MEEK.
BY RP. GRAY
Ink Slings.
—It won’t take a very long ladder
with which to-run up HARRISON'S
lightning rod.
—-The allied powers should get a hold
of those fractious Kurds and make
them ‘‘cheese it.”
—Don’t frown. The world is dark
enough without the gloom you unwit-
ingly cast over it.
—McKINLEY will soon be out. Out
of the gubernatori al control of Ohio and
out for the presidential control of the
United States.
—Now that Mr. WHITNEY has de-
clined to be a candidate for presidential
honors he will hear lots of nice things
said about him.
—The Huntingdon Globe hit the nail
on the head when it said: “Too much
GORMAN-dizing turned Maryland into
the Republican column.”
—Under a pretense of looking at fine
horses New York society takes an an-
nual opportunity of having itself looked
at in Madison Square garden.
—Senator SHERMAN’S book = will
hardly bring him in as much royalty as
some of the fat frying processes, he des
cribes in it, did for the Republican
pariy.
—The town of Bedfor
boot black who i
as a colored
99 years old.
he century mark be
of his lustre and still
shines.
—The countryman who tied his horse
to the rear of a Baltimore cable car, the
other day, then complacently boarded it
to take a ride must have had great faith
in his steed’s legs.
—QUAY is to make a fight in Phila-
delphia for the election of clean men,
next spring. His senate committee is
getting them white-washed now so
they will be in shape. ~
——They are having a blizzard in
Indiana. A little something to chill
that HARRISON bee. It was decidedly
out of season and this cold wave will end
its buzzing until next spring.
—Foot-ball and the butchering season
are nearer akin than the mere idea of a
bloody result would indicate. There is
not such a great gap between scraping
and chasing the pig skin.
—1It is strange that only the Republi-
can organs talk about President CLEVE-
LAND and third term possibilities. “A
burnt child dreads the fire,” hence their
anxiety to know whether he will bea
candidate for renomination.
—The cannon escapade of the Fresh-
man class of The Pennsylvania State
College has given that institution noto-
riety of a rather undesirable kind. The
Police News, of this week, pictures it
in & highly sensational manner.
—City papers say that MARIE JAN-
SEN and her ‘*Merry Countess” com-
pany struck in New York and refused
to go on with the opera because they
had not been paid back salaries. Would
it not have been more in their line had
they been given the credit of kicking?
—A New York restauranter procured
a bloom er girl to wait on a table and
was arrested for attracting crowds that
blocked the streets in front of his place.
Some-one of the curious ones remsrked
that it was “tough’’ and we have been
wondering ever since whether he meant
the arrest or the girl.
—There is said to be a big contest on
over the chaplaincy of the fifth-fourth
Congress, Whoever is accorded the
honor (?) of praying over that rank Re-
publican rabble will surely earn his
$900 salary. There will be more
praying necessary than ever before, if
mischief is to be averted.
—The Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany is leading a war on the PULLMAN
sleeping car company to force it to re-
duce the price of upper berths in sleep-
ers. The objectis a very laudable one,
but what matters it if the. traveler does
save 50cts, or more, in the price of his
berth the porter will still be there to
gobble the difference ?
"The Lebanon Star thinks that if
sonfe men had given their votes to the
Democratic party as freely as they now
give their advice there would have been
no defeats.” Lebanon county must
have some fellows like the professing
Democrats of Centre, who always do
their best to lick the ticket then pre-
sume to tell the party what ought to be
done.
—American self respect owes the
Duke of Marlborough a great debt for
‘leaving the country as speedily as he
did. Had he remained much longer the
fawning and idiotic drivel of our people | :
would certainly have made him so heart- | POWer to down the boss—be that to its
ily sick of America that the very word |
would be disgusting. All the while |
New Yorkers are ranting about “titled :
block-heads” they brand themselves of
asinine stripe by tumbling over each
other in the streets to get a glimpse of
such foriegners.
VOL. 40 _
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
LEFONTE, PA.,
sp
ERE as
NOV. 22, 18%.
Reaping the Fruits.
Philadelphia is now in the enjoy-
ment of one of the fruits of the Hasr-
INGS’ administration, and it is clearly
evident from the amount of kicking
that is going on that it is a kind of en-
joyment from which she does not de-
rive much satisfaction.
The day before the usual big Phila-
delphia Republican majority was
rolled up, two weeks ago, the consoli-
dated street car monopoly put in force
its new schedule of car fares by which
the cost of using the cars has been in.
creased to the people, and the free
transfer privilege, which was of so
much importance to workingmen and
poor. people, generally, has been
changed to an 8 cent fare.
The perpetration of this monopolis-
tic extortion is enabled by the consoli-
dation of the street railway companies,
and the consequent removal of compe-
tition. One company havingthe whole
business now in its own hands can
charge what it pleases. >
To bring about this consolidation
required legislation. The bill for this
purpose was run through the last Legis-
lature without opposition, and as it
was in the interest of the big monopo-
lizing corporation it was as promptly
signed by HasTiNGs as was the Stand-
ard oil company’s bill. The passage
of such a street railway consolidation
bill was not attempted under Gover-
nor PATrisoN’s administration, for it
was well known that be would veto it
in the interest of the people.
And now there is great dissatisfac-
tion in Philadelphia. Curses are
heaped upon the greedy corporation by
men that voted for the Governor who
is largely responsible for this robbery.
Laboring men, who must go a distance
to their work, and to whom free trans-
fers was a great blessing, must now
either pay the full 8 cent fare, or walk,
and many of them are walking. Shop
girls, whose wages are from $2.50 to
$3.00 a’ week, and who cannot afford
to pay the increased fare, are also |
walking. It is the calculation of the |
monopoly that it can realize a million |
dollars a year from the withdrawal of |
the free transfers, and it was to enable |
it to secure this plunder, and to op-
press the poor and working class of |
people, that the monopoly Governor !
gave this corporation the assistance of |
his signature.
This is one of the benefits that |
Philadelphia is deriving from the
Hastings administration, and yet that
politically hide-bound, tariff crazy and
fanatically partisan community is like-
ly to roll up its big Republican ma-
jority at the very next opportunity.
——Reports from trade centers are
to the effect that bar iron and steel
castings will both go up in price ina
few days. This will be gladsome news
to iron workers all over the country,
as it indicates that the recent stiffen.
ing of the price of iron was not an un-
healthy rise, as Republican protection-
ists would have them believe. Not-
withstanding all classes of iron manu-
factures have been stimulated by the
WiLson tariff, already,in a way that
has clearly demonstrated its superiority
to the McKINLEY measure Chicago
dispatches, yesterday morning, pre-
dicted a still greater rise. The iron
trade isin such a prosperous con-
dition now that it has already
knocked the McKiNLEY advocates in-
to smithereens” and again it goes still
further on the good Democratic way
of prosperity there will be no hope left
for protectionists and their robber tar-
iff theories.
——The Republicans who are won-
dering why Frank WiLLine Leack
did not include Mr. CuaRLEs Emory
Swit in his quota of Philadelphians
who would make desirable successors
to United States Senator CAMERON are
certainly dummies of the most colossal
order. The idea of Quay’s trusted
manager putting Mr. Smith in line for
senatorial honors would appear as a
joke, rather than as serious contempla-
tion. Mr. SMITH, being editor of a pa
per that has dooe everything in its
credit—is not the man who is likely to
be touched by Lracu’s finger of .pre-
ferment. If there is one thing Quay
does more than another it is to reward
his friends and punish enemies and
it is altogether probable that he reck
ons Mr, SyirH among the latter,
The Revenue Deficiency.
It is estimated that the deficiency of
revenue furnished by the present, tariff
will amount to $12,000,000 on the first
of next January. This deficit will be
paraded as an evidence of the ineffi-
ciency of the new tariff, and will en-
courage the protectionists to demand
bigher rates of duties. Already they
are urging the pecessity of restoring
the tariff on wool, and an increase of
the duties on woolen goods. It is not
in their line of policy to inquire
whether this could not be made up
from some source of internal revenue.
A tax of another dollar on each bar-
rel of beer brewed would more than
supply it, bnt Republican statesman-
ship would rather tax the clothing of
the people than the beer of the brew-
ers.
The present tariff was intended as a
revenue measure, and it would have
been amply sufficient for that purpose
if it had not been shorn of one of its
adjuncts, an income tax. It was not
yea to raise superfluous reve-
nue that would be a temptation to ex-
travagant. expenditures, but just
enough for necessary expenses and an
economical administration of the gov-
ernment. With theaid of an income
tax the new tariff would have fully
answered that purpose, but when that
most just and righteous of taxes-had
to be sacrificed in the
wealth, a deficiency in the amount of
revenue intended to be raised was an
inevitable consequence.
In supplying what has been lost by
not taxing the incomes of the wealthy,
will a Republican Congress dare to
shift this taxation onto the clothing of
the people? If they do, it will take
GROVER just about two minutes to kill
such a measure with his veto.
An Opinion That Doesn't Carry Much
Weight.
In view of the agitation of the
woman question, arising out of the fail-
ure of the fair sex to vote themselves a
franchise privilege, at the recent elec-
tion held in Massachusetts for the pur-
pose of giving them an opportunity of
showing their wishes on the subject,
| the Philadelphia Press recently solicit-
ed the opinions of a number of Con-
gressmen, Senators, noted women and
clergymen on the subject. Among the
number was that of ex-Senator Jouw
J. INeaLLs, of Kansas, who answered
the query, as to what he thought
women would amount to in Congress,
as follows :
“It would depend very much on the kind of
women. If they were disciplined parliamenta-
rians, philosophic thinkers, trained debaters,
students of history, acquainted with political
economy, accomplished in oratory, and ex-
empt from all incidents of maternity, the re-
sult might be beneficent.”
From this response it will be seen
that Mr. INGaLLs has a fine concep-
tion of what should constitute an
ideal lawmaker, but his opinion
smacks of narrow-mindedness because
of its requiring more from woman
than man has ever developed.
He sets up a standard which he
knows will never be attained by either
sex and such sarcasm as is embodied in
his opinion becomes particularly ob.
noxious when his own failure as a dis-
ciplined parliamentarian is recalled.
There is one thing quite certain, that if
women were in Congress they would
never be guilty of usieg such foul and
obscene language that their male audi-
tors, in the galleries, would be driven
from their seats out of very shame.
While we do not advocate the ap-
pearance of woman ir® politics we can-
not help resent the condescending im-
putation of her incompetency coming
from such a man as INGALLS.
——
——The startling denouement of
the Homes’ trial, in Philadelphia, has
been the serious blight cast on the ‘in-
tegrity of one of the fost promising
attorneys of that city. It seems that
the practice of law has come to mean
a perversion of justice instead of a lucid
propounding of its fundamental pre-
cepts with a view toward assisting in
punishing the guilty and protecting the
innocent. The zeal of the modern
lawyer see ms to know no bounds and
advantage is taken of every trifling
technicality to procure the acquittal of
men who are self-convicted criminals.
Pe —
——If you want printing of any die-
cription the WATcHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
interest of |
Schemes of Expenditure.
The proposition to expend about
$150,000,000 in the construction of for-
tifications along the Atlantic and Pa-
cific coasts will no doubt be a favorite
scheme with the Republican Congress
that is about to go into session. Such
construction would require the outlay
of a vast amount of public revenue,
and it will find favor with Republican
law-makers, not only on account of
their disposition to indulge in extrava-
gant expenditure, but also because
such expense creates the necessity for
the maintenance of a high tariff poli
cy.
It bas always been the plan of the
tariff party to squander the public
revenue so that tariff taxation would
be required as a means of replenishing
the treasury that is exhausted by such
extravagance. Economical adminis-
tration does not need such a source of
revenue, and therefore the public
funds must be wasted in order that the
tariff system demanded by the mo-
nopolistic interests may be necessitated
a8 a source of revenue to meet such ex-
pense.
It was for this purpose, and not
from a source of gratitude to the sol-
diers, that a lavish pension system
wag instituted. It was calculated by
the supporters of the trusts and mo-
nopolies, that by entailing this immense
pension expense upon the country the
necessity for high tariffs would be per-
petuated, and they have calculated
with such shrewdnees that it is seen
that not only-has the necessity for a
vast amount of revenue been created
by this means, but a large class of our
voters have been corrupted by indirect
bribery into the support of thia policy.
It is now proposed to extend the. ne-
IN
cessity for tariff taxation by expending.
an immense sum of money on fortifica-
tions which are of problematical utili-
tv as a means of defense which we
may never need. Quay intends to
supplement this expense by an exten-
sive scheme of internal improvements
that will call for thirty or forty mil-
lions a year. :
A nice project is this that is enter-
tained by the McKINLEY-ites. who pro-
pose to institute such expenses that a
resort to tariff taxation will be ren-
dered indispensable, and the interests
of the trusts and monopolies be per-
petually maintained.
——The Pittsburg Times slurs its
party's representatives in an attempt
to be funny. In its Wednesday's edi-
tion'it said: ‘Brand new Congress-
men are in Washington looking at the
seats which they Lope to fill, but in
which many of them, it is to be feared,
will only rattle around.” This is a
fine confession of the rabble of incom-
petents which the Republican party
swept into Congress in its great land-
slide last fall. There will be more
nouentities in the fifty-fourth Congress
than in any previous similar gathering
and the Times strikes the truth when
it acknowledges that many of them
will be so small that they will only
rattle around in the seats made vacant
by brilliant Democratic predecessors.
——Bellefonte tax payers have a
good reason to complain at their bur-
den. But there seems to be no way
out of the depths of debt into which
the town has been plunged in past
years except by paying it off. Within
the past two months poor overseers
HepurN and Miner have paid dif-
ferent state hospital bills, amounting
to $2,666.43, leaving an unpaid bal
ance of $704.07. When it is remem-
bered that that there was a special
levy made, not long ago, to clean up
the debts of the poor department this
late payment will more than likely as-
tonish our readers.
»
-—=The chairman of the Repubh-
can national committee has put the
location of the Republican national
convention up at auction, to be knock-
ed off to the highest bidder. Chicago,
San Francisco and Pittsburg are com-
peting for it, and Chicago is told that
if she gives $54,000 she can have it.
Is not this proceeding characteristic-
ally Republican ? There is nothing
connected with the party, including its
principles, ita policy and its leaders,
that can not be bought with money.
It does not appear to have any higher
object than boodle.
Democratic Stay-at-bomes,
From the Altoona Times.
Not a few newspapers of the United
States have been intently studying the
vote that was cast this year. One
thing is at once discovered. It is that
a great indifference to the result of the
election was shown by many of the
voters, especially on the Democratic
side. Compared with the vote of 1892
we find that the Democrats polled 155,-
000 less in New York state this year.
The Republican loss was only 18,000.
In thie state there was still larger de-
fection, the Democratic vote falling off
170,000 and the Republican 60,000.
This is unusual, even for an off year.
How can we tell what would be the
result if the people had voted, as they
will next year? Does the absenteeism
of these thousands of Democratic vot-
ers indicate a temporary dissatisfaction
with their party, or do they intend to
keep aloof from the. Democracy per-
manently ? 3
In New Jersey also the Democratic
vote shows a decided falling off, lend:
ing reasonableness to the hope that in
a full poll the result would be different.
These facts may give some _inspira-
tion to the Democrats to struggle for
the supremacy, although, at best, it
must be admitted that the situation is
not encouraging. But it is not dis:
heartening, and, with the knowledge
that they have won before when the
outlook was just as bad, they will go
into the national campaign next year
to win.
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« Honesty Always.
From an Interview with the late Geo. W.
Childs.
I have always believed that it is pos-
sible to unite success in business with
strict moral integrity. [ am aware
that many people think that a wan
may do things in his public employ-
ment which he will not think it right
todo in his domestic or private life.
I do not agree with this view ; and if
the record of my life has any value,
itis in showing that at least it is not
necessary to success in bueiness that a
wan should indulge in “sharp” prac
tices. But even if it were necessary,
till it would not follow that it was
right. We cannot afford to do or to
say a mean thing. There are higher
satisfactions than the mere getting of
money, and riches cannot compensate
a man for the consciousness of having
lived a dishonorable and selfish life.
r——
Let Her Violate It Once.
From the Easton Argus.
England professes to feel a great
contempt for the Monroe doctrine and
her public men and newspapers make
that doctrine the source of many a
sneer. The fact remains, however,
that while not conceding the rights ex:
pressed in that proclamation, England
is very careful not to violate the sen-
timent set forth therein. The people
over there can sneer all they please,
but they all know that just as soon as
England or any other Furopean na-
tion begins to openly act as those
sneers signify they feel, something is
going to happen.
——
Only Possible Under Republican Law.
From the Wayne county Herald.
The leather trust, not content with
the tremendous advance they have
made in the price of leather in the
past few months, have shut down one
bundred tanneries for sixty days.
This action serves the double purpose
of enhancing the price of an indispen-
sable commodity and of decreasing the
demand, and consequently the price,
for hides. The members of such trusts
are simply organized robbers: who
make the ordinary pablic stand and
deliver according to the completeness
of their organizations.
RSET
A Queer Diet.
From the Pihlipsburg Journal.
On Thureday while out hunting Geo.
W. Naugle, the jeweler, killed a
pheasant that had in its craw a green
snake about one foot in length, The
digestive organ had gotten away with
three or four inches of the tail of the
snake, the remainder protruding from
the gizzard. Mr. Naugle bas the
Ihsks and gizzard preserved in alco-
ol.
Right, By Jimminy!
From the Wiikesbarre Sun.
One to two Poke Hollow ladies who
recently visited this city sent a letter
home as follows: “We attracted a
good deal of attenshu while prome-
nadin’ the streets like other ladies and
holdin’ up our cloze. Nobody isn’t
nothin’ now which don’t hold up their
cloze, aud the hier you hold em the
more attenshun you attrax.’”
Looking Askance.
From the Philadelphia Times.
On the level Thanksgiving looks
like a fine institution. "It must be re-
membered the turkey only
bird's-eye view of it.
Not Straining Themselves.
i From the York Dispatch.
Tliere are many men trying to be
good in this world, but they are not
breaking their suspenders in the effort.
takes a
Spawls from the Koystone.
—Falling coal killed John Stambock at
Shamokin.
—A savage dog dangerously bit little
Martin Hines at Pittston.
—The Spirit says that every industry in -
Clearfield is running iall time.
—~Owing to the increased city debt, Pitts-
burg’s tax rate will be increaged.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad may build
a new passenger station at Altoona.
—W. T. Garner has been appointed
fourth-class postmaster at Woodruff.
—The State Christian Alliance elected
W. F. H. Senft, of Altoona, president.
—The Clearfield county court begins
Dec. 2nd, and continues three weeks.
—A. W. Mulhollan has been appointed a
fourth-class postmaster at Rathmel.
—Supposed human bones were found in
acaveon the Carpenter farm at Raubs.
ville.
—Pottsville Young Men’s Christian As-
sociation will organize a uniformed boys’
brigade.
—York lawyers have' organized the
Sharswood Society, with W. B. Gemmill
president.
—Falling under the cars at South Delta,
York County, Thomas Marley was crush.
ed to death. . ’
—Evan H. Hughes, a miner of Dravos.
burg, has just fallen heirtoa $30,000 estate
in California. ,
—Allegheny County tobacco dealers de-
fraud the Government by selling une.
stamped cigars.
—Miss Della Dunn, an inmate
Warren Insane Asylum, hanged he!
with the bed sheet.
—Mrs. A. J. Kittel of Loretto has a sin.
gle chrysanthemum on which 2,499 blooms
and buds were counted.
—The Patriotic Order of the Sons of
America is growing largely in member-
ship in Clearfield county.
—Charged with the murder of John
Skokowiski at Lattimer, Cooper Mosk-
vitch has been arrested.
—A train at Smithville, near Wilkes-
barre, struck and killed Jacob Devo, who
was driving ina wagon.
—The Lackawanna & Western Coal Com -
pany has reduced the hours of work at
its mines from 11 to 9a day.
—When ejected from a trolley car near
Mt. Carmel two men put rocks upon the
track and nearly caused a wreck.
—Ina freight train wreck on the Leban-
on Valley Railroad, near Read ing, Paul
Skutgar, a ride stealer, was killed.
—Rumor says that W. K. Vanderbilt
may give a portion of his art collection to
the Carnegie Gallery at Pittsburg.
—There is a project, behind which is
large capital, to erect a large and commo-
dious market house in Williamsport.
—In a freight wreck on the Philadelphia,
& Erie Railroad, at Howard Station,
Brakeman W. T. Parenold was killed.
—The two missing lads from Mahanoy
City, John Beavan and Richard Phillips,
were found with a stranger at Lebanon.
—Allegheny City is giving her rival
across the river, Pittsburg, an objeat les.
son in securing a first-class water supply.
Grace Evangelical church, at South
Easton, which has been renovated, was
rededicated Sunday by Bishop Bowman.
—Too deaf to hear the cars. aged Lysan.
der Stocker, near Carbondale, was struck
and killed while walking upon the track.
—A dualin cap was thrown into.a stove
at Shamokin and the explosion: that fol-
lowed tore off Mrs. Wallack’s right hand.
—According to the new interpretation
of the law, city undertakers must pay a
registration fee of $10 and a licenseifee of
25.
—Congressman J. A. Scranton-.and Mil.
lionaire William Connell are in a hot
fight at Scranton over a Mayoralty can-
didate.
—A Williamsport alderman Friday mar-
ried an aged pair. They were William
Gardner'aged 72 years and Mary Gardner.
aged 68.
—Lancaster Court enjoined the Dubs
Evangelical faction from interfering with
the Bowmanites in worshiping in the
Manheim church.
—Central Pennsylvania. @dd Fellows
will ask the State Grand.Lodge for per.
mission to build a home for orphans and
widows at Sunbury.
—Samuel Black, who is accused of steal-
ing $100 worth of clothing and jewelry
from M. Black, of Norristown, was cap-
tured in New York city.
—The National Hardware Association's
Executive Committee. met at Pittsburg
to prepare reports for the convention to
be held there next waek.
—The water supply hasrun out at Ma
hanoy Plane and Gilberton, and the citi-
zens are supplied. with water from Frack.
ville, which is hauled in wagons.
—Meadville Councils voted to accept
the application of the Meadville Street
Railway Company for a franchise, con-
tingent upon the payment of $100 bonus.
—A well known eitizen of Meadville,
Abram Wheeler, was arrested, charged
with being the father of Miss Reitz’s child,
that was thrown from a window and kill-
ed.
—Elizabeth Jackson, an aged colored
woman, chief witness in a pension case to
be tried in Philadelphia this week, died
suddenly at the Pennsylvania Railroad
station at Harrisburg.
—One of the huge vessels filled with
metal was overturned in the bessemer
department of the Pennsylvania steel
works at Harrisburg Monday and five
men were burned more or less seriously.
Two brothers, William and Fraak Given
were the worst injured. > 5
.
—In Clearfield county a disease known
as “pink eye” is prevailing among the
horses to a considerable extent. Dry dus-
ty country roads are thought to have af.
feeted the eyes of cattle and horses in
that section, and ‘‘pink eye” never was
worse in Clearfield county than it is at
present.
—Miriam Green, an eccentric recluse in
Clay township, Huntingdon county, died
of general debility on the 12th inst. She
_| lived by herself on a farm and.was a fam.
iliar figure in nearby towns. -She was
married once 40 William Grissinger, who
deserted her. She was 18 years old, leaves
some property, but no children survive
her.
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