reams rst Sv ME HHE ATN BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Let us all cheer up! Mr. ROCKER- FELLER and Mr. CARNEGIE will only have it a few years anyway. —With our agricultural! friends, the real color question now seems to be mostly a matter of oleomargarine. —March came in like a lamb, all right enough, but that was all; for almost im- mediately it became a blustering, roaring lion. —What is worrying the Washington newspaper correspondents just now is to know just who they can refer to as regu- lar Republicans. ~In this matter of the North Pole everybody seems to be a Missourian. Even the congressional committee “wants to be shown.” —After all the tramp has the bulge on Mr. ROCKERFELLER. He don’t have to lay awake nights worrying about how he can get rid of his money. —Meantime Secretary Knox would better start an investigation with a’ view of locating that Nicaraguan government he started a few months ago. —Anyway we can at least point to one decision of the Supreme court that don’t bear the ear marks of having been writ- ten for the protection of crooks. —A Washington dispatch says, “Presi- dent TAFT is greatly exorcised about the continuous fighting there is in the navy." What under the sun does he think a na- vy is for? —It is to be hoped, although many may doubt the possibility, that former Senator PLATT, of New York, will con- tinue to occupy a conspicuous place in the “Amen corner.” —And still there are people who kick because the Postoffice Department is not made more efficient and less expensive. Just as if that could be done without im- pairing its influence as a political ma- chine. —Former Senator THOMAS C. PLATT, of New York, is dead. There was a day when he was one of tho conspicuous men of our country, but his fame was found- ed on character that could not stand the lime light and his end is lustreless as the spent rocket. —Packer CUDAHEY, of Kansas City, cut up a guest in his house very much as if he had mistaken him for a hog or a beef on the block. He might have been even worse than the former, but that will probably remain inside history of this mysterious case. % —That New York senatorial investiga- tion has proved nothing thus far except that either Senator CONGER or Senator ALLps is a monumental liar. As to which is “it" the public has a right to name its choice in the guessing match without further delay. —Had there been no special privileges neither Mr. CARNEGIE nor Mr. ROCKER- FELLER would now be compelled to work blisters on their hands disposing of their surplus wealth. By the same token had there been no special privileges there would be less need for the distribution of surplus wealth among the people. —The same crowd that bosses the trolleys in Philadelphia bosses the elec: tions there. Therefor it appears strange that they can make workers of that city vote just as they please, yet they can't make them work when they please. Probably if those workers had enough sense to vote for themselves a few times they wouldn't have to strike so often. —The Hon. PHILANDER C. KNOX, our distinguished Secretary of State, has a new daughter-in-law on his hands who evidently isn't very welcome. At least the Hon. PHILANDER has gone after the son who brought her into the family about the same way he went after those Nicaraguans some time ago and itis al- together likely that he will “back up” in this case just like he did in that one. —Well, Col. JACKSON L. SPANGLER, whose qualifications as an art lecturer were—to say the least—questioned by this paper some time ago when it was an- nounced that he would appear before the American University Extension club here, has made his debut and added another to the acknowledged successes of his career. Honestly, we thought it would be a case of grabbing for the stars without keeping a foot on the ground, but it wasn’t and we hasten to acclaim the new side of the versatile Colonel and congratulate him on the possession of qualities that seek pleas- ure, in his many leisure moments, in such elevating research as art. ~The fate of Dr. SNYDER, former Aud- itor Geaeral of this State, is 2a sad one. No one supposes that he either connived A ——————————————— VOL. 55. The Capitol Grafter. The affirmation by the Supreme court of the judgment of the Dauphin county Common Pleas in the capitol graft cases is as much a surprise as it is a vindica- tion of justice. But it can not be tortur- ed into a proof of political rectitude or an improvement in political morals. When the Supreme court issued its allocatur in the case the intention was, no doubt, to reverse the lower court. But the near approach of an important election ad- monished the machine managers that such a miscarriage of justice would wreck the party, and it was determined to make a “goat” of the accused. The present Governor was elected on the promise to punish the grafters and the failure to make good would have worked ruin to the party. Of the guilt or innocence of those who are condemned to service in the peniten- tiary, it is hardly worth while now to talk. That the State was robbed of vast amounts is palpable. But there were others besides Dr. SNYDER and Mr. SHU- MAKER concerned in the operations. The then Governor of the State, who was ex officio president of the board of Public Grounds and Buildings; the then State Treasurer, 2 member of that board; the contractors, the architect and others were equally culpable. But the trial of the causes and the proceedings to vindi- cate justice were pursued with such a leaden heel, or botched so glaringly, that only the two are likely to be punished and one of those two, Dr. SNYDER, is less culpable than others who have escaped or will escape. We are not inclined to palliate the of- fenses which have been committed against the State by these prisoners. It may easily be believed that Dr. SNYDER deriv- ed no pecuniary advantage from the con- spiracy. But he was a part of the ma- chine which had spent vast sums to de- bauch the electorate of the State and probably consented to the frauds as a means of reimbursing those who had supplied the money. As a public official he was under moral and legal obligations to protect the State from such piratical on PENNYP/ HusToN, HARRIS, HAR- DENBERG, CASSELL and SANDERSON. The full vindication of justice requires equal punishment for those equally guilty and if SNYDER and SHUMAKER are to be “goats” the ends of justice will not be fulfilled. Profligacy the Order. The President has consented to a $15, 000,000 appropriation for public buildings during the present session of Congress. He is still urging economy in some direc- tions and protests vehemently that the volume of expenditures must be reduced materially. a public building bill of some sort, is abso- lutely essential in order to save some of the Congressmen from defeat. It is said that Representative BARTHOLD, of St. Louis, was especially urgent in the mat- ter. There are dozens of Congressmen, he said, who will be defeated at the com- ing election unless provision is made for graft in their districts. With characteristic indifference to pub- lic interests and personal pretenses of re- trenchment. President TAFT yielded to this plea of party expediency and agreed to an appropriation of $15,000,000 or more for public buildings in most cases where they will be of no other use than supplying opportunities for graft. This coupled with his ambitious and expen- sive plans for enlarging the navy will more than absorb any funds that are saved by cheése-paring in other directions and probably impairing the public serv- ice in order to “save at the spigot while wasting at the bung.” In fact it may safely be predicted that the appropria- tions this year will be as great if not greater than last. As Senator ALDRICH says the expenses of the government might easily be cut down to $700,000,000 a year, but that re- sult can’t be achieved by increasing the work and decreasing the wages of em- ployees. It is only possible through tbe application of strictly business methods in administration, and building useless battleships and maintaining an imperial But the managers of the congressional machine called on him the other day and expressed the opinion that | The Postal Savings Bank Conspiracy. The Postal Savings bank bill has passed | the Senate with a proviso that the funds on deposit may be invested in bonds of | the United States bearing interest at not | less than two and a-half per cent. This} | restriction was insinuated into the bill by the “insurgents.” The impression had | obtained currency that the intention was to invest them in two per cent. bonds after the establishment of Senator AL- DRICH'S Central bank had made such bonds unprofitable to the National backs. In fact President TAFT had indicated that purpose in his recent New York speech. The adoption of the provision was, there- fore, regarded as a victory over ALDRICH. This shows how impracticable, not to say “easy,” the insurgents are. Of course the provision objectionable to ALDRICH will be cut out of the bill in the House and the conference committee will agree to the amendment so that the triumph over ALDRICH on that score will be transcient. But even if this were not true the enactment of such a law would be inimical to public interests. The log- ical and inevitable effect of such legisla. tion will be to draw the currency of the country under the control of the authori ties at Washington by whom it will be promptly transferred, in every emergency, to paralyze local industry and enterprise, in every case of financial disturbance or stringency, because the currency neces- sary to operate has been filtered through the postal savings banks into Wall Street. Of course the President understands this and favors the bill, not so much be- cause the Republican convention, with. out understanding the subject, promised such legislation, but for the reason that Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN favors any sys- tem that will drain the currency of the country into his hands in the event of panic. MORGAN evidently owns TAPT,body and breeches. The Steel trust had Roose- vELT and MORGAN could put his partners cupy during the last administration. But result will be consummated by the adop- tion of the postal savings bank. It is the quintescense of paternalism. Taft’s First Year in Office. President TAPT completed the first year of his term a week ago and in celebra- tion of the event gave a dinner to Speak- er CANNON during which he and the vet- eran Congressman amused their associ- ates at the table by engaging in a com- petitive dance. The speaker is about seventy years old but well preserved. He is spare of flesh and small in body and having in his young days been an adept in the backwoods style of dancing was able to cut quite a figure. President TAFT, on the other hand, is of giant pro- portions and though only fifty years of age, was casily outclassed by the speaker. It was an interesting incident, no doubt, but hardly dignified. At the dinner in question the President spoke of the achievements of his admin- istration during the year and protested that he had not been fairly treated by the press and public. He was unjustly criti- cised, he added, and not given credit for his good intentions. Nevertheless, he declared that he is glad he is President, not on account of the power and dignity of the office, but because of the oppor- tunities it afforded of serving his country and doing good for the people. The terpsichorean episode of the dinner left him no alternative in that respect, and he made the best of a bad situation. But he neglected to cite any instances in which he had accomplished any particu- lar good. The truth of the matter is that Presi- dent TAFT's first year of service has been sadly disappointing to the publie. He entered the office easily the most popu- lar man in the country. Thoughtful men were tired of the absurdities of his pred- ecessor and anxious to testify to their good will toward him. But the hopes of improvement in the methods of govern- ment were disappointed from the begin- ning. He revealed all the vices and none of the virtues of the crafty politician and perverted every opportunity to do good. That he is now criticised with considera- TATE RIGHTS AND FEDER BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 11, 1910. to Wall Street. The effect of this will be | into any position he desired them to oc- | it was left to TAFT to completely surren-| A RL AL UNIOKR NO. 10. The Smile is Of. Senator Aldrich’s Offer. The investigations, the policies and oth- From the New York Times. er things which have been in evidence in | Senator Aldrich said in the Washington lately appear to have got on- to the nerves of the President. He had dels § I i £ 8 1 i : ; ieE i 8 2 J : | i mile, according to the general notion, in | the matter of jollity, and no well inform- ed man ever imagined that anything i 7 : LH § fy g | i} i 7 : ; : ; 4 Hi ! [ friendliness with Forester PINCHOT. of justice at his ind dur- sequently he made application for the partment of Justice at bie comuind dur. privilege of practicing law in the Interior | dent, no matter how far it may be pro- department, which was refused by Sec- As a of ‘faty] UB 3 Senor Aliich were fie te any reputable lawyer of any State in the | do away with internal revenue taxes al- Union has the legal right to practice in amounted last year to any Depsrtment of the government and. the refusal by BALLINGER to register SHAW, was a usurpation of authority. The other day Senators OVERMAN and Simmons, of North Carolina, of which i kt i i i | i FERS il In I 1 i RF ed the President flew into a paroxism of pas- sion. As the correspondent of an esteem- ‘ed Philadelphia contemporary states it, the President “proceeded to have a brain- storm that amazed and dumbfounded his callers." He denounced SHAW in scath- ing terms as “a traitor and as the ring-/ leader of the men who had stirred up before any department of the govern. ment.” But the President “refused to change his attutude or be mollified." He had completely lost his head. Taft Sadly Disappointed. { It begins to look as if President TAFT's | £5. schemes to validate the HARRIMAN trans- , tis openly actions and to save the Standard Oil com- | flouted and trampled on by the Republi- pany from dissolution will fail. The bill | cans now in power. authorizing the federal government to charter corporations was his vehicle for ti, saving the Standard and that has, From the Newark Evening News. already been practically abandoned. His | My son, it is all right to be sentimental bill to amend the anti-discrimination law | about pour mother, or your best girl, or and create a court for the adjudication of | Your school, ot your home, bit never be cases under that law was the means by | Brown, Jones That and of contin force, it is, or was, Democratic ing fo which he hoped to take care of the HAR- | mentalists in politics. For sentimental RIMAN interests. This measure has been | reasons voted the regular ticket of a amended until it is certain to fail of its | SPEote O00 BEL hE Ra Eom the en sinister purpose. she has not been on her knees. When ROOSEVELT agreed to abrogate | Aided by the votes of Jones, Brown the laws of the country in order that the a Seieh, Shia machine put men in Steel trust might absorb the Tennessee rohicigal were extravagant Coa! and Iron company, it was believed that the full measure of servility to cor- porate greed had been reached. But TAFT has gone further. He proposes to legalize a transaction, by retroactive leg- islation of the constitution, which was condemned by the press and public uni- versally. Not only that but he has open- ly tried to cajole, bribe or coerce the votes of Senators and Representatives in Congress to consummate his unrighteous i 4 g ast REEF purpose. Happily Congress has not yielded to his schemes and one of his bills has al- ready been laid aside and the other has been shorn of many of its evil features. But he has not given up hope as yet. He is still conspiring with the congressional machine, through Speaker CANNON and Senator ALDRICH, and hopes to accom- plish by trickery what he has been unable | Loyality is a noble quality, my son; but to achieve by direct methods. If the Jovalty $0 a putty that to you Insurgents are just to themselves, how- ever, he will not succeed. The Demo- ; crats in the Senate and House will do their part in the work and if their allies are equally true the result will be satis- factory. ——The New York World is urging the administration at Washington to appeal | lect men for high administrative office or So —— I —————————————— ner ————— SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Eighty-seven Clearfield countians arein the insane hospital at Warren, besides a number at Danville, Dixmont and Polk Institute. —Irvona, Clearfield county, is to have a new Pennsylvania railroad station, plans and specifica- tions having been drawn for a $10,000 structure. ~The jury appointed to appraise the value of the real estate of the late John Hindle, of Barnes- boro, formerly of Philipsburg, performed its duty last week and appraised the same at $18,500. ~—Options on 6,000 acres of coal land in Indiana county between Cookport and Cherrytree, west of Cush creek, have been taken by a Philadelphia man. They were at $50 an acre and expire on April first. —A company is being formed in Johnstown by Fritz Russ, the young German inventor hailing from Pittsburg, who wants to raise money to build a trial aeroplane after his own models, which call for a machine that would cost about $4,000. —Judge O'Connor, of Cambria county, at a recent session of court, reiterated his statement that itis the duty of the constables to see that the supervisors keep within the requirements. of the law in the maintenance of the roads under their supervision. —February receipts at the State dairy and food division reached $9,626.99, of which $7,790.43 was received from oleomargarine licenses and $1,300 from fines in oleomargarine cases. The high price of butter caused activity in theoleomargarine business and a rush for licenses. —Indiana countiansdo not favor giving part of that county to form a new county with the capital at Johnstown, it is said. Windber, in Somerset county, would hail the new division with delight. township, Somerset county, and all residents of the Flood City, are declared to look with favor upon the revived proposition. ~The New Jersey Zinc company, inthe lower end of Carbon county, is going to build another monster plant that will cost several millions of dollars. The company now employs 1,500 men. - | It has spent several million dollars already putting up oxide and other furnaces, together with other buildings necessary in its work of manufacturing oxide, zinc and iron, —Nearly a million tons of ice have been stored by Monroe county harvesters in the Pocono mountains. The men experienced some difficulty during the last couple of months on account of the great thickness of the winter product. It was thirty-four inches on some large ponds. Thirteen and one-half inches is the regulation thickness demanded by the dealers. ? —Henry Spitzer, of Windber, was found guilty of perjury by ajuryat Somerset. The crime is alleged to have been committed in the trial of his damage suit against the Pennsylvania railroad, in which he was’ awarded $4,000 for injuries received in a wreck. The verdict afterwards was stricken off by the Supreme court, to which the railroad company carried the case. —About four hundred and fifty cases of measles have been reported during the prevalence of that disease inIndiana. Helpis needed by the health officer who has more fumigating than he can handle. It is probable that a number of cases were not reported, which would bring the figures even higher. Carelessness on the part of parents and children, who have been quarantined, is charged. —B. B. Lupfer, the Bloomsburg optician, has a : number of White Wyandottes that have proved great winter egg-layers. Their record is as fol- lows: Forty-one hens laid twelve dozen from October 15th to October 31; thirtv-seven dozen in November; fifty-three dozen in December; thirty- seven hens laid fifty-one dozen in January; fifty- ~The Huntingdon Blank Book company, doing , business in the Smith building inthe town after which it is named, has been incorporated. D. Y. Swayne formerly was the proprietor of the manu- factory. He is the president of the newly formed concern, the capitalization of which is $25.000. The corporation is one of two Huntingdon concerns that make a specialty of manufacturing bank pass books, with a trade covering the entire country. ~Three hundred and eleven liquor licenses were granted in the Cambria county court. Twenty- five were refused and forty-nine were held over, including twenty-nine old ones. The holding- over of so many old licenses was a cause of much discussion but, it is said, this reflects the court's stand in reference to the conduct of wholesalers, which has been intimated several times. Only three new applicants were granted licenses. Two dealers dropped out during the vear. —~New York capitalists have bought one of the finest tracts of coal land in Somerset county, lying north of Somerset, They paid $100,000 or thereabouts for it. This tract was assembled by purchase by D. B. Zimmerman, of Somerset, a few years ago and contains about 1,600 acres. Work will be started on a tipple ina few weeks and 200 or 300 men will be given work when it is finished. The tract is near the Somerset & Cam- bria branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. —Reports received by State factory inspector John C. Delaney, at Harrisburg, from Miss Helen M. Williston, at Philadelphia, and Miss Margaret A. Winana, at Pittsburg, say that the factory conditions in those cities are not nearly so bad as they have been painted. Both young women have been at work since last spring unknown to the factory inspector. The foreign bake-shops in Pittsburg were found to be in bad condition. Miss Williston, who is a Quaker City newspaper wom- an, said in her report that greater care in safe- guarding the machinery was increasing. ~While attempting to board an extra Northern Central freight train passing through Ralston Sunday evening about 5:30 o'clock, Willard W. Wise, of Trout Run, slipped and was dragged for a long distance. In his effort to save his life, he unwittingly extended his left foot forward but he finally lost hold of an iron bar of a freight car, and a wheel passed over the limb, crushing it amputated. Wise was attached to acrew run- ning'over the Bald Eagle Valley railroad between Ralston and Tyrone. among her papers, Miss Taylor's will was found. In it she bequeathed all her property to her hus- one dogen in: February. This makes atotal.of® toget or did get a cent of the capitol graft, but he is in the eastern peniten- tiary today a broken and disconsolate man because he failed in his full duty as a public official. The fact that he was honest himself did not satisfy the ends of army is not business. That is waste pure and simple and a sort of waste which amounts to criminal misuse of the public funds. But President TAFT is not only willing that such things shall go on but in the event that they contribute to par- ble severity is his own fault. He has earned public contempt rather than popular approval by his spineless indifference to justice. the Jese mayestie case which leads us to apprehend that editor PULITZER is a tri fle hard-hearted. That blow from the lower court has battered ROOSEVELT suf- ficiently to satisfy any ordinary enemy. ——The signs of unrest in Wall Street justice. They demanded of him account- ability for the honesty of others whom he had not watched. He kept company with political crooks and only now is he real- ty success is anxious to promote them. In view of these facts he is estopped from pretending to favor retrenchment. are ominous. Thus far the money trust has been able to prevent a dangerous eruption but the bulls and bears got peril- ously close to the brink the other day ——JoserH CHOATE ventures the opin- ion that no President will ever again re- buke a judge for deciding points of law in accordance with his convictions. Obvi- izing to the fullest of poignant regret the | ——Harper's Weekly declares that “the and there may be a ruinous explosion meaning of the old adage: “A man is: Republican party is busted." The “wish ¥ ny old time. ously Mr. CHOATE takes no stock in the expectations of the “Back from Elba" known by the company he keeps." His | may be father to the thought” in this —— club. tect and defend the constitution.” But |that there were nearly 400 fraudulent ballots fate is only another reminder of the folly ' case but the “Journal of Civilization" | The Sophomore class of State Col- p— the - President, like his predecessor in |Placed in the different boxes, and inthe ward of leaving honest private endeavor for can support its notion with many sub- | lege held their annual banquet at the | ——An advertisement in the WATCH. office, takes obligations in a Pickwickian | 7 Wich Zimerttan, wan the Iufueis i» said tainted public preferment. stantial facts. i Bush house {ast Friday evening. ' MAN always pays. sense. box did not even take the troubleto crease them. ER
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