SY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings..
—Time alone will tell what is to be-
come of the rascals.
—-Better, by far, be dead than let
your wife know you are afraid of her.
—The fellow who said : “MAXWELL
is a mugwump,” must be contemplating
suicide.
—ZFor just two hundred and sixty-
eight days more will we have to lick
the Columbian stamp.
—If that Chinese theatrical company
appears at the World’s Fair everyone
will get onto their cues.
—4April showers bring May flow-
ers”’—If it don’t soon rain we guess
we'll have to get along without tha
.posies.
—A type writing machine trust is the
latest combine. The fair operators are
not to be affected however by the mo-
‘nopoly.
— France seems to have about as
much trouble with her ministry as the
Republican newspapers do with our
cabinet.
—The electrocution of the colored
preacher-murderer at Sing Sing, on
Monday, was a kind of Easter offering
to the poultry world.
— When you see a fellow come down
town in the morning with a patch of
-court plaster looking like this X over his
-eye, there is every indication that some
-one got cross at him the night before.
—There does not seem to be much
‘fuss about the chopping process at
‘Washington, but Democrats are de-
lighted to see the ax unmercilessly fall-
ing and the heads rolling into the bask-
et.
— Washington hotel keepers are anx-
ious lest the appointments be made
without mature deliberation. Their
solicitude springs not so much from the
fear of incompetent incumbents as from
lack of time in which to bleed aspirants.
—The people of the Windy city
knew what they were about when they
elected CARTER HARRISON to the may-
oralty. They want a big man to pre-
side ver the city during the Fair and
they knew that only a Democrat could
fill the bill.
—Next Saturday what few new leaves
remain of those turned over on New
Years day will have to suffer. The
trout fishing season begins and the
length of the fish will be entirely in ac-
cord with the time the resolution not to
lie has been kept.
--Gerwany has the highest tariff
measures of any country on the globe;
she has also the largest standing army;
her soldiers numbering over half a
million men, yet it costs only about
half as much to support that army as it
does to pay Uncle SaM’s pensioners.
—The capture of H. A. BoTs¥orp, the
Philadelphia embezzler, in the moun-
tain fastness of Brazil, where he was liv-
ing happily with a newly wedded wife,
seems to be another clincher to the
theory that when a woman 1s taken into
ones confidence there is a general taking
in to follow.
—The State department is very
much wrought up over the solution of
the problem : Who is to foot the bills
for Uncle Sam's royal guests during the
Fair. Is there n:t some enterprising
“freak” manager who will put up for
the titled visitors for the privilege of
showing them to the public?
—For heaven's sakes what is the
West coming too? Michigan will
have a law prohibiting the custom of
treating, and now a “wild and woolly”
judge has decided that the free lunch
counter is illegal. Isit a combine to
enrich Chicago or are they trying to
starve out their newspaper men out
there.
—The annual Easter egg rolling on
the White House grounds, in Washing-
ton, on Monday, was indulged in by
" many thousand children and witnessed
by equally as many office seekers., who
would doubtless have had a keener rel-
ish for the sport had GROVER been play-
ing too, and the eggs have been
appointments,
—Ifever there was a piece of folly
committed under the guise of legisla-
tion it was the passage of the bill to ap-
propriate $625,000 to be thrown away
in trying to improve those 6x10 State
buildings at Harrisburg. What Penn-
sylvania wants is a new capitol building:
worthy the magnitude of this great
commonwealth. And when we have
the new capitol, why a new class of law
makers would not come amiss either.
—This talk of pensioning judges has
about as much common sense in it as a
proposition to run an elevator to the
moon. If the tax-payers are to be re-
quired to pension every official who
draws a fat salary for wearing out the
gable end of his trousers on the judicial
bench, when he gets too lazy tor further
annoyance, it is high time that they be-
gin pensioning themselves for paying
taxes and remaining under the glorious
ban of this republic.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
"VOI. 2%.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 7, 1893.
NO. 14.
Ambassadorial Honors,
We scarcely believe that the Ameri-
can people will put on any extra airs
on account of their government being
at last represented at foreign courts by
Ambassadors. Since the establish.
ment of their government, they got
along very well with representatives
abroad who bore no higher title than
Ministers Plenipotentiary, and who
were abundantly able to attend to all
the business we had to transact with
the highest foreign powers.
Some very important international
questions were settled while ordinary
Ministers were the only agents we had
to attend to the points in dispute. We
had a number of serious boundary ques-
tions to be adjasted with Great Britain,
and they were settled without having an
Ambassador to take charge of them. It
may be believed that although we now
have an envoy to the court of St. James,
with the exalted title, the Behring sea
difficulty will not be rectified with any
greater dispatch, or more satisfactorily,
than if a plain Minister was our repre-
sentative in London.
The term Ambassador seems to be
out of place when connected with a dip-
Jomatic agent of the United States.
As it is understood in European diplo-
macy it means the personal represen-
tative of a sovereign. Thus, when
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, and
Empress of India, sends an Ambassa.
dor to the German court, that high
functionary sta: ds in the place of his
sovereign in the relations that exist be-
tween her and the Emperor of Ger-
many, and in that capacity has privi-
leges in his intercourse with his Ger:
man majesty that are personal to the
Qneen herself. He can be on terms of
greater familfarity ; he is unrestrained
from approaching the imperial pres.
ence; he can address the Emperor
without being compelled to wait un-
til he is first addressed. He is placed
on a more familiar footing, because he
personally occupies the place of his
sovereign.
To plain Americans such privileges
have been but a paliry appearance, al-
though they are highly esteemed by
the flunkeys who dance attendance on
the crowned heads of Europe. But
still a disadvantage was experienced
by our foreign Ministers in the fact
that, being ot a lower grade than Am-
bassadors, the repres-ntatives of insig-
nificant kingdoms like Portugal, Den
mark, Sweden and countries of that |
order, who have
rank take precedence of them in court
functions, the great United States com:
ing in at the tail of the procession.
That really is all that is in it, it being
more a matter of pride and ceremony
than a substantial disadvantage. Il
was probable that Uacle Sax might
hold his head as high as any ot them.
The last Congress passed a law that
the President could appoint Ambassa-
dors to such countries as should send
Ambassadors to Washington. Eng.
land immediately raised its American
Minister to the ambassadorial rank,
and asa return to this advance surely
President CLEVELAND has made a splen-
did selection in accrediting Mr. Bay.
ARD to the Court of St. James, and
making him the first American A nu.
bassador. France has also raised the
rank of her Minister at Washington,
and no doubt Mr. Eustis, who has al-
ready been appointed Minister to
France, will be made an Ambassador.
After all, there seems to be some-
thing incongruous in the ambassadorial
idea as associated with the Uuited
States. Functionaries of that class, as
has already been stated, are the per-
sonal representatives of the sovereigns
who send them. It was for this rea-
son, no doubt, that the founders of our
government made no provision for Am-
bassadors, as there was no sovereign
heré that was to be personally repre-
sented. We believe that their ideas
were more strictly in conformity with
the spirit of Democracy.
A
——1It is rather a broad assertion to
make but we firmly believe that next
to alcohol, the cause of most of the un-
happiness of mankind can be found in
these remarks of Colonel Henry War.
TKRSON, the Kentucky statesman and
journalist : “What a struggle it is for
money, money, money !
there is more happiness to be had in
this world and more interest in the
world to come in coining one kindly
thought than a million dollars in mon-
ev.”
the ambassadorial |
Believe me,
Objectionable Propositions.
The judges are again attracting the
attention ot the Legislature. It is pro-
posed to increase their number in coo-
nection with the question of judicial
apportionment. Interests are at work
to give the people more judges, on the
assumption that there are not enough
of these judicial functionaries to prop-
erly dispense the law. The deficiency
is to be supplied not only by the cre:
ating of additional districts, but by the
increase of the number ot judges in
some of the districts already existing.
We doubt if the people see the ne-
cessity for this increase of the judiciary,
or whether they can see in it any oth-
er object than to supply more places
for judicial aspiranw. To any one
who will use his power of observation,
it must be evident that there are quite
enough judges for all the requirements
of the machinery of justice, if they
were to apply themselves as closely to
their official duties as men ordinarily
apply themselves to their business, or
as lawyers off the bench devote them-
selves to the requireme.ts of their prac
tice. But the tact is in many of the
districts the judges have not official
business enough to engage more than
part of their ume. They are found
bolding court in other districts, and as
they get exira pay for this service there
is policy in exchanging benches with
their brother jurists. In the annual
statements of the expense ol paving the
judges of the State, it is found that a
large portion of the cutlay is for this
service outside of their districts, which
is so much added to their regular sala-
ry. Doubtless there are cases in which
it is necessary for a judgeto have his
p'ace supplied on the bench by a judge
from another district, but there i8
equally no doubt that such substitu-
tion is needless in many cases, and
that the privilege is much abused, to
the great expense ot the State, and to
who thns exchange benches.
The L-gislature is also being asked
tor an increase of the judicial torce in
districts which apparently have ahout
as many judzes as they need. To the
usual fanetionary of that class that be-
an additional law judge. or one to at-
tend to @ arter Sessions or Orphan's
Court business, be supplied. In most
cases these additions are not necessary
and are asked for noother than a person-
i al ohject. If each district paid its own
judicial expenses, it would make but
{litle difference to people living outside
of its limits, how much money its peo-
ple might spend for the luxury of a
large assortment of judges, but as the
expense is paid by the State, such in-
dulgence affects all the tax-payers.
Bat the most objectionable proposi-
tion that is being made in the Legisla-
ture relative to the judiciary is to pen-
sion the judges for life after their re-
tirement from the bench. It is argued
that after a judze has spent his best
years in the judicial service, depriving
himself of the big fees which he would
have made if he had continued in the
practice of the law, he ought to be re
warded for such sacrifice by being
made a pensioner. The laughable feat-
ure of this proposition is that there are
few lawyers who are not anxious to
make such a sacrifice, and to many of
them the salary of a judge is more
than they are able to make in their
practice. The pension idea is exercis-
ing a demoralizing effect upon the pub
lic mind. Have we not enough pen-
sioners saddled upon the country, with-
out creating a roll of judicial pensioners
to increase the public expense? If
this idea is encouraged much farther,
some law-makers of extraordinary lib-
erality with the people's money, will
be proposing that Members of the Leg-
islature and State Senators should re-
tire to private lite, with snug pensions,
for the balance of their natural exist-
ence. Itis time that the people put
their feet down on the pension idea.
They have had enough of it.
Two Versions.
There was a man in Washington,
And CrLarksoN was his name ;
Who with an ax and many whacks ,
Democratic necks did maim.
There is a man in Washington,
Maxwerw is what they call him,
By whose ax and many whacks,
Republican headsare fallin’.
— If you want printing of any de-
‘scription the WATCHMAN office is the
“place to have it done. :
longs to every district it is asked that |
A Barbarous Prejudice.
NotkLing could be more unreasonable
and bigoted, than the feeling that pre-
vails in some of the countries of Europe
against people of the Hebrew race. It
is a relic of barbarism that could be ex-
cused in the dark ages, but is entirely
out of place in the nineteenth century,
when the most enlightened nations of
the world, such as the United States,
England and France, have set an ex-
ample of just and liberal treatment of
the Jewish people. Russia is the chief
offender in subjecting the Jews to per-
secution that ie as unjust as it is unen-
lightened. But when the Russian peo-
ple themselves are the victims of a ty-
rannical government the oppression of
the Semitic subjects of the Czar is not
so much of an anomaly.
But it is really astonishing that in a
country in which so much intelligence
prevails as in Germany, the Jew-bait-
ing disposition should be so strongly
developed. The same amount of in-
telligence exists in the capital of Aus.
tria, and the same unreasonable and
unenlightened disposition is found in
even a more rampant degree. This
face has been demonstrated by the
trouble our government had with that
of Austria on the Jewish question. 1t
will be remembered that in President
CLeveLanp’s first administration
American Minister KEILEY was objec:
ted to on account of his having a Jew-
ish wife, and such was the opposition
to him at Vienna, on that account, that
he resigned the position and the Amer-
ican Legation at the Court of the
Austrian Emperor was left to the care
of the Secretary of Legation. The po-
sition taken by the Austrians was en-
tirely inadmissible to the epirit and
policy of the American government
which recognizes no religious distine-
tions, and places all denominations on
the same political level.
And now in Mr. CLEVELAND'S sec
the pecuniary advantage of judges "ond administration, there is likely to
arise a difficulty with the Vienna an-
thorities similar to that in which Min-
ister KEILEY was involved. The Presi-
dent bas appointed Mr. Max Jupp as
consul at the Austrian capital, and re-
ports from that quarter are to the effect
that a strong feeling has been aroused
against receiving Mr. Jupp in his consu-
lar capacity on account of his belonging
to a race that seems to be so obnoxious
to the Austrians, He has not been ap-
pointed as Minister, in which capacity |
Mr. KEILEY, or rather his wife, was so
offensive to the Vienna Jew-haters,
but merely as the resident consul in
that city, but the fact of his being a
Hebrew has aroused opposition to his
, occupying even that inferior position.
| Itis difficult to determine how to deal
| with sucn unreasonable and prejudiced
| people on a question of this kind. The
| American government cannot recog-
nize such barbarous discrimination
against any of ber citizens, on account
of their religion and, under the circum.
stances woulduo’t it be just as well if
the Preeident should conclude that it is
not necessary for this free and enlight-
ened country to be represented ata cap-
ital where people do not appear to
have emerged from the prejudice and
bigotry of the dark ages. 3
——The senseless quibbling of the
Austrian government over the appoint-
ment of Mr, Max Jupp to be United
States Consul to Vienna, simply on ac-
count of his religious professions, seems
far beneath the dignity of a country at-
fecting the broadening influences of
modern civilization. Had it deemed
Mr. Jupp in any way incompetent to
fill the consular appointment or have
been able to show the possibility of any
unfavorable results from his commis.
sion the protest against accepting him,
raised by the anti-Semitics would not
have appeared so small. Mr. Jupp's
predecessor, Mr. Jurius GoLpsCHMIDT,
is & Hebrew by birth, yet Austria
found him entirely satisfactory as a
consul.
——It seems that the Legislature,
that is the House part of it, has at last
wakened up to a realization of the fact
that unless bills are acted upon. with
greater dispatch or something is done
to stop the introduction of more, it will
take all year to get through with the
work. To expedite matters the House
has decided that without unanimons
consent no bill can be read in place
after April 18th,
The End of the Boycott.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The decisions of the United States
Circuit Court at Toledo in the case of 4
the Lake Shore engineers who refused
to handle freight from the Ann Arbor
Road, whnse employes were non-union
men, and in the appeal of the Aon Ar-
bor Company for an injunction against
Chief Arthur to restrain him from or-
dering a boycott against freight oftered
by the Ann Arbor Company to con-
necting railroads, are of great impor-
tance.
Judge Ricks does not deny the right
of employes to quit work when they
choose todo so. But an engineer on
the Lake Shore Road—who, alter that
road had been ordered by the Court to
accept and carry forward Anu Arbor
freight cars, withont quitting the em-
ploy of his company. twice refused to
move Ann Arbor cars, only complying
with theorder after the boycott had been
abandoned—was adjudged to be in con-
tempt. In effect this is a declaration
that engineers cannot stay ou their en-
gines and defy the order of the Court as
applied to the company they serve.
Tue decision in the case of the in-
junction asked for against Chier Arthur
as the representative of the Brother:
hood of Locomoiive Engineers, re-
straining him from ordering a boycott
against the Ann Arbor Ruad, ¢overs
more important matter. It is decided
that the Brotherhood cannot make a
rule nullifying a law of the United
States which compels common carriers
whose lines traverse different States to
accept and carry all freight offered
them by connecting railways. In short
it is held that a boycott is a criminal
conspiracy against the public welfare.
This decision will be immediately
carried to the Supreme Court of the
United States on appeal. If it shall
be sustained, the ‘boycott’ as an ad-
Jjunct of the “strike” will no longer be
a permissible rule of action on the
part of labor organizations.
There is no apparent flaw in the
reasoning by which Judge Taft has
reached the conclusion that a precon-
certed stoppage of business on a railway
whose employes have no grievance,
brought about because the company
insists upon complying with the re-
quirements of its charter and the laws
of the land amounts to a conspiracy.
Toe final decision of tie matter by the
United States Supreme Court will now
be awaited with profound public in-
terest.
Immigration Restrictions the Question
of I'o Day,
From the Williamsport Sun.
It seems that the day when this coun-
“try will pay dearly for permitting tor-
"eign cut throats to land isnot far off.
| The murders of the Chinese high—
| binders, the threats of the anarchists
rand [talian mafians are but the mur-
murings of the storm that must sooner
lor later break upon our heads. And,
lin the face of this certain fact, the
United States government continues to
allow foreizn nations to dump their
criminals on our shores. There are
greater evils than the cholera to be
feared unless this foreign immigration
is restricted.
The Fewer the Better.
From the Altoona Times.
The legislature has been remarkably
slow this year, although it has been in
session for about three months, only a
few bills bave yet reached the governor.
There is, it is true, a large number of
measures nearing the completed stage as
far as the legislature is concerned, but,
in general, there is a backwardness in
the work. There is no disposition to
hustle the bills through, and, either the
legislature will hold a long session or
else there will be few new laws.
From the Philadelphia Record.
More than half of the $200,000 ap-
propriated for the expenses of the Ber-
ing Sea Commission’s trip to Paris has
been spent, and the Commission has
only been gone a month. At this rate
a special disbursing officer with the
party, at an extra salary ot $15 per
day, would soon become a superfluity,
as there would be nothing left for him
to disburse.
Alike in Name Only.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The William E. Curtis, of New York
who was yesterday appointed assistant
secretary of the treasury is not the Wil-
liam E. Curtis who sume years ago
steered the tariff commission aYout the
country and who is now engineering
the bureau of American republics. The
New York man igs a reformer and the
other is a Republican.
Alas, We Have too Many of Them.
‘ From the Milton Record.
When you hear a Democratic croak:
er denouncing Cleveland, set it down
that he is a Democrat for an office on-
ly, and that he has failed to connect
with a government job.
We Hope to be in With Holman.
From the Washington Star.
The World's Fair managers ‘have
calculated that there will be one hun-
dred thousand deadheads at the
World’s Fair—Mr. Holman -and - 99,~
999 others.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Welding is done by electricity by the
Johnstown Iron Company, Johnstown.
—Smallpox is dying outin Reading, and the
the infected houses are being fumigated.
—Allegheny City and Pittsburg may join
hands to build a big water supply reservoir.
—St. Patrick’s Catholic Church® which cost
$75,000, was dedicated in Pottsville Sunday.
—The Neilson shaft horror investigation has
begun before the Coroner's jury at Shamokin.
—Havying set fire to his clothes, Ralph Shot-
well, of Wilkesbarre was, Friday, burned to
death.
—Over a hundred new students were regis-
tered at the Shippensburg normal school this
, spring.
—Robert McGee, of Philadelphia, was found
dead 1n a shanty near Lancaster from ap-
poplexy.
—George Ziegler, of Philadelphia, committ=
ed suicide at the Norristown Insane Asylum
Monday.
—A disease which causes the-eyes of poul
try to drop out is alarming Berks county
poultry raisers.
—PForty-five title examiners for the Altoona
Trust and Title Company, have struck af
Houllidaysburg.
—The death warrant was Friday read to
Pietro Bu:cieri, who murdered Sister Hildal-
garta in Reading.
—Summonred across the street to meet her
mother, little Elsie I. Mutzig, Pittsburg, was
killed by a street car.
—An unknown Italian walked in front of a
Pennsylvania Railroad express at Lancaster
and was instantly killed.
—Two Italian laborers on the Wilkesbarre
and Eastern Railroad perished in the flames
of a shanty at Spring Brook.
—The jury in the case of William Beergner,
charged at Pittsburg with the murder of
James Y ung acquitted him.
—T'he fire in the Latimer mine, near Wilkes.
barre, has broken out afresh and is being
fought by a large force of miners.
—The explosion of the boiler of a Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad locomotive at Connellsville
scalded terribly three brakemen.
—It is rumored in Pittsburg that the
“Pennsy” will put on a train to run from Phil
adelphia to Chicago in 19 hours.
—Rector Henry Jones, of Christ Episcopal
Church, Media, may be asked to resign by tha
re-elected vestry, which opposes him.
—Railroad Agents mat on Saturday and de~
cided td advance ore freight rates to the West"
ern Pennsylvania districts 10 per cent.
—The people of the Seventh ward of Potts_
town have gone into court to have Constable
Mahlon H. Engle removed from office.
—The little daughter of an Ebervale Hun-
garian, Louis Pecakela, set fire to her clothes
with matches and was burned to death.
—Two passenger trains on the Philadelphia
& Reading collided at Bethlehem, disabling
one locomotive. No person was injured.
—Because Henry Collins refused to hurrah
for Cleveland, George Rapp, of Chambersburg,
knocked him down aad both are in jail.
—A Coroner's jury censured J.S. Wentz &
Co., because Daniel Baillig was ground to
death in rollers at their Hazelbrook mine.
—The Philadelphia syndicate that bought
one big railway line in Reading is trying to
purchase the East Reading Electric Read.
—Hugh O0'Dounell, the Homestead leader, is
in Upper Schuylkill Valley trying, it is said,
to reorganize the Amalgamated Association.
—Ellsworth Criswell, who is wanted in Har-,
risburg for embezzling $400 from John W
Young, was arrested yesterday at Dayton,
Ohio.
—It has been definitely determined that
Patrick Ford, who was supposed to have been
murdered near Mt. Carmel, perished from ex-
posure.
—A hot coal from an engine caused the
burning of the Philadelphia and Reading
Rilroad bridge at Job's ice dam,near Barnes"
ville,
—The Poor Directors on Saturday elected
Dr. O'Hara resident physician of the Schuyl-
kill connty Almshouse, and Daniel Sweeney,
foreman.
Mrs. Sarah Coleman who died recently in
Washington, was the owner of an estate in
Lebanon and Lancaster counties valued at
$2,000,000.
—Of the $13,000 deficit in the Reading treas-
ury accounts, $5200 has been cut from the
Water Department and the remainder from
the city funds.
—Controller Morrow, of Pittsburg, by ap”
pointment, on Monday, became Assistant Con-
troller, when ex-Mayor Gourley shall have be-
come Controller.
—After a jury at Uni ntown had been sworn
in, last Saturday. Judge Ewing adjourned
Court and ordered the jury to return to the
jury box May 31.
—At Milton Grove, Lancaster county, last
week, twelve dog: were bitten by a mad dog
owned by Isaac Kelchner, It is thought that
all the dogs bitten have been killed.
— A new Masonic hall on Dickson avenue,
Scranton, has just been completed, and is one
of the handsomest in the state. The lodge
room is occupied by the Masons, Odd Fellows
and Heptasophs.
—Owing to the frequent thaws a great cave.
in occured in a deep cut at Conewago, Colum-
bia county. Rocks containing 8,000 cubic feet
came along. About 10,000 cubic yards of
earth in what must again be removed.
—A car loaded with coal and miners tools
was shipped from Pottsville to Chicaro for ex-
hibition at the World’s Fair. There were
163 boxes of coal in the shipment, and all the
tools and implements used by miners in re-
moving the coal.
—The Cartwright Lumber company which
has go successfully opened up the resources
of the Toby district of Elk county. changed
its management, Mr. Cartwright, retiring from
the active management and his place being
taken by 8. 8. Bulls, of Olean.
—The post office inspector in the postal
guide for February says: Dauphin county
contains fifty-one postoffices, eleven of which
are graded as “excellent.” Lancaster county
has 193 postoffices and sixteen are marked
“excellent.” Lebanon county has thirty.
nine postoffices and four are “excellent,
—The Odd Fellows of Pittston and West
Pittston have taken steps for the observance
in those places on April 26 of the seventy-first
anniversary of the foundat.on of the order in
this country. Invitations have been extended
tolodges all through northeastern Pennsyl-
vania to participate in the parade during the
afternoon, and it is evident that the local
loiges propose making the event a most an-
spicious one.
LE
AR BS