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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05
SAVING THEIR FACES.
There seems to be an idea

| There seems to be an idea in
| Washington that it is necessary to
do something to save the faces OF
various wool democrats and sugar
democrats in the senate. At the
capitol of the United States, as in
Picking and Canton, China, mans
face may be saved, it appears, by de-
ceptiOn.
Senators Sugar and Senators Wool
are to go, as far as they like in the
| way of voting with standpat republl-
cans to amend the Underwood bill
| in the interest of monopoly, but on
the final test they are to be bound
| by the democratic caucus to accept
the original measure as it shall come
from the committee of conference.
Thus. after exerting themselves to
the Utmost to defeat the popular
will and destroy their party, it is
hoped that they may be plucked like
brands from the burning at the last
minute and restored to complete fell
lowship as loyal democrats.
While it may be possible to save
Chinaman's face in this fashion,
fine programme presents many diff
cu,ties to an American. Painful ex-
no death-bed repentances among
democrats who pass their lives in the
service of privilege. The men VINO
through all the early stages of such
contest as this do their best to
tatray the people are lot likely &c
finch on the last rOll-call!
In point of fact, there is no reason
for the too-general assumption that
sugar and wool have peculiar
claim upon certain democratic SEN
ators. These interests are greedy,
out they are no more so than
dozen others which democrats from
a score of state Withstand daily. II
Senators Wool and Senators Sugar
we're true democrats they should
have no affiliations, no sympathles
and no obligations in conflict with
their political principles and promises.
Is there an honest democrat in the
senate who could not be Senator
Lumber if he so desired? Or Sena-
tor Beef? Or Senator Glassware?
Or Senator Crockery' Or Senator
Iron and Steel? Or Senator Textile?
O. Senator Salt? Or Senator Tin?
Or Senator Fruit? Or Senator Rice?
Or Senator Leather? Or Senator
Conner? Or Senator Zinc? Is it not
as easy and as democratic and rs
excusahle to assume any one Of these
characters as those of Sugar and
Wool? In case of need, could not
such service be made to appear Just
as necessary locally as the service OF
Sugar and Wool?
if the democratic party is to win
this fight it should apply itself net
so much 10 saving the ;d"es OF SehA'
tors Sugar and Senators Wool as to
the preservation of the political in
tee,itv of these gentlemen, for on
that DEPENDS it's own.-New York
World.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05
AGAINST IT AT SUCH ELECTION.

AGAINST 1T AT SUCH ELECTION. y
1t will be seen that Section does
not relate to the class of debts de-
fined in Section 2, and the quantity
of Indebtedness which the state may
create under that section is limited
to $780, 900 while, as we have shown,
the debts which the EXECUTIVE coun-
Gil may anticipate the collection of a
tax" to liquidate, and against which
it may issue interest bearing war
rants of the state, may equal as
much as . 100000, or any amount
they may hereafter choose to add.
When the grounds have been pur-
chased and the improvements have
exhausted that sum, there is no tell
ing what further burdens in the
shape of taxation, and building new
buildings, may be cast upon the TAX
payers of this state.
We appear to have reached per-
iod in legislative matters where the
question of burdening the people
with unnecessary taxation for the
unnecessary and extravaganza pur-
poses, seems to have lost its influence
upon legislative bodies. 1t is hlgn
time that the question should begin
to be agitated for a more conserva-
tive and economical administration
of public affairs, in the shape OF con-
trolling and limiting EHTRAVA-
CANT schemes, such as the one we
are now condemning. Will the peo-
pie of the state stand for it? Will
the executive council, without CO.
erciou, undertake to exercise the
powers sought to be conferred by
this unconstitutional measure? VIII
not some patriotic citizen, or group
of citizens institute some proceed
ing to stay the hand which would
seek to impose this unjust burden
upon the people, and the tax payers
of the state of Iowa?-Ottumwa
Courier.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05
WATCH THE SENATE.

The high-tariff lobby at Washing
ton has concentrated upon the sen
ate. Why?
President Wilson, pledged to take
mon ,poly and graft out of the laws,
carried forty of the forty-elght states
and was elected by. ABS of the 53l
electoral votes. There was no chance
for the lobby in that situation.
In the House of Representatives,
coming directly from the people, are
291 democrats under promise to at
tack privilege and plumber, and only
IA republicans of every variety.
Plainly enough, that was another
unpromising field for the lobby.
In the senate, however, the mar
gin narrows and the hopes of the
lobby rise The democrats commls-
stoned by states and people to re-
duce the cost of living and check the
trusts and combines number 81; the
republicans of all kinds, As.
So one of the greatest political
| revolutions, carrying a plurality OF
2,185,OOO at the polls and phenome-
nal majorities in the Electoral Col
lege and the House of Representa-
tives, expresses itself ir the senate
by a majority of six-and that I'M
| certain. If the republicans hold to-
gether it will be necessary for the
lobby to detach but four democrats
Ito gain majority and defeat a re-
form which a few months ago seem
ed irresistible.
Here is the weak spot in the PEG.
pies lines, and here with urerring
sagacity the sappers and liners OF the
protected trusts are already at work
Watch the senate. Watch the lob
byi New York World
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05
PRESIDENT WILSON BRANDS
"TARIFF LOBBY"

President Wilson stirred congress
sionaI circles with an emphatic state
ment denouncing the industrious
and "insidious" tariff lobby in Wash
ington. The. presidents statement,
issued May rs, follows: 81 think that
the public ought to know the extra
ordinary exertions being made by the
lobby in Washington to gain recog-
milton for certain alterations of the
tariff bill. Washington has seldom
seen so numerous, so INDUSTRIOUS vi
so insidious lobby. ;,
1.-The newspapers are being hlled
with paid advertisements calculated
to mislead the judgment OF not only
public men, but also the pubic opln-
ion of the country itself. There IS
every evidence that money without
limit is being spent to sustain TINS
lobby and to Great an appearance OF
a pressure of public opinion antag.
onistic to some of the chief items OF
the tariff bill.
at is of serious interest to the
country that the people at large
should have no lobby and be voice
less in these matters, while great
bodies of astute men seek to create
an artificial opinion and to overcome
the interests of the public for their
private profit. 1t is Thoroughly
worth the while Of the people OF this
county to take knowledge of this
matter. Only public opinion can
check and destroy it.
''The government in all its branch
es 0sght to be relieved from this
intolerable burden and this constant
interruption to calm progress OF de-
hate, know that in this l am
speaking for the members of the two
houses. who would rejoice as much
as would to be released from this
undesirable situation ,r
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05

Now that it has been established
that Iowa can raise as fine alfalfa
and as good apples as anywhere on
the face of the earth, why don't we
raise them?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05

..Where is that split in the demo-
cratic party which our republican
friends have prated SO much abOut?'
remarks the Primghar Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05

Mexico will hold presidential
election October 26. No date has
been set yet for the execution OF the
person who shall be unfortunate
enough to be elected. I
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05

Iowa land is getting to be worth
so much money that q citizen with
muddy boots feels like an aristo-
crat.' asserts the Sioux City Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05

Some people are 90 n0pportune.
always butting an at the wrong time.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-04-08

ionial militia, and an appointment as
acknowledgement OF the military dis
trict in which his lands lay; but he
meant that for the future his duties
should be civil rather than military in
| the life he set himself to live, and
turned very quietly to the business
and the social duty of q proprietor
among his neighbors In Fairfax ce,un-
ty. upon the broad estates to which he
gave the name Mount Vernon. In COM
pliment to the brave sailor whose
friend he had become in the far, un-
happy south.
Lawrence Marries and Settles.
Marriage was, of course. his first
step towards domestication, and the
woman he chose brought him into new
connections which suited both his
tastes and his training. Three months
after his fathers death he married
Anne Fairfax. daughter of William
Fairfax, his neighbor. Twas William
Fairfax's granduncle Thomas, third
Lord Fairfax, who had in that revolu-
tionary year 1916 summoned Colonel
Henry Washington to give into his
hands the city of Worcester, and who
had got 80 sharp an answer from the
Kings stout soldier. But the Fairfaxes
had soon enough turned royalists
again when they saw whittier the
Parliament men would carry them. A
hundred healing years had gone by
since those unhappy days when the
nation was arrayed against the king.
Anne Fairfax brought no alien ira
ditions to the household of her young
husband. Her father had served the
king, as her lover had-with more
hardship than reward, as behooved a
soldier-in Spain and in the Bahamas;
and was now, when turned of fifty,
agent here in Virginia to his cousin
Thomas, sixth Baron Fairfax, in the
management of his great estates, ly-
ing upon the Northern Neck, and in
the fruitful valleys beyond. William
Fairfax had been but nine years In
the colony, but he was already Vir-
ginian like his neighbors, and, as col
lector of his Majesty's customs for the
South Potomac and president of the
Kings Council, no small figure in
their affairs-a man who had seen the
world and knew how to bear himself
In this part of it.
Lord Fairfax Arrives.
In 1746 Thomas Lord Fairfax, him
self came to Virginia. man strayed
out of the world of fashion at fifty-five
into the forests of wild frontier.
The better part of his ancestral es-
tates in Yorkshire had been sold to
satisfy the creditors Of his spend.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-04-08

Washington saw. This was Lord
Fairfax, who had been almost two
years in Virginia when the boy quit
school, and who was now determined,
as soon as might be. to take up his
residence at his forest lodge within
the Blue Ridge. George greatly
struck his lordship's fancy, as he did
that OF all capable men, as. daring
lad in the hunt and sober lad in
counsel; and drawn into such COM
partnership. he learned a great deal
that no one else In Virginia could
have taught him 80 well-the scrupu-
lous department of a high-bred and
honorable man Of the world; the use
of books by those who preferred af-
fairs the way in which strength may
be rendered gracious, and iiidepen-
dence made generous. A touch of old
world address was to be learned at
Belvoir.
His association with Lord Fairfax,
moreover, put him In the way of max
ing his first earnings as surveyor.
Fairfax had not come to America
merely to get away from the world of
fashion in London and bury himself
in the wilderness. His chief motive
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-04-08

thrift father. These untitled stretches
OF land In the Old Dominion were
now become the chief part OF his
patrimony. Twas said, too, that he
had suffered cruel misadventur9 in
love at the hands of a fair jilt in Lon
don, and SO had become the austere,
eccentric bachelor he showed himself
to be in the free and quiet colony.
A man of taste and culture, he Lad
written with Addison and Steele for
the Spectator; a man of the world, he
had acquired, for all his reserve, that
easy touch and intimate mastery in
dealing with men which come with
the long practice of such men OF fash
ion as are also men of.<sensei. He
brought with him to Virginia, though
past fifty, the fresh vigor of young
man eager for the free pioneer life OF
such province.
Lord Fairfax Builds a Lodge.
He tarried but two years with his
cousin, where the colony had settled
to an ordered way of living. Then
he built himself roomy lodge, sha-
dowed by spreading piazzas, and fit
ted with such simple appointments AS
suficed for comfort at the depths OF
the forest, close upon seventy miles
away, within the valley Of the Shen-
andoah, where a hardy frontier peo-
pie had but begun to gather The
great manor-house he had meant to
build was never begun. The plain
comforts of "Greenway Court" salts
fed him more and more easily as the
years passed, and the habits OF a sim
pie life grew increasingly pleasant
and familiar, till thirty years and
more had slipped away and he was
dead, at ninety-one broken-hearte'd
men said, because the kings govern
ment had fallen upon final defeat and
was done with In America.
Bred In Good Company.
It was in the company Of these men.
and Of those who naturally gathered
about them In that hospitable country,
that George Washington was bred. IA
stranger had no more to do" says
Beverley, ''but to inquire upon the
road where any gentleman or good
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-04-08
WASHINGTON was cast

and homely training.
Augustine Washington, his father.
lacked neither the will nor the means
to set him handsomely afoot, with as
good schooling, both in books and in
affairs, as was to be had; he would
have done all that liberal and provi-
dent man should do to advance his boy
in the world, had he lived to go with
him through his youth.
He owned land in four counties,
more than five thousand acres all told,
and lying upon both the rivers that
refresh the fruitful Northern Neck;
besides several plots of ground in the
promising village Of Fredericksburg.
which lay opposite his lands upon the
Rappahannock; and one-twelfth part
of the stock Of the Principle Iron Com
pany, whose mines and furnaces in
Maryland and Virginia yielded bet
ter profit than any others in the two
colonies.
His Father Once Sailor.
He had commanded ship in his
time, as so many of his neighbors
had in that maritime province, carry
ing iron from the mines to England,
and no doubt bringing convict labor
ers back upon his voyage home again.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-04-08

George, the eldest Dorm or the sec
ond marriage, left to the guardianship
Of his young mother, shared with the
four younger children the residue of
the estate. He was to inherit his
fathers farm upon the Rappahannock,
to possess, and to cultivate If he
would, when he should come of age;
but for the rest his fortunes were to
make. He must get such serviceable
training as he could for life of indie
pendent endeavor. The two older
brothers had been sent to England to
get their schooling and preparation
for life, as their father before them
had been to get his-Lawrence to
make ready to take his fathers place
when the time should come; Angus
tine, to fit himself for the law.
George could now look for nothing
of the kind. He must continue, as he
had begun, to get such elementary and
practical instruction as was to be had
OF schoolmasters in Virginia, and the
young mothers care must stand him in
the stead Of fathers pilotage and
oversight
A Wise and Provident Mother.
Fortunately Mary Washington was
a wise and provident mother, a WON
an of too firm a character and too
steadfast a courage to be dismayed
by responsibility. She had seemed
only a fair and beautiful girl when
Augustine Washington married her,
and there was a romantic story told
OF how that gallant Virginian sailor
and gentleman had literally been
thrown at her feet out of a carriage
in the London streets by way Of intro
duction-where she, too was a visit
ing stranger out of Virginia. But she
had shown singular capacity for bus
mess when the romantic days of
courtship were over.
Lawrence Washington, too, though
but f1ve-and-twenty when his father
died and left him head Of the family,
proved himself such an elder brother
as 1t could but better and elevate a
boy to have. For all he was so young,
he had seen something of the world,
and had already made notable friends.
He had not returned home out of Eng
land until he was turned of twenty
one. and he had been back scarcely a
twelve-month before he was off again,
to seek. service in the war against
Spain.
His Brother Captain.
The colonies had responded with an
unwonted willingness and spirit in
1740 to the home governments call
for troops to go against the Spaniard
in the West Indies; and Lawrence
Washington had sought and obtained
a commission as captain in the Vir-
ginian regiment which had volunteer
ed for the duty. He had seen those
terrible days at Cartagena, with Yer
mons feet and Wentworth's army,
when the deadly heat and blighting
damps of the tropics wrought a work
of death which drove the English
forth as no fire from the Spanish can
non could. He had been one Of that
devoted force which threw itself
twelve hundred strong upon Fort San
Lazaro, and came away beaten with
six hundred only. He had seen the
raw provincials out of the colonies
carry themselves as CALAMITY as any
veterans through all the fiery trial;
had seen the storm and the valor, the
vacillation and the laundering, and the
shame Of all the rash affair; and had
come away the friend and admirer Of
the gallant Vernon. despite his head
strong folly and sad miscarriage. He
had reached home again, late in the
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-04-08

Ruins OF School washington attended.
into his confidence as IL he had been
his own son. Not only upon his vaca-
lions now. but almost when he would.
and as II he were already himself a
man with the rest. he could live in
the comradeship that obtained at Bel
voir and Mount Vernon. Men of all
sorts. it seemed, took pleasure in his
company.
Lads could be the companions Of
men in Virginia. Their outdoor life of
journeyings, sport. adventure, put
them. as it were. upon equal terms
with their elders. where spirit. auda-
city. invention. prudence, manliness.
resource, told for success and com
radeship. Young men and old can be
companions in arms, In sports. in
woodcraft, and on the trail of the
fox. Twas not an indoor life of con-
ference. but an outdoor life Of affairs
In this rural colony.
One man. indeed. gave at least a
touch Of another quality to the life
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-04-08
m2exz2219zzs.

He himself raised the ore from the
mines that lay upon his own land,
close to the Potomac, and had it car
ried the easy six miles to the river.
Matters were very well managed
there, Colonel Byrd said. and no pains
were spared to make the business
profitable.
Captain Washington had represent
ed his home parish of Truro, too, in
the House of Burgesses, where his
athletic figure, his rudy skin, and
frank gray eyes must have made him
as conspicuous as his constituents
could have wished. He was a man of
the world, every inch, generous, hardy,
Independent. He lived long enough,
too, to see how stalwart and capable
and of how noble a spirit his young
SON was to be. with how manly bear
ing be was to carry himself in the
world; and had loved him and made
him his companion accordingly.
He Inherfts 4 Farm.
But the end came for him before he
could see the lad out of boyhood He
died April IL. 1913, when he was but
forty-nine years OF age, and before
George was twelve; and in his will
there was. of course, for George only
younger sons portion. The active
gentleman had been twice married.
and there were seven children to be
provided for. Two sons OF the first
marriage survived. The bulk of the
estate went. as Virginian custom die
tated. to Lawrence, the eldest son. To
Augustine. the second son. fen most
Of the rich lands IN Weatmoreiand.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-04-08

was one which did him much more
credit, and bespoke him a man and a
true colonist. 1t was his purpose, he
declared, to open up, settle and culti-
vate the vast tracts OF beautiful and
fertile land he had inherited in vir.
ginia. and he proved his sincerity by
Immediately setting about the bust.
ness
1t was necessary as first step that
he should have surveys made, in or
der that he might know how his lands
lay, how bounded and disposed
through the giades and upon the
streams of the untrodden forests.
Surveys Fairfax Estate.
In Washington he (Fairfax) had a
surveyor ready to his hand. The
lad was but sixteen. indeed, was
largely self-taught in surveying; and
had had no business yet that made
test OF his quality But surveyors were
scarce, and boys were not tender at
sixteen in that robust, out-of-door col
ony. Fairfax had an eye for capacity.
He knew the athletic boy to be fear
less woodsman, with that odd, calm
judgment looking forth at his steady
gray eyes; perceived how seriously he
took himself in all that he did, and
how thorough he was at succeeding;
and had no doubt he could run his
lines through the thicketed forests as
well as any man. At any rate, he
commissioned him to undertake the
task, and was not disappointed in the
way he performed it.
Within a very few weeks Washing
ton conclusively showed his capacity.
In March, 174S, with George Fairfax,
William Fairfax's son, for company,
he rode forth with his little band Of
assistants through the mountains to
the wild country where his work lay,
and within the month almost he was
back again, with maps and figures
which showed his lordship very clear
ly what lands he had upon the spark
ling Shenandoah and the swollen up
per waters Of the Potomac. Twas
all he wanted before making his home
where his estate lay in the wilder
ness. Before the year was out he had
established himself at "Greenway
Court; huntsmen and tenants and
guests had found their way thither,
and life was fairly begun upon the
rough rural barony.
Likes His Work.
1t had been wild and even perilous
work for the young surveyor, but just
out of school, to go in the wet spring
time into that wilderness, when the
rivers were swollen and ugly with the
rains and melting SHOWS from OF the
mountains, where there was scarcely
a lodging to be had except in the
stray, comfortless cabins of the scat
tered settlers. or on the ground about
fire In the open woods, and where
woodman's wits were needed to come
even tolerably off. But there was a
strong relish In such an experience
for Washington, which did not wear
on with the novelty of it. There is
an snmistakable note Of boyish salts
faction in the tone in which he
speaks of it.
Since you received my letter In
October last" he writes to a young
comrade, Il have not sleep,d above
three nights or four in bed, but.
after walking q good deal all the day.
! lay down before the FIRE upon a lit
tie hay, straw, fodder, or bear~skin.
whichever is to be had. with man.
wife and children. like parcel OF
dogs and cats, and happy is he who
gets the berth nearest the fire.
/ have never had my clothes
on. but lay and sleep in them, except
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(To BE coNTINUED)

Remember when you come to town ana
want seed that Covington, Thorpe q 20.
handle the best that can be bought ana
will sell them worth the money Come
and see us at 232 West Main street. il-H