Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-08-22

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". F. Hunter ............ Editor
D. I. Hunter :. Business Mgr.
Rise with the lark, and with the
lark to bed.-James Hurdles.
The Russian bear seems to be
mighty lively corpse for one who
was killed so dead no more than a
year ago.
The movies are a much better
amusement for young men than the
saloon is and in some of the eastern
cities the saloonkeepers are COM
planning that the picture shows are
hurting, their business.
The democratic tariff measure fail
ed by about $20O,OOO,OOO to produce
the required revenue to carry on the
expenses of the government under
democratic rule, and that is tariff
for revenue only, at that.
Be no longer content merely to
breathe in unison with the ALIEN
bracing air, but from this moment
think also in unison with the all
embracing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Au-
relius.
The conclusion is being forced
that Louis Murphy, democratic poll
tician and officeholder who has been
editing for some time a column in
the Register and Leader, has appro-
priated the whole blamed editorial
page.
True glory consists in doing what
deserves to be written, in writing
what deserves to be read, and in Sc
living as to make the world happier
and better for our living in it
Pliny.
The paved roads boosters seem to
be overly anxious for the defeat OF
the republican candidate for COVER
nor this year There is reason not
hard to divine. Even the paving ass
knoweth his masters crib.
Some candidates are glad to stand
upon their record. Not SO with
President Wilson. AS Judge Hughes
turns on the light Of publicity Mr.
Wilson tries to dodge much of the
record he has made during the past
three and half years.
ailA short time ago fsfes4deHp Wilson
declared that "pitiless publicity" in
public affairs should be the rule, yet
the president appears to be somewhat
incensed at the "pitiless publicity
Judge Hughes has been indulging in
during the past few days.
BY the way, what has become OF
the old-fashioned college president
with long gray whiskers and white
tie?-Waterlo TimesTribune.
He has pulled out his whiskers
donned red tie and gone to presi-
denting.
Eighteen automobile drivers were
arrested and fined in Des Moines in
one day this week for driving cars
carrying binding lights. Good. II
there is any news the Freeman-Trib-
une enjoys more than any other 1t
is the news of fines of auto drivers
for violating road laws.
The Freeman-Tribune doesn't be-
lieve the government would drop
from payrolls employees who tenn
porarily left their posts to serve in
the army in time of threatened ma
tional peril il Charles E. Hughes
were president. 1t knows it wouldn't
with Teddy in the white house.
The democratic party came into
power little more than three years
ago yelling so loudly for economy
that it sounded iike the artillery fire
around Verdun, but now its feeble
whisper for economy reminds one of
the dying gasp of crawfish. And
nobody can blame the democratic
party, in view of its record, for this
marvellous change in attitude.
No, the Freeman-Tribune is not
expecting Harding's majority to
reach 100000, but it is expecting it
to pass the $4,000 mark, and the vii
famous cartoons, picturing Mr.. Hard
ing as a saloon bum and the associ-
ate of bootleggers and all sorts of
criminals, will help in attaining this
result. The people like fair fight,
but they do not like character assas-
sination through the medium of vile
pictures in newspapers.
Forty-one out of the total of 5S.
or over 20 per cent, of the men who
were animal husbandry graduates
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