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I HE COI.VMHIAN, I 'lOomsi.r.r, Ta.
lirUSDW. JUNE 10. 1901)
High Tariff Prices.
Some of the quoted prices for
the ordinary necessities leave 110
room for doubt tint these are soar
ing higher than ever before, except
in war times. And that applies
not only to meat products, but to
virtually everything.
It is readily realized how heavily
the burden of increased values iu
necessities of life falls upon the
poor man, particularly just at this
ti .le, when the country is emerg-
: from a long period of business
:'.!. The cost of living has ad-
:cod immeasurably, and the mill
. ;kr, the mechanic, the laborer,
..-.rning to his toil after tha lean
j.riad, finds that it requires more
iliau he can earn to supply his
meager table, to pay his rent and
keep his little family in decent
clothing.
And what are our lawmakers in
Washington doing to lighten the
burden? Are Aldrich & company
devoting their attention exclusively
to reducing the indirect taxation
which the consumer of limited re
sources fiuds it so difficut to meet?
Are they, in fact, giving the slight
est thought to a matter that vitally
-concerns 85 or 90 per cent, of the
consumers of the country? Are
they not rather concocting schemes
to keep the tariff on food and cloth
ing as high as possible, in order to
"protect" the American working
man? What a iarce this pose of the
standpatters would be if it were not
so wickedly contemptible. Pitts
. burg Post.
Named lor Midshipman.
T. T. Bower, a member of the
senior class of the Danville high
school, has been nominated for the
position of midshipman at the naval
academy at Annapolis, Md.
The young man named by Con
gressman McHeury as principal
candidate for midshipman, was a
resident of Sullivan county. Mr.
Bower was nominated as an alter
nate. The naval department advises
Coneressman McHenrv that the
young man named as principal
candidate for the position took the
mental examination but that his
markings were not quite high
enough to render him eligible for
appointment as midshipman.
These facts are duly explained
in a letter to Mr. Bower written by
Coneressman McHenrv.
It appears that the vounr man
named as second alternate was to
have reported for examination on
Aoril 20th. but failed
offered no explanation as to why
ne aia not.
The young man named as third
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OFFICERS:
Myron I. Low, Vice President.
Frank Ikeler, Cnohier
Myron T. Low,
ii. v. i lower
Frank Ikeler,
alternate withdrew at the last
moment when it was too late to
appoint another, hence no third
alternate was nominated.
As indicated by the above Mr
Bower is left first and alone for
the appointment in the sixteenth
congressional district. Therefore, if
his mental and physical examina
tion prove satisfactory, he will be
sworn in as midshipman at the
naval academy.
Would Bring Penn's Body Here.
Corgrcssman Palmer Plans to Oisinlor Fto-
main.
Representative A. Mitchell Pal
mer, of Pennsylvania, who is one of
the six members of the house of
representatives affiliated with the
Friends, is planning a movement
to hive the United States bring the
coffin containing all that is mortal
of William Peun to tins country
and have it interred on the banks
of the Delaware.
The suggestion was made to Mr.
Palmer recently by a constituent,
who is a Friend, and who believes
that the time is now opportune for
su-li action. The body of Penn
now reposes in a practically aban
doned cemetery iu Buckingham
shire, England, and considering
his distinguished career, is not ap
propriately marked.
Mr. Palmer contemplates eoinsr
about the business in a practical
way and intends to submit the
proposition to the president and as
certain his views, and, if it is pos
sible, get the support of Mr. Taft.
It is also jis purpose to enlist the
aid ot Se:retary Knox in the move
ment. The removal of Penn's
body will have as a precedent the
action taken by this government in
disinterring the body of John Paul
Jones from a cemetery in Paris aud
its rebunal at Annapolis.
1 he movement is regarded as op
portune at this time in view of the
fact that the Friends have a larger
representation iu congress at this
session than they have had in half
a century or more.
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The new concern has purchased or
secured options on many of the
leading independent telephone lines
ot Pennsylvania, Ohio and West
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cern. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, M,
aw.
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, June 7, 1909.
In the estimation of Democratic
Senators who are studying the tar
iff, the determination of the Re
publicans to maintain the increased
duties on meats of a!l description,
both fresh and cured, constitutes
one of the most striking anomalies
of the protective policy. In thtir
defense of the policy of protection
almost every Republican Senator
has referred to the necessity of.
maintaining the existing high
standard of living" of the Ameri
can workingman. Many have de
voted pages of the Congressional
Record to this srgumeut. When
asked wherein lies the chief differ
ence between the standard Ameri
can laborers, both skilled and un
skilled, and similar workmen
abroad, they invariably reply with
an elaboration of the difference to
be found in the tables of the two
classes, maintaining that meat is
served on the table of the Ameri
can twice or thrice as often as on
that of his fellow workmen in for
eign countries. And yet these
same Republicans refuse absolutely
to recognize that by increasing du
ties on meats they are not only ad
ding millions to the profits of the
beef trust, but are precipitatiug a
situation precisely similar to that
abroad. Iu the estimation of a
number of Democrats with whom
your correspondent has talked on
the effect of the Aldrich bill, if en
acted as it now stands, will be to
drive meat off of the tables of a
large percentage of American work
ingtuen in the near future. Asked
why they do not make a more vig
orous fight for the reduction of
these duties, the Democrats main
tain that they are perfectly helpless
iu the matter, that Mr. Aldrich
and his associates are in complete
control of the situation in the Sen
ate, and that it is useless for any
Democrat or group of Democrats to
undertake to secure reductions in
any schedule decided upon by the
I'inaiice Committee. In this con
nection, however, the remarks of a
Republican member of the Finance
Committee, while not perhaps to
be taken at their face value, are of
iuterest.
To a New England member of
the Finance Committee your cor
respondent put this question, Are
not the Democratic Senators pecul
iarly helpless in this tariff debate,
and if so, ihat is the reason"?
The Republican replied, "Our
Democratic friends can accomplish
nothing because they are so badly
divided among themselves. Prac
tically every one of them has some
special industry for which he wish
es above all else to secure protec
tion. Brother Aldrich is nobody s
fool aud he has felt out the aims of
his opponents and knows so well
how to play one against the other
that throughout this debate there
has not been a single instance
where the Democrats have all voted
one way. It is simply the eld sto
ry of a house divided against itself
and of statesman who place person
al aud local interests above party
zeal and national welfare". Of
course that is a partisan arraign
ment and must be accepted with
due allowance for the narrowness
of the New England viewpoint
Nevertheless it contains an element
of truth which is worthy the seri
ous consideration of every Demo
crat. No member of the Taft cabinet
entered upon his term of service
confronted by a more perplexing
situation and harassed by more
difficulties than George von L.
Meyer, Secretary of the Navy.
Nevertheless Mr. Meyer has not
only the courage of his convictions,
but the temerity of a Roosevelt.
With the staff versus line contro
versy still at white heat, Secretary
Meyer has had the audacity boldly
to defy Cupid aud practically to is
sue an order forbidding the young
god to aim a single dart at the
hearts of Uncle Sara's middies. A
heartless predecessor of the present
Secretary long ago forbade Mid
shipmen to marry during the four
years' term at Annapolis, but Sec
retary Meyer has added two years
to the proscribed time and forbids
matrimony prior to the time when
the midshipman receives his first
promotion and becomes an ensign
The moral effect of this order will
doubtless be beneficial, but should
any midddy have the courage to
violate it and Je solemnly arraign
ed before a court martial charged
with the grave offense of having
taken unto himself a wedded wife
it is a question how long the order
would stand the ridicule of an un
feeling pres..
Secretary Meyer's prohibition
against the marriage of Midship
men recalls an incident which oc-
a paragraph was added to the N.
vy regulations instructing officers
that they must not permit their
wives, or other members of their
families, to travel from place to
place and thus meet them at every
port where their squadron cast an
chor. Soon after the order was is
sued the Secretary of the Navy re
ceived a communication from an
officer, now an Admiral on the re
tired list. It read somewhat as
follows: "I have the honor to re
port that my wife TaCatha Blank,
in direct violation of Naval Regu
lation No. , and in wilful in
subordination to the order of. the
Secretary of the Navv. persists iu
following me about from place to
place, and meeting me at every
port where my ship casts anchor".
The Dedication at the Orphanage.
Will Bo An Interesting Event tor Odd Fellows,
at Sunbury on Thursday, Juno 17.
Blooinslnirg will be well repre
sented at the dedication of the Odd
Fellows' Orphans' Home at Sunbu
ry on June 17. The program will
begin at 10.30 in the morning when
a parade will form at the old build
ing in the following order: Band;
Patriarchs Militant; members of the
subordinate lodges; members of the
Rebekah; members of the Encamp
ment; members of the board ot di
rectors; building committee; dedi
cation committee; officers of the
home; superintendent and matron,
children and attendants; past grand
masters; past grand patriarchs; past
presidents ot the Rebekah assem
bly; grand patriarch aud members
of the grand encampment; state
president and grand officers of the
Rebekah assembly; grand master
and officers of the grand lodge.
The program of exercises at the
dedication ceremony will be as fol
lows: Openiug ode of the order,
sung by members and children; rit
ualistic ceremony by the grand
master and his staff of officers; ad
dress by J. S. Montgomery; doxol
ogy by audience; music oy baud;
song by children; address by Mrs.
Hattie Mandel, president of the
Rebekah state assembly; song by
children; addresses by Rev. B. H.
Hart, E. C. Wagner and J. W.
Stroh. A drilliue exercise by the
Cantons will close the ceremonies.
A Meeting Long Deferred.
The Bellefonte Watchman of last
week says: "An interesting fact
developed at the Memorial day ex
ercises at Pine Grove Mills on Mon
day. Rev. John Hewitt, pastor ot
the Episcopal church of this place,
made the memorial address and in
the course of his remarks he stated
that he had been a soldier in the
Confederate army and in 1861, just
at the breaking out of the war, he
had been captured and held a pris
oner at Fort Beauregard, on the is-
laud of St. He.eua, off the coast of
South Carolina. Later in the day
he aud Capt. W. H. Fry, the well
known veterinarian of that place,
exchanged confidences and the fact
developed that Mr. Fry was one of
the detail or skirmish party who
captured the reverend, or private
Hewitt as he was at that time, and
took him a prisoner to the Island,
Mr. Fry being at the time a mem
ber of the Forty -fifth Pennsylvania
regiment which was in charge of
the fort. The further fact was also
brought out that Rev. Hewitt and
Capt Fry are the same age to a day
and that they both enlisted on the
same day, the former in the confed
erate army and the latter in the ar
my of the north, so that in the lives
of the two men there has been co
incidences enough to justify the
warm friendship that has already
been formed between them."
Mr. Hewitt was rector of St.
Paul's P. E. Church of Bloomsburg
back in the seventies.
Sturgeon in the River.
The Government Will Stock Susquehanna
With Important Speciu.
Fishermen along the Susquehan
na hope again to have the oppor
tunity to fash for the gamy stur
geon, one of the greatest fighting
fish that swims. The government
has made arrangements to import
a large consignment of sturgeon
from Russia, aud Pennsylvania is
to get a share for the Susquehanna
river. At the next session of the
Legislature a law will be passed to
protect these fish until the streams
are well stocked. At one time the
Susquehanna river was full of stur
geons, but they were almost exter
minated by the fishermen with
seines, and it is a rare thing to
catch a sturgeon now even at the
mouth of the river.
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