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
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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
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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.