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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM

Mr.. Montagu White, who is going
about the country making anti-Eng-
llsh and pro-Boer speeches, is not
alone in the opinion he expresses coz
corning the Mckinley administration
He said the other night:
Public opinion in the United States
seems to count for little, so far as it's
influence upon the administration is
concerned. All these meetings through
out the country, the direct evidence that
the sentiment of the people of the
United. States favor mediation, count
for nothing with the administration.
Those placed in power are safe for four
years.
In England such an outburst would
overturn ministry in single week.
1t would force the government to do its
will.
When l was in Washington it was
made plain to me that the administra-
ton feels secure. 1t is bound to -e-
main in office for a certain length of
time. 1t does not feel the weight Of
public opinion until the time for the
elections approaches
Make way for the representatives of
the people! c5.eflls.adsd sn; ~ SAP
geantat-arms to the crowd of people,
while escorting legislative body to Its
hall. I'VE are the people," answered
back healthy citizen. But the police
dubbed the people out of the way of
their representatives.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
CHAPTER VI

He felt a thrill OF apprehension as
he saw the black shadows cast by. the
blazing torches and heard the grumb-
ling tones Of the moving men In that
grewsome place. oh! What hiding
places there were among these piles
OF bales or ins those black recesses OF
rock, where he could hear the con-
slant trickling Of water from above!
Shivering, he went the whole length
of the place. deposited his burden; and
followed the line OF spectres out again.
What glad sigh of relief escaped him
as he breathed once more the fresh
air outside. But there was no time to
stop to enjoy 1t. The procession moved
on, and Rob, with trembling limbs and
perspiring brow, went back for another
load. The boats had brought some
casks from the schooner by this time.
and these were to be taken into the
cave.
It was hard work. and when Rob.
saw Tcrrevo standing on shore by the
side Of the Englishman. his heart gave
q bound Of fear. What was the mystery
of the hatred felt by these men toward.
himself? He could not understand IT,
But It seemed certain that they were.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
Evening the Honors Up.

1t was at President Hadley's re-
ception that the following bit of con-
versation was overheard: DR.. Dwight,
turning to a prominent young alumnus
Of Yale, after greeting him with Hell
10, classmate," said something about
his own very recent return from the
country, adding afterward: by the
way, / owe one of the New Haven
newspapers grudge. 1t printed an
item about me some time ago to this
effect: 'Ex-President Theodore Dwight
has just returned from his summer
home at Norfolk Now, my name IL
Timothy, and my summer home is at
Litchfeld.' "Well, that is one of thu
things, at all events that can be very
easily rectified, DOCTOR" said the alum
nus pleasantly. "Yes," replied the
doctor, with droll smile, "they might
say. and think 1t would be satisfac-
tory to me, that Prof. Alfred Hadley
has just been elected president of an
institution at Waterbury. New
Haven Register.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OF PRODUCTS OF LABOR IN
THE UNITED STATES.
That II the Bank Trust nm In a Nut
shell-If You Want Low Prices for
Your Labor stand by the Admins
tration.

(From Journal Of Agriculture)
When the bank trust bill was first
introduced the impression went out
that 1t reduced silver, as we'll as all
other forms of currency, to the level of
token money, redeemable in gold But
such Is not the case. That would
have been bad enough, but the measure
is far worse than was at first supposed.
This infamous measure makes gold
the only legal tender money-the only
money that debts can be pain in
and provides no relief for the debtor.
Silver remains primary money, but
legal tender only to the amount of SIS.
There is absolutely no provision for
Its exchange or redemption" in gold.
A debtor may have CARLOAD of silver,
and still be unable to pay his debt ex-
cept by permission of his creditor. He
cannot take his silver to the treasury
or anywhere else, and exchange it for
legal tender gold with which to pay
his debt. Under this law he will be
helpless and at the mercy of the money
lender as completely as if he were his
purchased slave. And yet Senator Alli-
son, in defense of this most Infamous
measure, declared that it was the pur-
pose OF his party to decorate this
worthless silver money as "the money
mat goes into general circulation" to
pc known as "the money of the peo-
pie" Do you wonder that the great
antitrust convention, composed OF
leading men of all parties, denounced
this bill as the most infamous measure
ever presented to a legislative body
| by band of conspirators?"
Gold, the money of the rich, the
money of the banks and the usurers-
the kind of money that the people
never see the color Offs made the
only money that legally pays debt,
and then by law is placed out of the
reach of the people: while silver,
which is utterly worthless under this
adverse legislation, is decorated" and
scattered broadcast among the people,
| to deceive them with fancied prosper
ity until it suits the purpose of the
| banks to precipitate panic and fore
close on the peoples property And
this threat of panic will be used for
coercive purposes in the coming cam
| paign, just as it was in 1896, only with
a thousand-fold more effectiveness, for
under this new legislation a panic
would not only ruin a business man
who depends on the banks for his CAPT
tai and the gambler who bets on future
prices, but the farmer who has {
mortgage on his home and every mar
'ii-;ssho owes a debt. Among all the in.
famies thaSss>Tere ever enacted into law
in the whole hSsSory OF CIVILIZATION
nothing has ever equakea the infamy OF
this bank trust bill. WIZ tne people
with one united voice do nk cry oul
against it is more than humaf mlno
can comprehend.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22

Cat" HE is no good. but he would
make a trip with me. Whip him. If
he is lazy"
Rob remembered what Torrevo had
said about his appearance as the
nephew Of the captain of eel Cato
Negro" and wondered IL he, as Rob
Cleverdale, had any more to fear than
he was getting as Torrevo's nephew. 1t
seemed to be the object OF Torrevo to
make him out as stupid and worthless
as possible, Nand to give the English
man the impression that he hated his
nephew.
The men on the boat now began to
pick up, their burdens, and poor Rob,
not one-ffth as strong as one of these
fellows, did the same. He unfortunate
ly picked up package that was too
heavy for him, and staggered with it
right before the tall, Satanic individ-
nal, whom all so palpably feared.
In an instant there was swish, and
the Englishman's whip came down on
Rob's shoulders.
Get on with you!" he said. "If you
can't do better than that, what good
are you?"
Rob. not knowing but an answer
would bring him another. blow, shut
his teeth hard and took up smaller
package. With this, which he could
just carry. he fell into line.
There YVES now a steady line of men
going from the shore, where two boats
were unloading, over a ridge some few
hundred feet off, up to which there
was a constant rise. They disappeared
over this ridge, and Rob wondered
where they took the contraband goods.
But he was soon to find out. AS part
Of the endless procession, with dark,
shining bodies, before him, and others
coming after him, he walked up the
slope, and at the summit of the ridge
found that there was a steep descent
on the other side. And down this there
was a swampy place, toward which the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
GAGE CALLS MAcRuM IAN ASS.

The opinion of Hon. Lyman j. Gage,
secretary of the United States treas
ury, is not relished by the Chicago In
ter Ocean, which thus expresses its
sarcastic disapproval:
The Hon. Lyman j. Gage, secretary
of the treasury, is of the opinion that
Charles e. Macrum, former consul at
Pretoria, is an ass. $50 far as I have
been able to ascertain" he says, there
is not scintilla of evidence to sup
port his charges" This oracular de-
llverance would be duly impressive
were 1t not for the fact that 1t is dis
creetly limited to what the Hon. Ly-
man j. Gage has ascertained."
This affords the l. o. text to fur
ther dismember the intellect of the
gentlemen now going about the coun-
try attending bankers banquets and
uttering platitudes to mend McKin-
ley's broken fences:
In the troubled days preceding the
Spanish war, when the President and
his advisers assembled with the fate
OF the nation on their hands, the Hon.
Lyman j. came ALSO 1t was his Gus
tom to sink into his chair at the cabi-
net table, cross his hands on his waist
coat, assume that mystic expression
made familiar by his photographers,
and become lost in things closely re-
sembling thoughts. So complete was
the Hon. Lyman Us abstraction at
such times that, when his opinion was
asked, he never knew the drift of the
discussion, and always had to have it
explained to him.
We have never heard from Wash
lngton that the Hon Lyman J. Cages
entertainments on public affairs have
multiplied perceptibly since then
Hence, 1t is to be presumed that Mr.
Macrum still lives"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22

bent on his destruction; or, perhaps.
he was 10 be henceforth slave. Per-
haps ali these dark fellows were slaves.
Rob did not know whether there were
any slaves in South America now. but
these men were slaves in reality, even
il they were not such in name. And
what would be his own fate?
Again he fell to work with the
others, but could not resist sending a
look Of appeal into the eyes Of Tor
revo. The captain of the BLACK Cat
saw this. and saw also that at the
same time the tall Englishman was
looking at the boy.
Course you!" shouted Torrevo. II
will kill you YETI.
He struck him fiercely. and poor
Rob, feeling now certain that the
friendship Torrevo had shown on
board the schooner was assumed, fell
to work with a heart that was like a
lump of lead in his bosom.
He helped roll heavy key to the
opening, and was almost run down by
it as it sped downward from the top
of the ridge. A great, ugly fellow, half
Indian and half negro, caught him in
powerful grasp and swung him out
Of the way to safety.
ooh, thank your gasped poor Rob
"Uh! No Tank" said the black fell
low, with a hideous grin. Me no want
to see kill. Capitang Elvin him kill
soon 'nuff.''
Captain Elvin! Is that the mans
name?"
"Ho! Yes. Him Capitang Elvin
Him great man. Him chief all d.
gangs. Him kill YOU"
Why does he want to kill me?'
asked Rob.
"Um! Me not know. Look out. da
all"
Again Rob went into the dark cav
ems, doing his best toward his shar,
Of the work. But it was an astonish
ing fact that as soon as they were ou
of sight over the ridge, no one cared
whether he did any work or not. II
fact, in the work of placing the casks
barrels and kegs, he was decidedly in
the way Of the experienced men, and
they showed him aside.
While doing nothing he looked
around the caverns, but was snrc te
follow the men of his gang ont wher
they returned for another load.
Four or five trips he made into the
caverns in this way, winning nothing
but blows and kicks and curses from
Torrevo, no matter how hard hf
| worked
(To be continued)
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
a QUAKER wedding.


The Elk City tKan.) Enterprise de-
scribes Quaker wedding which took
place in that city the other day. The
bridal couple came into the meeting
house and took their seats all alone
on the rostrum, while 200 people sat
silently on the benches. After a long
wait, during which not a sound was
uttered, the groom arose and taking
the bride by the hand, said: Friends,
in the presence of God and before this
assembly l take Marietta Stevens to be
my wife, promising with divine assist
ance to be unto her faithful husband
until death shall separate u.s." Then
the bride in like manner promised to
be to him loving and faithful wife.
and the ceremony was over.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
IGNORANCE OF THE LAW gx-
CUSES NOBODY.

mo form of secret alliance with
England is possible under the consti-
tuition Of the United States, mas
MUCH AS TREATIES REQUIRE THE
ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE
SENATE.
This is part of Secretary Hays an
swer to the house resolution about the
Macrum business. All Of the McKin-
ley organs, including the Chicago
Times-Herald view with awe the mas
terly intellect that made the discovery.
1t is surprising that Secretary Hay
should have discovered this prohibi-
ton, inasmuch as it is constitutional
provision. and the Mckinley admins
tration is not given to perusing the
terms of that instrument. Does Sec
rotary Hay imagine the American peo-
pie to be fools and have not always
known more about this and other con-
stltutional provisions in the letter and
spirit much more profoundly than he
or his master? 1t is not the outward
manifestation of an Anglo American
alliance that is in question but the Sc
cret understanding which the McKin-
ley administration has with Great Brit.
ain, and which secret understanding
amounts to a secret treaty which Nc
klnley's reelection will insure the
proper observance of. By what process
OF law, theissss8n 1t be prevented.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22

CHAPTER W. Continued)
Az Rob, dressed in his picturesque
3penish costume, stood on the neck.
he. thought he had never seen SO many
Misunderstanding men, They would
propel the large fiat boats to the
schooner's side, make them fast and
jump aboard. Then the black boat
men and the crew OF the BLACK Cat"
would be busy for time in tranA
ferring from the hold OF the schoon&
to the boats the packages and cases
and casks Of the contraband cargo.
Captain Torrevo was here, there and
everywhere, giving loud commands in
language that Rob did not under
stand, and which would scarcely be un-i
derstood by any one whose tongue
was limited to the precise language Of
any one country.
Captain Torrevo passed Rob several
times without paying him any atten-
ton. What was Rob's great surprise,
then, when the captain OF the BLACK
Cat" suddenly turned on him with a
frightful oath and struck him with a
ropes end.
will you do nothing?" roared Cap
tain Torrevo. In what appeared most
frightful rage. "Will you stand there,
and me trying to get unloaded? Get to
work there. or I'll kick you into the
water!"
Rob was thunderstruck and terribly
frightened.
''Ill do anything!" he cried. Don't
strike me! Tell me what you want me
to do!'
Get into that boat. Do your share
OF the work! Help carry the stuff to
the cave!'
Az Rob, without trying to soften the
terrific wrath Of his seemingly cruel
master, turned to obey, he saw, stand
ing on the shore, a large, black horse
Upon this horse was seated a man Of
apparently fifty-five years Of age. This
man was tall. and had a heavy beard
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
~ uae~a.


This is the old maxim of the divine
right which is being reasserted by Mr..
Mckinley, most forcibly in the case OF
the Puerto Ricans. Mr.. e. Gonzalez,
one of the Puerto Rican delegates who
came to find out why the islanders
were SO much worse off under benevo-
lent assimilation than the Spanish rule
of Weyler, says in letter to the news
papers:
"The island under Spanish rule not
only paid the expenses of it's own gov
eminent, but in addition contributed
to Spain nearly 100000 toward the
maintenance of the army, navy, clergy,
etc. Puerto Rico counts on defraying
its expenses by direct tax, instead of
by the indirect tax of the customs"
Now it hasn't got any money and
no prospects of any, and its people are
starving and half naked To the COM
mon intelligence it is inhumanity to
still further grind them down by taxa
ton on articles, food and clothing, but
according to the maxim: THE king
can do no wrong"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22

men went. They did not go into the
swamp, however. Turning one side,
they continued till they reached a spot
where the side of the hill was almost
straight. Here there was small open
ing, almost hidden by growth of trees
and bushes. These were being held
aside by men while the burden car
riers went into the opening. To ac-
complish this they were compelled to
put the burden they carried on the
ground, roll or push it in, and then get
down on their knees and crawl in
themselves. Rob did just as he had
seen the others do, and when he again
stood upright he found himself in
great cave, almost totally dark, with
the men moving like spectres of dark
ness here and there. After few min
utes he managed to see little, and
then found that the cave he was in was
only one of series of vaulted caverns,
leading back from the ridge toward.
and perhaps under, the water of the
bay. There was a constant slope down.
ward, and Rob judged that the bot
tom Of the cave was at least fifty feet
below the river bed. From one of the
caverns men now came with torches.
and Rob saw that this strange place
was vast storehouse Of Struggled
goods. Bales of tobacco lined one
rock room. Bales Of silk and cloth
filled another. Here there were casks
Of brandy and in another place guam
tity OF liquor in bottles. There was
wealth represented there - stolen
Wealth-for, even II the smugglers had
bought the goods honestly. they were
stealing it into the country, which was
in itself dishonest. And If they would
do this. no doubt they would steal it.
and Rob did not doubt that the crew
OF the BLACK Cat" were pirates as well
as smugglers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
The Flag In Queer Places.

President Mckinley raised the flag
over the harem of the Sultan of Sulu.
who will dare haul it DOWN."
Acknowledgement Griggs fiuttered it
over the GLORY crowned Heights"
Now comes Gen. Barnes of Califor-
MIA, who nails it to "the Battlements
of Heaven"
If Barnes has succeeded himself in
reaching heaven near enough to hang
the flag on the battlements, he will
have to wait long time before any
of his fellow Republicans join him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
NOTHING BUT loMoRAMusEs.

Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln
were mere tyros of craftsmanship and
utterly ignorant of the scope of the
United States constitution. John Dali
zell, Republican congressman from
Pennsylvania. thinks so, and the fact
that he comes from the state of that
resurrected plum-tree shaker, Matt
Quay, qualities him as an expert. Mr..
Dalzell stood up in his place in the
house Of the United States congress
and gravely, asserted:
'.The constitution was established
by the ,people'of the United States for
the United States. 1t provides for the
future admission of countries into the
union, and expressly confers upon con-
gress the power of governing them as
territories until they are admitted as
states. II the constitution was in
force in Florida, why was 1t necessary
to pass an act of congress extending
several of the laws Of the United
States to Florida? Why did congress
designate particular laws. such as the
crimes act, the slave trade and reye-
nue. acts, and introduce them as laws
into Florida II the inhabitants of Flor
ida were entitled to them on the act
Of cession?
If this reasoning of Webster's be not
correct, said Mr.. Dalzell, then, it being
impossible to govern these possessions
as the United States is governed. we
must either have constitutional
amendment, abandon the islands or let
the President gover4 them. The same
Limitation that applifs to congress ap-
plies TO the Presideg
With an increastnl imperIaiistic heat
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22

the Mckinley mouthpiece flung this
bit OF constitutional romance at the
successors OF the Revolutionary Faith
ers:
In a representative republic the
right to govern does not depend on the
consent of the governed" OF course
not. The right TO govern depends ex-
clusively on the consent of Mr.. Nc
Mckinley, Mark Hanna, John d.
Rockefeller and Baron Rothschild.
Perhaps these imperialists will be
ousted from their control of the earth
by the people who do not consent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22

s He was dressed in well-fitting riding
suit, with high boots. There was a
look Of masterful cruelty about him
that made Rob SILVER.
Rob noticed that the blacks, and the
crew Of the Black Cat" as we'll, shot
glances of fear toward the calm and
powerful looking man on horseback.
Poor Rob did not know what to do
first. All around him were groaning
and chattering blacks. and the cruel,
sharp words of Torreyo were ringing
( In his ears.
TAKE it! Take it," said one Of the
i@laborers to him, holding out pack
age. Rob tried to take 1t from the
fellow and put 1t with others. as he
saw the men around him doing, but 1t
was too heavy. He let 1t fall, and
there was the sound of breaking glass;
Immediately the captain Of the BLACK
Cat" let out shrill yell of rage, and
leaped into the boat He gave Rob a
cut across the shoulders and even on
his face with the ropes end he carried
Rob cried out with pain, but Torrevo
cursed and struck him again.
Cub! Good for -nothing!" he
screamed, seemingly beside himself
with rage. "Will you break the cap
tain's bottles? Take that for your
clumsiness."
The schooner was near enough to
shore for the man on horseback to hear
] and see what was going on. He turned
acalm, impassive face toward the boat
Its that good-for-n nothing nephew
Of mine. Senior Captain. ,ssang out Tor
sreyo. HE would go on q voyage with
me and what good is he, except to
steal and lie and break things? I'll
break him! Come, take thu and see
Il you can break it!'
Rob. tremblingly took the package
from the dark hands that held 1t out
I: to him, and succeeded in getting 1t in.
place without q mfshap.
In this way, with much roaring and
cursing by Torrevo, the boat was load.
ed, and then started toward the shore.
The tall man on the horse now got
down on the ground, and stood with
4 heavy whip in his hand and ma.
sieyolent expression on his face. This
man was evidently an Englishman or
an American. Rob had thought the:
dark, evil faces on the BLACK Cat"
dreadful to look at, but there was
something SO utterly cruel in this.
mans face that he seemed to make the
others gentle by comparison.
Hurry up, there!" he shouted in
English. hourishing his whip. 1--WE are
being watched every day now. There
may be soldiers here any minute. Get
\ the stun ashore in a hurry
The men strained harder, and soon
the fiat nose Of the boat was showed up
ON the sand. The men leaped ont, each
one giving quick look at the master
as II expecting every moment cut
with the heayy whip.
Hey, Torrevo, who is this?.' he
shouted pointing to Rob.
That fool Of nephew Of mine,
shouted back the captain AZ the ssBlack
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22
Dangerous Friction.

An insurance adjuster was sent to
a Massachusetts town to adjust loss
on a building that had been burned.
How did the fire start?" asked an
acquaintance who met him on his
homeward trip.
Il couldn't say certainly, and no.
body seemed able to tell" said the ad-
iuster, 'but it struck me that it
might have been the result of frtc-
ton
What do you mean by that?" ask
ed his friend.
WELL said the insurance man,
gravely. friction sometimes comes
from rubbing ten-thousand-dollar
policy on fiye-thousand- dollar build.
ing
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-22

Are the Most DisagrssAble Mosths -
the YsAr in the North.
In the South, they are the pleasantr
est and most agreeable. The trees and
shrubs put forth their buds. and now
ers; early vegetables and fruits are
ready for eating, and In fact all nature
seems to have awakened from its wins
ter sleep. The Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company reaches the Garden
Spots of the South, and will on the
first and third Tuesdays OF March and
April sell round-frip tickets to all prin-
cipal points in Tennessee. Alabama.
Georgia and West Florida, ct about
half rates. Write for particulars Of
excursions to P. Sid Jones. D. p. A..
In charge Of Immigration, Rirming-
ham, Ala. or Geo. B. Horner. D. r. -.
st. Louis, Mo.