FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TEN REASONS ASSIGNED BY INDEPENDENTS,
PROGRESSIVES AND REPUBLICANS FOR
SUPPORTING WILSON.
President Wilson has kept the United States out
of the most terrible war in the History of the World.
Patiently enduring criticism and abuse from hot-heads,
and partisans, he has asserted the essential rights of
American Citizens without sacrificing the lives of
American Soldiers.
I shall vote for Mr. Wilson because of all the
world's statesmen he has been most successful in serv
ing his country. I believe that a vote against him is a
vote against the best interest of America.
It cannot be denied that this is one of the most
critical periods in the world's history. Neither can it
be denied that the United States has ever been so pros
perous or so powerful. I should feel myself an ingrate
or a fool if I failed to sustain an administration that
had brought us so safely through such perilous days.
Under ordinary circumstances I should vote for
Mr. Hughes, but I dare not risk a change of pilots in
these critical times when we prosper so greatly while
the other powers are deluged in debt and death. The
United States is more prosperous under Wilson than
any nation has ever been in the history of the world.
Wilson finessed the United States into the enviable
position of holding the balance of world power, and my
admiration and gratitude is such that I would vote for
him against any American, living or dead.
" I am willing, no matter what my personal fortunes may
be, to play for the verdict of mankind/' P „ woodrow warn
THOUSANDS OF MINERS
HEARD PRESIDENT WHITE'S
SPEECH IN THE COUNTY
-
The Following Is One of the Speeches
Delivered by John P. White, President
of the Mine Workers of America, In
County, While En Route to Pittsburg.
The history of the United Mine Workers of America should be an in
spiration to every worker and to every true believer in social and industrial
justice. This organization, the greatest in the history of labor, has worked
wonders in securing improved conditions for its membrs. ' But it has done
much more. It has raised up men from a condition of subserviency little bet
ter than that of the slave, —it has carried the torch of freedom into Darkest
America, —it has created a concrete force for political and industrial de
mocracy that no power on earth can destroy.
Less than twenty-six years ago, easily within the memory of the
youngest member of the organization, the coal miner was not only in abject
poverty, but he dared not call his soul his own. Cheated out of the coal he
dug by petty pilferings at the company's scales, robbed of his wages by
"scrip" and "pluck-me" stores, facing death throughout every day's toil in
the unprotected, unventilated shaft or drift, denied the right of organization,
he was brow-beaten by company guards and coal and iron police to quench
the spark of rebellion that these conditions inevitably lighted in his breast.
None but the bravest dared talk of organization. Union meetings
were held at dead of night in abandoned drifts with every man sworn to sec
recy. Organizers were threatened Vith death and at times shot down in cold
blood. The mind of the public was poisoned by talk of anarchy, and no public
man cared or dared to lift his voice for justice.
By their own collective efforts alone, the miners have raised themselves
from this condition of serfdom to that of respect in the eyes of the whole
community. There are many today who hate the United Mine Workers be
cause of its very success, but there is none who does not respect it.
Much has been achieved, but even more remains to be accomplished
before the miners come into their own. But no one who has viewed the pro
gress of the last twenty-six years can doubt the early dawning of the day
when the miner will reap the reward in comfort, in freedom, and in security
to which his great part in the production of the world's wealth entitles him.
In 1890, the year when the United Mine Workers of America was
established, we find that the membership was 20,912. It now numbers more
than 400,000. In the past five years the membership has increased more than
125,000, and 1,055 local unions have been organized.
The work of organizing the unorganized and partially organized dis
tricts of the country, has secured for us the bitter opposition of the powerful
non-union interests. The persecution of our people in some sections where
our organization has engaged in industrial strife is without parallel. Par
ticularly do I refer to the great strikes of Colorado, West Virginia and certain
sections of Pennsylvania. But the steady entry of our movement into these
citadels of oppression is bearing fruit, and the opposition to the establish
ment of our union is gradually yielding to tthe enlightening influence of the
organization and wage increase and reductions in hours of labor are being
accomplished in the interest of these deserving fellow workers.
The United Mine Workers of America has wrought a wonderful change
in the life and environment of the miner and the accomplishments of the past
have been many and substantial, but the future holds in store for our people
great and lasting benefits. Having established the eight hour day univers
ally throughout the jurisdiction of our union and likewise the mine run sys
tem, we can well afford to turn our attention in the coming wage conference
to a further reduction in the hours of labor, for in my opinion such a move
is necessary if we are to conserve the economic and social welfare of our
vast membership. This is made almost essential because of the increased
use and introduction of machines. The records show that there are more
machines used in coal mining than at any time in our history. So wide
spread has become their use that pick mining in many districts* has become
almost a lost art.
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In the years 1913 and 1914 the annual production in both anthracite
and bituminous fields was as follows:
1913
Short Tons Value
Bituminous 478,435,297 $565,234,952
Anthracite 91,524,922 195,181,127
Total 569,960,219 $760,416,079
1914.
Short Tons Value
Bituminous 422,703.970 $493,309,244
Anthracite 90,821,507 188,181,399
Total 513,525,477 $681,490,643
There were 763,185 men employed in the coal mining industry in 1914,
of whom 179,679 or 23 6-10 per cent were employed in the anthracite mines
of Pennsylvania. There were in use in the coal mines of the United States
in 1913 16,373 machines, producing 242,421,713 tons of coal. In 1914 this
number was increased to 16,507 machines, producing 218,399,237 tons of coal.
Despite the depression that prevailed in 1914, reducing the total out
put of the mines, the machines in operation increased, as these figures will
show. I am, therefore, impressed with the fact that if we prepare our move
ment for the inauguration of the cardinal reform in our coming wage con
ference, we will be able to secure it, and its benefits will redound greatly to
the advancement of our people. This should result in an eight hour day
from bank to bank, or a seven hour day on the present basis.
Surely the great industrial conflicts that our movement has engaged
in in the past several years, and which I have touched upon here today, should
leave their lessons, and I believe they have. The far reaching effects they
have upon the welfare of the citizenship should prompt every one who is
actuated by a sincere desire to see the community progress, to do all in his
power to eradicate such conditions and everything should be done that it is
possible to do to exalt labor. Before we can reach that plane of understand
ing so much needed there must come a change in the relationship between
industry and mankind. It seems to me that the words' of Scott Nearing are
very appropriate at this time:
"Masters and Slaves."
"Was industry made for men or was man made for industry? If man
was made for industry, then it is just that industry should be the master and
man the slave. It is just that 500,000 men and women should be killed and
injured annually while they minister to the industrial deity; it is fair that wo
men toil long hours for a pittance; it is right that humanity write in agony
under the goad of the industrial taskmaster.
"If, on the other hand, industry was made for man. then it is just that
man should be the master and industry the slave. It is fair that any calling
which crushes men's bodies, destroys the souls of women and little children,
or takes a toll of life and joy greater than its contribution to the happiness
of the community, should be reformed or abolished. -
"Two thousand years ago Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and justified
His disciples—who had picked corn on the Sabbath day—in these words:
'The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.' The world
listens for the modern prophet who shall proclaim, 'lndustry was made for
man, and not man for industry.'"
A valuable bay horse owned by
Angelo Orlando, of South Bethlehem,
ran away and plunged headfirst into
a plateglass store window, breaking
its neck.
Sixteen bird houses made last ypar
by pupils of Brownsville school, Berks
county, are now tenanted by wre-s,
robins and bluebirds, and one by a
bumblebee.
Chauncey M. Dresser, formerly cf
Company M, Fourth Infantry, Bethle
hem. is appointed as dental surgeon
in the national guard and assigned
to El Paso.
Colonel Coulter, of the "Fighting
Tenth" regiment, in western
vania, urged universal military train
ing at a chamber of commerce lunch
eon in Pittsburgh.
Pleading guilty to having sold sec
ond-hand mattresses without having
them tagged as such, J. M. Oplinger
& Son, of Northampton, were fined $25
and costs on two counts.
Two more farms aggregating 170
acres will be acquired by the State
Institution for Feebleminded and Epi
leptics above Spring City, making 900
acres in all—7oo in Chester county
and 200 in Montgomery.
Thomas Valentine, of Douglassville,
who was in Admiral Farragut's flag
ship Franklin when she made a Euro
pean cruise in 1867, has retired from
the United States navy and purchased
a home in his home village.
Robert H. Skelton was appointed
rural mail carrier on Route No. 6 out
of Cambridge Springs, Crawford coun
ty. George W. Louthan was appoint
ed rural mail carrier on Route No. 1
out of Darlington, Beaver county.
Barber J. F. McGorry, of Nesque
honing, has received four horned
toads from Neil Gallagher, who is
with Company B, N. G. P., on the
Mexican border. The toads are thriv
ing and the climate seems to agree
with them.
The greatest tribute to President Wilson's states
manship is to be found in the fact that he asserted ev
ery essential right of the United States, while handi
capped with an inadequate army and navy.
Even if Mr. Hughes would tell us what he would
do were he President, I could not vote for him, because
these are not the times to give an untried man the
reins of the Government. We know what Wilson will
do by what he has done, and I am content with condi
tions in this country as they are.
Candidate Hughes said recently in a public speech:
"You couldn't get a decent protectionist measure out of
a Democratic Congress sectionally organized any more
than you could get a revival sermon out of a disorderly
house." Any man who can so far lose his head as to
insult half of his countrymen with such an uncalled
for and obscene comparison cannot be safely trusted to
conduct the niceties of diplomatic negotiations between
great nations.
In 1912 Justice Hughes said, "The man who, be
ing on the highest judicial tribunal, would consider
another office, is fit neither for the one he holds nor the
one to which he aspires." I agree with him, and shall
vote for Wilson.
I believe if Justice Hughes is successful that in
the future there will be many justices who, either con
sciously or unconsciously will write their opinion for
what they consider popular approval. And whether
they do or not, they will be suspected of doing so.
Therefore, I am in favor of not making the Supreme
Court the grooming ground for Presidents.
"PEACE WITH WILSON"
"WAR WITH HUGHES"
The eighty seventli annual grand
encampment of the Odd Fellows of
Pennsylvania and th 3 twenty thir l an
nual council of the Patriarchs Mili
tant was held at Chambersburg.
The Quakake Valley, Carbon coun
ty, the favorite haunt of the red men
before advent of the whites, still
holds pre-eminence as the greatest
field for Indian relics in Carbon coun
ty.
The fourteenth annual reunion of
the Southern District Associa ion of
G. A. R. Veterans was held in Sbii>-
pensburg, and the town was crew led
with hundreds of wearers of fadel
blue.
George W. Harrison, fifty yearn eld,
of Sharon, committed sui?i ie by 1 y
ing his head on a rail on the Penn
sylvania railroad track, in Wlea.l. al.
He was decapitated by a passenger
train.
James Ridgeway, driver for a Sal
vation Army industrial wagon at Nor
ristown, lost both legs, cut off by a
Pennsylvania railroad train, when h's
horse backed the wagon onto the
tracks.
The question of a central hlrh
school, with the bond issue necessa y,
will be voted upon by the district of
Lemoyne, Camp Hill, East
West Fairview and Wormleysburg, No
vember 7.
Miss Ruth >fier, a Bullskin town
ship teacher, was near death when the.
buggy in which she was driving to
school was struck by a Pennsylvania
passenger train near Connellsville.
The horse dragged the wrecked buegy,
with one wheel missing, into a fiel 1.
Miss Mier pluekily held to the reins
and escaped injury.
With a gunshot wound in the head,
the body of Mrs. Peter Bloom, thirty
years old, a former resident cf Mc-
Keesport, was found in a pool o* blued
in her home in Bovard', near Shipper
Rock. Detectives are working cn the
theory that the woman was murdered
by a former admirer, who, It is said,
visited the residence and disappeared.
Reports to the state departmnt of
agriculture show that the state's .buck
wheat crop this year will be less than
sixty per cent of last year anl that
the potato crop will not reach seventy
per cent of that of 1915, largely due
to weather conditions. It is also re
ported from many counties that the
threshing of wheat does not show as
many bushels per acre as last year in
some leading wheat raising counties.
Stockholders of the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis rail
road in Pittsburgh adopted by almost
unanimous vote the agreement for the
merger and consolidation of the Van
dalia Railroad company, the Pitts
burgh, Wheeling Kentucky Rail
road company, the Chicago, Indiana &
Eastern Railroad company, the Ander
son Belt Line Railway company, and
the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago &
St. Louis Railroad company.
SHERRIF'S SALES
„ B y virtue of certain writs of Pi. Fa..
Vend, Lt and Lev. Fa., issued out of ti.*
Court of Common Pleas of Indiana coun
ty and to me directed, there will be ex
posed to public vendue or outcry at tha
Court House, Indiana, Pennsylvania, on
Friday, Oct. 27, 1916
AT 1:00 O'CZ.OCK, P. VL,
the following described real estate, to-
AIJ ripht, title, interest and claim
of the defendant,
LAASSUNTA SOCIBTA ITALTANO DI
MUTLO SOCCORSO FHA ITALIANI •
IN ERNEST, PA.,
of, in and to all that certain niece, parcel
or lot of grounu situate in the township
of Washington, county of Indiana, Penn
sylvania. near borough of Creekslde.
Beginning at a post in the township
road; thence by lands of A. Howard's
heirs and along the said road south 27
1-4 degrees east 10.1 perches to Mtone*;
thence by land of same north 50 degrees
east 15.7 perches to stones; thence by
land of Snyder heirs north 27 1-2 de
grees west 14 degrees to a post near
a white oak; thence by land of J. Alc-
Featers south 39 degrees west 16.7
perches to the place of beginning, con
taining one acre and 29 perches, on
which the said claimant erected, built
and furnished, in a good, substantial and
workmanlike manner a one-story frame
structure known as a hall, of the dimen
sions of 80 feet by 30 feet, wall* twelve
feet high, with roof, partitions, doors,
windows, chimneys, to be used as a
lodge room.
Taken in execution at suit of M. L.
Carnahan, Lev. Fa. No. 34, December
Term, 1916. (jetty.
NOTICE—Any person purchasing at
the above sale will please take notice
that at least $lOO.OO (if the bid be so
much) will be required as soon as the
property is knocked down unless the pur
chaser is the only Judgment creditor, In
which case an amount sufficient to cover
all costs wll he required and the balance
of the purchase money must be paid
in full or receipt given by the judgment
creditor. No deed will be offered for
acknowledgment unless purchase money
be fully paid. The sheriff reserves the
right to return his writ "property not
sold for non-payment of purchase mon
ey.'
H. A. BOGGB, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Indiana. Pa., Oct. 4, 191&.
DR. C. J. DICKIE
•JENTISi
Room 14, second floor
Marshall building
INDIANA, PENN'A.
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