—Something surely seems to have got-
ten on the weather man's nerves.
~The 1910 census will never be com-
—It is not unnatural that when the
price of everything one needs soars that
our feelings get the same way.
—Congressman BARCLAY is another of
the distinguished (?) statesman who has
gotten cold feet as one of the CANNON
firing squad.
—Now that BARCLAY is out of the way
the Gazette and the Republican will have a
chair in the postoffice act like it had a
pin in the seat.
—According to the papers filed at Har-
VOL. 55.
Penrose is Not Telling Sectets.
Senator PENROSE has not as yet taken
Colonel WATREs, of Lackawanna county,
and others have been mentioned and like
the late Mr. Barkis “are willin’”. But
conditions are not auspicious for that
kind of candidates. Last year anybody
possessed of the PENROSE trade mark
would do but this year things are alto
gether different. There is political revo-
lution in the air and an out-and-out ma-
chine man won't do. It will be necessa-
risburg Mr. CHARLES E. PATTON proposes | TY to “assumea virtue" this year by nom-
to run for Congress on the Prohibition as
well as the Republican ticket. Mr. PAT-
TON may do the proposing but the Prohi-
bitionists will probably exercise their
prerogative of disposing.
—A Meadville man recently had to pay
a fine of thirteen dollars and costs for
profanity on thestreets. A woman heard
him and caused his arrest. The exchequer
of Bellefonte would be full to overflowing
if the profane men on our streets were
treated as they ought to be.
—Mayor GAYNOR, of New York, has
driven “The Girl with the Whooping
Cough” off the stage in that city. It was
not done for fear of spreading the conta-
gion among children, but because of
further contamination of the morals of
the older people of Gotham.
—What matters it if President TAPT
does declare for tariff revision this fall, |
as Washington dispatches announce that
he will do? He declared for tariff revis-
jon in the summer and fall of 1908 and
hasn't made good, so why pin faith to
any more of his declarations along that
line.
—Mr. C. L. GRAMLEY is a very good
citizen and a very capable gentleman in
many ways but his announcement for the
Legislature is most illadvised. We have
a splendid Representative at Harrisburg
now and it is the sentiment of most rea-
sonable people that he should be kept
there; therefor Mr. GRAMLEY's friends
should advise him that the present is no
time for him to launch a legislative boom
for himself.
—The death of King Epwarp VII of
England came so unexpectedly as to have
lost much of the impression that the de-
mise of such an important personage
usually makes upon the world. There
was no long drawn out illness, with its
consequent suspense. He slipped away
suddenly in the night, causing but a
transitory shock and the world moves on
as if he had never been; aside from the
memory it will cherish of a sovereign who
was fair and who made for peace rather
than war.
—So our able (?) Congressman has de-
cided not to waste his time serving the
people of the Twenty-first congressional
district any longer than the present term.
The Hon. CHARLES F. BARCLAY has an-
great outside of the postmasters who are
indebted to him for their present posi-
tions. Mr. BARCLAY is a gentleman and
a shrewd business man, but in the halls
of Congress he has been nothing more
than a chair warmer.
—1Is Bellefonte to have a “safe and
sane” or an “old fashioned” Fourth of
July ? The numerous serious injuries
consequent upon the careless use of fire
works have brought the public mind to
consideration of the problem as to
whether it is wise to continue a practice
that maims so many for life. If ours is
to be a “safe and sane” one why wouldn't
it be just the wisest plan ever for every-
one to contribute about the amount they
usually spend for fireworks and engage a
first-class band to play all day in town.
Have a free ball game on HucHEs field, a
concert there and another in the evening
in the park at the rear of the court house.
Surely nothing more enjoyable could be
planned that would cost as little and
have the same result.
—JouN H. SHEPPERD, dean of the North
Dakota Sohool of Agriculture, testified
before the Senate investigation commit:
tee on Tuesday, that high prices of farm
products do not help the farmer and that
ically we have no doubt that Mr. SHEp-
PERD is right, but we can’t shut our eye
to the fact that the farmers in this com-
inating a candidate who has not the ma-
chine stamp “blown in the bottle.”
“The name of the Republican candi-
date for Governor has not been mention-
ed yet,” one of the PENROSE servitors re-
marked in a public place the other day.
“The Senator is looking for a man of the
STUART type,” he added, significantly.
When PENNYPACKER was nominated in
1902, the party was in similar straits.
Joun P. ELkIN wanted the nomination
and in every respect measured up to the
QUAY standard. But the people wouldn’t
stand for him and the quiet, inoffensive,
unassertive but thoroughly servile Phila-
delphia judge, bound to QUAY by the ties
of blood, was taken. Again, four years
ago similar conditions confronted the con-
spirators and PENROSE prevailed on Eb-
WIN S. STUART, equally amiable, quite as
harmless and aitogether as servile was
induced to accept the nomination.
The people gained nothing by the elec-
tion of Mr. STUART, four years ago. The
late Colonel ANDREWS or WATRES or
DAVE LANE would have administered the
office as well. But PENROSE gained vast-
ly. If ANDREWS or WATRES or LANE had
been nominated the party would have
been defeated and the exposures of graft
and fraud begun in 1906 would have been
continued until by this time corruption
would have been completely rooted out
of the official life of the Commonwealth
and a new and better order of affairs
would be in progress.
The same cohditjons are present again.
Graft hasn't been eliminated from the
government of ;the State. It has only
been placed under cover and is ready to
break out at any moment, and PENROSE
is preparing to fool the people again in
the expectation that ultimately the revel
in corruption may be resnmed.
——Qld soldiers will be interested in a
bill which was introduced in the House of
Representatives at Washington on Mon-
day providing for an increase in all pen-
sions not in excess of twenty dollars per
month. The biil was prepared by THEO-
DORE P. RYNDER, of Milesburg, and is en-
dorsed by hundreds of old soldiers of the
State and leading men of Centre and
Clinton counties. The aggregate increase
in the pension appropriation as proposed
by this bill would be about twenty million
dollars yearly and half a million old sol-
diers would be benefited. The increased
cost of living is the argument put forth
managers of the Congressional machine,
that the administration railroad bill is now
certain to go through, the features against
which the Democrats and progressive
Republicans of the body objected, having
been eliminated. These features consist-
ed of clauses permitting higher charges
for a short than a long haul and legalizing
the control of one railroad corporation
by another. President TAFT had set his
heart and head on both of these propo-
sitions. The big railroad magnates like
Hirt, HARRIMAN and GOULD have all along
been equally anxious for such authority
under the law. It is precisely what they
need to enslave the public.
It may safely be said that the first
cause of complaint on the part of the
public against the railroad pirates of the | j
country was the discrimination against
short-haul shippers and in favor of long
haul transportation. It first developed
in the oil country under the manipula-
ville or Olean to tide water below the
charges to other shippers for half or one-
third the distance. By means of that
discrimination one after another oi the
Standard’s competitors was crushed out
of existence. Subsequently the system
was extended to other localities and so
to include other commodities.
The next great element of injustice in
railroad management was in the absorp-
tion of competing lines by the giant cor-
porations. If the competition of a new
road in any way interfered with the con-
fiscatory plans of the greater and richer
competitor, the greater would go into the
market and buy sufficient of the shares of
| ble for the greater cost of
here as compared with Europe. Take, | trust to violate the law by the absorption
for example, the matter of steel plate | of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com-,
competition was stopped. Both of these
practices were outlawed by legislation
and the features of the pending TAFT bill
which have been eliminated by the Dem-
ocrats and progressive Republicans in
. | Congress, were intended to restore the
old right to plunder the public. The
country has reason to be grateful for this
elimination.
Cost of Production Here and Abroad.
It is gratifying to learn that the Demo-
$250,000 to defray the expenses of a
Tariff Commission to investigate the sub-
ject and report to the President. The
purpose behind this junketing enterprise
is to confuse the public mind with an
absurd theory that the labor cost of
manufacture is considerably less in
Europe than in this country and that a
tariff tax equal to the difference, and a
fair profit to the American producer, is
essential to industrial prosperity in this
country. Even if that were true, which
it isn't, the Democrats in Congress hold,
The labor cost in producing 100 yards
of woolen fabrics in Great Britain is as
great as the labor cost in producing 150
yards of the same fabrics in this country.
The same difference exists in the labor
cost of producing cotton or linen fabrics.
In iron and steel products the advantage
of the American manufacturer over his
European competitor is even greater. In
all lines of production the individual op-
erator in this country earns a higher per
diem recompense for his labor than the
European. But that is because our su-
er skill and industry enables the Ameri
can operators to produce vastly more.
Greater intelligence on the part of the
American operative is also a factor in
the equation.
The United States is the only govern-
ment in the civilized world which stands
for the atrocity of tariff taxation on raw iff, to the detriment of the public. ROOSE-
materials and this absurd tax is -
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used in the contruction of warships. The
bulk of the expense is in iron ore and
coal and both are heavily taxed in this
country while they are free of taxation in
Europe. Notwithstanding this handicap,
however, the American manufacturer can
compete with the European in England
or Germany because of the lesser labor
cost in production. American consum-
ers are compelled to pay American pro-
ducers more because the excessive tariff
tax on the plate shuts out European
competition here.
An Esteemed Contemporary’s Mistaken
Zeal.
Senator PENROSE may have more effi-
cient allies than the esteemed Johnstown
Democrat, but it is safe to say that he
has none more dependable. The editor
of our Johnstown contemporary is a
phrase-maker of much skill and doubtless
is greatly delighted in seeing himself
quoted copiously. But if he would only
devote himself as assiduously to promot-
ing the interests of Democracy as he does
to criticising individuals in his own par-
ty he would doubtless be quoted just as
extensively as he is now and should r=ap
fully as much pleasure, personally, and
certainly be of more use to the cause he
supports, than can be claimed for him
at present.
Erias DEEMER, of Williamsport, owns a
newspaper and cherishes resentment.
He was defeated in 1906 and again two
years ago by a gentleman of excellent
ability, high character and lofty impulses
whose official life is marred by a single
error, to which he was influenced by the
amiable purpose of serving his constitu-
ents rather than his party. Mr. DEEMER’S
newspaper likes to make the most of this
blunder but feeling that denunciation of
would be unpopular flatters our
esteemed Johnstown contemporary into
“pulling its chestnuts out of the fire,” and
quoting from it what it would like to say
itself if it had the skill in phrasing and
tion of the Standard Oil conspiracy. The |
Standard got rates from Oil City, Titus- |
the seat which Mr. WiLsox adorns, he
would have voted for every iniquity con-
tained in the PAYNE-ALDRICH bill, yet the
esteemed Johnstown Democrat is doing
its best to restore the seat to DEEMER'S
agent in the service of PENROSE. Not
only that but it is trying, by the perver-
sion of facts, to make one of Mr. Wii-
SON'S constituents responsible for his
single error. No other of PENROSE'S or-
gans has gone so far as this, though prob-
ably a number of them have charged the
PENROSE machine a higher rate for their
capricious
crats in Congress are unanimously op- | frightened him from his purpose. Be-
posed to the proposed appropriation of | sides, he imagined that he was young
We have always believed that sooner Harrisburg Star-Independent
a Sy cima | veut Fasrauet Sct iotputetis lh
found out. The apprehensions, widely | which
expressed by well-meaning men, that he
will again be elected President, have not
been shared by us since he relinquished
the opportunity two years ago. Then he
could have forced himself upon his party |
and until the panic of 1907 he fully in. | Armour, of the National
tress and industrial paralysis which his
administration precipitated, |
enough to wait a term or even two and
that at the end of that time the public
would still be infatuated with him and
there was some danger of that.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT was the boldest
and most unconscionable grafter which
the public life of this country has ever
iz
feed
that he was in collusion with Senator
WARREN, of Wyoming, in the robbery of
the government of 54,000 acres of the | did,
public domain, that outrage being a rec-
ompense for WARREN'S vote against Sen-
ator FORAKER in the Brownsville, Texas,
affair. . In the history of the country
there has never been a more daring piece
of spoilation. WARREN needed the land
to graze his vast herds of sheep, the
fleeces of which are protected by the tar-
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i as he connived with Stee] | mitted to the policy of i :
Just with £1 Et Denocratics parry 10 Grhouncs
| that policy as inherently unjust and de-
that it be cut out.
pany. ! The Democratic cry should be : Cut
tout Protection ! Cut out protection !
; Protection is robbery of
Brotooon is vio
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GE lation of .
The sundry civil appropriation Blow | ores + Gat if On. Protection is immor-
pending in the House of Representatives | 31, in giving one rich man the right to
in Washington contains a provision “of | many men ; cutl
x ! tection is .
$25000 for traveling expenses of the lation, hy eh Alin i A
President in the next fiscal year.” The to maintain expensive lobbies in Wash-
measure bearing the same title last year ingicn; cut it out.
contained a similar clause though this :
year the words “to be immediately avail- | Rs Puiican insurgents in the senate fool,
able,” are added. The inference is adeficit Dolliver and LaF and
in the account. It may be assumed, there- : figh for a little less of the
fore, that the President will travel SO™ protecti
less during the coming fiscal year or else
he will be more careful in expenditures.
He can cut out some of the items that
are not essential and use the difference |
to pay old scores. local grab
But we are not quite able to see how .
the President can avail himself of an ap-
One Form of Graft.
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office of President Congress fixed
salary of the office at $75,000 a year. For |
several years previously the salary had |
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sideration of an expense fund and it was |
voted in violation of the constitution and
is a form of graft.
—Next Wednesday the comet's tail is
scheduled to twist itself around Mother
Earth in such a way that we will all be
smothered to death. Of course some of
us don’t believe everything we hear, but
if you should happen to feel a little skeered
about it, and have never prayed before in
your life, now would be a right good time
sinister services.
to and it
pi ae that place can feel assured of hearing
Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. something unusually fine.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Frank F. Orner has been given the contract
for the erection of the new home for the DuBois
Country club and will proceed at once with
~Mifflintown, the county seat of Juniata coun-
ty, is growing. It is said the census of 1910 shows
a population of 954, a gain of one in ten years.
The census of 1900 showed a population of 953.
—E. S. Westenhaver's new shovel factory will
start at Philipsburg about June Ist. For the pres-
ent the plant will occupy a part of the Gowland
Manufacturing company’s property. Machinery
is being ordered. ;
—Reports from the State Agricultural Depart-
ment are tothe effect that the apple crop this
year promises to be large. From all over the
State with the exception of portions of Schuylkill
and Lebanon valleys the reports are exceedingly
miners in the district agree to the scale.
~The body of Charles Joans, 46 yearsof age,
mill wright employed at the Mount Union
neries was fonnd Friday about 7 in
Juniata river near that place. It
whether the man fell into
ended his life as the result
drinking.
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the health authorities. Fourteen are going to
Johnstown and measures will be taken there and
in all other places where thev go to prevent the
spread of the disease.
—Frank Cortes, employed in the mine of the
United Coal comprny at Jerome, Somerset coun-
~The employees of the Mill Hall brick works
have been made happy over the announcement
the wages of all men ten per cent., the same to
take effect immediately. While this will mean’
smaller profits to the company, it is recognized
that the increase is due the men by reason of the
higher cost of living.
—General orders were telegraphed Friday night
from the office of Adjutant General Thomas J.
Stewart, announcing that the National Guard
would encamp at Gettysburg, August 1th to
20th. The orders countsrmanded the previous
order fixing July 13th to 23rd as the time. The
dates selected will not interfere with the camp of
the regular army at Gettysburg. In addition it
was announced that the annual state rifle matches
to be held at Mt. Gretna will begin July 25th, in-
stead of August 1st,
~The legal transfer papers of the Huntingdon
Gas company, of the Juniata Hydro-Electric com-
pany, of the Lewistown Heat. Light and Powe
company, which were merged into the Penn Cen-
tral Light, Heat and Power company, have been
filed in the Huntingdon county register and rec-
order's office. At the same time there was placed
on file oneof the greatest mortgages ever filed in
Huntingdon county. The Penn Ceatral Light,
Heat and Power company filed a $4,000,000 one in
favor of the Pennsylvania Company for the Insur.
ance of Lives and Granting of Annuities. The
mortgage is on the electric plants of the big com-
bine ir that part of the State.
—Zane Bell, a former resident of Tyrone, and a
son of Mrs. Mary Bell, of Altoona, committed
suicide at his home in Salamanca, N. Y., some
time on Sunday. No particulars concerning his
rash act were given. He had been sick and
despondent for some time and this is supposed to
have been the cause of his doing away with him-
self. Bell was aged about 43 years. He left Ty-
rone some years ago and was following the oc_
cupation of a railroader at Salamanca. He is sur.
vived by his wife and two children. He is also
survived by his mother, one brother and three
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lodge of the state his Masonic bocks, badges,
etc., and $508; to the Lebanon Y. M. C. A.. $2,500;
to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, $2,000: to
Tressler Home for Orphans, $5,000; to the in-
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