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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
That is, he could buy them SC

no. That is, he could buy them SO
far as getting the wherewith is con-
cerned. Perhaps he would not
choose to buy a substitute if Uncle
Sam would permit. But that doesn't
matter. The point is, the only fair
and democratic way to raise an army
in republic is by selective draft.
1t is unfair to put the burden of
saving the nation upon the Shout
ders of a few willing volunteers,
and volunteers usually come from
only the most active and industrious
class of young men. The draft
gets many of the loafers who are
absolutely good for nothing at home,
because of lack of discipline, but
who will make good soldiers be-
cause they will have to obey rules
and regulations of army life. The
Goulds, the Morgans, the Rockefel-
lers and the Carnegies are just as
good and no better than other peo-
pie, and in all fairness they ought
to be compelled to take their
chances in war along with all the
rest.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
NEW DEVIL, ON THE JOB.

Laurel (Montana) Outlook: The
devil sat by lake of fire, on a pile
OF sulphur kegs, his head was bowed
upon his breast, his tail between his
legs; look of shame was on his
face, the sparks dripped from his
eyes-he had sent his resignation to
the throne up in the skies. I'm
down and out" the devil said-he
said it with a sob-"there are others
that outclass me, and I want to quit
the job. He'll isn't in it with the
land along the Rhine; I'm has
been and piker, and therefore /
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
ENGLAND AND THE U. S.

Edwin Collins Frost of the Vigi.
lantes: Il am sorry we had to get
into this war;" / overheard a man
say. Il fought in the civil war, and
then England was against u.s. Now
she wants us to help her out"
| do not know who he was.
could not even see him. But it is
fairly evident to me that neither his
head nor his heart is performing its
functions as well in 1917 as in 1861.
Yet fear there are not few Amer
leans who fail to realize the various
fallacies contained in his remarks.
When he used the word 1--WE" in
his first sentence, he meant the
United States-not a mere group of
northern states. That is what the
word eve" should mean and now
does mean. This very man helped
make it mean that. Hence England
at the time referred to could not
have been against all of us. If she
was against some of us, she must
have been for the rest of u.s. More
over, it is not true that the English
people were a unit in espousing the
cause of either side 1t may be that
the British government favored one
side more than the other. But if
our President of today can say that
we are making war not upon the
German people, but upon their gov
eminent, can not we be as generous
toward our allies as we are toward
our enemies?
Furthermore, is the British gov
eminent, are the British people the
same today as in that bygone time?
Almost two generations have passed.
The British sovereign has changed
twice. The government has changed
innumerable times. Must we visit
upon the present generation the sins
of their fathers? Does that civil
war veteran honestly believe that
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

Congress should not pay the wild
! ows of soldiers killed in this war
more than the widows of soldiers OF
the civil war. Whatever the sum
decided upon for the widows-to-be
should now be given to the war
widows that are. This is democratic
and democracy is the thing of the
hour. Also make officers pensions
exactly the same as privates for the
same disability. There is no JUS
tice in giving captain who loses
an arm cent more than is given a
private for the same loss. Equality
is justice Anything else is favor
itism. The captain gets paid dur
Ing his service for his superior quail
ifications, but it is no more of a
hardship for him to get along with
one arm than it is for the private.
The same rule should hold good re-
garding all officers.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
he could find an Englishman to-
day who thinks that slavery ought


he could find an Englishman to-
day who thinks that slavery ought
not to have been abolished?
Then let us admit that the civil
war has become dead issue-as
dead as the revolution.
Now England wants us to help
her out" says our friend. Perhaps
she does. But that fact has tabso-
lutely nothing to do with the case.
1t is an argument made in Ger
many" We did not enter the war
because England or France or any
body else wanted us to.
We might have entered it for
some such reason; we might have
entered it because of the violation of
Belgium; We might have entered it
because of all sorts of abhorrent acts
on the part of Germany. But we
did not. We chose to remain aloof
until Germany's crimes against our
own people had become so many and
SO intolerable that we could not stay
out Of it any longer
Yes, we are fighting Germany for
good and sufficient reasons of our
own. And, instead of regretth 6
that We are helping England, We
ought to be profoundly thankful
that England Is helping ua
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

been discharged on account of these
examinations. Some of the other
regiments here by virtue of the same
examinations lost considerable num-
Der of men.
On Sunday morning the secretary
of war and General Mann conducted
review of the entire army of ~
600 men. This is the largest army
that the United States has had as
sembled together since the civil war.
An empty tent was temptation to
stay in the camp Saturday night to
be at the review early Sunday morn
ing, but I did not remain.
Eugene w. Waterbury paid for
and shipped to the camp thirty-two
folding chairs for the use of the reg
mental band. He had difficulty in
finding the chairs in New York, in
asmuch as all had been sold out for
military purposes, but he finally dis
covered them and they are now in
possession of the band, thanks to
Mr.. Waterbury's scldierly generos.
ity. Mr.. Waterbury has visited the
camp several times and always goes
with boxes and bundles containing
supplies for his friends.
An additional reason for not stay
ing for the review was found in the
anticipated difficulty in getting
back to the city on Sunday at any
time. Sunday is visitors day and
hence the trains would be crowded.
There is a camp of airplanes near
Camp Mills. We did not go to find
the nest, but while we were in camp
eight Curtis machines sailed over
us in camp at one time. Some Of
them were so low down that we
could see the machinery running.
They are building these machines in
the same neighborhood, or at least
a factory is being erected to build
them. They say that the factory
will turn them out as rapidly as
they build certain car in Detroit.
The corr sspondents of the New
York Times, in writing of the grand
review, make special compliment
tary reference to the 16Sth regi-
ment and Col. Bennett Incidentally,
the Times refers to Iowa as the
greatest agricultural state. This
statement is always satisfactory, to
an Iowa man.
The soldiers of the 16Sth regiment
are full of fight. They are studying |
French and in every way preparing
themselves to cross the ocean. Ev-
cry man is in fine humor and the
is high.
Col. Bennett has blended his big
regiment all into one and the SOL
diers consigned to his regiment are
all reconciled and happy. Not
man came to the regiment on assign
ment who is not perfectly satisfied.
The visitor either sees or imagines
be sees preparations for an early
departure of the entire Rainbow di-
vision of $1,000 men for the other
side of the water. 1t is intiinated
that some of the officers of the
Rainbow division are already on
their way, but Of this / have no
knowledge.
for general house.
work. Mrs. Louis Frank. 29d2f1
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

DR.. J. Fort Newton, formerly Uni
versalist pastor at Cedar Rapids and
now pastor of a church in London, is
making some good speeches in thi,
country, and a few days ago gave
some mighty good advice to pro-
Germans in the United States. He
declared that it was his judgment
that at least 80 per cent of the Ger
mans were loyal to Uncle Sam and
would tight Germany. The other
10 per cent are rank traitors. He
told these traitors that they were
treading upon dangerous ground and
predicted that when the people of
this country became fully aroused to
the seriousness of the conflict in
which they are engaged, something
OF grave concern would happen to
these proc Germans They will be
interned and their property confis.
catei, or they viii be sent back to
Germany TO fight in the trenches
for the kaiser The Freeman rib.
une believes DR.. Newton is right
about it. The people of the United
States are not going to harbor trait
ors much longer, and if the pro-
Germans are wise they will expert
ence change of heart and take a
stand with the loyal forces of the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
TAKING CARE Of THE
SAMM|ES IN FRANCE.

American Field Headquarters,
Sept. 10.-Letter to the Freeman
Trigune from j. w. Pegler: Stretch
ing back over land to the sea, the
American line of communication is
a constantly swelling artery vital to
the life of Sammy training here in
the field. Sammy knows he gets 16
ounces of white bread every day,
but he doesn't know much about
where that bread comes from. He
gets clothing from the quartermas-
pany mess. If the supply is plenti-
full and the quality good, Sammy
doesn't bother his head much about
how it was brought to him. But the
auxiliary people know.
The bakers know they stood out
in the open all day and tended the
field ovens far from the infantry
training fields, to make the bread.
They unloaded the big sacks of Min
nesota flour from the railroad trucks
that run right into the middle Of
the bakery. And they carefully
slashed the loaves right down the
middle to let out the gas before put
ting them in the ovens.
That little slashing operation
looks simple, yet it was decided on
only after hours of study by the Off
GER in charge who wanted to save
room in the bread cans. Formerly
each loaf was slashed four times
across the top. When the crust
formed the intersections of these
slashes raised up about an inch and
the bread transport involved great
many wasted inches of space in the
cars. The new slash is just as eff
feetiye in releasing the gas and 1t
saves one-half of the wasted space.
Suppose a grenade goes off pre-
maturely in a practice trench and
Sammy's arm is gashed to the bone
by fragment. The surgeon at the
hospital bathes the wound with an
tiseptics, binds it with a special kind
of bandage and puts the patient to
bed in comfortable hospital cot
Sammy thinks of his own tough
luck in being wounded, but takes 1t
as a matter of course that all that
medical paraphernalia is right on
hand all these miles from home.
Day by day that line of communi-
cation is growing, shooting out new
spurs to supply the branches of SER
vice scattered along both sides of
the trail. The bases are bulged be-
yond their original dimensions, but
even today the whole system is only
in its infancy.
General Pershing and his staff
have visualized a vast enterprise
which has to be run on military
business basis in order to feed and
clothe the great army that will be
here in France when we go into the
trenches. Shells will come up along
these lines and be pushed forward
to the guns, and the thousand and
one kinds of supplies and equipment
that great army constantly needs
must be kept moving in undimin-
ished quantity.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

Senator La Toilette, who is doing
more to aid Germany in this war
than a regiment of the kaiser's SOL
diers can possibly do, declares that
the newspapers are lying about him.
But the senator will have to show a
motive on the part of the newspa-
pers. Why should they misrepre-
sent what he says, even through
malice, when what he does say is
as mean, contemplate, false and dis
loyal as anything the newspapers
could concoct? 1t is unnecessary
for the bitterest enemy Of La Fol-
1ette or the kaiser to lie about either
of them The truth is worse than
any fiction could possibly be. Of the
two, the Freeman-Tribune has the
most respect for the kaiser. And
even the men responsible for the
brutality in Belgium, the manning
of little children and the carrying
away of non-combatants into slav
cry, are entitled to more respect
than this same La Toilette. He is
disloyal to his country and his hot
words of disloyalty are being repro
uced in Russia to inflame the mind
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

Oklahoma has embarked in new
lire of sensationalism by advertising
the alleged fact that some of its
farmers, dissatisfied with the price
Of 1920 per bushel for wheat, are
feeding the grain to hogs.-Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
We can see nothing new or sensa-
tional in this proceeding. OF course,
the farmer who is dissatisfied with
1920 for wheat is doing nothing
extraordinary by feeding the wheat
to himself.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

The selection of Kingdom Gould,
many times a millionaire. to serve
in the army but illustrates the dem
ocratic principle adopted to raise
armies in the United States. Gould
could buy a thousand substitutes
with his money, but Uncle Sam says
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

resign. Give my job to Kaiser Will,
helm, the author Of this war; he UNI
derstands it better million times
by far. ! hate to leave the old
home, the spot love so well, but 1
feel that I'm not up-to-date in the
art of running HE'LL
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
LAFAYETTE YOUNG
WRITES FROM CAMP
Editor Of Des Moines Capital Visits
the Big Soldiers Camp on
Long Island.

Lafayette Young, Sr., Of the Des
Moines Capital, writes the follow
| ing interesting letter to his paper
from the big soldiers camp at Nine
ola, N. y:
New York, Sept. 27.-Accompa-
MED by the rough rider, Eugene W..
| Waterbury, l visited Camp Mills at
Mineola on Saturday. We drove
down in an automobile, crossing
greensboro bridge and going about
| twenty-five miles south of Long Is
| land.
The road is good. Some of the
| houses on the roadside are old and
| represent farms that were there
fifty years ago.
Long Island is well cultivated, al
| though the soil is not the best. We
passed through "a number of villages
and the last one before reaching the
camp, named Garden City, is where
the great printing plant of Double.
day, Page & Company is located.
At Camp Mills there is an army
of $4,000 men under the command
of General Mann. The camp ground
is perfectly level and is sandy,
which means that at times it is
dusty There was strong wind
blowing on Saturday, hence the
dust was quite annoying. The tents
at Camp Mills are in rows.
In the main the tents accommO-
date eight men each. There are
cooking tents and dining tents and
in many parts of the great army
camp men were engaged in burning
rubbish. In some instances they
were burning good sized pine boxes
to get them out of the way. This
seemed crime to one who had been
studying the price of coal. The
camp seemed so large that the tents
appear to be without limit. They
cover thousands of acres. 1t was re-
lated that soldiers can be shipped
iron this camp by the nearby sea
without going to New York, and it
is presumed that this will be done
when the boys begin to sail for
France 'tF
If one were to Judge by the camp
he would say that the sailing for
France is not far away, because
there is nothing about the camp in
dicating permanency.
The soldiers generally have the
idea that they are to start for
France soon. 1t is stated that the
time had been fixed for the sailing
of General Mann and some of his
chief officers, but that the sailing
date leaked out" at Washington so
it had to be changed.
l am not surprised that things
leak out" in Washington, for Il
ASoA hSu tAol ONSl ~ PCI SCAI VI thO
names of employees of the state de-
partment are Germans. In one of
the departments at Washington l
was introduced to German profess
SCR from one of the American uni
versities who consents to give his
time to the government. I told the
man who was showing me through
the department that l would not en-
ploy German professor in one of
the departments more than fifteen
minutes. However, I am not run
ming the government.
We drove to the camps of the
16Sth regiment, which is the old
Iowa Third regiment. ~
Major Conkling reported the regi-
ment as being in excellent health.
The $500 men in his charge have
all been examined again in regard
to their lungs. heart, eyesight and
everything else, and are soon to be
examined in regard to their nerves.
Only one man out of the 5000 has
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
AFTER THE HUNS.

AFTER THE HUNS.
Col Roosevelt is doing the Ameri-
can people great service by the ad-
dresses he is now making. He is
saying lot of things that ought to
be said and saying them in a man
ner' that demands attention. The
colonel also has the advantages of
being the one prominent character
in our national life who has the
a spade spade and traitor trait
or. He is not afraid Of offending any
pro-German or any one else in this
country who sympathizes with the
inexcusable and unspeakable bru-
talities INDUCED in by Germany in
this war. And the Freeman-Trib-
une wants to say for itself that it
endorses every word the colonel said
in his recent addresses at Chicago,
Lacrosse and st. Paul, and this pa
to see La Toilette and his shadow
Huns as the colonel denominates
them, banished forever from Ameri-
can soil. They are unworthy the
protection of Old Glory and should
not be permitted to befoul it by
their presence. Following are some
brief references to some of the things
the colonel said at st. Paul a few
evenings ago:
Senator La Follette's assertion
that Americas participation in the
war was due to American citizens
being passengers on "a ship loaded
with munitions for Great Britain
was declared by the colonel to be a
sfalsehood, and "he lkEo~ws it to be
a falsehood," he added.
Senator La Toilette emphasized
the sinking of the Lusitania with it's
fifty babies under / year old, its
Ill babies under 2 years, and its
100 Americans" the colonel went
on.
"He said nothing about the sink
ing of the hospital ship Sussex and
the technical right of the doctors
and Red Cross nurses who sank with
her to be on boprd.
81 abhor Germany, but more do I
abhor the Hun Within our gates. And
| say that any man who excuses and
condones such infamy, and his
Shadow Huns Gronna and Lundeen,
do not represent the American peo-
pie. They are on level with VAL
landingham, whom Lincoln sent be-
yond the Confederate lines. l wish
could send them to Germany as a
free gift to the kaiser. La Toilette
is out of place in the senate.
'Semmes, commander of the Ala
bama, never, even in the bitterest
time of the civil war, sank ship
without providing for the saving of
the lives of its passengers. Once,
having captured prize, he was
about to land the passengers in ia
maica, but learning that there was
an epidemic of yellow fever there,
turned the prize loose rather than
expose the women and children at
that place. Neither England, Spain,
through the orders of their govern
ments, in the last $50 years, have
done the infamous act of sinking
ship without providing for the safe
ty of the people aboard it."
Turning again to the shipment of
point dwelt on by SEN
ator La Toilette, Colonel Roosevelt
said it was the senator's business to
know what were the treaty rights of
Americans. He declared that it was
Germany's insistence that
The Hague agreement sanctioned the
shipment of munitions and that at
that time Germany was shipping
arms to the Beers and later shipped
them to Turkey and some of the Bal
kan states.
NEW DEVIL ON THE JOB.
Laurel (MOntana) OutlOok The |
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

The test, therefore, of every plan
of peace is this: Is it based upon
the faith of all the peoples involved
or merely upon the word Of an am
bilious and intriguing government,
on the one hand, and group of free
peoples on the other? This is a
test which goes to the root of the
matter, and it is the test which
must be applied Wilson.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

If st. Paul keeps on harboring
/ traitors and permitting them to
gbelch forth treason in that city, she
will soon gain reputation that will
make East st. Louis appear lily
white in comparison.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

Tie federal government ought TO
deal with La Toilette. An example
should be made Of the biggest toad
in the puddle before the little fell
lows are hauled over the Goals. La
Toilette is very cute and cunning,
and no doubt has been very careful
to keep within the pale of the law,
but the Freeman-Tribune doesn't
believe he has succeeded. He has, in
the deliberate judgment of this pa
per, been guilty of treason, as he has
undoubtedly given aid and comfort
to the enemy. His disloyal utter
ances are repeated in Germany to
show that even United States senat-
ors are against their government,
and they have been circulated in
Russia to demonstrate to the Rus
slams that the United States is di-
vided. If that doesn't furnish aid
and comfort to the enemy it would
be difficult to point to anything that
does or could. Uncle Sans depart
ment of justice ought to get after
La Toilette or admit that it is pow
erless to deal with big offender.
Then the United States senate ought
to get busy with impeachment pro-
ceedings and dislodge La Toilette
from the position he is disgracing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

La Toilette must have got piece
OF Bernstorff's money.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

No matter whether a train hits an
auto or an auto hits a train, the
auto always gets the worst Of it
Des Moines Register.
And this reminds us that it does
not matter whether the Register hits
Roosevelt or undertakes to de-
fend La Toilette, the Register gets
the worst of it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

Yes, give the Red Cross the free
use of the mails during the war and
shut the mails tight against all pro-
German publications. Now don't
jump up away back there in the back
seat and yell that it can't be done.
Old Uncle Sam can do it if he wants
to, and he would do it if man by
the name of Roosevelt was in the
white house at this minute.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
WANTED-girl for general house.
work. Mrs. Louis Frank. 29d2f1

Try want ad in the Freeman
Tribune II you want to sell 1t.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

Z. Mefford. pioneer OF Harrison
county, is of the opinion that Iowa
land is inexhaustible. He has farm
ed the same land since 1851 and
practically every year-ii1as sn
devoted to corn. This year his crop
Ii as big as ever, and one bushel OF
lit is worth as much as one of the
leads would bring sixty years ago
when he used to take it to Council
Bluffs behind an OK team.