BY RP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
-—A money maker is a money saver.
—1If you havea fault of any kind,
keep face to face with it at all times.
—We can’t consistently say that the
weather, as a topic of conversation, i8
dry just now.
—The whiskey trust has busted.
Probably because the originators allowed
their spirits to go down.
— While it is not exactly right to put
a price on your goodness, yet itis just
as bad to be good for nothing.
—It is really wonderful how inde-
pendent and fearless some people get
when they are once out of office with no
prospects of ever getting back.
—The Philadelphia Amateur Swim-
ming club was sold out by the sheriff on
Saturday morning. The organization’
was a little too watery for stability.
—The combine announces that the
price of coal will be advanced on the
first of June. Thank heavens Mr.
Hicks has promised warmer weather.
—EMULATE the architect who builds
nothing but air castles, His specifica-
tions are usually the most elaborate and
he never runs over his estimate of cost.
—QuAY bas announced that he ex-
pects to have lots of hard work to do
during the session of the next Congress.
That is he will do mora fishing in Flori-
da than ever.
—CLARKSON wants ‘‘the gates of the
Republican party made wide enough for
Republican victory.” They were wide
enough last fall, but the trouble was
there was no one to shut them,
—Right in the face of the GEARY biil
WiLLie Woo, a full blooded Chinese, of
‘West Harrisville, Mich., has asked for
the post office at that place. Surely
such audacity will not go unrewarded.
—Dr. Briaes will keep the attention
of the Presbyterian clergy away from
the World’s Fair Sunday opening unti]
after the trouble all blows over, then
the blue stockings will wisely keep quiet
and show their good sense.
—The Chinese Highbinders are tak-
ing a touching farewell of their friends
(7?) on the Pacific slope. The accent
ghould be on touching, for all who ex-
pect to be deported are sand-bagging
and robbing whites with a daring never
before dreamed of.
—A cocoanut opening is the latest, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Record. If
the State legislators would consent to
furnish the material to be operated upon
the long mooted question as to how
much brains we have at Harrisburg
would be speedily answered.
—Mother nature took the conceit
out of the people of the Buck"
eye State on Tuesday. They had
been laboring under the mistaken
idea that in ForAXER they had the
most powerful wind machine in exist-
ence, but since Tuesday’s blow they
have changed their minds.
—Was it the New York World’s call
upon Secretary OLNEY to proceed
against the trusts which are violating
the laws of the U. S., that proved so
disastrous to the cordage trust ? If so,
the World should continue the call un-
til the sugar and leather trusts are num-
bered among the evils of the past.
—The incredulity of man is coming
to be more and more of a draw back to
enterprise of every sort. A Milesburg
man told of killing a black snake
twenty-two feet long and because no one
believed him he thought himself drunk
and went and signed the pledge. Is it
any wonder the whiskey trust has
gone under ?
—Just how the DELAMATERS escap-
ed the punishment which the law has in
store for offenders of their type will per-
haps ever remain a mystery to the peo-
ple of this commonwealth. When it
becomes necessary for justice to become
perverted for the sake of partisan friend -
ship, then is it not time to try the law
for crime against itself ?
—The anamolous turn of our lan-
guage, as it is written or spoken, often sa.
vors of the ridiculous. Just the other
day the city papers were all complain,
ing because the Reading railroad was
rebuilding its shattered organization on
the sand. And now the very same jour-
nals have decided that the reorganizers
have not sufficient sand to make her go.
—The Williamsport Times thinks
“that it would be a most unpleasant ex-
perience for a young woman secluded
and surrounded as EULALIE has been
in the Spanish court to be exhibited to
the rudely curious gaze of the Cosmopol-
itan crowd, such as will every day gath-
er on the Fair grounds.” Unpleasant
indeed! As if every good citizen of the
United Sates was not as much of a
prince or princess as either EULALIE or
her husband. The spaniards could
visit the Fair incognito and we have
dollars to coppers that they would
never be distinguished from the ‘‘com-
mon rabble’ which the 7%mes imagines
would eat them up.
STATE RIGHTS AN
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VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 26, 1893
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NO. 21.
A Democratic Reception.
The reception of the Spanish Infanta |
was an unusual experience with the
dignitaries of our government. Being
of a Democratic character, they have
rot been accustomed to royal etiquette,
and it was a question how the plain
rules of Democracy could compromise
with the ceremony that is usually ac-
corded royal personages. The Em-
peror of Brazil visited us during the
Centennial exposition, but his case was
easily managed, for of all potentates
he was the most Democratic in dispo-
sition, unhedged by the convention-
alities that ordinarily surround those
who occupy regal stations. As he
was an American monarch, he seemed
to haye divested himself of the stilted
etiquette which the crowned heads of
Europe require.
The reception of the Infanta appear-
ed to involve ceremonial questions of a
more delicate character. She came on
our invitation as the representative of
the most ceremonious court in Europe.
Besides, she was a lady, and the ques-
tion of deference to her sex was in-
volved with the question of deference
to her royal station. How was she to
be received so that a sufficient measure
of respectful ceremony should be ob-
served without compromising the dig-
nity of the high functionary who
ghould receive her? Was the Presi-
dent to go forth to meet her, or was he
to await her coming at the White
House? We think that Mr. CLEVE
LAND adopted the course that was most
consonant with the dignity of his office
and with Democratic traditione.
Notwithstanding all the fuss and feath-
ers of the Spanish Minister who want-
ed her reception to be characterized by
the high-stepping ceremonials of the
Spanish court, the President preferred
the Democratic method of welcoming
visitors, putting out the latch-string of
the White House, ready for the Infanta
whenever she should call. The execu-
tive politeness was sufficiently shown
when the President sent his Secretary
of State to New York to receive the
royal guest and escort her to the capi
tol, and in the fact that her carriage,
from the Washington depot to her
lodgings at the Arlington, was escorted
by four companies of cavalry, was, we
should think, enough ceremony to
satisfy reasonable royalty.
It turns out that the Infanta is well
pleased with the plain yet cordial re-
ception shereceived from a Democratic
President, and this fact shows that she
is a sensible woman. No doubt it ir
a relief to her to be rid of the elaborat:
ceremonies that attend every step of
European royalty, and the Democratic
welcome of an American President has
been a new and pleasant experience
to her.
-—The action of the Chicago Trade
and Labor Assembly, on Sunday, when
it demanded the Sunday opening of
the Fair was perhaps the most pre-
sumptuous bit of work that has come
to light since the question of Sunday
opening has been agitated. The idea
of the president of an organization of
intelligent working people getting up
and declaring that if the commission-
ers did not accede to the laborers’
wishes. they would appoint an hour
when, in a body, they would march to
the grounds and tear down the fence.
Itis hardly probable that any labor
union would undertake to carry out
President LingaaN’s rash threat and if
they should the Commissioners would
be justified in meeting their attack with
a charge or two from KrupP's monster
gun on exhibition at the Fair. It is
just such leaders, as this man LINEHAN
appears to be, that get the laboring
people of the country into trouble
which they invariably regret.
Re ———
——The decision of judge advocate
General George B. Davis to advise
the War Department to interfere and
stop the vandalism that is destroying
the historic Gettysburg battle field
with an electric rail-way is a good one.
It should be a national park aud as
such, money making schemes like elec-
tric rail-roads would prove a detraction
and mar the historic beauty of the
place. It seems that the government
is alittle late in wakening up to a reali-
zation that it wants the battle field pre-
served as its owners have offered it for
sale many times. Better late than
never, however,
The Sources of Monopoly.
| Those trade combinations known as
| Trusts, which have been the cause of
; so much oppression to the American
| people, have had, asa general thing,
their origin in laws passed for the sup-
| posed benefit of the business interests.
| Prominent among these extortionate
| combines are the Cordage Trust, the
| Sugar Trust, and the Standard Oil
| Company. With but few exceptions
| they have sprung from encouragement
received from our tariff laws. Their
products have been so shielded against
competition by high duties, that they
have been enabled to ask the highest
prices the market would stand, and in
order that the market might be put in
the most advantageous shape for their
extortions they have removed compe-
tition among themselves by combining
their interests and dividing the profits.
It is thus that the Cordage Trust, tak-
ing advantage of the high tariff on
rope and twine, has built up a monopo-
ly that has been particularly oppres-
sive to the farmers in an article of in-
dispensable’ use in their harvesting
operations. Itis on account of tariff
discrimination in its favor that the
Sugar Trust has been enabled to plun-
the other Trusts, with but few excep-
tions, can be traced to the opportunities
and immunities afforded them by tariff
laws.
It is true, as regards the Standard
Oil Combination, that this most gi-
gantic of Trusts does not owe its origin
and maintenance to the protecting fa-
vor of tariff laws, as there is no petrol
eam competition against which the
tariff is called upon to protect that
great monopoly, and yet it may be
said that the Standard Trust was built
up and maintained by discrimination
afforded by railroad companies on the
protective principle. Competitors to
the Standard combination were driven
panies carrying the oil of the latter at
lower freight rates than were allowed
other oil operators. This discrimina-
tion acted with precisely the same ef-
fect in building up the oil monopoly
as tariff discrimination has operated in
enabling the Sugar Trust to break
sumers, Favoritism in freight rates
built up the petrolenm monopoly just
as favoritism in tariff rates has called
into existence other monopolistic com-
binations that control the production
and sale of commodities of general use.
It should be the mission of Demo-
Icracy to remove these encouragements
to monopoly from whatever source they
may come.
——It is a matter of very little
moment to most people just how much
squabbling they are doing over the di.
rection of the Fair out at Chicago.
TLe exposition is well worth taking a
long journey to see. It far surpasses
the Paris exposition and will be run
on the most elaborate scale, even
though the directors are sure they will
lose an eaormous amount of money in
the project. Some of our eastern co-
temporaries are beginning to blame
the poor attendance on the fact of its
location at Chicago and in doing so
they clearly display their selfishness
in having wanted 1t located in an At-
laatic city. It is a World's Fair, ’tis
true, but is it vot an anniversary dis-
covery of America? What right
would we have had to force the people
of the West to cross the continent
when they had a far greater right to
demand a central location.
A fair idea of the remarkable
progress made by American industry
can be seen in our Navy. When the
CLEVELAND administration first came
into power we had nothing that was
worthy the name of a navy. Secretary
WairNEY began the work of recon.
struction, his successor, Mr. Tracy,
continued it, and now Mr. HerBeRT, will
complete the work. From nothing
we have jumped to the fastest and most
powerful armored vessels in the world.
— AS a substitute for the staff of life
there can be little doubt that the pen-
sion roll is a great thing, but the trou-
ble has been thus far that the g. o. p.
has fed too freely on it.
Sm ———
——Governor Parison has signed
the Fare free text book bill and itis
now a law,
der every household. The pillage of-
out of businees by the railroad com-!
down all competition and rob con-
Why the Fair Should Open on Sunday.
In the last issue of the WaTcHMAN
the question of the World's Fair's Sun-
day opening was taken up and hastily
discussed with the conclusion, of
course, that there could be no harm
done by throwing the gates open on
Sunday, and allowing the people of
Chicago and the visitors to the Windy
city to walk quietly through the build-
ings, thus improving their time in ob:
ject lessons. Instead of denying them
such innocent privileges and thereby
encouraging the patronage of the scores
of harmful amusement schemes that
border the Fair grounds.
Rev. Dr. Joux HEeNrRY Barrows,
pastor of the First Presbyterian church,
of Chicago, one of the first ministers to
take up the fight against Sunday open-
ing, has completely changed his opinion
and now, to the astonishment of his
congregation, which endorsed his cru-
sade against the opening, favors it.
Because, after a careful study of the
entire situation, from an unbiased and
thoroughly advantageous point of ob-
servation, he has concluded that the
Fairis a “noble educational institution’
and deems it too bad to close it on Sun-
day when popular resorts of a degrad.
ing character are to profit thereby.
The learned divine says:
“Shall Christians stay away from
the Fair because it is open on Sunday ?
I say no, becanse it is the greatest
mental and moral educator the world
has ever seen. Four times the space
is given to education that the Paris ex-
position gave ; the most costly feast of
music known to man has been provid-
ed. We had great difficulty last year
to keep the Young People’s Society of
Christian Endeavor, at its convention
in New York, from passing resolutions
asking all members to stay away from
the Fair in case it was opened Sun-
days. That isall wrong in principle.
| If your conscience says you must stay
away from the Fair because it is open
Sundays you ought not to read any
daily paper because it has a Sunday
'igsue. You must not ride on the Chi-
cago and Northwestern, nor the Michi-
gan Central, nor Pennsylvania Rail-
ways because they run Sunday trains.”
Such a common sense view of the
situation as Dr. Barrows seems to
have taken on the question might well
be emulated by all those persons who
have professed to see the desecra-
tion of the Sabbath in the Sunday
opening of the Fair. The old question
of straining at a gnat and swallowing
' a camel always comes up just as Dr.
Barrows has shown by his query :
| Shall we read the newspapers because
i they haveSunday issues, or refuse to
ride on railroads which ran Sunday
trains ?
In commenting on the change of
opinion which has taken place since
the people have been confronted with
the situation in all its aspects the
Philadelphia Record concludes as
follows :
“It is not surprising to be told that
the author of these statements is one of
the most influential clergymen in the
Northwest, for influence follows inevi-
tably on strength of character, and
there can be nc two opinions of the
intrinsic force of the personality which
could thus change its attitade upon a
burning question, and change it un-
equivocally, as soon as experience had
demanded the propriety of the change.
The voice of one such clear-headed,
honest thinker and observer, who
pleads not for Sabbatarianism but for
morality and humanity, will be heard
far beyond denominational lines; and
other voices from other pulpits are join:
ing in the plea. A Chicago dispatch
announces that
The Rev. James Miller, of the Mans-
field Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, surprised his congregation on
Sunday morning by devoting bis ser
mon to a strong plea for the Sunday
opening of the World’s Fair. He de:
clared that the greatest need of the
time was a relaxation of strict Sunday
observance, and that nothing could do
80 much to advance Christ's teachings
as Sunday opening. :
The light is breaking; and, what
ever may be the issue of the World's
Fair question, the spirit of these teach-
ings wi'l be as good seed sown by the
wayside to blossom in the after days in
broader ideas of humanity and ina
more perfect trust in the morality and
self-constraint of the American people.”
— Republican post masters should’nt
get mad at Mr, MaxweLL. He wants
to bury the hatchet just as bad as
they do, but simply because he thinks
their necks the proper place to inter it,
they must go and get mad.
Futility of the Geary Act.
From the Reading Telegram.
The United States finds itself in a
peculiar position. Here it is with
thousands of Chinamen on haad and
no money with which to deport them.
Failure to send them back will bé an
acknowledgment of its inability to ex-
ecute a law of its own making, and
will not rebound tothe credit of this
country; nor will sending them back
reflect any higher credit upon us. Lay-
ing aside any question of constitution-
ality, the act is an outrageous one and
can have no other result than injury
to Americans and American interests
in the Chinese Empire. It is wrong
from any stand-point from which it
may be viewed, and emphasizes the
fact that the making of laws is falling
into the hands of demagogue and nar-
row-minded politicians.
EET ———C—————
It Takes Plain, Practical, Every-day
Grover to do Such Things.
From the York Gazette:
While the discussion ‘was going on
over the manner in ‘which the Spanish
princess should be received at the
White House at Washington, Presi-
Cleveland seemed to be the most un-
concerned of all the people most inter-
ested in the question; and when the
time came to receive her, he met her
as any polite American gentleman
should. She was greeted with grave,
but not elaborate courtesy, with no
tussy bowing and scraping; and the
result is that the sensible princess was
delighted.
———————
One Good Turn Deserves Another.
From the Altoona Times.
News from China and Japan brings
the information that Christian mission
work is being seriously threatened by
the outbreak ot native violence, a num-
ber of outrages being reported. The
American government is placed in an
unpleasant predicament in this matter,
as, while it is expelling Mongolians
from this country it can hardly complain
about the treatment of Americans in
China, although there is considerable
difference between physical outrages and
peaceable deportation.
The President and the Sabbath.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Reading between the line: of his speech
to the Presbyterian delegates, it is toler-
ably clear that President Cleveland has
little sympathy or approval for the de-
vious ways the Chicago people are
managing the Sunday question in its
relations to the World’s fair. “No pub-
lic officer,” he says, ‘should be unmind-
ful of the restraints of religious senti-
ment,” and the people should ‘exact
from those who make and execute their
laws a recognition of these restraints,”
It Had Too Much Rope.
From the Wayne County Herald.
The cordage trust was one of the
combinations for which the makers of
the McKinley tariff showed a tender
regard. They removed the duties on
the compensation’s raw material,
which had yielded about $1,500,000
revenue, and upon the manufactured
products retained duties high enough
to shut out foreign competition. The
value of the cordage, cables and twine
imported last year was only $83,403.
What a Trusty Official Means.
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
The veto axe at Harrisburg is still
at work and Robert E, is daily saving
the State much money by its judicious
use. Quay, McGee & Co. have pushed
a great deal of obnoxious legislation
through both Houses but “Veto Bob"
is always on the alertand nothing
crooked ever gets his signature.
Nor Will Ycu See Too Much of He
Bathing Robe. :
From the Philadelphia Times.
A contemporary remarks: “The
summer girl is coming.” Let her
come. With no special reference to
the summer bathing robe, we cannot
see too much of her.
Some Consolation After Long Waiting
From the Pittsburg Post.
It will he a great satisfaction to Gen-
eral Hastings to hear Mr. Quay say that
he, the General, should have been nom-
inated three years ago. Foresight
never was in it with hindsight.
Goodness, What a Joke.
From the Hollidaysburg Register.
The opening of the World's Fair on
Sunday will be a great blow to that
great and good man, Matthew Stanley
Quay.
He Has the Interests of the People at
Heart.
From the Cambria Freeman.
al bills for which the taxpayers of the
state should commend him.
——1If you want printing of any de-
scription the WATCHMAN ofice is the
place to have it done.
Governor Pattison has vetoed sever-
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The mercury mounted to 90 in Readi ng.
—Small-pox killed David Deaner, a farmer
near Lancaster.
—In a runaway near Birdsboro, Miss Redcoy
was critically hurt.
~Each of the Lehigh Valley’s new trolley
cars will seat 83 persons.
—Thieves made a haul of 6000 cigars in A. G.
Rohrback’s shop, Spring City.
—Jack Frost nipped tender buds in parts of ’
Berks county Friday night.
—Daniel Deaner, a prosperous farmer, died
at Lancaster from small pox.
—Clothing worth $500 was stolen from Rob-
ert Patton’s store at Littlestone.
—Extensive forest fires prevailed in the
country surrounding Reading on Tue sday.
—That stanch champion of genuine Demoec-
racy, the “York Gazette,” has been enlarged.
—The general synod of the Reformed
Church in America met Wednesday night in
Reading.
—The school board of Scranton will issue
bonds tc raise $150,000 for the erection of the
new High schocl.
—The new Odd Fellows’ monument at
Lebanon was dedicated Monday with impos-
ing ceremonies.
—A Sunday open air concert in Shenandoah
struck such a responsive chord that it will be
repeated every week. y
—By a gas explosion in Isaac Schwartzwel.
der’s store, Pittsburg, the proprietor and a
clerk were badly scorched.
—After an exciting controversy, the Second
and Third Presbyterian Churches, Pittsburg,
have merged into one.
—After a violent fit of coughing, Daniel 0»
Connell, a Potsville miner, died of hemorrhage
in a few minutes.
—Allentown's Board of Health will prosecute
the physicians who fail to report deaths with.
in 36 hours of their occurrence.
—The firemen’s parade at Allentown, Mon-
day, was a success and many companies from
surrounding towns were present.
—Joseph Beerer, county treasurer of Mont-
gomery county, twenty years ago, died at his
home in Norristown Tuesday.
—In trying to stop runaway horses at Oley,
Berks county, Oliver Faler tell from the wag-
on and his neck was broken.
—While crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad
track near Lancaster an Italian laborer was
cut to pieces by an express train.
—The Brown segmental cannon has been
shipped from Birdsboro to Sandy Hook to be
tested by the Government officials.
—In trying to make the kitchen fire quicker
Elsie Spier, ot Columbia, poured kerosene on
it on Sunday and was severely burred.
—A Coroner's jury at Scranton decided that
George Van Fleet had been murdered before
his body had been thrust into Mud Pond.
—Two electric cars collided at Allentown,
fatally injuring Motorman Andrew C. Nagle
and slightly bruising several passengers.
—Republican leaders in Pittsburg are divid-
ed upon the Sheriffalty nomination, John Doyle
and James Richards being the candidates.
—In the trouble over the recent election of
borough superintendent of public schools at
Shenandoah, an appeal will be made to the
court.
—Agoiti Noll shot and killed Concerdio Preg-
nano, of Scranton, in a quarrel over the
former's wife, Monday. The murderer was
arrested.
—A $10,000 plant is being erected tu Reading
by the Milholland Company, to manufacture
bicycle tubes, which are now mainly made in
Europe.
—For failing to wed her on the appointed
day, Mise Lizzie Laubauch wants John Lau ;
bauch, both of near Bethlehem, to soothe her
with $1000.
—Past Senior Vice Department Commander
A. J. Sellers, of Meade Post No. 1 Philadelphia,
will deliver the Decoration Day oration at
Slatington.
—Fourteen steel plates, each weighing 55
tons and made for the battleship Texas, were
shipped from the Bethlehem Iron Works Sat-
urday.
—The Commonwealth's case again st Charles
Salyards, the alleged Carlisle murderer, was
finished Saturday, and the defense will begin
to-morrow.
“I have entirely recovered from the effects
of my wound,” said H. C. Frick, the Home
stead magnate, as he landed in New York
fresh from Europe.
—Two oil cars were burned on the Baltimore
and Ohio bridge, at Johnstown, Monday night.
The bridge was destroyed, and traffic will be
cut off for weeks.
—Clare Poterfield, aged ten years, while
riding his horse to water, in Richmond town-
ship, Venango county, was thrown and so bad,
ly injured that he died.
—While repairing the damage done to the
fire alarm system at McKeesport, by the re-
cent storm, James McAllister fell from a pale
and was seriously injured.
—Dragged by his runaway team for a long
distance, Superintendent Henry Furhman, of
the Kaier Brewing Company, Mahonoy City,
was 80 badly hurt he may not recover.
—Bacause James McDermott, of Shamokin,
would not pay his rent Monday, Henry Lich-
tighter struck him over the head with a
hatchet, and he is now in a critical condition.
—Simon Kinsey, of Hornerstown, Dauphin
county, had a tooth extracted Saturday by a
tramp dentlst who administered a drug to
prevent pain. Kinsey died of blood poison-
ing.
—Henry Bennett, a young son of Constable
David Bennett, of Elk county, was so badly
beaten and kicked bya man named Mike
Long at Bennezette that it is thought he will
die.
—In the case of William Hill who was found
dead with marks of violenes upon his body, in
a boarding house at Ellwood city, near New
Castle, the evidence at the coroner's inquest
points to foul play.
— William Stoddart, assignee of the Rocka-
fellow bank, of Wilkes-Barre, which failed
Mareh 8, has announced that he is ready to
pay the first dividend to the creditors. It
amounts to $25,000 and each creditor will re.
caive 534 cents on the dollar.
—William Barrett was fatally ‘injured at
Manville colliery near Scranton, Monday.
The accident was due to an explosion of gas.
| Several tons’ of rock came crashing down
upon the unfortunate man.
—Major George R. Davis, of the judge advo.
cate general's department, United States
army, is at Gettysburg on orders from the sec:
retary of war to investigate thé report con-
. cerning the building of an electric road,