BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—A home without a newspaper must be
like the heavens would be without the
sun.
—It will be a case of high, Low, TaAm-
MANY and the game, in Greater New
York, this fall.
—The yellow fever bacillus is not nearly
as hard to get as the yellow dust of the
Klondyke.
—The average farmer will soon be get-
ting cider with a far harder squeeze than
he ever gave his best girl.
—The trouble with the celebration of
Labor day lies in the fact that the laziest
loafers are the most enthusiastic cele-
brants.
—DINGLEYism is even squeezing the
lemons with exorbitant tariff duties. The
market in New York is so poor that the
fruit can be sold only at a loss.
—Legislators have very considerately
provided for a day off for labor, but the
DINGLEY outfit have made a rank fizzle of
their attempt to legislate a day on for it.
—The first rumors of the yellow fever
in the South start the horrible phantom
of the Jacksonville scourge on its walks
again and there are few hearts in these
great United States that will not hope and
pray that Dixie land will be spared another
such blighting visitation.
—The Philadelphia Zimes has figured out
that at present we have $23 per capita of
money in circulation in the United States
and insists that it is plenty, yet this con-
sistent (?) journal is continually support-
ing a party and policy that only two years
ago declared for a $40 per capita circulating
medium.
—Report comes from Ireland that the
potato, corn and hay crops are all a failure
over there. It is unpleasant to contem-
plate the distress such a shortage may oc-
casion, but we’ll venture the assertion that
they will still have enough bad whiskey
and shillahs on the ‘‘ould sod’ to keep
things interesting, wherever enough of
them get together for a mix-up.
—The thirteen students of Portland
University, who have spent their entire
summer vacation in cutting cord wood in
order to defray expenses this winter, are
more than likely quite ready for the com-
ing of the time when" they will do some-
thing more than saw wood. Figuratively
speaking it is all right for politicians,
but the real thing is quite a different
matter.
—The hundreds of thousands of bushels
of wheat in Centre county, that have al-
most doubled in value in the last six
weeks, have not caused an appreciable ray
of the prosperity sunshine to fall on Belle-
fonte. Only Monday a small army of
workmen left this place to seek employ-
ment in Tyrone and the daily out-come
seems to be for the worse instead of the
better.
—The silent and immutable forces of
political destiny have already heaved up
two STONES for the Republican gubernator-
ial nomination. One is the Congressman
from Allegheny county, the other the
Congressman from Warren and they say
that you need only scratch any Congressman
in Pennsylvania to turn up a candidate for
Governor. Of course this would include
our own congressional luminary from the
28th district and few there are who would
not believe him a candidate for anything
insight. While he is not the only pebble
on the shores of the Big Run WiL-
LIAM has developed the versatility of a
street fakir and has heen almost as success-
ful in hoo-dooing the people into believing
that he is a statesman.
—The DINGLEY tariff bill is turning
out to be a regular political chute-the-
chutes machine for the treasury depart-
ment. The receipts, last week, as compared
with those of the corresponding week in
1895, fell $1,410,220, while compared with
those of the corresponding week in 1896
they were $1,265,914 short. In addition
to this falling off in the revenue in one
week’s time the expenditures of the week
were over two and one-half million dollars
in excess of those for the corresponding
weeks in 1895 and 1896. This is not the
kind of a showing that is calculated to
please MCKINLEYites, nor to give them
anything else than the condemnation of a
people whose confidence has heen he-
trayed.
—It might be well if some of our good
Republican friends who have not yet jump-
ed the narrow political bounds of bigotry,
and who are still emphasizing their own
ignorance by making crude jokes at the ex-
pense of westerners, to read the current is-
sue of the Illustrated American. It con-
tains a very interesting illustrative article
which proves, beyond a peradventure of a
doubt, that in the great middle West and
northwestern States by far the highest per-
centage of intelligence is to be found among
the people and that in eastern Pennsylva-
nia, New York and New Jersey the great-
est illiteracy in the United States exists.
So that, after all. statistics show that the
“‘anarchists,” and ‘“repudiators” of the
West are far brainer than the country sav-
iours of the East, while the great fight,
last fall, in which the tail was shown to
have wagged the dog, ought to bring more
ignominy to our great land when it becomes
generally known what an ignorant, foreign
born tail it is.
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VOL. 42
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 1
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Co-operation of the ‘“Jeffersonians.”
It is gratifying to observe that some of
our Democratic brethren of the so-called
sound money persuasion are disposed to
change their view of what should be their
duty as Democrats in the pending state
campaign. It is to their credit that many
of them believe that the overthrow of the
corrupt Republican rule in the State sur-
passes in importance any monetary issue
that may be attached to a state election,
but which can have no pertinence to state
issues.
While it is gratifying to observe this
feeling among the so-called JEFFERSON-
IANS, particularly observable in expres-
sions of the Philadelphia Record, it can not
justly be said that the regular Democratic
convention at Reading unnecessarily intro-
duced the money question into a contest
that is to be waged against corrupt Repub-
lican state government. That convention
did not go beyond the requirement of a
state campaign by endorsing the Chicago
platform. That deliverance was undeniably
the expression of the sentiments of the
party. The support of six and a half mil-
lions of voters confirmed the authority of
that document, and that a state convention
should have ignored it would have been an
abnegation of principle which no self-
respecting party could resort to as a matter
of expediency.
As this would have been revolting to
the true spirit of Democracy, which al-
ways accords its assent to the will of the
majority, the “‘JEFFERSONIANS’’ can not
rightfully claim that the regular Demo-
cratic state convention, in re-affirming plat-
form expressions that had been endorsed
by six and a half million Democratic
voters, transcended the requirement of the
situation. It would have been a case of
party abasement and stultification if it had
done otherwise.
We have, therefore, an assuring hope that
this will be the view of those Democrats
who do not agree with the bulk of the
party on the money question, but will not
allow such a disagreement to prevent them
from uniting with their Democratic
brethren for the defeat of the political cor-
ruptionists who have so long and so shame-
lessly subjected the State to their thievish
mal-administration of its government.
Armor Plate Plunder.
That the CARNEGIE and BETHLEHEM
steel companies were subjecting the gov-
ernment to extortion by charging $450 a
ton for armor plate is proven by recently
developed facts in regard to the cost of
that kind of work. It has been discovered
that the same parties supplied the Russian
government and other foreign customers
with the same description of plate for
$300 a tom, certainly at a profit or they
would not have taken the contracts. The
difference between $450 and $300 shows
the extent of the steal which those highly
protected firms practiced upon Uncle SAM,
who is so generous in favoring the infant
industries with protective tariffs.
That this armor plate business at $450 a
ton was robbery of the most rapacious kind
is further shown by the offer of Mr. J. H.
CARPENTER to supply the navy with any
amount of steel plate it may need at $150
a ton. Mr. CARPENTER is a thoroughly re-
sponsible person, and in addition to being
one of the most thorough steel experts in
the country, has proven his capability in
this matter by having furnished the gov-
ernment with a million dollars worth of
projectiles of the highest grade known in
the world.
This incident furnishes an illustration of
the fraud practiced by industrial interests
that clamor for protection. The CARNEGIE
and BETHLEHEM works can fill foreign
contracts at almost half the price they
charged the government, needing tariff
protection from the alleged cheap labor of
Europe about as much as it is needed by
the steel rail manufacturing company
which some weeks ago underbid the Eng-
lish steel mills for an 8,000-ton contract
for rails to be used in Ireland.
It is scarcely necessary to mention that
the CARNEGIE and BETHLEHEM firms,
which subjected the government to extor-
tion in the armor plate contracts, were
among the most liberal contributors to
the boodle fund which MARK HANNA
used in the last presidential campaign ‘‘to
maintain the public credit and the honor
of the country.”
—It took legislative action to give
labor a legal holiday. Had the DINGLEY
bill only been in force before the idea of
Labor day struck the originator of it there
would have be no need for any legal holi-
days. Under this great Republican meas-
ure every day will be a Loliday by and by.
——OIld Gen. LONGSTREET, aged away
up in the eighties, has married a twenty
year old girl. Of course he was old enough
to know what he was doing, but just a
trifle too old to be as game as in the days
befo de wa.
An Unavoidable Tssue.
Government by injunction is not un-
necessarily intruded as an issue in this
campaign. The irregular exertion of
power in the administration of the law
that is implied by such government has
been practiced in this State, the abuse}be-
ing thus brought directly home to our peo-
ple. When a court, by a mere injunction,
invests itself with the power to deprive
citizens of the right of peaceably assemb-
ling for the redress of grievances or the
advancement of their lawful interests, a
tyranny is established under the forms of
law that calls for such condemnation as is
expressed in the Democratic state plat-
form.
The disposition to resort to this irreg-
ular legal process to effect objects which
can not be attained by the methods whose
regularity is recognized by law, is a grow-
ing evil. Tt is being resorted to chiefly in
cases where the law does notserve the pur-
pose of those who want to bring labor in
subjection to capital. It isa usurpation of
power exerted in the interest of a class to
the disadvantage of the mass.
Injunction is now the favorite legal
weapon by which the wage earner is con-
fronted when he seeks to secure the rights
that belong to him in his relations with
his employer. Thus it was seen that when
the bituminous coal miners struck for an
increase of wages a court was found ready
to embarrass their action and suppress
their peaceable movement by an injunc-
tion. Itisa process that is resorted to as
an obstacle when workingmen move for
their rights. But it is never employed
when the managers of trusts and monop-
olies: combine to beat down the wages of
labor and practice extortion upon the
public.
The Democratic state convention found
reason to introduce ‘‘government by in-
junction” as an issue in the state cam-
paign when it was seen that this abuse of
legal power is being enforced on the soil of
this Commonwealth. That the humbler
class of citizens are made the victims of
this tyrannical perversion of judicial au-
thority only makes it the more odious, and
rendered the duty of denouncing it more
imperative to a Democratic convention.
The Character of the Republican Pros-
: perity.
It is scarcely necessary to point to the
impoverished mine-workers, vainly strug-
gling for an increase of their starvation
wages, as a proof that they have received
no share of the prosperity that is claimed
to have resulted from the DINGLEY tariff.
Dispair has overtaken them in their peace-
ful and orderly effort to secure sufficient pay
to raise them ahove the level of brutes ;
they find the avarice of their employers
determined and relentless, backed by a
mercenary judiciary that resorts to the ar-
bitrary method of “‘injunction’’ to deprive
labor of the right of peaceably assembling
for the maintenance of its cause.
While it is evident that the McKINLEY
prosperity has not reached the miners, can
any class of working people be pointed out
that have been benefited by DINGLEY’S in-
creased protection? In what line of in-
dustry is there seen an advance in wages,
or the prospect that there will soon be such
an advance? Certainly not among the
steel and iron workers, if we are to judge
from the fact that the Illinois steel com-
pany at Chicago has started up under the
DINGLEY bill with the Youngstown scale
which provides for ‘10 and 15 per cent re-
duction in the wages of the steel and iron
workers respectively.’’
Here we have the disgraceful spectacle
of an actual reduction of wages following
the increase of duty on steel and iron
which the DINGLEY tariff provides.
As it is with the workers in steel and
iron mills so it is with all other classes of
labor. There has been no advance in
wages where there has not been an actual
reduction, and to complete the character
of this sort of Republican prosperity fur-
nished to the working people, the cost of
their living is inereased by the higher
duties laid by the DINGLEY tariff for the
benefit of the trusts and monopolies.
——The poor little Daily News almost
strained its duo-jukum, the other day, be-
causc the wages of the miners at the
Mahala silver mines, near Leadville, Col.,
had been reduced from $3 to $2.50 per day.
The News sings : “Carry the News to
Bryan.” Yes, do it and enclose a post-
script to tell him that there isn’t a laborer,
and very few skilled mechanics, in Belle-
fonte who have earned $2.50 a day within
the last ten years.
——If Gen. FRANK REEDER did lose his
job, as secretary of the commonwealth, be-
cause he was not in sympathy with the ad-
ministration his published correspondence
with the Governor shows that the latter
might have learned something of the refin-
ed and courteous characteristics of a gentle-
man had he written more often to his secre-
tary.
An Object Lesson for Pennsylvania.
A year ago the whole country resounded
with the abuse that was being heaped upon.
Governor ALTGELD, of Illinois. He was
denounced as an anarchist, and pictured in
the dark colors of an enemy to society.
This vituperation was employed against
him chiefly for the reason that he was a
champion of the monetary policy that con-
flicted with the interest of those who find
their profit in the gold standard.
Ex-Gov. ALTGELD is not now abused as
much as he was a year ago. The public
have been taught by an object lesson to
regard him in a more favorable light, and
it is a lesson that should have its effect on
the minds of the people of Pennsylvania in
the contest pending in this State.
Now that there isno longer an imme-
diate motive for vilifying ex-Governor
ALTGELD in the interest of the gold policy,
it is conceded that he made an excellent
chief executive of his State. Itis discov-
ered that he faithfully served the State and
protected the interest of its people. He
is now receiving the credit that is due him
for having been the enemy of the jobber
and the spoilsmen during his official term.
Those who denounced him for his course
during the Chicago riots are unable to
show that he exceeded his power and duty
as the chief executive of the State, and
those who saw a leaning toward anarchism
in his pardon of certain parties imprisoned
for alleged participation in an anarchistic
out-break, are confronted by the fact that
petitions for their pardon were signed by
some of the leading men of the State, among
whom was secretary GAGE, one of the
members of President MCKINLEY’S cabinet.
But ex-Governor ALTGELD has been
vindicated chiefly by the contrast between
his administration and that of the wretch-
ed TANNER, who has succeeded him, and
whose election has been an invitation to
the spoilsmen to rob the people of Illinois
to the full limit of their predatory incli-
nation. Under TANNER’S administration,
with the aid of as shameless a gang of
thieves as ever composed a Republican
Legislature, such rapacious combinations
as the Chicago gas trust, the street railway
consolidation of Chicago, and corporate
depredators in other parts of the State,
whose schemes of plunder were kept in
check by Governor ALTGELD, have been
invested with all the privileges of legalized
robbery.
The people of Pennsylvania are suffering
from the same rapacious misgovernment as
that which was imposed upon Illinois
when the people of that State were misled
into defeating Governor ALTGELD by the
vilification of his political enemies., It is
for this reason that when he addresses
Pennsylvania audiences, as he did near
Philadelphia last Monday, he is listened to
by thousands who recognize in him an
enemy to the kind of predatory government
that has so long robbed the people of this
State.
The Two Conventions Contrasted.
We had occasion to remark, last week,
that the apparent disorder that prevailed
for awhile in the Democratic state conven-
tion at Reading was more creditable and
indicated a healthier political condition,
than the orderly submission of the Repub-
lican convention to the rule of the party
boss.
The Philadelphia Record, although it
fails to commend the general action of the
Reading convention, draws the same con-
trasts as we have drawn between the quiet
slavishness of Quay’s henchmen in the
Harrisburg convention and the robust tur-
bulence which proved that the representa-
tives of the Democracy at Reading were
not the slaves of any hoss nor the puppets
of any political machine. Drawing this
contrast, the Record says that the ‘noisy
out-break’’ in the Democratic eonvention,
“which soon subsided, was infinitely pref-
erable to the sad and sinister harmony
that prevailed in the Republican conven-
tion at Harrisburg, under the despotic rod
of the machine.’
Most correctly could the Record add that
‘‘there was no poison in the froth of the
Reading fracas ; but the alliance of the
two rings of spoilsmen of Philadelphia in
the Harrishurg convention is fraught with
evil omen both te the city and to the Com-
monwealth.’’
The harmony that gave so peaceful an
aspect to QUAY’S convention portended a
deadly danger to the State. It was but
the mutual agreement of those thievish
elements in the politics of the State which
find their advantage in plundering har-
moniously. There is infinite danger to
the public interests in the harmonious fel-
lowship of spoilsmen, manifested, as the
Record says, by ‘‘the mocking cheers with
which the Harrisburg convention greeted
the mention of its own broken pledges and
professions in behalf of good government.’’
No portent of so menacing a character
presented itself in the noisy out-break of
the Democratic freemen assembled in con-
vention at Reading. It may have been
disorderly, but it didn’t express an inten-
tion of thieving ; it didn’t mean the des-
poiling of the treasury and the robhery of
the taxpayers.
EpIToR WATCHMAN :—The following
fits myself and so many other fellow work-
.men:.-abhout the Valentine iron company,
as well as elsewhere, that I respectfully
request you to publish it.
ONE oF THE FOOLED.
RETRIBUTION.
How well 1 remember last fall at the lection,
I bolted the ticket in spite. o’ my wife,
An’ I felt just as proud as a king at a helpin’
To save the gold standard and our national life.
Sure, that's what they told me was mint by the
victory,
An’ no wonder that I was elated at that, ii
As 1 stipped to the music just like an old soger,
And wore a big rooster on top o’ me hat.
I bolted Bill Bryan and the whole silver platform,
No more work I'd git in the mill, if agin
I voted the ticket that stood for cheap money,
That enriched the big miners and burdened poor
min.
Ah, sure, I'll get even wid you now my honeys,
I'll vote just as sure as my name it is Pat,
For McKinley, and thin atthe ratification
I'll wear a big rooshter on top 0’ me hat,
I done it, bad luck to the day an’ the hour,
I'd like to recall that same vote if I could,
For my wages wint down the very nixt week,
An’ now I'm out of a job, an’ for good.
The boss he looks worried, the foreman is sour,
The ould mill’s deserted and gloomy at that.
An’ all T have lift for my share of the glory,
Is the ould battered rooshter I wore on me hat.
One day after trampin’ an’ lookin’ fur work,
I came home at night to get somethin’ to ate ;
I hated to tell my bad luck tomy wife,
Fur she was down-hearted and sickly was Kate.
I edged into the pantry an’ looked for some meat,
But the cupboard was empty there was scarce.
ly a erust,
Thin I looked at my Katy’s sad eyes, her pale
cheeks,
Whin with sorrowful voice she asked : “Pat are
ye bust 2”?
An’ I answered my wife sez I : “Katy, we're starv-
n>
;
oI can’t find no work, an’ me credit is flat.”
“Wez no need to be hungry,” she says to me
slyly,
“For wez can ate the ould rooshter yez wore on
your hat.”
So there's the whole story, and none can deny it,
For truth must be told though the heavens
should fall,
We made a mistake in electin’ the party
haps hosved by Mark Hanna, the Rothkids
and all.
In four years from now, yez may talk till you're
spachless,
An’ argify till you're as gray as a rat ;
But if that party sgain is triumphant,
The devil a rooshter yez'll see on me hat.
——————
The United States and Their Lost Oppor=-
tunities.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Only about 32 per cent. of the cotton
produced by the farmers in the United
States is consumed by our own manufac-
turers. The rest of it is exported. Some
of it is sent back to usin the form of clothes,
the product of foreign mills upon which
superior skill has been expended to make
it preferred before our own production,
That the raw material of our fields should:
be carried to European factories, brought
back again, and sold under the noses of
our own manufacturers seems to be an in-
version of the laws of trade. Why should
we not sell the cloth instead of the cotton
and reap whatever profit might be obtain-
ed from the process of manufacture, the
advantage of position and the saving of
carriage back and forth? It is no suffi-
cient answer to this inquiry to say that
the larger cost of labor in the United States
more than counterbalances other ad-
vantages, for it isa well-established fact
that the greater effectiveness of labor in
our cotton mills enables them to produce
cloths as cheaply, yard for yard, as Euro-
pean rivals.
The failure to establish in the United
States a monopoly of cotton manufacture
answering to the practical monopoly of
cotton production furnishes strong proof of
the folly of protective legislation. Pro-
tection makes war upon commerce, and
until the United States shall again resume
their place among commercial nations
these manufactures will operate under a
perpetual handicap. Something has been
effected in the last few years in breaking
through the statutory barricades which
shut us out of the neutral markets of the
world. We are beginning to sell our iron
and steel and manufactures of iron and
steel in Europe, Asia, Africa, South Ameri-
ca and Australia in despite of hampering
at home and competition abroad. We
would sell ten tons where we sell one if we
now occupied the position in respect of our
ocean carrying trade that we did in 1860
at the outset of our civil war. But there
is no occasion for despair. The time will
come when the nation will be enabled to
take full advantage of its own natural re-
sources and superiorities. In that day we
shall command both the cotton and ‘iron
markets of the world.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Berks county fair opened at Reading
Tuesday.
—Chester county grand jury completed its
labors yesterday.
convention at Harrishurg,
—Wilkesbarre's public schools have 600
more pupils than last year.
—The delinquent tax list in Pittsburg is
smaller than for several years.
—A Lancaster burglar got $30 and a lot of
jewelry from the house of Elmer E. Rudy.
—The Union church, at Unionville, Le-
high county, celebrated its centennial on
Sunday.
—Seventeen-year-old Mary Kistler died, a
supposed suicide, from strychnine poisoning
at Allentown.
—The New Haven Lutheran church was
dedicated Sunday evening by professor
Baugher, of Gettysburg.
—Russel Maguire, 10 years old, was run
over at Weatherly, near Hazleton. Both
legs were cut off and he soon died.
—Elaborate arrangements have been made
at Reading for the Peunsylvania liquor
league convention there on September 27th.
—Six cows and six calves were killed in a
colliding stock car that ran away from the
rest bf, the train at the union depot, Harris-
burg.
—A coal car dashed through a wagon shed
and tossed a delivery sleigh into Jacob Ku-
gel’s dooryard at West Chester Monday, be-
sides wrecking his barn.
—An immense fall of coal buried Theodore
Rosernock and Frank Slifka at Burnside
mine, Shamokin, Saturday night. Roser-
nock was killed and the other is dying.
—Ira T. Clement, of Sunbury, will go into
the frog raising business. He has fenced in
the basins on North Second street, and is
burying all the small frogs he can get.
—Great preparations have been made at
Paoli and throughout Chester county to ob-
serve the one hundred and twentieth anni-
versary of the Paoli massacre, on September
20th.
—On a freight train at New Brighton on
Saturday night Charles E. Gower, of Alle-
gheny, was murdered by two tramps and
robbed of $9.40, which he is said to have told
his assailants he had saved for his sick wife
at home.
—Franklin county constables met at Cham-
bersburg and prepared to ask the court for
more remunerative fees than the 20 cents «
mile, one way, which is allowed them with-
out salary, for making returns to court.
—The hitherto unmarked graves of two
slaves, who died near Linglestown, were on
Sunday marked by two tablets. Addresses
were made by W. Justin Carter, a colored at-
torney, and Peter S. Blackwell, a colored
editor.
—The three story laundry building and
fifty feet of stables adjoining the laundry
were destroyed by fire at Altoona early Sat-
urday morning. The property belonged to
Harry Otto. The loss is estimated at $2600.
Insurance $1250.
—Sixteen passenger coaches were loaded
with the Tyrone & Cass paper mill picnic
people Saturday morning, and it required
four engines to haul the train up the mount-
ain on the Northwestern railroad, from Bell-
wood to Mariposa park, where the day was
spent by the employes of the mill and their
families.
—The Lewisburg, Milton and Watsontown
railway, an electric concern, was granted a
charter at Harrisburg Monday, and will run
a line ten miles long from Lewisburg to Mil-
ton and thence to Watsontown. The capital
$125,000, and H. V. Massey, of Philadelphia
president. Several of the directors are inter-
ested in other electric roads which have been
chartered in the last few months.
—Samuel Vanatta, while at work at Kist-
ler’s tannery at Lock Haven, on Monday
night, suddenly fell and informed the other
workmen that someone had waylaid him.
The police were summoned, which caused
reports to be circulated that an attempt at
murder had been committed. The police
made a search, but found no strangers in the
tannery. The young man was taken home
and the physician who was summoned stated
that the young man was suffering from spi-
nal meningitis, which disease causes such
hallucinations to afflict the victim.
—Murs. Margaret Yearick, a widow resid-
ing at Charlton, Clinton county, but recently
keeping house for James Henry, at Oak
(Grove, was the vietim of a burning accident
Sunday night. While alone in the house,
and while going up stairs with the lighted
lamp in her hand, the lamp struck some pro-
jection, which either broke it or caused it to
explode. The ignited oil flew over the per-
son of Mrs. Yearick and burned nearly all
the clothing from off her body. Mrs. Year-
ick’s screams were heard by Mr. Schleisinger
who was fully an eighth of a mile away, and
before he could reach the suffering woman
the flames had frightfully burned and
scarred her flesh. Mr. Schleisinger tore the
Altgeld’s Idea of Government.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Ex-Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, de- |
livered a striking address at Philadelphia
yesterday to the labor organizations. While
he is unquestionably one of the ablest,
most original and courageous thinkers of
the union who has held or now holds high
place, the radical changes in our existing
governmental and business systems he ad-
vocates or suggests as the issues of the !
future almost take one’s breath away.
Governmental ownership of coal mines and
railroads, telegraphs and telephones, is one
policy he favors, with future ownership of
all corporations dealing in the great wants
and necessities of life. He favors a postal
telegraph, and instances the postal depart-
ment as an illustration of governmental
adaptability to great business enterprises.
He denounces government by injunction
as a crime against labor, and would put |
the curb on all corporations and monop-
olies. ;
Governor Altgeld runs paternalism to an
extreme repugnant to Democratic ideas
and principles. He preaches a sort of state
socialism for the advancement of labor and
repression of the autocracy of capital. The
Republican party preaches and practices
state socialism for the oppression of labor
and the supremacy of capital. That is the
difference between the two. One applies
socialistic principles to advance trusts.
The other would do it to secure labor its
share.
remainder of the clothing off the woman and
sent for assistance. She died Monday morn-
ing. She was about 60 years old.
—A terrible sequel to the failure of the
Second national bank of Altoona, the subse-
quent flight of cashier Harry Gardner, and
the suicide of bank examiner William Miller
many months ago, was the death on Monday
by his own hand, of Harry Clabaugh, who
was assistant cashier of the unfortunate bank
at the time of Gardner's defalcation. Harry
Clabaugh, who has heen employed for some
time as clerk in the Juniata shops at Altoona
informed his wife the fatal morning that he
would not be home for dinner but would
dine at his father’s home at Loganton. He
went to the latter place and ate dinner as he
said he would, and about 12:30 o'clock left
the house and went to an outhouse where a
few moments later a shot was heard. On in-
vestigation it was found that he had shot
himself through the head. He lived only a
half hour, death ensuing at 1 o'clock this
afternoon. The deceased was about 30 years
of age, and is survived by his wife ; they had
no children. Since the bank troubles with
which he had been unfortunately connected,
when he was arrested several times and tak-
en to Pittsburg for trial before the federal
courts, though he came out of the ordeal
with no discredit to his reputation, the
worry left his mind in bad condition, and it
was through the resulting despondency that
he finally died by his own hand.
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