BY P. GRAY MEEK. jt
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Ink Slings.
—Poor Silver Bill is about dead.
—If time is money how ruthlessly
some people waste it.
—So far the returns fail to show that
Danzer “is init.”
—These bright spring days make leap
year girls more active than ever:
—.How sick the free wool measure
will make poor Maj. McKINLEY.
—One of ‘the features of the Baker
ballot lot is the impossibility of sticking
stickers.
—Tammany’s dumping ground has
at last assumed the proportions of a
Hiv
—How nice it would be if some ore
would only start a presidential boom for
uncle JERRY RUSK,
—The result of the CASCADEN trial is
a disgrace to Philadelphia and a traves-
ty on justice.
—Monopolistic trusts are almost as
disastrous to small concerns as is the
trusts which is synonymousjwith “tick.”
—Now JAY GouLp’s daughter is be-
ing bored with a crazy lover. My, oh
my, how nice it is to be unrich.
— Wonder if there would be enough
of our navy left to bring REID home,
if Jorn BULL should turn his fleet loose
on it.
—1It is scarcely probable that the next
Republican platform will “point with
pride,” to the result of the McKINLEY
tariff bill.
~The truthfulness of Dave HiLv’s
“I am a Democrat” will be seen when
he is given a chance to support the par-
ty’s candidate.
-~The Philadelphia ‘‘incorrigibles’”
are still incorrigible and the Hunting-
done Reformatory management is as
saintly as ever.
--HArRIsoN and QUAY each hada
hatchet in their pockets, at the Mon-
day’s meeting. They both escaped with
their heads however.
«Scandal noising papers are as much
to be despised as the wagging tongue of
a woman who finds naught to talk about
but the misfortunes of her sisters.
—CLAUS SPRECKLES has at last sues
cumbed to the pressure of the sugar
trust and the wise thing to do now is to
have your sweet tooth pulled.
—There are lots of candidates whe
would like to have an office, but their
booms will never be heard until they
fall in line after the campaign is over.
—CLEVELAND stock is ascending so
rapidly that the fellows who were pro-
fessedly for him a few days ago are now
much excited lest he should comé in
first,
—HARRISUN has tried every pretex
imaginable to get up a war, but all to
no avail.. He might undertake to free
“ould Ireland,” while he is going for
England.
—FERD WARD will soon be released
from Sing Sing, but as thers is another
indictment waiting for him it ist’t at all
improbable that he will get to ‘warble
twice” again.
—If, as the Press declares, g Quay is
to die a political death where will a cof-
fin large enough to holdjthe remains and
character both, be found. Surely the
Democracy will have no opposition to
his demise.
—Buffalo councilmen are looking
into Philadelphia's modus operandi:
Chicago has the best example’s now.
The Windy city aldermen have double
discounted their Quaker brethern in
tapping the public tills.
STEVENS and MrrcHELL] have re-
turned from their trip around the world
on their bicycles. We hope Quay and
‘CAMERON won't hear of the good time
they had or they might think wheeling
would be good for them.
—Whilea large number of voters in
Pennsylvania think they belong to the
Republican party, the company they
keep and the result of their] efforts gen-
erally show them to be the property of
one MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY.
~—A good resolution, even it it lasts
but a day, is better than none at all.
Let Republicans who have so often re-
solved to do right, and couldn’t keep
their resolutions more than twenty-four
hours, wait until election morning be-
fore resolving again.
~{Centre county bosses were some-
what befuddled, on Tuesday. When
Danier telegraphs one course and
writes another, to be pursued, surely he
can’t blame his followers for not enact-
ing both. Verily some of them did
pretty near break themselves in twain.
—Some New York legislators are try-
ing to pass a measure prohibiting wo.
men from making public exhibition by
playing base ball, and finding it no go
they limited the bill to apply to red
headed females only. We suppose it
won’t be long uatil Dave HiLu’s cron-
fes will be trying to drive white horses
off the road.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 387.
A Tax and a Most Iniguitous one at
That.
The tariff is “not a tax,” shouts the
protectionists, and then points to the
fact that iron has decreased in
price, since the McKinrey bill went
into operation. True it is that some
kinds of iron have decreased, but it is
also true that some kinds ot iron have
no higher protection than they had un-
der the act for which that bill was a
substitute.
But it is neither the protection that
it now has, nor the want of a higher
protection that some demand, that has
caused the slump in the iron market.
It is the over production of an article,
for which the depressed condition of
the country prevents a demand. An
over supply, and a want of consumers.
Too many furnaces and too few other
enterprises that make a market for
their product.
So far as the present condition of the
iron business goes, it proves nothing in
favor of a tariff, nor does it disprove
that a “tariff is a tax.” Other protected
articles, for which there is a demand,
show,to the blindest bigot, that a tariff
is a tax, and a very direct and oppres-
sive one at that.
Only last week a New York import-
er received a shipment of dress goods
which were billed to him at $2,631.
When it reached the Custom House in
New York, a duty, or tariff of $2,621,
05 was added, making the total cost
$5,252.05. To this when he sells, he
will add his profit of 20 per cent. mak-
ing the goods cost the merchant who
brings them to Bellefonte or elsewhere,
$6,302.56. To this sum, not to the
original cost of the goods, the mer-
chant will add his 20 per cent. "and by
the time the workingman and others,
who must have them to cloth their wives
and children, gets them, they pay $7,-
563.67 for a lot of goods that originally
cost but, $2,631.
Now if there had been no duty, or
tariff, or tax for importing, to pay on
these goods and the importer had add-
ed his twenty per cent. to their origi-
per cent to the amount they cost him, !
the total value of the merchandise
would be but $3, 683.40.
This is what the consumer who pur-
chases to use, could have these goods
for if there had been no tariff upon
them.
The duty was but $2,621.05, but the
importer adds his twenty per cent, not
only to the orininal cost of the goods
but to the duty he pays as well, and
then the merchant adds his twenty per
cent. to the total amount they cost him.
80 that a tariff is a tax not only to the
extent of the duty imposed, but also to
the per cent of profit on that duty, that
every dealer adds, if it is a dozen or
more, until it reaches the consumer,
who pays it all.
A Chance to Win a United States Sen-
ator.
To us it looks as it the Democrats of
the State were loosing an opportunity
that may not be afforded them in
many, many years again, Itis the op
portunity of electing a Democratic
United States Senator.
With the divisions there are ia the
Republican ranks; the disposition
among the respactable and independ-
ent voters of that party to defeat Quay
and rebuke Quavisy; the growing sen-
timent that Pennsylvania should have
different representation in the United
States Senate, from that which has be-
| littled and disgraced it for years, and
the factional fights that have broken
out in nearly every legislative district
in the state, as the result of this sena-
torial question, what is to hinder the
Democrats carrying the next House of
representatives, by a majority sufficient
to make the election of a reputable
Democrat a certainty.
To be sure, it would take, the most
thorough and systematic organization ;
it would take the united efforts of all
our leaders and workers; it would re
quire the harmonizing of fends, and
the designation of a candidate who
would inspire confilence,and devote his
time and energies to the work of suc-
cess. Could these not be accomplished ?
Isthe chance of winning not worth the
effort? Is there no man in the state
who could take the lead in this and
make a hopefol fight ?
It can be done. Let effort be
the
made.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 1, 1892.
Would It be Good Policy ?
If tha public centiment keeps run-
ning as it has been doing, and instruc:
tions to delegates continue to be given,
the HiLr delegates will be an exceed
ingly lonely}lot of people at the next
state convention in Harrisburg.
So far, over two-thirds of the coun-
ties in the state have selected their
delegates, and of the number but two,
those of Polter county, have been in- |
structed for the New York senator.
Butler has named Hiri delegates, but
did it under the guise of instructions
for ParrisoN, and Blair's county com-
mittee named HiLL men, but iostract-
ed them for CLEVELAND, while its coun-
ty convention elected CLEVELAND ad-
hereats and instructed them for the ex-
president. Clearfield’s delegation iv is
said will furnish five votes for HILL and
one for CLEVELAND, and our own coun-
ty is classed as furnishing two Hur
and three CLEviLAND adherents. Out-
side of these we have heard or know
of no other HILL representatives, ex-
cepting a possible ten of Philadelphia’s
eighty-five delegates.
The state convention is composed of
463 delegates. Conceding that of those
to be elected yet, senator HiLn will
have about the same ratio, that he
has of those already chosen, his entire
strength in the conveation will be in
the neighborhood of forty votes, or
less than one tentn of the whole.
Whether the delegation to Chicago,
will be made up in the same propor-
tion, or whether it will be instructed to
vote as a unit, no one at this time
knows.
There is one thing however that our
people should consider very carefully be-
fore going to far, and that is the policy
of tying the vote of the state irrevocably
to a candidate, whom it might be ap-
parent at Chicago, could not unite the
party or secure the support that would
assure success. Pennsylvania's sixty-
four votes may determine the party
nominee. Tied up by instructions,
would compel the vote to be cast for
Mr. CLEVELAND, even if it was appar-
nal cost, and the merchant his twenty |, \ } 0 the most positive and over-
whelming defeat would be the result.
Would it not be the better policy to
express the overwhelming sentiment
of the state, by instructing the eight
delegates who will represent the state-
at-large, to vote as a unit for Mr.
: CLevELAND,and while selecting CLEVE-
LaND district delegates, who would be
honestly and earnestly for him if it
seems at all probable that the] unfor-
tunate differences in New York} can be
reconciled and his election made cer-
tain, allow them the opportunity of
casting their votes for another, ia
case there was no hope of his ultimate
success.
It is a Democratic president we want,
after the November election, much
more than we want the personal suc-
cess of any favorite candidate, in June.
And while this paper would go as far
as any one in the state, to make}iMr.
CLEVELAND, the next president, it
would not hazzard the success of the
party, by forcing him upon the ticket,
unless it could be demonstrated, that
there was at least a possible chance of
harmbnizing the party in his interests,
and of recording a victory in Novem-
ber.
Should Be Returned,
If the Democrats of Lycoming are
wise and the tax-payers of that county
care for their interests, they will return
to Harrisburg, as one of their represen-
tatives, during the next session, Mr. C.
B. Seery of the Jersey Shore Herald.
Mr. SEELY served in the last house and
was known and recognized as one of
the most attentive and hard working
members of that body. In every way
he could serve his constituents, he did
£0, and there was nothing that§Lycom-
ing interests demanded that did not re-
ceive his earnest and untiring support.
He has had the experience of one s¢s-
sion and that is much to one who takes
an interest in legislation as did Mr.
SeeLy. It enables him to do for his
people what a new and inexperienced
person would know nothing about, and
if the people of that county want to
be repres:nted as they deserve to be,
they will not think of making one-term
members of those who served them as
well and faithfully as CaaArLEY SEELY
did.
LLL ubaribe for the WATCHMAN.
| The Democracy Should Win.
| Really if things don’t take a change
! pretty soon there will be every reason
to expect a Democratic victory in Penn-
sylvanianext fall. A party can’t stand
| the constant depletion of its ranks with-
| | out feeling its effects, and since the last
| presidential ‘election there has been a
| gradaal ‘reduction of the Republican
(vote of the state, just as there has
been an increase in the inmates of its
jails and penitentiaries, and its. repre-
| sentation in Canada and elsewhere:
BARDSLEY, a contributor to the last
Republican presidential campaign fund
and a leading light in that party, is in
the Penitentiary. He will have no op-
portunity of assisting HARRISON next
fall, |
MarsH, whose Keystone bank fur-
nished Jorn WaNaMakER with the
boodle, that Quay used to buy boss
MoLavcuLiN's crowd of beauties in
Brooklyn, is hiding in the mosquito in-
fected, lizzard lined, swamps'of Central
America and will be powerless to aid
them at the coming election.
Livsey, who nsed the state's money
for the benefit of the Republican party,
and carried its banner at the head of
the procession while filling his own
pockets, is a fugitive in Canada, and
his services will be lost to that organ-
ization hereafter.
The Mayor ot Allegany and the Re-
publican market clerk of the same
city, who spent their time robbing the
people ‘and hurrahing for ‘Harrison
and protection,”are in jail and wont be
out in time to vote or assists, their old
friends in November.
DaraMarer, who that party tried to
make governor of the state, and who
came nearer gelting the office than he
did to paying his debts or proving him-
self honest, has gone to the Pacific
coast,and will be of no use to Mr. Quay
or his party in the campaign for Hax-
RI3oN’s election.
And so itis all around; a general
depletion ot the Republican ranks, and
a gradual filling up of the penitentia’
ries, jails and places of refuge for un-
caught scoundrels.
What is to hinder the Democracy
winning under the circumstances ?
Deserve It.
It would rejoice us as much to see
Rhode Island go Democratic, as it
would the most expectant member of
the party in that state. For the sake
of the party at large and the good of
the country, we would also like to see
a majority of its Legislature and Sen-
ate Democratic, in order that a Demo-
cratic United States Senator might be
chosen in place of ArLpricH,the Re-
publican, who retires. We expect to
rejoice over the election of a Democrat-
ic governor, but if the fight for United
States Senate fails, it will simply be a
deserving defeat for the party careless-
ness that would allow the ignorance or
negligence of a clerk, to deprive it of
six representatives. There is no excuse
in the first place, for electing such a
clerk, and after heis elected, there is
no possiple excuse for the party, that
neglects its duty in the matter, which
18 to see that its clerks do theirs.
If the Democrats of Rhode Island
fail to elect their Senator, it will be
their own and not the fault of the Re-
publicans.
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A Mistaken Idea.
The Bellefonte WATcaMAN is afraid the Pa-
triotis injuring, or at least not helping the
D:amocratic party by printing some of the
truth about the existing state administration
— Harrisburg Patriot.
The WarcamaN is afraid of nothing
of the kind. The proclivities and par-
poses of the Patriot are too well known
and understood, to imagine for a mo-
ment that its course,conduct or charges,
could hurt the party in the least. It
has made unceasing and bitter warfare
upon the Democratic state administra-
tion, since the day it came into power,
and as a result in every county in the
state that has held a Democratic con-
vention, that administration has been
endorsed in the strongest and most un-
equivocal terms, This does not look
as it there was any reason to fear its
power to hurt,
In this the Patriot is mistaken: —
the Warcuyax has no fear of ita hurt
ing anybody. It only called attention
to the fact that while pretending to be
a Democratic paper, it had entirely for-
gotten that there was a Republican
party in the state or anything to fight ex-
cept a Democratic governor and the
members of his cabinet. This was all,
and while true, we regret that it is so.
NO. 18.
“Gall.”
From the Somerset Democrat.
The Republican silver law grinds
out and turns into circulation paper
representatives of 70 cent silver dol-
lars equal in yearly issue to the value
of the entire silver product of the
country. And yet the organs of that
party have the gall to picture the
President who signed this act as stand-
ing up as the bulwark of “honest
money.”
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Political Proverbs.
From the Detroit Free Press,
Usually the best candidates is them
that don’t want to run for offices.
A fight might rebuse the flesh and
feathers of the American Eagel some.
Pattriotism as a bizness ain't the
thing we are lukin’ fer.
Politicks that pays divvidends is the
most popaler.
Partizan pattriotism ought to be
muzzled.
The Fat is Fried from the other Fel-
lows.
From the Wilkesbarre Leader.
The poor Republicans are afraid the
Democrats are going to flood Rhode
Island with boodle. Little Rhody is
almost exclusively a manufacturing
State. The heads of its great mills will
yield more fat, for “protection’s” sake,
in one year, than all the rest of her
people could raise for any general pur-
pose in two. Fear of Democratic
boodle there is very, very funny.
Because they wont «Recipros,” we Pay.
From the Philapelphia Record.
If Russia should levy a duty of 2
cents a pound on the cargoes of food
which have been donated by this coun-
try to the victims of famine it would
scarcely be a more irrational proceed-
ing than the move to punish Veneze-
uela by taxing every American family
that buys her coffee. As coffee is the
poor man’s drink, and a coffee-house a
citadel of practical temperance reform,
it is easy to see how far the party of
morality and free breakfast tables
makes its practice conform to its theo
ries.
Mast Look to the Poor Laws for Pro-
tection.
From the Philadelphia Herald.
A tariff problem has been presented
for solution in Clearfield county. In
consequence of a shut-down at the
Bloomington mines some six or seven
hundred people are in want of food.
They have had no work for a month,
and the situation is becoming serious.
The overseers of the poor of Lawrence
township have been appealed to, but
as these people have not been regularly
put on the township, the overseers
hesitate about giving them relief. The
tariff having failed to save them from
starvation, should the poor laws step
in and supply the deficiency of the
McKinley act ?
Relief for the Foreigner.
From the New York World.
The jug-handle reciprocity treaty
with Nicaragua. affords an example of
how thes modern conventions untax
foreigners, while our own people go on
paying tribute.
When this treaty goes into efiect the
United States Government will have
made an agreement by which Nicara-
guans may import untaxed horses and
cattle from this country whilst it will
tax our own farmers $30 a head on
horses and $10 a head on cattle. It
will make agricultural and garden
seeds free to the favored foreigners and
will tax its own people 20 per cent. It
will provide free coal for the foreigners,
while it will exact 75 cent a ton from
the citizen.
The Nicaraguan will have free wool
and lumber, while the citizen of the
United States will pay a tax of from 10
per cent. to $3 50 a thousand feet.
The one will have iree and the other
taxed agricultural implements. The
one will be able to fence his farm with
untaxed wire, while the other will be
obliged to pay a tax on his fence wire
of from 45 to more than 100 per cent.
The Nicaraguans will have untaxed
machinery ; the people of the United
States mast continue to pay a bounty to
the producers of ore and to the makers
of pig and bar iron, on the lumber, on
the rivits ana nails ‘and finally on the
finished product.
These are a few of the incidents of a
treaty by means of which commerce is
to be increased through relief granted
to the people of foreign countries. The
protectionists have based their system
on enmity to foreign commerce; and
their pretended reciprocity treaties bear
strong testimony to the fact that they
are at last moved by stress of hostile
public sentiment to mitigate the results
of that enmity. Revenue reformers
would remove the shackles from com-
morce by relieving the people of the
United States; the reciprocity jugglars
shamefacedly confessed their defeat by
untaxing foreizners,
Therefore in the last treaty, as in
those that have gone before it, the bur-
den continues to rest on the people of
this country, while it 1s removed from
the people of Nicaragua.
—1If you ‘want printing of any de-
scription the WaArcHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Reading is agitating in favor of a 60 foot
boulevard.
—Auditors have figured out the debt of
Mechanicsburg to be $15,000.
—Pottstown’s opera house will be remodeled
and improved this spring.
—Two Sohnstown boys went to jail for two
days for throwing snow balls.
—York young women have formed a Maiden
Club for Leap Year purposes.
—State Sanitary Convention at Frte, Tues.
day, Wednesday and Thursday.
—The Grand Jury has practically indicted
Harrisburg for lack of a morgue.
—Berks county has over $23,000 in its treas-
ury, but owes more than $55.000
~M iner James McGuire was fatally impaled
on an iron drill at Port Carbon.
—A limb of a tree he was felling killed EI-
mer Baker, age 18, near Carlisle.
—Hazleton boasts of a 15-yesa-old burglar
and watch thief.—Willie Shaffer.
—Lebancu’s School Board Friday night
adopted the free text-book plan.
—Painton, the York county murderer, says
he wishes that his day of doom was at hand.
~—First Defenders will hold a reunion and
organize permanently at Reading on April 18-
—Reading Councils have refused to tax all
business men in the city for municipal pur-
poses.
~It is likely that the case against District
Attorney McCurdy, at Greensburg, will be dis-
missed.
—With over 8000 tons of pig iron ‘in stacke,
North Lebanon Furnance No. 1, has gone_out
of blast,
—Malignant scarlet fever has killed or
prostrated many children av Congo, Berks
County.
—Andrew Carnegie has offered to give the
borough of Homestead a public library worth
$100,000.
Nicholas Betz, aged 80, was killed and had
both legs cutoff by the Reading pay ear at
Tamaqua.
—Thomas Larensburg was run over and kill-
ed on the Lehigh Valley Road at Easton Tues-~
day night.
—Judge McPherson has decided that it is
proper for Insurance Commissioner Luper to
collect fees.
—~—Crazed by sickness, Mrs. Jonathan Lurch,
an aged woman of Red Lion, York County
hanged herself.
—Lumber and rivermen above Williamsport
are anxiously awaiting the breaking upand
rafting flood.
—Too tired to work in this busy world, John
Katick rested with a suicide’s bullet i in his bo-
dy at Shamokin.
—Mrs. Wm. Vance, a colored woman, of
Kennett Square, Friday celebrated her 180th
birthday anniversary.
—A fourth M. E. church has just ved organ=
ized in Reading with 51 members and Rev. W.
H. Ferguson as pastor.
—John Shomaker went crazy duringare-
vival at York and walked the streets in his
stockings by night.
—Tower City is organizing to prevent a
spread of the supposed small-pox that has
broken out near there.
~4A stray bullet crushed through her kitchen
window and narrowly missed killing Mrs.
Levi Klick, at Reading.
—Professor J. W. Knappenberger, of Mer-
cersburg, has been elected president of the
Allentown Female College.
—Allentown high schocl girls made sponge
cake forthe boys on the day of their gradua®
tion as cultivated cooks.
—A naked lamp exploded in Springdale Col-
liery Mahanoy City, injuring Miners John,
Smith and John Zulinski.
—Milkmen claim that they don’t average a
profit of §2 a day each for peddling their pro-
duct to Reading customers.
—A burglar on a roof. awoke Miss Minnie
Reinoehl at Lebanon, and Minnie’s father shot
his old gun till the burglar fled.
—Arbitrators are to try the $5000 breach of
promise case of Miss Laura Schreiner, of
Tamaqua, against Simon Lowerstein.
—The Standard Machine Company of Phila-
delphia, to manufacture knitting machines
on $25,000 capital, was chartered Friday.
—Marguerite Carey, who a yearago eloped
from Scranton with Edward Carey, now seeks
divorce and suspects her husband of bigamy.
—Wilkesbarre justice has put its heel upon
“indecent exposure” by finding James Burch,
a sprinter of Hyde Park, $10 for appearing in
tights.
—J. Milton Hershey’s clothes were burned
from his body while he was trying to extin
guish a fire in his herb bitters factory at Lan
caster.
—Berks County auditors have compelled
Reading prison inspectors to pay out of their
own pockets for eigars charged up tothe
county.
—Elopement has left Frank Molinski with-
out a wife, a watch or $38 at Hickory Swamp,
and John Glergicie thinks himself so much
lhe richer.
—The first legal battle in the Polish Church
war at Reading resuts in victory for the de
fense. Mrs. Mary Dalmagolski was acquitted
of perjury.
—Burglarsshowed the bad taste to steal 18
gallons of new whisky from Hake’s Cumber-
land County Distillery, and leave a lob of good
old rye untonched.
—Warden Smith of Reading is left in place
by the Court, through other prison inspectors
are warned not to seek elevation at their own
I official hands.
—Three of a gang of six burglars, who have
been bagging lots of booty, were captured at
Mahanoy City. They were James and Michael
Scanlon and Grant Nichie.
—Henry W. Myers and vharles Wepper
were arrested at Reading for conspiring by
forgery to defraud David Yessner out of $1850
by drawing up ajudgement note purporting to
bear his signature.
—The frightened horse of Levi Landis, of
North Lebanon township, Lebavon County,
plunged over a preeipice 20 feet high. into a.
mill dam and was killed, but Lankis escaped
but little injured.
—Leonard Stover, of Bethlehem, has just
heard from William, his brother, who
went to the gold fields 42 years ago and was
supposed to be dead, but has turned up at
Flint, Mieh., worth over $70,000.
—“Tickets I” gruffly called a Jersey Central
conductor to a passenger looking from the
! window across the Lehigh River. “Tickets!
Come, now, I haven't any time to wait for you!”
The passenger proved to be H. Stanley Good-~
win,who runs the road.