BY =. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—In speaking of ‘marriage obse-
quies,” our little neighbor, the Daily
News, imparts too fanereal an aspact to
matrimony.
—1Tt is hardly worth while to consid-
er the question of ballot reform in thig
state until itis known what QUAY will
allow the Legislature to do on that sub-
ject.
— Whatever opinions may be enter-
tained concerning the character of the
season that is about closing, it will be
generally admitted that it wasn’t a
(n)ice winter.
—It is hardly probable that his
friends could persuade MAT QUAY to
take the gubernatorial nomination
himself for the purpose of vindicating
his reputation.
—1In denying the farmers of the west
untaxed twine the Republican party is
doing much toward the preparation of
the rope by which it will be hung high-
er than Haman.
— Mrs. HARRISON during her recent
visit to their sestion greatly pleased the
people of the South, but what section
can be said to be favorably impressed
by Mr. HARRISON ?
—Good ST. PATRICK maintained his
well established reputation on Monday
by bringing us a stormy day. But if
he wasn’t a little blusterous he wouldn’t
be a true Irishman.
—CQastle Garden is literally lousy
with Hungarians whom the industrial
princes are bringing over to illustrate
the benefit that “protection” confers
upon American labor.
—The robin is adding his tenor to the
soprano of the song-sparrow and the al-
to of the blue bird, and soon the bull-
frog will be demanding attention as the
bass-singer of the vernal choir.
—The farmer may possibly pay with
more cheerfulness the tariff tax on his
clothing and other necessaries when he
learns that a paternal government has
protected his hens from the competition
of foreign fowls,
—In allowing himself to get so big-
headed as to believe that he could get
along without BISMARCK, the young
Emperor of Germany will in time dic-
cover that he didn’t know as much as
his grandfather.
—In neglecting to invite the United
States to the Berlin labor conference
Emperor WILLIAM may have been
influenced by feelings that are yet af-
fected by the asperities of the recent
pork controversy.
—A Western paper says, ‘buying
your wife an Easter bonnet is not going
to do much toward getting you into
heaven.” That is so, but, then, it may
do a great deal in preventing a sheol
of a time at home.
—Itis said that the women of Cin-
cinnati are all broken up over the repre-'
sentation that they toe-in when they
walk ; but we are sure that most women
would prefer this pedal defect to the
amplitude of the Chicago foot.
—1It is well to observe JEFFERSON'S
birthday, but when it is seen how the
free institutions which he did so much
in helping to establish are being abused,
some may be led to doubt whether such
a man as JEFFERSON was ever born.
—Julia Ward Howe is said to be the
best Greek scholar of her sex in this
country. But there are lots of farmers’
wives in Centre county who can beat her
making pies, which in point of material
importance is of more account than
Greek.
—-After the beneficent effects of free
hides on the shoe and leather industry,by
which it has been made the most flour-
ishing in the country, the reimposition
of a duty on foreign hides by the Mec-
Kinley bill must have been prompt-
ed by nothing but unadulterated high-
tariff ‘‘cussedness.”
—4«Qur Democratic friends make a
free-trader out of Senator ALLISON
about once a year,” remarks a Republi-
can paper. Oh, no, itis the Republican
granger voters of Towa who are recon-
structing the Senator's tariff views.
It will require the exprassio n of but
one more election to complete the job.
—Nothing lately has been heard of
the ten-dollar certificates which QUAY
and DupLey devised for the re-
plenishmert of the Republican cam-
paign boodle fund. They would be
found very serviceable in the approach-
ing congressional elections should there
* be a deficiency of fat fried out of the
manufacturers.
“~The leniency with which the scoun-
drels of the Squeers soldiers’ orphans
schools syndicate were treated by the au-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 35.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 21, 1890.
NO. 12.
Naval and Military Tyranny.
With the light of recent develop-
ments brought out by official investi-
gation, itis not difficult to see why
service in the navy and army of the
United States is not popular with those
who compose the under stratum in
those branches of the public defense.
Desertions from the army areoccurring
to such an extent that it is difficult to
maintain the complement of our small
military establishment, while it is no-
torious that Americans are disin-
clined to enlist in the navy, and that
consequently our naval ships are in a
great measure manned by foreigners
who have no natural feeling for our
flag.
The reason for this disinclination
to serve their country in the capacity
of soldiers and sailors was markedly
disclosed in a recent inquiry into the
conduct of an officer of the navy who
was charged with tyranical and abusive
treatment of the men under his com-
mand. But it doesn’t require investi-
gation to divulge the existence of such
a state of affairs in both the navy and
the army. The officers —particularly
those of the lower grades—have always
had the reputation of being unreason-
able and tyranical martinets, who
abuse their authority by abusing the
men under them. This accounts very
reasonably for the numerous desertions
from the army and the reluctance of
American sailors to enlist in the naval
service. Men in whom have been in-
stilled the spirit and independence
that belong to the citizens of a free
country, will not tamely submit to
domineering and oppressive treatment
at the hands of those who are over
them, whether in military or in civil life.
This is particularly . offensive when
the tyrant is some petty military dude
who imagines that his shoulder-straps
elevate him so much above the com-
mon material of the service that it is
entitled to receive from him no better
treatment than that commonly accord-
ed to dogs.
The result of such conduct on the
part of army and navy officers ap-
pears in its more serious aspect in the
almost entire absence of Americans
from the lower personnel ot the navy.
In consequence the bulk of our na-
val force consists of foreigners of
the lowest class, and it is easy
to see how the honor and safety of
the nation would fare under such cir-
cumstances should our ships, man-
ned by men who have no inborn inter-
est in the flag, be brought into
conflict with a foreign enemy. Since
we are getting a new navy such condi-
tions should be brought about as would
attract to it that class of native sea-
men who in times past emblazoned the
history of American seamanship with
deeds of undying fame. The flag, hal-
lowed by the achievements of gallant
Yankee tars under DECATUR, PERRY,
BAINBRIDGE, STEWART and FARRIGUT,
should not be left to the guardianship of
foreign sailors. But that it is being
left in that plight is in a great measure
due to the offensive conduct of too
many of our naval officers.
A"
A Notable Anniversary.
Thursday of last week the Philadel
phia Times celebrated the fifteenth an-
niversary of the date of its establish-
ment, and it was able to do so with a
proud consciousness of the high degree
of prominence and prosperity it has at-
tained. We all remember the first ap-
pearance of the neat and sprightly
journal which fifteen years ago emerg:
ed above the dead level of journalistic
dullness in the metropolis of our State,
and inaugurated a new era in journal-
ism in that quarter. It has energeti-
cally and intelligently maintained the
character it then assumed, and has set
an example which has exerted a great
influence in placing the Philadelphia
newspapers amony the brighest and
ablest of the land.
Without assuming a distinctive po-
litical position the Times has done some
excellent political work, rendering a
service that has told for the general in-
terest of the country, and on many oc:
thorities may have had much to doin |
encouraging the outrages perpetrated in !
Philadelphia almshouses and institu ions
for the blind. Ifit was permissible wo
Do-the-boys in the orphans schools,
what was more natural than the infer-
ence that the blind boys could be done
in the same way ?
cacions its efforts were attended with
brilliant success in battling with local
abuses, political and other kinds. In
the present contest for tariff reform,
ballot reform and civil service reform,
the three leading principles of industri
al and political progress, the Times is
in the forefront of the fight.
Republican Tariff Revision.
The new tariff bill which the Ways
and Means committee have been in-
gaged all winter in framing, will soon
be ready to be presented to the House,
and what its rates of taxation will be on
necessaries and unnecessaries is an
open secret among those in ‘Washing-
ton who are interested in it. There will
be no relief from the tariff burden on
the raw material of wool which has al-
most crushed the life out of the woolen
industry, the bill being framed in the
special interest of the gentle shepherds
of Ohio, regardless of the welfare of the
woolen manufacturers and the necessi-
ties of the wearers of woolen clothing:
Keeping Ohio in the Republican line is
mighty expensive to the people of the
United States.
The duty on steel rails will be fixed at
about $13 per ton. The Mills bill put
the duty at about the same figure, but
this raised a howl of “free trade’ that
sounded from one end of the country to
the other. Perhaps such an ‘“ap-
proach to free trade” is entirely admis-
sible when the tariff is being tinkered
by “its friends.” But, the fact is, it
was shown to the committee that $8 or
$10 per ton would afford ample protec:
tion, and it was even admitted that
steel rails are manufactured as cheaply
in this country as in England, yet the
committee has concluded that. the $13
per ton duty would not firnish too
large a margin within which the steel
combines might plunder their cus-
tomers.
The bill is going to be very liberal
with the farmers whose dissatisfaction
with their share of the benefits of “pro-
tection” is becoming alarmingly evi
dent to the supporters of the tariff sys-
tem. A heavy duty on beans and peas
is expeeted to placate the grangers who
are getting mad about being compelled
to pay a double price for their clothing
and other articles of domestic use.
A stiff duty clapped on barley is de-
signed to mollify feelings that have
been exasperated by the protected bind-
ertwine robbery. An off-set to the
gouge which every farmer is subjected
to through highly tariffed lumber, salt,
hardware and tinplate, is intended to
be furnished by a duty on hay and po-
tatoes. A trinmphant cackle is to be
excited in the barnyard by a 5 cents
per dozen tariff on eggs, and it isdpro-
posed to complete the farmer's reconcili-
ation to being robbed by tariff taxes on
all the essential necessaries of life by
putting a duty of 25 cents per bushel on
apples.
All this is a poor tribute to the in-
telligence of a class of people who
these tariff mongers ought to know are
fully aware that the agricultural
abundance of this country needs no
protection against foreign competition.
——Those who are in a situation to
know say that the proposed farmers’
encampment at Mt. Gretna, Lebanon
county, is not of granger origin, but has
had its inception outside of that or:
ganization. It may be a good move-
ment, with an entirely unobjectional
object, but it is claimed that it is not
fair to the Grangers to represent it as
emanating from a disagreement among
them in regard to the William’s Grove
exhibition. The latter has been a great
success, surpassing in its results any-
thing of the kind in the country. There
are complaints that it has been in too
large a measure the source of personal
profit. All such enterprises are liable
to such an incident, and it is likely that
the Gretna project has something of
that kind in view.
Wallace at Home.
Ex-Senator WALLACE returned to
"his home in Clearfield last week from
his European visit which was con-
tinued during the past winter. Upon
arriving in New York some six weeks
ago he did not go immediately home,
but went to California to attend to in-
terests with which Europesn parties
are connected. There are reports
that he is prepared to take an active
part in the State contest this year, and
it is said that he does not conceal his
intention of being a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor.
There can be no question about
his Democracy, and as a political or-
ganizer he has no superior. Under no
other standard bearer could the De-
mocracy make a livelier or more ag-
gressive fight although there are oth-
ers who would make equally accepta-
ble candidates.
Abuses in Charitable Institutions.
Some terrible revelations have re-
cently been made concerning abuses
practiced in charitable institutions in
Philadelphia. The exposure of the ill
treatment of inmates of the leading
almshouse of thes city by the Inquirer,
within the past year, has not been so
long ago that it is forgotten. It excited
public indignation and was the subject
of condemnation at the time, but un-
fortunately it was not followed by the
corrective action which the turpitude
of the case demanded.
We now have revolting disclosures
of abuses in the management of the
Pennsylvania Institntion for the In-
struction of the Blind, at Philadelphia,
one of the charities supported by the
State, involving carelesseess, if not posi-
tive dishonesty,in some of the]managers,
and in one instance criminal conduct of
a peculiarly repulsive character. There
is something unspeakably revolting mn
the thought that the helpless blind,
who are supposed to be com-
mitted to the charitable care of the
State, should be subjected to an un-
mentionable outrage by an attendant
whose duty it should have been to
treat them with the greatest tenderness.
But it isn’t surprising that such a
state of affairs should exist when it is
considered with what indifference lax-
ness in the management of our charita-
ble institutions is regarded. When the
abuses practiced in the Squeer’s syndi-
cate soldiers’ orphans schools {were
brought to light it required the greatest
effort to bring the attention of the State
authorities to them, and corrective
measures were attended with the most
disgraceful delay. And even after they
stood exposed in all their enormity,
it was proposed to erect a monument to
the memory of the officer under whose
official maladministration they were
allowed to occur. Under such circumn-
stances the public should be prepared
for such disclosures as have been made
cdlicerning the management of the
Pennsylvania Institution for the In-
struction of the Blind.
——The Lock Haven Democrat is
publishing the New York World's ex-
pose of Boss Quax's rascality in instal-
ments. As a continued story it makes
interesting reading. Will the people of
Pennsylvania allow the Boss to contin-
ue furnishing indefinitely material for
such narratives ?
Democratic Doctrine from a Republi-
can Source.
The Philadelphia Telegraph should
have no difficulty in seeing that it be-
longs tothe wrong party. Its expressions
concerning the leading measures of
of its party's policy are antagoaistic to
them. This is particularly the case in
regard to its economic measures, which
are far from meeting the Tele
graph’s approval. It does no‘ hesitate
to say that ‘‘there is no apparent earn-
est or sincere effort” to pass the bills
for the suppression of trusts that are
before the present Congress. It can’t
believejthat a Congress that will main-
tain a monopoly'tariff can entertain any
serious intention of putting down mo-
nopoly embodied in the form of trusts.
“If Congress were in earnest,” it says,
“if it really wished to abolish trusts, it
“gould do it, in nearly all cases, by
“the very simplest and easiest means.
“ Trusts generally are created and main-
“ tained by excessive duties, which kill
“ foreign competition.”
Nothing could be truer than this, and
it exactly expresses the Democratic
plan of getting rid of trusts. Remove
tha source from which they are nour-
ished and they necessarily die. The
Republican congress prolongs their
existence by continuing the nourish-
ment.
The Telegraph expresses a great
truth in the following paragraph :
Protection is a good thing only when it is
the servant of the people; it is one of the worst
of things when it becomes their master and
seis up great monopolies to plunder them. It
is then not protection, but aggression; and it
should be dealt with accordingly. Congress
can get rid of nine-tenths of the trusts if it
chooses to do so. It would take no greater ef-
fort to do it than by taking away their means
of life—the duties which shut out foreign com-
petition and enable them to absolutely control
our markets.
This is a new sentiment as coming
from a Republican source. Bat it is
one with which the public has been
familiarized through the great tariff
reform message of GROVER CLEVELAND.
Complaint from an Unusual Quarter.
The Philadelphia Inquirer sets up a
helpless cry for Congress to do more
work. That body has been in session
for more than three months and has
done nothing of consequence in the
way of legislation. The Inquirer, re-
cognizing the fact that, as both
branches are controlled by the Repub-
licans, there exists no ground of
excuse on account of interference by
the opposition, which has been effect-
ually forestalled, declares that the re-
sponsibility for this inactivity must be
borne by its party.
When Speaker Reep adopted his des--
potic methods, disregarding the prece
dents of a eentury and ignoring customs
sanctioned by the constitution; the Re-
publican papers exalted in his course,
justifying the revolutionary proceedings
by the assertion that it was intended
to expedite business which the minori-
ty had no right to retard by fillibus-
tering tactics. They claimed that the
unusual and arbitrary action of the
Speaker wasin theinterest of legislation,
which would be injured by partisan ob-
struction. But the Speaker has had
his way for the last three months and
such organs asthe Inquirer, which are
capable of seeing where the responsibil
ity rests, are making complaint about
Congress not doing any work.
Bat it is doing all that was intended
to be effected by ReED's despotic meas-
ures. By a complete suppression of
any opposition that could have been
offered by the minority, they are seat-
ing Republican contestants over the
claims of Democrats clearly elected;
they are debarring opposition to pen-
sion, government building and other
raids on the treasury, and will
protect frotw interference their de-
sign to continue the benefits of a
monopoly tariff to the moneyed ben-
eficiaries who contributed the means
that brought the Republican party
again into power. These were the ob-
jects of Speaker REED's revolutiorary po-
sition, and theylare being accomplished ;-
but as to legitimate legislation, bene-
ficial to the general interests of the
people, that wasn’t included in the de-
sign.
The funeral of Apa Harr, the
Lycoming county centenarian, whose
death we noticed last week, took place
in the Lutheran cemetery near Mont-
gomery, and the pall bearers were
six grandsons of the deceased. In the
services the choir sang “I would Not
Live Alway,” which of course was not
intended as a reflection upon the old
gentleman for having hung on to life
so tenaciously.
An Offensive Proposition.
The Republican scheme of making a
negro State out of portions of the In-
dian Territory and Oklahoma isn’t of a
character that is calculated to secure
the approval of white Americans. The
latter can't be expected to approve of
handing any of the national domain
over to the exclusive control of negroes,
however much it may suit the designs
of Republican politicians. The country
is broad enough for the colored people
to take their chances along with the
whites, which they have a right to do
anywhere within its limits, but neither
their interest nor that of the whites
would be promoted by setting up a
Hayti or San Domingo in any part of
our common territory. There is an
affront to the American people in the
proposition to create a Statethatshould
be under the exclusive control of any
particular race, particularly an inferior
race.
EC SETS
A Question of Interest.
We are the freest Free Traders under the
sun among ourselves, but with outsiders we are
Protectionists and propose to remain so while
it is our interest to do it.—Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
But with important industries,
such as the woolen, declining under a
blighting tax on raw materials; with
our farmers becoming poorer from the
effects of oppressive economic regula-
tions, and all other classes suffering
from tariff taxation on the necessaries
of life; and with our carrying trade on
the ocean almost obliterated by the
nonintercourse policy of our tariff sys
tem, we would ask the Telegraph
whether it is any longer “our interest
todo it 2”
—The Kansas farmers Lad better stop
whimpering and prepare to do the right
kind of voting.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Qaay’s son, Dick, is slated for the: Legis-
ture.
—Sam Losch is boomed for congress in
Schuylkill county.
—The Mount Gretna Farmers’ exhibition
will open about August 17.
—Chester county is having a serious time
over the high license question.
—Luzerne county has forty-five reli gious de-
nominations within its borders.
—Four girls and forty-eight men attended a
South Easton dance a few nights ago.
—Dr. Daniel Prizer, of Lionville, Chester
county, has seven foxes penned for a run:
—An Altoona horse received two 1300-voit:
shocks fron a broken wire and was unhurt. .
—For selling liquor in the guise of patent
medicine a merchant at Beaver has been held.
—Warren county grangers will push the can--
didacy of Farmer Samuels for the Legislature.
—Chester people are engaged in picking
out eligible sites for their new: public build-
ings.
—Jacob Fisher, of Kutztown, the oldest resi-
dent ol Berks county, celebrated his 99th birth--
day.
—The Westinghouse Company of Pittsburg
has an order for 11,000 air-brakes for a Western
railroad.
—The Lumberman’s Exchange at. Williams-
port has decided to advance : prices on hem-
lock lumber.
—The disputed ownership.of a $25 heifer cost:
the contestants $370 to decide it in Schuylkill
county Courts.
—A smoke-consuming engine with a noise:
less exhaust is being builtat Pittsburg to be
used in Brazil.
—Emma Keller read im a. Pittsburg paper:
that she was wanted by the police and she sur»
rendered herself.
—Five colored men summoned as witnesses -
to Ebensburg could not: obtain entertainment
at any of the hotels.
—There were only twenty-three remonstrans
ces against 470 liquor-license applicants in
Lackawanna county.
—Dr.F. A. Tickardt; of ‘Bethlehem, for: the.
past sixty years a praeticing physician is dead .
at the age of 84 years.
—A needle swallowed a year since. by Josie
Fabian, aged 9 years, of Bristol, was.cut from
her side last Friday.
Plumstead township, Bucks coungy , contains
forty persons whe have passed the allotted
three score and ten years.
—An alleged diseovery of gold and . silver:
has been made om the farm of Jeremiah Stauf<
fer at Wooddale, Fayette county. .
~The Grand Jury at Norristown has recom-
mended that tzamps be employed at break--
ing stone or other useful.employment.
—A special meeting of the City School Board-
has been called to arrange for the bnilding of:
two new school-houses that will cost $60,000.
—There is acontest over the. estate of Nich-
olas Seidel, of Alsace, Berks county, a. raving:
maniac who spent fifty years. ehained to.the
floor of an owt house.
—After having shared the meat at the sup-
per table John Ryan, of Hyde Park, picked.up
the ham bone that was left and nearly kitled.
his brother-in-law with it.
—A man, registering as William Slaughter®
put his team up at a West: Chester - hotel, and
after taking a meal at the. place disappeared.
and has net been heard ofsince. :
—Some Port Clinton. young men tried to
ake advantage of the sleighing re cently. and
made atrip to Orwigsburg. They. had to
carry the sleigh back te Port Clinten..
—Christopher Schwartz, a prominent baker
of Allentown, has brought suit for $00. dama-
ges against Elmer Berchard, who is. alledged:
to have said that Schyeartz sold stale bread,.
—Being caught by a train on a railroad bridge
John 8. Reddinger,of. Tatesville,Bedford coun-
ty, chose the alternative of jumping to the
ground, seventy-five feet below, and.was kill
ed by the fall.
—During a. drunken, row: between. twenty
Hungarians at Coplay on Saturday one. of: the
party had his nose. broken, several received
serious stab wounds and two children were in,
jured by being knocked down. .
—The attorney for-the prosecution in a. case
on trial at Ebensburg referred to.the defendant
as “the liar in €ambria county,”
and the remark. excited no undue attention
from the Judge or members of; the Bar.
—The body of John Criswell, aged 65 years,
a resident of Waynesboro, was found early
Monday. morning near his kitchen doer. He
had been, to.church the night before, and his
family thought he had’ been in bed through
the night.
—Abouh six. weeks ago. Ellen Strange, a col-
ored girl, aged, 24 years, disappeared: from her
home in Middletown, and. nothing was heard
of her till Saturday when her dead body
was found in the Swatara.Creek, at Port Royal ,
near Middletown.
—On Thursday a Hungarian of Milnesville
put up his wife, furniture and a cow at auction .
The bidding was spirited between a lot of the
woman’s admirers, one.of the. number finally
captured the lot for $32.. The purchaser says
heis well satisfied with his bargain.
~The funerel of ex-Congressman Samuel
Calvin took place at Holidaysburg on Saturday,
snd was attended by many people of that
place and from a distance. Mr. Calvin had
been a School Director for forty years, and
| 1000 school ehildren attended his funeral.
— Mrs. Hannah Davis, colored, died at the
residence of her son, near Lincoln University,
one day this week af the age of 93 years. She
was the mother of twelve chlldren, and lived
to see seventy-four grandehildren, sixty-six
great-grand children and three great-great-
grand children.
—William Memmert, a barber of Nazarath,
was given a hearing before United States Com-
missioner Kilpatrack at Easton for sending
obscene letters through the mails to the wife
of Erskine Walter, a rival in business. He
was held in $1500 bail to appear in the United
States Court at Philadelphia. 2
—John Huzzard, a well-known farser of
Kimberton, Chester county, was cut in two by
an engine on the Pickering Valley Road at
Phoenixville. He had started across the track
as trains were approaching on the Reading
and the Pickering Valley Roads, and, being
deaf, did not hear the whistle.
~The Pennsylvania State Peultry Associa-
tion met at Harrisburg in the rooms of the
State Board of Agricullirs and effected a reg-
ular organization b wiopting a constitution
and by-laws and electing the foliowing officers
for 1890; President, M. 8, Sprout, Carlisle; Vice-
President, I. C.B. Sands, Pottsville ; Secretary
N. G. Temple, Paoopson, aud Treasurer, H.
W. Vohle, Pailadelphia,