"BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—The Prince of Wales has the measles:
which proves that Princes are just the
same as the common kids.
—That Scranton burglar who got away
with twelve thousand false teeth was evi-
dently fortifying himself for prison grub
in the event of his capture.
—Reciprocity with Canada will not
necessarily mean that if some one puts a
Canadian quarter on you you will get
more than twenty cents for it.
—The late JAMES G. BLAINE was the
first of the adroit Republicans to try to
put reciprocity over on the Democrats in
the effort to dim their tariff reduction
glory.
—A news item tells us that “a female
herring will lay forty-five thousand eggs
at a time.” Wouldn't a female chicken
with that kind of a propensity be a bo-
nanza?
—If the Bellefonte post-office plum
doesn't fall pretty soon there is one man
in town who will have heart disease and
another with less faith in the works of
his friends.
—Really if many more candidates an-
nounce in Centre county none of them
can expect many more than one vote at
the primaries and that may have to be
each one's own.
—If it were not for the fact that he
must be pretty near old enough to be her
granddaddy we might be tempted to be-
lieve that Miss ARNOLD ran away to
marry CHARLEY ROSS.
—The Wichita, Kansas, Commoner
thinks that a party need not win to be
useful, which is possibly half a truth, but
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| tuberculosis is the most deadly and dan-
VOL. 56.
Cause of and Remedy for Tuberculosis. | his own turpitude but turned states’ evi- | Periodical Publishers Have Kick Com- |
There is an old maxim to the effect
that “when rogues fall out, honest men
come by their own.” A travesty on an-
other adage reads, "when doctors disa-
gree the patient should take to the
woods.” The present controversy be-
tween Dr. LAWRENCE F. FLICK, a noted
tuberculosis expert, and Dr. SAMUEL G.
Dixon, State Commissioner of Health,
upon the treatment of the dreadful
“white plague,” is apropos of neither of
these maxims and yet it suggests both.
Dr. FLICK, who has been for years head
of the Phipps Institute of Philadelphia, is
the pioneer of the organized warfare
against tuberculosis and Mr. DIXON is a
physician of great experience and ability
and yet they disagree on the subject of
treatment.
We all agree on the proposition that
gerous enemy of the human family in
this latitude and climate. Its victims are
numbered by millicns in the northern
States and its power for evil is practical-
ly incalculable. In view of these facts it
is small wonder the philanthropically in-
clined gentlemen are striving constantly
to subdue the malady and eradicate the
dence against his fellow conspirators.
ALDRICH and CANNON wouldn't do such a |
thing. They have the courage of their
infamy. But TAFT is a cringing coward |
and a time-serving poltroon who having
betrayed himself deserves no considera-
tion.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 17, 1911.
cr rr rom —- a rm
ing.
The magazine publishers have sub-
stantial, if not exactly just cause of com-
plaint against the administration at Wash-
ington for its insistence on a material in-
crease of the rate of postage for their
. product. The casual recommendation of
| such increase would have been over-
— | looked, in all probability, as a necessary
Whenever President TAFT wants to expedient of politics. But the Postmaster
perform some service in which he has General, and apparently with the assent
Panic in the Present Congress.
personal or political interest, he simply
threatens to call an extra session in the
event of continued obdurance. Thus,
the other day, he conveyed the informa-
tion to the Senate that unless the Cana-
dian reciprocity agreement is ratified
of the President has not only recommend-
ed it but is actually trying to force Con-
gress to raise the rates from one to four
‘cents a pound on those pages of the
magazines which are filled with advertis-
‘ing instead of facts and fiction. The
during the present session he will call the ' change would make a big hole in the
new Congress into special session. A few | profits of the publishers.
days previously he had compelled the The circulation of some of these peri-
House of Representatives to get busy on odicals has grown to immense propor-
the tariff commission measure by the same | tions and the distribution of them has
method. And it was equally effective in | come to be a severe tax on the resources
both instances. What can be the rea- ! of the government as well as a potential
son? | agent in the creation of postal deficits.
The next Congress will be Democratic | The big circulations enable the publishers
in the House and with the co-operation @ to charge fancy figures for advertisements
of a few “insurgents” will control the and the revenues from this source make |
Senate. An extra session would, there- vast aggregates. The Postmaster General
p causes which produce and promote it. It
it gets tiresome being a party without | regretable, however, that even the best
having anything to party. of these well-meaning gentlemen of
—The one best bet to make just now | science and humanity are not proceeding
is that every fellow who is out for office along the right lines to accomplish their
will have his best foot about worn out | ournose. In other words they are mov-
with keeping it forward during the long ling in the wrong directions to achieve
campaign the new system entails. the end they desire.
—The Harem skirt is the newest Paris- | The climate of Pennsylvania has not
ian creation for Milady. Like the divided changed materially in half a century and
and hobble skirts, already sent over from | in the matter of seyerity it has certainly
that centre of fashion, it is said to be a not increased at all. Yet the tuberculosis
fright and had better have been named | evil has increased in marvelous rapidity.
harum-scarum. | The population has ipcreased, of course,
—What a grand thing it would be if and some increase in the disease may
future re-apportionments on account of | justly be ascribed to that fact. But the real
growing population were soarranged that | cause of the rapid spread of tuberculosis
they would raise the quality instead of | is the absence of proper clothing for chil-
the quantity of our state and federal | dren. Fifty years ago every child was
representatives. | clothed during the inclement season in
—That New Orleans lawyer who has |
‘real wool while now but few can en-
directed in his will that he be buried face
joy that security. The atrocious tariff
i, Garec Aion the | tax on wool has taken it out of the reach
RE Vase a he | of the average family and the substitutes,
GABRIEL toots the “git away” for the final shoddy and cotton, are inadequate pro-
1 | tection.
Yesurrection race, | ‘The tariff mongers are thus responsible
—It is certain that the memory of LIN- to a great degree for the spread of tober.
coLx will never die, i they keep on culosis in the Northern section of this
coming with each succeeding anniversary ' ., n¢ry and the destruction of human
of his birth, as they Save been ink | life which it entails. The people are as
there will be nothing to American Hera: | wong and anxious to properly clothe
ture after while but LINCOLN stories. | themselves and their children now as
—The imports of rabbit skins from they were a hundred years ago. But
Australia have doubled within the year, they can't do it for the reason that there
according to statistics just published. So js not sufficient wool grown in this coun-
that is where those black sables, caracie | try to serve the purpose and the tariff
and Russian pony coats that have been | tay jevied to enrich the favorites of the
so numerous during the winter have been
coming from. {
—Of course little else was to have been
expected than that DALZELL would make |
an old fashioned protectionist speech
when the reciprocity bill was passing the
House. But both DALZELL and his stand |
pat ideas belong to a remote age when |
infant industries had to be coddled.
—Was our distinguished Congressman |
dodging when the vote on reciprocity |
was being taken in the House? There
seems to be no record of his stand on the
most important matter that has been be- |
fore Congress since he left Sinnamahon-
ing to represent us in Washington.
—The GouLps have lost their last rail-
road. The Standard Oil has forced
GEORGE GOULD to let go of his big prop-
erty, the Missouri Pacific, and the name
that was once as great as the VANDER-
BILTS is gradually being lost sight of
largely through the impotence of the
present generation.
—We are for the new state road bill
Of course it will open up a way for great
grafting by the Machine, but we aie for
taking everything the gang allows the
public to have on the principle that half
a loaf is better than no bread. Incident-
ally the WATCHMAN proposed just such a
bill as Senator SPROUL has introducted
two vears ago.
—Judge PETER GRosscup, of Chicago,
may have been right when he declared
that the country needs another LINCOLN,
but we fear the hope will never bear fruit.
Days of hero making are gone and jeal-
ousy is too rampant in modern men to
permit one of their fellows to grow to
heights of adoration, no matter how great
his service, how pure his purpose.
—~There will probably be little, if
any improvement in the election laws of
the S'ate by the present Legislature not-
withstanding the arduous and prolonged
labor performed by the commission to
revise the electoral system appointed
soon after the adjournment of the ses.
sion of 1909. But there seems to be
some sentiment in favor of changing the
date of the uniform primaries so as to
make nominations some months later in
the season.
| product too expensive for the use of peo-
Republican machine makes the imported
fore, advance by eight or nine months
the reversal of the legislative policy of |
the country. But that fact can hardly be |
sufficient to make the prospect of an ex-
ira session throw the majority of the
present Congress into various kinds of
fits. It ought not to make a great deal
of difference to the average Senator or
Represenative whether this change oc-
curs in April or December. The trusts
and tariff mongers are more deeply con- t
cerned, of course, because when the
change comes they will be down and out. |
But it ought not to be so alarming to
ordinary statesmen.
The probabilities are that the leaders
in the present Congress feel certain that
as soon as the new Congress assembles
the iniquities of the past will be exposed
and that might interfere with the person-
al liberty of a number of them. Investi-
gations in the recent past have not been
very serious affairs for the reason t
they are simply whitewash “bees.”
the investigations which will follow the
organization of the next Congress will, if
the Democrats do their duty, be laid on
different lines and will create less de-
mand for whitewash and more for prison
clothes.
This is probably why the threat of an
extra session spread consternation among
Senators and Congressmen now in com-
mission and about to be sent to “lame
duck” alley.
Roosevelt Out of His Hole.
“Coinel” ROOSEVELT has emerged, like
the groundhog. from the hole into which
the election returns plunged him last fall.
| ple other than the very rich.
! cause of tuberculosis.
' vants who have imposed upon them such
He made a speech at a LINCOLN day
banquet at Grand Rapids, Michigan, last
Saturday, and preached platitudes before
the Young Men's Christian Association of
| that city, on Sunday. What he said at
| the LINCOLN banquet is of little conse-
President TAFT has made his first | 3 " a po Py Me
“stumping” tour in the interest of Cana- latan.” 2
. . : tc : i n,” and nobody pays much attention
dian reciprocity. He visited Ohio and to him. But he continues to offend by
Dr. FLick and Dr. DixoN ought to
unite in a crusade against this prolific
Taft in Unattractive Form.
Illinois a week ago and spoke earnestly |p. moralities. He asked the young
against the tariff atrocity enacted during | men of the 2 sation “to learn to com
‘the special session of the present Con-!,. . x A 5
| gress. He told the people who favored | De can go po
“him with their presence at his meetings | ., people.”
that unless this Canadian agreement is |
ratified, the worst consequences are like- | -— The ithe Enh) OWErer, Roos:
ly to ensue. The overtaxed people of the from wisich he emerged on Saturday. On
country, he declared substantially, will the contrary he announced in Gra 2
be likely to rise up in just indignation, | po.” ep 3
tear up the entire tariff system, root and | on WASHINGTON'S birthday, in Chi
branch, and scourge the recreant Ser" | He probably imagines that the oan
a S have already forgotten his past offences
iniquitous and unjust burdens. fo mi Titn wgein.
Only a few months ago President TAFT | During the t campaign he Hed about
went over the same territory eulogizing Governor BALDWIN, is a jeut, tra-
the beneficence of the Paysz—AlpRica | duced Governor HARMON, of Ohio, and
tariff law. Itis “the best revenue meas- | vilified Gov Dix, of New York. He
ure ever enacted,” he said, and the en-| 3 slander and filth and. alsel 1
tire country is under a burden of obliga- | wherever Ire went and wi rise went
tion to the distinguished Senator for | the people resented his false pret by
Rhode Island, Mr. NELSON WILMUTH AL- | 4ocoating the candidates of his party.
DRICH, who was mainly responsible for it. |
He knew then quite as well as he knows But he is not sup}
now that the people of the country were
outraged by this economic atrocity. He
was aware then as he is now that his sol-
emn pledge and that of his party for a
downward revision had been violated
But he believed then as he doesn’t appear
to now, that the people would stand for
four years more of legalized official rob-
bery, and in the expectation of sharing
in the plunder he defended it.
In his changed attitude President TAFT
is not an attractive figure. It reveals him
as a man entireiy destitute of principle
and utterly devoid of self respect. As
long as there was a hope of fooling the
public into acquiescence in the crime of
looting, TAFT favored it. But the mo-
ment the election returns revealed the
actual trend of public sentiment, he re-
versed himself and not only confessed
Of course the people are to blame for
the exhibitions of this “showy charlatan.”
The only President of the United States
who left a stain on the office, the only
man highly favored by the public who
has confessed himself as guilt * of homi-
cide, the only man in American high-life
who has violated every obligation and
outraged every principle of honor and
decency, the people ought to resent rath-
er than applaud his mock moralities and
bogus philosophies. Such treatment will
soon bring him to a proper understanding
of his place in public affairs. But so long
as he is flattered and applauded he will
offend for in his absurd vanity he imagines
himself a man of consequence.
a better chance were the Coinel not such
an enthusiastic rooter for it. 5
imagines that owing to the bulk and
weight of these publications the govern-
ment loses money in distributing them
and that the loss should be shifted from
the Postoffice Department to the publish
ers. There is a good deal of reason in
this proposition but the publishers think
it is unfair.
A casual analysis of the question leads-
the impartial observer to. concurrence in
the views of the postal authorities. There
is no just reason why the taxpayers of
the country should be burdened with an
expense which obviously belongs to the |!
publishers unless there has been an ex-
pressed or implied agreement and that is
precisely what the publishers claim there
is. In other words they protest that dur-
ing the campaign of 1908 they contributed
with great liberality to the Republican
corruption fund under an implied under.
standing with the present Postmaster Gen-
eral, then chairman of the Republican
national committee, that they should be
reimbursed by low rates of postage on
the products of their presses.
Of course chairman HiTcicock had
precedents in abundance for entering into
corrupt commerce with the periodical
publishers, and he can find similar excuse
for repudiating his agreement. In 1900
the late MARK HANNA drew vast sums
from the shipbuilders of the country
under a promise that they would be re-
imbursed by subsidy legislation. In 1904
President ROOSEVELT himself induced the
late Mr. HARRIMAN to raise large sums
in consideration of a pledge that HARRI-
MAN would be invited to edit his ensuing
message to Congress. Both of these
agreements were criminally corrupt and
both were subsequently repudiated. But
the publishers trusted HiTcHCOCK and
have some excuse, therefore, for kicking. |
——The Republican Congressional ma- |
chine got a rather rude bump the other
day when the caucus bill for the new
Congressional apportionment was defeat-
ed and a measure favored by all the
Democrats and a few of the Insurgents
enacted. The CRUMPACKER bill may not
have much over the other in the matter
of merit, for ii intiédses the member-
ship to dangerous proportions. But it
was the bill of the Census committee
and according to precedent entitled to
consideration. The machine impudent-
ly “butted in,” however, and was subse-
quently thrown out with a badly battered
face.
——The “Coinel" is not satisfied with
changing the method of electing United
States Senators. He also wants to abol- |
ish the Electoral colleges and elect Presi-
dents by direct vote of the people. Of
course the next step will be to obliterate
State lines in polling for President and
thus completely eliminating the repre-
sentative principle as well as State sov-
ereignty from our governmental system. '
In the eyes of ROOSEVEPT those old fo-
gies who founded the government of the
United States were “small potatoes and
few in the hill.”
—S'rangely enough President TAFT
isn't asserting his influence toward en-
acting legislation providing for parcels
post though that was quite as distinctly
pledged by his party as some of the oth-
er things he is urging. The express
companies are opposed to parcels post,
however, and that makes a difference.
The express companies are liberal con-
tributors to the Republican campaign
corruption fund and they need a few
years more of good stealing.
——The soft weather of the past week
gave Bellefonters a taste of the muddiest
streets and crossings they have had to
contend with this winter; especially on
Allegheny street, where there are no
crossings at all.
&
&
ington
treaty, by which the United States guar-
antees to J. P. Morgan & Co. the
pal and the interest of a $12,000, loan
to the Honduras government, was nego-
President Taft's open el aL
ye
of “getting a hand" on the five
| about the Panama canal so that the Unit-
| ed States may have ground for stepping
| Salvador.
is Colombia on the South American con-
tinent. Colombia and Venezuela must
logically be embraced in the scheme.
Colombia is much nearer than Honduras
and fully as uneasy—having once been
robbed. In time, no doubt, if Mr. Taft's
‘policy is carried out, we shall have a!
d on everything not only in Central
America but also in South America north
of the equator. And that leaves Ecuador
out of account, which we should certain-
ly be forced to "get a hand” on, because
of the Galapagos islands which would be
deemed essential to the defense of the ca-
nal, although they are 1,000 miles south-
west of the canal zone. Who supposed
1
nin nd, included, nor
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~Huntingdon has prospects of a brush factory
which may possibly locate there.
—Business men of Lock Haven are not in favor
of holding an Old Home Week this year.
—A runaway team at Shamokin dashed on to
the sidewalk, crashed into the house of Mrs. Leah
Haan ang suck their heata thiough a puriar wine
~The bill introduced in the Legislature Monday
tion
—Adjutant General Stewart wants the Legisla®
ture to adopt a military code which will place the
National Guard on a footing with regular army
regulations.
Toohy and William Moran, convicted of keeping
speak-easies, were fined $500 and sentenced to six
months in the county jail.
—Indiana has startad on a seven-day campaign
to raise $5,000 for a Y. M. C. A. building. There
is great enthusiasm over the project and its suc-
cess is confidently expected.
—Among the small orders released for struct-
ural material last week was one to the Bethlehem
Steel company to furnish 12,000 tons of steel for
the McAlpin hotel in New York.
~The woman's auxiliary to the Clearfield hos-
pital last week paid the sum of $1,200 on the $2,-
062 debt of the hospital. The junior woman's
auxiliary is also doing good work.
—A corps of surveyors, in the employ of the N.
Y. C. & H. R. railroad company, are again at
work in the vicinity of Queen's Run, for the pro-
posed line between Keating and Avis.
—Among other articles stolen in McKees Rocks,
Allegheny county, by two men who are now in
custody, was a set of false teeth, which the owner
was fortunate enough to recover when the thieves
were taken.
—With her two children playing about her, un
aware that anything serious was happening, Mrs.
Margaret Corey, of McKeesport, died from the
effects of carbolic acid, which she drank with sui-
cidal intent. Her husband died about a year
ago.
—By the death of Samuel Rheem, a feeble-
minded resident of Venango county, who leaves
no heirs, the State of Pennsylvania comes into
possession of a valuable farm and a nice oil pro-
duction. The whole is said to be worth about §1,-
H. Richards, of Sharon, committed
suicide Sunday evening by hanging. His body
was found by a stepdaughter when she returned
home from church. A year ago he married a
widow with nine children and shortly afterwards
became despondent.
—Frank G. Harris, of Clearfield, former state
treasurer, took a dose of carbolic acid instead of
gin and narrowly escaped death Tuesday night of
last week. He presumed on his memory to find
the gin and in the darkness got hold of the carbolic
acid. He will recover.
—Edward Reiter, a prominent resident of Rich-
;andtown, Northampton county, was found dead
by his son-in-law. He was sitting on a chair inhis
chicken coop. Rats had recently created havoc
among the chickens and Reiter had gone to the
coop to watch when he was stricken.
~—William Bennehoof, of Shiloh, was instantly
killed last Thursday, while at work hauling logs
on a timber job in Bradford township, Clearfield
county. Bennehoof was caught by a log which
rolled over him and crushed his fife out. He was
about 28 years of age and is survived by a widow
and three children.
—Mrs. Isabel Mortimore, who died near Ever-
ett a week ago was a remarkable woman. She
a fall a few months ago. Her last ill-
ness was brief—only a week—and she peacefully
fell asleep. A member of the Reformed church
‘from girlhood, she was universally esteemed.
—There is considerable excitement about Wals.
ton, occasioned by the news that the dog which
bit a number of persons on January 17th was real-
ly mad. On first examination, the state depart-
! ment had failed to discover any trace of rabies
and so informed the people. A second examina
tion disclosed the truth and seven victims have
been rushed to a Pasteur institute.
—Frank R. Davidson, a wealthy lumber dealer,
of Scranton, has started suit to recover an auto-
mobile which is claimed by his daughter as her
| property. Davidson's daughter eloped in the auto
| with T. M. Ruddy last fall. They went to Pitts-
| ton and routed a license clerk out of bed and got
when we seized Panama that it would a license, and then went to Wilkes-Barre and
mean eventually “getting a hand” on were married by an alderman. Davidson says
every square foot within 1,000 miles of
the waterway? Great is the doctrine of
“strategic necessity” in protecting a big
ditch beiween the oceans.
: Shame on a Great State.
From the San Antonio Light.
.- Pennsylvania has given a most remark-
‘ ably shameful exhibition of herself. The
scoundrels who robbed her of $5,000,000
in the matter of building her state house
have been permitted to restore $1,500,000
of the swag and go free.
It is wholesale compounding of felony
and a sorry exhibition of the weakness,
and inadequacy of courts.
Moreover, and worse yet, it is a tre-
mendous endorsement of the vicious but
quite prevalent idea that justice is at the
command of those who have her price
and a merciless executioner of those who
haven't her price. Fines for those who
can pay and jails for those who cannot
in matters of murdering the common
people with automobiles or robbing the
common people through special privi
or through building of their puivilege
. Of course, Pennsylvania's authorities
' will plead that “it was the best that could
be done.” But they had already succeed-
i ing several convictions and,
no matter how much basis for their
plea, their act apperrs to the world asa
successful and unqualified sell-out of jus-
tice. .
More Trouble for Gang.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
As a result of the increase in the mem.
bership of the House Pennsylvania
have thirty-six Congressmen instead of
He he Lage} t through
t wi islature pu a
reapportionment bill in accordance with
the action of ?
It may occur to Senator Penrose in
looking gues the Situstin thitto ger.
rymander nsylvania worse than it
now red would be difficult if
not impossible; and he may choose the
Quay tactics and have the four new
members elected at thus assuring
that the entire gain will accrue to the
Republicans. :
nder conceivable reapportionmen
any t
the Democrats would probably be able to
claim at least one of he fours and in at-
tempting to gobble four gang
t weaken some of the existing dis-
tricts to an extent which would enable the
Democrats to break in.
The troubles of the gang seem to be
steadily on the increase.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
| his daughter never brought the machine back.
—The twenty-first annual convention of the
! miners for District No. 2, will be held at DuBois
| in March, the exact date not having been an-
| nounced. Last year the convention was held in
Altoona. The result of the recent election held
in the district will be announced. Itis not likely
| that the scale for mining will be changed as the
| scale was adjusted at the Altoona meeting and
| the schedule will probably be adopted for the sec”
ond time.
| —Rev. R. H. Gilbert, of Berwick, superin-
| tendent of the Danville district of the Central
| Pennsylvania M. E. conference, has declared. in
| an interview, that the conference will see the
| greatest shakeup in many years in ministerial ap-
| pointments. The annual conference will meet in
Bloomsburg the last week in March. There are
eleven vacancies caused by death that must be
filled and many of the star men of the conference
are booked for transfers.
—The “Blue Juniata,” or what is left of it, is
not to be polluted in the future by tannery sewer-
age. The Mount Union Tannery company is
building a large filter plant, and presently the Elk
Tannery company will be prepared to purify the
waste. Measures are being taken by the com-
missioner of fisheries that the two remaining im-
portant pollutions, one tannery at Newport and
an intermittent but dangerous defilement at Ever-
ett, be stopped at as early a date as possible.
—Twenty-one inmates were received in the
Pennsylvania reformatory at Huntingdon during
| the month of January; fourteen were released on
i
|
| serving parole in the outside world; eight re.
ing regularly is 161.
~The making of *'goo-goo eyes” or carrying on
flirtations of any kind among the voung people
will not be permitted in the Followers of Christ
church in Reading in the future, if it is within the
power of Bishop H. M. Lengel to prevent it. He
made this announcement at the close of a revival
service. While in the midst of a sermon on “The
Wise and Foolish Virgins,” Bishop Lengel's at-
tention was attracted to the smiles and *‘goo-goo
eves” that passed between some of the young
members of the congregation.
—Some weeks ago there appeared in this col-
umn an account of three boys who were arrested
on the charge of robbing stores at Clymer. Aly
had their feet terribly frozen and were in circum.
stances of destitution. The younger ones were
given proper care and the oldest, who said any-
where would be preferable to home, was sent to
the Huntingdon reformatory, where he is an ideal
inmate, surprising even the officials there by his
improvement of opportunities afforded him, as
well as by his physical improvement.