“ay
= Ink Slings.
—A man of parts—the barber.
—If Chili makes an apology we’ll ex-
hibit it at the World’s Fair.
—The Jersey man who drank indigo
for his grip has been decidedly blue ever
since.
—The slang expression “in clover” |is
decidedly out of season since Wednes-
day’s snow,
—Chili is said to be exceedingly hot
just now. With us chilly is always de-
cidedly the opposite,
— Broken hearts, broken pledges and
broken banks will be characteristic of
the first months of 92.
—Kirrie RHOADES carried away so,
much money last week that the jack
pot “kitties” will have to sleep awhile. :
i believes that what is bad for the Dem-
—New York’s Democratic HILL was
toomuch for the Republicans to get over
and they are now boo-hoo-ing because of
their bad luck:
—Ohio Republicans are beginning to
find out that FoRAKER is a poor sub-
ject on which to pin their faith unless
a brass pin is used.
— The wasp waist is fast going out
and with it the sting of many feminine
lives. Hour-glass forms are no longer
considered fashionable.
— With Noam, BARNUM, FoRE-
paveH and Coorgr all up in Heaven,
Saint PETER ought to know how to get
up a show for every-one.
—As minister Rep has succeeded in
getting the American hog admitted in-
to France, ex-Speaker REED can visit
Paris as often as he desires.
—-The question with the fellow who
has sworn himself against the fair sex,
for one year, is now: Whether to
break the resolution or her heart.
—It was a Lock Haven girl who ex-
cused herself for allowing a policeman
to kiss her, by claiming that it was
against the law to resist an officer.
—If the author of the old saw,
long as the moral law,” had lived in
these times it would have read ‘as long
as the face of a New York Republican.”
—1Tt is not to be wondered al that we
have had freezing weather since last
Saturday. That was the day JoHN
SHERMAN’S boom was turned loose upon
the country.
—1If old mother Eve had had all the
new leaves that were turned on the
1st of January her raiment would not
have been as scanty as the Bible declar-
ed it to have been.
—1If foolish maidens would only for-
get to look before they leap we poor
printers might possibly be afforded the
opportunity of shuffling off the coils of
single blessedness ere long.
—Philadelphia shop-lifters have reap-
ed a prolific harvest during the holiday
crush, but the unfortunates who enter-
ed Wanamaker found the big store
just a trifle too heavy for them,
—When completed the 11th census
will have cost the government a trifle
over eleven cents per capita. Some of
the heads that were taken would tall far
short of that amount if placed on the
market.
—The newspapers report GARZA as
hanging round Texas. If this is so
there’ll be no further trouble from him.
Fellows who are found hanging round
that country are useful only for subsoil
material.
—If UncLE Sam would send the
great JoEN L. and BurraLo BILL
down along the Rio Grande, president
Diaz could rest assured his insurgent
subjects would be brought to time either
with rum or gun,
——If the speech which Mr. QUAY in-
tends making on “Why we should an-
nex Mexico” is to be another of his
brilliant elocutionary hits, we fancy it
will sound to the other Senators like
the steam whistle forty miles away,
—The Republican press is taking
much pleasure out of the fact that Con-
gressman MILLS has returned to Texas
for his health. Claiming that he is dis-
gruntled over his defeat for the chair-
manship. Their comfort is extremely cold
however and it will become frigid when
RoGER Q. returns.
—1It is said that BENNY is opposed to
admitting Oklahoma to Statehood, and
when we look at it from his point of
view he’s quite right. Ere long it will
need a territorial Governor and a few
.othersuperfluities and according to Mr.
PorTER’s census there are a few Harri-
gon relatives yet out of office.
—Narraw minded writers all over
the country are condemning the
KEELEY cure, simply becauseits inven-
tor is making a million and a halfa
year out of his bi-chloride of go!l con-
coction. If they wonld only take into
consideration the fact, that the more
the Doctor makes the greater is the
«vi.euce that our drunkards desire to
reform, we think they would see some
good in the scheme at least, and stop
the vituperative attacks upon a system
which, if it does no good, can certainly
do no injury.
‘as
VOL. 37.
Don’t Tinker With It.
The WarcamaN does not agree with
the Democratic paper, that insist that
congress should proceed at once to pass
' placing iron ores, wool, lumber, binder
amendments to the McKinney bill,
twine, cotton ties, salt etc, on the free
list. It looks upon such a movement as
bad politics for the party, and
ocracy, is banetul in its promise for the
country’s future prosperity. The wel-
fare of the business interests and man-
ufacturing industries of the country
depends, to a great extent, upon the
complete success of the Democratic
party and its well known position on
tariff reform. Any effort or move-
ment, that would jeopardize or make
doubtful that success, no matter what
temporary relief it might promise,
would be foolish and suicidal, and we
feel that those who are entrusted with
formulating the party policy, will not,
for the sake of show, take any chances
that will change the present political
situation, or make the success that is
so certain, in any way doubtful.
Because the great manufacturing in-
dustries of the country are now paral-
ized; because workmen in every State
of the Union are unemployed or re-
ceiving only the most beggarly wages or
because their is no demand or adequate
prices for the products of our farms, is
no fault of the Democracy. These con-
ditions are attributable directly and
solely to an iniquitious' tariff measure,
against which the Democracy voted and
protested in the most earnest manner.
It is because of this condition of af-
fairs that the prospects of Democratic
success, the coming fall, are so encour-
aging. Remove these conditions and
where are we?
The Republicans, having the Senate
and the President, would be given the
same meed of credit for the relief the
manufacturing interests would secure
by placing raw materials on the iice list,
that the Democrats would. Every Re-
publican manufacturer 10 the country
who is now kicking because the past
policy of his party has well nigh ruined
his business, would be back in the party
traces, submitting to the “fat frying”
process, for the benefit of the republican
organization, and in the hope that its
success would perpetuate a high pro-
tection rate of tariff on the articles of
his manufacture, and thus secure him
benefits at the expense of the masses.
It there was any certainty jthat a
Republican Senate anda Republican
President are too blind to see and take
advantage of the situation, and that
these measures if passed by a Demo.
cratic House, would meet with defeat
in a Republican Senate or be vetoed by
a Republican President, it might be
good policy to emphasize the Demo-
cratic position on this question, by
passing them.
But it must be remembered that Re-
publicans are not idiots, even!if they do
many foolish things at times. They
see the drift of public sentiment and
feel the pressure of public demands as
readily as do others. They can shift
their position on any question, as read-
ily as a weather vane when the wind
changes, and we do not have the least
doubt, that with the pressure that
would come from the iron manufactur-
ers for free ore, from the woolen man-
ufacturers for free wool, from the far-
mer for cheaper binder twine and from
the masses for cheaper salt, that they
would accept these proposed amend-
ments to the McKINLEY bill and thus
take the sting outof it as a public
issue. Can we afford to give them this
opportunity ?
To give it them and have it accepted,
is to shift the questions of next fall's
campaign onto issues, the results of
which no one can foresee. It is to
make doubtful that which is now cer-
tain, and to give real tariff reform
a backset which it will not get over for
years and years to come.
If the Democratic position on the tar-
iff must be emphasized and kept before
the public by congressional action, let
it be done in a manly, straightforward
way. Present a bill that will cover all
the questions of a revision of the tariff,
just as we would have it, had we control
of both the legislative and executive
departments of the government. Any-
thing short of this, if action on the
tariff question is taken, will be simply
childs’ play, that cannot benefit the
party and may do it, and through it the
country, an irreparable wrong,
Let well enough slone.
A Recognized Head for & Departm ent
W ithout Brains.
The Rapublican Supreme Court has
put back into the!lschool department,
Dr. D. J. WALLER, Jr.,as Superinten”
dent of Public Instruction. He is the
official whom Governor PATTISON re-
fused to commission, and appointed in
his place Z. X. SNYDER, of Indiana
county. The case was carried to the
courts, the Dauphin county Judges de-
ciding against WALLER's claim, but the
decision of the Supreme Bench reverses
that action, and places him in charge.
We don’t know that it matters much
who isat the head of the School De
partment, for all the good the state de-
rives from it. In the recent investiga-
tions as to the loss of the state’s mon-
ey through BarpsLey and the Repub-
lican Auditor General and State Treas-
urer’s manipulations, as well as in those
made by the Senate committee into
the school book trust, it was pretty
conclusivelv shown that the chaps
who have been running that office,
knew about as much about the duties
of the place or the requirements of
their positions, as a goose does of En-
glish grammar. About all the use, the
evidence given shown it to be of, was
to construe the school laws in the inter-
est of the thieves who were robbing
the treasury, and to draw the salaries
allowed officials and clerks.
A correspondent who seems to be ot
an inquiring turn of mind writes to
ask, ‘what the probable size of the
ballot. to be voted in accordance with
the new election law, this fall will be?”
We are sorry we cannot give him the
exact dimensions. Taking into con-
sideration, however, the fact that the
names of sixty-four electors in addition
to those of the state, district and coun-
ty nominees of both parties must be
printed upon it with “type not smaller
than the size known as ‘brevier;” we
judge that it would be considerably
larger than a mules ear, and some-
what less than a horse blanket. Just
how much we do not know.
A Short Legislature or a Liar Some-
where.
When the ever truthful and always
persevering newspaper urdertakes a
matter there is no telling what the re-
sult will be until it is all over. For
two months the daily papers of the
country have been carrying on the
SHERMAN-FORAKER Senatorial cam-
paign, and from the number of con-
versions that haye been daily announc-
ed, to each of the aspirants, the public p
generally has been led to believe that
the Ohio Legislature was made up of
about the same number of representa:
tives, that the Chilean army is of sol-
diers. Starting with the 40 votes that
Senator SHERMAN was said to be cer-
tain of the morning after the election,
and adding to these the number of
doubtful votes that papers in his sup-
port, daily announced as having come
out for him, his vote in. 'caucus on
Wednesday night last, should have
been 364, and figuring Foraker's
strength in theisame way, from the re-
ports given in the papers supporting
him, he should have polled 424 votes.
In place of these figures, SHERMAN had
but 53, and Foraker 38 votes all
told. Now the question with the peo-
ple who were relying upon the reports
of the press is, what has become of the
balance of the Ohio Legislature, or
who was the liar in the case, the
doubtful voter or the ever reliable
press ?
——Philadelphia, that promised it-
self all kinds of unheard of prosperity
in case of the passage of the McKINLEY
bill, has over 400 business failures to
report asa result of its first years op-
erations, - Possibly by the time anoth-
er four hundred of its business enter-
prises “bust” up, ite citizens will
conclude, that a high tariff is net such
a thunderin’ good thing after all.
sn —————
———The wages of steel workers in
the Pittsburg district are downto a
lower point at this time than has ever
been known, since this industry was
first established. While republican
papers still prate of the benefits of pro-
tection, none of them refer to the kind
of protection it seems to be giving the
workingmen, employed in industries
that are supposed to profit by its oper-
ations. “ys
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 8, 1292.
No Capital in That.
And after all we are not to be
disgraced by going into a war with
poor, little, half-starved, sun-scorched
Chili—a government less than half the
size, in population and wealth, of our
own state, and scattered over the earth-
quake debris of all southwestern South
America. We are thankful this hu-
miliation 18 saved us. We have insult-
ed them with forcing upon them a
most obnoxious and disreputable rep-
resentative ; taunted them with their
littleness and weakness ; carried a chip
on our shoulder for months and dared
them to knock it off ; blowedjand blus-
tered and bluffed as if we owned the
earth and could ‘do up” all creation
before breakfast ; and now when it is
over we see what fools we have made of
ourselves, and what a little matter we
were willing to go to war aboat, not
because we /new we were right, but
because Chili was little, and weak, and
poor, and we imagined we could wallop
it with ease.
With us, in this whole affair, there
was neither statesmanship nor manli-
ness. In fact our people went off half
cocked, before they knew anything
about the origin of the trouble, and
without waiting for facts, information
or explanation, tried to make the
world believe that we had been wrong-
ed,and wronged in a way that could
only be righted by showing our ability
to whip a people less than one-eighth
our size.
Since the facts have come out, there
seems to have been much more of the
big school boy business about this mat-
ter, or a settled purpose to deceive the
public with the intent of turning it to
the account of President Harrison,
than is creditable to the administra-
tion.
Whether the purpose was to get up.
a war with Chili, in the hope that it
would bring about a kind of hip—har-
rah—star-spangled—banner, campaign
hat would again carry Mr. Harrisox
into the presidential chair, we know
not. To the unbiased looker on it has
that appearance. If that was the pur-
pose, it has luckily been knocked in
the head by Mr. BLAINE, whose inves:
tigations have shown that.the whole
affair was simply a drunken riot, be-
tween a lot of American sailors, off the
government boat Baltimore, on a spree
in Valparaiso, and a crowd of Chilean
greasers, over the quality of the “Chin-
cua’ they were imbibing, and had
nothing more to do with the American
flag, than the discovery of the North
Pole has with the result of an elec-
tion in Philadelphia.
That the whole thing is over, and
we are saved the humiliation. a war
with such a country, on such slight
pretext, must have brought, we can all
be truly thankful.
A Rather Expensive Experiment.
The new election law which goes
into effect at the coming November
election, in addition to being a most
cumbersom and: doubtful legislative
enactment, will prove one of the most
expensive experiments ever undertaken
by the people of this state. If it works
right, all well. Bat if it proves to be no
improvement on or present system, or
no preventation, efi the bribery and
bull-dozing it was passed to prohibit,
what then ?
The cheapest booth that will fill the
requirements of the law, will cost im
the neighborhood of $8 a piece. At the
November election next year there
will be about 4,500 voting districts in.
the State, and an average of five booths
for each polling place will be required.
That means 22,500 booths ata total
cost of $180,000. In addition to thisthere
will be the cost of guard rails, which
will raise this amount to $200,000.
Then thereis a new ballot box to be
purchased, and we are told that the
commissioners to select the booths and
boxes, have decided on a patent one
manufactured in New Jersey, the cost
of which is $25 each, thus adding to
the above amount $112,000 ; making a
total for fixtures alone of over $300,
000. This expense will be borne by
the State, but all the other added costs,
such as securing the proper sized
rooms, the printing, binding, mucil-
aging and distributing tickets, etc.,
must be paid by the county and dis-
tricts.
Whether the benefits will repay the
outJay remains to be seen.
The Tariff is a Tax.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Perhaps no five words in the English
language so inflame the Republican
journalists as these: “The tariff isa
tax.”
They have denounced the phrase,
derided it, denied it, but it is an argu-
ment in itself that goes to the root of
this whole controversy and it sticks in
the public mind.
But even Republicans are forced at
times to admit that the tariff is a tax,
and to defend it because it is a tax.
Some importers have resisted the col-
lection of the duties under the McKix-
LEY bill, and one of their counts is that
it provides a bounty for the production
of sugar, for which bounty no authori.
ty can be found in the constitution.
Solicitor General Tart, arguing for
the Government, insists that the boun-
ty is only a change inthe method of
“protecting” the sugar producers; a
change from a tariff to a bounty. Re-
viewing our tariff history at some
length, he concludes :
“The principle”’—ot a protective tar-
iff—“thus established necessarily justi-
fies bounties, for in the beginning of
the operation of a protective tariff the
amount of duty levied is bounty to the
domestic manufacturer, and it is witha
view to such a benefit to him that it is
levied. The sugar duties have always
had the effect of a bounty to domestic
sugar producers.’
Whether or not legally the Solicitor
General is right, the court. will deter-
mine, but practically, commercially
and econcmically, the amount of duty
levied is a bounty to the domestic man-
ufacturer,
We refer our Republican contempo-
raries to Solicitor General Tarr for
instruction on this poiat, merely re-
peating what we have said before, that
“the tariff is a tax.”
Ce ——
A Midwinter Night's. Dream.
It was a busy day in Hades. Charon
had known nothing like it since the
year 2800, when the last of Washing-
ton’s nurses were gathered in. But
his toils were almost over, for therays
of the evening sun were falling, faint:
and pale, upon the black waters of the
Styx. The crickets ehirped in the
ghostly meadows. Spectral figures
stalked away in the gloom. The bub-
bles on the river grew darker in the
wan and sickly light, and the shadows
played back and forth on the banks. In
the distance the flames sank lower,
and the imps drew their pokers from
the redhot coals. The wheel ofiIxion
ceased to revolve. Tantalus sat down
on the stone to rest, and the voices.of
the night were heard in the infernal
regions.
Charon dropped wearily upon. the
seat of his boat, while Cerebrus walk-
ed to the river's edge and sympatheti-
cally licked the ferryman’s hand with
his four tongues. Butthe former rais-
ed his head when there camea hail
from the farther shore and paddied his
boat back for a last passenger..
They brought bim down to the bank
and laid him. carefully and tenderly in
the boat. Charon gazed anxiously at
was thin and:as white assnow. The
skin was wrinkled as if with the pas-
sage of centuries. Who was he? Some
mighty King at whose-frown the na-
tions trembled? An illustrious philoso-
pher who had unraveled the secrets of
life? A poet:whose lines had filled the
air with beautiful and: majestic visions?
No, he had been another and busier
one.
The tin plate liar was dead.
Who Pays. the Taxas..
Fromdihe Rural New. ¥orker.
One of the foremost claims. of the Pro-
tectionist is that the foreign.shipper pays
the. duties. If this is true, isn’t it
strange that when famine tnreatens any
country, one of the first means of relief
thought of should: be a diminution or re-
moval of import duties. on food stuffs?
Again, the report of the Treasury De-
partment for the fiscal year 1890 shows.
that 6,100 gallons of eastor oil were im-
ported, valued at $2,610. The duties.
were $5,820: Now, if the . foreign
shipper paid: the duty, is it not certain
that he not only made us a present of
the oil, but gave us besides $2,610 to get
rid of it 2 In 189@imports brought in-
to the United States 664,653 galloas of
spirits distilled from grain, valued at
$4561321 the duties on which were $1 329,-
367. Who paid these duties? If the im-
Possess, they lost mot only the liquor,
ut $873,246 besides,
course, extreme eases, but the truth or
fallacy of a proposition is. generally
more forcibly ath by taking extreme
eases. Will some learned “‘protection-
ist” unravel this conundrum relating to
physic and stimulants.
bt China as Imported. .
i
From the Boston Herald.
It is truly sad to read the descrip-
tion of the new china. procured for the
White House. The pieces all bear the
| insignia of the United States, including
the stars and stripes, the American
eagle with ountspread wings and a
steamer bearing , the words, “E Pluri-
bus Unum.” But the china was all
imported from France, and china is
one of the items in our tariff law which
has for its professed object the protec-
tion of our home industties against
foreign competition and the encourage.
i ment of domestic manufactures. Alas!
the striking:and ancient face. The hair |
These are, of
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Recorder H. C. Lehman took { the oath of
office in Lancaster.
—Iron works in Reading resumed Monday,
after a holiday recess.
—Hazletonians agree not to buy at stores
kept open after 6 p. m.
—Early sown wheat has sufféred greatly in
southeastern Pennsylvania.
—Pittsburgers are about to ship two carloads
of glass to Hong Kong, China.
—Thomas James was killed in the Otto Col-
liery, near Minersville, Saturday.
Reading capitalists will build a big hotel on
the top of Neversink Mountain.
—Mines underneath their houses in Hazel-
ton compelled two families to vacate.
—Mike Labanko made three ineffectual at-
tempts to shoot a» woman in Hazelton.
—The large power house of the electric rail
way near Girardville collapsed Sunday.
Commissioner Acten is the new president of
Lehigh county’s. Board of. Commissioners. \
—The Lebanon Young Men’s Republican
Club has opened a handsome new club hall.
—Wealthy Adam Heister, of Bern, is believ-
ed to be in the waters of the Tulpehocken.
—Epizootic has attacked many horses and
cattle in Lancaster, Berks and Chester coun:
ties.
—Reviewers reported favorably upon a. new
$50,000 bridge across the Lehigh at Catasau-
qua,
—The Irish Military Union will hold its next
encampment, at. Seranton, on August 14, 15,
and 16.
—Pittsburg is soon to have a columbarium,
with 100 cells for the reception of human-ashes.
in urns.
—Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture
will urge Congress to provide a remedy for
leprosy. .
—Coroner. Kaubner, of Reading, has appoint-
ed twenty-eight Deputies thorughout Berks
county.
—Judge Albright says the Allentown Poor
Directors are not entitled to extra pay for ex.
tra services.
—Wooden bnildings are now prohibited in
Reading and Building permits come at half
the old rates.
—After a separation of 52 years, ! William R.
Wilson, of Easton, Pa.,was visited by his sister
from Scotland.
—A quarrel over cards led Tony Barry to
brain George Robinson witha club, onasteam«
boat,at Pittsburg,
—Pennsylvenia Chautauqua stoekholders
met in Lebanon, Tuesday, and will.apply for a
charter on to-day.
—A charter has been granted to. the Indus-
trial Building and Loan Association,of Biooms-
burg; capital, $50,000,
—Honest grocers are protesting:all over the
State over the violations of the vinegar law by
unscrupulous brethren.
—The Democratic Central Association, at
Reading, has scaled down its membership,
which was too large.
—The flames have bez2n driven out of the
most important “workings’ in. the West Le-
high mine at Ashland.
—Rather than go to jail, Ralph Raber a
drummer, married Rosanna Garhan, in the
L ehigh.county sheriff’s office.
—The water in Preston No. 3: mine, near
Ashland, where the dam broke on. Sunday,
has raised 11 feet above the rail.
—The seventh injury he received on the
New Jersey Central proved fatal to James Me-
Williams, baggage master, Easton.
—Manager Walton Nelson, of Licky & Co.'s
piano store, Pottsville; has disappeared. There
is a shortage of $500 in his accounts.
—Burglars, at Reading, shot ara watchman
who interrupted them while trying to rob the
Pennsylvania Railroad tool house.
—While making a raid in. Carlisle, Police-
men Martin and Johnson were Jamned unmezge
cifully by four men in a dark room.
Oil prospectors, now taking:leases near Ohio-
' pyle, Fayette county, hope for as many gushes
as were yielded by McDonald’s fie Id.
—Museum Manager E. Gi Flood, who lef
his freaks andeereditors.in, the lurch at Lane
| easter, has been captured.at Alioona.
—Half fed and poorly suppoited by his fath-
er, young Lewis Sassmsu, of Reading, has se,
cured a guardian to treat him better.
—Four men were peppered by pigeon shoots
ers at Plymouth. One-of them, Hiram Knap-
per, had an eye shotioub of its socket.
—The Burbot. Howse: Protective Association
held its 25th annual meeting, in W atsontown,
Saturday and. elected: E. L. Watchin president.
—The white-tailed: fo > wunker Hill, near
Strasburg, which has for years baffled hunts.
men, has been eatight at last near Quarryville.
—A horse kieked Sergeant Charles Stuffiet
of the Star Clay Works, Mertztown, in the face
and knocked: him through a door. He may
dies
—One of South Bethlehem’s 51 legalized sa~
loon keepers. has sworn that his receipts for
beer alone on 23 days of last month aggregated
$3000.
—Dr. Ruth’s horse ran away near Allen.
town, jamped into the river and drowned,
while the Doctor and his companion swam
ashore.
—Audaeions Thomas *Pord visited a Scran-
ton police station and entered a trumped-up
coraplaint, then stole officer Lewis’ pipe from
his desk.
—Oscar H. Keller’s family of four, at Sum.
mit Station, Schuylkill county, eat twenty-four
terrapins per week on the average the year
around.
—The Lehigh Democratic County Commit.
tee elected Prothonotary E. H. Stine, County
Chairman; J. H. H. Hendricks, Secretary, and
Peter Gross, Treasurer.
—In the state-splitting contest, Thomas Mol-
len, of Pen Argyl, won, he having 42 states in 6
minutes and 15 seconds, Several hundred
dollars were paid in prizes.
—Lancaster officers expect soon to recaps
ture crazy “Baltimore Joe,” who escaped from
among the lunatics while they were being
treated to a concert. ‘
—Larry Reynolds, aged 77, has for half a cen-
tury been a lone hermit in an old stone house
whose foundations are lapped by the Octorara
Creek in Colerair township,
—State Senator Hines expeotsto be the next
Deraveratio Congressman to hail from Wilkes-
.aire, and Major Ridge Wright hopes to suc*
ceed him in the Senate.
—Bank Commissioner Krumbauer, Monday
took possession of the Continental Trust and
Finance Company of Phila. , closed its doors
and’ will apply for the appointment of a rg-
ceiver.