The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-08-10

courtesy just as we'll as you can call
pass a courtesy that saves man the
expenditure of hundred dollars. |
hope to witness the dawn Of the day
when public official with pass in his
pocket will be regarded in the same
way as the man with burglars tools in
his possession. How do the railroad
companies themselves regard the pass?
| answer, as a bride. In proof of this,
read pages 1899 of Governor Larrabee's
book THE Railroad Question, where
he relates the incident of District
Judge who decided case against rail-
road company and had his pass uncere
moniously taken up the next time he
attempted to ride on it. | do not blame
the railroads entirely for this evil. If
the people were not willing to accept
these favors they would not be offered.
Ii John Jones rides on a pass and
William Smith pays his fare manifestly
an injustice is imposed on Smith, who
contributes to pay the cost of running
the train while Jones does not. Eimi-
nate the PASS, and it will only be a
question of time until the fare will be
lowered, and we will have taken long
stride in the direction of Kidding our
selves of corporate domination of con-
ventions.
From what have said, do not want
to convey the impression that despair
OF the perpetuity of the Republic, but,
rather, l would have you to know that
believe in it's ultimate glorious
destiny, and the final worldwide
triumph of the Angle-Saxon race, in the
American as it's best exemplification,
and in the Iowan as it's most favored
prototype. do not expect to see our
superstructure fall, but do expect to
see corporate domination reduced to the
minimum, and the sway of the people
become supreme. A race which has
been advancing for two thousand years,
during which time no territory pressed
by it's tread has ever been lost to liber-
ty or to law, cannot now afford to adopt
policy of "let well enough alone, of
fossilization and rest. We must either
advance or decline, progress or "stand
pat. do not expect to see the wheels
or progress stopped; | do not expect
to see the nation cease to advance.
do expect to see the policy advocated
by Mckinley, Roosevelt and Cummins
prevail. | expect to see adopted. as
the economic policy of the Republic,
those great truths enunciated by the
lamented Mckinley as he stood in the
shadow of the tragedy at Buffalo-"The
period Of exclusiveness is past. The
expansion of our trade and commerce
is the pressing problem. A system
which provides a mutual exchange of
commodities is manifestly essential to
the continued healthful growth of our
export trade. Reciprocity treaties are
in harmony with the spirit of the times;
measures of retaliation are not. If per-
chance some of our tariffs are no longer
er needed for revenue or to encourage
and protect our industries at home, why
should they not be employed to extend
and promote our markets abroad?'
| If there is man, woman or child
within the sound of my voice who be-
| hot ~
had reciprocity on non competitive
articles in mind, would like to see
the color of your hair. The question
that was propounded by Mckinley is
now being asked by President Roose-
velt and by Kasson and Cummins. do
not expect to see the sentiment prevail
that certain laws now on the statute
books are too sacred to be disturbed.
| Up to this hour the genius of man has
never produced statute covering
multiplicity of interests that did not
need changing sometime. Even the
Ten Commandments we're revised, and
do not all reappear in the the New
Testament Scripture. The Constitution
of the United States has been partially
revised and three times amended. l
expect to see our present law amended
or changed SO as to prevent the mon
opoly now existing in favor of the
Standard Oil Company, the United
States Steel Company, and the Sugar
Trust.
You, as citizens Of one of the best
counties in the best state in the Union