Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-01-25

Even when it is all over, the greater
part of Europe will be confronted with
grave situation
| A part of Tom Lawson's leak evil
dence Consisted of a rambling, boastful
story of a drunken man.
| Tom Lawson will never forgive Con
gressman Henry for trying to make it
appear that he was tampering with the
truth.
Itappears that when congress set a
trap for the commercial white slavers
it caught lot of tigers along with the
skunks.
Insuring the ships of allies is becoming
assdangerous as monkeying with the heels
of Missouri mule.
| Looks hike Milwaukee will need to
get another grip on fame. The old
stuff i about played out as a fame
producer
Thomas w. Lawson may not be an
angel, but he seems to know how to
throw hand grenades to the spots where
he intends them to explode.
Leaks from the various executive
offices and committee rooms of Wash
ington were so usual in former years
that nobody noticed them.
If the old gnard must fight the pro-
gressive left in the partv now is a
good time TO do it, Twill be a long
time before another presidential elec-
tiOn.
In old time wars people used to live
by eating their shoe leather. In the
present war they live by issuing long
term bonds for their descendants to
pay.
From the way Attorney General
Havner is entering upon his Job of
dry cleaning Iowa, we have sus
picion that he is enjoying himself
these days.
The man who predicted mild winter,
one so mild that it would pass for rath-
er unreasonable summer, is duplicating
the noise made by the man who follow
ed Wall street odds in his betting.
They are no longer the Danish West
Indies, because they are not the pro
perty of Denmark, because they are
the property of the United States.
Dewey Islands would be very appro-
pirate name.
Sioux City Tribune: The rapidity
with which "bone dry" possibilities are
breaking in Iowa is causing a general
stampede to lay in large private stocks,
as medium Of gradually tapering
down to the inevitable.
For the Missouri inaugural ball
dress suits were rented for fifty cents
each. Any family by denying itseif
three and one third pounds of navy
beans or one peck of potatoes could
be represented at the function.
The charges of a jury leak in the
investigation of charges against Chi
cago's ex chief of police causes one
to wonder how far the workings of
that alleged graft gang will go and
where it will all eventually lead to.
Many small parcels of rea! estate now
have to pay abstract and court fees
equaling one tenth of the whsle value
of the property whenever the title
changes hands This means that the
Torrens system of recording titles soon
must be adopted.
Those Iowa boosters who are making
the rounds of the state on a SPECIAL
train have in mind greater Iowa and
their idea of the best means for obtain
ing a greater Iowa is to join all of the
forces for good 1t is to join these
forces that this trip is being made.
That San Francisco child of con-
vict, tattooed by her father that abe
may not be lost to him, will have
double cause in her mature years to
despise his memory-the first because
of his crime and the second because
of his mutilation of her fair skin.
1t is generally agreed that the Unit
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