Demoreaic fate
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Soon the timid little onion set,
Pu-hing through the ground,
Will send its mighty fragrance
Full forty miles arouad.
—It won’t be many more moons un-
til the onion bed will have raised a big
stink.
—— Marriage is a lottery, and of course
every union will not result in the capi-
tal prize drawing.
—It is beginning to look as though
Congressman W. C. P. BRECKENRIDGE
* has really been a very bad man.
—Polities will make a saint of no
man, though there is a danger of the
best of them falling into sinful ways.
—The flag of the Emerald Isle is to
float over the city ball in New York
on St. PATRICK'S day and itis more
than likely probable that those aldermen,
who voted to let the green banner wave
did so with the assurance that their
graves would always be kept in an Irish
color. A few shamrock’s to adorn, as it
were.
—The American people are not noted
for their gullibiltity, but we had to ac"
knowledge that they can ‘“takein’” a
great deal when we looked up the
statistics and found that there was
enough beer drunk in the country last
year to make a half barrel full for each
inhabitant.
—The Czar of ‘all the Russias”
claims, as part of his accomplishments,
the honor of being quite a linguist. He
speaks French, German, Italian, Span-
ish, Swedish, Danish and English quite
fluently, but we have our ali to gamble
that he can’t understand the vernacular,
as gotten off by the typical American
street urchin.
--The Brazilian war is ended at last
and Mr. DA GAMA, who thought he
could lick President P1Exoro out of his
shoes, asks only that his and the lives
of his followers may be spared as the
one condition of his surrender. The
Brazilian rebel has doutbtless found
that thereis very lttle glory in the
goldier’s life, after all.
—And now it turns out that the
celebrated ‘‘blarney stone’’ in the Irish
village, on the Mid-way Plaisance, at
Chicago, was nothing more than an
ordinary cobble stone, taken from the
streets of the Windy city. The twenty-
five thousand people who paid ten cents
each to kiss it will doubtless be able to
realize their volubility of speech when
they hear this and begin cussing them-
selves for having been such fools.
—The Philadelphia Times in follow_
ing up the suggestion of ‘one of the
old stalwart Democrats from the interior
of the State” bas an idea that Mr.
SINGERLY, the editor of the Record
and the peace commissioner of the party,
would make a good candidate for Gover-
nor next Fall. We know of noone
who would give “Our Dan.” a bigger
hustle than just Comnmodore SINGERLY.
—All through his trial for the murder
of Mayor CARTER HARRISON, of Chica~
go, PRENDERGAST maintained that he
was not insane, and refused to allow his
eouncel to enter a plea of insanity in his
detense, whilethere was a general im-
pression abroad that his belief of his sani-
ty proved his insanity. PRENDERGAST
has proven beyond the peradventure of a
doubt that he is in full possession of his
mental faculties. On Monday he punched
"his cell-mate’s face in good style because
he tried to sing ‘After the Ball’ to him.
There was a danger of the gallows being
cheated of their job, but the murderer
prefers hanging to being chestnutted to
death.
—Realizing that there 18 no hope for
Republicanism in the South such repu-
table papers as the Philadelphia Even-
ing Telegraph are beginning to clamor
for a new apportionment of delegates to
the National convention in 1896. It
claims that the South never casts an
electoral vote for a Republican candi-
date for President and consequently
should not be allowed such a weighty
voice in the nominating conventions as
it had in 1892, when itset up Messrs.
Harrison and REID, knowing that
they would be defeated. We are glad
the Republicans are losing hope in the
South as it will giveus more oppor-
tunity to make inroads in the West.
—It was well that the story, sent out
that a Port Deposit, Md., millionaire
had left a package containing sixty
thousand dollars in cash in a rail-road
car, and that an amateur theatrical com-
pany had later played catch with the
bundle of boodle, not knowing its con-
tents, spoke of the dramatic people as
amateurs, for the present depressed con-
dition of business on the stage leads us
to believe that the story would have
been a cenard had professionals been
given the credit of having played with
the money and yet it reach its proper
owner later. Of course this must not be
taken as a declaration of dishonesty | State will meet bi-ennially hereafter,
among actors, but, you know, there is | Ohio is to be congratulated on her re-
no telling what some of us will do when | lease from an annual deluge of worth-
necessity forces it.
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VOL. 39.
Senatorial Obstructionists.
The suspense in which the country
is held concerning the tariff, greatly
injuring business and imperiling the
proposed reform, is chargeable to the
Senate. Too much time bas already
Leen wasted, and if this dilatory treat
went of so important a matter is pro-
longed, it will increase the measure of
condemnation to which that body will
subject itself.
It is a Democratic responsibility. If
there is a cabal of Democatic ‘protec-
tion’ Senators causing the delay that
has already too long tried public
patience, they should know that the
Democratic party has its eyes on them,
and that if they prefer petty local in-
terests and personal objects to the
broad principle of tariff retorm and the
general benefits it will produce, they
must expect to be marked with the
stigma of having been false to their
representative trust and treacherous to
their party.
The obstruction to the bill, that has
been handed over to the Senate by so
great a majority of the people's repre
sentatives, is caused by afew Demo-
cratic members otf that body who seem
to have been making terms with the
favorites ot McKINLEY’S policy and
want their privileges continued. One
ot these demoralized tariff reformers is
disposed to obstruct the bill, not be.
cause any material interest of his State
is affected by it, but on account of his
solicitude for the protection of collars
and cufls. Another manifests a deter-
mination to block its progress until he
shail be assured of a provision for the
interest of the already overprotected
potters of his State. Another would
sacrifice the sacred pledge of bis party
aud discard the general benefits ofa
reformed tarift in order that be may
succeed in having oranges continued on
the favored list, and there are a few
more who consider the limited aud
local claims of iron ore, coal and sugar
as for outweighing the aggregate bene-
fits which tani retorm wiil conier upon
the country at large.
The attention that bas been given to
these petty interests, involving benefits
that are isolated aud of questionable
advautage even it secured, has placed
these few Democratic Senators in the
position of obstructionists who, on ac-
count of the smallness ot the majority
in the Senate, may be able to betray
their party. They have succeeded in
causing delay when prompt action is
80 necessary not only tor the wellare ot
tbe country, but also for the interests of
the Democracy ; they have forced the
making of concessions to McKINLEY-
18M by alterations in the WiLsoN bill;
but when it shall come to the final
struggle for the passage of a tariff!
measure that will conform to the de-
mands of the party and fhe needs of the
country, will they dare, as Democratic
Senators, face the oblequy that would
inevitably attend a violation of the
principle of tariff reform to which the
Democratic party is pledged ? .
—— It is a pity that men of such
intellectuality as Col. W. C. P. Breck-
ENRIDGE possesses should have so far
transcended the bounds of decency and
morality that the honorable place he
beld in the hearts of many will here-1
after be an aching void, crying for
something to assuage the pain at hav
ing found out the true nature of that
supposed model of honor and states-
manship, It matters not whether
MapEeLiNE PorLArD be or was a public
prostitute the Kentucky Congressman.
is nove the lese culpable of sin and his
speedy social and political ostracism is
needed for the maintenance of that
Southern chivalry of which we hear so
much.
—— If the fellows who are continu-
ally writing to the Record, ‘close up
the ranks,” would close up their
mouths, when everything the Demo-
cratic party undertakes is not ex-
actly in conformity with their ideas of
things, there would be no disorganiz-
ing element in the party to-day. No
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policy can possibly suit all of the peo-
ple.
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Unjust Sccdonal Criticism.
Ex-mayor Hewirr, of New York,
did not speak judiciously in the re-
marks he recently made at the dinner
of the Southern residents of that city,
in which he severely criticised the
quality of the Southern representatives
in Congress, declaring that the public
men of the South had deteriorated to
an inferior grade.
Even if it be true that they are not
up to the standard of the former statee-
man of that section, in what respect
are they inferior to the average class
of representatives furnished by the
North ? If there has been deteriora
tion, is it more apparent in the one
section than in the other?
The Republican party is the domi-
nant party in the North and therefore
more should be exacted ot it in main-
taining the quality of Northern states
manship, but what material does it
supply at the present time to fill the
vacancy left by the LiNconns, the
SewarDps, the CHasgs, the SuMNERS)
CoNkrLINGS, and other strong charac:
ters that constituted the strength of
early Republicanism and contribute d
its share to the reputation of the North
for public men of great mental power
and political ability? The places of
those eminent public characters have
been filled by the dominant party in
the North with men of meagre capaci-
ty, not more than a very limited few
such as SHERMAN, ALLisoN, Tom REED
and several others, rising above the
level of mediocrity. Has there been
deterioration in the South that is worse
than this? Is there a State in that
section that presents such a decline in
the quality of statesmanship as is pre.
sented by the two Uaited States Sena-
tors from the great Northern State of
Pennsylvania?
Ivis true that the Representatives
from the South are not the equals of
those gigantic minds that used to give
that section its political predominance,
but in comparison with the North
there has not been such a decline as
would justify Mr. Hewirr’s sweeping
strictures.
Shabby Ingratitude.
An incident occurred in the House
of Representatives the other day that
showed Republican gratitude in a very
unfavorable light.
When Representative GRow came to
choosing a seat he found one on the
Republican side of the House which,
although eligibly situated, was vacant.
No member belonging to that party
' was willing to occupy it for the reason
that the next one to it was filled by a
colored member. Whatever repug-
nance Mr. Grow may have had
to being so near a “nigger,” he over-
came it, and took the seat which all
his white Republican brother Congress-
men had shunned.
But look at the shabbiness of the
treatment to which this black Repub-
lican has been subjected by the other
Republicans scorning to sit near him.
Consider ifs ingratitude.
What would their party be without
thé negroes ? Ifit was not for them
it would be beaten by over a million in
the general vote of the country. It
would not have elected a President in
thelast twenty years. It would be
beaten in halfa dozen close Northern
States which the colored vote enables
them to carry. The advantage of that
vote gave them the slim majority in
Congress that enabled them to pass the
McKINLEY tariff, and, in short, if it
was not for the negroes their party
would be a helpless and hopeless
minority.
Yet notwithstanding this fact, when
a colored constituency in the South, for
whose alleged protection the hypocrit:
ical old party has been demanding,
force bills, sends a colored Representa-
tive to Congress his white Republican
colleagues refuse to sit near him, and the
seat remains vacant until old man
Grow comes along and oce upies it
probably from a sense of shame at the
contemptible ingratitude of his party,
or possibly he can stand having a
“nigger” next to him on account of the
seat being in other respects desirably
located.
—The Vassar College girls who have
joined the Salvation Army are all
daughters of wealthy parents, but their
performances on the drums and cymbals
of that religious organization will be
just as discordant as that of any other |
Sulvatien soldier.
E, PA., MARCH 16, 1894.
Should the Green Flag Be Allowed to
Wave ?
The annual question of allowing thi
Irish flag to wave on the city balls of
Brooklyn and New York on St.
Parrick’s day is again at the front in
those two municipalities. The mayor
of Brooklyn has refused to permit the
banner of the harp and shamrock to
flutter on the public building of that
city, while in New York it is allowed
to wave as usual over the city ball on
the anniversary of Ireland’s patron
saint.
Some people ask why the flag of Ire-
land should be given privilege in thi
country that is accorded to the flag of
no other nation, and there is a plausi.
bility ons the surface of the question.
But there are points that may be ad-
vanced in support of this favor to ‘the
Irish emblem. That banner is really
not the flag of a nation, but of a peo-
ple ; representing rather a sentiment
than a nationality, and therefore it
cannot be considered nationally as a
rival of the glorious Stars and Strips.
The fact that the nation it should
represent has been suppressed by the
only enemy that the United States has
amoog the various nationalities of the
world—an enemy that also tried to
suppress the national aspirations of
this free country, should strongly in-
cline Americans to grant the Irish flag
a special right to float in the tree air of
this great republic at all times and in
all places, with the full assurance that
it waves as a friend and not as an en-
emy. .
Farther more, of all other flags it
was the only one which, in conjuncticn
with the Stars and Stripes, waved over
American soldiers fighting in defense
of the union. There was notan Irish
regiment or brigade in the uvion army
that did not bave the green flag of Ire
land waving in friendly association with
the banner of the republic under which
so ma ny sons of Erin laid down their
lives.
Surely a flag that did such service,
and was gladly hailed as an ally of
our national emblem on many a hard
fought field, should be given privileges
in this land of the free, which it would
be out of place to give to the flag of
any other country.
Demoralizing Delay.
A number of appointments are still
pending which it would be beneficial
to the domivant party if they were
promptly disposed of. Nothing so
greatly tends to the creation of dissatis-
taction as delay in the filling ot posi’
tions that belong to a victorious party’
and which are rightfully claimed by
its members. The continued occu-
pancy ofsuch places by those whom the
people declared to be unworty of public
confidence, is not only contrary to pop-
ular sentiment as expressed at the polls
but aggravating to those who are de-
layed in getting'the positions that be-
long to them by right of political suc-
cession.
This delay, however, is largely due
to a want of harmonious understanding
among the claimants, and many val
uable and important posts continue to
be occupied by members of the defeat-
ed party simply because those to whom
the appointing power has entrusted
their disposal according to party usage,
cannot come to an agreement as to
whom they should be given to. This
in most cases is the cause of delay
that is not only injurious in its effect
upon the party by causing dissatisfac”
tion and dissension, but also subjects
the appointing power to unjust een-
sure.
A year has ncw passed since a Dem-
ocratic administration came into power
and no further time should be allowed
to elapse with any of the Federal
officers, not covered by obstructive
civil service rules, remaining in the
occupaney of Republicans. The party
in power will be made more harmon-
ious and stronger by such a clearance.
Hon. BensaMin L. Hewitt, a
distinguished Blair countian, died at the
Bingham house, in Philadelphia, at
three o'clock last Saturday morning.
He had been ill but a short time with
paralysis. It is such men, who have
brought honor and distinction to a
community who are truly mourned
when they are called from the triumphs
of this life into the glory of that lite to
come.
NO. 11.
Heroes Among Our Laborers.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The courage and devotion which
kept a band of rescuers at work in the
Gaylord shaft for nearly a month in
hourly peril of life and limb was re-
warded at last by the discovery of
only the deconiposed bodies of the buri-
ed comrades whose lives they hoped to
save. Futile as the labor proved, it
was of the kind that must always com-
mand the respect and admiration of
mankind. The days of heroism have
not entirely passed away, and it is one
of the commendable features of modern
heroism that it is displayed wore fre
quently among the lowly toilers than
elsewhere. The men who worked day
and night to rescue the imprisoned
miners alive from the Gaylord shaft
deserved to succeed, and it was cer
tainly no fault of theirs that they did
not. Now that the bodies of the en-
tombed victims have been reached
there should be a searching investiga-
tion into the cause of the accident, and
the negligence, or worse, which cost
thirteen lives, should be laid at the
proper door.
Nothing Will Stop Them, It Seems.
From the Altoona Tribune.
European emigration to the United
States continues, almost unaffected. it
seems, by the hard times prevailing in
this country. This can best be account-
ed for by the supposition that the condi-
tions in Europe are still worse than
they are here, which is probably the
case. The influx of human beings to
America is, therefore, merely the work-
ing out of natural laws, which prompt
individuals to go where, in their opinion,
they can best serve their interests.
The immigration at such a time as this,
when thousands of American citizens
are out of employment and thousands
of others are engaged at relief works,
can give us some idea of the evils from
which Europeans must suffer when
they are willing to leavg their native
lands and take up their residence in a
country which 1s undergoing the most
severe business depression in its history.
Yet the statistics show that they are
coming, by thousands, the same asin
recent years of prosperity.
More Than Half of the Cry Was
Very Kind.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Denver is preparing for a monster
Fourth of July celebration. Six months
ago that city, as well as the entire State
of Culorado, attempted to convince the
country thatit was on the brink of
chaos, only waiting to be pushed over.
In the light of more racent develop-
ments this action was clearly a case of
crying before they were burt, It takes
a wonderfully strong combination : of
circumstances to overcome the pluck
and determination of any great com-
munity of American citizens.
of This
And They Have No Protection Organs
to Howl.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Toronto manufacturers express the ap-
prehension that the effect of the reci-
procity in agricultural implements pro-
vided for by the Waison bill will be to
close all the Canadian factories in that
line. Such a prospect should change
the implacable attitude of the protec-
tionists towards the bill to one of enthu-
siustic approval, in accordance with
their pet theory that the true and only
get-rich-quick specific for this country
consists in driving all other nations into
a state of dire penury.
Better Than Nothing —Pass It.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Go on.—The Wilson tariff bill is
now fully before the Senate, as agreed
to in the Senate committee. The
measure partakes of too much protec-
tion, but in detail it puts the tax in
most cases on the proper articles, in
shape of a reduction on necessaries and
puts the tax on luxuries, and we hope
it will pass soon. Amendments can
be made in the future.
Pulpit Gymnastics Will Continue.
From the Wilkesbarre Union Leader,
The Brooklyn Tabernacle finaces are
said to bave been straightened out and
Dr. Talmage has been induced to change
his mind with respect to-his determina-
tion to resign. At this happy termina
tion of the Tabernacle’s affairs the
congregation has just cause for rejoicing
and the whole world will rejoice with
them.
\She Will “Do” Them Good, Anyhow.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Mrs. Lease has got as far east as Bos-
ton, where she has been addressing
the unemployed. These unfortunates
could not put their time to worse use
than to listen to this unrestrained voice
from the wild west. For unless they
bave extraordinary wisdom she will do
them harm.
He May Resign.
The Harrisburg Patriot of Tuesday
morning says the Adjutant General
Greenland will shortly tender his resig-
nation to accept the chief deputyship to
John R. Read, collector for the Phila-
delphia port. In that event Colonel
Alex. Krumbhaar, of Philadelphia,
assistant adjutant general will be ap-
pointed his successor.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Larst year Allegheny County made 247,000,
020 cigars. :
—There are 220 applicants for liquor licenses
in Lehigh County.
—Harrisburg will have no increase in its
police force this year.
—A great many small dwellings are {o be
built in Pottsville this year.
—An analysis of Reading’s water supply
shows it to be miserably impure.
—A Commission recommends that Marcus
Hook be divided into three wards.
—James Anwyll, a Harrisburg tailor, was
drowned in the river at that place.
—Annie Alexander, of New Castle, was Fri-
day convicted on five charges of larceny.
—Nine mules were suffocated by smoke in
William Penn colliery, near Lost Creek.
—Miss Mary Lingo is in the law’s clutch at
Pittsburg for opening her lover's letters.
—Over three-fourths of Pottsvilles public
school children have refused to be vaccinated.
—James R. Scull, a brave lad, saved the life
of a baby in front of a flying train at Reading.
—At Pomeroy. Chester County, robbers burn-
ed down the store of P. J. Dowd, after looting
it.
—Stella, the 4-year-old daughter of George
Schultz, was killed by an electric car in Read-
ing.
—Editor Hiram B. Schock will retire from
the York Gazeite and practice law at Harris.
burg.
—Allan Fable, a Stroudsburg merchant, ex-
changed shots with a thief who visited his.
store.
—The ore in the nickel mines in Lancaster
County is exhausted, and they will be aban-
doned.
—Andrew Carnegie, after giving $141,000 to
the Pittsburg relief fund, has stopped his con-
tributions.
—Dragged under the wheels of a car at
Scranton, Brakeman Patrick Reilly was cut
to pieces.
—Robbers at Annville forced George Miller
to hold up his hands while they stole his
watch and cash.
—Four of the 12 coal train crewsof the Penu-
sylvania Railroad's Schuykill division have
been suspended.
—Editor 8. W. Boyd and J. H. Orr had a
second battleon the street at Wilkesbarre
Sunday evening,
—A survivor of the Jeansville disaster,
known as “Big Joe,” has sued the company
for $25,000 damage.
—Yorik’s postmaster is about to approve the
plans for the interior of that city’s new Gov-
ernment building.
—The late General William Lilly's estate
paid the State Treasury a collateral inheri-
“tance tax of $49,000.
—Brakeman George Lowry, of Catasauqua,
was ground to pieces under a Lehigh Valley
train Monday night.
—Danville physicians are unable to decide
whether the prevailing disease there is small
pox or chickenpox.
—Wiile attending the Philadelphia Methoa
dist Conference, at Easton, William Bush was
robbed of his watch.
—Gravity Club, at Reading, was raided by
police on the suspicion that stolen chickens
found their way thore. 5
—Struck on the head with a steel rail ina
Scranton iron works, Michael Coleman is dy.
ing of a fractured skull.
—The breaking of an oar resulted in the
drowning of Harry Rhine,a boy, at William-
son, Cumterland County.
—Contractors {rom the State were in Harris-
barg Monday fi.uring upon bids for the new
Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home.
—The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
State tax case was Monday decided finally, in
favor of the Commonwealth.
—It is thought the nun school teachers im
Pittsburg will discard their official garb if al”
lowed to retain their positions.
~The 209 horses belonging to Barnum's
show and wintered at Myerstown, have beem
shipped to Bridgeport. Conn.
—Farmers of Monroe County who have been
gunning for the man who shot Jackson Val
lershamp have given up the hunt.
—Blasts of gun powder, used in exeavating
broke 37 water pipes, already laid, in Lebanon,
and it cost the contractors $150.
—S8epator William E. Chandler, ot New
Hampshire, Monday watched armor plate mak
ing at the Bethlehem Iron Works.
~—Thomas E. Heather, Del., went to Reading
with a policeman and took home his wife, whe
has been absent several months.
—Personal property taxes to the amount ef
$106,000 were paid to the State by City Treas.
urer McCreary of Philadelphia, Tuesday.
—Accused of illegal fishing at Harrisburg,
James Dougreck has been arrested at the di.
rection of State Fish Commissioner Ebel.
—The Attorney General's Department has
notified a large number of Philadelphia firms
to pay their bonus tax without further delay.
—Mine cars at Ashland squeezed Andrew
Daniels fatally, and a fall of coal at Elmwood
colliery dangerously hurt George Hughes.
—The body of Calvin Budding was found in
a path leading to his lime kiln, at Wrights-
ville, York County. He was overcome by gas
—Contractor H. H. DeLong, of Reading,
whose son has been arrested for forgery in
Lancaster says the boy was ruined by fast liv®
ing.
—The fugitive Calvin Gottschall, who recent
ly leaped from a train going from Reading te
Allentown, has been rearrested as Middle
town.
—Saturday W. H. Grime, of Sinking Spring,
Berks County, closed his nineteenth year as
mail earrier, and has never missed a train in
all that time.
—Attorney General Hensel has informed the
District Attorney of Washington County~ that
the latter has no authority to regulate theatri-
cal licenses.
—After writing a letter saying that he would
kill himself, Tax Collector Paul Reinhardt, of
8t. Clair, Allegheny County, disappeared and
is still missing.
—Blacksmith Henry Eisenbise, aged 77, has
bzen employed 50 years in the Reading Rail.
road shops at Reading, and celebrated the oec-
casion yesterday.
—A large party of Muncy citizens Saturday
searched the fields, woods and streams for the
body of Isaac Houseknecht, who disappear-
ed several months ago.
— Exceptions to his opinion on the York
street railway case, of Philadelphia, weve Mon-
day overruled by Judge Simonton, at Harris-
burg, and the Philadelphia Trastion Company
is a winner.