.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

The democrats are so hard up for
to say against Judge
Hughes that they have to resort to a
lot Of nonsense about invading the
supreme court for candidate for
president. If there is any position
in the United States too exalted to
take president from it would seem
to indicate that the presidency Is not
as exalted as it should be. The way
to eXalt the presidency is to elect
such a man as Hughes as chief ex-
ecutive. By-theway, as the Free
remembers it, Judge
Parker, whom the democrats nomin-
ated for president in 1904, was an
associate justice of the supreme
court of New York. So far as the
is concerned it is no differ
ent to invade a state supreme court
than it is to invade the United States
supreme court for the highest officer
in the land However, the democrats
knew they could not elect Parker, be-
cause he was the candidate against
the most popular president the coun-
try ever had while in office. Possib-
ly if they had had as good a show of
electing their candidates as the re-
publicans now have of electing theirs
Judge Parker would not have been
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

II the Iowa senator's are careful 10
stand courageously for the right at
Washington they need have small
care for the reorganization of the
Republican party.-Exchange.
That ought to be true, but 1t
isn't. Many man who has stood
for the right has been defeated and
many a man who has stood for the
wrong has been elected. Wasn't Nc
Kinley right in 1890 when he led
the fight for the protective tariff
bearing his name, and wasn't he and
the republican party ANONYMOUSLY
defeated at the following election
Then wasn't Mckinley and his par
ty called back in 1896 and weren't
they called back because they were
right in 1890? Fact of the matter
is the people were wrong in 1892
when they defeated the republican
party and the people got right when
they called the party again to pow
er in 1896 Does Bathhouse John
of Chicago stand for the right Z?
Hardly. But Bathhouse has a cinch
on the voters of his ward and is as
sure to win as election day is to come
around. Public men in positions OF
trust and responsibility ought tc
stand for the right and let the mat
ter of reelection take care of itself
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

The Freeman-Tribune is especially
pleased over the nomination of H. M.
Havner of Iowa county by the repub-
lican state convention for attorney
general. Mr.. Hayner is one of the
good lawyers of Iowa, believes in law
enforcement and is consistent
temperance advocate. He is known
as a dry and can be relied upon to
do his full duty in the attorney gen
erals office. No better selection
could have been made and his NOM
ination will add strength to the re-
publican ticket.
w. l.. Harding stands squarely up
on the republican platform. If elect
ed governor he will not desert the
principles laid down by the conven-
ton. If the extreme prohibitionists
prefer to trust the party with pow
er that has been against prohibition
in Iowa for forty years with the en-
actment Of temperance legislation
they have the privilege of voting the
democratic ticket, but if they should
succeed in electing democrats to ad
minister the affairs of the state they
must not complain at what will fol-
low.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-07-25

Vie OIpel jury Is COuiuS III lO1
some criticism. This is hardly right.
The circumstances against Orpet
were strong. 1t may be that he muir
dered the Lambert girl, but there is
q reasonable doubt and the jurymen
messed the actions of the witnesses
upon the stand are better judges of
the innocence or guilt of the accused
than is the larger jury that read the
evidence in the newspapers. Then,
again, it is one thing to merely be-
lieve man is guilty and another
thing to believe it strong enough to
say there is no question about it and
condemn him to life of servitude
or the electrical chair. The jury
man who votes man guilty of a
grave crime must believe that there
is no doubt Of his guilt. We COM
plain much at the lax enforcement
of law, but law enforcement doesn't
mean that an accused man must be
convicted. That Orpet was morally
responsible for the death of Marian
Lambert there is little question. He
betrayed her and cast her overheard,
but the jury was to consider the leg
al phase only. The question was,
did he-give her the poison that pro-
duced death? Who can say posi-
lively that he did?