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.
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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,