i
—To call the turn to the last cent up
to February 25th, 1911, the remodeling of |
the court house had cost the tax payers
$122,205.56.
—God save the Commonwealth! Ithas
been announced that PENROSE will go to
Harrisburg next week to personally boss
the Legislature.
—March came in windy enough. Let |
us hope that old Probs. doesn’t hold
any of the weather we should have this
month over for April.
—Itch has broken out in the public
schools of Pittsburg. The poor children
probably were infected by shaking the |
itching palms of the directors out there.
—The average man will do little pen-
ance by cutting out meat during Lent.
With him almost every day has been
Lent, so far as meat is concerned, for the
past two years.
—The saplin bender, the poor man's
manure, the robin and the onion snows
have to come yet, so don’t get gay about
shaking your winter flannels or thinking
that spring has come.
~The Republican Keystoners of Phila-
delphia having decided to go back to
their own party we are confounded to
know what will become of their Demo-
cratic consorts of last fall.
—So Senator LORIMER, the blonde boss
of the Chicago stock-yards, has been giv-
a coat of whitewash. A stiff kick
with a frozen boot is what our Uncle
\ should have given him if he
ss to conserve public respect for his
upper House of Congress.
Under the law only those who voted the Tener
t at the last election can participate in the
n primaries this year. How, then, are
prmers within the party going to get back
first doing penance?—Philadelphia Rec-
rch 1st.
then, dear Record, can the reorgan-
n our party hope to reorganize it
ile we have no intention of get-
sd up in the controversy it does
the present post-master must
‘more than some of his party
he does, else the united
the heavy-weights on the up-
Temple court would not be
keep him from holding his
—No, dear discouraged parent, there
is no hope for you. Those cherubs will
no sooner quit asking for money to go to
the basket ball games and the opera
house than base ball and the park will be
ready to gobble up the quarters that you
might as well make up your mind, right
now, that you are never going to get a
chance to save.
—The lopular Magazine makes the
rather startling announcement that
FRANK MUNSEY, the millionaire publish-
er, began life with only fifty dollars in
his pocket. No wonder he's a million-
aire. Look at the start on the rest of us
poor devilshe had. We ali started life
without a cent and without any clothes
to have pockets in.
—Senator JONATHAN BOURNE, of Ore-
gon, did a little talking out in meetin’ in
Washington, on Monday, and the whole
world is considering his grave charges
against our President. Unfortunately he
seems to have produced the goods that
proclaim the White House to be a mere
political trading post. Unfortunate as
the expose was the greatest misfortune is
in our being unable to entirely refute its
truth.
—You have heard of the fellow who
climbed out onto the limb of a tree and
then sawed it off between his perch and
the trunk. Well, we have just discover-
ed that he is a relative of the Bellefonte
man who moved west this week but be-
fore going crated all of his furniture most
securely and then discovered that none of
the crates could be taken out through
any of the doors or windows of the house
he occupied.
—The Premier of Australia warns the
people of that Commonwealth agairst
falling into the hands of trusts like the |
unfortunates of the United States. He
says that here “One per cent. of the peo-
ple own fifty per cent. of the wealth and
fifty per cent. of the people own noth-
ing.” Premier FISHER probably forgot
that the last fifty per cent. hold some
lingering claim on their souls; at least
those do whom the ministers haven't
scared into thinking they have none
worth holding onto.
—While we can never be brought to
believe that PENNYPACKER'S administra.
tion of the State was as clean as STU-
ARTS’ yet the old man's statement of |
Saturday was not without its modicum
of truth. He said he built the state capi-
tol even if it did cost thirteen million,
and left as much money in the treasury
as STUART did when he left the office.
And this in face of the facts that reve-
nue; were larger during the STUART ad-
ministration and he even vetoed the
state road bill in order to conserve tie
treasury balance.
RIGHTS
STA
TE
i
AND FEDERAL UNION.
A Tale of Two Administrations.
In criticizing Governor STUART'S ad-
ministration, the other day, former Gov-
ernor SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER brought
to mind the aphorism of “Satan reprov-
ing sin.” PENNYPACKER'S administration
was so wretched in every respect, so ut-
terly and entirely devoid of merit and
since its end has been so absolutely dis-
credited, that it ought to remain forever
undisturbed in oblivion. At any rate, one
wonld imagine that Mr. PENNYPACKER
would be the last man on earth to sum-
mon its rotten record into public view,
But he did so the other day in a newspa-
per interview and comparing it with that
of STUART actually scored a point. He
left something for the money he took out
of the treasury.
The administration of Governor STUART
was destitute of constructive results
Judge PENNYPACKER declares. STUART
vetoed a road bill, he added, because
there was insufficient money in the treas-
ury to carry out its provisions. Yet with
less revenue resources PENNYPACKER'S
administration built and furnished the
new capitol building, while there was pre-
cisely the same amount of money in the
treasury at the end of the period as there
was at the beginning. The road bill
which STUART vetoed carried an appro-
priation of much less than the amount
which the construction and furnishing of
the capitol cost and yet STUART was un.
able to make it seive the purpose of
building the road.
There is “more truth than poetry” in
this criticism. The revenues of the Com-
monwealth reached high tide during the
STUART administration and yet there
isn’t a permanent or even a perceptible
improvement to show for the expenditure
of this vast treasure. Mr. PENNYPACKER
says that when he assumed office there
was $15,000,000 in the treasury and when
he retired the balance was precisely the
same, though meantime the capitol was
built and furnished at an expense of $13,
000,000. According to PENNYPACKER'S
statement, therefore, there was $15,000,
000 in the treasury when STUART assumed
office and only about $10,000,000 when he
retired and meantime no improvements
were made at all.
What became of the money paid into
the treasury during the four years of the
STUART administration? It has never
been claimed that the PENNYPACKER ad-
ministration was frugal or even econom-
ical. Yet out of the revenues of the four
years during which he was Governor he
paid all the ordinary expenses of the gov.
ernment and built and furnished the cap-
itol at a cost of $13,000,000, while STUART
fell five or six million dollars short of
paying the ordinary expenses of his ad-
ministration, if PENNYPACKER'S statement
that there was $15,000,000 in the treasury
when STUART assumed office and the
State Treasurer's report that the balance
was less than ‘$10,000,000 when he quit
the job, are true.
Keystoners Deserting Their Allies.
The Philadelphia Keystoners, of Re-
publicar. proclivities, have decided to "go
back to the farm.” They served the pur-
pose of the PENROSE machine most ad-
mirably last fall by supporting Mr. BERRY
and beguiling alot of thoughtless Demo-
crats to stray from the path of political
righteousness, and there is nothing left
for them to do but return for their
reward. Hereafter they propose to
do their reforming within the party.
It is more genteel, they imagine. In
any event it will not require them to
“wash their dirty linen” in public, and
that is something. Republicans don't
like to tell the truth about each other.
It is just as well that these sham re-
formers have come to this conclusion.
They never had any heart in the Key-
stone movement. They are concerned in
nothing except selfish ambitions and local
offices. In 1905 they had to be driven into
the support of Mr. BERRY for State
Treasurer. They hoped to harvest a lot
of spoils by the election of their own
type in the city and after they had gone
so far that retreat was impossible the
Democratic managers notified them that
they must support BERRY or else the
Democratic voters would refuse to sup-
port their candidates. They squirmed
and grimmaced distressingly but finally
yielded.
But they are treating their country
Keystone cousins badly in abandoning
them at this stage of the game. Mr.
| BERRY, Mr. BONNIWELL and other dupes
, of their political chicanery have been
urging Democrats and others to perpetu-
ate the Keystone organization and split
the Democratic vote for local candidates
next fall and thus complete the destruc”
tion of the party of JEFFERSON. Of course
this open desertion of the Philadelphia
contingent will interrupt the success of
this plan and probably open the eyes of
th: n isguided voters to the fact that
they were simply used 2. cat's paws to
draw PENROSE nuts out of the hot ashes.
Too Grotesque to be Amusing.
The somewhat hysterical effort of the
PENROSE machine in the popular branch
of the Pennsylvania Legislature to pre-
vent a vote on the resolution to instruct
the Senators in Congress for Pennsylva-
nia to vote affirmatively on the joint res-
olution to amend the Federal constitu-
tion so as to provide for the election of
Senators in Congress by popular vote
is not only amusing but exceedingly
grotesque. In the first place the resolu-
tion is not concurrent and consequently
is without force or effect. Besides that
it would make little, if any difference to
PENROSE how Senators are elected. If by
popular vote he would nominate whom
he pleased and the people of Pennsylva-
nia would elect his nominee.
What greater assurance could Senator
PENROSE have had of the election of his
personal choice to the office of Governor,
ast fall, if the method of election had
been by vote of the Legislature, in joint
session? The opposition party assembled
in convention and nominated as clean
and fit a candidate for Governor as was
ever named by any party. Senator PEN-
ROSE named as the candidate of his par-
ty the man of all those mentioned, least
qualified and least desired by the people,
Yet the PENROSE candidate was elected.
And why? Because PENROSE, through
JouN O. SHEATZ and other emissaries of
his machine, organized a bolt in the
Democratic party and through the abnor-
mal lust for office of WiLLiAM H. BERRY,
elected the PENROSE candidate.
tained by the election of United States
Senators by popular vote is a mooted
question. It was gravely considered in
the convention which framed the consti-
tution of the United States and for rea-
sons satisfactory to the old-fashioned but
certainly capable and patriotic gentle-
men who composed that body, was re-
jected by an almost unanimous vote.
Possibly conditions have changed so that
in some localities fitter men would be
sent to the Senate if conditions were
changed but we can see no reason for be-
lieving that it would make any difference
in Pennsylvania. It is much easier to
control a convention than to manipulate
a Legislature.
—At noon to-morrow the present
Congress will expire by limitation and
whether its successor begins operations
in a month or nine it will mark the end
of the control of the government by the
predatory interests when it begins. That
is a pleasant prospect for the friends of
good government to keep in mind and an
inspiration for confidence in the future.
A Crime Against Civilization.
Those Democrats in Congress who
voted for an appropriation to fortify the
Panama canal will have a hard time ex-
plaining to their constituents. The
amount appropriated is only $3,000,000,
but it commits the government to the
profligate and preposterous policy and
that is all the Steel trust cared for. Prob-
ably no part of the appropriation will be
needed within the next two vears. The
chances are that the work of fortification
will not be begun within five years. But
to get away from it when the ditch is fin-
ished. Therein lies the evil of the action.
In that is concealed the iniquity.
Chairman TAWNEY, of the House Com-
mittee on Appropriations, who has given
the matter careful consideration, esti-
mates that these absurd fortifications wil]
cost the country $60,000,000 to complete
and $26,000,000 a year to maintain. It is
admitted that 10,000 troops will be neces-
sary to man the fortifications and therein
will be found not only an excuse but a ne-
cessity for increasing the standing army.
| These things will combine to increase the
' taxes and before many years, notwith"
standing our productive capacity, our
| people will be as poor as those of Russia
| and for precisely the same reason. The
earnings of industry will be diverted from
' their legitimate uses to pay the profligate
and useless expenses of the government.
If there were any necessity for fortify-
ing the canal this wild extravagance
might be overlooked. If building forts
and locating guns and troops on the ca-
nal zone would contribute to the safety
of the country, the profligacy might be
forgiven. But as a matter of fact there
is no more need for forts and guns and
soldiers to safe-guard the canal than there
is for two tails on a dog. The entire civ-
ilized world is committed to the policy of
neutrality of the canal and no hostile ship
of any nation could enter it without
bringing down upon the power it repre-'
sented the condemnation and hostility of
all others. Under the circumstances the
fortification policy is a crime against civ-
ilization.
—1If candidates and public sales count
for anything in the business way Centre
greatest booms in her history.
|
Whether better results would be ob-
having been approved by Congress this
year it will be difficult, if not impossible, |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~Mauch Chunk is to have a large new modern
business building and a cigar factory to employ
forty or fifty hands.
—~Word from various eastern counties indicates
that the coming spring will witness a decided
boom in building operations.
=Ground has been broken at Swedeland, Mont-
gomery county, for the erectidn of a third blast
furnace by R. Hecksher & Sons.
—Fifteen cases of whooping cough, one case
of scarlet fever and four of chicken-pox were
reported off the quarantine list in Huntingdon
last week.
—Work has been started on the construction of
the new trolley line between Johnstown and
Ebensburg. It is expected that cars will be run-
BELLEFONTE. PA-MARCIHL 3, 191).
! The Freight Rates Decision.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is the first
of the great carrying corporations to ac-
cept the decision of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission forbidding the in-
crease of freight rates. The other cor-
porations will follow the example later,
reluctantly, no doubt, but certainly. The
' alternative is an appeal to the courts,
. which is expensive, and not promising of
success. The Commission heard all the
evidence that could be procured on both
sides. It analyzed the testimony with |
great care and its decision was unani-
mous. It is hardly possible that the court
- would have decided otherwise and it is
: unlikely that either the Commerce Court
or the Supreme tribunal will reverse the
| judgment.
| From the viewpoint of the layman,
| moreover, no other decision was possible.
: The railroad companies alleged that in-
| creased freight rates are necessary to
‘maintain wages, equipment and fair prof-
lits. But the facts are that during the
| recent past well managed railroads have
| been making immense profits at existing
| rates of wages and under present condi-
| tions with respect to equipment. Possibly
| ill-managed roads are not making good,
but that is not the fault of the freight
"rates. In fact it was asserted during the
investigation that railroads are extrava-
gantly conducted and it certainly ought
‘not to be expected that the people shall
pay penalties because of incompetent
, railroad managers.
| Government interference with business
| is reprehensible, as a rule, and is tolera-
| ble only under certain conditions. But
| carrying corporations are quasi public
| utilities and have no right to tax the peo-
| ple to excess. Those who provide the
| public with conveniences have a just
‘right to demand fair remuneration for
| capital and their services. But they have
| no right to water stocks and charge the
| users of their utilities profits on fictitious
values. This is what some of the rail
| road companies have been doing, and
wanted to do to a greater degree, and it
is fortunate that the Interstate Commerce
Commission has given them a check.
Profits are all right but robbery is wrong.
§
| —The rather severe arraignment of
the President on account of the misuse
of government patronage, made by Sena-
tor BOURNE, of Oregon, the other day, |
invites a comparison of the treatment of
public officials. Of course all that Mr.
BOURNE said in condemnation of the use
of patronage to influence legislation ought |
to have been said. There is no greater |
evil in the public life of the country or
greater menace to the perpetuity of the |
i
government. But in this form of corrup- |
"tion and bribery THEODORE ROOSEVELT |
has TAFT and all others skinned a mile |
and the word of protest was never raised
against him. A few years ago ROOSE- |
VELT actually appeared in the lobby of |
the capitol trading offices for votes!
against a resolution to investigate the
Postoffice Department and not even a
sign of objection was presented. On the |
principle of “better late than never,” the |
BOURNE protest against TAFT'S practices |
should be welcomed. It may lead up to
an important reform. i
i
——The President continues to iterate |
his threat that Congress will be assem-
bled in extraordinary session in the event
' of the failure of the Senate to ratify the
Canadian reciprocity pact. Butwe gravely
doubt his sincerity and seriously question |
his courage in the matter. An extra ses-
sion means substantial tariff revision
within a brief season and that would de- |
prive the tariff mongers of a considerable
period of safe and profitable graft. TAFT
owes a good deal to these favored pluto- |
| crats and if he wants a re-election he’
must depend upon them for the “sinews
of war.” Of course if he deserts them
now they will abandon him then and
measuring his future actions by his past
performances, to say that he will sacri-
fice the interests is a poor guess. i
——Senator CUMMINS, of Iowa, views
tariff reform through the same lenses as
some of the alleged Prohibitionists of
Maine look upon prohibitive legislation.
That is to say the blustering Iowan be-
lieves in tariff reform legislation but is
opposed to the enforcement of it. This
fact is proved by his attitude on the Ca- |
nadian reciprocity pact. He has been
talking in favor of tariff reform ever
since he has occupied a seat in the Sen-
ate but the first chance he has had to
put it into effect he turns tail. CUMMINS
is a blatherskite.
tirement is almost equally desirable.
| and it is to the advantage of every nation
{ on earth to have a neutral canal.
good deal of trouble and put the country
Senate, acquired by bribery. But Lori
MER is worth a good deal to these elements
——The country will rejoice that at in the body politic. His vote saddled a
noon to morrow the official life of Sena- ship subsidy on the public the other day
tor EUGENE HALE will terminate and for and as the Republican majority dwindles
a different reason a large porportion of it will be needed more frequently in the
the people will be glad that Senator Bev- future. Possibly he may have the decid-
ERIDGE, of Indiana, will go into retirement ing vote on the question of fortifying the
at the same time. HALE is a menace and Isthmian canal zone, a source of graft to
county is just now enjoying one of the BEVERIDGE only a nuisance, but their re- which the
ly.
NO. 9.
ning by July.
LENT. ~A thriving new industry in the shape of an
—— extensive brick manufactory is located just east
Is this a fast—to keep of Newton Hamilton. Macklin & Stevenson, the
The larder-lean owners, have offices at McVeytown.
And clean ~A numberof Italians are under arrest in Pitts-
From fat of veals and sheep? burg charged with the murder of James Barrelli,
who was shot five times and his body slashed
Is it to quit the dish y
1 0 ak thie dish, with a knife in McCoy Road late Wednesday
night.
—The authorities of McKeesport have just dis-
covered that many hundreds of citizens of that
town have been getting their water supply free of
charge. An effort is to be made to compel them
to pay up.
—Frederick Keim, proprietor of a barber shop
in Chester, has been missing since February 11th.
To
The platter-high with fish?
Is it to fast an hour,
Or ragg'd to go
Or show
A down cast look and sour.
No! "Tis a fast to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat As he was in the habit of carrying considerable
And meat money about his person his friends fear he has
Unto the hungry soul. met with foul play.
It is to fast from strife ~Frank Graham, a resident of Homestead, has
From old debate achieved notoriety and won $20 by consuming
And hate— fifty raw eggs in less than 26% minutes, the time
To circumcise thy life. Bua act Wind the bet was made. This gastronomic
eat n't hurt the eater.
‘To show a heart grief-rent:
To thy sin ~The DuBois Express tells of a prize hog own-
er arve ed by T. J. Wayne, a farmer near that place. The
And that's to keep thy Lent. hog measures four feet across the back and ten
feet from nose to tip of tail.
1,000 poonds, not fattened.
—John Kleiner, a naturalized American, was
taken into custody by state officers at Lebanon,
as the result of the discovery that he had manu-
factured a bomb, the contents of which are now
being subjected to the examination of an expert.
~Harvey Marshall, one of the best known
Pennsylvania railroad employees in Indiana coun-
ty. was struck by an engine near Avonmore last
Monday and died later at his home in Blairsville.
He had been since childhood a memberof the
Baptist church.
—A new company is being formed in Ebens-
burg to take over the stock of the Ebensburg fair
association, which has been dormant for four
years. The move, if successful. will mean a fair
at that place the third week of August with new
grandstands, exhibition halls, stables, etc.
—Knocked down by a street car, thrown out of
an automobile and dropped from a man’s arms
while being conveyed to a hospital, Benjamin
Cohen, aged 5 years, a resident of Philadelphia,
died of his terrible injuries on Sunday afternoon
ROBERT HERRICK. It weighs about
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The Southern Washington Develop-
ment association has sent a tel to
President Taft urging that the
canal be fortified, "owing to the threaten-
ed warlike condition o i the
Orient and the probable invasion of the
Pacific coast.”
What has the warlike condition of af-
canal? Can’t our fortifications in the Phil-
ippjes take care of oriental warlike con-
itions? If they can’t, how can Panama
canal fortifications deal with those alleg-
Where will the money to pay for forti-
fications of the Panama canal come from?
Out of the pockets of labor, of the men
who produce wealth. That money must
be raised by taxation. All federal taxa-
fon seve pms iho youu, SREY | ite sebver rh emg mites
dy of nm a ue, of Wilkes-Barre, has de-
used to fortify the canal? Not a cent. cided that it is no crime for a woman to have
Will the street railways, the gas and pretty eyes and to use them. The case grew out
water companies, the electric fight and | of the arvestef Miss Mation Chappelle. charged
jes pay any of it? Nota with duorjeny Sonuduct By Mix. Anse Luldoy,
cent. Will the land and timber “| Jassentible young son Henry
tors pay any of it? Not a cent. Will the ypRataes,
great steel companies, will make | —In the mountains of Sumerset county the
maple sugar season is on in full blast. The open
weather of the past week with occasional freezes
at night, has caused the sweet sap to flow. In
the larger camps men are working day and night
the guns and other implements of war,
pay any of that tax? Not a cent.
There is no more need to fortify the
Panama canal then there is to fortify the
Yellowstone Park or the White
: no | toconvert the sap into syrup and sugar. The
more need than to encase : Taft | indications are for a large crop.
in 14-inch armorand put a 1 in| —At Jersey Shore the other day when a New
each of his pockets. The Suez canal.
controlled by England, is not fortified.
All that is necessary is to neutralize the
Panama canal; that will cost nothing;
York Central train stopped at the station pas.
sengers were surprised to see a stranger walk into
the smoker and snap a pair of handcuffs on an
unsuspecting traveler. He was an Italian wanted
in Tioga county, for trying to murder his wife
and also the man who attempted to interfere.
—A flock of wild geese numbering twenty-three
were guests at the Somerset county almshouse
corn patch recently. They were so numbed by
the cold and bewildered that Steward Gray's son
drove up to within twenty-five yards of them
while hauling out fertilizer. Fortunately for
them the hunters did no: know of their presence
until they had gone.
—A man giving hisname as Benjamin Decker,
but whose real name is W. J. Hart, several days
| ago hired a horse and buggy from liveryman L.
| J. Swartz, of Huntingdon, claiming that he was
going to the Raystown dam, where it is said, he
had been employed. The horse and buggy were
later found at Mount Union but the man has not
vet been apprehended.
—Citizens of McKean county, owning or repre-
senting in an official capacity valuable oil prop-
erty, will shortly appear before the Pennsylvania
State Legislature to petition that body to pass a
: | law which shall afford protection to property
appear that his was the better of thetwo, | =" © oc While these men represent oil
gy fe ree Mr. Penny. | interests their petition will be in the interest of
packers motives, he should have stuck | forest conservation throughout the State.
more closely to the facts in hisself-lauda- : —Citizens of McKean county, owning or repre-
tion. He laid special emphasis on the senting in an offizial capacity valuable oil prop.
statement that “no constructive work” | erty, will shortly appear before the Pennsylvania
was done during the Stuart administra- ‘State Legislature to petition that body to pass a
tion. He means that Governor Stuart did ‘law which shall afford protection to property
not erect any public buildings. The state from all forest fires. While these men represent
capitol and the Rittersville hospital which | oil interests, their petition will bein the interest
Pennypacker named in hisinterview were of forest conservation throughout the State.
authorized to be built before he became ! oh aged 19 of I. W
Governor,and the stench of what was done _ —Arthur Myers, years, son of J. W.
during his term still nauseates the Com- Mvers, of Shirleysburg, left his hore November
monwealth and offends the nose of every 1 and the lad's parents have not seen nor heard
sister in the Union. The less Mr. Penny- Jom) in See his Sqpance. The boy 39k
packer says about his connection with the | ry cave lie gyi vbr ry oul
itol the better.
ypacker ! ed by a horse kicking him ten years ago. After
e. Dennypacker said Hat he ran away he was seen in Lewisburg about De-
$12,000,000, and when his term was end. ember lst.
ed it was $12,000,000. Evidently he —Russell Cook aged 6, died at his home in
forgotten the real figures. According to Johnstown Saturday night, of hydrophobia.
Smull’'s Hand Book, which is pretty good While coasting a few days before Christmas he
authority, in 1903, the year in which Mr. ran into astrange dog. The animal snapped at
Pennypacker took the office of Governor, him, severing the rope on the sled and inflicting
its treasury balance was $15818,559.19, a small scratch on the lad's ear. Nothing was
gud at the end of he fiscal Just 1906 it thought of the matter and the lad continued to go
had been reduced to $11,440,04292, and to school. Friday he was seized with convulsions
the following year, after Mr. Start and his jaws became locked. The child died in
become a
million and a half | EE RORY:
a . |
As to the two administrations the —Railroad construction work seems to be ina
ular verdict hag been rendered and it will healthy statein spite of the clan of dull business.
not be changed by any distortion of the An order for 1000 steel cars for the Lehigh rail-
fact "road company hasbeen completed by the Middle-
town Car Works, to whom the contract was
awarded some time ago. The cars are now ready
for shipment. The car works has also turned out
twenty flat cars that will be shipped to South
America. Arrangements, are being made at the
works for the construction of 500 wooden cars
with steel underframes. These will be sent to
—The reports of the relief departments of the
Pennsylvania railroad system show that during
the month of January. 1911, over $7,000 a day were
paid in benefits to employees of the company cr
their families. On the lines east of Pittsburg and
Erie during the month of January payments to
the amount of $149,905.96 were made by the rel'ef
fund. In benefits to the families of members who
died $45,911.62 were paid, while to members in-
for work the benefits amounted to
$103,994.34. The total payments on the lines east
of Pittsburg since the relief fund was established
in 1886 have amounted to $21,794,654.80.
However, if the canal is to be fortified,
charge the expense to Special Privilege,
not to labor. Change the system of taxa-
tion so that the taxes will fall where they
belong—on private monoply— and not
another word will be said in favor of
fortifying the canal. Speciai Privilege
is willing enough to blow in hundreds of
Millions on war if the people have to pay
e bill.
Pennypacker’s Criticism.
From the Harrisburg Star Independent.
There was neither occasion nor excuse
for Mr. Pennypacker’s criticism of Mr.
Stuart's administration of the office of
Governor of this Commonwealth. Good
taste should have smothered any inclina-
tion to compare the Stuart administra-
tion with his own, in order to make it
——The stand-patters and their Demo-
cratic allies in the Senate have had a
to a good deal of expense in retaining
Mr. LORIMER, of Chicago,in his seat in the
Steel trust is looking anxious-