The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-31

packer did last November, can insist
with equal consistency that He'll has
no terrors which deserve to be feared,
and that Satan lacks but few of the
qualities necessary to make him a
saint.
Republican papers have done good
deal of boasting lately about our in
creasing trade with the Philippines. In
May our exports amounted to less than
100000, not counting 1000 cofiins in
which to bury our dead and dying SOL
diers. These at So each would amount
to more than all the other exports, but
of course, they must be counted in
showing the great benefits of the war,
as must also the whisky and beers
used by our soldiers and the natives
whom we have the honor of teaching
the use of strong drink.
Has the Republican who thinks that
Quay controls the movements of the
heavenly bodies ever stopped to think
of the fearful consequences to the state
and nation should the Old Man peg out
in one of his many cases of indisposi
ton? According to his own statement
at the last state convention, made with
a voice filled with fearful sadness, he
is the last buffalo bull on the plains;
and one need not he a college graduate
to see where the buffalos would soon
be at with the last bull gone. With
Bull" Andrews in reserve there is per-
haps no immediate cause of alarm.
If the notorious Mayor Ashbridge
does not object, Vanderslice will sue
ceed Pennypacker when he resigns.
Quay, Durham, Penrose and Stone, like
Barkis, are all said to be "willin" and
all that remains is to know whether
Vanderslice will suit Ashbridge OF
course the million voters of the state
have no more to say about the matter
than have the serfs of Russia. If Ash
bridge has pal whom he wants on the
Quay, Penrose & Co. will give way.
They want to use Ashbridge good and
hard about election time, and just now
he can have anything he asks for.
Hon. John H. Fow, who is a good
constitutional lawyer, contends that no
person can hereafter vote in Pennsyl-
vania unless he is registered. He
maintains, and with apparent good rea-
son, that the passage of the constitu-
tional amendment last fall, annulling
the clause in the constitution which
permitted a voter to vote by swearing
that he had paid tax even if not regis
tered, makes it obligatory now for all
voters to be registered. 1t is always
best to be on the safe side, and as no
Democrat wants to lose his vote this
fall, it will be well for every one to
make sure that his name is on the
registry list.
Perhaps ii would be Just as well for
Hon. w. H. Andrews not to have New
Mexico admitted as a state to give him
a job as United States senator. He
never fails to go to the limit in Penn
sylvania when Quay yells for help to
get himself out of hole, and the law
seems powerless to punish no matter
how fragrant the violation; but he
should keep in mind the fact that in
New Mexico they have a habit of
shooting at times when the law seems
little tardy or inefficient. William
might be a better risk for the insur-
ance companies by keeping under the
protecting wing of the great Pennsyl-
vanian whose greatness, according to
Pennypacker, amounts almost to
genius.
The seething criticism of the su-
preme court by Alexander Simpson. Jr..
of the Philadelphia bar, at the recent
meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Asso-
citation ought to cause the people to
stop long enough to ask whether a
machine made court is the proper
thing in Pennsylvania or any other
state. Mr.. Simpson is very able law
yer and a Republican, but he is not
so much of partisan that he cannot
recognize a fragrant violation of law
even when perpetrated to assist in the
partisan schemes of his own party:
and he is not so much Of coward that
he is afraid to condemn 1t. What an
noys the Republican bosses is the fact
that the large number of lawyers pres
ent seemed to thoroughly endorse Mr..
Simpsons position, and the news
papers that were too partisan to praise
were lost for words to condemn.
The Pennsylvania legislature unan-
imously passed resolution at the two
last sessions declaring in favor of the
election of United States senators by
the vote of the people. What have the
people now to say of Quay and Pen
rose, who both lodged the vote on the
question? II is easy to understand
why such senators are not willing to
risk their ease with the people, but if
the people have any spunk they will
call on them to explain why they re-
fused to obey their wishes as expressed
by their representatives in the legis-
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