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BY P. GRAY MEE
: Ink Slings.
—Pittsburg got it — in the neck.
—CAMERON’s declination means a
change in name only. You can count
on DoNALD when the ownership of his
successor is questioned.
—Boston Democrats are the stuff.
They snuffed the Republican lights ¢lear
out and even ‘‘doused the glim”’ in the
secret chambers of the A. P. A.
—That Lock Haven girl, who has
broken through the. ice three times al-
ready this season, must be having sport
at what we used to know as ‘‘tickley-
bender.”’ :
—The Smoky city wasn’t exactly in
1ine for the Republican national conven-
tion, but got a better thing inthe Pro-
hibition one that will meet there next
May ; that is, from a moral stand point.
— RoBINSON CRUSOE’S old musket is
said to be for sale among a lot of curios
at Edinburg. Why, we would not be
surprised to hear of his man, FRIDAY,
turning up in some old junk shop near
by.
—Venezuela has a new cabinet. “We |
hope it is not a spiritual affair, for if
such should be the case, American jin-
goists would be ‘sounding the tocsin of.
war with Great Britain in it all the
time.
—The Sultan of Turkey having per-
suaded SAID PAsHA to return to the
palace of his highness there are those
who think there will be another dead
Turk by Christmas day. Such invita-
tions from the Sultan are usually of the
spider and fly order.
—WiLLiaM E. BARRETT, the man
"who is to misrepresent a Massachusetts
district in the fifty-fourth Congress, evi-
dently had set his mind on proclaiming
himself the frst ass to turn up in that
body. He wants Hen. THos. F. Bay-
ARD, our ambassador to the court of
St. James, impeached.
—PaATr FacAN, & contractor, skipped
out of Tyrone, last Saturday morning,
after having drawn the money owing to
the men he had employed in building
the new Phenix telephone line from
Altoona to Tyrone. FAGAN is a pro-
verbially bad name, but in this instance
it didn’t raze the Phenix to its ashes
again.
—Senator GORMAN is reported to
have announced his desire not to be re-
elected to the U. S. Senate from Mary-
land. His health, we believe, is the
cause of his desire to retire. By way of
explanation we might state that he
possibly alluded to his political health,
which is known to be in a state of utter
collapse. .
—HARRY HAYWARD, the Minneapo-
lis murderer who was hanged on Wed-
nesday morning, will hardly carry out
his threat to come back and haunt those
who helped convict him. There are
some barbs on & much talked about fork
that be will more than likely get stuck
on if he tries leaving the place he has
surely taken up his abode in.
—Vermin infested youngsters have
set Lock Havens public schools to
scratching and the risibilities ot the direc-
tors are being excited by the indignant
people of that town. If such things are
heard of much oftener we needn’t be
surprised to find the next Legislature
being gobbled up by a fine tooth comb
trust, that will want to make itself rich
by supplying the public schools of the
State.
— When the people of Massachusetts
come to realize what a miserable squirt
they sent to Congress in the person of
‘Wirriaym E. BARRETT they will want
to keep even shadier than the sepul-
chral precincts of their A. P. A. infest-
ed communities cast over them. That
man assailing such a character as THoM-
As F. BAYARD reminds one of a misera-
ble flea trying to make itself in evidence
on the back of an elephant.
—A good old Presbyterian elder is op-
posed to putting a new bell on the
church he attends out in Cambridge,
Ohio. He says people never fail to gat
to the opera house on time for the cur-
tain rising, nor miss the first dance at a
ball, yet they always want something
to help them to get to church. His
premise is well taken, but if he don’t
believe in such things there will be lit-
tle chance of anyone wakening him up
when old GABRIEL toots his horn.
—The determination of the state
board of agriculture to refuse to accept
the paltry $2,000, appropriated for its
use by the last Legislature, and its re-
markable intention of maintaining it-
self at the expense of its membership,
is calculated to make the dispensers of
the public funds feel real bad. Had
it been known how zealous the mem-
bere of the state board were in
their work, surely no one would have
thought of trying to disband them by
refusing to appropriate money for their
expenses. Let the board stick to it as
long as possible. While paying its
own expenses the public will have all
the more reason to believe there is
some good in it.
VOL. 40
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 13, 1895.
“NO. 49.
How It Would Work,
The President's message and the re-
port of the comptroller of the currency
both strongly recommend the retire
ment of the “greenbacks’ and the sub-
stitution of national bank notes in
their stead. a
Both of these officials believe in a
single gold standard or monometalism,
as it is termed. They advocate the
doctrire that the measure of values in
this country should be gold alone;
that all its money should be redeema-
ble in gold which would make all
debts, all contracts and all obligations
payable in gold.
Because the government ‘‘green-
backs,” which by the way are simply
non-interest-bearing government obli-
gations, and which after being re.
deemed in coin, are reissuable again and
again and can be ueed an’ indefinite
number of times to drain the public
treasury of its gold, they propose to
do away with them euntirely, and as
a substitute for this currency, allow
the issuance of that much more nation-
al bank money.
Just how this will stop the drainage
of gold from the treasury is not made
clear. :
We may be particularly obtuse in
such matters, but for the life of us we
are unable to understand how, chang-
ing the character. of the paper money
of the country—if it is to be all made
redeemable in gold, the government is
either going to increase the amount of
gold in the treasury or decrease the
demand for it, either one of which con-
ditions must be secured if present con-
ditions are not to continue.
To-day, if an agent of some foreign
banker wants to take a million of dol-
lars of gold outtof this country he sim-
ply gathers up a million dollars of our
‘“‘greenbacke’ and goes to the treasury
and demands that amount of gold.
It is paid to him, even if it has to be
borrowed, notwithstanding the fact that
these ‘‘greenbacks’ are redeemable in
“coin,” which means either gold or
silver. The million of dollars in gold
then goes out of the country, and the
million of dollars in ‘greenbacks’’
goes back into circulation, thus leav-
ing the same amount of circulating
medium in the couutry there was prior
to the shipment of the gold.
notes are to be substituted for ‘‘green-
backs,” and are to be redeemable in
gold, they will be gathered up just as.
the “greenbacks’” are, demand for re-
demption made, and when redeemed
will be retired or destroyed thus contract- |
ing the currency or mopey in the
country to just double the amount of
every shipment of gold to Europe.
This policy, of course, would be popu-
lar with bankers apd money lenders,
because it would tend to make money
scarce and interest rates high. But
what of the people? Where, in the
course of time, would the money" or
circulating medium, with which to do
bueiness be found ?
It is an excellent plan, as we see it,
to enable bankers and money lenders
to contract the currency and run the
rates of interest up to any figure their
greed might demand, but would it not
prove a woeiu! experiment to the pub-
lic? . :
In our bumble financial judgment a
much simpler and more effective plan
to stop the gold drainage of the treas-
ury would be for those who gre maan-
aging it to recognize the fact that
“coin,” in. which - “‘greenbacks' 1 are
made redeemable, means either gold
or silver coin of the United States ;
means just. what: the government
makes the citizens accept as a legal ten-
der for a debt, either 16 ounces of eilver
bearing the stamp of the government
ag representing one dollar, or one
ounce. of gold, bearing the same stamp,
as it may best suit those who have to
pay. If the government, itself, would
not, at the dictation of gold gamblers,
discredit the money it puts out as
“coin” and requires the people to ac-
cept as legal tender, and would re-
deem its ¢ ‘greenbacks” in such propor-
tion of gold and silver dollars as it had
in its vaults it would stop the demand
for redemption very soon as well as
the speculation in gold shipments-that
are constantly draining the treasury
and threatening an untold issue of in*
terest bearing bonds.
——Do you read the WATCHMAN,
A Significant Democratic Victory.
Congratulations to Josian Quincy,
mayor-elect of Boston! He is enti:
tled to them. He is worthy of them.
He deserves the best wishes of every
Democrat in the land. There is no
mugwumpery, -politieal hypocrisy or
half-way Democracy, about him. He
is what he is and °the . voters of the
“Hub” know him. They have
elected him mayor because of his polit-
ical manliness and through him have
entrusted-evers department of the city
government to the management of the
Democrats. The board of aldermen
is unanimously Democratic ; the city
council, in both branches, is over
whelmingly Democratic ; the echool
board, for the first time in many years
is in the hands of the Democrats and
the street department will not know a
Republican in its reorganization.
All honor to the Democratic people
of Boston ! ;
. Mr. Quincy was for a short time act-
ing assistant secretary of state at the
beginning of the present administra:
tion, He sent Democrats abroad to
represent the country and a Democrat:
ic administration and all mugwamp-
ery ‘and civil service reformers were
horrified at the thought that Demo-
crats should be chosen to fill positions
from which the people - believed they
had voted to. exclude Republicans.
There were officials, higher than Mr.
QuiNey about Washington, who joined
hands with those who denounced his
straighout and unadulteraed Democ-
racy. They believed the country was
safe and the people satisfied if they
were in office and a balt was called on
doing what the Democratic people had
voted ehould be done. Mr. Quincy, as
a consequence, resigned his position
and went home, because he could not
serve his party as he believed it deserv-
ed and demanded. Vv
It seems that the people of Boston
appreciated his manliness and approv:
ed of his kind of Democracy, and were
not ashamed to say eo by their votes.
It is possible that if Washington had
more JosIAH QUINCYs than it has, there
would have been more Democratic
votes to count at recent elections. At
least the overwhelming victory of a
Democrat like Mr. Quincy in Boston,
(is a matter for serious reflection on
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Ou the other hand, if national bank | Whe paR. Of Whois sepresenting tie
party who have pursued policies that
have not been approved by the people,
and with which the Democratic masses
seem determined to have nothing to
do.
Foreshadowing Its Doom.
Until the municipal elections of last
week, the government of nearly all the
cities and large towns in Massachu:
setts had for the past few years been
brought under the control of a secret
and unseen influence. A hand was
stretched out from the dark recesses of
the A. P. A. ‘that pulled the wires
which controlled the elections in most
of the municipalities in that State, and
80 great had this power become that
the town council chambers may be
said to have been transferred to the
conclaves of this secret organization.
As if municipal government was not
sufficiently demoralized by the influ-
ences that are everywhere bringing it
under the control of ringsters and job- |
bers, in these Massachusetts towus it
had to be subjected tc an additional
debagement by the domination of a
bigoted and proscriptive oath:bound
society.
A change from this obnoxious situa-
tion appears to have set in ‘at last
week’s municipal elections in which
the A. P. As sustained signal defeats
in some of the Massachusetts towns at
the hands of the Democrats and mem-
bers of other parties, who are opposed
to municipal government being mixed
up with sectarian questions, and con-
trolled by influences emanating from
dark-lantern apartments. In Spring-
field the ‘‘underground” forces were
thoroughly routed, and in Taunton the
Democrats surprised themselves and
the enemy by electing their mayor by
a handsome majority. Simiiar suc-
cesses were gained in other places, and
these results indicate the inevitable
doom of any organization whose basis
is intolerance and proscription, and
whose operations are conducted in the
dark.
———————
—It ia strange that it should have
snowed s0 soon after the Boston elec.
tion.
Shall It Be Clothing or Beer.
The deficiency of revenue arising
from the present tariff will not be as
great as was looked for some months
ago. If the income tax had been al-
lowed to stand there would be no defi-
ciency at all. The shortage for the
past six months hag been about $15.
000,000, but for the past month but lit-
tle over a million, showing that there
is a gradual improvement of this tariff
ae a revenue producer as it gets more
fully ia operation. Secretary Car.
LISLE has every confidence that it will
produce all the revenue needed ‘when
trade has once adjusted itself to ‘the
new fiscal regulations. :
The revenue deficiency, which wt
most can be but temporary, is being
seized upon by the Republican leaders
in Congress as a reason for more tar-
iff legislation. [n their partisan opin-
fon this deficiency must be supplied by
increased tariff duties. Wool must be
again taxed and a stiffer tariff réim-
‘posed upon the clothing of the people.
“Such tariff mongering is entirely un-
necessary. The slight deficiency can
be made up from some of thes sources
of internal revenue. An additional
dollar on each barrel of beer will do it.
But if they would rather tax clothing
than beer, let them go ahead. The
President would stop that proceeding
with his veto, and they would be likely
to hear something from the people
about it. .
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Bad for the Jingoes.
The lower jaws of ‘the jingoes must
have dropped when they read that
part of President's message relating to
the Venezuela question. They “bad
all along been representing that Presi-
dent CLEVELAND bad surrendered the
Monroe doctrine and had abandoned
the Venezuelans to the ferocity of the
British lion. They pictured am bassa-
dor avarp as crawling at the feet of
SALISBURY and coining complimentary
phrases to placate the English minis-
try. :
If they have any shame their faces
should tingle with the’ blushing evi
dence of it, when they see the energetic
anouncement of the President that he
instructed ambaesador BAYARD to
notify Great Britain that the MoNRoE
doctrine was an unalterable policy of |
this government ; that its interdiction
of any forcible acquisition of territory
on this continent by any European
power will be maintained ; that any
and all attempts of that nature will
meet with a determined protest from |
this government, and that it insists |
that the whole controversy between
Great Britain and the Republic of
Venezuela, regarding the British
Guiana boundary, be submitted to im
partial arbitration.
These were the instructions that
were given to our ambassador while
the maligoers. of the administration
were representing that CLEVELAND bad
backed out of a great American priuci-
ple and Bavarp~4ras eating humble
pie before the British throne.
What miserable skunks these jin-
goes are, and how their misrepresenta-
tions of their government, manufac-
tured for partisan effect, are knocked
to pieces when the facts are disclosed.
Political Gall.
The Philadelphia Press, on Wedpes-
day of last week, devoted almost a col-
umn of So to the exposition and de.
nunciation of the failure-of the Demo-
cratic city committee of Chicago to
fully account for money received by it
for campaign purposes during last
year. +} :
Considering that Chicago lis a long
way distant from Philadelphia ; that
ninety-nine one hundredths of the
readers of the Press care about as
much for the local squabbles of politi:
cal heelers out there as they do for the
councilmanic changes that occur in
Sitka ; that offenses fully as grave and
dishonorable, as those it makes against
Chicago Democrats, have been public
ly charged, by its own people, against
its own party organization in both
Pennsylvania and the city of Phila-
delpbia, without receiving a word of
comment, explanation or denunciation
from the Press, we must conclude that
that journal vastly prefers to consider
matters of this kind at very long range,
rather than have a hand to hand
tussle with them on its own door-
step.
Of course it is not to be supposed
that the Press would overlook any
scandal tending to tarnish the reputa-
tion of Democrats anywhere, or calcu-
lated to bring obloquy aud discredit
upon their organization; but we submit,
in all sineerity, if it would not be fully
as interesting to the readers of that
paper, more to the point, and show a
greater degree of consistency in its pre-
tentious condemnation of wrong doing
if..it would devote a litle of its space
to the explanation or denunciation of
the same offense, committed by its
friends here at home, that it so vehe-
.mently denounces in the Chicago
Democratic committee.
Only last spring Congressman Jack
RosinsoN, a member of the Republi-
can state committee, charged openly
and persistently that Republican state
chairman GiLKEsoN—the Press's can-
didate for re-election—tailed or refused
to account for our over hundred thousand
dollars, raised from Republican office
holders, and placed ia his bands for
campaign purposes in 1894. Lessthan
a month ago the present chairman of
the Republican state committee—the
Hon. MarrHEw StaNLEY QUAY, of
whose standing in his own party the
Press has reason to have full knowl.
edge—gave the facts to the newspapers
that of all the money raised by the
Republican city committee of Phila-
delphia, for the recent State campaign
—a sum aggregating over eighty thou-
Sand dollars, not a cent of it had been
turned over to the state committee or
used, as far as he could ascertain, for
campaign purposes.
These charges are known to the
Press. The tacts connected with them
are within its reach either to ascertain
their truth or prove their falsity.
They reflect upon its friends. They
compromise, 80 far as public charges
can compromise, the reputation of
men for whose integrity and honor tive
Press has vouched time and again, and
yet it “has had neither the manliness
nor honesty to attempt an explanation,
on behalf of its factional adherents or
its party organization, nor the courage
to condemn the crime, that its owa
partisans have alleged was committed
by them.
What supreme gall such a paper
must have to attempt to hold up to
{ public contempt Democrats away out
in Chicago for exactly the same sin,
the same shame and the same thievery
that stands charged to its own parti-
sans and friends at its own home, and
this too, without a word of defens:, ex-
planation or condemnation from it?
I EERO rn.
Semitic Persecution.
Herr AHLWARDT, a German anti-
Semitic agitator, comes to this country
on a most reprehensible mission. He
makes his appearance among us as a
professional Jew baiter, representing
that narrow-minded and intolerant
sentiment that bas manifested itself in
the proscription of the Jewish people
in come parts of Europe, particularly
in Russia and Germany, and which
this misgnided German apostle of
persecution is foolish enough to be-
lieve may’ be introduced through his
instrumentality in this land of equal
rights and liberal sentiments.
It ie not difficult to see how the
ignorance, superstition, religious preju-
dices and intolerance, and general bru-
tality of the dark ages, were conspir-
ing influences that brought about the
persecution ‘of the Hebrew race, but
that such a manifestation of an unciv-
ilized condition of the. human wind
sbould be revived in the midst of the
enlightenment and ‘humanity of the
nineteenth century, would be an amaz:
ing contradiction to the usual order of
mental and moral progress. 25%
This German persecutor of the Jews
makes a mistake in coming to this
country with his-propagandism of re-
ligious intolerance and race prejudice.
Our free ivstitation8 guardutee to all
American citizens equal civil rights
and entire religious liberty, and the
sentiments of our people revoit at the
idea of persecuting a race that has
proved itself to be moral, industrious,
enterprising, law abiding and patriotic.
euch a reception as would convince | tor, died at Fort Scott, Kan,, on Wednes.
even 80 narrow minded a person as he
is that his presence is not wanted in
this country.
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‘Spawls from the Koystone,
—DuBois is going to have a free mail
delivery soon.
—A fall of rock in a Babylon mine fatal
ly crushed Joseph Kloss,
—Williamsport’s school board has kill-
ed the free library scheme there.
—A man named Sampson was cut in two
by a railroad train at Carbondale.
—Police captured Donato Brongionne
one of the supposed bandits of Hazleton
.—Charles Unruh was appointed fourth-
class postmaster at Wyndmoor, on Mon-
day.
—A State commission was granted to
Michael Durkin, of Wilkesbarre, as mine
foreman.
—Alexander Morton, a Shamokin miner ’
bas inherited $10,000 from his grandfather
in Scotland.
—There were six fatal and 11 non-fata)
accidents in the Eighth anthracite dis-
trict in November. :
—Threats of alleged “white caps” in-
; duced Leonard Reed to move from his
home at New Castle.
—A man supposed to be Peter J. Camp-
bell, oi Meudville, was found dead in a
street of New York city. :
—The Duncannon board of trade has
organized with a capital of $7,000 for the
purpose of starting a brass factory.
© —While skating at Beaver Dale, Mich-
ael O'Connor fell through a hole in the
ice and was nearly dead when rescued.
—Judge Woodward refused 2 new tria)
for Abraham Eckert, convicted of the
murder of Fred Bittenbender, at Nanti-
coke.
~—William Garrett, in Lebanon jail for
assaulting a policeman, plotted an escape,
but a fellow.prisoner gave the scheme
away. ;
—Proposals are being made to erect the
new depot at Williamsport, for which
there are a number of bidders already on
hand. :
—The Conemaugh yard of the P. R. R. is
a sight to see these days on account of the
great amount of loaded freight and coal
cars.’
—Rascals chopped to pieces a flag pole
100 feet long, which United American
Mechanics were to raise at Catasauqua
next Saturday.
co, Juniata county, has given birth to a
calf with two well shaped heads, each
containing two eyes.
—The people of Fells) Creek can say:
what few other towns can—they live in
two congressional districts. and their
town lies in two eounties.
—At Ridgway Monday the ;jury in the
embezzlement case of D. C. Qyster was
discharged, having been out forty six
hours and failed to agree.
—The total number of prisoners receiv.
ed-at the Huntingdon reformatory up to
Baturday, November 23, was 1,94, The
number then there was 486,
—Rev. L. Caley, of Philadelphia, was
elected president of the Pennsylvania
State Council of the United Boys’ Bri.
gade, in convention at Pittsburg.
—The mines of the Cambria & Clearfield
‘sgion are working as they have not done
T years, Immense quantities of coal
and eoke pass through Cresson dally.
—The Kulp Lumber Company, of which
Congressman Kulp, of Shamokin, is at the
head, purchased 1610 acres of rich timber
14nd from Greenough Scott, near Wilkes"
barre.
—The state board of health decided at
Harrisburg that hereafter graves in popu-
lous districts must be not less than six
feet and in rural districts four feet in
depth.
—These Bedford county people have
died recently : Joseph Beegle, near Cess-
na, aged 62 years ; Samuel Scott Shroyer,
aged 43; Jeremiah Weicht, in West Provi-
dence township, aged 72.
Presbyterian church of that town, in the
interest of the new Presbyterian church
being built at that place.
—Ex Sheriff James Myers, of Ebens.
burg, in going from his residence to the
court house on Tuesday, slipped and fell,
severely injuring one of his knees. He is
compelled to use crutches in going about
the house.
—Henry Shunk, of Imlertown, Bedford
county, has been elected second lieuten
ant of Company I, National Guard of
Pennsylvania, of Bedford, to succeed
‘Lieutenant F. J. Deckerhoof, who re.
signed.
—Viee President Andrew Wall, of the
Fidelity and Columbia Building Associa.
tion, of Washington, D. C., and convicted
of conspiracy to defraud, was [sent to the
Allegheny county work house for three
months,
—Superintendent J. George Becht, of
the Lycoming county schools, has pub-
lished in pamphlet form a remarkably
complete program ot the Teachers’ Ine
stitute, which will open at Muncy next
Monday. :
—The Pennsylvania railroad company
are advertising for bids for the manufac-
turing of 2,000 freight ears. If the con.
tract is awarded this month yet, it will
run the number of cars made this year by
this company up to 7,000.
—In the Thanksgiviag Day hunt of the
Ebensburg teams, Captain T. M, Richards’
men bagged 108 rabbits, squirrels and
pheasants to forty-five captured by Cap-
tain M. D. Bearer’s men. The Bearer men,
had to pay for am: oyster supper for the.
i victorious hunters.
—George Richards, of Reade township,
Cambria county, loaded up his wagona
few days ago intending to go to mill the
next day. Puring the night sneak thieves.
came along and relieved him trom, the
journey. They carried off two bags of
grain, a fur robe and whip.
—Spurgeon Williams, of the firm of
Luther & Williams, blacksmiths in Ebens-
burg, has bought out the livery stable of
Conrad Wentrdth, in. Wilmore, and in a
short time will move to that place and
take eharge of the business. Ebensburg,
as a consequence, loses a good citizen and
: .. | Wilmoro gains one.
Herr ABLWARDT sbould meet with |
—Frederick O, Baker, railroad contrac.
day, justafter he received news through
the press telegrams of the death of his
brother, John A. Baker, at Bloomfield, Pa.,
i who had been editor of the Perry county,
(Pa.,) Freeman for fifty-five years. F. O.
Baker was a veteran of the Mexican war,
—A cow owned by!John Burns, in Mexi. :
—The Clarion Jacksonian is te be run
during holiday week by the ladies of thes”
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