SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ZDuBois school authorities will make 2 big fight against the selling of to min- ors. ~The high cost of living is another grievance that refuses to disappear at the threat of investi- gation. Wallace Wilson, of Alexandria, is spoken of as a candidate for congress from the seventeenth congressional district. ~The waiting room at the Pennsylania railroad station at Lewistown Junction is being remodeled considerably, the work being almost finished. ~Thomas H. Marshall, a late resident of Dav- ton, Indiana county, left $2,500 to the United Pres- byterian church of that place, to be used for the erection of a parsonage. ~The famous Park Hotel, at Williamsport, is to be renovated, refurnished and given a complete up-to-date equipment at an outlay appreaching $100,000, says The Williamsport Sun. ~The Northumberland hat and cap factory which was recently destroyed by fire will be re- built, Work on the construction will be started early this spring and it is expected that the plant will be in operation by the middle of July. ~The United Charities association, of DuBois, was back of the prosecution brought against Peter Devine, of Iseling Heights, who was held under $500 bail for his appearance at court to answer tha allegation that he did not support his family. INK SLINGS. —After all isn't Philadelphia enjoying | just about what it's been voting for? i —A Pittsburg contemporary boasts of | the progress of art and literature in that | city. Imagine what a Missourian would | say to that. | —The robin may be a harbinger of | spring, but the wise guy will refuse to | shed his winter toggery until the circus | posters begin to bloom. | —Belated returns, just coming in, makes the automobile speeder a poor sec- ond to the coasting-sled guideras a gen- eral bruiser and race exterminator. —A new novel about to be issued is en- titled “A House of Wind." It's descrip- tion ought to give a good idea of what the capitol at Washington looks like. —It is estimated that there are over eleven thousand thieves in New York city. Just think how it would reduce the Republican vote if they were all jailed at once. —*“What," asks our amiable friend, Dr. SwaLLOW, “makes the South so happy since its endorsement of Prohibition?” STATE RicHTS AND FEDERAL BELLEFONTE, PA, MARCH 4, 1910. me Some Corporate Iniquities. The president of a New York telephone company declares that “the public senti- ment against high dividends isone reason for the watering of stocks.” In other words this representative of corporate VOL. 55. One Point to Keep in Mind. It is worth while to keep in mind the fact that the indictments against the beef trust officials in New Jersey have been presented in the state courts and by the state authorities. It has become the cus- tom of the paternalists and centraliza- tionists to iterate and reiterate that the state authorities are either incapable of or unwilling to deal with such corpora- tions. Upon that plea Mr. ROOSEVELT, during his administration as President, constant» ly importuned Congress to enact such legislation as would give the national government all authority to regulate core porations. Upon the same false pretense President TAFT is now asking Congress NO. 9. Mr. Gompers’ Admonition. | For the WATCHMAN. Mr. SAMUEL GOMPERS, president of the INTERBSTING . REMINISCENCES. American Federation of Labor, means | Ges. Frederick Deat Grant and Why Recognition well, no doubt, in warning the adminis Seems orn Contant Vetuan ad th tration at Washington, that “if the pres. | Singular Situation that Results of the War ent American workers’ movement, which | Produced. interests imagines that he is fooling the | is constructive and conservative in char- | Dgar WATCHMAN: public by issuing stock instead of cash | acter, is outlawed and crushed out of ex- | gee it stated that General dividends. The corporations which derive | istence by unfavorable legislation and | Dent their authority from the people, charge | court decisions, it will be followed by excessive rates for service and in the ex- | another movement which will scarcely be pectation of deceiving those who have | constructive,” but nobody takes him seri- been robbed by the operation, water the | ously. What he means is that the next war stock instead of dividing their profits in | movement will take the form of revolu.'2 cash, This is adding insult to injury. It | tion and work destruction both to prop- | I accompanied is a direct aspersion upon the intelligence | erty and life. But people who have stud- | into of the people who have been robbed, to | ied the subject are not alarmed by such | earn the profits thus fraudulently dis- |predictions. They understand the people | tributed. in question better. all over Perry county are looking for a team of black horses that are supposed to have been stolen from E. Shurie, a brickmaker, of Newport. A man by the name of Harry Jacobs hired the animals and is said not to have returned them. —J.L. McKeag, of East Pittsburg, could not decide upon 2 name for his thirteenth child, so i ! if 7 i f U 5 : 2 : et i is Moonshine. Really, brother, we can’t guess unless it | for similar legislation. The insincerity of ROOSEVELT was re- | vealed three years ago when he com- —*Republican prosperity,” boasts a Re- | pelled one of the servile creatures whom publican exchange, “is making all kinds of business boom.” Yes, it is even mak- ing the white-washers of Republican offi- cials work over time. —Mr. SCHWAB, with corporation mil- lions behind him, thinks he can stand in- dustrial inactivity longer than the strik- ing workingmen can stand indolence- Hence he solves the strike problem by closing his mills. —The Louisville Courier Journal sug- gests the possibility of an effigy of Speak- er CANNON in Statuary hall. Mr. WaAT- TERSON must have been afflicted with a night-mare when that idea found lodg- ment in his brain. —Senator MCNICHOL is contemplating the labor conditions in Philadelphia from his comfortable bungalow in Florida. There is nothing so conducive to personal safe- ty and peace of mind, as a long distance grom the scene of trouble. —A correspondent complaining about the times, says, “money does not go a far now-a-days as it used to.” Of c it don’t, but if he'll just stop and t thunderin’ much faster it has to go, pense of $18,000,000. This will be the largest “war dog” in the world and will be about as useful as a flying machine in a coal mine. —Should Nick LONGWORTH run for Governor of Ohio this fall, it is a safe bet that his wife and his money will have to be relied upon as the vote getters. NICH" oLAs himself has never been a drawer to any appreciable extent, except as a draw- er of corks. —Dr. WILEY asserts “that in fifty years the world will be run by water, wind and alcohol.” We don’t know where the doc- tor lives, but it must be in some “way back” county. Hereabouts these three agencies have been running things for io! these many years. —Quite a number of our exchanges are boasting of the fact that they have added type setting machines to their office equip- ment. A type setting machine may be all right, but it is not what many of them need. It's a “Thought Incubator” they seem to be short of. —Congressman GARDNER, of Massa- chusetts, announces that he has investi- gated the question and concluded that the tariff has nothing to do with the high prices. GARDNER has earned the grati- tude of his father-in-law, Senator LODGE, by his early discovery. —Secretary MEYER has just reported that it cost thirteen and a half million dollars to send that fleet of battleships around the world. It would require the benefits resulting to the country to be magnified several times to make them worth thirteen and a-half cents. —We have been listening very intently for a long time, but up to this writing, have failed to hear any victorious hur- rahs! from the Mr. KNOX’'S rebels down in Nicaragua. Evidently the interest that fomented the trouble haven't found the job of bossing a neighboring Republic as easy as they imagined it would be. —“Fingy” CONNERS has contracted the Florida habit, and after his rebuke by the New York Democrats the other day repaired to that winter retreat to search for the solace of the Southern seas. Probably Senator McNicHoL will take sufficient time from his tarpon fishing diversions to give the recreant “Fingy” he had catapulted on to the Federal court bench to enjoin the State of, ‘North Carolina from executing a law regulating | the rates for passenger traffic on railroads. | The insincerity of TAFT is shown in the fact that notwithstanding he has been toying with the beef trust from the mo- ment he entered upon the duties of the office, it was left for the authorities of the State of New Jersey to take the first step toward such practical restraint of that monopoly as holds out the promise of correcting its evil practices. ‘These are the plain facts as shown by the records. We are completely in accord with the view that all corporations should be regu- lated by law and that trusts operating in restraint of trade or manipulating prices ought to be forced out of existence. But we protest that these results should be achieved by the operation of state LE e———— ——[t has been officially declared the New York Stock Exchange that failure is a crime against the lawsof high finance. That is to say the board of managers of the Exchange have exculpated the manipulators of a successful pool in Hocking Valley shares and expelled from membership those who conducted an un- successful pool in the same shares. Economics on a Small Scale. Every thoughtful citizen will cordially endorse the efforts of the administration at Washington to curtail the expenses of the government. Ever since the RoOOSE- VELT administration began, seven years ago, profligacy has been the rule and the aggregate cost of administering the goy- ernment has increased from a trifle over $500,000,000 a year to more than twice that amount. The other day, on the floor of the Senate, Senator ALDRICH declared that he could manage matters so as to save $300,000,000 a year. Acting upon that suggestion there has since been a sort of revision of the civil service with the result that a vast number of the em- ployees have been dismissed. In the Philadelphia mint, for example, seventy-four employees have been drop- ped and it is said that similar reductions are to be made in the postoffice and cus- tom house forces in that city. Of course this action will result in a good deal of saving to the government. Probably no employee in the mint received less than $1000 a year, so that the decrease of sev- enty-four will save $74,000 a year. At least fifty may be cut out of the postof- fice force and nearly that many from the army of beef eaters in the Custom house of that city. The contemplated econo- mies, therefore, will mean a matter of $174,000 a year in Philadelphia alone, and as a matter of fact Philadelphia is only a way station in National life. But cutting off a few of the low-salaried employees is not the sort of retrench- ment which will bring about the reforms that are needed. Possibly the extension of the rule adopted in the Philadelphia mint might reduce the force in the civil service a matter of 10,000 which, estimat- ing their compensation at $1000 each, would work a saving of $10,000,000 a | year. But that is only “a drop in the bucket,” if we may be permitted to em- ploy that homely phrase. The profliga- Telephone companies like railroad and telegraph companies are quasi-public cor- porations. Without the consent of the people they would not be able to do busi- ness at all. The consent of the people is given on the implied condition that the service will be made as perfect and cheap as possible. There is a moral right on the part of the corporation to take from the earnings of the concern just ex- penses and a legitimate profit. When more than thatis taken, whether dis- tributed in cash or by some subterfuge, robbery is perpetrated, and those respon- sible are criminais. This mayseem harsh language but it expresses an exact truth and punishment should follow. It is the only way to treat corporate brigands. =. If the telephone service atpresent rates realizes such a profit as excites public envy the right remedy is in a reduction of the rates which areJexcessive.]|This course would make the public think well Federal Incorporation law and sent his confidential man, GEORGE W. PERKINS, to Washington, the other day, to tell Presi- dent TAPT about it. “A wink is as good as a nod to a blind mule.” Chairman Tawney’s Grave Charge. Representative TAWNEY, chairman of the House commiitee on Appropriations, declares that the program for the increase of the navy “is promoted by a lobby hav- ing strong interests in the profits arising from the construction of ships of war and armor plate." This is a grave accu- sation coming from such a source. Chair- man TAWNEY is no irresponsible muck- raker. He 1s not an insurgent or polit- ical mischief-maker. On the contrary he is one of the most capable and experienc- ed members of the House, high in the confidence of the President and strong in the favor of the congressional machine. When he makes a charge of that kind it is time for the country to “sit up and take notice.” There is nothing new in the statement of Chairman TAWNEY to those who are familiar with affairs in Washington. For years there has been a suspicion that much of the enthusiasm for building up the navy is ascribable to the covetous- ness of the lobby. Three years ago Rep- resentative LILLY, of Connecticut, charged that large suas of money had been used to procure an order for submarine boats and he was hounded out of the House and into his grave for his temeri- ty. He moved for an investigation but under the direction of MARLIN E. OLM- STED, of Pennsylvania, the evidence was diverted into a crusade against him rath- er than an inquiry against the persons ‘ accused of offering and accepting bribes. The chances are that the TAWNEY charges will receive no further attention in Congress. If Mr. TAWNEY would him- self put his complaint into the form of a resolution of inquiry, he would be treat- ed just as LiLLy was. But TAWNEY will not go that far. His statement was in- | senda merely as an admonition to his party leaders in the House to take a reef in the proposed profligacy. He imagines that in this admonition he has fulfilled his public obligations. If his advice is Two years ago Mr. GOMPERS revealed an intelligent understanding of conditions and implored the labor element of the electorate to vote against the candidates of the party, the policies of which are in- tended to crush out the present Ameri- can workers’ movement. During the campaign, however, the leaders of the party in power bribed a few of the labor leaders with offices and the vast majority of the labor voters disregarded the ad- monitions of Mr. GOMPERS and voted to continue the policies which are working their destruction. Next year and every other year, so long as the dominant party has patronage and is willing to bestow it upon recreant and treacherous labor lead- ers, the same thing will happen. It is a great crime, of course, against justice and manhood, to crush out “by unfavorable legislation and court deci- sions,” the constructive and conservative movement of the conscientious labor lead- ers like GoMPeERs. He has been a faithful and intelligent servant of the labor ele- ment of the country for years. But he is not able to control or even influence the d | votes or actions of those associated with 4 hin in orga d fab Ee —This (Friday) evening is the time the orchard train in charge of Prof. H. A. Surface will arrive in Bellefonte and il- listrated lectures will be given in the cars from seven until nine o'clock. If you are an orchardist, or at all interested in grow- ing fruit, don't fail to attend and hear what the experts under the state zoologist have to say as to the best way of grow- ing it. ——The talk of federal control of the trusts through publicity is shown by ex- perience to be absurd. The bureau of corporations has had authority to ex- amine the books and acquire the secrets of corporations for half a dozen years and the only result has been the black- mailing of the concerns by the collectors of Republican campaign funds. —Senator Depew, of New York, has practically announced his candidacy for re-election. The last time DEPEW ran ROOSEVELT used the big stick on all his antagonists. But the insurance investiga- tion since has so crippled the Senator morally that it is doubtful if the White |; House will have the courage to interpose in his behalf this time. ——The express companies pay vast dividends from carrying packages at one- third the rates paid for second-class mail matter to the Postoffice Department and yet the Postmaster General declares that the Department loses money on its second- class matter. It would be worth while to investigate this subject along with others. ——The first of a series of sermons to young people will be preached by Dr. Platts next Sunday evening. This series is based on replies received to a letter sent to 150 representative men and women of Bellefonte. Several of the letters will be read. The sermon this week will be to young men. ——That New York bigamist who pre- tended that he didn’t know the woman when confronted with one of his wives, made a grave mistake. Women are pro- verbially emotional and time has not dulled the edge of the adage that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” ——President TAFT doesn’t propose to entrust the management of his political i i § FE 2 g g : £ : i i i I ; i E l : i 3 : | i gE 5 E E : : : 2 EE : ‘ : : : g i i | ; ] : : E F il i i § 3 255 i i | ! : i g = of 5 gs 28 : : oF : 3 : : | § E 23% an i | g : 2 ' 8 30 5 . 2 ® J A a : +; Ei TES ] Bool £7 1 : B £ ‘ ; g : 7 gE ZF g g 58 g& ( it | : ! | : 2 iL E g Ey : Hg a §~8 12d £8 iis hp 2.8 23f g z 5 7 8 fis 8 8 e § : i 2 % 3 : i 1 i bs “P 4 E I | i E i ; 2 > 2 Be 8 ; | i : i iy il i ap : E : i 587 i g : : i : : 3 ! gL - : i a g ef] i i 8 i s g 4 fs j g E i i = g : 2d i 1 i 7 —y ~~ 8 | i 8 il Hii 1 , 1 | music, there was a big crowd and the sales were he sold several hundred tickets at 25 cents each, with privilege to the holder of the winning ticket to name the child. It will be known as Lottie Ree McKeag. Summer visitors to the Pocono Mountains will be able to get some idea of the enormous ice product of the ponds at Mount Pocono and Toby- hanna and surrounding sections by noting the fact that the present season's harvest aggregated over 1,000,000 tons, 660,000 of which have been housed there. —Patrick Cummings, of Rosedale, near Johns- town, disappeared over a week ago and it is thought that he has been spirited away. Inqui- ries have been made in all directions for the fel- low without avail. He accompanied a man to Johnstown and he, too, is lost. Commings' par ents are poor. ~The Patriotic Order Sons of America and kindred fraternal organizations everywhere in the State are protesting against the State law that provides for the payment of atax on investments of those societies. The next session of the Legis- lature will be petitioned to amend the act so as to eliminate the tax. —Jesse S. Hall, who was recently elected a Justice of the Peace in Beech Creek borough, Clinton county, has made the novel announce- ment that he will perform marriage ceremonies free during the first year of his five year term. This affords an opportunity for young couplesto save a few shillings. —The Lancaster county farmers mix business with diversion at their spring auction sales held at the White Horse Hotel, in Salisbury township, posed of. The Churchtown Band furnished peace and judge of election in Washington town- ship, and was a member of St. Bridget's Catholic church. —Elliott Lemon, of Forks, Columbia county. sold a Durham declared to be one of the largest inthe country for his age. The new owner bought him to fatten for exhibition. Three years old, the bull stands six feet, two inches high, and weighs 2,600 pounds. He will be fattenedon a Huntingdon county farm, and is expected to reach 4,000 pounds. %"—State Health Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon expects to ask for bids soon on the first group of buildings to be erected at Cresson for the new state tuberculosis sanitarium. Work will be started as soon as the weather permits. The state engineers and architects have made their plans and everything will be ready to start opera- tions. There is abundant stone and lumber on the site. Rev. S. E. Nicholson. who has been superin- tendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Pennsylva- nia for several years has resigned the positien, and Rev. Charles W. Carrol, who has been as- sistant superintendent, been elected in his place. Dr. Nicholson is to become national legislative superintendent, with headquarters at Washing- ton. He will continue in charge of the legislative and political work of the league in Pennsylva- nia. —D. A. Wilson, the Harrisburg hotel keeper and politician, , who is alleged to have used a forged ticket on the Pennsylvania railroad, and who was placed in the Clearfield county jail after being convicted of the crime. has been let out under bail of $3,000. Through his attorney, Wil- son has taken out an appeal from the findings of the Clearfield court and until action is taken on this he is allowed his liberty. He has gone back to Harrisburg. —Lorenzo Smith, who lives on the Chauncey Benson farm, in Eaton township, Wyoming coun- ty, reports the catching of a crow that was starv- ed so that it could not fly out of reach. He has fed the crow and it is all right now. Gray squir- rels have been coming to his wood shed for wal- nuts and butternuts, several of them at atime. He lets them eat what they want. He also has a flock of ten quail on his premises that he is feeding this winter. —Norman Starner, who left Wilksbarre four months ago, returned and gave himself up to the i 3 i i for that the Venango county jail has been so sich conselation #5 he needs. cies which are working injury are the disregarded and the public resents the estate to a ROOSEVELT hold-over like ane Hl ee years a Tig aves Prom the constant and dose excessive payments for carrying mails, | outrage he will be able to say “I told you | Postmaster General Hitchcock. It is Te a HEC Toot, Dat jleatly empty ‘omshin ot: Genel Se COMPAn- | yo Gilly extravagance in the maintenance | 50,” and thus “save his own face.” But | semi-officially announced that WADE | It was the same color as the old. Hav c of FrgitlinsV ionship ¢ loud) Beveperity whose of the army and navy and the absurd | somebody else may take the question up. | ELLIS, of Ohio, is to be made chairman ing helped himself and tasted it, he some- a aan ee) as Yur recklessness in expenses of the Presi- | At least let us hope that such a thing will | of the National committee. yaa: Sonn and noisily dropped his day school rooms of the First Baptist church, whom so many people 30% | dent's establishment. happen. EET On being asked what was the matter, | while attending a Bible class led by General OS Tp have met Se , , ; Ses————— ——The county auditors have finally | "answered with a characteristic, deep- Charles Miller. Her head was crushed by a large so lately, it | ——The boycott against meat prices| ——The administration bills have been | completed their work of going over the | toned drawl, “Umph! Samson's had drop door, weighing more than a ton, which is a fair surmise that they are more close- | has achieved little, thus far, but the same | reduced in number to four and it is said | county accounts and the result of their ly related than most folks imagine. We | energy directed against the tariff at the | that the President will be satisfied with | work will be advertised in the papers one Se er have about come to the belief that they | polls next fall will bring surprising re- | half that number and lucky if he gets | next week. It doubtless will make very ——An advertisement in the WATCH. being slightly deaf, she heard neither the door are children of the same dad. sults in the desired direction. one-fourth. interesting reading. MAN always pays. nor the warnings of others.
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