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Deworralic futon
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Who might Coxky’s “unknown”
be ?
—How is the Delaware peach crop
since the blizzard ?
—The Bellefonte Board of; Trade
should induce the CoxEY army to come
this way.
— Last week we wondered why the
returns from the Delaware peach belt
were 80 slow coming in. They are
here.
—CoxEyY ought to get Congressman
BRECKENRIDGE into his army yet and
then he would have aboutall the bad
ones in the country gathered up.
—The Hon. SiLicA Coxey and his
army of common-wealers will have it in
for Secretary MorTON for sending that
snow the first day they marched off.
—The criminal knows two days of
judgment. The first one, to the man
who has not lost all conscience, usually
is a wonderful preparation for the sec-
ond.
—There is always one source of satis-
faction attending the blowing upof a
dynamite mill. There is rarely any one
lett to blame the catastrophe on some
one else.
—Lent is over and of course we will
expect all those fellows who are in ar-
rears to gather in “that little money I
expect to get in a few days’ and pay up
their subscription.
—They call the CoxEY army an ‘“‘in-
dustrial” army. luis a mis-nomer sure.
We'll wager that nine-tenths of its
members have never done any harder
work than they are at now.
—1It augurs well for posterity that the
time when the crimes of the libertine
were slyly winked at is giving way to
a time when they are given the prompt
punishment they so richly merit.
—It is a credit to the Presbyterian
church of Kentucky that it denies hav-
ing bad a member named W. C. P.
BRECKENRIDGE, though nothing be-
trays the hypocrite until his sin finds
him out,
—The Coxey commonweal army
moved off on Sunday, seventy-five
strong, but notwithstanding the binding
suneion of a bread and cheese diet a
third of them deserted before they got
eight miles distant from home.
—1It is said that FRED GEBHARD, the
New York swell and club- man, has pre-
sented his bride with a silver bath tub
that cost that five thousand dullars. We
have heard of people wallowing in gold,
but this is the first time we bave ever
known of them doing it in silver.
—Count ToLsToI, the Russian reform-
er and philanthropist has declared that
Americans are the best people in the
world, least far gone in wickedness. The
Ccunt 18 doubtless very level headed in
this“matter, but there is, nevertheless,
plenty of room for improvement here
yet.
—Senator VOORHEES is to call the
tariff bill up in the Senate on next
Monday and bas promised to make the
start off speech very short. If all the
rest only follow his example it will go
through a sailing and Democracy will
have kept the pledge that put it in
puwer.
—Congressman BELTZHOOVER now
admits that be would like to have
thrown a few more stones ‘‘at the free
trade idol,” but fears of a mobbing kept
him from it. Iivisa pity he did not
awaken to the fear of being called a
Judas before he betrayed the district
that sent him to Washington.
—Some Republican papers are mak
ing a great fuss over a tabulated esti-
mate of the per capita expenditures of
the government. They show tbat the
year 1893 cost $5 78 for every inhabitant
of the country, which is a large increase
over the expenditures of any former
year except those during the war.
There are two points forgotten by them
in their drivel which will possibly prove
to be in the nature of boomerangs.
They forgot that in the year 1298 many
of the obligations of their billion dollar
Congress were paid off, and that their
fraudulent pensioners ran the govern-
mental expenses up to enormous propor-
tions.
—People who have nothing more prof-
itable to engage their time than unchar-
itable talk about their neighbors soon
find out that honorable persons learn to
despise them as the lowest and most des-
picable types of the human kind. Itis
strange that there are some, among
vs, who are ever on the alert to have
their ears tickled with some tresh mor-
sel of scandal, when they know such
gossiping is degrading and a menace to
public morals. If the truth were told,
the barm would not be so great, but
every lip that utters it must embellish it
with some new significance, until at last
it assumes the proportions of the grossest i
injustice.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 30. 1894.
NO. 138.
Mob Influence at Washington.
Coxky's crusade may be considered
a legitimate offspring of the Republi
can calamity bowl. The movement
of cranks and tramps which the Ohio
fanatic proposes to lead on to Wash-
ington to influence the act of Con
gress, has been inspired by the belief
propagated among an impressible
element by Republican organs and
speakers, that legislation pending in
that body is intended to destroy the
industrial prosperity of the country,
rendering it necessary for the people
to rise up in protest against it.
Ever since the party now in power,
to which ‘the people have entrusted
the management of the government,
evinced its determination to reform
the tariff, which is really the cause of
the present busiuess distress, the sup-
porters of the McKINLEY abuses have
resorted to every possible agency and
influence to inflame the public mind
against the proposed reform. The
distress that is the natural consequence
ot Republican financial and economic
meagures is ingeniously and, to igno-
rant minds plausibly, represented as
being the result of proposed Demo-
cratic tariff reform, a false presentation
of the cause of the ‘“‘calamity’” which
has been made a means of misleading
and disturbing the public mind, and has
done its share in inspiring such move-
ments as the one led by Coxsy.
Whatever public disturbance may
result from this crazy crusade, it will
be chargeable to those who, by their
falsification as to the cause of the pres-
ent business depression, have incited
these misguided people to muster in
torce in Washington tor the purpose of
interfering with congressional legisla-
tion. But even more reprehensible
than this fanatical design to influence
Cungress by a menacing demonstration
of cranks and bummers is the proyo-ed |
meeting of the Protecive Tart
League to the number ot 10.000 in the
natioual capitol on the 6h ot “Aprily]
with the object of affecting thé action
of the Senate adversely to the Wit-oN
tariff bill,
Such an‘assemblage will be nothing
more nor less than an attempt to in-
timidate Congress by a numerical dis-
play ot tariff supporters. It will io.
augarate an influence upon national
legislation that is foreign to the origi.
nal and legitimate design of represen-
tative government, which intended
that the law-making power shall de-
rive its authorities and receive its in-
structions from the people through the
medium of the ballot, The decision
of the people at the polls on the tariff
question is to be reversed by the in.
timnidating attitude of a MoKinNLey
m)Hb, gathered at the national capitol
as a convention, but intended to over:
awe the action of Congress on a subject
on which the majority of that body has
received the instruction of those who
elected them.
This is a revolutionary movement
that endangers the fundamental prin-
ciples of representative government, If
sach methods are to prevail we might
as well discontinue the election of rep-
resentatives and hand the legislative
power over to mobs that may get to-
gether in Washington to make our
laws. Both the Coxey movement and
the Protective Taritf League conven:
tion typify the desperate purpose of
those whq are inciting such irregular-
ities for the maintenance of tariff
abuses.
Able-bodied Pensioners.
The discovery that there are athletes
and fox-hunters on the pension rolls,
their claim being allowed on the
ground of physical disability, is some-
thing of a burlesque on the gratitude
of the country toward those who were
disabled in her military service.
The New York Zimes, on its own
account, but for the public interest,
has instituted an investigation of the
claims of a number of pensioners, and
the discoveries it has made furnish
evidence of the loose manner in which
pensions are allowed to persons alledged
to be disabled, but who have no
claim to such gratuities on the ground
of disability. Among these recipients
of the government's bounty are men
noted for their athletic capabili.
ties, and the rolls are found to contain
persons who, although they are draw.
ing, pensions for disablement in the
war, are able to undergo the exertion
of fox-hunting,
When it is considered upon what
principle the pension system has been
conducted, and the object for which
some of the pension acts were intended.
it is not difficult to see how athletes
and fox-hunters become enrolled as
disabled veterans entitled to the grati-
tude and assistance of their country.
The pension laws have been intended,
in a large measure to serve as political
drag-nets for the Republican party, and
to make business for pension agents
whose profit from such laws would
make them zealous workers for the
party that enacted then. With such
interests involved it is not eurprising
that an investigation of the pension rolls
tarnishes some astounding develop-
ments.
Weak-Kneed Tariff Reformers.
The manner in which the Democrats
of York county have dropped Con-
gressman BELTZHOOVER is no doubt in-
tended as a reproof for the weakness
he showed on the question of tariff re-
form as presented in the bill now pend-
ing in Congress. At a time when a
united front on the part of the Demo,
cratic members of that body was need.
ed to expedite the passage of this most
important party measure, there were
indications of disaflection in Mr.
BELTZHOOVER's position on that ques-
tion, which occasioned consideratle
doubt as to his giving the WiLsox bill
vote would be adversely recorded. It
but whatever may have been the mo-
tive tor his hesitation in the perform-
ance of that duty, it was far from being
satisfactory to his Democratic constit-
uents in York county, who at their re-
cent convention showed their diepleas-
ure by declining to renominate him,
practically putting him ont of the field
by the passage of a recolution conced-
ing to Adanis county the next nowioa-
tion trom their Congressional district,
There can be no higher test of the
Democratic quality ot Congressmen or
.ty’s pledge of tariff reform, and after
the question ehall he settled there is
bound to be a reckoning with those
| who faltered in their support of the
Wieson bill, This will apply as rigid-
lv to Senators as to members of ‘the
lower House.
Injurious to Public Morals.
The New York Sun following the
line of its accustomed ethical obliquity, |
expresses the remarkable opinion that
the BRECKINRIDGE-POLLARD case fur-
nishes a moral lesson of extraordinary
value to the public. .In what the
value consists is difficult to be seen by
, those who are capable of understand-
ing the vicious effect of such a case
upon an impressible element that exists
too largely in every community.
All such cases are demoralizing, and
doubly so when their immoral details
are carried into every household by
the newspapers, and are as eagerly
read and as freely discussed by the
young as by the people of more mature
age.
The harm done to the moral senti
ment of the country by familiarizing it
with the indecent incidents of such a
case as the one in question is inc alcu.
lable, and it is lamentable that the press
is the medicine through which this in:
jury is inflicted. The charge that the
press is licentious is indignantly repell-
ed by American journalism, but there
is no denying the licentiousness ot the
journalistic enterprise that places in
the hands of young and old the minut
est details of one of the most immoral
cages that was ever brought before a
court of justice.
It is not surprising that a paper like
the New York Sun should regard this
case a8 furnishing a valuable moral
lesson ; but those who have a proper
conception of morality deplore its in.
jurious effect.
. rr ———
——If the Democrats who profess
to represent the Democracy of the
land in the Senate would only stand
up to the Witson bill like men we
would all have cause for rejoicing,
——GROVER is said to be sick, but
he has’nt the g'out bad enough yet
to suit Democrats who are waiting to
succeed Republican office-holders.
his support, and encouraged the ene, |
mies of tariff reform to expect that his |
is true that he finally voted for the bill, :
Senators than their fidelity to the par-’
Imbecile Treatment of the Tariff Bili.
Nothing could be more exasperating
to earnest Democrats at this stage ot
Senatorial courtesy which seems to re:
quire that action upon a Democratic
tariff bill should await the pleasure of
its Republican opponents, and their
coosent be had before it can be report-
ed by the committee that has it in
charge. Ifanything was ever calcula-
ted to arouse Democratic indignation
it was the harrassing delay in report-
ing the bill to the Senate out of consid:
eration for the minority whose only in-
terest in the measure is to kill it
During the protracted action of the
committee it was repeatedly an-
nounced, to the great disgust ot every
true Democrat, that time was being
given the Republicans for the formula.
tion of their objections, and that such
consideration for a minority that want.
ed the bill to tail was keeping it from
being reported to the Senate.
This is not the way to conduct
Democratic legislation. The enemies
enough in its way without being aided
by courteous imbecility on the part of
Democratic Senators.
The preparation of the WiLson bill
wae commenced more than six months
| ago, daring the special session of Con-
| gress... There was ample time to have
| had it paseed, signed and in operation
| by the first ot April, and even before
| thatdate. If that had been done, every
| interest affected by the new tariff could
' have been adjusting itself to the change
' by this time, and the restoration of
business activity would now be in
progress. But it is the policy of the
Republicans to prolong the suspense.
It is water ou their political mill,
They want the tariff question to re-
main unsettled with the consequent
depression of business, for the effect it
will have on the next Copgressional
election, and it now remains to be seen
whatheg the Democrats of the Sevate
. will ‘be imbecile enough to conduct
their action on the tariff bill in a’ way
that will thus be conducive to the ad.
vantage of the Republican party.
It Democratic Senators are going to
be so courteously accommodating as to
allow the opponents of the WiLson bill
to consume all Summer in discussing
it; if they shall be so weak as to al
low its passage to be obstructed by dila-
tory tactics which, by keeping the ques-
tion in suspense, will continue the busi-
ness etagnation and aid the enemies of
tar:ff reform at the next election, they
will certainly be entitled tothe thauks of
the Republicans, but will subject them-
selves to the deserved condemuation of
the party which they will have thus
betrayed.
Extortionate Clerk Fees.
Republicanism is always ready to
discourage any effort that is intended
to prevent a waste or misappropriation
of the public money. This fact was
given an additional illustration in the
House ot Representatives some days
ago, when Congressman WOLVERTON,
ot this State, offered an amendment to
the sundry civil service bill that was
intended to limit the fees of United
States circuit and district court clerks,
which under the present regulations
are unreasonable .and extortionate.
The only limitation of such fees is the
extent to which these clerks may ven-
ture to go in making all the money
they can out of their opportunities.
Some of them have made as much as
$8,000 a year by manipulating the nat-
uralization of foreigners, and other
abuses equally flagrant are practiced.
That such practices urgently call for
correction cannot be questioned, but
when Mr. WoLverToN offered the
amendment to the sundry civil service
bill that would have furnished the
needed remedy, the objection of Tox
was sufficient to prevent its being at-
tached to the appropriation bill, and
thus suspended this desirable reform.
Reep is a prospective Republican
candidate for President and probably
expects a campaign contribution in his
behalf from these United States court
clerks in -whose interest he inteposed
hie objection. In Republican politics
one good turn of this kind deserves an-
other, and Uncle Sam “pays the
freight.”
——Read the WATCHMAN.
tariff legislation in Congress than the |
of tariff reform will throw obstacles
| beset him,
Rep, the great Republican champion,
Ferociously Pure.
The women of the National Chris-
tian League for the Promotion of So-
cial Purity should take into account the
perplexing duties that unavoidably be-
set Congress before they attempt to
impose an unusual duty upon that bo-
dy.
There can be no ‘question about
Colonel BRECKENRIDGE having behave
ed very badly, but in view of the fact
that Congress ie threatened by Cox-
EY’S raid, and will soon have to en-
counter a mob of Protective Tariff
Leaguers, assembled in Washington
with the object of intimidating the
national Legislature on the tariff ques-
tion, the Social Purity women should
not add to these congressional perplexi-
ties by trying to bulldoze the House of
Representatives into expelling Cou-
gressman BRECKINRIDGE on account of
his defective social purity. Instead of
‘their persisting in this intrusive pur
pose, it might not be out of place it it
should occur to these female purists
that the House of Representatives is
capable of judging the fitness of iis
members without being instructed on
that point by outsiders, and is likely to
regard their demand for the expulsion
of Colonel BRECKINRIDGE a8 an im perti-
nent interference.
It may be that these guardians of
social purity are perfect exemplars of
all the cardinal virtues, but they are
not to be commended for their intru-
sion upon the attention of Congress in
Representative BRECKINRIDGE's case;
and, furthermore, in what light is to
be viewed their meddlesome interfer
ence with his relations with his wite,
as- manifested on their calling: upon
her to discard him on account of the
sin he has committed ? ;
It has always been considered meri-
toricus on the part of a wite to stick to
her husband ia the hour ot trial, aud
the closer she stands by him when he
is in trouble the greater the wifely
merit accorded ber. But ‘the double
refined purity of these National Curis
tian Leaguers demands that the wite*
shall desert the husband when trials
Colonel BRECKINRIDGE has
been guilty of a great sin, but the
stones with which these Curistians are
pelting him are not what Carist would
have commended.
The Folly of a Coal Tariff,
When British Minister PAUNOEFOTR
is directed by his governmeut to fur-
nieh information concerning the avail
ability of American coal for English
use, in view of the diminishing sapply
of the English mines, there is some-
thing very ridiculous in the fear that
American coal interests will be injured
coal.
The United States, as the British
has coal resources that are practicaily
inexhaustible and of the very bess
quality, a circumstanee which it ap-
pears to be the intention of England to
take advantage of in supplying the
deficiency of her own wines, her mater-
ial prosperity being vitally dependent
upon an adequate supply of coal which
she is now compelled to look for
abroad since the resources of her car-
boniferous deposits are becoming ex-
hausted.
The McKINLEYITES who insists upon
a duty on coal, pretending to fear that
with coal on the free list she product
of the American mines will be swamp-
ed by the competition of those ot Nova
Scotia, are confronted by the fact that
it is not to her own Canadian province
that England intends to resort for the
coal with which she proposes to make
up her own deficiency. She looks to
the larger, better and more available
mineral deposits of the United States.
In view of this fact how utterly ab-
surd is the fear that coal imported into
this country free of duty from Nova
Scotia, or any other foreign source,
can affect 'our coal interest, and it
should dispel the apprehension of Sena-
tors from Maryland and Alabama
whose support of the WiLsoN tariff
bill is said to be dependent upon its
retaining a duty on imported coal.
A tariff on this fuel affords no pro-
tection to the American product, which
is rivalled in quantity, quality and
facility of production by the coal of no
other country. The only purpose such
a tarift can serve is to protect monopo-
listic combinations in controlling the
j output and price of an indispensable
' commodity.
by removing the duty on imported sole inscription was, “Died of Deliriam
Minister reports to his government, !
Christianity is Progressive ‘and Tri.
umphant,
Frcm the Altoona Times. 5
The festival of Easter was as joyous-
ly celebrated in 1894 as it ever was in
the past. Amid all the doubts and un-
certainties which ‘are thrown around
the doctrines of Christianity the faith
in the riven Saviour was never stronger
in the hearts of the Christian world.
Criticism bas not shaken the belief in
the doctrine that Christ, on the third
day after he was crucified, rose from
the dead. As an evidence of the undy-
ing vitality of Christianity, it is a re-
m.arkable proof that this great miracle
is accepted by the most enlightened
people on the earth to-day. Of all that
Christ wrought to prove his divinity
this waa the crowning testimony. He
showed that he had dominion over
death and the grave. He demonstra-
ted his ability to give eternal life to
his followers. He showed that the
grave does not end all. The true
Christian lives on that promise, and
that it is that makes their lite a happy
one, in epite of all worldly trials. The
proof of ‘the resurrection on Easter
morning is always before them and
they know thst every hour brin
them nearer to the glorious Torts
ty just beyond the grave. It is not
wonderful that the festival is celebra-
ted with rejoicing, for upon the cor-
rectness of the miracle that day
wrought rests the entire hope of a
Christian and all that makes life worth
living.
Keep Moving Right Along.
From the Punxsutawney Spirit.
The wisdom ot continuous hustling,
notwithstanding dull times, is illus-
trated by a fable. Two frogs fell into
a cream crock. Oueimmediately gave
up in despair and said :
“There’s no use in struggling. We
might as well realize at once that we
must die, snd pass in our checks grace-
fully,”
*You may do as you please,” replied
the other, “but for my part I shall
continue to jump as long as there is
life enough left in me, and perhaps
something will turn up.”
The faint-hearted froz was impress.
ed with the wisdom of this latter speech.
and aceordingly both frogs began vig-
orously to hop up and down and keep
up a constant commotion in the cream
crock. ;
The result was that the eream was
soon churned into butter, whereupon
both frogs got on top of the butter and
hopped out.
Moral: When you feel blue and
discouraged, and are inciined to think
that there is no use in wasting energy
when times. are dull, remember the twe
frogs that fell into the cream crock
and keep a jomnping.
Does This Sound Funny te You?
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Secretary Herbert gives a long ae-
count to the House of the Carnegie per-
for violauon of its contract for plates,
though the plates were up to the mini-
which was a statement be made: that ne
fellow . could undemsiand ; and maybe.
and the Carnegie company were trying
hard to keep the matter quiet. It makes
intendent Schwab is and bow good is
Prick, as Herbert sees them.
He Deserved Nothing Better.
From the York Gaze te.
committed suicide, his body was buried
by the roadside and. a stake was drivem
.dv.wn through it to mark the place.
This eustom was supposed to have
barisms of those times, but apparently
the idea back of it did not die. A mam
outin Topeka, Kansas, lately drank
himself to death. His widow erected a
monument to his memory on which the
| Tremens.” Verily some ideas possess
remarkable vitality.
The Root ot All Evil.
From the Altoona Fribune.
of England for the last forty years says
that the average life of a novel is nine
months. He thinks the existing pas-
‘sion for impure literature will grow for
some time and then suddenlv collapse.
A singular and unpleasant fact is that
these novels of passion are written by
women and chiefly read by women.
What Is Over Production?
From the Grand Forks, N. Dakota, News.
When a political wool-paller tells
you that there is over production in any
line, you are justified in quoting St.
Paul and saying that ‘he is a liar and
the truth is not in him.” There iz no
over ‘production, but there is a vast
smount of under consumption, owing to
the manipulations of thieves and liars in
economics and business.
Possibilities for 1896.
Frem the Columbia Independent.
The New York World has a story
coming from Asheville, N.C:, to the
effect that a movement is about to be
started which has for its object the nom-
ination of Vice President Stevenson
and Gov. Pattison for President and
Vice President on the Democratic ticket
in 1896. That will do, it tLe positions
‘on the ticket are reversed.
Sweet Friendship.
From the Chicago Herald.
E. Berry Wall, ex-king of the dudes,
is reported to have made $100,000 in su-
gar certificates within the last three
weeks. Mr. Wall must have close
friends in the Senate.
Hard to Satisfy.
From the Kansas City Journal
The public is hard to satisfy. It com-
plained that the Senate was doing noth-
ing, and now that it has found out what
the Senate has heen doing it complains
still louder.
they cannot understand it yet ; though
‘they do understand that the secretary
An Englishman who has had charge
of one ot the great circulating libraries
formance whereby the company was fined
mum requirements of the eontract;
one smile to see what a bad man Supes-
Formerly in England wher a man
been wholly swept away with other bar |
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