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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30
Rlr Gift for Toilars.

George Cadbury, the English choco-
late manufacturer. has presented to
the city of Birmingham an estate OF
416 acres. valued at 5000, 200. upoa
which to build houses for WORKING
people.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30
THE GREAT SILK PRoDUcrRs.

China still easily leads the world 1
the production Of raw silk, Europ
ranking next with about half the prd
duction Of China, and Japan making
close third. In 1899 the exports froJ
China were 16,sss,443 pounds. and
from Japan 1908, 6ss pounds. The en-
tire production Of Europe was only
S,S29,o75f pounds, divided as follows.
Italy, 9l4. 90 pounds. France. !, 2ss !.
.s sssa Z
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30

ACCOUNTING FOR THE EXPENSE.
Mrs. Pelican: The Sultan of Tur-
key spends thirty-eight millions Of
dollars year on his household.
Mrs. Dumsquizzle: He uses ice. prob
aD1y s1s
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30

The London Speaker is guilty Of
lese majestic when it attempts to
speak disparagingly of the right hon
orable Marcus A. Hanna. The criti-
cism shows lack of gratitude as well
las disregard for Hanna's feelings
for did not Mr.. Hanna speak in glow
ing terms of the English system of
government after his return from Eu-
rope? The Speaker says:
ssThere is not much to awaken the
spirit Of national vanity, alert as it is
in the states, about a political system
in which Senator Hanna is one of the
greatest and most powerful figures.
Not that Senator Hanna is wicked
man. He is simply kind of man that
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30

The republican papers are beginning
to express fear that the "McLauri1
movement" will fail for slack of lea,,-
ership." AS Senator McLaurin S, ems
to be the only person in the movement
SO far he ought to have no trouble
leading himself.
The new cup defender is named "Con-
stitution," and Sir Thomas Upton is
encouraged. He has learned that the
Constitution does not go very far.
Some men who start to lay by some
ching for rainy day are deceived by
the first heavy fall of dew.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30
OF course Macarthur will not deport
any Manila editors while that military
investigation is under way.

Congressional visitors to the Indian
Territory have discovered that it has
the making of very rich state. This
discovery may not prove fortunate for
the Indian.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30

It is noticeble that all of the repub-
lican tariff reformers do their best
work while congress is not in session.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30

Farmers who bought Northern Pa
ciic and Union Pacific stock at the
ri yht time and let G Of it a the proper.
moment are feeling good. Thef
who did not are still plowir
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-30

red with the blood of $4,000 Arme-
mans. Had Athens prayerfllly listened
to Pauls sermon on Mars hill and
adopted his precepts of brotherhood
and divine worship she would have
stood in her old power today, and all
Greece would have stood with her,
and that civilization SO long dead un-
der the carved pillars of her shrines
and under the marble of her pentel-
lean mountains would have been, per-
haps for all Asia and for much of
Europe, living civilization. But for
her arrogance she was cast out and
cast down. The Lord weighed her
spirit.
The Weighing of Nations.
And SO the spirit of our American
nation is put into the royal balance,
and 1t will be weighed as certainly as
all the nations of the past were
weighed and as all the nations of the
present are being weighed. When We
! go to estimate the wealth of this ma
ton. we weigh its gold and silver and
coal and iron and copper and lead,
| and all the steel yards and all the bal
ances are kept busy. So many tons of
this and SO many tons Of that, a
mountainful of this metal and anoth-
er mountainful of another metal. That
Is we'll. We want to know our mining
wealth, our manufacturing wealth,
our agricultural wealth. and the bush
ell measure and the scales have an i'm
portant work. But know right we'll
there is a divine Weighing in this
country all the time going on. and
can tell you our country's destiny ii
you will tell me whether 1t shall be
a God honoring nation. reverential to
the only book of his authorship. OBJ
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
Stars and stropes in Cuba.

Army and Navy Journal
 One thing which pleasantly surprised General Wood during the recent tour of inspection in Cuba was that wherever he went the Cuban and American flags were invariably twined together in the public decorations.
 In some towns were to be seen speci- mems of the work done by the children. among which were drawings of two flags. the stars and stripes and the Cuban flag twined together or side by side. These were to be seen in drawings on paper, and in one town where the mayor was taken completely by surprise and was mortified that he did not have time to properly prepare for the reception of the Governor General, was to be found on the blackboard of the schoolroom tne specimens of drswinfis of the two flags together. The drawings were at the head of the room and all the children were facing them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
THE PREsIDENTy MESSAGE.

The nrst message of President Roose- veit is remarkable one in many ways. in some respects it is like its author, breezy. candid and direct. He does not beat about the bush but expresses his views in words not to be mistaken. The most strenuous Republican partisan can find comfort in some of his utterances. while he will feel uncomfortable as to some of his other declarations. The country at large will endorse what he says as to anarchy. The high tariff ad- vocate will be satisfied with his declara- tion that no change in the tariff Is de- sired, but there are thousands of his own party tired of policy which en- ables American manufacturers to sell goods in foreign markets and yet keeps up prices at home above those which prevail abroad. Here is the Democratic opportunity if wisely and properly taken advantage of.
 The message deals with all questions of domestic and foreign policy and in spite of its length is well worthy of pc- rusal. A comprehensive synopsis, as we'll as the full text, will be found in other parts of The Advertiser this morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
The Coosa River News says:

The esteemed Montgomery Advertiser is too slow for once in advising Alabami- ans to give Governor Jelks a second term. Nearly all others of the State newspapers agreed upon the justice of the suggestion long time ago.
 The Advertiser was slow because it did not consider it necessary to speak sooner on the subject, believing, as 1t did. that the party would nominate Governor Jelks without hesitation or thought of division. We think yet that this will be done unless the unexpected happens and the present incumbent makes his own renomination impossible. No one expects him to do anything of the kind. and we do not look for him to have opposition unless it comes from those who oppose the Democratic Party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

Their case is simple and unanswerable They point to the discriminating duties
 against American farm products enacted nnr 1ariff exclusiveness and they demand ieeiprocity. Is, roc They point to the combinl- lions which have extinguished competi- ton within the tariff wall and ., they L de, :. mand restoration of competition py they demand revision They point to the combinations which sell goods more cheaply abroad than at home and as to the tariff schedules enabling this they demand repeal This program appeals to inc common sense of the whole Ameri- can people. It appeals to the self-inter- est of all of them except the few who profit so enormously by the tariff injus- tnn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04


 The Republicans of Kansas have a conundrum on their hands. or their minds. or somewhere about them. The proposition that a prohibition plank shall be put into their State platform is what Is worrying them, and causing some of them to lie awake O nights. Sensible men in the party know that such plank is a farce and fraudN for they know that the party cannot enforce prohibi- ton. and that they will not seriously try to enforce it. On the other hand, there are those who fear that if the party fails to pledge and bind itself in its platform the prohibitionists will refuse to support the ticket, and there they are Whether it Is better to put in a plank which means nothing. and is not intended to mean any thing, or be honest and leave 1t out en- tirely is the puzzling proposition before them. But it matters little which they do, though honesty would doubtless be the best policy in this as well as in many other cases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
FROM A REpuBLrcAN VIEW.

The Birmingham Times is dissatisfied, not to say disgusted. It declares that 1t 'tiid hope and expect" that General Shell ley and his associates would formulate some plan or take some action looking towards the institution of legal proceed ings to have the fraudulent and obnox- ious Constitution annulled and declared void," but, alas. for it's hopes! nothing of the kind was done. and The Times had a poor opinion of their shrewdness if it expected anything of the kind. How ever mistaken those gentlemen may be, they are not going to butt their heads against that kind of a wall. Whether those majorities were obtained strictly in accordance with fairness Is not the ques- tion. All those who are now leading in the opposition are men who profited by elections conducted exactly as the late one was.
 But The Times has something else to say which may be of interest to both the friends and the enemies of the new Constitution. Speaking of those who held the recent meeting in Birmingham 1t says:
 All they did was to decide to try to capture the Iemocratic Party through primaries by securing the votes of majority of the white voters. They did not seem to realize that a majority of the white voters who voted against the ratification and not already Republicans will hereafter align themselves with the Republican Party and on no conditions i'm AI- tr. oraNy element calling themselves Democrats.
 According to that view of the case General Shelley and associates are in the middle of a bad fix They claim that their object is to go into the primaries and thus obtain control of the party-and the offices. But The Times predicts that all white men who voted against ratifi- cation will tumble over themselves and each other in their hurry to get into the Republican Party. It will not be neces- sary to call the roll or even to sound the ration-call to get them. They will come a-jumpin' and a-runnin'
 They will
 Come as the winds come, when forests
 are rended,
 Come as the waves come, when navies
 are stranded,
 or words to that effect. In short, If we believe The Times, the capacity of the Republican Party will have to be very much enlarged to hold all the white Dem- ocrats who are waiting for the doors to open. And the distressing part of 1t is that The Times elsewhere gives them to understand that they are not to expect any of the offices. They are to rake out the chestnuts and not be allowed to break a shell. They are to shake the plum tree and not even get seed to eat They are all to be and remain privates in the ranks and not one of them get as high as color-bearer in the new combi- nation.
 The Times, it occurs to us, has failed to foresee one complicating possibility. If all the white Democrats who, accord ing to ex-Governor Johnston, voted against ratification, should go over in body to the Republicans they would so far outnumber the latter that they would turn them out and take the offices themselves. Then our Republican friends would feel like boy does when bird gets away from him. Whichever way the old thing works somebody is likely to get a lovely black eye, if We can see 1t straight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

It does seem that the late Mrs. Fred Gebhardt, who Is now Mrs. Somebody else, plays it low on Freddy. After get ting a divorce from him she married an- other fellow and they are living in the house presented her by Fred. As he failed to get divorce he is out one wife and one house and can't replace either. He might go and board with the new happy couple.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
Taylor to Speak at Buffalo.

Mobile Register.
 MT. Hannas Taylor has accepted an invitation from the Independent Club of Buffalo, N. Y., to be the guest of honor at a banquet to be given in that city on the fourteenth instant. The club gives several banquests each year in order that a representative speaker may be heard upon some leading subject of the day. Recently the club has been ad- dressed by President Roosevelt. Lord Charles Beresford, Chauncey M. Depew, Charles Emory Smith. Governor Pingree, Charles Denby. Murat Halstead, John Fiske and others. MT. Taylor. who will be the only speaker at, the next banquet, will take as his theme: Our Federal Republic as a World-Power "
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

The Montgomery Advertiser has moro fun with The Norfolk Landmark than with a circus. By the way, The Land mark is not known in Alabama except through The Advertiser r-Birmingham Ledger.
 What's that? The Landmark not known in Alabama? We thought it was known from the rivers to the ends of the earth and at several of the between places. Not to know it is to miss much that is worth knowing We have fun with it but we enjoy The Landmark and don't see how we could exist without it. You should cultivate it, by all means.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
It is Amusing.
Ensley Herald.

EnSIey HeraTu.
 It is amusing to read the declarations of the anti-ratificationists which they promulgated at their late consolation ses- sion. A prominent Ensley Democrat re- marked on reading them that they sound ed very much like .reiteration of the very principles involved in the fight for the new Constitution. It was the avowed purpose of the Democratic Party to secure fair elections by the framing and adoption of new Constitution. Now it seems that the whole burden of the anti's cry is They said they would give fair elections and we propose to make 'em do it." The whole game reminds us of the polecat that asked the woodchuck to retire that the atmosphere might get pure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
BORING FOR OIL.

They are going to bore hole in the bottom of Pensacola Bay, with the hope of finding an oil deposit. The editor of The Brewton Banner has been down there and tells us how a gentleman, with a convenient, pole, stirred up the bottom of the location which Is under water. causing bubbles to rise, from which a pure article of oil is made to appear on the surface of the water" and this experiment convinced the editor that oil abounds there. --.4
 It may be possible--and we make the suggestion with some trepidation, because the Pensacola papers are little 'tetchy" on any subject affecting their locaiity-but 1t may be possible that the man and his pole stirred up some of the debris which has been accumulate ing on the bottom of the bay for ages, and which might be expected to smell like oil, or almost anything else. We should imagine that there Is quite a de- posit of something under the waters thereabout.
 But we are glad they are going to bore the hole, for if they fail to find oil they are pretty sure to find something else of interest. They may bore into the re- mains of some prehistoric dinosaur or glyptodon. or they may turn up the bones of some animal heretofore unknown and undescribed. and thus add to the scientific knowledge of the age But we hope they will find oil. We people in Alabama feel that we have a kind of prospective ownership in that portion of the world and if their experiments should
 develop a few gushers we shall be all the more anxious to see West Florida added to our State where it belongs.
 The cnlv danger we see from the pro- ceeding is that their boring may tap an immense void and let all the water out of the bay. That would be hard on the fishes and things. to say nothing of the shipping. However, there are risks in all experiments, and we shall watch this one with the hope of good results to follow. D.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
Duels Long Out of Date.

Otlca observer.
 If it be true that Emperor William has put his foot down to prevent any fur ther dueling in the Germany army, then the kaiser must be credited with great good sense displayed at the right time Today the public would no more tolerate a duel in America than it would a prize fight with bare knuckles. The English public has also undergone a similar change; and if the German public iags behind 1t is only because the traditions of her universiti 4s make dueling popular It needs but the vigorous movement of the German Emperor to give a death blow to custom as foolish as it is vii cious, and as antiquated as it is bar barOuS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

Messrs. Otis and R. G. Nickles, who. have been making of The Talladega News Reporter one of the best weeklies in Alabama. have sold their paper to MT. E. L. c. Ward. formerly of The Bridge port News. who takes charge at once. He is an old newspaper man and will keep The Reporter. up to its reputation as an all-around good paper. To the re. tiring and incoming brethren We tender our best wishes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
Texas Points the Way.
Philadelphia Record.

I
 Advocates of trust regulation by law are pointing with pride to Texas, where a brewing combination has been broken up. it's local corporate members fined and their charters forfeited and the out. side corporations engaged in 1t heavily fined and forbidden to do business in the State. The advantage to the public of this proceeding can hardly be demon. strated, but there seems to he no trouble. at all events, in enforcing the statutory provisions of the Texas law.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
The following from The Manchester (N H.) Union has a queer significance:

The following from The Manchester (N. H.) Union has a queer signifcance:
 Many good people of Manchester will be surprised to read in their paper that a man living right here in the city was obliged to kill his horse last Wednes- day, in order that he might have some- thin gto eat on Thanksgiving Day. That, however, is a fact, and it is also @ fact that there were others in the city yes- terday who would have been glad to eat the horse meat.
 The editorial from which the above is taken shows that the horse was actually killed and his flesh eaten. but that is not what we look on as the most singular featuer of the transaction. Unless the horse was sound and reasonably fat his owner would not have killed him for beef. and If he was in good condition it would certainly have been economy to sell him and buy provisions with the proceeds. The account would be taken for & fake. but The Unions editorial leaves no doubt of the incident.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

The Huntsville Tribune is batting the President on the back because it sees, or believes it sees, that the Vaughn faction of the Republican Party in Alabama is to be turned down and the Bingham wing recognized and rewarded. What The Tribune will say if both factions are told to go way back is hard to pzedict.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
It Makes a Difference,

Syracuse Telegram.
 The fact that MT. Cleveland used a government boat at the public expense for his rest and pleasure trips was des- canted upon most unfavorably and at length by the Republican press, which insisted that the President was spending the public moneys without excuse or war rant. Roosevelt, however, can take a day or two off on board a government boat and at the governments expense without a word of criticism from the same Republican papers which severely censured MT. Cleveland for doing the same thing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
An Ever-Living Principle.

Rochester (N. Y) Herald.
 The world has no other example, asioe from a religious one, where a great prln- ciple has survived so many bunetings as Democracy. It's obituary has been w w ;4 fen these many wears and often. yet 1t presents the same solid front to the enc my that it did one two, three genera tinpS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
Things Worth Remember

Milwaukee Journal. , I.
 We don't want to be unkihu' are always to be remembering tl two little things that England ' for us and throwing it up as req bowing down to her let us r what France uid for us' what
 did against us several tlnes, ej when she- was ready to tieer1sat the ,a the Russian fleet bearing friend sagaa and. as afterwar1 shown,
 SaSt for us prevented her doinl is well to remember all the trutl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
The People Aroused.

Scottsboro Citizen.
 The people all over Alabama are be- coming aroused over the subject of good roads. The Citizen is glad to know that it is a very live as well enthusiastic question in Jackson County just at this time. Our county has made wonderful progress in the way of building bikes In the past twelve months. and the more our people see and travel over the new roads the better they arc pleased. No county can expect to make any strides toward development unless 1t has a good road system
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
The Presidents Hardest Task.

SI. ISVPuDIEV'
 President Roosevelt may as well make m his mind that he is in for the toughest exnerience of his life as supreme arbi- trator of the Republican auarres in this state. The President has busted bronchos, fought grizzlies. encountered mountain lions. bearded the cougar in his lair. charged headlong against the chiyalry of Spain on top of San Juan hill, but these things are as nothing to the wild and woolly proposition which he now faces He is up against the place-hunt- ing Missouri Republican. the most peskS varmint known to the natural history of DOlitics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
On a New Career.

Birmingham Ledger.
 The Ledger believes that the State has started on a new career of greatness and that she will lose a great many undesr- able inhabitants and will gain a great many desirable citizens.If the vagrancy laws are enforced the State will almost be purified in five years of a villainous population that preys upon the indus trious and commits all the crimes of the State. large and small. from petit lar ceny to murder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
whsn Hanna Kicks Over.

Cincinnati Enquirer
 sneakinR of Messers Platt, Hanna and Quay contemporary remarks that the trio appears to be getting along very well at the White House" Appearances do not always go for much in politics, Platt and Quay. even though they may kaye heen turned down." are polite
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
Ready to Fight for Peace.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The members of the Peace Society are complaining that their president, John D. Long, Is straining the dual role rather hard when he proposes to spend HcO,- 100000 for naval extension. They omit to account for it by the fact that Secretary Long is so determined to have peace that he is getting ready to fight for it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04
No Excuse for It.

Mobile Herald.
 The purpose and object of all true Democrats in Alabama should be to make the provisions of the new Constitution effective, and especially those provisions looking to & pure ballot box and fair elections. Now that the ignorant col- ored vote is eliminated there can be no excuse for ballot box stuffing or false counting anywhere in the State of Ala bama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

enough to put on an appearance of sweet ness and satisfaction. Mir. Hanna is as smart as they are. but he has more caloric in his temper. One of these days he will break out and then we will all have a lurid view of the relations be- tween the President and the bosses.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-04

In some of the South Sea Islands the men wear corsets. and if they are real savages it is easy to imagine that the merchants have a strenuous time trying to fit the bucks.