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THE LEON REPORTER.
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TIME FOR A NEW ANDREW JACKSON.
There is a peculiar fitness this year
in lemucralie celebrations being held
nil through the country in honor of
Andrew .laekson's day. The issue
which Jackson met boldly and upon
the settlement of which his fame most
Securely rests, haft come again to the
front. The alliance of an enonnoun
financial institution with the federal
-government, the dangers of which
.lacknon so vigorously denounced, has
again 1)een consummated—not this
time by act of law, but by the more in
s'xlious and dangerous method of offi
cial favoritism, The whole nation has
stood aghast at the spectacle of a sec
retary of the treasury becoming a par
ty to the plans of a notoriously mer
cenary and overbearing body of money
kings, who are striving to control the
currency of the nation, to dominate
the money market and to fix all cred
its. The Standard Oil company has
had a career, long and black enough in
its relations with public officials, be
fore it met and captured Secretary
Gage. Its course through state legis
1 ytures, and indeed through congress,
has been a sinuous and slimy one, but
it seems to have reached its goal when
it persuaded the secretary of the treas
urv to make its own financial institu
tion the sole fiscal agent of the gov
ernment,
When Andrew Jackson attacked and
demolished the oid bank of the United
States the whole country rose to ap
plaud him. The effort of the McKinley
administration to establish what is an
official hank in fact, if not in name
will stir the country again, but to a
chorus of denunciation rather than
applause. The Democratic party in
that earlier day furnished the man
brave enough and strong enough to
meet and overthrow the money power,
The Democrats to-day may be relied
I upon to find among their number a
new Andrew Jackson able to cope with
nippafta.—:—•
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THE ANTITRUST CONFERENCE.
The anti-trust conference tobe held in
Cbicage on Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12,
will bring together a number of men of
great eminence in the nation and all no
ted for their intelligence, effective and un
compromising hostility to trusts. It
will be remembered that a few weeks ago
a conference was held under the auspices
of the Civic Federation, which professed
to be wholly a discussion of the trust
problem pro and con. It was then that
Mr. Bryan met and defeated the high
attorney of plutocrcy, Burke Cochran.
This coming conference is to differ from
the latter in that it is to be made up,
so far as its promoters can arrange it,
only of men who are distinctly hostile
to the trust. It is expected that heroic
measures for the destruction ot these
monopolistic combinations will be ad
vised and it is very notable that in the
long li^ts of names of those interested in
the affair which is given out, nearly all
arie Democrats or associated with the al
lied forces tbat made the battle in 1S96.
In truth the anti-trust conference will
be in all essentials a Democrat gathering
for it is through the machinery of the
Democratic party that trusts can be
most effectively attacked.
Dr. Eiker voted for W. L. Katon, the
defeated candidate for speaker. The
Journal has no disposition to criticize
bis course of action. Dr. Kiker is a
young m&u of ability and high
character and .no doubt bis conduct was
guided by conscientious motives —I.eon
Journal.
The Cummins supporters in this coun
ty will smile at the Journal's effort
to pacify them. They have not for
gotten and will not soon the accusa
tions made against them and Dr. Eiker
by the Journal editor during the sen
atorial contest.
We could think of a tot of mean
things to say about Dr. Kiker for the
course he took on the senatorial ques
tion, but there is no object in contintv
ing the discussion further. The mat'
ler is settled now and the Gear forces
organized the house without his vole,
and the doctot has dropped back from
his perch of.temporary notoriety.—Gar
den Grove Express.
-J In the latest issue of the Railway Age
it is shown that Iowa has in process of
construction more miles of railway than
-any other state in the Union. In the
United States, as a whole, more miles of
railway have been constructed during
1899 than in any year previous since ]890.
Railway building is more expensive
now than ever before, labor command
ing a highe/ price and material costing
more.
The Leon Journal speaks of the re
cent iriendly contest among tl|e repub
gg? licflDs in our ccu:ity over the senatorial
situation." Friendly contest! It was
regular lore feast with the Journal
'editor as toastniaster.
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iBSQKUmy^lHtC
Because the City National bank is a
Standard Oil institution and the Stand
ard oil trust gave down handsomely to
the republican slush fund.
Recently hundreds of miners at
Wardner were thrown into a filthy
stockade and denied the right of trial,
while the Wardner territory was de
clared under martial law.
Why?
Because the Standard Oil trust owns
the Wardner mines and demanded the
protection of the regular army.
Recently Attorney General Monnett
of Ohio endeavored to have the Stand
ard Oil trust citetT before the supreme
court for contempt because it offered
him a bribe. The supreme court re
fused to take cognizance of the attorney
general's charge.
Why?
Because the Standard Oil trust can
make and unmake supreme courts in
Ohio.
Recently Attorney General Monnett
was invited to lecture on trusts by the
People's Institute of New York. The
date was canceled after hundreds of
people had assembled at Cooper Union
to hear the distinguished gentleman
from Ohio.
Why?
Because the Standard Oil trust had
donated $200,000 to the People's Insti
tute and promised more and threat
ened to withdraw its contribution if
Monnett were allowed to deliver the
lecture. I
The Standard Oil trust is the great
est factor in the financial life of the
nation to-day.
Why?
Because through government favors
it has- secured control of the great
financial institutions arid owns the ad
ministration body and soul.
The people should arise in tbeir
might and overthrow this "oilarchy"
without further loss of time?
Why?
Because its continuance threatens
our free institutions and promises to
set up a ruling class whose claims to
the scepter are founded on the owner
ship of all the money and all the pro
ductive enterprises.—World-Herald. ...
Seasoned native lumber, dimension
stuff and bridge plank, material foi
barns and barn frames always on hand
F. D. CLOSE.
See Joe L. Warner, the north side
jeweler, for all kinds of cleaning and re
pairing. All work guaranteed and
prices lowest in the city.
ASK YM
DOCTOR!
Ask your physician this ques
tion, "What is the one great
remedy for consumption?"
He will answer,
"Cod-liver
oil." Nine out of ten will
answer the same way.
Yet when persons have
consumption they loathe all
fatty foods, yet fat is neces
sary for their recovery and
they cannot take plain cod
liver oil. The plain oil dis
turbs the stomach .and takes
away the appetite. The dis
agreeable fishy Vwlor. and
taste make it almost unen
durable. What is to be done?
This question was ans
wered when we first made
'SCOTT'S
EMULSION
of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo
phosphites. Although that
was nearly twenty-five years
ago, yet it stands alone to
day the one great remedy
for all affections of the throat
and lungs.
The bad tute and odor have been
taken away, the oil -itself has been
partly digested, and the' most sen
sitive stomach objects to it rarely.
Not one in ten can take and digot
the plain ott. Nine out of ten can
take SC0TTS EMULSION and di
gest it Thaft why it curerso
many cases of early
Even in advanced cases It
comfort and greatly prolongs
4oc.MidCi.ao, alldniggbt*.
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Makes the food more delicious and wliolesome
WHY?
Recently the City National bank of
New York City was made the recipient
of government favors that will net the
bank several millions of dollars profit
yearly. ^..
BOYAL BAKING POWDER PP., HEW VOBK.
THE SUPREME QUESTION.
liy llon. Charles A. Town*, Chairman Sll
v«r Republican National
Committee.
(By Hon. Charles A.-Towhe, ChairiWn
SilverItepnblican National Commit
tee.)
Behind every special complaint there
is a general principle that is offended
There are in the United States to-day
many concrete causes of social discon
tent, and these find expression in polit-.
•ul movements aimed at mitigating or
removing them. The important thing
for the American people to realize is
tbat these causes of discontent have
unmon origin that these movements
are directed against the same opponent
and that relief against any individual
evil is possible only through the com
bined efforts of each, respectively. To
some men the money question seems
paramount to some, unjust taxation to
others, the regulation and control of
monopolies yet to others, the danger of
adopting an imperial colonial policy,
But back of each of these questions
gtands the organized greed of modern
society. Its object is always the same—
the acquisition of unjust power. The
methods employed in each case are
identical—force and traud. All have
combined in securing the same repre
sentative and champion—the present
leadership of the Republican party.
This party stands to-day for the 'fla:
opposite of everything it formerly pro
fessed. It was once for bimetallism.
It is now for the sold standard. It gave
birth to the greenback which it is about
to destroy. It originated the national
banks as a financial assistance to the
government. It will perpetuate them
as the financial autocrats of the govern'
ment. Its first national platform ap
pealed for the support of citizens in fa
vor "of restoring the action of the fed
eral government to the principles of
Wafchiilgt6ri**d Jefferson.'^ Forty
four years afterward it is engaged in an
open and contemptuous viylatioi) of
each and everyja&rof'tibose pri$H$ipiea?
Washington1 warned us against the
exeats of party spirit. That organiza
tion to-day would have no possibility
orpower except for the fulminated ter
pro of party non-conformity. Wash
ington solemnly advised us to avoid the
insidious wiles of foreign influence."
The Republican party prides itself on
its new "world diplomacy," which Lord
Salisbury says means much for the ad
vantage of England, but, he fears, little
for the world's peace. Washington
counseled us against the dangers of
"overgrown military establishments."
McKinley is exhausting every resource
of ingenuity and influence to build up a
great standing army.
The fundamental doctrine of Jefier
son's political greed was ''equal rights to
all, special privileges to none." To-day
the Republican party's supremacy de
pends upon an elaborate system of spec
ial privileges to the few, who, by
means of banking monopoly, trust com
bination and railway manipulation, wax
rich and strong in exploiting the many.
The most memorable expression of Jefr
ferson's principles of general politics
was in the immortal words of the dec
laration of independence, the most
glorious stale paper in the history of
the world: "We hold these truths to be
self evident: That all men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights that among these are life
LIBERTY and the pursuit of happiC
ness that to secure these rights gov
ernments are instituted among men
DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS
FROM THE CONSENT OP THE
GOVERNED." The Republican party
leaders have openly and indolently
repudiated these inspiring senti
ments, and today are marshalling the
resources of this republic in a: war of
conquest against a weak people, strong
enough only to die for the doctrines
that justified and sanctified the 4mer
can revolution. The Republican party
came into being as a champion of lib
ertv, and at the cost of vast treasure
and priceless patriot blood wrote into
the constitution the people's mandate
tbat "neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude SHALL EXIST within the
United States or ANY PLACE SUB
JECT TO THEIR JURISDICTION.
To-day a Republican president pur
chases sovereignty over the islands of
the Zulu artrhipelago and its pir&tical
sultan, by solemn negotiation recognises
and perpetuates the institution of do
mestic slavery there, and desecrate*
the flag of Appomatox by raising it
above the harem and the auction block.
It is enough to make the angels weep.
The blood ot every battlefield of the
civil war must cry from the ground "for
justice and rough chastisement."
Emmerson has .wisely said that the
real lesson of life is "to learn what the
years and the centuries say in answer
to the hours." We shall do well if from
the hours that are with' us, the harried
crowded hours in' which oar little life
is cast, we are able, to read the slgnifi.
ESTABLISHED 1854. LEON, IOWA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 18, 1900. REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXV. NO. 21
cance of our part and lot in the grand
sweep and purpose of the centuries.
Hitherto we have thought ourselves a
'peculiar people," to whVm, in the
providence of God, i{-is reserved to
show mankind the'way otft of war into
peace, put of oppression into liberty,
out of the reign of forc*j into the do
minion of love. If this high ideal is
to remain with us we must make haste
to turn fr6m the backward course we
have lately entered on and set our faces
once more toward the light. We must
not now desert the highi mission of the
republic. We must not go stumbling
back over the overthrown and broken
monuments of more than a hundred
years of glorious and beneficent history.
There is still time to vindicate the hopes
of our fathers arid to preserve to those
who shall come after the holy ark
of our national covenant. We must
abjure our Apostasy. We must cease
worshiping mere commercialism and
the power ot money. We must resist
the drift toward empire. We muBt
restore the rule of the people. We must,
return to the ideals and first principles
of Americanism. We can do this if we
will. Will we do it? This is the sacred
duty, the consecrated opportunity of
the hour. This, when all is said, is the
supreme question of the campaign of
'Jj, CIIAS. A. TOWNK.
JL. Vr
Phelps Co. (Mo.) -Democrat: "History
repeat itself" is an old'adage and a true
one. Just one century ago Thomas Jef
ferson was defeated for the presidency of
the United States, and foui years later
was triumphantly electd. Jeffersonian
Democracy illuminated the beginning of
this century, and the same Jefiersonian
Democracy will UBher in the new cen
tury by the election of another Jeffer
son in 1900."
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Being an executor txiats being an ex
ecutive. Robert T. Litcoln and Norman
B. Ream, execntors *f the estate of
George M. Pullman, have been allotted
as compensation for their service the
sum of $426,000, and with Pullman dead
but a year or so! Old Abe as '-chief
magistrate for four years netted less than
half the sum of his son's share in this
short transaction alone.
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Inches* restlni
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on adjustable chill
most sensitive,
soaja made,, mounted on (onr
large wheels they are nicely palmed and ornamented
and beautifully, .finished throughout. Every farmer
will save twice the cost in one season by weighing the
grain he sells and buys. OUKK AT OMS before the
price Is advanced. Catalogue of scales .free for the ask*
Start,
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{Inc.) Chicago,III.
(•etn, lirtat* U. an Umfklj nMaU»-HHar.)
We bought an immense stock of
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Cash Stoer.
Choice California prunes per pound 6c.
Fancy California dried peaches per pound 10c.
1 pound package cleaned currants 10c.
1. pound package seeded raisins 10c.
'PHONE 59. •••,' OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
LEON QUEENSWARE CO.
We wish all a happy
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We want to thank the people of Leon
and Decatur county for the business
that they helped us do during the
year of 1899, and hope by honora
bledealing and our low prices, that
we will see you at our store during
the year 1900. All this month we
will make special prices on all fancy Jg
Queensware
and Lamps!
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All of our $1.00 Fancy Lamps,thiij week.:...
Salid Bowls wortli 8F»c thi« week...
Best can corn 2 cans
Green Gage.Plums, fine, per can
A good canned Peach per can
10 bars Something Good Soap
2 packages Boston Rolled Oais
A good Broom
Packagt Raisins, all now per package
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1-2 Sacks 50 Cents.
LEON QUEENSWARE CO.
'Phone 59. Opera House Block.
THE BIG CASH LOW PRICED STORE.
Every farmer and citizen in Decatur county will get the benefit of our buying before
the advance in the price on all these goods. Here's where we hit our would-be
competitors "with a natural." We do not say that we sell goods cheaper
than anybody, but Quote the "real thing" in black and white. And make the
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can -nie nlant ner can 10 cents^H-f $
3 pound can pie plant per can 10 cents.*
3 pound can California peahes per can 15c.
3 pound can Galif ornia 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 can blackberries 5c.
RUITS, NUTS, VEGETABLES, CANDISE, OYSTERS, DRESSED POULTRY
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TIME TABLE.
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fu8senger....T:00a.m. Passenger 2:38p. in.
Freight l' :*)a. I Freight 3:00 p. m.
Passenger.. 11:57 a.m Freight 4 S0p. m.
Freight 12:35 p. m. Passenger. ..8:11 m.
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SOUTH. NORTH.
Passenger 11:4»a.m, Freight »:20 a.
Freight 4 :S0 p. m. Passenger 3:4&p,
No. 17 Stock express .going, north, Sundays
only. Due 7:15 a m.
No. 19. Freight on Wednesday only
m, Taktss the place of No. IS.
Coupon tickets on sale to all points. Call
for 1 hem and have baggage checked to desti
nations A. S. THAHP. AT eul.
Makers of
Paint!
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White lead and zinc, keep
talking about strictly pure,
no matter how bad the
stuff is, "it's strictly pure."
tA" Somebody gets a chemical
analysis, usually to prove "A
that the other fellow's stuff
isn't strictly pure. What
do you care for strictly pure
paint if it dopsn't do' what 4
paint is for? Paint is good1'-"
for what 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
NoithSide Druggists.
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ADMINISTRATOK'S NOTIC
Estate ol I. H. Bailey, doceascd.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
csted that on the :S0tta day of December, A?
1899. tbe undersigned was appointed by tlV
clerk of the district court of Decatur ounty.
Iowa, administrator of rtac estate of J. H.
Bailey deceased, late of said county. All
persons indebted to said estate will make
payment to the undersigned, and those having
claims against tbe same will present them
legally authenticated, to said court for allow
ance.
Dated December 30.1KA9.
L9-3t PATRICK GBIFI-IN, AdiBili+strrtdiT"
NOTICE-PROOF OF WILL.
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fault to find will it, mnket
it good at our expense, we|£|
garantee results." We've
got the paint ,and we'll
make that guaranty good
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W.E. MYF.RS&CO.
Istute of Iowa, Decatur county, ss.
District court, in vacation.
To all whom it may concern:
itice is hereby given that an instrument -~f
ig purporting to be the last will and
't of W. H. Knight, deceased, was
hroduced, opened and read by the
and that I have fixed Monday, 1
iy. 1900. as the day for hear-ifeS
»is my otlloial si
Uourt hereto an
^uber, 1899.
J. P. STOCKTON. Clerk.
WANTED!
Reliable man for Manager of
branch office 1 wish to open in
thjs vicinity. Good opening for
an energetic sober man. Kind^
ly mention this paper when,
writing.
A. T. MORRIS, Cincinnati, O:
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