Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-08-16

NIla tui ii dLoaHa tua capture lWo
villages.
The senate, which felt it necessary
To he in session during the war, talks
for weeks at q time and then puts
the whole thing up to the pres esdent.
. IT may he wicked, but we can't
help hoping that the drop in the price
OF potatoes caught a few spectators
who were holding thousands of bush,
els for rise.
One Omaha man was so anxious to
escape the draft that he had every
tooth in hisahead eat Off at the gums.
A fellow like that deserves to have
six weeks siege of toothache.
Champ Clark says America needs a
national anthem with punch, but if
we can have but one thing at time
the punch is more necessary for
arousing patriotism in Missouri.
What if congress were 10 make S4 a
day miainam wage for iabor2 and
labor is one Of The elementais of pro-
duction. Imagine what u congress
mans mail would look like.
Missouri is promising the nation
bumper crops In grains and vege-
tables. Yes. apparently they can
raise anything down that way but
United States senator's.
The habit OF baking did not origi-
nate among congressman, but was
handed down to the mule from his
father. The mule divided his inheri
sance With the disinherited son.
The Russians have hearkened to a
lot of good American advice and
could do no better right now than
act on Horace Greeley's famous
words. GO west, young man, go
west.
Railroad earnings of IS roads for une
according to the Interstate Com mmerce
Commission, show an increase of ten
per cent in net earnings over June of
1915. Net revenue was $40, ,37S, 193, as
compared with $52 ,37S, 1S3 a year ago.
Last Wednesday, the first of the
three Liberty Loan" days in Russia
proved great success. Autos par-
AIDED the streets of the capital and
decorated booths were installed il
the principal thoroughfares for the
| sale of the war bonds.
A Mexican Presidential decree modi.
flying the tax On railway receipts pro
vides tax of Q per cent on freight
| bills of lading, per cent on gross pas
| senger receipts, and per cent on the
gross earnings of tramways, stage
| coaches. or other vehicles used for pas
| senger tnansporta ton.
There is one satisfaction many
thousands of people in the country
will have this fall and that is that
the spectators will be powerless tt
regulate the prices they must pay foI
potatoes and other vegetables. These
thousands are the ones who made ust
of their vacant lots and planted then
TO vegetables last spring.
| Sioux Falls journal: Company
boys are arranging to issue newspa-
| er from headquarters and may be
| continued 80 long as the company j!
in service. Details are soliciting
subscriptions, although the :irst edi-
tion will be free distribution. The
boys issued a paper when on the Dor.
der, 1t being such a success that they
have decided to revive the issue.
At last the food control bill ha,
been passed by congress and onl
awaits President Wilson's signatnr
to make it the law of the land. Nov
4 for enforcement and there is the h op
in the breast of every patriotic Amer
lean that the law carries with. i
enough power to compel prices cor
sistent with war conditions, that Will
have power sufficient to put out Q
business and behind the bars all foo
spectators and others who in an
manner attemAt to fasten on the peo