—— BY P. GRAY MEEK. ansmn INK SLINGS. —Sunday night’s rain made the plowing easier and the corn nubbins longer. —The Philadelphia “North Ameri- can” is making a noise like it was try- ing to hail the Wilson band wogon. —Hughes said it all when he ex- claimed “I am one hundred per cent candidate.” There seems to be noth- ing else to him. —Justice Hughes took a hike into the Rocky mountains, the other day, so the news bureaus report. He is in training for the “also ran” class, you know. —There are 263,315 girl stenog- raphers employed in this country and that is one of the reasons why the wives of sc many of their employers are prematurely gray. —1It has really been one of the least things he has done, but if President Wilson had done nothing else than keep us out of the war that has em- broiled almost the whole world he would still be worthy our vote for gratitude. —-Since reading the recent order of the State Health Department putting a ban on large gatherings of little folks we are inclined to believe that the moving of Bill Bathurst and his family to a western State, some time ago, was truly providential. —Just as if there were nct enough people fighting new Roumania has de- clared war on Austria and lined her six hundred thousand soldiers up with the Allies. Greece will be in it next and then Spain will be the only coun- try of Continental Europe, worth con- sideration, that is not involved in the great war. —The tomb of an Egyptian noble- man which was built 4,500 years ago has been placed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We presume, what was left of the nobleman was chuck- ed to the winds. What’s the use of anything anyhow, when art has to grab one’s last resting place so that one more curio can be listed in the catalogue. —We are expecting some thrills in Corporal Cohen’s weekly letters from the border ere long. Troop L has re- ceived new horses, many of them out- laws, and you know we sent some boys _to the front who were better motor drivers than horsemen. We surely do expect a few stories about their tail lights, for they certainly will have scme of then. —So candidate Hughes would re- erect that old Chinese tariff wall again if he were elected President. Will candidate Hughes please tell us how, with a prohibitive tariff, Europe would ever be able to pay us back the money she has borrowed from us dur- ing the war or buy any of our grain, cotton, iron and steel, if she can’t pay part of it in products of her own man- ufacture. His Whiskers seems to have lost sight of the fact that the United States is the creditor nation of the world. —The Atlantic City authorities having put the ban on bare legged bathing costumes for girls the re- sourceful maidens at that resort have taken to painting their extremities in imitation of stockings. For some of them the fine pencils they use when decorating their faces would probably serve for the new purpose, but we have seen specimens on the Beach that would require a whitewash brush and at that their owners would have time for only one plunge a day. —DBellefonte will pay higher taxes this year than ever befcre in her his- tory. Thirty-seven mills is the ag- gregate of the levy and that is a very high tax rate. Fifteen mills are laid for school purposes, as against twelve last year. We have wonderful schools, so far as reputation for effi- ciency is concerned, but what puzzles most people is why is the attendance so consistently increasing while our population is at a standstill? Part of it is accounted for by the large at- tendance of scholars from outlying districts. —The text of Dr. Dixon’s most recent weekly health letter is the _ combination of the green apple and the small boy. Years ago the Doc- tor’s thoughts were set to music in the “Mikado” in the following little parody of the “Tit Willow” song: A little green apple hung up in a tree Singing, Johnny; come Jchnny, come John- ny, And it ye as green as an apple could be Singing, Johany; come Johnny, come John- ny. The lad tonk it down in his own childish way And ate it all up as his own lawful prey The angels in heaven are singing today Here's Johnny ; here’s Johnny; here's John- ny. Parents who are so distressed because of the prevalence of infantile paraly- sis should bear in mind the fact that the green apple is quite as much to be feared. - STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 61. _ Hughes is the German Candidate. The voters of the country should not lose sight of the fact that Justice Hughes is not the candidate of any American political party or even the faction of a party. It is true that a large number of Republicans prefer- red him to Roosevelt and there was apprehension that unless he was nom- inated Roosevelt would be forced upon the party ticket. But the sentiment which led up to this condition was created by the activities of the Ger- man embassy in Washington and the agents of the German government sent here to destroy American indus- tries. If the mailed hand of the Kai- ser William had not been stretched across the sea Hughes wouldn’t have had a score of votes in the Republican convention. The nomination of Hughes by the Republican Naticnal convention was as much a feature of Emperor Wil- liam’s preparedness programme as the development of the Krupp muni- tion plant. It was the medium through which the German Emperor hoped te prevent the shipment. of arms and munitions from this country to Great Britain, France and Russia. Fully capable of supplying his own armies with all the munitions of war needed the Emperor knew that if he could stop the supplies to his enemies, the conquest of Europe would be cer- tain. But he was unable to swerve the administration of Woodrow Wil- son from the strict neutrality declar- ed at the beginning of hostilities and he set himself to overturning the ad- ministration. It is for the voters of the United States to determine whether or not this conspiracy shall succeed. The war will not be ended when the vote is taken and if Justice Hughes is elected the triumph of militarism, not only in Europe but throughout the world is inevitable. It is a big stake the German Empire is playing for and if it wins it will be a sad blow to civil and religious liberty throughout the world. But we have no fear of such a result. We have confidence in American people and these sublime qualities will secure us from such a calamity as the election of Hughes. But the price of liberty is vigilance now as it has ever been. Misunderstand Roosevelt. Our esteemed contemporary, the Philadelphia “Record,” doesn’t under- stand Theodore Roosevelt. It imag- ines that some condition might arise under which Roosevelt would with- hold his support from Justice Hughes in the pending campaign and at the coming election. It actually believes that if the Republican candidate were to publicly acknowledge his obliga- tions to the German-American alli- ance Roosevelt would sever his alle- giance to the Penrose-Barnes-Crane- Cannon combination. Nothing could be further from the facts. Roosevelt would support Hughes, so long as Woodrow Wilson is his antagonist, if he should frankly admit that von Papen and. Boy-Ed had secured his nomiration. Roosevelt has neither moral nor political principles. His actions are influenced entirely by passion and prejudice. From the day he was ele- vated to the Presidency, by the crime of an assassin, he determined to re- main in that office until his death. The panic of 1907 prevented his nom- ination in 1908 and Woodrow Wilson prevented the fulfillment of his ambi- tion in 1912. Because of that he be- came obsessed with a hatred of Wil- son which will never be appeased nor abated. He would have liked above all things to be the only candidate against Wilson this year for in his absurd egotism he believes that, in that event, he could be elected. But failing of the nomination he would support any man living against the Democratic nomir.ee. Because of this abnormal antipathy to Woodrow Wilson Theodore Rocse- velt may be depended upon to support Justice Hughes no matter what hap- pens and regardless of any alliances which may be made with the Ger- mans or with any other element of the electorate. Besides, it may well be doubted if Roosevelt is sincere in his denunciation of the undersea op- erations of the German government, He took up that matter because he hoped it would promote his ambition to be re-elected President and would have taken the other side of the sub- ject if the promise of profit had heen greater. But he will support Hughes with all the earnestness, vituperation and malignancy he can command. BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMB ER 1, 1916. Newspapers and the Campaign. The chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Vance C. Me- Cormick, has returned from a visit in Maine with most encouraging re- ports of political conditions in that State. “The great problem that confronts the party,” he said during a conference in Washington, “is get- ting its case before the public, as war and international affairs have crowd- ed the campaign off the front pages of the newspapers.” His remedy for this condition is oratory and he urg- ed speakers to volunteer for service. “It is planned,” he added, “tc have a rousing Democratic start in Maine, and then carry on the fight actively elsewhere, concentrating in the doubtful States.” The campaign is never crowded off the front pages of the newspapers that are worth while in a political campaign. The so-called metropoli- tan papers which are usually edited in the counting rcom and the editors of which have no political convic- tions give conspicuous position to the topics which appeal to the purse to the neglect of the more important questions of government. But they don’t count much in the political equation anyway and it makes little difference what political news they print. The country weekly papers never so deteriorate. They are in- fluenced by higher impulses and bet- ter motives than that of accumulat- ing money and invariably give their hest energies and ‘efforts to conserv- ing the public good as they under- stand it. The fault of campaign managers in recent years lies in the fact that they have neglected the local party news- papers and permitted them to fall in- to decay. It is not that the editors and publishers of these papers want material aid beyond that which comes in the legitimate course of business. But they are entitled to the moral support -and ‘eneouragement which will recompense them for the finan- cial sacrifices freely made in the in- i terest of the principles they profess. the intelligence and patriotism of the If Chairman McCormick and his col- leagues in the management of the campaign will invite or allow the country JDemocratic papers to pre- sent the case to the public it will be done cheerfully and effectively. rindi Senator Oliver's Strange Idea. Senator Oliver addressed the Sen- ate on Monday and denounced the pending revenue bil: in scathing terms. He was particularly severe in his criticism of the income feature of that measure because of its dis- crimination against the rich and in favor of those less able to bear the burdens of taxation. “The Demo- crats,” he said, “are trying to make a small percentage of the public pay the entire expense of the national de- fense program.” In his mind such discrimination is intolerable. He hasn’t been used to it. Having ac- cumulated a vast fortune from the labors of others, he now imagines that those who earned his money for him ought to be compelled to protect him in possession of it. Senator Oliver is essentially a re- actionary. Heé can see no reason why labor should not bear all the bur- dens of the government as it creates most of the wealth. The policy of the Republican party from the beginning has beer in line with this thought. Rich men are here to enjoy the fruits of labor, according to his reasoning, not to pay the expenses, of producing them. Even in tariff schedules the practice of that party has been to levy a higher tax on the cheap pro- ducts consumed by the poor than is imposed upon the more expensive ar- ticles consumed by the rich. He would tax coal at the rate of one hundred per cent. and diamonds at ten. That is his idea of political science. “If I had the framing of an income tax law, admitting it to be necessa- ry,” he added, “I would provide for the payment of a small income tax, say one per cent., upon all incomes ranging from $1000 to $4000, and the only reason that I would exempt those lower than $1000, is because it would cost more to collect those small sums than the returns would justify.” Obviously Mr. Oliver wants to get ‘at the earnings of the puddlers, heaters and other mill workers who made him rich “beyond the dreams of avarice.” But it would cost too much to put their noses on the grindstone, and he is willing to forego that pleasure. Possibly he thinks that some of the cost of collection would fall on him. Bank Statistics Show Prosperity. During the fiscal year ended J une 30, according to the record in the of- fice of the State Banking Commis- sioner, the banking institutions under the supervision of that official gained in resources $150,000,000. The total deposits in such institutions increased during the year $142,000,000; loans and discounts increased $45,000,000 and trust funds increased $76,000,000. The amount due from approved re- Serve agents increased $33,000,000 and the liabilities, such as bills pay- ‘able and rediscounts decreased ' $2,- 500,000. These institutions: embrace the Savings institutions, trust com- panies and State banks, usually the depositories and financial agents of the smaller business operatives. During this period of industrial and commercial prosperity the Republican newspapers and stump speakers have been dinning howls of calamity into the public ear. Within the last month the Republican candidate for Presi- dent has been telling the people of the West that the country is on the slid- ing board rushing with mad velocity into the depths of ruin. Because of the reduction in tariff taxes, he has been lamenting that the industrial and financial fabrics of the country have fallen into hopeless disaster. We must have such protection as the Dingley or Payne tariff laws afforded, he has declared many times every day, or poverty, industrial paralysis and commercial bankruptcy are inevita- ble. The records of the State banking department is the ample and com- plete answer to the cheap demagogy which Justice Hughes has been hand- ing out to the people of the West dur- ing his campaign tour. In every re- spect the country is enjoying an era of prosperity unparalleled in its fi- nancial and industrial history. Men are not only making big wages but fi'ey are saving money as the bank er put a dollar in a bank to the credit of the wage earner. It fattens the plutocrat and provides campaign funds to promote monopoly. But real prosperity is the logical fruit of decreased taxes and if the war had not intervened the cost of living would have decreased with the taxes. —No, there is no truth in the report that the Hon. Deacon Harris, with Our Boys band, will meet Governor Brumbaugh and his party at the coun- ty line when they come touring through Centre county next month. We understand, however, that G. ashington Rees Esq., is arranging to decorate his law-shop the day the Governor goes through. If this be so we would suggest the Forget-me-Not as being very appropriate as the pre- vailing flower in the decorations —The value of the horses on the farms of the United States is estimat- ed as being eight hundred million dollars more than that of all the au- tomobiles in the country. When roads are being built a care should be had to conserve the great wealth we have in horseflesh as well as to make riding easier for the automobilist. et a —Of course there is great need for hospital supplies and other camp com- forts on the various battle fronts in Eu- rope and by the same token some such luxuries would be welcomed on: the Mexican border Pennsylvania’s valiant sons are offering their lives for the glory of our own coun- try. ——Captain Koenig of the Deutsch- land is singing praises of the people of the United States since his safe ar- rival at-his home port. He might communicate some of the sentiment thus expressed to the hyphenates in this country who insist that America favors the allies. Hungry “Hi” will pay his com- pliments to “his whiskers” after the California primaries and at the same time show the Republican machine who is who in that neck of the woods. ——The Republican committee ' claims Maine by 8000 plurality and "measured by the rule of averages ‘that will be a defeat rather than a victory. ——Probably Roosevelt is afraid | that he will be taker with stage fright. Anyway he has never been | any 2 A J . Fritz’s warning were given serious silent so long a time before. —Villa’s bands may be broken up but what this country wants to see broken is Villa’s back. i i deposits show. Protective “tariff nev- | where thousands of | | NO. 34, Opening Our Markets. From the Springfield Repubcilan. The cry for the restoration of the old high tariff, which Mr. Hughes ap- pears to be encouraging, ignores the fact that the United States has already been transformed from a debtor to a creditor nation. Our bank- ers have now loaned in money or credit to foreign countries, mainly governments, since the war started the enormous sum of $1,459,450,000, of which $344,450,000 has been loaned to neutrial countries and Canada. Be- fore the war ends American loans to foreign countries may easily total $3,- 000,000,000. The question arises how these immense loans are to be repaid; how is the interest on them to be met by the borrowers abroad? Our awn annual curities, held in Europe, in the way of interest and dividends, have been greatly reduced by the heavy resale in our stock markets of these for- eign-held stocks znd bonds, estimated to be in amount as high as $2,000,- 000,000; and this liquidation is by no means ended. When the war ends, consequently, our foreign debtors must find some way of paying their money debt to us, in addition to the payment for their necessary pur- chases of our grain, cotton and food- stuffs, to say nothing of what they may buy of American manufactured articles. A Europe that must pay interest on some $3,000,000,000 in loans and also pay for our grain, cotton, food- stuffs and metal each year, cannot meet its obligations to creditor America in gold alone. What our tour- ists may spend abroad will help some to balance the indebtedness to Amer- ica, and so will the freight charges which our exporters may pay to for- eign shipping. But, in the main, all foreign countries would naturally pay their debts to America in goods. It may be questioned if they would have anything else to pay debts with. If it is to be our policy to prevent them from paying us with goods, they would inevitably drive Americans out of the neutral markets now opened up to our trade by inundating them with merchandise at low prices. A return to the high protection which Mr, Hughes’s speeches seem to foreshadow would probably cause our export trade to disappeer as rapidly as it has developed. Wa Ry The United States cannot hope to maintain its foreign trade, it cannot possibly sustain its prestige as a cred- itor nation after the war ends, unless it determines to offer something of a market for the products of the coun- tries which have so enormously bought American manufoctured goods and borrowed American money on such an unprecedented scale. How to strike a wise mean in a trade policy will be difficult, but there is little hope of striking it by raising once more the Chinese wall of ists. Extra Dividends for Standard Oil From the Waterbury (Conn.) Evening Demo- crat. Listen, ye automobile owners who have to dig up 25 cents for a gallon of gasoline. The Standard Oil of Indi- ana is thinking of cuiting a big fat, juicy melor. shortly. It used to be 3 per cent quarterly. The stockholders will now get 3 per cent additional. Now let’s get down . to simple econ- omics. Increased demand means higher prices. That’s one point scored for the Standard Oil. But we hear that the output of “gas” has in- creased enormously, especially these last 12 months. Point two—increased supply means lower prices. One point scored for the auto owner. Put one and two together and they’ll practic- ally neutralize each other. The price of “gas” should have been almost stationary, therefore. Yet the price now has doubled that of a year ago! The Standard Oil justifies the rise in price by the increased demand. (Nothing said about increased supply mind you.) But it keeps shut about the rise in profits! It seems the Stand- ard Oil’s mouth is playing traitor to its hands! All the same, you will eep on providing extra dividends to Standard Oil stockholders until they happen to think of you, or some such other calamity befalls them. Protesting Against Paralysis Hys- teria. From the Altoona Mirror. Dr. Wallace Fritz, president of the National Association of Drugless Phy- sicians, protests that infantile paraly- sis isn’t responsible for anywhere near all the cases that are charged to it. “At present,” he says, “all sum- mer complaints are being classified as infantile paralysis. We hear of no deaths from cholera infantum, con- vulsions, marasmus or other diseases of children.” His statement may be supported by the fact that in New York, where the polimylelitis epidemic is credited with the greatest number of deaths, the total child mortality this summer is less than usual. However that may be, it seems quite possible that some physicians are over-hasty in diagnos- ing children’s ailments as infantile paralysis, and certainly most laymen are too ready to accept such a diag- nosis. The plague is enough without any needless exaggeration. If Dr. consideration in every community, might not thousands of parents be spared untold worry and fear? —Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN. Shi sLions on American se-- the high protection- | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. | —Former Governor Samuel W. Pennypack- | er is lying seriously ill at his home at Schwenksville. ! —Punxsutawney groundhog experts, armed | with one crow-bar, four rifles, two picks, a shovel and two pistols, rounded up 13 wood- chucks at Marion Center one afternoon last week. —When Roy Clark, aged 66, and Fred Clark, aged 80, brothers, of Warren couaty, were taken to the almshouse on Wednesday of last week, the former experienced his first au- tomobile ride and the latter ate his first meal away from the homestead where he was “born and raised.” —Hon. B. F. Chase, of Clearfield, who has been the American Consul at Fiume, Hunga- ry, for the past two years, recently arrived in New York, from war torn Europe and will take a rest at his home before leaving for San Jose, Central America, where he will of- ficiate as consul for Uncle Sam. —Beginning today, the Pittsburgh & Shaw- mut railroad will sever its agreement with the Shawmut Northern Railroad and will op- erate its line from Brockwayville to Pitts burgh, from the Kittanning offices, independ- ently. The receiver will continue to operate the Northern road from the St. Mary's office. —Preferring to have his savings under his pillow instead of in a bank resulted in Stan- ley Dixon, of Exchange, Montour county, los- ing his wad of $430. A four-year-old daugh- ter found the “nice” greenbacks in a bag in the bed and took them outside to play with. Some passerby helped the tot to play, and the wad dizappeared. —The Clearfield Overall company, with an authorized capital of $20,000, will open up a plant during the second week of - September and will manufacture a high grade of over- alls. The company will begin operations with between twenty-five and thirty employees at the first and as rapidly as help can be secur- ed this number will be increased. —The Bethlehem Steel company, it was an- nounced on Tuesday has let a contract to the Raymond Concrete Pile company, of New York, for the construction of the foundation for a new 500-ton blast furnace at the Steel- ton plant. The steel company’s construction department will do the structural work. The new furnace will cost approximately $250,000. —Six Morrisdale Mines women walked five miles, picked big buckets full of blackberries on Wednesday of last week. Just when they were starting for home, a stern-faced little woman armed with a clothes-basket, stopped them and notified them she owned the berries and suggested that they place the fruitéin her basket or suffer arrest. They turned the ber- ries over. —Rev. W. R. Robinson, serving the Oak- land and Mineral Point charges of the Metho- dist Episcopal church since last fall, has re- signed and was married Tuesday morning to Miss Anna Davis, of Mineral Point. The min- ister will take a position with a glass compa- ny in Jeanette. It is understood that the sal- ary attached to his charge was not sufficient to support a wife and he decided to give up the pulpit. : —W. S. Mason, a resident of Punxsutaw- ney, claims to be an eye witness to four mur- ders, each of which was commtited with a dagger. He saw William Johnson kill Levi Enis in a Pittsburgh bowling alley in 1873; saw Martin Harder kill William Dale at Clearfield in 1875, and in 1881 he saw George Claypool kill Frank Googe at Richburg, New York, and witnessed the killing of “Cap” .. Markey by Jack McCarthy at the same place. —The destruction by fire on Saturday morning of the large barn on the farm of Samuel C. Tussey, at the southern outskirts of Gaysport, was a great loss to Mr. Tuessey, who is one of the leading farmers of Blair county. The big frame structure was entire- ly consumed, together with all the season’s crops, farming implements and other con- tents, entailing a total loss of fully $10,000, only a small portion of which was covered by insurance. —The site for the new town which is to be located near Beulah Crossroads, Cambria county, is rapidly being cleared of underbrush and trees by workmen of the Monroe Coal company. The work of constructing the houses for the miners will be started shortly. No name has yet beer selected for the new town. B. Dawson Coleman and John H. Wea- ver, of Philadelphia, are the moving spirits in the Monroe Coal company which is preparing to open extensive operations at the new field. —Good will, plant, fixtures and subserip- tion lists of the Pennsylvania “Post,” a Har- 1isburg newspaper published for colored peo~ ple, was sold on Tuesday for $85 to Charles P. Walter, alderman of the Eighth ward and a local contractor. The plant was sold at a sheriff’s sale to satisfy a $500 rent claim. Mr, Walter will continue the publication. with changes in the editorial policy which hereto- fore has been antagonistic tc the ‘Republican machine. The newspaper was edited by W. H. Craighead. . —Beginning September ist employees of the Atlantic Refining company all over the + United States will receive an increase of wages amounting to 10 per cent. for the la- boring men and 6 per cent. for the man earn- ing $3 per day. The increase is given volun- tarily by the Atlantic Refining company in addition to the dividends amounting to 12 per cent. granted some three or four months ago. The increase in wages includes all hour and piece workers, many thousand employees being affected by the increase. The Atlantic Refining Co. employees everywhere will appre- ciate the increase. —On Friday morning Cherles Spencer and Alexander Duey, two young men, met with an accident near Houtzdale in which Spencer was instantly killed and Duey was badly in- jured. Lieutenant Linn Hutchinson, who was near the scene at the time was a witness to the sad affair. The men were driving a small Ford car at a twenty-five mile clip when the “Henry” turned turtle, pinning Spencer un- ° der the body of the car. Duey was thrown clear of the wreckage. Spencer is a married man with a family and resided shout two miles west of Curwensville. Duey’s home is about a half mile from Houtzdale. The men had attended the firemen’s convention in Clearfield and Spencer was taking Duey home. —Two trains of 170 cars, loaded with steel rails, passed through the Ernst Hollidaysburg classification yards of the Pennsylvania rail- road, on Sunday, destined for Seattle, Wash., where they will be transferred to boats, des- tined for Vladivostok, Siberia. There are suf- ficient rails in the consignment to build 100 miles of railroad track along the Russian bat- tle front. These rails were manufactured at the plant of an eastern concern, and repre- sent an amount of money, which if placed to the credit of the average citizen, would be sufficient to keep him in luxury for the re- mainder, of his life time, and have plenty * left, over which heirs might fight. If no mis- | fortune occurs to the cargo enroute itis a | safe prediction that the rails will cut no small figure in the European war.
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