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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
KSTAULISHEI) 1866.
HE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
ESTABLISHED I837. CONSOLIDATE!) 1S69.
Prnusiiiti) Kvrry Thursday Mornino,
At liloomsliurg, the County Scat of
Colnniliia Countv, Pennsylvania.
CEO. K. KI.WKt.I,, Kpitor.
1). T. TASKKR, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KOAX, Forkmas.
Terms : -Inside the countv Si.no n venr
In advance; $1.50 if not paid in alvance. i
Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in
advance. j
All communication should be addressed .
THE COLUMBIAN,
liioomshurg, Pa.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1900.
Democratic Ticket.
NATIONAL.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM J. 15 RYAN,
of Nebraska.
I OR VICE PRESIDENT,
AD LAI E. STEVENSON,
of Illinois.
STATE.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
P. GRAY MEEK,
of Centre Co.
FOR CONOR ESSMEN-AT-LARGE,
N. M. EDWARDS,
of Lycoming Co.
HENRY E. GRIMM,
of Bucks Co.
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS-AT LARGE
A. H. Coflfroth, of Somerset.
Francis Shunk Brown, Pniladelphia.
Andrew Caul, of Elk.
Otto Germer, of Erie.
FOR DIMTK1CT PKII1)RNTIAL KLKCT0B9.
Hugh Mooro.
Hi'iiry rnlnrer,
Malhew Dltiuun,
W. Horace Hcisklus,
Adam K. Walcu,
N. M. Ellis
Albre ht Kneule,
David .1. Pfursull,
L. W. Hcirr,
Dr. Mccormick,
Josepu o'Bi ii'ii,
fnomas Mnlnney,
Michael Mellot,
8. P.
.lames Hell,
W. s. Iliwilnjfs,
It. Scntt, Ammermnn,
Dr. Dallas Hainliart,
Harvey w. Haines,
Warren Worm Bailey,
Wesley V. OulTey,
sainui'l W. lllack,
Joliu K. Pauley,
J. I'. Kelly,
John T, tirer,
J. S. dirinleliavV.
J. V. Kiteuey,
Kluiball.
COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS,
RUFUS K. POLK,
of Danville.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
WILLIAM T. CREASY,
(South Side)
of Catawissa Twp.
FRED. IKELER,
(North Side)
of Bloomsburg.
FOR SHERIFF,
DANIEL KNORR,
of Locust Twp.
FOR CORONER,
DR. B. F. SHARPLESS,
of Catawissa.
FOR JURY COMMISSIONER,
DAVID A. SHULTZ,
of Madison Twp.
To The Voters of Oolunbia County,
It is urged by your County Chair,
man that you organize "Bryan and
Stevenson Clubs" in every election
district in Columbia County. Do
this at once. C. A. Small,
County Chairman.
The political situation is now the
all absorbing theme of discussion.
You are well acquainted with the
principles that each candidate rep
resents. McKinley is for trusts,
monopolies and imperialism, while
Bryan stands against them and is
for those things which tend to bet
ter the condition of the country at
large. Now is the time to decide.
Look about vou, study the situation
and then cast your ballot in accord
ance with your better judgment.
cochran Declines.
Last week w asserted that J.
Henry Cochran had accepted the
Democratic nomination for Sena
tor from the sixteenth Senatorial
district. Our authority was a dis
patch from Williamsport to the
Philadelphia papers. Now we learn
we were in error. Mr. Cochran,
after receiving the vote of every
conferree, positively declined to ac
cept the honor, and his declination
was accepted.
The Flag at Pekin.
"The republicans say we cannot
haul down the flag where it has
once been hoisted. If that is true,
how are you going to get the flag
away from Pikin? Our soldiers are
there and carried the stars and
stripes with them, and if your doc
trine that whenever the flag floats
over a land the land cannot be given
back is true, you cannot get your
soldiers away from Pekin, and if
yon follow the doctrine that you
followed in Manila, you have got
to take the whole Chinese empire,
because we took all the islands of
the Philippines, and if that doctrine
is true we have got to take the 400,
000,000 subjects over there. It is a
thousand times better to haul down
the flag in the Philippine islands
and raise the flag of the Philippine
republic than to change our flag
from the flag of the republic to the
flag of an empire." W. J. Bryan.
fiantiins Prosperity.
I'vcn conceding that the full din
ner pail is thechief end of the work
ing man, it is not doing Mark
llanna good service as an issue. He
would be glad if it had never been
mentioned. All over the coal re
gions of this State, the full dinner
pail is no more than a bassed mem
ory. Unable to bear up under the
weight of burdens laid upon them
by greedy and inhuman operators,
the miners have quit work, the
mines have shut down and now the
whole region presents a horrible
spectacle of hunger and want. In
New lvngland most of the woolen
mills and many other industries are
running on what has come to be
known as "rag time," that is half
a day three days ma week. There
are no full dinner pail there.
The Need of Farmers.
In sneaking of the need of farm
ers, in the law making bodies ot
our state government, the Pittsburg
Inquirer says : "More farmers are
needed in State and National Leg
islatures. We make this statement
not simply because we are working
for the farmers, but in behalf ol the
weal of the whole public. It is
true that some farmer members of
Congress, or of State Legislatures,
are not much on speech making,
they may not even be highly edu
cated, but they are certain to have
a great fund of hard-headed com
mon sense and a keen appreciation
of the value of the taxpayers'
money. Such representatives of
the plain people are greatly needed
to offset the influence and votes of
the lawyers and other men who get
into otlice mainly because of their
gift of gab. The latter too often
have only a one-sided view of the
public interest, and little, if any,
conception of the value ot money."
WASHjNGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Sept. 17, 1900.
Putting the American flag where
it ought not to be is a McKinley
specialty which has brought the
country trouble and humiliation in
big chunks. But that did not pre
vent his ordering the flag to be
raised in the wrong place again last
week. It is by Mr. McKinlev's
order to be raised over the notorious
Li Hung Chang, who is to betaken
from Shanghai to Pekin under its
protection, and on board an Amer
ican warship if he wishes, and when
he gets to Pekin Gen. Chaffee and
his brave American soldiers are to
be his body guard. What a use to
make ot the American flag and
American soldiers ! This old rascal
has been afraid to leave Shanghai
afraid alike of his own countrymen
and the powers, with the exception
of Russia, which is said to own him
body and soul. And now Mr. Mc
Kinley rushes into the breach and
raises the American flag over him
and takes him to Pekin, regardless
of whether the other powers con
sider such action an affront or not,
and he goes even further. He has
promised Li Hung Chang that he
would use his good offices to per
suade the powers to enter into
negotiations with him, although
several of them have already refused
to do so. Mr. McKinley's iriend-
ship for Li Hung Chang is really
suspicious.
It would be easily possible to get
a decision from the U. S. Supreme
Court before the Presidential elec
tion on the case involving directly
the Constitutional status of Porto
Rico, and incidentally that of the
other island possessions of this gov
ernment, which has been appealed
from the U. S. Circuit Court of the
Southern District of New York; but
the Administration is too much
afraid that the decision will be
against its position to take any
chances. Consequently it niav be
accepted as certain that the decision
will not be handed down until after
election. This is not meant to infer
that the Court will in any way be a
party to postponing action on this
important question for partisan
reasons. 1 hat will not be necessary.
In the several legal preliminaries
necessary to advance the case to an
early hearing it will be an easy
matter for the attorney representing
tho Administration, usually the
Solicitor General, to head off the
attempt to get a decision before
election without resorting to any
extraordinary methods.
Publicly the Republicans pre
tend, of course, that their majority
in Maine and Vermont are entirely
satisfactory, but they put a very
different face upon the returns when
discussing them among themselves,
livery man who has been through
even the kindergarden of politics
knows that if the same percentage
of Republican loss shown in Maine
and Vermont is shown throughout
the Union in November that it will
mean the election of Bryan and
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44 Think cf Ease
Bd Work On.
If your blood is impure you cannot even
"think of ease." The blood is the
greatest sustained of the body and ivhcn
you make it pure by taking Hood's Sarsa
pariUa you have the perfect health in
which even hard tvork becomes easy.
What Imperialism Really Means to the
United States,
Within the past thirty years the
wealih of the United States, which
was once fairly distributed, has been
accumulated in the hands of a few,
so that, according to the last census,
250,000 men own $44,000,000,000,
or over three-fourths of the wealth
of this country, while 52 per cent,
of the population practically have
no property at all and do not own
their homes.
It would naturally be supposed
that the 4S per cent, of the
people who still have an interest in
the property of the nation would be
the governing classes. Recent
events, however, point unmistak
ably to the fact that the 250,000
people who own nearly all the
wealth have combined with the 52
per cent, of our population who
have no property, and by gaining
control of a great and aforetime
patriotic political organization have
usurped the functions of govern
ment and established a plutocracy.
Among all monarchies of the past,
whenever nil power and all property
have been gathered into the hands
of the few and discontent appears
among the masses it has been the
policy to acquire foreign possessions
to enlarge the army and the navy,
to employ the discontented and dis
tract their attention.
The attempt on the part of the
United States to acquire foreign ter
ritory, coming as it does along with
an ever-increasing clamor for the
enlargement of t.ie army and for
the creation ot a great navy, is suffi
cient to alarm patriotic citizens and
lead to an anxious inquiry as to
whither we are drifting.
To-day we have no territory that
a navy is needed to defend. The
United States is so situated that she
can say whether she will have peace
or war. We possess no territory
that can be acquired or held by a
foreign foe, even if we owned not
one single ship, and no nation, how
ever great and strong, can gain any
advantage by war with us.
But the moment we acquire dis
tant possessions we must build a
11a. vy to defend them, for 111 case of
war these possessions would be first
attacked and taken from us. Fiance,
unglana and Germany have pos
sessions scattered all over the world,
and those nations are consequently
compelled to maintain immense
navies to defend them. These pos
sessions, in case of war, furnish so
many points of attack, so many em
barrassments, so many opportuni
ties for national humiliation, that
the strife is to see who can maintain
the greatest fleet upon the ssa.
Shall we enter the arena of this
contest ?
From our earlist history we have
insisted that we would engage in no
entangling alliances. We have said
that we would attend to our own
affairs and that our interests de
manded that no European country
should gain further foothold upon
the Western Hemisphere; and so
strong has been our moral position
that without a navy we havealways
been able to enforce this doctrine.
Throughout our past we have en
countered many propositions for the
annexation of tropical countries and
we resolutely put them behind us
until judgment was circumvented
by the machinations of capitalistic
combinations and we took forcible
possession of the Hawaiian 'islands.
The same influences are now at
work to attach permanently to the
United States the Philippine Is
lands, still deeper in the realms of
the blazing sea.
Tropical countries produce and
maincain populations much more
deuse than countries in the temper
ate zone necause it takes less to
clothe and feed and cate for their
people, because their demands and
wants are less and because of the
wonderful food-producing power of
tne son 01 tne tropics.
1 ue lsianu oi Java lias an area
no larger than the State of Iowa,
and it contains 24,000,000 people.
It is reasonable to suppose that the
Hawaiian and Philippine Islands
will maintain a population in pro
portion to their area equal to those
of other tropical countries.
But what kind of a population?
The more of them the worse. There
is not a colony of European or
Anglo-Saxon laborers within twenty
twodegiees ol the equator any
where 011 the globe.
No English, no French, no Ger
mans, no Scandinavians, no Rus
sians none of the people whose
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STAR
WE INVITE AN INSPECTION.
Our stock, for men, boys' and children, is now
ready, consisting of the latest novelties, at ,
THE LOWEST PRICE.
ALWAYS IN THE LEAD.
M
Townsend's Star . Clothing
BLOOHSBURG, PA.
blood flows in the veins of our
people have colonized any portion
of the globe within twenty-two de
grees of the equator. American
enterprise and Anglo-Saxon thrift
seek the region in the Northern
Hemisphere or the Southern Hem
isphere between the 30th and 55th
degree of north or south latitude.
They abide where the frost chills
man's blood and where clothing
made of the wool of sheep helps to
keep him warm, I think it can be
established as a proposition which
cannot be refuted that that self-government
and independence and high
civilization are only embraced by
people who find it necessary to wear
warm clothing and who feel the
tingle of the frost in their veins
during a portion of the year.
For a century the United States
has held a position in relation to the
other nations of the world different 1
from that of any other nation that '
ever existed.
So great has been the moral force
of this grand position that no
American can travel in any Asiatic
country without being constantly
reminded ot it. No American can
travel in these countries without be
ing constantly assured that he is
welcome, that his nation is admired,
and when you seek the reason you
are told that it is because the Unit
ed States recognizes and respects
the rights of other nations and is
uot engaged in a career of conquest.
The people of China and Japan
fear England, fear Russia, fear Ger
many, but they love and respect the
United States. Shall we break
down this splendid position? Shall
we abandon the policy of a century?
Where is our longtime boast that
government derives its just powers
from the consent of the governed?
Some one says that this is an old
fogy notion. It is not it is new.
That idea is only a hundred years
old, and while nations are thous
ands and thousands of years old all
of them before we established that
principle euunciated the doctrine
that might makes right. Is it to
be abandoned in its youth ? Is this
government to recede from that
splendid position and to make its
first step in wrong, in crime, as a
people, by overturning the doctrine
that governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned, and without the consent of
those people force them to become
part of the Union?
Around this doctrine is the idea
that comes alone with it that
wherever our flag is planted there
it shall forever remain. That
sounds well ; it is good Fourth-of-
July stock that wherever the Ameri
can soldier has laden and been
buried that reeion shall become
part of this country.
But this government is maintain
ed for the living, not for the dead.
W hat can we do to contribute to
the happiness and prosperity and
comtort of our people alive? is the
problem for us to solve.
It Is this cry of "manifest destiny"
which causes, the guns of .Great
Britain to echo daily around the
world and excuses the massacre and
assassmation of the weaker people
of the earth. During the last seven
years she has killed twenty or thirty
thousand of the people of Africa,
bombarded towns filled with women
and children, and herself has lost in
the unequal contest but seven men
an tins in tne name ot "manliest
destiny."
But Great Britain to-day, with
all her mighty power and her vast
possessions, has not conferred upon
the people of England the comfort
and satisfaction and happiness
which should come with a proper
FALL STYL
AT THE
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New Goods
ihcre is no advcrtisinir theme more attractive to
the average woman than new goods. As the fall outfit- $5
tine time is close at hand vou'll want to know what 2.
j this store can do towards
mercuanciise at tne proper prices. We ve done what we
believe to be the banner buying of our history gone
g carefully through the best markets, picked with pru-
dence just those lines we feel sure will meet with j our
38 approval. You are invited to inspect these new goods ?
and pass judgment upon
GOODS
We show dress goods in
almost every desirable
weave.
The pulse of trade is be
ginning to beat faster in
woolen dress goods, partic
ularly in cheviots and
serges and plaid-back
cloths things that are to
be tailor-made. There are
a few little changes in
weaves in the cheviots a
bird's eye. for instance
but we're selling more of
the plain cheviots, granites
and pebble, than any other.
Plain Cheviots, 50c to $1.25
Granite " 50c to 1.00
Pebble " $1 to 1.50
Serges, 50c to 1.20
Broadcloths and Vene
tians will be used for good
dresses. We show, all col
ors in these two weaves at
$1.25 a yard, 50 ins. wide.
1 hese goods
are sponged,
No lady will be fixed comfortable for fall and win
ter until she has a walking skirt. The ones we can sell
you at $5.00 you'll find hard to match.
Agate Ware Seconds for Half.
Not a leaky piece in the lot, not a hurt that hurts.
On some you can't see the blemish. You can make
your kitchen complete for a small price.
F. P. PURSEL.
and honest national policy.
One-tenth of her people are
paupers. Two out of three of her
laborers who reach the age of 60
years either are or have baen nauo-
... . .
thousand of her people own the
great bulk nt th" property. More
than two-thirds of the people of
Great Britain have no property at
a'.l. Her metrnnnlia mnautuliiio
! contains the darkest and most crini-
inal caverns in the world
If we pursue this policy, if we
annex the weaker nations of the
world and undertake to govern
them, such will be the result with
us. If we annex nations to which
we cannot apply our system of gov
ernment; if we acquire territory in
the tropics, where men cannot live
who are capable of self-government,
then republican forms cannot exist
in those distant possessions. The
vigorous blood, the best blood, the
young men of our land will be
drawu away to mix with inferior
HOUSE!
House,
of All Kinds I
supplying you with the proper
them.
ready to cut right into, and
the best value shown at
that price. g
FURNITURE. S
Everything for the house $5
and no trash. S
That holds good all the ?
year 'round, but here are 35
some reasons for coming 8
to-day. We know we can H5
sell you bed room furniture S
and sideboards less than
any other place in this
county ; show you more
styles to pick from (15) dif
ferent styles in sideboards,
and (15) different styles in 35
bedroom suits. Come and 5
see tor yourselves,
White enameled beds at
all prices,
Tables of every kind.
Chairs, couches, chiffon
iers.springs and mattresses,
to complete the bedroom
furniture.
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races and to hold them in subjec
tion. Gradually the reflex action of the
coiHiuest and government of these
I el"V..r i" .'d " ? ' . ... "
1 1111 111 fir irii-fJrii ill. -n r niikiiniv i lvj it..
will worK its effect noon our own
people, and free institutions will
disappear from this land, as well as
from the land we conquer and un
dertake to hold in subjection.
B. F. Pettigrew, United States
Senator from South Dakota, in the
Philadelphia limes. '
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