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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26
CONSTITUTION SAYS NO.

The total vote for President in
Mississippi on November seventh
was 86,63S-of which Mr.. Wilson
received S0,3S3. The population of
Mississippi is three times as great as
that of Rhode Island, while it's pres
idential vote is a trife less than that
lof this State. Rhode Island polled
ISS,756 votes for President this year.
There is something wrong with our
electoral system, when such a show
ing can be made. Should Mississip-
pi have ten electoral votes and Rhode
island only fve?-Providence Journ-
Ia1.
The constitution of the United
States says that representation in
congress and the electoral college
shall be cut down when citizens are
denied the right to vote. If the con
lstitution were enforced in this re-
spect, Mississippi would have only
five votes in the electoral college and
would now be represented in con-
gress by five members of the senate
and lower house. The same results
would obtain as regards South Caro-
lima, and the old solid south would
lose about twenty votes in the cleo
|toral college and the same number
ofl cnupresSmap Vet norfbarn con.
perheads shout that "you are wav-
ing the bloody shirt when these
outrages are referred to. Well. the
bloody shirt ought to continue to
wave until the constitution is OBJ
served and obeyed in the south as it
is in the north.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26
ARE IOWA MOTORISTS
UNUSUALLY CARELESS

st. Paul, Dec. 22.-Aye Iowa mo-
florists more careless than .Minneso-
ia drivers? 1t would seem SO, accord
ing to the report of a st. Paul manu-
facturer, who has to replace lost
Iowa auto tags at the rate of as high
as 200 a week, while requirements OF
Minnesota licenses are only made at
the rate of about six a week. But
one reason for this may be that the
Iowa licenses are much heavier and
the bolts give way under jolting. The
Iowa tags + made Of very heavy
metal, which requires a blow of 300
tons in stamping and impression,
while the Minnesota plates merely
take a gentle tap of 100 tons.
The United States spends annually
about $1,0O0,000 on automobile IL
cense tags, and st. Paul makers Sc
cure approximately one-tenth of this
business.
This work is but one branch Of the
stamp and die Industry with which
lit is usually connected. st. Paul
firms supply everything from auto
tags to heavy enclosing plates, dies
for cutting iewelry and rubber
stamps. The high quality Of work
done in the half dozen OF o fact
|ories in St. Paul has established a de-
mand for theirtproducts which ex-
tends not only over the United States
but also to South America and Eur
|cpe.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26
Sale Dates Announced,

Dec. 28.-John Sangeland, 3 miles
north of Ellsworth.
Dec. 2S.-W. II. Hill. 3 miles
south of Woodstock and 4 miles north
of Webster City.
Dec. 29.-Mrs. Williams. south
cas-. of harrisburg.
Dec. 29.-Waiter Glaman, 2 miles
and Ii west of Jewell.
Jan. 2.-W. T. Lemley, west OF
Blairsburg.
Jan. 3.-Nott & O'Connor, two
miles north Of Webster City.
Jan. 4.-John Chantrill. west OF
Williams.
Jan. 4.-c. j. Siekenger, 4 miles
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

4 tFf-IFFNN rh-EEINA IS sNa sNS.s GrA=tWrte -. sw.IaI.aZ
west Of jewell.
Jan. 5.-Russell Stafford, north Of
Blairsburg.
Jan. s.-John wient3es. northeast
Of Kamrar.
Jan. 9.-Gordon Davis, northwest
of harrisburg.
Jan. 1o.-Leo Hanfeldt. northwest
LOT Williams.
Jan. ia. H. Heljeson. 81 miles
north Of Ellsworth.
Jan. Hoffman, southeast Of
l~Blairsburg.
Ian. 11.-Geo. Heyer. Z miles
north of Jewell.
Jan. 15.-Chas. Hoge. z miles
north of Ellsworth.
Jan. 16.-G. A. Sonnerholm.
southwest Of Kamrar.
Jan. 17.-Tom T. Twedt, northeast
of Ellsworth.
Jan. 10. W. bige, Highview.
Jan. 17.-Martin Egmo, northeast
of Story City.
Jan. 1s.-Geo. Atkinson, 13>ymiles
north and4 mile east OF Ellsworth.
Jan. 18.-E. Spielman, southwest
OF Webster City,
Jan. 18.-Jondall & Gard. north
west of Roland.
Jan. 19.-Peter stiness, southeast
Iof harrisburg.
Jan. 22.-Mrs. John jacobson,
southwest Of Story City.
Jan. 23.-Geo. Olson. north Of
Radcliffe. .,.s
Jan. 23s-E. =. Cheever. Duroc
and Hampshire brood SOY sale, east
of Webster City.
Jan. 24.-L. N. Mason. Duroc
brood SOW sale, east Of Webster City.
Jan. 25.--Carl Helms north OF
Kamrar.
Jan. 25.-Alden Anderson, Story
City.
Jan. 2a-Paul II. segar, 10 miles
northeast Of Webster City.
Jan. 29.-Roy S. Adams. 6 miles
south Of Webster City.
Jan. 3d.. w. Western, brood
sow sale, four miles north Of Webster
(City.
Jan. S1.-J. H. Lachmiller. south
west Of Webster City. Chester White
brood sow sale.
Jan. Sill. E. Johnson, north Of
Kamrar. :.
Feb. lie. P. Cook. on the Meiss-
ner farm, 1 mile south Of French
church.
Feb. WIN. Oakland, n mile
south Of harrisburg. Big type Po-
land China bred sow sale.
Feb. Mrs. Koolhon, north Of
Highview.
Feb 5.-John skilfred, west Of
Williams.
Feb. Sired Eggers, 4 miles
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26
WASHINGTON T

Washington, Dec. 1.-The chair
man of the Democratic. State Com
mittee in Louisiana has made some
public statements fayoring the direct
popular election of the President.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune is
trying to shoe him away from the
subject on the ground that the plan
would be injurious to the South,
would not only lessen its influence.
but would force to the front some
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26
IMPROVING THE INDIANS.

An examination Of. the statistical
charts of the report of the Commits
lsioner of Indian Affairs, Cato Sells,
for the fiscal year ending June so,
j1916, discloses, upon a comparison
of the figures presented, among 9TH
err notable things, several startling
facts which are of interest to those
concerned about the welfare Of the
american Indian.
In 1912 approximately 100000
indians had given up their typical
Indian costumes ana adopted the
habilimentsst of the white. man. DUR
ling the four years ending in June,
1916, this number had been increas-
ed by 10000.
Whereas in 1912 less than $4,000
Indians could read and write the
English language during the past
-four years that number has been ir.-
creased SO that today very nearly
$4,000 Indians, or thirty per cent of
1.-THE. whole number, have learned to
read and write the English language.
That the Indian has shown no in
|clination to neglect his religious dl-
ties is shown by the fact that where
lin 1912, 10000 Indians were report
led as churchgoing, this number has
been increased to $4,000, or over for
ty per cent in 1916.
The Indians as a class are appar-
|ently making substantial financial
progress. Where in 1912 their ir-
come from employment and other
sources, including their farming and
s~tock-raising activities, was s22,-
600, 900, in 1916 it was more than.
$2S, 000, 600.
Their live stock, which in 1919
was worth about $4,000, 900, in
1916 is worth s30,0O0,O 900.
The Indian, like his white broth
err, is going back to the land. In
1913, 29,216 Indians were engaged
in farming: In 1915 S5,S23 have.
turned to the tillage of the soil for a
livelihood and are real farmers.
In 1911 the acreage cultivated by
Indians was 3S3,025; in 1916 the IN.
dams were farming 67S,527 acres.
The Indian is approaching more
and more the Importance of hospitals
and proper care during sickness. His
original objection to the white mans
medicine and his tendency to turn
to the Indian medicine mar to amel-
|iorate his disease is fast passing
away.
OF all the figures given in Commits
sioner Sells report, none show the
effectiveness of his campaign to i'm
prove health conditions mor than
the dropping of the death rate from
approximately 30 per 1000 in 19iE
to a little over 90 per 1000 in 1915.
In 1915, IS per cent of the deaths
of Indians were due to tuberculosis.
while in 1916 only 20 per cent were
attributed to that cause,
The effectiveness of the "Save the
Babies campaign is disclosed in the
fact that while in 1914 there were
1891 deaths of Indian children un-
der three years of age, in 1916 there
were only 1903 deaths.
Music washes away from the soul
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

THAT his state was going to continue
doing business in the same old way
and wanted to know what was go
ling to be done about it. It is crime
and outrages in the south that swept
Woodrow Wilson into the white
house and he now occupies that po-
sition because there were no honest
ELECTIONS in Mississippi and other
southern states. There is absolutely
no political freedom in the old Con-
federate states. The states that
fought four years to destroy the
union are just as strongly demo-
cratic today as they We're in 1861,
and their vote is controlled entirely
by prejudice. No matter who are
the candidates or what the issues,
the vote down that way is just as
strongly democratic n year as it is
another. When Roosevelt split the
vote of the north and Iowa gave her
electoral vote to Wilson and nearly
every other state in the north did
the same, there was no substantial
difference in the vote of the old reb-
lei states. There is not today one
single republican in the state legis-
lature of Mississippi nor has there
been a single democratic congress
man elected from that state during
the past forty years. 1t is this hide
bound and unreasoning prejudice of
the south that enables that section
to carry elections by overriding the
constitution and denying the right
of suffrage, to citizens of the United
States. It is a crime against a gov
ernment of, by and for the people
and any man, north or south, who
defends such outrages against the
people simply demonstrates that he
lis willing to condone crime when
crime aids his own party.
l Ef i liz lAdnSOA DCAlOC OF IA W
know if the average democrat of the
south is more bigoted and benight-
ed than the average republican OF
the north.
According to the censu reports
of. 1910 the percentage of people in
Iowa over ten years Of age who
lcould not read or write was IL and
in Mississippi it was 22.4. In other
words there were more than % PEG.
) pie in Mississippi out of every 10C
who could not read and write, while
in Iowa there We're less than 2 such
persons in-every 100. This indicates
that there are about a dozen times
as much ignorance in Mississippi as
There is in Iowa. The public schools
of Iowa cost in 1914, $16,442,52S
. Those of Mississippi cost during the
same year. s2,S06, 562. The public
school property of Iowa was valued
in 1914 at s36,125,107. That o.
Mississippi was valued at s3,110,
800. The expense per captain low;
to maintain schools is $40. III
Mississippi it is $1.4S. This beins
the situation is it any wonder tina
year after year Mississippi casts II
democratic votes to one republican
or is it any wonder that the people
down that way are controlled by Pc
licial prejudice? Why, the Tent
congressional district of Iowa pay
more money for education each yea
than does the entire state of Misssis
sippi. Calhoun, Hamilton, Webster
Buena Vista and n OF two othe'
Iowa counties have more money in.
vested in school property than has
Mississippi. The average MONTH.
salaries Of teachers in Iowa is $685.
In Mississippi the average is $3.50
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26
The Mother Manager.

Des Moines Capital: In the clans
Tor; and confusion over the high
prices, We pause to pay honor where
honor is due. We refer to the little
woman, with a family of four or five
who keeps her family together ana
the wolf away from the door on SIS
la week. Efficiency engineers and
high salaried financial experts should
take off their hats to the business
manager Of the SIS a week home.
She buys the groceries and prepares
sends them to school, keeps herself
and her husband looking respectable,
pays the doctor bills and guards the
family against debt. No deliberately
planned budget shows where each
penny should go o what to buy
and what not to buy. Mother has it
all in her head and she can tell,
barring accidents, just where the
family will be financially a year from
date. The country is not oversup-
piled with this type Of oma The
homes which claim one are getting
lscarcer. Pity should be given to the
family that lacks a manager, where
la dollar has no staple value, but only
passes as a certain means to an in
definite end. The mother manager
is the heroine of the modern home.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

The truly virtuous do not easily
credit evil that is told them of their
neighbors; for if others may do
amiss, then may these also speak
amiss.-Jeremy Taylor.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

GNASHlNG y CUNIlNUE
That grinding sound you hear oy-
Ell. toward the northeast is the gnash-
ing of teeth in the editorial dens OF
the Webster City Freeman-Tribune
and the Charles City Press. The good
republican brothers of those two es-
Unable newspapers simply cannot
reconcile themselves to the result OF
the recent election and they are en-
Enthusiastically banging the "solid
south" over the head because it is so
solidly democratic that it returns big
democratic majorities in every state
at every election. But, honestly, is
the south any worse in that respect
than some states in the north? Is
it any worse for Mississippi to go
$4,000 democratic than it is for Iowa
to go $4,000 republican? Is the
average democrat of the south any
more bigoted and benighted than
the average republican of the north
Manson Democrat.
1t would be no worse for Mississip-
pi to give an honest democratic ma
jority than it is for Iowa to give an
honest republican majority, but the
vote in Mississippi is not represen-
tative of the electorate. According to
press reports the vote at the late
election in the old state of jeff Da-
Wis was $4,000 for Wilson and 5000
for Hughes. The population of Missis-
sippi in 1910 was 1,S95,000 and that
of Iowa was 2,224,000. Mississippi
has ten votes in the electoral college
and Iowa has thirteen. $4,000 DEM
oerats in Mississippi this year gave
Wilson ten votes in the electoral col
lege while 100000 republicans in
Iowa gave him but thirteen. If the
constitution and the laws were OBJ
served in Mississippi as they are in
Iowa, Mississippi would have given
its electoral vote to Hughes. The
fact that the result in the south is
attained by fraud, intimidation,
bulldozing and criminal practices
calls forth protests from every voter
who wants an honest ballot and a
fair count. When Senator Varda-
man spoke in Webster City last sum-
n,er he boosted that elections in Mis-
sissippi were carried by force and
and that there was no attempt
ceal that fact. He insisted
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

There are fresh water springs
which bubble up beneath the edge of
the sea; the brackish tides roll over
them, but they remain ever sweet
and fresh. Like these springs are
the fountains CT Christian joy.
r. Miller, d. D.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

Music washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.-Auer-
bach.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26
According to the United States de

According to the United States de-
partment Of agriculture the longest
continuous fight Of any bird is
made by the golden plover. From
Nova Scotia to the coast of South
America the entire fight of 2,400
miles is accomplished without pause
or rest. The golden plover of the
Pacific ocean migrates from Alaska
to the Hawaiian Islands. Its fight
takes 1000 miles across an island
less sea.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

The talk that Iowa has done little
or no road work in the past is the
sheerest nonsense. Nearly all of our
roads are good at least nine months
in the year and many of them are
good the year round. Thirty or for
ty years ago Iowa roads We're simply
awful and miles of travel were vast
ed in making detours of sloughs. This
has changed and u roads r fair
1y good. But we want something
better. A road well drained and
graveled is good the year around and
that is what Iowa ought to have.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

Nearly 10000 900 square yards of
roadway, the equivalent of 561.9
miles of road Is feet wide, were con-
structed under the supervision of
Federal road specialists during the
last fiscal Year according to the an
nual report of the Office of Public
Roads and Rural Engineering Of the
u. S. agricultural department just is
sued. This is more than double the
mileagefso constructed in previous
years. The roads constructed under
supervision Of .the Office include ex-
perimental roads, post roads, county
roads, and roads in national parks
and forests. The expenditures of the
Office for this purpose ere chiefly
for engineering services and super
vision, the communities, except in
the case of forest and park roads,
meeting the bulk of the costs for ma
terial and construction.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

Old John Barleycorn gets a ray of
comfort out of the recent election in
Boston, where prohibition was de-
feated by a tremendous majority.
Notwithstanding the fact that Old
John insists that prohibition in
creases the sales of his stuff he is
nightly tickled when some old town
like Boston votes in favor of liquor.
There are only a few places left
where he is not in peril and these are
growing fewer every year. 1t is only
a question of time until the legalized
grogshop will be banished from ev-
cry state in the union.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-04-11
COCKNEY AN OLD DIALECT
Writer Asserts That Peculiar Pronun
Citations Have Been i'm Use for
Hundreds of Years.

Cockney speech has found defen-
der in Mr.. Mackenzie MacBride, who
undertakes to show that Cockney is
no modern dialect or corrupted form
of the Kings English, but that it is
of ancient and honorable lineage run
ming back for nearly a thousand years.
It is pointed out that when the per
son born within the sound of Bow
Bells" says tibet for that" 'benk
for bank" and "byliff'' for "bailiff,"
he is really guilty of no corruption Of
the English language, since these pro-
nunciations have obtained not only in
London but in Kent and Surrey for
hundreds of years
In like manner is justified 'abaht"
and "ahtside" Tor about" and out
side 1t is suggested that many Lon
doners have been laughed out of these
ancient and excellent pronuncia-
tions. Mr.. MacBride earnestly urges
them not to change their speech be-
cause of any uncalled-for animadver-
sions against it.
Whether Mr.. MacBride be correct or
not in his contentious, it is fact that
Cockney has survived for many CEN
turtles in the midst Of speech that is
deemed more cultured. 1t is a curious
fact that in the Bahama islands, which
were settled more than 200 years ago
by Londoners, the Cockney speech is
as strong as it is in Cheapside.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-04-11

anew and, trembling in every limb,
ran on for several hundred yards But
time pressed ard the usefulness of his
car was at an end as far as he was
concerned; there was no saying how
many times it's identity might not
have been established in the course of
that wild chase through Paris, or how
soon the police might contrive to over
haul and apprehend him; and as soon
as bend in the road shut Off the scene
of the wreck, he stopped finally,
jumped down, and plunged headiong
into the dark midnight heart of the
Bots, seeking it's silences where trees
stood thickest and lights were few.
Later like some furtive, worried
creature of the night-panting dis
heveled, his rough clothing stained
and muddied-he skunk across an open
space a mile from his point of disap-
pearance, dropped cautiously down to
the dry bed of the moat, climbed as
stealthily the slippery side of the for
tifications, darted across the inner
boulevard, and began to describe a
wide arc to his destination, the Omber
house.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-04-11
us JOSEPH VANCE
(copyrfgh. by Louis Joseph Vance,


discipline OF your precious organlza-
tion-granting, for the sake of argu-
ment, the possibility of such non
sense"
We'll, WELL have your own way
about that, | don't insist, SO long as
you're agreeable to join forces with
me"
"Oh, it's with you alone now-is it,
Not with that insane bogy, the Inter
national Underworld, Unlimited"
Cheerfully the Englishman assented,
nodding: With me alone. I offer you
a clear field. Go where you like, do
what you Wilt wouldn't have the eff
frontery to attempt to guide or influ-
ence you
Lanyard kept himself in hand with
considerable difficulty
But you?" he asked. Where do
you come in?"
Wertheimer lounged back in his
chair and laughed quietly. Need you
ask? Must recall to you the founda-
tions of my prosperity? You had the
name of it glib enough on your tongue
that night in the Rue Chaptal. When
you've done your work you'll come to
me and split the proceeds fairly-and
as long as you do that, never a syllable
will pass my lipsl"
''BlackmaiIi"
"Oh, if you insist Odd, how dis
pleasing | find that world"
Abruptly the adventurer got to his
get out of this before | do you an in
jury"
The door slammed behind him on a
room ringing with Wertheimer's I'M
affected laughter.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-04-11
CROPPED in the Dark.

An investigation of the beginnings
of big business men has been conduct
ed for the American Magazine by
Hugh S. Fullerton.
AN astonishing feature of this in
vestigation," he says, lis that so few
OF these men who have attained large
successes remember the turning point
in their lives until it is recalled TO
them. They never thought of it, yet
when the idea was explained, every
one of them could put his finger upon
the exact place at which they turned
toward success 1t was astounding to
find that the majority of them were
merely. f1oundering through life with
out definite aim or purpose up to that
point and that from that point on they
saw the course plainly and worked
with positive purpose toward an end
They were cropping blindIy and
could not see an opening until it came
almost as an inspiration. Yet each
one with whom | talked claimed to see
clearly the turning points and the op-
portunities of others"