ja
~ 8v P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Is it to be understood that Mr.
HARRISON doesn’t object to undertak-
ing a job of tariff tinkering ?
—Two vacant seats in the Senate are
the mute evidence of an unfinished piece
of Republican raseality in Montana!
—1It would be well for Mr. HARRI-
son to know that the protection which
the farmer 1s most in need of is protec-
tion from the effects of protection.
—The best evidence that young blood
is taking the lead in western polities is
furnished by the fact that the new Gov-
ernor of Towa is one cf the Boies.
—The Republican House concluded
to continue the services of their blind
chaplain. On other point than this there
are indications that the majority of that
body are determined to go it blind.
—The Brazilian revolutionists have
determined to retain “the old flag.” The
“appropriation” is likely to come later
on after they get the hang of running a
republican government.
—1In raising a Christmas fund for the
poor of Philadelphia, Mr. LAMBERT of
the Inquirerjis benevolently demonstrat-
ing that an editor of his prominence is
not above playing the role of SANTA
CLAUS. -
—The Chinese of New York are fix-
ing up a laundry trust.
ingenuity that invented fan tan isn’t
slow to adopt the methods by which
monopoly takes advantage of the pub-
lic.
—INGALLS has written a novel. If
he should delay its publication he might
have an opportunity of introducing into
it a thrilling chapter descriptive of the
manner in which the Kansas Legisla-
ture bounced him out of his seat in the
United States Senate.
—Tt might not have been within the
legitimate scope of a President’s message,
but if Mr. HARrsoN had made some
allusion to the sad fate of FoRAKER
and MAHONE it would have relieved the
monotony of the document by giving it
something of a tragic tone.
—Tt’s all bosh about Tom Rekp, the
new Speaker, looking like Shakespeare.
If the Bard of Avon had jowls on him
and a neck like the newspaper pictures
represent REED to have, we would find
no difficulty in agreeing with DoNNELLY
that Bacon wrote the plays.
—Like a row of bricks stood on ends
and set to tumbling, the fall of the Bra-
zilian throne may knock over the throne
of Portugal, which in turn may topple
over the Spanish ‘monarchy. What a
pretty array of republics France, Spain
and Portugal would make. Here's
‘hoping that it may turn out that way.
—An English syndicate is buying
farms in Minnesota. If British capital-
ists who have accumulated their wealth
under a free trade system, want to in-
vest their money in real cheap lands,
they can do it in tariff protected New
England where the farms are being
abandoned and are selling for a song.
—BosBy- ELL, the new Superinten-
dentoftl sintat Philadelphia, is mak-
ing a clea. sweep of the Democrats from
that institution. The numerous Repub-
licans whom Fox allowed to hold on to
their places, have gleefully said “ta, ta’
to that misguided fossil as HARRISON'S
foot axded his exit from the national coin
factory.
—New York hasn't much reason to
shout over the $5,000,000 World’s Fair
fund she has at last wrung from her
close-fisted millionaires. She ought
rather to be ashamed that it required
such effort to induce them to relax the
grip with which their reluctant fingers
held on to the precious dollars.
—This great Republic couldn’t have
well got on without WASHINGTON, but
when we come to find that we have
‘Washington as a State, Washington as
the capital city, besides scores of Wash-
ingtons as counties, towns and townships,
doesn’t it begin tolook asif there is a little
too much of it for people who are not
overcareful in directing their letters.
—A contemporary makes the unnec-
essary announcement that the Democrats
of the House will not obstruct any
tariff reduction bill offered by the Re-
publicans. It isn’t likely that the Re-
publicans will attempt to reduce the
tariff, ‘but if they should try it, the ob-
struction would come from the fellows
who are reaping the profits of tariff rob-
bery.
—Mr. CARNEGIE entitled an article
he contributed to the North American
Review, “The Gospel of Wealth.” A
man whose profits are about a million a
year cught to know a good deal about
wealth, but as to gospel he ein hardly
be eonzidered such gnod authority. Tt
would be interesting to know what he
thinks of the tight squeeze sugrested by
the incident of the camel trying to go
through the eve of a needle, as applied
by gospel teaching to people of the well-
heeled class.
The heathen |
he is rich.
AN RN NET RENT TI
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
SOL 3%
Senatorial Qualifications.
Plutocratie
The Cincinnati Inquirer, the Demo-
cratic paper of which miilionaire Mc-
LEAN is proprietor and editor, has the
following to say on the subject of the
Democrats of Ohio sending a million-
aire to the United States Senate in
place of Senator PAYNE.
Many of our esteemed Republican contem-
poraries appear tobe convinced that the posses-
sion of wealth disqualifies a man for a seat in
the United States Senate. Very likely. But
why not revise the list of Republican Senators?
If you were to expel the millionaires thereon
there would be only about four left, and John
Sherman would not be among the four.
This savors too much of the “Look
at Home," or “Your Another” style of
argument. It does not become Demo-
crats to find in the bad action of their
opponents an excuse for doing a simi-
lar wrong. The scandalous presence
of Republican plutoerats in the United
States Senate does not justify sending
Democratic millionaires there who
would be equally unfit and whose elec-
tion would be equally scandalous.
Mr. McLiaN is not known to possess
any of the qualifications that ought to
belong to one who fills the Senatorial
office. He is merely a rich man. If
it were not for the fact that he is a mil-
lionarie he would no more be thought
of for the United States Senate than
any other poor unqualified printer.
There are other aspirants for the
Democratic choice for the Ohio Sena-
torship whose claims, like those of Mr.
McLiAN, are based chiefly upon their
money, but it would be no better than
what the Republicans are doing in fill-
ing the Senate with mere money-bags,
if representative Democrats and men of
unquestioned ability like Hurp, HAr-
TER and others thai mizht be mention-
ed, were set aside for some one who
had no other than the money qualifi-
tion.
It doesn’t necessarily follow that a
millionaire is unfit to be United States
Senator, or should be excluded because
If it had happened that
TuURMAN, or HENDRICKS, Or CARLISLE,
or CLEVELAND were possessed of mil-
lions, that circumstance would not
have nullified their eminent abilities or
detracted from their fitness for high
public duty. Mr. TiLpeN's wealth did
not stand in the way of his rendering
distinguished service in a public ca-
pacity. Bat the objection to wealth in
high public positions is well grounded
when money is exclusively the means
that leads to such preferment.
become the custom of the Republicans
to hand the Senatorial office over to the |
highest bidding plutocrat. Whether
the Democrats of Ohio in electing their
next United States Senator shall fol- | : i
| present Congress without giving away |
low so vicious an example is a ques.
tion of greal interest not only to the
people of that State, but to all who
have at heart the political welfare of
our country.
Dissatisfied on a Question of Color.
$ —
It is pretty rough on FrEp Doucrass
that the Haytians don’t want him as
the diplomatic representative of the
United States to their government.
They object to his color. Although they
are black themselves, they don’t like
to have one of their own complexion sent
to them as a minister. They had been
accustomed to have white men come to
them to represent the United States,un-
til President CLEVELAND sent a darky,
who was accepted with rather ill grace,
and mow that President Harrison
sends another of the same color they
are beginning to kick.
Although it would be impossible to
get the Haytian niggers to admit that
people of their color are not as good as
the whites, if not better, yet they seem
to regard FRED'S appointment as an of:
fensive discrimination. They evident-
ly wani the best material that Uncle
Sam his in the diplomatic line, and
they doa’t want it colored. Harrison
no doubt thought he was paying a big
complinent to the blacks of this coun-
try when he appointed Dovcrass as
the representative to Ifayti, but it
:an’t be said that our home darkies
apprechte it very highly, while the
Haytims are affronted by a
tion that looks as if the appointing
power hought that a white man would
selec-
he toagood for the place.
—=Hon. Samvir J. Raxpann has
not ben able to be out of his room
since his return to Washington. He
can a best sit up in bed but a few
hourscach day.
It has’
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
What It Indicates.
The Republican cancus at Wash-
ington on Saturday for the nomination
of the party candidate for Speaker of
the House, selected the man who from
the start was believed to be the fayorite
of the majority. Rrrp of Maine and
McKINLEY of Ohio were the leading
candidates from the beginning, with ap-
pearances decidedly in favor of RED.
On the first ballot he had 78 te Mo-
KinLey's 39,with the balance in small-
persoN and Burrows, and on the sec-
ond ballot he had a majority over
all others.
There can be no doubt that his elec-
tion indicates the determination of the
Republican cougressional managers to
continue the high tariff measures which
have been the distinguishing policy of
the party since the war. There may
be some jugglery which they wiil call
tariff revision, but it will be pursued on
the line of maintaining such duties as
the protected interests shall require. It
will beimpossible for the party leaders to
get away from their obligation to those
who furnished them with the means
of securing their last successor toshake
offthe control of the tariff beneficiaries
who hold a mortgage on the party.
Nothing could be more idle than to ex-
pect that there will be any action of
this Congress that will take the tariff
off the list of political questions that
will come before the people at the next
Presidential election. The class that
are taking their lesson in tariff reform
| may be numbered by the hundreds of
| thousand in all parts of the country,
| but this Republican Congress doesn’t
| belong to it.
| - -
A Bourbon Choice.
It is plain enough that the election
of REED as Speaker of the House is,
| from the Republican standpoint, justi-
| fied by his well known adhesion to the
| high-tariff policy of his party. But
nothing could display in a stronger
light the fatuitons Bourbonism of the
| Republican managers than the fact
that while the Speaker is chosen be-
cause of his unquestioned protective
sentiments, the section from which he
hails, heretofore strong in its tariff
prefecence, is breaking out in rebellion
against the party policy that has de-
stroyed some of their leading industries
by depriving them of free iron ore, free
coal and free wool.
These raw materials, heavily taxed,
are among those which Mr. CLEVE-
LaxD said should be free for our indus- |
would apply themselves to senatorial |
tries.
This cannot be granted by the
one of the chief points of the Republi-
can high tariff contention. Speaker
Reep may be depended upon to main-
tain, to the extent of his influence as
presiding office, the oppressive and de-
structive tax on raw materials, with
the excellent prospect of the manufac-
turing States of New England sending
a majority of Democratic representa-
tives to Congress at the next election.
But should a concession be made to the
demand for the unburdening of the ma-
terials required for our industries,
what a boost it would be for CLeveELAND
in 1892. Under the circumstances
there is every likelihood that the Re-
publican Bourbons will prefer taking
their chances of future success with the
assistance which the boodle of the tariff
beneficiaries may afford them.
Col. BosBysHELL, the new Super-
intendent of the Mint at Philadelphia,
is distinguishing himself for the light
ning-lik: way he has of bouncing
Democrats. The seat of Col. Bosny-
SHELL'S breeches has been worn to a
gauze-like thinness in warming an offi-
cial chairin theoffice of the Democratic
Controller of that city, and we presume
he imagines that the only way he has
of proving his Republicanism is by the
‘quickness’ with which he dispatch-
es the friends of those who kept him
in office the past three, years, No one
sympathizes with Col. Deckert now
that his friends are getting the bounce
from the man he kept in office against
the advice of his friends and the wishes
ofthe great majority of his party,nor is
there any one small enough to respect
Col. DospysueLr, whose chief charac-
teristic seems to be a desire to seek
any political teat he can get hold of,
no matter what its condition or connec-
tion may be.
er numbers scattered on Canyon, HEN- |
Raised the Money at Last,
After much dramming the great and
wealthy city of New York, in whose
I streets one could not throw a -tone
| without running the risk of hitting halt
a dozen millionaires, has at last raised
the guarantee fund of $3,000,000 forthe
| World's Fair. She can now with some
| grace appear betore Congress and ask
for a supplementary appropriation, but
she will find there her lively western
rivals, Chicago and St. Louis, which
are already ahead of her, shaking the
necessary amount of boodle at the: na-
tional legislature as an earnest that
they mean business and are ready to
take hold of the great fair with wild
western energy and liberality if Con-
gress should give either of them the pre-
ference that would be indicated by an
appropriation.
New York's dilatory action in rais-
ing the required fund does not fore-
shadow the energy and activity that
will be necessary to make the requir-
ed preparations in the brief in-
terval between now.and tke time for
opening the fair. Althongh there are
many things that make ourigreat com-
mercial metropolis preferable to any
other city as the place for this quadri-
centennial demonstration, yet: there are
clear indications that the wealth of the
city is rather feebly interested in it.
The effort required to drum up the
comparatively smail: preliminary fund
hardly justifies the expectation that if
New York should be selected as the
site her people would anply themselves
to the work of preparation with that
enthusiasm which is indispensable to
the success of such an enterprise.
|
He Needed a Rest.
Hon. M. S. Quay, United States
Senator from Pennsylvania, is reported
by a Washington correspondentto have
been a very busy man for some weeks
immediately before the convening >of
Laugress, His time was completely
taken ap with attending to the vezrious
demands made or him. by his followers
for official places, disposing of this claim
and attending to that, and exercising a
general supervisory power and direc-
tion over the host of office seekers from
Pennsylvania, besides giving some at-
tention to questions concerning appoint-
ments arising outside of his immediate
bailiwick. :
After attending to public duty of such
| vast moment, the correspondent ap-
| provingly said that Senator Quay con-
cluded to take a rest.
convened. The time had arrived when
it might be supposed that Senators
daties. But what was that to the of
fice monger who passes as a Senator
I from Pennsylvania? His labors as
chief distributor of officiai pap had ex-
hausted him and he needed a rest.
Senatorial service wasn’t to be expect-
ed of him. Pennsylvania, under Re-
publican rule, doesn’t elect United
States Senators for that sort of duty.
Postmaster General WaNaMak-
ER's report shows what terribly bloody
work his subordinate CrLarksoN has
done since he commenced swinging the
official axe as first assistant in the
post office department. The first four
months were particularly gory, as he
cut off the heads of 20,030 fourth-class
postmasters between the 4th of March
and the 30th of June. The guillotine
wasn't worked with more savage alac-
rity during the Robespierian period of
the French revolution. In contrast
with this official butchery there were
during the corresponding period of Mr.
CLEVELAND's administration 9547 re-
movals of fourth-class post masters. It
is hard to reconcile this wholesale pro-
scription by the Harrison administration
with Harrison's pledges in behalf of
civil service reform,
—— Tom Coorer, the recently ap-
pointed Collector at Philadelphia, who
previous to his securing that prize was
one of the most alert and solicitous of
the Republican army of office seekers,
now that he has got his plumb, philo-
sophically deseants on the danger of
giving too much attention to appoint
ments, and desires to see the Republi-
can party “give greater reflection fogs
creater interests.” But unfortunately
the Republican party hasn't any great-
er interest than office seeking. Except
to advance the ends of the money
| power, it has no other object of exis-
tence, -
The Senate had |
DECEMBER 6, 1889. NO. 48.
Tariff Reform Education on a Large
Scale.
A great movement is going on among
the farmers in all parts of this broad
land that indicates that they are paying
more attention to their own interest, as
related to other interests, than hasbeen
their custom. The business of farm-
ing bas not been a profitable one for
some years, for reasons that are becom-
ing apparent to those wha have
suffered from them, and the move-
ment that is now assuming a gigantic
form is intended to correct the defects.
that exist in the agricultural situation
and secure for ¢he agriculturists the
prosperity to which thie impormnce of
their business entitles them.
In. Pennsylvania there have thus. far
been arrangements made for the meet-
ings of more than forty farmers’ in-
stitutes during the coming:™ winter.
These will relate more to th<¥ improve-
ment of agrienltural process¢xthan to
the relief of the economic situation in
which the¥armers now find themselves
to be at such great disadvantage. For
remedying the latter a wide-spread or-
ganization is in progress, particularly
in the West and South, where in addi-
tion to the long established granges,
farmers” alliances are being formed
whose membership already includes
several millions of the agmeulsural
population. Their prime: object is to
provide protection trom the robbery of
the trusts and other forms of monopoly
of which the farmers have been such
easy victims. The organized agricul-
tural force of the South is just now re-
joicing over their success ir knocking
the cotton bagging monopoly in the
head, a feat that is encouraging their
western brethren to move against the
binder-twine, wire-fence and other
trusts that have bees robbing them.
Organization is the only means by
which this purpose can be effected, and
the farmers appear to-be in; dead earnest
in applying this means tc the great ob-
ject they have in view. .
In this movement may be Trecog-|
nized a vast population taking its first.
lessons in tariff reform. Since- their
attention has been turned to the econe-
mic evils from which they suffer, it
will be a very easy matter for the in-
telligence of the farmers to discover
that the monopolies which have been
| pillaging them were torn of and ma-
{
tured by the protective discrimination
of unjust tariff laws which limit the
profits of agriculture by restricting its
market while they increase the cost of
everything the farmers require in; their
living.
——Upon the opening of Congress on
Monday, Mr. CarrisLe,wholfor-se long
had borne the distinguished] honor of
presiding over a Democratic. House of
Representative, received the eaucus
nomination of his party tor Speaker, a
compliment which could net be follow-
ed by an election on account of the Re-
rublican majority in that body, but
was-nevertheless a well deserved tribute
to a leader who is as much distinguish-
ed for his exalted private character as
for his eminent public service. We
are confident that it will require but
another general congressional election
to put Hon. Jory G. €ARLISLE,0r some
one of the same political persuasion, |
back into the Speaker's chair which is.
but temporarily occupied by a min.
ion of the monopslists.
Possibly if TANNER hadn't sur-
rounded the pension question with such
an atmosphere of scandal and disgrace
Secretary ofthe Interior NoBLE would be
more expansive in his recommendation
of pension appropriations. TaNNER'S
capers have not reconciled the pub-
lic mind to unlimited pension schemes,
and thepefore the Secretary does not
venture to recommend more of an in-
crease than from $80,000,000 to £90:
000,000, which latter modest sum he
thinks would reach the just demands
of the claimants for the vear 1890.
It TaxNER had been a little more dis-
creet, and everybody but the pension
sharks hadn't been disgusted, there is
no telling but that thejSecretary might
have named $120,000,000 as about the
proper figure for the coming year.
And now HarricoN wants the
tariff revised. The nextthing we know
the apologists for protective monopo-
lies will be claiming the Mills bill as
a child of their own, How we do live
and learn !
Spawls frem the Keystone.
—Cock-fighting isa favorite pastime in: Lu-
zerne county.
—Five deer, shot injthe vicinity, have been
brought into Johnstown.
—Another Reading tobacco dealer has been
arrested for violating the cigarette law.
| —Williamsport papers complain of hard eci-
der being sold in that eity on Sunday.
—Some sanguine Berks county people still
hope to find natural gas within the county
lines.
—Westmoreland!s. Grand Jury thinks that
$00 many trivial eases find their way into the
Courts.
—While a ball was going on in one of. Ash-
land’s halls a thief robbed the sieres under
neath.
—The “West End Big Bugs” is the title of a
Indies’ social club.which the Allentown Chroni-
ele states has been organized in that city.
—According toa weather recordin possession
of Martin Maloney, of Avendale, this is the wat-
test year we have had in two centuries.
—Henry Keller has eompleted a three-year
term in the Allentowmjail, but cannot accept
his freedom, as-le is Ivelpless with rhumatism.
—Lizzie Berilieiser, who was arrested at
| York for shooting Mrs. A:temeyer, her empley-
er, sang and danced en her way to the police
station.
—A Tiogareounty paper saws that their
| Thanksgiving: turkeys all went-down in the
| June flood. They have been ad¥ised to raise
ducks.
—Diphtherizis epidemic in & portion of Mar-
tie township, Laneaster county, and the school
in that vacinity' has been closed in conse-
quence.
Railroad train were almost owerpowered by
the scent of a:skunk, which the train had run
oven the cidien day.
—Compressed air as a propelling force has
been applied:to.a bicycle by aw ingenious ress
ident of Brandywine Summit: Twenty miles
an hour cam be made,
—A trarap confined in the Lancaster jail cn -
tertains the attendants and: pelicemen with
tales of adventure and traveli. He had almost
walked around the world.
—Whilersparring at a passing express train
at Pottstown, a foolhardy. Poiander, laboring
under a.load of intoxicanss, fell under. the
rain andiwas terribly mangled.
—Mrs. Oliver Balliet, of Orth’s. Station, has
brought suit im Allentown against Levi Rex,
claiming that by slandereus expressions he
had damaged her character to the amount of
$5500. :
—I.. 8 Fox, a Lionvills: tinsmith, was. re.
pairing-some milk cans for a family, and.one
of them whieh had laid in: a garret corner -for
many years, was foundi to contain $360 in
gold. 2
—Thirty-eight tramps. seeking shelter .un-
der a.shed at West Chester held a heated dis”
cussion on the tramp question, and veted tha!
improved machinery was to blame for. their
condition. :
—A man named Manning, residing at Dau-
phin, went to Peter’s. Mountain oa. Thanks-
giving morning to sheot wild turkeys. He did¢
net see any, but he managed to kiit a wild cat
and a fox.
—Christian Kellar, of Denveri- Lancaster
county. committed suicide on Sunday by shoot-
ing. He wus 72 yeans old, a retired farmer in
‘good eircumstances, and no cause is known
ifor the aci. =
—While workiag inside ot a tank at Wil
, liamsport a painter named Ritchie was over ~
powered by the fumes of benzine, and at firs
: he raved so that his companioas were afraid
| to go near him. :
—Wayne, a son: of Richard Gzuber, of North
Heidleburg township, Berks county, while
playing with schoolmates on Tuesday collided
with one of them with such ferce as to #ac-
ture young Gruber’s skull. ;
—John Pyle.and his wife, of Kennett, start.
ed across couatry to visit a neighbor a few
nights ago, ard while pass ing through a field
they lost their bearings and.wandered for two
hours before they found their path.
—A yonag man named Scott, attending
the West Chester Normal school, had a leg bro-
ken lately ny a knlfe threwn at him by a fellow
pupil. It; has become necessary to rebreak
the bone and his state is precarious.
—The big dog he was fondling in his arms
saved the life of a gunner at Pittsturg, by in-
tercepting a stray bullez which would have en-
tered the man’s body had not the dog received
it. The animal was Litled instantly.
—A _ Reading girl. postponed her wedding
because she was unable to secure the white
horses owned by Lizeryman John. F. Boyer
for the date she had fixed. The animals are
in great demand for weddings, and are said to
bring luck to the bwide.
Simon A. Snyder, of Allentown, cleared off
his desk day befare yesterday and threw the
rubbish into the fire. Among the “debis” was
a bag of silver containing §30.. He missed the
money soon after, and hastily put out the fire
and found the sash.
—At Pittsburg James XKern has been hald
“for stealing $2 from a giz whom he had en-
gaged to magry. After he had secured. the
sum by promising to have the ceremony per-
prmed at cnece, he mazried another gi wand
refused to xeturn the ra. oney.
—Harry Hill, 40 years old, while at werk on
a ledge ef rock forty feet from the bottom of
Ziegenfuwess’ stone quarry, at Readington, on
Sunday morning, was knocked fron his po-
sition by a loose stone from above striking
him and instantly killed.
—The production of home brewediale isone
of the household, industries of Upland, Defa~
ware county, a settlement of Englishmen and
their decendaats, and its presence at the table
of almost every familv is a regular thing. Yet
there is no intemperance.
—Becanse Henry Schultz, 2 borglar, whe is
serving a four years term in the Allentown
jail, was refused a pair of slippers, he smashed
all the dishes in his cell and was about, break-
ing his carpet loom when the jailer shackel-
ed hira'and placed him ia a dungeon.
—A few nights ago Ezra King, living in
Charlestown, Chester county, raffled, oft a full-
grown mule with well-developed ears and hind
logs. When the lucky (!) person went after his
prize on the fol lowing morning his muleship
was cold in death. Death was eaused by old
age and grief over the fact that the rate ticks
ets were not paid for.
—Jesse Roeves, of Sharon, who lost his right
arm while hunting Modoc Indians, is probably
the most successful one- armed sportsman in
Pennsylvania, When he passed through New
Carlisle on Friday morning en route ferhome
he had a bag containing thirty-three and a,
half pounils of pheasant, and a eapacions hunt
ing coat stuffod with quail.
—The passengerson a Bangor-and Portland ©
”
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ARERR