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VOLUME XXXVL
Large Crowd Enthusiastic
Over Dr. Lewis’s Address.
Notwithstanding the coldijevening
on 23rd, last Friday, a large audience
assembled at Meyers avenue and Cen-
tre street to hear political issues dis-
cussed, the Citizens band furnishing
the music.
The chairman of the meeting was,
Mr. W. H. Sanner of Somerset.
He read the list of vice presidents
and then announced the first speaker
of the evening, Hon. Jno. S. Weller,
Esq., of Pittsburg, who formerly rep-
The
spgaker rehearsed the record of Boies
Penrose, the Republican candidate
for congress which portrayed him as
the servant of the privileged classes
and his neglect of the workingman.
The record of Mr. Penrose in his pub-
fic acts and in his private life was
recited as unworthy of one aspiring
to any office. Mr. Weller was quite
forcible in his utterances, and his
short address was heartily received.
Dr. William Draper Lewis was then
introduced, the man of whom somuch
had been said both as an unequalled
candidate for the high office of chier
executive of the state and also the
one who in the interests of routirg
the forces of evil as exemplified in
Senator Penrose was willing to sur-
render his strong prospects of becom-
ing governor of Pennsylvania as the
way prejudiced against” any man or
his political opponents. He held up
to view simply the a as made by
Mr. Penrose and his associates during
a long period of years. So familiar
is the public with the political de-
bauches of Penrose, Bigelow and
‘| others that it seems useless to repeat
them here.
A very telling paragraph was made
on the number nine, in that it was
nine millions of a capital building
steal which the gangsters had appro-
priated and now they were putting
away nine millions from the fourteen
million highway fund. That the hon-
est voters can submit to this without
a revolt, seems strange. The remedy
is not far to find and that 1s to see
that such men who have proved them-
selves unworthy of the public trust
shall be continued no longer in power
Dr. Brumbaugh, as a former co-
worker with Mr. Lewis.in the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, was very polite-
ly handled by saying that the doctor
had never stood up for any advance
movement in reform in Philadelphia,
and that he lifted up no voice of pro-
test against the fact that his candi-
dacy was being boosted by the united
liquor interests.
Chairman Sanner at the close of
the remarks of Dr. Lewis ealled to
Progressive or Washington Party can-
angular contest in favor of a man and |
a party whose principles in the pres-|
ent political campaign, aside from the
tariff idea, are almost identical with
those of his own.
Dr. Lewis who is the dean of the |
Pennsylvania, is recognized as one of
the greatest authorities on law and of
statescraft in this country. He isa
speaker whose words carry with them
the idea of the sincerity of the man.
He spoke with such force and dis-
tinctness that all in the large crowd
to its outmost edges could hear his
message of truth. He seemed in no
| the front the three local candidates,
namely, Dr. Chas. J. Hemminger of
| Rockwood, who 1s the candidate for
the state senate in this district, and
who made a record in the assembly
for his staunch resistance of the gangs-
| ters’ tactics and always voted for
local option and and against the
domination of Penrose; Robt. Lobr,
candidate for the assembly asks to ke
returned on the like good record he
made; Jacob Miller, also the other
candidate for the assembly can roint
with pride to the fact that the action
of his, while county auditor saved to
the county nearly four thousand dol-
lars which a few days ago was re-
funded to the countv. 2
BRIEF SKETCH OF DR. HEMMINGER.
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CHAS. J. HEMMINGER, WASHINGTON CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATE.
Dr. Chas. J. Hemminger is present member of the Assembly from Som-
erset County, and has a notable record against Penrose, Bigelow and Booze.
He is thoroughly hated by the Penrose Liquor Gang, for they know by ex-
perience that he cannot be scared, driven or influenced.
He was called to the Governor’s office on different occasions and asked
to come across to the Gang, but even the Governor could not influence him
from the paths of right.
He voted for Local Option, State - Prohibition, Anti-treating and closing
of saloons on Sunday, and pledges to do likewise if elected.
All voters, regardless of party, that desire a man of experience and
character to oppose the Penrose Machine in the Senate should vote for Dr.
Chas. J. Hemminger.
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL
CONVENTION.
NOTICE
The Meyersdale Harp Orchestra is
!now ready and can furnish music for
The Fifteenth Auuual Convention |all engagements with instruments
of the United Mine Workers of Amer- | consisting as tollows:—First and sec-
jca ir session at Shenandoah this | ond violin and harp, first and second
week was attended by over 200 del-| cornet, trombone, clarionet, flute and
egates, representing 30,000 workers. | bass. ©. W BALDWIN,
The report of the Vice Presilent| Manager, Meyersdale, Pa.
showed many incipient. strikes set-| duff
tled and the organization and Articles too nu 1s to mention
ireasury in a more healthy Tcon-| at the Globe tr and Novelty
dition than inj years. | Store. ad,
MEYERSDALE.PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1914
FOR CONGRESS.
CHARLES H. HOOD.
We have all heard discussion with-
out end’ of the tariff and have suffer-
ing the constant agitation and changes
in the tariff laws consequent upon the
shifting of political power and while
said discussion and experience has
resulted in increasing the education
of the masses upon this subject of
taxation, the information available
has been largely technical and aca-
demie.
It is the intention in this article to
endeavor to give in the simplest pos-
sible manner a rather unusual view
of the tariff and its operation. Ibis
popularly supposed that the tariff tax
is represented by the amount of
revenue collected by the government
at the different ports of entry on
goods of foreign manufacture and on
raw stocks for use of our own manu-
ed the annoyance and distress attend- {
LOCAL INSTITUTE
AT SAND SPRING
Following is the program for the
Teachers Institute to be held at
Sand Spring school November 6th.
Song.
Address of Welcome—Nettie 8S.
Maust.
The teachers preparation—Dalton
CO. Handwerk.
How does a knowledge of the
growth of the body assist the study
of mental growth.—John Schrock.
The future value of thoroughness—
Lilly Seibert.
= Current Events—Sydney Lenhart.§}
‘What is the purpose and function
of the teachers meetings—Lloyd
Shumac.
‘What is the special value of histori-
| | cal and biographical material and
how should these be
—8. C. Witt. 4
How may the teacher §gainfand re-
tain the attention of the class—F. J.
Fike. Z : i
What duties does a teacher owe to
himself—Harry B. Saler.
How far should one be committed
to prearrange plans in teaching—Or-
pha Meyers.
Reading—Mary L. Gnagey.
How may the teacher come to vn-
derstand the nature of the pupil—
Esther Shumaker.
Essay — Sadie Schrock.
Resolved—That Foreign emigra-
tion should be further restricted by
imposition to an educational test—
Affirmative, Samuel Mosholder, E. R.
Hay. Negative—N. B. Hechler, A.
G. Maust.
All friends of education are cordi-
ally invited to ettend.
used in teaching
CIVIC LEAGUE.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Civic League will be held at the
home’ of Mrs. W. 8. Liyengood on
Col. Roosevelt and the principles
he espoused years ago are more pop-
ular with the public in general than
ever before. In his whirlwind trip
through the state, he 1s like the
whirlwind carrying everything be-
fore him On Tuesday five hundred
voters went in special trains from
various points in Somerset county to
Johnstown to meet the matchless
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NUMBER 1957
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Many Thousands of Pennsyl-
vanians Hear Roosevelt
man. There were 6,000 in the audi
torinm where he spoke and a big
overflow meeting at the station of
as many more, That was his 56th
birthday and a large cake was pre-
sented him bearing 56 candles.
The Colonel said that Mr. Pinchof
for the U. S. iSenate was going to
have a bigger majority than with
which he himself carried the state
two years ago. In his trip on Tuus-
day forty thousand people turn d
out to see and hear the man who put
into the mouth of the nation ‘A
Square Deal’’, and he has been try-
ing to make it a reaity.
His address in cogent, Roosevel-
tian terms might be couched in two
or three words, ‘‘Smash the Penrose
machine all along the line.”” Brum-
baugh was denounced not becauss of
his life and character but because of
his alliance with a man whose record
has been against the working-
man and for the privileged few and
in favor of others iniquitous measures.
HALLOWEEN ONE
DAY EARLIER.
Meyersdale is not only up to the
minute in all respects, but she is
going to be a little ahead this year
and that will be in her observance
of Hallowe'en one day earlier than |
the date in the calendar; this is to be
carried out at the behest of the City |
Mayor, Hon. Valentine Gress. So, |
boys and girls, young ladies and
DEMOCRATIC RALLY
LARGELY ATTENDED]
On Wednesday evening of this week
there was held at the Donges Opera
House a very gratifying rally of the
Democrats and their friends. Rev.
A. S. Glessner presided at the meet=
ing and made some very pertinent
and strong comments. The speakers
of the occasion were County Chair-
man Chas. W. Walker, Ernest Kooser,
young gentlemen, and all others, re- | Esq., both. of Somerset, L. C. Get-
member you are to perform artistic zinger of Pittsburg, and Wooda N.
and wierd stunts on Friday evening of | Carr, the present congressman from
this week instead of responding to
reason of all this isthat the mayor
and those associated with him in
Monday evening.
Mrs. Bruce Lichty, Secretary.
facturers, but this is not the case.
Under a high protective. tariff law,
such as the Payne-Aldrick enactment,
the revenues amounted to about four
hundred million dollars per year, but
it has been pretty well established by
experts in this line that the actual
tariff tax is about two billion, four
hundred million dollars. per year, of
which two billion dollars represents
the difference between what the goods
would sell for on a free trade basis
and what they actually sell for on a
high protective tariff basis.
Two thousand millions of dollars
per year—An immense sum—But to
this'we have no objection for the rea-
son that it enables us to maintain a
much higher level of wdges for our
workmen and protects our markets
against the invasion of foreign goods
manufactured at low cost by cheap
labor. What we object to is the un-
equal distribution of this tax and the
manipulation of same by connivance
between political leaders and the
large manufacturers thus enabling
them to turn what should be a fair
meastre of protection divided equally
between capital and labor into a vast
money making proposition. It is
pretty well agreed that about ninety
per cent of our industrials receive a
fair protection under the tariff laws
and that it is pretty evenly divided
between capital and labor. But how
about the other ten per cent? Let us
tke the Carnegie Steel Company for
example. If you will search the rec-
ords of this concern with the greatest
care, you will find that not over five
t illiop dollars of original cash capi-
tal ever invested in this concern,
yet they paid cash dividends of from
ten to forty per cent for twenty-five
years or more nct only on the original
cash capital, but also on a much
larger amount of capital increase by
the issue of additional stock dividends
and at the end of the period they had
accumulated enough property to sell
out to the United States Steel Com-
pany for five hundred million dollars
and the latter concern immediately
recapitalized the concern for approx-
imately one billion dollars.. I venture
to say that the price at which the
Carnegie Steel Company sold was ten
times greater than the total pay roll
for the whole period of twenty-five
years. Their profits in 1900, the year
of sale was forty million dollars Now
the question is how much protection
did labor get and how much went to
the Carnegie Steel Company? This
advantage was secured to the Car-
negie Steel Company by paying the
leaders of the Republican party, the
champions of protection to labor, for
so arranging the tariff that they could
maintain the price of their product at
sary to protect them against compe-
vition from Europe. In other words
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| they gave them what protection they |
a figure twice.as great as was neces- |
wanted, not what they needed. They
taxed the people double what was
necessary and handed it over to this
concern. They were only one of a
great number of manufacturers mak-
ing up the ten per cent and it is al-
most beyond comprehension the
amount of money the filched from the
public. In 1892 we had what was
known as the Homestead strike at
the Homestead plant of the Carnegie
Steel Company. The campaign man-
agers of the Republican party urged
the Company repeatedly to settie this
strike amicably fearing the result on
the Presidential election of that year.
They refused and the fears of the
politicans were fully realized. Cleve-
land defeated Harrison. Yet under
the Wilson tariff the Carnegie profits
were enormous. '
A prominent Republican organiza-
tion politician was quoted as follows
in the New Yjork Times of that period.
‘Carnegie’ four years ago was the
best friend apparently the Republican
party had. His contributions were
heayy and spontaneous. The bist.
Congress gave him all the protection
he wanted. By this Legislation he
increased his profits fifty per cent.’’
The Carnegies were not the only
ones who were given an opportunity
to capitalize the tariff for a considera-
tion and it cost the people erormous-
ly. Thev were given what protection
they wanted not what they needed.
A rather high rrice to pay for tte
privilege of enjoying prosperity don’t
you think?
This is row what the Republican
party asks us to return to, or rather
what the party leaders who sell pri-
vileges desire It is unfair to blame
it on Republican principles for they
were always good and are just as
good now as they ever were if we can
pry loose the men who haye rained
the party for their own Ienefit.
What do they care for principles.
This is the reason we demand the
elimination of the tariff from politics.
It is a business proposition and should
be placed on a strictly business basis.
It is an indirect tax—much easier to
manipulate than a direct one and is
for that reason a most dangerous
power to place in the hands of un-
scrupulous men. The wonder is that
we have suffered it so long.
Mak no mistake—a protective tariff
which honestly protects both capital
and labor is still a necessity in this
country and will be for many years,
but it can and must be placed on an
honest basis. Do you favor it?
Very respectfully.
CHARLES F. H
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she impulse on Saturday evening. The |
authority desire that the streets of
the town shall be free from the
things that would offend in the way
of uncleanliness on the Sabbath Day.
Does not this appeal to you as a
very good reason why you should
have your fun on Friday évening in
order that the streets may be cleaned
up on Saturday.
To recapitulate, Hallowe’en will be
observed in Meyersdale on Friday
evening and not on Saturday even-
ing. Don’t try to observe it on both
evenings; you might run up against
an objection.
PRES. WILSON SHAKES
HANDS IN MEYERSDALE.
On his return trip from haying
spoken before the Y. M. CO. A. in
Pittsburgh, on Saturday afternoon,
President Woodrow Wilson on train
No. 16. was cajoled out of his com-
fortable day chair at this place to
the platform, where two hundred en-
thusiastic local citizens greeted him,
some of whom had the honor of
shaking hands with the first man of
the land.
. The train was drawn by engine ,Nc.
2154, Engineer Hurton and Fireman
Christner.
VOGEL’S MINSTREL
, COMING NOVEMBER.
John W. Vogel s Eig City Minstrels
will be seen at the Donges Theatre,
Thursday Noyember 5th. Tne com-
pany is half a hundred strong and
boasts of a roster second to none.
Manager Vogel’s reputation for be-
ing a standard bearer is enough to
satisfy us that the performance will
be in keeping with the heralding.
The Radium Palace, asnew and very
elaborate first part settting, will be
presented here for the first time and
it is said to be the most beautiful and
costly affair ever used by any theat-
rical company in this or any other
country.
The advance sale of tickets will
open Thursday, November 3rd.
Special cars will return to Salis-
bury and Garrett after the perform-
ance.
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Mince Meat, Wet and Dry, at
ad Holzshu & Weimer.
this district.
The administration of Mr. Wilson
was highly lauded and the work of
congress was commented upon as
what the people need. Mr. Carr, who
is seeking re-election is a most forei-
ble speaker and certainly had the at-
tention of all present and must have
had his audience in full accord with
his doctrine, from the hearty applause
which accompanied his speech. Tre
speaker paid a brief, though very
forcible tribute to}Col. Roosevelt.
The Citizens band furnished the
street music and the Salisbury orches-
tra does honor to that town by the
excellence of its music, gave the in-
side music.
W. C. T. U. MEETING
HELD ON TUESDAY.
At the regular monthly meeting of
the W. CO. T. U. held at the home of
Mrs. Norman Miller, Tuesday after-
noon, fifteen ladies were prerent and
several new members were received
among them being Mrs. J. C. Matte-
son, the wife of the new M. E. minis-
ter here, who is an experienced W.
C. T. U. worker. A committee was
appointed to outline the program for
the year just beginning. A determin-
ed effort is being made to greatly in-
crease the membership, the goal be-
ing one hundred members. Meyers=
dale ranks low in the organization’s
scale having only 22 members. In
comparison Somerset has 110. x
MEETING OF PARENTS
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
The first meeting for this year of
the parents-Teachers Association will
be held in the Public School Audi-
torium on Friday evening, Nov. 6th.
Dr. Large, state medical examiner
of this district will make a short talk
on medical examination in the school
and an informal discussion will fol-
lew. Light refreshments will also be
served and a cordial inyitation is ex~
tended to all parents, teachers and
friends to be present.
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Oats, Hay, Straw and all kinds Chop
Feed Holishu & Weimer. ad
Good loose coffee 15¢ per 1b., at
ad Habel & Phiiligs.
See what a nickel will buy at the
Globe Electric and Novelty Store. ad
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