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iHE LEON REPORTER.
O. E. HULL, Publisher.
LEON,
IOWA
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LeonJowa,Postoffiee.
Ex-President [larrison says: "I rs
gnrd the Puerto Uico bill as a most se
rious departure from right principles."
•'I am pleased with the action of con
gress in passing the Porto Rican tarifl
measure, as I believe in treating our new
possessions as colonies, not as territor
ies," says Gov. Shaw, of Iowa. That
man Shaw certainly has almost the
audacity of a genius.
The passage of the Puerto Rican bill
by the house has aroused a storm of
protest from prominent Indiana repub
licans. Former President Harrison and
republican stale officials condemn the
.v'ineasure,
and are congratulating the
only congressman lrotn the state who
opposed it. Indiana senators will be
urged to vote against it. It has devel
oped that McKinlev requested all of the
congressmen to support the measure.
HOW THE PORTO RICANS TAKE IT.
A telegram, of course through the As-
sociated Press, says
,-the
our
Porto lticans
are jubilant over the tariff bill. The
people
generally are satisfied with and
approve the 15 per cent, measure." How
happy they must be! The poor
ing people happy at the very
being taxed on brejid to help 01
good and benevolent sugar and^ tobaccD
trust 1 But continues the telegram:
"They are feverishlv awaiting the action
of the senate." Let, the happiness and
joy of the Porto Ricansbe fired out of
starv-
idea of
out the
assimilating guns at the Filipinos,
and they will quickly dro,. their arms
anil yield to the blandishments of a se
ductive tariff. Oh, happy people! Oh,
nice McKinley!! Oh, benevolent trusts!!!
As the clergyman said on the platform
Chicago when Rockefeller donated
f'2,000,000 to the Chicago uniyersity
"We thank Thee, O Lord,
Kti^.
l..'.
for
having
»Mi^lir RockL?rd, increase
O Lord, give our Rockefellers m» And
lions! And they are getting thein,
truly. -v
THAT PORTO RICAN TARIFF
ue iau te co doubt that the ad
ministration has committed a great tac'
icttl blunder in forcing the Porto Rican
tariff bill to passage.
McKinley sees his erroi and endeavors
to throw a sop to the people by recom
mending a .gift cf $2,000,000 to the starv
ing inhabitants of Porto Rico.
This will not do. Charity is a good
tiling, but all the people of Porto Rico
dt'imtnd is justice, and that is what Mc
Kinley denies to them.
[t is somewhat remaikable that strong
ft oppose vali
Jitly this robbe.y bymff of*Porto
Rico, but these editors see in"ft^the de
feat of the republican party.
In discussing this matter, tsfie Chicago
Times-Herald boldly says:
"In this worse than unfortunate state
of aflairs responsibility for1 the reversal
^"ortirf fepublican policy toward Porto
Rico is laid directly at. the door of the.
president. It is credibly reported that
but for Mr. McKinley's ohange of front
the bill reported by the ways and means
committee would have been defeated
with or without tbe compromise that
went to the percentage and not to the
principle of the wrong. Congressman
Watson of the sixth Indiana district
says that the president sent for bim and
induced him to vote for the bill in the
faca of hundreds of telegraphic protests
^Sjcom his constituents."
And yet, in December, William Mc
"kinley held entirely opposite views.
Then he said in his message to congress
that Porto Rico should have free trade.
His exact words were:
"The markets of the United States
should be opened up to her products.
Our-plain duty is to abolish all custom
tariffs between the United States and
Porto Rico and give her products free
access to our markets."
'What Ms crused the president's
of front? Plainly the malign
influence of the sugar and tobacco
trusts.
'"'change
Will the $2,000,000 gift of the people's
money to Porto Rico satisfy the con*
science of the American people? Cer
tainly not. There is a principle at
stake and that principle has been vio
lated, implying also a violation' of the
constitution. •»-y
Apropos of this, the" Times-Herald
says
"No two million dollar sop of customs
rebated for the use and beneiit of dis
tressed Porto Ricans can drug the con
science of the American people or lull to
sleep the suspicions that insist that
gross injustice is being .lone to Porto
Rico because the syigar and tobacco
trusts dread Cuba and the Philippines
looming in the-future."
There is no necessity for a democratic
newspaper to say faore than this.
President. McKinley and his following
are condemned by his own
strongest and
molt able friend.—Chicago Dispatch.
BY HON. W. BRYAN.
The country is safe in the hands of
volunteers."
"Government should be made so that
every citieen will be ready to die to
jpr'
Not long ago a public man who had
been made the central figure in a rather
cutting cartoon complained to Mark
Hanna about the illustration, saying
that he was half inclined to sue the
paper for $25,000 damages for holding
him up to public ridicule. "I wish you
would," said Senator Hanna "if youcan
get $25,000 for that picture it will insure
my getting about $25,000,000 for all the
cartoons that have been printed about
me."
The Salt Lake Tribune pictures tne
Roberts twins singing, as they gaze at
the figure of their parent sprawling
home: "Ha, ha, ha—that's my pa
fired out of Washington—^oo much ma,"
LBLISHED 1854. LEON. IOWA, THURSDAY, MARCH 15.1900.
iBSOBuniykRE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
said by Mr,
Shreveport,
Among the terse things
Bryan in his addres9 in
March 1st, were these:
"No king on earth would have the
unlimited power of the president, if
the people approve of the Porto Rican
tarifl bill.'"
'The Republican .party is borrowing
from England all that is bad, but will
not take the income tax, which is
good."
"It the people do not get the trust
question in their heads, they will get it
in their necks."
'The plea of destiny is, the plea of
cowardice." "'$£*!
'No nation is strong enough to do
wrong."
"Admiral Dewey should be made to
correspond with Lafayette and not
with Lord Clive."
"Conquest means not destiny, but
covetousness and temptation."
'God does not inspire one man to
conquer another, and inspire the other
to die for independence."
"It is not the producer, but the non
producer of wealth, that makes the
laws."
"So long as the former lets the mo
nopolist make the laws, they will not
meet at summer resorts
"If the people wish to extinguish
trusts they must take the extinguished
out of the hands of monopolists."
"Monopolists opposed the Democracy
because it was the party of the com
mon people."
"The Democratic party is now built
from the voter up heretofore it was
built from the financier down."
"If the Republican party destroys
trusts it will destroy the goose that lays
the golden egg."
"No large standing army is needed.
jfsT'wl' *ct
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Babies and children need
proper food, rarely ever medi
cine. If they do not thrive
oh their food something is.
wrong. They need a little
help to get their digestive
machinery working properly.
COD'LIVER OIL
WTTH NYPOPHOSPM/TES OFLJME 4.S0DA
will generally correct this
difficult?, -a
If you will put from tfrie
fourth to half a teaspoonful
in baby's bottle three or four
times a day you will soon see
a marked improvement For
larger children, from half to
a teaspoonful, according to
age, dissolved in their milk,
if you so desire, will very,
soon show its great nourish'
ing power. If the mother's
milk does not nourish the'
bafey, she needs' the emul
sion. It will show an effect,
at once both upon mother
and child.
50c. and f(.oo, alt druggist*.
'SCOTT & BOWNE, ChmbH, H«w
ii 11 mi. 1 1 ...11 J»II II.'IIHI
Dakino
IF HE COULD DO IT OVER AOAIN.
The1 president, according to editori: 1
comment, says the Chicago Times Hei
aid, is generally held to have yielded
unwisely for expediency's sake held to
have sacrificed his views and aban
doned the principle enunciated in his
message, only to save the Republican
party in the house from sore humilia
tion.
This is the view of the press. Semi
authoritative statements have been
widely printed to the effect that the
president still adheres to the sentiment
in his message. He is credited with
saying that if he had the message to
write over again he would, as before,
urge it as 'our plain duty' to give free
trade to Porto Rico.
In that case one thinks, "If so soon 1
was to be done for, I wonder what 1
was begun for." But what is there to
restore the rigidity of the executive's
spinal column, cauterised into disin
tegrated fragments by the trust moxai?
Is McKinley a mere puppet in the
bands of the avowed enemies of the
interests of the people, or does he rely
upon Providence to give him nerve?
There are those who believe thit Prov
idence watches men and protects the
people, and that the ancient divine
right of kings has been transformed
into popular sovereignty.
LIGHT ON CANAL CONSPIRACY. 1
There is abundant evidence that the
people of the West have not been de
ceived by W. P. Hepburn's buncombe
tactics with his Nicaragua canal bill,
Several Iowa newspapers characterise
his bill as purely obstructive. Even the
8an Diego (Cal.) Union says of the Hep
burn report on the House bill: "Unfor
tunately the report carried with its rec
ommendations for a line of action which,
if followed, could-tuurdly fail to postpone
iadefiniMtytbe bai(din£ of thft
..«7 —i poiiiiun jur. Hepburn taf
.tak$s
in the report is precisely the one that is
urged by shrewd opponents of the canal
pioject.
Thus Mr.. Hepburn's conduct is shown
in its true light as far away as the Pa
cific coast. He is, in fact, urging the
passage of a canal bill which contains
conditions that, are utterly impossible
as long as the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is
in force. In the same breath he op
poses the negotiation of any new treaty
for the modification or abrogation of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. It is the
old transparent, threadbare trick of a
Congressman zealously supporting a
bill in the House for effect on his' con
stituents, while he knows thai the I il
must be killed in the senate.
In this case Mr. Hepburn uses the
familiar trick not only deceive his
constituents, but to forward the inter
ests of the transcontinental railways.
But Iowa people are sensitive on the
question of railway domination, and to
have him condemned it is only neces
sary to expose his insincerity and to
unmask his ^purpose
The Nicaragua canal was never in
such danger as now. And it is in this
danger solely because of the adroit at
tempt of Mr. Hepburn and his associates
to prevent legislation by assuming that
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is no bar to
the construction of the Waterway. By
the Hepburn scheme. the fight of the
transcontinental' railways against the
canal is masked under a pretense of
zeal for the canal. It is almost beyond
belief that any well-informed Represent
ative oj
S
anypoint-inCentral Amen^itshould
be ratified -by the Senate. Such a course
(Harried to %-jSuocMBsefol: endi would dis.
arm tbe tranaoofttinenUl railway lobby
^nd defeat tfajeknUwantilj plotters #tbe
Hepburn kiad «Ace«nd fo alMfater
Ooean, Feb«-^ IflOQr /-M
A grekt: nan^ gold' 'democrat* are
considering which fe 'the inore^ danger
ous aid greater eryil^Brykri and* a
lingering affectio^ for a dead issu^,
DO NOT BE DeCEIVED.
The McKiiiley organs are filled with
Republican protests against the carrying
out by the manager^ of-the party of the
personal imperial policy of the presi
dent.
Every issue contains' something like
the following trom il p^omineut Repub
lican seqator or representatTve:
I am opposed to the Porto Rican
tariff bill in its entirely. I am uncom
promisingly opposed to the ship subsidy
billf the president is violating the con*
stitution the downfall of the republic
will date from the administration of
William McKinley," and other denunci
ations ofim perialisra, etc.
One would suppose that with all this
hue and cry, that a large number of
prominent Republicans were upon the
point of abandoning Mr. McKinley,
but it is all done for effect and is part of
a scheme to again deceive -and betray
the people of the United States as they
were deceived and betrayed in 18U0.
Here is the test:
Do any of them VOTE against the
McKinley policy
011
gresu? Indeed not. The record shows
that all of thein fall into line and eat
their own denunciations. Even that
once grand old man, Hoar, whose teais
have been creating a political freshet
throughout the country, who was ac
cusing of backing Aguinaldo, announces
bis determination to vote for William
McKinley. Is it the party lash that is
so galling? No, it is the voice of the
pocket, the fear that principle will rek
gate them to black bread and sour beer.
The flesh pots of the Republican party,
of the trusts, syndicates, combiner,
banks and money-lenders, twist their
rubber necks away from justice, equity
and liberty, and while their mouths
spout the smoke of virtue, morality and
patriotism, the gastric juice of their
stomachs—the: only hearts they possess
—drivels with the McKinley-Hanna
Rockefeller nutriment.
These men have not the courage of
their convictions,- or else they are arrant
hypociites, Uriah Heeps weeping over
the wrongs of mankind and helping to
create greater wrongs. They agitate for
agitation's sake, and cover up their rank
coiruption with a filmy veil of virtue
and patriotism which should not deceive
any one. Whenever
$
ft
?the floor of con
R_
thaatrtrigs thi$tg^Vrg
cle.
Hi
Senator nsan be misled by-such
tacticjfa Tbe$fore the real fiends of
the canal should rally openly agatnst
Mr. Hepburn-and insist' 'upon proper
amendment of his bill.
At thesarne titne iiftnds of the canal
in the Senate should urge an early re
port on the Ilay-Pauncefote treaty,
demanding such amenihmnts as will
makeHt aath&ctory to the'pe'ople. If
the Mir tteaty is atnended so as to
omit aU re^Mnee to the Suez canal and
the EuropeafrcodeeVti go%« tp stipolftte
that the -U^tM '8tiit«« -and England
ilP?.® ^^fJeaty and
:,or
McKitileyj enormous :8ub8idies^ to fifof
byyqiwltb^era in a{tiius^^
perialism in:t^e cruel form of .col^es
ttxed and unrepresented, and no
raent to «irb~ the pd^et1 or rapadtyM
trusts. T(te men whose«timelj^|id
electeldMelUtil^^teabocked anri ^az
e^ at the Want ci moderation o|i4be
(iwtof ihe party in power.—Ma«aon
Heine
republican is
found denouncing JjjfK.iole*v
or a
of the ...
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There is an ominous growl from the
Russian bear that may make the British
lion moderate its roar. The St. Peters
buig Press says: "It is the duty of Eu.
rope to intervene and end the most in
famous of all wars England has ever
waged for predatory purposes." The
Prince of Wales had better begin fortify
ing local kopjes instead of planning sur
prising entertainments for Tod Sloan.
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Fancy
Goods,
Meats,
Flour,
Staple
Groceries!
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'Phone 59. Opera House Block.
At
YOUR BUSINESS!
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All we ask
A 1 1
is to look at our
Rock Bottom Grocery Prices.
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JJ 6c. buys 1 can Tomatoes two pounds.1
ilf 5c. buys 1 can Pumpkinltwojpounds,
ft 10c. buys I glass Jell, assorted fruit,
ft 25c. buys 1 dozen Fancy Lemons.
Jg IOc. buys 1 pound Evaporated Apples.
S 20c. buys 1 dozen Oranges.
50c. buys 2 sk. Clark's Special Flour,
ili $1.00 buys I fullsk. White Loaf Flour
none better.
25c. buys 2 sks. Meal.
25c. buys 1.0 bars Something Good
15c. buys 1 ib. Golden RiaCoffee.
^jr 20c. buys 1 Ib. Peaberry Coffee,
ft 5c. buys 5 dozen Clothes Pins,
ft 20c. buys 1 pail Jell.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK,
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hit
Faney California evaporated ppaches....,
Fancy California prunes per pound...
2 pound ean cove oysters per can.....
No. 1 Japan Rice per pound
Jam-apd preserves per jar or can
Fancy sorghum per gallon
Fancy Syrup per gallon.
Spare ribs per pound..
I Meat Department.
Dry salt meat fine per potind .....7...
fancy smoked plates per pound..
Short fat backs fine per pound
Fancy streaked sides per pound Oc
Fancy breaklast bacon per pound........... JJc
Special Price on Cooked Ham Per Pound
REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXY. NO. 29
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TIME TABLE.
C. B. & O.
SOUTH NORTH
I'ttssenger....6:53 a.m. Passenger 2:38p/m.
Freight 1':X) a. m. Freight 3:00 p. m.
Passenger..
11:57 a.m Freight 4 60p. m.
Freight 12:35 p.m. Passenger. ,.8:B0 p. w.
K. «T
w.
80U1H. NORTH.
Passenger 11:63 a. m, 1 Freight »:35 a.
Freight 4:50p.m. Passenger S:4&p,
No. 17 Stock express going, north, Sundays
only. Due7:15a.m.
No. 19. Freight ou Wednesday only 8:05 a.
m. Takes the place of No. 13.
Coupon tickets on sule to all points. Call
(or them and have baggage checked to desti
nation, A. S, THAKP. Agent.
Makers of
Paint!
White lead and zinc, keep
talking about strictly pure,
uo matter how bad the
stuff is, "itV«.trictly 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 doesn't do what
paint is for? Paint, is good
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
fault to find wilt it, make,
it good at our expense, we
garantee results." We've
got tine paint, and we'll
make that guaranty good.
W. E. MYERS & CO.
Not thSide Druggists.
Mather—the 30 years dentist of
30 years experience is at l*on
morning of the 27th and wil
until the last of every month^
ADMINISTRATORS
the
rt-main
Estate ot C. T. Stephens,
Notice is hereby givenjj(F'!ease l.
ested, that on the rth^Fp ail persons inter
19tK), the undersiejijPr
tla^
March. A. D.
the district appoinied by
Iowa, AdminJT?~®f'_
of„,
•Stephens
Decatur county,
rt»J«"8tr.ato.r
of the estate of C.T.
'WCeased, late of said county. All
debted to said estate will makepay
the undersigned, and those having
claims against the same will present them
lepally authenticated to said court for allow-:
ance.
Dated March-7,1900.
88-81 J. PBUDEW, Administrator
ADMI^STRATRIX'S NOTICE.
later.
____ A. U».-i
clerk of the district court of Be
town, administratrix of the ematriBl
Gardner deceased, late of .satd couTMBiril
persons indebted to said estate-will mak^ay:
ment to the undersigned, and those having
claims against (he same will present ih6m(
legally authenticated to said courl fer allow
ance.
Dated March ti, 1900.
38-3t SARAH A. GARDNER, Administratrix.
OON'T BE FOOLEDI
The market is being flooded
with worthless imitations si
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
...TEA...
To protect the public we cal
especial attention teour trad*
mark, printed on every pacts*
the nuine
For Sale by all
ftr.
s.
Will prove the
worth of our
goods and the
low prices offer
ed here.
Bargain Center
LOWER PRICES MADE
THAN ANY
FIRM IN THIS CITY.
THE BIG CASH STORE
Corner 8th and Main,
Telephone No. I.
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