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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19
LUMBER PRICES FALLING.

According to reports from Pacific
coast sections the price Of lumber is
sOon to- take a big tumble and if lumber
goes down other building material is
very apt to follow. The Long Beach,
California, Press of recent issue says:
"a sensation in lumber circles was
caused today when it became known
that the price Of lath dropped from
500 to $50 a thousand down to $12 to
SO a thousand, and may go still lower
$50 far as could be learned this
afternoon, lath is the only commodity
to be affected. A local contractor e
planned the drop by declaring that the
acute shortage of lath during the past
few. months does not nov exist and
that the old regulator, supply and de-
mand, is back of it all.
"SOme contractors charge that
lumber manufacturers took advantage
of the shortage in lath and raised the
price to exorbitant heights. Now, it
is said, many of the smaller mills are
turning out lath and the market is
much easier.
"Lath was selling for $3.50 per
thousand before the price of that com
modify commenced to ayiate, it is
said"
The following dispatch from Homo
lulu seems to c%orroborate what the
Long Beach paper says:
"Chief Engineer C. T. Cykler of the
Hawaiian Contracting company, who
returned Il few days ago from San
Francisco, confirms a cable report that
one of the largest lumber syndicates
in the northwest, controlling eleven OF
the biggest mills, has made a sweeping
cut in the price of lumber Of from ten
to thirty per cent. He says that in
fact most of the cuts are thirty per
cent.
His prediction is that this is the be-
ginning Of price settling all along the
line and that it will eventually involve
steel. concrete and other material.
People in San Francisco were talking
that way when he left and it seemed to
be the general view that before the
year is out, building material will be
back to prc-war prices or very close to
them"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

conditions. In years agone it has been
regarded essential to furnish employ
ment for labor, and extravaganza was
tolerated and even encouraged because
it made more jobs for men and women
who needed them. But now there are
more jobs than there are people
to. do them and the situation is
reversed. 1t may not help your i'm
mediate community for you to be
economical, to forego expenditures for
things deemed necessary or desirable,
but it will help the country at large if
everybody will practice strict economy
in everything. If consumption would
keep exact pace with production it
would be an ideal situation and when
there is overproduction OF underpro-
dition there should be efforts to equalize
conditions.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Old Dick Croker, for many years
the leader of Tammany and one OF the
foremost political manipulators of New
York City, where politics has been an
important game for many decades, was
asked the other day for his opinion re-
garding the strongest c%asdidates for
president. He said it looked to him
like Gen. Wood was the leader. But"
inquired his interrogation, who is the
strongest. democratic" 'They have no
strong man." replied the ex-Tammany
chief. What do you think of Bryan
and HoOver?' Bryan is the strongest
man in the democratic party he re-
piled. 81 do not know whether he could
be lected, but he will dominate the
convention, anyhow. AS for Hoover,
the machine won't back him, and he
can't do anything unless he breaks the
machine, and probably that could not
be DONE"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

was a man in congress from Indiana by
the name of Holman. He was a stick
Ter for economy and came to be known
as the watchdog of the treasury. He
scanned with great care m circum-
spection every appropriation bill and
won the enemity of many OF his asso-
ciates by his exposure OF the schemes
and plans to extract money from Uncle
Sans strong box. Although he was
unpopular in congress he secured a
hold upon the plain people and it used
to be said that no jobs can be put across
as long as Old Mar Holman is watch
ing. We need some Holmans now and
the indications are that Mondell is
going to do for the people what Holman
did a quarter of a century agO-see
to it that the money taken from Uncle
Sans treasury is wisely and careful
ly expended.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

attitude Of the party upon this issue
Every prominent republican candidate,
a Hiram Johnosn, is for ratification
with reservations, and all of the demo-
cratic candidates favor some changes
Senator JohnsOn's atti.ude toward
ratification, we believe is fatal to his
candidacy. The republican national
convention will probably support the
stand of the republican majority III
the senate and demand ratification with
reservations and unless Senator John
son acquiesces his nomination is impOs-
sible. Senator JOhnsOn's strength is
not due, in the judgment Of the Free
~man-Journal, to his hostility to ratifi-
cation with reservations, but due rath-
CT to his record as governor of CalifOr-
MIA and for his courageous stand in be-
half of the common people.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Accidents at grade crossings are now
in order and several fatal Ones have
been reported of late from various
points in Iowa, due, Of course, to the
carelessness of auto drivers. There will
never be found a way to stop these ac-
cidents so long as they are possible and
so long as the Judgment of drivers is
left free to determine whether or not
they will take a chance. A lot Of the
drivers have no judgment and less
sense and of course will continue to
drive in front of swiftly moving trains.
There is occasionally an accident Of
this kind for which. the auto driver is
not to blame, but ninety-nine times out
of one hundred he is responsible. What
is the public to do about it?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19


son gets the republican nomination
Waterloo Times Tribune.
There is already a clear cut issue be-
tween the parties on the question of
ratifying the peace-league treaty, and
the nomination of Johnson would make
it no clearer, but would muddle it
somewhat. The republican party is
committed to ratification with the sen
ate foreign relations committees res
ervations so far as it can be committed
in advance Of the adoption by the ma
tional convention of a platform. On the
other hand, the democratic party is
bound to the support Of the league
treaty without reservations or alter
atoms by the action of the president
and a majority of the democratic sena-
ors. The national democratic con-
vention may, as it has power, alter the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19
A CLEAR CUT ISSUE

If we are to make a fight on the
peace treaty and the league of nations.
why is not Johnson the man to lead the
republican party? He has stood against
the league from the beginning what
ever may be said against his stand, he
let the public know where he stood all
along. He was not lined up with those
who sought the defeat of the treaty
by dark room methods, he was right
out in the open and fighting it. A clear
cut issue will certainly be had if john
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Owing to the railroad strike, Gen.
Wood has cancelled his leave OF
absence and returned to his duties in
Chicago, the war department announc-
ing that he took this action ON his own
initiative. This proves that Gen. Wood
is not afraid to do his duty, regardless
of what effect il might have upon his
candidacy for president. If it is ncccs-
Sary for the government to interfere
to preserve order and restore transpor-
tation facilities the general is ready
to do his duty and the chances are
that his duty will require action on his
part that will eliminate considerable
support. The more the level-headed,
even-poised, well-balanced people of
this country know of Gen. Wood the
better they like him. He is a man
who never flincheS in the face of n
duty that needs to be performed. 1t
is no wonder that Leonard Wood is
popular among those who know him
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

The Springfield, Mass, Republican
mugump, standpat, pharisees and silk
stOckingette, is dragging in the 191:
political record of Senator Johnson as
a reason why the fighting Californian
should not be nominated for president
on the republican ticket this year. We'll
Hiram's record Of party loyalty is not
without a flaw, but a few weeks ago
the Springfield holy of holes vas tlirt-
ing with Herbert Hoover because his
politics were of an unknown quantity.
Hiram Johnson, along with 100000
other republicans, followed the lead OF
Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and we
believe 30 out of 100 of them would do
the same thing now under similar cir
cumstances. Moreover, there is not a
shadow of a doubt that if the great
Roosevelt were well and alive today he
would be the next republican candidate
for president and would be elected by
a majority that would simply appal
opposition and make his majority of
19O4-which was two and Il half mi :
lions-look like thirty cents. Why, all
that would be left of the democratic
party would be Woodrow Wilson, the
o~ffice-holders and the Springfield Re
publican. There may be some good rca-
sons why Johnson should not be nOmi-
mated by the republicans this year, but
his association with Roosevelt in 1912
is not one of them.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19
THE OPEN SHOP.

Fort Dodge and Sioux City business
interests are now engaged in a fight
against the closed shop, trying to main
tain the principle of equal opportunity
for union and non-umion men alike.
The labor unions in those city are
trying to exclude from employment all
wage who do not join the
unions and subscribe to their tenets.
If an employer employs a %nOn-union
worker the union employees quit work
and bring influences to bear upon til"
|nOn-uniOn worker to induce him to
quit also. Various methods are used
to accomplish this purpose. The II
union worker is pursued with threats
and in some instances is personally at
tackled. The unions undertake to hold
him up to scorn and even threaten to
make his children feel the disgrace
their father has brought upon them
by trying to make a living in a way
not to the liking Of the unions. In
these respects the unions are absolute
ly wrong, everlastingly wrong, and
must recede from this position in the
end. Every man must be protected in
his right to work at any legitimate
calling he sees fit and at wages and
under conditions that are lawful and
satisfactory to himself.
The commission that was appointed
by President Roosevelt in 1903 to deal
with the coal strike Of that year,
said in its report:
1.-The right to remain at work where
others have ceased to work, OF to en-
gage anew in work which others have
abandoned, Is part Of the personal lib
erty of a citizen, that can never be
surrendered, and every infringement
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

No employer of labor can pay the
laborer for more than he produces and
do a, successful business. Every en-
ployer of labor ought to pay the laborel
full compensation for what he does
produce. If both capital and labor
would do the right things-pay what
the service is worth and render service
in full for the wages received-most
of the trouble between employer and
employee would disappear.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

thereof merits and should receive the
stern announcement of the law. All
government implies restraint, and it is
not less, but more, necessary in self
governed communities, than in others to
compel restraint of the passions of
men which make for disorder and law
~lessness. Our language is the
language Of Il free people, and
fails to furnish any form OF
speech by which the right of Il citizen
to work when he pleases, for whom he.
pleases, and on what terms he pleases,
can be successfully denied. The com
mon sense of our people as well as the
common law, .fOrbids that this right
should be assailed with impun:ty. 1t
is vain to say that the man who re-
mains at work while other cease to
work, or takes the place of II who
has abandoned his work, helps to de-
feat the aspirations of men who seek
to obtain better recOmpcnse for their
labor, and better conditions of life.
| Approval of the object of a strike, or
persuasion that its purpose is high and
nobel, cannot sanction an attempt to
destroy the rights of others to a differ
cnt opinion i'll this respect, or to in
~terfere with their conduct in choosing
to work upon such terms and at such
times and for whom they please.
1.-THE right thus to work cannot
depend upon the approval or disap-
Iproval of the personal character and
conduct of those who claim to exercise
this right. If this were otherwise,
then those who remain at work might
if they were in the ma jority, have both
the right and power to prevent others,
who choose to cease work, from 81 do
ing.
'.This all seems too plain for argu-
ment. Common sense and common law
alike denounce the conduct of those
who interfere with this fundamental
right of the citizen. The assertion of
the right seems trite and commonplace,
but that land is blessed where the
maxims Of liberty are commOnplaces."
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

AS was expected and as Gen Wood
conceded, Gov. Lowden carried the
recent Illinois primaries by a good ma
jority. 1t would be strange indeed if
after the fine record Lowden has made
in the governors Office he should fail
of al endorsement from the people of
his state. However, Gen. Wood made
Il very respectable showing and it was
demonstrated that he is without ques-
ton the second choice of Illinois.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

The farmers of Iowa and the railroad
men, too, and everybody else ought to
give the new railroad law a chance to
prove its merit or demerit. Congress
was up against an emergency. Some
thing had to be done. The roads were
going back to their owners on the first
of March and legislation was absolute
ly necessary. The law bearing Sena-
tor Cummins name is not entirely salts
factory to him, but it is the best that
could be secured under the circum-
stances. Give it a chance.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

We are still at war with Germany
through IL bolshevik scnate.-Cornins
Free Press.
OF course this is not true. The sen
ate of the United States is not bolShe-
vik. Nowhere near it. But suppose
we treat this insult of the Free Press
with candor? Who, then, are the boil
shevists? "a republicans were for
ratification and Is were against. %
democrats were for and "a and the
president were against. There is the
party lineup. What has the Free
Press to say to that?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

The New York World, which a few
weeks ago declared that it would like
to support Herbert Hoover on any
ticket. has become very cold toward
Mr.. HIS candidacy since the announce.
ment that Mr.. H. is a republican
Which proves that the World was sim.
ply INDUCING in its favorite pastime
of emitting hot air.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

We believe it is possible to nominate
Mr.. Hayner for governor. Our con
illusions arc based on the fact that
Mr.. Harding was nominated for COVER
nOr.-PocahontaS Democrat.
BY the same logic it is possible to
nominate Nicholas Murray Butler for
president because Woodrow Wilson
vas nominated for that Office. But be-
president as chief executive it will be
impossible at this time to elect an
other.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Charlie Chaplin denies that he has
failed to support his wife, declaring
that he gave her 100000 last year
Well, how far will $102, 900 go toward
supporting a silly minded girl who has
been spoiled by having loads of money
to %squander, and Charlie knows she is
silly because she married him.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Right now this country ought to have
a vigorous, fearless, keen, active man
in the white house, n who would map
out a strong domestic policy and adj
here to it. Such a nal as Jackson or
Cleveland or Roosevelt would fill the
bill. Is there such a man available:
If SO, he ought to be elected president
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Thus far Col. BrOokhart has sue
ceeded admirably in concealing his
ideas about the ratification of the
league-treaty with or without reser-
v%ations. Come, colonel, speak up.
This is no time for pussyfooting
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Indications are that the voters are
going to elect Il president and a on
sress that car work in harmony after
the fourth of next March. This is
just what President Wilson urged in
1916.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

best. He deserves well of all right
thinking Americans. even though they
may not regard him as the most avail
able material for president at this
time.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Nate Kendall seems to be in the lead
for the republican nomination for gov
ernOr of Iowa. He is going to make
a good run even if he did break his
leg a few weeks ago.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Who can blame the New York World
for wanting to support somebody for
president this year that is not allied too
strongly with the democratic party?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

That Russian princes found living
in a box car in Russia is in luck. Most
of the Russia princesses are not living
at all.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19
CITY FREEMAN

AS Horace Greedy would put it: All
thieves are not profiteers but all prof
teers are thieves.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Cedar Rapids thieves recently stole
$500 worth of potatoes, getting a whole
w~heelbarrow load.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-30
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SAY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-30
FIRST WOMAN PARTY
DELEGATE PLEASED

CLEVELAND, O.. Jan. 3o.-Mrs A.
r. Pyke. Of Lakewood. the first woman
named as a delegate TO q national polit'
teal convention. was busy today mod
estly receiving congratulations, from
men and women with whom she was as
ISOLATED In the long fight for equal SUI
fraEe.
Recognition Of women In this way
win mean that the women Of the coun-
try viii align themselves with the pres.
eAt political parties and not attempt 10
torn an Independent ywomans party
Mrs. PIXIE declared.
Mrs Pyke will 90 TO the Democratic
national convention In san Francisco as
one OF the two delegates from the
Twenty second district of Ohio. Having
Democratic county committee her elec.
ton Is assured.