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W~^ It f# ft?'- 1!' ^. ..*v :r •••&• 8Si itoi li is.% THE LEON REPORTER O. E- HULL, Editor. "V LKON, IOWA SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 One year '1#5® Biz months 75 Three months ... *0 "i|i Canadian and foreign countries, $2.00 per year. f'tr'-' Entered as second-class matter at {.!, the Leon, Iowa, Fostottice. HOW TH1-: I'KKSIDKNT IS l'AM. The question is ot'ten asked, how the president gets his salary— •whether he goes to the treasury tit the end of each working day and draws his 240-odd dollars, or whether he waits till the end of the •week, month or term for his money, says the Pathfinder. The answer is that he does not get his pay directly from the treasury, and he is the only government official who is thus paid, and his pay days are once a month —on the last working day of the month. President Wilson had to wait till March 31 for his first taste of Uncle Sam's money. Then he got an "unaccountable warrant" for 55,625. This was figured to cover the por tion of the whole month beginning "with March 4, counting the month as thirty days. Actually lie did not take office till after noon of the 4th, and President Tat't held down the job till that hour. But this was by a fiction. The administration is sup posed to end with midnight of March 3, but it would be inconvenient to transfer the government at such a time and so the change is made twelve hours later. Xo fractions of days are recognized, however, in paying presidents, and the half-day President Taft did not get paid for on March 4 was made up by the ex tra half day he was paid for at the beginning of his term. President Wilson's monthly war rant hereafter will be $6,250, or just one-twelfth of his full yearly salary of $75,000. Senators, repre sentatives and other government of ficials are paid by a slightly different system. The vice president is paid by the secretary of state, who also pays the senators and senate em ployes. His salary is $12,000, but he does not get just an even thousand a month. The annual salary is first divided into four parts of $3,000 each for each quarter year. The quarterly amount is then again di \ided up into monthly parts accord ing to the actual number of calen dar days in that quarter. By a singular custom which was started in Washington's time and which for some reason lias never teen changed, the president is paid Dy what is called an "unaccountable warrant." That is, he is allowed to draw nis money each month, but he is not credited with his services un til the end of his term. It is now proposed to change this and pay him »y a settlement warrant," so that his account wih be closed at the end of each month. WANT A STANDPAT HOLDUP. Having given up all hope of de feating the tariff bill, Senator Smoot now declares that the interests will hold it up in the courts for four years and that in the meantime the country will be without revenue. That is the most terrible threat yet made by the interests. It would in troduce anarchy, for a government without revenue would be helpless. Senator Smoot is a member of the finance committee and it was he who made the announcement that the change in phraseology and reclassi fication would take four years of court procedure to explain exactly what they meant, and that revenue in the meantime would be held up. Senator Smoot might prefer to •slhrow the country into anarchy rath er than have his special privileges abolished, but he stands very little show of doing that kind of injury. The courts would probably require bifeger bonds than coula be furnished ibefore they would issue injunctions atopping the revenue of the United States on a contest over the meaning at a tariff schedule. Some of the Washington correspondents suspect ad that Penrose had another card up 5is sleeve when he announced that there would be no serious opposition by the republicans to passage of the tariff bill. If that is the card, it wouldn't take a two spot.—St. Joe Observer. SCORE ONE FOR MULHALL. The' first victim at the polls of Col. •iulliaU's letter-bag is S. Wood .\Ie '."USave of New Jersey. For some rea son, possibly because the republicans «f the Sixth district do not read the newspapers, he was nominated to fill •x soiigressional vacancy, and the -bet ter-informed voters of Bergen, War ren and Sussex did the rest. The seat in the house will be occupied by A democrat who never had any rela tions with the man whom the Nation al Association of Manufacturers hir ed! ffl? sun the government in its in ifercst. Mr. McClave suffers because in 1910 the lobby favored him as a can didate against William Hughes, who had the honor of appearing on the manufacturers' blacklist. McClave no opportunity to do anything 4tjr his friends, because he was not •Aseted. If in a district normally re guJ&lican a democrat can beat a man TPhom the lobby only had hopes, what tidal wave will overwhelm those in congress who actually en tered into a degrading service?— New York World. AND MARSHALL WILL TALK. p* r:' Thomas R. Marshall is one vice president who evidently does not be Fr', ]ieve that silence is golden. He is not content to merely be seen and Wf'f not heard. On more than one occa S/, sion since the day of inauguration he has attracted the attention of the American people by his radical ut terances. Vice-President Marshall is -af the rugged type. He is a natural ion of Indiana, who speaks out what tte thinks and is not nicely particu a»r as to what other people may I *ink.—King City Democrat jv-, SMOOT'S TAll IFF SPEECH. Senator Reed Smoot has made his speech against the Underwood tariff bill. As reported, It is the kind of tariff speech that might have been delivered from the hustings by any republican spellbinder up to 1908, excepting in two particulars: its sug ar figures and its alleged discrimina tion against the west. As to sugar, Senator Smoot has figured it that the Underwood sched ule will only save the individual con sumer 64 cents a year. He contends that such a negligible saving does not justify the slaughter of an American industry. An individual saving of 64 cents a year may seem trifling, but in the ag gregate, on the basis of a 90,000,000 population, that tax amounts to more than $55,000,000. So it is not merely nominal privilege the sugar planters ask for, but, instead, a tre mendous subsidy. But it is not in the inconsequential per capita tax of 64 cents that justi fication for a sugar duty can be found nor is it in the big total of $55,000,000 that the proposition is condemned. It is the injustice of en abling any industry to tax all the people that convicts the policy of protection. The principle of "protec tion" is vicious. The assertion that the west has been discriminated against in the Underwood bill is an expression of Senator Smoot's opinion it is not a statement of fact. The bill will have to be tested as a law before a charge of favoritism will stand. But in this connection it is competent to remark that when Senator Smoot's party was making tariff bills the west, general ly speaking, stood on the outside twiddling its thumbs. There was never a shadow of doubt, even in the mind of the most rampant western standpatter, that Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island took excellent and fatherly care of New England. And if you would know how the republi can protective tariff has served the American workingman you can get the information from the pay rolls of New England factories, from which American names have been mostly erased and where an Ameri can wage is not paid.—St. Louis Re public. WHAT PRICE PIFFLE? The American farmer sells his goods in a free-trade market, be cause farm produce is exported from this country, and farmers have' not yet formed a trust. In a few sections lie derives a little benefit from the duty on eggs and live cattle, and it is just possible that the wool trust and the sugar trust permit him to taste the profits accruing from the 'Dutch standard" and schedule K. That i? the extent of agricultural benefits from the tariff. The Arner'can farmer iy5 his supplies in a market "protected" by •an almost unscalable tariff wall. When he builds a house, everything he uses, from cement in the founda tion to shingles on the roof, is in creased in price by the tariff tax. His agricultural implements are taxed 15 per cent, besides being further boost ed in cost by the tariff on iron and iron manufactures. His harness is taxed, his hoes are taxed, his wagons are taxed, his crockery, his clothing, his coal—the very match he uses to light his pipe, all pay tribute to the tariff barons. The Underwood bill, now pending in the senate, reduces all these bur dens on the farmer, and abolishes some of them altogether. Yet Sena tor Albert B. Cummins has the impu dence to arise in his place and vow in tearful tones that tne Underwood tariff will "ruin the American farm er." Does Senator Cummins think the agricultural population of Iowa stu pid enough to accept such piffle as statesmanship?—Chicago Journal. REPUBLICANS IN THE SPOT LIGHT. It appears that the votes and democratic senators that forty-nine of the fifty-one may be depended upon to vote for the new tariff bill. If forty-nine democrats support the measure and all others oppose it, it will be carried by a majority of one. But why should all others oppose it? There are republicans in the senate pledged as truly to tax reduc tion as any democrat. There are re publicans in the senate who would not be there if the people who elect ed them had suspected that on this issue they would array themselves with the standpatters or split hairs in behalf of privilege. Business men who are weary of the thirty years' war against extor tionate tariffs and who would lik£ to know when the new law will take effect may appropriately address themselves to ihis element. Several of these independent republicans rep resent states that on this question are radically democratic. They can prolong the agony or they can end it. They can. give monopoly a new lease of life, perhaps, or they can finish it with a stroke. Republicanism is in a minority in most places, but it cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is about to take place in the senate. It is to be all for the interests, or is a respectable section of it to be for the people?—New York World. THE IOWA STRADDLE. It was none other than Senator Cummins who uttered these burning words: The moment protection becomes unnecessary, free trade is demanded by every consideration of justice and equality. This is what is known in the west as the Iowa straddle. It kept many republicans with low-tariff constitu encies in office for life. These heroes are for free trade or something like it before election, but afterward they find that protection is necessary likewise revenue. What is really necessary in this country is revenue, but it almost breaks the heart of an Iowa republi can to discover that there may he1 both revenue and protection and that democrats will not dodge either of N or W or .. HAULING THE CORN CROP. The official estimate is that Iowa has ten million acres in corn. This is an increase over the acreage of last year. In the state of Iowa corn should average fifty bushels to the acre. It doesn't, but it should and shall bei fore many years have passed. The soil is ready, the climate a corn cli mate. 1 he only reason that Iowa's corn yield falls short of fifty bushels an acre is neglect to give the soil and the climate a fair chance. Ten million acres in corn requires imagination. If this big corn field were a mile wide it would make a band of green about the world along side the equator and lap over from Xew York to Honolulu. If it "went" fifty bushels to the acre it would re quire 600,000 fifty ton cars to carry it to market. At fifty cents a bushel it would bring $250,000,000. Going back to the transportaion problem and its 600,000 freight cars please take your pencil and figure how many wagon loads would be required to haul the crop to the elevators were it all to be shelled anu sold on the market. Figure out the mileage to by traveled by team, loaded and un loaded. Figure man and team at $4 a day. Cast up the'totals. Then compare the cost of this primary transportation over a soggy dirt road with the cost of such primary trans portation over a hard, smooth, per manent highway. Get the figures. See what Iowa pays* for poor roads every year. Some persons never charge them selves with interest on the use of their own money, but $1,000 is worth $60 a year whether you use it your self or pay" some one for the use of it. The man with the corn to haul and horses to do it with may not charge himself with the cost of haul ing. But he pays it just the same. It is worth thinking about. It is worth while to strain comprehension to take in the magnitude of the corn crop and its value and the cost of raising it and marketing it. Iowa is doing a big business. Iowa is a big factory of natural products. We ought to consider the cost, eliminate waste and get our factory in line with the most complete efficiency. There is the same economy in poor highways as in dilapidated fences, poor seed corn, scrubby cattle and hogs, antiquated farm machinery, straw stables and the twine binder under a snowbank.—Marshalltown Times-Republican. CONSPIRACY OF CLAMOR. From the present time till October and perhaps for quite a while there after, there will be periodical rum ors that European powers have "de manded" that the United States take this, that or the other action in Mexi co. All such yarns should be discredit ed in advance. They are part of the conspiracy of clamor by which inter ested parties are trying to force in tervention in Mexico. Europe isn't "demanding" things of the United States, and if it were, the demand would be politely biu firmly rejected. American policy under the Wilson administration will be dictated by American interests, the interests of the whole people, not of a group of anxious investors or irresponsible jingoes. Mexican elections will be held in October. If at that time the dis tracted country south of the Rio Grande seems to support in good faith the blood-stained regime of Huerta, President Wilson doubtless will accept the verdict of the ballot boxes. If no valid election is held, the president may be trusted to do whatever best accords with the tra ditions and interests of the United States. If Huerta is deposed before election, as now seems possible, the administration at Washington still will be on guard. The Journal has said before and here repeats that the claquers who hounded McKinley for his reluctance to go to war with Spain are wasting their breath in attacking President Wilson.—Chicago Journal. VISIONS OF ROAST BEEF. It seems almost incredible, but the fact is vouched for at Washington, that a representative of the govern ment is soon to take ship for South America for the purpose of encour aging consignments of beef to the United States. The administration cherishes the belief that with meats free of tax at our custom houses it will be possible occasionally to buy in this market Argentine roast or steak. To facilitate 4he traffic, the federal official named will explain conditions here and do what he can in other ways to open up a new and paying commerce. If in all our history there ever was sv.ch a reversal of form as this, the books make no mention of it. Here tofore the whole energy of govern ment has been exerted to extend the markets of the trusts. Now we send a man at public expense thousands of miles to stir up competition for a trust. A year ago this would have been flat treason. In Mark Hanna's time there would have been a cry of murder from coast to coast.', Today it excites nothing but expectant smiles upon the countenances of mil lions who eat or who would like to eat.—New York World. Senator Cummins, when governor of Iowa, left his executive office and for months campaigned this state for senator, neglecting tlje public busi ness and drawing his full salary for it. Theodore Roosevelt, when presi dent, often left Washington and toured on special trains all over the United States, hunting or political speaking or doing what he pleased—• and his salary of $50,000 a year went steadily on. Taft was even more of a traveler. Congressmen get $7,500 a year and they want more than six months out of every twelve to con duct their own business and build political fences while every United States senator who can speaks it out on the lecture and Chautauqua plat forms with big pay between sessions. The difference with all these men and Bryan is that the secretary haal: been honest to admit that he needs the money.—Denison Bulletin. jh W 'i-iVS*' am a \,"'1*1' .* at "Governor Clarke is down for a few Chautauqua speeches—for pay, of course," says the Cedar Rapids Gazette. "Iowa republicans who are criticising Bryan should look out or they may find themselves playing an inconsistent role." The speeches made so far on the republican side of the senate only furnish further grounds for thanks giving that the revision of the tariff is not committed to republican hands. It is not the senators who talk loudest about intervention in Mexico who would bear the brunt of the tisthting should war follow. Ex-Congressman W. D. Jamison, of Shenandoah, is announced as a candidate for United States Senate. "Criticism of Mr. Bryan for going on a lecture tour is partisan," says the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, July 28.—Special Correspondence.— The insistence of President Wilson that haste be exert ed in disposing of the tariff bill has brought a gratifying response. The bill has been taken up schedule by schedule and it is hoped to get it through the senate and into confer ence by August 20. Democratic leaders in the senate believe that in the light of the continual debates for years on the tariff question there is not the slightest need for contin uing business uncertainty by debat ing the same points over again. The democrats went into power through the protest of the people against the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, and with practically a mandate from the peo ple to reduce the tariff. The bill now progressing in the senate meets this demand. "We are not going to take up time debating this bill," says Senator Sim mons, chairman of the finance com mittee, though, of course, the demo crats will defend the schedules when attacked." "If the bill proves not to be for the benefit of the country," Senator Simmons continued, "it will demonstrate that our ideas of tariff are wrong if it proves to be well for the country, it will demonstrate that the opposition is wrong that is all there is to that proposition, and we are ready and anxious now to pass the bill." The Washington Times, a republi can paper, indorses this stand. "This is precisely the attitude of the gen eral public toward tariff revision," it says, "and there is gratifying evi dence that it is the attitude of many manufacturers whose interests are seriously affected one way or the other." The Times quotes a state ment given out by the Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company, whose chief products are locks, builders' hardware and chain blocks, Until the new rates have been fair ly tested," says this firm's statement, no one can know whether their ulti mate effect will be harmful or bene ficial. If they prove not to be in jurious, all concerned will be con tent. If experience shows them to be seriously injurious, it may be fair ly assumed that congress will cor rect the error within a reasonable time and before any permanent dam age has been inflicted. This attitude is pleasing to the democratic leaders who are work ing hard on the tariff bill. They know that the great body of the peo ple want the tariff schedules reduc ed. They will not, be deterred by the old stock "soup house" and Coxey's and Kelly's army scarecrows which the tariff standpatters lug out for debate in every campaign and every time a tariff adjustment in the in terests of the consuming public is attempted. Wilber W. Marsli, the Waterloo manufacturer and democratic politi cal leader, who was in Washington last week, declared in an interview in one of the local papers that in Iowa and the other middlewestern states the farmers have been too busy since last April to give much at tention to the tariff, the currency or other subjects that have been given political discussion. "In Iowa," he said, "the farmers have been too busy for months cultivating their crops. It looks as if we will have the biggest corn crop in the history of the state." With all the discus sion of the tariff he held it to be somewhat significant that the great agricultural machinery manufactur ers of this country have been doing a record-breaking business this year. 'It is my belief that the farmers are not going to suffer from the re vision of the tariff," he said. "They have faith in the democratic party just as much as they had in the re publican party for so many years." Public opinion is expected to sus tain the order givep out by Post master General Burleson for an ex tension of the weight limit of pack ages carried by parcel post from 11 to 20 pounds and a reduction of the rates. The express companies and the railroads are objecting to the or der because they declare it will ser iously reduce their profits. That was what the parcel post was intend ed to do, and the postmaster general has the support o_f the president in expanding and improving the service along lines shown by experience to be possible. If the express compan ies wish to compete With the govern ment's^parcel post delivery, they will have to reduce their rates .to a rea sonable figure. There will be no more 36 per cent ..dividends for th S'. .., THE LEON KZfrORTEtf THURSDAY JULY 31, 191$ W^rV»* -**'. The 'American Bankers' Magazine companies if the government can tells croakers not to take themselves help it, and the people have shown too seriously. This is the conclusion by their increasing patronage of the of the magazine after reviewing the parcel post that they are backing crop prospects for the year and de- ihe postofflce department in its ven claring there is every reason to be-! ture in the express business. lieve there will be a large volume of Democratic postmasters in all but trade this fall. eleven of the 97 Iowa postofflces for which appointments have been made rfave been confirmed by the senate. Col. Mulhall describes Roosevelt This week will see a general exodus in 1908 as moving heaven and earth 1 to nominate Taft. Subsequently the hast batch handled by the senate 37 Colonel made even greater efforts to beat Taft, heaven and earth being only two-thirds of what he moved. of republican postmasters. In the Iowa postmasters were confirmed, leaving less than a dozen to be con firmed for offices in which vacancies have occurred. The consolidation of the Dubuque ana Burlington internal revenue col lectors' offices, which is a part of the economy program of the Wilson ad ministration, was announced before an appointment was made for the of fice in the southern district of Iowa, so no one lost a job, although sev eral candidates for the collectorship will be disappointed. Louis Murphy of Dubuque, who had been named collector for the northern district, will be the collector for Iowa. Congressman Pepper, chairman of the democratic congressional commit tee, and Chairman Doremus are in vestigating the question of whether it will be necessary to have legisla tures in several of the states reas semble before the primaries next summer in order to pass laws provid ing the legal machinery to place in operation the constitutional amend ment for the election of senators by direct vote. The present view is that legislation is necessary to provide means for placing the names of can didates for the senate on the ballot, although Governor Goldsborough of Maryland in calling a provision for a special election to fill a vacancy made this provision with a writ of election by executive order. A cartoon in a recent issue of the Des Moines Register and Leader in which Senator Cummins was advised to leave the sinking republican ship and pull for shore in a progressive boat has attracted comment in Wash ington. It was interpreted here to mean that the Register and Leader was advising Cummins to follow it in joining the progressive ranks by tak ing the bull moose nomination for the senatorship. Congressman Kirkpatrick has of fered to furnish free to farmers in his district a bound volume of the Agricultural Year Book containing handsome illustrations and valuable information for the farmers. His of fice has been swamped with requests for the book since the announcement was made. he it E. E. Harvey Jas. F. Harvey DR. C. H. MITCHELL Sargery and Obstetrics a Specialty. Biggs block, Leon, Iowa. Phone 48. All calls answered day or night. Hours 2 to 4 p. m. and 7 to 8 on Saturday. H. R. L1ITON Physician and Snifeon^V' Office orer Alexander's drug store. Plume T. i!uw. f, J. K. Dougherty. Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters as a cleansing blood tonic, is well recommended. $1 at all stores. Cheerful It is the right of everyone to live nnd enjoy the cheerful to ourselves and those who live with cannot do so if ill health takes hold of us DR. PIERCE'S favorite "Prescription will'restore health to weakened womankind. For 40 year* it has survived prejudice, envy and malice. Sold by dealers in medicine in liquid or tablet form. 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Polly Ann Maxwell, plaintiff, vs. Aaron Maxwell, defendant. To Aaron Maxwell, defendant: You are hereby notified, that the petition of plaintiff in the above en titled cause, is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Decatur county, praying that the bonds of matrimony heretofore ex isting between plaintiff and defend ant be dissolved that plaintiff be re stored to all of the right and privi leges of an unmarried person, and al leges as grounds therefor, that plain tiff and defendant were legally mar* ried in Decatur county, Iowa, on the 14th day of March, 1880 and lived together as husband and wife until on or about the 15th day of Febru ary, 1912, and that plaintiff and de fendant lived during the greater part of their married life in Decatur county, Iowa, with their postofflce address at Davis City or Pleasanton in said county. That defendant since his marriage with plaintiff in violation of his mar riage vows has been guilty of such cruel and inhuman treatment of this plaintiff as to endanger her life and praying for such other and further relief as may be just and equitable in the premises and for costs. For full and complete statement of plaintiff's cause of action see peti tion. And that unless you appear there to and defend before noon of the sec ond day of the August Term, A. D., 1913, of said court, which will com mence at Leon on the 25th day of August, A. D„ 1913, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon. V. R. McGINNIS, 49-4t Attorney for Plaintiff. Notice of Probating Will. 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