Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

contingency arising.
The province of government is to
increase to the utmost the pleasures
and to diminish to the utmost the
pains which men derive from each
other.-Jo ohm Stuart Mill
PUBLISHERS PAPER MILL.
J Cedar Falls Record: The Webster
City Freeraan-Tribune suggests that
newspaper publishers of Iowa form a
company for the building and opera
tion of "a paper mill. Just now the
publishing business is in a death
struggle with the munitions makers
for supply Of the necessary ingredi-
ents for paper making. Pulp is be-
ing exported instead Of being i'm
ported. This pulp is manufactured
into lyddite and other explosives.
The DuPonts are buying most of the
rags on the market for making gun
cotton. Canada, Norway and Swe-
den have placed an embargo on
wood pulp. AS result publishers
are now completely at the mercy OF
the mills. Print paper has risen
from 50 per hundred pounds in rolls
and $3.50 in sheets to double the
amount and then delivery is not by
any means certain. Publishers are
Threatened with complete shut
down August first. The building
and equipping of paper mill is not
So much of task as some are in
clined tor believe. The Chicago Trib-
une owns it's own paper mill and its
ink mill as well. Certainly Iowa
publishers could afford to go into the
business on cooperative basis il
one institution can effect saving.
WOMAN'S QUALIFICATIONS.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Thought.
less men can be found who question
the capacity of women to use the bal
lot as wisely as men use it. This
assertion does not stand in Iowa
when the acid test of analysis is ap-
Iplied.
Girls remain in the public schools
longer on the average than boys
Last year there were graduated from
the high schools Of the state 2,13A
boys and 2,6S2 girls. We have in the
Estate 2,704 male teachers and "a.
l37S female teachers. In debates, in
|oratorical contests, in music, in ma.
Ithematics, in every department OF
educational work girls hold their
own beside boys. Yet we say to boys
when they arrive at the age of Fl
you may put your opinion of public
business in the ballot box, but we
deny the same right to the girls
whose interest in the state is iden.
tical, with that of the boys.
/ Statistics inform us that we are
spending one billion dollars annually
for tobacco and two billion dollars
ANNUALLY for liquor. Who is respon.
isible for most of this waste? Mer
Tor women?
Two institutions in Iowa will an.
swer this question-the penitentiar-
les and the inebriate asylums. The
average daily number of inmates Of
the inebriate asylum at Knoxville
during the last two years was ia
The average number Of women in
lebriates at Mt. Pleasant was four
teen. The average number of in
mates of the two penal institutions
lat Anamosa and Fort Madison for
the past two years was 1904 and the
average number Of women thirty
five.
Surely, there is nothing in these
| figures to indicate that women are
not as well qualified in every way to
exercise a voice in the government
under which they live as men.
We have in America five hundred
thousand tramps roaming over the
country. Very few women ever get
into this class. These fellows with
their incidence and criminal in
stincts are vested with the right to
vote. This is unjust to the women.
If Iowa denies the right to women
to vote when the question is sub
mitted on the fifth, of June it will
deny them justice and it will de-
prive. the state of an influence for
good in all directions.
"The men whom have seen sue
coed best in life have always been
cheerful and hopeful men, who went
about their business with a smile on
their faces and took their changes
and chances in this mortal life like
men, facing rough and smooth alike
as they came. Charles Kingsley.
THE ONLY REAL CLAIM.
Times Republican: A northern
Iowa newspaper supporting the
claims OF its candidate says cit is a