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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26
NONE PERFECT.

There is nOt II among the republi-
can candidates for president but has his
strong points and his weak points as a
vote getter, not n without some
strength and some flaw in his arm0r.
Gen Wood appears to be leading in
the race just now, but the objection
chat he is a military man is raised.
Senator johnson is strong, too, before
the people, but his enemies say he talks
too much and too loud, and some of
the standpatters cannot forget 1912.
Gov. Lowden is conceded generally to
be a pretty strong man, but the oppo-
sitiOn insists that he is lined up too
closely with wealth and that his SYM
pathies naturally go in the direction of
privilege. Senator Harding has his
merits and his friends. He is a strong
character and has had much experience
in public affairs. However, he is allied
with the standpat clement, or is given
credit for being, and the progressives
do not like him on that account. There
is little opposition to Herbert Hoover,
except that based upon the fact that
he is not a very sound republican, and
the republicans want a republican in
the white house during the next four
years. If they elect a republican they
will be held responsible for his ad-
ministration and do not relish the idea
of having a h~alf-and-half leader. Sena-
tor Poindexter is said to be too radical
and lives too far west and Gov. Cool
idge is little known AMI lives too far
east.
When these various objections are all
sifted and re-sifted and the dross re-
moved, they are found to be of little
weight and it is likely that if any gen
tleman named is nominated he will
have a united republican party at his
back and will be triumphantly elected.
Republicans generally have had quite
enough Of the democratic party during
the past few years and they arc not
going to give it a longer lease of power
merely because there may be something
in the record or surroundings of the
republican nominee not to their liking.
They may growl some, may make some
threats, etc, but on election day they
will go to the polls and vote her
straight.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

They held that although all the world
might be against it. the humblest and
obscurest individual in the land should
have absolute liberty to worship God
in accordance with the dictates OF his
own conscience. They held too that
life and liberty and property must be
secure, if civilization were to endure.
They had no illusions about commune
ism. They had seen it tried. They
knew that the savages who had pre-
coded them in America had practiced
communism more thoroughly than it
is advocated today. And so they said
life is so precious to the individual,
liberty means so much to man. prop
erty is so essential to progress and
civilization, that no majority, no mat
ter what it's power or it's numerical
strength, should take those rights
away except by due process OF law, as
due process of law had been evolved
during the centuries by the judgments
Of the wisest men of those centuries.
SO they made a representative govern
ment based upon these fundamental
principles. We are getting away from
them today. We have got to return to
them. We have got to make constitu-
tional government alive and make it
function, or the liberties which u
forefathers bequcathed to lis will be i'll
deadly peril.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26
WHAT IS THE REMEDY?

This government of the people, for
the people and by the people is found
ed upon fundamental principles that
are imperishable, chief among which is
the right Of its citizens to life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness. Unless
the government a ssure these rights
it must fail and unless ways can be
found to put a stop to strikes in such
industries as transportation and coal
mines it will fail. Without the func-
tioning of such enterprises life, liberty
and happiness are impossible. Labor
organizations that are unwilling to
recognize this principle either do not
understand the fundamentals of gov
eminent are unwilling to do their
fair part in maintaining those funda-
mentals. And the same Is true of cap
italistic and all other combinations.
Laws have been enacted to control the
trusts. True, there has been little eff
fort to enforce them since President
Roosevelt started in that direction and
President Taft followed the lead, less
vigorously, perhaps, of his predeces-
sor in office. However, railroad own-
ers cannot stop trains because freight
and passenger rates are unsatisfactory,
nor can coal operators close the mines,
and keep them closed, to enforce I'M
fair demands. The government is
ready to step in and enforce operations
when the fundamental principles of
government are threatened, and the
government must pursue a like course
when a conspiracy of workingmen re-
suits in threatening the public with
dire disaster.
The public wants protection. 1t is
willing that capital and labor shall
have a square deal, but it is not will
ing to suffer innumerable hardships
while these interests are fighting
among themselves, hardships that
threaten the very existence Of the peo-
pie, while they settle nothing.
Human nature is much the same.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

Many of the leaders of the democrat
ic party among the prohibition Gle
ment are becoming alarmed at the APP
parent strength of Gov. Edwards Of
New Jersey, democratic candidate for
the presidential nomination on Il wet
platform. At first they treated the
Edwards movement as a joke, but it
now appears to be a serious matter.
That the party would win many re-
publican votes in the big cities of the
east if prohibition could be made one
of the paramount issues is certain, but
whether the party would gain more
than it would lose is a question. How
ever. there is little hope of democrat
ic success at the polls next November
unless something can be lugged into
the conflict to attract attention from
the record of the administration, hence
many democrats are willing to take IL
chance with a wet candidate and plat
form. OF course w. J. Bryan, perhaps
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26
TO END WAR?

Stars and Stripes: This is a war
to end all war"
Men went into battle with that
phrase on their lips. Men died with
that comfort in their hearts.
That was prior to November II, 1918.
Today the United States is building
the greatest navy in the world. main
tanning an army greater than ever be-
fore, considering universal military
service, accusing France of "militar-
ISM" rejecting Il peace treaty invOlv-
ing what is left of the idealistic IA
points, and looking forward to inter-
vention in Mexico or war with Japan.
Today Britain is building a greater
navy, adding to her colonial dOminiOns,
assembling an enormous air force,
preparing to s%ubjugate Ireland by
force, keeping Egypt subjugated by
force, and downing the 'self-dctcrmi-
nation of peoples theory as fast as
possible.
Today France has a greater army
than before 1914. Today Poland, en-
Outraged by the allies, is making war
on Russia. n goodly number of small
cr wars are under way or waiting for
warm weather to revive them. And
our sons and brothers died ito end all
war"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

The Wilson party, that's what is left
of the old democratic party, is serious
ly perturbed because congress is going
to declare, the war with Germany at
an end. ''That would be unprecedent-
cd" they shout in unison. OF course
they care nothing for precedent, II
anything else, for that matter, that
,sta DIS in the way of the ambition of
Woodrow Wilson. He hasn't broken
any presidents, has he? Oh, no: not
he. He didn't break a precedent. IS
everybody knows, when he appointed
himself to head the peace delegation to
the Versailles conference, nor when he
appointed a bolsheviki sympathiZer to
represent the United States at a CON
ference with our late allies and the
Lenine-TrotZky government. But, SER
iOusly, the country doesn't care Il con-
tinental for presidents that ought to
be smashed, and they are being smash
ca almost daily. Hence congress will
not be influneced in the least by the
cry Of precedent breaking that has
been raised against the peace declara-
ton.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

Here is a plank from the Baltimore
convention of 1912 that will not ap-
pear in~the San Francisco platform
Of 1920, as it would call attention to
the hypocrisy of the democratic party
upon this question: ''We favor a single
presidential term, and to that end urge
the adoption of an amendment to the
constitution making the president of
the United States ineligible for re-elcc-
ton, and we pledge the candidate Of
this convention to this principle"
Well, has anybody heard of any demo
crat introducing such a resolution IN
congress or Of the president urging
such a resolution? Only another bro
ken pledge and what does one amount
to among a collection so numerous?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

A patch Club" has ~its-Origin in
Fremont, Nebraska. The members of
the new organization refuse to fall for
the overall fad but pledge themselves
to wear their old clothes regardless o.
how many patches are required to keep
their buds together. Nearly every man
can remember the days when he wa 4
charter member of the patch cIub.-Ce-
dar Falls Record.
And in those old days" nearly every
body vas happy, being eontented.
TheressHfAs. little desire for riches and
display.zEHopgh to eat, "A comparative
ly dBshQuse in which to live, steady
employment and sufficient clothing to
keep out the cold was about all the
vast majority of the people wanted: so
they found contcntment and lots OF it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

Government ownership of railroads
didn't have a fair chance during the
time the government was in possession
and it may be that in the years Of
the future, when conditions have be-
come settled and stable, there will be
demand for government management,
but Col. BrOokhart, candidate for
United States senator, is too far
ahead of the procession in advocating
government ownership now. The
government is in no position to assume
such a burden and will not be during
the term to which Mr.. BrOOkhart will
tbe elected if he succeeds in defeating
Cummins. The sensible thing to do
now is to give the new railroad law a
fair chance and see how it works III
actual practice. 1t is the best measure
that could be secured under the cir
cumstances. 1t may prove to be exact
ly the right thing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

1t is reassuring to be told by the AS
ISOLATED Press, even though the news
may be doubted, hat at the recent
cabinet meeting i'll Washington some of
the gentlemen present actually offered
some suggestions and ''the president
listened respectively" Here is a step,
at least, in the right direction and we
all hope that some of the cabinet Of
ficials may yet get courage enough to
speak their honest sentiments, even
though Robert Lansing was fired for
that very thing. They should emem-
Der that the American people like
moral courage and that Robert Lans-
ing today is respected by the masses
above any member of the presidents
official family who is content to be us
ed as a rubber stamp, and who is salts
fed to let +" his mind run along with
NINE"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

Capital wants all it can get and so
does labor, but both must recognize
the square deal and ought to be will
ing to admit their duty to the public
which is the source of strength and
subsistence of each. There would be
no demand for either if the public did
not create it, vet both seem willing to
sacrifice the public to their own selfish
interests.
Both reach out for further emolll-
ments. Labor demands more pay.
That increases the cost of production.
Capital demands higher prices. That
adds to the cost Of living and both cap
ital and labor and also the public
must pay Hence capital makes moth
ing by the operation and labor is no
better off, while the public is penalized
without benfit to anybody.
Is not the ingenuity of this people
equal to the situation? Cannot some
method be found by which such con
ditions can be remedied? Is this ma
ton impotent to cope successfully with
the problems of the hour?
Serious minded men appear to be
at the enormity of the problem
and at the evidences of failure to meet
the issue in some effectual n
But a remedy will be found and this
government of, by and for the people
will be fully indicated.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

Well, well, the republicans of We
dowee county, Alabama, are going to
put Il ticket in the field and will hold
a mass meeting on May 18th to make
nominations. We suppose the republic
cans down that way have heard some
thing Of President Wilson's big talk
about making the world safe for de-
mocracy and have gotten it into their
heads that he means Alabama is to re
included along with Fiji islands and
Bornco and Zululand. But they will
have all such notions Knocked out IF
their heads if they undertake to vote
election day.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26
PRACTICAL.

Gov. Lowden of Illinois, IOwa's
choice for president, appears to be a
man with a very level head and has
the faculty Of saying something when
ever he has anything to say. He is not
as loquacious as some candidates. His
| collection of panaceas is limited. He
has no receipt for rushing in the. mil
lennium, but has some good sugges-
lions along lines that would be benc-
fetal. Moreover, the governor has
made good in Illinois, which should
count for more than anything he might
say. but it is interesting to get his
viewpoint upon fundamentals. In the
course of a recent address he spoke as
follows: .
l have no panacea the application of
which would bring the millennium. l
fthink during the wal we talked alto
gether too much about the new world
that was going to be ushered in when
peace should come. There are still
some fundamental principles as old as
civilization itself which must be ap-
piled in this crisis, if we are to endure.
Among those principles is this: That
you can't divide among the members
of society what you don't produce.
Another of those homely old principles
is that industry is still essential to
progress, and that thrift and economy,
the old path, are still the only path to
wealth. l believe that the time has
come for the revival of some of the old
homely virtues which our fathers
practiced and which the wisdom of
the centuries has found to be the only
relief for man. This is a government
Of a representative form, and all the
innovations which we are taught Of
substituting something else, of apply
ing some notion of majority rule, have
to be abandoned and we have got to go
back TO the old fundamentals of the
constitution, as our fathers under
stood them when they wrote it in In
dependence Hall. This is not a gov
eminent merely of the majority, as the
SOviets of Russia would have us be-
lievc. Their notion of majority rule
is that the majority has absolute pow
er to do what it will with the minority,
even to the determination of the min
GRITTY. That is not the American doc
trine. Those old fathers who met in
Independence Hall knew history. They
had studied the Republics of the past.
They found those Republics had been
short-livcd and had fallen because Of
fractional differences and disturbances
between the classes, and SO they or
dained first that this should be. above
all things Il government of justice and
righteousness. administered, it is true.
by the majority. But they held that
there were certain rights so precious
that even the largest majority should
not have the power to deprive the
humblest individual in the land Of
those rights. Among them was the
right to freedom of religious worship. |
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26
WILL LOSE ENTHUSIASM.

National Republican: A Dallas, Tex,
Democrat writes to the New York
World saying the senate ought to be
abolished and its functions performed
by the presidents cabinet. The truth is
that the administration organs would
like to abolish every agency Of gov
ernmcnt but the president. After the
Inauguration of a republican presi-
dent on the fourth Of March next they
will lose their enthusiasm for the
scheme.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

Democratic newspapers that said
they were for Hoover regardless Of
politics have dropped him like a hot
potato since he said he is a republican.
That simply proves, what the Free
m%an-Journal knew before, that the
aforesaid democratic papers were sim
ply playing the hypocrite with Hoover's
name. They thought he would remain
quiet and they saw Il CLEAN Of hope.
in his candidacy to prevent. the cleo
ton of a-republican president.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

The board of trade of Chicago is
often severely criticized and some peO-
pie think it should he abolished. The
Freeman-Journal is not familiar with
the workings of the board of trade and
doesn't know just how reasonable or
unreasonable the criticisms against it
may be, but it has often wondered that
if the board were abolished what would
take its place. Are those who are
against the board prepared to answer?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

The friends of Gen. Wood will not
make any real Roadway by criticizing
other candidates for president, and
what is true Of the friends of Mr.. Wood
in this respect is true of the friends of
the other candidates. The contest
should be carried on above personal
tiles. to the end that all can join in the
support of the winner without having
to swallow a lot of mean words.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

According to a Washington special,
Assistant Postmaster General Rooms
has instructed city postmastcrs to per-
nit letter carriers to wear Overalls
whenever the majority at any office SO
desires. All the uniforms at any of
flee, Mr.. Rooms ruled, must be gray
and of the same style, quality and
color and Numbered at least once a
week.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

Out at Topeka, Kansas, they sent a
thief to the ~penitentiary because he
stole from Il church contribution box.
But is that man any worse than those
who deliberately rob the poor by
arbitrarily boosting prices upon the
absolute necessities of life, such as
potatoes, for instance? Or is he as
bad as the fellow who sells worthless
stock, knowing it to be worthless, to
widows and orphans who cannot
afford to lose the money?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

The Outside crooks who have
been arriving in town evidently don't
know that they ought to be afraid OF
our police force.-Des Moines Regis
ter. ,
What is the Register driving at,
anyway? This item appeared upon
the day that the delegates to the re-
publican state convention were arriv-
ing in the city.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

home would not touch the basic merit
of the prohibition amendment. Nor
would such Ia decision, or any other
concerning the statute, destroy any of
the force Of the amendment except as
such decision lprescribes the limits of
its power and application. In a word,
the decision of the court on the Vol
stead law will not repeal national pro-
hibition.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

the strongest man in the party, will
fight a wet plank and a wet candidate
to the end, but he may be impotent at
the San Francisco convention to block
the schemes of the friends of Gov. Ed
wards. Just how it is going to come
out will not be definitely known until
the convention meets and does its
work.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

The rank and file of the democratic
party in iowa arc meekfy accepting the
various candidates picked for them by
the conference of democratic leaders
in Des Moines a short time ago. Won
der what would be the result if So
called republican leaders would at
tempt to put across anything SO raw?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

The fellow who put a good supply
of potatoes in his cellar last fall is
lucky. He is now eating $1.5O OF 50
per bushel spuds while others are feed
ing upon the Sc variety, and his are
just as good as theirs.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

Now nearly everybody is discontinued,
no matter what their condition. They
want more and more. The entire popu-
lace seems to have taken on an eXag-
gcrated idea of the desirablity of pos
money in large amounts.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26
WEBSTER CITY FREEMAN

The working man who is not getting
substantially twice as much for a SINH
lar service now as he got prior to 1914
is not getting as much as he should.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26
WHY?

Detroit Free Press: CarranZa says
it is not true that the United States
government assisted in the revolution
which placed him in power. Then why
did we occupy Vera Cruz and why did
we allow free passage through Amer:-
can territory to Carranzista troops
operating against Villa?
Cab on us for the best In Job work.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

"Jeffersonian simplicity is another
one of the old worn out jokes of the
democratic party that will remain IN
storage for some time.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

that perhaps the Wilson administra-
ton is being run OIL the cost-plus sys-
TEN.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26

The papers are telling about a farm
er's wife near Fenton who sold 413
dozen eggs last month for $153. A
pretty good months salary.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
PROPOSALS

NOTICE TO CONTHACTORS-SE
trio Elevator. Dining Room. Main Build :
Hospital, Wards Island. ~ Y, viii be re-
Cci.ed by the State Hospital Commission
Capitol, Albany. y. Y. until three O'Clock
i. NJ. on "Wednesday. October 13. 1920.
when They VIII be publicly opened and
envelope furnished by the State Archi-
tcc,, sealed and addressed and shall be
accompanied by a Certified Check In the
sum OF five per cent tbrc) of the amount
of the proposal. The Contractors to whom
the awards made Will be required to
furnish surety company bonds in the sum
of my PER cent t60ec) Of the amount OF
contract within thirty t:n) davs nftor
Official notice OF award of contract, and in
accordance with the terms OF SprcIhuatIon
Nos, 1892. 3595. and 1926. Tho riprt is
reserved 10 reject any all bids. Draw
ings. and Specifications and blank forms
OF proposal may y" C"uet'i.'
Manhattan State Hospital. Wards Island
" y. at the New York Office Of tine 1,.,
partment OF Archit ecture. Room Gls HAN
Of Records building. and At the Depart
ment Of Architecture. Capitol. Albany.
Y. Drawings and Specifications and blank
forms OF proposal may be obt aimed at tho
D"partr rnent of Architecture, CapItot, Al
bany. n. Y. upon reasonable notice to and
IN the discretion of the State Architect
l.. r. Pitcher, Capitol Albany, " y
Dated September l6. 1920;
SECRETARY. STATE HospITAL' CON-.
MISSION