= ». GRAY MEEK. Ink Stings. —1Tt looks as if the Italian cabinet wara trying to outjingo BLAINE. —Millions for defense,” but when it comes to billions it looks like wholesale plunder. - —The disgraceful anomaly which Connecticut finds her State government te be, is the natural result of political rascality. -~What will it profit the farmer to have the tax taken off his farm and clapped upon nearly everything else that he can‘call hi$ own ? —As everything that afllicts human- ity is being traced to some pestiferous germ, would it be unjust to regard Mc- KiNLEY as the tariff microbe ? —Italian presumption, if encouraged in the Mafia question, may go so far as to require an apology and restitution for the hanging of Red Nosed Mike. —Three J erseymen are guing to start a newspaper in London to be called the Sun. It will furnish the Londoners Jer- sey enlightenment, if not “Jersey light- ning.” —Sore heads are frequent in Ameri- can politics in a figurative sense, but it takes an Irish campaign’ to produce them practically by means of the shil- lalah. —The sap fairly hums through the pores of the maple trees in its eager haste to get the bounty which Ep- MUNDS has secured for the production of the sugar cam ps. —The way the tax bill looks it is al- together probable that the embattled farmers will find that the shot they fired last November didn’t bring down game of any consequence. —If the spring flowers could have peeped through the mould last Sunday morning they would have been surpris- ed at the way the Easter bonnets had got ahead of them. -—The proposition to give Philadel- phia six Republican Congressmen pro- bably is made for the reason that four weren’t enough to have a bill passed that would fetch that Mint. —In the event of Ttaly’s becoming belligerent those who opposed the im- provement of our navy may have ocea- sion to be convinced that war ships are very useful articles of national furni- ture. ---The Record, which deprecates the New Orleans lynching, says that “it is a matter in which American civilization is involved.” What seems to have been a good deal more involved was Italian uncivilization. —The Arkansas legislators who re- moved a portrait of George Washington to make room for a picture of Jeff Davis must have deliberately intended to fur- nish the bayonet politicians with cam- paign ammunition, —There are indications that the ad- ministration has concluded to jump on the Alliance postmasters in Kansas. This is on the principle of tit for tat, as the Kansas Alliance has been jumping on the administration. —Cheap sugar will have much of the sweetness taken cut of it by the reflec- tion that the housekeeper will have to contribute te the bounty which the Louisiana sagar producer will get to compensate him for the reduced price of his saccharine production. —There is at least one advantage in the Republican high tariff. Ithas clear- ed our merchant marine so completely off the ocean that in the event of a war with Italy there would be no American vessels left to be captured by the Italian cruisers. —The removal of the sugar duty will take place on All Fools Day, but how many will be fools enough to believe that anything will be gained to the tax paying people by taking the tariff off sugar and putting a bounty or. the sugar product ? —The tariff-protected coke barons of the Connellsville region, having provok- ed their employes to riotous conduct by their refusal to pay fair wages, called up- on Governor PArTIsoN for state troops to quell the disturbance, but they didn’t find him to be that kind of a Governor. —-President HARRISON was quite suc- cessful in knocking out the fellow who some nights ago tried to get into the White House by the back way ; but it isn’t likely that he will be equally suc- cessful with the fellow who will try to get in by the front way some time in March, ‘93. —The congressional districts of Wis- consin were so arranged in the G. O. P. interest that the Democrats couldn’t get more than one congressman out of ten, but the new Democratic apportionment gives the Republicans four, and they are howling about a gerrymander. It is remarkable with what facility the old party can make herself blind to her own sins while viewing those of her opponent with a magnifying glass, STATE rs AND FEDERAL UNION, : __ VOL. 36. Where Will the Relief Come In? The farmer interest, under the direc- tion of the Grangers, has been moving for some years toward securing the equalization of taxes. Several bills having this object in view have been before recent Republican Legislatures, but it was always managed so that they didn't materialize. The one great object of Republican legislation is to protect corporate interests, and hence bills whose object was to lighten the farmers’ burden by putting some of it on the corporations met with but small favor. : Last fall there was such a shaking up at the election that the present Leg- islatare has been compelled to see the necessity of passing a tax bill that would have the appearance of equaliz- ing taxes, but we are afraid that the farmers will find that it will fail to af- ford them much, if any, relief. They will be but little relieved by having the tax shifted from their farms and put on their horses, cattle, mules, sheep, hogs, hay, gran, implements and machinery—in fact, on all their pro- ducts and personal property above the value of $300. The comfort which the may derive from seeing the tax taken off his farm will be neutralized by his seeing iv clapped upon everything else he owns. This Bill may be in- tended for the relief of the farmers, but it is hard to see where the relief will come in. granger Who 2 Pass the Duty ? One of the absurd impressions that is attempted to be made upon the public mind by the upholders of the mounopo- ly tariff, is that the duty on imported goods is paid by the importers and therefore the consumers can in no way be affected by it. The New York Dry Goods Economist exposes the utter non- sense of this position by showing that cotton velvet, which before the McKin- ley tariff went into operation sold at selling at 22 cents wholesale. 35 to 40 cents, is entirely owing to the increase of duty; but if the importer paid the duty | why should the cost to the purchaser | be increased ? Cotton velvet, or plush, one of the commodities that is largely used by | the poorer class of people, has a very heavy duty imposed on it, velvets, used by the rich, are scarcely | tariffed at all. Upon this inequality the Economist comments as follows: “This keynote runs almost all “through the tariff: Bear heavily on “low-priced goods and lightly on the high- “er-priced ones; encourage the Ameri- “can manufactur:r to make cheap “trash, but give him little or no in- “ducement to go into fine goods. This ‘1s irrational, unpatriotic and oppres- tegive.” eae——— ——We can hardly believe the re- port that President Harrison intends to give one of the nine recently created circuit judgships to a negro, and yet he might be led to adopt such an expedi- ent by the desire to secure the colored influence for the promotion of his sec- ond term scheme. But the darkies, we should think, would be satisfied with favors that wouldn't involve the character and dignity of the judiciary. There are many petty places in the gift of the President that would suit and please them, but very singularly Mr. HarrisoN has neglected to give them any of these, even preferring whites for the cleaning of spittoons and other menial duties about the White House. Now, to make amends for this neglect by putting a colored man into a United States jundgshi p, would be displaying an astonishing want of dis- cretion and lack of the sense of pro- priety. —— ——Chairman ANDREWS proved himself to be such an incompetent lead- Jer that a more efficient man at the head of the party 1s required. Collec- tor CoopEr,it is said, would like to sue- ceed ANprEWS and assame the old place in which he displayed such skill as a machine manager and political manipu- lator. He is said to have an ulterior purpose in this, in wanting to help elect BraiNg to the Presidency, in which he thinks he could be conspicuously ser- viceable as the Pennsylvania chairman, with a cabinet position as his reward. This increase of price | while silk | BELLEFONTE, Ten Days Intermission. The State Legislature adjourned last week for ten days, to reassemble on the 6th inst. The reason given for this long intermission was that it was needed to give the members an oppor- tunity to observe their Easter duties and to attend to business incident to che first of April. This will do as an excuse, but it is more likely that some other reason than piety or business was the cause of this protracted adjourn- ment. There is certain legislation which the majority want to avoid, and ten days taken out of the session will be a heip in choking off legislation which they don’t want to have any- thing to do with. It would suit them very well if they shouldn't have time to pass an apportionment bill. It wouldn't aggravate them any if the session were found too short to do any- thing for a constitutional convention ; and if such troublesome questions as anti-discrimination could be crowded off for want of time they woulda’t be inconsolable on that score either. Therefore it may not be doing the majority injustice to say that they knocked ten days out of the session in order to make it that much shorter for a purpose. Some believe that the managers find the peculiar kind of legislation they delight in barred by the presence of Governor Parrison, and are therefore indifferent about staying long in Har- risburg. Adjournments suit them bet- ter than an uninterrupted continuance of legislative business, and a final ad- journment will probably be hastened. They may fade away before the apple and leave the have blossomed without constitutional protec- trees ballot tion and the people without the en- forcement of the constitutional provi- that were intended to shield against corporate imposition sions them and spoliation. —————— Treasury being swamped before he i moved by such a tear he issaid to have | gone to some of the leaders and told | them plainly that if they didn’t put a | brake on their liberal appropriations the shall have gotten out of office, and | finances of the commonwealth would ' be reduced to a scate of bankruptcy. | It isn’t often that a Republican officer | : . as full of truth as an egg is full of meat; | manifests any feelings of alarm when | : : | 1t reflected the sentiment of the entire he sees the money being scooped out of the public treasury, but Mr. Bover - professes to be actua'ly frightened at | such proceedings. A Fatal Blunder. The bunglers who got the passed for a new Mint at Philadelphia without a provision for the appropria- tion needed to build it, hoped that their mismanagement could be correct- ed by a decision of the Attorney Gener- al that the Mint could be built with- out an appropriation; but they have General MiLLer deciding that there is uothing in the bill that provides the necessary cash or authorizes the Treas- ury Department to furnish the funds without which the building can’t go up. This certainly is discouraging to those who think that Philadelphia ought to have a new Mint, for the next congress, finding that its “billion” predecessor had raked the treasury, may conclude that the depleted condition of the public coffers wouldn’t warrant the expense of erecting such costly buildings. This is going to be an impor- tant and interesting year in the matter of Governors, as six of that grade of officers are going to be elected to suc- ceed Boies in Iowa, Buckyer in Ken- tucky, Jackson in Maryland, ABBETT in New Jersey, HiLL in New York and CampBELL in Ohio. All of these are Democrats, and if their successors shall be of the same party it will be significant as to the result in 1892, —1t is looking some years ahead, but the Magee wing of the Rep: bilan party in the State is already preparing to oppose the re-election of Quay to the Senate. The hostility between the two wings is too irreconcilable to be made the subject of a treaty of peace. Of course Quay wants to hold on to his seat, and either Cris Magee or Joux DarzeiL will be the opposing candidate. bill | had their hopes dashed by Attorney | PA., APRIL 3, 1891. NO. 13. The Partisan Census. Ccagressman MiLis, of Texas, in an article in the Forum, shows the inac- curacy of the Porter census. By the application of reliable and convincing tests he demonstrates that the popula- tion is more likely to be 65,000,000 or | 66,000,000 than 62,000,000 as shown by a defective census. down bas been mainly in the South where at least 1,500,000 have been omitted, and in the cities of New York | and Brooklyn. It will be observed that the sections selected shrinkage are Democratic and suggest the intentions of a diminution of Demo- cratic congressmen and Presidcntial e lectors. Mr. Minis shows that according to PorTir's figures the increase of popu- lation between 1830 and 1890, a period of profound peace, when the conditions were most favorable for a growth of population, the increase was less than betw een 1860 and 1870 when war had the effect of diminishing the number of people. There can’t be a ques. tion about the incorrectness of Mr. Porter's enumeration, and that it was made incorrect for a parti- san purpose is equally ungestionable. sn —— It may turn out that Senator Hearst, of California, did not die in vain, inasmuch asthe outrageous ex- pens es connected with his funeral, to be paid by the government, have be- come such a scandal that the method of congressional funerals will be over- hauled and reformed. Abuses gener- ally go on from bad to worse until they become intoleracle and reform 1s the result. It is to be hoped that this will be the upshot of the Hearst funeral. ——— Why He Was Bounced, Mr, Avrexanxper McKinNsTREY, a Deiocratic clerk in one of the depart- ments at Washington, who very sin- Sate Tidasury Boas 1s baton I gularly was allowed to hold over from To — J ‘the Cleveland ini i g im- 150007. per yard wholesale, inv rio% | ing alarmed at the prospect of the ! e Cleveland administration, got him ) The re- | tail price was 25 cents; it 1s now from | self into trouble by a too free expres sion of his sentiments. After the billion dollar congress adjourned he approach- ed the desk of his immediate chief, As- sistant Appraiser Burk, and pounding on his desk as if to give his remark ad- ditional emphasis, said: “The tyrants are gone; the Czar is dead,” or words to that effect. It was an expression country; it was a just criticism of a profligate congress and its despotic presiding officer, yet it wasn’t agree- able to the functionary to whom it was addressed, the administration and its understrappers being touchy about such matters, and the result is that the gen- tleman who made the remark is no longer in the employ of the govern- ment. McGinty didn’t go down more completely than McKINSTREY went out of the office he held under an adminis- tration that objects to its official em- ployes indulging in truth that is more pointed than polite. ——It was feared that the black population of the United States was in- creasing at a more rapid rate than the white, there being appearances to en- courage such an apprehension, but the late census shows that the facts are just the reverse, it appearing from the figures reported that the white pop- ulation has increased 23.4 per cent. and the black 14 per cent. since 1880. There are but three States, Arkansas, Mississippi and West Virginia, in which the percentage of increase of blacks was greater than that of the whites. In 1800 the colored people were 20 per cent. of the whole popula- tion, but now they are but 12 per cent. But then it should be remembered that the greater increase of the whites is en- tirely attributable to immigration. A — Governor PaTrisoN has scored his first veto under his new administration and laid out flat the bill that intended to change the practice of the Orphans’ Court regarding the sale of a decedent's property for the payment of his debts. The bill authorized executors and ad- ministrators to make private sales for this purpose, something that has never been allowed in this State and which would be clearly against public policy. On the question of sustaining the Gover- nor’s veto the vote stood, yeas 93 ; nays. 46. The Governor has rarely failed in being sustained in his vetoes. The cutting | for this | i Shouldn't Be Taken Into Account. Some one says that Mr. CLEVELAND I can not command the soldier vote of ! Indiana, and advances this as a rea- gon why it would not be prudent to nominate him. We are not urging the | nomination of Mr. CLeveLAND, or of aay other candidate, but the fact that he can’t get the Indiana soldier vote should not prevent his being chos- ‘en as the candidate if other things should be favorable. The fact is that no Democratic Presidential nominee can get this so-called soldier vote. It has been so completely demoralized by the pension debauchery that no party that is not willing to hand the treasury over to it can expect its support. The Republicans have practiced this kind of bribery to so fearful an extent that the vast treasury resources of the government have become completely exhausted and oppressive taxes must be maintained to support the largess upon which the favor of this so-called soldier vote depends. The Democratic party, from its very nature, must oppose such a system of electoral corruption and such a reck- less and demoralizing expenditure of the public funds. It therefore repels the political factor known as “the sol- dier vote,” but the reason of this repul- sion should attract that class of voters who view with alarm the use of pen- sion laws for the purpose of political bribery. ——————————————————— An Investigation That Will Be Inter- esting. Congressman CoMprox, of Maryland, is going to get back at Hon. Thoxas B. Ree, late Speaker of the Billion Dollar Congress and popularly known as the Czar. When the next congress meets Mr. CoxproN will move ‘or the appointment of a committee to investi- gate the methods by which Mr. Remp was re-elected in the First Congress District of Maine. As thereis a strong suspicion that his re-election was brought about by a liberal use of mon- ey and by working the Kittery navy yard for ail the politics that was in it, the investigation may develop some in- teresting facts. Mr. ComproN is the congressman- elect whom Mr.ReED’S congress unseat- ed in favor of a person named Mubp, whose elaim wasas muddy as his name. After his expulsion from his seat he referred the case to the voters of his district who increased the plurality of 181 which he had in 1888, to a plurality of 1,619 in 1890. He will have some fun with the ex-czar at all events. Sr —————— —S peaking of the reduction in the price of sugar that is expected to fol- low the removal of the sugar duty, a tariff organ exclaims: “McKINLEY wing on sugar,” There is something ludicrous in this, coming froma pro- tection paper, for if McKINLEY has won anything in this matter that is of benefit to the people it comes from his having adopted free trade as to sugar by removing the duty. The people will get cheaper sugar because the tariff has been taken off the 1aw material, and yet the protectionists say that a tariff doesn’t raise the price of the com- modities upon which it is imposed. “McKINLEY wins on sugar” simply because he applies to it the principle of free trade. ——When the members of the New Hampshire Legislature were canvassed the other day in regard to their prefer- ence for the next Presideatial nomina- tions, of the Democrats 63 preferred GROVER CLEVELAND, one expressed a preference for WHITNEY, and two for Henry BiNeuaM of New Hampshire. The choice was almost unanimous for CrLeveLanp. Hin wasn’t mentioned. Of the 144 Republicans but six wanted Harrison. The others wanted BrLaing, These are the straws that are seen floating on the political current. ——The South is represented to be politically more solid than ever. Re- presentative McMiLLIN says that in that section there will be no electoral vote cast in 1892 except for the Demo- cratic ticket. This is to be attributed to the attempt of the Republican lead- ers to bring the southern states under bayonet rule. The people down there are fully convinced that their only as- surance of freedom and good govern- ment lies in the defeat of the bayonet party. Italy Not Satisfied. Diplomatic circles at Washington were thrown into a flurry on Tuesday by a bristling communication to the State department from the Italian - Minister to the effect that inasmuch as the United States government had not given assurance that the lynchers of the Italians at New Orleans would be brought to justice, the Italian govern- ment would be compelled to show its dissatisfaction “by recalling the minis- terof His Majesty from a country where the Italian representative is unable to obtain justice.” This may not mean war, but it is pretty good evidence that Italy is not satisfied with the explanation which our government has given concerning the New Orleans affair. It was “thought that the Italian authorities, understand- ing the dual character of our govern- mental structure which separates the general from the state governments, would not strenuously insist upon sat- isfaction from the former for an act committed by one of the latter, particu- larly when her citizens who were involv- ed were undoubted criminals of a most dangerous character. Therefore the attitude assumed by the Italian Minis- ter on Tuesday was the more surpris- ing. Itis to be hoped that the diffi- culty will be adjusted without a sacri- fice of right or dignity by either na- tion. Spawls from the Keystone, —Night-prowling roughs terrorizes Milford. —Pottstown paid only $14,309 in county tax last year. —0dd Fellows will demonstrate at Tamaqua en April 27. —Lebanon has never had a bank failure or a defalestion. —A “Koch” Hospital will be started in Pitts- burg. —All the male teachers of Shenandoah have indorsed a liquor license application. —A Shenandoah policemen had to resign because he could not sign for his salary. —A horse at Farmersville stepped on the foot of a stableman and cut one of his toes oft —Soft-hearted women are showering mur- derer Fitzsimmons with flowers ana delicacies: —Cumberland county has organized a new $12,000 agricultural society to run its county fairs, —Several Pittsburg iron mills have displac- ed natural gas by using Lima oil spray and gas as fuel. —Two or three robberies per night at Al- toona within a fortnight have terrorized the town. —Lumber men anticipate that the present will be the biggest logging season ever ex- perienced. —Two Lehigh county men have started a pole-cat ranch. The animals are raised for their fat and skin. —Reading’s population will be swelled from 70) to 900 this week by the arrival of work- men for new industries. —Isaac Hogey, of Lansdale, Bucks county, tiring of life, on Thursday fire d two shots inte his head, but still lives. —A horse leaped from a moving train near York, rolled over, got up, ran after the train and stumbled into a culvert. —The affairs of the Kutztown Savings Fund are about being wound up. The depositors will secure about 12 per cent. —Farmer Schreibe, of Guth’s Station, Le- high county, found thieves in his house, had a tussle and was seriously wounded. —Mount Gretna Park has been recommend ed by United States Army officers as a most favorable site for military encampments, —The Lawrence Colliery, at Mahoney Plane, is still on fire under the railroad, but the mine officers expect to have it soon extinguisned. —The Bethel Evangelical Church in Robe= son township, Berks county, has excluded from its edifice, Rev. C. D. Dreher, Bowman ite. —There were no tears for the New Orleans lynched Italians at Scranton. The brutal mur- der of Paymaster Mc Cure is too well remem- bered. —The William F. Templeton Post, G. A. R:, of Washington, Pa., has been organized twelve years, and has just had the first death in its ranks. —Dr. M. A. Hengst, of Birdshoro, failed to. cure Job Van Pelt of grippe, and Van Pelt as- saulted the physician with a clab, injuring him seriously. —Morris West, of Lebanon, is under arrest for fe.oniously assaulting his 17 year-old cous- in, Miss Liebig, while a guest at her father's house in Reading. —Mamie Tresure, a child living at Reading was badly hurt a few days age by her clothing catching in a passing train. She was dragged some distance. —Ffty thousand brook trout fry arc finding their way from State Fish Commission, car ! tanks into Lebanon county’s swift running rivalets and creeks. —Armed men are looking for Emanuel Dungan, of Mahanoy City, who feloniously assaulted 13 year-old Ida Pfeiffer, of Bucks Mountain, and fled. —William Flickinger, of Erie, wandered off and perished in the late snow storm, He was a prominent citizen and a relative of Repre- sentative W. B. Flickinger. —A tramp who was found dead in a desert. ed house near Harrisburg was recognized as a bugler in a Pennsylvania cavalry regiment during the late unpleasantness. ——Herr Fricke, the loudest Anarchist in Pittsburg, has been found dying of starvation and was taken from his cobbier’s shop to a hospital. Yet he had many apostles at one time. —Foreman, D. M. Jones, of the Glen Lyon Collieries, near Nanticoke, was brutally and almost fatally assaulted by masked men, withs out apparent motive, on the highway near his home on Friday night. Miners found him and took him home. —Special trains are to be run from Camber land, Myersdale, Connelsville, Uniontown and Latrobe on the day of the Nicely brothers’ ex. ecution at somerset, to accommadate the many persons who hope to get within the shadow of the jail on that day.
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