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THTRSDAY EVENING. SEPT. S
A BROKEN PLEDGE
VICE-PRESIDENT MARSHALL
makes the unqualified state
ment in an authorized inter
view at Washington that there
will be one candidate for President in
1916, and, continues the Vice-Presi
dent, "his name happens to be Wood
row Wilson."
President Wilson himself is main
taining a noncommittal attitude and
refus.es to be quoted on the question
of a second term. We read again
from the Democratic national plat
form of 1912:
We favor a single Presidential
term and to that end urge the
adoption of an amendment to the
Constitution making the President
of the United States ineligible for
re-election and we pledge the can
didate of this convention to this
principle.
Reflecting upon this plank of the
Baltimore convention, which is now to
he thrown into the discard, the last
paragraph of the Vice-President's
statement is significant. He says:
Lightning rods already up may as
well be taken down and preserved
for future use; Democratic light
ning will not strike a rod in 1916.
The last clause of this concluding
paragraph "Democratic lightning
will not strike a rod in 1916"—is pro
phetic.
The Vice-President is right. This
country is on its way back to protec
tion and prosperity and sane adminis
tration under the Republican party.
Even now distracted business and the
thousands of idle workingmen are im
patiently waiting the third of Novem
ber that they may register their first
great protest against a theoretical and
Impossible administration.
Influential newspapers and experi
enced statesmen throughout the coun
try are protesting against the proposed
Government ownership of a merchant
marine. They realize the dangers of
such ownership and are also opposed to
direct appropriations and the levying
of direct taxes upon the people for the
creation of a Government steamship
line. American capital and American
energy can take care of the situation
without the paternalism of a Demo
cratic administration.
DISAPPEARING CULM BANKS
HARRISBURG Is especially inter
ested In a recent bulletin of the
United States Geological Sur
vey which discusses the culm
conditions throughout the anthracite
coal regions of Pennsylvania. For
many years the great culm banks
were considered a nuisance, but they
are now serving a very useful pur
pose. Not only are thousands upon
thousands of tons of good coal taken
from the Susquehanna river after
every flood, but the culm banks con
aist In the main of coal dust so fine
that It is being pressed Into small
bricks or even burned in Itfi powdery
form on special grates, in which com
bustion is assisted by forced drafts.
Commenting upon the shrinking culm
hills, the Literary Digest says:
"As a result of these changes the
old heaps are vanishing and new ones
are not being formed." This is a phase
of the matter which most concerns
Harrisburg. For several years the
river coal Industry has been growing
In importance and the deposits in
front of Harrisburg have proven of
great commercial value. How much
longer this industry will continue re
mains to be seen in view of this state
ment in the official bulletin of the
Vnited States Geological Survey:
There Is at present a market for
almost any grade of anthracite that
will burn, aijd no more coal goes to
the culm-bank except for tempo
rary storage and subsequent re
covery by washers. These ranges
of artificial hills, unsightly monu
ments to former waste, are con
tributing their share to the total
coal production and are rapidly dis
appearing. Even the waste from
the culm-bank washers Is being
utilized, for It is flushed Into the
mines and partly fills old workings,
where It cements together and fur
nishes support to the roof when the
coal previously left for pillars is re
moved.
Starting in a very modest way, the
reclaiming of the coal from the river
has grown In proportions year after
year until there are now organized
companies delivering thousands of
tons to factories and mills which util
ize this coal on grates especially pre
pared for the purpose. The pumping
THURSDAY EVENING.
station at North street is supplied with
river coal and a number of the public
utilities also use the same fuel. It Is
therefore a matter of more than pass
ing interest to Harrisburg that the
culm banks are disappearing and that
this industry will gradually shrink
and pass away.
Under the circumstances it might
be wise for the Department of Public
M'orks to consider whether It is worth
while to establish so many wharves
along the river wall.
Gradually the exiled Americans are
getting back home from the war re
gions of Europe, and we suspect "See
America First" will be a popular slogan
with most of them next year.
AS OTHERS SEE US
TWO visitors to Harrisburg from
another State were crossing one
of the river bridges the other
evening and were overheard as
follows:
"This is going to be one of the most
attractive and inviting cities in the
United States. The treatment of the
River Front is well designed and har
monious throughout."
"That's right," said the other, "but
it's just what we should expect of the
capital of a great State. Harrisburg j
is measuring up to Its opportunities
and the expectations of the people of
the Commonwealth."
These remarks are typical of many
that are heard and indicate the wlde
spteaJ interest among all visitors in
what Is being done to make this city
a fit seat of government for an im
perial Commonwealth.
We fear, however, sometimes, that
our own people fail to appreciate
what has been done and what is being
done to further improve and beautify
and adorn the natural features of this
city. But when the big undertakings
now nearing completion shall have
been finished and the debris removed
so that the people may see just what
has been accomplished, they will feel
a still more justifiable pride in the
way Harrisburg has made good.
Meanwhile the State officials are
going ahead quietly with their pians j
for the creation of an imposing Capi
tol Park, the proper setting for the
great Statehouse on Capitol Hill.
It is proper and fitting that we
should look forward to the proposed
celebration next year which is to sig
nalize the achievements of the last
twelve years. In this celebration all
classes of our citizens should have a
part. It ought to be a popular dem
onstration suggestive of the Old Home
Week festival, and during the winter
plans should be formulated to provide
for an interesting occasion.
Whatever comes of the fusion nego
tiations now under way between certain
bosses of the Democratic and Progres
sive parties it must be evident to the
rank and file of these parties that they
are being used for the promotion of
personal ambitions instead of great
principles. We predict that any fusion
such as Is now contemplated will mean
the finish of the Progressive party and
the end of the rule of the little bosses
in the Democratic party.
UNBELIEVABLE CRUELTIES
ONE finds it hard to believe that
cruelties such as Mrs. Herman
Hartjes, wife of a well-known
American banker in Paris, re
ports have been perpetrated by the
German army now invading France.
Mrs. Hartjes is quoted as saying:
I saw many boys with both their
hands cut off so that it was im
possible for them to carry a gun.
Evervwhere was filth and utter
desolation. The helpless little
babies, lving on the cold, wet
cement floor and crying for proper
nourishment, was enough to bring
hot tears to any mother's eyes.
There must be some mistake.
Surely those in command of the Ger
man forces have not so far forgotten
their manhood. The German people
as a whole are as kind-hearted as any
in the world. Their love for children
is proverbial. We in America hesitate
to believe that they have stooped to a
practice that made Leopold of the
Congo the most despised creature in
the world and brought down on his
head the wrath of all civilized nations.
But If they have, God help them when
the day of retribution shall come.
»•
We observe that the Civic Club, one
of the strong pillars of the Greater
Harrisburg Idea, has gone on record
against the proposed water main
through the River Front Park. Much
of the splendid progress of Harrisburg
during recent years has been due di
rectly and indirectly to the many good
women who are banded together for
the promotion of the improvement
plans of the city. They can aid greatly
In the betterment of the parks by sus
taining the officials through an
awakened public sentiment.
I,A FOLLETTE'S DEFEAT
EVIDENTLY the people of Wis
consin have grown tired of the
experimental government Bet up
by La Follette and his followers.
La Follette has given Wisconsin an
elaborate and expensive system of
State regulation. Commission after
commission has been created under
his dictation until the taxes paid by
the farmers.have been increased from
$2,000,000 to J12.000.000 a year, Wis
consin being one of the few States that
taxes real estate for support of the
Commonwealth. The benefits have
been doubtful.
Evidently the people of Wisconsin
do not believe that La Follette has
made good, for on Tuesday of this week
they defeated his candidate for United
States senator and gave a handsome
majority to Governor McGovern, who
is La Follette's most vigorous oppon
ent in the politics of the State. The
struggle which culminated in the
overthrow of La. Follette was very bit
ter, owing to the break between Mc-
Govern and La Follette when the for
mer permitted the Roosevelt forces In
[ the Chicago convention to present his
name for temporary chairman, thus
dissipating whatever chance La Fol
lette may have had for the honor.
The people of Wisconsin have seen
La Follette going up and down the
State begging for personal endorse
ment through his candidate, and they
have turned away from him to vote
for McGovern, whose ideas are not so
radical.
It is quite apparent that theoretical
and experimental legislation, costing J
a lot to maintain and rendering little
service to the people, Is not so popular
as It once was even In the stronghold
of so-called "progresslvlsm" that
Wisconsin has been long looked upon
as being.
1 EVENING CHATI
Dispatches telling of the activities
of the German troops in force fifty
miles from Paris can be well appre
ciated by Harrlsburgers when they
realize that such a distance would
mean invading troops at Chambers
burg, Reading. Mifflin, Sunbury or
Parkesburg. Just what the effect
would be anyone can imagine, but
older residents can recall when the
city was turned upside down and the
state government removed from here,
as the French are getting ready to do
from Paris, on the occasion of Lee's
invasion of Pennsylvania. Numerous
instances are told of the presence of
scouts on the other side of the river
and the outpost action at Oyster's
Point, the real high water mark of
the Rebellion, occurred within three
miles of Harrisburg on June 2R. 1863.
It can be imagined what Harrisburg
was like when it was known that Con
federates had burned some buildings i
In Carlisle, only eighteen miles away,
and that barns as close as Mechanics
burg had been looted of their contents
and that a picket had come down to
the Susquehanna about where Enola
yards are located. In this country we
are so accustomed to long distances
that we do not realize the northern
position of Paris and how it is less
than the distance between this city
and Princeton from a portion of the
Belgian border to the French capital.
In fact, from Paris to Metz, the Ger
man stronghold, is about as far as
from Harrisburg to Greensburg, and
from Paris to Havre is the distance
between Harrisburg and Altoona. Of
course. Paris is well prepared for re
sistance of an army, even one so mag
nificently prepared as that of the
kaiser, but the conception of distance
of the Parisians must be much the
same as we have of points in the Key
stone State.
That levy of a $40,000,000 tribute
upon Brussels by the German arm.v
must awaken In the breasts of old
residents of Chambersburg strange rec
ollections, says Girard in the Public
Ledger.
Pennsylvania was twice invaded by
a Confederate army during the Civil
War. The first time was in the sum
mer of 1863 when some of Robert E.
Lee's forces swept as far north as the
Susquehanna. It was on that occasion
that the famous Philadelphia battery,
in which C. Stuart Patterson was an
officer and John G. Johnson a private
soldier, hurried away to Harrisburg to
help in the defense of their State and
their country.
That campaign ended with the I
shock at Gettysburg, and it was not ;
until July 30, 1864, that the event oc
curred at Chainbersburg to which I
refer.
General Jubal Early sent that sum
mer a portion of his Confederate cav
alry, under McCausland, northward
into Pennsylvania to make a quick
raid. The gray-coated horsemen from
the South galloped into the quiet seat
of Franklin county and McCausland
issued a proclamation. He said that
in view of the destruction of property
committed recently In the South by
the Union general. Hunter, he would
levy a tribute upon Chambersburg of
SIOO,OOO in gold or $500,000 in green
backs or national currency.
As the people on such short notice
could produce neither the gold nor the
money. McCausland set fire to the
town, destroying the major portion of
it. This burning of a helpless town
created the bitterest resentment all
over the North.
That the project failed also as a
military expedient is shown by an offi
cial report of General Early, In which
he said: "The affair had a very dam
aging effect upon my cavalry for the
rest of the campaign."
People of Germanic origin living
here and a good many others who take
an interest In publicity have been re
ceiving considerable literature lately
from New York In which pleas are
made for a square deal for Germany.
One of the publications admits that it
is put out for the purpose of securing
a fair consideration of the empire's
side in the war and deplores the fact
that American public opinion appears
to be very strongly against the Father
land. Another publication does not
avow Its purpose so openly, but its
articles are announced as comments
upon world politics. The Fatherland
is the name of another perodlcal and
it says "It will help you so much in
getting the right perspective of things."
"I think I have had a dozen watches
with main springs broken over and
above what I usually have In August,"
said a jeweler yesterday. When he
was asked to account for It he said
that he thought it must have been the
series of thunderstorms which we
have had lately. These Btorms have
been marked by a great deal of loose
electricity and it has upset a good
many watches.
This is the season of the year when
checks of all sizes and colors are being
received at the State Treasury. The
stock taxes are coming in and some of
the small or inactive companies are
paying on a nominal value. Some
taxes are for less than a dollar and
yet they are made out with as much
care as a $200,000 check from the
Pennsylvania or the Reading.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "*
—William Beeber, a Wllliamsport
banker, is home from a trip to Europe
on which he had many experiences.
—Theodore Voorhees, president of
the Reading, is on a motor trip
through New England.
—Ex-Attorney General M Hampton
Todd is being congratulated upon his
birthday.
—The Rev. Henry R. Brown, of Be
wickley. Is home from a visit to
Canada.
—C. G. Campbell, county controller
of Cambria, is getting after people
who put in large bills for bounties on
scalps.
—J. B. Sansom. of Pittsburgh, iB
secretary of the Old Home Week com
mittee of that city. He is well known
among sportsmen of the state.
That some of the large Iron ore
mines In Spain are drained by
pipe lines which were manufac
tured In Harrisburg?
i NEw o s r
[From the Telegraph, Sept. 3, 1864.]
Rejoicing at Reading '
Reading, Pa., Sept. ».• —Quite an ex
citement prevails in Reading to-day.
The bells are ringing, cannons firing
and the people In general are rejoic
ing over the victory at Atlanta.
Capture of AtlaJita
Nashville, Sept. 3.—General Sher
man's advance entered Atlanta yester
day morning at 11 o'elock and the
whole federal force will enter to-day.
Rebels Near Nashville
Nashville, Sept. 3.—A rebel force
estimated at 1,000 men with twelve
guns were within twelve miles of this
city, on the New Freedom Pike at day
light this morning.
HARRISBURG USIfi&J TELEGRAPH
DEMOCRATS HOPE
FOR EARLY FUSION
Bosses of the State Machine Trust
ing That It Will Come Along
to Stem the Rout
LOOKING FOR IT DAIILY NOW
Lewis and Pinchot to Be Followed
Up by Palmer and McCor
mick Without Delays
The head and front of the Demo
cratic machine in Pennsylvania as well
as the quartermaster's department is
in Harrisburg to-day and while the
generals are not talking for publica
tion it is an open secret about the
Democratic Plate windmill that fusion
on the State ticket is expected to ma
terialise at an early day. Information
as to details, however, is sealed up,
the party candidates and officials
merely saying that while fusion ts de
sirable it has not progressed suffi
ciently to permit of any statement be
ing made.
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer,
the candidate for senator: State
Chairman Roland S. Morris, James X.
Blakslee. Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General, and others were guests of
Vance C. McCormick, the gubernatorial
candidate, at his country home last
evening after the retreat from the
Grangers' Picnic and came to the city
this morning. Joseph F. Guffey, the
chairman of the Allegheny division,
was also in the city and so were some
county leaders who came to see Chair
man Morris.
It was stated at the Democratic
windmill that campaign matters were
discussed and that some facts about
the itinerary might be given out later
in the day. However, there was a stir
about headquarters and it seemed as
though the leaders felt that some an
nouncement about fusion would be
forthcoming before long.
The Democratic bosses, spurred on
by McCormick. have literally hounded
the much-worried Bull Moosers about
fusion and in the western
end of the State some of
Democrats the Washington party
Expectant men are said to be witl
oi Fusion ing to shift the burden
to the Democrats, but
men who went into the
Bull Moose campaign as a matter of
principle are opposing the sinking of
the identity of the party and simply
making it the tail to Boss McCor- i
mick's kite. At the Demoratic head- I
quarters to-day men said openly that
fusion would be desirable and a good
thing, but they did not go into details
as to how it would help stem the
rout. The Democratic headquarters
is now spread over a couple of floors
and there are whispering rooms for all
who desire to see the leaders. Of
course, patronage is never discussed,
not even when James I. Blakslee. the
official "headsman" of the Post Office
Department, is in town on one of his
numerous visits.
In view of the gossip about fusion
and the scarcely expressed belief that
it will be announced soon among the
folks at the Democratic
windmill the following
stetement by the Phila- Press Says
delphia Press of to-day Fusion On
is very interesting: Brumbaugh
"Fusion maneuvers be
tween the Bull Moosers
and the Democrats have been sus
pended until after to-day's registra
tion, at least. Significance, however, is
attached to the fact that William
Draper Lewis, Bull Moose guberna
torial candidate, who is slated to step
out If fusion is brought about, has
cancelled speaking dates where he was
to have appeared with Gifford Pinchot.
senatorial candidate. And during the
truce a movement has been begun In
Bull Moose ranks among the faction
opposed to having a Democrat to head
the State ticket to indorse Dr. Martin
G. Brumbaugh if Lewis withdraws."
Senator Penrose, when asked to
comment upon the proposed fusion
deal, said; "I have already stated
that I view with indiffer
ence whether the Wash-
Penrose ington and Democratic
Smiles at parties stay apart or
I'usionlsts fuse. The Republicans
are going ahead with
their own fight and ex-1
pect to win by an overwhelming, ma
jority over both the other paTties.
The unanimous opinion of the Repub
licans is that fusion would constitute
a much weaker opposition than now
exists to Republican success. It would
be a rope of sand and absolutely in
consistent with the loudly-proclaimed
protestations of the Washington party
leaders —State and national that
they would go It alone and not be
contaminated by association with
either of the old parties.
"Fusion Is Inconsistent with the
spirit of the popular primary. The
mere talk il'out it is proof positive
that the conviction has been enter
tained by the Washington and Demo
cratic party candidates that they aro
doomed to defeat this year.
"This is a Republican year, and
no fusion deals financed by a muni
cipal contractor like Flinn can stem
the current which is growing stronger
every day, carrying us to Republican
victory."
The Democratic caravan had no
sooner stopped on its retreat from
Williams Grove last night than its
members were struck right
in the face by an inter
view from Vice-President Bosses to
Marshall stating that Wil- Face New
■on would be the party Situation
candidate In 191fi. It will
be recalled by many
read«*ra of the McCormick mourning
beagle and by those who have suffered
under the speeches of McCormick and
Palmer that they took a lot of credit
for the Jamming through of the Balti
more platform against various forces,
mostly imaginary, but serving very
well to talk about. This platform de
clared in favor of a single term for
President, being dictated by William
Jennings Bryan, who came Into Penn
sylvania to speak for Palmer and
McCormick at the primary. Secretary
Bryan also announced last year In the
State Capitol that pledge breakers
were worse than traitors. As soon as
the machine leaders get the fusion
troubles ironed out they will have a
chance to devote their attention to
this matter.
The Harrlsburg Patriot is getting
near the truth to-day. This is an ex
tract from its account of the visit of
the Democratic machine nominees to
Williams Grove yesterday: "Palmer
and McCormick were delayed In mak
ing their remarks by demonstration
from the 80 to 1,000 persons In the
audience, many of whom Jumped to
their feet and waved their hats wildly."
SEEING AMERICA
[From the Pottsville Republican.]
While the war lasts there will be
thousands of Americans who will de
cide to take their vacation in seeing
their own country and leaving their
itIDS at home.
I POUTICAI SIDELIGHTS - !
—Republican day beat Democratic
day at the Grangers' despite rainy
skies.
—Lewis and Pinchot having spoken
in Washington county last night,
McCormick and Palmer will hustle
after them to-day.
—Wonder how many postmasters
will be named after to-day's confer
ence at the windmill.
—Congressman Palmer will be un
able to find time to address the Pa-Mc
League at Bindnaugle's Church this
trip.
—Wonder how soon the Pa-Mc
League will put out its banner. The
Bull Moosers are rather deiiant about
their standard.
—Evidently some of the Dauphin
county Bull Moosers belong to th° i
distinguished faction that opposes
fusion.
—Among Bull Moosers there are
some who do not confuse principle
and opportunity.
—This trip into Pennsylvania is go
ing to cost Palmer a few "twenties."
Absence from the leadership of the
President's forces in Washington is ai. j
expensive luxury.
—"Wonder where Palmer and Mc-
Cormick would be If it carvje to a show
down on second terms with Bryan in i
opposition to Wilson?
j IN HARRIS BURG FIFTY
1 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph. Sept. 3, 1864 ]
Crossings Repaired
The crossings at Market and Third {
streets are undergoing repairs, which j
is highly necessary.
His Pocket Is Picked
William Robinson of Franklin coun
ty, had his pocket picked, near the
depot, while awaiting the arrival of
a Baltimore train.
Soldier Killed
We learn that a soldier was killed
in an orchard near Camp Curtin. He
Is said to have been shot by a person
engaged to guard the orchard.
PEXROSK AXD PALMER
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
Mr. Palmer, In apologizing to the
House of Representatives the other day
for his almost continuous absence,
thought that he could render better
service by Informing the people of
Pennsylvania of the record of Senator
Penrose. If the free trade advocate
and opponent of American shipping
would only give that record as it actu
ally is, he would sound his own political
death knell and elect Penrose by an
overwhelming majority, for the Pen
rose record, as written in the Journals
of Congress, would show the Senator
to be an untiring worker for the Inter
ests of Pennsylvania. He has fought
for her Industries and for her working
men. He has won n high nlace in the
Senate and. when the Republican party
comes back to power, will be. If elect
ed (and we cannot Imaclne that Penn
sylvania would Vie so blind tn her own
welfare as to permit him to he defeat
ed), In a stronger position than ever to
render splendid service.
As for Dr. Brumbaugh, no one can
I read his speeches and believe for one
I moment that this man Is not entirely
I sincere and wholly in earnest. He. also,
has a record—one of vast achievement
based upon Integrity, understanding of
public affairs, of executive capacity be
yond and far beyond the ordinary. He
Is not a theorist, as Is Mr. Flinn's can
didate, William Draper Lewis, nor a
millionaire vote chaser, as is Mr. Mc-
Cormick. He is blessed with nraetieal
common sense, and In his handa Penn
sylvania will continue to keep out of
debt.
PALMFR IX HORNETS' XEST
[Philadelphia Inquirer.]
A. Mitchell Palmer, free trader, foe
of American shipping and wreckers of
Pennsylvania's industries, stirred up
a hornets' nest when he assailed the
Pennsylvania Protective Union and
demanded an investigation at the
hands of the Senate committee on
privileges and elections. He has got
a prompt answer from Treasurer
Campion, of the Protective Union.
That union was formed to get rid of
just such pestiferous persons as Mr.
Palmer. Pennsylvania wants protec
tion for its industries and its work
ingmen. Mr. Palmer wants to abolish
protection; considers it unconstitu
tional; is the advocate of free trade
with the closed mills that it brings in
its train. He boasts that he was the
author of the deadly iron and steel
schedule of the near-free trade bill.
Since the Protective Union considers
his attitude one that is destructive to
Pennsylvania's interests, it Is in the
field to defeat him and all who think
with him, and elect not only Senator
Penrose but members of Congress who
represent Republican policies.
To this extent the union is a politi
cal body. But Its work is confined
entirely to the printing and distribu
tion of. facts and arguments devoted
to the one great issue of the cam
paign. The union offers its books to
[the committee, but it stipulates that
at the same time the immense expen
ditures of the Palmer-McCormick Lea
gue shall be bared to public inspec
tion. And that ts an offer that will
not he accepted. To permit the trac
ing of the vast sums that were placed
through the counties to secure the
nomination of Palmer and McCormick
would open up a scandal that the dis
tributers of the funds would not dare
to face.
Incidentally, the reply of Treasurer
Campion informs Mr. Palmer that the
union is not composed entirely of Re
publicans by any means. It is made
up for the most part of small manu
facturers and in Its membership—and
fighting the election of Palmer—are
numerous Democrats and heretoforo
Progressives.
By the way. the Democratic vote
that will be cast against Free Trader
Palmer and Money Bags McCormick
is going to be a feature of the com
ing election.
WHAT WOULD HARRIS BURG SAY»
In this war Pennsylvania is neutral.
Suppose, however, that an Austrian
armv of a million soldiers should sail
across the Atlantic to attack Canada,
which Is part of England's empire.
This army would find not a port be
tween Canada and the United States
for 3,000 miles. "Fine," says the Aus
trian general. "Instead of trying to
fon-e our way Into Quebec, we shall go
into Philadelphia and march diagonally
across Pennsylvania to Erie and go to
Canada by that easy route.'
Would Pennsylvania object? It would
fight Just as Belgium fought against
Germany's making it a high road to the
unprotected side of France.
You can see what a fearful calamity
has befallen Belgium, which had no in
terest in the war at the beginning. T
wonder what Harrisburg would say If
that Austrlnn nrray. when It got that
far on the road to Canada, should de
mand a cool $40,000,000 because the
people foutrlit against having their
nentralitv trampled upon!
When the war is over somebody will
owe the innocent Belgians a lot of
money for the Injurv done to that neu
tral State. —"Glrard" In Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
THE AMERICA* POSITION
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
So convincing are the arguments
against a Government marine that the
plan should be discarded irrespective
of the British position. It is impera
tive. nevertheless, that the Department
of State keep the nation's record clesr
and yield not one iota of the great prin
ciple* it has always espoused In re
gard to the rights of neutrals on the
high ses». We have rejected again and
again the comprehensive powers Eng
land claims as a consequence of her
control of the oceans We fought one
war on the Issue. Repeatedly we have
protested against the narrow view that
because two nations are at war thev
mav hamper and crlpnle the commerce
of neutral Powers. The rejection by
Congress of the whole Government
ownership plan would offer an excellent
opportunity for vigorous reassertion
of the principles underlying the Ameri
can position.
.SEPTEMBER 3, 1914.
BANK STATEMENTS BANK STATEMENTS
i| CONDITION OF |
The Dauphin Deposit
Trust Company
of Harrisburg, Pa.
ON AUGUST 27, 1914,
11 as called for by the Pennsylvania Commissioner of Banking. !>
][ nrsoi HCES INABILITIES
|! Cash and Cash Capital $300,000.00 <[
]! Items $110,970.02 Surplus 300,000.00 j|
!|| Due from Banks . 402,424.15 Undivided Prof
|[ United States its 39,330.52 |
!> Bonds, 4% at Deposits 2,772,667.89 |
!| par 150,000.00 Due to Banks ... 61,168.58 !
; | Loans and In- !
|!! vestments .... 2,759,764.13
;!| Bank Building ... 50,000.00
1 1| Overdrafts 8.69
|!| _ |
$3,473,166.99 $3,473,166.99 !
Trust Funds $477,687.95
DONALD McCORMICK, President
; S HOIIEItT lIcCOIOIICK, TrMmirfr
; J JOSEPH A. OKIKSHAHER. AMlntnat Treasurer.
( >
The Tomorrow of Europ2
Harold Begble wrote for the Eon- i
don Chronicle on August 5, a few
hours after England had declared war,
this reflection on the "To-morrow of
Europe":
"All that has made this strange ex
perience of conscious human life in
teresting, ennobling and hopeful hau
rested upon commerce; and commerce
has been what it has been because of
two things, credit and good manners.
Where Is credit now? What banker in
London, what English merchant, ever
I dreamed a week ago to hear of such a
t thing as a moratorium? And whero
are good manners gone? Look fori
them in Asia, but not. Ip Europe. At
every Christian frontier you can pick
Tip a broken treaty and a dishonored
bond.
"Mr. Norman Angell told me this
morning that out of this war—"every
body fighting and nobody wanting to
fight'—two changes of transcendent
importance will emerge. We shall!
have a Cossack Europe, and New York
will henceforth be the center of credit.
Russia must win. She calls a million
sixteenth century peasants from the
fields, and Germany mows them down.
Another million take their place.
Death again. Another million. And
yet another million of these sixteenth
century peasants. And when it is all
over, those who are left will go back
to their fields.
"But Germany, France, England,
particularly England and Germany,
where will they turn when the million
dead are shoveled under bloody soil?
The bricks and mortar of Industry
may be still standing; but where will
credit he found? And what will the
"millions of starving factory hands be
doing? How shall we get upon our
feet? Where is the clockmaker who
will mend the smashed wheels and set
the pendulum swinging once again?
Happy the Russian peasant who will
go hack to his sixteenth century and
i his field, telling the time by the sun's
f~OUR DAILY LAUGH |
Von Never Can At the dnbhoiiiir
Tell Do you know
Miss Passay has much about golf?
just returned from Absolutely noth
a fishing trip in ing. I wouldn't
the mountains. even know how to
Did she catch hold my caddy
him. properly.
EVENING THOUGHT
The real patriot In this country
is he who sees most clearly what
the nation ought to desire, who
does what he can by plain and
brave speech to Influence it to that
desire and then urges and sup
ports the laws which express It. —
George William Curti3.
BEHNHARDT'S PROPHECY AND
THE CROWN PRINCE'S PREFACE
The following article, written in bit- I
ter denunciation of the German crown j
prince by Madame Sarah Bernhardt, |
was inspired by a preface written by |
the prince to a book entitled "Ger- i
many Under Arms" from the pen of a
German military author.
The crown prince's preface defend- |
ed his country's vast expenditures for
armament and Its policy of prepared
ness for war. He holds, In substance,
that so long as civilization endures i
might must be the deciding factor in
all great international differences.
Madame Bernhardt'® denunciation,
written thirteen months ago, now takes
on the complexion of a prophecy in
view of the great European conflict.
She says:
"An unbelievable, a monstrous, in
sane fact has come to pass. In Ger
many there has been published a book
with the title 'Germany Under Arms,'
and It Is the crown prince who has
written a prefHce for the work.
"I must state in truth that this
preface Is the worst possible action of
which a man could be capable. And
to think that this man is still young
and that destiny may one day call him
to mount the German throne!
"As for myself, personally, I hope
with all my strength that death will
strike the bloodthirsty kronprlnz be
fore he will be able to draw his sword.
It gives one the shivers to think that
this wretched prince might ascend the
throne of that great nation, which I
hate, but which I admire for Its patri
otic faith, for its politicians, its artists,
its admirable discipline.
"The whole world calls at this mo
ment for peace in the name of human
ity. The war, which seems to be so
imminent, will be terrible. Either
France or Germany will perish.
"There will be heaps and heaps of
dead. All the youth which at this
very hour is Inspired by the rebirth of
life and of nature —all that youth will
be cast before the muzzles of cannon
and rifles—food for grapeßhot.
"All that young energy will be
mowed down like hay. The fates will
HEADQUARTERS FOR
SHIRTS !
SIDES & SIDES
shadow. Industry In Europe, with
other things of older life, will lie in
ruins.
"In three months from now the
democracies of Europe will be crying
out for a return to normal conditions.
The war fever will have spent Itself.
The war lords will be confronted by
their outraged and maddened victims.
What will they answer? Men will
want work, they will want wages, they
will want food. Europe will ask for
these things, and the war lords will be
driven to anwwer. Which of them,
with all his wisdom and strength, will
be able to restore three centuries of
human progress? Normal conditions!
These normal conditions are the fruit
of 300 years of evolution, 300 years of
moral and intellectual evolution—a
labor not of yesterday nor of pigmies.
Destroy normal conditions and you
destroy to-day, yesterday, and all the
yesterdays of European civilization.
! Expect, then, a bewildering To-mor
row.
"Armaments have broken the back
of the laborer; and with the fall of
the laborer all things fall, all things
come to earth. Because of the war
lords, and only because of the war
lords, the man of science Is paralyzed,
and civilization stops. Humanity has
been fooled. Too late it discovers It.
"Remember this, too. Among the
young conscript soldiers of Europe
who will die in thousands, and per
haps millions, are the very flower of
civilization; we shall destroy brain.i
which might have discovered for us in
ten or twenty years easements for the
worst of human pains and solutions
for the worst of social dangers. We
shall blot those sou'.e out of our com
mon existence. We shall destroy
utterly those splendid burning spirits
reaching out to enlighten our dark
ness. Our fathers destroyed those
strange and valuable creatures whom
they called 'witches.' We are destroy
ing the brightest of our angels."
not be able to weave mourning veils
quick enough. Five or six great na
tions will echo with • the sobs of
mothers and wives.
"I had to read and reread that
preface in the hope that I might con
vince myself that this future shepherd
has other than the instincts of a
butcher."
THE
Harrisburg Academy
REOPENS SEPTEMBER 22ND
"Tho School That Enables a Pupil
' to Do His Best."
Prepares Young Men for Colleges
and Professional Schools
College Dormitory System
Lower School
FOR BOYS SIX TO ELEVEN
Few Vacancies
Matriculate Now
ARTHUR E. BROWN, Headmaster
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7000 Tons
| Of Coal
At the present time
we have 7,000 tons of
Anthracite Coal in our
two coal yards in this
city.
This coal was
bought in the summer
time when the mines
were not busy.
That's the time to
buy good coal —in the
summer.
Warm weather means
fewer orders at the mines
with the result that the
slate is more carefully
picked out, the coal is
screened nicely and fre
quently, the coal ship
ped in summer is larger
size.
We advise you to get
some of this coal before it
is all sold.
United Ice & Coal Co.
Foreter and Cowden
Third and Boas
| 15th and Chestnut
I Mulberry and Hummel
Also Steelton, Pa.
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