A Sli LSAT Xi . Beworaic Yala BY P. GRAY MEEK Ink Slings. —Monday’s snow ran the Spring poet into his hole. —If you have a good temper, hold it fast. There is nothing so hard to get and retain in this work a-day world. —Unless business picks up and the average papa finds his investments a lit- tle more profitable, the vestment of the summer girl will undoubtedly be a shade of blue. —The ground hog took his revenge on the fellows who discredited his sway over the elements. Revenge is just as sweet ina hole in the ground as it is any where else. —The fight for the Rapublican nomi- nation in this, the 49:h, judizial District promises to be a Lov ly affair. And there is a big move on foot to make Furst second in the race. —The Supreme Court has decided that lager beer is not a spirituous liquor and we will now have to look ups new word to displace drunk, as describing the fellow who has taken on too much beer. —The people of South Carolina will be glad to rid themselves of the whiskey espionage business, just as soon as they can. And Governor TILLMAN will more than likely go when the next house cleaning time comes around. —Old Prob’s printer must surely have made a mistake in getting out this season’s calendar for him. Nothing will induce us to believe that he did not run the April page in ahead of March and in that way got the weather for the two mixed up. —The government should discon- tinue the practice of supplying Con- gressmen with seeds for distribution amovg their constituents. Itis expen- sive and its object is perverted, for the seeds are nearly always used for electioneering purposes. —The Coxky army was snowed up at Uniontown, on Wednesday, and the “hobos” threatened to strike. Secretary MorTON and his weather bureau men will doubtless have to seek police protection if the ¢Commonwealers” ever get to Washington. — Washington wants cheap gas. If guch is the case they should have at- tached a receiver to HILL when he made his speech on Monday. That was ‘cheap enough for everyone, except DA- vib B. himself, as it will cost him every mite of esteem the public ever entertain- ed for him. — Philadelphians arose in righteous indignation because the councils of that city were supposed to be attempting to dispose of the public gas plant to private parties. Taere was no need of kicking. So long as Philad»lphia maintains her present council she will have all the cheap gas she needs, even if the orig- inal plant issold to speculators. —JoaN WANAMAKER is exciting the curiosity of Qiak:r city residents by enormous rezl estate purchases. They can’t imagine where he gets ali his money, unless he has sold his big store, as a late rumor has it. JOHN knows where to get all the money he needs. He kas proven this fact already. The old Keystone bank officials can bear testimony to this statement. —The Democratic platform of 1892 was mostly built of one prominent plank —“Tariff Reform.” —In the cam- paign that was made on that platform Davip HiLw, the U. S. Senator from New York, was induced to make a number of speeches. Ia nearly every one of them he found occasion to say, “I am a Democrat!” On Monday this same Davip HILL, in debate on the ‘WiLson bill in the Senate, opposed its most Damceratic features and tried to enlist opposition to it. The WiLsoN bill is the embodiment of that platform of '92. Is Davip B, HiLL a Demo- erat ? —-It is generally conceded what when a District comes to elect a president Judge the contest should notin any way be affected by politics. ‘The judicary should be beyond reproach’ and must, therefore, be free from political intrigue. In this District such has not been the case, however, for the Repub- licans have, and intend to fight the question out on perty lines, and of course the Democrats intend meeting them with a strong party front. The Qentre Democrat surprised everyone, yesterday morning, by coming out with a double column portrait and a triple column sketch of Joun G. Love, who has announced as a candidate for the “Republican” nomination for Judge. Whether the Democrat is determined to become a moral reformer and carry the question above polivics and support Mr. Love, on his merits (?) or whether it has become a Republican paper al- together, hasbeen a question in the minds of many who wonder at its boosting Republican candidates. If it waits a little while there will be a Democratic candidate whom it can sup- port, if it cares to. ple, an Ad CNEL TO Y: STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 39. BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 13, 1894. NO. 15. No Attention Should Be Given Them , It strikes us that Senator McPrER- 80N, of New Jersey, is giving more at- teation te the high tariff supporters in that State than there is any occasion for. An association alleged to be com- posed of workingmen, whose wages are represented as being involved in the questions, are urging him to oppose the Democratic tariff bill in the inter- ests of labor, as they put it. The Senator wastes time in replying to them, or it a reply is necessary, it should be to the eftect that the Demo- cratic object is to secure a general benefit by its tariff legislation, and has no concern for special interests. It has been the custom of a Republi can Congress to listen to the demands of those who look to tariffs for the boosting of their business, at the ex- pense of the great mass, that are not benefited by protection ; but it is cer- tainly out of vlace to ask for such pre- ferences from D2mocratic Representat:- ves who havebeen instructed to legislate for the many and not for the few. Itis doubtful if the alleged wage- earners, who are pestering Senator McPaErson on this subject, represent- ing that McKINLEY tariff taxation is necessary for the maintenance of their wages, properly present the in- dustrial situation in their State. Wages evidently have not been main- tained in New Jersey under the MoKiviey tariff. Hardly had the measure been passed until the Tren- ton pottery manufacturers reduced the wages of their workmen, caus- ing a strike, although the tariff duty was greatly increased in their favor. Itwas a conspicuous illustra- tion of the greed of those who are es- pecially getting the McKiNLey bene- fits, The sime disposition to reduce wages was shown in other Jersey in- dustries, favored with increased daties by that bill. This hardly substan- tiates the claim of New Jersey work- men that they must have a hizh tariff for their wage interests. But whether it does or does not, it is not the business of the Democratic party to keep up the wages of special- ly favored industries. This is done only at the expense of others, and the industrial avocations that do not come under the head of protected industries, and derive no benefit from tariff duties, are far more numerous than those that do. The latter have been spoiled by favors granted at the expense ot the majority of working people to whom high tariffs are not a protection, but an oppression. Toose who have thas been favored have been taught to re- gard this as a right, and have become domineering and insolent in their de- mands that the tariff shall be let alone whenever an attempt is made to cor- rect its abuses. : The Democratic party is convinced that the Republican tariff laws are in- jurious in their general effects. It bas no other duty in the case than to act upon that conviction and change those laws by reducing their excesses. It is pledged to do this. The peo- when they put it in power, commanded it to carry out its pledge ; and as under such circumstances it is a piece of intrusive impudence for the beneficiaries of those laws to put in their protest against tariff reform, no attention should be paid them. Such should have been the tenor of Senator McPrER SON'S answer to the New Jer- sey McKiNLEYITES who have asked him to opoose the WiLsoN tariff bill, if he thought 1t necessary to answer them at all. ——There is always a vast differ- ence between figuree and mere talk, so we take thisopportunity to remind the old soldiers of the following: During sixteen years supremacy in Congress the Democratic party has voted $1,000,- 000,000 for pensions as against $670, 000,000 voted by the Republican party, for the same purposes, during its eighteen years domination in Congress. As all appropriation bills must origi- nate in the lower house of Congress it will easily be seen which party is the better friend of the veterans. ——1It seems really too bad that the Love faction of the Republican party has been able to buy up all the papers in this county that have no particular party affiliation, Judge Furst is sup- posed to be hustling for renomination, but the Magnet and several of the Philipsburg papers are throwing mud for all they are worth. Rampant Disorder. The lawless disorder so alarmingly on the increase in this country is manifesting itselt in various forms. That this is the fact is evidenced by news in the daily papers which, in the issue of a single day, within the past two weeks, announced a bloody out- break against executive authority in South Carolina, a murderous demon- stration of strikers in the Pennsylva- nia coke regions, an election riot in Kansas City, which resulted in the killing and wounding of a number of participants, and a fight at a ward election in Chicago in which blood was spilled and an extensive riot was with difficulty prevented. This was a bad day’s showing of the lawless spirit that seems to be} ram- pant in the land. These occurrences can be traced to influences which con- spire to bring about such a deplorable condition of affairs. The disorder in South Carolina is the result of the attempt of an indis- creet Governor to enforce foolish legis- lation by arbitrary means. A more orderly disposition on the part of the people would have awaited the repeal of the obnoxious laws, a remedy that is always within reach of the people through the ballot-box, and itis the only remedy that can be applied to such wrongs without resorting to dis- orderly procedure. Itshowsa demor- alized condition of ‘public sentiment when there 18 forcible resistance to bad administration which may be correct- ed by the constitutional means atford- ed by the ballot. The riotous proceedings in the coke regions are to he attributed to the pres. euce of an ignorant and debased tor- eign laboring element, which the pro- prietors of thosz works have introduc- ed for the advantage derived from the cheaper labor which such a class of workmen are intended to furnish. This element is a constant source of disturbance, and the lawlessness springing from it is chargeable to an luterest which although it has been favored by tariff protection, seeks to | enlarge its profis by employing a brutalized class of cheap toreizn labor- ers, The bloody election riot in Kansas City was the result of the interference of a prescriptive secret order that is bringing religion into politics. scenes must be expected whea the new form of Know Nothingism, designated by the initials A. P. A., assumes to prescribe citizzas on acconnt of their religion. Tue disturbance at the Caicago election was the natural re- sult of the prevalence of the worst in- fluences in the government ot our cities. With all these agencies tending in the direction of lawlessness there is little reason to be surprised at the dis- orderly demonstrationsin all parts of the country. ——— An Injury to Public Morals. Major Burr<rwortH, the leading counsel for the detencein the PoLLARD- BRECKENRIDGE case,scarcely exaggera- ted when he remarked 10 an interviewer that the suit, morally considered, “has been the most unfortunate thing that has happened in this country.” There is, indeed, no calculating the moral injury it has done. No esti- mate can be made of the extent to which it has poisoned the public, mind, particularly the young and susceptible by familiarizing them with the im- morality evolved from the impure details of the trial, which a too eager press has carried into every house- hold. Society has been made to sustain this injury in order that an impure woman might have her revenge on an impure man, The law entitled her to this right by giving her access to the courts, but she has exercised it to the detriment of public. morals. In according so vicious a plaintiff the right to invoke the law against a de- fendant no more vicious than herself, the public mind unfortunately must be polluted by the foul developments of such a case. In view of the mutual impurity which both of these parties are guilty of, Justice might well hesi- tate as to how it should apportion the punishmeant, but there can be no ques- tion as to the pollution which the moral sense of the community has sustained in consequence of this trial. .Such | Congressional Absenteeism. Charges can be brought against Con- gress for much that ie discreditable, but of all faults absenteeism is most to its discredit. It not only shows a culpable indifference to public duty, but it results in substantial injury to the highest public interests. Daring the present session the busi- ness of the House has been suspended for days in succession for the reason that the absence of members had re: duced the attendance to less than the number required for business. This was the cause of the delay in passing the Seigniorage bill, and it blocked the action of the House in determining re- cent contested election cases. In one instance the vote developed the fact that there were fifty Democratic absen- tees, although it was an occasion when a matter of importance to the Democratic cause was before the House. Instead of being on hand to attend to the duty which their constit- ueats had assigned to them, most of these derelicts could have been found in the District court listening to the dirty details of the PoLLARD-BRECKENRIDGE trial. The people have been very patient —entirely too patient—with this form of congressional dereliction. They have not taken a sufficiently distinct view of the harm it is doing to public interests and of the gradual, but sure prostration of the legislative function of Congress that must attend such io- difference to duty onthe part of its members. Coostitueats have accus- tomed themselves, without remon- strance, to having their Representa- tives absent from their official posts, in pursuit of their private business or personal pleasure, the result being that such absentees think that they are doing an entirely permissible thing, although they are drawing high sal- aries for the supposed performance of duties which they habitually neglect. Representatives who are thus at fault naturally regard it as something with which their constituencies are not con- cerning themselves, as no disapproba- tion has been seriously expressed. Itis time that something emphatic this congressional abuse. should be a demand, entorced by a Nota Democratic House Dog. From the Philadelphia Record. Senator Hill's bark is worse than his bite. He sneers at the Hawaiian policy of the Administration, finds fault with the delay in calling Congress together, and makes much of every blemish or de- fault he - can discover in executive procedure ; but he does not oppose the tanff with virulence in any detail of the bill under considera- tion except the income tax. He issharp enough to see that this is the weak spot in the Wilson bill. The amendment proposed by the Senate Finance Com- mittee, if adopted, would make the revenue to be derived from an income tax excessive and unnecessary ; and Mr. Hill does not in the least impair his standing in party nor the breadth of his statesmanship by his denunciation of this odious form of taxation. It is obvious that while Senator Hill is willing to embarrass the action of the Senate in formulating a revenue meas- ure, he is not prepared to go to the ex- tent of preventing Tariff Reform. He admits the vital necessity of redeeming the pledge of the party, and, to quote his own words, that *‘the failure of tar- iff revision at this time meuns the de- feat, the demoralization, if not the divis- ion and annibilation, of our party.” Holding such views, Senator Hill is not likely to make himselt responsible for the consequences of failure. Vicissitudes for Commonwealers. From the Doylestown Democrat. The suggestions of the Democrat, that Coxey’s army of vagabonds might cause trouble, and that preparations should be made to receive them, is being taken. The police authorities at Wash- ington on the arrival of the Common- ‘wenlers will be ready to enforce the stringent vagrant laws of the District, and, if necessary, the militia will be called upon to assist the police. The precautions taken are very ‘wise. The vanguard of these unwelcome visitors reached the National cupital on Satur- day, some 40 strong, coming from Texas. They were immediately ar- rested and placed in the lock-up, and will be brought before the Police Court. It is said they will have friends to de- fend them, and even a member of Con- gress will champion their cause. All veterans are to be armed, and will be called out if there is necessity for it. Cozxey’s mob will not beallowed to have free run of Washington. The contingent coming from California has been halted at Ogden, Utah, by the Governor, and will be sent back unless the railroad will agree to take them East out of the Ter ritory. What's to be done in the mat- ter has not been determined. The An- - archistic features of the Coxey move be heard from the people in regard to | There | popular determination that cannot be | misunderstood and will not be disobey- ‘el, that the pay of a Congressman shail be regulated by the time he shall | be present at his post of duty. The | offense of congressional absenteeism | can be prevented only by docking the delinquent for his absence . Where the Blame Will Be Pat. Republican obstruction of tariff i legislation is having its natural effect, as shown by the result of elections all over the country. The people are dis- satisfied with congressional delay, for which the majority in Congress is held responsible. The Democrats are being beaten at all points, and itis the pur- pose of the enemies of tariff reform to prolong this popular dissatisfaction, and have it continue as near ‘up to the time of the next congressional elections as delay in passing the WiLsoN tariff bill can bring it. : A Democratic contemporary indal ges the delusive belief that their per- sistent obstruction of the tariff bill will react against the Republicans; that the people will rise up in indigoation against those who thus protract the business prostration for a partisan purpose. But this expectation is not likely to materialize. A very large class of people can easily be persuaded that the party in power is responsible for every defeat in the industrial situa- tion. Popular condemnation will be rather against those who, having a majority in Congress, allow the ob- struction of a measure which they promised to enact, but which is be- ing trifled with and obstracted by op- ponents who are in the minority. The blame for delayed tariff legislation, and for the business injury it is doing, is more likely to fall on those who have the power to pass the tariff bill promptly, but procrastinate in the per- formance of their duty. They are the ones who will have to bear the prindi- pal weight of popular condemnation. The obstructionists are well assured of this, and are shaping their course to that end, but every true Democrat in the midst of his discouragement still hopes that their scheme may be foil ea. ment should not be lost sight of. They are the most dangerous. The Law Must Prevail. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. The renewed efforts of the strikers .in | the coke regions to raid coke works, | yesterday, indicates the necessity of stern | and sharp measures to teaca the rioters that the law is supreme in this country. The reports indicate that the rioters not only attacked private property, and vio- lated personal liberty by forcing men to join them who wished to work, but de- fied tho authority of the sheriff to dis perse them, and prevented his deputies from making arrests. Since the strikers seem unable to learn from the lesson of last week they should bave it repeated sharply and promptly. Life is not worth living in this country if individual liberty, industry and prop- erty are left at the mercy of ignorant, lawless and alien mobs. If the sheriffs’ forces in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties are strong enough to adminis- ter to the rioters the lesson they need it is well that it should be administered quickly and decisively. If the officers of the peace have not the necessary force the military power of the State should be called out. No other con- sideration can interfere with the funda- mental one of maintaining peace and order. It is in the interest of all classes that |. the authorities should make clear and | impressive demonstration that this country is to bs governed by law and | not by ignorant and murderous mobs. That is the Way They Do Such Things. From the York Gazette. i The late election in Rhode Island brings to light a most outrageous. in- stance of gerrymandering, a practice which the Republican press delights in charging to the Democrats. Tete Republican vote in that State was only 2,000 more than half the total vote, which was 54,000 ; yet in the new legislature there will be 102 Republi- cans and 8 Democrats, So grosss a dis- regard of the rights of the minority is seldom seen. However, New Kngland is noted for its rotten boroughs and does not seem disturbed or embarrassed by the fact when claiming to be the most enlightened and advanced portion of the nation. Here, You Fellows Whe Think Grover Made a Mistake. From the Clearfield Republican. The Right Man.—Bellefonte’s new postmaster iz David F. Fortney, KEsq. If party service entitles a man to pro- motion, “Dave’* has earned the office twice over, ——If you want printing of any de. scripton the WATCHMAN office is the Spawls from the Keystone, —I1t cost $79,685.20 to run Schuylkill county last month. ; —An oratorio society with 60 voices has been organized in Pottsville. . —Farm hands were never so plentiful in Berks county as this spring. —The Kirmess for the benefit of charity in Williamsport netted over 1400. —Lockjaw from a cut on the knee is killing Louis Herbst, at Hughesville. voted in favor of a new Court House. —Congressman Beltzhoover, of Carlisle, is much better and may go to Florida. —The Pottsville Young Men’s Christian Association will invest $3,000 ina gymna- sium, —Lee’'s surrender was celebrated at Potts- ville Monday cvening by Union’ Veteran Legion. —John Andres, of Tamaqua, eaught trout out of season and is in jail asthe penalty. —A Pennsylvania Railroad train Sun. day ran down Frank J. Gallagher, of Elizabethtown. —The law requiring semi-monthly pay to various classes of employes is to be tested in the Courts. —For catching squirrel near Monocacy, Warren E. Koch was fined $9.20 by a Berks Justire of the Peace. —Pennsylvania “Sixteeners,” graduates of Soldiers’ Orphans’ Schools, will ban. quet at Pittsburg on May 7. —D. Franks, a Fredericksburg tamner, has mysteriously disappeared with con- siderable money in his pockets. —Bakers in many State towns have re- duced the price of bread 20 per cent. but the size of the loaf is not given. --Scranton hotel men have organized to oppose, and if necessary, boycott, brewers who sell to speak-easy proprietors. —Judge Livingston has put his foot down upon the indiscriminate transfer. ring of liguor licenses in Lancaster. —Attempting to mount a running train at Gordonville, Lancaster county, Elmer Kilenberger was dangerously injured. —Relatives identified and took charge of the body of Frank McGill, who blew out the ges and died in a Pottsville: ho- tel. —W. A. Lewis, a Philadelphia com- mercial traveler, is dying of a dose of carbolic acid, which he took in a hotel at Scranton. —Edward’Swope, of Warminster, Berks county, was knocked againsta eiroular saw and narrowly escaped having: his head cut off. ? —Secretary Benjamin Lee, of the State: Board of Health, Sunday condemned the Ohlinger dam as a source of water supply for Reading. —Misses Kate Hawkins and Lillie Sny- der were sent to the Pittsburg work- house for 30 days for flirting with men in the post offiee. —Shenandoah and Pottsville police want William Keegan, who was captur- ed at Reading and 18 charged with numerous robberies, —It is suspected that the man. recently arrested in Reading with $500 worth: of sure gical instruments in a satchel stole.them in Williamsport. : —Divers Sunday tried to find the body of the long-lost Isaac Houseknecht, who was murdered at Muncy, but the river did not give np the dead. — While boarding a freight train. at Fast Liberty, Edward Cooke, Philadel. phia, was eaught and badly squeezed bya passing passenger train, —School Tax Collector W. V. Sehwoyer, of Richmond town-hip, Berks county dis- appeared leaving a note saying he coultin’t get back $200 he had loaned. —A veraecious farmer is authority for the statement that the plows were frozen fast in the farrows in Hayeock township during the present cold snap. —An ex:newspaper man and lawyer, Frank I. Murphy, of Reading, has been bound ever to the Federal Court:for tive forgery of a postal money order for $30. —The name of St. Stephen’s Church, at Pottstown, was Sunday changed to St. Paul's, and Rev. A. M. Mishlerpreached the first sermon to the mew congregation, - Reading School Commissioners are wrestling with the question whether A. J. Frezeman, an unnataralizediforeigner, was. properly elected’ one of their num- ber.. —A guartet of youthful burglars, Simon Roessler, George Phitlippi, Eenry Kellar and Ulysses Buccini;. have been: arvested in: Reading charged with numerous re- cent erimes. —Daniel Shepp, of Tamagua, a: wealthy ooal land owner, has been:announeed as a Democratic candidate for Congress against Reilly, who.is likely to be re. nominated. —Coal and iren police are en the trail of Mahanoy Plane robbers, who aban- doned a sat hel containg-$99 in postage: stamps, and who are supposed to have. looted many eountry post offices. —A ‘“‘transproduncer” hasbeen invented by James A. Boyd, of Reading, who claims that it will extract sulphur and phos- phorus from pig iron to be eonverted into steel more cheaply than any other pro- cess. —Scramton’s lage curtain manufactory ‘is running full time for the first time ina year, and the eight-hour schedule goes into effect Monday at the Deleware, Lackawanna and Western car shops, where the winter rule has been six. —The low prices to which eggs have dropped remind farmers in the Sehuylkill valley of the times before the war, says Allentown Leader. In somae sections of Berks county hucksters are offering eggs at eight eents a dozen. This, it is be. lieved, is the lowest price they have at. tained for nearly thirty-five years. —A number of members of St. Stephen’s Reformed church, at Pottstown, which has been before the people for years Ow. ing to internal dissensions, have organ. ized St. Paul's Reformed church, to be under the jurisdiction of the Philadelphia German Classis. They have secured the use of St. Stephen’s church from the own- er, and will hold their first service Sun. day. A call may be extended to Rev, M. place to have it done. H. Mishler, of Boyerstown, —Luzerne County's Grand Jury has { i i
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