ESTABLISHED 1854.
THE LEON REPORTER.
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'Leon ,Iowa, Postoffice.
Militarism is costing this country a
pile of money, anil the people must foot
the bill.
On April 3, 1900, the senate at' ttie in
stigation of the president voted to
change this once Croat Republic into an
imperial monarchy. It banished the
Declaration of Independence, abrogated
the constitution ana made our once
Glorious Flag an emblem of "criminal
aggression," tyranny and oppression.
"1 did dresin once," said ex speake
•Reed in a recent conversation in Wash
ington, "that the Republic would last
iforever but now I am waking up."
Upon whose brow does the prophetic
eye of the American Tsar see a crown?
Will Marcus A. Hanna be the Nero who
'will lead the festitivites in celebrating
the destruction of the Republic?—Cin
•cinnati Enquirer.
?V.'There were just nine republican con
gressmen who demonstrated that they
:are uncompromising Americans. They
did it by their votes on the Porto ltican
tariff bill. Their names are: Ou
paeker of Indiana, Fletcher and Heat
wo'le of Minnesota, Lane of Iowa, Lit
•tlefield of Maine, Loriuier and Warner
of Illinois, McCall of Massachusetts and
H. C. Smith of Michigan.
The Pittsburg Post calls attention to
the cost of imperialism. Imperialism
is very inspiring in blowing horns and
'beating drums, but when it comes to
-setting down the cost in dollars and
-cents—every penny drained from the
ipockets of the people—it naturally
weakens our jingo enthusiasm. The ap
propriations for the next year by our
•congress amounts to between $8 and .$9
:par
ineeting the expenses
.establishments.
of our military
.The Leon Journal devoted almost a
'column of its valuable editorial space
last week to telling the people and pub
lishers of Iowa that the paper trust had
•not advanced prices. The Journal's
argument in favor of the paper trust is
read with considerable misgivings. The
ipeople remember that it was the Jour
nal editor who also insisted- that the
price of wire and nails had not advanc
ed, and then bad the audacity to say
that farmers were selling their corn at aii
-advance of over 400 per cent, on the
.prices in 1896. Poor old Journal. Fair
minded people can believe very little
.that appears in its editorial columns.
How protection serves our people on
two articles, and it serves us the same
on hundreds of others, is stated in the
'St. Louis Republic as follows:
"The New York price of barb wire to
'New Yorkers is $4.15 per hundred
pounds, while the price to foreigners is
$2.20 per hundred pounds. The Com
pany which sell wood alcohol for 90
•cents per gallon in this country sells it
for 50 cents a gallon in European coun
tries."
It will be noted that our farmers have
'to pay nearly double the honest price
for their wire. Will they still continue
to vote for the party that puts this bur
den on them? Let them study this ab
.Iject lesson and decide if they can afford
•it.
"VS'
The FeJeral taxation averages $8,000'
'000 a month more than the expenditur
es and has since last July. Not one
cent of the public debt is being paid off,
'in tact it is being doubled by being
changed into gold bonds and the excess
of revenue is being given free of interest
to favorite banks for their use. Is such
(financiering just to our people who are
being impoyerished by such excessive
•taxation? As it is determined by the
^present administration to make our
'bonded debt perpetual for the benefit of
•the bankers certainly taxes should be
'reduced to the actual expenditures
'which God knows are enormous enough
'under our present regime. We are pay
ing nearly $2,000,000 a day Federal
•taxes.
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'tfhe St. Louis Republic sums up Seaa
'tor Beyeridge's position as follows:
"Therefore Senator Beveridge assumes
this remarkable position. He announces
in thesenate that he favors free trade
ifor Porto Rico. He thinks it ought to
come at-tmce. It hurts him to see the
Porto Uicans starving because of the
American denial ol their rights. It ife a
shame. But if Senator Beveridge's
wicked partner, the republican organiz
ation in the senate, will not adopt his
view and vote for free trade, then Sena
tor Beveridge will stand by his wicked
partner to .the last and yote for that
-wicked partner's bill, placing a tariff tax
Ott the Porto Jiicans in defiance of the
"^^isonstitution.
He
will play both
end#
Against th«mlddle, though thV:h?ayens
HENRY WATTERSON FOR 1IRYAN.
The following from the pan of Henry
Watterson, in the Louisville Courier
Journal, is good reading:
Says our esteemed contemporary, the
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer:
"Several prominent democratic nfeWs
papers which were not supporters
of the Chicago platform of 1896 have
recently given in their adherence to
Bryanism—we think at this moment of
the Courier Journal, Charleston News
and Courier and Atlanta Journal—but
the character of their reception has
been such as is well calculated to chill
the zeal of new recruits. They are
received into the fold with evident
reluctance, and only received at all
because it had been promised them that
they would be if they evidenced due
contrition. Colonel Bryan told the
dissenters, in seveial speeches, two and
three years ago, that if they returned
it must be in sackcloth and ashes.
Several of our newspaper contemp
oraries and fellow citizens have gone
back into the ranks, thus arrayed, and
have had the welcome that belongs to
abasement. There is no fatted calf
and no rings for the fingers, but a good
deal of guying and very little room
accorded on the end of the bench."
It may be thus in North Carolina.
But we have failed to discover the
like in Kentucky. The Courier-Jour
nal is wearing no sackcloth to speak of.
Having eaten no fire we have had oc
casion to swallow no dirt, and we are
free as a wood sawyer and as happy
as a big sunflower.
We are a democrat and not a republi
can. In 1896 we thought the country
raenanced by a great national danger
It was rescued from this danger. It
seems to be threatened by another.
We would rescue it from that. To
lescue it in 1896 we had to oppose the
regular ticket of our party. We asked
capita, about one-half of which goes
"forglory and imperTaTi8ni-iSL*irJ_^artex "no alffll1f4sv
nyr. The Courier-Journal does as it
pleases, pays its own way, defies the
consequences, denies the confiscator,
and there you are! .••y
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier,
takes our esteemed contemporary, the
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, perhaps
moreT'seriously than the occasion war
rants. Say the News and Courier:
We do not regard the financial is
sue as an Issue of the present hour,
but even if it were the cpntrolhng is
sue at the next presidential election,
we should perfer to risk free silver
rather than risk the overthrow of our
present republican form of govern
ment. It is because we believe that
the triumph of the spirit of imperial
ism would be more disastrous to our
government and its institutions and
laws than would be the success of Mr.
Bryan's financial theories, that we
have said that it was the duty of the
democratic voters of this country,
whatever their opinions upon the
money question, to support Mr. Bryan
for president at the next election, rath
er than risk the revolution in our sys
tern of government which would at
tend the triumph of Mr. McKinley and
his party.
"At the recent democratic conven
tion in Nebraska—Mr. Bryan's own
state—a platform was adopted, the
chief part of which relates to imperial
ism. In this platform there is, as the
New York Evening Post summarizes
it, an expressed demand that the
Philippine islands be first provided
with an established form of govern
ment second, that they be made in
dependent, and that third, that their
OF COD-LIVER OIL WITH
HYPOPHOSPHITES
should always be kept in
the house for the fol
lowing reasons:
FIRST-
^BSOlJUTEiy toltE ^'g|§-
Makes the food more delicious and v^tesom^
IWYAt WKINO POWPtW CO.. Ntw YORK.
Because, if any member
of the family has a hard cold,
will cure It.
SEOOND—Because,
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dren are delicate and sickly, Jt will!
make them strong and well..
IHHD—Because, if the father or
mother is losing flesh anclbecom
ing thin and emaciated, it will build
them up and give them flesh and
strength.
Because it Is the
standard jemed^ in all throat-and
•V lung affections!®!
:No household-should be
It can be ta^fr th summer, as well
«,ln winter,
independence be guaranteed by the
United States under a protectorate
Similar to that which we have tacitly
afforded to the- South and Central
American countries hitherto. As in
cidenUl to this program, it is declared
that the Americam union cainotllon
endure half-republic and half-empire
that wars should not be undertaken
for conquest and for colonial domin
ion that militarism is a danger to
republican institutions, and that the
United States should cultivate peace,
commerce'and friendship with all na
tions and entangling alliances with
none. The Porto Rican tariff" bill late
ly passed by the house at Washington
is condemned as a violation of the
constitution, and as a flagrant breach
of good faith.
"The currency question having been
taken 'out of the dominion of practi
cal politics for some years to come,'
the democrats of the country, what
ever their attitude toward Mr. Bryan
and the Chicago platform in 1896.
ought to and doubtless will, determine
that it is their duty to support him,
or any candidate of the democratic
party who shall take the same strong
ground against the departure of our
government from its original purposes
as a government of, for and by the
people. If the national democracy
shall be able to unite upon this issue,
the defeat of Mr. Mckinley and his
party will he accomplished at the next
presidential election.'
It will be noted from the foregoing
that there are democrats and demo
crats. We see no hope for the south
except in expansion, and we welcome
eifmnsion but we would administer
it on democratic, not on republican
lines, on Jeffersonian, not on Caesar
istic lines. The News and Courier
seems to be 'agin the hull business.'
That shall not divide us as democrats.
lor_silver! _Tra)ala' By. the time
it
Mr. Bryan gets warm in his seat in
the White houee we shall have other
and larger fish to fry.
And )ow gentlemen of„ North Caro
lina and of South Carolina—ab the raft
man observed to the bag man. whilst
walking in his barn—what'll you have
to drink?
THE PEOPLE
LEON, IOWA. THUBSDAY. AL'RU 19. 1900.
ARE WATCHING
IN6TON.
"Americans wonder and scoff at the
fatuity with which British commanders
permit themselves to be entrapped and
humiliated by Boer strateeist in South
Africa while under our own eyes in
Washington the Republican leaders are
rushing open-eyed into as fatal a trap
as ever yawned before a great party.
In vain are the warning cries of faith
ful friends.
In vaiii the appeals to duty, justice
and good faith.
In vain the traditions of the Repub
lie,
Never in the history of military or
political warfare has there been such
an instance of benighted and foolhardy
leadership.,
What io the American people care
about the "tithe ol mint and anise and
cummin" paid by the $2,000,000 relief
bill into the desolate island, while' this
nation is arraigned at the bar of its own
conscience for having "omitteci the
weightier matters of the law, judgment,
mercy and faith?"
The Times-Herald' once more, warns
the Republican leaders in Washington
including the President* that they- are
trifling with the nations honor. The
gift^jf $2,000,000 to Porto Rico without
the justice and good faith that should
accompany and crown it has not sugar
coated the pill of broken faith that
denies to Porto Ricans the imm^nities
and priviliges they were promised.
This is pot a political question but a
moral one, and the Americao people
will not accept the intrigues of Wash
ington politicians or the interests of
trade superseding the teachings of
the decalouge and the gospels.
After the genate the Hopse of Repre
sentatives!
After the House the Presidfentl
And after the president—and greater
than Senate, House and President—the
PK0PLX!''
Ttte atwve from the Chicago TimM
ht to be piaiQ '«aoc«h tQ be
H«(dri
noderrt* Bp*ria}iat0. .-A-
The republican papers of the country
are now principally occupied in abusing
that grand old hero," Admiral Dewey
According to the republican doctrine
no man can be a heta uhless he is an
imperialist and a meta&et of the g. o. p.
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Hon. Cl^amp Clark says: "The first
anti-trust speech was made about 4,000
vearsLago by an old gentleman by the
riarii& of Moses, when he wrote upou the
tablets of stone the inspired words,
"Thou shalt not steal".:****
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wearing qualitie5 JuI
and they do wear
longer than others.
This stamp on every pair.
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Sold by dealers.
OES MOINES HOSIERY
MILLS MFR3.
DCS MOINES,IOWA.
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In vain are all invocations to iave the
nation's plighted word from dishonor.
In yain are the rumblings of popular
wrath, the threats of party disaster.
Rooted in dishonor by petty .political
considerations and sordid special inter
ests, the Republican majority in the
Senate to-day proposes to jam through
the iniquitous Porto Rican tariff bill.
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Assuming to know all things, to have
weighed all the things and possess all
wisdom, these leaders have closed their
eyes and ears and understandings to the
almost unanimous voice of the people
demanding that we keep iaith and
carry out American traditions and
precedents in Porto Kico. They desert
the safe old ways and wander blindly
into strange paths after unknown ends
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Color?
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More Light!
Come and have your eves per
fectly fitted with glasses. I am
prepared with all the improved
tests. 27 years grinding and
fitting glasses. „A11 work guar
anteed. Children's eyes specially.
I will be at my home
Saturdays and Mondays,
of each week at my residence. II
you wish work done at home
notify me by mail.
P. F. BRADLEY,
Leon, Iowa. -TV
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YOUR BUSINESS!
All we ask
is to look at our
Rock BoltomGrocery Prices.
6c. buys 1 can Tomatoes two pounds.
5c. buys 1 can Pumpkin twofpounds.
to IOc. buys I glass Jell, assorted fruit.
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25c. buys 1 dozen Fancy Lemons,
IOc. buys I pound Evaporated Apples.
Jr 20c. buys I dozen Oranges.
50c. buys sk. Clark's Special Flour,
ili $I.OO buys 1 full sk. White. Loaf Flour
i: .'none better.,
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25c. buys 2 sks. Meal.
Jg 25c. buys lO bars Something Good
15c. buys 1 ib. Golden Rio Coffee.
20c. buys I lb. Peaberry Coffee.
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5c. buys 5 dozen Clothes Pins.
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20c.' buys I pail Jell.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
THE BIG LOW PRICED CASH STORE!
CORNER 8TH AND MAIN, LEON, IOWA.
FLOOR TOO LOT TO QUOTE PRICES-TRY US AIDi SEE!
Garden Seeds in Bulk or Papers. Onion Sets Red and Yellow.
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Fancy Breakfast bacon, pound.......12c
Fancy streaked sides, pound 10c
Fancy lat backs, pound
Pancy fat plates, pound
Fancy dry salt plates, pound
MorreH's pure lard, pound
Picnic hams,.pound.
DRIED FROITSS
Fancy California peaches, pound.....10c
Fancy California prunes, pound...... 5c
Fancy evaporated apples, pound...lOc
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Fancy Gallon Table Fruits.
Peaches per gallon
Apricots per gallon
Plums, pitted per gallon..
Raspberries per gallon....... 35c"-'
Blackberries per gallon..... 35c
Pumpkins per gallon I.... 20c
Pieplant per gallon 2.5c J||
Blackberries. 2 pound can 5e
California apricots 3 pound can 15c yg
California peaches 3 pound can.
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Raspberries 3 pound can, fancy 15c
Blackberries 3 pound can, fancy 15c WS
Pumpkin 3 pound can, fancy lOc^f
Pieplant 3 pound can, fancy...... 10c
Preserved strawberries 21b can ...12^c
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Passenger.. 11:57 am Freight 4-HOrm
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A. S. Tharp, Agent.
We Open the
Wall Paper
Season! .'1
With the finest line of
parlor, Hitting room, din
ning room and kitchen
papers ever shown in Leon
with prices ranging from
the cheapest paper ob
tainable to highest priced
on the market. Give us an
Opportunity
t.osliowjon whnt wo liave.
UeninantsoneccMit nbolt^
W. E. MYERS & CO..
NoithSidcDruggists. if
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue or an execution, directed to
me from the clerk of the district court of
De&attl'rcounty, Iowa, on a judgment ob
tained in said WWrt—en th« ai«.
M«rchl9°0 In favor o?Bevl5 Bros,
plaintiffs and against John J. Tharp aa
defendant for the sum of Two hundred
forty-seven dollars and fifty cents and
$28 37 attorneys fees, and costs taxes at
17.96 and accruing costs.I have levied upon
the following real estate, taken as the
SMf18fen',ant'
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The south west and the west 4 of the'?'2.
southeast of section 4,townsh:p 67, range ~v
25 in Decatur county, lows.
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14th day of May A. D. 1900, in front of the
^°9CJh Leon, Iowa, at the
Hro/J0A doe atteCV of said day, when
by The undersigned. "-'11 be given
Dated at Leon, Iowa, April 10, law.
282t^r. Sheriff of said county,
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. 5-
Estate of John Btirrell, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons inter-*
ested. that on the 2Hth day of Marcb, A. I).
1900, the undersigned was appointed by
the district court, of Decatur (ounty
Iowa, administrator of tlie estate of John
Burrell.deceased. late of said county. All
persons indebted to said estate will make
payment to the undersigned,
and those having
claims against the same will present them
legally authenticated, to said court for allow
ance.
Oated March 28, 1900.
33-3t Wm, Burrell, Executor.
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