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
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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.
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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.