Democratic lade = Sh prod tue, AY MEEK. BY 2..G Ink Slings. — Anticipation of the grip is not an excuse for getting on a week’s drunk. — Anarchism should be blotted out if it require the extermination of every follower of the red flag. —The grip is taking about the same kind of a hold on the people as the grip of the street car takes on the cable. —.That N1coLAUs—GoULD check will probably put a check on the future companionships of the millionaire rail- road owner. —-Chicago is reeling under a burden- some population of paupers. The «Windy City’’ “kited” the world to see ber, but there is part of it she can’t “kite” away again. —An income tax would be a kind of a tax that says to the monied man of leisure, come in and pay your share of the expenses of maintaining a govern- ment which protects you as well as the rest. —The.anarchist, who threw the bomb into the chamber of Deputies, in France: on Saturday, turned his nose upfat the horrible crime he had perpetrated. In fact a slug from his own infernal ma chine knocked it clear off. —The public and private obligations of the world are estimated at $100,000,- 000,000. Now just sit down and figure eut how much of this other fellows owe, if you have any curiosity to know the affairs of the rest of the world. —The Philadelphia Press and the Pittsburg Dispatch are both of the opin- ion that Pennsylvania has been sending men of too few qualifications to make up her State Legislature. Who is to blame for it, dear cotemporaries ? —1If more mothers nursed their own babies and guided the footsteps of the little ones when they pass through the various stages of childhood there would be less work for police courts and fewer parents to pass their old age in broken hearted poverty. —The evangelists MoopY and SANK- EY, who have again joined forces after a separation of nine years, will shortly embark for England where they will work together during 1894. They will have to do a free trade business in the gospel over there. —Since the bomb throwing in the French chamber of Deputies our own dear Congress is taking on measures of precaution to preserve itself from the possibility of being blown up. There need be no fear on that score. When it comes to blowing up Anarchists are’'nt in it with the voters of the United States. —1It has turned out that Mr. VAN ALEN does not look like the Prince of Wales, nor does he ape the fashions cf that dudish coxcomb. His traducers said that he wore a single eyeglass also, but from his graceful manner of ending a disgraceful occurrence we are led to infer that he wears enough eye glasses to see all right enough. —The idea which led certainup town business men to disapprove of a board- walk along Water street, for fear it would keep trade away from their stores, is the best evidence of that narrow mind- edness which is in itself responsible for the poor success of those whom it af- fects. Trade is like water, it will seek its natural channel however circuitous it may be. —Mr. RAWLIN'S, the delegate who appeared before Congress, on Tuesday, to pray for the admission of Utah as a State, made lots of fun for the members and while his attempt to excuse Utah’s mormonistic inclinations by pointing the finger of ridicule at New England’s witcheraft was amusing in the extreme, he must remember that the pernicious practice of burning suspects was out of vogue in New England long before the Union was formed. —The Grand Army of the Republic is awaking to a resentment of the char- ges that fraudulent pensioners are to be found in every community and its com- mander in chief, Mr. ADAMs, Las issued a circular to the Posts of the country calling for an investigation. Such an action on the part of this organization is just what the Pension Department has been wanting and their united ecfforts will undoubtedly have effect upon the list of coffee-coolers and pension sharks who are making the roll one of dishonor. —1It is extremely disgusting to see the means which Republican papers in the western part of this State are resorting to to injure the high standing which Con- gressman SIBLEY, of the Erie district, holds among his constituency. Because he has been a successful farmer, a little more successful than the average, and can afford to wear good clothes, they are charging him with treachery and hypo- crisy with the granger element. The farmer will surely resent a statement which becomes an insult when it inti- mates that he has no right to wear clean linen and keep his boots shined if he is inclined to do so. Denar £ 7 a, STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ~ VOL. 38. BELLEFONTE, PA. DEC. 15, 1893. NO. 49. A Difference of Method. The tariff bill, as reported, is of course susceptible to amendment. A measure covering £0 many interests that must be considered, necesarily in- cludes provisions that may be im- proved by modification. But the principle that inspires the purpose of the bill, the object which is the remov- al of unnecessary and oppressive faxa- tion, will no doubt be rigidly adhered to. There is a difference of opinion as to whether the duties should be imposed, specifically, or according to the value of the article imported. The old com- mittee has framed the bill chiefly on ad valorem lines, applying the specif- ic method to but comparatively few ‘imports. The reason given for this policy isthat specific duties are calcula- ted to impose an equal exaction upon articles of different values, with the ef- fect of tarrifing commodities that are within the purchasing reach of poor men, as heavily as those which the rich can alone afford to buy. For ex- ample, a specific duty would apply equally to cloths worth one dollar and five dollars a yard. This would seem to be a rather in- equitable arrangement for a Democratic tariff. Under ad valorem duties, as the term implies, goods are tariffed ac- cording to their value, the poor man being taxed proportionately less for his one dollar cloth than the rich man for his five dollar article. The McKINLEY duties are almost exclusively specific. In preferring the ad valorem method, the committee was no doubt greatly fluenced by the example of the benefi- cent Democratic tariff of 1846, framed by that most sagacious public econo mist, RoBerT J. WALKER, which was so satisfactory in its effects, both in furnishing revenue to the government and in promoting the industrial inter- este, On the other band itis contended, and by good Democratic authority, too, that ad valorem duties are defec- tive in that they admit, to a larger ex- tent, the practice of trand in evading their payment. 1tis said that as im- ported goods are valued at the points from which they are sent, it is difficult for our custom-house officers to detect false valuations made abroad, and hence the means of fraud are facilita- ted by the ad valorem method, and the Gscal income, which is one of the main objects of a revenue tariff, is impaired. Perhaps conditions have changed since the time when the ad valorem plan of the tariff of 1846 worked so sat- isfactorily. However, the comparative merits of the two methods of imposing duties is a question which we doubt not will be judiciously determined by the wisdom of those who have this matter fn charge. Ir T———— The Bankruptey Bill Knock Out. The fate that has befallen the bank- raptey bill, which was so ably intro- duced in the House by Representative WoLverToN of this State, is a further illustration of the difficulty of securing a general bankruptcy system. There have been frequent efforts to pass an insolvent law that would supercede the defective State enactments on that sub- ject and be of equal effect in all the States, but these endeavors have al- ways been unsuccessful. That there is a necessity for euch a uniform system, and that great good would result from it, both to the debtor and creditor class, as well as to general business interests, was fully: shown in the speech with which Mr. WoLvERTON introduced and advocated a general bankruptcy law. The defeat of this last movement for such a measure, appears to have been brought about by the action of the sil- ver men in the House. Smarting un- der the repeal of the silver purchasing act, they are not in a very amiable mood just now, particularly toward such measures as they think are de sired for eastern States that favor a gold basis. They regard a Federal bankruptcy law as more particularly devised for eastern interests, although it isdifficult to see why it 18 not equally applicable to the necessities of the “Woolly West.” However, they took advantage of the absence of the sup- porters of the bill, and rallying for its defeat while a sufficient number of its friends were not on hand to effectively support it, they knocked it out. It is hard to believe that the adoption of a measure that would be so beneficial in i effects can be permanently prevent- ed. Sugar as a Source of Revenue. There is some contrariety of opinion concerning the provision of the WiL- sox bill in regard to sugar. It must be admitted that the committee has hand- led thisarticle rather gingerly. It has, it is true, made a reduction in the duty on manufactured sugar, but the raw material is allowed to remain untar- riffed, as provided by the McKINLEY bill. There are earnest tariff reform- ers who claim that sugar can very le- gitimately be classed among the articles from which revenue should be raised: and insist that there should be an ap- preciable tariff on it for a revenue pur pose. The Representatives from the sugar growing districts are said to prefer a considerable impost on that product, believing that it would be more promo: tive of the planter’s interest than the subsidy furnished, by the McKINLEY tariff, as a compensation for the remov- al of the duty on raw sugar, a policy that is in every respect a sham, ae it pretends to give the people the benefit of free sugar while it takes their mon- ey to balance the loss of the planters in the repeal of the duty on the raw material. There could not possibly be a more advantageous arrangement for the su- gar trust than that which has been adopted by McKinLey. Very little, if any raw sugar is used by consumers. The removal of the duty on it has been exclusively beneficial to the refiners. But the duty on manufactured sugar is retained by the Republican tariff, ao arrangement which gives the trust a double advantage, in that the monopo- ly is supplied with untariffed raw ma- terial, while a stiff tariff on manufac tures enablesit to exact such prices for its manufacture as suits its interest, Those tariff reformers who believe that sugar is a proper source from which to raise revenue, contend that the preferable policy would be to tarift raw sugar, and make the duty on the manufactured article merely nominal, as such an arrangement would not on- ly be better for our sugar raisers, but would be a real gain to the people hy preventing the extortions of the trust which looks to a high duty on maru- factured sugar for immunity in its ex- tortionate practices. It is not difficult to understand the reluctance of the committee to make an article of such general use, a source of revenue through the medium of tar iff duties, but the wisdom of Congress fiscal question ina way that will be ad- | vantageous to the government in point of revenue, and at the same time a benefit to consumers. ——— A Disgrace to the State. The distinction of having Congress- men-at-large is one which Pennsylva- nia has no reason to be proud of. It is an evidence of defective apportion- ment, snd the monument of a rascally piece of Republican gerrymandering. With the object of preserving an un- fair advantage in the formation of the districts, the occasion for reapportion- ing the Stale enjoined by the constitu- tion has been repeatedly slurred over by the party that has had control of the machinery of legislation, and two Congressmen-at-large signalize the Republican contempt for the organic law and defiance of its requirements. In addition fo the generally demor- alizing effect of such lawlessness, its harmful consequences are shown in the case of the special election that will have to be held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of one of the Congressmen—at-large. It is not an unusual thing for Congressmen to die; but in the case of the death of one representing a regularly constituted district the election to supply his place is confined to a limited constituency. On account ot the Republicans refusing to furnish an apportionment that would provide districts for all the congressional representatives to which Pennsylvania is entitled, two are thrown upon the State at large. One of these has died, and there must bea special State election to fill the vacancy. As this is required by law, the trouble and expense of such an election ' would have to be endured inthis case if it were pot that the township and muni- cipal elections, which occur in Febru. ary, may be used to avoid the holding of a separate congressional election for the entire State, and also that we have : : : | Democrati may be trusted to adjust this part of the | Stiseratic a Governor who is willing to waive the enforcement of such an election, as strictly required by law, in order to avoid the expense of half a million dollars to the State, which a general ballot, under the new law, entails. It is merely by accident, in that the February election may be made to serve in this case, and Governor Par- TISON wants to save a great public expense, that the State escapes the cost and trouble of a separate special State election of Congressman-at-large as a consequence of the Republican determination to maintain their con- gressional gerrymander. It is really a disgrace to Peunnsylva. nia that the passage of proper appor- tionment bills, as required by the constitution, has been so long prevent- ed by those who profit by the contin- uance of such a wrong. The necessity for Congressmen-at-large, thus created- is an incident of this disgraceful cir- cumstance, which is given additional prominence as a public outrage by the general election that must be held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of one of them. In a neighboring State apportien- ments made by the gerrymandering process have been subjected to a constitutional test in the higher courts, and such treatment should be applied to the Republican gerrymander in thie State. —1It is getting popular for fanatics to box themselves up and travel by ex- press now-a-days. And we would not be surprised to hear that a number have bills of shipment to Washington either, as that city seems to be the me2- ca of all sorts of men. It Should Be Speedily Done. The people look for prompt action on the part of Congress in passing the tariff bill, believing that the work 1ahould be done with as much speed as may be compatible with the impor: tance of the object that is to be aceom- plished. While the character of the task imposed is such as should re quire care in its performance, and there should be no slip shod business in such work as is necessary for the judicious re-adjustment of a tariff, public interest nevertheless requires that it should not be unduly prolonged. Much of the depression that has pre- vailed during the past season has been due to the advantage taken ot the intention to revise the tariff by interested parties whose pur- pose was to make it appear that the bare apprehension of Democratic ac- tion on the tariff was disastrous to business, and who, for the consum- mation of that object, contributed to the embarrassment by the curtailment, of manufacturing operations. This calamity policy will no doubt be continued to a considerable extent up to the very last moment, with the object of setting public sentiment against the Democratic tariff policy, and with the hope of affecting congres- sional action in the revison of existing tariff duties. Therefore, to terminate this sort of pressure as soon as possi- ble, and to determine at the earliest moment the basis upon which manu facturers shall know they will have to conduct their business, the work of re-adjusting the tariff should be done as speedily as may comport with its im- portant character. Without undue haste the WirLsox bill can be passed by the first of February, and all interests involved can be adjusted to the change by the opening of Spring. The defer- ring of this consummation would be a loss of valuable time to business inter- ests, and a prolongation of the uncer- tainty that is productive of embarrass- ment. Au early conclusion of the work. of tariff reform by Congress will not only be good business policy, but it will aleo be good politics on. the part of the Democrats. It is the conviction of the Democracy that the changes they are about to make in the tariff are going to be satisfactory to the people as soon as there shall be a demonstration of their benefits. That the beneficial ef- fects of this tariff change should be givea as early and as long a time as possible to show themselves before the next congressional election, isa matter of very great importance to the Demo- cratic party, Who Gets the Protection Which McKin. ley's Bill issupposed to Attach? From the Williamsport Republiean. The question, ‘what does a man buy when he purchases a title to a farm 27” has often been asked but not satisfactor- ally determined. From the latest decis- ions on the subject, it is plain. he buys the ground, of course, aad allithe build- ings erected upon it, whether these were mentioned or not. He always buys all the fences, not material used, then tak- en down and laid aside, nor material tor a new fence, unless they are special- ly mentioned: He also buys all ad- juncts necessary to the farm, except implements and machinery. For in- stance, if there is a a pile of bean poles cut and once used for the purpose, those go with the farm ; but if eut and never used they are the seller’s property un- Jess specified as sold. Standing trees and those which have fallen or been blown down go with the ground, but if cut down and made into cord wood they become personal property, and to go with the land must be specified in the sale. A Philosophical View of it. From the Philadelphia Record. Gold exports create no alarm in busi- ness circles, notwithstanding the efforts of speculators to use the fact of exporta- tion as a means of depression. We never send an ounce of gold out of the country for which we do not get a full equivalent. Mr. Henry Clewes philosoph- ically observes that ‘gold is the dear- est product we have at the present time, and it is better to export it than to send our wheat out of the country at the present depreciated price, sixty-three | cents a bushel —materially less than the cost of production. We dig our gold to sell it, just as we grow our wheat to sell it ; and we can do better just now as gold sellers than as wheat sellers,” Owing to the lull in business money in the United States is a drug. When business shall revive, and the rate of in- terest advance, gold will drift back to us for the same reason that it now drifts | away. Gone to the Bow Wows Sure. From the Doylestown Democrat. There is one item in the Wilson bill | that seems to have escaped the atten— tion of the croakers and calamity howlers. None of them have discov- ered that the new tariff means the downfall of the American dog. And yet it is true. Yes, sir; after the fire. of March next the native dog will have to compete with the foreign pup. Chairman Wilson and his short sighted Democratic colleagues of the Ways and Means Committee have placed bologna sausage on the free list. Surely this will break the back bone of the American dog industry: Good- by old Tray, you've had your day. Sacrificed to Democracy and free trade. The Doylestown dogs should hold an indignation meeting and protest. Let us hear from old Towser. And You Are Right Mr. Harragh. From the Brookville Jeffersonian Democrat. In an interview in the Philadelphia Times, Chas. J. Harragh, president of the Midvale steel works, Philadelphia, one of the largest works of the kind in the world, says: “I am firmly convine- ed that manufacturing in general will thrive much more under the Wilson tariff bill than under the McKinley act.” Politics, His Business. From the Eatern Sentinel. Congressman John B. Robinson has already declared himself a candidate for lieutenant governor ot this state. The Republican party in Pennsylvania has nothing togive that this aspiring politician wounld be, in any way, backward about asking for it. Where Was Leonard When the Light Went Out? From the Pittsburg Dispatch. That Harrisburg speech made by Ex Representative Rhone, in which he fixed the amount of the circulating medium at $50 per capita, indicates that his lantern has goue out during his gropings in the financial darkness. Ah There, Governor McKinley. From the Troy, Ohio, Democrat. The Wilson tariff bill will greatly benefit our Troy factories, as it makes their raw material free and consequently cheaper and will enable them to run more months in the year and pay better wages. ER RST Then Stanley Will be Out of a Job. From the Orbisonia Dispatch. The San Francisco Chronicle esti- mates that at the present rate of con- quest and colonization savage Africa will be a thing of the past before the first quarter of the twentieth century is rounded out. ——————— He Would be Dead in it Then. From the Atchison, Kansas, Patriot. If Chicago is bound to honcr Citizen Palmer further, why not name Jackson park ‘Potter's Field ?”’ ——1If you want printing of any de- scription the WarcHMAN offic is the place to have it done. Spawls from the Keystone, —Pittsburg’s smallpox epidemic has been squelched, ~The new bells of the Reformed Church, at Frackville; will be dedicated to-day. —A splash.of molten iron in a Reading fur- ‘nace seriously. burned James Sullivan. —The “John Bull” train ran from Harris. burg to Washing ton D. C. Wednesday. —A drunken and unkr ewn tramp was killed while asleep on the railroad near Carlisle. —A fighting dog at Shamokin chewed John Gallinski's right hand so that he may die. —Insp General Chambers McKibbin has made his report of the National Guard. ~—1In the railroad yard at Waynesboro, J. R. Hade, of Chambersburg, was crushed lifeless, —A mule kicked Rudolph Fexo under mine cars at Ashland, and he was fatally man- gled. —While picking coal on a siding in Lebanon James O'Connell was struck by a train and killed. —Governor Pattison has proclaimed that $106,401 ofi the State’s debt has been paid off this year. —Berlks County sportsmen will add another 1200 quail to the 1200 already ordered to stock the woods there. —In attempting to cross the Susquehanna River at Plymouth on the ice Walter Tomas was drowned. —Lumberman of Lycoming and Clinton Counties are greatly assisted by the snow and the log business booms. —The Lancaster, Oxford and Southerm Railroad will soon be extended below Elkton and down the Peninsula. ~ Valuable papers were the only plunder se. cured by thieves who exploded Ephraim Wil- liams’ safe at Wernersville. + —The Philadelphia and Reading's great coal traffic continues, 14,058 tons coming out of the Pulo Alto district on Friday. --Sewing Machine Agent Samuel Roth has been arrested for forgery at Newville, mear Carlisle, and taken to Pit tsburg. —With a capital of $10,000 the Republican Printing Company of Doylestown, Bucks County, was chartered Monday. ~The Intercollegiate Press Association ef Pennsylvania met Saturday at Lancaster with eight colleges represented. —Convicted Murderer Charles Salvard’s eounsel at Carlisle will carry his case before | the Pardon Board on the 26th inst. —The body of the murdered man found im the Monongahela River, near Baldwin, has been identified as E. W. Forrester. —A miner named Kaufman and two brothers named King were injured in a premature dynamite explosion near Greensburg. —A masked burglar held up the agent at | Wildwood, a station on the Allegheny Valley Railroad, and looted the money drawer. —A little daughter of W. J. Harold, of near Greensburg, was fatally burned by her twin brother, who was playing with matches. —Contractor William Call, of Reading Mon- day got a verdict for $32000 against the city of Lebanon for work dore on a reservoir. —When John Wisa, of Springfield, near Shamokin, Tuesday returned home from the - mines he found his wife a raving lunatic. —An explosion of gas in Hickory Swamp colliery, Shenandoah, badly burned Mine In- spector Brennan and Foreman | “wis Evans. —Calvary Reformed Church at" Reading: raised $300 of a single collection on Sund ay. This church has an elevator in one corner. —~Qatalogues of the furniture in the State . World’s Fair Building, which will be sold shortly, are being sent out from Harrisburg, —Harris Grazer stabbed himself with a butcher knife in the throat and abdomen at Reading. Misfortunes had discouraged him, —The embezzlement cases against Colonel A. Harvey Tyson, who is paralyzed in jail at Reading will be postponed, owing to his con ~ dition. — Western Pennsylvania miners have united upon 65 cents a ton as the price fr digging coal, while the operators refuse to pay more than 60 cents. —The I hiladelphia and Reading Com pany is the only railroad in the State that has not made its yearly report to the Department of Internal Affairs. —The Commonwealth will not compromise its tax cases against several coal companies, notwithstanding the Edgerton case was de’ cided adversely to the State. —Miss Emma Thompson, a young. school teacher, disappeared {from Semples Station Allegheny County, on November 28, and. she has not been seen since. —Mrs. Ida Reimensnyder died at Wilkes, barre just after the coffined. forms of her brothers-in-law, Peter Heck and John Kiopp» were carried out of the house. —Nearly 40 dynamite cartridges blew up and wrecked things and hurt Engineer Frank Miller, who had thawed them too rapidly over aquarry boiler near Allentown . —Having allured pretty Elsie Morgenthrow, from Philadelphia to Lancaster, where she was assaulted, Howard Shenk, of Columbia was Tuesday convicted in Court. —The funeral Tuesday of Robert A. Zerbey, late business manager of the Pottsville, Re publican, was largely attended by Odd Fellows and members of other organization =. —Escaping coal gas prostrated the entire family of William Fisher at Reading. The ap- parently dead daughter, Katie, was resuscita. ted by means of artificial respiration. —Charles ¥. Rupp, who died under peculiar circumstances at Atlanta, Ga., recently, left York when he was 16, years old and has rela: tives residing there who will claim his pro” perty. —The Sterling Coal Company, of which General D. H. Hastings, is president, and which operates mines in Cambria and Clear. field Counties, has retired from the business as miners and shippers. —While skylarking on Centre street Potts- ville early Monday morning James McAlister aged twenty-three, was shot by his friend Harvey Matthews. McAllister cannot live, and he has made a stalement exonerating Matthews from all blame, —The grip has fastened itself upon Ham- burg and many citizens have fallen ¢ victims te it. Clergymen are unable to fill their appoint: ments, and even physicians are down with it. It bids fair to rival the epidemic of three years ago. —Albert Smith, !a member of the Board of Prison Inspectors at Lancaster tried this week having demanded and taken bribes for his vote in filling the under positions at the institution was acquitted, but ordered to pay eosts of prosecution.
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