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The House of Liberal Credit
V.
Rothert Credit is known all over this section for its great liberality. It is good
to use because so many use it. It makes it easy for all the people to own beautiful
furniture and gives us such a tremendous volume of business that we can sell for
lower prices and still give you your own time to pay.
A careful consideration and comparison of prices will convince you.
Chiffonier
jjv fonier with fiiH swell w J
$17.50 ;jdbir ° dt;
\ ictrolas sold on i \i * * > i
~ , i , , Large Mission Couch, 31 inches wide, v'j
the club plan at nQ • , i r i i ± i ,
„ 7b inches lone, polished quartered oak
prices from n 7 , , ,
frame; full steel construction; covered
sls tO S2OO with mule skin, which is CIQCQ
«nt/ iu guaranteed tor o years. .. t ■ *»«vw Xoe bottle.
You Cannot Afford to Miss These Values in Our
Carpet Department
Bigelow Axmiuster Rugs, 9x12 size. Tapestry Brussels Rugs, 6x9 size;
beautiful oriental patterns; $30.00 value $ll.OO value at $8.25
at T j' i'' T5 i' ii" "nVo ' \$ 24 - 50 Fiber Rugs, 9x12 size; $9.50 value
Body Brussels Rugs, 9x12 size. Per- a f cj gQ
sian and small figured designs; $26.00 p p,,„1 n.'io !• d.- \
value at . .$22.50 . lt ( " ass Ru *»- 9xl " »»l ?7 ' ao
Ta]>estrv Brussels Rugs, size 9x12 ' ''' * V> '' &
and seamless; $14.00 value at . . SIO.OO . Brussels Rugs, 27x04 size; $2.50
Wool and Fiber Rugs in Green, Blue a tue at .... $1.89
and Brown, size 9x12; $9.50 value at " °°l R ll gs, 36xi>6 size; SI.OO value
$7.50 at 59£
China Matting Rugs, 9x12 size; $5.00 Rubber Mats, 16x28 size; 75c value
value at $3.50 at 39^
Japanese Matting Rugs, 6x9 size; Linoleum Mats, 12x12 size; 25c value
$3.50 value at $2.00 at 19^
OUR LIBERAL TERMS: ft
SI.OO monthlv on SIO.OO y# fvliV\ L MflttifljfS
$2.00 monthlv oil $20.00 Jl Ijllll \ll |\
$4.00 monthly on $50.00 *l*Vl\\)\VJ
Special terms on larger amounts. I 312 Market Street 1 40 yards in roll » •• • * U.UI
GOVERNOR TELLS
OFJPTION ISSUE
Continued From Ftmt I'flge.
worthy the splendid traditions of a
free and virile citizenry.
His Obligation to the People
"As a candidate for a public office 1
I accepted this concept of service>
and unhesitatingly declared my belief i
that the people were able and willing'
to settle the question of the regula
tion of iiquor traffic for them
selves. I so declared in language as
plain and as cogent as I knew how to '
use. Xo on? la this Commonwealth
could fail to understand my position |
011 county local option. I reiterated
niy position on all occasions. I wrote
it in my personal platform. I repeated
it before my party in its great state
convention at Pittsburgh. I urged it at i
the political meetings throughout the I
State. I believed the people wantet j
it. I still so believe. It was then and !
is now a matter of conscience with me.
"In spit* of the false friends of j
the cause, who abused me roundly and
sought to discredit me, I was elected
tin that issue. Aud I hold to the rath- j
<~r commonplace principle that a pre- i
flection pledge is a post-election obli- j
Ration. F count it highly culpable to!
promise things to secure an office and!
then fail to do them when in office. Pre
cisely what I stood for as a candidate
I stand for now that I have been
placed in office. Failure to keep faith
■with the people is an unpardonable
political blunder. Moreover, to accept
oid in a campaign with an assurance
implied or stated of certain action in
office is wholly wrong. I came to this
office unfettered, and unpledged. I am
free to do the things that are right, that
the people want, that the welfare of
Hhe State requires. Xo person, no
agency can influence me to do other-'
wise. What is good for the people
must be good for a political party. It
has no other warrant to be.
Think Williams Bill Fair
"The issue now joined is a plain
and fair one. The Williams local op
tion bill is, I submit, a perfectly fair
and reasonable measure. It is not a
'wet' or 'dry' measure. Only falso
men and ignorant men will hold this.
The whole issue is, 'Shall the people
themselves have the right once in three
years to decide for themselves whether
or not licenses shall issue for the sale
of intoxicants in the several counties
of Pennsylvania!' If you believe in
the rule of the people, if you can trust
the people, if vou are a real American,
you cannot deny the fairness of this
proposition.
' • This is not an issue to persecute
any one. It has nothing to do with
the question of prohibition as such.
It is solely and avowedly a submit
ting of a mighty question directly to
the people. What right have the
delegated representatives of the peo
ple to deny the people a right that is
as fundamental as that by which they
choose delegated representativest If
the people are not to be given this
right, by what reason are they given
any right f They rule in this country
and giving them their own is giving
what we cannot justly deny.
Relation to the Judiciary
"This question is not a partisan
one. It ought never to have become
a political issue. It is bound to work
harm and not good to any political
party espousing it. The selection and
election of public servunts ought never
to hinge upon this traffic. The day
has come when a party can stand for i
and survive. From across the sea, from
the penitentiaries, and from the hearts
of the loyal people of this great State
one can readily hear the cumulative de
mand, let this issue out of party con
cern, let it be with the peopie. They
can and they will settle it better than
we can.
"The granting of licenses has in
many counties worked harm to the
judiciary. Men are chosen judges not
on the basis of their fitness to be
the great bulwarks of justice but upon
—Grip—
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey
is the best remedy and preventive
for grip, coughs, colds, pneumonia
and lung troubles.
druggists,"grocers
and dealers in fiylfr
Full Quarts p( .fQEgsftj
$1.25; Commer- V J
cial Quarts /
The Duffy Malt Whiskey Co.,
Rochester, N. Y.
HARRISBITRG STAR-INDEPENDENT. WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 7. 1915.
the question whether or not they will
grant licenses. No judge should bo
obliged to deal with this issue. His elec
tion and his official life should be as
far removed from the license situation
as our love for a pure judiciary can
secure. Every attorney in Pennsylva
nia is an officer of the court, he ought
to be in the front of this contest to
protect the judiciary of our county
courts from the incubuse of this non
judicial service.
'' If we love this great Commen
ts ealth as we shoultt; if her history is
our conscious pride and her future'our
definite concern, I am confident we
should lie free enough, brave enough,
fair enough, just enough, to enact this
law and give the people the oppor
tunity to act for themselves on this
matter. They can settle it and settle
it right."
The Governor then went to an over
flow meeting in the Grace Methodist
church, where he delivered a similar
speech. Among the speakers who pre
ceded the Governor wag E. Z. Wallow
er, of this city, who wag one of the ac
tive workers for the option cause
throughout the day. The several thou
sand visiting local optionists from
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other
cities, left for their homes late last
night. |
HISSES AND CHEEKS DURING
THE LOCAL OPTION DEBATE
The hearing on the local option (bill
by the Law and Order Committee of
the House of Representatives came to a
close about 5 o'clock last evening, the
committee taking no action on the bill,
deferring it onti> to-morrow. Toward
the last great disorder developed at the
hearing and several times Chairman
Williams had to call for order or to re
buke the advocates of tlhe bill for hiss
ing, jeering and hooting those who
spoke against it. -- «
Father J. J. Curran, of Wilkes Barre,
who was speaking when the Star-Inde
pendent re>port closed yesterday, as
serted small faith in the'courts in the
matter of granting liquor licenses, and
said that many witnesses who swore
that saloons were necessary in streets
or localities where many saloons alreadv
existed simply committed perjury.
It was following the clergyman from
Wilkes-Barre that the Rev. Mr. Van-
Bonsty of Philadelphia, was introduced.
Mention of his name as a speaker
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Well Known Politician Nearly Bald
Mow Has Mow Growth of Hair
Telia H«% He Did It
A western politician, well known on
account of his baldness and his reftdv
wit snrpriseed his friends bv appearing
with a now growth of hair. Many of
his friends did not know hiin, and
others thought he had a wig. On be
ing asked h/>w he did it, he made the
following statement: "I attribute the
growth of mv hair to the following
simple recipe which any ladv or gen
tleman can mix at home. To n half
pint of water add 1 oz. of Bay Rum. a
small bos of Barbo Compound and "4
oz. of Glycerine. Apply to the scalp
two or three times a week with the
finger tips. It not onlv promotes the
growth of the hair, but removes dan
druff. scalp humors and prevents the
hair from falling out. It darkens
streaked, laded, gray hair and makes
the hair soft and glossy. These ingre
dients can be purchased at anv drug
store at very little cost and mixed at
home. —Adv.
against local option was the signal for
immediate hisses.
Temporary quiet was restored, but
it lasted only a very few minutes, and
ail decorum again was shattered in a
storm of borths and hisses. They were
insistent and recurring all through the
address, in which the Lutheran pastor
said, in part:
"As a minister of the gospel of
Jesus rhrist, my life is devoted to the
furtherance ot good, moral character,
to the cleansing of my community from
sin and crime; to tJie development of a
spirit of temperance and sobriety in
all things, according to the tenets of
Christ and St. Paul, however, and not
according to the tenets of modern apos
tles and false prophets."
Here he launched into an attack on
Billy Sunday, saying:
Attacks "Billy" Sunday
"Gentlemen, there is no gainsaying
the fact that the Billy Sunday serum
of hate has been used extensively to
irceulate the people of this State" for
the time being. This gospel of hate,
which he so successfully and with fiend
ish delight preached and gesticulated
to the gaping, sensation-satiated crowds
of this State lies at the foundation of
all attempts to make this country a
Puritan government, with all the detest
able practices of the medieval ages."
When James M. MfSparren, head of
the State Grange, was introduced it was
announced his time was cut to ten min
utes to even up a score infringed by
other speakers, but he crowded into
that brief inteival arguments that
brought howls of delight and approba
tion from the local optionists.
He characterized Von Bosse's speech
"the bitterest arraigument I ever have
heard, and a satir-s on prohibition."
And then he added:
"If local option is all that the op
ponents say against it. I can't for the
life of me see why they fear putting
that issue to a popular vote. They
come here and use every trickery of
oratory in an effort to defeat this ques
tion, which is a simple one of whether
the people shall have a eihauec to de
cide the liquor issue for themselves in
their respective county.
"They recognize that in legislative
control of tho liquor question they have
a privilege which they would not have
if the issue was in the hands of the
whole people. Liquor is essentially a
locirt problem and should be decided by
the communities themselves".''
Question of Economies
He turned to a discussion of the al
leged waste o'f grain and other food
products used in the manufacture of al
coholic drinks, and declared that if any
question of compensation is to be con
WHEN "BILLY' SUNDAY BEGAN HIS WAR ON THE DEVIL IN PATERSON
sidered, it should be in the nature of
th# general compensation that would re
sult from putting these products into
food instead of deleterious drink. He
would advocate, he said, an appropria
tion for experimental stations for dis
covering new commercial uses for alco
hol. Denatured alcohol, he said, is 'al
ready of great value and cau be had by
extracting it from materials now fed to
hogs, leaving such foods of higher value
for the extraction of the alcohol.
"Alcohol," he declared, "should he
made the handmaiden to civilization,
but it should not be permitted to de
bauch men's bodies and damn men's
souls.''
Robert J. McGrnth, representing the
Iron City Trades Council, of Pitts
burgh, affiliated witlh the American
Federation of Labor, was the next
speaker and opposed tihe bill. He pro
tested against it, he said, in the name
of organized labor, dwelt upon the per- j
sonal liberty phase which other speak- ;
ers hnd elaborated upon, and declared j
prohibition, effected under a local op-.
tion law, would throw thousands of men |
out of employment.
'"The thousands of members of our
organization," he said, "protest
aguinst being deprived of their means
of livelihood by sumptuary legisla
tion. 1 ' »
lie was followed by City Treasurer
MeCoach. of Philadelphia. Vare leader
for the Thirtieth ward, whose address
lasted not more than three minutes and
which he summed up with the statement
that if Congressman Barchfeld's state
ments were correct, the fight already
was won.
"The only question before this Leg
islature," he said, 1 "is whetiher the
question of locnl option shall be sub
mitted to the people. It is time to take
the liquor question out of politics.''
Swift Sums Up
Joseph E. O'Brien, of Scranton, de
clared that the State already his an
effective local option law in the applica
tion of the Brooks high license law. lie
disputed FaMier Curran's statement
that all parties hnd declared for local
c»ption. and said the Legislature was
bound to defeat it for the very reason
that the one party that did not oven
mention it in is platform was over
whelmingly eleced, "wiping all other
candidates oft' the map."
This State had a local option for the
three years following 1872, he said, and
he characterized that as "the first such
la>v, and probably, the last."
The summing up was left to Charles
F. Swift, of Beaver, a member of the
Legislature >n the last session. He
cited Lincoln's "government of the
people, by the people, for the people,"
and was loudly applauded.
"I stand 'here this afternoon to
challenge the right of the saloon to
exist, for no other business so conduct
ed could exist," he said "I .isk what
service has the saloon ever brought to
humanity, for service is what is de
manded of every other business, every
otiber industry."
"We are ready," s4id he, coming
I to the close of his speech and of the
[ afternoon's hearing, "to fight this bat
! tie to the bitter end—to fight unil we
' have accomplished he local option
; which is in harmony with our whole
j system of government."
It was just 4.35 p. m. \Wien he sat
I down and Chairman Williams an
! nouneed the meeting adjourned.
| Immediately there were cheers and
: shouts for Governor Brumbaugh, 'out
| when it became apparent that the Chief
! Executive had no intention of making
I an address the crowd slowly begnu tu
r W. W. STRAUSBAUCH
MECHANO-THERAPIST
Removed from 349 S. 13th St. to
Rooms 308 & 300, No. 8 Market Sq.,
Trustee Building
None But Tree-Ripened Oranges and
Grapefruit Are Sold Under This Mark
Only nature con ripen oranges and grapefruit successfully—man's
efforts to imitate her processes always nave failed. Nature's way
is to ripen the fruit on the t*ee—she holds the oranges and grape
fruit there until they become sweet and juicy.
FkewtA •
The Florida Citrus Exchange Your guarantee is the mark—
markets only tree-ripened in red on boxes and wrappers—
The members are pledged to ■of the Florida Citrus Exchange,
leave their oranges and grape- ■ Booklet telling how to use
fruit growing on the trees until D citrus fruits mailed foi\four
nature has converted the acid il cents in stamps by Florida
into sugar and made the fruit ■ Citrus Exchange, (528 Citizens'
Bank Building, Tampa, Fla.
Mr. C. F. Welzel
Announces that he has opened a new and thoroughly
up-to-date ;
Merchant Tailoring Establishment
No. 11 South Third Street
5 Prices from $25.00 up—Unsurpassed workmanship. I
——w——maw— it—in wi—
file from the packed room in which the daily except Sunday, between 1 and
hearing had been held. .
Harrisburg Hospital advice and prescriptions to those un-
The Harrisburg Hospital is open able to pay for them.
ANCIENT PONY AND AGED OWNER
TO CELEBRATE
WttJER H-PMILUPS AND HIS.THIRTV-EIOHT vjAR OtO INDIAN POm7 ~~~"
Here is shown Walter H. Phillips, ninety-three years old, and Captain, a
little sorrel Indian pony, thirty-eight yeurs old, a couple of frisky old friends
of Oconto, Wis., who are preparing to celebrate their birthdays this month.
Both have been pronounced in the best of health and likely to live to see many
more anniversaries of their births. In the thirty-eight years of their com
panionship Mr. Phillips has sold Captain three times, in each Instance after a
runaway that Mr. Phillips considered too serious to be excused. But he has
always bought the Captain back in a few days, warned him to have better
6ense in the future and started off on the game old peaceful relations that ex
isted before the big offence. Captain has run away one hundred times in all,
so it will be seen that it takes a real runaway to bring about his sale.