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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—1t is even getting to be a hard mat-
ter to get fish with a silver hook.
—With girls itis an unpardonable
sin for a man to be un-sofa-isticated.
~The silver question is showing
how many silver tongues we have in
congress.
—The trouble with the Philadelphia
mint site seems to be that it is continu-
ally out of sight.
—If you want to wound a friend just
give Lim an occasion to infer that you
have'nt implicit faith in him.
—A fellow is hardly censurable for
expecting a drink of rare old wine when
a confrere says ‘‘mum’s the word.”
—Some one has said “silence is gold-
en,” whereupon the question arises, what
is a fellow to do since words may be
coined ? =
~The danger that threatens Congress
now is that in the hurry to get relief
{rom the money stringency something
might be done that will not be for the
best.
——The chirp of the cricket, and these
nights that are getting too cool to sit
out on her front steps, reminds the lov-
er that the ice-cream season is nearly
over.
~The man who, having no confi-
dence in banks, hides his wealth in his
cellar and later discovers it gone, has
every reason to believe'that the eyes of
the world were upon him.
—The manor woman, boy or girl
who wantonly remarks about the solve 1-
cy of a bark, or business firm, thereby
causing discredit and a consequent run
should be made suffer for not having
any better subject to talk about.
—The Behring sea seal fisheries ques-
tion is settled at last. The Paris tri-
bunal of arbitration has ended its labors.
Lice HALFORD’S job is done and the
seals will no longer figure in a skin
game between Uncle SAM and JonN
Burr.
—The Northern Pacific Rail-road is
in the hands of receivers. Such a con-
dition of affairs is deplorable indeed,
but when the stock of a corporation has
depreciated from $50 par to $4.50 it cer-
tainly shows that the business has not
been paying. There is no chance to
water it in that region either,
—Since CHARLEY FosTER, WILLIAM
McKINLEY and several of the big guns
in the Republican party in Ohio have
gone up, who will furnish the ‘bood’’
to run the machine against Neal ?
Those failures will never be ascribed to
the Democratic administration for fear
of an admission that the Democrats had
whipped them.
—The bigoted, narrow minded
Republican, who tells his employees
“you voted fora change, now you've
got it,” as an explanation for the pres-
ent business depression, is not deserving
the respect of those whom he attempts
to delude by such a misleading state-
ment. Republican journals of any
repute are expressing contempt for just
such people of their own party.
—This extra session of Congress
promises to beone of the greatest instruc-
tors the world has ever known. At least
the monetary system of any country is
too complicated for the generality of
men, but such a discussion of it as is
now going on in Washington cannot
help but interest. If the proceedings
are carefully followed a very fair idea
of the whole situation may be had.
—Tom JomNSON’s idea to have the
holders of United . States bonds turn
them into the treasury and take notes
of certain denominations in exchange for
_ them is a good one to increase the circu-
lating medium, but we fear he has for-
© gotten that his monetary views are
those which the Green Backers used to
hold and his honor for conceiving a
great source of relief is rather empty.
We'll have to come to it some of these
days anyway.
~Fall is not far off and winter is not
; far behind it. People who are depend-
ing on salaried positions for a livelihood
twill do well to ecomonize a little and
treasure up something for that prover-
bial “rainy day,” which is sure to come.
"Nothing seems certain with business in
the condition that it is now and unless a
bright side turns up soon there will be
few who have steady imployment for
the next six months. Save according-
ly, while you can. .
~-For Republicans to take advantage
of the present depressed condition of the
Country, to try working political capital
on the minds of the credulous, seems
more like treason than anything else.
Atsuch a time the government should
have the ameliorating influence ot every
one of its subjects instead of the help of
some and the antagonism of others.
Such a course will be all the worse for
the G. O. P., however, for when reac-
tion sets in, it will find itself out in the
cold.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 18, 1893.
A Silver Canard.
British gold has long been employed
to influence American politics, if the
repeated assertions of Republican
organs on that subject are to be believ-
ed. Every time a Presidential election
comes along we are pretty sure to hear
from that source that gold has been
poured into this country from England
in the interest of the Democratic party,
the chief object of this golden influx
being to break down the protective
system, destroy American industries,
and open our ports to the free importa-
tion of English goods. The Cobden
club is the agency thatis usually re-
presented as farnishing the gold for
Democratic use in destroying the in-
dustrial prosperity of this country, and
the liberality with which that British.
free trade organization is pictured, as
shelling out gold for the benefit of Demo-
cratic campaigns, would almost induce
the belief that it has a mint of 1ts own
which it keeps busy in producing the
coin it uses in influencing American
politics.
This campaign humbug, which in
times past had an effect in alarming
the unwary on the subject of British
gold, has been relegated to the limbo
of discarded fakes, it being accorded
the contemptuous derision which fraud:
ulent representations always deserve
and ultimately receive, but it now ap-
pears that some of the Republican
organs are trying to create an alarm
about British Silver. They have
learned from reliable sources that En-
glish financiers are interesting them-
selves in the Sherman law, and are us-
ing their influence to bave the United
States government continue the month-
ly purchase of silver. The object of
this British interference as represented,
is to subserve the English silver iuter-
est in India; but the real purpose of
such a Republican representation, no
doubt, is to create an element of dis-
trust in a question which the Demo-
cratic party finds ou its hands for so-
lution, as a legacy of Republican mal-
administration, and which the organs
of that party would like to complicate
and embarass for a partisan reason.
But such idle tales about British silver
will have as little effect in retarding a
just and satisfactory settlement of the
silver question, by the Democrats, as
the foolish canards about British gold |
had in hindering the progress of tariff
reform.
Why They Attack Him.
Refuted by Republican Testimony.
Some of the Republican papers have
been laboring hard to make it appear
| that the present business slump was
brought on by the fear of what the
Democrats are going to do to the tariff.
They are not willing to admit that the
deranged relations of gold and silver, a
disorder pertaining to the circulating
medinm, are the chief, if not the only
cause of the trouble, but endeavor to
make political capital by insisting that
those engaged in the industries are ap-
prehensive of such meddling with the
tariff, by Democratic legislation, as will
injure their business, and that indus-
trial stagnation and financial. embar-
rassment are the consequences of such
an apprehension.
The object of these partisan organs
is easily detected. Their obvious in-
tention is to make political capital out
of the prevailing financial distress ;
but their assumption that the trouble
is due to a tariff scare is forcibly re-
futed by a no less distinguished tariff
man and Republicanthan Mr. THoMAs
Dora, the great textile manufacturer
of Philadelphia, who, in a recent inter-
view published in the Inquirer, of that
city, repudiates and condemns the idea
that apprehension in regard to what
may be done to the tariff has anything
to do with the existing embarrass-
ment.
Mr. Doran asks: “If the alarm is
due to the victory of the Democrats
why was it not manifested last Novem -
ber?” Nothing could be better caleu-
lated to non-pluss the tariff alarmists
than this question. Immediately after
the election the people knew what was
to be expected of the Democrats in re-
gard to the tariff, yet, as Mr. Doran
8ays, no uneasiness was felt among
manufacturers on that score, and “ev-
erything went on swimmingly until the
first of July.” Was it not remarkable
that the manufacturing people allowed
eight months to pass after the election
of a Democratic President and Con-
gress before they permitted themselves
to be overcome by the fear that the
Democrats were going to ruin them ?
It there was any ground for such ap-
prebension would it not have com-
menced to show its effect immediately
after the November election ?
Instead of the panicky feeling which
the Republican organs ascribe to the
fear of Democratic “free trade,” Mr.
The organs of the opposition seem !
to have selected Secretary Hoke SyitH |
as a special object of attack. The evi-
dent reason for thisis that heis a
Southern man, and as the Pension Bu-
reau is within the province of the In-
terior Department, of which Mr. Smita
is the head, they charge that the re-
form methods in the management of
the pension system spring from confed-
erate hostility to the Union soldiers.
Conveniently for their purpose they
ignore the fact that the reform of pen-
sion abuses is a part of the Democratic
policy, and that whether a Southern
or a Northern man wereat the head of
the Iaterior Department, or in charge
of the Pension Bureau, the work of
weeding out unworthy claimants, and
eliminating fraud from a system that
should be conducted on principles of
honesty and honor, would go on under
a Democratic administration as a duty
to the country, and to deserving vet-
erans, which the party is pledged to
perform, and will carry out to the ex:
tent of its opportunity and ability. But
it suits the interest of those who have
been fattening on the plunder of the
pension system, to represent the Secreta-
ry of the Interior as actuated by a
malevolent feeling towards the defend
ers of the old flag, hoping thereby to
excite a sectional sentiment against
the movement for reform which by res:
cuing the system from the influences
of fraud and corruption, are really cal-
culated to protect and benefit those:
veterans who havea claim to the
bounty of the government.
Secretary SyitH is an honorable and
patriotic citizen, who has no other mo-
tive than to discharge his official duty
in a way that will be most beneficial |
to the country. He does not have di-
rect charge of the Pension Bureau, but
it may be taken as a certainty that he
accords his fullest approbation to the
manouer in which Commissioner Loca-
REN, an old soldier, is purging the pen-
sion liets and driving off the swarm of
DoLaN says that the situation was very
favorable and satisfactory. “Orders
“camein good and strong for fall goods.
“Conditions were favorable, and with
“the good demand everything was'pros-
“perous until the silver craze upset the
“country.” No other individual in this
State is more interested in the main -
tenance of the tariff than this great
Republican manufacturer ; no other
man has contributed more for the sup-
port of the protective system, and his
opinion that the fear of Democratic
action on the tariff has had nothing to
do with the prevailing business trouble
is of far more account than the par-
tisan expressions of Republican orga ns
that are striving for political effect.
—— When the United States gets
done paying the awards for damages
to English seal fishers that will be due
them under the decision of Behring
sea tribunal, it will have a taste
of the effects of Republican statesman-
ship that should last for some time,
—————
Ther Will Change Their Tune.
It’s very easy to blame the present
financial condition of affairs upon the
Democratic party. Itisin power and
we supppose will have to stand it, al-
though no morejrespousible for any of
the existing troubles than are the
South Sea Islanders for the condition
in which Peary findsthe Behring Sea.
But the time will come when the effects
of wise Democratic laws and®conserva -
tive Democratic action, will jcause a
boom in every legitimate business and
industry, and then what a dose it will
be for the present calamity howler to
admit that the prosperity: enjoyed is
due to the fact that the Democracy is
in power. Just wait and hear] these
tribulation talkers hedge, when we get
through suffering from the effects of
Republican misr ule.
e——
About the only thing of impor-
sharks which have so long gobbled too
large a portion of the money intended
for the benefit of soldiers whose services
have entitled them to it.
tance that any one in this country got
out of Behring Sea arbitration was
Lice Havurorp's salary.
NO. 32.
They Didn't Mistake the Cause.
The Ohio Democrats, in their State
Convention last week, made no mis-
take as to the cause of the business
troubles, when they declared that “the
financial situation is the unfortunate
legacy ot the Republican administra
tion,”
They put the blame exactly where it
belongs. No amount of Republican
sophistication can make it appear to
have sprung from any other cause.
Particularizing the sources of the pres-
ent evils, the platform of the Ohio
Democracy declares them to be “the
natural result of the McKINLEY tariff,
the SuerMAN silver law, extravagance
of the party lately in power, and the
creation and fostering of trusts and cor-
rupt combinations by that party, all
combining to shake credit, to create
distrust in the money of the country,
and to paralyze its business.”
These are the real causes of the dis-
order and distress which have overtak-
en business, and it is entirely correct
to put the McKINLEY tariff first as an
agent of commercial disturbance and
depression. An influence that stimu-
lates production beyond the require-
ments of home demand, and at the
same time prevents the overproduction
from being dispozed of in foreign mar-
kets, necessarily brings on the col-
lapse and stagnation that have befal-
len the productive industries, and
which have been coming on ever since
the imposition of MoKiNLEY'S higher
duties. The result has been as un-
erring as effect follows its cause.
The SmErRMAN silver law, no doubt
also exerted an injurious financial in-
fluence. It has done its injury not so
much in that it made liberal use of the
silver product of the country, but that it
made use of it in the wrong way. To
purchase large quantities of this metal
and store it away in useless depositories
is perverting its constitutional use and
imposing an unwarrantable expense
upon the government, in addition to re-
quiring of it a duty which cannot be
included among its legitimate financial |
functions. The constitution author !
izes the coinage of silver, butin no!
part of that document can the govern-
ment find the authority for buying and
stocking up the raw material of silver. |
When iv assumes to resort to that sort |
of traffle, financial difficulty must be
the inevitable consequence. But in
the dilemma springing from this Silver
question, there is a Democratic way
out of the difficulty. The Democratic
national- platform points the way that
must be taken for the restoration of
a second monetary condition, when it
“holds to the use of otk gold and sil-
ver as the standard money of the
country, and to the coinage of both
gold and silver, without discriminating
against either metal.”
Legislation based upon this Demo-
cratic declaration it seems to us, will
furnish a safe, equitable and beneficent
solution of the Silver question.
————————————————
——An easy, a simple, and certainly
a speedy way to relieve the financial
stringency would be to issue ‘‘green-
backs” and redeem the outstanding
interest bearing government bonds.
This would put in circulation millions
of dollars of the most acceptable
money the government has ever pro-
vided the people with, and at the same
time stop the payment of interest, that
80 largely reduces the revenues of the
government. :
No More Bonds.
The purpose of one class of people,
who have been clamoring so vehement.
ly against silver as a money, is
showing itself in the debates in congress.
On their part the effort to demonetize
silver is to make necessary an other
issue of interest bearing non-taxable
bonds, in which money lenders can
invest their spare cash at a fair rate of
interest and at the same time have this
wealth exempted from all taxation. Tt
is the old Republican idea of putting
the government in competition, asa
borrower, with every needy man and
interest in the country; of making a
place when lenders can invest, at a fixed
rate of interest, until the necessity of
those required to borrow compels them
to offer exhorbitant rates for the use
of money. It is the money lenders
scheme, and a Democratic congress
should see that no such measure is
forced upon the country.
The Timely Appearance of the Saving
Physician,
From the Troy, Ohio, Democrat.
Cleveland left the Presidential chair
in 1889 with a hundred million surplus
in the Treasury and everything moy-
ing along as smoothly as the high tar-
iff would let it, Harrison came in,
McKinley put up the tariff and every-
thing commences going to the dogs.
Wheat began to drop, wool tumble,
and the surplus went where the wood-
bine twineth. Harrison squandered
the public money until there was not
a dollar surplus left. The Republican
congress ran the expenses up to a bil-
lion dollars, and before Harrison went
out business men and banks began to
break, Billy McKinley and Charley
Foster leading off. Cleveland stepped
into a rotten concern-—just ready to go
to pieces from Republican misrule and
reckless extravagance. The public
confidence in Cleveland is all thatsaves
us now from a general wreck. It Har
rison had been re-elected nothing would
have saved us from universal bank-
raptey such as we had under Republi-
can rule in 1873 and 1877.
Honesty Finds Its Reward in Heaven.
From the Jeffersonian Democrat.
Charles Foster, late Secretary of the
Treasury uoder President Harrison,
and some years ago Governor of Ohio,
and who lately made a bad failure in
business, was manager of a bank in
Ohio which collapsed a few weeks ago.
An examination of the books of the
bank show that Foster's account was
overdrawn $100,000, and that the
accounts of his partners, and some of
his clerks, were also largely overdrawn,
This is very discreditable to Mr. Fost
ter, who has been honored with the
high offices of Governor and Secretary
of the national treasury. If we do not
have integrity among men of great
prominence, and who have occupied
and are occupying high stations in the
land, how can we expect it of men in
the common walks of life ?
The Common Sense View of It.
From the Columbia Herald.
Attorney General Hensel’s refusal to
interfere as an officer of the Common
wealth with the construction of the
trolly railroad of the Gettysburg battle-
field is accompanied by reasons which
under even a casual perusal appear to
be sound, logical and convincing, If
the power of the State could L.em-
ployed to deprive a railway coporation
of the legal use and practical benefit
of land purchased and owned by it no
holder of real property would be safe.
Mr. Hensel has rendered a public
service in filing his opinion in this
matter at length and in such conclusive
terms. He has, moreover, suggested
to those who are opposing the railroad
on grounds of sentimenta recourse to
the Courts of Adams county, which
seems hitherto to have escaped their
attention.
An Idea Worth Considering.
From the Steubenville, Ohio, Gazette.
Tom Johnson’s plan to ease the
money market by allowing anybody
having United States bonds to deposit
them in the Treasury at Washington
and receive therefor greenbacks of a
new issue to the same amount, interest
on the bonds to be suspended while
they are so deposited, is plainly the
safest and most practicable way for
increase of currency in tight times that
has been suggested. Mr. Johnson's
bill should be electroded through both
houses about the first thing.
How They Do It in Chicago.
From the New York Advertiser.
The local directory of the World's
Fair is the most rapid literalist of
modern times. It has been enjoined
by a court from closing the gates of
ground on Sundays, and so it opens the
gates but shuts up every blessed thing
there is to be seen in the Fair, obeying
the order of Court in the letter and
contemptuouely violating it in the
spirit. Chicago is a wonderful city,
but its most wonderful product is this
noble army of pass users.
A HS EAST
The South and Its Growing Evil.
From the Butler Democratic Herald.
It some fools ‘had not taught the
black man that he had a right to co-
habit with a. white woman, with or
without her consent, there would be
fewer lynchings of coléred people in the
south. Before the war it was a rare
thing to hear a colored man perpetrat-
ing an outrage upon a white woman,
But the Carpetbagger taught the
colored man a crime that has made
the history of the southern states a
mosaic of vice and its retribution.
No Better Man Could be so Honored.
From the Uniontown Genius of Liberty.
Governor Pattison always draws a
large crowd when he visits Uniontown,
and the one which greeted. him yester-
day was as large as any he ever saw
here. The people do well to honor
him, for in doing so they honor a wor-
thy man, one who may be President
before the close of the century.
——1f you want printing of any de-
scription the WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Hazleton has a feminine cobbler.
—Eastern counties are suffering from wate®
famine.
—Scoundrels chop down Reading shade
trees at night.
—John Spike was crushed to death in a
Stockton colliery.
—Fall plowing in Berks County is being de-
layed by the drouth.
—A big Farmers’ Alliance meeting was held
Saturday in Reading.
—A corn stalk 11 feet 3inches is reported by
the Pottstown Ledger
—Nine colored converts were baptized in the
Delaware at Easton on Sunday.
—Frank Keller, an alleged Philadelphia
bicycle thief, was captured Friday in Easton.
—George Seid of Lock Haven was killed by
an elevator’s fall, at Williamsport, on Monday.
—A party of young men from Quakertown
will fit up a box-car and go to the World’s Fair
in it.
—Brush Valley, in Blair county, dedicated
its first Methodist Episcopal church on Sun.
day last.
—Judgments to the amount of $77,000 have
been entered against the Lebanon Brewing
company.
—Although married but a year, Mrs. Harry
Eimerbruil, of York, tried to kill herself with
laudanum.
—School teachers of Chester will hold an in-
stitute separale from the other Delaware
County teachers.
—Trying to hasten a fire with kerosene’
Mrs. Ludwig Goetz, of Harrisburg, was per
haps fatally burned.
—Sixteen tons of coal were stolen from
Lehigh Valley cars and hidden in three cel
lars at Tunkhannock.
—Congressman Libby of the Erie district is
said to be preparing a three hours speech in
favor of free silver. :
—The young ladies of West Pittston amuse
themselves with mock marriage parties, from
which men are excluded.
—Ex-Senator Jackson, of Armstrong county,
has announced himself as a Republican can-
didate for State Treasurer.
—To escape detection by officers who were
on his heels, James Higgins, of Lancaster, hid
stolen chickens in his bed.
—Houses, it is not stated what kind ,80ld at
a public sale near Beaver Falls, a few days
ago at from 75 cents to $3.30.
—A mortgage for $600,000 was given to the
Provident Trust Company, of Philadelphia, by
the Reading Traction Company.
—The widow of William Plowfield, who was
murdered at Birdsboro, says emphatically
that the brothers were good friends.
—Andrew Carnegie has presented an organ
to another Braddock church, making a total
of six pipe organs he has given to that town.
—A number of freight cars on the Reading
and Columbia Railroad were wrecked at
Fakrata, necessitating the transfer of passen-
gers.
—A burglar stole a large sun of mo ney
from Joseph Hake's house, at Brogueville,
York County, and repulsed his pursuers with
bullets.
ing agency in Easton and induced 100 mer-
chants to join it, has been arrested for em-
bezzlement.
—The Commissioners Report for Allegheny
county as filed in Department of Internal Af.
fairs, shows the present indebtedness of that
county to be $4,033,626,46
—In a wreck on the Downingtown and Lan-
caster Railroad at Honeybrook, Lancaster,.the
passengers escaped unhurt, but Brakeman A.
B. South had an arm broken.
—Over 100 indictments will be presented by
the district attorney of Chester county, atthe
coming session of court. Eight of these are
for indecent assault upon women.
—Despondent over an incurable cancer,
whice was nearing vital parts, Chas. Miner
aged 76, widower, committed suicide in his.
barn at Eatonville on Sunday morning.
—William Blair, wanted in Clarion County
for a number of crimes in which he led a
desperate gang, was caught at Alliance, O., by
Sheriff Klinch after a nine months’ chase.
—Col. Harvey T'yson, has been removed as
surveyor for the Forestry Commission, by Gov.
Pattison, for dishonestly using the money ap-
propriated for bearing the expenses of the
Commission. :
—The bodies of two women, supposed to be
mother and daughter, were found lying on the
ground at the bottom ofa trestle bridge near
Pittsburg, on Sunday last, and it is supposed
they were murdered.
—The Black Diamond Steel works , of Pitts-
burg, which have been idle for months, will
start up on Monday of next week, giving em-
ployment t0 4,000 workmen. This is an item
of news that the calamity howler will fail to
find.
—Morgan Duncan, of Centre township, Indi-
ana county, and his wife were picking berries
below their house, when the lady discovered
an enormous blacksnake coiled up among
the bushes. Mr. Duncan killed the snake,
which measured over six feet.
—Of the cities of Pennsylvania the assessed
valuation of only three is below $10,000,000.
Williamspor¢, Wilkesbarre and Lebanon
show assessments of $8,633,122, 85,601,327. and
$8,000,000 respectively. Altoona, Eris, Harris-
burg and Lancaster havereal estate assessed
from $14,000,000 to $22,000,000. :
—Mrs. Nathan Kinter, of Cherryhill town-
ship, Indiana county, returned to the house
one evening after doing some work iu the
garden, and hearing a rustling noise on the
floor procured a lamp. and investigated. A
copperhead about two feet long was found
under the bed. It was killed.
~—Congressman Thaddeus Mahon received a
letter from one of his Huntingdon county con-
stituents enclosing two $5 bills, which had
been eaten by grasshoppers, and requesting
Mr. Mahon to have them redeemed at the
Treasury. The letter stated that a farme®
hung his vest, in the pocket of which was the
money, on a tence. When he went to get it
the vest was eaten full of holes by the grass-
hoppers, and the money so damaged as to he
of no account.
—The price of wheat in the Schuylkill Vala
ley has reached its lowest point in sixty years,
dealers offering for the new crop just threshed
52 and 54 cents and 63 cents forold wheat. As
this is lower than farmers have to pay for
feed many intend to feed the wheat to their
hogs and cattle, confident that it will pay
them better that way. A movement is on foot
to hold a meeting of Schuylkill Valley farmers
to talk over the situation for next year. They
say that they are losing money on every bush-
el sold for less than one dollar,
—C. W. McAllister, who organized a collect -
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