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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-04-24
Argentine Imports
Beef To This Country

During January 64.a2O quarters
Of frozen beef, 1924, ,O4s quarters OF
chilled beef, 218.11O carcasses OF
Of lamb, 1000 carcasses OF sheep
~ 913 carcasses of lamb. 1000 cases
1850 900 pounds) Of butter and
600, 900 bushels of corn were sent
hv Argentine to the United States
This should be interesting news TO
the American farmer.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-04-24

LITERARY DIGEST contains an in
teresting symposium upon the re-
cent work of Billy Sunday. These
newspaper comments are based on
the evangelist'sinvasion ofsthe east.
1t is shown in this. article that in
eighteen cities last visited Billy. con-
verted 167,O36 and collected S267>
GIT.
It is difficult to credit either Of
these figures. bnt they are vouched
for and may be authentic.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-04-24
Twelve Hundred
Men Employed
On State Roads

State Highway Commiss o r
William R. Hoy announces that
there were now 1880 men working
on the highways being built under
the direction of the highway depart
ment. This is nearly double the
number employed a short time ago.
and indicates the effort being put
forth by the department to hurry
along highway construction.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-04-24

Grape juice is to have sober and
serious rival. The Salem Fruit
Union of Oregon is preparing to
make loganberry juice this year in
largr quantities.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-04-24
Lo! The Rich Indian

The per capita wealth Of the In
dian is approximately $3.50. That
for other Americans is : little more
than 1880. TIE lands owned BY
the indians ars rich n oal. samnsr.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
Plain Letters by a Plain Man

Messrs. Vance C. Mccormick and A.
Mitchell Palmer,
Gentlemen:
At Washington Park, New Jer-
sey, on August 10, 1912, Woodrow
Wilson. then the nominee Of the
Baltimore convention, made the fol-
lowing public statement:
our platform is not molasses to
catch flies. 1t means business; it
means what it says; 1t is the utter
ance of earnest and honest men,
who intend to do business along
business lines"
HOW HAS THIS PROMISE BEEN
KEPT?
Paeans of praise attended the
christening of this Baltimore plat
form of which Woodrow Wilson
was the godfather and William
Jennings Bryan the parent. 1t was
hailed as n bright rainbow of hope.
1t was lauded as greater in its new
message of freedom than the
Magma Charta, the Declaration of
Independence, or the Emancipa-
tion Proclamation.
And in two years time this Won
derful document has been torn to
tatters and shreds, not by the OPP
posing party, but in the house of it's
friends. Deserted by sponsors and
parents, 1t has become an outcast
orphan. Plank after plank of this
wonderful Baltimore platform has
been shattered until now naught
can be of service to it but a wreck
ing crew to clear up the frag-
ments.
Can you tell us from the stump
why substantially every promise of
this document so lauded by candid
date Wilson in 1912 has been treat
cd with contempt by the men who
made it?
One enunciation of the Baltimore
convention of 1912 says in ringing
tones:
1--WE denounce the pronigate
waste of the money wrung from
through the lavish appropriations
of recent Republican Congress,
which have kept taxes high and re-
duced the purchasing power of the
peoples toll We demand return
to the simplicity and economy
which befits a democratic govern
ment"
Was all this impassioned utter
ance merely ''molasses to catch
flies?"
If not, why have the expendi-
lures at WASHINGTON reached pro-
portions never before known? The
total ordinary disbursements of the
national Government for. the period
covered by. the Roosevelt and. Taft
administrations ranged from S471,-
900. 900 In 1902 TO $6S2, 600, 600 in
1913. Just before the ending of the
last fiscal year Secretary McAdoo
issued statement that the total
ordinary expenditures of that year
would be $703, 100000.
When the new tariff, before the
European war had appeared on the
horizon, failed to produce even the
revenue that it's authors nad guess
ed at: when the income tax like
wise fell short, even after a thou
sand inquisitors had been prying
around to find people who were
supposed to be evading it.. a wild
hunt was begun to find things to
tax. WHY is THIS?
Why should a nation at peace be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
EXPERT ADVICE

- ARRISBURG has been particu-
n larly fortunate in the fact that
4 1 at the outset Of the compre-
hensive campaign in the in
terest of public improvements insti-
tuted in 1901 experts in the several
departments affected were employed.
These experienced professional men
made a careful analysis of our munich
pal needs and upon their recommen-
dations the city has advanced beyond
the most sanguine expectations of its
public-spirited citizens.
Now and then we hear a complaint
of too much expert advice, but it will
not be forgotten that most of our diff
fculties have arisen when the advice
of the expert has been disrcgarded.
Perhaps the most important work
still to be completed is that affecting
the park system and it is interesting
to note that Warren II. Manning,
whose wide and intelligent vision has
already done so much for the city, is
in Harrisburg this week consulting
with City Commissioner Taylor, the
Planning Commission and other Off
cials regarding the work now in prog
ress.
Mr. Manning has great interest in
the city's development and his services
cannot be too highly appreciated by
our people. y modest and unassum-
ing gentleman he has brought to the
people here a large experience and a
vision of the future which means
much for the adornment and improve
ment of Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
THE TREE


(Arbor Day, October 23.)
L love thee when thy swelling buds
appear
And one by one their tender leaves
unfold.
AS If they knew that warmer suns
We're near,
Nor longer sought to hide from Win
ter's cold:
And when with darker growth thy
leaves are seen
To veil from view the early robin S
nest
l love to lie beneath thy waving screen,
With limbs by summers heat and
toll oppressed;
And when the autumn winds have
stripped thee bare,
And round thee lies the smooth,
untrodden snow.
When naught is thine that made thee
once so fair,
I love to watch thy shadowy form
below,
And through thy leafess arms to look
above
On stars that brightly beam when
most we need their care.
JONES VERY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
POLITICAL SIDELICHTS

Dean Lewis ought to look things
over a bit before he leaps.
Some things are probably being
said about Dean Lewis at Democratic
headquarters.
Lebanon countians are holding
very well attended rallies these fine
evenings.
The Colonel is to be in our midst
Just an hour.
Wonder if some of that crowd at
Butler to hear Mccormick was not
there to find out when he was going
to have the idle car works start up.
washington officials say in letters
that Palmer had the Pittsburgh Grand
Army men fired from pension exam
inerships, He says he did not APP
parently Palmer is not in touch with
Washington officials.
The Philadelphia Republican city
committee is out with a first call to
voters.
-Brumbaugh will receive a great
welcome in Schuylkill tomorrow.
-Penrose is speaking in South Beth
lehem to-day.
w. ]. Clark has been named as
Washington candidate for the House
in the Norristown district.
The Philadelphia Produce Ex-
change head of dairy interests, has
endorsed Penrose.
Morris. McCormicks Philadelphia
friend, sets good example by holding
on to city and federal jobs and saying
he will not quit.
-Brumbaugh is rather prompt in
answering questions as to where he
stands.
-R. r. Beggs. Thirty fifth ward
washington chairman in Philadelphia,
is out for Brum mbaugh.
The Central Democratic Club will
march in Reading Friday 1t will have
its meeting Monday to arrange little
details
Central Democrats are wondering
IL they will have to pay their own fare
to Reading.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
WHAT DOES MCCORMICK WANT 1T
hOR2
-[Philadelphia Inquirer.l

The salary of the Governor of Penn
sylvania is $4,000 a year
Vance c. Mccormick spent over
$4,000. according to his own sworn
statement, to defeat Michael j. Ryan
and secure the Democratic nomination
for Governor for himself
More than the salary for three yearsl
gone for the nomination alone! HOW
many times the salary he is eXpending
now to influence the election it is inn
possible to guess. The public can put
this and that together and do it's own
| figuring.
When a candidate is willing to spend
| a fortune on a nomination and pre-
Isumably another fortune on an cleo
ton, he must want to be elected
lpretty badly. The question naturally
Iariscs, Why?
! And when the owner of a political
! organization like Mr.. Finn, who has
been preaching principle" to the peo-
| pie, takes the candidate of his or
ganization out of the way and turns
the Organization in for Mr. Mccormick
the same question-Why?-v ma
| turally bohs up again.
Mr.. Finn must have some personal
object 1t could not have been mere
principle for the professed prin-
! ciples of the Washington party and of
the Democratic are separated as wide
| ly as are the North and South Poles.
So what is this personal object that
| Mr.. Finn has?
The betrayal of the Washington
party by it's candidate, Mr.. Lewis; the
stating of Mr.. Mccormick by Mr.
Elinn; the effort to turn the Progress
sives over to the candidate of freeI
! trade Democracy-all this savors of
something not altogether wholesome.
From the Lewis betrayal, from theI
Finn Mccormick deal, from the Mc-I
Cormick money bags one turns with
relief to the lifelong record of square,
ness, of honesty, of conscientiousnes ess,
of approved public service made byI
Martin c. Brumbaugh.
OF certainty, the pathway of safety
and integrity leads where BrumbaughI
| treads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. r. r. Kirby, prominent Phila-
delphja physician, has been appointed
surgeon to the Masonic home at Eliza
bethtown.
r. B. Habgood. who will run for
the Legislature again in Mexican, was
an active member in 1907.
e. B. Coke. Jr., son of the coal
operator, has provided a memorial
ward in hospital at South Bethle-
hem.
DIR. G. /. Furbush, of Philadel-
phia, has returned from four months
spent in Maine.
John Dalzell, former Congress
man. from Allegheny, is taking a big
interest in the political campaign this
year. y,
The Rev. DR.. S. A. K, Francis has
Just celebrated fifty years as pastor in
Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
"AIN'T 1T GREATf"
BY Wing Dinger

You can't beat this weather, it's glori-
Gus.
Why shouldn't most everyone say
A dozen or more times, in passing,
Gee wiz, but amt this fine day?"
There's one chap. however. who's silenc-
ed,
hate him. and so do you, too,
It's he, who forever asks. ''Is it
Quite cold or. hot enough for you?"
But somehow or other when weather
Is pleasant. like it is these days,
We don't seem to care just how often
Each day folks sound forth words of
praise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

saddled with a war tax of $780,
100000 or more which is taken from
the pockets of our citizenship?
Why instead of this continual
augmentation of taxation, has
there not been "a return to the
simplicity and economy which befits
democratic government"
Was the whole plank of the Bal
timore platform given above simply,
''molasses to catch hies?" To the
tax ridden people ii certainly looks
very much like 1t.
ONE OF TIE COMMON PEOPLE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
THE HOME GARDENS

MO activity of the Civic Club.
IN probably, is doing more for the
heautifying of Harrisburg than
the home garden contest, prizes
in which were awarded to fifteen boys
and girls yesterday.
Through this contest hundreds OF
backyards are made beautiful with
bush and vine, where, without such
impetus as the Civic Club has pro-
vided, would be found ugly, unwhite-
washed fences and weed-grown
wastes. More than 500 baclSyards
were cultivated and made spots of
real beauty by the youngsters of the
city, reports Mrs. Ed. S. Herman,
chairman of the home garden COM
mittee. Members of the Civic Club,
under Mrs. Herman's direction, paid
regular visits to the homes of the con-
testants and gave encouraging sug-
gestions here and there to help the
bays and girls to greater endeavor.
Not so much in the immediate ef-
feet of making backyards more beau
tiful is such activity on the part of
women valuable, as in
the slow but sure development of men
and women of the future who will
care" whether things throughout the
city are right or wrong.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

A. Mitchell Palmer was hurriedly
summoned to Washington to consult
with President Wilson regarding a
letter which the President is about to
issue endorsing A. Mitchell for United
States Senator from Pennsylvania. In
asmuch as Mr.. Palmer was chosen by
the President in the first place a
further endorsement was hardly neces-
sary but the White House twins need
all the help they can get
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
Y. w. G. a. INSPECTION

IO-MORROW all day the COM
pleted Young Women's CHRIS
= tian Association building, Fourth
and Walnut streets, will be
thrown open for inspection to the
public.
That the hundred thousand and
more dollars expended ~ it's construc
tion was wisely used a trip through
the big building will show anybody.
And doubtless there will be thousands
of people who will want to have this
fact proved to their satisfaction, for
the Y. w. C. A. is distinctively n
public building" The money for it's
construction was raised in a whirl-
wind campaign and nearly every man.
women and child in the city gave some
portion, little or great, according to
their means.
1t was the girls of the shops and
I the mills and factories who probably
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

worked the hardest to raise money for
the new building, and many a tale
was told of self-sacrifice at that time.
Tomorrow these girls and everybody
else in the city will be given an OPP
portunity to see what their efforts and
their self-sacriice have produced.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

President Wilson and former President
Roosevelt was given credit for having
done more for peace than all the
Bryan treaties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
AS KNOX SEES 1T

ORMER SECRETARY o f
STATE KNOX is manifestly not
impressed with the boasted peace
policies of the Wilson admins
tration. He discusses the "watchful
waiting" attitude of the President in
Mexico and declares that we COM
mitted an act of war against the peo-
pie in Mexico by taking possession of
Mexican territory. AS a great con-
stitutional lawyer and former Sec
retary of State, Mr.. Knox declares
that the landing of troops at Vera
Cruz was an unconstitutional act and
when the President applied to Con-
gress for a Justification of his uncon-
stitutional act in thus making war
upon a friendly Power, the Republi-
cans in Congress were the ones who
protested against the act, and who
voted against the commission of bel
ligerent measures against the already
bleeding Mexican nation. Continuing
the former Secretary of State said:
Meanwhile, what has our watch
full waiting" done for us? In the
first place it has led us, by some
course of reasoning too subtle for
me to understand, to land troops in
Mexico, to shed American and
Mexican blood to retain, up to the
present, possession of Mexican ter
ritory Aside from the mere eX-
pense it has cost u.s. and which our
country is sufficiently large to ig-
more, great as ii is, and aside from
the loss of American and Mexican
lives without just cause or excuse,
our occupation of Mexican territory
has cost us, and is costing u.s. the
good VIII of the great bulk of the
Mexican people who have any views
az all upon the subject, and this
loss is found not alone among
Huerta, but also among those who
have participated in the so-called
Constitutional movement Again, 1t
has cost us our influence and
prestige as the sole arbiters of diff
ferences on this continent and in
this hemisphere.
An unbiased view of the whole
situation leads to the conclusion
that all the hunger, all the suffer-
ing all the rapine, all the blood
shed with which Mexico has been
months are directly traceable to the
failure to recognize the Huerta
Government and the removal of the
embargo Mr.. Taft placed upon the
sale of war materials to Mexican
bandits. This is heavy RESPONSE
bility. which the administration
cannot shift, which must rest
where 1t falls.
This is a striking Indictment of the
administration coming from one
whose knowledge of international law
is equal to that of any American
statesman Mr.. Knox held the poll
cies of the Democrats in no way re
sponsble for the peace which this
country now enjoys in the midst Of
the European war and deplored the
war tax on the people of the United
States. Former President Taft was
declared to. be a much greater and
more successful peace advocate thar
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVIL WAR

From the Telegraph, Oct. 20, 1S6l.l
''Sheridan's Ride"
War Department Washington, Oct.
20.-General Sheridan defeated Long
street at Cedar Creek. A heavy attack
was made by the enemy on the Union
Army when General Sheridan was alb
sent but on his return the men re-
gained courage and defeated the
enemy, capturing forty-three guns, p
900 prisoners and 100 wagons.
Peace Convention
Cincinnati, Ohio, oct. IA peace
was held here at which
fifty delegates were present,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
Do YOU KNOW 2

That Harrisburg engines are
driving the fans for mines in
both hard and soft coal regions?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
AN EyENING THOIrCuT

For our light affiietion which is
for the moment, worketh for us
more and more exceedingly an
eternal weight Of glory.-II. Cor.
All.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
Peace COnNentiO
IN HARRi SBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TODAY
[From the telegraph, OCT. 20, 1sOl.l

From the Telegraph, Oct. 20, 1S6l.l
Soldier Dies Here
Joseph Enger Fifty-fifth Pennsyl-
vania Regiment died at his home in
this city. Illness contracted in the
army was the cause of his death.
Runaways
Two or three ruHaways caused by
frightened horses occurred in the city,
No damage is reported.
New Market House Open
The first market in the new Market
house erected in West Harrisburg, will
be held on November 1.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

How many American cities would
pay $6,00O,OO0 like Brussels, to get a.
mayor out of pawn? - Philadelphia
Evening Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

w good roads that it is with
surprise we receive the news
that newspapers of that State are ask
ing the question:: rs New York to
become a State without roads, or at
least without roads worthy of the
name?"
With election only a little more than
two weeks away, this question of the
future roadbuilding policy of the rich
est State in the Union is coming in
for great deal of discussion and may
be an important factor in the election
results.
It is said that if present methods of
construction and ways of financing
them are adhered to, it is difficult to
figure what the State eventually is
going to do for new roads, according
to experts. The present system has
been thoroughly denounced and vari-
GUS remedies suggested, but that IS
about all. The system itself under
which the roads are, built is through
the issuance of fifty-year bonds. But
the Governor has stated, and Is being
borne out by engineers, that the roads
of macadam which are being con-
structed will hardly last more than
ten years.
In the words of the Governor, New
York State is engaged in building
1900 miles of road which will be
worn out forty years before they are
paid. for"
The inevitable result, if such a policy
is persisted in, it is pointed out by
engineers, would be no roads, since
at the end of ten years another bond
issue would be necessary, and so on,
so that by 1854 the State would have
worn out roads which would not be
paid for for 200 years. OF course it
IS not expected that this will happen
but the situation is very seriously re-
garded.
Engineers unite in agreeing that
the chief cause of the trouble lies in
the material used, pointing out that
because of the great increase in heavy
automobile traffic the material used
IS unable TO bear the heavy strain.
One suggestion from a noted engineer
sey, where the automobile traffic is
eleven times heavier than in France,
be followed. This plan is based upon
the creation and maintenance of a
board of engineers similar to the engi-
neers of maintenance of way on a
railroad
Almost every critic of Pennsylvania
roads has pointed to New York State
and told our officials to stop expert
menting and adopt New YorS's sys-
tenn" Perhaps it is just as we'll we
did little experimenting. Perhaps it
is just as we'll we were not in such
haste to adopt New Yorks system"
Clifford Pinchot is somewhat of a
humorist. He declared in speech
day or two ago that If there is any de-
blame for it as any other man. because
NIChe has been unable to keep good times
for you while he is in office" This is
about the worst manifestation of Mr..
Pinchot's peculiar reasoning that we
have vet seen in the present campaign.
Senator Penrose is not only respon-
sible for the depression, according to
Mr.. Pinchot, but he should also have
prevented it Notwithstanding the fact
that the Democratic party overturned
republican policies at Washington
Y. w. c. \. INSPECTION
"O-MORROW all day the COM
pleted Young Women's Chris
- tian Association building, Fourth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

Next Friday will be Arbor Day. Are
you going to plant a tree? And II so
would it not be well to consult your
neighbors along your street to the end
that the planting may be uniform and
the trees selected of the right variety?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

State Labor Commissioner Jackson
issues a public document which claims
that in several hundred industrial es-
Establishments where records have been
kept there are 1851 less employees
AT work than there were a year ago.
What would the record be If a record of
all the industries of the State had been
kent? OF course, the Twin would
claim it was political move, but what
in the world are industries owned by
men of Democratic faith shutting down
or running on short hours for?-Erie
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

Senator Penrose in a colloquy sug-
gested that the Democratic House had
gone so far in the direction of cloture
and arbitrary rulings that 1t would
"cause ex-Speaker Reed to turn over
in his grave and make Uncle Joe
Cannon when he returns to Congress
next year, as he certainly will, look
like q Progressive
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
RunaMaYs
Ncw Mnrket HOUSE Open
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Hon. Clifford Pinchot says The
Washington party is the majority
party of Pennsylvania" 1t was, Mr..
Pinchot.> two years ago, but there is
no Washington party now, as Bill
Finn took it into the Democratic
camp a short time ago. - Chester
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20

California is having a hard time
on account of the war. being unable
to export her wines to Europe Tor
importation to the United States
Chicago News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
OUR DAILY LAUGH

From her point OF
view
Men are like
corks, q girl
declares,
And she Is right,
no doubt
At least some
pop q u ! t g
easily,
While some must
be r a.w n
out.