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RATTRDW RVFJfING, SEPT. 12
BRUMBAUGH AND f/OOAL OPTION
___ ITH a view to capitalizing the
A Y J sentiment for loeal option for
yy their own purposes, the Dem
ocratic bosses are doing every
thing within their power to bring to
their support the several organizations
and associations which are pledged
to the local option proposition. They
are finding it extremely difficult, how
ever, to convince any considerable
number of people that Dr. Martin G.
Brumbaugh, the Republican candidate
for Governor, should be opposed on
this issue. His straightforward and
open declaration in favor of local op
tion, not only in his recent speeches,
but in his original primary platform,
has convinced all fair-minded citizens
of his sincerity on this question.
His Democratic rival, who has been
making a play for local option sup
port, Is using the silly argument that
Dr. Brumbaugh, as Governor, could
not be for local option because some
alleged liquor interests are supporting
him. Mr. McCormick doesn't say one
word, however, about the liquor in
fluence back of him. He is reach
ing out in his desperation for support
from any and every source and the
rum seller is quite as welcome as the
advocate of local option or any other
proposition.
Mr. McCormick also argues that Dr.
Brumbaugh, when he says he will
sign the local option bill, knows that
with certain leaders in the Senate, no
such bill will ever reach his desk to
be signed. The Democratic candidate
doesn't explain how he would compel
the Senate, should he be Governor, to
pass a local option measure. Of course,
he declared In his primary platform
that he would change the whole course
of procedure in the legislature and
make radical changes in the parlia
mentary practice and do a lot more
impossible things, but it has not been
forgotten by the people that the Bal
timore platform, which has frequently
been declared by McCormick and oth
ers as the most remarkable political
document ever put forth by a party,
has been repudiated In its most im
portant planks by the very men who
are now telling Pennsylvania voters
what they will do in the event of the
people giving them the power.
Dr. Brumbaugh Is an able, con
scientious and patriotic citizen with
a record of achievement second to no
other In Pennsylvania. It is therefore
absurd for McCormick to pretend that
he could do more with a Legislature
than any Governor who may be elect
ed.
The Telegraph believes that the lo
cal option proposition should he sub
mitted to the people by the next Leg
islature and it has no doubt whatever
that such a measure will have the
prompt approval of the Republican
candidate for Governor. The fair
minded advocates of local option are
not going to be stampeded or confus
ed by the tricks of the Democimtic
bosses who are now in their despera
tion striving to mislead those who fa
vor the local option principle.
Many cf the more Important Re
publican newspapers of the State are
supporting local option and they ac
cept Dr. Rrumbaugh's manly state
ments as they would accept the dec
larations of any honest and sincere
man.
•
OPEN PRIMARY IN TIIE DISCARD
PERHAPS the most serious pro
test against the amalgamation
of the Democracy and the Pro
gressive party in Pennsylvania
comes from those honest voters
who believed the Washington party
represented a body of principles which
were endorsed by thousands of their
fellow citizens. These voters urged in
convention and party conference the
enactment of a law providing for
State wide primaries to the end that
boss dictation In the nomination of
candidates should be eliminated. Re
sponsive to this sentiment, the Legis
lature enacted into law the provisions
of the State-wide primary, and this
SATURDAY EVENING, HXRRJSBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 12. 1014
> tar il has had full expression In the
choice of candidates for the several
offices to be tille-d at the November
j election.
Now come a few self-constituted
\ bosses of the two parties in interest
land decree that certain of the nomi
| nees of the people shall withdraw in
j pursuance of a political compact fa-
I vorable to the Democratic party. It
! isn't enough that the spirit and pur
] pose of the primary law shall be dis
regarded and flouted, but alleged prln
| ciples for which these two parties are
supposed to stand are likewise dis
i carded In fulfillment of a political
deal.
The Progressive party, which is the
Washington party in Pennsylvania, is
favorable to the protective tariff sys
tem and most of the other national
policies for which the Republican
party has stood for years. Yet the
fusion compact which has been ar
ranged by a few bosses would place
the voters of the Washington party
in alignment with that element of the
Democratic party which applauds the
Wilson theories of government and
which theories in operation have
brought widespread disaster and dis
tress.
Such an incongruous combination
has never been known in the history
of Pennsylvania politics, and it is un
reasonable to expect that tlio fusion
deal will do more than further deci
mate the rapidly-thinning ranks of
the Washington party, most of whose
members have already returned to the
Republican fold this year.
Another feature of the inconsistent
combination is the fact that while the
whole fusion propaganda is presum
ably alined at Senator Penrose, the
candidate «»f the Democratic party
for United States Senator persists In
remaining In the lield in opposition,
not only to Senator Penrose, but also
to Gifford Pinchot, the nominee of the
Progressive organization for the same
office. Nothing more selfish than the
attempt to line up Washington party
voters for McCormick while his asso
ciate, A. Mitchell Palmer, remains a.
candidate for United States Senator
against Pinchot, the Washington i
party nominee, has been developed in
this Democratic factional campaign
characterized from beginning to end
by selfishness and consuming ambi
tion.
THE FARMER'S WIFE
CONGRESSMAN KR EIDER, in
his address to-day before the
Boys' Agricultural and Girls'
Domestic Science clubs at lona,
Lebanon county, hit the nail squarely
on the head when he took up cudgels
In defense of the farmer's wife. Said
he;
I wish to emphasize the fact that
we can not give too great consid
eration to the one we have prom
ised to love, honor and protect. She
who shares our joys and sorrows,
she who defends and clings to us,
when all others divide and desert
us, she who wields that mother's
influence over our children and im
plants into their hearts all that is
kind and pure and lovely. Is it not
due to her, that she should have a
little time for recreation and en
joyment'? Let us never he so busy
but that it will be possible to have
occasionally an hour, or a day, or
a week, for a little drive or an
outing. Lot us provide her with as
pleasant and convenient a home
and surroundings as possible, giv
ing her all the comforts we know
how; and above all. let us not wait
until she has passed to the Great
Beyond and then pile her flowers
on her coffin, but let us while she
lives, strew an occasional flower in
her pathway and thereby brighten
her life and make her companion
ship doubly sweet.
Every husband ought to read that
paragraph. It applies not only to the
mar. on the farm, hut to the city man
as well. Too often the hushand for
gets that his wife is at home all day
while he is out meeting men, that her
lot is often lonely and monotonous,
while his own, though perhaps quite
as arduous, is nevertheless varied in
its Incidents and occupations. Too
often the husband's plensures are for
himself alone, forgetful that his wife
should share them with him.
Granted that the "woman's place is
the home," it cannot be held that she
ought to be confined there like a
prisoner twenty-four hours out of tho
day and seven days out of the week.
If you have any money for flowers
take Congressman Krelder's advice
and spend it on your wife now. She
won't mine? if the memorial wreath on
the day of the funeral Is a little less
in size.
AN EXAMPLE IN SUGAR
HOW well President Wilson has
kept his promise "to do nothing
that would injure American
business" is Illustrated by an
nouncement made in yesterday's issue
of the Daily Consular Reports of the
government. Says the Report:
Widespread sentiment now pre
vails In Venezuela in favor of dis
carding the antiquated methods of
manufacturing sugar and substitut
ing modern machinery. The three
large stock companies preparing to
operate in the region of Lake Mara
caigo are the l.a Celba Sugar Co..
Zulla Central Sugar Co., and the
Venezuelan Sugar Co. The Venezue
lan Sugar Co. purchased a plant in
Louisiana which has a capacity of
SOO ton-loads of cane per ilay of
twenty-four hours, and various of
ficers and stockholders of tlio com
pany saw the plant in operation
continuously for twenty-one days.
On one day during the trial It
ground #75 ton-loads. Competent
engineers have pronounced the
plant in perfect condition as to
both machinery and the quality of
product.
This plant, for the • manufacture of
sugar in Venezuela, was purchased In
Txwisiana because Its owners there
had been forced out of business by
the Democratic tariff. It was in "per
fect. condition." but its owners sold it
for what it would bring to a foreign
competitor into whose hands the
United States government had placed
the deadly weapon of unfair advan
tage. Yet we do not hear that sugar
is going to go down in price.
Here we have a fine example of the
TTnderwood tariff—an American Indus
try ruined. Its innehlnery sold to a
foreigner and the public paying higher
prices than ever before for sugar.
Strong argument for the election of a
free-trade Senator and Governor, len't
it?
f EVENING CHAD
Considerable interest Is being manl
lested on Capitol Hill in the conven
tion of sealers of weights and meas
ures of the State, which Is to be held
at the Statehouse commencing next
ruesday, because it # will bring out .lust
what the results of enforcement of
the law of 1913 have been. It is said
here that, thanks to the acts passed
last year, the use of "bottomless"
measures and of combination meas
ures has been cheeked and that firms
which formerly made measures which
could be manipulated have stopped
shipping them into Pennsylvania be
cause there Is no demand for them
and they ran risks of getting into
trouble. Chief of Standards James
feweeney says that the enforcement
of the laws by city and county seal
ers has saved hundreds of thousands
oi dollars to the housekeepers of the
.state, as the tons of crooked meas
ures and false weights taken illustrate.
Some of the measures taken were art
fully arranged to deceive, and at
tempted destruction when seized
showed that the owners knew how to
use them. Sealers say that an at
tempt to bring about changes in the
law to make it less rigorous will be
made next session, and they propose
to let the State know what has been
accomplished in order to prevent it.
According to reports which State
Zoologist H, A. Surface has been re
ceiving at the Capitol, there will he
an abundance of chestnut* through
out the State. J.<arge areas are re
ported t»> be well supplied with burrs
and prospects are for an excellent
crop. In some parts of the State,
where blight was reported as making
inroads a few years ago, there will be
large yields, infected trees having
been cut out. The counties along the
Blue Ridge mountains report indica
tions of a very heavy crop.
Tho big pieces of stone on the lawn
of the government building are being
put to good use by the squirrels from
Capitol Park fhe.se days, and it is said
b.v the workmen that stores of nuts for
winter use will be uncovered when
the time comes to clear up.' Every
day squirrels sfcurry over from «'apt'-
tol Park with nuts and disappear be
neath the stones and timbers and then
come out looking innocent. The pea
nut. man along Third street appears to
he popular with the squirrels, be
cause they gather around him and are
rewarded by a nut or two.
Hartisburg policemen are com
mencing to get tirod of the hoys who
ride about town in the evening with
out having their bicycle lamps lighted,
fine cf the corner officers says that he
stopped a dozen boys the other even
ing and that he intends to "pull in"
some of the kids who fail to observe
common sense regulations, one in
veterate offender was stopped last
night and told to light up. He in
formed the policeman that he had
been unable to get a wick. "That's
what you gave me the other night,"
said the policeman, "llonest. I tried
a lot of places but they ain't got my
size." The policeman told him to
find the right store or get in training
for a trip to the police station.
When Governor Tener and the
members of his staff started for Bal
timore to-day to attend the Star
Spangled Banner celebration the Gov
ernor was attended by the State
color-bearer, who carries the blue and
gold silk flag. This flag has; done
duty for four Governors and is one
of the handsomest in Pennsylvania.
It has been used at many encamp
ments but is so well taken care of
that it is as good as new. But com
pared to the Mar.valnd State flag it is
a very modest affair.
One of the many lines affected by
the war is the china industry. It may
not be widely known, but it is the
truth, that the gold used in decorating
china is made only in Germany. There
is a gold paint made in the United
States, but the "real gold" that is
used on real china is made only in
Germany. Thousands of dollars in
gold coin have been destroyed in try
ing to find out how the German gold
paint is made. Domestic gold fre
quently, according to china painters,
turns black when the china is fired.
The German gold goes through fire
and comes out with a brilliant gloss,
according to the process used in firing.
Old gold effect is secured by slow
heating.
With the beautifying of Harris
burg's river front and the building: of
the dam across the river below the
city there is an ever-increasing; interest
in all kinds of aquatic sports anions
Harrisburgers. One of the most pop
ular sports, of course, is canoeing, and
this form of recreation is gaining more
adherents every day. The Harrishurg
Chamber of Commerce and lovers of
sport have recognized the sport and
are doing much to make it more en
joyable by blasting many of the dan
gerous rocks from the lied of the
river. While this work is being done
it has been suggested by a number of
canoeists that it might be a gnod plan
to make a canoe channel across the
river to the Conodoguinet. This is one
of the best canoeing places hereabouts,
but on account of the dangerous rocks
and low water is now not accessible
from the Harrisburg shore. Whether
or not it would be possible to make
such a channel the canoeist did not
say, but if It is possible there would
be no trouble in raising a good-sized
fund for the work among canoeists if
someone would only make the start.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—rercy M. Chandler, the Philadel
phia banker, who is in charge of the
Tradesmen's Trust Company, expects
to make another dividend shortly.
—J. Franklin Maker, "Home Run"
Baker, of the Athletics, has gone Into
the coin-trading business in Philadel
phia.
—Dr. William A. Capon, of Phila
delphia. is home from Europe.
—Kx-Senator Clarence Wolf, of
Philadelphia, has returned to his
home after spending the summer
months at the seashore, as has been
his custom for years.
—H. T. Fellows, of .Scranton, one
of the officers of the Railway Con
ductors' legislative committee, is one
of the most active members of the
order in the State.
—R. TT. Sweetener, of Easton, has
been elected president of the Thomas
iron Company, at a meeting hold at
Hokcndauqua, where the Thoinns
stack was first built.
—David R. Jones, the new Repub
lican county chairman of Lacka
wanna, is a mine worker.
I DO YOU KNOW H
That L.vkens Valley coal is Ihc
most highly prised of anthracite
ami that much is sold abroad?
AN EVENING THOUGHT
If you have a friend worth loving.
Love him: yes. and let him know
That you love him ere life's even
ing
Tinge his brow with sunset glow;
Why should good words ne'er be
said
Of a friend —till he is dead?
•-J. H. Blown.
FUSION BOOSTERS
HOW EXPLAINING
Loudly Protesting That There is
No Deal to Bring About
the Mule Ticket
PENROSE MAKES CHALLENGE
Dares Dean Lewis to Say That He
Has No Promise From Mc-
Cormick For Any Reward
Leaders of the Democratic and
Washington parties are already at the
denying stage. They are denying that
there was any deal whereby Dean
Lewis got off the Bull Moose ticket In
favor of Vance C. McCormick; deny
ing that there will be any further
fusion; denying that the Washington
party has been given the short end
and that the refusal of the Demo
crats to give the Bull Moose any places
in return for Lewis' retirement is un
expected and denying that the Demo
crats are going to finance the Wash
ington party campaign.
•Men in authority in both parties arc
commencing to hear from the rank
and file in no uncertain terms and the
printing of interviews with men who
are in politics for revenge or for what
jobs they can get does not disguise
the fact that away down among the
men who vote there is pronounced
objection.
A. Nevin Detrich, Washington party :
State chairman, said yesterday that]
there had been no deal. Then he began
to say how much stronger was Pinchot
than Palmer for senator.
It begins fo look as though McCor
mick will be on a mule ticket and
I tint a lot of machine Democrats will
swing in for Pinchot. It will lie in
teresting to watch the disparity be
tween votes for McCormick on the
Democratic ticket and for Palmer.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
which was favorable to Berry in 1910,
but which does not. see much in the
fusion movement this
year, in an article lust
Fusion Head night made fun of the
Get.s Little P a 1 m e r-McCormick
Approval tour in the vicinity of
Philadelphia, saying
that the crowds were
so small as not to warrant the ex
penditure of gasoline and wear and
tear on machines. It also intimated
that no one appeared to be much
interested and wound uji by calling
the party the "Linen Duster squad
ron." Pittsburgh papers fail to com
mend fusion and the Philadelphia Rec
ord, Democratic, plays up the state
ments by the boosters of fusion that
there was no deal. The Philadelphia
Ledger to-day says that Dean Lewis
kicked the Washington party in the
face and says that the Bull Moose
party is a "screaming farce." other
independent newspapers voice disgust
with the retirement of Lewis and the
readiness of McCormick to accept
fusion with a party whose chief and
whose platforms denounce President
Wilson, for whom McCormick says he
stands.
Senator Boies Penrose added to the
dismay in the camps of the Democrats
and Bull Moosers yesterday when he
reiterated his charge
that the fusion move-
ment was made in pur- Penrose in
suance of a deal, his Challenge
statement being more or to Lewis
loss ot a direct challenge
to Dean Lewis. The sen-
ator issued the statement at Philadel
phia and it attracted much attention,
but was carefully left alone by the
mule ticket candidate and the apolo
gists for Dean Lewis. In his state
ment the senator says:
"I see that Mr. Lewis denies with
fervor the statement that there was any
deal in Ills withdrawal as a candidate
tor Governor, particularly any corrupt
arrangement as to his appointment as
Attorney General.
"I would like to ask Mr. Lewis
whether the rumor Is correct that he
has discovered it absolutely impossible
to finance his campaign even for neces
sities, because he has been abandoned
by William Flinn, who is unwilling to
repeat the lavish expenditures made by
him in the last campaign in this State,
admitted to be over $150,000 from his
individual pocket.
"The only conclusion that can be
reached is that a new paymaster was
necessary, and that MeCormick, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, was
the only one in sight. MeCormick is a
young aristocrat and plutocrat, who
never has mingled in the public affairs
of the Commonwealth, and who will
lind to his cost that he lias no relation
to the aspirations of the wage-earners
and plain people f>f the .State. He had
better give his money to charity than
to keep on spending it in this cam
paign. He has conceived the thought
that the election can be purchased. His
inexperience leads him to this conclu
sion, and lie will awaken on election
day to lind how grossly he has been
deceived. It will doubtless be consol
ing, however, to Mr. Lewis and Ills
friends to feel that, while abandoned
by l'"linn, they may still tlnd a warm
nesting place in the vicinity of Mr. Mc
cormick's bank.
"1 make the statement deliberately
and challenge contradiction that part
of this deal Is an arrangement by which
Lew is Is to be appointed Attorney Gen
eral in the event of Mr. McCormick's
election. Of course. MeCormick will not
be elected, but as the times are hard I
suppose the promise is attractive."
To Frank B. McClaln, Mayor of
Lancaster and Republican 'candidate
for Lieutenant-Governor, fell the po
litical honors at a Pitts
burgh gathering yester-
MrClain in day. McClaln's humorous
'.Humorous handling of the situation
Mood Now of political candidates
competing with the war
of Europe for the atten
tion of the people won him a warm
welcome and this grew into a storm
when McClain declared:
"We should have no fault to find,
however, that our eloquence finds no
display in printers ink when even Ar
mageddon has been forgotten.
"William, the War Lord, has taken
the place of Theodore the Restless."
A new development in the fusion
situation in the Democratic and Wash
ington parties yesterday presented
Itself when it was an
nounced that a conven
tion of all the antj- Antl-fjiqiior
liquor forces in Penn- Convention
sylvania would be held Next Week
here next Thursday.
September 17, for the
purpose of concentrating the temper
ance vote behind a complete fusion
ticket.
Concerning this meeting the Phila
delphia Public Ledger says to-day:
Dr. Lewis having set an example,
local option leaders say that the thing
to do now is to concentrate anti-liquor
strength behind one candidate for
United States senator opposed to Sen
ator Penrose. The choice will be
made between Gilford Pincliot, Wash
ington nominee, nod A. Mitchell Pal
mer. Democratic nominee. The gov
ernorship virtually is settled. It is
believed by the leaders that next
Thursday's conference will indorse
MeCormick. The convention also will
consider who should lie its choice of
the several candidates for Lieutenant-
Governor. Sec retary of Internal Affairs
and cnngressman-at-large.
The call for the convention was
signed by a number of men who have
been urging L®wts and MeCormick
not active in politics.
I OUR DAILY | ;
l.llrrnl It Tflkm Two,
"Mis.s Hack- IK*,
number Ik furious I say, old man,
at the editor of doesn't your
that society pa- spending so much
per." time at the club
"Why?" get you into
"He referred to trouble at home?
her as a "well- On the contrary,
known' beauty." dear boy, it keeps
me out of
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Omitted the Pretty "
Ones Almost On 'the
lie Our host- Shelf
ess was really the Mother Edith
most beautiful thinks of spelling
woman of all her name E-d-y
--present. t-h.
She (who was Father Oh,
not invited) 1 well, let her. It's
dare say she took about the only
rare to provide chance she'll ever
for that when site have of changing
site sent out her her name, any
invitations. how.
I TOUTICATsiOaiGHTS I
—Fusion did not go off with the
roar of approval looked for. More
like a damp quilt.
—The rank and tile of the Bull
Moosers in Dauphin county are rather
shy about falling into line with McCor
mick.
—What tlie average Htill Mooser
divesn't understand is what his party is
going to net.
—A. Nevlji Detrich at last has some
thins: to do. He is denying that there's
a deal.
upper end of the county will
show its repudiation of deals by
McCormb'k Rood and hard'.
—The newspapers appear to think
that Dean Lewis let go of a hot poker.
—McCormick's paper promised that
the AVllson administration would give
a tlirlff that would make things easier.
It has not and It's piling on more
taxes.
—Philadelphia Democrats are now
out pleading that differences be
dropped.
—Central Democratic Club rather
bverlooked something last night. It
did not commend Lewis' "sacrifice."
—Henry Opperman said in Phila
delphia yesterday that the Central
Democratic Club is planning a trip to
Palmer's home in Stroudsburg. When
Is the funeral?
—Pinchot is keeping up his tour as
though he expected to get the votes of
McCormlck's friends.
—McCormick is now official "angel"
of the Democracy and after next week
he will be in charge of the "hay" for
the Bull Moose.
—William Flinti is reported as about
to devote his time exclusively to his
New York contracts.
BARCELONA SAUDI NFS
Loss of Harp Delicacy Might Cause
Increase In Demand For Salmon
Those who have had the good for
tune of partaking of Barcelona sar-1
dines are loud in their praise of that
delectable dish. "But where is Bar
celona?" somebody asked. When told
that it is a city of Europe with more
than a half million inhabitants it was
asked "How will the war affect it?"
The man who always offers an op
timistic suggestion says that if the war I
should prevent us from getting Barce
lona sardines on this side we will then
consume larger quantities of Colum
bia River salmon.
Those who arc not familiar with the
countries of Europe should get one of
the Telegraph's Official War Maps,
containing a wealth of useful informa
tion relating to the great war of the
nations. These maps are presented on
the popular coupon plan, and daily
newspapers throughout the entire
country arc distributing them for the
benefit of their readers.
Turn to the war map coupon print
ed elsewhere in these columns and
clip It at once.
WOKS OF THE DEMOCRATIC CIjUB
[Philadelphia Inquirer.l
It seems to be the irony of fate that
hard times, due to Democratic legis
lation at Washington, should be given
as the chief reason of the financial
straits of the Democratic Club of this
city. The organization is really the
outgrowth of the success of the Demo
cratic party in the last general election
and it was composed, to a large degree,
of officeholders or prospective office
holders. It represents, in a special
manner, the Palmer and McCormick
Democracy. The fact that it has been
found necessary to virtually declare a
moratorium at a time when Mitchell
Palmer and Vance McCormick are on
the stump assuring the voters of the
beneficent results of the Wilson ad
ministration is, to say the least, very
embarrassing.
I lITTERSTOTHE EDITOR I
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I CONTRIBUTORS
i To the limtnr of the Telegraph:
Sir:—lnasmuch as officers of the
Anti-Saloon League contend that it l«
n non-political organization devoted to
1 the spread of the movement for taking
awav the temptations of the licensed
saloon I am concerned as to its reported
activities in behalf of certain candi
i dates. 1 would like to ask your paper,
which is one of the leading exponents
of local option in Pennsylvania, to
print a list of the contributors to the
Anti-Saloon league for the last year and
also to give the total amount of money
gathered ami the main Items of ex
penditure. I have given regularly to
the Anti-Saloon league. as have mem
bers of my family, on Anti-Saloon
I.eague Sundays, but 1 have never seen
a statement as to the amount of money
it has received and whether any con
-1 trlbutlons were made by candidates for
i office or their near relatives. Tn case
you do not have the data 1 have asked
no doubt you can obtain It. Some of
your readers would like to see the fi
nancial statement.
W. K. T.
1 llarrisburg. Pa., Sept. 11. 1914.
■run TBI.BGHAPH'S STASH
To the Hit it or of the Telegraph:
Sir: —1 write to tell you how much
We appreciate the Telegraph's stand In
this campaign. It has not only been un
' wavering In its Republicanism, but
true to local option. Would that we
i had more papers like the Telegraph.
READER SINCE 1867.
Carlisle, Pa.. Sept. 10, 1914. .
HEAI>QUARTKHS FOR
\ SHIRTS
SIDES & SIDES
BANK STATEMENT BANK STATEMENT
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COMMONWEALTH TRUST COMPANY j
222 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Condensed Statement, August 27, 1914.
RESOURCES LIABILITIES
Cash and cash Items..« 109,292 0« capita) stock $ 250,000 00
Due from banks 183,011 72 surplus fund 450,000 00
I.oans and Investments 1,962,893 55 Undivided pro(lls .... 60,094 29
Re . Ul „ e^ ,a,e al,a l,ank Deposits 1,754,460 62
building -277,673 92 p„ P hanks 2,650 17
Overdrafts 1.113 84 Miscellaneous 17,715 01
MlsceJlancous 902 00 "
$2,534,920 99 $2,534,920 99
Trust Funds Invested 84,460.201 83
Trust Funds Uninvested, Including advances 121,318 16
$4,611,519 99
OFFICERS
unmn.n iitnninff, w - *'■ Ogelsby, W. H. Metiger,
William Jennlng.. Vice-president and Treasurer. j
President Trust Officer. W. Grant ltaueh.
Asst. Sec'y & Treas. 1
DIRECTORS
Charles E. Covert, W. O. Mickok, 111 T. W. Smallnood,
Henderson Gilbert, C. W. Lynch, •lohn Fox Weiss,
W. M. Haiti, R. H. Moflitt, Win. .Jennings,
It. C. Haldeman, H. C. Ross, W. >l. ORelsby,
Francis J. Hall, A. Carson Stanim, W. H. Metzger.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
IFrom the Telegraph of Sept. 12, 1864.J
Tliree Men Killed
Three men were killed Friday even
ing. near here, when a locomotive at
tached to a cattle train exploded. The
locomotive was blown to pieces, the
tender and six cars were destroyed. The
engineer, fireman and conductor were
Instantly killed.
|EDITORIAL COMMENT!
Among the minor mercies of the
season is the political death of the
Governor of South Carolina.—Phila
delphia ledger.
Never in human history has a great
nation had such a magnificent oppor
tunity as ours to perform a glorious
work for mankind and to set a noble
example for the guidance of the hu
man race.—Senator William J. Stone.
If the Senator's counsel to remain
strictly neutral is not followed bv the
American people, the. United States
will have no influence when the time
comes to make peace and frame guar
anties for the prevention of another
great war.—New York Sun.
THE DISASTROUS RKSUI.TS OK
THE UNDKRWOOD TARIFF
t From the Phila. Public Ledger]
Theer Is bound to be a searching
analysis of the President's declaration
that the financial situation which con
fronts the government was not due to
the tariff, lie has asked for special
' war taxes," because there, was a fall
ing off in customs revenues of $lO,-
000,000 in August, in comparison with
the same month last year, and he has
expressed his confidence that the peo
ple of the country are ready "to sup
port the government with generous
self-denial." and that they will be In
tolerant only of those who are not
frank with them.
The President is right. The peopje
will be intolerant of those who are not
frank. The indications are that the
first men to be accused of deception
are the advisers of the President, who
have been attempting to convince
themselves that their own tariff tin
kering is not primarily responsible for
the predicament in which the Treas
ury finds itself. The imports received
during the last fiscal year were $102,-
000,000 greater than in the preceding
year, but the duties collected on im
ports decreased $32,000,000. More
than $100,000,000 worth of goods pro
duved abroad displaced goods of
American production in the home
market, and more than $30,000,000 of
taxes, the greater part of which the
foreigner would have had to pay to
enter our markets, have been levied
directly on the American citizens to
make up the deficit. The tariff was
not framed to raise revenue, but to
throw open the doors to foreign com
petition. The situation at the close
j( the fiscal year was "of the making"
of the financiers in control in Wash
ington, to use the President's phrase.
University of Pennsylvania
Extension School of
Accounts and Finance
Everting Courses For Men
and Women
A branch of the Extension Department of this school
will be opened in I larrisburg this Fall, provided 100 students
are enrolled. You can get a business training of University
grade in Accounting Business Law, Advertising and Selling,
M oney and Credit, and various financial subjects, and at the
same time continue your work.
Why Waste Your Evenings?
Make use of them to get a University education that will
bring results.
Not a Correspondence School
The proposed school is to bp a resident school, not a
Correspondence School. The instruction is to be in all
respects identical with that given in the Evening School of
the University at Philadelphia.
Headquarters For Information
1. Rotary Club—C. HARRY KAIN, Arcade Bldg.
2. State Library—THOMAS L. MONTGOMERY.
3. School Board Offices—D. D. HAMMELBAUGH.
4. PROFESSOR W. P. RAlNE—Chamber of Commerce.
Dodge Coal Trouble This Year
Don't Btart off the first thing this Fall with a repetition of your
coal troubles of former years. Keep your peace of mind and Insure
body comfort by using Judgment 1 your coal buying. Montgomery
coal costs no more than Inferior grades, and Insures maximum heat,
even consumption, and lower coal bills. Dust and dirt Is removed be
fore you get your coal from
J. B. MONTGOMERY
Both Phones Third and Chestnut Streets
I
[From the Telegraph of Sept. 12, 1864.1
Sifw* From Shenandoah Valley
Haltimore, Sept. 12. Tile Ameri
can's special Harper's Ferry dispatch
of to-day says there has been no ch#nß»
in the military position. Parties recom
mended work on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad this morning, and it is
expected that the road will he In run
nine order throughout its entire length
by Friday.
Victory For I'cnnnylrnnin Regiment
Cincinnati, Sept. 12. A rebel force
of 1,300 men. under Colonel Dibrell, was
encountered by the Ninth Pennsylvania,
Cavlary near Read.vville. on Cripple
Creek, Tenn., and after a short fight the
rebels iled.
SOUTH UN THE SADDI/F.
Southern newspapers are calling at
tention to the annual convention of
the National Farmers' Union, which la
said to represent !t,000,000 farmers.
C. S. Barrett, president of the Farm
ers' Union, in an address delivered at
Fort Worth. Texas, urged the farmers
to demand passage of a hill providing
| for the purchase of 3,000,000 or 4,-
000,000 bales of cotton by the govern
ment at not less than 9 cents a pound.
This cotton is to be held until a satis
factory market has been reached.
When the price of cotton has reached
a profitable basis the government ia
to sell the cotton it holds, retain suf
ficient funds to cover the expense of
the transaction and pay the balance
to the farmers from whom It was pur
chased. In his address Mr. Barrett
said:
"The South is in the saddle at
Washington and the South can do
whatever it wants to do. The boys at
j Washington will do whatever you te'tj|
I them to do if you give them to under-™
j stand you mean business. And t
know you mean business in regard to
I the present cotton problem."—Dally
j Trade Record.
STUPENDOUS COST MAY END WAR
[From the Phila. Public 1-edgerl
Statisticians figure that the war is
costing the participants $50,000,000 a
day. That is merely the money that
must go for the upkeep of armies in
the field. It does not take into ac
! count the ruinous paralysis of Indus-
I try, the stagnation of trade, the sus
pension of the manifold activities
| whereby the plain average of human
| ity struggles to earn its living.
I The war cannot go on indefinitely
I for the simple reason that it is so in-
I conceivably voracious a consumer not
I only of the lives of men, but of tho
j fruits of the earth. It makes a cleaner
sweep than a plague of locusts. Rus-
I sia alone is paying more than $200,-
000,000 interest per annum on a na
tional debt which was largely tho
product of former wars. In such cir
cumstances prohibitive cost must call
a halt when diplomacy stands aghast
and Impotent.