BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—TIs the Hawaiian question really a
question, or is it only a bug-a-boo?
—Resumed full handed’ is the most
interesting headline in the newspapers
just now.
— Philadelphia thinks she has dollar
gas in sight. Perhaps when she gets it
she will be out of sight.
—Congressmen who won’t keep their
seats now should be remembered when
they begin clamoring for a re-election,
~The Lord loves a cheerful giver,
but not the hypocrite, who revels in
giving advice which he does not follow
himself.
-—Bare footed boys are daily seen fish-
ing along the banks of Spring creek.
‘We have been waiting patiently for the
Republican to blame it on the WiLsoN
bill.
—Was thers ever a time when Gover-
nors figured more in public matters ?
PENNOYER, LEWELLING, MITCHELL
and ATGELD are all up for a share of
notoriety.
—— If business keepson improving it
will not be long until every manufac-
turing industry in the country will be
running full handed. The WiLsoNn
bill is to blame for it.
—The rarity of snow this winter has
made times very hard for a certain class
of poets, but while they may lose an
opportunity to descant on ‘‘the beauti-
ful”, the coming of Spring is inevita-
ble.
—Mrs. GEorGE GOULD, of New York,
has just organized a society which will
aim to refine the poor. A noble work
indeed, for where there is refinement
there society finds its truest types of
manhood and womanhood.
—Statisticians figure that the loss by
fire in the United States and Canada
during the year 1892 aggregated $156,-
445, 875. This sum does not include
the estimated value of countless project-
ed enterprises that ended in smoke.
— While the board of manugers were
debating as to how they would get rid
of the World’s Fair buildings, in Jack-
son park, fire solved the problem. But
it did the work before the exhibitors
were ready for it and many thousands
were lost.
—The first thing Mr. CARNEGIE
knows he will bea Democrat. He is
getting extremely Democratic in his
ideas and this last bolt in favor of re-
duced tariff sounds very mucn as if he
would like to ally himself with the
party of tariff reform.
—If the Damocracy of Pennsylva
nia is not thoroughly and harmoniously
organized how was that JACKSON day
banquet in Philadelphia and the con-
vention on Wednesday, where so much
good feeling was marifested and perfect
unity of purpose evinced, possible ?
— Has anything so childish ever been
heard of as the silly talk of Republican
bigots impeaching President CLEVE-
LAND. His position on the Hawaiian
question is one of the greatest dignity
and ‘twas only bis masterful apprecia-
tion of the situation that bas saved the
honor of our land; which seems to
have been held in such cbeap esteem by
his Republican predecessors.
— [t is a singular fact that while Mc-
KINLEY was being inaugurated Govern-
or of Onio, on Monday, there was a
mass meeting of five thousand unem-
ployed men being held in Cleveland at
which the evil effects of the McKINLEY
bill were being deplored. Hs is Gov-
ernor now, but those idle workmen will
have to whistle for the realization of the
promises he made them last Fall.
—The Baltimore Herald is anxious
that Congress hurry up and pass a bank-
rupt bill as it fears that the government
may need it. The Herald is deliciously
frank in adding its disapprobation of
the pension frauds that bave been un-
earthed in the Monumental city. With
ten thousand fraudulent claimants Bal-
timore does well in advising the govern-
ment to legislate in anticipation of
a financial breaking up.
—The loss of the mental faculties is
coming to play entirely too prominent a
part in the fatalities of to-day. And the
cause can be wholly ascribed to an un-
called for modesty which tries to cover
up mental weakness when the superior
treatment of an asylum should be imme-
diately cought, The loss of mind is a
misfortune to which no disgrace can be
attacked and the friends of those thus
sadly afflicted should take prompt means
to remove all possibility of danger.
—The talk of returning INGALLS to
the Senate will more than likely end in
talk. There can be no doubt that on |
the floor of the upper house of Congress |
Mr. INGALLS was 8 man, who always |
claimed and was given a lion’s share of
attention, but unfortunately the same
talent that made him the eloquent log- |
ical debater made him a foul mouthed
calumniator whose presence as his
State’s highest representative in Con- ,
gress was offensive to the nation.
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VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA,, JAN. 12, 1893.
NO. 2.
Inconsequential Tariff Meetings.
The Lewistown Gazeite no doubt
thinks it makes a decided scoreagainst
the WiLson tariff bill when it express-
es itself as follows :
“Not one mass meeting has yet been
“held to urge the passage of the
“WiLson bill. Scores have been
“held to protest against the measure
“Yet Chairman WiLsoN has the hardi.
“hood to declare that the people demand
“free trade “reform.”
Our Lewistown neighbor makes a
mistake in the above statement. There
was one very great mass meeting in
favor of such a tariff reform measure as
is presented in the Wirson bill. It
was held in November, 1892, and was
attended by millions who declared in
favor of a different kind of a tariff
from the one which they then passed
judgment upon, and which has since
brought industrial and financial par-
alysis upon the country.
The supporters of the WiLsox bill
can see no occasion for holding mass
meetings in favor of a measure which
an overwhelming majority of the peo-
ple have enjoined Congress to pass. On
this subject the only injunction that
can be legitimately considered is that
which eminated from the ballot box
when the question was directly before
the people.
It is easy to understand how mass
meetings against the WiLsox bill may
be gotten up and by wnom they are
likely to be composed. They are
mainly made up of the same people
who at the last Presidential election
voted for a monopoly tariff and were
defeated. Whatright have'they to a
second hearing on a question which
was settled at that time vy a popular |
what |
decision against them? With
sense can they claim (hat the irregular
clamor of mass meetings made up ul
most eptirely of partisan materi: ],
should annul the deliberate verdict of
a general election ?
Such meetings may also have a
small element of weak-minded people
who voted for tariff reform, but have
since been bewildered by the calamity
howl, and have been foolishly made to
believe that the disastrous effect of Re-
publican measures on the condition of
business was the result of the Demo-
crats getting control of the govern-
ment.
Mass meetings composed of such ele-
ments can have no influence upon the
question in issue, and are entitled to
none.
AT ACR
When Grow Was a Low Tariff Man. |
The Republican State convention,
which met in Harrisburg list week,
nominated GaLusHA A. Grow for Con-
gressman at Large, as a representative
high tariff man.
In doing this the convention seems
to have beer ignorant of Mr. Grow’s
record, and the high tariff supporters
will whoop it up tor him at the Feb
raary election just as if he had been an
original McKINLEYITE.
We call their attention to a little
tariff history in which their candidate
for Congressman-at Large is involved.
Io 1857 he was a Republican represen:
tative in Congress from this State. At
that time the low Democratic revenue
tariff of 1846 had been in operation for
eleven years. It had worked wonder
fully well for the industrial interests
of the country, but it was thought that
it would do still better if it was made a
little lower. Therefore a Republican
house of Representatives, of which
NatHANIEL P. BANKS was speaker, in
conjunction with a Democratic Senate
and President, concluded to reduce the
duties of 1846 by passing the still low
er tariff of 1857.
Pennsylvania had always favored
the highest possible tariffs and there
fore all the Representatives from this
State, both Democratic and Republi.
can, with but a single exception, voted
against the tariff reduction of 1857.
Grow was that exception. The fact
that he did not vote at all was sufficient
proof that he had no serious objections
to a low tariff.
It is well enough to call thiscircum-
stance to the minds of the people
while Mr, Grow is being paraded as a
champion of a high tariff protective
system.
—Furs and fur-be-lows are different
things, but they both come high,
. A Disgraceful Transaction.
The manner iu which the Hawaiian
government was overthrown a year
ago furnishes a page to the diplomatic
history of this country which future
generations of Americans will not
read with any degree of pride. It sup-
plies a parallel to the dark and devious
ways in which the English subvert
ed the native principalities in India in
order that they might be absorbed in
the English possessions.
Enough of the facts, connected with
the Hawaiian transaction, are known to
sustain all that President CLEVELAND
said about 1t in his message, and to
make it beyond question that the
American Minister, sent to the
Hawaiian government to represent a
friendly nation, deliberately entered in-
to a plot with a body of foreign resi.
dents to overthrow the long established
native government, and that he added
to his oflense against the dignity, hon"
or and good name of the nation he re
presented by employing its military
power in carrying out this fi'bustering
enterprise. The haste with which the
Harrison administration endeavored
to rush the annexation of the islands,
as the fruit of the wrongful transac
tion, subjects it to the suspicion that it
was a party to the plot.
This outrage upon the reputation of
the American nation cannot be justified
| by the assertion that the Queen of
| Hawaii is a black woman ; that she is
"a dissolute person ; that she arbitrarily
! intended to change the constitution of
STEVENS to overthrow her authoriiy
were the most
These are matters which
righttully concern the American gov-
ernment. Would the American Min-
ister to Hayti, where affairs are in
cannot
her government acd that those who,
were in the conspiracy with Minister |
influential residents. |
A Bit of Tariff History.
The hope is entertained by the high
protectionists that local interests may
induce. some of the Democratic Con-
gressmen to oppose the WirsoN tariff
bill. This expectation exists particu-
larly in regard to Democratic Represen.
tatives from Pennsylvania, upon whom
it is hoped the coal, iron and lumber
interests of the State for whose benefit
a high tariff is claimed, may have an
effectin deterring them from voting
for a reduction of duties.
This appears to us to be a vain ex:
pectation, We know of no Democrat:
ic Representative who is afraid to meet
the tariff issue which the pledges of his
party have imposed upon him. They
all understand the character of the
clamor which the McXINLEYITES are
raising, and known that it does not rep-
resent Democratic sentiment.
History teaches that so far as their
individual popularity is concerned it is
perfectly safe for Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic Congressmen to vote for a rev-
enue tariff. In 1846 when it was pro.
posed ‘to reduce the Whig protective
tariff of 1842, this State was in a fer
ment of opposition to such a movement,
Ail the Democratic Representatives
trom Pennsylvania except Davip Wir-
mor got scared and supported the
Whig high tariff. But thanks to the
deciding vote of a Pennsylvania Vice
President, George M. Darras, the
Democratic revenue tariff of 1846 was
passed and it proved to be so benefi-
cial in 1s effects that, as a party meas:
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ure, it strengthened the Democracy in
this State. Davip WiLmor was re-
{ elected by an increased majority, and
be continued to be elected as a low
tariff Democrat until the slavery ques-
tion landed him in the Republican par-
ty. Under the revenue tariff of 1846
| Pennsylvania becauie confirmed as the
worse disorder than in Hawaii, be justi- |
arch,
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fizble in plotting for a change of its
government 2 The American people, |
no doubt would
possession of those Pacific islands but
they do not want them so badly as to
justity the Republican method of steal-
ing them,
McKinley Bulldozing.
The enemies ot a Democratic tariff
are resorting to bulldozing in their op-
position to that measure. The news:
papers are publishing cases of employ
ers discharging Democratic work.
men for no other reason than that they
| voted the ticket of the party that pro.
| poses to reform the tariff.
This has occurred in a number ot
instances in New Ragland, and there
haye been some cases in Pennsylvania,
but a very glaring case is presented in
this State in the instance of the KEaAsLEY
and MaTri<oN company, manufactdr-
ing magnesia coverings at Ambler,
which notified all the hands in its em-
ploy who sympathized with the WiL
~oN bill that their survices were no
longer needed in that establishment.
This high-handed act of coercion,
when it got into the newspapers, at
tracted considerable attention through-
out the country, and the company be
coming apprehensive that it might in-
jure their business, published a denial
that they had adopted sucha method
'f bulldozing ; but, as a rebuttal of
their denial, the handbills they posted
giving notice that they would discharge
their Democratic hands, are brought in
evidence.
It may be well for those citizens who
are opposed to the monopoly tariff
system, to remember this Ambler
company which assumes the arrogant
right of punishing workmen who are
not in favor of McKiINLEYIsM.
——From indications on the surface
of the Pennsylvania Republican poli-
tics, it would appear that General Dan
1eL H. Hastings is likely to be the G.
O. P. nominee for Governor in the con-
test that will come off this year. At
the State convention last week there
was a good opportunity of comparing
gubernatorial booms, and none that
were displayed on that occasion, made
any show at all in comparison with
that of our distinguished townsman,
In fact there wasn’t any other one that
made the least show on that occasion,
it being evident that the bosses have
slated the General tor the next candi-
dacy for Governor.
be pleased to have’
Democratic keystone of the Federal
This is a bit of tariff history which
we believe the Democratic Representa-
tives from this State will keep in mind
when they come to act upon the WiL-
sox tariff bill.
Wealthy Pensioners.
Judge Loxg, ot the Supreme Court of
M chigan, whodraws an annual salary
of $5.000, and has sources of income
from the possession of valuable proper
ties, is avariciously disposed to swell
his revenues by a pension amounting
to $75 per montn. He has resisted the
effort of the pension authorities to re-
duce this unneeded bounty from the
government, maintaining the claim
that his right to bleed the treasury un
der the form of a pension is a vested
one,
It is true that Judge Long had been
a soldier and bad been serionsly
wounded, but he has not been disabled
by 1t, there being scarcely ground for
the assumption that a man who is
able to run a court and draw a large
salary for such service, is in that con-
dition which is contemplated by the
pension laws when they provide relief
for disabled soldiers.
Just such cases as that of this
Michigan Judge are the ones that
bring the pension system into disre-
pute, and such peusiouers stand in the
way of poorer soldiers who on account
of disability are in need of goverument
relief. :
An extremely foolish story is afloat
in the tariff organs about the
Democratic Ways and Means commit-
tee reducing the duty on window glass
at the request of THoMAs Hart, presi-
dent of the American Window Glass
Manufacturers’ Association, a person
represented as being a Democrat who
contributed to the CLEVELAND cam:
paign fund. The organs say that Mr.
‘Harr wants a reduction of the tariff
on glags in order that the Glassblow-
er's Union may be broken up. If pro-
tection is required to make the glass
industry flourish, as is contended by
the tariff papers, before any credit can
be attached to the above story it will
be necessary for them to show how the
Glassblowers’ Union could be expected
to be broken up by reducing that
protection, The truth is that the
Ways and Means committee con-
sidered the duty on window glass high-
er than was necessary for any interest
but that of the combine which controls
the glass business.
And All Under the McKinley Bill,
From the Philadelpha Record.
Apart from the statistics of bank-
ruptcies there are other figures that af-
' ford proof of the extent of the business
depression of last year. The produc-
tion of iron declined more than 40 per
cent ; of woolen fabrics 35 per ceat ; of
leather and shoes 30 per cent., and of
cotton print gcods about 10 per cent.
Wheat, flour, corn acd oats, whieh had
undergone a considerable decline in
price in 1892, fell from 14 to 16 per
cent ; lard, 20 per cent ; sugar, 36 per
cent. ; wool and cotton, 20 per cent.
Coffee, on the other hand, mainly be-
cause of the civil war in Brazil and of
the embargo upon Columbia and
Venzuela, advanced about 6 per cent.
in “price. There were, however, few
other exceptions to the general decline
in prices of commodities in consequence
of the widespread financial depression.
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The Stock Kept Rolling Too.
From the Philadelphia Times.
It seems to have been a bad year for
railroads. If there is business depres-
sion or stagnation in trade no other
great interest feels the effects more
quickly. During 1893 investments in
railroads aggregating over $1.000,000
have gone into the hands of receivers.
Receivers have been appointed for no
less than seventy-oue roads, represent-
ing 23,000 miles ot track, with an out-
standing bonded indebteduess of $754,
000,000 and capital stock aggregating
$554,000.000, making nearly $1,300,
000,000 ot stocks and bonds in suspen-
sion from returns. Two of the great
Western systems, the Northern Pacific
and Union Pacific, along with the
Reading and New England systems,
are the principals to the great crashes
of the year.
“Yes, By Damn {”
From the Buffalo Printer.
This is a big conntry—best on earth !
It isn’ L going to the “demnition bow.
wows” this year—nor any year. Bus-
iness has been dull, ii’s true ; but does
any one suppose it can stay so? Years
ago, old settlers say, ice piled up
Niagara river onespring and held the
water back so that the magnificent
talls were dry for six hours ; but only
a fool of the most colossal foolishness
would have suggested that the falls tor
All that water had to come down.
Business may be dammed for awilile,
but it’s got to come |
There Will Be No More A ssistant Bur-
Zesses.
From the Deleware County Democrat.
Voters in borouzhs operating under
the general borough law should re
member that, by an Act passed by the
last general Arsembly, the Chiet Bur
gess to be elected in February next,
and thereafter, will serve for a term ot
three years and will not he eligible to
re election. He 18 prohibited from
presiding at Council meetings but
must sign or veto every ordinance or
resolution pissed by that body. The
office of assistant Bureess is abolished.
Two Thoughts on the Wilson Bill
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
«If workingmeus would study the
Wilson bill themselves and not rely
upon the misleading statements of the
calamity howlers, they would not be
80 easily deceived as tothe werits ol
that weasure.
The business interests of the ¢ountry
demand that the Wilson hill be passed
ae quickly as possible. Changes will
ve made in the tariff schedule and un-
til the exact rates are known business
men will be loath to branch out.
Bosh, All Bosh.
| From the Altoona Times.
This talk about impeaching President
Cleveland for what he has done in the
Hawaiian affair is the silliest kind of
nonsence. [Lt could not be done. The
chatter about impeachmént comes from
the most out and out Republican parti-
sans and it is altogether 1mpossible to
presume that the house of representa-
tives would act on their suggestions.
Thesa angry and disgruntled politicians
must find another method than impeach-
ment to vent their spleen against
President Cleveland.
Mr. Zeigler, You Should be Ashamed
to Ask Such a Question.
From the Butler Democratic Herald.
A woman named Z:lla Lyttle
Nicolaus some weeks ago made in-
formation against George Gould alleg-
ing that he had taken a $40,000 check
from her. I'he case was settled and
Zella got some boodle. Now every-
body is anxious to know where the
er of settlement is located.
A Thoughtless Moment “and They Are
Lost.
From the Falls Creek Herald.
If a girl who flirts meets with ruin ghe
has no reason for complaint, for she
has invited the same, and the sympa-
thy of the people should vot be with
her. It is a good, but expensive, les
son for the girls not to flirt.
But There Is no Danger of It.
From the Butler Democratic Herald.
Oue would be surprised i0 see Cleve-
land and Harrison the opposing presi-
! dential’candidates in 1896.
that reason would never run: again.
Spawls from the Keystone,
! —In Lancaster last yearj1,215 weddings oc™
cured.
—Reading policemen made 1,315 arrests
during 1893.
—B8henandoah is rapidly
borough bouds.
—A Womelsdorf factory in 1893 turned out
10,000,000 cigars.
—The Lebanon county Treasurer last year
paid out about §95.000.
—Reading’s fire losses last year were $31,-
jf in the aggregate.
—A great deal of ice has been cut and stered
: the northern tier counties.
—A theatre is to be erected in Hazelton by
the Lehigh Traction Company.
redeeming its
—A Grand Jury Saturday recommended a
new Court House at Wilkesbarre.
—Block asphalt and vitrified bricks are te
be Reading's standard paving materials.
—Allegheny City’s real estate is now assess-
ed at $73,059,675, an increase of $1,134,472,
—Pittsburg’s Pension Agent paid nearly
2300 pensioners on Thursday of last week.
—Northampton county, in the year just end-
ed, paid out $112 for scalps of wild animals.
—The survey has began for a trolley, road
from Reading to Adamstown, 10 miles distant.
—Maple sugar making, once a considerable
industry in Berks county, is now nearly
dead.
—The anti-Bowman Evangelical Conference
will be held at Reading, beginning on Febru-
ary 22.
—The new Plymouth Congregational
Church, at Scanton, costing $15,000, was dedi-
cated Sunday.
—The State Hospital trustees, at Hazelton,
elected Dr. H. M. Keller, superintendent of
the institution. ;
—A Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
train snuffed out the life of aged William
John, Girardville.
—At the Berks County Fair the coming fall,
prizes will be given to school pupils for certain
kinds of display work.
—James Burns was fatally hurt by a fall of
slate at Silver Creek colliery, near Pottsville,
while preparing a blast.
—Boston Buck, Clarion’s notorious old
counterfeiter, has written a book of adventures
covering a period of 35 y ears.
—The records of the seven anthracite dis-
tricts of Pennsylvania show 157 widows and
71 orphans for the year just closed.
—Warrants were Saturday drawn at Harris-
burg for $35,000, half the annual allowance for
the National Guard of Pennsylvania.
— Attorneys will make another plea to the
Pardon Board for murderer Charles Salyards,
sentenced to be hanged at Carlisle.
—The National Convention of the Brother-
hood ol Locomotive Fire en will be held in
Harrisburg, beginning September 10.
—The new residence of Bishop Rulison, of
the Episcopal church, at Bethlehem cost from
$10,000 to 850,000 and is built of stone.
—Watchman John Maloney tumbled through
a trestle on the Lebanon Valley Railroad,
near Harrisburg, and cannot recover.
—The anesthetic administered to Johm
Dolan, at Erie, before a proposed surgical op=
eration was to have begun, killed him.
—Accused of slaying her infant several
months age, M ss Catherine Jones, a sixteen
year old girl near Altoona, was locked up.
—A pretty new church of the First Reform-
ed congregation, Ephrata, was dedicated
Sunday by the pastor, Rev. S. S. Sweitzer.
—About 150 offspring survive Mrs. Susan
Thomas, who cied on Thursday, aged 106
years, at New Wilmington, Lawrence county.
—Hd. C. Smith, whose nome isat Youngs-
town, O., was Saturday killed by a Philadel-
phiaand Reading express, at Exeter, Berks
county.
—A Lebanon cou..ty jury refused to award
any damages to Jacob D Miller for the los- of
his danghter, who was killed on the Annville
Railwav.
— Judgement against Lackawanna county
for $14 263.22 tax on personal property was
Saturday given the Commonwealth by the
Da phin county court,
—The raid of ghouls upon the vault of Colo
nel BE, K. Norton, in Stroudsburg cemetery»
has set half of Monroe couniy on the lookout
for the grave robbers.
—The Allagheny Board of Assessors has just
completed the report of the tax.ble valuation
of the p operty of Pittsburg, The tot | valua-
tior 1s placed at $73 059,67,5 or an increase of
$1,134,675 over last year in the way of new
houses and improvements.
—The average of anthracite coal prices af
Schuylkill Haven in December was $258 4-10
as againgt $260 4.10 in November, $2.1414 in
December of last year, $23t in December,
1891, and $2.35 in December, 1890. Wages are
three per cent. above the basis.
—T'he annual recort of the County Com-
missioners, just completed, shows that the
expenses of Lancaster county during the
ye-al 1893 were $279,935 ao increase of §5¢ 895
over the previous year. The three elections
held since the Baker ballot law went into ef-
{ect ¢ st the county $30,000.
—The annual report of the Board of City
Trusts, of Paiiadelphia, shows that the eaxh
receipts of the estate of Stephen Girard
amounted to $1,983,316.26 during last year, and
the expenditures to $1,997,811.32, of which
$492,949, z was used in maintaining Girard Col-
lege. There are 1.561 pupils in the college
and 545 applicants for admission.
Asan instance showing the effect of the
present lull in business in Berks county as
compared with other years, these figures are
made public: In 1893 the executions num-
bered 377 and in 1892 they numbered 347.
There were 10 assignments of property in
1883 ; there were 17 in 1892. These figures
are regarded as a very favorable showing.
—The hard-times condition of the Blair
county Treasury is awful. The local banks
refuse to honor the county orders, and the
drafts of the Directors of the poor for the out-
door relief of the poor cannot be cashed. The
new County Commissioners are unable to find
arecord of the outstanding bonds and the
actual indebtedness of the county is not
‘known.
—James Varthews, a farmer near Union-
town, had a desperate encounter with a huge
panther the other night. Awakened by a
noise in the stable, he dressed and putting a
revolver in his pocket, hurried to investigate.
He had barely entered the barn when a heavy
body sprang outand bora himto the flocr,
Realizing his peril, herolled over. His coat
was torn almost to shreds, but finally he found
the revolver, placed it at the beasts head and
fired. He then broke away, ran outside, clos-
ing the door. He could hear the animal
struggling, and after It had become quiet
again entered the barn. A huge panther was
lying on the floor, stretched out dead.