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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
WHY is THERE FAILURE:
Government Staggers Because 1T
Afraid to Stand Up

Government Staggers Because it In
Afraid to Stand Up
From the Outlook1
Business is disorganized. New en-
terprises are not begun; old enterprises
are curtailing their business; willing
workers are laid off; every morning
employed: dividends are reduced or
passed altogether. The crops are prom
Using; conditions demand prosperity.
But business is not good; prosperity Is
censpicuously absent.
Mexico does not want war: the
United States. does not want war; and
yet we are. in state of restrained
has been looted; scores of American
citizens have been killed. The Ameri-
can flag has furnished no protection
for protection Americans have fled to
English and German flags. The hos
tility of the MeXicans to the United
States is increased; their respect FOR
the courage and efficiency of the United
States is diminished ,si That our re-
Spain are not more seriously strained
Is due to their unparalleled patience.
That we are not embroiled in actual
warfare with Mexico is due to the
neighbors. No one wants war, and vet
we are on the edge of war.
Why?
We have had the responsibilities and
duties OF sovereignty thrust upon us
in the Philippines. We have fulfilled
those responsibilities and performed
those duties with notable success. We
have substituted law for anarchy, and
domestic government partially rep
resentative for. a foreign government
wholly despotic. We have subdued
hostile tribes, made life and property
public school system, built good roads,
promoted commerce and industry, and
furnished sprotection to a helpless peo-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
POLITICAL SIDELIcHTS

The mint appointment in Phila-
delphia appears to be making some
what of an odor in Democratic cir
cles.
DIETRICH ought to have had a wire
less connection with the Imperator
Pretty nervy for Democrats to try
to fuse with Bull Moosers on Con-
gress when the Colonel says Wilson
is no good.
-Pinchot has not yet answered the
-Colonel's stand for Perkins.
Wonder IL DIETRICH will follow the
Colonel IL they read him out of the
party with Perkins.
No one seems to have any more
doubt that there Is a good referendum
clause in the third-class city act.
The remarks in Washington yes
terday about Palmer's absenteeism
were not given much space in the
Patriot to-day.
Berry can give Palmer some
points on long distance job holding.
Adam Joyce is now being boosted
for the Philadelphia mint. Upstate
Democrats are demanding to know
why 1t must go to Philadelphia.
The Democratic machine bosses
appear to have trouble getting their
men to think alike.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

~ ITIZENS and taxpayers or the
western section of the city-the
~ important territory north OF
Broad street-are watching-with
much interest the River Front devel-
bpment. They believe that now is the
time to complete the work and are
decidedly of the opinion that the op-
portunity to obtain the filling material
necessary from the excavations for the
subway at Second and Mulberry
streets should not be neglected. Fill
ing material is about as hard to pro-
cure in Harrisburg under present con-
ditions as gold in Alaska and this fact
should be. considered in any nego-
tiations for the transfer of the ma
terial in sight for the grading of the
slope in the narrow stretches north of
Calder street.
The rapid progress of the con-
tractors on the river wall suggests the
necessity for immediate action to the
end that the material from the ex-
cavations for the subways shall be
made available without further delay
1nasmuch as the last park loan is
available for park purposes, Superin-
tendent Taylor will be justified In max
ing any reasonable arrangement fol
utilizing the 10000 or more loads ot
dirt that will come from the Second
and Mulberry street excavations
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
GOLD EXPORTS
gold EXPORTS
w 7 RITING to the Telegraph {
M correspondent asks:


\k/ correspondent asks:
w Why Is 1t that the ex-
port of gold to Europe is
causing so little concern now,
whereas few years ago the coun-
try was threatened with panic
large quantities? Doesn't this show
that business is on sound basis?
The answer is simple, and 1t does
not indicate sound condition of
business
On the other hand. it shows that
business is so slack in the United
States that money is plenty and cheap.
The manufacturer is clearing his
decks, rather than creating new obli-
cations. He Is out of the money
market. Consequently he doesn't
care where the gold supply goes
few million, more or less, means moth
ing to the business of the country to-
day.
But If trade were booming and gold
were being exported at the prese IT
rate we might be having full oppor-
tunity now of testing the elasticity
of our currency system and the prac-
tical benefits of the new banking law
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
HUNTING FOR AN EXCUSE

" "HERE is more than a difference
of views in the refusal of the
Il Democratic City Committee of
Philadelphia to endorse the
Palmer-McCormick platform = al
though that would be serious enough
in itself to excite comment.
Democrats in Pennsylvania have been
known to overlook more than Is in
volved in this platform controversy.
If the Democratic leaders of Philadel-
phia had been really desirous of CIV
ing Palmer and Mccormick their full
and unqualified support there would
have been no open row over resolu-
tions.
The truth is, the Ryan leaders of
Philadelphia are looking for an ex-
cuse to desert the heads of the State
Democratic ticket who maligned them
in the primary fight And the dis
interested voter will wonder why Pal
mer and Mccormick are so anxious
for the support of men who only q
few weeks ago they were calling
party traitors" and corrupt poll
ticians."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
WHO HAS BEEN FooIING HIM ?
VVyHo has been misleading Presi-
M dent Wilson?
w Or has he. like an East

w ssss T'3:sa'
Indian fakir, been gazing into
the dream mirror of his own making
until he has hypnotized himself into
q world of fancy and hallucination?
In an effort to bolster up his own
courage and to let the people of the
country know that business may ex-
pect no mercy at his hands, he took
occasion, on the day of the greatest
mercantile failure in the history of the
United States, to tell a party of visit
ing editors that his game of badgering
is to continue unabated. Not one word
of sympathy for the head of the great
house that fell yesterday. or the hun
dreds of creditors who stand to lose
heavily but fatuous reiteration of the
assertion that the administration is
determined, willy nilly, to put through
the program of experimental legis-
1ation upon which it has decided.
The President says that he is Gin
formed" that Congress and the ma
zion are with nlm
Congress certainly, for the Presi-
dent has it bound hand and foot. But
the nation, never. There never was a
more unpopular President than Wood
row Wilson is to-day. He has wrecked
the nations prosperity at home and
has made 1t the laughing stock of gov
,ernments abroad, He will learn how
much the nation is with him when the
November elections overturn the Demo.
cratic majority in the House and put
an end to the one-man rule that has
been the bane of the country ever
since the last Inauguration.
'The nation is on the eve of a bust.
ness revival" he told those to whom
he spoke. This is in sharp contras
with his attitude of a week ago, wher
he asserted that no business depres
sion exists, except in the imagination
of business men. And. he continued
when the tariff was passed it wal
found that the readjustment was pos
sible without any serious disturbanc,
whatever
Was ever a supposedly intelligen
pnan guilty of such stupid assertions
business revival! No serious disturb
Iance! AS we'll say the San Francisc,
Eearthquake shook down no buildings!
The iron and metal market is tn,
barometer of trade in this section. Th
official records show that of the AZ.
coke and anthracite furnaces in th
Trptfa1 Gt@fa~ o,,Iv 1u7 ur~~o T., III. =
June 1. Eighteen additional furnace
went out of blast during May; among
those blown out were three at Buffalo
N. Y: one at steelton.. two In tn
Pittsburgh district. two in the She
mango Valley. one in West Virgins
and the rest in Ohio and the West.
The production last month. accord
.ins to The Iron Age. was at the rate o
Less than 25.o00.o0o tons . year. To
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

day it is at the, rate of less than
24,o00,0o0 tons a year. showing a fall
ing off of about 80 per cent. below the
same period last year. - : =
The daily pig iron production dur
ing the month of May averaged less
than at any period since 1907. except
during May. 1909.
The railroads show a continued fall
ing off in traffic. the Panhandle passed
its dividend this week. there have
been bank failures in Chicago and else
where. and a great mercantile failure
in New York affecting thousands of
banks all oyer the United States. Our
20 per cent. basis. Business men say
they will be content If they weather
this year without loss; their thoughts
of profit are for the most part gone.
Textile mills are closed or operating
OIL quarter time. Our exports are fall
ing off and our imports are increasing.
which means that foreign laborers at
starvation wages are supplying our
wants while our own workingmen are
idle.
And the reductions in living ex-
penses which the low tariff were sup
posed to bring have not materialized.
Prices are just as high now as ever
and work and wages are hard to get.
Vet in the face of all this Wilson
says "the country is on the eve of a
great business revival"
Somebody has been fooling the
President, or he has been fooling him
self. and now he wants to fool every
body else. Unfortunately for the ad-
ministration. the White House dope"
loses it's potency outside of the imme-
diate official circle. Every new dose
of it teaches normally Republican
country the futility of entrusting its
affairs to men antagonistic to business
principles and reckless of it's interests.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor Blankenburg, of Philadel-
phia, has gone to the Poconos on his
vacation trip.
Mayor Ira Stratton, of Reading,
says that the referendum vote showed
conclusively how Reading felt regard
ing the paid fire department.
Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong, of
Pittsburgh, says that people should be
allowed to sleep n parks at night If
they want to. Some people do not
agree with him.
Mayor S. III. Walker, of Altoona,
is moving to have more paved streets
in his city.
Mayor Joseph III. Cauffiel of
Johnstown, is going after the public
utility companies in his city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
1T CAN'T BE DONE
BY Wing Dinger

Every day there are words that we use
In our speech, which to write would
confuse
Now there's two, to and too,
But pray tell how would you
Write "There are in our language three
tuse?
Just moment, I've only begun;
Now we'll have just little more fun.
One and won you can say.
But please show me the way
To write there are two ways to spell
wun."
Don't be peevish and slam shut the
door,
I've another that surely will floor
For, fore and four sound
Just the same, but I'm bound
I can't write there are three styles OF
foor.'
And on this one I'd like to get straight
And relieve my poor brain of much
.waight.
Ate. and eight sound the same.
But I'm sure I can't frame
In writing there's two kinds of aight.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
PENROsE CRUSHED
[From the New York Sun. ]

IFTUIH INbW UThs sun. I
In the whole gallery of political vir-
tue, no deed more elevating, no example
more inspiring, can be found than the
stern rebuRe administered by Herbert
Parsons, of this fortunate State, to the
wicked and abandoned Boies Penrose,
of PENNSYLVANIA.
Himself the product of purity in
politics that dazzles with It's whiteness.
the practitioner of a partisanship i'm
maculate in its idealism, the supporter
of q factionalism irreproachable in its
methods, Mr.. Parsons finds the narrow
fields of the Empire State too small to
contain his natural and carefully cul-
tivated superior Righteousness.
How heartening to the Hon. Clifford
Pinchot must be the knowledge that
he commands and receives the unquall-
fed endorsement of Mr.. Parsons; how
crushed must Mr.. Penrose be to learn
of this phenomenon of New York!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

of a strong government 1t fears that
the strong government will be des-
potic government 1t seeks refuge from
that peril in weakness.
1t confronts great industrial organi-
cations. 1t does not believe In making
the Government strong enough to regu-
late such organizations and compel
them to deal justly with the people. It
therefore endeavors to disorganize
these business organizations and con-
vert each one of them into two or more
competing rivals. Business is disor-
ganized because it Is the avowed policy
of the present Democratic Administra-
tion to disorganize business
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
BELLS FOR LIFEBoATs
[From the Engineering News.l

From the Engineering News.]
Submarine signal bells as equipment
for ship lifeboats are suggested by the
experience of a lifeboat of the burned
transatlantic steamer Columbian. This
boat drifted for two weeks directly in
the path of transatlantic liners, and her
occupants saw several steamers, but
were unable to signal them. There
were fifteen men in the boat, and eleven
died before rescue came. Had ships
been equipped with submarine signal
receiving apparatus and had the drift
ing lifeboat of the Columbian been
equipped with a submarine bell, 1t
could have signa1ed passing steamers a
| long distance away. 1t is stated that
| the sound from a submarine bell rung
by hand can be detected at distance
| of several miles
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
THE HOBBLED SENATE

lamentable state of feeling has
grown up in the Senate. The attitude
of some of the members toward pend
ing legislation is one of fatigue. These
Senators recognize that their opportu-
mites of usefulness are limited to
pruning away excessive evils. Feeling
that as regards the main issues they
can do nothing but submit to pres
sure and ratify the program forced
upon them they are beginning to
clamor for hasty release from their
humiliating plight.-New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

Next Tuesday the Chamber of Com
merce will have a luncheon meeting at
the Board of Trade building, and e. S.
Herman, president of the City Planning
Commission, and one of our best
known business men, will outline plan
of action during the fall and winter
for persons interested in sales and ad-
vertising. Mr.. Herman is student of
publicity in business, and his talk at
the luncheon will doubtless be we'll
worth hearing. Members have been in
vited to bring guests, and while many
of the members of the Chamber of
Commerce are out of the city there
will be a good attendance notwith-
standing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

pie from foreign aggression 1t Is now
proposed to acknowledge ourselves un-
able to continue that protection with
out aid, and to invite Japan and Great
Britain to share with us in furnishing
it; to abandon the attempt to protect
ance of the many and the misgovern-
ment of the few. and to leave this peo-
Pile unaided to struggle their way as
best they can from childhood to ma
turity
Why?
The answer is simple This Demo-
cratic Administration does not believe
In strong government 1t is afraid
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26


comprehensive bit of advice:
"Don't worry; be cheerful"
L. ..AgnI have gone further and
said that cheerfulness is not only con-
ducive to mental and physical comfort
in summer but a promoter Of good
health all the year around.
The habitual Crouch" is sowing
the seeds of ill-health in his own
body Bad humor gives imperceptible
strokes, to the delicate fibers Of our
beings and the human machine suf-
fers to degree so minute that we
do not at the time note it, but which
persistently followed will in the end
result in the disaster of physical
breakdown:
It isn't always easy to be cheerful,
but the greatest means to that end
is a habitual consideration of ones
many blessings and constant repres-
sion of the tendency to dwell on
wrongs or misfortunes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

The esteemed Palmer Mccormick
bulletin of this city says that DR.. Brum-
baugh must be defeated because he is
the choice of an alleged political ma
chine. but not a word about the hand
picked candidate of the White House
machine in this State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

Now that the Improvement of the River
Front between Paxton street and Iron
alley is nearing completion, all inter-
ested citizens will be able to see for
themselves just what the treatment of
the river frontage means.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
AN EVENING THOUGHT

Verify I say unto you, Except
ye turn, and become as little chill
dren, We shall in no wise enter into
the kingdom of Heaven.-Matt.
1873.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
sherIdan at Hanover

Richmond, June 20 2 Sheridan is re-
ported at Hanover to-day, moving
towards James river with the remnant
of his command The capture of the
entire party is confidently anticipated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

Banks are almost choked with funds,
but what good is money when capital
has lost all confidence In investment
under the present administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
or THE CiVLWAR
From the Telegraph of June 26. 1854.
Meet the Enemy

Marietta Ga. June 10. = The enemy
made a demonstration this morning
from Big Shanty towards Canton, on
our right, and were met by division
of ours, when they precipitatetly with
drew. Our army Is being daily rein
forced by slightly wounded and conval-
Yalescent troops.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

Jack Johnson Is going to fight as
Freuchman. No protest from this side
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

Tomorrow Dan Rices Great Show
will make Its grand entree into this
city and will exhibit In the afternoon
and evening near the cotton factory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

Not Flattering
George You
ought to be salts
fed; 1 gave you a
nickel because
you caught me
kissing your sis
ter.
Johnnie - Most
fellers give me a
dime. 1t amt very
f1attering ter Sis
when you only
think it's worth
n nickel,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
IN HARRI. .sBURc FTN
YEARS AGO IC-DAY
[From the Telegraph of June &c, 1864. !
One Session q Day

But one session per day VIII be held
mer The schools will open at a. m
and close at IL m. The new arrange
ment went into effect to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
BE CHEERFUL

NOTED physician gives as his
~ chief means of keeping cool
[ \ these hot days this brief but
comprehensive bit of advice:
MDan,t Worry. he cheerfIIl -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26

A Sure Way
You say you
married Fred to
get rid of him 2"
Yes-he got to
be an awful nuis-
ance hanging
around the house
every night, 1
hardly ever see
him now
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-26
FILLING MATERIAL

~ ITIZENS and taxpayers of the
western section of the city-the
~ important territory north of
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-24
Rabbi Brill Delivers Lecture.

Rabbi Abram Brill Of Meridian
was in the city Tuesday night.
and favored many hearers
with a lecture at Temple B'nai Is
rael. The subject of his discourse
being Inside the Cup" Any one
who has read this popular book Of
the day can appreciate how beau
tifuIly he spoke, and what feel
ing Of good will was left in the
hearts of his hearers. His lecture
was good food for thought. Rab-
bi Brill is a fol chile speaker and
a thorough scholar. and those
who were so fortunate to hear
him considered it a rare treat.
Rabbi Brill spoke at the College
Wednesday morning, leaving for
his home during the day.
We hope Rabbi Brill will visit
our city often in the future.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-24
SACRED CONCERT TO BE
RENDERED THIS EVENING
Special Musical Program Ar
ranged for First Presbyter-
ian Church.

A sacred concert will be given
at the First Presbyterian church
this evening beginning at 7:45
O'Clock. Everybody is cordially
invited to attend.
The following is the program:
Mixed Quartette Incline Thine
Ear. F" Himmel; Doxology
Praise Cod" Invocation; Male
Quartette-"0ne Sweetly Solemn
Thought" Scripture Reading in
Concert-23 Psalm; Mixed Quar-
tette-"A Hymn of the Home
land" Sullivan; Hymn Just as
| am" Elliott; 0ffering-Prayer
of Dedication; Solo--"A Perfect
Day." Carrie Jacobs Bond; Ser
mon by the Pastor, DR.. Eggle-
ston 10 Minutes; Male Quar-.
tette-"Send Out Thy Light, "
Gounod; Soprano Solo Selected
Hymn Once was a Stran.
GER" McCheyne; Benediction.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-24
Will Be Electrocuted Unless
Verdict is Interferred
With.
APPEAL WILL Be TAKEN
Becker Was Confident Of Ac-
quittal-Jurors Shed Tears
Mrs. Becker Collapsed.

New York. May q. Twelve
men today for the second time
decided that Charles Becker was
the arch-conspirator responsible
for the Rosenthal murder, which
nearly two years ago awoke New
York to a realization of corrup-
ton in the police department and
opened a new era of police re-
form.
Becker, once a police lieute-
nant, was found guilty of muir
der in the first degree. Only a
pardon or interference again by
the court of appeals can save him
from following to the electric
chair the. four gunmen who shot
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler,
early on the morning of July l6,
1911. The jury today decided
that the gunmen were Becker's
agents.
Tears streamed down the fore.
mans face as he announced the
decision and tears stood in the
eyes of several others jurors.
They had agreed that the corrob-
oration which the district attor.
ney failed to present at the first
trial to support the stories of
Rose, Vallon and Webber, the
three accomplices who turned
informers, had been furnished
by new witnesses at the second.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-05-24
Mississlppians Will Have to
Conform to Rules of War
Department
GENERAL ORDER ISSUED
Regimental System is Abolished
and Battalion Formation
is Established.

Jackson, Miss, May q. Act
ing under instructions from Gov.
Rrewer, and in conformity with
a general order from the War
Department, issued with a view
to readjusting the militia of the
several states to a practical ba-
sis, Adjt. Gen. Scales today is
sued a general order to the Mis-.
sissippi National Guard which
will result in a complete reor
ganization of that body. For
the past several years the Mis-
sissippi National Guard showed
on paper as being made up of
two regiments, when there has
never been the regimental
strength required under the re
gulations Of the War Depart
ment.
The order today abolishes the
regimental system altogether
and instead establishes the bat,
talon formation. Incidentally
the order officially retires to the
supernumerary list some 20 ode
officers, including the brigadier
general commanding, two colo.
nels, two lieutenant colonels,
several majors, captains anC
lieutenants.
Columbus will be included il
the First Independent Battalion
of Infantry. DIR. r. G. Molloy
of Columbus, has been named
first lieutenant of the Medica
] Department.