Deworralic Wate
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
--Mr. HrrL unpbuttoned himself in
the Serate the other day and politicians
have been busy ever since trying to fig-
_ ure out what they saw.
—There is nothing like saving up
your spare change for that proverbial
rainy day. The man or woman who
bas economy will always have plenty.
—-The summer girl finds very little
interest in the relation between gold and
silver. Neither one of them have the
right ring for her. She prefers a dia-
mond.
—The Hummelstown brown stone
company has gone up, with liabilities
amounting to $30,000. There must
have been something very rocky about
the concern.
-—Congress simply paralyzed the
SHERMAN bill, but unless it does some-
thing now, to give us silver money 88
well as gold, it will find that the country
has been stricken with the same paralyt-
ic stroke.
—Pennsylvania’s incumbents in the
two chairs alloted to the Keystone state
in the Senate are quiet as clams during
all this silver fuss. They are notsaying
a word and as yet no one has heard of
their sawing any wood either.
—A bull fight was advertised in Mad-
rid, Spain, on Sunday, and when the
great throng had gathered about the
arena the bull refused to fight, where-
upon the spectators, with less sense than
the animal had displayed, jumped at
one another and a riot ensued.
—The board of lady managers of the
‘World’s Fair should go to Washington
and settle the money question. It made
a “Rep.” in the Windy city for settling
all eagles that dared scream and would
doubtless quickly confiscate the little re-
gerves that Congress is now haggling
over. Perhaps, however, if those wo-
men were made disgorge, their stockings
would unload a burden that would at
once knock off the premium on curren-
ey.
—There is still a tariff on wheat and
the price continues going down. We
hope the present situation, with the low"
est price ever known, will be a lasting
lesson to the farwers that the tariff does
not help their product. The United
States are wheat producers and not
wheat consumers. They invariably
grow more than they can use, and what
is to be done with the surplus? Why
it must be sold in foreign markets.
There are indications of a short crop in
Europe. Watch the price of our wheat
go up when Europe begins to ask for it
and then ask yourself whether the tariff
did it. With us it is the izexorable law
of supply and demand.
—The mandates of the Chicago plat-
form were in part followed out, on Mon-
day, when “that cowardly makeshift,
the SHERMAN silver purchase act” was
repealed by a majority of one hundred
and twenty-nine. That action will re-
store confidence to some degree, but
before the country will prosper again
there must be some measure enacted to
insure a sound silver currency which
will work through the ordinary channels
of trade with as little friction as possi-
ble. Should the Senate concur with
the House on the SHErMAN bill and
then both fail in enacting any silver
legislation there will be far worse times
than any we have experienced yet.
-—A word of warning to Republican
calamity howlers may not be amiss at
this time. Last fall the orators and
press of the G. O. P. howled from one
end of the land to the other ‘this isa
campaign of education.” As a conse-
quence the sober reflection of the masses
found it time to vote the rascally Treas-
ury looters, tariff robbers and pension
sharks out. If this continual cry of
“calamity !”’ “calamity 1” is kept up, the
next will be a campaign of education al-
50, and the masses willlearn how, from
the diseased organism of Republican
government, Democracy has nursed a
scund and healthful system which wil}
«carry it to even a more triumphant vic-
tory than was that of November, 1892.
— It has often been said that a *‘dying
mule kicks in all directions” and there
need be no better application of the fa-
miliar old saw, than as explanatory of
the fuss the Republican organs are mak-
ing over the monetary condition of the
country. First they spluttered and
splattered about the tariff, advising the
Democrats to let it alone or the country
would go to the dogs. Then when that
didn’t have a wonderful effect they
straddled the silver question and tried
to ride the good sense of the people into
believing that Democracy meant wild
cat” banks and money. Meeting with
no success on that tack they took up the
“you voted for a change, now you've
got it” bug-a-boo and were whipped
back into their holes because no change
in any law had yet been made. And
now, as a last resort, they have taken to
biting one another for support of the
Democratic ticket last fall. ’Tis sad in-
deed to see such demoralization in the
ranks of a once grand organization.
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NO. 34.
Calming the Public Fear.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
attempts to calm the public fear in re-
gards to the Democratic tariff policy.
This would be a praise-worthy under
taking if there was really any fear en-
tertained by the people as to what
the Democrats are going to do,
with the tariff, but as there exists no
popular apprehension on that subject
the Telegraph's effort to allay it is an
unnecessary exertion.
That paper ays that “these would-be
tariff-reformers are already fully per-
suaded that there must be a wide dif-
ference between their campaign teach-
ing and their legislative practice.” It
takes the position that there is no
cause for apprehension, for the reason
that the Democrats will be afraid to
carry out their ‘ferocious designs
againet the industries of the country.”
There is indeed no reason to fear, but it
is because the Democrats have never
intended to do anything else to thein-
dustries than to benefit them. If fear
has been anywhere entertained it has
been for the reason that Democratic
tariff intentions have been misrepre-
sented by their opponents. Their
“campaign teaching” of tariff reform
has been misconstrued into free trade,
and now when itis evident that the
“legislative practice” of the Democrats
will not obliterate the tariff and will
not destroy the industries, the Republi.
can papers, the Evening Telegraph
among them, find refuge in the declar-
ation that the Democratic “free trad-
ers” are afraid to carry out their tarifl
smashing intentions.
The difficulty into which the tariff
organs have gotten themselves has
been brought on by their lying about
the Democratic intentions. The result
will prove that they lied. There could
be no reason for honest intelligent
men to mistake or misunderstand the
purpose of the Democrats in regard to
the tariff, as declared by their election
teaching. When they declared the
Republican tariff to be a fraud they as-
serted their intention to reform it, and
the means of such reformation would
be its reduction to a revenue basie. The
revenue required to run the govern.
ment is so large that a tariff necessary
to raise it will amply protect the indus-
trics. This is the kind of tariff that
the Democrats will give the country,
and by the abundant protection it will
afford the manufacturers iv will prove
that the Republicans lied when they
charged the Democrats with free trade
intentions.
ATES ——
Know When They Are Well Off.
The Democrats of Iowa have
shown their appreciation of Governor
Boiss by nominatisg him the third
time for the gubernatorial position.
With them it is clearly a case of
knowing a good man when they see
him. It was an unusual achievement
for a Democrat to be elected Governor
of Iowa, a State in which the Republi
can party a few years ago seemed to
be impregnably entrenched. This was
a political feat which Governor Boies
not only performed once, but he re-
peated it, and is now called upon to do
it a third time. There is every ap-
pearance that the Governor will have a
third term. Apart from the excel-
lence of his administration, which has
given him great strength with the
people of his State, independent of pol-
itical considerations, the Republican
party of Iowa is ia no better shape
than it was in when he beat it twice
before. It isat this time badly ripped
up on the liquor question, and also
greatly demoralized on economic and
financial issues, while on the other
hand the Democrats of the State are
united and encouraged by recent suc-
cesses. It is not too much to expect,
under these circumstances, that Gover-
nor Boies will achieve his third elec-
tion by an increased majority.
J —
Barnum’s circus and the Repub-
hiean state convention held forth to-
gether, in Harrisburg, on Wednesday,
and ring-master Quay chased the
trained animals ail through their acts
in grand style. Judge D. NewuiN FeLi,
of Philadelphia, was nominated for
Supreme Justice. Col. Samuer L.
Jackson, of Armstrong county, was
nominated for State Treasurer and Col.
B. F. GiLxesoxy, of Bucks county, was
made state chairman. The'show was
well managed and reflects great credit
on Mr. Quay. Asa U. S. Senator
be may not be much of a success, but as
a machine politician he runs it well.
°| part of
Use Without Abuse.
The charge is Lrought against the
Silver dollar that it is ehort-weight, or,
in other words, that it does not contain
enough silver to make it as intrinsic:
cally valuable as a gold dollar. Upon
this indictment it is accused of being &
fraudulent coin, and is held responsible
for cheating those among whom it is
circulated.
As far as we are individually con-
cerned we must say that we are not
conscious of having sustained any ma-
terial loss from this source, it being
our perspnal experience that wheu we
go into a store with a gold dollar and
a silver dollar we can get as wuch for
the oue coin as for the other, andin
our own business we are as ready to
give the WaTomyax for two silver dol-
lors as for two gold ones.
But there are some people with such
tender consciences that they feel uneasy
when they think how a confiding
public is being cheated by the circula-
tion of dollars made of the white metal
which, on account of the depre:
ciation of that metal, are not
worth as much intrinsically, as
gold coin of thesame denomination.
They lie awake at night thinking of
the poor victims of such a fraud, and,
as a remedy for such deception, they
want more wetal put into the silver
dollar so as to bring it up to the gold
standard of value. Among these coin
reformers is our friend, Colonel Mec
CLURE, of the Philadelphia Zimes, who
seems to think that a cart wheel dollar
would settle the difficulty.
When the founders of the republic
guaranteed in the constitution the
right of the American people to coin
silver money they fixed the relative
value of gold and silver as 1 to 16, and
at this rate the two kinds of metals
were coined for many years. Notwith-
standing that their extrinsic values
fluctuated frequently, and-often very
materially, the people who accept the
demoninational value of both kinds of
coin as being equal, suffered no loss,
although the two metals continued to
be coined at the ratio originally fixed.
But the disparity of value between
gold and silver is now considered to be
so great a detriment to the public that
a demand is being made in some quar-
ters for an increase of the ratio, as
high, indeed, as 24 of silvertol of
goid. A silver dollar, coined at this
ratio, would be one third larger ihan
the present dollar, and a cumbersome
piece of money it would be to be car-
ried around in one’s pocket. Pieces
of smaller denominations would be
proportionately increased in weight,
and tea dollars, in silver change, would
be about as much as an able bodied
man would care about carrying. Noth-
ing could be eo well calculated to make
silver money unpopular, and to dimin-
ish its usefulpess, as to make it unrea-
gonably cumbersome.
Of course at this period of excite.
ment on the silver question many
wild propositions are advanced, but it
seems to us that the best treatment of
the pending question would be to re-
peal the SHERMAN act, and then ar-
range for the continued use of silver as
money in accordance with the needs of
the people. Itisidle to imagine that
the monetary use of silver can or will
be disposed with. There are some
tour hundred million silver dollars in
the country, and they are not going to
be sent to the melting pot to be cou-
verted into metal for mechanical or
ornamental use, merely. to satisty the
gold fanatics. They will remain asa
our circulating medium,
answering a useful purpose as instru:
mentalities of trade, and will be re-in-
forced, from time to time, by new
coinage, as the necessities of business
may require. It is thus that silver, as
a financial element, can be used and
not abused.
n——
Democrats your duty is plain
this Fall. You will all have to turn
out and work for the aid of the ticket.
‘I'he Republicans are using buncombe
of all kinds to make political capital
and the only way it can be met is by
an honest, straightforward campaign.
If every Democrat turns out we will
roll up an old time majority. It is
being said, “this is an off year for the
Democrats.” Let us verify the state-
ment, but in another way than our op-
ponents think. Let us make it “an
oft year” by electing our candidates by
the largest majorities ever given in the
county. We can do it, if we all turn
in and work. It will only take a little
effort on the part of each one.
An Embarrassing Position.
cm.
The Manufacturers club, an organi
zation which -represents the highest
tariff sentiment of Philadelphia, is at-
tracting attention by the rather ab-
surd position which some cf its mem-
bers have taken in regard to the pre-
gent business troubles. It is natural
that an organization haying the inter-
est it has, should be pervaded by a
strong feeling in favor of a system
which has added so greatly to the
wealth of its individual members, but
being generally intelligent men, itis
surprising that they should allow
even their interest to so blind them to
the cause of the present trouble as to
ascribe it to a fear prevailing among
business men that the tariff is going to
be tampered with by the Democrats.
The members of this club are manu-
facturers who, from their own personal
experience, know that the embarrass
ment under which they have suffered
during the present summer has come
mostly from financial derangement,
and that if it were not for the mone-
tary difficulty, a matter having no re-
lation whatever to the tarift question,
the operations of industry would not at
this time be affected by any material
obstruction. When they :assume that
apprehensions about the tariff have
thrown business out of gear they are
obviously influenced by partisan spirit,
and deliberately ignore the true cause
of the industrial trouble for the sake of
making capitol for the high tariff
policy.
They are the less excusable for this
perversion of fact in view of the cir-
cumstance that one of the most promi-
nentjmembers of their organization, and
the President of the club, Mr. THOMAS
DoLAN, has deliberately expressed the
opinion thgt the tariff bas had nothing
to do with the business trouble, and
that if there were no stringency in fin
ancial affairs the industries would be
going on as usual. Thisis the view of
an intelligent and honest manufacturer
who is not willing to stultify himself
by assigning the wrong cause for the
embarrassment in which all kinds of
business is now placed.
The high tariff advocates of the
Manufacturers club, who allow their
partisan feelings to lead them into an
expression of the opinion that the Dem-
ocratic tarift policy is the bugaboo
that is alarming manufacturers, are
putting themselves in an embarrassing
position. They will find that® before
this Democratic administration is
many months older, there will be a
general revival of business, and it will
come with the Democratic tariff policy
in full operation. When their factories
are doing their usual amount of work,
the people will remember what they
said about the blighting effect ot the
Democratic tariff policy. It will be
an awkward posture for the gentlemen
of the Manufacturers’ club to be placed
in, and will besure to bring ridicule
upon their tariff pretensions.
—Much has been said about Mrs.
LEASE'S appearance as a lecturer in
Pennsylvania While she is talking to
the farmers here her other half is un-
doubtedly having a rest from the trials
and vexation of spirit which a wife who
wears the pants in the family household
always causes. .
—— There was something ludicrous
in a remark made by Congressman
TroMmas B. REED in the closing debate
on the question of repealing the SHER-
MAN law, last Saturday. Boasting of
the excellence of the Republican party,
he said, “The propdest .part of the
proud record of the Republican party
has been 1n ifs steadfast devotion to the
cause of sound finance.” This boast
was made in the same breath in which
Mr. REED was urging the repeal of a
Republican financial measure which is
admittedly the cause of the present
business difficulties. Did the Republi.
can party show its “steadfast devotion
to the cause of sound finance” when it
passed the SHERMAN act, and did it
make a further display of that ‘“devot
tion” when it refused to repeal that ac-
at the close of the HARRISON adminis-
tration, in order that the trouble it had
caused might be inherited by a Demo-
cratic administration ?
— Such men as are candidates
for the county offices on the Democrat:
ic ticket, this fall, richly deserve the
support of every member of our party
The Boomerang Flying Back to the
Republican Camp.
From the Philadelphia Times.
During all of the last week confidence
has been slowly bat steadily regaining
its sway over business, and the closing
days of the week witnessed the best
revival of general confidence we have
had for a month. Suspended industries
and money institutions are resuming
in every section of the country ; the
premium for currency has been reduc-
ed to a nominal figure ; gold continues
to flow into our country from Europe;
the repeal of the silver insanity policy
is certain to pass both branches of
Congress, and we seem to be fairly on
the way to enduring business pros-
perity.
It is now quite time that the croak-
ers should cease to ply their vocation.
They have fooled the money-hoaders
to the utmost by their senseless pratt-
ling about this = going - to smash
generally. The calamity-howling or-
gans have been compelled to stop and
to give prominent display to the
revival of trade and business confidence;
and the silly money-hoarders who
baye made no use of their money just
when it could have been most profita-
ble to them, are beginning to under-
stand their folly and locked up money
is gradually emerging from the boxes
and stockings of panic-stricken people.
There will be no sudden boom in
values, but” a very much better result
is now certain to be attained. A sudden
boom would simply mean uncertainty
and future fluctuations. A steady
healthy advance in values and growth
in business confidence will hold its
own from day to day and increase the
improvement by its own momentum as
each week passes. We shall now get
down to honest money, and when
honest money, is secured, public
confidence will return and commerce,
industry and trade will speedily get
back to their normal condition. Have
faith in our great country, in its great
government and its great people, and
ail will be well.
TTA SEES,
Facts Republican Organs Like to
Forget,
From the Allentown City Item.
Republicans forget that the hardest
and most severe panic the country
ever passed through was that of 1873-
74. That occurred after the Republican
party had enjoyed a long lease of
| power and while it was in the very
zenith of itsi strength and power. The
present business depression in some
| parts of the country is charged to the
| Democracy by the Republicans, who
neither read, think nor reason, but
‘ prominent Republicans, large manu-
facturers, too, like Mr. Dolan, of
Philadelphia, declare in long articles
{over their own signatures that the
| pending financial flurry, which is
passing away as rapidly as it came,
was directly the outgrowth of the
Sherman silver law, and that with the
| repeal of the purchasing clause of the
| same, business will resume its normal
| tone and the prosperous conditions of a
| short time ago will be re-established.
Sensible People Will Not Be Thrown
off the Trail. :
From the Columbia Independent.
It is no wonder that the Republicans
are crying out vigorously against the
Democrats. They would fain drag a
red herring across the scent so as to
draw people's attention away from the
mischief they wrought during their
four years’ tenure of office. That they
should squeal is not surprising. The
harder a pig is squeezed the louder it
squeals. °°
Another Point for Mr, Geary to Re-
fate.
From the Milton Record.
The Chinese are better than tramps.
This was shown at Fresno, California,
the other day. The residents relied
upon the promises of the tramps to
work if the Chinese were driven out.
The Chinese were driven out, but the
tramps failed to make good their
promises.
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Why Unpraiseworthy if
ves it.
He Deser-
From the Altoona Times.
The abuse of Justice Williams, of
the supreme bench is not calculated to
inspire respect for the high court of
which he is a member. Yet that is
the very unpraiseworthy work at which
Philadelphia newspapers have been
engaged.
ACT En
True Citizenship on the Decline,
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Nobody in whom the sense of duty
is not abnormally developed reads the
debates now dragging their slow length
through the pages of the Congressional
Record.
me —
They Are to be Congratulated on Their
Good Sense.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Wonder what those republicans who
‘deserted the party last year because
they hankered after ‘a change” think
of themselves now !
ATI
ere
——In times of peace prepare for
war. . Be sure you are registered.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A runaway culm car at a St. Clair colliery
fatally hurt Willam Kirk.
—The new Catholic church at Uniontown
will cost $21,698 to build.
—Falling in the river at Johnstown while
fishing, Joseph Boyer drowned.
—The Philadelphia and Reading’s coal bus ~
ness in the Shuylkill region is booming.
—The explosion of a flyw heel in Yuengling's
Brewery, Pottsville, caused $3000 in damages.
—The Colored Baplist Convention at Car -
lisle decided to meet next year at Winches”
ter, Va.
—The valuable library of the late M. S. Eich-
elberger, of York, has been purchased by Yale
College.
—While speeding a fast horse, J. G. Rhodes,
a Grand Erie County hotel proprietor, was
struck by a train and killed.
-~-Burgess Weber, of Mahanoy City, was ar-
re:ted for threatening to demolish property
he thought was a nuisance.
—The Mennonite Brethren have moved
their camp frem Golf’s Woods, Spring City, to
Chestnut Hill, Lehigh county.
—Survivors of the 1431" Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, met at Tunkhannock Fri-
day, and were addressed by T. V, Powderly.
—Robert Morrow, who broke his neck by
diving into Conewago Creek last week, died at
the York Hospital Monday after unusual ling.
ering.
—The Barker Hotel omnibus was demol-
ished at Hanover Monday and J. P. Kitlinger
severely injured in a collision with a freight
engine.
—A 2-months’ puppy, born without forelegs»
that frisks about on its hind ones, was taken
to Hazelton Monday by S. M. Woodring,” of
Drums.
—Forty-one organizations and 14 bands will
march with fireworks to the new Perkiomen
school on the evening of September 11 for the
raising of the flag.
—Construction foreman C. C. Carman, of
the Wernersville hospital, mourns the “lift-
ing” of his gold watch, a testamonial from 8i-
mon Orrick, of Philad elphia.
—Foreman Turner, of the Mauch Chunk
Electric Railway, was arrested on the com-
plaint of Rev. A.J. Amthor Monday for work-
ing a gang of men on Sunday.
—Joseph Covae, coke worker living at
Leisenring No. 1, was held up about thre miles
from Connellsville, Pa., Tuesday morning by
a gang of tramps and robbed of $500.
—A preacher at Warren surprised his con.
gregation last Sunday by telling them that a
number of them were giving more money to
church work than they could afford to.
—Pawnee Bill's Wild West agent was in-
formed at the Attorney General’s Department
that he would have to secure a $1000 license
before entering the State with the show.
—One hundred MecSherrystown people
marched into Hanover Monday evening head-
ed by a band, and performed gratuit ous labor
on the electric road being constructed there.
—Luzerne county Commissioners return in
their statement to the Secretary of Internal
Affairs these figures: Taxables, 70,164 ; taxable
property, $26,674,305 ; money at interest, $7,650,
605.
—After being mourned for a week as
drowned, Paper-hanger Edwin Kemp, of Al-
lentown, was found by his wife on the door
steps Monday morning, demented and penni®
less.
—Wilkesbarre Council proposes to tax
steam heat, telephone, telegraph, electric light
and electric railway companies for each pole
and each mile of pipe and wire main tained in
the city.
—The Rogerson oil well, five miles from
Moundsville, W. Va. which was reported ag
gushing, is now doing about 10 barrels a day,
and is thought will keep up a small pro-
duction.
—Fourteen-year-old Albert Erizner and a
young brother ina buggy were struck by a
Baltimore and Ohio train near Sterling. Al-
bert was ianstanly killed and the brother ser-
iously injured.
—The post office and Pennsylvania station
at Mahoningtown wererobbed Tuesday night,
About $200 worth of stamps, several registered
letters and a small sum of money were obtain.
ed at the post-ofiice.
—CQCity Controller Gourley of Pittsburg
places city property thereat $12,050,231. Of
this amount $6,551,611 is in real estate. The
public school real estate is rated at $3,204,400.
Pittsburg’s debt is at the $3,000,000 figure.
—The school of Cambridge Crawford county,
will have a savings bank at the opening of the
school year, directors having taken the nec-
essary action looking to that end. 1t will be
the first school in that county to give the sys-
tem a trial.
—This year Labor Day falls on September 3,
that being the first Saturday of the month.
The last Legislature, in compliance with the
petition of many working people, changed
the holiday from the first Monday to the first
Saturday in September, and that, consequently
will be the date until the Legislature again
makes a change.
—TF. M. Shaw, of Mansfield, has carefully
preserved all these long years one of the neat
blue ribbon badges, with the words “Tioga
County Mountaizeers” upon it, which the
members of Company B, of the’ One Hundrs d
and First Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
wore when they left Mansfield for the scene of
conflict in the Spring of 1864.
—Miss Sallie Kleinginnie, of Mohnsville, is
probably one of the most wonderful women in
“Berks county. She was born destitute of arms
and has but three toes on each foot, but not-
withstanding this affliction, she can make
beautiful patchwork cushions, play the organ,
peel potatoes, whitewashes, sweeps and scrubs
and prepares meals,
—The Sharpsville Advertiser remarks: “How
often do we hear people say, ‘Where io the
world do all the files come from?” It is sim-
ple enough. The toper makes the bottle fly,
stern father makes the gad fly,the cyclone
makes the house fly, the blacksmith makes
the fire fly, the carpenter makes the saw fly,
the driver makes the horse fly, the grocer
makes the sand fly and the boarder mak es the
butter fly.
—An illustration of the conditions of business
is the predicament in which F. W. Edmund,
of She: man, finds himself, says the Corry Fly-
er. His recent remittance from sales of but-
tor and cheese in New York came in a $6,000
draft on New York. He is trying to settle
with tarmers in the west end of Chautauqua
county for the dairy product he has had of
them. Many of them have from §5to $15in
that draft and they want to get it. It is impos-
sible to induce any bank to cash that draft or
even to advance $2,000in currency on it. He
thinks seriously in paying them off jin New
York drafts.
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