Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-08-30

whatever the dancing masters may
decide, the sidesteps will remain in
vogue.
The Chicago Tribune refers to EN-
as new American insects LaFol-
! lette, Gore. ct all
Remember the time when you could
afford to grease yonr shovel with q
| piece OF bacon rind?
The fellow who has not yet filled
his coal bin is hoping that Hoover
| may be able to save him some money
The corn is doing it's best to settls
things before the first frost and the
coal regulators may profit by its
| example.
The censor forgets now and then
and allows it to be known that the
United States troops keep arriving
in Europe.
If Herbert Hoover does half what
the food bill is designed to do-watch
out for Hoover for president. Such
popularity.
However. it is not believed that
the l. w. ". will keep many federal
troops from going to Europe to put
down the bigger nuisance.
Ihe .one thing above all others that
the allies are determined upon is that
the peace treaty when it is signed
shall not be another scrap of paper.
1T Holland is hungry it is because
she sold her neutrality for German
gold. She can now take another
hitch 10 her belt and count her gains.
LII might be that if we all agreed
that congress should remain in ses-
"'Nh W. Os'V'ioudsly dS ulaIJpE Vi
safety, they would be inclined to
vote vacation.
MaTsha)ltown Times Republican,:
About al that Senator LaFollette
seems TIC be accomplishing is to make
himself disagreeable. But he is do
ing we'll at that.
This is in some measure "a rich
mans war" after all. For example,
Benjamin Throop, a young million
alre of Scranton. Pa, has enlisted
as q private, too.
Hogs have had something OF a ris-
ing market rising beyond all records
as corn dropped down a bit. We
must not look for constituencies in
market changes during these times.
Waterloo Courier: One good turn
deserves another. We have been
making war munitions for the allies
for tkree years and now their fac
tories are busy turning out airplanes
for us.
China has also entered the war.
The peculiar thing is China declared
war on Austria Hungary and not on
Germany. The United States declared
war on Germany but not on Austria
Hungary.
The coming winter promises to be
an exceptionally good one for Ger
mans in America. There is, every
evidence there will be ne shortage of
sauerkraut. However, there's are 9th.
ers than Germans are not averse to
feed of that famoue dish.
There is the feeling of many per-
SONS In the land that Edison, the
great inventor of electric devices,
has or is about to solve the submar-
inc problem which would be tanta-
mount to proclaiming America and
her allies yictors in the great war at
an early date.
Pierre people and people in Pierre
territory are not caring SO much
about the p4tce the mine operators
charge for coal as the price the deal
ers will charge the consumers. If
the reduction In price does not beng.
fit the consumer, and materially and
quickly, the whole effort is lost.
The Anamosa Eureka declares that
If Iowa has any congressman who
have not been measuring up to pure
ly patriotic dimensions at Washing
ton they should be made tc walk the
political plank, as Iowa has a war
record that shOnld NOT ha mazda, to