~The hail stones most effectually boxed the ears of much of the corn in Centre county oun Monday afternoon. —Well, Bellefonte is playing some base- ball these days. In truth we hear a noise almost like the pennant flapping on Hughes field. — Philadelphia has really been showing gigns of getting awake since the Athletics lave jomped into the lead in the American League race. — Bellefonte pulled the school board ont of a hole on Tuesday and some of the pauli- ers are mad pow because the Board bas construed the vote as ove of confidence. —Manager CUNNINGHAM bas canned another pitcher. It is getting late 10 the season and that is the only wise thing to do when they show signs of getting over- ripe. —HORACE wrote that ‘‘there is a sure reward for faithfal silence.” Poor BILL DoAK stands on the corner for a day ata time without even hearing the tinkle of a copper in his tin. —The new tarifl measure begins its ex- jstenoe without a single sincere friend, says the Milwaukee Journal. And, we might add that no one seems to love it for the enemies it hus made. —The wind at Atlantic City was so fierce the other day that it partially disrobed a woman. It couldn’t have been such so terrific when you come to consider what some of them wear at the shore. —Little else could have been expected ic the SUTTON case than a verdict that the young naval officer took his own life. As we said when the investigation was begnu. The navy and theaimy bny their secrets. —Mr. HARRIMAN ia coming bome from Europe a very sick man. the effect that be bas lost ten pounds. Bat that isn’t a ciroumstance to what some of the fellows lost in 1907 through taking his dope on the market. —*The average woman has much better taste than the average man,”’ said Sir Wit. L1AM RicHMOXD duriug an address at New- castle, Eogland, recently, We presume Sir WILLIAM basn’t been up against a banoh of peach-basket hats yet. —Greenshurg bas planned a clam bake and the Connellsville Courier says ‘‘it may be well to explain that the clams and lobsters will be imported.” The Courier ‘tis said. How nice and what a great con- solation this will be to the poor devils who have to pay more for everything they eat aud wear because Mr. TAFT was practicing god when he should bave been making that promise of his to see that the tariff was revised downward. —Dr. MeCorMICK, of Chicago, recom- mends pie for breakfast as a oure for dyspepsia. It is getting bim the langh in a great mavy quarters but Pennsvalley has been eating pie for breakfast since the days of her earliest settlers and ——come to think of it——we really never heard that dyspepsia is prevalent over there. —Considering the amount of discussion before the event Tuesday's election was a very tame affair. Due, probably to the fact that there was nothing for the average voter to do but support the new school loan. Withont it the children would have been without proper school facilities and, knowing this, few persons felt like using the little ones as a c'ub to get alter the directors. —The mimic war about Boston was about as much of a “fixed” affair as il it bad been between two crooked pugs in a twenty-four foot ring. When they held back one side because the other couldn’t get there in time to attack it before it might have gained a vantage poiot they made a farce of a mimic war and convine- ed the public that all they are after ie burning up millions of dollars in blank cartridges. —Think of it! It costs $35,000 to make a tweive inch gun for our government and that amount would reclaim fifteen bundred and seventy-one acres of arid land, mak- ing homes for one bundred and ninety-six people. What would you sooner do: Buy guns and battleships to blow your money away or make farms for the people? We ksow what answer commen sense tells you to make, but you are afraid tn make it, Mr. Republican, because you are atraidjof your party. —The Hon. W. U., HEXSEL'S address on “‘Historic Pennsylvania’ at the Alaska- Yukon exposition at Seattle was exactly what might have been expected from such a cultivated and scholarly lawyer, but we fear it was optimistic even beyond the orator’s evidently hopeful view. When Pennsylvania fulfills MILTON'S ideal of a republic and ‘‘rousing herself like a strong mam after sleep and shaking ber invincible locks ‘‘even as an eagle mewing her youth aud kindling her nndazzled eyes at the full mid-day sun” it will be when the coal and stone aod ores of her hills bave been fused in the mighty furnace tbat will con- sume all at the end of time. Then she may become an ideal republic. In the future of which no man knows. For then she will be purged of the evil ones that coutrol her now and her indifferent good will be forced to take their proper place in gov- ernment or answer to one w law will be inviolable. { administration a campaign Reports are to’ | adminis on, even if by PINCHOTT are true. yOL.5¢ Taft's Blunders and Roosevelt's Usurpa~- - tions. It has been practically decided that Mr. NEWALL, chief of the reclaimation servioe of the Iuterior Department at Washington, will lose hie job as a resals of tbe dispute between Chief Forester PINCHUTT and Secretary of the Interior BALLINGER. It ie also predicted that Secretary of Agrioul- ture WiLsox and Mr. PINCHOTT are being prepared for the toboggan. In face the in. dications are that all the RoosEvELT ad- herents in the publio service will be put out of commission before the purpose of their presence bas been achieved. Iu other words the ROOSEVELT propaganda is to be broken up before it can po<sibly accomplieh ita mission which is to make the present agency for RoOSEVELT'S fatare ambitions. Closer inquiry into the subject confirms our conjecture of last week to the effect that PINCHOTT'S object was less in the in- terest of the conservation of the watersheds of the country than the desire to exploit ROOSEVELT. It is true that the Secretary of the Interior bad restored to public nses some of the public lands which ROOSEVELT bad, jost before the expiration of bis term of office, reserved under pretense of oon- serving the forests. It is egnally certain that corporations operativg in electrical en. terprises have been trying to acquire water- sheds in some of the territory in question. But it is not certain tbat the chanses of their success have heen improved by the restoring order of the Secretary of the Interior. We have no apology to make for the blunders of the TAFT administration and no sympathy with any act or policy which may interfere with the conservation of the timber which 1emaivs a part of the pablic domain. Bat the right way to conserve the timber on public or private lands is to remove the tariff tax on laember and open the vast areas of Canadian forests to the timber users of this country. Besides, as we said last week, there is vastly more danger to the coantry in the | According to the best information attainable the reservation order of ROOSEVELT was nos only withont authority bat in violation of law. Our Wealth and Poverty. An esteemed contemporary of a statistical tarn of mind published the other day a statement of the crops of this country lor several years aud the statement was amaz- ing. For something like ten consecutive years the aggregate value of the products of the soil has averaged something like seven billion dollars a year,makiong a grand total tor the decade of sevecsy billions of dollars or a per capita of over $700 a year for every man, woman and ohild in the country. Such a multiplication of wealth is without parallel in the history of the world, It is an acoumulation of resources far beyond the dreams of the optimists of any age. It is simply astounding. Bat uotwithstanding this marvelous in- crease of national wealth the people of the country have been suffering for vearly two years from industrial and commercial paralysis. With a productive capacity far beyond the necessities of the people poverty instead of wealth appears to be the reward of industry and the recompense for thrift. The people are generous livers but iudi. vidual extravagance conld pot absorb so much within so brief a period. The fanls must be found somewhere else. It mast be traced to some other source and that is not difficult of achievement. Vicious legis- lation and public profligacy have combined to compass the evil consequences. In the excessive tariff taxes the root of the evil is planted. The late president of the National Manufacturers’ association estimated, in a statement to a committee of Congress, that the DINGLEY tariff law robbed the industrial element of the coan- try of a million dollarsa day. A careful investigation of the subject leads to the conviction that his estimate is under rather than over the actual figures. The new tariff law iocreases instead of diminishes this burden so that there is no hope of re- lief for the present at least. Bat the next congressional election wilkgive opportunity to solve the problem. Tbe vicious policies may be changed by altering the complexion of Congress. S—— Half Century Memorial Celebration. Next year, or in 1910, it will be just fitty years since ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected President and ANDREW G. CURTIN, of Bellefonte, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania and the fact bas been scg- gested by a friend of the WATCHMAN that it would be very opportune to celebrate the doal events with special memorial ex- ercises next year. The matter of celebrat. ing the ball century anniversary of LiIN- COLN'S election was brought before the recent session of Congress and it is likely that some action will yet be taken to make it a national event of next year. But Centre countians have a double rea- {der thas she mistake might be corrected STATE RIGHTS AN BELLEFONTE. P30 being the aniversary of Cartio’s election and it is nove too early to begin consider ing such a proposition. The moss anspi- cious time would be about regaiar Memorial day, which will fall on Monday. In order to make it the big event the occasion war- rants it might be arranged as ao Old Howe week and a celebration of she fiftieth an- niversary of Cartins’s election combined. As the latter is also of State importance neighboring conuties, or people all over the State conld be invited to join with Bellefonte aud Centre counusy in at least one or two days of the celebration. Such is well worth considering by the people of Centre conusy. The War Game Folly. tention of the conntry for a week recently, accomplished vo good hus achieved its par- pose, vevertheless. The pretense is that such siliy performances educate the citizen soldiery in the art of war and the National Guardsmen of New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia participated in the sham, the regular troops assigned to the coast defence being the antagonists, The folly of it all was shown in the fact that in a oritical moment the proceedings were halted hecanse a transport which was | $0 convey the assailing force from oue point to another met with a mishap and failed to reach its destination at the proper time. In actaal war the mishaps of one cide are the ‘‘velvet’’ of the other and if the real purpose bad been to tustruct the troops iu tactical maneuvering, those who bad proved delinquent would have been oblig- ed to pay the penalty of their fault. In that evens the lesson of vigilance as well as the value of ene:gy and promptoess would have been conveyed to hoth sides. Bat General LEONARD Woop, who never bad any experience in real war, called a halt upou the aotivities of the other side in or. ip hick The real parpose of the conflict, how. ever, was not to teach the troops partici. pasting in the affair anything. It was to ““bura up'’ money, and that result was achieved with all the ‘‘pomp aud circom- stance’’ of war, The trusts and predatory corporations which are directivg the affairs of the government understand the advan- tage, to them, of an impoverished public aod are ready as all times for enterprises which eat up taxes and drain the resonrces of the people who pay. The war game cost several millions of dollars, it will be nec essary to reimbarse the treasury in some way for this loss and every additional bar: deo put upon the people helps along the scheme of subjugation. Evil and the Remedy. The Great The solution of the problem ol corporate regalation is plainly pointed out in the platform adopted by the Democrated State convention which met at Harrisburg on the 4th instant and nominated the admira- ble ticket that should be elected in Novem- ber. ‘‘We favor the enlargement of the powers of the Railroad Commission and the passage of peual laws which will enforce respect lor its decisions,’’ is the language of that platform. If this duty is performed by the Legislatore of Peonsylvania there will he no necessity for the intervention of the geueral government, and if all the Siates pursue that policy, the government ‘at Washington will have no occasion to concern itself on the subject. More than ten years ago the WATCHMAN asserted the proposition that the remedy for corporate discrimination and rebating was in the criminal courts. The prosecu- tion and punishment by imprisonment of one railroad president or corporation man- ager guilty of this offense against the pub- lic imterests, would work more reform than the fining of a houdred, however drastic the fine might be. Yet the Repub- lican party has invariably resisted any and all attempts at legislation looking toward that result. ROOSEVELT himself refused to prosecute PAuL MoRrToN, though he had publicly confessed bis onlpability, and punished the innocent stockholders of the Santa Fe railroad by fine for his erime. The constitution of Pennsylvania, adopt. in the hands of the Legisiature the means of correcting this great evil. Yet the Legislature, always in control of the Re- publican party in one or both branches, has refused or neglected to perform this daty to the people. The result of this negleot is that hundreds of miliions of dollars bave been drawn from the earnings of the peo- ple to feed the rapacity of corporations. We submit that the time has arrived to rebuke this delinquency by turning out of power the party responsible for it. The Democratio party stands pledged to this legislation and if the people are just to themeelves they will give it the opportuni. ty to fulfill the obligation. son for holding such exercises becanse of it | an event would be a very laudable ove avd | The “war game'’ which occupied the at- ed more than twenty-five years ago, placed: D FEDERAL UNION. The Coming Campaign. Toe Democrats of Pennsyivania bave never heen quite as eager to get into a political scrimmage as they are at this time. It is little more than three weeks since the convention met io Harrisburg and nomi. uated the excellent ticket which will be earnestly supported daring the impending campaigu and yet we hear on every side importanities to get vo work. Usually the bot weather drives the thoughts of political contention out of the minds of men. But in Peunsyivania, this year,even hot weath- er fails to repress enthusiasm and hope of victory combined with admiration for oar | candidates urges party workers to activity. It way be predicted, therefore, that the campaign will begin early and be waged with unusaal energy and warmth, There are certain prelimivaries which necessarily delay active operations in poli- tios. Custom requires the formal nvotifica- | tion of the candidates and arranging a meeting for that purpose consumes consid- erable time. Bat the arrangements for this function are practically completed now and before another issue of the WATCHMAN bas | been taken from the press the meeting will have been held. Immediately after that event the active work of the campaign will | be inaugurated. That is to say public meetings will be arranged and eloquent speakers will visit the principal centres ol population to present the issues of the campaign so that all voters may under. stand. It will hea campaign of energy worthy of the admirable candidates nomi. nated. But much of the more important work of the campaign may and ought to be per. formed belore that feature is begun. After ail the most effective political work is that which is performed quietly by the earnest men of the party in the school districts. A distinguished Senator of the opposite party once said of a leader of the Pennsylvania Democracy that ‘‘he never hunts with a brass band.”” Neither excitement nor parade is necessary to get voters registered & re paid of wy hope no Democrat in this connty or State will fail of his duty in this respect this year. The Gospel of Reason and Patriotism, Mr. B. F. YoARUM, chairman of the executive committee of the Rock Island railroad system, gave the farmers of Okla. homa some wholesome truths in an address before the Farmers’ Union of that State, at Shawnee, the other day. After declaring that ‘‘this conntry needs what our fore- fatbers ansed in laying its foundation--a lot of old-fashioned common sense,’”” Mr. Yoa- KUM proceeded to desoribe some of the modern follies that produce misery, pover- ty and ruin, and adds: “The same disre- gard of value of money would send the strongest private business in this country into bankruptoy. * * * We wonld better spend more of the money we burn upin powder in making new farms.” Mr. YoagkUM doesn’t fail to point out some of our follies, either. ‘‘It costs §55,- 000 to make a twelve-inch gun,”’ he says, “The money that goes to pay for this gun would reclaim 1,571 aores of arid land, providiog homes for 196 people. When all the guus on all the battleships are shot one time the government blows off in noise and smoke $150,000. This would reclaim more thau 4,000 acres of land, giving homes to moire than 500 families. The mooey consumed in powder is lost to all future. The farmer who buys the reclaim- ed land must pay the government back in ten years, so it does not cost the govern: ment anything to build up the country by helping the farmer. We shonld make more bomes and not so many fighting ma- chines.” That is the gospel of reason, of under- standing and of patriotism. The absurd idea that the greatness of the country is ‘measured by the number aud size of her battleships is the product of a diseased brain. Building battleships keeps the people poor and dependent but contributes nothing toward the glory of the country or the bappiuess of a rational people. The profligacy of the recent administration isa oriwe against the country and the sooner the people come to the views expressed by Mr. YoARUM and abandon those which are characterized as the policies of RoosE- VELT th: better it will be for the country. Thrift and industry should be fostered in- stead of taxed. ~The Logan fire company ate down in Jersey Shore attending the annual con- veution of the Central Pennsylvania Dis. triot Firemen's association, which convened there yesterday. The Undines are not at- tending io a body but are represented by a pumber of individual members. The Lo- gas left here in fine shape yesterday after- poon and were headed by the new City band. GUST 20. Loo. beginning of the active campaign. We ment’s experts estimate shat it Can They Check it Out? From the New York World. The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee was courting scandal when alter the elections in 1908, it failed to issue a etatement of the contributions so its fund. Its persistent refusal to publish any state- ment bas kept alive and aggravated the scandal. In connection with the woolen schedules in the new tariff law the Republican ma- ! jority in Coogress is confronted with di. | rect charges of corruption. The retention | of the old schedules was suspicions. The | tacties employed in keeping those schedules | unchanged were suspicious. Taken to- gether with the secrecy maintained by the Republican Congressional Committee as to the sources of ita fund they become doubly suspicions. H. J. Hamill, of Philadelphia, director of the Carded Woolen Manufactar- ers’ Association, challenged the Coogres- sional Committee to disprove the charge by producing its accounts. But no accounts bave been produced, no proof presented, clearivg the committee, and the tariff deal stands. Until last year the party of high pro- tection bad no trouble in financing ite cam- paigns. Although by law the corporations were then barred from contributing, there was no great shortage of fonds. Against their will the members of the National Re- ublican Committee found themselves orced to make public a statement of the names of contributors and the amounts of the contributions. With whas excellent results the Republican Cougressional Com- au organization of quite as much import. ance in some respects, preserved secrecy was shown by a Washington dispatoh to the Sanday World yesterday. Did is re- ceive and apply moneys which the other committee did not care to account for in its public report ? Did it handle the stand- patters’ slosh fond ? ‘When a political party bas two commit- tees collecting and disbursing money, one of them recognizing the principle of pub- licity and the other adhering to the old secret methods, the worst evils of cam- paige corruption bave not been cared. The epulican Congressional Committee bas long been under suspicion. It is vow openly accused. Do the party managers believe that they can check it out ? The Price of Flour. From the Pittsburg Post. will amount to more than 710,000,000 bushels, as against 672,000,000 bushels lass year. Aud yet we are facing an increase of a very considerable amount iv the price of flour. Tbe price of this commodity was increased 25cents a barrel Saturday by local middlemen. What will be the increase in price to the ultimate consumer has not been announced. The two facts, the largely increased crops and the largely increased price of flour, are wholly incompatible with economic laws. It is bard to believe that the demand for wheat bas increased more rapidly than the increase in the supply. When the increase io the world’s population is given as the reason for the advanced price of wheat, it must be remembered that this is to be bal- anced by the world’s crop and its increase, vot alone by the increase in this country’s crop. Oane is forced to the conclnsion that not economic laws, but the infraction of them, is responsible for the advance all along the line—in wheat, in flour, and in the poor man’s loaf. Ths explanation that the higher price of flour is due to the inability of millers to get sufficient cash wheat to meet requirements is not in the least satis- factory. If wheat prices had not been sub. jected to Sauptlation by Patten and his trailers in the Chicago pit, would this ad- ditional burden have been laid on the poor wan ? Does any person believe that if the price were regulated in normal fashion, iu accordance with the law of supply and de- mand, it would not be much lower? Relegating of Berkey. From the Altoona Times, Governor Stuart did the proper aod pa- tiotic thing when he removed Jobn A. Berkey, the former Penrose boss of Somer- set county, from the office of state banking Som] oat. fie tna Bed been cbar- acteriz y comspicnous incompetency, flagrant absenteeism and political nor. ing, that reduced its efficiency until it be- came almost nul. Berkey was chosen for the impertant post from which he bas been deposed because he was a political favorite of Senator Pen- rese. He had practically no knowledge of banking, a fact which was freely comment- ed upon at the time, and which brought about the demoralizatien of the depart. went that had been predieted by those who criticised his advancement. Bavkiog interests will warmly commend Governor for his actien in removing Berkey, and the conduct of the depart- ment will unguestionably improve ander the more intelligent direction is indi- cated by the appointment of Wiliam H. Smith, a Philadelphian who bus bad some experience in banking matters. Progress of the Cow Puncher. From E! Paso Herald. It is mo lounger considered form to shoot the glass insulators off of the railroad telegraph lines in the Southwest. This was once the popular pastime of cow punch- ers and others who toted a brace of guns, and the railroads kept a repair man oon- stantly on the move along the line with a keg of the glass knobs, replacing those that some festive range rider chosen as his target. The custom of shooting up the telegraph lines is no longer in the Southwest and the trouble men on the roads bave their work lessened materially because of the change in styles in the Southwest. You mise a good thing if you don’t take the WAT@HMAN. Spawis from the Keystone. —An average of one insane person is taken to the insane asylum every two weeks in Clearfield county. This indicates an increase iu this most horrible of all diseases. ’ —A New York Central train running from Philipsburg to Muusou, last Friday, was wrecked and the baggage car and a coach overturned when the engine struck a cow. Nobody was hurt. —Charged with baviog stolen upwards of $50,000 worth of brass valves from railroads in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Edward Me~ Cormick was arrested Weduesday and held for a bearing. He is said to have taken al. most 3.000 valves, valued at $17 each, and "| told them to various junk dealers. —Indiana and Cambria counties are excite ed over another big strike of oil. Itis om the farm of F. B. Williams, part of which is in both counties, and the gusher produces 225 barrels a day. Williams owns 667 acres of land in the vicinity of the strike. Prepa- rations are being made to sink other wells. —Albert Kivert, the Perry county des- perado who was captured by the aid of his own brother, who receives a rewardjof $50 for his deed, wos discharged from the Har- rishurg hospital where he had been removed to recover from his wounds and was immes diately taken in charge by the Perry county authorities. ~The story about the big oil strike ou the border of Indiana aud Cambria counties iss big fizzle. The strike was said to be ou the land of B. E. Williams, bat if he is a million aire by lucky oil strikes, he knows nothing about it himself and denies the whole tale. Wells being drilled fornished the basis of the wild reporta. —A site in Huntingdon county in the vi- cinity of Barree or Alexandria may be chos~ en for a state sanitorium for consump tives. Dr. Samuel E. Dixon, head of the state health department, and Robert 8. Conklin, head of the state forestry department, went over the surrounding territory locking fora suitable location, There is at least one crop in the vicinity of Williamsport that is not suffering any as the result of the drought. It is ginseng and there promises to be a bountiful supply of this vegetable, which is one of the hardest on the market to raise. Ginseng sells for $8 a pound so that the growers feel sanguioe of good returns for their troubie. —Heilwood, Indiana county, is a new town, which, instead of showing effects of the recent depression in that section growing out of the miners’ troubles, is very prosper ous. The Peunn-Mary company has been runuing operations day and night aud every house in town is occupied, with tenants te snatch up new ones just as soon as they are completed. —~N. G. Cole, a farmer residing near Franklin, owes his life to a oat. He was. sleeping beneath a tree when a four foot rattlesnake approached bim The cat fought the reptile and ke pt it away from the man. "=New sards thops ne along the Franklin & Clewrfield railroad, being built through the coal fields of Penn~- sylvania by the New York Central, and Da. Bois may get them. Officials of the Lake Shore have made several trips over the new line for the purpose of selecting a site for the yards and shops, but it is not likely that definite action will be taken for several months —Even if Altoona does get vatural gas some of the little towns along the route of the pipes may not. Ebensburg, Cresson, Gallitzin and Patton expected to get it and any one may be disappointed. The reason is that the farmers ask such enormous amounts of money for the privilege of the right of way across their lands. Scme want $2,000, so that if the company does lay pipes it will take the shortest possible route. —Benjamin M. Suyder, Jr., of Elmira, N. Y., and Wallace Brockman Porter, of Youngstown, O.. bave been aunouuced as the successful candidates for the Frank Thomson scholarships. With the addition of these two young men, there will be six holders of these scholarships, which amount to $600.00 annually, aud which are awarded upon a competitive examiuation, to tons of employes of the Penusylvanis Railroad sys- tem. —Following a fight of three women in the subui bs of Shamokin before daylight Mon- day morning. people gathered up almost $100 which the women evidently lost from garter purses or their stockings. After the fight the women fled, feariug arrest. John O'Cone ner came along and picked up $50 in a wad. Later avother pedestrian fonud a $20 bill. News spread that there was money Iying around loose ou the street and a large crowd gathered. —A largely attended meeting of the citi. zens of Barr towmship was held in Nick- town, Cambria county, to discuss the good tosds mevement, and iv this gathering the township commissioners were urged to push forward the movement to secure a needed road in their township. The meeting pro- nounced itself in favor of good reads and a bond issue of $300,000, not paying more then four per cent. interest, if such an issue be necessary. —Grange Day, Soptember 7th, will be one of the biggest days in Huntingdon's “Old Home Week.” Farmers from all over Hunt jngdon county will be there and every grange will be represented. A squad of state constabulary will be in the town to help preserve order aud keep the parade routes cleared. In the industrial pageant to be held during the week, every town iu the county has been invited to have a float. All the different lodges avd orders neceived a like invitation. ~The Southern Cambria Street railway’s lines are to be in operation by November, se cording to promises made by the officials to the public. The Bailey farm, uear Mineral Point, is now the scene of activity. Here are being built the car barns, the offices and power house. One hundred men are at work on the structures. The company mines I gu own eos, not Jo yards Ho i a" # reservoir on & near f nishes ater. Wl steingiog of Wires il be started t y ~ " 1 be delivered in the Cambria Beat fu lines. county will be connected by electric
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