TD emoreatic, Watcwant
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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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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.
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STATE RIGHTS AN
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VOL. 58.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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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.
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~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.
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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.
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constitute the foundation of
Trust also. There are some auxiliary
rivileges besides contained in
ating to bank
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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
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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.
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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
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