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THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOAtsSftURCl. Pa
STRONGEST BANK IN THE COUNTY
Capital
$100,000
Undivided Profits
$30,000
Surplus
$160,000.
First National Bank,
S Per Cent. Interest Allowed 011 Savings Deposits
OFFICE IIH:
K. V. M. Low, Pretddent. J. M. Staver, Vice President.
K. R Tuslin, Vice President. M. I. Low, Vice President
FrRiik Ikeler, CiiNhler,
J-n I HECTORS:
1 W.M.Low. F.O. Yorks, Frank Ikeler, 8. C. Creasy,
jfl. 15, TiiHtin, Fred Ikeler, Geo. 8. Itobblns, H. V. Hower.
J. M Staver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, M. E Btnekhouse.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED i8ftb.
THf COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
CSTAIII.ISIIRD I837. CONSOLIDATED IE69
nm.isn F.t Every Thursday Morning,
At Hlojmsliurg, the County Seat of
Col umli a County, Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. EI. WELL. Editor.
HKO. C. KOAN.Fonr.MAN.
Tkkmm: Inside the county $1.00 a year
la alvant:ej 1 . 50 1 f not iaul in a.ivance,
Outside the county, 51.25 a year, strictly in
alvance.
All communication" should t'Cvldresscd
THE COL'TMBIAM, Woomsliurj;, Ta,
TMUKSDAV MAY 7, 1008.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION
Democratic State Committee Rooms
Harrisburg, Pa., April i, 1908
As directed by the Democratic
State Central Committee at a spec
ial meeting held in the Board of
Trade rooms, in this city on Wed
nesday, February 26th, 1908, no
tice is hereby given that the Demo
cratic State Convention will convene
in the Orpheum Theatre, at Har
risburg, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20th, 1908,
at 11 o'clock a. m. The business
for which the convention will meet
will be.
To nominate one candidate for
perior Couit Judge:
Two candidates for Presidential
r.leotors-at-Large,
To elect in the manner provided
the rules of the party: four Del
egates and four Alternates-at-Largc
to the National Democratic Con
vention; To certify the nomination of
thirty-two Presidential Electors, as
named by the delegates from the
respective Congressional Districts
of the State,
And to act upon and determine
such other matters, relating to the
welfare and success of the pany
within the State, as may be brought
before it.
P. Gray Meek, Secretary.
George M. Dimeling, Chairman.
A MAN WHO ACHIEVES.
We take it that the voters of this
district will have little difficulty in
determining their course with re
spect to voting for Congress this
year. The record of our present
member looks like a revelation to
most of us. For years the rule for
the Representative for this district
has been, apparently, to do as little
as possible. The ambition of Mr.
McHenry appears to have been to
achieve as much as possible in the
interest of his constituents. He
has been both industrious and effic
ient. It is difficult to measure the ad
vantage to a constituency of an ef
ficient and capable Representative
in Congress. The seat of the Na
tional government is a long ways
distant from the average citizen
even though he resides only a few
hours off. We do not get very
close even to the State government
' because our local concerns are reg
ulated mainly by our local officials
as they ought to be. But to those
who have business with the Nation
al government, such as soldiers who
have pension interests to look after
and others who are concerned about
postal routes and similar affairs, it
is important to have a Representa
tive in Congress who has the ability
and understanding as well as the
inclination to serve them.
It is not invidious to say that no
district in the whole country has
been more faithfully and efficiently
served during the present session of
Congress than this one. Hon. John
G. McHeury has been literally "on
the job," if that phrase is allowa
ble, from the beginning. He has
not only been earnest and active in
behalf of his constituents but he
has been exceptionally efficient and
effective. If he had been in the
service for a dozen years he could
hardly have done better and yet
with the additional experience he
would have achieved more.
THE ESSENCE OF MEANNESS.
Only those who watch with keen
interest can measure accurately the
mean impulses of the pigmies who
control tlie Republican majority 111
trie present Congress. We ore in
a j. ., . ..
uiicucea 10 mis onservation t-y an
incident that has been brought to
cur notice by one who "has been
on the job," so to speak, during
the present session. It will be re
membered that during the special
session of the Legislature in 1906,
and to some extent during the reg
ular session of 1907, the Republi
can leaders made it a rule to allow
no Democrat to initiate any import
ant legislation. Whenever a Dem
ocrat would offer a bill of that sort
it would be smothered in committee
and a Republican would present a
similar measure or one substantially
the same, which would be consider
ed. But the matter was attributed
to the picayune spirit which domi
nated the majority and dismissed.
In Washington, during the pres
ent session of Congress, however,
the same spirit has been revealed.
One conspicuous case will serve to
illustrate this point. Early in the
session, or to be exect. on the 12th
day of December, 1907, Representa
tive William li. Wilson, of Tioga
county, introduced a general wid
ows' pension bill orovidincr for a
flat rate of $12 a month for all
widows of honorably discharged
soldiers who had served ninety days
or longer during the Civil war.
The bill was held in committee
about a month and then reported
out, not as Mr. Wilson's bill, but
as the product of the committee. It
is substantially, almost literally.
the measure introduced bv Mr.
Wilson. But Mr. Wilson is a Dem
ocrat who happened to be elected in
a Republican district and it wouldn't
do to have his name associated with
so (popular a measure. It might
help him to a re-election.
Representative John G. McHenry
has made a very similar experience
during the present session. He
was among the first to attack cur
rency legislation and early in the
session introduced two bills, one
providing for emergency currency
and the other proposed to guarantee
bank deposits. Both were referred
to committee and buried. But sub
sequently Mr. Fowler, chairman of
the House Committee on Banking
and Currency, introduced a bill
embodying one of Mr. McHenry's
ideas and Mr. Aldrich, chairman of
the Senate Committee on Finance,
introduced a bill expressing the
other, while McHenry's bills were
pigeon-holed. Other Democratic
Representatives have had similar
experiences and the plain inference
is that the purpose was to prevent
Democrats from getting credit for
initiating pupular legislation. Phis
is peanut politics carried to the lim
it. It is the very essence of mean
ness. Watchman.
We Trust
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AQUB CURE.
CHERRY PECTORAL.
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U formula of ll our voatolaM.
EXPOSED HYPOCRISY.
Ever since the exposure of the
Capitol looting by a Democratic
State Treasurer the Republican par
ty managers in Pennsylvania have
been vociferously expressing their
righteous wrath over the betrayal
of trust on the part of the Organi
zation State officials involved. How
genuine is their indignation ? Let
the following excerpt from the plat
form adopted by the Republican
State Convention last week answer
the question:
We believe that the business of all
department of our State government
under Republican control U being wise
ly and honestly conducted.
The careful limitation of this ex
pression of confidence to the "de
partments of our State government
under Republican control" is a de
liberately pointed insult to State
Treasurer Berry, he being the head
of the only department of the State
government not under Republican
control. It was Berry who turned
the light on the Capitol thieves It
was he who made necessary the re
pudiation of the detected grafters
in the Republican ranks by the un
detected grafters. In revenge for
the humiliation his steadfast devo
tion to duty has put upon the Or
ganization responsible for the plun
denng he is maliciously singled our
from all the other State officials to
be charged bv implication with un
wisely ana dishonestlv conducting
his office.
If the leaders of the Republican
party in Pennsylvania were sincere
in their professions with regard to
t lie wholesale robbery of tne tax
payers in the Capitol construction
they would have heaped unstinted
praise upon the courageous official
who came to the people'.! rescue
even in tneir Mate platform. In
common decency they could have
done 110 less. But they stand be
fore the voters of Pennsylvania as
self-confessed hypocrites. In their
e igerness to slap the author of their
misfortunes they have forgotten
caution and publicly stultified them
selves. Low cunning has blunder
ed. The sheep's clothing of peni
tence no longer disguises the Or
ganization wolf. The people have
n the Republican platform a vivid
X-ray impression of the real atti-
t de of the virtuous Republican
party toward the greatest political
crime in Pennsylvania's history.
Phila. Record.
A fine new line of Wedding in
vitations just received at tbisotfice.
Dangerous Extravagance of Congress.
(From Leslie's Weekly.)
In opposing the President's prop
osition for four more battleships in
the present session of Congress,
Representative Tawney, of Minne
sota, said that "in preparation for
war the United States, with an
army of 52,000 men and a navy of
42,000, is expending this year only
$66,000,000 less than England,
with an army of 204,000 men and a
navy of 129,000 men; only $35,
000,000 less than Germany, with
her army of 600,000 and her navy
of 62,000; aud we are spending $2,
683,000 more than France, with
her army of 550,000 men and her
navy of 56,000 men." These are
portentious words for the Republi
can party which is in control of all
branches of the government. The
man who uttered them is chairman
of the House Appropriations Com
mittee and one of the Republican
leaders of that chamber. Moreover,
the appropriations for the army and
navy which he denounced thus
when they were before the House
have been increased since that time.
They are larger than in any year
except during the Civil War and
the Spanish war periods. This im
mense outlay in time of profound
peace is, considering the relatively
diminutive size of our army aud
navy, discreditable to the Republi
can party, and may prove danger
ous to it.
Dr. MUea' Antl-ruln Pills relievo puln.
Picketing Unlawful.
New York Supreme Court Upholds Injunc
tion Restraining It.
The right of an employer to en
join picketing by strikers is upheld
by the special term or the Supreme
Court of New York in New York
Central Iron Works Company vs.
Brennan, 105 N. Y Supp. 869. In
this case, it appeared that the strik
ers had pickets on the employer's
E remises, and as the employees who
ad taken the place of the strikers
who were on picket duty were go
ing to and from their work the
pickets would call them "scabs,"
reproach them for working for the
employer, thus depriving the pick
ets of their bread, and threaten
them with death if they entered the
premises.
OA8TORXA.
Bean the T Kind V"" Haw Always Batfht
Schley Bryan's Naval Head.
Nebraikan Would Give Him Chance to Clean
Out Department.
It is said by friends of W. J.
Bryan that Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley will be offered the Secreta
ryship of the Navy in case the Ne
braskan is elected President. It
would be the first time in history
that any naval officer has received
this position. Heretofore the De
partment has been run by the Bu
reau of Navigation, and Secretary
of the Navy has not been much
more than a chief clerk who regis
ters the decrees of that bureau.
It is said that Rryan intends, in
case he becomes President, to make
a clean sweep of this ring and to
inaugurate a new deal all around.
He does not believe it possible to do
that without a practical naval offic
er at the head of the Department.
Admiral Schley has not been ap
proached by any representative of
Bryan on this juestion, and knows
nothing of it. It has not been con
fided by Bryan to anybody outside
the circle of his most intimate
friends.
Iramonsity of Our Gold Industry.
(Walter Ilartly Meredith in Leslie's
Weekly. )
Ail eagle, a ten-dollar gold piece,
is just aboti . one inch 111 diameter.
Imagine a glittering yellow ribbon
of ten dollar gold pieces, lying edge
to edge, beginning at San Francis
co and extending eastward through
the Sacramento vallev of California
across the lofty Sierra Nevada
Mountains, spanning the great
American desert in Nevada and
Utah, over the prairies of Wyom
ing and Nebraska, across the greeu
fields of Iowa and Illinois, over In
diana and Ohio, through the hills
of New York and Massachusetts,
and out into the Atlantic Ocean,
half way to the British Isles im
agine this continuous string of gold
en eagles edge to edge, without
break or interruption, over this
vast stretch of land and sea a dis
tance which consumes at least eight
days in the swiftest express trains
aud ocean steamers and you will
be able to form some conception of
the amount of gold that has been
produced in the United States.
It requires some such illustration
as this to grasp the immensity of
the gold industry, to form some
definite idea of the importance and
magnitude of the gold production
of the North American continent.
The profits from the gold indus
try are magnificent. They are
greater than in any other depart
ment of commercial activity. The
figures of the world's production
are enormous- In 1907 the output
of the gold mines of the earth
amounted to nearly a half a billion
dollars. Of this vast' sum about
one-half , or more than $ 200,000,000,
was net profit. No other industry
can make such a showing as this.
This gold was found in America,
in Mexico, in South Africa, in Aus
tralia, and else where.
This huge sum of profits, more
than $200,000,000, was distributed
to scores of thousands of people.
Have You Got a Flag for Decoration
. Day and Fourth of July ?
Our flag now contains lorty-six
stars, a new State beiug admitted
to the Union, and everybody needs
new nag. ou can get one, a
fine hand-sewed, fast colors, forty-
six stars, with Ihe Philadelphia
Press, daily, one year, both for
$3.50. The flag aloue is worth
2.00. By special arrangement di
rect with the manufacturer, The
Press has secured a limited nuniDer
of these flags and offers them to its
subscribers at this exceptionally
low price. Send a check for $3.50
today to lhe Philadelphia J'ress,
Circulation Department, Seventh
aud Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia,
and get both flag and the erreat
metropolitan newspaper. Or, hand
your order to your postmaster or
newsdealer.
THE COUNTY'S MONEY.
The report of County Treasurer
Rho:.ds for April shows that he re
ceived - - $11,280.40
Balance from March 2,I4vqs
$13.4.24..
Paid out during month 5,006 48
Balance on hand
$ 8,417.87
Souvenir Post Cards are printed
at this office. Half tones supplied.
SUBSTANTIAL
Lowering of Suit Prices!
Today we commence a period of Suit Selling destined
to be the best in the department's history. To get quickly
to the bottom of the matter, these few facts are told.
Within a very short time the space occupied by these suits
will be taken for advance summer garments. This low
i-irirr met hod is taken to eet what Spring Suits remain out
in time to accommodate the new arrivals.
.The following prices will prove interesting to the
woman who has yet to purchase her Spring Suit.
' 10.00 SUITS FOR 7.50.
Latest styles stripes and plain colors. Sale Price $7.50.
12.00 SUITS FOR 9.98.
Plue and brown, self striped Panama, Prince Chap Style.
Sale Price 9 98.
11.00 SUITS FOU 10.00.
Worsteds and self stripe Panama, Prince Chap and Cuta
way style. Sale .Price 10.00.
$17.50 SUITS FOll 15.50.
Excellent quality of Chiffon Panama, blues, browns and
black. Jacket 27 inches, J fitting back with dip front.worth
20.00. Sizes 14 to 40. Sale Price $15.50.
1S.00 and 20.00 SUITS FOR 12.93.
Sizes 14 to 36 every suit a new creation.
22.50 and 23.00 SUITS FOR 10.00
Elegant materials and tailorings blues, brown and
greens, Many of the best models. Sale Price $t6.oo.
25.00 SUITS FOR 17.50.
Excellent assortment, most all sizes in this lot. Best
styles included. High grade handsome materials.
32.00 and 35.00 SUITS FOR 25.00.
The newest creations. Some of them copies of fine im
ported models, fine quality of fabrics good color variety.
Sale Price $25.00.
F. P. PURSEL
BLOOMSBURG,
PENN'A.
We Have Ten Styles of
Envelopes and Paper to Match
FOR
Invitations, Acceptances, Regrets,
Announcements, &c.
Full size Wedding with two Envelopes, down' to
Billet-doux size with Card to Fit.
Twenty-Four Styles of Type
FOR CARDS AND INVITATIONS.
We Do All Kinds of Printing
Columbian Printing House,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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