INK SLINGS.
—The season of the year is at hand
when the sap begins to start up. Be
careful lest you get too much in your
head this spring.
—Lock Haven is starting to wrestle
with a municipal lighting plant. Belle
fonte might be able to give her some val
uable hints on how not to succeed.
—RINGLING'S circus enterprise might
hunt a long time before they could find a
more efficient press agent than the one
who handled the GouLp—DECIES wed-
ding.
—Many of the vociferous gentlemen
who are most vociferous for reorganiza-
tion of the party just now are the ones
who, last year. were declaring that “there
is no Democratic party in Pennsylvania.”
—1It looks more every day as if WOODROW
WiLsON were pointed right direct at the
White House and the people of the coun-
try gradually falling in behind to shove
him in there whether he wants to go or
not.
—Go out and look at the board walk
council had erected around RHOADS’ cor-
ner, then call to mind that council elect-
ed an engineer to take charge of the
streets at its very next meeting, then
have a laugh.
—On Tuesday an English nobleman
married one of the New York Go(u)Lp
girls. The Lord deliver us from any-
more of the CASTELLANE—de SAGAN
scandals aired so frequently as a result
of an earlier marriage in this same
Go(u)Lp family.
—Two million Chinamen are reported
to be starving to death and Japan, Rus-
sia, Germany, England and Uncle SAM
go merrily on arming themselves against
the day when they plan to blow the rest
of the Chinks off the earth and snatch
their wonderfully rich Empire.
—Prof. MiLTON J. BRECHT, of Lancas-
ter, has been appointed a member of the
state railroad commission. Here ie where
the Republican Keystoner has it on his
Democratic ally of last fall. He is hand-
somely baited back into his former loyal-
ty to the Mac while the Democratic
kicker is left with nothing to kick but
himself. Vig
—The PAYNE—ALDRICH tariff bill has
been in operation eighteen months and
notwithstanding the claim that it would
prove the greatest revenue producer ever
the government business still shows a def-
wall is too high for foreign business to
crawl over and we can’t use up at home
all we can produce.
.~An entire family has been found
near Pittsfield, Mass., that never eats
meats and subsists entirely on uncooked
vegetables and cereals. Of course they
are freak religionists, but the fact re-
mains that they are healthy and thriving
and do not have to wash their food down
with a tonic and anchor it there with a
load of dyspepsia tablets.
—It has been discovered that a solu-
tion of radium will infuse new life and
youth into old horses. The experiment
is being tried, of course, with the hope of
finding an elixir of life. Ifit should
prove as wonderful to the human system
as ithas tothe horses experimented upon
there may be hope of long years for many
of us. That is, if we can raise the price,
for radium costs several million dollars
per ounce.
—Bishop SAMUEL FaLrows, of Chica-
go, has disagreed with THEODORE ROOSE-
VELT on the large family proposition.
The former maintains that it is the qual-
ity of the family and not the quantity
that makes for good and that it is better
to have a useful small family than a
worthless large one, as is so often the
case. There is a certain Row in Belle-
fonte where even Bishop FALLOWS' modifi-
cation of the duties of citizenship will be
sown on desert air.
—Of course it was to be expected that
the National Grange would oppose reci-
procity with Canada, if reciprocity would
reduce the price of our food stuffs. It
took him some time to catch on, but the
Granger is “next” all right now. If there
is to be a tariff to fatten the steel mag-
nate, the woolen manufacturer and the
others, why not the farmer? is his ques-
tion. And you can’t answer it. The
truth of the matter is that there should
be a tariff to support the government only
and, after that, let every corporation,
every individual look out for itself.
—The would-be reorganizers of the
Democratic party have discovered, what
they should have known from the very
first, that there is only one way sanc-
tioned by law, by which the party man-
agement can be changed and that way is
by starting at the primaries in every elec-
tion district in the State. We await, with
interest, to see the result of their efforts
in getting down to do some real work in
the party. There never was a time when
the management of the party could not
have been changed had the voters so de-
sired it, but the trouble with the gentle-
men who are now so desirous of reorgan-
izing is that they haven't the time, the in-
clination or the party zeal to get out into
the hustings and work. They are of the
superior brand who want to manage after
others have gotten together that which is
to be managed.
VOL. 56.
The Grange and Reciprocity.
‘The Grangers are organizing to oppose
the Canadian reciprocity scheme of Presi-
dent Taft, according to published state-
ments. The Legislative Committee of
the National body has taken the initiative
in the matter and at a meeting held in
lution “protesting against the enactment
of the reciprocity bill.” The Committee
also “called upon the membership to ex-
ert pressure upon Congressmen from
their various districts to vote against the
measure.” The reason assigned for this
action is that the proposed reciprocity is
discriminating in its operations. That is
products of the farms and leaves the
jes undisturbed.
Of course this is only a subterfuge.
Most of the Grange officials are tariff-
mongers and oppose reciprocity for the
same reason that Senator PENROSE, Sena-
ator OLIVER and other congressional
“stand-patters, object to it. They im-
agine that it is an entering wedge for
general tariff reduction which will culmi-
nate in “tariff for revenue only.” In
other words the Grange organization is
rapidly degenerating into a close corpo-
ration through which the officers hope to
“farm” the farmers for selfish purposes,
In this State, for example, the machinery
of the Grange is being prostituted into an
agency to conserve the political ambitions
of a few of the Grange officials. The
National body may have other purposes
in view but they are equally selfish.
We are not greatly enamored of this
scheme of the President. It is a make-
shift at best and the object which it pro-
fesses to attain might more safely and
certainly be acquired by abolished tariff
taxation on the commodities included in
its schedules, whether they come from
Mexico, France or Canada. But the
adoption of the measure would work an
instant decrease in the prices of the nec-
essaries of life, or at least in the food
staples, and that is a step in the right di-
rection. If, as the tariff-mongers fear
and other hope, “it will eventuate in a
constitutional and just system of taxation,
all the better. But the officers of the
National Grange who have so hastily and
eagerly gone into an opposition move- |
ment are not striving for that result.
est————————————
——Those Democrats who voted for a
permanent tariff commission will be en-
titled to popular felicitation when Presi
dent TAFT appoints DUNCAN MCKINLEY,
of California, and Senator BEVERIDGE, of
Indiana, to fill two of these high-salaried
places. Both of these gentlemen are
among the Congressional “lame-ducks”
which must be taken care of but so far
as we are able to discover they have
never done anything to entitle them to
the help of Democrats in discovering soft
snaps.
Tariff Commission Likely.
The hope that the tariff commission
bill might fail of passage through the
Senate is diminishing. The end of the
session, three weeks from to-morrow, will
strike from the pay-roll a number of Con-
gressional “lame ducks,” and places must
be provided for them. A permanent tar-
iff commission will help in this direction.
At least five of the repudiated patriots
will find lucrative berths in this needless
body. In view of that fact it is small
wonder that “the Republicans are more
strongly in favor of the tariff board meas-
ure now than they were a few weeks
ago.” As the necessity draws nearer it
looms larger. Hence the matter is being
pressed with unusual energy.
Senator MONEY, of Mississippi, made a
strong argument against the iniquity the
other day while it was being considered
in a special session of the Senate Finance
committee. "The President is not war-
ranted in undertaking tariff tinkering,”
he said. “Such acticn,” he added, “is a
function of Congress and this co-ordinate
branch of the government can secure its
own committees.” But the hungry horde
of "lame ducks’’ cannot be diverted from
their pursuit of spoils by such plain facts.
They need the money and the Republican
machine must provide means for getting
it notwithstanding the constitution and the
law. As Tim CAMPBELL put it "what's the
constitution among friends.”
Of course there is a chance of defeat-
ing this iniquity. If the Democrats of
the Senate will work together and as-
tain that the House will prevent its pas-
sage during the next Congress, though
some Democrats voted for it in that body
the other day. It will put an annual
burden of several hundred thousand
New York, the other day, adopted a reso- |
| any person in the State, shall be prima
to say it decreases tariff taxation on the |
schedules on the products of the factor- |
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. FEBRUARY 10, 1911.
Dangerous Powers Proposed.
The bill to exact a license fee from the
resident hunters of the State which was
prepared by the Secretary of the Game
Commission, is more preposterous than
the measure which was defeated four
years ago. For example, one of its fea-
tures provides that "possession of the de-
scribed gun or device where it might be
used for hunting,or the possession of any
dead or living body of one of the birds or
animals, or any part of such a body, by
facia evidence of violation of the law,
and render the person liable to the pen-
alty.” What other crime or misdemeanor |
or offence can be punished on such evi
dence. Assuredly none.
Moreover the game wardens or other
| officers authorized to make arrests under
this law may do so “without warrant.”
This is plainly an infraction of the Bill of
Rights and should be prevented in all
cases other than felonies. It gives to
magistrates the power of “summary con-
viction,” another dangerous proposition.
; Under such conditions it is easy to see
how these servants of the privileged
class might prevent all hunters except
those who are within their favor, from
enjoying the chase. A man who had prev-
jously been in the habit of hunting on
his own premises or those of his neigh-
bors would be compelled to either take
out a license or dispose of his gun for
the inquisitorial game wardens could
mulct him for penalties whether he hunt-
ed or not.
The advocates of this absurd measure
hold out to the members of the General
Assembly the promise of considerable
revenues to the State. As a matter of
fact it will provide no revenue to the
State for the ample reason that all fines
and penalties will go to the Game Com-
mission to be disbursed by the secretary
of that body according to his own ca-
prices. The bill provides that the money
| “The Wish is Father to the Thought.”
plan. Audiences in this country have
shall be used for the purposes of propo- |
that no money can be paid for any
propriations made by the In
every respect this measure is objection- |
able if not actually vicious and the Gen-
eral Assembly should defeat it prompt-
ly.
——In the school books of the olden
| time there used to be an interesting story |
of a man who had hold of a bear's tail |
and couldn't let go because of the certain- |
| ty of dire disaster after the bears re-|
| lease. As the time for the Democratic |
reorganizers to reorganize approaches,
| they look as if they felt like the man who
| had hold of the bear's tail.
|
While we have no sympathy with gov- |
erning commissions of any sort we are
constrained to hope that something use-
ful will be developed from the proposed
legislation for the creation of a Public
Utilities commission. A committee com-
| posed of Representatives in the Legisla-
| ture and others is now engaged in the
preparation of a measure of this kind, to
be introduced in the near future. It will
cover the operations of gas, electric, tele- |
| graph, telephone and trolley railroad
| companies and will be drawn on the lines
| of laws for similar purposes now in force
in Maryland and New York. i
The proper way to regulate such utili-
ty companies is through one of the exist
Public Utilities Commission.
| ine departments of the State govern-
ment, preferably that of Internal Affairs.
| Whatever legislation is necessary to ena-
| ble the secretary of that department to
| perform this service ought to be enacted.
"In fact the duties of the Railroad Com-
| mission ought to have been committed to
him. It would have saved the State
| many thousands of dollars annually. The
| chances are, however, that the other
| course was adopted for that reason. The
| dominant political machine wanted pa- |
| tronage and the Railroad Commission af-
fords a good deal of it. The proposed
Utility Commission will present the boss-
' es with another lot of juicy plums.
| But something ought to be done to
bring some of these utility corporations
under reasonable control. They are in-
tolerably arrogant, insolent and exorbit-
ant in their charges. The proposed rem-
edy will be expensive, of course, but the
increasing use of telephone and other
services provided by such corporations is
becoming so burdensome to the people
that restraints are necessary to prevent
confiscation of the property of the public.
Care should be taken, however, that such
legislation is in the interest of the peo.
ple rather than for the benefit of the cor-
porations.
———A New Jersey law maker pro-
gating game but the constitution provides |
NO. 6.
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Tariff Selfish and Cruel.
Mr. CHARLES M. SCHWAB, president of From the Altoona Times.
i President Taft is said to be most deter-
the Bethleham Steel company, has fallen mined and aggressive when he smiles.
a prey to the fear of Japanese invasion And just now he is wearing his most be-
and conquest. In a speech delivered in
Paris, the other night, he amazed the
French savants of finance and statesman-
ship with a word picture of the little yel-
low warriors forcing their way through :
the Pacific seaports and deluging the ng
land with the blood of victims of our un- ty
preparedness for war. He said that these ' by the American and
Japanese pigmies are ambitious for con- | will mean lower
quest and covetous of power and that Other necessaries of life.
| position on that t. But i
unless the Congress of the United States | Por tears its head. and But specta] intsr-
promptly authorizes the increase of the tack upon the industry of the nation is
navy to enormous proportions and i proposed. the
i | And, while President is advocati
provides for the fortification of every foot a wry og
of sea coast we are doomed. : ;
} at the same time ounding his politic-
Before going into conniption fits over & tite con t EE
this dire prediction of disaster, however, | ous progressives w have made matters
it would be well to consider who and | uncomfortable for all parties of stand-pat
what Mr. SCHWAB is. As the head of the
Bethlehem Steel company he is at present
the largest manufacturer of armor plate
in the world. When he acquired the
property of that corporation at a cost of
arrangement
something like $3,000,000 he undertook | becomes a settled policy, they it is
to unload it upon the Shipbuilding trust urged, be bog into Competifion
at a valuation of $30,000,000, and had ac- armers pe ve
tually issued the stock and disposed of less for the products of than
I ) would otherwise be the case.
more than half of it. Before the trick was are willing that there shall be
turned, however, he was caught in the | reci ty for manufactured process,
act and with the goods on him, and was Which would aifect the St 2 they
compelled to disgorge. Then he began the | out products that might be
x igh brought into
development of his now enormous armor competition with the source of the unpar-
late t. prospeti A
PD Ade present concern is to The east Satisfied to let down the
: 5 bars to western products and the west
keep his machinery in motion so as to | holds
the same sentiments towards the
earn profits on the stock swelled from manatearad articles of She gt All
three to thirty million dollars and the which serves to prove tariff,
only possible way of achieving that result in theoly am) practice, is heartiess, sel-
is to induce the government to build bat- eet
tle ships and other war materials and his The Next Best Thing.
Paris speech was obviously a part of his From the Johnstown Democrat.
grown weary of war scares rather than |
a f Fach!
the centre @ on. Tt'too clea ageriatively prosperous tod:
eals that “the wish is of the unham pciprocity between
thought.” why not a little reci-
To Abolish Fees and Pay Official Sal-
g the devil. How long will Americans be
aries. beguiled with the lie that we are a free
country when we are governed by a bed-
lam legislative body, many of the units
of which are incapable of looking much
beyond the little corners of the nation in
abolish the fee system in all counties | which their several districts are situated?
having a population of less than one hun- | But this is not the whole of the ugly
truth. Many of the nder the in-
dred and fifty thousand and put the offi- fluence and the pay ‘direct! ingot
cials on a stated salary. In counties hav-
of the gorporation; that have contributed
ing a population of less than fifty thous-
to send m to Washington. They are
and and more than twenty-five thousand, not the representatives of the people, but
the class to which Centre county belongs,
the attorneys of trusts who serve their
the bill provides for the following salaries:
Representative C. A. BENTLEY, of
Washington county, on Monday in-
troduced a bill in the Legislature to
masters by robbi the people. How
gHhervise Could he nited States be S0
Sheriff, $2,500; prothonotary, $2,500; ' © en monarchies of Europe
i : . and Asia in the emjoyment of a chea
clerk of courts, $2,000; register of wills, | parcels post? Give us reciprocity, vo
$1,800; recorder of deeds, $2,500; treas- | us a parcels post, give us free coal, free
urer, $2,500; commissioners, each, $1,200; | lumber, free wool, free raw material and
auditors, each, $150; coroner, $500; | free cooked, material. Couse Jagisiation
solicitor, $500. Where the prothonotary | traditional Chinese policy now abandon-
is also clerk of the court he shall receive ed even by the od of ph in on
$1,000 additional to his regular salary of the rest of the world in order that inter-
$2,500. | nal robbers may have unmolested play.
om i mr AEA A
OF ‘course the free dist in the Pennsylvania and the Tariff Pact.
PAYNE—ALDRICH tariff law is absurd as | Ee Paselghin Recond. 0 ibe
the capable cartoonist of the esteemed | e In the Lnion wi more
Philadelphia Record shows that the free |; Ratly advantaged BY Cecio Sain
list expressed in the Canadian reciproci-
| mines and manufactories are the nearest
dollars on the pulic for all time. But that poses to limit by statute the amount of
is not the worst. It is subversive of the food his constituents can use dail
: y. Just
constitution and the people demand a ,, ; Republican prices had not cinched
return to the true principles of the gov- that job long ago.
ernment as expressed in the fundamental
law. ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
ty treaty is admirable. But the free list and cheapest source of supply for the
| most densely inhabited of Canada,
in the PAYNE—ALDRICH tariff bill is ex- | stretching south 2 within the envelop-
actly the same today as it was the day ing chain of the Great Lakes. No rep-
that President TAFT delivered his Wino- resentative of this Sete in either branch
na speech in which he eulogized that ngres s can raise his voice or cast
measure as the best tariff law ever en- Yolo Saint Se Foro Jgroemon nent
acted. Other things huve changed, of | ency. Canada is rich in the products we
course. The people have emphatically need. We get from her an givalent for
registered their disapproval of the PAYNE— | €VeIY concession we t. no
Aorcr schedules but there is tio upe in | SOMpilsion involved but the compulsion
deifying TAPT because the public has re-| of opportunity; which ensbies buyers
buked him. | on more mutually
change commodities
Advantages? TR
——The christian world has its eyes fo-
cussed on the sick bed of the learned |
and pious Catholic prelate, Archbishop a
SAN, who Baas bran ut lie point of death | 277 ve New Westriuster Briish Columbian,
at his Episcopal residence in Philadelphia
for more than a week. Bishop RYAN is
one of those men who has given his life
to the service of religion and the happi-
ness of the people and in his illness he
has the sympathy of all christians, what-
ever faith they may profess.
——The Standard Oil company is tak-
ing an active part in the Senatorial elec-
tion in Montana and naturally is exert-
ing its influence against the Democratic
diated by the people at the last election,
has been a servile tool of the interests
for many years and naturally the Stand-
ard Oil company hopes to re-elect him.
—When lightning decided to strike the
capitol of Missouri Sunday night it did it
with about the same vigor that a Mis-
souri mule uses its nether limbs.
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western Canada municipalities to
the principle of the single tax. . . .
Edmonton has exceedingly
under this system of taxation in spite of
the anomalies of the business tax. The
taxon land has allayed the speculative
fever, investors in city realty have found
residences,
line we should judge that he don’t expect
to represent much of anything.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~There are twenty-five students {from Clear-
field county in the State College this term, a
greater number than has been there for a num-
ber of years. :
~The woven wire plant at Lock Haven has been
running fifteen hours a day and expects to go on
double turn to catch up with heavy orders for
wire screen.
~Viewers from Clearfield and Centre counties
have reported favorable for a bridge across the
Moshannon, near the site of the old mill at the
town of Osceola.
—Nanticoke has finally landed the big cigar fac-
tory which its board of trade has been after for
the past month. The plant will employ upward
of 500 people, and asked nothing from the towns-
people. .
—Recause their son came toa violent death by
contact with a wire belonging to the Kittanning
Electric company, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kahn
have brought suit against the company for $25,000
damages.
—Two unknown men, passing as bookbinders
from Philadelphia, who sought board with Mrs.
Mary Amos, in Allentown, turned out to be sneak
thieves and got a diamond ring valued at $926 and
$3 in cash.
—A Sharon woman who was recently robbed of
$120 was surprised to find $70 of the amount
thrust under her bedroom door on Wednesday
morning. while the balance was found outside the
door on Thursday evening.
~The Selinsgrove board of trade has announced
that a new industry—the Orwigsburg Shoe fac-
tory—has been secured for Selinsgrove and that
it will change its location as soon as possible.
The plant will start with 100 hands.
~The end of the wooden telegraph pole is near
at hand, as it is rapidly being supplanted by the
improved concrete pole. All the poles erected in
the Pennsylvania railroad yards at Northumber-
land are concrete, and were made there as rapid-
ly as needed.
~The directors in Lawrence township, Clear-
field county, have had more than the usual trou
ble in keeping a teacher in the higher grade of
the Paradise school this winter and recently se-
cured a third one and hope the final one for this
term at least.
—Within the past three weeks rabies have been
ty | responsible for the death of ten head of cattle,
three head of horses and a number of hogs in In-
diana county. The losses will total about $2.000.
It is likely that all dogs in the county will be
quarantined for 100 days.
—Almost every gas jet in a DuBois boarding
house was found open by firemen when they were
called to extinguish a small fire. Had its dis.
covery been delayed until the blaze had gained
more headway, a terrific explosion would have
resulted. Police are investigating.
—Postmaster Byron A. Weaver, of Montours-
ville, has been relieved from duty and the office
put in charge of his bondsmen. He is charged
with having boomed the price of stamps in order
to increase his salary, which has jumped from
$1,000 to $1,700 under his administration.
—Officers of the Williamsport Packing com-
pany, whose plant was destroyed by fire recent-
ly. are undecided as to whether to rebuild at that
place or remove to Lock Haven. The board of
trade of the latter place is offering strong induce-
ments; so is Williamsport and the location is
the balance.
~Osterberg is quite excited over the finding
in a well at the home of George Defibaugh.
Fhe well was drilled last summer but the oil
itself only recently. Some people it
ak in the Crescent Oil company’s
hold
with her husband any longer. She said he abused
her. The man begged her to reconsider her
purpose, but she declined. Then he swallowed
sufficient carbolic acid to make her a widow.
—~Two big mortgages are being recorded in the
Somerset county court house. One is for $40,-
000,000 on the property of the Consolidation Coal
company. It will cover about 100 pages and cost
about $100. The other is for $3,585,000 on the
Somerset Coal company’s property, taken over
some time ago by the Consolidation company. It
will cover seventy-five pages.
—A. E. Hall, a produce salesmanof Baltimore,
and who has operated in Lock Haven to some ex-
tent is under arrest at York, Pa., charged witha
multiplicity of crime. Accordingly to reports
Hall has had a checkered career and aside from
having Mormon instincts—a desire for numerous
wives—he has a penchant for attempting to pay
his debts with worthless checks.
—An Indiana county farmer sold his farm re-
cently for $3,800. It was no sooner done than he
rued bargain but the purchaser, who was pleased
with his new possession, didn't want to sell it
back. Finally, when he saw how hard it would
be for the man to leave his old home, he con-
sented and the original owner bought it back for
$450 more than he had sold it for.
—The Hanover silk mill, which has been idle
forseveral years, is expected to resume opera
tions in a few weeks and give employment to a
larger number of people than before. This is the
only idle manufacturing plant in Hanover at pres-
ent, and if the parties interested are successful in
their project the industrial condition of Hanover
will show unmistakable signs of prosperity in
every branch of trade.
market will be the principal business, and 25.000
barrels will be the capacity of the plant.
—Contracts for 18,000 tons of steel rails will be
placed by railroad within the
stood that the orders
bigger ones from time to time as the market per-
mits of advantageous buying. Fi'ty more locomo-
tives of all classes will be ordered during 1911.