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Demonic Wacom
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—With two inches of snow on the
ground the worm is in no danger of
being caught by the early blue-bird.
—The mint julep to which CAMERON
has treated Philadelphia ought to put
even the Press in better humor with
the senior boss.
—Orator McCLURE is proving himself
to be as effective as Editor MCCLURE
in exposing the false pretenses of the so-
called protectionists.
—The adjournment of the late Con-
gress is the only thing that can be cred-
ited to that body as having been of real
benefit to the country.
—A vein of natural cheese is report-
ed to have been struck in Iowa. If it
was of the Limberger variety it certain-
ly had strength enough to strike back:
—The House adjourned without being
able to discover the silver pool. Proba-
bly it is just as well, as it has saved the
expenditure of a large amount of white
wash.
—-It was a “business congress,” but
the fact that it has left no money in the
treasury would seem to indicate that it
did business too extensively on the cash
plan.
~The second year of the Harrison ad-
ministration closed on Wednesday with
civil service reform wearing a pair of
black eyes and the treasury com-
pletely knocked out.
— When it is considered how near the
Republicans have gotten to the bottom
of the treasury Philadelphia was indeed
very lucky in getting the money to
build her new Mint.
—March having come in with the
concentrated ferocity of a whole den of
lions, it may be expected that it will go
out with the combined gentleness of
an entire flock of lambs.
—Congressman DALZEL is not only
surpassing his Pennsylvania Republican
colleagues in oratorical achievement, but
he is also enjoying the more solid com-
fort of knocking the official persimmons,
-—The fact that the Burdick pipe line
bill has failed to become a law is suffi-
cient proof that the tentacles of the
Standard octepus haven't relaxed their
hold on the Pennsylvania Legislature.
—A Constitutional Convention is the
only medium through which the honest
citizen can be assured that when he goes
to the polls his vote will not be neutral-
ized by the fine work of the election
sharp.
— When Brother WANAMAKER shall
come to divide the boodle which he is
authorized to distribute by the Postal
Subsidy Bill he may feel it his duty as
a christian statesman to begin the job
with prayer.
-—BrsMARCK has always entertained
great contempt for petticoat influence
and no doubt the grira old ex-chancellor
is quietly chuckling over the young Em-
peror’s failure to placate the French
through that medium.
—$6,000,000 will be needed to meet
the requirement of the Indian Depreda-
tion bill ; butthat is a trifle compared
with the general depredation to which
the treasury has been subjected by Re-
publican management.
~-Itis but a trifling advantage for
Pennsylvania to get $1,600,000 Direct
Tax refunded by the Government when
it puts apnaally into the general pool
ten times that much in the indirect
way of tariff taxation.
—Just at the time when sourkraut
was beginning to be recognized as a civ-
ilized and harmless comestible its repu-
tation suftered a serious slump by a bar-
rel of it bursting in New Jersey
and killing a girl who was getting
out a mess of it.
—If France hadn’t an army of al-
most a million men ready and anxious
for a fight, Emperor WILLIAM'S ‘dan-
der” would beup a good deal higher
than it is about the way his ma was
treated in Paris. There are circum-
stances under which it doesn’t pay to
get mad.
—There is no plausibility in the howl
which the Canadian Tories are raising
about American boodle being used to
corrupt the Dominion voters. That
sort of political ammunition is so large-
ly required for our own elections that
we can’t afford to waste any of it on
Canada.
—1In view of the fuct that the Astor
| ¢ because of these to tax others who
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VOL. 36.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 6, 1891.
NO. 9.
Misappvehension of a Just and Rea-
sonable Proposition.
The Philadelphia Press shows a re-
markable misapprehension of the rea-
son for and object of the bill now be-
fore the Legislature designed to impose
a tax on unnaturalized foreigners, when
it says: :
“Among the absurb bills introduced
“into the present Legislature is one
“proposing to levy a $3 head tax on
“every unnaturalized citizen in the
‘State, The measure is conceived in
“gq gpirit of hostility to the foreigners
“in the mining regions, an element
“that could well be spared, bat being
“here should be taxed no more nor no
“less than other workmen similarly
“situated.”
Nothing could be more absurb than
the idea that this bill is conceived in a
spirit of hostility to the foreigners in
the mining or any other region. It
has no other object that to relieve in
some meagure the burden of the citi-
zens who are compelled to take care of
and provide for these unnaturalized
foreizners when, through sickness or
accident, they become public charges.
The Press is evidently ignorant of
the situation in districts where these
people are largely employed. Take a
mining district, for examp;e, or one in
which iron-works employ a large num-
ber of TIungarians or other foreigners
of that class. A better example than
Spring township, in this county, could
not be found. There isn’t a day that
gome of them are not injured or become |
sick. The danger and exposure |
incident to their work, in addition to
their filthy habits, render casualties
and iliness inevitable, and the conse-
quence is that they become township
charges. The care and maintenance
of them under these circumstances are
the cause of the heaviest township ex-
pense, which must be borne by the tax
payers who have no interest whatever
in their employment and to whom their
presence is generally a nuisance. It is
to relieve these taxpayers to some ex-
tent that this bill proposes to compel
these unnataralized foreigners to con-
tribute something toward the poor
fund by which they are benefited. Is
there anything unjust in this? Is there
anything oppressive? Does it propose
to take from these foreigners anything
for which they do not get a return? If
it were intended to make them assist
in paying the expenses of State and
county, in the government of which
they do not participate as voters, it
would be a different thing. Tnat woull
be unjustifiable. Bat when they re-
ceive a direct, immediate and personal
benefit, as they do from the poor fund
in cases of sickness and accident, which
is of constant occurrence where large
numbers are employed, justice and
equity unite in a law that would in-
clade them among the contributors to
that fund. They are surely able to
make the small contribution of $3.00
a year, which would be but atrifling de-
duction from the earnings with which
they intend to return to their own
country and live in comparative affla-
ence for the balance of their lives.
It is asking too much of American
workingmen whose wages have been
reduce 1 by the competition of these un-
naturalized foreigners, that they shall
help to pay poor tax for the benefit of
Huns and Dagos who are entirely ex-
empt.
The reasoning of the Pressis com-
pletely at fault when it says: “Ic is
“true that many of them become a
“public charge, but these could not
“ pay the tax, anyway, and it is unjust
“support themselves and whose single
“ disqualification is that they have not
“been here long enough to be natur-
“ alized.”
fortune was started in a small way in
the peltry line, an exchange suggests
that the family coat-of-arms should con- |
sist of a peddler with a pack on his back. |
But wouldn’t two muskrats rampant be
the correct thing for the escuteheon of |
with
a family whose pedigree began
the fur business ?
--With all his faults INGALLS
haved like a gentleman as presiding
officer of ihe Senate and he got his re- |
ward by a unanimous vote of thanks |
in which the Democratic Senators par-
ticipated as heartily as the Repulicans. |
The caustic Kansan dropped his black-
guardism whenever he got hold of the
gavel. In REkD's case contact with
that iv plement of authority intensified
his ruffian propensities.
be- |
, earnings shall be
{ way of a poor tax, for their support
' benefit is so directly personal that the
It is not the purpose of the bill to
punish these people for being foreign-
ers; but they are liable at any time to
Lecome public charges, and it is pro-
posed that while they are in health and
making wages a small part of their
set aside, in the
whea they are sick and disabled, The
equity of the provision cannot be ques-
toned.
The Press thinks that ‘a grave ob-
jection to the measure is that it
+“ wonld prompt every one of these peo
“ple to apply for citizenship ani saf:
{rage us soon as the law allaws, when
| tin of the eaas in which its oil is exported.
: on the business of trade or commerce.”
‘sylvania railroad management and its
« without this money inducement they
“ might never intrude themselves into
*‘ the company of uninstructed and un-
‘fit voters.”
This quibble impeaches the purpose
of our naturalization laws which en-
able these people to become citizens,
but with which the law that pro-
poses to impose a poor tax on them
has no relation whatever. The
fact to be met is the injustice of
making the citizens support these
people under certain conditions, with-
out their contributing a dollar for
their own benefit, The bill in-
tends to remedy this injustice, and
if the effect should be to drive them
into naturalization that is something
else, for which the naturalization laws
are responsible. But itisn’t likely that
$3 would have that effect.
TCA STE
Interesting Things about Foster.
Some interesting tacts are being de-
veloped concerning Mr. Foster, the
new Secretary of the Treasury. He
has made a record which shows him
to be a silver man. Asa member of
the house, in 1876, he voted for BLAND'S
free coinage bill. In 1877 he again
voted the same way. In 1878 he vot.
ed for the Bland compromise bill, for
the coinage of $4,000,000 a month, and
when President Haves vetoed the bill
Mer. Foster voted to pass it over the
veto.
The question is raised whether he is
eligible to the offize of Secretary of the
Trezsury, as he is interested in the im-
porting business. On this point the
Springfield Republican says :
He is largely interested in the Standard oil
trast, and this monopoly is not only a heavy
exporter but an importer of tin plate, ana an
sive claimant for rebates of duty on the
ex
Section 213 of the revised statutes provides
that “no person appoiited to the office of sec-
retary of the treasury shall, directly or indi-
raed or interested in earrying
That
plainly bars out Foster as itdid A. T. Stewart,
whom Grant once named for the office; unless,
perchance, he shall qualify himself by dispos-
ing of his inter: in the trust, as well, per-
haps, as his interest in the manufacture of |
glass.
rectiy, be con
This is no doubt a valid objection,
out the point is made too late, as Fos-
TER has been confirmed, and there is
no doubt that he will hold on to both |
his Standard oil stock and the Treasa-
ry office.
Fortanately Averted.
It is really fortunate for the co untry
that the difficulty between the Penn-
employes has been settled, thereby pre-
venting astrike that would have greatly
deranged the transportation business.
Tune Pennsylvania Company, which |
controls the leased lines of the Penu- |
sylvania Railroad west of Pittsburg,
comprises an immense railway system.
I: includes two distinct lines from
Pitsburg to Chicago, one to Cincinnati,
the short route to St. Louis by way of
Indianapolis, a direct route from Ciu-
cazo to Louisville, lines to Cleveland
and Toledo and an extensive branch
system covering many hundred of
miles in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
It isons of the greatest railway sys-
tems in the worl], and a strike would
be felt from the Atlantic seaboard clear
to the great lakes and the Mississippi.
Concessions by the management have
been met by a liberal spirit by the men,
and the result is that serious trouble to
the company has been averted and mis
ery and suffering saved its vast army
of employes.
TC TOT
Reciprocity That Means Something.
Mr. Hayivrox Fisn, who was Presi-
dent GraNT's Secretary of State, is not
in favor of the present tariff policy of
his party. On this subject he made
the following remark toa New York
reporter last week: “I am in favor of
reciprocity in the broadest, tullest sense
of the term, reciprocity which means
trade and benefit to the people. I have
always been in favor of a certain meas.
ure of protection to infant industries.
But the child grows and the industries
do not forever remain infants. There
comes a time when protection ceases
to be a necessity, when industries do
not need to be fed with pap. I believe
that the McKinley tariff is prohibition
anl not protection, There was no
necessity for it. You may quote me
as believing true reciprocity in all di:
rections to be a wise policy for our
country, and—I am not a restriction:
jat.”
A Constitutional Convention Necessary.
The introduction of Mr. WHERRY'S
Bill in the House providing for the
holding of a Constitutional Convention
relative to reforming the ballot system
in this State, gives hope that a more
perfect, effective and permanent reform
may be brought about than can be ef-
fected by statutory enactment. Elec-
tions entirely free from the influence of
bribery and intimidation are essential
to the existence of a real popular gov-
ernment. Without this protection we
may have the form, but the principle
is ineffectually carried out. Entire
secrecy in voting is indispensable, but
this can not be obtained as long as the
constitution requires the numbering of
the ballots. Those numbers are the
tell-tales which destroy the confidence
of the voter that no one but himself
and his God can know how he voted.
They are a restraint upon his action.
It is true that a statute may provide
that the numbers on the ballots shall
be conceaied by pasting them down,
and that secrecy shall be further secur-
ed by sealing the tally sheets. But
those numbers, constitutionally requir-
el,are asthe trail of the serpeat that vi-
tiates the whole business so far as ab-
solute secrecy is concerned. Nothing
but a change of the constitution can
eradicate it. *
What is also greatly needed is an
improvement in registration. Under
the present method practical politi-
cians, particulary in the large cities,
have become so expert in padding the
registration and manipulating the lists
that the operation of the personator
and repeater is made easy and almost
unpreventable. Without a change of
the constitution no statute can be pass-
ed that will eradicate this evil. The
only remedy for it lies in a Constitu-
tional Convention.
It is to be hoped that Mr. WHERRY'S
bill will be promptly passed. It does
not necessarily interfere with remedial
measures that are intended for earlier
and temporary effect. These may
serve their purpose so far as it goes,
bat a perfect baliot system—thorough
protection against fraud, bribery and
| intimidation—if it can be secured at all
| can be reached only by the action of a
Constitutional Convention.
Criticising the P. O. Department.
It wasn’t at all gracious for so good
a Republican as Senator PLUMB to give
Mr. WANAMAKER a castigation for the
manner in which he runs the Post Of-
fice department. Bat he did this the
other day when an amendment creat-
ing the office of Fourth Assistant Post
Master General was attempted to be
made to an appropriation bill.
‘I'he Senator said that there was no
necessity for more officers in that de-
partment ; that what was more needed
| was better attention to business. He de-
clared that he had never visited that
department lately that he did not sce
the head officers reading the newspa-
pers and otherwise leisurely deporting
themselves. He denounced the depart-
ment as unnecessarily extravagant,
characterizing it as indifferent to the
extent of public expense it caused. In
his opinion this new officer was intend-
ed merely to enable the Post Master
General to devote all his time to his
private business.
This is severecriticism of Mr. WaNa-
MAKER'S management of the Post Of
fice Department which all along has
been claimed to be conducted on such
excellent business principles. The
Senator's strictures were so forcible that
the amendment to create the new of
fice was withdrawn.
— Governor Hill, of New York,
‘will not recognize the ‘‘executive au-
thority” of the Governor whom the Re-
publicans of Connecticut irregularly and
unlawfully put into office. Some
weeks ago when the usurping Connecti-
cut Governor made a requisition on the
Executive of New York for the return
of a burglar to the Nutmeg State Gov-
ernor Hill said: “Mr, Bulkeley is not
the Governor of Connecticut. I decline
to recognize Mr. Bulkeley as the Gov-
ernor of Connecticut. He has been re-
pudiated by the Senate of his own State.
I cannot recognize him. Send the papers
back,” and the papers were sent back
accordingly. This is the way to treat
usurpers, and if there were more of such
treatment there would be fewer of such
political frauds.
A Modified Steal.
It is a relief to know that the
—
practiced on the Treasury by the so-
called Shipping Bill, or more: properly
called the Subsidy Bill, has failed in
carrying out its full object. It origin-
ally proposed to give enormous boun-
ties to all American built steamships
for the alleged purpose of encouraging
American commerce, ignoring the fact
that there can’t be any considerable
commerce where foreign trade is re-
stricted by heavy tariff duties, as is the
tem. The heavy bounties proposed by
the bill would have subsidized ships
which from the very nature of the sit-
uation would have had but little to
carry and would have been run chiefly
for the subsidy.
Of the Democratic members of the
House only three were to be found who
would support the enormous job that
was all but successful, while of the Re-
publicans fourteen Representatives re-
fused to follow their party in its dis-
graceful course. It was by reason of
the Democrats presenting an almost
solid front to this scheme of olunder
that it failed, but, as in the case of the
frustration of the infamous Force Bill,
they could not have succeeded without
the assistance of a handful of Republi-
can members acting in conjunction
with the Democratic minority.
Shorn of its enormous proportions
the original Shipping Bill hasjdwindled
into the Postal Subsidy Bill which
provides bounties only for vessels car-
rying the mails, which mast be of a cer-
tain build and ot}American make. This
has been passed by the Republican
majority in the House and at the pre-
sent writing is before the Senate. The
bounties proposed are very liberal, tut
as the vessels required for carrying the
mails are necessarily limited in number
there is satisfaction in knowing that
the subsidizing under this bill caniot
amount to the enormsus jobs contem-
plated in the original Subsidy Bili.
Since writing the above the modified
bill timiting the bounty to mail-carry-
ing steamers has also passed the House
and will no doubt be signed by the
President.
The Lymph Probably a Failure.
Dr. Kocu's lymph, asa cure for con-
sumption, is not accepted by the Aus-
trian, French, Italian and English
physicians, who hold that its efficacy
has not been demonstrated.}Some of the
German physicians also refuse to en-
dorse it. In this country the physi
cians who have used it withhold their
approval. The doctors of New York
who have been experimenting with the
lymph on about 350 patients consider
it a disappointment and say that the
claims set up for it are shown by their
experiments to be unfounded. The New
York Herald gives the opinion of sev:
eral eminent practitioners to show that
it is valueless as a diagnostic, that it
does not cure consumption, and that it
is not the specific 1t was thought to be.
No one has proved it to have an elec-
tive affinity, as claimed, for tubercular
tissue. Conservative men declare that
the cure for consumption is quiteas far-
it was before the lymph was known.
——Cuameers MoKissiy, for many
years a prominent figure in Peonsyl-
vania Democratic polities, died. at
Chambersburg, Thursday of last week,in
his 93d year. He was a man of wide in-
fluence and filled many public: posi-
tions, including Director of the Mint,
Assistant U. 8S. Treasurer andi Naval
Officer. He had four sons in the
army, and two, with a daughter, sur-
vive him, Mr. MoKiBriN: was a man
of high characte; on all occasions.
For several years he was proprietor
of the Merchant's hotel, Philadel
phia, a great resort for Democratic
politicians and statesmen.
m————
boom has been fully launched on the
troubled and uncertain sea of polities,
and will be ekillfully manipulated by the
Premier for all that is in it until the
next Republican nominating conven:
tion shall make its selection. In view
of the insignificance of HarrisoN, a
comparison with whom is greatle to
| the advantage of BraiNg, the latter's
I ghance of heing nominated grows
stronger every day.
grand steal which was intended: to be |
case under our present commercial sys- |
beyond the reach of the profession as |
e
— There is no doubt that the Blaine:
3 Spawls from the Keystone.
i —A fire at Hyndman, Bedford county, eaus-
‘ed a loss of $10,000. 333]
. —Aclock owned by D.C. Shaler, of Trappe,
has ticked since 1786
—A 30-year-old horse works on the farm of
Dr. W. B.Erdmon, cf Macungie. :
—Citizens of Roscoe now have four mails a
‘day and the business men are happy.
—The store of Miss Lottie Lee, at Ashland’
‘has been burglarized for the sixth time.
—Felix Baugh, of Greenburg, has been ar-
rested for shamefully abusing his sister.
' —The municipality of Harrisburg is threat-
ened with a deficiency of nearly $100,000.
- Shamokin must pay Thomas Ramey $1500
for the breaking of his leg in an open diteh.
—Johnstown’s Board of Trade will pass.upon
the safety of all dams and booms of that vi-
cinity.
—David Jones, a colored barber of Chester,
has been appointed a sub-carrier in the post
office.
—Isaac Johnson has been indicted for fatal-
ly kicking his wife at Pottstown om Christ-
mas.
, =—The Carpenter Steel Works, Reading, will
double its working force to make Government
projectiles.
—The personal estate of Andrew H. Dill,
late United States Marshal, l.as been--inventor-
ied at $302.22.
—Chester’s Clan -na-gael Tuesday:nigkt cele-
brated the 111th anniversary of the blrth of
Robert Emmet.
—At Scranton Edward Jones hae been con-
_victed of passing counterfeit money in Ve-
ronia, Allegheny county.
—The conference between the -Connellsville
coke bperators and the striking miners en
Monday was fruitless.
—Forty-five dollars and thirteen cents was
added on Monday to the Doylestown Public
School Saving Fund.
—Th» Newton midget girl that weighed two
pounds when 2 weeks old diedslast week, aged
5 months, and weighed five pounds.
—Auctioneer Elias Eastburn, of Labaska,
| Bucks county, cried off $25,000 worth of goods
in two hours at Chester, the other Yay. :
—Pottstown Iron Works puddlers’ wages go
down on March 9 from $3.75 to $3.50 per ton
and helpers’s wages down t0 37 cents a heat,
—William Fry and George Weaver, young
men of York, have been hel in $1000 hail
each for feloniously assaulting a little girl,
--George Reed, of Bensalem towr ship,
Bucks county, while trimming trees, nearly-
cut his foot in twoby thes accidental slipping
of his ax.
—At a Reiner City (Schuylkill county) cake-
walk on Monday evening; Anthony Hogannus
stabbed John Linemaster dangerously with a
pocket knife.
—Young Harry Motz pleaded guilty, to for-
gery at Norristown. He forged the names of
most of his friends along the line of the Read-
ing Railroad.
—Lehigh county's. tramp population has
dwindled very suddenly from 1000 to 560 since
the gentlemen of the -road must brealz stone
for the county’s roads.
—The “hop tea” sold by a Lehigh county sa-
loon keeper proved to.be an excellent . guglily
of larger beer, and he has been held for viola-
tion of the Liquor law.
—James Neff, who was acquitted ot the mur-
der of Drover McCausland, in Greene county,
some time ago, is said to be running. a saloon
in Custer City, Dakota.
—James Gable's wife, whom he {eloniously
assaulted at Reading a yearago, wants him re-
leased as a sick man from a three year sen
tence in the penitentiary.
—The venduo sale of the effects of Samuel*
Mensh, of Oley; was atte nded by 2000 peysons,.
and a whole ox sandwiched 'batween 160
loaves of bread was devoured.
—The wife-of William Stephenson, of Waeds-
Run, was severly burned by har clothing
catching fire from the stove... The ,dwetor
has no hope of her recovery.
—Factory inspectors at Wilkesbarre:have
cansed the discharge of 160 boys under16
years of age, who had been working at:the
Lackawanua iron and steel mill.
—Several trainmen of the: Delaware; Lacks
awanna and Western railroad, who. signed
petitions. for license applicants at Scranton,
have been summarily discharged. .
—Dr. Abrams, a well knew dentist of Brown
ville, was arrested for attempting to bribe a
judge to reduce the alimomy.the ccart ordered
his son to pay to nis divorced wite,
—Louis Hensel, William Coyle; and’ %brae
ham.Kulp were held at Doylestown for trial on
the charge of robbing cars of the Reading
Railroad, of which they were employes.
—On the farm of Ritto Bros.,, near Point
Pleasant, Bucks county, Henry- Breyfogle, of
Bethlehem, is digging for a chest of gold that
he thinks was buried there during the-Revolus
ition.
1 —Tuesday at Pottstown during- the tempore
ary absenee of its mother, Jeannie A., a 3-year
‘old child of Marks Weissenberg, was burned to
| death by its clothing catching fire from the
| stove.
—In opening-the March. term of court at
| Pittsburg Judge White spoke.on the subject
of liquor license and asked the peaple to furnish
him with evidence against disreputable ap-
plicants.
—The bill of Coroner Wakefield for holding
inquests over bodies of Mammoth mine view
tims is said4o be exorbitant, and the eounty
2ommissioners have been advised to refuse
payment. It is for $279.91.
—Ears mufiled to keep out the cold, and not
railway negligence,cansed the death of Brakee
man Harry MeFarland on the North Pennsy!-
vania Road near Fort Washington. He
couldn’t hear the other train.
--At the meeting of the Bowman Conference
Rev. Ni A. Barr was deposed from the mine
istry for calling the. Rev. Spreng “tho chamse
pion liar of America Norristown was select
ed: asthe piace forthe next conference. Pre=
siding elders were appointed and districts laid
| out.
—A large number of representative Lancass
ter County farmers met and discussed the pro-
posed road law. All were opposed to it. The
men from the Western part of the State who
were present as representatives, said that the
West wanted the law, as their roads were in
worse condition than those in the East.
—The United States authorities arrested
George Maue, editor of the Hazleton Sentinel,
and H. E. Sutherland, a leading merchant of
that place, on the charge of sending obscene
circulars through the mails to Rev. Peter Don -
ahoe and others, charging Danahoe with inde-
cencies and business dishonesty, Sutherland
confessed to. the United States Deputy Mar-
shal.