THE COLUMBIAN; BLOOMSBURG, PA. First National Bank, Bloomsburg, Pa. E. V. M. LOW, -J. M. STAVF.R, U. P. TUSTIN. -K. F. CARPENTER, CAPITAL AND' SURPLUS, - - S190,000. Saf IDeposit Eoscs HFox ZE2ent IN" 22TJJa.OhZjA.JSl yiEZ-PBOSP VAULTS. DIRECTORS : Myron I. Low, Geo. S. Roniii.vs, J. M. Staves. o Dr. E. V. M. Low, Dr. J. II. Vastine, K'jT Accounts of banks, corporations, firms and individuals, solic ited upon the most liberal terms, consistent with good banking. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED iS6b. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Eii'Aiii.isiiKi) 1837. Consolidated 1SG9 Pum.isiiKD Every Thursday Moknink, At liioomsburg, the County S0.1t of Columbia Countv, Pennsylvania. CU:o. K. EI.WELL, Editor. D. J. TASKEK, Local Editor. GEO. C. KUAN, Foreman. Terms: Inside the county $1.00 a year in advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance. Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in ndvance. All communications should l e addressed THE COLUMBIAN, Uloomsliurg, l'a. THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1901. A meeting of the Democratic State Committee will be held in Harrisburg to-day, to fix the time and place of the next State conven tion. Erie will probably be the place. - - The work of the Republican con vention of Northumberland county which was held at Sunbury Mon day, is said to be a clean cut victory for the anti-Quavites. The ticket nominated is as follows: Forjudge. C. B; Whitmer, Sunbury; Sheriff, Samuel Deitrick, Mt. Carmel; Dis trict Attorney, Clarence F. Huth, Shamokin; Delegates to State Con vention, C. C. Lark, Shamokin, M. Bettlezon, Lower Mahoning, C. G. Ilartmau. Sunbury, and W. II. Schuyler, Milton. The political corruption that has characterized Philadelphia for many years is responsible more than any other one thing, for the political condition today in Pennsylvania. Ballot frauds in that city have more than once kept the Republican party in power in the state, when by a fair count they were defeated. Now they are reaping the . whirlwind. The gang that has been kept in power by frauds in Philadelphia have robbed that city of railway franchises worth millions of dollars, for which they have paid not one red cent. If the people of Phila delphia will stand this, they ought to have the roofs stolen from over their heads. The Pennsylvania Legislature will adjourn to-day. If we had a Governor who was net standing in with the machine he would proba bly issue a thanksgiving proclama tion. No such high handed job bery ever disgrace a state in the entire union. Our members, Creasy and Ikeler, were foremost among those who attempted to stop the in iquitous legislation, but the minor ity party had not the power to do it. The most aggravating thing about the whola business is the fact that the Quay machine was enabled to control all legislation by the as sistance oi several renegade Demo cratic traitors, whose names should sink into oblivion. ' If at the next election a majoiity of the people of this state shall up hold the party that has shown it self so regardless of the rights of the people, they will stand any thing, and there is no hope that Pennsylvania will ever be redeemed from the clutches of corruptionists. To-day we are held up to the scorn of the whole world. What are we going to do about it ? Hawking and Puddling Bill. A bill has passed both houses at Harrisburg permitting county trea surers to issue a license to any per son or persons to hawk, peddle or sell wiihin the county where such license is granted, such goods and wares of merchandise of any nature and character other than their own manufacture or product for the sum of $10 per year tor each person so engaged, where the same is done on foot; or traveliny with a convey ance, $25 where a horse and vehicle is used. It does not apply to count ies having special laws nor tq bor oughs and townships having laws regulating the same. - Prksidknt Vice Prks't Cashier Asst. Cashikr E. B. Ti-stin, Louis Gross, Eflmocracy Vindicated. It is one of the strange political changes wrought as a result of the new policy of expansion that an ad ministration headed by a statesman so prominently identified with pro tection as was Mr. McKinley should now be organizing an effort to break down the tariff walls for the purpose of opening new markets to the products of the islands of the sea. It is a situation which Demo cratic tariff reformers are justified in regarding with much satisfaction, since it vindicates the principles for which the Democracy battled for years. Buffalo Courier. - - - - tfliat Will The Harvest Be? The defiant, profligate and revo lutionary legislative riot will end at Harrisburg at noon this Thursday, when there will be voluntary thanksgiving from every honest heart in the State. Many Legis latures of the past have made rec ords winch brought the blush of shame upon every patriotic cheek in the Commonwealth, but the violent and revolutionary profigacy and robbery displayed by the pres ent Legislature have never been ap proached in all the varied annals of Pennsylvania disgrace. Officers from judges down to tids waiters have been created or multi plied solely to meet political necessi ties and reward men who have be trayed the trust of the people. Charities, some without actual ex istence and others which could have no claim upon the public treasury, have been voted hundreds of thous ands of dollars as rewards for pro fligate Democrats and perfidious In surgents as the ornamental part of the price paid for their treachery, while institutions founded by the State, writing the most lustrous rec ords in edu rational and charitable advancement, have been denied ap propriations because they are use less or hostile as political factors. Even the improvement of our great water highway to the sea was rejected because profligate expendi tures of the immense public revenes for purely partisan ends left no money available for that most indis pensable work. Franchises worth untold millions were given away under special laws cunningly fram ed to permit no competition in ac quiring uiese valuable grants, and when the desired franchises were obtained the sane Legislature closed the doors against all competitors by 'a prohibitive legislative enactment. No such record of consuming shame lias ever been written, or even ap proached, by a former Pennsylvania Legislature. The people of Pennsylvania have been refused all hearing and the consideration ot their rights in the reckless and profligate record of the present Legislature. The first ex periment made vas a revolutionary statute summarily dismissing 'from authority officers chosen by the people in the second class cities of the State, and that accomplished, the revolutionists halted for the judicial approval of their action. It came haltingly lrom the Supreme Court, iu an opinion that deplored the necessity of judicial sanction for legislative wrongs, and that opinion was sustained by a bare majority of the court. With this judgment in their favor they assumed that their legislative authority was practically unrestrained, and drunk to madness with the power they possessed, they have outraged every principle of public interest and public decency, and carefully planned and consum mated robbery to enrich themselves. The men who have -thus prosti tuted their official power for their personal gain, the two United States Senators, a Representative of Penn sylvania in the Congress of the United States, the Governor and members of his cabinet. State Spun. tors, Councilmen and the Mayor of Philadelphia are e-uiltv crime that at a former period would have caused their exclusion fmm any public trust jf not from human society. Entrusted with the guard ianship of the public interests they have wantonly sacrificed them to their own aggrandizement. Always and everywhere this has been recog nized as high crime. It is more than doubtful if this franchise robbery can stand the scru tiny of honest courts. Judicial super vision of the disposal of public l ights has always been maintained ns a principle of law, and the corrupt abuse of official power vitiates the stolen privileges. The great fran chise robbery, consummated 33 far ns the Legislature and City Councils can do it by the desperate political leaders who have made Pennsyl vania a theatre of public plunder, gives them franchises of immense value without requiring them to ex ercise the privileges conferred upon them, making these franchises a mere auction commodity, which owners and bidders can hold in the market for from five to seven years, without the public receiving any benefit whatever by increased trans portation facilities. Such legislation always has been held to be against public policy and subversive of the highest lights of the sovereign power of the people. It was attempted iu New York, in the Broadway franchise steal, on a small scale compared with the Phila delphia robbery, and there were judges ready to sustain the theft; yet within a few months these judges were deposed or sought escape in suicide, and the Aldermen who had bartered public rights for their gain and the corruptionists who bought them, were bchiud piison bars or were fugitives from justice The courts, aroused to a sense of their duty to the people, held the scales of justice iu even balance against crime. This issue is now remanded to the courts and to the people. The people will resolutely and sternly perform their duty. What will the courts do ? Philadelphia Times. WASHINGTON. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, June 24, 1901. The same interests the sugar and tobacco trusts which made President McKinley turn such a sudden somersault on the Porto Rican tariff question are now work ing to make him nullify whenever the legislature of Porto Rico noti fies the President of the United Spates that a system of internal taxation has been put into effect that would meet theexpenses of the government of the islands, the President should issue a proclama tion declaring -free trade with Porto Rico, and that in any event the tariff on the Porto Rican products should cease toexist March 1, 1902. An extra session of the Porto Rican legislature has been called to meet July 4, for the purpose of giving the President the notification pro vided for in the Forsaker act and requesting him to issue a proclama tion declaring free trade. This the trust interests are working to pre vent on the pretended, ground that system of internal fixation provid ed by the legislature of Porto Rico will not provide the necessary ' rev enue, but in reality because they intend to preveut free trade between Porto Rico and the United States, if they can. Their plan is to com pel President McKinley to decline to issue a tree trade proclamation, and then to get Congress to amend the Forsaker act, extending the tariff. on Porto Rican products, be fore it expires by limitation. It is difficult to say what the result will be. President McKinley wants free trade .with Porto Rico, as he did when he sent his annual message to the last Congress, but the trust compelled him to eat his words and do their bidding then and they may be able to do so again. Russia is hitting back at this government, which the short-sighted policy 'of the administraiiou has involved in a tariff war. First, the Russian duty on American ma chinery was raised and now the duty on American rosin and bi cylces goes up a notch or two. When it is remembered that what we buy of Russia is a not a drop iu the bucket compared with what we sell her, the silliness of a system of tariff retaliation be tween the two countries is apparent. It is quite certain that this sort of policy will not result in extending our foreign markets, an object that President McKinley constantly pro fesses to keep in view. Secretary Gage has just ordered a counter vailing duty placed 011 sugar from Italy. Senator Jones, . of Arkansas, Chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee, was in W.-w1iinr. ton all last week. He talked freely of the political outlook, but said he wisuect it understood that he made no pretense of representing any body but himself in the opinions expressed. He thinks that the next session of Congress will de- Impaired Digestion May not to nil tlm Is nic?.nt by diiptptii raw, but U. will be if iK-filoe.Vd. 'ii-c tiii(insiiirr.8 nft?r entiiir, fits of nerv ous headache, notirnoss of tho stomach, one! (Ji'.tgrcudMo be!ohlng may net bo very bad now, but they will bo If tiia stomach Is euT'.'ml to grow weaker, Dyspepsia li such a miserable disease that tho tendency to It should be lven cuily attention. This la completely over como by Hood's Sarsaparilla which strciiKthcnsthewIiolodlpefitlvcsystera vote a great deal of time to the Philippine question, with which the Supreme Court has said Congress alone has power to deal, and that out of the discussion will grow tha principal issue of next year's Con gressional campaign "Ought the Constitution Follow the Flag?" Senator Jones thinks the Demo crats will take the stand that we should not control any people who are not considered good enough to enjoy all the rights and privileges of American citizens ; that we should assist the Filipinos to set up an independent government, notify the powers that we will brook 110 interference with it, and then with draw our flag from the Philippines, but believes that a majority of Re publicans will stand by the pro gramme of holding the islands for the money that can be made out of them. He said that the Democrats would fight the Ship Subsidy bill, which he expects to see pushed to the front again, just as hard as ever ; that he doubted whether Babcock's much talked of anti-tariff bill would ever get out of the House Ways and Means Committee, and rather expected the order of the trans-continental railroad bosses, to smother' Nicaragua Canal legisla tion, to be obeyed by the Republi can leaders. Representative Clayton, of Ala bama, who has just returned from a visit to the Constitutional Con vention, now sitting in that state, says the elimination of the negro vote is certain. As to its effect upon the state he said: "I have seen it suggested that with the elimi nation of the negro vote some of the states in the South will go Repub lican. This is certainly not true of Alabama. It has not been true of Mississippi, Louisiana, or South Carolina. Alabama will remain a Democratic state." Of the Repub' lican threat to reduce Southern rep resentation iu Congress and the Electoral College Mr. Clayton said he had no fear" He called atten tion to the fact that Massachusetts had had a limited suffrage for many years, and no suggestion had ever been made to reduce its representa tion. ' A HOBLE METAL. v After some little time during which the patience of of some men became somewhat weary, the Pennsylvania Copper and Minning Co. has placed in their plant all the heavy machinery necessary for the successful running of same. And the time is very close when the wheels of their large plant will begin to revolve. Its success is assured, and those men who one year ago did not understand the nature of the copper in Pennsylvania's rock are now putting their shoulders to the wheel .for fear they will leave' an opportunity pass which they cannot again recall. Copper is found in deposit in eighteen counties of the state of Penn sylvania. Native copper is not an uncommon thing in some of the South Eastern counties. The report ot the state chemist is in some instances quite flattering, reaching more than 60 per cent, copper. Dr. Dana cites his students almpst wholly to Pennsylvania for their speci mens of copper ores. Dr. Foote, of Philadelphia in his magnificent col lection of these laler times exhibits many copper specimens from the old Keystone state. Peters, in his advice to the copper trust people states Uut the best deposits of copper glance found in the world, is found in Blue Ridge mountains. The Wall Street men say when shown our copper ore, which outwardly looks weak, "If you have'pk-'niy of that ore that is all we want." The Atlantic mines in' the Lake Superior region for more than ten years have produced an ore yielding less than 1 per cent, copper and yet have paid dividends all these years. Nearly all copper men say that a 3 per cent, copper is an excellent prop osition. About 60 per cent of all the mines producing copper in the U. S. are cf a 3 per cent grade or under. Yet the average of over 70 analyses of our ores is 4 per cent, and from fifteen analyses made by foreign professional men, the average was above 10 per cent. Cheapness of process has made it possible to work these weak ores with profit. Thli signature is ou every box of the genuine Laxative BromoQu'rine Tablet. the remedy that curve m col J la one day. Townsend's FREE EXCURSION ' To The Buffalo Exposition. Every purchaser of one dollar's worth of goods at Townsend's Cloth ing Store will give the buyer a chance to go to the Buffalo Exposition free. The lucky holder of No. 132 was Joseph Kashner, of Bloomsburg, who will go to Buffalo. We have opened a new series for the month of June. The. drawing will take place on July 1st. We are offering big inducements in SFK,IISrC3- GOODS Our styles are always correct. Our prices always right. "Fair Deal ing" is our way of doing business at Townsend's! CLOTHING HOUSE. F. P. PURSEL. The Greatest Sale of THE. DEFENDER MFG. CO.'S Muslin Underwear ! IN BLOOMSBURG. ' Every article perfect in style, fit and finish. The quality is the best tver offered for the price. 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