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Ink Slings. .
—Good resolutions, like good little
boys, invariably die young.
_— Hastings doubtless thinks, as he
looks at his presidential boomlat, “Its
a good thing, push it alonz.”
—The only time when zero counts for
much is when it gets to figuring in the
business of the plumbers and coal men.
— The road to fortune must be pretty
well broken after all. New York po-
Liceman have been beating it for years,
it seems.
—All this frigid weather and not 8
wire” about the Delaware peach crop
prospects. The liars must all be snow-
ed up down there.
—1Is this to be a Coxey Legislature?
It seems so, the first matter that was
spoken of in the House, Tuesday, was
a project for better roads.
—-Centra, Clearfield and Clinton coun-
ties all went Repuolican last fall, but
they received none of the offices handed
out at Harrisburg on Tuesday for their
good work for the G. 0.P. Why was
it?
—Russia’s new Czar has captivated
the hearts of this subjects by his luck of
fear, as demonstrated by his going
around the streets of St. Petersburg un-
attended. It takes nerve for a Russian
monarch to do such things.
—A man named BoOzE is going to
claim a seat 1n the next Congress and a8
he is a Republican, he’ll more than like-
ly get it, though a stool in the house
restaurant would be a place more in
keeping with his name.
—The passing of the old year and the
coming of the new was hardly appreci-
able in any other way than the ordinary
change from one day to another. Let
us live better, let us act better, let us be
better this year, so we will know that the
passing was fraught with more than we
knew of.
—Senator Boise PENROSE is to be the
Republican candidate for Mayor in
Philadelphia, notwithstanding many of
the leaders down there were favorable
to Warwick. It does seem strange
that QUAY should carry bis dictatorial
policy even so faras to telling the
Quaker city who shall be its mayor.
—The railroad engineer, who went to
bed in a Lock Haven hotel and stuck
the electric lamp under the covers so as
to keep his feet warm, must have been
frightened when he wakened up to find
himself ina bed of flames. There is
no use of talking, electricity isnt a safe
thing to monkey with unless you want
to get shocked in one way or another.
—If all Europe unites in the plan to
stop the importation of American food
stuffs into foreign countries, we'll leave
them starve some of these times when
their crops are a failure. If Franceand
Germany put up the bars against Ameri-
can pork, let Congress debar the influx
of hogs from the many little provinces
under Germany’s government.
—Post-master General BisskLL thinks
that all kinds of postal employees, even
fourth class post masters, should be put
under civil service. We are sorry we
can’t agree with his idea, but such a
game of reform would only add to Re-
publican success. They lose no time in
kicking Democrats out and why should
we be fools enough to leave Republi-
cans in ?
—Ex-Congressman BRECKENRIDGE
has taken to the lecture platform, but
unfortunately the people are not taking
to him. In towns where he has attract-
ed any kind of an audience at all the re-
ceipts of the house have been attached
by MapALINE PoLLARD’S attorneys.
The public has little cause to be stuck
on BILLY, so it had better leave him
stick in his lecture tour.
—The rascals are back at Harrisburg
again and the citizens of the Common-
wonwealth will be on the qui vive to
know exactly what is going to become
of them. Wa do hope that the delega-
tion from this county does'nt fall in
with the gang of theives that hob-nobs
about Harrisburg, for tney are both
such conscientious (?) fellows that it
would be a shame to spoil them.
—QCongress reassembled yesterday for
the last two months of the session.” It
remains to be seen whether the Demo-
crats are going to act like Kilkenny
cats or get down to work and show the
world that they can do something. The
result last Fall should bave taught the
party a lesson, but it seems that the
dose was not drastic enough to purge
Democracy of the trouble that has dis-
ordered her system.
—Mr. and Mrs. WiLrram K. Van-
DERBILT have at lust become reconciled
to one another and the wagging tongue
of New York gossip is stopped. Tt is
certainly no one’s business but their
own if they want to fight and make up
again, though the Gotham papers seem
to think the whole world is interested in
their doings. Mrs. W. is said to have
made the advances, but we are charita-
ble enough to think BirLLy would do
the rest.
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VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 4, 1895.
NO. 1.
A Democratic New Year's Gift.
The beginning of 1895 opens up a
new use for one of the most impor-
taut industries of the country. On the
first of the year the raw material for
the woolen clothing of the people was
“allowed to come untaxed from all
parts of the world, as a benignant ad-
“junct to the product of our native
flocks. The effect cannot be doubtful.
Au unnecessary cost has been removed
from one of the great industrial sta:
ples; the industry dependent upon it
will be stimulated, and the people
benefitted.
One of the anomalies connected
with the tariff question was the long
maintained opposition of the woolen
manufacturers to this benefit. There
was a tangible object in their desiring
a tariff on manufactured woolens, for
it gave them an advantage over the
importers of foreign fabrics, but what
benefit they saw in having their raw
material taxed was always a mystery.
They accepted it probably as an una-
voidable part of a; tariff system that
taxed everything and gave them the
chance to recoup themselves through
the heavy duties on manufactured
woolene. Itwas the people at large
who in the end had to stand the
squeeze, and what odds did it make to
the manufacturers ?
But having with all their might
opposed the untarriffing of wool, they
accept the fact of free raw material,
and are buying largely of the finer
qualities of foreign wools which so
long were kept out of this couatry.
They will be able to furnishiibelter
and cheaper fabrics. There will be
less shoddy in the goods they supply
while their profits will be as large if
not larger than what they were under
the old tariff. At the same time there
need be no fear that the demand for
home grown wool will be diminished,
but rather there will be a greater de-
mand for it to meet the necessities of
an enlarged wool industry.
Some years ago, as a remarkable
oasie in the high tariff wilderness,
hides were placed on the free list.
The leather industry has ever since
shown the beneficial effects of free
raw material. The year 1895, thanks
to a Democratic tariff, begins with the
same benefit to the woolen industry,
and the effect will be the same.
A Misleading Term.
The executive committee of the
Democratic Association of Minnesota
declares’ directly and positively for
free trade. The term is rather a
misleading one. Carried out to its ful
lest sense it must mean a total aban-
donment of the means of raising reve-
nue by duties on imported articles, and
the discarding of the most convenient,
and if properly regulated, the fairest
method of taxation. It is usual to
speak of England as a free trade
country, yet a very large portion of her
public revenue is raised by duties on
imported commodities judiciously se-
lected for that purpose.
Free trade, pure and simple, is not
the object of the Democratic party.
That party is a couostitutional party,
and it finds in the constitution, an-
thority for excise duties as a means of
raising revenue. The Democratic
contention is that there is no constitu-
tional warrant for tariffs laid for the
purpose of fostering special interests.
The Republicans have erred in mak-
ing their tariffs promotive of trusts
and monopolies, a benefit to a favored
class at the expense of the mass of citi-
Zens. ;
We cannot conceive of a situation
in which duties for revenue will not be
needed, and that is the only object
that warrants their being laid. Bat
care should be exercised in imposing
this species of taxation so that there
will be no unequal burden, and it
should be made no heavier than the
exigencies of revenue require, The
Democrats have made a decided step
in that direction by their recent tariff
reform bill, and we expect to see the
time when in conformity with the
constitution our tariffs will be
go modified - as to be a means
of revenue bearing ligh'ly upon
the mass of the people and imposed
upon a tew leading commodities, and
chiefly upon articles of laxory, In
i the meantime the theory of proteciion
will have been dis:arded.
A Pot That Should be Uncovered.
It is rather a delicate matter for
outsiders to intrude advice as to what
subjects Governor HasTINGS should
treat in the document with which he
will introduce his administration to
the people of the State. For a Demo-
cratic paper to advise him on points
involving party policy would certainly
be presumptuous, but there are mat
ters that are not of a party character
upon which a hint to him may not be
out of place even from a journal out-
side of the Republican persuasion.
For example, why shouldn’t he say
something in his introductory docu-
ment about corrupt municipal govern:
ment? Why should he not recom-
mend the overhauling and punish-
ment of corrupt rings and thievish
combines that make municipalities the
objects of their plunder? In short,
why shouldn't he urge the Legislature
to appoint a committee of the Lexow
pattern to probe to the bottom the
municipal rottenness of Philadelphia ?
No one will have the hardihood to
say that there is no occasion for it.
Considering the character of the gang
who for years have been ruling that
city, who have manipulated its coun-
cils, directed the construction of its
public buildings, awarded its paving,
gewer, resorvoir, street cleaning and
garbage contracts, inspired its police-
men and managed the expenditure of
its revenues, no one is imbecile
enough to believe that there does not ex-
ist a mass of rottenness that would give
ample employment to an investigating
committee. With such managers of a
city government, who will say that
there is no occasion for a LExow and a
GoFF ?
But it can hardly be expected that
Governor Hastings will urge the un
covering of Philadelphia corruption.
To take the lid off that pot would re:
sult in a disclosure of too much Repub-
lican rottenness, and the implication
of too many party leaders who have
helped to roll up big Republican ma
jorities. The new Governor is politic:
ally interested in keeping that pot
covered.
ET ——
——The investigating committee
that is overhauling the police depart-
ment of New York city, has struck a
vein of corruption which may be
found in every large American city, if
efforts were made to bore through the
surface and get down to it. The con-
ditions that are being shown to exist
in New York are the inevitable result
of the same set of mercenary and un-
scrupulous men ruling a municipality
for a long period of time. In that city
this set happened to be principally
Democrats, but there is every reason
to believe that if the Republican man-
agement of Philadelphia were exposed
the developments would show a set of
thieves equally rapacious, and a good
deal meaner, because they hypocritic-
ally cover their rascality by manag:
ing to elect to some of the higher of-
fices men who are reputed to be hon-
est, but who are incapable of restrain-
ing their rapacity.
The Legislature in Session.
The one hundred and eleventh ses-
gion of the Pennsylvania Legislature
convened at Harrisburg on Tuesday
with more than the usual predomi-
nance of Republicans in attendance.
In the Senate there are only seven
Democrats to forty-three Republicans,
while the House roll shows one hun-
dred and seventy-six Republicans and
twenty-eight Democrats. However
small our representation may be we
are still strong enough to expose the
attempts of the majority to override
public interest in the passage of laws
calculated to entrench them perma-
nently in power.
They will doubtless try to further
distort the Baker ballot law by so
amending it a8 to make frauds easier.
A new apportionment will be made, if
they have any respect for constitution:
al requirements, and in it we may
look for more disgraceful gerrymand-
ering than has characterized their for-
mer work of this sort that disfran-
chises thousands of Democrats. Cor-
porations will be looked after by the
Repablican doctors. They will be
pat in good coudition for “tat” frying
next year and as a result of this ses-
sion nothing that is not helpful to the
Republican organization of ringsters
need be expected.
The Low Price of Wheat.
The December return of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture makes a poorer
showing for wheat than was ever be:
fore recorded. Fifty cents a bushel is
given as the average price of this lead-
ing cereal, a figure which makes the
production an unprofitable one to the
farmer.
In wheat, as in any other product,
the market price is controlled by the
demand. There has evidently been an
over production of this staple, but as
regards the prevailing low price much
is due to the falling off in the foreign
demand for our wheat. The surplus
of the crop would not be as great if
the call from abroad had been main-
tained. But some of our best foreign
customers have been looking else-
where for their wheat and reducing
their supply from the United States as
much as possible. In consequence of
our illiberal tariff restrictions. Eng:
land has within recent years made
great efforts to increase the wheat
product of India, and much of the sup-
ply which some years ago was almost
exclusively drawn from this country is
now furnished by her Indian posses-
gions, This is one of the effects of the
American high tariff, the benefits of
which to the American farmer were 80
highly vaunted by the protectionists.
MoKinLevisM has brought the price
of American wheat to the lowest fig
ure it ever reached.
The surplus of this crop remaining
on the hands of our farmers in couse
quence of the decline of the foreign de-
mand, has caused wheat to be put
Complimentary to Our Honored Gov-
ernor.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
Iu afew days Robert E. Pattison
will have completed his second term
as Governor of Pennsylvania. Eight
of the best years of his lite have been
given to the service of the State, and
there are tew of h s fellow citizens wo
will not to-day freely give him credit
tor having faithfully pertormed his
high duty, according to the light given
bim, with courage and filelity. The
Executive office o: such a great State
is a position high enough to fill the
measure of the ambition of any man.
Its respousibilities are not appreciated
by thoughtless observers, who fancy
that the Governor is a mere machine,
bemmed mm by ironclad statutes and
regulations, with but little discretionery
power, and without extended influence,
either upon legislation, official life, or
the general public. This is an alio-
gether mistaken view, one that belittles
the Stateand is uvjust to its first offi-
cer. It is quite true that the Execu
tive is not a law maker, in the ordinary
sense of that term, yet it is his prov
ince at times to exercise a controll'ng
influence in matters of legislation, aud
he has been clothed with power to
prevent the success of schemes de-
rogatory to the public interests. Fur-
ther, 1t 18 his duty to see that the laws
“are taithfully executed,” and it is at
this point that the full power of this
great office has never been exercised.
The Message submitted to the Legis-
lature yesterday suggestively reveals
how the letter and spirit of the law, in
this connection, are defied. Yet, al-
though the Executive has not the
power to remove delinquent officials of
the class referred to, there are ways in
which he can greatly influence their
action, and this in an entirely legiti-
mate manner,
ETE
Profit Sharing With Employees.
to a use which some years ago | From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
would have
almost sinful. It is estimated that
during the past vear over 100,000,000
bushels of this cereal have been fed to
hogs and other animals. So it would
seem that this food, which heretofore
has been almost exclusively used for
the nourishment of man, has been
consigned to the hogs chiefly
“protective” policy of the Repub-
lican party. But there is a pros-
pect of better prices for American
wheat when an increased foreign de-
mand for it will be encouraged by the
more liberal Democratic tariff,
cn——————
—— When even the party of com-
bines and monopolies begins to see
the political mistake it made in main-
taining a high pressure tariff; and rec-
ognizes the impossibility of restoring
such a policy, there is but little encour- |
agement tor McKINLEY's presidential
boom, which is based entirely on the
high tariff idea, and well may that
statesman ask himself, in a sort of
confused manner, where he is at ?
Kicking at the Income Tax.
A Mr. Moorg, of New York, whose
business is that of a broker, and who
has surplus wealth subject to the in:
come tax, objects to contributing to
the support of the government through
that means. He has therefore
brought suit in the courts with the ob-
ject of making it appear that the in-
come tax law is unconstitutional.
If he could make this appear to be the
fact, he and thousands of other
wealthy men who have escaped bear-
ing their just share of the burden of
taxation, would eontinue to enjoy that
immunity.
But this. New York broker is not
going to succeed in this object. The
court before which he bas brought his
suit refuses to entertain it for the rea-
gon that the revised statutes declare
that “No suit for the purpose of re-
straining the assessment or collection
of any tax shall be mainthined in any
court.” This is an unmistakable and
insuperable obstacle in the way of Mr.
Moore's project.
The propriety and utility of such a
legal inhibition is obvious. It is in-
tended to prevent the sources of pub-
lic revenue from being blocked by
obstructive litigation.
This is probably the last effort that
will be made in opposition to the in-
come tax. Surplus wealth will have
to pay its share to the tax collector.
It haslong been exempted from this
duty, leavieg the burden of govern-
ment taxation to be chiefly boroe by
people in ordinary circumstances as
the aggregate victims of tariff exac-
tions, The income tax will continue
to be part of our revenue system and
will greatly aid in the final abolish:
ment of tariffs.
been considered |
| quality.
| there can be no circumstances under
There is an important social demon:
stration in the payment, at the close of
the year, of the eleventh semi-annual
dividend under the profit sharing plan
‘ adopted by the Bourue Mills Company,
of Fall River, Mass. Each dividend
paid is cumulative evidence of the
practicability of the profit sharing
plan. But the dividends paid after a
period of depression and disappearing
| profits is confirmation strong as Holy
through the influence of the highly |
Writ.
We take it for granted that the
dividends of this company earned in
1894 are largely the result of the fact
that the employees of the company
were directly interested in its success.
They had constantly before their eyes
| the premium for doing good work and
for making their work most effective
for the best output in quantity and
It is not to be deduced that
which profit-sharing will fail to ac
complish this result ; but is plain that
by this means the greater share of the
friction between capital and labor is
removed, and that its usual effect is to
fully repay the owners by the in-
creased activity and interest of the
employes in the prosperity of the con-
cern. This particular profit-sharing
agreement has not been widely adver
tised, but it is significant that it has
worked successfully for five and a half
years, and that it has maintained the
beat understanding between employers
and employes.
There is an important lesson in this
example for the employers and work:
mean of that section,
EE SER ARETE,
The Tariff a Useless Measure.
From the Walla Walla, Wash., Statesman.
The fact that the Bethlehem com
pany was able to secure the contract
for 12,000 tons of armor plate for Rus
sian ironclads, bidding against the
greatest European iron manufacturers,
shows the combined folly and robbery
of a high tariff to keep foreign wares
out of this market. The American
Wool and Cotton Reporter gives
another instance. “Twenty ounce
cheviots’” of American manufacture
under free wool ‘are now being sold
here at a price which is actually low-
er than the like quality of English
make is sold in the English markets.”
An expert who had seen these goods
and who had just come from England
stated that he “could take them back
to Bradford and sell them there at a
profit.” The new tariff is recording
its own object lessons. It will educate
the people more yet before 1896.
On Their Uppers But Foxy.
From the Honesdale Wayne County Herald.
According to an exchanges brilliant
scheme was adopted the other day by
a theatrical company which found it.
self stranded at Dayton, Ohio, and its
next engagement at Cleveland. A plan
was made for the arrest of one of the
members of the company on the charge
of opening a letter belonging to another
member. The accused was then taken
before the United States commissioner
at Cleveland where the other members
of the company were subpoenaed as
witnesses. They, of course, secured
his acquittal and also their fees,
amounting to $6.25 a piece. It was
the most profitable engagement they
have played this season.
<—=Do you read the WATCHMAN,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Ice is being harvested in all ‘parts of
the State. Rett IER
— Adjutant General Greenland is quite
ill at Harrisburg.
—Shamokin citizens have pledged $18.
000 toward a fund to establish a silk miil
in that town.
—Three of George Reinsel’s horses have
been poisoned, at Shartleville, Bucks
County, in six weeks.
—Labor Leader Hugh Dempsey’s case
will again be considered by the Board of
Pardons in a day or two. ’
— Robert L. Sackett, a native of War-
riorsmark died at his home in DuBois on
Friday aged nearly 74
—Aged Rachel Kirke, colored, canght
fire working about a stove, and was burn.
ed to death at Lancaster.
—A textile fabric corporstion, with a
capital of $50 t00, to employ 70 operatives,
is being organized at Lebanon.
—Munagers of the steel mills at Harris.
burg expect to supply all the frogs for
New Orleans’ new street railways.
—Four Italians were held in $200 bail
each at Pottsville for threatening to burn
the house of a fellow countryman.
—The State gets $1300 from the estate of
John Becker, of Reading, who died a year
ago without heirs or known kindred.
—William Heldka, of Shenandoah, ac-
cidentally dropped a mateh in a bag of
powder and had his face badly burned.
—The collieries of the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal & Iron Company worked
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday of
this week.
- Cameron county will be dry for a
whole week in January. All licenses will
expire that length of time before court
convenes.
—Herman Bergin, M. D, was commis-
sioned at Harrisburg on Tuesday to be
surgeon of the Second Regiment, with
rank of major.
—The Cumberland County Agricultural
Society, at Carlisle, elected C. H. Mullin
president, W. H. McCrea secretary and
John Stock treasurer.
— William Thomas, a crippled peddler
of Beartown, Lancaster county, was
found on the Welsh Mountain Saturday
night, frozen to death.
—The Northampton County Bar met
Monday and paid tribute to Judge
Howard J. Reeder on his retiring from
the bench next Monday.
—Congressman Erdman has appointed
Harry Seltzer, of Hamburg, cadet, and
Charles Amey, of Allentown, alternate,
to the West Point cadetship.
—Dr. Eugene H. James has been ap-
pointed surgeon to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in Harrisburg to suc-
ceed the late Dr. S. R. Gorges.
— Judge Sadler has made the Sheriff’s
allowance 9 cents a day for boarding
tramps iu the Cumberland County Jail,
instead of four cents, as heretofore.
—District Attorney Gilmore pluckily
hung on to the reins of a runaway horse,
that dragged him through a William *
sport street, and a disaster was averted,
—The Tax Collectors’ organization of
Schuylkill County held a meeting on
Monday afternoon to devise means to
compel delinquent taxpayers 10 pay up.
—While returning from church Sunday
night, Mrs. Thomas Anderson, of New
Kingston. Cumberland County, was
thrown from a sleigh and had her neck
broken.
—David Weber, a well known citizen og
Lewistown, died on Friday. fe was one
of the Logan guards and later first lieu-
tenant of Company K, 131st Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
—Frank Bezek, convicted of murder in
killing Marie Kerzie, who cast him aside
to marry another, was Monday in Scran-
ton, sentenced by Judge Edwards to be
han ged.
—A joint meeting of the Bangor Valley
slate companies was held yesterday to
fix a scale of prices and to decide whether
or not the present quarries in operation
shall be worked.
—Lehigh's Agricultural Society, at Al-
lentown, voted $1.000 for Mr. and Mrs:
Frank Gangewer for the loss of their
daughter, who was killed at a shooting
gallery at the fair.
—Frank Wingerfelt, Joseph Anderson,
Joseph Wingerfelt, and Harry Miller
ranging in age from 12 to 14 years, were
placed under $37 bail each in Pottsville:
on the charge of picking a farmer’s pock -
et of $76.
—Because he would not return money
which she loaned him, Mrs. Jacob Craig,
who claims to be a niece of ex Judge Hil-
ton, of New York, cowhided her husband,
in the Diamond Market, Pittsburg on Sat-
urday.
—David L. Kellam, of Honesdale,
charged with forgery. was before Justice
Andrews in New York Sunday upon a
writ of habeas corpus and was granted a
reduction of $5000 of the $25,000 bail under
which he is imprisoned.
—On Friday night in Beech Creek town-
ship, Clinton county, the explosion ofa
lantern resulted in the destruction of the
large barn on the farm of Jacob Glossner,
together with the season’s hay, grainand
eleven head of cattle.
—A petition of depositors of Discretion.
ary Pool Operator Irwin, asking permis-
sion to join in the equity proceeding now
pending against him tocompel him to
turn over his books to the receivers was
granted in Pittsburg Monday.
—Gravenstine Kintzing, one of Lock
Haven's leading citizens, died! at his
home on Church street, Tuesday, aged 49
years. He was for many years cashier
of the First National Bank of that city,
and was also engaged in the lumber busi-
ness.
—Cumberland County Poor Directors
met Monday and made the following ap-
pointments: Secretary and attorney
W. A. Kramer; treasure, Theodore U.
Smith ; physician, Dr. W. H. Longsdorf;
steward, P. M. Boyer ; matron, Mrs. Sarah
J. Boyer.
—The Bedford county teachers’ insti
tute adopted a re<olulion urging the
legislature to establish a state normal
school at Bedford and divide the seventh
normal school district so that Fulton,
Bedford, Huntingdon and Blair ‘counties
shall form a new district to be known as
the fourteenth,