The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Senator LaFollette offers list of
twenty-eight persons with incomes
exceeding 100000. That leaves
99,999,9T2 of us who are not worry
ing over a surtax on incomes over
81, 900, 900 annually.
Davenport Democrat: When we
hear from that Iowa society in Cali
fornia, we wonder that they are not
embarrassed as they pay tribute to
the state that made them wealthy
enough so that they could move west
and live without working. Their pic
mics suggest that delightful descrip-
ton by Joseph Choate of the dinners
of the New England society OF New
York-"gatherings of an unhappy
company of Pilgrims who meet an
nually at Delm onico's to drown the
sorrows and sufferings of their an,
cestors in the flowing bowl, ana 10
contemplate their own virtues IN TIE
mirror of history"
Cedar Rapids Republican: You 90
not have to pay As cents for a pounu
of bacon for it is not worth 1t as
human food and at the present time
there are many things that can pc
substituted for meats. Try the substl-
tutes and be surprised how well you
viii get along and after while the
bacon will accumulate and become
cheaper again-cheap enough TO De
used on your tables.
Sioux City Journal: A good many
people who are trying to cram down
the nublic throat obsolete policies OF
an ancient era have wonderful sue
cess in deluding themselves into the
belief that they are reformers. II
that Is reform, what is reaction!
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: When II
is asserted that the people OF the
United States don't know enough TO
Govern themselves and point to the
fact that Stone is chairman OF the
foreign relations committee and REED
of the, postoffice committe, what can
YOU saw by way of reputation!
burlington Hawk-Eye: Whatever
NAV he said of Theodore Roosevelt,
| he seems to have made the most
thorough and complete job OF killing
! off the bull moose party. He mad a
selfish pride in the organization. When
If could not serve his purposes, II
must help no other man to- office. 1t
| is not every man who can have
national party that forms at his bid
ding and that yanishes from earsh
when he makes a few passes and
chants a cabalistic verse.
Sioux City Tribune: AS hog raisers
would not have the least objection
| 10 selling at $40 to $12 per hundred,
| It is not clear why prices should soar
| to SIG. These prices, it should be
| borne in mind, are not made by the
F! farmers.
waterloo Times-Tribune: Senator
Gore is willing to furnish money, food
and ammunition to fight the enemy
hut no soldiers. He'd furnish the
| water to put out the fire in his
neighbor's home, but no fireman.
! Coin Gazette: The war had birth
day recently, but nobody wished it
any happy returns.
Atlantic ews-Telegraph: One is
commencing to wonder just what the
men in charge of postal affairs are
seeking to do, and if they really and
truly know.
Gliddsn Graphic: To be sure, Iowa.
Missouri and the democratic party
might well blush for shame for the
part they have had in the life and
public career of Senator Reed.
Shelby County Republican: If the
penalty for pro-German talk in Amer
lea were to be imm ediate return to
Germany that sort of talk would dis
appear quicker than snowballs in
hades.
Burlington Gazette: President VIII
sons typist, eligible for military ser
vice. did not claim exemption. You
see, whenever the president has any
thing reilly importnt to write he
pounds it out himself.
In fine sandy soil Z per cent. OF
stable manure added will cause 1t to
retain double the former uuantity of