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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
People in Germany Working
to Make it Possible, While
the Army Takes
Riga.
REICHSTAG IS RESTLESS
Democracy ls Relng Talked Of by the
Members With Possible
Action at Next
Session.

by Carl D. Groat, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.-While
her people at home are working I'd
make peace possible, Germany by her
capture Of 2iga is seeking to sway
the wavering and unpatriotfc among
the Russians to separate negotiations.
! Only time will tell whether linden
burg will continue his smash to Pet
rograd. That he can take the capital
| is certain. It's effect would be mainly
physiological for 1t would add prac-
tically nothing to the military posi-
tlon of the Teutons, while it would
| involve many men and much material.
| That it would have a tremendous
effect on the Russians, however, is
admitted here by officials who while
far from pessimistic, hope this added
| impetus to separate peace will not
materialize.
War plans are so framed that the
struggle can go on whether or not
Russia cracks beneath the moral and
psychological pressure, but should
the Germans once get separate peace,
they would open up such storehouse
Of food and supplies as to make
their position again formidable.
IltSS lcpol 10 VI q Sio"ihSo I'LL
among reichstag members and
more favorable reception
of President Wilson's peace reply IN
Germany, have created here the hope
that Internal reforms upon which
peace can rest will be accomplished
before another spring.
However, If Petrograd is taken
then perhaps the militarists and pan
Germanists can halt temporarily the
movement toward democratization of
the kaiser's realm.
The weakness of the Riga defend
ers cauRd a gloomy spirit in some
quarters today, though authorities
who believe in the ultimate strength
of Russia, insist that she will stay in
the fight along her vast border with
sufficient force to thwart German
plans Of conquest.
Talking Democracy.
LONDON, Sept. 4.-Germany is be-
ginning to talk characterization now,
as the first step towards peace.
Berlin news via Holland today an
nounced that at the session Of the
convenin- September 26 the
same coalition of the centrists and
social democrats which precipitated
the German cabinet crisis in July
would again seek surrender by the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
DRAFTED MEN
LEAVE FOR CAMP
Send Off Celebrations in Va1i-
o1ls Cities for Members of
New National
Army.
PRESIDENT LED PARADE
Thirty Thousand Marchers In tho
Procession Down Historic
Pennsylvania Avenue
Today.
president LED PARADE
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON Eanf L.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Sept A.
RM Men of the new national
~ army whose feet have known
~ only the paths Of peace, trod
today the way to war
| Led by their commander-fn-chief,
President Wilson, the first drafted
men of the capital marched the length
Of Pennsylvania avenue-the way of
the presidents and the troops of other
days.
Tottering veterans of both sides Of
! the civil war; cabinet members, solons
| of the senate and house; soldiers OF
| the war with Spain; civilians from
government departments; army and
navy officers; cavalrymen on rearing
mounts; marines and other fighters
Joined in this solemn procession.
In cities throughout the country the
same spirit with different actors was
shown in "send-off" celebrations.
To do honor to the men under his
leadership who will help make the
world safe for democracy, President
Wilson was glad to trudge the mile
and half route beneath a warm Sep
tember sun.
Mothers, fathers. sisters, sweet
hearts, lined the streets to pay hon.
age, some tearfully, some with brave
smiles, all with a solemnity that marks
farewell.
Thirty thousand marchers participat-
day before the men depart for camps.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
Association Passes Resolu-
tions Condemning Attempts
to Embarrass Government.

20 United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
81 SARATOGA, n. Y, Sept. 4.-Bitter
of attempts to embar-
|rass the government Sin congress or
@out OF it" by those under cover OF
)pacifism or technically" was made in
RESOLUTIONS adopted by the American
association today Such moves,
Sthe congress of lawyers declared, were
S1n the spirit pro-German and in effect
lgiving comfort and aid to the enemy.
The resolutions pledged absolute
land unqualified loyalty" to the govern
|ment and expressed the conviction
that "the future freedom and security
OF our country depends upon the de-
feat of the German military power"
Entrance into the war Of the Uniteo
Estates was approved since 1t came
before 1t was too late to find success
Through the united action of the demo
|cratic powers" In conclusion the con-
|gress said these resolutions represent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
CHICAGO MAYOR
OEF|Es GOVERNOR
Four Companies of State Mi
itia Sent to City to Pre-
vent Any So Called
Peace Meetings.
CHARGES TO BE FILED
Peoples Council Declared to be Trea-
sonabIe Conspiracy Which
Thompson Gives
Support.
CHARGES TO BE FILED

| limited Press Leased Wsre Service
CHICAGO, Sept 4.-The Peoples
Council for Democracy and Terms
OF Peace today had resigned the cen
ter of the stage to William Hale
Thompson, mayor of the sixth Ger
man city Of the world"
The pacttist organization whose
meetings Saturday and Sunday re-
suited in the dispatch Of state troops
to Chicago, was slowly disintegrating
as delegates left for their respective
cities.
AS interest in the peace doves"
declined, it veered to the situation
confronting the mayor, who defied
Governor Lowden by ordering police
protection for the Peoples Council,
after the governor had banned them.
Following a conference here last
night with Adjutant General Dickson.
commanding the four companies OF
state militia rushed to this city from
Springfield, Governor Lowden issued
a statement to the American people
in which he branded the Peoples
Council as "treasonable conspir-
acy."
III we lose this war, real free
speech will be lost and this society
which now claims the privilege, will
contribute to that result" he said.
What / have said of the 80 called
Council for Democracy and Peace.
applies equally to other organizations
which may seek to obstruct the gov
ernment in the prosecution OF this
war
Samuel insult. chairman Of the
state council of defense, who was
i,,
ers when the governor and mayor
clashed, took the first train for Chi
cago and arrived early today.
After reading the governors state
ment, he decided that no action by
the council was necessary at this
time.
Officials of the National Security
league meanwhile took hand in the
affair and began planning Indictment
Of the mayor on charges Of "palpable
omission of duty" The citizens
war board will be asked to take sim
liar action States Attorney Hoyne
already had announced his readiness j
to pros ecute criminal charges if pre- |
perred against the mayor.
The city council, at it's regular
meeting today, was expected to ar.
range a special meeting for tomor-
-ow at which impeachment Of the |
mayor will be attempted.
Thompson In Control.
CHICAGO, Sept. 4.-Mayor Thomp- |
,on, smiling and apparently indiffer-
mt, this afternoon was refereeing an |
lttempt by the icty council to GEN.
Iure him for permitting the Peoples
Council for Democracy and Terms
II Peace to meet in this city.
Alderman Toman and five others
we're trying to shove through a reso-
ution endorsing Governor Lowden's
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
Kaiser Sends Messages Saying
God is With Troops TAX
ing Russian City
Of Riga.
WANT CAPITAL NEXT
Expected to Speed up While Russia is
Dioorpanized and Hasten
Toward Petro-
grad.

~ UNITED Press Leased Wire Service,
M AMSTERDAM, Sept. 4.-Kaiser vii
pelm exuited with his people today IL
The capture OF Riga from the Russians
NBerlin dispatches quoted this extract
from message sent by him: This is
u new milestone OF German strength
Rnd unerring will for victory. May
kGod help us further
\ The kaiser also wired his congratu
ilations to Prince Leopold, whose
troops took the Russian city.
Your far-seeing leadership and iron
twill for victory guaranteed this fine
lsuccess.i he declared. Onward with
SGod!"
Now For Petroarad.
LONDON, Sept. A quick, hard
drive from Riga to Petrograd, is Lon
sdon's forecasts today Of Germany's
Russian campaign. Military experts
believe Germany will do her utmost
sin speed. The Germans must go far
gin the 320 mile Quincy toward the
Russian capital before freezing
weather sets in if they expect to re.
sly on the German Baltic fleets aid
SThey are also expected to hurry with
fall speed to cover as much ground as
possible before General Korniloff can
carry out his plans for regeneration
Of the Russian army.
II the Russians manifest proper
fighting spirit, military authorities
here today agreed they will easily
block the German drive. The ground
from Riga to Petrograd is of a ma
lure lending itself readily to defense.
1t is marshy and studded with small
lakes and WATERWAYS Small bodies
of Russian troops could play havoc
with greatly superior attacking forces
attempting an advance over such
broken terrain.
In the opinion Of observers here.
much depends on the Russian fleet in
stopping the expected German drive
II mutinous sailors can be quelled and
discipline and fighting spirit restored,
the Russian fleet could effectually
hamper-nerhaps prevent - opera
hons, by German fleet in the Bal
tic
No attempt was made to minimize
the effect of Riga's fall on the Ger
man population. Battered badly on
the.west front by British and French |
drives of the past few months and
with Austria losing ground every
hour under the italian assault, the |
German militarists were badly in |
need of German victory to hearten
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
German Planes Drop Bombs
on Chatham -Sheerness Area
With Terrific
Slaughter.
ALL GOT AWAY SAFELY
Allied Offensive Resumed Today
With Sharp Blow Which Ad
wanoes Line Several
Yards.

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Servtce.J
! LONDON. Sept 4.-German aero
planes last night raided the Chatham
Sheerness area Of England Chatham
! Is British naval base and Sheerness
is a naval and military depot, in
flicting what were officially describ
ed today as naval casualties" total
ing 10S dead and eighty-six wounded.
On the Isle of Thanet the raiders
killed one and wounded six other
persons.
about six enemy air planes fol-
lowed the south bank Of the Thames
from 10:4O to 1880 last night, tha
| official statement said.
"Our machines rose and anti-a1r
craft guns were In action without
results --s t~-'r- gy-r 4
IChatham contains immense mill
tary and naval establishments, docks.
barracks, engineer schools and I'M
mense Notifications.
Sheerness is also a strongly fort1-
fled seaport, the naval arsenal OF
England. 1t likewise has great docks:
The size of the naval casualties
reported indicates that the German
raiders bombs blew up something
ings in the two great bases.
Chatham is about twenty-five miles
from London. It is at the lower
point Of the river Medway, which
flows from the river Thames at the
point where Sheerness Is located.1
Sharp Blow by British.
LONDON, Sept. 4.-Field Marshal
Haig resumed his offensive today
with a sharp blow that advanced the
British line northeast OF st. Julien.
The official report today gave no
further details.
1--WE advanced our line slightly,
the statement said.
Elsewhere on the British front,
the commander in chief reported:
North of Lens, at night, we car
ried out a successful raid A num-
her of Germans were killed and sew
eral taken prisoner.
southwest Of Labassee, hostile
raiders were driven off.
Northeast 'of Ypres, enemy artD'
lery was active"
Thirteen Brought Down.
PARIS. Sept. 4.-Thirteen German
aeroplanes were brought down in ex
traordinary aerial activity on the
French front yesterday, today's Of
ficial report announced.
German airmen bombed Dunk1rE
and Cailas. killing and wounding a
number. and let bombs fly over the
Nancy and Luneville regions, without
striking any victims. In return,
French aviators bombed enemy ay1a.
ton fields and other stations north
Of scissors. in Belgium, at Roulers,
Licitervelde. F>rescati, Thieonville,
~ambray, Colmar and Metz Cipsy,
The official statement also detailed
unusual activity in raidtng. AT
Sapigneul the French raided an en-.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
LABOR PLEDGES SUPPORT
BEHIND FIRING LINE

red, white and blue special to attend
the labor loyalty conference at Min
neapolis beginning today.
With John Spargo, ]. G. Phelps
Stokes and Rose Pastor Stokes at
their head, the delegates were met
by a committee of ST Paul labor
leaders on arrival at the union depot
The party was taken for an automo-
bile ride through the twin cities
imm mediately after breakfast. They
planned to go into session at Mime
apolis following the tour
Samuel Gompers and Charles Ed
ward Russell failed to arrive on the
labor special. They will go direct to
Minneapolis on O later train.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
KNOCKING DOWN
ALL AMENDMENTS
Senate Disposes Of Proposed
Changes to Committees
War Revenue
Measure.
TENDER TOWARD RICH
All Efforts to Conscript Great Profits
Have Failed In Spite
Of Bitter
Debate.
TENDER TOWARD RICH

| {United Press Leased Wire Servicel
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-With g
vote on the war profits section Of the
, revenue bill only twenty-four hours
away, senate wealth cons scrtptionists
today laid their cause before the coun
try.
Senators Johnson and Borah, II
statements to the people, assailed
this attitude Of tenderness fol
wealth and disregard for the purses
OF the average man"
"The issue is here" said Johnson
1T is q question of being lavish with
our blood and tender with our dol
lars"
Borah added:
What a pity that dollars and cents
are not flesh and blood, that We
might without hes1tancy lay the con
scripting hand upon them to make
them help with the war"
The twenty men who are battling
to make money pay while men fight
declare the issue will Be fought out
by the people in local, congressional
and the next national campaign.
Many senators are preparing speeches
to deliver In their home states dur
ing the coming recess.
"Campaigns begin long before men
are nominated" one Of these men
said today. This bill is now an issue
throughout the land and certain legis-
lators will regret they helped make
it one"
Thousands Of letters are flooding
of the people to conscript wealth
-; - Nv on,
the selectiVe draft did not stir the
public mind, it is claimed.
EFF the country's men Of great
question" Senator Borah said today,
81 believe they would settle 1t more
than the senate is dis
posed to do. Their patriotism is Of
q high order and they aer willing to
have what they've made out of the
war, conscripted."
Temporarily laying aside the ques-
ion of percentage Of war profits taxa
ion, the senate today discussed the
methods Of computing taxable profits.
Senator Hollister "conscriptionist," Of
'ered an amendment to commit the
senate to the plan advocated by those
more from the riches.
ih1S plan Is 10 COHlpuL peace plollLS
" averaging the profits Of two out Of
hree pre-war years-1911-1912 and
913 The actual war profit would
hen be ascertained by subtracting
he normal average peace profit from
he net 1917 income.
This procedure would levy tax
,nly on strictly war profits and not !
N all profits, as by the committee |
,Ian The committee program of !
knocking down every amendment the |
forces put up was well |
lnder way today Johnson's eighty |
yer cent provision and La F'ollette's |
evenly and sixty-five per cent amend |
aents lay trampled under foot. His
ixty per cent provision is next due
or the guillotine.
Swollen Taxes. |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-Swollen |
axes will come to haunt the small |
nerchant, tradesman, farmer and |
If the government does |
ot conscript wealth to pay war bills |
This warning was sent out today !
y Senator Johnson, California,'as as he |
esumed his labors to levy more
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
Peoples Fight for Nickle War
Loaf Has Begun, With
the Bakers on the
Defensive.
IS NOT IMPOssIBILITY
With $5.72 Profit Per Barrel of Flour,
1t Looks Like An Easy
Matter to
Figure.

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-The peo
ple's fight for five cent war LOAF
has begun throughout the nation.
Organized labor, the American
/ Home Economics association and
other powerful organizations, today
served notice on Herbert Hoover
that cheaper bread is possible, vital
and must be accomplished.
The message was delivered through
J. w. Sullivan of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor, consumers repre-
sentative on the wheat price fixing
committee.
| "The one cent difference between
a five and six cent loaf, looms dis
proportionately large on the poor
man." it said. mo sacrifices made
, by anyone in this war can equal those
| of bread-his prin cipal food-strikes
him hardest and becomes a terrific
war tax on the masses of population
| that are least able to bear the bvrd-
en-"
That a five cent loaf could be mar
keted profitably with 1920 wheat
was the argument submitted by
Henry J. Waters, president of the
Kansas state agricultural college,
when the wheat committee had bread
prices under discussion.
There Is wide difference in his
figures and those Of the food admin
istration, which said eight cents was
the cheapest the housewives could
expect The food administration
said with wheat prices 1920, flour
would cost between s1O.35 and s11.25
per barrel. Waters told the COM
mittee it would cost S92S out Of
which the baker could produce three
hundred fourteen ounce five cent
loaves, leaving him s5.72 gross profit
per barrel.
Bakers representatives ridicule
these estimates as the work of
theorists" and place the costs much
higher. They say the five cent loaf
Is impossible at 1920 wheat.
Chinese Beans.
LAKE HOPATCONG, n. J., Sept.
4.-Hudson Maxim, inventor of high
explosives, declared today he had
made food discovery which he be-
lieves bids fair to revolutionfze
eating.
His discovery, he said, is the Chin
ese soya bean. Prepared in the man
ner which he had invented, this bean
is "the most delicious and nourish-
ing food on Gods green earth 1t
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-04
Convention at st. Paul Will
Urge All to Unite in Back
ing War Program.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 4.-As the
first drafted men throughout the
nation started for training camps to-
day, Americas labor forces planned
to pledge their loyal and unwavering
support behind the fighting lines
when the first section of more than
a hundred delegates arrived on the
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The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-20
FLOR|DAMAN' s
DAIRY RECORD
W. L. COOKSEY OF TALLAHAS-
SEE SHOWS POSSIBILITIES IN
THAT LINE IN THIS STATE.
RAISED HIS OWN FEED.
Pensacola Journal
Tallahassee Bureau,

Tallahassee, Fla, Aug. 19.-Selling
SS0.s4 worth of milk from eight cows
in the month of July was the record
of w. L. Cooksey, who declares that
he did not feed the cows one cents
worth of purchased feed. Mr.. Cook
sey, who believes in home production
and practices what he breaches, has
demonstrated what possibilities there
are in this county in the dairying
business. Now that market for all
the milk and cream that can be pro
duced here has been created in Jack
sonville by the operation of two daily
refrigerated milk cars between Tai
lahassee and the metropolis, many are
going into the dairying business here
who never attempted it before. Farm
ers have ceased to sell their stock
and are steadily increasing their
dairy herds. For years Leon has
been known as one of the leading
dairying counties in the state, and
now that market facilities have been
more than doubled this section is ex-
pected to make for itself an even
greater reputation in that direction.
Mr.. Cooksey, who did so well with
eight cows, is now renting a farm
six miles east of the city, but next
year will move upon his own place
just outside the corporate limits,
where he hopes to enlarge his herd
and erect modern, concrete-floored
barns, preparatory to doing business
on a larger scale.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-20
FINDS DEAD BODY
OF NEGRO IN A CAB

c. Murdock, employed at the l. &
\. railway shops. at o'clock yester-
day morning reported that he had
discovered the body of a lifeless ne
gro in the cab of an engine, standing
on the sidetracks in the railroad
yards.
Captain of Police Tarrants at once
investigated and found that the body
was that of Johnnie Crumb, and that
the negro had to all appearances been
dead for several hours. He had a
bruise over one eye, which was
thought to have been made by a
heavy instrument, at first thought to
have been a hammer.
After this development had come
to light, the coroner was notified, and
Judge johnson made an investigation.
He later allowed relatives to take
charge of the body, but discovered
nothing to indicate foul play, despite
the blow on the head. 1t is believed
the negro was intoxicated and crawl
ed into the cab of the engine, and
there expired. The bruise is thought
to have been sustained kT a f
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-20
MILITARY CASE
Be CONCLUDED
ARGUMENT ON HABEAS CORPUS
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CAPT.
PHILIPS BE HEARD IN UNITED
STATES COURT.

At nine o'clocl- this morning ar
ranged on the habeas corpus proceed
ings against Capt. James F. Phillips
of Company will be started in the
federal court before Judge William
Sheppard. Each side is limited to for
ty-five minute9, and at the close of
the oral argument, it is expected that
the case will be taken under consid-
Grafton
Testimony in the case was COM
pleted late Saturday afternoon. after
the entire day had been spent in ex-
anime witnesses m an effort to ascer-
tain the ages of the two young men
whose fathers seek their release from
service, and to prove whether or not
they we.e intoxicated when they en-
listed.
The claimant seeks to prove that
the men are under the age of Is and
therefore could not enlist without the
consent of their parents. 1t is further
claimed that when they enlisted, they
were both intoxicated and did not
know what they were doing. The de
fense claims that the men are more
than IS years old, and were sober
when they enlisted.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-20
STRIKE AGITATORS HELD
AS MILITARY PRISONERS
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Spokane, Wash, Aug. 19.-James
Rowan, district secretary for the In
dustrial Workers of the World, and
twenty-six other members of the or
ganization, were arrested at the local
Industrial Workers of the World
headquarters today by a company of
Idaho national guardsmen and placed
in Jail as military prisoners. Rowan
had ordered a strike of Industrial
Workers of the World laborers in the
northwest to begin tomorrow.
Rowan said when arrested he, "be-
lieved the strike would spread further
and there is no one in authority now
who can call off said strike, only a
vote of members can halt the walk
out" he said.
None of the Industrial Workers OF
the World arrested offered resistance,
and they will be held as military
prisoners and an investigation of their
cases will begin tomorrow.