BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —With potatoes already selling at’ ninety cents the bushel we fear for the fellow who hasn't his own when mid. winter arrives. | —The election is only a little over three weeks off and nobody seems to | care a hang when it comes. Surely the | days of old fashioned politics ev the | wane. —At ten dollars a seat world’s cham- | pionship base-ball is certainly beyond the | reach of the “fans” who do the cheering | and paying thatis necessary to build up | i champion base-ball teams. | —The New Jersey boy who sold his VOL. 58. BELLE STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. FONTE, PA.. O New Note for Claim for Tariff Taxation. An esteemed Philadelphia contempor- ary has been wasting a good deal of space in recent issues by publishing the opinions of manufacturers upon the probable influence of the new tariff law mother’s cow to get money to go toa upon industrial activity and prosperity. world's series baseball game needn't ex- | We say wasting space for the reason that pect much of the milk of human kind- | the opinions are predicated upon purely ness when he returns home. | selfish premises and are absolutely with- —Secretary LANE objects to a $7.50 : out value. For example one manufac- per plate banquet at Denver and de- turer of textiles, a well known machine manded that the price be marked down | politician, declaresthat he “expects the to 50cts. Is it areduction in the high cost UNDERWOOD bill to do much damage, to of living or in the cost of high-living. undermine our industries and I cannot | see any avenue of prosperity in it.” —If you are the parents of children |, or manufacturer of textiles takes make their home happy. A home that |... opposite view. He said: “In the the young folks love to be inis a place | United States t year we will see the Bankers and the Currency Law. in their opposition to the pending cur- rency legislation is revealed in their at- titude with respect to reserve banks. The pending bill provides for twelve of these and the big bankers declare that the policy would involve a dangerous centralization. But as a matter of fact the ALDRICH scheme, which they all favored, created a single central bank and the substitute which they have offered for the Owen-Glass measure limited the reserve banks to five, which would neces- sarily be located so as to be under com- plete control of Wall street. Palpably the centralization element is not the objectionable feature. There is another “nigger in the woodpile.” Roosevelt Off Again. Colonel ROOSEVELT has gone off on another hunting trip on an extensive scale but without expense. His destina- | tion is South America and his purpose to explore mountains and collect fauna. PCIE eo B12. The insincerity of the money magnates | NO. 40. | The New Tarif BL | Form the Philadelphia Public Ledger. i ee a ol ate 2. t an average duty per cent. her i yne law, it - nearly 40 cent. under the Wilson bill He took with him a considerable number | enacted uring Cleveland's administra- of uaturaiists, some personal friends and | *'N, other 1ariff law since the. Civil war a corps of press agents. His equipment | hag cut ve duties to so low a consisted of guns, ammunition and pho- point. No Sikes 5 tariff bill since then has tographer’s paraphernalia. We have not = been so openly so avowedly a meas- learned who pays the freight or what ‘Ure Solely for revenue and not for pro- will be done with the spoils of his enter- | [pn his very admirable analysis of this prise. But it is certain that he will be | ew. law So¥ the Public : er, Congress- in the public eye during the period of his | man J. Hampton Moore nies Spon absence and in the public prints after one most significant thought: “T. a his return. He always takes care of such tacked on L With the feomme 22, hich is little details and does it well. | | rency measure which the President in- , There are vast mountains in South Sists shall go through with the tariff bill, they will often turn to when temptation | lures. Just a little human sunshine is all that is needed to light up the hum- blest abode. —Earthquakes in Panama have recent- ly set the world trembling over the great canal locks. They have withstood the slight shocks without damage, but there will always be the danger of more violent siesmic disturbances which may render them useless. —Twenty years ago the London omni- bus was supposed to be a fast convey- ance because it made six or seven miles an hour. What a snail's pace that would seem in street transit today yet the peo- ple of that period were just as happy, no doubt, as we are, and were not being run into nerve sanitoriums nearly so fast. —Let us hope that the hold-up in State road building will result in the adoption of brick or some other equally durable material as a substitute for the asphalt-macadam that has been laid. The WATCHMAN is for good roads and it is for the fifty million bond issue if there is some assurance that the money will be put into roads that will last. —*“Lest we forget.” Mexico is still hunting a President, the Senate is work- ing on a new currency bill, SULZER is defending impeachment proceedings and TeDDY is on the way to South America. All these great events are transpiring this week, but few have time to think of them because the Giants and Athletics are fighting out the world's series. —We note with regret a report to the effect that Secretary DANIELS will rec- ommend the building of three new bat- tleships to the next Congress in Decem- ber. He purposes suggesting that the naval appropriation be not increased, but | that a larger proportion be spent “afloat | than ashore.” Big navies are useful The country bankers who have test prosperity in the history of the | Stes ve been in Boston this week attending , country. Business was very good this | year, but it will be even better a year | the convention of the American Bankers hence.” | Association offer more valid objections But there is a significant note ex- to the pending legislation. In a separate pressed in several of these statements. | meeting held the other night they adopt- Mr. ALFRED G. DUNCAN, vice president ed a resolution protesting against the of the National Association of Cotton | Provision for the retirement of the two Manufacturers, refers to the superior | per cent. bonds because they had been skill of English operatives in a most sur- , purchased at a high price and might prising way. “Their fathers and grand. | have to be sold at a lesser value. Against fathers before them,” he says, “worked | the provision specifying the securities in at these occupations—they have handed which savings banks may invest for the down their knowledge—and that explains | reason that country banks all do a sav- the supremacy of England in some ings business and would be injured by goods.” On the other hand he adds, “our | the segregation of resources and against textile workers are often Slavs, Poles and | the provision regulating charges, on ex Huns, who come here without knowledge, without training and become weavers in a month.” Others concur in that view. Mr. R. M. MILLER, of Charlotte, North Carolina, says that “English mills wove cloth while we were fighting savages: we have not caught up in some of their mechanic arts. Many of the foreigners in our factories came here untutored and we are competing against factories run by operatives long skilled in their trade.” This is a new idea in the contention for tariff taxation. Hitherto we have | been led to believe that our machinery is | much better and our operatives much | more intelligent and efficient than the poverty-stricken employees who compose the labor element in Europe. No mill owner ever asked for protection for his 1own benefit. His anxiety has always been to furnish pianos for the operatives’ families and automobiles for the opera- tivez, Mr. JOSEPH GRUNDY could never | go to sleep until he felt confident that every son of an operative in his mill was | certain of a college education and had | assurances of a job, ultimately, as presi- ‘dent of a railroad or a bank. The ill- paid and ill-fed operatives in Europe may changes, which would curtaii profits. But it is not certain that either of those provisions will work the result ap- prehended by the author of the resolu- tion. It would be a hardship, no doubt, if the country banks were obliged to maintain accounts in the reserve banks sufficient to cover clearances of their checks. But that is an unimportant de- tail which may easily be remedied by amendment if the facts are as stated in the resolution. Meantime the country bankers are both wise and patriotic in pleading for the immediate passage of a currency bill. “A satisfactory banking system has long been needed by the peo- ple,” the resolution states, and “legisla- tion upon this subject has already been too long delayed.” ——The conspiracy to make the UNDERWOOD tariff work bad results on business may work for awhile and frighten some timid people but it won't succeed in the end. Moreover importers and others who combine to maintain prices may wind up in jails here and there. Wilson and the Filipinos. have had cursory sympathy from him, | The policy recently expressed by Presi- America and some of them have never been thoroughly explored. There are large and savage wild animals down there and some of them have never been | tamed. But the Colonel will explore the | mountains and tame the animals if he ' has to do it with his teeth. Mo monster will be big enough or savage enough to frighten him if he has plenty of men, | guns and ammunition with him when the animal comes into view. Incidentally | he may make up his mind to swim the , Isthmian canal while he is in that neigh- : borhood if there are plenty spectators to | applaud his prowess-and on the occasion "of the opening of that waterway there ' will be a good many people there. But the real purpose of the Colonel's expedition is not to explore mountains, kill animals or swim canals. He is going away, at other people's expense, as usual, in order to come back again and such a coming back as it will be! The time will be propitious, the conditions auspicious and the arrangements complete. Every- body in the world will know that he is home and that his heart throbs with patriotism. No man need go farther for “all things to all men,” and ready and anxious to "serve his countrymen,” in that capacity. It will certainly be an event and if it fails of its purpose the adage “Republics are ungrateful” will be verified. ———The Philadelphia Keystoners re- fused to join in fusion to defeat the PeN- ROSE machine. The Keystone party was created for the purpose of saving the PENROSE machine from defeat in the gubernatorial contest of 1910 and the present attitude of the Philadelphia wing of that conspiracy is simply fulfilling its original pledges. A Disappointed Aspirant. a Presidential candidate for he will be | | the effect of all this legislation will be to | punish 1atge industrial centres (like i phia) for being industrious and | thrifty and to make them distribute their | energy and their savings to other sec- | tions of the country that have not been | so fortunate.” | There is no doubt of the fact thatthe | Underwood tariff gives advantage to the | South, just as does the Hull income tax | law. Both will be of vastly greater bene- | fit to the Southern section of our country J i orth: orniston The. N proportion to on orth | has a far larger number of industries | which can be affected by the new law. | Likewise the North has an immensely | larger number of incomes to tax than are found below the Mason and Dixon ! ne. The salient features of the pending currency bill also favor the poorer sec- tion of the South and West at the ex- peste of the wealthier sections of the and North. In all three measures, and they should be taken together, the influence of South- ern Representatives has been para. mount. : The of the sare bill is here: ‘ore an epochal event, use not since Buchanan's administration have the Southern States exerted anything like so great an influence upon so important a series of economic ation. Whether the Underwood bill shall bring | to the country wealth or shall bring woe ! we cannot predict, but it is now the law | and should, as it will, be given a fair | trial. Our country is well buttressed | with faith, ability, optimism and capacity. { The impluse and momentum of our un- | equaled enterprise, coupled with our | matchless resources, give us an advan- | tage over all the world which even an | unwise tariff bill, should it prove so, can- not permanently impair. The President’s Greatest Speech. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. The President's speech on the signing 1 of the tariff bill is a masterpiece of easy, | thoughtful and at the same time forcible | speaki If it was all unprepared and ! the production of the moment, as it ap- | pears to have been, it is a remarkable | example of a ready command of perfect | English to the instant expression of but his main object in life was to keep the product of their labor out of com- | petition with that of the princely-paid —We haven't much respect for the men and women who luxuriate in his leaders whom a lot ot Republican civil | mills. service commissioners can bamboozle! There is reason no longer, however, into believing that Democrats are unfit. | for this false pretense. The exorbitant ted for places that are open in the feder- i tariff tax has been cut down and will only to become obsolete and go to the | scrap heap. al service. There isn’t a man alive who | could be elected to an office without some party behind him and while parties may differ in principles they are all the | same in organization. No party can ex- | sist without workers and no man has a right to deny the workers of a triumph. ant party their share of the spoils, if they are competent to take care of them. —The UNDERWOOD tariff law is in effect. It carries an average duty of 26% as compared with the PAYNE law of 40% which it supersedes. Don’t im- agine that it is going to make or break the country in a day. It will require several years of operation before its full- est effects will be seen and for that rea- son the wisdom of President WILSON in insisting on its passage as early in his administration as possible is especially to be commended. The Democratic party stands for the bill and it is well for it to be in power while the billis in force. —OQur Democratic contemporaries throughout the State that are opposed to the fifty million bond issue for the pur- pose of building good roads are basing their opposition on the corrupt way in which the State Highway Department may be expected to disburse the money. Singularly most of these papers are what might be called Reorganization advo- cates. If they are against the bond issue for the reason given certainly their faith in the future of Pennsylvania Democ- racy is very weak. We have a Gover- nor and entire new administration to elect before the proceeds of the bonds would be available for anyone to spend and if Reorganization is to reclaim Penn- sylvania from PENROSEism there can be no fear of voting for the loan on the score that he or any of his satellites will have charge of the money. Such argu- ment is founded either on ignorance or lack of faith in the triumph of our party next year. never again be restored. So, Mr. GRUNDY and Mr. DUNCAN may make any claim without injury to themselves for the Huns and Slavs and Poles can do them no harm. But in justice to the public they ought to give the reasons for this differ- ence in skill and efficiency. A few years ago the English operatives had no such advantage On the contrary the ad- vantage was on this side of the water and it was substantial. But the tariff. pampered tyrants of industry cut the wages of their intelligent and efficient operatives to a. point below the living level and when they struck put the Slavs, Poles and Huns into their places. That is the secret of it all. —Last week the WATCHMAN publish- ed the fact that Mr. P. H. GHERRITY, of the South ward, had practically positive assurance that he would be made depu- ty revenue collector to succeed G. WASH- INGTON REES. This week we have been informed that the reason why F. PIERCE MussER resigned his position as editor of the Millheim Journal is because he hasa letter from the would-be “boss” of Cen- tre county pledging him the position. If it is correct that both Mr. GHERRITY and Mr. Musser hold similar pledges it is simply a case of double-dealing with friends when they are needed and later to be thrown away like an old shoe. The wide-awake man should be a little wary lest he give up a good job for a promise that will turn out to be nothing more than a will-'o-the-wisp. ——Earthquakes are doing their best to postpone the opening of the Panama canal but thus far have made no progress in the work. The solidity of the concrete structure seems able to defy the ele- ments. —From the ethical viewpoint it would be much better if SuLzer’ didn't have to admit the personal use of political + money. | dent WILSON in respect to the future of | the Philippines is simply a return to | Democratic principles. Probably the temporary control of the archipelago was an inevitable consequence of the war with Spain. But the permanent sub- jection of that or any other people by alien agencies is abhorrent to every principle of popular government. Even if there was hope of such mental and moral development of the natives as would qualify them for American citizen- ship in the near future, it would be un- wise to admit those Asiatic Islands into membership of the Union. In the ab. sence of that hope our present relations with them are impossible. The constitution of the United States recognizes no “subjects” in the sense that residents of monarchies are regard- ed and the Declaration of Independence forbids such a relation between individual and government. The traditions of our government are against conquest of peo- ple and that is precisely what has been in contemplatien if not actually in prac- tice since the acquisition of the territory from Spain, through the treaty of Paris. President WILSON proposes to reverse these purposes and make our temporary control a means of development and a help to independence rather than a de- vice for conquest. This policy ought to have been adopted long ago. The plan by which these purposes are to be achieved are both wise and ex- pedient. The natives are to be given a greater part in the administration of the government from the start and thus by safe and sane processes led along the path to self-government. Under the sys- tem which MCKINLEY inaugurated and ROOSEVELT and TAFT pursued it would have required centuries to determine the fitness of the Filipinos for self-govern- ment. Under the plan outlined by Presi- dent WILSON and expressed by Governor General HARRISON on Monday this re- sult will be accomplished in a few years and in the meantime authority to com- pel obedience to the principles of law will be retained. ——Senator CUMMINS, of lowa, is still working to reunite the discordant Re- way. All the leaders of each faction want to get the best of the bargain, x | worthy thought in that form of quiet We own to a feeling of sympathy for eloquence which is often most effective. the Chester gentleman (Mr. ESSER) | It was only a nine-minute speech— who has been disappointed in his aspira- |easy and conversational the tions for an office that has been given to | Call it—and yet it reviewed what had . been hoped for, what had been attained another. Having been for a long time a | Dee! what yet remained to be accom- party leader in Carbon county, (JIM | plished in the great task of setting the BLAKESLEE'S baliwick) and a faithful | country once more upon the right track, adherent of A. MITCHELL PALMER, he | commercially and financially. He had felt, as he had a right to feel, that he was among the elect. He even intimates that PALMER had given him,at least an implied assurance, that “he would be taken care of.” But his hopes have been dispelled in the rudest manner. Another fellow has landed the job and he is left to reflect upon the cruelty of ingratitude. No doubt our disappointed friend feels the evils of political bossism in the full measure expressed in his published com- plaint. Probably it was on account of his abhorrence of this cancer in our political system that he helped to en- throne Mr. PALMER. But in that event he ought to have known better. Having lived in Carbon county for many years and participated in the political schemes peculiar to that section ot the State, he ought to have known Mr. PALMER too well to be fooled by his promises. No doubt, however, he is a confiding soul and imagined that the “moon is made of green cheese.” The truth is distressing to such souls. The Delaware county gentleman ought to know that the friendships of some politicians come high and that Mr. PAL- MER'S memory is conveniently short. He acknowledges no intermittent service. Those who get his help must be constant and zealous in’ fidelity. And he is no respecter of persons. Because a just and capable judge failed to worship at his shrine he undertook to drive him from the bench. He would be equally severe with a constable. Our disappoint. ed friend can no longer be of service. In his new home he is not potential. Under the circumstances his expectations were absurd. SES ————— —=Anyway we are in no present dan- ger of having “Hi” JoHNSON, of Califor- nia. in the United States Senate in the near future as he has withdrawn from the contest. Now if they defeat him for Governor there will be “a good riddance of bad rubbish,” in that salubrious cli- mate. been hoping to have a part in such an achievement from his very boyhood; the | hope was here realized in splendid mea- | sure, but not even yet with that thorough- ness which should now be y achieved, for he thus referred to the financial bill which he finds so essential an accompaniment of the tariff reform Be Ls oh Srp orce, warrantal which he shared with all who have had a hand in this achievement, and, in the concluding phrases, in which he com- himself with the traveller lodgi Bs at the half-way inn, he out most effectively an address which must take its place in history; for a bet- ter or a happier more ect example of fit t Ne yet earnestly expressed is hardly to found recorded of any similar occasion. Taxing Americans Abroad. From the Boston Post. Congressman Hull, author of the Ts Congressman Hull, auth bill: *1 from whom we will collect revenue. They may take out citizenship in orsign Country but we ca collect on incomes from property they own gy oo the triates compelled to pay an income tax in the countries where they This is as it should be. Has His Hands Full. From the St. Louis Republic. Mr. Sulzer’s experience shows plainly that a man who wants to rescue the peo- should stay out of Wall street. a man fairly busy there just saving himself. Break it Gently to the ‘‘Peepul.” From the Detroit Free Press. Mr. Bryan is accused of buying an velour hat. The next thing we he'll be patronizing barber cure girls. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Thus far over 3,000 hunters’ licenses have been issued in Cambria county and the demand is unabated. ~There has been no improvement in the ty- phoid fever situation at Renovo and State offi- cials are in charge. —Itis said that the late crop of peaches has been 50 plentiful in Juniata county that hundreds of bushels are going to waste. —Clearfield Republicans are talking about bringing out an “independent” candidate for judge and the chances are they will do it. —Somebody entered the house of James Mar- clay, of Mannsville, Perry county, the other night and carried away with him when he left money to the amount of $60, —United States officers who believed that six Chinamen had been smuggled into the United States, were looking for them in Sunbury last week, but failed to find them. —Two enterorising women have brought suit in the Northu.aberland county court to recover $3,500 damages caused their land by the neglect of certain township supervisors to keep the roads in repair. —At the regular election the people of the en- terprising town of Patton will decide whether an issue of bonds shall be authorized, the money re- alized to be expended in the erection of a new municipal building. —Samuel Walks, Jr., a miner employed in the James Minds’ shaft, Ramey, was instantly killed by afall of coal Wednesday morning, soon after he started work. He was 35 years old and leaves a wife and four children. —Henry Heckman, Jr., of near Penfield, Clear- field county, was accidentally caught in a band saw while working in his father’s sawmill and al- most instantly killed. He was 33 years old and leaves a wife and five children. —Durin the progress of a civil suit in the court at Indiana the plaintiff and the defendant engag- ed in a very uncivil argument wherein fists were used as weapons and as a result the plaintiff won a fine black eye in advance of the decision of the jury. —Sections of Lycoming county are still suffer- ing from a water famine. Same of the farmers in the lower end of the county are compelled to haul water for house use and drive the cattle a half mile for water. Recent rains helped the streams very little. —One of Latrobe's school buildings was struck by lightning and considerably damaged last Fri- day afternoon. Fortunately none of the children were injured although several of them were so badly frightened that the schools were dismissed shortly after the occurrence. —Charlie Schwab is building a chicken house at Loretto which will be completed in about four months. The cost will be $6,000. The Schwabs have just left their country residence at Loretto for their city home. They spent the summer at Lovetto ana Me. Sehwab was thers a god many —William Pulmore, who died in the Indiana hospital, said he was shot by an Italian named Ross, with whom he had a disagreement a few years ago. Pulmore's testimony is to the effect that Ross placed a revolver against his (Pul- more's) breast when the latter knocked it up and it was discharged. ~Amateur burglars blew open the safe of the Clymer postoffice early the other morning, secur- ing a quantity of postage stamps and a small sum of money. The force of the explosion threw a bag containing a large sum of money across the room, but the burglars were in such a hurry to escape they overlooked it. =J. C. Wesstley, who claims Johnstown as his home, was taken into custody in Altoona, Satur- day evening, by Patrolman Diggins, on the charge of being a deserter from the navy. Wesst- ley says that he deserted from the U.S. S. Taco- ma at Savannah last July. He was taken east to League Island navy yard and turned over to the authorities there, =Mrs. Arthur O. Langer, of Williamsport, had a peculiar experience the other day. While sleeping on a couch she ran a black pin nearly two inches long into her right arm near the el bow. She was awakened by the pain and broke off the head of the pin while trying to pull it out. A physician was obliged to administer chloro. form before he could remove the intruder. ~The State Game Commission is informed that one of the elk imported by the commission for breeding purposes in Pennsylvania chased a Pike county man near Milford and treed him until help came. The man found the bull and two cows in his corn field and when he attempted to shoo them out the bull turned on him and chased him up a sapling, where he remained almost all night. —Calvin Showalter, a signalman employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company, residing at Huntingdon, came to an untimely end Saturday afternoon at 3.08 o'clock when he was struck and hurled into eternity by Pittsburgh Express train No. 15, while the flyer was passing Spruce Creek. His body was tossed to one side of the track and life was extinct when fellow workmen reached his side. —George Sayeg, a Syrian merchant doing busi- tacked this year, although he denies any knowl. edge of the motive of his assailants. =A special to the Johnstown Leader from Mey- ersdale tells a lurid tale of numerous panthers roaming around the country adjacent to Mt. Sav- age, nearly scaring women and children to death. Also one George Shockey was terribly shocked the other evening as he was driving through woods. His horses trembled and refused to on while a huge panther glared through darkness at Shockey and his horse. Finally it fled. county and try to live down his past, not only by leading an exemplary life, but to earn all the money he can to repay the victims of his pecula- tions. Templeton's career as a lion in finance was carried on for years, undetected, but when the crisis came it was discovered that his pecula- tions extended over aperiod of eighteen years, op) to
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