Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-09-11

| ish, Americans and French will
make supreme effort to force the
enemy back upon the western front.
| The German military leaders under
stand this, and that fact may deter
| them in the heralded march on
Petrograd." Moreover, every German
soldier taken to the Russian cap
| ital will weaken the defensive power
of Germany and it will require many
months to make the campaign. At
! this particular jnncture OF the war
strength she can accumulate, as she
may be required to again go to the
aid of the Austiians against Italy.
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Charles City claims the youngest
grocer in Iowa. Stanley G.: Brown,
13-year-old boy, is in complete
| charge of the Ninth Avenue grocery
store. He is doing flourishing
business, keeps his own books,
| makes his own bank deposits and is
| his own boss. He has one clerk
| working under him. 1t is not un-
reasonable to expect that twenty or
| thirty years hence Stanley G. Brown
| will be at the head of some large
| and successful mercantile estab-
lishment and will be envied by men
| of that day who are now boys vast
ing their time and energy in idle
ness. Stanley is on the road to
wealth, influence and honor and is
sure to get there unless some unex-
pected happening prevents. b
While religious views and teach
| ings have little or nothing to do
! with patriotism, it is some satisfac-
| ton to friends Of the Catholic
| church that the Catholics are dis
proving the charges of disloyalty
made from time to time in years
agone. The Catholics, like every
other creed and denomination, are
doing their duty in this war, and
the Freeman-Tribune never expected
them to do otherwise, statements Of
various persons and organizations
to the contrary Notwithstanding
The Catholics are not entitled to
special credit for loyalty. They
should be loyal as matter of fact,
but the fact that they are proving
true as steel is mentioned merely
because enemies have suggested
that they would not be when the
test came. The test is here and
they are fulfilling all requirements.
If the big Muddy ii. e., the
Missouri riysr) should undermine
aid drown the town, there would be
great financial loss and great
loss"of precious homes and lives, but
who would not say that Iowa as a
state was the cleaner morally be-
cause of it -Primghar Bell.
The Bell has reference to Sioux
City, and the Freeman-Tribune
rises to declare most emphatically
that Iowa would not be cleaner NOR
ally if old Sioux City were at the
bottom Of the river. Sioux City, like
every big town, has its cesspools of
fnfquity and its rotten places, but
Sioux City is full of good people,
pure impulses and loyal citizens.
They more than overbalance the
| roughnecks and vicious, and the
state would suffer materially and
| morally if all Of them were en-
quilted together in some big disas-
ter.
Charles Edward Russell, member
of the Root commission to Russia,
told an audience at Madison, Wis,
the other day that the downfall of
the Russian stronghold of Riga was
not due to the valor of German arms
but rather to the seditious speeches
of United States senators like La
Toilette. eat public meetings in
Russia" declared Mr.. Russell, "pro-
German agents tell the people that
the United States is not in this war
to help them. To prove that this
country is not at heart in the con-
flict, speeches by your senator have
been read" Of course this indict-a
ment by Mr.. Russell will not affect
the course of LaFollette, because ii
il quite evident that he wants to
help Germany all he can. There is
TO other explanation for his re-
markable attitude. However, the
statements of Mr.. Russell ought to
set the loyal people of Wisconsin to
thinking, and thinking a line of
thought that will sweep LaFollette
from the position with which they
have honored him.
Military men at Washington be-