BY 2. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—-Possibly it is holding off to snow
the day after the February election.
—Many of the new leaves that were
turned over have already gone to grass.
—The peanut trust is busted, but
Davip B. HiLr's political methods are
still intact.
—There (is a bare chance that Eng-
land will become par-boiled if she keeps
on getting into bot water.
—Harrisburg water is said to be unfit
to drink. How does it come that no
complaint of this sort was raised while
the Legislature was in session.
—LEvi P. MorTON is being talked
of more and more as a Republican
presidential possibility. On LEvIs
bar’l his chances bang, and you can bet
your life his boom will bang.
—And to think of it, bustles are go-
ing to be revived. As bustles are made
up of more wind than anything else the
woman who wants to be in style can
not enjoy & dead-calm astern.
—The Philadelphia Times says that
CuARLES H. Brick, of Camden, shot
himself in his hotel. Now we would
naturally conclude that the ball must
have entered his stomach, but it didn’t.
—GEORGE MILLIGAN, the former
Milton man, who was recently cured of
deafness by sleeping on a handkerchief
that had been blessed by SCHLATTER,
the healer, must be either a very happy
man or a notorious liar.
'—The famous Queen Lane, Philadel-
phia, reservoir is said to be in use at
last. Just what function it is perform-
ing in its connection with the water ser-
vice of that city no one will know until
they get it pumped full.
—The ScHOMBURGK line, in Venezue-
la, is certainly not a very tangible ob-
ject for two great countries like Eng-’
land and the United States to go to
fighting over. Both sides acknowledge
that they don’t know where it is.
—JoHN SHERMAN is deluded by the
fallacy that two wrongs make a right.
He got the country into its present
financial predicament and now he wants
to make it worse by advising an im-
possible way out of the trouble he
brought about.
— It is somewhat surprising to learn
that the annual proportionate share of
salt for the English people is 80 pounds
per capita. From recent developments
we bad concluded that they must be
fresh enough to get along without that
commodity.
—A modern HErcULES is Mr. Ros-
INSON, Governor of Cape Colony, but
not one like the original son of Jupiter
who caught a wild boar alive. The
Transvaal Boers seem to be more that
this later day HERCULES knows how to
cope with. They are of the greased pig
variety.
—Lord DuNRAVEN proved himself an
ass, indeed, by coming over here to ap-
pear before the New York yacht club
without any witnesses to vouch for his
assertions that the Valkyrie III was
dishonestly defeated by the Defender.
DuUNRAVEN was only thought to have
been an ass before, now it is a ‘certainty.
—Notwithstanding the fact that the
Cuban insurgents have lied and been
lied about in the most outrageous man-
ner 1t has at last become evident that
they know what they are about, at least.
Now in sight of Havana they have laid
siege to that city and should it fall
Cuba will have gained her liberty.
Spanish military menseem to have been
wholly unable to cope with the insur-
gents, which indicates that the soldier is
not always the being of pomposity who
struts about in gilt lace and epaulettes.
—The Philadelphia sound money
league is an organization of men who
are sending out literature and lecturers
to enlighten the people of Pennsylvania
on the money question. Their methods
are decidedly on the kindergarden plan
if Mr. TrEO. C. KNAUFF, who lectured
in this place, on Monday night, is ac-
cepted as a representative of their league.
His was a magic 1antern show, not a
lecture, and a poor one at that. If the
league hopes to tickle the children of
the State it will have to provide Mr.
KNAUFF with some views with whirli-
gigs and other such improved para-
phernalia.
—Mr. ROBERT DORNAN, president !
of the manufacturers’ club of Philadel-
phia, has published a resolution, adopt-
ed by the board of directors of that club,
in which a national association of man-
ufacturers is urged. Of course none will
gainsay the manufacturer’s right to go
into a national association, if he so
chooses, but in our minds this associa-
tion is being designed as an enormous
cudgel with which to beat Congress
into laying high tariff duties again. We
venture the assertion that when the as-
sociation is organized at the meeting to
be held in Chicago, on the 2lst inst.,
one of its first works will be to discuss
the tariff with a view to pampering its
membership at the expense of the
masses,
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 41
BELLEFONTEy PA., JAN. 10, 1896.
NO. 2,
The Gold Loan.
When it is necessary for a govern-
ment to make a loan, it would seem
ple for what it wants to borrow. It
appears reasonable that the “people
should be the creditors of their gov-
ernment rather than that it should be
indebted to the bankers. This remark
is suggested by the new popular gold
loan.
A particular necessity compels the
government to borrow. As a require-
ment of the currency law necessitates
the keeping of a certain stock of gold
on hand for a special purpose, this
stock is subject to constant depletion,
and it is to prevent its exhaustion that
gold loans must be resorted to. It is a
troublesome and expensive process,
but the law that compels the govern-
ment’s paper obligations to be paid in
gold requires it. The administration
cannot avoid this compulsory duty.
Under this compulsion this adminis-
tration has made a number of gold
loans, the first two of which were tak-
en by irresponsible parties who al
most immediately after the delivery of
the gold managed to draw it out again
from the treasury by collecting a quan-
tity of the government's paper and
presenting it for payment. This was
like pouring water into a sieve, and
the reserve received no practical bene-
| fit from it,
The last loan was taken by a syndi-
cate that bound itself not to practice
this game, and guaranteed to protect
the reserve from the danger of deple-
tion for a certain length of time.
The decline of the stock of gold in
the treasury has compelled the loan
that is now pending, Congress having
refused to do anything for the relief of
the authorities upon whom is imposed
the duty of maintaining the credit of
the government. In deference to public
sentiment the secretary of the treasury
‘has concluded.to make this loan a
popular one, but it is not done with-
out some apprehension as to the re-
sult. It is feared that there is not
enough gold at the command of the
and also that gold will be cornered by
the professional money changers to an
extent that will render it unavailable
to the people.
But it 18 to be hoped that there are
| individual hoardings of gold that may
be brought out by this emergency.
Ex Governor FLowERr, of New-York,
estimates that there is $250,000,000 of
gold hoarded away in this country,
which would be available for a popular
loan. If this is so the people may
come to the relief of their government
in the hour of its necessity, whea it
ig deserted by a recreant Congress.
——
Reform Within the Party.
Philadelphia is going to try to per-
form the miracle of reforming its mu-
nicipal government through the instru-
mentality of its machine politicians.
There is no longer a question that its
government is corrupt, and that the
chief cause of the evil is the party
politics that predominates every
branch of its official service, but this is
to be corrected by “reform within the
party.”
For the accomplishment ot this
great task, the joint committee, repre-
senting the two Republican factions
in the city, are coming to an under-
standing as to who shall be candi-
dates for city councils. For the pur-
pose of ‘“‘reform” it is highly -impor-
tant that there should be no factional
clash that might interfere with the
election of the candidates selected.
“Reform within the party” requires
that the nominations made by the
party machine should be equivalent to
an election. It is for this reason that
every effort is being made to bring the
two factions together and remove the
misunderstanding that existed between
them. When the two wings are made
to flop harmoniously together; when
the combine and anti-combine ring.
sters pull the same way ; when the two
committees have brought about such
an adjustment of the machinery that
there can be no jar, and all the work-
ers are alert and active in performing
the duty assigned them, “reform with-
in the party” will triumph, with the
usual result to the tax-payers of the
city.
' ——Subscribe for the WaToamax,
advieable that it should go to the peo-.
public to make it of practical account, |
A Check to English Landgrabbing.
The English have met with a back-
set in their land-grabbing enterprises
in South Africa. The gold regions of
that country have offered tempting
prizes, most of which have fallen into
JouN BuLL's possession, but the
Dutch Boers had a gold producing
tract in the Transvaal, which had not
yet been seized by the English and it
was the misfortune they met with in
their attempt to get hold of this tract
that has set all England howling.
A regular military expedition with
a force of 800 men, armed with the
most improved implements of warfare,
was organized to invade the Trans
vaal country and occupy the coveted
gold region ; but the Boers proved
themselves to be tough customers to
deal with, and the raid resulted in the
complete defeat of the English land-
grabbers, a number of them having
been killed and wounded, and the bal-
ance of them captured.
But the most interesting feature
connected with this occurrence is the
part taken in it by the Emperor of
Germany. Immediately upon receipt
of the news of this defeat of the Eng-
lish gold marauders he telegraphed
his congratulaticns to the President of
the Transvaal republic, and offered
his eervice in maintaining the inde-
pendence of the Dutch Boers against
the designs of the English to bring
them under subjection.
The significance of this action of
Emperor” WiLLiaM is the more im-
preseive from the circumstance that he
agrees with President CLEVELAND that
it is about time to stop England's grab-
bing all the gold regions within her
reach.
A ———
The Senate's Two Elephants.
The two bills which the House has
dumped upon the Senate will prove to
be a pair of very troublesome elephants
to that august body. The Republi-
cans have surrendered the manage.
ment of that branch of Coogress to the
Populists, but they have not divested
themselves of the responsibility for its
action, and when the bond bill is tied
up, unless the terms demanded by the
free silver advocates are granted, the
Republicans are to be held answerable
for so important a public measure be-
ing put in such a dilemma,
The anti-silver Republicans realize
their situation. They begin to appre-
ciate the consequence of the Senate's |
being blocked when the whole country |
is demanding measures for the relief of |
the treasury and for legislation that
will prevent the occurrence of another |
business collapse. The administra
tion having clearly defined the meas-
ures that are necessary for the emer-
gency, the people understand the ne-
cessity for what the President and the
secretary of the treasury ask for, but
the Republican Senate finds its hands
tied and can do nothing. The bond
bill is an elephant that it cannot man-
age, and it is likely to disgrace both
itself and its party by its inability to
do anything when the government
credit calls for immediate and effect-
ive action. This will be a nice record
for the Republican party to carry into
the coming presidential election.
But if the bond bill is an elephant
that is difficult to manage, the tariff
bill which Reep, DiNeLey & Co,
have sent to the Senate is equally
troublesome. Passed through the
House under the pretense that it was
intended merely as a revenue measure,
to meet the demands of the President
for the relief of the financial embar-
rassment, caused by a depleted gold
revenue, .it will be loaded down -in
the Senate with amendments of the
rankest McKINLEY brand. Already a
number of ‘such amendments have
been offered, and the tariff beuneficia-
ries are flocking from all parts of the
country to have their special interest
attended to in this bill. It willbe a
regular symposium of tariff greed.
If such a bill should be finally passed
the President would, of course, veto it,
and he would have the approval of the
people for doing so.
The Republican party will have but
little credit for the final outcome of
these two measures, It fs likely to go
before the people in the next election
with the stigma of its inability to pass
a currency bill when an urgent finan-
cial necessity called for it, and with
the dierepute of passing a tariff bill
which attempted to restore the
McKINLEY taxes, but which the Presi-
dent had to veto for the protection of
the public interest.
A Grand Success.
As a declaration of a great national
principle, and a notice to the world
that it will be enforced, the message
of President CLEVELAND on the ques-
tion of the Venezuela boundary has
been the most impressive and success
fal state paper thal was ever issued
relative to our foreign relations.
Previous to the appearance of that
document the MoNRoE doctrine was a
misty principle that had never been
clearly defined by our authorities,
and received but indifferent recog-
nition from European powers.
Foreign nations regarded it as an
American pretension which had not
the binding force of international law.
That it was considered by the English
a8 an untenable Yankee claim was
shown in SALISBURY'S reply to the pro- |
test of our state department, in which
he almost ridiculed the idea of the
MoxroE doctrine being applicable to
the Venezuela case. =
‘He has been taugbt a great deal
since he sent those papers in which he
assumed that American objection to
European encroachment upon this con-
tinent could be treated with indiffer-
ence. The Venezuela message has
been the means of his enlightenment.
It set forth in plain terms the determi
nation of this government to enforce
the MoNRroE doctrine. It declared the
applicability of that doctrine to the
claim which England was pushing
against a weak South American re-
‘public, and gave sharp notice that if
the English authorities would not con-
sent to an arbitration of the matter in
controversy, by which the respective
rights of the two parties might be
fairly ascertained and determined, the
United States would institute an in-
quiry, and its action would be gov-
ered by the facts which such an in.
vestigation would develop.
This was heroic treatment of the
cafe. It uo longer left any doubt in
the minds of the English ministry that
the American government was in dead
earoest in its determination to prevent
foreign interference in the affairs of
this continent. It raised the MoNROE
doctrine from a mere sentimentality to
a principle of international law which
European nations will have to take in-
to account. This is a great achieve
ment, and that it is due to the patriotic
action of a Democratic President is
eminently becoming.
——————————
——If the late ANDREW GREGG.CUR-
TIN were alive to-day to read the biog-
raphy of him compiled and just pub-
lished by Dr. Wx, H. EGLE, state li-
brariao, he “would doubtless feel very
much chagrioed to read the chapter
on “CuURTIN’S personal attributes” over
the signature of Danter. H. Hastings.
He would not regret that Governor
Hastings had been selected as the
wan to tell of his personality, but he
would feel shame that in his endeavor
to compliment him the thoughtless
biographer had slurred three of the
most eminent jurists the country ever
knew. When Governor Hastings ®
wrote : ¥ * * Up those days when law
suits were generally won or lost by the
character of the speeches to the jury
after the evidence was closed, the
niceties of pleading, subtle law
points, finely drawn constructions and
the strict application of rules of evi-
dence weighed not so much with
judges or lawyers as the power of ora-
tory. And this was likewise true of the
twelve men in the box ;’ he must
have forgotten the eminent judges
HusroN, Woobwarp and BurnsiDE
who eat on cases in the days referred
to. -
It is a questionable compliment to a
dead hero to “state that his oratory led
men of such characters to forget their
duty. Even the warmest friends of
the lamented Curtin will resent such
an implied slur upon the integrity of
men whose rulings have become law
in these United States.
—The English free-booters who
thought the time was ripe for seizing
the old republic of the Transvaal, in
South Africa, ran up against a snag in
the person of president KRUGER, of that
country. The avaricious, grasping policy
of England has invoked the odium of
nearly every nation on the face of the
earth and this latest expedition, though
said to have had no encouragement from
the English government, nevertheless
evidences the greed of the British South
African company, which is nothing less
than a corporation of English govern-
ment officials, :
Mormons and Statehood. :
From the Philadelphia Times.
The President's proclamation cer-
tifies the constitutional “establishment
of the State of Utah and “its admission
into the Union on an equal footing
length accomplished the erection of a
free commonwealth upon the founda
tions laid by the Mormon colony.
It was a strange community that
braved the isolation and the perils of
the far West and made the settlement
that proved so prosperous under their
industry and thrift. They established
were quite out of harmony with modefi
institutions, and even before the rail:
road reached the Great Salt Take the
could not keep out of conflict. Grad:
ually civilization overtook and sur-
rounded them aad penetrated their
own borders, and gradually’they sac-
cumbed to it. :
Though the influence of the Mor-
mon organization is still powerful, it is
‘00 longer supreme, and Utah does not
differ essentially from other Western
commonwealths. It has accepted the
general principles of American law and
liberty and so at last is admitted to the
sisterhood of States, the forty-fifth,
where at first there were but thirteen,
NR
The Wrong Way to Increased Profits,
From the Lancaster 1ntelligencer. 5
The men who have combined the
Philadelphia street railway corpora:
tions into the Union traction Com pany,
and who have promised the stock-
holders increased dividends therefrom,
find themselves confronted with the
necessity of making part of thisiin-
creased profit off their employees. They
find that their undertaking" will be a
failure unless they can grind down
their labor.
This is the reason of the strike of
their employees. They want-them to
strike; they provoke them to it that
they may in the end secure cheaper la-
bor. This is obvious from their failure
to meet the popular wish that they
shall accommodate the demands of
their employees. Welsh, Elkins, Wide-
ner and that lot of beasts in search of
plunder find that they need to raise an
additional million or two of pet rev-
enue, and they propose to get it -by
cheapening their labor. Hy
Things Are Different Now.
From the Mercer, Western Press.
Spain is said to be endeavoring to
form a quadruple alliance, to consist of
its own precarious government, Hol:
land, France and England, to prevent
the United States from protecting weak
American republics from European en-
croachment. It is hardly likely Spain
will succeed. The other powers will
not enter into an agreement which may
bind them to help Spain save her Cu-
ban possessions. In this connection
the peculiar changes which time ef.
fects may be remarked. The Monroe
doctrine was declared at the suggestion
of England to frustrate Spain's efforts
to obtain stronger foothold to this
hemisphere. Now England wants the
Mooroe doctrine cast away and Spain
wants to help her. Spain has at least
the merit of consistency while England
unblushingly claims she was wrong in
her position seventy years ago.
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The Way They Stand in the Senate.
From Herbert Welsh’s City and State.
Notwithstanding the frequent assur-
ances given us by the ‘great newspa-
pers” that the “silver craze is dying
out,” a poll of the Senate, at Washing:
ton, shows that of the members of that
body ranked in the two great parties
of the country, forty-one are of the
“silver craze’ persuasion, and only
thirty-eight are so called “sound
money’ men. Twenty-five of the
later are Republicans and thirteen are
Democrats, while of the former twenty-
four are Democrats and seventeen are
Republicans. The Populists, of course,
are all silver men.
RSE TNC ERED
Get Ready For the February Election.
From the Port Allegheny Reporter,
Election day comes on Tuesday, the
18th day of February and is but. .eix
weeks away. The law in regard to the
spring election has not changed since
a year ago. Nominations by party
primaries for borough and township
offices and school directors must be
filed at the county seat at least eigh-
teen days before election, therefore the
primaries should be held as early as
the 25th of January.
RAISES
The Birds Coming Home to Roost.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The State Treasurer, it is announced
trom Harrisburg, will be compelled to
borrow nearly $3,000,000 from the ’96
account to square up accounts for the
past year. The bird book Legislature
came very high—higher, in fact, than is
fairly indicated even by this measure of
shortage, since many phases of extrava-
gance saddled on the people have not
yet become operative.
—
A Southern View of It.
From the Sumpter. 8. C. Watchman.
It will be much better to borrow gold
from Russia than from the Wall street
syndicate, but better still to iesue bonds
in the form of a popular loan to the
people of the country at large.
with the original States.” Thus isat
laws ard customs of their own that{
Spawls from the Koystone
— Assessors returned 7,742 voters in
Berks county,
—A woman who smashes windows op=-
erates at Altoona.
—Coal trade is heavy over the East
Broad Top railroad.
—The Schuylkill county judicial contest
will begin at Pottsville to-day.
—An Allentown man, Thomas Mintzer
found a $300 pearl 1n an oyster.
—The great National tube works, at
McKeesport, started up on Monday.
—Skatinginto a holein the ice at Ma"
honing town, Earl Rauscher perished.
—It was 14 degrees below zero at Har
vey’s Lake, Luzerne county, Monday.
—The National Smngerfest will ne held
at Pittsburg during the week of Junes,
—There are 179 prisoners in the Potts-
ville jail, the biggest number on record.
decided to admit women to practice law.
—William Dent was appointed fourth.
class postmaster at Brookland on Satur.
. day. ’
i —Little Maggie Milkin, while playing
- with fire, at Harwood, was burned to
i death. dl
—Ex-Congressman Ammerman may be
the Democratic eandidate for mayor of
Scranton.
—Crystal spring company was indicted
for furnishing impure |water to Wilkes:
barre.
—Charles W. Plank was elected chair.
man of the Reading city Republican com.
mittee. :
—A man named MeHenry, of Jeanette,
who was dangerously shot, acenses Jemes
Thompson.
—Assistant district attorney Edwards
has sued Allegheny county for $3,666 un.
paid salary.
—Four girls and theirbeaux, at Schwmf-
religious meeting.
—Cumberland county commissioners
refuse to pay for fox sealps, believing the
law unconstitutional.
—While making coffee at Ashland Mttle
Lizzie Tyler, in St. Mauritas’ parochiay
school, was fatally burned.
—Wm. Abel was jailed at Carlisle, ac
cused of furnishing fire-water to an Indian
boy in the national school. .
—When opening his newly.rented house
at Herndon, Howard Engle found #100 in
gold buried in the cellar.
—The Attorney General will withdraw
suits against a number of railroads which
failed to make the proper state reports.
—Ex-Assemblyman F. L. Reber denies
the charge that he offered at Berks coun
ty prison inspector $500 for his vote.
—Dr. William L. Estes, of Bethlehem:
addressed the meeting of the Sehuylkill
county medieal society on Tuesday.
—The Hand-in.Hand fire company, of
Philadelphia, was entertained at Reading
yesterday by the Keystone fire company.
—Doctors informed Judge Clayton, at
Media, that H. Wrench, the window
smasher, isnot responsible for his aations-
—The master gouse painters’ and deco
rators’ association, of Pennsylvania,
began their State convention Tuesday at
Reading. .
—Schuylkill county justices and con-
stables held a convention at Pottsville
and elected D. M. Mellon, of Tremont,
president. :
—Scranton Republicans who were wal -
loped at the primaries by the Connell
Republicans, at Scranton, resolved net to
bolt the ticket.
—Under the act passed by the last Legis-
lature, all constables elected for three
years, las! February, must again be veted
for this year.
—D. W. Woods, Esq., has been superin-
tendent of the Presbyterian Sabbath
school at Lewistown. for a period of 4t
years, ; quite an honorabie record.
— Adjutant General Stewart has sent to
the different commands of the National
Guard the last half of the annual allow.
ance, amounting to $30,000, -
—Captain W. C. Kress, reporter of the
state supreme court, has appointed Ed-
ward C. Allison, of Philadelphia, as his
assistant at a salary of $2,000 a yea.
—ThePhiladelphia & Reading company,
which pays two thirds of all the tax in
Branch township, Schuylkill county, ap.
pealed to court for arate lower than 6
mills
—W. W. Latherow, who was recently in-
jured by the cars at Tyrone and who had
his leg amputated below the hip joint at
the Altoona hospital, is very i'l in that
institution.
—It is rumored that the P. and E. rail-
road will construct ore docks at the har-
bor in Erie at an outlay of $75,000. The
company will make a number of improve-
ments at points between Warren and
Erie.
—At Coudersport, Priday, Andrew
Stroup, aged 19, died from the effeets of
being struck on the head with a billiard
cue by Julian Zimmerman during an al-
tercation in a poolrooma few days ago.
Zimmerman is 28 years old and has a
wooden leg. He has been held for court
on the charge of murder.
—The water company, DuBois, has
Spiked forty-eight public fire hydrants
because the court, on a petition of town
council, declared the contraet annulled
and the company lost the suit for recovery
ofrental. Two steamers will furnish fire
protection, and the borough will vote on
bonds for a city water system in Febru-
ary. ,
—According to the statement received
hy the county commissioners from the
western penitentiary managers, Clinton
county has in that institution twenty-
eight convicts. The cost of their keeping
for 1895 was $2,111.32. From that amount
$465.21, credit by labor, is deducted which
leaves $1,646.11, the amount that the com-
missioners will pay.
—A dispatch sent from Wellsboro states
that Miss Nellie White has been ly ing in
a stupor at Holliday for ten days. She
was found unconseious in her room, and
nearly nude, the day before Christmas
She had been alone in the house, and it is
believed she was the victim ofan outrage.
She will probably die,and if the end shall
come before consciousness Is restored
the secret of her case will be buried with
her.
—The Allegheny county bar Saturday
ferstown, were arrested for! disturbing a