9 Deora ada. | i i 1 — i —If the Colonel were still President | we know that DAVE LAMAR would be in- | jtiated into the Ananias club instanter. | —Judged from their demeanor in the | Fourth of July parade there are no Belle- | fonte suffragettes with PANKHURST | ideals. i —In seven years, they say, we will | have a saloonless United States. Then we will probably have “moonshine” all the time. —Talking about a safe and sane Fourth, Bellefonte was all to the good so far as safety was concerned, but it drove nearly all the little folks crazy—with delight. —The landing of a big trout from Spring creek, anywhere between the falls and BEEZER'S garage, can attract acrowd quicker, by far, than a fire or a dog fight ever did. —A man who had served as a witness in court at Norristown, Pa. fifty-three years ago only appeared to collect his witness fee last week. And his name was WINTERS. "—They don’t use stoves for cooking in Ecuador because the native cooks aver that the heat causes fever. Forthat rea- son, the native Ecuador chef must be a fireless cooker. —All of them may not want to, but it certainly looks as if women who can get up such a parade as Bellefonte witnessed on the Fourth of July, certainly ought to have the right to vote. —The temperature this week has been fine for hay making and harvest but the rain maker has spoiled everything by taking advantage of the cool weather to work overtime on his job. —Congress is still in session and we fancy that some of the statesmen are be- ginning to realize that the job of serving the dear people these hot days isn’t all that it is cracked up to be. —When thieves fall out honest men come by their dues, but LAMAR'S revela- tions of how they do things in Wall Street are not going to replace the wool on the backs of the shorn lambs. That is gone forever. —When an opportunity to hear a man with a world-wide reputation like Judge BEN LINDSEY presents itself no one should fail to grasp it. He will be in Bellefonte next week and the opportuni- ty is here for everyone within the county. —The new game law has prohibited turkey hunting for a period of two years. Turkey trotting will henceforth have to furnish the amusement for the fellow whe rambled over the mountains with a gun on his shoulder in quest of the bird with the modern dance step. —JoHN D. ROCKERFELLER wore an over- coat to church on Sunday. Ordinarily this would be remarkable in the face of such extremely high temperature as was recorded all over the country on that day, but JorN D. has become so coid blooded pushing up the price of oil that he doesn’t get as hot as those of us who have to pay for it. —The Bulgars, the Greeks, the Ser- vians and the Turks are fighting again with the possibility that the most of con- tinental Europe may eventually be drawn into the conflict. The map is being changed every day as the fortunes of war fall with one army or the other, so that it would be well to cut out the stu- dy of geography until the disturbance is over. —Secretary BRYAN is to change his Commoner from a weekly to a monthly publication. He finds his time too much occupied with mixing grape-juice cock- tails and other affairs of state to grind out the usual grist of copy every week, besides, we have a sort of a sneaking no- tion that a good many of his cannon have been spiked by his acceptance of a cabi- net portfolio. —Pennsylvania was scandalized by the adulterations in her magnificent capitol building, but be it said to her credit that there was no sand in the sugar, nor peb- bles in the coffee served the old soldiers at Gettysburg. Reports from those who have returned from the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic engagement bear testimony to the su- perb arrangements planned and car- ried into execution for the comfort of the men of the South and North who met there in such a spirit as could never be displayed by the peoples of any other nationality on earth. —While the operatives of certain east- ern railroads are voting to strike for higher wages it ought not to be out of place for the owners of certain roads to strike for something in the shape of div- idends. Take the Erie for example. It has never paid a cent on its capitaliza- tion of $176,000,000 and yet its employ- ees are voting to strike for more wages while its stock holding owners are ex- pected to give up all hope of ever getting any returns on their investment in order to satisfy the demand. On the one hand the government compels the company to maintain a certain expensive condition of efficiency and safety. On the other, the employees consume all the earnings in wages. And the capital invested comes out of the little end of the horn. It seems that the time for reason to prevail is at STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 58. BELLEFONT®: Colonel Mulhall’s Statement. There is nothing new in the statement | made by MARTIN M. MULHALL, of Balti- : more, the other day, with respect to the : activities of the National Association of Manufacturers, in politics and legisla- tion. It has been accepted in Washing- ton as a sensation and would be startling if most of the things had not previously been known. But as a matter of fact ever since WILLIAM M. SPRINGER, of Illi nois, was defeated for Congress in 1884 by the corrupt use of money, raised most. ly in Philadelphia, the National Manu- facturers Association has simply been a fountain of corruption out of which has come a deluge of boodle subscribed for the purpose of debauching elections. Mr. MULHALL has been for many years the “field agent” and Washington lobby- ist of the association. Speaking of its work the other day he said that it had helped to defeat Congressmen who had opposed the interests of manufacturers. That it had spent thousands of dollars to elect Congressmen who would support such interests. That it influenced the placing of Congressmen opposed to labor reform legislation upon committees in which such legislation was considered. Finally, he said, the association ‘had used great efforts to secure the establish- ment of a federal tariff commission in 1908 as a means of delaying tariff revis- jon.” What close observer of public af- fairs didn’t know all these things? Presumably what startled Washington in Mr. MULHALL'S statement was the ref- erence to TAFT, DALZELL, SHERMAN, Sen- ator LODGE, of Massachusetts, Senator NELSON, of Minnesota, ex-Speaker CAN- NON and other Senators and Representa- tives in Congress, past and present. He described them as “men whom the lob- byists of this association had no difficul- ty in reaching for business, political or sympathetic reasons during recent years.” But why should that startle official Washington? These facts were frequent- ly discussed in public places. No recent scandal has been developed that didn't bring Senator LODGE into view. Nobody ever imagined that TAPT changed his mind on the PAYNE-ALDRICH tariff for his health. Of course thi$ voluntary statement of Mr. MULHALL will add interest to the pending investigation of the lobby be-’ cause it will necessarily widen the range of inquiry and may compel some of the “malefactors of great wealth” to tell out of their own mouths some of the elector- al crimes they have committed in order’ to prolong their franchise to loot the public through tariff robbery. But there will be nothing new even in such narra- tives. There may be a few who didn’t know because they didn't want to know. But every thoughtful man who has watched the progress of events for the past quarter of a century understands that tariff taxation has been maintained by corruption of the basest sort. Wilson’s Currency Message. The novelty of the President's appear- ance in Congress to read a message was absent on the occasion of the readirg of his currency message the other day but the incident was quite as impressive as on the previous occasion. Both the Sen- ators and Representatives listened to his arguments with the most profound atten- tion and it may safely be predicted that future annual messages and such special messages as relate to subjects of great importance will be delivered to the Con- gress in that way. It adds to, rather than detracts from, the dignity of the oc- casion, and makes a deeper impression on the minds of Congress. This second message to Congress of President WILSON was even more brief than the one which had preceded it but was more impressive. In language of the most forceful character the President brought to the minds of those concerned, the urgent necessity of immediate action and it may be predicted that however anxious Congressmen and Senators are to return to their homes, there will be no adjournment until the business in hand has been disposed of. A message delivered in the way which has been cus- tomary for many years would probably have failed of that important effect. The earnestness would have been absent. The President’s purpose is to hasten relief from the burdens of the high cost of living. The decrease in the tariff rates would have achieved that result but for the obvious purpose of the special interests to retard its operations by manipulating currency and credits. The passage of the pending currency bill will prevent the operations of such a conspir- acy. It will wipe out the money trust and give commerce the full benefit of its release from tariff bondage. We sincere- ly hope that Congress will expedite the passage of the bill to the end that prices will decrease and commerce expand. —==Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. If the Legislative investigation contem- plated in the resolution introduced by Senator SNYDER, of Schuylkill county, during the last night of the session is pursued to the end, there may be some interesting developments. It had been charged that some of the principal sup- porters of the Child Labor bill were se- cretly working for the defeat of that measure under the direction of HENRY G. WassON, Mr. FLINN'S chairman of the Republican State committee. Mr. Was- SON, according to rumors current in the corridors of the Legislature, was operat- ing through Representative WALNUT, au- PA: JULY _J\l1 1013 mp— . - | Investigation that May Prove Interesting. Bright Future of Democracy. Our esteemed Philadelphia contempo- rary, the Record, finds great hope in the new primary election act. “On the face of it,” says our contemporary, “this is a most desirable reform.” It abolishes the old convention system and invests the people with the power of making nomi- nations both for public and party offices by direct vote. In other words it puts the question of party control directly up to the people. This, our esteemed Phila- delphia contemporary declares, “ought to be particularly gratifying to honest Democrats and honest Yet it is of record that on the last day of the session A. MITCHELL PALMER issued Republicans.” | investigation will fully expose both sides 'to a conspiracy to stifie reform legisla-|4h¢ party is not strengthened. The real ' for this purpose and even though the con- thor of the bill. The plan was to re- ' fuse agreement to any concessions offer. an address to the Democrats of the Gen- | ed by the Senate conferees. | eral Assembly, imploring them to defeat | For some time it had been suspected the measure. He didn’t want that kind that the FLINN forces in the General As. | of reform. ! sembly were concerned more in making | The esteemed Record draws its hopes | political capital for use in future cam- | from the conditions practically certain to paigns than they were in securing reform | obtain if the bill is approved by the Gov- | jegislation. In this matter, moreover, ernor. For Senator in Congress the Re- | they were assisted by Democratic State publicans will have a candidate, the chairman GUTHRIE and Congressman A. | FLINN contingent a candidate and the | MITCHELL PALMER, both of whom tried | Democrats a candidate. The same di- | to defeat the Primary elections bill and | vision of forces will occur with respect | other electoral reforms. As late as the | to the office of Governor. Out of this | morning of the last day of the session | confusion the Democrats ought to ome | Mr. PALMER issued an address to the | first in both cases. It is true that in the | Democratic Senators and Representatives | Presidential election of 1912 ROOSEVELT | imploring them to defeat the Primary | polled a larger vote than WiLsoN. But elections bill unless it was restored to the Democratic candidate for President the form in which it originally passed the | fell 100,000 votes below his party strength, House. Such action would have been for the reason, mainly, that the mana. fatal. gers of the Democratic campaign were It is about time that the false pretens- | looking to their own aggrandizement es of these political pirates, masquerad. | rather than to the success of the party. ing as reformers, be exposed. WiLLiAM | PALMER, GUTHRIE, BLAKESLIE, BERRY FLINN, of Pittsburgh, never had an inter. | and other factionists got offices, but the est in reform legislation except in so far | party got a slump. as it helped him in his political ambitions, | We agree with our esteemed Philadel Mr. GUTHRIE and Mr. PALMER engaged | Phia contemporary, however, in its hope- in a piratical movement to reorganize | ful view of the future party prospects. the Democratic party for the selfish pur- But the victory which it anticipates can- pose of securing political favors for them- not be achieved by “rough-housing” selves. That they have succeeded better | those faithful Democrats who unselfishly | than FLINN is attributable to the fact maintained the party during the long | that they worked more industriously and | period of its adversity. Because MITCH- had greater opportunities. It is to be ELL PALMER has the ambitions of a CAE- hoped that Senator SNYDER'S proposed sAR and VANCE McCoRrMICK has the aims and employs the methods of a CROMWELL ocrats of the State must be consid- ered in order to create the harmony which is essential to success. No doubt the appointment of GUTHRIE, BLAKESLIE and BERRY is gratifying to many but it won't create the enthusiasm which is necessary to restore the party to the strength it had when the Old Guard was in control. tion for personal reasons. —Former Congress FOWLER, of New Jersey, is cock sure that the country will go to the “demnition bowwows” in the event the pending currency bill is passed. Mr. FOWLER is equally confident that he isthe only man on earth who really un- derstands the financial question. ——The fraternal gathering of soldiers in blue and in grey at Gettysburg pre- sented quite a contrast to the meeting of the same men upon the same field just half a century ago. But what is better it revealed the marvelous magnanimity of the men on one side and the splendid | patriotism of those on the other. Such a thing has never occurred before but for that matter no such people as the Ameri- can people, North and South, ever ex- isted before. | ——After those enterprising citizens | have succeeded in raising a monument to ROOSEVELT for pulling off the deal by which the Steel trust absorbed the Ten- nessee Coal and Iron company, it will be | in order for some fellow to start a move- | ment to create some token of admiration | for the late Mr. ISCARIAT on his achieve- | ment in getting away with those thirty | pieces of silver. ~——LOWERY HUMES is also throwing | bouquets at himself on account of the achievements of the Legislature. But if Jack FLINN and a few other real Demo- crats had not been both vigilant and courageous there would be little for Mr. HUMES to brag about. —If it turns out that the estate of the late CHARLES T. YERKES is bankrupt, as seems possible, his widow has had a “corking” good time on nothing for a considerable period. EE — —Next week, Chautauqua! — ~——Thursday, July 31st, at Lakemont Park, Altoona, Pa., the annual Method- ist reunion will be held. Sermon, 11 a.m. by the Rev. John D. Fox, D. D., of Har- risburg, Pa.; afternoon platform meet- ing led by secretary Robert Forbes, D. D.; evening meeting a fine musical. Excur- sion rates and trains; see the notices at depot. Ample provision made by the churches for checking baskets, etc., and to serve meals and refreshments. Rev. C. C. Shuey and W. T. Twitmire, of Bellefonte, are members of the reception committee. ——Frederick D. Kroft, a Pennsylvania railroad brakeman, was brought to Belle- fonte on the 1.23 train yesterday after- noon to be taken to the hospital for an beginning to end he held the TENER ad- operation for bowel trouble, but died ministration under the ropes and got | when the ambulance was in sight of practically everything he demanded, institution. . The Extra Session Problem. Governor TENER has announced that the matter of assembling the Legislature in extraordinary session depends upon the result of the vote on the constitutional amendment authorizing the borrowing of money to construct highways. Under present conditions no debt can be created stitutional amendment is adopted in No- vember, the money which it provides for road building will not be available until specifically appropriated by the Legisla- ture. Unless there is a special session the TENER administration will have pass- ed into history before the money can be appropriated. And, as a matter of fact, the TENER administration wants to handle that money. There is really no urgent reason for expediting this operation. After the elec- tion in November little if any roadbuild- ing operations will be possible this year. In fact little progress could be made in road construction before May of next year. But the TENER administration isn’t half as anxious to build roads as it is to repair political fences and by call- ing an extra session of the Legislature soon after the result of the vote on the constitutional amendment is ascertained a vast amount of party fence could be put in repair with the graft from the road fund during the campaign of 1914, when TENER'S successor will be chosen. The constitution imposes upon the Legislature the duty of re-apportioning the State into Judicial, Congressional, Senatorial and Legislative districts at the session immediately following the decennial census. The adjourned Legis- lature neglected to perform this consti tutional duty because the Republican machine and BiLL FLINN didn’t want re- apportionments. This failure will be made the excuse for the extra session, however, and though there will be no re-apportionments there will be legisla- tion to transfer the road building fund into the custody of the Highway Depart- ment which has become the nursery of political intrigue. —0f course Senator VARE is pleased with the work of the Legislature. From NO. 27. er pi ————————— i Working Same Old Lie. From the Johnstown Democrat. ic history seems perfectly justifiable to men in the service of law-defying cor- porations and criminal trusts. But we it as such a scandalous insult to the intelligence of the ple that they would never resort to anything like i Fridently we have the executive sessions held by ocratic members of the committee during the present session. A political pany must be in desperate straits when it feels compelled to resort to such and contemptible subter- fuges. But such political trickery is played out. It has overworked the tools of the predatory interests. It cannot fool the people any longer. The ty for the legislation by the present Congress rests on the Democrats and they must meet it in their own way and by their own meth- The blicans need g fio concern ves. e country repudiat- ed them entirely, consequently not the Shightesy responsibility devolves upon em. i TS Statesmanship as She is Practised. From the Chicago Public. A proposition entirely without merit is | the one that would arm the President with authority to raise tariff rates on importations from countries refusing to enter into reciprocity deals with the United States. ile President Wilson can be trusted to refrain from harmful use of such power, the conferring of it upon any individual is wrongin ple. Countries which levy on American products injure own citi- zens far more than they do American roducers. American consumers are in- wy far more hal oe foreign produc- ers by a high tariff on foreign products. Reciprocity in tariff matters is not so much an agreement between two nations to do each other good as an agreement on the part of each to refrain from doing harm to its own citizens, The proposi- tion for retaliatory duties amounts to this: That should some foreign ment lay taxes on its Gizens, the President of the United States will be empowered to lay equally heavy taxes on us. We agree to be wise and just if ' other nations will be so, and we threaten to match their folly and injustice with folly and injustice of our own. Yet we have grown-up men holding seats in Con- gress who call such childish nonsense “statesmanship.” Prose Poem in Harvest Time. From the Kansas City Journal. It's harvest time, and o'er the land the reaper’s music rises. Cavorts the gentle harvest hand in daily exercises. hile yet the mantle of the night upon the country hovers, and everyone is sleeping tight (although not under covers), the farmer rises to invoke the goddess Ceres's blessing, and urge upon the women folk to hurry with their dressing. He gives the team their breakfast grain before the sun has risen, and hastens to the house n to put the hooks to his'n. Indeed, while luna’s shining still, with weaker light but kinder, he prances down the dewy hill and hitches to the binder. And then, before the sickle’s wrath submitting mute and c, the proud wheat falls, the shocks arise like mag- ic. The sun mounts high; the horses bow their heads, but never falter; the living sacrifices now they are on Plenty’s altar. The long, hot oven of the day in endless fury blazes; it crackles, blisters, boils away, demoralizes, dazes. Ah, what a toll of ache and sweat each broiling, bak- ing minute! I sing the harvest field, you bet, but you won't catch me in it. Post and His New Place. From the Springfield Republican. The journalism of economic and polit- ical in America loses a character in the acceptance of the - t Secretary of Labor SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Richard Miiliner, a well known Blue Ball merchant, a few davs ago lost his pocketbook, containing $1,000. Fortunately for him, an hon- est man picked it up. =Almost 100 hogs of the herd at the Danville State hospital have died recently of cholera and State officials of the livestock board have been directing the hnmunizing of those remaining. —Investigation of alleged pollution in Du- Bois's water supply showed unheaithy practices along the tirbutaries to the reservoir. These have been discontinued and thetown will be all right now. —Six Williamsport people who had been ex- posed to small-pox contagion by being at the same hotel with the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus people who afterward developed the disease, are under strict observation. —Clifton Enterline is in the Adrain hospital, seriously, but not fatally wounded. He was call- ed bya policeman to help arrest two men who were disturbing a street carnival at Yatesboro and was shot by one of them. —Andrew Kinter, an experienced electrician, while working on a light pole in Blairsville some- how let his leg come in contact with a live wire. He was resuscitated after three hours hard work and taken to his home in Kintersville. —The injunction asked to make the contract given the Raystown Water Power company to light Huntingdon void has been refused by Judge Woods. He is not convinced that the town needs protection against the Raystown people, S$. B. Pittman, stopping at a Johnstown hotel, pushed his bed to the window on account of the heat. Then he tried to get out of bed, and stepped out of the fourth-story window, landing on a shed roof. He was but slightly hurt. —Avery Oyler, aged 27, of Windber, visiting friends at Echo, was about to take a bath in the Conemaugh when he slipped from a log into the stream and was drowned. His wife was a wit- ness to the accident. The body was taken to Windber. —A meeting of tlic State Armory Board will be held in Erie on Wednesday to consider a num- ber of applications for armories. The Legisla- ture this year appropriated $700,000 for armor- ies, but the bill has not yet been approved by the Governor. —There are several cases of small-pox at Meyersdale and an epidemic is feared. The dis- ease was brought to the town by a Cumberland railroader and he had visited a number of fam- ilies before the nature of his affliction was diagnosed, ~The joy ride of Henry Hook Jr., a Hunt- ingdon colored lad who borrowed an auto with- out the owner's permission, resulted in a re- formatory sentence for him. Charles Port, the lad with a mania for stealing bicycles, goes to Glen Mills. —Annie Henry, aged 9 years, was sewing on a machine during a thunder shower at her home near Salem, Clearfield county. Other members of the family were thrown to the ficor by a blind- ing flash and when they recovered the girl was found dead. —From present indications the crop of chest- nuts in this section will be unusually la next fall, judging bv the appearance of the trees at present. Notin years were there so many blos- soms on the trees and, as a rule, the trees appear to be very thrifty. —Some one is forging the name of T. H. Har- ter, of Loganton, to checks. A month or more ago a check for $80 came from Pittsburgh and recently one from Philadelphia for $50 was de- clared by Mr. Harter to be a forgery. The guilty party has so fur escaped. —Clarence Moyer, a Steam valley farmer, died at the Williamsport hospital of wounds inflicted some tine ago by Edward Stiger, a neighbor. The men had quarreled while under the influence of liquor. Stiger, who has been in jail since the crime, will be tried for murder. —Malcolm Hudson, the 14 yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F, Hudson, of Jersey Shore, while stealing a ride on a freight train near Black" wells, slipped and fell underneath the wheels, crushing his foot and cutting it so badly that it had to be amputated an inch above the ankle, at the Jersev Shore hospital. —During a recent electrical storm at Osceola, two boys about to enter the Orthodox Greek Catholic church, for the afternoon school session were struck by lightning. George Postihach, was instantly killed and John Guzak was revived with great difficulty. He is badly burned. Sev- eral others were shocked, but not dangerously. ~Williamsport boys who threw torpedoes at the motor chemical fire truck as it was going to a fire are badly wanted by both police and firemen. The explosives struck the sides of the machine, bursting and throwing stones and powder into the faces of the firemen. One narrowly escaped losing an eve. Lights on the car were put out. —Charles Austin. aged 12 years, started from Philipsburg a few evenings ago for his home at Clearfield. He fell asleep on the train and did not waken until it reached Grampian. The lad was thoughtful enough to try to telephone his parents, but failed and they were in anxiety until next morning when he took the first train for home. —On and after July 1st, ordinarv postage stamps will be valid for postage and insurance on parcel post matter, and distinctive parcel post stamps shall be good for all purposes for which ordinary stamps are valid. The issuance of parcel post stamps will be discontinued by the postoffice department after the stock now mn hand is exhausted. —Clearfield county was hard hit by recent eleetric storms. For the second time a barn on the Bloom farm, near Curwensville was burned. The homes of J. R. Ogdenand C. B. Metcalf, at Clearfield, were struck. At the latter a bed was torn up and a lamp broken. At Mahaffey a mov- ing picture show tent collapsed while full of people, all of whom escaped without injury but soaked by the rain.
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