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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
How a Tariff For Revenue Works.

Imports of all kinds In the twelve
months ending June 80, 1912, amount
ed to 1858. .426,174, Of which $751;.
1914 were free Of duty, while less
than half, or $771,6S3,OS0, were du-
table and competitive articles. Should
the tarifffor-revenue policy prevail,
and the rates Of duty be lowered, the
dutiable imports would have to in
crease in quantity to keep the reve-
nue. whore it now Is; and the lower
the duties the greater would have to
be the volume Of imports in order to
maintain the revenue.
Now ii would seem clear that the
present policy Of getting an average
of about Al per cent on $771 1888, ,030
worth of dutiable imports, or consid.
erably more than $S00,000,O0O of reve-
nue., is better policy than that Of
reducing the duty TO, say, a 20 per
cent average and being compelled to
double the importation Of competitive
merchandise in order to get that $780,
100000 of revenue.
In the latter case we should have
to import more than $500, 900, 900 a
year OF foreign merchandise that
would take the place OF a good deal
more than a billion and q half OF do
nestle production. Think this over
and see whether a protective tarld on
$771, 100000 of imports is not better
than revenue tariff on a billion and
a half dollars worth Of foreign-made
goods.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.

Proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution OF Pennsylvania.
Be 1t resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in
General Assembly met, That the fol-
lowing is proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution OF Pennsylvania,
in accordance with the provisions OF
the eighteenth article thereof
Article TX.
Section Is. No obligations which
have been heretofore issued, or
which may hereafter be issued, by
any county or municipality, other
than Philadelphia, to provide for the
construction or acquisition of water
works, subways, underground rail-
ways or street railways, or the ap-
purtenances thereof, shall be con-
sidered as debt OF a municipality
within the meaning OF section eight
of article nine of the Constitution OF
Pennsylvania or OF this amendment,
II the net revenue derived from said
property for a period of FIVE years,
either before or after the acquisition
thereof, or, where the same is con-
structed by the county or munici-
pality, after the completion thereof,
shall have been sufficient to pay in
terest and sinking-fund charges dur
ing said period upon said obliga-
tions, or II the said obligations shall
be secured by liens upon the respec-
tive properties, and shall impose no
municipal liability. Where munich
palities OF counties shall issue obli-
cations to provide for the construc-
tion OF property, as herein provided,
said municipalities or counties may
also issue obligations to provide for
the interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until said proper
ties shall have been completed and
in operation for a period of one
year; and said municipalities and
counties shall not be required to levy
tax to pay said interest and sink
ing-fund charges, as required by sec
tion ten OF article nine of the Con-
stitution of Pennsylvania, until after
said properties shall have been oper-
ated by said counties or municlpali-
ties during said period of one year.
Any of the said municipalities or
counties may incur indebtedness in
excess OF seven per centum, and not
exceeding ten per centum, of the as
sessed valuation of the taxable prop
erty therein, II said increase of in
debtedness shall have been assented
to by three-fifths of the electors vot-
ing at public election, in such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
The Percentage Trick.

There has been much talk in the
Democratic organs OF late concerning
the frightfully large percentages of
duties imposed by the protective tariff.
Resort to what has been called "the
percentage trick" is a favorite prac-
tice with those who would mislead the
plain people. Percentages do not al
ways, by any means, indicate prices.
You tell a man that some common
article Of necessity bears a duty of
129 per cent and he is stalled and
angry.
He will not reflect that as percent
ages go up prices may be going down.
When the price Of tin plate was. say
IS per 100 pounds. 21s cents duty
was 30 per cent duty. When the
price OF tin plate declined to $3.50 per
100 pounds, the very same duty be-
came 7o per oent duty.
II stockings valued at 81 pair had
. specific dssy Of 81 add the tax would
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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
Millions For Defense.

If 1t be worth while to spend hun
dreds Of millions every year for bat
tleships, in making ready for a gun
powder war which is likely never to
come, why is it not we'll to employ for
our protection our available law ma
chinery for service in a commercial
war at this very moment raging the
world over7
Commerce is indeed war-and mer-
ciless war. No tidings could bring to
Europeans thrill Of Joy equal to that
which would come to the old world If
announcement should be made that
one-half the manufacturing power of
the American nation were wrecked
and ruined and finally forever wiped
out Of existence.
CHARLES HEBER CLARK.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11

a different day, two-thirds of all the
members of each House consenting
thereto: Provided, That such cleo
tions shall be held in an odd-num-
b red year Provided further, That all
judges for the courts of the several
judicial districts holding office at
the present time, whose terms of Of
flee may end in an odd-numbered
year, shall continue to hold their Of
fees until the first Monday of Janu-
airy in the next succeeding even
numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu-
ton No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
three of article eight of the Con-
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Section /. Be 1t resolved by the
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania (if the
Senate concur), That the following
Is proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in accordance with the
provisions of the eighteenth article
thereof
Section 2. Amend section three OF
article eight, which reads as follows;
"All judges elected by the electors
OF the State at large may be elected
at either a general or municipal cleo
ton, as circumstances may require.
All the elections for judges of the
courts for the several judicial dis
tricts, and for county, city, ward,
borough, and township officers, for
regular terms of service, shall be
held on the municipal election day;
namely, the Tuesday next following
the first Monday OF November in each
odd-numbered year, but the General
Assembly may by law fix a different
day, two-thirds of all the members
of each House consenting thereto:
Provided, That such elections shall
always be held in an odd-numbered
year." so as to read:
Section 3. All judges elected by
the electors OF the State at large
may be elected at either a general
or municipal election, as circum-
stances may require. All elections
for judges OF the courts for the sew
eral judicial districts, and for county,
city, ward, borough, and township
officers, for regular terms of service,
shall be held on the municipal cleo
tion day; namely, the Tuesday next
following the first Monday OF Novem-
Der in each odd-numbered year, but
] the General Assembly may by law NJ
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.

A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine of the Consti-
tuition of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section l. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House Of Representatives
of the Commonwealth OF Pennsylva-
mia in General Assembly met, That
the following is proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution OF the
Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania, in
accordance with the provisions of
the eighteenth article thereof
Section 2. Amend section one OF
article nine of the Constitution of
pennsylvania, which reads as fol-
lows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class OF subjects, within the
territorial limits OF the authority
levying the tax, and shall be levied
and collected under general laws;
but the General Assembly may, by
general laws, exempt from taxation
public property used for public pur-
poses, actual places of religious
worship, places Of burial not used
or held for private or corporate
profit, and institutions of purely pub
lie charity" so as to read as fol-
lows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits Of the authority
levying the tax, and shall be levied
and collected under general laws,
and the subjects OF taxation may be
classified for the purpose of laying
graded or progressive taxes; but the
General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes,
actual places OF religious worship,
places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and in
stitutions of purely public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the Constitu-
tion of the Commonwealth of
pennsylvania, authorizing the
State to issue bonds to the amount
OF fifty millions of dollars for the
improvement of the highways of
the Commonwealth.
Section l. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania in General Assembly met, That
the following amendment to the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania be, and the same is
hereby, proposed, in accordance with
the eighteenth article thereof
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be Great
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex-
cept to supply casual deficiencies Of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress in
surrection, defend the State in war,
or to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiency in reve-
nue. shall never exceed, in the aggre-
gate at anyone time, one million of
dollars" be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies of rev.
enue, repel invasion, suppress insur-
rection, defend the State in war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiencies in rev.
enue shall never exceed, in the ag-
gregate at any one time. one million
of dollars; Provided, however, That
the General Assembly, irrespective of
any debt, may authorize the State to
issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the purpose OF
improving and rebuilding the high
ways OF the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-11
pRoPosEp AMENDMENTS

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
! THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP-
PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL-
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY Or
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF
THE CONSTITUTION.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
To Provide Xmas Dinner.

Another Hammond organization, the
christian Friends Mission. whose head
quarters arc at 76 Plummer avenue, is
in line to provide a Christmas dinner
for those who otherwise would not
have one.
The Rev. Edward j. Grifoth. "a
I,lur.iner avenue, is ready to send out
dinner tickets to any one making ap-
plication for them. The mission de-
pends on the public fer financial sup
mort. and contributions may be sent to
Mr.. Griffoth directly or to W. {. Bel
man. cashier Of the First National
bank.
The free dinner will be given re-
eardless of creed or nationality Those
wishing to take dinner at the mission,
but desiring TO pay for it. can do so by
giving 25 cents.
Mr. Griffoth invites any one who is
interested I'm what the mission is do
ing to call at the mission and also to
take part n the Christmas services
which take place at 7:45 in the even
ing.
The volunteer services of three or
four ladies are required for the pre-
pairing and the serving of the Christ
mas dinner. and Mr.. Griffoth asks
those willing to help to cali this even
ing or Monday morning.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
.lIDOlAGTOh GETS
$4,000 DAMAGES
John Peterson Assessed
Heavily by Jury for In
juries to Plaintiff.

The Jury awarded old man Lidding-
ton SO. 900 damages for injuries he sus-
tanned when John Peterson, familiar
character in Hammond, grabbed him
by the back of the neck and the seat OF
the pants and threw him out of house
onto a lumber pile.
w. J. McAleer appeared for the
plaintiff and Joseph Conroy for the de-
fendant. The case has been on trial
for two DAYS The verdict was re-
turned this afternoon a short time aft
er the jury retired.
According to the story told by the
defense old man Liddington was bring
ing beer to the men who were at work
on Peterson's house. The working
men then took time off to drink the
beer. Peterson did not like to see the
men wasting time while they were
working at union wages and SO ne TOOK
Lfddir,gton forcibly out of the place
The result was that the old man had
his leg broken and it never healed His
age made it difficult to knit the bones
according to the testimony of DR.. b. w
Chidlaw, and he will be a cripple fol
life
The damages will have to be paid by
Peterson unless he appeals and sue
ceeds in reversing the case The verdict
of the jury was surprise to those
who were not paying any particular at
tention to the case. The case was tried
before Judge Kopelke-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
MARKET MEN SHOW
REASONABLE PRICE
City Market Master Finds
Retailers Have Clipped
His Wings.

Satisfied that quite a number of meat
market men are offering Christmas
poultry at reasonable prices. and una
ble to command a considerable supply
for the public market at a price below
theirs, Market Master Frank O'Rourke
said today that he would make no ef-
fort to have poultry in the public mar
ket next week
Mr.. O'Rourke says that he is una Bile
to get figures below the low ones quot
ed in some of the local markets but
should all of the merchants take ad-
vantage of the mo market" announce
ment TO drive up prices, he says. he
bring turkeys and poultry into the pub
lie market
1t is understood that orders have
been taken for live turkeys at 20 cents
a pound, and. 221a cents for dressed
turkeys.
One man who is not in the poultry
selling business as a resgular business
is said to have a supply of 500 pring
chickens on hand which he is selling
at from 2 to IA cents a pound.
That live turkeys al 90 cents a pound
or thereabouts is probably rock bot
tom price retail is evidenced by the
face that Frank O'Rourke and Sam
Abalman, who have been commissioned
to distribute IT'S Christmas baskets
bought their supply at 191a cents 9
pound live
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
POLICE DID
NOT INTERFERE
Moose May Put on Another
Boxing Match Early
Next Year.


Although the Loyal Order of Moose
announced after their last stag that no
more fights would be put on this win
ter, 1t is being noised around that an
othr card win be staged the latter Of
January the middle of February
Matchmaker Campbell, who has had
charge of the fight program, refuses to
make a definite statement, as he does
not know whether the order will sane
tfon his new plans
The fact that the Moose lost in the
neighborhood of $50 on their last card
was their solue reason for c1amping
down the lid. Many thought that the
police had interferred, but such was
not the case. as the bouts have always
been run according to the law and in
an orderly way. Nothing definite will
be given out until after the first of the
year.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
HOPES TO RESCUE
DIRECT VOTE ACT

Washington, Dec 20.-The proposed
reform providing for the election Of
United States senators by the people
is in danger of defeat, and in order to
rescue it and make 1t operative Rep
resentative f. D. Crumpacker of Indi-
ana will introduce after the holidays
a resolution for an amendment to the
constitution of the United States, max
ing it easier to amend that funda-
mental instrument Of the government.
The constitution itself prescribes
how it can be amended and requires
the ratification Of three-fourths of the
states, through their State Legis-
latures. to make a proposed amend
ment effective.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
"BAblCH CLEARED
BY FRIENDS EVIDENCE
That Accused Was Victim
lied by Another Is
Proven in Court.

Andrew Babich, one of the three
young men who was arrested in con-
nection with certain thefts from the
Erie freight house, was acquitted by
the jury last night following a two
days trial
The state was represented by Ralph
w. Ross and the defense by Vernon
McGirr, of the law firm of McAleer
brothers. The specific charge upon
which Babich was held was that OF
knowingly receiving and concealing
stolen property.
There was no evidence that he had
anything to do with the property. A
clock was found in his bed, but one of
the men who pleaded guilty testified
that he put it there.
The case was carefully tried on both
sides, and the verdict for the defense
is believed to be a just one.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
Final Arguments.

Judge McMahan of the Lake circuit
court will hear arguments at Crown
Point tomorrow in the matter of toe
illinois, Car and Manufacturing COM
pany in which 1t petitions to close ur
Clark and other streets touching its
property on the north side.
All the testimony has been heard
and unless the court reserves it's de-
cision the ruling may be expected to-
morrow afternoon The petitioners are
represented by Attorney l.. V. Cravehs
while Attorney Otto Bruce of Grown
Point represents the city. City Attorney
Gavit having retained him at his ex-
pense because he was tied up in an
other case Attorney l. Z. Meyer rep
resents number of demonstrators IL
the case.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
.FAM|LY'S LIFE ONE
OF GREAT HARDSHIP
Sad Facts Come to Light in
Ethel Rodman Case at
Hobart.

Tomorrow they will bury pretty
Ethel Rodman, the 17-year- old Hobart
girl, who ended her life in the ley wa
ters of the lake at Michigan city. Her
last resting place will be at the Blake
cemetery, near last Gary. where her
parents buried. The girl spent
most of her early days in East Gary.
Her Life n Cheerless One.
There was nothing but poverty and
sadness in the life of Ethel Rodman.
When she was very little her father,
Gilbert Rodman, farmer in a small
way and occasionally employed on the
railroad section, was seized with a
paralytic stroke and from that time
on he was unable to work. The moth
er then took up the battle for exist
ence and supported her helpless hus-
band and five small children by toiling
at the washtub from morning to night.
Helpless Father Dies.
Later the family removed to Hobart
where there was more laundry busi-
ness Then the condition of Rodman
became SO heipless--he was unable to
even dress himself-that he had to go
to the county poorhouse
He was there almost a year. when a
year ago Thanksgiving he wanted to
come home to pay a visit with his
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20

ENTIRELY
ON ZONE
May Be Cheaper to Send
Parcels by Express for
Long Distance and Cheap
er by Post for Distance
Within a Certain Zone.

The limitations of the parcel post
are beginning to be appreciated just as
the limitations of the postal savings
banks were appreciated after they We're
started and 1t was found that they did
not offer any competition whatsoever
to the banks of the country
For instance. the w. B. Conkey CO.
has been sending out tons of mail mat
ter in the form of books. bulky cata-
iogues. sample books and other print
ed matter
1t would naturally be expected to
people contemplating the scope of the
parcel post that it would be just such
things that would be carried in this
manner
However, one of the officers of w.
b. Conkey CO. said today that he did
not think that hardly anything would
De sent out from the plant by parcel
post
Under the zone system of fixing rates
for parcel post it might be cheaper to
send parcels a short distance by post.
but for the greater distances either
express or by mail is cheaper
one of the patrons of the W. B. Con-
Key Co. considered the matter of hav-
ing a large seed catalogue sent out
by parcel post. When an investiga-
ton of the rates was made it was dis
covered that only in the first zone
would it be cheaper to send the cata-
logues by parcel post and then 1t would
cost SO much to separate the Gus
toners In the near zones from those in
the far zones that it would not be
worth the trouble.
| And so all of his catalogues will be
matter up to two pounds in weight
can be sent by mail at the rate Of four
ounces for a cent.
Even In the case Of sets OF books
they are sometimes divided in bulk SC
that each package will weigh under
three pounds and sent by mail to dis
tant points on account of the cheaper
! rate.
So it appears that there is really
| nothing gained by the parcel post fol
articles under three pounds which are
destined for great distances. For in
| stance, by parcel post you can send
| three pounds a distance of so miles fol
cents, but the same three pounds
| would cost Z cents in the third zone
80 to $50 miles: 20 cents in the fourth
zone. 800 to 500 miles: 2S cents in thu
fifth zone. 500 to 1000 miles: % cent.
in the sixth zone, 1.o0o to L. 400 miles
81 cents in the seventh zone. 1,400 to 1 :.
500 miles. and 36 the eighth zone. al
over $500 miles. while it could bi
sent anywhere in the United States fo
Il cents if it were printed matter ant
for "a cents If 1t were merchandise
So it will be seen that you can sent
printed matter up to three pound
cheaper by mail than by parcel pos
in all but the first and second zone ant
merchandise in all but the first fou
zones.
Take into consideration also that ii
order to mail parcels intended to b'
posted you have to take the packag,
to the postoffice, while the expires
companies call for them. Both govern
ment and the express companies deliv
| er parcels
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
CHURHCES PREPARE FOR
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

In the churches of aHmmond, the
Christmas season enters next Sunday,
and in every congregation elaborate
preparations have been made to cele-
brate the anniversary of the birth OF
the Savior in a fitting manner.
In some of the church the principal
worship will be held on Sunday. while
in others Christmas day itself will be
observed with services.
In most churches a special program
has been arranged for the entertain
ment OF the children at some evening
event. In all of these the Christmas
tree will play an important part.
In the Roman Catholic churches the
old custom of midnight mass will be
revived, and in two of the Hammond
churches a solemn high mass will be
held at this hour.
The programs for the congregations
of the various denominations in alpha
betica1 order are as follows:
BAPTIST.
First baptist Church, Rev. r. HI. Ad.
ans. pastor. Sunday at 1o:30 Christ.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-20
DON'T FORGET
CHRISTMAS DAY

Every poor boy and girl in
Hammond is invited to be the
guest of THE TIMES at the Or
pheum theatre on Christmas Day.
Don't forget the time 11:30 a. M
A fine Christmas entertainment
will be given by Manager Hanken-
sons coterie of shining stars. If
You know OF poor boy or girl
won't You please hunt them up
and tell them ab<Glf 1t. There are
people in Hammond who are too
poor to take daily paper and
hence will have no other means of
knowing about the big free Or
pheum show unless you tell them
about it.