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THE LEON REPORTER.
O. E. HULL, Publish*
LEON,
IOWA
Sibaoriptlon Rates:
One year fl-M
Six mouths 7o
(three months 4"
Entered as second claat
Ceon.Iowa,Po»toffice.
matter c»t
the
Hon. P. L. Prentiss, of Ringgold
county, member elect of the coining
legislature,and who has been counted as
a strong Gear man,hasannounced tbatbe
has pledged himself to support Cummins.
If a stampede to Cummins is once started
there will be a grand rush to get into
the band wagon 5
I) nited States.
received $250,000 from
government for arguing the boundary
ewe, which was one of the largest fees
ever paid.
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Everything the printer buys in the
way of material has advanced from -&
to 50 per cent during the past six
months. Another cut of 5 per cent, was
taken from type discounts to-day mak
ing display type cost double what it did
two years ago. Verily, prosperity
catches the wicked as well as the just.
—Waterloo Courier.
"Coal is up, clothing is up, food is up
—everything the trusts have any con
trol of is up. And the fellows not in
trusts are taking advantage of the tren
ral upward trend of prjees to raise the
price of what they have to sell. Now
let's have a boost in the wages of men
who work for the trusts. Give them a
chance to break even this winter any
how.—Toledo Bee.
Speaker Henderson will be presented
with a gavel by the governor of Iowa at
the opening session of the house of rep
resentatives. It has always been the
custom to give a gavel made of some
historic material to a newly elected
speaker. Mr. Henderson's gavel will
be made from rosewood taken from the
Spanish cruiser Reina Christina, Ad
miral Montijo's flagship.
We are not alarmists, but we are im
pressed with the belief that the people
of the United States are facing to-day a
menance to the peace of the country as
great and powerful as slavery was in
1801. In 1900 it will be a national issue.
In that contest we believe that the
republican party will be on the side of
the people against the criminal trusts.
The political party that stands as the
protector and promoter of the allied
money interests ought to and will go
down in ignominous defeat.—Topeka
papjta).
THE DROPQSED SOLD BILL.
The bill is drawn in ten sections. By
the fir "'{and second sections it is sought
to leg -nze the gold standard by a plain
and definite statute. Section three pro
vides for the creation of a division of
issue and redemption, providing a re
serve fund to meet tbe demand for the
redemption of greenbacks and treasury
notes when presented.
Section four enables the secretary of
the treasury to maintain the gold stan
dard by selling fropds whenever neces
sary.
Sections five and six. provide for the
coinage of subsidiary silver out of bul
lion purchased under act of July 14,
}890.
Section seven authorises the secre
tary of the treasury to issue or re
isisUe United States notes in denomina
tions of one dollar, two dollars and five
^dollars.
Section eight premits the banks to
issue notes up to tbe par value of their
bonds deposited with the treasurer,
Section nine repeals a 1 per cent,
tax or bank circulation and substitutes a
tax on one-tenth of.
1 per cent, eacli half
year oh capital, surblus and undivided
"profits.
Sectioa ten authorizes the organize
,tion of hanks of 125,000 capital in com
Imiinities of 2,000 inhabitants.
The effect of the bill if passed, would
simply this: It would give us the
tigi* gold standard, retire greenbacks
ftlLtreasury-notes, giving in place
intnotes would drive all silver from
osteoid'
DEC? 12,99
ABSOUUTEIvtouRE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
BRYAN SURE IN 1000.
New York is on the threshold of a
Democratic redemption. The returns
have all been gathered, and the addi
tions and subtractions made. Now that
thedust of combat has so far settled that
one may gain some glimpse of results,
what, think you, is the'Republican
majority in the State of New York, as
shown two weeks ago? It comes out
as a shadow over 9,000. No mammoth
Kx President Harrison is one of the plurality, truly! In 18% the black
bisiest men in the United States to day majority was240,000. Its'Clevelandlsm
and he probably has the largest income that did that. In 1897 it bleached to
of anv lawyer in the west, if not in the 80,000. One year ago (1898) it whitened
According
to reports he out still further, and stood as 18,500.
the Venezuelan ,This autumn (1899) the Republicans in
their superiority, as stated, fade and
pale to a trifle above 9,000. In 1900—
mark The Verdict's word—that su
periority will have died and disappeared
—buried beneath a Bryan plurality of
£0,000. And all this makes the morose
and sulky reason of present Republican
gloom. The further they travel, the
darker it gets.—New York Verdict.
CONDEMNS BOND OFFER
worn uwm powptw oo.. mw vowu
Mr, Bryan talked freely at Spring
Held, Missouri, of Secretary Gage's offer
to purchase $25,000,000 bonds. ''The
republicans," he declared, "have been
Baying all the time that there was plenty
of money in the country. When the
free silver people advocated the en
largement of the money supply they
were told that the circulation fully met
all the demands of trade.
'•Now, when Wall street becomes
short of money thegovernmenl is prompt 1885
to go to the relief of the speculators.
All we free silver people ask is that
Uncle Sam shall treat the farmer and
the laborer with as much consideration.
"The gold men, claiming that there is
plenty of money in the country, never
make the proper distinction between a
standard dollar and a credit dollar.
Tbey assume that for all purposes an
actual dollar and a promise to pay a
dollar are the same,'
''This failure to make the distinction
between the money of final account and
the various forms of credit employed in
the transactions of the country has
greatly confused the minds, of those
controlled by the gold standard idea,
UNITE TO CONQUER.
There is every evidence that in the
campaign of 1900 all the elements op
posed to the administration of public
affairs by McKinley will unite and form
one solid democratic column to .oppo
sition.
Leaving tne money question entirely
out of the account, the two great issues
of anti-trust and anti-imperialism wil
gervp as a comtpon ground on which the
anti-McKinley hosts can rally
But the money question is not dead
by any meanB. Former Congressman
Towne, tbe able leader of the silver re
publican party, in speaking of this mat
ter, says:
"If congress this winter'in response
to the demand of the president destroys
the bond-paying value of silver, calls in
silver certificates, the silver question
will be a leading issue in the next pres
idential campaign.
"Such action ou the"part of congress
would furnish an entirely different prop'
osition from that which confronted the
people in the last campaign. The ie'
publican party won because of the fear
of the ratio of 16 to 1. The adoption of
the Gage and McKinley financial plan
py ppngres8 would mean the contraction
of the currenoy of the oountry and the
people would*te confronted with a fact
not a theory, in tbe battle of standards.
The silver question is not dead in Amer
ican political affairs."
Without united action on the part of
all those who desire the overthrow of
the republican party nothing can be
accomplished.
this fact had ample illustration in tbe
recent election in Ohio. With a popu
lar majority of 50,000 against him,Nasb,
the republican candidate for governor,
was elected.
This story will be repeated, in 19Q0 if
tbe same policy of persdnfcl selfishness
is followed by those who ought to sink
personal ambition for the common
good.
There is but one motto pu those who
wish to rescue tbe republic from tbe
that lat
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FARMERS' WA8EI.
"The farmer has no wages except as
wages are measured by the price of hia
product, and when you place it in the
power «f the trust to fix the price of
what the farmer sells,you place it in
the power of the trust to lower the
wages that the farmer receives for his
work and when yon pUceit in the
power of the trust to raise the price
of what he buys, you do the farmer a
doub'e iij iry, because he burns the
candles at both ends and suffers when
he sells to the trust and again when
he buys of the trust."—W. J. Bryan.
DIED IN OFFICE
six
Vice Presidents Cut Down by
Orlnv Reaper Whll. on Duty.
Elbridge Gerry, also vice-president to
President Madison, died in his carriage
in Washington, November 23,1814.
William R. King, the third vice-presi
dent to die in office was elected on the
ticket with Franklin Pierce in 1852, but
died shortly after being elected.
Henry Wilson, vice-president to Gen
eral Grant died ^November 22, 1875, in
his 64th year.
Thomas A. Hendricks was elected
vice-president on the ticket with Grover
Cleveland in 1884, and died November
Garret A. Hobart, was the sixth vice
president to die in office, having been
elected on the ticket with McKinley in
1896 died on November 21st, 1899.
TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS.
Trusts do not fear statute laws, for
they can be fought indefinitely from
court to court and their operation ren
dered ineffectual.
But tbe trusts do fear the withdrawal
of special privileges granted by the fed
eral tariff.
The way to prevent the trusts from
advancing prices of products and tax
ing the consumer to the last extreme is
to take away from these combines the
protection of the tariff and put them in
competition with foreign enterprise.
Discussing this matter, Lawson Purdy
who has made the subject a careful
study, says:
I do not cbntend that the only
cause for combinations which restrain
trade is the tariff, but the tarifll does
foster and assist in maintaining such
combinations. The tariff is under the
control of the federal government the
abolution of duties updb articles pro
duced by trusts is easy, immediate and
effective. When this special privilege
is withdrawn we will then be in a better
position to do what further may be
necessary.
Law has made trusts by conferring
special privileges, tfnd those privileges
can be abolished. The chief privilege
and the one molt easily reached is the
tariff.
"Trusts have little dread of statute
law which the courts will take years to
interpret. They fehr the repeal of priv
ilege, and 'repeal' should be the battle
cry of thdse who believe in equal right*
before the law."
While the republican party under the
control of Hftnpa, Mc^infcy & Co., fos
ters and protects trusts, many men in
the rgnfea are beginning to feel the op-,
pression of high prices produced by the
action of the trusts.
Loyalty to party is one thing and
paying a tax for the privilege of being
loyal is 'another thing. Republican
voters are growing restless and before
long there will be a protest which will
make itself heard in Waahineton.
Doubtless tbe question of the ptotect
iye tariff will be discussed this %inter
in congress and many lepublicans will
be found opposed to taxing the people,
to enrich the trusts.
It is not likely, however, that any re
lief will be given the people, so long as
Hanna and Mckinley remain in power,
and, therefore, the democrats must work
unitedly to secure the downfall of tbe
great trust-protecting combine headed
by William McKinley.-^Chicago ifts
patch. I
Through Pullman Tourlat Sleeping
Service to Texas, Old Mexico
and Calltorrtla.
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Out of a list of twenty-four vice-presi
dents, six have expired while wearing
the robes of office. They are as follows:
George Clinton, vice-president during
the administration of James Madison,
died at Washington, April 20,1812, aged
73 years.
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Via the Chicago Great Western RyT to
Kanaas City and the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas, the San Antonio & Arkansas
Pass and Southern Pacific Railways
through Dallas, San A&tonio, El l'nso
and Los Aiigelea to San Francisco. The
only through car line from the North
west to Texas points and connecting at
Spofford Junction for all points in Old
Mexico. A new weekly service estab
lished on November 3rd and continuing
weekly thereafter. They will be in
charge of an experienced official and
will leave Minneapolis at 10:45 p. m.
and Sk Paul at 11:20 p. m. every Friday
and reach Dallas the following Sunday,
San Antonio on onday, El Paso on
Tuesday, Los Angeles at'noon Wednes
day ana San Francisco early Thursday
morning. These cars are the Standard
Pullman Slewing Cars, similar to those
run on all tranB continental lines and
the charges for berths are about half
those charged in regular Standard Pull
man Sleepers. To persons who have
made the trip to California via other
routes, this Southern route will prove a
most delightful change, and to person*
contemplating a trip to Texas or Mex
ican points it furnishes facilities hereto
fore unoffered. Thif car may be taken
at any point along the line of the Chi
cago Great Western Railway between
nneapolis and Kansas City. For full
inf&mation and assistance* call on or
address any Chicago Great Western
agent, or F. H. Lord, General Pass. &
Ticket Agent, 113 Adams St., Chicago.
10 tf
Money to Loan on improved farms at
6. 7 and 8 per cent, interest for 5, 6 to 10
yearBtime.
F. VABGI & SON.
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iboold be deadlines*.
Ely's Cream Balm
ele*naee,»ootbcf andbeala
the diseased membrane.
It corn catarrh and drives
away a sold la the bead
quickly.
Craam Balm li placed into the nostrils,
spreads
over the membrane and is absorbed. Belief la Im
mediate asd a ctu« follows, it Is aot drying—doe*
not produce saeeshig. Large Sire, so eents at Drug
gist* or by mail Trial SUe, 10 cents by mall.
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Clearing Sale of
Ladies', Misses' and
Children's Jackets!
To close thetn out. we ofter them at twenty-five per cent, discount
thus giving all wlio are interpfcted a chance to buy Ja choice,
Htylish jacket ut the begining of the
At Leon, and Tuskeega.
3 pound can pie plant per can 10 cents.
3 pound can California peaches per can 15c.
3 pound can California apricots per can 15c.
1 gallon can California peaches per can 40c.
1 gallon can California Apricots per can 40c.
1 gallon can pieplant per can 25c. ....
1 gallon can pitted Oregon plums per Can 40c.
3 pound can blackberries 2 cans for 25c.
3 pound can raspberries 2 cans 25c.
Pint jars of Jams and Preserves 2 cans 25c.
21b lean blackberries 5c.
Choice California prunes per pound 6c.
Fancy California dried peaches per pound 10c.
1 pound package cleaned currants 10c.
I pound package seeded raisins 10c.
the season, and you can now get choice in size and style.
Come in at once, if you are interested, as these choice gar
ments will not last long at such bargains.,
Underwear.
We also offer some excellent bargains in underwear for ladies'
misses and children.
Ladies' fleece jined union suits 50c., 75c. and $1.00.
^e simply ask you to see these garments. You will decide at
once that I hey are bargains.
HAMILTON & GAMMILL.
LEON QUEENSWARE CO.
NE YEAR AGO this moutlKwe were doing our first holiday
I business and from tbe way our business has grown since
that time it looks li'.-e the people are satisfied with our way
of doing business. During this month we want every person coming
to Leon take a look through our
GHrlN/Y DEP/YRTMENT!
Remember lhat we have the best and that
made than ours.
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China Cups
and Saucers
About 20 4-piece Glass
JJJ sets to out at 25c. per set. jjj
Si Fancy lamps $1.00 each all complete, ft
THE LEON QUEENSWARE CO.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
'Phone 59.
THE BIG CASH LOW PRICED STORE.
Every farmer and citizen in Decatur county wilt
the advance in the price on all these goods.
competitors "with a natura.l" We do not day just we se'll gcods cheaper
than anybody, but Quote the "real thing" in Iplack and white. And make the
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FRUITS, NUTS, VEGETABLES, CANDIES, "OYSTERS, DRESSED POULTRY.
's Barn, Leon, Iowa,
Reason
than they can be bought at the usual clearing sale at the end
They will be at the barn Saturday before the sale. Call and see them. Catalogue
gives all particulars. Write for one to either of us. t1 S
I I F. P. HEALY, Bedford, la.,
1 W. R. WILSON, Arispe, la.
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TIME TABLE.
C. B. to.
SOUTH NORTH
Hussenger....7:00a.m. Passenger 2:38 p.
Freight 1»:*) a. tn. I Freight 8:00 p. m
Passenger.. 11:57 a.m.) Freight 4 B0 p. ni
Freight 12:35 p.m. Passenger.
..8:11
p. m-
W.
SOUTH. I NORTH. I
Passenger 11:45 a. ra, I Freight 9:90 a.
Freight 4:50 p. m. Passenger 8:45 p, ni
No. 17 Stock express going, north, Sunday*
only. Due 7:15 a m.
No. 19. Freight on Wednesday only 8:05 a.
m, Takes the place o( No. 13.
Coupon tickets on sale to all points. Call
for them and have baggage checked to desti
nation, A. S. THAHP, Agent.
TRUSSES, && W-M VP
65c
U* T«7 *BMt Truaw nia
nrtae cursed by •then,
wife
Makers of
Paint
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Iwk RmnM* Haiti* Tnua, IlluiUstcd above, cut thla
ad. oat and Mod to uawlth OOTI STMUL HICIuul,
it&M roar Htlflit. WtigM, Acs, how lon( yon have been
ruptund, whether rupture lelarce or email alio atata
number Instaea around the body on a Une with the
rupture, eay whether rupture la on right or left aide, ..Jsj
and we will send either true* to you with the under
atantUns. Wit la acta parfcat It aad a«ailU tawaaa tkal
ratall thrae tlmee prlee,you can return
It and we
will return your money.
WHITE FOR FREE TRUtS CHHUWII
•f traMM. Including the Haw •!•.«• Ua Tnas'
UittiirM ihint uj
$2.75
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wkMi w« Mil lar
M«NHSCARSa ROCDUOK Co. (WICAOQ
if
White lead and zinc, keep
talking about strictly pure,
no matter how bad the,
stuff is, "it's strictly pure.":
Somebody gets a chemical
analysis,'usually to prove
that tbe other fellow'H stuff
isn't strictly pure. What
do you care for strictly pur«
paint if it dopsn't do what!
paint is for? Paint is goods
forwhat.it does, not what,
it is. We sell the
Devoe Ready Paint
we don't know whether its
strictly pure or not, and
don't "care. The makers
say "'If anybody has any
fault to find wih it, make
it good at our expense, we
garantee results." We've
got the paint, and we^
make that guaranty g6od.
W. E. MYERS & C0.
Moith Side Druggists-
the benefit of our buying before
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