The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-30
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| Sioux City Journal: But some OF
the ardent newspaper eulogists OF
Senator Cummins are unfair. Why
should they expect the governor to
/ come out fatfootedly on one side or
| the other of the prohibition question
when he is neither seventy years old
nor has he had thirty years of public
life in which TO think it over?
Cedar Rapids Republican,: The
election did not change anything in
Iowa except that few moral marti-
nets will not hold so many clubs
over our heads. Even Iowa people
the self-appointed and often self
seeking moral drivers. There is a
limit to all things and there ought
to be commonsense in all movements
occasionally it has to be pounded
into few heads and if we let them
go ahead without opposition they
jackets.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The fact
that those eminent Davenporters who
employed Wallace to deliver treas
only goes to convict Davenport and
its methods of legal procedure.
Des Moines Register: Some folks
won't know where to spend their
evenings if the movie houses have to
close because of coal shortage.
Otturnwa Courier: 1t is gratifying
-
buyers so many names which indi-
cate German lineage. Wapello coun-
tvs German-American residents and
her Swedish-American people as well
are loyal to the land Of their adop-
ton There may be a few instances
Of disloyalty, but their prominence
is eloquent proof that they are, in
deed, quite few.
Mount Vernon Hawk-Eye: The
numbers of automobile accidents and
the seriousness of the traffic problem
in the use of the highways does not
seem to decrease with the more gen
eraI knowledge in the operation of
motor cars. 1t would seem that the
seriousness of driving beyond
speed at any time and the
condition of taking
chances on hills and winding courses,
had become sufficiently in evidence
to make even the reckless cautious,
but the record of daily events does
not bear out the idea.
Marshalltown Times Republican
We have grown used to the easiest
way of buying. We step to the tele-
phone and buy for the day or the
half day without seeing the goods.
It's easy. We expect them delivered
within the house Why, we don't
even meet the deliveryman at the
door, But we pay for all of it. Half
he time we do not check in our
purchases. We have become very
careless buyers. We insist on every
And we have forgotten
hat the purchaser pays. Those who (!
INSIST on complete service must pay
he complete bill for it.
Mason City Globe-Gazette: Tom
Reeds billion dollar congress was a
Fasn't it? |
Waterloo Courier: Why, for In |
dependent upon his wife for support /
tut in the third place?
Sioux City Tribune: While assist |
ng in the business of making the !
World safe for democracy, Iowa will
seep alert against any movements
Intended to promote the restoration /
If saloons.
Humboldt Independent: And when
t is all said and done, would 1t not I
,e good thing to let the govern
nent take a look at the tax receipts
md the incomes, and apportfon the
,onds where they belong? That is,
yhy not conscript wealth just as the
oldiers were conscripted? 1t is the
My fair way.
St Joe's grand jury turned into
;ourt six-column report which is q