Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-01-11

be sensible and just and would be
appreciated by patrons of the post
office department.
The newspapers of Iowa are turn
ing down thousands Of dollars worth
of advertising every day proffered by
outside liquor dealers. Yet some
people insist that the press thinks
Of nothing but the financial end of
the business. There are not many
business institutions that will delib-
lerately refuse business that promises
| good profits and liquor advertising
would pay better than any other.
Do not make any new resolutions.
That is all nonsense and it is child
ish. All your life should be one. res
olution and that to do and to be al
ways at your best.-Cedar Rapids
Republican.
Well, whatever you do don't fol-
L low the practice of c. Cole, editor Of
the Republican. Cy might be all
right to preach, but if every man did
as he has done, shirked the respon-
sibility of family, there would be
no future for the American people.
Col Roosevelt has written repub-
lican and progressive managers in
Michigan to take his name off the
primary ballot. Some of his friends
filed his name as a candidate upon
both the republican and progressive
tickets. The colonel's enemies are
insisting that he is just dying to
be made the nominee for president
again, but he has refused to permit
the use of his name upon the prim.
airy ballot in two states-Nebrasks
and Michigan. Nobody but Teddy
knows his intentions and he seems
to delight in having the public guess
The legislature of Georgia has en-.
acted law prohibiting the sale in
that state of any newspaper or mag.
azine containing liquor or beer ad-
vertising. The law applies to peri
odicals published anywhere and sold
in Georgia. OF course the state does
not claim it can prevent papers con.
tanning liquor advertisements pub
lished outside the state being sent
Ito regular subscribers within the
state, but the state does claim that
it can prohibit the sale of such per-
iodicals at the news stands and upon
the streets of the cities.
The Fort Dodge Chronicle has just
installed a new tubular Duplex Per.
fecting press, made by the Duplex
Printing Press Company of Battle
|
Creek, Mich, the company that
made the press recently installed in
the Freeman-Tribune office. The
Chronicle press has guaranteed
speed of 10000 per hour and cost
$14,O 900. The Chronicle, is among
the good newspapers of Iowa and
has an editorial page that attracts
attention. 1t is fearless and ably
edited. The Freeman Tribune is
pleased to note the prosperity of its
Fort Dodge contemporary and hopes
and believes the future will be good
to it.
Because Of the discrimination of
the activity of German submarines
in the English channel and the wat
ers around the British isles it had
been heralded by the friends OF
President Wilson that his course had
forced Germany to modify, its SUBJ
marine operations. This was re-
garded as a great diplomatic victory
for the administration. However,
it was insisted that Great Britain
had found a way to make submarine
operations Improbable in the wat
ers around England, Ireland, Scot
land and Wales and that that was
the reason Germany had abandoned
submarine activities in that region.