paign expenses both before and after electior and fixed a limit upon the election expenses of United States sen- o ; | Demorral, Paden i Pure Food and Public Health, We reaffirm our previous declara- tions advocating the union and | | Japanese Kitchen. “Would you like to see the kitchen?” the wife inquired. “It is very small Bellefonte, Pa., July 12, 1912. ators and representatives. It has passed a bill to prevent the abuse of the writ of injunction. It bas passed a law establishing an eight hour strengthening of the various govern- 8nd very dirty.” “Indeed, we should,” mental agencies relating to pure foods. || replied, for rarely had 1 been in a quarantine. vital statistics and human | truly Japanese kitchen. The little health. Thus-united and administered | Wife was half right—it was very small, DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. - day for workmen on all national pub- inved 3rd Col.] lic work. hig Shoe tress page hath pe It has passed a resolution which speedily made upon the necessaries of forced the president to take immediate life. Articles entering into competi- Steps to abrogate the Russian treaty. tion with trust controlled products and And it has passed the great supply articles of American manufacture Pills which lessen waste and extrava- which are sold abroad more cheaply A Sabce and which reduce the annual ex- than at home should be put upon the | penses of the government by many mil free list. : Hous of Solas, v recogn system i e approve the measure reported Secu yr Age on 91 tar) the Democratic leaders in the house of with the business of the country, and representatives for the creation of a we favor the ultimate attainment of | council of national defense which will the principles we advocate by legisla: | determine a definite naval program tion that will not injure or destroy le gitimate industry. We denounce the action of President Taft in vetoing the bills to reduce the tariff in the cotton, woolen, metals and chemical schedules and the farmers’ free list bill, all of which were design- ed to give immediate relief to the masses from the exactions of the trusts. High Cost of Living. The high cost of living is a serious problem in every American home. The Republican party in its platform at tempts to escape from responsibility with a view to increased efficiency and economy. Republican Extravagance, We denounce the profligate waste of the money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation through the lavish appropriations of recent Republican congresses. which have kept taxes high and reduced the purchasing power of the people's toil We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which befit a Democratic government and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people for present conditions by denying that | Railroads, Express Companies, Tele- they are due to a protective tariff. We graph and Telephone Lines. take issue with them on this subject and charge that excessive prices result | gang rate regulation of railroads, ex- in a large measure from the high tariff | preg companies. telegraph and tele laws enacted and maintained by the | none jines engaged in interstate com. Republican party and from trusts and | perce To this end we recommend the We favor the efficient supervision | commercial conspiracies fostered and’ encouraged by such laws, and we as gert that no such substantial relief can be secured for the people until import duties on the necessaries of life are materially reduced and these criminal conspiracies broken up Anti-trust Law, A private monopoly is indefensible end intolerable. We therefore favor the vigorous enforcement of the crim- inal as well as the civil law against trusts and trust officials and demand the enactment of such additional leg- islation as may be necessary to make it impossible for a private monopoly 'gjon of our banking laws as will render | treaty with other powers. to exist in the United States. valuation of railroads, express compa: pies. telegraph and telephone lines by | the interstate commerce commission, | such valuation to take into considera | tion the physical value of the property. the original cost, the cost of the pro duction and any element of value that will render the vaination fair and just Banking Legislation, . We oppose the so ealled Aldrich bill or the establishment of a central bank. and we believe our country will | be largely freed from panics and con | sequent unemployment and business | depression by such a systematic revi { temporary relief in localities in which without partiality to or discrimination against any school of medicine or 'sys- tem of healing, they would constitute a single health’ service," not subordi- nated to any commercial orl'fingneiet interests, but devi t<qiere "vo produce the conservation oi'r)aviop. ficiency. Moreover, “ils! more largely | should co -urvpenn yountries than in agencies o.'l 11 =hunid receive more cities, with ution here Seed for the prerogatives «1+ be sown at the sme individuals to 'ibage.—National Stock | hygienic ai wer | Tnelaw FOR COW BUYERS. ! jce should ees . | forced, to t ° Avoid if One WiGhe, i» | ity shall be YP 2 Dairy Herc, ine. { ment and pro an “Bail epan serve | ice rendered to a political party, and | we favor a reorganization of the civil | service, with adeynate compensation | commensurate with tue class of ‘work | performed, for ail officers and- em- | ployees: we also favor (ue extension | to all classes of civil service e.pivyees | | the benefits of the provisions of the i | employers’ liability law, '"'¢ We also recognize the right of direct | | petition to congress by employees for | the redress of grievances, The Philippines. We reatfirin the position thrice an | nounced by the Democracy in national | convention assembled against a policy | of imperialism and colonial exploita | tion in the Philippines or elsewhere | We condemn the experiment In im ! perialism as an inexcusable blunder | which has involved us in enormous ex- | pense, brought us weakness instead of ! strength and laid our nation open to | the charge of abandonment of the fun. | damental doctrine of self government. | We favor an immediate declaration of | the nation's purpose to recognize the independence of the Philippine islands | as soon as a stable government can be established, such independence to be | tion of the islands can be secured by In recog { nizing the independence of the Phil | We favor the declaration by law of | such relief is needed. with protection | ippines our government should retain the conditions upon which corpora: | grom control or dominion by what is | Such land as may be necessary for tions shall be permitted to engage in interstate trade, Including among oth- | We condemn the present methods of | ! depositing government funds in a few | ers the prevention of holding compa- nies of interlocking directorates, of stock watering, of discrimination in price and the control by any one cor poration of so large a proportion of any industry as to make it a menace to competitive conditions. We condemn the action of the Re- publican administration in compromis- ing with the Standard Oll company and the tobacco trust and its failure to invoke the criminal provisions of | the anti-trust law against the officers of those corporations after the court had declared that from the undisputed facts In the record they had violated the criminal provisions of the law. income Tax and Popular Election of Senators. We congratulate the country upon | known as the money trust. ! favored banks. largely situated in or controlled by Wall street, in return | for political favors, and we pledge our | party to provide by law for their de- posit by competitive bidding in the | banking institutions of the country. | national and state, without discrimina- | tion as to locality, upon approved se- curities and subject to call by the gov- | ernment. “Waterways. We renew the declaration in our last , platform relating to the conservation + of our natural resources and the de | velopment of our waterways. The | present devastation of the lower Mis | sissippi valley accentuates the move | ment for the regulation of river flow by additional bank and levee protec the trinmph of two important reforms | tion below and the diversion, storage demanded in the last national platform | and control of the flood waters above —namely, the amendment of the feder- | and their utilization for beneficial pur- al constitution authorizing an Income Poses in the reclamation of arid and tax and the amendment providing for | swamp lands and the development of the popular election of senators—and | Water power instead of permitting the we call upon the people of all the. states to rally to the support of the! pending propositions and secure their | ratification. { Presidential Primaries, The movement toward more popular government shonld be promoted through legislation In each state which will permit the expression of the pref- erence of the electors for national can- didates st presidential primaries, Campaign Contributicns. We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of a law prohibiting any corporation from contributing to a campaign fund and any Individual from contributing any amount above a reasonable maximum. Term of President. We ravor a single presidential term end to that end urge the adoption of an amendment to the constitution mak: ing the president of the United States ineligible to re-election, and we pledge the candidate of this convention to this principle. Democratic Congress. At this time, when the Republican party, after a generation of unlimited power in its control of the federal gov. ernment, is rent into factions, it is opportune to point to the record of accomplishment of the Democratic house of representatives in the Sixty- second congress. We indorse its ac- tion, and we challenge comparison of its record with that of any congress which has been controlled by our op- ponents. We call the attention of the patriotic citizens of our country to its record of efficiency, economy and con- structive legislation. It has among other achievements re- vised the rules of the house of repre- sentatives so as to give to the repre- | sentatives of the American people freedom of speech and of action in ad- Tt has required the publicity of cam- floods to continue, as heretofore, agents of destruction Post Roads, We favor national aid to state and ' local authorities in the construction and maintenance of post roads, Rights of Labor. We repeat our declarations of the platform of 1908. We pledge the Democratic party, so far as the federa! jurisdiction extends, to an employees’ compensation law providing adequate indemnity for in- jury to body or loss of life Conservation. We believe in the conservation and the development for the use of all the | pecple of the natural resources of the | country Our forests, our sources of water supply, our arable and our mineral lands, our navigable streams and all the other material resources with which our country has been se lavishly endowed constitute the foun- dation of our national wealth. Such additional legisiation as may be nec- essary to prevent their being wasted or absorbed by special or privileged interests should be enacted, and the policy of their conservation should be rigidly adhered to. Agriculture. We believe in encouraging the devel opment of a modern system of agricul ture and a systematic effort to improve the conditions of trade in farm prod- ucts so as to benefit both the consum- ers and producers. And as an efficient means to this end we favor the enact- gambling in agricultural products by organized exchanges or others. Merchant Marine, We believe in fostering by constitu. tional regulation of commerce the | conling stations and naval bases. The Russian Treaty. We commend the patriotism of the Democratic members of the senate and | house of representatives which com- | pelled the termination of the Russian ! treaty of 1832. and we pledge ourselves | anew to preserve the sacred rights of | American citizenship at home and | abroad. No treaty should receive the sanction of our government which does not recognize the equality of all of our citizens irrespective of race or creed and which does not expressly guaran tee the fundamental right of expatria- tion. Parcels Post and Rural Delivery. i We favor the establishment of a | parcel post or postal express and also tem as rapidly as practicable Pensions, We renew the declaration of our last platform relating to a generous pen: sion policy. Rule of the People. We call attention to the fact that the Democratic party's demand for a re turn to the rule of the people express- ed in the national platform four years ago has now become the accepted doc trine of a large majority of the elec tors. We again remind the country that only by a larger exercise of the reserved power of the people can they protect themselves from the misuse of delegated power and the usurpation of governmental instrumentalities by spe- cial interests For this reason the na- tional convention insisted on the over throw of Cannonism and the inaugura- tion of a system by which United States senators could be elected by di- rect vote. The Democratic party of- fers itself to the country as an agency through which the complete overthrow and extirpation of corruption, fraud and machine rule in American politics an be effected. Expensive Dowries in India. The custom of extorting dowries has grown into the very fabric of the social life, and is a standing disgrace to the Bengali community, which has no justification to plead or apology to offer. The practice has now as- sumed alarming proportions of parents of boys extorting costly dowries as a condition of marrying their sons. The marriage of a daughter among Bengalis has become an expensive af- fair, and the amount in cash demanded by the father or guardian of the boy, and paid by the father or guardian of the bride varies with the education attainments of the bridegroom. The Indian Daily News published a few: days ago a piteous appeal from re- spectable Hindu parents of dowerless daughters.—Indian Nation. New Disease in Washington, An epidemic of “cashitis,” a new malady attended by vertigo, sharp headaches and stiff necks, and caused by eye strain in the glare of sunshine and electric lights on piles of new gold and silver coins, has broken out among treasury clerks in Washington, and has resulted in the establishment of an emergency hospital room in the treasury building. Weather Test. A red sunset foretells dry weather because it indicates that the air to- ward the west, from which rains are generally. expected, contains little moisture, | guaranteed by us until the neutraliza- | the extension of the rural delivery sys. | being four by eight feet, but it was j act very dirty. In fact it was spot- lessly clean. There was no range and no oven. In their place were two plaster contrivances of one hole each | Into which were poked short pieces of wood or charcoal and on top of which vere placed the pots and pans. In a small cupboard containing a few | shelves and a couple of drawers were | used for serving the meals and the few pots, pans, spoons and knives for ! cooking and preparing the food. There ! were no chairs or table, as the Japan- ese sit on their heels when doing kit- {chen work. The maid, squatting be- | for one fire-pot, was watching the rice | boiling for the evening meal. When the fire flagged she brightened it by | slowing through a bamboo tube or fan- ! ning it, and cll the while she fed it | with faggots about as large as a lead { pencil.—Exchange. { Milk Sold in Blocks. The markets of Irkutsk, in Siberia, I are an interesting sight, for the prod- { acts offered for sale are in most cases frozen fish. Fish are piled up in | stacks like so much cordwood, and | meat likewise. All kinds of fowls are { similarly frozen and piled up Some | animals brought into the market | whole are propped up on their legs | and have the appearance of being act- | sally alive, and as one goes through the markets one seems to be sur ‘rounded by living pigs, sheep, oxen land fowls standing up. But, stranger | | vet. even the liquids are frozen solid and sold in blocks. Milk is frozen in- ito a block in this way, and with a | string or a stick frozen into and pro- | jecting from it. This, it is said, is, | jor the convenience of the purchaser, | who is thus enabled to carry his milk | by the string or stick handle. ' | Good Piano Playing. In a very interesting article on piano | paving in the Woman's Home Com- panion the author reports as follows the views of Leschetizky, the greatest | teacher of piano in the world: “When 1 was studying with the great master. | he pointed out to me the importance | of musical expression in the following way: He called my attention to the fact that one person, for instance, may { tell you a tale in such a way that you { find little in it that is interesting, | whereas another person may tell you | the same story in such a manner that | you follow every word with the keen- est attenticn. The secret of interest lies not only in the story, but very especially in the voice, the tone, the expression—in the manner of telling. All this is interpretation. A careless por dull piano student may play even | some exquisite melody in such a way {that it does not attract you at all, | Wiorens an artist's playing of it may | bring the tears to your eyes.” | Gum and Bacteria. | There have been reported to the Royal Society of New South Wales the results of an investigation of the surious role played by bacteria in the formation of various vegetable gums. The action of the bacteria appears to be more complex than might have been supposed. There ape, for in- stance, two kinds of gum arabic; one soluble in water, the other insoluble, and the investigations of the New South Wales experts show that they are produced by two distinct kinds of bacteria. By the cultivation of suit able species of bacteria it is possi- ble to augment the production of gum by certain trees. Under ordinary cir cumstances some species of gum-mak- ing bacteria live and multiply, with- out the preduction of an appreciable amount of gum, but the product is markedly increased by furnishing tan- | nin to the micro-organisms.—Harper's Weekly. | ~There are many good newspapers published, but none that is quite as good as the DEMOCRATIC WATCHMAN. Try it. | the cups, bowls, chopsticks and trays Your Suit for the.. SUMMER Can be Bought Best AT FAUBLE’S Just See Us and you will know WHY. FAUBLES. Yeager's Shoe Store Fitzezy The Ladies’ Shoe that Cures Corns Sold only at Yeager’s Shoe Store, Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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