8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
"Ink Slings.
—Where A. R. U. at Mr. DEBS ?
—Utah is a State. One star more
and one bar less for “old glory.”
—1t is comforting to read about the
whereabouts of the Arctic explorers
these hot days.
—The strikes are about all settled
now and for the life of them neither side
can tell which won.
—The fact that Mr. Drss doesn’t
know that the strike is over shows how
much he was in it.
—The drought is drying up every-
thing except the tears of the farmer who
looks weepingly at his corn and ’taters.
—1If organization is intended to
maintain the digrity of labor there
must be more sense and fewer organizers
employed.
—The army worm has appeared in
New Jersey. What it expects to find
down there is hard to imagine. If it is
after justice it knows where to go.
—1In all of the estimates of losses by
the recent strike we have not seen one
as to the amount the PULLMAN porters
have lost during the suspension. Pos-
sibly they are keeping it dark.
—-Some people are never content with
anything. They are mad at Governor
PATTISON now because he has no criti-
cism to make on the strike. There is
wisdom in silence and none know it bet-
ter than PATTISON.
—What are you looking for ? Asked
Mabel of her baby sister, who was sit-
ting on Mr. SAPHEAD's knee, looking
intently at his head. I wanted to see the
wheel’s go ‘round, was the answer that
ended in the youngster’s being sent to
bed.
—Mrs. LEASE and Mrs. Dicas, the
two rivals for favor with the Kansas
Populists, have had a great time lately.
The former couldn’t stand the digs of
the latter and a regular hair pullin’ al-
most broke up a meeting out there the
other night.
—This is a free country ’tis true, but
it should not be asylum for the rabid of
every other land on the face of the globe.
Nor should the destroyers of govern-
ment be allowed to muster their forces
under the protecting wing of the
American eagle.
—The DuBois Express says there is
only one editor in Heaven. Where its
information comes from we at a loss to
know, for surely au editor who will lie
on departed writers, as the Express man
has done, can have no connection with
the place of eternal rest.
—1It is a great pity that we ever hear
of women figuring in strikes and being
participants in the melees and im-
broglios which discontented workmen
stir up. Such forgetfulness of self on
their part cannot but bring a neglect of
home and a loss of its beauty.
—The American yacht Vigilant has
been beaten seven times in English wa-
ters and still she is racing away with
the hope of winning something. She
has something in her favor, however,
and that is that she has been chasing
the winner close every time. The races
have all been exciting.
—The million dollar rider that was
tacked onto the Agricultural appro-
priation bill has passed the Senate and
the money is expected to be used to ex-
terminate the Russian thistle. This will
turn out like the attempts to extermi-
nate the rabbits in New Zealand. The
thistle will go on spreading but the
money will be all used just the same.
—The Economite swindler, ¢Mes-
siah” TEED, who claims to be able to
produce gold at $10 a ton is the fellow
CAMERON should bang onto now, since
he wants to be the silver people’s candi-
date for President. Anything he can do
to disparage gold as a standard will
help his boom, but maybe TEED would
bamboozle Dox as easily as he did the
Economites.
--The improvement in engines of war
seems to keep quite a pace ahead of the
non-penetrative properties of armor
plate. The failure of the CARNEGIE
company to make a steel plate that will
turn a projectile from one of the big
guns should be conclusive evidence of
the folly of building big ships end
weighing them down with an unprotec-
tive armor. Better have the good old-
fashioned wooden boats, as of yore, then
we can have better scraps and fewer
people will be killed.
—1If uncle SAM continues paying such
enormous premiums to ship-builders, for
high speed in battle ships, it will not be
long until the premiums amount to
more than the contract prices of the
vessels. The Minneapolis, the latest
acquisition to the navy, recently drew |
$414,600 for making 23.07 knots per |
hour. At such arate the income of the
government will soon sail away. What
should be done is to require a certain
speed in the contract and make the ves-
VENA
wr
\
A emaeralic
RO
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 39.
NO. 28.
Religious Intolerance in Politics.
The feature of the Democratic State
platform that especially commends it-
self to American manliness and liber-
ality of sentiment is its denunciation of
that spirit of intolerance which would
proscribe and persecute a class of citi
zens on account of their religion.
Wh en the platform declares opposi-
tion to all organizations which strike
at freedom of conscience and religious
liberty, it aims a blow at the new oath-
bound and dark lantern party which
is endeavoring to bring religion into
politics and proposes to make denomi-
national antagonism a factor in party
contests.
Nothing can be truer than the fact im-
plied in the declaration of the Democrat-
ic State convention, that an organiza-
tion whose motive is religious intoler-
ance, and whose object is political pro-
scription on account of a difference in
sectarian belief, i not based on national
or constitutional principles, and is de-
void of the true American sentiment. As
such, the A. P. A. conspiracy is justly
held up to merited condemnation.
The position taken by our State con-
vention on this subject is attracting
favorable attention throughout the
country and bringing into fuller devel-
opment a sentiment againet which a
secret oath-bound organization, having
such an object as that of the A. P. A.
will not be able to stand. It is grati-
fying to observe that protestant clergy-
wen, agreeing with the declaration of
the Pennsylvania Democratic State
couvention, are expressing themselves
against making religion a political test,
and condemn a movement whose object
is denominational persecution. Among
them is Rev. Dr. Rmuoapes, of the
Marey Avenue Baptist church, of
Brooklyn, who deprecates the intro:
duction of religion into politics, and
says : ‘‘Let there be a fair field, and
no favor for all denominations, and no
political discrimination on account of
creed.” Also Rev. MeLviLLe B. Caarp-
MAN, of the East Methodist Conference
of New York, who disapproves of a
political movement “that springs from
lic church,” a charch which he looks
upon “as an essential and necessary
factor in the Christianity of the cen-
tury. Also Rev. Howarp McQUEARY,
pastor of the Universalist chapel, of
Erie, Pa., who pays a tribute to the
patriotism and good citizenship of
Catholics as a class, and says of the
mated by the bitterest bigotry ; they
are ruled by demagogues and are mis-
led by ignorance.’
tis true there are some scalawag
preachers, who for a sensational object
are trying to gain notoriety by a counec-
tion with this organization of secretarian
persecutors, but their religious princi.
ciples are defective as the political pur-
pose of the A. P. A. is mischievous and
dangerous. -
Afro-American Democrats.
The Democratic Congressional com-
mittee has adopted a movement in re-
gard to the colored vote which is like:
ly to develop into important political
results. It has established in Wash-
ington the Afro-American bureau of
organization, the object of which is to
organize clubs and societies of colored
citizens to co-operate with the Demo-
cratic National League, and to supply
them with literature that will enlarge
their political understanding.
The colored voters have too long
been allowed to remain ignorant vas-
gals ot the Republican party. They
kecame attached to it through circum-
stances connected with their emanipa-
tion, but for which that party, as it is
now constituted and managed, is en-
titled to no credit. Indebted to ABra-
gam LizcoLN for the freedom and
political rights which they enjoy, their
gratitude i= taken advantage of and
abused by politicians whe have
abandoned every principle entertained
by the first Republican President.
They are made the instruments of
maintaining Republican majorities
irom which they derive no benefits.
W hat the colored voters most need is
information that will teach them that
they are only being used to promote
partisan advantage in which they are
not allowed to share, and that they can
benefit themselves and inspire greater
respect for their political rights by be-
sel attain that, if more, then all the bet-
ter.
ing less one-sided and subservient in
their party attachment,
an inherited antagonism to the Catho- |
A. P. A. that ‘its members are ani.
|
| about
‘and dangerous a subject as riots that
Who Is Responsible?
Some Republican papers are trying
to make it appear that the Democratic
party is responsible for Dep’s railroad
strike. They claim that the tariff leg-
islation and other measures of the
party since it came into power have
brought about a situation that pro-
duced the disturbance.
To maintain so absurd a position it.
is necessary to ignore the fact that the
strikers are contending with conditions
that have grown up entirely under Re-
publican administration. They are
fighting extortion and oppression that
sprung into existence under the long
nurturing influence of Republican tariff
laws. The PurLMaNs and men of that
class are the product of Republican
policy. They made their millions and
gained their control of the industrial
situation during the years in which
the Republican party made the laws
and managed the government. There
is not an industrial millionaire or cor-
poration against which strikes for
higher wages are directed, that is not
a beneficiary of the Republican tariff.
Trusts, syndicates and monopolies,
with which workingmen grapple in
their contention for better pay, have
all been born of the favoritism of Re-
publican economic measures. Show
us a millionaire operator, whether he
be PuLLMAN or CARNEGIE, and he will
be found to be a man whose powerful
wealth has come from undue ad-
vantages given him by Republican leg-
islation.
The dissatisfaction of labor has ex-
isted for the last twenty years, and dur-
ing those years, all the laws regulating
the industrial and economic situation
have been Republican laws, and they
were still operating when the recent
strike occurred, as théy also were
at the time of the equally bloody and
disastrous strike in 1877.
If, after the Democratic industrial
policy bas been in operation for awhile,
labor dissatisfaction and strikes shall
present themselves, there may then be
some plausibility in holding the party
responsible for such disturbances, but
as all past difficulties of that kind have
occurred while the influence of Repub-
lican measures prevailed, the responsi-
bility for them must be put on the Re-
publican party.
—— Chairman GILKISON, of the Re-
publican State committee, has received
demands to have HasTiNG's speak in
every one of the sixty-seven counties in
the State. Again Dax tells them all
the wildcat $40 per capita
scheme the people of the State will be-
gin to imagine the “hero of Johns-
town’’ as much of a rattle brain as the
framers of the platform on which he is
running.
Monkeying With a Delicate Subject.
Ex-President Harrisox should be
careful not to monkey with so delicate
conflict with the federal laws and re-
quire the exertion of federal authority
to put them down. ;
When the lawless conduct of the
Chicago mob compelled President
CLEVELAND to interfere for the protec-
tion of the mails and the enforcement of
United States laws, Mr. Harrison is
represented to have shown a disposi
tion to criticise such vigorous but
pecessary executive action. He is re-
ported to have said that it was the
first time that a President had ever at-
tempted to exert the military power of
the general government in any State
without having been asked for such
action by the coustituted State auathor- |
ity, there being a tone of deprecation
in his remark, as reported.
Upon the general burst of popular
applause which followed the prompt
and vigorous action of the President in
treating the disturbance at Chicago
and otherriotous localities; Mr. Har-
RISON seems to have thought that it
would be better to revise his first ex-
pression on the subject, and he vigor-
ously denies having made a depreca-
tory criticism on the President's course
in handling the riots.
Maybe he may have been misreport-
ed, but Mr. Bexsamiy HarrisoN 1s
noted for the smallness of his charac-
terietics, and it CLEVELAND'S action
had failed, or had met with popular
disapproval, it would have been much
like Harrisox if he would have given |
it as his opinion that the President
had exceeded his rightful executive |
power.
lic affairs.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 20, 1&5.
It Will Be All Right, in Time.
Much interest exists as to what will
be the final action of the House in re-
gard to the changes made in the tariff
bill by the Senate, and among the com-
ments on this situation of the bill we
find the following from a Republican
source : “The original tariff reform:
ers, who still retain some remembrance
of the Chicago platform, are eager for
the House conferees to begin the
work of transforming the Gorman bill
into a measure of which the average
Democrat can think without shame
and indignation.”
The purpose of such a remark is to
create the impression that if the bill, as
amended by the Senate, should be ac-
cepted and passed, it would be a com-
plete surrender of the Democratic posi-
tion of tariff reform, for which the
party would have reason to be over-
whelmed with shame. It would indeed
be preferable to have the bill passed as
it originally came from the House, but
if it should finally pass exactly as the
Senate has made it, it would never-the
less be a decided reform measure as
compared with the McKINLEY act, and
although Democrats would have rea-
son to regret that the bill did not go as
far in the reduction of duties as it was
the intention of the House that it
should go, yet they would have no oc-
casion to blush at anything in connec-
tion with it except the humiliating cir-
cumstance that four or five huckstering
Senators, reputed to be Democrats,
were able, on account of the small ma:
jority in the Senate, to temporarily
prevent the thorough, fulfillment of
what the Democrats have promised in
regard to the tariff but which they will
in time completely accomplish.
The first step toward tariff reform,
though somewhat hampered, which
was naturally to be expected, will
prove to be a great advance, and the
Democrats instead of having reason to
be ashamed of what has been done,
can feel assured of the eventual and
thorough consummation of tariff re-
form.
Ex-Senator S. R. Peale, of Lock
Haven, ie talked of as a possibility for
the Congressional nomination in the
Sixteenth district. There is one thing
certain, should he become the nomi-
nee, his Democracy would not come in-
to question.
State Money Misused.
Oue of the counts in the bill of in-
dictment drawn against the Republi-
can party of Pennsylvania by the Dem-
ocratic State conveation, arraigns it
for the dishonest practice of keeping
the State funds in certain favorite
banks for private profit and advantage.
There are many poinis in the Demo-
cratic arraignment of the larcenous old
party that has so long been npilfering
from the coffers of the commonwealth
and not the least is the charge in re.
gard to its misuse of the State funds.
A Democratic contemporary insists
that the surplus State money should
be put out at interest. But isn’t that
the very thing that is done with it?
When the funds are entrusted to fav-
ored banks it is put on interest. That
money is not allowed to be idle, by any
means ; but it is to the interest of
the party managers that the State
shouldn’t get the interest. This is the,
interesting feature of the arrangement
to those who have the labor and trou-
ble of running the Republican machine
helping to supply the means whereby
they are compensated for that patriotic
duty.
There is no mystery in the impossi-
bility of getting a Republican Legisla-
ture to pass a law that will prevent
placing the State money in the hands
of favored depositories. Such a dis-
position of it assists in furnishing some
of the pickings and stealings which are
required to keep the Republican ma-
chine in good working order, and it
will continue until the people conclude
to turn the corrupt old party complete
ly out of power in the State, and elect
a Democratsc Legislature to act in
| conjunction with a Democratic Gov-
ernor.
ATS SRA
——A man who has made a suc-
| cess of his private business is a good
one to entrust with the conduct of pub-
Mr. SiNczrLy has made a
wonderfully successful newspaper
man and as Governor of Pennsylvania
would be an ideal executive.
And This is Daniel's Platform.
From the Lebanon Advertiser.
In the loose jointed Republican
State plattorm, one of its ‘worst ab-
surdities is the proposition to inflate
the circulation until it shall amount
to $40 tor each man, woman and child
in the nation. :
Whether it was a bid for the Popu-
list vote, or mere buncombe, certainly
no greater absurdity ever issued from
party leaders. :
Pit Schweffelbrenner in his inimi-
table sarcasm, suggests as a panacea
for all ills, that the government issue
a $1000 greenback for each one, and
really the Republicans appear to ac:
cept the suggestion.
The money in circulation is estima-
ted at $24 per capita. An increase to
$40 would be more than 66 per cent.
That it is tor every $100 in circulation
the Republican platform would manu-
facture $66 more. If such a course
were practicable, the result would be
just what it was during the Rebellion,
when $100 ¢old dollars would purchase
285 dollars in greenbacks. To use a
very homely illustration, it would be
like watering whiskey, when the only
effect would be that a man must drink
so much more to make him drunk,
A Cautious Editor.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Frederick Douglass is the chairman
and B. K. Bruce, John R. Lynch and
other well-known colored men are
members of a National Committee
whose purpose is to erect a monument
to John Brown at Harper's Ferry, on
the site where stood the engine house
which Brown converted into a fort and
where he resisted the gallant Virginia
militia. The engine house has lately
been removed, and where it stood it is
proposed to erect a plain granite shaft
costing some ten or twelve thousand
dollars. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company has made a gift of the
necessary ground. The National Com-
mittee desires that a John Brown
committee shall be formed in every
community to collect and care for
small contributions until the National
Committee is ready to go on with the
work. The National Commitiee ex-
presses no desire to confine the con-
tributions to any race, but it speaks
well for the gratitude of the colored
men that they should lead fa this
movement, and it would be creditable
to the colored race if the John Brown
monument could be erected with con-
tributions from the members of that
race.
A Man's Individuality Should Decorate
Him.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Silence has no sooner fallen upon
Author Lew Wallace's proposed bill
for an American Academy of Forty
Immortals, than Representative Amos
J. Cummings, of New York is agita-
ting the founding of an order in the
United States, analogous to the French
Legion of Honor, with its red ribbon.
He has asked Congress to create a
bowiknot of distinction, which shall be
bestowed upon distinguished Ameri-
cans, and for the unlawful wearing of
which a fine of $100 shall be provided.
Very evidently the European taste for
decorations and rank is inoculating
with its vanity the plain democracy of
our daddies.
Here Is Argument for You.
From the Altoona Times.
Recently the federal government was
called upon tosend troops to Chicago
and other places in order to protect cor-
porations that were threatened by law-
ess uprisings. The protection was giv-
en, but expense was entailed in furnish-
ing it. There is an instance that proves
the justice of an income tax. When
large accumulations of property have
great interests to be guarded it is but
fair they should pay something nearer a
just proportion in the way of taxes than
they do at present.
A Trio of Demagogues.
From the Altoona Tribune.
The republican party might as well
understand in the beginning that it
cannot outbid its democratic rival in
the arts of the demagogue. For which
reason it had better turn a deaf ear to
the wild suggestion of Cameron, Lodge
and Reed and stand firmly by its re-
cord as an honest mouey advocate.
ARES SARE.
Some Information for Mr. Harter.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
We are pleased to learn that Judge
Bucher has consented tostand as a can-
didate for Congressman-at-Large. His
name upon the ticket gives it strength,
and we very much regretted the pros-
pect of losing him. He is a strong
man, and his opponent on the other
ticket will find in him a man worthy
his steel.
A ———————————
The Simple Truth.
From the Columbia Independent.
Chicago permitted anarchists to
maintain organization in its midst.
Had its officials stamped out of exist:
ence these red handed enemies of liber-
ty when in their infancy, armies would
not now be required to quell riots.
SIRT
—— Subscribe for the WaATcHEMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—There are in Scranton 106 physicians,
—A contract has been let by the Media
club for an #8500 club house.
—The corner stone of a Hebrew church
at Allentown was laid Sunday.
—Houses at Hummelstown were un.
roofed by the storm on Sunday.
—Fire is destroying hundreds of acres
of valuable timber near Tyrone.
—Reading citizens are mystified by a
big cave-in on North Ninth street.
—A stranger known as “Andy” was
found dead in a Kennett Square barn.
—Cows derailed a Pennsylvania freight
train near Hazelton, wrecking 10 cars.
—Farmer Samuel James is dying of hy =
drophobia in a Connellsville hospital.
—Fire insurance agents of Pennsylva’
nia met on Wednesday at Harrisburg.
—The Jeannette glass works have
closed down for their annual vacation.
—Prospectors have found a six foot vein
of coal near Casselman, Somerset county.
—Drinking a poisonous herb tea to cure
rheumatism, Edward Tobias nearly died.
—Members of the Eighteenth Regiment,
N. G. P., have formed a choir of 36 voices.
—Work will be begun on the Delaware
Valley Trolley, near Stroudsburg, next
week.
—Philadelphia capitalists Saturday in.
spected the Lawrence county trolley
roads.
—Henry Wentzle, of Cambria county,
was arrested for selling milk without a
license.
—In a quarrel over a card table at Brad-
dock Andy Horwat was dangerously
stabbed.
—Three year old Franklin Dixon trav.
eled from Harrisburg to Philadelphia un.
attended.
—While bathing in the river at Lock
Haven, J. H. Chamberlain, of Akron, O.,
was drowned.
—There are in the Erie Soldiers’ Home
367 veterans, whose pensions average
$9.03 a month.
—~Governor Pattison Saturday pardoned
E. W. Gorsling, a Lancaster horse thief
now in prison.
—At a lumber camp at Morrison, Mc-
Kean county, forest fires destroyed 2,000,-
000 feet of logs.
—An ounce of carbolic acid, swallowed
with suicidal intent, killed William Stur-
gis, near Sharon.
—Attorney General Hensel is wrestling
with many mill tax cases of appeal to the
Supreme Court.
—Wernersville Insane Asylum was Sat.
urday officially inspected by Governor
Pattison and others.
—About 200 Slav families, numbering
over 1000 persons, last week left the coke
regions for Arkansas.
—The work of construction of the Penn.
sylvania Midland road is progressing rap-
idly in Bedford county.
—A wheel mill in the Cressona Powder
Works, at Cressona, blew up, fatally in
juring Frank Bradford.
—Several more of the Cambria Iron
company’s industries at Johnstown re-
sumed operations Monday.
—A traveling salesman named Fitzpat-
rick ate heartily of mussels at Strouds-
burg and died in a few hours.
—Rev. Father Mellon has assumed
charge of the warring congregation of St.
Mary’s Polish Church, Reading.
~—Children of Patrick Curris, of Free.
land, set a table on fire and a three year
old boy perished in the flames.
—One hundred and five poor children
from New York are enjoying an outing of
two weeks at Blain, Perry county.
—Col. R. Bruce Ricketts and other
prominent old soldiers of Luzerne have
formed a branch of the Union Veteran Le-
gion.
—The Hollidaysburg council has taken
legal action against the Pennsylvania
railroad for encroaching on Juniata
street.
—A railroader at Pittsburg says the car
shops will have to operate night and day
for six months to repair the damaged
freight cars.
—Ofa flock of sheep owned by George
Mierly, of Germany Valley, Huntingdon
county, one was kiiled by dogs and sev.
eral badly hurt.
—For failing to report a typhoid fever
case, Dr. J. A. Ebler, Lancaster's oldest
physician, has been prosecuted by the
Health Board.
—The Steam saw mill of Estil Collins
situated in Blacklog Valley, Huntingdon
county, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire a few evenings ago.
—A colored butler, Thomas Peach, was
captured at Williamsport, charged with
criminally assaulting Julia M. Hicks, a
white girl at Sunbury.
—One of the features of the forthcom.
ing report of the Bureau of Industrial
Statistics is the industrial school statis.
tistics and appenticeships.
—F. D. Beyer and company, of Tyrone,
have the contract for repairing the
Methodist church at Petersburg, which
was damaged by the recent storms.
—The regular quarterly meeting of the
Board of Property, which should have
been held at Harrisburg this week, has
been postponed until September.
—Imperial Potentate Thomas J. Hud
son, of the Oriental Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, says the Imperial Coun.
cil will meet at Denver, Col., on July 24,
—While George Carbaugh and son were
crossing the tracks at Bedford a freight
train struck their team, killing the old
man and: injuring the son beyond re-
covery.
—~There are over 400 monuments on the
Gettysburg battlefield, not including the.
scores of granite markers or the thous.
ands of little white headstones in the
cemetery.
—Charters were Monday granted to the
Elizabethtown Electric Light Company,
of Elizabethtown, capital stock 10,000,
and the Wyoming Coal and Land Com. -
pany, of Scranton, capital stock $150,000.
—Punxsutawney News: A young lady
of Punxsutawney was greatly puzzled to
know what the initials “N. G. P.”” on the
uniforms of the State troops stood for,
She was pleased, howeyer, when one of
the soldier boys told her “Nice Girls of
Punxsutawney.” She thought it was
“awful nice” in the boys.