Terms 82.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., April 3, 1891.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebprror
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Democratic County Committee, 1891.
W. 8. Galbraith
.. Joseph Wise
Bellefonte, N. W..
he 8S. W..
“ w.W. .. John Dunlap
Centre Hall Eorough. ... John T. Lee
Howard Borough.... . H. A. Moore
Yjlsshure Borough A. M. Butler
Milheim Borough... .. A. C. Musser
Philipsburg, 1st W.. . James A. Lukens
“ 2d W.. ... C. A. Faulkner
* 3d w.. .. A J Gorton
eesared E. M.Griest
Unionville Borough..
Burnside................ Eugenc Meeker
. Harvey Benner
. Philip Confer
... T. F. Adams
. G.H Leyman
W. H. Mokle
James Foster
. J. McCloskey
. Daniel Dreibelbis
Geo. W. Keichline
Chas. W. Fisher
. James P. Grove
Isaac M. Orndorf
... Geo. B. Shaffer
seaers Eilis Lytle
. J. W. Keller
W.T. Leathers
..... Henry Hale
.. Alfred Bitner
.. John J. Shaffer
.. James P. Frank
.... P. A. Sellers
we 5. We
Jas. B. Spangler
. Jas. Dumbleton
... Hugh MeCann
Thomas Turbidy
.. John D. Brown
Spring, 8. P....... Jerry Donovan
hi N: P.. .. James Carson
Lo W.P.. «.. E.E.Ardery
Taylor... .. . W.T. Hoover
Union... Chas. H. Rush
Walker. . D. A. Dietrick
The Proposed Road Law.
Those of our readers who have no-
ticed the views of Mr. Aaron WIiLL-
1aMs on the proposed new road law,
which is given elsewhere in this issue,
have doubtless observed that he writes
more in the spirit of a confirmed com-
plainer than in that of an unbiased
critic. Any one who has read the full
text of the bill as given in the Wamch-
MAN last week, and then reads Mr.
WirLiax's garbled and warped state-
ment of what certain sections contain
and require, will scarcely recognize
them as belonging to the same meas-
ure.
Mr. WicLLiam’s principle troubie
seems to be that farmers and others,
if this bill becomes a law, will be com-
pelled to pay their road taxes in money.
Evidently this is the intent of the act,
but at the same time it gives them an
opportunity to work oun the roads to
the full amount, or even over the
amount of the taxes charged against
them, if they notify the supervisors of
their wish to do so, and are willing to
work at a time when their work is mest
advantageous to the public.
His nextbother is that supervisors get
no pay. He fails to note that they are
not required or expected to do manual
labor, and that for traveling expenses,
light, stationery, etc., are allowed a
sum not to exceed $100. Like school
directors with the schools, they are ex-
pected simply to have oversight and
direction of the road taxes and roads,
and plenty of good and public spirited
men, in every township, will accept the
the position in order that they may aid
in bettering the counditicn of the roads’
over which they travel. The man who
demands pay for helping himself in
this way, don’t need to bea candidate:
for supervisor.
Another of Mr. WiLLiaM's com-
plaints is, that the rich townships will
receive mare state aid than the poorer
ones. This may be so.if the amount of
millage levied is the same. But in
. most of the richer or more densely pop-
vlated districts,.a much lower rate of
millage is fixed than in the poorer or
more sparsely settled townships. For
instance : Worth township levies ten
mills for road purpose while Harris
levies but two. The ten mills in
Worth ensure a large: sum for road ex-
penditures than does the two mills in
Harris, and as the State sppropriation
is distributed in proportion to the whole
amount of road tax levied: in the re-
speciive - districts, Worth would re-
ceive more state aid than would Harris.
A particularly weak pointin the road
bill,jin Mr. WiLnias’s opinion, is the
provision allowing pay to the inspec-
tor \who examines and reports as to
whether the “permanent” roads made
eich year by the respective districts,are
made in accordance with specifications
furnished. This would possibly be a
ten days job in this county, and if it is
wrong to ask supervisors to oversee
their own’roads without pay for the
time required, as Mr. WirLLiams thinks
iv is, it fcertainly would be a double
wrong to ask a disinterested party to
spend his time and money inspecting
ronds,*in order ‘that others might get
the benefit of the State appropriation.
Notably the supervisors might do for
inspectors, as Mr. WiLrLiams suggests,
but as they are always tax payers of |
the townships in which they serve, it is |
possible that any kind ofa made up |
roadjmight be palmed off as *perma- |
nent” in order to secure the State aid. |
The only other objection Mr. WiLL
1ans finds to the bill is the fact that it
provides punishment for officials who
fail or refuse to carry out the provis- |
And why shouldu’c |
ions of the act.
it? A man who will accept a position
and then refuse to fulfill its duties to
the best of his ability, deserves to be
punished, and we believe that every
tax payer in the county will agree
with us on this point.
We have written the foregoing, more
to attract the attention of our people to
the provisions of this act, than as an
endorsement of it. It is crude and
lame in many respects, but if it is in
any way an improvement on our pres-
ent worthless, and worse than worth-
less road laws, would it not be a step
in the right direction to enact it into
law, and then amend, as experience
after giving it a trial, would indicate ?
The Militia and the Coke Strikers,
The Governor refused to respond to
the call made on him by the coke op-
erators for a military force to put
down the turbulent strikers in the Con-
nellsville region. This naturally is
not satisfactory to those who hereto-
fore have found the military ready
at hand for the settlement of labor
troubles. Upon this subject the Al-
toona Tribune says :
The people who condemn Governor Parti
soN for refusing to loan the arms and equip-
ments of the National Guard to the sheriff of
Westmoreland county, do so without judg-
ment. These are the property of the state
and, as the adjutant general very properly
says, must not pass out of the control of the
National Guard. The statement that Governor
BEAVER permitted such a use of the arms, as is
suggested by the sheriff, is nothing to the pur-
pose. Some officials have a clearer conception
of responsibility than others. If the authori-
ties of Westmoreland county officially notify
the governor that a riot isin progress in the
coke regions, against which they are powerless
to contend, the arms will doubtless be prompt-
ly put at their service, but in the hands of the
National Guard, their proper custodians. Riot-
ers muat be taught that the law is supreme
and that it cannot safely be defied, but they
must be taught this important lesson in a law-
ful way.
This is well said. There is no law
for the employment of the militia of
the State, or the use of the State arms,
for the suppression of public distur-
bance unless the civil power is clearly
incompetent to perform its function and
the executive is regularly called upon to
exercise its military authority in snch
an emergency,
Beaver for Commissiener of Pensions.
Rumor of the removal of Pension
Commission Raum is again afloat, it
being said that the President finds him-
self incapable of closing his eyes to the
deficiencies and culpabilities of that of-
ficial notwithstanding the thickness of
the coat of whitewash applied to him
by a sympathetic congressional com-
mittee. Current with this rumor is
another to the effect that when Geuner-
al Rauu shall be bounced out of, Gov-
ernor Beaver will be bounced into the
pension department, as the report is
that he will be Raum’s successor.
In our opinion Beaver would be a
great improvement on Rau, as he has
4 proved himself to be honest in official
position, and there can be no question
about his competency, Bat Mr. Har-
rI#ON 18 making his aspointments with
reference to his renomination for the
Presidency, and it is doubtful whether
he could see enough in Governor Beav-
rR for that object to justify giving him
| 80 important an office.
The Proper Location.
The Lock Haven Democrat is of the
opinion that it the congressional ap-
portionment bill recently introduced in
the Senate by the representative from
this district, should happen to become
a law, some of Clinton county's De-
mocratic aspirants might have a
show of getting to congress “after all.”
Understanding the situation as our
contemporary undoubtedly does, the
“after all” in this instance must mean
“after all” other Democratic aspirants
in the new district have been recogniz-
ed and served. That would be about
the date that an aspirant froma county
that so basely betrayed its party and a
candidate like MorTiMER F. Eriiorr,
as did Clinton last fall, would be due.
“After all” is a good place tor that
kind of Democrats, at this time—it’s
their proper place in the political pro-
cession.
With Greater Guile.
The rascally Republicans of Maine,
who like ithe equally rascally
ones of Pennsylvania, promised the
people ballot reform without any in-
tention of fulfilling their promise, hav- |
ing been frightened by the storm of in- |
dignation caused by the defeat of a re- |
form ballot bill in the Legislature,have
reconsidered their action and passed it
under the pressure of public wrath. |
The Pennsylvania leaders are practic-
ing their deception with more guile
than was employed by the Maine Re-
publicans, for instead of rejecting the
ballot reform proposition outright and
confronting the opprobriam incident to
defied public sentiment, as in the Maine
case, they are essaying to pass a bill
from which essential features of the
Australian system will be omitted.
Words of Wisdom.
i Wape Hampton has been retired
| from public life by the action of his
constituents, but that untoward event
ished his interest in general politics.
He showed his sagacity by some re-
marks he recently made to an inter-
viewer ou the effect of a certain course
of political management adopted by
his party. He said :
I think it will be a mistake to elect a South-
ern man as speaker. I think some good
Northern or Western man should be selected.
I think the Democratic party made a great
mistake in the Fiftieth congress by electing a
Southern man as speaker of the house and b)
giving the principal chairmaaships of com
mittees toSouthern men. Again, I think the
Democratic party made a mistake in the cam-
paign of 1888 by flooding the North with
Southern speakers. It is a bad policy. The
voters resent it. If Northern speakers should
be sent into the South we should resent it. We
know more about our own affairs than out-
siders do. I think the Northern voters resent-
ed the fact of our sending them Southern
speakers to instruct them in 1888.
The ex-Senator can not be charged
with being affected by sectional feel-
ing in expressing this view. He locks
at the matter 1n the light of human na-
ture, correctly believing that it is but
human for the people of one section to
be offended by what they may cousid-
er the interference of another section.
Quite Apparent.
The Harrisburg corresponaent of
the Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph says
that ‘there is an apparent indis-
position among the Republicans to take
up the apportionment question.” This
indisposition is, indeed, quite apparent.
The present congressional gerryman-
der, of their own creation, gives them
an unfair and dishonest advantage
which they prefer to have perpetuated.
It is true the law requires them to
make apportionments as soon as possi-
ble after the taking of a census, but
the law is something that Pennsylva-
nia Republican legislators have no re-
spect for. They defiantly ignore it if
it is for the benefit of their party to do
so. As long ago as 1874 the organic
law of the State directed certain re-
straints of corporate power and privi-
legé, necessarily requiring legislation
to enforce them, but a long succession
of Republican Legislatures has per-
sistently refused to obey this plain re-
quirement of the fundamental law.
Expensive Eulugies.
It is computed by congressman
Oates, of Alabama, that the eulogies
pronounced in congress over a dead
member cost the government in print-
ing and other incidental expenses, $12,-
000. The cost wouldn't be so great if
one member only were selected to
rhetorically recount and enlarge upon
the merits and virtues of the deceased
statesman; buat the trouble is that
there is a general desire among those
he left behind to air their eloquence by
ventilating the excellent qualities of
the departed. By the time all this
mortuary slush is recorded and printed
the costruns into the thousands,and this
frequently occurs where the deceased
congressman hasn't been worth a frac-
tion of that amount to the country.
Then come the funeral expenses that
have grown to be an expenditure of pub-
lic money as exorbitant and vicious as
it is ridiculous.
A Question of Damages.
The New York World very neatly
turns the tables on the Italian news-
papers which are contending that the
United States should pay money dam-
ages for the killing of the Mafia mur-
derers at New Orleans, who were Ital
ian subjects. It says:
They insist that three of the lynched men
were Italian subjects, and contend that for
their assassination the Unitcd States govern-
ment is bound to pay an indemnily to their
families. Now let us see whither this theory
leads us. These men a little while ago mur-
dered Mr. HExNEssy, chief of police of New Or-
leans. If they were Italian subjects, and if a
nation is responsible in damages for murders
done by its subjects upon the subjects or citi-
zens of other countries, is not Italy bound to
pay an indemnity to the family of Chief Hex-
NESSY ?
This is a logical proposition, and
ifthe worth of the parties killed should
be taken as the basis of damages, the
amount to be paid for the killing of a
respectable and useful American police-
| man should be vastly more than the
compensation for a lot of criminals
whom some of the Italian newspapers
admit to have been galley slaves and as-
sascins before they migrated to America.
Foreign Exhibits,
A monopoly tariff organ, comment-
‘ing upon the fact that Great Britain,
Spain and France have accepted the
invitation of the United States to send
exhibits to the Chicago fair, remarks,
with something resembling a chuckle,
| that “the free trade papers that pro-
phesied so loudly that our tariff would
| keep all foreign nations from being
represented at Chicago in 1893 are main-
taining a very becoming silence on that
subject just at present.”
Upon the occasion of a World's Fair
nations like Great Britain, France,
in his political career has not dimin- |
: Spain, and others of Europe, want to be
“represented for the sake of appearance,
' at least, even if the exhibition be held
| in a country that 18 so exclusive as to
bar out their productions. But the
guestion is, to what extent will the pro-
ducers of those countries think it worth
while to exhibit under such circum-
stances? They may, however, be
moved by the belief that the barbarism
of an almost prohibitive tariff won’t be
allowed to continue long in a country
that professes to be enlightened, and
such a consideration may induce them
to participate in the exhibition. It is
impossible for them to believe that the
Americans will be content to have their
country perpetually enclosed by a Chi-
nese wall.
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Rioting in the Coke Regions.
The Rioters Use Dynamite in Blowing
Up Coke Ovens.
Mount PLEASANT, Pa., March 30.—
Sunday evening the striking coke work-
ers began gathering at the Morewood,
Standard, Alice and Bridgeport plants.
At 2 o'clock Monday morning the strik-
ers concentrated their forces on the hills
around the Morewood plant. Morewood
is admirably situated for a raid.
Shortly after 2 o’clock 2,000 strikers,
armed with clubs, iron bars, stones, re-
volvers and other weapons, commenced
the ovens. The deputies hearing the
bullets whiz by their heads uncomfort-
ably close, commenced seeking places of
safety.
The strikers then began tearing up the
larry tracks for a distance of 500 or 600
feet. They then destroyed twelve or
more coke ovens, burned other property,
tore down fences and committed other
depredations until 5 o’clock in the morn-
ing.
The marauders finished up their work
by thrusting coke nven scrapers into the
burning ovens, piling up in a heap a
dozen wheelbarrows and making a bon-
fire of them. They also knocked in
many oven fronts.
So far as known now no one has been
seriously injured.
Six of the mer bave been arrested.
ScorTpALE, Pa., March 30.--Rioting
prevailed throughout the coke region
Monday. The Jimtown works were
raided by 1,500 strikers, and the twenty
workmen there were driven from the
yard in great confusion. Work was to
be started at the Morewood plant in the
Boming but the strikers prevented
this.
A dynamite bomb was exploded at
the Leisenring No. 8 plant, which tore
a hole six feet deep in the ground, but
no one was seriously injured. Great dis-
order prevailed at the Leith and Leisen-
ring and other plants, Eight of the
rioters at Leith were arrested.
ed by deputies, and the managers say if
necessary they will call on the state
militia. Further troubles are expected.
PirrsBUrG, March 30.—The trouble
in the coke regions has assumed a new
phase and now threatens to develope in-
to a war between the operators and la-
bor organizations. Mr. Frick claims
that the men are satisfied with the scale
of wages he offered, but that the labor
leaders will not permit them to return to
work, as their position depends on the
success of the strike. The fight from
this time on will be bitter.
GREENSBURG, Pa., March 30.—Sev-
eral of the raiders have been arrested and
brought to Greensburg jail. Great ex-
citement prevails throughout the coke
country, and serious trouble is appre-
hended. :
The Hearst Funeral Picnic.
A dispatch from St. Louis, dated the
26th, says: This morning the Hearst
funeral congressional party came into
the Union depot over the Iron Moun-
tain road, and left on the Vandalia.
Just behind the funeral party came the
Grafton excursion train, and on the lat-
ter was Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, the not-
ed temperance lecturer, of Vincennes,
Ind., and her husband.
The Grafton excursion train was to
run to Chicago, but Mrs. Gougar said
that she did not propese to longer follow
a train on board of which disgrace was
heaped on the nation and a funeral party
turned into a drunken junket.
Mrs. Gougar said: “On our way back
we caught up with the Hearst excursion
train at El Peso, Tex., and from there to
St. Louis we were only a short way be-
hind it. Sach disgraceful proceedings\
on the part of men high in the govern-
ment service I never saw. The baggage
car was full of wine and champagne.
From the dining-room of the Grafton
train we could see tier after tier of wine
boxes stacked up while side-tracked
within a few feet of the other train.
‘When it was found impossible {o again
get the baggage car on tha track with-
out long delay the dignified Senators and
honored Congressmen came out there to
see that they got the wine which was
theirs, and each box appeared to have a
private mark, There were some harsh
words passed by the men, which added
to the disgracefulness of the affair.
The Strongest Man.
Congressman Kilgore, ot Texas, says:
“I think Mr. Cleveland the strongest
man in the country for the race of 1892,
and that the Republican party fear him
more than any other man named. That
party hopes to see him eliminated from
the contest by the Democracy making
the free, unlimited and independent
coinage of silver the paramount issue of
the campaign of 1892. These Repuuli-
can leaders hope to see the Democracy
relegate to a subordinate position in the
platform of 1892 that great overshadow-
ing question—that question of surpass-
ing magnitude and importance-—the ex-
orbitant and unjust taxation under whose
burdens the people are already ‘bent
doubie’ and whose exactions have filled
the land with poverty and want. The
party has plenty of material from which
to select its candidates, but Mr. Cleve-
land has been tried. He has been
found to be true, able, pure and brave
—in perfect harmony with the Democ-
racy upon the great and fundamental
issue upon which the party has fought
a thousand battles and won a thousand
victories
firing revolvers and made a dash townrd.
All the Frick works are heavily guard-"
A Little Pension Story
Which Helps to Explain Why It Takes
a Billion Dollars to Run the
Government.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, among othsr cases
illustrative of the methods of the Pension
Office, gives the following:
Wm. S. Odell, pension attorney at
Washington, formerly department com-
mander of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, pensioned in 1878 at tke rate of
$4 a month for a gun shot wound in the
right thigh, resulting in varicose veins;
increased in March, 1880, to $6 a month.
Now, look at this for a moment. Mr.
Odell applied in 1885 for an increase ; ap-
Pliasien rejected. He applied again in
ebruary, 1886, for incresse and rerat-
ing, and both were rejected. He ap-
plied in March of the same year to have
the case reopened, and that was re-
jected.
In each of these cases the rejection
was made on the ground that the claim-
ant had no case. Why? Well, when
the claimant was carefully examined by
the Board of Surgeons at Madison, Ind.,
in 1887 they found that the varix is
worse in the neighborhood of an old
fracture of the tibia, which the soldier
says occurred when he was 10 years of
age. It is the opinion of the Board that
it (the varix) is due to that cause rather
than the gun shot wound.”
That seems to offer a conclusive ex-
planation and a bar against future ap-
plications from Mr. Odell, doesn’t it?
But, as a bar, certainly it was a fail-
ure. In May, 1889, he appeared with
his fourth application and promptly got
a rerating at $6 a month from the date
of discharge.
Did that satisfy Mr. Odell? Not by a
good deal. On the 21st of the same
month he was back again with another
application and a modest request that
the bureau be quick about it. Well, he
was Department Commander of the
Grand Army ; they made it a forty-eight
hour case. The next day he got his in-
crease and rerating at $6 a month from
the date ot discharge, September, 1864,
to December, 1879; $8 a month from
December, 1879, to May, 1889, and $24
a month afteward.
Apparently Mr. Odell is no hog.
Having got these good things so easily
for himself he didn’t object to what was
left being passed around to the rest of
the family. On receipt of his last grab
from the national money box he tele-
graphed to his brother, Jas. M. Odell,
who was living in Texas :
“Pensions are running wild. Come
on!”
So James came on by the first train.
He was then getting $6 a month for a
gun shot wound in the face. His broth-
er put in an application for an increase,
and wanted no delay aboutit, either.
So it was also made a {forty-eight hour
case, and increase and rerating granted
at the rate of $8 a month from the date
of discharge to April, 1884 ; $9 a month
from April, 1884, to November, 1887;
$11 a month from November, 1887, to
August, 1888, and $17 a month after-
ward.
James seems to have “come on’ at a
right good time.
Blaine as He Is.
Marks That Cannot be Covered by His
New Mantle.
An Ohio Blaine organ bursts forth in-
to adulation of the tattooed idol of its
party as follows: “Blaine is so great
that the mind instinctively refuses to
class him with the average ran of cab-
inet ministers, He is more than a mere
minister—he is a statesman, and the
greatest living one in this country. He
stands in a class by himself.”
This organ does not seem to realize
that Blaine is great by comparison only.
Standing among the pigmies of the Re-
publican party as he does, he certainly
towers; but placed by the side of the
men who made the republican party
great, to what insignificant proportions
he shrinks! Mr. Blaine is a man of craft,
a man of political resources, an astute
leader, but he is not a statesman. In all
his political life his name is linked with
nothing that is not a political device or
a personal scheme. To every lip his
connection with schemes of public rob-
bery arise when thie demand for the re-
cital of his public services is made. He
is the man with a gun behind the breast-
works of the Pacific railroad ring that
Mr. Edmunds described him; he is the
man who was sunstruck when in danger
of investigation by a congressional com-
mittee ; he is the man who would have
taken advantage of the necessities of
wretched Peru to secure to himselt and
his friends the guano deposits of that
republic; he is the Mulligan letter-
writer ; the caster of anchors ; a states-
man whose statescraft 1s “Burn this”
Discredited and deteated by the votes of
his fellow-citizens he has been rehabilit-
ated by his party, but the new garments
are too scant to conceal the tattoo marks
that disfigure him.
Made Crazy by the Cigarette Habit.
HazeLToN, Pa., March 27 — Yester-
day Mike Catzon was taken to the Mid-
dle coal field poor district almshouse at
Laurytown. He was a young Hungarian
who had become thoroughly American-
ized. He had even adopted the pernic-
cious habit of cigarette smoking. Packs
of them were consumed daily by him
and a short time ago the habit began to
show its effect apon the young man’s
mind. Medical aid was resorted to but
without avail. He grew gradually
worse until the mania was such as to
cause alarm. Fear was entertained
that in his raving he might injure him-
self or friends, and to avoid this he was
taken to the asylum for the insane at
Laurytown. Some time last night he
succeeded in taking his hfe. He bad
fastened a piece of wire to the topofa
window to which he attached his sus-
penders and tying the latter around his
neck, he literally choked himself to
death.
Mr. McKinley thinks his tariff
cannot be changed for ten years. One
of thé luny notions common to tariff
tinkers is that their work will stand.
All experience shows the contrary.
There is nothing mors transitory and
uncertain than the life of a tax rate.—
Record.
For the WaTcHMAN.
The Proposed New Road Law.
In the WarcuMAN of last week is published
the proposed new road law as passed by the
Senate. As there may be some farmers and
others interested in the said bill who have not
read it, I desire to call their attention to the
bill as published, and point out some pcrtions
of it which seem to me to be objectionable, so
that those who may not have read the bill may
examine it, and if they have objections to any
part of it they should make it known to our
Representatives before it is too late to be heard.
That there is need of improvement in the
manner of making roads in the country is ad-
mitted by all; but that there are several provi-
sions in the bill that are objectionable to many
farmers and others, particularly those living
in the thinly settled portions of the country,
is evident to any one who has conversed with
those living there.
Section 5 of said bill takes from the tax
payers the privilege of working out their road
taxes and compels them to pay the tax in
money, which if not paid by the first of Octo-
ber in each year shall have five per cent. add-
ed thereto as a penalty for delinquency.
Section 8 provides that there shall be three
supervisors elected in each township, who
shall receive no compensation for their ser-
vice, all they are allowed being what they ex-
pend for traveling expenses and stationery.
Seetion 15 provides that it shall be the duty
of the county commissioners to appoint a pe:
son to travel around and inspect the work af-
ter iv has been done on the roads under direc-
tion of the supervisors, or road masters ap-
pointed by them, before the supervisors can
accept the work, and the person so appointed
to inspect the work is to receive three dollars
per day, while the supervisors work for no-
thing and board themselves.
Why are not the supervisors,who are as like-
ly to be men of good judgment as the person
appointed by the commissioners,as competent
as he to decide whether or} not the work is
properly done?
Section 17 provides that the moneys ap-
propriated by the legislature for road parposes
shall be divided among the several townships
in proportion to the amount of road taxes col-
lected and expended by each township in
making roads, so that the wealthy townships
that are able to raise a large amount of road
tax will get the largest share of the appropria-
tion, while the poor and more sparsely settled
townships where they are less able to pay the
tax, and each individual burden is heavier
and thereare more roads to make and keep
in repair, will get less appropriation because
they cannot pay as much tax as the more
wealthy and thickly settled portions of the
country. Which simply means that those
townships most needing help from the State
will ges the least, perhaps none, without any
fault of theirs.
Section 21 provides a penalty of fine and
imprisonment for the farmer or other person
who has been elected supervisor to serve
withoutjpay,and who neglects or refuses to per-
form all the duties set forth in the bill. Now
it does not seem to be doing justice to the
farmer or any other person that he should be
compelled to leave his own business and serve
the public without pay, with duties more dif-
ficult to perform than were those of supervis-
ors in the past when t' ey were paid for their
services. It is contrary to the adage that ‘‘the
laborer is worthy of his hire.”
And with reference to that portion of the
bill which takes from the tax payers the priv-
ilege of working out their taxes and compels
them to pay the money. It will be a hardship
to many farmers of limited means who are al-
ready so burdened with money taxes that it is
all they can do to stay on the farm and live,
and this law takes frcm them the only chance
they had to work out any portion of their
numerous taxes and save paying it in money.
But some one who does not own any farm
property, and perhaps never paid a dollar of
road tax, says it is just as easy for the tax
payer to pay the money as to work it out. But
the man who has not the money to pay with,
and does not know where it is to come from,
would much rather work and help make the
road than to have to go and find some thing
to do to earn the money to pay his road tax.
But an advocate of the new law says, a few
more dollars to be paid in money by the
farmer or laborer will make no difference; but
it does make a difference to the tax payer.
There is a last straw on every burden, and
when a man is carrying all he can, it is wrong
to load more on him in the shape of money
taxes. I have heard men who never owned a
farm, but who have their money invested in
some profitable enterprise, say that they
would not own a farm because it would not
pay, and yet those same men are in favor of
taking from the people the privilege of work
ing out their road taxes and compelling them
to pay in money. But those who pay the road
taxes should be the best judges as to what
their interest is in this matter, and if after
careful examination of the provisions of the
proposed law, they believe any of its provi-
sions are against their interests, they should
so inform their Representatives so that they
may know the sentiments of their constit-
uents before casting their final vote on the
bill. AAroN WILLIAMS.
Gregg Post, G. A. R., of this
place, will commemorate the 25th anni-
versary of the establi:hment of the Grand
Army of the Republic by interesting
services in its hall next Monday even-
ing, April 6th.
Bric Law Suir.—On Wednesday
evening Judge Orvis returned home
from Pottsville where he had been em-
ployed for 110 days as one of the coun-
sel in the dig Shepp-Coxe land case,
It took 79 days to take the testimony
which covered over 5000 pages of type
writing. Judge Orvis, and James Ryan,
esq., of Pottsville, represented the plain-
tiffs, and are represented to bave got
each $50 a day for their services. The
defendants were represented by Hon. S.
P. Wolverton, of Sunbury, and S. H.
Kaercher, esq., of Pottsville.
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The following letters remain in the Beile-
fonte P. O., unclaimed, March 0th, 1891.
Beam Turner & Co., John Burder, Olearia
Clarke, Luanna Hendetas, J. BE. Jackson, Jane
Klinefelter, Michae William
Meehan, Mrs James Robbins, Anna M. Shaf-
fer, Mary A. Wilson, Mrs. Maggie Wetsel.
When called for please say zdvertised.
J. A. FIEDLER, P. M.
EC A,
——H. Dick, of ‘East Boston, wants
fleas. He advertised for them in the
morning papers, and when seen recently
said: “Oh, yes, I want fleas. I am a
trainer of fleas. I educate them to do
tricks, and run a flea circus. In thirty-
six hours I can make a good intelligent
flea do most any trick.”
vet
Gillen,
.