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WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 21
TIME TO CLEAN IT
N these pleasant autumnal days it
lis a pleasure to walk along the
River Front and enjoy to the full
the water and landscape which have
made the Susquehanna valley the
most picturesque in the world. War
ren H. Manning, the famous land
scape architect who has had a large
part in designing the city's park sys
tem, remarked to the writer this week
that it was doubtful whether the peo- j
pie of Harrisburg fully realize the
beauty of the scenery with which this
city is surrounded.
But there is one fly in the ointment.
Attention has not been given to the
removal of the rubbish which lies out
side the reinforced concrete steps
that constitute the retaining wall
iilong the River Front. Unless this
shall have been removed the splendid
improvement that is now nearing com
pletion will be seriously defaced. Some
of this accumulation of years has been
removed by the contractors, but there
is still much that must be eliminated
before the River Front will be what
all the people expect.
If the contractors are not required
to do more than they have already
done, then not an hour should be lost
by City Commissioner Lynch and the
Board of Public Works in getting rid
of the remaining stumps and logs and
bowlders which litter the shore line.
Hundreds of men are idle In Harris
burg and a few days with a large
force would suffice to clean up the en
tire stretch from Iron alley to Maclay
street. The river is now high enough
to remove by the use of flats and a
derrick the larger obstructions, and
the gravel and silt can be taken away
without difficulty by wagons.
It is due the city that this work
shall be properly completed without
further discussion. Enough has been
said and the time has come for action
instead, of talk. There is no disposi
tion to unduly harrass the contractors.
If they are not required to re
move this unsightly debris, that fact
is easily ascertained, and it then be
comes the duty of the officials them
selves to see to it that the cleaning
up process is not longer delayed.
A. Mitchell Palmer's foolish speeches
on the alleged prosperity of the coun
try and the activity in the industrial
districts of Pennsylvania have dis
gusted many persons who were under
the impression that the Democratic
candidate for United States Senator
was reasonably familiar with conditions
In this State. When he declared at Al
toona that while the shops were closed
there was still plenty of work to do, he
Illustrated his utter contempt for the
truth In his endeavor to bolster up a
losing cause.
When the Colonial Country Club can
raise almost $6,000 in a few minutes for
golf Improvements on its grounds It is
evident that the golf snirlt has taken
possession of the membership.
FREAK DAWS
THOSE High Brows of Reform
who have been imposing all
kinds of fads In legislation upon
the people of Pennsylvania for
sarveral years are going to be forced
Into the background at the next session
of the Legislature. There is a grow
ing sentiment all over the State favor
able to the amendment of some exist
ing statutes recently passed In the
hurly-burly of change and transfor
mation. Those who thought they
■wanted these changes and alleged re
forms are now suffering from legisla
tive indigestion. They have concluded
that the old ways were good enough
and very much better than some of
the new things imposed by those who
were playing to the galleries in the
hope of deceiving the people.
Practically everybody is sick of the
primary election reforms and the third
class cities are going to insist upon a
larger measure of home rule. Things
have been jammed down their munici
pal throats which are indigestible and
have clogged the processes of decent
municipal operation.
In short, there is a trond toward
sanity in legislation and administra
tion, and the stage that has been
occupied for two or three years by
WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 21, 1914.
political fakirs and mountebanks, -will
ifo longer give room to them. It was
bound to follow as night the day that
the hysterical propaganda of recent
years would disappear before the rea
sonable things now demanded by an
awakened people.
It appears that William Draper
Lewis, who tried to hand over the
Washington party to the Palmer-Mc-
Cormick wing of the Democracy, did
not wholly eliminate himself from the
official ballot. He still appears as a
candidate of the Roosevelt-Progressive
party for Governor. This fact la
causing the residuary legatee—other
wise the Democratic candidate for
Governor—all kinds of worry, especi
ally since the third party men have
lost all patience with Palmer, who
continues to say unkind things about
the Bull Moose outPt.
DEMOCRATIC TAX BURDENS
FIRST untaxing the foreign manui
facturer and placing the burden
upon the shoulders of the Amer-
ican manufacturer the Demo
cratic party has now added a still
greater burden in the imposition of
what the administration is pleased to
call a "war revenue bill" levying ap
proximately $100,000,000 additional
taxes. Some Democratic members of
the United States Senate, representing
the cotton growing States, voted
against the bill out of resentment be
cause the administration managers
would not agree to a government issue
of $25,000,000 in 4 per cent bonds to
purchase cotton, but not enough to
defeat the measure.
The whole business is a reflection
upon the party in power and demon
strates the unfitness of that party to
rule the country.
These burdens placed upon a people
already harassed by a Democratic leg
islative program that has distracted
and upset normal conditions will still
further disgust the citizens of the
United States with the present admin
istration.
Governor John K. Tener will close
the campaign with a speech In Pitts
burgh. And he can refer with pride to
the substantial achievements of an ad
ministration that has done great con
structive work. It is easy enough to
pick flaws in public service, but the
Governor need not hunt for achieve
ments in presenting the claims of the
Republican party upon the voters of
the State.
INDUSTRY AND SUCCESS
EVERY student in this city will do
well to dwell on the words of the
Rev. Dr. William S. Bovard, gen
eral secretary of brotherhood
work in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, who recently addressed the
boys of the Harrisburg Academy. "The
successful student makes the success
ful man." he declared.
In those few words is bound up
such a world of truth that hours of
thought might be spent upon them.
To cite the thousands of examples of
men of the present and the past
who have hung the pennant of
success to the flagstaff of their
lives is unnecessary. Every one
knows that success conies only
through hard work, plugging and
sacritice. The student of the Central
or the Technical high school who frit
ters away his time in the dance hall,
poolroom or "movies" will reap the
reward of failure Just as surely as the
boy or girl who spends his spare time
In conscientious endeavor to make the
best of his talents will some day gar
ner the harvest of success.
How often do you hear older men
and women lament the fact that they
wasted their opportunities while In
school. And most of these are trail
ing on behind the chariot of victory
snuffing the dust of the fellow who
"plugged" and who is "getting there."
Any businessman who employs boys
or girls when school days are over can
tell in three weeks whether they
worked while in school; whether they
really know anything; whether they
are the sort who will make good and
cause the dust to fly, or that other
class who do nothing much but get In
the way.
It is the studious and industrious
who draw down the big pay checks as
the years go by.
v
Lew Dockstader Is some observer. He
rode through Steelton Monday on his
way to Harrisburg and was surprised
to see the big industrial community
devoid of smoke and other signs of ac
tivity. Lew remembers the time, he
says, when Steelton was about the
busiest town of which he had any
knowledge. The famous _ minstrel
doesn't agree with A. Mitchell Falrner
that Pennsylvania is in the midst of
great prosperity. He threatens to quit
the show business and start a peanut
stand unless things brighten up.
Next Friday will be Arbor Day.
What are you going to do to help
the next generation In the way of tree
I planting? If those who have gone be
fore were a3 Indifferent to the growth
of trees and their care as some people
lof the present generation, Harrisburg
would long before now have become a
treeless city. But in planting your tree
or trees don't trust your own Judgment;
ask the man who knows the kind of
tree you should plant.
What could be more Impressive as to
the fitness of Dr. Brumbaugh for the
high office of Governor than his em
phatic refusal to indulge In a mud
slinging contest with his ambitious and
nervous rival.
Every member of the City Council, It
Is a pleasure to record, appreciates the
beauty of the River Front and Is In ac
cord with the plans for its permanent
improvement. Thousands of visitors
during the River Carnival next summer
will applaud their efforts.
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh Is just
naturally winning the people to his
support. Men of all parties are pledg
ing him their votes and no candidate
has ever had more enthusiastic ad
herents.
Those Stough Tabernacle builders
may not all be able to drive a nail
strulght, but there Is no record of any
of them having lost hiß religion
through the driving of the nail.
Villa ought to have more considera
tion for his friends in the Washington
administration.
EVENING CHAT
Lovers of that beautiful autumn
flower, the cosmos, will lind some of
the finest specimens to be found in
many miles growing beside the con
servatories on Capitol Hill, and the
size of the flowers, their splendid col
oring and the height of the plants
bear tribute to the skill and care of
Superintendent Kambo's force of gar
deners. These specimens are about
ten feet high, although one of them
must be near eleven. They tower far
above the heads of people who throng
the park and the red and blue and
white can be seen for a distance of a
couple of blocks. Perhaps the pro
tected spaces near the conservatories
where the plants have been grown
enabled them to grow to such unusual
heights, but they stand as examples of
"'.i? 1 can be doni - and if Jack Frost
will kindly remain away for a short
time they will be enjoyed by many
people. The Capitol Park gardening
force has taken advantage of the line
October weather to keep up a line col
lection of late flowers and the gera
nium beds attract much attention from
the numerous visitors to the Capitol,
home of the big trees have commenced
to shed their leaves, but on the lawns
the flowers are as bright as in the
first week in September.
Speaking of colors, the old First
Mountain that has stood as the north
ern guardian of Harrisburg from the
the llrst cabin was erected and
which protects from many a storm is
bright with the tints of autumn these
days and well repays a visit. Even
if one cannot go clear to the mountain
a ride on the trolley cars to Marys
ville or Rockville or "out Linglestown
way enables one to get some concep
tion of the way the Blue Ridge looks
when decked for the coming of the
first snow. Reservoir Pkrk on a clear
afternoon affords a view which cannot
be equaled in this part of the state and
which everyone should take if possible
just for the memory to be carried
through winter when the trees are
leafless and we sigh for the balmy air
of spring.
The pictures of the Stough taber
nacle which have been appearing in
the newspapers have been attracting
much attention and compliments for
them have been heard from many
people. It transpired yesterday that
practically all of them had been taken
from the roof of a building containing
a saloon, against which the evangelist
is such a strenuous lighter.
The growth of the temperance sen
timent is being shown in a good many
unexpected quarters and a story which
illustrates it is being told of a hap
pening in Chestnut street market. One
farmer has been noted for his cider
and some of his patrons have- been
known to go to visit him, returning
somewhat at odds with the world due
to potations of hard cider given by
their genial host. The other day the
farmer told his friends that there was
nothing doing. He had decided to cut
out hard cider anct they did not need
to come out to see him unless they
wanted to enjoy the beauties of nature
without frills.
That s the most sensible way to
argue the war," said the manager of
OI J® of the Market street cigar stores
which provides room for customers to
talk over things.
As he spoke he indicated a group in
the rear. They were gesticulating vig
orously and appeared to be verv much
in earnest.
It s war, all right," said the man
in explanation. "I know the deaf and
dumb language."
Some of the people who attended
the lood show on the night that lias
kefs were given away to holders of
lucky numbers are kicking themselves.
It seems that when each person en
tered he or she was given a ticket with
a perforation running through it. One
ticket was to be deposited and the
stub held. Some dozens of people re
tained the whole ticket and were sure
there was a crooked draw. Thev have
since found out why they failed to
get off.
Among visitors to Harrisburg yes
terday was John T. Brew, postmaster
of Erie and one of the prominent men
in the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Brew
has held both state and national
offices in the big order and while here
yesterday met a number of Harris
burgers.
Milton newspapers tell of a visit
paid to the Methodists of that manu
facturing town on Sunday by the Rev.
Dr. Silas C. Swallow, tho veteran cler
gyman of this section, and voice the
pleasure of the people at hearing him
again. Dr. Swallow was stationed in
the Milton circuit just fifty years ago
and about thirty-five years ago held h
charge in Milton. The years of Dr.
Swallow's service up the West Branch
have been many and he has many
friends who rejoice at his return for
visits.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1
—R. F. Crawford, chief engineer of
the Pennsylvania lines in the western
part of the State, is opposed to the
proposed licensing of engineers.
—P. C. Knox will be one of the
speakers at the Pittsburgh peace meet
ing.
—Chancellor S. B. McCormick, of
the University of Pittsburgh, was given
a dinner in honor of his birthday.
—G. W. B. Fletcher, Philadelphia
sportsmajj, has gone to Maine to hunt.
—C. iJaßue Munson, the Williams
port lawyer, is being urged for mem
ber of the Philadelphia reserve bank
board.
1 DO YOU KNOW?!
That Harrisburg's concrete work
is noted throughout the state for
its excellence.
NOT MAKING HASTY PLEDGES
[From tho New York Sun.]
When Martin H. Glynn, as a candi
date for Governor, was besought to
commit himself in advance to a piece
of proposed legislation and was in
formed that his rivals In tlie campaign
had already pledged themselves on the
subject, he made this reply:
"I have not committed myself. I
have declined to make a campaign
pledge to sign a bill providing for a
referendum.
"I shall keep open minded until I
am called to act officially.
"But I will not surrender my execu
tive prerogatives by making a cam
paign pledge of this character."
Is not this the proper and dignified
attitude for a man in public life to
assume?
/ Ik it not more conducive to confi
dence in his rectitude and independence
than a quick promise, extorted by fear
of losses at the polls?
" '
STORY OF A BOY
Worked on n farm—then In a aavr
ntlll, and In hla fotlier'a Ntore.
Swept a Mrliool for hla tuition—rang
the bell for liln board.
Began teaching when 16— County
Superintendent when
Entered V. of I*, aa a atudent when
—became member of IT. of P.
faculty.
Mode Prealdent of Junlnta College
wrote booka on education.
Appointed by Prealdent MeKlnley aa
Commlaaloner of Education of
Porto Rico.
Elected Superintendent of Philadel
phia Sehoola.
Nominated for Governor by the Re
publlcnna of Pennaylvanln.
TUAT'S BRUMBAUGH
■
DEMOCRATS SORE
OVER BUIEK
High Council Decides to Make the
Best of Lewis' Name on
the Official Ballot
COLONEL HERE 90 MINUTES
Short Stay at End of the Tour a
Disappointment; Efforts to
Get Record Crowd
"I condemn no man in advance.
The facts alone must determine the
verdict. Tf, as some insinuate,
there have been fraud atid graft
in any department of our State
government, it is now and here the
duty of the present Auditor Gen
eral and State Treasurer to dis
close the truth and Institute prose
cution.
"They weer chosen by the people
to do this. It is their solemn obli
gation to act if any action is re
quired. It is also their duty to
the people to deny these insinua
tlons.if they be not true." —Martin
G. Brumbaugh.
Democrats around the State wind
mill were mad clean through to-day at
the blundering that had forced them
to allow the name of William Draper
Lewis to remain on the ballot when
they thought they had it all fixed, and
what they were saying about Judge
Brumm's failure to swear to his with
drawal as Bull Moose candidate for
Governor cannot be printed here.
Day after duy, men high in the
councils of the Democratic and Wash
ington parties have pored over the
records at the Capitol where Lewis'
name remained on the books and only
last week an examination was made
by scouts of the fusion machine. The
fact that they overlooked It, that Dean
Lewis forgot all about it and that the
managers of the campaign in behalf
of McCormick never dreamed of it
constitute one of the funny things of
the campaign.
When the news that Lewis and
Brumm vould be on the official ballot
reached the windmill yesterday after
noon there was a gathering of bosses
for one of Chairman Morris' "receiv
ing days" and James I. Blakslee,
fourth assistant postmaster general
who has so much time to run around
Pennsylvania this year, was also pres
ent again. At first the gangsters would
not believe it and then they said things
that must have made Lewis' ears burn.
The fact that their own stupidity was
to blame never occurred to them.
The discovery that Lewis' name
would be on the ballot took all the
pleasure out of the realization that
Palmer had put one over on the Bull
Moosers when he refused to withdraw
as senatorial candidate. It looks as
though fortune had slipped the gold
brickers a gold brick, too.
The official announcement of the
visit to Harrisburg of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt during his swing around the
State shows that the
Colonel will be in the
Roosevelt home city of the Detn-
Stop Just ocratic candidate for
»0 .Minutes Governor on October
29 for exactly one hour
and a half. He will
get here at 10, coming from Tyrone;
will speak at Chestnut Street Hall at
10.15 and at 11.30 will be on his way
back to New York with his promise to
- fnnsylvanians kept and his troubles
with the waning Progressives here
ended. The Colonel will be here on
the fourth ilay of his tour and Harris
burg will be the last stop. The official
announcement put out last night in
Philadelphia says: "Gifford Pinchot,
for whom Colonel Roosevelt will speak,
will accompany the Roosevelt train
and will speak with Roosevelt." The
Colonel's train will make stops at
Lewistown, Miffiin, Newport and Dun
cannon. Democrats and Bull Moosers
here are making big efforts to get a
crowd and no one who lives within
fifty miles of Harrisburg and who
wants to hear the Colonel need miss
if it he knows the ropes. A crowd is
be secured.
The contest of the nomination pa
pers filed by the Democratic State
committee's Inside committee for Wal
nut and Robinson in
"Philadelphia has de
veloped into a tight Bin-king the
against the rules of Machine Set
the State committee. of Rules
The principal point of
contention is that'the
executive committee has usurped the
power of local committees and put the
two men on the ticket without con
sulting the ward or district commit
tees. The Democratic State executive
committee will fight the contest, con
tending that under the act of 1913 its
rules are strictly legal and in accord
with the letter and spirit of the law.
If the objections are sustained, down
will go the whole set of rules of the
State committee, and the whole bunch
of nominations made by it in the fu
sion scheme for Congress and Legisla
ture will be thrown out.
PI,ANT A TREE
(Arbor Day, October 23)
He who plants a tree
Plants a hope.
Rootlets up through fibers blindly
grope;
Leaves unfold into horizons free.
So man's life must climb
From the clods of time
Unto heavens sublime.
Cans't thou prophesy, thou little tree.
What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
He who plants a ttee
Plants a joy;
i Plants a comfort that will never cloy.
! Every day a fresh reality.
Beautiful and strong.
To whose shelter throng
Creatures blithe with song.
I If thou coulds't but know, thou happy
tree,
| Of the bliss that shall inhabit thee!,
j He who plants a tree
He plants peace.
Tinder its green curtains jargous cease;
Loaf and zephyr murmur soothingly;
Shadows soft with sleep
Down tired eyelids creep,
Balm of slumber deep.
Never hast thou dreamed, thou blessed
tree.
Of the benediction thou shalt be.
He who plants a tree
He plants youth;
Vigor won for centuries, in sooth;
[Life of time, that hints eternity;
Boughs their strength uprear,
New shoots every year
On old growths appear.
Thou shalt teach the ages, sturdy tree,
Youth of soul Is Immortality.
He who plants a tree
Ho plants love.
Tents of coolness spreading out above
Wayfarers he may not live to see.
Gifts that grow are best;
Hands that hless are blest;
Plant;. Life does the rest:
Heaven and earth help him who
plants a tree,
And his work Its own reward shall be.
{ LUCY LARCOM.
[ OUR DAILY LAUGH )
NOT THE SAME. '
I thought you
said the bath
house had a ca
pacity for five
hundred.
No, I said It
held "em.
ON THE HOG.
there's any
i money In hogs?
Yes often, but
most hogs are so JJK'-J
hoggish with (fcf* |Jw —
their money, you NSKv mI
can't get any of It
away from them.
HATS OFK TO KDISON
By Wing Dinger
'Twas the twenty-first day of October,
Just thirty-five years ago.
That the world for the first time was
privileged
Electrical lighting to know.
Although the first-made incandescent
Was nothing like that of to-day.
To turn darkest night into daytime
This first little lamp showed the
way.
To Thomas A. Edison all folks
Should take off their bonnets to-day
And give for the AVizard a hip, hip.
And likewise an ear-splitting hooray.
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS 1
—lt would appear that in Lewis'
failure to get off the ticket after all
that the men who thought to hand the
Bull Moosers a gilded brick reckoned
not on the law of compensation.
—Wonder what McCormick said
when he learned that Lewis was yet
on the ticket.
—The Old Guard seems to be still
fighting In Philadelphia. It is making
speeches without regard to McCor
mick's machine and is fighting the
machine's legislative nominees in
court. Oh, the Democrats are united.
—Appeals are being made by pla
cards for support for McCormick as
the "home candidate." Yes, and some
of the home folks have got clubs
ready.
—The Central Democratic Club
plans to march in Reading Friday and
to-morrow It will meet to pass resolu
tions.
—John Wanamaker's endorsement
of Brumbaugh is not popular in Mar
ket Square.
—Jim Blakslee appears to find in
spection of post offices in Pennsylva
nia a very important matter just now.
—Penrose has again called the
North American's story a tissue of
lies.
—Harrisburg Republican club mem
bers will give their reception to the
candidates to-night.
—One and a half hours. Only that
to spare for Harrisburg. And at the
tall end of the tour, too. Oh, ColoneJ,
be more generous.
—The Patriot prints the fact that
the Colonel is to be here only ninety
minutes on page 5 to-day.
—lt is also announced by the Mc-
Cormick paper that the Colonel will
"give a smashing blow." Everyone
ought to get some of the "blow." It's
the last.
—The scheme of the Democratic
machine to force Democrats to vote
as they enroll has been seen through
in many districts. Many men who en
rolled and registered as Democrats will
cut McCormick as a matter of prin
ciple.
—Lybarger and Burgoon on the
same platform for McCormick. No
wonder his stock is going down in the
home town.
—Dean Lewis appears to have also
dealt "a smashing blow."
—lf there is anything wrong with
schools of Pennsylvania as McCormick,
who always went to private schools,
charges In his speeches, Dr. Brum
baugh is just the man to straighten
it out. '
—President Wilson has written .1
letter endorsing Palmer. Good night,
A. Mitchell.
—Penrose says the "charges"
against him are thrown in just to
back up the deal of the Bull Moosers
with the Democrats.
—Doc Kreider is finding the air
frosty hereabouts. Weather is not
good for Bull Moose candidates who
make alliances with low tariff Demo
crats.
—Roosevelt spoke yesterday at Erie
and strongly urges Pinchot's election.
—McCormick's prosperity speeches
in Sharon where hundreds of men are
idle create a suspicion that someone
mixed the speeches.
GIVE BUSINESS A CHANCE
[From the New York Sun]
The Hon. Oscar W. Underwood to
Mr. Wilson:
"We have opened the way to fairer
business conditions and established on
a firm foundation individual liberty
and business freedom for our people.
"I believe we can now look forward
to an era of peace with all foreign
nations and prosperity for our people
at home as the crowning success of
your great administration of the gov
ernment of the country."
Opinions differ as to fairer business
conditions, more firmly founded indi
vidual liberty and business freedom
created by the statutes of this Con
gress. As for prosperity, it is needed
mightily and may it come quick! A
condition precedent of its arrival is
that Congress and the Executive inter
fere with business no more. Good or
bad, helpful or bungling, let business
virtue by act of Congress go no fur
ther. The lawmakers have had a long
seuson. Now give business a chance.
Let it alone! Tangle It In no more
official nets, give It room and leisure
to get on its feet.' Enough and too
much of lawmaking. Now for money
making.
THINK OF IT
[Columbia Independent.]
Pinchot's platform denounces Presi
dent Wilson and everything Demo
cratic, yet there are Democrats who
think Palmer would be doing the right
thing by getting out of Pinchot's road
so they could vote for the man and the
platform that are the very antithesis
of Democracy. The same thing can
be said of the congressional fiasco In
this county.
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Plain Letters by a Plain Man
Messrs. Vance C. McCormick and A.
Mitchell Palmer.
Gentlemen:
The minority party of the nation,
filaced in power through a division
n the majority party, passed a
traiff law which it claimed would I
reduce the cost of living. It, did
not reduce the cost of living as
every laboring man knows by sad
experience, but it did reduce the
revenues of the Government far
below even the guess made by the
crude theorists who framed the
law. An income act. to supply the
deficient revenue, also failed to
come up to the expectations of its
authors.
Then, having already sorely taxed
the patience of the common people
of our land. Congress, at the Presi
dential mandate, began promiscuous
taxation on about everything in
sight, yugar-coat it as you will, all
these taxes must be paid ulti
mately, either directly or indirectly,
by the laboring men of our nation.
Would It not have been more be
coming to have instituted "that
economy which befits a democratic
government." as promised in the
Baltimore platform, instead of con
tinuing the career of reckless ex
travagance which has characterized
the present Democratic national
Government?
Part of these taxes being wrung
from the people goes to pay
000,000 to Colombia on the claim
founded on neither justice nor
honor. Colombia tried to black
mail the I'nlted States and failed.
Now a Democratic Government
hands that nation $25,000,000 of the
people's money and an abject
apology for building the Panama
Canal.
Is this "the economy which befits
a democratic government?"
When the Colombian treaty,
made by Secretary Bryan and en
dorsed by President Wilson, was be
fore the Senate committee 011 for
eign "elationji. Theodore Roosevelt
requested permission to appear be
fore that committee.
In bis letter to Senator Stone,
chairman of that committee, he
stated: "As President of the Unit
ed States throughout the negotia
tions, first with Colombia and then
with Panama in regard to building
the Panama Canal. 1 had full
knowledge of every transaction
and was responsible for all that
was done."
And of this Colombian treaty
Colonel Roosevelt said in a state
ment issued from Oyster Bay, July
2, 1014, "the payment, if made,
will be a naked payment of belated
blackmail, and the mere proposal to
make It an outrage on the honor
and a heavy blow to the interests
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY NEWS DISPATCHES
YEARS AGO TO-DAY OF TH E CIVI L WAR
[From the Telegraph, Oct. 21, 1864] [From the Telegraph, Oct. 21, 1864]
To Speak at Lebanon Sheridan's Victory
The Rev. J. Walker Jackson, of t, •>[> TI,»
this city, will give an address at Leb- Lcdar Lreek " oct — The Nlctor >
anon this evening. here over the enemy is the largest on<
General Sheridan has had over them
Flag at Half Mast
The flag over the Capitol was placed
at half-mast by Mr. Stees, Superin- Militia DiHbumls
tendent of Public Grounds and Build- Cai oct 2 0.—The militia has dis
ings. This was done in honor of Gen- . . . . „ , , .. , .
ej-al Birney, who fell at Cedar Creek handed as danger of a rebel attack ii
yesterday. believed to be over.
SUCCESSFUL MEN
You may hear or read about the remarkable suc
cess of some man and attribute it to luck. To be
honest with yourself you must acknowledge, how-
ever, that the average lucky man makes his own
luck.
He is prepared to welcome opportunity because
of his substantial savings account.
Open an account in this institution to-day and
begin the accumulation of YOUR "Opportunity"
fund. We invite small as well as large deposits.
of the American people."
Why was this $25,000,000 squan
dered?'
ONE OF THE COMMON FEOPL.K.
|' A POLITICAL FABLE "
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The people of a great country hatl
for many years employed to carry
their burdens of government a big,
strong, patient Elephant. By reason of
his great strength and his steady, reg
ular pace, coupled with the elephant's
high order of intelligence and natural
ability to select ground that afforded
firm and solid looting, progress
seemed so easy and so safe that the
people began to grow impatient and
demand more speed—a shorter cut
and a faster pace to the goal'post of
the millenium. In casting about for
a new beast of burden a Bull Moose
with much strength and more speed
was offered, but, while admitting many
good points in this animal, the people
feared, and rightly so, that speed
would be obtained at the expense of
safety. A loud and noisy '"Jackass"
was next proposed, it being claimed
that he had strength and sufficient
speed for the task. He was guaran
teed to carry a "reasonable" load any
where and by paths and byways that
Wt'i'e too dangerous for the Elephant,
but easily passed over by such a.
"light weight" as the Ass. He had
much experience in treading over soft
ground, having browsed in the wilder
ness of "Hat money," fed on the silver
thistle of IK to 1, and found his way
out of the Low Tariff swamp in 1912,
True, he knew nothing of foreign
countries, but a little thing like th«
balance of the world didn't amount to
much as against the United States. The
burdens of government being trans
ferred to the Donkey, he immediately
kicked all reservation on the Panama
Canal to the four winds and made ri
break for the swamps of Low Tarifl
and then contented himself witli
braying.
Lobby! Conspiracy of business
men! Foreign War!
Meanwhile the country is some dis
tance back of the place attained be
fore the transfer andjs making stren
uous efforts to retransfer the load ol
goods to tlie patient Elephant.
Of morals you can take your choice:
The more haste the less speed. Bettel
be safe than sorry. Still waters run
deep.