The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-11-06
What Iowa Newspapers Say.

Madrid Register-News: The on
thing needed above everything els
is to speed up production.
The Sioux City journal thinks ina
The homestead mighty appropriate
" Anita Tribune: In the face Of al
the profiteering and wrongful ex
actions there has been no economy
Des Moines Register: The won
der is that the packers remain IN {
business that nets them only cents
on the dollar.
lis needed to set. off a great con
|flagration. And that spark may de-
|velop at any moment. ,~,.
Mason City Globe-Gazette: High
finance is an ancient NUMBER these
days. Profiteering has backed 1t OIL
the stage. ,:.:
popularity and votes by denouncing
the income tax.
| Muscatine Journal: The threat of
the present hour is as menaclng as
that presented by the imperial pur-
pose of Potsdam. 80,
Jefferson Bee: Nothing will reach
the cost of food and properly reduce
it until there is an overproduclng or
Waaverly Democrat: There is no
sense in chasing wages and prices
around in circle as the dog that
chases his own tail. :.
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: If
the packers haven't been making
heap of money. why these enormous
Winterset News: BY the way,
the luxury tax is one in the high
cost of living, and the president has
repeatedly urged its abolition.
| The Brighton Enterprise says a
local family which owes a grocery
bill of several months standing pays
cash for it's gasoline and picture
shows.
Council Bluffs Nonparell: Don't
place too much reliance on this cru
trust in economy, and practice it..
Spencer News-Herald: Our pre-
diction is that the peace treaty. lea,
que of nations and everything will
be ratified, and so, if eventually, why
not now?
Grundy Center Dispatch: 1nvesti,,
eating the high cost of living will
prove about as effective as a church
bull against comet. The bubble
will have to burst.
Des Moines Register: Some sena-
tors will agree that we enter the
legaue of nations on condition lat
the QODI DS lelL open ~ tlldC We van
get out in case Of fight.
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune: Can it
be true that any organization or any
branch of organized labor can cooily
say to this country, Meet our de-
mands or there will be trouble and
make good the threat?
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Car
negie was a Scotch lad who began at
the bottom OF he ladder and worked
his way up. His first salary was
S1,2O per week. You can scarcely
buy square meal for that now.
Manchester Democrat: Did the
republican senators consult President
Wilson for information or was it
their purpose to get another pretext
for talking for two months?
Some Of those who yell the. loud
sell their cottages at mansion prices,
and the rent-raisers are competing
to see. which can jump the highest," .
remarks the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Muscatine Journal: To deliberate
ly wreck for partisan purposes the
worlds prospect of peace not only
! threatens the future of existing
the nation and even of civilization.
| Dubuque mes-Journal:O Our ex-
port trade with Germany for the
month of June amounted to $4,000
| 600. What has become Of the super
patriots who said they would never
soil their hands by making money in
this way?
afollow the Lodges and Penroses and
Borahs and Reeds in their effort, to
make America little. or shall we fol
low the Wilson's and T'afts in an eff
fort to make America great?
! Melrose Record: The numerous
! investigating committees which have
been appointed by the republican
congress are all bosh. We won the
war. 1t cost money and there was
| and waste.
Carroll Times: Let the senate
ratify and approve the covenant of
the league of nations. That act alone
| will stabilize the world. 1t will turn
the peoples thoughts from war. 1t
will restore the psychology Of peace.
NaS5i iCyux the c tify'y' Tribune: Perhaps
Lodge is not to blame. 1t is always
to be remembered that Daniel Web
ster opposed the union of California
| with the United States. He said
1.-The Rocky Mountains are the
| natural boundary Of this country
Winterset Madisonian: Every
man is cock-sure that the articles he
DuyS are LOO nigh, UuI liz lS Qudiiy
certain that his own products or his
labor is not too high, and if you
question it he will preach an elo-
quent sermon in support Of his
prices.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: In one
sense of the word. everybody has
been a profiteer-not always inten-
tionally and not always with a sor-
did motive, but impelled by the very
natural motive of selling in the
market at the best obtainable prices.
Iowa City Citizen: There may be
more to it than appears on the sur
face. but at this distance the action
of the senate committee on foreign
relations in substituting the name
of China for Japan in the Shantung
award Of the peace treaty seems like
boys play.