AGE six THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1912. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. HE TURNS TO TRUSTS. Woodrow Wilson Evades Discussion of the Tariff Question. It Is the trust issue, wo aro now told by Wood row Wilson, that Is para mount In tho campaign. Lust week It was the tariff. What it will bo nest .week has not yet been Indicated. In Ills speech of acceptance Governor Wilson emphasized the fact that n platform was not a profcmm. Those were words of wisdom. A program Is something to ho followed with some degree of fidelity. A platform, In the lexicon of tho Democratic candidate, Is n flexible thing, not to be taken too ecriousfy, but to bo bent and altered to meet tho demands of the moment. No program for the candidate. A nice, adaptable platform Is good enough for Dim. In all fairness and in all decency, however. Dr. Wilson should not be permitted to evade a discussion of the Issue ho brought forward as the Im portant one early In his campaign. Ills campaign manager refused a chal lenge for a Joint debate between He publican and Democratic speakers on the tariff, anil the candidate might dis claim personal responsibility for that, hut certainly Dr. Wilson cannot avoid responsibility for his own words and his own arguments. The fact that he found his audiences totally out of sym pathy with his free trade views should not still his tongue If ho has the cour age of his convictions aud honestly believes tho doctrine which he preach ed. If he be a true leader of tho anti protectionists he will justify his be liefs and opinions. So far from doing this, however, he has elected to evade, precisely as ills managers evade, adequate discussion of the subject which means so much to every individual in the land. First as sailing protection and making state ments that demonstrated his lack of knowledge of the facts, ho shifted from that position to one where he was try ing to calm the fears of tho industrial and commercial elements In the popu lation aroused by his Initial utterances. Out of all of hW more or less vague talk on the subject only one thing emerges clearly and distinctly that is, that he and his party propose a purely political revision of the tariff, with all the disaster, distress and disturbance that such a revision entails. Scientific revision on accurate information is re jected by hiru and his party. Political revision 1b Just what tho people do not want, but botli candidate and party are committed to it, hence their desire to get nway from tho issue. By all means let tho trusts be dis cussed, too, but not In terms of gen eralities, such as Governor Wilson In dulged In before the Democratic state convention at Trenton last Tuesday. And while discussing It Governor Wil son might explain why it was that the Democratic house curtailed tho trust investigating work of the department of Justice by granting only two-thirds of the sum needed to carry on tho la bors mapped out. MR. WILSON'S APOLOGY. Afraid to Publish What He Said About Union Labor and Immigrants. Tho so called Wilson defense bureau has Issued a long statement to the effect that Woodrow Wilson's publish ed opinions In his hooks ou tho alleged inferiority of European Immigrants and American workiugmen generally to tho Chinese and favoring Chinese immigration, etc., havo been "misin terpreted." There is ono ready and complete re ply to misinterpretation, and that is to republish what Wilson said to let him speak for himself. This tho Wil son defense bureau of tho Democratic national committee carefully refrains from doing, and neither Wilson nor his apologists, therefore, can blame Amer ican worklngmen in general and Euro pean immigrants In particular for con cluding that Wllsou meant Just what his language meant when he expressed his bad opinion of trades unions and his preference for Chlneso over Euro peans. Extract from statement of Mr. Roose velt dated Nov. 8, 1904: "On the 4th day of March next I shall have served three and one-half years, and this three and one-half years constitutes my first term. The wise custom which limits the president to two terms regards the substance and not the form. Under no circum stances will I be a candidate for or ac cept another nomination." "What Washington would not take nd Grant could not get no man shall havo." HER HALLOWEEN By F. A. MITCHEL Ethel Aucliincloss was seventeen years old, on ago when girls aro fond of fancying what tho man whom they shall marry will bo like. On Hnl lowccn shortly before dark she emerg ed from her father's farmhouse with a view to going to tho river near by to put In operation a little plan of her own to find out something about her future husband. Sho had some wood en dishes, somo tapers and n box of matches. Ethel know nil the young men In her nelghliorhood. nnd It seemed probable that If she married she would bo chosen by on of them, for no one else ever came to that region. Sho did not expect to look Into n mirror nnd see reflected there over her shoulder tho face of a etranger. Sho only hoped to know which of threo young men of her acquaintance would ask her to marry him. Sho had no reason to sup pose that any of them would ask her. but in case any ono did sho wished to know which It wns to bo. A new moon stood In the west which she took pains to see It being the first time over her right shoulder. In her time these llttlo superstitions counted for more than they do In this realistic ago, and sho felt quite sure that If she saw tho moon ovor her loft shoul dr she wouldn't have any luck during the month. Having seen It aright, she passed on ovor a field, then through a wood and stood on the margin of the rlTor. Now, it happonod that Philip Brooks, a student in a college situated across tho stato Hue and distant an hour's journey on a train, had been caught a few weeks before hazing freshmen and was rusticating at a llttlo town on tho river a few miles above where Farmer Auchlncloss lived. The sopho more had been studying on this very afternoon nnd shortly before Ethel had emerged from hor home had pulled down the stream In his wherry for exercise nnd recreation in the ' gloaming. The first thing Paul knew ho saw a lighted taper passing him. Sur prised, lie ceased rowing aud eyed it, wondering what it meant. Ho turned ills face upstream nnd saw another lighted taper a dozen yards ahead and another still farther up tho river. Then It suddenly occurred to him that It must ho Halloween nnd some girl wns trying to find out which of three young men she would marry. Giving a few back strokes, lie dropped down besldo the taper that had floated farthest and blew It out, then, not desiring a rival for tho un known maid's favor, picked up the second nnd the third taper and blew them out nt a breath. Then ho pulled cautiously on upstream with muffled rowlocks. Ethel, standing on the brink, saw the first taper go out and remarked to herself, "It isn't Fred." When she saw the two remaining tapers go out at onco she exclaimed: "It isn't any of them. I'm to bo an old maid." When about to return to her home sho glanced up to the sky and saw the new moon just passing out of sight In the west Sho appealed to It In tho following words that hnvo been famillnr to lads nnd lassies for many yen re: "New moon, true moon, toll unto mo Who my true lovor shall be; The color of his eyes, the color of his hair, The color of the coat tht he shall wr The Jay he marries me." Not dreaming tliat any one was near to hear her, she spoke the words in a tone loud enough to be readily heard In the surrounding stillness. What was her Burprlso to hear a volco com ing from out in the river: "New monn, true moon, tell unto me Who my trut love shall be; Tho color of her eyes, the color of her hair. The color of the dress that sho shall wear The nlBht she marries me." Ethel stood mute till she heard tho sound of ours, and In another mo ment the dark form of n man sitting In n narrow boat appeared. Tho boat grated ou the pebbles it her feet, and tho man stepped on shore and said im pressively: "My future bride, 1 greet you." It wns not so dark, the two being close together, but what they could distinguish each other. There is no greater nid to tho imagination than n gloaming, nnd each pictured tho other inordinately beautiful. It may bo said truthfully that Ethel was fair, and Phil, if ho was not good, was at least good looking. He was not lacking iu audacity, and, stealing an arm around Ethel's waist he earnestly imprinted a kiss upon her lips. No ono could over And out bow Ethel Auchlncloss met tho young collegian, who from nnlloween was a fre quent visitor at her home. Ills visits extended over a period of threo years, when ho was graduated nnd entered his father's counting room. Then ho enmo to tho country and took the farmer's daughter homo with him. It would bo useless for her husband to try to convince hor that the moon hnd uothlng to do with their union, for she maintains stoutly that the moon heard her petition and arranged tho whole affair. DINNER BUCKET TALKUOR TAFT Prosperity and Fear of Change Works to Advantage ot Republican Ticket. FIGHT CENTERING Oil TARIFF Reports From West and Middle West Indicate Sweeping Gains For Presi dent and Congressional Candidates. Two Strong Indorsers In Pennsylva nia Unprotected Business Men Pro test Against Free Trade Menace. Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1912. Reports rocolvod from oounty chair men at tho hoadquartors of tho Na tional Republican Congressional Com tnltteo of Pennsylvania lndlcato that the change in aontiment In favor of Taft and Sherman and tho full Repub lican tlckot is going on In this state, as well as In tho west and middle west Secrotary Roynolds, of tho Na tional Republican Commlttoo, Now York, who was in this city to confer with Congressman J. Hampton Mooro, chairman of tho Pennsylvania Con gressional Committee, and other Re publican leaders, doclared that recent reports from all the western and mid dle western states wore more encour aging than anything that has como in to tho New York hoadquartors since tho campaign openod. Congressman Moore assured him that ho was en tirely satisfied with the progress be ing made in Pennsylvania, and that he was confident from all tho recent In formation which he ha3 received from various parts of tho state that the prosperity argument and tho actual tangible prosperity demonstration is having a tremendous effect upon tho voters of all classes. Commenting on tho statement sent out from the New York hendquartors, j in wnicn it was snown tnat tne actual per capita cost of all tho tariffs re ceived under the Payno bill 13 only J3.40 a year less than tho prlco of two theater tickets for tho protection of American Industries against tho cheap labor markots of tho world, Congressman Moore said that the let ters of Alba n. Johnson, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and John Wanamaker, Philadelphia's mer chant prince, produced a very pro found impression throughout Pennsyl vania, for the reason that these men buy goods that aro protected and sell without protection. Mr. Johnson said that wages in his establishment had increased 20 per cent in the last ten years, that the present average wage to all employes, skilled and unskilled, is $14.97, as againBt $13.94 In IDA) and $9.52 in 1908. Although there is no tariff on locomotives, and there is a tirlff on nearly all of tho matorial tho Baldwin company has to buy to mako them, Mr. Johnson declared himself In favor of a protective tariff covering the dif ferences in the cost of production at homo and abroad, and stated that ho is opposed to a Democratic tariff for revenue only, because "It would Injure our business by destroying tho gonoral prosperity of tho country." Mr. Wanamaker, who porhaps pays more tariff on Importod goods and "suf fers" from tho Increased prlco on do mestic goods duo to the tariff, to a greater extent than any other man In the country, said that "the tearing down of the constitution and tho tariff is Ilk allowing a horde of enemies, under the spell of a reckless leader, to rip off the armor plato on our naval vessels." "Tho statement of these two mon," said Congressman Moore, "proves that there ii no such thing as 'unprotected industry under tho Republican system of protectlv tariff. The man with tho dinner bucket is in precisely tho same position with tho Baldwin Locomotlvo Works and John Wanamaker. Ho profits because of prosperity and ho loses when prosperity U lnterforod with." I-argo crowds gather around tho show windows of tho National Repub lican Commltteo hoadquartors, at 152" Chestnut street, at all hours of tho day and night to read tho bulletins and look at the tariff demonstrations that arc being given thero. In tho demon stration window is a dinner bucket which has tho placard, "The issue. Can you beat It? Do you want to?" It Is accompanied by an offer to oxchango a now bucket for ono that has seen actual service, but as yot thero havo been no takers. "If tho worklngman is unwilling to exchango his old dinner bucket for a new one," laughed Con gressman Moore, "I would like to know how tho Democrats can oxpoct him to exchange It for nono at all." A sow ing machlno which has been usod by the Doraocrats as an argument to bIiow how tho tariff "gouges" tho consumer is another exhibit. Attached to It is a placard explaining how a dlffcreuco of $7 in the price of tho machlno be tween the Amorlcan factory and tho English factory, means a dlfferenco of $7 a week In tho avorago wago of tho men who mako thorn. A suit of cloth ing is shown to provo that tho tariff on this kind of goods Is inconsider able as compared to the averages U accords the wage earner. Saved In the Nick of Time By RUTH W. MALTBY Tho early settlers In Kentucky came largely from tho snmo direction. Itench Ing America from tho old world, they settled In Pennsylvania, later cmlgrnt ed to western Virginia nnd, having worked out their lands there, moved on down tho Ohio river to approprl tte the virgin soil of Kentucky. Among those movers wns n family named Martin, tho father and mother being elderly persons, their elder chil dren grown. A daughter. Hester, was a girl of eighteen. They settled not for from where Bowling Green Is now sltuntod. The war of 1S12 was being fought nnd soon nfter tho nrrlval of the Mar tins In their new home the battle of New Orleans wns fought and won by tho Americans, or, rather, tho woods men of the west, among whom the hunters of Kentucky wero conspicu ous. The war had been ended by treaty beforo tho battle, though the news of pence had not yet got across the Atlantic, and soon after It was over the troops came marching home. A company of Kcntucklans recruited from tho region about whero tho Mar tins lived was disbanded, and a young man, Abner Armstrong, who hnd murched away and roturned as n lieu tenant, was among tho number. At the time of his appearance John Bart let, a man of forty years of age, had asked Martin for his daughter Hester's hand. There wero many mouths to feed in Martin's family, and Bartlet was tho only suitor who had establish ed himself In tho now country; there fore Martin persuaded nester to marry him. But beforo the wedding had taken place alqng camo the soldiers whose rifles had won tho battle of New Or leans. Young Armstrong was a strap ping, flaxen haired, blue eyed boy with every appearance of manliness, but withal an engaging smile. Hester look ed nt him and surrendered. There is but little reason in youth. Instead of confessing to her father nnd her betrothed that she had not known what love was nnd that, having dis covered it in the young soldier, she hnd changed, nester resolved on the most desperate course to be conceived of. Sho told Armstrong, who was js deeply smitten with her as she was with him, that sho could never face either her father or her betrothed to toll them of tho change In hor and the only counso left for them was to run away. It was not likely that one who hnd but recently helped to win a battle should show the white feather. The only means of conveyance in those days In Kentucky was a horse. Armstrong hnd but one animal, but it served for both. They started on an afternoon, and their flight wns discov ered about 9 o'clock tho same night. Bnrtlet was notified, nnd when he learned how he had been treated he said: "I'll go after 'em and bring 'em back. Then I'll tell 'em they kin git married for all me as soon as they like." With this he mounted his horse, ills rifle slung to his saddle nnd pistols in his holster, for no one went nbout un armed in those wild days, nnd, assum ing that tho fugitives would make for the Ohio river, ho rode straight north ward. About midnight he saw a lurid light on the clouds to the northeast ward, and, thinking the fugitives had bivouacked and built n fire, ho turned his horse's head in that direction. Suddenly ho rclnod in to a stand and listened. A distant confused barking fell upon his car. no shuddered. A picture came beforo his mind's eye painted by tho hand of experience. A Kentuckian. ho know that the bark he heard wero those of wolves and that ono of tho ways of fighting wolvi was by fire, no saw the girl lie had hoped to make his wife and tho man sho had eloped with besieged by bun gry beasts. Urging forward his horse, guided bv tho light tho barks growing more dis tinct as ho npproachod. ho finally burst in upon the very scone he had pictured. Armstrong and Hester oc cupied tho center of n circle of tire they hnd built to keep off tho pnel; Armstrong's ammunition hnd been ex ponded, and whenever n wolf snarled too close he bent It back with the bar rel of his rlflo or with a burnlug brand Hester, like a tnio dnugliter of tin forest was bravely arranging the woor1 they had gathered to keep It burning Having ridden as far as his terrified horso would go, Bnrtlet dismounted and, aiming nt n wolf, shot him dead Then, while tho pack wero devouring their companion, tho rlflo was reload ed nnd another wolf was brought down. Drawing nearer to tho besieged couple, Bnrtlet called upon them to run toward him whllo ho covered their' re treat. They started, Ilestor in nd vnnco. Tho wolves sprang nfter them and just as their leader was about to spring upon Armstrong, who was mov lug with his fa co to them, Bartlet shot tho beast dead. This gavo Armstrong tlmo to make good his retreat, nnd be foro tho wolves had finished eating the carcass already slaiu tho threo per sons had got away. Tho next morning nil appeared nt tho Martin home. Bartlet, without 0 word of roproach, released Hester from her engagement to him, nnd her father consented to her marrlago with Arm strong as soon as ho had a cabin to put her in. But tho latter proved a better soldier than pioneer and never got the cabin. In tlmo nester married Bartlet of her own freo will. JAMES S. SHERMAN. WILSON'S CHIEF SPELLBINDER The Self Degradation of a Former Re publican Proiident. If at the time of tho defeat of Bur poyne any one hnd foretold that Bene dict Arnold four yenrs later would load a force of British and Torlos to tho massacre of his countrymen nt Fort Grlswold, tho prediction would hnve been met with tho greatest resentment nnd Indignation. If four years ago any ono Ifnd pre dicted that n man twice honored by tho Republican party with tho highest of fico on earth tho presidency of the United States would turn on that par ty nnd seek to rend It because not giv en a third term, and would do his best Indirectly to elect tho cholco nnd tho representative of tho southern bourbon democracy, that prediction would havo seemed fully as Incredible as tho for mer. Tho third term candldato is tho prin cipal spellbinder for Woodrow Wilson. IIo knows in his heart and soul that tho only success possible for him should ho succeed would bo to defeat Taft and elect Wilson. Every vote for Roosevelt Is indirectly a voto for tho Democratic nomlneo, whoso supporters nt Baltlmoro made an open appeal for his nomination on the ground that ho was a native of Virginia, an ex-Confederate state, nnd not, like his rival. Champ Clark, a native of Lincoln's stato of Kentucky. rilled with anger ngainst President Tnft who has merited by ablo, faith ful and distinguished service tho usu nl meed of Republican presidents, an other term In the White nouse, Roose velt parades up nnd down, hero and Uiero and everywhere, professing any principle or lack of principle, from an archy to oligarchy, that ho thinks may win votes and throwing to tho winds nllko consistency, decency and that reverenco which every American should feel nnd express for tho insti tutions of our country. Thnt the aspirant for a third term will sink Into richly merited oblivion there can be no doubt whatever. Ho might havo maintained in private life tho honor, the dignity nnd tho Influ ence belonging to his position as an ex-presldont. no has sacrificed them all to a CatUlnlan ambition, and tho calm nnd deliberate Judgment of the American pooplo will put tho stamp of condemnation alike on his Insatiable appetite for power and his unscrupu lous demagogy. Even the bourbons who nro egging him on nnd rejoicing in tho hopo of profit from his treachery have only contompt for his motives and his course. They nro delighted to seo him attempt to destroy tho party which abolished slavery, overthrow secession, built up American industry and main tained tho financial Integrity of tho nation. But they havo no stomach for tho malice nnd the treachery that aro behind his desperate adventure. When Aaron Burr was self exiled to Europe nfter tho killing of Hamilton and tho Bemltrenion of his Mexican expedi tion an Englishman desiring to visit tho United States nsked him for let ters of Introduction. "I hnvo no friends in America," nnsworod tho former idol and once popular vice pres ident, with an expression of abject loneliness thnt Ids visitor could never forget And bo It will bo with the per potual candldato when his followers recover from tho brief madness thnt now possesses them and realize allko his monstrous egotism and their own nberrntion. A PERTINENT QUESTION. Which tho Third Termor Did Not Caro to Answer. A man attending a third term meet ing nt Denver asked tho third termer tho very pertinent question, "Would not the Republlcnn party havo been all right if It had nominated you?" Tho third termer did not reply. Ho simply looked angry nnd went on dol ing out political, economic and social istic chop suey garnished with tho usu nl Biiuco of eplthots. It was, wo repeat, a very pertinent query. Tho Repub lican party and Republican principles wero good enough for tho third termer until ho found that tho party wus not willing to givo him n third term. Then ho broko loose, nnd began gathering in every issuo and alleged issue ho could grab to mako up his crazy quilt platform. He has sought, with tho snvogo rago of a Malay running nuiuck, to destroy everybody and everything obstructing his mod onrush toward n gonl ho will nover reach, nis ingrati tude to tho party which honored him immeasurably beyond his deserts will havo fitting reward in ho historic fato of those who havo sought to "rulo or ruin." PKOFJEBSIONAT, CARDS. Attornev-nt-Lnw. H WILSON, AT7,"NEY COtlNSKhOn-AT-hAW. Office adjacent to I'ost Olllco In Dlmmlck office, lloiifsilulo, l'a. WM. II. LEE, ATTOKNKY A CODN8F.t.OIl-AT-I,AW. Ofllce over post ptilce. All lecnl tmslnen promptly attended to. Honesdnle, I'h. EO. MUMFORD, . ATTOKNEV A COUNBF.LOU-AT-I.AW, i.0.l!fe''"i1rly "i1',1 bulldlliB. opposite tha Tost Office. Honesdnle. l'a. II OMKK GREENE. ATTOKNKY A COtJ.VSKI.OK-AT-I.AW Ofilco: Reif Building, Honesdalo. "UIARLES A. McCARTY, J ATTORNEY A COUNBKLOIt- IT-LAW. 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