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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
EDISON BRAVES DOCTORS IRE
'Wizard" Burns Midnight Oil to Per-
feet TALKING Movie.

. r.
West Orange, N. J.-Much against
the advice Of his physician and his
family. Thomas A. Edison is again
burning the midnight oil. 1t became
known here that in week Mr.. Edison
has spent less than six hours in his
home, Glenmont, in Llewellyn Park.
Practically all day long and the bet
ter part of the night the t'4wizard'' is
on the third floor of his laboratory
working on the talking movie
ANY person who knows Mr.. Edison
is acquainted with the fact that he will
never give up interest or work or ex-
pertinent with thing until it has be-
come as nearly perfect as possible, y
said William b. Meadowcroft, his pri-
vate secretary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
Gats Ten Wolves n 4 Weak.

Gets Ten Wolves In a Week.
Atchison. Kan.-Hick Colgan, q farm
er living northwest Of this city, captur-
ed ten wolves In one week. In the
last ten years Colgan has received
bounty on $50 scalps.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16

Police to Stop All Swearing.
Cleveland, O.-The police Of this city
have been ordered to halt all persons
heard swearing and scold them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
ANARCHY CAUSES
Great UNREST
Woman Leads Band Which
Seems Bent on Murder.
THREATS FREQUENTLY MADE
New York City Has Never Before
Experienced Such Demonstrations.
Leaders Are Pupils of Emma Gold
man and Alexander Berkman, King
and Queen of Anarchy In America.

New York. - Unrest among the so
called. industrial w oirkers of the World.
anarchists and other kindred organiza-
lions has never before been pitched to
such fever heat as now. Demonstra-
lions protesting against various indi-
viduals and corpora tons are held daily.
Dealing with: the crowdssis a great puz-
zle to the politan. police. Orators
from the rank and flessof the anarch-
lists and /. w. w. are granted the CON
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-05-16
The Rambler
At Rest at Last.

The remaining $3.50 he spent in res
cuing boys from the hard life that has
held him in it's grip for so many years.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15

said, was in good volume. The for
! eign trade was never better. Where
the complete breakdown Of the ma
| TONS foreign trade was predicted
| by the partisan press following the
enactment of the new tariff law, the
| first year of its operation, the Cham
Der of Commerce saia, showed the
years exports breakirs, all records
The imports, on the other hand,
were less than those of 1912. An
other view of the business situation
was given by l.. E. Stevens, president
of the Century Savings bank of Des
Moines, president of the Des Moines
Chamber of Commerce, and ranking
high enough in financial circles to
be prominently mentioned for men,
bership on the new federal reserve
board. Mr.. Stevens looks for the
dawn OF an unequalled era of pros
pert" to come with the opening of
the new year. Il think the sentiment
created by the final adoption of the
tariff and currency bills will be re-
sponsible for greatly improved bust
ness conditions in 1914 ne said.
Another feature which has added
to the restoration of business conf
dence is the good results attending
the firm stand taken by the admin
istration on the trust question. The
Wilson trust policy has been found
to be constructive. Already the
Union Pacific merger has been brok-
en- up. The Bell telephone company
has divorced itself from the Western
Union Telegraph company, and has
paved the way for telephone compe-
tition by opening it's toll lines to in
dependent telephone companies. Ne
gotiations are in progress which will
break up the New Haven railroads
! control of New England railroad,
| trolley and steamship transported ion
Interlocking directories are being
| broken up as the result of the adj
ministration's firm stand. More pro-
gross already has been made in the
solution of the trust problem in the
last year than during the years while
the trust evil has been growing. The
| problem is an achievement demo-
Gratis believe President Wilson's ad-
ministration will have to it's credit.
The forthcoming Iowa campaign
continues to attract national atten-
ton in the second district, which has
UcCu Cdllcu III cU1u dly W. Out tAC
gubernatorial and senatorial cam
paigns. Washington is counting ON
Iowa as one of the states to be add
ed to the democratic column. Con-
gressmen Connolly and Kirkpatrick,
returning to Washington from Iowa
this week at the reopening Of con-
gress expressed the greatest conf
dence at the outlook They found
President Wilson's popularity grow
ing and a feeling of general conf
dence in the administration prevail
ed.
| j. X. DOugherty.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
THE FIRST RETURNS.

Taxes became due in Iowa Janu-
airy ], and already few of the peo-
pie have called at the treasurer's Of
flee to pay. With each payment a
roar of protest went up The in
crease in taxes Is something unpre-
cedented. Even in this wildly extrav-
agant republican state nothing like
it was ever heard of before. One
Clarke county citizen went into the
treasurer's Office last Monday to
pay. He had his last years receipt
in his hand. On the identical same
piece of land last year he paid $50.
On Monday last the breath was TAX
en- out of him when he learned his
tax for this year would be 1913, or
an increase of $50. Every dollar of
that increase is chargeable to the
Iowa legislature and the executive
council. Railroad assessments were
very materially decreased, and every
citizens taxes were enormously rails
ed. 1t is cruel outrage that ought
to fire with indignation every tax
payer in Iowa. Every republican Of
flee holder in the capitol of Iowa,
from the governor down, ought to
be retired from public life under an
avalanche of votes and they will be.
Every republican freak in the last
Iowa legislature who voted for the
extravagant appropriations of our
government ought to be buried so
deep in defeat that there would new
er be resurrection for them, and
they will be- Just stand and hear
the roar Of condemnation that will
go up.-Osceola Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15

lature ever appropriated, is severely
trying the patience of a forebearing
people who have to foot the bills and
it is time for Legislators to call a
halt, and to that end members OF all
parties should instruct legislative
nominees to do all in their power, II
elected, to put down the tendency to-
wards unreasonable extravaganza
which has prevailed of late years in
our legislative bodies.
Now. as to the principal points IN
issue, the extension act, we close this
article with this admonition: Alarm
lists have said that our republican
form of government will sooner or
later come to an end. We DO not
believe it, and do not consent to such
a statement, but desire to go on rec
ord with this prophecy: Should this
government ever come to an end, the
first symptom of it's decay will be
when the people approve the acts OF
officials in high authority who have
deliberately and knowingly violated
the plain provisions of our constitu-
ton.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
BRYAN ON FREE WOOL.

Free wool at last The country
has waited for it long while and it
has been 4 weary wait. Under the
guise of aiding farmers, the bene-
ticiaries Of protection made over
lures to the wool growers. who con-
stitute but small fraction of the
agricultural population, and gave
them a tariff on wool. They then
gave to the manufacturers of wooden
goods a so-called compensatory duty
which far more than offset the tax
on wool. BY the time the tax reach
Gus burden upon nearly all of the
farmers of the nation and upon all
who are not farmers. In campaigns
the tariff on wool has been paraded
as an evidence of the desire of pro-
tectionists to include the farmer
within the benefits of the system in
deluding a part of the rural vote,
but deception can be practiced no
longer.
Wool was the keystone of the pro-
tectionist arch, fact we'll under
stood by the tariff barons. They
have been quick to see that without
the farmer vote protection for pro-
tections sake would not be endur-
ed. Now that the farmer has been
taken out from behind the bulwarks
we may expect to hear from the agri-
cultural classes a more vigorous pro-
test against high import duties.
With free wool has come the low
est rate of duty that woolens have
borne for a generation, and as soon
as the old stocks are worked off the
consumer may expect to secure a
substantial advantage from the re-
vision of schedule K. The average
duty on woolens under the Payne
Aldrich bill was about SO per cent.
The average duty under the Under
wood-Simmons bill is about q per
cent.
In the purchase of manufactured
woolens the percentage of reduction
in price may be less than some ex-
pect because the price of the gar
INIT includes the cost of making,
which is not reduced, as we'll as the
cost Of material; but it will be a
substantial reduction and the total
savings to the people will be very
considerable. AS result of the
reopening of WOODEN goods 1t is
probable that there will be an in
crease in the use of good woolens
and a decrease in the use OF shOddy
substitutes. 1t is gratifying that
the revision of the tariff has come
at such a time and under such cir
cumstances as to meet with the ap-
prevail of large majority of the
people of the country. Where any
great change in policy is made with
a bare majority there is danger of a
reaction-the parties aggrieved be-
ing more energetic in expressing dis
approval than the parties benefited
are in expressing approval-but in
this case the country seems to be
ripe for the revolutionary change
which has taken place in the econom-
ic policy of the country, and indi-
cations give promise of permanence
in the change. w. J. BRYAN.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
CALAMITY ROWLING.

The plan of the next republican
campaign was announced to the
houses in speeches made by such
leaders as Mann, Humphrey and 9TH
ers. 1t is to be calamity howl
campaign. Every failure in the
United States is to be carefully re-
corded and announced on the stump.
AS failures have averaged about 200
week all the time the republican
party was in power, even If they
are not increased under the demo-
cratic rule, they can gather enough
to produce an impression on any
standpat audience without much
trouble.
There is one thing that has been
rather discouraging for Mr.. Mann
and his co-workers. Since these
nual reports have been made from all
the industrial centers and for almost
every town and, city in the United
States. The tenor OF them all shows
prosperous year, and brighter pros
poets than usual are reported. One
thing that looks very bad for them
is that the wheat crop is looking bet
ter than it ever did at this time of
the year and the acreage is mucn
larger. The world generally is COM
ing to understand that prosperity de-
ponds on good crops and that trad
ing in stocks and bonds create no
new wealth. While the stock market.
from which they draw all their in
spiration, in predicting calamity, is
seeing dull times, the wheat contin-
ues to grow and the moisture condi-
ton all over the country is as good
as ever reported and the crops main
~ depend on that.
The old time campaigning of the
republican party consisted largely Of
threats to bring on panics and dis
tress if things did not go their way
Now that the party is out of power
it cannot follow that course and it
has gone to calamity bowling. What
success it will have along that line
remains to be seen.--WorldH Herald
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
mo HELP, NOHOW."

1t is after an election that the can
date, who is always looking for Of
flee thinks very little Of the help OF
a country newspaper. 1t is then that
he suddenly finds out that the help
of the country newspaper "doesn' t
amount to nothing. nOhOW.' The
same man when he is running for Of
flee will hang around a newspaper
Office like human barfy hanging
around a saloon trying to get a free
drink
We have heard this so often late
ly that we were beginning to believe
it, So we were somewhat surprised
to read this in Letter sent out by a
congressman from Pennsylvania.
This is what he says:
"Anything you may say in favor
of my bill will be cordially appre-
ciated May | not ask you to send
me marked copy of your paper
containing such comment as you
may make? If can secure the ac-
tive and unielaxing SUPPORT Of the
tJJNTRY PRESS. there will be NO
QUESTION about the adoption OF
my bill
That congressman is crazy, Or he
wouldn't give the country press any
credit. He would claim that he
could do it himself. We are surpris-
ed that the people of Pennsylvania
are so foolish as to elect such an g-
noramus to congress- Where 60 you
suppose he was brought up 10 make
such assertions that the support Of
the country press is worth while?
The next thing that the people Of
that congressman district Will
know he will be saying that he does
mt control the action of the sun. A
man that will admit that the coun-
try press has some power is wrong
in the head and should be watched.
Abba Republican.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
THE WORDS OF WASHINGTON.

One hundred and twenty-four
years ago today President George
Washington delivered his first an
nual address to the congress Of the
United States.
He congra lulated congress on the
favorable aspect of public affairs, re-
marking particularly on the fact
that 1.-The important state of North
Carolina" had ratified the federal
constitution.
He urged congress to provide for
public defense, in these words:
ITO be prepared for war is one
of the most effectual means OF pre-
serving peace. A free people ought
not only to be armed but disciplined /:
to which end a uniform and well-di-
gested plan is requisite
He said: II can not forbear init
mating to you the expediency Of Civ
ing effectual encouragement as well
to the introduction of new and USE
full inventions from abroad as to the
exertion of skill and genius in Pro-
ducing them at home"
What with pacifists preaching dis
armament and trusts twisting the
patent law to suppress invention
rather than to encourage it, these
parts of our first presidents address
are quite applicable today. Perhaps
after all, George Washington was
not quite such a back number as
some progressive" would have us
think. Journal
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
HARD TINES ABROAD.

1t is an ungracious task to con-
slider the troubles of our friends, but
there are times when this is the only
way to get a correct view OF the diff
ticultieS at home.
Berlin has had the gloomiest hOli-
day season known for nearly a CEN
tury-shops empty, traders facing
bankruptcy, 100000 idle men parad-
ing the streets, want in the poorer
quarters that public and private
charity can only palliate Through
out the German empire, banks are
refusing loans, and manufacturers
are cutting down their force. In
Austria-Hungary, conditions are
worse, though the world hears less
about them.
In Italy, state enterprises are halt
ing for lack of money and the minis
try is engaged in vain search for
something new to tax. Hunger is a
regular winter guest in some parts
of Russia, but his name is always
"blacked out" by the censor. De-
spite the revival of business during
the last two years, distress continues
to be severe in London; and France,
probably most prosperous Of all
European great powers, is at her
wits end over problems raised by
the new military loan.
1t should be clear to anyone that
some worldwide cause is responsible
for such worldwide results.
That cause is not far to seek. At
least a thousand million dollars was
burned up in the Balkan wars. Near
ly as much more has been withdrawn
from productive enterprises by re-
cent military increases in Germany,
France and Russia. Add to this the
cost of the Italian conquest of Tri-
poll, the waste in Mexico, and the
unparalleled extravaganza of COM
mercial and social life for the past
decade, and the season of short
fare" now prevailing is pretty thor
oughly explained.-Chicago Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
4 PLAIN NATTER OF HONESTY

The great Morgan interests that
have been SO friendly to us coop
Grated with the Roosevelt admins
tration, but they co-operated with it
to strengthen their grip upon the
credit and industry of the country.
These same interests are now CO.
operating with the Wilson admins
tration, but they are cooperating
with it to settle the trust question in
accordance with the pledges or the
president and his party.
Under Roosevelt the Morgan in
terests were allowed to defy the laws
of the United States. Under Wilson
they accept IAN apparent change IN
public sentiment" as the warrant for
Withdrawing from vast system OF
interlocking directorates.
The difference between the atti-
tude of the Morgan interests under
Roosevelt and the attitude OF the
Morgan interests under Wilson is
the difference between political hon
esty and political dishonesty in the
White House.
If Woodrow Wilson had appoint
ed his chief corporation inquisitor to
collect campaign tribute from cor
porations, if he had accepted hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in
campaign contributions from the
Morgan interests, if he had appoint
ed Morgan partners to the cabinet,
if he had licensed the absorption of
competitors by Morgan trusts, If he
had shown his readiness to turn the
United States treasury over to the
Morgan banking firm, if he had car
ried on a secret political intrigue
with the Morgan money power while
publicly denouncing 'malefactors of
great wealth. we may be sure that
the trust problem would be as far
from solution as it was under the
Roosevelt administration. Great
corporations like the telephone trust
would not dissolve voluntarily. Great
bankers like MIR. Morgan and Mr..
Baker would not withdraw from the
directorates by which thousands OF
millions of capital has been control
| led by a single hand for single
purpose Wall street as a whole
| would still be trampling upon the
Sherman act instead of working
with the administration to translate
the presidents words to deeds.
Big business knows, after due in
vestigation, that Mr.. Wilson means
what he says. 1t knows that his
campaign chests have not been STUFF
fed with the contributions Of the
great corporations. 1t knows that
ne is not making speeches to iniiame
public passion while he is secretly
negotiating with the interests that
he professedly denounces. 1t knows
that the Wilson administration has
no Wall street favorites and no Wal
street scapegoats; that it does not
pursue Hartman and protect q
Morgan; that it does not prosecute
tobacco trust while defending a
sugar trust or a steel trust
| Wall street recognizes and re,
spects political honesty as quickly
as anybody. Experience long age
taught it that there can be no politi-
cal honesty and no political sincerity
| in government when an administra-
ton that has been financed into pow
er by Wall streets money poses as
an enemy Of the trusts.-New York
World.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, D. c., Jan. l2.-
Special OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
forces lining up in Iowa for the po-
litical campaigns of the summer and
fall, it is to find conditions entirely
reversed. This year it is the demo-
Gratis who are crowding the field for
political honors. There are candi-
dates plenty for all offices to be
Etlled, while the republicans seeing
simmer chances Of success ahead,
are not displaying much enthusiasm
in entering the field. And this year
it is the democrats who are point
ing with pride" while their oppon-
ents view with alarm"
Senator Cummins' Grant club
speech has been read closely in
Washington as it was thought it
would sound an issue on which the
republicans could base their cam
paign this year, but it proved a dis
appointment. 1t offered nothing con-
structive. There was a great deal of
explanation of why the senators
plan for a special national conven-
ton this year was voted down by
the national committee, a note of
regret that his former progressive
followers had placed candidate in
the field against him, and a great
deal of criticism of the democratic
party's legislative record.
National Committeeman Wade
and State Chairman Reed have made
it plain that they will welcome any
republican plan of campaign based
on opposition to the record of Presi-
dent Wilson and the democratic con-
gress. They believe that the demo-
cratic party can we'll 60 before the
country on the achievements of the
first year of the democratic admin
istration, when for the first time the
demands of the people growing in
strength for more than decade
for tariff reduction were complied
with, and when banking and curren-
cy reforms demanded for a genera
ton were enacted into law.
Some of the far-seeing republican
editors already are protesting
against continuing the effort to base
a campaign on criticism of the demo-
Gratis, or by harping on the calamity
issue. The Sioux City Journal edi-
torially enters such a protest. The
Journal says there is no excuse for
predicting commercial depression.
The new currency and financial sys-
tenn, it says, is admitted even by un-
friendly critics to be great improve
ment over the one that is to be
abandoned. The influence of the
currency law it already sees at work
eXerting tremendous influence for
commercial uplift. The Journal
says:
lin view of all these circum-
stances republicans who are inclined
to cry calamity and criticise the ad-
ministration should rest their voices
and try to think up some legitimate
issue on which to base partisan ar
gument during the coming congress
sional campaign. There is nothing
more ludiclous than calamity how
Ter in times that are good and grow
ing better.
The Chamber of Commerce of the
United States strikes an optimistic
note in a review of the business con-
ditions at the close of 1918. The
country's mercantile business, it
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15

If the reader is an Iowa republi-
can. what does he advise the repub-
licans of Iowa to do about state
platform for the party in l9i4?'
asks the Burlington Hawkeye. LAS
the nominees, and the delegates to
the state convention are to be chos-
en- through the primary elections,
how are the republican voters to
know whether the candidates for
state and congressional offices will
stand square on the platform? Or
how are candidates to know in adj
vance 10 what political principles
they will be required to swear ale
glance? There is the unhaCpy Mas
sachusetts experience as reminder
of what may happen to Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15
"What the average increase

what the average increase in
taxation in Iowa counties will be
next year has not yet been disclosed
1t will be high enough and general
enough to- attract the taxpayers at
tention," says the Sioux City Jour
nal There is sure to be an effort
to make a state issue of it and to
hold the state administration re-
sponsible. 1t is this phase of the
coming political situation that prob
ably has given the greatest encour-
& &c ment to the candidacy of Editor
Rowley. The necessity for cam
paign of education issue probably
will be disclosed before the cam
paign of 1914 gets a good start"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15

Republican says, 1.-The voters do not
as a rule, hold Gov. Clarke respon-
sible for the passage Of the capitol
extension BILL The interesting
question still remains, how much re-
sponsibility will Gov. Clarke assume
in the coming primary campaign.
The more he assumes before next
June, the more trouble he will have
in the fall campaign, and the great
.er will be his chance of defeat
Iowa City Republican.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-01-15

According to Banker Wade we
shall have better money under the
new currency law and more of it..
The quality of our money has never
been especially Objectionable, but
its quantity under the old system, as
long as we can remember, has been a
serious disappointment