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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
TARIFF BEGGARS TESTIFY.

Cotton barons who have been tes-
! tifyng before the house committee
seem divided into two camps. South
ern millmen say they can rub along
if the tariff on cotton goods is cut
to an average of 10 per cent. New
England millowners VOW that such q
cut would ruin them.
AS usual, these tariff grafters
made their plea in the name of the
'American workingman" and talked
pathetically of the cheap labor OF
Europe.
Tariff barons get the cheapest Ia
Dor they can find, not only in Eu-
roLe, but in Asia. Organizers of the
Lawrence strike made speeches and
printed circulars in fourteen langu-
ages, and one is the language spok-
en- by Syrians. Prior to that strike,
wages in New England cotton mills
averaged $43S per year.
In 1909 the duty on cotton goods
actually imported to this country
averaged $3.50 per cent. 1t is high
err now. The wages paid cottOn-mill
employees in that year We're only 81
- per cent of the total value of
the goods manufactured.
The tariff graft of the cotton-mill
barons was enough to pay their en-
tire wage bill two and one-half times
over.
The plea that New England mills
cannot stand radical reduction be-
comes laughable in the light of divi-
dends paid by some OF those mills.
In eight years the Union, one OF
the largest mills of New England,
paid total of IS per cent dividends
an average OF 90 per cent per year.
In the same eight years the Troy
mill paid 1S9 per cent, an average
of 1852 per cent per year.
In the same eight years the Laurel
Lake paid 200 per cent in cash and
stock dividends, an average of 36.2 5
per cent per year.
In five years the yarmouth mill
paid 304 per cent cash and stock divi-
dends, an average of COS per cent
per year.
Yet these fat bcggars have the i'm
pudence to say that they will be
ruined by a 10 per cent cotton tar
if!
1t is high time to frame cotton
tariff. in the interest of consumers
Chicago Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

Iowa needs good roads-not SO
much in dry months, when all roads
are likely to be good--but permanent
roads that are good the year around,
rain or shine, or anything else,' says
the Rockford Register. "And the
taxpayers of the state are not over
particular as to just how these roads
are secured as long as they get them.
They are in a state of mind which
will cause them to take kindly
view of most any means that gives
promise of securing the desired end.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

Pottawattamie county has employ
ed a county engineer to look after
it's roads in the person of a graduate
civil engineer who has had practical
experience supervising railroad and
street paving work for contractors.
This means business in Pottawatta-
ME county. Are there any more
boards of supervisors with keen
business sense?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

Armour & Co.'s report for 1912
shows a surplus of $5,7O1,646, which
is the equivalent of % per cent on
the capital stock of 100000, as
compared with ~ " per cent, earn
ed the year previous. Apparently
the packers "get some of it, as we'll
as the Cattlemen.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

The Texas legislature has discoy-
cred that it decided 100000 acres
of land to Chicago syndicate which
was only entitled to 100000. But
what's a million acres in Texas?-a
mere onion bed"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

New York state has been building
permanent hard roads for several
years with the proceeds of $780,
100000 bond issue and the people
are so we'll satisfied that when a
second bond issue of $50, 900
was proposed last fall it carried by
a vote two to one.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

Representative Kulp's bill which
provides that railways must furnish
shippers cars or pay dollar a day
penalty sounds like an equal thing.
The shipper who holds a car pays de-
mirage. Why not sauce the goose
with the same condiments that
works so satisfactorily for the gan
der?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

Generously inclined persons will
dcprecatc Senator Borah's state
ment that Mr.. Taft did not use. the
powers of his Office for his re-elec-
ton in 1912 to any greater extent
than Roosevelt did to secure Taft's
election in 1908. The poor old grand
old party has enough to forgive and
forpGt
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

In Wisconsin the state offers one
third of the cost of permanent hard
roads and this year every county but
three asked for its quota of state
aid, Offering to provide funds for its
HtMo-thirdS.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

How would it do for the legisla-
ture to get to work right away,
handle the main questions with dis
patch and come back home along the
last of February?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

Senator Tillman has been re-elec-
ed. he may not brandish pitch
fork as fiercely as of yore, but he
still knows how to make hay.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

The Perry Chief says: The rec
ords of ain ordinary commercial club
are like hell-paved with good in
ientioDs.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-12-26
WALDO TO LEAVE
CLEAN SLATE FOR
HIS SUCCESSOR
Police Commissioner to Send
Office Aids Back to Old
job? by Dec. 81.

The suc-cssor ~ roiI-e Commissioner
Rhinc'auGer waldo appointed by Mayor
John rurroy Mitchell WI. at tho begin.
nins Of his term. nnd himsei'. az "a
as his persona. stan is concerned. in q
house which he IS entirely free TO fur
nish according TO his own dcs res. II"
All not De Obliged t. remove or trans
fer ANYBODY. Nj Waldo has prepared
his own resignation. 10 take rr"ci Dec
81. He has in his HANDS the destinations
OF all his deputies and secretaries. tax.
Ing effect Mt the same time.
Tine COmmissionsr has even notified
the uniformed men Who n We been d.
tailed 10 work under him and he
deputies at Headquarters that they will
he tansfcrfed to routine police duty
before he goes out of Office Lieut.
Daniel cos'lcan OF the Comm lssloner's
inveat,ga'sn squad viii ne cent to
precinct. but as n reward FOR the ex
cellent work they have Done the eight
men who have been working under Cos
t!gan will be made detectives.
Lieut. Iticharo EnrIsht mead Of the
Bureau % Repairs ana supplies. Lieut.
Charles zanes of the Bureau of Com.
plants. and Lieut. william Mccarthy.
custodian o. the headquarters bull ding
are all to he sent to precincts. When
Deputies Mckay. Dousherty. Sewburv.
~ and Dillon resign. Dillon, who 10 Al
Inspector OF the Nniforincd force on n
,eennical leave Of Absence Will he sent
an to has former post In charge Of
| rooklNn. TN designations In Mr.. Wal
zoe hands include those Of Secretary
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-12-26
MAKING ONE SOu o. IT,

trfum tis 0oson Trsnsrriln)
Hey. stOpl You ar. exceeding IN.
speed limit. Ten must accompany me to
the Judge ana pay your Ans."
what II tho liner
give dollar8"
Here's ten. intend to come AaSA
jAt M fast NJ I am GOing''
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01
LABOR CAUSE LOSES A FAITHFUL
 ADgHERENT

Patrick Casey passed away at St. Jos eph's hospital last Saturday morning Physicians attending attribute his death to general breakdown.
 The deceased was 53 years of age, and for the past Is years had resided contin- uously i'll the North. He was born at Kileedy, Ashford, County Limerick, Ire land, and was but 20 years of age when he emigrated to the United States. When the first news of the Klondike strike reached his ears, he stampeded to Daw- son. Later he worked on a number of creeks on the Canadian side of the line, coming to the Fairbanks district in 1905.
 He was Western Federation man and a member of Local Fairbanks, Socialist Party. It was years ago that Casey re- alized that the emancipation of the work CTS could not come rom any other source than the workers themselves. Comrade Casey was an enthusiastic advocate of the Socialist doctrine because he realized that the trade union was unable to cope with the great combinations of capital. Tn the referendum circulated last fall for candidates for the legislature, Casey re- ceived quite large vote and, it is said, would have been, had he lived, one of the candidates on the Socialist ticket in the coming campaign to represent the workers of this district
 His funeral was attended by such a large number of friends that it was com commented on that many visited church who had not been there for years.
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01
FRTSS WILL OPEN
 COFFEE HOUSE

On Wednesday, Nov. 5th, Ben Friss will open his coffee house on Front street, where he will attend to the wants of the workers in the way of furniships. tiaem with the best of everything inssr11e line of pastry, cakes, pies, coffee, tsafcocoa, chocolate, sandwiches of all kinds, also baths, rooms and hunks.
 The former building occupied by Friss las been torn down and completely re- built and includes comfortable sitting room, with all kinds of reading matter and writing materials. The workers pocket-book is always lean, even in the most prosperous seasons through the ex- ploitation carried on under the capitals system, but Friss, assisted by Mrs. Friss, promises to furnish substantial fare at prices that will be within the reach of the most slender pocketboo1s
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01
LAWYERS ELECT
 TAFT FOR PRES.

One Of the daily papers reports that William H. Taft has been elected presi- dent of the American Bar Association.
 In Bills famous speech in Pocatello, Idaho, he is reported to have praised the courts as follows: ''Our judges are like what I expect to meet ii Heaven, etc, etc.
 There is little danger of the American Bar Association being reformed as long as a corporation lawyer like Big Bill Taft is it's president.
 If there are many judges like Taft in Heaven, the workers will certainly be very willing to go to Hell, for Taft and his gang have surely given them hell enough already; and a Heaven full of Tafts would certainly De turned into a Hell.
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01
THE INCOME TAX IS
 NOT A SOCIALIST MEASURE
Reformers Always Advocate the Income Tax. It Gives Politicians a Chance to Evade
 the Main Issue.

was bitterly commented upon Il the speeches and declarations of supporters of the income tax But, of course, none of Shiras' critics were so venturesome as to make specific charges of improper motives or acts {; had such charges been made, no scintilla of proof could have been discovered in the records.
 By vote of five to four Il e Supreme Court declared the whole income tax act unconstitutional, in that 1t was a direct tax and violated the Constitution by 1nak- ing no provision for an apportionment among the States according to the pop ulation.
 One of the reasons given by Justice Field in declaring the income tax un- constitutional was that it would redueeas judicial salaries; he pointed out, with great seriousness and solicitude, that tIIeSs 
 judges were protected by that clause ef the constitution which provides thM their compensation shall not be diff inished during their continuance i'll ofice'
 Justices Brown, Jackson, Harlan and White entered a vigorous dissenting opinion. x By its present construction of the constitution, said Harlan, the Court for the first time ill all it's history declares that our Government has been so framed that in matters of taxation for its support a nd maintenance those who have incomes derived from the renting of real estate or from the leasing or using of tangible property, bonds, stock, and investments of whatever kind have privileges that cannot be accorded to those having incomes derived fro III the labor of their hands or the exercise of their skill or the use of their -brains''
 You will see from the above quotation from Myers History of the Supreme Court, tl1at reform meas ures like income tax, old age pensions, inheritance tax and all such measures, while they in crease the revenues of the state, thereby furnishing full treasuries for politicians to play with, do not increase the wages of the workers. Every big income could be taxed and the status of the wage workers would not be changed. Wage workers would remain wage-workers and capitalism would remain the same.
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01
BY THE POLITICAL
 EDITOR

The daily papers tell Us of more con hicts between capital and labor ill Col orado the state where the government officials, during one of the great labor wars, oil being told that they were viol- ating the provisions of tht Federal Con- stitution are reported as having said ITO Hell with the Constitution. '
 West Virginia, Michigan, Colorado and other states where the workers are on strike are just as much like Russia, under the Democratic Administration as they were like Russia under the Taft and Roosevelt administrations.
 The workers will have learned some thing before the time arrives for casting another ballot, and it can be safely asserted that the party that calls itself Democratic will not have another chance to feast al the pie counter at the workers expense.
 The chances are that in 1916 the Dem ocratic party, with its tariff schemes and currency reform, will pass away from the political horizon, pushed into oblivion by the class conscious votes of the work CTS.
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01

SAN FRANCISCO, ,---Three times to to have been called from Russia, impris- oned ill terrible Siberia, and finally to have escaped thrice from the horrors of its prisons, has not been sufficient to frighten Boris Nikolaeff, a Russian polit- ical revolutionist, now in this city. Nix olaeff has given all but his life to the cause of freedom, and now he is plan ming to return to Russia and carry the work still further.
 After he came to San Francisco he was penni1ess aud he stayed with some of his countrymen who were very poor, <" explained one of his friends. "He slept on the floor of 8 room occupied by four or five others. Some of us found him and asked him why he had not come with us. This is 3. paradise beside Siberia, he said.
 And then, at one of our meetings, when we passed the collection box, he tried to put into it dollar someone had given him. Of course we would not let him. y
 ''You must hear hin speak, !" said one, He is a great orator.
 The oratorica1 power of Nikolaef is evident even i'll ordinary speech He talked with fervor, fire, dash, apparent e1oquence. He moves his hearers, even when they do not understand. This power is given him by the life he has 1ed---a life of fixed, unswerving purpose, consecrated to one idea1---free Russia: never swerved from that idea, holding to 1t with rapt intentness and constant devotion hardly to be understood by anyone but Russian.
 Nikolaeff's political faith is his relig- ion, and he is a crusader His party is known as the Socialist Revolutionist, which is quite distinct from the Socialist of the United States and other nations. The Russian party that corresponds most nearly to our Socialist is the Social ist Democrat; these are Marxians, users of the ballot, and are plentiful in the shop and factory classes of Russia
 But the Socialist Revolutionist is an- other. We do not know him i'll America. He is a terrorist: but not in the anar- chistic sense of ruthless and individual terrorism: he acts i'll groups, with full deliberation, and after his bomb has found it's mark he publishes and scatters abroad list of the crimes for which the victim has been put to death. The Soc ia1ist Revo1utionists are the high priests of that flame which is forever fickering or haring on the hidden alters of Russia the fame of Revolution, never quite extinct, always ready to blaze into fire and burn the political barbarism and evil forever out of that nation of suff- erers.
 Boris Nikolaef, through an interpreter, gave a vivid picture of the life of the Siberian exile. In regard to answering personal questions about himself, he was wary, with the wariness of the man who has lived in world full of spies. But from his description of the land of political exiles may be judged the1ife he has led; and will lead again and again until he dies.
 Picture to yourself a colossal, marshy forest with an extremely sparse, half wild population; with deadly winter cold; with paths interlaced through the forests by hunting jungusers, and for eight
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01

The Alaska Socia1istis is a workingnlan S paper, published by workingmen, for workingmen, and is not, nor can it be, subsidized by any politician or poll ticians, no matter what brand they bear.
 A politician is professional office seeker and his particular brand of poli- tics is immaterial and is simply step ping stone. A politician will use any brand if he thinks it will get him the ofie that he has his eye on.
 If you want to know what the poli- ticians Professional office seekers) are doing, subscribe for the Alaska Socialist, $500 per year; $2.5o for six months; S1 25 for three months.
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONIST
 DESCRIBES HIS EXILE.
Boris Niko1aeff, Now In San Francisco, Describes His Lfe's Sufferings for the Cause
 of the Revolution.

months out of the year the frosted rivers as the only means of communication It is country with only primitive industry. A single country town with couple of thousand inhabitants stands alone in 500, 900 square versts (about 400, 600 square miles, of distance: and one gram mer school serves districts of larger size than some of the countries of western Europe.
 "There are tens of villages ill that country composed of a score of houses each where one cannot find old people or children. That ideal of Brown-Secor, NJ tchnik k 0 fl and other lights of science, who struggle against old age and death, is almost reached---as though the population does not grow old at all, but, having reached 20 or 30 years of age, preserves itself, in the same condi- ton year i'll and year out.
 Here you will meet former jewellers, piano tuners, journalists, compositors, mechanics, graduated engineers of all classes, doctors, many tai1ors, men Of the liberal professions and of highly de- veloped culture. While in some villages one can hardly find person that Is able to read and write, there are villages where the percentage level of knowledge will not give up to the most cultured states of the United States. At the post offices of some of these villages there are received as many different newspapers and magazines, sent free by the editors, as are printed in the European lang uages.
 This portion of Russia comprises the northern part of the State Of IrIutsk and the State of Iakutsk. To this place, during the last five or six years, the government of Niko1as II has sent hun dreds and thousands of captains of the revolutior---11en that have not vet been beaten or tortured to death in the ''Hous- es of Death, the torture chambers or galleys.
 Notwithstanding the utmost efforts of Stolypin, Kokovzoos and Scheglovi- toys to conceal their footsteps, stained with blood, the truth appears, now and then, in print Such leaders of the rev olutionary movement as N V. Chalkov- sky, E. K. Brejkovsky, G. A. Gershung, have told the world of the thousands of hanged men of the mass military exc cutions, the tortures and torments in the torture chambers of Shlisselburg, Akatula, Zerentui and Katomazy; the mass of suicides, self -poisonings, open ing of the veins, self-burnings, which are the only possible ways of enforcing the protest of the men who cry for free dom.
 But remember that all the population of Russia, her 150, 900, 900, holds ever ill mind the motto proclaimed by their hero martyrs The Earth and Liberty" It was to fight that motto that the Russian government invented the prolongation of the torture chamber, free deporta- ton. About 500 to 700 political prisoners are transported by the Lena River every year; they go to the places of destruction at the White Iakutz as the public report names the Kirensk district.
 Having marched under the convoy from the center of Russia to the shores 1 / I N
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01

The income tax scheme is as old as the hills and is not socialist measure, although some people, when they hear of it for tile first time, actually think themselves inventors, and imagine that they should be ranked alongside of Karl Marx or Edison.
 The income tax bill became a law in 1894, when the Populist party had 1000, 900 votes and put five senators and ten
The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01
representatives in congress.
The Income Tax Bill.


 The Income Tax Bill.
 The concession to the Populists from the old parties was the passage of the bill for the taxation of incomes. Bitterly opposed the income tax bill became law i'll 1894 without President Cleveland's signature. On five different occasions the Supreme Court of the United States had declared the income tax constitu- tional.
 The large capitalist interests were de- tern1ined to do away with this law by one way or another. To collect a speci- fic new tax it was necessary, at least 1t was held to be 50, that Congress should pass all appropriation for that purpose. Although the government had already begun preparations to collect the tax, the Secretary of the Treasury, Carlisle, pre- tended that he had no funds for that purpose; this was the same Carlisle, who i'll 1895 turned over the bond issue, un- der circum stances of the greatest scan- dal to syndicate headed by J. Pierpont Morgan, thus virtually giving that syn dicate profit of SIS, 900, O00 Morgan's lawyer, Francis Lynde Stetson, had been C1eveland's law partner from 1889 to 1892, and was then frequent visitor to the White House.
 When the final vote was taken, 1t turned out that one Justice had changed his mind, lover night, and arrayed himself against the income tax This Justice was said to be Shiras who, as we have seen, came from the same stlte as Senator Quay, and who had been coun- se1 at Pittsburg for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad system. The pro-inco1ne tax newspapers freely stated that the vacillating Justice was SIiras, and de nounced him. This tergiversation caus- ed very consequential sensation, and
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-05-29
PETERSBURG FORT BLOWN UP
Instance Related of the Efficiency Of
the Engineering Service In the
Northern Army.

Blowing up of the Petersburg fort
was a desperate attempt to end the
siege that had been going on for sew
eral weeks and was destined to con-
tinue for many months longer. In ad.
vancing on Lees army Grant had been
badly defeated at Cold Harbor June 2,
1864, and had also been unsuccessful
in cutting off communication between
Richmond and the south. A force was
left to lay siege to the fortified city
of Petersburg while Grant continued
operations in other parts of Virginia.
The fort destroyed by the explosion
was one Of many in the line of earth
works, that, with the Appomattox riv-
er, surrounded Petersburg. To break
through the defenses in one place and
establish a strong position would have
brought about quick end of the
siege and perhaps have hastenedNby a
little while the surrender of Lees
army. The success of the explosion,
though not taken advantage of, was
an instance of the efficiency of the
engineering service of the northern
army.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-05-29
HANDS BURNING, ITCHING

905 Lowell Place, Chicago, ILL.,
"The trouble began by my hands burn.
ing and itching and rubbed and
scratched them till one day l saw lit.
tie red sores coming out. My hands
were disfgured and swollen, and trou.
bled me so that I could not sleep.
They were cracked and when the
small sores broke white matter
would come out. I could not do any
hard work; if l did the sores would
come out worse. For two years no.
body could cure my eczema, until one
day thought would try the Cuucura
Soap and Ointment. I used warm wa.
ter with the Cuticura Soap and after
that 1 put the Cuticura Ointment on
my hands twice a day for about five
or six months when l was cured"
(Signed) Sam Marcus, Nov. %, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept L; Boston" I"
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