The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-16
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

4
| Waterloo Times-Tribune: How
ever, with the vote in New York, the
cause of equal suffrage may now be
said to have been Won A wedge has
been driven in that will be felt over
| the whole country.
| Oelwein Register. Detective Will
kerson didn't control the court at Har-
Ian and Attorney General Havner was
| acquitted. The state of Montgomery
county does not extend all over south
ern Iowa. to say nothing Of the central
| and northern sections.
| Sioux City Journal: A school for
women voters is to be established in
| New. York. That institution certainly
ought to be made co-educational.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: On the other
hand, those who discover" large
quantities of food stuff that has been
Intentionally wasted" may be called
upon by the Hoover bureau to submit
proof in the form Of affidaYits. Under
lstanding Of conditions is OF first inn
iportance and understanding is not
i.helped by the spread Of false and ma
lfcious rumors.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: There may
never have been a time when so many
Ireople realized what great thing is
football How it gives, millions a
chance to get their minds divorced at
least for a few hours, now and then,
from the subject upon which they have
been dwelling pra ctically to the ex-
c1uSiOn of everything else
Davenport Democrat: Clifford
Thorne. former railway commissioner
OF Iowa, who has for years specialized
on opposing railway rate increases,
used to go fully armed with the facts,
but it is to be feared that he has been
talking glittering generalities without
sufficient data to convince. He is re-
ported to have declared the railways
never We're so prosperous as they are
at the present time. If he meant to
say the gross income of the railways
was never larger. he probably would
be right, but his statement tends to
mislead, because the evidence shows
a large increase in operating and other
expenses and decline in net earnings
because of the additional expense.
Cedar Rapids Republican: In any
event, the kaiser may be able to make
his subjects" subsist for another win
ter on the glories of his Italian cam
paigns. 1t will serve his ends very
we'll, although it is not a victory
achieved over the tarmies that must
be overcome before he can acclaim
the worldwide victory, that is the
armies on the western front.
Marshalltown Times Republican
There is no doubt that the liberals as
the Ackley World-Journal inclusively
expresses it. nominated Mr.. Harding;
and still less, doubt that they elected
him.
Sioux CITY Tribune: The Des Moines
Capital says the next Iowa legislature
should be devoted exclusively to Civ
ing aid in winning the war. Why not
let thei federal government manage
the war and let the Iowa legislature
state affairs?
Mason City Times: There will be no
for anglophobia anywhere
in the earth after. the war except in
Germany.
Algona Upper Des Moines Repub-
Iican. Any man in congress who vot-
ed to exempt his own salary, while
placing the tax on his neighbor, should
be relegated to the political scrap pile
for all time We wonder how GER
tain congressman voted.
Waterloo Courier: Won Bernstorff
has been made a wirlicher geheimrat,
a recent dispatch from Berlin says.
Judging from what Mr.. Lansing has
made public concerning his record
here. the former ambassador fully de-
serves the honor, whatever it is.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The con-
servation OF soap is one patriotic move
ment at least that the |. w w. will
support.
A number of leading American rail-