The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-01-11
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


Reporter.)
ing in with the new year 1912, veal
in which the Democratic hosts con
tidently expect to elect a president
and march into the promised land
the Jackson day banquet in Wash.
ington Jan. Sth, marks triumph in
the ascendency of the Democracy
| that has not been signified in any
similar gathering in many years.
With an array of leaders at the
banquet board such as the party has
not boosted for perhaps a half cen
tury with 700 prominent men pres
ent from far and wide to add import
ance and brilliance-this coupled
with the knowledge of all that the
enemy is hopelessly divided and
dumbfounded, makes the Jackson
day gathering an suspicious occasion
to every democrat.
On the list of speakers are to be
found the names of Norman e. Mack,
of New York, chairman of the Ma
tiOnal Democratic committee; Champ
Clark, of Missouri, speaker of the
Democratic House; Joseph R. Folk,
ex-governor of Missouri; James T.
Lloyd, chairman of the National
Democratic Congressional Commit
tee; William J. Bryan, of Nebraska
three times Democratic candidate for
President; Woodrow Wilson, gov
ernor of New Jersey; John w. Kern,
United States Senator from Indiana !;
William R. Hearst, of New York;
Alton B. Parker, of New York; and
United States Senators Charles F.
Johnson, of Maine, and Atlee Pom
erens, of Ohio, with Senator James
A. O'Gorman, Of New York City, as
POSTMASTER.
When the banquet was first men-
toned it was not expected that it
would grow to the proportions in
Importance that it has. Much of the
credit is due National Democratic
Committeeman Edwin A. Newman,
of the District of Columbia, who, be-
cause of the selection of Washington
as the meeting place has been prac-
tically wholly in charge of the ar
engagements.
Mr. Newman, however, has had
the assistance of two advisory COM
mittees of prominent democrats, one
named by Chairman Mack of the
National Committeeman ]. Taylor
Ellyson, of Virginia, John T. Nc
Graw, of West Virginia, J. F. C. Tai
bott, of Maryland, and another nam
ed by Chairman Lloyd of the Con-
gressional Committee, consisting of
Senator VIM. J. Stone, of Missouri;
Senator Robert L. Owen, of Okla
homa; Representative Lincoln Dixon,
of Indiana; Representative Ed. T.
Taylor, of Colorado, and Represent
ative A. J. Peters, of Massachusetts.
"World Wide' Causes.
Already during this session of
Congress many of the orators among
the Standpat Republicans have tried
to explain the prevailing high prices
with the argument that the high
price wave is world wide. This is an
other of the half truths which the
Republicans seek to have the people
accept as whole excuse.
Mr.. r. H. Hooker, of London, read
a paper before the Royal Statistical
society of England recently, in which
he showed that the increased cost of
all commodities was twice as much
in high protection Germany and high
protection United States, as in Free
Trade England.
Comparing food prices for this
year with 1897 said Mr.. Hooker,
we find there has been an increase
Of l per cent in France; per cent
in England; rs per cent in Germany;
% per cent in Canada, and "a per
cent in the United States
Why is it that world wide caus-
es' result in an increase of l and
DER cent in France and England, and
a per cent in this country?
Protection and Immigration
High protectionists always adj
lress their appeals to farmers and
working men. High Tariff" they
lrgue, means high prices for farm
and high wages for the
workers."
Last year $4,000 American farm
RS, all of whom are supposed to be !,
njoying the fruits of high tariff, !
eft this country and went to Canada.
n the same period approximately a !
lillion laborers came to this country ;
rom abroad, 81 per cent of them COM !
ng from the south of Europe, where !
ages are low, education almost |
othing, and standards of living but
rimitive and filthy. These laborers
re taken in by the trusts at wages
ut little better than they get at
ONE, and under conditions of en-
loyment unthinkable to American
orkmen.
Thus the high tariff drives out
God American farmers, and brings
A Singer In This One
The reciprocity act passed last
lmmer provided for the removal, in
art, of the duty on paper imported
ON Canada. This provision did
OF require Canada's endorsement.
ince then more than 80 independ-
ut paper companies have started
lsiness in opposition to the paper
'ust. Not withstanding the recipro-
ty act, with the single exception of
le paper provision, became dead
nd defunct when Canada declined to
,cept it, Senator Hepburn has intro
uced bill for the repeal of the
hole act. We're this bill to pass un-
it not only would uselessly