Dewar
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Tin, tin, American tin,
Lead withoat and iron within,
Rolled into plates, both weak and thin,
Rattled and banged with a constant din
In the hope it'll put Brier McKINLEY in.
—A man of mark—the chap who
signed his name with a X.
—It you want to know how a man
swears you can ascertain by watching
him put up a stove pipe.
—Clearfield has so many bald headed
men, that there is talk of changing the
opera house to make more front row seats
on leg show nights.
—The Pittsburg prison board will
fire all the jail keepers and keep the
places themselves. They have a man to
fit "every position except Firzsim-
MONS.
—Republicans will rejoice to know
that Mr. CLEVELAND has already dis-
covered that even an infant industry
‘such as he has started needs considerable
protection.
—GRrEGG may be, and doubtless is, a
very good citizen, but in running as a
candidate, that don’t offset the fact that
his competitor is WRIGHT under all cir-
cumsiances:
—Hurrah for “Our Dan !”’—Let the
Senate respond to the call and promptly
and courageously lend every effort to
reach the truth’’—but, speak easy, does
he mean it ?
—JoB was never a republican cashier
of a treasury, yet all the same he pre-
dicted, that “after a few years have
come I shall go the way from whence I
shall not return.”
---It may seem strange that while
“self made men’’ are praised and glori-
fied without stint, self made woman us-
ually occupy the buck seats when com-
pliments are to be handed round.
—One of our exchanges states that
Huntingdon county will give a black
eye to a Constitutional convention. Of
course it will, TLat county was never
k nown to give anything else to a just
cause.
--The editor of a republican paper, up
at Curwensville, boasts of the size of his
cabbage head. We don’t know much
about the size, but judging from the pa-
per there can be no doubt as to the kind
of a head he has.
—The people of the Northwest had
their first winter weather about ten days
ago. It was nothing, however compar-
ed to the cold wave that will strike the
Pennsylvania republicans on the even-
ing of November third.
— Bradstreet gives the failures and
liabilities tor the first nine months of the
present year at 25 per cent. Evidently
the business boom that was to follow the
McKINLEY bill was a boom for the bus-
iness of the Sheriff s officers.
—7You are wrong, Mr. LCOK-EM-UP,
decidedly wrong. The lines:
“I f you get there before I do
Look out for me I'm coming too”
were written long before LIvsEYy went
to Canada. McCAMANT is not their an-
thor. :
— After all, there is not much differ-
ence between the republican party of
Pennsylvaria and an ordinary circus.
The principle work of both is done by
a few in the ring, and the general pub-
lic is fleeced to pay for the performance.
—MATHEW STANLEY QUAY is to re-
ceive a talisman, in the form of arab-
bit’s foot, from a Washington admirer.
If the g.o.p.would give him a mule’s foot,
near his hip pocket, there would proba-
bly be some luck in store for the
party.
—Lock Haven democrats, it is said,
have buried their local differences and
will now give their county ticket a uni-
ted suppport. As ARTEMUS WARD
would have said : wel dun brothers, but
yea must du it furst befor outsiders ’ll
beleev its dun.
—1Its a great thing for the republican
ringsters, that JouN BARDSLEY confess.
ed a portion of his crime and went to
prison. He serves now as an excellent
pack horse, on whose back ean be piled
all of the sins of his former pals, and no
matter how big the load gets he can’t
kick.
—The Pittsburg Dispatch says “the
only thing the granger politicians can
expect to raise hereafter is a langh.”
How happy the Dispateh’s
friends would feel it they knew this was |
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party
— The bill even
thrown an ohstacle in the way of our
Their fear is that if they keep on
kell
raise in the republican
MeKiNLuy has
country’s lads and lassies’ getting
married. And ugly women won't
dare look in their wirrors so
much anymore; for German plate
glass has gone up 20 per cent. Tis
a pity - that this glass isn’t the
kind that is used in bottle making
as Mc. would then have to use it
himselfto furnish his infunt industries
with milk bottles.
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Expectations Unrealized.
If there 1s any one reason more than
another, why so many workingmen
vote the Republican ticket, it is be-
cause they have been made to believe
that a tariff, such as that party sup-
ports, secures them steady employment
and increased wages. It was this be-
lief that secured to HarritoN, such a
large proportion of the labor vote, and
it is the same idea that keeps thoue-
ands upon thousands of them hanging
on to that party, notwithstanding the
fact that circumstances are continuous-
ly showing the falsity of this notion
aad the deception that is being prac-
ticed upon them.
In one of his speeches, a few days
sinee, Governor CampBeLL, of Obio,
who is a candidate for re-election, pro-
posed that Major McKINLEY, his com-
petitor, should have the vote of every
workingman in the state whose wages
had been increased under the opera-
tions of the McKinley bill, and that
he, CampBELL, would be content to re-
ceive the votes of those whose earnings
had been reduced. This proposition |
was not acceptable to the Republicans,
and at Ada, on Thursday last, during
the joint discussion of the tariff ques-
tion, before an audience of 15,000 peo-
ple, workingmen and famers mostly,
he challenged Major McKINLEY, to
point to a single protected industry,
now reaping the benefits of his tariff
measure, that was dividing those bene-
fits with 1ts employees, or to name a |
single laboring man, anywhere in the
entire state, whose wages had heen in-
creased since his bill went into effect.
The great champion of protection, al-
though offered every opportunity, sat
silent and had no rep'y. Neither did
he refer to the challenge when his time |
to argue the question came.
The trath is, he could not answer.
In all the great state of Ohio, no one
knows of any establisment, the pro-:
ducts of which are on the protected
list and the prices ¢f which have gone
up in consequence, that has increased
the wages of workingmen a particle.
On the other hand, manufactury after
manufactury, has closed down its
works altogether, and those that have
not, nave nearly all reduced the wages
paid for all kinds of labor.
It is there just as it is here, and the
workingmen in this section know well
enough how that is.
On the other hand, while work has
became scarcer and wages been de. |
creased, the price of every article used
by the poorer classes of people has ad- |
vanced except sugar, which is on the
free list. The rapid rise in all kinds
of merchantable goods, made immedi.
ately after the McKINLEY bill became
a law, has been maintained, and to-
day the masses are paying an average
of 20 per cent more for their goods,
than before the passage of that meas-
ure. The total aggregate advance on
articles effected by the tariff, is given
at $1,100,000,000,—one billion, one hun-
dred million dollars. This is what the
consumers, the farmer,the workingman
and others, have been compelled to pay
to enrich somebody else. It is the
price of a business boom, that was to
benefit all, and largely benefit the
workingman. Has it done it? Does
any reader of the WarcemMan know of
any laboring man now in the emgloy
of any protected industry, who is re-
ceiving higher wages to day than was
paid him before the provisions of the
MeKiniey bill went into effect? Is
there any one of them who is not pay-
ing more for the clothing he wears or
the food he buys, outside of flour and
fruit, than he did before? Has the
demand for labor been increased, or
the opportunities for making an hon:
est living been multiplied ?
These are honest questions that we
| ask you to answer for yourselves, honest
{1ly. For your own welfare you should
| consider them without political bias. It
: 18 you, Mr. Farmer and Mr. Working-
, man, who are interested in them. Ti
is you who have been closing vour eyes
' to the other villianies and wrongs of
the Republican party, in the belief that
their tariff ideas were best calculated to
benefit yon. You have tried these.
| You are experiencing their workings
now. Their effects are seen all over
"the country—no increase”in the price
| of farm products and less wages and
less work for the workingman, the re.
“sult. Will you be fooled longer ?
Rather Inconsistent.
The latest kink of the Republicans
is an attempt to prejudice the farmers
against the Democratic candidate for
Auditor General, on the ground, that
last winter he appeared as counsel be-
fore a committee of the Senate, and
spoke in opposition to one of the pro-
visions of the Granger Tax-bill. They
do not have the honesty to tell the ex-
act truth, but attempt to leave the im-
pression that he was opposing not only
certain provisions of that bill, but its
purposes as well. There is a very ma-
terial difference between opposition
to the equalization of waxation, and op-
position to a certain method of bring-
ing about that equalization. The one
may be right, the other entirely wrong.
Mr. WricHT, like thousands of other
citizens of this Commonwealth, and as
afterwards admitted by the advocates
of the measure themselves, believed
that some sections of their bill was
too sweeping. He made an intelligent,
dignified and fair speech, pointing out
how the enforcement of a single pro-
vision proposed, would tax the farmer
{ and people in moderate circumstances
out of all proportion to the taxes im-
posed on others, and what wrongs it
would inflict on certain classes and in-
terests. He gave his objections in an
open, manly conservative way, which
won for him the compliments of the
warmest supporters of the bill. He
did not stop with filing his objections,
but to prove that he was not there op-
posing the purposes for which the meas-
intended, suggested such
amendments as would remove the most
objectionable features, and, as he be-
lieved, ~ecure the passage of the act.
ure was
But a repablican committee. to which
lie -poke, f2aring the removal of the
t ) >
objections urged against the measures,
might be the means of securing its
passage, refused to adopt his su
tions,
gges-
oD
These same amendments were
the floor of the
seuate by a representativeof the grang-
afterwards offered on
ers, and were voted down by a unani- |
mous vote of the republican senators.
Its a queer position for the republi-
can party to take, to attempt to cen-
sure a man for not approving of all the
ideas contained in that bill. The prin-
. ciple objections, not only to the meas-
ure itself, but to the purposes for which
it was intended, came from the repre-
sentatives of that party. Its newspa-
pers were against it, its leaders were
against it, and its influence and power
as an organization was against it. It
had a majority of the members of the
House ; it had almost a two-thirds vote
in the senate and with the power to do
with it as it pleased, it buried it in its
committee of Finance, and substituted
inits place, a measure without any
equalization in it, without any benefit
to the farmerin it and without a sem-
blance to the measure for which the
overtaxed agriculturist labored and
prayed so earnestly.
Do you know, Democrats, that
you never had such an opportunity to
‘wrest political power from the hands
of the ring, in this State, as you have
at the present time. It is not necessa-
ry for you to blow or work to accom-
plish this either. All you have to do
is to go out and vote.
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Financial matters, we are glad
to learn, are not looking nearly so
gloomy in the Clearfield region, and
bank failures, which two weeks ago
threatened to demoralize everything
and everybody, are turninz out to be
the simple failures of those interested
in them, without anything like the ex-
pected losses to depositors that was at
first anticipated. It is now believed
that the total losses of the three closed
banks, outside of those sustained by
their stockholders, will not aggregate
820.000, if it amonnts to anything.
The principle loss to the section will
arise from the coudition business is
left in by the closing of the banks.
This it is to be hoped will soon right
itself, and that in a short time matters
will be running along as smoothly as
Since the real condition of af
fairs has began to come to the surface,
gver,
public sympathy has inrned strongly
to the managers of the diferent banks,
who wi'l be the principle loosers, and
who, it is now known, have been stray
gling for a long time, against a series
of adverse circumstances, to keep their
institutions afloat.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. i
VOL. 36. BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 16, 1891. NO. 40.
| Asking Them to Wait Six Years for
! Reform Needed Now.
Politicians and newspapers, that are
opposing the calling of a constitutional
convention, tell the people that any
changes wanted in the constitution can
be gotten by the simple process of
amending it,in the manner provided for
in that instrument. When they tell
them this they take particular pains not
to say anything about the time it will
take to secure changes in that manner.
The constitution prohibits the submis-
sion of amendments oftener than once
in five years. As the prohibition
amendment was voted upon only two
years ago, there is no way, even if the
Legislature met every year, of allowing
the people to vote on any other amend-
ment before June 1894. But the leg-
islature meets but once in two years,
and as two successive legislatures are
required to recommend, before the ques.
tion could be submitted to the people,
the earliest possible moment that any
amendment could be voted upon,would
be in the month of May, or June 1895.
By the time that vote could be taken,
the session of the Legislature for that
year would be adjourned, and it would
be necessary to wait for the session of
1897 to pass laws putting into effect
any amendments that might meet the
approval of the people.
ple of Pennsylvania are asked to _wait
for any benefits they would derive from
an honest ballot reform. It is to this
date they are asked, to give the law-
yers a chance to make every county
a Judicial district and to fasten upon
them such taxes as will be necessary
to pay this increased number of Judges.
It is to this date, they are asked to
postpone any efforts to secure a right
to have such legislation as their local
interests require or welfare demands.
If there are changes needed, in the
Constitution, they are needed now. If
ballot reform is a good thing for the
State, the sooner it is secured the bet-
r. If local self government is right,
it is wrong to prevent the people the
opportunity of enjoying or profiting by
it, as the present constitution does.
If the people want a change in this
constitution, if they want any of the
bene fits to be derived from honest elec-
tions, home rule and a reputable Ju-
diciary, the time is now and the way to
get it is to vote ror a Constitutional
Convention.
As long as the robbers ring con-
trols the nominations of the republican
party there will be no changz in the
manner of conducting the state offices,
if the ring’s ticket is successful. Jon
BarpsLey was known as “honest
John,” when he was elected, but he
was the creature of a ring—was under
obligations to a ring for his success,
and in return for its support, was com-
peiled to do its bidding. That same
ring has its hand upon the Treasury
fice. It has its candidates for their
places and a vote for either of them is
a vote to continue the domination of
its rule and robbery in Pennsylvania.
Why They Opposed It.
Corporations oppose the calling ofa
Constitutional Convention, believing it
would secure to the people a secret bal-
lot. A secret ballot they fear, would
result in the election of a legislature
that would enact laws equalizing tax-
ation, and putting an end to the dis.
crimination practiced against our own
people in the transportation of their
produets to market.
The lawyers generally are opposed
to a Constitutional Convention because
they favor au increase of the number
of Judges now upon the bench, they
can have the number increased with-
out limit if no change is made, and are
satisfied with the amount of litigation
growing out of conditions existing un-
der the present organic law.
A state of affairs that exactly suits
the corporations and lawyers, is not
the one best suited to the interests of
the people,
The honest man who fails to be
at the polls himself or to see that his
neighbor is there also, on the third
day of November, is simply aiding, by
his action,to cover up the dishonesty of
the State ring and assisting it to main-
tain its hold upon the treasury it has
been robbing, these many years.
It is to this distant date that the peo- |
. rency of neglect of duty in not
of the state and Auditor General's of-
The Black Roll.
Whereabouts of Prominent Pennsylva-
nia Republicans.
The New York Evening Post says:
As disclosure of Republican misdeeds in
Pennsylvania contiaueds to be made
from day to day, and as further investi-
gation of them is probable in the near
future, it has oceurred to us that it
might be convenient for our readers to
have a list of the principal offenders
thus far, together with the charges
against each and his whereabouts at. the
present time, We shall keep the list
on hand and republish it from time to
time with such changes and additions
as may be made necessary by future de-
velopements :
JOHN C. LUCAS.--Formerly Presi-
dent of the Keystone Bank; stole
$997,000 of its funds ; entered into a
speculation, ‘‘deal,” in Reading Rail-
road stock with John Wanamaker,us-
ing the banks funds for the purpose.
Dead.
GIDEON W. MARSH,—Was Cashier
of the Keystone Bank under Lucas,
succeeding him in the Presidency ;
falsified the books to conceal Lucas’
theft, was arrested, and admitted to
bail in the sum of $20,000, John
Wanamaker’s brother being his chief
bondsman, and fled the city before
trial, forfeiting his bail.
Whereabouts unknown.
JOHN BARDSLEY. — Known as
“Honest John” was City Treasurer
of Philadelphia and has confessed to
the charge of embezzlement cf public
funds, between $2,000,000 and $3,-
000,000 of which were sunk by kim in
© the Keystone and Spring Garden Na-
tional Banks.
In the Penitentiary.
THOMAS McCAMANT. — Auditor
General of the State of Pennsylvania,
Shown by his letters to have had
guilty knowledge that Bardsley was
robbing the city and State Treasurer,
if not himself in conspiracy with him.
In office.
HENRY K. BOYER.—-State Treasur-
er of Pennsylvania, went into the
Canadian woods ‘for rest’”” when a
Legislative Committee began an in-
vestigation of the State Treasurer, but
has now returned. ¢
In office.
WILLIAM LIVSEY.—Was Cashier
to Mr. Boyer, in the State Treasuty,
but fled to Wisconsin when the in-
vestigation began ; is shown by let-
ters to Bardsley to have been with
McCamant, possessed of guilty knowl-
edge of Bardsley’s thefts ; has resign
ed his office.
In Canada.
M.S. QUAY.—Formerly State Treas-
urer of Pennsylvania, and while in
State funds for use in speculation ;
was also at one time Secretary of the
Commonwealth, and is said while
holding that office to have taken
$260,000 from the State Treasury and
lost it in speculation, the loss having
been made good in part by Senator
Cameron. Mr. Quay has been absent
from the State since the Investigating
Committee began its sessions.
At Atlantic City, N. J.
; JOHN B ROBINSON-—Known as
“Jack Robinson of Delaware,” is now
Quay’s President of the Pennsylvania
League of Republican Clubs ; appears
in the McCamant-Bardsley letters as
a man who is “after something,” but
who can Le controlled by ‘Dave’
Martin.
In Pennsyleania.
WILLIAM P. DREW. -— Was Na-
"tional Bank Examiner, and was ac-
cused by the Comptroller of the Cur-
T0-
perly reporting the condition on
Keystone Bank ; was removed trom
office, but protests that he is unjustly
accused.
In Philadelphia.
FRANCIS W. KENNEDY.—Was
President of the Spring Garden Na-
tional Bank when iv collapsed ; plead
guilty to indictment for illegal use of
the funds in his charge.
In the Penitentiary.
Francis W., and Cashier under him
in the Spring Garden Bank ; pleaded
guilty to similar indictment.
In the Penitentiary.
GEORGE. W. DELAMATER.—Re-
publican candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania in November last, with:
so poor a record his party refused to
elect him ; after election, failed as a
private banker, and is now awaiting
trial on indictment for embezzlement;
several thousands of dollars of the
county funds were lost in the failure,
. Somewhere in the West.
Since the sober second thought,
of the people of Clearfield region, has
began to assert itself the feeling, towards
| tirely different aspect. It is remem.
bered now, that he wax a good citizen,
hand; that he was always ready to as-
community ; that he has extended a
helping hand to many when strngeling
in financial difienlties, and that under
any and all circumstances, he was for
the people of his section and did what
was in his power to advance their inter.
ests. In his hour of misfortune, public
sympathy is gradually turning to him,
office said to have taken $400,000 of |
wy
HENRY H. KENNEDY —Som of
ex-president Dirt, has assumed an en. |
that he gave to charity with a free
sist any enterprise that benefited the
RT ERTS
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Frosts hurt very little in Berks county.
—State Board of Agricuiture'at Clarionson
October 21:
—Pennsylvania’s Border Claims Com mission
met at Harrisburg,
—The street railway from Lebanon to Ann
ville was opened yesterday.
—Annnal Institute of Lehigh County teach
ers at Allentown Tuesday.
—The “Asleep and Awake” theatrical coms
pany busted at Shenandoah.
—Brakeman John Moser lost bath legs; then
his life, under a train at Allentown.
—National Encampment Union Veteran
Legion at Reading last Wednesday.
—Lancaster county farmers’ tobacco crops
are selling like hot cakes on a cold day.
—Street railway magnates from all: parts of
America convene at Pittsburg on October 21.
—The Cambric Fire Brick Campany,. of
Lock Haven, with $320,000 capital, is chartered.
—Carpenter Josaph C. Keath died from a
one-story fall at the Lebanon Industrial
works.
--Father Mathew Total Abstinence Brother-
hocd of Pennsylvania at Williamsport on Octo-
ber 20.
—A Fireman was buried under his engine in
a wreck on the Ridgway and Clearfield Branch
Railroad.
—The cane-rush at Dickinson College
Carlisle, was only a walk-around, punctuated
with college yells.
—Burglars robbed Rubb & Leib’s jewel
store and the post office at Roaring. Branch
Lycoming:county.
—Repair Foreman John Sullivan, on. the
Reading Railroad at Gordo nr. Plane, was run
over and Killed.
—Electric Motorman William Shipley, of
Harrisburg, has died of injuries sustained in
last Sunday’s collision,
—Postmaster Reeser, of New Berlin, Cum ~
berland county, has a well of drinking. water
that has changed to an oil well.
—Nineteen- year-old James Hall was shot in
bed at New Florence by his younger brether,
who was playing with a shotgun.
—Carlisle butchers indignantly. threaten to
sus the Board of Health if it shall insis$ upon ,
the removal of their slaughter houses.
—The anbual session of the Lehigh County
Teachers’ Institute convened at Allentown
with nearly 300 teachers.in attendance.
—The Institute of Mining Engineers, in
session at Glen Summit, visited the principal
mines in the Wyoming Valley yesterday.
—Thres crops of apples from ong tree—
the last one a little too late to ripen—have glad=
dened Abram Killian’s heart at Lancaster.
Barglars carried to a lumber yard and there
blew open and robbed the little safe from the
office of the Rochester House at Ridgway.
~To save a walk of: two squares John I
io umned from a rapidly moving. train at
ethiehem. His injuries will probabi
p y prove
—Constable J. C. Felmel, of East Bangor,
Was mangled and had the top of. his. head cut
off by a train near Miller's, Northampton
county,
—Mrs. Bernard McCaffrey, a widow, crawled
under a car to pick coal at Flendon. A
shifter pushed the car over her, inflicting
fatal injuries.
—DBarclay Hiiborn, of Newton; is in the
Bucks County Jail, charged with, abducting
the 13-year-old daughter of Mrs. lara Ritter
of Newton.
Mm, $10000 pumping station, is planned to
| “Berease the pressure of natural gas in the
mains which supply Conueliswille, Scottdale
and Mt. Pleasant.
—The Board of: County (*samissioners of
. Berks County made new rales, which it is
thought, will stop exoritant: costs piled up by
the Alderman and Coastables.
—The Climax Powder Company's glycerine
factory, mear Williams pout; exploded and
caused a $5000 wreck without seriously hurts
ing any of the 255 employes,
—On Saturday next 00. delegates from
Churctes on the Discinles 31) over America
will begin their annual cenvention in the Firsg
Christian Church, Allegheny City.
—Thomas Green, a Pittsburg liveryman
who had a will drawn up. saving considerable
property to a sister ak Garlisle and a. brother
at York, died before his signature.
—Rev. H. Dickson Lehman, pastor of Christ
United Brethren Church, st Middletown, was
married yesterday to. Miss Elia Deer, daugh-
ter of Charles Deemy af that place,
—A new fifteen-mile railroad, the Susque.
hanna and Buffalo. Coad Line, from. Cook’s
River, near Williamsport, to Trout Run, on the
Northern Central, is-being survayed.
—The veterans: of the Sixth Pennsylvania.
Cavalry, Rush Lancers, spent Monday on the
Gettysburg battlefield and held a reunion al
their monument on. the Emmits burg read.
—A horse and: wagon stolen from H. M:
Shenk, near Manheim, were abandoned near
Lebancn ands recovered, but tive thieves got
away with 8000 eigars stolen: at- the same-
time.
—Goverxor- Pagtison will teday ‘-name-dele-
gates to. attend a national convention to be
held in Evansville, Ind., fom: the purpose of"
discussing the: subject of Western water-
ways.
—Fugitive Linke Parson; who leaped from
& train and escaped frem Deputy Sheriff”
i Zealer, of Lycoming county, on his way to the
i lastern Ponitentiary, has been recapturad at
| Pittsburg.
—A charter was issued yesterday to the
Buffalo and Susquehanna. Railroad Company
of Pottercounty. The length eof’ the road is
twelve miles and the. company's capital stock
| Is $120,000.
| —Alexander Chapple was. killed. and two
others are dying as Rurgettstown, from drink,
| Ing ofa bottle of whisky that somebody had
dosed with stryehnine apd hidden for an un-
' known pnrpose,
—The death of Montgomery Sioan in the
insane asylura at Warren is eansing much
eomment in Pittsbarg. An attendant at the
asylum is accused of having injured Sloan as
to cause his death.
—John Trullani and Frank Hotchi, Italians
living at Consibiokocken, quarreled while at
work, when Kotshi shot his companion in the
' abdomen, inflicting a painful; though not fatal
wound. Kotehi escaped.
—Governor Pattison was yesterday invited
by the Exposition Society at Pittsburg to hold
a reception at the Exposition building
Saturday, which would be known
as Governor's day. A press of other engage-
ments will likely prevent the Gavernor from
accepting the invitation,
on