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Last week at Buffalo, Wm. Randolph Hearst was nominated by the Independence League and the Democratic Party for governor of New York. If elected, it will be a calamity for the State and the Nation. Oct. 2, 1906 In this state (Penna.) there are three parties in the field - regular "Gang Republicans" Stuart and Murphy - Lincoln Republicans or "Independents" Emery and Black endorsed by the Democratic Party, and the Prohibition headed by Castle and Young. Emery will likely win as the Gang is odious with corruption and the Prohibitionists do nothing but sling mud. Johnstown, Pa. Oct. 2, 1906 If I had the running of our public schools I would hire middle aged men and women that are just parents to teach school. A young man or woman just home from or out of a Normal school is not fit to teach. They are lacking in understanding that comes through experience alone. Secretary of War Taft has taken possession of Cuba in the name of the United States. That means the final annihilation of the island and more people for the money power and "trusts" of the United States to reduce to slavery. When I was a boy (1854) liquor sold at three cents a glass. People kept it in the house and had it in the harvest field and yet a drunken man was seldom seen. I do not recall to mind a single drunken man till after I was grown up. Liquor was good then. The science of adulteration and poisoning was then unknown. If we want temperance the State and National governments must get out of the business. So long as liquor is manufactured and sold by the authority of the State we can have no effectual temperance. It must be made a crime to manufacture and sell it as a beverage. Hummel Oct. 2, 1906 Dedicated in Harrisburg yesterday, the State Capitol cost over $13,000,000. Roosevelt, president of the United States, was the orator of the day. His address was along the same line of policy that Bryan has advocated since 1896. Government control and supervision. October 6, 1906 Stewart, Young, Stewart, Houk, Leake, Murphey-Republicans - were having their meeting in theatre (Cambrieu). All were on the defensive and apologists for the villaines and crimes of the Republican Party-of the State and Nation heretofore committed. Nothing new said - not one word of cheer for the infamous tarriff lauded to the skies. Not one word of encouragement for the Temperance cause. The whole crowd were evaders and prevaricators of the truth. My father was a wise man, a good man and a Christian. He was not rich; died very poor, yet he gave the land in Juniata County on which is built Strausers Church, and the land for the graveyard. In all more than two acres, and considerable money besides. He commenced to teach school in 1821 and taught every winter till 1867. He used to talk to us by the hour when in the humour and tell us of how things used to be. He knew in his time nearly all the great men that lived from 1800 to 1878. He was intimately acquainted with the life and growth of our republic and our institutions political and religious. He said the most splendid ten years in our history dated from 1850 to 1860. I am firmly convinced thst our greatness reached its limits in 1880. Since then we have been on the down-grade intellectually, morally, and spiritually. The moral fiber of the people is weakening. They have made money and pleasure their god and now we are reaping the harvest of sin. Levi Hummel 1906. |