The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-07-02
state aid in the building OF permanent
HIGHWAYS.


IMPERIALIsM OPPOSED.
We are nnalterably opposed to the
policy of imperialism by the govern
ment instituted, fostered and maintain-
ed by the republican party. And ws
demand that our government shall de-
clare it to be its purpose, and without
delay adopt such measures as shall give
to the people of the Philippine islands
and Porto Rico their inalienable right
to self government.
We condemn the republican party
for it's financial policies which WOULD
foist upon the country an unstable eur-
rency based upon uncertain privnte
securities.
We protest against the plan presented
in the Aldrich bill recently before she
United States Senate by which the
money of the nation shall be loaned 10
capitalists upon the bonds and secuYi-
tics Of private corporations as an EFFORT
to give value and stability TO watefed
bonds and securities of corporations
and trusts, many of which are maintain
ing monopolies in defiance OF law and
public sentiment.
MONEY or NATION.
We insist that the integrity of tho
money of the nation be guarded with
jealous care and demand that it shalt ba
sufficient in volume to meet the needs
of the business interests OF the country
and that it shall be safc-guarded by
careful legislation, so as to prevent tha
gamblers of Wall street cornering the
money market, thus INJECTING untold
injury upon the smaller business men,
tho farmers and the laborers Of the
land.
We point with pride to the one-hun-
dredth anniversary of the achievements
of that great diplomat and democratic
statesman, Thomas Jefferson, under
whose administration the Louisiana
territory, of which Iowa was a part,
was secured from a foreign power in a
peaceful and civilized way, without the
! lose Of life yet with the consent of the
governed.
In tho great exposition to be held in
ST. Louis in 1904, to properly commence
ratio this event, the people of Iowa
should take a prominent part and make
creditable exhibit Of the products Of
the soil and the work of the crafts.
! We deplore the corrupt condition OF
the government service in the postoffco
department. and demand thorough in
vestigation of that and other depart
ments by congressional committee,
publicity as to such conditions and pun
ishment of all wrong doors.
TRUSTS AND TARIFF.
| AS the most alarming features of our
present conditions are the evils which
come from trusts, and as these evils arc
made possible by legislation favoring
one class and against another by trans
portation privileges and by monopoly OF
original sources of supply of natural
products therefore, so that the evils
connected with the growth OF trusts may
be eliminated, We call for, the removal
of the tariff from all trust-madc goods
and demand that all tariff schedules be
adjusted with a view to a tariff for re-
venue only.
We ask for such changes in our law,
statutory or constitutional, as will limit
the charges by railroads to such an
amount as will yield only a reasonable
return on the capital actually invested
and will renderi it impossible for transpol
tation favors to be granted to anyone
and such as will make certain that
] adj railway companies will be treated
alike, such statutes to provide penal
ties that will be effectual to secure {
compliance with them.
THE TRUST.
When the sources of supply of an,