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SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8.
1904. NO. 34.
| Dress Goods,
Shirtwaistings,
Notions, Hats,
3 Shoes, Carpets,
- Linoleums,
Hardware,
Groceries.
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J. L. Barcuus, President.
A.M. Lichty, F. A. Ma
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OF SALISBURY.
Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profits, $9,000.
3 PER CENT. INTERES
ArLserT RErTz, Cashier.
DIRECTORS:—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, 5
ust, A. E. Livengood, L. L. Beachy.
Deposits.
H. H. Mauer, Vice President.
On Time b
SRE REE RRES
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
For President,
THEODORE ROGOSEVELT,
of New York.
For Vice President,
CHARLES W, FAIRBANKS,
of Indiana.
STATE.
Judge of the Supreme Caurt,
Hox. Joux P. ELKIX,
of Indiana County.
COUNTY.
For Congress,
ALLEN F. COOPER,
of Uniontown, Pa.
For Assemblymen,
L. C. LAMBERT,
of Stonycreek Township.
J. W. ENDSLEY,
of Somerfield Borough.
For District Attorney,
Rurus E. MEYERS,
of Somerset Borough.
For Poor Director,
AAroxN F, BWANK,
of Conemaugh Township.
LABOR DAY IN SALISBURY.
Big Parade and Very Orderly
Crowd—Presence of Sheriff and
Closing of Saloons Had a
Wholesome Effect.
Burning of More Coal Company
Property Followsin Wake of
Big Blowout.
Labor Day was celebrated here on
Monday as per program previously
posted by the various local unions of
the U. M. W. of A. in this vicinity. The
crowd in the parade and at the U. M.
W. of A. picnic was very large and en-
thusiastic, also very orderly, which re-
flects great credit upon all concerned.
The presence of Sheriff Coleman
early in the morning, and the closing
of the saloons, both of which precau-
tions were advocated by THE Star and
strongly sanctioned and aided by our
best people, had a very wholesome ef-
fect upon those of the striking miners
who had boasted of how they proposed
to run the town. Tur Star predicted
that there would be no riot or trouble
if the said precautions were taken, and
we are much pleased to note that our
surmises proved to be correct.
The good people of the community
not only thank THE Star for doing
what it could to maintain peace, but
they also thank the saloon-keepers and
The above number of eustomers used our
| Peptonized Beef, Iron and Wine
during the Spring and Summer of 1903, and any one of
them will tell you they were satisfied for the following
reasons:
1st. It tones up the system and makes you strong.
ond. It creates an appetite and ades digestion.
3rd. The cost is but 50c. per pint, or half the cost of
any other spring tonic on the market.
Get it at the Elk Lick Drug Store.
Your money back if you are not satisfied.
the law-abiding element of the U. M.
W. of A., as well as all others who did
what they could in the interest of peace
and good will. No one doubts for a
moment that if the saloons had been
running wide open, strikers and strike-
breakers would have been packed in
them like sardines in a box, insults
would have been passed by the quar-
relsome element that can be found in
both erowds, and a general riot with all
ite attendant evils would have been
the result. Peace could not have been
maintained with a crowd like that if
filled with liquor.
Even as matters were, a few fellows
from Coal Run could not refrain from
slurring others as they marched along,
but no attention was paid to their ig-
norant mouthings, and all in all the de-
portment of the crowd was very good.
The miners claim to have had from
—1.00K -:- HERE!
Pianos trom $125.00 up.
Organs from $15.00 up.
Sewing Machines from $10.00 up.
h ing fi catalogue, getting prices and looking over our stock
THe alte : y dollars. it for the following makes:
mean the saving of a good man
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.
ORGANS.
FARRAND,
ESTEY,
KIMBALL.
SEWING MACHINES.
DAVIS,
WHITE.
STANDARD,
NEW HOME,
DAYTONIO,
GOLDEN STAR,
SUPERB.
Somerset County Agents for Estey Pipe Organs.
Cecilian Piano Players.
REICH & PLOCH, CENTRE STREET, MEYERSDALE, PENNA.
may
1000 to 1050 organization men on foot
in the parade, and several hundred
more in vehicles and on horseback.
Their estimates, however, are not cor-
rect, and they know it, for there are not
500 organized miners in this entire
vicinity, counting the entire Salisbury,
Boynton, Coal Run, Keim and West
Salisbury local unions. Mere children
were largely represented in the parade,
and there were also many in it that are
not in the least in sympathy with the
miner’s union. Most of the vehicles in
the parade were owned and filled by
non-union pecple not in sympathy
with the so-called strike, but who were
in the parade for the mere fun of the
thing and to advertise their wares.
Only a few of the business houses of
Salisbury were represented in the pro-
cession.
The music was furnished by the
Jerkwater Band of Boynton, and their
chief selection went something like
this: “Um-pa, um-pa, ra-ta, ra-ta,
um-pa, um-pa, bum!” In fact there
was more “bum” to it than music. The
only real music of the day was in the
mA present duty: Subscribe for THE
STAR.
handsomely decorated dining car of
the Wildcat Club, and the chin music
of our gallant friend Major Robt. Me-
Namara and Organizer Lewis, who
were the orators of the day. ’
Major McNamara told the strikers
some very wholesome truth. Among
other things he told them to remember
that no man is bigger than the law,
and he also told them that if they
obeyed the law there would be no
{court injunctions for them to contend
1 with.
He also showed to them by eit-
ing the Boswell riot cases that Judge
Kooser is a very lenient judge, proving
itby the light sentences given the
Boswell miners convicted of riot. Of
course, the Major scored the coal com-
panies pretty hard, but it must be re-
membered that he is an attorney for
the U. M. W. of A. and knew that a
little eheap buncombe had to be added
to hold his job.
Whea he told the miners to respect
and obey the laws, the ignoramuses
among them did not like it, but his re-
marks along that line were sanctioned
by all the law-abiding men in and out
of the organization.
The speech of Organizer Lewis was
nothing more nor less than a wild,
woolly socialistic harrangue. It was
mere worthless wind, devoid of logic
and reason for the most part, and en-
tirely unworthy of consideration.
In one respect the parade was a sad
spectacle. The sad part of it was to
see good, honest, law-abiding strikers
out of a job, marching shoulder to
shoulder with other strikers that are
not worthy of employment and resi-
dence in any decent community. It
was indeed sad to think that at least
some of the good men, as well as the
bad ones, will never again get another
day’s work in the mines of this region,
as they have blindly followed the ad-
vice of unprincipled labor leaders from
abroad until the mines have been filled
largely with imported men that are
doing satisfactory work and are here
to stay. We do not rejoice because
the miners have lost the strike, yet we
feel that it ie their own fault. We
would have greatly preferred to see
them all act decently and sensibly and
win, than to see violence and outlawry
resorted to and lose, as lose they al-
ways do when wrong methods are re-
sorted to. The last strike has been a
“bug-house,” silly and vicious affair al-
most from start to finish.
Monday night, immediately follow-
ing the picnic, the tipple, wheelhouse,
stable and blacksmith shop at the Gal-
loway & Clayton mine were all fired,
undoubtedly by strikers, and before
the flames could be quenched. the
stable and blacksmith shop went up in
smoke, and the tipple was badly dam-
aged. Sheriff Coleman and deputies
saw the reflection of the fire from the
Merchants and Chapman mines. and
immediately went to the scene of the
conflagration. They found a number
of strikers there who were making no
effort to save any of the property, but
a few of them helped a little after the
officers began to fight the flames. At
the same time a lot of shooting was
done by men concealed near by, evi-
dently to scare the deputies away and
let the buildings be consumed. Shoot:
ing was also going on around the Mea-
ger mine that night, and after all it
looks as though a 16t of bad fellows
were on their good behavior on Labor
Day, when they wanted the general
public to patronize their picnic, only to
act the devil as bad as. ever just as
soon as they thought people were off
their guard. The Galloway & Clayton
mine has been idle for months, but was
about to resume operations, and that is
undoubtedly the cause of the incen-
diarism there. In their next parade,
the United Mine Workers ought to
have something among their banners
and floats showing the various modes
of burning company houses, shooting
horses and strike-breakers, running
cars down incline plains, dropping bot-
toms out of loaded cars, burning and
blowing up tipples, etc. That was the
only feature lacking in the parade of
Monday to celebrate in the true U.M.
W. of A. style in vogue in this region.
THREE JURORS CURED
Of Cholera Morbus with One Small Bottle
of Ohamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy.
Mr. G. W. Fewler, of Hightower,
Ala., relates an experience he had
while serving on a petit jury in a mur-
der case at Edwardsville, county seat
of Clebourne county, Alabama. He
says: “While there I ate some fresh
meat and some souse meat, and it gave
me cholera morbus in a very severe
form. I was never more sick in my
life, and sent to the drug store for a
certain cholera mixture, but the drug-
| three of us.”
gist sent me a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
instead, saying that he had what I sent
for, but that this medicine was so much
better he would rather send it to me
in the fix I was in. I took one dose of
it and was better in five minutes. The
second dose cured me entirely. Two
fellow jurors were afilicted in the same
| manner, and one small bottle cured the
DeuockATIC leaders in Missouri -are
denouncing each other as liars and rae-
cale, and the people are learning the
truth.
Junge PARKER'S chances might be
improved if the American people did
not insist upon judging a man by the
company he keeps.
JupGe PARKER intimates that the
real issue is the Philippines. The Re-
publican party settled that issue at the
polls four years ago.
Democratic candidates for Congress
in the Middle West are making most
discouraging reports. Democrats never
get very far in a campaign against $1
wheat.
Democratic Congressmen are always
ready with beautiful theories of govern-
ment, but the country has always suf-
fered when an attempt was made to
apply them.
Democratic Congressmen have no
record inviting even to themselves,
except in cases where they voted with
the Republicans and were denounced
by their party leaders.
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“Wg have been wrong eight years,
and you have been right ; therefore we
ought to be placed in power,” is the gist
of the Democratic argument. Yet some
people say there is no humor in a po-
litical campaign.
“Qur opponents ask the people to
trust their present promises in consid-
eration of the fact that they intend to
treat their past promises as null and
void.”—President Roosevelt's speech
accepting 1904 nomination.
Tre Meyersdale Commercial won-
ders where the numerous acts of vio-
lence in that coal region will end. They
will end in good long terms in the
penitentiary for some of the riotous
strikers.—Connellsville Courier.
Tur Wilmerding News don’t mind
formaldehyde in its milk, but it draws
the line at boroflorides, abrastol and
napthol. In the presence of such
chamber of horrors, the average man,
especially if he be a Democrat, would
take to whisky.—Connellsville Courier.
“Tne present phenomenal prosperity
has been won under a tariff made in
accordance with certain fixed princi-
plex, the most important of which is an
avowed determination to protect the
interests of the American producer,
business man, wage-worker, and farmer
alike.”—Roosevelt.
“Ir is a good lesson for nations and
individuals to learn never to hit if it
can be helped, and then never to hit
softly. I think it is getting to be fairly
understood that that is our foreign
policy.”—President Roosevelt at San
Francisco, Cal, May 18, 1903.
“THERE are many qualities which we
need alike in private citizen and in
public man, but three above all—three
for the lack of which no brilliancy and
no genius can atone—and those three
are courage, honesty, and common
sense.”—President Roosevelt at Antie-
tam, Md., Sept. 17, 1903.
“UncrLe Jog” Cannon says: “The
Republican fences are all right. They
are staked and ridered and we are
ready to put two strings of barbed
wire on top to keep the Democrats out,
but they will not climb much this year.
But we have got the barbed wire and
the fellows to put it on if necessary.”
Cuas. F. Uni, Jr, of Somerset, was
nominated by the Democrats of this
district, last week, for Congress. Mr.
Uhl is a real nice young man about 5
feet and 6 inches tall, weighing about
150 pounds. He is all right, only his
politics needs a little fixing, and one
Ailan F. Cooper, of Uniontown, will at-
tend to that in November.
a
“Ir is foolish to pride ourselves upon
our progress and prosperity, upon our
commanding position in the interna-
tional industrial world, and at the
same time have nothing but denuncia-
tion for the men to whose commanding
position we in part owe this very prog-
ress and prosperity, this commanding
position.”—President Roosevelt at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, September 20, 1802,
SoMERSET county got the Democratic
nomination for Congress. The nomi-
nee is a realy Democrat and hasn’t the
least bit of Prohibition leanings. He
will poll the Democratic vote of the
district and be defeated like a gentle-
man. Green county had a candidate,
of course. Heaven forbid that Green
county should falter in her sacred duty
of furnishing this country with states-
For sale by E. H. Miller.
{ men, and so long as the Wise family
JoserH E. THROPP was nominated fer
Congress on the Democratic ticket by
the Democratic conference of the 182h
congressional district, at Altoona, Tees-
day evening, to oppose John M. Rey-
nolds, the Republican nominee. Jom
turned Republican and Joseph turmed
Democrat, and both of ’em flopped far
office. We admire John’s good judge-
ment, but we can see nothing ahead
for Joseph, except his finish.
HixpeND HeNrY Cook, of the Berdim
Gleaner, took about two columns of
his valuable (?) space, last week, to
answer one little paragraph in Tem
Star that caused him to lose his
equilibrium. Hindend Henry gets aw-
ful dry sometimes, and when he gets =
little jab in a tender place he “makes
simply awful,” to use a common Berlism
expression. He calls us a pious old
fakir and other things too numerous to
mention, and he says he’d like to cal}
us those things to our face, over the
long distance telephone. He would be
perfectly safe to do so at close range,
for we have always rather enjoyed the
buzzing of such puny and harmless in-
sects as Hindend Hennery. Some may
think Hennery too foul, but a hennery
always has a foul smell of fowl, aad
Hindend Hennery, of the Gleanee,
needn’t fear hell fire, anyway, as he is
too green to burn. Ta! ta! Hennery,
be good, for if you throw mud you will «
get your hands as dirty as your pris-
ciple.
AMERICAN LABOR THE HIGHEST
PRICED PRODUCT.
The tariff and the wage scale in this
country are closely related. In fact
they are interdependent. The Repub
lican party has repeatedly said in its
platform that there must be a tariff
sufficient to make up the difference
between wages in this country aod
wages abroad, where the scale of liv-
ing is lower. These oft-repeated state-
ments of Republicans do not make
them true, but the proof that does
make them true has been presented im
the last bulletin of the Bureau of
Labor.
The Commissioner of Labor, Carrol¥
D. Wright, who was appointed to that.
position by President Cleveland, has
concluded an investigation as to wages
and cost of living in this country,
which shows conclusively that protee-
tion has advanced wages and im—
proved the scale of living. This ia-
vestigation was not made for a politi-
cal campaign. It was begun three
years ago, and is a scientific and de-
tailed study of the conditions of labor
in this country and Europe since 1890.
The figures presented in this report
show that wages have been higher im
this country under a protective tariff
than under a revenue tariff, and that
the difference has been so pronounced:
as to furnish a convincing argument im
favor of protection. In 1890, after the
McKinley tariff bill became a law,
wages began to advance, and also the
number of wage earners. This ia-
crease continued until 18983, when the
threat of a revenue tariff by the Dem-
ocratic party then in power began te
check the industrial activity. The
threat was consummated in 1894 by
the passage of the Wilson-Gormaa
tariff bill, and in that year Samuel
Gompers, President of the American
Federation of Labor, said that more
than three millions of American work-
ingmen were without work and wages.
The depression in business continued
until after the election of President
McKinley and the passage of the Ding-
ley tariff act. Then work and wages
began to increase, and they have kep€
on increasing for seven years.
The statement that work and wages
have continued to increase throughout
this period has been denied, but the
report of Commissioner Wright shows
that there has never been any check
to the advance, and that in 1803 wages:
were higher than ever before in this
country, and there were more men at:
work in that year than in any previous
year.
As compared with 1894, the yesr
when the Democratic revenue tariff’
law was passed, the increase is sufi
cient to convince any working mam
that the tariff does affect wages and
work. There were 34 per cent. more
men employed in 1903 than in 1894, and
the wages per hour were 18 per cent.
greater, making the average weekly
earnings of all employes 54 per ceat.
greater than in the Democratic tariff
year. This shows that more than hell
as much again was paid in wages im
1903 than in 1884, and this was due to
the protection given American work-
ingmen by the Dingley tariff law.
There has also been an increase im
the cost of living, but this increase has
not been as great asthe increase in the:
cost of labor. That has remained the
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| ville Courier.
| romains she will not fail.—Connells-
highest priced product in the American
| market, as it was intended it should be
{ by the Republican party.