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SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1.
1904. NO. 33.
Dress Goods,
Shirtwaistings,
Notions, Hats,
Shoes, Carpets,
Linoleums,
Hardware,
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J. L. Barcuus, President.
| ALBERT REI
DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus,
A. M. Lichty, F. A. Maust, A
OF SALISBURY.
Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undivided profits, $9,000.
J PER GENT. INTERES
ARI RIRENE
On Time E
Deposits.
H. H. Mausr, Vice President. . :
rz, Cashier. or
H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay,
. E. Livengood, L. L. Beachy.
REE RRS FRR
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{ Satisfied -:-
i ~ Peptonized Beef, Iron and Wine
during the Spring and Summer of 1903, and any one of
them Sill tell oe they were satisfied for the following
reasons:
1st.
Get it at the Elk
Your money back if you are not satisfied.
It tones up the system and makes you strong.
2nd. It creates an appetite and ades digestion.
38rd. The cost is but 50c. per pint, or half the cost of
any other spring tonic on the market.
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Customers.
Lick Drug Store.
Pianos rrom $125.00 up.
Sewing Machines
The asking for a catalogue, getting prices and looking over our stock may
mean the saving of a good many dollars.
PIANOS,
BUSH & GERTS,
CHICKERING & SONS,
STRICK & ZEIDLER,
VICTOR,
HOBERT M. CABLE,
KIMBALL,
SHUBERT,
OXFORD.
We have engaged the services of C. E. LIVENGOOD, Piano and Organ
Tuner and Repairer, and orders for work in that line left at the music store
will receive prompt attention:
Somerset County Agents
Cecilian Piano Players.
REICH & PLOCH, CENTRE STREET, MEYERSDALE, PENNA.
LOOK -:- HERE!
Organs from $15.00 up.
from $10.00 up.
Agents for the following makes:
ORGANS.
FARRAND,
ESTEY,
KIMBALL.
SEWING MACHINES.
DAVIS,
WHITE,
STANDARD,
NEW HOME,
DAYTONIO,
GOLDEN STAR,
SUPERB.
for Estey Pipe Organs.
=~ A present duty:
STAR.
Subscribe for THE
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
For President,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
of New York.
For Vice President,
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS,
of Indiana.
STATE. :
Judge of the Supreme Caurt,
Hox. Jorx P. ELKIN,
of Indiana County.
COUNTY.
For Congress,
ALLEN F. COOPER,
of Uniontown, Pa.
For Assemblymen,
L. C. LoAMBERT,
of Stonycreek Township.
J. W. ENDSLEY,
of Somerfield Borough.
For District Attorney,
Rurus E. MEYERS,
of Somerset Borough.
For Poor Director,
AAroN F, 8waNk,
of Conemaugh Township.
CoMMERCIAL agencies report an un-
precedented advance demand for all
kinds of merchandise. The country is
not ready for “a change.”
CHAMP CLARK assured Mr. Parker
that he would be supported at the polls
with the same unanimity that marked
his nomination. Just about that.
Junge PARKER failed to express any
opinion on the Panama Canal, so the
country does not know whether he
would stop work or change the route
in case of his election.
Ir the Democratic party at St. Louis
had again nominated Mr. Bryan and
adopted a free silver platform, would
Judge Parker have voted again as he
did in 1896 and 1900 ?
Ir might be all right to place the
Democrats in power because they en-
dorse what the Republicans have ac-
complished in the past, but the country
would have to take chances on what
the Democrats would do on new issues
that might arise.
—
“We kept some things that we did
not want out of the St. Louis platform,”
says Mr. Bryan. Yes, Mr. Bryan suc-
ceeded in keeping an endorsement of
the gold standard out of the platform,
because & msjority of the Democrats
did not want it.
“Ir is safe to say that 80 per eent. of
the delegates in the St. Louis conven-
tion favored the gold standard,” says
Hoke Smith. It is safe to say it, but it
isn’t true, and any desire to adopt a
gold standard plank was smothered for
fear of causing a bolt and a riot.
“I wouLp rather have my boys
taught to think the finest thing in life
is the honesty and frankness, the truth
and loyalty, the honor and the devo-
tion to his country of Theodore Roose-
velt than to have them in possession of
all the wealth in this great metrop-
olis.”—Hon. Elihu Root, at New York,
Feb. 3, 1904.
“We believe in reciprocity with for-
eign nations on the terms outlined in
President McKinley’s last speech,
which urged the extension of our for-
eign markets by reciprocal agreements
whenever they could be made without
injury to American industry and la-
bor.”—President Roosevelt’s speech
accepting 1904 nomination.
“Nor only must our labor be protect-
ed by the tariff, but it should also be
protected so far as it is possible from
the presence in this country of any
laborers brought over by contract, or
of those who, coming freely, yet repre-
sent a standard of living so depressed
that they can undersell our men in the
labor market and drag them to a lower
level.”—President Roosevelt, in mes-
sage to Congress, Dee. 3, 1901.
———
Lou SmiTe’s old anarchistic sheet
rejoices greatly that none of the strik-
ing miners have vet been arrested for
the most dastardly crimes they have
committed. Because they have thus
far escaped, he offers that as evidence
that they are innocent. The old fool
never seems to think for a minute that
convicting” evidence is sometimes very
hard to get, no matter how guilty men
may be. Sometimes the mills of jus-
tice grind slowly, but in the end they
usually grind exceedingly fine,
Tae editor of the Berlin Gleaner is
miserable, when in reality he ought to
be happy. He boasts of having van-
quished every whisky organ in Somer-
set county, and that ought to make
him happy, for that is a part of his
business. In the same breath he
whines and complains of the fact that
he cannot “provoke even a trifling dis-
cussion” with any of the other county
papers. The fact is, none of the county
papers are whisky organs, and the edi-
tors of most of them can see no good
in “trifling discussions” with the tri-
fling, half-baked editor of the trifling
Gleaner, whose bragging and rehashing
of old, threadbare arguments and
abusive “tommyrot” is enough to drive
some men to drink. The. Gleaner
crank, like the green bullfrog, makes a
big lot of discordant, useless music,
but in reality is a very small frogin a
very large puddle. It’s fun to shy a
club at him occasionally to see him
make the water splash by butting his
soft head against it, but the editors of
what he pleases to call the whisky
organs never take him seriously, and
most of the time they ignore the poor
thing.
Some of the United Mine Workers
misconstrued one of Tur STAr’s edi-
toriale last week. We did not mean to
convey the idea that the Sheriff and
deputies should prohibit the U. M. W,
of A. from holding a picnie, for we
know full well that they have a right
to hold a picnic whenever they please.
At this time, however, when there is
50 much bad feeling among the work-
ingmen toward each other, we think it
would be better for a Labor Day
“blow-out” to be dispensed with. But
since such an affair is to take place, we
think the Sheriff and a good force of
deputies should be here to keep down
riot and insure peace. If the saloons
are closed next Monday, as they should
be, there will be little danger of
trouble; but if they keep open, a rough
time of gigantic proportions is the
probability, and a few policemen will
be powerless to quell the disturbance.
In that event the blame will be placed
where it usually belongs in such cases
—to booze—and the dispensers thereof
will get more trouble than profit out of
it. They will act very wise if they take
no risk. No one is opposed to the
miners’ picnic if it is to be a deeent,
orderly affair, but as some of the strik-
ers have been boasting of how they
propose to run the town on Labor Day,
they cannot blame law-abiding citizens
for demanding sufficient protection
against a riot.
A Good Suggestion if Practicable.
The Georges Creek Prees, the official
organ of the United Mine Workers of
this district, in speaking of the recent
attempt to murder Wm. McMurdo,
gets off the following sensible sugges-
tion in its issue of last week:
“It appears not unreasonable to sus-
ect that some striker, losing sight of
egal and moral rights in his pent up
sense of wrong, may have been guilty
of this crime; we hope this is not true,
but most people, judging from the sur-
face, will so conclude. And the best
leaders of the United:«Mine Workers
can do will be to advise the various
locals to unite in an effort to discover
the culprit, and if any evidence to con-
vict him or them may be found, to fur-
nish that evidence to the authorities
and assist in securing exemplary pun-
ishment to the offender.
His deed if imputed to the union
men and repudiated only by mere
words, not indisputable proofs, will
hurt the entire organized body and
every dependent upon it, hurt it in-
curably.
And if there are any arrests of men
charged with that crime, it behooves
the union to investigate, and if there
be a suspicion that a striker has been
accomplice or partisan to the deed, not
one particle of aid should be given lo
the culprit. -
Such course alone can redeem the
blow the United Mine Workers has
suffered from this outrage, which is
now blamed upon them.”
The trouble is with the suggestion of
the Georges Creek Press, it does not
seem practicable, as the union in this
region is dominated by thugs who re-
joice in all msnner of crime wherein
non-union men are the sufferers. Such
people will go to great lengths to
shield organization criminals, but do
nothing to bring them to justice. Those
of the union men who are opposed to
crime must keep quiet, for they are in
the minority, and if they raise their
voices against crime, the mmjority will
call them “scab” sympathizers. These
are facts that good union men admit.
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Meyersdale Commercial Forgets
Itself and Prints Some Truth.
Once in a great while the Meyersdale
Commercial forgets itself and prints
some truth. Tt is said that truth is
stranger than fiction, and while it is a
great deal stranger than fiction to the
Commercial, that old anarchistic sheet
once in a while, probably accidentally,
prints something that is true.
In spite of the fact that it has been
doing all in its power to encourage the
miners of this region to keep up a use-
less and hopeless strike. when at the
same time its editor knows thdt the
miners at no time had a ghost of a
chance to win, it still continues, week
in and week out, to encourage the
strikers to make fools of themselves,
when it ought to be helping to show
them the folly and utter hopelessness
of their course.
Not once has the Commercial at-
tempted to show up in its own lan-
guage the true side of matters in this
region, but occasionally it has been
publishing its own real sentiments
which are contained in clippings from
other newspapers. Old *“ Lucifer”
preaches one thing to the strikers to
gain favor with them, while at the same
time his beliefs and real opinions run
in an entirely different direction. He
let his real sentiments crop out, last
week, when he published the following
from a Uniontown paper:
“There is always one thing to be
borne in mind in connection with
strikee which involve the necessities of
life. The people pay the piper. When
the meat packers’ strike is over the
packers will simply add the cost of it
to the price of meat and pass it on to
the consumer. This was done in the
anthracite coal strike.
“Capital is inconvenienced for the
time being by such strikes as the pres-
ent, but in the long run it is not the
loser. With the labor involved it is
different. Every dollar of wages lost
in a strike is gone forever. Therefore
a workingman should think more than
twice before he quits his work. He
has no way of recouping himself at the
public expense.”
There is some sense in what the
Uniontown paper says, but the wonder
is that the Meyersdale Commercial
ever reprinted it. There is a whole lot
in it that the miners of this region
ought to think about. Suppose the
strikers should actually win the strike
and get the few additional cents per
ton that they are striving for. What
then? Why, under the most favorable
circumstances it would take several
years of hard, steady labor for the
slight differential in wages to offset the
great loss of wages they have already
sustained.
The strikers are penny wise and
pound foolish, and the longer they re-
main idle the more they will lose. The
strike was a mistake from the start.
Every miner knew that a reduction
was inevitable, and if they had imme-
diately tried to effect a compromise
with the operators, the latter would at
least have made some concessions and
split the difference. That was demon-
‘strated when Meager offered to pay 60
cents per ton, which the miners were
stupid and headstrong enough to re-
fuse.
Tr then became a fight to a finish be-
tween the companies and the union,
and the u ion, made it so to its
utter defeat, a defeat so crush-
ing as to amount practically to
annihilation. The union selected its
own weapons, so to speak, and a very
foolish selection it was indeed. Every-
thing was to be carried by storm, and
the union showed a spirit of bravado,
intimidation tactics, hatred and force
methods almost from the start. In
that way the respect and sympathy of
the general public was lost to the un-
ion early in the game, and as soon as
public sympathy was against the strik-
ers, that soon the battle was won by
the operators.
Some of the strikers have been play-
ing the baby act by refusing to talk to
certain people. Some have been re-
sorting to the cowardly practice of
making threats through anonymous
letters and otherwise. Some have been
cursing, abusing and beating those
who preferred to work instead of
strike. Some have been destroying
property and attempting to take hu-
man life. Some have been meddling
into other people’s affairs, telling them
whom to talk to and whom not to talk
to, whom to buy of, whom to sell to,
ete., while others have been gloating
over accidents that happened to a few
men at work. All these and many
more foolish and criminal acts they
have been resorting to, and they have
been dragging their meanness into the
church and all branches of commerce
and society. It has been an attempted
game of force all the way through with
a large majority of the strikers, and
they have been trying to force every-
body to think just as they do and sanc-
tion all their foolish acts.
Such methods never did and never
Miller.
can win. The spirit of liberty is not
yet dead. and all men having trae
American principle in their make-op
will refuse to toady and truckle to the
silly and criminal whims of men that
haven’t got sense enough to understand
the true aims and objects of organized
labor, or to know how they ought te
behave and act when contending for
what they believe to be due to them.
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LABOR UNIONS.
“The industrial atmosphere is still
disturbed by labor controversies, how-
ever, and it will be impossible to fully
restore national prosperity until the
proportion of voluntarily unemployed
wage earners is greatly reduced,” says
Dun’s weekly review of trade.
The Courier has the reputation of
being a foe of union labor. It is not
opposed to labor unions if they are
intelligently directed. Unfortunately
they are not. and therein lies their
weakness. Labor union leadership is
seldom conservative. It is ever rad-
ical, and it is usually as silly as it is
unis, : s
he American spirit of fair play ree-
ognizes the right of labor to organize
into unions for its defense and ad-
vancement, just as it recognizes the
right of capital to combine for its pro-
tection and increase. Both methods
are identical, and both are equally
criticised.
The Courier, we trust, is not ca
tious. It ever aims to be just. It
recognizes the right of labor to com-
bine, but holds the combination ae-
countable for its actions, and its ae-
tions just now are stumbling blocks in
the path of the country’s return to
prosperity.
There can be no prosperity for labor
unions unless the country. is prosper-
ous. If times are bad, it inevitably
follows that wages will fall, and all the
strikes and boycotts and other weapons
that union labor can employ will avail
it not.—Connellsville Courier.
Very sensibly stated, indeed. The
coal trade is very bad in this region at
present, and all the force methods and
lawlessness the striking miners can
possibly resort to will make matters
only the worse for them. They cannot
prevail against the law of supply and
demand, neither can they forever pre-
vail against the laws of the common-
wealth. )
Last year the farmers could sell hay
right out of the meadow for $14 and
$16 a load, while this year they could
get only about half that much, owing
to the law of supply and demand. But
the farmers, instead of going on a
strike and making all manner of fools
of themselves, like a lot of the miners
have done, just made the best of the
situation and took what they could get
for their hay. On the other hand, the
strikers refused 60 per ton for mining
in this region, while the miners in the
Georges Creek region accepted that
price without even a protest. Thus did
the Elk Lick region miners throw away
a good proposition and continue to act
the donkey until the companies picked
up all the men they need to supply
their trade, and the price is now 55
cents per ton, which is all that can pos-
sibly be hoped for under present con-
ditions. Destruction of property by
the strikers has a tendency to bring
the price of mining still lower, and in
the end the lawless element will suffer
the most.
We agree with the Connellsville
Courier that both capital and labor
have an eqal right to organize, and we
also agree with that paper when it
says that combinations should be held
accountable for their actions.
The general public has some protec-
tion against organized capital, but
precious little against organized labor.
When capitalists form a trust they get
a charter and make themselves respon-
sible for any violations of law they
may commit. When a labor trust is
formed, however, such as the United
Mine Workers of America, no charter
is procured, and hence the organization
is not responsible for its lawless acts
and the general cursedness of its
members. Members of the miners’
union are responsible only as individa-
als for such crimes as they see fit to
resort to, and that being the case they
have no right to kiek if the coal com-
panies want to ignore them as an or-
ganization and deal with them only as
individuals.
WHAT IS LIFE?
In the last analysis nobody knows,
but we do know that it is under striet
law. Abuse that law even slightly,
pain results. - Irregular living means
derangement of the organs, resulting
in Constipation, Headache or Liver
trouble. Dr. King’s New Life Pills
quickly readjusts this. It’s gentle, yet
thorough. Only 2bc. at E. H. Miller's
Drug Store.