davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1916-07-20
FURTHER RUST REPORTS
LEAD TO WHEAT ADVANCE
Unfavorab1e Crop Conditions in Eu-
rope Also Tend to Lift Values
at Chicago Today.

CHICAGO. July co.-Assertions that
would be generally affected by black
rust led to d substantial rise today in
the price OF wheat Unqualified reports
we're received that the pest in North
Dakota had spread to the stem. Jnfa-
vorable crop conditions in Europe, cs-
values.
The opening. which ranged from Il
shade off to MAJ up. with September
at 1.123s to 1.1@9s, and December at
LIS to 1.15ls, was followed BY contin-
ued additional gains.
Corn Prices Rally.
Scattered showers and cooler tenn
perature had only temporary bearish
effect on the corn market. Declines en-
countered big orders to buy. After
opening Is lower to a shade advance,
prices rallied all around to yesterdays s
finish or above.
Oats were governed by the action of
corn. Offerings appeared to be readily
absorbed.
Absence of selling pressure allowed
provisions to rise with grain. Demand.
however, was not active.
Estimates that 20 to 40 per cent dam
age had already been done by rust and
excessive heat in the best producing
district of South Dakota resulted in a
jury was said to be the gravest since
1904. Prices closed strong. 2Aa2R to
3a net higher, with September 115Ls a
115A and December at 117R.
Evening star., 1916-07-20
Great Activity in Steel.

E The United States Steel Corporation
has placed an order in Chicago for
$4,000 tons of steel billets to be de-
ivered in the last quarter of the
calendar year.
Canadian manufacturers are trying
to sublet contracts for $4,000 to 10000
tons of rails. Canada is also in the
market for structural iron. $4,000 to
10000 tons. Russia has placed order
for $4,000 tons of steel aSles and 81, 900
tons of cast steel wheels.
Contracts for $50. 900, 900 worth of
shells. etc. are being considered and
are likely TO be placed in the near
future.
Maryland Bonds Sold.
The state of Maryland yesterday sold
s3,500.000 per cent bonds to Alex
ander Browns Sons. A. B. Leach & Co,
the Equitable Trust Company, Mercan-
tile Trust and Savings. Harris. Forbes
& Co, Easterbrook & Co. and Redmond
q Co of New York, at 99.s31 on the
500 face value.
Local Securities,
The local market continues very mar
row. Today's action indicated little bet
ter strength in Railway As and Potomac
Electric consolidated SIS, but these were
about the only factors worthy of mention
Railway is sold at 50 and a small bond
at s2A Potomac consolidated IS brought
101 and 1911 while Riggs Realty SIS
long maturity sold at 102
Washington Gas was the favorite in
vestment security traded in but trans
actions were of small amounts between
S5A and So A few shares of Capi.aI |
Traction sold at S5a.
Mersenthaler was quote 163 bid and
1s5 asked. and Lanston, s21. bid and
SO asked
Evening star., 1916-07-20
Up-River W aters.

Up-River Waters.
Spccin! Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY. W. Va. July 90
The Potomac river was clear and the
Shenandoah muddy this morning.
Weather in Various Cities
Evening star., 1916-07-20
POWDER STOCKS.

Quotations furnished by W. q. Hibbs & Co
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Horn arrived
home yesterday morning from a two
weeks trip to Duluth and other
points in Minnesota. They visited
their cousin, Frank Horn and family,
at Carlton, and although it rained
"a good deal Of the time during their
stay in Minnesota, they enjoyed the
trip very much. Carlton is the
county seat of Carlton county and
Mr.. and Mrs. Horn met many form
er Hamilton county people who have
removed there in recent years from
this county. That part of Minnesota
has had plenty of rain during the
past summer and everything is green
instead of brown, as is the case in
many spots hereabouts. The crops
in the vicinity they visited are fine.
This is the first vacation in several
years that Mr.. Horn has taken from
his work as linotype operator upon
the Freeman-Tribune.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
IT HIT THE FARMER.

The disastrous effects of demo-
cratic tariff legislation upon the Am
erican farmer were briefly described
by Senator Porter j. McCumber of
North Dakota, during the debate on
the revenue bill, few days ago. He
said in part:
"The democratic party took 20 OF
the leading products of the Northern
states, placed II of them upon the
free list, and compelled the American
farmer to compete with the world.
1t reduced upon the other more
than 60 per cent. of our defense in
the matter of a protective tariff. The
immediate result of that was that in
my own state of North Dakota the
importations Of oats, for instance,
increased during the first nine
months before the war broke out in
Europe 22,0OO,OOO bushels-an in
crease of more than $4,000 per cent
over previous importatiOns-and OF
the increased importations during
that period none were less than about
5000 per cent. Everything that we
produced jumped onto the toboggan'
and went plunging down the hill in
value until August 3, 1914, when
the war in Europe, of course, sent
all prices skyward.
1.-THE right of the American farm
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
Few Words to Ministers.

Eds. Freeman Tribune: Politics
and the labor question do not be-
long in the pulpit. II the clerks are
not satisfied in Webster City, in
stead Of doing Saturday afternoon
trade they do it Saturday night. As
the farmers are very busy they think
it favor for us to keep open Sat-
urday nights. If we didn't what
would be the result? They would
probably send to Montgomery Ward
C Co., and would be chumps if they
didn't. We have to shut the door
only once in a customers face in
this day and age,
If the clerks as servants are not
satisfied just let them read Gods
laws on the labor question. 1t is
plainly written for a~servant to be
obedient to his master. II he isn't
satisfied with his hire to go else
where. 1t doesn't say to roll stone
at his masters door, knock in his
store front, call the man who takes
the place scab and beat the life out
of him. A union man came into
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
THE LOGIC OF 1T.

Story City Herald: Well, the
railroad strike did not materialize.
Congress-, under the direction of
President Wilson, bowed to the will
of the railroad unions and the latter
obligingly agreed to call the strike
off. Perhaps, after a while, we can
turn the government over to the
unions entirely and thus save the
expense of presidential and congress
sional salaries. If the farmers of
the country should band themselves
together, as the railroad workers
have done, and refuse to haul corn
to market unless they got dollar
bushel for it, and President Will
son and his congress should go ahead
and pass a law in favor Of dollar
corn, what howl would go up from
the ranks of organized labor! Com
pers and his clans would fairly froth
at the mouth-but now they are
smiling as sweetly as the cat that
ate the canary.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

Il ] T. T. -. 4 .
to the American farmer, manufac-
turer and workingman.
The Europe that will probably be
at peace before another president is
inaugurated will hope to find the
protective tariff wall still torn down,
as it is at present. 1t will hope to
find America has been lulled into a
feeling Of false security during the
rush of war business and has re-
manned industrially unprepared.
The thinking American will hope
that the protective tariff wall is re-
stored to its complete strength
before the country comes face to face
with the problems following the
wars conclusion.-W Y. Morgan
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
TuE sTRIKE sETTLEMENT.

THE STRIKE SETTLEMENT.
New York Times: 1t is upon the
method used in enforcing the de-
mand, not upon its merits, that the
public has spoken. There it's con-
demnation is universal, stern, anG
severe without qualification. 1t could
not be otherwise. In this republic
laws express the peoples will, but in
the making of this law to increase
the pay of one-quarter of the rail-
road employees the people have not
had the slightest chance to make
known their desire. Their congress
was coerced by the threat of an i'm
measurable injury to themselves.
What lynch law is to orderly judicial
process the method adopted by the
brotherhoods, and We have very
great regret in saying with quite
too much assistance from the presi-
dent, is to the constitutional method
of lawmaking. With one voice and
unsparingly the people must and do
denounce the means by which this
legislation was forced upon congress;
UNMASKING THE REGISTER.
John F. Dalton: Del G. Hun
toon? Yes, we knew him. Twenty
years ago he went to Sioux City to
become telegraph editor of the Trib-
une. When We saw him first it was
in Des Moines and he was at the
head of bureau maintained by the
breweries OF Iowa to protect their in
terests in the state legislature. He
was pretty decent sort of a fellow,
smart, well educated and personally
clean. His health was failing rap
idly. He is the man whom Bill
Harding wrote friendly letter to
in 1911, when Bill was expecting to
be candidate for the lieutenan,
governorship. In that letter Bill
mentioned the names of Senator
Kenyon, the Larrabee boys, Senator
Perkins and many other well known
dry republicans Of the state as
friends of his who would support
him. There was nc connection what
ever with the liquor interests in that
letter, but the Des Moines Register
tries to connect Bill with the liquor
interests because he wrote the let
ter to Mr.. Huntoon, their secretary,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

er is the right to the American mar
ket, just so long as he can supply
that market for a reasonable COM
pensation in return for the labor he
has expended upon the products
which he places in that market. The
democratic administration has de-
prived him of that market, and he
has only been saved the natural con-
sequences of an enormous slump in
his prices because of the war de-
mands.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
A BLOW TO UNIONISM.


Chicago Tribune: The repudia-
ton Of arbitration by the brother
hood leaders is a blow at organized
labor. The prompt surrender to
their threat by the president of the
United States is a blow at the social
peace and economic welfare of the
whole country. The problem involv-
ed in the railroad controversy is too
complex and too important to the
whole country to be determined in a
few hours consideration by any one
lacking special knowledge. 1t is not
a problem which can be settled right
by force, and unless it is settled right
it is not settled at all. The whole
people should unite in a
protest against the reputation Of
in this case, which affects
the whole people, and union labor
itself should be foremost in the ap.
peal to minority which is nov
abusing it's power and setting pre-
cedent to ruthless capital.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

Yes Thomas A. Edison is going
to support Wilson. But what OF it?
The real president maker is Colonel
Harvey and the colonel is for Hughes
this year. Then there is another
colonel who is accused of elccting
Taft in 1903 and Wilson in 1912.
He, too, it is suspicioned, is support
ing the republican nominee in this
campaign.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
WHERE THE BURDEN FALLS

WHERE THE BURDEN FALLS.
Macon Telegraph: The Telegraph
has contended from the first that if
the demands of the enginemen and
trainmen of the roads of the United
States for an eight hour day and GER
tain overtime allowances were met
with it would not be the railroads
which would pay the extra 100000
900 a year, but the general public,
generally described best as the "ulti-
mate consumer" Now, it appears,
since the favoring of the demands Of
the men, that the government will
back UP, the railroads >in efforts to
seek sufficient operating costs con-
templated. That's a pretty good ar
rangement. The employees are salts
fled and get what they want; the
railroads are to be handed enough
money to give the employees what
they want, and the dear old, easy
mark, general public, that profound
take-it-in-the-neck, Mr.. Ultimate
Consumer, T.. S. A., obligingly is as
sessed for the bill.
The railroads in this instance
have not been so interested for
themselves as might appear. Behind
their efforts to stave off the crisis
and prevent the increases has been
the evident conviction that If they
were granted there was a court to
which they might appeal with sue
cess and profit, court that could
not in justice deny their claims.
From the first they have told the
public it must pay the bill when the
final reckphing is to be made. And
pay it the public will as the pub
lie must.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
Will Teach in College.

Miss Jessie Coles, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. J. w. Coles, has been elect
ed head Of the Home Economics de-
partment in Buena Vista college at
Storm Lake and left this noon to
take up her new work. Miss Coles
specialized in Home Economies at
Ames college. graduating in 1915.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

The twenty per cent advance in
wages by congressional compulsion
is not to take place until after cleo
ton and the public will not realize
what it is to cost until the votes are
all counted and the result an
nounced. Politics is a great game
and the greater it becomes the high
er it goes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

II the president and congress can
fix arbitrarily the wages of railroad
employees in interstate traffic why
can they not fix the wages of en-
ployes engaged in making goods and
wares that are shipped from one state
to another, and why can they no..
fix the subscription price of news
papers carried in the United States
mails? Perhaps they can, but the
people ought to fix the president and
the congress that have started out in
the wage-fixing business. 1t would
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
COURAGEOUS WORDS.

Judge Hughes: Now, then, |
stand for two things. First, the
principle of fair, impartial,
thorough, candid arbitration, and,
second, for legislation of facts ac-
cording to necessities of the case.
And 1 am opposed to being dictated
to either in the executive depart
ment or congress by any power on
earth before the facts are known.
We have great country and a
great future. But it can only be
preserved in one way: That way is
the way of all honest, fair investi-
CATION and candid treatment. Show
me the way that is right and l will
take it; but I will not take any way
that do not know anything about.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

The crowd that has the votes can
apparently bluff President Wilson
and the United States congress into
anything-iust before election.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

tory" and he has made it perfectly
clear that the death bed conversion
of Mr.. Wilson experienced only on
the eve of the national election, as
shown in the case of the duty on
dye-stuffs and the creation of tariff
commission, does not deceive him in
the least regarding the attitude of
the democracy on this question. The
press reports on Mr.. Hughes speech
es in the west have been somewhat
meager, but none who have heard
him or read the actual text of his
speeches can have the slightest doubt
as to the Importance which Mr..
Hughes attaches to the question of a
tariff adequate to protect American
industries and American workingmen
from the competition of foreign
producers and manufacturers.
Nobody expects the railroad presi-
dents to vote for President wilson
Pocahontas Democrat.
And why not? The railroad
presidents are not the ones to SUI
fer through President Wilson's sur
render to the stand and deliver de-
mand of 100000 voters. The pub
lie will pay the bills in increased
freight rates and the public should
resent the unwarranted and unprece-
|dented course of the president in be-
coming partisan to a controversy
without fully investigating the facts
and for railroading through con-
gress a bill that nobody had time to
consider. If stopping the strike a
the price paid does not appeal to the
railroad presidents to whom should
it appeal? If the owners Of the
roads were not afraid to face a
strike it would appear that the py'
lief it be afraid-is more of thu
mollycoddle than of virile manhood.
The overthrow of the principle @
arbitration, which the president ana
the democratic party have advocated
for years, at the very first opportuni-
ty where some courage was demand
ed to stand up for that principle, to
the Freeman-Tribune looks like a
piece of cowardice and ignominy that
no other president in the history of
the country would be guilty of
Others may laud Woodrow Wilson
to the skies, if they see fit, but so
far as the Freeman-Tribune is con-
cerned it has lost confidence in
his sincerity of purpose and belic
he took the course he did simply to
pander to the vote of the railroad
brotherhoods that had threatened
Ito strike.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

merely as a friendly letter to a
friend whom he had known in Sioux
City. It is amusing to see the Des
Moines paper trying to hitch Bill up
with the liquor interests in letter.
that rings in the names of so many
prominent dry republicans.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

The Jefferson Bee declares that
the slogan, mud roads are good
enough for Iowa." is an insult to the
intelligent people of the state. Jess
SO. But who is indulging in such a
slogan? The Freeman-Tribune has
not observed that anybody Of any
consequence has ever said that Mud
roads are good enough for Iowa"
Must be the Bee has been drowsy and
got stung by other bees who were
very much alive and active in max
ing the roads of Iowa better every
day.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

If Henry Ford really expects to
get the boys out of the trenches be-
fore Christmas it is time he were
getting busy.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

Is this government of, by and for
the people or is it government OF, by
and for the brotherhood of trainmen?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

I'VE have cringed and crawled,
we have Inundated ourselves, de-
Launched our government, discredit-
ed union labor and settled nothing. +"
In these words Senator Borah ex-
presses the opinion, shared but not
voiced by large number of his more
timorous colleagues, he entertains
regarding the railway, wage bill
which President Wilson has just
forced congress to pass. That this
bill will prove only the beginning
and that no man can foresee where
the end will be is the opinion of
many.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

The accusation made by the Des
Moines Register and Leader that Ben
SalingeF, member Of the supreme
court of the State of Iowa, made a
demand on the Rock Island railroad
company, while important cases were
pending in which the Rock Island
was interested, for high salaried
position for Art Savage, of Adair, a
former state senator, and secured it,
calls for an immediate investigation
The Register intimates that Judge
|Salinger, while considering import
ant Rock Island litigation, Informed
officials of that road that Savage
must be taken care of. According tc
the Register, Mr.. Savage was taken
care of.-Mason City Times.
1t appears to the Freeman-Tribune
that the Mason City paper is attach
ing altogether too much Importance
to what the Des Moines Register
says III lJS pIcScut IIduc VI iHiHu
The Register is so "het up" over the
political campaign that it is hardly
responsible for what it says or fails
to say. The villainous assaults it
makes through the medium of car
toons upon w. L. Harding seems to
warrant this conclusion. A big news
paper of balanced poise would hard
ly resort to such methods il it really
wanted to accomplish the defeat of
Mr.. Harding. The charitable view
is that the Register and Leader is
temporarily indisposed and is not to
be taken seriously in the flock-shot
charges that it makes. 1t must shoot
at something, and evidently Judge
Salinger was in range at one of the
innumerable times in which it went
off half-cocked.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

The Boone News-Republican and
the Webster City Freeman-Tribune
are doing valiant work for Harding.
Both papers opposed his nomination,
but they readily recognized in him
man qualified in every way to be
governor of the state.-Carroll Her.
aid.
And what is more, Harding never
claimed to be red-hot prohibitions
list nor did he join the Iowa Liquor
Dealers Association in the support
of John It. Hamilton for governor
in 1914. Neither did he vote for
high license and local option in
1910, as his opponent, Mr.. Meredith,
did.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

Perhaps the Kaiser is getting
ready to eat his Christmas dinner
in Roumania's capital. 1t sure will
he some feast as we'll as some feat.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

j. How, in. the world, the democratic
party is going to bring down the
high cost of living by permitting the
railroads to charge about 100000
900 more for freight than in the past
is not apparent to the uninitiated.
But perhaps President Wilson can
figure out someway whereby the
producer can get more for what he
sells while the consumer can buy
it more .cheaply than before. When
he does that we'll join in the chorus,
THANK God for Wilson"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

be joke upon the president and his
congressional aids. if the people
would make boomerang out of the
law they hoped to stake" some
thing like 100000 votes with.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

The street railroad strikers in
New York City are not led by mas
terly politicians such as the brother
hood of trainmen boast. If they had
have been up to snuff. they would
have gone to Washington and told
the president they controlled 10000
votes in New York. The president
would have known what they meant
and would have got busy with con-
gress Immediately. They will know
better next time.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12

The Boone-News Republican hopes
that the railroad brotherhoods have
not been handed a gold brick, as
Cenator Cummins asserts. "If the
railroads. the News Republican
adds, Contest the eight-hour law and
knock it out in the supreme court,
it is difficult to understand what the
railroad men have gained"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

with an eight-hour day on the
farm, agriculture will be a very in
viting business" says the Mason City
Globe-GaZette.