HR A rr wear stein so? BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —This is All Fool's day and in all probability many of them are abroad in the land. —A cold wave is reported as being on the way. The sooner it gets here the better it will be for the fruit. ~—If we should happen to get our March weather in this month; don't be unmindful of the beautiful April weather we had in March. —Never mind, if meat does keep on going up. Summer is coming and the la- dies will be able to pick up lobsters at the Shore for a song. —Pittsburg councils had a regular meeting Monday night. They forgot to open the session by singing that touch- ing little song "The Vacant Chair." —The Republican's double column ed- itorial attack on LEw EMERY sounds very much as if some one else has had BAR- CLAY'S ear on the Bellefonte postoffice. —If things don’t change in Washing- ton very soon Big BiLL and big bluff will be so nearly synonomous that there will remain only that smile to distinguish one from the other. —Temperance advocates say that New York will be dry in ten years. My, but they will have to “lick up” a lot of it over in Gotham to bring about such a catas- trophe in such a short time. —Qver ninety-two million bacteria are said to be able to live on a dollar bill. It is a consolation to know that such a lit- tle bit of money will go such a long way; even if it is in a bad direction. —*“What is ginger ale?” is a question that a satisfactory answer is being sought for just now by the government. Strange that no one has thought to tell Uncle SAM that it is one of the seducers in the seductive “Mamie Taylor.” —In the light of recent happenings at Washington we imagine that the fellows who once called Uncle Jog “The Watch Dog of the Treasury” are now consoling themselves with the thought that he is one of the dogs that has had its day. —Prof. Frost, of the William's Bay, Wisconsin, observatory, has discovered strange eruptions shooting out from the sun. Maybe old Sol has heard of the conquest of CANNON and is celebrating the sole right that remains to him of making it hot for the Insurgents in Wash- ington. ~The king of Denmark is credited with having said that ours is the model nation of the world. The rest of the na- tions will not get jealous over this an nouncement, however, because they will figure that the Dane's judgment is not altogether to be relied upon since a cer- tain Dr. Cook visited him. —President Woobrow WILSON, of Princeton University, is at least a pleasing prophet. He predicts the restoration of the Democratic party to power and the reincarnation of the great principles of Democracy. Hasten the day of fulfill ment—for the sake of the country, and, incidentally, the boys who haven't been at the crib for so many years. —Egypt is divided as to whether TED- pY is the whole cheese. His speech at Cairo pleased one crowd but made anoth- er terribly sore and as a consequence the Nationalists made a demonstration against him. As the demonstration con- sisted merely of derisive howls TEDDY was probably not alarmed becausehe is a little long on that kind of thimg himself. —The Pennsylvania railroad company seems to be the first of the great corpor- ations to help its employees solve the problem of making ends meet under the present high cost of necessaries. If oth- ers were to adopt this policy there would be less strike mirmsiirings in theairand a more rapid approach to that condition of prosperity that was vouchsafed us two years ago. —The Republicans, themselves, are be- coming disgusted with this idea of reform within the party. It can’t be done. The only way to reform a party that has be- come infested with such parasites as trusts and corrupt leaders is to carry it out of power for a few years then those who have been hanging to it only for what they can get out of it will flee like rats from a sinking ship. —Senator JONATHAN P. ALLDS, of New York, has been found guilty by his col- leagues of bribe taking. As a conse- quence he has resigned his office to escape expulsion. It is onlyanother instance of the general cleaning up that is going on everywhere in official life, and one for which the public is properly thankful. As soon as it becomes a certainty that graft- ing will surely meet the punishment it deserves there will be an end of grafting, but not until that time arrives. —If the Hon. Lewis EMERY Jr, had have been defeated. He lost many Dem- ocratic votes on that account, but he pre- ferred to lose them rather than have the Fusionists think he had left his party. The editor of the Bellefonte Republican is fully acquainted with these facts there- for the intelligent reader can only look on that double column attack on EMERY STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 55. BELLEFONTE, PA. APRIL 1, 1 Senator Elkins "Rampaging.” most steadfast of the regulars but he is ambitious to retain his seat in the Senate | and probably realizes that the policies of | cpine and its benficiaries. We hope those | CANNON and ALDRICH are likely to defeat | his party in all except the pocket borough | States like Rhode Island, where commerce | in votes is regarded as legitimate enter- prise, and the Standard Oil company is | such a political revolution in the State as would forever bury the Republican ma- concerned will ponder these facts and act | i Changed Estimate of Taft. Senos | | the division of the opposition and this is | Meat Prices in New York and London. precisely what the Philadelphia labor Senator ELKINS, of West Virginia, ap- | jo,4ers propose to promote. ioe] proached perilously close to thelinewhich | or oa nizing a separate party they would separates the reactionaries from the pro- | jn oq 4) their energy and ingenuity in gressives of his party the other day. Sen- |, ofort to elect Democrats to the vari- ator ELKINS has always been among the... moe to be filled, there would be American meat sells in ‘London for thirty per cent. less than in New York. The cattle are killed in Chicago, Kansas City or other Western packing houses and shipped by rail to the sea board. The meat costs the same in New York whether consumed there or forwarded to London. The expense of the ocean car- riage is an addition to the value of the product in London. The cost is nearly one-third less, nevertheless, in the Eng- lish metropolis. What is the reason for this discrimination? willing to pay the price of victory. The Thirteen months ago President TAFT The fact of this difference in price be- occasion of the West Virginian's surpris; | onered the White House the most popu- | came embarrassing to the American Beef ing break from his party organization | 1,;man in the country. He was believed was during the consideration of a reselu- | (0 po an amiable capable and conscien- prices of the necessaries of life. Senator ELKINS had introduced a reso- lution for such an investigation some weeks before and it was buried in com- mittee for the reason that it would have been necessary to appoint the author of the resolution to the chairmanship of the committee and as Senator BAILEY, of the tariff responsible “for any of these hardships and these high prices, he will frankly say so.” The ALDRICH-CANNON machine doesn’t want such a confession to be made. It would be more damaging even than Senator ALDRICH’S declaration that the government is costing nearly a million dollars a day more than it ought to. So Senator LODGE was induced to in- troduce a resolution on the subject and his resolution was promptly reported and passed. The difference between the resolution introduced by ELKINS and that offered by LODGE was that in the ELKINS resolu- tion it was proposed to inquire into the relation of the tariff to high prices and in the other it wasn't. Senator ELKINS frankly charged that “the Senator from Massachusetts and the Finance commit- tee wanted to avoid the question of the tariff and other questions,” raised by his | resolution. He declared, moreover, that Senator ALDRICH had forced the tariff bill through Congress and that he, ELKINS, was compelleifto vote for everything in that bill proposed by Senator ALDRICH in order to “get what I did for my State.” more sea-room,” and is inclined to exer- cise the liberty of individual action. Of course Senator ELKINS will not car- ry out his implied threat with respect to getting “off the reservation." He is too closely associated with the industrial trusts to take chances of giving the Dem- ocrats a chance. But it is interesting and wholesome to see such men assert themselves occasionally even though we know they don't mean anything. At the psychological moment ALDRICH or LODGE or TAPT will take the West Virginia Sen" ator by the ear and tell him what to do and how to do it. But he has set a good example, meantime, and other “near in- surgents” may be encouraged to go clear over and make a good deal of trouble. For that reason we are glad that ELKINS “took the bit in his teeth” the other day. He didn’t hold it long but he made the bosses take notice. Unwise Labor Leaders. The labor leaders of Philadelphia are not correctly reading the lessons of re- cent events if the reports of their pur- poses are accurately expressed in the newspapers of that city. Thatis to say it has been announced in the public prints that a labor party is to be organiz- ed, nominations for State and local offices made and an ambitious political organi- zation launched. If they had gone to the political contractors, whom Mayor REeY- BURN declares created the strike, for ad- vice, precisely that course would have been recommended to them. McNicHoL and the VARES will be delighted with the soil for their future cultivation. What the labor leaders of Philadelphia and all other communities ought to do is adopt the most effective methods of de- feating the Republican machine and to achieve that they must vote for the Dem- ocratic candidates. Republican policies are essentially antagonistic to the inter- ests of labor. Of all the Republican Rep- resentatives in Congress for this State not one has ever been identified with la- bor interests or entertained sympathy for labor legislation. The same is true of Senators and Representatives in the Leg- islature. [Every Pennsylvania Republi- can Congressman voted for every feature of the ALDRICH tariff bill and thus con: tributed to the causes which have pro- duced high prices. ; A labor party in this State can have no other effect, therefore, than to divide the strength of the opposition to the Repub- lican policies. That party is disintegrat- last week as the veriest buncombe. ing so rapidly that its only hope lies in tion to investigate the causes of the high yous gentleman. He had had vast ex- | perience in public life. Learned in the ; law, of judicial temperament and just im- : pulses, he was accepted by the country arrangement. It will be fertilizing the | | as a deliverer from the reign of riot and | the administration of passion which had preceded him. But a vast change has | occurred since. TAFT is no longer popu- lar. It may be doubted if he is generally Texas, remarked, the machine managers rooacted The office he occupies were afraid that if ELKINS should Fi a ie | is modified, if not actually withheld, in | many instances on that account. But the | feeling is manifest. | Some of the President's flatterers are | trying to soothe him with the false state- ments that only Democratic papers criti- cise him and only Democrats have chang- ed their opinions of him. The fact is, however, that the change is universal. Republican newspapers of the better sort openly express their disappointment with his administration and Republican states- men of the better type whisper their regrets at his failure to make good. It was expected that he would restore the party to public confidence and add to its security of future victories. But they see that under the malign influence of his weaknesses the party is going to the dogs and hope of carrying the next Con- ; gress has been abandened. TAFT got in bad in the beginning and has cepted an expense fund,in violation of the | signing a tariff bill that he knew was in- conditions made himself ridiculous. He packed his cabinet with emissaries of the trusts and defended crooks after they had been exposed. Because of this thing public sentimemt has reversed it- self and TAFT has made himself one of the single term Presidents. An Excellent Suggestion. We cordially endorse the suggestion of the esteemed Philadelphia Record that the Democrats of Pennsylvania get to- gether. “There are upward of a half mil- lion men in Pennsylvania who are Demo- crats,” says our esteemed contemporary. "United and harmonious throughout the balance of the present year,” it continues, “they can win the next election in this State and place a Democratic administra- tion in Harrisburg.” That is a consum- mation most devoutly to be wished for. It will not only guarantee restitution of graft taken in the past but will secure : freedom from graft in the future. It will promote the interests of all the people irrespective of party affiliations. The esteemed Record is inspired to its commendable proposition by the splendid performances of the Democrats in Con- gress during the recent movement against CANNONism. “Harmonious and unanimous action has marked every move made during this epoch-making period,” the Record observes: "Past differences and personal animosities have been for- gotten, and the Democratic Congressmen have been standing as one man.” The result was an achievement of which all the Democrats of the country are proud and in which all believers in good govern- ment find encouragement. Our esteem- ed Philadelphia contemporary is confi- dent that similar results would follow similar conditions in this State. The Democrats could have carried the | election in this State, last year, if ninety per cent. of its voting strength had gone to the polls. We had an admirable tick- et and the issues were clearly defined. Our antagonists had a weak ticket and the invitation to victory was cordial. But the Democrats failed to fulfili their party obligations. We had a considerable in- dependent element with us but we failed, not because of factional difference but on account of apathy on the part of Demo- cratic voters. The lesson of this exper- ience is that we must not only harmonize but energize and if we do both there can be no question of the result. The up- ward of half a million Democrats will be since gone from bad to worse. When he ac- | constitution, that looked like a bribe for | a majority. trust and the managers of that horned and hoofed monster set about, a few weeks ago, to end it. They undertook to monopolize the British market as they have already monopolized the markets of this country. They went into the princi- pal London meat market, bought out most of the meat dealers and rented all the available meat stalls. These results achieved they proceeded to fix prices, as they do here. But they encountered a different state of affairs in London. The authorities there favor the people rather than the trusts. The board of governors of the London market refused to confirm the transfer of the stalls to the American Beef trust and competition was preserv- ed. The competition there keeps the price of meat down to the just level cre- ated by the laws of supply and demand. Those who control such things in Lon- don aim to conserve public interests’rath- er than special privilege. The Republican machine exercises the control in American markets which the board of governors enjoy in the London market. But the Republican machine never interferes with the operations of monopoly. On the contrary monopoly is favored here because the monopolists contribute liberally to the corruption fund of the Republican party and keep the ma- chine in power. "The people be d—d,” is the watchword of the Republican ma- chine, and the voters endorse that senti- ment by their votes. Meat prices and all other prices will continue high as long as monopoly con- iquitous, he revealed a moral infirmity | trols and monopoly will control as long that inspired contempt. He had sworn He added that he was afraid to break |i; “ghey and defend” the constitution ‘power. The people have the power to from his party during the consideration | 5ng within six months had outraged it. | alter these conditions at the coming elec- of the tariff bill, but now he has “a little | Then to avert suspicion he pretended to! admire the tariff bill and in the face of | as the Republican machine remains in tion and if they have as much intelli- gence as they have strength they will achieve the result. Big and Little Grafters. The investigation in Alabany has re- sulted in the condemnation of the accus- ed Republican leader, who resigned his seat, before the announcement of the vote, in order to put himself beyond the reach of real punishment. Under the promise of immunity from punishment Pittsburg’s self-confessed councilmen are multiplying. But as yet the real criminals have not been revealed either in Pittsburg or Albany. Possibly there will be a genuine exposure in the end,but there is no sign of it yet. Senator ALLDS, of New York, is done for, of course, as he ought to be and the self-confessed Pittsburg councilmen were compelled to resign. But those are unimportant results. They are simply pimples on the face of nature. Graft, in this country, is under the sanction and patronage of the highest official station. When the President of the United States accepts emoluments forbidden by the fundamental law which he is under sworn obligation to “support, obey and defend,” it is absurd to protest against the trifling graft of a Pittsburg councilman or a New York legislator. President TAPT not only accepted such emoluments in the expense fund provid- ed during the extra session of the present Congress, butin various other ways. The payment of his household expenses and the use of government property in his private and social life is graft more reprehensible than that of which the Pittsburg councilmen are guilty. Graft first became a recognized ele- ment in the public life of this country during the administration of ROOSEVELT who was the most insatiate grafter ot all. It began under the protection of privilege when the railroads shut down on passes, Previous to that ROOSEVELT simply “held up” the railroads and compelled them to pay the expenses of his ambitious trips. He even paid tips to trainmen out of the cigar stocks of the Pulman cars. Itis believed in many quarters that his exac- tions forced the Pennsylvania railroad to stop giving passes. At any rate the order was issued shortly after ROOSEVELT had forced that corporation to pay his ex- penses to Yellowstone Park. But he lost nothing by it. He simply made the gov- ernment pay what the railroads refused. —An advertisement in the WaTCH- | MAN always pays. i el -¢ i gd i i | I i EE 8 ti : 28 i Exf § n 8 From the Pittsburg Post. News from Washi is to the effect 7 { v *F ya agfiil ii | ) i g i i | H : § i 2, i Egg ; : : : : eg 1 i H the Chicago Public. i i ir : § 2 2 g ‘ BF. s5i% li gab # i : ! tt i g i i Ls + i E z £ g : h E 2 is 0 i g g #3 h 1 HM + i: 83 7 j a i g ] g i 1 i f ~The big encampment of the State G. A. R. will be held at Harrisburg in June. ~The Wigton, Centre county, postoffice will be vacant soon and an examination of applicants will be held in Philipsburg on April 26rd. Last year the office paid $285. —Bruce Kurtz, of Hyner, Clinton county, is in trouble with the law because he has a pet deer in his possession, it having been run into his place by dogs and having remained there eversince. —Charles Lesher, who for sometime had been superintendent of the Philipsburg fire brick works, has succeeded W. B. Wigton as general superintendent of the plants at Philipsburg. Wallaceton and Retort. H. G. lams, of Wood- land, takes Mr. Lesher’s place. —When the excavation was being done for the foundation of the Mt. Joy Union National bank, which is being erected on the old roadbed of the Pennsylvania railroad, the old tracks laid by the State years ago were found. The rails consisted of strap iron nailed on long sleepers, laid length- wise =]. J. Hoblitzell, of Meyersdale, recently sold to D. B. Zimmerman a tract of 2,000 acres of val- uable coal property at Husband, near Somerset. The reported consideration is $100,000. The property is rendered doubly valuable by the fact iS- | that the new line of the Baltimore and Ohio runs directly through it. —Parties are negotiating with Hon. P. E Womelsdorf, of Philipsburg, agent for James E. Clark lands cast of that town withthe view of opening up and developing the fireclay deposits underlying the surface. This property is better known as the New York land, and is said to be rich in fireclay deposits. ~The purchase of one hundred acres of land in $1,000 an acre for land that is assessed at $12. Condemnation proceedings will be instituted, it is said, if the company is not able to secure the land in a short time. ~—A few days after having returned to his work in the Altoona shops, after being laid up for five years with rheumatism, Charles Tobler, aged 21 met with a great misfortune, losing both his hands. The belting of his machine got out of order and he climbed up to repair it. While clinging to the track of the crane the crane ran over his hands, mangling them. —The case ofthe Pardee estate vs. the White derived from the stream, which has been on trial at Lewisburg for two weeks, came to a close Sat- urday evening. The jury, after being out four hours, returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $15,000. —Because the girl he loved would not marry him, Fred Eliman, aged 21, of Wilkesbarre, com- mitted suicide recently by taking carbolic acid. He had told his sister that if the youag object of his affections would not change her decision not to marry him within two weeks he would do away with himself, and he did, just when the two weeks were up. Pinned over his heart was the picture of a good-looking girl bearing the name, “Mary Brown, South River street, Wilkesbarre." ~—Work is to be resumed in the Duncannon Iron company works, which have been idle since July, 1908. The plant was sold at receiver's sale recently to J. G. Leiper. Jr., of Philadelphia, his bid being $30,000 subject to a mortgage of $37,000. Mr. Leiper is reported as having said that work will be resumed as soon as possible. The plant consists of two rolling mills, a nail factory, a ma chineshop, store buildings, warehouses, ninety two dwelling houses and over 600 acres of land. ~The secretary of the Newton Hamilton Camp association in a circular announces that the camp- | meeting will begin this year on August 11th and continue twelve days. Rev. W. C. Wallace, of “ | Hastings, will again have charge. The grounds will open July 1st, when tents may be occupied “ | by arrangement with the secretary. In planning for your vacation consider what the Newton Hamilton Campmeeting association offers. A home in the woods, plenty of fresh air, boating, fishing. ~The people of Grove City are up inarms over the fact that stories have been circulated ac- crediting that town to have an epidemic of con- tageous diseases, and in a statement to the news- papers they say that there were but three cases of meningitis in Grove City, in a population of about four thousand and that at the present time there » | is not a single acute case of disease of any nature whatever in the community, and that the health conditions of the town were never better in its history than they are today? | —Alfred Graham, of Clearfield, who has for years been recognized as one of that county's leading lumbermen and most enterprisng ciitzens, has announced that a company had been formed, of which he is one of the principal factors, to develop the coal on the Surveyor Run tract, not far from Shawsville, in the other end of the coun- ty, embracing about 3,000 acres. This tract of land was rich in lumber growth, and still contains several million feet of good timber, but its real value !s believed to be the vast deposits of spendid coal hidden away beneath its surface. —One [Italian man lost his mind and John Schurrman suffered a snake bite on thearm as the result of the uncovering of a den of reptiles by a blast in a stone-quarry back of Bluestone, near Lock Haven, recently. Forty-two snakes were killed by the workmen in one day and the poor Italian whose reason may flee was so badly scared that he is ill. It seems from the number of reptiles that were uncovered that allthe snakes in a well-populated snake neighborhood wintered in one place. The part of the quarry in which the snakes were uncovered had not been worked practically since early last summer. —Myrtle A. Singley, who wasshot by William Shradder, of Lewistown, when she was out horse- back riding recently, had chosen her pall-bearers a few days before her death as if in anticipation of some impending tragedy. The horse on which she was shot appeared in the funeral, riderless, with a band of crape tied across the white star on its forehead. Shradder’s parents, old-fashioned and talks freely to all who enter his cell. Itis de. clared that when he is asked why he committed the murder he replies that “he spent all his mon- ey on her and she didn’t love him enough to keep from running around withother men.” —Lockport, near Lock Haven, had quitean ex-
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