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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
TARIFF MORALITY.

The late Senator Dolliver declared
that protective tariff builds up its
own system of ethics, which is diff
ferent from any code ever sanction
ed by any moral teacher whom the
world cares to remember. .
The present inquiry at Washing
ton confirms Delivers statement.
The capital is thronged, not by a
lobby" we are gravely informed,
but by reputable business men, who
want special favors. These business
men are seeking to protect their
business sat the public expense.
They, are asking laws which will
give them money taken from other
peoples pockets. They are explain
ing how much richer and happier
the country will be, if the protected
interests" are given keys to the ma
tional treasury, and allowed to help
themselves
This organized panhandling is
part of the price the country must
pay for having endured a generation
of special privilege. LObbies, social
politics." wool senators, lumber sem
ators, sugar senators, trades, dick
ers, pork barrels, men in office vot-
ing themselves privileges, and men
out of Office demanding equal or bet
ter graft-these are the fruits of
that protective tariff which reach
ed it's choicest expression in the
schedules drawn by Nelson w. AL
drich.
If Aldrichism paid the nation f.
nancially-which it does not-the
moral cost of that vicious system
would still be too great to endure
Chicago Journal
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
WALL STREETS SILENT PANIC.

The fall of prices in the stock
market which has proceeded with
some violence in the past three days
began eight months ago and is CO.
incident with the Balkan war. Euro
pean liquidation has been it's con-
tinuing chief burden.
The alarms and waste of actual
war first sent capital into hiding or
precipitated demands for higher in
terest returns which upset all prior
Government extravaganza in more
borrowing and taxing for still larger
military esta blishments against i'm
aginative wars accentuated the
trouble. ..
America has had to bear the
brunt of this liquidation. Its cen
trail securities market has been the
only one freely open for converting
fixed capital into money without go
ing to pieces. And this market has
had to suffer from disclosures to
Europe of it's own shady doings as
in the Frisco foreign loans and bank
ruptcy.
Any attempt to attribute this Isl
lent panic" to home affairs must
prove a failure The crop outlook
has rarely ever been better than
now. Specula tive excuses have been
absent. Surplus bank reserves are
unusually large Business long since
accepted the popular decree that IL
legitimate monopoly must cease,
and is acting accordingly. The num-
Der of people who have so misread
history or so misapplied knowledge
as to believe that panics and hard
times are inseparable from acts of
tariff reduction is now comparative
ly small.
Wall street has had it's silent pan
les before, and under the highest of
tariffs. But it has never had one
before so clearly resulting from for
eign influences and so little due to
home conditions York World.
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
THE REAL BATTLE YET TO
COME.

The Minnesota rate decision is
characterized by practical common
sense and intellectual timidity.
The right to regulate interstate
rates belongs, under the constitution
to congress. Owing to geographical
considerations, it is impossible to ex-
ercise the power of making rates
within state without thereby at
fecting interstate rates in certain
cases. A familiar example in the ST.
purely, which affects the East St.
Louis-kansas City rate, which is in
terstate. This was the point on
which the Minnesota case turned.
Since the state of Minnesota has no
power over interstate rates, should
il be permitted to make state rates
which necessarily affect them?
To this question the court, speak
ing through Justice Hughes, returned
the answer of common sense. The
states power over rates within its
border is beyond question. The in
direct effect of the exercise of that
power is something for which the
state has no responsibility and with
which congress has never concerned
itself
This decision seems to be bottom
ed on the familiar priciple that the
possession Of a right carries with it
perforce those things without which
the right could not be freely exercis-
ed. All actions have effects beyond
the parties and things Immediately
concerned. If state rights whose ex-
iy,o iv,f q
domain are to be restricted, no room
will be left for the exercise of any
state rights at all. Judge Sanborn' S
decision was that of theorist; the
Supreme Court decision is that OF
men familiar with the laws which
govern practical affairs.
But when we turn from the very
satisfactory practical side of the de-
cision to it's treatment of the tremen-
dously important question OF the
relative limits Of state and federal
powers, we enter a region of twilight
and timidity. The decision, here, is
anything but full and clean-cut. 1t
appears to claim for congress by in
direction all the power which con-
gress is minded to assume. In view
of the elementary fact that the con-
stitution is a limited instrument, it
is singular to find the state power
treated in this decision as if existing
on sufferance and only because con-
gress has not seen fit to assert itself
in the matters in question.
We quote: ~.
The Idea that the power of the
state to fix reasonable rates for its
internal traffic is limited by the mere
action of the carrier in laying an in
terstate rate to places across the
states border is foreign to our juris-
prudence If this authority of the
state be restricted, it must be by
virtue of the paramount power OF
congress over interstate commerce
and it's Instruments
Again:
If this authority of the state be
restricted, it must be by virtue of
the actual exercise of Federal con-
troll and not by reason merely Of a
dormant Federal power; that is, one
which has not been exerted.
If the portion of the decision
which has already been published is
fairly representative of it's scope, the
ultimate question raised by the Min
nesota cases is 40 far from solution
as it was before this decision was
rendered. That II the question Of
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

'.When Woodrow Wilson returns
to the capitol building as an express
ident," says the Davenport Times,
the will not get lost in it, as did
Prof. Taft Saturday while looking
for Champ Clark. Wilson is going
ito familiarize himself with the capt.
tol while he is president. Taft fail
ed to do that"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

The cartoonists are making the
most of it. Perry in the Sioux City
journal represents the husband get
ting home late. His wife opens the
door and exclaims John Henry,
have you been drinking again." He
replied, en- dear, I jusht had tea
shpoonful in CLASH of milk
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

The republican members of the
Illinois legislature have refused to
let the people of that state vote on
the initiative and referendum. IL
linois did not quite kill the republi-
san party last November, but in the
next election it will bury it alive.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

The Fort Dodge Chronicle says:
1.-THE American people have the
brave man in the White House to
thank for bringing about an inves-
tigation that will put professional
lobbyists out of business.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

All accounts due Gal mr. 4 Van
Nostrand, VanNostrand Bros. ana n:
l.. VanNostrand, are in the hands OF
c. w. Hoffman for collection. Call
and settle at nee. H. L. VanNos-
trand will be found at q. w. HoH-
mans office for the next ten days.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

'eThe evidence adduced shows
that Colonel Roosevelt is as abstem-
ious from intoxicants as Methodist
bishop and as chaste in his language
and actions as num-" says the Man
son Democrat
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

The Davenport Democrat says a
lobby investigation at. Des Noines
the past winter would have turned
Up an Interesting state Of Affairs.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

"A man who has lived on q farm
will put up with several kinds Of
hardships il town before going back.
The evening world., 1913-03-07
Birds at Special Prices

BY way of preparation for Easter
Harz Canaries excellent voice and of sound constitution
specially priced at $226.
with their delightful trs
ca at eS76 English Canare sweet singers speciai
$3.50
Domestic Cages boxes 26c, usually
~ ~ fifth Floor
The evening world., 1913-03-07
Entrance Of New SPRING SH

Thei first appearance will be greeted by applause from
OF fine white madras with handsome Jacquard figures and vi
ed in coor the former with plated BOSOM the latter plain
The evening world., 1913-03-07

Carriage and Dress Bags. in crepe grain,
seal grain, roam, goat, pin morocco and in
seal, in black and colors, with one, two ant
three fittings and soft strap handles.
The evening world., 1913-03-07

AS matter of fact their usual price An excellent quail
y of tapestry in Oriental designs in bendngs OF reds browns
and green's The 5Sx108 inches is liberal Specially offered
tomorrow at 81 s6 each Sixth Floor
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
Peculiarities of Pain.

Pain sometimes behaves in a curious
fashion. There was soldier in London
after the Boer war, who complained of ex-
cruciating neuralgia pains in his right
foot.
This very much amused his friends, for
he had lost his right leg. The explanation
was that the pain happened to be in the
trunks of those nerves which had sent
branches to the foot.
Sometimes patientl comes to a doctor
complaining OF pain in the knee, and he
is greatly surprised wher the doctor tells
him that the seat of the affection is not the
knee, but the hip. We are all familiar
with the pain under the shoulder blade
which comes from an affected liver.
The stomach, too, can produce pain in
many parts of the body. A disordered
stomach will give us pain as far away as
the head, and when one gets a cramp in
his toe it is often due to the acidity of the
stomach. Swallow pinch Of soda and
the cramp will disappear.
| An aching tooth will produce neuralgia
pains in the face and very often q violent
pain at the back of the head is due to the
farsway kidneys, which themselves may
suffer no pain at the time.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
NORTH DEER ISLE.

Cart. Grover Small and wife are in
Rockland for few days.
Bertram Haskell left Thursday to join
his yacht in New London, Conn.
Miss Emeline Hendrick, OF Little Deer
Isle, is visiting Miss Marion Staples.
Miss Nina Marshall came from Lynn,
Mass, to spend Christmas with her par
ents.
Mrs. Edward Hutchinson went to
Rockland last Monday, returning We'd
nesday.
George C. Hardy, jr., and family, of sun
set, have been visiting his parents for Q
few days.
Capt. c. Z. Haskell arrived from New
York Friday, leaving his vessel, the
George FL. Ames, to unload hard pine.
Mrs. Monttord Haskell went to New York
to meet her husband, who is on the Ames,
last Tuesday. Her daughter Isabel ac-
companied her. .-s-.,-
Jan. 6. r.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
Game Law Recomme n dations.


The commissioners of fish and game
have recommended the following game
law changes to the present legislature:
A close time of from two to four years
on bull moose.
Repeal OF bounty on bears.
A resident hunting license law, fee not
to exceed q.
A nonresident fishing license law with
nominal fee, say s..
Simplificstion of the fishing laws by re-
pealing the bulk of the private and special
laws and enacting, perhaps, special law
for each county or group of counties.
A resolution recommending the passage
by Congress of the bill now pending
therein providing for a national park and
for acquiring national forests in the Mt.
Kstahdin regions in this State.
A close time on all fur bearing animals,
except lynx, except at such time as the
skins are prime.
Reduction of the nonresident hunters
license fee to SO, when close time is
placed on bull moose.
A law making it unlawful to pollute
streams by placing or throwing sawdust
or other mill waste or other deleterious
substances therein.
A law declaring all State lands to be
State game refugees and forest preserves.
A federal law affording protection to
migratory birds.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
WEST ELLSWORTH.

AIva Giles has gone to Waltham to
work.
Miss Nellie Haynes is working for Mrs.
Irving Staekpole.
Mrs. Henry Higgins, who has been ill OF
erysipeias, is improving.
Minnie Bryant, Ralph Carter and Eva
Carlisle are i'll of bad colds.
Mrs. Rubie Cunningham is visiting her
parents, James w. Carter and wife.
On account of bad weather, Harvest
Home grange held no meeting Jan. 4.
Miss Amy Astbury, who has been visit
ng here, has returned to Jonesport to
teach.
Mrs. c. J. Carter was the week. END guest
OF her son Clarence Carter and wife, at
Ellsworth Falls.
Mrs. Florence Severance will go to Bar
Harbor to spend the winter with her sis
ter, Miss Lena Higgins.
Christmas day all children and grand
children, with wives and husbands, were
guests of James W. Carter and wife, max.
ing family party OF twelve.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
The Right View .

lPortidnd Press.
The progressive members of the legisla-
ture, it seems to us, take the right view of
their duties under the circumstances. 1t
turns out that there are some sixteen or
eighteen of them, who have either Joined
the progressive party movement or are in
sympathy with it; but that was after their
nomination and election.
For all practical purposes there was no
progressive party in Maine until after the
State election. 1t had remained in a state
of suspense. Tue contest was between the
democratic and the republican parties as
such, and between them alone, save such
little effect as the minor parties might
produce.
These memb bers had been nominated and
elected as repu blicans and nothing else,
and had received the votes of Taft and
Roosevelt republicans alike, or republi-
cans and progressives alike, if one prefers
to put it that way.
When the State convention and the
primaries were held, there was no pro-
gressive party in existence, and there was
little expectance of rupture OF the re-
publican party.
The Chicago bolt came later and over
the presidential nomination issue. 1t had
nothing to do with our State affairs. This
was recognized by the progressive mass
State convention, held in Portland on the
last day of July, which decided that for
State purposes all should stand together
in support Of the republican ticket and
platform and against the common enemy.
They were placed in an embarrassing
position, but they did not hesitate to do
their duty as they saw it. We believe
their judgment was sound and will be
vindicated by results.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08

my opinion" he says, mo law that
has been enacted in the State has met
with more general approval by the
masses of the people than has the
direct primary law"
The governor commends the work
for the stamping out of tuberculosis,
the proper celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the battle of Gettys-
burg, and the transportation from
Maine to the battlefield, at the ex-
pense of the State, of the $50 or more
veterans who took part in the great
conflict.
Concerning the prohibitory law, the
governor says:
For more than fifty years Maine has had
statutes prohibiting the manufacturing, sale
and keeping for sale of alcoholic and malt
liquors. In 1885 this principle was adopted
into our constitution. For many years it has
beeu subject of political contention. In 1917
it was again submitted to the people, and by
majority vote in 1911, it again reafirmed
and kept in the constitution. If the people
rule, as believe they should. this question is
settled, and no public officer has any authority
but to execute the law against liquor-selling
in a faithful and impartial manner; and
shall do all in my power, during my term of
office, to encourage the honest enforcement
of all of our statutes against the liquor traffic
Governor Haines closes his address
with an appeal to the legislators to
set aside politics in the interest of the
public good. "You are here" he says,
"as agents and servants of the people,
to do their work, and it is your duty
to enter upon it at once as you would
any other work or employment"
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
NEWS.
SEDG WICK.

A robin was seen by e. ]. Eaton one day
recently.
The smelt fishermen are catching few
fish now.
John w. Paris was in Rockland on busi-
ness last week.
Florence Morgan is employed at DR.. R.
e. Hagerthy's.
Percy Rawley, of Bangor, was at Rich
ard Bracy's Tuesday.
Al. ingram, OF Rockland, spent the
weekend at j. A. Blossoms.
Mrs. Lizzie Day, who has been in Boston
since October, arrived home Sunday.
Anna Dority, who is in Rockland for
medical treatment, is reported as gaining.
Jennie Clough, o: Sargentville, visited
her mother, Mrs. Harriet Clough, New
Years day.
Richard Mccarthy, who has been en-
ployed on the steamer Boothbay, is at
home for the winter.
Mrs. Carrie Guptill, who has been i'll
and confined to the house for seventeen
weeks, walked out one day last week.
Charles Dority, of Sargentville, who has
been in the automobile business, has
again opened his blacksmith shop here.
K l.. Colson and wife, Mrs. B. H. Can
dage, Abram Duffy and wife, G. +. Can
dage and wife, Emily and Oscar Candage,
Of Bluebill Falls, and Capt. Charles Con-
sry and wife were guests at Irving Can
dage's New Years day.
jan g. s.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
1egal Notices
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE.

"HEREAS Andrew S. Giindle, of Blue
w hill. In the county OF Hancock and
State Of Maine. by his mortgage deed dated
January q. 1911, and recorded In Hancock
registry OF deeds In book 4.s, page 70. con-
veyed to one Wilford Z. Grindie, OF said Blue
bill, certain lot or parcel Of land situated in
Bluehill aforesaid and bounded and described
~ follows. viz: Bounded southeriy BY the
highway leading from the Norton house by
the mill now owned by p. j. Gott and known
as Mill street; easterly by the road leading
from said Mill street to the town pound and
the Osgood gristmili. and westerly and north
erly by the Mill stream; and
Whereas the said Wilford e. Grindle has
since died testate. and the nde rsigned, Annie
l.. Grindle. is the duly appointed and legally
qualified executrix OF the last will and testa-
ment OF him, the said Wiiford e. Grfndie and
in her said capacity 10 the owner of said mort
gage and the debt thereby secured; and ~.
Whereas the condition OF said mortgage is
broken, nov therefore, by reason OF the
breach OF said condition thereof, said Annie L.
Grtndle as executrix aforesaid now claims q
foreclosure Of said mortgage.
Dated at BluehilI this sixth day Of January,
a.. 1913. ANNIE L. 9sINpLs
By Forrest B. Snow. her attorney.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
How's This?

How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh Vat cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F ]. CHENEY & co. Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned. have known r. J.
Cheney for the last IS years. aud believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. Testimonials sent free
gists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
EAST IAMOINE,

Miss Helen Hodgkins is visiting her
brother Harry.
Gerald Coombs, OF franklin, is working
for Maynard HogdkiBs.
Mrs. w. F. DesIsles. who has been visit
ing in New York and Boston, is home.
Mrs. Dyer Young and son George, who
have been in Massachusetts, several weeks
are home.
Ray Hodgkins and friend, OF Bar Har-
Dor, who have been visiting relatives here.
have returned home.
Jan. 6. n
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
NORTH ELLSWORTH .

Manson Rideout is working for E. H.
Moore.
Miss Cora Richardson is at home for the
winter.
Mrs. Inez Smith has returned from q
visit at Machias and Indian River.
Mrs. Hamblen Maddocks went to BAN
gor Saturday to join her husband. They
will keep house there this winter.
Miss Frances Richardson is at home
from Ellsworth for the purpose Of having
surgical operation performed on her foot.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
aopcrtisementse
~~-~ --s-'
Terrible Suffering
Eczema All Over Baby's Body.

when my baby was four months
old his face broke out with eczema,
and at sixteen months Of age, his face.
hands and arms were in a dreadful
state. The eczema spread all over his
body. We had to put a mask or cloth
over his face and tie up his hands.
Finally we gave him Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and in few months he was en-
tirely cured. Today he is a healthy
boy" Mrs. Inez Lewis, Barring. Maine.
Hoods Sarsaparilla cures blood dis
eases and builds up the system.
Get 1t today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabo.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
WALTHAM.

Miss Emma Jordan has gone to Pitts
field for the winter.
III. w. Kingman has had a telephone
installed in his residence.
The sewing circle met with Mrs. Belle
Haslem Thursday. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. Alden Haslem.
Mrs. Arvili Jordan and son Oscar visited
Mrs. Jordan's daughter, Mrs. Percy Davis,
at Milton Haslem's camp at Rocky pond
Saturday aud Sunday.
Jan. 6. III.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
Spetiai Mu,.;sa.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.

VTNHE annual meeting OF the stock holders Of
l. Union Trust Company OF Ellsworth, will
be held at the banking rooms OF the COMPANY
in Ellsworth. on Tuesday, Jan. Il, 1913 at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon. for the transaction
OF the following business:
l. To choose a board OF directors OF the
company for the ensuing year.
2. To choose an executive board of the COM
pany for the ensuing year.
To transact any other business that NAV
legally come before said meeting.
NJ. GALLKRT.
Ellsworth, Me-, Dec. 81, 1914 CLERK
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08

The Hancock county bar will figure
prominently in the meeting of the State
bar association in Augusta to- day. Oscar
F. Fellows, as president, will deliver
the opening address, and Hon. l.. b.
Deasy, of Bar Harbor, will deliver the ad-
dress in memory of two former presi-
dents of the association - Franklin A.
Wilson and Herbert NJ. Heath. J. H.
Montgomery, of Camden, native of
Hancock county, will deliver one of the
principal addresses OF the meeting.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE.

WHEREAS Dennis c. Reynolds and
w George W. Reynolds. both Of Els
worth. Hancock county. Maine, by their mort
a. d. lso2, and recorded in Hancock county
registry Of deeds In vol SIS, page A02. conveyed
to me, the undersigned, . certain lot or parcel
OF land situated in said Ellsworth and fully
described in said mortgage; and whereas the
condition OF said mortgage has been broken.
now therefore, by reason OF the breach Of the
said mortgage. A. G. HAoHRrHy,
by r. 4. Mason, his atty.
Ellsworth, Me-, January 8, 1918.
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08

The annual report of the State asses
sors, just flied, shows an increase in val
uation for the whole State OF over s12,-
100000. The total valuation in the State
is sl16,s 81 ,264, against si04 ,397, ,651 in 1911.
Hancock county's valuation is increased
from $40, ,s54 in 1911, to 1857, $50 in
1912,
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
ANNUAL MEETING.

THE annual meeting OF the stockholders of
L the Hancock County Agricultural So
Hinckley's store on Friday, Jan 10, 1918, at 2
O'Clock p. m. to act npon the following bust
ness to wit:
To hear the report Of secretary; to hear the
report OF treasurer; to elect q board OF di-
rectors, and to transact any other business
legally brought before said meeting.
large attendance is desired.
G. S. SNOWMAN, Secretary.
B1uehill, Me-, Dec. 30, 1912
Ellsworth American., 1913-01-08
GOULDSBORO.

Mrs. Maggie Rolf, who has been in
Cambridge, Mass, since September is
home.
Charles Tracy and wife, who have been
visiting their sons in Waterville and in
Bartlett, N. H., are home.
Jan. 6. JEN.