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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
TARIFF REVISION BENEFITS.

In spite of short crops at home,
wars abroad, and most unsettled
financial condition in at least one
nation with which the United States
has a large commerce, business in
this country goes steadily forward.
All predictions that tariff revision
would precipitate hard times have
failed.
Instead of looking on the Under
wood bill as calamity, rational bust
ness men look upon it as a measure
of relief, without which the countrys
affairs would be much hampered in
this year of bad happenings,
This view is the right one. The
new bill-which will be law in a few
days more---is an example of the new
freedom. 1t ushers in an era in
which enterprise will not be strangl-
ed by trusts, and consumers will
not be taxed to maintain monopolies.
Tariff revision could not be put to
harder test than that which now con-
fronts it, but it is standing the trial
nobly -Chicago Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
THE GREAT WHEAT COUNTRY.

British statisticians estimate the
worlds wheat crop this year at g.
100000 bushels, of which the
United States is credited with pro-
ducing 100000. Our own gov
eminent crop reports fix the wheat
yield of the country little lower,
but the difference is not important.
The figures show the tremendous
Importance of the United States in
the food markets of the world. Rus
STA, which holds second place in
wheat production, is 100000, 1000
bushels short of the American yield.
Canada and Argentina together grow
only little more than half as much
wheat as this country. France
grows less than half as much; and
other countries, except India, are not
in the comparison at all.
me Importance of Canada and
Argentina is due to the fact that
they can export nearly their entire
crop, while in this country only the
surplus left from feeding more than
90,0O0,000 people is available for
export.
If the United States leads the
wheat-growing countries of earth,
while producing only thirteen bushels
per acre, what would her rank be it
she raised her crop to the English
average of twenty-nine bushels?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
WORTH MORE THAN A BILLION.

Representative Underwood's final
speech on the subject of the tariff
bill that will bear his name contain
ed many highly interesting state
ments.
1t is his belief that directly and in
directly the law will relieve the peo-
pie of taxes for government and
monopoly aggregating a billion a
year.
1t is his contention that with the
exception of the Walker tariff the
new act is less burdensome than any
other similar measure in force for
seventy-five years.
1t is stated by him that commerce
and industry have already adjusted
themselves to the new conditions,
and it is his most confident predic-
ton that the country is about to en-
ter upon an era of unprecedented
prosperity.
These happy auguries are highly
agreeable, and all will hope that they
may prove true. Time alone will
tell the story.
But when he said that the demo-
cratic party had kept faith with the
people and redeemed every pledge
relative to tax reduction he proclaim
de a fact without conjecture or
prophecy.
Party responsibility and good
faith are worth more to the Ameri-
can people than a billion year.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
THE END OF EXTORTION.

When the tariff bill as agreed
upon by the conference committee OF
the two branches of congress was re-
ported to the house a great and pa
triotic task was virtually completed.
A memorable record was made. "A
precedent never to be forgotten was
established.
For the first time since the civil
war an honest general revision OF the
tariff downward, often promised by
leading men of all parties, had Deen
agreed upon. For the first time
since protection for monopoly,s sake
had become an institution seemingly
invincible, greed and corruption mad
been met on their own ground ana
vanuuished. For the first time since
public plunderers sought refuge in
the United States senate tarlH
measure emerged from that body
fairer and wiser and lower than 1t
was received from the house.
The new tariff defeats not only the
organized rapacity of those who nave
long controlled such enactments; 1t
ovcrcomes also the threats or the
panic-breeders and the falsehoods or
the hired claque who for a genera
ton or more terrorfied people and
congress. 1t becomes law with re-
publican as we'll as democratic sup
port, 1t is welcomed even by the
very interests which for years blud-
geoned those who suggested a SINH
lar enactment.
When our tariffs for extortion av-
eraged nearly so per cent on the
value of our dutiable imports, sug-
gestion of the smallest reduction was
met by cries of free trade. The act
now completed reduces the average
to one-half the rates that were once
deemed necessary, but it is more
truly a measure of protection than
any law which the combined corrup-
tionists of the past bought with mon
ey and favor.
This law was written in behalf OF
the people. 1t taxeseWealth, lndul-
gence, luxury. 1t frees many OF the
necessaries of life. 1t is intended to
give consumers cheaper goods, or
better goods for the same money. 1t
relieves manufacturers by untaxing
raw materials. 1t promotes honesty
in trade. 1t removes the support OF
government only lIOu1 LnC AoPOAoo0'J
Inefficient and dependent.
Nearly a century ago when Henry
Clay introduced what he called the
American system to the people, his
idea of sufficient protection for
American labor was embodied in a
tariff of 20 per cent. We have had
tariffs for monopoly since that time
of more than twice that figure. We
are now to have a tariff reformed af-
ter years of struggle, after years OF
oppression, after years of deception,
intimidation and corruption, that
safeguards labor on the one hand
and does not rob it on the other.
While the economic question in
volved has hardly been touched, the
moral triumph that has been won
is complete. The thanks of the coun-
try are due to every member of CON"
gress, republican and democrat, VINO
has contributed to this result, but
especially to be honored are Repre-,
sentative Underwood, Senator Sim
mons and President Wilson, without
whose untiring labors, wisdom and
moderation the happy issue now al
hand might have been impossible.-
New York World.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
THAT FARM COMMISSION
REPORT.

EX-Secretary Wilson and Henry
Wallace are both men who are we'll
worth listening to on matters agri-
cultural. Among the important
points emphasized by this commits
sion is the matter of long rental con-
tracts, the lack of capital among
renters in this country as compared
to the conditions under the farm
credit system of Europe, and the
conservation of fertility abroad in
contrast to the universal tendency Of
new country toward soil robbing.
And these three points are the real
differences which count.
We know all about the evils of
short leases in Iowa; but we greedily
refuse to see anything beyond the
high dollar of present rentals. 1t is
mighty poor business. A short lease
is the next thing to a long mortgage.
Not all farm owners pursue this short
sighted policy but the average lease
in Iowa is probably three years or
less. And three years is precisely
the period best adapted to the skin
ming process.
Soil robbing is certainty under
the short lease. The renter gets all
he can and leaves what he must He
refuses to SOW clover because he does
not stay long enough to "get the good
of it," and is disinclined to leave
any fertility he may have added for
another short lease man to benefit
by. What half century of such
soil robbery will do to the most fer
tile land in the world is well dis
played by many farmers in northern
Illinois where the system has held
longer sway than in Iowa.
The credit system of Europe
should be studied and so far as pos
sible adapted to the needs of the
American renter; but the Iowa land
lord need not wait for that. He can
be his own and the renters credit
system. He can make long lease
to the right man and create part
find the money and the farmer can
find the money and the farmer con
do the rest. A ten-year partnership
lease of a good farm by good farm
err under a good landlord who is will
ing to see another man make dol
lar means success to both.
Landowners and renters will 40
we'll to read and carefully study the
report of the commission. They Will
find much therein to their benefit
Marshalltown Tim
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
THE POWER OF IMPEACHMENT.

No other grant of power under
American government is so absolute
and at the same time SO indefinite as
the power of impeachment. To this
fact is due most of the popular mis-
apprehension and much of the crltl-
cism of the proceedings at Albany.
We borrowed the power of i'm
parchment from Great Britain, where
parliament is an omnipotent body
politically. The most famous OF all
impeachments, that of Warren Hast
ings, began the year that the Ameri-
can Constitutional Convention as
sembled. The power was transfer
red to the Constitution Of the United
States without definition or limita-
ton, and it has so been transferred
to the Constitutions of all the states.
All crimes which a private citizen
can commit against the United
States are defined by statute and are
enumerated. In most states the COM
mon law has been erected into body
of statute law But there is no guide
except reason and precedent to the
thigh crimes and misdemeanors' for
which a federal or state official may
be impeached. The House of repre-
scntatives or the assembly, as the
case may be, is sole judge as to
whether the offense charged war
rants impeachment. The court OF
Impeachment, whether it be the SELL
ate in Washington or the senate and
the court of appeals in Albany, is the
sole judge of the law and the facts.
More than that, it is in sense, the
creator of the law. And there is no
appeal from it's decision.
Constitutions go no further than
to say which branch of the legisla-
tive authority shall impeach, which
branch shall try the impeachment,
who shall preside and what the
maximum punishment shall be.
In theory the power of impeach-
ment is open to the gravest abuses OF
any power vested in our government.
In practice it has been abused less,
perhaps than any other power. We
cannot recall any convictions OF i'm
parchment in the whole history OF
the United states in which there was
a considerable body of doubt as to
the guilt of the accused. Nor do we
recall single verdict of guilty by
court of impeachment which has
since been reversed by the verdict OF
history
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
NEED NOT FEAR THE TARIFF.

Farm and Fireside, the national
farm paper published at Springfield,
Ohio, contains in its current issue an
article on the market outlook for
sheep by j. Pickering Ross, an ex-
pert in horses and sheep, who has
had practical market experience, both
in England and the United States.
Mr.. Ross tries to impress on his read
ers his idea that the removal OF the
tariff from wool and meats is much
less to be feared by sheepmen now
than when the same course was pur-
sued by former democratic admin
istration. He says:
The first experiment in import
ing the frozen meats have, so far,
proven anything but encouraging to
the promoters of that business.
The real facts are as follows:
Quite recently four ship loads of froz-
en- meats have arrived in San Fran
CISCO. There they have found the
butcher paying from eight to nine
and one-half cents per pound for
sheep and yearlings, and ten to elev-
su cents for spring lambs, the supply
being plentiful. According to reliable
correspondents, eighty per cent OF
the frozen sheep product is still un-
sold, and is being held in cold stor-
age at SO per pound. The general
feeling among retailers is that,
though at first curiosity to find out
what the frozen meat was like
prompted a little flutter of trying it
among their customers, the result
has been to assure them that as
long as home grown mutton and
lamb remain as cheap and as plenti-
full as at present the imported frozen
article will be little called for and
piil certainly not affect prices to any
appreciable extent AS regards those
prices, I think that, as compared
with those paid by the people OF
England and of Europe generally,
they are so moderate as to admit of
ma cause for grumbling. In this, OF
course, l am referring to what the
farmer is receiving, and not to what
our faulty methods Of distribution is
causing the ultimate consumer to
have to pay. My chief object, how
ever. in this letter is to point out
that the facts as now ascertalned
show that our sheepmen need not
fear no very dreadful effects from
whatever changes are likely to be
made in the tariff.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
HOW?

The tariff bill merely reduces and
arranges some tariff schedules. 10
the extent that it encourages foreign
importations it will diminish Amerl-
can production.-Stan Tarlff
Editorial.
Let us see, says the st. Louis Re
public. There is perfect free trade
between Missouri and Illinois. Every
day trainloads of Illinois products
come into Missouri Does Illinois
Importation diminish Missouri pro-
duction?
To ask this question in serious
ness would mean that the inquirer
was fit for bedlam. For those train
loads of Illinois products coming
into Missouri are paid for by other
trainloads of Missouri products go
ing out, and local products could not
20 out unless outside products came
in. Trade does not mean simply
that you sell to the other man. 1t
means likewise that you buy OF him.
Suppose we could put up Chinese
wall on the west bank of the Missis-
sippi and keep those Illinois products
out. What would result? Paralysis
of business and industry. Missouri
would have too many early straw
berries. Illinois would have too
much whitefish and lake trout. dis
souri, would have too much zinc ana
lead. Illinois would have too much
soft coal. Nor, if the wall had been
built a century ago, would matters
have been bettered. That would not
have given any Illinois town the ell
mate of Sarcoxie or Neosha, or have
created a Lake Michigan washing the
borders of Missouri. 1t would not
have underlaid Illinois with lead and
zinc or the country about St. Louis
on this side of the river with soft
coal The freest trade is the most
profitable trade.
There was never anything so idiot
ic as the high-tariff argument the
moment you begin to look at it with
out prejudice and apply it's principles
in other fields.
But says the director, I'VE
ought to ship to foreign countries,
without importing goods. Then the
balance of trade will be in our
favor"
This country, in time, would have
a plethora of money. Prices would
20 up. This would mean good to
nobody. 1t would hurt the wage
Garner, since wages always respond
slowly to rising prices. 1t would hurt
the people with fixed incomes. 1t
would not help the farmer since all
prices would go up together and he
could not buy no more with the price
of his crop than when it was lower.
The only thing to do with an IN
come issto buy things with it. This
is as true of national finance as OF
that of city or an individual.
Will the stimulation of importa-
tions diminish American prOduc-
tion? Just as the volume of incom-
ing freight at St. Louis "diminishes'
St. Louis's production. Why, a great
part of that freight is raw or partial
ly manufactured material for use in
St. Louis shops and factories. Near
ly all of what remains is for the con-
sumption of St. Louis workers. Well,
when you come to the international
deld the same principles apply.
There are no natural laws of trade
in force between Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, and Sault Ste Marie, Ontario,
different from those which apply be-
tween the first named town and Mar
quette or Detroit
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09

A retired farmer, speaking on the
subject of renting farms said, "The
man who owns a farm of more than
a quarter section is finding it more
and more difficult to rent his land
satisfactorily. He is compelled to
accept considerably lower rental
figure than the owner of a small
farm. About the only man who will
take one of the larger places any
more is the father of two or more
boys large enough to manage teams
and machinery and as soon as the
time comes for the boys to leave
home the father must either drop
out or go to smaller farm which he
can handle without help"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09

The total number of migrants ar
irving in this country in the fiscal
year ending June 80 last was l,l97,-
692. That is more people than there
are in Maine and New Hampshire
combined and the population equiva-
lent to a Nebraska We continue to
beat the world in imports of human
ity
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09

The announcement that Colonel
Roosevelt will bury himself in the
wilds of South America will remind
some people that few years ago he
promised to do the same thing in the
jungles of Africa. And they are not
going to pin any false hopes to the
Colonels promises this time. ~
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09

The Manson Journal asserts that
the weed cutting and road dragging
laws of Iowa don't seem to weed cut
and road drag any more than does
prohibition prohibit. hi
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09

\ Other. things may como and go but
the reorganization of the republican
patty goes on forever. rs
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09

McConlogue seems to be as good a
choice as a governor confined strictly
to democratic selection could make.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09

1t is not always the best workman
who gets himself the dirtiest.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22
SELECT CULL|NGS
MiIkWeed as a Food.

One of the economic triumphs Of the
age is the utilization Of waste material,
and the use of weeds as food staples
Is phase Of this triumph.
The most interesting Of these new
weed foods is milkweed, the COM
mon, wild variety that grows in every
rocky pasture. in meadows and by
road sides in abundance. Its large,
thick. smooth leaves are familiar to all.
and its deep, dull pink tuft Of flowers
and, later. its seed pods, filed with
delicate floss and fat brown seeds
When it is broken off a thick, white,
milky juice exudes. This is rich in
nutrition. This common and luxuri ut
weed is now being cultivated in gar
dens as a valuable food staple ani
makes one Of the most delicious If
vegetables. It tastes almost exactly
like asparagus and is cooked in much
the same way as spinach. 1t has been
found to be rich in natural salts and
nutrition and is easily cultivated
Mrs. NJ. P. Haskell in Leslie's.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22
Leigh Hunts Daughter.

General surprise will probably be felt
at the announcement that Leigh Hunts
youngest daughter is still alive at the
age of eighty-four. Leigh Hunt him
self was born in 1874, and it was ex-
actly 100 years ago that he was fined
and imprisoned for describing the re-
gent as ''corpulent Adonis of fifty
so that his Daughter represents a re-
markable link with the past The
daughter, who is now i'll and in re-
duced circumstances, married the late
Charles Smith Cheltnam, who died in
April of this year after a remarkably
diverse career in which he was sue
cessively a wood engraver, art critic to
the illustrated London News, man
ager of the Morning Chronicle, editor
of the Belgravia Magazine and one OF
the subeditors of the Daily Telegraph.
London Globe.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22

Only horse, and an old horse
too, working from day to day.
Only a worn-out nag, It's true,
plodding his weary way.
A horse that works and works
in vain for his masters word of
praise.
A slave that bows to the tight
ened rein; a beast that the mas
ter flags.
Only a horse; but horse with
a heart-a thin WORKOUT old bay;
But with spirit strong, ne
plods along with an uncomplain-
ing neigh.
A beast of burden by man
abused, tortured with lash and
with goad;
But a lesson in faithfulness,
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22

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Write Courier-Journal Com
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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22
Save the Babies!

DR.. Edward B. Phelps of New York
told the delegates to the recent inter-
national congress Of hygiene at Wash
ington about the enormous death rate
among babies in the United States. He
also told them how infant lives might
be saved and how they were now sac
rtfced by sin, poverty. neglect and ig-
norance. He said among other things:
"Fifty-fve million babies are born
into the world each year. But Of them
15,O00,0 0O-more than one-fourth-die
before they reach the age Of one year.
This means that about 10000 babies
die every day in the year, or that on
every other tick of the clock an infant
life goes out. To this terrible harvest
of infant lives the United States con-
tributes 1000 day. There are the
best reasons for believing that at least
80 per cent of the worlds infant NOR
tally is readily preventable, and the
civilized countries are just beginning
to awake to that fact."-New York
World.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22
The Cheese Wisconsin Makes.

That Wisconsin last year sent New
York 100000 pounds of cheese is an
interesting fact brought out by some
statistics just prepared by the agricul-
tural economies department of the Uni
verSity of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is
now the leading cheese producing state
in the Union, having wrested the hon.
or of first place from New York. Fiji
teen million pounds of cheese were
sent to Illinois, alone last year. and or
this great amount 10.500,000 went to
the city of Chicago. Missouri was sent
100000 pounds, Texas 100000 and
Georgia 5,500,0OO. Iowa. Tennessee, In
diana, Kansas, Louisiana. Nebraska
and Ohio were each sent 3,OO0,OOO
pounds of cheese. Six million pounds
were sent to Kansas City. while ST
Louis and Omaha each received nearly
100000 pounds.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22
What's The Matter
, With Your Baby?

The young mother-and many an old
one, tools often puzzled to know the
cause Of her child's i'll nature. The
toudness of its crying does not neces-
sar1ly indicate the seriousness of its
trouble. 1t may have nothing more the
matter with it than a headache or a feel
ing OF general dullness. 1t cannot, of
eourse, describe its feelings, but as
trying mild laxative.
Nine times out of ten, you will find 1t
is all the child needs, for its restlessness
and peevishness are perhaps due to OBJ
struction of the bowels, and once that
has been remedied the headache, the
sluggishness and the many other evil
nences of constipation and Indigestion
will quickly disappear.
Don't give the little one salts, cathar-
tic pills or nasty waters, for these will
act as purgatives, and they are too
strong for a child. In the families of
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22
The Adair County News and Daily
COurier.JOurnaj

courage and toil-this WORKOUT
nag Of the road.
Only a horse-not a brute
but a horse, a patient, tried old
bay,
The brute is the one that ap-
plies the lash, not the one who
receives the fay.
He labors hard for his masters
greed, he endures the toll and
the pain;
But the look of dispair from
his eyes is prayer-an appeal
to be humane. Our Dumb Ami
mails.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-01-22
500 Per Plate

was paid at banquet to Henry Clay
in New orleans in 1912. Mighty costly
for those with stomach trouble or in
digestion. To-day people every
where use DR.. Kings New Life Pills
for these troubles as we'll as liver, kid
ney and bowel disorders. Easy, safe
sure Only 25cts at PAUL Drug Co.