The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Imam without a country The Germans
| in Germany despise the pro-Germans
IN America because these pro-Germans
! have not gone over to help Germany
| tight, and Americans in America de-
spise the American of whatever orr
gin who doesn't stand up and be count
ed in public under the flag foe Amerl-
ca first, last and all the time. Men OF
this type ought now definitely to I'M
derstand that the people of this and
ether communities will not tolerate
them any longer. They will have to
come out in the open and be for
America unreservedly or they will be
unceremoniously invited to go else
where.
Mitchellville Index: The wet and
dry question will continue to be 4 live
issue in Iowa. The defeat of the
amendment gave the vets new life
and wet legislature will be the next
goal to strive for
Atlantic News Telegraph: Secre-
tary Daniels said large sized mouth
full when he urged medical men to
preach confluence to young men and
Ito argue against the double stand
ard" OF morality.
Waterloo Courier and Reporter: It's
an odd situation indeed. Iowa wet at
| the polls and not drop to drink.
! Burlington Hawk-Eye: Would you
think of running into a store and ask
ing a merchant not to sell a certain
/ piece of goods? No? But it isn't diff
fticult to demand of newspaper not
/ IN oil in NJ
cnandise-news.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Banker
! Hubert of Chicago at least will not
! try IL again He mode some unkind
| remarks about farmers in the bond
loans and he has been hearing from 1T
( ever since. Some have literally kick
! ed hlm He deserves most of it for
! he made a blunder of it, in trying to
judge those about whom he knew so
little. Still we shall have to think
/ that he did some good in this emerg-
iency. He made some of us farmers
mad and getting mad sometimes helps
| a great deal OF Hubert it may be
| said that offenses must needs come,
bug woe unto nm by whom they do
come.
| Des Moines Register: Mr. Potter
! of Mason City advocates the burning
! of garbage to save fuel. And this
( after most households have reduced
the output Of garbage to minimum.
Charles City Press: The Sioux City
Journal in poking fun at Senator Cum
Minis on the temperance question. For
! twenty years the senator was the hope
| of the vets of Iowa and always had
the unanimous support of the saloons
and the wet districts of the state, but
when he thought the state had gone
fopelessly dry he changed front and
declared himself radical prohibitions
ist, but the recent election was not
SO reassuring and his present atti-
tude toward the question is looked
for with interest The vets now seem
TO be numerous enough to cause him
some anxiety.
Sioux City Journal: The Webster
CITY Freeman-J ournal, defending Sen
ator Cummins' change Of front on the
liquor question, argues that a man
nearing 70 is apt to look at such a
problem differently than he did while
! in his 30s." But the Freeman-Journal
surely does not mean to imply that at
I the comparatively youthful age Of
three score and ten a real politicians
guessing ability is seriously impaired.
Marshalltown Times-Repub1ican
| If Russia will brace up and sink a
| few more Gersan ships and slam a
few into the kaiser's Stats on land Wen
be glad 70 lend her another 100000
f. 600
| Burlington Gazette: The man who
stored his coal in the spring is in
clined to act somewhat superior to the
citizen who still is waiting to have his
pin filled.
CITY OWNED WATER.
Sioux City Tribune: The Sioux
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