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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16
AS TO POLITICAL POSTMASTERS.

Postmaster General Burleson is
getting ready to place all second and
third class postmasterships on the
classified civil-service list.
This is a commendable plan, any
way you view it. These United
States have for the past quarter Of a
century worried along with the most
inefficient postal service to be found
among highly civilized peoples, large
ly because it's heads were selected
with as little regard for their prob
able effectiveness as for the color of
their hair. The offices have been
spoils and the people have had to
take the consequences, in handicap
placed upon all trade and intercom-
munication, of this prostitution of
public service to machine politics.
The politicians are no less to be
congratulated. If ever there was a
demons legacy left to a public Of
fcial,t the bestowal of postoffice ap-
pointment is such. Many congress-
man has gone to his political death
for causes having nothing to do with
his efficiency in office or his devotion
to the interests of his district, SIM
ply because he gave an office to the
Smith faction and the Jones faction
afterwards developed more strength.
Of course, certain jealous and
cross-eyed commentators will imme-
diately rise to observe that if
President Wilson does not award
these offices by examination he will
be guilty of exactly the kind of thing
that President Taft was so bitterly
criticised for a few months since,
when he made his famous order con-
corning fourth-class postmasters.
The Republic is not informed as to
the plans of the postmaster general,
but it is enough to remark that had
President Taft placed those $4,000
postmasters under civil service rules
four years ago there would have
been no complaint. They would have
thus been taken out of politics,
since their tenure of office would no
longer have depended on the admin
istration. 1t was the attempt to con-
struct a cast iron machine in the
moment when defeat threatened by a
wholesale application of civil SER
vice rules to lot of spoilsmen who
had no hope from anything else that
aroused the just resentment OF
democ ats.-Republic. ,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16
THE REASON.

The administration conceives the
time to be favorable for passing q
currency bill because of the strength
given to the party in the eyes of the
nation by the passage of the tariff
act.
This is new situation in Ameri'
can politics. In the name or cotton
cloths n s. p. f. and wool in the
grease, when within the memory OF
man did an administration ever find
itself strengthened in the public con-
fidence before by the passing of a
tariff bill?
The "mongrel tariff" of 1888, on
the authority Of John Sherman, who
certainly was in position to know
Laid the foundation of all the tariff
complication since that time (Sher'
man Recollections.)
There is one instance in our politl.
cal history of the passing of second
measure of great Importance after
tariff revision. Seeing the avalanche
of popular wrath which impended
over the republican party after the
passage of the Mckinley bill in 1890
John Sherman secured the enact
ment of the famous Sherman law
against trusts. In vain. Congress
had sinned away it's day Of grace
About a month after the Mckinley
bill was passed another house was
elected. The returned show the loss
by the republicans of 70 votes, giving
the democrats a heavy majority
When the democrats swept the coun-
try in 1892 the St. Louis Democrat
remarked that Mckinley was a good
man, but mighty poor tariff reform
err
The democratic tariM revision OF
the tariff in 1894 weakened the par
ty. 1t was not square and honest. 1t
was party perfidy and party dishon-
or"
When the republican leaders made
the Dingley tariff in1S97 what they
thought of the disposition of the
country toward their work is clearly
shown by Senator Aldrich's words to
S. N. D. North: 81 don't suppose this
tariff is going to last long because
the rates are so high; but l am per-
fectly willing the wool manufacture
ers should have all there is in it,
The passing of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff in 1909, sounded the DEATH
knell of republican power in the
nation, as every schoolboy knows.
Now, in view of this long success
sion of tariffs, which have strewn
the shores of our political life with
the wreckage not only of personal
but of parties as we'll,
how comes it Woodrow Wilson and
the congressional leaders of today
conceive the present to be favor
able moment for legislation in the
difficult feld-that of the currency?
because for the first time since
the moderate tariff legislation in the
early seventies tariff act has been
passed for the benefit not of favor
ed class but of the American people.
st. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16
TAtENNER'S WASHINGTON LET
TER

Washington, Oct. 13.-Congress-
man l. S. Pepper, of Iowa, who has
long been considered senatorial
timber by his colleagues in the House
of Representatives, was one of those
chosen to end the tariff debate for
the democrats.
In speech that was warmly ap-
plauded throughout, Congressman
Pepper answered the argument of
republicans who are criticisng The
new tariff bill by alleging there is
not sufficient protection for farm pro-
ducts. Mr.. Pepper answered these
arguments in very simple, but effec-
tive manner. For instance, he
answered Senator Cummins' charge
that the Underwood bill discrimi-
mates against the American farmer,
by reading a statement made by Sen
ator Cummins in which the Senator
stated his belief that protection cid
not benefit the farmer to any extent
whatever. ...
con June II, 1909, in the senate
of the United States" said Mr.
Pepper, Senator Cummins said:
I do not believe that we in Iowa
receive any direct benefit for the
400, 100000 bushels of corn that we
raise every year; l do not believe
that we receive any direct benefit
from the duty on 100000 or 49,
100000 hogs that we market every
year; I do not believe that of the
$700,000,000 of agricultural pro-
ducts that we pour every year into
the channels of trade, protection ad-
,vances the price of 1.-THE of them.
1t is idle for even any enthusiast to
assert that the price of these pro-
ducts is directly affected by the pro-
tective tariff
High protectionists," declared
Mr.. Pepper, "have used the tariff
to fool and despoil the farmer of his
hardearned gains. Behind the tariff
rates of 25 cents on wheat, 10 cents
| on corn, II and IL cents on wool,
rates which have never added one
whit of price or value to the pro-
duct, plutocratic tariff benefciaries
have persistently plucked the farmer
on all that he had to buy. He has
been forced to buy all that he needed
in a highly protected market, while
with the world.
| me nome market, IN which Lne
| farmer has had to buy his agricul-
tural implements, is dominated and
largely controlled by combination
and monopoly; the market in which
he buys his hardware and iron
goods is dominated and largely con-
trolled by the steel trust; his cloth
ing he must buy Of the wooden trust;
| if he wants sugar, he must buy it at
sugar trust prices; if he wants leath-
Ter, harness, or shoes, he must again
pay monopoly prices.
while humbugging the farmer
with a few agricultural rates which
never pan out, our republican friends
Through exhorbitant tariff exactions,
have persistently feeced him on ev-
Terry article he buys.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16
EASTERN BANKERS KICK
WESTERN DON'T.

One of the paid organs of the
eastern banks which take all that the
western barker has, is the New York
Journal of Commerce, which as ex-
pected, sets up howl and claims
that the currency bill will take away
from the New York and Boston banks
the reserves of other banks that are
now deposited with them under the
present law, and expresses it's objec-
tons in the following language:
One of the principal objections to
the Glass bill relates to the reserve
requirements, which would deprive
the banks of the reserves and the
central reserve cities of their present
custody of the reserve funds of the
country. The banks contend that
the operation of this part of the bill
would result in big reduction in
their profits.
Whatever there is in that bill that
will increase bank profits they favor
and whatever would reduce them,
they oppose. The most preposterous
proposition that was ever made to
the American people is that the
bankers should have the framing Of
banking and currency laws. AS the
bill was, when first submitted, the
bankers We're pretty well satisfied
with it, but the tendency in all the
amendments proposed is to scatter
over the country the reserve and not
concentrate them in New York, Bos-
ton and Chicago and to that the
bankers put up protest.
Legislation affecting currency and
credit is something that vitality at
fects every human being, not only in
the cost of living, but in opportunit-
les to make living. The men who
are closely scanning the provisions
of the bill and endeavoring to make
it one under which there will be
profits for the people as we'll as for
bankers, are doing a patriotic work
of vast Importance. Profits for bank
ers is not the only thing that con-
gress should look after.-St. Joe OBJ
server.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

Looking at these effects of repub-
lican tariffs, what can be more far
cial than to hear men-especially So
called progressive republicans-wail
over the farmer? The tariffs made
by their party have plundered him
for years, and they now grieve sore
ly that their day of plumber is over.
The cry goes out that the farmer will
be ruined, but the real cause of the
ccmmotion is the fear that the
crime against the farmer is to be
fully exposed and the guilty parties
punished.
"The democratic tariff bill compels
the plunderers to take their hands
out of the pockets of the farmer and
leave him to enjoy the proceeds of
his toll" ..
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

The Grundy Democrat says that
1.-THE income tax will got a pull at a
good many Grundy county people. A
man with a section of Grundy coun-
ty land if he has no other income will
be subject to the tax as his income
can be proven to be over $4,000 a
year. Many farmers who are work
ing half section or less have an in
come exceeding $4,000 a year and
the new catch will catch them. There
are business men whose income ex-
ceeds the $4,000 mark who will have
ito come across. They can
stand it," concludes the Democrat.
"a man with on income of $4,000 a
year can pay $40 income tax easier
than others pay their poll tax.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

1t is significant object-lesson, to
have demonstrated the fact that ex-
cessive tariff protection may be cut
down to a reasonable basis without
the whole economic and industrial
structure in this land tumbling to
ruin. A great deal of the calamity
talk in reference to prospective eff
fects of reduced tariff rates has been
sheer buncombe. The era of inordi-
nate tariff protection is at an end
in this country.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

The latest report of the G. Ar.
shows census of 1S7,203. When it
is realized that soldiers of the civil
war averaged p years of age fifty
years ago, 1877 regiments of survivors
~ years old speaks high for the
physical quality of the men who en-
listed in the sixties.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is a candi-
date for the progressive nomination
for congress. Resourceful editors
can save time and space by writing
if = .,.s .....
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

1t is estimated that half the
farmers in Iowa now own autor'o-
b;les. If so their tire bill is not
less than SIS per annum. One-third
that amount would pay the paving
tax on each quarter section of land
for paved road over every county
road in the state on the bond issue
and, special improvement district
plan.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

The Cherokee Democrat says, eve
can all understand how easy fool
and his money are parted, but what
puzzles us is how the fool gets the
money to part with
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

Wealthy Americans who go shop
ping abroad may now tell the truth
on their return for a good deal less
money. I'M is doubtful if they will
though; it takes lot of money to
bride h0nesty
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

congressman arc complaining
about being overworked. There are
several who could take a rest with
out loss to the country" comedies
the Iowa City Republican,.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

The standpat newspapers are now
calling Woodrow Wilson a politician.
Before the election they called him
professor. Eventually the stand-pat-
tiers will realize that he is president
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

President Wilson took two pens
to sign the Underwood Simmons taT-
liz bill, but the pens, like the manag-
ers Of the bill, did good team work.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

BY the way, what has become of
the pen with which Mr.. Taft signed
the Payne-Aldrich bill? +
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-16

The tariff bill being law, what
in the world will we scrap about
now? wonders the Waterloo Report
.er.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17

Election officers for the primary
election November were appointed
this week as follows:
First ward-First precinct: Alex
Wright, Fred Schomber, Bernice Sapp.
Second precinct: F. =. McFadden
Mrs B. Mann, r. NJ. Hayes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17
EUCODA.

... Io" taaHDDu ul Tacoma, .,-
J.. Ut Of the RyDehah assembly OF
Washington, made an official visit to
bu,9.a lodge. NO. IA. on the cy
.E- of the 1lth. Three candidates
n.e initiated after which supper was
ID. During her stay here, Mrs.
D..IluIl was entertained by Mrs. Ru-
.... Moisbaoh.
tr. and Mrs Nichols from Oklaho-
.a were in town last week greeting
old .rieuds.
Mr. and Mrs. Kinney came from Ho-
.uilm last week TO make Bucoda their
home. Mr.. Kinney has accepted a po-
su-on with the Bucoda Coal company.
Walter Graham has returned home
from pttsburg, Kan, where he has
spent the last three months lie was
accompanied by his sister, Miss Helen
Graham
AIRS Mariana Nelson spent a few
days in Centraia last week, visiting
friends.
Mrs. John Haney of Stony Point was
in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles Whaleu of Johnson
Creek was in town Monday.
Gordon Libby has moved his family
into the Larrabee house on Main
street.
The Ladies' Aid gave Mrs. John
Swift fruit shower Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Swift's. home was destroyed by
fire a short time ago.
George Westcott of Tichnor Prairie
was in town Saturday for a few
hours
Mrs. Frances Despier of Tenno was
visiting her sister, Mrs. Daisy Imler,
on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Delamater and
son, John, arrived here last week from
Pittsburg, Kan. They intend to make
Bucoda their future home Mrs. Del
amater is a daughter of Mrs. S. e.
Graham
Mrs. Haeger of Delphi was visiting
her daughter, Mrs. j. Brown, few
days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davies went to
Napavine Saturday to attend the Re-
bekah district meeting which was held
at that place.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17
ORDINANCE NO. 1868.

An ordinance amending section Is and
repeating sections 16 and II of Ordi-
nance No. 1853, entitled: IAN ordi-
nance relating to local improvements
IN the City of Olympia and repeating
all ordinances and parts of ordi-
nances in conflict herewith"
The city council of the City of Olympia
do ordain as follows.
Section H. That section Is of Ordi
nance No. 1853, entitled IAN ordinance
relating to local Improvement in the
City OF Olympia and repeating ali ordi-
nances and parts of ordinances in con-
fiict herewith" be, and the same is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Delinquent assessments, how collec-
ted All delinquent assessments or de-
linquent installments thereof shall be
certified to the treasurer OF Thurston
county to be by him entered upon the
general tax rolls and collected as other
general taxes are collected The coun-
ty treasurer shall remit to the city
treasurer on the 10th dav of each
month all sums collected"
Sec. 2. That sections 16 and II of
Ordinance No. 1853 entitled, IAN ordi-
nance relating to local improvements
In the City of Olympia and repeaIfng
all ordinances and parts Of ordinances
in conflict herewith" be, and the same
are hereby repealed.
Passed oct 49, 1913
Approved Oct. IS. 1913
GEO. A. HOFFMAN,
Mayor
Attest:
I. N. HOLMES,
City Clerk.
Published Oct II and "a. 1913.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17
COLLEGE EXPERTS
TELL BEST WAYS
Continued from page ~

ance of the week filled the hall to hear
Thursdays addresses.
Now is the time to have your cows
tested for tuberculosis, DR.. H. r.
Graves, the state veterinarian, told the
school Wednesday, so that the herd
for the new season would be free from
any disease. The state department of
agriculture, he said, is ready to make
the tests.
The thought most frequently pre-
sented to the farmers at the Wednes-
day and Thursday sessions was that
the raising of live stock is not only re-
munerative but offers a substantial
foundation for the entire agricultural
industry of the state. How to select
the cow and how to build up the herd
were discussed by A. B. Nystrom We'd
nesday, his address receiving very
close attention. Together with the
other speakers of the two days devot-
ed to this subject, he urged the farm
ers to carry high grade of cattle in
their herds, asserting that it was Just
as cheap to keep a good cow as a
poor one.
Unless your COW is giving you 300
pounds Of butter fat year, you are
losing money on her, according to Mr..
Nystrom, who said cow yielding that
amount just allowed the. owner to
break even on the expense of keeping
her. Remember that" he said, land
then remember that the average per
cow in this state is only $50 pounds of
butter fat year, and you will see
how many poor cows there are in the
state and how many farmers are los.
ing money on them"
Soils and crops" were discussed by
H. l.. Blanchard Wednesday morning,
who talked about the various methods
of improving the soil and getting the
best out of it, as applied to different
crops. In the afternoon, following Mr.
Nystrom's address, he took up the sub
ject of live stock, declaring it to be the
foundation of agriculture in the state
and one of the most important factors
in it's advancement. Build up your
FARMS" he said, and you will build
up the state" adding that the work of
teaching the farmers and cooperating
with them is being done not merely
for their individual benefit but also
for the impetus it will give to the i'm
provement of the farms of the state
and thereby the state itself.
Wednesday afternoon the farmers
attending the school witnessed a milk
test or demonstration given by DR..
Nystrom. This was sample of the
many demonstrations and laboratory
tests made during the whole week S
course which have enlightened the
farmers on many points in which they
! were in doubt.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17
RESOLUTION NO. las.

Be it resolved by the City Council of
the City of Olympia:
1. That it is the intention of the city
council of the City of Olympia to order
the improvement of the alley running
north and south between Sherman and
Foote avenues and from Madison ave-
nue. to Harrison avenue. also the alley
between Foote avenue and Hancock av-
enue and from Madison avenue to
Fourth street by constructing eight
inch lateral sewers in each of said al
leys between the said points, all in ac-
cordance with the plans and specifica-
tons to be prepared by the city engi-
neer.
2. That all persons who may desire
to object thereto are hereby notified to
appear and present such objection at
a meeting of the city council to be held
building in the City of Olympia at 1880
p m. on the 5th day of November, 1913.
which time and place are hereby fixed
for hearing all matters relating to said
to. and for determining the method of
payment for said improvement.
3. That the city engineer shall sub
NIT to the city council at or prior to
said date, all data and information re-
CURED by law to be submitted.
d. That the cost and expense Of said
Improvement shall be borne by and as
therefor, as provided by law.
Passed Oct. Is. 1913
Approved Oct. 16, 1913
GEO. A. HOFFMAN,
Mayor.
N HOLMES,
City Clerk.
Published Oct. II and "a, 1918
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17
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STORIES OF THE Capitol.

=. ...'.~. ..'.'...
Ia The farmers @. ,Le United
States aud @. Washington in mrDicu-
lar, would not favor systems OF rural
credit in vogue in the southern Euro
pecan countries, is The opinion of the
rural credits commission from Wash
In@ton, comprising Senator Ralph Met
calf and Representative Clark G..
Black, who accompanied similar com
missions from other states in a tour of
Europe last summer tor study Of the
credit systems established for the ag-
riculUurai classes there. The Irish
system is the only one, in the opinion
OF Messrs. Netcalf and Black. that viii
prove acceptable here, and in this
view they have the concurrence Of
Governor Ernest Lister and Commits
soner OF Agriculture J. II. Perkins
Under the Irish system, the farmers
establish and operate their own rural
credit ORGANIZATIONS The other Eu-
rOpean countries, especially Germany
and Hungary. have the patronage
plan-wealth and royalty reaching
down a helping hand. Such procedure,
the Washington commissioners think.
would be repugnant in the United
States.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17
NATIONAL NEWS IN BRIEF

Though McGraw sent in Mathewson
the New York Giants could not com
bat successfully the attack of Connie
Macks Athletics and the latter took
the last game of the worlds series in
New York last Saturday by score of
TO l, thereby winning the series.
Plank was in the box for the Athletics
and the two veteran twirlers who had
faced each other many times on the
diamond fought desperate game, but
Plank had the better team behind him.
Each of the Athletics will receive
S3,244 as his share Of the 81 tie receipts
for the r..S. while the Giants will
yet $2,1e iece.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17

Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Hit went to Port
Townsend this week, where Mr.. Hit
who is librarian OF the state library
dedicated the new $12,500 library in
that city. The Port Townsend library
was originally started by Mr.. Hit
some years ago
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17

Mrs. Crissie Orth, daughter of Mrs.
w. Fl. Kneeland of Shelton and sister
of Mrs. George Draham and Mrs. o. C.
Hanson of this city, was married to
Bryan Allen, formerly of Olympia, at
Spokane October l, according to news
received in Olympia this week. Mr..
Allen was connected with the force of
the surveyor generals Office here for
some time, but is now located in Mon.
tana.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-17

Relatives and few immediate
friends witnessed the ceremony which
united in marriage Miss Florence Dud-
Icy, former teacher in the Olympia
schools, and James Brewer, the local
feed store proprietor, performed Tues
day afternoon at the home of the
brides parents by Rev. C. E. Todd. SUI
perintendent of the Olympia district
of the Methodist church Miss Rose
Dudley, sister Of the bride, had deco
rated the home in autumn flowers and
colors and it presented a pretty sight.
A tasty wedding luncheon was served
after the ceremony, following which
Mr.. and Mrs. Brewer left on a honey.
moon trip to Eastern Washington.