6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Bstablishtd 1831 BY THE TELEGRAPH PRISTISO CO. B. 3, 6TACKPOLE, Pres't and Treas'r. P\ R. OYSTER, Secretary. fttTS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New Tork City, Hasbrook, fatory & Brooks. Western Office. 12S West Madison street. Chicago, 111., Allen & « ard. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg as second class matter. l! The Association of Amer 1, iff All] icaa Advertisers has ex- <' 1 1 Wafr amined and certified to i 'l the circulation ef this pub- i | 1 1 lication. The figures of circolatien 1 1 ' > contained in the Association's re- < | I port only are guaranteed. , i; Association of American Advertisers ; > No. 2333 Whitehall Bldg. N. T. City | Sworn dally sTrrase for the month of January, 1914 ft 22,342 I Average for the yen* 1913—21.5TT r Average for the year 1012—81,1T8 ' Average for the year IBll—lß,Bßl Average for the year 1810—1T,495 TELEPHONES I Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 1040. b United Business Office, 208. .] Room 6SS. Job Dept. 203. AY EVENING. FEBRUARY 3 KUNKEIi FOR HIGHER COURT HIS friends all over the State would be mighty glad to have the opportunity to vote for George Kunkel, president Judge Df the Dauphin county court, for the Vacant place on the Supreme bench. His friends here at home would be more than delighted to do the same thing, but there is one phase of the situation which is not pleasing to his hosts of admirers in the home town »—the fear that his elevatien to the highest tribunal of the State would remove him from this community. However, that need not disturb his friends here Inasmuch as the time must soon come when the Supreme Court shall cease its peripatetic flit tings over the State and settle down lo permanent sittings in tho capital. Long ago the occasion for the Supreme Court sitting outside of Harrisburg ceased to exist and the dignity of the court, as well as its usefulness, would be advanced by a permanent location on Capitol Hill. The interest of the client and the Interest of the State both favor a change in this respect. It may be pleasanter for the jurists and the lawyers to carry their litigation to the metropolis of the Commonwealth, but the other branches of the govern ment having been concentrated on Capitol Hill, there is no reason why the judiciary should continue to have Its principal habitat in one corner of the State. VfH»- Industrial reports show some im- | provement in the iron and steel busi- j jiess during the llrst month of the year, and it is the hope o£ those who have watched the recent developments of the j backbone industry of the State that there may be still further improvement toward the close of the first quarter. SENATOR OMVI K'S ANSWER J J NITED STATES SEXATO H I I OLIVER occupied the pulpit of a Philadelphia church last Sun day on the invitation of the pastor, who had criticised him for his public attitude on certain matters of legislation and public policy. It was a most unusual position for a Senator of the United States, and this fact was evidently appreciated by Senator Oliver, who declared in his remarks that he would probably not have ac cepted the invitation to make clear his position had not the invitation contained something like a challenge. He confessed to having some old fashioned notions about the time and place for political discussion and ob served that the Lord himself had said "My house shall be called the house of prayer," and that Paul, speaking to the Corinthians said, "I am deter mined to know qpthing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified" and that when Paul addressed the multitude at Athens he did not touch upon political issues, but preached the gospel only. Senator Oliver gave expression to his own view of the criticism of pub lic men when he declared that he had no quarrel with any member of the Senate because of radical differences of- opinion; that those who advocated policies which the speaker believed to he contrary to the best interests of the people were no less patriotic or earnest or disinterested on that ac count. Perhaps no man in public life lever made a more honorable stand with respect to his personal responsi bility to the people whom he serves than did Senator Oliver in the Phila delphia pulpit. He disclaimed any antagonism to the pastor of the church and compli mented his critio for the great work which he had been doing in his com munity. This clerical critic, having listened to a prominent Progressive senator in the same pulpit, comment ing thereon, said In effect that It was a. pity that Pennsylvania had no Sena tor who could be asked to speak in a church. While this statement was ■ubsequently modified by the pastor, it was nevertheless construed as a re flection upon the United States Sena tors from Pennsylvania and Senator Oliver felt impelled, nothwithstandlng his old-fashioned notions about the pulpit being a proper political rostrum, to personally appear in the place TUESDAY EVENING, where he had been attacked and state his views on the various questions submitted by the pastor. He made it clear that he was not interested in a steel company; that he has always been in favor of pro gressive legislation regulating both child and woman labor; that he op poses the initiative and recall as be ing unwise and against the theory of a representative government; that when propositions htave been sub mitted to the voters for their con sideration the interest in the referen dum has been slight as compared with the total fote; that he doubted the wisdom of the State-wide primary for the nomination of the State offi cers and United States senators; that he favors a submissirn of woman's suffrage to the vote if the people and that he favors local option; that the principle of arbitration is correct and that he does not seek the title of leader and expects to retire to pri vate life at the expiration of his pres ent term. He then went on to explain that his elder brothers had started a factory in Pittsburgh when he was a boy and that although he has never owned a dollar's worth of stock in the institu tion or had a word to say in regard to its management, his political enemies In this State have endeavored to ruin the reputation of the Oliver company and his reputation along with it by making it appear that he is the domi nant factor in the Arm and that its affairs are being managed without any regard to the humanities. The rest of the questions were similarly direct and in some instances, impertinent. For example, the Senator was asked whether he was the representative of the class of people known as "the in terests" or whether his record showed that he was a representative of the plain people.' Another question sought to prove that the newspapers which he controls and directs are confessedly liquor papers, although he showed that his newspapers are the only two daily newspapers in Pittsburgh which have come out fairly and squarely in favor of local option and have never occupied any other position before the public. He stated also that neither of his newspapers accepted liquor ad vertising. Senator Oliver took occasion to point out the fallacies of the Demo cratic tariff law and dwelt upon the prosperity that had come to the peo ple through the protective system. As a result of the reversal of the Repub lican economic policy the mills are now running on large orders taken be for the tariff bill was passed and It remains to be seen what will be the result of the competition of foreign labor. He also referred to the fact that the revenues surrendered by Uncle Sam under the present tariff law would now go into the pockets of for eign manufacturers without any bene fit to the American consumer; that the foreign manufacturer and the middle man are reaping all the benefits. Could there have been a more force ful illustration of the shameless abuse and misrepresentation to which men in public places are subjected nowa days? Not a single one of the in sinuations against Senator Oliver could stand in his presence. Every Intima tion of political or moral laxness that had been made against him was proved to the face of the calumniator and before several hundred auditors to be a base falsehood. Senator Oliver makes no preten sions as an orator, but if any Pennsyl vania statesman or statesmen from any other State ever made a more straightforward, sensible, convincing and impressive speech we have no knowledge of It. "Bigger bustles" is the decree of fashion for the coming year. Now Fee what we get for making fun of the hobbleskirt. PRICES REVERSED THE Toledo Blade comes forward with a really enlightening con tribution to the growing and widely read literature of the high cost of living. It is from a Penn sylvania subscriber and Is in the form of extracts from the day-book of a country storekeeper of Amity town ship, Berks county, in 1814. We have been told so often that prices of everything are the highest now in the history of the country— with the possible exception of the pe riod of artificial values in Civil War days—that we have come to accept the assertion as fact. Figures from • this old account book, however, indi cate that prices are merely reversed; that, whereas meats and all farm products were very low in those daye, ■ the cost of manufactured products I soared to almost unbelievable heights. When it iS considered that wages were much lower then than now the ad vantage in the cost of living is not apparent. Here are some of the items: Calico was 37% cents to 75 cents per yard. Tea was a dollar a pound. In one charge, a man bought one quarter of veal at 4 cents per pound. Eggs were never more than 10 cents per dozen, with 6 to 8 cents the commoner prices. Chickens, 12% to 18 cents apiece; geese, 25 cents to 37% cents apiece. Beef, 3 to 4 cents; wool, 10 cents to 12% cents per pound; muslin, 50 cents per yard. The climax was reached in one charge—one bushel of salt, sl6. Regardless of what may be said, we are living better now than ever before and at no greatly increased cost. If we choose to live as did the people of 1814, for instance, we could do it as cheaply as they. Berwick reports that the idiot who rocks the boat has been replaced there by lunatics who go canoeing among- the Ice floes In the river. The man who is forever boasting of being level-headed ts apt to turn.out to be a blockhead. The troubl* with these boycotts against meat eating because of high prices Is that they don't get you any meat. If this is groundhog weather, let's have more of it. evemne- cb&r The celebration of the thirty-fourth anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. C. E. Haupt at Grace Lutheran Church in Lancaster furnishes an in teresting link with the past. This well-known clergyman is a native of Harrisburg and spent his early years in this city, although he was edu cated at Philadelphia, taking his de gree in the University of Pennsylva nia. Mr. Haupt has spent his years in this part of Pennsylvania and has been a frequent visitor to the city of his birth. His father will be recalled bv the older Harrisburgers as one of the great engineers of the country, the man who built the first Rockvilte bridge, then one of the engineering wonders, and who carried through the Hoosac tunnel and the wonderful en gineering works on the Northern Pa cific. He was the General Herman Haupt who occupied so large a place in the technical works of the time. The brother of the Lancaster minister is Professor Lewis Haupt, a member of tho first Panama Canal Commis sion, and who was reared here and never lost his interest in this city. In deed, it was the suggestion of Pro fessor Haupt that led to the first pro position for Improvement of the River Front, the publication of which in the Telegraph started the public improve-1 ments which have made Harrisburg fumous throughout the land. In reply to the Guard captain who on Saturday in this column asked the question, '"When did the United States ever go to war except in April?" his attention is called by a veteran to the fact that the War of 1812 with Great Britain commenced June IS of that year. "War with France began July 9, 1798; war with Tripoli, June 10. 1801, and the Florida Indian War Decem ber 23, 1535. The War of the Revolu tion, the Mexican War, the Civil War and the Spanish War commenced In April. This is a week of anniversaries for Harrisburg, the first and foremost be ing tho seventeenth of the burning of the State Capitol. That was one dav when the groundhog did not see his shadow, for there was about six inches of blush. The other anniversary is the seventh since the destruction of the Grand Opera House, whose site is still occupied by a large and elegant hole. That fire occurred on the night of February 1, 1907, and it was also marked by a heavy storm of snow and sleet, a very fortunate thing for Har risburg, especially because the cinders were found for blocks about the scene of the fire. A. H. Woodward, counsel of the Dairy and Food Division, who figured in the test cases of the cold storage act a few days ago, has been selected by the of the Clearfield County Courts aS member of the committee on rules of the bar of that county. Tlie death of James A. Beaver leaves but three living ex-Governors of Pennsylvania. They are William A. Stone, who served from 1899 to 1903, Samuel W. Pennypacker, from 1903 to 1907, and Edwin S. Stuart, from 1907 to 1911. General Beaver was the third Governor from Centre county. It is not often that corporations seeking charters from the State send to the Capitol parchments already en grossed and all ready for the signa tures of the executive officers. Gen erally they take the charters prepared by the departmental clerks and head ed by the State arms and the an nouncement that the action is in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth. It happens that the other day the Liberty Co-operative Association, of Philadelphia, applied to the State for a charter and sent with its application a huge sheet of paper, fully a yard long and almost a yard wide, with the name, objects and everything else all set forth on it It was ornate in the extreme, having gold eagles and fancy flourishes and everything else that goes to make a charter a joy forever. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS [Philadelphia Ledger] If there was a lobby at Harrisburg which caused "the diversion of $3,- 300,000 to private institutions not en titled to the bounty of the State," it may have been "unwholesome and baneful," but certainly it was not "criminal." 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