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A* X/, !Mf N S/.SF i: P: The Freeman and Tribune, both papers, per year $1.50 The Daily Freeman-Tribune by W Ji UlCWA, Jr"-'* y-w— wv**-w mail, per year Delivered in city, per year... $5.00 D. L. HUNTER W. F. HUNTER Let us revere the spirit of the do' claration of independence let us lir' of the union.—Abraham Lincoln. Make it easy for republicans to vote the republican ticket. Yes, the Freeman-Tribune lik President Taft more than it did year ago, but he is not the paper $,}*'• first choice for president. kWL A 1U« rvu I N —a ik" doned. just take a two week's vacation at w00(j( Bdit0r may be revealed. coritinue to obey the courts and the opinion that the paramount issue in lvt laws let us beep step to the music The Sioux City Journal is of the Iowa n€Xt 11* A xmI AM A Kl'O Vl Art li Tl f»Ol ?1 a A 1 mm A 1 «nl a1 flnd itself, as usual, in disagree- of its party in this state. Dr. Wiley is much more popular bi cuvuo iui classes. He has been especially se- that if Senator Bailey lived in the adulterated food stuffs and for this north he would be a standpat re- reason does not stand well in "high publican. This is the hardest rap society." The doctor has been mark the standpat republicans have had ed upon the solar plexus in many day. buque Telegraph-Herald, that J. Progressive papers that are criti- Pierpont Morgan is the controlling pact may be getting ready to sup- tion. Harper's has not been con- next year. That is the thing for and now that it has espoused the them to do if they want a senator cause of Mr. Wilson some of the 6= who will not listen to anything tho faithful are seeking the reasons. people say. ill! Representative Woods has intro duced a bill appropriating $30,000 to enable the secretary of agricul ture to conduct experiments to de termine the practicability of mak ing paper out of corn stalks. Is this another base scheme of the se1. fish newspapers?—-Waterloo Cour ier. SI)No, indeed,, this is not a base scheme of the newspapers, but a scheme of our congressman. Mr. Woods has been accused of doing 1- nothing by his opponents and he proposes to show 'em a thing or •M .two. Col. Roosevelt once defined an in- 8urgent as a "progressive with the bridle off." Now we are told, ou 811011 authority as the Sioux Fall? 'fpress, that men "are not real fv ^1 gressives until they get rid of the 'X bridle." Unbridled men are men •1'whose passions are unrestrained, and their influence is commonly fHf bad.—Sioux City Journal. pro- The colonel and the Sioux Fal's "paper got their words mixed, that's all. They intended to say collar in stead of bridle. Uncollared men are the need of the hour, especially in the senate of the United States. ft/ As the Sioux City Tribune figures it out, "Lafe has a prima facie case. He went swimming in Okoboji and when he came out Kenyon had his f. reciprocity suit." Times-Republ' can. And the colonel is making a pret ty spectacle of himself bobbing around over the state without a up by the enemy. pp. up u, -mX thing for a mask, looking like a zu J.--' chines in Wisconsin? The people lu warrior who had been trimmed However, for democratic convention of :ife^: 'The £^'i Douglas county, Nebraska, held a Sll days ago, denounced W. J. Bry an and endorsed Judson Harmon -is sore at Bryan because Bryan stood hlm cause of these enemies. A question for debate: Resolved, That Col. Lafe Young is happier than Uncle Harve Ingham.—Sioux City Journal. For the sake of humanity it average. n« A J... TtT«11 In I for the slaughter. If it be true, as stated by the Du- JProgreBBlVt? payvio mo-v a*-** v***. mignt cost 10 uavv tuv UO.AUC9 cising Senator Kenyon for respect- owner of Harper's Weekly, the port Col. Young in the primaries sidered by democrats as a safe guide judgment of republicans. If it would year It is suggested by the Sioux City Journal that when a statesman can be set debating with himself it isn't necessary for his opponent to say much. The "walue o' this obserwa tion lies in the application on't."— Keokuk Gate City. Uncte George "orter" know. Hasn't he during the past five years been writing editorials to refuse what he said in his paper during the previous five years? The Nevada Representative gives some of its reasons for its admira tion for LaFollette. "The fact Is'," it says, "that LaFollette is a man with real capacity for doing things, and when he decides to do some thing he can give for his decision reasons that will hold together LaFollette is a man with whom it is very possible to disa gree, but who has convictions and the courage and ability to state them, and more of a record for con servatism than is generally appre ciated. Incidentally, he" is a man in whom the mass of the people have faith." 0 6 his ability and are ready ana anx- ioug t0 honor him with th€lr #up. €nough, for the for decent politics in the election last fall and refused to support Dahlman for governor, who was the Carroll ever succeeded in his second candidate of the bums and thugs of term venture. Iowa voters have |p| the metropolis of Nebraska. M,r had enough Carrolllsm to last them the metropolis of Nebraska, BUS. Senator Cummins, 1 1 on a at of I a xi Bryan should be congratulated be- who are unsparing an SM tl. Cacadl.n ..-.paper poll Ir.ud would lo» Mthing In comparison tho profe»lon. Senator Cumnims inatlon to re.p.et th. will ot tho ordinary kind. Gov. Carroll did miee will not admit. To ||j voters of Iowa to not relerred to. might, good Job ot political ho„«- entirely bad. .«^ev«|tolM: tt- S 8* With these limitation, th. conten- cleaning, which should at least win titled to respecttul con.idera.lon. ant. can toe th. Met nnham^r- tor him th. reap** of peopl. who Thi. I. on. ot the reuon,i tto ning. On with the debate. Uncle trust rather than a private graft, through thick and thin. The en Geo. D. Perkins will please act as The governor is not a leader, but emy is so unfair, exasperating, ma referee Ul bauwa A nn v„0+0 ..-.I,.? when he deems it necessary. not. $4.uu gome summer resort. It beats sawiug according to report. be right than hold his job. But turn Official Paper of City and County. whTt is a man of fair and his vet0 Iicious and 7Z 1 7 of the Oregon plan monstrosir.y excite the resentment of decent If you want to get good and tired among the year will be Cummins vs Iowa next year will be Cummins vs. Qjev,jand defeated Harrison in Taft. In that event the Journal whi flnd itself, as usual, in disagree nominate its any or any, come to a show-down knQw LftFo]_ ]ette thorough,y and W€ll. hope of reward is not entirely aban- where «is another man who people of Iowa will so regard it tent. At Emmetsburg a postal sav can' carry ^'his ^a^ve "state"1 by as when the atmosphere is cleared and ings bank was recently opened and large a percentage of the vote as there is a better understanding of several days elapsed before any d* he am N os it re ad an he on $ 7 can Fighting Bob? yet objected to the removal of im- were placed in the bank. The pos to come out for^a"third term^e would^t live P^t duties by another country and tal bank has been in operation at the democratic candidate for presi- ,ong dent. Douglas county containb years, to forget the awful drubbing Canada and in parliament, the small and the bankers of the town Omaha and Omaha democrats are that he would get. Many voted for simple reason that they b€,l€Ved ln the *,c®nd «d and with equal chance of win- believe that public office is a public tors friends stand so loyally by him vJV, and term "°"0D- whether the man be competent or not, and that is the only reason that t,m iain 8 8 ot shows that he is not afraid to act men, whether they like Cummins Woodrow Wilson seems to be usingss Mgr. Perhaps Dr. Wiley wo class of democrats and his nom- with Canada is of such vital import- on the light and let the people know if ti .. growing in strength among the bet- ii€Ve the question of reciprocity pregidency ig Dot improbabilities- lf the New Jersey governor receives the democratic nomination the republi- 1892. The party should therefore 18f.„ Th- nartv strongest man, regard- ment with the majority sentiment custom or the "claims" of heard of it a year hence and tho its party in this state. w'th the masses than with the jnterest. The republican party is result of reciprocity may have to coming The Fort Madison Democrat says vere in pursuit of law violators who handicapped arid it ought to throw primaries roll around. It will be printed upon A MV Wll ing the will of the people regarding Weekly's support of Woodrow Wil ballot. Or, if that cannot be legal- the United States does not like the his vote on the Canadian reciprocity son for president needs an explana- ]y. pj.0Yided proves individual, section of country gentlemen who are now getting down to the wire heavily .. A 11. .1.11 i. ni«« Wm f/IW flttO it 1 1. 11 SU1 Ann 1. a a t. J]u. ... out all tbe ?eek ballast it possibly can. The republicans of Iowa can re- dictions of evil following the reduc sort to a primary to determine the ticft of the tariff upon Imports from presidential preference in this atato without costing the tax payers any- between Mr- Taft and some reliable progressive republican like LaFollette or Cum- mins there can be little doubt of The amendments offered to the Canadian pact by Senator Cummins would make the agreement more ad The reactionary press may abuse and misrepresent Senator LaFol lette every day in the week, but vantageous to the farmers of tjie how are they to overcome the in- west and would overcome in a 'fluence of the fact that. Wisconsin, measure the unfaiijness of the pro* state that knows the senator osltion. To say /that the amend thoroughly, gave him more than one ments, if adopted by congress, would hundred thousand majority at the necessarily defeat the agreement is primary last fall when he was op- misleading. Senator Cummins pro posed by one of the strongest men P°ses to admit free of duty from and most resourceful political ma- Canada certain manufactured arti cles, a denoument identification purposes the colonel confidence i« his sincerity and defeat the agreement? The fact of operation more than a year, yet no still retains his "corporation col- that th matter venomous that they The Freeman-Tribune doesn't bj- peopl3 Qf the Unlted States as many think. The agree ment 0f can party will have the hardest, to be ratified by the senate and will fight on its hands it has had since be given a tryout. Possibly it will negotiated by representatives this country and Canada is going pr0ve a good thing and possibly it wjh prove something else. If it should therefore win nrnv« Rnmflthlne else. If it satisfactory little will be- jnterest, except the public ready to stake their future on the a new issue before the next recalled that there were dire pre- Porto Rico' Hawail and the but thing except the small addition that groundless. They may prove ground it might cost to have the names less in the case of the Canadian the regular primary agreement. One thing is certain, if 11 ah A An «t done, a separate ballot could be agreement it can abrogate it at any merely to ascertain the tlme after tte Phillp- the predictions proved 1I1*A expiration and 14 of 0Ud cann°t aS«. if a E. D. Chassell has looked over the flagrantly violated. Women and ground quite thoroughly and has de- children drink very little liquor and cided to become a candidate for sec- minors are not allowed in sa retary of state before the republi- loons. This leaves only about two can primaries of next June. Mr. hundred men of "drinking age" to Chassell is one of the best known each one thousand people and these men in Iowa and is one of the state's men, even if every mother's son of most deserving citizens. He has them have appetites like a seasoned "been in politics" for years, but no man can truthfully accuse him of resorting to questionable methods to carry his point. He has .held public office and has always rendered good service and given proper accounting of his stewardship. Mr. Chassel is a capable, clean, honest and upright man and the Freeman-Tribune be lieves the republicans of Iowa will give him strong support at the pri maries. He is in every way worthy of public confidence and respect. gition is absolutely right and the been affected to any ncacoao.o ex- were it a thousand instead of weakening the agreement Decorah a year, but the deposits are amendments would strengthen it have noticed no falling off in busi- render its ratification more cer- ness. It seems that the postal banks and a Burt Monitor who are unsparing and unfair in de- cellar or in a hole in the ground The Freeman-Tribune is not an nunciation of him. The Freemsn- Their money is being taken from its ardent admirer of Gov. Carroll, but Tribune is not one to complain of hiding place and put on deposit it believes his administration will just criticism, but the brutal and and as a certain per cent of it compare favorably with the Iowa disgraceful assaults made upon Sen- be re-deposited in local banks it is ,t average. He is not a Larrabee. a ator Cummins by some of the low. that the postaA savings banks A* from the discussion, with such men as Sherman, Drak«, has his faults, all will admit. He Al«. IMt Senator Kenyon'. 4«term- Jacton and other governor, ot the .bo ha. 61. virtue., which. W. ene- «JMWto the^e »r- do much dam any' In ttat tlme- a**Pt Why not the new order of things with smile and look pleasant, at least until we are hurt? the result. At any rate, there can one saloon for every thousand be no just objection to leaving it to people is enough for any cominun the people when it can be done at ity( not excepting the state of Du practically no expense or inconven- buque, where for twenty years the ience. laws of the state were openly and office holder, ought to be able to get all they want in a single saloon— if "there are enough bartenders, aad the management can be depended upon to look out for that. Saloon keepers and brewers better accept the situation as it is. The people are in no mood to trifle. If the liq uor interests kick up too much dust they will arouse a sentiment that will wipe them out of every com munity in the state. Opposition to the liquor traflic Is growing and the "social glass" is being frowned up on by society and the business world in greater degree than ever before. The saloon business is a curse and it has no rights that so ciety is bound to respect. All th»i rights it has are granted because of the forebearance of the public. While the discussion was oo anent the establishment of nosta't savings banks the bankers of the country were sure that snch insti- Canada tutlons, if established, would affect would most assuredly not object to. their business adversely and sorl- jrney Then how could the amendments ously. The plan has now been in Is, Senator Cummins po- established banking instivti-u v» are attracting a class of customers Probably no man who ever occu pied a seat in the United States with private banks. They are p«r senate had as many enemies at homo sons of small means who are wont who are not in the habit of dealing enemies to hide their little holdings in the wlll aid rather than a detri- c,lcnlItl0„ ,n. tmm d„, tr,„ CallKl|u o( ?v IIMGM •i.'C-' will be the result. Since Col. Young has become a Chautauqua attraction the Chautau qua in the eyes of the Des Moines Capital is not such an infernal In stitution as it used to be. This is another evidence ,9! the colonel's consistency. Iowa will be slow to believe that Secretary James Wilson has been guilty of any irregularity that re flects upon his honpr. Mr. Wilson has been before the public for fifty years and has established a reputa tion for honesty that cannot be brushed aside by inuendo and un supported charges. SHIPPING TO WINNIPEG. L. J. Nott arrived home yesterday from a visit to his farm near Grand Forks, North Dakota, bringing with him some samples of the products produced there this year. The wheat, flax, oats, timothy and bromos grass are as fine as any ev er produced in Iowa, or any other state. The crops near Grand Forl are excellent this year and farming is carried on on a big scale there. One farmer shipped eighty thousand bushels of seed potatoes last year and one hundred and sixty-five thousand the year before. These po tatoes go all over the country, to Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and even to Florida. Mr. Nott is enthusiastic over the future of the country. The sample products he brought home are how at the First National Bank. Mr. Nott declares that the people in and around Grand Forks are in favor of the reciprocity pact with Canada, as they think it will benefit them rather than prove an lnjuij*. While he was there last spring thev were shipping wheat to Winnipeg, getting more for it than they could get at Minneapolis or Duluth. On Memorial day fifteen barges were in the Red river at Grand Forks being loaded with wheat consigned to Winnipeg. The markets at Winni peg, Mr. Nott says, are higher than at New York or any other market in this country, as a general thing Moreover, he declares that land just across the line in Canada, along the Red river, is worth as high as one hundred dollars an acre, much mor.' than it is on this side. Mr. Nott could not explain this, but declared it to be the facts. A VAST GOLD BRICK. Times-Republican: There is great jubilation just now among the old school of anti-Cummins newspapers in Iowa such as the Burlington Kawkeye, Sioux City Journal, Du buque Times, Cedar Rapids Repub lican and Des Moines Capital. Af ter fighting and pursuing Cummins for nearly fifteen years while the people kept him on duty in the gov ernor's office and in the senate these political wolves seemed to have re vived hope. "Iowa republicans are coming to a sense of the fact that they have been the victim of a. vast gold brick scheme in the insurgent movement, and the times point to a return to the selection of leaders and representatives w"ho are real re publicans," says the Hawkeye which expresses pretty well the comment of all of them. All there Is to the new situation Is that the efforts of Cummlna to amend the Canadian reciprocity bill so as to get something in the way of reciprocal advantage out of it for the western farmers have for the moment made him misunderstood in Iowa and the estrangement of the Register and Leader cauBed by frost ed personal hopes has cheered the old gang with a prospect of progres sive disorganization in which lie their opportunity. The Dubuque Times, for in stance, after clamor'ng for years for a revision of the tariff down ward on steel and lumber declares of Cummins that "some of these amendments violate the principle of protection, but the senator will be obliged to support them or come for ward with another of his numerous explanations of why he has preach ed one way and voted another," and yet the Cummins amendments called for free admission of Canadi an steel and lumber which the pres ident's bill has omitted. When Iowans come to a sense of a "vast gold brick scheme" in the insurgent movement as the Hawk eye calls it they must first forget that Cummins' leadership: Abolished favoritism in railroad assessments. Abolished domination of republi can politics, nominations and ap N pointments of railway bosses. Abolished corporation contribu tions to political campaigns. Abolished watered corporation StOCk. 1 Enacted the 2-cent fare. Enacted the statewide primary. Secured the amendment to the last interstate commerce act which empowered the commission to sue pend rate increases pending...hear-„ ing. Exposed the iniquities of the' Payne-Aldrich Tariff bill. Forced the president to recognize progressives is party men of good standing If these reforms and accomplish ments of the insurgent movement constitute a "vast gold brick scheme" the ownership of the brick must have been lodged with the coterie of special Interest newspa pers for the people have been pretty well satisfied with their investment. THES MAKING NOT BREAKING THES PARTY. '!f!| Council Bluffs Nonpareil: To the mind of some otherwise level headed newspaper writers, the insurgents in congress are the limit of political incorrigibility. Insincere, unrea sonable, selfish, demagogic destruc- MJ| tionists, are among the terms used daily in discussing their work in some Iowa as well as outside,, sane itums. Behind all this smoke may be dls- V1, cerned one general premise from which proceeds criticism of insurg ent activity—they refuse to be bound by party caucus or party man date. The latest occasion for a re newed outburst of criticism of this general character is the insurgent union with democrats in a request to the committee on finance to re- fa*# port back to the senate the house bill reducing the duties on wool. This action is regarded as certain to open up the whole tariff question. It is accepted is an effort to aid democracy in the next presidential election and with this version as a basis the insurgents are re-charged with being traitors to the republican party. The chief difficulty with this sort of criticism is that it places too much stress on party harmony and not enough on principles which should guide statesmen in the dis charge of their duty. It will be conceded that there is much effort at Washington to play politics. The 5®^ democrats are maneuvering for ad vantage in the coming presidential election. Republicans are insisting that their game shall be checkmated and the specific charge against in surgency is that in the hour of need the party has been deserted. When the next presidential elec tion Is a matter of debate before the voters, President Taft, who It is assumed will be the candidate of the republican party, will be asking support on the promise that he is fairly progressive. He has admitted that Schedule in the Aldrich tar iff is Indefensible. But What will this admission amount to lf the dem ocrats are able to point to a refusal on, the part of republican senators to change it? Manifestly the ad vantage would be with the demo crato. Republicans agreed to revise the tariff downward and failed to do it In the Aldrich bill. They are not ln position to further test the credulity of voters. The need Is for concrete action and not abstract promises. S The accusation is unjust and un warranted. The merits of the case do not warrant such conclusion. Po litically speaking, the democrats did not want the republicans to vote with them. They would have been happier with a strict party lineup on this question. They want the people of the country to understand that the republican party is at heart against tariff revision and in favor of practically prohibitive duties. That sort of action widens the scope of their political territory. The ln surgents blocked this game. Their action proved that the republican tja party is not opposed to such revision of schedules as will insure a square deal. IN ilgr The next president of the United States will be elected because be is genuinely progressive. The repub lican party will furnish that candi date only if it is able to convince the voters in the country that it has -M within its membership a sufficiently virile reform force to do the work demanded in a fair and impartial way. Instead of wrecking the r* publican party, the insurgents ars in fact building the bridges that will safely carry it forward to another victory, if their counsel is heeded. Their surrender at this time to the men who are known to oppose any sort of tariff tinkering would seal the doom of the party beyond the power of resurrection before 1916 and possibly longer. Petulant regulars should take ac count of the rejected stone which later was found to be the keystone to the arch which supported the whole, temple.. ,• -.