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:p 1 »r 12 Pages DP a S$M l'hone 22s..p0.^ Vw' i§*?L si STABlilSHED 1854. THE LEON REPORTER! \0. E. HULL, Publisher n^dN, IOWA Sabsoription Rates: One year fl.50 Biz months 75 Three months 40 Sintered at second class matter at the Cieon Jowa .Postoffi ce. Advertising Rates. Yearly advertisers 8 cents per inch per Issue Occasional ailvertWnrK Hi cents per Inch per Issue. Locals 5 con1 per line each Insertion. Loca's set In black face type 10 cents per lineeat-h inser lon. Legal a elver! Islng at legal rales. Churoh and other notices where an admis sion fee ts oharged. will be oharged (or at the rale of 5 cents per line. Senator Vest sees no necessity for re organizing a party which is already or ganized and fully prepared to tight when the time coiues to fight. The California inan who iet his house linrn down rather than miss seeing Mc Kinley, must have either curried a lire insurance policy or wanted a postoltice. Perhaps both.""""" ir* Sfe Senator William A. Clark, the Mon tana millionaire, has given orders to be gin work on the palatial residence which he intends to erect in Washington. Mr. Clark is understood to feel that, with Marcus Daly dead and William E. Chandler among the "hasbeens," his seat in the senate is now safe. There tore he has begun to make ready for a protracted sojourn in Washington. That the nations of Europe, are get ting ready to wage a tariff war against the United States has for some time been manifest. The reason is that all the reciprocity treaties which have been negotiated by President McKinley and his secretary of state for mutual liberali ty in trade has been bung up by the senate without approval We are likely to get some protection with the costly end of it against us. Now that we are so largely an exporting people foreign tarifls are our terror. yre made our treaty ot peace witb Spain weabsolved iber from-lteMl fty for American-owned, property de stroyed in Cuba and for liability for the loss .of the Maine, blown up by a Bunk- en torpedo in the harbor of Havana. There are claims tiled amounting to thirty-odd millions against the United 8tates, for losses for which the treaty releases Spain from liability and sad dles the liability on to the United States. That is why jingoes want war. It exposes the government to the vam pires that suck its blood in time of war. They want war for the honor and glory cf the nation. Then they sell old hulks ot ships to the government for five times their value. They sell rotten meat and qboddy clctbfng afld ammunition that Won't explode and spavined ipules, and (tejep loud clamor. TARIFF REDUCTION MUST COME. I* is far from certain that the republi cans can elect a majority of the next bouse of representatives under any cir cumstances. It is morally certain that they will be routed in the effort if they go to the country without haying enact ed anti-trust-tariff legislation on the lines proposed by Representative Bab pock, the sagacious chairman of their congressional poiuniittee.—Washington post. _________ RA|LRQAP ASSESSMENTS. The principal plapk in the ne*t demo cratic state platform will be one urging the equitable taxation of railroad prop erty in Iowa. Under present conditions, with the governor, the executive coun cil and the railway commissioners owned body soul and breeches by the railroads, you might aa well torn the state over fo the railroad corporations and let them run it. They do run the state at all events.—Washington Democrat. MONEY TO BURN. May 1 ths price of steel rails advanced from |26 to $28 a ton. According to dispatches from New York, the anthra cite operators intend to increase the price of their product $1 a ton. It is es timated that this will add about $60,• 000,000 to their profits. A There is something magniucent in the way the trusts announce tkese advan ces. iwith.which tbey decreet hat this atyd that shall be done. There is something kin'tly in the Stypply and demand? What ire they? W|iat economist dared to talk about pich entitle*? What are thelbeside -Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and |ie re mainder of the coterie? Axe the Itfarch earnings of the \teel trust to be doubled i» May so thafi|he profit of the thirty days will be toen millions? How bright next ter's fire will be-«plh_ the black inonds sparklingfiiueb per spark! Prosperous times, truly, for the trust —St. Louis Republic. THE *Vj_, ,VJ*AS^ -tv^ ABSOumnrtouRE V., Senator Vest, in an interview at Hot Springs, Ark., is quoted as making some significant utterances bearing on the issues to be confronted by the national Democracy and on the existing situation in Missouri. According to this interview, the Mis souri Senator is of the opinion that sil ver will not be an issue in 1904. This, Mr. Vest says, is due to the fact that the great finds of gold in recent years have given us a larger circulating mediu than we ever had before. He also thinks that Mr. Bryan's renomina tion in 1904 will be impossible. Senator Vest sees no occasion for the holding of another Pertle Springs Con vention by Missouri Democrats. The party needs no getting together, he says, because there haB been no getting apart since its moBt recent conyention last July. There is no necessity for reaffirm ing the Chicago platform, since that has already been reaflirmed. It is too early to lay down rules for the guidance of the party in 1904. He does not believe that any considerable number of Democrats would join in a call for a convention a this time. These utterances from Senator Vest will doubtless be noted with deep inter est by the people of Missouri and by Democrats in general throughout the Union. It has for many years been agreed by Missouri Democrats that Senator Vest's Democracy is beyond re proach or suspicion. It is not likely that any person who chances to disagree with the Senator will see fit to charge him with being a Democratic renegade. It is even less likely that such a charge would be regarded seriously by the peo ple of Missouri. Senator Vest's Democ racy has been tried and proven on too many a hard fought field to be open to question.' The Republic has of late been per sistent in telling Democrats that all the talk of "Democratic reorganisation" was -r^het^^ it wa»,4»asfld on the .fqjsa premise. ,tb^^istirga"mzatirtnr«^i»^ It is rejoiced to see Senator *Vest take the same stand. The Democratic party is organized and ready for business in 1904. The issues upon which the battle of 1901 must be fought will be logically indicated by events between now and that time, and can be created in no other manner. The Democratic party will take a Democratic position oq those issues and fight a good fight. And the fight cannot be fought until the battle field is reached. Piles qf People Have Piles. tol has cured piles pf people of ths piles A pile .pipe free with each on Seotol to stay cured, The jingo hoaets of bis aggressive patriotism. In pine cases out of ten be is after personal fame, promotion or an opportrnity to loot his country's treasury. a kage. Wpsoll C) cure, no pay, E. Myers Cp. positive guarantee. 80 cents. Samples free. Does the If not, something must be wrong with its food. If the I mother's milk doesn't nour ish it, she needs SCOTT'S 1 EMULSION. It supplies the elements of fat required for !. the baby. If baby is not nourished by its artificial food, then it requires Scott's Emulsion Half a teaspoonful three or four times 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 trutty of our statements. Should be takea In summer well at winter. 50c. and fx.00. at) druggists, SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. BEST FOR THE BOWELS A T& -1 \. If you havefit a reiruUnVWt or^wlll be «8t,1easiest.'mosuperrecu1 «14aran4 take' uK^p^dl le Bhapeof-r* is. Tfre'flbiootl idepln^r the bbwel EAT **EM LIKE CANDY amuM BCnwr OMriunr, cmcm* «kw yms. .KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAR jL,. l,r4 Makes the food more delicious and wholesome MR. VEST'S VIEWS. «QY»t SAKINB POWDCB CO.. HEW YOBK. COBDEN M'KINLEY. He is the observed of all observers. He is a wonderful advance agent of his party. He is the incarnation of all that is glittering and specious, the very em bodiment of clever opportunism. A re publican of republicans the easy boss primogenius among protectionists he is talking glibly about enlarging com merce and expanding trade, and "open doors," like a very free trader. Not a word about home markets sufficing for American producers. Not a word about "foreign competition." Not a word about high tariffs making high wages. With Calhoun and McDuffie, he is everywhere exclaiming "to the sea!" Often has the Courier-Journal pre dicted that this might he. Often have we declared that, with plants complet ed, with processes perfected, with pat ents, imprints and trademarks secure, the American manufacturer, seeking to cheapen production and to augment custom, would exclaim of the restrictive tariff "Take the nasty thing away! It Is a hindrance, not a help. Let us out to the world, to come and go as we please. We can meet and beat Eng land, we can meet and beat Germany in all the neutral markets that geo graphically belong to us. Down, down with the high tariff!—Louisville Courier Journal. CARNEGIE AS A PROPHET. Mr. Carnegie says in an interview with the Chicago American correspond ent in Aix les Bains: All these consolidations are steps in advance of a great movement which will distinguish the twentieth century. Hereafter American railway Atlantic to the Pacific, and one man in New York can fix through rates. In a short time trunk railways will own steamship lines on the Atlantic and Pacific. It would be unwise not to promote this move ment. I hail it as another triumph for. the republic." y. ---v. ment will distinguish not only the twentieth century, but all centuries to follow. The formation of trusts is simply the preliminary step in the organization of government ownership. In a short time, as Mr. Carnegie says, American railways will be of one in terest and one man can fix .rates." The one man to fix rates should be the man elected by all the people to manage the railroad interests of all th? people. He should arrange rates fairly, in the interest of the people and pot in the interest of himself or of shareholders. The railroad system should aim to re duce rates and taxes and consider only the public interest. It should improve the farmer's con dition by lowering freights and increas ing facilities. At present we can only hope for the preliminary step—which Carnegie fore sees.- 3 One man will dictate rates. One set of men will own or control all the rail roads. The eighty millions of inhabit ants will be taxed as the one man may choose to tax them. But In time there will come a change the government, which means all the people, will own and control the rail? roads, which are valuable solely because the people live and use them- There ip. no 'reason for beiftg in a hurry about the government ownership. The thing to do is to talk about it, agi tate in its favor, and, if necessary, fight for it when the time is ripe. At present the individual owners and organizers are doing an indispensable, highly valuable .work.. They cost a great deal, but they de serve what they get, It was .necessary to have the private private mail carriers and extortionate rates before, we could get. the govern ment mail system and two ceut pos tage. It is necessary to haye private,' inch vidua! control of tbe national railroads, with extortionate dividends on endiess watered stock, before we can get the government system, nationally owned and properly managed. While waiting for national ownership to come, let us be grateful to the big organisers whose intelligence and avari ciousness combine so beatylifqily to,, ar fange'for ^better fu{uje. The railroads jjfni belopg gome day to the people whoM ni^bers ijnd indus try make railrpa^s p^hle. Wben that day comes, we shall owe gratitude to the- Morgans, Kbckefellers, Carniegies and others. We shalj even smile kind ly on tbeir degenerate descendants, as they travel about with their large a.ud unnecessary, fortunes, .ruining ".'their health and brains in speqding the re* wards which tbeir organininar ancestors It's Free If Falls to Cure7 Kectol. the great pile cure." A ptl»'plpe free We vwife W/uwter a litiiS&iiSjtM 2 ""IMsiL ,§! *n?, LEON. IOWA. THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1901. Jj* BAKING POWDER RAILROADISM IN POLITICS. The farmers of the westiare not now complaining ot the extortions of the railroads either in fares' on freight. They have, we think, some reason to complain of both, but they are a \long suffering folk and as long as hogs and cattle are 5 cents and corn 30 cents they will bear it patiently. When hogs and cattlesfall under 4 cents and corn below 20, if it ever does, there will be com plciints both loud and long. Neither are they opposed to railroads nor are they unreasonably prejudiced against them. They welcome the' railroad in both the newer and QhUg} sections of the state, welcome the doRl# tracking, the taking out of curves, &nd otherwise improving the line and roiling stock in all parts of the state. Ibey will wel come the extension ot trolley lines all over the state. The farmer knows that his prosperity and that of the railroads are closely connected and no improve ment in the facilities of the railroads will be or can be made that will not in the end benefit him also. He does complain, and rightly, that where he voluntarily is advancing his assessment from eight to ten per cent in most of the counties heard from, the executive council is maintaining the old rate, increasing it only to the extent of the development of new roads or at least practically so. If the farmer builds a new house in an odd year it is added to his valuation. If a railroad spends five million in improving its tracks and other facilities the executive council takes no account of it whatever. Thus the farmer is bearing an increas ingly undue proportion of the burdens of taxation and has aright to complain. Notwithstanding the great secrecy maintained at the meeting of the last executive council, the Iowa farmer is finding out that the two members nomi nated by the last republican convention and controlled by what is known as the "insurgents'' (Messrs. Gilbertson and Martin) stood for an increase some where proportionate to the voluntary increase which the farmers are making in their own assessment. They are be ginning to understand that those who defeated the recent assessment wish to have as little said about it as possible. They do not dare to go before the peo ple of the state and justify a 12 or 15 per cent assessment when farmers and .owners of town .property are paying 25' The just ground of complaint to not against the railroads but against -rail roadism in Iowa politics, or the habit of two or three of the main trunk lines, for the last ten years, of controlling the nomination of members of the execu tive council by means of railroad passes furnished to delegates and the manipu lation through their attorneys of county conventions in order that persons of sufficient pliability or with political am bitions are nominated as delegates to the conventions of both political par ties. This we say has been going on foi ten yeais, Two years ago there was a protest, not on the groqnd of taxation or the prices of freight or fares but be cause the rule' of the "bosses" of the "machine" had become so odious and unbearable that men with laudable po litical ambitions bad no chance of suc cess unless they sought the permission of the politicians in connection with these roads. They therefore became "insurgents" in the republican party as distinguished from the "machine." Out of this monstrous abuse grows another abuse scarcely less monstrous, namely the organization at the capital of a lobby which has permission to issue passes ad libitum and also express, tele graph, and telephone franks and by their use is able to make oontracts to defeat legislation intended for the terests of the people. 11- A LEON REPORTER !'I:R A. Sr^^avt A ., ±s •Jvi in- 1 The evil will grow -vorse with the coming years unless the farmers directly aid the "insurgents," or the republicans Ladies' Summer Underwear? to* Vests v....".. 3c di?s- Tape Neek Vests 6\c Bleached and Fanpy ests 10? Scotch Lawns abso- Zephyr Dimities at ly Fast Colors Only 5c. the Low Price of u. 7 jk 4 J* «, Su- res. opposing the "machine." We speak thus plainly becauge we be cause that our duty to the readers re quires it. No one connected with Wal laces' Farmer has any political ambi tions or ever expects to have. The paper is the organ of no party and no faction of any party. All that it seeks is good government. It wishes its con stituents on the farm to pay their full share of the public burdens and no more. It wishes every reader who has laudable political ambitions to have a fair field in which to achieve them with out being clubbed by men who with pass books and frank books are able to defeat them unless they first' 'bend the suppliant knee that thrift may follow fawning." These we know are plain words but we think the .time has ccme to speak to them and they are as true of one party as of another. Parties change but human nature does not. The sooner we get rid of railroadism in politics the better it will be for the pockets and peace of the farmers of the state.—Wallace's Farmer. PREDICTING PANIC. A marked degree of pessimism con cerning business conditions is noticea ble in many republican papers. This is particularly true of the great finan cial journals. The United States Inves tor, one of the leading financial publica tions, appears to be particularly blue. The Investor points out that the con ditions at present are very similar to the conditions of 1893, immediately prior to the great panic of that year. It says "The whole industrial and finan cial structure in this country may be likened to a man in mid air on a tight rope, and it adds that the conditions "might very well suggest to Wall street the advisability of getting' things in snug condition." It is not difficult to obtain the idea from the Investor's language that that publication expects a panic in the near future. The Investor reiterates the statement made by it in its issue of Feb ruary 11, 1899, in which the Investor said. "The subjeet is a ghastly one and we should not refer to it at this juncture, were it not that the links out of which the next panic is to be constructed being forced before our very eyes. are Trustsare the agenc)Lwhich will pro-. and we are of the opinioin'.-.that the wreck will equal any that have preceded it." It will be instructive to recall the claims made by the financial publica tions in 1893. They told us then that the purchasing clause of the Sherman law was responsible for all our ills, and a great clamor went up from these pub lications, which clamor found an echo in the republican newspapers demand ing the repeal of that clause. The re peal was effected, but the panic came, nevertheless. And then they told us that the reform was not accomplished soon enough. All that was necessary, so they told us, to place this country above and beyond the fear of a panic was to'restore confidence by banishing all danger of bimetallism and establish ing the single gold standard. Since then we have bad two national campaigns, and republicans have inter preted the result as a popular-verdict in favor of the single gold standard. The law enacted a year ago makes possible the redemption ot every dollar of cur money, silver included, in gold, The republicans are in complete control and it is known to all the world that if any thing is neoessary to place this country any nearer the single gold standard that it is at this moment, the administration is in position to secure it. How does it happen, then, that under these condi tions we are threatened with a panic. The United States Inyestor informs us that trusts are the agency which will produce the next panic in this country, Ladies' Shirt Waists! •. HO X«oolc for dog on the heel of every Mast'iff shoe. or rip after nine months WRITE FfiH CATALCGUt & PRTES'. TWO FINE YOUNG JACKS. WOODLAWN, Black, with white points, 3 years old, IS hands 2* Inches hlght, rangy, smoothe, high headed, Fine eoa]|. NerofTax Payer, Black, with whltetPolnts, 4 years old. IS hands Inches hlgh,broad flat bone, heavy built. These fine jacks will make the season ot 1901 at the fafm of Your Dollar will go Farther! At this store than most places. ^We know that if you come here and examine the quality of our ,, goods learn the small prices that we ask for them that you will he our customer. It would be impossible for us to name the thousand of bargains which we offer ever day. We want to impress on you that this is the greatest bargain store in Decatur county. Note the prices below and come in and let us show you. 4 6opd tine Assorted Pattern's: 50c Rt«ck and White Percale with insertion 75® White India Linen Trimmed with All Over Lace Insertion $1.00 D. F. EURITT, Ife miles southwest of Decatur. TERMS- $10.00 colt. 1 REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXVI. NO. 39 and the Investor is of the opinion that "the wreck will equal any that have preceded it." How does it happen, then, that the financial journals, like the Investor, that were anxious for the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law, that were so bitterly antagonistic to anything in the form of bimetallism, that held out us such allur ing promises if we would but adopt the single gold standard—how does it hap pen that these publications have no word of protest to utter against the sys tem which they now openly declare will be responsible for a disastrous panic? When they thought, or pretended to think, that silver was responsible for our ills, they didn't hesitate to speak out. When they thought, or pretended to think, that the prospect of bimetal lism aggravated our conditions, they did not hesitate to protest against bi metallism. When they thought that the single gold standard would provide a remedy for our financial evils they did not hesitate to urge the application of that remedy. How does it happen that at this moment they are content with making dire predictions as to the result of the trust system without entering any protest against the encouragement of that system?—Commoner. to insure living Ladies' Fine Slippers! $ EURITT BROS, Owners and Keepers. 1.35 1.00 Patent Leather Quarter... 75c Halcyon Batiste in Andita Corded Batiste 83c the Popular Shades 10c in Popular Shades 1 5c •£L\* j? 2 1 that moV/ia ieS'rTT MARYEIJI kdtoid. O. I., Sept. 30,1899. I bought a pair of your "Martiir1 Shoo, of Lambdin Una., Bedford, for my fir], and (he put them on the flrit day of our school, in August. Hu walked three miles to school every div. •Dd at the end ot the tens ot school In the following Hey they were without» break or rip. (Signed) JACOB TORE. This letter proves that Mastiff shoes are better even than we claim. The safest school shoes for boys and girls are MASTIFF SCHOOL SHOES Tbey look neatest, wear longest, fit best' Refuse to take any shoes offered as "just as good." All reliable dealers sell them orcan get them. If yours does not, send to us forthe name of a dealer who will supply you. Mastiff Shoes are made for men, woine^_ and children, Made only by iSf Hf TOBACCO SPIT and SMOKE DON'T We" SrnLiP aii8^ days. Over (OO.'l f?,re£l .A»d.rugRists. Cure guarantee" Book FREE. Address REKBDY CO,, Money Earned I am selling glasses away below the regular price. I use nothing but the best pre scription ground lens and I guarantee sat isfaction. GEO. A. COE, Optician. North Side Square. NOTICE OP PROBATING WI^L To all whom it may concern: .iY?uJ£e hireby '-f MARVEL Whirling Spray TliRiiewV«fintlH)rl«f». Jnjfc- ujhI turn Auk roar dmgglat for it. If he cannot supply the accept no other, but send stamp for il lustrated book—Realed.Il gives full partivulKrsiuid direciious in. valuable to indies. MAHYKV, 4?p,, Room Time* York. 'J^VVWWWVVWVVWWWVV /V Hrint op Painting If the paint upon your buildings still looks fairly well but chalks off upon beiuf? rubbed with hand, adopt this method Apply a coat of pure raw linseed oil. This will reset the lead and cause it to adhere firm ly. You'll be surprised how far a gallon of oil will go, and as a first coat it is bet ter than paint because the oil is free to act upon the old pitment and penetrate the wood. Then apply a coat of Lowe Bros., ready mixed paint and you can feel sure that it will not crack or peel. We make low prices on everything in paintsand painters'sundries. W. E. MYERS." Druggist. notified that there is now on me in tbe office of the clerk of the District Court of Jowa, in and for Decatur county, an instrument in writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of Isaac Peu«rb, late of said county, deceased, and that I, rg ill- :'-w7 Many ItbRWNO Chicago or New York. 437 •vf v" Every Woman Is interested and should know about lUe wonderful., '1. •w,: .Suction. Befit—Sat e.u--Mo»t Convenient. W -6- a li-CiviHBcit fniiiBtlf,' v..- •. 10 o'clock a. m. of the 37tb day of August, 1801, has been fixed lor the probate of said will, at which time you can appear at the court house In said county and show cnuso, if any there be, why said will should nol be admitted to pro bate. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Leon, Iowa, this 13th day of May, 1901. S. W. KEHMSH, 38 3 Clerk of District Court.:. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTtCli'. Estate of I. E. MoBee deceased. Notice Is hereby given to all persons inter? ested, that on the 3d day of May, A. I), 1901,' the undersigned was appointed by the clerk-" of the IMstrlct Court of Decatur county, Iowa* administrator of the estate of I. E. McBee de-. ceased, late of said county. All persons in debted 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 allowance. Dated May 3, 1901. W. M. WOOD, 37-at Administrator.' Men's Fine Shoes. AW Ladles' Wine Fedorlas $1.75. Ladies' Black Fedorlas 1.50 Ladles' Black and Tan Fedor las and Blutchers Ladies' Tan 1 Strap Sandals... Ladies' Vesting Top Oxfords Diamond Special, Box Calf and Vici $3.00 18 Karat Bo.. Calf and Vici .... 2.50 Black Diamond Fine Vici Kid 2.00 6ood Line of Satin Calf Turn ed shoes $1.25 and $1 50 HI