with orisp, cold weather and jost a sugges- sion of snow. _==We infer that the Cironis court thought thas it is didn’s pat the Standard oil out of business the hook-worm would. © _1It ie beginuing to look very much like » case of benevolently assimilating, Shose Latin-American Republics. —Plenty of people have obanged their minds abous *‘Oleo” since butter has been having such jumps in price. —And this is the winter of discontent for the Sagar Trust, made glorious summer by what happened to the Standard 0il Co. on Saturday. ~The turkey is in great danger of losing caste oo Thanksgiving day, unless he con- descends to come down off thas high priced perch of his. —Foothall is the most profitable college sport—financially—and what the under takers and dootors don’t get the trainers and supply men make away with. —Were you duly thaokfal yesterday. If you were not you must bave forgotten that you have life and bealth, and oppor tunity to lift yoursell out of avy slough you may be in. —The WRIGHT'S bave formed a million dollar corporation to manufacture mechan ical contrivances for aerial navigation. Let us give you a ball tip on this stook. It is certain to go up. —Dr. Cook is said to have used fifty thousand words in his statement to con- vince Copenbagen that he reached the pole. Now look for that peeved expression on Commander PEARY'S face. ~The gentleman who paid forty cents a pound for turkey at a rafilin matob Mon- day night of neoessity ocouldn’t bave been among the knookers at the stores that oharged filteen cents the pound. © —The fact that JonN D. hasn't acted a bis peeved since thas oironit cours decision makes it look ‘very much as if he basn’s the least idea of ouiting eny of the tentacles off that Standard octopus. —Jus when council was sinking into that delighttal oblivion of peace that if hasn't enjoyed for so long the Republican as to try for a tall out of some of its mem hers. Sarely the lot of a councilman is not a happy ove. * —Another water famine Shreatens Peon. aylvania aud should freezing weather set in in their present low state suffering will no doubt prevail. Bellefonte knows nothing of such hardships. Were you thankful for our beaatifal spring. —Seoretary KNOX bas wisely decided to Jook before he leaps. The world was stand- ing aghast at his precipitate baste io the Nicaraguan affair and his determination to find out whether those Americans were illegally exeonted before beginning hostili- ties is muoh more to the point. ~The Hon. BARCLAY, of Sinnamahon- ing, has formally announced his aspiration to return to Congress. Looking into tbe little master of his record during the two terms he has been there the average voter of the Twenty-first distrios will be justi- fied in informally asking: What for? —Congress will be in session again be- fore the country has fully recovered from the exhaustion of the foot-ball season. Then there will be that Nicaragua rebel- lion on our hands, TEDDYS arrival home, the Sagar Trust prosecution and what not to keep ut in a turmoil. Sarely life is just one——d thing after another. —What strange things girls are. Here those Wellesley students who have volun. teered to teach gymmaatios in the publie sohools of Boston have done so only upon condision thas the big boys are not permit. ted to look. These same loidies would want none bat the big boys to look when they dispors themselves on the sands of the seashore. —The desire of a coterie of ladies of Bellefonte for higher education has result- ed in gesting them in a position to sympa- thize with the viotims of the old time Bo- hemian oats and lightning rod swindles. Fortunately it was ooe of their own sex who “took them over’ so poor down trod- den man won’s have to answer for this outrage upon their pocketbooks and gul- libility. ~80 the Hon. WiLniaM JENNINGS BRYAN has decided to leave the Demoorat- io party aud become a Prohibitionist. Our authority for this statement are the news dispatches—not the best in the world— bus if there is any truth in it we congrasu- late our Prohibition friends. Congratulate them because when they need an experi enced candidate for President the Hon. WiLLiaM J. will be there with she bells on. —The old RoosEVELT crowd is {raming ap a job to nominate she mighty huoter for Governor of New York next year. What an anti-olimax in she career of a President. Surely Mr. RoosEvenr will not lend himselt to the plans of sell-seeking politicians like WGODRUFF, Barges and Loge when they would use the prestige he has won in the nations most exalted of- fice to farther their desires to secure con. trol of a state political machine. We are constrained to comeur in the views expressed by Mr. FRANKLIN PIERCE, of New York, in his criticism of the advice #0 the Demoorats of the country, banded out by Mr. HENRY WaTTERSON, editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, the other day. Mr. WaTrensoN bad jast returned from Earope where be bad been indulging in intimate intercourse with crowned beads and other highly favored loafers whe live off the labor of men on that side of the ocean and this, and promptly proceeded to lay plans and outline specifications for the fatare policies of the Democrats of the country. “The Demooratio party has only to wait,” Mr. WarrersoN deolares, “until the Republican party blunders itsel! out of power."’ In other words Mr. WATTERSON would bave the six and a-ball million voters who cast their ballots for the Demooratic candi- date for President last year ‘‘keep still and profit by she enemies’ mistakes.” He is good enough to promiee an early resuls from this waiting for he professes to believe that the contention between the friends of TA¥PT and RoosEvELT will bring about an irreconcilable division in the party in 1912 which will defeat the Republican candi: date, whichever of the two happens to be ohoser:. If Mr. WATTERSON bad spent more time at home and less in Europe dar- ing the last ball dozen years he might think differently. Bat in any evens the hope of such a result is no reason why the Demo- orate should keep stl, ° On the contrary PIERCE, whose name is recommendation, advises the Democrats so ¢'go at the Republican party bell bent on the questions of protective tariffs, imperialism, ship subsidies, extravagant government, costly navy, corruption and all the other abuses whioh they have been imposing upon this American people.” That is the true and wise poiloy for the Demooracy. “God bates a coward,” aod to remain si- lent while soch outrages are being per. petrated is cowardice or someth The Demoorats have b keep the Republican party in power for- ever. : kL Wy Ct Bh ip ss Bi wt SR ka 4 Fe — New York and Penmsylvania, The work of weeding out she orooks in the New York custom house goes merrily on. More than a hundred men who were connected with the weighing of sugar have been dismissed and a score or more of them are to be prosecuted. Other low-salaried men in the service are under suspicion and we would not be surprised il shere should bea wholesale renovation of that sink of iniquity. Allol the victims cf this crusade against officisl vevality are friends of ROOSEVELT but they are without influence, worth speaking about, and that point has not been raised in their interest. When those *‘higher up” are threatened, if they are threatened at all, it will probably be different. The Soger trust has been robbing the government consistently aud systematioal- ly, for many years. In 1894 when the WILSON tariff bill was pending in Congress, an investigation of the oharge that Sena- tors had been bribed by the Trust was made. During that inquiry the late Sena: tor QUAY frankly admisted that be had received shares in the corporation in oon. sideration of his senatorial action and exulted in the profits he bad acquired. Other Senators denied the acousations against them bus QUAY koew that confes- sion was perfectly safe. The men who controlled the Republican party of Penn: eylvania and selected Senators for this State wonld pot be influenced against a mano because of a thing like that. The false weights in the onstom house in New York was the logical if not the inevitable consequence of the bribery of Senators in 1894 and the corrupt and dismissed etployes of the New York ous- tom house may fiad consolation by coming to Peonaylvania aod viewing the effigy of QUAY in the place of honor in the new cap- itol as tg. They were a trifle un- fortunate in living in New York instead of Pennsylvania but they can remedy that now, that they will have leisure to hunt pew homes, in the light of information contained in the history of Repablican polities. If they will locate in Philadel phis they will be taken care of as those who helped fo secure immunity for SALTER bave been, Where the Responsibility Rests Now that Pomona Grange of this county, has had its Biog at the expensive and inel- fective road laws that the taxpayers of Penusylvania are compelled to endure, the WATCHMAN would suggest that its mem- bers look aronnd a little aod enlighten themselves as to who is responsible for these laws. Possibly if they will ges down to the ‘real Shing” they will disocser that many of themselves are to blame for the very conditions they complain of. They are conditions that come in consequence of BELLEFONTE, FA, | 1904, amply sufficient when properly mr the laws we have. The laws we have are the results of Republican victories—they are the work of Republican legislators. If we are rightly informed, fully one-hall ihe members of Pomona Grange, in this ocoun- ty, are Republicans. They vote each year to endorse the work of that party. They sanction ite aosions and approve of what it does. Its work bas been to enact the very laws under which these kicking members of Pomona Grange are robbed by our rotten road making system. Why then should they complain ? Talking against a system aod then voting for is, or for the party that made and en- forces it, will never change it. And until these Grangers have the courage, the in- dependence and the honesty to vote as they talk their resolutions and censure will be but a waste of that muoh work and that much wind. The Standard Oil Decision. The United States Cironit court, in a decision banded down at Si. Paul, the other day, has declared the Standard Oil company to bea ‘‘conspiracy in restraint of trade,” under the SHERMAN aoti-trust law. There were lonr judges on the bench aod the opinion was concurred in by all. The only appeal is to the Supreme court of the United States and it is doubstul if an appeal will be taken, the opinion so clearly expresses the law in the case. It com- pletely destroys the Oil trust and leaves the conspirators without even a hope of evading its effects, It is a great viotory for the people for the reason that it is prac: tically certain to break up » number of other trusts. For more than three years the Roosk- vELT administration was ‘‘monkeying’ with this case. It is eafe to say thas if RooseveLT had continued in office a hun- dred years, the ‘‘monkeying’’ would bave gone on until the end of that time. The reason for thisis plain. Rooseverr didn's want the result that has been achieved. He wanted she failare of conviction as a reason |. for other legislation which would give him greater power. He insisted that the SHEE. MAN law is inadequate. It was inadequate ander his application of it but as Judge PARKER deolared during the campaign of ported in the courts. Ro0SEVE will olaim it as his victory bat it is any- thing bat that. The principle of law expressed in thie decision which puts the Standard Oil com- pany out of business is the same as that as- serted in the decision which dissolved the Northern Securities company some years ago. Bat thus far there has been no apology made for this decision as there was for thas. ‘Is is not the attention of the administra- tion to run amuock against corporations,” was the consoling message handed ous from the White House on that occasion and enon afterward the Attorney General who had conducted tbe litigation was forced out of the cabinet. Nothing of that kind has oo- ocurred yet, bus there is no telling. The recently organized telephone trust might be liberal campaign contributors. The Constitutional Amendments. Nine of the ten constitntional amend- ments voted upon atthe recent election were carried by the majorities given them in Philadelphia aod Pittsburg. In other parts of the State the people appeared to be indifferent on the subject, though a con- siderable majority was cast against the pine that were adopted and an overwhelm- ing opposition was expressed against the seventh, properly. Bat it would have been better if all bad been defeated. The effect of their adoption will be to augment the power v. the political machine and that is regretable. The lewer elections there are the better for professional politicians for the opportunity for the concentration of effort is correspondingly greater. ; In other words now that she number of elections are diminished the campaign tand for them can be increased without any greater draft upon She resonrces of the party managers, For example under the present system the machine was obliged to raise a considerable fund $wice a year, for municipal elections in the cities are quite as expensive and nearly as important as general elections. The machine had to de- pend largely upon the purchasable vote to maintain ita ascendency in many of the cities and the changed order of things will pus this tax upon the managers only once in two years instead of twice a year and of coarse that will make is easier for them. That was the object of the amendments. Fortunately the worst in the lot was defeated and the evil uences of sanccess of the others may be averted il the people are alert and vigilant. It was said shas Mr. BERRY would not have been eleot- ed in 1905 if bere had been two or three other candidates on the sioket that year and is is believed thas Mr. MUNSON would have been su ul this year if Justice of the Supreme ocouvé had been the only of- fice to fill. Bas oivio virtue has the same opportunity to gain by the change as civio iniquity, i the supporters of oivio virtae are equally earnest and active. Is is up to the people, therefore, to make the best of what appears to be an unfortunate circumstance. 4 § § right minded man respects a liar. No man of proper impulses esteems a traducer of fellowmen, ROOSEVELT was both as has been amply proved by Judge PARKER, of New York, Mr. WHITNEY, of Massachusetts, Mrs. BELLAMY STORER, of Ohio, and dozens of others. We fondly hoped that upon the expira- tion of the term of Mr. ROOSEVELT the reasons which made it difficult, it not im. possible, to respect and esteem the Presi dent of the United States would disappear. Bus it oan bardly be said that this expeota- | q tion has been falfilled. Is is almoss, if not altogether, as bard to admire a grafter as is is to esteem a liar. In fact grafting in publio offise involves perjury and necessa- rily includes lying. That is to say the President of the United States sulemaly smears that he will “preserve, protect and defend the constitution.” The constita- sion provides that Congress shall fix a sal- aty for the services of the President and declares that ‘‘he shall not receive, within that period, any other emolament.” y Any man of sufficient intelligence and fast ae is any Today the man of moderate y less with bis income than bat is doing the country this ill torn ? the time learning to be President of the United | be Stetes must know thas aots of Congress whieh violate the constitution are invalid. Any man of thas intellectual standard must understand that when Cougress votes him emolaments outside of the compensation far his services it violates the constitution and that in acoepting suoh invalid largesse the President violates the constitution and bis oath of office. The. present salary of President of the Uaived States is $75, 00 a year. The acoeptance of avy ober emoluments, gifts, donations or shings of from the government, whether au- jorized by sot of or not, is, there: Mar ing enacted and she congressional machine cbanged his mind by promising to vote him out of the public treasury a traveling fund. That was a violation of the constitution sod a sourse of grals besides a species of bribery. The use of government ships for personal convenience is graft of a petty sort bus equally reprehensible. But charg- ing the government with the boarding of the TAFT servants during the vacation sea- son is the culmination of petty larceny and we oan’s see how any one can hold respect for a President who descends to this level of iniguity. Jingotsmm the Rale. There is a good deal of inclination ehown in Washington to “buts-in”’ to the affairs of the Lation-American Republics, The exe- oution of a couple of Americans by order of the President of Nicaragua, the other day, for example, was made the exouse for a lot of jingoism that might lead to serions consequences. It is said that cur govern- ment has practically recognized a band of rebels as “‘belligerents,”” because of this incident, and if tbat be true, it is perilons- | 9 ly premature, to say the least. As the time the government didn’t actually know whether the men had been executed or not and even now doesn’t understand the case thoroughly. Such precipitancy is indis- oreet According to the best information attain- able the Americans executed by order of President ZeLAYA of Nicargaua, were sol- diers of fortune in the service of a revolu- tionary force. That wae no just reason for killing them after their capture as prison- ers of war. Bat itis alleged that when cap- tured they were engaged in laying mines to destroy a warship of the Nicaraguan government on board of whioh there were 800 men. Laying dynamite mines to blow up ships is not a soldierly pars and if those men were guilty of that atrooity, they de- serve punishment commensurate wish their otime. All that our government had a veto the atrocious tariff bill which was be- zation to long ago. ¢ Mr. Roose- velt was not interested. He made not the slightest effort to stop the rasoality which be was shown to be in fall flower and he quit office with the Sagar Trost still en rolled on his list of ‘‘good’’ trusts. It thus befalls thas the Tals activity in getting alter the sacobarine ootopus is dis. concerting to the Roosevels boomers and they are more than hall convinoed shat Mr. Talt bas gos busy all at once and with a great show of energy only for the of reflecting on his predecessor belis- tling the latter as a shackler of cunning. The sugar sions bave undeniably thrown something of a damper on Roosevelt shouters and there seems less likelihood as the t moment than there was a few w ago thas the coun- sry is to be treated to a loud and persistent clamor for the return from Elba. Sull Another Leak. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. While the sugar scandal has loomed lar- gest in the public mind, possibly because it involved a ‘‘srust’’ and was suspected of ramifications extending to sensational uarters, Secretary MaoVagh, at the con- olusion of bis conference with Colleotor Loeb yesterday, remarked shat this phase bad overshadowed in popular interest a muoh more extensive fraud that bad cost the Government many millions. This is the sleeper-trunk method by which impor: ters, all over the conntry, by means of tronks with false bottoms, have smuggled goods through the custom house. Is was not to be supposed after the revel. ations of frand in sugar importations and the widespread collusion of customs em- oyes that the operation presumably nd so profitable in that case would not be extended to as many other importations a6 possible. The Musica trial, involving oheese, proved one extension. The sleeper trunk offered another. Possibly when the whole system is unmasked is will be tound that the sugar cases were but a fraction. AHIR RAI A Current Passle. From the Albuquerque Citizen. - The pusszle of the country today is to know how it is possible for a wise man, as President Tals is vu to be, to believe right to do in the premises was 10 see that | ghas little Rhody Aldrich can be patriot, at they had been properly tried. There is an obvious purpose in Washing: | ton to acquire, in one way or another, con- trol of the Latin-American Republics in South and Central America. Such a purpose the | is in direct oconfliot with she history and traditions of this country and should be disconraged. The polioy was conceived in ROOSEVELT'S lust for power and it was hoped shat his successor in office, baving greater respeot for law, would abandon is. The action in the case in point, however, inticates the oontrary. ROOSEVELT couldn’s have been more presipitate than TAFT, if the current reports in the news- papers are based on actual facts. Jingoism is to be the rale of the fatare according to present indications. SR the sacrifice of his own interests and those of the Standard Oil company for the bene. fit of the people. To harmonize Standard Oil and Wall street with the public interest Jou suas ae/it ie to iz water wit Books, er oil. Will fle Go That Far? From the Harrisburg Independent. President Talt is still for economy in the conduct of the government. Will he suggest that the item of $25 000 for the traveling expenses of the president—an ex- penditare nos even dreamed of a couple years rescinded ¥ —— Just a little bit of snow fell on Wed- nesday night bus it was enough to givea white Thanksgiving in spots, Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Spawis from the Keystone. —All the Renovo shope are working fall time now, and there is a probability that they will have to work overtime. be given employment in a mammoth silk mill that will cover forty five scres and will be built at Marcus Hook, near Chester.’ ~Jobn Rich & Bros, the well known woolen manufacturers of Woolrich, Clinton county, bava decided to double the capacity of their plant, which now gives work to about 100 hands. { — Between two and three tons of packsges left Pittsburg on Thursday destined to reach the Philippine Islands. They were Christ~ mas gifts from home to the soldiers and civil service employees at that distant place. ~The Ruffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad has finished a big reservoir on Jack- son run, near Punxsutawney. It basa ca- pacity of 6,000,000 barrels and is ssid to be the largest artificial body of water in central Pennsylvania. ~—About fifty acres of land for a new res- ervoir have been secured in the northern part of Somerset county by the Maovufacture ers’ Water company, which supplies the peo- ple of Johustown and surrounding boroug! The price paid was $33,000. : ~Labor is so scarce at Mount Union that s representative of the Harbison—Walker com« pany has gone to New York to get belp from the newly arrived immigrants. The new shirt factory is working steadily and adding ~Philipsburg, Clearfield and DuBois have not received enough notice at the hands of the United States geological survey commis. sion to be placed on the same survey blue priot on which Houtzdale, Huntingdon, Hollidaysburg and Punxsutawney appear. —It was said by the district manager of the Berwick division of the American Car and Foundry company thst by January, 5, 000 men will be in the employ of the plants. There are now 3,700 men working on prac- tieally full time and this number is being ~The mineral right under the farm of Hiram Lehman, in Richland township, near $ hv Cambria county, has been sold to {the Berwind White Coal Mining company. The plot contains about 220 acres. The coal company owns the rights to prectically all the land adjoining. —Pennsylvania State college will bold its first summer session for teachers from July 20 to 29, 1010. Any person holding a teach- er's certificate will be admitted. The subs risburg, stated recently that he had given permits to three thousand persons to hunt on’ State reservations for the present deer is the greatest number ever known since the State reserves were established, ~William Rocap was awarded $5,000 dam- ages in the Common Pleas court at Philadel great | his for injuries received by be'ng struck by a bolt of lightning that flashed over the wires of the Bell Telephone company when he was in a pay booth. It was said thut the company should have had a warning sign up to tell people not to use the ‘phone while an electrical storm was in progress. —Alfred Philips, who drove a traction en- gine which broke through a bridge in Sugar- loaf township, near Bloomsburg, is suing the township for $10,000 for injuries which he received. J. H. Howett, the owner of the engine wants $200, asserting that damage to that amount was done to bis machine. Itis claimed that the bridge ought to bave been in good enough repair that it could be trave eled without danger. —Robert H. Taylor, of East Waterford, has brought a suit in Juniata county for the recovery of $5,000 damages from Henry Book, of Spruce Hill township, because the latter owned a cow that was struck by the engine of which plaintifi’s son was the en- gineer and the latter was killed in the over- turning of the locomotive that followed. The plaintiff alleges that Book is guiity of negligence in permitting the bovine to stray on the tracks. —Daring safe crackers, after blowing open the safe in the postoffice at Everett, at an early hour on Thursday morning, managed to escape from the town without being seen, and are now at large with about $1,000 worth of stamps and specie. The robbery occurred at about 3 a. m. when the town was wrapped in slumber and so quietly did the men work, that until the report of the explosion, the presence of the robbers was not known. ~The Lincoln Coal company, which owns operations below Nant.y- Glo, Cambria coun- ty, has installed a new electric hauling sye- tem in its works, supplanting the mule sys- tem. The company recently secured the surface rights on a tract of land near its ‘workings and will build a branch road over this territory to its mines from Ivery hill. It is reported that thie company bus purchas- ed the Martin Makin coal rights on 100 acres near its territory. The price paid was $125 an acre. Several days mgo the coal rights of a twenty-five acre piece of land in the same district sold for $157 an acre. ~It has been announced that prospecting has developed that a field of fine coal lies under Garaway, a point some miles north of Patton and lying in Clearfield county. The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company cone ducted the investigations and has options on considerable of the land in that section. It is thought that these will be closed at once and the property developed. From Gara- way northward five miles toward the Suse quehanna river lies a great table land under which it has always been supposed the des posits of Cambria county extend. Several large operations bad been started on the land but all failed as the coal was found to be of poor quality. Should the Pennsylvas nis company’s workings prove that this is only a local fault & fine new fleld will be opened. Hane bE
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