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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—TIt appears that the more we have of
it in the less good we see in it—Pro-
tection.
—A fresh lot of people must be the
Venetians, who never use salt in any of
their food.
—The next time that Bellefonte cele-
brates it will be to rejoice over the elec-
tion of CLEVELAND and STEVENSON.
—The red headed boy js the golden
rod that many maidens seek just now,
The solidago is only a secondary ote
ject.
—The Newport hand-shake is not be-
ing used by candidates. Many of their
constituents take kindly to the milk-
shake, however.
— REID, rats and Republicanism as a
campaign slogan will be just about as
popular as protection, poverty and
PINKKRTONS.
—From the present situation, in En-
gland, between the Queen and Mr.
GLADSTONE we would infer that he is
wearing the pants.
—HARRISON took his campaign up
the country to Loon lake last week, and
ever since there has been a chiliness
throughout that section.
— The French will unearth some new
dance, as a result of the Dahomian war,
and then the old skirt and serpentine
steps will be given a rest.
—We have been waiting for several
days in expectation that some Republi-
can papers wotld blame the switchmen’s
strike at Buffalo on the bright prospects
of Democratic success this fall.
—ZFrom out the pale of political du-
plicity has passed the sticker. It will
be mete that the aspiring candidate take
on an additional adhesiveness and thus
fill the void left by the exit of such a
prominent election factor.
—Philadelphia papers are boasting of
the send off that city gave to the re-
mains of Sailor Rican. As a funeral
town, it may take the cake. But we don’t
hear any blowing about anything that
it’s doing or likely to do for anything
with life in it.
—Dr. RarnsrorD would have the
church take charge of the sale of liquors.
He might put the regulation of the
ballet under the ecclesiastical. jurisdic-
tion also, then the last cellar door on
which so many bald heads back slide
will have been removed.
—The relation between supply and
demand in the commercial marts marks
the rise or fall of the wages paid to the
laboring classes. The subsidy which is
paid, in exorbitant taxation, to protec-
ted industries, is an additional burden
voted on itself by labor.
—Next Tuesday the Republican wire
pullers of Centre county will be in with
their political jumping JACKS attached.
Postmaster FEIDLER, strange enough,
held off his tour of inspection of the
county post offices until last week. How
well they are kept will not be seen until
Tuesday.
—The price of coal has advanced
$1.80 per ton the last six months and is
still going up. Perhaps with wages de-
creasing and the price of necessities in-
creasicg workingmen will come to their
senses before November. Unless a
change soon comes who can picture the
misery that will afflict many American
homes this winter.
—-Kansas grew more than 142,000,000
bushels of corn last year ; one-eight of
the crop of the entire country, and
now it imagines poor sockless JER-
RY SIMPSON ain’t smart enough to re-
present it in Congress. ~The would-
be-legislator should retaliate by steal-
ing some of the fertility of the soil for
his head. Pumpkins always thrive in
corn fields.
-—Mars didn’t turn tail because she
imagined we were so much bigger than
she, but the man who runs her saw the
deplorable condition of American la-
bor, under the high protective system,
and out of sheer consideration for vur
feelings turned his planet away lest
the copious tears of sympathy, which his
good Democratic peuple would have
shed for us, would have caused a second
deluge.
—Since every printing concern
throughout the land is compelled to
compete with the government printing
offices for envelope and label jobs, why
doesn’t Uncle SAM set up a general
merchandise store at every cross road.
Surely his right to deal in such truck is
just as legitimate as it is to take work
away from the printers who are suppos-
ed to stick to him through thick and
thin.
—@Governor BUCHANAN, of Tennessee,
has laid himself open to the abuse of
nearly every American newspaper be-
eause of his pardon of Col. H. Cray
Kina, who shot D. H PosTEN Esq.,
down in cold blood. The gubernatorial
jurisdiction in such cases is absolute,but
it is disastrous to law and order for exe-
cutive clemency to overthrow the ver-
dict of every court of a State,as has been
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VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 19, 1892.
NO. 32.
Where the Blame Lies.
Lock-outs. Strikes. Riots.
Business
stroyed. Personal liberty endangered.
The public peace broken. Bitterness
and bloodshed ! and
Why?
Because of unfulfilled promises, un--
realized expectations, inexcusable de
ceptions and indefensable fraud.
Four years a0 the Republican par-
ty, to secure power, pledged to the
workingmen of the country, steady
employment, increased wages and un-
bounded prosperity if they would vote
for Harrison and protection. Every
factory and furnace and mill and mine
in the country wasjplastered with mot-
toes setting forth the beauties and bene-
fits of protection. Huge transpar-
encies hung across our streets empba-
sizing the blessings that protection
would shower upon the workingman.
Unscrupulous Republican organs as-
sured him that the profits that a pro-
tective tariff was sure to bring would
be divided between and go equally to
benefit employer and emyloyee. Reck-
lass Republican talkers promised from
the stump a prosperity that would
bring plenty and contentment to all
classes. Lying Republican documents
pledged to the country an era of good
times such as had never been exper-
jenced, and such ease and wages for
wor kingmen as they had never before
known. 3
The laboring men of the country
accepted these promises and voted for
Harrr1soy and protection.
Protection came in the shape of the
MoKixiey bill. It aroused hopes of
speedy wealth. It incited speculation.
It stimulated greed. Money was put
into industries that were specially pro
tected in the expectation that enor-
mous profits would accrue. Men rush-
ed into manufacturing enterprises, de:
peading upon a high tariff, more than
a market, for the dividends their in-
vestments were expected to return.
The result was, over production.
The country, hemmed in with a Chin-
ese business wall, could neither eat up
that which it grew, nor use all of the
{implements and articles it manufactur
ed. A billions business condition
came from over-stocked markets, just
as a billious physical condition comes
from an over-gorged stomach.
With an overstocked market, de-
mand decreased and prices fell. To
maintain profits the cost of manufac-
turing had to be lessened. The greed
that demanded special protection of the
government for invested capital took
advantage of its power, and the depres-
gion that followed the inflation of
hopes, if not of business, that the Mo-
KinLey bill brought, was placed upon
labor. Wages went down. Work grew
scarcer. Times harder.
The masses of workingmen are not
thinkers. They reason but little.
They accept promises and expect their
fulfillment. They had been assured of
better times, higher wages, more com-
forts.
These never came.
They did not ask why. They did
not reason as to cause. They only re-
membered the pledges that were made
in the name of protection, and realized
that cheap imported labor competed
for their places @t every turn; that
wages were being reduced at the ex-
piration of every contract; that lock-
oats at one place and stoppages at an-
other, was decreasing the opportunities
for steady work even at the decreased
wages that were paid. and they re-
membered that the tariff still protected
the output of their employer's mills,
just as it had been promised it would
protect the earnings of their wages,
and they acted. :
To that action is mow charged, by
protection organg, the turmoils, riots,
destruction of property and blood shed
that 1s witnessed in and disgraces
nearly every part of the country.
And this is another wrong to the
labor ot this country.
The primary cause of all these evils,
the actual reasons for all these distur-
bances, the blame for all these troubles
is directly traceable to the unfulfilled
promises of the Republican party, and
the unrealized benefits of a protective
tariff.
EE TA ——
— After all there is some good
comes from a Republican boodle cam-
paign. It gets back among the peo-
ple a small percentage of the money,
thonopolists have robbed them of, and
done in this case.
to this extent is a blessing.
paralyzed. Property de-!
Hard to Please.
It is strange how hard it is to satisfy
some people. For years and years,
one of the principle complaints of the
Republicans was that the negroes of
the South were not allowed to vote and
that bull-dozzing and brow-beating,
and frauds of all kinds were resorted to
to prevent them exercising the right of
franchise.
It is different just at this time, and
the great tribulation that seems to
weigh down the enthusiam and over-
burden the hearts of our good Republi-
can friends, is the fact that at the re-
cent Alabama election the negro voted
too much; that there was to much
liberty given him, and that his vote
really determined what party should
have control of affairs in that State.
The truth is, the Republicans were
earnestly in favor of the most unlimit-
ed negro suffrage, so long as they be-
lieved the colored vote could be con-
troled by them in the South as univer
sally as it has been here in the North ;
then when it failed to materialize, they
raised the howl that southern Demo-
crats were depriving them of their
rights, and through jthe use of tissue
ballots, shot-guns ete., were preventing
a fair expression of the sentiments of
the southern darkey. Now that the
Alabama election has demonstrated
that the colored voter of that section,
has independence enough to vote as he
pleases, and that he pleases to vote
the Democratic ticket, there is no end
to the calamities that these same Re-
publicans predict must fall upon the
country, unless something is done to
stay the power of the darkey in the
South, and prevent the colored vote
from swelling the Democratic majori-
ties in that section.
Really, it is difficult to imagine how
this matter is to be arranged to suit
the desires and ‘meet with the ap-
proval of Republican politicians. It
the darkey don’t vote at all, and they
often prefer going to a circus or an 0X-
roast on election day to going to the
polls, the Democrats are denounced for
denying them rights which the laws
guarantee them, and if he does, they
are just as vigorously denounced for
allowing him to vote as profusely as
he seems to have done in Alabama.
CAGE ———
Why?
If foreigners pay the tariff taxes im-
posed by our government, as is persis-
tently asserted by Republican dema-
gogues, why did JonN WANAMAKER,
and other American importers, bring
suit against the government to have
refunded over-paid duties that had
been collected from them on worsteds
and ribbons ?
Will some Republican wise acre an-
swer ?
CASES,
The Wonder is That It Has Hope at All,
We don’t wonder at the doleful ex-
pression that one meets with every
time he looks ata Republican politi-
cian, or at the hopeless efforts of Re-
publican papers to encourage that or-
ganization. If the Democracy was
divided and distracted as is republi-
canism to-day ; if its leaders were sulk-
ing or tugging at each others throats;
if it had a millstone, like the McKiN-
LEY, bill tied to its neck,or a Republic-
threatening, liberty-destroying load,
like the Force bill,fastened to its back,
and all these weaknesses intensified by
the chilliness of a candidate who. is as
frigid as the North pole, and as far
from the people as Kamscatcha 8
from civilization, we would be a dole-
ful looking set too. Under the cir-
cumstances, with but three states,
Vermont, Maine and Pennsylvania,
absolutely certain to endorse the Re-
publican ticket, BLAINE in the back
ground, Pratt in the sulks, Quay
taking care of himself, the Alliance
playing the deuce in the West, the
false pretense of a tarift increasing
wages fully expossed, and every fellow
who couldn’t get an office kicking like
a three dollar gun, it would be a cur
ious condition of affairs, if our esteem-
ed friends, the enemy, were not hope-
less. In fact the great wonder is that
they have the heart to make the effort
at all, and the fellow who pretends
thai he believes the Republican party,
under present conditions, has a show
of success, must have the gall of a
Texas steer to attempt to have others
consider him honest in that belief.
Figures That Do Not Correspond with
y i Facts. :
The principle document the Repub-
lican party expects to depend upon to
sustain its position on the tariff ques-
tion, is the speech of Senator ALDRICH
delivered in the Senate a few days be-
fore its adjournment. It is a long and
labored defense of the doctrine of pro-
tection, and undertakes, by twisting
and distorting facts, to show that the
McKINLEY bill, as now in operation,
only slightly advanced the cost of the
necessaries of life. In this even the
incorrect figures depended upon, fails
to prove his position and the undenia
ble facts stand out, evident to every
one who pays for what he must eat,
that not only does the enforcement of
the Republican tariff system increase
the profits that monopolists gather
from every article, the output of which
they can control, but it adds to the
cost of every pound of food consumed
by the people of the country.
Official tables prove that on every
hundred dollars worth of bread, flour,
eggs, butter, beef, milk, mutton, pork,
potatoes, onions and cabbages, the
price to the consumer has advanced,
on an ayerage, ten per cent and at
times to $20.94. That while the far-
mer, the cattle raiser, the butter mak-
er and truckman has received no
more for what he has produced and
furaished, the people who consume
have paid that much more for the
same amount of thiese articles. In
clothing the increase has been almost
double what it has on food.
And while it has increased the price
of food, clothing and medicine, for the
men whose livelihood is obtained by
the drudgery ot day’s labor, it has al-
most uniformly decreased their wages,
or, if the tariff of itself has not decreas-
ed wages, conditions growing out of it
—a desire for greater profits, the
greed to grow rich quickly, both of
which are the ligitimate offsprings of
the protective system, have; and to-day
in place of being a benefit to the man
who works, whether it be in the mine,
the mill, on the farm or elsewhere, it
has proven a detriment to his success,
an addition to his daily expenditures
and a stumbling block in the way of
his prosperity.
It is these cold facts, that actual ex-
perience furnishes, that Senator ArLp-
ricH'S tariff document is forced to
meet. It can’t change them. It won't
convince a man who has less work
and less wages to-day than he had. be-
tore the McKiNLey tanff went into
operation, that it has been or is now a
blessing or benefit to him. Neither
will the farmer, who receives no more
for the products of his acres, yet pays
increased prices for the implements he
uses, the clothes he wears and the
household goods he must have, be
blind enough to be deceived by it.
The days of a protective tariff are
numbered, as are those of the party
that makes its principles the corner
stone of its belief, and all the ALDRICH
speeches that can be printed from now
until the election won’t save either.
Good Politics.
The fact that a special fund to pros-
ecute a vigorous Democratic campaign
in Illinois, Iowa, and other western
states, is now being raised, is not to be
construed, as Republican papers would
like to have it, as a doubt about carry-
ing New York, or the abandonment of
the fight in that State. It is an evi-
dence of a determination on the part
of the Democracy to make the fight all
along the line, to concede nothing that
is not won, and to take advantage of
situations that have heretofore been
neglected or over looked. In place of
allowing the Republicans to center
their forces and funds in one place, it
will force them to withdraw both
men and money from the doubtful
states in the East, to hold that which
they must have and cannot get along
without io the West. In fact it is a
masterly stroke of political policy that
will scatter Republican hopes as it
must Republican efforts, and assist to a
very great extent in assuring the vic-
tory that every good Democrat is wait-
ing to rejoice over in November next.
~—-Young man do you know that
you are registered. Remember that
if you voted on age last fall, there is
no way under the sun by which you
| can get & vote but by getting your
name upon the registry and paying
your taxes.
Farmers, A Word With You,
From the Butler Herald.
Are you a farmer ? If so ponder over
these facts. The protective tariff on
chilled plows is 45 per cent. The Amer-
ican dealer pays for a certain Standard
chilled plow $5.60. Foreign dealers buy
the same plow free on board the vessel
in port for $5.04.
American dealers pay $4.60 per doz
for a certain No 1 shingling hatchet.
Foreign dealers buy the same for $3.80.
We have before us a list of 78 articles
with similar discrepencies. On 60 of
these|theduty is 45 per cent. Take flat bot
tom] ron ke.t es on which theforeign price
list puts one size at 85 cts. The price.
to the dealer in the United States is $1.40
a difference of 55 cents or ‘an advance
tothe home dealer of almost 65 per cent
over the price to the foreigner. We
only ask the readers to reflect over these
facts: Who isthe English party ? Is
the American protected ? Ifa factory
can make kettles and haul them to a
ship for an Englishman at 85 cents why
shouldn’t an American be sold the same
kettle for 85 cents ? One more question.
Will the farmer continue to vote for a
party whose whole effort is to make
money for the manufacturer ?
Don’t Need a Telescope to See It.
From the Easton Democrat.
The hypocrisy of the Republicans is
manifested when they nominate ‘‘low
tarift’” candidates for Governors in the
agricultural States of the Northwest,
like the free trader, Knute Nelson, in
Minnesota. 1t shows one thing be-
yond dispute, and that is that the Re-
publicans dare not face the farmers of
that State with the atrocious McKinley
tariff. So it seems that what is sauce
for the Eastern goose is not sauce for
the Western gander, this year. The
farmer that cannot see through the dis-
honest ruse should take his protection
glasses off without delay.
Too Busy With His Mouth,
From the Williamsport Sun.
Judge Ewing, of Allegheny county,
appears to talk a great deal too much
with his mouth. In prejudging the
Homestead workmen accused of firing
on the Pinkerton barge on July 6, and
declaring that they are guilty on no
other evidence than that secured from
the newspaper reports, Judge Ewing
shows a spirit of unfairoess that is as
surprising as it is disgraceful. If the
Homestead workmen must look to
such men as Judge Ewing for justice,
they stand a poor chance of being
treated fairly.
One Industry It has Stimulated.
From the Brooklyn Democrat.
The McKinley tariff bill has greatly
stimulated the importation of laborers
into the United States. The number
coming in the year ended on June 30,
1891, was 655,496. The number coming
in the pust year, ended the 30th of June,
1892, was 790,320, an increase of 135,-
000. One of toe curses of high protec-
tion is that it brings such a vast army
of foreign laborers toour shores every
year more than can be employed.
Kolb is Still Bellowing.
From the St. Louis Republic.
Kolb is still bellowing about having
carried Alabama. It is of course just as
easy to claim what one has no right to
as it is to sell land from which the mor-
gage has’'nt been lifted. Mr. Kolb
seems to realize that defeat this time
means obscurity for all time hereafter,
and he very sensibly does his bellowing
before his audience adjourns sine die.
a TS SUITES,
When the Millenium Comes.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It will bea great day for American
politics when the gerrymander is no lon-
ger known, and when legislatures,
Democratic and Republican, will make
apportionments with more rega d to
fair representation of the will of the
people than for immediate partisan gain.
SEER,
Relieves Their Anxiety.
From the Scranton Times.
We know that our Republican friends
will be pleased to hear that a business
men’s Democratic organization 50,000
strong will be organized in New York
this month, because it will satisfy their
anxieties regarding Democratic harmony
in the Empire State.
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Mistaken in the Date.
From the Philadelphia Record- -
The way in which the Republican
leaders persist in pretending that Kolb
was elected in Alabama is a forcible re-
minder of the time when the election in
the Southern States were all held in
Washington.
BE ——————
The “Matrer with Hannah.”
From the N. Y. World.
The attempt to “placate” Mr. Platt
while Mr. Tracy remains in charge of
party politics is about as promising as
an effort to make a horse eat shavings
by placing green spectacles over his
eyes.
ER ARIST
Is Green Enough for Goose Grass.
From the New York Sun.
The man that doesn’t feel that a Re-
publican victory this year means a Force
bill is altogether too innocent, verdant
and childish fcr this oblate spheroid.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A water far inestares Lebanon in the faced
—J. E. Fillinger has been appointed posts
master at Gray's Run, Pa.
—A vigilance committee has been organized
to rid Minersville of thieves.
—Mrs. N. W. Hudson has been appcinted
postmistress at Leonard, Pa.
—The directory just issued gives Wilkesbar-
re a population of about 42,000.
—Six buildings in Hazelton were struck by
lightning one day last week.
—Nearly all the Italian workmen have aban.
doned the Wernersviile Hospital.
—The Neversink Mountain Hotel, above
Reading, was struck by lightning.
—Grasshoppers ate up 600 bushels of oats on
James Ward's farm, near Greensburg,
—Robbers took about 20 suits of clothes from
Israel M. Groff’s store at New Holland.
—Joseph Kuhn's barn at Emaus, Pa. is in
ashes, the work of a stroke of lightning,
—Chambersburg's water supply will come
from a new resorvoir before the snow flies.
—The pleasure of jumping on a freight train
at Birdsboro cost George Francis his life.
—Poter Wise stepped off a scaffold 50 feet
high, near Reading, and landed at death’s
door.
—Samuel Connors fell down a well in Har-
risburg and broke his spine and cracked his
skull.
"—A Lehigh Valley engineer was bumped
out of his cab at Coxton, near Scranton, and
killed.
—Grasshoppers in great clouds infest Bald
Eagle Valley, Centre County,and eat up oats
and corn.
—A swift eurrent in the Schuylkill river .
swept Charles H. Mackey, a Reading lad, to
his death.
—A wager of $100 was laid by H. L. Dale, of
0il City, that he can drive his horse 420 miles
in seven days.
— Two thousand miners and laborers held a
mass meeting at Shamokin to discuss an in-
crease of wages. :
Nanticoke citizens have petitioned Gov-
ernor Paittison to dismiss Colonel Streator
from the Guard.
—While fishing with a drag net ina dam,
near Mt. Zion, George Salem tumbled in and
was drowned.
__A brake lever of a. Pottsville electric car
became loose and broke several of Mrs. Thom-
as Mitehell’s ribs.
— Lancaster County Commissioners have ap+
pealed from the finding of the auditors sur-
charging them $172.
_John Suitani and John Mesar went in
bathing at Johnstown Thursday evening and
never came out alive.
— Judson Wolverton, of Sunbury, a nephew
of Congressman Wolverton, fell off a freight
car and was killed.
—A large stick of timber that he was loading
upon a wagon fell upon George Freeman, of
Tremont, killing him.
—Stepping out of the way of one train, Afton
Sitch, of Shenandoah, got in the path of anoth
er and was cut in two. : ’
—A Philadelphia and Reading train hurled
Miss Kate Smink from a high bridge at Exeter,
causing critical injury.
—The world's Fair Executive Committee
failed to meet in Harrisburg Thursday, owing
to the lack of a quorum.
Twelve Reading boys were arrested last
Thursday for attacking Butcher Morris Marks
and cutting his meat to pieces.
Engineer Frank Brown, of the Philadelphia
and Reading, was overcome by paralysis on
his locomotive at Shenandoah.
Thieves took all their was to take in the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad station at
Jacksonville, Cumberland County.
—A little daughter of Simon Wolfgang,
Woodchoppertown, Berks County, hurt her
knee by fallivg and died of lockjaw.
_A new rule of a Mahonoy City colliery re-
quired the 18 driver boys to hitch their mules
30 minutes earlier and they struck.
— Thinking that sulphuric acid was water
Louden Hain, a Birdsboro carpenter, took a
swallow and had his mouth burned raw.
Dissensions have prevented an organization
of the Mahonoy School Board, and a dissolu-
tion has been asked for by the directors.
Five cattle standing under a tree on B. F.
Bliler’s farm, at Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster Coun-
ty, were shocked to death by lightning.
—The funeral of Miss Annie Exmoyer, of
Reading, who on Thursday, started the kiteh™
en fire with coal oil, occured on Sunday.
— Judson Neyhart killed nine rattlesnakes,
from which he took 103 rattles, on the moun
tains near Trout Run, Lycoming County.
—The Moses Taylor Hospital, founded upon
the income from $500,000 left by the New York=
er, wiil be opened at Scranton September 15th.
—Funds were sent from Harrisburg last
week to pay the troops of the First, Sixth and
Thirteenth Regiments and the Sheridan
Troop. :
—Y.x-Senator Eckley B. Coxe said at Hazel-
ton Saturday that it had been necessary to in
crease the price of coal to pay the miners bet-
ter wages.
—John Detrich and his aged wife, of near
Greencastle, celebrated the 60th anniversary
of their wedding Tuesday. All of their thir.
teen children are living.
—Thirty-six revolvers, three rifles and &
dozen big knives were stolen from an Erie
gun store, it is supposed, by boys who have
gone to fight the Indians.
Justice of the Peace John G. Stauffer, Lon-
donderry township, Lebanon County, was ar”
rested by Uncle Sem's officials for sending ob-
scene matter through the mail.
'—The mother of Mary Engle, the Norris-
town Asylum patient who is critically ill, and
whose relatives are wanted, took her daughter
there from Philadelphia 10 years ago.
—The widow of the late John Nevin Hill, of
Sunbury, has sued the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for $50,000, she claiming that his case
of Bright's disease was caused by an injury
received in a collision.
—A suit to recover $10,000 damage has been
brought in Washington County by Joseph F.
Elliot against Dr. Frank McGrew, because Mrs.
Elliot was killed by carbolic acid administered
by the doctor in mistake. y 5}
—The United States Circuit Court, at Pitts~
burg, last Thursday decided the patent right
ease of Sir William Siemens, of England,
against the Chambers-McKee Glass Company,
of Jeannette, in favor of the latter.
—Railway telegraphers, spurred on by dis-
missal of operators at Elmira, met General
Manager Halstead at Scranton yesterday and
a complete organization of all operators in the
the Eastern States is the possible outcome.
RST OW ry