Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance,
Bellefonte, Pa., Angust 30, 1889.
- - Epitor.
P. GRAY MEEK,
Democratic County Ticket.
For Associate Judge—THOS. F. RILEY.
For Prothonotary—L. A. SCHAEFFER.
For District Attorney—J. C. MEYER.
For County Surveyor—GEO. D. JOHNSON.
For Coronor—Dr. JAMES W. NEFF.
Democratic State Convention.
The Democratic State Convention will as-
gemble in the Opera House, in the city of Har-
risburg, on Wednesday, September 4, 1889, at
12 o'clock, M., for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for the office of State Treasurer and
transacting such other business as may prop-
erly come before it.
The rules of the Democratic party of Penn-
sylvania provide that “the representation in
the State Convention shall consist of represen-
tative delegates, one for each 1,00 Democratic
votes cast at the last gubernatorial election, or
for a fraction ef 1,000 such votes amounting to
500 or more, in the respective representative
districts; provided that each representative
district shall have at least one delegate.”
ELLIOTT P. KISNER,
Chairman Democratic State Committee,
(Secretary.) BENJ. M. NEAD,
“Reformers” in the Commission-
ers’ Office.
The
The improved plan of managing the
county business which was promised if
the commissioners’ office should be giv-
eninto the hands of a Republican board,
is not producing very obvious indica-
tions of fulfillment. It didn’t show up
in the last Auditors’ report in which
there was a failure to explain what had
become of large sums of money that
were unaccounted for. Although we
frequently called attention to this dis-
crepancy no satisfactory explanation
was given. There was every appear-
ance of either a misapplication of funds
or an inexcusable ignorance in the
presentation of the account.
A great boast was made that the
county business was going to be run on
a two mill tax. An era ofeconomy and
good financial management was to be
inaugurated in whieh HexprErsoN and
Decker were to lift theload of taxation
right off the shoulders of the tax-pay-
ers, But this low-tax promise has fail-
ed to materialize. Although the
county expenses have been so far com-
paratively light, there being no bridges
built or expensive repairs of county
buildings, the great tax eradicators in
the commissio ners’ office have found it
necessary to supply deficiencies by in-
creasing the taxable value of property.
By this process a farm can be made
to produce more tax at a two mill rate
than it would at a two and a half or
three mill rate on a lower valuation.
This Henderson-Decker patent process
of tax raising would be a great triamph
of financial skill if it only could be car-
ried out “unbeknownst” to the property
owners; but the latter have begun to
kick and have already pretty effectual-
ly exposed thé deception which these
brilliant county financiers have attempt-
ed to practice upon the owners of real
estate. :
Such a deceptive expedient exhibits
in its true light the business ability of
the “model” pair who run the commis-
sioners’ office. It exposes the fallacy of
their claim that they could meet the
county expenses with a two mill tax.
It gives the lie to their empty promise
of lighter taxation. Under their man-
agement the tax-payers have reason to
expect an increase of the county debt
and a higher rate of county taxes.
There is already abundant evidence of
bad financiering in the county business.
It is cropping out in the building of the
bridges necessitated by the recent flood.
It is showing itself all along the line of
their official duty. The first Auditors’
report in their term of office bore evi-
dence of their slip-shod mode of doing
business. The next report, notwith-
standing all the doctoring that may be
done to it, will display their deficiency
in a still more glaring light.
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County Property in Bad Condition.
The condition of the Court House
yard is a good indication of the manner
in which our “model” pairof Republi-
can county commissioners take care of
the people's property. Those who at-
tended court this week had an opportu-
nity of seeing the condition in which
that piece of county property is kept.
There is no reason why it shouldn't be
neat, clean and ornamental. There is
enough spent to keep everything con-
nected with the county buildings in the
best condition, yet the court house yard
looks as if it had been used as an en-
closure for a drove of rooting swine.
Arrangements had been made in the
Spring for paving the yard in a way
that would have killed every tree in it,
and when this design was stopped the
surface was left in a state that is offen-
sive to the eye of every admirer of order
and neatness. In this condition it le-
came the resort of quoit pitchers, and |
all summer it has been the favorite |
play ground for idlers who have a fan-
cy for that game.
the ground by the implements of the
game show how industriously (?) they
have indulged in their amusements.
Weidoubt whether there is dnother
court house yard in the state that is
allowed to be put to such use, or that
shows such indications of carelessness
on the part of the officials whose duty
it is to keep it in order. Its condition
is an insult to every Centre county man
whose business brings him to the court
house and who is taxed to keep the
county property in respectable condi-
tion. Tt is due to the people who at-
tend court that the surroundings of the
court house should be neat, clean and
attractive in appearance. That it is
otherwise plainly indicates careless or
incompetent management. i
And when the county property is
found in such a plight is it unreason-
able to believe that the county business
is generally in the same condition? If
quoit pitchers are allowed to dig holes
in the court house yard there need be
no surprise if holes are found in the
county finances resulting from the same
kind of carelessness and incompetency,
and for the patching up of which the
Commissioners find themselves compell-
ed to increase the valuation of taxable
property. Deficiency in one branch of
duty is a pretty sure indication of defi-
ciency in others.
“In Convict’'s Dress.”
Brother WnarToN BARKER, of the
Philadelphia American, a Republican
of excellent repute, is distinguished for
the plain way in which he speaks of
defects in the character of prominent
leaders of his party. He by no means
regards Marruew STANLEY QUAY as a
white-winged political angel. On the
contrary he considers him a political
reprobate whose methods, he plainly
says, are those of “tergiversation, in-
trigue, corruption and barter.” What
particularly disturbs Mr. Barker's
equanimity at this time is that the par-
ty to which he belongs has made this
bad politician “not only its manager,
but its publiclrepresentative.” And his
feelings suffer an additional laceration
from the fact that President Harrison
has “bound the party fast to its own
“iniquity by making Mr. Quay his
“Pennsylvania deputy. Finding the
“party in evil ways, he has put it in
“convict's dress.”
“Convict” is a good word to use in
this connection. It probably refers to
the incident which should have sent
Bin Keumpie, Mar Quay and the
whole gang to the penitentiary for
their connection with a notorious case
of legislative bribery.
Brother Barker is evidently in an
unhappy frame of mind about his par-
ty having accepted the leadership of
Quay with all its‘ bad methods. But
what is he going to do about it?
Some years ago he joined the rebel-
lious movement which the Independ-
ents got up agaist the corrupt and
tyranical management of the bosses,
but he soon fell back into the party
line and continued to do party service
under the same disreputable manage-
ment. What does his growling amount
to while he consents to work in the
harness which has been hitched on to
the party by the CaMERONS and Quays?
And what is he going to do this fall
with Mr. Boyer, who is the undisguis-
ed tool of Quay and whom the boss
has imposed upon the party as its can-
didate for State Treasurer? Isn't it
about time, Mr. BARKER, for the Inde-
pendents to again make themselves
felt?
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The Ohio Democratic State
Convention met at Dayton on Wed-
nesday amid the greatest enthusiasm
and with no discordant feeling to dis-
turb its purpose of nominating a ticket
that is going to win. James E. Camp-
BELL, one of the strongest Democrats in
th ‘State, was nominated for Governor;
WirLiay Vance for Lieutenant Gov-
ernor; Marty Farnror for Judge ot
the Suprene Court, with the balance of
the ticket made up of equally good ma-
terial. The Democrats believe they
can carry the State and bring to a fi-
nal conclusion Foraker’s windy politi-
al career.
——The Prohibition State Conven-
tion at Harrisburg on Wednesday was a
large and, it is needless to say, a respec-
table assemblage of temperance workers.
There were six hundred delegates in
attendance, many of whom were clergy-
men. G. R. Johnston, of Pittsburg, was
nominated as the Prohibition candidate
for State Treasurer. In addition to the
usual declaration against the liquor
traffic, the platform declares in favor of
the Australian ballot system and an
amendment of the naturalization laws
so as to prevent the too speedy naturali-
zation of foreigners, and it condemng
the Trusts and calls the State adminis-
tration to account for its negligant and
extravagant management of the Sinking
Fund.
FE —
If you want a good paper, take
this one. .
The holes dag in
Too Thin to Cover the Purpose.
Usually, the Gazette, which has con-
stituted itself the mouth piece and de-
| fender of the County Commissioners,
can make some kind of an excuse for
the many unfair, partisan, or incompe-
tent acts of the two Republican mem-
bers of that board, but its attempt last
week to make even a plausible explan-
ation of their unjustifiable methods in
the tax-assessment matter up in Fer-
guson township, is a most dismal fail-
ure.
The writer of the article knew at the
time he was penning it, that the Fer
zuson township assessment, as made |
by the Assessor, had been gone over
carefully by the Commissioner's A ttor-
ney and iawyer KELLER, with the hope
error
that some undervaluation or
could be discovered that would jus
tify the Commissioners in compelling
the Assessor to increase his valuation
He knew that Mr. KELLER reported,
after the most careful comparision,
that it was the fairest, most impartial
could
He knew, too, that
the eight per cent. increase was added
to the Assessor's valuation, not be-
and correct assessment that
have been made.
cause his valuations were too low, but
because the Commissioners had squan-
dered the county funds in such a way
that valuations had to be kept up, or an.
increase of millage would become a
necessity.
These facts he knew, and we don’t
wonder that his attempted defence of
these officials is the lamest and thin-
est bit of? political rot, that} has ever
been sent out even by a paper that is
and thin
constantly filled with lame
things,
That there has been a decrease in
the valuation of real estate mn this
county, and particularly of farm land,
within the past three years, the veriest
fool knows. Even men as thick-pated
as HexpersoN and Drcker will ad-
mit this tact. Consequently when Mr.
McCormick, under oath, reduced the
valuations of farm property in his
township, he was simply doing what
any other man of good judgment and
regard for his oath of office, would
have done under similar circumstances,
But areduction of valuations, in pro-
portion to the actual decrease in the val-
ue of farm property, all over the county,
would have compelled the Commission-
ers to have increased the tax-rate, and
just here is where the shoe pinched
them. Through the extravagance,
mismanagement and a determination
to make all they can personally, cut
of their offlcial positions, HeNDpERSON
and Decker have used up the sur-
plus that a Democratic board of Com-
missioners left in the County Treasury,
and are compelled to either increase
the valuation or the millage to meet the
ordinary county expenditures. They
think that by keeping up the valua-
tion, regardless of the actual decrease
in the value of property, they can shut
up the eyes of the tax-payers to the
fact that their management of the
county is costing them more than un-
der their Democratic predecessors.
They promised to lower the taxes of
the people if entrusted with office,
—they pledged themselves to decrease
the tax-rate to 2 mills, and now after
two years trial, they find that they
must either fasten upon the farmers of
the county for three coming years, an
unjust and exorbitant valuation of
property, or crease the millage which
they boasted so loudly they would re-
duce.
This is the whole secret.
In order to cover up their misman-
agement they have forced valuations to
a point in many instances higher than
the properties would seil for, and have
fastened this unjust tax basis on the
farmers of the county for the three years
to come. With this wrong they will
not be able to keep the county out of
debt, and next year, or the year after,
another mill, or possibly two, will have
to be added to the tax-rate, to pay the
price of putting two incompetent men
in so important an office as that of
County Commissioner.
The tax-payers are just now realiz-
ing what a terrible mistake they made
at the election in 1887.
EE
—The Philadelphia Press has always
been ahead of its Republican contem-
poraries in the art of political white-
washing, but for a neat job of partisan
kalsomining it is surpassed by the In-
quirer. The latter is engaged in doing
some beautiful work in that line for
MartHEW STANLEY Quay and other
prominent Republican leaders, to the
entire satisfaction of a large following
of expectant office-holders.
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A Rattled Governor.
Governor Beaver's explanation of his re- |
lation to the state of affairs at Johnstown
shows that he has about as much general
knowledge in regard to those affairs as
he has in regard to the prospects of
Home Rule in Ireland. He means well
enough, and he is not wittingly doing
anything to annoy the flood sufferers,
but he is not the man to take the bull by
the horns and make the noble charity of
the people us sudden in reliefas it was
intended.
A Preacher Pitches into the Trusts.
“Terror of Trusts” is what the Rev.
\ ¥. J. Brobst, of Chicago, talked about
last week at the Westminster church.
| The organizers of trusts, said the rev-
'erend gentleman, are sagacious thieves
and remorseless highway robbers in-
| trenched behind certain technicali-
| ties where the law cannot reach them ;
| 1elentless, bloodthirsty, devilish, with
their hideous tentacles clasped about
| helpless humanity, sucking its life-blood
drop by drop.
At first the terror of trusts appeared
| on the horizon of trade in a small cloud
| no larger than a man’s band, but it
grew and assumed proportions until
(now we crouch like little chickens in
| the presence of danger. And the terror
| has grown from a speck until we are ap-
palled. This awful shadow rising,
growing larger all the time, has taken
the name of trust.
Trust! Oh, what beautiful sentiment
is embodied in that little word. Trust
in the Lord and you will be saved.
That is one meaning of the word. The
other signifies an attempt on the part of
the rich men of the p-ried ‘to get con-
| trol of the necessities of life and like the
| highway robber or the foot-pad they
| say to the poor: “Your money or your
life.”
Look at the sugar trust. It already
controls $14,000,000, and has put the
price up 150 per cent. They are robbers
who say: “Your money or your life,”
so far as sugar is concerned. The mill-
ing trust has done the same thing with
flour, stealing the very staff of life from
the mouths of the poor. We are amaz-
ed it the growth of the terror. It in-
cludes zinc, iron, lead, cattle, cotton bag-
ging, flour, copper, jewelry, oatmeal,
twine, sugar, cotton seed oil, whisky,
petroleum, patent leather, castor oil,
coffins and school books.
Of all the outrageous, inhuman ac-
tions of terror the school book trust
is the worst. The heartless robbers
were not content with a profit that would
satisfy a shylock. No, they bear down
upon the children of the poor, squeezing
from their puny bodies the last drop of
blood left by other remorseless trusts.
They were not satisfied with a profit of
250 per cent. over and above the origin-
al cost, but said to the poor children,
“Your money or no education.”
Trusts are tramping out the com-
mandment, “thou shalt not steal.”
Some time ago the oatmeal people form-
ed a combine and jumped the price of
their product from $3.50 to $5.60 per
barrel, a clear steal of 2.10 on a barrel.
Justice is supposed to lurk in the busi-
ness office and counting room, but the
organizers of trusts have kicked justice
out and installed the presiding genius
of robbery.
The twine trust secured control of
the flax fields and the mills so that it
could get its hands into the pockets of
(0,000,000 people and steal their money.
That is all right in the eyes of the law,
but « man who takes a jimmy and
cracks a safe is sent to prison.
Another ‘act of the ghouls was in
the formation of a trust controlling the
market in undertakers’ supplies. We
go to the grave with our beloved dead
and return home harrassed by the feel-
ing ‘hat our dead has been robbed. In
this and the school book trust the ca-
pacity of pirates on the high seas does
not compare with the awful criminality
of the trusts.
There is over $1,000,000,000 locked up
in trusts in this country. What will be
the effect on coming generations when
they realize that the moneyed men of the
country are robbers? Isit any wonder
that we have socialists and anarchist?
The terror is a menace to the destinies
0f 60,000,000 people. TItis God’s ordain-
ed law of trade that there shall be com-
petition. The Bible says that there
shall be competition. The Bible says
“if thou sell to or buy aught from thy
neighbor thou shalt not oppress him.”
The trust's evil effects are felt even
in the politics of the country. Lobby-
ists are on the increase, millionaires are
augmented, and all for the purpose of
furthering the interests of criminal com-
binations. There is a dark future coming
for the country which needs no prophet
to predict it.
I BE ST ————
Magnificent Leadership.
Harper’s Weekly.
The late Pennsylvania Republican
Convention was notable chiefly for its
adulation of Senator Quay of that State,
who was Chairman of the Republican
National Committee during the last
campaign. When the President of the
Convention referred in his speech “To
Cuairman Quay’s magnificent leader-
ship,” there was ‘long-continued ap-
plause.” Then followed the reading of
the platform, which rejoiced greatly in
the victory of 1888, ‘first because it was
fought and won under Pennsylvania
leadership and upon a Pennsylvania
platform;”” and again, more distinctly
and amply, itdeclared that “The thanks
ofthe Republicans of th» Commonwealth
are due and hereby tendered to Matthew
S. Quay for the honorable and mas-
terful way in which he conducted that
campaign.” What was this “magnifi-
cent” and “honorable” and “masterful”
leadership? Lincoln, Sumner, Seward
and Andrew vere Republican leaders.
They were men of the highest ability,
who with noble eloquence taught the
country Republican principles, who
maintained by reristless argument Re-
publican policy and by their personal
character won the enthusiastic confi-
dence of the whole party and the res-
pect of their opponents. Mr. Quay is
totally unknown as a leader in any such
| sense of the word. His reputation is
| whally that of a party boss. He isa
magnificent and masterful leader like ex-
! Senator Dorsey and Mr Thomas Platt,
or like the elder Cameron, whom the
! Pennsylvania platform eulogizes with
! Mr. Tanner and Mr. Quay.
Mr. Dorsey's magn ficent and master-
ful lca lership carried elections by scar,”
Mr. Quay’s by marshaling flonters in
blocks of five. Mr. Quay was known to
the country before the last campaign
+4 hero of Pennsylvania.
this story, told upon every Democratic
stamp, was to be met? “Mr. Quay’s
nomination,’ it said, “would raise: ibs
tions and involve risks which would jmn-
peril the result of the canvass» And
again, in hinting at his connection with
irregularities which it charged in the
management of the Treasury, it said:
“What is still more important, such a
campaign would inevitably lift the lid
from the administration of the Treasury
itself and uncover secrets before which
Republicans would stand dumb.’
The New York “Tribune,” alluding
to these th'ngs and the conduct of Mr.
Quay, said:
“A more insolent defiance of public
sentiment has not been seen since Tweed
asked the taxpayers of New York what
they were going to do about it.”
This was Mr. Quay’s ‘magnificent’ and
“honorable” and “masterful” leadership
in his own State as estimated by Repub-
lican journals. What was it last year in
the country? Did itlie in his eloquence
or his argument? Was it the leadership
of intellect or character or personal en-
thusiasm? No; it was of another kind.
The “Voice” has shown that Mr. Clark-
son, the present First Assistant Post-
master General, who was Vice President
under Mr. Quay of the Republican Na-
tional Committee, bribed two of the clerks
of the “Voice” to furnish its mail lists to
the Republican committee. That Mr.
Quay was ignorant of the transaction
will be believed by those who believe
that Mr. Dorsey knew nothing of the
“soap” sent to Indiana, and Mr Dudley
knew nothing of “floaters in blocks of
five,” or of “a trusted man with necess-
ary funds in charge” of them. Mr.
Quay’s leadership was illustrated also,in
the enormous sum of money raised by
Mr. Wanamaker and devoted to the
final expenses of the campaign. Proba-
bly thereis not a single person in the
country who is competent to have an
opinion upon the subject who believes
that all this money was legitimately used
by Mr. Quay. There has never been any
accounting of its use and there never will
be. Undoubtly 1t went to meet Mr.
Dorsey’s “soap.” But however it may
have been used, Mr. Quay’s candidate
was elected by ‘magnificent’ and ¢ hon-
orable” leadership of this kind. This is
the leader who is now the Republi.an
His conduct,
which the Philadelphia Press and the
New York T%ibune have described as we
have seen, is praised with an enthusiasm
of acclamation to which there seems to
have been no dissent. It isalso announc-
ed that he is to be urged by Pennsylvan-
inasits candidate for the Presidency.
Should the movement succeed, we may
expect Mr. Dorsey to be associated with
him as Vice President, and in the event
of their election, probably Mr. Platt
would not be again disappointed in se-
curing the Treasury; nor could Mr.
Dudley’s equally magnificent and hon-
orable ~ervices be overlooked
A —————————
The Pension Fraud.
The government is now paying out
$82,000,000 annually in pensions and
next year will pay out $110,000,000, and
the spendthrift Tanner is at the head of
the pension bureau. “The truth is,”
remarks the Altoona 7"biune, a Republi-
can newspaper, ‘that no country in the
world ever expended so much money
upon its old soldiers, their widows and
children, as this Republic has done under
tepublican control. It has, in fact, in-
dulged in the extravagance of patriotism
and the end is not yet.”
If all this money was being paid to
the right persons it wouldn't make so
much difference, butit isn’t. Hundreds
of thousands are paid to so called pen-
sion agents, sharpers and tricksters, who
receive it in the names of supposed de-
serving soldiers who suffer while these
scoundrels live in ease and affluence.
The following is an instance of what we
mean, clipped from the same paper that
makes the above remarks and on the
same day:
“Edward Riley,who was a member of
the One Hundred and Seventh regiment,
of Chambersburg, Col. McCoy, and who
was wounded in 1862, for which he got a
pension of $6 a month, has been in the
poor house at « ohnstown for two years
past. During this time hesays Stewart
Carr has regularly drawn his pension and
refused to explain by what right he did
so, though he gives Riley a dollar or two
occasionally.”
This is only one of thousands of such
nstances and shows the reckless way in
which the pension money is paid out un-
der Republican management of the finan-
ces for that purpose. And thissort of thing
has been going on ever since the pay-
ment of pensions began. During the
four years of Democratic administration
some attempt was made to correct this
evil, but there was not time enough and
everybody will remember what a howl
was raised by the Republican newspapers
every time President Cleveland vetoed
an unworthy or badly authenticated pen-
sion application. There are thousands of
deservin. old soldiers who have been
waiting for years to have justice done
them, while these infernal thieves are
drawing and using their pensions. This
is one of the outrages for which the Re-
publican party ought to be made an-
swer at the bar of public opinion.
“And the end is not yet,” says the
Tribune. No, and never will be. The
Republican party has imposed a debt
drain upon the tax-payers of this land
that neither they nor their children will
ever see the end of.—-Lock Haven
Democrat.
A Bully Story.
A man being out in the fields, wanted
to inspect more closely a three-year old
bull. He bellowed at himand succeed-
ed in attracting his attention. His bull-
ship thought some of the neightoring
bulls had got into his territory, and
came up with head down, nostrils extend-
ed and fire in his eve, prepared to tight,
but fortunately for the man, there hap-
pened to be an apple tice close at hand
which he succeeded in dodging hehind
justas the bull made a dive for him,
striking the tree plumb in the center,
solely by the strong denunciation of Re- |
publican journals. A few years ago, ne- |
cording to the Philadelphia “Press,” in
the case of attempted bribery of men-
bers of the legislature of Pennsylvania,
Mr. Quay, being th n Secretary of the
Commonwealth, “connived at crince by
setting the criminals free in defiance of
the constitution and the inw.” When
he was trying to secure a nomination as
State Treasurer the “Press” asked how
which luckily was just the right size to
fit between his horns, thus holding him
fust for a moment, wich wave the
frichtened man a chance to use his horns
as a step-ladder, thus enabhng him to
climb the tree, where he amused himself
by throwing apples at the furiated
bull who «tood underneath pawing the
dirt and bellowing until hs owner came
after the cows in the evening and drove
him away.
For Free Wool.
A Woolen Yarn Manufacturer D scov-
ers His Fatal Error.
“If we had been given: fiee wool a
year ago the wool industry would be
alive to-day,” said John Crowther, jun-
ior member of the firm of David Crowth-
er & Son, woolen yarn manufacturer, of
Germantown, Saturday. “I believe the
depression in the wool trade, which is
causing so many failures, is due to the
excessive duty on wool and woolen man-
ufactures.”
The firm of Crowther & Son failed
several weeks ago after conducting bus-
inessin Germantown for a score of years,
The younger Mr Crowther has manag-
ed the business and he says they shall
not resume. ‘I am completely disgusted
with the worry and bother, and would
not go into it again while present cir-
cumstances exist.”
“I could, if T dared, tell you the name
of a well-known manufacturer of Ger-
mantown who was very prominent in
the Republican campaign last fall, and
shouted for protection. He met me on
the street yesterday and declared he was
now in favor of free wool, but he dare
not let it be known. I tell you all the
wool manufacturers are now in favor of
free wool but they dare not say so.
“Iam a Republican myself. TI car-
ried a banner for Fremont in 1856, and
have been a Republican ever since. I
cannot write a flowery argument in sup-
port of my views, for I have worked in
a mill since I was 10 years old, and
have but a poor education. Iam thor-
oughly convinced, however, of the cor-
rectness of my view.
“Mind you, we don’t want cheaper
wool. We want to be able to go into
the foreign markets and buy on the
same footing as those manufacturers who
send their goods here to compete with
ours. American manufacturers are
striving continually to imitate the finer
grades of goods imported into this coun-
ty, but we cannot compete with the
foreign producers because we cannot
produce the finer grades of woolen yarns.
“In our mill the general run hasbeen
on 20-cut yarn, and tha finest made in
this country is a 40-cut, while on the
other side they work, out 60,70,80, and
I am told as hich as 100 and 120-cut.
It is manufactured into goodsisent here,
and we can not compete with it because
the specific cuty is only 35 per cent per
pound. On a yard of cloth worth $5 and
weighing half a*pound the duty would
be but 17} cents per pound. It is use-
less for us to attempt to compete under
such circumstances.
“Why isit,”” continued Mr. Crowther,
“that none of our mills here in German-
town are turning out fall woolen hosiery?
All, or nearly ail of them was doing it
before the war. It looksto meas though
there was something wrong with the
tariff. »
She Knew Her Business.
There is a charming spot on the south
side of the lake, says the St. Paul Globe,
where a great many people live in cot-
tages. The water is delightfully warm
and the ladies h ve overcome their nat-
ural scruples against the exceeding wet-
ness of it. They havebathing suits, but,
ye gods, such suits! They are a cross be-
tween pajamas and a Mother Hubbard
wrapper. A pretty girl in one of these
extraordinary costumes 1s homely enough
to stop the Johnstown flood. One ofthe
young ladies who bathed in the lake is +
rather tall sideways, as a small boy ex-
pressed it,and as a yatchsman would say
she has great breadth of beam. She was
moving gracefully through the water—
you know that when fat people once
learn to swim they plough the water like
a fish—when she felt her extraordinary
garments give way. To put itin its ac-
customed place while she was in the wat-
er was impossible. She must get tothe
bathing house before any boys appeared.
But just then the boys aforesaid round-
ed the point §in a row-boat and made
straight for her.
For a moment she nearly fainted. The
water at Minnetonka is clear, you know.
She shouted to tie boys to ‘go 'way.”’
But they. not understanding the situa-
tion, pulled directly for her. She beg-
ged, entreated, commanded, all to no
purpose. Then she got mad. She mov-
ed to where the witer was shallower,
and sat down. When the boat came
near her she grabbed it, while the boys,
whom she knew very well, yelled with
glee.
“Now, see here,” she exclaimed, *4f
you don’t go right away there will be
trouble.”
But the boys shouted some more, and
one stood up so as to get a more ex tend-
ed view of the landscape. The girl saw
a rubber circular lying in the boat. She
grabbed it, and then. withasudden jerk,
pulled the boat down on one side. The
youth who was standing up fell head-
long into the water, and the boat half
filled before she righted. During the
excitement the girl stood up, wrapped
the circular about her and calmly and
seda‘e’y walked ashore, followed by the
wet and bedraggled youth whom she had
ducked.
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Republican Opposition vo Foraker.
General Beatty, of Columbus, ex-
congressman and a rceognized leader of
the Republican party of Ohio—that is,
of a consideratle section of it—has pro-
nounced against Foraker in a scathing
letter, carving up that man of destiny
in a savage way. He charges Foraker
is the candidate of a packed conven-
tion under the control of the most cor-
rupt ringsters in Ohio polities. He ar-
gues that nothing can be lost to Repub-
licans by defeating Foraker, as if elected
neither le nr h: De nocraiiz candidats
it elected can make a law or elect a sena-
tor. “But, waving all question about
the legisiature,” says General Beatty,
“let us for the sake of argument admit,
what iz not at all probable, that Forak-
er’s defeat would carry down the whole
State ticket and give toour political ene-
mies a majority in both branches of the
fegislature. Then, what is our duty ? I
unswer, to strike him from the ticket!”
A great many Republicans in Ohio are
of General Beatty's way of thinking.
A colored State convention has been
called to meet at Toledo, to determine
the course of the colored voters at the
November election. The call, signed
by representatives of nine counties, ar-.
raicns Foraker for other reasons, but
with about as much severity as General
Jeatty. !