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Leon,Iowa ,Po8tofflce.
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With a capitalization of $1,100,000,000
the Steel Trust organized by Pierpont
Morgan can make a" handsome subscrip
tion to the republican slush fund in 1904.
The'.present congress is compelled to
ar.journ March 4, and it i? not at all
probable that it will disperse a minute
before time's up. r^S&lfei
N-- $H!a&
-•K A Washington correspondent says
"that Iuwa has 324 federal ^upoiatmeTftTB
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ami an a«rj! rejjaj,& mbiwisU salary of $392,
052. .Thft state leads all the states west
of/the Mississippi river and comes
twelfth ib the list of all the states. $S§
Senator Titus keenly feels thp failure
ot his amendment because he has an
ambition to be governor, and he thought
its adop'ion would have landed him in
the place. As it is all hopes in. that
direction have gone glimmering into the
distance.
Three generations of the Selfridge fam
ily are now represented in the United
States navy, President McKinley having
appointed the younger son of Rear Ad
miral Thomas O. Self rid Re, Jr., to a ca
.detship at the Naval academy. The
young man's grandfather is Rear Ad
miral Thomas O. Selfridge, who was re
tired from active service in 1866 and is
how nearly 100 years old. Admiral
Selfridge, jr., was retired three yeara ago
tot age- 111S1I
Representative Babcock ot Wisconsin
has introduced a bill in the house to re
peal the tariff on iron and steel products,
his"object being to cut down^ the profits
of the bit steel combination and put an
end totjae monopoly. In other wordB
he purposes to desubsidize. one of the
addv^stlyto his feme, flis-inetisttre is
•tlie most practical thus f^
suggested for
|S^iql^ing the problem of the "capitalistic
combinationsiV if the Altgeldism will be
,. .P»n':9Ped'
The men who composed the army of
(the CuiiiberlancVhave-had a remarkable
/'record since the war. Three _of the
*:ar ?:y's generals have become.presidents
-—•Grant, Garfield and Harrison. Every
"?comm»ndiiig general of the United
{States'army, «ith the exception of Gen
eral -Mi'es, served in the Army of the
tCuniberlnnl. Seventeen members of
-that body have been in the cabinet,
thirty-eight have been senators and 300
-have been in congress.
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The man who does not pay his poll
tax in Mississippi will under a bill
which has passed the legislation of chat
'state, have his name, published in his
Count) p»p a-adeliuqiu nt, as a man
wh refuses to con1 ribu't $2 to the edu
ca'ion of his own children, but is willing
for his neighbor to do so, and let them
.reap an education by the sweat of the
other fellow's fi-ce. Moreover, "he will
be_disinuichised and will ruii the risk
of
fir.e and six months in jail if
he hereuf'er attempts lo vote at a pri
mary election, fur, it is assented, the tax
ij-ers art tired having their votes
kill'vl ly f-ucli p. liiiritl driftvr--od.
Within the last ten years the cost of
carrying on our Federal government
^^haisHoreused from $4.75 to $10.00 per
Jhead of population. Yet the people
^Sseeai to like it. This tax causeB great
ipoverty as it is chiefly p«d according to
f^Aon^jtumption: and not wealth and ability
^Mto pay. Another-thing the indirect tax,
-«pmingfrom tariff puts four dollars into
tbe pockets of the "protected" to one
into the treasurv, therefore, if all the
10.00 ahead a year was raised bv the
tariff as now levied, each man, woman
and child of America would, have to
pay $50.00 instead of $10 00 Federal tax,
$40,000 to Carnegie, Uavemeyer, Rock*
feller, &c., &c and $10.00 toward ex
penses of the Republic.
Negotiations for the purchase ot the
Danish West Indies by the United
States, which were broken off by
change of ministry in Denmark, are said
^to have been' resumed. Minister SweU
•on at Copenhagen, in charge of this gov
ernment can arrange nothing definite
uniil Senator Lodge has assured the ad
ministration that tbe senate will agree
to the treaty of annexation and that the
house will consent to the necessary ap
propriation. About three and one-half
million dollars is understood to be the
price mentioned. The necessity ot i«ia
iug funds bsus induced the Copenhagen
government- again to attempt the sfle.
It has no otber possestiions in the W«*t
Indies and the expense of mainlining
its authority in those isolated regions is
one-quarter of a^ million dollars above
receipts. How m«cb'U would ^eost
surmise.
ABSQUJIEEirtolHtE
|3 MODERN FEUDALISM.
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
People never know exactly how great
a strain they are capable of bearing if it
is placed upon them by degrees. Every
one is familiar with the manner in which
one individual is said to have been able
to carry a full grown bovine across his
barnyard, simply by commencing the
operation when the animal was a calf
and persistently performing the task
every day while it was in process of
development.
There was a time when a billion dol
lar congress was thought to be too heavy
a burdejj fof the people of this country
and they got rid of it. But it now trans
pires that that sort of an assembly was
but a mild introduction to what was to
come. We are now luxuriating in the
possession of a congress that discounts
all former extravagance about .one hun
dred per cent. Instead of a billion dol
lar congress, we can now boast that we
can sustain a billion dollar session of
congress. Conservative estimates show
that the present session will spend very
little less than $900,000,000. What the
total amount spent by the present con
gress would foot up would be hard to
compute and harder to believe. The
forces of extravagance are the saddle
and are doing their beBt to ride to death.
—Ottumwa Democrat.
The power of the men that control the
billion dollar steel trust is greater than
that of any empire or potentate in re
corded history.
They have in their grasp the whole
vast and growing iron and steel trade
in the United States.
ROVAt MKINaPOWOER CO., NEW YORK.
maammBjaansBssaEa
MORE TAXES. I'
They and their associates controls,
majority ot the railroad mileage of the
country, with a capitalisation of another
biiliun of dollars.
They own a large part of the banking
business in New York city, -control de-
commerce «bd industry.
They own absolutely the entiraaoli
productionand trade of the country,
own /of cOMroK stefjjmBhip, steamboat
and telegraph lines, own, control or in.
fluence newspapers, weekly and monthly
magazines, preachers, publicietsand
legislators.
The amount of capital actually with
in their sway is not less than three bil
lion dollars.
Upon their nod and beck depends the
daily bread of millions of toilers and the
families of toilers.
Imagination can hardly set a limit to
the actual power involved in their oper
a ns.. Before it could become openly
tmterous or revolutionary, of course,
jt le people wguld no doubt put an, end
to it.—Chicago American.
I Babies and children need
proper food, rarely ever medi
cine. If they do ndt thrive
on their food something is
wrongs They need a little
I help to get their digestive
machinery working properly.
or
COO LIVER OIL
WfTH NYPOPNOSPMTES or LIMES.SOOA
will generally correct this
difficult
If you will put from one-,
fourth to half a teaspooiiful
ip 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
baby, she. needs the emul
sion. It will show an effect
at once bo^h upon mother
joe. and|t.ao, dt.dmtti*'1'
-OTT & BOWWE, Vor
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LEON. IOWA. THURSDAY.
Baking
POWDER
SHIP SUBSIDIES.
THE DIVISION OF THE 8POILS.
WH* Will Get the Subsidy trader tk«
Peadlag BlUT
When a proposition to loot the pub
lic treasury, like that of the Hanna
Frye-Payne ship subsidy bill, Is
brought forward, It Is always loudly
heralded as a beneficent system of
prizes ior which all citizens so disposed
can engage in stimulating competition.
There is Usually a "nigger in the wood
pile" with such assertions, as we all
know, but it is not often that lie is so
easily discovered as in the case of this
Impudent measure. Accepting on their
face the figures ptit forth by the friends
of the bill, some of which are most pal
pably falsified, the facts are tha£ about
nine-tenths of all full subsidies upon
existing steamships of 12 knots speed
or over would be gobbled up by just
four concerns, which it is well known
arc th5se from whom the bill has ema
nated. These are the International
Navigation company, owned by the
Pennsylvania railroad and the Stand
aid Oil circle, which would get over
$1,100,000, or with the.Parls on her full
service again about $1,500,000 the Pa
cific Man, $157,000 the Ward line to
Cuba and Mexico, $442,000, and the
American Mail company, owned by the
principal stockholders ib the Ward
line, whose. Bliare would be $102,000,
bringing up the interest of that clique
to from one-half to one-third that of
the Standard Oil crowd.
Outside of these companies, receiving
in all about $2,000,000, there are nine
more whose vessels would be eligible to
a share in full subsidy, but who must be
content with a meager $200,000 divided
up among them. More than half even
of this sum goes to one concern, the Pa
cific Coast company, which has alrieady
epjoyed an exceptional amount of gov
ernmental favors in connection with
transfer service to the Philippines.
Of foreign built ships which are to
receive only one-half subsidy the Inter
•uitonai Nyi^hm co^paiQy: is esHr
mated to 6iit& only mo3esr$356,0OO,
t^T to thV subsidy on .its ^xpress
steamers as noted atrave, bpt the Stand
ard Oil interest in its ownership has
quite a little fleet of vessels of its own
which, unless excluded by the tank oil
amendment Introduced in the senate,
"will probably come in for an additional
$250,000, while the Atlantic Transport
company, whose affiliations have been
growing closer through Pennsylvania
niilroad shareholdings, is set down for
a $834,000 plum in the pie. Still anoth
er railroad Interest, the Chesapeake
and Ohio, will have a right to demand
$102,000 on its boats, but a search out
side of this little family party does not
reveal enough. American owners to* en
joy as much ail told as the smallest of
the interests just enumerated.
That there may be changefs in the fu
ture cannot of course be disputed, but
these must come slowly for outside in
terests that had not been laying their
plans ,ln advance as had the group
which have prepared and are backing
the bill. That these latter gentlemen
have not been'anxious to pose as fool
ish virgins may be discovered on look
ing up the position of affairs as to ves
sels how under construction In the'va
rious shipyards. On the Pacific waters
the leading interest next to the Pacific
Mail and PaciflcCoast companies basal
ways 'been that of the SpreckelB sug
ar monopolists." Like the Pacific Coast
Companies, tb$y have been engorging a*
particularly large meal of government
pap In transport service, and this may
have rendered them a little sluggish At
getting into the pool, but they, are just
putting some new boats into operation,
from which they expect to draw $212,
000 subsidy annually, about a fifth of
their value—something, at least, to keep
the wolf from the door.
In the way of looking to the future,
however, no one can accuse the-Inter
national Navigation company with be
ing improvident, and We accordingly
find among the owners of vessels under
construction entitled to subsidy they
again lead the list with, about $468,006
prospective, benefits to their credit,
white the Pacific Mall are close on
their heels here, 'ft8 they lot* for $433j
000 addl^pnaf.when they get their new
boats. Curiously enough, the Ward
people have Only $185,000 subsidy ca
pacity under .way, the smallest of any
of the leading conspirators, although
for requirements of trade proper we
mlght eipect them to be at the head,
as a number of their vessels are grow
ing old, and theirs Is notably the most
prosperous of all our transportation
companies, with the exception of the
Mallory line, who are honorably dis
tingulshed, by the way, in a practical
absence from the list of subsidy bene
ficiaries.
Still another classification under this
Inquiry is that of vessels building
abroad, and here we find that the ubiq
uitous International company with
$887,000 in sight and the Atlantic
Transport with $510,000 are the only
ones that seem to have improved the
shining hour, but as those two will
have nine times as much coming to
them from this source as all outside
interests they are readily seen to ha.ve
nobly kept up the average.
Summarizing the situation, it would
pear that of subsldy benefits that
can now be calculated upon the Inter
national gomlMuiy would have about
S2,60(M)00 annually:r-flw -Ward^ io^er
wts, «JM£00 Atlantic. .Transport,
DECREASE AND
PUBLIC
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$844,000 Pacific Mail, $500,000 Stand
ard Oil, $S60.000 Spfeekel* $212,000
Pacific Coast, $126,000 Chesapeake
and Ohio, $103,000, or, say, f5,350,000
among these eight concerns, while all' the
other possible interests in sight (in- rency\ They were as steble as^old"th"r
eluding $383,000:io the Great Northern price did not vary a cent in twenty'yeari"
railroad, whlcfi hiis n«t asked for sub- The very name of Oliver was
sidy at all), wktd' be able to draw a synonym for honesty. It was ourrent all
$673,000 onljr. Further comment seems
The democrats in the United States
senate the .glher day placed themselves
on record as in favor of an income tax,
and thedid it unanimously there not
being a single dissenting vote. The
time should come and-soon when such a
measure becomes a law. And there
should be enough honest men on the su
preme bench to Sustain its constitution
ality. The present court reversed itself
on the question at the behest of the
eastern multimillionaires who are op
posed to standing-a share of the expen
ses of the government wtiich protects
them in the enjoyment of their wealth,
Tb? W ashkigtoCf)^f*:
btlion as a .demonstrated impossibility
In every state where it has been at
tempted it has failed. It substitutes
free rum, and generally of .an inferior
quality, for a regulated traffic. It is a
promoter not only for intemperance,
but of sneaking hypocrisy and contempt
for law.
The swift increase of all Federal ex
penses is seen not less in the sundry
civil bill than in others
Sundry civil bill of 1887 $22,350,540
Sundry civil bill of 1901 59,703,084
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INCREASE
DEBT.
the world.
unnecessary. Kme Prin«P}e Benson's Porous
riaster is the universal standard •xfj»rn«i
remedy. To say it is a' 'good" plaster does
Our national detU haS'rapidly. increas-! almost aa a matter of course.
ed in the last nin* years. November ly
1891, the debt Ifol reached $2,132,373,
031,17.
lt
wasincr^ased last year near­
ly $41,000,000 ithtrtandiog the
enormously incr&y«d tatalion since
McKinlev's incumbepcy/'
Largest debt was iii l886 $2,773,236,173,70
lied need up to 1S91 to. 1,646,001,69.5.01
Reduction of nearly lialf $1,226,264,488.09
Since 1891,',wheji without law to sanc
tion the act^ HariSson began to pay in
g~ld alone instead of gold and silver ac
cording to the.Contract, which illegal
and ruinous actions bas been continued
since, and the debt has increased by bor
rowing and^ refunding to gold bonds and
notwithstanding an enormously increase
ed taxation, tUlit has reached as above
stated, $2,132,375,031-17, an increase in
nine years of$585,411,335,56. This is a
littlti '.oyer $65,000,000 a year increase.
The decrease from 1866 to 1891, twen
ty-five yean, was a little over $49,000,000
year. Now add the yearly decrease
under bimetiliUMi to the yearly increase
caused by*t1ie gb!d standard and you
have a total yearly difierence against
the people $114,000,000,
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WHAT'S IN A NAME?
(Benson's Piaster Is Pain's Mastir.)
OF not describe it it tits btvt poiMibtt'pUMtcv.
I For every disease in which an external rem
*dy i® available, Benson's Plaster is used
Benson's Plaster quickly relieves and
cures where other modes' of treatment are
either exasperaitingly slow or have no go6d
meot whatever. Coughs, colds, lumbago,
kidney trouble, rheumatism, lame back,
•fctc., are fit ones benefited and soon cured.
Oapsioum, Strengthening and Belladonna
plasters have none of the curative virtues
of Benson's.. More than 6,000 physicians
and druggists have commended Benson's
Plaster as a remedy in "which the public
may have implicit confidence while, in a.
comparative test with other plasters, Ben
son's has received fifty-fit* highest qmard*.
Beware of substitutes and cheap imitations.
For sale by all druggists or we will pre
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States on receipt of 25c. each.
Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, N. Y.
Illness Has
the Advantage
^""pl
\nrJ
When your prescription
or recipe is compounded
from doubtful drugs or by
a careless dispenser. It
will do to ta,ke chances in
some things, but not in
having prescriptions filled
Absolute accuracy is de
manded the sort of ac
curacy you are sure of here
Our stock consists of the
finest drugs obtainable.
We havesall the new reme
dies for which there is any
demand. Our prunes are
never beaten, quality con
sidered.
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toot Ills should never be tothB
usual cathartlo remedtes is elr_eo«UT6 MMttou wbloh
iDoreasefl «o
eo^Uptitlon ln«ead of unrlng H. PARKKK'8
TOKIO ia the mpwmnedy. It mctaon the
when uaoa directed, pernuuienUr
yyy.jtnd vhen and
constipation. Mcts.ftiLWaS2l^n^^nawTSnmovem
Don't Be Foolcdi
The market Is.jKing-Seaded
with worthless imitations el
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
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To protect the public we salt
especial attention to our trade
mark, printed on every pack*
age. Demand the genuine.
For Sale by all Druggist*
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W. H. MYERS.^
Druggist.
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Total J57.456.M
a WM.WOODARD,
President.
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Capital md
JOHN W.HARVEY. PresMent.
FRED TEALE Casbler
^The. holidays are over and we are making prices
on staple goods that will surprise you,
Pride of Kansas per sack
Blue Ribbon per sack
Quten of Kansas per sack ...^1.00
Cream of Dakota per sack..
One-half sack Cream of Dakota per sack......
One-half sack Shawnee Fancy per sack
Southern bran, sack included, per sack.........
Southern Shorts, sack included, per sack
Corn meal bran per sack.....
Chop feed, per hundred* ndtsacked
Hay, Corn, Oats, Straw and Wood.
Fancy California evaporated peaches per pound 10c
Fancy California evaporated pfunes'per pounds 5c
ancv Oregon silver prunes, large per pound 10c
Fancy Evaporated apples per pound ..l«c
31b pie pdaches'^Tcans 25c
81b peeled[ table peaches per can loc
Jams, Jells, Butters, and all Canned Goods for Special Sales at Cheap Prices.
Fresh Oysters in Bulk and Cans at Prices that Defy any and all Competition.
The Finest Line of. Fresh Fruits, and Vegetables in the City.
\|Ve Pay Highest Price in Cash or Tr/ide for Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Hay. Oats, Corn*
Do not Buy or Sell Anything Until You Get Our Prices^
CORNER 8TH AND MAIN, LEON, IOWA.
Phone 22.
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OFFICERS.
.1. Switzer,Pre6. J. H. Davis, Vice Pres. A. L. Ackerley,Oa«h( J. C. Brothers, Asst.
STATE SAYINGS BANK.
GRAND RIVER. IOWA.
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DIRECTORS.
J. SwitzerJ" John Boyd, Peter Breneman, .I.H.Davis, A. L. Ackerley.
Statement December 13,1900, To Auditor of State.
RFSOUnCKS.
Loans and Discounts
Overdrafts
Real Estate
Furniture and Fixtures
OiiRh and Exchange
$83,975.39
1,798.83
8,600.00
1,000 0U
18,1800
MABIMTIES
Capital Paid in
Earnings
Call Heposits
rime Deposits
Wxi
Total
Interest Allowed on Time Deposits of Six Months and Over.
JAMK8 ORKSWELL,
vice President.
THX CZTZZXIT'S BASTS.
1 Owns 3,300 acres of land in Decatur County and other securi
ties amounting to over *200,000. interest paid on
34 time deposits.
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S Wftl. WOODARD, JAME8 CRE8WELL, J. HENRY HILL.
o. BRAZELTON, C. M. OORRINGTON.
S W. H. COLTER. F. A. & F. S. GARDNER. E. W. TOWNSEND.
Firms ui Irate Bui
LEON, IOWA.
Surplus
'mm
ZC-.~J3~U
Does a general banking business.
Pays Interest on time deposits.
We Solicit a Share of Your Patronage.
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WARNER 18LOCK.
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The Leon Reporter and St.Louis
Republie, both 1 yew. $1.75.
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90c
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W.TOWNSEND,
Cashlcfr.
$38,500.00.
TUOS.TEALE, Vice President.
S. ARNOLD. Assistant Casbfer.
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