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Phone 22.
ESTABLISHED 1854.
THE LEON REPORTER
O. E. HULL, Publisher.M?
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LEON, IOWA
Subscription Rates:
One year fl.50
81* months 75
Fhree months 40
Entered as second class matter at the
Leon,Iowa,Poatofflce.
Lon 11. Boydston, of the Monta/.uma
a- Democrat, wants the sound money dern
ocrats of the Sixth district to nominate
him for congress.
If you want to guage the degeneracy
of the Republican party, just mentally
stack Mark Hanna up alongside of old
Abe Lincoln and notice the difference.
"We point with pride to the able and
hmest administration ol postal affairs
in Cuba" would be a good plank for the
republican national platform, but it is
•dollars to doughnuts it won't be there.
Hiram Cronk, of Dunn Brook, Oneida
county, N. Y., is said to be the sole sur
vivor of the war of 1812 on the pension
Tolls
of the United States. Mr. Cronk
is one hundred years old, and was under
fifteen years of age when he enlisted,
with his father and brothers.
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The great difference of opinion, uh
to whether the constitution stays al
home or goes over the sea, suggests
that a good summer school where the
constitution is taught by ?ome one
who knows would be a good course for
wine of our statesmen. 4
Professor David Starr Jordan says
that Governor Roosevelt declared to
him that President McKinley "has
about as much backbone as a choc
olate man that you see on the confec
tioner's stand." This is a truth straight
-from the strenuous life.
When President McKinley tries to dic
tate to the Boer peace envoys liow they
must conduct themselves in the United
States he seems to be under the impres
sion that he owns the United Slates fee
simple instead of being merely the chief
executive chosen by the people for a
term of four years, three of which haye
already expired.
The rising in the -gpat of buildrhjp ~tna
jteTlSls has led to the suspenslbn of work
^'''on thirty government buildings which
!'are in Various stages of erection in dif
ferent parts of the United States. The
appropriations for these structures were
made when materials were cheaper, and
the amount of money at the command
of the government officials is not suffi
cient to permit the completion of the
work without further appropriations to
meet the deficiency.
The vote in the house of 240 to 15 in
favor of an amendment to the constitu
tion providing for the election of sena
tors by a direct vote of the people, is a
pretty strong hint to the senate of what
the people think of it. The unseating
of Clark is a proper thing to do .but to
'seat Quay, as the senate is likely to do,
isto strain at a gnat and swallow a camel,
/Clark spent a hundred thousand of his
own money. Quay turns to purifying
-corruption everything he touches. It is
time that senators were elected by pop
"ular vote.
Both parties are declaring against
.trusts the question for voters to decide
is which is sincere. Professor Goldwin
'"Smith, ajvell known Canadian writer
^arid economist, says in discussing the
"coming presidential election, that the
trust people, who will support MeKin
?ley, know that their real enemies are
the Bryanites, and any denunciation of
them by the McKinleyites is election
eering flummery, and after election will
?Mtbe laid aside.
Coming from a close observer in
•disinterested quarter this opinion is in
.tteresting.—The National Rural
Carroll D. Wright is out with another
Hratch of statistics. It is a bulletin of
ithe United States labor department, and
{purports to show the variation in the
iprices of the pecessaries of life from 1890
£iito last July. The object of this bulletin
appears to be to prove that, the trusts
.'have not increased prices. Students of
the trust question will do well to scruti
nize Mr. Wright's figures as well as his
conclusions. Previous publications of
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his intended to show that wages have
increased while the cost of living has
diminished are in some respects notable
specimens of statistical gymnastics.—The
Public,
"We must not forget that the
earnings
'of wage earners have enormously in
creased."—Leon Journal, May 17.
The Journal editor must have been
dooking through a magnifying glass to
'discover the enormous increase, and has
•evidently- failed to note that almost
•every city in the United States is in the
iinidst of strike after strike, the laboring
men having been denied increase in
'nragcil, notwithstanding the fact that
*almost every article they are
Ho bay has greatly increased
The Journal's statement is in
cord with its statement that
FARMERS' PROSPERITY.
There is not a single occupation, busi
ness or profession to which is not at
tached by the republican organs the la*
hel "Prosperity." Every individual
man knows better than the statisticians
whether he is prosperous or not, and
it is useless to expcct an aggregation of
individuals to loudly express thanks for
prosperity when they do not come up to
the label. The notion has been going
about that the farmers are afflicted with
"astounding prosperity/' simply be
cause prices of farm produce have, in
the last two or three years, partly re
covered from the low level they reached
iu some previous yeurs. Now the farm*
er ought to know, and the records of
mortgages in the various county clerks'
and recorders' offices demonstrate the
fact, that all these increased receipts, if
anybody can show a bank account dem
onstrating any increase, are more than
absorbed by the increased price he must
pay for everything for which the farmer
exchanges his produce. He must puy
tribute to the trust, and no better illua
tration of the truth of this can be made
than in the case of the American Steel
company. Six thousand men were
thrown out of employment because of
the lack of demand for implements
which the farmers could not purchase
because of their high price. If theie
was so much prosperity, why could not
the farmer aflord to purchase the neces
sary implements? The fact is that a
heavy impost is laid upon nearly every
thing the farmer needs in his household
and in his business, while the prices qf
his own products are at the mercy of
speculators, combines, corners, etc. etc.
The farmer has to meet the world's
price in disposing of his product, but he
encounters a different state of things
when he comes to purchase for himself.
The range of price set up by the specu
lators is artificial, and what they gain in
the speculative market they pocket—
what they lose they mercilessly force
the farmer to by an increase of
prices In SianuSStftreT. ^This seeming
prosperity will be discovered the more
you look behind it to be a myth, and
although the misfortunes of the rest of
the earth have enabled the farmer to
dispose of more of his products than
formerly, still there are combinations
to be broken down, trusts to be abolish
ed and the financial system eliminated
before the farmer can really say that a
pjriod of prosperity has been inagura
ted.
How much of the enormous balance
of trade in our favor has reeched the
farmer? Has he been enabled to reduce
his mortgages by payment of the prin
cipal, or even to pay the interest in full
without securing an extension of time?
Are his wife and children better dressed,
is his farm in a more nourishing condi
tion, has he purchased any new carpets,
curtains, furniture for his household?
Is he enabled to employ more help to
relieve his aching bones and those of his
wife and children from the arduous la
bor they continually undergo to save
their homes from the maw of .the mort
gage?
We trow not and the proof of it is
that beyond the mere means of exist
ence, whatever he makes or earns must
go into the ever expanding tax mill
which is grinding him into poverty when
he is nit paying into the trusts and
combines.—Keokuk Constitution Demo
crat.
For an Advance Agent of Prosperity
President McKinley seems to have
crowded an unconscionable number
strikes into the last year of his term.
Does
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compelled
in price,
strict ac
trusts do
But the trouble is
^f rnot increase prices.
£9&that no one will believe for a minute
^'••what the||Journal says on the subject.
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4BS0LUTEIY'lURE
of
pilf not, something must be
Wrong with its food. If the
mother's milk doesn't nour-!
ish it, she" needs
SCOTTS
EMULSION. It supplies the
elements of fat required for
the baby. If baby is not
nourished by its artificial'
food, then it requires
Half a teaspoonful three
I or four timer a day in its
bottle will have the desired
effect. It seems to have a
,, magical effect upon babies
and children. A fifty-cent
bottle will prove the truth
of our statements.
Should be tMkao to mummur «i
well
MM
winter,
toe.
and ts.aoTill druegfeta.
S^TtTBOWNE, Ch*mkt, N«w Tori
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Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
WOVAl lAKtWQ PDWDEB CO., HEW YORK.
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KINLEY S PARTY AND TRUSTS.
The New York World summarizes as
follows the attitude ot the republican
party towards the trusts which are suck
ing the life blood out of the masses of
the people and giving the few benefici
aries bloated and unwieldly wealth and
fatness:
What has it done against trusts? f•
Is not Napoleon's test ot a man—
What has he done?"—equally fair and
revealing as to a party?
'The proof of the pudding is in the
eating." "Actions speak louder than
words." "By their fruits ye shall know
them." V.."
How does the republican administra
tion and congress stand the searching
but just test of proverbial wisdom?
Tostart with,.President McKinley ap
pointed as attorney general—the officer
charged with tlte enforcement of the
anti-trust laws—a corporation lawyer
from the hotbed of trusts, New Jersey.
Aud Mr. Griggs promptly said that in
dustrial trusts were'"entirely matters of
state control," and added: "I would be
8uperofiicious to attempt a crusade
against affairs with which 1 have no
concern."
Of course, theanti trust laws have not
been enforced against the campaign con
tributors, and no honest attempt has
been made to enforce them.
The republican congress could have
broken up one-half or more of the
monopolies by repealing the duties that
promote and protect them. But no
such thing has been- attempted.
In addition to all this the concrete
and convincing facts that trusts and
monopolies have increased enormously
during this republican administration.
In one year alone the output of their se
curities was more than $0,000,000,000.
Is it not impudent in the republican
politicians to go on adopting resolutions
against .trusts? They have had their
chance. The people know how they
have used it.
OUR PLAIN DUTY.
In the democratic' state convention
last week, there was more of a spirit
of get together and of compromise than
there has been since the money ques
tion has split the party into several
factions, to the detriment of the demo
crats and to the glory of the republican
party.
For some time past, there has been
a faction of the party
BO
busy fighting
democrats that they had no time to*
fight the common ememy, the repub
lican party. The republicans stood
around the street corners and laughed
up their sleeves and ne cannot blame
them. They had nothing to do but to
look on while the democratic factions
killed each other off.
The Lord knows that we have trouble
enough in Iowa without fighting
among ourselves. Iowa will continue
hopelessly, helplessly republican until
our people get some sense and take
more delight in winning elections than
in passing resolutions. Passing reso
lutions is a good thing in its way, but
it does not carry the election. You
may resolve thus aud so till you are
black in the face and it wont bring
out a single voter. We would give
more for a good team on election day
to get ou( voters than a string of reso
lutions as long as the moral law, as
far as practical politics is concerned.
For years there has been a wing of
the democratic party that would rather
resolve any day and giye some other
democrat a black eye than to carry the
election.: We prefer to carry elections
and to resolve afterwards.
The Iowa state convention seemed to
feel that this was a pretty good year
to injject .a little .horse sense into the
campaign and try to do some busi
ness towards getting the enemy off
tbeir kopjes. There was some feeling
that even if a man does not believe
Wat the moon is made of green cheese,
fit he is a democrat, he is welcome tp
vote with us.
There is nothing gained by saying
that we have not been split into fac
tions for several years. That will do
well enough to tell to the horse mt
rines but there is
nothing
gained by
tcjiing to deceive, ourselves. The vote
shows where we have beenat
If we fight republicans awhile and
atop fighting each other, there is a
chance to win in some of the congres
sional districts, even in Iowa, this fall
But if we content ourselves with
passing resolutions and cussing demo
crats who do not think as we do,
the fellows who are cussed and those
who "don't care nothing about the
'lection, nohow," will Btay at home
and the ,ltory is already written. It
is a twipe told tale.. We are licked
before/we begin, and we might as well
savy our time and labor. We' will
come out of the fray, not riding in the
band wagon, but riding in the ambu
lance.—Waahington'.Ia., Democrat
For Oklahoma real estate, Write" or
call on B. Jordan Enid, O.
THE LUST OF POWER.
The Porto liican act ot congress is a
product of that lust of power that is for
ever mangling the letter and tearing at
the spirit of the cohslitutiori. Yet it is
but the foam on the cfeWt of the billow
that tells of the fact of this depths be
low. The presidential announcements
that "forcible annexation" wotikl be
''criminal aggression" o?ie month and
the issue in another so fraught with per'
tidy that the trusted general of the army
shrank from its publication the osten
tatious proclamation of our mission of
liberty and progress among the nations
in one breath and the sanctification of
polygamy and slavery in Joto and bond
labor in Hawaii in another the substi
tution of a secret and smister diplomacy
for the historic, candid, open good faith
diplomacy of the republic and the ill-con
cealed sympathy with tbit march of Brit
ish empire over the liberties and inde
pendence of the two South African re
publics, all serve to illustrate how mal
evolent is the spirit once smitten by the
lust of innovation and given up to the
whims and caprices of uubridled power.
—Hon. B. F. Shively, South Bend, In-1.
Red hot from the Gun *.
Was the ball that bit G. B. Steadthan,
of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War.
It caused horrible ulcers that no treat
ment helped for 20 years. Then Buck
leu's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures
cuts, bruises, burns, boils, felons, corns,
skin eruptions. Best pile cure on earth.
25 cts. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold
by L. Van Werden, druggist.
FOR SALE—A good top buggy.
0. E. HULL.
Paint for
Hronie
Painters.
Those who have npt kept
track of the developments
in the art of painting will
be surprised to flad how
easy it ha* been made for
everybody to
do good paint
ing nowadays. We have
paints for every purpose,
all ready for the brush and
so prepared thai any one
use^h|
Familypaints indittle ca^s.
Buggy paints, easily applied.
Varnish stains both stain and
varnish.
Floor paints, get hard as stone.
Enamels, look like porcelain.^
Varnishes, for all purposes.
Brushes, all kinds ana sizes
Everything. In Paints
and Paint Sundries.. .•
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s'.,
W. E. MYERS & CO.
Druggists.
The
LEON, IOWA. THURSDAY. MAY 24. 1900. %"5,15iW t--vREPORTER STffRTTCS VOL. XXV. NO. 39
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Small California IQpt
hams, pound
Fish-Same Price/
Queen of low^ QOc
per sack
California Evaporated
$
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Peaches, pound lv/w
California Evaporated .Up,
prunes, pound
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Come in and get our prices on goods
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Opera House Block.
YOUR BUSINESS
we ask
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is to look at our
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jij Rock Botlofn Grocery Price
jg 25c buy 1 gallon syrup
15c buys 2 packages oat meal
20c buys 1 dozen oranges
25c buys 2 packages coffee
10c buys I large size bottle ketchup
45c buys 1 pail white fish 1900 catch
15c buys I pound fancy Rio coffee
2 15c buys 1 glass berry bowl worth 25c
S Your produce Wanted.
S er-
WZ ket price for I
fcilf
We always give the highest mar-
Butter, Eggs, Vegetables.
Clark's Special
fS-'r-x,
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
We intend to have a little "roaring" at home, so to start the thing off, we offer
Salt and Smoked5 Meats—Fish!
Breakfast Bacon lOl
pound *^2^
Heavy Fat Bacon
Ql
pound
FLOUR. FLOUR. FLOUR.
kfeV'- To close out what Flour we now have on hand, we will offer.
QOp
Patent, sack Jt
FAITCTT DRIED FRUITS. 3
California Evaporated
Prunes, large, pound
Plfl California Raisins new
|p *,•
^3^
Ol
and fine, pound ^3^'
and
ties for cash and give our customers the benefit
WE PAY CASH FOR BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY!
and pay you just what'we get fo^them in CASH or MERCHANDISE.
Corn, Hay, Oats,Bran, Shorts, 6hop, Millefand C^iie Seedood.
CORNER 8TH %XEOM, IOWA.
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TIME TABLE.
C. B. & O.
80TJTH NORTH
Passenger....5:53 a.m. Passenger ST.ttp.m,
Freight 10:*) a. m. Freight 3:00 p. m.
Pashenger..11:50 a.m. Freight 4:30 p-m.
Freight
11:50
p. m. Passenger. ..8:40 m.
K. W.
GOING NOKTH.
W^ahesday35
-Dally
excePt
Sunday4—6:00
$
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
Sunday and
m.—Passenger —Dally except
No. 1—BMiip
Sunday.
No. 17—7:00 li. m. Freight—stock
Sunday only.
a\
Wednesday only.
GOING SOOTH.
SutdaV"
express
freight Stock express
45a'm'—Passenget-—Oaily
except
—Prel8ht—Daily
except
No. 18—11:45 a. m.—Freight—Sunday only
For all points west and northwest, our
tralnJNo.,1 makes direct connection al. Osceola
No lay ovrr there at all, making the bo»t con
nections for points in thai territory.
A. 8. THARP, Agent.
Seasoned native lumber, dimension
stuff and bridge piank, material for
Louse and barn frames always on hand,
F. D. Ci.osi
•e 4T
We tieat succcssliilly almost all forms of
nervous, functional, and organic diso:mos.
i'MSS^RPAn^e-
general nervous prostration, facia laud gen
eral agltans. headaches, sciatica, lumbago
licdouloureaux, St. Vitus Dance, locomotor
ataxia, all forms of neuralgia. I'dsb .pr \trtsoL
enlarged tonsils, Incipient consumption, par
alysis, asthma hay fever, wry neck, catarrh
granulated sore eyes, pterygium, erysipelas'
scrofula, spinal curvature, goitre, irregularl!
ties of ihe heart, hip joint diseases, milk leg
varlcoso veins, Bright's disease, diabetes, tor'
pid liver, gall stone, jaundice, catarrh of btom
ucn aud'bowels, dyspepsia, constipation, etc
Female Diseases a Specialty.
We benefit at least 90 per cent, of a'l chron
ic nffectlons abandoned as incurable by other
systems of treatment, most of them r. joicl»g
in absolute cures. We ask your careful inves
tigation of our c'aims as we have the moaf
scientific methods-of treatment known
DR. J. R. GILMOUR,
graduate of Kirksville
School of Osteopathy.
Offlcc at Woodmansee Hotel. Office
days, Tuesdays. Thursdays and Satur
days. Office hours: 8 to 12 a. 1 to
5 p. m.
Manufacturers of and -y
Dealers in
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r.
Consultation and examination free.' '1
]. A. Harris&Bros
M^Wl
—«*EOH. IO^
carry a Mk'gnlfiiSe'tit ii'n'e of inona
ments. The workmanship is unexcelled
and material used first-class. -".Tv
We buy our stock in car load lots
direct from the quaries in the east,
thereby enabling us to make
SSTTEE FRXC2S
than firms buying in small quantities
Our business is run strictly on a first
class basis and we 4.
GTHLXtAXTTSX
all our work to give perfect satisfaction. ££t
J. A. HARRIS & BROS.
Fancy Streaked Ifjp
iy Bacon, Pound
Host Glose Ont.
Clark Bros. Sue- Qjfjp
cess, sack
Evaporated Apples .Ci I /jjj
special price, pound ^4/
'h Laundry Soap severalOC|
brands, 10 bars
see the difference. We buy in large quan^