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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
YEAGER VS.. THE ENGLISH VIEW

Ex-United States Marshall ]. NJ
feager, of Yeagerstown, who is well
known in Harrisburg, has written a
letter TO the Philadelphia Ledger in
which he plainly indicates that 1t is
the earnest hope of England that the
american merchant marine may not
De revived. He says: IT want to
thank you for your efforts in attempt
ing to disabuse the American mind of
erroneous ideas many of them have
Ilmbioed from the statements as pre-
sented by the envious enemies of the
dear old 'Fatherland,' regarding the
most enlightened, the most honorable,
the most energetic, enthusiastic and
progressive nation on the face of the
earth, the Germans. The American
States of America) does not owe Great
Britain one penny This one particu-
lar nation, Great" in name only. as
far as America is concerned, has caus-
ed the United States more trouble,
more uneasiness and more solicitude
With her entangling alliances and ac-
tions than all the other nations COM
/ bined.
| We have not forgotten her unpleas-
ant interference in our domestic rela-
ltions, when we were endeavoring to
preserve the integrity and identity OF
our grand old Union in i61 and '65;
neither have we forgotten how she
cleared the seas of our merchant ma
rine. Yet she appeals to the citizens
of the United States for sympathy in
her unfriendly and ungodly conflict
against the greatest nation on the face
of this mundane sphere. in civil and
religious liberty. science, music and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF
4 DYING PARTY
LFrom the PhiIadelphia Press.l

[From the Philadelphia Press.l
William Draper Lewis withdrawal
from the Washington party ticket is
another nail in the coffin of the rapidly
dying third-party movement in this
State. Its position has long been hope
less. It's former supporters refuse to
enroll with it, its workers have drop
ped off until only a mere handful re-
main and its candidate for Governor
now gives up in despair.
Mr.. Lewis is clean man with a glib
tongue. but with a narrow vision and
very limited experience in the political
essayed leadership. He found himself
in bad company which the people never
trusted and have now abandoned. No
greater sham ever existed than the
party which Mr.. Finn formed in this
State for his own advancement. Colo
mel Roosevelt gave a certain glamour
and transient success to il, but his in
terest in it has seemingly evaporated
and it's disintegration has proceeded so
rapidly that now even Its candidate
for Governor seeks safety in retire
ment.
party can with entire consistency vote
directly for the. Democratic party. The
of the Progressive party has been that
of assistant to the Democrats. To
place the Democratic party in power is
all they have ever done and now that
they are too feeble to do that any
longer they had better accept with
what grace they can the inevitable end
of a political movement that started
in folly and greed and ended in i'm
potence and failure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

"HOSE who attended the meeting
at the Technical High School
i last evening were deeply inn
pressed with the purposes of the
Wharton school university extension
as planned for Harrisburg and with
the type of men who are at its head.
The interest manifested and the num-
Der of students already enrolled speaks
well for the success of the movement,
but as State Librarian Thomas Lynch
Montgomery said. there is no reason
why the student body should be con-
fined to Harrisburg. All the surround
ing towns as far away as Carlisle and
Lebanon should contribute, and they
probably will.
The State Librarian has generously
promised to purchase all of the books
required for the reading courses in
conjunction with the Wharton school
course in quantities sufficient to permit
their use by all the students desiring
to avail themselves of the privileges
extended by the State Library. This
in itself will cut down very materially
the expenses of a student desiring to
enroll but who has been holding back
on account of limited funds. There is
nothing now in the way of a successful
inauguration of branch of the uni
versity here and once established II
will never be abandoned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
RIVER PARK SAVED

"HERE Will be general approval
of the final decision of the City
\ Council to install the new water
main from North street to Pax
ton in Front street instead of the
River Park. as was first proposed.
The consideration of economy which
was involved in the park line in
stallation was overbalanced by the
serious menace to the many old trees
that would undoubtedly have been de-
stroyed through the digging of deep
ditch and the placing of large main
among the intertwined roots of the
park trees.
City Commissioner Bowman was
doubtless actuated by a proper theory
of economy in his original suggestion,
but the forestry experts who were in
terviewed on the subject were all of
the opinion that while the first cost
might have been somewhat less. the
eventual loss TO the parks was greater
than could now be anticipated.
Beside, the eventual connection of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
M4RSss Sso Ss5ESo EfSo-bAY

art; the pathfnders of the world in
medicine. law and discipline.
England has taken exception to the
establishment of United States mer-
chant marine by the purchase of ves-
sells OF belligerent nation, on the
ground that 1t might increase their
eXchequer and thus work to the detri-
ment of English, Japanese and Rus
rian dominion over the commerce of
the world.
There are to-day, according to the
report of the United States Commis-
sion of Navigation, only FIVE American
ships regularly in the trans Pacific
trade, and this is the competition they
are compelled to meet:
'Toyo kisen Kaisha, $1,340, 900 gold
per year, subsidized by Japanese gov
ernment.
Osaka Shosen Kaisha, s605. 900
gold per year, subsidized by Japanese
government.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha. S23S,000
gold per year. subsidized by Japanese
government.
Canadian Pacific Steamship Com
pany, $21S,000 gold per year sub
sidized by British and Canadian gov
ernments.
The five American steamers re-
ceive not one penny subsidiary or any
other government aid. Hence, the
average intelligent American mind can
readily grasp the situation as far as
England's protest is concerned against
the establishment of any service that
would interfere with British Japanese
dominion over commerce on the high
seas"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
LABOR DAY LESSONS

n AbOk DAA gave LII. hdTtih 1s
Brumbaugh. the next Governor
IL of Pennsylvania, and United
States Senate Penrose fine op-
portunity to talk to the people upon
the real issues of the present CAM
paign. While one traversed the an
thracite coal region the other ad-
dressed an army of industrial workers
in the parks around Pittsburgh.
Men of all parties are pledging their
support to both candidates and the
significant feature of the Labor Day
demonstrations was the enthusiasm of
the working people for the men who
are standing up for the principles
that have made this country great.
Dr. Brumbaugh laid special en-
phasis upon the Importance of the boy
learning to increase the output of
mine and factory rather than acquir-
ing the form of the dative case or the
cube root of an equation. In short,
he takes the correct position that the
vocational features of our school sys-
tenn must be given more consideration
in order to prepare the girls and boys
for their life work. He also declared
that the man of the school that
teaches class distinction or hatred is
an enemy to his country and traitor
to his kind.
out in the west Senator Penrose
gave NJ. Clyde Kelley. the Progressive
successor of Congressman John Dali
zell, the gerat protectionist. the same
sort of twist that he gave A. Nit
chell Palmer in his Williams Grove
address. Kelley voted for the Under
wood tariff, which has done nothing
for the country except close its mills
and factories and throw thousands OF
men out of work. When Senator
Penrose stopped abruptly in his
speech to ask Il wonder how many
of you men are out of work." more
/ than half the hands shot up and there
was amazement written on the faces
/ of the Pittsburghers present. He ther
continued. referring to Kelley, whC
was in the audience: Leaving poll,
tics out of it, what sane legislator rep
resenting a constituency would vote t
throw his own people into idlenes
and misery?" 1t was a hot shot anC
as deserved as the Characterization
of Palmer, the Benedict Arnold o
PENNSYLVANIA prosperity"
The workingmen and the business
men of Pennsylvania are sick and tiret
of the pretense of interest by tn,
Palmers and McCormicks and thei
ilk in the welfare of the State ant
its people. They have not forgotten
the promises of the Wilson bosses TIVE
years ago that the high cost of livini
was due to the tariff and would be re
duced, yet the cost of living has no
gone down one cent since the protec
tive tariff was abandoned.
Kelley and his Progressive asso
ciates must largely share the respon
sibility with the Democrats for tn
ipresent industrial conditions In thi
State. While favoring a protectiv
tariff they split the Republican part
in twain and permitted the free trad
Democrats to take control, with tn
results that are familiar to all tn
people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
PATRIOTIC ACT TO SAVE RAIL
ROADS
[Philadelphia Public Ledg,

philadelphia Public Ledger1
The situation is so grave that the
question of whether many companies
can financially survive or must perish
depends solely upon the attitude of the
President and the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The crisis is extreme. Nearly $780,
100000 of railroad securities are in
default of interest, which greatly ex-
ceeds the amount for any other year
in almost two decades, In addition to
the defaults of interest. hundreds of
millions worth of railroad stocks that
recently paid dividends are paying
none to-day.
Europes war has driven European
investors to the necessity of selling
billions of American railroad securi-
ties, provided our exchanges open and
give them the opportunity to do so.
This means that for years to come 1t
will be impossible for American rail-
roads to procure one dollar of capital
anywhere in Europe.
With the cost of needed capital
steadily rising; with the taxation i'm
posed upon railroads 100 per cent.
greater in the last dozen years than
taxation upon other properties; with
cost of operation steadily increasing,
the failure of the Interstate Com
merce Commission to permit an in
straight to disaster.
Now the railroads will make one
more appeal for higher rates, but very
properly they go first to the President
1t is a condition which demands the
co-operation of all the great agencies
political, administrative and finan-
cial. 1t is a condition which involves
the future of every other industry as
we'll as the railroads.
| The hOur has come in this war
| troubled day when the Interstate Com
merce Commission should face about
and advance freight rates without ar
gument. Nothing that the President
could do, nothingNthat Congress could
do, nothing that all our bankers anc
trades bodies combined could do
would so instantly lift every business
to a higher plane of prosperity thar
quick rise in rates.
1t would be notice to the whole
world that the United States means In
this crisis to preserve its institutions
intact, and to permit them to live In
prosperity. Such notice would dc
what nothing else will be able to dc
toward persuading Europe to keeI
our securities.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion can now deliver a fatal blow tc
American trade, or 1t can by an act OF
patriotic duty in one day start thou
sand industries to humming and send
back to work many thousand idle
men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
POLITICAL SIDE[lCHTS

DO you suppose that If William
Finn had seen a ghost of a show of
defeating Brumbaugh that he would
have permitted Mccormick to head
the fusion ticket?
Reports that the Democratic
State committee will publish Roose-
velt's speech assailing the Wilson Ad-
ministration as a fusion document are
incorrect.
-McCormicks remarks assaiIine
the auditing department of the State
government, which is controlled by
Bull Moosers, are still being talked
about
One of the most enthusiastic sup
porters of the fusion plan was ex-
Congressman L. f. Acheson, who has
been sore ever since Governor TeneT
beat him for Congress.
The Public Ledger appears ia
have made a very cold analysis OF
the whole fusion matter.
Bull Moosers desiring Jobs are
requested to file them at the McCor-
mick headquarters before the Demo-
cratic rush begins.
1t is to be hoped that the likeness
of Mccormick that will be put on the
Washington party banner will be an
improvement on that shown on the
Palmer r-McCormick Leagues $162 af-
fair.
The enthusiastic support given to
fusion in Lancaster county Bull
Moose circles is impressive.
Palmer says only death can take
him out of the race for Senator. He's
mistaken; the people will throw him
out.
Bradford county used to be called
the enemy's country by Republicans
But things are different now. Same
with Somerset.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
PROMISE AND PERFORMANCES

~ VERY merchant and business
man, large or small, knows that
- ii is not right and does not pay
to make sales or gain a tenn
porary advantage at the expense OF
truth and sincerity. The Democratic
party made promises before election
that it either did not contemplate per-
forming or finds itself incompetent to
fulfill.
The people were promised that the
cost of living would be reduced when
the Democratic experimentists knew.
as any thoughtful citizen must have
known, that the high cost of living
was beyond the control of the Demo-
cratic party or any other political
party.
Civil service was endorsed and ex-
tolled only to be flung into the scrap
heap. while here in PENNSYLVANIA
offices were sold to the highest bid
ders.
The Panama Canal plank was bod
lily thrown overheard, spikes, splinters
and all.
The tariff, the pet theme of the
Democracy, was to be placed on a
revenue producing basis, but the fact
is that it is drawing SIS, 900, 600 or
$100,0OO,O00 short of the govern
mental needs. Now the people are
10 be taxed in order to pay the rum
ming expenses of the government
Instead of fulfilling their promises
TO conduct the government along wise
and economic lines, these Democratic
theorists are about to pass the most
outrageous and extravagant river and
harbor steal that any party at any
time has had the temerity to even sug.
gest.
Another increasing and extravagant
idea is the little matter of paying s25..
100000 to the blackmailers of CoIom-
bia as a salve to their wounded feel
ings and because they need the money
II they need it worse than the United
States. as a result of the incompetence
extravaganza and experimental man
agement Of Uncle Sans affairs during
the past eighteen months CoIombis
must indeed be in sore straits.
Imports to the United States under
the operation of the Underwood tarif
law for ten months increased s1O2..
47s,621. according TO a table of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce In the same period. as shown
BY figures from the same source, du-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. DR.. ]. Gray Bolton, of
Philadelphia, will sail for home in a
short time. He has been in England.
j. A. Swearer. of Pittsburgh, has
been elected president of the Eighty
fifth Infantry Association.
Horace A. McClung, former Iegis-
lator and chief deputy sheriff ofIAIle-
gheny county is critically i'll.
Mayor Joseph Cauffiel. of Johns
town. has been elected chairman of
the Cambria County Home Rule
League.
DIR. w. NJ. Davidson. Pittsburgh
school superintendent. says it does OF
hurt bit to have children discuss the
war.
Francis Fisher Kane, United States
district attorney at Philadelphia, un-
derwent an operation in Philadelphia.
Paul Clayton, Philadelphia busi-
ness man, has been made head of the
Shepperd firms affairs in Philadel-
phia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11

sonal organ of the Democratic
i candidate for Governor, who
hopes to he benefited by the
withdrawal of his Washington party
rival, declared to-day that the self
effacement of Dean Lewis was most
patriotic and high-toned act. But not
a word is said about the failure of
y. Mitchell Palmer. the Democatic
candidate for United States Senator,
10 withdraw in favor of Clifford
Pinchot, the Washington party candi-
date for the same office.
If the whole fusion scheme. as con-
tended by the Mccormick boosters. is
to eliminate what they are pleased to
term Penroseism, why is it that they
do not combine their forces in favor
of Mr.. Pinchot? Surely it is as inn
portant to defeat Senator Penrose by
a combination of the two parties as it
is to elect the Democrtic candidate for
Governor by such a combination.
1t will probably be found that a
large majority of the members of the
Washington party are quite as intelli-
gent and able to see quite as far as
the Democratic bosses who are now
endeavoring to use them for their own
purposes.
1t was expected in the camp of the
reorganized Democrats THAI the an.
nouncement of fusion would stampede
thousands of voters to Mccormick, but
the fact is that the selishness of the
whole proposition is so apparent that
the Washington party voters are al
ready declaring themselves in favor of
the Republican ticket.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11

ties paid on imports decreased s3O,-
1900 which is more than so per
cent of the deficiency for which the
Administration is preparing to levy
special taxes attributed to the Euro
pean war.
Not only is the Democratic Admin
istration piling on additional taxes
and increasing the burdens of the
people, but through its foolish free
trade policy it has closed the mills and
hit the business of the United States
blow from which it will take some
time to recover.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
TOO MUCH TINKERING

An expedient of very doubtful wis
dom was resorted to when the emer-
gency currency act was amended SO as
to enable Southern cotton growers to
obtain cash for a part of their crop
and at the same time hold it for high
er prices than are likely to be afford
ed for long time to come, as result
of the European wars destruction of
the export market for cotton. The
amendment opened the door to vast
variety of crazy schemes for the con-
version of property into forms of
money by the aid of the government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11

Manifestly, one Vance C. Mccormick is
not pleased with the Progressives of
the Auditing Department of the state
government. He declares that he is the
little man to do the auditing If the peo-
pie will only give him the chance. But
what must his fusion associates on the
Progressive ticket think of this refiec-
tion on Auditor General Powell?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11

the lateral pipes across the paved
street into the park would have
amounted to more than the saving in
the present contract. At all events.
tho Council has done well in recon-
sider1ng its original action and the
future will doubtless demonstrate the
wisdom of their conclusion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11

A. Mitchell Palmer continues his bean
shooting attack upon Senator Penrose,
among other things calling attention to
the Senator'S absence from Washington
on his campaign trips. Wonder what
the people think of Palmer with the
nerve TO criticize Penrose for doing
what he is himself doing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
AN EVENING THOUGHT

Give. and 1t shall be given unto
you: good measure, pressed down.
shaken together. running over.
shall they give into your bosom.
For with what measure We mete
1t shall be measured to you again.
Luke 6:3s.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
NWCal s. R4IRSSFESAR
IFrom the Telegraph of Sept. IL, 1864.
Another Killed On RniIroad

WHIIaM UIIery, brakeman on the
emmigrant train on the Pennsylvania
day. 1t is believed that he was stand
ing on top of the cars as the train ap-
proaened Petersburg. and not observing
that point, his head was struck by the
timpers with such force as to cause his
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
RObs Cellar

The cellar of Mr.. Cotterel on the COR
ner or Dewberry alley and Third street
was entered and robbed of a large
amount of butter. bread and other ar
been committed by some hungry per-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
no YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg engines run the
power plants for Cuban sugar
plantations?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11
IF LEWIS. WHY NOT PALMER? ?

1HE esteemed Patriot. the per-
sonal organ of the Democratic
candidate for Governor, who
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-11

Many fishing parties go to Wild
wood Park this fine weather, where
the condition of the water has no
effect on the catches. Carp, catfish
and eels are in the lake in large num-
bers and it is not infrequent to catch
from half-dozen to dozen fine fish
in an afternoon. Even carp of the
smaller size bite we'll and 1t is said
that those from six to eight inches in
length are much better than older fish.
which take on the taste of the muddy
bottoms upon which they feed.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-07-03
RACERS READY
FOR BIG MEET
MOTORCYCLES cIUs RACES PROM.
isE TO Be SIC EvGNT
SATURDAY.
Mary Riders 81 This City md othsr
Places Rave Enterso-More
Expected To-Day

With the time for Independence
Day motorcycle races drawing near.
Interest In the event continues TO
grow. Yesterday both the track man
aver and chairman OF the race COM
mittee we're beseiged Nlth applca-
lions Tor entrance blanks for the race
10 10 the present time they have
number OF entrants for each OF the
seven Races and Indications are that
By ths time for closing The entrance
blanks. thare will b. a greater nun
Der OF riders entered than IN any pre-
yious race meet that has ever been
held In this section.
Yesterday evening the riders were
on the track practicing and toninE up
their machines In order 20 Eet the
comes for the start
Not only are local riders becoming
Interested In the event. but riders
from Washington. Pa. Steubenville.
Marietta and several other points are
nrinE Inquiries as 10 what rules will
govern the event Last evening the
track was not IN the best OF condition
owing 10 the recent rains that have
fallen, but with good weather today
and tomorrow the course will be in
nrst class copdition and AZ for making
the fastest possible time.
All members OF the club are urged
TO attend the meeting this evening as
several important matters will be dts
cussed and Il IS likely that. II time
can be had for the event. another will
be added to the program.