ssn TRI “that she proposes io do as she . theconfession of the brothers MCNAMARA, ii "BY P. GRAY MEEK. | INK SLINGS. ——More court next week-—that is, | more than there was this week. —Even if Mr. ROCKERFELLER nas | lost his job he will be able to buy Christ- mas presents as usual. | —— Meantime the Catlin Commission | appears to have got lost, strayed, or stol- | en. And the public cares little what | came of it. —Here's to the robust health, general { usefulness and determination to do: something of the proposed new Board of Trade for Bellefonte. —We can’t say so much for the “ref- erendum” but the truth compells us to acknowledge that the “recall” scored, during every inning, as long as the Thanksgiving turkey lasted. —Come to think it over Mr. BRYAN'S idea that there ought to be more religion in politics than there is, is not a bad one. it could possibly be used as a consolation to the fellows who get licked. —Thinking of that new trouble down in Mexico makes us conclude that even the earth itself can’t turn up its nose at some of the Republics south of us, when the matter of revolution is considered. —Somebody has just assured the pub lic that the mother-in-law is omnipotent in China. Just wait and see how soon Mr. Henpeck will proclaim that fact as the principal cause of the many rebellions over there. —It may not be because they want to, but we understand, that a number of gentlemen up about the Court House will become advocates of the “back-to-the farm movement,” in about three weeks from this time. —Maybe old Santy is going to hang the Pen. on one of those little hemlock trees out in McBride's Gap on Christmas eve. If he doesn’t do that he'd better bring the Hon. “Deacon” HARRIS a new voice to answer questions with, for sure- ly his must be about worn out. ~The confession of the MCNAMARAS is a grave lesson for Union Labor. Not that it sanctions dynamiting and whole- sale murder, but that it must purge itself of the fanatics and desperadoes who com. mit crimes in its name, or stand convict ed of being an accessory before the fact, —The InvanTA EULALIA must have imbibed some of the spirit of American independence during her visit to this country a few years ago. In any event she has indicated to her royal brother pleases and most of us will wish her joy in her new undertaking. —If every tax payer were compelled to spend two days in the common pleas court of Centre county we feel sure that there would be an universal demand for a pub- lic spanking machine, or some other de- vice for administering mild punishment to justices and litigants who bring so many trifling cases into court. —The fact that son-in-law LONGWORTH has publicly announced that he has been trying to dissuade father-in-law ROOSE- VELT from being a candidate for Presi- dent in 1912 confirms tle WATCHMAN'S declaration of four year’s ago that ROOSE- VELT was only catapulting TAFT into the office in order to pave the way to get back himself four years later. ~The merchants of Bellefonte are cer- tainly offering a great convenience to the people along the line of the Lewisburg railroad who have always been greatly handicapped in the Christmas shopping in Bellefonte by reason of the short time the regular trains permitted them to tarry here. With a special train from Bellefonte to Coburn Wednesday, Thurs- day and Friday evenings of the week before Christmas, without extra fare, it seems to us that the problem has been most satisfactorily solved. —Probably not since the blowing up of the battleship Maine, in Havana harbor, has this county been so dazed by a public announcement as it was when reading that they had wilfully blown up the plant of the Los Angeles, California, Times, thereby killing twenty-one of the unsuspecting workmen in that establish- ment. It wasn't the number killed that freighted the confession with such stupefying horror. It was the conscious- ness that in this intelligent, peace loving, fair play land of ours there could be those who regard the lives of their fellows as but trifles in the way of speeding their propaganda. —[n summoning traverse jurors for our courts why would it not be a good plan to call them for Tuesday, instead of Mon- day. This would give the first day to constables reports, the presentation of petitions and the findings of the grand jury and make it possible to get down to real work Tuesday morning. The last session of court lasted two days and the traverse jury was not in the box three hours during that time. If it had been called for Tuesday morning it could have finished up its work in half of that day and saved the county $120, for then it would certainly not have had to spend hours waiting for indictments from the grand jury and probably so much time would not have been consumed by law- yers hunting up litigants and witnesses STATE RIGHTS AN VOL. 56. Labor Organization Not in Blame. The Work of Congress. We can see no valid reason why the The session of Congress which opened confessions of JAMES B. and Jon J. Mc- | on Monday promises to be one of great NAMARA, of dastardly crimes in and near | interest but little achievement. The Los Angeles, California, should work | policy of the Republican minority, indi- permanent injury to organized labor. cated in the resolution introduced by One of these miscreants exploded a dyna. Representative MANN, of Illinois, floor mite bomb in the building of the Los leader, at the beginning, will be one of Angeles Times, wrecking the structure 1 D FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 8, 1911. Gratifying Assurances. | Mr. Oscar UNDERWOOD, chairman of |the House Committee on Ways and | Means, gives the country the comforting assurance that tariff reform will be the | burden of the business of Congress dur- ing the session which began on Monday. | His statement that the SHERMAN anti- Ta NO. 48. Bread or a Stone. From the York Gazette. The attention of Gazelle readers is in- vited to extracts from an article in the Johnstown democrat printed in another column on this page. This speaks elo- quently for itself and it is difficult to add anything to the facts and deductions i in. It is the old, old of the request for bread being met wit ' SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. 3 ~Ten tons of poultry, butier and eggs were | included in one recent shipment from Newport to | eastern markets, ~The Allentown Fair association is about to { spend $14,000 for new cattle sheds and $4,000 for a , tunnel under itie race track i ~Work at the new Berwind-White shaft near | Utahville is progressing nicely. The company | expects to build several hundred houses in the | near future. —Johnstown poultry dealers arc making efforts , lo step the practice of raffling off turkeys and ! chickens. Mayor Cauffiel will get a petition ask | ing him to enforce the law. ~The condition of Hugh Jennings, manager of | the Detroit base ball team, who was injured in an aut bile accident near Screnton, last Friday | night, continues to improve. —A thief who stole $80 from the Roland home, near Columbia, a short time ago, has returned | $60 of the amount, which he laid on one of the window sills, weighted down with a stone. ~The bodies of four does, evidently shot by | hunters in mistake for bucks, have been ound in | Carbon county. Their slayers were afraid to take them along on account of the penalty. | —Federal officers have arrested seventeen | Chinamen and seized $10,000 worth of smuggled | opium in Philadelphia. The distributing centre works near that city. Both of them had persistently and vehemently denied their culpability. Both of them were in- telligent and industrious men and enti- and killing twenty-one persons. The, other exploded a similar bomb in one of | the buildings of the LLEWELLYN Iron’ obstruction and guttersnipe politics. In | trust law will not be repealed or muti- fact with that perennial grouch directing | lated is equally gratifying. The people the operations, nothing else can be ex- | of the country want a substantial reduc- pected. The sum and substance of his | tion of tariff taxes to the end that the long legislative career is expressed in the | excessive expenses of living may be ma- phrase "I object.” A dyspeptic, the en- | terially decreased. They also believe | joyment of others makes him unhappy, that the SHERMAN anti-trust law, if prop- ‘and it may be predicted with absolute erly enforced, will work such a regula the gift of a stone. But there is always something new in | for the illegal opium was at Ninth and Race this story Jor thesyeiio Hay Re the vic- | streets. s tims. If it ng repeat- Charles W. Noble, of Lewistown, recently re- ing of it shows them how negligent | covered a verdict for $1500 against the Philadel. are of their own interests, for as a rule | shia Press, damages for an alleged libel. Mr. the responsibility for having to fOr | Noble has a similar suit pending against the bread rests with the beggars, iS | philadelphia Ledger. ~—Having recorded thirteen thousand legal § ted to the average credibility. Believing | safety that his whole effort during the their protests of innocence labor organi- | session will be to halt progress and re- zations contributed to a fund for their, tard business. defence, but in no respect condoned the A long session may also be predicted for crimes which had been perpetrated. the same reasons that wrangles are like- Nevertheless there is in this incident a | ly to be frequent and bitter. The ma- grave lesson to organized labor. The | jority will strive to accomplish results right of workingmen to organize for their | and the minority to prevent achieve. own protection and advancement is| ment. The Republican machine hopes to fundamental and the aggregate results of | prolong the tariff graft until after the such organizations in this country are next election. Itis their only hope for in our judgment, beneficial both to labor | campaign boodle and they will need vast and capital, for higher standards alike in | sums during the coming contest. The morals and efficiency have been attained “interests” could well afford to pay mil- through such organizations. But labor or- ' lions for another year of tariff spoliation ganizations must come to an understand- and the Republican leaders will exhaust ing of the fact that their operations must | every resource to get the money. Of be within the Jaw. In other words the re- sort to violence to achieve ends, however desirable in themselves, is criminal and cannot be tolerated under any circum- stances. Labor organizations must be as earnest in maintaining the laws as they are zealous in promoting the interests of labor. These self-confessed malefactors may have been influenced in their homicidal enterprises by the humanitarian hope of helping their fellow workmen throughout the country. But if that be true their perverted minds moved them in a wrong direction. No doubt if the truth had been known from the beginning organized labor would have promptly and emphat- course the efforts on the other side will be equally energetic and constant. The majority is pledged to lighten the bur- dens of the people and they will try to fulfill their obligations. {In the absence of definite information as to what course the insurgent Republi cans will adopt, however, it is impossible to even conjecture what the outcome will be. As a rule insurgent Republicans are quite as selfish as the regulars and La- FoLLETTE and his followers are more than likely to play for popular applause and continue rather than check the con- tention between the Democrats and regu- lars. LAFOLLETTE imagines that there | is a chance of capturing the Republican ically reprobated their action rather than | nomination and so long as he is deluded oficred support for their defence. In fact | with that notion he is not likely to give ‘the concensus of opinion among work- | much time or attention to the considera ingmen, organized and otherwise, favors | tion of the interests of the people. But, not only adequate but condign punish- as Sir Lucius O'TRIGGER would say, “it ment and that fact acquits labor leaders | may be a pretty fight.” and labor organizations of complicity in — the crimes of which the MCNAMARAS are! —— The WATCHMAN has received a accused. ' sample of the apples grown by the Harri- In view of this fact it is unjust to con- son Nurseries at Berlin, Maryland, for demn labor organizations for the offences | Which the thanks of its publisherare here- of individuals. ~—Mr. BRYAN is beginning to find out that he is not the whole cheese in Wash- Democratic party if he hadlearned the lesson sooner. Mr. Littleton’s Grave Mistake. The Hon. MARTIN W. LITTLETON, of New York, exaggere ‘es the importance of his own actions in Congress. other lawyers in public life Mr. LITTLE TON is disposed to regard his Congres- sional commission as a professional asset. An cloquent dissenter in the councils of the majority may accomplish a good deal in the way of obstruction it those whose interests are affected are able and willing to pay liberally for such service. Mr. LITTLETON is eloquent, be- yond question, and the interests are able and willing to pay. Itis hardly surpris- ing, therefore, that he should antagonize his Democratic colleagues on the com- mittee engaged in the investigation of the Steel trust. Possibly the chairman of the commit- tee of which Mr. LITTLETON is a member has not held to the rigid rules of law courts in interrogating witnesses and re. ceiving testimony. The principal value of parliamentary inquiries is the fact that legal rules of evidence are not scrupu- lously followed. Court rules are frequent- ly employed to conceal rather than reveal facts and for that reason parliamentary investigations are invoked. In the case in point Mr. LITTLETON appeared to be as zealous in behalf of the Steel trust as if he had a “brief” in his inside pocket. This concern upon his part was, justly or unjustly, resented by his Democratic col- teagues on the committee. We are among those who cordially wel- comed MARTIN W. LITTLETON into the public service of the Democratic party and country. He is an able lawyer, an orator of much force and eloquence and a man who gave promise of great useful- ness. But he is altogether too new in the harness, this being his first term in Con- gress, to set himself up as the mentor of the party. The Steel trust could not committee and of the House could have been depended upon to take care of that TLETON might well have remained quiet who should have been in court. for a while at least. ington. It would have been better for the Like many | ' by returned. To be entirely honest in ' this matter, however, the sample at hand, while it is a most excellent variety and | fully equal to the western fruit we hear so much about, is not a whit better than { scores of Centre county orchards pro- duce. [It is good but this county can fur- nish tully its equal in looks, size and ! flavor. i Evil of Profligacy. i The exposure of unlawful expenditures in the State Department will surprise no close observer of events. It has been generally known that ever since the mid- dle of ROOSEVELT'S first term raids on the treasury to gratify the appetites and pander to the caprices of high officials have been the rule. ROOSEVELT made no concealment of his grafting operations and while he was denouncing others for petty thefts he was himself plunging his fists into the treasury to his elbows. TAFT has been a trifle more cautious in his processes but scarcely less rank in the results. According to Representative HAMLIN, of Missouri, chairman of the House com- mittee on Expenditures in the State De- partment the officials of that Department have spent $732,981.00 within six years for secret service, though the appropria- tion was only $90,000.00 a year and t than double the amount appropriated. These are, next to the tariff, the prin- | cipal reasons for the high cost of living. | Public officials live extravagantly on stol- | on money and'set tie prices which oth- ers must pay out of their earnings or do without. One of the results is that men live beyond their means in trying to em- ulate the practices of these public thieves and bankruptcy follows with the result that the losers must overcharge solvent customers to reimburse themselves. That is not the worst feature of the evil, how- ever. Thefact that the action of these officials creates contempt for law is the most grievous consequence. TER —— ——Those who are trying to mix SAM- UEL GOMPERS up with the MCNAMARA crimes are wasting mental energy as well as time. SAMUEL GOMPERS has never Sou involved in any real crimes thus | tion of the trusts as to compel them to conserve rather than destroy the interests i of the people. i The Democratic victories of last year | and last month were the results of the failure of the Republican party to fulfill its pledges, made in 1908, for a down- ward revision of the tariff on one hand and the strenuous effort made by the Democrats in Congress during the special session last spring and summer to keep their pledges, on the other. Of late there have been reasoned by some that the Republican majority in the Senate will defeat the proper legislation and by others that the veto of the President will prevent it anyway, so that there is no use in striving against such odds even for ideals. Under the circumstances, therefore the assurances of Chairman UNDERWOOD are most encouraging. The same ele- ments were present during the special session and partially achieved their pur- poses, but they didn’t fool the people. On the contrary they emphasized the cour- age and conscience of the Democrats and encouraged the voters of the country to repose faith in them. If the Republican majority in the Senate sets itself against the measures which the people want so much the worse for that party and if the President vetoes tariff reform legislation the penalty will be upon his head. Meantime let the Democrats perform ir full duty and they will reap a gener- fous reward. i ——The first snow to amount to any- | thing in this section fell on Sunday. | About six inches of "the beautiful” | covered the streets of Bellefonte but it i was from eight to ten inches deep at places throughout the county. While there was not enough to make good sleighing, there was enough for a good tracking snow and quite a bunch of hun- ters took advantage of it to go after rab- bits. There is one object lesson to be learned from this first snow, and that is the clean pavement question. Not one pavement in twenty was cleaned off when it could have been and the result is they have been covered with ice since, and dangerous to travel. All of last winter many of the Bellefonte pavements were well nigh impassible because of the ice and the proper borough officials should take the matter in hand in time this year and insist on property owners and busi- ness men keeping their pavements clean, in accordance with the ordinance govern- ing the same. Mr. GEORGE W, GUTHRIE. who has been trying for some months to usurp the office of chairman of the Democratic State Central committee, has undertaken to “run with the hare and hunt with the hounds,” an equally impossible venture. Among the first to congratulate RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG upon his election, he also obtruded himself as an uninvited guest at the inaugural ceremonies of the Phila- delphia reform WARWICK. Yet when Mr. BLANKENBURG was a candidate Mr. LIE, their influence was used in an at- tempt to defeat -—The Chicago beef barons are letting no opportunity to delay their trial in the | criminal courts get away from them. Their last trick is an appeal to the Su- preme court of the United States to have the criminal sections of the SHERMAN law declared unconstitutional. Unless the local courts have been fixed, however, that expedient will be brushed aside very speedily. ~ ~The prison commission held a meeting in Harrisburg yesterday but up to the time of going to press it was not i i : Re i ; i i : il talk of and so much need for Fovertument in $0 many allure to Tectpuit She t is for ical and social ie i! E I : i Lh 8 g g g § it : 5 i 7 i gi g - : : Eg i i : g i i g Eras f fh! E g +8 i Fy § E E 2 | z g8 i : : i - FEE ; : g Recently Mr. Taft ind usual luxury of an info! lication, with a Washington ndent. The President wn to be u this interview as it is reported, but with some freedom and candor discussed his various policies and revealed interesting | circumstances surtounding is acts. Thus he told us that his Wi on the tariff was hurriedly com on the train between stations. He also cheerily confessed that when the White House explained the sending of troops to the Mexican frontier as "an army man- euver” is was allowing itself the privilege of official fitbing. Mr. Taft is delightfully ingenuous in his disclosure that there was nobody around to get advice from in the emergency and that he depended on his own judgment. In the light of various events one rather wishes that Mr. Taft had found himself in similar straits often when! there were vital matters up for decision. | If Wickersham and Balli and Wilson and Hilles had been m when Mr. Taft acted in the back-dating of official documents, in the Wiley incident, in the writing of the unfortunate letter Sopyi - ing the insurgents of the benefit of Fed- eral patronage, and if the President had been thrown on his own resources in other instances his administration might : + £: igs § q 7h i iui ld iia8%CEe% hit i it i ! : 3 : : i if i gs } | A AE es AA r less than habitual restraint in| nona speech | papers in three years and turned over to the county four thousand dollars surplus, Schuylkill's Recorder, S. S. Bailev. re-elected, begins an J ootiestic wav term. —~Mrs. Annie Moschgat, aged 32 years, of Johnstown, died recently of rabies. She had been bitten by the family dog six weeks previous, but the wound had been cauterized and danger was not apprehended. —A favorite amusement among Lancaster county hoodlums is to capture and burn smaller boys at the stake. Two suffered that torture recently, one of them, Howard Lesher, being —Under the new school code about 100 State institutions that have been receiving aid from the Commonwealth annually will be obliged to maxe reports to the State board of education and sub- mit to inspection by its agent. ~Ray & Chapman's butcher shop at Munson was entered recenily by burglars. They stol picks from nearby mines and forced open a win- dow. Some meat, two guns and a small amount of small change formed the booty. ~The bursting of a flue in the boiler at the Avis planing mill badly scalded John Aungst and Fred Sasserman, cach about 18 years old. Sasser- man was a visitor and was talking to Aungst, near the boiler, when the accident occurred. —J. B. Shenefelt, of Smithfield, Huntingdon county, an experienced farmer, now retired, raised on two vacant lots next to his residence during the past summer about 375 bushels of mangel wurzels, or sugar beets, for cattle feed. ~It is expected that two thousand farmers, ac- companied by their wives and families, will at- tend the annual State convention of the Pennsyl. vania State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, to be held in Scranton for three days, beginning De- cember 12th. . ~—An event which is heralded with much delight by the stockholders of the African Ostrich farm, of Bloomsburg, was the laying of an egg Thurs- ‘day last by one of the Blue Nile. ostriches... This is the first egg that has been laid by any of the birds. The eggs are worth $50 apiece. ~—Jahn K. Royal, the new Democratic mayor of Harrisburg, announces that he means to permit the present incumbents of the offices filled by appointments of the mayor to remain in office until January 1st, 1912. He wants them and their families to enjoy the Christmas holidays. ~D. E. Notley, of Cherry Tree, Indiana county, was recently defendant in a suit for $12,000. He had signed notes for that amourit io be used in | raising money and had left them in a drawer in 2 Pittsburgh broker's safe. They were stolen and ! turned up in the hands of an innocent party, who i sued Notley and lost the suit. | —The eve of Thanksgiving day in Lock Haven was the first book reception to the Annie H. Ross library. Besides being a largely attended, pleas ant social affair, it netted the library 300 volumes and 875 in cash. A tablet was piaced in memory of Philip M. Price, who founded and endowed Lock Haven’s first public library. ~The decision of the Montgomery couniy court that the funds of the Centennial and Memoria) association of Valley Forge shall be paid to the Valley Forge Park commission, has been appeal ed from by Harry J. Stager, representing the Patriotic Order Sons of America, and will be decided by the Supreme court. The amount involved is over $16,000. —According to a dispatch from Selinsgrove. Mrs. Jane E. Rohrbach, of that place, celebrated the 95th anniversary of her birth by hitting a half dollar with a bullet fired at a distance of fifty feet. The story goes on to say that she does all her own housework, and that her principal use | articleof food is fried potatoes. She drinks a cupful or more of coffee at each meal, but never indulges in fruit and seldom in meat. ~The Lycoming Foundry and Machinery com” pany, of Williamsport, is in receipt of a rare Thanksgiving present, consisting of an order from the Velie company for 1,000 engines, involv. scribers to the fund to cover the outlay necessary for the erection of the new building. ; —If a new movement which is now afoot among several Pittstonians is carried into effect, one of
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