Meusaptaiic: Walch
BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— Probably the revision of the Pres-
byterian faith was among the things
that were foreordained.
—CAMERON made a speech in the
Senate the other day, but QUAY contin-
ues to maintain his dignified silence.
—1It was Decoration Day for Mr. By-
~UM when he was called up to receive
the censure of such a body as the present
House of Representatives. :
— Since the discovery has been made
that INGALLS steals his thunder, its re-
verberation through the capitol will be
more ridiculous than terrific.
—«¢Conduit pipe’ may convey a less
opprobrious idea than “sewer,” but as
appliances for conveying dirt there is but
little difference between them.
—Of all the pictures of eminent per-
sons printed in the papers Lypra PINk-
HAM's is the only one that can be relied
upon as looking like the original.
—The House of Representatives lost a
Democrat of the Jeffersonian stamp in
losing JoHN G. CARLISLE, but has
gained one of equal Jeffersonian quality
in gaining RICHARD VAUX.
—1In taking bristles off the free list
and protecting them by a heavy duty,
is it the purposé of McKINLEY to as-
sure the American hog that he is not be-
ing overlooked by this paternal congress?
—Tf private Gerard, of Indiana, was
able to secure a liberal pension for being
merely thrown by an army mule, what
would have been allowed him by his
grateful country if he had been kicked
by that animal ?
—Inthe vote on the final passage of
the McKinley tariff bill Butter wasn’t
Worth asmuch as there was reason to
expect it would be. It melted under
the fierce partisan heat that prevailed
on the Republican side of the House.
—A contemporary perpetrates a very
thin joke in saying that SARAH BERN-
HARDT ran a splinter in her leg and the
doctor whose business it wasto take it
out couldn’t tell which was theleg and
which the splinter,
—TIn view of the tribulation of the
Republicans on the gubernatorial ques-
tion,nothing could be more ghastly than
the fun which papers of that party at-
tempt to make over alleged Democratic
trouble on the same subject.
—The liberality of the ex-rebels in
building a monument to General LEE
is something of a rebuke to the stingy
patriotism of the North that tightens its
purse strings when the hat is handed
around for a Grant monument.
—The English scientist who has sue-
ceeded in measuring the heat on the
moon’s surface would add still more to
the achievements of science by ascertain-
ing the strength of the green cheese
which that satellite is said to be
made of.
—The decision of the United States
Supreme Court that alcoholic beverages
are articles of interstate commerce is
merely confirming the position which
the Governor of North Carolina took in
his relations with the Governor of South
Carolina.
—That two sensible men like con-
gressmen BYNUM and ‘WiLsoN should
be represented as saying that $15 a
month is enough for any kind of Ameri-
can workingman,is thesort of fabrication
that could be expected of a fellow hired
to do dirty work.
—TFor so young a state as North Dakota
she is rather presumptuous in asking that
sixty millions of people should be put
under tribute for the development of her
imaginary tin mines, a request that can
be complied with only through the me-
dium of a monopoly tariff. *
—The other day a 165 acre farm,
with buildings and other improvements,
was sold in Connecticut for $165. Such
business transactions as this show how
the home market furnished by a high
taviff is converting the Connecticut farm-
ers into plutocratic nabobs.
—The census enumerator who drops
into the domicile of the average granger
and asks the head of the household
whether there is any insanity inthe fami-
ly, or how big a mortgage there is on his
farm, may expect to have a rough time
before he gets through with his inter-
rogatories.
—There seems to be something para-
doxical in the circumstance that a man
in Springfield, Ohio, was locked up in a
lunatic asylum for claiming to be the
Redeemer, while Bos INGERSOLL and
other agnostics, who say that there isn’t
any Redeemer, are considered sane and
are allowed to be at large.
—The Scranton Truth makes the
wonderful discovery that all the bad
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NO. 21.
VOL. 35.
BELLEFONTE, PA. MAY 28, 90.
The Field Against the Boss.
From the appearance of the Repub-
lican arena in this State it looks as if
Boss Quay will have to do some hard
work and exercise some extraordinarily
effective management to bring his can-
didate safely through the fire of oppo:
sition to which he is being subjected
from all parts of the field. There seems
to be a combination of the inferior
grade of aspirants against the Boss's
favorite, and it may require the exer-
tion of all his power to successfully
meet the combined attack, but the very
fact that his leadership is staked onthe
result will make him work with a des-
perate determination. A desperate
Boss, with all the appliances of official
patronage at command, is an antagon-
ist that cannot be easily beaten. Helis
likely to be too much for his opponents
who under any circumstances will
act disjointedly and will stand in dang-
er of having their retainers drawn
away by the attraction of the official
plunder which the Boss is able to offer
them.
Of the 100 delegates already elected
to the State convention, twenty-three
ave directly instructed Delamater men,
and twenty-seven others will vote as
Quay wants them to vote. HasTiNGs,
up to the time of writing, has secured
18 delegates, StoNE 7, OsporNE 6, Da-
vies 3, McCormick 2 and MoNtooru 1.
This combination is not as strong as
the number of Delamater delegates
that are already sure. But it is claimed
by the opponents of the Boss's favorite
that he will not maintain the same
relative strength in the 104 delegates
that are yet to be chosen, and much is
counted upon the anti-Delamater men
that are to come from Philadelphia,
Allegheny, Chester and other counties.
But the field in such a contest always
labors under the disadvantage of alack
of concentration and the weakness
arising from a diversity of interest, and
easily goes to pieces under the attack of
when he employs the kind of ammuni-
tion he has so abundantly at command.
——There is no importance to be af-
tached to the alleged opinion of Quay
concerning the relative strength of the
Democratic candidates for Goyernor.
Some pretend to believe that he repre-
sents ex-Governor ParrisoN as being
the strongest candidate with the ob-
ject of inducing the Democrats to nom-
inate him and thus leading them into
nominating their weakest man. It is
safe to believe
make their nominations with entire in-
difference to the opinion of Boss Quay
or any other Boss.
Kind to Their Sons.
There are certain members of con-
gress of the Republican persuasion
who evidently go on the principle that
an office-holder who does not look out
for the interest of his own family is
worse than a heathen. Much is heard
from them about the duty of favoring
the soldiers, but when they come to
act they conclude that it pays better to
prefer their own sons.
The following are examples: Con-
gressman Rowerr, of Illinois, chair-
man of the election committee, has
managed that his son shall get the
$2,000 salary, as clerk for the commit-
tee, which might have gone to an old
soldier who could have been found
equally competent to perform the du-
ties, and who is entitled to it if there is
anything in the profession of Republi
can love for the soldiers.
And there are also congressman
Baker, of New York, chairman of the
committee on commerce; HENDER-
SON, chairman of committee on rivers
and harbors; Wapg, of Missouri,
chairman of the committee on labor;
BurrerwortH, of Ohio, chairman of
(the committee on patents; Banks, of
Massachusetts, chairman of the com
mittee on expenditures in the Interior
Department, and KeNNEpY, of Ohio,
chairman of the committee on enrolled
hills, each of whom could have fur-
nished a place to a poor and competent
soldier as clerk of his committee, but
in every instance they found it more to
stories have been raised about QUAY out | their family interest to fill those places
of revenge for his having adyised ReExD
to apply the gag to the Democrats in
congress. As his dignity won’t allow
QUAY to say anything, it is well that
there is somebody to explain this mat-
ter.
with their sons,
A'soldier may get such a plac: in
thiscongress only when the chairman
hasn't a son to fill it. If there is any-
thing that can be put to family use the
soldiers need not look for it.
such a tactician as Quay, particularly |
that the Democrats |
know their men sufficiently well to |
The Census Inquisitors.
ihere are very reasonable objections
to some of the questions that will be
asked by the census enumerators, con-
tumaey being at the risk of a heavy pen-
alty. The questions are impertinent
and inquisitorial, relating to private
matters which will be of no advantage
to the government to know and cer
tainly will be none of its business.
The following is the most intrusive
and offensive part of the schedale of
questions :
22. Whether (he or she) is suffering from
acute or chronic disease, with the name of dis-
ease and length of time affiicted.
23. Whether defective in mind, sight, hear-
ing or speech ; or whether crippled, maimed or
deformed, and name of defect.
24. Whether a prisoner, convict, homeless,
child, or pauper.
25 and 26. Is the home you live in hired, or
is it owned by the head or by a member of
the family ?
27. If owned by head or member of the
family, is the house free from mortgage en-
cumbrance ?
28. If the head of thefamily is a farmer, is
the farm which he cultivates hired, or is it
owned by him or by a member of his family?
29. If owned by head or member of family,
is the farm free from mortgage encumbrance?
30. If the homeor farm is not owned by
head or member of family and mortgaged,
give the post office address of owner.”
The citizen who would decline to re-
cognize these impertinences by refus:
ing to answer, we believe would be en-
tirely justified, as there cannot be any
law in this free couniry to warrant
such inquisitorial proceedings. If Por-
TER, the Englishman whom this ad-
ministration has put at the head of the
census, and who formulated the ques-
tions that are to be asked, thinks that
he can compel the American people to
disclose their chronic maladies, physi- |
cal defects, financial embarrassments, |
and private business affairs, he will |
find himself mistaken. The constitu- |
. |
tion never contemplated a census to be!
an inquisition, and the attempt to make |
it that will be an insult to the people.
In regard to the questions about the
health of those subjected to this
impertinent process, Dr. Jomx V.
{ SHOEMAKER, of Philadelphia, emphati-
cally says:
I do not think people will answer them;
and furthermore, I regard it as absolutely
ridiculous to ask people such questions. All
persons are remarkably sensitive about the dis-
eases which afflict them, and for the sake of
their families’ and their friends’ comfort they
do not want it known that they are suffering
from any acute, chronic or incurable malady.
It is easy enough to impose a fine upon
people for refusing to answer such questions if
it be known that they are afflicted in any way.
But no one will tell, and the fine will not be
thought of. It isthe most impudent and ex-
treme measure I have ever heard of. Why,
even doctors have the greatest difficulty in
: learning from their patients their exact ail-
ments or conditions. The twenty-third ques-
tion is worse than the twenty-second, in my
judgment. The private asylumsall over the
country are the best proof of the fact that
hundreds of families will never admit that any
of their members are troubled with any mental
affection. It will be impossible to get answers
from one-quarter of the people who properly
come under those two questions. I can’t see
that any good whatever would result from such
knowledge. The whole idea is preposterous.”
In many respects the English census
superintendent has cut out for his sub-
ordinates a style of work that will be
very .distaseful if not positively ob-
noxious to American citizens.
——The Presbyterian General As.
sembly now in session at Saratoga in-
cludes some great theological minds
who certainly have an important work
entrusted to them in the revision
of the Confession of Faith which
for so long has been the doctrinal
chart of one of the greatest of evangel-
ical churches. They are treading up-
on dangerous ground and need all the
wisdom that can be expected of such
men, to lead them safely out of the ad-
venture of revising a ‘time-honored
faith.
An Old Fashioned Spring.
An exchange wants to know “what
has become of the old-fashioned spring,
with its balmy air, it bright sunshine,
ite blossoming orchards, its birds, its
bees and its pleasant walks under new
leaved trees.” The fact is, there never
was such a spring. All of them, to some
extent, havethe above mentioned ex-
cellences, but it has always been their
custom to have more roughness than
gentleness in their general character.
The oldest inhabitant has no recol-
lection of the “gentle spring” of
the poet's conception. As far back as
can be remembered people have been
talking about beautiful old fashioned
springs, but if they ever existed they
belonged to a prehistoric period.
Sufficient Cause for Discontent.
There is reason for the discontent
springing up in the agricultural mind
all over the country on account of the
heavy tax burden imposed upon the
farmers and the inadequate advantage
they derive from the legislative and
governmental policies of State and uva-
tion. Tax laws bear heavily upon the
farming interest while it is excluded
from an appreciable share of the bene-
fits conferred by tariff’ laws.
The discontent produced by this con-
dition of affairs was forcibly expressed
by Mr. Joun J. CARTER, a prominent
farmer of Chester county, in an address
recently delivered to the West Grove
Farmers’ Club. He very truly said :
The whole trend of the legislation of our
country, both State and national, is in the di-
rection of conferring more power to moneyed
interests as against the middle or poorer clas-
ses, as evinced by the infiuences supporting
our present high tariff and other forms of leg-
islation, contracting our currency and driving
three-fifths of the whole wealth of $0,000,¢00
people into the hands of a few thousands.
To show how the farmers of Penn-
sylvania fare in the matter of taxation,
he gave .the following figures sub-
stantiated by the financial statisties of
the State: The whole value of real
estate in this commonwealth is $1,
800,000,000, of which farms constitute
the principal part. The value of per-
sonal property is $2,600,000,000, con-
sisting chiefly of money and corporate
property. Yet the first and smaller of
these two values pays annually for the
support of State and local governments
$33,000,000, while the second and
larger pays but $4,000,000.
1t 18 impossible for any class to be
prosperous with such discrimination
against them, and when to such direct
tax is added indirect but equally op-
pressive tariff taxation upon almost
every article needed and used in their
living and business, is it to be wonder-
ed that the farmers find their business
unprofitable? And isn’t it still more
wonderful that they didn’t begin to
kick long ago ?
St. Panl, Minnesota, tried the
Australian system of voting for the
first time on the 7th inst.,, and with
most gratifying success. Both the
voting and the counting were done rap-
idly, in one polling place 75 votes be-
ing cast in 45 minutes, and the elec-
tion was as fairly asit was rapidly
conducted. SwmitH, the Democratic
candidate for Mayor, was re-elected by
an increased majority, and the Demo-
crats elected all the ward aldermen
but three, and the two municipal court
judges. The party will go into the
congressional and gubernatorial battle
in Minnesota next fall with every hope
of success.
Resisting the Tyrant.
There was an open 1nsurrection in
the House of Representatives on Satur-
day, led by Mr. By~um of Indiana,
against the despotism of the Speaker.
Bynum was defending himself against
the lying aspersions of a fellow named
CaMPBELL, a hired minion of tariif-fed
monopoly, when an attempt was made
to cut him short by the application of
the gag. He resisted the tyranny of the
Speaker and this gave that arbitrary;
officer occasion to call the indig-
nant Indiana member up to receive the
censure of the House. In compliance
with the decree of the despot in the
chair Mr. By~um appeared at the
bar to receive his sentence, but he was
attended by all the Democratic mem-
bers who, upon being ordered by the
Speaker to take their seats, emphatical-
ly told him that they wouldn’t do it.
Upon censure being pronounced apon
Mr. Bynum he replied that he “ac
cepted it as a decoration of honor.”
Censure from such a source is, indeed,
more of an honor than a disgrace. It
is to be deplored that such scenes
should occur in congtess, but it is more
deplorable that the conduct of an ar
bitrary presiding officer should render
them justifiable.
——The election of Mr. CARLISLE to
the United States Senate by the Ken-
tucky Legislature last Saturday, had
the extraordinary feature of many of
his political opponents voting for him.
Of the 122 votes cast there were but 15
against him, many of the Republicans
declaring that they were glad to be
able to vote for him. Mr. CARLISLE
will make a great Senator, but we be-
lieve that he wonld be able to do his
country and party more good in the
House.
He Shouldn’t Get Mad.
When a Republican member of Con-
gress like Mr. Hexperson, of Iowa,
following the example of bold Ben
BurrerwortH, gets up and denounces
some specially iniquitous feature of the
McKinley tariff bill, he shouldn’t get
mad because the Democratic members
applaud him. It was the lamp chim-
ney extortion that excited his anger
and caused him to denounce the inten-
tion of putting everybody under extor-
tionate tribute to the lamp-chimney
makers, and it was unreasonable for
him in the midst of his honest indigna-
tion to turn around to the delighted
Democrats and tell them that he didn’t
want to hear their howls. Of course
Democrats will howl with delight when
they hear any one pitching into a
scheme of monopoly, and particularly
if it should happen to be a Republican.
HexpErson deserved credit for de-
nouncing that particular tariff iniquity,
but he shouldn’t have got into a pas
sion because the Democrats patted him
on the back for doing it.
Farmer Carter, of Chester
county, in talking to his brother fam-
ers the other day, made a strong
point in hitting the system of govern-
ment management which must resort
to vast public expenditures in order to
keep the treasury from overflowing,
The surplus drawn from the pockets of
the people by unnecessary taxes is re-
turned to them in the shape of largess.
It reminded him of CarNEciE donating
to the public a library that cost $100,
000 which was wrung from the sweat
and toil of his underpaid laborers, not
one of whom will ever see inside the
library.
Teaching Europeans to Eat Indian
Corn.
It will be remembered that it was
intended to have a special exhibit of
Indian corn at the Paris Exhibition
last year with the object of imparting
to the people of Europe a better knowl-
edge of the uses of the great American
staple, and thereby opening a wider
market for it. For some reason there
was a failure in carrying out this de-
sign. But Colonel Murry, a patriotic
American, has made a decided success
of an Indian corn exhibition in Edin-
burg, the capital of Scotland, showing
the canny Scots the different varieties
of this kind of grain raised in the Unit-
ed States and the advaatage it would
be to them to use it as an article of
food. It has been a perfect revelation
to the Scotchmen, one of the leading
papers of Edinburg saying: “This is
the first time the people of Scotland
have been taught how to cook maize,
and, no doubt, many after seeing and
tasting the numerous jexcellent quali-
ties of that form of food will wonder
why they have so long been kept in
ignorance of them.” That good whisky
can also be made of it is a gratifying
discovery to the bibulous inhabitants
of “the land o’ cakes.”
Considering the immense quantity of
maize that is raised in this country,
the product every year running 1nto a
surplus, nothing more advantageous to
our farmers could be done than to ac-
quaint the people of Europe with its
use as an article of food, and thus create
a foreign demand for our over-produc-
tion. It would do more good in solv-
ing the market question than can be
done by the “cabbage-head” tariff legis-
lation of a Republican congress.
The Sooner the Better.
The Press, which claims to be an-
thority on the subject of McKiNLEY'S
monopoly project, contradicts the ru-
mov started by ill informed parties that
the new tariff bill will not go into ef-
fect before January 1, 1891. The
Philadelphia organ says authoritative-
ly that it wil’ become operative imme-
diately upon its passage, We are glad
to hear this. The general disgust that
will follow the effects of this monopoly
measure should come on as soon
as possible. A year and a half’s ex-
perience of its combined folly and in-
iquity will put the voting population of
| the country in such a frame of mind
| by the time the next Presidential elec-
| tion shall come around, that they wiil
administer to the party responsible
| for it the grandest bounce that any
{ political organization was ever sub-
jected to. Democrats who are on the
“alert for politica! advantage, would be
‘greatly disappointed if the McKinley
tariff shouldn't go into effect at once.
Spawls from the ‘Keystone,
—The promise is bright for a big crop -of
cherries this year in Bucks county.
—A tree from the Houpt farm, near Spring-
town, Bucks connty, cut 2776 feet of boards,
—John Tobin, of Locust Gap,aged 50 years,
was instantly killed on the railroad near Ash-
land on Sunday.
—The castof a four-inch steel cannon has
been successfully made at the Carpenter
Steel Works in Reading.
—Mary, the 2 year-old daughter of William
Diehl, of Colerain township, was accidentally
drowned in a well on Sunday.
—Wallace Treichler, of Elizabethtown,
while leading a vicious horse was kicked in
the head on Sunday and fatalls injured.
—Isaac K. Kaufman fell from the forebay of
a barn at his home in Manor township, Lancas™
ter county, on Friday, and was insantly killed*
—The Girard Mammoth Colliery, at. Girard-
ville, will suspend operations this week for an
indefinite period, throwing 460 men out of
work.
—Archbishop Ryan visited the parish church
of the Holy Infancy, at Bethlehem on Monday
evening, and coufirmed, a class of 497 little
children.
—John Weaver, a 10-year-old boy, was drown-
ed in a pool of water at South Bethlehem on
Tuesday evening while playing on an impro-
vised raft.
—The Trade and Labor Council of Reading
has resolved to have a laber demonstration on
he Fourth of July, including a street parade
and mass meeting.
—A violent rainstorm passed over Harris-
bnrg Saturday evening, but no serious dam-
age is reported. The capitol: flag-staff was
struck by lightning.
—A requisition has been issned: to the Gov-
ernor of Maryland for George Douglas, colored,
charged with the murder of Ella Strange, of
Middletown, last March.
—Two young men of Lewisburg, while out
walking with ‘their sweethearts on Tuesday
evening, were slightly wounded by: supposed
jealous rivals shooting at them.
—Henry M. Hineson, aged 50 ‘years, an ex-
Alderman and a well-known and wealthy eiti-
zen of Chester, died: suddenly on Saturday,
from paralysisof the heart while taking a
bath.
—Incendiaries fired Ephraim Gery’s flour-
mill at Harlem, Bevks county, at midnight,
on Tuesday, and the building and its con-
tents were destroyed. Loss $10,000:; Insurance
$6,000.
—Finding some difficulty in loading his re-
volver Roger Kelly, of Kellar’s Church, pnt the
weapon against his'stomach and hit the ecar-
tridge with a poker. It exploded and entered
his groin, killing him.
—In consequence of the withdrawal: of. Hon.
S. M. Wherry as a Democratic candidate for
the Governorship, the delegates from Cums
berland county can be counted for Wallace,
with Pattison as second choice.
—John Jackaluke and Frank McCabe, two
boys, were found in a famished condition in a
freight car at Columbia on Saturday. They
had ridden from Jersey City, having been
locked in the car while playing.
—Robert Watchorn, Secretary of the United
Mine Workers of America, has prosecuted
the Wilkesbarre Coal Company on the criminal
charge of manslaughter in causing the death
of twenty-seven men in Ashley mine.
—The Lehigh valley “flyer” made the run
from Easton to New York last. Friday, eighty
miles, in one hour and forty-two minutes, in-
cluding six stops. Part of the distance was
traveled at the rate of seventy miles an hour.
—DMary Blum attempted suicide by jumping
nto the canal at Catasauqua on Wednesday
evening; but was rescued. She had previously
made an attempt to end her life by jumping
into a pool of hot cinders at the Crane Iron
Works.
—Benjamin Frederick, of Pottstown, brake-
man on the Philadelphia and * Reading Rail-
road, fell off a coal train engine No. 320, near
Phoenixville on Saturday. The wheels of the
cars passed over his body, killing him in-
stantly.
—As a result of a drunken melee in the
Hungarian quarter of Phoenixville, Anton
Peitz is dying froma badly fractured skull,
and Martin Holosh and Peter Klotz are in the
Chester county jail, charged with inflicting the
injuries.
—Henry Keller, aged 15, residing near Tel-
ford, Montgomery county, was instantly kill-
ed by falling from a grape arbor on Wednes-
day. He had been pruning the vines, and
when the arbor gave way the pruning knife
pierced his heart.
—The body of a dead child partly devoured
by a cow, was found in the fence corner of an
orchard near Lebanon recently. An examin:
ation showed that death had occurred within
twenty-four hours of the discovery. The body
was buried, but has since disappeared.
—The State Hospital at Hazleton is complet-
ed, but the Commissioners have refused to
accept it from Contractor Allen, not being sat-
isfied with the work done. The State Inspec-
tor has been summoned to Hazleton, and the
Commissioners will abide by his decision.
— Barclay Franks, residing at Mahanoy City,
Pa., has been arrested by special officer La-
bold, of the Reading Railroad, for trespass
and carrying concealed deadly weapons. The
officers complain that tramps have been shoot-
ing at the brakemen along the road. He was
held in $500 oail by Magistrate Kochersperger.
—George S. Ruble, a farmer of Oliver town-
ship, while driving a four-horse wagon over
the Pennsylvania Railroad at;McVeytown, was
struck by a fast freight. He was thrown sev-
enty-five feet and his head crushed so that
he died in two hours. Two of the horses were
killed.
—Tt is stated by George Fries, Jr., of Chelsea,
Delaware county, whose barn and valuable con-
tents were destroyod by fire on Sun day night,
that two days before a peddler applied for
lodging and upon being refused he, became
insolentand threatened to get even. He is
suspected of incendiarism. The loss was
$5000.
—William Daily, in the employ of the city of
Wilkesbarre, was killed in a remar kable way
the other day. While unloading stone at a
new bridge the wire rope guy of a pole derrick
which was some distance away, broke, and, like
the iron lash of an immense whip, coiled
about his neck, and as the pole fell completely
decapitated him.
—The East Reading Electric Railway was
opened for business on Sunday, and large
crowds used the cars all day. In the even-
ing, while one of the cars was crowded, a
brake slipped, and the loaded car shot through
the heavy doors of the station and fell down
an embankment. It was miraculous that no
one was-seriously injured, As it was a few re-
ceived slight injuries,