Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-16

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candidate for governor before the
people who does not pledge himself
to law enforcement. The one who
makes the most noise about it may
be the one who would do the least
enforcing when installed in office
The voter has got to take his chan
ces. The Republican may be fooled
and may support a man who will do
as little as convenient along the line
OF enforcement. =
| Every newspaper and every indi-
vidual who goes into an open pri-
mary and expresses preference for
nominees ought to feel morally
bound to support the winner.-Iowa
City Republican.
| AS the Freeman-Tribune looks at
!, it the voter is not morally bound UNI
der any circumstances to support a
candidate whom he believes is un-
worthy. On general principles the
lvoter who goes into primary ought
to support the nominee, as the nom
inee is usually deserving. But the
voters first duty is to public
l So. & ~ ]. -..-
efficiency and when the candidate
doesn't promise the best service there
is no moral duty that requires vot-
er to support him at the polls.
1 The big newspapers of the coun-
try are up against a serious PROPOSE
Ition caused by the large increase in
price of print paper. Subscription
rates have been so low that now the
publishers are furnishing subscrib-
ers at less than the actual cost Of
the print paper. Last January the
Freeman-Tribune laid in half a car
load of paper at $40 per ton at the
mill At present this grade Of paper
is $40 per ton and as the Freeman
Tribune uses two and a half tons per
month this increase is quite an item.
Such papers as the Des Moines Reg
lister and Leader find the increased
cost for blank paper alone right
around $4,000 per year and such
publications as the Chicago Tribune
will do we'll If they get off with an
increase of less than 100000 per
year. The small papers suffer also,
but the smaller papers .haye been
compelled to keep subscription prices
Iup because Of their very limited cir
lculation. The labor part of the aver
age newspaper is practically finished
when the first copy of the edition is
run through the press and the paper
with the big circulation can furnish
lit much cheaper than can the paper
with a small circulation. But the
is hitting the big papers with the
big circulation the hardest.
Senator Kenyon says the people
themselves are largely to blame for
pork barrel appropriations, and that
Is why the government expends un-
necessarily for the improvement of
tadpoled bitches, canoe harbors and
streams without water. enough in
them to swim a baby mudturtle. The
people of the neigh borhood where
the Improvement is to be made want
it and petition their representatives
in congress to vote in the interest of
"your district" In this way the log
rolling is accomplished. The men,
Der from the Tenth district will vote
for what the member from the Elev-
enth district wants in order to get
the member from the Eleventh dis
trict to vote for what the Tenth dis
trict wants, and that is the way it
is worked all along the line. When
the people at home get ready to take
their hands out of the pork barrel
the problem of heading off extrava-
giant appropriation will be greatly
Where is the town in the
United States that will oppose an
appropriation for postoffice, no
matter how large the appropriation
may be? 1t has been known of towns
of less than 1000 getting appropria-
lions of more than 100000 for
government building when suitable