BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
--The man who minds his own busi-
ness always finds it a paying venture.
—Strange as it may seem it is only
by constant strikes that the blacksmith
prospers.
—1It is not half so much “what will
Congress do ?”’ as it is what won’t Con-
gress do ?
— The Emperor of Germany seems to
have about as much as he can do in |
minding his Biz.
— With every additional decision in
favor of the Reading combine the black
diamond market takes a jump.
—Mayor GOURLEY is making it hot
for houses of ill fame in the Smoky city. |
Some oneis bound to get burnt.
——Tt is generally supposed that when
all eyes are turned on a young man he
is getting along well. This rule does
not apply to bank clerks.
—Nearly every newspaper in the
country has had something mean to say
of the late JAY Gourp. Beautiful evi-
dence of the fact that a dead man can’t
shoot.
—-Congress is in session. From now
until March 4th Republican members
will work for their country instead of
for the spoils which have so long been
their incentive.
—The French cabinet seems about as
‘mysterious as that of the average spir-
itualist, which fact probably accounts
for the fear and trembling with which
French politicians enter it.
—In the death of JAY GouLD the
country bas lost a man whose name has
been a household word, yet in a sence
which no lover of mankind will care to
ape. His first thought was self. After
that he had none.
—Two Southern medical students
fought a duel on Sansom street, in Phil-
adelphia, on Monday. Contrary to the
usual termination of such “affairs hon-
orable’’ blood was drawn from the leg
of one of the duelists.
—ZRepublican papers are beginning to
cast about for leaders for their headless
party. It is a dead case of the tail wag"
ging the dog now and unless something
is done pretty scon the caudal appen-
dage of the G. O. P. will be worn out
before a head is found.
—Supt. PorTER has recommended
that the census department be made a
permanent bureau. And we are sure it
would have plenty of work keeping
track ofthe immigrants who are flock-
ing hither, but some other man than
Mr. PorTER will run it.
—The man who introduced English
sparrows into this country died at Pat-
terson, New Jersey, last week. Poor
misguided mortal. Thinking that he
was doing his country inestimable good
he established a pest which has brought
him condemnation from every quarter.
~The original Uncle Tom’s cabin,
at Chopin Station, La., has been torn
down to be placed on exhibition at the
‘World’s Fair. There are a great many
log cabins which were up on poles before
the election which might prove interest-
ing reminiscences of a day that is gone
to Republican visitors to the big show,
—Massachusetts is being made the
butt ot a joke which reflects rather un-
favorably on the proverbial intelligence
of the ‘‘Yank.” The late election re-
turns show that a larger percentage of
voters was disfranchised in the Bay
state because of inability to make out
their ballots than in any other state in
the Union, but those who are laughing
at this supposed evidence of New Eng-
land illiteracy forget that in Massachu-
setts a man is required to be able to read
and write before he can exercise the
franchise.
—The success which women are meet-
ing with in their various vocations, in
competion with men, will soon begin to
have its effect in the number of mar-
riage ceremonies performed. In tele-
graphy, stenography, reportorial, ar-
chitectural, sales and in fact rearly
every position occupied by man, other
than those requiring manual strength,
woman has proved herself his equal and
in many instances his superior. Their
sagacity, conscientious application and
natural affability are having their effect
every-where and men will be forced to
marry ere long or do something to check
the progressive American women.
—If Mayor GourLEY, cf Pittsburg,
thought he was doing a wise stroke
when he raided the houses of ill-repute
in the Smoky city he must certainly be
classed among the most short sighted |
individuals who have ever presided over
& municipal government. As it was
the police of that city had every house
under their surveillance and could look
after them. Now it must inevitably te
different. Such places will be kept up
no matter what the precaution against
them and it is better, by tar, tbat it be
under the eyes of the law than one of
those ‘on the quiet” houses where so
many lives are wrecked.
cratic
h » Keystone,
Fh pee]
Salts Sly. itself
Arkins at Shenaa
> —Burglars looted the jewelry store of Isaac
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 27.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 9, 1892.
NO. 48.
The Evil Still Lives.
| Now that the great newspapers and
preachers of the country have waken.
‘ed upto the wickedness, and wrongs
| of the means used, and methods resort
Led to by Jay GouLp, to amass wealth,
lit is to be hoped that the warfare
against these evils will be carried on,
whether those who resort to them be
i living or dead. Itis only since death
removed all fear of the Wall streets
wizzard’s power, that either the press or
I the pulpit found courage to denounce
the methods he used or the ends he
aimed at. Some way or other it seems
to us that these teachers of the people,
and protectors of public morals,
have been a long time in discovering
the great wrongs they see so plainly
now, since he who committed them can
neither reply totheir denunciations nor
make reparation for injuries he inflict’
ed. While Jay Gourp lived none of.
them had the courage to say aught
against him, but Jay GouLp dead, si-
lent and powerless, is the target for
abuse unstinted and denunciations un-
ending. ;
It is right and proper that the les-
sons, a life that had the aims his had
should be to the public, should be im-
pressed in the most forcible way upon
that public mind, but how much betters
how much more honest, and how much
more corageous, would it have been in
both press and preacher, had they
shown the wrongs Jay GouLp was guil-
ty of while he lived and was commit-
ting them.
As was Jay Gourp,—grasping,
avaricious, unscupulous, designing,—so
are tens of thousands of others to-day,
who are just as greedy of great wealth,
Seeking Consolation.
After all it is hardly worth the pow-
der the Republicans are expending in
their effort to get up a war between
President CLEVELAND and Tammany.
Even should such a stale of affairs as
they are predicting occur, how would
they, as a party be benefited? The
late election proves that New York is
not necessary to Democratic success in
the future. The growing west is the
country that has usurped the position
of the Empire state in that respect.
New York Democrats may quarrel and
contend as much as they please here-
after. It will disturb no ones nerves, for
fear of the effect on the general political
results. This is a situation of affairs
that the Republicans have possibly ov-
er looked.
Another fact they seem to fail to
comprehend, is, that the more trouble
and difterences there are between New
York Democrats, the greater the
majority the party always has in that
state.
It is a queer condition of affairs that
secures better results, for the party,
where there is war among its followers,
than whea peace and harmony exist.
But such isthe factin New York.
From time immemorial the Democrats
have always had greater success when
their campaign began with a contest
among themselves. Going back but a
few years furnishes abundant proof
of this.
In 1884 Tammany did all it could tq
prevent the nomination of Mr. CLEVE-
LAND, and for some time after he was
placed upon the ticket refused to give
bim the endorsement, that as the par-
ty's candidate, he was entitled too. It
turned in for him later and he carried
and striving to obtain it in the same
dishonest way, as did he. Every ex- |
change mart in the great cities is full of
these financial highwaymen. Wall street
teems with them ; the vicinity of Chest-
nut and Third street is peopled by
them ; every town of any size over the
entire country has them by scores,
and every community is cursed with '
them. They are Joy GouLbs in me-
thods, Jay GourLps in efforts, Jay
GouLps in purposes and Joy GouLps in
avariciousness.
It is to these living Joy GouLps that
the great moral efforts of these late day
retormers should be turned. The dead
can neither be reformed nor bettered.
The living may be. The masoleum
that holds the shriveled and inanimate
form of Jay GouLp holds that and |
that only. The aims that actuated:
him ; the ways he followed ; the pur-
poses he pursued ; the greed that gave
birth to all the ambition that burned
within him, are still left to create oth.
er GomLps and curse the life that is
cont oled by them.
It is against the efforts for great
wealth and the purposes to secure it,
by any means, within human power
that do not lead direct to the peniten-
tiary, that the teachings of the press
and pulpit should be directed ; against
the lax ideas we have of violated mor-
als in our haste to get rich; the syc-
ophancy we show to the possessors ot
large wealth ; the power that money is
allowed to wield, and the spirit of spec-
ulation and stock gambling that ofler
opportunities of acquiring money with-
out furnishing an equivalent, that
should be the texts of the sermons,
that now have as their subject the
lifeless clay of the dead railway mag-
nate and millioniare.
It is the living, growing, evils of the
day that should be held up to the exe-
cration of the public. The dead can
do no harm, and hence the folly of de-
nouncing that which the grave has
claimed. Jay GouLDp is past wrong to
any one. It isthe living Jay GouLps;
the methods of those, who, while less
successful are as full of evil, and
viciousness, and greed, as was he, that
veeds the attention of both press and
pulpit.
Have they the courage to attack fin-
ancial pirates who are not chilled by
the hand of death ?
——Congress met on Monday last
and the first thing it found necessary
to do, was to present a bill authorizing
a government loan of $75,000.000 to
make good the treasury deficit made
by the Republican party’s profligacy
during the past four years. Itis said
to be “blessed to give,” but if the giving
power of the outgoing administration
had been) considerably curtailed, it
would have been a blessed thing for
the country,
the state. In 1888 the party was
unanimous for his re-nomination and
united in his support and the result of
the election showed his defeat. At the
same time Gov. HiLL was made the
nominee of the party for governor, af-
ter a bitter contest and during the cam-
paign failed to receive the earnest sup-
port of a large faction of the party
workers and yet he was elected by a
large majority. Two years later Gov.
: FLowkr succeeded in getting the nomi-
nation over the protests of many of
the most influential Democrats of the
state, and made his contest with hun-
dreds of them lukewarm towards him,
and yet his majority run away up to
50.000. This year, everybody remem-
bers how Tammany started in at Chi-
cago against Mr. CLEVELAND and what
the result of the contest there and at
home was.
With these reminders within easy
reach of any one who wants to know
just what effect a fight, among New
York Democrats, produces, we would
imagine that the Republicans would
build their hopes on something that
panned out better for them, thau a
Democratic war in the Empire State.
About any such trouble the Democrats
of the country are not the least con-
cerned.
If however, it isany gratification to
disconsolate and discouraged Republi-
cans to believe that there 1s going to be
hair-pulling and tommy-hawking and
all kinds of sanguinary conflicts, be-
tween the working Democrats of New
York and the President, whom they
aided so greatly in securing the victory
that the entire country rejoices over, let
them draw on their imaginations to the
fullest extent, and be as happy over
their belief as possible. The country
will lose nothing by it. The Democ-
racy have no care or concern for it.
Mr. CrLeveranp or Tammany knows
or cares nothing about it ; and if there
is any consolation, at all, to Republi
caes, in rehashing such stuff and hop-
ing for such results, they are entirely
weicome to ali they can get out of it.
————
President HARRISON, in his nine
column message to Congress, laments
that his Force bill suggestions could
not be submitted to a non-partisan
commission, for approval or rejection.
If Mr. President Harrison would but
think for a moment, he would remem-
ber that no later than the 8th of No-
vember last, an entirely non-partican
commission passed upon the merits of
his suggestions, on this question, and
the majority against them was some-
where in the neighborhood of six hun-
dred thousand.
~——TFine job work of ever discription
at the WarcamaN Office.
aa A. dss tse
Not Profitable for Republicans.
It is possible that the Republican
party may succeed in securing the
Uaited States senators from Kansas,
Montana and Idaho, through the ques-
tionable methods they are adopting in
those States. But should they do so,
how much better would they be off ?
These three senators will give that
party a probable majority of one in
the United States Senate, and place up-
on its shoulders the responsibility of
endorsing or defeating such legislation
as the Democrats stand pledged to give
the people.
Can the Republican party, without
power to enact or enforce a single
measure, afford to occupy a position
that makes it responsible for the fail-
ure of any expected or promised legis-
lation, and puts it in the position of
scape-goat for any cowardice or
treachery there may be in the Demo-
cratic party ?
We know there are Democrats scat.
tered all over the country, who would
rejoice could the responsibility of gov-
ernmental affairs, be divided between
the two parties in this way, during the
next four years. To them it would
seem an easier task to go before the
people and place the responsibility, ot
any failure there may be in fulfilling
public expectations, upon the opposi-
tion of a Repnblican Senate, than to
stand boldly upon Democratic grounds
and defend a Democratic policy until
time and experience proves it a suc.
cess or failure. This, however, is the
hope only of those who have doubts of
their own ability to fulfill their pro
mises ; a cowards way of evading res
ponsibilities he is afraid to meet.
With the masses of the Democracy
it 18 otherwise. They want the coun-
try to have just what it was promised.
They have no fear of results, or doubts
as to the consequences. They have
faith that a Democratic policy will re-
store prosperity and that Democratic
economy will bring relief to the people.
They are willing to meet the respon’
sibility success brings, and for these rea-
soos hope that Republican trickery and
rascality will not eucceed in prevent.
ing their having the full controll of
every department of the general gov-
ernment, and the power to enforce a
Democratic policy to the fullest ex.
tect.
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The Message.
We would like to give the President's
message, which was read in Congress
on Tuesday last, not because of any
particular interest it has for the pub-
lic, but as a matter of record, if its un-
usual length—occupying over nine col-
umns solid nonpareil type— did not
prevent. When we say that is a petu-
lant lamentation over the repudiation
of Republican ideas, with the usual ref.
erences to department reports, our
readers can have an opinion of what
they miss by our failure to give it space.
As a public document it will reflect no
credit on Mr. HARRISON as a man or a
President. It is an unmanly, whining,
Lalf threatening acceptance of the pec-
ple’s will, and all over and all through
its dreary dryness the petulant disap-
pointment of the defeated candidate is
observable. It showsthat heis nota
big enough man to accept defeat in a
manly way, and that is about all there
is in it when boiled down.
Sensible Mr. Harrity.
It is reported, on what seems to be
good authority, that Mr. HarriTY has
announced his determination not to
accept any position under the new ad-
ministration, that might be tendered,
or bis friends demand for, him. In his
case this is a sensible conclusion. His
magnificent management of the late
campaign has given him a reputation
and standing, with the Democracy of
the country, that no position Mr. CLEVE:
LAND has at his disposal, could add a
particle to in the way of honor or re-
spect. The positions he holls at home,
and which would have to be given up
were he to enter the government ser-
vice, are worth double the amount in
| salaries that any cabinet position pays.
| .
| So that under the circumstances, Mr.
Harriry's determination, to stick to
what he has, is neither to be wondered
at nor questioned. The fact however
that heis big enough to refuse a posi-
tion, that nine tenths ot the biggest
men of the country are aching to have
| placed at their disposal, shows the
size of the man and gives additional
; reason for Pennsylvania Democrats be-
ing proud of him,
Won't Steal It This Time.
From the Philadelphia Times.
It’s hardly worth the trouble
and |
crookedness exhibited by defeated part- |
isans in a number of the new Western |
States to steal United States Senators by ' ,
manipulating the returns of legislators,
It won’tiwin, and political theives would |
—There are 8500 enlisted men in the Penr-
sylvania National Guard.’ i
—General William Lilly, Congressman-at-
large elect, is rapidly recovering. i
i —Peter Miller, aged 12, was kicked to death
{ by a mule at Bethlehem Tuesday.
| —The remains of ex-Judge Reilly were tak.
| en to Pottsville Friday and interred.
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| —Temperance Orator Francis ur phy will
' try to rec’aim Pittsburg’s fallen woman.
| —Injuries received by being struck by a
train in Chester killed James Hamilton.
—A derrick in a colliery at Mahaney City
fell upon Harry Lattimore, crushing him.
—Half the cases that will be tried in the
ehigh Court in January will be for divorce.
—Albert Utranza, a ‘Reading Railroad em-
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do well to make a virtue of necessity i ploye, was killed on the tracks at Cressona.
and stop the game.
The new Senate will be Democratic,
theft or no theft inthe new Western
States. There will be not less than 42 |
straight Democrats in the body if they |
shall lose all that is visibly in danger,
and every Senator of the People’s faith,
with the possible exception of Stewart
of Nevada, will vote with the Demo-
crats on every vital issue.
It’s quite probable that the Democrats
will have 44 straight outs in the Senate,
which with the Vice President, would
give them a majority against the field ;
but they will have a reserve of not less
than 3 votes among the Populist Sena-
tors, and an additional reserve of sever-
dl among those classed as Republicans,
The Republican leaders don’t specially
want the Senate, and there are a few
Senators classed as Republicans who
won’t stand any semblance of crooked-
ness in the admission of new Senators.
Theft of Senatorships won’t pay this
season. The men who are trying to
steal seats in the Senate are so hedged
about by unsympathetic Republicans
and Populists that they can’t win. The*
Senate will, therefore, be Democratic on
all party issues, and on the chief issues
of tariff reform and Force Bill legisla-
tion it will be largely Democratic.
Don’t try to steal the Senate—it can’t
be done this time.
Pruning the Pension Roll
From the Chenango Union.
Worthy veterans need have no fear
that such scrutiny will work against
them, for no one would take from or
abridge the bounty due to their patriot-
ism and valor. On the contrary the
movement will be to their advantage,
and, as Mr. Cleveland has truly said,
tend to “make the pension list a roll of
It is doubtless true that a care-
ful examination will show that the
honor.”
names of many thousands are on the list
who are not entitled to any pension
whatever, but have peen kept there for
unworthy purposes or through neglect,
Such revision would doubtless decrease
the pension appropriation.
The Pension Fraud. =
From the Toledo Bee.
Now the
nsion business has to a
large extent fallen into the hands of the
lobbyist and the speculator. The raid
upon the Treasury by these harpies has
been a shameless one under the hypo-
critical pretext of patriotism. The pen-
runing.
sion list demands vigorous
Men sound in body and limbs, deserters,
sneaks and others who are bleeding the
Treasury like leeches and receiving pen-
sions to which they are not entitled
should be cut off and none but the de-
serving veteran retained.
A Machine that Worked Well.
From the New York Sun.
The most striking incident that has
been afforded in this State of the power
of the machine in politics is the fact that
of Mr. Edward
under the leadership
Murphy, Jr., the Democratic organiza-
tion carried New York for the Hon.
Grover Cleveland hy nearly fifty thous-
and majority, notwithstanding the cir-
cumstance that the Hon. Grover Cleve-
land was not the first choice of the New
Yerk Democracy for President.
Entirely Credible.
From tha Louisville Courier-Journal.
‘Why should any one doubt the stories
of the apparently fabulous number of
ducks and snipes shot by Mr. Cleveland?
Hasn’t he broken all sorts of records,
and is anything which he is reported to
have done with the bullet more improb-
able than was what he is known to have
done with the ballot ?
The Rothschilds Trust.
From the New York Herald.
The usual purpose of trust is to raise
prices by restricting production, but the
basic idea of Rothschilds’ proposed in-
ternational silver trust was to keep up
values by creating an artificial demand.
Like the bootstrap elevator it looks easy,
but it won’t work.
What Cleveland Should Do.
From the New York Recorder.
Mr. Cleveland is coming back to us
from Hog Island. The political hogs,
it is to be hoped, will give him a rest.
He should engage the services of a coup-
le of good bull dogs.
Latest Bulletin.
From the Washington Post.
Now that George Ticknor Curtis's flop
been thoroughly poulticed it is
thought he will be able to pull through
has
the four years more of Grover.
An Opportunity Going to Seed.
From the Lebanon Report.
How Mr. Carnegie might relieve the
reports of distress from Homestead by
establishing another library in Scotland!
Calamity Howling as a Mask,
From the Allentown City Item.
Itis not the fate of the country but the
loss of the offices that is worrying the
Republicans,
—While jumping upon a Lehigh Valley
freight train, at Allentown, John Conlon lost a
leg. f
—With eight pairs of trousers in his posses-
sion Michael Halleran was arrested in Phoenix-
ville.
—Dr. J. B. Bissells, of Mahanoy City, wa
seriously injured in a runaway accident Tues!
day.
—The Bessemer rail mill of the Bethlehem
Iron Company has shut down for lack of or-
ders.
—At Pottsville, George Heister a non-union
puddler, was badly beaten by supposed union
men.
—By a powder explosion in the Morse col-
liery Jefferson Keating was dangerously
burned.
—For robbing the Frankford church, Meade
Fulton, of Carlisle, was sent to prison for three
years.
—Five men were scalded with boiling beer
at C. Bauerlein’s brewery, Millvale. All will
recover.
—Special district conference of the Ameri-
can Baptist Missionary Upion is in session at
Pittsburg.
—The store of J. J. Nutt, at Lykens, Schuyl-
kill county, was robbed of $400 worth of ‘gocds
on Monday night.
—James W. Lynn, an Easton lawyer, has te-
come insane, and was Wednesday taken to the
Norristown Asylum.
—Pennsylvania manufactured 1,232,890,8¢9
cigars last fiscal year, nearly 100,000,000 in ex-
cess of New York.
—While shoveling coal in a docket at Hazel-
ton mines, Robert Houser was drawn into the
chute and smothered.
—The Oliver Iron and steel Works, at Pitts~
burg, employing 1000 hands, closed Saturday
owing to over-production.
—The body of an aged and well-dressed min
was found in an old barn pear Lewisburg, bé-
longing to John A. Gundy.
—A committee of citizens in Reading fé=
commended the new system of house sewag,
which will cost $675,000.
—A committee of citizens of Reading hawe
recommended a system of house sewage tha
will cost the city $365,000.
—Marriage must be a failure in Lehigh coun’
ty. About half the cases on the trial list for J&m
uary term are for divorce.
—Workmen who refuse to sign the scale og
the Pottstown iron company’s works are r®¢
allowed to enter the mills.
—In attempting to-board a moving train g4
Penn Haven, Patrick Garney fell under the
wheels and was decapitated.
—William Wallace, a brakeman, slipped om
the ice at Oneida, and a train passed over his
body. He died Tuesday.
—With a rope twisted about his body Am~
thony Karnickl was hurled down a Mt. Car<
mel coal chute and killed:
—At the age of 99 years, Mrs. Sarah Kiple, of
Seranton, and aunt of Artist E.A. Abbey, en~
joys a good pipe and tobacco.
—An unknown man, about 65 years old, was
killed on that Jersey Central Railroad near
Easton Wednesday morning.
—The funeral of George W. Hensel, father of
Attorney General Hensel, was held at Quarry
ville, Lancaster County, Saturday .
—A bridge over the Schulkill at Birdsbore
will be built by the Wilmington and Northern
Railroad, one of the Reading's allies.
—Petro Buccieri, the Reading Italian whe
stabbed Sister Hildabertha to death, at Read-
ing has been refused a new trial.
—After three weeks of dreadful sufferings
Annie Biliard, of Bethlehem, whose clothes
ere burned off her, died on Monday.
—Lancaster County Court refused a new érial
to Samuel and Joseph Lewis, convicted of tor-
turing Larry Reynolds to extract money.
—While trying to quell a fight in the Ness
chain works at York, Eben H. Saylor had his
head fractured by one of the belligerents.
—Benjamin Kneebler, charged with robbing
Hoffman & Daval's office in Danville of $420
last January, was caught Friday in Potts.
ville.
—Secretary Cyrus T. Fox, of the State Hor-
ticultural Association, is collecting fruit and
vegetable data from all parts of Pen nsyl=
vania.
—Leyman Ulman, the leadin merchant of
Titusville, committed suicide Tuesday morn-
ing by shooting himself throngh the right
temple.
—Major John D. Worman, «cf the Adjutant
General's Department, is an applicant for the
position of Naval Officer at the port of Phila
delphia.
—The 13-year-old son of Rev. I. W. Cranmer
of Reading, started West to kill Indians. He
got as far as Shamokin and hunger drove him
back home.
—A baby boy born to Mrs. William Reitz,
Washington township, Northumberland coun-
ty, has been christened Clement Grover
Cleveland Reitz.
—Orders were issued from the Adjutant
General's office Tuesday granting an honor-
able discharge to Captain George D. Wiegner
of Company B. Third Regiment
—Resolutions were adopted by the Trade
and Labor Council of Reading demanding that
the Electric Railway Company pave with as-
phalt blocks all the streets it occupies.
—The first divorce case tried in open Court
in Lehigh County in 10 years came to an end
Wednes "ay, when a jury decided that Emma
T. Bowman should be separated from her hus-
band, Jacob H, Bowman ,