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.*»$ •C":- II: 0"' •Vc.: I#: f7*V HIV i'l :V '. A I M'"« 1 V' T-- THE LEON REPORTER O. E. HULL, Editor. LEON. IOWA SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year '*"7!! Six months Three months Canadian and foreign countries, |2.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at th« Leon, Iowa, Postoifice. DRY IN IMAGINATION'. The bootlegger is the curse of the liquor business. In Ottumwa, where open saloons have long since been And the same thing applies to all so-called dry towns. Creston had it for ten years and they were years of debauchery, drunkenness, public debt and business stagnation. The government statistics show that there is just as much liquor sold in dry territory as in wet territory, but less light drinks because beer is bulky and cannot be secreted as li quors can, thus the light and least harmful drinks are given out. The regulated saloon, where th* liquor dealer is under heavy bonds and the property where he does busi ness is held liable for damages that may accrue from his sales, is much better than the unregulated boot legger and secret heli holes that in fest the so-called dry cities. The good citizens of Ottumwa have gone down in their private pock ets and raised thousands of dollars to help prosecute the illegal liquor dealers, but have not succeeded in suppressing the traffic. They have only succeeded in creating strife, dis sension and ill feeling and thfs in turn puts a stop to public enterprise. The progress of a city depends upon the enthusiastic public spirit of its citizens and this cannot exist under laws that deprive people of their in herent rights. The prohibitory liquor laws are wrong because they interfere with the personal liberty of the citizen. This does not mean that the citizen has a right to get drunk or disorder ly. The man who becomes boister ous and disorderly, whether drunk or sober, should be punished. Drinking is a vice, just the same as smoking or chewing, but it is not a crime and all the laws that ever have or ever will be put on the stat ute books will never make it a crime in the eyes of liberty loving people. The prohibitionists don't believe it a crime to take a drink, and to our personal knowledge many of them keep liquors in their cellars. If they believe it a crime they should punish the man who drinks as well as the man who sells. This paper has always contended that the only way practical prohi bition can be accomplished is for the government to prohibit the manufac ture as well as the sale and on the same principle that our pure food laws are based, that it is for the pub lic good.—Creston American. A WISK ANI MANLY POLICY. President Wilson's address to con gress on the Mexican crisis is an able and satisfactory state paper. He makes clear the disinterested efforts of this administration to help Mexi cans to a settlement of their trouble, and gives rules which will govern him in further dealing with that dis tracted country. Those rules are: Perfect neutrality on the part of the United States, with prohibition of the shipment of arms to any part of Mexico. Aid to Americans to leave that country, and protection to those who remain. "That point," declares the president, "can be and will be made plain beyond the possibility of mis understanding." Readiness to resume negotiations whenever opportunity offers. There can be 110 doubt that the nation and the world approve both what President Wilson has done al ready, and the policy here laid down for the future. It' is a policy at once just and dignified, strong and safe. It enlists time and exhaustion on the side of peace. It leaves the Huerta regime to fall by its own weight—unless Huerta makes the capital mistake of turning his arms against American citizens. It com pels the approval of the civilized President Wilson points out that one reason why the mediation of the United States was rejected is that the authorities in Mexico are misin formed on two important points. They doubt the friendship of this re public for their own land, and they do not believe the American people are united in support of the presi dent's policy. Both these misunderstandings have been created and fostered by interested jingoes, by yellow jour nals which love war for its own sake, by trust magnates and agents who prefer war abroad to revision of the tariff and reform of the currency at home. These disloyal plotters stand forth today as the sole allies of Aureliano Huerta. Congress should take some action to disown the few jingoes in its midst, and to make clear, even to the dull and suspicious regime now installed in Mexico, that the Ameri can people are back of their presi dent to the last dollar and soldier Meantime, The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald says that Champ Clark realizes the "hope of his friends when he puts nis approval upon the administration currency bill and urges its prompt parage. *, v«, Jt$«L *. world, and thereby weakens every' points is simple anarchy. In the agency of selfish disturbance south' north a provisional government of the Rio Grande. -t **&**&*&•"&*& THK UNPOPULAR MONROE l)OC THINK. A little study of the map of east ern South America and a little time spent on tables of area and popula tion of divers countries will explain why the Monroe doctrine has no friends in Berlin. Urugay, Paraguay and the south ern states of Brazil form a compact block of territory of nearly 700,000 square miles, mostly inclosed by natural boundaries. The climate is healthful and mild. Agricultural possibilities are immense. Yet this favored region contains only about ten persons to the square mile. Paraguay, which Alexander Hum boldt said could raise more human th has nearly 200,000 square miles and 635,000 inhabitants—a trifle ("over three to the square mile. Meantime Germany is struggling along with 208,000 square miles and 65,000,000 people—one person for each two acres in the empire. Small wonder that the masters of this swarming population look hungrily toward those vacant lands before which the Monroe doctrine stands guard. tood tlian any CCjUai tha»«a ifl uniinllv Til 11 ('ll 1 ..1.. O A A AAA itnnn irt miloQ O relegated, there is equally as much intoxicating liquor sold as in Bur lington. Most of it is the vile stuff and the sale and consumption does not tend to make better citizens. Ottumwa is a dry town merely in the imagination of the misguided folks who succeed in downing the saloon consent petition.—Ottumwa Courier. area on car Yet this historic policy of the United States is just. It does not prohibit peaceful colonization. It merely forbids conquest. If a mil lion Germans would emigrate to Brazil and Paraguay as more than half a million Americans have emi grated to Canada, no one in this county would object. If five million Germans should gather in some part of South America and set up a Ger man-speaking republic of their own, every American would rejoice. The Monroe doctrine bars the soldier, not the settler. But to most old world statesmen, this is a dis tinction without a difference. Ameri cans should try to understand Euro pean land hunger, even if they can not countenance it. BUY AN IS RIGHT. The obstinate obstructionist can not do much more effective work in delaying the progress of reform leg islation than that which is uncon sciously accomplished by the honest but diffuse reformer. For the policy which does one thing at a time these men would substitute a programme for doing everything at once. They scatter energy and lay themselves open to attack from every direction. Of this type are the men who are now trying to saddle various unnec essary provisions upon the currency bill. One of these proposals is that which would forbid any person from being a director in more than one national bank. It may be freely con ceded that interlocking ,bank direc torates are not desirable, but it can not be contended that this prohibi tion is essential to currency reform. To hang it on the bill will simply make one more point against which obstruction may throw itself. The worst features of interlocking directorates do not arise from the tying of one bank to another. It is the tying of banks to industrial or transportation companies and the ty ing of transportation to industries having goods to be transported which work the great mischiefs. The New Haven road was financed through a banking house which also dominated the road. As the domi nant director of the road Mr. Morgan decided what money should be bor rowed and then proceeded to lend money to himself. Such conflict of interest would vitiate the judgment of anything less than a superman, and when the regulation of inter locking directorates comes up it will be aimed against abuses of this kind wherever they may exist. It is a big subject and will demand prolong ed consideration. Secretary Bryan is right, therefore, when he advises his friends in congress to drop it and concentrate upon the essential features of the currency bill.—St. Louis Republic. HL'KRTA'S LOSING FIGHT. Scant sympathy awaits abroad the envoys of the Huerta government in Mexico. France will decline to re ceive Francisco de la Barra officially, as Japan has declined to receive Fe lix Diaz. Germany is ready to press for satisfaction on account of Ger man subjects murdered or robbed in Mexico. Great Britain joins France and Japan in urging peace measures upon Huerta and his partisans. The Huerta government is found ed upon murder and maintained by assassination. It has neither money nor credit. It hold precarious sway, not by civil process but by military force, over a diminishing portion of the republic. Elsewhere at many whose claims are not less wortny of respect disputes Huerta's rule. Why should we hasten to recognize Huerta? We delayed sixteen months to recognize Porfirio Diaz. Why, on the other hand, should we blithely rush into a ten years' war by inter vention? President Wilson's patient, digni fied and unflurried policy as to Mexi co is strong because it is the wise policy, and because it is the policy of the mass of the American people, who have refused to be stampeded by war shouters. It has received significent indorsement in the sen ate. It has brought the whole coun try into unity in its support. It has now won the civilized world to faith in its wisdom as the best means of pacifying, Mexico and ending the costly, useless slaughter.—New York World. The price of corn and wheat are steadily speeding upward right in the face of the new crop. No, we do not this country contains. I democratic administration. The ad claim it is on account of the President Wilson's sane ministration has no more to do and honorable course is doing all with the price going high that had that may be done to avoid the expen- the administration in Cleveland "r diture of men and money in armed time in making the price go low. It -intervention.—Chicago Journal. is a question of supply and demand news of crop damage is parts of the United States conditions of the financial market and other, general conditions that are incidental. But the whole set of stock protection ar guments will have to be revised by the professional spellbinders.—Deni ultetlft. i&fa y'Jr, JOHN LINO. One figure that stands out clear and fine against the murk of Mexi can intrigue is that of John Lind, special commissioner of President YVilson. Lind's handling of this difficult musBion has been a masterpiece of quiet efficiency. The proposals he brought were rejected by Huerta, but Lind so managed that the whole civilized world knows and admits Huerta is in the wrong. Lind refused to either bully or be bullied. He upheld his country's dignity without giving offense to the sensibilities of any rational citizen of Mexico. He made the thinking people of that unfortunate land un derstand that the great republic of the north is their friend, and never more truly friendly than in refusing to acknowledge the blood-stained dictator who seeks to maintain him self in power by sheer terror. It was Lind's work to repair so far as might be the damage done by the mischievious meddling and flam boyant folly of H. L. Wilson. That work has been done.—Chicago Jour nal. "Heat and drouth have damaged crops in other states, but good old Iowa will raise enough to feea her neighbors as usual. Some people com plain about Iowa land being too high, but such a year as this demon strates that it's worth the price. In all things that are good Iowa leads the procession. Ever notice that, you fellows who are continually knocking?" demands the Parkers burg Eclipse. "In discussing the new road law and its relation by the county and township road officials, it is well to have always in mind that the bridge and road machine lobby has not dis banded," says the Des Moines Tri bune. "Iowa will never have efficient supervision of road and bridge mak ing until this lobby has been forced into the open and soundly whipped." "When our republican contempo raries are ready to deliver that 8 cent corn they mentioned last fall we will furnish some buyers," says the Sibley Tribune. The Webster City Freeman-Tri bune fears that if Judge Hunter isn't careful, he will get in the habit of declaring every thing unconstitu tional. To submit the capitol extension appropriation to a vote of the people would be to kill it, is the opinion of the Marshalltown Times-Republi can. "Jenny Lind was a noted person in days gone by, but Johnny Lind is the man of the hour," says the Boone News-Republican. A good rain in the nick of time makes farmers feel like newly ap pointed democratic postmasters. You can't please all the bankers all the time and you can't please some of them any of the time. Iowa republicans are going to have harmony if they have to fight for it.—Manson Journal. Our government estimates that there are not more than 15,000 Americans in Mexico. It doesn't cost any more to hope for the best than to expect the worst. The Season's Rainfall. 7.,e following table shows the per centage of rainfall at each of the points named since March 1, 1913. One hundred represents the normal rainfall 110 would mean 10 per cent more than normal 90 would mean 10 per cent below. Corrected to August 19, 1913. Chicago, 111 98 Milwaukee, Wis 112 Duluth, Minn 108 St. Paul, Minn 90 Madison, Wis 131 La Crosse, Wis 113 Charles City, Iowa 91 Dubuque, Iowa 104 Davenport, Iowa 93 Des Moines, Iowa 93 Keokuk, Iowa 73 Peoria, 111 74 Hannibal, Mo 64 Springfield, 111 78 St. Louis, Mo 90 Cairo, 111 76 Springfield, Mo 66 Columbia, Mo 77 Kansas City, Mo 70 Topeka, Kan 67 Wichita, Kan 29 Concordia, Kan 63 Lincoln, Neb. 78 Omaha, Neb 77 Sioux City, Iowa 90 Yankton, S. 120 Valentine, Neb 94 Huron, S. 97 Pierre, S. 78 Moorehead, Minn 68 Devil's Lake, N. 49 Bismarck, N. 70 Williston, N. 85 Rapid City, S. 74 Cheyenne, Wyoming 76 North Platte, Neb 95 Denver, Colo 78 Dodge City, Kan 44 Oklahoma City, Okla 94 Amarillo, Texas '. 59 Fort Worth, Texas 87 Abilene, Texas 73 For Cuts, Burns and Bruises. In every home there should be a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, ready to apply in every case of burns, cuts, wounds or scalds. J. H. Polanco, Delvale, Tex., R. N. 2. writes: "Buck len's Arnica Salve saved my little girl's'cut foot. No one believed .it' could be cured." The world'sv best salve Only 2 5c. Recommended by Bell & Robinson. ', 'vl.:..iv THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1913. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C., Sept. I.—Spec ial Correspondence.—No matter what the future developments in Mexico may be President Wilson* has won the confidence of the people by his statesman-like handling of a critical international crisis. Every step pos sible has been taken at every stage of the negotiations to bring about a restoration of peace in Mexico with out recourse to intervention on the part of this government. President Wilson's course has been that of the broad, far-seeing statesman, ruled by humanitarian impulses, who re alized that a belligerent attitude might embroil this country in a war continuing for years and costing the lives of thousands of America's sons. Had he been a sensation seeker the opportunity was ripe when he pre pared and read his message to con gress to assume a defiant attitude and take steps from which the gov ernment could not recede without taking a hand in the Mexican trouble. President Wilson made it plain that he had not taken an aggressive position to safeguard the invest ments of Americans in Mexico or to extend the field of commerce and en terprise in Mexico. It was the human element that appealed to him. He saw a neighboring country torn with internal strife and reduced to ex treme poverty. He set about to aid in the restoration of peace by moral force. Yet he was firm in demand ing that no peace plan in which this nation played a part should include recognition of the Huerta regime. An administration coming into power by treachery and assassination was not one that he would recognize, and his plan of settling the trouble contem plated the permanent retirement of Huerta and the calling of elections properly safeguarded by a general armistice, during which period a con stitutional election should be held By this means the Mexican people would be given an opportunity to end the present Huerta administra tion and name men of their own choosing to put a stop to the civil strife kept alive to further Huerta's ambitious plans. In these demands the president has had the suppprt of congress, the press and the people. The jingo has been silenced President Wilson has won confi dence and respect by his candor and sincerity and the courage he has shown in facing his responsibilities, ilis close friends know that it is dis tasteful to him to appear before con gress as he has done in reading his three messages, instead of following the practice of submitting the docu ments in writing. But in the three instances where he appeared in per son he believed the occasions were such approaching crisis that he would have considered himself fall ing short of performing his duty if he had not placed every ounce of in sistence at his command in present ing his arguments. The end thus far has justified the means. The tariff bill is making such progress that a vote will be reached in the senate,, according to present indications, in less than two weeks, five months from the time the president opened consideration of the subject by reading his tariff message to congress. The currency legislation which haid not been given vital consideration until the presi dent appeared before congress to urge in person the necessity of its enactment, is rapidly being shaped. The president added the weight of his strong personality to bringing congress to a realization of the grav ity of the Mexican situation just as he did in bringing the two legislative matters before the lawmakers. In the caucus consideration of the currency bill Congressman Pepper of the second district, the Iowa demo cratic leader in congress, has taken a prominent part. Congressman Pep per has made a careful study of the currency question. He is busy now in preparation of a speech which his colleagues in congress, knowing the grasp he has obtained of, the situa tion, expect will be one of the prin cipal expositions of the importance of this proposed legislation. Congressman Connolly of the third district, himself a banker and well informed in currency matters, has been active in the caucus con sideration of the currency bill. He has been especially interested in the provisions carried by the bill which permit national banks to make loans on farm lands, which is prohibited under the present law. He believes that this will be of great value to the banks of smaller agricultural communities and to the bank pat rons. He has been endeavoring to gain an extension of the time limit on loans to three years, or five years, comparing with the loan period now in force in the state banks. Civii war veterans from all parts of the country have written their congressmen asking them to support the bill introduced by Congressman Kirkpatrick of the sixth district pro viding for the payment of pensions monthly instead of quarterly as at present. Congressman Kirkpatrick as a member of the pension commit tee has been active in furthering the interests of the veterans. He enjoys the distinction of being one of the three civil war veterans in the house. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that la by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi tion of the mucous fining of the Eusta chian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the In flammation: can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hewing will be destroyed forever: nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed condi tion of the mucous surfaces. We •will give one Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (caused by catarrM tbat cannot be cured by Hill's Catarrh Core. 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