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GRAY EEK.
Ink Slings. F
--The venomous Dana pursued the
President to the privacy of Gray
Gables.
—The River and Harbor BILL has a
good deal the appearance of a mammoth
pork barrel.
—The thrashing which the Republi-
cans and Populists received in Alabama
has turned out a very fine Oates crop.
—This month will see the end of this
session of Congress; but the end of
this session will be the beginning of re.
newed business prosperity.
—The GouLDs are said to intend to
make England their future home,
GEORGE, by means of his yacht, having
sailed into English aristocratic society.
—Twenty cents a gallon has been
added to the whisky tax, but it is not
likely to diminish the size of drinks,
nor shorten the intervals between them.
—An anxious public is waiting for
candidate HASTING’S to explain why a
“sound money’’ party adopted a cheap
silver inflation platform. This is the
enigma of the campaign.
—The Chinese are said to have a
cruiser whose name sounds something
like Gin Sling. If that isits name, and
it gets a shot at the Japs, it may lay
them out, as is the usual effect of
gin slings.
How many more decisions of the
South Carolina supreme court will it
take to settle the fact that TILLMAN’S
liquor law is unconstitutional ? The
deipensaries keep running right on in
spite of court and constitution.
—Collars and Cuffs MurPHY and
Sweat Leather SmiTH boldly avowed
their allegiance to the Sugar Trust by
their votes in the Senate last Saturday,
but the saccharine Senator from Mary-
land resorted to a cowardly dodge.
—The amount appropriated at this
session of Congress will foot up $490,-
000,000. The expenses caused by recent
bad: Repubican legislation, which have
still to be met, require the continuance
of a billion dollar Congress.
—MurrHY collared the supplemental
sugar bill in the Senate and gave ita
cuff with his resolution that wiil have
the effect of serving the interest of the
Trust until a future Democratic Con-
gress shall wipe out the sugar tax en-
tirely.
—Governor TILLMAN, of South Car-
olina, seriously predicts the ignominious
defeat of the Democracy at the next
general elections. Such talk would in-
dicate that the ‘Governor has been in-
dulging too freely at one of his dispen-
saries.
—Notwithstanding the ill natured
strictures of the Republican newspa-
pers about Mr. CLEVELAND going away
from Washington, a reform tariff bill
signed by the President at Gray Gables
would help the country just as'much as
if it were signed at the White House.
—1It does not become the Republi-
cans to speak of the slowness of the
Democrats in passing a tariff bill. I
took the Democrats but eight months to
pass a better bill than the Republicans
were able to get up in ten months, al-
though the latter were assisted by all
the trusts and half the millionaires in
the country.
— Major Sam LosH, the Republi-
can leader of Schuylkill county, who
was defeated forthe Republican nomi-
nation for Congress by Greenbacker
CHARLEY BrumM, is backward about
pulling off his coat in the interest of the
nominee. Even if he should get his
coat off it is doubtful whether he will
roll up his shirt sleeves.
—The enemies of PULLMAN, who
think that heshould be punished, will
have their enmity gratified by the an-
nouncement that bis daughter is going
to marry a prince, with all the trouble
and humiliation in the future that such
an alliance implies. But the misfor.
tune of the daughter would be involved
in the punishment of the father, which
is to be regretted.
—They skin eels with a brass band
in Lock Haven, or at least a brass band
furnished the music at an eel skinning
VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA, AUG. 24, 1894.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
A Test onthe Sugar Question.
Action in the Senate last Saturday
on the supplemental sugar bill brought
out in glaring colors the allegiance of
the Republican Senators to the sugar
trust, and also compelled the half dozen
Democratic sugar senators to make a
further show of their hands.
The question came up whether the
Senate should act on the bill sent from
the Democratic House making sugar
free. MaxDERsON, Republican Sena.
tor from Nebraska, offered an awmend-
ment providing for the restoration of
the McKiNLEY bounty of $15,000,000
a year to the sugar growers, this being
intended to kill free sugar. This re-
ceived the votes of a majority, but
failed on account of the want of a quo-
ram. Then the Democratic and Re-
publican sugar senators had a consul-
tation, the result of which was that
Collars and Cuffs MurrHY offered a
resolution “that no farther tariff legis-
lation should be considered at this ses-
sion.” If this should be passed it
would hang up the bill that proposed
to put sugar on the free list, that being
its direct purpose. It was passed,
every Republican Senator and the
Democratic agents of the sugar trust
voting for it.
This vote has had at least one good
effect. The Republicans have raised
a tremendous clamor about the Demo:
trust. Though they know the circum-
stances under which a handful of re-
creant and mercenary Democratic
Senators forced the Democratic House
to take their bill or none at all, there-
by viving the trust a greater advan-
tage than it shonld have had, but not
as great as was furnished it by the
McKiNrLey bill, yet the Republican
organs have been noisy in holding the
Democratic party responsible for it.
But when it is demanded in the Sen-
ate by a supplemental bill from the
Democratic House, that this defect in
the tariff bill shall be remedied by
putting sugar on the free list, every
one of the Republican Senators is
found voting in the interest of the
trust. With such an exposition, will
the g. o. p. organs continue their clamor
about Democratic responsibility for the
continuance of the differential duty ?
As they are shameless, and apparently
brainless, they probably will continue
it, but its only effect will be to excite
the contempt of the people.
Democratic Indignation.
The Indiana Democrats, in the most
numerously attended State Convention
ever held in that State, last week gave
expression to their sentiment regard-
ing the handful of so-called Democrats
in the Senate who sold themslves to
the trusts. When that part of the
resolutions was read which condemned
in severe terms the United States Sena-
tors who stood in the way of tariff re-
form, it was greeted with approving ap-
plause, and when a member of the con-
vention remarked that “the finger of
scorn will follow them along the path-
way of life,” the remark received a
thundering endorsement. The resolu-
tion on this subject declared that the
Democracy of Indiana “especially
condemn a small coterie of Senators
who, masquerading as Democrats, by
threats to defeat all tariff legislation
have temporarily prevented the Demo-
cratic party from carrying out all of
its pledges to the people for tarifl re-
form as announced in the Democratic
platform of 1892.”
—-LEwis Dewar, of Sunbury, who
has been nominated for Congress by
the Democratic convention of North-
tournament in that place in which one
contestant skinned three eels in twenty-
three seconds, while a more expeditious
rival took the hides off a like number of
slippery victims in twenty seconds. For |
entertainments of an elevated character |
Lock Haven is away ahead, and this |
one afforded unbounded satisfaction to |
everybody but the eels,
—The Lock Haven Express, in |
moralizing mood, remarks: “Every |
life 1s a rifle on the infinite sea that |
rolls in ceaseless monotone between
Time and Eternity.” This sounds very
well, but what is a “rifle 22 We have
heard, in slang parlance, of men mak-
ing the “riffle,” but it would be impos-
sible to find such a thing as a “rifle” on
the “infinite sea,” or any other kind of
sea. We wonder if our Lock Haven
neighbor doesn’t mean “ripple.
umberland county, belongs to a con-
gressional family, as his father, his
grandfather on his father’s side, his
grandfather on his mother’s side, and
his step-grandfather, were all members
of Congress, Unfortunately, however,
for his present congressional ambition,
his county bas just had the Represen-
tative of the district in Hon. S, P,
WorverroN, and is not likely to have
that favor repeated right away.
~——ToM RErD says he cannot bring
himeelf to believe that the President
will sign the tariff bill. Rurp’s belief
in this case very naturally takes the
direction of his wish, Nothing would
better suit him, the Republican party,
and the trusts, than that the President
should veto the bill and let the Me-
KiNvLEY tariff stand.
cratic tariff bill favoring the sugar |
failure.
Hard Up for an Issue.
Ex-collector CooPEr shows his affec-
tion for and attachment to his old boss
by bringing out in his Media paper Dox
CaMERON for President of the United
States. Dox has recently been squint-
ing very strongly in the direction of
free silver, and Cooper says that
protection and free silver will be the
winning cards in 1896.
Such talk as this indicates that the
Republicans are getting confused as
to the issues that will be available for
them to make a fight on in the next
presidential cempaign. Heretofore
they did not want anything better
than high tariff protection as an
issue upon which to base their cam.
paign operations, but now they are
looking for an auxilliary in the silver
question. The leaders are becoming
silverites, but CaMeroN has been dis-
counted in this movement by Ton
Reep, who has anticipated him by pro-
jecting a presidential boom composed
of equal parts of high tariff and free
silver.
By the time the next presidential
election comes around the Republican
presidential candidates will find protec-
tion entirely unavailable for campaign
use. As McKINLEY has no other issue
on which he can plant himself he will
disappear from the canvass. HARrI-
eoN will be nearly in as bad a plight.
What Rep and CaMerox will be able
to make out of their coquetting with
the silver issue is to be seen when
the time comes for naming the Repub-
lican presidential candidate, but with
the country flourishing under a Demo-
cratic tariff it is doubtful whether
there will be enough left of the old dis-
carded high tariff party to put a presi-
dential ticket in the field.
—— The attempted Republican re
bellion in Chester county against Cax-
ErON has turned out to be a signal
In the Legislative districts
where the issue was raised, the Cau-
. ERoN candidates were nominated, and
the party has abjectedly submitted to
wearing the old regulation collar.
The same submission exists pretty
generally in the party throughout the
State. As the Republican organiza-
tion in Pennsylvania is constituted, it
is impossible for it to emancipate it-
gelf from the two bosses who control
aod own it. In fact it has become so
emasculated by its long subjection that
| it does not want to be released from its
bondage. The overthrow of Cameron-
ism and Quayism can be expected only
| from the Democrats.
A New Reform Party.
It is reported that a barbecue will
shortly be held at Braddock, to be at-
tended by leading business men of
Pittsburg and other parts of Western
Pennsylvania, who will then and there
arrange tor the organization of “a par-
ty of reform.” Parties that have
amounted to anything in the way of
reform have never been known to be
organized at barbecnes. Granting
that there is much to be reformed in
this country, a new reform party
would have a wide field in which to
operate.
It is said that both parties will en-
gage in the movement that is to be
inaugurated at Bradtord, but we can
hardly believe it. It is true that Re-
publicans have reason to attach them-
selves to some party that would give a
better promise of reform than their
own, but the Democrats have every
reason to be satisfied with the reforms
which their party is making. The
Democratic party is the only party in
the country that takes any interest in
reform, and if the men who are going
to hold their reform barbecue at Brad-
dock want their movement to amount
to anything they had better join the
Democratic procession.
——Free raw materials were the
promise of the Democratic party. Be-
cause two materials, by reason of no
fault of the party, were not put on
the free list, a fuss is raised as if the
Democratic promise had been greatly
violated. But when the party can
point to wool, lamber, salt, flax, hemp,
jute, copper and cotton ties freed from
the McKiNLEY tax, it can be proud of
the fulfillment of its pledge, and look
confidently forward to the placing of
coal and iron ore on the free list in the
near future,
NO. 33.
Its Effect on Wages.
Mr. James PorLock, a& prominent
Republican of Philadelphia, and a
strong advocate of protection, has
written a letter to Mr. J. Hampton
Moore, another Republican and pro-
tectionist of the same city, giving him
his impression of certain things he saw
in Italy. By the way it may be re
marked that Italy is a country that has
an extraordinarily high tariff. A
statement in Mr. Pornock’s letter
shows how that tariff protects the Ital-
ian wage-earner. Writing from Ven-
ice, one of the industrial centres of
Italy, he says:
We took occasion here to visit a large lace
factory yesterday which interested the ladies
of our party very much. To me it furnished
an object lesson upon the industrial question,
which at this time is the foremost question in
my own country. I inquired of the manufaec-
turer what he paid to the girls and young
women that I saw employed in the place, and
was surprised when he told me they received
from eight to twelve cents per day of eight
hours,
Mr. Porrock’s remark that the in-
dustrial question is the foremost ques.
tion in his own country brings to mind
that men of his economic persuasion
insist that a high tariff is necessary to
produce high wages, a fallacy which
is disproved not only by the case of the
highly protected Italian lace weavers,
which he cites, but also by the experi-
ence of protected American workmen
who have had their wages decreased
under the McKINLEY tariff,
They Have Changed Their Tune.
What has become of the calamity
howl when within two weeks from
the passage of the Democratic tariff
{ bill the Republican Pittsburg Dispatch
adorns the top of one of its columns
with the following headlines: “Pay-
rolls Booming—*Indications that Hard
Times have Ceased to Worry Pitts-
burgers’—*“Gain of 30 per cent. in
Iron and Steel Mills” —“Lesser Works
are Doing Well”—*“Encouraging Re-
| ports from Bankers about Local Indus-
| tries” —“Grood Prospects for the Coal
| Trade.”
| We never had any doubt that busi-
| ness would begin to boom as soon as
I the tariff bill was passed. No one
| with common sense had a doubt about
RIT but we bardly expected to have
{ from a Republican source such early
testimony as to the beneficial effects of
| Democratic tariff legislation. Scarce-
| ly has the calamity howl died away
| before those who had raised it are
| forced to proclaim a revival of busi-
| ness, They declared that the mere
suggestion of a Democratic tariff had
ruived the country, and now testify to
the fact that the actual passage of
such a tariff has started the wheels of
industry.
McKinley's Forlorn Cry.
Governor McKNLEY is in an awk-
ward situation. He hopes to be elect-
ed President by virtue and in consid-
eration of the McKINLEY tariff and he
finds his tariff succeeded by another
which reverses the policy ot his meas-
ure and will prove that it was fallacious
in principle and injurious in effect.
How are his presidential aspirations
to be promoted by his having been the
author of a discredited and discarded
tariff law ?
Under such circumstances itis no
wonder that Governor McKiNLry is
worried. He wants to maintain the
delusion that his tariff is necessary for
the prosperity of the country and that
a public injury has been inflicted by
the Democrats reducing its excessive
duties. He declares that “proper pro-
tection must be restored promptly to
every industry that suffers from this
legislation.” This is a forlorn cry.
McKixrLey will never see the duties of
his tariff restored. By the time the
next presidential election shall have
come around the country will have dis-
covered that the McKINLEY tariff had
furnished improper protection, and its
author will be lost sight of as a presi-
dential candidate.
—-The Press remarks that Mr.
CLEVELAND'S whole time at Buzzard’s
Bay is given up to making that dish
of crow as palatable as possible.”
Wouldn't it be nearer the correct
thing if the Press were to say that Mr-
CLeveraND, in signing the tariff bill,
will complete a most unpalatable dish
for the Republicans? They would
much prefer a McKinney diet, but the
President is not likely to gratify their
monopolistic appetite.
Fit Subject for the Income Tax,
From the Chicago Times.
Less than one-eighth of the taxes in
Illinois are paid by the gigantic corpo-
rations and railroad interests, the hold-
ings of which exceed by mang millions
the total assessed valuation of the entire
State. Hundreds of thousands of in-
dividual property owners throughout
the State have for years been assessed at
from one-third to one-half the actual
value of their humble possessions, while
the corporations are either entirely over-
looked by the local assessors and State
Board of equalization or succeed in hav-
ing their colossal aggregations of wealth
listed at one-tenth, or freque:tly one
twentieth of its actual value.
TT — IE ———
Blaine Was Right.
From the Northampton Democrat.
When the McKinley Tariff bill was
under consideration James . Blaine
said that 1t would not open a foreign
market for a single pound of American
pork or a single bushel of Anierican
wheat. The farmer whose wheat com-
mands ro more than 60 cents a bushel,
more than realizes Mr: Blaine’s observa-
tion. Without a foreign market for
American ‘wheat it will rot in the farm-
er’s granaries. So long as the McKin-
lea tariff is law, so long there will be no
foreign demand for American wheat.
Re ———————SNG—
To Resume the Tariff Fight.
From the New York Herald.
The fight over the sugar duty and
over the other “popgun’’ bills will be
resumed at the next session of Congress,
and the opponents of the trust believe
that there will be comparatively little
difficulty in passing a bill striking out
the } of a cent differential. There would
have been little difficulty in doing it at
this session if the Democratic Senators
had been willing to enter into a deal
with the Louisiana Senators by which
the bounty would have been paid for
this year.
————
They Like the Races.
From the Pittsburg Post.
It shows a decided advance in the tol-
eration of fiction that. by a recent vote
taken by the Presbyterian Sunday
schools of the country to determine tho
‘‘best 100 books for a Sunday school
library” “Ben Hur” appears on 91 per
cent of the lists, and leads all the rest.
And if the test could be extanded it
would be found that the chapters of
“Ben Hur” dearest to the Sunday school
mind were those descriptive of the char-
iot races.
———— SOOT ———
What the People Want.
From the Altoona Times.
The fact that the new tariff will show
its effects by stimulating the markets of
the world is not to the discredit of the
measure. What the people of the Unit-
ed States want is to get a larger share of
the commerce of the universe than has
been possible to them under an era of
high protection. If the Wilson bill
will be able to accomplish it, then it
will be a proof that the adoption of that
measure was a wise thing.
A Bogus Republic.
From the Pittsburg Post.
It is all right the House congratulat-
ing the republic of Hawaii “on the as-
sumption of the powers, duties and re-
sponsibilities of self-government, as in-
dicated by the recent adoption of the
republican form of government.” But
the Hawaiian plan is about as far away
practically from a government of the
people as that of his sublime mightiness,
the czar of all the Russias.
BE —
A Chicago Decision.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A Chicigo jury has decided that a
man who shot at his wife five times and
only hit her twice is not guilty of mur-
derous assault. According to this ver-
dict any man in Chicago will only be
able to make a murderous assault on his
wife when he uses a Gatling gun or a
Krupp cannon.
Just Like the “Press.”
From the Williamsport Sun.
The Philadelphia Press is already
hedging. Its New York letter, which
refers to the general improvement in
business, is headed: ¢ Bstter outlook
not due to tariff.”” But every man of
sense knows that it is the settlement of
the tariff question that has caused the
improvement.
Amn Absurd Charge.
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
To show the absurdity of the charges
of the Republican press that the Gorman
tariff bill is a free trade measure, if, is
but necessary to state that western Re-
publican congressmen opposed the meas-
ure for the reason that its rates were too
highly protective!
Doesn't Believe It Is Settled.
From the Altoona Trébune.
Most heartily do we wish it were true
to say that the tariff question is settled
for good. But itis not settled—there
will hardly be a lull in the agitation—
and it will not be settled until it is tak-
en out of partisan politics,
———————
The New Tariff Not Responsible.
From the Buffalo Courier.
The truth of history demands the as-
sertion that the Dalaware peach crop
was ruined before the passage of the
new tariff’ bill.
A SRC NN SCO Ta
Spawlis from the Keystone,
—Thieves are harrassing Cambria coun.
ty farmers,
—Another trolley line from Columbia,
to Lancaster is talked of.
—RBerks County farmers are disposing
of their flocks of sheep.
—The State Soldiers’ Orphan School
will reopen with 730 scholars.
—Israel Long, the father of eleven child.
ren at Kutztown, hanged himself,
—National Guardsmen will
their encampment pay this week.
—Harrisburg officials will quarantine
that city’s smallpox infected district,
—The number of taxables in Williams.
port decreased 77 during the last year.
—An Eisteddfod is to be held in Ma.
hanoy City, on Saturday, September 1,
—Driving into Codorus Creek, at York,
Frank Briggeman never came up alive,
—Nearly 500 Knights of Pythias of Penn.
Sylvania will attend the Grand Lodge at
York.
—A New Yorker, B. Golsmith, will
build a $200,000 tinplate mill in Allegheny
county.
—S8everal hundred persons attended
the Hartranft family reunion at Wil.
liamsport.
—A moyement is on foot to establish an
electric railway between Ebensbnrg and
Johnstown.
—Pottsville willhave a new water sup.
ply furnished by a company of local busi.
ness men.
—In trying to jump on a Reading train
at Mt. Holly, William Coover had both
legs cut off,
—Of receipts of $91,865.72 at the Lancas.
ter Internal Revenue office, $88,000 were
for whisky tax.
—James Gibbons sat upon the railroad
track near Wilkesbarre to rest and was
killed by a train.
—His inability to supply his family with
food induced Henry Murray, near Leba.
non to hang himself.
—About 2500 survivors of the German
army had a parade and reunion in Alle-
gheny City Monday.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad is now or-
ganizing a patrol system to arrest ride.
stealers on all its lines.
—A man, supposed to be Elias Cham-
bers, of Reading, hanged himself in a box
car near Allegheny City.
—For striking his child with a shovel,
Jacob Bickley, near Lebanon, was held in
$1000 bail for a hearing.
—The choral societies of Lebanon and
Lancaster counties, about 300 voices, met
this week, on Mt. Gretna.
—The Fourteenth Regiment buried its
dead colonel, P. D. Perchment, at Pitts.
burg, with military honors.
—After one unsuccessful attempt at
suicide R. K. Kramfield, of Scranton,
drowned himself at Ithaca, N. Y.
—Joseph L Biggart, an old resident of
Latrobe and a veteran of the late war,
died on Monday lsst, aged 76 years.
receive
—Western Pennsylvania coal miners
threaten to strike again unless the scale
of wages agreed upon shall be paid.
—One Huntingdon county citizen is
rather proud of a turkey hen that laid 100
eggs between April 1 and August 14,
—After a dispute with a relative, Mrs
Wistar Rhoads, of Douglassville, has dis.
appeared, leaving four small children.
—Ginseng roots are being gathered
about the sources of the West Branch of
the Perkiomen, and sold at $t and $5 per
pound.
—Charged with stealing $300 from Mich.
ael Walle, Mrs. Mary McLaughlin was
sent to Pottsville jail and the cash was
recovered.
—Miss Mary Burns, a sister of two com-
battantsin a pay-day fight, at Raven Rub,
was fatally kicked by some of the drunk.
en fighters.
—To protect his cows from the flies in
summer, a Juniata county farmer keeps
them snugly fitted out in coverings of
white muslin.
—Another new town has been laid out
along the Blacklick railroad, about seven
miles from Ebensburg. The new city is
called Glengade.
—The death of his son so preyed upon
the mind of Mondany Faust, a railroad
signal tower man at Pottsville, that he
shot himself dead.
—Mrs. Letitia Adams, nearly all her life
a resident of Centre and Clearfield coun-
ties, died in Harrisburg last Monday,
aged nearly 92 years.
—D. Wagner has applied to the Depart-
ment of Internal Affairs at Harrisburg
for a patent for valuable land in Somer-
set county, surveyed 100 years ago.
—An $8 draft, raised to $8)0, was aban.
doned by W. H. Fenton, who fled from
the First National Bank of McKeesport
when his forgery was discovered.
—A gang of thieves have within a week
stolen the communion services from St,
Peter’s, Beckers’ and Centre Churches,
all near Bowmansville, Berks county.
—A Northumberland county black.
smith, Solomon Kreisher, of Snydertown,
hasinvented and patented a pipe wrench
for the right of which he claims to have
been offered $80,000.
—Jonathan Peters, of Gravel Hill, Mif.
flin county, has had an entire flock of
sheep killed by dogs. No doubt Mz,
Peters is ready tosupport a law for the
massacre of all worthless cars,
—@Gibbony’s woolen mill in Union town.
ship, Mifllin county, was destroyed by
what is believed to have been an incendi.
ary fire on Sunday night. The loss is
#5,000 ; insurance not ascertained.
—The Woman’s Christian Temperance
union sent a courteous note to the tobac-
co dealers of Huntingdon asking them to
close their stores on Sunday. The Local
News saws the request was generally ob «
served.
—The Carlisle Leader announces that the
recent wholesale destruction of fish in
Pennsylvania streams was due to a fun.
gus disease brought about by an insuffi.
cient supply of oxygen due to the low
state of the water.
—Louis Campbell, a 4.year-old lad re.
siding in Williamsport, had both legs cut
off last April while playing on the tracks
of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad.
His father, E. C. Campbell, has brought
suit against the railroad conpany for $30,.
000 damages.
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