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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
PALMER IN HORNETS NEST
EPhiIa d alnnla Innnirar

A, Mitchell Palmer. free trader, foe
of American shipping and wreckers of
Pennsylvania industries, stirred up
a hornets nest when he assailed the
Pennsylvania Protective Union and
demanded an investigation at the
hands of the Senate committee on
privileges and elections. He has got
a prompt answer from Treasurer
Campion, of the Protective Union.
That union was formed to get rid of
just such pestiferous persons as Mr..
Palmer. Pennsylvania wants protec-
ton for its industries and its work
lngmen. Mr.. Palmer wants to abolish
protection; considers it unconstitu-
tional; is the advocate of free trade
with the closed mills that it brings in
its train. He boasts that he was the
author of the deadly iron and steel
schedule of the near-free trade bill.
Since the Protective Union considers
his attitude one that is destructive to
Pennsylvania interests, 1t Is in the
field to defeat him and all who think
with him, and elect not only Senator
Penrose but members of Congress who
represent Republican policies
To this extent the union is a politi-
cal body. But its work is confined
entirely to the printing and distribu-
tion of facts and arguments devoted
to the one great issue of the cam
paign. The union offers it's books to
the committee, but it stipulates that
at the same time the immense expen-
ditures of the Palmer Mccormick Lea
que shall be barred to public inspec-
ton. And that is an offer that will
not be accepted. To permit the trac-
ing of the vast sums that were placed
through the counties to secure the
nomination of Palmer and Mccormick
would open up a scandal that the dis
| tributers of the funds would not dare
to face.
Incidentally, the reply of Treasurer
Campion informs Mr.. Palmer that the
union is not composed entirely of Re-
publicans by any means 1t is made
up for the most part of small manu-
facturers and in its membership-and
fighting the election of Palmer--are
numerous Democrats and heretofore
| Progressives.
BY the way. the Democratic vote
that will be cast against Free Trader
Palmer and Money Bags Mccormick
is going to be a feature of the COM
| ing election.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
:, WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William Beeber. a Williamsport
banker is home from trip to Europe
on which he had many experiences
Theodore Voorhees,, president of
the Reading, is on a motor trip
through New England.
-Ex-Attorney General NJ Hampton
Todd is being congratulated upon his
birthday.
The Rev Henry r. Brown. of Sc
wickley, is home from a visit to
Canada.
&C. G.. Campbell. county controller
of Cambria, is getting after people
who put in large bills for bounties on
scalps.
j. B. Sansom, of Pittsburgh, is
secretary of the Old Home Week com
mittee of that city. He is we'll known
among sportsmen of the state.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

Harold Begbie wrote for the Lon
don Chronicle on August 5, few
hours after England had declared war,
this reflection on the Tomorrow of
Europe:
"All that has made this strange ex-
perience of conscious human life in
teresting, ennobling and hopeful has
rested upon commerce; and commerce
has been what it has been because of
two things, credit and good manners.
Where is credit now? What banker in
London, what English merchant, ever
dreamed week ago to hear of such a
thing as moratorium? And where
are good manners gone? Look for
them in Asia, but not IN Europe. AT
every Christian frontier you can pick
up broken treaty and a dishonored
bond.
"Mr. Norman Angel told me this
morning that out of this war--'every-
body fighting and nobody wanting to
fight-two changes of transcendent
importance will emerge. We shall
have a Cossack Europe, and New York
will henceforth be the center of credit
Russia must win. She calls million
sixteenth century peasants from the
fields, and Germany mows them down.
Another million take their place.
Death again. Another million. And
yet another million of these sixteenth
century peasants. And when 1t is all
over. those who are left will go back
to their fields.
But Germany, France, England,
particularly England and Germany,
where will they turn when the million
dead are shoveled under bloody soil ?
The bricks and mortar of industry
may be still standing: but where will
credit be found? And what will the
millions of starving factory hands be
doing? How shall we get upon our
feet? Where is the clockmaker who
will mend the smashed wheels and set
the pendulum swinging once again :?
Happy the Russian peasant who will
go back to his sixteenth century and
his field telling the time by the sun s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
DISAPPEARING CULM BANKS

HARRISBURG is especially inter-
- ested in a recent bulletin of the
= United States Geological Sur
vey which discusses the culm
conditions throughout the anthracite
coal regions of Pennsylvania. For
many years the great culm banks
were considered a nuisance, but they
are now serving a very useful pur-
pose. Not only are thousands upon
thousands of tons of good coal taken
from the Susquehanna river after
every food. but the culm banks con-
sist in the main OF coal dust so fine
that 1t is being pressed into small
bricks or even burned in its powdery
form on special CRATES, in which COM
bustion is assisted by forced drafts.
Commenting upon the shrinking cuIm
hills. the Literary Digest says:
"As a result of these changes the
old heaps are vanishing and new ones
are not being formed" This is a phase
of the matter which most concerns
Harrisburg. For several years the
river coal industry has been growing
in importance and the deposits in
AfOil VI nave proven OF
great commercial value. How much
longer this industry will continue re-
mains to be seen in view of this state
ment in the official bulletin of the
United States Geological Survey:
There is at present a market for
almost any grade of anthracite that
will burn, and no more coal goes TO
the culm- bank except for tempo
rary storage and subsequent re-
covery by washers. These ranges
of artificial hills, unsightly monu-
ments to former waste, are con-
tributing their share to the total
coal production and are rapidly dis
appearing Even the waste from
the culm- bank washers is being
utilized. for IL Is flushed into the
mines and partly fills old workings
where 1t cements together and fur
ntshes support to the roof when the
coal previously left for pillars is re-
moved.
Starting in a very modest way, the
reclaiming of the coal from the river
has grown in proportions year after
year until there are now organized
companies delivering thousands of
tons to factories and mills which util-
aze this coal on CRATES especially pre-
pared for the purpose. The pumping
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
LAFoLLETTE's DEFEAT

- VIDENTLY the people of Wis
- consin have grown tired of the
experimental government set up
by La Toilette and his followers.
La Toilette has given Wisconsin an
elaborate and expensive system of
State regulation. Commission after
commission has been created under
his dictation until the taxes paid by
the farmers have been increased from
s2.000,O00 to 1000, 900 a year, Wis
consin being one of the few States that
taxes real estate for support of the
Commonwealth. The benefits have
been doubtful.
Evidently the people of Wisconsin
do not believe that La Toilette has
made good, for onTuesday of this week
they defeated his candidate for United
States senator and gave a handsome
majority to Governor McGovern, who
is La Follette's most vigorous oppon-
ent in the politics of the State. The
struggle which eliminated in the
ter, owing to the break between Nc
Govern and La Toilette when the for
mer permitted the Roosevelt forces in
the Chicago convention to present his
name for temporary chairman, thus
dissipating whatever chance La Fol-
lette may have had for the honor.
The people of Wisconsin have seen
La Toilette going up and down the
State begging for personal endorse
ment through his candidate. and they
have turned away from him to vote
for McGovern, whose ideas are not so
radical.
It is quite apparent that theoretical
and experimental legislation, costing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
A BROKEN PLEDGE

V PRESIDENT MARSHALL
~ makes the unqualified state
ment in an authorized inter-
view at Washington that there
will be one candidate for President in
1916, and, continues the Vice-Presi-
dent, his name happens to be Wood
row Wilson"
President Wilson himself is main
tanning a noncommittal attitude and
refuses to be quoted on the question
of a second term. We read again
from the Democratic national plat
form of 1912:
We favor a single Presidential
term and to that end urge the
adoption of an amendment to the
Constitution making the President
of the United States ineligible for
reelection and we pledge the can
didate of this convention TO this
principle.
Rejecting upon this plank of the
Baltimore convention, which is now to
be thrown into the discard, the last
paragraph of the Vice-President's
statement is significant. He says:
Lightning rods already up may as
well be taken down and preserved
for future use; Democratic light
ming will not strike a rod in 1915.
The last clause of this concluding
paragraph - Democratic lightning
will not strike a rod in 1916"-is pro-
phetic.
The Vice-President is right. This
country is on its way back to protec-
ton and prosperity and sane admins
tration under the Republican party.
Even now distracted business and the
thousands of idle workingmen are i'm
patiently waiting the third of Novem-
Der that they may register their first
great protest against a theoretical and
impossible administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

station at North street is supplied with
river coal and a number of the public
utilities also use the same fuel. 1t is
therefore a matter of more than pass
ing interest to Harrisburg that the
culm banks are disappearing and that
this industry will gradually shrink
and pass away.
Under the circumstances 1t might
be wise for the Department of Public
Works to consider whether 1t is worth
while to establish so many wharves
along the river wall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

Influential newspapers and expert
enced statesmen throughout the coun-
try are protesting against the proposed
Government ownership of a merchant
marine. They realize the dangers of
such ownership and are also opposed to
direct appropriations and the levying
of direct taxes upon the people for the
creation of a Government steamship
line. American capital and American
energy can take care of the situation
without the paternalism of a Demo-
cratic administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
EVENING THOUGHT

The real patriot in this country
is he who sees most clearly what
the nation ought to desire. who
does what he can by plain and
brave speech to influence 1t to that
desire and then urges and sup
ports the laws which express it.
George William Curtis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

not be able to weave mourning wells
quick enough. Five or six great ma
tions will echo with the sobs of
mothers and wives.
"I had to read and reread that
preface in the hope that I might con-
vince myself that this future shepherd
has other than the instincts of
butcher"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

We observe that the Civic Club, one
of the strong pillars of the Greater
Harrisburg idea, has gone on record
against the proposed water main
through the River Front Park. Much
of the splendid progress of Harrisburg
during recent years has been due di-
rectly and indirectly to the many good
women who are banded together for
the promotion of the improvement
plans of the city. They can aid greatly
in the betterment of the parks by sus-
tanning the officials through an
awakened public sentiment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

a lot to maintain and rendering little
service to the people. is not so popular
as it once was even in the stronghold
of so-called 'progressivism" that
Wisconsin has been long looked upon
as being.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
THE AMERICAN POSITION

[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
So convincing are the arguments
against a Government marine that the
plan should be discarded irrespective
Of the British position. 1t is impera-
tive, nevertheless. that the Department
of State keep the nations record clear
and Yield not one iota of the great prin-
ciples 1t has always espoused in re-
gard to the rights of neutrals on the
again the comprehensive powers Eng
land claims as a consequence of her
control of the oceans. We fought. one
war on the issue Repeatedly we have
protested against the narrow view that
because two nations are at war they
may hamper and cripple the commerce
Congress Of the whole Government
ownership plan would offer an excellent
opportunity, for vigorous reassertion
can position.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

Whatever comes of the fusion nego-
tiations now under way between certain
bosses of the Democratic and Progress
sive parties it must be evident to the
rank and file of these parties that they
are being used for the promotion of
personal ambitions instead of great
principles We predict that any fusion
such as is now contemplated will mean
the finish of the Progressive party and
the end of the rule of the little bosses
in the Democratic party.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
UNBELIEVABLE CRUELTIEs

~ NE finds it hard to believe that
cruelties such as Mrs. Herman
~ Hartjes, wife of a well-known
American banker in Paris, re-
ports have been perpetrated by the
German army now invading France.
Mrs. Hartjes is quoted as saying:
saw many boys with both their
hands cut off so that il was i'm
possible for them to carry gun.
EVERYWHERE was filth and utter
desolation The helpless little
babies. lying on the cold. wet
cement floor and crying for proper
nourishnent. was enough to bring
hot tears to any mothers eyes.
There must be some mistake.
Surely those in command of the Ger
man forces have not so far forgotten
their manhood. The German people
as whole are as kind-hearted as any
in the world. Their love for children
is proverbial. We in America hesitate
to believe that they have stopped to a
practice that made Leopold of the
Congo the most despised creature in
the world and brought down on his
head the wrath of all civilized nations
But II they have, God help them when
the day of retribution shall come.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
AS OTHERS SEE US

1.-TWO visitors to Harrisburg from
another State were crossing one
= of the river bridges the other
evening and were overheard as
follows:
This is going to be one of the most
attractive and inviting cities in the
United States. The treatment of the
River Front is we'll designed and har-
monious throughout"
That's right" said the other, but
it's just what we should expect of the
capital of great State. Harrisburg
is measuring up to its opportunities
and the expectations of the people of
the Commonwealth"
These remarks are typical of many
that are heard and indicate the wide
spI cad interest among all visitors in
what is being done to make this city
fit seat of government for an i'm
perial Commonwealth.
We fear, however, sometimes, that
our own people fail to appreciate
what has been done and what is being
done to further improve and beautify
ana acorn the HdNuidt INeNhiSS VI S'A'S
city. But when the big undertakings
now nearing completion shall have
been finished and the debris removed
so that the people may see just what
has been accomplished, they will feel
a still more justifiable pride in the
way Harrisburg has made good.
Meanwhile the State officials are
going ahead quietly with their plans
for the creation of an imposing Capt.
toll Park, the proper setting for the
great Statehouse on Capitol Hill.
1t is proper and fitting that we
should look forward to the proposed
celebration next year which is to sig
nalize the achievements of the last
twelve years. In this celebration all
classes of our citizens should have a
part. 1t ought to be a popular dem
onstration suggestive of the Old Home
Week festival, and during the winter
plans should be formulated to provide
for an interesting occasion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
SEEING AMERICA

[From the Pottsville Republican,
While the war lasts there will be
thousands of Americans who will de-
eide to take thsir vacation in seeing
their own country and leaving their
TIPS at home
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

Gradually the exiled Americans are
getting back home from the war re-
gions of Europe, and we suspect see
America First" will be popular slogan
with most of them next year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
IN HARRI SBURC Fifty
YEARS AGO TODAY

From the Telegraph, Sept. s, 1851
Crossings Repaired
The crossings at Market and Third
streets are undergoing repairs, which
is highly necessary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
Cantura of Atlanta

Nashville. Sept 3.-General sher-
mans advance entered Atlanta yester-
DAY morning at IL o'clock and the
whole federal force will enter to-day
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
Rel,eIa Naar NASHVILLE

Nashville, Sept. "A rebel force
estimated at 1000 men with twelve
guns were within twelve miles of this
city, on the New Freedom Pike at day
light this morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

William Robinson of Franklin coun-
ty, had his pocket picked. near the
depot. while awaiting the arrival of
a Baltimore train.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
Soldier Killed

We learn that a soldier was killed
in an orchard near Camp Curtin. He
is said to have been shot by person
engaged to guard the orchard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
NtWGSf s. FRH11IRssTSHtSSAe
rom the Telegraph. Sent.

Reading. Pa, Sept. S.-Quite an ex-
element prevails in Reading to-day.
The bells are ringing, cannons firing
and the people In general are retoic-
ing over the victory at Atlanta.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
You Never Can
Toll

Miss Passay has
Just returned from
a fishing trip in
the mountains.
Did she catch
him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
OUR DAILY LAUGH
A. the Clubhouse

At the Clubhouse
Do you know
much about golf?
Absolutely moth
ing. I wouldn't t
even know how to
hold my caddy
properly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
DO Y0U KNOWS
That some of the large iron ore

That some OF the large IRON ore
mines in Spain are drained by
pipe lines which were manufac-
tured in Harrisburg?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

This is the season of the year when
checks of all sizes and colors are being
received at the State Treasury. The
stock taxes are coming in and some of
the small or inactive companies are
paying on a nominal value. Some
taxes are for less than a dollar and
vet they are made out with as much
care as a 100000 check from the
Pennsylvania or the Reading.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

2 YICE-PRESIDE MARSHALL
~ makes the unqualified state
v ment in an authorized inter-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03

81 think I have had a dozen watches
with main springs broken over and
above what l usually have in August"
said a jeweler yesterday. When he
was asked to account for it he said
that he thought 1t must have been the
series of thunderstorms which we
have had lately. These storms have
been marked by a great deal of loose
electricity and it has upset a good
MANY Watches
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-07-02
Notice

For the accom- mediation of the
men in the harvest field the
South Side Barber shop will be
kept open on Sunday fore noon
of each week until further notice.
H. E. Hoon, proprietor.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-07-02
Berries

Tuesday Thursday and Sat-
urday of each week. Leave
your standing orders at
Braden's
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-07-02
THE NEWS

Has full line of Stationery suitable for advertising the
Meade County Fair. Every merchant and business man
in Meade should this styve stationery from until
fail time
We will appreciate your order
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-07-02

home in Waukegan, Illinois, last
Monday.
Rube Orr returned to his
home in Anadarko, Oklahoma,
last Monday.
Lest you forget it, there will
be a free picture show again
next Saturday.
On account of the rain Tues
day the harvest hands all had a
day off Wednesday.
Mrs. F. A. Frame, of Hutch
lnson, spent Monday of this
week with Meade friends.
Get that baby's smile before it
is gone forever. Have photo
grapher Backe to help you.
Saturday is the 4th. Every
body in the harvest field will
celebrate by cutting wheat.
The Barker property, located
in the south part of the city, has
been sold to Frank Crocker.
Miss Emilia Read left for Chi.
cago last Wednesday, to be gone
the remainder of the sum mer.
L. M. Day, of Greensburg,
candidate for District Judge, was
in Meade few hours Tuesday.
FOR SALE. Acme Hodge
Header-good as uew--Inquire
at First National Bank. IS 1t
Mrs. H. +. Hoon and son,
Evan, went to Hugoton Tuesday
for a two-weeks stay with rela.
tives and friends.
Carload of gas engine oil, cyl
inder oil, and hard oils. All are
guaranteed to be Pennsylvania
Stock. See Roy Twist.
Miss Lura Smith returned last
week from Parkville, Missouri,
where she has been attending
school for the past year.
A photo for every birthday, is
a nice souvenir in after years.
Have Backe, the Meade photog-
rapher make the pictures.
]. B. Mcclure of Fowler, last
week sold his elevator at Missler,
to The Equity Elevator & Supply
Co., of Meade, possession to be
given on or before July 10th.
Herbert X. Smith, of Wichita.
and r. V. Allen, of Dodge City,
both representing the Farmers
and Bankers Life Insurance Co.,
are in the city this week. Mr..
Smith expects to remain here
and at Plains for several weeks.
Next Sunday John Hantla will
fill the M. E. pulpit. John was
a graduate of the Meade high
school last year. He has since
been attending school at Winfield
and has also had charge of con-
gregation at Freeport. His
Meade friends will be pleased to
hear him.
The main hall of the Pitts.
burg Manual Training has been
destroyed by fire. A card from
Frank Carlson dated June 30
says, Building destroyed by
fire this morning and fellow
student killed. Property loss
to State about 100000. School
will use City high school balance
of summer term. About 1850
students here. None will leave. /"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-07-02

A photo for every birthday, is
a nice souvenir in after years.
Have Backe, the Meade photog-
rapher make the pictures.