THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTAm.ISHEI) 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consoudatkd 1869.
ruw.iRHKD Evkry Thursday Morning,
At Woomsliurg, the County Sent of
Columbia County, I'cnnsylvania.
GEO. E. ELWELL, EnrroR
1). J. TASKER, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KOAN, Foreman.
Terms : Inside the county fit. 00 a year
in advance; $1.50 if not paid in alvance.
Outside the county, ft. 25 a year, strictly in
dvnnce.
All communications should le addressed I
Bloomsburg, I'a.
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, loooT"
Democratic Candidates.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
R. G. F. KSHINKA,
(North Side)
of Bnarcreek Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
FRED. IKELER,
(North Side)
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
A. P. YOUNG,
of Greenwood Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
WILLIAM T. CREASY,
(South Side)
of Catawissa Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
(North Side)
GEORGE W. STERNER,
of Hemlock Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
(South Side)
C. Z. SCHLICHER,
of Beaver Twp.
FOR SHERIFF,
DANIEL KNORR,
of Locust Twp.
Democratic Standing Committee Call
. A meeting of the standing com
mittee - will be held in the Court
House, at Bloomsburg, Pa., Satur
day, March 17th, 1900, at eleven
o'clock a. m., for the purpose of
elect ng five delegates to the State
Convention, and for the transaction
of any other business that may
properly come before the committee
C. A. Small, Chairman
R. G.F. Ksiiinka.) s ,
W. A. Evert, j-oecs.
William Hummel has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree
at Wilhamsport, and sentenced to
be hung. The jury was quick to
arrive at a verdict.
The State Superior Court has
affirmed a ruling made recently by
judge Gordon, of Clearfield county
that it is illegal for persons holding
auctions or a public sale to hav
c . 1 .
inenas Did up tne property to pre
vent a sacrifice. Such bidding
wuile a common custom, n held to
be fraudulent and will vitiate th
sale.
The full scope ot Mr. Quay'
scheme has just leaked out. If he
can persuade a majority of the Sen
aiors 10 vote 10 admit mru on
Stone's appointment, he can easily
iic minKs, manage to Keep a grip
on tne otnee indefinitely, with the
precedent once estaoiisned Me can
expect the Senate to seat him again
on btone's appointment when he
ties up the legislature again. He
has picked out Elkin to succeed
Stone as governor and he will be as
obedient as Stone. With his own
chattel governor and a pliable sen
ate, what is to prevent Mr. Quay
from misrepresenting this state at
Washington indefinitely? All he
needs is a handfull of retainers in
the legislature, who will vote for
nobody but him and will refuse to
be bound by a caucus because the
Insurgents so refused. Will the
senate place Pennsylvania in thi
pitiable predicament? Ex.
Republican papers are now ex
plaining why the President has
changed his position in regard to
free trade with Puerto Rico which
ne recommended in a message to
congress as follows: "Our plain duty
is to abolish all customs tariffs be
tween the Unitetl States and Puerto
Rico, and give her products free ac
cess to our markets." But the Re
publican congress disagreed with
him, and presto chance, he is now
in favor of a tariff, but to let himself
down easy he recommends that the
proceeds of the tariff be used for the
benefit of the island. Iti other word
he would levy a tax on the people
oi ruerto Kico and then give it bick
10 tnein, less the cost of collection
We don t see much charity 111 this
way of doing business, for the people
win te worse oft, the cost of collec
tion, than if no tariff was levied.
But as Puerto Rico is now under
the jurisdiction of the United States
by what authority is a tariff levied
any way? As well might we levy
a tariff on our trade with Arizona
and New Mexico which are terri
tories under the jurisdiction of the
Uuited States. Ex.
The infamous Loud bill has made
its appeal ance again in Congress.
This time it is more adroitly drawn
than on former occasions but it con
tains all the venom of its predeces
sors in a more condensed and some
what more disguised form. The
ostensible object and purpose of the
bill is to prevent the abuse of the
United States mails as a distributing
agency for free advertising publica
tions and other matter that does not
strictly come under the heading of
second-class mail matter. The real
obj ect of the bill, however, is to pre
pare tne way for the most insidious,
dangerous and accursed of all trusts,
namely, a trust in public intelli
gence. It is designed to enable the
rich and powerful to throttle public
intelligence by making it impossible
for men of average means to estab
lish newspapers and build them up
upon their own merits. If the Loud
bill should become the law of the
laud newspapers in the future could
only be established by the rich who
would be able to pay high rates for
circulating them, and for advertis
ing them in other publications, and
as the price of all newspapeis under
such circumstances would greatly
increase, this great avenue of public
intelligence would be permanently
cut off from the millions of homes
who depend for news upon weekly
publications. Under such a law
the great city dailies that are con
trolled by the money kings and
monopolies would become the only
open avenue of public intelligence.
Ex.
BOW 18 THIS?
In one of the weeklv periodicals,
which I am receiving, and in which
I have always placed full confi
dence, I find the following :
" As one result of American oc
cupancy of Manila, says the Wine
and Spirit News, the liquor business
has reached enterprising propor
tions tnd is now considered as one
of the leading, as well as one of the
respectable kinds of business. Says
one correspondent : On the Escolta,
the principal street, only a quarter
of a mile long, there were but two
places where intoxicating liquors
were sold, when we entered the
city, wnereas, now mere are
eighteen."
It really seems to me that we are
rushing American civilization into
our new possessions with a ven
geance. We are told by those who favor
the expansion movement that God
is in it and overruling it all. Well,
if He is, I can only account for it
on the theory that I have often
heard quoted, " God moves in a
mysterious way, His wonders to
perform." But it really looks to
me as if that other old chap, about
whom our preachers are won't to
indulge in some very uncompli
mentary remarks, has been getting
in some ot his fine work. If he
has not, I think he may safely leave
his interest in that part of his dio
cese in the hands of McKinley &
Co. It is a question in my mind
whether he could improve any on
their work.
The same paper, from which I
quoted above, states further that
there are three hundred licensed
places 111 the city where liquors
may be obtained, licenses costinsr
$3.00 per year. The question arises,
who grants those licenses? Evi
dently, the power that Grants them.
uas no idea of crippling the traffic
by means of high license. Perhaps,
the old chap, before leaving the field
to our military authorities, sug
gested the idea that it were better
to get the business in good work
ing order before attempting to draw
large revenue lrom it. He has
not yet lost his cunning, and will,
no doubt, keep an eye on the work
ing of our military establishment.
The above mentioned paper says,
This monstrous evil should be
checked at once. If the President
has not the requisite authority,
Congress should see to it that the
authority is speedily placed in his
hands.
If the President has the power to
establish a military government in
those islands, he, through his subor
dinates, has the power to grant or
revoke license. If the granting of
those licenses is a monstrous evil,
the President is responsible for it ;
and we may as well place the blame
wliere it properly belongs.
If those iMlippinos are to derive
no other benefit from the presence
of our troops than to be abundantly
supplied with intoxicating drinks, I
should say Congress had better call
a halt on our military operations
and give them an opportunity to try
their hand at self government.
From my observations, I have no
doubt that they are quite as capable
of managing their own affairs now
as they will be when they become
saturated with American beer and
whiskey. A Layman.
Tor Kant,
Proctor Inn, well furnished, from
Feb. ist 1000. Rent cheap. Apply
to G. E. Elwell or A. L. Fritz, Blooms
burg, Pa. tf
Tatiff Recommendations for Puerto Rico
rillLIP C. HANNA, FORMER UNITED
STATES CONSUL AT SAN JUAN.
I am thoroughly convinced that
the tariff question is the all-import
ant question in Puerto Rico. It
can never become prosperous until
she can buy bread for her people
without paying enormous revenue
duties for the privilege of bringing
that bread into the island, it seems
reasonable to me, as an American,
that the newly-adopted country
should be allowed to purchase the
products of the United ' States and
land them on their own shores with
out paying tribute to any govern
ment whatever. I believe the island
should have absolute free trade
with all parts of the Uuited States.
I believe in making Puerto Rico as
thoroughly American as possible
from the very start, and we cannot
make it so unless we treat Puerto
Ricans as we do other Americans.
They should be allowed to buy
Minnesota flour and Dakota wheat
and every product which the farmer
of the great northwest has to sell,
and lay it down in their own coun
try on the same terms that the man
in New York receives the same
products.
The people in the island are
strongly in sympathy with the peo
ple of the United States. They aie
enthusiastic over the fact ot their
becoming Americans. They long
for the introduction of our institu
tions, of our school system, of our
factory system and our agricultural
system. There is evidently a great
longing among the laboring class of
the island for an opportunity to rise
to the rank of an American laborer.
They realize that toil and honest
work in the United States are hon
orable ; that the man who tods in
any part of the United States is
looked upon with respect ; that the
laborer ot the United States has an
ambition to become better situated,
fn Kt till mv!1fr nf Viiu num
to educate his children, and to
properly provide tor old age. They
are aware that many people of the
Uuited States who were once labor
ers have become wealthy, and al
readv the ambition of the lahnrino-
class ot the island is being stimulat
ed ; they are becoming encouraged
. - ... .7 . . . . . o
by the prospects of tt.e future ; they
believe that the dawn of a new day
tor them is at Hand, and our govern
ment lias it within its power to con
tiuue to inspire this people with the
laudable ambition to make some
thing of themselves, and I believe
that the whole quastion concerning
the laboring man of Puerto Rico
very largely depends upon free
trade between the island and the
Uuited States,
I have received several thousand
letters from all classes ot business
meu in all parts of the Uuited States
concerning this island, very many
of them asking me when the proper
time will arrive for them to invest
capital in Puerto Rico, Several of
them have said : "We propose to
establish factories in this densely
populated island, and teach the peo
ple there, who have been accustom
ed to labor at very low wages, to
labor in the factories that we shall
estaonsn. we nope to be in posi
tion," most of them say, "to pay
them better wages than they ever
received in the past. We under
stand that they are not a class of
people acquainted with strikes, and
by giving them better wages thau
they have had heretofore, and mak
ing labor respectable among them,
we believe our factories can be suc
cessfully conducted in Puerto Rico."
Such is the tenor ot hundreds of the
letters I have rsceived, but with
the present high rates of duty upon
all building material, machinery
and all kinds of goods coming from
the United States to Puerto Rico it
would be impossible for these men
to establish their factories here for
the benefit of the Puerto Rican
laborer.
There are nearly a million people
in this group of islands. It is said
to be the most densely populated
portion of the globe. The greater
part of the people are poor, but I
believe they are more inclined to
work and earn an honest living than
fie people of any Latin-American
country that I was ever in. When
the duties are entirely taken off of
American products, so that Ameri
can manufacturers can have branch
factories in Puerto Rico, thousands
of these people will be educated in
the factory. They will be inspired
with the desire not only to make
their living but to become home
owners, as many of our workmen
are in the United States.
Puerto Ricans are not bad people.
Remove from them the terrible
temptation produced by enforced
hunger and nakedness; give to
these people an opportunity to earn
an honest living; teach them that
tofl is honorable; build for them fac
tories instead of forts; teach them
to handle tools instead of bayonets,
and we shall produce upon them a
moral effect which the Spaniards
failed to produce, and make of them
a people whom we shall not be
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ashamed to recognize as fellow-citizens
of our grand republic.
In other words, free trade be
tween the United States and Puerto
Rico is a moral question. It is
practical religion, and our people
can never supply the missing link
in the moral education and religious
training of this people, without
giving them an opportunity to earn
a living and without treating them
as we treat other Americans. I can
see no more justice in compellin
Puerto Ricans to pay for the privil
ege of landing American bread on
Puerto Rican shores than I do in
compelling the people of Massa
chusetts to pay for bringing Iowa
wheat or Iowa pork into the State
of Massachusetts. The only differ
ence is that the people of Massa
chusetts are more capable of paying
such duties at the present time than
are the poor people of Puerto Rico,
Over 80,000,000 of people have
complained of the unjust burdens
placed by Spain upon her subjects
in these islands during all the years
of the past, and now is the oppor
t unity of our people to prove that
Americans are better than Span
iards and to give them a sort of
kindergarten object lesson by giv
ing them cheap bread and cheap
clothing to wear, by placing before
them an opportunity to earn a liv
ing and encouraging every enter
prise calculated to maki them a
better people.
I find that there is only about
one-tenth of the land of this group
of islands under actual cultivation
at the present time. The heavy
taxes which Spain has placed upon
the people of her colonies have
rrushed the once prosperous farmer,
and the heavy additional war taxes
which Spain has placed upon this
island during the past year have
sent into bankruptcy a very large
number of the men of the island.
All through Puerto Rico to-day
stand the ruins of once valuable
sugar estates. The great sugar fac
tories have fallen down, the machin
ery has been eaten by rust, and the
land has passed into the hands of
those who held the mortgages. If
our people in the United States
would take an unselfish interest in
dealing with these people in accord
ance with the Golden Rule ; and
receive in exchange for pur products
which we have to sell to this island
the products of Puerto Rico on the
very same terms that one State re
ceives the products of another State
without charging duty for admission
this fertile land would again bloom
and blossom and prosper as it never
before prospered, and the whole
civilized world would observe the
success of our glorious American
institutions in lifting up a down
trodden people and bettering their
moral and financial condition.
This island being small, its pro
ducts which may be shipped to the
United States will not be of suf
ficient amount to materially affect
the rich producers of our great
country. We should not look upon
the Puertp Rican producers of sugar,
tobacco and coffee as our competi
tors. We should regard them as
our newly adopted brothers, who
have been imprisoned for four hun
dred and six years, in whom we all
have a common interest. We should
show to the world that we delight
in their uplifting, in their prosper
ity, in their becoming respectable
laborers, and in their becoming
intelligent Americans. We should
insist upon their enjoying the same
blessings and advantages that the
people in every part of our great
country enjoy.
HOOD'S PILLS cure Liver Ilia, Bil
iousness, Indigestion, Headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c.
TWWNSJEND'S
SLOTHING HOUSE
will offer for a few days
Bargains in t Clothing.-
Orr's Celebrated Trousers.
Worsted
Trousers now
AT THE
CLOTHING
F. P. PURSEL.
Making Dependable
Statements.
Fortunate is the store that has the reputation for dependa
bility. Fortunate is the public that patronizes such a store.
Mutual confidence between a store and its buying public
mean growth. This store grows on just these lines. No ambi
tion higher than preserving your confidence inspire, other things
are bound to come. Wool is wool here, cotton is cotton here.
Every price is a just price. We want every trade transaction to
be satisfactory.
Now we will tell you about the new spring merchandise.
Interesting News
About Gown
Stuffs.
At this season of the year
there's no news more interest
ing to women. Many of you
are ready to buy and are only
waiting for just such news as
we are apt to give you.
The camel's hair effect in all
the new shades, 38 in. wide, at
50c.
Camel's hair goods, 58 ins.
wide, $1.19.
Cheviot, in all the new shades,
38 ins. wide, at 50c, another
quality at 60c, and one 55 in.
wide at 95c.
Tailored-5uit
Activity.
You'll want the new Tailored
Suits for Easter. You'll get a
handsomer, bigger stock to pick
from right now than you'll get
later. Many have already cho
sen with much satisfaction to
themselves. Glad to have you
look the stock through.
Your special attention to two
lots:
The $12.00 suit, made of Ve
netian cloth and cheviots, jack,
ets lined with silk, skirts lined
with percaline, and bound with
S. II. & M. binding and trimmed
with buttons.
R P.
TWO WEEKS'
Special Sale!
Now is Your time to Save Honey.
In spite of prices continually rising we will sell you
Ladies' Tailor-Made Suits, Capes,
Coats, Collarettes and Waist Silks
At the lowest prices ever offered. If you intend buying anything
in this line it will pay you to get our prices. This is our last cut.
Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited.
Corner Main and Centre. ALFREDMcIIENRY, Manage
$1.48
HOUSE.
$12.50 suits, made of double
faced cloth, no lining. Eaton
jacket, skirt made with water
pleat in back.
W ill be stylish this season.
Furniture.
We've got a better, bigger
equipment now than we have
ever shown.
We handle exclusively the
bed-room furniture and side
boards from our home factory.
Mark the word exclusively, for
nowhere else in town can this
line of goods be purchased. We
need only to tell you that we
can save you money, because
buying as we do, we have no
freight, hauling or incidentals
to pay. We pay for the goods
in merchandise, through our
store, so you can see at a glance
that we can sell them cheaper
than our neighbors.
Hattresses,
Springs.
Our source of supply is
through one of the most reput
able houses in the country.
Nothing but the best material
used, and we will meet any reli
able price.
We show white enameled
beds from $5.50 to $16.00, and
springs go with them.
Couches, from $7.50 to $22.00.
Pursel