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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18
GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING.

While General Pershing is consider
ed to be a republican, because he il
the son-inlaw of Senator Warren, OF
Wyoming, the democrats may claim
him because of his being a MissOurian
1t has been said that General Grant
was a democrat, but was persuaded to
become a candidate ON the republican
ticket by leaders of that party. This
may be the case of General PeTshing.-
Washington Correspondent.
Gen. Pershing has been known to be
asrepublican all his life, but that does
MT matter. Party lines are not taut
these days. Grant was Il democrat
when he went into the civil war, but he
was a red-hot republican when he came
out. Gen.. Pershing might take eNcep-
lions to the efforts of the democratic
party to make political capital out of
this a He may think the army is
entitled to great credit for winning the
war and may decide to stand as a
candidate for president to vindicate
the part played by the republican party
during the great conflict, a part in
every way creditable and patriotic.
The fact that Pershing is from Mis-
souri, is no indication of a faint of
democratic partyism. There are more
republicans in Missouri than i'm Iowa
and the state elected a republican Unit
ed State senator at the recent election.
The son-in-law issue is a mighty
flimsly n e, though it may apply to the
distinguished son-in-law of a more dis
tinguished father-in-law who is
director general of the railroads of the
country and a recognized candidate for
president. This particular son-in-law
confesses to voting for Roosevelt in
order to stand by the Mckinley war
administration. Now he is a democrat.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

British shall evacuate Gnbraltar and
restore it to Spain. rssrs
z. England shall deliver all her war
fleet to Germany.
s. She shall restore Egypt, including
the Suez canal, to Turkey. as well as
the islands and territories which be-
longed to Turkey.
8. Immediate evacuation of the ter
r%itories occupied by the allies in
Greece. restoration of this kingdom,
with its frontiers as they were before
the war, as well as of it's legitimate
king. 4s "
10. Partition of Serbia and Montene-
gro between Austria and Bulgaria as
the. two powers shall agree.
II. Payment of G%ernEany's war debts
(1S0,O0O, 100000 marks) by America.
England and France. 4 special agree
ment will determine the ,apportionment
of this indemnity between the nations
rs well as the quantities of materials
which they will be required to furnish
us at once.
II. The occupation of French and
Belgian territories must continue until
the enemy has fulfilled all the condi-
tons of the treaty of peace, the ex-
penses of this occupation to be borne
by our adyersaries.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18
KENYON AND THE WEST.

Fort Dodge Messenger: After Sen
ator Kenyon has ventured his own rep.
utation as a prophet by saying that
General Pershing is the inevitable sue.
.cessor to Woodrow Wilson in the
White House it is interesting to see
that some other people think Kenyon
himself may be the choice of the PEG.
pie for that great Office. Milton Bron-
ner, Washington correspondent for the
Des Moines News, in an article to his
paper says the process of elimination
in the republican party has been dis
posing of a number of ~thesileaders who
were thought to have a show for the
nomination for president. Governor
Whitman of New York and Senator
Weeks of massachusetts + two of
these fallen planets. BrOnner names
Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson and Will
liam Borah as three Likely candidates
if the progressives control, but he says
if events shape themselves so that a
candidate from the middle west seems
TO be logical, "theih. look out for Ken
yon." He says Kenyon was born in
Ohio" and SO may lay claim to the
magic charm of that fact. while rot
eloquent as was Senator Dollivcr,
Ioowa's other great senator, like him
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18
WHAT WAS THE POWER?

German leaders have been outgen.
eralled, German soldiers have been out
fought; Of all the tremendous and ar.
rogant tradition of invincibility there
is left just nothing."-Frank III. ST
monds in the New York Tribune.
In other words, forty years of mill.
tarism failed to produce military eff.
cheney of any but the superficial sort.
-Des Moines Register.
What was it, then, that enabled Ger
many and her allies to prosecute the
war for more than four years against
enemies greatly superior in numbers
and financial resources? Have we for
gotten so soon that only last spring the
wastexceedingly dark for Ger
Imany's opponents and 4 the United
States was straining every nerve to go
to the assistance of her associates in
Europe. before it was everlastingly too
late! If preparedness amounts to no.
thing, what thing was it that made Ger
many and her allies strong enough to
resist successfully for four years the
armed strength of nearly the entire
world?
Forty years of militarism failed to
produce enough strength to win against
more than twenty nations, but it did
produce enough strength to put up a
fight that surprised the entire civilized
world, and threatened every democra-
tic government on the globe. Now that
Germany is down and out, nothing is
to be gained by trying to make it APP
pear that the military machine she had
built vas not the strongest of its kind
in the history of civilization.
True, German leaders have been out
generated and German soldiers have
been outfought, but the great German
war machine and years of preparedness
placed almost immovable barriers
against the allies.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18
PEACE TERMS.
That America may know the Germ

lndI AIleflcd may KNOW tue ueTlldH
mind at the time of it's seeming
triumph, the peace terms which, Ger
many intended to impose on the allies
are worthy of p%erusual. They are pub
lished in the Berlin Tageblatt of June
Is last, at the time Germany's conf
dencc of victory was at its height.
They were prepared by Count Won
Room. the notorious junker and leader
of the Prussian house of lords. The
information was made public in this
country by Ralph w. Page editor of
Worlds Work, the son of former Am
bassador Page, who vouches for the ac-
curacy of the translation. The terms
read as follows:
We have the strength to win svictory.
We do not have to be a party to an
agreement; we are able to dictate to
our beaten adversaries the following
conditions:
L. No armistice. The uninterrupted
continuation OF the submarine warfare,
refusal of every offer of Cancellation as
long as a single English soldier re-
mains on Belgian or French soil and
we are not masters of Paris or at its
gates. Our enemies, who are counting
on American aid, are seeking only to
gain time by their negotiations.
.. Annexation OH Germany of occu-
pied Belgian territory. the same to en-
Joy an autonomous administration, but
to be under German domination in
military and economic affairs. Au-
tonomy in Flanders. Cession to Ger
many of the Flemish and French
coasts to and including Calais.
3. Cession to Germany of the Briey
and Longwy basins.
4. Cession to Germany of the strong
holds Belfort, Toul and Verdun. and of
the land east of these cities.
). Restoration to Germany of all
her colonies, including KiaO-chau.
6. To insure the freedom of the
seas. England shall cede to Germany
the navnl bases and coaling stations
the latter shall designate. The
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18
THE DECLINE IN COTTON.

One Of the generally uneX Hsted
movements of last week was a decline
of more than $15 a bale in the price of
cotton. This market, until recently,
showed a strong upward tendency on
every intimation of peace, affected by
the expectation that, Europe would
need immense quantities of cotton as
soon as the war ends. This view has
been modified recently by the knowl-
edge that many cotton factories in
Europe have been destroyed as a re-
suit of the war, and that Europeans
are likely to economic more on
clothes than on anything else during
the period Of reconstruction. More
over, stocks of cotton are large, liz
million bales more on October 1 this
year than last, the total 4,157,OOO bales,
representing more than 600 million
dollars, a very large sum to be tied up
in carrying V e such an important
raw material as cotton. Stocks have
accumulated rapidly in the past
month. adding to the weak position of
the market.
This decline in cotton will accentu-
ate the general tendency among merch-
ants to expect lower prices after the
war for nearly all merchandise, and
this is likely to have the effect of
checking demand and making buyers
conservative, sthough it is doubtful as
to w~hatsextent this will affect bust
ness, for merchants generally have
been carrying small stocks because of
the general limitations on supplies
available for domestic consumption.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

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States will appreciate the good will
and respect voiced in the foregoing,
they will be slow to accept the tender
of colonies across the sea. Our gov
eminent announced, and the sentiment
was universally endorsed by the public.
that this country went into the war
from purely humane motives and that
it did not want conquest nor indemni-
ties of any kind whatever. Should the
United States now accept colonial
responsibilities as a result of the vic
tories achieved it would be impossible
to explain the situation satisfactorily
to the world, especially to South
America, whose high regard we have
won and whose respect and confidence
are worth more than earthly posses
sions.
True, the United States cannot
afford to shirk responsibilities that
come to the country. If the world at
large, including the peoples Of the
proposed colonies, want this nation to
assume the functions of guardianship
over peoples who need guiding and
direction, Uncle Sam will no doubt UNI
dertake the responsibility. But it
must be made clear-without a muddy
spot-that such responsibility is taken
for the benefit of the peoples of such
colonies and not for the gain and ag-
grandizement of this nation. More
over, it must be understood that such
colonies shall have their independence
when they are fitted for self-gOvern-
ment and when a majority of the in
habitants thereof want it, as expressed
at an election in which all the people
over twenty-one years of age are per-
mitted to participate. at
Great Britain has accomplished a
great work for civilization throughout
the world by her methods of govern
ment in colonies and provinces. She
has, been confronted and is now on
fronted by grave problems. Mistakes
have been made and some injustices
permitted. But IN the whole Great
Britain las done remarkably well and
the fact that all her colonies stood by
her in this great war refutes the sland-
ers against her government that have
been b~roadcasted yer the world by
enemies and even by ONE of her own
writer's.
There are many people in this coun-
try who would like to see Canada a
part of the United States, if such a
thing could be brought about with the
full consent of the British people and
those of Canada. But the United
States would not for a moment consent
to iannexing Canada unless the people
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

of Canada were willing and unless
suggestions looking to such a cpnsuma-
ton came from Canada herself,
1t is not likely that anything will
result from the suggestions Of the Lon
doners that the United States assume
colonial responsibilities across the seas.
Surely not unless the most favorable
conditions invite it and make it appear
as an imperative duty, instead of as
a privilege that may be honorably de
clined. ~
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18
UNIVERSAL

Preparedness for peace is quite
as much a problem as preparedness
for war and a condition which this
nation must necessarily build from the
ground up. l have no ideas for publ
cation as to what the government will
do with relation to scheduled draft
calls, but l do not think there is a pos
sibility that Camp Devens will be
either temporarily closed or perman-
emily Observation-Disclosures General Nc
Balm, in Command of Camp Devens,
Aver. Mass.
1t is quite evident that Major Gen
eral McBain believes the government
is very apt to retain the environments
for training camps in the future. With
a citizen soldiery properly educated
physically and mentally, with the lia-
bility to duty to all classes and walks
of life, the people would be able to
maintain peace when peace could be
hOnOrably maintained. Each voter
would realize that he or his son or his
grandson or somebody else close in his
affections would be required to bear
a just share of the burdens of war and
it may be believed he would not lightly
cast a ballot in the direction of war
unless the stake was great.
Two or three months of training
physically and mentally-each year for
three years would mean much to young
men and to- the nation. However. a
great deal will depend upon the view of
the soldiers now i'm the field i'm France
and in the environments of this coun-
try. If they are against the policy
of universal military training it will
not he adopted, but if they are for It'll
the nation may as well put it's affairsl
in order to accept it,. They will run
things political during the mex twenty
or thirty years and what they think
about this subject will determine what
policy will be pursued in the future.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

1t will be recalled that several
years ago the courts of England indict-
ed William Hohenzollern, and other
German bandits for murder because OF
submarine piracy and the Illegal and
wanton execution of civil and military
officials. Now the kaiser is a fugitive
in Holland and it is remembered that
treaty arrangements between Holland
and England provide for extradition.
1t is therefore more than possible that
Mr.. HohenZollern will be taken to Eng
land and tried for murder and if found
guilty duly executed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

The British fleet has arrived at Con.
stantinople and it will be but a short
time until it reaches the Black sea
when the allies will be in position to
give some aid to southeastern Russia.
With the opening of the Dardanells all
that will prevent foodstuffs being dis
tributed throughout Russia is the
dearth of ships and lack of t%ransporta-
Probabilities on land. There is said
lGQFenty of wheat in Australia and
plenty of corn in South America.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

If the German officers and sailors
who have seized a portion of the Ger
man navy do not yet know that Ger
many is licked and is going to stay
licked they Are due to have a rude
awakening soon. D%isorganized Ger.
many can offer little resistance com
pared to that offered by organized Ger.
many.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18
And now President Wilson'S politica

And now President Wilson's lpolitica
friends are saying that the president
knew, when he addressed his note OF
inquiry to Germany on the Sth of DC.
tober. that a revolution was imminent
and that the war must soon end. Pos.
sibly that is true, but if it is true why
did the president on the eve Of cleo.
/, ton write a partisan appeal to the
country intimating that it was neces-
sary to elect a democratic congress to
help win the war?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

No real hero ever deserts his people
in time of their greatest need: Ger
mans who have been holding the kaiser
in high esteem must now despise him
for fleeing to Holland to save his own
wretched life.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

1t doesn't matter what kind of a
government prevails in Germany, that
country is not going to escape payment
for the damage inflicted during the
war. The. German chancellor may
think he can work President Wilson.
but he knows he can't work Lloyd
George and C~lemenceau.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

Il George Whiteside. a negro. was
s taken from Jail by a mob early today
and hanged to a tree near the spot
where he is alleged to have murdered
(. John Graham. a policeman. George
Bird. another negro charged with ON.
plicity in the crime. was lynched two
days ago.-Shefield, Alabama, Dis
patch.
The preachments of President Will
son against this Sol of thing seem to
have little influence in some sections of
the country. That region where mobs
take the law into their own hands,
thus becoming murderers, instead of
allowing legal processes to take their
course, is not safe for democracy.
Every man i'm a democratic country
should be protected in the right OF a
trial by a jury of his peers. These
murdered men were alleged to have
committed a serious crime. They may
have been guilty. but that fact could
be established only in a fair trial in
court. The mob spirit as revealed all
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18
Touring Pennsylvania.

Miss Hester Huff, who has been do
ing chautauqua work with a ladies'
orchestra during the past summer, has
just started the winters campaign on
the lyceum circuit, The company with
which she is associated is now touring
Pennsylvania.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

Why are not more gems from oul
great authors scattered over the coun
try? Let every<bookworm, when
in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he
discovers a sentence, a story, an illus
tration, that does his heart good,
hasten to give it.-Coleridge.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

Has anybody seen anything that ver-
,'ifies the charge Of democratic partisans
made during the late. political cam
paign that republican success at the
polls would encourage Germany and
discourage our allies in Europe?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

There are a lot of crowns over in
Europe that will Don find their way
to the junk dealer. AS junk they are
worth something.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

too frequently in this country is only
a demonstration of the bolshevikism
that has brought such terror to Rus
STA.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-18

Washington expects that the total
casualties of the United States army in
Europe will foot up approximately
100000. That is Il large number, but
it is only five per cent of the total of
100000 over there. Moreover, not to
exceed 10000 of these are among the
killed, it is believed. That is only one
per cent of the army. Possibly half of
the casualties include men only slightly
wounded. who will fully recover
Many Of the missing will no doubt be
found among the prisoners soon to he
liberated. Our losses are unexpectedly
small. Great Britain's casualties for
the single month of October reached
$4,000, according to published reports.
The Washington times., 1918-08-01
WIRE MEN PROTEST
DISCHARGES IN THE
ATLANTA DISTRICT

The nrst day OF Government con-
troll of telephone and telegraphic
communication developed continued
unrest among telegraphers in some
sections.
In Atlanta the Western Union, de-
claring their policy with refernece to
the union unchanged, continued to
discharge telegraphers, according to
the latter, and brought about a vio-
lent protest to Wire Director David J.
Lewis here
A. F. Joyner, president of the At
lanta district council OF the Telegra-
piers Union, sent the following tele-
gram to Director Lewis at Washing
tons:
western Union discharged some
our members since Federal control
wires went into effect Is this to be
policy OF telegraph administration?
II not, please order immediate rein
statement. as situation increasingly
critical and runaway walkout ap-
pears imminent"
What course OF action the Govern
ment will take in the matter. Is
The Washington times., 1918-08-01
DAILY OFFICIAL
MARKETING GUIDE
TO BE PUBLISHED

A Government marketing guide for
Washington housewives is to be is
sued by the Bureau OF Markets OF the
Department of Agriculture each week
day beginning Saturday. according to
an announcement from the Bureau to-
day. 1t will be published regularly
in The Times.
At first the guide will cover only
fresh fruits and vegetables. Certain
meats will be added shortly and later
fish probably will be included. In
preparing certain features OF the mar
ket guide. the Bureau OF Markets Will
have the cooperation of the District
Food Administration and the Office or
Markets of the District.
Reports by Specialists.
Local market conditions will be
kept under close observation by two
specialists in market reporting. one
devoting his attention to fruits and
vegetables and the other to meats,
says the department The data col
lected by them in regard to supplies,
quality and prices will be worked UP
each morning into the daily market
guide and published the same day
in The Times. Fair retail prices for
the day of publication, based on the
conditions and prices found by the
market reporters, will be contributed
by the District Food Administration
and made a part of the guide.
Prices can not fairly be furnished
in advance because OF the sudden
fluctuations to which the prices OF
perishable fruits and vegetables are
subjected. Housewives, however, by
use OF the guide. will be in a posi-
tion to check up on the prices paid
by them earlier in the day, and II
they have been overcharged, may
protest to dealers or the Food Ad-
ministration, or may avoid patroniz'
ing dealers who consistently fail &c
offer products at reasonable prices.
One Of the chief aims of the serv'
ice, which is already operating sue
cessfully in a number Of the Larger
cities of the country, is to strip al
| technicalities from market quota
tions, and furnish them to the public
through newspapers in a form easily
understood by consumers.
Comment On Conditions.
In addition to simple tables Of
prices the reports, 1t is stated. viii
consist of comments on the marke
in plain language, shorn of al
trade" terms. BY means OF the re-
ports, consumers will be advised al
to the most advantageous purchase!
OF food products that may be made
from day to day. They will also b.
told when the various vegetables anC
fruits may be bought most cheaply
The Washington times., 1918-08-01

for canning, drying and storing. A
feature of the report will be the
daily classification OF the most i'm
portant food products into groups
under the headings, abundant,
normal" and scarce"
"T1e Bureau OF Markets has found
that as a general rule housewives do
not read ordinary market reports, or
IL they do. get little out of them" "
says the statement from the bureau.
"This is because in most market re-
ports prices on wholesale or large
measures only are given. while cOn-
sumers buy in much smaller meas
urLs. Another reason why women
pass the ordinary report by is that
1t is usually entirely a matter OF
figures, with no timely comment on
the chsnges. in market conditions and
opportunities to purchase certain
products to best advantage. In other
words, it does not connect market
variations with the housewives in
terests.