VOL. XIII. NO 24 <524,000—544,000 o <* v Which Do You Prefer • ? \ The average man earns about Si, IOO a year. H <?r / works 40 years and earns a total of $44,00 in a life V \ time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or 112 J S6OO for a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a I V life time. The difference between $44,000 and $24- 112 J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a ? \ practical education in dollars and cents The in-C vcreased self-respect cannot be measured in money. J % Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when J V the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V \ ton, Pa., can give you an education that will makeX 1 high salaried man o( you ? No matter what line of\ / work you care to follow, this great educational In-Q x stitution can prepare you in your spare time and r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our r \ local Representative will show you how you can V r triple your earning capacity. Look him up today, 112 V He is L ? C. IF 1 . ZBIR/EHSriNT A IST, 3 O. I. S. Representative. TO WAND A, PA. V^ HARDWARE.? No Place EficlT this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD. HEATERS; ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a flue Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samiiel Qole^usfiorc,ra. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., """ » 313 Pine Street, 2 WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Concerning Pall sSaifs 1 here is u great demand and sale this season lor medium priced Tailored Suits. We are making a specialty of this class of Suits and can show more styles than you would expectto see. While we show a good line of the medium price Suits we have some handsome gowns in the finer and more expensive grades. THE NEW FURS KID GLOVES Are here. Our showing is the beet Of course you will want new Kid in years—every piece was carefully sel- Gloves togo with the new suit. We are ected from only the best of skins. New showing an excellent line of Kill (iloves boas and fancy neck pieces with muffs to a splendid range of colors. We have match in all kinds of furs that will be 'he (iloves to match your new gown, stylish this season. They are at the right price. Wool Dress Goods Wave you given them their share of attention? Is the Winter dress still un boujjht ? Our assortment of plain and fancy mixed fabrics is now at the best. Of course you expect to find the prices right, so will say nothing about them. CHILDREN'S COATS WASH FLANNELS rrn haVt 'u| US ! r r ei r l ' ot 0< Not ,he old-fashioned heavy weights, Children s VVinter Coats. Ihey come in but fine woven fabrics in new Good Warm Blan Bither'white or colored, or fancygplaids, in all qualities. You Jean not go wrong in buying your Winter if you want the best qualities your money will buy. Shopbell Drygood Company. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News nein. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 1908. CANADA MENACE | TO OUR FARKESS . Pennsylvania Grangers Vialiy Concerned In the Tank PENROSE'S STRATEGIC POST : As Leading Member of the All-fowep ! ful Financial Committee of the I United States Senate, the senior Senator Will Bo An Important Fac tor In Protecting the Varied Inter ests of the Keystone State. [Special Correspondence/ Harrlsburg, Oct 20. Attention has been directed in tho discussion of the issues of the presi dential campaign to the vital interest the farmers of Pennsylvania, and in fact of every state in the Unio*, have in the conWuuance of the present sys tem of a protective tariff. The wonderful strides made by Can ada in the development of htr agri cultural interests, and the rajldly in creasing growth of her povAilatlon. have been the subject of comment by orators who have sought to impress the farmeiM of the United States with the fact that they, probably more than any other class, are concerned in the success of the Republican party, which means that whatever changes shall be mada in the tariff, they slmll be made along the lines of protection to Ameri can interests. Thirty millions of people, many of them agriculturalists, will shortly con stitute tho population of Canada, and the great output from tho tfcnadian farms will come in direct competition with the products of Pennsylvania farms, of New York farms and of the farms of the other states. Unless there shall be a protective tariff, the American farmer, who ia used to the comforts and many of the luxuries of life, will be in direct rom petlti-rn with the who, while thrifty, does not have anything like the enjoyments of home life that are possessed by the farmers in the United States. Penrose's Important Position, Not only the presidency, but con gress, must be won to insure to tho American farmer, as well as the Amer ican manufacturer and workingnn.n, a continuance of the protecti-ve tari.f. In Pennsylvania there is a legisla ture to elect, which in January next will name a successor to United Siatt3 Senator Boies Penrose. Senator Penrose occupies an im portant position in the United States senate. He is the first Pennsylvnnlan in many years who has been appointed on the powerful committee on finance. Neither (juay nor Cameron was on this committee. Penrose was given a position on It immediately after his last re-election, and he is now one of the senior mem bers of the body. It is not improb able that before long he will be filling the chairmanship of this committee. Aldrich, the present chairman, is talk ing about retiring from the senate. The secoud ranking member. Burrows, of Michigan, may encounter difficulties in being re-elected on account of the peculiar political conditions in the state. Tho third member, Piatt, of New York, will not be a candidate for re election, so that Penrose, who conies next, will be moved up to the head of the committee In accordance with precedent in the senate, where senior ity is always considered in the ranking of members of committees. With Penrose in such a splendid strategic role, he will be in a position to guard Pennsylvania's interests, her granger, her industrial, her mining and her other inerests, which have enjoyed protection. All tariff legislation must come be fore the finance committee, and the final settlement of all disputed sched ules is referred to a committee on conference, three members of the sen ate and three of the house, and it Is fair to assume Senator Penrose will be one of these conferees, If not the chair man of the senate sub-committee. The importance of electing Republi can members of the legislature will appenl to every one, as well as the urgency of sending Republicans to the lower house of congress, where the Democrats hope to make gains, princi pally in the west. Pennsylvania farmers will be inter ested in an address recently ma:!e by John H. Landis. of Lancaster county. In which he emphasized the menace which Canada's industrial develop ment muut hold over American farm ing and dairy Interests, as long as there shall be any danger or a revision of the tariff under which the farmers of the United States have become so prosperous. Timely Talk to Farmers. In this speech, Mr. Landis, among j other things, said: i "ln the Democratic national plat [ form adopted at Denver we find no ln j timatlon even for 'lncidental' protec tion. but a sweeping declaratien for fcach reductions In the various sched ales as 'to restore the tariff to a reve nue basis.' This, of course, means the 'revenue basis' of the last Democratic tariff law; the Wilson law of 1594, which was not only a destroyer CI la | dus>ry. a nightmare to capital and an : fnemy to labor, but a most humiliating i failure even as a producer of reve- I nue. "The Republican party has upheld | mid defended the industrial policy of , protection since its more than I naif a century ago, because it favored the fostering and encouraging of en terprises and Industries through which profitable employment would be given to American labor. "This magnificent system of a pro tective tariff has been made as nearly I erffct as we And it today, through a varied experience of more than a cen tury. The enactors of every protective tariff law placed upon the statuto looks of the United States, from the tariff of 1789, during the administra tion of tieorge Washington, to the Dingley tariff of 1897, during the ad ministration of William McKlnley, were rewarded by having periods of prosperity enjoyed by all the people, following their legislative labors. "If we, as a nation, are to be healthy and strong, our people must be well ! fed, well clothed, well housed and be pnabled to enjoy at least the comforts of life. If our citizenship, the source t)f all political power in a free repub lic like ours, is to be pure and unim paired by unhealthful conditions as It | should be, the heads of families must have an opportunity to earn enough above the actual expenses of living to enable them to educate their children und to properly prepare them for the duties of American citizenship. Peril In Canadian Situation. "Comparatively few of our people ure acquainted with the agricultural situation as it exists today. They do | not know of the vast region of country lying to the northwest of us, which is most favorably adapted to the growth i>f American cereals not only, but to the successful growing of fruit, dairy and orchard products as well. "The vast provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Co lumbia have a sufficiently large area of rich and fertile soil to feed the world If need be. It reaches over 800 miles to the northwest of Winnipeg, and contains over 200,000,000 of acres. The soil has a depth of from eighteen inches to two feet of black loam of marvelous fertility, which will grow bountiful crops for at least twenty, possibly thirty years, without the ex penditure of a dollar for fertilizers. "This vast region of territory is fa vored not only by its natural richness la fertility, but by a most delightful climate. Within its limit will some (lay be grown over 5.000,000.000 bush els of wheat and other cereals. "The prevailing impression abroad is that the further north you go.the colder and moro severe a climate you must eonteud with. This is a mistake. You can to SCO miles northwest of Winnipeg and sea a country whose climate, soil and natural productive ness will produce most of the farm products grown in Pennsylvania. This may seem startling, but an eian (na tion Into the facts as they are will find this statement correct. It is true that spring seeding in this region can not be completed before May. anl therefore the shortness of the s; j as u would seem to operate unfavorably toward the growing and maturing o' the crop, but such is not the fact. Th: j one factor which operates strongly in favor of the growing of cereals and other crops is the length of the days. Gain a Day a Weelc. "In the United States we have only about sixteen hours of daylight dur ing the summer, while the region of which I speak has about nineteen hours. Eight hours of darkness has much more of a check upon the growth of plant life than five hours. There is a gain of about a day of sunshine in their favor every week during the summer months. "Railroads are being extended into all sections of this region. The compe tition among these, which is practi cally guaranteed under existing laws in the Dominion of Canada, will In all likelthood secure and continue rea sonable transportation rates. "Grain elevators and warehouses are springing up all over western Canada. According to a list furnished quite recently by the Manitoba g*in inspec tors division. Manitoba has 685 eleva tors and twenty warehouses, with a capacity of over 21,000,000 bushels. Saskatchewan has SOI elevators and eight warehouses, with a capacity of nearly 16,000,000 bushels. Alberta has 109 elevators and six warehouses, with a capacity of nearly 4,000,000 bushels, and British Columbia has three ele vators and two warehouses, with a capacity of about 176,000 bushels Thus it Is shown that these four young Canadian provinces alone have eleva tors and warehouses already with a capacity of about 40,000,000 bushels'. To th«M could be added the Ontario I Terminals elevators, with a capacity I of nearly 20,000,000 bushels. Immense Crop Report 3. | "According to the report of the de i partment of agriculture of Manitoba, ; the 48,000 farmers of that province raised about 40,000,000 bushels of : wheat last year; over els of oats; nearly 17,000,000 bushels of barley, and 428,000 bashels of flax, rye and peas. A tota' {train crop of almost 100,000,000 bushels In a very unfavorable year. The t'prlng was ex tremely cold and consequently unu sually late. "To this can be added over 5,000,000 : bushels of potatoes; nearly 120,000 tons of timothy and other cultivated i grasses; 4.800,000 pomi.ls of butter I and other dairy products (these dairy ; products wero marketed at $1,217,000), and poultry, which included 440,000 chickens, 73,000 turkeys and 40,000 I geese. These lndustr'es will in all likelihood show a very rapid growth this year because the season has been quite favorable and a very large yield | ;an be expected. A yle'.d of 150,000,000 bushels of grain in Manitoba this year should surprise no one. "Over 100,000 new home-seekers come into western Canada each year, and with this rate of growth among the tillers of the soli in these four prov inces, it is readily seen what serious competitors of ours they will soon be. Protection the Only Hope. "While we should entertain and cul tivate the most neighborly and friendly relations possible with our Canadian neighbors, we should most strenuously insist upon preserving our own mar kets for the farmers oj* our country. It Is the best market In tl>e world and it Is ours, and the s'.rong arm of American law should continue to hold It for us. "When once the time eomes that the farmers of the United States will be unable to produce all our people can consume, a reduction cf duties upon agricultural products m?y be consid ered, but until then there should be an Inciease of duties raihir than a re duction. "Even under existing duties $414,- 000,000 worth of agricultural imports came into this country last year, some of which we should produce ourselves. Of these many millions worth were Im ported from Canada, a considerable portion of which were competitive agricultural products. If under exist ing law the Canadian farmer sells $30,- 000,000 worth of farm products la the markets of the United States, what an Invasion of cheap firm products grown on the cheap lp.nd of western Canada could we expect if the Dingley duties were reduced? "Open up the flood gales and let the free farm products of Canada In and you will witness an agricultural para lysis such as this generation of farm ers has cot yet experienced." Governor Stewart Believes in Good Roads. Governor Stewart in his address at the Ilughesville fair had the follow ing to say on the subject ot good roads: The history of any place, state or nation is comprised in its highways—the means of communi cation and transportation. Good mads are an advancement of civiliz ation. One does not usually see a dilapidated farm on a good highway. The telephone and rural free de livery are important aids in the de velopementof country life and prop erty, but the good road is paramount. A good highway by a farm increases its value and improves its appear ance and attractiveness. lam pleas ed to learn that in the county of Ly coming the campaign fur gnod dirt roads has been waged with satis factory results. The split-log drag method advocated by federal and state authorities has been used to good advantage. "The great wear and tear is on our thoroughfares. Ninety per cent, of the road travel is on a veiy small percentage of the total milage of roads throughout the state. Grad ually rebuild and rock-surface the main road from the principal centers until they form a system of high ways properly built and surfaced, i believe poor roads arc our worst form of extravagance. They do no body any good. "As the backbone fur the system of state highways, the people's state road, proposed to extend from the Ohio valley to the seaboard between the cities of Pittsburg and Phila delphia, has been recci ed with pop ular favor. This highway should be in the interest of the greatest num ber. Thus populous centers will be passed through touching important cities representing a county popu. iation of more than 50 per cent, of the entire population of the common wealth. No other line for a maine road can be found which would 75C PLR YEAR reach so large a proportion of the state's population or which would serve su many purposes. "The object of the proposed peo ple's state highway is utility. It should afford ready means for high way transportation from the rural districts to the adjacent urban cent ers of importance and also ajcontinu ous way for through travel across the state. It should serve as an ex ample of road building through the commonwealth. It should be the backbone of a system of lateral stale roads. The maintenance and cost of such a highway is of importance a in I with this in mind the one great aim in construction should be to build the foundation to last. Only the surface should wear out, and need to be replaced. The grades, draninage, foundations and style of road should bea permanent accomplishment. The perishable portions of the road should be the surface only." Lyman 0. Harvey Passed lo His Fine:! Reward., iyman Harvey died at his home in Laporte township Sunday night, altera prolonged illness of several years. He was aged about 40 years, For nearly a year Mr. Harvey was unable to leave his bed, being alllict ed with rheumatism, which settled about the muscles of his heart and took him peacefully away. Mr. Harvey was well liked by all who knew him. He was a devoted husband and a kind arid loving father, but the greatest of all he was a man. He believed in the brother hood of man and that those who scat tered flowers in the pathway of his fellowmen and who let into the dark places of life the sunshine of human sympathy and human happiness, were following in the footsteps of his Master. In his well and active years lu l was progressive and a hajd worker. Being one of the News Item's most pleasant callers whenever he visited the county seat. It is with regret that we arc,called upon to chronicle his early demise - Besides a devoted wife he leave -2 daughter and 3 sons. We deep ly sympathyse with these mourners but we can only remind them thai lie is not dead, he is only sleeping— resting after a well spent life here Behind the storm cloud always lurk - the rain bow. Darkness precedes the dawning, and out of the black ness of night comes the sunshine and joy of the day. And so, from the beauty of his life, take an inspira tson and go forth to live as he lived, so that when the summons come you may say as he doubtless felt, "All is well" The funeral services were held at the residence Thursday morning. Interment at the Nordmont ceme tery. The Sullivan county Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold the first County Institute of the year in the M. E. church at Forks ville Wednesday Oct. 2Kth. 1 DOS. Afternoon session at 1:30, meeting of county executive committee at I o'clock. Evening session at 7:30 o'clock. One of the special features will be a "Department symposium" in tV»< I afternoon, during which time each of the county Superintendents will !<' given three minutes to tell of tin past and future work of their respect ive departments. "A W. G'. T. U. Hound Table," good music, and a report by our deb - gate, Mrs. Ida Williams of Wheel* ■■ ville will bea part of the evening's attraction. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Pastors, Sabbath school work ers, other temperance societies and all friends of the cause are earnestly requested to co-operate with us in this great moral conflict. Sarah A. Huckell Co. Pres. Lewisburg, Oct. lo.—Thje students of Bucknell university have ofgan ized a Bucknell Republican club. Sixty-seven members were enrolled, and the following officers were ele. - ed: President, L. E. Jones of X.Y . vice president, Harry Smyth, <T Nanticoke Pa.; secretary an I treas urer, H. U. Hunter, of Oil city, l' i , Wm. Baldwin, Alfred ('arev and Thomas Brackeu constitute the ad visory board.
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