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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
BAPTlsMAL. vAGARlES.
Names from South Africa Are Given to
Unfortunate Youngsters.

HN"AAes Arom SCUM AFRICA are Given to
Unfortunate Youngsters.
One of the results of the war in South
Africa is an outbreak of curious
names. Luckless infants born at or
about the time of great events are be-
ing ehristened after the events them
selves, as well as after the more promi-
nent individuals concerned. Redvers
Butler Thompson was used a few days
ago, and Dundee, Glencoe and Glands
laagte have all been given. At the
Cape, among the many curiosities are
Talana Elanda Smith, Belmontina
Grasspana Modderivvo Brown and
Penn Symons White Robinson. A
Boer named Troskie, residing in the
Craddock district in Cape Colony, had
his son baptized Emmanuel Kruger
Steyn Triomphus. The mania appears
to have taken South Wales in very
acute form. A few days ago Modder
River Jones, John Redvers Butler
Thomas, Harry White Redvers Joseph
Harold Baden Mafeking Powell, ant
Ezekiel Methuen Macdonald Baden
Powell Williams were the names given
to helpless infants by patriotic parents
in Meath. At Pontypridd there are
poor babes called Richard Colenso
Scott, Oliver Colenso Williams, Kim
berley Clifford, Charles Redvers
James, and Baden-Powell Williams;
and at Mountain Ash, Victor Colenso
Warren, Warren Sanford, Macdonald
Claremont, Methuen Phillips, John
Stanley Methuen Williams, and Baden
Powell Price. Mr.. Shandy, father Of
the famous Tristram, it will be remem-
bered, believed there was something
fateful in name. The world seems
to have been blessed with sufficient
number of individuals of opinions
similar to this, else how can one ac-
count for such names as Peter the
Great Wright and William the Con-
queror Wright (twins), King David
Hayden, John Bunyan Parsonage,
King George Westgate, Martin Luther
Upright, General George Washington
Jones, Lord Nelson Putnam, Empress
Eugene Aldridge, and John Robinson
Crusoe Heaton? The parents, no
doubt, had pious hope that the child
rem SO named would grow to be worthy
of the great persons whose names
had been appropriated. The hope has
not been realized, for none of these in
dividuals seem ever to have set the
Thames on fire. And perhaps it is
rather we'll for humanity that there
are no second editions of these kings
OF men" But even quiet times have
their remarkable names, Lyulph
Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel
Toedmag Hug Erchenwys Saxon Esa
Cromwell Orem Nevill Dysart Plan
tagenet is still living in Wales-p per-
haps because he never attempts to use
all his own name.-London Leader.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
EFFACEs BLOT FROM PATERsoK
Judicial Report That Anarchist. nsx
| Not Plot Regicide In That CITY. !,

Judicial Report That Anarchist, psx
Not Plot Regicide In That City.
New York. Oct. 22.-Supreme Court
Commissioner Trimble OF New Jersey.
having completed his Investigation.
declares it to be his conviction that mo-
anarchist plot existed in Paterson or
West Hoboken for the assassination on
the late King Humbert Of Italy. He
believes that Bresci planned the MUIR
der after going abroad.
Under his official seal the commits
sioner will submit to the New Jersey
Supreme court 222 pages of typewrit-
ten testimony taken from thirty wit
nesses, a copy of which will be for
warded to the Italian authorities by
Gov. Voorhees,
Ernesta Cavello, the so-called "an-
archist queen was among the last of
the witnesses examined. She said thnt
she knew Bresci well, and that he had
told her business called him abroad.
She denied that the assassination Of
King Humbert had ever been suggest
ed by Bresci or any of the associates
In her hearing. She declares that Pat
erson anarchists were astonished by
news OF the assassination.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
M'kINLEY's HEALTH.

; p q - s. Is 8 /
Mr.. Mckinley, we must regret to
say. is man in feeble health. Much
care was used by the trusts and Hanna
in selecting the vice-presidency be-
cause of the fear that Mr.. Mckinley
might fail to live out his term.
The idea was to carry forward the
idea of changing the form of govern
ment now existing here-a form that
now makes trusts and their profits
depend on an election. and is. there
fore. insecure
Roosevelt was selected to run for
vice-Dresident
Ii anything should happen to Mr.
Mckinley. the trusts would be quite
content to see Roosevelt in the White
House.
How would the average thinking cit
izen like that?
We do not ask the opinion of the
citizen whose personal physical timid-
ity leads him to worship a magazine
made hero. We ask the thoughtful
men-n1en brave enough to do their
own fighting If cause should arise.
men who do not hand over their think
ing or governing to magazine blus-
terer:
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE ROOSE-
WELT IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
Roosevelt stands for a huge perma-
nent army, and for using it against
those who should fail to agree with
him.
He has said that this way Of treat
ing those with whom he disagreed po-
litically would be to stand a few of
them up against wall and shoot
them"
He is man who would use the coun-
try and its citizens for his own stupid
ambition and big-toothed glory. He
could conceive no better use for young
men than to make the tough ones
rough riders and the tender ones
rough taxpayers-the rough riders to
build up his fighting fame and the
rough taxpayers to foot the bills.
Some peaceable frogs-not much
more intelligent probably than the
average Roosevelt thusiast-wanted
a stork to rule them. The stork &C
cepted and had fun. The frogs did not
have fun.
How many voters want Mr.. stork
Roosevelt to come along and dispose
of their destinies for his greater
glory?
How many want to be rough riders
or rough taxpayers without their own
consent?
If you vote for Roosevelt for vice.
president you are not necessarily vot-
ing to give an ornamental job to an
ornamental blowhart. You may be
voting to make Of dangerous, ambi-
tious braggart president of the Unit
ed States.-San Francisco Examiner.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
WAS JAMES G. BLAINE A DEM
AGoGUE?

Where is the McKinleyite who will
say that James G. Blaine was a small
American? Where is the McKinleyite
who will say that he was in favor Of
policy Of scuttle and cowardice? Who
will say that Blaine would have given
away to Great Britain large slice of
United States territory in Alaska.
In his letter of acceptance, July Is,
1884, Mr.. Blaine said
Happily removed by our geographic
cal position from participation or in
terest in those questions of dynasty or
boundary which so frequently disturb
the peace of Europe, we are left to
cultivate friendly relations with all,
and are free from possible entangle-
ments in the quarrels of any.
while the great powers of Europe
are steadily enlarglng their colonial
domination IN Asia and Africa, it is
the especial province of this country
to improve and expand it's trade with
the nations Of America No field
promises so much. No field has been
cultivated so little. Our policy should
be an American policy in its broadest
and most comprehensive sense-a pol
icy Of peace, of friendship, of CONNER
cial enlargement
Does that spell Imperialism? "a pol
icy of peace, of friendship, of CONNER
cial enlargement" Not one, but all
three. Not commercial enlargement
by force and at the price of blood, but
commercial enlargement with peace
and friendship. Not trade expansion
at the point of the bayonet and the
muzzle of the rifle. but with peace and
friendship.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
Tho Claim Was justified.

Visitors to the Paris exposition may
have noticed over one of the restau-
rants the Inscription, "Ici on parle
toutes les langues." Those who are
familiar with the results obtained In
French restaurants where "Anglais" is
spoken will naturally be rather skep-
teal about this comprehensive claim
to speak all the languages under the
sun. "A visitor recently remarked to
the manager: you must have great
many interpreters here" mot one,"
was the reply. who, then, speaks all
the languages?" "The customers.
monsieur. New York Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
Cuts Throat to save L,fe.

New York, Oct. 23.-Physicians at
Bellevue hospital today for the first
time allowed Thomas Conray, a pa.
tient, to take solid food. Conroy was
hungry as an OK, and as soon as
plate Of meat was in reach he seizei
it and began to shovel the meat intg
his mouth. In his haste he became
excited. A short, thick bone with
sharp point fastened itself in his throat
and he was plunged into agonizing
pain in an instant. This will never
do" said DR.. Christian, and thrustina
his hand into his pocket, he brought
out his penknife and whacked open the
throat of Conroy, who had already
turned purple in the face and was in
the last struggle for life. When the
opening had been made in the throat
DR.. Christian inserted a rubber tube.
which allowed Conroy to breathe free.
~. Relief came at once and the docto.
reached into the throat and extracted
the bone. The cash in the throat. Wa
carefully sewed u Sc =
doinss ate S5f$& " $i}S
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
AScHARLEs SUMNER a scur-
TLER2


Charles Sumner was great repub-
Hcan statesman. But he was not an
imperialist; he was not an advocate Of
expansion at the price of blood. In
speech on the acquisition of Alaska he
said:
But cannot disguise my anxiety
that every step in our predestined fu-
ture shall be by natural process, with
out war, and, may add, even without
purchase. There is no territorial ag-
grandizement which is worth the
price of blood"
Sumner was in favor of expansion
by natural process only. He was not
an advocate of expansion by purchase.
and was absolutely opposed to expan-
sion by force of arms. He was in IA
yor of the natural expansion that
places the constitution at once over
the new territory, and that makes the
new territory an integral part of the
United States of America.
Was Charles Sumner a scuttler?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25

holding her child's nand tightly And
then great temptation assailed Alan
Mackenzie. The temptation to let
her 60. to let her be lost to him, to
say nothing to Joyce; but to 90 on
as II the days work had never been.
And then he saw in q fash what his
life would be. How every moment Of
happiness with Joyce would have It's
corresponding moment Of bitterness
when he was alone; how he must live
2 double life, always on the brink. OF
detection. Not worse, perhaps, that
the life parted from Joyce; but then
he would be an honest man, and not q
traitor. He put his temptation away
from him, thanking God that he could
do so. knowing that Joyce would not
love man who was dishonorable. So
before Veronica had staggered q dozen
steps away he called to her hoarsely
to come back. She turned at once,
obedient as always, and for; nc
ment he hated himself for his ;, ,tal-
ity to SO gentle woman. r.. tears
were falling down the t.utiful face
She looked up at + IA with the old
look of faithful love, still pushing
the child towards him.
Eyes" she said, questioning him.
what is it. Alan?"
~ am married." he said, crudely
and hoarsely. thinking it best to tell
her at once. Il thought you were
dead. heard nothing from you since
left you; it is four years ago. They
told me all on board were drowned,
and could hear nothing of you.
What wonder then thought you
were dead? And so married, Yer
onica-I am married now!" X!
And then for long time there was
silence between them.
(To be continued.)
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
Fights with Broken Nec,x.

New York, Oct. Walter +. DUR
yea has made railway journey of 327
miles with his broken neck in plas.
ter OF paris cast to be in Brooklyn
at the commencement of his legal bat,
Tie to retain the fortune left him by
his father. Edgar E. Duryea died
since the accident which has made his
sons case famous in the history OF
surgery. Duryea's sisters are contest,
ing the will, but he bids fair to outlive
che time, which, under the provisions
Of the document, will make him tha
permanent owner Of the bulk of vast
fortune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
Hold Eastman For Murder,

Boston, Mass, Oct. 23.-Charles r.
Eastman, instructor at Agassiz mu-
scum, Harvard, is under arrest at Mid
dlesex county Jail, East Cambridge,
under an indictment found by the
grand jury. charged with murder in
causing the death of his brother-in.
law, Richard H. Grogan, Jr
Girl Assaulted by Woman.
New Castle, Ind, Oct. 20.-The COM
munity here is wrought up over SEN
sational encounter between Miss Pearl
Massey, the daughter of prominent
druggist, and Mrs William Denney, a
violin teacher.
Miss Massey is one Of her pupils
Both women are leaders in society
They met by chance in local physi.
clans office and Mrs. Denney, aftel
charging the young woman with alien
ating her husbands affections az.
saulted her viciously, tearing out large
quantities Of her hair ana blackenial
her eye s'a
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25

from every home In Indiana and from
every hotel and boarding house, and
from every laundry, and they are able.
by their operations. to rob the people
of Indiana, annually to the extent OF
$1,562.S10, and make the whole country
pay them a spoliation tribute Of $49..
1926. 120, equal to their entire capital
stock of $35.000,000. with an overplus
Of $14,981 ,120.
This tribute is taken by ceaseless
petty larcenies. but In the aggregate
swelling to a grand larceny of as
founding proportions.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
Meets An Awful Death.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 2s.-James
Francis, an employee of the United
States Leather company, was killed in
a frightful manner at the companys
tannery in this city. He was seated
upon the top of load of tan bark
and the mules backed the wagon unde,
trestle, wedging his body between
The timbers so tightly that the strength
Of the two animals was insufficient
to move the wagon an inch. His body
was bent almost double, the back being
broken
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25

which has led strong interests to OBJ
tain the promise OF special privileges
In return for political support is ap-
parent in the whole business. The APP
peal to the cupidity of the dishonest
element in the country has been open
~ proclaimed by some of our legisla-
tors, notably by Senator Beveridge,
who advocates the conquest of the
Philippines because they abound In
gold and hemp"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
1t is estimated by conservative Ra

It is estimated by conservative Re
publican leaders that Col. Roosevelt,s
strenuous tour of the far west has
cost Mckinley the states Of the two
Dakotas, Wyoming and Utah. even
had there been chance for him in,
the four eommonwealths. Besides
this, the self-laudatory hero of San
Juan has increased Bryan's majority
in all other western states. McKinley's
hopes have therefore found a tomb in
Roosevelt's cavernous mouth.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
Fever RACES In Haxana.

New York. Oct. 22.-There are nine,
ty-two cases of yellow fever in all at
Havana, a dispatch to the Tribune
states. Nineteen Americans are down
with the disease. The death rate
among the American victims has been
8 per cent
The fever is decreasing now. There
is no disposition on the part of the au,
thorities to misrepresent the situation,
The coming of so many Spanish immi7
grants has been the cause of the in,
crease over last year.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
onaoer. Of WHISKY rru.t,

New York, Oct. 23.-The new board
of directors of the Distilling Company
of America has elected these officers:
President, S. M. Rice; first vice-presi,
dent, Thomas Dolan; second vice-pres.
ident, Edison Bradley; third vice-pres-
ident, H. ]. NJ. Cardeza; treasurer, A.
P. Plummer; secretary, T. K Went,
worth.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25

Postmaster Sullivan OF .Cripn,e
Creek. who made the so-called Victor
mob to order. is now calmly awaitinp
his reward. Investigation shows thai
he instigated feigned attack upon
Governor Roosevelt for the purpose
OF exciting partisan sentiment The
Republican party appears to be in
hard lines for argument this year.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25

It has developed that the New York
ice trust is wholly controlled by Re-
publican politicians. This exn1ains
why Governor Roosevelt has refrained
from shooting the New York Ice trnst
in the back.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25

Truths Characterization Of Lamdorf.
According to London Truth, Count
3Lamdorf. who is spoken OF as success
'sor to Count Mouravien OF Russia.
never goes into society. and hardly has
any friends. He lives in apartment
ct the Russian Foreign once. 10
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25

The panic scare and starvation CIV
will not win this year. Workingmen
have sounded the depths Of the full
dinner pail and tested the breadth OF
trust prosperity.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25
SOAP AND STARCH TRUSTS.

The Indianapolis Sentinel in com
menting upon the cooperation of the
soap and starch trusts in Indiana.
says:
The soap trust commands a capital
of $25,000,000, and the starch trust
about half that amount-the two trusts
having a capital of about $35,OOO,O0O
These two trusts. to certain extent,
supply the same class of consumers
though the soap trust does vastly the
largest business. In the homes of the
people they operate together, and by
advancing prices reap rich harvests.
Soap is said to be pre-eminently an
article of civilization because cleanli-
ness is the fundamental basis of all
physical refinement. and it has been
proposed to estimate the progress Of
civilization by the consumption of
soap, the formula being to divide the
total quantity of soap consumed in
given time by the total population con-
Stunning 1t, the quotient expressing the
civilization of the community. And
this formula is offered by a modern
scientist of distinction and gives to
soap an Importance and dignity of spe-
c1al significance. Hence, it may be
affirmed that t he manufacturers Of
soap may be classed among the worlds
greatest philanthropists and benefac-
tors.
To make soap cheap it appears is
essential fn al,
ment; to make it dear is to obstruct
the march of progress, civilization and
refinement and promote ignorance,
fllthiness and barbarism, and that is
Just what the soap trust is engaged in
doing.
INDIANA's CONSUMPTION OF
SOAP.
Indiana is distinguished for her civ
ilization and refinement. and meas
ured by schools, churches and the con-
sumption of soap, she is in the van of
progress. The estimate is. taking ho-
tells, laundries. factories and homes,
that the annual consumption of soap in
Indiana will reach 100000, 900 pounds
OF an average of forty pounds per cap
ita of the entire population Of the
state. Before the soap trust began
plundering the people of Indiana this
loo, 100000 pounds of soap would have
cost. at three cents pound, $4,000 900,
but the trust advanced the price to
~ cents pound, making the cost
$4,256,OO0 year. an increase Of ST.
100000. or SO cents per capita for ev-
cry man, woman and child in the state.
And while robbing Indiana of $780,
GOO annually the trust pockets from
the whole country by It's looting and
free-voting policy not less than $4O,-
100000.
1t is estimated that the laundries
and the homes Of Indiana consume an
nually 20,S00,000 pounds of starch.
Prior to the advance forced upon con-
sumers, starch was purchased at two
cents per pound. the cost of the In
diana consumption amounting to $416,-
$50. The trust advanced prices to 1-3
cents pound. making the cost to the
people $72S,S90, the advance amount
ing to clean steal Of $312.810 a year.
Assuming that Indiana has a popu-
lation Of S0.000.0 900 the starch trust
would secure by Its piracies $685., 100,
an amount equal to its capital stock.
The two trusts are hlching money
Il y
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-10-25


on which the constitution is based and
that principle is being betrayed. If
there is any historic sense in the Am
erican people they will reverse the pol-
icy of imperialism, as the hope lies not
so much in presidents as in the houses
Of congress.
president Mckinley declared at At,
lanta two years ago that the flag has.
been planted in two hemispheres, where
1t remains the symbol Of liberty and
law, of peace and progress Who will
withdraw from the people over whom
1t floats Its protecting folds? Who
will pull it DOWN. In the Philippines
we are now moving down the natives
with rapid-flre guns ger-hunting,' z
it is grewsomely expressed. The flag
does not protect those over whom 1t
floats. It is there to Filipinos the en-
blem of tyranny and butchery.
"The common sense of the people
knows that the flag cannot be iminie-
diately Withdrawn. but the moral sense
OF the people demands that SO long as
1t remains it's folds shall provide for
white men and brown men alike free
and independent government and as
surance from outside aggression. AS a
nation Of freemen all equal under the
constitution we are stultifying our
selves morally and politically. We are
showing to the world that our prin-
ciples Of government are as nothing in
comparison with grasping land. be-
cause It is said by our legislators to be
fertile and rich. 81
The baseness Of this philosophy
should bring It's own punishment and
lishonor. The base greed for gain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-09-18

tween great corporations and their
numerous employees can doubt the wis
dom of esta biishing an impartial court
for the just and equitable settlement
OF disputes The demand for arb!tra.
ton ought to be supported as heartily
by the public, which suffers inconyeni-
ence because of strikes and lockouts.
and by the employers themselves. as
by the employees. The establishment
Of arbitration will insure friendly re-
lations between labor and capital, and
render obsolete the growing practice
or ealing in the army to settle labor
troubles.
| cannot too strongly emphasize the
Importance of the platform recon-
uendation of the establishment of Il
department of labor. with a member
OF the cabinet at its head. When we
remember how important a position
the laborer fills in our economic, So
cial and political fabric, it is hard TO
conceive of a valid objection being
made to this recognition of his serv-
Ices. Agriculture is already represent
ed in the presidents official household;
the army and navy have their repre-
sentatives there; the state department,
with its consular service, and the
treasury department, with its close
connection with fiscal affairs, keep the
executive IN touch with the business
and commercial interests. 4 cabinet
officer truly representative of the wage
earning class would be of Invaluable
aid. not only to the toilers, but to the
president
The Chinese exclusion act has proven
an advantage TO the country, and its
continuance and strict enforcement, as
well as its extension to other similar
races. are imperatively necessary. The
Asiatic is SO essentially different from
the American that he cannot be as
simulated with our population. and is.
therefore, not desirable as permanent
citizen. His presence as a temporary
laborer. preserving his national identi-
ty, and maintaining a foreign scale OF
wages and living, must ever prove an
injustice to American producers, as
well as perpetual source of irritation.