INK SLINGS. — Japanese children are taught to write with both hands and they write right with the right or left. —The short session of Congress will convene next Monday, and the shorter the better, in all probability. —It must be hard for the varsity foot- VOL. 55. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 2, 1910. ball man leaving the training table to : adapt himself to the more or less literary It is Up to the Women. diet of the average college boarding house: - —Anyway the high browsin attendance at the convention of Governors of the States of the Union in session at Frank- fort, Ky., are the sons of Miss Democracy, —There may be no scandal unearthed but it is nevertheless true that the hay motors in the Lock Haven fire department raised quite a stink in the council of that city lately. —*“There are no christians!” screams EMMA GOLDMAN. Surely this anarchistic agitator couldn’t have been in Bellefonte looking around within the past week. Could she? —In the coming congressional foot-ball game we hope the Democrats will work the forward pass for all that it i$ worth and leave the on-side-kick and off-side play for their opponents. —The town of Roosevelt, N. J., wantsto change its name. It seems to us that Landslide would be a very pretty substi tute because it would be a constant re- minder of what caused the change. ~/There is a dog in Germany that can actually say six words in the English language as intelligently as a human being. And this doesn’t mean the human being who has reached the sarsaparilla stage. —Of course Mr. PENROSE'S Legislature will give us just the man Mr. PENROSE orders for United States Senator, but it would be nice if we could have some- thing not quite so much like a punk-stic! as Senator OLIVER. . —If drivers of smoking automobiles are arrested and fined in New York city wouldn't Mayor GAYNOR'S police force have a strenuous day if the sixty odd machines in Bellefonte should make a sociability run down Broadway some fine morning. —Corn and oats are about the only things the agriculturist have to offer us at a price within reach and that doesn’t help i only in that his predecessor in office ! | wanted exploitation and he wants animal | If the women of the country would give | enjoyment. half the attention to the tariff question | survive a single election for though wom- | out and a party which recognizes respon- en don't vote in most of the States, their | sibility is put in its place. influence on public questions is equally is simply a voluptuary who patriotic. When necessary mothers almost | passions. He strives to gratify his own cheerfully God-speed their sons to the inclinations at any cost to the country. field of battle and brides as freely give | No official obligation is permitted to in-| up their husbands to the hazard of war. | terfere with plans for his personal enjoy- | When it was a question of building up ment. If the whole country were starv- infant industries, therefore, it is small | ing he would eat in comfort his rich wonder that women made sacrifices for | ners and revel in his luxurious pleasures. protection. They are not economists, as | ‘He cares for nothing outside of animal a rule, but they are patriots. satisfaction and in that respect he is The tariff is no longer an agent for the worse than ROOSEVELT who the Good preservation of infant industries. It has | Lord knows, was bad ceased to be an instrument for fostering | — industrial prosperity. Its only purpose is | : ——For some reason or other there to exact largesses from the wage earners seems to be a serious let up in the de and bestow unearned bounties upon’ fa- | mand fora “re-organization of the party,” vored classes. And the burden of the !that came with such volume and vehe- suffering from this vicious system falls | mence just after the election. Possibly upon the women. Upon the wife and the fellows who never did anything for mother devolves the duty of keeping the | the party, but abuse the few Democrats home in order. The tariff tax impedes | who were always willing to do their duty her at every step. She is obliged to pay | and never gave it anything but worthless more than double for every article of | and offensive advice may be re-organizing furniture, every kitchen utensil, every bit | their mouths. If such should be the case of linen, every stitch of clothing, every | they will discover when they get through piece in her chinacloset and every article with that job—it is about all the “re- of necessity or luxury in the household organization” that is necessary to have because of tariff tax. the party in pretty good trim. And what becomes of the money ac- | TE quired by these iniquitous exactions? It Taft Smirched Again. doesn't go to improving the schools, build- : : : ing roads, enlarging the harbors or pro- Ww Eigation Of Bue frase - te moting commercial or industrial progress. | yn... House, but that is not surprising. Nearly every scandal that has been re- It is taken from the pockets of the hus- bands, sons, and brothers of the unselfish vealed since TAFT came into the public life at Washington, has involved one women of the country and bestowed upon member of his family or another. the manufacturing barons and trust magnates who flout them on the streets. His brother was iated with the CROMWELL conspiracy which mulcted the It is used to recompense these law-pro- tected robbers for sinister services to the government to the amount of $30,000,000 in the purchase of the Panama canal party which enacts tariff laws and justifies much because oat-meal and corn-flakes tariff policies. It enables the debauched franchise. always were cheap enough, though devil- | Sons of these favorites to indulge in cost- | yy, 0 algo involved in the sugar frauds the investigation of which was ish ti to look at on the breakfast | Iy vices with money that ought to have * table é¥ery morning. _.. {mone for providing comforts for the Wage | stopped by the payment out of the. —GEORGE GRAY BARNARD has arrived | S3Tners. _ ‘ury of the Sugar trust, of $2,000,000 so in America to superintend the erection of This is why the women should raise ..* prevent the exposure of those his now world famous sculptures before their voices against tariff taxation. The oop. 0» the Palace of Graft at Harrisburg. Hap- mother heart bleeds when she is obliged These Indian land frauds are the most pily they are not tainted and happily they | * send her children to school in shabby 14 y150ded and cruel swindles that have are in cold granite else they might blush clothing. She would cheerfully go hun: | 4 : i lever been exposed. Under an act of for shame at what they will adorn the [87 'N order to provide her little sons or oor ooq the Indian lands were appor- way to. daughters with good shoes or warm coats |... among the individual members of . . as she is dispatching them, ona cold i op : —The Grangers are urging the govern- moming, to the school house, several i the tribes under conditions which gave ment to construct canals for the purpose blocks'distant. But the tariff ta on the them the option to take in lieu of the of curbing the power of the railroads and Jat pair of shoes or coat so depleted her property an equivalent in cash. It was insuring cheaper transportation. Let us resources that she cannot afford another. stipulated in the act that if the Indians see: It was not so very ing ago that | wy acl Cr’ her husband to thus | Preferred cash the government would railroad construction was being urged fer rend her heart with anguish by voting for dispose of the land and pay them the the purpose of doing the same thing to | party that trates this crime against | money, the transaction to be free of ex- the canals. her and her Pp {pense to the Indians. After the terms —JaMEs J. HILL has always beenreputed | We can imagine no reason except that | \n.« agreed upon the government ne- a wise old guy but his latest interview | she doesn't think. { glected to act until the Indians grew im- should not be taken too seriously. Prob-| It is up to the mothers, wives, daugh-' patient. At this stage of the game the ably, when he said he expected to see ters and sweethearts of the country 1 Jd sharks appeared upon the Scene: many men out of employment next year, | stop this monstrous crime against hu- They induced vast numbers of Indians to he was facetiously alluding to the exodus | manity. sign ‘agreements giving them large com- of Republican clerks, watchmen, engineers ! missions for the sale of the lands. It was and what—not from the capitol buildings The tariff tax on wool has done more |, robbery that mounted up into millions of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Indiana. to inflict the curse of tuberculosis on uh | of dollars. country than all other causes combined. | : “Tariff taxes which have deprived the chil. | vr he ng Saree NE yeas —Criminations and re-criminations dren of the poor of the necessaries of life | warned their “fell pp against can goon ‘till the crack of doom and have caused more disease and death than |p spoliators. That made tiie work of those who probably know least about it polluted water and impure milk during | robbing difficult and the sharks went to may blow their heads off declaring it is the last quarter of a century. It has bred | wo oton and induced TAFT to write a true, but more evidence will have to be | more microbes than all other agencies. |... practically recommending the ac- presented than has yet been brought out before we will believe the Hon. C. LARUE MuNsoN to have been guilty of anything dishonorable in the gubernatorial fiasco It has done more cvil than all other. ; things. Yet men vote to perpetuate this | CEPtance of the terms offered to the In- of last summer, or of dealing the party for a seat on the new court of commerce. t | di This endation : iniquity and women who toil and suffer Sean rl the ne on greatly —The government has begun proceed- ings to dissolve the sugar trust. Why because of these things remain silent Ris : . i while they might raise such a protest as | Singur foun pli fee father! i he bother locking the stable after the horse has been stolen. For a quarter of a cen- President Taft’s Economies. As a matter of fact there will be no | miission which their direct interest in it should | curtailment of the expenses of govern- revision of the laws considers | this particular folly was approved and | Governor STUART May 13, 1909, would end it. | trap laid for them. It isnow said that tury that predatory combination has rob- | the President was deceived into writing bed the government through false weights, | the letter. The land sharks told him that Not long ago President TAFT called | if he would sign such a letter all the In. made the public pay any price it pleased for its product and driven competition to the wall. Lately it has stopped all that and now when it is showing symptoms of getting good the government gets ready to jump on it. Doesn't it look a little like an exhorter kicking a penitent away from the mourners bench. —The agitation to take the tariff out of politics looks very much as if it were being fomented by our friends, the enemy. They waved the bloody shirt to keep themselves in office until it fell in tatters. Then they grabbed up the “tariff for pro- tection to infant industries,” and worked that successfully until now. The masses are beginning to see back of it all and a day of reckoning is coming. It has been | a long lane, but the turn has been reach- savings he suggested would aggregate in ed and the Democraticidea of a tariff for | ten years. In other words, as we have revenue only looks so hopeful to the | said before, President TAFT believes in country that the Republicans are in a saving at the spigot while wasting at the frenzy to rob us of the glory of demon- bung and he is opposed to saving either strating it that they want to take the | at the spigot or the bung if the operation whole question out of politics. Not interferes with his personal plans or much, say we. pleasures. He differs from ROOSEVELT bureaus, chief clerks and other subordi- nates in the public service and read | them an interesting lecture on the sub- | ject of economy in public affairs. He implored those in his presence to work | diligently and assiduously in order that a | trifle might be saved here and a few pen- nies there, for the benefit of the people. It was an interesting incident of the pub- | lic life of the country and every news| paper correspondent of the country made | the most of it. Economy in public life is an immense thing. There are so few public officials who think of it. Within a week after the delivery of | this lecture by the President to the chief | clerks and other officials, President TAFT | started on a useless trip to Panama with | a squadron of war ships, the expense of which amounted to more than all the into his presence a number of hendaot| Oklahoma would vote the Re- publican ticket and as a consequence he is said to have signed. If this be true the chances are that he would stuff a ballot box or make a false return for a few votes. He is not particular in such af fairs. ——The Keystone party in Chester, Lebanon, Franklin, Cumberland, Schuyl- kill and Westmoreland, has concluded to continue its local organizations in each of these counties and proposes putting full county ticketsin the field next fall in each of them. This movement may not pan out very big, but it will add greatly to the number of fellows who will be defeated at the polls when the 1911 election comes around, so that if it does no other good it will at least make company for the other disconsolate patriots who go after the county offices and get turned down at the polls. ~The roosters are the only things that have reason to crow much over the large increase in the number of chickens in Pennsylvania within the year. As for the rest of us eggs are higher and harder to get than ever before. The McNichol Tax Commission. of this Common- | wealth relating to corporations and to revenue,” has about completed its labors. | will prevail in this country but it will not President TAPT | The concurrent resolution authorizing $25,000 was appropriated to pay the ex- penses of the enterprise. The Commis- sion is composed of three Senators and three Representatives in the General As- sembly and at the meeting for organiza- din- | tion Senator McNicHOL, of Philadelphia, was elected chairman. It was authorized to sit after the adjournment of the Leg- islature and did sit frequently and at sides. various places during last summer. The resolution required that its report should be made “six months prior to the meet- ing of the General Assembly in the ses- | sion of 1911,” but that was, probably, an unimportant detail. The MCNICHOLS are | not hampered by such trifles, as a rule. | The report which is almost ready to i present to the Governor, one month “prior to the meeting of the General As- bly for the session of 1911," will rec- | mend such additional subjects of taxa- | , and such increases in the rates of | taxation on subjects already taxed, as will produce an additional revenue of | $10,000,000. The new subjects of taxa- | tion are to be anthracite coal and manu- facturing corporations and the increases will be on automobiles and money at in- terest. The policy of the State, hitherto, has been to encourage manufacturing Bryan corporations by exempting them from taxation, a questionable expedient for the reason that both the Federal and the State constitutions require uniformity in the levy of taxes. But the taxing of an- thracite coal and the increase of the taxes on money at interest is hardly needed. It will only increase the burdens on those who can barely carry those al- ready imposed, for the borrowers pay the | i tax on money on interest and the con- | sumers that on coal. | “As a matter of fact the revenues are at | t redundant and there is neither justice nor sense in increasing taxes in order to multiply the treasury surplus. If the Commission had directed its energies to the work of devising means to reduce the tax burdens, it would have been worth while. There are plenty of ex-. travagances which might be cutout with- out impairment of the efficiency of the public service and with that accomplished | the taxes might be reduced from five to ten million dollars instead of increasing them so enormously. A difference of say $15,000,000 a year in the draft upon the earnings of the people would make a vast | improvement in the industrial life of the | State and go a long way toward paying | for the educational advantages which all | American boys and girls yearn for. But as the provisions of the resolution were not complied with, in respect to the time of the report, the only value of the Com- mission was that it afforded MCNICHOL a delightful summer diversion at public expense. i | i The Thieves ‘Have Made a Poll. The Secretary of the American Manu- | facturers Association has made a poll of the members of that predatory body on | the subject of tariff legislation and re- | { ports that an overwhelming majority are against changes in the tariff laws. No doubt a poll of the burglars’ association would discover an equally unanimous sentiment against the prosecution of | burglars and the pirates’ association, if | there were such an organization, would { vote to a man against the enforcement of the laws against piracy. When the late WiLLIAM M. TWEED was exposed in New York all he asked was that he be let alone. The beneficiaries of the iniquitous tariff law want no other favor. If they are let alone they will do the rest. . : While eulogizing the PAYNE—ALDRICH | tariff law President TAFT admitted that the wool schedule was atrocious and: in- defensible. It was created by an “agrée- ment between the wool growers and the manufacturers of woolens and represent- | | spiracy to restrain trade NO. 27. there would be no sinister influence at work. The decrease in the tariff tax on not. The time is reveal itself fully until the thieves have by been expelled from the tem and ' of most of east. a close personal land and intimately Cleveland Democrats, urally attract all these old forces side. The south, in its zealous determi- H ue So the Whike ouse, to man ts anxiety in behalf of Dr. Wilson. But Wilson's strength, as conditions now might extend into the west, and y attract Bryan and his fol- lowing in preference to Harmon. The faction, while a man + party, as they now do, or in fact have done, that further alienate Bryan and his from the Ohio man and throw Wilson if compelled to choose between these two. Hearst's ardent support of Harmon would morcover have a tendency to ed remarkable strength in their recent elections, and relying upon them to make no ous blunders in the next two years, would seem to a good lead in the race for the Dem nomination, though it is improbable that Folk or another man of his school will not at least qualify as an entry. If the rumor of a preconceived plot to wipe Bryan off the map be true, it might hurt quite as much as help the Harmon cause, to have it disclosed this far in advance. After the Sugar Trust—at Last. From the Pittsburg Post. In the Federal circuit court at New York the Department of Justice has filed a bill in equity of voluminous con- tents, but having as its vamen the charge that the American Sugar Refining Company “for some time past” has been, and is now, in an unlawful con- several States and with foreign nations in “raw sugar beets, molasses, syrups and other bi-products, and to monopolize the same.” is is the sugar trust, a New Jersey corporation, having an alleged capital of 000,000. In the extensive petition are recited many accusations of how H.C. Havemeyer and his brother, eodore, watered this stock incorpo- rating the purchases of ing com- panies capitalized for sale at fictitious values. Real Tax Reform. From the Albuquerque Tribune Citizen. The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, following the visit of Tax Commissioner Lawson y, of New York, has adopted ‘a resolution along the lines suggested by Mr. Purdy in regard to the assessment of land for taxation. At present Pittsburg has three classifications and this system operates rather obviously in favor of the tor and against improver. The of Commerce takes the view that land without regard to its use or non-use should be assessed at its market value and it will try to get a bill through the requiring this to bedone. Al- buquerque would do well to follow this Very Likely. From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. "That about Senator Penrose and certain of lieutenants conspiring to defeat G T. Oliver for re-election to the United Senate was probably entertainment ed literally “all the traffic would bear.” unpleasantness That is to say it gave the wool growers | all they wanted and to the manufacturer all that remained between that and pie: SLES hibition of the use of wool or woolen | fabrics. The cotton schedule is equally | outrageous. But the members of the American Manufacturers’ Association are i unanimously in favor of intainis these schedules. Every member of the | organization betieves in “standing pat." | q It secures them the boodle.” + «i poll of the consumers of woolet : v oe | Sou There, are hun Pokh NTH ag ut ambeat 1} fabrics on the question. dreds of consumers to one producer. and:| a .E though there might not be the safe unanimity, for here and there you find ar| recreant, the majority in favor of tariff | tax revision would be: immense thavgh, between the ! ~John B. Myers, agent of the Reading railroad at Manheim, has not taken a vacation since 1874. He has never been absent from his office a day because of illness. ~Oliver L. Ewing, of Neff's Mills, Huntingdon county, has created a record for himself as a deer hunter. Annually during the past twenty-seven years he has shot a deer. —Louis Barga, of Berwick, went violently in- sane when the young woman whom he wished to marry rejected him. He is now an inmate of the Danville asylum for the insane. ~The ten political plums that will be distribut” ed in Berks county next year will be worth $41. 600 in annual salary and their clerkships $52,600. yuche a alotany Hy aspirants for the ten of- —Representatives of the State Department of Agriculture have begun the planting of trees on the farm of George H. Hardner, of Allentown, for what is designed to be the model orchard of Penn- sylvania. —The next annual session of the state grange, Patrons of Husbandry, will convene in Butler, December 13th, and adjourn on the 16th. Exten- sive preparations are being made to entertain the delegates. —A party of Johnstown capitalists have pur- chased the Apollo Silica Brick company’s plant at West Apollo, price paid being about $30,000. It is the intention of the new owners to make im- provements to the plant. fled without stopping to rifle the vault. ~The towns of Avis and Jersey Shore are all works. It is reported the plant will cost $200,000 and employ several hundred mex. —~Miss Josephine Smith, of Hanover, York county, has been awarded $5,495 damages by the Adams county court against the borough of Lit- tlestown for injuries received in June of last year, by falling into an unprotected ditch on the side- walk of Littlestown’s main street. ~The Spangler hospital board has asked the state board of charities for an extra appropriation next year of $10,000 to be used in building a wing to the institution. The plans on which the hos- pital was built called for wings, but so far there has been money only for the main buildings. —At present there are 1,051 students entolled at the Carlisle Indian schoo! and there are very few small pupils among them. The smaller of the Indian boys and girls are being sent to the reservation schools, and after they have complet. ed certain courses they are transferred to Car- liste, ¢ on atom —Camillo mille. an Italian from Tyler, is in the DuBois hospital in a serious condition as the result of wounds received in an unknown man- ner. He was brought to the hospital on Sunday morning and immediately onerated upon, the in- testines being punctured in half adozen places, as if by a dagger. —A large stone, weighing probably 500 pounds, fell from the top of the new Farmers’ Mortgage and Trust company's building in Johnstown on Saturday afternoon, carrying Otto Melender, a stone cutter, with it. He was caught under the great mass and instantly killed. A wife and two children survive. —Falling under an engine in one of the depart- ments of the Cambria steel works ‘at Johnstown, John Kelly, of Moxham, had both legs ground off above the knees and died in the Cambria hospital. He had stepped from the running board of the engine, presumably to turn a switch, when he tripped and fell in front of the locomotive. —Thaddeus Collins, a Swede, who lives two miles from Mifflintown, walked to Harrisburg re- cently for treatment at the hospital. He has lived near Mifflintown for a number of years, do- ing his own housework. It is the first medical at- tention he has required in eighty years, says the Sentinel and Republican. At one time he was an employee of the Pennsylvani2 railroad, but is now on the retired list. —Allen Dennie. of LajJose, Clearfield county, died recently at his home from lockjaw, due to a hunting accident. He had been out hunting when his gun slipped from hishand and was discharged. The load hit his right hand and so badly injured it that it had to be amputated. The operation was performed at the Adrian hospital and the pa- tient was getting along so nicely that he was sent home. A few days later lockjaw developed and he died. He leaves a wife and two children. —Chief Factory Inspector John C. Delaney has ssued orders to deputy factory inspectors to call attention of mercantile establishments to pro- visions of the state law relative to the hours of work of employees during the holiday season so that “the law will be kept intact,” and at the same time “meet the extraordinary demands of uties to co-operate with the educational authori- ties in reporting names of all minors of school age who are dismissed from employment after the —According to the regular monthly reports of the relief department of the Pennsylvania rail’ road system, issued Wednesday, the sum of $188, 524.07 was paid to members during the month of October. 1910. Of this amount, $123,025.17 repre- sents the payments made on the lines east Erie, and $65,498.90 on the
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