BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.” = |
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—A Populist purty hg core to light
in Virginia. This locks like*MAHONE’S
work. ;
—Pennsylvania has two Senators, and
what do you think? They are both in
their seats.» =
—Men ery of hard times, but the
bleachers on the ball grounds are full
every afternoon just the same.
—Twenty-five hundred women are
practicing medicine in this country, yet
the men continue to struggle on.
—>Signs of returning confidence in the
financial situation should not be mis-
taken for a triumph of a gold monetary
basis.
—40ld Hutch,” the wheat speculator,
is supposed to have made $30,000 on
lard last week. Perhaps some one tried
greasing him for a fool.
—HoxkE Smith says that “no pension-
er who has once proven his claim will be
asked tc do so again.” This surely
ought to satisfy the mind of the most
skeptical.
— With sixty cent wheat we ought to
get loaves of bread easily as large as a
canal boat. The baker’s don't see it
that way, however, and the staff of life
sticks just where it always was.
—Congress is in session again and
the fellows who think they are going to
get a job have relinquished hopes for
the time being. It will take all Grov-
ER’S attention looking after the legisla-
tion.
—The fact that President CLEVELAND
has discharged his physician is delight-
ing the army of feeders who want to get
up to the public feeding trough. GROVER
is in shape now and can do heaps if he
wants to.
—The Republicans will effect their
permanent organization next month for
the next. presidential campaign. All
the campaign howlers and liars will
kindly send in their present address to
JOE MANLEY.
—The banks that have stemmed the
destructive tide of shattered financial
currents, will soon have plainer sailing
in which to reap the rewards of the
business which their stability will se-
cure for them.
—The man who talks about these as
“Democratic times” is an ass and an
idot. Not a single Democratic enact-
ment has yet been effected to counter-
act the ill effects of Republican legisla-
tion which we are now experiencing.
—The President’s message is just what
was expected of kim, a sound document
striking at the question at issue and ig-
noring irrelevant matter. He advises
the immediate repeal ofthe SHERMAN
bill, then a procedure on a wise and
conservative plan.
_ —The foreign demand for American
hay is quite brisk at presentand our
thrifty husbandmen are repaing advan-
tage out of the short crops in Gt. Brit-
ain, France and Germany. We have
lots of hay-seeds here too that might
find themselves of some valueall at
once.
— Western congressmen are kicking
because they wont get mileage for the
extra session. It is a matter of dollars
and cents to them and they think they
ought to have it. If they were to get
anything we suppose they would
sooner (?) have the sixty-cent dollar than
anything else.
'—There seems to be a growing ten-
dency among people to use the expres-
sion *‘he’s no fool’’ when they want to
compliment a man for doing or saying
something which elicits public interest.
Such a way of looking at is is certainly
discouraging to the army of fellows who
are never fortunate enough to strike a
key-note on any line. We must all be
fools.
— When a man cant keep his mouth
shut about matters that dont concern
‘him, nor keep his pen on the stand
when there is no occasion for writing, he
must be called down. In accordance
with some such rule Secretary GREs:
mAM will appoint & successor for Col.
S. H. Bop, minister to Siam. Mr. Bo¥Dp |
found it very easy to write himself out
‘of a job.
© HARRISON thinks he would like to
try itagain in ‘06, but if he knows
what is good for him he will stay at
home and cortinue giving advice to the
Democrats as to how to run the govern-
ment, As sure as he comes out we'll
all feel duty bound to turn in and pay
him back for the logical (?) expressions
‘he has been making for. our especial
‘benefit. :
' —Republicans and Democrats * alike
' should work together in Congress for an
honest - and useful money. Party ties
--ghould be broken in a common effort for
the best. Two heads are always better
than one, but the condition to be de-
plored is that wkich prompts one party
to obstruct the working of another for
fear it may be the gainer by wite legisla-
tion. It is the weal of our land that we
seek ; not the downfall of its political
organizations.
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~ vsSTATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 11, 1893.
NO. 31.
The True Policy.
nen
The Congress which is now conven-
ed in extra session has been called
together by an extraordinary condition
in the financial affairs of the country.
A derangement has occurred in money
matters, the effects of which have tied
up the monetary resources with which
business is customarily done ; has im-
paired public confidence, wound up a
number of banking institutions, and
financial and industrial circles. The
national law-makers have come together
to determine what measures should be
adopted to remedy this disordered state
of affairs.
Of course there is a difference of
opinion as to the cause of the disorder.
In the opinion of some, silver has to
stand the entire blame for the trouble.
They say that the government has
overshot the mark in buying large
quantities of that metal, for which it
has no use, and in the purchase of
which it exhausts its good reserve ;
that the issuing of certificates for circu-
lation, based upon this superfluous sil-
ver, can have no other effect than de-
preciating the currency, in as-much as
it is based on a depreciated metal, the
stream not being able to rise higher
than its source. Various other evils,
gome of them real, but most of them
imaginary, are charged against the
metal that used to furnish our fathers
with a desirable and reliable circulat-
ing medium.
These views are stoutly opposed by a
class of financiers whe are not willing
to agree that silver is the cause of the
present trouble. They believe in the
usefulness of the white metal for mon-
etary purposes, and demand that it be
so used, with a proper adjustment of
its value with that of gold, Represen-
tative BLAND who is the chief apostle
of a silver currency, admits that the
SuErMAN law will have to go ; but he
and many others with him, will not be
willing to let that act be repealed with-
out getting something in its place that
will secure the advantage of a mone-
tary material which the constitution
allows to be circulated, and which for
years constituted the favorite money of
the people.
In wiping out the SHERMAN act,
which is likely to occur, it will be
found that there will be a strong de-
mand for also wiping out the act of
1873 which virtually demonetized
silver. Both of them were Republican
acts. The first deprived the white
metal of its monetary character, thus
robbing it of the quality which the
constitution gave it, and which it was
empowered to have by the law of 1834.
The second, or the SHERMAN act,
while confirming the demonetizing ef-
fect of the '73 law, furnished the de-
moralizing substitute of beavy pur:
chases of unused silver with about as
much financial reason for 1t as there
would be for the purchase of any other
unnecessary commodity by the govern-
ment. :
It seems to us that the true policy of
a Democratic Congress under these cir-
cumstances will be to abolish both
those Republican measures, the silver
purchasing act of 1890, and the silver
| demonetizing act of 1873, and to re-
store the Democratic law of 1834
which authorized the free coinage of
both gold and silver, recognizing the
latter as a constitutional money and
giving the people the fall advantage
of it,
© ——There was something slightly
grotesque in the electioneering for the
nomination for Chaplain of the House
of Representatives by the Democratic
caucus. Some of the reverend candi-
dates based their claimsto the position
on their ability to put a prayer through
in double-quick time. One of them,
who had been chaplain in the New
York Legislature, is said to have requir-
ed only 45 seconds before the “amen”
came in, and ‘he didn’t slight any of
the essential points that are necessary
in praying for a legislative body. An-
other candidate pledged himself that if
elected he would. make no prayer
longer than one minute. Such short
supplications will do well enough for a
Democratic House which doesn’t need
. as much praying for asa Republican
| Congress of the billion dollar variety,
' whose iniquities require a great deal of
wrestling with the Lord in its behalf,
and in fact is almost past praying for.
brought on a state of semi-panic in|
Weeding Out the Unworthy.
The shameful frauds and flagrant
abuses which have sprung up in the
Pension Bureau under the rulings of
Republican Commissioners, are being
exposed to the light of publicity by
investigations instituted by the present
Commissioner of Pensions. The dis-
ability teature of the pension laws has
been the source of most of the scanda-
lous practices connected with the sys-
tem, they having been largely ' promot-
ed by Raum and Bussexy’s loose deci-
sions. What is to be thought of claims
to pensions on the ground of disability
arising from baldness, from corns, and,
as appears in BELL's case, from loss of
teeth and indigestion ? Yet it is being
shown that for such causes as these
the country is being called upon to
show its gratitude in the shape of a
monthly compensation to defenders
thus disabled. ’
Investigation is developing a large
number of claimants receiving regular
pensions whose pecuniary condition
places them far above the necessity for
‘such help. The case of Judge Long,
of Michigan, although it has been con-
sidered scandalous to the claimant, is
far from being the most flagrant case
of perverted government bounty. He
had been wounded, it is true, but his
circumstances were such that he did
not need the money he was receiving
from the government as a pension.
He was merely absorbing a charity
which better suited some needy veter-
an unable to earn a living in conse-
quence of disability incurred while de-
fending the flag. The case of J. P.
REsg, an Ohio pensioner, is another
flagrant imposition on the government
it having been proved that so far from
being a poor man, he is well-to-do, if
not positively rich, doing a flourishing
busioess in addition to owning a large
farm.
It is by an outrageous stretch of the
legitimate purpose of the pension sys-
tem, facilitated by licentious rulings
in the Pension Bureau, under Republi-
can Commissioners, that sach cases
are found on thelist. There is scarce-
ly a community in which claimants’
have not been passed as pensionable
| whose circumstances do not require
such assistance from the government, |
and io whose cases a pension is but an
unrequired addition to otherwise ample '
means of living. It is to put a stop to
such abuses as these, and to limit as
far as possible the bounty of the gov-'!
ernment {0 such veterans as deserve |
and need it, that the efforts of the
Pension Bureau are being directed un-
der a Democratic administration.” It
is for this purpose that the lists are
being overhauled. There may be a
howl among the pension sharks, the
claim agents, the bounty-jumpers, the
coffee-coolers and the deserters, but |
the work of pension reform will go on
until the unworthy are weeded out,
and the pension list shall be really a
roll of honor.
A Foolish View.
A remarkably distorted vision must
be possessed by the New York Record-
er, which claims to see many indica
tions of feeling on the part of thou
sands of voters who helped . to bring
about the change of parties and poli.
cies last year, but who, if they had
the power now, would repeal the elec.
tion of Mr. CLEVELAND as well as the
SHERMAN act.” ey
The idea that such a feeling exists
is based on the erroneous impression
that the people are fools enough to be-
lieve that the business troubles which
prevail bave any connection with
CLEVELAND'S election, or have in any
way been broughton by it. To enter-
tain that idea, it- must be supposed
that the people last year did not know
what they were voting for, and also
that those who voted for Mr. Creve
LAND believed that as soon ‘as he got
into office the injurious effects of ‘Re-
publican legislation and administrative
policy, which had been operating for a
number of decades, would be dispelled
like a fog under the influence - of the
morning sun, before the President and
Congress had ‘time to co-operate for
their correction. :
American intelligence is not in the
habit of taking such an imbecile view
of political cause and effect. At the last
election those whe voted for the Dem-
ocratic Presidential candidate had an
acter and effect of Republican policies. |
They were not mistaken in their esti- |
mate of a tariff system which is severly
taxing the people under the fraudulent |
assumption that it is benefiting the in-
dustries, nor were they ignorant of the
fact that all the legislation regulating
the finances of the country has been
the work of the Republican party.
Therefore, when in the early months
of the CLEVELAND administration they
see these Republican measures still
1n operation, because there has not yet
been time to repeal them, and produc-
ing their natural effects in the de-
rangement of financial conditions, in
the impairment of commercial confi-
dence, and in wide-spread disturbance
of business relations, they are not
foolish enough to be made to believe
that these evils have been brought on
as the sudden effect of a Democratic
administration. They rather see in
them a confirmation of their opinion,
as expressed at the polls a years ago,
that Republican policies, financial as
well as economic, are injurious to the
country, and require the correction
which will be applied to them after a
Democratic President and Congress
shall have co-operated in bringing
about the needed reforms.
Reed as a Humorist.
At the Republican congressional
caucus, last Saturday night, the per-
functory movement of nominating a
candidate for Speaker resulted in the
nomination of Tuomas B. REErp, of
Maine, who, as a former occupant of
the Speaker’s chair, gained the unenvi-
able title of “Czar Regen.” The per-
son who nominated him said that he
was the best representative of Republi-
can sentiment, in which declaration he
was no doubt correct, but he did not
come 80 near the truth when he added
that the ex-Speaker had a hold on the
popular heart. The fact that Mr.
Reep and his Congress were turned
down b¥ a large majority of the popu-
lar vcte did not look as if he had much
of a hold on the;popular heart.
In response to the empty honor of a
nomination, the nominee, made a
speech in which he stated how prosper-
ous the country was when the Repub-
Jicans went out of power. Hesaid that
all the mills were running, spindles
flying, furnaces roaring, laborjjem-
! ployed everywhere and the people hap-
py. The picturedrawn by Mr. Reep
cannot be easily recognized by those
. who remember the number of mills
that were not running, the furnaces
which instead of ‘roaring’ were entire-
ly silent, and labor largely engaged in
strikes against a reduction of wages,
This was the situation to so great an
extent during thelast year of the Har-
RrisoN administration that whole ‘col-
umns of the newspapers were taken up
with lists of industrialj establishments
suspended or working half time. The
people were so far from|being “happy,”
under those conditions, that they jwent
to the polls and by a. large majority’
determined to have a chang,
But in consequence of this change,
says Mr. Reep, “we find an extraor-
dinary business depression, distrust in
all circles, and a general demoraliza-
tion of the finances of the country, pre-
cipitated by the Democratic failure t
legislate.” :
The ex-Speaker always|had consider-
able reputation as a humorist,; and he
must have been poking fun at ‘the Re-
publican caucus when he represented
to it that conditions, which could have
come from no other source than Re-
publican legislation for there has been
no other since the war, were brought
about by the Democrats in the few
months they have been in power, dur-
ing which brief time they have had
no opportunity to do anything that
could affect the exisiing state of af-
fairs, a
The ex-Speaker indulged in his
choicest bit of humor when he told the
caucus that this bad state of affairs
was precipitated by Democratic fail-
ure to legislate. It would appear that
the Democrats should have got togeth:
er as soon as possible to correct, by leg
islative acts, the evil effect of Republi:
can policy. Such a course on their
part certainly is necessary, but it
sounds like a joke for Czar REED .to
blame them for not going at it as soon
as they came into power. But let him
be patient. The Democrats will in due
time, by proper legislation and needed
measures of reform, correct the abuses
of Republican legislation from which
the finances and the business of the
intelligent understanding of the char-
country are now suffering.
What Two Good Ones Think of the
Message,
From the Philadelphia Times.
President Cleveland’s message to
congress puts to shame the mousing
partisans and petty calamity mongers.
It is bold, patriotic, statesmanlike and
unanswerable. It probes the national
wound to the core and prescribes the
remedy so clearly that none can mis-.
understand it. There is not the trace
of the partisan in the brief but incisive
message given to congress and the
country. 1t recognizes the solemn
judgment of the nation on the vital
issues, but it justly issues that until
we shall have an honest and impreg-
nable financial system there can be no
business confidence and no industrial
or commercial prosperity.
From the Pittsburg Post.
President Cleveland’s message is
brief, clear and decidedly to the point.
He lays the present disturbed financial
condition of the country to the Sher-
man law, and advises its prompt
repeal. Congress should act at once.
He cites the maxim that “he gives
twice who gives quickly’ as directly
applicable.
Good Words for Good Work,
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
That is a fine story which comes
from the Pension Office, relating how
Deputy Commissioner Bell had him-
self put “on the list” under the con-
venient Dependant Pension Act. In
this instance it was not a case of fever,
leaving the pensioner with no natural
covering forthe place where his brains
are supposed to be. Instead, his. al-
leged “disability” was the loss of teeth,
presumably from wrestling with: the
thirty years ago. Deputy Commission-
er Bell's internal arrangements also
were sadly disordered, so he alleges,
doubtless from the same cause ; yet,
sad to tell, under the new ruling, this
$10 a-day official of the Government is
compelled to relinquish his extra elaim.
No doubt before Judge Lochren gets
through with his work there will be |
many more instances like that of the
bald-headed man and the toothless
Deputy Commissioner. Let the good
work go on ; only don’t do it in & cor-
ner, That isall the country asks, in:
this connection. of
Galed by Their Own Yoke.
From the Danville Intelligencer.
Poor Hokes Smith what a welting
he is daily receiving from the .ink
slingers of the Republican press for
enforcing a law passed by a Republi-
can Congress, a law that has been on
the statute book for years, but which
former Republican Secretaries of the
Interior, false to their oath of office,
neglected to put in operation. These
irate scribes don’t pretend that Sec-
retary Smith is acting illegally.. All
they can say of him he is enforcing an
odious Republican law. If the law
is so distasteful to these Republican
editors why don’t they urge its re-
peal, not abuse an official whois hon-
estly trying to carry out one of their
own party's enactments.
Qur Pocket is Big Enough for ang Kind.
From the Clarion Democrat.
One silver dollar is just 13 inches
in diameter. It contains about 62
cents worth of silver according to
the present market price of silver.
To put a dollar's worth of silver into
a dollar at the present market price,
the coin would have to be two inches
in diameter and of the same thickaess.
The “cart wheel” of the present
would be as nothing to the “fly wheel’
with a dollare’ worth of silyer in it.
John Shaffer Jr. You Are Right.
From the Renova News.
Our Republican friends. appear to
think that the ' Democratic party
should repair the wreck: to business
and finance wrought by thirty years
of Republican rule in three months
Grover Cleveland and his assistants
will straighten things up as rapidly
as possible, but three months, or evén
six of them, is too short for so hercu-
lean a job.
His Kickers tn Condition Again.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer,
President Cleveland has ‘discharged
hig doctor. This dismissal has been
patiently awaited by office seekers,
who now expect him to resume the
bouncing act. There 'is a large
amount of diplomatic patronage still
at the disposal of the president. Less
than one-third of the 325 consuls 'scat-
tered over the globe have been changed
since March 4.
Temperance People Admit It.
From the Conaellsville Courier,
The old toper thinks there is no cure
for snake bites equal to the old whisky
prescriptian, notwithstanding the
many new fangled discoveries. ;
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——1If you want printing of any de-
scription the WATcEMAN office is the
place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Grand Duke Alexander and party are at
Reading.
—Aged Christian Hoifsas dropped dead chop-
ping wood, at Reading.
—More rain is greatly needed to raise the
water in the Schuylkill canal.
—The corner stone of the Masonic Hall in
Allegheny City was laid Monday.
—The Camberlana Valley Railroad will send
all employes to the World’s Fair free.
—Horses mules and houses fell through an
opening over a mine near Frackville Monday
pointed a member of the State Board of Agri-
culture.
—Eight-year-old Thomas Hughes, of Mans-
field, Allegheny county, was in court for horse
stealing.
—Three boys, to get revenge for being scald-
ed, burned George Atkinson’s barn, in Fayette
county.
—A cow kicked: and killed William Dunlap’s
8-year-old son, at Stoughstown, Franklin
county.
—Overcome by smoke from a blast in a Tow-
er City mine, Joha Shadle fell 70 feet and per-
ished. .
—A petrified Indian canoe, containing the
skeleton of a man, was found by well diggers
at Connellsville,
—An express train killed William Nieholson
of Rockhill, Bucks ceunty, near the’ Perkasie
tunnel, last evening.
—Edison’s oar separator is to be used to de-
velop the iron ore mines in Lonswamp town-
ship, Berks county.
—Covernor Pattison Saturday pardoned
John Fleck and Robert Aiken, of Harrisburg:
from the penitentiary.
—The Schuylkill River at Reading: was
raked Saturday for the bedy of an unkmewn
man who drowned there.
—Owing to drought, the City Water Works
have cut off the Reading Céal and Iron Works
water supply at Mahonoy City.
—Alderman Rhoe and Constable Lewis
Kirchner, convicted of embezzlement in Pitts.
burg, will go to jail for two months.
—William Abraham, the Reading boy, who
was injured two weeks ago by a red-hot pipe
in the iron mill, has died of lockjaw.
—After sending her babe to-a charity home
in Pittsburg, Mrs. Maggie Kinlin was so over-
come by remorse that she polsoned herself.
—W. J. Taylor, receiver in Bennsylvania. of
the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad, des
nies at York the allegations upen which his-re-
moval was asked.
—Joseph Kidd was practically acquitted in
Pittsburg of the extreme cruelty charged
against him in his treatment of / Arthur Arm-
R strong, his stepson.
proverbial bard tack and salt horse |
—Pensioner Daniel Suilivan, an inmate of
the Schuylkill county Almshcuse, was at-
tacked while asleep and badly injured by a
half-demented attendant.
—Fearless James Beard, a youth in his
’teens, plunged from two bridges to the river
in Reading and cut his head at the bottom of
the river on the second dive.
—Attorney General Hensel has accompanied
J. Henry Cochran, of Lycoming eounty, and
expedition in Wisconsin forests.
—The Episeopal Church, of Férrest City?
near Scranton, will receive a baptismal font of
Indiana limestone as a memorial to the late
| William Woltenate from his former friends.
—Reading cigarmakers and brewers, who
| buy $2000 worth of revenue stamps a: day, have
protested against the Treasury order. forbid~
ding the purchase of stamps with checks.
John Hertsoph, a Hungarian resident of Mae
honoy city, was attacked and robbed by tougha
while crossing the mountain near that place.
The robbers were captured and lodged in jail.
—Congressman Erdman says he hes recom
Croll, of Topton, for Deputy Collector, and
James M. Yerger, of Centreport, for Stamp
Clerk.
in the East Boston mine of W. G. Payne & Ce.
at Luzerne borough, Saturday. As a result
two men are dead and two more are-likely to
follow. 3
—The Grand Duke Alexander of Russia vis®
ited Reading yesterday to inspect the met h-
od otf manufacturing steel projectiles for the
United States government in the Carpenter,
teel works.
—Monday, Moore & Burchall’s Lawrence eol-
liery, near Frackville, collapsed, carrying
down into the deep cavern several small build"
ings and the colliery stables in which: were
mules and horses
—A half lighted match dropped: in their
room came near burning to death: Genevieve
and George Ritner, children of George Ritner:
at Readiug. Their mother saved: them by
throwing out the burning bedding.’
—James Hicks, a young man whose home
was at Plymouth, was sleeping on the bank of
the dam of the Wilkesbarre Water company,
Sunday, when he was seized with.an epileptic
fit, fell in the water and was drowned.
~—Frank Miller, a farmer of Tadiana county,
accidentally shot himself, Saturday, while
hunting sheep dogs. When fonad he was ly"
ing dead in a pool of blood. His one finger
was shot off and there was a. bullet hole
through his breast. :
—A gang. of about a dozen. villaneus charag.
tors is encamped near Somerset on the Stoyes«
town road, and the citizens are greatly
‘alarmed. The police force has been increased
and watchmen have been placed in the banks
and business houses. / '
—Reading cigar-makers and brewers have
signed a protest against the recent order re-
quiring that reventie stamps be paid for in
currency, and forwarded the same to Collee,
tor Doyle. During the brisk times the reve.
nue receipts in that city for stamps am ount to
$2,000 per day.
Three suits for heavy damages have been
entered against the Carnegie Steel ‘company
by victims of the Homestead poisoning cons
spiracy. Mrs. Hebron claims $25,000 damages
for the death of her son, and Edward Ellis and
Harry Collins claim that their health has been,
permanently impaired. "
—Joseph Kidd, of Pittsburg, who strapped
his stépson to a stall in the stable to keep him
out of mischief and whose neighbors threat
ened to lynch him, had a hearing before J udge
Doherty, Monday. After hearing the testimo-
ny he'decided that there was no evidence of
cruelty and Kidd was discharged.
| A petition has been presented to the eourt
by the citizens of Butler township, Schuylkill
county, asking the court to decide the seats of
| the present school directors vacant so that oth«
ers may be elected in their places this fall,
Owing to the board the requirements for the
state appropriations have not been complied
with.
—Dr. John P. Edge, of Chester, has been ap-
Senator Grant Herring on a ten-days’ camping
mended to Revenue Collector Doyle, Martin. Se
—A terrible explosion of mine gas. occurred