‘officially closed yesterday. Heroes in-
ssmumerable were made in the College
—Sunday said “Swastika!” to Indian
summer and started right in to do a
—Chewing gum, a pinch of soda or!
pepsin will probably relieve that Thanks- |
giving feeling you have today. :
—The scent of the browning buck-
wheat cake is the lure that tempts many a
man from his warm nest these mornings. |
—Get the bills for the Thanksgiving
dinner paid right away, else the little
folks won't have the kind of a Christmas
they deserve.
—We have failed to note the enthu-
siastic approval of the Harrisburg Patriot |
of the proposition to give Mr. BRYAN a
place in the WILSON cabinet.
—Violet is the mourning color of Tur-
key. Violet, you know, is a bluish pur-
ple color. The Balkan allies are putting |
the blue in the Turkish mourning just
now.
—If a real European war comes out of
the Balkan troubles there will be a lot of
near soldiers on the other side trying to
convert their side whiskers into side-
wheelers.
—A man who has been big enough to
be President of our big United States
ought certainly to be big enough to take
care of himself without being CARNEGIE
libraryized.
—Not all the hogs in this community
have the cholera. Some of the species
are suffering with a tightness around the
heart that stands in the way of the prog- |
ress of our community.
—The University of Southern California
having instituted a chair of automobile
science we may look for a motor, soon,
educated way beyond the ignorant habit
of quitting miles from home.
—The one ineffacable memory that
ANDREW CARNEGIE will leave will be that
money talks. Can you recall anything
that the great iron master has ever done
that has not been emphasized into great-
n ess by United States steel bonds.
~The war talk in Europe may be
without foundation in fact but it will serve
the purpose of the American jingoes in
Congress and we can easily imagine
RicHARD Pierson HoBsoN howling for a
dozen battleships during the coming ses-
sion.
—Except for the Army and Navy game
tomorrow the 1912 football season was
gridiron firmament and, fortunately,
fewer cripples than usual are left to carry
their scars through life.
—Hoot Mon! If I fix up the ex-Presi.
dents with the income from steel bonds
the ex-Presidents will surely see that
nothing is done to impair the value of
steel bonds before they become ex-Presi-
dents. The Laird of Skibo is certainly
trying to put the “Kibosh” on the gov-
ernment.
—JAY E. House remarks that “in mak-
ing up your list of martyrs to duty do
not overlook the woman who bends over
the red hot stove three times a day.”
Martyr she is, but an altogether unnec-
essary one. What of the man who has to
buy the coal to keep the stove red hot
three times a day and what are fireless
cookers on the market for.
—Penn State is going to ask the next
Legislature for $590,000, solely for the use
of the School of Agriculture. What the
rest of the budget will be is merely con.
jecture. The entire bill will probably
run well above a million dollars. It re-
mains to be seen what the much vaunted
progressive Legislature will do with this
wonderfully progressive institution of
learning,
—Those Philadelphia suffragists are
arguing for the right to vote on the state-
ment that it cost only four cents a vote
to carry Kansas. Such a statement will
act as a boomerang sure. If the ladies
put the price down to that figure surely
the old election day regulars who have
been drawing down from two to five dol-
lars ever since they were twenty-one
years old won't stand for the admission
of a cheap class like that.
— Aside from the possible loss of con-
trol of the United States Senate through
the death of Hon. ISADOR RAYNER, of
Maryland, the Democracy of the country
will mourn the sad eventuality because
it has removed one of the ablest ex-
ponents of party doctrines. Brilliant
and incorruptible, profound and far-
seeing, Senator RAYNER was one of the
country’s really great legislators. His
death is a double misfortune to the
Democracy for he will be needed in the
next Congress more than any in which he
served,
—A Spokane man has sued his physi.
cian for damages because he did not die
after the doctor had told him he would.
Believing that there was no chance for
him to survive the patient sacrificed his
property in order to meet certain obliga-
tions before death and now that he is
well and unhappy again he has brought
suit to recover for his losses. It will be
an interesting case, to say the least, but
dangerous should the victim win. For if
this physician gets soaked for not making
good when he told the man he would die
what chance will there be for other sick
men in the same predicament who really
The Financial Problem
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE: PA JSOVFVMBER 201919.
Mr. Carnegie’s Pension Scheme.
NO. 47.
Will Pennsylvania Ratify?
Various esteemed contemporaries Secretary of the Treasury MACVEAGH The press of the country has fitly re- From the Johnstown Democrat.
within and without the State, in mak- | uttered a great and grave truth when he sented the impudent proposition of ' If the coming session of the Pennsyl-
ing cabinets for President-elect WiL- said the other day, that existing condi- ANDREW CARNEGIE to pay out of his Y2nia Legislature
SON, suggest the names of Hon. A. tions place “in the hands of the Secretary private charity a pension of $25,000 a'
MiTcHELL PALMER as Attorney General | Of the Treasury a power greater than year to ex-Presidents of the United
and Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE as Secretary | any American should have.” In other States. It wasa rather ingenious :
of Interior and one New York paper, the | Words under our fiscal policies the Sec- to form a partnership
, suggested Mr. VANCE McCog- | retary of the Treasury may create panics ment upon which his
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phy 47. SugBested Mr the office of ' at pleasure and has absolute power to have been set. His last proposition in’
Secretary of the Navy. Just why these : control interest rates and make currency this direction was to take
| gentlemen are considered for such public Plenty or scarce. The process is to re-
service has not been stated by any of the duce or enlarge bank deposits of govern- National university, its endowment
with the government in establishing a |
papers responsible for the fact. Mr. | ment funds. In proof of his proposition to be predicated upon Steel trust bonds, |
PALMER has acquired some distinction as he cites the fact that during the panic of of which he has a great quantity. Of
a Representative in Congress mainly for | 1907 the government deposits in fbanks course the proposed Presidential pension
the reason that he electioneered himself A friendly to the interests amounted to $256,- would be drawn from the same source
into a seat in the House committee on 000,000 while three years later they were and either scheme would make the gov-
Ways and Means. But we have not |
heard of any great service either of the |
others has performed for the party or
the country.
It may be presumed that the gentlemen Steel trust. Through connivance with from office. But those which are inclin-
are a oe responsible for the asso- Mr. ROOSEVELT'S Secretary of the], Treas- ed that way favor a government pension
ciation of their names with the offices in | Ur, during a brief period previous to rather than a private or personal annual
question, and it is possible that they im- |
agine they have earned the distinction |
implied by their services in “reorganiz- |
| ing” the Democratic party in Pennsylva- |
nia and conducting the campaign for the
election of Wooprow WILSON. But in|
bbing Il the honorary offices that | holders of Tennessee Iron and Coal se- simply conjuring evils that are improbable | and
gras BE a ary preliminary | curities and forced them to sell in order if not impossible. With the present Presi-
campaign, that is during the period pre- | to save themselves from ruin. After the dential salary, and it will never be de-
vious to the nomination of the candidate
for President, they were fairly well re-
warded for that work. Mr. PALMER had
himself appointed member of the Na-
tional committee and Delegate-at-Large
to the Baltimore convention; Mr. GUTH-
RIE secured his own appointment as
chairman of the State committee, Dele-
gate-at-Large to the National convention
and chairman of the delegation and Mr.
McCorMICK catapulted himself into the
National convention as Delegate-at-
Large.
These were generous party favors be-
stowed upon gentlemen and for what?
They did reorganize the party with the
skill and deli that a drunken black-
smith might ex ‘in repairing a watch
and they conducted the campaign with
about the measure of success which at-
tended the efforts of Admiral CERVERA
in conducting the Spanish fleet out of
the Havanna harbor, into which it had
been enticed during the Spanish-American
war.
They had to start with a practically
united and harmonious party. They had
a candidate more popular with all classes
of Democrats than any the party has
had ina half a century. They had a
hopeful army of voters to command.
They had a broken, divided and discour-
aged enemy to contend against. They
told us they had all the money they need-
ed and were so sure that they could com-
mand all that would be required, that
they went into the campaign promising
$100,000 to aid the fight in other States
and produced less than one twentieth of
it. They spent $35,000 contributed by
Democrats of the State on the distinct
and positive promise that they had so
“re-organized” the different counties
that WiLsON was certain to secure a plu-
rality of the vote with its thirty-eight
votes in the electoral college.
And what then?
With all these assurances and promis-
ing conditions they got to the polls for
the Democratic nominee-Wooprow WiL-
SON-11,983 votes less than was given
HANCOCK thirty-two years ago; 51,014
less than CLEVELAND had in 1888; 56,645
less than he received in 1892; 31,507 less
than BRYAN had in 1896-when there was
a PALMER-BUCKNER professed Democrat-
ic ticket in the field,~with both Mr. GUTH-
RIE and Mr. MCCORMICK supporting it;
28,613 less than Mr. BRYAN received in
1900; and 63,173 short of the vote given
Mr. BRYAN only four years ago.
Really, when one gets his glasses wip-
ed off and has a square vision of the re-
sult, for which our Pennsylvania lead-
ers(?) are now demanding these cabinet
positions, (in addition to the places the
party has given each of them,) he is con-
strained to wonder if some people under-
quisition as political modesty.
A ——
——Of course it would be improper
subscribe money to be used in
juries in the dynamiting cases or
other cases. But there can be no
objection to a movement among
workingmen of the country to pay
legitimate expenses of the defense in
cases now on trial in Indianapolis,
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use in wasting time and energy upon
might want to live?
work that will not be effective.
reduced to $4,000,000.
As a matter of fact this was a part of
the program in the absorption of the
Tennessee Iron and Coal companylby the
the taking over of the Tennessee com-
pany the funds of the government were
sequestered in the vaults of the treasury
until money became so scarce that the |
MORGAN banks easily controlled it. Then |
they refused accommodations to the
sale had been completed the treasury.
funds were released to the extent stated
by Mr. MACVEAGH., Obviously it was a!
That such a thing ought to be impos- |
sible is certainly true. That they will be
possible until our banking and currency |
laws are altered, is equally obvious. But
the remedy is not in the currency com- |
mission's plan of creating a central bank. |
That would simply transfer the perilous |
power from one source to another less |
amenable to popular control. The ALD-|
RICH plan would invest the central bank
with authority to expand or contract the |
volume of currency and it may safely be
said that MORGAN, ROCKEFELLER and !
their banking associates would see
the central bank authorities would be
responsive to their wishes in the matter, '
The financial problem must be solved in
a safer way.
—We agree with the esteemed New
York World that the cost to the govern.
ment of the franked political literature
which helped elect Woobrow WILSON
was worth all it came to. But the coun-
try would be better off if the “franking
privilege” were cut out altogether and
parties as well as individuals were com-
pelled to pay postage on all matter sent
through the mails.
The Coming Legislature.
There will be no test of strength be-
tween the PENROSE and FLINN forces in
the Legislature at the opening of the ses-
sion, according to the political dope bul-
letins being issued by both sides. It was
expected that the vote on the Speaker-
ship would reveal the “master of ceremo-
nies” for the session. But this expecta-
tion is to be disappointed, for the reason,
mainly, that neither PENROSE nor FLINN
can command a majority of the Repub-
licans in the House. Mayor MAGEE, of
Pittsburg,holds the balance of power, the
figure men now declare, and he will be
for the side that offers him the greater
return for the use of his dummies. Ma-
GEE is a past master at political dealing.
The inference to be drawn from these
facts is that the next Legislature will not
be much different from its predecessors
under the control of the Republican
party. The session of 1905 was probably
the most unsavory in the history of the
State but upon its reassembling in spe-
cial session in 1906, after a scourging at
the polls, it repealed some of its own
bad laws and enacted some measures
tending in the direction of reform. Pos-
sibly the session of 1913 will enact some
of the measures promised in FLINN'S
platform, but it is a safe guess that there
will be greater effort to entrench the ma.
chine than to serve the people. Mr. FLINN
is not likely to let the reform spirit get
beyond his control.
The State gains nothing by the trans-
fer of power from PENROSE to FLINN.
There is no sincerity in FLINN'S profes- |
sions of reform. He may deem it ad-
visable to pass some bills which the people
want and for which the Democrats have
been striving for years, but there will be
serpents in some and jokers in others
and in the end the advantage to the
people will be nil. In this estimate we as
sume, of course, that FLINN and MAGEE will
enter into a "traffic agreement,” if we may
so designate it, and that the purpose of
both will be to serve themseives. PEN-
ROSE might not be averse to such an
agreement with either, but will hardly
sound the depths of iniquity to which the
others go.
~Subscribe for the WATCHMAN,
ernment an endorser of the bonds.
We regret to say that all Democratic
newspapers are not averse to the idea of
pensioning Presidents after retirement
donation. They are influenced to this
paternalistic notion by the possible danger
that some ex-Presidents having been ob-
liged to work after retirement others
might not be able to get employment
suitable to their station in life. They are
creased, there is no danger that any ex-
President will ever want.
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE has accumu.
lated a vast amount of bonds, mortgages,
bank and other corporation shares, by
coining the sweat of other men and steal-
ing the proceeds of the operation. For
fifty years he has contributed money, in-
fluence and energy to maintain a system
of taxation which gave to him and his
kind the benefits of government while
shifting the burdens upon the shoulders
of others. Only recently he begun pro-
ceedings to release him from tax obliga-
tions which less ortunate men have to
pay in proportion and by practicing such | Strength
methods all his life he is now able to play
part of Sir Bountiful to men who |
don’t need his help. Out upon such men
and measures.
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Mr. Sheatz’s Curious Idea.
Mr. JounN O. SHEATZ, of Philadelphia,
who has been elected State Senator by
some combination in politics only possi-
ble in Philadelphia, is in the public prints
with a suggestion that primary elections | another.
be made nonpartisan. That is to say he
would have the voters come to the pri-
mary polls and vote for one candidate
on the Democratic ticket, another on the
Republican ticket and if so inclined other
candidates on other tickets. A ticket
thus nominated would be voted for at the
general election in the same way. There
would be no parties and no party organi-
zations but a sort of free for all contest
for all offices.
This would be the fulfillment of the
sceme to commercialize politics. To
make it complete men would have to | iP8 order
abandon party principles and make the
question of electing public officials an
entirely personal or pecuniary one. The
candidate who “is a good fellow” to the
majority of voters would be chosen both
at the primary and general election and
upon his induction into office would be
committed to no code of party ethics
whatever. Every political principle
would be thrown into the discard and
public officers would be absolved from
all obligations except such as they recog-
nize as having been created by the fa-
vors bestowed upon them by the voters
who supported them.
Mr. JouNO. SHEATZ is not made of the
weather than this the time of the year is
here when we cannot expect much of it,
and those farmers who have any corn out
in the field had better get it in the crib
as fast as possible.
~———When you want good JOB WORK
the place to get it is the WATCHMAN of-
fice. You'll find it always right.
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progressive newspapers it
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but it can hardly be hoped that he will
remain so very long.
——For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—DuBois announces that a bottle factory, which
will give employment to 260 men, is assured for
the town.
—Cambria county has on hand three murder
trials, arson, criminal libel and embezzlement
cases as features of the coming criminal court.
—Six horses, a number of hogs ready to be
butchered, and the season's crops, valued at $4,.
000, were lost in a fire that destroyed W. A. Hoff-
man’s barn, near Muncy.
~The school board of Lewistown has refused
to pay its teachers for the two weeks’ time lost
by the diphtheria epidemic. The teachers are
quoting the school code and are not likely to drop
the matter.
~Ten children are orphanded by the death of
Mike Remo, shot six times in front of his home
at Luceme. Angelo Dominick, who shot him, es-
caped. Heis thought by some to have been a
Black Hand gangster.
~Sylvester Myers, aged 93, of Mifflintown, re-
cently took as his bride his housekeeper, Mrs.
Anna R. Mackey, aged 52. He is a veteran of
the Mexican and Civil wars and is as energetic as
many a man at thirty years his junior.
=A brakeman for ust t ree weeks, George
Decker, aged nineteen years stepped off his train
in front of one of the throug, trains near Johns
town. His lifeless body was carried back to Der-
ry, his home town, fcr funeral services.
have held up payment of fees in two cases in
which the coroner deemed inquests imperative.
‘The difference of opinion will be aired in court.
~Robert S. Brouse, aged 28, of Shamokin Dam,
wheeled a tank of carbonic acid gas from a cold
car into a warm wareroom at Northumberland
and was blown to pieces before he could get
away from the steam pipe near which he had
placed it.
—Johnstown police have a mystery in an as-
sault upon Maurice Beerman, who was struck
and rendered unconscious by an unknown assail-
ant as he was about to enter his barn. A passer-
by happened to hear him fall, but his assailant
had escaped.
—The Rev. Charles Oscar Waters, who, until
the last conference was pastor of the A. M. E.
church in Johnstown, has been arrested on a war-
rant sworn out before Alderman M. R. Brennan
charging him with larceny. He was apprehend:
ed in Fairmount, W, Va.
—Fayette township, Juniata county, contributes
two important items to the week's budget. Drill.
ing for oil will begin within the next ten days
near McAllisterville. The Sponhour woolen mill,
closed for several years, will be reopened in the
spring. Fayette township is likely to be busy.
~Mrs. John Aston, of Mt. Carmel, is dead and
her husband is fatally injured as the result of a
collision of their auto with a fast train on the
Reading railroad at Locust Gap, near Shamokin.
. | They had been calling on friends at Shamokin
and were on their way home. The fatal grade
crossing again.
~Somerset county has a great trial list for next
week. Road supervisors of four townships are
charged with neglect of duty. The right of a
brewery to sell and deliver beer is to be settled.
There is a kidnapping case and also a murder
trial, John Mans being charged with killing mail
carrier Brown, near Beachley.
—William Reynolds, of Okome, was left by his
bride to be, almost at the door of the parsonage
in Williamsport. The license had been zecured,
and the time for the wedding was set for two
o'clock. Shortly after lunch, Reynolds notified
his intended wife that he would meet her at the
parsonage. He waited in vain.
—Surrounded by mortages and securities worth
$33,000, Mrs. Lulu Waslee, aged 45, of Philadel-
phia was found dead after a seven year's debauch.
Investigation into the woman's history revealed a
sordid tale of degradation. Twenty years ago
. | the woman had been a Germantown belle. She
was twice married and twice divorced.
Just a moment after Mrs, J. H. Cummings.
with a baby in her arms, had passed an outside
. | door at her home in Punxsutawney, abullet came
through the door and crossed to the opposite
wall. The shot is supposed to have been a stray,
but had the woman passed the door a moment
later the effect would not have been less disas-
trous
—Having procured a bottle of bed bug poison
and drinking a portion of the same Friday even-
ing, while his mother went to answer an agent's
knock at the door, little William Hudson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hudson, of DuBois, died
Saturday morning, the efforts of the physicians,
who were immediately called to save the child's
life, proving futile.
—The Ebensburg Coal company has obtained
options on about 3,000 acres of coal lands lying
north of Ebensburg and it is expected a deal will
be closed for their purchase before the options
expire December 15. The tract in question ad-
joins other holdings of the company and is being
surveyed. The option price is said to be in the
neighborhood of $85 an acre.
—Charles Shunkwiler, a well known citizen of
«-Lock Haven is excited over the fact that a
hair snipper is at work in the town. Within
past few weeks four young girls discovered
their return home from one or another of
play houses of the city that they had been
of their plaits or curls. The thief seems
managed to get behind the girls and carefully
snip their tresses without attracting attention, so
that the loss would not be discovered until they
reached home.
—When she saw a little girl playing on the rail
road tracks close to her home near Sunbury
Wednesday, Miss Marie Everett seized a :loth off
the dinner table, and running out to the tracks,
frantically waved a signal to the engineer. The
engineer applied the brakes and reversed his
comotive, It came to a standstill with the
its
lease the company paid him $3,000 and will get a
deed for the siding ground. Heck said that he
got paid at the rate of $25.000 per acre for his
—A new railroad, 26 miles in length, from
Marklesburg to Paradise Furnace, in Huntingdon
county, will soon be in operation. It will extend
ard guage. It will be known as the Pennsylvania
in the new company, which is financed largely
by Lock Haven and Williamsport men.