—Law fights crime, medicine fights
disease and why shouldn't the clergy fight
sin. i
—Talking about gems for Christmas
what would look finer than a beautifully —— - a
poached egg on a delicately browned
STATE RIGHTS AN
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Mrs. George Landau, 5 years old, a well
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D FEDERAL UNION. ====== | million or more on court house improvements,
| but it isn't going to doso until 1915 Then an in-
band of toast?
—*Uncle” Joe CANNON, having stated |
that our President is more of a Czar |
than he ever was, failed to differentiate
between a good and a bad Czar.
—It is a rare meeting of council when
there are not a lot of notes to renew. |
How many of us are paying interest on |
those notes because some of the rest of
the people are not paying taxes as
promptly as they should.
—And the new Mayor of Atlantic City
issued no Thanksgiving proclamation be-
cause, he said, "our people have nothing
to be thankful for.” Were n't they even
thankful that their corrupt boss KUEHNLE
could no longer keep himself out of .
jail?
—Last Tuesday it was exactly one
week since the joyful face of the old sun’
shiner had been seen. Dismal weather, |
sure enough, has been our portion lately, |
but then we should not be forgetful of |
the pretty days we had in November
or those that are yet to come.
—Forget not to tell the fellow, who in-
sists that the ordinary suspensions and
ups and downs in business daily reported
are the result of Democratic legislation,
that the Schuylkill Haven Iron and Steel
Co. are now doubling their plant and
want eight hundred more men.
—On Wednesday State Health Com-
missioner DIXON brought suit in the
amount of $145,000 against the borough
of Coudersport for dumping sewage and |
surface water into the Allegheny river
and Mill Creek. This is suggestive of
what might happen to Bellefonte if that
dam splash board is not taken off and the |
sewage properly flushed out of Spring
creek.
—The exports of manufactured goods
from the United States to foreign coun-
tries during the first nine months of 1913
increased $80,381,932.00 over the corres: |
ponding period of 1912. England is our
best customer, Canada next; then Ger-
many and France, in the order given. It
is not only interesting to note such won.
derful expansion in our foreign trade, but .
the proof is here that American manu- |
factures are at high tide under a Demo- |
cratic administration. If they were not
we would not have the goods available
to be sold abroad.
—Last week the WATCHMAN suggested
the appropriateness of a shower of dol- |
lars on the publisher of this paper about
December 20th. It isn’t his birthday but
it will be pay day and a shower of green
backs by every subscriber whose paper
is not paid up into 1914 would make him
feel far happier than if he were celebrat- |
ing his thousandth birth anniversary by
trying to wade out of a deluge of fancy
post cards. We have had a little sprinkle
already as a result of last week's sugges.
tion, but a shower 1s what we want.
—Judge BLAND, a Kansas City magis-
trate, and a bachelor, found himself in a
dilemma the other day when a husband
appeared in his court to prefer charges
against his wife for getting over onto his
side of the bed. The Judge, being a
bachelor, had to confess that he didn't
know which was the wife's side of the
bed, consequently wasn't qualified to sit
on the case. Being a bachelor the Judge |
didn’t know that the wife's side is always
the one from which she can most easily |
warm her cold feet along her husband's '
warm back.
—With Congressman WARREN WORTH |
BAILEY trying to tack a single tax tail
onto the Democratic kite, state chair. |
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VOL. 58. B
The President's Message.
President WILSON'S message to Congress
is characteristic. It is brief, clear and
candid. It fulfills its constitutional pur-
pose to “give to the Congress informa-
tion of the state of the Union and recom-
, mend to their consideration such meas-
ures as he shall judge necessary and ex-
pedient.” And performs these functions
in a modest and pleasing way. There
is none of that fulsome self-adulation
which made Roosevelt's annual messages
peculiar. The tedious statistics which
made the messages of some other Presi-
dents tiresome are also absent. As a
' matter of fact it is a model state paper,
both in style and substance.
The President declares that the policy
of “watchful waiting” will be continued
with respect to Mexico and thoughtful
people of all political opinions will ap-
| prove. He urges the speedy completion
of the pending currency legislation and
the public is in accord with him on that
point. In the matter of legislation to
facilitate rural credits he is concise and
informing and his suggestions are of the
. highest value with his statement that
“the immediate service we owe the busi-
' ness communities of the country is to
prevent monoply more effectually than
it has been prevented,” challenges univer-
sal endorsement.
President WILSON favors better mining
laws in order to conserve the lives of
miners and better protection for railroad
employes for the reason that“the conser-
vation of human life and energy lies
even nearer to our interests than the pre-
servation from waste of our material re-
sources.” In this recommendation he
again strikes a chord in tone with ad-
vanced and deserving public sentiment.
In fact from beginning to end the Presi-
dent's message breathes the spirit of pa-
triotism and humanity. It is the pro-
duct of a statesman’s brain and will make
every Democratic heart in the country
thrill with pride in the President.
—Are you at that Christmas shopping?
You should be.
The Only Real Progressive.
The real Simon-pure, died-in-the-wool,
' name-blown-in-the-bottle Progressive has
been discovered. ROOSEVELT and La-
FOLLETTE and CREASY and BERRY and the
rest of the blundering bunch who have
been boasting of their progressiveness
during recent years, are rank amateurs.
They simply demand the abolishment of
Billy Sunday on Booze.
| Jefferson and Turgot. Mr. Palmer and Campaign Funds. |
| Our esteemed contemporary, Hon.| Those esteemed contemporaries which From the Johnstown Democrat.
WARREN WORTH BAILEY, is mentally in- | are inveighing against the Hon. A.| “You've never heard
corrigible. He persists in the assertion PALMER because his name ap- | his before and you « “Booze”
of an analogy between the philosophy | peared on stationery used by the Demo- early in the game, and the first
of JEFFERSON and that of TURGOT and | cratic State Committee to solicit money that at least was right. Bill
aggravates his offence by adding that the for the maintenance of the Organization, Was coming, so he got rid of
philosophy of JEEPERSON may have been | are “making a mountain out of a mole- he even started. start
actually "based in large measure on that | hill,” so to speak. Mr. PALMER had no flag signal to those who have
of the great Frenchman.” As a matter of | part in the transaction and probably no | ir ts Day here for four
fact JEFFERSON wrote upon the science of | knowledge of it. It was the work of the recognized symptoms that the
government, mainly, while TURGOT'S State Chairman, Mr. ROLAND S. MORRIS, | Was going into one of the severestspasms
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written cursorily upon the topic treated it. Mr. MORRIS is a member of the NO quarter from the low-down, born
more extensively by the other. In fact | Philadelphia bar but he was not chosen business and I give 1 shail
JEFFERSON while in Paris did pay com- | to the political office he occupies on ac- | the undertaker
pliments, more in politeness than ap-' count of his knowledge of the law. He | balming fluid. I believe that | 1i
proval, to the French school of philos- | was made Chairman for the reason that | know that the time is near a han or
ophy. But in the main there was little he could be depended upon to serve Mr. He 10. die Ill call Nell to my
in common in their doctrines. | PALMER, she is
TURGOT in his “Reflections on the For-| The Democratic State Organization is | want them
mation and Distribution of Riches,” sets not maintained for the purpose of pro- Bide tanned. Then I want it
up the proposition that all wealth comes | moting Democratic principles disseminat- : Seon fads and I wast Se, against
out of the soil, and we believe that to be | ing Democratic doctrines or harmoniz- | booze business
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gle taxers. But it is palpably erroneous | the puropose of exploiting Mr. PALMER'S | €Y that he ever had.”
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of the brains and muscles of men than; MICK'S vanity an pushing to the front a | place is hell.”
out of the land. TURGOT did not, how- | lot of little chronic kickers whose chief
ever, so far as we are able to discover, purpose and uncontrolable desire is to | Wagon” sermon, Sunday here remarked
claim that because land produced the! create and keep alive factional feeling hat he had “said 3 tow Svards efore,
wealth it should bear the burden of gov- within the party, in order that they may | He forgot to take a text, but he evident-
ernment by contributing all therevenues. ' attain to the position of leadership ly n none, because when he finish-
He favored other forms of taxation and among the few who are willing to follow | d With the appeal, “Now, I want every
encouraged rather than discouraged the them. With this object in view Mr. Rau Wiio oi say, Soe, you Sout
acquisition of land by individuals. Asa ROLAND S. MORRIS was elected chairman | mother and my chido any thac, mY
matter of fact TURGOT thought much as at the last annual meeting of the Com- | hood of America |
ApAM SMITH and other political econ- | mittee, because of all the Democrats | next time I get a ce, to Hse to his |
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omists wrote but he is less known for in the State, not already rewarded house of 8,500 ha
obvious reasons. | with office, he was the most servile ra oF u0umen the ut
{ In conclusion we beg to assure our | worshipper of PALMER. The question of | asked Billy and Bill's answer to that is |
| esteemed contemporary, Mr. WARREN | fitness never entered into the equation, | “Does every soldier who joins the army
| WORTH BAILEY, that we had no intention | Understanding of the law, experience in | pidke Les Is place
of provoking a controversy with him political management, familiarity with | world that there are ay some fellows
{ upon this or any other subject and have | the political history of the State or its | who drop along the road.”
| no inclination to pursue a fruitless dis- | workers were extraneous matters. The
| cussion. We stated the facts with re- | Organization was to be converted into Wool and the New Tarifl
| spect to the plans of himself and Mr. 'an instrument to boost PALMER and | Poa tie Wealitud _
! MCNAIR as we understood them and in | MORRIS was the most suitable material | Cotton Reporter.
| the issue of the Johnstown Democrat of available. wy Sales jor A po Leichiug the i
November 26 he admits the ascuracy of | Therefore we protest against the use oupestane ¥ is in an extremely
our statement. That is sufficient. There | of this incident as a reason for condemn- | healthy condition, Sieadyand fisgumitha
| are, as there always have been and al- | ing Mr. PALMER. And with even a great. | decidedly better feeling than been |
| ways will be, writers who quote from | er earnestness we protest against the | Aden ou oe WaelS: Conditionever. |
| authors not commonly known and per- employment of it as evidence of the in- | are much more likely to show a Blight |
| vert their statements to serve any pur- | sincerity of the reform professions of | advance after December 1, when the free |
| pose. Mr. MCNAIR might say that Tur- the Democratic party. The Organiza. | Wool clause becomes effective, than to |
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cheese, for example, and less than half and discharge other necessary pecuniary ro Roy Wo a he n i:
| the people would know he had falsified. obligations and the funds can only be | turers have the advantage of some cents |
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the constitution, an expression of con- | Therefore what's the use?
tempt for the traditions and laws of the | Palmer’s Friends Bolt.
land and full opportunity to work their —e
jaws from the stump. But this only and | The friends of Mr. A. MITCHELL PAL-
| original Progressive insists upon more.
- He wants a few sort of Christmas. “We | ized a revolt against the local Democrat-
| want,” he writes for one of the popular | ic organization there. Under the new
| magazines, “a men’s Christmas, a Christ- primary law members of the county com-
| MER, in Montgomery county, have organ-
mas that goes with the Singer Tower, mittee were chosen by popular vote in
with the ring of the subways under New | September and the committee was sub-
York, with the mighty railway stations, | sequently organized according to the |
with the Imperator, with Hell-Gate Bridge . statute. In the contest for chairman
—all those stern and splendid prayers in and other committee officers, however,
steel and stone.” the friends of Mr. PALMER were over-
That is what you might call robust and whelmingly defeated. In fact the close
strenuous progress. No weakling craves ' corporation which Mr. PALMER has been
for such a change in the forms of acher- organizing throughout the State was lit-
ished Christian festival. But this real ' erally “kicked out of court,” so far as
Progressive soars on in his rugged imag- | Montgomery county is concerned. But
ination. “We seek a Christ,” he adds, | they do not propose to submit to defeat
| “who grapples with the things and the though they do not even allege that there
acquired by soliciting subscriptions from | a pound on their raw material at home |
‘Democrats throughout the State, If 28 compared with their European com: |
Mere bk , ._ | petitors. The activity of German and
there happen to be any Republicans in | French buyers in England counteracts |
office they are under obligations to Mr. | any depressing British influence, and to |
PALMER for the favor and ought to be bring foreign wools to the level of the |
sufficiently appreciative to contribute. Boston market would require a recession
But whether they are or not Mr. PALMER | Bho s pera YOM prices Ie
is not to blame for the faux pas of Mr.! The reason why the wool industries are '
Morris. His name was put on the letter Standing up so much better than iron
| and steel at the present times e ned
head for another reason. by the fact that textile co Xplai
rem eeesesaeemen | not fiat testi orporations do
come into such immediate contact
Secretary of the Navy DANIELS | with government restrictions as do the |
favors a holiday in the matter of naval iron and steel mills, which are the prin- |
construction but recommends the build- | cipal sellers to public service corpora-
: ions. The difficulty of the great public
ing of two dreadnaughts, eight torpedo : Hous: :
| | corporations in financing them- |
boat destroyers and three submarines | selves at the present time is the fo
, during the next year and suggests that upon the horizon. The tariff changes
| the government obtain control of a fuel | Which would apply most severely to the
oil supply and build plants for making | Rextile dustry seem to have scarcely
‘armor plate. In other words he is will. | Er —————
ing that all other countries should re- | Evidently Has His Right Measurement.
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| sane hospital will also be built. Present high tax
rate is given as the reason for the delay.
| over’s store at Coalport. People living in part of
the building were aroused by the smoke and the
timely discovery saved the place from total
destruction.
~A turkey intended by Warden Berkey. of the
Somerset county jail, for the Thanksgiving din.
ner of the prisoners was stolen from the jail yard
the night before Thanksgiving. There was
great disappointment,” mitigated by the fine
place were given antiseptic baths at Somerset
this week, when institute authorities discovered
the fact that children from afflicted homes had
been in their schools.
~There was hard luck for William Brown, at
Norwich, a few days ago when he was struck by
a log and had an arm broken in three places. A
companion tried to take him to Keating Summit
; in a motor car, but the car broke down and had
to be pushed back to Norwich. He finally made
the journey on an engine.
~Some time ago some one entered the home of
Captain Daugherty, at Meyersdale and stole $16
from his grandson's bank. A few days ago
about $10 was found at the door, with a note
promising that the balance would be returned
and stating that the robber had been quite hard
up when the theft was committed.
—~Leaving his gun on the table “just a few
minutes” while he went to get his dog, George
Crawford, of Montoursville, returned to find that
his 4-year-old son and one a little older had been
weapon and that it had suddenly
“=A Westmoreland county jury gave A. G. Sax-
man $18,250, without interest, for the site of the
rowly escaped burning them to death and con-
sumed two adjacent dwellings. Mrs. Samuel
of the firemen saved the balance of the block.
~John G. Gunn, 32 years, ended an illness of
many years on Saturday night at his home at
Springfield, Pa., whenhe held a gunso close to
his body that its discharge set fire to his clothing.
The sound of the report aroused a brother with
whom he lived and when the body was found the
clothing surrounding the wound was burning.
~C. W. Wagner, a foreman at the lumber
camp near Donally’s Mills, with several com-
panions was riding up the incline in a car when
it broke away and went down the steep grade.
The other men jumped but Wagner remained in
the car and was killed. I is said that all the
men had been drinking and that Wagner was in
a stupgr.
~Somebody played a joke of which Barnes-
boro’s chief of police, Ellis Davis was victim.
He bought a rabbit that had been presented to
a friend and found that the carcass had been
vemoved and the hide carefully stuffed. The
friend from whom he bought it avows his immo-
cence and both are out on the hunt for the per-
petrator of the joke.
=It cost Lewis Sheffer, of Williamsport, the
price of a turkey and also the price of two tires
for his electric runabout io get the bird home
from market. He was holding the bird with one
hand and driving with the other when the flap-
ping of the turkey's wings caused him to lose
control and he collided with a market van, punc-
turing both front tires.
—Commissioners of Crawford county have an-
nounced they will cease to pay bounties on nox-
ious birds and animals after December 15 next.
On October 15 the commissioners sent to the
State Department a claim for $187, the amount
paid ou. up to that time for bounties under the
old scalp bounty law. All they received in ex-
change was a check for $31. No explanation as
to why the amount was pared down to such small
proportions accompanied the remmittance.
~At the Lewistown hospital, on Thanksgiving
day, Mrs. F. W. Kieferle died of blood poison
caused by the prick of a needle in the palm of
her right hand almost a month ago. Mrs. Kei-
ferle wasdoing some mending at her home on
October 20th when she dropped her needle.
Stooping to pick it up, she misjudged the dis.
men we see about us every day, with the
| shrewd hopes, the sublime risks, the vis-
ions and desires of the deep-hearted city.
man MoORRis denouncing the new Pri- | A Christmas that is afraid of us and sus-
maries act, Barkis BERRY making goo- | picious of democracy or crowds, tremu-
800 eyes at the Governor's chair, the lous about great cities; that does not
Democrats in Montgomery county doub- ' dare tackle a big, serious, actual, social
le-crossing the dear MiTcHELL P. and human fact like a skyscraper, with its re-
JiMMIE BLAKESLIE sending slices of the ligion; a Christmas that in its secret
White House wedding cake to his Carbon | heart longs for dells to be good in, pre-
county constituents, we want you to un- | fers village-greens for God, and all those
derstand that the Democracy of Penn- dear old gentle cross-road altars—we will
sylvania is reorganized almost good mot put up with it.” Of course not.
enough to get bookings on a Keith cir-
cuit.
—Democratic State Chairman ROLAND
S. Morris made a speech in Spring Gar-
den Unitarian church, Philadelphia, Sun-
day night. Aside from the comfort that
may be found in knowing that our State
Chairman is on such easy terms with the
inside of a church as to be making
speeches there we are particularly grati-
fied to learn that the young gentleman
has declared himself against the new |
primary law and favors a return to the
convention system of making party
nominations. Long ago the WATCHMAN
explained just what would happen
through the new primaries act and, at
once, a lot of "near Democrats” began to |
howl that the WATCHMAN was against |
the state organization because it pointed
out the faults in the measure and how
its operation would injure the Democrat.
ic party. Everyone who knows any
thing about it knows that our prediction i
has come true and now even chairman
MORRIS mounts the pulpit in a church to
tell the Democrats of the State that the
new primary system is a step backward. |
Those are the simple forms of reaction-
aries.
Within the shadow of this stalwart re-
former how the pigmies who rail at law,
tradition and convention dwindle into in-
significance? But that is what we are |
coming to. The paths blazed by Roose-
VELT and his kind lead logically inte this
ultimate garrison. They are only the ad-
vance guard of a force which, if it at-
tains sufficient strength, will trample
| down all the cherished forms of social
and material development which have
advanced civilization to its present high
plane. They are content with covert at-
tacks upon our form of government, and
cncouraged by the plaudits of those who
prefer no government, preach the doc-
trines of disorder. But this new Pro.
gressive goes the limit and levels his
shafts against the citadel of Christian
devotion.
It is a monstrous proposition—an ab-
horrent thought. Yet if some adventur-
ous outlaws would organize a party upon
that platform, W. H. BERRY would proba-
bly accept its nomination for Governor.
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| was either fraud or irregularity in the
| achievement.
| Some two or three weeks ago a move-
| ment to overthrow the regular organiza-
| tion was begun by a gentleman whom
| Mr. PALMER had recently had appointed
2 customs appraiser in the Philadelphia
custom house and a resident of Norris-
town. He was assisted in this enterprise
by Congressman DIFFENDERFER, who pub-
licly declared, more than a year ago, a
desire to abandon the Democratic party
and join a force to operate upon a plat-
form something similar to that of Roose-
VELT. A few other aspirants for office
. joined in the movement and sort of a
| preliminary committee was created in
the expectation, probably, thatit will be
recognized as the local Democratic or-
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Republican machine of the county.
There is no justification for this party
recreancy outside of the personal ambi-
tion of A. MITCHELL PALMER to control
the politics of the State. If the Demo-
crats of Montgomery county had desired
his friend to manage the party affairs
they would have chosen committeemen
favorable to him. They had ample op-
portunity in the open primary if they
frain from strengthening their navies for | — tance and ran the eyelet end into the palm of her
1 as long a time as they like. | From the Clearfield Republican. . hand. A red silk thread was in the needle. That
i ET — | The intellectual runt, whose name ap- | night the wound showed signs of infection and
| =——The resignation of Mayor SHANK pears at the masthead of the Centre all that could be done was tried in the effort to
of Indianapolis hardly rises to the level | Democrat. of Bellefonte, as editor and
of heroism. If he had fulfilled his moral | SNe; 20d who is now on Uncle Sam's
and legal obligations the threat of im- | ia, imagines he is having some fun
' peachment could have had no terrors for | with the editor of the ican over the
“him and a hero under such circumstances result of the recent j ip contest in
' would have held his ground to serve the | i a i oo The editor of
| this Japer frankly admits he cannot
cause he had espoused.
m—— game after the manner |
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—Clearfield county will have another murder
trial, the result of a shooting affair which oc-
curred on Thanksgiving evening at Madera. The
man killed was Guido laquinto, who was living
with the wife of Germia Acotelli, bothof whom
carried weapons and were on the lookout for
each other. Acotelli went to the former's home,
called him out and shot him twice, resulting in
instant death. He then fled, but was captured at
Belsena Friday morning, and after a hearing
ganization by Mr. PALMER'S servile State
committee. It is also encouraged by the
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American Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers. As Mr. WESTINGHOUSE had al-
ready gathered in a fair proportion of |
the “mazuma” this token comes to him |
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' ducing coal bills which is probably what | But why does not the hen lay today? | a talkative mood, and denied committing the
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| Mr. ROCKEFELLER really had in mind. | answer to. the question why the price hoe Everitt. He never flinched until the drop was
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gone tp: The hen has something sise
' revolutionary army has announced “hie |
intention of piercing the heart of Mexi- | brood
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. of Civil Service officials. i ths WATCHMAN Office, : tise in the WATCHMAN,
; stating that he intends to plug the hide | which must be ready before
were in the majority. In fact they tried | a party of the name of HUERTA. U
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autocracy and voted for men of sufficient Duke of Connaught in the loss of his daily pursuit without interruption; but
independence to serve the party rather valuable jewels. It will be especially | She ust shed her old suit and rais
than obey an arrogant boss. But Mr. hard on him to go without the garter | jt as it grows, and at the same time store
PALMER refuses to accept defeat. He which was among the baubles. But rub- | up energy to keep her well and strong
got into power by usurpation and pro- | ber bands are cheap. | during the extreme cold weather.
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prison for not less than one year nor more than
three years. With money provided by friends,
Hogan landed in Cleveland a week ago. He told
the judge today he was drugged in Youngstown,
0.,last Monday, and knew nothing again until he
was arrested in Franklin on Monday. Hogan
is probably the same man who left the new peni-
tentiary in Benner township in August, came to
Bellefonte and went as far as Tyrone where he
was next A
cher term af Cou He was tried at jhe
about a month ago. oly