THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA.
STRONGEST BANK
Capital
9100,000.
Undivided Profits
$30,000.
First National Bank,
3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on SavingsDeposits
O F F I U EliSi
K. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice Pregident.
K. . Tustiu, Vice President. K. F. Curiwnter, Cashier.
DIUECTO 118:
T. W. M. Low, F. (1. Yorks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Rattl,
H. Tustln, Fred Ikeler, Oeo, H. Robbing, 8. C. Creasy,
J. M Stuver, M. I. Low, Louts Grogs, H. V. Hower.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED i86ft.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
JUstablishkd 1837. Consolidated 1869
j'ublishro Every Thursday Mornino,
At Blojmsliurg, the County Scat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
Terms: In side the county 11.00 a year
In advance; $1,501! not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $ 1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should leaddressed
TIIK COLVMBIAN, LlOuinsl.urn, Ta.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1007
EXPERIMENTS.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania,
assist-d by sonic intelligent an J dis
gusted Republicans, elected Wil
liam II. Berry State Treasurer in
1905.
Result: Exposure of the Capi
tol frauds and of the amazing dere
liction c f the highest officials of the
Republican State administration,
which made the plunder of the
State Treasury possible.
The Democrats of New Jersey
elected an accidental majority ia
the State Legislature last year.
Result: Exposure of the awful
conditions in the State Hospital for
the Insane the result of partisan
iviraanagemeut.
In a government by parties the
'uority party should at all times,
a measure of safety, be so far ia-
.isted with a share in the control
: public affairs as toaffoid a cheek
cpou the action of the majority.
Majority rule is indispensable; but
wheu majorities surrender the con
trol of party organization to un
scrupulous professional gamesters,
of a type who have managed and
disgraced the political management
of affairs in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and other near-by States,
there is no safety for either purse
or person. An occasional party de
feat is the obvious remedy for un
bearable misgovernment. Defeat
insures disclosure. Publicity com
pels amendment. Phila. Rerord.
THE VITAL CAMPAIGN QUESTION-
Reports from Pittsburg are to the
effect that leading Democrats out
there are preparing to hold meet
ings in the near future in two thou
sand towns or rrore, simultaneous
ly, all of them to be addressed by
several speakers on the text, "thou
shalt not steal." During the re
cent meeting of the Democratic
State committee in Harrisburg Mr.
W. J. Breunan, of Pittsburg, made
this suggestion and it met with uni
versal favor. The new chairman
of the committee, Senator George
M. Dimeling, of Clearfield, cordi
ally approved the proposition and
it may be presumed that the move
ment referred to in the news dis
patches on the subject, the other
day, nad his official sanction and
support.
The only question to be deter
mined by the votes of the people in
November is whether or not the
conditions which prevailed in the
administration ofthe government
at Harrisburg previous to the elec
tion of William II. Berry are to be
ic-.ioreu. Air. i;erry, who more
Hun any or all other influences is
responsible tor the improvement,
expresses the opinion that 1:0 man
of the political faith of the majori
ty party, however honest and de
termined, could have hid the cour
age and determination necessary to
m:.ke the exposures and compass
the reforms. The experiences of
Tennypacker in Pennsylvania and
Mayor Reyburn ia PLILuklpliia,
completely corroborate this view.
They both enjoyed the reputation
of being honest and capable, yet
both became servile tools of the
machine.
If the Republican candidate for
State Treasurer, Mr. John O. Sheatz
- were as honest and courageous at
Lis most partial friends represent
him to be, therefore, he would not
be able to resist the pressure of the
machine to agree to the iniquities
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
$150,000.
of the past. His election will make
the Board of Public Buildings and
Grounds and all the other govern
ing boards as partisan as they had
been before the election of Berry
and that achieved, the rest will fol
low inevitably. Clearly the safety
of the public interests demand mi
nority representation on these
boards and that result will be de
feated by the election of Sheatz. It
is not a partisan question but an
economic one. Watchman.
THE JINGOES AT WORK.
The Jingoes in the United States
and Japan are doing their best to
stir up a war sentiment. When a
loud-mouthed Japanese booster is
sues a challenge it is taken up by
some swaggering American and
threats are tossed back and forth
across the ocean. What occasion
is therefor war or war talk? If
any Japanese has suffered violence
our courts are open to him; no for
eigner will be denied redress for
any injury he may suffer. Japan
has no complaint against us and we
have no complaint against her.
Why this massing of our fleet on
the Pacific ? Is it just to show Ja
pan what we could do ? If so it is
a bombastic display unworthy of
us; if it has no connection with the
Japanese question it is unpatriotic
for sensational papers to represent
it as an evidence of either hostility
or fear. In both countries the ad
vocates of a largs navy will seize
upon the incident as an excuse for
demanding more war ships, but to
just and peace-loving citizens the
situation ought to be a warning
against the military spirit which a
large navy develops. It is popular
just now to urge shooting galleries,
rifle ranges and big battleships as
peace promoters, but it is as absurd
to expect these things to bring
peace as it would be to expect per
sonal encounters to be decreased by
the teaching of prize fighting in the
public schools.
Man is not yet sufficiently ad
vanced to have power without
yielding to the temptation to use k.
It has been wisely remarked that
only the burglar needs burglar
tools. If our nation intends to re
spect the rights of other nations it
does not need "the biggest navy in
the world." Our resources are
well known; if we are ever unjustly
attacked we can prove our power
of resistance, but the chances of at
tackare very remote and nothing
is more apt to provoke an attack
than the parading of our prepared
ness. Commoner.
Both the candidate and the plat
form of the Republican state con
vention are representatives of the
machine leaders who have long
dominated the government of the
state, to its great loss and shame.
The candidate and platform of the
Democratic state convention' repre
sents all the forces which have long
been arrayed against the corrup
tionists and in favor of real reforms.
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CHERRY PECTORAL.
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C.July 25, 1907.
The dull, hot season is upon us.
The capitot city has long been de
serted by the legislative, executive
and judicial branches ol the govern
ment. Not a Cabinet officer re
mains, and the Chiefs of Division
and many subordinates are away
on summer vacation. Much im
provement is going on in Washing
ton rendered possible by recent ap
propriations. Five massive, white
marble government buildings are
Hearing completion. The new
Union Railroad Station, which ex
cept in height is bigger than the
Capitol of the United States, will
be finished in a few months. Penn
sylvania Avenue is being elevated
and resurfaced. The park which
thirty years ago was a swamp reach
ing from the Potomac almost to the
White House and covering nearly
four hundred acres, has now been
filled in and is laid out in wide
gravel boulevards, walks and soft
driveways for equestrians. It is
interspersed with lakelets, trees and
lawns. No other city is better en
dowed with park area, and Wash
ington promises to be in time one
of the world's most beautiful cities.
Things are at a deadlock in North
Carolina between the state and fed
eral courts over the railroad rate
question. Judge Tritchard, the Fed
eral Judge in the case, lias released
two of the railroad ticket agents
who appealed to him for a writ of
habeas corpus after they had been
sentenced to the chain-gang for sell
ing tickets at more than the state
rate of 2 j4 cents per mile. Judge
Pritchard may or may not have
been right ou the law in tiie case,
but he has succeeded in stirring up
a pretty hornet's nest. The Judge
used to be one of the counsel for
the Southern Railway, and natural
ly his decision is looked cn with
distrust by the more radical element
as biased in favor of the road.
Gov. Glenn has been taking coun
sel with the state corporation com
mission and expresses a firm deter
mination to uphold the rights of
the state iu the matter. The real
aim of both the state and the feder
al governments is to get the case
before the Supreme Court of the
United States as soon as possible and
abide by the decision there render
ed. A compromise has been offer
ed by Judge Pritchard to stay the
whole proceedings till the decision
of the higher court is rendered.
But there remains the question of
whether or not the state railroad
law should be allowed to remain in
effect till after the decision is ren
dered. There is but little doubt
that a compromise will be reached
and one that will be satisfactoty to
all parties, that is in so far as a
compromise is ever satisfactory to
anyone.
It looks as though the industrial
arbitration commission established
by the President with the money
from the Nobel Peace Prize might
have a fine chance to get to work
in the northwest. The strike that
has broken out in the Lake Supe
rior iron region is more interesting
to the "federal government than
anything in that line since the fa
mous hard coal strike of three years
ago. The men in the Masabe ore
fields have been very contented for
a number of years past. They are
an immense body, mostly foreign
ers or of foreign extraction, and ou
them depends in a large measure
the success of the iron and steel in
dustry of the country. It is claim
ed by the residents of Minnesota
that Jthese workmen have been in
fluenced by professional strike or
ganizers ani that many men who
were satisfied and would have pre-
lerreci to s'ay at work have been
driven out by threats of violence.
Ihis is a bad enough situation, but
it is further claimed, and it is be
lieved with truth that the organiz
ers have been the agents of the
Western Federation of Miners. The
Federation has been trvinr for
years to break into the Superior
field and has never been successful,
principally because the employers
treated their men decently and did
not encourage the brand of union
ism that has made the Coeur d'
Alone and Cripple Creek notorious.
However, the 1'ederatiou has now
gotten a foothold in Minnesota ar.d
the present strike is the first result.
It is a serious thing from a national
standpoint, because if the fields are
tied up for any , length of time it
will cripple the iron and steel in
dustry on which so much of the
material prosperity of the country
depends. The United States Steel
Corporation which is the practical
owner of these immense iron fields,
has announced its intention oi
fighting the strike to a finish and
crushing the Federation in this
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Signature
of
part of the country once for all A
prolorged strike in this region
would be a national calamity and it
is possible that the arbitration com
mission in Washington which has
so far not taken part in a single la
bor dispute, will feel moved to as
sert itself and see what can be done.
There have been complaints re
cently from all over the country as
to the quality of post cards and
stamped envelopes furnished by the
government. The government is
lavish in stationery of all sorts for
its own uses. Such stationery is
either bought in the open market,
this is done in ouly a few cases
or else is secured either under ad
vertised bids or "invitation bids"
which is a very niccjjsimple scheme
for keeping a contract just where
the government purchasing agent
wants it. But the post cards ' and
envelopes are furnished by contract
and bought and printed by a pri
vate firm up in New England. Tne
quality of the envelopes has usual
ly been satisfactory, but the post
cards never very good, have been
getting steadily worse of late years.
The contract is to be gone over by
the Postmaster General who will
see if something cannot be done to
raise the quality of the post cards,
and it is thought that the envel
ops will be improved at the same
time.
It is understood that this is the
last year the contract for post cards
and envelopes will be put out, as
there is a chance to have the work
done just as well and cheaper at
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. Trespass Notices.
Card simis ''NoTresDassine" for
sale at this office. They are print
ed in accordance with the late act
of 1003. Price 5 cents each, tf
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Does Church-going Cost Too Much ?
From Leslie's Weekly.
To many people in our cities reg
ular church going is virtually out
of the question because of its ex-
pensiveness. They are people who
need the church. Many of them
desire to go to church. Some of
them have been church members in
rural communities where church
going was not an expensive luxu
ry. They are the very class of
people whom the churches need
most. The majority of people for
whom church-going, in our cities,
is too costly are bright young men
and women, with brains sufficient
to appreciate good preaching, and
with personal gifts that would make
them useful in church work if they
could afford to have a church home.
Their salaries are not large enough
to enable them to afford to go to
church regularly, and they are too
self-respecting to be tramps wan
dering from one sanctuary to an
other. So, in spite of early relig
ious training and real religious as
pirations, they cease to go to
church.
Church sittings in the residence
sections of cities are fairly high-
priced; but they are only a part of
the expense. There is a long list
of regular causes for which contri
butions are asked, expected, and
almost required. The church so
cieties and "entertainments" must
also be supported. The class of
young people whom we have men
tioned cannot do what is asked and
expected of them without paying
and giving nearly or quite as much
as those who are the possessors of
at least moderate incomes. They
cannot stand the strain, especially
if they are married and have a home
to hire and furnish and little chil
dren to feed and clothe and educate.
No one knows the undue expen-
siveness of church-going for city
people on average salaries better
than some faithful and zealous pas
tors do. They know only too well
what multitudes who should be the
very bone and sinew of the church
do not go to church at all, or only
go irregularly. The expensiveness
of church going is a real obstacle
to the increase of the kingdom of
God.
One of the causes of the undue
expense is that there are too many
churches. They should be fewer
in number and of larger seating ca
pacity. The sittings should be
free, or put at prices withiu the
reach of the multitude. The nu
merous collections for "causes"
should somehow be reduced. The
causes are all right, bui the money
for them should not be obtained 111
the public congregations.
Before that cough turns into a serious throat or lung trouble, stop it with
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Ask your druggist for it. i
Itowksenb
Cool Underwear for
hot weather. Not
the kind that make
you "sweat" but the
kind that keeps you
cool. 25c to $1.00.
A Nice Line of Bat Wing Bows
Hosiery in the New Nob
by Styles and Colors.
TOW
EW STORE.
July Clearance Sale
AT PURSEL'S
We have on sale thousands of yards of bright, new
Summer Dress Goods at bargain prices. Right in the very
heart of the wash fabric season, when the demand is at its
height, we have slaughtered prices in a way that makes
your buying elsewhere an extravagance. Rut bless you we
have a regular feast of bargains a'll over the store. Read
every item here quoted they are all interesting.
We have divided this vast
quantity into five different
lots for your quick choos
ing. We do advise you to
come early.
Lot 1 Including Lawns
in dots and stripes splen
did colorings. 5c the yard.
Lot 2 Thin dress mate
rials in Lawns, Voiles, etc.
Regularly 15 to 25c the yd.
Good variety won't last
long 9c a yd.
Lot 3 Cotton Foulards,
highly mercerized and silky
all new Foulard styles.
Some stripes and dots. Reg
ulary 25c. Ou sale for 16c
the yard.
Lot 4 Printed Mulls
the prettiest and sheerest
Mulls on the market. Flor-'
al and stripe designs in all
the beautiful colorings.'
Regularly 25c. Now 19c yd
Lot 5 These exquisite
Cotton and Silk Novelties'
that were 39 and 50c are
now 32$c the yard.
F, P,
BLOOMSBURG,
Lot of Ladies Cress 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. So " 2.75
3-88 " 1.99
LOT OF SPECIAL ,
EMBROIDERY Suitable for Lawn, Mus
lin and Cambric. From
the narrowest edgings to !
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.