THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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THE COLUMBIAN,
Bloomslmr, l'a.
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1900.
The Columbian is for the Dem
ocratic ticket national, state and
county. The names of all candi
dates will be hoisted in due time.
They are omitted lor the present,
because they occupy space without
serving any good purpose so long
before the election.
Kngland's losses in men to date
in South Africa are 48,188.
It is said that 10,000 gold seekers
at Cape Nome will be without the
necessaries of life this winter.
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Somebody very aptly rises to re
mark what a howl would go up if
the newspapers were to criticise
the individuals as freely as many
people criticise the newspapers.
Every issue of a live and reputable
newspaper is a mantle of charity,
and the matter left out truth, not
gossip for dames would often more
than equal the matter published. If
an editor should get out some time
a cold fact edition, and get up a
tree and watch the result whew !
What a panic there would be. Ex.
DZMOORAOY'tJ LEADERS.
Bryan and Stevenson the Choice of the Party
(or President and Vice President.
Without the mention of any other
name for the place, William Jen
nings Bryan, of Nebraska, was
unanimously named by the Demo
cratic National Convention, in Kan
sas City, last Thursday, for the of
fice of President of the United
States. On Friday Adlai E. Steven
son, of Illinois, was named for
Vice President. lie was elected
Vice President with Grover Cleve
land in 1892. An eflort was made
to stampede the convention to Ex
Governor David Ii. Hill, of New
York, for second place, and it could
have been done, but for Hill's pos
itive refusal to accept.
The proceedings of the conven
tion were enthusiastic and harmon
ious. The platform, which is
printed in full in this paper, is a
strong one, and all the signs of the
times point to the most hotly con
tested campaign ever seen in this
country.
CREASY S00RE3 HAMILTON.
Correspondence was recently
made public between Secretary of
Agriculture John Hamilton and
William T. Creasy, chairman of a
committee of Pomona Grange, No.
5, of Columbia and Lower Luzerne
counties, which recently adopted
resolutions charging Secretary
Hamilton with compl'city in the
oleo frauds and demanding his res
ignation. The letter of the Secretary is
dated June 19, and in it he asks
Mr. Creasy to give the names and
addresses of any persons now sell
ing "colored oleo," and denies that
he is responsible for the enforce
ment of the oleo law, which, he as
serts, is under the entire jurisdic
tion f the Dairy and Food Com
missioner. Mr. Creasy's reply answers the
Secretary's questions at length,
mentions the names of fourteen in
dividuals and companies against
whom, he asserts, cases are now
pending, and in response to the
Secretary's declaration that he is
not responsible, says, after quoting
the Acts of Assembly setting forth
his duties :
"Now you plead you have no
responsibility in the matter, and
that you have nothing to do with
it. Permit me to say that if you
have such a conception of your du
ties in relation to these laws, it is
about tune to vacate the office, the
duties of which you manifestly do
not intend to perform.
If you, and the officers under
you, were doing your duty as you
ought to do it, not a pound of oleo
margarine could be sold in this
State contrary to law. liut your
very actions show that you have
. 110 desire to enforce the laws, and
in consequence, the oleo swindlers
have no fear of what your depart
ment may do."
A party ot surveyors made their
appearance in town Tuesday. They
stated that they arc in the employ
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and are engaged in making a
preliminary survey for the purpose
of determining the cost of extend
ing the line through Danville to
Berwick on this side of the river
Danville Sim.
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Flallorii).
Principles Announced and the
Issues of the Campaign Set"
Forth by the Convention
Assembled In Kans
as City.
Imperialism is the Paramount
Issue.
The platform in full is as follows:
We the representatives of the
Democratic party of the United
States, assembled in convention on
the anniversary ol the adoption of
the Declaration ol Independence, do
reaffirm our faith in that immortal
proclamation of the inalienable
rights of man and our allegiance to
the Constitution framed in harmony
therewith by the fathers of the Re
public. We hold with the United
States Supreme Court that the Dec
laration of Independence is the spirit
of our government, of which the
Constitution is the form and letter.
We declare again that all govern
ments instituted among men derive
their just powers from the consent
of the governed; that any govern
ment not based upon the consent of
the governed is a tyranny; and that
to impose on any people a govern
ment of force is to substitute the
methods of imperialism tor those of
a Republic. We hold that the Con
stitution follows the flag and de
nounce the doctrine that an Exe
cutive or Congress deriving their
existence and their powers from the
Constitution can exercise lawful
authoiitv beyond it or in violation
of it. We assert that no nation can
long endure half republic and half
empire, and we warn the American
people that imperialism abroad will
lead quickly and inevitably to des
potism at home. Believing in those
fundamental principles we denounce
the Potto Rico law, enacted by a
Republican Congress against the
protest and opposition of the Demo
cratic minority as a bold and open
violation of the nation's organic law
and a flagrant breach of the national
good will.
GOVERNMENT OF PORTO RICO.
It imposes upon the people of
Porto R co a government without
their consent and taxation without
representation. It dishonors the
American people by repudiating a
solemn pledge made in their behalf
by the commanding general of our
army, which the Poito Ricans wel
comed to a peaceful and unresisted
occupation of their land. It doom
ed to poverty and distress a people
whose helplessness appeals with pe
culiar force to our justice and mag
nanimity. In this, the first act of
its imperialistic programme, the Re
publican party seeks to commit the
United States to a colonial policy,
inconsistent with Republican insti
tutions and condemned by the Sup
reme Court in numerous decisions.
We demand the prompt and hon
est fulfilment of our pledge to the
Cuban people and to the world that
the United States has no disposition
nor intention to exercise sovereignty
jurisdiction or control over the Is
land of Cuba, except for its pacifica
tion. The war ended nearly two
years ago, profound peace reigns
over all the island, and still the ad
ministration keeps the government
of the island from its people, while
Republican carpet bag officials
plunder its revenues and exploit the
colonial theory to the disgrace ot
the American people.
We condemn and denounce the
Philippine policy of the present ad
ministration. It has involved the
Republic in unnecessary war, sacri
ficed the lives of many of our
noblest sons and placed the United
States, previously known and ap
plauded throughout the world as
the champion of freedom, in the
false and un-American position of
crushing with military force the
efforts of our former allies to achieve
liberty and self-government. The
Filipinos cannot be citizens without
endangering our civilzation; they
cannot be subjects without imperil
ing our form of government, and as
we are not willing to surrender our
civilization or to convert the Repub
lie into an Empire we favor an im
mediate declaration of the nation's
purpose to give to the Filipinos first
a stable form of government, second
independence, and third, protection
from outside interference, such as
has been given for nearly a centurv
to the Republics of Central and
South America.
1'HII.IPPINH policy.
The greedy commercialism whicl
dictated the Philippine policy of th
Republican administration attempt
to instifv it with the tilca that it will
pay, but even this sorbid and un-
wortnv n ea tai s when broueiit U
to
! the test of facts. The war of crim
inal aggression against the Filipi
nos, entailing an annual expense of
many millions, has already cost
more than any possible profit that
could accrue from the entire Philip
pine trade for years to come, r urth-
ermore, when trade is extended at
the expense of liberty the price is
always too high.
e are not opposed to territorial
expansion when it takes in desir
able territory which can be erected
into States into the Union and
whose people are willing and fit to
become American citizens.
We favor expansion bv every
peaceful and legitimate means, but
we are unalterably opposed to seiz
ing or purchasing of distant islands
to be governed outside the Consti
tution and whose people can never
become citizens.
We are in favor of extending the
Republic's influence among the na
tions, but believe that influence
should be extended, not by force
and violence, but through the per
suasive power of a high and honor
able example.
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
The importance of other questions
now pending before the American
people is in nowise diminished and
the Democratic party takes no back
ward step lrom its position on them
but the burning issue xf imperial
ism growing out of the Spanish war
involves the very existence of the
Republic and the destruction of our
free institutions. We regard it as
the paramount issue of the cam
paign.
1 he declaration in the Republi
can platform adopted at the Phila
delphia convention, held m June,
1900, that the Republuan partv
steadfastly adheres to the policy an
nounced in the Monroe doctrine."
is manifestly insincere and decept
ive. 1 his profusion is contradicted
by the avowed policy of that party
in opposition to the spirit of the
Monroe doctrine to acquire and hold
sovereignty over large areas of terri
tory and large numbers of people in
the Eastern Hemisphere. We in
sist on the strict maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine and in all its in
tegrity, both in letter and in spirit,
as necessary to prevent the exten
sion of European authority 011 this
continent and as essential to our
supremacy in American affairs. At
the same time we declare that no
American people shall ever be held
by force in unwilling subjection to
European authority.
e oppose militarism. It means
conquest abroad and intimidation
and oppression at home. It means
the strong arm which has ever been
fatal to free institutions. It is what
millions of our citizens have fled
from in Europe. It will impose up
on our peace loving people a large
standing army and unnecessary
burden of taxation and a constant
menace to their liberties. A small
standing army and a well disciplin
ed State militia are amply sufficient
111 time of peace. This Republic
has no place for a vast military ser
vice and conscription.
hen the nation is in danger the
volunteer soldier is his country's
best defender. The National Guard
of the United States should ever be
cherished in the patriotic hearts of
a free people. Such organizations
are ever an element of strength and
safety. For the first time in our
history and coeval with the Philip
pine conquest has there been a
wholesale departure from our time-
honored and approved system of
volunteer organization. We de
nounce it as un-American, undemo
cratic and unrepublican, and as a
subversion of the ancient and fixed
principles of a free people.
THE TRUST PROBLEM.
Private monopolies are indefens
ible and intolerable. They destroy
competition, control the price of all
material and ol the finished product,
thus robbing both producer and con
sumer. I hey lessen the employ
ment of labor and arbitrarily fix the
terms and conditions thereof and
deprive individual energy and small
capital of their opportunity for bet
terment.
They are the most efficient means
yet devised for appropriating the
fruits of industry to the benefit ot
the few at the expense of the many
and unless their insatiate greed is
checked all wealth will be aggre
gated in a few hands and the Re
public destroyed. The dishonest
paltering with the trust evil by the
Republican party in State and nat
ional platforms is conclusive proof
of the truth of the charge that trusts
are the legitimate product of Re
publican politics, that they are fos
tered by Republican laws and that
they are protected by the Repub
lican administration in return for
campaign subscriptions and political
support.
We pledge the Democratic party
to an unceasing warfare in nation,
State and city against privatj mon
opoly in every form. Existing laws
against trusts must be enforced and
more stringent ones must be enact
ed providing for publicity as to the
affairs of corporations engaged in
J inter-State commerce and requiring
mi clotmic house;
STI1LMEI AMENTS,
READY TO WEAR,
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flade to Your Measure,
GO TO
TOWNS END'S.
All the latest noveltSefor spring wear, in hats,
caps, shirts, underwear and neckwear, can always
be found at
Townsend's Star Clothing House.
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all corporations to show before do
ing business outside of the State of
their origin that they have no water
in their stock, and that they have
not attempted and are not attempt
ing to monojxnMze any branch of
business or the production of any
articles of merchandise, and the
whole constitutional power of Con
gress over inter-State commerce. the
mails and all modes of inter-State
communication shall be exercised
by the enactment of comprehensive
laws upon the subject of trusts.
Tariff laws should be amended by
putting the products of trusts upon
the free list to prevent monopoly
under the plea of protection.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The failure of the present Repub
lican administration with an abso
lute :ontrol over all the branches of
the national government to enact
any legislation designed to prevent
or even curtail the absorbing power
of trusts and illegal combinations,
or to enforce the anti-trust laws al
ready on the statute books proves
the insincerity of the high-sounding
phrases of the Republican platform.
Corporations should be protected
in all these rights and their legiti
mate interests should be respected,
but any attempt by corporations to
interfere with the public affairs of
the people or to control the sovere
ignty which creates them should be
forbidden with such penalties as will
make such attempts impossible.
We condemn the Dingley tariff
law as a trust-breeding measure,
skilfully devised to give the few
favors which they do not deserve
and to place upon the many bur
dens which they should not bear.
We favor such an enlargtnent of
the scope of the inter-State com
merce law as will enable the com
mission to protect individuals and
communities from discriminations
and the public from unjust and un
fair transportation rates.
THE FINANCIAL PLANK.
e reaffirm and indorse the prin
ciples of the national Democratic
platform adopted at Chicago in 1896
and we reiterate the demand of that
platform for an American financial
system made by the American peo
ple for themselves which shall re
store and maintain a bimetallic price
level and as part of such system the
immediate restoration of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the present legal ratio of 16
to 1 without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation.
We denounce the currency bill
enacted at the last session of Con
gress as a step forward in the Re
publican policy which aims to dis
credit the sovereign right of the na
tional government to issue all
money, whether coin or paper, and
to bestow upon national banks the
power to issue and control the vol
ume of paper money for their own
benefit. A permanent national
bank currency, secured by the gov
ernment bonds, must have a perm
anent debt to rest upon, and if the
bank currency is to increase with
the population and business the
debt must also increase. 1 he Re
publican currency scheme is, there
fore, a scheme for fastening upon
the taxpayers a perpetual ami grow
ing debt for the benefit of the banks.
We are opposed to this private cor
poration paper circulated as money,
but without legal tender qualities,
and demand the retirement of na
tional bank notes as fast as this gov
eminent paper and silver cer'.ificates
can be substituted for them.
THE ELECTION OK SENATORS.
We favor the amendment to the
Federal Constitution providing for
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July Clear
You will find through
our store
BAE.GAI1TS
To clear our stock up. These
are some of them :
36 in Percale at - - -8
and 10c. lawns at - -15c.
lawns at - - - -18c.
lawns at - - - -25c.
lawns at - - - -
Colored shirt waists, that
sold from $1.25 to $2, all at 79c
Taffeta ribbon, that sold
from 25 to 50c, at
50c. wash silks and colored
China silks at
$1.25 umbrellas at
$1.25 counterpanes at
60c. men's tennis shoes at
$1.25 men's bicycle shoes at 85c
12 l-2c. seersucker at - 10c
Come and see what else we
can show you.
F.
Ftacu Crop to bo Largest in Years-
Four Million Baskets are to be Shipped From
Delaware to all Parts of tho Country.
The Delaware peach crop will be
larger this year than it has been for
many seasons past. Not only will the
aggregate production be big but each
individual piece of lusciotisness will
be of extraordinary size and delicacy,
in proportion. For the enormous ship
ments which will be made the Penn
sylvania railroad alone will use this
year fourteen hundred freight cars a
far larger number than have ordinarily
been ne.'ded. The railroad company
expects to carry at least four million
baskets of the unit. The cannets of
the State will probably put up for
winter use even mure than the rail
roads will carry.
In anticipation of th: 1 ig crop the
commission merchants ! the city at
making active preparations for its dis
posal. It is a little early in the season
to mention prices, but it it probable
that the great supply will lessen the
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12c
2lc
17c
19c 5
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98c
98c
49c
P. PURSEL.
price considerably. Some few car
loads have come ttp from the South
but the Delaware variety is just be
ginning to blush under the summer
sun.
The growers give various reasons
for the big crop. Home say that the
seasons alternate and that a bad crop
is nearly always followed the next year
by a good one. Still others believe
that the late season with the warm
weather has produced the favorable
results.
Another week or perhaps two will
see the gatherers at work in the
orchards of Delaware collecting the
juicy delicacies and packing them
f ... . . t. Knr
careiuuy to avoul bruises in mc "-o
woven baskets, ready for shipment to
all parts of the country.
Leases and notices
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