8Y —— PB. GRAY MEEK. Ink Sitngs, ~The order to put the profile of ** Honest ABE" ou the new copper cents to be minted should not be construed thas that is all the people rated him at. —Pennsylvania bas decided to continue having it in the schoover, in the bottle and in the keg and by so doing bad to give it to local option in the neck. —The new tariff bill proposed contem- plates patting a tariff of four cents a pound on coffee. Of course the average citizen will be able to make ap for this through the proposed twenty-five per cent. reduction on pig iron. He will, nit. —Pittsbarg is said to have had eight bandred and forty converts to Mormonism last year, aud this doesn’s inolade the number known to bein Pittsbarg who have some of the habits and inclinations of the Mormon, but who are not direotly affiliated with thas oburch. ——-Looal option got a tiack eye in the House of Representatives on Tuesday nighs. After a three-hour debate, thas | failed to change the mind of any one, a | vote on the passage of the measure on seo- oud reading showed 66 for and 137 against, or thirty votes less than were cass in favor of placing the bill on the calendar of the House two years ago. —Pennsylvania is nos to bave local op- tion, thas is not for two years at least. The Legislature settled that question on Tues- day night by a vote of 137 v0 66. While the idea of the referendum is the last anal- ysis of the fundaments of popular govern. ment Peovsylvania has nos had popular governments for years; consequently she individual could not expeot to be given a chance to vote his preference in this par- ticnlar matter. —PATRICK, the New York lawyer who is serving a life sentence in the peniten- tiary, for murder, has appealed to the courts for a sentence that will give him either liberty or death. He still protests his innocence bat insists if shat cannot be established in the judgment of the law he prefers to die. Believing, always in the old idea that where there is life there is hope we are prone to interpret this move on she part of PATRICK as either a decided- ly clever grand stand play or she act of a very forlorn and hrcken spiris. ~The steel workers in the Montour Rolling mill as Danville gos their first taste of TAFT prosperity oo Tuesday. Over one thousand of them were notified that a reduction of 15 per cent. in their wages would be made on the 15th, and the won- der among the most of them now is, why - they were such fools as so vote for a con- tinnation of conditions that made shis cus necessary. They are doubtless wiser now than they were in November, but tbat in- oreased wisdom will scarcely compensate for the decrease in the amount of bread and buster their shortened wages will al- low them. —We notice from the Johnstown Demo- eral that the theatre goers of that city bave the exasperating habit of marring the effect of the final curtain falle by prematare prep- aration to leave their seats. We thought Bellefonte about the only place where such inconsiderate actions are indulged in. Just why there shocld be such a veritable stam- pede to get ous of a theatre before the pro- gram is completed we are as a loss to know. As the Democrat states often the very best lines of a play or the most effective ensem- ble just precede the final curtain and for the moss part it is lost on the audience, for those who desire to look or listen cannot do 80 because of the entirely unnecessary commotion set up by a lot of shonghsless people in their scramble to be first out. —The decision of Judge McPHERSON, of the United States distrios cours, in which he declared the railroad rate law passed by the Legislature of Missouri, un- constitutional, because it is confiscatory, was not much of asurprise. The roads affected by the law had protested, bat, at the same time joined with the State ina proposition to demonstrate that the fixed rate was not such as would honestly sup- port the roads. The trial was made and the fact revealed that the railroads could uot be operated at even a six per cent. profit uuder the rate. The decision followed of coarse. It was a sensible proceeding in all ol its phases and if more corporations were disposed to acs with the spirit of the Mis- souri railroads they would secure full jus- tice and th e publio be satisfied ihat they are not the robbing lawless organizations they are popularly believed to be. —~Dr. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, formerly of Chicago University, and a man who has as- tained oousiderable eminence either through his superior mental attainments or natural damphoolishuess—the future will reveal! which—rather stirred Pittsburg up by saying, during she delivery of a leo. tare in CARNEGIE ball on Monday night, that that city “is one of the most stupid imaginable” on Sunday because everything is closed up and there is nothing to do. He wae right when be eaid “Is is decidedly foolish to think that because everything is olosed everybody is good,” but he was wrong to assume that everything should be open sc that more have a chance to be bad. It will take more than the higher and lib- eral educational views of men like Dr, ZUEBLIN to break down the old fashioned American idea that the Sabbath is a holy day and is not made holier by doing just such things as can be dove during the oth- er days of the week. VOL. 54 : Angilinog Bar Promising. Daring the recent campaign great em- phasis was given to the promise of the Re- publican party that in case of the election of Mr. TAFT the policies of Mr. ROOSEVELT would be continued. The speeches of those stamping the conutry for the Repub. lican ticket were full of it ; the newspapers of shat party made it the chief argument why voters should continue is in power, and at all times and under all circamstan- ces the ‘‘policies’’ of President RooseveLr were paraded as being joss what the conn- try needed, what is desired, and what is should have. President TAFT, in fulfillment of these promises, in his inaugural address, gave particular emphasis to his intent to carry out and enforce these policies to the fullest extent and lefs the impression that his is not to be a new adminsstration, but simply a continuation «! she old, or shat, while be will draw the salary of the of- fice, with its increase of twenty-five thoas- and dollarsa year, the ROOSEVELT ideas, the ROOSEVELT purposes, and as a oconse- quence the ROOSEVELT times will con- tinue. What a prospect for onr people! For with all our boasted intelligence, our op- portunities of understanding what bas been done and what should be done, in a pablio sense, we doubt if there is one man in ten thousand or in ten times ten thonsand, who can tell or explain what these much vaunted and incessantly talked of ‘“poli- cies’’ of ROOSEVELT were. We have the same trusts, with the same power to rob and oppress the people, we bad when be became President. the asme railroad combinations to exact ex- orbitant freight and passenger rates that were complained of when he went into of- fice. We are suffering today from the pow- er of capital to combine and crush individ- ual enterprise, just as we were when he took the presidential oath. Under his pol ioies the government was robbed of mil. lions upon millions of mores of its bess lands jexpenditares in every department of the publio service were doubled and in many instances trippled ; public officials were multiplied and public salaries inoreas- ed ; imperialism mo rampant and extrava- gence ok purpose. We have every undertaking or These were the results of his administra. tion, and if it required any particnlar line of ‘‘policies’ to bring shem about other than the promises, the shreats and the bombast he so much indalged in, the pub- lic is certainly without understanding of what they were. And if these are to be continued, as Mr, TAPT promises they shall be, daring the next four years, and we are to have the same results—the same paralysis of busi. ness, the same bard times with the want and soffering and destitation that is seen everywhere—the legitimate fruits of she ROOSEVELT policies—then the Lord be with ue till another chance for the people comes around. Taft's First Great Slander. President TAPT began his administration of the office of President auspicionsly, in the main, but he has already made one grave mistake. The appointment of Wir. LIAM LOEB JE, to the office of collector of the port of New York, under the oircum- stances which attended it, was a prostitn- sion of power. The term of she collestor in commission had not expired, he had nos resigned and consequently there was no vacanoy to fill. sion bad failed in no public obligation, There bad been no complaint of the quality or character of his service. The people who come in contact with him in an official way protested agaisai his removal with singular unanimity. Yet for the reason that Mr. LOEB was out of employment and ROOSEVELT owed him favor he was ap- pointed to the office. The collector in commis. The most reprehensible use of public patronage is thas which makes office a form of currency for the payment of personal debts. It bad become a habis with Roosg. VELT even before he was elevated to she Presidency through the medium of as. sassination. RoOSEVELT'S obligation to Logs ought to bave been repudiated by TA¥ras his method of payiug his barber was con- demned. It was a sinister obligation at best. LOEB had frequently assumed re- sponsibility for ROOSEVELT'S blanders. Bat there ie no juss reason why such obliga. tions should bedischarged by RoosEveLT's successor by a shameless and unlawful pros- titution of the public service. TAFT has injured himself beyond reparation by this immoral public mot. It can be said, of course, that it wasn’s on his own account or upon his initiative. maius that he committed the outrage dud that the craven and recreant Senate rat- ified the act. We are inexpressibiy sorry for this incident. We would infinitely prefer to praise TAFT rather than condemn him. Bat the fact re- Bus such things can’t be condoned. ——Ben Gentzel shipped ancther carload of Lorees to West Chester on Wednesday. TATE RIGHTS AND BELLEFON TE, PA. MARCH Impending Siaughter of Preparations have been made for a gen- eral slanghter of bills in the Legislatare. The final adjournment has been fixed for a month from next Monday and even if there were inclination it would be impossi- ble to ounsider many measures, other than she big appropriation bills, in the twenty | days or so left for sessions. But in this | case there is no inclination in that direo- tion. The corporations are raising ohjeo- tions to additional tax burdens and the machine can’t afford to offend the corpora- sions. Therefore the tax bills will be pas through the strangling process as once. The school code is also doomed toa pigeon- hole interment. The new road law is equally certain of defeat. Even the Phila- delphia to Pittsburg boulevard bill, the Governor's pes, is heading for the legisla- tive boneyard. Some pending bills will be passed, of course, but only such ns will conserve the interests of the machine. The pablioc wel- fare is a matter of no concern to the man- agers. Pablio sentiment is clamoring for legislation to reorganize the State High- way Department and institate a system of road constraction and maintenance that will be tree of grats and effective for re- sults. Bat the money is needed for other purposes. The present State Highway De. partment is a valuable party asset. Itisa refuge for superannuated politicians, erip- pled in person avd morals. It would be impossible to pass any road bill without providing for a reorganization of that de- partment. For that reason no such legis- lation will be enacted. [Is is better that the people's interests should suffer than that the party machinery should be im- paired. Daring the past several days the machine managers bavs been in consultation on the subject at frequent intervals. During the next few days these conferences will be continoed and before another week a pro- gram will be agreed upon. Bat is will not be one of advantage so the people. No ad- ditional revenues will be provided for and the appropriations will be greater in vol- ame than ever before. These facts will cause a deficit in the revenues beyond question, but the Governor will be in- structed to ‘‘shave” the appropriations in the volewfol way invented by Governor STONE and practiced by PENNYPACKER. It is shabby treatments of our amiable, but not too partionlar Governor, but it is the safest aud best way to serve the machine and that is the first consideration. Legislation, Being Pald Back. Althongh the iron workers are Kreatly responsible for the election of Mr, Tarr, we doubt if his promise to continue she RooseveLT policies will canse much joy a ong them. It was these policies that produced the times we are having and it is the times we are having that 18 just now worrying the iron workers to a considerable extent. Last week a big iron establish- ment as Pottstown out dowu the wages of its puddlers something over twenty-five per cent. and the other industries of the same kiod in that place purpose following it® example oo the 1st of April. In Sanday’s papers the announcement was made that the Eastern Pig Iron Association, which is an association of the iron works of the en- tire eastern part of the country, will make a general cus of ten per cent. in the wages of all employees, which will mean less to eat and wear for the tens of thousands of workiog men now employed about the pig iron mills and furnaces throughout the eastern States. This may not be encouraging to them but it will at least be a fulBlmens of promises made them before the election. They were warned by the Democrats, and promised by the Republicans, thas they would bave a continuation of the Roose. VELT policies—and consequently the kind of times thas these polioies produced if Mr. TAFT was elected. They voted for him with this knowledge and understanding and while the result may not be what they anticipated they are getting exactly what they worked for on election day. Aud belore its all over other olasses of working men will be treated to a touch of the same kind of “Republican “‘prosper- ity,’ or the signs of the times are without significance. ——8eed for a new grafts harvest as Har- risburg was planted on Taesday last when the Sevate passed what is known as the | Capitol Park Extension bill. It carries an appropriation of $2,000,000, for the pur- ohase of additional grounds, and by the time the State gets all the property con- templated, and the improvements shat will be demanded and made, the steal in the ecapitol building will compare in size with the graft thas will be in this job, about as a fiy-speck would with a full moon. Se ——— will be a monamens to his integrity, and devotion to the principles upon which this Republic was builded, as long as the gov- ernment lasts or the rights of the people and the freedom of the press is worth con- tending for is JosePH L. KEATING, United States District Attorney at Indianapolis, Indiana. Rather thav assist in usurping a prerogative of a State and violating a right he believed to be guarantee! by the con- stitution to every individual citizen—that | of trial by a jury of his peers within the Commonwealth in which the alledged crime bad heen committed —he preferred resign. ing his office, giving up the fat salary at- tached thereto aud living hereafter as a private citizen. these days of greed and graft, could he fonnd with the convictions, conscience and courage that Mr. KEATING has shown and because of the few the greater the honor to those who bave and who are guided by them. officials in the wrong proposed Mr. Kgar- ING writes : ernment ve, the New York World and the Indianapolis News charged with libeling a brother-in-law of ex-President RooseveLT, a brother of President TAFT and a coaple of other individaals who it is alleged pooket- ed a greater amount of the swag that came out of the purchase of the Frenoh interests in the Panama caval by the United States. A —— matters about Harrisburg, and noted how listle attention has been given legislation, it looks very muoh as if nothing worthy a Legislature or beneficial to the people is to be expected daring the present session. Outside of a new election law, possibly the most needed reform in the State is legisla tion that will secure the improvement of our public roads. Aod on this subject there is no promise of anything except a continuation of the system we now have, that eats up taxes witkous any beoeficial result, and breeds graft as a dog does fleas. which would add most to the comfort of our citizens, the value of our products and the wealth of our Sate, wonld be good public roads. than improvements to our school system, and why the Legislature refuses, or neg- lects to take some action looking to the abolishment of our present rotten, expen- sive and worthless road system, and fails to try, at leass, to adopt some measure for} betterment of cor highways is beyond oar conception. ’ propriating money to be wasted — literally thrown away—as it now is—uauder the pre- tense of building State roads. favorites must be fed, positions must be tarnished those who do the bidding of the bosses. Contracts aud gralt must be pro- vided for heelers whose services are a the disposal of the few who control and dictate the polioy of she party that dominates everything of a public character in she State. continue to suffer. 10 be somewhat of a hunter, is just now indulging in a rather wordy controversy with Dr. KALBFUS, secretary of the state game commission, over proposed chavges in the game law. In addition to calling the Dootor ‘‘an amusing old ounss’ she editor of the Gazette says thas ‘*be knows it all and knows be knows it all.” If this were true and not sarcasm there wonld be no farther ground for argument. Beat knowing the editor of the Gazette as we do we fear this assumption of superior know!- edge might be obarged to his account, as well as to that of Dr. KALBFUS ; so there you are : Two men with the same disposi- tions arguing on a point on which, to say the least, there is a great diversity of opin- ion. It will amount to nothing, this war of wind, other than the personal satisfac. tion they may bave in coming off cook- robin or sparrow in the conflict. zens were on their good behavior on Tues- day nighs. could not have been expected ; because both of the officers we boast were neces. FEDERAL UNION. Spawis from the Keystone. —There were 4.060 births in Washington county in 1908 and 2,396 deaths. —The big plant of the Ssisson Brick cons pany, of Kingston, Westmoreland county, which had been idle since early last summer started up with a fall foree of workmen om Monday. —The school at Grass Flat, Clearfield coun- ty,and six other schools in that section of the county, closed for two weeks on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever, were reopened 12, 1 NO. 11. A Record that Will Live. Toe be Avobded, | From the Harrisburg Star-Independent, Colonel Alexander K. McClure has given to she public an estimate of the character of Theodore Roosevels which is more nearly correct and withous prejudice shan auy other which has appeared lately. Mr. Mo- Clare is bimsell a Republican, and bis con- tributions to the polisioal, industrial and social history of she country have been valuable. Therefore whatever he ays about Mr. Roosevelt may be mocepted as unbiased. He rays that Mr. Roosevels will not sake rank in impartial hissory as a great states- man, but as the most strenuons, dramatio, and as times fantastio of the wen who bave been President of the United States, Every syllahle of this in true. It were folly to call Mr. Roosevelt a statesman. He bardly knew the meaning of the word. Papier, Mr. MeClore fays that he Nu right in principle but wrong in practice ; thas is, that his policy was ‘‘fundament- ally right, hat he strenuously asiempted to do the righs thing in the wrong way.” Is mast be said in his defense, however, that some of his offending was dae $0 the fal- some flattery of men who told bim in effeot, if not directly, that a President was abso- lute and could do no wrong. We bave no wish here so measure Mr. Roosevelt's character again nor tq renew any oriticisms of the conducs of his office. The administration that comes to an end without criticism and denunciation 18 the exception and nos the role. Bat it may vos be in any wise objectionable to warn his sacoessors, of whatsoever party they jay be, fw) vos Sepesiyion of his Husk. 0 man better greater opportunity to serve all the e than the President of the United States. Bat if he would give valuable service he must remember that he is the President of all the people and the custodian of the fortunes of all of them, instead of the servant ofa few, and still less is he bound to consider nothing but Bly own preferences and nobody but him- sell. The man who in exalted position does bh best lo serve shel goaters namber oesn’s r wrong, greatest nam- ber ny wants whot is best in govern. ment sud gin Bat 38 Saunt serve them we openly approving sap- their polioy and secretly subsist. og bis own policy or that of the minority ; be cannot help them by preaching ahoat olass differences nor by abusing and vilify- ing any other hranch of the goveromens, It a President denounces other branch of the governmeus freq he is bound to gather an interested, finally an approving, audience ; but he will not improve the government nor serve bess the people. Nor ean ob abuses by reckless utterances unsu ‘by proper actions, and etill less when the utterances represent the sum total of the Executive activity in the premises. The public in- terest could be best served by an attack Oae man who has made a record that Few men in this great country of oars,in In refusing to serve the Federal “Iam not in accord with the government in its attempt to put a strained construction on the law, to drag the defendants from their homes tn the seat of the ment to be tried and jun while there is a and sufficient law in this jurisdiction, in state court, I believe the {inciple involved is dan- striking at the very foundation of our orm of government. I cannot, therefore, honestly and conscientiously insist to the court that such is the law, cr that sush con. struction should be put on it. Not being able to do this I do not feel that I can, in Justice to my office, continue to hold it and decline to assis.” The case referred to is that of the Gov- Ne Betterment of Road Laws. To those who have kept in touch wish of denunciations and pronunciamentoes, aod the harvest has been almost nothing. i i There is no denying the fact that shat That sort of thing doesn’t pay. Helping the Jingoes. From the Johnstown Democrat. Mr. Birrell, chief of secretary for Ireland declares that President Tals has pronounced the doom of disarmament io his inaogural address. “‘There in a universal feeling abroad, in which the United Siates now joins,” said Mr. Birrell, for inoreased arma- ment. It is enough to make aogels » he added, “‘but in face of is is is oor duty to waintain our navy str enough to keep Great Britain's shores inviolate.” So this is Mr. Tafs’s first contribution to the world’s progress. He has given a fresh impulse to a pebileney which alarms every conservative mind. He has gone perhaps Jentufiber Sans. Rousevels “dred ito in appealing to jingo eentiment on pas. ting new arguments in she mouths of those in Earope and elsewhere who urge greater and greater effort in the race for naval ag- grandizement. Is had been hoped abroad as it was at Boe! shat Mr. ay wit bis nag mole or nitely againat jingoism thas is implies. Chief Secretary Birrell evidently had anticipated a different note from that actually sounded by the new executive and he does not conceal his dis- appointment and regret. The attitade of the United States as determined by ~The editor of the Gazette, who claims i These we need even more It is could do no more, is could stop ap- But it won't do even this much. For And the tax-payers aod the public must From the DesMoines Register. The coun bas gone navy orazy, and Wop bi ie 4 soale of ; ——-Fortanately for Bellefonte her oiti- Osherwise police protection —It is too bad that the door in President sary (?) to maintain order in the opera witha Suger of mative. TAFT's new automobile is t00 small to ad- | bouse. This does nos mean that the order | —RoOSEVELT speas the first day he was mit him unless he squeezes in sidewise. | was so bad there, for it was really so good | out of office cutting wood in his back yard The spetacle of a President of the United | that a first class hoase officer employed by at Oyster Bay. When he found taat his States squeezing into anything muss be, to er Could bave-waiotiosea ) days of *‘outting ice” were over he just say the least, most undignified. the entire city force. naturally “sawed wood.” on Monday. —Forty men were on Saturday laid off at the Reading ear shops at Junetion, near Williamsport. They had been employed on | repair work. A short time ago thirty-nine | were laid off, ~The berough of Honey brook has no bar- gess and is minus two councilmen becanse those elected to these positions had failed to file their expense scconnts, and complaints were filed against them in consequence. =The Reading Iron company will, at the end of the month, cut its employes’ wages from 74 to 15 per cent. The cut, it is claim~ ed, is made necessary by the aggressive com petition and decline in the prices of mill pre- duets. —The mnounicipal authorities of Danville have decided to impose a license tax om dairymen selling milk in the town, and their right to do so is disputed by the dairywmen, on the ground that they produce on their farms all the miik that they sell. —Workmen in the wood department of Frick company’s machine works in Waynee- boro, in which over fifty men are employed, were on Monday put to work in the evenings 80 as to make thirteen hours a day, to enable them to fill orders more promptly. ~The Morrisdale Railroad company has been chartered to build a railroad four miles in length to Clearfield county, its location being in the vicinity of the town of Morris. The capital is $40,000 and the president is Charles Steele, of Northumberland. —Huntingdon’s new mayor, R. W. Jacobs, has started on a new plan to punish offenders brought before him as besides imposing fines, or when they fail to pay their fine for disor- derly conduct and similar offenses, he com. pels them to work out sentences by cleaning tho streets. —Rev. Father Giblin, assistant rector of 8t. Joseph's parish, of Renovo, while eating oysters last Friday bit into something hard embedded in one of the oysters. Upon tak- ing the substance to Smyth Bros for exam- ination, they pronounced it to be a pearl worth $250. —A new uational bank with a capital stock of $25,000 was opened for business at Loganton, Clinton county, on Mareh 1, with T. A. Harter, a prominent lumberman, as presideat, and William A. Morris cashier. The deposits on the opening day amounted to $20,000. —A new Camp Patriotic Order Sons o America was organized in the opera house at Hastings, Cambria county, last Tuesday evening, by Goslan L. Nelson, of that place, who is a member of the Philipsburg camp. There are sixty-six names enrolled. The camp will be instituted Wednesday evening, March 17. ~The report of the auditors of the ace conuts of the Boyertown Relief association of the opera house fire of January 13, 1908, has just been made showing that the total ye- ceipts were $22,069.99; expenditures, $21,636, 44, leaving a balance ot $443 55, which will probably be used to erect a monument over the victims. —Saturday was the last day for filing re- monstrances against licensing liquor dealers in Lycoming county, but there was ouly one remonstrance entered, against a colored man's saloon, for selling liquor to minors, This is an unusual condition as usually the anti-ssloon people entered remonstrances against a large number of saloons. —Edgar Noble, aged 22 years, of Mifflin town, while visiting his brother, Charles Noble, in Lewistown, was shot with a pistol on Friday evening, the ball entering the left breast near the heart, inflicting a fatal wound. Mystery surrounds the shooting, as he said no one was to blame, but would not say whether it was self inflicted or accident- al. The young man had been in poor health. for some tite. —Mrs, Edgar Miller, of Latrobe, aged 18 years, weary of life because she thought ber husband did not love her, after patting her baby to sleep on Saturday afternoon, wrote a note to her husband and then taking a 32. calibre revolver,shot hersel { twice causing her death. The sad discovery was made when Mr. Miller returned home from his work a few hours laler. Deceased had been in poor health and it is believed that her reason had been dethroned. —Judge O'Conner, of Cambria county, has banded down a decree giving to Directors of the Poor Conrad Bader and Philip Hertzog, each a salary of $600 instead of $250, the amount paid them for the year 1907, as based on the population of the county, they hav- ing brought suit for the balance of $350 which they claimed to be due them. In al- lowing their claim the judge held that the constitutional provision against increasing salary during the term of office does not apply to them. —Charles Gilligan, of Glen Hope, Clear- field county, who was placed in the Dane ville insane asylum recently, escaped from that institution about a week ago and board. ed a passenger train for Williamsport, When the conductor asked for his ticket he became very indignant and would not recognize. him. At Williamsport he was handed over to the authorities for illegal car-riding and’ confined in prison. After tiring of prison life he told the officials that he had escaped from the Danville asylum. —Alexander Cooper, 78 years of age, & resident of Pocopson township, is confined in a cell of the Chester county prison for non-payment of his read and school taxes, amounting to $1.50. He has been a prisoner several days and many of his friends would gladly settle his indebtedness in order to obtain his release, but he insists that he will not permit any such friendly acts. He ha no children to go to school and he declared that because of this he should not be taxed. For twenty years he has failed to comply with the request of the tax collector.
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