Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-05-27

president looks at it sometimes: my
subordinates, may they ever be right,
but right or wrong, my subordinates.
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Yes, you did we'll in giving to the
Red Cross and in buying liberty bonds.
But think you that anything COM
pared to what the boys over there are
sacrificing in Offering their lives?
WIS.,
The man who will graft from the
government in times like this is aid
ing the enemy and ought to be treated
% traitor. Facing the shooting
squad is the proper place for him.
-W.S.S.-
The loafer is more of nuisance
now than. ever before and what to do
with him is still problem. He might
be put into the army, If not too old,
and made to work in some useful
capacity.
The Charles City Press is one of the
small town dailies of Iowa that has
the courage to take vigorous stand
against pro-Germans in its own COM
munity. 1t does one good to read it's
editorials in times like these.
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George Creel is to be commended for
apologizing to congress for the mean
and ungracious things he said about
that body. However, that apology
doesn't qualify him for the important
position he is holding under this ad-
ministration.
--W.S.S.-
An Ohio editor suspended his news
paper in order to have time to work
in the garden, and his action has been
warmly commended by his Large fam
lily OF readers" However, as usual,
Webster City made prior parallel
record.
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Every citizen of the United States,
naturalized or native, who is opposed
to having his children educated in the
English language, ought to be denied
the rights Of citizenship. He is a citi-
zen only for personal aggrandizement
and does not want to help make the
nation strong. ,.,.s.a .,
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II President Wilson would act with
tn. same zeal that he talks, George
Creel would soon find himself in the
scrapheap, where he belongs and
where he would have been long ago
were 1t not for the penchant Of the
president to stand by subordinates,
right or wrong.
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z And now some of the boys have dub
bed him Thanking Privilege Woods"
But, really Frank P. is no worse and
no better than others who work the
privileges for all they are
worth. The fault is with the policy
and not with the individual who takes
of it..
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The conscientious objector to war,
II there be any such animal, has no
scruples, conscientious or otherwise,
against other men fighting and dying
to protect him and his In the judg-
ment of this writer the so-called "con-
scientious objector" is a hypocrite and
q coward, a liar and a Stacker, and
nothing else.
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Senator Smith of Michigan said in
the senate the other day that enemy
money is working in Mexico and de-
clared that one of the things being
done to help Germany was the CATCH
ing of wireless dispatches, and send
ing them across the water to Berlin.
Well, our government ought to send
men to Mexico to organize United
States propaganda and do what can
be done to Offset the work OF German
propagandists. 1-~
-W.S.S.- S~
II there is anything more disgust
Ing than to see big league baseball
stars going into shipyard service OBJ
viously and avowedly to avoid the
draft, it would be interesting to hear
It named.-Sioux City Journal.
Well, it is more disgusting to see
men going around over the country
seeking seats in congress while wear
Ing big padlocks upon their jaws
through fear that something may es-
cape that would offend the pro-Ger-
mans Of their districts.
WIS.,. .-.
Some day the history of this great