The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.


Webster City Freeman-Journal: II
there ever was a time when courage
was necessary in the white house
and congress, that time is now. Let
politics be adjourned In fact and let
the legislative and executive branches
of the government approach this
question the cost of livingl with a
determination to settle 1t regardless
of politics and regardless of the
effect it may have upon the future
idividual The situation is serious,
gress and the administration realize.
Waterloo Times Tribune: The
more favorable the crop reports, the
higher goes the price of food. VIII
isome economist explain It?
| Davenport Times: 1t will be disas-
trous in the end to increase wages,
!! then rates, then wages and then
rates again, if every time wages are
| increased the cost of living goes up.
! Burlington Hawk-Eye: The people
are afflicted sufficiently, without at
tempting more price-fxing. All such
/ attempts resulted in higher prices.
Well may the consumer say: DE
| liver me from government price
ifixing-I'll scratch through some
how"
Cedar Rapids Republican: Does
anyone believe that President VIII
son would lose any prestige if he
would say to those who have fears
about that covenant-and there are
many men Of his own party who
have such fears-if he would say, Il
am willing to accept notifications,
for / am willing to admit that no
one man knows 1t all? Why is 1t
I that men do not rise TO such att
ftudes occasionally?
| Council Bluffs Nonparei1: Perhaps
you, too, had noted the fact that con-
gress asks for no information about
the making of the worlo peace treaty
from Lansing, House, Bliss or White.
These men have been trained like
well behaved children TO maintain
silence when their superior is speak
ing.
Knoxville Journal: Nothing would
suit the democratic party Of Iowa
half 50 well as to have Mr.. Havner
get into the race for the republican
nomination for governor. Conse-
iquently the democratic press of the
state can be relied upon to give his
candidacy such aid ana comfort as
they can.
vinton Eagle: Judging from the
testimony, the men Henry Ford en-
ployed to do his writing for him
were all right, except that they
lacked good judgment, capital and
information. And that's about all we
lack Of being a great manufactures
like Henry.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: It Is re.
ported from Washington that Presi.
dent Wilson is very much concerned
ever the trend OF conditions. He
knows the profiteers have the coun-
Try by the throat, but apparently be
does not know what to do to provide
4 remedy. The remedy is In the
hands of congress. France by law
has made profiteering crime. Has
not the American congress the sarns
power2 Must there be riot and revo-
iutioD before congress is brought to
its senges? The great trouble at
Washington is politics. Congress-
men are playing politics while tho
nation suffers.
SIR HORACE PLUNkETT.
Manchester Guardian: There is
something gallant and irresistible in
the figure OF Sir Horace Plunkett,
fighting against recurrent attacks Of
Illness, never dismayed, never re-
buffed, always fertile in new expedi-
ents to cover the failures of old
ones. Perhaps there is no more in
tensely Irish figure than his. There
has been something Irish in his
whole career. There was an agri-
cultural period, when 1t became an
article of faith among unionists to
hail him as the regenerator OF Irish
farming, and an article OF faith
among nationalists to laugh at the
same experiments. In any other
country IT would have been possible
TO say definitely that Sir Horace had
succeeded or failed; it was quite i'm
possible in ireland, for cooperation
was mixed UP with home rule and
dairy farming with orangeisms
George Moore, in his Parallel" with
FTanbert's unlucky cultivators. at
tackled the Plunkett system in a
spirit OF bitter raiilery which gave
us some delightful pages; the cpl
sodes OF the mules and Of the oyster
beds might have made the fortune
os any satfrist, but Sir Horace sur
yiyed even that and went on his way,
caught from time to time in the
eddies of political currents, but al