Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-09-20

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and pay a fair price a,:s
OF the $40, 900 OOO, 900 collected ii
nineteen months, at least fone-third wa:
wasted.
Wilson has one distinction that
no other president ever enjoyed
and no other succeeding president I
will enjoy: His administration 4
mas cost the American people more I
money than has been spent by the
governments since its beginning
from George Washington down7to
and including the administration
Of President Taft. Some record.
South in Saddle.
Southern men controlled the demo
cratic party and the administration
and spent the money collected from the
north.
Wilson is a native Of Virginia. Six
members of his cabinet were southern
men by residence or birth. Southern
men controlled all important commit
tees in both senate and house. South
ern men were named as chairmen. The
south, with more than one-fourth of
the population of the United States,
pays less than one-tenth of the income
taxes. The per capita tax in New York
was six times the per capita tax in
the south. Southern politicians, as a
claim for reelection, boosted that the
south had received $40 from the U. S.
government for every dollar that the
states had paid to the government.
The money collected in the north was
spent in the south. Many millions We're
used to build military roads in the
south as free gift to the southern
states, saving them from local as we'll
as federal taxation. Other millions
were spent in buying land for canton
ments and for improving southern har-
bors that we can never make use Of
State Representative J. c. Sterling
also gave a short address covering in a
thorough manner the more outstanding
issues Of the day.
At Jewell.
Mrs. w. f. Brown, county chairman
of the Republican women's committee,
and Attorney F. J. Lund spoke at Jew
ell at the Lyric theatre where splen-
did rally was held. Mrs. Brown said
in part:
The woman who has been saying that
party politics does not appeal to her or
that she would wait until the platforms
were formed and the candidates chosen,
then vote for the best man and the best
platform, now has the platforms and
the national candidates before her for
She may like some
plaflks in one platform, some planks in
another platform. This kind Of choice
is Sinking. Parties mean great deal
more than any single platform or any
single set of candidates. Join your
party. and if you decide you have made
a mistake, as you will If you join some
parties, use your women's privilege and
change your mind. When a number of
are all bent on the same thing,
comes into existence that
was not there before. That something
is party spirit
Appeal to Emotions.
The emotions Of the women of the
country are being appealed to win sup
port of the League Of Nations, but they
may well hesitate to be bound by the
terms Of covenant over which parties,
and statesmen are dlsput-
ing. Some say that it means this. 9th
ers insist it means something else.
while no one knows or can know really
what 1t does mean. Listen ~ the voice
Of America, woman voter, without ref
erence to emotion.
The majority of the women voters of
Hamilton county will join the tepIh-
lican ranks. They are not ignorant of
American political history: they know
that most Of the protective legislation
on the nations statute books in behalf
of women and children was put there
by the Republicans. The women are
primarily interested in their MONIES and
native land. and the political ptrty
which has always protected the home
makes the strongest appeal to the wo-
man voter. The Republican party has
always stood for America first. and if
put into power again it will bring
about Il condition of affairs which Will
bring contentment and happiness to
each citizen who loves the United
States.
Lllnd Speaks.
I'VE are today celebrating the birth
day Of our constitution.
1T was adopted following the Revo-
lutionary war. and followed the foot
steps outlined in our Declaration of III
In fact the two documents
are inseparable. 1t is often hard to
discern whether certain of our princi-