BY RP. GRAY MEEK. — | | po —Whenever eversthing elve fails there is | always that ABRUZZI-ELEINS affair to drag out again. | —1t Cook's two Esquimanx didn’t know | anything aboas the pole how much more did PEARY'S one. —Straw hats have been called in, but whas is the fellow to do who basn’s she price of auvother oue. —Even the Grangers seem to have lost their little kink of bringing rain every time they get together for their ausnual picnic as Centre Hall. —Colleges have opened and already the likely candidates for the line and back eld positions are of more importance than she ourriculoms cr the professors. ~The performance of the stock market for the past few days seems to indicate thas Mr. HARRIMAN'S going dido's sake all of the bullishness out of it anyway. —A snow storm in Colorado and beat to 105° in Texas in the same day larnishes a variety of olimate that ought to please both the pole sharks and the ice cream fiends. —Was it envy or emulation of Mr. HuUxsTER'S feat of Killing a cow with his automobile that prompted Mr. WAGNER to knook one of his lights off on a hovine head ? ~The Board of Pablio Grounds and Buildings ie atill wrestling with the Quay statue. Even the effigy of ‘‘the old man” seems a most difficult thieg for some of them to tackle. —The Standard Oil Co. paid a goarterly dividend of six dollars a share on Wednes- day. Whatever may be the condition of other concerus is is evidens thas she Oe- topas still octopes. —We hope chairman HOWARD SARGENT, of ove of Philipsburg’s *'Old Home Week" committees, is feeling better than be looks in the piotare the North American publish- ed yesteaday morning. —*The North Pole Hat" is the new thing for the fall in women’s head gear. We baven’s seen it yes, bot we presume it will look like an inverted ice cream cone, with a few cookies on is. —Another American girl bas married into the nobility. Miss ANITA STEWART, of New York, is the bride of the Portugese Prince of Braganza. While she was after the BREAGANZA be was probably after a "bonanza and be got it. .=It will cost one hundred avd eighty- four million dollars to ran the government of New York city next year. Twenty-five years ago it didn’t cost that much to run the United States government. We Amer- ioans are going some, though. ~The President’s trip is to cover 12239 miles. In every inch of it he will see sights that should convince him that a tariff that promised revision downward, when it actually revises upward, is not making the land blossom like he probably hoped is would. —The deposed Sultan of Tarkey is writ ing a history of his reign. If he should de- vote a chapter or two to telling how he man- aged his hundreds of wives lots of poor fel- lows we know ol who can’t manage one would bail it asa light ip their wliderness of darkness. —Mr. and Mrs. ANTHONY PETLIN, of Rice's Landing, certainly bad a hos time the first night of their married lite. Their house took fire and burned down giving them merely time to escape in their night- ies. Of all times, what an unpropitions one for a fire. —PEARY is gettiug entirely too gabby abous his trip to the Pole. Is is well that Dr. Cook has sense enough to keep quiet ; elee the public would soon put them in the olass with the pugilistic pugs who fight most of their battles by calling each other names through the sporting pages of our metropolitan papers. —The postal business of the world is in- creasing at the rate of seven per cent. per year. Bt is not a surprise. The population is increasing at nearly the same ratio and as education advances and the postal serv- ice expands there cannot bat be a constant ly increasing use of the mails for social, educational and business purposes. ~The President had five pounds of candy with him when be boarded she train at Utica, N. Y., for his long journey around the country. Possibly he has some gum drops io the package. Cook is said to have used gam drops with good effect on the Esquimanx and it would be just like Tarr $c undertake to keep the dissatisfied west. erners in 8 good humor with candy. —United States Senator OLIVER was at the Granger's picnic yesterday and while there may not have been any surface in- dications as to the rivalry among local Re- publican leaders for hie smiles, the rivalry was there all right enough. And the long political prophet looks forward toa time when another Republican editor in Belle- fonte might think tbat he is entitled to the postoffice. The seed is planted. Wateh is grow, —That Saratoga conference of] promi” nent Demoorats of New York was a fine gathering. The principles enunciated were traly Democratic and all that,but the tron. ble with it was that the fellows who can be depended on to get out the vote when eleo- tion day comes round were not there. "Tis true thas our leaders would help much by together but the greatest results yo. 5 Falae Pretense of Candidates, Io opening the Repablicac campaign at Allentown, she other day, both the candi- dates of that party who parsicipated in the meeting ealogized the administration of their respective offices by Governor STUART, Auditor General YoUuxG and State Treas. urer SHEATZ. “Vote for Vox MoscH- ZISKER, SrssoN aud STOBER,” they said substantially, *‘is order to guarantee the continaance of the wise policies of the pres. ent officials.” Because the presens officials have not been as bad as shey might bave been S1ssoN and STOBER ask the people to elect in their places men who are certain pos to disappoint the worst expectations. RoseRT K. YOUNG, the present Aaditor General, wae a Representative in the Legis. latare during the session of 1899 and J. A. STOBER was a Senator in the Geoeral As- sembly daring the same session. Mr. YouNG was among the leaders of what were then known as ‘‘the insurgents,” and STOBER was a servile follower of the regu: lars. It is safe to say that they dido’s vote on the same side of any political question daring the entire session, though professing to represent the same party. Every legis- lative day for nearly four mobths they eat together in joint session and never in a sin- gle instance voted for the same candidate for United States Senator. Daring the ses- sions of 1902 to 1906 JoHX O. SHEATZ sat in the House while STOBER occupied a seat in the Senate and the records show that in nine times ous of every ten they voted on opposite sides of party measures. Mr, SHEATZ was not a consistent reformer. He was not always able to assert his inde- pendence of the machine. But in most oases he defied the authority of the bosses whiie STOBER was invariably the most serv- ileand obedient creasare in either branch of the Legislature. Sevator S1ssoN, the Republican nominee tor Auditor General, hecame a Senator in the General Assembly with the beginning of the session of 1901 and from 1903 until the close of the session of 1907 sas in that body while Mr. SHEATZ occupied a seat in the co-ordinate branch. Daring that time much of the iniguitons iegirlation which brought shame aud disgrace to the Com- monwealth, was enected. As we have al. ready stated SHEATZ was not always moral. ly strong enough to vote against the man- dates of the machine bat SissoN was al. ways sufficiently subservient to sapport the most infamous measures. In private ocon- versation he freely deplored the degeneracy of the body of which he was a member,but whenever he was called so vote or give public expression to bis views on questions in issue, he obeyed the orders of the hosses. The railway franchise bills, tbe ripper bills, the PUBL and other measurea designed to protect the white-slave trade in Pbiladel- phia, aud in fact all legislation which the machine desired, was supported by Sisson, He koew better, He may have been asham- ed of bis work but he performed it ander boss orders. What right have these recreants to hide bzhind the persons of Governor STUART, Auditor General YouxGg and State Treas: urer SHEATZ? Even they bave been de- linquent. They lack the militant integrity which is needed in the offices they occupy. If there bad been a genuine reformer io the office of Governor duriag the pass two years and a-balt for example, there would be no question now as to whether or not the cap- itol grafters should be punished. It ie noticeable that since the retirement of WiL. Liam H. BERRY there bave been no ex- posures on ‘The Hill.” It is not because there is nothing to expose, but for the reason that exposures hurt the party. Therefore the present officials are not models bat they are far better than the present candidates of their party would be if elected and Sis. soN and STOBER ate impudent false pre. tenders when they ask voters to support themeelves in order to prolong the policies of the present officials. Mr. Peary and Mr. Cook. Commander RosERT E. PEARY may have beew at the North Pole on that day of April, 1908, upon which he claims to have discovered that important pars of the globe, But be doesn’t act Mke a man who had achieved such a resnlt in the interest of science or hamanity. Men of great hero- ism and achievement are usually unselfish, As a rale they care less lor the pecuniary side of their enterprises than for the altruis. tic consequences. They strive for the bet. terment of mankind and the world. They are sustained in their perils and privations by the enthusiasm which flows from a heart throbbing with benevolent emotions. Commander PEARY appears to be differ- ent. His impulses are purely commercial. He reveals more the spirit of Chatham street than the hopes of s hero. Before he started ou his journey he sold the informa- tion which he hoped to acquire, largely at other people's expense, and hedged the good he might accomplish so completely that it was certain to give him the greatest smonnt of pecuniary advantage and the public the least usefal information and at would come il our workers were to get together the highest price. DR. Cook didn’t pursue STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. so selfish a course. He proceeded with his work notil it was finished and then gave his information to she public as free as air. Then Commander PEARY might not bave been at the North Pole at all. He might bave beep some piace in the direction of the pole where the information of Cook's achievement could bave reached him and when be heard of the discovery by Cook he might bave hurried back to present his claim and organize his absurd quarrel with the real discoverer. There is nothing in his statement inconsistent with this conjeo- ture. The data be bad acquired in pre- vious attempts to reach the pole and thas be is alleged tp have seized ip COOK'S camp on his last trip might easily make up bis story. Men who achieve great things don’t act as be has acted. False Hopes of Prosperity. A short time ago Mr. James J. HiLL, the best authority in the country on in- dustrial conditions and crop prospects, admonished the public against false hopes of prosperity. There has been some im- provements, he said, in consequence of the vast orope of this year. Lahor was em- ployed in barvesting and marketing the fraits of the s0il and generons wages paid for the work. Bat there bas heen no sub- stantial or enduring improvement in the industrial conditions of the country, and there can be no snch improvement while wages continue low and the necessaries of life high. The margin between the receipts aod expenditures of the average family, where there is any margin at all, is too small to build bopes upon. It is all weli enough to read in the metropolitan papers of industrial activity in one section and another and we have no doubt the improvements relerred to are actual. But with eggs, meas, vegetables aod clothing at record prices even the workingmen who get the benefit of the em- ployment in question are unable to save anything ous of their wages to meet the exigencies of sickness or other forms of mis. fortune. The price of olothing is to be ad- vansed from $2.50 to $10 a suis, we notice in the commercial columus of our city con- temporaries. The price of shoes will be increased from fifty cents to a dollar a pair, we learn through the same source of information and in view of these facts we can’t see how the average workingman can view the approach of winter with con. fidence. There ought to be abundance in this country for every industrions man. With a yield of eight billions of dollars from the fertile soil the prices of necessaries of life ought to be so reasonable that every work- iugman would have a safe margin between his receipts and expeuditures. Bat the policy of the Republican party has created trusts and fostered such combinations to regulate prices that while the producers ges comparatively little out of their abund- ance, the consumers are ground hetween the upper and nether millstones of cor- porate greed until there is nothing before them except dispair. The remedy is in voting those responsible for the conditions that weigh so heavy upon the great masses, when everything is in such great plenty, out of power and this year is the time do is. Tatt's Unhappy Campaign Speech. President TAFT started on his 13,000 mile dectioneering tour the other day wish a speech in Boston which must bave great- ly discouraged his friends. The features of his address were first an eulogy om Sep- ator ALDRICH, secondly a plea for central- ization of the money power of the country and last a puerile attack upon Govervor Jouxson,of Minnesota, whom he imagines may be his competitor in the next Presi- dential campaign. Neither of these fea- Jura will appeal to intelligent popular avor. Probably the most important of these features is his attempt to popularize the Wall Street proposition ofa central bank of issue with absolute authority to control not only the but the volume of the currency. ith euch an institution in operation it wonldn’t be worth while for anybody to run against TAFT if he hap- pened to be the candidate of the ‘‘financial machine.” HARRY Traw or HARRY ORCHARD would ke equally certain of election under such circumstances for the *‘Central Bank’ would have power to cre- ate. prolong or stop panics at ite pleasure. Alter his election and before his inauga- ration President TAFT declared in a speech delivered in New York that umless Con- grees fulfilled its obligation to reviee the tariff downward in purenance of the pledges of the Republican party, he would be ashamed to hold the office to which be had been elected and the party would be unworthy of future popular confidence. Congress didn’t revise the tariff downward and TAFT not only approved the violation of the pledge with indecent haste but now fulsomely enlogizes the man responsible for the reoreancy. His puerile attack on Governor JOHN- SOX may easily be dismissed as the poison- Me Bp lei r dinoer es are nently digested and apprehension of she future appears to have inflamed the President's spleen to such an extent that he can’t be exactly just to Governor Jomxsox. In any event, bowever, there is nothing in what Governor JOHNSON bas said abot the east and west to justify the bad-tem- pered criticism of the ent. BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 17, 1909. Popular Education Menaced. The Philadelphia schools opened on Monday with 15,000 children ‘‘outside of the breastworks.”” That is to say there are that many children of school uge and entitled to the privilege of attending the public schools of the city who are unable todo so because the scbool facilities are inadequate. The council chambers are models of elegance and luxury. According to the local newspapers there is nothing to be desired with respect to shem. There are marble galleries and alabaster railings everywhere and luxuriously (furnished rooms for the members of municipal legie- latare and their friends to lounge in. The Mayor of the city bas been provided with a room in which every modern convenience is present. Bus 15,000 school children of that city are withoant the facilities to exer- cise not only their natural right to attend sohool bat their legal right to the oppor- tunities of she school system. Mayor REYBURN is urgently in favor of expensive boulevards for the use of owners of automobiles and she machine which is responsible for his administration is ever ready to borrow money to invest in snch luxaries. Philadelphia business men and bossés, raise yearly hundreds of thousands of dollars, to debauch elections and protect the villians who commit she crimes, but any proposition to appropriate public fands to provide essentials for the primary edu- cation of the children of the community is frowned upon as a waste of materialjand opportanity. Popular education contrib. ates nothing toward the maintenance of the machine. In fact the public schools are a menace to machine government. The moment people acquire sufficient education to reason from cause to effect the citadel of the political boss is threatened. Ignor- ance and servility go baad in band. Iilit- eracy is the source of partisan supersti- tion and providing funds for public schools is equivalent to contributing support to a movement to abolish partisan political ma- chinery. Until recently the infamous municipal machine which bas misgoverned Philadel- I : gs > it may be said that thelate Senator QUAY would not permis soch a usurpation of power. Loos the city to your heart's con- tent, he said substantially, to DURHAM, MARTIN, MCNICHOL and the VARES, bat keep piltering fingers ont of State aflairs. Upon bis death, however,conditions chavg- ed, and the Philadelphia bosses began ae- serting themselves in State conventions and assumed anthority to direct the busi- ness of the Legislature. In the recent State convention which nominated Vox Mosca ZISKER, S1ssoN and SroBER, Senator Mc- NicHOL was the directing force and the people of the State may soon expect to see the educational policy of the city, which leaves 15.000 children without sohool facilities, extended to all parts of the State. on Faise Pretenses, In his speech at Allentown last Satur. day, Senator S1ssoN, Republican candidate for Auditor General, attributed the com- wercial and industrial improvemens, which is said to have set in, to the ALDRICH tar- iff law recently enacted. The ALDRICH tariff law, according to tbe experts who have been wrestling with it, increased the DINGLEY schedules on a great number of articles and reduced them on a few. Al- together, however, the ALDRICH bill made Claims Based —— a considerable increase in the tariff rates of recent years, and il thas polioy bas worked av improvement in industria! and commer: cial conditions, President TAFT must have been mistaken when he advocated tariff re- vision downward before and after his elec tion. At the same meeting former State Sena- tor STOBER, machine Republican candidate for State Treasurer,spoke of the freedom of the Ssate from debt and asked for a vote of confidence in the Republican party, through his election and that of Sissox, as a reward for wise financiering. Yet during their terme of service in the General As. sembly both Sissox and StoBer did dll in their power to delay the payment of the state debt, by voting for every profligas. expenditure that was proposed in the in- terest of the machine. The policies under which the State debt have been paid were adopted long before the Republican party came into power in the State and the Re- publican machiue had nothing to do with the achievement. Thes both the Republican candidates have predicated their claims wpon popular favor on false pretenses. If there have been any real improvements in the indus. trial and commercial conditions of the country they are ascribable to other causes bry pai tap Ag CE Rig aggregate value t ons dollars it bie be cally impossible to keep industrial life inactive and though the overtaxation of the people will impair the advantage of such a yield of the soil to some extent, it cannot entirely destroy it. With respect to the state debs the Repub- lican machine would have multiplied it if conditions oreated belore it got control had not prevented. This is induced by the fi nancial condition of every county and y every municipality in the State that ite creatures ol. X0.3%. Prosperity is Returning. From the Omaha Herald, From Chicago comes the cheeriog news of a radical advauce in the price of meats. This advavce follows similar advances, made with monotonous regularisy every three or six months ever since the famons “‘smav