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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
BoIsheNisf Propaganda in Iowa
IRON the Burlington Gazet.el

The Iowa Tradenan which STYLES itself the organ of the
local Trades and Labor Assembly, up column and a
aaf space in last weeks issue defending bolshevlsn
The bolshevist champion signs himself " Reader
The Iowa Tradean circulaes in Fort Madison keokuk
and the statement appeared IN all the papers,
induce the readers to believe that bolshevs
anarchy and all that it stands for, is UNSUITABLE.
Gazette believes and knows that the great majority
o the members Of the trades unions in this city level
headed loyal 1t does not believe that they viii
for minute coInenance boshevis anarchy socialism
any other old ism Aericans Ii the Iowa 1radeSman
the of organized labor this city the readers are
entitled vigorous protest surrenderng its col
boIsheviki propaganda We want of this kind
stuff Burlington and the Gazette feels that right thinking
American workmen of this opinion
Bolshevsm wrecked Russia tried to wreck Germany,
doing incaculable damage in AustaHungary and by the
eternal is going wreck Burlington Defending bohe
sm this time is in the category with excusing the
work of the bomb poers who recently attempted wholesale
murder in eight cities of the United States.
IF the Iowa Tradesman is the mouthpiece of organized
labor In this CITY, it certainly is not fulfilling its mission hon
est The American Federation of Labor and its leader
Samuel Gompers ousp0ken and avowed enemies of
calism Every official publication emanating from the head
quarters of the American Federation of Labor
against being deceived by socialist propaganda.
The Gazette is not the of creed class clique
IT American newspaper for all the people in Burlington
rich and poor and the newspaper of the people of Burn
it has hesltancy denouncing with all its the
attempt nstfy the peeious doctrines of boshevism
forth the columns of the Iowa Tradesnan In taking
this stand the Gazette is not inspired by newspaper zeal
ous because the Iowa Tradesman competitor
Neither it inspired by desire dscret organized labor
o. to discourage the formation of labor unions.
There necessity in debating the question of boshe
vism. 1t stands for everything do not want The
against has been proven and organized labor should
haste to stamp its head into the earth it would the head of
snake 1t the leaders of organized labor do not
repudate this sinister influence medium that
affords space for its defense then the rank and file the
workers should ascertain whittier they being led.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
AMERICA

AMERICA
Beware hands nations Greek tearing az OF Old;
OF ROYAL entertainments shining plates OF gold;
sup nations far not thy nag injured
But auu Goa1 aIoa, lantern for the world
not diluted be with Europes tainted blood
And that SYMBOL the world. thy star oespsngied
Let that NOT be entangsd with worlds benefited
Vet II weak states shall zurer the OF the world
Then let that flag freedom be for righteousness IN
And meath its folds let there protection for the
30 leave America unbound and free as shall to
speak.
Thou needs 10 league nations prescribe thy tasks
10 do.
For thou hast learned thy meath the red the white.
the blue,
and new tasks confront thee and clouds
Tnou wilt need no foreign Dronapter no g7ves upon thy
wrists
fear not o MA-ry England whatser thy shall be,
For America thee. the land and on the sea-
And her hopes fortunes ntertxed With
thine.
And thnu France I'm sadness fear thy recent foe.
For watching thee than thou are taught
know.
gin scor that League d Nations fight satetya
far here AZ home America Is with thee to the Rhine
George Barrow, ta Skzneateea Free Press
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
Every great life is an incentive to all other
liyes-Gsorge William Curtis.
HOW THE WOMEN WERE SAVED.

AS soon az the ..reds'' had boIslevized Hun
gary and begun their orgies with the crack
Drained Bella Kun at their head, many Of the
choicer spirits among them urged That the
Communication OF women should be ordered
without delay This seemed TO be the popular
idea The decree was passed with enthusiasm
and unanimity and was sent 10 the printer for
publication Then one Of the cabinet members,
editor Of radical newspaper called The PEG
pleS Voice went home for supper and incl
dcntally told his wife and mother-in-law what
had been done, how wives and husbands might
legally discard each other by filing out blank
and either or both Of them might turn their
children over TO the care Of the state.
1t would appear that Frau Wetner, wife Of
the official was a woman Of masterfol qualities
inherited from her mother who possessed them
also to an eminent degree Their vocabularies
of disparagement were notably copious and
their fluency no less remarkable. They were
two of the most waspish ter1nagants in Buda-
pest and cantankerous as catanounts where
they had, as in this instance, an undoubted
grievance The storm that broke upon this
g1lieless bolshevist the paroxysm Of fury in
which these Xantippes assaulted him. made him
quail He saw that life for him would never be
toerable under any form of government until
his women folk had been pacifed He there
upon telephoned the printer to take proofs
of the new law but to unlock the form and dis
tribute the type and then he squared himself
with Kun and the rest of the cabinet, convinc-
ing them that the communication of women was
inexpedient at that time.
This proves how delightfully."- easy and in
formal lawmalzing and repeating are under a
bolshevist government. There is red tape
about recalls or referendums or interpretations
by courts And this little historical incident
shows also that women who can rise heroically
to great emergencies are priceless to the world
But for this resolute daughter and spitfre
mother all the sanctities that guard the homes
in Hungary would have been swept away. All
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
Don't overdo Our Patriotism.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The Dee
Moines Capital has made a sensa
tional proposition that the state OF
Iowa convene its legislature in extra
ordinary session and appropriate
about three millions to educate the
young soldiers who have returned. A
whole lot Of that is gratuitous. In
Cedar Rapids the young men who
did not go back to jobs have gone
back to school. Their status in their
families has not been changed. All
that the boys want is right and jus.
tice, and they will take care OF them
selves when they have that. They
have not come back from doing big
world duty, the greatest ever under
taken by Americans, to become wards
OF the government In fact, most OF
them; we believe, are better pre-
pared to take care Of themselves,
certainly to defend themselves, than
they ever were before. The real
boys smile at a great many of the
bombastic propositions that are made
on their behalf. Some of them are
enough to make them smile. We do
not say this of this Des Moines news
paper proposition, but of other pri-
marily. The Des Moines proposition
is simply bit superfluous.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
$50 ooo, COO GONE.

Washington Correspondence, New
York Tribune: Twelve dreadnaughi
battleships will be relieved of active
duty with the feet, placei oEr OF
commission and probably eventually
broken UP for junk or used as tar
gets by more modern vessels, under
plans now being worked out by tie
navy department. The ships arc OF
the mixed battery type and are not
considered OF any value against lac st
type fighting craft.
Four of the battleships, the historic
squadron comprising the Orsg,n, In
diana, Iowa and Massachusetts. nave
already been relegated to the scIap
heap. The remaining eight, appar-
emily doomed to the same fate, are
the Kearsarge, Kentucky. Illinois,
Alabama, Wisconsin, Maine, Mis-.
souri, and Ohio.
The twelve vessels, built between
1893 and 1901. represent a total ex.
penditure for hulls and machinery
alone of more than s90,000.000. When
placed out of commission they will
release for other duty approximately
10 900 enlisted men and nearly 400
officers.
The question Of what to do with
so many practically useless battle
ships after they have been placed
out of commission is before the de-
partment at this time. The historic
Oregon has been offered to the state
of Oregon to be used as the state
sees fit for memorial purposes and
probably will be accepted. The Iowa,
Indiana and Massachusetts probably
will be broken up for the metal that
is in them, these three ships con-
tanning an immense amount OF valu-
able copper and brass. The remain
ing eight will very probably be used
as targets for experiments in the
effects of modern gunfire, as was the
old Texas.
II has been suggested that a num-
Der Of these vessels could be well
utilized as coast defense units by
sinking them in shoal water at the
entrance TO the more important har-
bors, making them yeritable forts. 1t
is possible that four of them will be
used for this purpose.
The older vessels to be retained
are the Virginia, Nebraska, Georgia,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connect
cut, Louisiana, Vermont, Kansas.
Minnesota and New Hampshire. All
twelve and eightinch. guns, They
range in tonnage from the Virginia
class of 10000 tons to the New
Hampshire type OF nearly $4,000
tons.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

bulgaria, Croatia-and God kn'
what other regions-under pieuss
accept their findings and TO De
trolled by their verdict? In briei'
we or is any other country WHINE
relation to any vital or essenual
ter to abandon sovereignty in COM
ton with our own ideas, causes,
purposes? These queries REQUIRE
answer; and they exhibit quite =
cretely and definitely the nullity
the whole project.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
EQUITY For Actors.

Christian Science Monitor
American actors are rejoicing .
their British fellow artists IN
winning by the Actors AssoclauOTr
their new equitable contract.
persons outside the theatrical plgs
sion have the slightest idea OF :,
abuses managers of q certain !
we're guilty of in the days Oelofe ~
players organized to protect ~,
rights. There was one sort Vi ~,
ger. for example, declares an autnO,,
On the subject, who, utterly un4, h
fled to Judge of the quality OF 10! Z
in manuscript, used to stage p.e..T ~,
tryout performances in smail .V
securing the services OF his cas, i
four or more weeks of reheaisa'
two weeks of performance at a cos, !
two weeks salaries-two WeeNs
for six weeks work. Man!
were rehearsed for six weehs
even longer. Thus for at least
spectacle 1t is known that Ga.
more tkan so was kept rehearslnss sr
~ weeks without pay. Another 10 10,
lite device of the "manageriai .h. q
which has been corrected by lne :
contracts, was to engage an a mi
individuality, and, after he hau .sr
UT a definite Characterization,
him with notice of dismissal upOr ii,
pretext or another, putting III ii s-ss
player who would accept ,sss
reduced salary for giving a c.os wni
tailed imitation OF the style ~ ,,rt
the original player acted the p'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
What WIN You Answer?

San Francisco Argonaut: Is Amer
lea willing that her resources Of men
and means shall be at the disposal OF
causes in which she has no interest
and from which she may sentimentai'
ly or otherwise dissent? To put the
case concretely. will we consent to
send our men and spend our dollars
In conflicts between CzechoSlovakia
and Dodecanesus? Shall we be willing
in case of further troubles with Mex
leo to submit our case to a jury made
up Of men representing Pennsylvania,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

classes before the war were for EN-.
bargoes and what not that the Ger.
mans wanted There Is such a thing
al too much idealism. 1t would be a
noble idealism for us to become the
uncle OF the whole world, pay all the
debts and feed them all. But 1t would
hardly be practical or sensible.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

honor therefore to the woman contentious IN a
rightful cause. She may be wearing on occas-
ions like the ceaseless dripping Of d rainy day;
but who can fail to see how wobbly and ont OF
killer the social machine would get but Tor
those fOrceful women whom nothing can daunt
or deter from speaking their minds
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

earth. The weather is fine. Barra-
cuda and yellowfin are running. Beef
Is going down. You can get shave
now for Is cents. Vacation days are
coming and peaches are ripe. Praise
God from whom all blessings flow.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
ExerYbody,s Happy.

Los Angeles Times: Most OF the
candidates supported by the Times
for the various offices were elected.
Los Angeles is rapidly approaching
the million mark In population. Bust
ness is good. This great journal is
carrying a greater volume Of adver-
Using than any other newspaper on
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

N~c-
Moines Register and the democratic
papers In general are booming ex-
r, esident Taft for the repu blican
year. There will be nothing doing
along this line. Taft won't do and all
this talk is nonsense.
Perry Chief: These days a tenant
farmer never knows when he gets UP
in the morning who will be his boss
when he goes to bed.
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune: And why
rot the budget system in handling the
affairs of the government? Why not
some change from the old log rolling
method of arriving at the contents OF
the appropriation bills? The budget
system will make for economy in
governmental affairs, the great need
OF the hour.
Fort Dodge Messenger: Economy at
Washington is going TO be demanded.
rot as before, mainly as flourish OF
party rhetoric, but as a primary meas
ure Of national relief. For the first
time practically the entire American
people have learned something OF the
burden Of federal taxation.
Davenport Times: 1t was the irony
Of fate that the anarchist who placed
bomb at the home of Attorney Gen
eTal Palmer should be blown into
smithereens-"hois by his own Pc
tard," as It were. Too bad all con-
cerned in the horrible plot to kill
prominent Americans and their farnf-
lies did not meet the same end.
MarshaIltown Times Republican,:
We could have saved all this muss
over villa IL the United States
troopers had been permitted to go on.
get him and hang him when the going
was good.
Sac City Bulletin: Congressman
roles states that he will oppose the
reclamation program which involves
colonization of reclaimed lands by
soldiers. He bases his stand on the
feet that a group Of Iowa soldiers who
expressed themselves on the question
we're opposed to it. We hope that
Mr. Boies will not make the mistake
o. trying to represent his own con-
stituents too closely and ignore the
nation as a whole. There are soldiers
III many parts Of the country who
favor the reclamation program and will
avail themselves Of the opportunity
The plan also involves enriching the
resources Of the nation as a whole.
Davenport-Democrat: AS long as
Iowa tries to get along with dirt roads
every rain such as we have had this
week will put us back into the mud.
II means that we shall slip and skid
and swear and accumulate mud and
clean 1t off until we have wasted In a
few years what It would have cost to
have paved our roads.
Knoxville Express: The old fash
toned man who could drink or let 1t
alone always drank. Let's see II he
can let II alone after July /.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Mr.. Taft
told them that the idealistic classes
are for the league. But the idealistic
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

No safe and sane artist could paint picture
of the peace conference says an exchange.
Here's an opening for the nit wits of the brush
and pallet to try their skill.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

Municipal suffrage has peeh N,
ed to women in eleven Oh tne
tered towns of Florida.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

Rembrant's cold Woman Plucking Fowl, "
which brought two hundred and fifty Thousand
dollars in Paris just before the war, has been
sold again for three hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars, which goes to show that the price
of dressed poultry, even in art goes up rapidly
In wartime.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

my friends is pass 70 -hs greatest the
purest and the most perf.cs pleasure tha God has pre-
for His lasts wien sl other Pleasures
fade IL will support you all NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are
gene IL will last you your death. II will make
your hours pleasant you long you,iiyeAnthony
TroIsope.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

What Cheer Patriot: The Des
Moines Register and the democratic
papers IN general are booming ex-
President Taft for the republican
to the presidency next
year. There will be nothing doing
along this line. Taft won't do and all
this talk is nonsense.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

Perry Chief: These days a tenant
farmer never knows when he gets up
IN the morning who will be his boss
when he goes to bed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

Knoxville Express: The old fash
toned man who could drink or let 1t
alone always drank. Let's see IL he
can let It alone after July l.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

Cedar Rapids Republican,: Mr.. Taft
told them that the idealistic classes
are for the league. But the idealistic
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

Fort Dodge Messenger: Economy at
Washington ia going TO be demanded.
rot as before, mainly as flourish OF
party rhetoric, but as primary meas
ure Of national relief. For the first
time practically the entire American
people have learned something OF the
burden Of federal taxation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

The only way 10 get out Is to organize a ma
chine gun company, swoop down upon the peni-
tgntiary With high powered automobiles and blow
this place into seven heavsns-
When workers begin 70 take SUCH action, snail
become Interested far from being down.
hearted / believe the government viii keep on
messing things until the boishsVfki come OYER
here and blow them from the face OF the earth.
Another good way is for every member OF the
Z w W 20 carry a "A Colt or a sawed OF shot
zuu Nth his membership card and make new
Erand OF salt and pepper shakers out OF our gov
eminent officials am tired Of trying to get jus
lice through the courts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10

Marshalltown Times Republican,:
We could have saved all this muss
over villa IL the United States
troopers had been permitted to go on.
get him and hang him when the going
was good.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-15
JAPS SOON Will
FILL CALIFORNIA
Their Birth Rate in That State
Has Been Increasing
AIarmingIy.
WHITES BECOME WORRIED
Condition is Most Notable in the Fruit
Sections-YelIow Race Now Almost
Controls the Placer County
Vegetable Industry.

San Francisco, Cal-The birth rec
ords of the bureau of vital statistics
of the California state board of health
Indicate that the Japanese population
in the state is increasing at a rapid
rate From 1906, when thesJapanese
births were 1874, they have increased
steadily to 4,219 in 1918. While there
is no separate record of the Japanese
population, the birth record is taken
as absolute evidence that the number
of japanese families residing in the
state is steadily increasing.
This increase is most notable in the
fruit sections, where the Japanese
have colonized and are now in compe-
tition with the white fruit grower. The
greatest increase is in Los Angeles
county, where, in 1913, there were
1929 Japanese births recorded.
In the Fruit Counties.
Alameda, Fresno, Sacramento, San
Joaquin and Santa Clara, all extensive
fruit counties, show a large number of
Japanese births for 1918, but only in
San Joaquin and Santa Clara is there
any increase over the record Of 1917,
anG in these cases it is only very slight.
In San Francisco, where the Japanese
population is admitted TO be very ex-
tensive, the births in 1918 were only
261, as against 263 in 1917, indicating
that the Japanese population had not
increased to any great extent except
during the last two years. This same
may be said of the interior, for the
total increase of Japanese births in the
entire state was only Ill more in 1918
than in 1917.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-15

ism and patience and love for others,
is on exhibition in the front window
of David's store and will be sold at
auction in front of the store Tuesday
night.
This is a quilt designed and made
by Miss Alma Lauder, who has been
working in the interest of French
war orphans for more than year and
who, with her Sunday school class,
has adopted a number of the orphans
and is raising money to feed clothe
and educate these orphans whose
fathers were killed in the war. Miss
Lauder made the quilt, which all who
see it will recognize as work OF art,
that would be a credit to any home,
even without the added value of the
worthy object for which it was made,
and the value, as memorial, of Mos
cow and Idaho heroes
The quilt is of white, with the
American and French flags crossed
in the center. In each of the four
corners is a picture representing
human figures in various attitudes Of
suffering or gratitude, with scriptural
quotations which they are meant to
Illustrate. In the upper left hand
corner is this inscription with the
picture: 81 was hungry and you gave
me meat" Another corner, with rep
resentative figures, carries this quo
tation: 81 was naked and you clothed
me" Still another is: 81 was thirsty
and you gave me drink and in the
fourth corner is the words: 81 was
a stranger and you took me in"
In the center square, beneath the
crossed flags is the names of Lieu
tenant Dudley A. LOOMS, the first
Moscow soldier to meet death; and
that of Captain Stewart w. Hoover,
of Blackfoot, Idaho, who died while
gallantly fighting an overwhelming
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-15
The Japanese births registered in
California from 1906 to 1918 are as fol-
Inurc.


TiaSCi SOuHlJ Toik AidTfftcu-
The increase in the Japanese pop
ulation in the state has so alarmed GER
tain sections that public meetings have
been held to discuss means of provid-
ing against the further encroachment
of the 0rientals. Such meeting was
held recently at Newcastle, in Placer
county, where it was found that the
japanese births were nearly twice the
number Of whites in 1918. In 1917
there were 81 Japanese born in Placer
county and 119 whites. In 1917 there
were SO Japanese and 70 whites and
in 1918 1923 Japanese and 81 whites.
Assemblyman Ivan Parker, from
that county, who investigated the sub
ject, makes the following statement:
Il am told that the Japanese at
present control nearly 65 per cent of
the vegetable growing industry of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
In some of the elementary schools Of
Placer county class after class con-
tains but one or two white children.
In many others Japanese boys old
enough to shave sit in classes with
the little girls of tender age. jap
anese- school children in Placer county
boast that some day they will have a
japanese governor in California;"