8Y RP. GRAY MEEK.
EE ECS
Ink Slings.
~—This is the hay-day of the farmer.
—Mr. CLEVELAND is still fishing, but
not for suckers.
— Have the mosquitoes on Buzzard's
bey silver bills ? :
—The present Secretary of Agricul-
ture is doing the weather up brown.
—There are times when one wants
to be left alone, but not when he holds
a full house.
—To-morrow the trout fishing season |
will end and, oh | the glorious possibili-
ties that go with it. :
—The River League promises to be
an interesting association of ball clubs, if
it doesn’t immerse itself in debt.
—Mr. PORTER has resigned as Super-
intendent of the Census. His army of
clerks are still at work however.
—An exchange remarks that ham-
mocks are beginning to come down. A
surecign that there are too many in
them.
— According to Prof. DRUMMOND, of
Chicago, coming men are to have weak-
er ‘‘Jegs and more development of
head. Perhaps the great scientist has
the “tip’’ that liquor will be cheaper in
the future.
—The man wko forgets the friends of
the days when he was struggling for the
position of affluence which he now holds,
is no more worthy the esteem of honest
people than the wretch who disgraces
the mother who gave him birth.
—Indiana is pushing herself to the
front in more ways than one. Not con-
tent with having the biggest show on
earth, on Monday night she had a
prize fight in which SoLLEY SmiTH
knocked JoENNY GRIFFEN out in four
rounds, and won the feather weight
championship of the world.
—The increasing resort of mobs to
lynch law is assuming an alarming as-
pect throughout the country and it
seems that the cool headed careful man
is being displaced by a quick tempered,
impassionate populace which stops at
nothing until its mad frenzy has been
worked off on the life of some unfortu-
nate.
-—If Emperor WILLIAM of Germany,
should visit the United States this sea-
son he would find thousands of his form-
er subjects living in comfort and ease,
far removed from the distressing con-
scription of Germany and not disturbed
by Army bills. Every one of them are
indepent enough now to feel no abash at
inviting their former ruler to have ‘‘ein
glass beer.”
—The dreadful holocaust at the
‘World’s Fair made many sad hearts in
the White City during the week. It
would have been remarkable indeed
had there not been some fatality where
so much of enterprise and so many peo-
ple were gathered togethered, but such
an awful scene, as Monday’s fire must
have been, will dampen the gayety o
the Fair for some time.
—The tide of depressed business is
beginning to turn and as the gold is
now daily being shipped hither from
England and our grain is beginning to
be demanded abroad there is little doubt
that business will pick up ere long.
Though much is supposed to depend on
the coming session of Congress it will be
found that no matter what its resuits
there will be a general picking up in
trade soon.
—1It has been a cause of worderment
that so few girls are taught cooking,
sewing, house keeping and the like ac-
complishments when it is known there
are not near enough millionaires and
princes to go around. Many a girl
would far rather die a spinster than soil
her hands with work, and the hard work-
ing, sensible young man of to-day, who
is destined to be rich ere long, lets her
severely alone.
~The Pall Mall Gazette recently
published a description of the royal
coach in which ANDREW CARNEGIE
and friends are touring through Scot.
land. ‘With its solid gold mountings
and gold mounted harness the Gazette
calls it the ‘‘resplendent vehicle” * * *
of the “Democrat Triumphant.” We
wonder if it has a ‘heavily charged
electric wire around the box to keep the
hands of the poor people off,
—The pen of thoughtless writers is
busy defaming the character of gallant
Rear Admiral TrYon of the English
navy, whose ill fated Victoria went to
the bottom of the Meditterranian, two
weeks since, with over. four hundred
souls aboard. Such censure of the dead
is to be deplored for it is folly to think
that the distinguished officer was to
blame for the catastrophe. He did not
maneuver the ships with the intention
of running down his own boat and had
his’ command for such an evolution,
even under the circumstances, been ex-
ecuted with that dispatch which he had
every reason to expect of his subordi-
nates there would not be ‘the mourning '
in the English navy that there is to-
day.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 14, 1893.
NO. 27.
After the Repeal of the Sherman Act,
What ?
Its a very easy matter to allow other
people to do our thinking. Its a very
common occurrence to join in with the
crowd and pretend to believe just as
others think they do. And this is
about the situation with ninth-tenths
of the persons who are demanding the
repeal of the SHERMAN act, without
either knowing or thinking what its
effect may be.
We doubt if one man in twenty has
ever considered what effects the stop-
ping ot silver coinage in this country
may have. We are confident that not
one in twenty knows ; and yet almost
every man you meet now is certain
that all that is necessary to cure our
supposed business, and finarcial, ills is
to repeal the SHERMAN act, and stop
making and using silver dollars or
silver certificates.
Ask the first ten men you meet who
favor this policy, how itis going to
help our condition, and nine of them
will tell you plainly they do not know ;
the tenth, who is possibly some “know
it all” or probably a money-lender who
desires to see a scarcity of money, that
the rate of interest may be high, will
begin to tell you about ‘‘restoring con-
fidence,” the necessity of a ‘‘gold
basis,” and the importance of keeping
ourselves solid with the financial fan-
cies of Europe.
If the repeal of the SHERMAN act,
without any additional legislation on the
Silver question, means anything it
means to make money scarce by stop-
ping the issue of silver certificates—a
certificate that every one recognizes as
money and that purchases just as much
of anything needed, or pays just as
much of an indebtedness, as does a
gold coin of the same amount—and
how making money scarce in this
country will improve business, restore
confidence or benefit our condition, is
a mystery that our limited financial
knowledge fails to comprehend.
It is possible that new or additional
financial legislation is needed. But is
the repeal of the SHERMAN act—a re-
peal that would virtually demoaitize
silver, and discredit over one-halt of
the money now in the hands of the
people—all that is required ?
This is the question that thinking
men of the country should now con-
sider. It isa grave question, effecting
every business interest and one that
will have to be determined as soon as
Congress meets in August, and the
representatives who are to act for the
people on this subject should know
what the desire of the people is—
what their needs require and what
their wants demand.
It is very plain what legislation, the
bankers and money-lenders of the
country want. It is equally certain
that a most desperate effort is to be
made to continue and increase the
bonded indebtedness of the country,
but whether Congress will fall into the
financial trap, that is already set, is a
matter that is not so certain.
With congressmen who desire to act
for the best interests of the people and
the country, as well as with the people
themselves, the important question
now ig, ‘‘After the repeal of the SHER-
MAN act, what ?”’
A Time for Silence.
We make it as a suggestion only
that it would be the sensible thing for
the Republican press, particularly of
this State, to lay low and “sagt nicht”
about the executive clemency that has
recently been extended by the Govern-
ors of Illinois and New York. It is
hardly to their interests to stir up pub-
lic feeling on the subject of pardons.
Their party made its record at Harris
burg on this question, several years
ago, when its financial manager, Mr.
theZpenitentiary. Its leaders and boss-
es have had their pledges out ever since
BarpsLEY refused to “squeal,” at the
time of his conviction, that he should
be pardoned as soon as a Republican
past and out of respect for the pledges
of their leaders it might be the proper
thing to temper their sentiments on
this subject with unabated silence.
—And now the court is going to
step in and stop those interesting little
conflabs which the Governor of South
Carolina is supposed to have oceasional-
ly with the Governor of North Carolina.
KEemBLE, wag standing in the shadow of
Governor is elected. In view of the .
Pension Hypocrisy.
The Republican papers are begin-
ning to get excited over the manner in
which improper nan.es are being
dropped from the pension rolls.
Among them is the Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph, which has worked itself into
a terrible passion about the ontrage of
“crippled veterans and needy widows
calling for their dole on the regular
disbursing day, only to be met with the
announcement that they have been sus:
pended.”
It denounces this as ‘‘barbaric cru.
elty,” and so it would be if there was
any truth in the case as put by the
Pittsburg paper. But the names that
have been dropped have received that
treatment because they had no just
claim to be on the pension roll.
have been noremovals from the list ex-
cept for proper cause. Investigation
has shown how the bounty of the gov-
ernment has been abused by dishonored
claimants, and it is in such instances
that the work of elimination has been
made to apply. This is required as
much for the protection of the govera-
ment as for the interest of those wor-
thy soldiers to whom pensions are just
ly due.
In cases of glaring fraud names have
been positively expunged from the rolls
but in many instance: there has been
merely suspension of payment until
suspicious circumstances connected
with them can be fully investigated.
Is not this perfectly justifiable where
so much fraud has been practiced?
When pensions have been granted for
such disabilities as corns and baldness
is it not proper for the authorities to
inquire whether the corns were contrac-
ted in the military service of the
country, and whether the claimant lost
his hair in defence of the old flag?
The ingenuity of the pension agents
has succeeded in smuggling names on
the pension rolls for almost any and
every reason, and it is likely wo be
shown that in almost ‘every instance
the suspensions furnish proper subjects
for inquiry. Most of these claims no
if not fraudulent ; but where they are
not so found the payment of the gov-
ernment bounty will go on.
The party that is responsible for the
outrageous imposition practiced upon
the government under the cover of
pensions, naturally resorts to the expe-
dient of exciting pity for “crippled sol-
diers and needy widows,’ when its only
object is to maintain a corrupt system
of plunder for a political purpose ; but
theintention of Democratic pension re-
form is not to deprive worthy pension-
ers of a dollar that is due them from
the gratitude of their country, but
rather to shield their interests against
fraudulent claimants, and to protect
the public treasury from being robbed.
ATR ERA RLS,
A Change of Situations Changes the
Howl,
A year ago the country was full of
calamity howlers. It is full of them to-
day. It always will be full of them. But
the fanny thing about the calamity
‘howling business is to hear the crowd,
ing and damning every body who made
a complaint, turn in now and vie with
each other in their efforts to have peo-
ple believe the country, and all that be-
longs to it, is going to the devil head-
long. In this line ot political effort it
is difficult to distinguish an every day
Republican from a Kansas Populist
or a Chicago Anarchist. Each have
the same gloomy grievances to cry over
and each see the same dire distress in
the distant fature. And yet the country
still seems safe and our people go
about with their bellies full and their
‘backs covered, Is it not the loss
of power, rather than the business con:
dition of the country, that has pro.
duced. the pessimism that is now so
rampant?
——If there is any basis for the uni-
versal belief that the actual value of a
dollar is fixed by its purchasing power,
we would like to know what sense
! there is in the blather now about
| “cheap money,” “68.cent dollars,” or
| 8 “depreciated currency.” There never
| was a time in the history of this
{ country when a dollar would purchase,
as much of that which is for sale, as
does the dollar of to day, and yet we
hear of a “cheap” and “depreciated”
currency. Surely our old beliefs are
“wrong or the present financial theories
“of some people are considerably off.
There |
“mand for a different basis
doubt will be found to be insufficient,
that less than a year ago was denounc-
"Until we can use or sell this over-sup
expect but the billious business condi:
1
A Mistake in the Diagnosis.
After all might not the financial
physicians who are prescribing a change
of laws regulating the currency, as the
proper remedy for business and finan:
cial ills we now seem to suffer, be mis-
taken in their diagnosis of the case ?
That prices are low, that business is
down at the heel, that men are out of
employment, that large industries are
run at a loss or closed down, and that
the general outlook for prosperity or
better times is gloomy and unpromising,
is true ; but might this condition not
result from an over-gorged market,more
than from any lack of confidence in
the dollars of our daddies, or any other,
dollars that the government stamp is
found upon or that is used as money ?
We have yet to see the first silver
dollar,—or the *68 cent dollar” as
eastern advocates of a “gold basis”
money call them,—that will not pur-
chase just as much wheat, iron, lum-
ber, ore, coal, wool, leather, or any
other article that is needed by manu.
facturers or required by the people, as
does a dollar in gold.
We have yet to find the first man,
woman, child, corporation, company or
firm that refuses to accept, for a full
hundred cents, any dollar that the gov-
ernment has provided for the people,
whether paper or coin, for any com-
modity they have to sell.
~ With money that every dollar has
an equal purchasing, or debt paying,
value, and with every manufacturer,
mechanic, merchant, farmer and work-
ingman, willing to receive it for that
which he has to place upon the mar-
ket, we cannot understand why an in-
teligent people, such as we profess to
be, should be led to believe that the
depressed condition of business and the
supposed gloomy outlook ahead of us,
should be chargeable to a “depreciated
currency.’ :
Tous the difficulty seems more like
Mr. Harrison's Can't’
From the N. Y. World.
The letter of ex-President Harrison
to the Republican Club Convention
simply showed his blind. persistence in
the Bourbonish belief that the people
can be fooled at any time.
Mr. Harrison wrote with the true
Pecksniffian twang :
I think I ma i sai
the a, Bt oe onsgtessing
present business. situation to suggest any
Freal gain to the country as the result of the
nauguration of Democratic policies:
The ex-President, of course, knows
that thers has been no time for the in.
auguration Democratic policies, except
in the executive office. "We are living
and business is suffering under the laws
passed and the conditions created and
bequeathed by the Republican party,
with Mr. Harrison’s active assistance.
Was confidence impaired by our loss
of Treasury gold? Mr. Harrison re-
ceived from the Democratic Adminis-
tration nearly $100,000,000 above the
legal reserve, and lost it all.
Have gold exports weakened the fl-
nances of the country? Under Mr.
Harrison's administration there was a
net loss to the country of $122,000,000.
Have the compulsory purchase of
siver bullion on a falling market and
the 1ssuing of Treasury notes redeemable
in gold alarmed foreign investors and
poral ye credits here? This has been
one under a Republican law signed by
Mr. Harrison.
Has the wrecking of trusts added to
financial distress and business uncer-
tainty ? The trusts were fostered by
Republican laws and enjoyed immunity
under Mr. Harrison’s Attorney General.
It will be time enough to talk of the
failure of Democratic policies when
they have been put into law and tried.
Up to the present moment the only
practicable Democratic policy has been
to stop the holes made in the ship of
state by the scuttlers who were driven
out on the 4th of March,
ItTaxed the People AL Right But Didn't
Save the Industry.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Under the McKinley act block or
‘pig tin’ is now subject to a duty of four
cents per pound. It was one of the fal-
lacies of the Republican majority that
passed the McKinley law that by the
st of July, 1893, the Harney Peak
mines of Dakota and the Temescal
mines of California would give us all
the block tin required in the tinplate
a want of outside markets, than a de- jransay, and for making those tin al-
for our
money.
We have an over-gorged country ;
a greater supply of everything we eat,
wear or need, that we can use or sell.
Our wheat bins are bursting with
a supply of grain that we cannot eat ;
our furnaces, factories and mills are
crowded with their own out puts that
we cannot find use for ; our supply ‘is
such that it the production of wheat,
of raw materials that go into manufac-
tories, of iron, machinery, implements,
etc. was stopped for an entire year,
there would be no famine for any of
these commodities.
It is not so much a “depreciated
currency’ as it is a stagnated com-
merce—a clogged up business liver,
that is causing the afflictions so many
interests compl ain of.
It is buyers, for that which we have
to sell, that we want ; a demand for
that which we are prepared to supply,
that we need.
A different kind of money will not
change the situation. If every silver
and every paper dollar in the country
was replaced with a gold coin of equal
denomination, it would not make men
eat more wheat ; or buy and use more
of any of the articles for which there
is now such seeming limited demand.
What is needed is a market. We
have stimulated the out-put of our
manufactories with protective legisla:
tion, and by the operations of these
same laws restricted the sale of that
which they produced, to our own peo-
ple and country, until we are gorged
and bursting with our own products.
ply; or until we can find a country that
will furnish a market. for that which
we cannot use ourselves, what can we
tion we are now experiencing.
——It is said that some people are
getting mad because General Dovuk-
'HovoskY Governor of Siberia, who is
{traveling through the United States
just. now, is gathering up statistics
{about our manufactories. There is no
luse getting ruffled over such a little
ithing as that. If the Geoeral wants
pointers on anything this is the place
Ito get them and he knew it else he
would not be here, Of course the pro:
| duction of tin is an exception.
~The days are getting shorter,
yet we continue to get in as much
work as usual.
oys 80 largely used as solder and in
many different ways in other industries.
The imposition of the duty of four cents
per pound on imported block tin on the
1st of July, 1893, was to protect our
own tin mines. Those mines have
never beun able to pay the cost of the
production of tin and are now shut
down. But the duty on block tin is now
operative. An article of necessity and
a raw material of many industries is
thus made more expensive, with the
inevitable result of raising the price or
injuring the quality of many wares used
by the poor. Last year 44,000,000
pounds were imported. The tax of four
cents a pound would mean an increase
of taxation of $1,760,000 on that im-
portation, To June 1st of this year the
importation was 51,855,679 pounds, the
increase being due to a desire on the
position of the tax July. 1. The Me-
Kinley act continually brings us new
evils.”
Not the Kind of Work that Creates a
Hurrah.
From the Pittsburg Post.
As a grand high executioner Post-
master-General Bissell doesn’t begin to
compare with the saintly Wanamaker.
In the first four months of the present
administration Mr. Bissell has appointed
on removals 8,226 fourth-class postmas-
ters. During the corresponding period
of 1880 Mr. Wanamaker appointed
7,460 on removals, or more than two
to one compared with the moderation of
the Cleveland administration. We are
not applauding this moderation with
any marked degree of enthusiasm.’ Mr.
Bissell could have swung his axe with
a great deal more vigor in ‘the interest
of good government and the Democracy.
> ERR Saas
All Have An Equal Interest.
From the Clearfield Spirit. : :
The man who ‘expects to see the
country go to the devil entirely should
bear in mind that the Democrats are as
much concerned in the welfare of the
country as are the cranks who eternally
howl that the Democrats are not to be
trusted. Besides there are something
like 400,000 more of the former between
Atlantic and the Pacific and as a
e each one has as much at stake as
has his Republican neighbor.
Ro ————————————
The Ungrateful People ot Kansas.
From the Lawrence Journal. {
It is said. that Ex-Senator Ingalls is
having more fun and and makin
more money than he ever aid
before, and that he is well satisfied to
live in private life. In his joy at being
out of public life he is in close touch,
with the people of Kansas, Almost
without exception they are pleased to
have him there. ~~
Eternal Vigilance the Price of a Har-
vest.
From thé Bradford.
Massachusetts is paying 200 men $100,
000 to kill moths this summer. That's
pretty near as seductive a job as our
grandfathers used to tell about when
they talked of hiring a lazy man to
watch the bees off the buck wheat.
part of Importers to anticipate the im- |
t
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Wilkesbarre business men have organized
to combat burglars. 4
—Reading people are fighting a pest house
where there is smallpox.
=A Scranton man claims to have been re.
lieved of a 78-foot. tapeworm.
—Senator Quay and others will mark the
site of old Fort MacIntosh, at Beaver.
—Nearly 300 coke ovens in the Greensburg
region stopped operations last week.
—Tents for the various regimental encamp
ments are being shipped from Harrisburg.
—Tunkhannock borough pays for twenty-
one fire plugs a yearly rental of $15 each, or
$315.
—A Jersey cow owned in Liberty township
Tioga county, gives fifty pounds of milk a
day.
—Mine owners at Wilkesbarre are trying te *
check a disease that is killing scores of
mules.
—John Lougherty, an alleged Philadelphia
preacher, is in Norristown jail for being
drunk.
—Joseph W Blanche, of Johnstown, at.
tempted suicide on Monday by cutting his
throat.
—The Fourth Regiment, the Governor's
Troop and Battery C, of Pottstown, will en-
camp at Columbia.
—Coal mining at Antrim, Tioga county, is
very dull, the miners averaging only about
one day per week.
—Brakeman John Moran, of the Lehigh
Valley road, fell between cars at Penn Haven
and was mangled to death.
—Manufacturers and laborers are both
yielding points to settle the iron wage dispute :
in Western Pennsylvania.
—Daniel Lorah and Jacob Schmehl are in
jail at Reading to answer for the wrecking of
the Neversink electric ear.
—The Mahanoy Plane Railway, owned by
the Philadelphia and Reading, has stopped
operations for several weeks:
—The troubles between the parochial and
the public schools of Butler County have end~
ed in the closing of the former.
~—Milton €ampbell, a drug clerk of Bethle-
hem, was found in his room at Muncy nearly
dead from inhaling chloroform.
—After being a commissioned officer for 27
years, E. Z. Strine, of York, has resigned the
captaincy of Company A, Eighth Regiment.
—John McCrory, of Fayette City, aged 70
was found dead in bed Sunday morning on the
steamer Horace, of which he was engineer.
—Easton is to have a new High School build-
ing and the Board of Control has awarded the
contract to Horn, Steinmetz & Co. for $62,417.
—Suit has been brought at Wilkesbarre by
Anthony Ford te oust Mine Inspector Edward
Roderick, on the ground that he holds the
office illegally.
. —Captain Alex. Rodgers, of the Fourth Unit-
ed States cavalry, has been detailed to assist
Governor Pattison in inspecting the national
guard encampment.
—At Johnstown Sunday evening, Albert
Leckey, one of the prominent citizens of the
place, was thrown from his carriage and his
brains were dashed’ out.
—The condition of the Edinboro Norma
School, of which Professor Benedict, ‘late of
Towanda, is principals. is reported to be very
prosperous, notwithstanding ihe factional spir-
it which has existed among its managers.
—Martin 8. Eichelberger, a prominent at-
torney, died in York on Monday, aged 57. He
left a large estate, which: lie managed judi-
ciously. He was prominently identified with
the industries of York, and'was a heavy prop-
erty holder there and elsewhere,
—A Scranton locomotive has beaten the
world’s record for speed. Engine No: 41,
which was manufactured by the Dickson Com-
pany, of that city, recently ran a mile in the
extraordinary short space of twenty-five sec-
onds, which means a speed of 144 miles an
hour,
—A party of harvesters at work on the Engle
farm, near Palmyrs, Pa., Monday discovered
under a stack of grain the body of a man who
had undoubtedly been murdered. The corpse
bore two ugly bullet wounds and two deep
stabs. The coat belonging:to the suit on the
body was found fully three miles away.
—George Pricketts, fifty years, of Mount :
Union, Huntingdon county, was shot and in
stantly killed by Alfred Kloss, also a resident
of Mount Union. Both were men of families
and the causeleading to the murder was the al-
leged intimacy of Pricketts with Kloss” wife.
The hooting occurred at Lucy furnace, just
across the line in Mifflin county.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Rev.
Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer ‘delivered an address
on “The Reformed Church Centennial, Her
Education and Her Schools,” at the fourth an"
nual reunion of the Reformed churches of
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia held at Williams Grove, yesterday,
‘Ex-Representative W. Rush Gillan, of Cham+'
bersburg presided.
'—At the annual commencement of Muhlen-
berg College, Allentown, the degree of doctor
of music was conferred upon Rey. J. F. Ohl,
'71, of Quakertown. Since his ordination in -
1874 Rev. Ohl has been pastor of a charge at
Quakertown. He is ‘a thorough student of
chureh music and has published many works =
and articles on the subject.
—While the wages are still 1 per cent. below
the basis, yet the average of $2.46 per ton is 2
per cent. above what was received by the men
at last pay-day, says the Pottsville Republican
The coal trade remains in an unsatisfactory
state. The Reading Company is evidently
holding itsown, for but recently they have
started a number of" their largest operations
which had been suspended fn early springs
due to the dull trade.
—According to the new Justice's fee bill Jus.
tices can charge for oath and: information 50
cents; transoript 50 cents : entering discontine
uance of assault and battery cases, 50 cents;
entering action, 25 cents; summons or sub-
peens, 25 cents, with 10 cents for each addi-
tional name ; return of summons, 25 cents ; en”
tering satisfaction, 15 cents ; execution, 30
cents; return of proceedings on certiorari or
appeal, $1; receiving or paying over where
the amount is over $100, $1 per hundred:
—The Legislatare passed a law which de-
clares that the State Superintendent of In,
struction may grant permanent State teachers
certificates to graduates of recognized literary
‘and scientific colleges. There is one statute
needed still more. It is ‘an act repealing alt
laws which compel the frequent examination
and re-examination of teachers. A teacher
who is engaged constantly in his profession
has no more néed for continually renewed
sertificates than a lawyer or doctor has for a
yearly diploma with the attendant torture of
answering questions,
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