an ERIN SPP TERRE BY P. GRAY MEEK. —(radually the price of the real hog is ‘creeping up to the value its two-footed counterpart places upon itself. —There is little doubt that March, this year, will go out like a lion. The price of lamb will prevent all attempts at sim- ulating it. —Mr. BALLINGER has discovered that while cunning may be a valuable asset at times it is not the kind that stands the wash well. —We don’t see that Senator ALDRICH is over-working either his chin or his type- writer in an effort to prevent his party continuing wasting that $300,000.000 yearly. —Dr. MARY WALKER declared before the New York Legislature on Tuesday that “the Suffragettes are grafters.” Dr, MARY ought to know. She is the original one of them. —Speaking of failures, ZELAYA'S gov- ernment and KNOX's revolution down in Nicaragua, seem to be running about neck and neck as they come down the home stretch. —If that Cincinnati preacheriwho has undertaken the job to reform Boss Cox by prayer succeeds he ought to be in- duced to experiment with Speaker CAN- NON for awhile. —*“We ain't agreein’ on nothin’ " is the hopeful report that Boss Cox gives of ELuis' efforts at harmonizing Ohio Re- publicans. And Democratic stock goes up several points as a consequence. —What columns of explanations he would have saved had President TAPT declared at the outset that he would be satisfied with one term? But then, a fel- low’s foresight never is equal to his hind- sight. —Mr. PAULHAN, the French aviator, is mad and is going to take his playthings and go home. He is a great flier. There is no doubt about that, but the shekels didn't fly in as fast as he thought they ought to. —0! No. Not a particle of sympathy here for either side. Both parties in that Philadelphia rumpus are getting just what they deserve and our prayer is that the medicine will hold out until each one gets a full dose. —It is now alleged that the purpose of the MORGAN automobile trust is to re” duce the cost of living. At this distance we have great difficulty in discovering just how the average workingman will ever get the old thing into action. —-Its only about eight months until the election, and yet there are folks optimistic enough to believe that the people will for- get, before that time, what a fool Secre- tary Root made of himself by “butting into” that New York investigation. —For patience and perseverance com- mend us to Senator LODGE. After all the rest have seen the folly of it, he stills keeps pegging away trying to make him- self believe that the tariff has nothing to do with the increased cost of everything. —Verily “all things come to him who waits.” Philadelphia business men who, heretofore, “never had time” to help nominate or elect honest men to office have ample leisure now to figure out the cost of the kind of government the other fellows give them. —President TAFT has started on anoth- er “swing around the circle.” This circle won't be as large as the last one, but we fancy it will be quite large enough for him to discover that the country isn't going into conniption fits over the suc- cess of the TAFT administration. —Former President ZELAYA, of Nicara- gua, is in Paris calling Uncle SAM names. Whatever he may say we fancy there are a few epithets he hasn't thought of that his former subjects are embellishing him with for having run away with about all the loose valuables in their country. —Congress’ refusal to buy automobiles for Vice President SHERMAN and Speaker CANNON was probably not prompted so much by a desire to conserve the public pocket book as by the thought of the stink the gasoline wagons would raise in coun- try districts when Congressmen are to be re-elected next fall. ~The queer thing about the political situation is that upto this time our friend BAILEY, of the Johnstown Democrat, has not charged that Col. GUFFEY is respon- sible for the Pittsburg hold-ups, or the strikes, rioting and rottenness in Philadel- phia. Is brother BAILEY off guard at present or only taking a needed rest? —Eastern papers are making a great ado about three hundred pound hogs, in Kansas City, being worth $39.00. How green some people seem to be. We have run across hogs right in the neighborhood of the homesof some of these papers that didn't weigh half as much as a Kansas City hog, and that were valued at more than that many thousands of dollars. —pPittsburg churches are appointing hygiene committees in order to secure enough pure air in the auditoriums to keep the congregations from going to sleep during services. We are ready to admit that pure air may be an essential, but good, live wires in the pulpits could make a contact with the sleeping brethren that would make them sit up far quicker and take notice than all the oczone they can fan into them. SR VOL. 55. Jurisprudence ig Philadelphia. WiLLIAM McPHERSOY, a citizen of Phil- adelphia and resident of Upland street, that city, was arrested, the other day, during a strike disturbance at Seventy- first street and Woodland avenue. The incident is fully described by a Philadel- phia contemporary, without protest or comment. It appears, according to the evidence of the arresting officer, that on Sunday, March 6th, a crowd had assem- bled at the point designated, among which was the prisoner. The officer asked him to “move on,” and he refused. There- upon the officer “knocked him down with his club.” Evidently Mr. McPHERSON imagined that was the end of the matter, but he was sadly mistaken. The case was brought before magistrate BEATON, in the Central Police court, ac- cording to the narrative. “Shortly after- ward,” officer PENSHAW testified, “when the accused was able to get up, he started to go away, but I informed him he was under arrest. McPHERSON did not stop and I fired two shots at him,one of which hit him, and since then he has been in a hospital.” Attorney FRANK HASSON, who appeared at the hearing for the prisoner, cross-examined the witness. The attorney for the police officer objected to his line of questions, and was sustained by the magistrate who declared to the counsel for defence “if you don’t examine the wit ness the way I want you to, I will hold your client for court.” Disregarding this admonition counsel continued his ques- tions, whereupon the prisoner was held in bail and the lawyer thrown out of the court by order of the magistrate by three policemen. We refer to this case merely to show the system of government which prevails in Philadelphia under the dominating banditti, while the people “corrupt and contented,” blandly pursue the even tenor of their way. If such a thing should occur in one of the penal colonies of Rus- sia the self-righteous citizenship of Phila- delphia would protest with a vehemence which might be heard from one end of the country to the other and even to the most remote portions of civilization. But being a part of the piratical system of jurisprudence in their own city and di- rected against one of the sympathizers of oppressed workingmen of that city, it goes without question. It isa disgrace to Pennsylvania. ——EDWARD PAYSON WESTON, the veteran pedestrian, celebrated his seventy- second birthday anniversary by taking a little seventy-two mile cross country walk, yet how many younger men there are who are utterly unable to walk a few squares to church once a week. One Political Bubble Burst. In his annual report, recently issued, State Treasurer JOHN O. SHEATZ fitly punctures one of the cherished bubbles of the Republican machine. It has been freely boasted by the press and public speakers of that political faith, for years, that the gradual obliteration of the debt of Pennsylvania was among the great achievements and wise policies of Repub- lican administration. Mr SHEATZ points out the utter absurdity of that claim. He cites the fact that the sinking fund was suggested by a Democratic Legisla- ture and that thegr ‘ual diminution and final extinction of wie public debt is as- cribable entirely to that beneficent meas- ure. The public debt of Pennsylvania was created by the construction of the canal system in pursuance of the Whig policy improvements. The hope was held out that through the medium of these pub- lic highways the revenues of the Com- monwealth would be largely increased and that ultimately the entire expenses of the State government would be met by the proceeds of the business of these utilities. The result was vastly disap- pointing, however. Instead of yielding a profit the canals became a source of ex- pense to the State and were rapidly drift- ing us in the direction of bankruptcy. It was to obviate this disaster that the ca- nals were disposed of and the sinking fund created. So far from Republican policies obliter- ating the State debt they prolonged by many years the final extinction of that bur- den upon the people of Pennsylvania. If the full measure of opportunities had been taken advantage of the last dollar of State debt would have been paid fifteen years ago, and it is safe to say that if WILLIAM H. BERRY had not been elected to the of- fice of State Treasurer in 1905 the fuil payment would not have been paid for a dozen years to come. The profligate plans for expenditure of the public funds which had been formulated by the machine managers during the PENNYPACKER ad- ministration would have "eaten up” the revenues for that long a time at least. —An advertisement in the WATCH- MAN always pays. Better Form of Philanthropy. . Mr. ROCKEFELLER'S desire to employ ' his vast wealth for the benefit of man- kind may be an expression of genuine philanthropy and his plan of achieving the result by incorporating the "ROCKE- FELLER Foundation,” may be both.wise and expedient. We have no inclination to quarrel with rich men for no other ! reason than that they are rich or dis- , posed to "look a gift horse in the ! mouth.” But we are constrained to be" lieve that there is more practical benefi’ ! cence in the proposition of the multi-mil- | lionaire soap manufacturer who declares | that he intends to spend the remainder | of his life in efforts to change the system | which makes it possible to accumulate | such vast fortunes by robbing the peo- | This millionaire reformed soap maker made a speech before a meeting of Chi- cago business men, the other evening, in which he said that "ROCKEFELLER and other millionaires have accumulated their wealth through unjust laws, especially under the tariff’s protection, and because of these laws I, too, have robbed the pub- lic and am still robbing it. I am not re- sponsible for these laws, but am doing, and intend to do, what I can to change them.” This is the real sign of an im- provement in purpose. It may not have the effect of improverishing the philan- thropist who has thus reformed and lacks in the element of restitution. But it promises to check, if not entirely end, the source of the greatest evil. Mr. ROCKEFELLER’S plan is to incorpo- rate his wealth by congressional legisla- tion and use it in any and every way that will contribute to human happiness and comfort. But it leaves the system, by which it was created intact and probably strengthens the implied sanction of the government. On the other hand the soap maker's scheme is to keep his ample but, comparatively speaking, not exaggerated fortune and so amend the laws as to pre- vent either himself or others from furth. er depredations on the public. Obviously this plan will be the better in the long run, for in the course of a couple of hun- dred years the ROCKEFRLLER Foundation i would control all the wealth in the world. ——GEORGE GRAY BARNARD'S groups for the front of the capitol at Harrisburg , are now on exhibition in Paris and M. | BOUCHER, the noted French sculptor, de- clares that “they will take rank with the greatest works of art in the world.” After all the misery and hardships BARNARD suffered because of the misrepresentations | of the capitol grafters his fame in the | capitol construction will not endure | through prison stripes. re ———— Republican Troubles Multiply. | The Republicans are having all sorts of troubles. The opposition to CANNONism and ALDRICHiIsSm is unabated in the mid- die west. The PINCHOT-BALLINGER dis- | pute continues to distract the party in | the far west. The disclosures of corrup- tion and bribery in New York has split the party in that State in equal parts and finally the movement to compel the en- actment of legislation requiring the pub- | licity of campaign expenses in presiden- tial and congressional! elections has put the leaders of the party on their heads. Incidentally there is a revolt in both houses of Congress over President TAFT'S pet bills and on the whole the party is in a sad state of demoralization, The publicity bill has been fought off successfully ever since the scandalous campaign conducted by MARK HANNA in 1896. Even those who welcomed the re- sult of that election revolted against the corrupt measure adopted by the chair- man of the Republican National commit- tee. The wholesale bribery and the un- holy alliance with the Mormon church in- dulged in during that campaign Were ab- horrent to the conscience of the country. But all attempts to enact preventive leg- islation proved avortive. President ROOSEVELT'S deal with HARRIMAN in the campaign of 1904 intensified that feeling. But ROOSEVELT was able to influence Con- gress against the reform legislation as long as he remained in the White House. : The other day, however, the Dem- ocrats and insurgent Republicans caught the managers napping, and secured a favorable report on the bill. As long as the votes on the subject were taken in committee no great harm was felt in vot- | ing against the measure. Proceedings in | committee are secret. But now that it | is before the House and must be met in the open a negative vote will entail the popular reprobation of those who favor honesty in elections and are opposed to the bribery of voters. The Democrats are determined to press the advantage STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 18, 1910. they have thus acquired. They will in- sist on an open vote and public record. | Hence the increased trouble in the Re-' publican party. | UNIO Mr. Shaw's Jingoism. Former Secretary of the Treasury, LesLey M. SHAw, has all the other jingos of the country skinned a mile. In an ad- dress on Founders’ Day of Temple col- lege, Philadelphia, the other day, he said: “Among the pressing problems is the struggle for the control of Pacific ocean commerce against the great little nation of Japan.” Solemnly and slowly, accord- ing to an esteemed Philadelphia contem- porary, "he repeated his warning of fu- ture war, unless America prepares by es- tablishing a merchant marine from which could be drawn soldiers and transports in case of strife.” Obviously he was “toot- ing” for ship subsidy legislation but in- cidentally he was promoting the big navy schemes of the administration. It is a trifle singular that the Japanese bugaboo is brought forward annually while the naval appropriation bill is pend- ing in Congress. Whenever the palms of the shipbuilding pirates begin to itch for graft their agents in one branch of Con- gress or the other reveal some mysterious secret purposes of Japan to "eat us up.” But Mr. SHAW is the first of the subsidy mongers to bring that rag bogie man into the arena for the purpose of influencing Congress to waste millions of dollars of the public funds by bestowing unearned bounties on the steamship trust. He has out-heroded HEROD in this direction and strangely enough he was addressing in- telligent people at the time, college folk, if you please. As Mr. SHAW indicated in his speech this country has gone to the limit of subsidy but there should be a check rather than an expansion of the wicked processes. At any rate the false pretense of a Japanese peril should be cut out of the equation in advocating the expansion. There is no more danger of a war with Japan than there is of a war with Great Britain, Germany or France, unless it is provoked by the absurd jingoism of blatherskites like SHAW who are probably paid by the shipbuilding trust for their fulminations on the subject. The present system of subsidizing commerce is suffi- cient to impoverish the country. Why add to the burdens of the people, there- fore? .~—=And Teppyis really onhis way home: Why, what a good time the wilde beests, gazelle and rhinos must be having in Africa since he left, but how some of the “malefactors of great wealth” must be trembling in their boots as they read of his march toward our shores again. Nobody is Holding Aldrich. Public interest in Senator ALDRICH'S statement that if he were permitted to manage the affairs of the government he could save $300,000,000 a year for the people has not been appeased by his si- lence on the subject since. Estimating the population at 90,000,000, which is a high figure, that would mean a saving of about three dollars and thirty-three cents each for every man, woman and child in the country. In a family of six, about the average in this country, it would save nearly twenty dollars a year, sufficient to provide a good many necessaries and some luxuries. In poor families, the sort that have to pay the taxes, that addition to the resources would be a God-send. The other day, according to the New York newspapers, the mayor of that city became bewildered in the hallways of one of the big hotels and meeting a bell-boy told him he was trying to go to an ele- vator. “Nobody is holding you,” irreverent- ly replied the urchin as he scampered away, leaving the mystified mayor on his own resources. The same answer might be appropriately applied to the distinguish- ed Rhode Island Senator. He has abso- lutely dominated the management of the fiscal policies of the government during the last half dozen years and if he has permitted a waste of so vast a sum, he is as culpable as if he had broken into the treasury vaults with a jimmy and stolen the money. That such an amount might be saved is beyond question. Before the elevation of ROOSEVELT to the office of President the expenses of the government were that much less than they are now and the increase is the result of his wanton indifference to his official obligations and the principles of common honesty. The profligacy at the White House inspired profligacy in the other departments with the result that the country is threatened with bankruptcy notwithstanding the enormous and unnecessary tax burdens which have been put upon the people. But Senator ALDRICH and his party are in some respects responsible for this criminal misuse of the people's money and should be held to account. —Anyway those “malefactors of great wealth" and the “predatory rich” have three months yet of comparative peace and quiet. BwANA TuMmeo will not return until June, From the Pittsburg Post. : ight i . ing tha but for the Seivity of Democratic representatives the bill providing £ | | if i j | success on election day. Without sinews of war of that nature theirs is a lost cause. And it is not un- natural that they should wish to have the sources from which these funds are de- rived kept a secret. Otherwise the con- tention so adhered to by their op- ponents that are hand in glove with the trusts and all the other powers of become too well | to have the McCall bill reported out of committee are entitled to all the credit that has been to them, and more besides. the McCall bill is not perfect. V it does not go far it should be more Never- ! theless it is far as it goes. A least it for an advance over pre- valling conditions. It ought to be enact- ed this session of Congress ad- 13858 Bian i g z 5 cli Xe Ph 7 u 1 F3 t Ll £4 : E £ : : ; : : facturers a reasonable t” is working com is opening qu for it. Yet it would A be about time for the Amnrican people to wake up and make short work of the tarie and retain something for them. selves. as well as in motive, the President's best It was in saving Mr. pretended to be his friends, but were not. In the last issue, the editor shows signs of a loss of and an ng irritation. Hetchy nici tamyjeraiten: axl in convertion uently aphedls to is possession, as or is likely to be right. Alone in his library, with his law books and an abstract case, he may be fully as judicial as he imagines. In the world of men, he is the toy of the politicians, la and money-makers with whom he walls apd eats—the most t, Grant left the House.” This impresses one as the most savage criticism yet passed on Mr. Taft since he succeeded Mr. Roosevelt. It comes from a t of Rooseveltism. of course, as a - ment, it not only makes pie of Mr. but makes . t CLAY, of Sinnamohoning, and CHARLES PATTON, of Clearfield. All that is need- ed now to make the fight one of real in- terest is for Elk and Centre counties to throw a pugilist into the ring. With the above three men anxious to get there it ought to be a very profitable campaign for the man able to control and deliver the Centre county conferees. EE ——— —1If those Philadelphia strikers really want to get results quick we would sug- gest that they all go back to work now and say nothing until about the 15th of next October. A strike three weeks be- fore the election would be settled mighty quick by the political corporations that rule the Quaker city, ~Ten thousand bricks a day are put out by the Lumber City brick plant now, the forceand work- ing hours having been made longer. . ~~Owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever and diphtheria, children under 15 years of age are not allowed in the Spangler hospital. —A party of young men from Pike township and Curwensville, Clearfield county, started for Ore. gon last week, where they will embark in busi. He is a breeder of white Wyandottes. —Already twelve candidates have put them. selves in the field for the position of superintend- ent of the Clearfield county schools, which will be filled in May, 1911. A strenuous contest is not only anticipated but assured. ~The holdings of the Clearfield Creek Coal com- pany were sold at public sale at the Clearfield court house recently for $175,000. A committee representing the bondholders purchased the prop- erty. —The reunion of the Surviving Veterans Asso- ciation of the Third Heavy Artillery and 188th In- fantry, Pa. Vols., will be held in Huntingdon, in June. W.S, Settle, of Lewistown, is a member of the committee at large of the organization, repair shops, will be erected at Avis the coming summer. The building will be 200x350 feet in size, and will cost $350,000, which will greatly in. crease the number of employees. ried it to the stable in the rear and blew it open with nitro-glycerine. They secured about $500 worth of stamps and cash to the amount of thir- , teen cents, then made their escape. shores from his foreign tour. The idea isto char ter a steamer and run out to sea for the purpose * of meeting the ex-president. A committee of the Young Men's Republican Tariff club is working out the dethils. ~—While tearing down an old stable in the rear of his lot, Frank Kehne, of Indiana, found an old trunk in the mow containing $3,000. The money had been placed there, it is thought, by Charles Geiseman, an uncle of Mrs. Kehne. The old fel- low was a quiet, frugal German and has been dead for five years. —After making arrangements to buy a big ho’ tel in Johnstown and finishing plans for a big din- ner to be given at Latrobe to a number of busi- ness men of the Flood City. a stranger who had shown a half pint af gold nuggets and roll of bilis, disappeared. Whatever scheme the man had to work but it did not materialize. —It is reported in Pittsburg that the Westing- house Electric and Manufacturing company and the General Electric company, its most bitter ri- val, are to be merged. If this is achieved the new trust will have a combined capital of about $150, 000,000. George Westinghouse is said to be unfa. vorable to the combination, as he always has bit- terly opposed trusts. ~—Fire destroyed the home of R. C. Quiggle, at . | Pine, Clinton county, recently and the family had to flee in their night clothes, so quickly did the flames spread. The conflagration was caused by an exploding lamp. The home was ons of the largest and finest in Wayne township and the loss is quite heavy, as the whole building and nearly all the contents went up in the flames. —Certain parties are trying tooust Sheriff P. J. Murphy, of Pottsville, from the office he has held for three months. It is said that Milton H. Mas- ters was promised a job as deputy sheriff by Mur- phy, before the latter had been elected, which is contrary to law. It is alleged that there are a number of witnesses to the proffer. Masters, it is said, is likely to be arrested on counter charges. —Robert Stauffer, of DuBois, and Roland Spaide, of Hazleton, have come into possession of the Philipsburg shirt factory, the largest employ- er of girls in that town. About 125 machines are run in the works. Both the new owners are young and energetic and will possession of the factory on or before April 15. Mr. Stauffer has been employed at DuBois as bookkeeper for the Freeland overall factory. —Blairsville voters took little interest in the spe- cial election held recently to determine whether or not there should be a bond issue of $40,000 for the purpose of erecting a new school building, and the measure lost by a margin of eleven votes, Only about one third of the voters visited the polls. It had been predicted that the bond issue would not be authorized. Now the erection of the schoo! building is postponed for at least anoth- er year. ~Three Wilkesbarre capitalists, in company with two mining engineers, looked up some valu- able coal property in the vicinity of Monarch shaft, near Philipsburg, recently, with a view of developing the lower measures. This ultimately may mean the putting in of a couple of up-to date shafts. All through that section are valua- ble deposits of coal and it is expected that exten- sive developments will be going on in the not far distant future. —Leo, a big lion performing in an animal act at the North Third street zo0, Harrisburg, calmly walked out through a door that had been left open leading from the cage in which he did his act and put an audience into a panic. Placidly | walking to the front of the stage, the animal look- ed at the fleeing audience, then turned around and walked back to whence he came. Some few minutes later, a sheepish looking audience drift- ed back to their seats. —At 2 meeting of the Midway Oil company, held in Altoona last Thursday, the first dividend was declared, the amount of the dividend being two and a half per cent. on the capftal stock of who | 5900.000. The company was organized in 1902 and the stocks all held by Pennsylvanians, al- though the property is located in Kern county, California. It consists of twenty acres and three wells are now in operation, each producing three hundred barrels per day. The oil is sold to the Standard Oil company on the ground. R. W. A, Jameson, of Lock Haven is one of the heaviest stockholders and a director in the company. —Supervising Principal W, F. Yoder was exon- erated by a jury at Williamsport from the charge of assault and battery on a pupil of the Jersey Shore schools. Three-fourths of the costs were imposed on the father of the lad, W. A. Selts Sr., who brought the charges, and the defendant was ordered to pay the remainder. E. H. Houseworth, the principal of the Jersey -Shore High school, was found not guilty of the charge of flourishing concealed weapons. The principal showed the | gun when students were trying to put the teach- ! ers out of the High school a week ago, and was ' arrested by the parents of a lad who was expelled : for his attack on an instructor. —On the first day of June a stock company will be incorporated in the West End, Williamsport, to exploit the oil and natural gas wells located on the George Cockran farm, in Old Lycoming town. ship. Five hundred acres of land adjoining the Cockran estate have been leased and a well 1,70 feet in depth sunk. The land has been leased from S. F. Metzger, Lewis Metzger, Edward Het ner and Samuel Hetner and it is intended to lease several hundred acres more. A majority of the stock has already been subscribed by West Enc business men through the agency of Mr. Cockrar himself. The latter says five men will receive steady employment at the wells after the first o June.
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