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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
ELECTION BY DIRECT VOTE.
Constitutional Amendment Ratified
for Election of Senators.

Direct election of the United
States senators became one OF the
provisions of the constitution by
Connecticut's ratification OF the
amendment to that effect.
Thirty-six states, the requisite
three-fourths, have approved the
change. 1t remains only for the gov
ernors of all states which have act
ed fayorably and for him to formally
notify Secretary Bryan and for him
the change.
The amendment to the constitu-
ton is the second within the last few
months.
The first senators to be elected by
the new method will be those who
take their seats for the term begin
ming March 4, 1915. They will be
elected at the November elections Of
1914.
The first thirty-three states to
ratify the amendment were: Arizona,
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Ida
no. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ne
braska. Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey. New York, New Mexico,
North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma. Oregon, South Dakota,
Texas, Vermont, Washington, West
Virginia. Wisconsin, Wyoming and
Pennsylvania.
For more than sixty years propos-
ais have been made to change the
constitution so as to provide for the
direct election OF senators. 1t was
not, however, until June "a, 1?ll !,
that the senate was induced for the
first time in its history to give its
consent to the change. On that day
it voted TO submit to the states the
proposed amendment. The resolu-
ton to submit had already passed
the house in somewhat different
form. Before adjournment of the
session. both houses agreed to the
language to be employed. and the
resolution was deposited May Is,
1912, for distribution among the
St1TaS
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

The Nation, an English newspaper,
referring to the appointment by
President Wilson of Walter H. Page,
to be ambassador to the court of st.
James, says: "In offering the London
embassy to Mr. Page President Will
son has made an interesting expert
ment. He has boldly reverted to the
scholar diplomat as the type of man
most qualified to represent the Unit
ed States abroad. In doing so, he
has paid a silent but striking COM
pliment to the good sense of the
British people. He has assumed that
what we most value in an American
am bassador is not his wealth and his
ability to lavish it on magnificent
houses and huge entertainments, but
his personality and his achievements
and the extent of which he brings
with him the true flavor of Ameri
can life" The Nation declares that
President Roosevelt tried the same
experiment with DR.. David Jayne
Hill, former ambassador to Germany
from American After a description
Of DR.. Hills previous career, the
Nation says: CDR. Hills predecessor
was Mr.. Charlemagne Tower, gen.
tleman of very much wealth. He
was prodigal of fetes and receptions.
He leased the finest house in the
capital and greatly pleased the en-
peror by the splendor he was able
to maintain. The change was as Mr..
Roosevelt intended it to be--a thor
ough one. 1t was an appeal from the
eccentric, concentrated Berlin of
today, to the city of plain living and
high thinking OF a generation ago.
There is no need to 60 into details
of the unhappy but Illuminating Sc
quel. When the emperor learned
that whatever Dr. Hills other quail
fications for the post were, his pri-
yate means would permit him only to
maintain modest establishment and
that the day of splash and glitter
were over, it was one of those incl
dents that revealed man and a
society,"" s.'.. @t r'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
THE NEXT AMENDMENT.

1t is now certain that the Consti-
tuition Of the United States will be
amended so as to provide for the
election of senators by popular vote.
Nobody is in the least excited or
alarmed by the fact, ana yet 1t is
true that only a few years ago a
large body OF citizens regarded the
proposed change as a dangerous an
destructive thing. 1t is not danger
Gus, but it is certainly destructive in
the sense that II will destroy num-
Der of abuses. To very great eX-
tent senatorships used to be bought
and paid for. Direct bribery was
not used, except occasionally, but in
direct bribery was common. A rich
man who wished to go to the senate
began by financing the campaigns of
candidates for places in the legisla-
lures The candidates repaid him
with their votes as. legislators. This
resulted in croWding the senate with
rich men having special interests to
defend and in crowding state legis-
latures with venal politicians, cor
ruptionists and dull nobodies. An
other evil was that the system of in
direct elections often made national
issues uppermost at times when the
state issues should have been con-
sidered. Still another evil lay in the
fact that senators were so confident
of their ability to control legisla-
lures that they deemed themselves
superior to the people. They frank
ly regarded themselves as an aris-
tocracy. Public indignation and the
system of preference primaries have
co-operated to do away with the
most OF these troubles. The amend
ment which is now ali but fully
adopted will do the rest, and look
ing back to the plutocratic days
when the senate was a millionaires'
club it seems marvel that the sys-
tenn endured as long as it did.-Re-
public.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
Z
NEWSPAPERS ARE THE GOAT.

Alex Millers Washington Demo
Graf gives the state legislature a
little currying because Of its dispo-
sition to give the newspapers the
worst Of the deal. He says. in part:
True, many people are too i'm
patient and many people find too
much fault with the legislators. for
We apprehend that most of them aim
to do the right thing. But it looks
as if they all. severally and col
lectively had grudges at the news
paper men of the state. We be-
leve good deal of it crops out
from their home campaigns and they
propose to get even with this or that
or the other devil of a newspaper
man for some fancied or real slight.
During the campaign time we are
all pretty decent sort of fellows, but
after these members are elected, they
seem to forget all obligations, and
they legislate for the farmers and
the butcher and the banker and the
candlestick maker, but to hell with
the newspaper man. He may Shift
for himself"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

There have been limitations COM
ing from Washington that there will
be something doing in the near fu-
ture concerning the Standard Oil Co.
1t is said that President Wilson was
somewhat surprised to read the an
flouncement made by the Standard
Oil company that in order to comply
with the strict provisions of one of
the Seven Sisters" laws that COM
pany would have to raise the price
of all it's products, including kero-
sene, gasoline and lubricating' oils,
and the attorney general was called
into consultation. The announce
ment by the Standard OIL authorities
was looked upon as an effort to bring
ridicule upon the president and dis
credit him as reformer. 1t may be
that the Standard will find out that
it has caught a crab. While the
statement seemed to annoy the at
torney general more than it did the
president, it is expected that some
executive orders may result that will
start the law department on a new
investigation concerning. how much
Standard Oil was dissolved and what
connections the thirty-three auxil-
iaries still have with it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
KEEPING THE FAITH.

As ga human being trying to CO.
operate with other human beings in
a common service President Will
sons first message to congress is an
appeal to party principles and party
honesty.
The country cannot fail to be i'm
pressed by the simplicity, the sin
cerity and the restraint of his utter
ance, His message is no call to a
crusade. On the contrary, it is
calm, dispassionate presentation of a
party's duty and responsibility.
The president asks congress to do
only what congress was elected to
do, He wants it to keep its pledges
to the people.
It is plainly to be seen that there
is perfect concord between Mr.. Will
son and Mr.. Underwood III the mat
ter of tariff revision. they use al
most the same language in describ
ing the kind of tariff that must be
substituted for the Payne-Aldrich
measure. In place of monopoly, priv
ilege and extortion fostered by stat
ute. there must be reflective competi-
ton This excludes schedules that
would leave an American industry
PROSTATE before a foreign competitor
as we'll as schedules that impose
.artifcial advantage in behalf OF
the producer as against the consum-
err An industry that is not ready to
accept such a rule Of action is not
fit to survive. 1t does not belong to
the twentieth century.
The presidents message to con-
gress was the easier to deliver be-
cause of the party's intentions put
forth by the publication of the I'm
derwood bill the day before. No sane
human being would expect unanimity
OF judgment about tariff bill. Such
miracle never happened and never
will happen. But in the most ad-
verse criticism of the Underwood
measure there is no impeachment OF
democratic good faith. Even the
highest of high-Drotectionists agree
that it requires the party's ante-elec-
ton promise and that it spells the
sort Of tariff the country voted for
when it, elected a democratic pTesi-
dent and a democratic congress.
We can conceive of no higher trib-
ute to the integrity Of political
party, and if congress heWs to this
line the American people can have
no Just cause of complaint, whatever
may be the actual results of tariff re-
vision. An administration that does
what it promised to do, that does
what it was elected to do, is, the high
est manifestation of political hon
esty. .....
The World knows of nothing that
could go further toward restoring
the confluence of the American peo-
pie in their institutions than an ad-
ministration and congress that can
70 before the country with clean
hands and truthfully say, Come
weGl or woe. we have kept the
Z faith New York World E
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

The people of Iowa will elect a
United States senator next year just
as they will elect governor. The
legislature of 1915 will have nothing
to do with it. The Oregon law, re-
Gently passed by the Iowa legislature
and signed by the governor, becomes
a dead letter through the ratification
last week by Connecticut of the
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton providing for the direct election
of United States senators. The Nut
meg state is the thirty-sixth to rati-
fy the amendment, which now be-
comes a part of the fundamental law,
and removes the election Of senators
from the duties imposed upon legis-
lature. The parties will nominate
candidates for the senate in Iowa
next year, and the people will vote
on the candidates directly. The vote
at the polls will be final. The sena-
torship will not be an issue in the
election of members of the legisla-
ture. The candidates will make their
campaigns exactly as the candidates
for other Offices.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
THE BUGABOO TARIFF on WOOL

BY a unanimous vote the demo-
cratic members of the ways and
| means committee of the house have
agreed to put wool on the free list,
and the fact that this vote will be
supported by President Wilson
places tariff revision on new basis.
From the Inauguration of the pro-
tective policy to the present time, all
its advocates have always asserted,
and rightly too, that wool was the
basis of the whole protective system.
Grosvenor of Ohio and all of his
kind, were accustomed to make grand
Eloquent speeches in the house and
declare that high tariff on wool
would make deserts of the hills on
Andalusia, bring australia to our
feet begging, and preserve the farm
ers of America from ruin, but as the
tariff on wool was raised higher and
higher. fewer sheep were raised and
every prediction they made was
proved false by time.
The reason why tariff on wool was
insisted upon was because it was one
of the things that all men, women
and children in our country must
consume, and give to the manufac-
turers the opportunity to tax them
all. A tariff on wool gave an unan-
swerable argument for a compensat-
ing duty on wooden manufacturers,
and that compensating duty was in
all cases many times greater than
the duty on wool. 1t increased the
cost to the consumer of every article
of wooden clothing and wooden goods
used in the households of the coun-
try The eleven cents a pound tariff
on wool was increased to such an ex-
tent by compensating duties that on
some lines of wooden goods it
amounted to nearly two hundred per
cent. .
All that was done upon the pre-
tense that it would aid farmers to
raise more sheep. 1t never had any
such effect as the statistics from de-
cade to decade abundantly proved.
Sheep raising has always been one of
the smaller agricultural industries,
and there never was a good reason
for taxing the whole people many
hundreds of millions in higher prices
to foster it. There are other crops
upon which the farmers can make
better profits, even at the present
high prices of wool than on raising
sheep, and that is the reason they
have to such a large extent abandon
ed sheep raising. All the people of
this city and otner cities should not
be taxed for the benefit Of a few
sheep raisers even if the tariff did
have that effect.-St. Joe Observer.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
ELECTING COUNTY SUPERIN-
TENDENTS.

The Iowa legislature has passed a
law making the county superintend-
ent of schools elective by a conven-
ton of the presidents OF the school
boards of the county. Just why the
president of the school boards are
letter people to elect county superin-
tendents than all the people OF the
county is hard to explain.
When were. the presidents of our
school boards endowed with such in
telligence over the rank and file Of
the people that they should have the
exclusive right of voting for school
superintendents?
What have the people done that
they are no longer permitted to ex-
particular office? Why should the
superintendent of schools be exempt
from general election any more
than any other county officer
AS we have remarked before the
whole tendency of this legislature
appears to be an effort to get the
government as far away from the
people as possible.
About every other bill you see act
ed on is one creating commission,
and raising salaries and deprlVlng
the people Of their inalienable right
OF self government.
Pretty soon the ordinary farmer
will have 10 ask some commissioner
when he can plant corn and harvest
his grain and what kind of imple-
ments he must use.
II the presidents OF the school
boards have been Amounted with dl-
vine oil and are better qualified to
select a portion of the county officers
than all the people, perhaps it would
be better to give them the power OF
selecting our members Of the legis-
lature also. " by not?
In the meantime our tax levy for
state government has doubled in the
last twenty years, and two years ago
in order to give the state sufficient
money to pay expenses, the executive
council had to raise the value of our
real estate II p per cent higher than
the assessors gave it in at.-Creston
American.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
THE NEW DOCTORS. LAW.

A bill defining unprofessional con-
duct on the part of doctor has
passed both houses of the Iowa legis-
lature. The salient parts Of the bill
are by Charley Miller, who has been
fighting the doctors trust. Here are
some of the wrongs the bill attempts
to remedy:
Wilful neglect of patients in a
critical condition.
Accepting fees as witness other
than provided by court or known to
the court.
Demanding a fee manifestly exor-
bitant for a surgical operation
Fee splitting or division without
knowledge of the patient.
Knowingly misstating the cause of
death of a patient.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

If the sugar growing industry of
the country had begun to crumble
when Hawaiian sugar began to come
in free, when Porto Rican sugar be-
gan to come in free, when Phillip
pine sugar began to. come in free,
and when finally the great Cuban
supply began to come in at 20 per
cent tariff reduction, people might
believe the Underwood tariff bill
would kill it. But as matter of
fact, both the cane and beet-growing
industries have flourished notwith-
standing. If part free trade in sugar
cannot stop their growth, full free
trade can hardly kill them altogeth-
er. ~
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
THAT FREE LIST.

The free list in the Underwood
bill is worth scrutiny. 1t includes:
Lumber
Meats.
Flour.
Bread.
Boots and shoes.
Coal.
Raw Wool.
Iron Ore.
Agricultural Implements.
Corn.
Wood Pulp and cheap Print-paper.
Leather.
Typewriters.
Cash Registers.
Steel Rails.
- Lumber Products.
Potatoes.
Let the rabid protectionist read,
mark and inwardly digest. What is
there in this list to brighten him?
Not the free admission of lumber.
wood pulp, cheap print paper and
lumber products. The waste OF our
forests has been national scandal.
This is merely wise conservation.
Not the free admission of coal.
This, too, is conservation. This is
and wasteful engines.
Not the removal of the tariff on
agricultural products and flour. Our
production of corn today makes the
price in the worlds market. This
is the greatest wheat ana flour eX-
porting country OF the world. The
tariff on potatoes is practically never
operatives except against the farmer
when the time comes to buy seed po-
tatoes after bad season.
Agricultural implements and
boots and shoes are alike in this:
that they are protected by ID per
cent tariff and that we export vast
quantities of both and import prac-
tically none at all AS for steel rails.
we import $4,000 worth a month
and export $l,O0o,0O0 worth a
month.
Cash registers and typewriters are
made in the United States for all
the world. Free leather is but the
logical consequence OF free hides
which we have had for four years
and free shoes. Free wool represents
a policy of fair play to the consumer.
This country is not naturally adapt
ed to the economical growth OF wool.
Today we import pound ana hal1
for every pound We grow; though the
iniqullous wool and WOODEN tariff has
driven out from common use the
cheaper grades.of foreign wool which
we do not grow at all, substituting
cotton to the detriment of health and
physical comfort.
The one sole proposal contained in
this list which savors in the least
of "radicalism' in view of notorious
economic facts is free meats. This
represents an attempt on the part OF
the ways and means committee to
lower the ruinously high cost of flesh
food to the great army of Ameri-
can workingmen; it is aimed at the
beef trust and it's miniOns. IF this
be treason, make the most of it,
st. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17
The Iowa legislature last week yOt.

The Iowa legislature last week vot-
eded to spend approximately $4,000
600 for the extension and improve
ment Of the capitol grounds. The
house passed the bill in the morning
by vote of 70 to Fl. In the after
noon the senate accepted the house
bill by vote of 80 to 5. The bill
was indorsed and backed by Cover
nor Geo. w. Clarke. He signed it as
soon as the enrolling clerks finished
their work
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

Iowa has the largest proportion
OF its acres under cultivation Of any
Of the states Of the union. Putting
it another way, Iowa has less waste
land in proportion to it's area than
any other state of the union. There
fore" argues the Davenport Demo
crat, eff you are determined to buy
land without seeing it, buy Iowa
land. You stand less chance OF be-
ing swindled than anywhere else IN
the world"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

Dayton, Ohio, is planning to ask
the federal government to loan that
city $2O,OOO.000 to $40,OOO,OOO for
reconstruction purposes. The damage
done by the flood was estimated at
$3.50, 100000.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

What surprise it would be II
the Iowa legislature would really
pass law that could have the w ss
qualified approval of the people oAY
the state, says the Davenport Demo-
crat. ~.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

Even his 100000 could not
save J. Pierpont Morgan from the
common doom. @r
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

The Palo Alto Tribune says: 'The
legislature should be put to work
on the public highways. 4.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-04-17

a great many things. we find, that
are said to be .invincibte, @ are not
that way ct oil. 4
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-17
CORNELL READY
FOR PENNSY GAME

ITHACA, ". Y, Nov, 1s,-Cornell
got enough encouragement out Of the
victory over Lafayette, and the APP
parent possibilities in the recon
structed team 10 make the outlook for
the final game with Pennsylvania on
Thanksgiving day not as helpless as
IL appeared last week. when the
Ithacans were trimmed by Michigan.
If the new players assigned to new
positions get enough practice In the
next ten days TO become wen versed
in their positions. and If the team as
a whole develops that team play and
strength which should have been ac-
quired by this time there is a good
prospect The coaches look for Cornell
putting out strong team on Frank
lin Field In the objective game OF
the season, that with Pennsylvania.
The coaches expect to develop
coilver into powerful offensive back,
and If Philippi and Lahr show the
Improvement that Is expected from
practice. the Cornell backield Will be
one of the best seen on a Cornell
team In wears Just now Barrett Is
the r1alnstay OF the hacktield. but
much is expected from the other men
after the ten-days' practice.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-17

NEW YORK, Nov. 1e.-Unless
there Ia a hitch In the program al
ready mapped cut Il committee Of Ma
tional league owners will visit Harris
burg this week, and ask Governor
John Tenor to accept The presidency
OF the league in the place of Thomas
J. Lynch. 1t was said today that If
seven club owners one tearing the
proxy of G. w. Murphy of the Cubs
can make arrangements ir time they
will call upon Gov~rnor Tener Tues
day or Wednesday
sRobert w. Brown. % Louisville,
who has been candidate for the
leagues presidency for the last four
years. has released Ebbetts, Of Brook
iyn: Herman. of Cincinnati, and
Dreyfuss Of Pittshurg from their
pledges TO vote for him.
II is learned that there will be a
long delay before organized baseball,
represented by the National commits
sion, will make a final reply to the
demands Of the Baseball Players fra
ternity Red tape Will clog the ma
chinery, and the players. meanwhile,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-17
HARVARD HAS SOME
LITTLE ADVANTAGE

NEW YORK, Nov. 7G.---As COM
pared TO Harvard against Princeton.
Yale did well against Princeton, and
made a showing which isn't without
encouragement for next Saturday. al
though Yale Will have To get some fin
ishinE touches to it's offence to have
any chance to cross Harvard's goal
line The Harvard Brown and Y aie-
Brown results do not pcint to IIar-
ward being in danger next Saturday
but these are OF less consequence than
what Harvard and Yale did against
Princeton because the latter was OPP
position much more calculated to find
the Crimson and Blue doing their
hardest than were the Brown games
In one way Harvard has the
strategic position, so to speak, over
Y a4+4-E he tt+AFl4sts s.;'+ tf'te w ata&
in which to recover from the trying
contest with the Tigers, only one week
in which to take on the physical
tone needed. and take on improve
ment. which is likely 10 be needed TO
buck against Harvard successfully.
Yale played as good football asains
Princeton as Harvard did. That
Harvard will be a stronger team next
Saturday, than she was on the eighth
there is every reason to believe. Just
at present the best outlook for y ale
seems to lie in the fact that the
splendid defense shown last Saturday
may keen Harvard from crossing the
goal line ny rushing. Non-partisan
experts believe the power in the Yale
rush line will give Harvard an exceed
sngly stiff battle.