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i .. V. M. Low, TreNident. J. M. istuver, Vice PreitUIeiit.
K. K Tustln, Vice 1'renUlunt. K. K. Carpenter, Cnsbicr.
DIRKCTOKS:
: W. M. Low, F. G. Yorks,
JO. 1J. TuNtin, Fred Ikeler,
J.M Staver,
M.I. Low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
KSTABI.ISMKU iSf.h.
THE COLUMBIA IDEMOCRAT,
Establish kd 1837. Consoi.idai eo 1S69
Publisiikij, Every Thursday Morning,
At Bloamsburg, the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EI.WELL. Editor.
GEO. C. KOAN, Eorbman.
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THE COLUMBIAN, Blooms!urK, l'a.
THIKSDAY, JULY IS. 1SMI7
WHO TOLD THE TRUTH.
For a generation Jolin D. Rocke
feller has been held up before the
youth of the land by a certain type
of moralists as a high and noble
example of the man of wonderful
resources, embodying a profound
knowledge of affairs, a thorough
grasp of details, a matchless skill
in handling men and an unequalled
capacity for work. Yet when Mr.
Rockefeller is put upon the witness
stand he takes solemn oath to a
painful ignorance of practically
everything in relation to the great
organization of which he is the
h-ad. He knows next to nothing
r its workings. He is in touch
h none of its operations. He
sn't know anything of its ranii
.. .ilions. Even its capitalization
1 matter of guess-work as far as
.: is concerned and he doesn't
know what dividends it has been
paying. He tells this under oath.
He frankly pleads the same degree
of ignorance of all that the Staud
ard Oil company has been doing
that Pennypacker, Snyder, Math
ues and the rest pleaded in connec
tion with the $9,000,000 capitol
graft. Mr. Rockefeller has been
innocent of any knowledge of re
bating or other illegal practices.
He has known nothing of the busi
or other details of the greatest of
all trusts. Yet he is the same man
who has been lauded to the skies
for more than a quarter of a centu
ry as the financial and organizing
genius of the age. He is the same
man who has been held up as the
highest type of the successful man
whose success has been due to pa
tient industry, to thrift and consu
mate skill and knowledge. Now
which view of Mr. Rockefeller is
correct ? Shall we believe the oil
kiug himself or shall we believe
those who have made him subject
to unstinted eulogy ?
Johnstown Democrat.
An Admirable Candidate.
The Democratic State conven
tion justified the highest estimate
of its wisdom in the selection of its
standard bearer for the coming
campaign. John G. Harman repre
sents the best element in the politi
cal life of the country, the highest
type of American citizenship. lie
is an able lawyer, an upright man,
an honorable gentleman. He didn't
seek the nomination but he accept
ed it with a complete understand
ing of the obligations involved.
Fully aware that acceptance meant
a hard campaign before the elec
tion and a royal battle against cor
ruption afterward, he has assumed
the burdens.
No party could have made a bet
ter nomination. Recently William
II. Berry, the present admirable
State Treasurer, stated that it re
quired all the courage and determi
nation that be could command to
jesist the suave gentlemen with
whom he became associated upon
his induction into the office. They
exhausted every effort to induce
him to "go along" with their
schemes. He said that the election
of a successor of the same sound
fibre is essential to complete the re
forms he has begun. The Demo
OABTOniA.
Bean th 8 Yu Hate iwa's BcUfiht
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
8150,000.
Frank Ikeler,
Geo. H. Robblnn,
Joseph Iiattl,
8. C. Creasy,
II. V. 1 lower.
Loula Gross,
cratic convention selected such a
candidate in the person of John G
Harman. He can neither be coerced
nor beguiled to acquiescence in any
thing which has not the approval
of his keen and active conscience.
He abhors corruption and will fight
it incessantly and unconipromis
ingly.
It was the concensus of opinion
among the leading Democrats that
legal learning is almost as requisite
as probity and courage in the im
pending battle for civic righteour--ness
in Pennsylvania. John G.
Ilannan is splendidly gilted in all
these essentials. Few of the law
yers of the State stand higher in
mental and moral equipment. No
lawyer of his age is his superior in
learning and ability. He will not
only know how to trace corruption
but he will have the courage to
assail it. If he is elected the treas
ury looters will not only be prose
cuted. They wili be adequately
punished. Bcllefonte Watchman.
WICKED WAR TALK. ,
Possibly the fact that the two
most progressive nations of the
world are Japan and the United
States is the reason for the unani
mous efforts of the other nations ol
the world, backed by the foolish,
wicked, empty-beaded jingoes of
our own and the mikado's realms
to provoke a war between us. The
other nations cannot keep up un
less they emulate the sublime self
sacrifice and patience and courage
of the Japanese, and the liberty and
enterprise of the United States.
This they cannot do, and they
must therefore see themselves out
stripped on both shores of the Pa
cific by powers which stand for a
new order of things unless they cau
set these two rivals at each other.
Both the United States and Japan
have already done a good deal more
than is wise to feed this wicked
war spirit, but both fortunately are
dominated by influences that would
go to any honorable end to avert
war.
There is no doubt that in a rush
Japan could effect considerable loss
and damage on the United States.
But there is just as little doubt that
in the end Japan would be smoth
ered by our superior resources. It
would be a sorry conflict for both
peoples. The Japanese could gain
nothing that they now want, and
we should lose much, with no profit
whatever, from so wicked a war.
The only gainers by such con
flict would be the decadent, land
grabbing monarchies of the old
world, which would rejoice to see
us reduced to their level, and the
warriors and war contractors of
both nations, which would rather
fight than work. It is well that
the public should once and for all
understand that this talk of war is
animated by a tawdry .Jvenal treach
ery, that makes Bendict Arnold's
treason splendid by comparison.
Pittsburg Sun.
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Extra Long
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give it something to live on.
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buy. It gives new life to the
hair-bulbs. You save what
hair you have, and get more,
too. And it keeps the scalp
clean and healthy.
The beat kind of a testimonial
" bold ior over aixty yeara."
I A Kiwi by J. O. ayrOo.,Low.ll, aa
10 manufacturers of
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WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C.July 12, 1007
After just about a year of pre
liminary work and investigation,
the government this week made its
promised move against the Tobacco
Trust. This legal fight will be
interesting in a number of ways.
It wf 1 be against a trust almost as
powerful financially as the Standard
1 x 1 r x ...
un company ana it succeed nl it
probably will be the first of the
producing monopolies on which the
government will try the receiver
ship plan of dissolution. This fight
against the Trust proper follows a
number of preliminary skirmishes
in which the government has won.
It discovered soon after the investi
gation of the Trust had started that
there were more tinners than to
bacco controlled by it. It had the
control of tin foil and more impor
tant still it had the absolute con
trol ol the licorice industry with
out which it is impossibe to make
chewing tobacco. The licorice
monopoly was brought to its atten
tion uy tne complaint of some small
producers who had been shamefully
run out of business by character
istic trust methods, to wit, that the
trust would not sell to them or
.How anvone else to sell to them if
they dealt with independent licorice
firms.
The preliminary licorice fipht
was won and then came the assault
on the main trust citadel. It will
be a notable fight for the nation's
tobacco bill is larger than its liquor
bill. Also the American Trust is
connected very closely with the
English Tobacco Trust. It is ;i
question what effect the American
prosecution will have on this. But
the way the two came to be com
bined is interesting enoueh to bear
relating. It was in loot when the
so called American commercial in-
asion of England was proceeding
that the Tobacco Trust decided it
might as well set a share of the
spoils. It accordingly started in
and before the British
ized it had bought up one of the
oldest and most widely advertised
tobacco manufacturies in the United
kingdom. It had planned to hiiv
a number of others, but there was
a howl of indignation that swept
over the country. The Britain is
stolid and long suffering, but woe
to tne man who interferes with his
tobacco or his beer. There was im
mediate and patriotic opposition to
tne lrust. Itie British Imperial
Tobacco Company was formed and
that resulted in England having a
To! 5acco Trust of its own before it
knew it. The war between the
American Trust and the local trust
was long and bitter. The invading
trust followed the usual A mpric.ni
line of premiums and bonuses and
Detore they got through were giv
ing away a present with each five
cent package of cigarettes or soms
sucn matter. The light was too
hot to last. It was costing the in
vaders a fortune and the home
manufacturers were actually losing
money which is an awful thing for
an English tradesman. Thomas
F. Rvan. who was not then the
evermasting figure in the financial
world that he is now, was brought
over and displacing J. W. Cobb, led
the American fight. But Ryan soon
found that he had an expensive
fight on his hands and that it would
be more profitable for all hands to
compromise and take it out of the
puDiic. xms tney promptly did.
The British Imperial l' omnnnv
and the American Trust coalesced,
each electing its own officers on
the directorate of the other com
pany. The British Company
pledged itself to keep out of Ameri
can territory and the American
company pledged itself in the same
way 10 Keep out 01 the United
Kingdom. But there was the rest
of the world left, and they organ
ized between them the British
American Tobacco Company in
which they had approximately
equal interests, and this company
was to go after the trade of the rest
of the world. The truce has con
tinued up to date and the interests
of the three companies are so close.
ly connected that it will be hard
for the government to fight the one
without fiehtintr all of them Tii
Americans got an idea from their
iingiisn experience too. The bulk
of the retail tobacco trade in the
United Kingdom is held by a chain
01 stores an under tne same man
agement and known as Salmon and
uiucKstein. Tne American trust
was quick to take the hint and on
coming back home organized the
unuea cigar stores company which
now has retail establishments in
practically all the cities of the
country. Thus the Trust is iu
both the wholesale and retail trade
It owns and controls the licorice
the tin foil, the leaf tobacco rliiv
ing and pipe tobacco and cigar and
suun Business. There are more
than 70 subsiduary companies un
der the control of the Trust of
which P. A. B. Widner and Thorn
as Fortune Ryan are the active
heads. It consumes 500,000,000
pounds ot the 800,000,000 pounds
of tobacco raised in this country.
The remainder goes to the British
Trust and a few of the European
government who keep up tobacco
monopolies of their own.
It will be easily seen what an
immense business it is and if the
Government wins its suit for disso
lution and manages to throw the
whole concern into the hands of a
receiver, he will have his work cut
out for him. At the same time
there is no reason why a receiver
should not be found to run the bus
iness satisfactorily nnd on law abid
ing lines. If the law as to rebates
and commercial piracy are observ
ed, the competition of the smaller
firms will take care of itself. Then
if the trust lowers prices to meet
the new conditions, it will mean an
uphill fight for the trust manage
ment to put them back again when
they eventually get back into the
saddle.
This is a bad week for trusts.
The government has entered suit
against the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa re Raiiroad for rebating with
the Garden City Land and Sugar
Company. It is a case involving
65 counts and a matter of only
$12,000 in rebates. The minimum
fine at $1,000 a case is $65,000 and
the maximum $1,300,000. The
case will be pushed for trial as soon
possible and while the maximum
fine probably will not be exacted,
it will be heavy enough to be a
warning to all the other roads to be
either extra good or very careful.
In the same connection, the ques
tion of prosecuting or not prosecut
ing in the Harriman case is still
hanging fire. It is thought that the
Interstate Commerce Commission
will forward its recommendations
011 the subject to the President at
Oyster Bay within a few days. But
it is hard to see if Mr. Harriman is
prosecuted how the government
could escape doing the same by
Hill, Morgan and half a dozen oth
er equally prominent financiers.
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Huntington Valley Camp.
Catuptueeting at Huntington
Valley Campground will open ear
lier this year than usual on account
of the Luzerne county fair. The
date of the opening is Thursday,
August 15th. The meeting will
continue over two Sundays, clos
ing Monday evening, August 26th,
the opening day of the fair. Rev.
Fred Hiller, of Honesdale, will
preach the opening sermon and
with Rev. F. V. Brunstetter, of
Couyngham, will be the speakers
ou Epworth League day, Friday,
August 16. The Saturday follow
ing will be Sunday-school day.
Mrs. II. W. Palmer, Rev. A. H.
Snyder, county secretary, and Hon.
E. A. Coray, will be the speakers.
Saturday night, Dr, R. H. Gilbert
will deliver his famous lecture, "A
Bunch of Hits." The Sunday
preachers will be Dr. E. H. Yo
cum, of Lewistown, and Dr. Van
Pelt, of Lewisburg. Dr. M. K.
Foster, of Danville, will preach the
sermon on the Monday following,
Old Folks Day.
Dr. G. M. Klepfer, of Altoona,
will be the musical director and
Mrs. G. M. Remley, of White Ha
ven, will have charge of the chil
dren's meetings. There has been
a generous response from the min
isters of the Danville district which
guarantees a strong ministerial sup
ply. Dr. McDermott, of West Pitts-
ton, will be the preacher on the
second Sunday morning.
. m- -
May rine 100 Clergymen.
Nearly too ministers in Schuyl
kill county are to be compelled to
pay fines of $50 each for failing to
make returns of marriages perform
ed by ihem.
The law is very strict on this
matter, and if there are any minis
ters in Columbia county who are
not complying with the legal re
quirements in this regard, they
should take warning, or they may
nave to pay the penalty.
Envelopes
75,000 Envelopes carried in
stock at the Columbian Office.
The line includes drug envelopes.
pay, coin, baronial, commercial
sizes, number 6, 6i, 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 select from.
For 75 years the favorite family medicine for throat
ALL FOR "3TOTJ
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Light Summer Suits
4 OFF
4
STRAW HATS
Summer Underwear in
all styles 25c to $1.00
July Clearance Sale
AT PURSEL'S
We have on sale thousands of yards of bright, new
Summer Dress Goods at bargain prices. Right in the very
heart of the wash fabric season, when the demand is at its
height, we have slaughtered prices in a way that makes
your buying elsewhere an extravagance. But bless you we
have a regular feast of bargains all over the store. Read
every item here quoted they are all interesting.
I!
We have divided this vast
quantity into five different
lots for your quick choos
ing. We do advise you to
come early.
Lot 1 Including Lawns
in dots and stripes splen
did colorings. 5c the yard.
Lot 2 Thin dress mate-
rials in Lawns, Voiles, etc.
Regularly 15 to 25c the yd.
Good variety won't last
long 9c a yd.
Lot 3 Cotton Foulards,
highly mercerized and silky
all new Foulard styles.
Some stripes and dots. Reg
ulary 25c. On sale for 16c
the yard.
Lot 4 Printed Mulls
the prettiest and sheerest
Mulls on the market. Flor
al and stripe designs in all
the beautiful colorings.
Regularly 25c. Now 19c yd
Lot 5 These exquisite
Cotton and Silk Novelties
that were 39 and 50c are
now 32ic the yard.
F , P.
BLOOMSBURG,
OFF
in ii 1
Lot ol Ladies' Dress Skirts
We have gone through
the entire stock and placed
on sale one hundred Skirts
in Panamas, Mohairs, Chev.
iots, all styles, just half
price.
$6.50 Skirts $3.25
5.5o " 2.75
3-88 " 1.99
LOT OF SPECIAL
EMBROIDERY
Suitable for Lawn, Mus
lin and Cambric. From
the narrowest edgings to
the 9 inch flouncings, in
sertion to match. Divided
in three lots.
Lot 1, 5 cents a yard
Lot 2, 10 cents a yard
Lot 3, 19 cents a yard
PURSEL.
- PENN'A.
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