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.