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thus. Whisky has
cause of strife.
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The Republican Legislature call-
ed on Senator Quay in Philadelphia
last Sunday to learn his wishes as to
legislation and other matters about
Harrisburg.
——According to some of the politi-
cal calculators at Washington, Repre-
gentative Crisp, of Georgia, has the
best chance of being Speaker of the
next House, and Mr. KERR, of Penn.
sylvania is almost certain tobe the
next Clerk.
One of the objects of President
Harrison's tour is to persuade the
American people to like the McKinley
tariff extortions. As his re-election
depends upon such a liking he is using
all his power of persuasion in carefully
prepared impromptu speeches.
Although the McKinley tariff
has been in operation since the first
day of last October, the only benefit it
has clearly given the people has come
from that free trade feature which has
given them free sugar. In all other
respects it has increased their burden.
The money people are now
flocking to Harrisburg to explain to the
Legislature why they shouid not stand
their share of taxation. It is to be
seen what effect their inning will have
on a Republican Legislature which, if
it is like its predcessors, has a weak
side for the money interest.
It seems that Prince Bismarck
failed to secure a majority in the
Gerstemunde election, because he took
no part in the election, So old a poli-
tician should have been aware of the
fact that in Germany, as in the United
States, the candidate who wishes to get
elected must hustle around and set
things up among the ward workers.
Signor Rupixi, in his latest re-
ported utterances, is singularly meek
and mild and does not indulge in any
senseless bravado. Even in case the
United States shall refuse the redress
that Italy demands, there will be no
such serious result as hostilities be-
tween the two nations, and Italy will |
be satisfied with denouncing the injus-
tice of the great American republic.
——Among the appropriation bills
before the Legislature is one providing
$10,250 for the expenses of the Appro-
priation Committee. As this would
give each of the 38 members of the
committee an allowance of $5 per day
for every secular day in two full
months, besides his regular pay, the
conclusion is that appropriation work
is so exhausting that it requires high
living.
A Washington correspondent es-
timates the cost of the Presidental trip
at $185,000, which, the Philadelphia
Record thinks, has already earned its
cost in “the demonstration of the utter
extinction of sectional feeling.” Aec-
cording to that view, should not the es-
teemed Record favor the footing of the
bill by the National Government in-
stead of leaving it for some railway
millionaire to pay ?
The report comes from Harris
burg that the Republicans of the Legis-
lature contemplate working out a con-
gressional apportionment bill that
would give the Republicans twenty-five
out of the thirty districts. The dispatch
which gives this news says: “They
have not submitted the bill to the Steer
ing Committee yet, nor has it received
the sanction of the committee of either
House or Senate, but there are a num-
ber of stalwart Republicans who think
it should be passed.” Such a congres-
sional apportionment would be a worse
gerrymander than the one that now
disgraces the State,and there isno ques-
tion that the Governor's veto would
knock it higher than a kite.
———4It is very evident that Gover-
nor Pattison’s strong right arm has not
lost its veto power. It is a useful
faculty to correct Legislative mistakes;
but who shall correct gubernatorial
mistakes 2" remarks the Philadelphia
Inquirer. It our esteemed cotempor-
ary willread a certain document—
which Republican politicians are too
apt to ignore—called the Constitution
of the State of Pennsylvania, it will
find provision made there which will
go a long way toward answering its in-
quiry. In other words, a two-thirds
vote of the Legislature can correct the
gubernatorial mistakes—if the Legis-
lature has sufficient mentality to de-
tect the mistakes.
Alter
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Lis
VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 24, 1891.
NO. 16.
Known By Its Fruits.
We have before called attention to
the fact that since the the McKinley
tariff law went into effect the wages of
working people have been reduced and
discontent has largely increased among
the working classes. The last detail-
ed reference we made to this subject
was some months ago, and since then
the cases of wage reduction have greatly
multiplied. Thesituation becomes worse
as the effects of this monopoly tariff are
extended. It was the plea of HARRI
son and McKinLey that the people
would like this extortion better after
they had become better acquainted
with it,but the experience they are hav-
ing with it should increase their repul-
sion for it.
Here is a partial list of some of the
occurrences in the labor circles of the
United States during the months of
February and March of the present
year. It requires no comment or ex-
planation:
Miners of Belleville, Ill, strike for a uni-
form scale of 2 cents a bushel.
Illinois Steel Works, South Chicago, shut
down by the strike of the furnace men for
higher wages.
Pullman car joiners who strike for $2 a day
are notified to return to work or be black-
listed.
Chicago boss plasterers deciine to accede to
the demand of the Union for an advance of
$3.50 to §4 per day after April 1, and the men
will strike.
Miners in Connellsville coke region strike
for an advance of 1214 per cent,, and against a
reduction of 10 per cent. Still on.
Brooke Iron Company, Birdsborough, Pa.,
closed and 450 men thrown out, because they
refused a reduction of about 7 per cent.
Eliis & Lessig Steel and Iron Company,
Pottstown, Pa., closed. Seven hundred men
refuse a reduction of 12} per cent.
Sturtevant, Blower Works, Jamaica Plain,
Mass., reduction of from 10 to 30 per cent.
Pottstown Iron Company, Pottstown, Pa., a
reduction of 7 per cent.
Betalehem Iron Company, Bethlehem, Pa.,
reduction of ten percent,
Pennsylvania Steel Company, Steeiton,Pa.,
reduction of 8 to 10 per cent.
Otis Iron and Steel Company, Cleveland, O.,
reduction of 30 per cent
Coal miners, Duquoin, Ill, reduced 7 cents
per.ton
Ribbon weavers, Paterson, N. J., reduction
of 15 per cent. -
Coal miners, Leavenworth, Kan., reduction
of 71 per cent.
Cocheco Manufacturing Company, weavers
reduced 4 per cent.
Buckeye Mower and Reaper Works, Akron,
Ohio, reduction of from 30 to 60 per cent.
Saxony Knitting Mills, Little Talls, N. Y.,
reduction of 20 per cent.
Weavers in Hargreaves mills, Fall River,
Mass., strike against low wages.
Tenny’s hat factory. Methuen, Mass., reduc-
tion of 25 per cent.
Southern Steel Company,
Tenn., reduction of 10 per cent.
Raney & Bergen, blast furnace, New Castle,
Pa, reduction of 10 per cent. a day for labor
and 15 cents for twelve hour men.
‘Smithville cotton mills,! Willimantie, Conn.,
strike against a reduction and succeed.
Bates Mills, Lewistown, Me., reduction pro-
posed in beaming department amounting to 3
per cent. Operatives strike.
Strike in underwear mills, Jacksonville.
against a reduction.
Coal miners near Huntingburg, Ind., strike
against a reduction of ‘wages ?
Emma blast furnace, Cleveland, O., reduc-
tion of 10 per cent.
Adelaine silk mills, Allentown, Pa., reduc-
tion of wages February 13.
American Knife Company, Waterbury,Conn.
reduction of 20 per cent.
Fisher's pipe factory, Allentown, Pa., 5 cents
a day on outside, and 10 cents on inside men.
Three hundred and forty weavers in Wau-
suck Mill, Providence, R. IL, strike.
Crane Iron Company, Allentown, Pa., re-
duced wages 16 per cent.
Employers in coke regions threaten to make
« further cut of 10 per cent. in-addition to the
10 per cent. reduction which caused the
strike. .
Pottstown Iron Company, Pottstown, Pa.,
cuts puddlers from $3.75 to $3.20 per ton.
Third cut since February 1.
Standard Steel Company resumes work with
non-union men.
Pennsylvania coke miners strike against a
reduction of 10 per cent. and demand an eight
hour day.
Three hundred employes of the Labaste
Glass works, of Ottawa, Ill, locked out by the
proprietors.
Eight hundred weavers employed at the At-
lantic Mills, Providence, R. I, strike on ac-
count of excessive fines.
Illinois Stee! Company shuts down its Joliet
works indefinitely onaccount of the strike in
the rolling mill department.
Work on coal mines at Rendville, Hocking,
county, O., suspended several week. Miners
in a destitute condition.
Strikers go back to work at the Cochrane
plant, near Rainey, Pa.. at the old prices.
This is but an incomplete record of
the strikes, reductions, etc. for two
months—February and March—but it
is gloomy enough. It is six months
since the McKinley tariff went into op-
eration, that vaunted measure that
was to place American labor on a high-
er plane than it ever before reached.
We need not say that it has failed, dis-
astrously failed. Notonly has the con-
dition of the American workingmen
not been ameliorated by the highest
tariff ever known in this country, but
it is worse to-day than it was six
months ago.
Chattanooga,
“A Coat May be Too Cheap as Well as
Corn.”
A policy that would reduce the’ number of
our people engaged in mechanical pursuits or
diminish their ability to purchase fooa pro-
ducts by reducing wages canuot be helpful to
those now engaged in agriculture, The farm-
ersinsist that the prices of farm products have
been too low—below the point of fair living and
fair profits. I think so too, but I venture to
remind them that the plea they make involves
the concession that things may be too cheap.
A coat may be too cheap as well as corn. The
farmer who claims a good living and profits
for his work should concede the same to every
other man and woman who toils. I look with
great confldence to the completion of further
reciprocal trade arrangements, especially with
the Central and South American States, as fur-
nishing new and large markets for meats,
breadstuffs and important lines of manu-
factured products.
This extract is from President Har:
RISON’S letter to the commercial Con-
gress, at Kansas City, written before
setting out on his “swinging round the
circle” jaunt. While corn may be
“too cheap” for the farmer, who has it
to sell, a coat, which he has to buy,
can never be “too cheap” for him.
This is the most ancient of all “chest-
nuts,” for, from the foundation of thz
world, prices have never suited both
buyer and seller, each wishing to sell
high and buy low. This proposition
confronts every attempt to equalize tax-
ation, by tariff or otherwise. The
President seems to forget, in his en-
dorsement of reciprocity, that it is only
another name for free trade. If this
will be # good thing, so far as the South
American States are concerned, be-
cause it furnishes “new and large mark-
ets for meats, breadstuffs and an im-
portant line of manufactured products,”
why not an equally good thing to
extend reciprocity to the European
States? The old adage, “It's a poor
rule that won't work both ways,”
comes in here, hut the President over-
looks it. The protective system, as he
well knows, and to which he hassworn
allegiance, is the enemy of “new and
large markets for meats, breadstuffs,”
&e, but narrows our foreign trade. To
be consistent, Mr. Harrison and his
Premier will have to advocate the
same liberal policy toward Europe as
South America, and, when this point
is reached, as it surely will be, high
protection will be a thing of the past,
and tariff duties will be laid sufficient
for an economical administration of the
Government, and no more.
The Troops Are Expensive.
Soldiering is a costly business to the
State. The two regiments recently sent
to the coke regions at an expense of
over $2,000 a day, aggregate more
than $20,000. Judge Brack once said
it would be cheaper to pay laboring
men the advance wages demanded out
of the State ‘treasury than to send sol-
diers to quell strikes. The capitalists
and railroad companies make most of
the money out of the coal business,and
just now they are fighting the tax bill
before the legistature because it requires
them to pay something nearer a fair
proportion of taxes. They want the
State to protect them against the law-
less Huns they imported some years
ago, because they would work cheaper
than Americans, Irish, Germans and
others. Butat the same time these
big coal and transportation companies
insist upon the farmers continuing to
pay more than their proper share of
taxes, although they never ask or re-
quire any police or military protection
from the State.
A Massachusetts military com-
pany, which was attacked on the
streets of Baltimore at the beginning
of the war, thirty years ago, visited
that city during the past week and was
feted and feasted as honored guests.
The survivors of a confederate regiment
are now visiting New York, assisting
some of the Northern Boys in Blue to
celebrate one of their victories. Evi-
dently everybody in both sections has
forgotten the bitter memories of the
war except the Republican bayonette
politicians.
It 18° now a subject of debate
among the Republican organs whether
they are to credit the Italian corres-
pondence as ‘Secretary BLAINE's tri-
umph,’” as one paper puts it, or as an
exhibition of “true Indiana grit,” as
claimed by the President's especial
family organ. The family organ is
generous in putting it as “Indiana
grit.” Of course it intends it to be in-
ferred that it is “Harrison grit.”
A Dangerous Beverage.
The danger of Maine probition is
showing itself in an unexpected form.
The announcement comes from that
State and or high scientific authority,
that the prohibition drinks now large-
ly sold and consumed in that State and
in the Commonwealth of Massachus-
etts, contain'a substance which is much
more likely than pure alcohol to injure
the system. Prof. F. C. RosiNsoN of
Bowdoin College, a prominent chemist,
has recently made some careful analy-
ses of the different sorts of so-called
prohibition beer. They do not contain
over one per cent. of alcohol, and he
declares that it is far better for a man
to stick to plain raw whiskey than
to drink these kinds of beer. They
contain salicylic acid, which is intro-
duced for the purpose of preventing
fermentation, and salicylic acid, accord-
ing to Prof. Rominson, “acts with a
very dangerous effect upon the kidneys,
and its frequent use is almost] sure to
bring on Bright's disease.” He adds
that such beer is the most detrimental
to health of all the beverages in the
ligt.
After all, wouldn’t it be better to
drink pure whisky and beer than a
beverage that is likely to bring on a
fatal disease of the kidneys ?
How It Works in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania ot all the States in the
Union, is supposed to be the particular
beneficiary of the high tariff and of the
“protection to American industry’ that
is supposed to result from a high tariff
policy. Certain circumstances which
have lately arisen in this most favored
State would seem to cast a doubt upon
the efficacy of this vaunted protection.
Take the recent disturbances in the
coke region and the impending great
strike of the miners on the 1st of May.
We will not speak of the numerous
strikes which a.e constantly occurring
among justly dissatisfied laborers in
every occupation and calling through-
ont the length and breadth of Penn-
sylvania. The instances adduced of
the aggrieved miners and cokers; how
do these accord with the prosperity of
workingmen 1n a State which is more
favored by “protection” than any other
State? Does “protection” consist of
forcing men back to work by the argu-
ments of starvation and eviction from
their homes, which is now being re-
sorted to among the Connellsville cok-
ers? The Reoublican press should ex-
plain how such conditions are possible
after so many years of protection. It
must be admitted that even the evils
that are pictured as sure to result from
the purest free trade could hardly be
more severely felt by the miners and
cokers than those which they are now
undergoing.
The McKinley bill has been in op-
eration since last October.
——1It is a pity that Mr. HARRISON
in swinging around the circle does not
include the Westmoreland coke region
in his trip. He would there find a
large community of workingmen in a
state of insurrection against the wages
which the beneficiaries of a highly pro-
tective tariff see fit to give them. Re-
marks coming from him from the back
platform of his car might reconcile
them to the hardship of their lot, and
pursuade them to accept with docility
the situation in which the operator
get the benefits of protection while the
laborer 1s handed over to the tender
mercies of the taskmaster and the
Pinkerton thug.
It is now more than six months since
the McKinley tariff went into effect.
An exchange would have Gov-
ernor PATTON visit the coke region
and take a hand in settling the coal
miners’ strike by showing the strikers
“the hopelessness of their struggle.”
But then suppose the Governor, after
investigating facts, past and present,
relative to the introduction of foreign
labor and the recent cut in wages,should
deem it his duty to show the operators
the injustice and wrong of their strug-
gle. If he took sxdes on the strike he
might be as likely to adopt one course
as the other. But the oGvernor has
nothing to do with the merits or de-
merits of the lockout. His duty is to
preserve the peace and maintain the
supremacy of the law.
The Governor, however, might men-
tion that the McKinley bill went into
operation last October.
.
Dishonest Journalism,
The Philadelphia Press didn’t show
any smartness in extractinga part of
an article froin the WarcnMAaN, the
meaning of which depended upon the
context, and representing that it ex-
pressed our sentiments on the subject
to which it related.
Speaking of the bad faith of the Re-
publican Senators in the matter of con-
firming the Governor's appointments,
we said that they had taken an unsafe
position in the controversy, for if they
could thwart the Governors appointing
power it would only be until after the
adjournment of the legislature, when
not only the persons nominated by the
Governor could be inducted into office,
but Democrats could be put in the
places of the Republicans whose com-
inissions have not been issued. The
exigency, as expressed by us, was
purely conditional, as we said in di-
rect terms that the Republican Sena-
tors had no reasonable justification for
their conduct ‘as there was no assur-
ance that the commissions withheld
would not be forthcoming in dae
time.”
Disingenuously garbling our expres.
sion, the Press proceeded to declare
that the editor of the WarcaMaN, ‘a
Democratic member of the Senate and
on terms of personal as well as politi-
cal intimacy with the administration,”
confessed that the intention was to
withhold the commissions and then af-
ter the close of the session to fill all the
places in controversy with Democratic
officers.
This is dishonest journalism ;§ but it
well becomes an organ that tells its
deluded readers that a tariff isfnot a
tax and that tariff reform is free trade:
A Mere Subterfuge.
Papers that are opposed to the pend-
ing tax equalization law object to it on
the ground of its inquisitorial charac-
ter. That is the stock argument of
corporations and capitalists that wish
to escape their just proportion of the
public burdens. The law need not be
offensively inquisitorial to any one who
desires to be honestin returning his
taxable property. Of course the great
army of tax shirkers object to any-
thing that is calculated to bring them
to book. :
If the law is objectionable in its de-
tails, why should not its critics in good
faith seek to amend and improve it?
Bat that does not appear to be their
plan. The main purpose is to defeat
any tax system that will exact from
money capital and corporations their
fair share of the expenses of the State
and local government. The friends of
the revenue bill in the senate should
insist on a fair and square vote on it,
and not permit it to be killed by indi-
rection, or smothered 1n committee.
——It is believed that Governor
ParrsoN will veto the bill now pend-
ing before the Legislature providing for
the appointment of the State commis-
sioner to the World's Fair. The fbill
was introduced by Senator T'HoMas, of
Philadelphia, and originally provided
for the appointment of five members of
the Senate, one of whom should be the
president pro tem, and of six members
of the House, one to be the Speaker.
When the bill came before the House
it was amended on second reading by
adding the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor to the commission. Such
commissions are usually appointed by
Governors of States,and Governor Par-
11s0N has reason to be dissatisfied with
this Republican Legislature's attempt
to deprive him of that right and to
make the commission a partisan affair.
The attempt to placate him by making
him one of the commissioners is not
likely to satisfy him.
——Governor Pattison last week
sent two vetoes to the senate. Onewas
of a bill to validate private sale of real
estate of decedents, heretofore made
under authority of orphans’ courts, for
payment of debts not of record, on the
ground of adverse decisions of the su-
preme court against such legislation.
It was a general law for a special pur-
pose... -Flie governor also vetoed a bill
empowering boroughs to levy certain |
taxes on the ground that the people
are demanding a reduction and not an
increase of taxation.
——Subscribe for the WarcuMAN,
Spawls from the Keystone, ~
—Coleman’s furnace, at Lochiel, has shut
down indefinitely.
—A Pittsburg physician has been fined for
insulting his female patients.
—An old passenger car is doing service as a
railroad station at Pineville.
—The Riverside (Allegheny) Penitentiary
now has a cell for every prisoner.
—Thirty-eight fires in Allentown last year
did damages to the extent of $11,986.
—A 6-year-old highwayman has been arrest-
ed in Reading. He “held up” school children.
—Warran, which has been “dry” for four
years will have thirty licensed bars this sum-
mer.
—The annual celebration of the American
Mechanics is to be held July 4, at Connells-
ville.
—A runaway horse at Lancaster had sense
enough to stop in front of an approaching
railroad train.
—A coal and iron policeman at Williams-
port has got into hot water by arresting the
wrong brother.
—Many Berks county farmers are holding
their corn for §1 a bushel, which, they believe,
it will reach July 1.
—Rev. R. Daenger, pastor of the Ashland
Reformed Church for twenty years, will retire.
He is 82 years old.
—At McKeesport Susan Green attempted to
murder George Russ by cutting his throat.
Both parties are colored.
—United Stated detectives have been in
Hazleton during the past weels looking up
dealers in oleomargarine.
—The corner stone of the new Methodist
church, at Reading, will be laid next Sunday
with impressive ceremonies.
—The killing of two dogs, supposed to be
mad, in the same neighborhood caused econsid-
erable excitement in Reading.
—The Union Blues, the first company mus-
tered out of Chester during the late war, had a
reunion and banquet last night.
—After a delay of three months the electric
light was turned on at Milton Saturday night
and pronounced a success.
—William Berger, of Millersburg, will soon
be 100 years old. He is active and still serving
as sexton of the church there.
—Pittshurg people congratulated themselves
afew days ago because not a single death
from grippe was reported in one whole day.
—DMichael Hiester, of Shubert, Berks county
is the owner of a German Testament, trans-
lated by Martin Luther, and printed in 1545.
—At Wilkesbarre a young man named Shar-
wood tried to commit suicide by taking Paris
green, but was prevented by an acquaintance.
—A 13-year-old Sewickley boy, Walter Brush
ran upon a railroad track at Freed om, where
he was struck and instantly killed by a train.
—A minister at Humboldt, Luze rne- county,
has written to the District Attorney of the
place to say that the town is going to the
devil.
—The Presbyterian corgregation of Elm-
hurst, organized February 23, with a member-
ship of twenty six, is building a new chapel
edifice.
—A number of Hyde Park boys who were
gathering arbutus near the Diamond reservoir
discovered what to all appearance is a human
skeleton.
—The warring trustees of St. Daniel’s M. E.
¢hurch, of South Chester,have been persnaded
to open the church Sunday morning thus avoid-
ing a iaw suit.
—aA large cave-in took place on the Lehigh
Valiey Railroad at Raven run yesterday, 40x60
feet in diminsions. Tracks were laid around
the excavation.
—Jacob Brader, an insane patient at the Le-
high county Almshouse, committed suicide by
hanging. He was 52 years old and came from
West Bethlehem.
—Reinhold Gehrka, a moulder employed at
the Scott Foundry, Reading, was terribly
crushed by an iron flask weighing 4,500 pounds
falling upon him. :
—Isaac Bagy, of Lansdale, was declared a
lunatic after having fired three bullets into
his head with suicidal intent, and was lodged
in the hospital for the insane.
—An unknown tramp, aged 30, was found
dead on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Le-
high Gap station. He was horribly mutilated
and both legs were cut off.
—Miner & Co., the Pittstown Millers, in ac-
cordance with the usual custom, divided a
certain percentage of the year’s earnings with
their employes last week.
—The Juniata county Republican Commit=
tee mel at Mifflintown and fixed June 6, as the
day on which to hold the county primary
election, and June 8 the convention.
—William B. Smith, the Elk Groveman, ar.
rested on suspicion of taking a registered
letter containing $25 sent to another person
and using the money, has confessed the crime.
—A sixth robbery or attempted robbery, of
the coal office of Horatio Jones, at Ninth and.
Laurel streets, Reading, has resulted in the
arrest of William Roy and William Hemmig.
—While a number of boys were examining a
revolver at Altoona the weapon was accidently
discharged, and the bullet struck one of them
in the right foot. The wound was dressed at
the hospital. :
—aA stern post for the United Stated armor-
ed cruiser New York was cast at the Standard
Steel Works at Thurlow last week. It will
stand a tensile strain of 80,000 pounds and
weighs 18,000 pounds.
—J. H. Lester, proprietor of “An Irishman’s
Devotion” company, played to a poor house
Saturday night in Harrisburg, and tried to re-
plenish his exchequer,by stealing and. selling
a diamond ring from a guest of the American
honse,
—The fair held by the ladies of the Christ
Episcopal Church of Media, closed last night
after a session of three duys. It was in aid of
the building fund for a new edifice and the
result was that $1,000 was turned into the
treasury.
—The body of the man found floating in the
vor near McCall's FTIY has been identified
as that of Thomas Carl, of Herndon, North.
umberland county. He was 23 years old and
had been missing from home seven weeks.
—At a speak easy in the mining town of
Glenn Lyon, near Nanticoke, a row, occurred
Friday night, in which John Sluwitzki had his
throat cut and was otherwise horribly carved
by Jacob King. The murderer is locked up.
| ~The largest Sheriff's sale ever known in
| Lancaster county was concluded in Columbia
| by the final disposition of the lumber and saw
mill of N. Byers. & Co. The mill which cost
| $20,000 three years ago, was sold for $10,000 to
| William B, Given, and the proceeds of the
sale of the lumber amounted ta §71,000, much
less than was anticipated,