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Ink Slings.
—Now the Governor of Rhode Island
is a truly original fellow. _
—If you have tears to shel, save
them until you get robbed in Chicago.
--What manner of men are we,
that we are all so willing to take the
last cent from a friend ?
—+It’s an ill wind that blows nobody
good” say the Democrats of Ohio as
ForAKER continues shooting off.
~The next big day will be Fourth of
July. Will the next big head be nec-
essarily deferred until the day after ?
—Has any one heard of VERAGUA
since EuLALIE’s arrival. Truly the
Americans are but a fickle and incon-
stant lot.
—Now doth the busy candidate, im-
prove each shining minute; by claim-
ing every one as friends, and telling
them he’s in it.
—Philadelphia’s epidemic of suicide,
Media's fire-bugs and Lancaster’s lice
make up a particularly incongruous
jumble of State notorieties.
—It is evident that Chicago bankers
are not sharers in the World's Fair
plunder. Else there would not be so
many of them going to the wall.
—Whoever it was that started the
scare about the failure of the natural
gas out in Ohio evidently didn’t know
that FORAKER is still alive.
—Dear, oh dear, how many there are
who would have loved to have been a
coast mosquito so they could have
buzzed in GROVER’S ear while he was
fishing.
~-Heresy, according to the modern in-
terpretation of the word, all comes from
being too smart. It is equally as un-
fortunate to be ahead of the times as it
is to be behind.
—A French statistician figures out
that there are eight hundred million
gallons of beer annually brewed in the
United States. He doesn’t say where
it annually goes to, however.
—The United States has another vic-
tor in FRANK IvEs, who won the inter-
national billiard match, London, on
last Saturday. A few more years and
we will lead in all things.
—Pittsburg is crazy because her base
ball team stands at the top of the
League. There is a little saying about
“he laughs best who laughs last” that
may contain more truth than poetry
for them before the browning October
days have come.
—ZRepublicans are mad because Sec-
retary CARLISLE inclines a little more
toward the old spoils system than to-
wards civil service reform. The question
that bothers us, if there be grounds for
their wrath, is who do the spoils belong
to if we are not to have them ?
—This thing of styling newspaper
men “D. Hs” wherever they go is de-
cidedly unjust. The average writer
does more to pay his way as he goes
than any other class of persons. Besides
jeopardizing his chance of eternal rest
by lying about every fake enterprise
undertaken.
-—~And Mr. WANAMAKER'S waiters
had the audacity to strike too, It
strikes us as a trifle ridiculons that wait-
ers should strike their boss for better
food by going on a strike. Nowa Pull-
man car porter wouldn't be forced to
such an extreme. He is usually master
of the situation.
—-Only fifty thousand persons visited
the Fair on last Sunday and the man-
agement now looks on the Sunday open-
ing plan as a failure. Attractions failed
to attract, and the hordes, “who nearly
battered the gates down to get in’ on
the preceding Sabbath, when they knew
they couldn’t, were not on hand to drop
their half dollars in the slat.
—Pittsburgers are mad because Chi-
cago authorities put the police from the
Smoky city, who went out to catch
Fair thieves, at watching cattle. After
the way murderer FrrzsiMMoNs slipped
through the fingers of Pittsburg officers
it is not much wonder they should be
deemed only fit to guard things which
would neither be carried off nor run
away of their own free will.
—The Philadelphia ZUmes accuses
the State Legislature of ‘‘reprehensible
ignorance” in passing the Pure Food
bill, Since one ot its principle features
is to guard against impurities in beer
we are rather of the opinion that the
Times is troubled a little itself with
ignorance, for when it comes down to a
question of beer who can gainsay a
Legislator.
— While itis true that remarkable
advances have been made in medical
science within the past quarter of a cen-
tury yet the ambition of physcians oft>n
leads them to experimental procedure
with cases for which tried and prescribed
remedies are known, often resulting in
fatalities. While medicine now claims
that it can do anything but make a
perfect human being its desire for
practice has lead to many sad ends,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 38.
93.
NO. 23.
The Recent Legislative Session.
It is customary to find fault with the
State Legislature, and as soon as that
bi-ennial body of lawmakers adjourns,
on all sides is heard a chorus of con-
demnation in which itssins of commis-
sion and omission are amplified to the
fullest extent, The Legislature whose
session closed last week could not ex-
pect to escape this usual overhauling.
In some respects it has deserved it, but
it must be admitted that, as a body, in
point of ability, intention and achieve.
ment it was of the quality customarily
found in Pennsylvania legislators.
It having become a habit of the peo-
ple to condemn their State lawmakers,
there is an insistence that a deteriora-
tion is apparent at each succeeding ses-
sion. This depreciative view has pre-
vailed for years, yet the fact is that re-
cent State Legislatures, including the
one just adjourned, have not displayed
such comparative deficiencies as would
justify this habitual and wholesale fault
finding.
The chief defects of the past session
were of a partisan origin. Its faults of
this character are of course attributa-
ble to the party dominating the legisla-
tive body, whose actions gave the deter-
mining complexion to its proceedings.
To this source must be assigned the
disgraceful rulings in the Andrews
case, and other contested election cases
in which partisan advantage was the
deciding factor. Partisan unfairness is
also chargeable with the failure of the
apportionment bills, the majority pre-
ferring to disregard the requirements
of the constitution rather than lose the
advantage of their present gerrymander.
The abject subserviency of the Legis-
lature to the dictates of a boss in ite
organization and general line of parti
san conduct was also one of the blem-
ishes for which the ruling majority was
solely responsible.
In the matter of legislation affect-
ing the general interest of the people
the result of the sessions was about the
average outcome of legislative effort in
this State. Some acts of general 1m,
portance were passed and others failed
to be enacted. Some things that
should have been done were left un-
done, while others that should not
have been done met with favorable
action. But this is customary in the
record of every legislative body. It al-
ways has been so and always will be.
The amendments regarded as neces-
sary to perfect the ballot law were not
made to the extent that was demanded
by the friends of honest elections, but
still some amendment was made in
spite of Republican enmity to ballot re-
reform. This law will be perfected, or
a different method of voting and count-
mg will be adopted, only when the
Democrats can exercise legislative as
well as executive control. The pass-
age of the bill relieving the people ot
Philadelphia of the Building Commis-
sion was due more to the fear of Re-
publican dissension and the dictate of
bosses, who desired the coatrol of the
patronage heretofore enjoyed by the
commission, than the virtue of the Re.
publican legislative managers.
There was a failure of legislation in
regard to road improvement, but this is
a subject of such wide difference of
opinion as to means and methods, that
the failure can not be justly charged to
legislative indifference or incapacity.
It goes withcut saying that there
was a convergence of lively interests
from all parties in the passage of ap-
propriation bills. It was ever thus
and always will be so. Notwithstand-
ing a most liberal pull was made on
the State Treasury, dissatisfaction nat-
urally exists among those who did not
get what they wanted, and also among
those who got, but not as much as they
asked for.
It is not the Legislature doing the
most work that does the State the most
good. There are measures proposed for
enactment the failure ot which is a bene-
fit tothe public interest. Much of the
abortive action of the last session may
be placed in this class, and it can be
said that the Legislature just adjourned
served the State best, not by what it
did, but by what it did'nt do. This,
however, is the case with most leg-
islative bodies. It is believed by |
sound thinkers that we have too |
much legislation. If this is a cor |
rect view, the legislative gentlemen at |
Harrisburg, certainly deserve some
credit for not overburdening us with
unnecessary laws.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 9, 18
Put the Responsibility Where it Be-
longs.
While the ire of the tax-payers is
justly aroused over the failure of the
late Legislature to give them some re:
lief from the oppression of unequal and
unfair taxation, and while the news-
paper press is pouring down upon the
members of that body its bitterest de
nunciations for doing that which it did,
and failing to do that which it might
have done, it should not be forgotten:
that for the legislation of 1893, the
Republican party is alone responsible.
With a majority of over two-thirds in
the House, and within one of a two:
thirds majority in the Senate, the party
of Quay and MAGEE, of BarpsLey and
Dave MARTIN, 18 to be charged with
the short comings as well asjbe en-
titled to whatever credit is due to the
actions and work of a legislative body,
more positively Republican, and more
disgustingly obsequious to the demands
of its bosses, than any that has ever
drawn pay for services rendered the
State.
It may have been, as the Republican
press of the State has charged, the
“most open and notoriously corrupt
body of legislators that ever met,”’ but
if iv was, it was also the most unan-
imous and overwhelmingly Republican
body of legislators that ever convened
at Harrisburg. What it was the lead-
ers and bosses of the Republican party
made it. What it did these same lead-
ers and bosses dictated and command-
ed it to do.
For the failure to furnish the people
with any beneficial legislation during
the five month's session that has just
ended ; for the vicious measures at-
tempted ; for the continued refusal to
obey the mandates of the constitution
and apportion the State, into jud.cial,
congressional and legislative districts,
ag well as for the generally disgrace-
ful reputation it earned, the Repubii-
can partv, as a party, is to be held to
account.
It elected the men its newspapers
now denounce as unworthy and cor-
rupt; its leaders and bosses pointed
the way they should go ; its authorized
head, the chairman of its State organ-
ization, personally dictated to them
ou the floor of both Senate and House
the course they should pursue, ard
they pursued it. And now when the
results are made manifest; when the
work of the session is before the people
for their approval or condemnation, to
attempt to shield the organization that
is responsible, and place the reproach
that properly belongs to it, upon the
shoulders of individuals, who did its
bidding, is not only unfair to its mem-
bers, but is unjust to the Legislature
generally, and cowardly in its purposes.
Let the Republican party stand to
its work. It would have taken che
credit bad the late Legislature done a
single creditable act. It did not, and
its disgrace and failure should be plac-
ed just where the credit would have
fallen, had there been any.
——-The people who have all along
been predicting that the President
would ignore entirely the desires,
of Tammany Hall democrats will
have to reconstruct their theories,
and re-write their predictions, since
the appointment of Cuas. W. Dayton,
as post master of New York. Mr.
Davrox had been lor years, and now
is, an active member of Tammany
Hall and the fact that a member of
that organization has been named for
the most important office within the
State, shows that the president and the
Democratic workers of New York are
not as far apart as some people thought
and hoped they were.
——There is mo use of people tear-
ing their shirts because a sentiment is
growing amoug the people in favor of
a graduated income tax. After all,
when you come to think about it
seriously, there don’t seem to be such
a terrible wrong in making the fellow
who has the largest income pay the
most tax.
A LENSES
The Democrats of Blair county
have performed their usual feat of
making fools ot themselves, by ght.
ing and dividing in their county con-
vention. After the election they will
wonder why they are in such a hope-
less minority and will be too idiotic to
understand that it is the result of their
own actions,
No Reason for Alarm.
It would be well if our valued and
voluble contemporary, the Philadel-
phia Press, would buckle up its belly-
bind, adjust iis crapper and try to
calm down a little, or there may be an
exhibition ot idiocy, brought on by
over excitement and undue fright about
the finances, that will be neither credit:
able to itself nor interesting to its read-
ers.
The fact that some one has whis:
pered that somebody else got it from
an unknown source, that Secretary Car-
LISLE is contemplating a new issue of
“greenbacks,” to provide for the neces-
sities of the business interests and to
prevent the gold-hoarders of the
country from cornering the money mar-
ket, has thrown that usually level
headed journal into a paroxysm of ex.
citement that threatens the direst re
sults to both its judgmeat and repu-
tation, unless relief of some kind is
forth-coming.
Whether Secretary CarrisLe has
ever thought of an additional issue of
greenbacks as a method of tiding over
the presect financial difficulties, or
whether he has considered the demands
of bankers and money-lenders for more
interest bearing bonds, as the surest
remedy for existing troubles, are mat-
ters that few if any know. Which ever
of these courses he adopts, if either
is believed to be necessary and feasible,
will be adopted only after the most
careful consideration, and when facta
show conclusively that it is for the
best interests of the public, for the bus-
iness welfare and for the credit of the
government, to do so.
The Press should remember that
Secretary CARLISLE is no visionary.
He is a cool, clear headed, statesman
whose judgment can neither be warped
by the clamor of those who demand
an unlimited supply of paper money:
nor the designing propositions of bond-
holders and speculators in money. He
.is the representative of no one particu
lar interest, nor can he be made the
tool of those whose only purpose is to
benefit selfish ends.
While in the hands of the party to
which the Press gives its allegiance,
the Treasury department of the gov-
ernment was simply a shuttle-cock for
gold-gamblers, stock-holders and that
horde of nod-producers which thrives
most when public prosperity is least
promising. They played with it as
they pleased and as their greed or ne-
cessities' dictated, until these interests
came to believe that it was their espe-
cial department created purposely to
assist them—and them only.
A new power has taken hold of that
department, and it is a question with it
now, what policy is best for the best
interests of the country and for the
prosperity of the people. This is the
question that Secretary CARLISLE is
struggling with, and whether he sees
that the right road is through an addi-
tional issue of greenbacks, which
would give to the country a larger per-
centage ot circulating medium, or
whether through an other issue of in-
terest bearing bonds, as demanded by
Wall street and money lenders, or
whether it be throngh some other poli-
cy, the public and the Press can rest
assured that the decission will be hon-
estly reached and will be made in the
interests of the people and of public
prosperity.
Under any circumstances the country
is not going to the dogs. We are com:
pelled to suffer for a while from the
effects of evils that come as a conse-
quence of Republican legislation and Re-
publican methods, but prompt repeals
of vicious legislation, and a vigorous
setting down upon of the methods and
policy that have brought the Treasury
and the financial situation to the con-
dition they are now in, will right these
matters.
There is no sense in getting scared.
There is no reason for being discour-
aged. There is no excuse for exciting
public fears or attempting to create
public distrust. Our finances will be
righted by the Treasury department;
our prosperity will right itself, and the
farther and faster we get away from
Republican methods the sooner these
righting processes will begin.
Now that Governor PArTTisoN’s
term has come so near to its close we
would advise the Harrisburg Patriot to
take time by the fore-lock and look
around for anotherjobject for its vile
calumnies.
Great Statesman Must Have Great Pay,
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
The Harrisburg Patriot has gone to
the trouble of figuring out how many
hours each house of the legislature was
in session each week, and how much
each member received am hour. By
this process it is shown that one week
the pay was $68.18 an hour, while the
last week of the session it was reduced
to $2.06 in the senate and $1.66 in the
house, The total number of hours the
senate sat during the five months was
210 and 43 minutes, which would
make 27} days of eight hours each.
The house putin’ ‘more time. It sat
altogether 383 hours and 15 minutes,
which would make 47] days of eight
hours each. * Had the legislature made
better use of the time it fooled away
two months of the session, the flurry,
rush and tumble hours of the last days
of the session would have been ‘avoided.
It seems almost incredible that
the supposed intelligent men who sit
in that body do not profit by the ex-
perienee of the p ast and effect a reform
in this direction,
—————
The Reward of Wisdom.
From the Williamsport Times.
Dr. Briggs has been suspended from
the Presbyterian ministry until such
time as he may give satisfactory evi
dence that he has repented. If the
doctor is made of the stuff his course
so far has shown him to be, he will
probably never repent. Men who
know a thing cannot very well repent.
Such has been the case with every her-
etic who has been arraigned before a
church tribunal. Dr. Briggs, should
he live, will see, as have other heretics,
the gradual and general acceptance of
his yiews. He is unfortunate only in
having advanced toa theological posi-
tion to which his church dare not at
present follow him, but if he continues
his work and demonstrates his honest
convictions, he will gain adherents,
and in the end become a victor; and
this without endangering genuinely
true religion.
S——
And the Returns Not AIl In.
From an Exchange. :
That versatile and industrious static-
tician, Edward Atkinson, has made a
calculation as regards the “biil for our
Civil War.” He figures up, && the ex-
penditure for war purposes and recon-
struction, some $4,000,000,000 ; and as
to the probable cost of war, in woney,
to the South of $2,200,000,000. To
these he adds the pension roll at
$1,800,000,000, and the estimated cost
of future pensions, according to life
tables, at about $2,000,000,000 more.
This, together with the interest allow-
ance of about $2,000,000,000, swells
the total cost of the Civil War to the
sum of $12,000,000,000.
Two Kinds of Favoring.
From the Harrisburg Call.
Preparations for the gubernatorial
election next year have already been be-
gun by the Republican party. Gen. D.
H. Hastings, of Bellefonte, is an active
candidate for the nomination and has
the advantage of being early in the
field. Congressman C. W. Stone, of
Warren, is also an aspirant for guberna-
torial honors and has a strong support.
Senator Quay is represented as favoring
Hastings, but his personal choice has
not yet been announced.
The Right Kind of News.
From the ColumbiajIndependent.
Secretary Carlisle is said to have in-
formed congressmen that he intends to
discharge every Republican in the
treasury department who is not protect-
ed by the civil law. He says he has
given the officials of the department to
understand that this will be his policy
and that they will not be dismissed on
any charges, but solely for the reason
that they are Republicans and that the
places are wanted tor Democrats.
Reason tobe Glad.
From the Easton Argus.
The people are always pleased when
the state Legislature adjourns. There
is too much tinkering with our laws.
While there is some new and remedial
legislation always needed, the sessions of
the Legislature bring forth a large num-
ber of measures, many of which are im-
practicable, on all sorts of subjects.
Send 1t to Maxwell.
From the Wayne County Herald.
France, not to be outdone by Ire-
land, which has sent its Blarney stone
to the fair, has sent over the guillotine
which cut off the head of the lovely
Marie Antoinette and of the thousands
of other victims of the first revolution.
Good Enough for Such a Party.
From the Altoona Tribune,
A Pittsburg brewer and a Philadel
phia “rooster” are already in the field
for lieutenant governor. It 18 to be
hoped the republican party will turn
both down and select a candidate who
is engaged in a reputable calling.
——1If you want printing of any de-
scription the WATcEMAN office is the
pace to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone,
El
7 3
—A new school house to cost $14,309 is to be
erected at Ebensburg. -
—Trolley charter franchises in Bucks count y
are a drug in the market,
—There are in Pennsylvania over 6000 mem .
bers of the Sons of Veterans.
—Congressman Mutchler, of Easton, is se
riously ill at a Pike county summer resort.
—Cars near Columbia cut to, pieces the body
of James McCarty, of Fall River, Mass.
—8. L. Schoonmaker was elected second
vice chairman of the Carnegie Steel Compan .
—Sixty men in the Wayne Iron Works, Alle.
gheny county, struck Friday and the mills are
closed.
—On June 14 Bristol will celebrate the 116th
anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and
Stripes.
—The coke ovens of the Rockhill Company
at Orbisonia, were operated Monday with non-
union men.
A premature explosion ina Jeddo colliery
snuffed out the lives of Daniel Marley and
James Mahan.
—Absconding Treasurer Lamb was rearrest.
ed, at Scranton, byorder of the American
Machinists,
—The Clearfield and Mahoning Railroad,
from Clearfield to Dubois, was opened Monday
for business.
—Rev. J. D. Coady, formerly pastor of St. Ti.
tus’ Church, Titusville, is lying at the point o f
death at Erie.
—Seven members of Henry Michael's fam.
ily, of Reading, are seriously ill from eating
potted sausage.
—The Philadelphia and Reading on Sunday
ran no coal trains, and that policy will here-
after be pursued.
—At Harrisburg the body of Henry Rother.
mel, of Chattanooga, Tenn., a suicide, has been
fished out of the river.
—Doylestown stockholders in the defunct
National Bank of Newton, Kansas, have been
assessed 75 per cent.
—The new Revenue Collector for the Twen-
ty-third district, Kearns, entered upon his du-
ties Monday at Pittsburg.
—The Scranton Z7imes was recently pur.
chased at Sheriff’s sale by Ex-Congressman
Connelly for $2,567.32.
—Scranton is debating the matter of erect-
ing a new armory for the Thirteenth Regi.
ment, to cost $125,000.
—A syndicate to build a fine hotel for a sum.
mer resort in Ligonier valley, near McKees.
port, has been formed.
—The new United States Consul to Stuttgart .
Alfred C. Johnson, entertained 100 friends at
Doylestown, on Saturday night.
—A decree ordering the sale of tha Brady's
Bend Iron Company’s property has been filed
at Kittanning, Pa., by Judge Mihard.
—The skill of Philadelaphia physicians at
Wills Eye Hospital cured William Ayres, of
Sharpsburg, who had been blind for six years.
—George Clapper, residing near Hollidays
burg, was so badly injured by an explosion in
a stone quarry that he will be permanently
blind.
—James A. Bailey, of the Barnum & Bailey
shows, telegraphed Saturday night that E. J,
Davis, pretending to be his agent at Lancaster
was a fraud.
—A charter will shortly be applied for for the
Sheafer’s Creek Water Company, to supply
mines and villages in Branch township, near
Minersville.
—Adjuatant General Greenland, who is work.
ing hard to have the National Guard go to the
World’s Fair, will visit Chicago and select the
site for the encampment.
—A 12-pound cogwheel fell on the head of
Mrs. James Heckman at the Reading Hospital,
where she was employed, Saturday. Her skull
was crushed and she is not expected to recov-
er.
—Sixty-six members of the Amalgamated
Association are on strike from the Wayne Iron
Works, of Pittsburg, because they objected to
waiting toolong ona heat. An amicable settle -
.| ment is expected.
—Eli Harvey, of Chadd’s Ford, has a collec.
tion of relics of the battle of Brandywine and
a letter on parchmentsigned by William Penn
while he was yet in England in the year 1678
and directed to a meeting of Friends in that
country.
—The statement of the Pennsylvania line's
relief department for April, just issued, shows
that there was a total of $19,850,70 benefits paid
as follows: Death accident, $3,500 ; | natural,
$3,066; disablement, accident, $7,449.50 ; sick-
ness, $3,785.20.
—In the case of Mrs. Lenhardt against Par.
dee & Co., mine owners, at Hazelton, for $20,000
damages for the loss of her three sons in the
Laurel Hill disaster, the plaintiff was non-suit-
ed, as no negligence on the part of the compa-
ny could be proven.
—Investigations are being made of the “flea
infested” districts of Lancaster county. Sec-
retary Thomas J. Edge says that this species
of flea can be found in every Hungarian camp,
and it seems to be peculiar to them and their
mode of life and would disappear when they
loft the country. The same plague infested
Bucks county when the railroad there was in
progress of construction.
—Samuel Steckel, of Doylestown, a few days
azo received a money order from Patrick To-
ban, of Beloit, Mich., in payment of; a debt in”
curred by Toban at Mr. Steckel’s store, in
Durham, Bucks county, forty years ago. Mr:
Steckel has no recollection of the man or the
circumstances, says the Democrat, and as the
books used at that time have long since been
destroyed, he can not verify Toban’s story. He
says that Steckel was kind to him, and he paid
the debt with interest.
—A few days ago Henry] Frankhouser, of
Pea ock, Lancaster county, caught in the Con-
estoga,-at Sheibley’s, a carp twenty eight inches
in length and eleven pounds in weight
Joseph Kissinger, of Lexington, while walk-
ing along Hammer creek, noticed three large
German carp in shallow water. He waded in
ana managed to secure two of them, which
weighed together ten pounds. One of them
was twenty-eight and one-half inches long.
—Official returns received at the office of the
State Board of Agriculture indicate that the re.
cent wet and cool weather has caused consid-
erable rotting in the early-planted potatoes
and that there will necessarily be a loss to the
crop. Similar causes have, in some few sec"
tions of the State, so delayed the oats seeding
that this crop has been abandoned and Hungar-
ian grass and other fodder crops will, at the
proper time, be substituted. Corn planting
has been delayed ; that which}is planted is not
coming up regularly. There is a prespect
that a loss will ensue from this cause. The
backward season has made itjtoo late {to re-
plant twih any prospect of a crop, and the va-
canzies in the rows cannotjnow;be filled up.