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ESTABLISHED 1854.
THE LEON REPORTER.
O. E. HULL, Publishers
mid
LEON, IOWA
Subscription Rates:
One year......? fl.60
Six months 75
Three months 40
Entered as second class matter at the
Leon,Iowa,Postofflce.
TWO KINDS OF EXPANSION.
Admitting for the sa'ke of argument
that the McKinley plan of expansion is
a good thing, it will be instructive to
compare what the republican president
has done with what was accomplished
by democratic executives.
Facts concerning ihe history of terri
torial growth arc found in a little book
,v just published in Boston under the title
of "Territoral Aggrandisement of the
-United Stale"." This work is simply
historical and entirely nonpartasian.
Following are sunie of the interesting
statistics to be found in this been:
"Louisiana purchase in 1803—By Jef
f. reon—Area 804,031 acres. Population
ut date of acquisition 80,000. Popula
tion in 1890, 11,000,000, inhabiting the
:.i states of Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Ne
braska, North and South iDakotas,
nearly the whole of Louisiana, the
whole of Indian Territory, and the
greater part of Kansas, Minnesota, Mon
tana and Wyoming and parts of Colo
rado and Oklahoma.
"Florida purchase in 181!)—Area 59,
280 acres. Population at date of pur
chase 4,000 population in 1890, 000,000,
including Florida, and small oarts of
Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
"Texas annexation in 1845—Area375,
2 acres. Population at date of acqui
^isition 150,000 population, in 1890, 2,
31)0,000, including Texas, and small
pails of Colorado, New Mexico. Kansas
*unl Oklahoma.
i* "Mexican cessions in 1840 and 1853—
®Area, 591,313. Population at date of
^acquisition, 80,000 population in 1890,
*1,600,000, including Arizona, California,
^Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado
£and New Mexico and a small part of
''Wyoming."
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All of these acquisitions were secured
by democratic presidents, Jefferson,
Monroe, Polk and Pierce. Commenting
on this sort of expansion, the Pittsburg
Post says:
"They comprise an area of 1,890,752
acres, as against 827,844 acres, which
constituted the area of the Union when
^opul|itiQK of 314,000 at the time of
their acquisition. They ihave now a
population of not less than 20,000,000,
occupying twentv states and territories
7' of the American Union. They are self
governing states constituting the back
bone of the republic, with an intelligent,
patriotic and progressive. population.
Thij'have become the granary of the
'world and supply a large proportion of
of the world's yield of gold, silver cop
per and other metals. No impeiialism
-or colonialism among any of them.
They were acquired with the intentthey
should become states^ and free and
equal states they are. They have
aided vastly to the natural wealth and
p\vrr. Tins was democratic expai-
S'OIL."
Hp. Now, wnat has McKinley done? By
the acquisition of Hawaii, Porto Kico
g... ^and the Philippines, he has acquired a
total area of 124,758 acres and a popula
ifetetion of 7,804,708 of every complexion
known to sunshine, save the pure, un
adulterated Caucasian they are black,
brown and copper colored, and the Mc-
Kinley administration is now loudly
proclaiming they are incapable of self
wss- government, or fitted to enjoy the
sriglits'and privileges of American citi
/.ens, or the benefits and guarantees of
constitutional government.
Is it new ssiuy to argue on the merits
of the two kinds of expansion? As
suredly not. The facts are more elo
:T. quent than words.—Chicago Democrat.
In a recent very thoughtful article.
The Public uf Chicago pointed out that
wfth the protection ot the constitution
withheld from the people of Puerto Rico
or the Philippines, or both, "they can
be taxed differently from the Americans
they can be denied the privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus ex post factolaws
may be passed to regulate their rights,
titles of nobility may be conferred upon
persons put over them religious regula
tions may be imposed freedom of
speech and of the press may be denied,
and petitions for redress of grievance
suppressedunwarranted searches and
seizures and arbitrary imprisonments
may be made life, liberty and property
may be taken without the process of
law and all the other rights secured to
Americans by the constitution may be
denied. Even if our congress extended
to them the protection of the constitu
tion or any of its clauses, any subse
quent congress would, under this theory
(the theory that the constitution does
not extend of its own force), have the
power to withdraw it." When Ameri
cans who have votes have difficulty in
restraining legislators from depriving
them of these rights would the islanders
who were without votes have? 1.
Those 161 republicans who voted for
the Puerto Rican tariff bill may yet look
mighty small when compared by Amer
ican standards with the nine members
of their party who Toted against it.
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Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROVAL BAKtNQ POWDER CO.. NEW YORK.
WAR TAXES.
the war taxes
It is high time that
should be removed.
There is a surplus in the treaRuiy and
this surplus is destined to grow stead
ily if the taxes are not stopped.
Of course it would be better for all
concerned if congress would repeal the
tarifl' which protects the trusts and let
the war taxes stand, but. congress is re
publican in politics and will do nothing
of the kind.
This being the case, the war taxes
should go. The secretary of the treas
ury has made a statement: regarding the
revenue. Upon the showing which he
makeb the repeal of the war taxes, in
part at least, is. practicable. For the
fiscal year ending June 30,1900, the esti
mated receipts for the government are
as follows: 'Customs, $233,000,000 inter
nal revenue, $292,000,000 miscellaneous,
$35,000,000 total, $500,000,000. The ex
penditures, including $135,000,000 for
the army and on our war account, $55,
000,000 for the navy and $143,000,000
for pensions, aggregating $490,000,000,
leaving a surplus of $70,000,000.
Plainly that $70,000,000 should not be
exacted from the people.
Housed in the treasury it is a tempta
lion for subsidy grabbers and can do the
taxpayer no good, being out of circula
tion and practically buried capital.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1901, the total revenues of the govern
ment are estimated at $577,000,000 and
the expenditures at $495,000,000, leaving
a surplus of $82,000,000. In the next
fiscal year the secretary allows $125,000,
000 for the army and presumably for
war, and $00,000,000 for the navy—a re
duction of $5,000,000 on account of the
two most important items in our nation
al budget since the era of imperialism
was ushered in with the reign of Mc
Kinley.
This matter will grow worse as ex
penses are reduced and the only way to
improve the conditions is to repeal the
unnecessary war taxes.
3ar]os
ciplJtravelei out of a
Wright, Joseph, Ore.
My country 'ti$ of thee,
-v $weet «£and of liberty?
•Of thee I $ing.
£and where our job$ all died,
£and of the Gold £ug$ pride,
What woe doth US betide
For tru$t$ are King.
James II. Garfield, the son of the late
President Garfield, has entered the lists
as a candidate
for
the republican nomi­
nation for congressman from the Twen
tieth district of Ohio, which includes
about half the city of Cleveland and
Lake and Medina counties. Mr. Gar
field is a brilliant young lawyer, and
his already made a reputation as
meml^pr of the Ohio legislature. 4
Nine states hold their elections for
state officers earlier than Novenber this
year. They are Alabama, Aug. 6 Ar
kansas, Sept. 3 Georgia, Oct. 3 Louis
iana, April 17 Maine, Sept. 10 North
Carolina, Aug. 2 Oregon, June 2 Rhode
Island, April 4 Vermont Sept. 4. In
Rhode Island a proposition was voted on
to change the state election to Novem
ber.
Unless nearly all the prominent repub
lican newspapers of the United States
are totally false prophets the death blow
has been delivered to the republican
party in the passage of the Porto Rican
tarifl bill.
AN DMA
HAD
CONSUMPTION
and I am afraid I have in
herited it. I do not feel
well I have a cough Ay
lungs are sore am losing
flesh. Waai shall I do?
Your doctor says take care of
yourself and take plain cod-liver
oil, but you can't take it. Only
the strong, healthy person can
take it, and they can't take it
long. It is so rich it upsets the
stomach. But you can take
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
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It is very palatable and easily
digested. If you will take plenty
of fresh air, and exercise, and
SCOTT'S EMULSION steadily,
there is very little doubt about
your recovery.
There are hypophospbites in it
they-give strength and tone up the
nervous systengt while the«od-liver
oil feeds and nourishes.
soc-and fti.oo, *11 draffWu.
SCOTT & BOWKB.dhemUuJ^#wYfk.
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GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS-
No Word of Qualification of Any
of the Issues of 1896.
An Address Delivered at the Rhode laljuid
Democratic Counventlon.
Si
•'This is, I belieye, the first meeting of
the first campaign of the presidential
year east of the Mississippi. Our na
tional policy is practically settled in ad
vance of the convention, and our candi
date is already re-elected. Massachusetts
and Rhode Island are merely the her
alds of the national convention. What,
then, are we working for? It it merely
the spoils of office? Have we no other
impulse than that of opposition? If
those were all, I certainly should not be
here to-night. I believe that we are en
tering upon the second battle for man's
right and human freedom everywhere
that our republic as it guards liberty in
its own territory makes it stronger and
firmer elsewhere that we have allowed
the tyranny of property to dominate
mat in his God-given right to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness that
our republic has become a victim of the
spirit of commercialism, which has de
graded our morals, and now even utters
defiance to the declaration of indepen
ence and the constitution of the United
States. 1 believe that a great social di
vision has beeu established in our land
by bad laws and by human greed{
that weJiave allowed systems to be piled
upon nystems by which the mighty for
tunes of a few individuals are piled
higher and higher, while the opportun
ity of the masses is becoming daily
nailer to enjoy the bounty of God. 1
feel that the only task we have before us
is to gain possession of the government,
and bring back to a discouraged and al
most hopeless people the realization
that this government was made for
their happiness and not for their spoil
ation. I confess that our prime purpose
shonld be to win the fight, and would
eyen diliberatety postpone some. necea-
ity of.the votes. I say this becatue I
believe it to bathe first esseutial to our
ultimate success that we should demon
strate to the people that the democratic
party can be loyal to tbe popular in
terests, and proposes to take up the
fight in earnest. The consumation of
the present schemes of .the republican
party, four years more of domination
by monopoly, may so fasten the
shackles upon our people that even an
tfnraged people cannot shake them off.
therefore we must win, and win this
year.
"But I submit that not by tbe sacri
fice of any single principle or policy es
poused in '90, or adopted by general
consent since that year, shall we com
mend: ourselves to th£ people of' the
United States. One question our ene
mies, at least, have decided must be put
into the background or we ghall. surely
lose, and in the east we have been told,
with nauseating frequency by tbe gold
press, that the silver question is dead
and must not be resurrected. feWKSi
TIIE BIMETAMC PLATFORM.
Men of Rhode Island, the democracy
of the United States^did not adopt the
platform of bimetallism in 1896 from
any motives of expendiency, but they
adoped it from thoroughgoing convic
tion that the gold standard will be ruin
ous to the industrial classts of the
couuiry that it was responsible for the
terrible panic ot ISiKJ and its succeeding
depression, and upjii that issue we ral
lied.six and a half million voters, who
felt for the first time that the democratic
party had taken up the people's cause
regardless of political consequences. If
the conviction.of the democratic masses
#as right then it is nght now. For
quarter oi a century there has not been
a congress to which the democratic con
stituency has not returned a large ma
jority favorable to tbe monarchy policy
announced in 1896. We deem it now,
as we deemed it then, impossible! for
this country's prosperity to be perma
nently based upon a monetary founda
tion which is controlled abroad and
subject to the easy manipulation of the
monetary magnates of the world. This
policy you have indorsed in your recent
convention, as we indorsed it in Mass
achusetts last fall. It has the ardent ap
proval of nine-tenths of tbe true dem
ocrats of the country, and if we qualify
or abandon it we. merely demonstrate
that ohr paity was in 'iKS a party ot ex
pendiency and subserviency, shifting
with every wind, having no convictions
which Could not be abandoned for tem
porary success, and espousing a cause
only to abandon it upon the first re
verse. 1 have been appealed to repeat
edly to use my influence to set aride the
silver question for the sake of obtaining
accession from the republican party and
frOm the democrats who abandoned us
on this issue .in 1896. Anti-imperialist
advocates and ^anti-trust enthusiasts
have begged that-this course be taken,
bufc these gentlemen forget that if we
lightly abandon our. convictions upon
LEON, IOWA. THURSDAY AIMI/26, 1900.
BAKING
POWDER
vft prove how lightly we
can be false to all. Shall we impose im
perialism unsuccessfully in 1900 to aban
don tbe cajpein'1904?'."No. When you
in your convention spoke the word of
constancy to our platform of '96 you
demonstrated that^the democracy has
planted itself, firinljf upon the glorious
declarations of that-platform, and upon
those lines will gain the victory for the
people.
PEOPLE WIKIIR TITAN THE FKW.
"It is a false cry from those who so
lightly abandoned theii tariff views in
'96 because of our money policy, that
they cannot sink their views upon the
money question to rescue the country
from imperialism and monopoly. If
they are in earnest theV must take our
party policy as the majority determines
it, or .they must go the opposition.
T|iereare many alleged Democrats who
nebd to learn the lesson that tne peo
ple are wiser than the few, and if the
awful consequences of a Republican vote
in '96 have not yet satisfied them how
fatal is any divergence from the Demo
cratic party, then they are not lit mem
bers of our party, and we are stronger
without them than with them.* The
truth is, that those who are Democrats
at heart will gladly uudo the mischief
which their opposition of '96 has fast
ened Upon tbe people, an-l will come
back rather with contrite spirit than
with any demands for a change of policy.
Any change of policy to-day would
prove us fickie and inconstant, and for
feit jour right to tbe confidence of the
masres, and it is well that it should he
understood now that we have not evpt.
the remotest idea of qualifying in ihe
slightest degree our declarations of
1890
Wall Paper
Quality
Wull paper uifltfru like
everything elsp. There are
large factories turnius: out
paper that is made simply
to sell paper that doesn't
hang well, that draws and
crackp, and the colors of
which fade in a little while.
We Haven't a Roll of Such
Paper in the House.
This does not mean that
you will have to pay high
prices here it means that
we are content with a
efc niargip. ^TfJWikve'}
of papers cheap in
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rice, but good in quality.
uy as cheaply as you can.
but get good paper. We
can serve you in both re
SpPCtS.
W.E. MYERS & CO.
Druggists.
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Fancy Breakfast bacon, pound.
/Fancy streaked sides, pound
Fancy fat backs, pound
Fancy fat plates, pound
-sA^Fancj dry salt plates, pound...
pure lard, pound 8c
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LEON QUEENSWARE CO.
'Phone 59. Opera House Block.
iftV '1 V.-.
All we ask
15c. buys I ib. Golden Rio Coffee.
ifcr 20c. buys 1 Ib. Peaberry Coffee.
5c. buys 5 dozen Clothes Pins.
il? 20c. buys 1 pail Jell.
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DRIED FROlTS I
xFancy California peaches, pound 10c
Fancy California prunes, pouud or
Fancy evaporated apples, ponnd...10c
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OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
THE BIG LOW PRICED GASH STORE!
CORNER 8TH AND MAIN, LEON, IOWA.
FLODB TOO LOW TO QUOTE PRICES -TRY OS ADD SEE!
Fancy Seed Potatoes, all Varieties, Early and Late, per bushel
Garden Seeds in Bulk or Papers. Onion Sets Red and Yellow.
LANDSLIDE-LOOK AT OUR PRICES
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Biy,0»n,0iK gblTCk^WaD. Skorts, Oil HealChickek Feel!
Wood Delivered to all Parts of the City in Amounts of 25c and up*i
REPORTER SERIES Y0L. XXV.%0. 35
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Rock BbilomGrocery Prices.
it/ ?c*, ys! can Tomatoes two pounds,
tfi 5c. buys I can Pumpkin two pounds.
ifc 10c. buys I glass Jell, assorted fruit.
25c. buys I
..dozen Fancy Lemons.
IOc. buys 1 pound Evaporated Apples.
20c. buys 1 dozen Oranges.
50c. buys sk. Clark's Special Flour.
$1.00 buys I fullsk. White Loaf Flour
$ none better.
ifc 25c. buys 2 sks. Meal. 3
25c. buys lO bars Something Good
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Canned Goods
Fancy Gallon Table Fruits.
Peaches per gallon
Apricots per gallon
Plums, pitted per gallon
Raspberries per gallon
Blackberries per gallon
Pumpkins per gallon
Pieplant per gallon
Blackberries. 2 pound can be
California apricots 8 pound can 15c
California peaches 3 pound can 10c
Raspberries 3 pound can, fancy 15c
Blackberries 3 pound can, fancy...v.15c
Pumpkin 3 pound can, fancy 10c
Pieplant 3 pound can, fancy 10c
Preserved strawberries 21b can ...12^c
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oupon tickets on sale to 'all tioints n,n
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A. S. THARP, Agent.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estute of John 3urrell, deceased.
^here.b.vgiyeti to all persons inter-
day
authenlicated»
33 3T
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March, A'D.
HI was appointed by
the district court, of Dcc'atur (outitv
Inistrator of the estate of^Johnl
Burrel I .deceased, late ot said countv All
persons indebted to said-estate will make
4 undersigned, and those having
claims af^ain^t the same will nrat^nt tuom
imce!y
said court for allow
Hated March 28, 1900.
WM, BURREIX, Executor.
succ,e-"slully
«nri!'no8on l"1,iC i0Uu1'.
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almost all forms ot
and
or(Jan'1
diseases,"
dislocations after other means
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0Dfer them we
may mention
general nervous, prostration, facial and gen
erivl agltans headaches, sciatica, lumbago,
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Vltus
Dance, locomotor
ataxia, all forms ,f neuralgia.-loss of \olee,
en.-rgod tonsils, incipient consumption.~par-
fcver- wry
neck, catarrh,
ginmuatea sore eyes ptervirium prvftfnpinn
scrofula spinal curvature, goitre, lr?egulart
ties of the heart, hip joint diseases, milk leg,
varicose veins, Urlghi's disease, diabetes, toi
aln n5 hS iSITe' jaundice, catarrh -ifslom
acn .mil bowels, dyspepsia, constipation, etc
Female Diseases a Specialty.
lefst!)?
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35c
35c
35c
35c
ohron-
ie affeclions abandoned as incurable by otLit-r
systems of treatment, most of them r-'joici-.g
®ure!?
wc
"sU your curefui inves-
mosi
DR. J.R. GILMOUR,
graduate of Kirksville
School of Osteopathy.
Offiee at Woodniansec Hotel. Office
days. Tuesdays. Thursdays and Satur
davfl. Mrfir»o iinm.0. .„
days.
5 p. m.
Officc hours: 8 to 1*2 a. ra 1 to
Consultation and examination freer
"V-oTvesfy \s ttve "ReaY PoVvc^.
Honest
onest goods, Every
onest prices, and Hour 'it
dealings will Proves
(surely bring success. it.
THE I.AST DAYS OK THE NINEIIENTH CEN
TURY SHOW NOTHING MORE CLEARLY.
We believe this fact, and our words demon
strate our belief. Our goods are warranted to
be exactly as represented that Is honest. Our
gt,:-ds are guaranteed to give satisfaction, that
Is hi nest. If any article of jewelry of oiir'
manufacture does not give perfect satisfaction
we wllkrefund the money patd for the atticies
that honest.
«Sa§^liCP'ea««ntoii. Iawa.
{tRSjVe at prices that.
§?."¥ are made from rolled gold plateTgola
ttlie&.gold front, or solid go'd stock, and are
warrantsd to give perfect satisfaction or Hie
money will be refunded.
If this notice shou'd reach any one living too
far from Mr. Haag's store, or any other cui
tomer of ours, lo permit their purchasing these
goods from our customer, we will sell the
goods at retail lo such persons, under tbe same
warranty and deliver by mail. We will also
send printed Instructions as to the care of'
jewelry—how to clean it, etc. on application.
W. F. .Main Co., Eastern Factor}',
COP. of Friendship and Eddy Sts., Providence
R. I.
Western Factory (Largest .Jewelry Factory
in the world), under process of construction at
East Iowa CHy, la. Over 52,0()U ft. of floor
space, 32_4L
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