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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The first oriole of the season on
‘Wednesday morning sang as. if he had
an icicle in his throat.
—The most importan news that has
recently been sent out about the admin-
istration is that BABY McK EE has been
put into his first pair o pants.
—The people of Pennsylvania are
seeing what sort of a Governor they
would now have if they had taken
DELAMATER on Boss QuAy’s recom-
mendation,
—In a diplomatic controversy carried
on by cable at 87 cents a word Italy
hasn’t money enough to contend with the
United States. In such a contention it
is money that talks.
—RussELL HARRISON has had no
difficulty in writing BLAINE out of the
Presidential field, but the Secretary may
not be willing to gratify the HARRI-
SONS by staying out.
—One striker killed and another
wounded is the latest news we have trom
the coke regions where PINKERTON is
exemplifying the benefits of the Mec.
Kinley bill by the process of eviction,
— When BLAINE and RuDINI begin
to call each other liars it is well that it
is done at long range through the me-
dium of the Atlantic cable, otherwise
the controversy might be enlivened by
a knock-down.
—Mr. HArrISON having taken his
Presidential boom to the Pacific slope
has escaped the May frost that has
nipped everything green on this side of
the continent.
—T'he tables at the great Tariff Ban-
quet were surrounded by capitalists
whose united wealth amounted to $500,-
000,000, These plutocratic admirers of
the tariff know a good thing—for them-
selves—when they see it.
— After the fatigue of his transconti-
nental trip the President will be in
condition for a summer rest at the
Cape M.y Foint gift cottage. The junk-
et must be tiresome to Mr. HARRISON,
It certainly is to the country.
---JOHN L. SULLIVAN is again being
stirred by congressional ambition.
Maybe if JouN had been in the last
House a wholesome fear of being
knocked ont would have kept REED
from being so much of a bully.
--‘“‘Hypnotism and humbug are two
words that begin with the letter h,”
sagely remarks the New York Sun. But
what of it? Dana and deception both
begin with the letter d. Is there any
significance in such alliterations ?
—The New York tariff banqueters
forgot to include maple molasses among
the exclusively American products that
graced their board, and the Vermcnt
Republicans, who have always voted
the straight tariff ticket,feel hurt about it.
—Italy is actually emptying itself into
this country. It may possibly be a
deep scheme on the part of Rubin
to bave the people of the United States
ground to death with hand organs in
revenge for the New Orleans lynching.
—The Michigan Legislature has de-
clared for reciprocity with Canada, but
Mr. BLAINE would rather reciprocate
vith people who are farther oft than the
Kanucks. He considers reciprocity a
beautiful system, but thinks that dis-
tance lends a greater enchantment to it.
—General ALGER'S great wealth
offers a strong temptation to Presiden-
tial boomers, but those who may trust
to match him against HARRISON or
BrainNe should not forget his connec-
tion with the Match Trust, as damaging-
ly exposed by “honest” JOHN SHER-
MAN.
-—During the past week old Boreas
behaved very rudely to Pomona, whose
charming appearance in her white and
pink spring suit deserved better treat-
ment ; but it is to be hoped that the fruit-
ful goddess will not resent this rudeness
by withholding her gifts during the com-
ing summer.
—If it be true, as Mr. SPAULDING of
the Treasury Department says, that the
Trusts cannot control the price of sugar,
and that it is bound to remain cheap,
consumers are to be congratulated that
the only benefit they have derived from
the McKinley bill, by free trade in an
important commodity, is going to be
permanent.
—“BanYy McKEE now wears pants,
and the Democratic press has a new sen-
sation which will not be exhausted until
after the Presidential election,” re-
marks a Republican contemporary. This
is not correct. It is the Baby and his
grandfather that have had the sensation.
The important fact that his grandson
had been breeched was telegraphed
across the continent to the President,and
the announcement was regarded as
auspiciously pointing to a second term.
The soothsayer who accompanies the
excursion found no difficulty in constru-
ing an affinity between Baby McKEE’s
pants and the pants of the popular heart
for four years more of the Harrison ad-
ministration.
where a milder temperature prevails, it | Frick for his reported statement that
PRT RESO OREN
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STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 8, 1891.
NO. 18.
The Labor Problem inthe Coke Re-
gion.
After the coke barons of the Connels-
ville region have by force of arms and the
assistance of the Pinkertons suppress:
ed the striking Hungarians and evicted
their families from the tenements they
occupied, they are bringing in to take
their places a large force of the same
objectionable kind of working people.
This description of labor has been the
curse of the region. It was originally
introduced on account of its cheapness,
butin the end it has cost more than if
a higher priced class of workmen had
been employed. It was cheap at first,
but the foreign pauper horde soon
learned to demand higher wages, and
didn’t hesitate to resort to riot and the
destruction of property when their de-
mand was not complied with.
To supply the place of the evicted
foreigners others of the same class, to
the number of thousands, it is reported,
are being introduced. The Uniontown
Standard severely censures Mr. H.C.
“no Italians or foreigners of any kind
have been sent igto the region to his
knowledge to take the place of the
strikers.” The Standard says:
If the ‘Italians or foreigners’ were not sent
here tojtake the place of the strikers,what were
they sent for? Did they come of their own
motion, to fish, or hunt, or to operate peanut
stands or hand organs, or to organize a Mafia?
Why did those 5) go up to Kyle on Wednes-
day evening, or those six carloads land at Con-
nelisville on Friday morning? Does Mr.
Frick think the people are fools, that he
should deliberately make such statements?
Let us have the truth in these things, no mat-
ter where it strikes. And the public are still
of the belief thatthe bringing in of fresh car-
goes of cheap foreign labor will prove an addi
tional curse to the coke region: ;
The Uniontown Genius on the same
subject says:
A car load of Italians went through town
yesterday evening to take the place of strikers
at the Kyle works, south of Uniontown. Ital-
ians have also been shipped to Leisenring No,
2,and perhaps some other works. If we keep
on a little longer, there will be no use in Italy
trying to fight the United States. There won't
be enough of her citizens left within her
boundaries to play ber hand organs. We will
have them all in the coke regions. Blaine
should get Mr. Rudini, with whom he has been
corresponding for a time, to come over and
wield a coke scraper for a while. That would
cool his hot Italian blood.
It is thus that the baronial benefi-
ciaries of protection are attempting to
solve the labor problem in tariff-favor-
ed Pennsylvania.
m—
In France the riotous distur-
bances which began on May Day have
been continued. The troops have been
called into requisition and the bayonet
has been freely used on the disturbers
of the peace. General BoULANGER is
blamed for fomenting these outbreaks,
which by some are thought to be sig:
nificant of something more than the
mere turbulance of discontented work-
ingmen. Whether the disturbances
have any political meaning or not,
it might not be hard to turn them
into a fierce attack upon the Republi-
can government.
A Republican Combine.
The political quid nuncs who closely
watch party movements and think
they know everything that is gcing
on, have discovered a great combi-
nation of Republican leaders in this
State for the control of politics for the
next six years and the election of a
combined delegation from Pennsylvania
to the national convention next year.
Senators Quay and CaMERON, Collector
Cooper and General Hastings are
named among the leaders in the move-
ment. One of the most important and
interesting details of the plan is the
promise to General Hastings that he
shall be nominated for governor in
1894 practically without opposition,
which it is hoped will bring all of the
General's large and enthusiastic follow-
ing into the deal.
This is what the choice of Represen-
tative Jesse M. Baker for State chair-
man means, and this management is
also understood to carry with it the
nomination of Speaker C. C. THomMPsoN
for State Treasurer and Senator MyLIN
of Lancaster for Auditor General. Sena-
tor QUAY also has in mind the control |
of the Pennsylvania delegation to the
next national convention with the ob- |
ject of securing his re-election as chair-
man of the national committee, and in
the event of success in '92 he hopes to
obtain a cabinet position.
This is a nicely planned combination,
but there are so many contingencies
likely to interpose that it cannot be cer-
tainly counted upon as praciicable,
i ored by the McKinley bill,
report on the comparative merits of the
American tariff system according to
the representation of those who are
i favored by it; but the Democratic
Hard Lines for the Delamaters.
A year ago George W. DELAMATER
ecjoyed a larger share of public atten-
tion than any other Republican in
Pennsylvania. He was the choice of
the ruling power in the State for Gov-
eraor, and a subservient State conven-
tion assembied 1n Harrisburg and nom-
inated him for the highest office in the
gift of the people of the State. To-day
GeoreE W. DELAMATER is a candidate
for the penitentiary with a considerable
chance of his being elected.
Our readers are well acquainted with
“the failure of the bank with which he
was connected, which occurred soon
after his defeat last November. It was
represented at first that the creditors
would be fully satisfied. Then a com-
promise of 50 cents on the dollar was
offered. This has lingered along with-
out fulfillment until the creditors have
become tired of promises that don’t
materialize even at such a discount. At
a meeting of the creditors the other
day it was stated that the scheme for
a compromise had fallen through and
the claims were considered not to be
worth 10 cents on the dollar. Under
these circumstances the plan of the ex-
asperated creditors is said to be to is-
sue a succession of arrests against the
DEeraMaTERS, and thus to exhaust their
bail backing and land them in jail on
a charge of embezzlement,
This is a great descent from the
bigh horse which young DELAMATER
was made to ride last year by the Boss
who regulated the Republican guberna-
torial nomination. He was a bank-
rupt at the time he asked the people
to make him Governor, and every one
who heard him in the campaign re-
members the insolent assurance with
which he spoke of what he would do
when he should become the chief ex-
ecutive of the State. A bankrupt can-
didate, however, was a fit representa-
tive of a bankrupt party.
Favoring Monopoly.
In the provision of the McKinley
tariff law relating to tin is glaringly |
displayed the favoritism shown to moun-
opoly that characterizes and disgraces
the so-called protective system. It ap-
pears that the Standard Oil Trust, the
greatest monopoly of the country,
which is far from deserving protection
of any kind, is made a beneficiary of
the McKinley law to the extent of $1,-
500,000 a year in drawbacks on the
tin used in its export packages.
Along with other monopolies the
Standard Company had much to say
and exercised ‘a powerful influence in
the getting up of the McKinley bill.
It approved of the general features of
tariff taxation, but it served notice on
McKINLEY and his associates that un-
less it was given special exemption
from taxation the bill would not be al-
lowed to pass, and as it was using vast
quantities of tin in exporting its pro-
duct in packages it demanded and was
granted a special provision allowing a
drawback on imported tin-plate used
in the exportation of domestic products.
Thus we find that while the ordinary
consumer, the farmer, mechanic and
builder, must pay $6 a box for his tin-
plate, an overgrown, enormously
wealthy corporation will be able to get
it for $3.52 a box. It isthe same old
story of plundering the poor man iu
order to “protect” the already pamper-
ed monopolist.
—-Before the adjournment of the late
congress Senator PLums, of Kansas, of-
fered a resolution instructing the Sen-
ate finance committee to investigate
the effects of the present tariff and of
our tariff system generally as compar-
ed with the revenue systems of Europe.
In compliance with this resolution the
finance committee selected a subcom-
mittee to do this work, on which Sena-
tors ALDRICH, ALLISON and SHERMAN
represent the Republicans, with ;Sena-
tors CarvisLe and Harris as
Democratic representatives. It is un-
derstood that the majority of this com-
mittee will limit its investigations to
communications from selected repre-
sentatives of the interests speciallyffav-
and will
side of «he committee will manage to
make itself heard, and CArvricLE and
Harris will look after the interests of
consutners.
the,
“Optional” Free Trade.
Jaues S. CLARKSON, recently known
as chief headsman in the post office
department under the Harrison admin-
istration, and now President-elect of the
Republican League, says that Recipro-
city will be the Republican slogan in
the next Presidential campaign, and
he defines Reciprocity as ‘‘another
form of the tariff system,” or, in short,
as he says, it is “optional free trade.”
In his opinion “the Republican party
will go into the field for limited re-
ciprocity ; the Democratic party for
universal reciprocity.”
This is surely a great back down
from the Republican position of ‘‘pro-
tection for the sake of protection.” It
was only in 1888 that the country rang
with the charge that Grover CLEVE-
LAND wanted to establish free trade
when he recommended merely a reduc-
tion of excessive duties. Tariff re-
form was denounced as a free trade
movement, The proposition to lop off
unnecessary tariff taxation was repre-
sented as a dangerous step in the direc-
tion of free trade, and altogether there
was the biggest kind of a racket kept
up abeut the Democratic “free trad-
ers,” whose only intention was to make
the tariff less burdensome to consumers
and less advantageous to monopo-
lists, without removing the measure of
protection really needed by the indus-
trial interests.
The echo of this clatter has hardly
died away before BLAINE comes along
with his reciprocity scheme which the
president of the Republican League de-
clares to be “optional free trade,” and
he says it will be inscribed upon the
Republican banners in the next Presi-
dential campaign. Free trade, for
sooth! Who would have thought that
the G. O. P. in its decrepitude could
turn a summersault with such agility ?
——In signing the bill to refund the
money advanced to the State by WiL-
‘mam H. Kemsrg, for the relief of
' Johnstown, Governor PArTisoN point-
ed ontthe constitutional objections that
stood in the way; but he considered
the emergency of a character that ouc- |
weighed technical objections. The
faith of the State was pledged to the
refunding of the money, and, under
the circumstances, the Governor's ac-
tion will be sustained,
Why It is So.
There is no better Republican au-
thority in the Mississippi Valley than
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and this
leading western organ of the G. O. P.
admits that the Republican party lacks
“an influential and widely read press,”
and that the “young men and the sons
and founders of Republicanism are
either acting with the Democratic par-
ty or at least they are not actively sup-
porting the Republican party.” “This,”
it adds, “is both a warning and an in-
dictment. A party which lacks an in-
fluential press and young, progressive
men has a fatal cause of dissolution,
and is threatened with quick destruc-
tion.”
There is, indeed, good reason for this
visible decadence of ‘the grand old
party.” Journals which have become
habituated to advocating the doctrines
of sectionalism and plutocratic previ-
lege must naturally lose their hold on
the intelligent appreciation and sym-
pathy of the people, and the young
men of the country instinctively turn
from the Bourbon tendencies of Repub-
licanism.
——1It is discovered that the Me-
Kinley tariff has greatly stimulated
the disposition of Americans to make
trips to Europe, They find that under
the high protective system it pays to
make a European visit. There are
enormous rates of duties an articles
thatare used for the purpose of clothing.
Now if an American goes to Europe
he can buy the same kind of articles
go much cheaper there than he canjbuy
them in the United States that the dif-
ference will pay the expense of a trip
across the water. This iglespecially the
case with fashionable people who in-
dulge extensively in dress. This trade
would be confined to the United States
if the McKinley tax didn’t encourage it
to go to Europe. But the great bulk
of the American people can’t go over
and take advantage of the cheaper
goods that can be obtained there, but
they must stay at home and submit to
the McKinley gouge.
|
Jewish Immigrants.
In addition to the flood of Italians
and Hungarians that is being poured |
upon our shores, large numbers of Rus-
sian Jews are swelling the tide of un-
desirable immigration, It is estimat-
ed that 100,000 Jews from Russia and
Poland landed at New York since the:
firsc of last January. Very few of
them are mechanics or farmers, or are:
to be found working as day laborers,
but a great number have been traders,
barterers, money lenders or peddlers
doing business with the Russian pea--
santry. More than half of these im
migrants have remained in New York,.
and the remainder have gone to other
cities all over country, and not a few oft
them to cities in the Southern States.
The Sun, after investigation, says they.
are generally poor, although all of
them had a little money to be exchaag--
ed, and some of them were well in
funds. Many of them have been as-
sisted to come to this. country by Bar-
on HirscH, who, in February, 1890,
established a great fand of $2,500,000 |
for their service ; and many, while be-
ginning life here, have received aid
from that fund.
This heavy Jewish immigration
from Russia now in progress is very
sure to continue. At the port of Ham-
burg alone recently as many as 30,000
Russian Jews were waiting to get
steerage passage to this country. The
Russian government is striving to drive
away the Jews under its control, and
as there are 5,000,000 in the dominion
of the Czar itis easy to imagine the
number whose course will unfortunate-.
ly for us be turned in this direction,
——The National Association of
Democratic clubs has opened offices in
the Metropolitan hotel at Washington,
D. C., under the immediate charge of
Secretary LAWRENCE GARDNER, whence
a continuous campaign under the di-
rection of the national Democratie ¢am-
paign committee will be systematically
conducted. Hon. Wa. L. WiLsoN of
West Virginia, Hon. RosweLL P.FrLow-
Hon. ArtHUR P. GORMAN, and
Hon. Crauncey F. Brack are now
making plaps to reach every section
of the United States for the campaign
of 1892.
Japan at Our World’s Fair.
The exhibit of Japan at the Centen-
nial exhibition in 1876 is remembered
as being remarkably extensive and in-
teresting, but the Japanese intend to
surpass their effort of 1876 by the dis-
play they will make at Chieago in
1893. The parliament of Japan has
made a grant of $500,000 to defray the
expenses of the exhibition, and the aim
of that government seems to be to
make such a display of products and
manufactures that all the countries
taking part in the celebration may real-
ize the industrial and educational pro-
gress of its people, There has been
nothing more remarkable than the rap-
id development of Japan, and the eag-
erness and readiness with which its
people have engrafted western ideas on
their ancient exclusiveness by adopting
2 system of education and government
largely patcerned after our own. Their
country has now been brought almost
as near to us as England was thirty
years ago, and a more extended knowl-
edge of its arts and industries will un-
doubtedly prepare the way for greater
progress and more intimate associa-
tion with the outer world,
——The United States is now the
greatest iron prodacing country of the
world. We have long been second on-
ly to Great Britain, and last year we
passed our rival, going to the front
with an unprecedented production of
9,202,703 gross tons of pig iron, an ex-
cess of 1,200,000 over the highest fig-
ures ever reached by the furnaces of
any country. Noting this fact the
Philadelphia Telegraph recalls that in
1838 NicuorLas BippLe and other citi-
zens of Pennsylvania offered a bounty
of $5,000 for the first furnace in contin-
uous blast for a period of threg months.
It will thus be seen how brief is the
history of this great interest in our
land. Itis true that iron was made
in this State many years before 1838,
and we exported pig iron to England
before the revolution ; but it was not
until 1841 that the prize for running a |
furnace three months in continuous |
blast was won in Pottsville,
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Reading’s {ax rate is fixed at six mills, -
—Sixty Berks County Almshouse inmates.
Rave grip.
—The hopper of the Luzerne county divorce
mill is seldom empty, :
—A 72-year-old man married a 71-year-old -
maiden in Bradford county.
—There are at present sixty cases of grippe
‘at the Berlks:county almshouse.
—The Third Brigade will encamp at Mount
| @retnaabout the middle of Juiy.
—An epidemic of dysentery has overcome.
‘the prisoners imBerks county jail,
—A blind horse ran away and almost killed
Mrs. Henry Whitehouse, of Allentown.
—George Walters, of Point Pleasant, was
kicked in the jaw by a calf and badly cut.
—Berks county says she will grow three
; times as many potatoes as she did last year,
—The encampments of the National Guard
brigades will take place in July and last for
eight days.
—Several railroad thieves have been ar-
ji rested in Sunbury. Startling developments
.‘are promised.
—Lancaster ladies were shocked to see.a
drunken girl ride through the streets on tne
box of a.cab.
—A 17-year-old boy was arrested at Pitts-
burg, charged with being the leader of a gang
of car robbers.
—Levi Schlicter, of Macungie, was perfora-.,
ted with shattered tin by the explosion of a
can of dynamite.
Ferdinand Oregon, of Scranton, thrashed
the four suitors for his sister’s hand and..senf
the girl to jail.
—John Graham ran from an officer at Scran-
ton and jumped in front of a train that diss.
membered him.
—Mrs. Abraham Hannaman, of Annville,
Lebanon county, was seriously injured by the
running off of horses.
—T%he premiums at the Berks county Fair
will amount to $6000. The fair will be held on |
September 15 to 18.
—Fleetwood citizens have ' subscribed
| $15,000 toward a new stocking factory that will-
employ eighty girls.
—A gus engine has been constructed in
Pittsourg that, the inventors clair, will soon
end the days of steam.
—Maud Evans, of Beaver Falls, pretty and
only 16, has a third set of teeth, an d.they are
not store teeth, either.
—Six prisoners in the Northumberland,
county jail tried to kill John Kelly, the carpet
department sujerintendent.
—PFalling from a chair upon a hot stove the
6-year-ald daughter of Davi d Marchmer, of
Pine Grove, was terribly burned. :
—Issac Shauman, aged 72, has died 3b,
Reading of the wound inflicted by the als-
charge of his gun loaded for rats.
—Miss Mary R. Schiller, of Pittsburg, will.
visit several South American countries in the
interest of World's Fair women.
—A malignant form of measles, accompanied
by diarrhea and bleeding from the nose and.
throat, is prevailing in Lebanon. i
—A “flyer” express to make the run between
Allentown and Philadelphia iastwo hours will:
soon be put on the Reading Railroad.
—Richard Reddick, 114 years old, of Pitts.
burg, Pa., chews tobacco, smokes, drinks. .
liquor and shouts at class-meeting.
+ —aA 100-barre loil well has been struck ata
depth of only 3000 feet one- fourth of a mile
east of Meechburg, Armstrong county.
—John Searchrist, of Dover, York county,.
fell off his mule, his foot caught in a stiyrup,.
and he was dragged and seriously injured.
—A. L. Tilden, Deputy Secretary of, the.
Commonwealth, will be...pushed for . the
Democratic nomination for Auditor General.
—Collector A.O. Sechanu, of the Allentown.
Turn Verein and Liederkrana, has gone off .on
a bicycle wita $100 of his German brethren’s .
funds. !
—Harry Palsgrove,of Reading, is dying from.
paralysis which resulted from being pushed,
against a wall by a playmate two years.
ago.
—A man named Mc@ileary, whose home. is.
in Canada, fell dead .at Scottdale: from epi.
leptic fits, produced. by .over-induigence in.
intoxicants.
—Stephen McClellan, a yousg man of
Johnstown, and an incessant cigeaette smoker.
is believed to be insane. He will probably;be
taken to Dixmont.
—Auditor General MeCamany has forwarded:
to William H. Kemble the .full ;amoun$iof
money the latter loaned Governor Beaver:for
the Johnstown flood sufferers..
—Mrs. James Andrews, of. Pittsburg, has
marriage certificates dated January 12, 1889,
and April 17, 1881. She has ene set of divoree
papers, and is off to Chicago for a second lot.
—Oswin Gehman, who rag away from. Vera
Cruz, Lehigh county, thee years ago, was
drowned in the Johnstown. flood, as his widow
has just learned. Already she has. maaried
again.
—A Texas.pony was captured the. other day
on Tobias Wile’s farm near Earlington. Itis
said he eseaped frem Quakertown after
kicking his owner and fracturing besh his
legs.
—George Neice, of Oak Ridge, was plows
ing, with the checkrein around his neck,
when the horses ran away, dragging him
several hnndred yards. He. wag severely
injured.
—Angustus Treutman, a well-known farmer
residing north of Wolmsdorf, was engaged in
threshing on his farm when one of ;his feet
wag caught in, the machinery and literally
torn off above the ankle.
—F. J. Dawden, of Lykens, is a Harrisburg
hospital with a bullet wound in his left arm,
inflicted by Frank Gable, his nephew, who ia
believed to be insane. Gable also shot at Dows
den’s. wife, and then fled;
—While Mrs. Andrew Michin, of Braddock,
reached the depot with John Kendrick, en
route to an elopers” paradise, her husband ov-
ertook and beat her, and spoiled the seheme.
Kendrick is in the workhouse to remain a
month from date:
—Styles Huber, of Gwynedd, owas the faith.
fal mare, “Katie,” that the late General John
Hartranft rode during his march with General
Sherman to the sea. Mr. Huber’s father pure
chased the mare in 1872. The animal is 34
years old but still frisky.
—0n Monday evening about 8 o'clock sev-
eral men entered the house of Mr, John Wag-
ner, in Sunbury. Mrs. Wagner wen up into
the garret and was afraid to come down stairs.
The men got some eatables and ate a good sup-
: per, after which they took their departure,