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Vf W i' :W ii- ft. f- 'Is b." .. &k l'HB LEON REPORTER L«QW.° Hl!11'?^ IOWA CM year. f1-®® •Is months Afcee months. ^Entered as sscond-clasa matter at the Leon, Iowa, Postoffice. WE ARE KEEPING THE FAtTH. Speaker Champ Clark Says This Is The Purpose of United Demo cratic Party. Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, speaker of the national House of Representatives made a speech at Harrisburg, Penn., last week, which should be read by every American, lor it rings true as steel. It should be read by members of all parties for it will do them good. In part he said: 'Triumphant Democracy' is now the theme of every tongue within the broad confines of Hte republic. We have laid aside the weight which did so easily beset us—that of quarrel ing among ourselves—and present a solid front to the common foe. Con sequently from the mount of victory we this day look into the promised land which we will enter and possess on March 4, 1913. "When I remember what the bouse Democrats were at the begin ning of the Sixty-first Congress—A wrangling, jangling, peevish, feeble and despised minority—and how, by a conciliatory policy, we got togeth er, wrenched victory after victory from our opponents, made of our selves the most superb fighting mi nority ever seen in Washington, and established a record on which we swept the country in 1910, not only electing a Democratic house, but capturing a half dozen senatorial seats from the Republicans and a half dozen governors in northern states, I assert without fear of suc cessful contradiction that no parli mentary minority in history ever made a more splendid record. Every Democrat who served in the house of the Sixty-third Congress is en titled to his full share of the honor. In the words of Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, touching the battle of Santiago, "There is glory enough for all." They All Saw Disaster. "After our triumph in 1910 all the Republican papers and orators and many timorous Democrats de clared with one accord that we would go to pieces so soon as the new Congress was in session. In fact, these prophets of evil were in bigh glee when President Taft call ed' the extra session, because they thought, hoped and said that the extra session would precipitate Dem ocratic dissolution. The new Con gress is now in the third month of the extra session, and glory be! we have not only not gone to pieces, but have stood together shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, in such a magnificent fashion as to surprise our friends and dumfounded our en emies. "We, have been sneered at for years as a party of mere negation, as ut terly destitute of constructive ability, and that sneer cost us dearly. By our deeds we have given the lie di rect to that monumental slander. During the ten weeks that Congress has been in session, notwithstanding the fact that we had in the very nature of things to consume some time in organizing this Democratic house, we passed more bills in the nature of constructive statesmanship than any other house ever passed in the same time. Sleep in Republican Senate. "The Denver platform promised Immediate repeal of the tariff on wood pulp, print paper, lumber, tim ber and logs, and that those articles he placed upon the free list. So far aa the Democratic house is concern ed that demand has been granted in the reciprocity bill, and in what is popularly called the "Farmers' Free List Bill," both of which now sleep in the Republican senate. The Un derwood 'bill to revise the wool and woolen goods schedule will pass the house in a few days. My prediction is that it will also pass the senate. Even those who do not think it goes far enough, admit that it is a step in the right direction. In fact it is a very long step, cutting the rates on wool and woolens on an average of about 60 per cent. If the old proverb that a half loaf is better than no bread be true—and most people Hiinlf it is—it surely must be that two-thirds of a loaf is better than no bread. "The Democrats of the house be lieve this is statesmanship. We know it is common sense. We have abiding faith that the consumer of the land will indonse our actions. We could of rigged up a bill so radi cal as to be defeated in the house, er which, if passed by the house would have certainly defeated by a Republican senate, and thereby con tinue the present exorbitant rate on woolen goods but believing that a bill carrying substantial reductions will become a law, and the cost of woolens will become thereby largely reduced, and the American people thereby more comfortably clad at less expense, we could have justified ourselves neither at the bar of public opinion nor at the bar of our con sciences if we had thrown away the opportunity of accomplishing the greatest good for the masses within reach. Carry Oyt Democratic Promises. "Democrats are under obligations to carry out Democratic promises. We are also under obligations to raise revenue enough to run the gov ernment. In this bill we aire dis charging both these obligations. But it may he sail,that we promised to cat down government expenses. Of coarse we did, and we are engaged in doing that very thing, but it should not be forgotten that the ap propriations to run the government until the end of the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1912, were voted by the last Republican Congress, and the economies which we contem a plate, even if enacted into law, can not become effective until June 30, ^13. excenL*l!5h we can-aahievr :V by lopping off superfluous officials here and there as we did in the case of the house official force. I hope that we can find a way to bring about annual economies of many millions, but however much we may realize in that direction, we must in some way raise over $1,000, 000,000 to meet the appropriations already made by a Republican Con gress for the fiscal year ending June ft 1 Q1 9 Will Be a Reduction. "The revenues of the government, by reason of Republican extrava gance, are already running short, and if the reciprocity and farmers' free list bill become laws there will be a reduction of revenues by over ten or twelve million dollars. A large majority of house Democrats did not believe it wise to reduce the revenue still further by the sum of $20,000,000 by placing raw wool on the free list. Consequently a purely revenue tariff of 20 per cent is placed on raw wool and the revenue lost on raw wool is made up by reducing the rates on woolen goods to the competitive point, thereby increas ing the revenues on woolen goods and at the same time .educing the cost of woolen goods to the consum ers very largely. "Rome was not built in a day, and all Democratic promises cannot be redeemed in the shape of bills passed through the house in a week or a month or a year, but we will accom plish the good work as rapidly as possible. We believe that by work ing together, standing together, and fighting for Democratic principles we are laying the foundation not only for victories in 1912, but for victories through a long series of years. THE DEMOCRATS AND WOOL. Whether the Democrats stood for free raw wool, as a minority of the house caucus demanded, or for a reduction in the duty to 20 per cent ad valorem, as the majority decided, was not very material nor is it very material whether their bills cuts the duties on wool manufactures 55 per cent or only 45. Schedule was correctly described by Senator Aldrich as the "citadel of protection." With the exception of less than three years under Cleve land's administration, when the Dem ocrats threw it out of gear with the Wilson act, it has been in operation very much as at present for more than forty years and during all that time it has been one of the main pivots of the high protection. Since the passage of the Dingley act the average duty on raw wool '.has been about 50 per cent and on Iwoll manufactures more than 90 •'per cent. If the Democrats can cut these duties in half, and prune away the tickets of jokers which character ize Schedule above every other section of the tariff law, they will have done well enough. The "cita del" will then be a less insurmount able obstacle to tariff reform.—Sat urday Evening Post. The clerk of the state supreme court has compiled a statement show ing the number of times the supreme court has given new trials in crimi nal cases in Iowa the last year. It is found that only fourteen state cases were reversed during the year out of a total of sixty-four appealed, there being fifty affirmed or dis missed. This showing was made in answer to an accusation which has been made against the court that it is in the habit of hunting for the most trivial technicalities to afford excuse for reversal. "The men who have been trying to launch their candidacies for a year from this June are finding the public a very indifferent one, says the Ced ar Rapids Republican. "The people do not care very much about the mea who merely are watching for offices. They prefer the men who attend to their own work." The man who conserves his con versation always has something to say. What's bred in the bone makes just tha)t much less meat to the pound. Don't worry about trouble. It has never missed an appointment yet. Adam is the only man to become famous for falling down. The man who is on the square does not have to sneak 'round. ACT QUICKLY. Delay has Been Dangerous in Leon. Do the right thing at the right time. Act quickly in times of danger. I Backache is kidney danger, Doan's Kidney Pills act quickly. Cure all distressing, dangerous kidney ills. Plenty of evidence to prove this. Mrs. R. S. Conkle, of Leon, Iowa, says: "For years I had kidney trouble and I suffered severely from sharp pains in my back and loins. Later on the kidney secretions be came irregular in passage, I was subject to spells of dizziness, and I felt miserable in every way. Doan's Kidney Pills were finally recommend ed to me and I procured a box from VanWerden's dtug store. They gave me relief in a short time, and II have had no trouble from my kidneys since. (From statement given in 1902.) I Time is the Test. On Aug. 12, 1908, Mrs. Conkle said: moan's Kidney Pills are a wonderful remedy in my opinion and I take pleasure in confirming everything I said in my former pub lie statement regarding. them. I occasionally take the contents of a box of this remedy, and believe that I owe my freedom from kidney trouble during the past six years en tirely to its use." I For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New Tork, sole agents for the [United States. I Remember the name—•Doa$'a- ike no other. 4 W I Our Washington Letter. (By Clyde H. Tavenner, special Washington correspondent of The Reporter.) iWashington, June 30.—There is one protectionist argument, that will never again occupy the place in American politics that it has in the past. That is the argument that a high protection wall is necessary to en able American manufacturers to compete in home markets with for eign manufactured goods. The reason this stock protection ist argument will never again per form the same valuable mission for the Republicans, is because of a speech delivered in the House by Wm. C. Redfleld, of New York, who is a manufacturer himself, and who for 18 years has been selling Amer ican manufactures in foreign coun tries. .Redfield contended and proved that the difference in dally wage at home and abroad should not be the sole basis of determining the amount of protection to be given to a given article. He cited instance after instance in which he sold articles manufac tured by $5 a day American em ployes in countries where labor re ceived less than one dollar a day. Redfield took the position that American manufacturers did not need 1 as much protection as they were now enjoying "to protect them from foreign competition" because they are successfully competing with foreign manufacturers in all parts of the world. "How does it happen" demanded Redfield "that in a quotation re cently made for machinery to a mine in Japan the American price was $125 less than the English price?" "How does it happen that 720 American locomotives are running upon the Japanese railways, and up on the railways of Formosa and up on those of Manchuria? These are sold in open competition with the makers in Great Britain." Redfield related an incident be tween an American salesman who recently took a large contract from the Japanese Imperial State Rail ways and one of the managers of the Imperial Railway shop. The Japanese official was under the impression that he could manu facture locomotives cheaper than an American plant because Japanese wages are but one-fifth of American wages. "Both men got out their cost books" said Redfield, "and they found that the fact was the labor cost for locomotives on the same specifications was three and one half times greater in the Japanese shops than in the American shops. And this is a perfectly normal fact and not an abnormal one." Redfield said that when he was in Calcutta, India, recently his agent pointed to a pair of American made shoes he was wearing. "I paid $3.85 for those shoes" said the agent. "It is the regular American $5 shoe." Redfield said *that when he re turned to New York he found the same shoe selling on Broadway for $5. "I shall be glad to give names and addresses to any member who Inquires in private. Redfield gave a score of similar instances. It is impossible to give justice to his remarkable revelation in this dispatch. Every reader of this article may secure, free of charge, a copy of the complete speech, without doubt one of the most remarkable of its kind ever made in Congress, by writ ing Hon. James T. Lloyd, Chairman, National Democratic Congressional Committee, Washington, D. C. Progressives on Their Guard. Progressive republicans were con spicuous at the President's recent wedding anniversary celebration by their absence. Even Roosevelt, the man who made Taft president, was missing. The explanation is this: The progressives did not of course intend any slight to the President, but actually feared that if they at tended the celebration the White House press bureau would send out stories to the effect that they favor ed Taft for re-nomination and re election. If a Republican approaches within shouting distance of the executive mansion these days, Mr. Taft's sec retary feeds the Associated Press with the "news" said Republican is strong for the re-nomination of the President. As the genuine progressives are opposed to Taft's re-nomination, they are not disposed to take any chances of being misrepresented. Popular Elections Endangered. The resolution providing for the election of United States senators by the direct vote of the people, fail ed to receive the concurrence of the House because of the Senate Amend ment retaining federal control over elections. This amendment, which would probably have defeated rati fication by the necessary three fourths of the states, even had the house accepted it, was tacked on the resolution by Bristown, of Kansas, Lorimer, of Illinois, Guggenheim, of Colorado and the solid delegation of special privilege servers in the Sen ate. Railways Overpaid. Postmaster General Hitchcock at last confesses that the government is overpaying th'e railroade for the hauling of the mails to the extent of about $9,000,000 a year. James Manahan, who represents the railway mail clerks in their campaign to prevent the postmaster general from putting into effect his policy of economizing by overwork ing the mail clerks declares the rail roads are being overpaid to the ex tent of hot less than $25,000,000 a year. Democrats in Congress have for years contended that such a state of affairs existed, but the Republicans refused to investigate. Republicans Still Divided. A statement to the- effect that Theodore Roosevelt and all of the progressives save possibly LaFollette would support President Taft for a I THE LEON REPORTER* THURSDAY, JULY 6,1911. given, out by the White House press bureau and printed in all parts of the coun try. This untruthful report made the progressives angry clear through, with the result that if they ever had any idea of supporting ^aft for a re-nomination, they have abandoned it and will support LaFollette. The only progressive who is-avowedly for Taft now is Kenyon, of Iowa, who while still posing as an insurgent in his home state, is apparently rap idly developing into a reactionary in Washington. Amendment to Articles of Incorpor ation of the Decatur State Sav ings Bank. Know All Men by These Presents: That at a special meeting of the stockholders of Decatur State Sav ings Bank company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the state of Iowa, held at the office of the company in Decatur, Iowa, on the 29th day of May, A. D. 1911, after 'due and legal notice had been given to the stockholders thereof in con formity with its articles of incorpor ation, and the laws of the state, at which the requisite majority of the 'stock of said corporation was repre sented, the following amendment [was adopted, by a unanimous vote of the stock interests of the said company, as shown below: I Total number of shares of stock outstanding 100. Total number of shares of stock represented at this meeting 100. Total number of shares of stock voted in favor of the amendment 100. I Amendment. The articles of incorporation of the Decatur State Savings Bank have been amended by the stock holders at a special meeting by striking out the word "nine" in sec tion "five" line two, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "five." The affairs of this corporation shall be managed by a board of five directors. I Also that article six be amend ed by striking out the word "April" in section "six" and line two, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "June." The president and secretary of the company were duly authorized and directed to sign, acknowledge, record, publish and do all things which are by law required, to exe cute, complete and carry into effect the above amendment to the articles of incorporation of said company. We, G. A. Havens, secretary, and W. H. Lloyd, chairman and secre tary of said meeting do hereby cer tify the above to be a true and cor rect statement Jof 'the proceedings of the stockholders at the above named meeting. W. H. Lloyd, Chairman. G. A. Havens, Secretary. In conformity with the above reso lution we, the president and secre tary of said corporation, have execut ed this instrument, and do hereby sign and acknowledge the same, for 'and in behalf of the said corporation, this 21st day of June, A. D. 1911. W. H. Lloyd, President. G. A. Havens, Secretary. State of Iowa, [•ss. County of Decatur Be it remembered, that on this ,21st day of June, A. D. 1911, be fore me, a notary public in and for said county and state, personally ap peared W. H. Lloyd and G. A. Havens, each being to me personally known, who being by me duly sworn did say, that they are the president and secretary respectively of the Decatur State Savings Bank, and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its stockholders, and that they acknowledge said instru ment to be the voluntary act and ideed of said corporation, by them voluntarily executed. [Seal.] S. W. Chamberlin, 45-4t Notarp Public. Notary Public. CAPT. J. L. GOODING Kellerton. Iowa. The Auctioneer Who Makes Your Sale a Money Maker. Telephone or wire tor dates at my expense. Iowa Steam Laundry Co. Anything from finest sill fibre to heavy wool curtains. Dye Works in connection Sond Basket Monday and Wednesday J. A. CASTER, Agent. DR. C. H. MITCHELL. Bnnnmnr to Dr. W. O. JaffriM. Subsist ud otwMriaa FRED A. BOWMAN. M. D. fXHTHOUUf AHD BUIGCON .Laoo, low*. Ota I' Mn 11 to It a. 140 to U0 p. wC—tM to MO a. a. 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