—Good Republicans are beginning to wonder whether TAPT or their party is the elephant they seem to have on their hands. ! —When the Emperor of Germany and | Col. ROOSEVELT meet there will certainly be an union of twins in every characteris- tic except looks. —An early spring is not necessarily fraught with everything to be desired. It brings us flies, mosquitoes and snakes that much sooner. —Aeronauts have been doing some high and lofty tumbling in Germany dur- ! ing the week. In most of the cases it was their last act also. —If something doesn’t happen soon to carry TEDDY out of the limelight we fear his admirers will be harping for TAFT'S abdication by the time he gets home. —Senator BEVERIDGE put the Washing- ton situation up to his “home folks” in Indiana Tuesday and the result was any- thing but reassuring for the stand-patters. ~The result of Tuesday's election in many towns and cities of Illinois was a victory for the “wets.” Most of the larg- er places voted old King Booze back into power. ~The man whose needs are the great- estis the one whose return for his labor is least. The common laborer is the real suf- erer when high prices put most of the nec essaries beyond his reach. —Pittsburg’s local government is now administered in the newest and tallest skyscraper in that city. From our view point things governmental seemed pretty much up in the air out there before. —It is the irony of fate that after his life long fight for three cent car fares in Cleveland it should be shown that they will pay in the very first year of the term of the successor of ToM JOHNSON as may- or. —Under a recent decision of the Su- preme court private cars on railroads are subject to demurrage charges just the same as any others. Inasmuch as we don't have ours in commission any longer we do not regard this ruling as a person- al slap. —Peru and Equador are fighting over their boundaries and Uncle SAM is invit- ed to intervene. He got his nose so bad- ly nipped by poking it into that Nicara guan affair that Senator KNox will proba bly advise a little more conservatism in this instance. —Mr. ROOSEVELT'S declaration that “after our interview,” meaning his meet- ing with Forester PiNcHOT, "I shall have nothing to say and I shall be surprised if PINCHOT has,” makes it look like ascheme for conservation of gab. A very desira ble end to be accomplished for many rea- sons. —All honor to the women of Clifton Heights, Pa. They surrounded a drunk- en wife beater and after pounding the life nearly out of him were about to finish the job by throwing him into the creek when a policeman rescued him. If there were more women with gumption like this there would be fewer half starved, half naked children in the land. —If the Hon. THEODORE ROOSEVELT | didn't care to have an audience with the Pope under certain conditions; that was his business. If the Pope didn't care to give the Hon. THEODORE ROOSEVELT an audience except under certain conditions; that was the Pope's business. Irrespect- ive of what any of its creatures might say or do the business of the church of God is saving souls. Why mzke a moun- tain out of a mole hill ? —The two Atlanta, Ga., deacons who advertised that they would pull off a prize fight in the pulpit of their church say they did so merely to draw a crowd. Their pastor has resigned as a result of the rather startling episode and we would have done the same thing under the cir- cumstances. It would be rather humil- iating for a minister of the gospel to real- ize that people could be enticed to his church only by false pretense. —The movement, just inaugurated, of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad to curtail wherever possible its Sunday work in order that the employees may have the day of rest for themselves will be watched with interest. Modern in- dustrial development has been along lines that presume one day of the week to be the same as another so that this, the first attempt of a great corporation to work back to a real Sabbath observance, is a step that we hope will prove so satisfac tory that others will follow. —The presence in town during the week of an emissary of the Hon. LEw EMERY, of Bradford, and of Mr. CHARLES PATTON, of Curwensville, in person, makes it look as though Centre is regarded as good fighting ground by the gentlemen who are after the seat in Congress now kept warm by the statesman from Sinnamahoning. There are likely to be big doings in this particular campaign and already a few of the little dogs in the political ten yard over here scent thebar’l. PATTON, EMERY and BARCLAY are all rich, but of the trio the two first named are likely to be the more readily separated from part of theirs. It is a fair guess that the latter would rather give up Congress than much “dough” so those who are after it can be guided accordingly. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 55. Malady Without Remedy. Nearly two months ago Senator ALD- RICH, the Republican leader in Congress, announced thatthe government costs $300,000,000 a year more than necessary for a wise administration. He failed to indicate the sourceof the waste but left it to conjecture. The multiplication of offices, the needless increase of the navy, the useless coast defences and the ex- travagance in the executive departments, all contribute to the result. In fact there is a perennial orgie of profligacy in Wash- ington, for which the Republican party is responsible and from which the people suffer. Nobody knows this better than Senator ALDRICH and in referring to it {on the floor of the Senate he performed a public service. | But what's the use of diagnosing a|ed. | malady without suggesting a remedy? Of | what use is it to point out an evil unless a cure can be proposed? Ever since Sena- tor ALDRICH made his statement we have been patiently waiting for a word from him that would indicate his purpose to introduce the business methods to which he referred. But not a sound has come from his lips. The profligacy goes on without interruption or even further pro- test. In fact the signs point to greater expenditures. Instead of one new battle- ship of the largest type and most expen- sive pattern, the administration demands two of a still greater capacity and ex- pense. Besides the multiplication of of- fices continues. Does Senator ALDRICH imagine that the | people are fools that they can be thus im- posed upon? When the billion dollar | mark was first reached in the matter of appropriations, ToM REED, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, declared that we have a billion dollar country and ! the people, flattered by the boast, let it go at that. But ALDRICH’S statement puts a different face on the affair. He plainly tells us that whatever kind of country we have we are wasting the money of the people at the rate of nearly a million dol- "lars a day and then fails to take steps to- | ward checking the robbery. This is a , crime against the public and the party in | power is responsible for it. —w-W. HARRISON WALKER Esq, who recently announced himself as a candi- date for the Democratic nomination for Congress in this district, this week with- drew his name and will not make the run. His reason for so doing is that his large and increasing practice demands his en- tire attention and he considers it best to devote all his time to it in preference to making the run for Congress. Mr. WALKER was the Democratic candidate two years ago against Mr. BARCLAY and made a good run, but the odds in this district are ; so overwhelmingly in favor of the Repub- licans that he was defeated. Did he elect to stay in the race this year he could like- ly have the nomination without opposi- tion but he feels that it would be detri- mental to his business and professional interests to do so, hence his withdrawal. Taft Favors a Grafter. ! In a few days there will be a special | congressional election in the Thirty-second district of New York to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative PERKINS. Both parties have candidates in the field and the Republicans will ex- haust all their available resources to carry the district. They want no more tidal waves like that which occurred in Massa- chusetts a few days ago when a change of 20,000 votes was revealed. That re- sult repeated in New York would spread paralysis in the party throughout the en- tire country. If the Republican candidate is not de- feated in this coming electior, however, the result will be an aspersion upon the character of the people. The Republican candidate is GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE, of Monroe county, formerly a conspicuous figure in the Legislature of the State and in the lobby at Albany. A few days ago, during the pending investigation of in- surance frauds and the bribery of legis- lators in connection with insurance Legis- lation, one of the witnesses testified that he had paid Mr. ALDRIDGE $1000 for his vote and influence on a bill. ALDRIDGE admits the transaction but declares that the money was used for political pur- poses. The day that the witness was testifying as to the culpability of ALDRIDGE Presi- dent TAFT was in conference with that gentleman and was probably arranging to bring him into the field as the candidate of his party for Congress. TAFT unques- tionably knew the character of the man he was thus inviting into a larger field of political activity. His venality was notori- ous about Albany. But the President doesn’t mind such things in his own party. He is himself a grafter as is proved by his acceptance of an emolument contrary | to the constitution and he favors ALD- | RIDGE because he is popular as well as | corrupt. BELLEFONTE, PA. APRIL 8, 1910. Taft’s Nerves Affected. Recent political troubles appear to have got onto President TAPT'S nerves. Since the congressional election in Mas- sachusetts he has changed his mind again on the tariff question. Two days before that event he made a speech in Rhode Island in which he re-expressed the opinion that the PAYNE-ALDRICH tar- iff bill is the best piece of tariff legisla- tion ever enacted into law. A few days later he sent a special message to Con- gress asking for an appropriation for the purpose of further investigation of the question. In this message he quotes tariff revision downward and plainly inti- mates that if the people are : with the present lawit ought to be chang- In November, 1908, the Republican can- didate for Congress in the Fourteenth district of Massachusetts had 14,000 ma: jority. In the election of ten days ago the Democratic candidate had a majority of 6,000, a difference of 20,000. The same ratio of change in Pennsylvania would give a unanimously Democratic delega- tion in the next Congress. Last fall Mr. Munson, Democratic candidate for Jus- tice of the Supreme court, carried nine congressional districts at present repre- sented by Republicans, and the malign influences of the tariff had not then re- vealed themselves. We do not expect togain nine Congress- men in this State this year but we have more than an even chance to gain six or seven and there is a possibility of gain- ing ten. Last fall the Democrats failed to take advantage of their opportunities in Pennsylvania. Our entire State tick- ticket ought to have been elected and if that had been the result of the vote there would have been an exodus of Republi- can politicians unprecedented in the his- tory of politics. The grafting in Pitts. burg is nothing to what*has been in the State government of other cities. Next fall there will be a better under- standing among the voters and we shall be surprised if the result is not vastly different. —Nine times out of ten the first stgo a man takes on the road to dishonesty is when he finds himseif unable to pay a bill that he expected and wanted to pay when he contracted it. Sickness, loss of work, a thousand reasons there are for his getting behind so far that the thought of catching up is hopelessand take hope out of life and there is nothing left of it. Mr. Carnegie’s Mental Distress. Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE’S heart bleeds we are told on account of the graft revela- tions in Pittsburg. The “Smoky City” is beloved of the Laird of Skibo and it breaks his heart to hear that any of the people there have been doing anything wrong and been discovered. Mr. CAR- NEGIE may have had suspicions, in the past, that all was not exactly right in the municipal affairs of Pittsburg. He didn't mind it so much,however, while the facts were kept “under the rose.” But he can't endure the shame of exposure. The odium of being found out is simply intolerable to his reason. It indicates a mental as well as a moral slovenliness which is most reprehensible. There is no occasion, however, for Mr. CARNEGIE to go into “conniption fits” on account of the turpitude of the public life of his cherished Pittsburg. The differ- ence between legal and illegal grafting is not so great that it should disturb a con- the most exciting conditions. It is true that the legal grafter isn't liable to prose- cution and punishment and is free from the danger of forced restitution. But morally one is as bad as the other and the grafting processes which have made ANDREW CARNEGIE “rich beyond the dreams of avarice,” are quite as repre- hensihle as those which simply made fools of some of the Pittsburg councilmen. Mr. CARNEGIE is now and has been for years the beneficiary of a system of ex- tortion which has spread desolation among the poor while it was multiplying his wealth with such rapidity that he has been unable to dispose of it. Moreover he has always been a supporter of poli- cies which rob the poor to fatten the rich. Special privilege is the father of | graft as tariff is the mother of trusts and ANDREW CARNEGIE is the insatiate search- er after both. His pretended grief over the exposures in Pittsburg does him no credit. Long ago he set the present day cheap grafters the pace which they were unable to follow, however willing, and the exposure is the inevitable result of their weakness. —LESLIE M. SHaw, formerly Secre- tary of the Treasury, is the latest recruit to the army of jingoes. He is reported as saying that “Japan purposes to domi- nate the Pacific or make it run red.” RicHARD PiErsoN HoBsoN could hardly do better than that. The Logic of Two Incidents. who made the charges upon which Sena- tor ALLDS was convicted of boodling, has been forced to resign his seat. ALLDS was the Republican leader of the New York Senate and some years ago demand- ed a money consideration for supporting | CoNGER was concerned. When he came a candidate for the office be- That he made good is proved by the practically unaimous vote of the Senate condemning ALLDps. But it didn't do only in Albany but elsewhere. At first he imagined that it was on account of a misunderstanding of the facts and believ- ed that in the course of a few days his service in the cause of political morality and official integrity would be appreciat- ed. But this expectation was disappoint- ed. The antipathy to him increased un- til finally he determined to resign. He discovered that an attempt was to be made to expel him. NO. 14. Reaping the Whirlwind. i When the Republican party last year : its tariff promise to the ear only, a result which the TEE fi ; £ i : : : i | i a i: = ~ 8 & £5. ig HH | ; | i i : : f | Three years ago Congressman LILLY, | put us. of Connecticut, asserted on the floor of the House of Representatives in Washing- ton that the builders of submarine boats had attempted to corruptly influence Congress to buy that type of naval equip- ment. An investigation was ordered but instead of directing the inquiry toward the ascertainment of the facts an at- tempt was made to discredit LiLLy. Both he and his wife were shadowed by detec- tives employed by the government and in the end he was able to escape expulsion only by a dangerous illness which ulti- mately cost him his life. These cases taken together prove that it is more dan- gerous to expose crime than participate | T: in it while the Republican party is in power. —J. W. CHASE, of Clearfield, spent several days in Bellefonte the latter part of last week in the interest of Lewis EMERY Jr's. candidacy for Congress. His particular work at this time was securing a list of the Republican voters in the county and it doubtless would be quite interesting to know just how he classed some of them. Pinchot and Ballinger. We are all interested in the controver- sy between Secretary BALLINGER, of the Interior Department, and GIFFORD PIN- CHOT, former Forester in the Department, It is a bitter quarrel and it, involves more than appears on the surface. Mr. PIN- CHOT is contending for the ROOSEVELT policies, right or wrong, and has prac- tically proved that BALLINGER is an un- worthy public servant. He has betrayed the interests of the government in order to promote those of the land pirates who have been preying upon the public domain for years. If that were the only issue involved, therefore, all good citizens would be in sympathy with the dismissed Forester, necessarily. But PINCHOT is contending for lawless- ness and his quarrel with BALLINGER was not because of the recreancy he has since exposed. During the administration of and Forester conceived a scheme of what they called “conserving the resources of the government,” without respect to and in actual violation of the law. Mr. BAL- LINGER, who is a lawyer, refused to pur- sue this course. He protested that he was in favor of conservation but insisted that it be conducted within the law. In that he was fundamentally and practical- ly right. It is as much a crime against the government to usurp power as itis to cheat in some other way. If the issue of the controversy, there- fore, happens to be that BALLINGER will be denounced and driven out of the serv- ice on one hand and the usurpations of the ROOSEVELT administration will be re- buked and condemned on the other, the proceedings which are now occupying the attention of Congress will be worth while. Of course BALLINGER is impossible. He has acted as an agent for land pirates striving to despoil the government and ought to be prosecuted and punished in the criminal courts. But PINCHOT is equally reprehensible. He set an example which can have no other effect than create popular contempt for law and dishonesty can be no worse than that. —Senator GORDON, of Mississippi, didn’t serve long in the Senate but his going will create a void, just the same. ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. SL Although our friends have been a great deal of capital out of the fact that minimum tariff rates B= g —Sixteen ont of thirty-one cattle owned by A. A. were slaughtered by the State recently because they were victims of tuberculosis. ~The open season for shooting wild fow! will close in this State next Saturday. Reports re- ceived by the state game commission indicate that the season has not been very good. by Attorney Storey that the sum in question is es, timated to amount to upwards of $20,000. —Ebensburg, in spite of the fact that it has no policeman at the present time, intends to make autos keep from speeding at a greater rate than the prescribed limit. A three-cell steel cage has been ordered by council for the new municipal building. —C. E. Reisinger, of Howe township, Perry county, not long ago sold four of the finest pigs that have been raised in that section for some time. Their age was 8 months and their total weight 1,178 pounds. The owner received 12 cents a pound for them, a total of $141.36. ~Harry Green, who had been imprisoned in the Clearfield county jail on the charge of forg- ery, was taken before the court and admitted his guilt. He was sentenced to the western peniten- tiary for not less than two years and a half and not more than six years, and has been taken to the Pittsburg institution. Harrisburg. The capital is $30,000 and the incor- porators are John Lochrie and Hugh Adams, of Windber, and Charles Bond, of Beaverdale. The concern will engage in mining and the selling of the by-products of the coal industry. —The ruins of the First Methodist Episcopal « | church at Huntingdon are being torn down. This building is one of those destroyed in the recent fires and the tottering walls and turret have been blown up with dynamite. Soon only a hole will remain where once stood the beautiful building. Plans are already under way for rebuilding. ~John T. McClure, of Lancaster, a Pennsyiva- nia railroad flagman, received leave of absence Wednesday, to begin at the end of his run, so that he could visit his aged mother, whom he had not seen for a long time. Within half an hour of the end of his trip he fell from his train. Both of his legs were cut off and he died from his injuries. —Not later than the middle of June will the Duncannon iron works be put into at least partial . | operation, according to the plans of the new own- ers, a group of Lebanon iron and steel men head- ed by Harry H. Light, president of the Lebanon Valley Iron & Steel company, The plant was sold at private receiver's sale to the new owners several weeks ago. —Franklin hus become a city of the third class. Attorney Robert E. Glenn, the first Democrat to hold the office in more than fifteen years, is the new mayor. He was elected on the fusion ticket. Both councils are Republican. The mayor's sal- ary has been increased from $1 to $300; the con- troller, who is clerk of councils also, will receive $1,600 and the treasurer about $2,200. Clement's successor, and whether it is just possi- be the wmasitle may fall pon Col, HS. Taylor. of employed in this industry at present, but it is hoped to increase the output of the plant unti 300 are given work. —State College's school of mines is growing rap- idly. A 1,000-pound cyanide plant and ten tons of gold ore are recent acquisitions to its equipment, and it has the finest museum in the United States. The school of mines and metallurgy is now in the seventeenth year of its existence. It was estab- lished in 1893 and was reorganized in 1908, when two new courses were offered, Inading to degrees of bachelor of arts in mining engineering and metallurgical engineering. —Tuberculosis Sunday’ will be observed on April 24th in this State. It was started in Phila- delphia and has come to be country wide. The co-operation of labor unions and fraternal organi- zations is sought to make the day notable. Al- ready 215,000 of the 330,000 churches of the coun- try have signified their intention to observe the day. Sermons will be preached and printed mat" ter will be distributed. Ministers may secure lit- erature from state and local organizations and boards of health. —Sunbury will be the scene of a big gathering - | of representatives of the laymen of the Reformed churches in Schuylkill, Lebanon, Dauphin, North- be present at this, the first district laymen’s con- vention. A strong program of speakers interest. ed in the Reformed and other churches has been prepared. —The forestry department of the State will make a systematic inspection of Pennsylvania trees for chestnut blight in an endeavor to stop the ravages of the disease. The inspection of the counties west of the Susquehanna river will start before the end of the week. Deputy commission- er S. I. C. Williams, has been placed in charge of ths work and every county in Pennsylvania that can be reached to advantage will be included in the inspection. Hundreds of acres of chestnut trees have been planted in the State in the past few years. I
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