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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
NEWSPAPER DONATIONS.
Who Else Gives Sack of Flour and
Sugar, or Pair of Shoes.

In this enlightened age publicity
is the greatest progressive force, and
the individual or community that
neglects to employ it loses thereby
The newspaper wants the town to
grow and prosper along with all 9TH
err citizens. While they should in all
reason expect to make small profit
on all work turned out they have
never asked even that when the good
of the town has been sought The
average weekly newspaper gives
gratis for the good of the public
from $40 to $40 per week, or from
$500 to 81, 900 per year. What other
business man gives as much every
year for the community in which he
lives? The casual reader does not
appreciate the fact that it costs so
much money to set every line of
type in the paper and that the editor
who pays his printers is giving just
SO much money to the schools, the
churches, the various lodges, socie-
ties and associations every time he
prints a free reading notice for them
Do you suppose that any other bust
ness house would give the price of a
sack OF flour or sugar, pair of
shoes, or suit of clothes to every or
gaization in the community every
week? Of course not; they would not
be asked to do so even if they were
generous enough to do it. News
paper men do it because it has been
| the custom to do it and because they
are public spirited and want to help
along every worthy cause to a great
er extent than they are financially
able
Commenting upon the above, j..
| U. Allard, of the Evanston, Wyo.,
Times, has the following:
And the reward! Oh, yes, the edi-
tor gets his reward-most often right
where the chicken got the axe. The
average business man will write all
over the country for prices on ordi-
nary commercial job work; and he
usually gets the prices and the work
out of town. But if you should, fail tC
mention that Jones got car load OF
potatoes or Smith car load of farm
implements, or that the bankers are
increasing their deposits, there is ar
immediate howl. Then there is the
business man that does not believe il
advertising Let something happier
around his place of business and he
feels sighted if the newspaper doe!
not mention the occurrence And the1
there are the preachers and other.
who would monopolize your space
with lengthy articles that would no
!, interest two per cent of your readers
!; Refuse these requests and you get {
shoulder rebuke.
! ga newspapers space is it's stocl
in trade-that which buyS bread anf
butter, and pays off the printer. The
newspaper is willing to donate it:
space in boosting for the town, but i
should not be looked upon as an &C
commodation bureau for those who
are always looking for something fol
!, nothing"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
THE OBJECT OF CHURCHES.

An estimable gentleman has re-
signed local pulpit on the grounds
that a clergyman should be a theo-
and that his Chicago charge requires
him to conduct charities settlement
work, gymnasiums, and what not, in
addition to his purely spiritual work.
Since Constantine first made Chris
tianity the official religion of the
Roman empire the churchs most con-
sistent error has been it's refusal to
become interested in the temporal
welfare of humanity Those churches
which have broadened farthest from
rigidly spiritual lines and entered
most into the activities of humanity
have secured the strongest hold on
the people.
To layman the duty of the church
to assist by every possible means in
uplifting the daily life, the health,
the education, the ideas of it's adj
herents, seems paramount with its
strictly religious obligations.
That church which insists on be-
ing nothing but center of theologi-
cal discourse is not living up to its
opportunities. And the clergyman
who maintains spiritual insularity
declining to concern himself with the
temporal affairs of his flock, is miss
ing the real fullness of his life and
neglecting the best means of increas-
ing his own influence and the in
f1uence of the church.-Chicago
Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
RAISING THE PRICES.

Chicago wage-earners face an in
crease of 1 to cents per pound in
the cheaper cuts of meat. The in
crease is due to higher wholesale
prices. But, as in all increases of
the cost of living, the worker must
suffer most
commerce and labor report that
prices during March of this year for
the necessaries of life exceeded prices
of March, 1909, by 21.S per cent.
How much longer will the Ameri-
can people tolerate in power politi-
cal party that governs through the
support of monopolists who receive
as their reward the legal rights to
suck the life blood OF the people?-
Chicago Journal
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
FARMING AND FOOD SUPPLIES

AS the United States advances in
population and the proportion of
population comprised by cities in
creases, the problem of supplying
food becomes more difficult.
In 1850 the urban population of
the United States was 1875 per cent
of the total; in 1900 it had increased
to 80 per cent of the total.
Perishable foods for this increas-
ingly concentrated portion of the
nation can come from only limited
distance at reasonable prices. There
fore adjacent farm lands are rapidly
growing more valuable.
Rapid and cheap transportation is
necessary. The haphazzard farmer
must give way to generation of ex.
perts, scientifically treating the
earth to secure maximum produc.
ton.
The transition of the American
farm from east to west is about com.
plete. The tide will soon reverse
Huge western cattle ranges are dis.
appearing into wheat ranches. Wheat
ranches must inevitably be cut uL
into small farms, sooner or later.
The average yield of wheat pei
acre in the United States from 1895
to 1907, was 1879 bushels. The aver
age in France was 20.S bushels, in
Germany 2S.4 bushels and in Eng
land 1926.
The United States wheat crop in
1908 amounted to over 664, 1920
bushels. If the acreage devoted to
wheat had been as we'll farmed as
the average acre of wheat land in
England the yield would have been
more than 1,50O,000,0O0 bushels.
America is in no danger of starva-
ton, but quite evidently farm meth
DDS must be recognized, and the
farm of the future will not be half a
county producing half its possible
crop, but the little farm well titled. -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

The terms of the postal savings
bank bill as it passed the house OF
representatives are described by the
Associated Press in this way: "By
this bill board of trustees is Gre
ated, consisting Of the postmaster
general, the secretary of the treas
ury and the attorney general. who
shall declare what postotfices shall
become postal savings banks. De-
posits in these banks made by any
one person shall not be more than
500 month or exceed a total of
$500. An account may be opened
with 81, but stamps of 10 cents each
will be issued for those desiring to
accumulate money to be deposited
On deposits 2 per cent interest per
annum is to be paid. Any depositor
SO desiring can exchange his deposits
for government bonds to be issued in
denominations of $40, $40, $50, $50
500 or $500, to bear interest at 2 ~
per cent per annum. The money ac-
cumulated in the postal savings
bank is to be deposited in both nat
ional and state banks in the vicinity
of the postoffices in which the money
is deposited by the people, such
banks to pay IA per cent interest
Five per cent of the total deposits
is to be retained by the secretary OF
the treasury as cash reserve Not
more than 10 per cent of these de.
posts may be withdrawn by the gov.
eminent at any one time for invest.
ment of bonds of the United States
the balance to remain on deposit in
the banks. The banks are required
to give as security for the deposits
received public bonds or other secur
tiles supported by the taxing power,
which restricts such securities tt
form of national, state, municipal o.
other such bonds approved by thu
board of trustees in charge of the
postal savings banks. The bill pass
ed by the house as a substitute fol
the senate bill differs from the sen
ate measure in many particulars
chiefly in respect to the nature o
securities that may be given by tn,
banks for the deposits of postal saw
ings funds received by them. In ad
dition to government, state, munich
pal bonds, various other classes O
securities, such as mortgages, etc.
may be received The bill has al
ready passed the senate
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
THE LESSON OF IOWA.
Eight out of eleven republican

Eight out of eleven republican con-
gressional candidates in Iowa are
pledged to oppose Aldrich and AL
drichism. Thus does Iowa answer
the standpat declaration that all who
refuse to bow to Aldrich should be
read out of the republican party and
sent to the scaffold.
Gov. Carrolrs primary majority of
1000 two years ago has been cut to
less than 1000 Standpatter Hull,
twenty years congressman, lost the
Des Moines district by 5000 to a
progressive.
The Taft administration is not
to be envied it's predicament.
Iowa's action is tantamount to a
vote of want of confidence. Wiscon-
sin republicans are in convention dis
cussing whether they can afford to
adopt a platform indorsing the Taft
programme and performances. In
Ohio the Garfield clan is out to knife
any regular republican candidate for
governor. New Hampshire insur-
gents propose to put their own candi-
date in the field. Even Vermont is
can organization is divided over the
suggested tlluOISdClOu VI MI. dII. s
Senator Aldrich's announced re-
tirement leaves Rhode Island without
a leader Lodge will lose his seat in
Massachusetts, unless some miracle
intervenes. The fight to prevent
Kean's reelection has split Jersey
republicanism to shivers.
Scandals at Springfield and Albany
have disrupted the party in Illinois
and New York. The whole situation
shows the weakness of the Taft adj
ministration and the lack of conf
dence in it, even among republicans.
Nothing proves that weakness
more clearly than in the case of
Dalzell, in the strongest republican
district in Pennsylvania, whose ma
jority for denomination was cut from
10000 to a few hundred, and may
be entirely wiped out by the courts.
The people of the United States
are awakened to the real meaning of
political events that have hitherto
been kept mysterious. They are go
ing to put an end to bossism and
standpatism at Washington and re-
store the government of the republic
to the hands of the people.-Chicagc
Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

President Taft has administered a
snub to Representative Harrison, of
New York. Mr.. Harrison is demo-
cratic member. Sometime ago Mr.
Harrison made an appointment with
the president to introduce him to a
number of Jewish rabbis who wanted
to talk with the president on the
question of the expulsion of Jews
from Russia. Mr.. Taft's secretary
Norton, Informed Mr.. Harrison that
the president refused to see him, but
would receive the rabbis Repre-
sentative Goldfogle, of New York,
then presented the rabbis to the pres
ident. Representative Harrison gave
to the Associated Press the following
statement: cit is unfortunate for
the president that he cannot stand
criticism; it is unfortunate for the
country that he cannot stand the
truth My newspaper statement at
which he takes offense was merely
an exposition of the scandalous fact
that the president had sent to the
senate of the United States an Of
fetal document in the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy of which the
date had been wilfully falsified by
being pre-dated. My resolution of
inquiry drew out this information in
written confession by the attorney
general. 1t is of no concern to me
that l am not welcome at the white
house, but it is of concern to every
| American citizen that statement OF
the truth about the president may
| make it impossible for a representa-
| tive to discharge his duties. l went
to the white house today, not as a
matter of pleasure but in the expecta-
ton of performing public duty.
went by appointment made by the
! presidential Office May 81 to present
| a delegation of distinguished He.
brews on an importan public mission
| After delay of forty minutes, at the
very door of the presidents office,
was told that the president would moi
receive me. 1t is not surprising thai
he did not care to face any one who
was instrumental in bringing to ligh1
the desperate attempt to holster the
administration case in the Ballinger
Pinchot matter by manipulating pub
lie documents. If everyone who i!
justly criticising the Taft admins
tration is to be barred from the
white house it will become a lonely
place." Representative Goldfogl.
stated, as had Representative Kelli
| her, that had he known Mr.. Harrison
was not to be received at the whit,
house he also would have refused tt
4 go in
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVEN.
TON.

The democrats of the state of Iowa
are called to meet in state convention
at Ottumwa at eleven o'clock a. m. on
Wednesday, July 27, 1910, for the
purpose of placing in nomination two
candidates for judge of the supreme
court, also for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before the convention.
The ratio of representation will be
one delegate for each 200 votes and
fraction thereof above 100 votes cast
for Hon. Fred E. White for governor
at the last election. Upon such basis
the counties of the Eighth district
will be entitled to the number of dele
gates set forth below:
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
AN AMAZING INCIDENT.

Inc immediate ana perhaps only
temporary benefits accruing from the
treaty of peace of June s, 1910, be-
tween the white house and the rail-
roads of the country should not be
permitted to obscure the amazing
character of the incident.
One does not have to go outside of
the complaint filed by the govern
ment itself in the injunction suit for
facts and. arguments establishing the
presumptive illegality of the increas-
ed freight rates designed to be put in
effect June l.
Those rates made an unreasonable
demand on the public, according to
that bill of complaint. They could
not be enforced except through
destruction of the element of com
petition. The uniformity of the rates
themselves and the manner in which
it was sought to make operative
argued, as irresistably as does the
argument from design, for the ex-
istence of combine in restraint eff
fected through agreement on the
part of the twenty-five or twenty-six
railroads that are joined in Mr.. Hos
mer'S freight bureau in Chicago.
The point as to the reasonableness
of the Hosmer rates becomes for the
moment of no practical Importance
now that the purpose to exact them
is abandoned-at least postponed.
What becomes of the contention as
to combine in restraint of trade?
There was or there was not such a
combine. The government alleged
that there was. And if there was,
thar, ic,io Of no
law We're flagrantly violated by a
numerous companies of defendants.
The fact of an unlawful agreement
having been made repugnant to
criminal statutes cannot be wiped
out. The agency through which the
illegal agreement was made, if there
was such agreement, still exists, in
fact, ready to take advantage in the
future of any favorable circumstance.
for utilizing it's services.
Are we to understand that the
treaty of June 6 includes an irregu
lar, at least an unheralded, exercise o
the prerogative of executive elem
ency? Did the magnates leave tn,
white house with pockets stuffed
with pardons for themselves AM
their associates in the combine abou
whose existence the attorney genera
was so positive?
From the standpoint of the rail
roads the incident is hardly less re
markable than from the standpoint
of the government. AS late as las
Wednesday a meeting of railroa,
managers in Chicago announced tina
a failure to put Mr.. Hosmer's rate
into effect spelled ruin" The rate
were most reasonable, it was de
clared. They were not the result O
any agreement No the railroad
voluntarily abandon these just an
reasonable and valid and legal rates
Would the position have been evac
uated if tenable? Isn't ruin a goo
deal farther away than was sup
posed?
AS a measure of expediency tn
treaty gives cause for congratula
ton, as measures dictated by expedi
ency generally do. Changes in Gus
toms duties have widespread effect
in unsettling business. Changes il
railroad tariffs have similar effect
on the internal commerce of the
country, which is vastly greater thai
the foreign commerce.
Business is freed from this grea
handicap, at least for some month!
yet Possibly as long as year.
st. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

Eleven employees of the interior
department have been forced out by
Ballinger. Fortunate. men, to have
their honesty and loyalty to the-peo-
pie who pay them thus recognized.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

The extent of official rottenness in
Washington will never be known un-
til the democrats are again placed in
power and get half dozen investi-
eating committees working.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

Only $12O,OO0,O0O year. That's
all the wearers of ready-made cloth
ing will have to pay in excess of
former prices as a result of the pas
sage of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

II will not lie for the republican
party" says Senator Cummins, of |
Iowa Ye Gods, this assurance |
would please us nightly did it not |
but serve to remind us of that army |
of stump-speakers who will :
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

Vice-President Sherman says that
Roosevelt will endorse the tariff
law, and will endorse Mr.. Taft in
every particular. If Mr.. Roosevelt
does this it will be his Waterloo.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

The political complexion of Iowa
will be more accurately disclosed afr
ter full vote at the November cleo
tion,' recites the Sioux City Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

..Standpat" successes in the pri-
maries means democratic successes
in November. But don't say who
told you This is a little secret be-
tween democrats and progressiyes.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

! The man who does as little as he
can for his wages is usually the man
who complains about the wage SCALE
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23

Now, spit on your hands and all
together for big democratic victory
in Iowa in November" says he Man
son Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

For Governor,
CLAUDE R. PORTER,
$ of Centerville, Appanoose County,
For Lieutenant Governor,
FARLEY SHELDON,
of Ames, Story County
For Secretary of State,
A. ]. ANDERS,
of Olewein, Fayette County.
For Auditor of State,
JOHN W. BLAKE,
of Atlantic, Cass County
For Treasurer of State,
JAMES V. CURRAN,
of Ottumwa, Wapello County
For Superintendent Public Instruction
H. A. MITCHELL,
of Carroll, Carroll County
For Clerk of Supreme Court,
ROBERT VAN BOSKIRK,
of Marengo, Iowa County
For Reporter Supreme Court,
GEORGE HARNAGEL,
of Des Moines, Polk County
For Railroad Commissioners,
NIXON P. JONES.
of Des Moines, Polk County.
WALTER H. DEWEY,
of Charlton, Lucas County.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL
TICKET.
For Representative in Congress,
Eighth District,
FRANK @. STUART,
of Lucas County.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For Representative,
HEMAN c. SMITH,
of Fayette.
For County Auditor,
REUBEN E. MCLAUGHLIN,
For County Treasurer,
w. c. COzAD,
Of Morgan.
For Clerk of District Court,
]. L. MENDENHALL,
of High Point
For Sheriff,
CHAS. R. PERCY,
of Bloomington
For County Recorder.
ROLLIN /. BENEFIEL.
of Leon.
For County Attorney.
GEO. W. BAKER,
of Leon.
For County Superintendent,
ELI HUTCHINSON.
of Woodland.
For Coroner,
DIR. FRED A. BOWMAN,
of Leon.
For Surveyor,
o. L. CRAIG,
of New Buda.
For Member of Board of Supervisors
Term beginning jan 1, 1911,
PATRICK GRIFFIN,
of Richland.
Fer Member of Board of Supervisors
Term beginning jan 1, 1912.
FRANK A. GARDNER.
of Leon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-23
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL
TICKET

For Representative in Congress,
Eighth District,
FRANK @. STUART,
of Lucas County.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-21
LOUISIANA BEATS
FORMER RECORDS

Washington. March a.-The battleship
Louisiana exceeded all her previous per-
fornances yesterday in a test of speed
in Cuban waters. where the vessels of the
Atlantic fleet are engaged in maneuvers
with the purpose of drilling the person.
rel of the squadron in the art Of naval
warfare. Admiral Schroeder, command
Ing the fleet. in his report to the navy
department for last week, stated that
preliminary estimate shows that the
Louisiana maintained an average speed OF
1s.942 knots an hour in four-hour full
power trial under forced draft. This was
accomplished with about 1000 tons greater
Displacement than was the case on her
contractors trial.
When the feet entered Guantanamo bay
several weeks ago to begin the drills 4o54
men were unable to SWIM AS result of
the instructions which have been given
hin this respect, 1926 of these have now
Qualified and the lessons will be continued
for all men who cannot swim 30 yards.
Ir a competitive match of small arms
teams of various ships last week the
Miss ouri was declared the winner. During
the stay of the fleet in Cuban waters over
50C0 men have carried out a progressive
course OF small arm firing. and about
1000 have attained the qualification of
n.arksmen or sharpshooters.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-21
SPEED CARNIVAL
BEGINS TUESDAY

raytona, Fla, March 2o.-The Daytona
speed carnival will open Tuesday morn
ing. at 10 O'Clock. Barney Oldfield with
his big Benz, Walter Christie and his
front-drive monster, Bruce Brown and
the 12O horse power Benz and Ben Ker-
scher with his Vanderbilt cup winning
Daracq. are here for the one-mile world 5
championship dash and the five-mile
worlds championship free-for-all.
Old1ed's six-cyiinder Knox arrived to-
right and he viii give his stock entry its
first workout tomorrow morning. The
programme for Tuesday follows:
Mile worlds championship, free for all.
Tive-mile worlds championship, free for
all.
Fwenty-nlile southern championship.
Twenty-nile handicap, free for all.
TWenty-nile free for all, stock cars.
Ore kilometer. worlds record trials.
Allen Il. Whiting. the representative of
the technical board of the A. A. A., is
In Jacksonville tonight and will arrive
here tomorrow morning. He will have
charge of the technical end of the races.
8. NJ. Butler, chairman of the racing
board, will be here Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-21
ONLY TWO BARONS
LEFT TO REPORT

Moxie Manuel arrived yesterday and
when he reported to Manager Wordsworth
he stated that he was ready to begin
practice Monday. Moxie is apparently in
good shape physically, and while ii will
probably take him three or four weeks
to get in shape he expects to round into
good form this season.
With the arrival of Manuel only two
prospective Barons are left to report
Paddy Kane is supposed to be some
where on his way toward Slagtown and
he may drop in on almost any train.
Wordsworth received word from Harriss
yesterday, this player stating that he
will arrive in Birmingham tomorrow.
Harriss played independent ball last sea-
son. He is a third haseman and out
fielder and is said TO be promising
young ball player.
1t is doubtful whether Smith will re-
port at all This infelder's case is still
tied up in the national commission. Both
Peoria and Indianapolis are claiming him.
If Peoria wins the case Birmingham will
lose the player. Moey does not need
this man especially, however.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-21
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