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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
FOREIGN PAUPER LABOR.

One of the essentials of the Demo-
cratic party is Its opposition to foreign
pauper labor, and the consequent pro-
lection Of American workmen by its
exclusion. 1t Is the one competition
against which American labor cannot
compete. Yet we learn that there is
horde OF foreigners brought into
this country from Italy, Austria and
China, under the noses of our officials,
in pursuance of slave contracts, and
who remain slaves for an indefinite
number Of years. Says the Chicago
Tribune:
ut is a notorious fact that Chinese
are brought here in this way, and,
while a number from Austria are
brought over on the same terms. Italy
furnishes the largest proportion Of
those who are virtually treated as
slaves. Many employees Of iron works
throughout the country are secured in
this way, most of them coming from
Austria.
At Avon, N. Y, there is colony Of
20 Italians who are under the direct
control Of one man, who hires them
to farmers and fruit growers and takes
most of their earnings. while those who
perform the labor get little more than
enough to eat, and are housed in
buildings little better than cattle
Sheds"
Our boastful Republican administra-
ton does not seem to be even a mon
grel watch dog, either Of the treasury
or of the rights of American laborers.
Its sole and only purpose and intent
at the present time seems to be to
curry favor with the sultan of Jolo, es-
tablish some sort of an unknown SOW
ereignty in the Philippines, assist the
SPECTATORS with the peoples money.
and re-elect Mr.. Mckinley. We have,
for the first time in the history Of this
great republic. president who reigns,
but does not govern.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
A TRADE REVIEW lMposruRE.

In the weekly trade review of Dun
& Co., of December %, the most as
tonishing cause Of the recent Wall
street furry is given deluded pub
lie:
"The worst day in Wall street for
years was in part the legitimate result:
of the best year in business ever
known. Because the country had
prospered so greatly and had so ex-
banded its business, it could no long
er afford to have many millions lock-
ed up in carrying stocks representing
imaginary values.
The question was not one of none
tary supply. When the country found
ample use for its capital in regular
trade and productive industry con-
traction of loans became necessary,
which would only have been more
painful if the volume of stocks carried
had been larger. Reckoning from the
highest general average last spring, in
dustrial stocks had fallen at the close
on Monday 1927 per cent; street rail-
road stocks, $500 per cent; and other
railroad and telegraph stocks only 6.70
per cent"
In other words, the most disastrous
panic Wall street and the country gen
orally ever knew, one which depreciat-
ed values in securities of all sorts by
nearly $400.000,00O, and caused fnan-
cial loss to thousands and ruin to
many, was merely the result of high
ly prosperous business expansion and
the consequence of plethora of mon
ey. 1t is impossible for the people to
be deceived by such specious excuses,
or gulled by similar commercial re-
views. The truth is that when the
Standard Oil Company desires to OBJ
tain possession and control of the New
Amsterdam Gas Company, or any other
trust wishes to force any other prop
erty to yield to it, it is legitimate to
create money stringency and ruin
the people by compelling them to sac
rifice their securities. 1t is incredible
that the people who have many mil
lions locked up in carrying stocks rep
resenting imaginary values can lose
those millions and still consider them
selves prosperous. It gives one the
impression that our whole monetary
system is delusion and snare.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
A LOST PROP.

The main prop to our commercial
agency manufactured prosperity was
knocked out on the now historical
black Monday, December IS, 1896, when
leading industrials shrunk in value
nearly half billion dollars. The
Louisville Dispatch in puncturing this
phase of Trusts" wisely observes:
Many Of the trusts have been CIR
ganized purely for speculation, and
some as legitimate investments and for
profits out of the conduct of the BUSH
ness involved. But all are more or
less drawn into the speculative field.
Even the most substantial stocks do
not always stand on their merits. When
industries are combined to cheaper
production, the consolidation adjust
ed upon fair basis and the business
involved honestly conducted, it has
some defense in equity and in morals.
But when combinations are effected to
list watered stock for the purpose of
speculation, when such stock is given a
fictitious value because of the supposed
power of the combinations to exact ex-
orbitant profits, if they succeed they
rob the public, and if they fail they
disturb the business world. This is
the worst feature Of the trust move
ment."
This goes to the root of our whole
pernicious trust system. Since 1t is in
the power of the prosperity boom
ers'' to destroy whatever prosperity
does exist by twist of the stock mar
ket, depreciating values far below any
possible gain from legitimate com
mercial profits, 1T is time to throttle
the dragon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
Death OF Organized Labor.

The American Federation of Labor
at its recent meeting in Detroit de-
'clared that Territorial expansion
meant the death Of organized labor"
What else is likely to follow from the
amalgamation into our citizenship Of a
horde Of cheap labor Malays and Ha-
waiians? There are many other things
at work undermining organized labor
as well as reducing the average Ameri-
can citizen to the condition of serf.
The federation recognizes trusts as one
OF those agents. As Mr.. Max s. Hayes
said, speaking upon the resolution OF
the federation: THE middle class will
be abolished. They will be forced to
become wage workers, trade-union-
lists" Then "the working people will
have become nearly the whole people.
They will control the government, and
the plutocrats will be powerless." Still,
there is the alarming growth of mill
tarlsm, our curious financial system,
and the utter destruction Of the rights
OF the individual, the concentration of
money in the hands of few, and many
other things that are so many prepara-
lions to destroy organized labor and
the rights of humanity. It is well to
unite in opposition to expansion re-
CARELESS Of party allegiance" but with
the Republican party advocating all OF
the evils complained of, and the Demo-
cratic party standing against them all.
1t is easy to see where the party alle-
glance" should be manifested. There
Is no forlorn hope; the correction of
the evils denounced may be effected
with united effort now.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

unless our present business and indus
trial expansion comes TO an end, the
demand for money will continue to be
more and more insistent in Wall
street.
II there we're fresh supplies of money
coming in from any source, we should
have different report to make: the
whole situation would be different; but
money, In spite of the demand for it in
New York to sustain values. is going
out, and the prospects are that 1t will
continue to go out. It is plain to all
who understand and keep up with the
undertow of the financial situation
that our gold standard friends are
merely whistling to keep their courage
up. Without any well-grounded as
surance of their own. they are striv-
ing to assure themselves and the rest
of the country.
We sincerely hope their efforts will
be successful, but the most that we
provincials can do Is to look abroad
and report facts as we find them. At
lanta Constitution.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

The G. o. P. organs attribute the re-
cent smashes of banks, manufactures
and commercial houses to our excess
sive prosperity. The commercial agen-
cies and the treasury officials blame
an over-supply of money, while the
rank and file of feeble imitators charge
them up to the war in the Transvaal.
Director of the Mint Roberts is the
only one who comes anywhere near the
truth, and this is the way he expresses
it:
"The cry for more money is as unap-
peasable as the demand for more
wealth. A new supply, instead of sat
isfying the demand, stimulates it. Men
want money to buy things with
good things that they think are going
higher. Given easy money in the banks,
and we have bankers encouraging Dor
rowers. AS result. stocks go up, and
as they go up more people want to
buy, and SO the demand for money in
creases. You can't furnish money fast
enough to meet the demand of all who
would like to borrow while prices are
going up, nor could all the gold and
silver mines in the world together
keep prices going up forever"
The administration school of philos-
ophy seems to have several heads but
no standard.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII.

The Hawaiian Gazette of Honolulu
complains that the Portuguese and
Japanese are taking up the best lands
in the Hawaiian islands, to the ex-
clusion of Americans:
What is the situation? What is the
outlook there? The Portuguese, have
settled on this land and are doing
well. Many, it is said 500, Japanese
have taken land in Kula and Maka-
wac, and are making excellent profits
out of their agricultural work. Out
OF some hundreds of settlers are there
any Americans?f No. Yet the profits
Of agriculture in that section, today,
would open the eyes of the small
farmers of America. -. While
there is much waving of the flag over
the island with the patriotic shout
that the islands must be American
lied, day by day, step by step, the
men of other nationalities are becom-
ing the bone and the sinew of the peo-
pie. One looking upon these prosper
GUS people preoccupying the land, must
regard the case of American settlement
in this region as almost hopeless.
.. It is simply idle to say that the
American farmer can or will supplant
the Portuguese or the Orientals.'
When the Gazette wakes up to the
fact that the acquisitions made by the
Mckinley administration are for the
purpose of speculation and not for the
benefit of American citizens, unless
combined in trust of some sort. there
will not be any further editorial worry.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
Good Fortune.

The following story is classed under
"True Animal Stories" but is really
a fish story: Not long ago hawk
caught a fish in Long Island Sound,
but while flying with it to the woods
to devour it at leisure, the fish foun-
dered from the hawks hold and
dropped into a farmers yard, where
big mastih was sitting. The dog
caught the fish as it came down, and
the hawk swooped after it, but the
dog turned and ran into the house,
placing his trophy, yet alive, at the
feet of his mistress. It proved to be
a large bluefsh, and 1t was served up
that night to an appreciatiye family.
The dog ever since has been seen to
sit in the same place at the same time.
evidently impressed with the belief
that his good sortune may be repeated
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

BY what strange conceit was secre-
tary Gage impeiled to say in his recent
address at Orange, N. j.: 1T (the gov
ernment) allows the institutions thus
under its patronage and protection (the
national banks) to take under control
some s2,000,O00.00O of the peoples
money, while in its own fiscal opera
tons the government itself will not
trust the best of them tosthe extent. OF
one dollar" In vino veritas that is
to say, the truth is brought out at
banquet. Who can trust a bank after
such a certificate of suspicious charac-
ter emanating from so high source?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11


That Mark A. Hanna is a good man.
nobody within reach OF his benefac-
ton will deny. So when pious gem
tleman, the other day, at church fair.
fervently calculated, upon receipt of a
generous donation, God bless you.
senator" our eyes are moist through
sympathy. But do not let this sancti-
monious gallery play go any further.
lest the senator be moved to join the
church and publicly confess his short
and long comings and goings. We
have too much personal respect for
Mr.. Hanna to have him locked up in
Jail for the, public safety, as was the
self-confessed pickpocket at religious
revival in New Jersey the other day.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

If it was necessary for the govern
inert to come to the rescue Of the spec
ulators operating on a stringent money
market to save industrials, why should
not the government come to the rescue
of the industrials to save the specula-
tors? Industrials are going by the
board in every direction.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

Barbed-wire fences are used extern
sively in South Africa. and mostsof the,
material Ia imported from the United
States.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

In the years 1882 to 1891, England
lost 14,ooo,oOo of Its population by emil
grafton Germany lost 100000 be-
tween 1892 and 1891.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
ia \. Images SERMON.
TALK ABOUT WoMAN.S USE
FULNESS.
There Are Dangerous Alurements OF
Traps Thst Must Ever Be Avoided
'she SHALL he Called Womsn''-
Con. II: rs.

G3d, who can make no mistake.
made man and woman for a specific
work and to move in particular
spheres-man to be regnant in his
realm; woman to be dominant in hers.
The boundary line between Italy and
Switzerland, between England and
Scotland, is not more thoroughly
marked than this distinction between
the empire masculine and the empire
feminine. So entirely dissimilar are
the fields to which God called them,
that you can no more compare them
than you can oxygen and hydrogen.
water and grass, trees and stars. ALI
this ,alk about the superiority Of one
sex to the other is an everlasting
waste of ink and speech. A jeweler
may have scale so delicate that he
can weigh the dust of diamonds; but
where are the scales SO delicate that
you can weigh in them affection
against affection, sentiment against
sentiment, thought against thought,
soul against soul, mans world
against womans world? You come
out with your stereotyped remark that
q man is superior to woman in intel
(lect; and then open on my desk the
slwarthy. irontyped, thunder bolted
Writings Of Harriet Martineau and
Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot.
You cd(me on with your stereotyped re-
mark stbout woman's superiority to
man in The item Of affection; but 1 ask
you where was there more capacity to
love than in John the disciple-and
Matthew Simpson the bishop and Hen
ry Martyr, the missionary? The heart
of those mel was so large, that after
you had rolled it into two hemispheres,
there was room still left to marshal
the hosts of heaven, and set up the
throne of the eternal Jehovah. deny
to man the throne intellectual. deny
to woman the throne affectional. No
human pnraseology will ever decline
the spheres; while there is an intui-
ton by which we know when man
is in his realm, and when woman is
in her realm. and when either of
them is out Of it. No bungling legis-
lature ought to attempt to make def
milton, or to say: This is the line and
that is the line" My theory is, that
II woman wants to vote she ought to
vote, and that If a man wants to en-
bfotder and keep house, he ought to
be allowed to embroider and keep
house. There are masculine women
and there are effeminate men. My
theory is that you have no right to in
terfere with any ones doing anything
that is righteous. Albany and Wash
ington might as well decree by legis-
lation how brown-thresher should
dy, or how deep trout should plunge.
as to try to seek out the heiglAS5
depth Of woman's duty. Than
Of capricity will settle fina2
question. the whole ss'as &
4ef confershSs g6r Il
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
A Boston Man Pleased.

In conversation with some friends,
prominent Boston man told of his suf-
ferings from rheumatism and nervous
ness, and one of his friends gave him
some advice, which will be mentioned
later, and which has proven to be OF.
incalculable value.
To successfully act on the advice, it,
was necessary to make q trip of over
1000 miles, but he undertook it, and
now thanks his friend for the advice
Us he finds himself fully relieved OF hist
Did trouble and has returned to his
nome feeling able to cope with his
business demands, a new man.
The advice given was to- go ter sHGtN
Springs, South Dakota, and there take
the baths and enjoy the finest climate
of any health resort in America
1t this man was satisfied after making
long trip, those residing within 8
few hundred miles and similarly aff1ict-
ed can certainly afford to try it, or
rather can't afford to neglect to try it.
Ask any agent of the North Western
line for full particulars, or write
j. r. BUCHANAN,
General Passenger Agent,
r. p. & M. v. r. r.. Omaha, Neb.
A Newark gentleman, who is occa-
sionally troubled with insomnia, de-
clares that he always finds relief after
taking warm mustard foot bath.
Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng, softens the gums reduces In
uammation allays pain cures wind collie. ESQ bottle
The salaries paid in the Chicago
high schools annually averaged $3.50
for each pupil taught in them.
Attractive Booi<let Sent Frce.
Address Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Dorchester Mass.
Congressman-elect Roberts, Of Utah,
states THAT he can earn livelihood at
blacksmithing if necessary, having
learned that trade in his youth
Reliable Help Wanted
either sexo The Humanitarian Home and asnftar
Send 12c IN stamps for full information. Address
j. H. Teitlebaum, Treasurer, Las Vegas. N. M.
An Industrious hen ia owned by
James Murtha, of Hattonia, Ohio. On
Mondays and Thursdays it lays two
eggs each day; on all other days it rare
ly fails to lay one.
Former United States Senator Will
liam M. Evarts, now nearly 50 years old,
is not able to leave his home, but he is
still actively interested in public az
fairs.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
:. Proof Of the Ruddinq
Is IN the Eating. =
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During her entire reign Queen Vic
torba has not worn her crown more than
evenly times.
FITS Permanent Nc nts or nervousness astes
irst days of DIR. kline's Great Nerve Lestorer.
Send for FREE 5000 trial bottle and treatiss
Dr. r. II. KLINE Ltd. g3l Arch St.. PHILADELPHIA, Pa
The little personal present. which
Queen Victoria dispatched to the Cape
for her soldiers weighed eighty-eight
tons and cost 1000 pounds.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
druggists refund the money II it falls to cura
25c. Z. W. Groves signature on each boz.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
"A New Star.

Big resourceful Texas Is famed for
its great undertakings. The newest
and brightest star which has shot
athwart its horizon is the wonderful
town OF La Porte. located on Calves
ton Bay midway between Houston and
Galveston in the celebrated Coast
Country OF Texas. A happy trinity OF
pluck. brains and capital is here found
at work building up great deepwater
seaport city. Extensive public work is
under way including wharfs, docks and
water front shipping facilities. The
u. S. Government is soon to deepen
the channel, thus enabling the largest
ocean vessels to receive and discharge
cargoes at IA Porte
Both the daughters of Senator Mason
of Illinois, Miss Ethel. aged "a, and
Miss Ruth, aged 81, are students in a
Washing ton law school.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
In Toxic, there ure seven crematories
and the cost Of cremation is 90 low that
several of the old-style undertaken
have been forced out of business. a
Eneland's Armored Trains.

The magnificent armored trains used
by England in her war with the Beers
will protect her troops in about the
same way that Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters drives dyspepsia from the hue
man stomach, and then mounts guard
that it does not return. The BitterH
has won in every case of indigestion,
constipation, liver and kidney trouble
for over fifty years.
Street car tickets in Adrian, Mich,
are sold by the hundred at the rate OF
three cents each. The regular fare 10
five cents. *
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

Boas OF ostrich feathers and rufied
.hifton are worn with winter suits.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

Former United States Senator VIII,
liam M. Evarts, now nearly 50 years old,
is not able to leave his home, but he is
still actively interested In public az
fairs.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

The salaries paid in the Chicago
high schools annually averaged $751; Sc
for each pupil taught in them.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

A Newark gentleman, who is occa-
sionally troubled with insomnia, de-
clares that he always finds relief after
taking a warm mustard foot bath. So
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

the demand for cash created by in
creasing business and the expansion of
Industrial development. This means
that we have outrun or are about to
outrun the limits set by the gold stan
dard. When prosperity comes to a
standstill, it ceases to be prosperity;
its own growth and development are
what 1t feeds on. Deprived of this
food, it perishes. On this expansion
in business and industry the various
movements in Wall street are based.
When the concerns whose stocks and.
bonds are listed in Wall street
are prospecting and earning divi-
dends the securities that repre-
sent them rise in value; but
money and plenty Of 1t is just as much
needed to give buoyancy to trade in
the street as 1t is to support business
throughout the country. When, from,
lack of money, the Coxey yell is heard
,echoing in those precincts, it means
that serious complications will ensue
unless the necessary money is forth
coming. What those complications are
at their worst may be seen in the ac-
counts Of last Mondays panic.
In brief. fall in the value of the
securities in which Wall street deals
tends to make it more difficult for the
concerns represented by the depreciat-
ed securities to borrow money; and
this tendency, like prosperity, grows
by what 1t feeds on. Whether the coll
lapse in Wall street is to be followed
by a movement on the part Of the
banks to call in their loans and take
the profits that are always ready to-
the hand OF money owners at the be-
ginning Of pahic remains to be seem.
II Is certain th3t they cannot afford to.
continue Indifhitely their present
meth961 nanelly certain that
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
dammation, aays PAIN cures wind collie ESQ bottle.