An
Memoreatic
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Vote for HANCOCK.
—Don’t be numbered among thestay-
at-homes next Tuesday.
+ Hawaiian talk is still the style
about Washington. So long as it is
nothing worse, there is no danger of the
_ country’s going to ruin. :
—Mrs. LEASE, of Kansas, will prob-
ably take charge of a fruit farm in
California. To our minds she would
make more of a success as a spice grow-
er.
— Statistics show that there are ten
industrial resumptions to one closing
down. Democrats help along the good
times by attending the polls next Tues-
day.
—The Louisana supreme court has
decided against prize fighting in that
State. But so long as they tolerate the
Mafia down there such modest reforms
won't count for much.
—The ground-hog has vindicated
himself. There were those among the
hoary-headed wise-acres, who had the
audacity to say that his hog-ship was
no good. They have known better
since Monday.
—The reduction of the duty on lime,
proposed by the WiLsox bill, is being
met with opposition. If the people want
to white-wash things down in Washing-
ton the lime burners don’t propose that
it will be done at their expense.
—The spring elections this year are of
the utmost importance to Democrats,
Turn out, all of you, and show Repub-
licanism that you still cherish the same
faith in your principles that brought
about the overwhelming victory in
1892.
—The New York boy who amused
himself making balloons in his mouth
isnow with the angels. He sucked a
piece of rubber into his wind-pipe,
while trying to make an extra large one,
and choked to death. He went up
in a balloon as it were.
—The Chicago Times looks at bank-
rupt Spain’s talk of building & navy
powerful enough to cope with those of
both England and Russia as an im-
mense joke. Nothing so extremely fun-
ny about it, that we can see. Talk is the
cheapest thing she can build men-o-war
out of,
—The Princess Evelyn Colonna, a
step daughter of Millionaire Jorn T.
MACKEY arrived at New York, Sunday
morning, from France. She is another
of the many American girls who have
lived to regret marrying foreign titles.
Her heritage of $125,000a year having
proved insufficient to sustain her hub-
by.
—-There is a man outin Atchison,
Kansas, who has invoked the law to
prevent a girl, who won’t marry him,
trom marrying anybody else. The fel-
low has evidently found out something
wrong about the girl and wants to save
the rest of the male sex the trouble of
‘an investigation—or, mayhaps, he has
lost a few of his marbles.
—By the use of electricity a Gattling
gun can be made to fire three thousand
shots per minute. Such an engine of war
would have a tendency to make battles
more harmless than ever. Fewer men
would be needed in our armies and conse-
quently countries having to resort to ex-
treme methods to settle their difficulties
would have smaller pension rolls to fol-
low.
—-There can be no excuse for any
Democrats staying away from the poles
on next Tuesday. The party needs
every vote of its every supporter. Since
Republicans imagine that their calam-
ity howls will turn the party of reform
from its pledges, that have been endors-
ed by the people, let us all turn out-—no
matter what the condition of the weath-
er—aud show them that we are still the
aggressive Democrats who adwinistered
that awful dose they had to take in
November, 1892.
—-Congressntan 'W. L. STONE has in-
troduced an immigration bill which
adds a feature to all the immigration
laws now operative. It will require
United States consuls at foreign ports to
examine all immigrants before permit-
ting them to embark for this country.
Such a measure would be a step toward
restricting undesirable immigration, but
to our minds it is not nearly strong
enough. Close the gates entirely for a
certain period of years and let the for-
eigners that are here get settled before
we admit more.
—Signs of returning prosperity are
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 16, 1894
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NO. 17.
Their Object Should be Foiled.
The McKiInLEY bosses in this State
are banking largely on an immense
majority for Grow ta serve as an en-
dorsement of the monopoly tariff poli-
cy and a condemnation of the WiLsoN
tariff bill.
Encouraged by the result of last
Fall's election, when the public mind
was somewhat rattled by the business
depression, and did not comprehend as
clearly as it does now that the McKix-
LEY tariff was in the largest measure
the cause of the industrial derange-
ment, the Republican managers hope
to give Grow’s majority the immense
proportions of a hundred thousand or
over.
Chairman GILKESON, of the Republi-
can State committee, bases his hope of
a big McKinLeEy demonstration next
Tuesday, on the expectation that the
Democrats will largely absent them.
gelves from the polls. In an interview
last week he said: “How the Demo-
crats propose to get out a big vote for
Hancock I fail to eee. There are no
constables, nor assessors to elect in the
townships, always important as vote
factors, and only the burgess and
school directors in the borough
towns.”
By this remark the Republican
chairman shows that he does not know
what officers are to be elected in the
country districts, and what local inter-
ests operate to bring out the vote at
the February election.
But apart from the interest which
every Democrat should have in the
choice of good and competent officers
for town and township, the members
of the party should turn out to a man,
next Tuesday, to foil and to rebuke the
object of the Republicans to convert
these local elections into an endorse-
ment of a monopoly tariff,
Candidate Hancock's Acceptance.
The letter of candidate Hancock ac-
cepting the Democratic nomination for
Congressman at-Large, indicates the
earnest character of the man, his de-
votion to Democratic principles, and
his acquaintance with the subject that
is now the leading issue between the
two parties, and in which his candi”
dacy represents the principle of tariff
reform. :
The tone of his letter shows a thor-
ough understanding of the tariff ques-
tion, a complete knowledge of the evils
of the system that has oppressed the
larger portion of the people without
material benefit to any but the few
who have been especially favored, and
an appreciation of the duty that has
devolved upon the Democratic party to
reform this system by adapting it to
the interest of the greater number of
the people instead of its being a bene-
faction to a limited class.
This letter of candidate Hancock ap-
peared in the papers simultaneously
with Tom Reep’s tomfoolery, perpetra-
ted at Philadelphia, and the two pro-
ductions show the difference not only
between the merits of the two opposite
causes, but also the difference in
the two men.
Make the Load MorejEqual.
It is estimated that : twenty-five
thousand persons in the United States
own $31,500,000,000 worth of property;
yet under the prevailing method of
raising revenue, chiefly by tariff taxa-
tion, these twenty-five thousand per-
sons contritute no more for the sup-
port of the government than the same
number of yersons in moderate circum-
stances.
In the face of this fact, bearing with
it such grett inequality and gross in-
justice, we hear it said that the propc-
sition of anincome tax is demagogical ;
| that its pu'pose is agrarian ; that its
chiet motive is hostility to wealth
sprung fron the envy of the poor to-
ward the rich.
Nothing could be more thoroughly
false than his assertion. Aun income
apparent everywhere. Mills are resum-
ing in all parts of the land and the busi-
ness depression we have just passed
through promises to be looked on ere- .
long asa God-send. True there has been
misery in many homes because of lack
of employment, but the stagnation of
this winter has been a physic to the
commercial system and we are about to
start on an era of renewed business
health and vigor, when troubles of the
past] will be forgotten in the brighter
prospects of the future.
tax is deménded by that justice which
requires anequal apportionment of the
burden of iitizenship, but which Re-
publican methods of raising revenue
have ignorel by putting most of the
load on tht shoulders that are least
able to beai it.
~—— (30 it to the polls on Tuesday
and work br the ticket. Every elec.
tion precingt in Centre county is looked
to for a gool showing.
¢
Quibbling Objections.
The objections to an income tax for
the reason that it will induce false
swearing and be attended with inquisi-
torial processes are not worthy of a
moment's consideration.
If such arguments are to be allowed
any weight, they might with equal
force be brought to bear against trials
in our courts of justice in which the in-
terest of the parties involved are a
temptation to perjury, or against any
of the regulations of society which
necessitate the invasion of personal
privacy.
What sane man would ask that
trials in court be discontinued because
they turnish occasion for false swear-
ing, or object to sanitary and police
regulations for the reason that they
cannot be enforced without invading
private premises or interfering with
the privacy of the individual citizen?
Who is foolish enough to want ordi-
nary taxation stopped because it can be
assessed and collected only by pro-
cesses as inquisitorial as any that an
income tax would require?
The “perjury” and “inquisitorial”
objection to the taxation of incomes
are mere quibbles. The law can be,
and no doubt will be in this case suf-
ficient to deal with the offence of per-
jury, and the penitentiary is just as
suitable for men who swear falsely as
to their incomes as for persons who
who commit that crime ‘or any other
object.
There will bo doubt be some who
will swear falsely concerning their
taxable wealth and escape punisment,
just as there are many who take falce
oaths in our courts without being pun-
ished for it, but tbe penalty of
the law and its detective provisions
shonld be such as will reduce the “in-
come’ perjurers to a minimum.
This problem is not so difficult to
solve it an earnestness is displayed in
its solution.
When it comes to the treatment of
wealth it is remarkable what tender-
ness is required. Its possession must
be kept a profound secret so that the
tax gatherer may koow nothing about
it. It may no doubt seem a great
hardship to the well-heeled to be com-
pelled to give a return of their wealth
for taxation. but it will not be near as
great a hardship as has been endured
by men of no wealth who have been
compelled to furnish the bulk of the
government revenue.
There Should be Nec Delay.
The Senate, which is a Democratic
body, should pass the WiLsox tariff
bill without delay. To employ more
time on it than is decently required for
its consideration as a measure that
originated in the other House, would
be a harmful waste of time.
No bill of equal importance was ever
more fully considered, or given a fairer
chance to be discussed, than has been
this measure upon which all interested
were allowed an opportunity to be
heard, and every reasonable objection
wag accorded its due weight.
No committee ever worked more
conscientiously in the formulation of
every legislative ‘measure.
That the purpose of the bill might
be fully and clearly understdod by the
people, an unusual thing was done in
publishing its provisions in advance of
the meeting of the Congress that was
to act upon it.
It is a moderate measure, and what
should be iis chief commendation to
Democratic Senators, it is a Democrat-
ic measure.’
These considerations should insure
for it a quick passage through the Sen-
ate.
The interests which have grown
avaricious and insolent under McKIN-
LEY favoritism will be on hand to ask
a continuance of such favor, but to al-
low their influence to defer the passage
of the bill would be an unpardonable
waste of time when the industries of
the country, suspended for months un-
der the McKINLEY tariff, are waiting
to spring into new life and new vigor
ag soon as this reform measure is
finally enacted.
Those inflated interests have already
had all the attention in this matter
that is due them, although not as
much as their avarice is disposed to
demand.
The revival of general prosperity
should not be held in abeyance by even
go much as an hour’s unnecessary de-
lay in the enactment of the new charter
of American industry embodied in the
Wirsox tarift bill.
Tom Reed's Calamity Howl.
We are forced to the conclusion that
the intelligence of Philadelphia Re-
publicans is easily pleased with the
kind of political information imparted
to it, aad not very discriminating in
what it accepts as facts.
Oue evening last week they literally
packed the Academy of Music to hear
fat Tom Reep discourse on politics,
particularly tariff politics, and they
actually become wild over the gags
quips, gibes and misapplied sarcasms
that constituted the bulk of his address.
In his whole discourse there was no
argument in support of the Republican
tariff policy that had not been riddled
and knocked to pieces by every Demo-
cratic country school house orator and
rural editor that have handled that
subject, and yet his presentation of the
Republican side of the question, with
its flabbiness poorly relieved by flashes
of affected sarcasm, set that crowd
howling with uncontrollable enthusi-
asm.
The fact is that Reep did not ser-
iously attempt to employ argument or
resort to reason for the support of his
assertions, When he took the busi-
ness depression, existing under a Re-
publican tariff, and employed it as
proof of the injurious character of a
Democratic tariff that has not yet been
passed, what impression could such
foolish reasoning have made upon
hearers endowed with common sense?
Yet the applause with which it was
received by that audience, almost took
the roof off the building.
There was about the same amount
of argument in his calamity howl that
one year of Democratic rule bad pros-
trated business and paralyzed industry,
when it is a self-evident fact that the
unrepealed laws and policies of the
Republican party that still exert their
influence upon the conditions of finance,
business and industry—are the only
influence that could legitimately affect
them up to this moment, and will con-
tinue to affect them until they are
wiped out by Democratic legislation.
Yet Reep set up that idiotic howl and
his audience howled with him.
The whole speech was made up of
the calamity style of argument, and al-
though the calamity which was the
chief theme of Reep’s discourse is of
Republican origin, the Philadelphia
Republicans accepted that argument
as sound logic.
Monopoly Must Die.
Nobody has been surprised by Tou
ReED’s statement in his recent epeech
to the Philadelphia Republicans that
he “does not lay awake at night wor-
rying over the subject of monopoly.”
It is not believed by any large number
of people that any of the Republican
leaders give them much uneasiness on
that subject.
When a party devotes most of its at-
tention to the building up and mainte-
nance of a system that has brought in-
to existence the monopolistic combina-
tions that are bleeding the American
people, and resorts to every desperate
means to prevent the passage of a tar-
iff bill that will relieve a long suffering
population from the robbery of protec-
ted trusts, there is needed no other as-
surance that such robbery does not
worry the leaders of that party, and
particularly is it unnecessary for REED
to say that he isn’t worried about it.
He takes the matter very jauntily,
saying that “every trust has its time to
die, and the corpse will be ready when
the funeral is appointed.” Bat if its
dying is to depend upon the action of
the party that passed the McKinney
bill, tariff-fed monopoly will live for-
ever, aud its funeral will be everlast-
ly post-poned.
Bat monopoly of the McKINLEY
stripe is going to die. Its time has
come,
burial and its funeral has been ap-
pointed by a Democratic Congress.
There will be Republican mourners,
bat the unsympathetic funeral direc-
tors who will have charge of the body
will not think it necessary that there
should be any flowers.
——Democrats go out and vote next
Tuesday.
you with any falling off in our vote.
you still have faith.
Its corpse is being prepared for
The Republicans will taunt
They will claim that Democrats are
t tired of their party. Show them that
Making Law for Money Sure.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Out in Colorado the state officials
and legislators, following the example
of the polite and scholarly Waite, con-
tinue to indulge in various pleasant
amenities, which in uniqueness at least
rival the flowery hyperboles of the es
teemed governor, who is waiting for
“hell to freeze over’ before he will
abandon his cherished silver plans. A
day or two ago the auditor of the state,
in a communication to Waite’s rump
legislature, declined to pay the law-
makers until certain conditions were
complied with and the latter promptly
got even by “returning it to the
Rocky mountain canary who sent it
in, This is a delicate thrust certainly.
It is scarcely as vigorous, however, as
a recent utterance of a prominent Cen-
tennial state politician who described
a fellow politician as possessing all the
objectionable qualities of a snake, a
jackass and a polecat.
A Very Satisfactory Experience.
From the Williamsport Republican.
It is a very common thing lately
when a man or woman goes wrong to
astribute it to hypnotism. When a
bank cashier skips out with the funds he
has been hypnotized, and when a wife
elopes with a handsomer man itis due
to hypnotism. The remarkable thing
about this hypnotism is the fact that the
people are always influenced to do the
thing they want to do.. This power of
rendering people irresponsible for their
actions is an old art and it has lately
been proved a very convenient one.
It has one singular advantage that if a
person makes up his or her mind to do
just about the right thing it takes more
than satan and all his angels to hypno-
tize that person from the straight and
narrow path.
It Must Have Some Humor to Make it
Readable.
From the New York Sun.
When the history of the United
States during the Nineteenth century
comes to be written, the narrative will
contain few more amazingly grotesque
statements than that for twenty-three
| years the Government paid to one
{ John I. Davenport the salary of a first
class bank President for locking up in
an iron cage citizens who had commit-
ted no crime.
gh
Right You Are, Mr. Kelley.
From the Scottdale Independent. _
It the reported discharge of Huns
| about the coke works would ouly con-
| tinue until all were discharged never
"to be hired again, it would be a good
‘thing for the country. Any people
| who do not propose to adopt the Ameri-
can language and customs, and help
| support the government, are very un-
| desirable as well as a burden and dan-
| ger to the country.
But They Aren't Far Enough Away
from the Professor’s Eagle Eye.
From the Bellefonte Daily News.
The State Colleze Freshmen class
will banquet at the Fallon House, Lock
Haven, Wednesday evening, the 21st,
and the Seniors on the 23rd, The Col-
lege students seem to be “stuck” on
Lock Haven. They certainly could
get just as good entertainment in Belle-
fonte.
.
The Styles Were Different Then.
From the Orbisonia Dispatch.
The Nebraska woman who has made
a handsome fortune out of apples, has
done much better than did the first
woman who figured in the apple mar-
ket. Kve made a great deal of trouble,
because of her apple orchard, but she
never made enough to clothe the fam-
ily.
They'll Realize it in '96.
From the New York Evening Post.
«The Wilson bill is the beginning of
a fiscal revolution which Republicans
themselves will soon recognize as inevi-
table at this stage of our nation’s de-
velopment, and which they will event-
ually help to complete.”
The Reason Russell Was Elected so
Often.
From the Steubenville, Ohio, Gazette.
In Massachusetts unless one can
read the constitution in the English
language he cannot vote, and thea he
cannot vote if he be a pauper or under
a guardian.
TE RET
How Can You Tell Without a Bubble
in Xt?
From the Natrona, West Penna., Press,
These are times of fearful strain,
physically and mentally. Keep your
head level and hold yourself together
‘and wait, and you will come out all
right.
A—
The Grave End of the Funny Man,
From the Altoona Times
The grave need never associate with
the gay unless they choose. But the
gay must eventually go to the grave.
—— Democrats, you have good lo-
cal tickets. You have a good candi-
date to represent your principle and in-
terests in congress. See that you get
to the election on Tuesday next and do
your duty toward electing them.
Spawls from the Keystove,
—One hundred and forty-three applications
for license are filed in Lycoming county. =
—Mail facilities in Scranton are slow on ae-
count of a lack of post cffice employes.
—The ice in the Susquehanna River at
Lock Haven went out on a flood Saturday.
—Reading folks now feel assured that gas
will be reduced from $2.10 to $1.50 by March 1-
—Mrs. Neal Ferry was fatally burned at her
‘home, nasr Silver Brook, by a lamp explosion.
—All {school children in Altoona must be
vaccinated without delay, says the Board o
Health.
—John Copperton fell down a mine shaft at
Plymouth and was found a corpse at the bot-
tom.
—A runaway horse at Ashland so badly
trampled little Luke Dunn that his life isin
danger.
—The unexpected explosion of a dynamite
cap blew out the life of John Parry, a Scranton
miner.
—A jury in the Carpenter case at Mifflintown
Monday reached a verdict of guilty in the first
degree.
—The great number of typhoid fever cases
at Reading has caused an investigation of the
water supply.
—A little daughter of George Householder,
of York, while playing with matches, was fa-
tally burned.
—Bedford County js ready to cut herself off
from all communication with small-pox-infest
ed Putstown. x
—Recently a thief stole fifty pounds of but-
ter from a huckster’s wagon at the Williams-
port market.
—Two boilers blew up Saturday in No, 10
Eckley Colliery, near Hazleton, demolishing
the engine room.
—Robbers sandbagged James Buchanan, of
Altoona, on Sunday night, and secured his
months’s wages.
—An ordinance to permit a trolley from
Reading to Pottstown has been introduced in
Reading councils.
Awakened at midnight by a fit of coughing
Mrs. Jacob Schlosser, of Penbrook, near Har-
risburg , was soon a corpse.
—Tyrone senool directors are looking for a
gite in the First ward of that place on which
to erect a new school house.
—Miss Alda Rouinson, of New Castle, victim
of Professor Hartshorn’s alleged crimes, has
been taken to an insane asylum.
—Attorney A. Linhart may be disbarred in
Allegheny County for securing a charter for an
Anarchist society at Mansfield.
—The residence of Harry H. Stewart, in Al-
toona, was badly damaged by fire on Sunday
morning caused by a defective flue.
—Thieves, who blew open the safe in the
Philadelphia and Reading station at Silver
Brook, got a few cents for their pains.
—Congressman James B. Reilly is at his
Pottsville home and is busy distributing 20
mail ragfuls of seeds to’ his farmer friends.
—For assaulting L. H. Moll, Charles Onley,
an ex-Lehigh Valley striker, of Bethlehem,
was Tuesday sent to jail for two months.
—A Wilkesbarre newspaper suggests that
every paper in the land open subscriptions for
a monument to Gorge W. Childs, in Philidel-
phia.
—The Coroner holds Dr. Banks, of Wilkesa
barre, responsible for the death of Miss Jen-
nie Tyler, of Monroe township, Wyoming -
county,
—A mass mesting of Monongahela River
coal rr iners was held Wednesday to decide
whether the two cent rate off wages will be ac-
cepted.
—The big coal storage yards at Schuylkill
Haven, recently burned, will be replaced ‘by
larger ones by the Philadelphia and Reading
Company.
Mrs. Jennie E. Snyder, wife of W. C. Snyder”
trainmaster of the Altoona division Pe nnsylva.
nia railroad, died at her home in Altoona Sun-
day night.
—There is strong objection to the proposed
sewerage company at Oliphant, Lackawanna
county, and the matter has been carried to
Harrisburg. 3
—Five tenement houses at Frugality, Cam-
bria county, owned by the Cresson & Clearfield
coal and coke company, were destroyed by
fire on Friday.
—Three thousand trout were received at the
Beech Creek station in Clearfield last week
and consigned to a trout stream in the county
for future eating.
—The body of Peter Smith, missing since,
December 17, was found Saturday in the Le
high river, near his former home at. North
ampton.
—At the National College of Ancient Knights
of Malta, held Saturday in Bethlehem, Gen-
eral Owen R. Wilt was chosen Sovereign
Grand Inspector.
—Charged with attempting to murder hi®
wife, Charles Gardner, ex-Deputy Sheriff of
Columbia County, was Monday arrested at
Scranton, but he was afterwards released.
—Recent deaths in Bedford county * Miss
8irah Moore, Bedford, aged 82 years; Mrs,
John Davidson, Bedford, aged 75.; Richard M-
Griffith, East St. Clair township, 50.
—THis nerve failing after going all the way
from Milwaukee, Wis., to Bethlehem to meet
greengoods men, Frank Lorenz Saturday told
the police in the latter town of his mission.
—Before dying from the effects of a criminal
operation, Miss Jennie Tyler, Monroe town-
ship, Luzerne County, implicated a Wilkes-
barre physician, whom the authorities are now
after.
—State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion Schaeffer has issued a circular to the
effect that the free text book in the schools
cannot be used in private schools during sum-
mer. :
—Recent deaths in Mifflin county: Peter
Clum, Derry township, aged 55; David Jen®
kins, Bratton township, 93; Mrs. Amanda
Mohler, Derry township, 54 ; J. E. Woodrow.
Lewisburg, 72. !
—M. Simon & Bro., proprietors of the largest
clothing establishment in Altoona, failed on
Saturday. Executions aggregating $25,000 in
favor of relatives were placed in the hands of
tha sheriff.
—Permission has been granted to these
companies to open branch offices in Philadel.
phia ; Fowden Printing and Telegraph Com-
pany of Trenton, N. J.; the Unicon Cycle Manu-
facturing Company of Massachusetts.
—Salyards, the condemned murderer in jail
at Carlisle, has become desperate. The sheriff
attempted to enter his cell yesterday for the
purpose of taking an article from him. The
prisoner defied him and said he would make
trouble if any person entered his cell. It is
thought that he will commit suicide it given a
chance.