BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Marbles ought to be plenty in this
, country. So many people seem to have
lost theirs. |
—An appropriation of $1,000,000 is
wanted in Kentucky to furnish a State |
canal. The colonels have no other use
for water.
—Talk about hard times, why money
is cheaper in New York to-day than it
is in London, which is supposed to he
the centre of the financial world.
—The CARNEGIE armor plate scandal
still sends out a few faint puffs of smoke
that leads us to believe that it might be
worth while for Congress to go into the
matter thoroughly. Where there is
smoke it is well to look for fire.
—South Carolina is once again the
scene of cld time liquor dispensations.
Saloons are opening up everywhere and
Governor TILLMAN, so far as paying
any attention to them is concerned,
seems to have lost his other eye.
—1It is aid that twenty thousand peo-
ple die annually from snake bitein In-
dia. The Temperance people have not
furnished us with an estimate of the
number who die in the United States
from the effects of “snake bite.”
—Citizen GEORGE Francis TRAIN
has joined the CoxEY movement and
will try to share some of the notoriety
enjoyed just now by the blooming Ohio
fanatic. What the government needs
just now is a place like a dog pound so
fellows affected with the rabies can be
caught and put out of the way.
—Itis possible that Senator MILLS
will answer DAaviDp B. HILL's attack on
the WiLsoN bill and if he does, we hope
the able Southerner will lay the peanut
politiciar from New York, out so flat
he will never have the brazenness to
open his mouth again in the traitorous
manner that characterized his recent de-
liverance.
--A German has invented a bullet
proof coat for the secret of which that
government has offered him three hun-
drad million marks. It is altogether
probable that if Emperor WILLIAM
were to learn Low to make bullet proof
coats he would soon fit out his army and
march into France, but the French
could enlist & few of their anarchists
who would soon blow up a German
army, notwithstanding the coats.
—— The colored preacher pension
agent who was sentenced to twenty-
eight years in the penitentiary at Chat-
tanooga, Tenn., the other day for being
mixed up in tourteen fraudulent pension
claims will begin to think he had better
have staid at his old business. Colored
preachers who presume on their prover-
bial handiness at small game—chickens
forinstance—will do well to think twice
before getting in with pension sharks.
—Uncle Sam has always been a little
slow in passing around honors, which
possibly accounts for his recent nomina-
tion of a number of officers for brevet
grades for gallant service in Indian
campaigns. Most of the officers are
dead now and it may seem useless to
bestow titles on the dead, but who
knows what weight they will have with
St. PETER, when those old warriors come
to present their credentials on the last
day.
—Thus far the great strike of the coal
miners has had a very encouraging ef-
fect on those who hope to see the opera-
tors acceed to their demands, and as
long as the mine workers keep from un-
lawful proceedings they will have the
sympathy of every-one who realizes the
scanty pittance which they receive for
their labor. There seems to be a possi-
bility of their winning this fight, for the
operators have never before been in
such a demoralized condition.
—The Legislature of the Buckeye
State on Tuesday granted the women
out there the right to vote at school
elections. The bill became a law at
once so that Ohio women can now
march up to the polls, peddle bad whis-
key, dispense cigars swear and chew to-
bacco, while the returns are being
counted, with as much gusto as the
most vulgar ward heeler. But no, be-
ing allowed to vote themselves school
directors, they will soon educate the
coming generation into giving them a
full and free franchise.
——Rupvarp KirLiNG in a recent
interview with a London reporter said :
“There is a dyspepsia epidemic in
America, They doa’t understand our
comfort. Kverything is too temporary
for that. They are in a railway station
waiting room stage of civilization, and
it is hardly worth while yet for any one
to settle down and be solidly comfort-
able. America feels like one vast camp.”
‘Which, alas seems too true. The Ameri-
can psople live too fast. Not half of us
spend as much time at table as our
constitutions demand and the result is
that we are worn out before we fairly
reach the age when we might enjoy the
fruits of our labors. The Englishman’s
comparison of our life to a “vast camp”
1s a happy one, for half of us have camp
fires in our stomach ; and all because
we make them do the work that the
Creator designed for our teeth.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 27, 1894.
NO. 17.
Tramp Influence Upon Congress.
The alarming tendency of the vaga-
bonds of the country to make their
way to Washington with the object of
influencing the action of Congress is be-
ginning to attract the serious attention
which the dangerous character of such
a movement deserves. At first the
idea of gangs of tramps organizing a
demonstration of this nature and mov-
ing towards the seat of government
was regarded in a humorous light and
was made the subject of jocular com.
ment in the newspapers. Such treat-
ment of this disorder, and the misguid-
ed newspaper enterprise which has
heralded the movements of Coxky’s
vagabounds, bas given them encourage.
ment and helped to stimulate this dis-
orderly purpose.
It is now beginning to occur to sen-
sible people that there is danger in this
thing. It cannot be otherwise than
that if such proceedings are permitted
to go oc they will be repeated and grow
more formidable and dangerous with
every repetition. The tramp element
of the country will habitually march
to Washington to take a band in the
government.
It is not hard to see from what source
this disorder has sprang. Congress
for years has beeu subjected to outeide
influence. It has been the custom of
Republicanism toallow the committee
rooms and the lobbies of Congress to be
crowded by favorite parties intent upon
affecting the action of Congress for
their special behoof. = When tarift
beneficiaries and the recipients of sub-
sidies have been invited to throng the
capitol tor the purpose of presenting
their claims and influencing gongres-
sional action favorably to their inter-
ests, why ehould it not occur to the
tramps aud daugerous characters of the
country that they have just as good a
right to appear in the national capitol
waking body ? When the supporters
of taruf taxation are invited to make
an imposing demonstration in Wash.
enter the heads of the vagabonds that
they also have interests which they
may enforce by a threatening display
of numbers at the seat of the govern-
ment ?
ulated by example, and this is a pecu.
liar danger in a popular government.
of encouraging and providing for spe-
every facility tor bringing their ioflu-
ence to bear upon the law-making pow-
that it is their turn.
Fining The Absentees.
Congressman WoLVERTON, of this
State, has again shown his usefulness
and fidelity as a representative of the
people, by presenting to the House the
report of the Judiciary committee rec-
ommendiog the revival of the law
that imposed a fine upon members for
for absence from the House without a
valid excuse. A rule to this effect was
adopted in 1856, but was allowed to
fall into disuse.
The revival ot such a restraint upon
absenteeism will have a good effect in
promoting the efficient action of Con
gress. It is sentimentally contended,
by those who object to such expedients,
that a sense of duty and a regard for
the obligation of their trust should be
sufficient to ensure the attendance of
members, and that measures of a
punitiveand compulsory character are
an offensive encroachment upon their
personal independence. This will do
as a matter of sentiment, but the act-
ual experience is that a more substan-
tial restraint is required to prevent
some members from neglecting their
representative duty. It is better that a
fine be imposed, and a quorum counted
than that legislation should be blocked
by. absenteeism and contumacious fili-
bustering. The people pay their re-
presentatives liberally and are entitled
to their full service.
We can imagine with what satisfac-
tion Congressman WOLVERTON, who
means business in everything he un-
dertakes, introduced the report for the
revival of a law which, if enforced will
make the laggards come up to their
work.
i
!
—Read the WATCHMAN,
ial inter iving th i 2418 | a .
e Befeste, giving, those. lnweresis required increase by adding one penny
and exert a pressure upon the law-
The Bituminous Coal Strike.
The strike of the soft coal miners,
which is now on, including all the
bituminous regions of the country, is
one of the most extensive movements
of the kind that has ever occurred in
the mining industry. It is hard to
conjecture how long it will last, or
what will be its effect. Demoustra-
tions of this kind have seldom accom-
plished their object, and have usually
been more injurious than beneficial to
those who have engaged in them.
One thing at least is made evident
by this movement, and that is, that
the workmen in the protected industry
of coal mining are not satisfied with
the wages they are getting, Itis not
under a low Democratic tariff that
they are kicking aboutlinadequate pay,
but under the highest tariff ever
known, by which liberal provision is
made for the protection of the Jicoal
interest, and which is said ito have
teen intended to secure ample wages
for the coal miners.
Somebody is getting the benefit of
this protection, but the strike of the
workmen in the protected industry in-
dicates that they are not receiving a
due portion of the advantage. When
a tariff is laid which increases the prof-
its in a certain line of production, and
the working people complainjthat they
are inadequately paid, there can be no
other conclusion than that the profits
are absorbed by the magnates who
manage the operations. Such appar
ently being the case, the workers ob-
ject to being *‘dead heads in the enter-
prise.”
Whether it is wise for the miners to
strike is another question. The expe-
rience they have had in such under-
standings 18 not of a characier that
should encourage them to repeat it,
A long continuance of tariff favoritism
hss made the operators so rich that
they are able to stand out against|tleir
‘employees in astrike, to whom a cessa-
ington with the view ot interfering with |
a tariff retorm bill, why should it not
These evils are propagated and stim. |
The Republicans have set the example
tion of work for any length of time
means starvation. t
Praise for the Income Tax.
Although the Pniladelphia Record
is decidedly down on a United States
income tax it admires the efficacy of
the same method of raising revenue as
practical in England.
It being estimated that the expen-
ses of the English government tor the
coming year will be £5,000,000 more
than they were in the preceding year,
the authorities propose to secure the
"in the pound to the income tax, and
: by a slight increase in the taxes on in-
er, and now the tramps have concluded Y g
heritances and on spirits and beer.
This way of meeting a deficiency is so
highly approved by the Record that it
says: “The British system of taxation
is admirable, at least in its simplicity
and convenience.”
It is indeed admirable, and the fea-
ture in it that is most to be admired is
the provision it makes for raising reve-
nue through the medium of a tax on
incomes in preference to taxing the
necessaries of the working people by
means of tariff. The revenues of the
British government are largely sup-
plied by the taxation of incomes. Al-
though aristocratic in its character it
justly regards wealth as the proper
source from which government should
chiefly derive its suprort, and in this
respect it sets an example to Demo-
cratic America which exempts the
wealthy and taxes the general mass,
irrespective of their pecuniary circum.
stances, through the agency of tariffs.
Our Philadelphia contemporay has
much to say about the cumbersome,
inconvenient and inquisitorial charac-
ter of an American income tax, yet it
is pleased with the “simplicity and
convenience’ with which the English
raise revenue by that means of taxa-
tion. Does it not look like a quibble
to say that the same revenue method
caunot be attended with the same con-
venience and simplicity in this country?
——The resignation of Dr. Prprer
as head ofthe University of Pennsyl-
vania, takes frem that institution a
man of wonderful administrative
ability and one whose individual repu-
tation has begotten much of the re-
pute which the University enjoye. It
will lose a great man, but he will be-
come greater in devoting himself ex-
clusively to the fizld of science.
Some Corporation Injuries.
It is undeniable that large business
enterprises are more helpful to a coun-
try than small ones, yet in many wavs
they are injurions and this is the rea-
son people come to look upon them as
preys upon the public. The massing
of capital for the purpose of conduct
ing specific branches of trade will re-
suit in good for a land, as loag as the
corporations investing it do not resolve
themselves into trusts and monopolies.
It will result in good so far as an im-
provement in manufactares or public
service is helped by the employment of
unlimited capital. Just as the enor-
mous wealth that backs the Penusyl-
vania Railroad company has made it
the most efficient public carrier in the
world. But withal there can be-no
doubt of the ill effects which allied
capital brings about occasionally, Aa
excellent illustration of which we find
in the present strike which involves
nearly half a million coal miners and
threatens to tie up many of our rail
roads and manufactories for want of
coal.
Had it not been for the larger syndi-
cates, operating Pennsylvania coal
fields, there would have been no trou-
ble. They caused it all. It is not the
little operator who employs a hundred
or more men. He is all right and
were it not for membership in the
United Mine Workers Association his
miners would be working to-day. But
when one man quits all must quit,
Such operators as the Berwin,
Warr Co. and BeLr, Lewis & Yates
go into the market and take contracts
below the smaller bidders. The result
is they have to cut down expenses and
make up the deficit out of the
miners pockets. This state of things
has been carried on until the miners
of Pennsylvania have become ver-
itable slaves. The price of min-
‘ing has been repeatedly cut down
until it has at last reached a point
where subsistence is impossible and the
miners propose forcing the operators to
a recognition of their rights to a living,
if nothing more.
A large percentage of the smaller
operators in the State had been paying
50 cts. per ton when the large corpor-
ations declared a reduction of 5cts. and
many of them continued paying 50cts
even after a second Sct. reduction by
their larger competitors and the work-
men in these large mines, refusing to
accept wages on which
live, struck and were supported by all
the members of the National Associa:
tion. Thus it will be seen that while
corporations are benefits in many ways,
yet there are others in which they are
decidedly injurious.
Tae present strike, unless settled
8000, will result in direful business dis-
tress for many railroads and other in-
dustries using bituminous coal as fuel
will have to suspend.
Lynch Law in Ohio.
Two lynchings in Ohioin six months
is a record which the people ot the
Buckeye State have but little reason to
be proud of. One of these cases of law-
less punishment having occarred in
that focus of Ohio Republicanism, the
Western Reserve, the victim having
been a negro, it looks as if ‘Southern
barbarism’ is being practiced by the
old time Abolitionists of that region.
Governor McKINLEY's attention
having been called to these violent in-
fringements of the law he acknowledg
ed his inability to prevent them, say-
ing, as is very true, that ‘the law
lodges no power in such cases in the
bands of the Governor,” He admits
that all he can do is to use his influence
with those whose duty it is to investi-
gate such cases and to enforce the
law.
The same difficulty exists with the
authorities in the Southern States,
who haye been roundly abused by Re-
publican newspapers for not doicg that
which in such cases of lawlessness
Governor McKINLEY says he is unable
to do.
But notwithstanding this acknowl.
edged incapacity of anthority, an earn-
est effort, backed by public sentiment,
should be made, cast, west, north and
south, to put an end to the operations
of Judge Ly~xcH. Surely it is not be.
yond the power of legislation to check
these lawless demonstrations.
——-Do you read the WATCHMAN,
Smarties Called Down.
From the West Chester Jeffersonian.
There is a class of smart folk who
take a special delight in giving wrong
information to reporters. Not long ago
one of this kind was prosecuted by the
Scranton Times for imposing a fraudu-
lent marriage story upon one of its re-
porters. Now the Williamsport Gazette
and Bulletin has entered suit against a
party who thought it would be a good
joke to have it printed that the wife of a
gentleman, more or less well known,
had given birth to four children. The
item, says the Reading Times, was a
good one if true, and as the reporter had
no reason at the time to suppose he was
being imposed upon he used it in his
newspaper, as would have been done
anywhere. It turned out that there
was no truth whatever in the report.
As the newspaper did not propose to be
used in that way to assist funny people
in their low and disgraceful jokes or the
wicked in their malice, it took very
prompt and commendable steps under
the law to vindicate itself by causing
the arrest of the loose-mouthed man
who deceived the reporter. It was
what every newspaper under like cir-
cumstances should do, and these people
who are busy manufacturing news for
others to assume responsibility for
wend then soon understand the danger
of it.
An Impetus to American Wool.
From the Chambersburg Democratic News.
How does the following suit the Ohio
‘Wool men ? They never seem satisfied.
The American Consul at Bradford,
England seems to be a man who is on
the lookout for the best interests of his
country. “The American Consul at
Bradford, England, reports that the
manufacturers in that city assert that
the moment the tariff bill becomes a law
the prices of American wool will revive,
and several of them are so strong in this
belief that they have made large invest-
ments in wool now held in Philadel-
phia and Boston. They insist that the
new impetus given to manifctures by
free raw material will cause larger
quantities of the United -States grown
article to be mixed with fine foreign
wools, and that the demand for Ameri-
can wools for hosiery purposes will im-
mediately set in on the English market.
It is already proposed by wool dealers
in England to exchange the grades of
they cannot |
wool more suitable for dress, goods and
' cloths for the American wool adapted
| for hosiery and other purposes. Thay
{ argue that this will at once bring about
i renewed activity in the trade and raise
prices.”
| Falling Off on the Wining Side of the
Fence.
| From the Philadelphia Times.
David Martin has a heap of political
| sense and he has no intention of mon-
| keying with Grow whatever Magee or
! anyone else may do. It was against
his judgment that Delamater was
{ forced on the Republican ticket in
1 1890, although he took his orders like
| a little man and helped to do it. He
i doesn’t want any more of that kind of
| experience and he makes haste to say
| he is for Grow because he is the most
{ popular candidate that can be placed
on the ticket. Martin bas learned in
the school of experience that it is bad
policy to turn down a candidate the
people want for one whom nobody
cares a fig about. Grow won't be
turned down this year if Martin's ad-
vice is taken, as it probably will be.
Democratic Rulings, not Despotism.
From the Connellsville Courier.
The Democrats in Congress haves cut
the Gordian Knot that bound them to
helplessness in the matter of doing busi-
ness in a very proper and common sense
way, and it wasn’t Tom Reed’s, way,
eitber, as our Republican friends would
have the country believe. The good re-
sults of the Reed rule have been obtain-
ed without its bad methods.
Yea, Verily What Is It.
From the Clarion Democrat.
Senator Hill is the author of the
dramatic statement, “I am a Demo-
erat.” The Republican Boss of New
York state, Thomas C. Platt, certifies
to the correctness of the statement by
having his legislature endorse Mr. Hill’s
actions, and all the high tariff organs
join in the howl of “amen.” What is
Democracy ?
Raises a Bigger Lump than Corbett.
From the Osceolo Courier-Leader.
Somebody has just discovered that an
ordinary bee when not loaded weighs
one five-thousandth of a pound. Load-
ed or unloaded when he strikes a small
boy he seems to weigh flve thousand
pounds.
He Doesn't Know What Democrat
Means.
From the Connellsville Courier.
Senator Hill made himself famous
once by the declaration, “I am a Dem-
ocrat.’” The distinguished = Senator
from New York may be a Democrat,
but it’s a mighty poor kind.
——REditor Jim Goodlander, of the
Clearfield Republican, is just home from
the California Mid-Winter Fair and
pronounces it a “Colossal fake.”
——If you want printing of any de-
seripton the WaTcEMAN office is the
place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A big brewery will be built at Ma-
hanoy City.
—Beading Councils refuse to put up
cash for free public baths.
—The big fire is still raging in the St,
Nicholas mine, near Ashland.
—An electric car terribly injured Mrs,
George N. Moyer, in Reading.
—There was another cave-in Monday in
the fatal Gaylord mine at Plymouth.
—Steel Roller George Long lost a leg in
the rolls in Lebanon’s Bast End Mill.
—Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading,
will celebrate its centennial on May 20.
—William O. Bateman was killed in the
Short Mountain Colliery, near Williams.
town,
—Endeavoring to mount a moving train
at Centralia, little Daniel Sullivan was
killed.
—Pennsylvania Railroad Agent S. G.
Grieb has disappeared from Marysville
Station.
—Ninety per cent. of the men, Rey. G.
T. Street, of Allegheny county, says, are
profane,
—The Reading Archdeaconry of the
Episcopal Church began its sessions Mon-
day in Lebanon. :
—Refusing to have his injured hand am-
putated J. C. McClain, of Altoona, has
died of lockjaw.
—There is a movement in Luzerne
County to abolish the kissing of the Bible
in taking an oath.
—A dozen men and several women, ac-
cused of many robberies, were Monday
jailed at Ebensburg.
—Schuylkill county commissioners Sat-
urday appointed 25 wardens to prevent or
fight forest fires.
—Attorney General Hensel has pur-
chased a fine farm near Kinzer's station,
Lancaster county:
—Aged Thomas Ward, who lived un.
happily at Mahanoy City, swallowed pars
is green and will die.
—Mrs, Elliott F, Shepard, of New York,
has given $1000 to found a Shepard scholar.
ship at Lafayette College.
—Berks county Christian Endeavors, in
their meeting at Reading, engaged in a
competitive “drawing social.”
—The funeral at Reading on Saturday
of county Recorder I. W, Keim was one
of the largest ever seen there.
—An hour after eating strychnine pills
for candy the four-year-old daughter of
‘W. J. Burns, Hazelton, was dead.
—A Wilkesbarre justice refused to pun-
ish Michael Buckalew, who stole a sack
of flour to feed his starving family.
— An explosion in a stone quarry start-
led people in Lancaster county Monday,
who thought it was an earthquake.
—A coal train’s wreck blockaded the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad a few
miles west of Williamsport Tuesday.
—Iron manufacturers in the Lebanon
Valley buy pig metal in the South which
is delivered at the mills for $10.23 a ton,
—In trying to destroy the lice ina hen's
nest Farmer Baublitz, near York, set his
barn on fire and it was totally destroyed.
—Stockholders of the Schuylkill Valley
Electric Railway Company have voted te
increase the bonded indebtedness $55,000.
—A Philadelphia boy, Frank Abbott,
was sent home from Reading Monday
where he says he was enticed by a strans
ger. '
—Congressman ® Bzltzhoover §EMonday
evening left his Carlisle home for Wash-
ington, but had to return on account of a
relapse.
—For practicing medicine without a lie
cense, C. R. Hemperly, of Union, town.
ship, Lebanon county, was arrested om
Monday.
—Governor Pattison says the|Werners.
ville Insane Asylum will be ready for
about $0) patients in from three to five
weeks.
—All the Chinamen, except two, whe
are ex-convicts, in the Pittsburg district
wi'l register before the time limit expires
on May 3.
—Police are stationed at St. Mary's Po-
lish Church, in Reading, every Sunday,
and many people are objecting to the ex.
tra expense. {
—Running back in front of a runaway
horse to save his marbles, 10-year-old
John Holloway was fatally hurt at Ma-
hanoy City. re
—The body of Evan G. Hanaker, of
Clearfield, who disappeared a month ago,
was found Saturday in the Susquehannakh
River, near Columbia. :
—Rev. Dr. George T. Parves, of Prince«
ton Seminary, will preach the bacealaure-
ate sermon at Lafayette ;College com.
mencement, on June 17. !
—Two men chased to the Welsh Moun
tain and fired three shots at a fiend whe
assaulted irs. Robert Lloyd, near Caer
haven (Berks county) quarries.
—A committee of the State Musie
Teachers’ Association is at Harrisburg im
the interest of music as a regular publie
school study in Pennsylvania,
—A temporary injunction was Saturday
granted at Williamsport to prevent the
sale of the Williamsport Passenger Rail «
way to a Philadelphia syndicate.
—Thomas V. Cooper isa leading stock-
holder in the Guarantors’ Liability In.
demnity Company, of Philadelphia, capi-
tal $230,000 which was chartered Saturday.
—Afteran investigation by the Prison
Board of Luzerue county, Warden Jones
and Watchman Fallon were exonerated
from the charge of cruelty made by pris-
oners,
—Fourteen-year-old Morris Dickert dis
appeared from his home in Allentown and
came back with a dime novel tale that he
had been kidnapped and taken to West
Bethlehem.
—8. I. Snyder, of Clearfield, has been
granted a patent for a screw driver, and
Messrs. J. P. Wynn and J. W. Gillespie, of
Lock Haven, have just had a new pipe
wrench patented.
—Harrisburg’s Boot and Shoe Manufac™
turing Company is to have the largest
plant of its kind in the world, to turn out
25,000 pairs of shoes weekly—more than
double its present capacity.
—A young woman by the name of {Fan-
ny Huling has been victimizing the mer
chants of Renovo and Lock Haven by ob-
taining goods under false pretense. She
was arrested on Friday but was let off by
her brother paying all claims,