The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-09
IOWA press COMMENT.

IONA PRESS COMMENI.
Marshalltown Times-Republican:
Iowa has good reason to be proud
OF her milit!amen, much more reason
for pride than In the federal military
establishment The guardsmen have
been prompt and ready The federal
officials have been unprepared and
dilatory On the whole, the guard Is
coming out at the big end of the horn.
Des Moines Register: The moose
party may be headless. but It hasn't
lost all its vocal organs.
Waterloo Courier: Those liars"
from whom the president said he got
his information about Mexico are per-
haps the gentlemen referred to In
John Lind's report to the state depart
ment-now belatedly made public. Re-
ferring to certain class of Mexicans,
Governor Lind wrote: They are the
most voluble and plausible liars that
I ever came in contact with"
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
amounts We will spend on our navy
will be well spent, but so far as our
army Is concerned we shall probably
find little or no use for it. However
warlike we may have become, after
the wars in Europe are over we are
going to have in this good old world
an era OF the most profound peace
any one who dares to suggest the COM
mencement Of another world war will
be shot on the spot.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Cato
Sells will not allow q drop Of liquor
on an Indian reservation, not even In
the pocket of the most private-drink
ing person. Come back to Iowa, Cato.
we may need you.
Burlington Hawk-Eye. Iowans pay
over seventeen million dollars life in
surance premiums, which buy nearly
nine hundred millions OF insurance.
It is money well invested. 1t is q
form Of thrift, similar, in some re-
spects, to deposits in savings banks,
but providing for certain contingent
cies. These savings are part of the
prosperity of the state.
Cedar Rapids Gazette; A few ed
itors yet fear that a few other editors
will hoodwink the farmers. The devil
ish purpose of the suspected brethren
might be better realized II they would
select victims who may be hood
winked without being roped and
thrown. Literary gentlemen still have
the idea that RUDE is family name
in the country.
Des Moines Tribune: Easements
life and death are reminiscent of our
own John Brown who led fanatical
revolt and was hanged by the neck.
Brown was guilty according to the
law, and paid the prescribed penalty,
but the underlying justice was on his
side, because he was in revolt against
a long established wrong. History
has Afforded him a moral acquittal.
and his was the martyr name which
inspired the marchers of the civil wal.
Easement Is the John Brown OF Ire
land, and ENGLAND may feel fortunate
il he never figures in marching song.
Carroll Herald: It Is not because
they want to that newspapers are very
generally advancing the price OF sub
scription and advertising. Prices OF
all newspaper material have gone so
high that there is no other way to
meet the emergency.
Adafr County Free Press: The &C
tivity of the different postmasters In
politics in Iowa is causing conside-.
able comment. At present they APP
pear to be we'll organized and will
prove a most formidable machine this
fall.
Onawa Democrat. The fact that all
the parties in Iowa have Endorsed pro.
hibition clearly shows that prohibition
ia popular as well as right.
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