TD emoreatic, Watcwant | BY P. GRAY MEEK. ——————————————— INK SLINGS. —During the summer of 1913 council | should try to pave that section of Bishop | street between Allegheny and Spring. —Everything thus far reported from Washington indicates that WILSON is the President and proposes to continue on the job. —1If OLNEY is appointed Ambassador it may be accepted as evidence that the MonRrOE Doctrine will be enforced with- out too much expense. —Hay that sold for twenty-six dollars aton a year ago is down to twelve now. Thus the cow and the horse enjoy the first fruits of the labor to reduce the high cost of living. —It is beginning to look as if the only hope of the Regular Democrat getting a job must be predicated on the eventuality that enough Reorganizers can't be found to fill all the vacancies. —The way the Reorganizers are crowd- ing around the federal pie counter makes it look as if the poor old Democraticjparty in Pennsylvania will have to lookout for ‘itself, if they all land the jobs they are after. tis surprising the number of men who are turning up in the various De- partments in Washington who have been Democrats all their lives, but were merely keeping quiet because it was the better policy. —Mrs. PANKHURST has broken down physically and while the English people probably won't wish her any bad luck they certainly can’t be censured for hop- ing that her convalescence will be pro- longed indefinitely. —Really, we're not expecting very much from Congress until our friend Col. WARREN WORTH BAILEY, of the Johnstown Democrat, gets his feet tuck- ed under one of those mahogany desks and gets his eye on the indicator. ~The new administration has been running along smoothly for ten days and unless some little slip is made soon some of our Republican friends will surely bust. They are entirely too heavily charg. ed with “I told you sos” to stand it much longer. —A Texas inventor is about to puta wind plow on the market. He claims that it will cut a ten inch furrow with nothing propelling it but wind, but he doesn’t explain where the wind is to come from if a purchaser should desire to plow on a calm day. ~The next time that argumentative friend of yours refers to that old favorite of his about the minister's sons usually being the bad boys of the community, just tell him that three out of the last seven Presidents of the United States have been minister's sons. —One of the disadvantages of living in a small town is thatall of your friends eventually get into the grocery or insur- ance business. Then youv'e got to eat yourself to death to make good with your grocery friends and get even with the ones you had to take insurance with. —There are to be no wines or liquors on the White House tables while the WiL- SONS occupy that establishment. Vice President MARSHALL and his family and Secretary of State BRYAN and his family are also teetotalers. Now what in the world do you suppose those foolish tem- perance folks were running CHAFIN for last fall. —Now what do you suppose the ned Secretary of State said to the old assist- ant Secretary when he found out the nice little ride he was taken in that Mexican matter. We fancy that had MR. STRAUSS been a little mouse in the cor* ner and heard it all he would have with- held some of that recently published ex- altation of Mr. BRYAN as the world's greatest peace advocate. —Mr. JAMES I. BLAKESLIE, secretary of the Democratic State committee, has been appointed fourth Assistant Post- master General, and the papers tell us that Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE is booked ‘by President WILSON for an Ambasszdor- ship in Europe. Both good selections for the Pennsylvania Democracy. And if Mr. WiLsoN will only send two or three more of the chronic kickers, who parade them- selves as “re-organization leaders,” out of the State there may be an opportunity for peace within the party, and for its or- ganization to amount to something. —Some years ago Bellefonte amateurs gave a continuous performance show that started at three o'clock in the afternoon and continued, without intermission, until ten at night. The thought was that in order to see the entire performance patrons would go in and out several times during the afternoon and evening, thus increasing the revenues two or three hundred per cent. It was a failure. Most of them took lunch boxes, paid the one admission and sat in the opera house from three in the afternoon until ten at night. We know that many of those same people are living in Bellefonte now and inasmuch as one of our local church® es had a seven hour continuous prayer service on Monday we just naturally got to wondering how many who had sat in that opera house for seven straight hours some years ago to save twenty cents sat in the church on Monday for seven hours, the saving of their souls probably being the stake. CITOCT -— RD STATE RIGHTS AN am D FEDERAL UNION, VOL. 58. BELLEFONTE, PA. mon fi Governor Tener’s False Premise. the nominal duties of two or more offices | and drawing double salaries and the pur- i pose of the investigation was to ascer- tain the facts. In pursuance of this ob- | ject some of the officials were subpoened to testify. The Governor instructed his | Secretary, who is among those accused, to ignore the process. Subsequently he supplemented this action by a letter to | the House committee lecturing that body for its impertinence. | In his letter the Governor quotes copi- | ously from the constitution. It provides, | as he states, that the executive power is | vested in the Governor; that he may re-| quire information in writing from the of- ! ficers of the executive department and that he shall, from time to time, give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Commonwealth. Then he adds: “The same fundamental princi- ple in our organic law which exempts the Governor and his subordinates, while en- gaged in performing the duties pertain- ing to their respective offices, from the subpoena of the judicial department of the State government, likewise exempts the Governor and his subordinates from the compelling power of a subpoena of an investigation committee created by a resolution adopted by one branch of the General Assembly.” But the Governor's analogy is faulty. The judicial department of the govern- ment has no control of the purse strings of the State and nothing whatever to do with the fiscal affairs of the administra. tion. On the other hand the Legislature has all power over the purse and all to do with the fiscal affairs of the adminis- tration. If the House of Representatives knows or even imagines that the funds of the people are being wasted, it not enly has the absolute right to stop the waste but it is‘miorally obliged to do so. The General Assembly, and particular- ly the House of Representatives, is the instrument of the people to conserve the public interests and husband the public resources. In the manipulation of offices so that officials are getting more for serv- ices than the law contemplated, the pub- lic interests are subverted. The Legislature might, in the exercise of its power of inquiry into the opera- tions of the executive department of the State government, do some harm. That is to say it is conceivable that an expos- ure to public scrutiny of some public acts of the executive department might de- feat meritorious purposes. But that would be possible only in rare and grave cases. There is certainly no public peril in the exposure of such petty graft as is involved in the subject of this inquiry. Besides if it is a mistake the mistake is one of the representatives of the people, in their capacity as agents of the people, and the people have a right to make mis- takes. Moreover the Legislature can en- force its mandates by refusing to pay the excessive salaries. —--State College anticipates another big building boom the coming summer. Quite a number of new houses have been contracted for and the University club have plans complete for a new twenty- five thousand dollar building. The College is asking fora large appropriation for new buildings and there is every probability that they will get some if not all of it. The new seventy-five thousand dollar federal building will also be started this year, so that all told hundreds of thous- ands of dollars will be spent there in building operations during 1913» ——President WILSON in putting a lot of our Democratic “kickers” on the gov- ernment pay rolls and sending them out- side the State is doing much more for the peace of the Democracy of Pennsyl- vania and the good of its organization than he may imagine. He may not be adding much to the efficiency of the pub- lic service, but he is giving a chance for harmony in the party that otherwise would be impossible and for which the real Democrats of the State are profound | ly grateful. ~=In accordance with the recommen dation of the State Railroad Commiission the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania company has arranged for a rate on lime of five dollars a car from the Empire Lime company’s plant east of Bellefonte to the Pennsylvania railroad junction at Bellefonte. Heretofore the has been thirty cents a ton. EE ~The parcel post has proved its value but it will be worth more when it is made cheaper and more liberal. Mr. Bryan’s Hopeful Note. Governor TENER has formally served | No note has come from Washington ! ! notice on the House of Representatives since the inauguration of President WiL- ©f Washington, and incidentally those of of the General Assembly at Harrisburg, |soN with a wholesomer flavor than is | the entire country, an interesting job that it has no business to interfere with contained in the assertion of Secretary of | Jot of surprises. His inaugural address his affairs. The House has instituted an State BRYAN that “for three quarters of Was quite different from that of some of inquiry concerning employees of the Ex-| a century the MONROE doctrine has been | his predecessors and the announcement ecutive Department. It had been alleg- | a shield to neighboring republics and yet that the consideration of applicants for ed that certain persons were performing it has imposed no pecuniary obligations office will not be allowed to interfere with upon us.” What Mr. BRYAN meant by that is that the MONROE doctrine is to be construed literally. In other words it means what JAMES MONROE intended to convey to the world which was that no European intervention would be tolerated on this hemisphere and that the govern- ment of the United States would not in- terfere with the domestic affairs of any other country in the world. During the administration of THEO- DORE ROOSEVELT an attempt was made to misinterpret the MONROE doctrine. Mr. ROOSEVELT asserted that it involved the government of the United States in an obligation to police the western hem- isphere, collect the bills of other govern- ments and individuals against govern- ments and individuals of that hemisphere and make our government a sort of guarantee for the payment of al! bills due from the South American Republics to everybody else in the wide world. Mr. BRYAN'S statement means, if it means anything, that the policy of our govern- ment on this subject is to be reversed and that is a subject for felicitation throughout the country. It is a sort of lifting of a black cloud. The government of the United States has no reason, either in political morals or international comity, to act as a police officer in South or Central America. It is bound by the provisions of the MON- ROE doctrine to forbid the intervention of any European government in the do- mestic affairs of any of the Southern Re- publics which have declared their inde- pendence of Spain or any other European power. But it equally obligates the gov- ernment of the United States against in- tervention with the affairs of European or Asiatic powers within the geographic- al limits of such countries and the state- ment of Mr. BRYAN may justly be inter- preted as meaning that obligations upon all sides are binding. ——No doubt President WiLsoN will take part in the formation of legislation he is confronted by a perplexing and prob- | leges which but it is a safe bet that what he does will be within his constitutional rights. There will be no trading patronage for support of pet measures during this administra- tion. President and Congress Agree. It is gratifying to learn that President WILSON agrees with the Democratic lead- ers in Congress on the proposition that the paramount question to be consider- ed during the extra session of Congress is tariff reform and that no other subject ought to be introduced to complicate or confuse that question. No doubt that the worst which has been said of the ex- isting financial laws and system is true and that the necessity for currency leg- islation is present and pressing. But the one question which demands immediate legislative attention is the tariff and we sincerely hope that nothing will be allow- ed to prevent its consideration promptly and conclusively. The matter of the high cost of living is directly affected by the tariff laws. Every article which enters into the daily life of the people is increased in price, directly, or indirectly, by tariff taxes. The tariff tax on woolens, cottons and even food stuffs, adds to the market value of those products and there is no reason in law or morals why such an addition should be continued. The policy of the Democratic majority in Congress is to remove this burden and nothing should be allowed to interfere with the immediate application of this policy. The consideration of fi- nancial legislation would necessarily have this effect and consequently should be avoided. As the esteemed New York World re- marks: “One Thing at a Time.” During the special session the tariff question should receive all the attention of Con- gress. Even with such contentration of effort a considerable time will be required to cover all the schedules of a tariff bill and it would be a calamity to delay the completion of the work by introducing other and irrelavent questions. Fortu- nately there is no danger of this result now that the President and the leaders of the Democratic party in Congress are in agreement. The tariff legislation will be disposed of firct and the financial re- forms may await until the regular session or until another special session is called. —]f PALMER, BLAKESLIE and GUTH- RIE are “taken care of” as reports indi- cate they will be, VANCE McCoORrRMICK will have a kick coming. He will be the only one of the “reorganizers” to go with- out reward for perfidy. the performance of his more important public duties, literally took the breath of most of the office-hunters away. But the most startling as well as the most gratifying departure from recent presi- ' dential practices was revealed in the manner in which he spent the first Sun- day of his official residence in Washing- ton. | During THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S incum- bancy of the White House the Sunday worship of the Chief Magistrate was almost as spectacular as a circus parade. Besides a military aide in uniform he was attended to and from the church by half a dozen or more secret service offi- cials and a detail of policemen on motor- cycles. President TAFT modified this ex- hibition in some measure but continued the military aide and the police detail. On Sunday the WiLsoN family attended church as any American family might going to and from the house of worship in the family automobile without attend- ' ance of any kind of official ostentation. | This is precisely what should be ex- pected of an American President. ROOSEVELT introduced the system for | his personal protection. Being a moral ! and physicial coward he imagined that 'every man he met on the street had homicidal designs upon him. As a mat- ter of fact this was a deliberate insult to every American citizen. There may be cranks, here and there, as there have been, who would murder a President, but they are few and easily avoided. The President of the United States is in no more danger of personal injury on the streets of Washington or any other city than the average business man. To act | upon a different idea is an aspersion upon the character of all the people and a ic proclamation that we are a na- I It is President WILSON’s rnisfortune that at the outset of his administration | ably dangerous state of affairs in Mexico | However careful he may be and however capably he may handle the situation, it is difficult. But he will master it in the end. He is certain to make the best pos- sible out of a bad condition. He will bring order out of chaos, give the Mexi- cans what is believed to be best for them | and violate no principle of international | justice and no tradition of our own gov- ernment worth preserving. On the other hand what a picnic this | Mexican imbroglio would have afforded | RoosevELT if he had been elected last! fall? He would have met the conditions | like a swash-buckler administers justice | and already the country would have been involved in war with a helpless and mis- | guided people. Thousands of lives would | have been sacrificed to his inordinate | lust for blood and justice would have | been outraged in every possible way. The very thought of what might be ! makes the heart sick. He would have | seized Mexico as he did the canal zone! and let Congress debate the question afterward. | The American people can contemplate | the danger which is before the President | with anxiety but in confidence. We will have no war with Mexico and there will | be no conquest of armies or territory. It may be that the revolutionists will be | compelled to abandon their present pur- | poses and it is possible that another | President will be called to service. But whatever happens the ends of justice | will be conserved, the interests of the people maintained and the finger of scorn | will not be pointed toward Washington | by the civilized world. | ——Silk hats are to be out of favor in official Washington, it is said, and cabi- | net members will adopt the style of hats they have been used to wearing at home. | Yet it would be worth a trip to Washing- ton to see WILLIAM JENNINGS in a “top- per.” —We will soon know exactly what sort of legislation will be considered dur- ing the coming extra session of Congress and meantime we are permitted to hope that it will be limited to tariff reform. —Ambassador WILSON in Mexico may have “put one over” on Secretary of State BRYAN, but it won't get him much. The distinguished Nebraskan has a hab- it of resenting sharp practice. —The waiter may be able to tell by the way you order whether you are ac- customed to it, but he can’t make an es- timate on the tip until after the check has been paid. ! f MARCH 14, 1913. a” NO. 1]. : Se ee ————— i” President WILSON is giving the people Prous the Hacvisverg, StarTadependont FE i g 5 23 i 2% : : iF il £3 = 83% F : ¥ £ | 8 g 22 = g g g i il i : I : EES il [zd ie | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Scarle’ ‘everis in serious form in Cambria amy. There have been six deaths at Lian. —Latrobe’s new steel company has placed orders for its electrical equipments and the con- tract for the fire proof building will be let in a day or two. —Vintondale has had 125 cases of measles in a little over a week. One death has occurred. New cases are being reported daily and public places are closed, —Middle Taylor township, Cambria county, supérvisors were sued in court for $20,000. Annie Daugherty, daughter of James Daugherty, was thrown from the carriage while attending a fun- eral, ~At the session of the United Evangelical con- | ference in Lewisburg, Rev. W. E. Detwiler ad- dressed the conference, it being the semi-centen- * | nial of his ministry. During these fifty years he has been out of his pulpit but five Sundays on ac count of illness. —A Lycoming county jury acquitted Donald Strebleigh, charged with killing Augustus Upde- graff on December 23rd, 1912. Updegraff was trying to steal chickens at Strebleigh's home, near Montoursville, when the latter fired, with. out intent to kill. John O. Keeler, of Clearfield, under sentence of death for murder, will apply for a commutation of the death sentence to imprisonment for life at the next meeting of the Board of Pardons. Keeler was convicted of murdering the owner of the Clearfield brewery without any just provocation. ~Clothing and other articles valued at $200 were stolen from Robley's laundry, Huntingdon, early Thursday morning of last week. The goods had all been washed, ironed and done up in bundles, ready for delivery and the thieves must have had a wagon to get away with their booty. —Eleven children are orphaned by the death of George Hackett, killed by the falling of a piece of iron weighing a ton at the Standard steel works, Burnham. He was 47 years old and the accident that caused his death was the fourth that had befallen him during ten years in that department of the plant. properties. He had $200 with him when he started and friends are fearing foul play. —Twenty-one men are under arrest—two out One wel! that started at fifteen barrels a day soon fell off to less than half a barrel. No. 2 was worthless and No. 3 is a small producer. The five billions. Trust of which Mr. tionably the head. constitute the foundation of Trust also. There are some auxiliary rivileges besides contained in ating to bank w serve to give the M ditional power, but ures would help but little the monstrous fundamental privilege, monopoly of natural resources, upon which other monopoly er is based. The way to destroy is clearl trusts w! First of all land monopoly must be stroyed. This can best be done through the gihgie tax That, Soil not only stroy monopoly, uding monopo- ly of franchises, but all the privileges conferred by tariffs and other unjust tax- es. The Trust will necessarily come to an five when the trusts wh have combined to form it have been de- stroyed. Tenure in Office. From the Pittsburgh Post. Secretary of State Bryan presents his opponents a juicy morsel for speculative comment by intimating that his tenure of office may be brief. take it as a sign that there will be an early break in the cabinet. Mr. Bryan's words cannot be construed as meaning anything of the sort, and if any qualifications were need- ed it is to be found in the last sentence of the address in which he expresses the hope that he will be able to introduce the heads of the various bureaus to his successor amid the same delightful scenes that Mr. Knox had introd him. new | State. At its longest the tenure m be construed as brief, though should hold the office through two ad- ministrations. Republicans, however, are looking for straws. They grasp this Soe Wiis Jidiy Sud uae bo hey t is Re Ale me that he Projdent ind My. Siva 15% It is well known that when Mr. Bryan talks he says something, and therefore it is in order to expect that every utterance that he makes will be analyzed by the mischief-makers. i I : arm, replied that and an than touch a drop of it. In a few minutes his heart ceased to beat. Maurey had never touched a dropin his life. He was twenty-three years old —Fighting a big brown bear with a poker, Miss Lillie Baker, teacher of a school near Sharon, managed to keep the vicious brute off until her pupils crowded into an anteroom. Then making a dash behind desks, she managed to reach the room herself before she collapsed. A party of men hunting the animal which had escaped from a cage en route to Youngstown, released the prisoners. —Lewistown's truant officer made seven arrests of parents a few days ago. One man was too sick to appear and one woman was discharged. She had made a great resistance and was landed in jail until her daughterscame and paid the fine and costs. One man chose to spend the five days in jail and the other four paid their fines, There will probably be less truancy in Lewistown for a time. : —Samuel A. Keagle, convicted of second de- gree murder for the killing of Norman P. Hill, and recommended by the jury to the mercy of the court, was sentenced by Judge Whitehead at Williamsport on Friday morning to not less than four years nor more than six years in the eastern penitentiary, in solitary confinement, with hard labor. The maximum sentence that can be meted out to a man convicted of second degree murder is twenty years. —William M. Lloyd, former treasurer of North. umberland county, is charged with the em- bezzlement of $24,453.99 from the funds of that county. The warrant was issued on February 27th. Monday morning, of last week, his deputy, Mark L. Swab, was arrested charged with abet- ting the misdemeanor. The warrant issued against Lloyd had not been served. From pres- ent indications he is a fugitive from justice. He is not to be found at his regular habitations and no word can be learned of his whereabouts. lived in that city for the past two years. Mr. he | Burrows was born at Montoursville, Lycoming county, in 1840. During the late fifties, he cross- ed the Allegheny mountains in a Conestoga wagon and started farming in Illinois. When the Civil war began he enlisted and rose to rank of first lieutenant, finally becoming mental adjutant. At the close of the war went to Williamsport, Pa., and remained until two years ago. —The plant of the William Penn Limestone company at Milroy was badly wrecked on Mon. day. A battery of biastshad been put in high up on the face of the cliff and when the dynamite Tris f
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