Ink Slings. — The result of protection is reduc- tion. —$22,000 per day does'nt seemto be a very big cost for protection does it ? —The “speckled beauties’ ‘are no longer caught, they are only talked about. — When you are at the races the most graceful way to drop your money is to let go of it. —GROVER CLEVELAND embodies all that is Democratic and that is why he is so corpulent. —A mixed drink was made the other day when TrEoPHILIUS MINT married GRORGIANA JULEP. —The ornithological construction of our poor old eagle will be discussed from now until November. —Twenty-fiye thousand is a fair esti- mate for the HARRISON majority in Pennsylvania this fall. --The apple tree now furnishes & medium through which everyone has a chance to meet his double. --Being arrested for murder is one of the glories of protection which Ameri- can workmen are treated with. —Protection is the jumping jack of American politics and the labor vote is the string that makes it jump. —The tariff on lumber does not effect the block heads in the ranks of the G. 0. P. or it would never have become a law. —The Democrats who believe in turning the ‘rascals: out will be sure of their ground ‘when they vote for Gen. ADLAI STEVENSON. —The $13 rates from New York to Chicago are not inducing much travel Windy City-ward. The people can board at home cheaper. —Though their doors are locked . to all of the strikers the CARNEGIE com- pany, will be forced to have a few in its blacksmithing department. -—Nothing has been heard of Jack the-Ripper for some time. Perhaps he - has gone into the insurance business, since he was so good at taking lives. ~—The Democracy of N ow York filled Madison Square Garden with 30,000 people, on Wednesday night, to hear the next President and Vice President talk. . —If we are going to have a World's Fair why not have it right ; no niggard- ly policy should govern congress: in ap- propriating money’ to make it a suc- cess. : —Every good musical organization in the land should put a boycot on the HARRISON boom. BEN is not doing the square thing by. blowing his own horn. ~—If CEARLEY Ross and GID MARsH never ‘turn up aguin we may naturally suppose that they ‘were among the in- habitants of the Great Sangir which was swallowed up by the sea. —A man one hundred, and nine years old died in Minnesota the other day and we are patiently waiting for the next issue of the Christain Advo: cate to see if it wasn’t a case of “drink killed him.” —The Homestead workmen have a crude idea now as to what a bayonet election bill would mean, and it will crystalize into an overwhelming senti- ment against the candidate who indorses such a measure. —This man CARTER ain’t related to the little liver pills which have grown | famous in the patent medicine world under the same name though he promis- esto be quite us’ great a purgative to the G. O. P. as they are to humanity. —The rail-road track as a public highway is all right when you are in one of the trains, but when it becomes a necessity to ‘‘count ties,” from one place to another, the danger of a speedy exit from this terrestrial ball increases insurance rates: -—If HARRISON keeps on tooting his horn he will soon become proficient enough to join the Marine band. Then GRroVER can applaud his play when the White House concerts are given. It will be quite a come down for BEN but anything that is legitmate is honor- able. —Of course the CARNAGIE company will be unable to tind workmen to take the place of their 8.000 iocked-out em- ployees (?) Didn't the Republican papers tell us that the McKINLEY bill would insure steady work for all our workingmen, and ' if so, where is 8,000 idle men who are after jobs now ? ~The National Guard of Pennsyvania has brought honor to itself and its State in the manner in which it bas conduct. itself throughout the Homestead trouble. ‘When a citizen soldiery can get into battle armor and en route for a point to which’ it has been ordered in less than ten hours then the need for a standing army is not glaringly apparent. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 37. BELLEFONTE, PA. JULY 22, 1892, NO. 28. Voiceless Senators. Homestead 18 a Pennsylvania town. Ite citizens are Pennsylvania working- men, Pennsylvania tax-payers and Pennsylvania voters. They assist to maintain the state government, and if necessity demanded they would do their share to protect and defend it. The employers with whom they have had trouble are protected manufacturers of Pennsylvania, grown rich on the sweat of the men they have barricaded their works against, and arrogant over the wealth protection has given them. Homestead was a quiet, law abiding village until hired thugs attempted to enter it with.winchester rifles and other implements of death, to carry on war against her citizens. They came with. out authority asa hireling soldiery, to usurp the power of Pennsylvania's peace officers, and deal death to Pennsylva- nia’s citizens. They were the creatures of one man,who,to carry out his own be- hest, set aside its laws, disregarded its officials, violated its statutes and inau- gurated and carried on war for the pe- riod of one day. Six citizens of the state were killed— many were wounded, and peace with- in her bofders was broken. Pennsylyania has two Republican United State Senators at Washington, They were elected by the aid of the votes of the workingmen at Homestead, whom the PINkEerTON invadersattacked, and the workingmen of other sections of the state. They knew that their state had been invaded by an armed mob from without,and that her citizens —their constituents—had been shot down like 'so many wild beasts, aud her laws and officials treated as if they were naught. A resolution of inquiry into the out- rage was offered by a Democratic Sen- ator from a distant Commonwealth. What had Pennsylvania's Senators ‘to say in defence of Pennsylvania's honor, or in sympathy with Pennsylvania's ‘workingmen ? ‘What word of comfort, of explanation, or excuse had either CAMERON or QUAY, for the men whose | votes placed them where they are and whose support has for so many years fastened Republican rule upon Penn- : sylvania ? : Can or will the workingmen of Home- | stead and their brother laborers throughout other sections of the state | forget, that the only words of condem- nation for the outrage upon them and | the laws of Pennsylvania by PINKER. | Ton thugs, was uttered by Democratic | Senators,—PaLymer and VOORHEES ? | Will they forget that. from the Repub- lican side of the Senate came no ex- pressions but in denunciation of ‘them and in paliation of ‘the brutal work “of this hired gang of assassins? he It 18 in times of trouble that we find our friends. What friendship has Sen- ator Quay, who expects the working- men of the Republican party to vote for Senators and Representatives in November next, who will re-elect him, shown for them in this the hour of their tribulation ? Their wages could be cut down to starvation rates, and he had not a word of sympathy, for them ; their organization could be att.icked by over-protected and arrogant employers, and he had no defence to make for it; they could be shotdown on their own door-steps by a hireling mob of spies and detectives,and he has no voice to denounce the outrage or condemn the crime. He is the representative of a party that deceived them with the promise that “protection,” would secure them increased wages and steady employ- ment—a party that chooses him as its mouth-piece and representative in the United States Senate. It will ask the vote of these working- men again this fall, that it may contin: ue QUAY inthe Senate; and secure con- tinued protection for CARNEGIE and his Pinkerton hirelings. Will it get them ? SC E——— ——SeNaTor WASHBURN indignant. | ly denies that he. is a grain or stock ' epeculator. © Well, we don’t know that | this will elevate him any in the public ! estimation. Any one who thinks he can be a Republican politician, as Re: publicdh politician now goes, and atill maintains his standing, don’t need to trouble himself about the charge of be- ing a speculator. The latteris fully as respectable as the former, Some People Have Rights as Well as Others. Republican newspapers are rolling their eyes in holy horror because Cag: NEGIE's workmen who were receiving large wages, as workingmen’s wages are reckoned, refused to accept a reduction when there was no reduction in the orice of the article their labor produced. To the public, they hold up the $144 per month, that Huea O'DoNNELL Te- ceived as evidence that the most liber- al wages were paid and that he aad his brother workingmen had no excuse for refusing to agree to the reduction de- manded. : These papers seem to forget that the day laborer, the skilled workman, the mechanic and any other employee have just as much right to get all they can for their labor, as has the employer for the article that that labor produces. It was not the liberality of the CARNEGIE com- pany that fixed the rate of pay O'Don- NELL and other skilled workmen in its mills received. It was the value of the kind of work they were competent to do—the worth of that kind of labor in the labor market, and upon this labor, even at the seemingly high price paid for it, the company made its great prof- its and 1ts members millionaires. The earth and all the good things thereon were not made for one man, or one set of men. Labor should have the same right to demand and secure its share of the profits of a common product that capital has. But Repub: licans assume that a workingman has no right to ask for more than'a pitiful living during a life time of labor, and that all the profits.and all the ease and enjoyment belongs to hin whose capi: ta! is invested. They act upon the the- ory that for labor to combine to secure a portion of the profits of its own toilis a conspiracy, while a combination of” capital to reduce the earnings of labor, that its income may be increased, isbut a right that individuals and companies have to manage their own concerns as suits them best. : And just here is ‘where the Home- : stead trouble comes in. Labor has com- bined and stands together to secure as large a share of the profits it produces ‘a3 possible. Capital combined seeks to hold the profits it now has and to take a portion of that which it formerly recognized as belonging to labor. Underthe circumstances what reason has the public to look upon the work- ingmen as wholly in the wrong, or why should the peopla be taxed to enforce the demands of capital at the expense of labor ? There are two sides to this question, and the workingmen'’s course is not the only one that is to be charged with the trouble and cost at Homestead, as’ Re- publican papers would have believe it 18, ; ! A ————— A Doctrine for Fools. Our Republican friends are in a’ pe- culiar dilemma over the effects the tar- iff has on.the wage question. When the labor troubles. first arose and | it was discovered that the osten- sible reascn for them, was the proposed reduction of wages, by protec- ted industries , they were ‘‘quick as a cat” to aver thatthe tariff nad nothing todo with it, and thatthe matter was an entirely personal one between the ‘em- ployer and employee. The congress: ional investigation made public the fact that a couple of hundred of highly skilled workmen at Homestead received from $100 to $250 per month each, and now the Republican press and Repub- lican politicians are troubled to know how they can credit their tariff legisla- tion with this kind of wages, and: not make it responsible for the beggarly rates paid by protected industries to the mass of their workingmen.' Its au in- teresting sight to watch them attempt to wiggle out of the one position in- t) the other. But the cheek of the or- dinary Republican politician has brass enough for anything, and many of them are standing up boldly and pointing to these seemingly high wages as the ef. fect of protection, at the same time they are swearing that this same protection has nothing to do with the general re- duction in wages\that is taking place all over the country. And as the fools are not all dead, there will be doubtless some to believe them. ——There is reliefabeal. Cingress adjourns next Monday. Have Changed Their Tune. This.time four years ago every Re: publican paper in the country was tell- ing the workingmen how a tariff would give them steady employment, and se- cure them good wages. Now they are just as busy trying to make them be- lieve that a tariff has nothing whatev- er to do with wages, and that the labor troubles, that are thicker over the coun- try than hypocrites are at eamp-meet- ings, are due to other causes than a want of protection under our tariff laws. Just what “other causes” they do. not explain. : Whether the workingmen are blind enough to keep believing just as these pap-fattened organs keep preaching, time and results will tell. To the or- dinary man, a promise that peters out in four years, as did the promise of bet- ter times and bigger wages for working: ingmen, appears as a deception that can only be covered up by the greatest amount of gullibility on the'one side, or the most persistent and intense lying on the other. This last we are certain to have. It is the pleasure as well as the province of Republican newspapers to: lie, and they will do it no matter what amount of inconsistency it shows them to be guilty of. Consequently it is not to be thought strange of that they are now attempting to have the masses ' be- lieve just the reverse of what they in- sisted was the facts four yearsago. But are the workingmen fools enough to be gulled again? They voted for “Harrison and protection,” with the idéa that such action was to benefit them. They understood that protection was intended to increase the price of the materials their labor produced, and. of that increase they ‘were promised a share. Their share has not been made visible, and when, under the highest “protection” our industries have had for years, they are obliged to accept low- er wages for thesame, amount of work or if they object, they are written down as “strikers,” violaters of law and an- archists, is it not about time that they gee how they were gulled, land, if they have the manhood they pretend'to have, or the intelligence they have a right to be credited with, cut loose from the party that told them four years ago that the tariff was intended to protect them, and to-day tells them it has no connection with the question of labor or wages. If “protection’ is not to protect the laboring classes, what does anyone but the few ‘who benefit by it want it for? If it is to protect labor, why has it not done 80? 0h These are pertinent questions that each workingman should answer for himself. = 1f he does this honestly and intelligently, there will be no question as to what will be done with Bexyamin Harrison and his tariff for the CARNE- e1Es and PHIPP'S of the country, or of the Republican party and the Pinker- ton protection it offers to workingmen, when the November election takes place. "1 y sm ———— ——When Mr. Millionaire 'Frick, was on the witness stand last week be- fore: the Congressional investigating committee, and’ was asked what the profit of his company on a ton of steel amounted to, he flatly refused to an- gwer, was questioned as to the amount of wages his employees received, he cheer- fully “and promptly replied, giving the amount each man was paid during the preceding month. Now, if there is anything wrong in the pablic knowing the amount of income there is for men who have their money invested in steel works, why isit not also wrong to advertise the pay ot those whose labor produces its. Should the profits of the millionaire be kept a secret and the wages of workingmen' paraded . before the public, in the settlement of the wage question ? ~—Capt. W, H. ANDREWS started on his trip across the ocean in his four- teen foot dory on Tuesday last. Had he waited a short time he might have taken with him what will be eft of the Republican party if these lock-outs, and strikes, and PINKERTON. protection, con- tinues, A fourteen foot dory will be just about the size of the vessel needed to carry the remains of this once great organization to its last resting place, after the deceived, disappointed and dis- couraged American workingmen get an other chance at it. ‘ment on cotton. When a few minutes later he | country. Reduce the Duty. From the Columbia Herald, ] The Carnegie Steel Works enjoy protection to the amount of from 50 to 75 per cent. od They refuse to share this bounty equitably with their workmen, Their political agents in the last Congress rejected an amendment offer- ed by the Democrats making all 1n- crease of duty contingent upon a cor- responding increase of wages. : As the monopolists will not share their bounty either. compulsorily or voluntarily with their workmen, for whose benefit it is claimed that high tarift exists, why not repeal or reduce the duty ? 115 S513 8 ; A bill to this effect passed by the House would be a healthful ; admoni- tion, i bo Will Vote as They Shot: From the Chambersburg News: The employment of Pinkerton Hes- sians to murder within the bounds of Pennsylvania is forever at an end- Law and order will be. preserved but not through a Pinkerton agency which | sent 300 armed ‘thugs to “shoot” down citizens of the State: at the instigation of Carnegie & Co. The Pinkerton Hessians will vote this fall’ as they fought, on the side of Harrison 'and monopoly tariff. They are likely ‘to come out of the next fight in-about the same condition of the one at ‘Home. stead last week.' 1. » ld The Win 8. } | Siig From the Clearfield Spirit. 1 + The Republican . press. has howled continually about the ‘shot gun policy in the south” and annually asked Con- gress to protect the poor black ‘man with the bayonet when his ballot was needed. Now the :. same . moral press upholds the Winchester policy. of “the ;monopolists, who, in their attempts | to force the wage. earners down to the ‘bottom notch in the scale, spill more blood and cause more . suffering throughout the land than all the south- ern outrages (2) of ‘the past twenty years combined. ; 2 Due to Protection. From the Delaware County Record, (Rep.) If by any chancein the world a work- ingman’s wages are increased it is said to be due to protection. Ifhe is. lucky enough to have his wages remain at an ordinary standard that 1s said to, be due to the tariff. "When his wages are re- duced the tariff is said to have hothing todo withit. Somebody ought to be kind enough to explain just where and how a hyfalutin tariff increases the price of labor. The present strike at Carnegi- e's iron works in this state affords an opportune time to demonstrate this beautiful, prismatic hydra headed theory. They Might Use Campaign “Fat.” From the Wyoming Democrat. If the Republican managers want to hold the negro vote this election they would better try to get up a bull move- Having been disap- pointed in the ‘‘forty acres and a mule,” the cotton-patch negroes ‘can- not be expected to keep voting the Re- publican ticket on hoecake with out any bacon.: And present - prices for cotton means dry hoecake for a good many of them. The Only Raised Wages. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It wasa wise man who said some months ago that the only men who have, had their wages increased by reason of the tariff are the Pinkerton guards. A few more experiences like that at Home- stead and’ Pinkerton will be forced to pay fabulous wages or go into more honest business. The Supreme Issues. From the New York Sun. Nevertheless, the truth remains and will remain that the supreme issue of this election is not the tariff, nor silver, nor Chinese civil service, nor anything except free elections everywhere, and white government and not negro 'gov- ernment in the South. His Candidacy Knows No Bounds, From the Providence Journal. The Boston Traveller asks: “Is it Grover Cleveland, of New York, or of New Jersey, or of Massachusetts 27 A glance at the detailed vote of the Chica- go Convention indicates that it is Grover Cleveland of pretty much the whole The Only Right left Them. From the N. Y. World. The Republican organ has an essay on “The Rights of Workingmen,”’ Ac- cording to the protected tariff barons of Pennsylvania the rights of workingmen are limited to taking what wages are offered them and asking no questions. A Very Cold Fact. From the Philadalphia "Herald. It is remarkable that even in this hot weather Mr. Harrison experiences a difficulty in finding some one willing to drive the *‘ice wagon.” Spawls from the Keystone, —Berks County was visited on Sunday night by light frosts... 1 } ‘ —Free text books agitate.Harrisburg’s Board of School Control- . 2 —Barber Jeremiah Simons, of Allentown, is mysteriously missing. —Peter Roby hanged himself in Mercerburg on Saturday. i ~The Carbondale Leader claims a tion of 15,000 for that city. 5 : —A new electric railroad from Weissport to Mauch Chunk is being surveyed. ‘a ‘barn at ‘popula. —Reading is preparing to make its, German Swengerfest next week a great event. —A loaded mine wagon killed Miner Frank McBride near Tower City, on Tuesday. —Thomas H. Greevy, of ‘Altoona, has been nominated by the Democrats for Congress, —The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Com- pany is to erect large repair shops at Wilkes. barre. —Packer No. 1 Colliery, at Shenandoah, idle since last December, resumes work on Mon- day. —Randall Lentz, aged 14, Allontown, died of lockjaw, resulting from a fourth of July acci- dent. : —John W. Tobias, of Harrisburg, had ‘both legs cut off in the Pennsylvania Railroad yard on Saturday. —A champagne bottle exploded in the hands of John Meyer at Williamsport, and the glass cut him badly. . —Wile learning to swim Eugene Kline, aged 10 years, of Easton, was drowned Tuesday in Martin’s Creek* : —Eight-yesr-old Willie McDowell fell and was killed while trying to get a bird’s nest up ‘a tree in Reading. ‘ ’ i - —John Martin had his skull fractured bya stone from a blast at Pomeroy, Lancaster _county, on Saturday last. sit : —The Pennsylvania: Railroad's new line to its Schuklkill County coal fields will: be, open- “ed for traffic on July 25. 2 : Sy: | —1be Pennsylvania Association of Fire In- surance Agents will hold their annual meet ing at Reading on July 20. j=. " —A number of girls charged with stealing silk woith §8a pound from the Reading silk mills were discharged Tuesday. i ~The towboat Jim Wood was nearly blown up at Beaver, the furnaces. igniting a broken gas main which crosses the river. . , . i{i..—One year-old Alfred Dougherty felt out of 1a second-story window at South Bethlehem, on Monday, without breaking a bone. ./=The Germyn (Lackawanna County) Poor . Board charges ex-Tax Collector MicHael Rob- erts with having illegally retained $1600. —Mrs. Michael Clemens, of # Pleasonville, “York County, was found dead in the woods on Friday night, her bod y riddled with bullets. (Four tramps attempted to break into a” ear "at Carbondale, when Watchman. Wills opened -fire on'them.. Two were wounded, one fatally. | —The Reading ‘Iron Company's two blast 'fur naces will go’ ofit of operation indefinitely this week, throwing 150 men out of’ employ- ment. o —Stepping on a banana peel ‘thrown on’ the ‘pavement caused Lottie, a daughter of Levi G. Graham, of Huntingdon to'fall and ‘break her gel) 10-dioq A Ion = '“ZJastice of the Peace Jesse Knox was rob- bed of $341 on the mountain near Uniontown by ‘threé highwaymen, presumably of ‘the Cooley gang. ) Gd Laan ~The dangerous spire surmounting Trinity ‘Lutheran Church, Reading, will be taken down, and ‘a’ new spire will be erected ‘at a “cost of $10,000. ol : —A 15-year-old son of Albert 'Smyser, of Manchester, York County, had several fingers blown off on Monaay by the explosion’ of a dynamite cartridge. ht Ld —The National Retail Jewelers’ Association of the United States was formed in Pittsburg Tuesday, with Arthur 8. Goo?man, of Phila- delphia, as president. ~—Joseph Burker, a miner, was fatally and William Swenk, a laborer, seriously injured by a premature explosion in the mines at Ma- ‘hanoy City, on Saturday. is —The Baltimore and Ohio depot at Hynd- man, Bedford county, was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning, caused by the explosion of a coal oil lamp. Lcss, about $1,600. —Ex-Superintendent John H. Cessna, o Badford, has been elected by the School Board of Logan district, Blair county, to superintend and manage their schools daring the coming term. f3 —Montgomery county's School Superintend- ent reports that thirty of his school districts have either increased the school term, raised the salaries of their teachers, or adopted free text books. —Colonel James Young harvested 117 loads of grain from one field on ome of his farms neat Middletown last week. The loads aver- aged twenty-five dozen sheaves, making about 35,100 sheaves, : —Aged Levi Lessig’s recovery from a cops perhead’s bite on the Rosemont farm, near Reading, is marvelous, in view of the fact that ‘a dog bitten by the same snake swellea to twice its normal size betore death. —A break in the water belt of No. 5 furnace of the Cambria Iron’ company, at Johnstown, on Saturday afternoon, caused a rush of watér into the molten metal. Jacob Marsh, of Cocp- ersdale, one of the workmen standing nearby, was terribly burned, but will recover. ‘ 7 —George Hicks, of Coalmont, Huntingdon county, has a ewe in his’ flock which gave birth to a lamb which has two faces and cor- responding mouths, two eurs and four eyes, one good eye under each ear and at the right place, and two rather dull eyes: in front: and between the two taces. It feeds with either mouth and drinks with both at the same time —Rev. Daniel Sanner, pastor of the German Lutheran Church at Tremont, has consigned the World's Fair officials at Chicago one of the oldest Bibles in existence. It was printed in1537, The Bible was one of the first copies of the translation of Dr.John Eck, professor of Ingolsiadt, Bavaria, from the Latin into the German. A ae —Huntingdon Local News: John Schneider afarmer, just east of town, claimed $1,000 dam ages from the Pennsylvania railroad company * by reason of thé latter corporation encroach- ing upon his land ia the improvement of the road. The matter was given into the hands of viewers, who met on thé premises on Mon- ' day and gave an award in favor of Schneider in the sum of $150. '* —Accounts from the Cumberland Valley go to show large numbers of young rabbits in tat region, greater than have been known there in years. The North'and Bouth Moun- tains are also said tocontain unasual numbers of’ squirrels, especially of the gray species, which are preferred by gunners. The coming tall gunning season in the regions referred ta will be made up of profitable hunts.
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