THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO, PiA. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HIOOMHHUR, J?A. THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital $100,000 Surplus 8150,000. With the Largest Capital and Surplus in the Countv, a Strong Directorate, Competent Officers and Every Mod ern Facility, we solicit Accounts, Large or Small, and Collections on the Most Liberal Terms Consistent with Sound Banking, and Invite YOU to inspect our NEW QUARTERS. Per Cent. Interest OFFICERS! K. W. M.Low, President. James M.Staver, Vice President. DIRECTORS! James M. Htaver, Fred Ikeler, H. C. Creasy. Clinton Herring, E. W. M.Low. F. O. Yorks, Louis f irons, M. K (tackhouse. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT. - TABLISHKD I 837. CONSOtlDATF.I) I SO9 1 hLISHEI) hVERY THURSDAY Mr RNINO, V Bloomsburg, the County Seat oi Columbia County, Pen nsy I v:.m. GEO. E. FI.WKU.. F.nnoi. GEO. C. UOAN.roKBMAS. Usi Insult thecouritj l.ooa year t ; .tlva-ice; 4 1 . 50 i f r.ot faid in advance. 1 '.M'''e the county, I. ij a year, strictly in IVjr.cr. . li communicMior j 1ir.l' 1 e ailrlreserl THE COLVUBIAN, IMooiusUrj;, Pa. THURSDAY, JULY 22, K(9 A Tarifl Object Lesson. Here is a little protective tariff object lesson. An American steel concern has just booked an order for 50,000 tons of rails for South America. The price is not given out, but we know that if the rails were for United States delivery the figure would be $28 per ton at the mill. But South America buys in the open market, and buys where it can buy cheapest. All the steel riil manufacturers in the world are mpetitors for its trade. In seek er this order the American steel ncern had to compete with those : Germany, Great Britain and Jgium. That the United States jn.ern get the contract is evidence thut it underbid the foreign con cerns the "pauper labor" manu facturers of the old world. And the fact that it could underbid all competitors of all nations, is evi dence irrefutable that steel rails can be manufactured in the United States cheaper than in any other country on the g'obe. This being the fact it is self-evident that the United States steel manufacturers need no protection. But they are protected. A high tariff wall keeps out all foreign competition in this country, to the end that enormous and unjust prof its are levied upon American con sumers of steel products. The Taft-Aldrich tariff continues the prohibitive duties which McKinley provided and which Dingley re newed. And not a nickle of those profits goes into the pockets of the work ingmen, in whose interests the tar iff is supposed to be levied. As far back as 1890 the secretary of the Illinois Steel company, in a public address in Chicago, declared that American rails were produced at a less cost in labor than it was possi ble to produce rails anywhere else, this being due to the higher effi ciency of American workingmen. The tariff robbery has not benefit ed the American steel worker an iota. It has made the bloated for tunes of the Carnegies, the Schwabs, the Coreys and the Fricks, but it hasn't added a single luxury to the living ot the men who, by the sweat of their brow, made possible the immense profits of their em ployers. What is said of steel is true of practically every other tariff-protected article. It would be diffi cult to find one solitary instance in which a high tariff has made high er wages for the workers in the protected industries. On the other hand it has made for them higher costs lor an tne necessities of life. Ayer's Hair Vigor Inercdipnf Cdpwcum. Anything Injurious here? Anything of merit here? Will it stop falling hair? Will it destroy dandruff? oes not Color the l3air Arm inui'Kv, lowull. Ma.- Paid on Time Deposits Myron I. Low, Vice President. Frank Ikeler, Cashier Myron T. Low, H. V. Mower. Frank Ikeler. It has made it increasingly diffi cult for the workingmen to provide decently for his family, to say nothing of laying by a competence for his old age. As a protector of labor and pro moter of prosperity the high tariff is the most gigantic fraud ever foisted upon a credulous people. With the increased burdens the masses must i.ear under the latest tariff outrage, there is hope that they may at last awake to the full realization of the fact that the tar ifl is a tax ard a tax so unfairly Adjusted that the heaviest fcurden fails upon the least able to pay. Indorsed by the G. 0. P. And it cometh to pass that the Democratic platform is perforce in dorsed, and Democratic policies ap propriated, by Republicans. Ev ery Democrat in the house of rep resentatives and every Republican but 14 voted for the resolution to submit an income tax constitution al amendment to the states, thus following out a demand of the Democratic national platform ot last year. The Denver platform contained this plank: "We favor an income tax as part of our revenue system, and we urge the submission of a constitutional amendment specially authorizing congress to levy and collect tax upon individual and corporate in comes, to the end tbat wealth may bear its proportionate share of the burdens of the federal government." The Republican platform was si lent on this important question The most amusing point of the matter, however, is that in the campaign following the national conventions a year ago, Republicau orators, including scores of the very men who have now voted for the income tax amendment, vigo rously attacked the Democratic in come tax plank. Now that the country is con fronted with the necessity for emer gency taxation, they turn about, and in so doing tacitly admit that the Democratic platform was right and the Democratic demand for an income tax just. By their vote on this matter the Republicans in congress have made admission that efficient government demands the application of Demo cratic principles and policies. Souvenir Post Cards are printed at this office. Half tones supplied. Offered Bribe to Judge. John S. Eckert. a Drosoective buyer of the McCloud house at Keatine Summit, and a retired lumberman of St. Mary's, knows what it means to be struck in the face by a iudicial fist, and that it does not pay to try to bribe the ju diciary, nckert had arranged for the transferring of a liquor license, ana judge jonn Urmerod of Cou dersport told him if he ran his place right there would be no more irouDie. At this point Eckert pulled out a roll of bills and told the judge to put it in his pocket. Insulted, Judge Ormerod threw the money into Eckert's face and gave him several punches on his physiognomy. The act took place on the street in the presence of witnesses. Saicc. Alcohol. Water. Perlum. Ask your doctor. Ask your doctor. Ask your doctor. Ask your doctor. WASHINGTON From our Regular Correspondent. Washington,!). C, July 19, 1909 The tariff contiuues to be the chief topic of interest in Washing ton and every one is waiting almoiit with bated oreath for some clear indication of the course of the con ferrees. Tr.e situation is unusual ly complicated because of the in jection of two unknown factors in the equation. One is the "down ward revision" influence of Presi dent Taft. The other is the "stand pat" influence of Speaker Cannou. "Close friends" of the President are authority for the statement that the outcome of the conference will be "a Taft bill", embodying the reductions of the House bill, those of the Senate bill and a few more injected by the President himself for good measure. Other "close friends" of the President are au thority for the assertion that he is worried over the situation, that his best efforts are not producing the tesults he expected and that it will be imposs ble for him to accom plish sufficient improvement to make it possible for him to sign the the bill without considerable com punction. There is no doubt the President is doing all in his power to induce the conferrees of the two houses to accept the lowest rates in every instance but it is probably equally certain that thus far in sufficient progress has been made to enable anyone to determine what the outcome will be. There are some serious obstacles to the end which the President seeks. The House conference com mittee, made up by Speaker Can non to serve his own ends and to counteract the progressive tenden cies of Chairman Payne, is a strong ly "stand Pat" aggregaticn and with the exception of Mr. Payne the few who are disposed to reduce the duties are so beholden to the Speak er that they will place his will be fore their convictions. This means, of course, that to accomplish such the President must convert the Speaker and, as Mr. Cannon is so fond of saying, "It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks". The President is especially anxious for free hides, free iron ore, free coal and free petroleum. Taking the last first, the very make-up ot the committee is against free pe troleum, entirely apart-from the wishes of the Speaker. For the House theie are representatives Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Cal- derhead of Kansas, both advocates of a tariff on petroleum, while the Senate is represented in part by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania another ardent advocate of a duty on oil and the man whose deter mined fight in the Senate led to the imposition in the eleventh hour of the countervailing duty carried in the Senate bill. Added to this is the position of Speaker Cannon who has never forgiven the House for placing petroleum on the free list a gainst his wishes, who has a num ber of independent oil producers in his own district who want a duty on oil, and who is determined that whatever else the conferees may do, the duty on oil shall not be stricken out, shall be increased if possible. Representative Dalzell and Sen ator Penrose will also stand out to the last ditch for a duty on coal. The indications are that the rate may be reduced to 50 cents a ton, or 40 cents, but beyond that thare is little prospect that the conferrees will go, despite the earnest eutrea ties of the President. Of course the Pennsylvania men will hold out for the duty on iron ore. Mr. Dal zell was never known to vote a gainst anything advocated by the Steel Trust, nor is Senator Penrose likely to. Senator Burrows, in whose state are located the largest ore beds, will stand with the Pennsylvanians and altogether the prospect of free iron ore in not brilliant. The Senate conferees are not par ticularly interested in placing a duty on hides but Mr. Calderhead is. In fact it is generally supposed that his advocacy of this duty wa3 a large iactor in his being placed on the committee. And finally, Speaker Cannon is bound by a bar gain he is supposed to have made with former Representative Lit tauer, the great glove manufactur er of Gloversville, N. Y., to stand pat for the house duty on gloves. Not only did Mr. Littauer come to Chicago during the Republican con vention and conduct the campaign which resulted in James S. Sher man, the Speaker's candidate, be lng named for Vice President, but when, last spring, a number of in dependent Republicans allied them selves with the Democrats in an effort to reform the House rules and curtail the Speaker's power, Mr. Littauer came at once to Wash- I ington and couducted the fight which prevented the disastrous de feat of Mr. Cannon. Out of his work for the Speaker grew tlie rate imposed by tne House on women's gloves. It was the most unpopular feature of the House bill and the Senate promptly re jected it. But the Speaker is de termined to icecp his word to Lit tauer and every House conferree who is beholden to Mr. Cannon will have to insist on the higher duties imposed by their body. How President Taft can snatch victory from this situation it is dif ficult to foresee. Where Will Extravagance Cease? The tariff is enacted with cynical indifference to the necessities of the people on the excuse that income must be provided to meet the gov ernment expenses, and all sorts of extravagant schemes are embarked upon to make the exaction of the tariff excusable. No scheme involving immense national expenditure i too extrav agant for politicians; the irrigation of western land; the drainage of southern territories; the canaliza tion of rivers upon which but little traffic floats; public buildings ior little towns and villages that might suit cities; the multiplication of bureaus and employes for meddling with enterprise and industry, and hundreds of other unnecessary and useless ventures are called for; and the man who finally pays all the bills, the man with the dinner pail, appears to be as dumb as he is neg ligible. When will this riot of extrava gance cease? There must be a time close at hand when the back of the American camel will refuse any additional load, and habits of thrift and economy appear to be hard to learn. It is about time the plain, workaday American woke up; his rulers are closing the markets of the world to him; the party in power and its industrial parasites are eating him up at home; our national resources are being wasted, and it will not be long before the richest land in the world will be destroyed by the folly and extrava gance of its government and the dumbness and stupidity of its workers. Let us wake up and read the riot act to our rulers. Govern ment as administered by the Re publican party and aided and abet ted by a degenerate Democratic party is as wasteful and baneful a3 a Fourth of July celebration; and its elements seem to be about the same-noise, folly, extravagance, horn-tooting and utter disregard for the rights, comfort and wishes of the nation. Boston Iraveler, In a Pinch use Allen's Foot-Ease. A powder to shake into your shoes. It cures hot, tired, aching, swollen, sweat ing feet and makes walking easy. Takes the sting out of corns and bunions. All druggists 2 sets. Don't accept any sub stitute. Munson a Candidate. Williamiport Lawyer Will Enter the Supreme Judge Contest. Formal announcement has been made of the candidacy of C. La Rue Munson, of Williamsport, for the Democratic nomination for jus tice of the Supreme Court- This announcement is made in a letter to the Harrisburg Patriot by Edgar Munson, a son of the candidate and a member of the law firm of Candor & Munson. The Patriot is owned by ex-Mayor Vance C. MtCormick, who has been mentioned as a prob able Democratic candidate for au ditor general, and has been a sup porter of Munson for the nomina tion for weeks. Edgar Munson's letter is in reply to a request for a formal decision. He writes in the absence of his father, who is in Europe, and says: "I am author ized to say to you that he is a can didate, and you can therefore defi nitely announce the fact if you so desire." C La Rue Munson will land in America about August 1st. Cold Harbor monument. The date for the dedication of the monument in the national cemetery at Cold Harbor, to all Pennsylva nia soldiers who fought in the bat tle of Cold Harbor June 1st to 3rd, 1863, has been changed fitotn Sep tember 15th to October 20th. The State will provide free transporta tion for all Pennsylvania veterans. Full information can be obtained by writing to Josiah Hissoug, Point, Bedford county, Pa. Chestnut Tree Blight Two varieties of blight that.are affecting the trees of the forests have been reported, and efforts have been made to discover some means of checking the disease. 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