The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-07

of the greater part of the city of Chicago, on
October nine, 1871.
AMBASSADOR GERARD's VACATION.
Our ambassador at Berlin is coming home
for a two months vacation which, according to
the state department, he is entitled to-. Does it
just happen that the period chosen synchronizes
with the tense last weeks of the presidential
eampaign7
That Ambassador Gerard feels the need Of a
rest may be believed. He has a hard job, with
the affairs of sundry belligerents confded to
the embassy over which he presides, and no
small amount of work as the medium of COM
munication for the innumerable notes between
the German foreign office and the state de-
partment at Washington His fellow country
men will feel that he has earned vacation.
But will he be allowed to take real rest, or
will he be ordered to the political battlefront,
or-what seems more probable assigned to
the Shady Lawn board of strategy, just nov
reported to be anxiously mapping campaign
to save the state of New York? 1t is ungener-
ous perhaps, to suspect that our ambassador
is quitting Berlin primarily for any such pur-
pose, that he is taking furlough from the serv-
ice of his country to go duty IN the service
of his party.
According to the cable, Copenhagen, from
which port Ambassador Gerard departs, learns
that che wants vacation after his overwhelm-
ing work in Berlin, and. besides, he is highly
interested in the presidential campaign, IN
which he wishes to participate
If some people were not so famous for be-
|lieving funny stories the hasty assumption
might be that Copenhagen has spilled the
beans
While it would be unfair to assume that the
president is awaiting an opportune moment to
make appointments that may have some
political effect it is not easy to account for de-
lay in naming members of investigating bodies
created by congress. It is reported that MIR.
Wilson s advisers have urged him to announce
as soon as possible his selections for the new
tariff commission, the shipping board and the
railroad Investigating committee. The tariff
board and the committee to observe the opera
ton of the so-called eight-hour day law will
have important duties to perform, and the soon
er they begin their work the better.
The fact that Australia, which has universal
military training, is just voting on the question
of CONSUMPTION means nothing to the pac1flst.
| IF he sees lad shoulder wooden gun he must
needs cry "Conscript'' To him the doctrine
that it is mans sacred duty to know how to
defend the ideals he holds most dear is always
an unknown tongue.
| Scientists are evolving an onion at which one
NAV gaze by the hour and not shed tears Con-
sumers have long sighed for an onion that
would not stir their emotions and excite their
lachrymal ducts. Science is ever striving to
give the consumer what he wants
! Viscount Bryce's speech inviting American
Incorporation toward world peace hardly offsets
the inflammatory utterances of Lloyd George.
! Our ambitions in that direction are half singed
and half frozen.
! Mr. Wilson IS trip west wasn't campaign
), tour, he says. He merely ran out to Omaha to
make few offhand remarks about the weather.
Taft and Roosevelt have buried the Ratchet
where it will do the most good.
Does Lansing really count less than
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