Bewaraiic Wat BY P. GRAY Ink Slings. MEEK. —-That settles it, said the old woman as she dropped the white of an egg into her coffee pot. —The wagging tongue of gossip does more to disorganizs and corrupt socisty than all the crimes of man put togeth- er. —-It need’nt be wondered at, that the Republican majority in this State was so large. ls’nt it natural that it should Grow. —There is nothing that so effectually discourages a well meaning man as to see hypocrisy and dishonesty pass him in the race of life. —The fellow who loses his identity by being content with reflecting the wisdom of another need not expect to absorb any of the credit when it is trans- mitted. —If the Senate strips the WILSON bill of the best Democratic features in it that body need not be surprised if the people do a little stripping themselves, next Fall. —If evervone should stick as assid- uously to hisor her own business, as they do to that of their neighbors’, there would be a very small percentage of unhappy people in the land. — Mrs. LEAsE’s latest, is that she has peered into all the mysteries of Masonry In ber interview she failed to say whether she used a side-saddle when she rode the wonderful goat of the order. —1If the movement to deport all our colored people and colonize them in Africa should ever amount to anything, there is one industry that won’t pay on the “dark continent’’ and that is, chick- en raising. --Violets are all the rage with people who can afford to wear boutenaires of the delicate little flower. "We suppose it was just to be in style that the President went duck shooting, down the Potomac, on the Violet. : —The very lastest communication to Congress on the Hawaiian situation was a poser. It was so long that rather than wade through it Congress gladly declared that the ‘situation’ isno longer wanted and the matter is cheerfully set- tled. —-Governor ATGELD has been asked to conjure up some means of relieving the distress of the miners of his State. He will more than likely doa heap of talking about possibilities, but the gist of it all will be: Go to tramping, as I used to do. ; — PRENDERGAST, the murderer of Mayor CARTER HARRISON, of Chicago, will be hanged on Good Friday, March 23rd. Such a villain will need as good a day as he can possibly get on which to die, for the crime he must answer for in heaven was a grave one. — After vainly trying every known means to defer the execution of his sen- tence of six years to Sing Sing ‘‘Boss’ McKANE, the Gravesend, N. Y., politi- cian found that the law will occasion- ally rise above the corrupting influences of politics and mete out punishment to those who have defied it. —There are some people, hereabouts, who are such fools that they could have been made believe that the aurora bor- ealis, last Friday night, was merely the reflection of a supposed bon fire which PEARY built in the polar regions when he heard the news of the majority that Pennsylvania gave Grow. —A Bloomsburg mother, who bad made up her mind that her daugh- fer should not marry a young man, who was not an especial favorite, locked the girlup in a room but she crawled through a window and fled with her lover. The sorrowing matron doubtless feels that window quite a painful thing. —We could go on writing forever and there are some dummies who would never be convinced that the Democrats have, as yet, not repealed one clause of the McKINLEY bill. These are the dummies who imagine that the election in this State last week was a rebuke against the hard times brought on by the WiLsox bill. —During CLEVELAND'S first term the navy was started on its way toward a new growth. During HARRISON'S ad- ministration the boats that had been built to uphold our honor became factors in that dishonorable Hawaiian affair, and now during the second term of Damocracy our navy has righted the Hawaiian wrong and won honor to the country by its conduct at Rio. —At a recent banquet in New York Bishop NEwMAN, of the Methodist church, said : ‘We cannot fail,” with SHERMAN in the senate, Tom REED in the house, McKINLEY in Ohio, and God over all”. He was spsaking of Repub- licanism and: failed to include Mr. QUAY in his list of saviors of political and spir- itual mankind. Of course it was merely an oversight and MATTHEW will not be offended at the Bishop, who thus bedrag- gled the robes of the church in the muck: of ro'itical intrigue. : CTT Democrat x RO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 39. BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 2. 1894. NO. 9. What Are They Boasting About. To read the “gush” in Republican newspapers and listen to the glorifica- tion of Republican politicians, since the election, one would almost con- clude that the Democrats who have not died since 1892 have repudiated their faith and become advocates of the frauds, the fallacies and the false teachings of that party. It takes a reasoning mar but a short time to see that the after-election claims, made by the advocates of the monopoly interests, are the same bare- faced frauds that characterize nearly all of their political assertions. In 1892 when a Congress was to be chosen that would have the power to revive the tariff, and the questions as to its revision or its continuation at the exorbitant rates fixed by the McKix- LEY bill, were voted upon explicitly and directly by the people, the Repub- licans of the State cast 516,011 - votes. This represented the sentiment among the people of the State against any change or reformation in our tariff laws, It showed that there were at that time 516,011 voters in Pennsylva- nia who believed in a high tariff poli- cy and were opposed to any legislation that would reduce the rate fixed by Re: publican legislation. Where is there any evidence of a change of sentiment on that question since ? Surely the recent election does not show any ? There are more voters in Pennsylva- nia to-day than there werein 1892. And yet with the hard times ; the busi ness depression ; the failures ®the un- employed thousands ; the necessity for soup houses, and the universal distress that is prevailing, all attributal to a vicious Republican policy and legisia- tion, but believed by the unthinking to be the result of expected Democratic changes in the tariff laws; and with a most vigorous and unscrupulous cam- paign designed to show that the people were demanding a reversal of the policy they voted for then, the Repub- licans were ‘able to poll but 487,670 votes at the recent election. So that in 1892, there were 516,011 voters in Pennsylvania opposed to lar- iff reform, while in 1894 the official count shows that there was but 487,670 people who still held to that way of thinking.—A4An actual loss, to the high tariff advocates, of twenty-eight thousand, three hundred and JSorty voters. It must be remembered that the re- cent contest on the part of the Repub- cans, was not to elect a Congressman, for that power was conceded them, but it was to show the increasing strength of public sentiment against such revis- ion of the tariff as the WiLsox bill pro- poses. And how has it been shown? By a failure to record as many votes now against this measure as was cast against any change of tariff two years ago; by the refusal of over tweaty- eight thousand of their voters to stand up and be counted as still holding to the same sentiments they endorsed at that time. And this result is what the Republi- can press 1s parading as evidence of a change of political sentiment on the part of the people, and as a rebuke to Congressmen who are voting to carry out the instructions given them at the time of their election. It is what Re- publicans are glorifying over as if the entire body of voters within the com- ' monwealth had cast their ballots for Grow and against any revision of the tariff laws. They should remember that they polled but 487,670 votes and that there are 505,728 other citizens in this com- monwealth, who either openly voted against them or refused to record them- selves in favor of the policy and prin- ciples of those espousing the cause of a protected monopolist. If in the face of all their efforts and appeals, the money they spent and the exertion they put forth, the use they made of their own hard times, aud the importance to them of proving that the people had changed their views on this one great subject, they failed, bere in the home of ‘Protection,’ to have a majority of the voters stand up and declare for it, what have they to glory over or boast about? Out of a million of votes in Peon: sylvania, they got less than five huun- dred thousand, to declare for a cou- tinuation of their policy of, protection. Light-headea Voters. The result of the recent election, £0 far as it had any bearing upon the tariff question now before Congress, proved nothing but that there are & great many light-headed voters in this great commonwealth. Nothing else than that was also proven by the elec- tion last Fall. In 1890 and 1892, when the question of a high protective tariff was fully and dispassionately discussed, and the people viewed the issue in allits as- pects, unaffected by scare or panic, they calmly and deliberately, and by a great majority, determined that there should be a reform of the existing tar- iff as proposed by the Democratic plat- form, At the time this verdict was being rendered the McKINLEY tariff, in the effects it was working out, was prepar- ing a full justification of the popular de- cision at the polls. It had brought pro- duction to a condition that rendered a collapse unavoidable. It had over stocked the marke's after having closed every outward channel through which thatoverproduction could have been re- lieved. The break-down comes inevi- tably as effect follows its cause, and it would have come whatever the result of the election of 1892 might have been, for it was the natural collapse that always follows excessive stimula- tion. There could not have been a more complete confirmation of the charges brought against that vicious and injurious tariff system upon which the people had rendered the calm and deliberate judgment that condemned it. But when the losses and suffering which came from this obvious cause began to bear upon the country, pros- trating business and suspending the operations of labor, the cry was raised that the trouble had been brought on by the Democrais getting into power. This was the purport o! the calamity howl; b:t the charge that the indus. trial breakdown was in consequence off the Democratic intention to amend a tariff that bad been disastrous in its ef- fects, was about as sensible as to hold that the distress caused by an aching tooth is attributable to the preparation of the dentist for its extraction. Notwithstanding the flimsiness of the calamity representations they had their effect upon the lighter heads among the voters, of whom enough were affected by the howl to make the advocate of a monopoly tariff glory over the fact that they still have a fol- lowing here in Pennsylvania and that as long as people can be fooled, they have hopes of success. Unfortunately for them they have not shown that even a majority of the voters of Pennsylvania are willing to de- mand a continuation of their present vicious and oppressive tariff system. Something that Should Not be Taxed. There must be some compromises where there are conflicting views and interests involved in an object that is designed to be accomplished. The case of the WiLsox tariff bill seems not to be an exception to this rule; yet in adjasting the difficulties of the tarift reform problem we should great- ly regret to see an abandonment of the intention to put sugar, raw as well as manufactured, on the free list. A tax ov sugar i3 pre-eminently a tax on the poorer -class of people: A laborer’s family consumes but little less sugar than that of a millionaire, and if it is a large family it is likely to consume more than do the limited namber that usually constitute the households of the wealthy. This fact shows the inequality and comparative hardship of such a tax. It issaid that $50,000,000 may be raised by it, at the rate of only one cent a pound, but of this great aggregate at least nine-tenths will come from the working people. When there are incomes that afford a fairer and juster source of revenue, why should so indispensable a neces- sary be taxed; or must it be subjected to unfair exactions in order that in- comes may be exempt ? This is a qaestion, the equity of which should have its due weight with ‘of them are demanding an apology for Traits of English Character. Jonx Burr hasalways been a difficult customer to please, a fact that is at- tributable to his peculiarly constituted disposition which is largely made up of stubbornness, prejudice and conceit. The situation at Rio Janeiro brings out these traits of his character. For some reason the English authorities have been remarkably submissive to the blockade which the insurgents have maintained at that port. The reason of this is believed to be the sym- pathy of the English with the rebels who are fighting the republic evidently in monarchical interests. The blockade has been a great in- convenience and injury to the shipping in Rio harbor, all interests involved in the trade of that port suffering more or less from it. American vessels suffered with the rest until Admiral BENuAM in- terfered and by vigorous action com- pelled the blockaders to desist from in- terfering with American vessels. English vessels, however, continue to be subjected to the restrictions of the blockade and are fired on if they at- tempt to break it. Not being protect- ed by their own government, some of them recently applied to Admiral Ben- HAM for protection, which he readily granted and assisted them in landing under the shelter of the American flag. This action of the Admiral, which should have been gratefully ac- know'edged, has, however, excited JonN BuLL's indignation. The Lon- don newspapers are denouncing it as an impertinent interference, and some his assuming to protect English ship- ping. . There is something laughable in this as an exhibit of the bumptiousness of the English character. This bluster springs from a humiliating conscious- ness of the weak and inefficient course of their own authorities in regard to the blockade, Whise in this frame of | mind their conceit is offended by an-' other nation extending to their mer-' chantien the protection which their own government tailed to afford them, and hence this display of wounded vanity and expressions of displeasure. | —— It is a very common fault that most of us have, to attempt to hold others responsible for what we fail to do ourselves. If the local party lead- ers and those connected with the local Democratic organization throughout the State, who are now attempting to unload their own neglect or inefficiency upon the State Committee, will look right at home they will find that the | Democratic slump was due to a great many causes over which the Siate or- ganization had no control whatever. A Noble Attitude. In a recent definition of his attitude toward the pending tariff bill, Senator McPuERsoN, of New Jersey, expressed the very essence of Democracy, and sounded in clearest tone the keynote of fidelity to the principles of his party, when he said : : “I am a Democrat—and I shall stand with my party. Thebill when completed may not satisfy me in every particular, but I shall not be found giving aid and comfort to the Repub- licans on any proposition by my vote.” Herein a few words is stated the plain duty of every Democratic Sena- tor and Representative on this question. Though the bill may not suit them in every particular, yet it is the nearest practical fulfillment of the pledge of the party that can be made; it is a measure upon Which depends not ouly the reputation, but the future success of the party, and to oppose or embar- rass it because it does not suit every lo- cal interest. or is not satisfactory in every particular, would be giving aid and comfort to the enemies of Democ- racy. Whatever may be said about this or that Senator’ s insistence that the inter- est of his State must be attended to, we do not believe that there is one who is willing to restore the Republicans to power by making a failure of the Democratic tariff bill. SOR ——When you come to think about it, polling 487,670 votes, against a poli- cy ae bitterly fought as is tariff reform, out of a total vote of 993,398, is not Democratic law-makers, to the end that it may pat local interest to one gide and allow sugar to be on the free list for the benefit of all the people. ——— — Grows majority, like the public debt colamn under the HARRISON re- gime, is still crawling up. { such a tremendous victory after all. { Even with all the effort, and all the | erowing about what was accom- plished, 5 majority of the voters of Pennsylvania are not shown by the re-~ | turns to have been interested enough to go out and vote against a reduction Truth, Every Word of It. From a recent speech of Att'y Gen. W. U Hensel. If the owls and the bats are building their nests in the furnace stacks, it is under a Republican tariff. Ifthe loom stands still and the furnace fire has gone out, it 18 under import duties fixed by a Republican Congress. If the ham- mer of the mechanic is idle, the plow of the farmer stands in the furrow and the venture of the merchant brings no return, these are conditions wrought by legislation approved by a Republi. can Executive, If the sails of Ameri- can commerce are listlessly furled in home ports, it is because above the seas they should have whitened there Srooded the shadow of the McKinley ill. Preposterous and absurd is the con- tention of our adversary that the re- sults of the McKinley bill, after several years’ trial, are due to other legislation not yet enacted. And yet the author of this statute had the audacity to cross the line of his State a few nights ago and tell the people of Pittsburg that existing evils are due to Demo. cratic pledges of tariff reform. He might as well argue that the headache after a debauch is due to temperance resolutions to be adopted two weeks hence, rather than to the extra bottle of the night before. As surely as de- pression follows stimulation, bave the widespread wreck and ruin of commer- cial and manufacturing interests en- sued trom a vicious, inequitable and reckless system of taxation—imposed for the protection of the favered few and to the spoliation of the suffering many. An Aspirant for the Place Grow Want- ed to Fill From the Philadelphia Times. Cameron as a Populist is a new diver- sion, even for Cameron. 'Fhere is de- cidedly fresh lustre in this thing of breaking out in a new place. The sen- ior Senator kas not been heard from since that famous free silver speech and if there is anything to bs gained from eccentric popularity by a twist into con- centric politics he may as well have it, Precedent also opens the way, for Stew- art, of Nevada, has beeome & convert to his own free silver text and is now an avowed Populist. With encourage- : ment of that pattern Cameron can con- sistently accept Populist eommendation and attach it like any other. hob to his kite. Nothing like cutting a big figure in national affairs, for the trimmings are fascinating enough, and Cameron is en- titled to his own little event. It shows he is awake and not paired. The Calamity Howl of No Use Now. From the Wellsboro Gazette. The Wilson Tariff bill does not pro- pose to reduce the tariff below the point which would cover the difference in the cost of wages in the United States as compared with compet- ing countries. None the less, the work- ingman is threatened with wage reduc- tion. This threat is intended for politie- al effect. The workingman who takes | time to think about it will know that { there are two parties to be consulted in fixing the rate of wages. ‘When work is plentiful, wages are hich. When work is scarce, wages fall. And this is true whether tariffs go up or down. The workingman never gets any advantage out of protection which he does not have to fight for. The Percentage of Labor that Really is Protected From the Philadelphia Record: Only 7 per cent. of the workingmen in the United States are employed in what are known a3® the protected in- dustries. In fixing the rate of wages they are obliged to compete with the un- protected 93 per cent. ; so that the rate of ““protection’’ has really nothing to do with the rate of wages, How long will | the whole body of workingmen have dust thrown into their eyes by those who seek to advance their own interests un- der the pretense of looking after the in- terests of the persons whom they employ. Complimentaries Are Few Over Here. From the Clearfield Public Spirit. Notwithstanding the fact that Gener- al Hastings, “the hero of Johnstown” and ‘‘our next Governor” begged of his party followers to stand by the local ticket on his account at his home elec- tion, Bellefonte elected Hugh Taylor, a popular young law student, eollector ; ex-Treasurer Smith school director, and a member of city council. This was a bard blow to “Our Dan” just at this time and settles some of the hoped for complimentary business. From the Clarion Democrat. The New York Republicans are again indulging in a regular Kilkenny fight. The high-toned Republicans under the leadership of Col. George Bliss, and the low-toned Republicans under Thos. OC. Platt, of ‘me to” fame, are at sword’s points, and are telling all manner of truth about each other. From the Steubenville, Ohio, Gazette. That Republican rain in Pennsylvania ‘wasn’t much of a shower, after all.” Coamsidering the way some Democratic Senators are haggling over the Wilson bill instead of coming manfally to its support, we ought to be thankful Penn- sylvania didn’t do us for a quarter mils | of the tariff, lion. Spawls from the Keystone. —Erie may hall. —The United Brethren Conference at Ship- pensburg ended Monday. —Some Pittsburg schools are so badly heat ed that the pupils are sick. —The post office has been moved into the: new Federal building at Scranton. —Caught between mine cars at Mahanoy City, Michael Copler was fatally squeezed. —Frank Russell, the burglar, broke a hols through the jail roof, at Sayre, and escaped. —Lafayette College freshmen were fined #30 for posting glaring bills upon Easton win- - dows. soon have a new Masonie- —Twenty-five men are in training for the Pottsville force and only eight are needed. —Dismissed by his employer, in Pittsburg, young John Gigax killed himself with poison. —About 200 G. A. R. veterans of Allegheny county attended the encampment in Philadel-- phia this week. —A charter was Friday granted to “the Mount Lebanon Memorial Association of Leb- anon, capital $5000. —Workmen who were arrested at Easton as a result of the Bushkill Bridge row were Fri day each fined $2. —Annie Sheridan, a Pittsburg girl said to belong to a club where thieves are trained, has gone to the workhouse. — While reading a newspaper at his home ia West Hazleton Friday evening, Edward Gal-: lagher dropped dead. —Deaf and aged Stewart Allshouse -did net hear the fire alarm, and was nearly suffocated in a burning building at Easton. —A great crowd of weeping women and children watched the 34 Mansfield mine rioters Friday marched to prison cells. —Rev. Dr. James Allison, of Pittsburg, was Friday appointed to succeed the late James Scott on the Board of Public Chariiies. —Fourteen hundred citizens have signed a petition protesting against running trolley cars over the Penn street bridge, Reading. —A flaftering report concerning new churches built was read at the United Breth ren Conference Friday evening in Carlisle. —Friends of Paul Lang, at McKeesport, will appeal to the Russian Minister at Washington to have Lang released from prison in Utah, —It was necessary to build an extension to the Braddock Church to accommodate the $5000 crgan Andrew Carnegie presented to it. —Work will shortly be begun upon the Beaver Meadow and New Boston Railroad, a branch of the Pennsylvania, 20 miles long, te. tap the Hazleton coal fields. —Abner Brothers’ large store at Port Car bon has been hought by the Chamberlain Coal Company, and it will Jbe made a “com- pany” store for a new mine. —*“Fruit Culture in Pennsylvania” was the subject of an address delivered by 2Cyrus T. Fox, of Reading, before the Lehigh] County Farmers’ Institute at Macungie. —Just as soon as the weather will jpermit work will be begun on the erection of a trol~ ley line from Reading to Wolmensdorf, which will give employment to 5000 men in the start. —Governor Pattison Friday reappointed Da M. Boyd, Danville; B. H. Detweiler, Wiitiam sport; B. H. Throop, Scranton, and C. 8S. Min er, Honesdale, trustees of the Danville State Insane Asylum, —On Monday next, the Wakefield Electrical Engineering Company, of Philadelphia, whe were recently given the contract for the con- struction of the Traction road between !Har- leigh and Freeland will commence 3 work. One hundred and fifty men will be given em- ployment. —Dr. C H. Bressler, one of the most promi- nent citizens of York county, is dead. Dr. Bressler was prominent in Republican politics, He served a term as Sheriff of York county and as City Councilman. He was a former dis" trict candidate for Congress and was present. ed to several State Conventions for Congress- . man-at-Large. He was 78 years old. —At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania*Chautanqua it was dete r miued that the next assembly should open at Mt. Gretnaon July 2, to continue until Au- gust 2, paid admissions to begin on July 4. Therates of cottage rentals were reduced to suit the stringent times. Last year 10,000 peo ple attended the Chantauqua, and it is expected that the attendance this year will reach 15,0008, —Rev. J. L. Roush and Rev: A. L.. Dechant, associate pastors serving Reformed congrega- tions at Pennsburg, Sumneytown, Old Gosh® enhoppen and Frederick, in Montgomery county, have announced their-intention of re- signing this pastogal charge. Rev. Dechant pleads declining health, and Rev. Roush like- wise fears overtaxing his strength minister~ ing toa territory twenty miles square and a scattered membership of over a theusand, souls. —A big sensation was.eaused about Carroll, town last week by the separation of Peter Shar- baugh and his wife, who have been married for fifty years, he being 71 years old: and she 70, says the Marion, Independent. They are | very wealthy, and he gave the wifea quit claim deed for the oki homestead, took ® a grip and enough cash to.keep him comfortably the rest of his days, and disappeared. The {child ren are among the most prominent and wealthy merchanés and tradesmen of Cambria, county. —Mrs. Fulton; of Saltsburg, widow of Nelson Fulton whowas. killed in the civil war, ree ceived by mail last week a small, worn Test. ament, and a. weather-stained album contain- ing several faded pictures, which her husband had carried, with him when he went to the front in "613 After his death the articles came into the possession of Minnesota people by the name of Fulton, and they have been trying to locate the family t> whieh they should] go ever since. Mrs. Fulton was overjoyed to receive the package. —The letting of the Grand Trunk coal con tragts at Montrea), Canada, developed some suprises in coal circles in this region. Bell, Lewis & Yates did not get any, as reported, but Shawmut gné a slice of 50,000 tons, says the Brockwayville Record, The Brock was sup- | posed to be a bidder, but @id not get anything, ' The Buffalo Express says that the delegation of Buffalo coal and railroad men returned on Monday, and that the result of their trip was not profitable to some of them. For the first time in many years Bell, Lewis & Yates failed to get a piece of the contract, and all the Bridge coal has been given to Pittsburg re gion operators ; the Lake Shore, as a result; naptured the haul of nearly all this coal. This is a sort of a black eye for the Jefferson county operators,
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