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