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Ink Slings.
—Now comes the season of the year,
When everything is gay ;
And woman runs up bills so dear,
For man to pay and pay.
—No man who is honorable has &
superior.
—The holiday season grows on apace,
but woman's wishes are only satisfied in
a gallop.
—A broom trust has been formed and
there will be a clean sweep some where
er’e long.
— Remember that whatever befalls
you an honest man never has any troub-
le finding friends.
—CLEVELAND’S gout didn’t interfere
with his getting a good bit of common j
sense into the message.
—The boy who is kind to his play-
mates will be surprised some day to find
out how much he is esteemed when
manhood dawns.
—1Tt is time to begin looking up some
resolutions for the new year. Flexible
ones are the best kind to make, since
they can be broken without much jar to
your conscience.
—Tt is said that Congressman BRECK-
INRIDGE was very cooly received by his
colleagues when Congress reconvened
on Monday. It wasa kind of a hoar
frost that chilled him.
—ANDREW CARNEGIE is of the
opinion that ‘a man who dies rich dies
in disgrace.” The iron master had bet-
ter begin to blow his millions in pretty
fast or no other epitaph will be needed
for his grave stone than the sentence he
has just delivered himself of.
—Of the thirty three pages in Con-
grass now all are Democrats but one,
and consequently all will have to go but
that one when the Republicans organ-
ize the fifty-fourth session. These
youthful politicians, called pages at
‘Washington, feel more like paragraphs
now that they see such a nipping of
their ambitious buds.
—Telegraphic information is to the
effect that the Soldier’s Orphans Sixteen-
ers will build their monument to CUR-
TIN 1n Central park at Harrisburg -and
that Bellefonte will not furnish a site
for one, unless the G. A. R. builds it.
There should be some kind of a shaft
erected here at his home, but even if
that project fails, time can never
efface the monument that his life among
us will build in the memory of pos-
terity.
—At last the statue of WM. PENN
has been set on the tower of the Phila-
delphia city hall, After all the mil-
lions that have been squandered in that
building poor old daddy PENN has been
perched up on top of it all, we suppose
because he is a Quaker and will keep
his mouth shut, no matter what goes on
under him. Philadelphians are mad
because his face is looking northward, a
position which no one seems to know
any particular reason for having been
given him.
—TereY PowDERLY played the
Hastings’ pipe during the campaign
and arrived in town early Monday
morning to see about his pay. The ex-
grand mogul of the Knights of Labor
would like to be factory inspector, but
CHRIS MAGEE, the Pittsburg boss,
will have something to say when
that pie is set out, POWDERLY
is evidently on the right side with the
Governor-elect for no sooner had he
registered at the Bush house than he
was spirited away to the HAsTINGS’
bome and kept there ‘until he left
town.
—If you are casting about for some
reason for the recent defeat of Democra-
cy just pick up a Wednesday’s Philadel-
phia Times and read the trouble that is
being stirred up in the mint there. The
most despicable bit of poliiicai trickery
we have heard of for some time threat-
ens the position of superintendent of the
mint and it looks very much a3 if the
Treasury Department would ask Dr.
TOWNSEND to resign because a Repub-
lican subordinate, who is still in office,
has reported him for removing seven
Republicans to make room for as many
Democrats. Isitany wonder that our
party is gone to styx, when Democrats
cannot hold office because they dis-
charge Republicans.
—Just what all the fellows want is
hard to tell, but while the mails keep up
a constant stream of calls on HAsTINGS'
favor the trains add a daily quota of
hungry looking politicians who arrive
in town with their best bib and tucker
on. Straightway they fly to the barber
shops, get cleaned up, then mosey round
the town looking like parsons in meek-
ness waiting the call that gives them an
audience and an opportunity to tell
their little tale of undying devotion.
They generally amble by the house sev-
eral times before they venture up the
steps, then the General's pet mocking
bird gets on to them ani sings out;
“There after DAN,” whereupon the
prospective callers are gizad up and if
they are recognized are ushered into the
the innnermost council chamber, but if
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BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 7, 1894.
NO. 48.
The Pesident’s Message.
The message of President CLEVE-
LAND, delivered to Congress last Mon-
day, is interesting chiefly in its con-
nection with the report of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. It has but little
. to say about the tariff, its allusion to
i that subject being principally confined
i to the special bills for the enlarge-
ment of the free list, the passage of
which he urges. He also recommends
such change in the navigation laws as
will bring them in conformity with the
improvement in the tariff laws.
As to the currency, the President
merely reflects the views of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury on that subject.
The business of the country has been
hampered and injured by a confused
and defective monetary system, the re-
sult of long continued Republican fi-
nancial tinkering. Much ot the evil
comes from the part which the govern-
ment has been made to take in supply-
ing the country with its currency, im-
posing pecuniary obligations upon it
which are often found to be embarrass.
ing, as instanced in the difficulty in
maintaining a supply of gold sufficient
to meet liabilities that must be paid in
gold. Much of the recent business
trouble is due to this difficulty.
The reform proposed is to relieve the
government of the duty of furnishing
the greater part of the paper currency
of the country, which it does in its le-
gal tender and treasury notes, for the
redemption of which in gold it is lia-
ble. The proposition is to make the
banks the exclusive source of paper
currency, with ample security for its
redemption. This is to be done by re-
quiring them to deposit with the gov-
ernment legal tender governmeat notes
to the amount of 30 per cent. of their
intended paper circulation. In addi
tion to this a small annual tax of
about one half of one per cent. is to be
laid upon the entire bank circulation,
the proceeds of which is also to go in-
to the guarantee or redemption fund,
and besides ‘these safe guards other
provisions are made for the thorough
protection of those into whose bands
this paper money must come.
The substitution of government le-
gal tender notes for government bonds
as the basis of security for this cur-
rency is the best feature of the scheme.
It removes the objection that has al-
ways been made to the national banks
drawing interest on the bonds, and at
the same time making a profit on the
circulation based on those bonds. It
will also enable the government to re-
tire from circulation a large portion of
its legal tender notes without being
compelled to redeem them with gold.
As security for the bank notes, they
will be just as reliable as bonds, for
the government is responsible for their
ultimate redemption, and they carry
no interest. It is this feature that
makes this scheme preferable to the
proposition to retire the government
currency by funding it in low interest
bonds. Thisiwouldibe one way of get-
ting the government out of the bank-
ing business, a function that does not
belong to it, but it would increase the
interest bearing indebtedness of the
government, which would};be bad fi-
nanciering.
We would add that the plan of the
Secretary of the Treasury is also in-
tended to enable the State banks to
participate in supplying the paper cir-
culation under the prescribed safe-
guards for the protection of their note
holders.
—If the Democratic party would
make the most of its opportunities it
should show the people of these United
States that it can do good work before
the time is too late. Let us have such a
session of Congress as has never been
known before. Careful, expeditious leg-
islation, without quarrels or political
machinations by which certain things
are done for considerations.
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A great pity it is that Bellefonte
councilmen don’t own property along
every street in town. If they did we
would have beautiful thoroughfares no
matter what the cost.
——The municipal government of
Bellefonte is as rotten in proportion to
theamount of funds handled as is that
of the mos: corrupt city ia the country.
Now that the election is over
prepare for winter and subssribe for
the WATCH MAN,
Recognition of an Obligation.
Governor-elect Hastings deserves
credit for not allowing the bosses to
turn down Editor LaMBErTs claim to
a place in his administration. The
service of any of them in his behalf
did not not begin to equal that which
was rendered by the paper with which
Mr. LaMBERT is connected.
The immense majority which the
Governor-elect received was largely at-
tributable to the bambooezling to which
the voting population was subjected.
What paper contributed more than
the Press to the misinformation that
brought about that result ? What ove
did more to befog the common mind
as to the cause of the business depres:
sion? What calamity howl equalled
that of the Philadelphia organ of ruin
and disaster ? Which of all the Re-
publican papers that misled the work-
ing people came anywhere near the
reckless campaign mendacity of the
one which Mr. Lameert writes for?
As a member of its editorial staff there
can be no doubt that he did full service
in contributing to the political fiction
that fllled the columns of the Press
during the campaign and exerted s0
large an influence in humbugging the
voters. The Governor-elect would be
guilty of unpardonable dereliction if he
allowed such service to go unrewarded.
Besides, without computing such
party usefulness, we consider Editor
LaMBERT, with the varied experience
which his profession supplies, more
competent to fill a position under the
State administration than any of the
fellows whom the bosses might pre-
feror the Philadelphia combine. rec:
ommend. It may be a fellow feeling
that inclines us to stand up for an edi-
tor every time, but apart from our
sentimental view of the matter, what
would have been implied if brother
Lameerr's claim had been turned
down in compliance with boss dicta-
tion ? [tis well known that Quay is
down on the Press, or at least that he
and the Press don’t pall together. It
would have been inferred that the boss
had the power to block the official am-
bition of any one connected with that
paper. It wonld have given but scant
encouragement to brother SymitH's as-
piration to the United States Senate.
The Governor-elect, remembering
the service rendered by the Philadel-
phia organ, has recognized the conse-
quent obligation by giving one of its
editors an office with a comfortable
salary attached. .
Brilliantly Successful.
The administration has been bril-
liantly successful in securing the loan
that was required by the financial ne-
cessities of the government. There
was a lively competition for the bonds,
three times the amount needed was of-
fered, and the accepted sum was ob-
tained at an average of about 3 per
cent., a circumstance which demon-
strated not only that the public credit
is sound and the present management
of the Treasury has the confidence of
the financial world, but also that there
is plenty of gold id the country availa-
ble in case of an emergency.
The political enemies of the ad-
ministration resorted to every device
to discredit the loan and, if possible,
prevent its success, even at the risk of
sacrificing the public intérest. The at-
titude of the Republican opposition in
this matter appears peculiarly repre-
hensible in view of the fact that the
financial trouble that absolutely neces
sitated the recent loan, as well as that
of last February, was the direct result
of currency and financial laws put on
the statute books by Republican legie-
lators and a Republican President.
The people have reason to rejoice
that this Democratic effort to tide the
country over the disastrous effects of a
Republican financial policy, and to
maintain the national credit, has been
successful in spite of misrepresenta-
tion and opposition. An embarrass:
ment has been relieved that seriously
threatened to impair the credit of the
government and hamper its operations.
Permanent relief to the Treasury will
soon come from the revenue supplied
by the new tariff and the income tax,
but the lesson taught by ah injurious
Republican fiscal and monetary sys-
tem should urge the reform of our cur-
rency as well as of our tarift laws.
-— Subscribe for the WaTcaMAN,
The Middletown Bank.
Among the National banks that are
numbered among the financial wrecks
the old institution at Middletown, this
State, attracts attention. Its ease pre:
gents the old story of mismanagement,
resulting in embarrassmentand a com-
pulsory wind-up, with consequent loss
to stockholders and depositors.
Probably no other banking institu-
tion in the State had a greater no-
toriety. It was noted not so much for
the extent of its operations, or its
financial influence, as for its connec:
tion with the publiclife and political ca-
reer of SimoN CAMERON. Money was
the secret of CAMERON'S success in
politics, and in the control of this in-
fluence he got his first foothold
through his connection with the Mid-
dletown bank, which came to be
known as Cameron's bank. It was
closely connected with many of the
schemes by which he achieved politi-
cal predominance in Pennsylvania.
Shrewdly estimating the power of:
money in politics, he gradually be-
came connected with or secured con-
trol of banks in various parts of the
State, counting upon the effect which
bank accommodation would have for
his political advantage in the commu-
nities where those institutions were lo-
cated. This accounted for his haviug
henchmen in the Democratic as well
as in the Republican party, in dif
ferent parts of the State, upon whose
support he could always rely. He
held them through his bank influence.
Accommodation in the CaMERON
banks was the atiractionand bond of
union. The bank at Middletown was
at the head of this ramification. It
gained an early and unenviable no-
toriety in the Winnebago transaction,
and its propinguity to the State capitol
made it a handy resort for the means
that determined many an issue in the
State Legislature in which the Gen-
eral’s political fortunes were involved.
| It must be said that under the Cam-
ERON'management il was a safe insti-
tution, so far as its financial character
| was concerned, although it was malo-
dorounsly associated with the demorali-
‘zation which General Cameron had
"the bad distinction of introducing into
American politics, a demoralization
which to-day is observable in the
shameless money purchase of United
States Senatorships. Since the with-
drawal of the CAMERON management,
which was always sound and reliable
from a financial point of view, the
old bank seems to have fallen into
kite-flying hands, with the result that
its wreck is now in the hands of a re-
ceiver.
On Its Last Legs.
It will not be soon forgotten how
the men who had the Wirsox bill in
charge were accused of favoring the
sugar trust, and how the public was
impressed by the clamor that the
monopoly was being cared for in the
formulation of the sugar schedule.
The most earnest tariff reformers were
included in this misleading and mali-
cious charge, not excluding even the
President or the Secretary of the
Treasury.
But time usually vindicates the
truth, and the short time that has
elapsed since the passage of the Demo-
cratic tariff bill has been long enough
to show the effects of the reduction of
the duty on refined sugar which a
Democratic Congress succeeded in ef-
fecting in the face of the charge that
the intention was to favor the trast,
and in spite of all kinds of embarrass:
ments thrown in the way by Republi
can supporters of the sugar monopoly,
and the squad of unfaithful Democrat-
ic Senators.
The reduction of the McKINLEY
duty from 50 cents to 12% cents per
hundred pounds has knocked the props
from under the trust and sealed its
fate. Haveumeyer already proclaims
its collapse, and it a free sugar bill
should be passed at the present session
of Congress there would be no resur-
rection for the greatest of the monopo-
lies that grew up under Republican
protection.
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It will be necessary for council
to make a new contract for lighting
the streets before very longand we want
to advise our readers not to be sur-
prised if we jump back forty years and
begin with gas lamps again.
The Pensioners Growing.
From the New York Sun.
The annual report of the Commis-
sioner of Pensions shows that the number
of pensioners on the roll on June 30 last
was 969,544, and that the total amount
of pensions paid during the fiscal year
then ending was $139,804 461.
It is gratifying to find that the pen-
gion list has not yet reached a million.
The net increase during the last fiscal
year was only 3,632. Compared with
the increase of the three or four years
preceding, this is almost a startling
change in the situation :
Year. Increase.| Year. Increase.
1894... cuirecrinnninnese 3. 53211802... LNAI .199,963
1893. .crsmrversrnisennes 39,9401 180)... shi ieinesd «..138,216
The exect official figures of the pen-
sion roll during the past six years is ex-
hibited in the subjoined table :
Year. Pensions.| Year. i Pensions.
1894 usitaiirenninnnns 969,544/1890......ic000000040...537,944
1893. +1966,012/1889....c00000000000e...489,725
1892... 876,063 1888.....0 ses oe reeen 32,557
380L..ver orves vee resiBTG 100
That is to say, during the period of
six years between June 80, 1888, and
June 30, 1894, a period beginning twen-
ty-three years after the close of the civil
war and ending twenty-nine years there-
after, the number of pensioners more
than doubled. During the same period
the annual expenditure nearly doubled,
rising $79,646,146 in 1888 to $139,804,-
461 in 1894.
Twenty-two years ago, when the num-
ber of pensioners was only 232,229 and
the annual expenditure only $30,000,000,
Gen. James A. Garfield announced in
Congress that the high-water mark bad
probably been reached. ‘We may rea-
sonably expect,” he said, ‘that the ex-
penditures for pensions will hereafter
steadily decrease, unless our legislation
should be unwarrantably extravagant.”
“Unwarrantably extravagant’ is the
brand which this patriotic Union soldier
and distinguished Republican statesman
affixed in advance upon the policy of
his own party with regard to pensions.
Is the high-water marked reached now,
as the Hon. Hoke Smith hopefully
asserts ? Will the new Republican Con-
gress, after the experience of the past,
make another move toward national
bankruptcy ?
Elections are Uncertain.
From the Northampton Democrat.
At the election on the 6th of Novem-
ber the Republicans carried’ Cincinnati,
0., by a majority of 22,000. Two weeks
after there was an election for a Judge
of one of the Courts, and the Democrats
were successful in electing their. can-
didate by a majority of over 3,000, mak-
ing a change in less than two weeks of
over 25,000. Those who imagined that
the Presidential electivn for 1896 was
already won on the day atter the last
election will do well to stop and get
their exuberant minds in a condition so
that a little thinking is possible, and
they may then begin to think that a
powerful amount of hard work is ahead
of them.
The fact is that there will be very lit-
tle trouble to recover in 1896 all that
was lost in 1894. Prosperous times and
sound Democratic leadership, divested
of all mugwumpery, will be the open
sesame to Democratic success.
Quay and Platt Don’t Need Charters.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The “good government’ clubs pro-
pose a move on Tammany in attempt
to have its charter abrogated and the so-
ciety dissolved. Tammany was original-
ly chartered in 1789 as a beneficial =o-
ciety, and it has remained true to that
tundamental notion. It is not necessary
to have a charter to constitute a political
machine. Platt has'a pretty good one in
New York, and Quay in Pennsylvania,
and they have no chartered privileges.
Here in Allegheny county we have one
just as effective in its way as Tammany,
and it has never found a charter nec-
essary, although it has exercised the
right to plunder the taxpayers without
stint.
Why Democrats Are Hard to Eleet.
From the Scranton Times.
“The Democrats of Pennsylvania la-
bor under exceptionally great odds in
the tussle for congressmen. For in-
stance, at the late election the Repub
licans got a congressman for every
18,700 Republican votes. The Demo-
crates got one for every 164,454 Demo-
cratic votes. The State Senate is the
most magnificent bit of gerrymander-
ing in the union. The Democrats are
allowed a senator for every 47,000
Democratic votes, while the Republi-
cans got one for every 13,000 Republi-
can votes, This can hardly be called
representative government.”
es ee ——————
This Is Sense, Why Isn't It Tried ?
From the Uniontown Genius of Liberty.
An organization styling itself the
Pennsylvania Democracy, in Philadel-
phia, is already in the field with a can-
didate for mayor of that city in the per-
son of Dallas Sanders. The regular or-
ganization of the party is wrong when
it attempts to conciliate the so called
Pennsylvania Democracy. The latter
should be allowed to run a ticket of its |
own making once, and let the people
see how many votes it can poll. It]
couldn't beat the Prohibitionists and
after seeing the number of its followers
polled and counted once, would get
ashamed and quit its foolishness.
EE TT ABB
——If you want printing of any des-
cription the Warcmuan office is the
place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A new Catholic church is being erected
at Frackville. !
—The Bowmanites will erect a new
church in Wilkesbarre.
—Miss Laura Courtrignt, of Pittston, at-
tempted suicide by taking laudanum.
—Pottsville has raised over $1200 for the
relief of the fever-stricken people of Mt.
Carmel.
—Walter Leisenring has become man-
ager of the great Oak Hill Colliery, Upper
Lehigh.
—Carbon County teachers Monday be.
gan their twenty-first annual institute in
Mauch Chunk.
—Carnegie’s officials deny that his great
steel mills will be moved from the Pitts.
burg region to Ohio.
—At Harrisburg the State Tax Confer.
ence is drafting its bill for the Legislature
| to revise taxation.
—Pennsylvania’s printing, done by the
Public Printer, cost $139,771 last year ; sup-
plies and paper, 56,026,
—The 148th anniversary of the organiza-
tion of the Moravian church, at Lancaster,
was celebrated Monday,
—The forty first annual session of the
Cumberland County Teachers’ Institute
opened at Carlisle Monday.
—Allegheay City assessors are said to
be paying 5 cents a name for signers
ageinst annexation to Pittsburg.
—Both of Brakeman Charles Goodman's
legs were cut off on the Frackville branch
of the Reading road, and he died.
—Despondent because he was out of
work, Samuel R. Walker, of Allegheny
City, killed himself with aconite.
—The State Executive Committee of
the County Commissioners’ Association is
presenting new legislation at Harrisburg.
—The Pennsylvania State Music, Te. -n-.
ers’ Association will begin a three-days
convention in Harrisburg on December
26.
—Because of several cases of brutality
on the part of Erie policemen those on
the day force have been deprived of their
clubs.
—Soft coal operators of the Pittsburg
district have asked miners to accept low-
er wages to conform to the Columbus
scale.
—The Lukens Iron & Steel Company, of
Coatesville, has gladdened the hearts og
its employes witha 10 per cent. increase
in wages,
—Charles Heidt, who fatally stabbed his
brother, John during a mock duel in Erie,
on Thanksgiving Day, has been arrested
and sent to jail.
—Frederick Frazer has been elected
treasurer of the American Steel Casting
Company’s Standard plant, at Chester,
vice S. J. Williams, resigned.
{ —The public school pupils of Williams.
port deposited $51.28 in one of the city
banks last Friday. This school saving
fund is a capital institution.
—Owing to internal dissensions the Na.
tional Window Glass Workers’ Associa.
tion, at Pittsburg, Saturday failed for the
second time this year to elect officers.
—A new washery to separate the coal
from the culm banks, at Corktown, near
Gilberton, to employ 150 hands, has just
been completed by Madara, Hill & Co.
—A Harrisburg follower of Evangelical
Bishop Dubs says there are only 26,000
Esherites in the county. There were 155,-
000 in both factions eight months ago.
—Gus Koegel and Fred. Tholmer, young
Germans, walking around the world on a
$6)00 wager, arrived in Harrisburg Mon.
day, 175 miles ahead of schedule time.
—Sheriff H. G. Pugsley is at Meadville
with requisition papers for Dr. B. C. Mec.
Clintock, who is wanted in White Plains
on the Charge ot abducting Hattie Pye.
—Alfred Peterson was fatally, and Ste.
ven Valco and Edmund Murphy serious.
ly, burned by an explosion of gas in Dor-
rance Colliery, near Wilkesbarre, Monday.
—Joseph L. Taylor was killed, Matthew
Taylor and Joseph Kurtz fatally hurt,
and Frank Blanset and Vincent Kurtz
badly injured by a fall of coal near Greens.
burg.
—David M. Andrews, of Washington
County, has been appointed a member of
the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Erie House Com-
mission, vice Representative Sull,ideceas-
ed.
—In aecordance with the order issued
by the management of the Reading Coal
and Iron Company, the shops at Potts.
ville began Monday to work eight hours &
day.
—Wahile Philip R. Allwein, of Lebanon
was on his way home on Saturday night,
he was attacked by a highwayman and
compelled to give up his watch and
money.
—A vein of bituminous coal has been
found at Gardeau, Pa., on the line of the
W. N.Y. & P. road. Itis over five feet in
thickness and is clean coal without slate
of any form.
—Thieves robbed the jewelry store of J.
F. Lewis, at Northeast Erie County, of
$3000 worth of watches and jewelry, Sun.
day morning, and escaped from the town
on a hand-car.
—Pittsburg Judges promise soon to de-
cide the Amalgamated Asscoiation’s im.
portant injunction suit against the Unit.
ed States Tinned Plate Association, to en-
force scale wages.
—Hickory Swamp Colliery, near Shamo-
kin, operated by the Union Coal Com-
pany, shut down Monday night for an in.
Jdefinite period, throwing 500 men and boys
out of employment.
—The people of Lycoming county are
bezinning to bestir themselves and held a
meeting at Williamsport Tuesday to take
the preliminary steps towards celebrating
their coming centennial.
—William Penn Bowman, convicted &
few days ago of murder in the first degree
for the killing of Mike John, a peddler,
has been granted a rule for a new trial by
Judge Lynch, of Wilkesbarre.
—There is talk of extending the Black
Lick railroad next spring tq Pittsburg
when the passenger travel will be over
! this road through Eb:nsburg, saving an
hour's time from Pittsburg to Altoona.
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{ —The Coalpit Run branch road leading
! from McFadden’s mines to the main line
I of the Black Lick road at the Twin Rocks,
was to have been completed. last week,
The shipment ot coal,'which is said to be
of the finest quality, will; commence in g
few days. ye
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