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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Secretary BRYAN has cancelled his
Kansas Chautauqua engagements and is
back on the job in Washington.
—During a recent visit to Philadelphia
Congressman A MITCHELL PALMEP
actually made goo-goo eyes at CHARLEY
DONELLEY,
—Probably so many joy riders wouldn't
come to grief if the driver's arms were
long enough to reach the wheel after
encircling the girl's waist.
—*Live and let live” may be a very i
old and all-right motto in most parts of
the world, but it don’t seem to have
gotten even a foot-hold yet down in
Mexico.
—All honor to the gentle women of
the Chicago Woman's club who think
that the slit in the skirt “has gone far
enough.” If it should go much further
why the skirt at all?
—Ambassador WILSON might get a job
as master manipulator for CiP CASTRO,
That is if our Representative in Mexico
has anything in his diplomatic repertoire
that Cip isn't already acquainted with.
“—Deep sea fishermen are said to re-
gard it as an omen of rare good luck if a
fly happens to be drowned in anything
they are about to drink. We land lub-
bers regard it as rare good luck if we
find the fly before we drink it.
—The financial philosopher who, cen-
turies ago, declared that a “fool and his
money are easily parted” must have had
a clear vision of the automobile and an
intimate knowledge of some of the fel-
lows who would try to run them.
—Anyway, if there has been a revolt
in Washington against grape juice
diplomacy it is decidedly complimentary
to Secretary BRYAN. We don't believe
there has been a revolt, because there
has been nothing to revolt against, but
the very suggestion of the thing admits
that the Secretary is a leader.
—Four Members and one Senator of
the West Virginia Legislature have been
sent to prison for five years and dis-
qualified for life from holding any public
office merely because they accepted
bribes to vote for a certain person for
United States Senator from that State,
Isn't it awful, MABEL. Soon there'll be
no chance for a politician to make an
honest living at all.
—If the “Beast” succeeds in working
the recall on Judge BEN LINDSEY, of Den-
ver, it will prove a most serious set-back
to the propaganda that is spreading
through the east for the referendum and
recall. If it could be used only against
bad officials it would be allright, but the
recall isa two-edged sword that a ma-
chine could invoke against a good offi-
cial, as well as the people can invoke
against a bad one.
~Auditor General POWELL may
imagine that he is doing a wonderful
thing in holding up payments for state
road work on a technicality, but it looks
as if his efforts to save at the spigot will
result in losses at thebung. The cost of
re-organizing the scattered forces that
were at work on state roads will be con-
siderable. And after the Auditor General
becomes tired of his new toy he will be
directed to make the payments and the
taxpayers will suffer the consequences of
his attempt to play to the galleries.
~The action of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission in cutting down ex-
press charges will meet with general ap-
proval. With the overhead charges of
the big express companies being re-
duced by increasing business, better
organized, there was no reason, other
than extortion, to keep pushing the rates
up. Packages that once were carried
from Philadelphia to this place for twenty-
five cents cost forty now, yet the cost of
handling them to the company is not as
great as when the lower price was
charged. |
—When the Assessor comes round to
ask you what ticket you purpose voting |
next fall don’t get funny with him. The |
new primaries act requires him to do it
and if you don't answer the question
there may be no ballot for you to use
when you attend the primaries. Every
time the Legislature meets the State
pokes its nose a little further into the
individual's business, but that is prin-
cipally because the State wants to pro-
tect itself against the individual whose
businessit seems to be to violate the
laws of the State.
—We can see no good reason why
council should give an EXCLUSIVE fran-
chise to operate a motor bus line on the
streets of Bellefonte to anyone. In the
first place municipalities are taking a
very different view of the value of fran-
chises than was held years ago, when
every city and borough was prone to
give away for nothing something of very
great value. Everywhere street car,
lighting, telephone, telegraph and water |
corporations have grown rich through
such gratuitous franchises while the mu-
nicipalities that have made their success
possible have been wholly at their mer-
cy. Mr. RERICK has quite as much right |
to appear before council and ask for the |
EXCLUSIVE franchise to carry passen-
gers on the streets of Bellefonte in his
hay-motor and council would be quite as |
fair in granting the one franchise as the
other. |
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Turn Ambassador Wilson Out.
| Senator Penrose’s Mythical Bogie.
!
Mr. HENRY LANE WILSON, Ambassa- | Senator PENROSE is going to have al
dor to Mexico, has set up a new stand-
ard in official life. Having become an
ardent supporter of President HUERTA,
he has undertaken to force the govern-
ment at Washington to recognize that
usurper’s title to the Presidency. He
first laid his plans before the President
and Secretary of State, and failing there
appealed to a committee of the Senate,
the Republican minority of which gave
him much encouragement. He practical-
ly admitted that he had notgiven the ad-
ministration full information with re-
spect to conditions in Mexico, and Sena-
tors “expressed amazement” at this fact,
according to the press dispatches. But
he said that HUBRTA is in sore straits,
financially, and couldn’t borrow money |
because of the failure to. recognize him.
One source of surprise contained in
the Ambassador's statement to the Sen.
ate committee was a new version of the
death of President MADERA and vice
President SUAREZ. Both of these gentle-
men had to be disposed of to give HUER-
TA a chance for the Presidency. At Hu-
ERTA'S instance they were arrested and
imprisoned in the palace. At his in-
stance, subsequently, an order was is-
sued for their removal from the palace
to a military prison, and while they were
being transferred they were murdered.
This murder created a vacancy which
HUERTA at once occupied. But Ambas-
sador WILSON protests that the murder
was not perpetrated or procured by Hu-
ERTA. Other enemies who had no mo-
tive other than revenge were the das-
tards, according to HUERTA'S friend, Am-
bassador WILSON.
The proposition that HUERTA resign
the Presidency in order that the taint of
suspicion might be removed from the ti-
tle was promptly and indignantly reject-
ed by the usurper who evidently likes
the job. . But he can’t run the govern-
ment without money and can’t get the
money unless his government is recog-
nized by the government of the United
States and therefore Ambassador WIL-
SON imagines that it is the duty of Presi.
dent WILSON to close his eyes to the mur-
derous incident which preceded HUER-
TA'S elevation and provide him with
means and opportunity to commit other
atrocities. . But this-is not likely to hap-
pen. President WiLsoN will not make
himself accessory to murder even after
the event. The better way was to give
Ambassador WILSON a chance to find a
a new job.
—Ambassador HENRY LANE WILSON-—a
Republican—may not be drawing any
complimentary bouquets from either
President WILSON or Secretary BRYAN
but he has the satisfaction of knowing
that he is still able to draw that $17,500
dollar Democratic salary.
Tariff Taxation and Wool.
Senator MYERS, of Montana, startled
the country the other day when he de.
clared, in a speech on the floor of the
Senate, that the peopie of the State which
he represents, favor free wool and that
“a century of protection has failed utter-
ly to aid the wool industry of this coun-
try.” Referring to the charge that the
UNDERWOOD bill discriminates against
the West, Mr. MYERS added: “This talk
of discrimination against home interests,
when translated into English, it my opin-
ion often means “we are not getting our
share of the graft; we are being over-
looked in the distribution of the plunder.”
It is really refreshing to hear such
truths coming out of the West. Montana |
has long been among the States which
are clamoring for prohibitive tariff taxes
on wool, under the false pretense that it
is necessary to thus foster the wool in-
dustry. There being large areas of graz-
ing lands in that State a vast number of
sheep have been raised there, the public
lands affording fine feeding grounds for
them. But notwithstanding this ad-
vantage and in spite of the high tariff
schedules, the industry has not made
progress. But ic is a wholesome sign
that men who live there are coming to
understand that the reason for the fail
ure is not the absence of tariff taxation.
There has been plenty of that all the
time.
The wool industry will prosper in this
panic no matter what it costs or where it tween the methods of Secretary of the
comes from. He needs it in his busi. | Treasury MCADOO and those of his im- | that
‘ness. The political machine which he | Mediate predecessors inoffice. Anticipat-
inherited at the death of the late Senator | ing the demand for currency incident to
QUAY was conceived in commercial ca-
lamity, brought forth in industrial paral-
ysis and nurtured on business distress. Sent vast sums of money to Wall street,
It has suffered during recent years with | tO be filtered out to the shipping points
various maladies, the result of the return | Bf leaving a toll in the New York
of reason and common sense, and the
only remedy is panic. Therefore Sena-
tor PENROSE is conjuring a panic with all | charged “all the traffic would bear.” On
| the energy and earnestness he can com-
mand. Nobody else perceives the evil or
discerns the danger. But PENROSE is
obsessed with it and refuses to be com-
forted. .
As usual the Senator was coddling his
mythical fetish on the floor of the Sen-
ate the other day. He had starvation
' stalking through the chamber, distress
passing up and down the aisles and ca-
lamity howling from the ceiling. One of
the Senators protested that he saw no
| signs of such bogies and read sketches
from DUNN'S Review, the highest authori-
ty upon industrial and commercial con-
ditions, which proved that the commer-
cial and industrial life of the country are
in an exceptionally healthful condition.
But PENROSE wouldn't be convinced. He
declared that he knows more about
Pennsylvania than DUNN or anybody else
and during a recent tour of the State he
saw distress everywhere.
Senator PENROSE will get nothing for
himself or his political machine by such
absurd ravings. The people are neither
fools nor idiots and they know that there
' are no signs of panic in any part of the
country at this time. There was a pan-
ic in 1907 and business has not entirely
recovered from the effects of it. The
panic of 1893 continued to retard busi.
ness until 1900 and would have held en-
terprise in check for a longer time if the
war with Spain hadn't intervened to
change conditions. We have had no
such abnormal stimulus since the panic
of 1907 and yet all signs of that period
of industrial paralysis have practically
disappeared and the indications as shown
by DUNN'S Review, are propitious.
—]t is announced that the express
companies will increase rates on pack-
ages of over twenty pounds, such pack-
ages not being within the parcel post
limit. Of course this is a new applica-
tion of the principle of ‘charging all the
traffic will bear,” and a characteristic
policy of the express companies. Proba-
bly, however, the Interstate Commerce
Commission will put a crimp in the
ambitious program of these robbers to
loot.
Effect of Mulhall's Exposure.
| The cross-examination of Colonel MUL-
| HALL reveals the fact that most of his
letters were tissues of falsehood. He was
not in the confidence of Senators as he
impudently claimed to be nor the “hale
fellow, well met,” with cabinet minis-
ters, Congressmen and Judges, as he
pretended. On the contrary he was
much like any other faker who falsely
pretends things for a purpose. He wrote
letters like a mad man but there was
“method in his madness.” It brought
him plenty of money for himself and
' abundance to distribute among his cro-
nies. It enabled him to masquerade as a
, man of importance among men of mon-
ey and that was probably the ambition
of his life.
. But notwithstanding the falsity of Mr.
MULHALL'S pretenses, his letters prove
‘one startling fact. That is to say the
correspondence read into the record of
‘the Senate committee proves positively
. that the National Association of Manu-
facturers is made up largely of bribers,
_ blackmailers and political pirates. MuL-
HALL'S letters were to the officers and
confidential agents of that piratical or-
ganization. They were written for the
, purpose of making those who received
them believe MULHALL was committing
the crimes he boasted about, and because
of the belief that he was committing them , spend money creating a plant in which geveral grains of salt.
| the treasury of the rotten organization
| was practically open to him.
Thus two facts have been established,
absolutely, by MULHALL'S letters. One
|
| predecessors under ROOSEVELT and TAFT | or should be, reprehensible to win
country when it is conducted upon busi- | is that he is a malicious traducer of men
‘and an arrant fraud and the other that
years to which Senator MYERS refers
the wool growers have simply been he was a paid agent, is made up of crim-
“tenders” to the woolen goods manufac- inals of the worst type. It is said that
turers, and the wool product restrained the gravest crime in the American cal-,
in order to give the manufacturers great- endar is ddeauching the ballot and these
er opportunity to use shoddy instead of | wealthy “Captains of Industry” employ-
wool in making fabrics. But | ed men for that purpose and paid them |
the
ac-
count the business has
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NO. 31.
Politics and Tarif.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
If it is true—and United States Sena-
tor McLean, of Connecticut, says it is—
the people of i with regard
t to
intended revision of the tariff under
the movement of the crops, Mr. McADOO’S Demoprati auspice he It is,
elec-
tricking the people of a whole
The Senator qubted from
There are two marked differences be-
Eo
ks. No interest charge was made by | sentative Reilly and Governor
the government but the New York banks | assurances to the mill workers that the
Democratic tariff would de for the
| differences in the cost of production at
| home and abroad.
There is no more mischievous conten-
tion than that tariff rates in the United
the other hand Mr. McADoO sends the
money directly to the shipping centres
and charges an interest of two per cent.,
which goes into the treasury.
The two per cent. interest on $50,000,
000 amounts to a million dollars a yer. |
Under the ROOSEVELT plan that profit pany hii Sheic Jk
i e difference maintained.
went into the vaults of the New York I RE Ae Oi
banks. Bythe McADOO plan it goes into | leaders and that the promise is made
the public treasury to meet the expenses | only to catch voters.
Democratic party and the Republican
in their platforms, Sha
of the government. Upon the principle | per has exposed this tar-
that “a n saved is two earned,” i sham many times and nobody should
penny * | be deceived I The
therefore, the people are two million dol- | gig rer" "0 ro Bg Jlicged
lars better off by the new method and | investigators found that the
American
often mentioned difference was
Jagligitie or that its tion avd
were contrary to
tured belief, that in many
wages in the United States were
ly lower than those paid in Europe when
compared with the quantity and quali
of output. The contention that tariffs
should be or are based on that
the shippers are benefited in even great- |
er ratio for in seasons of great stress the
Wall street Shylock’s charged the coun.
try banks a good deal more than two per
cent. for the use of the public money
doled out to them through Wall street,
by the favor of the authorities in Wash.
ington.
This improvement in method of em-
ploving the public treasury for the relief
of public distress simply represents the Hoh 1% WHER SAE I3ie8 are mae, uy
better purposes of the new administration. | ing to create a panic to halt revision of
Under RoosevELT and TAFT ours was a | the tariff, that , Something to concern
government of the trusts, by the trusts citizen. If there is not
and for the trusts. Under the Demo-
cratic administration of WOODROW WIL. | When a leadi prin
SON it has been restored to its old land- | toon showi President ilson
mark, a “government of the people, by
the people and for the people.” There 0
are no crops to move in Wall street and | tion of panic-making. Speec
therefore money to move the crops will | ed in the Congress articles in proses
not be sent to Wall street, while the. just tionist newspapers are no .
recompense for the use of the money | these be the things that Joint toneonssis
will go into the treasury of the people | help sane government.
rather than into the vaults of Wall street, | ———
—Centre county Democrats are neither |. TT )
swelled with pride nor bursting with i Representati ull. of Tennessee,
enthusiasm over the fact that their repre- poses a Sentative JU), a or
sentative in the customs service has made | Congress the power to abolish 2 5
the record of being the first Surveyor ferior court, or to femgve 2 uc e
of Customs, since that service was or. | S275 tie ancitm pi Secure 2 pach.
ganized, who gave the principal patronage | is too cumbersome and difficult of utiliza.
of the place to representatives of the tion. The sugges
tion is for a simplified
party opposed to the administration that substitute method by which action could
gave him the position. Evidently the
be taken promptly by giving
new Surveyor is obsessed with the idea
the power to abolish or remove by
two-thirds vote of both Houses.
that the way to make a Democratic ad- | Recent political arguments favoring
ministration strong is to allow its ene. the recall of judges, or their decisions,
mies to ranit. | created an unusual sensation, the con-
eo To Ip of dhe Sotieg
YyY—-— on of n of the courts,
—At some little town out in Kansas, | and that judges, in Hid the recall,
last week, the people were startled by would render decisions to suit popular
seeing the letters P. C. plainly emblazon. | Opinion, rather than risk losing their
'p It is probable that a constitu-
ed on the sky in dazzling light. They at 0001 amendment would have the same
once diciphered it as a command from | effect.
heaven to “preach Christ.” If this However, there is no necessity for this
form of action. Such an amendment
phenomena had appeared to the people rt OF 0 Lo The number of
down at Catawissa, our farmer friend, United States judges whose conduct in-
Mr. W. T. Creasy, would have interpre- vites impeachment is small. The Ja
uties
court,
ted it as advice to “plow corn.” MAO petiorn Sher sdcial
wisely preme
——The fact has been published in ' from which there is no aj , shou
many state papers, and was reprinted in NOt be above criticism, and the inferior
hose judges are prone to neglect
the WATCHMAN last week, that the re- Nurs
cent Legislature passed an Act increas uties and litigation, invite
sompuision that would insure relief. But
ing the pay of jurors from $2.50 to $4.00 | or abolition would be an extreme
per day. This is incorrect, as the Act re. measure of doubtful value.
lates to jury commissioners, and not aelovemens of ta kind inaugural ted by
jurors. | Mislead the people into the belief that
S—————————————————-— ! courts are notoriously the 0
The Tenth regiment, National by hold them up to contempt. A simpli.
Guard of Pennsylvania, is in luck. It fied recall through a constitutional
won two of the rifle practice trophics at amendment is just as ridiculous as some
Mount Gretna last week and'its gallant Othe other plans that have been sug.
Colonel, “Dick” COULTER, won a hand.
some bride. | No Time to Borrow Trouble.
——The Standard Oil company has ac- | From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
quired important land concessions in | The fraternity of the bankers isin a
state of mind touching the currency bill,
Roumania. By this transaction Roumania nich is not yet outof committee. That
has acquired a Turk that it will never a measure will be finally framed meeting
be able to shake off. the needs of the country and the time the
| Courier-Journal does not doubt. It
—--After se eral hours ata popular Rot rwdble steelf about she fncidany aud
sea shore resort one is compelled to details as they severally arise, being
in advance sure of results. Meanwhile,
wonder why the government Showa it takes the fears of the bankers with
a
to
any tariff rate on it or pays any atten-
i
to breed lobsters. | 3ll.told, are competent
—]f Senator CATLIN'S goat hadn't 92 complicated, but
Sty th id ba ther way of dis. TUS Ee
t ve necessary. is
It was a pity to kill the goat, though. | pew
e— a ates
~——One trouble with the New York to his job. If
mayoralty contestis that too many news- a mess of it—as the
papers outside of New York are trying ing—he will have
to manage the campaign. ; 1 cheap.” But let us
—m—Ambassador WILSON will find that 10 far ahead of time.
making a martyr of a man of his type is
a difficult matter if not an actual impossi-
bility. Lv 2a oy thinks
~——CASTRO won't stay put, but there is NOt £0 be forced on “a
3 Bote gress;” but, it would rest Con-
comfort in the thought thathe will have go ool’ 5 reall some work for
Job Work dene here.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
naces will soon be improved, one by one. Ca-
pacity will be more than doubled.
—New Bloomfield is hophig to have a shoe
factory. Negotiations are in progress for a
building that would fill immediate needs.
~A. L. Couch was appointed associate judge of
Huntingdon county to fill the vacancy left by the
death of Judee Lightner. It is supposed that he
will favor the “wets.” :
—Barnesboro voters last week by a heavy ma
jority decided in favor of municipal ownership of
the water plant and council will at once take the
necessary steps to secure the one now in use or
build another.
—Jesse Bratton, aged 14, of Clearfield, met
death by drowning while swimming. His com-
parions thought he was joking when he first
called for help and when they went to his rescue
he was beyond their power to resuscitate.
—Two colts were standing in a field near Creek-
side, Indiana county, during a thunder storm a
few days ago. One had its head over the neck of
the other. A bolt of lightning knocked both
down. One was killed and the other uninjured.
=A white oak tree on the Mench farm near
Everett was struck by lightning recently. The
freak inthe case was that the lightning skipped
over a paper advertisement tacked to the tree,
the marks being plainly visible above and below
the paper. .
—Frederick W. Stephenson, aged 16 years,
tripped and fell on a Greensburg street directly
in front of a trolley car that crushed his life out.
He was employed at the Kelly & Jones plant and
was enjoying the noon recreation with friends
when he fell.
—Robbers at G. C. Brown's hardware store,
Punxsutawney, gained entrance by climbing a
telephone pole, crawling over a roof of the one
story annex and jimmying open a second story
window. They found $50 and a half dozen valua-
ble revolvers were taken.
~The jury empaneled to investigate the cause
of the Pennsylvania railroad wreck at Tyrone on
Wednesday of last week, after hearing the testi-
mony of fifteen witnesses, found that the engi-
neer, George K. Funk, who lost his life, had fail-
ed in time to observe the red signal.
~Ladies of the Williamsport Civic club are
seriously considering taking part in the coming
municipal campaign, by electioneering. They
want the right kind of councilmen, those who
will favor a city plan. and think they can do
something to get them without being suffragists.
—The Windber Coal company is the third coal
concern to begin operations near Reitz, Somer-
set county. It is composed of Westmont, Johns-
town and Beaverdale, people, including I. A.
Boucher, of Beaverdale, and Attorney John E.
Evans, of Ebensburg. A charter has already
been granted.
—A pet terrier at the home of H. P. Signor, of
Williamsport, caused considerable damage by
getting thirsty in the night and turning on the
faucet in the kitchen sink to get a drink. When
the water came out the doors early rising neigh-
bors aroused the family. They found three feet
of water in the cellar and the first floor flooded.
~Wilbur Raup, a 16-year-old Williamsport boy
saved two boys from drowning in quick succes.
sion near Shamokin recently. Henry Poland was
seized with cramps and sank in sixteen feet of
water. Young Raup dived and brought him to
shore and scarcely a moment later dived to
save Joseph Rebar, seized in the same way.
f | After the second rescue he sank exhausted.
-H. L. Wilson, of Williamsport, went to his
home a few evenings ago to see if all was right
about the house, which has been closed since
| June. He was met at the door by burglars with
revolvers. One had his boy's bank, which con-
tained a little cash and some letters written by
his mother who is dead. He begged for the let-
ters and the men allowed him to take them out.
He gave them the cash and some good advice,
which one of them promised to follow.
—A dispatch from Harrisburg states that fol-
lowing the prosecution of the Gaffney Woods
Products company for pollution of Pine creek
with fish-killing refuse from its plant at Walton
Potter county, and the payment by officers of
the company of a fine of $100 imposed by Justice
of the Peace W. D. Allen, at Galeton, the state
department of fisheries declares its intention of
continuing the crusade and to take more drastic
action if necessary against other offenders.
—Going back and forth across the road ina
zigzag course, playing with his dog as he rode,
Harold Rushel, aged 15 years, rode his bicycle
directly in front of the automobile driven by Miss
Emily Chisholm, of Huntingdon. The accident
happened near that place and the boy was taken
to the Blair hospital with a broken leg. Despite
the fact that the boy emphatically stated that the
lady was in no way to blame, her family gave
him every possible attention in the way of med-
ical treatment.
—George Henderson, the young man of Cone-
maugh wiio murdered his sweetheart, Fern E.
Davis, at Johnstown, last year was sentenced by
Judge M. B. Stephens in the Cambria county
Id | court at Ebensburg Tuesday to be hanged, the
day to be fixed by the Governor of the State. He
will not be electrocuted under the new law be-
cause he was convicted before the act was pass-
ed by the Legislature. Henderson did not appear
worried when he faced the court, was laughing
with the sheriff when called to the bar but was
pale because of his long confinement in jail. It
is understood that an appeal will be taken in his
case.
~Sheriff William J. Tomlinson, of Lycoming
county, Friday frustrated an attempt at jail
breaking by two youn men, Homer Kramer, of
been desig-
nated as parade day when the most novel parade
ever seen in that section will take place.
as soonas he reached Buffalo,
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