Memoreaic Watcha,
BY FP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—-If there is anything in Cuban
rebels’ promises the coming season will
be a very hot one for Spain.
—The cholers epidemic is threatening
Japan. It is needless to say that the
Chinese look upon the situation in heart-
less delight.
—Now Mr. Kerr will have to make
another trip to Washington or acknowl-
edge he was trying to bamboozle Penn-
sylvanians.
—The BARNUM circus, for the season
of 1895, advertises a female clown.. The
“new woman’’ is in evidence at last in
her proper sphere.
—The Woonsocket, R. I., bobbin
works has failed and made an assign~
ment, but strange to say the bobbin busi-
ness will go bobbin’ right along, not-
withstanding.
—The dazzling sun-flower will have
to hide his golden head now that the
man who wore the old fashioned flower
into popularity has been imprisoned for
a most loathsome crime.
—The Salem, Mass., Methodist min-
ister, who so audaciously accused
President CLEVELAND of intemperance,
has brought down on himself a rebuke
of a distinctly Violet” hue.
—-Pittsburg has had a dog show this
week. The Smoky city would be
‘nothing if not in style, even if it has to
be six weeks behind New York, when it
is only thirteen hours away by rail.
—Sunday will be Easter, sure enough,
and how many good men there are who
will “go wrong” when they see what
has become of the penniesthey so sacred-
ly concealed from the plumber and coal
man.
—The Philadelphia Press accuses
Jersey City Democrats of getting ready
to vote dead men at the next election,
to which few will object, when it is seen
how badly Democrats are needed every-
where.
'—The editor of the Philadelphia Press
talked to the Pennsylvania Legislature
on Tuesday evening on ‘‘sound money.”
It was a work of supererogation to tell
those Harrisburg salary grabbers any-|
thing about sound money.
—On Monday the trout season begins,
but there will not be half as many
speckled beauties lying in the baskets of
homeward bound fisherman as there
will be on the lieing tongues of the
annual fish ANNANIAS.
— Illinois has practically declared for
the free coinage of silver and in the
West Democrats and Republicans alike
will uniteon a platform that that will
have for its object the continued coinage
of silver on a 16 to 1 basis.
—To day is the anniversary of
THOMAS JEFFERSON'S birth. It has
been a long time since the death of the
author of the declaration of independ-
ence, but, thank God, this is one case
where a man's work has lived after him.
—The zoo in Schenley park, Pitts-
burg, boasts a bear cub named “DAvE
Ma rTIN.” The aviary ought to have a
vampire named ‘CHARLEY PORTER’
then MAGEE’S town could command
the respect of Philadelphians at least.
—WiLriaM RAMBO, a Philadelphian,
saved his life by jumping from a rail-
road bridge on Sunday afternoon before
an approaching engine had run him
down. Thereis no doubt that he was
one of that kind of rambos that prefers
sticking to his limbs to being ground
into cider.
--Ex-president HARRISON has decided
that he will be a candidate for Presi-
dent in ’96 if the Republicans thrust
the honor upon him, but thereis every
indication that MCKINLEY and REED
have made up their minds to keep be-
tween BEN and the convention that he
expects to do the thrusting.
— Yesterday was the first of the two
spring Arbor days and it is a great
pity that the celebrated English actor,
who is such a fad in Boston just now,
was not kept in Philadelphia until to-
day at least. Then he might have been
induced to plant a little BEERBOHM
TREE which Philadelphia could have
claimed as its own when it grew up.
—The Standard oil company’s monop-
oly is supreme at last. The price of oil
has been steadily advancing until it has
reached an increase of 25cts on the bar-
rel in a single week. All this is due to
the signing of the MARSHALL pipe line
bill by the Governor. The poor people
elected him and now they are burning
dearer oil while they figure out how
much they are paying for it.
—Col. McCLURE and his paper, the
Philadelphia Times, seem to be getting
the blues over the condition Democracy
finds herself in just now. But what
particular reasons the veteran editor has |
for thinking of the prospect as he ap- |
parently does are not made clean in his
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 12, 1895.
NO. 15.
The World Growing Better.
The summary manner with which
English justice has meted punishment
to Oscar WiLDE, who has been guilty
of a most heinous crime against hu-
manity, sends a thrill ot pleasure
through every pure minded being. The
fact of his being a self-constituted
leader of a new sect in literary writings,
which finds profit in books, in which
veiled immoralities excite the passions
of unwitting readers, gives rise to the
hope that public opinion will
speedily concur with the law in con.
demnation of prurient writings and
their authors. The WiLDE case has
been so revolting in its revelations that
the WarcaMAN has deemed its course,
in publishing none of its details, to be
that of right, but the moral to be
learned from it is important to the
better life of the whole universe.
Oscar WiLDE, an English esthetique,
a brilliant man too, fondled and pam-
pered by scciety everywhere, turned
his talents to works in which sugges-
tiveness of indencency has resulted in
arousing vulgarians to an accursed
cupidity for immorality everywhere.
To his school of writing can be direct-
ly charged the recent inordinate de.
mand for debased art in painting,
sculpture and on the stage. As well
as having set an example which less
cunning writers have followed by flood-
ing the world with a class of prurient
writings calculated to do irremediable
wrong. His career has been ended,
however, and while his statement : “I
very rarely write what I believe to be
true,” was doubtless made to clear him-
self of the storm of public indignation
he saw lowering over him, the revela-
tion that he practiced even more re-
volting crimes than his audacious in;
genuity ever dared conceal in any of
of his works, has carried the con-
viction that his is a dangerous and de-
based mind. His sure imprisonment
for .a long period, and possibly for
life, is.undeniably a good omen for the
betterment of mankind.
The Importance of Arbor Day.
The proclamation of Governor Hasr-
iNGs fixing April 11th and 16th as the
spring Arbor days should be viewed
with far more than passing notice by
the people of Pennsylvania. The
thought that little importance at-
taches to the setting aside of certain
days during the year on which all
should plant a tree should be "dispelled
at once. The sooner the better. The
devasted forests of our State, the de-
clining lumber interests, the recent fre-
quent periods of drought and sudden
floods, the increasing destructiveness
of wind storms, the steady advance in
the price of lumber and the scarcity
of game all tell in their own particular
way of the changes the woodsman’s
ax has brought about.
Those who look upon a proper ob-
servance of Arbor day as a silly senti.
mentality, that will never have a ma-
terial result, will live to see the time
when they will tall in with the rest, if
from no other motive than that of self
preservation. It is idle to deny that
Pennsylvania is already suffering
from the gradual depletion of her
vast wooded domain and while it would
be just as idle to suggest that her vir-
gin forests can be restored, yet a gener-
al co-operation in the observance of
Arbor day would bring about a result
that can be reached in no other
way.
——BEN SPANGLER, the Cumberland
county Legislator who made himself
conspicuous by a most uncalled for at-
tack on the Catholics in his bharangue
in defense of the religious garb bill, has
just been shown up in a fine light by
Patrick MappoN, of Carlisle. The
two men were enlisted in the same com-
pany during the war and the latter has
produced evidence to show that Spang-
LER deserted after forty-three days of
service—before he saw a battle or had
turned his hand in defense ot his coun-
try. Notwithstanding such disgraceful
action he is now drawing a pension of
$16 a month. His loud mouthed ut-
terance in the halls of the state Legis-
lature would have been better choked
off had they not been the means of
editorial, *‘Is it chaos or death ?”’ There
is no doubt that the party is in bad
shape, but theres nothing whatever to |
indicate that it intends either dying or |
disintegrating. There is entirely too |
much phosphate in the spinal column of
Democracy for that.
showing up the real character of
this would-be patriot. It would have
been in far better taste had he procured
the flag he deserted at Antietam and
flaunted it before his fellow law-mak-
ers, instead of using one of no such
historical significance.
Spanish Oppression in Cuba.
The chronic state of rebeilion that
exists in Cuba is evidence that there is
cause for dissatisfaction with the Span-
ish government of the island. No doubt
can be entertained as to the mierule
and oppression that prevails there, a
condition that cannot be otherwise
than offensive to the people of the
United States who naturally sympathize
with an American population that are
oppressively governed by a foreign na’
tion, Every citizen of this country
possessed of the true American spirit
must share the feelings expressed by
ex-Secretary WHITNEY in his declara-
tion that it makes his blood boil when
he thinks how that fair island, a neigh-
bor of this free country, is kept under
the heel of Spanish tyrants for no oth-
er purpose than to be made the victim
of their rapacity.
There have been many unsuccessful
uprisings of Cuban patriots against this
oppression, but it cannot be possible
that they will not eventually succeed.
Their foreign rulers resort to brutal
methods of holding them in subjection,
Cuban soil having frequently been
stained with the blood of her patriotic
sons dragged to execution. The peo-
ple of the United States will not much
longer remain indifterent spectators of
such proceedings, particularly when
there is superadded the arrogant Span-
ish claim to the right of firing upon and
overhauling American vessels which
they may choose to suspect of intend-
ing to aid the Cuban patriots.
American forbearance with Spain’s
conduct in regard to Cuba has been
strained to the utmost. It may soon
give way and the fairest of the Antilles
be rescued from the rapacious and op-
pressive rule of the Spaniard.
SE
The Income Tax to Stand.
The long waited for decision of the
supreme court on the constitutionality
of the income tax was handed down on
Monday and though certain flaws were |
pointed out as untenable in it, the bill,
as a whole, will stand.
The court has ruled that tax on
incomes from rents and lands is a di- |
rect tax and therefore is in conflict
with the constitution, Also that it is
unconstitutional so far as it relates to
incomes from state, county or munici-
pal bonds.
While these two clauses will have to
be eliminated the law, asa whole, will
stand since the court is evenly divided
on the question of its constitutionality
mm its entirety. While the revenues
of the government will be considerably
reduced by this ruling and some incon-
venience will no doubt be experienced
in adjusting expenditures that were au-
thorized before any question as to the
legality of the law came up, yet no se-
rious results need be apprehended.
The law, as it will stand, will bring
in large revenues mainly from the sur-
plus wealth of the country and in that
feature a source of income will have
been found that has heretofore been ex-
empt from taxation, necessarily put-
ting an additional burden upon the
poorer classes.
Under the effects of free wool
American manufacturers are invading
the markets of England. The recent
big sale of New England woolens in
Bradford, one of the chief centres of
the English woolen manufacture, is a
most striking evidence of the good ef-
fect of a tariff that furnishes our manu-
facturers with free raw materials, With
the MoKINLEY regulations the great
cry was that English competitors must
be kept out of our market by high du-
ties. But with lower duties and un-
tariffed material the Americans are
enabled to go among the English and
undersell them.
-——MR ANDREW CARNEGIE, the
great iron and steel manulacturer, is
drawing upon himself the abuse of the
high tariff organs by declaring his op-
position to a continuance of tariff agita-
tion. Mr. CARNEGIE dees that his bus-
iness is actnally improved by the WiL-
soN tariff, and believes that it would
be set back by a revival of McKINLEY:
1sM. Hence he is opposed to a reopen-
ing of that question. This is exciting
the anger of the organs which are in-
terested in a tariff only for the politics
that is in it.
——Subscribe for the WATOEMAN,
Delusive Labor Laws.
Disinclination to pass laws for the
benefit of the working people is a char
acteristic of Republican legislation.
This has been shown in the action of
the Pennsylvania Legislature, which
cannot be induced to do anything for
the protection of the labor interest,
while legislation demanded by corpor-
ations and capitalistic interests is
promptly and eagerly attended to.
A similar disposition has been dis
played by the Republican Legislature
of New Jersey. After a great pressure
bad been brought to bear upon that
body for the passage of a bill for the
suppression of company stores and the
enforcement of semi-monthly payment
of wages, a measure was at last reluc-
tantly enacted, requiring wages to be
paid semi-monthly in money, and mak-
ing pluck-me stores an unlawful ad-
junet to industrial operations. The
bill was provided with the necessary
penalties to make it apparently effec
tive. But its purpose is found to be
defeated by a proviso that this law
shall not apply to cases in which an
agreement had been made, or shall
hereafter be made, between employers
or their workmen as to the manner of
paying wages.
It is easy to see how, under this law,
the workmen can be made to under-
stand that if they do not enter into an
agreement to take store goods in pay-
went of their wages they will get no
employment. This law is another in-
stance of the way in which Republican
legislation deludes the labor interest
with a pretense of protection, while it
is capital and the employers that are
protected.
Condemn the State Law:
makers.
Farmers
It is presumable that a majority of
Ch ester county farmers are Republi-
cans, and therefore when a body of
them express themselves on a public
subject it may be regarded as being
largely a Republican expression. At
a recent meeting of the farmers of
south Chester county, composing the
Londongrove Grange, they gave vent
to the following expression in regard to
the state Legislature :
“Resolved. That we are unalterably oppos-
ed to the Snyder Meat Inspection bill, the
Judiciary Apportionment bill and the enact,
ment of other laws that are adding thousands
of dollars to our taxes. Instead of removing
the cause of so much misery and crime and
litigation, enormous unnecessary expenses are
being piled up ; the Legislators seem to be
working simply for their own self-aggrandize.
ment.”
This arraignment of the worthless
body that is making an abuse of the
lawmaking power at Harrisburg, is as
truthful as it is severe, and what adds
to its force is that it comes in a great
measure from men who helped to swell
the vast majority which has been con-
strued by this Legislature as a license
to indulge in profligate legislation,
Those Chester county farmers should
take upon themselves some of the
blame for a political condition in this
State which encourages “the enactment
of laws that are adding thousands of
dollars to our taxes.”
——To JonN JARRETT was assigaed
the role of guardian of the tin plate
industry under the McKINLEY tariff,
and he did his best to work up figures
that would show how that tariff had
developed the manufacture of tin in
this country. His figures, however,
showed a ri ther meager development.
But he has made a statement of the
tinplate business since the WiLson
tariff went into operation, and it shows
that although the duties have been
greatly reduced, new tin factories
are starting and old ones are being en
larged. This is the way the Democrat.
ic tariff is destroying the industries.
By the way, what has become of the
calamity howl ?
~——*“]t is 2 long lane that has no
turn” expresses the business condi tion
of our country for two years past with
such a nicety that we use it. ‘Turn’
is the word micst people are interested
in just now and the business wagon,
after rattling tortuously for & long time
has at last reached the turn and is now
on a smoother road to prosperity.
——The Treasury Department esti-
mates that the supreme court ruling on
the income tax will knock it out of
$13,000,000 annually.
Mr, Cleveland, His Accuser, and His
Defenders.
From the New York Sun.
The President has thought it proper
todeny, in the most public manner
possible, the charge of habitual ine-
briety which was brought against him
at Salem last Thursday eyening by the
Rev. Dr. Lansing. Some of our es-
teemed contemporaries express the
opinion that Mr. Cleveland's published
statement was both unnecessary and
indiscreet. They seem to perceive a
lack of dignity in the prompt, indig-
oant reply which the President has
made to the scandalous assertions of
the New England clergyman. We do
not concur in that opinion, The Pres.
ident of the United States has the
same right as any private citizen to
protect his personal reputation against
attacks from any source whatsoever ;
and in such cases he is the sole judge
of the propriety of a public denial, and
of the best method to publish the de-
nial. It seems to us that the standing
of the President's accuser, the admitted
sincerity of his purpose as a friend of
temperance, and the specific character
of his extraordinary allegations before
the New England Methodist Confer-
ence, all required that Mr. Cleveland
should say something on the subject,
and say it in plain and vigorous lan-
guage.
The President's statement is broad
and positive enough in its terms to
cover every particular instance of in-
toxication alleged by the Rev. Dr.
Lansing. One and all, the charges of
the clergyman are denounced by Mr.
Cleveland as “wholesale lies and cal-
umnies, not less stupid than they are
cruel and wicked.” This sweeping
and conclusive denial refers not only
to the alleged occurrence at the time of
the great naval parade, and to the ban-
quet at which, according to Dr. Lans-
ing, Mr. Cleveland was “brilliantly
drunk at 10 o’clock, at 12 considerably
more 80, and at 3 o'clock in the morn-
ing very drunk,” but also to the other
occasions mentioned by the clergyman
as offording proof of the President's
frequent departure from the restraints
of perfect self-control and the limits of
sobriety. We call the denial conclu-
sive, because it ought to dispose of the
scandal finally and absolutely. Dr.
Lansing’s charges are based on infor-
mation which he says he has received
from others. Itis hearsay. testimony,
while Mr. Cleveland's statement rests
on personal knowledge.
It is gratifying to add that without
distinction of party distinguished citi-
zens who bad an opportunity to ob-
serve Mr. Cleveland's behavior at all
three of the public dinners occurring
before his election and his inaugura-
tion, are coming forward to testify vol-
untarily to the truth of the President's
statement. At the Chamber of Com-
merce dinner on Nov. 15, 1892, Dr.
Chauncey M. Depew sat near Mr.
Cleveland. “I can say,” reports Dr.
Depew “that he was absolutely tsober
and in {full command of his faculties.”
At the Reform Club on Dec. 10, 1892,
the Hon. Frederic R. Coudert sat next,
or almost next to the President.
“From first to last,” says Mr. Coudert,
‘he conducted himself as a gentleman,
and in a manover befitting his high
office. To say that he was the worse
for drink is to utter a faleehood.” Mr.
E. Ellery Anderson was one of the
guests at the dinner given by Mr. Vil-
liard on Nov. 17, 1762. His testimony
is similar to that of Dr. Depew and
Mr. Coudert : “He conducted himself
in a way, if possible to increase the ad.
miration and respect of his fellow men.
We all felt proud of our President. He
was, as always, a gentleman.”
It is only fair and right that the
equare denial of Mr. Cleveland and the
corroborative evidence of such univer-
sally respected witnesses as Dr. Depew,
Mr. Coudert, and Mr. Anderson
should have the same wide publicity
which the sensational and deplorable
remarks of the Rev. Dr. Lansing have
already received.
Better Times Ahead.
From the Altoona Times.
The prognostications are pow, as
they have been for a few weeks past,
that we are entering upon a season of
business prosperity. We cee indica-
tions of itin more ways than one.
Noticeable among them all is the
greater activity in railroad operations
than has been witnessed for many
months past. In his annual report
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania
lines, gave an indication of the hope
which he felt for the prosperity of the
immediate future. His views seem to
be shared by other great railway cor-
porations in the country and, in conee-
quence, instead of the policy of re-
trenchment which has prevailed, one
of renewed extension of railroad in-
tereets is taking its place.
A better condition of railroad busi-
ness means a better state of affairs in
other industries. ~The managers of
these great lines of transportation are
good judges of the situation and their
opinion as to the revival of trade can
be accepted as correct. Their policy of
retrenchment, which was assumed a
year and more ago, was wisely follow-
ed and now that they have again be-
gun improvements it shows that the
period of business depression is pass-
ing away. It will be with us in a modi-
fied form a little while longer and then
it will be but a recollection.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—All tramps found in Franklin will be
put to work.
—There is a great epidemic of grip at
Kutztown, Berks county.
—The slate operators of Bangor and vi-
cinity were never so busy.
—Heavy rains in Eastern Pennsylvania
are of great benefit to grain and grass.
—Pinegrove, Schuylkill county, will
have a new shirt factory, employing 100
hands.
—While removing bread from the oven,
Mrs. Peter McElhenny, of Pittston, was
fatally burned.
—The citizens of Westmoreland county
met yesterday to protest against the new
county scheme.
—Murderer Garret broke up the Sunday
services in the Lebanon jail, where he is
shortly to be hanged.
—Lebanon’s health officer uses a green
flag asa scarlet fever sign, and the sons
of Erin are indignant.
—A local union of the United Mine
Workers of America will be organized at
Pottsville next Monday.
—With a pair of scissors Hoffman My-
ers, of Saltsburg, severed his j ugular vein
dying in a few minutes,
—In the presence of his wife and chil-
dren Adam Schuedde blew his brains out,
at his home, near Pittsburg.
—Moses Arnold, a farmer residing near
Lebanon, had his legs badly mangled in
a fodder cutting machine.
—Luzerne county’s grand jury favors
the building of a new court house on the
site of the present building.
=A razor was found hidden in the neck-
tie of murderer Charles Garrett by the
jail authorities at. Lebanon.
—Hazelton advocates of the Quay”
county bill will continue their efforts un-
til the measure passes finally.
—Brakeman William Prettyleaf, of Sun-
bury, was fatally injured in the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad yard at Harrisburg.
—The employees of the W. J. Raimey
Coke Works at Uniontown, have received
an advance and returned to work.
—The State Editorial Association will
try to increase its membership at a meet-
ing to be held at Harrisburg April 23.
—The annual convention of the State
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, will be
held at Reading beginning August 20.
—The Reading Board of Trade adopted
resolutions recently commending Auwdi-
tor General Gregg’s administration.
—While cooking supper Miss Edith
Longsbaugh, of Huntingdon, was burned
to death by the upsetting of a pan of lard.
—William K. Stephens, chairman of the
Republican county committee of Berks,
has been nominated for city solicitor of
Reading.
—B. G. Ohmit, who was engaged in the
loan and collection businessin Lebanon,
has disappeared with money belonging to
others.
—Several Pottstown land owners will
experiment on a new form of charity by
loaning land for truck farming to poor
people.
—Thinking an electric car would stop
at a street crossing, John Roberts of Pitts.
burg, started to cross in front of it and
was killed.
—An interstate fair for the colored pec-
ple of West Virginia, Maryland and Penn-
sylvania will be held at Conococheague
Md., in September.
—Carpenters, blacksmiths and other
mechanics in the Connellsville coke re-
gion want their wages raised along with
the coke workers.
—The body of John O'Donnell, who dis-
appeared from his home at Ebervale, last
Tuesday, has been found in the woods a
short distance from his home.
—Becauge they created a disturbance at
a class entertainment six members of
Harrisburg’s High School graduating
class will be refused diplomas,
—On the ground that one of the jurymen
who convicted him of murder in the first
degree was prejudiced, 16 year-old Frank
Morris has asked for a new trial at Union-
town.
—George Keese was arrested in Reading
on Saturday night charged with embez-
zling $500 of the funds of St. James’ Epis.
copal church, of which he was the treas-
urer.
—Royersford people crowded the river
banks Sunday to watch the emersion in
the Schuylkill river of three men who
were converts of the Mennonite Brethren
in Christ.
—The Right Rev. Mark Anthony De.
Wolfe Howe, Bishop of the Central Dio-
cese of Pennsylvania of the Episcopal
Church, is celebrating his 87th birthday
at Reading.
—Captain James Wiley has given $5000
to St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, as an
endowment fund in memory of his wife,
to be known as the Annie Lewis Wiley
Endowment Fund.
—Oscar Frantz, a Lehigh valley brake.
man, was decapitated by falling under
freight cars near the Union Depot, Beth-
lehem, Friday, in the presence of several
hundred spectators.
—Philip Stockhouse, a thirteen.year-
old boy, of Stroudsburg, was handling a
revolver yesterday. It was accidentally
discharged and the ball entered his right
leg above the knee.
—Lucy M. Kelley, a 15-year-old Pottsville
girl, was yesterday awarded $2,500 dam-
ages for injuries sustained May, 1894, by
being thrown from an electric car of the
Schuylkill Traction Company.
—Mayor John B. Hinkson, of Chester,
has ordered all the electrical slot ma.
chines along the streets of the city to be
removed. The owner refuses to remove
them and threatens suit for damages if
they are interferred with.
—Professor J. I. Elwell, who is connec.
ted with the Pennsylvania Institution for
the Training of the Deaf and Dumb, has
purchased five acres of ground in East
Stroudsburg, with the intention, it issup-
posed, ot erecting an institution for the
unfortunates.
—A big land slide occurred at Conewa-
go cut, just west of the Conewago Station
on the Mount Joy Branch of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. The high embankment
|
on the south side became soft and weak
from heavy rains, and caved in, fifty tons
of earth and rock covered the track-
The obstruction was discovered before
any passenger trains were due.