twenty at the average price is $95.64. This puts a rather high value on WESLEY JARRET'S mare a correspondingly low one on 122Y BAUM'S red ribboner. —It often happens that the man who buye everything be can fiom the cheap catalogue houses, like Sears— Roebuck & Co., and Montgomery Ward, is the very fellow who, when he has a little misfor- tane in his home, is around with a paper asking the merchants with whom be ought to deal to help him out a little. ~The new pension bill that is before the Legislature doesn’t please some of the old boys. It proposes a pension of six dollars a month to all soldiers who enlisted in 1861 and 1862 bat the provision that those who are already receiving a pension from the federal government or holding an office are not eligible for this one is the thon in the flesh of many of them. ~The master of paying twelve dollars a page for printing the Legislative Record is coming io for a little airing at Harrisburg just now. At that rate the cost of the in- dex alone was something over thirty thous. and dollars. I: does seem a little high for 80 worthless a work, bat things are high in Harrisbaiz. Now if it had beeo a real reo- ord of some of the Legislators it might not have been unwisely spent money to have found ont what crooks some of them are. —Trouhle ia beginning to develop at Harrisharg already. Senator SNYDER, of Sobuylkill, bas introduced a bill inoreas- ing the fee for a marriage license from fifty cents to two dollars. What a hold-up of poor Hymen, and what ao ontrage upon the girls. Lots of them that look good as the present price of filty cents might re- main on the shell forever as two dollars. Better, far better, tax the bachelors than attempt to secure additional revenues hy making it next to impossible for some to get married. ~The sinking of the steamer Republic off Nantncket on Satarday morning was a miracalons marine disaster. There were seven hundred and seventy-two persons aboard the steamer when she was rammed by the Florida and only six of them lost their lives. It was the first emergency of great moment that has arisen since wire. less telegraphy has been in practice and though the boats in collision were in a dense fog and twenty-six miles from land in ten minutes alter the accident had oec- curred the wireless telegraph calls for help had been picked ap, both on shore and at sea, and no less than fonr boats were away to the resoue before the passengers on the - illlated Republic were tally aware of their danger. It is true that the Florida was not orippled too badly to stand by and take the Republic's passengers, bat it is also trae thas she might bave been and in that event the wireless messages would have been the means of saving probably all the lives, for the Republic was kept afloat un- til alter many of she resoning vessels reach- ed her side. —-—The New York woman who has brought a suit for divorce against her hus- band ander the Thirteenth amendment to the Coonstitntion, which forbids slavery within the houndaries of the United States, has institated a proceeding at once novel aod interesting. She claims thas she is virtaally a slave now because she has one ohild and as her husband gets only twenty dollars a week if any more shonld come her bonds would be complete. While 1# is troe that many husbands make slaves of their wives, either by drunkenness, negligence, indolence or the mistaken notion thas a woman is merely a creature that should defer at all times to the saperior (?) whims of man, this particular woman is manifest- ly not the right wife for the man who is earning twenty dollars a week. If she were the kind of a wife be ought to have she would be the happiest little soul in the world and each new babe would add an additional ray of sunshine to the home. For if she were doing her share there wonld be no thought of slavery. Everything would he so easy that it wonld be a pleas. ure, We know of many couples in Belle. fonte who have hought homes aad paid for them and raised large families on ahoat half the salary shat this New Yorker is ges- ting and instead of thinking themselves slaves the women are so fall of honest happiness and comfort that they make the nay home a veritable Heaven for the one who | ship of each of the Legislative bodies as earns the wage. Harrisburg, Philadelphia avd Pittebarg, through the arrogance aod diotation of the bosses controlling the Republican organiza. tion of the State, deliberately took to themselves everything of hovor or value within the gifs of the Legislature and then sapercillionsly distributed among the country membership the little that was lefs. And like whipped hounds the Repre- sentatives of country districts whiningly licked up the crumbs that had fallen from the political table, and will #i¢ round, dar- ing the balance of the session, licking their jowls in expectance of being able to snatch a hone or two before the session ends. If ever there was such an exhibition of unadulterated hoggishness as that display. ed in the organization of the present Leg- islature it is back of the time that any liv. ing man cao recall or point to. Of the 257 Representatives in the Senate and House, the two cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, including the connty of Al- legheoy, have eighty-one—or less than one- thitd of the total membership. And to this third the country Members allowed to be given, —the two United States Senators, the Speaker of she House, the ochairman- ships and control of the most important committees of hoth bodies, with many of the beet and most profitable minor positions, accepting for themselves and their constita- evocies, outside of these two cities, three or four olerkships, a few assistant eergeant-as- arms and postmasters, and such namber of pasters and folders, hoot-blacks, water- closet watchers and spittoon oleaners as they were allowed. And nota manly protest from one of them against this outrageous theft of pat- ronage and power ! Aud to this exhibision of the greediness of this city combine, to hog everything within sight, is yet to be added (its ability and determination to force upon the State such legislation as suits its purposes and will bess aid the bosses in coutinning their control. Davip H. LANE, ove of the oldest and most reprehensible leaders of the Philade!- phia machine, it is already heralded, has prepared and will bring to Harrisburg for enaotment, a new election law, a new pri- mary election act, an act abolishing the present poll tax, amendments to and change, in the present registration law, and the good Lord &ione kuows how many oih- er measures. And every ove of them will be in the interest of the ‘‘gang”’ —will tend to make its power more impregnable and its rule more intolerant. And that these will pass and hecome laws is almost a certainty. For what can be expected of the two-thirds majority that have cravenly sabmitted to being rohbed of their rights in the organization, when the whip is cracked to line them up for such legislation as the hosses demand —hut the same servility that has obaracterized every movement they have yet made. There will be anending and intolerable talk about a combination of the conutry Members. There will be a few feeble pro- tests. There will be continued and unlim- ited whining, and —that will be all. To look for any good from the Legisla- tare cf 1909 will be a useless waste of time. There is too much of hoggichness on the one side ; too much eervilisy on the other. Not New With Them. Away in the west, particularly in the great southwest, where the lack of woods and water are so severely felt, President ROOSEVELT is getting great oredit for bis recent utterances favoring the protection of our forests and the conservation of our water supply. Governor STUART, in his last message, called attention to the ne- oeasity of some Legislation or effort in this line and his reference to the need of early action in the matter, meets with favorable comment from all directions. The public ia not, however, geneially aware that two years ago Representative AILMAN, of Juniata county, presented in the Legisla- tare a bill covering the very points sog- gested by Presilent RoOSEVELT and com- mended by Governor STUART, and that it was never heard of after ite assignment to the committee Mr. AILMAN, we presume, will present the same bill daring the present session, and possibly pow that a Republican Presi. dent bas suggested and a Republican Gov- ernor commended some action on this mos: vital question of the preservation of our woods, that we may have a supply of water, the proposition of an bamble Demooratio Member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania be given at least enongh of era- tion by the Republican majority to be read od Jominires, aud either approved or The Pennsylvania Democrats, The Democratic State committee wisely elected Colonel James M. GUFFEY to membership in the Democratic National committee for Pennsylvania. We have never believed tht there was a vacancy in that committee. As the Denver conven- tion Colonel GUFFEY was elected to the office hy an overwhelming majority of the Pennsylvania delegation and has never re- signed or in any other way relinguished his olaim to the seat. Bat under some malign influence the committee admitted to its body a man who bad never been elected and under the parliamentary prin. ciple that all rach bodies are judges of the election and gnalification of its own mem- bers, there may have been a technical vacancy upon the death of the gentleman so recognized and is was well enough to fill is. The committee was equally wise in the srlection of State Senator ARTHUR G. DEWALT, of Lehigh connty,as chairman to fill the vacancy caused by the resiguation of Hon, GEORGE M. DiMELING. In com- mon with all Democrats intimate with ex- isting conditions, we regres shat Senator DIMRLING felt that he ought to resign. He proved not only an efficient but an intel. ligent and industrious chairman. Only those familiar with the work of a campaign know the arduous and difficult labor which devolves upon a state chairman. It is not invidious to say that no chairman in recent years has performed this work more faith- fully than Senator DIMELING. He was alike vigilans, earnest, unselfish and effi. cient. Bat it may be predicted that Sena- tor DEWALT will be a worthy successor. The proceedings of the meeting of Taes- day were fitly finished hy eloguent and appropriate addresses by national commis teeman GUFFEY and chairman DEWALT. Both gentlemen pleaded for harmony and activity in the party and each pledged him- self to the fall measure of personal endeav- or. The Democratic situation is not hope- less. The Demooratic mind is not in dee- pair. As a matter of fact the vote of last fall,notwithstanding the adverse conditions under whioh it was cast, is most enoourag- ing. The State committee labored as. siduously and unselfishly for the success of the ticket. Colonel GUFFEY was hoth gen- erons and vigilant in behalf of the party. Now that all the elements which make for factionaliem have heen eliminated, there are reasons to expeot better results in the fatare. The Naval Appropriation i). The House of Representatives in Wash- ington passed the paval appropriation bill finally the other day. It appropriates $135,000 000 for the vse of the navy during the fiscal year beginning on the 1st of July. Of this vast sam $38,719,595 is for new ships of war. These include two hat. tleships of the Dreadnaught type which will cost $10,500,000 each, four torpedo boat destroyers, four colliers, a sub-surface hoat, whatever that is, and four schmarine torpedo boats. This leaves something like $97,000,000 for maintenance and equip went, a proposition which would have ap- palled the people even a dozen years ago. The spirit of proflignoy appears to have taken ahsolute control in Washington. Money i= appropriated as if it grew on trees and cost nothing to gather. While the measure was pending last Friday a motion was made to strike oat the provision for the two battleships and BURKE CoCcHRAN, of New York, a political Hessian and parliamentary ad. ventarer, turned the tide by holding up for the contemplation ol his associates in the House the danger of a war with Japan. “Suppose a Japanese were lynched on the Pacific coass,’’ he remarked, “what will they do in Tokio then? They have no Awerican laborers to lyneh,'’ be continued, “‘hut they have American merchants, toor- ists, missionaries and officials.” What absolutely absard rabbish. If Tokio will patiently endare such an aspersion upon Japanese intelligence, there is nothing to apprehend from any other ineult or ons rage. And that preposterous nonsense, ad- dressed to the American Congress, was not resented. ROOSEVELT has some reason for questioning the character of Congressmen. The Japanese are peither savages nor imbeciles. If a Japanese were lynched on the Pacific coast the result would be pre- cisely the same as if an Eoglishman, a Ger- man or an American were similarly treat- ed. The matter would be carefully in- vestigated and if possible the murderer would be punished. Anybody who doesn’t koow that is worse than an idiot and ita school boy in a debating society should in- dulge in such absurd talk as that of Cocn- RAN, he would be literally ridiculed ous of the class. This Japanese war talk is a fig ment of jingoism, she purpose of which is to frighten the American people into consent to profligacy as a means of graft. The naval appropriation biil is an outrage upon the people whose industry is taxed to pay the cost of profligasy. ——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN, ATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION, EFONTE, PA., JANUARY 29, 1909. Bousparte's Ignorance of Law, The childish ignorance of the law of At- toroey General BONAPARTE was revealed in the United States cironit court in New York, the other day, when Judge WARD quashed the enbpoenas which bad heen served upon two employees of the New York World, to give evidence in the lese majesty case against the editor of shat newspaper. Mr. BONAPARTE has person- ally condnoted this case from she begin- ning. Being a wember of the Baltimore bar it was probably be who informed the President of the existence of the Maryland law of 1801, nuder which she proceedings have been undertaken. It was certainly BoNAPARTE who arranged the details of the prosecution and direoted the issue of the subpoenas. In the opinion handed down by Judge WARD invalidating the subpoenas, tbat learned juries plainly conveys his doubts as to the honesty and fairness ef the prose- cation, the President of the United States and his agents in the matter, Astorrey General BoxaPArTe and United States District Attorney STiMsoN. He says that the District Attorney contends ‘‘shat the protection of witnesses may safely rest on the presumption that neither the grand jury nor the United States Attorney will do anything unfair or oppressive.’”” If he had believed that statement of the United States Attorney he would probably bave affirmed the validity of the sabpoenas. Bat so far from doing thas he took the op- posite course and deolared the service in- valid. O! course Judge Wann bas woo the everlasting enmity aud hatred of THEO: DORE ROOSEVELT hy thus preventing a contemplated outruge, not only upon the witnesses in question but upon the defend- ant in the proposed crusade against his lib- erty and property. ROOSEVELT doesn’t care for the fact that in this proceeding the law is heing perverted to the basess pur. pose that could possibly be imagined. It is a matter of no concern to him that in every step in this proceeding he has violat- ed bis oath of office and his obligation to the people. Iu his cankered heart and brain he cherishes nothing except malice aod he hoped to punish a citizen, not for violésng any law, hut“foroflending hie | vanity. A Reform Aborilon. Of all the attempts to reforns thin elections in this State that bave been made yet, the Uniform Primary method has proven the most iveflective and abortive. In place of securing an houvess expression of the hon- est people of both parties, as to their nom- inees, it has afforded the traders and mer- cenaries the opportunity of placing on the different tickets jnst snoh wen as they de- sire. Particularly is thie so in the greatly con- gested districts, and those having over- whelming majorities for either party. Both in Pittsburg and Philadelphia at the recent elections, Republicans voted their candi- dates onto the Demooratio tickes in a num- ber of distriots, and in one Pittsburg dis- triot, where the Republican majority was 80 large that there was no hope for any de- oent Demoorat to have a showing at the election, and none coald be fonud who would accept a nomination because of that hopelessness, two trading Democrats were put ou the Republican ticket as against two reputable Republicans who had filed their papers and were willing to stand as candidates, The present act has proven itself as the most proficient aid to scoundrelism and mercenaries thas bas ever been experienc ed. If the law cannot he amended wo that its multiplicity of weaknesses can be cured, it would be better by lar to repeal it and go back to the old and simple means of seleot- ing candidates. In shat case at least, if errors occurred or wrongs were committed, they would not be accomplished under the forms and pro- tection of law. —Prof. H. A. SURFACE, the chief bug- ologist of the State and the big noise maker at most of the agricultural gatherings, has just discovered that the brown tail moth is going to fly through the Pennsylvania as- mosphere soon in svoch myriad millions as to make human lite unendurable. His warning is timely for is gives every one time to conjure up a picture of the Profes- sor with a new squirt gan standing on the boundaries of the old Keystone State wait- ing for the skirmish line of the brown-tail- ed hordes. The Professor is the man be- hind the gan and if his buoket runs dry of emulsion there will be enough wind left to blow every brown-tailed devil clear to Mars and the swirl will probably be so great thas the terrible ‘‘Saint Josie’ scale will be carried away in their wake. ~The conntry members are said to have asserted themselves at Harrisburg Toesday. A fice time, indeed, to get together : After all she committees have been packed with gangsters and there is nothing left to do hat vote on the bills these committees are NO. 5. Economy: Not More Taxes, From the Johnstown Democrat. An increase in taxation is not needed in Penusylvania. Already the revenues ate enormons and they must continue to grow. What we need ina bit of honest economy in poblic expenditures and less thieving in connection with pablic works. The $9,- 000,000 graft in she capitol job should not be forgotten. With that sum a Mmageifoent honlevard from Philadelphia to r might be built. With $9,000,000 the sobools might he relieved as to all needs. With $9,000,000 the state tions which are crippled for want of igs be placed on a thoroughly efficient noting. Bat that $9,000,000 has gone sud gone for good. It will never find its way back into the looted treasury. Just e it went and who got it, ean only be inferred. But the salient fact is that it is not avail. in for puslie ver Is joo should exer- a chastening effect on the party respon. sible for the tremendous hid hy Ir shonld impel that party toa course of severe economy until a balance has been restored and instead of planning new taxes and larger extravagances it should devote ita energies to the lopping off of every siue- cure and the saving of every dollar that now hints of gratnity. Unfortunately Pennsylvania has hecome more and more lavish in the expenditure of taxes. These are almosf wholly indirect and in aence the people do not feel them as they would if they were taken ont of their pockets as city and connty taxes are taken. Bat the le have to pay the indirect taxes nevertheless. They do not come out of the ions. They do not fall upon privileges and monopolies. They are taxes that are passed along with added profits from the apparent payer to the con- sumer. And he is hors without koowing precisely what hurts him. It is therefore important that the mass of the people of this state should protest agaiost any proposed increase of state taxes. They should insist rather & gen- pru- fi nine economy. They should insist dent expenditore. They should demand and enforoe a rigid accounting for all money appropriated. And they should make it clear that they will not stand fora riot of extravagance in the dishursement of publio lands. Mr. Roosevelt's Latest Discovery. From the New York World. We can well understand Mr. Roosevelt's distrust of a judiciary that exalts the con- stitution of the United States ahove My Policies. So far as Mr. Roosevels is con- cerned the case against the World has al- ready been tried in a message to | The crime is ‘‘a libel upon the" United States government ;'* *‘the real offedder” is the etor of the world. Mr. Roose. velt has fonod him guilty, and thas ought to settle it. Yet here comes a federal court which deliberately refuses to sus- tain the Bill of Rights, and takes no cogni- zance of the fact that Mr. Roosevelt bas tried the case, rendered a verdiot and is impatiently waiting to impose sentence. It is time for another message to congress excoriating the courts for obstructing the administration of ‘Roosevelt justice.’ Having found that the covstitation is still in force, Mr. Roosevelt will also find that this i= a government of law ; thas there are courts to administer the law ; that these coarts are a co-ordinate hranch of the government of the United Siates, aod that the administration nf justice is not in his hands hat in theirs. The case against the World is vos going to be tried in messages to congress, or in White House harangues, or in exeontive orders, or in star-chamber proceedings, bus in courts of law, hy due process of law and in accord~ ance with the constitution. These courts will be no more tolerant of lawlessness in office than of lawlessness ont of office. If this is treason Mr. Roosevelt will bave to make the most of is. Extremity of Presidential Ive. From the Richmond Times—Dispatch. The government's enit against ‘‘certain newspapers,’’ which at first seemed to be simply the rather wild threat of an old an- gry potentate, appears to he actually taking shape. It is rightly regarded as an attempt- ed assault upon the freedom of the press. No newspaper could possibly libel the Unis ed States. * * For the United State: gov- ernment to undertake to defend the name of the president-elect’s hrother or the pres- ideut’s hrother-in law is manifestly out of place. The circamstances give it an unde- niable and ugly suggestion of intimidation. So wholly foreign is such a step as this to the intent of onr oriminal statutes that the obliging Mr. has been sorely put toittoend any law under which sais could conceiveably be t. In desper- ation, it is said, he has actually fallen back apon an old law covering orimes commis. ted upon governmental reservations and will base his case ou the fact that newspapers containing the *‘libel”’ were sold and ciren- lated on Governor's Island, as West Poins, and the like. To such extremities will presidential wrath go. Making a New Crime, From the New Orleans States (Dem.) Now that the matter has been brought to an issue it is imperative shat all the facts should be brought ont. The people are entitled to know the reason for the sudden vehemence of the president alter he bad re- mained quiet for so long, and in general they have a right to know where every dollar of their money has gone and for what purpose it was expended. Every oitizen, be he president or hod-carrier, bas the right to protect his good name by suits for libel against the authors of calumnious publications, but no authorisy in our laws can he found for the attempt to construe a oriticism of the president aud bis friends into an assanlt npon the government and oriminal libel against the country. This attempt to create a new orime by judicial constrootinn will be watched with interest by lovers of justioe all over the country. pleased to report out. ~——8ubsoribe for the WATCHMAN. ——————— » oe SE spawis from the Keystone. ~The 960 women graduates of Bryn Mawr eollege have undertaken to raise an addition« al endowment fund of $1,000,000, and $100,- 000 is already in sight. ~The largest order ever placed for steel car wheels was received on Thursday by the Carnegie Steel company, Pittsburg, from the Chicago Street Railways company. ~The beautiful new B. F. Stevens Memo- rial Methodist Episcopal church, in Harris- burg, just completed at a cost of $75,000, was dedicated on Sunday. Bishop William A. Quayle, of Chicago, officiated. ~(iroundbogs cre reported as playing in the sunshine on Jack's mountain, near Lew- istown. The mild weather seems to have been two tempting to keep them in their holes until the 20d of February. ~The Grand Army and patriotic organiza. tions of Greeusburg have secured William I. Swope, Esq., district attorney of Clearfield county, to deliver the priucipal address on the Lincoln birthday nuniversary. —A vew high school in Karthaus, Clear- field county, erected at a cost of $7,655 was dedicated on Friday with addresses by Coun- ty Superintendent Tobias and others. The citizens are well pleased with their new peo- ple’s college. —Dr. Adelia B. Wood was on Satur- day nominated in the First ward. Erie, asa Republican candidate for school director. This is the first time a woman bas been pinced in nomination in that city. Mrs, Wood's opponent was a saloon keeper. —Northumberland county liceuse court set on Monday with Judges Savidge and Auter on the bench. There were no re- monstrances against 365 applicants, and they were all granted license at once, among them being six new ones. Three applicants were refused. ~The commissioners of Tioga county in order to secure a fund sufficient to meet all bills, submitted for sheep killed and injured by dogs, has decided to levy a tax of $1.50 on each male dog and $3.00 ou each female dog owned in the county. It is proposed to raise a fund of $4,000. —After calling over a telephone for several hours for her husband and getting no re- sponse Mrs. Charles French, of Hickany, drove to an insolated gus station in Forest county, on Monday, and found his mangled body on the ficor. He had been killed while starting a gas engine. ~Considerable excitement has been arous- ed in aod sbout Big Run, near DuBois, by the discovery of both oil and gas quite re- cently by drillers who are working in the interest of a namber of Butler capitalists. The quantities are, however, not yet suffi- ciout to be profitable. ~The Loyalhanna Coal and Coke com-~ pany, of Westmoreland county, has beem compelled to cut down its operations to four days a week, because of a loss of a big order. The Railway Steel Springs company, at La- trobe, has also been compelled to lay off a number of men because of a slump in busi- ness. ~Whooping cough, which developed into tuberculosis, has wiped out the entire family of Jameec Morris, of Pottsville, the father, son Samuel and daoghter Myrtle, baviny ali died within three years. Myrtle's death took place on Thursday. All were robust before thoy were attacked with whooping cough three years ago. ~The question of doing some street pav- ing in Williamsport with wood blocks is at present receiving attention. The blocks of white pine, cured with a creosote prepara- tion to make them more durable, would cost about 60 cents a yard more than asphalt or brick, but many property holders say they are willing to pay the difference. —Plans are being made by the state de- partment of health to make thorough in- spection of all the streams in the state. This will be done in order to ascertain if there are any sources of pollution. If there are, steps will be taken to have the ahuse corrected at once. This is in line with the department's plan to rid all streams of pollution. ~—Although William Hoffmaster, of Read - iug, au engineer of a Ponsylvania railroad passengir train, was on Sunday morning badly scalded and almost blinded by steam that escaped because a connecting bolt on his side of the cab became detached, be yet bravely stood by the throttle until he brought his eugine to the station at Potts- town. —The expenses of Williamsport the past ‘year exceeded the receipts, and the estimates for the ensuing year, by maintaining the same rate of taxation are $142,000 for re- ceipts and $172,000 for vecessary expenses. How to make tho receipts meet the expenses without increasing taxation, or increasing the city debt, is a problem councilmen are now wrestling over. —Alex. Hainock, who had his back broken by a fall of coal in the Gbhem mives, near Osceola Mills, about nineteen months ago, died last Wednesday morning at the Cottage State hospital, Philipsburg. The fact that he lingered so long, taking into account the serious character of his injury, was remark- able. The deceased was a native of Prussia, and was aged about 29 years. ~Curwensville’'s two banking institution —the Citizen's National bank and the Cur- wensville National bank—have decided to consolidate, which will be consummated within the next month. The capital stock will be $100,000. Seymour Russell, president of the latter bank, will be president of the new institution, and Hugh Lewis, of the former bank, will be vice president. —A. Nevin Detrick, who was private sec- retary to Colonel! W. F. Hill, Master of the State Grange, has moved back from Hunting don to his former home in Chambersburg, where he will continue the management of the Grange News. That publication had been entered in the Huntingdon postoffice and for six months past had been mailed to its many thousands of subscribers from that point. ~QOpeniog up a crater fifty feet in depth, 100 feet in width at points and 450 feet in length the mountain near Summit Hill, Schuylkill county, disappeared Sunday night, many thousand tons of earth and rock dropped from sight. The cavein was caused by the earth giving way, when the supports of coal had been burned out in the old Spring tunnel workings, which have been burning for over fifty years. 2
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