BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings,
—Opportunities are golden and that
is the reason so few of us ever get any.
—There is usually a time worn ex-
pression on the face of an eight day
clock.
—To be a man at all times should be
the ambition of every member of the
male sex.
—The man with his pocket full of
“rocks” is licensed to fire as many of
them as he wants to at us.
—It is rumored that old Sor and
the boot blacks are going to form a
Trust for the control of shines.
—The returns from Vermont are not
calenlated to send many thrills of delight
through McKINLEY’S bosom.
—The fellow who tries to make a
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 35.
A Word With the Farmer.
You are a farmer.
Possibly a Republican farmer who
believes in protection. If so, you are
exactly the man this item was written
for.
Your wheat is protected (?) by a Re-
publican tariff to the extent of 10 cents
cloak of his religion generally finds it to
thin to make even a decent gauze shirt.
—We have not yet seen that any of
the monopolist organs have denounced
the original striker, MARCO Boz ZARIs.
--The Republican party in Arkansas
seems to be like GILRoY’s kite. With-
out head or tail it has flown clear out of
sight.
—If decay and rottenness germinate
cholera bacillus then the G. O. P. had
better be run into quarantine imme-
diately. :
- —CorBErT, DixoN and McAv-
LIFFE should be put on. exhibition
along with the rest of the bull dogs at
the next National bench show.
—Pension commissioner Raum will
undoubtedly busy himself with hunting
up new beneficiaries while the Grand
Army encamps at Washington.
—BENJAMIN'S letter of acceptance
was an exceeding lengthy document,
but it wasn’t as long as his tail of woe
will be, after the whole thing is over.
--BLAINE’S determination to make
but a couple of five minute speeches for
HARRISON shows that he understands
the folly of wasting time on a lost
cause.
—Of the Workmen now employed in
the CARNEGIE mills, at Homestead,
eight tenths are American born where
the same per cent. was of foreign birth
before the strike.
—The World: thinks that it is un-
necessary to establish a quarantine for
Philadelphia. It must deem denizens
of the Quaker City too slow to catch
even the cholera.
—It is every Democrat's duty to work
for the success of his party this fall.
- The crisis has come and America de-
mands of her sons that government
which will heal her diseased systems
and restore her prosperity.
—Mr, Peck should have been on
hand at Columbus last fall when Gov.
CAMPBELL called upon Maj. McKix-
LEY to present one workingman’s name
whose wages had been raised in conse-
quence of the latter's bill.
—You cannot be too careful about
what you eat and drink at this time of
the year. The system is run down and
the decay of fall is beginning. It be-
hooves every one to lend a helping hand
to the health of the community.
~—Republican papers are proud be-
cause HARRISON has declared a twenty
day quarantine against cholera and in
order to look after official business has
been compelled to cut short a proposed
pleasure trip. Wouldn't they have
about the same grounds for gratification
every time he signs his pay roll.
—Ifyou don’t believe that Ameri-
cans enjoy freedom in every sense of the
word the last vestige of doubt will be
removed when we tell you that one
week our President sits in the car
which during the following one is used
by cur boss slugger. Imagine CHAR-
LEY MircHELL riding in a car which
Victoria had honored.
—In the death of Hon. DANIEL
DouGHERTY America has lost her great-
est orator and the Democratic party a
man whose unimpeachable judgment
and ability has weilded a mighty in-
fluence over the masses in more than
one crisis. His infant dreams of ora-
tory found their fulfilment in the mas-
ter work of his later years.
--The New Jersey man, who is going
to court to obtain possession of a shark
which another fellew caught after he
had wounded it, may unwittingly open
up an avenue for some juicy tales for
coming generations. If he wins his case
a fish story registration office will have
to be opened, in every community,
where anglers can record the number
of big ones that escaped after they were
hooked.
—The harvest moon is now sailing
serenely though the heavens and the
unengaged summer girl is beaming into
its full orb with a longing that isal-
most desperate. Such a moon, with such !
a1 opportunity, will not appear again :
for four years and she knows if she does
not reap her harvest now by the next |
time leap year comes around she will j
have been relegated to the musty shades
of antiquity. :
per bushel.
Y our barley, potatoes, wool and eggs
are also among the list of protected
articles.
And yet do you prosper because of
good prices?
Your wheat is worth 75 cents a
bushel,
From fifteen to thirty cents less than
it has ever been knowa to sell for.
Your barley brings no better price
than it did when ajtariff on farm pro.
ducts was unheard of. Your wool is
worth less than it was a few years ago
when it was upon: the free list, and
your potatoes bring a reasonable price:
only because of a short crop.
How then does the tariff benefit
you? :
Every thing you buy, that is’ manu-
factured by machinery, is dearer than
it was before this tariff bill was enact.
ed into law, Your farm machinery
and implements, your clothing, blank-
ets and carpets, in fact everything you
must have for your farm, your house
or your family, except sugar —an
article the tariff does not touch
—costs you more than they did before
this bill went into effect. And every-
thing you have to sell brings less than
it did prior to that date.
Is paying more for what you must
buy,and taking less for what you have
to sell, benefiting you ?
And yet this is exactly the situation
you find yourself in to-day, under a
tariff system that you are told protects
the products of your farm, asit does
the output of the manufacturer's mill.
The honest God’s truth is, no tariff
that can be conceived will ever protect
your products or inerease - their price,
It would be impossible to make a pro-
tective tariff that would add one cent
to the price of a bushel of wheat or a
farthing to the value of a car load of
potatoes. It is the rankest deception
and the most unblushing fraud, when
you a> told that it will do so.
You raise more wheat and other
farm products in this country than our
people can use. The supply is greater
than the demand. The priceis always
less here than in any other part of the
world. Consequently no one would
think of shipping wheat or potatoes to
a country that raised more than it need-
ed. :
For this reason you have no com-
petitors to shut out, aud protactive tar-
iffs, which are made for that purpose,
are of no use to you.
What you want and need is 8 mark-
et—a demand for what you have to
sell. Our own country takes what it
needs, but it don’t need all. Other
countries could take all you have to
spare. There are plenty of govern-
ments that do not raise one tenth part
of what they need. They would take
our surplus if we would take their
goods in exchange. This the tarift you
impose upon suchjarticles as they would
bring to us, prevents, and the result is,
that in place of making a market and
a demand for what you have to sell,
the “protection” you are asked to vote
for, only hems you in and makes you
take just what you can get in a coun-
try that has more than it needs of that
which you furnish.
This is the reason your wheat is
worth but 75 cents per bushel. It is
the result of the restricted trade that a
protective tariff is intended to create.
——It was entirely unnecessary for
Mr. HARRISON to write & five. column
letter to show that he would accept
the Republican nomination. His
course before, and the actions of his
friends at Minneapolis, was all the as-
surance any one would want to con-
vince them that he was not only will.
ing, but was terribly anxious to get it.
His letter, therefore, in place of being
one of acceptance, is simply the plea
of a politician, and the personal efforts
of a hungry office holder to hang onto
the position he now fills.
——The WArcamAN office is turning
out better work than ever.” Bring in
your printing and let us make an esti-
mate on it for you.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 9, 1892.
A Waste of Time and Efforts.
The efforts of Republican newspa-
pers, to produce figures, to prove that
under the operations of the McKINLEY
bill the wages of workingmen have ad-
vanced, as was promised, seems to us
a foolish and useless undertaking. If
they are corret in their assertions, there
is no people, any where, better situated
to know it, than the workingmen them-
selves; and if they aie not correct, all
the figuresithey can put together, and
all the assurances they can give, from
this to the election, will not convince
a single laborer that what they allege
is true.
Hap-hazzard statistics, secured from
interested parties and juggled with by
designing politicians, is not the evi-
dence that convinces workingmen of
good times and increased wages. The
condition of their flour chests, their
meat barrels, their clothes closets and
their store accounts, is more positive
proof to them, than any theories or re-
ports that can be produced.
If it were true that their wages had
been increased, by the McKinLey bill,
there would be no reason to tell them
80, in order to convince them. They
would know it of themselves; they
would have every evidence of the fact.
Every pay-day would prove it, and the
increased {comforts their families wonld
enjoy,iwould be witness to the fact.
What folly then, for Republican pa-
pers and speakers, to waste time in
trying to prove, that which furnishes
its own proof if true, and if not true,
that which no figures thatcan be placed
together, will convince those for whom
they are intended of their correctness
and reliability.
Surely this work is a waste of time
and efforts.
Has His Eyes Opened,
“Private” DarLzeLy, who has been
heard in nearly every campaign since
the war closed hurrahing for the
flag, and bellowing about the duty
of the soldier to stand by the Republi-
can party, has had his eyes open-
ed to a thing or to, and is not nearly so
flag crazy as he once was, nor has he
' the same sweet words’ of affectionate
{ praise for the treatment the old soldier
receives at the hands of Republicans.
Experience has taught Private DaL-
ZELL something, and cold facts have
chilled his ardor to no small extent.
He wanted an office, and when he
‘came to ask for it be learned, as he says,
“that Republican love for the soldier
is everywhere a sham and a le.”
The other fellow who never had been
a soldier, never wanted to be and never
would be one, got the office, and Pri-
vate DALzZELL got the pclitical mitten,
and was left to console his dissappoint-
ed hopes in the satisfaction the publi-
cation’ of the following card gave him
“I want it distinctly understood I am Private
Dalzell no longer. I have been ground to
pieces by that name. This love for a soldier is
always and everywhere a sham and a lie. A fat
pocketbook goes farther in a convertion than
a good record as a private. -
“I am done with 1t. I hold any, man my
enemy who ever calls me Private again,
Good-bye, ‘Private.’ Henceforth I am plain
*Dalzell, of Ohio.”
Wouldn't be Much of a Loss.
The State newspapers for the past
week have been discussing the possi-
bility of a failure on tbe part of the
contractor to furnish all the election
booths needed in time for the Noyem-
ber election. They argue that because
there has been but ten thousand, of
the twenty-three thousand needed, sup-
plied up to this time, there may be a
shortage on election day and conse-
quently a failure to hold elections as
the Baker law requires.
While we have no confidence in the
law as it is, and believe that just as
fair and honest elections were held un-
der the old, as will be under the new
law, we have no fear that it will not
receive a fair trial, or that any of the
necessary paraphernalia will not be
ready and on hand in due time.
There is too much money in the job
for the contractors to give it a ghost of
a show of falling, and even if they
should, and this ring-cursed Quay-
ridden State be disfranchised for onge,
we don’t see that there wonld much
cause for crying over the result,
AR EAE
~~Poor BENJAMIN is getting badly
rattled. To think that a deacon in a
Presbyterian church would so far for-
get himself as to send out his letter of
acceptance on Sunday, then for fear of
blue stocking vengeance recalled until
Monday.
No Dodging the Force Bill Issue Now.
As was hoped by the Democrats,
and feared by Republicans, President
Harrison, has had the courage to come
out squarely, in his letter of acceptance,
in favor of a force bill, and in place of
their being any doubt as to the posi
tion of the Republican party on this
question, its candidate brings it up to
the scratch and forces it to stand or fall
in defense of this infamous and liberty
destroying measure.
The courage that actuated Mr. Har-
RISON to this position is at least deserv-
ing of a little credit. It leaves no
doubt as to what the policy of his
party will be if successful, and no ex-
cuse for those who are opposed to such
revolutionary - ideas, for supporting
that party under the plea that the force
bill is not an issue in the campaign.
To be sure Mr. Harrison does not
speak of the measure as a force bill,
None ot his party,who favor the provi
sion of the Lodge act, do. They call
it an election bill—a non-partisan meas.
ure—to secure “free elections and a
fair count,”
It is under this guise, that the peo-
ple are to be robbed of their rights to
vote and hold elections, and that the
entire machinery at the polls is to be
placed under the control of Federal
election officers, backed when Federal
| needs demand with Federal soldiers.
Under its provisions, the Federal
Judges, who are the creatures of a par-
tisan President, appoints, not only the
Judges and inspectors of elections, but
officials to make the registration, and
marshalls and deputies to stand at the
polls and see that only those whom
these appointed registrars place upon
the list, are allowed to vote. From their
decision or the work of these partisan
boards,there is no appeal for the people
whomay be wronged. Their poweris ab-
solute and their determinations final.
No matter how many qualified voters
they desire to disfranchise, they can do
it by neglecting or refusing to register
them; no matter what the result of
the election may be, they count up the
vote and return it to suit their own pur:
poses, and the state courts are power-
less to stay any wrong they may com-
mit, or prevent any fraud they may
‘perpetrate.
And these election officers, named
for the people by a partisan court,
need not be residents of the election
districts or county over which their
authority extends. They may be sent
from any part of the congressional dis-
trict, and are amenable only to the
power that sendsthem. At their back
stands the United States army, required
to respond to any call that the mar
shalls of elections, may make on it,
* And this is called a measure to in-
sure “free and fair election.”
It is the Republican idea of securing
non-partisan election boards and an
honest count.
It is the proposition of the party in
power, to take charge of our elections
and perpetuate its power by doing as
Czar REED boasted in his Pittsburg
speech they would do, ‘control the
elections, count up the vote and make
out the returns to suit themselves.”
If the people are ready for this kind
of work, are willing to relinqu ish all
right to hold their own elections and
havea voice in the selection of their
officiale, the elections in November:
will tell.
H ArrISON’s success means the pas- |
sage and enforcement of the Force
bill and a death blow to the rights
and liberties of the American citizen.
Leaning on a Weak Reed.
It is said that Prarr has been
placated and the Republicans now as:
sert that they will carry New York
without a doubt. It seems to us that
we have an indistinct recollection that
Mr. PraTT, once upon a time, under-
took to carry New York for another
fellow—one Fasserr. The return ta
bles in none of the political Almanacs
give any evidence that that undertak-
ing proved a success, nor does aay
documentary evidence show that
Prarr and Fasserr, combined, carried
that State. Possibly Mr. P's power,
for a man he hates and despises, will
prove greater than his efforts for a
candidate of his’ own choosing, and
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possibly —very possibly it may not. |
At least if we were a Republican we
to bet any money on the victory that
is to come out of PLatt's placation.
wouldn't make fool enough of ourself | quence if the Northwest were safe for
Balancing the Paradoxes.
From the New York World.
No acrobat on a tightrope ever had
a more ticklish task before him than
have the champious of McKinleyism
in balancing the paradoxes of Protec-
tion.
. Their chief organ in this city is busy
in trying to prove :
1." That putting a tax on an article
cheapens it to consumers,
2. That cheapening the product en-
ables the manufacturer to increase or
to “maintain wages.
3. That the cost of food can be re
duced to workingmen, while the farm-
er gets higher prices for his products on
account of a tariff on foodstuffs which
constitute the main part of out ex-
porte.
4. That the foreigners really pay
the duty, though Mr. McKinley, in the
kindness of his heart, taxes them only
$180,000,000 a year towards the ex-
penses of the Government,
It is a very nice piece of tight-rope
balancing which the defenders of tax-
lng a nation into prosperity have un-
dertaken.
EE AIRE
Points With Pride to thejHigh Wages.
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From the,Goshén (N. Y ) Republican. ~~~
Mr. Procter points with pride to the
high wages paid in his Vermont fac-
tory, which are the lowest market
rate, for in the event that his work-
men kick, he knows perfectly that
under our blessed tariff he can tele-
graph and in a few weeks fill their
places with the pauper marble cutters
of Europe, for whose coming our
thoughtful tariff makers have left wide
open the gates of Castle Garden.
Taxes on all the American working-
man uses—and plenty, liberal taxes—
but free trade in all foreign pauper
labor, save the Chinaman, have been
the making of Redfield Proctor, An-
drew Carnegie and two hundred thou-
saad other tarift pets, who, in the name
of American high - wages, have ab-
sorbed into their pocket-books about
70 per cent. of all the wealth of the
United States.
ITER
Ballots vs. Bullets,
From the Texas Siftings.
The Republicans are very fond of
calling for troops to settle every ques-
tion. Their party was born in war ; it
obtained power through war: it has
squirrels. i
voir at Dunmore.
epidemic at Cressona.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Seranton will soon cremate garbage. —
—The woods of Pennsylvania swarm with
—Lester Brady was drowned -in the reser.
—A fresh outbreak of diphtheria has oa-
curred in Chester. Lv
—5..G. Whitaker has; been, appointed poste
master at Felix, Pa.
There is no abatement of the typhoid fever
—Eastern Pennsylvania farmers 1eport a
poor cloverseed harvest.
—A handsome soldiers’ monument was un"
veiled at Mahanov City Monday,
—Thomas k luck and William Riegel, es-
caped from the Doylestown Jail.
—Williem N. Dennis, an Erie ‘bookkeeper,
hanged himself because of illness.
—Frederick Yensen, who was wanted for a
dozen burglaries, was captured in Allentown,
—Little George Miller died from effects of
being run over by a street sprinkler at Myers.
town.
—The annual State Sabbath School Associa«
tion will meet at Lancaster from September 20
to 22.
—Berks County fair, which opened Tuesday,
was rich in fine exhibits and pretty country
lasses. !
—Isaac Docollo fell 80 feet from a railroad
trestle at Conewago and was picked up fatally
hurt.
—Rev. A. W. Spooner startled his Altoona
congregation by calling Adam and Ave Anar-
chists.
—All the larger cities in the State are being
especially cleansed in anticipation of the
cholera.
—Charles Saxton, a Pennsylvania Railrcad
brakeman, was killed at Sunbury, Monday
morning.
—Safe robbers have been working the gener-
al stores of Cumberland, Perry _and Franklin
counties.
—Ardmore citizens are circulating a petition
asking that that town be not incorporated. into |
a borough.
—Scores of Dauphin County farmers have
fitted their homes with ingenious burglar
alarm bells. :
—Austin McMichael, of Philadelphia, was
run over by a train near Reading, on Saturday,
and killed.
—Lockjaw Friday killed Philip Roberts, of
Carnarvon, who had been struck on the head
with a stone.
—A little son of Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder, Hol«
lidaysburg, Lycoming County, was cremated in
a burning barn. i
—An Allegheny County Coroner’s jury rece
ommends a State law to prohibit the sale of
Flobert rifles.
—Brush Mountain, near Altoona, is likely ta
be selected as a national weather, observatory
and signal site.
—The body of Jacob W. Rose, a farmer, was
found in the road near Johnstown, he having
been murdered.
—Every street in Pittsburg was yesterday
sprinkled with a solution of copperas, in antics
jpation of the cholera.
— Christian Endeavor Societies held thejp 5
nual convention at Millersville, Lancaster
county, Monday. {
—Falling asleep upon the railroad track,
James Coogan, who lived near Pottsville, was
lived by war, and rumors of war, and Sun over and killed:
it cannot comprehend any discussion
which 18 not to end in a fight. During
Harrison’s administration, we have
been threatened with war with Chili,
war with Italy, war with England, and
we have had a labor war in three
States. The Republican policy which
is behind all these troubles leads
directly to the Force Bill, which is in-
tended to give the Federal troops con-
trol of the elections, not only in the
South, but in all the States. Without
a war, without troops, without a Force
Bill, the Republican party hasno rea-
son to live, .and it is going to die
hard.
That Pension Record.
From the Pittsburg Post.
President Cleveland signed more pen-
sion bills than did all his predecessors.
Under President Cleveland 1,825 pen-
gion bills became laws. In the twenty-
four years of Republican administration
preceding Cleveland 1.610 pension bills
poond, showing 215 more under Cleve-
and than during the terms of all his
Republican predecessors. It is true
Cleveland vetoed many private pension
bills that had been lobbied through
Congress—in all 524—but he did this
after close examination of each ease and
to save the pension list from becoming
4 roll of dishonor.
The Hole is Safe.
From the Tunkhannock Democrat.
The “net cash balance for July” is
reported by the Treasury at $27,000,-
000, of which over $14,000,000 is small
change of limited legal tender over $12,
000,000 is the standing losn without
interest to ‘‘pet’’ national banks. So
that on July 30 there was no cash
balance of available funds in the Treas-
ury. Take away the small change
and there is nothing but the hole left
where the Cleveland surplus used
to be.
A Mathematical Query.
From the St. Louis Republic.
If in ten years of high tariff more
mortgages are filed in ‘Kansas than
there are inhabited houses in the State
how long will "it be before the high
tariff will be, “reformed by its friends.”
A RE B———
How it Goes in Ohio.
Will some g. 0. p. organ of Ohio
lease state why the people of this
Sate should be taxed two cents ‘a
ound on tin to give employment to
orty-two Welshmen up at Youngs-
town ?
Win the West.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
. The bickerings between the factions
in New York would be of small conse-
Jleveland. Hence it must be made safe
by a thorough’ campaign of education.
—The Grand Lodge of the United States of
‘the Order of Seven Wise Men; will convene at
| Lancaster, Tuesday.
—The store of James Zollenger, in Toboyne *
Perry county, was entered by robbers; who ses
cured $325 from the safe.
—Gas escaped in his room at a Chambers .
burg hotel and John Eshleman will not recov «
er from the inhalations.
—At a Sunday School convention in Read-
ing Saturday 400 schools with a membership o!
45,000 were representated. ‘ :
—Philip Wolf,jaged 12 years, of Shenandoah,
was badly hurt and had his eye sight de«
stroyed by an explosion (Monday.
—An epidemic of a dangerous skin disease
has attacked every oneiof the 400 inmates of :
the Scranton Home for the Friendless.
—Congressman Frank KE. Beltzhoover, of
Carlisle will be the speaker at the Perry coun
ty Fair on “Democratic Day,” September 16.
—Being thrown from an overturned load of
straw at Chinchilla, Lackswanna County, Wid
Hall was buried and received fatal injuries.
—While George Kennedy was trying to kiss
Mrs. L. Achinson in her/home at Seranton, the
woman’s husband slashed him with a razor.
—Contractor Gaynor, of Pottsville, will be
gin operations on the 18-mile extension of the
Williamsport and North Branch Railroad in a
week.
—Having fallen through a trap door in the
kitchen floor, John F. Kleinhaus, Manheim
township, Lancaster County, was picked up
dead.
—Pennsylvania live stock and coal trains
wrecked beth of their engines in collision
near South Fork and killed W. A. Ferguson,
brakeman.
—Philadelphia and Reading car shops at
Schuylkill Haven are working 14 hours a day
in order to turn out sufficient coal cars for the
great traffic. :
—The car in which Thomas Johnson, a cir.
cus man was riding to Pottsville, was derailed
and in trying to escape injury, Johnson leaped
and cracked his skull.
—Horseman Edward Johnson, of Pittsburg,
was almost killed near Reading by} the derails
ment of Cook & Whitby ciréus train car in
which he was riding. bw
—Twelve-year-old Frank Ray ran in front of
Willie Blaine’s revolver while the latter shot
at a mark in Sunbury. He was shot in the
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stomach and may die. y
—“Farmer” Adams said the detectives
scared him into confessing that lie piled the
ties cn the Pennsylvania Railroad track at
Enon and then shot himself.
—Creditors of the strange Reading 'Lancas-
ter and Baltimore Railroad met at Adamstown
Saturday and discussed the purchase of the
franchise, assuming the §20,000 debt.
—A thief with $200 in his jacket was caps
tured in a cornfield near Norristown. His
name is Adam Snyder, and the money was tak-
: en from J. R. Shoemaker, of Plymouth.
—Rey. Father Kassalko and Frank Pucker,
editors of the Zednota, of Hazelton, were Satur-
1 day fined $200 each and sent to jail for a month
for libcling P. V. Rovaninek, of Pittsburg.
—The promotion of Trainmaster M. C. Blaine
of Pottsville, to a position in Philadelphia with
the Reading Company has resulted in the pro-
motion of Dispatcher Bowers, of Reading, to
Blaine's old place. 1