Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-16

ship. In speaking Of Mr.. Knudson
the Record well says:
'The Record has not heard any
Hamilton county man mentioned for
the senatorship, hut it knows Of a
man right here in Jewell who would
grace the position most highly and
who If he could be persuaded to take
it would serve with high credit, both
to himself and to the district. We
refer to Gilbert Knudson Of Jewell.
Mr.. Knudson is a business man OF
exceptional business ability, and in
addition is farmer and land owner
who knows the Legislative needs of
Iowa farmers and is interested in
serving the farming interests of
Iowa. And the Iowa Legislature
needs more of that kind of men and
fewer, lawyers in Its makeup. We
have heard Mr.. Knudson state sew
eral times that he has no political
ambitions, and that he would not
consider becoming candidate for
any office, but We would like to see
enough of his friends ride him
around on that proposition to make
him change his mind and consent to
enter the race. He is just exactly
the sort of man that is needed to
represent this district in the Iowa
senate, and this will be an oppor-
tune time for just such candidate
as Mr.. Knudson. Somebody second
and then let's make him say yes.
GERMANY WANTS THE SEAS.
Hampton Chronicle: Ever since
the war started, the Germans, par
roted by the Austrians, have been
prating over that totally bogus is
sue, freedom of the seas. In their
replies to the pope's last peace note
they dwelt upon it with the usual
crafty insistence. Sober thinking
people have been puzzled. So far as
they could figure, there had been
nothing but freedom of the seas be-
fore this gigantic war. Nobody ever
heard the seas were anything else
than free-very much freer than life
in Germany and Austria. No one
even attempted to deprive the Teu-
ton empires Of the freedom of the
seas. German ships piled in every
ocean, competing with British and
American goods in every market. The
kaiser went steadily ahead with a
big war navy. England did not even
erect a tariff wall against made
in Germany" goods. There was moth
ing the Germans could legitimately
ask for that was not freely accorded
them everywhere in the world. The
one thing that excited their wrath
and fear was the continuing might
Of the British navy. They also did
not like to see our own navy keep
A1pnesvsH thesS al7ie.
was a menace to any legitimate Ger
man aspiration
England, an island country, was
forced to maintain supremacy at sea
or starve the moment an enemy de-
clared war. The United States, for
the protection of her coasts and the
maintenance of the Monroe doctrine,
was also bound to have considera-
BILE navy. And it was precisely these
things that irked the Prussian war
masters. They knew British navy
stood between them and their hopes
to bring England to her knees. They
knew our American navy, II properly
developed, would stand between them
and their greedy designs upon South
and Central America.
They do not want to be thus balk-
ed in the future. They want, II pos
sible, to trap the allies into some
kind of disarmament scheme that
would mean an inferior navy for
England and a similar one for
America. Then Germany could pur-
sue her evil and sinister plans un-
hindered. The Pan-German weekly
organ, "Das Groessre Deutschland
THE Greater Germany drops the
mask by printing an article by WI
nand Engel which 1t approves. In
this, Engel says:
German policy is forced to make
secure for itself by all conceivable
means domination over the world
sea. deliberately use the express
sion dominate over the world seas
and not the expression freedom of
the SEAS which is SO common today.
The latter expression Is either dis