Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-24
EVENING Chat

EVLNAIv0 VIM
1t is interesting to note in connec-
ton with the conference being held
here to-day in the interest of expan-
sion of foreign trade that Harrisburg
has always taken a strong position in
regard to protection. From the early
days it has been a shipping point and
its first industries included iron and
lumber. In 1927, so the books tell us,
a conference was held in this city by
men interested in the principle of pro-
lection, which was probably the first
national convention of protectionists.
1t was attended by men from the
whole Atlantic seaboard and was
given hearty welcome by the citizens.
The chief point of discussion was the
tariff of 1924, which they did not con-
slider placed sufficient duties on iron,
woolens, hemp and other products.
The object was to retaliate on England
for the exclusion OF those articles and
TO secure at the same time some meas
ure of protection for the home indus
tries. This was only q few years be-
fore the national convention was held
here to nominate William Henry Har-
rison for the Presidency, so that little
Harrisburg, already achieving promi-
nence as the capital of the second
State, was figuring in national move
mentS early.
There was printed in the Telegraph
Saturday most effective cartoon from
the New York Sun showing Christ
mas in Belgium" The artist pictured
the devastated homes of the people,
the frozen bodies of n mother and
child, and overhead a flock of Vultures
waiting for their feast. An unknown
reader of the Telegraph sends us a
clipping of the cartoon with a refer
ence to Revelation 19:17-1S-
And | saw an angel standing in
the sun; and he cried with a loud
voice, saying to all the fowls that
fly in the midst of heaven, Come
and gather yourselves together
until the supper of the great God;
That ye may eat of the flesh of
kings, and the flesh of captains,
and the flesh of mighty men, and
the flesh of horses, and of them
that sit on them, and the flesh of
all men, both free and bond, both
small and great"
The manner in which Father Penn
gets his money is well illustrated by
the payments made yesterday at the
State Treasury One company paid
in $1,000 and another 75 cents. Both
payments represented money for
warded on account of capital stock
tax. There are many companies which
are given nominal value of a thou
sand dollars or so and which pay a
5-mill tax and there are others which
are not valued much higher.
The Spanish cannon in front of the
State Museum building which got into
fame few years ago when someone
wrapped a flag around it on the ami
versary of the destruction of Cervera' 8
fleet and which was adorned with a
safety First" sign during the welfare
conference last week, is again in the
limelight. Yesterday a squirrel was
noticed disappearing down the barrel.
He soon popped out, but went back
again. Someone lighted q match and
looked into the gun. The squirrel was
loading" the cannon with a winter
store of peanuts.
Robert w. Harlow, former city ed
itor of the Harrisburg Patriot, is now
conducting one of the live daily news
papers in Massachusetts. He is editor
of paper within a short distance of
Boston and making out very well.
The publication of the official totals
of the vote on November by the
officials at the State Capitol was the
occasion for payment of q number OF
bets which had been made on the size
of majorities and votes. For days the
telephones in the State Department and
at the Harrisburg newspapers have
| been ringing with the inquiries of peo-
pie who want to get exact information
about payment of bets. There ap.
| peared to be a good many who were
| concerned on whether Pinchot would
beat Palmer or not and whether Pen.
rose would have a plurality of a quar-.
| ter million.
Warden John Francies, of the West.
ern Penitentiary. who is we'll known
| here because of his services, is or
a grewsome errand. He left Centre
county on a trip to the state
prisons of New York. New JERSEY
and other states to inspect place:
where they infiict the death penaIt,
by electrocution. The new execution
place at the new penitentiary is almost
completed and the warden wanted tC
get some idea of the way other state.
have their apparatus arranged.
People in this city are not losina
much sleep over the prospects of tho
construction of the proposed Air Line
from Pittsburgh to Allentown. Thi:
city was much stirred up some year.
ago by the proposed construction ot
the Southern Central, which was goina
| to build great line and whose EN-.
Dankment remained for long time ii
what Is now Wildwood Park. Their
came the South Penn, which got as fal
as the building of piers. SO the All
Line, which would cross the Susque
hanna up around Selinsgrove, does no
excite many folks here.
J. Davis Brodhead, who was ap
| pointed as judge of Northampton
county yesterday, is one of the leaders
of the bar in that county and for som,
years engaged in a tussle with Con
gressman A. Mitchell Palmer for con
troll of the district. First he defeatet
Palmer for the nomination for Con
gress and then Palmer defeated him.
/ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Marion d. Patterson, of HOLIDAYS
burg, was the orator at the big fire