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THE LEON REPORTER
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Ai(ereda*iecond clatl matter at the
Leon,Town, Postofflce.
A. Negro Presidential ticket will be
s. nominated and placed in the field this
^ar.
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A coieful survey of the Philadelphia
convention revealed the fact that Rath
bone and Neeley were present only in
Spirit.
The Kansas City convention ought to
be supplied with ice furnished by the
democratic ice trust of New York City.
,—Leon Journal.
Wonder if the Philadelphia conven
tion ate Alger's embalmed beef.
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Six^ republican members of ine Ohio
delegation in the house have have been
defeated for nomination, and two others
are making a doubtful tight. That does
n't indicate the presence of "pease and
hqminy" among the Ohio repulbicans.
The rapidly accumulating array of
scandals in many different departments
of the government is causing consider
able uneasiness to those engaged in pre
paring the way for President McKinley's
re-election. Not since the worst day of
Grant's administration has there been
?uch a general carnival of corruption as
is bring shown to have flourished since
the beginning of the Spanish war.—Ro
chester, N. Y., Herald.
Here area few of the things that vot
ers will do well to make a special study
of between now and election day. The
Alger embalmed beef scandal. The finan
ncial collusion between John D. Rocke
feller and Secretary Gage. The tariff op
pression of the Puerto Ricans. The
United States army outrages on the
Coeur a'Alene miners, authorized by
William McKinley. Thefts, murder and
mismanagement in the Philippines.
Postoffice rascality and embezzlement in
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CANNOT AFFORD TO BE TVBANTS?
The--deraocrati& party' has never ac
quire an inch of territory that it did not
aign ahd seal a convenant with its in
habitants that they should have all the
rights of American citizenship and that
their territory should be finally admit
t3d as States of the Union. The repub
lican party was the only party in this
country that has ever proposed to hold
vessal provinces, and the democratic
party wanted no share of the honor. If
a people were not fit for free institutions,
our free institutions were not fit for the
government of such people. We could
not afford to become tyrants on the
ground that another people were not fit
to be free.-' •».
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION.
Besides Hon. Utaud R. Porter of Ap
panoose county, we notice that V. R.
McGinnis of Leon and W. T. Davis of
Fremont county are mentioned as proba
ble candidates to make the fight against
Hepburn for congress in this district.
An article in!
this paper last week urged
the democrats in this county to instruct
their congression delegates for Porter,
which, on reflection, we think will not
be good policy from the fact that it is
not beat to tie up our delegation, to any
one man. The object is to get the
strongest and best man as the nominee,
and that can be better determined
when the delegates from the several
counties of the district meet in conven
tion.—Mt. Ayr oJurnal.
MORE FAILURES THAN EVER.
Dunn & Co's. report for May says
that there, were more failures than last
^ear^nd that the liabilities were $23,
7-74,150 this year against, $3,820,686 last
year.
Now if Dunn & Co.don't look out
they will be called "calamity howlers"
and forever be barred for good standing
in the republican party.
But what roust be the real condition
ot the country when so great a financial
institution as Dunn & Co. will admit
that- the business conditions now ex'
istirifc under the gold standard are
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disastrous.—Capital City (Mich.) Dem
IS FOR BRYAN.
J. V.
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of Columbia, S. C.
Freeman, of
Harrison,
je*t*
writes to his friend, F.
Davis City. From the tone of his letter
he has got enough of McKinleyigm and
from now on will be classed as a dem
ocrat. fle writes as follows: "I am
strong in-my aduiirationfor Bryan and
the cause which he is defending as I
ever waB for McKinley and Hannaism
I am {perfectly disgusted at, the intrigue
of the republican politicians. It seems
to me they are inviting their defeat.
They are out-spoken in.their defence for
trusts, The way the republican ad
ministration dealt with little Porto Rico
WM first to. attract my tUtentioii. I
forW* J. Brypn, £he second Abraham
iiincojn.
ABSOLUTEiyltJRE
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Makes the food mora delicious and wholesome
Here's the wav New York democrats
endorsed Bryan and agree to abide by
the decision of the Kansas City conven
tion. It's a neat way of getting in line:
The democracy of New York favors the
nomination of William Jennings Bryan,
of Nebrska, foi president of the. United
State at the coming convention, and the
delegates selected by this convention afe
hereby instructed to unite with the
union in making such nominations, and
we pledge the unfailing support of the
democracy of New York to the platform
adopted at such convention.'.'
OUR NATIONAL PIS6BACE. 'M
Mr. McKinley's administration has
disgraced the country before the world.
Every patriotic American, whether he
is a republican or a democrat, must
blush on account of it. The Guban
scandal is almost as extensive as the
postal service of the island. We have
known our spoils system at home.
Now it is revealed to the world—to
jeering Spain the first of all—in all its
rottenness. The Cuban disgrace is a
revelation of the politics which made
McKinley president, Hanna senator,
Alger secretary of war, Quay and Piatt,
dispensers of patronage. Perry 8.
Heath assistant postmaster general,
Rathbone dictator of posts in Cuba.
This outrage is the latest of the blots
whichMr. McKinley has put upon our
escutcheon. He has turned a war of
humanity into a war of conquest. In
doing so he has broken the promise of
the country given through himself and
congress more than once. He has vio
lated the Declaration of Independence
and the constitution. He has pretend
ed to be a trustee for the Filipinos and
the Porto Ricans, mysteriously appoint
ed for the former by Proyidencein order
that he might elevate and civilize them.
He has promised these wards of ours
constitutional liberty and free trade
with the United States.
His deed8 have belied his words. He
has proved that Grgsvenor spoke the
truth, thfit we are in the oeir possess
sions for "the money we can make out
of the transaction." He is favoring the
exploitation of the islands and their
people for the profit of the men who
now dominate his party.
There is an. atmosphere, of greedy
commercialism and of corruption about
this whole business of colonization. We
are shamed before the world" because
the villainy which has been biding be
hind the smug face of hypocrisy has
been discovered and revealed.
INCOME TAX.
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Why should the men who are best
able to pay the taxes—the men who
haye enormous incomes—be exempt?
There is no justice in such an excep'
tion, and, the only reason why it is al
lowed is the (act.that a supreme judge
changed his jnind and decide that such
a tax would be unconstitutional.
Look at the following list ot incomes
that entirely escape federal taxation:
John D. Rockefeller.. 140,000,000
Andrew Carnegie 24,000,090
William Waldorf Astor 9,000,000
Russell Sage 4,500,000
William K. Vanderbilt 4,000,000
Alfred Vanderbilt 4,000,000
C, P. Huntington 3,000,000
Under a graduated income tax these
men votild pay the government annual
ly the sums following:
John D. Rockefeller ...|4,000,000
Andrew Carnegie. 2,400,000
William Waldrof Astor 760,000
Russell Sage 240,000
William K. Vanderbilt 240,000
Alfred VahJerbilt 240,000
C. P. Huntington 180,000
Tbis makes
a total of $8,050,00. Would
not this lighten the burden somewhat
for the poor men who now enjoy the
privilege of paying the bulk o! federal
taxes?
Is there any just reason why the rich
should enjoy government protection to
the fullest extent and pay nothing for
the benefits conferred?
In discussing this question the New
York Journal says: "All taxes are in
come taxes. They have to be paid out
ot Income and they ought to be paid of
surplus income over living expenses, .To
be truly and justly proportipate they
ought to be based, not on the| total
ncome but on 4hat -surplus. The larger
that surplus the more taxes its fortunate
owners can afford to pay. The man
whose entire income is...absorbed.in^pro
dread hot weather. They
know how it weakens and
how this affects the baby,
Ail such mothers need
Scott's. Emulsion, itjgjyes *1
them strength and makes
the baby's fppd richerand,
moreabundant'
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LEON, IOWA, THURSDAY, J1
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viding a meager living for his family baa
no surplus, and 'therefore he ought not
to be taxed, The one whose living ex
penses take an insignificant fraction of
his income and whose surplus mounts
into the millions can aflord to be taxed
heavily. Taxes such as our present
ones which wipe out the entire surplus
ot persons with small incomes and leave
persons with large incomes unaffected
tend directly to surpress saving among
the masses and promote the concentra
tion of wealth in the hands of the few.
Taxes producing the opposite effect
would be worth having for their social
benefits, even if the government had no
use for the money they produced."
In view of these facts the demand in
the Chicago platform for an income tax
should be reafliinned with added vigorby
the Democratic national convention at
Kansas City, fv ,,
REPUBLICAN
MISREPRESENTA
TION.
St. Joseph, Mo., June 13,1900.
O. E. Hull, Editor
LEON REPORTER.
Under this caption I wish to address
the farmers and laboring men through
out our great Mississippi Valley and ask
them to go back through all our Repub
lican times and note their deceitfulness
upon all leading questions.
1st. When they demonetized silver
in 1873 they lied as grossly as any train
robber because the bill was worded, "A
bill to revise the mints," and now my
Republican friends don't you old fellows
remember what a time we had from 1873
to 1878? Don't you remember that we
had strikes, labor riots and prices low
ered simply because the money of our
Constitution was burned to ashes and
interest bearing bonds issued in its
place? That was deceitfulness and pure
stealing as much so as if done by the
common highwayman yet you are so
stupid and unacquainted with "money
issues" that you allow the English
pound Bteriing to "measure your pro
ducts" by caWlnfyourown scantyprtee
to you frbm Liverpool "drily"- before
there can be -100 bushels of American
grain sold, upon the market to-day.
This is exactly what England wanted
and only frr this notorious misrepre
sentation your grain would be priced by
America to day and by the farmer, and
you also remember that the demonetiza
tion of silver didn't work havoc all in
one day, neither will the gold bill that
passed last March, or not at least until
our "Spanish—American war bond
money" seeks its original hiding in the
hanks, and by that time they hope to
charge our panic to "manifest destiny
as England has blamed God with the
"famine" they have in India which is
nothing bnt a panic caused by putting
India upon the gold basis and of course
it would never do to call it a panic,
I say positively that Great Britan is
wholly responsible for all that trouble
for I read just a few days ago, that She
was still "qo&king loans", to India when
ever it could be done with "safety."
This alone speaks as loud as does Her
cussedneRB in leaving their dead upon
the hot African sands and their unwar
like tactics with Georgfe Washington.
Any man who will read the history of
their footprints in the Deleware sands
tracking our heroes by their blood, can
never be an American by siding with
English gold standard which wrecks
Nations and makes paupers, who must
bow to the.'.'titjed sons."
The Republican party to-day are
Qneering at such terms as the "consent
of the governed" and "which means to
side with Great-Britain."
2nd. Again, if you please, look at
McKinley. He is & man who never kept
the mortgage from ."his door," not un
til Mark Hanna lifted it and pinched
hiB
"jelly fish spine" twisting it four
,thousand different ways under "benevo
lent assimilatipti" and "manifest des
tiny" and nop we see Mack rooting
ground in old Oriental mud wallows
jglth mud all over his English high top
jboota trying to pull first-one leg, then
the other, from bis own «ntangling alii
apices,b^it my dear old farmer friend the
•ina of this man, McKinley, will be vis
ited not only upon "the third and
fourth generations," but Americans will
never see the day when this nation can
ull McKinleyism and what it has done"
rpm'those
••linn
mud wallows.
This, my friends, has all been done
Vy fraud and deceitfulness, by such men
,|B Mark Hanna and McKinley's mis
repi^sentatioti,.
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3rd. Our canal treaty with England
frill gijTCfiEpgliBh sbips flree fa»is,.,«(ith
Shat dftQjc&.eithefe iif
war or time of peace. Thus do we see
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resorted to tricka of Republican treachr
ery and deceitfulness to blind you,
honest voters and toilers, of this your
God's footstool.
Do not take oflene when you read
these hard words because you will thank
me for the timely warning when you see
the panic which this goldi bill will soon
give us. The wars wre benefited us
temporarily but the fgial bonds havenot
been "all issued" yetftnd they are only
waiting until after eUutyn when you
will see 45 cent wheafi^(Please remem
ber this price too, dear farmer.
4th. The Republican party can truth
fully be charged again with deceitfulness
about the gold bill. At first it was "bi
inetalism," then "currency reform" biit
after March 14,i90Q, they boldly called
it the gold standard, i?.d so do we and
so did we charge the& since 1873, but
they denied it all alongf until March 14,
1900. So my friends if you go it blindly
and refuse to heed these words of warn
ing, we are gone head and tail into the
"Mother Country" that McKinley said
he."loved so much" in 1898, and from
whom all England .cabled McKinley for
his positive friendship to England when
he put the "Boers on ice."
If Grover Cleveland had done such a
thing he would have been impeached
and then assaeslnated if not hung for
treason. e-.-
If Mark Hanna would tell McKinley
to sing, "God save the Queen," God
would never hear the last of that "Open
Mouth Policy." If Mark Hanna said
"Let the Japs in," you could not count
them as fast as they would come. If
Mark would tell Mack to sleep with
his feet in a whiskey^ barrel, you bet,
"in they would go.^ If Mark told
Mack that whiskey waB good in the
south-eastern part of the Chinese zone,
Mack would convey it to his minister
and
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Altamont, III.
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they say "famine" and you will notice
Jiow anxious the Republican papers are
to give room for India news and what
strong lung power" they are now use
ing to influence the "church to help."
28. 1900.
Small California
hams, pound
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minister would go to the Chicago
conference and tell the people that it
was ^'manifest destiny" and the confer
ence would witbdrair their condemna
tion of the "canteen clause" and charge
it all to the government and God Al
mighty as being responsible for the
canteen in the army, and the church
would sing:
"Holt on, roll on, sweet momenta roll on,
And give us more whiskey at home, at home."
Thus my farmers and others you can
read between the lines of everything
that McKinley has done, and what he
should have done wonld make sixty
four train loads of documentary writ
ingin order to show what England
abroad and her agentolMjui have done
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'•fieaB" at our expenap, whieh lias' beeu K
done through their agents and the Re
publican party by practicing deceitful
ness just the same as a train robber, and
in like manner will otir country come to
grief, sooner or later for allowing these
would be George Washington killers to
infest our shores through such rotten
men as Mark Hanna, McKinley and
others not so bold before them.
i- Yours truly,
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California Evaporated 1 Ap
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CaiHornia Evaporated^ Cp
prunes, pound ®if Ov
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YOUR BUSINESS.«
is to look at our
Rock Bottom Grocery Price.
25c buy 1 gallon syrup
ill 15c buys 2 packages oat meal
Uf 20c buys 1 dozen oranges
iji 25c buys 2 packages coffee
10c buys 1 large size bottle ketchup
45c buys 1 pail white fish 1900 catch
15c buys I pound fancy Rio coffee
I5c buys 1 glass berry bowl worth
Your Produce Wanted.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
We intend to Have a little "roaring" at home, so to start the thing off, we offer
Salt and Smoked Meat—Fish!
Breakfast Bacon
pound
Clark's Special
REPORTER SERIES YQL. XXV. NO. 44
12',c
Heavy Fat Bacon
"pound
8!,c
To close out what Flour we now have on hand, we will offer.
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We always give the highest mar
ket price for
Butter, Eggs, Vegetables.
25c
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FLOUR. FLOUR.
QOp
Patent, sackp^^
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California Evaporated (2 1st
Prunes, large, pound ^3^"
California Raisins new
and fine, pound ^3^
Come in and get our prices on goods and see the difference. We buy in large quan
ties for cash and give our customers the benefit
"V. WE PAY CASH FOR BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY!
and pay you just what we get for them in CASH or MERCHANDISE.
Corii| Hay^ Oats,Bran, Shorts, Chop, Millet and Cane Seed,Wood.
TIMETABLE.
C. & Q.
SOUTH
Pugsenger....5:5,') a.m. I
Freight TO:SO a. jn. I
NORTH
Passenger 2:3* p.m.
—, Freight. »:IIOp.m.
Passenger.. 11:50 a.m. I Freight 4:30
Frplgbt H:50p.m. Passenger. ,.8:40p.m.
K. & W.
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Wednesday.
No. 1^-2:40 p. m.—Passenger Dally except
Sunday.
No. 17—7:00 a. m. Freight—stock express
Sunday only.
w1dnesday05only?1'~FrelKht
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No. 1?—11:45 a. m.—Freight—Sunday only
For all points "*west and northwest, our
train2No.,l makes direct conncctlon at Osceola
No lay over there at all, making the best con
nections for points In that territory.
A. S. THARP, A gent.
sag®,
Take
It Easy.
In a hammock this summer. It
will be a good investment, for
nothing rests one
HO
well or so
quickly.
Hammocks are made for ease, bat
the ease may be' short lived if the
hammock is the kind that is made
merely to sell the kind that stretch
out of shape, tangle or constantly
break.
This
Season.
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Brings new styles and colorings,
and we have a full variety. You
can find here just what you want
for just what you want to pay.
Prices are as comfortable as the
hammocks.
Come and seei
about them,
Manufacturers of and
Dealers in
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Wfo cai#a.4nagn«ficentl
The
uents.
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W. E. MYERS & CO.
Druggists
&
J. A. Harris &Bros
Xue workniianship is ane^ll
and material used first-class.
_We buy our" stock in car load lota:,
direct from the quaries in the eaatr
thereby enabling us to make
SZTTZR FZUCZS
than firms buying in small quantities
Our business is run strictly on a first
class basiB and we
all our work to give
Fancy Streaked
Bacon, Pound
Clark Bros. Suc
cess, sack
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QTH AND MAIN, LEdN, IOWA^
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perfect satisfaction.
J. A. HARRIS ft BROS.
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10c
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Host Close Out
80c
Evaporated Apples
special price, pound ^4
Laundry Soap several
brands, 10 bars
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