Terms, 82.00 a Year,in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Angust 2, 1889.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EDITOR.
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Democratic County Committee, 1889.
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“« S.W. atrick Garrety
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Centre Hall Boro .J W McCormick
Howard Borough..........cccee vevesenns M I Gardner
Milesburg Borough ..J Willis Weaver
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PRI : 2d Wainiieesinnisnassnssenn J H Riley
“ dV... ..Jackson Gorton
Unionville Borough. ooo... s J Bing
Burnside..... William Jieppie
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College .... Daniel Grove
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...Samuel Harpster jr
Gregg, 8. Pi dts nssstdored Geo. B Crawford
5 N.P. 2
..D W Herring
.J. A. Henderson
.ooeed J Gramle
.G L Goodheart
Hugh McCann
...R C Wilcox
....Aaron Fahr
H McCauley
hsessirirnsiiseesinn ....Levi Reese
WM. C. HEINLE, Chairmam.
ES SRG,
How He is Getting His Revenge.
A few years ago when the Reading
Railroad company was in tight papers,
which it usually was under FRANKLIN
B. Gowen’s administration, that gen-
tleman secured the appointment of Mr.
JouN WANAMAKER as one of the trus-
tees selected to effect a reorganization
of the company. It was not intended
that their functions should extend any
further than the accomplishment of
this object, and when it was accom-
plished all of them withdrew except
Mr. Wanamaker. He insisted that
he should be elected one of the Board
of Managers, much to the surprise and
disgust of his associates, who couldn't
bring themselves to admire his dispo-
sition to force himself in where he
wasn't wanted. However, he didn’t
succeed in his design and has since
been harboring toward the Managers
bitter feelings that ill become a Chris-
tian and Sunday School Superintend-
ent.
As long as he was in private life he
hadn’t a chance to wreak his vengeance
on the offending company, but as soon |
as he got to be Postmaster General he
found his opportunity. He took from
the Reading railroad every bit of gov-
ernment patronage he could officially
control and gave it to a rival company.
He used his official power as an in-
strument of his personal spite, the same
as he has used his office as a means of
promoting his private business. Those
who observe Jon rolling up the whites
of his eyes in his Bethany Sunday
School would scarcely think that he is
this kind of a man.
A Candid Pension Raider.
Private Darzery, who holds a high
position in the Grand Army of the Re-
public, denounces in a letter to the
New York Sun the treatment with
which Commissioner of Pensions Tax-
NER isthreatened, calling it persecution,
and warns the Administration against
interfering with the course which Ta-
NER has pursued for the benefit of the
soldiers. He claims thatthe Adminis-
tration is where it is on account of the
promises made in regard to pensions.
“We won the campaign,’he says, “and
elected General HarrisoN expressly on
the promise of larger pensions. This
alone elected HaRrRisoN ; nothing else.”
Then with a fine burst of patriotic fer-
vor coupled with a word of warning,
hegoes onto say: “Let TANNER redeem
the promise, if he will, and Con gress
follow suit, or the Rupublican party
must die in disgrace for betraying its
poorest, noblest and most worthy sup-
porters, the soldiers.”
+ DarnzeLL is unquestionably a chuckle-
head and just the sort of fellow to
blurt out the sentiments and purpose of
that Pracorian Guard, the G. A. R.,
which assumes the power of pulling
“down and putting up the Presidents of
the Republic for the plunder that may
be in it.
——
The German stiikers recently
tried at Breslau, were convicted, and
thirty-two of thent were sentenced to
seven years imprisonment.
is a high tariff country and, as is the
case in the United States which is
blessed with the same beneficent sys-
tem, thereis discontent and disturbance
among the working people. They are
not having this trouble to any extent
_in free trade England.
—QuaY is unanimous’ for Speaker
Boyer for State Treasurer, and when the
Boss is unanimous there is a correspond-
ing unanimity in the party he controls.
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Justly Indignant.
About as indignant a set of people as
exist upon this globe at the present
time, are the tax payers of Ferguson
twp. The assessment in that town-
ship was made by two competent as-
sessors, who, according to the reports,
valued real estate in many instances at |
its fill value, and in some at more than
it would bring at public sale if time
payments were allowed. To this val-
uation Commissioners HENDERSON and
Decker coolly added 8 per cent., and
then fixed the place for holding the
appeals away over at Scotia, in Patton
township, thinking it would prevent
citizens of Ferguson from attending.
The different Grange organizations in
the township sent committees to pro-
test against this injustice, all the prom-
inent citizens attended, and it was the
universal opinion that the increase of overhauled some week ago.
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The Seal Fur Monopoly.
News from Alaska furnishes intelli-
gence of the capture, by the American
revenue cutter Rush, ofa British vessel,
the Black Diomond, which was fonnd
trespassing in Behring sea in pursuit
of seals. The captured vessel belong-
ed to British Columbia, and an effort is
being made by the Dominion authori
ties to induce the English government
to treat it as an offence to the British
flag. 1t is not likely that John Bull
will give it serious attention.
In 1887, under the Cleveland admin.
istration, the same revenue cutter
Rush seized no less than seven British
vessels, the Anna, Dolphin, Grace, El-
la, Saywood, Mary Ellen and the Al
fred Adams, which were caught in com-
mitting the same kind of trespass as
that for which the Black Diamond was
The
8 per cent. made by the Commissioners | British authorities made no remon-
was not only unjust but illegal. When
remonstrated with, Commissioner HeN-
DEReON coolly answered that he owed
Ferguson township nothing—that it
had not voted for him, and that ‘by
the heavens above and "the earth be-
neath, the assessment should stand
as it had been made.” It stood, or has
stood so far, and the insulted tax-pay-
ers of that township, upon whose
property an increased valuation is
placed because they didn’t vote for
HENDERSON when he was a candidate,
are now considering the propriety of
appealing to court. We sympathize
with our friends up there, but sympa-
thy doesn’t do much good in a matter of
assessment when there are two lunk-
heads of Commissioners like HENDER-
soN and Decker. It is possible that
by the time the people of this county
get done paying these two incompetent
officials for insulting them, and footing
the bills they are fastening upon the
county, they will have enough of
Republican rule to last them the bal-
ance of their lives.
Valuing the property of farmers
and others at more than it will sell
for in order to increase taxation with-
out raising the millage, is a little too
thin to deceive any one. This the Re
publican managers will find out.
The Wheat Prospect.
There is an improved prospect for
American farmers who have wheat to
sell. For some years past their profits
in this line of production have been
discouragingly meager, but if the signs
are not misleading the price of wheat
will make a considerable advance.
The crop in Austria and Russia will be
so deficient this season as to cut off
exportation from those countries, while
it is reported to be short in India some
15,000,000 bushels. These are the
sources from which England, the great
consumer of the surplus wheat of the
world, draws the larger portion ot her
supply. The reports of the Agricul
tural Department represent that this
year’s yield of the great wheat produc-
ing States of the northwest will be less
than an average. This fact, added to
the foreign deficiency, is likely to put
the price of wheat higher than it has
been for some years.
——1In looking over a Northumber-
land county paper last week the pro-
ceedings of the Republican Convention
of that county met our eye. Arong
the resolutions adopted was one de-
clariny the unalterable faith of the
convention 1n the tariff as a means of
protection to the working people of
the country. It does not appear
that there was any one present to
ring a chestnut bell. The same stuff
was worked into the resolutions of Re-
publican conventions last year, and at
this date it must have a provokingly
familiar sound to those who are out of
employment or have had their wages
reduced after having been told a year
ago that all that was necessary to fur-
nish them with plenty of work and
good wages was the success ofthe tariff
party. The framing of a Republican
tariff resolution at this time requires
more than an ordinary amount of
gall.
——The failure of the great mer-
cantile firm of Lewis &Co. is the heav-
iest that has occurred in Philadelphia
in many years. It involves losses
amounting to millions, and is widaly
extended in its disastrous effects.
Among other causes that produced
this disaster, all indicating an unsatis-
factory condition of business, was the
tailure of woolen manufacturing firms
with which Lewis &Co. were connect-
ed, which were crippled by the idiotic
policy of taxing the raw materials
used in their Following
closely upon this Philadelphia collapse
comes the failure of BacueLor & Co.,
one of the oldest of Boston shoe firms,
business.
[ with liabilities amounting to nearly a
million and a half. In whatever di-
rection one may look he finds it difii-
cult to see that hooming condition of
business which was promised as a resalt
of the election of a high tariff Pr si-
dent.
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| strance in those cases, and it is not
likely they will in this later instance.
In 1888 very little was done in over-
hauling trespassing vessels in Behring
Sea. The activity of the present ad-
ministration in this matter may be ac-
counted for by the fact that the Alaska
Seal Fur Company has a monopoly of
the fur trade in Behring Sea, and there
is nothing that a Republican adminis.
tration would sooner defend than a
monopoly.
Good-by, Boulanger!
It is gratifying to hear the election
news from France. Last Sunday the
diffierent cantons throughout the Re-
public elected members of the Councils
General, and BouLANGER, whose parti-
sans made a contest in most of them,
carried scarcely a baker's dozen. It
is difficult for an American to under-
stand the nature of a French election,
but it is declared by those who know
how the peculiar thing works that the
result on Sunday has completely used
up BouLANGER as a political factor. One
of the anomalies of French polities is
that a character like BouLANGER—a
thorough humbug both mm a military
and political sense—should have had
any standing at all. He seems to be
now at the end of his tether and out of
the way for some other adventurer to
bob up to the surface, which in French
politics may be expected to happen
at any moment.
——The Commission appointed to
overhaul the Soldiers’ Orphan Schools
have decided to discontinue the Mount
Joy, McAllisterville, Mercer and Ches-
ter Spring schools,which are known as
the institutions run by the Squeers syn-
dicate. For years they have serv-
ed merely as a means of making
money for a set of heartless speculators
who have been banking on the patri-
otic sentiment of the State. They
should have been discontinued long
ago. In factthe entire system, as it
has been conducted for the last decade,
has not been creditable to Penunsylva-
nia.
Down in the Coal Mines.
Philadelphia Record.
Notwithstanding the vast wealth that
flows in Pactolian streams from the coal
regions of Pennsylavania, there is no
portion of the State in which so much
poverty and wretchedness prevail. In
stead of securing a just share of the
wealth created by their labor, the miners
are the victims of a system of cupidity
which wrings the last dollar from their
toil. What with the low wages, the
long intervals of enforced idleness, the
company store iniquity, and other
wrongs and extortions, the condition of
Pennsylvania miners is not to be envied
by their brethren in any portion of the
globe. Although the nominal daily
wages of the miners who recently organ-
ized the extensive strike in Germany is
lower than the wages paid in Pennsyl-
vania, the German miners secure larger
yearly earniugs through more steady
employment, and are far better protected
by the laws from the rapacity of their
employers.
Apart from the demoralization and
misery produced by the wage system,
there is another gloomy phase of human
existence in the Pennsylvania coal mines
in the insecurity to life. A recent num-
ber of Harper’z Weekly contained a strik-
ing picture, in which two miners had
come to tell a poor woman that she was
a widow. The mining regions are full
of widows, made such by disasters which
with due przcaution might have been
averted. At best, the underground oc-
cupation of the miner is attended by
constant dangers. He cannot tell at
what moment he may be suffocated by
noxious gases, engendered by the care-
lessness of superintendent, inspector or
boss, or buried beneath a mass of coal
brought down by the practice of robbing
the pillars of the mine.
Yet the statute-book of Pennsylvania
is covered with laws for the alleged pro-
tection of its miners. Most of this leg-
islation has been in the interest of offici-
alism, in providing a retinue of State
inspectorships, and thus imposing upon
the Commonwealth a duty and respon-
sibility which belong to the mine-
owners.
One of these inspectors, in a report
upon a mine accident in which nineteen
. persons lost their lives last February,
attributes the fatal accidentsin mines in
a large degree to the employment of un-
skillful and inexperienced superinten-
dents. The inspector truly says that it
is an absurdity ‘‘to place persous in res-
ponsible positions in mines who have
had only a few years ora few months
experience. “It is not merely an absurd-
i sively wet weather.
ity, it is a crime to put inexperienced
persons in places in which their ignor-
ance may cost the hundreds of lives in-
trusted to their care.
In a recent report of the State Bureau
of Statistics it is admitted that the laws
to protect the lives and health of min-
ers are not enforced; and to this fact the
report ascribes the numerous fatal disas-
ters in the mining regions. But itisa
grave question whether these laws them-
selves, in their blundering interference,
do not cause much of the mischief which
this report deplores. While the main
object of legislation should be ‘to pro-
tect the innocent against the guilty,”
these mining laws, instead of fixing res-
ponsibility for willful neglect, have
succeeded in subdividing and confound-
ing it to such an extent that responsibil-
ity can scarcely be said to exist at all.
If the mine-owners and operators
should be beld responsidle penally and
in damages for accidents caused by the
neglect of superintendents and bosses,
they would be extremely cautious in the
selection of their servants. When com-
pelled to pay for the loss of life and limb
resulting from the ignorance or careless-
ness of their mine superintendents, the
coal corporations would find it ecomical
to employ men of knowledge and exper-
ience. But when a disaster occurs, and
a cononer’s inquest follows, the respon-
sibility is tossed backward and forward
from State inspector to mine superinten-
dent and boss, and in the confusion the
guilty persons are sure to escape from
prosecution, and their employers from
damages.
By its blundering interference the
State thus increases the danger of mine
accidents. The State inspector trusts
to the superintendent, the superinten-
dent to the boss, and miners and mine-
owners to all three. Itis not strange
that with this divided responsibility
there should be so many disasters in the
mines, and so many poor, helpless and
dependent widowsin the mining regions,
like the victim in the picture above re-
ferred to.
The Country's Crops.
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Summaries Show Their Condition to be
Above the Average.
The Farmer's Review this week will
say: The majority of our crop correspond-
ents report an excess of rain during the
past week, which has interfered corsid-
erably with the harvesting of wheat, and
inclined oats to rust and lodge. The
great present need is dry, hot weather to
bring corn forward and enable farmers
to cut and harvest grain crops.
The prospects for potatoes are very
flattering in all states covered by your
report save in Minnesota and Dakota,
and even in that section the crop promis-
es to be a fair one. In most of the oth-
er states the present condition is consid-
erably above theaverage. Corn prospects
continue good in Missouri, Nebraska,
Kansas and Iowa. The crop has im-
proved considerably in Wisconsin, Min-
nesota and Dakota under recent moist
hot weather. Quite a falling off is no-
ticeable in the reports from Ohio and
Kentucky, however. In Illinois and In-
diana the present outlook is fair. On
the whole the present situation is rather
critical. If cool, wet weather prevails
during the next fifteen days the result
will be disastrous in many fields already
saturated with moisture. With hot dry
weather during that time the crop would
probably be above the average.
The condition of spring wheat continues
good in Towa and Nebraska and fair in
Wisconsin. The crop has improved
since last report in Minnesota, but re-
ports are far from encouraging. Dakota
correspondents report a still further de-
cline in condition, with prospects of on-
ly half a crop. A general decline is no-
ticeable in the condition of the oat crop
in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and
‘Wiscoasin and Kansas due to the exces-
In Kansas many
correspendents report serious damage
from rust, but whether it'will materially
affect the yield for the whole state it is
yet too early to determine. In Kentucky,
Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Dako-
ta the condition has improved slightly
since last reports. In Dakota, however,
it is too late to restore even a fair aver-
age and the crop there will probally be
almost a failure.
‘We summarize the report as follows:
Per cent of conditions as compared with
an average; Illinois—Corn 90, oats 91,
potatoes, 107; Indiana—Corn 91 oats 91,
potatoes 103; Ohio—Corn 83, oats 96,
potatoes 104; Missouri- -Corn 97, oats
100, potatoes 109: Kentucky—Corn 90,
oats 100, potatoes 114; Kansas-—Corn 105,
oats 90, potatoes 109; Iowa—Spring
wheat 98, corn 102, oats 108, potatoes
102; Nebraska—Spring wheat 96, corn
99, oats 92, potatoes 68; Michigan --Corn
66, oats 103, potatoes 95%; Wisconsin—
Spring wheat 93, corn 78, oats 106, po-
tatoet 103; Minnesota—Spring wheat 93,
corn 88, oats 87, potatoes 87;i§Dakota—
Spring wheat 56, corn 98, oats 44, pota-
toes 82.
Determined To Have His Money.
Judge Wilson has a little story that
contains considerable meat. The style
in which he tells it is about as follows:
A man in New York, named Levy, stood
charged with murder. The case appear-
ed to be decidely against him. A few of
his friends collected $5,000, and finding
a man on the jury who was known to
be dishonest, they informed him that if
he would succeed in having brought in
a verdict of murder in the second degree
they would give him the money. Tt was
thought sure there would be a verdict of
murder in the first degree. Well, the
case finally went to the jury, which re-
mained out forty-eight hours. Then a
verdict was returned of murder in the
second degree.
As the story goes, their man, whose
name was Cohen, went to the friends. of
Levy and claimed the $5,000, which
was paid him.
“Look here,” said one of theny
“how was it that the jury was out so
long? Why we were almost frightened
to death.”
“Why there were eight of those d—d
fools wanted to acquit Levy’ said Co-
hen, “but you bet I had them bring in
the second degree.”
——The promise ot “two dollars a
day and roast beet” has failed to ma-
terialize.
How Buying Goods of Wanamaker
Facilitates Appointment to Office.
The Philadelphia clothing house of
‘Wanamaker & Co. is, according to a sto-
ry told by some of the Texas Republi-
cans, again making hay while the sun
of a Republican Administration shines
upon it. On Saturday last Joseph W.
Burke was appointed Internal Revenue
Collector for the Third Texas district.
The manner in which the appointment
was brought about is to say the least, a
little peculiar. He was endorsed for the
p'ace by only one man of prominence in
Texas Republican politics, Chairman
Degress of the State Committee. He has
not been prominent in politics, and the
leading Republicans of the State have
been in some doubt whether he was a
Republican or a Democrat. National
Committeeman Cuney Brewster, defeat-
ed candidate for Congress in the Seventh
Texas district, which includes the Third
Internal Revenue district, and other
prominent Republicans had endorsed for
the place Lock McDaniel, former candi-
date for Congress in the First district,
On account of the disparity in the back-
ing of the two men, McDaniel’s appoint-
ment was confidently expected by those
interested. But Mr. Degress, it seems,
knows a trick or two, and two weeks ago
he proceeded to play his last card. Burke
runs a clothing store in Austin, and is
a respectable merchant, who has the re-
putation of paying his bills.
“Burke,” said the astute Chairman
one recent day, “it is about time to lay
in your fall stock of clothing; where do
you buy goods?’
“Sometimes in St. Louis and some-
times in Chicago,’ said the merchant.
“Well, if I were you,’ was Degrees,s
rejoinder, “I would try Wanamaker &
Co. of Philadelphia. I hear they are a
good firm to deal with.”
So Mr. Burke took the train to Phila-
delphia. He bought a nice line of goods
for his Austin store, and made arrange-
ments for a continuance of the ay
relations thus begun. On leaving “the
store he said to Mr. Robert Ogden, the
business manager:
“By the way, Mr. Ogden, I ama
candidate for the Internal Revenue Col-
lectorshipat Austin, and as I am on the
way to Washington I'd like to make the
acquaintance of Mr. Wanamaker, the
Postmaster-General.”’
“Certainly” was Mr. Ogden’s prompt
response, and he sat down and wrote a
letter to his chief, warmly commending
Mr. Burke as a man and merchant.
Burke came to Washington with the
letter, presented it to Wanamaker, and
in a few minutes was on his way to the
office of the Secretary of the Treasury
with a letter of introduction from Mr.
‘Wanamaker in his pocket. Though the
Postmaster-General had never seen
Burke before, and knew nothing about
him, except what his manager, Mr. Og-
den, had written, he commended Burke
to Secretary Windom as a moral and re-
ligious gentleman, a high toned mer-
chant and worthy Republican. That
was on Friday. The next day Burke’s
appointment was announced at the
‘White House.
To say that the Texas Republicans
who relate this interesting story are in-
Yigmans atthe good merchant from Phila-
delphia would be a mild statement of
the case.
Sullivan’ s Sledge Hammer Blows.
The habitues of the Laclede hotel, St.
Louis, have a lively recollection of the
visit which John L. Sullivan paid to
that hostelry some four years ago. He
was there for several days, and during
his, stay was the observed of all observ-
eis. A number of gentlemen did their
best to induce him to give an exhibition
of his wonderful strength. This he de-
clined to do, but at length yielded to
their solicitations and performed a feat
which none who witnessed it will ever
forget.
Stepping to the bar, which is of hard
mahogany, he laid a silver dollar on the
counter. He then raised his right hand
and brought his fist down upon the
coin with tremendous force. Upon rais-
ing his hand it was seen that the coin
was stamped deep into the bar and could
with difficulty be extracted. Every let-
ter and line of the device was reproduced
in the hard wood and remained plainly
legible for two years, in spite of the fre-
quent scrubbings to which it was sub-
jected.
New Johnstown.
The Cambria Iron Company has
learned a lesson by the recent flood at
Johnstown and now propose to turn the
lesson to account. They own a large
farming tract of land on Yeder Hill,
just west of the town and propose to lay
out about 500 acres in pleasant building
lots, which will have also streets and al-
leys, graded, paved and macadamized.
They purpose to open out the property
in sections, one after the other as they
may be needed, for the b mnefit of their
employes. The hilltop is 567 feet high-
er than the Pennsylvania railroad sta-
tion, and fully 1,751 feet above sea level.
The Company’s plan is to build an in-
cline plane from near the centre of the
new town, and reach the lots from the
works in about a stretch of haif a mile.
The town will have water and gas mains
laid and an efficient sewerage system in-
troduced, whilst stringent provisions
will be made prohibiting the sale of in-
toxicating liquors. Religious and edu-
cational buildings will be erected, and a
site provided for building thereon a
large hotel. Tt will help to solve the
problem of the future of Johnstown.
erme———
The Act against Cigarettes.
The following is the text of the act
passed by the late legislature concerning
the selling of cigarettes:
That if any person or persons shall
sell cigarettes to any person or persons
under the age of sixteen years, he or
she offending shall be guilty of a mis-
deameanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not
more than three hundred dollars.
——dJohn McBride, of Johnstown,
died on July 23, in that city, under cir-
cumstances which it was deemed advis-
able to investigate. A jury was app: int-
ed and on Wednesday evening the fol-
lowing verdict. was returned: “John
McBride came to his death from being
hit with a stone, or stones, by the hand
of Annie L. Frankhauser, and that this
hitting was done maliciously ad felon
Blighted by the Tariff.
Factories Closed and Offered in the
Market for One-Tenth of Their Cost.
New York Times, July 25.
The company operating the largest
woolen mill. in Connecticut went into
bankruptcy on the 16th inst.,its creditors
having refused to accept a settlement of
their claims at 10 cents on the dollar,
which appears tohavebeen the best offer
that could be made by the embarrassed
manufacturers. The founders of the
company were men who had a thorough
practical knowledge of the business,but
in their struggle against adverse condi-
tions their capital was eaten up, and al-
though others came to their aid it was
impossible to make the industry profit-
able. A large number of workmen suf-
fer by the downfall of the company, for
around the Versailles Mills there had
grown up a village of employes. Mort-
gages now cover both the village and the
factory, and a large sum is due to the
workmen for labor.
The fate of the Versailles Mills has
been like the fate of many other New
England woolen mills in the last few
ears. The industry has been blighted.
actories have been closed and offered in
the market for even one-tenth of their
original cost. The condition of the
woolen manufacturers was described as
follows on the 27th ult. by the American
Wool Reporter, which is not a ‘“free-
trade’’ journal :
“Here is the situation in a nutshell:
The American woolen manufacturer to-
day is in a position where the most that
he cares about is to be permitted to
make a living. Worried by wealthy
wool-growers; choked, cheated and
cramped by the commission-house sys-
tem of selling his goods, and tormented
by ‘Trusts’ among makers of card
clothing, packers of teasels, and dealers
in hit every variety of mill supplies,
the condition of the domestic mill-owner
has become pitiablé in the extreme. The
wonder is, not that we are called upon
to chronicle so many failures amon
woolen mills in New England an
Philadelphia of late, but rather that
there have not been more of them.”
The industry has been depressed by
high tariff duties that greatly increase
the cost of such raw material as the
manufacturer must import from foreign
countries and at the same time enable
dealers in other mill supplies to exact
high prices by means of the combina-
tions of which the American Wool Re-
porter speaks. And yet a great many
of the manufacturers so heavily handi-
capped were induced by partisan feeling,
by the threats of certain wool-growing
politicians, or because they had not dis-
covered the real cause of their melan-
choly condition, to vote at the last na-
tional election for the maintenance of
the policy under the operation of which
they were going into bankruptcy.
Possibly the attempt of the Senate to
make the tax on their raw material
heavier by 10 per cent. has opened the
eyes of some of them. With respect
to the raw material of the carpet manu-
facturers the increase proposed by the
Senate was even 60 per cent., and if this
additional burden should be imposed
they and the buyers of carpets weuld be
forced to carry it, for the carpetmakers
are compelled to procure almost all their
wool in foreign countries.
If the manufacturers suppose that the
intention to raise these duties has been
given up, they should bear in mind this
question recently addressed to certain
complaining persons by the Protective
Tariff League: ‘Is it necessary to re-
mind them that the [tariff] legislation
promised by Harrison’s election is not
yet enacted, but merely placed in the
course of enactment ?”’
Religion and Business,
New York Sun.
In church, people are constantly ad-
vised to carry their religion into their
business. In the mind of the present
Postmaster-General of the United States,
it is evidently deemed no less important
to carry your business into your religion.
This is apparent from the manner in
which he proposed recently to aid a dis-
tressed Presbyterian church in New
Haven. According to the pastor, “Mr.
Wanamaker offered to stock a cloth-
ing store in that city for the Presbyter-
ians, providing the charch would man-
age the establishment. The pastor was
to have general charge of the store,
though he would not personally conduct
it. ‘I'he officers of the curch would also
be connected with the establishment,
and, in all respects, it was to be a church
affair.”
The project, however, did not please
the congregation, one of whom objected
on the ground that the church would in-
cur the hostility of all the clothiers in
New Haven, and even then would not
be certain to make money in ‘the cloth-
ing business. Therefore ‘‘the matter was
immediately dropped,’ so far as this par-
ticular church in New Haven was con-
cerned.
Whether Mr. Wanamaker intended
to give the necessary clothing to the
church or to sell it at trade prices does
not distinctly appear. We infer, hov-
ever, from the nature of the objections
made by members of the society, that the
stock was not a gift. The church was
to become in part a retail clothing store,
where Brother Wanamaker’s wares
were to be offered to the godly and un-
godly alike, at low but remunerative
prices. ‘‘Wanamaker’s Presbyterian
Clothing Store’ as a sign would attract
the attention of the humble but pious
wayfarer in the City of Elms; and in the
show window, ‘Blazers made by the
Postmaster-General, only $2,50,”” would
invite him to an expenditure presumably
not greater than that warranted by his
station in life.
As an experiment in the combination
of business with religion the undertak-
ing would have been most interesting.
Just Dying for Gobin.
Lock Haven Democrat.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, writing from this city, alludes to
Gen. Hastings as an aspirant for the
governorship on the Republican ticket,
and says that while he has no objection
to Hastings he don’t think Bellefonte
ought to be allowed a monopoly in that
line. He suggests Gen. Gobin and says
the latter is the man this section wants
for Governor. = Yes, indeed; if there is
any man the people of this section are
iously, and we direct that she be turned | just dying for it is Gen. Gobin—in a
over to the court of quarter sessions.”
horn.
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