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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Blue-stockings were au fait in New |
York last week,
— Without the hammock the summer
girl wouldn’t bein it.
—Many of our Guardsmen “would
rather drop lead than shoot dead.
—-The blood thirsty eastern Congress-
men have determined to kill poor Silver
bill.
—“Homestead” will make another
battle cry which will help put to route
the high protection banners. :
—The Prohibitionists may BIDWELL
enough, but the White House will be
knocked down to the Democrats all the
same.
--ADLAI is a scriptural name and
means ‘‘the just.” GROVER is an Am-
erican name and means ‘public office
is a public trust.”
———The Philadelphia youngsters who
ran off to Camden and were married last
week made love knots with their moth-
er’s apron stringe.
--The latest political coup d'etat is
the proposed nomination of IGNATIOUS
DoNNELY for Governor of Minnesota
by the Peoples party.
—The Y. P. S. C. E. was taken into
camp by the Gothamites and every-
place in the city visited except the
Tammany wigwam,
—Better late than never thought
SAMUEL STUTSMAN, the 90 year old
Plumstead man, when he decided to
join the Cleveland forces.
——ZEven tho’ DEPEW and WANA-
MAKER both orated to them, the Chris-
tain Endeavorers have decided to strike
for CLEVELAND next year.
—A Republican campgign without
QuAy would be like a kite without a
tail and Mr. HARRISON knows it only
too well. Thinks MATHEW.
— CARNEGIE’'S workmen are jusi be-
ginning to realize that they have been
keeping up the fires with which Repub-
lican campaigners fry the fat.
—According to BiLL NYE’s latest “a
man is all right when be is fixed.” No
one asked WILLIAM whether the rule
applied to the other sex however.
—BLAINE's letter of congratulation to
FosTER seems so studied that the new
Secretary must doubt his predecessor’s
word as to the cause of its lateness
—An exchange says that one of our
U.S. Senators pays $1800 per month
board at Washington. Will some
statistician kindly figure out what part
of it we pay.
— Perhaps Mr. McKINLEY would
have been better satisfied had a Repub-
lican Congress have been in session to
investigate the practical side of his bill
as shown at Homestead.
—The jagged pane which the small
boy leaves in the church window, as evi-
dence of his sling shot markmenship, is
somewhat different from the pain his pa
brings home from the club.
—If DEPEW had been the G. O. P’s
nominee for Vice Presidential honors
what a glorious opportunity the Chris:
tian Endeavor convention would have
furnished for striking to the hearts of
his country men.
—If half the wind that was shot off
by the home guard on Monday, while
the soldier boys were en route for
Homestead, could have been utilized for
cooling purposes old Sor. would’nt have
been in it at all this week.
—1It is surprising that the greed for
political bumcombe should have led
such an able paper as tke Philadelphia
Press to identify itself with the ignor-
ant class which believes that the N. G.
P. is a’police organization.
—-CARNEGIE has not delivered a lec-
ture in Scotland since the trouble at
Homestead began. The subjects of the
monarchy are not so easily hoodwinked
about the rights of American working-
men as they were three weeks ago.
~—— A propos of Gen. HasriNcs
speeches on home rule, before Irish
audiences, comes the thrilling accounts
of how the women at Homestead bat-
tered the armless PINK ERTON men with
ftockings full of stones. This is entire
ly too domestic.
—1If the New York World's sugges-
tion to arbitrate the Homestead trouble
should be referred to its committee :
McKINLEY, PowDERLY and PATTISON,
the representation would be aboutas
follows: Pattison, the peopla ; Powder-
ly, the working people and McKinley,
the protected people.
~—~When it becomes necessarrto call-
out tha entire Guard of the State to
police a little town like Homestead,
then itis time that the celebration of
any other national holiday than our
own be stopped. Americanism ‘must
indeed be waning if property and lives
are to be jeopardized by a lawless mob
which finds itself in the enigmatical
position of having made the yoke
which it is trying to throw off.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 15, 1892,
NO. 27.
Why Not Arbitration.
In an othercolumn of this issue of the
WacreMaN the figures are given, show-
ing that in the past seventeen years
this State has paid for military expen-
ses, to suppress or prevent riots grow-
ing out of the settlement ot wages, no
less than $865.000: At present 8000
militia are in tbe field for the same
purpose at an estimated expense of
$22,000 per day, which in ten days will
run the total expenses, to the people of
the State for this kind of work, up to,
over a million of doliare.
We prate about our christianity, We
are proud of our civilization. We boast
of our humanity, and there is no end
or bounds to our gelf glorification about
just laws and a perfect system of gov-
ernment, and yet we doobt if there is a
government on the face of the globe,
whether it be civilized or barbarian,
christian or heathen, that in proportion
to its population, has expended as
much of its people’s money or used the
same degree of force to prevent internal
trouble over the wage question, as has
the highly protected Republican State
of Pennsylvania.
And right here comes the question
that it is time our people and law mak-
ers consider, and that is : are there no
means or methods that can be em-
ployed to prevent the necessity of the
entire populace being taxed and the
peace of the Commonwealth disturb-
ed and broken, every time some
greedy corporation wants to reduce the
wages of its workingmen or upon every
occasion that these same workingmen
believe their rights are being trampled
upon or disregarded ?
As stated elsewhere in this paper,
every company or corporation that has
80 conducted its business as to be com-
pelled to call on the State to protect it,
through the power of the militia, was
at the time and is now operating un-
der special pricileges granted by State
laws. To a certain extent they are
creatures of the State. They haye privi-
leges not accorded the individual oper-
ator and presumed advantages, not en-
joyed by individual capitaliste. While
the state has arbitration laws, they re-
fuse to accept their provisions, and this
Homestead trouble is the fourth in-
stance, in seventeen years, in which
they have demanded of the common-
wealth at the expense of its people, pro-
tection against trouble, that a little con-
cession on their own part would have
avoided or that could and should have
been satisfactorily adjusted by arbitra.
tion.
And why not compel them to sub-
mit to arbitration? Why not require
every company, or corporation, organ-
ized or conducted under any general or
gpecial law of this commonwealth, to
arrange its owrt differences with its em-
ployees, or submit them to a fixed tri
bunal for peaceful settlement. There is
no reason or no justice in taxing the
people of the State to furnish troops to
help carry out the dictum of any dom-
ineering bose, or no humanity in a gov-
ernment that establishes and maintains
an army to back corporate monopolies
in their fight to disorganize and op-
press labor.
Governor PaTrisoN has obeyed the
demands of the law in ordering the mi-
litia to Homestead. It was his duty
and he has fulfilled it. But the next
legislature should see to it that no such
duty devolves upon the Governor in fu-
ture cases of this kind, It should paes
an act, making it obligatory for incor-
porated, companies, limited partnerships
or others operating under or enjoying
the advantages of any of the laws
passed for the benefit of aggregated
capital, to submit all differences that
they cannot adjust, with their own men
to sone tribunal created for that pur
pose, and compel them to abide by that
decission.
Such a law might not be acceptable
to arrogant employers like Frick, but
it would eave the people many mill-
ious of dollars in taxes that such men as
he are willing to inflict upon the State,
if it is to continue backing him up in
every dictatorial order he may give, or
calling out he militia every time he
attempts to reduce the wages of those
he employs.
—
—1It is not always that the most per.
sistent strikers succeed in creating the
greatest fuss, For ten years base ball
strikers have been doin; their best, and
they have in all that tim2 fa’ lel t
have the militia called out once. v
The Cost of Protecting “Protection.”
Settling disputes between arrogant
employers and deceived laboring men
by means of the State militia may be
fun for the boys, but its anything but a
laughing matter for those who foot the
bills,
In the past seventeen years the State
troops have been called upon three difi-
erent times to stand between the fury
of workingmen, who honestly believed
their rights were trampled upon, and
the property of those who had former-
ly employed them. In each instance
the trouble arose with firms, companies
or ccrporations that at the time were
enjoying special privileges from the
State, or were the beneficiaries of “pro-
tection” furnished through the custom
houses of the general government.
In 1875 it took 1800 of the state mil-
itia to quell the disturbance caused by
differences between the “protected”
coal operators and their poorly paid
miners, for which the people of the
State paid $110,000. In 1877 it required
9450 soldiers, four months, to protect
property and life endangered by the
contest between the Pennsylvania rail-
road and its employees at Pittsburg, at
an expense to the tax-payersof $710,000.
In 1890 over 900 of the State guard was
ordered out, to stand between Frick
and his employees in the coke regions
of the western part of the State, at an-
other outlay of the peoples’ money,
amounting to $45,000. Ard now we
have 8,000 militiamen under arms, and
to be in service the Lord only knows
how long, and an expense that no one
can now estimate, to prevent the dis-
truction of property and loss of life over
a question of wages that should never
have arisen, and an attempt to crush
out organized labor that cannot be coun”
tenanced.
It is asingular circumstance that in
all the history of labor trouble in this
state, no individual operator or no in-
dustry outside of the specially protec-
ted enterprises, ever made a demand up-
on the State for troops to guard their
property, or asked of the Common-
wealth its militiamen to enforce their
dictum as to wages.
And why should others? If indi-
vidual oapital and unprotected indus”
tries can pay wages sufficient to satisfy
the demands of their workingmen, why
cannot combined capital invested in
corporations enjoying special privileges
under state laws, with the benefits of
tariff protection, do the same?
Is it not rapacious greed that causes
these troubles, and should this greed
be protected at the expense of the pub-
lic?
. RAT LAT ES A ASE.
The New Republican Rallying Cry.
“PiNkERTON snd Protection” ought
to be a popular rallying cry for the Re-
publican masses during the coming
campaign. The two, combined, covers |
their idea exactly of what a govern.
ment is for—the old gray-headed-Fed-
eral idea that “the government should
take care of the rich and the rich could
take care of the poor.” It might be a
gizzard grinding war whoop, for the
workingmen, who possibly thought that
the protection they were voting for
four years ago was for themselves, but
all the same it would represent the en-
forcement of the Republican plan of
protecting them, and leave no doubt as
to the portion they were to have when
the great benefits of tariff taxation was
to be handed round.
Will Hear No Report of That Kind.
The other day three hundred coal
miners who had been in the employ of
a company in which Hon. S. E. Ste
VENSON, the Democratic candidate for
vice president.was a large stock-lolder,
called on him in a body and after re-
turning him their thanks for what he
-had done for organized labor, assured
him of their supportin the coming
campaign. A man might lay with his
ear to the ground until the November
frosts come, a nd they would hear no
auch report from the three hundred
Union printers, who were locked out of
WhaiTELAW REID'S establishement be
cause they belonged to a printer's Union,
Orgsnized labor or any other labor
owes WaITELAW REID nothing.
Reel
——Take the WarcuyaN during the
campaign. It isthe only truly relia
ble Democratic organ in the county.
A Mistaken Idea:
Itis a mistaken idea that ARMOUR,
the many times millionaire boss of the.
beef combine, objected to his attornay
—CAMPBELL--acting as chairman of
the National Republican committee,
because he is opposed to the tariff that
increases the price of the tin he uses
over a hundred thousand dollars per
year,
If Mr. Armour paid this additional
price for doing basiness under a Re.
publican tariff it would be a very for-
cible reason why he, or any other man,
would demand a change. But unfor-
tunately for the people, the tariffsystem
is such that its burdens do not fall up-
on the men who buy tin for useas do
the ARMOURS, to can the products of
their packing houses in, but upon the
people who buy what ArMoUrR and
other canning houses have for sale,
whether it is meats, fruits, vegetables
or anything else done up in tin,
ARMOUR originally paid the tariff
tax when he bought his tin, but he got
it back by increasing the price of every
can of meat he sent out, eo that it was
not he but the consumer of his canned
meats who paid the $100,000, addition-
al that a Republican tariff imposed for
benefit of the tin plate trust.
The tin tax ARMOUR can stand be-
cause he makes his customers re-pay
him in fall for every penny of tariff
the government imposes on the tin he
uses, Consequently it was not this
that caused him to object to his lawyer
—CaMpPBELL—becoming the bell-weth-
er of the Republican flock.
Heisthe head of the dressed beef
combine, one of the strongest, most
soulless and poor-man robbing trusts
that curses the country. It has im
poverished the farmers of the west by
cutting down the price of beef cattle,
until raising stock has been almost
abandoned, except on the cheapest or
goveinment lands of the far west, and
has interfered with the butchers and
small dealers throughout the east, until
to-day he virtually fixes the price, not
only of the beef cattle, the farmers have
for sale, but the dressed meat that every
butcher in the country provides for his
customers. It was the making of this
gigantic combine—built up under Re-
publican auspices and Republican sys-
tems—an issue in the campaign, that
caused the interference with HARRISON'S
plans and left the Republican commit
tee headless.
It is not from men like ARMOUR, that
the Democracy will get assistance in
their fight against the robbing monop-
olies the tariff has built up. They
must look elsewhere for the support
they nged, to the farmers, the working-
man and those upon whom the addi-
tional cost of the necessities of life, fall
as a burden.
—
No Excuse if Protection Protects.
There is one thing that the laboring
men at Homestead and elsewhere
should understand, and that is, that it
the Republican tariff benefits them, as
they said it would when they voted for
Harrison and protection four years ago,
there itis neither excuse nor justifica-
tioa for the strikes and troubles they
are now having.
They have a tariff now on everything
so high that no foreign competition
effects the price of anything they make,
and if they fail to realize the good wa-
ges they expected and the steady work
they looked for under it, it is because a
Republican tariff in no way helps them
and is intended only to enrich the few
at the expense of the many.
If, ou the other hand, they find that
after a trial they have been disappoint.
ed and that protection neither increases
the wages they are paid nor adds to the
demand for their labor, there is but one
plain path for every honest workman
to pursue and that isto turn his back
on the party and the policy that has so
basely deceived him.
There is an excuse for men who are
fooled and outraged once, but to walk
into the same trap again, with their
eyes open, should loose t..em the sym-
pathy and respect of every honest man
in the land.
Will the Homesteads and their
troubles teach workingmen a lesson ? or
will they vote that tariff “protects” la-
bor and that their brother working-
men at Homestead and elsewhere have
no excuse or reason for the course they
are pursuing,
To Thin to Blind Workingmen.
From the Greensburg Argus.
,Tke Pittsburg Leader, with candid
adam, calls upon the heavily protected
iron manufacturers in Pittsburg, “for
the sake of the Republican national
ticket,” to forbear insisting upon ‘a
pauperizing reduction of wages.” “There
ean be no doubt,” the Leader goes on to
say, “as to the workingman’s hon-
est belief that the Republican party
keep’s up his wages, and that if his
wages go down while a national cam-
paign 18 in progress the republican party
i8 to blame for breaking its pledges.”
The Leader seems to be more solicitous
about the effect a reduction will have on
the campaign than it is about the wel-
fare of the workers. But the true lesson
of the present condition of affairs in
Pittsburg will not have been learned
until the workingmen shall have been
convinced that there is no surety of high
wages as a result of high tariffs.
In selling their labor the working-
men have a yearly battle of rates with
their employers, and they get the market
rales without reference ~ to tariffs. The
pretense of ‘protection to labor” isa
fraud, and has always been a fraud.
The tariff gives protection to the manu-
facturer without any guarantee that he
shall divide his bounty with his em-
ployes. They are obliged to make the
best terms they can and resort to each ex-
pedients for self-protection as the unend-
ing contests between those who buy la-
bor ard those who have it to sell have in
course of time suggested.
The bold attempt to pull the wool over
the eyes of the workingman until after
the election should not succeed.
EN
Rights that Should Be Respected.
From the N. Y, World.
Peace reigns at Homestead.
The advent of the National Guard in
full force, under Gov. Pattison’s wise
decision to make the demonstration de-
cisive for law and order, will prevent
any open war.
Now for justice.
The owner of the mills have been
ut in possession of their properly, as
it was right and inevitable that they
shonld be. But—
The workingmen in the Carnegie
mills have rights which the ironmas-
ter iy bound to respect.
They have the right to a full and
free conference over the térms and con.
ditions upon which they will sell their
only commodity, labor, :
They have the right to ask arbitra-
tion if an agreement cannot otherwise
be reached.
They have the right to be treated as
men, not as brutes, or as the mere raw
material of new fortunes.
They have a right to their Union.
On their part, the workmen must re-
spect the law, keep the peace, and re-
organize the equal rights of other men
to labor and to enjoy the fruits ‘of their
labor.
Full justice cannot be obtained
through muskets. There should be a
real peace through compromise or ar-
bitration.
——
How Does the Patriot Like This?
Harrisburg Telegram, Rep.
If the Sheriff of Allegheny county
does his plain duty and finds that he
cannot preserve the peace and order then,
it will be time enough to think of troops.
As yet according to all evidence, the
Sheriff has done practically nothing. It
must not be supposed that Governor
Pattison will be backward in invoking
the aid of the State’s war arm to preserve
pace He informed the committee of
omestead business men and strikers
who called on him that peace and order
must be observed and the law obeyed
and this would be maintained, even if it
required all the force of the state or an
appeal to the Federal Government. The
Governor also intimated to the commit-
tee that the rights to those who are
given work in the mills must be respected
union or non-union, and he would see
that these people and all who obeyed the
law were protected. What more could be
expected of the Governor ? He has done
all that he could do; and he ie abused by
hotheads because he will not order out
the troops and shoot people down when
there is not the slightest occasion for it.
The Pinkerton affair was an incident to
be deplored, but it called for no interven
tion by the Governor. The Governor has
been fair and manly all the way through
this Homestead affair, and public opinion
sustains him.
Matter for Reflection.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
From his castle o’er the sea
Mr. Andrew Carpgsie
Sends a message that will cause ‘em some
reflection,
While the men who made him rich,
Barricaded in a ditch,
Aredying in the shadow of “Protection.”
—
Expensive Fun for Both.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Mr, Carnegie pays roundly for his
shooting at his castle in Scotland; but
he doubtless expects the State to pay
for the shooting at his Homestead in
Pennsylvania. /
A Wh
A Case of Which is Which-
From the Philadelphia Herald.
The wage disturbances that require
tha calling out of the troops, make it a
uestion whether the McKinley or the
orce bill is the real bayonet bi'l,
ES SR AE LE
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Lehighton wants a Board of Trade.
—Penn Forest, Carbon County, wants a post
office,
—Tioga (Tioga County) will have a news-
paper, the Argus.
—Shenandoah wantsa new division of wards
for voting purposes.
—Free text books
Board of School control.
—Wilkesbarre has a Cripples' Association
with twenty members.
—Boyertown’s Colebrookdale Iron Works
have resumed full-handed.
—The iron mines of Macungie and vicinity
have shut down indefinitely.
—The Emerald Beneficial Association is in
convention at Harrisburg.
—Porker Colliery No. 4, will resume with
500 men, near Shenandoah.
—Reading men refuse to work in ditches
and Italians take their places.
Elmer Dougherty, aged 14, of Morristown,
has been missing since June 28. =
—The McDonald oil field's production has
dropped to 20,000 barrels a day. .
—A new electric railroad from Weissport to
Mauch Chunk is being surveyed.
—PFalling coal killed Miner Michael Mitchel
in the Pine Forest mine, St. Clair.
—Carpenter David Dodge fell forty feet to
his death at Avon, near Lebanon.
—The 460 new election booths for Bucks
County will be distributed at once.
—The Calypso Sunday School
convened at Bethlehem yesterday.
—Easton and Bethlehem are the next tobe
connected by an electric railroad.
—Amal gamated Association men at Lancas-
ter have denounced the Pinkertons,
—The State Editorial association was at
Scranton Tuesday on its annual excursion.
agitate Harrisburg's
Assembly
—Carlisle is to have a new Catholic church
with windows from Munich's Art Institute.
—While coupling cars at Scranton, Tues-
day, William Griffiths, a brakeman was
killed.
—~They have had one divorce for every
eleven marriages in Crawford County this
year,
—Traction cars have just reached Wilkes-
barre’s public square by an extension of the
line.
—Johnstown Rest-day Leaguers keep right
on arresting the Sunday sellers of cigars and
candies.
—The State Dental Society will meet, to-
gether with Jersey dentists, at Cresson on
July 21.
—For robbing and almost killing John
Denorin, near Bethlehem, Wiiliam Ehrig was
arrested.
—A Lancaster ordinance fines each organ
grinder or other musician $10 for grinding
his airs.
—Theatrical Managar Edward St. Clair broke
his skull and died after a fali down stairs at
Shenandoah.
—Thomas Powell's 8-year-old daughter play-
ed with matches and was burned to death at
Wilkesbarre.
—The Reading Company’s Merion colliery
at Ashland, resumed operations Monday after
seven week's idleness. :
—While on her way to milk the cows, Mrs,
Henry Kurtman, living near H ellertown,
dropped dead on Sunday.
—Adam Fleishman, Reading, has sued the
Neversink Mountain Railroad for cutting off
his little daughter's leg.
—Edward Hartzell dug an opossum and
fifteen young ones out of astone wall near
Bethlehem last Saturday.
—The Pennsylvania Association of Fire In-
surance Agents will hold their annual meet-
ing at Reading on July 20.
—The body of Clarence Clifton, who had
been missing for some days, was found in
Bushkill Creek Monday night.
—F. Keck, the murderer of the Nipsh fam.
ily at Ironton, has been informed of the date
of his execution, September 8.
—An army of 500 huckleberry pickers un de
asingle employer began their harvest ® on the
Pocono Mountains on Monday.
=The Fourth Regiment and the Governor's
Troop will encamp'with the Denniston] Battery
at Columbia from July 23 to 30.
—In grieffor the death of his wife, Mer
chant Frederick T. Back hanged himself Ito a
bedpost and died at Orwigsburg .
—Miner Thomas Oliver was fatally burned
by a gas explosion in the Storrs shaft, Price-
burg, and others were injured .
—John Dotts, of Norristown, has a team on
his hands, which was turned over to him by
two small boys. He is looking for the
owner.
—William Moyer’s 4-year-old daughter bled
todeath in Towamensing township,” Carbon
county, having fallen and cut her throat on a
glass fruitjar.
—Aged David Klotz, of Mauch Chunk, only
disappeared for a few days to come back and
get out a license to wed his houseke eper,
Widow Lizzie E. Wagner,
—Bert Andrews, of Canton, and Anna Edin,
of Bodines, Lycoming County, were so anxious
to get married that they went to Elmira and
had the knot tied at midnight.
—Al'egations are made that out of the $807
bill for new fire-proof floors in three of Ly-
coming County's public offices at William-
sport, $600 represent the profits.
—Mechanicsburg has, with a bonus, coaxed
away from Howard Centre County, the D. Wil.
cox Manufacturing Company, capital $40,000
which makes “fifth wheels” for carriages, etc.
—One of the Hawn brothers, who tried to
run a Fourth of July train near New Florence
has since died of the injuries which the
conductor and brakemen inflicted upon
him.
—S8amuel Klinard was wounded by the ex
plosion of a dynamite torpedo on the railroa
at Reading. Cyrus Wentzel received 30 days
for placing a torpedo on the track, injuring a
boy.
—The Ingersoll-Sergeant : Drill Company
of New York, will remove its works to Easton.
The National Switch and Target Works, now
in South Easton, will move to a site adjoining
th» Ingersoll plant.
—TheState has chartered the Hyde Land
Company, of Pittsburg, capital $50,000; Lisbon
Coal Company, of Philade[phia, the business
to be transacted in Westmoreland County,
capital $370,000. Josephi Stickney, of New
York, owns 2500 of the 3000 shares.