= ». 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.