Ink Slings.
—Are you for or against a county
poor house ?
—If overseer McCLURE had those
threo hundred loaves of bread back
again we'll bet he’d leave Bellefonte’s
poor eat enow balls before he'd do such
a thing for a nomination that failed to
materialize,
—The thermometer has been on the
qui vive all week. Chsnging weather
has kept it jumping from 20° below
zero to 35° above. The result has been
that the plumbers are about the only
happy men in the land.
—The income tax assessors are get-
ting after eccentric old HETTY GREEN,
the richest woman in America.
the way she eludes them they have be-
gun to think her name should be
changed to a faster color.
__A German theologian has predicted
an end of the world on April 23rd, 1903,
and warns everyone to be prepared for
it. We wonder if the Philadelphia
combine PORTER-MARTIN and WAR-
wick has heard this prophecy.
—The Curwensville girl, who went to
bed the other night and puta lantern
under the covers to keep her feet warm,
got hot enough when the bed caught
fire and the house nearly burned down.
Itis a great wonder her corns did’nt
pop.
—The Democrats will be fools. They
have about lost their last opportunity
for any financial legislation during their
hold of Congress and what will they
have to show if they go out without
having done something for the relief of
the Treasury?
—A Democratic council in Bellefonte
means far more to the tax payers than
they have any idea of. Ttis the only
avenue of escape from the reckless prof-
ligacy that seems to pervade the coun-
cil chamber now. Vote for COWDRICK,
GArMAN and KIRK.
—His hogship saw his shadow on
Saturday and is doubtless lying back
in his hole waiting for six weeks more
of winter weather. The fellow who
said we were going to have an open
winter is supposed to have gotten in his
hole ahead of the ground hog.
—The Peunsylvania Legislature
seem to be inhaling about the same
ozone that Bellefonte councilmen do.
The Lord deliver both the State and
our town from the recklessness of these
fellows and change the air they breath,
ifit be that that}is making them so ex-
travagant. 2
—It seems to be the favorite past
time in Washington for Congressmen
and Senators to get into fisticuffs. Such
a thing is not surprising, for it is only
natural that after the people knocked
so many of them out in the Fall that
they should take to knocking out a lit-
tle themselves.
—IxeaLLs has decided that he would
like to get back to the United States
Senate and hes put in a bid for Senator
PrrFER’S seat. The eloquent INGALLS
would be an ornament to the Senate if
he would only guarantee to keep his
mouth shut when he gets mad. Possi-
bly if he had PEFFER’S whiskers he
could smother his oaths when they find
utterance.
—The Howard Hornet thinks the
movement to build a county poor house
should be voted down at the election.
Editor DuNHAM gives christianity as
his reason for advising the defeat of the
measure. Just when so much of the
spirit entered him is rather hard to
imagine, but it is a surprise all the
same, ;
—-fvery body will be easily able to
vote for 8. A. McQuisTIoN for Justice in
the south and west wards. As he is a
man of good judgment and mature years
he would make a conscientious, careful
official and should be elected. There
are two opponents in the fleld, neither
one of whom has a regular party en-
dorsement and Mr MCQUISTION is en-
titled to every Democratic vote in the
wards.
—QGovernor HASTINGS has announced
thet the bill to increase the salary of
Bank Examiner was an administration
measure and thereby involves himself
in the disgraceful syst»m of spoils Legis-
lation that has been inaugurated at Har-
risburg. If Chairman GILkEsoN did
more work for HASTINGS than the salary
of Bunk Examiner would pay him for,
why wasn't the deficit made up by the
Governor and not ask the State to in-
crease the salary to pay for Republican
campaign work ?
—Here’s a good one at the expense of
Philadelphia. The other evening a
Bellefonte banker's wife gave a book
party at which all the guests wero sup-
posed to dress so as to represent some
favorite book and among the ladies
were some novel costumes. But the
one that was unanimously voted to have
carried the closest significance to the
book represented was a dress worn by a
well known young lady. One half of
it was made of the New York World
and the other half of the Philadelphia
Press and it represented AMELIA RIVES
CHANDLER'S “Quick or the Dead.” *
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VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 8, 1895.
NO. 6.
Rampant Extravagance.
The reign of legislative profligacy
has been fully inaugurated at Harris:
burg. The opportuaity afforded by an
houses of the Legislature, with a Gov-
objection to reckless expenditure of the
State funds, appears to have had the
lation such as no former body of Legis-
lators at the State capital ever veatur
ed to offer for enactment. The tax-
payers will have to sweat for it; but
then they should not complain, for no
other inference could be drawn from
the immense majority of last fall than
that the leaders of the party whose
power was confirmed by such an over-
whelming vote might do pretty much
as they pleased ; and they seem to be
doing it.
The first thing proposed upon the
meeting of the Legislature was the es-
tablishment of two or three more de-
partments of the State government.
There is no more actual necessity for
this addition than there is for two or
three more wheels to a wagon, but
there is a great demand for offices;
Hastings was almost overwhelmed by
the rush of applicants for official
places, and what better plan to relieve
such a pressure than to create more de-
partments and consequently more
places to be filled? If the pegs are
too many for the holes, make more
holes. Is it to be supposed that ‘the
grand old party” isn’t equal to such an
emergency ?
A party that does not hesitate to
create new offices unneeded except to
supply the demands of party heuch-
men, is just as ready to increase the
salaries of partisan officials. The pay
of a Pennsylvania Legislator, as now
fixed by law is $1500, and scarcely
anybody will eay that he earns more
| dissolute paper is its endeavor to asso-
than that; but a bill is now before the
House to increase the pay from $1500
to $2500 per session. - This raise would
produce - an aggregate increase of |
$250,000 in the expense of the State
governmént ; but there should be no.
complaint about such a trifle when it
is cousidered that a party that had
240,000 majority is very moderate in
not providing a private secretary for
each member of the Legislature in ad- |
dition to an increase of his salary. |
But that may come later ou.
Another profligate scheme naturally
growivg out of the carte blanche which
the big majority last fall gave the dom-
inant party, is seen in the MCARRELL
bill, the object of which is to make the
public grounds and buildings at Har- |
risburg comfortable quarters for su-
perfluous officers, and a prolific source
of official emolument. These grounds
and buildings are kept in good order
and condition by a superintendent,
with a clerk and five policemen, ata
moderate annual expense of $6,200.
But these figures are entirely too in-
significant for those who, siace Parr
soN is out of office, have exclusive
control of the State exchequer, and ac-
cordingly McCarrerL offers a bill
which provides a custodian for the
public grounds and’ buildings at a
salary of $3000 ; a clerk tothe custo:
dian at $1500; a typewriter to the
custodian at $1400; a messenger to
the custodian at $900 ; a nightwatch-
man for the custodian at $900; a
sergeant of police at $1200; eight po-
licemen at $900 each. $7,200; a total
expense at $16,100.
No job ever had in it more profligacy
to the square inch than is seen sticking
out ot this MoCarreLL bill. When it
is seen with what a variety of high-
priced assistants this custodian of
public grounds and buildings is to be
provided, it would not be suprising it
the next thing in order should be
a typewriter for the keeper of the cap-
itol lavatory, and a private secretary
for the official who has charge of the
water closets.
TET
Senator GoBiN, posing as the
economist of the present Legislature,
raises his voice against some of the
schemes of pillage that threaten the
State Treasury. This is a cheap role
by which he may gain a little personal
reputation, but it it will be entirely in-
effectual in restraining the “roosters,”
who know what they are there for, and
no one is better aware of this than the
Senator, whose colitary voice against
raiding the Treasury is as one crying in
. culiarly identified with the methods of:
Philadelphia
i BarosLEYIsy, and all the corruption
lance.
the wilderness.
Deceptive Legislation. |
'
In the suit that was brought against |
the sugar trast in the United States |
Supreme Court, for the enforcement of !
the anti-trust law, the trust came out
victorious, as there were defects in the
law which compelled the Court to de-
clare it an ineffective enactment.
A remarkable coincideuce in this
case was that Republican ex-Senator |
EpMunps, who was the suthor of the
anti-trust law, appeared before the
Court a3 the attorney for the sugar
trust, and made the argument which
convinced that tribunal that the stat
ute, which he himself had drawa up,
was a worthless measure so far as its |
intended purpose was concerned.
In this case we have a good exhibit
of the manner in which Republican
statesmen act in regard to those monop-
olies known as trusts. EDMUNDS, to
whom was delegated the duty of getting
up a law that would suppress such
monopolistic combinations, drew it in
a way that rendered it untenable be-
fore a judicial tribunal, and then, a8
the attorney of the sugar trust, he
appeared before the Supreme Court and
convinced it that his anti-trust law was
ot noaccount. No person knew better
than he that it was a fraud, for when
he framed it his evident purpose was
to make it an ineffective law.
This is not the only instance ot de-
ceptive Republican legislation. In our
own State we have labor laws passed
by Republican Legislatures, ostensibly
for the benefit of the working people,
but so formulated that they cannot be
enforced.
The Philadelphia Press has
dove some nauseously dirty work in
the political line, but the dirtiest busi-
ness ever attempted by that politically
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|
ciate ex-Governor Parrison with
BarpsLey. The records of the two
men are as different us light and dark-
nese. If there is anything that is pes
Republicanism it is
which that term implies is counte-
nanced by the Press when it supports
the municipal candidates nominated
by Dave MAarTIN and his thievish
combine. :
Reluctant Investigation.
If the present State Legislature
should authorize the investigation of
the various scandals connected with
the municipal affairs of Philadelphia
it would do 80 with the greatest reluct.
The rottenness which a com.
mittee of the Lexow kind would bring
to light in the leading Republican city
of the United States, is something
which a Republican Legislature nat-
urally would not fancy having expos-
ed to the gaze of an unadmiring public,
and therefore if no attention be paid to
petitions for the appointment ot such
a committee, and the efforts of Senator
PENROSE in that direction are ignored,
no one need be surprised.
It there were not such positive cer-
tainty of damaging developments, or if
it could be arranged that there should
be more whitewash than investigation
there would be less reluctance on the
part of so partisan a Legislature to al-
low an investigating committee to get
to work on the municipal corruptions
of Philadelphia. Buta Lexow inves.
tigation is a buzz-saw they don’t want
to monkey with. Therejis danger of its
cutting too deep. Its processes are of a
kind that preclude the whitewash
brush. They are afraid of it, and tak-
ing counsel of their fears, they will
prudentially hold in suspense any
movement for such drastic measures.
It would’nt do to have it officially
divulged that the Republican citadel of
Pennsylvania is a thoroughly rotten
structure. The effect would be too
damaging to the party.
——A large number of the Repub-
lican taxpayers of the west ward voted
against councilman HiLLisisy, when
he was candidsie for the office three
years ago. He was elected by one
majority which showed that a large
number of his own party did not ap-
prove of his official conduct. There
are stronger reasons now, than
those were thee why he should
not be elected. The debt of $10,675,49
to the borough treasurer, should open
the eyes of every tax payer. A vote
for Dr. Kirg will be a vote against
The Tariffand Local Government.
The old tariff cry is again being
brought into service by the politicians
who grow rich by plundering the tax-
payers of Philadelphia. This is not
the first time that these rascals have
made the tariff serviceable to their
purpose in a municipal election of that
city. Of course it never had anything
to do with city government, but it bas
had a powerful effect in arousing the
partisan feeling of the dominaut party
and blinding them to the corrupt tac-
tics of their machine leaders. They are
using it again, and whether it is going
to be again successful is a matter of
outside curiosity.
WARWICK, the combine’s candidate
for Mayor, was introduced at a mee:-
ing of one of the party clubs as “one
who fought battles for you in the great
fight for the protective tariff,” and the
first gun be fired in the municipal cam-
paign was for the tariff, although the
issue oetore the people of the city is
whether they shall or shall not con-
tinue to be robved by the combination
ot thievisu politiciaus who are running
him as their candidate.
The various Republican clubs of the
city, which are mere organizations in
the personal interest of the ward lead-
ers, are coming out with strong ex-
pressions in favor of Warwick and
protection, the evident purpose being
to excite a tariff enthusiasm that will
lead the voters to lose sight of honest
municipal government.
Some queer things have been done
with the tariff as a factor in Philadel
phia local politics, and it now remains
to be seen whether it can be any long
er used to ‘‘protect’” and continue in
power as bad a gang of thieves as ever-
plundered a municipality.
——Some people think that there is
nothing in a name, but that does not
seem to be the impression of the man-
agers who are devising legislation at
Harrisburg. “Custodian” is the new
name they propose to give the keeper
of the capitol grounds and buildings,
which will haye connected with it more
then a dozen subordinates, with sala-
ries amounting to over $16.000, while
the old name of “Superietendent” had
associated with it but one small
salaried assistant and three or four low
priced policemen. What better proof
than this that there is a good deal in a
name, or at least that much can be put
into it when the Republicans want to
make it embrace a lot of official io-
cumbents. So big a name as ‘‘Custo-
dian,” with its corps of assistants, has
tended to include so great a public
character as Joan C. DELANEY.
An Ineffective Bluff.
When the city councils of Philadel
phia were asked to investigate the
charge that a certain ordinance had
been passed by bribing councilmen
with shares of the stock of the Mutual
Automatic Telephone Company, an
evident game of bluff was tried by the
members declaring that nothing could
be more desirable to them than such
an investigation, in order that their in-
tegrity might be vindicated.
It didn’t take much penetration to
see that this was done merely for ef-
fect. They had no idea that the mat-
ter would be seriously probed and no
intention that it should be. When the
investigation was set going, with the
prospect that some ugly developments
would be made, the same fellows, who’
professed to be anxious to have the
charges investigated, displayed anxiety
of another kind in biring the smartest
lawyer in the employ of the “combine
whose skill might avail in frustrating
the object of the proceedings. The
bluff would’nt hold out against the
imminent danger of exposure.
EET ECT
—— The partisans who are support
ing the Philadelphia combine’s candi
date for mayor in the interest of party,
use as an argument against PATTISON
that his election to the mayoralty
would make him a formidable Demo-
cratic candidate for President. Ad-
mitting this to be the case, the ques.
tion is whether sensible Republicans
of that city would rather be robbed by
municipal thieves of their own par-
ty than promote the presidential
chances of a Democrat ? It strikes us
that they would prefer getting rid of
the thieves, and let the presidential
this profligate extravagance.
question take ‘care of itself atter-
wards. F
much in it, particularly when it is in. |
A Decrease in Immigration.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The immigration of 1894 was only
148,983, the smallest for any 12 months
since 1879. But this does not tell the
whole story. The returning tide has
been unprecedentedly large. The total
movement of the steerage passengers
from New York to Europe during the
year was 179,022, while the immigra-
tion was 167,665. showing an excess of
departures over arrivals of 11,300.
This, we take it, is unprecedented in
the history of immigration in this
country. To relieve some people it
should be said the immigrants brought
with them §,150,000 in gold, They
were not all paupers. Deducting the
returning passengers from New York
alone from the arrivals at all ports,
and the net addition to our alien pop-
ulation was only 70,000 in 1894, and
if the reports of returning passengers
could be had from all seaports, we
have no doubt it could be shown that
in 1894 there was a considerable de-
crease in the net alien addition to our
population,
And What Would Become of Mr.
Quay’s Voluminous Speeches?
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
So Mr. Quay wants to abolish the
Public Printer and substitute a Con-
gressional Printer. A distinction with-
out a difference, it is feared, this would
be eo far as public benefit is concerned.
What is wanted at Washington is some
one in charge of the official printing
who will be allowed to exercise a wise
discretion in the expenditure of the
public funds. The country has paid
an enormous sum to promote the sel-
fish interests of politicians with “leave
to print.’ This privilege covers a wul-
titude of weaknesses. Therule which
the managers of a colored ball among
the F. F. V.s of Virginia adopted
should apply in this case, No ‘*‘gem-
man was admitted unless he came
hisse’'f.” No public man should pa-
rade before his country in the official
record as a statesman orator who can-
not string a dozen sentences together
which he would not be ashamed of.
It is high time this wearisome and
costly farce was played out.
Se ————————
The Fun at Harrisburg is Beginning.
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
. No sooner was the inauguration of
Governor Hastings over and ex-Gover-
nor Pattison back ‘at hie home in
Philadelphia than the fun began at
Harrisburg. Immediately all sorts of
propositions were made and it was soon
apparent that the ‘surplus’ was great
ly appreciated. Spangler, the soft-
soap stattsman from Columbia who
threatened to make a record during
this session, threw his arms in the air
and wildly exclaimed as he remember-
ed the “dear birds,” “What's $100,000
! to the great State of Pennsylvania?”
Now that there is not much danger
of the veto power the taxpayers of the
State will learn the difference between
“economy” and ‘‘extravagance” in
nigh places.
The Government Out of Money Again.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
It is thought the Government proba-
| bly on Saturday, will issue a call for
bids for $100,000,000, of 4 per cent.
bonds, authorized by the Resumption
Act. and maturing in 1907. The foreign
bankers will probably take the whole
amount. In this connection, it is well
to mentiun, that a London dispateh, of
the 31st, says that a London financial
firm of high repute received from a New
York house an inquiry, whether it
would be possible to place there a large
number of 4 or 5 per cent. United States
bonds. The reply was that such bonds
would not be taken unless containing - a
Sigetiy defined guarantee of payment in
gold.
Good Democratic Legislation.
From the Clarion Democrat.
The new tariff is having a very grati-
tying effect on the iron, steel and leather
industries in the way of increasing ex-
ports of the same. There has been & very
noticeable increase in exports of the
manufactures of these industries and the
indications are that they will be larger
this year than ever before. It is assured
also that in almost every line of manu-
factures there will be an increase in
volume of exports. :
The People’s Money Flying.
From the American Volunteer.
On Thursday of this week Mr. Nick-
el, a member from Philadelphia, read
a bill in place in the House of Repre-
sentatives for the increase of a mem-
ber’s salary from $1500 to $2500 a ses-
gion. ;
Oh this is a dandy Legislature. It
is trying to “make a record” for itself
——tor spending the people's money.
“What's a hundred thousand dol:
lars to this great Commonwealth.
How Philadelphia May Honor Herself.
From the Syracuse (N. Y.) Courier.
Ex-Governor Pattison hes formally
accepted the Democratic nomination
for Mayor ot Philadelphia and declar-
ed for an absolute separation of munic-
ipal affairs from State and national
politics. Philadelphia will honor her-
self by electing such a man Mayor.
Spawls from the Keystone
—Lancaster’s disgraceful
to be improved. ‘
—Reading will spend $12,000 on its pub-
lic parks this year.
—Telephone wires in Reading will be
put underground.
prison pen is
—Lancaster furnishes free soup to over
500 people every day.
— Every ice house in the Schuylkill
Valley has been filled.
—A new Prohibition paper appeared
yesterday at Stroudsburg.
—Seventeen cases of scarlet fever exist
in one Lebanon school district.
—York women are making a crusade
against free lunches in saloons.
—Schuylkill county last year collected
$727,361 27 and expended $68),304.6).
—Postmaster Lucian D. Woodruff has
taken charge of the Johnstown office.
—Traveling salesmen of Le’ inon have
organized with H. M. Capp, president.
—Lebanon’s taxable valuation is §8,000,-
000 and its total appropriations, $29,760.
—An ordinance to prohibit coasting on
bobsleds was killed by Easton ccuncils.
—Lehigh Valley Railroad officers have
-arrested thirty coal thieves at Allentown,
—Being refused money, robbers dan.
gerously beat Mrs. Mary Megan at Pitts-
burg.
—The receipts of Lancaster’s post-office
for the year ending February 1 were $56,-
460.14.
—The Pittsburg Times says that town is
kept warm by being constantly wrapped
in smoke.
—The Wellwer Hardware Company, of
Danville, capital $25,000, was chartered
Friday.
—Public funerals in cases of contagious
diseases will hereafter be prohibited at
Scranton.
—The Jersey Central Railroad has not
hauled a carload of coal out of the State
this week.
—Councils at Lancaster propose to tax
the trolley company occupying streets
$2000 a year, :
—By an explosion at a Reading foundry
Henry Michael and Charles Becker were
badly burned.
—Attempting to mount a freight car
near Marietta, George Burkholder was
mangled lifeless.
—Fireman John Sparver, ot the Penn.
sylvania Railroad, was cut to pieces by
his train at Altoona. .
—L. H. Hurd, a prominent citizen of La.
Jose, Cambria county, is dead at the good
old age of 75 years.
—A stranger tried in vain to have
cashed at Lebanon a bogus check for $710
signed John B. Meily. :
—After a desperate fight, Reading po-
lice jailed William Trayner, charged by
his wife with brutality -
—Rich deposits of anthracite coal have
been discovered at Shamokin township,
near Shamokin borough.
—Mayor H, 8. Lucas was chosen direc.
tor general of Lycoming county’s coming
centennial celebration.
—Shuylkill county Monday paid the
State $13,596, the Commonwealth's share
of liquor license money.
—License Court opened yesterday at
Carlisle and an extra large number of re-
monstrances were offered.
—Waiting at the station to meet his
daughter, aged Henry C. Sampsell, of
Shenandoah was killed by a train.
—Opposition in Allegheny county to the
greater Pittsburg scheme grows stronger
and embraces all the towns affected.
—The iron ore mines near Longswamp
are being operated after a long idleness,
the men receiving but 40 cents a day.
—An heir of William Penn, William
Dougal Stuart, has secured judgments of
ejectment for land near Wilkesbarre.
—A farmer put some birdshot into
Charles Wolf at Harrisburg when the lat.
ter sought shelter in the former's barn.
—Joseph Stadt, of near Sharon, has lo
cated his son, who disappeared four years
ago with gypsies. He isat Lansing, Mich.
—Judge McPherson decides that the
Secretary of Internal Affairs cannot col#
lect fees for the registration of mine fore-
men.
—Not more than 140,000,000 feet of logs
will this spring be put into the Williams-
port boom, a large decrease from last
year.
—The Mennonite Brethren Conference,
in session at Reading, adjourned Monday
after assigning preachers to various
churches.
—Grand Army Posts of Lancaster
county Monday indorsed Mr. Cummings,
of Warren county, for department com.
mander.
—At McGee's Mills, Clearfield county, a
horse belonging to Reuben Murray, went
intoa cattle stable and was gored to
death by one of the cows.
—The coal operators at Patton are dis
charging all Hungarians and Italians in
their employ, presumably inorder to give
place to American laborers.
—Rev. Samuel Miles, the veteran Bap-
tist minister of Central Pennsylvania, is
near death at Clearfield. He is almost
ninety years of age and has been ill for a
long time.
—Thursday night dogs killed five sheep.
for Joseph Thomas of Cambria county.
Out of forty-six there are only ten that
are not wounded and about a dozen of
the wounded ones will die.
—John Olafish, of Nippenose valley, last
week killed a ferocious animal known as
the lynx, and afterward found thirty of
his chickens dead, having been killed by
another animal of the same species.
—The winter encampment of the G. A.
R. to be held in Williamsport on the 27th
and 28th of this month, promises
to be an important gvent. More than
1,600 delegates are a to be pres-
ent.
—Henry Beers, an aged citizen of Crom.
well township, Huntingdon county, fell
from his hay mow tothe barn floor on
Wednesday evening and received a con.
cussion of the brain which rendered him
unconscious for several hours.
~The beams and floor of the Lutheran
church at Glasgow, Cambria county, took
fire from the furnace Sunday morning
just as Sunday school assembled for ser-
vices. For several feet from the floor the
boards burned nearly through.