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—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-
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| 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.
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—Next week, Chautauqua!
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~——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.
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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.
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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.