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OFFIOKRBi
W. M. Low, President. J. M. Btaver, Vice resident.
E. B. Tustln, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cnshler.
DIRECTORS:
S W. M. Low, F. G. Yorks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Itattl,
ri. B. Tustln, Fred Ikeler,
J. M Btaver,
M. I. Low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA IOEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869
I'urlisued Every Thursday Morning,
At Blojmsbnrg, the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EI.WELI., I'ditor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman .
Tsrmm Inside the county ij r.oo a year
In aivance; $1,501! not paid in advance.
Outside thecounty, $1.25 ye.-ir, strictly in
Alva iice.
All communications should beaddressed
THE COLUMBIAN, HIoomsburR, Ta.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1907
WASHINGTON
From our Kent1'' Correspondent.
Washington, D. C.Jan. 24, 1907.
As there is not the slightest pros
pect of tariff revision at the present
session, one ought to be thankful
eveu for such a thing as "near re
vision." Secretary Root has ad
vanced a proposal for a maximum
and a maximum tariff that ought
to prove something of a paliative
measure while real revision is still
lying dormant. Tnere is a meeting
i 1 Washington this week of a coo-
niioa for the encouragement of
.'. ujrican foreign trade. This body
.s meeting simultaneously with the
.V-itioml Board of Trade, repre-
itiug all the Boards of Trade and
Chambers ol Commerce in the Unit
ed States. Secretary Root deliver
ed an address before this body this
week in which he suggested a var
iable tariff as a better thing for the
country than reciprocity treaties.
He poiuted out that with the pres
ent hi?h tariff law no foreign couu
try was given any inducement to
treat the United States exports 011
a preferential basis. Other coun
tries knew that no matter what they
might concede us they would be
no better off commercially in the
end. He said, on the other hand,
that if the President were given dis
cretion in scaling down the duties
on certain articles to a maximum
of 20 per cent, of the present rates
he would be in a position to nego
tiate with other countries and offer
them something tangible in return
for preferential treatment at their
hands. This contention was reason
able enough and is quite true so tar
as it goes, lacking a complete re
vision of the tariff, it is a very ex
cellent plan and one that ought to
be adopted. But both friends and
enemies of the tariff know that re
vision ultimately will have to come.
That the majority of schedules un
der the Dingley law are now inor
dinately high and work a hardship
on the entire population when the
need for them in fostering infant
industries has long s nee disappear
ed. Anything short of a decent
and far reaching revision can be
considered little else than a make
shift, though even with a generally
reduced tariff Secretary Root's plan
for a maximum and minimum rate
of duty is one that could well be
considered.
Coneress conterunlates an annrn
tr 1
fyriation and nrnhahlv will unta rr
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it this week which is of interest to
all southern states having swam
lands within their borders. There
are 6,000,000 acres of these lands
and most of them are in the south
ern states. The plan contemplated
Is to drain them and reclaim them
as agricultural land and the appro
priation will be with a view to as
certain just what this reclamation
scheme would cost and how land
values would be enhanced under it.
Much of the work has been done
in a tentative way by the Geologi
cal Survey already. Topographi
cal maps which are being made of
the whole United States have been
extended over these swamp areas
and the drainage line indicate very
accurately what an immense amount
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
$150,000
Geo. H. Bobbins, 8. C. Creasy,
Louis Gross,
II. V. 1 lower.
of valuable ground could be reclaim
ed at a comparatively trifling cost.
The scheme officials have in mind
is more or less on a par with the
irrigation work which the national
government is now carrying out in
the west. The land would be drain
ed at a comparatively small cost
and sold to settlers at decidedly in
creased value. The money thus
gained would be used to drain nnd
reclaim otlKr land which in turn
would be sold. Thus the reclama
tion work would be an endless
chain till the whole of the six mill
ion acrcshad been reclaimed. Work
already done by private enterprise
shows that the drained land is
among the best of the agricultural
land in the world and the plan
looks very promising.
Hope is rising among the friends
oi ship subsidy over the prosp ct of
getting such a measure to a vote
on the floor of the House at the
present session. A bill providing
for an annual apnrop-iation of not
more than $3 750,000 has be. 11 re
ported out of the House Committee
and will probably g;t a hearing in
the House itself within the ext
few weeks. The plan is volumi
nous in detail and provides for
many bouth American and trans
pacific lines employing a total of
about forty ships all of which will
have to be built in American ship
yards owned by American citizens
and repaired in American dry
docks. There is not much question
that if such a measure ever passes
the House it will go through the
Senate with the greatest ease, for
here is the stronghold of ship sub
sidy. But the democratic members
of the House promise tcf fight the
bill uncompromisingly and have an
nounced their intention to filibuster
against it as long as posssb'.e.
Quite a tempest has been raised
in the s-ocial tea pot over the an
notince:iieut that Chile contemplat
es raising the rank of her legation j
here to the dignity of an embassy.
1 here is now ouly one ambassador
from South America, the one from
Brazil. If Chile raised the rank ol
her representative it will of course
necessitate raising the rank of our
present minister to Chile. Thia
will entail some expense but is a
social luxury which we probably
would be willing to'pay for. How
ever, the pinch comes from the fact
that if Chile does raise the rank of
her legation here she will undoubt
edly soon be followed by Argentine
and a number of the smaller Soutu
American Republics. This would
give a lot of the little countries' re
presentatives in Washington equal
in rank to those of the great powers
of Europe and this is a thing which
the great powers are very loath to
see happen. Consequently there is
much heart breaking and jealousy
under the surface, not owing so
much to the political, as to the
social aspects of the case.
More lions have
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progress. Considerable ado is be
ing made over a report that there
are no. foundations where the great
Gatun dam will eventually be lo
cated. Now Wi Gatun dam will
be the biggest thing of its sort in
the world. It is the keystone to
the whole structure o! a lock canal
across the isthmus. At one lime
or another covert opponents of the
Canal scheme have intimated that
borings on the south of the propos
td d'tm show 110 rock foundation,
but ouly a thin stratum of clay un
derlaid by mud. Last week the
Committee on the Canal called for
a specific report on this point from
the Isthmian Canal Commission.
The report together with borings
on the spot was transmitted, but
the Commission a.-ked that this in
formation be held as confidential.
ELECTION REFORMS.
Whatever may be the motive for
the movement for an amendm;ut of
the State Constitution doing away
with the February election, it is one
which will command the approval
of many citizens regardless of party
nlhltations. Too much time and
money ate spent in the formalities
attending the choice of public offi
cers, and the disturbing effect of
year-long electioneering campaigns
is an economic waste that cannot
but be harmful. If an arrangement
could lie devised by which munici
pal, on the one hand, and State and
national elections, on the other,
could be wholly separated, the
chance of divorcing municipal from
State and national politics would
be greatly increased.
Possibly this can be done, but it
must be obvious that .vsclated at
tempts to correct defects in our
election machinery are liable to do
more harm than good. A genuine
ballot relorm, that will simplify the
duty of the voter at the polls by
eliminating duplication of names
and abolishing the party square,
is just as vital a feature in the pro
gramme of election legislation.
Then, too, the operation of the
registration laws, and perhaps ;-f
the uniform primary law, may re
veal weaknesses and errors (hat will
have to be corrected.
A far tetter way of approaching
the problem, and one in accordance
with the new political regime,
would be the appoiutment cf a non
partisan commission to study the
whole question and prepare a har
monious and complete measure for
the consideration of the people. By
this means the suspicion of partisan
advantage that is sure to attach to
any project fathered by the "lead
ers" would be removed, and the
prospect of real and lasting reforma
tion would be immensely greater
than by any tinkering that can be
doue by unrelated and inharmoni
ous bodies of citizens.
Phila. Record.
- Envelopes
75,000 Envelopes carried in
stock at the Columbian Office.
The line includes drug envelopes,
pay, coin, baiouial, commercial
sizes, number 6, 6l2, 6, 9, 10
and 11, catalog, &c. Prices range
from $1.50 per 1000 printed, up to
$5.00. Largest stock in the coun
ty to sele-.t from.
Entrance through Roy's Jewelry
S'.or. tf
Other Inaugurations in May.
Honry Houck and Robert K. Young Will Take
Placet Then.
The inauguration of Henry
Houck as secretary ot internal af
fairs and of Robert K. Young as
auditor general will take place in
May. The time of Inauguration
was made different from that of
governor because of a desire not to
rave too many changes at once and
because of fiscal arrangements. The
constitution in Article IV, Section
21, prescribed that the secretary
shall serve four years and the au
ditor general three, , the latter, like
the State treasurer, not being eligi
ble for re-election. Mr. Young
win pe tne tnirty second man to be
commissioned auditor general and
the eighteenth to be electe , by the
people, as from 1789 to 1845 the
uuditors were appointed by the
Kovenior . and after 18 so elected
The constitution created the office
of secretary of luternal affairs in
1871 and nine men have heen rnm.
missioned as secretaries, although
the office of survevor general which
was merged into it, was the oldest
in Pennsylvania being naturally
me most important under the pro
prietary government, formerlly es
tablished under the commonwealth
j in 1781 and kept up under the title
I until 1075.
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OPPOSED TO REPEAL OF 1
VACCINATION LAW.
Or. Dixon Says Legislature Should Let Act
Alone.
Hatrisburg, Jan. 23. When
asked today what he thought of the
azitation to have the Legislature re
peal the vaccination law, Doctor
Dixon, Mate Health Commissioner,
said that the records of the pat
two weeks in his department should
convince the people of the State
that the only thing they have to do
to have smallpox run riot through
Pennsylvania was to take down the
barriers that are thrown against it
by vaccination.
"A few days ago," said Doctor
D:xon, "we received word that a
child that had never been vacci
nated had been brought from Wat
kins, N. Y., to Wells, Bradford
County, and had attended a school
in Wells township for three days
and was suffering with smallpox.
"The disease spread rapidly, and
there were striking examples of the
penalty for the unvnecinated. In
one household all the members of
tie family, except a young girl
who had been vaccinated, were
stricken down with smallpox.
There was not much tiouble when
that outbreak started to get the mi
vaccinated in that community to
submit to vaccination.
"Another nnvaccinated child was
recently brought into a small village
in Cumberland Countv from Ohio.
and three other cases was the re
sult. Only the other day we re
ceived a message stating that a resi
dent of Columbia had gone to pay
a visit to a neighboring State, and
upon his return home weiit down
with smallpox.
When we have endeavored to
have the vaccination law enforce,
ia the rural communities we have
frequently been met by the state
ment that there had not been a case
of smallpox in the community for
years, and, therefore, the people
saw no necessity ot beitis: vacci
nated. But to quote the strong
argum3iit of Chief Justice Mitchell,
of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vania, immunity for forty years in
the past affords no guaranty of im
munity for even forty days in the
future, if a chance visitor from an
ufected locality or a borough resi
dent returning irom a visit to such
locality should bring with him the
germs of infection.'
'How true was the picture that
Justice Mitchell drew has been,
shown by the imported cases of
smallpox, which the State Depart
ment of Healln has been called
upon to fight within the past few
days.
"Germany and Japan are mak
ing smallpox in their empires al
most a thing cf the past by vacci
nation laws far more rigid and far
reaching than the one we have in
Pennsylvania, and which the anti-
vaccinationists declare they are
going to use their influence with
the present Legislature to repeal.
It the Legislature takes any
actiou regaiding vaccination I can
only express the hope that it will
be a step forward toward making
our law a more effective barrier to
smallpox rather than to move back
ward to such a prevalence of small
pox as existed in Germany and Ja
pan before those countres began to
hght this horrible disease by com
pulsory vaccinatum. "
ANTHRACITE OUTPUT.
Nearly Six Million Tons Lest Than In 1906.
December shipments ot anthracite
continue to show a decrease, and
the aggregate for the entire year of
1906, 55)698,595. was the smallest
in any year since the strike year of
1902, when the tonnage aggregated
but 31,200,890 tons. Compared
with 1905, which was the banner
year in the anthracite coal trade,
with its aggregate tonnage of 61,
440,201 tons, there was a shrink
age in 1906 of 5,711,606. This
was due in a large measure to a
stoppage of the mines in parts of
March and April, pending the ad
justment of the miners' grievances,
and later on to the lack of trans
portation facilities. The . greatest
decrease in tonnage is shown by
the Lehigh Valley, with a falling
off of 1,535,866 tons, and the Read
ing next, with a drcrease of 1,324,-
207 tons. The Pennsylvania made
the nearest approach to maintain
ing its 1905 tonnage, its aggregate
of 4,856,004 tons for 1906 being
but 34,631 tons short.
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