The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-30
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Cedar Rapids Republican: The
national guard is now receiving a
great deal Of criticism and even ridt-
cule for things that are not charge
able to the guard. but to the United
States government. The men who
have offered their lives are not to
blame for the fact that the govern
ment has no equipment ready for
them.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Colonel
Roosevelt has offered himself and H.
600 men for immediate service if war
Is declared upon Mexico. Teddy has
been accused of many things, but
being "too proud to fight" was never
among them.
Knoxville Express: Our idea Of
nothing to worry about is the fear
that Japan is Sticking" Mexico on to
us. japan Is not going to get involv.
ed with America along with so drunk
en- an ally as Mexico.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: The
father who goes to the length of
habeas corpus proceedings to get his
son out of the army, won't have as
good a son as he once had when he
gets him.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: So far, no
newspaper has been suspended be-
cause the patriotic editorial force
have flocked to the standard and
fought for front positions in the
ranks. @av
Des Mo!nes Register and Leader:
The real excitement will be about due
when we reach the war loan stage
of the Mexican trouble.
Sioux City Journal: The dissolu-
ton of the Corn Products company
has been received without signs OF
wild excitement in any direction. No
body has been buying tobacco cheap
err since the dissolution of the tobac-
co trust, and everybody knows what
happened to the price of gasoline
since the oil trust was chopped into
small pieces.
Washington County Press: The
great national holiday is no longer a
day of lost fingers, hands, eyes or life.
And our celebration Of independence
udY Is ASSS
dangerous aspect. for boys especially.
The vicious firecracker, the sputter-
ing squib, the wayward roman candle
and the spiteful pinwheel, that go off
SO unexpectedly, will soon be things
of the past. Each year fewer homes
are set afre and scorched and hole
burned clothing need no longer be cal
culated upon. Boys are turning to
healthy vigorous sports for their good
time on the Fourth and this will even
tually solve the momentous problem
Of making it more safe and sane.
Dubuque Tfmes-Journa1: Wouldn't
it be an Improvement in the primary
law to cut out the per cent. require
ment and give the nomination to the
candidate who receives the greatest
number Of votes? Giving conven-
tons the authority to repudiate the
wishes of the majority is the worst OF
many of the defects in the primary.
Muscatine Journal: The folks at
home won't be called upon to do any
trench digging but they will be ex-
pected to do another sort of digging.
Waterloo Courier: The pacifists
have been telling us that prepared
ness would result in war, but we
doubt if even the most radical OF
them will insist that the present trou-
BILE with Mexico has come about be-
cause we are too we'll prepared to
fight.
Davenport Times: 1t is beginning
to be seen pretty generally that the
volunteer military system is an in
justice to the man who volunteers fer
the reason that the less patriotic
man who could serve but Will not
stays at home and gets ahead while
the other man risks all and II he
doesn't lose his life may come nome
with shattered health and even IL
we'll has lost much opportunity TOT
getting ahead in business or proies-
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