The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-24
WORST THE WORLD
HAS WITNESSED
And II Came Under the High Proteo
tive Tariff and Republican Con-
troll in Every Branch Of
the Federal Govern.
ment,
ment.

IN a public address, Mr.. Shaw, re.
Gently Secretary of the Treasury I'm.
der Mr.. Roosevelt, said: 1.-THE strin.
eency Of 1907 Is generally conceded to
have been the severest the world has
ever witnessed"
How consoling 1t is to read In the
republican platform this glowing sen.
tence: "a Republican tariff has al.
ways been followed by business pros
perity."
Mr.. Aldrich in his speech on the
Aldrich Currency bill in the Senate Of
the United States only last winter,
said:
"Mr. President, the financial crisis
from which the country has just
emerged, which eliminated in serious
panic in October, was the most acute
and destructive In its immediate con.
sequences Of any that has occurred in
the history Of the country. Nothing
but the heroic measures taken by the
representatives of the great business
and financial institutions of the coun.
try acting in cooperation with the
Secretary Of the Treasury, prevented
a total collapse of private credit and
a disastrous destruction of all values.
The country was saved by the mar.
roWest possible margin from an over.
whelming catastrophe, whose blight.
Ing effect would have been felt In
every household"
On February II, 1908, Mr. Shaw, in
q speech he made in Michigan, said:
"Over 100000 freight cars are stand.
ing on the tracks, 10000 locomotives
white loaded and out Of commission,
one-fourth of the population of several
large cities idle, and for the first time
under Republican administration,
free soup houses In every Industrial
center; the price Of farm produce nat.
urally and materially deprecated
furnish an object lesson which ought
to produce measure of sobermind
edness on the part of the American
people"
From the public press is taken the
following news item coming from
Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 8, 1908:
'The cry of the unemployed daily
grows more distressed in Pittsburg.
There are $4,000 men idle, and the
| 0f fho
again makes its appearance The first
soup house will be opened by the Sal
walton Army Monday morning. and
unless there is radical and prompt
change for the better, more places OF
this kind will be in demand before
many days have elapsed. The situa-
ton is not really alarming, but it is
bad enough. Soup houses have been
the dread of the business men and
civic leaders, and every effort has been
made to avoid them"
Here is the following news item
from Chicago, dated Feb. IL, 1908:
Chicago, Feb. II, 1908 Never in
the history of the Chicago Relief and
Aid Society has there been such a
demand for assistance as at the pres
ent time, is the claim Of Superinten-
dent Kingsly, who is in charge of the
distribution Of funds by the business
mems relief committee, which has just
raised between $4,000 and 100000 for
needy families. Never In the history
Of the society have we had so many
appeals based entirely on the lack Of
employment"
Not long ago Mr.. Dalzell, who writes
the tariff tax, recently as dictated by
the men who put up the money to pay
the expenses of republican campaigns,
told US:
1--WE do not read our tariff lessons
out of books. We read them by the
blazing light Of open furance doors,
amid the noise of industrial activities
and in the sweat of our brows that we
coin into wealth, and God help the
man or party that would put out these
fires, still the music of that noise, and
send the workmen home to foodless
and hungry household.
1T was under republican rule that
this music was stilled. that the fires
were put out, and that soup houses
had to provide for the foodless and
hungry"
No longer can any Republican ever
fool the people by claiming that "a
republican tariff has always been fol.
lowed by business prosperity"
The time has come-the hour has
struck-for change. Thousands of
Republicans take their positions and
will vote for Bryan in November.
! Revision.