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j-h If li- fl I I ISSUUD EVERY FRIDAY. PUBLISHED BY HUBERT REMLEY, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR, PAYABLE INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Advertising Hales furnished ivpon Application AddrewTHE IOWA CITIZEN, Iowa City Iowa. Entered at tbo Post Office at loiva City as Second Class malt matter. The Democrats seem to know that lies are not taxed by the McKinley bill and are prodigal in using them.

"Henry Linn, a Humbolt county farmer walked eighteen miles in his If we walk eighteen miles it will he when we are asleep. An exchange says; "Governor Boies is laying the foundation for a fine residence at Waterloo." He will meet his Waterloo next November, There are some people who imagine a falsehood once told serves as good purpose as the truth. And all that is required to secure it credence is to persist in telling it. With some people the question of the right or wrong of such course does not enter into consideration. The Democratic newspapers are now generally printing the following attributed to J.

S. Clarkson: "I had to support cranks would have ruined my paper if I hadn't, but I belong to the world now instead of Iowa; prohibition is a fraud, a delusion, and has ruined our party in Iowa; will continue to do it until we rid ourselves of it, and it must be done." Every man who knows anything of Mr. Clarkson knows that he never uttered such a sentiment. It is neither his language nor his sentiment. It has all the ear marks of a forgery.

He was never wanting in courage to advocate his convictions, however unpopular they might have been Whatever Mr. Clarkson may be he is not a fool. If for years he has been playing a part he is not such a shameless idiot as to unbosom himself to Democrats in that style The farmer smiles as be batches his corn booming this weather, and reverently thanks God that Governor Boies lied about the loss on corn raising. The rains and warm weather insures the maturity of one of the largest crops of corn Iowa has ever seen, but it milldews the hopes of the calamity party. The Cedar Rapids Gazette gives an account of the Siouii.

City "saloons on wheels" so that they can be moved so as to avoid the effects of injunctions. This is the next thing to being "on their last legs." D. A. Farrell, formerly editor of the Council Bluffs Globe (Dem.) says that Cleveland as a presidential candidate in 1892 is out of the question, but thinks that Senator Gorman, of Maryland, is the coming man. machines" of the Democratic party have opened up on Wheeler and Van Houten.

The leaders of the party have an abiding confidence in the gullibility of the rank and file, and expect them to believe any lie, however preposterous and absurd. In Russia, people who make crop reports are promptly arrested. This makes the Russian summer warm for speculators --Ex. That is the place tosend Sovereign. He would be "drawn and quartered" the first month, and could then no longer slander Iowa.

Mr. C. H. J. Taylor, of Kansas City, an alleged colored orator, wrote to Cedar Rapids that he would attend the Colored Anti-Prohibition League, and said I will make the greatest speech ever delivered in your state by a negro In the language of a prominent Johnson county Democratic leader "He that bloweth not his own horn and the same shall not be blown," The Iowa Capitol offers a rewark of $25 for evidence that Lincoln ever uttered or wrote the words attributed to him by Democratic speakers and papers, which they call "Lincoln's Prophecy." This is a good chance for some Democrat to make $25 easy.

The language does, not sound like Lincoln's and it is very peculiar that no one heard of it until more than a quarter of a century after his death. In keeping with that kind of campaign tactics was the one adopted by Mr Mills in this city. THE CITIZEN would have thought ii a slip had it not been deliberately prepared for beforehand. Mills had painted in large letters on the cotton cloth that he hung up to use as an object lesson, the following. There is not a section or a line in the entire hill that will open musket for another bushel of or another barrel of pork --Blaim to Five.

No one knew better than Mr. Mills that Blaine neversaid that of the McKinley bill --the McKinley bill which was enacted into a law. No one knew better than Mr. Mills the circumstances under which Elaine's letter to Frye was written, and to what it referred. He knew that the McKinley bill bad not been formulated by the committee of Ways and Means at the time Elaine's celebrated letter was written advocating the reciprocity clause, which was afterward engrafted into what became known as the McKinley bill, and since becoming a law has opened a market for millions of bushels of wheat and millions of barrels of pork.

He presumed upon the ignorance of an Iowa audience and did not deem it necessary to hav'e truth as a basis for fair argument. Instead of being a broad-minded statesman trying vince by facts and fair argument, he placed himself on the plane of a political jagglerer and inounteback. Such methods of securing votes may be Democratic, but are neither tonest nor the right way. would have been very careful about "re- iIterating" anything which our esteemed friend might construe into "lieing" "per se." The fact is incontrovertible that every Democrat in Congress voted against the McKinley bill which put binding twine on the free list, and THE CITIZEN has nothing to retract. The Mills bill provided for a duty of twenty five per cent ad valorem.

So let THE CITIZEN have the 'confidence of the reading public" a little while longer wont you? In the same issue of the Reporter appears the following. We favor such legislation as will tax not only the church property in which our mothers prayed for the forgiveness of our sins, bat will also tax the grave in which we laid her gray hairs in Platform, Section 8. Will the Reporter now stand up and answer a few questions like a man. Did. you not intend your readers to believe that the above was the eighth section of the Republican platform? If sodid you not know you were beating the record of Ananais? If not, and the above is something of your own getting up, will you -inform your readers what your mother did that you "laid her gray hairs in the grave itidis- and if the old lady was dead, why did you not lay her body awayin the grave too BOIES' CORN.

LYMAK PAH SONS, President. LOVELL WISHER, Cashier. Vice Prest. JNO. LASHECK Ass't Caehier Capital Stock, $100.000, Surplus, $20,000.

DIRECTORS: Lyman Parsons, Peter A Dey J.T.Turner, C.S.Welch Q. W. Bail, A. N. Currier, 35.

Bratfway. Especial Atteutipn given, to Collections Foreign Exchange, and Letters of Credit. T. C. CARSON, Pres, MOSBS BLOOM, V.

Pres Wat. A. Far, Cashier, GEO. L. PALK, Asst C'hr SOLON'S SAGE SOURED, The Solon Reporter jumps onto TE CITIZEN "with both feet." It says In face of the fact that we called the attention of THE CITIZEN to its misstatement in regard to the placing of twine on the tree list it again reitterates the statement that every Democrat in Congress voted to keep the duty on.

We are led to believe now that THE CITIZEN is willfully heing about the unless it retracts us statements it M'ill no longer be worthy of the confidence of the readme public. A paper that will lie about one proposition will lie about all if any advantage can be gained thereby We challenge THE CITIZEN to print the names oMhose voting on the question of placins twine on the free list per se. That is just what the Reporter says, verbatim ct lilo allm punctmtim. If the Reporter ever contained one word in correction of the statement in THE CITIZEN it escaped attention, else THE CITIZEN Some, in attempting to justify Boies' statement in regard to raising corn, have included in the expenses the rent of the land, repairs of the fences, taxes, etc Such men do not understand what Boies said. What he said was that the cost of the labor in raising corn was more lhan the value of the crop when raised.

To make the point clear and free from doubt he added: 1 When we tonsidir the immense capital invested in ike. farms of a single slate and are told that for five whole years IT HAS NOT P-UD ENOUGH TO COMPENSATE THE LABOR employed, it is apparent that no olhe; business could havt withstood such acondition of adversity during so prolonged a period. The egregiousness of Boies' statement becomes even greater, if we add a fair rental of the land to the loss of sixty-seven cents per acre, which he says there is. "Saying nothing whatever of income from the capital invested in ths land required to produce it." A fair rental would be at least per acre, and the total loss, according to Boies, not less than 67 Will any farmer justify such a statement' The millions of acres of corn in Iowa, smiling in their luxuriance, bringing wealth to the farmer and prosperity to the entire state, give the lie to the Governor's shameless slander Capital Stock $125, Pays Interest on Deposits. Has the Only Burglar Proof Sale Deposit Boxes in the city, ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.

DIRECTORS. Thos. C. Carson, M. Bloom, Henry Strohm, J.

C. Cochmn. C. F. Lovelace, L.B.

Patterson, Jj 1 Le Fevro, Samuel Sharpless, E. Tudor, A. s. SWISHER, prest. Q.

w. LEWIS, vice-prest. 0. w. KOONIZ, Treas.

ad kl Co, Capital and Surplus $35,000 JUDGE WcKEAN. Pour Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits-Accounts Received Subject to Check, Loans Made on Real Estate. Office first door north of Pratt Stiub, on Clinton street. IOWA CITY, IOWA, The many friends of Judge McKean in this county win be pained to learn of his death at his home in Dubuque on the 8th inst. He lived many years in Anamosa, and served in the Legislature and State Senate for six years He was elected judge of the Circuit Court of the old 8th District in 1872, and presided in this county for eight years, He was also Regent of the University for six years.

He was a conscientious upright Judge, and faithfully discharged the duties of the office He was warm and true in his friendship, honorable and just in dealings and had the esteem of the public. For some years be has been in poor health. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. His remains were buried by the Masons in Jones County. tors Lou iti t-YWAPJ PARSONS, President PETER A.

DEY, Vice President. LOVELL SWrSMER, Treasurer. DIRECTORS. Lyman Parsons, A. Pey, C.

S. Welch, J. T. Turner. E.

Bradway Interest paid OR TIR.O Deposits. Lonns made on Real Batata eectiritr, NEWSPAPER!.