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THE LEON REPORTER.
O. E. HULL, Publisher.
LEON,
Prof. John y. Cruwell, of New York
says: "$1,000,000 000 are invested in
farming." That may be true, but it is
on record that the income from the in
vestment barely pavs the interest on
the mortgages.
The Gear and Cummins papers of the
state are still firing dmn dum bullets at
-eacih other. Lafe Young, of the Des
Moines Capital, and Dave Brant of tl
Clinton Herald, have issued declarations
of independence. They give hints that
they could tell things that would dot
reflect credit on the present organiza
tion a, »•.*
Mr. William Waldrof Astor raised
the rents on all his New York property
the other day on the plea that
#it
Seuator Hale has declared in a public
-speech that it is high time the true sen
timents of the American people con
cerning the contest being waged for the
subjugation of the Boers was made
known to the world. This is a frank
-confession on the part of a Republican
-senator that the administration does
not represent the people. All the peo
ple o£ th£ United States outside of New
York's Anglo-maniac clubs, rejoice at
•every news of British reverse, and yet
the administration is permitted to put
.'this aatioliin the pmitioii of sympathy
^andactuala
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EIKER'S WORK.
Dr. Eiker introduced two bills in the
legislature last week:
One to amend section 4011, chapter
3, title 19, of the code, relating to the
exemption of personal earnings. Ways
And means committee. The bill pro
poses that personal earnings shall be
«xempt from liability for debt to the
amount of $8 per week. All over that
is to be liable for debt.
The otlier to admit Miss Abbie .God
trey of Lamoni, Iowa, to the Soldiers'
Home" at Marshalltown. Soldiers' or
phans' home committee.
The case cited is a striking one. Miss
'Godfrey, it appears in the bill, is
stricken with paralysis. Her father,
John~W. {Godfrey, was chief pilot of the
South Atlantic squadron during the war
of the rebellion, but is now dead and
two brothers died in the civil war.
Her mother is an invalid in the Sol
tliers7 home and she is said to be jreally
in need of care and support.
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THE PEOPLE AND THE
M.^M
$w®»
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Subscription Rates:
One year... fl.50
Bi* months 75
Three months 40
Entered aa second claaa matter at the
Leon ,/otoa, Postoffice.
was
made inevitable by the increased assess
ments. What Dart his recent generos
ity in equipping a full rapid-fire battery
„for the campaign against the Boers may
have had in compelling this levy upon
•his American tenants, he didn't explain
-*or perhaps an increase in the income
tax which he has to pay in England,
'but helped to beat in the United States,
may be involved. *v
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NATIONAL
BANKS.
Secretary Gage's singular and itiex
iplicable. alliance with the Standard Oil
bank of New York was not necessary
to arouse American jealousy of the
national bank system. It has become
forced upon the people more and more
that this system, with the new co
Operation and thorough organization of
the banks by means of clearing houses
and other associations, has become as
*iV positive a menace to" the well being of
the country as was the great bank of
!the United States whic|i Andrew Jack
tson destroyed. The political power of
~. ithe national banks was well shown in
"S"3the presidential campaign of 189S, when
ithev were a unit in antagonism to the.
^people's will. Beginning their opera
H^S-liions by forcing a wholly artificial and
vnost disastrous panic, they went on
through the methods of coercion and
^bribery to terrorize and to corrupt the
-igSdvoters.
To-day the Republican party, in
trenched for a time in absolute and
insolent power, is preparing to multi
|||pply prodigiously the privjleges and the
powers of these national btfnks. A-Ke
publican paper, the New York Sun, in
-an article', a. condensation of which
•M^appears elsewhere on this page, de
^l%^tiWince8 the plan of its party and goes
straight to the very heart of the matter
jy declaring that the national bank
la us go. It says: "To make an ap
preciation of the national bank curren
fly, a part of the Republican program
is Jto- raise deliberately and unnecea
_&v,iwrily an issue which the party of
^Bryahism will be only too happy to
Iptake up."
But. despite the solitary protest of
^tbe Suni the issue is raised. In house
lv|jtn(T senate the Bepubiicans are aligned
fpn favof of the national bank policy,
land "the party of Bryanism"—that is,
^|be iarty of true and progressive Dem
t—is ready to take' it np, -and
.poofidenoe in a vi8tory to,
ABsauuTEnrtoineE
Editor David Brant, a republican him
self and former member of the legisla
ture of Iowa from the Cedar Rapids dis
trict, was in Des Moines to witness the
close of the struggle of the senatorship,
and furnished the following interesting
news in his Clinton4 Herald:
"The only basis upon which the ac
tion of the Gear supporters at the house
caucus can be explained is upon the dual
hypothesis that to the victors belong all
the spoils and that all is fair in war.
There have'been all kinds of legislative
caucuses in this state for the nomina
tion of speakers, senators and minor of
ttcials but up to Saturday night not on
ever denied the members of the legisla
ture the right to cast his vote in'secrecy
as is accorded to all voters at the polls.
The Australian ballot was invoked to
keep imperious persons and powerful in
fluences from determining how electors
cast their votes and then punishing them
for acting against the wishes of
those who would dictate how they
should vo^le.
"It is a fact already well known that
the two~Blythes, Ed.Hunter and a few
other leaders made up the entire list of
candidates for over fifty places in the
house and had them printed and ready
to be cast while not a half dozen of the
forty-three members who voted the
tickets knew their composition till they
reached the state house a half hour he
tore the caucus was held. Young men
and women who were candidates heard
a day or two before the caucus was held
that a Gear slate had been made and
asked their members to ascertain heth
er hey were on the slate so that if not
they might go home and save expenses,
but no information could be secured upon
the subject even by the members sup
porting Gear.
"The disposition ol the forty or fifty
places were nwrly aH pftoed atthe dis-
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Gear-county stood not the least^cTialioa I in
January 1st an advance of $5 per
top or $75.00 per car load, was made on
nails and wire by the American Steel &
Wire Co., and from that date flails
jumped to $3.35 per keg, barbed wire to
$4 and plain galvanized wire to $3.70
per 100 pounds. How do the" prosper
ity howlers like this? Has prosperity
struck the consumers of these goods
with such force as to justify them in
standing the raise.
1
Thin, pale, anaemic girls
need a fatty food to enrich
their blood, give color -to
their cheeks and restore their
health and strength. It isj
safe to say that they nearly«
all reject fat with their food.
or
COD LIVER OIL
WfTH HYPOPNOSPMTES ofLIME4 SODA
is exactly what they require
it not only gives them the im
portant element (cod-liver oil)
in a palatable and easily di
gested form,but also the hypo
phosphites which are so valua
ble in nervous disorders that
usually accompany anatmia.
SCOTtS EMULSION is a
fatty food that is more easily
digested than any other form
of fat A certain amount of
flesh is necessary for health.
You can get it in thirway.
We have known per
ms to gain a pound a
lywhite
«nd$»
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Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
IIOVM. WKIWO POWDER CO.. HEW YOBK.
HOW. IT WAS DONE. A BLOW FROM A FRIEND.
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ESTABLISHED 1854. LEON. IOWA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1.1900.
POWDER
The New York Sun, Republican. Smashes
the Currency Bill
The debt refunding scheme, which
the senate finance committee has at
tached to the house currency bill,
avowediy intended for the benefit of
the national banks. It proposes to
create $850,000,000 at 2 per cent, thirty'
year government bonds, in order that
the banks may take out circulating
notes against them to their par value,
paying on the notes a tax of only
per cent, per annum, and clearing on
them a profit, of per cent, per an
num. S
national
By the provisions of the
bank act, the government not only
guarantees indirectly through its bonds
the redemption of national bank cur
rencv, but undertakes, directly, should
any national bank fail to redeem its
enotes at onae, selling the bonds after
ward to reimburse itself. It the bonds
should fail to produce enough t.o repay
what has thus been paid out, the gov
ernment gels back the deficiency only
aftet the bank's assets, on which it has
a prior lien for it, are liquidated.
Furthermore, when any national
bank for any reason surrenders its
circulation, it pays the government an
equal amount of lawful money, and the
government thereupon assumes pay
ment of the circulation. The notes
thus surrendered become, therefore,
the direct debt of the government
|They amounted, in the aggregate, at
the beginning of this month, to mote
than 000,000.
It is only because the national, banks
issue circulating not?s to serve as
money that the federal government
takes charge of them.
Of the two currency bills before' con
Kress, both provide for the nfaintenarice
ofpaper currency issued directly by
surejthe government, arid for it* redemption
gold
of getting any of the better positions if redemption fund. One-or the other
they we're needed in securing votes.
Thus two of the best paying positions,
chief clerk and journal clerk, were given
to Warren county, evidently for the
purpose of securing a vote for Gear.
Many other such instances could be
given. It remains to be seen how the
Blythes will apportion the committee
places."
on demand by a sufficieht' gold
of these two bills is pretty sure to
become a law. Then the government
notes will be as nearly a perfect form
of paper money as human wit can
devise. The government, if all else
fails, can, to redeem notes, always levy
and collect taxes or Sell bonds, whereas
banks must/ wait upon their debtors,
and, possibly, tail to collect the whole
of what these debtors owe them.
This- being so, tH^ perpetuation of
the national bank system becomes not
only unnecessary but a source of use
less expense to the nation. In the
course of the next two years, the
charters of most of the national banks
expire and need not be extended.
their stockholders desire to continue
in business they can reincorporate un
der the state laws, losing only the
privilege of issuing circulating notes,
which, neyer should have been given
them. In place of the circulation which
will thus be retired the government can
issue an equal amount of its own notes
ita redemption of an equal amount of
bonds, and thus prevent a contraction
of the currency and save considerable
interest.
To make the perpetuation of nation
al bank currency a part of the Repub
lican program is to raise, deliberately
and unnecessarily, an issue which the
party of Bryanism, will be only too
happy to take up. The question for
the Republican party is: Shall we, by
entering the next presidential cam
paign us the champions of national
bank money, give to the cause of Bry
anism a strength it could not other
wise hope for, or shall we let the banks
f?o?
Common sense is in favor of answer
ing the question against the banks.
Let the national banks go!
Representative Champ Clark, of Mo.
thinks it is about time to put up wood
I'pulp and printing paper on tbe free
list, in order to head off the paper
trust, which is putting the screws oa
the users of printing paper, and he
thinks such a bill might be put through
I congress, because the Republicans
would fear the influence of the country
papers, the publishers of which feel
the.increaaed price of the paper most.
He said one editor in the district
wrote him that the increase' in the
price of paper 'would .cost him |820
more, to print the same number of
papers in 1900 that he printed in 1899.
He thinks something mil have to be
"done or mafay small publishers will
have to choose between shutting up
shop or raising»their subscription price.
When you buy *anything ask
I deafer what the price of the same article
I was a year ago and if the trnat that con
trols it baa not put up the price recent
lly. It costs just twice* a* much to.
I furnish a house or farm it it did
PURELY PICKWICKIAN.
£LC*
"live
Mr. 'Mckinley's ''tweedledum-and
tweedledee?' talk to congress on trusts
has encouraged several ^administration
organs to declare that the trust issue is
settled. "It will be out of the reach of
the Democratic platform-makers," say
these Republican press prophets. "The
Republicans will take charge of the trust
problem, and the people will be satisfied
with their solution of it."
Congressman Grosvenor, however,
who is the mouth-piece of the adminis
tratibn iti the house, itas already punc
tured all these vaticinations concerning
Republican ''trust-busting" with federal
weapons. "I am a states'-rights man,"
he declares, "in this trust matter, and
the United States has. stretched its
statutory powers to the limit in legiBlat
ing against the trusts in the Sherman
act."
Griggs, Mr. Mckinley's New Jersey
attorney general, talks in the same
strain as Grosvenor. Trusts operating
interstate business, like the sugar trust
and the coal oil trust,.for example, car.
not, according to these purveyors of the
president's opinions on governmental
policies, be curbed in their extortion un
less the several stated legislatures do the
curbing.
When it is considered how completely
in the grasp of the trusts and their pol
itical agents area majority of the states
that cast their electoral votes for Mc
Kinley, some idea can be had of the
practicability and nearness of the rem
edy proposed by Mr. McKinley's two
mouthpieces.
The mild protest of our imperialistic
president against trusts is purely Pick
wickian.—Kansas Citv Times.
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THE PRICE OF IMPERIALISM.
The New York World recently set
out in picturesque a net striking form
what is called "The Frtiits of Imperial
ism From .One Day's News, or Benevo
lent AssimllUtion Up to Date." Here
is the list:
1. A new anip^culiarly fatal tyie
of plague appealed in Manila^
2. A Manila dispatch .eporting that
the numberof cajses of insanity among
American troopts exceeds tljat in any
previous war.
3. Gen. Otis'i list of CMualties for
the day—five killed %nd seven wound-
A
island, and the probability that for
eign complications may arise from it.
5. l^ye men about to be garroted in
Ponce.
0. Seventeen insane soldiers shipped
home from Manial.
This is a pretty high rate to pay for
one day's imperialism, and to it might
be added the day's interest on the
$350,000,000 which this mefciless and
unnecessary war has already cost.
Seasoned native lumber, dimension
stuff and bridge plank, material foi
barns and barn frames always on hand.
to
•m
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
25c.
35c.
35c.
I5c.
I5c.
15c.
15c.
10c.
to
to
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10c.
10c.
25c.
25c.
20c.
rsc.
25c.
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2 15c.
25c.
25c.
25c.
F. D. CLOSE.
Choice California prunes per pound 6c.
Fancy Cal|forniardried peaches per pound 10c.
1 pound package cleaned currants 10c.
pound package seeded raisins
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LEON QUEENSWARE CO.
'Phone 59. Opera House Block.'
Of Genuine Bargains for Decatur
Couny Shoppers.
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A Big Snap!
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2 50c.
20c.
Rock Bottom Grocery Prices.
for sacks Clark's special flour. -r
25 $i.oo for 1 sack gold medal flour.
to
for 5 pounds pure home ground buckwheat.
for 5 pounds fancy broken rice.
for 1 gallon paii Clover brand syrup
for 1 gallon extra farcy sorghum,
for 3 pound can California table poaches.
for 3 pound can California apricots.
for 3 pound can Blackberries.
for 3 pound can raspberries
for 1 glass of pure honev.
for 1 glass of home made jell
for 1 glass jam, assorted flavor.
for 10 ba.s cream floating soap.
for 10 bars Something Good soap.
for 1 gallon pure cidar vinegar.
for 2 packages Boston rolled oats.
,10c. for I package None Such mince moat S-i
for 3 pound package currants
1$[ VtfC.'Tdrl yrrftdjG|H£^dried retches.
or 1 a a
for 1 good
20c.
broom.
for 1 pail iell.
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1 pail peach butter,
5c. for 1 packages tooth picks.
ISe*. cona
25c.
for 1 ten quart pail.
25c
10c.
for 6 packages gold dust.
25c.
for 1200 best parlor matches.
for
2
sacks corn meal.
for pound best Japan tea.
for 8 pounds hominy. ,*
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We bought an immense'stock of
J4*:»f.rtt^y.
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LEON BARGAIN CORNER. 5
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 s§
competitors "with a natural." We do not say that we sell goods cheaper
than anybody, but Quote the "real thing0 in black and white. And make theki
iFOLLOWIN^iMsDOWN PRICES
3 pound can pie plant per can 10 cents.
3 pound can California peahes 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 40cl
3 pound can blackberries 2 cans for 25c. 5:
3 pound can raspberries 2 cans 25c.
Pint jars of Jams and Preserves 2 cans 25c.
21b can blackberries 5c.
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BRUITS NUTS, VE6ETABLES. CANDISE. OYSTERS. DRESSED POULTRY
Dried Fruits- lor Gtisti
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11:57 a.m Freight 4/SST® 1.
Freight 12:85 p.Jn. [Passenger. .(»••uJs£%n-'
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Ooupon HcketH on its, (.'all
(or them and have baggv to destl
nation.
A. i.-
Makers o|
Paint!
Agent.
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 the other fellow's stuff
isn't strictly pure. What
do you care for strictly pure
\paint if it doesu't do what
paint is for? Paint is good
for wTrat.it does, not. what
^4it is. We~Sell the
Devoe Ready Painty
we don't know whether its
strictly pur6 or not. and
don't care|( The ma
say "'If ajivbody has
fault to find will if, make
it good at our expensp, we
garantee results." We've
got tbe paint, and we'll
.^make that guaranty good.
W. E. MYERS & CO.
KXECUTOll'S NOTICE
Estate or Wm. Knight, deceased.
Notice ts hereby given to all person^ inter
rsted, that on the ifitti duy of Januurv-
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A. I).
1900, the undersigned was appointed ly the
clerk or the district court of Decatur county
Iowa, executor of the estate or W111
Knight deceRsed, late of said county- All
persons indebted to said estate will make pay
ment to the undersigned, aud those having
claims against the same will present tbojn
lepally authenticated to .said court ror allow
ance,
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Dated Jan. 15, lfioi).
21-Sr MINERVA KNIOHT, Kxecutrlx.
WANTED]
liable man for Manager of
»e I wish to opeu in
man.
pa per
tic sober
wheir
ention this
ing.
A. T. MORRIS, Cincinnati, O.
Illustrated uatalogue4-0,po8tage
ofllcj, ol "Blair" the Des
t, has been established at
A branch
Moines florist,
THE RKPORTKR office. Parties desiring
cut flowers can leave their order at this
office and the flowers wll be promptly
furnished. Can quote prices on any cut
flower8, and guarantee flowers fresh.
Seasoned native
wood for sale.
Lumber, posts and
(J. E. GARDNER.
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