4 THE BEAVER SMITH CCKTIS, E»lTOS v . BEAVER PA.. Priiay moraine* Marcb 14th, 1873* THE beaver falls coolie ex periment. There was a large m?e ting of cit izens, at Beaver Falls .on Tuesday evening, which protested vigorous* 1y against Chinese importation, and passed resolutions denouncing the Cdtlery Company for introducing them into their works, and criti cised severely the answer of the Eqonozhites on this subject, and; refused to be comforted thereby. Manufacturers who have enjoyed fori so long the benefit of protection cannot complain against the appli cation of the same principle in fa vor of the workingmen of the coun try, especially when such manufac turers, by importing coplies, under take to obtain a double advantage over rival cutlery companies and skilled American workingmen, in violation of the spirit of the laws that protect American manufactur ers against the low priced products of European cheap labor. Why are | manufacturers p.otected thus?; To stimulate and develop such industry; to increase the demand for labor, and thus give employment to me chanics; to work up the neV mate rial of which there is an abundance in the country; to create thriving villages, and so bring the mechanic and the farmer within easy commu nication for the mutual interchange of their products. These are the beneficent ends of wise protective measures, which the introduction of cheap China labor will, in the end, subvert. It would be only just that some law should be passed to pro tect those manufactures which em ploy exclusively white laborers from those which employ Chinese cheap labor. If it is right to protect by law American, manufactures from competition with European, on ac count of European cheap labor then, since the very prosperity of certain manufactures depend upon such protection, it is right and just to protect them from competition with the produefcs-of Chinese cheap labor. Shall the industry of one sec tion of country break down by un fair advantages the industry of an other section? Shall the Beaver Falls Cufl for y Company, Dy the use or Chinese cheap labor, break down like establishments in the west or east, or fofee them to discharge their white working men, in order -to fill their places with Chinese ? That is the meaning and drift of this labor movement. The Beaver Falls Cqmpany claim that they have in some departments of their works reduced th* expenses one half, while at the same time the productive capacity has been large ly increased, and this not by the in vention and-iise of machinery, but by the substitution of Chinese lor ’ Americans. What other cutlery work can compete with Beaver Falls then? What inducement is there for other like manufactories to be started, unless on the basis of cheap labor? Skilled American workmen have rights in this matter that ought not to be over looked. Soch persons have served appren ticeships, spent time and money to acquire a knowledge of their busi ness, and surely their interests, their prosperity, their happiness and that of their families are put in jeopra dy by this competion with cheap labor. These workingmen are citi zens, subject to military service, aiid forced to pay taxes to support the government, and their demand is reasonable when they ask, protection from sodden and unlocked for ca lamities from cheap labor, that would reduce their means of liv ing, their hours, of leis ure, diminish their comforts, their education, and sink them to a lower scale of being. There is no temptation to employ Chinese except at lower wages, and the Chinese movement is, therefore, in direct conflict-with that strong and popular tendency to elevate the condition of the laboring population by increasing their wages and mul liplying their leisure moments. The contract system of Chinese cheap labor, inaugurated at Beaver Falls, being a violation of the spirit of protection, and* full of disaster to other cutlery companies that employ white workmen, cannot meet with much sympathy in this country, and is certain to encounter the bitter hostjlity of the workingmen, whose happiness and prosperity it endan gers.- ; 1 . Opposition to Chinese labor, lf .such labor continues to any extent, will increase, and possibly break over the barriers of lau|f and order. The bare possibility of \ such a ca lamity is fo be deplored! A milder form of antagonism would first "either abolish protective laws, and so put Chinese labor in competition with European, or place such a tax percapita their »o em . ployert as Sucn laws would wOiflc no nKire inj ns tice to the'CninesO laborer, than is now, by law, done tothe: European. The difference is only and ap plication, not in principle.; And what American would be so selfish and unpatriotic as to complain of such a law? RADICAL GE!f. GRANT AS A STATESMAN. General Grant has entered upon his second term, having already made a record as a statesman that partly eclipses his glory as a mili tary hero. His messages, his recom- ’ mentations, his opinions on public questions freely expressed, so ju dicious, so timely, and.So accordant with popular convictions, together with his great and everywhere ac knowledged executive ability, make a record such as will * adorn the brightest page of our history, and such as no one can successfully as sail. Gen. Gftmt is a true and bold leader, whether on the tented field or on the broader arena of politics. His messages to Congress have been full of good suggestions. Public opinion will sustain his position in regard to the great questions that have been before Congress. He has endeavored honestly to execute the laws to establish justice, to protect all citizens in their political and natu ral rights, to encourage industry, to foster American manufactures, to develop and encourage inventions, and to secure the welfare of the whole country. He may have made mistakes, for who is perfect, but the wisdom of his councils and the suc cess of his administration are appa rent to the dullest intellect. He abhors polygamy, he loves freedom, he stands by the negro, he Seeks to purify and elevate the civil he befriends the Indian, he assists every humane and Christian tendency, and now as he clothes himself anew with official robes, his past noble record and ripe experi ence will eminently qualify him to be a leader of the party that has honored him with a second term. President Grant will make his second term, if possible, an improve ment upon his first, and in this re spect he will imitate the example of his illustrous predecessors who made their second term more suc cessful than their first, Washing ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson and Lincoln, no donbt bad he lived. We feel like again congrat ulating the Republican party over the splendid victory of last Novem ber, that gives now such a good prospect Of a wise, safe and econom ical administration for the next four . years to come. THE LAST CONGRESS. The forty-second Congress is dead; its records are now a part of the United' States history. It was com posed of many able and worthy members, a few of ordinary attain ments, and others of questionable integrity, but on the whole as a body will compare favorably with the members of any preceding Congress. The session Just closed was short and has largely been con sumed by the investigations of pub lic scandal, the result of which, while they have disappointed the people, may possibly be sound. If Congress did not do much, it did all that was necessary to do, and refrained from doing what might have resulted in mischief. No bad legislation has afflicted the country, no schemes to rob the treasury, bo plots or plans of a personal or partisan nature has been suffered to become law that were in conflict with the general good of the country. It deserves praise for setting its face against all such? legislation, and in grave com plications for making haste slowly. It was beset with many difficulties; THE RADICAL: FRIDAY, 14, 1813. if' questions; the welfare of the coun try in a measure depended upon its careful and prudent measures, bat the responsible majority Was equal to the occasionj and managed legis lation so as to strengthen their own party and meet the demands of the people. When fhe records of this Congress are studied, it will be found to deserve yuo mean praise, not only for What it' did, but espe cially for what it .might have done and did not do. TWe new tfnited States Senate now consists of forty-fonr cans and twenty-eight Democrats, including Liberals,, with two conr tested seats w;hich will probably not be decided until next winter. Pinchbeck and McMiUiW are con testants for the Lunisiahla seat, one representing the Kellogg, the other the Legislatnre; Sykes and Spencer for the Alabama seat, Spencer being elected by one body, and Sykes by the other Legislature. Since the compromise and fusion of the two bodies, there has been no election of Senator or there might have been a third claimant for the seat. Pinchbeck and Spencei are Republicans, the other; two, proba bly Democrats. - ■> The Local Option Supplement has now passed both the HousO and Senate, Vnd will wUhoutdoubt; soon receive the Governor’s approval. This Supplement provides that the cities of Allegheny and Pittsburgh will vote for or against license on the third Friday of this month, as well as Allegheny county, and! that the votes of the cities shall be counted separately from that of the boroughs and / townships ofj the county. Each city for this election being a distinct district, and min ing the qaeßtlf Ihold* log the regular borough election, and resulted in— For License. — » Against License. w r a majority for license at the trial be fore, the vote is significant of agreat change In public opinion, and doubt less foreshadows the conclusion that will be reached in the county on the third Friday in March.; FROMMARRISBVRG. Somerse t—Del aware Avenue— Repeal of tbe Free Railroad Law—Half a million for n Celebration—Redaction of Taxeo-Herdle’s Scbeme-The Ap portionment and Appropriation RUta —Personal* . Correspondence of the Radical. Harrisburg, March 10, 1873. The House passed tbe bill, giving the citizens of Somerset who lost by tbe fire in that borough last May, $75,000 put of State Treasury, and it now goes to the Governor for his signature Everyone admits tbe policy of making the State an insurance company is not only a very bad policy, but also a very dangerous one ; yet men’s sympathies run away with their judgment. If the citizens of Somerset are entitled to relief so is every other citizen of tbe Commonwealth who loses a bouse or barn by fire, and if this policy is once adopted it will soon bankrupt tbe Treas ury. A fire to Philadelphia or Pitts burgh, such as occurred iu Chicago and Boston, which may occur any day, would be disastrous to tbe Commonwealth if tbe same measure of relief was given that has been given to Somerset. No State can undertake to relieve her desti lute citizens, let alone those who are merely sufferers. Property holders must insure, and not rely on the State for insu rance in case of loss. It Is not known what the Governor will do, but there is .spme hope be will not sign the bill, al though it passed the House by a two thirds vote. If this bill is signed the Gov ernor is committed tu the policy, and must sign all of a similar character passed daring bis term. Quite a sensation was created last week oyer tbe discovery of the fact that a bill giving the Pennsylvania Railroad the use •f a certain portion of Delaware avenue, in Philadelphia.bad been amended, with out the koowledge of anyone, except one Senator and: Member and the agent of tbe road, bo as to give the Company tbe right to use the street for several miles along the Delaware, to * the injury and almost destruction of trade on that street. The fact was discovered after it had reached* the office of tbe Secretary of tbe Common wealth, and Speaker Elliott raised a storm that looked dangerous for a time. Tbe bill was recalled and 4he amendment stricken off, and an effort made to cover up the whole matter, which failed, owing to the tact that Orviv, of Centre, learned the facts and at once offered a resolution A -■ which lie Is chairman. Orvls says if the committee will stand by him he wilt expose 1 the whole affair, aiffi thct a Philadelphia Senator and a member of the House will be placed in a position that men of their pretensions won’t like to occupy, to say, the leasi of it. Been If the amendment was rlght, which it was not, to permit a bill to te amended.as tbSs was,was an out rage no House should tolerate. McClureVbill.repealing the free rail* road law, which created such a stir throughout the State, was recommitted to to the Committee on Railroad?, where it will doubtless remain the balance of- the session. If it had passed no railroad could have..been 'built in. the State, hereafter without the consent of the Pennsylvania .Geptrii. , Vv ■. ■ The House,, by a small majority, passed to a third reading a hiHgiving half a mil* lion of dollars out of the State Treasury for a celebration in Philadelphia in 1870.' After the decisive defeat of the bill some weeks since in the House, many wonder what influence was brought to bear to in duce so many members to change tbeir minds on this question. It is too early to begin appropriating money for this pur* "pose, and if anything is given this year it Will have to be doubled every year here&f teruntiltbe celebration. If Philadelphia wants a celebration let her citizens, who will be benefitted. pay for it, and not cal] on the farmers, mechanics, and others throughout the State to pay for a celebra tion one man In a thousand outside of Philadelphia Will nether see nor be bene fltted by. Thousands in Pbilrdelpbia will realise fortunes out Of the celebr&tionand let them pay for tbe show, and let us use the. money ip the Treasury to pay off oor State debt. ' Senator Wallace has Introduced a bill into the Senate to take off the State tax on horses and cattle, which will doubtless pass, as will also the bill relieving corpo rations'from payment of the odious and unjust tax on net earnings. This can be done and the State pay one million of dol lars annually toward redaction of State debt, fchich is reducing it as rapidly as desirable. Just now the celebrated Peter Herdic, of Williamsport, is engaging the atten tion of the Legislature and the people generally. He fias two schemes on hand (bat occupy Lis time, and the time of a number of other outsiders, sent here by the people, is taken up in watching him. is to make a new county out jof parts of Tioga, Bradford, Lycoming and Sullivan, with county seat at Minne qua, at the precise spot "owned by said Herdic, and known as the Heifiic or Min nequa Springs. Thereisno necessity lor thecoonty and no one pretends there is, but Herdic wants it to enable him to real iae 'a fortaoe by selling hlehandreds of , acres,,now a. wilderness,for town lots. It |is a big job, and he is trying to buy it through by liberal offers to donate the profits to members who vote as he de sires. Every Senator and member from the counties to be affected by this scheme are-bitterly hostile to it, and yet, strange to say, it now looks as if tbe bill would pass the House this week. If it does not it will simply be because it is known, or at least generally believed, that the Qov ernor would not sign it, and there will be no “dlvies” unless he does. Honest men might and .possibly may vote for this bill, but it is safe to say they will, be fewer in number than righteous men in Sodom in the days of Lot. Herdic’s other bill has reference to the Williamsport boom, so often before tbe Legislature, and about which there has been such desperate fights and terrible scandal for years. Senator Wallace intro duced a bill authorizing the courts to fix a reasonable compensation, which Mc- Clure amended by a bill fixing the boom age at a rate little less than tbe present rates. Wallace made tbe bitterest speech ever made in the Senate in opposition to this bill, declaring it infamous, and de nouncing tbe agents of corporations and railroads, who he declared were here lob bying to pass it. Senator Wallace is ol tbe Scotch-Irish descent, and in explanation afterwards of his bitter, wicked speech be said be knew his bill was being defeated by corrupt means, and be got so angry Ibe Irish got above the Scotch for a time. Senators McClure and Strang replied, and as Senator Strang represents a lum ber district bis support of tbe amendment indicated that tbe amendment was not so bad, and that in this fight the boom com pany was right and tbe mill owners and lumbermen wrong. The Apportionment and Appropriation bills will both be reported in the House and passed this week. At least ibe chairmen of these committees have so promised, and members will not tolerate delay longer. It is said the Ways and Means Committee wil) report in favor of a general increase of salaries, including Judges, clerks in the departments, and members* of ihe Legislature. If so it is a great mistake and one tbb party can’t af ford to make at this time. Oor Judges and public officers are generally fairly paid, and now, when living is daily getting cheaper, it. is a bad time to increase. These salaries have been, increased more than once since the war, and men who ac cepted positions, as nearly all of them have, when it cost double as much to live as it does now, should not ask for an in crease now so soon after a Pres? idental election. No class of public men in this State are so poorly paid as mem bers of the Legislature. One thousand dollars is no compensation, and it don’t more than pay necessary eipensts of the campaign, and the expenses here a** of a himily at home during the three moihfcg ‘theliegislatare is in session. The people expect members to he honest, and this is , right, but they should also be willing to pay their representatives, a living salary. If the Legislature, Should ad vance the. salary of mem^'em ; ||q fifteen hundred or two thousand |||||||« as it should, there would be a terrible howl, and yet nothing is said when the salaries of other lofficiats, who much-better paid, arc increased The right way is to refusetoincreaeejbe salary of those In office, and where itis required provide for an increase for the next term. If sny other course is adopted the party will suf fer by It., : Governor Harlraoft has appointed Ad am Weaver, of lnspector of Flour for Allegheny county, as indicated long since. . . . W* 8. Shaltenberger, Esq* the efficient Chairman of your County Committee, was in.. ,lhe city,, last week visiting his friends here and making the acquaint ance of our public men. He was well re ceived and made a good impression on all be met. T M. i * *FROM PHILADELPHIA. .Women Mode Eligible to Hold Ofice Under the School Lavra by the New Constitution—Kin. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Lecture—the Hadical Club, Correspondence of, the Radical. Philadelphia, Feb. 27,1873. On Monday the Convention by a vote of 50 to 13 passed the clause making wo men eligible to all offices under the school laws of Pennsylvania. This Is felt by the friends of woman suffrage, to be a great thing, and an entering wedge in the log of antique observances. The.: Convention having. granted the ball, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton came on -from her home to deliver an ad dress. The hall was asked for by Mrs, 8., 8. Bladen, Chairman of the Ex ecutive Committee of the Citizens' Suf frage Association, and Mrs. Stanton intro duced to the audience by Edward M. Da vis, President of the Citizens' Suffrage Association, with a few appropriate re marks. Mr. Davis had also distributed tbe constitution of the society and a song by William Lloyd Garrison among the audience. The hall was crowded, many ladies being obliged to stand throughout the evening. In the gallery people faint ed, and a gentleman, overcome with the the excitement, was carried out in a ifit, which caused a would-be witty delegate to remark that he had heard that "Mrs. Stanton was in the habit of giving men fits, but supposed, nntil to-night, she did so metaphorically, not literally.” This lady was in her happiest mood ; anecdote and illustration rushed spontaneously to her dips, while the dignity and beauty of her presence casta lustre on the cause she espoused. The "grave and reverend Seignors” of the Convention broke into smiles continually. Many personk do not know that all tbe advanced legislation in tbe State of New York on behalf of women, of late years has been tbe result of direct personal efforts by Mrs. beth Cady Stanton. Some fifteen years since a man could compel the companion ship of his wife by legal means. A case of peculiar hardship occurred where a young wife, Who bad been physically in jured by her husband, fled to her mother’s residence. The father followed her with tbe Sheriff who dragged her from her sick bed and carried her to the house of her husband’s mother, where she died from tbe effect of her injury. During her ill ness her own mother was never allowed to see her, except in the presence of her husband’s mother., Tbe horrible cruelty of a law that would permit such things to be perpetrated upon a wife, so affected Mrs. Stanton that she went at once to work, and never rested until the obnox ious statute was repealed by the New York Legislature. Her life has been one long contest on behalf of liberty. On Wednesday she read a paper entitled "Rich and Poor” before the Radical Club. Tbe Club rooms were jammed. Mrs. Lu cretia Mott made a few introductory re marks. Mrs. Mott’s presence at the Club is always hailed with enthusiasm, her age and tbe severity of the winter, togeth er with her residence out of town, Inter fering with her regular attendance. Mr. E. M. Davis announced that the Club bad now reached that period in its grpwtb when it could support itself without out ride assistance. The fact is “ The Radical Club"li&s grown to be one of the perma nent institutions of Philadelphia, On Wednesday afternoon of every week at 8 o’clock assemble at 333 Walnut street, some of the brightest minds itfPhiladel pbia. The motto of this.organization is “Eternal vigilance is tbe price of Liber ty,” and so thoroughly is this doctrine adhered to, that if tyranny of any sort gets a fast bold in this Commonwealth, tbe executive committee of this Club will not be to blame for it. A sad accident occurred at the Conven tion on Wednesday last. Maj. John Lie ton caught his foot in a loose piece of cocoa matting, and fulling down stairs broke his ankle. Hon, D. L. Imbrie is still at his post, doing up bis bus'ness as energetically as possible. Philadelphia feels indignant over the attempt to de- 1 prive her of due representation. One member of the Convention has been mar ried three times to rich women. He en joys the tenancy by the courtesy on ac count of the two dead wives and thirty thousand dollars a year income from the third. Be thinks the husband ought to be the head of the wife, and that it is contrary to the Bible for women to v » We have had terrible weather here »°h*‘ winter, and after two days of promise were treated to another * storm wight before last. This is bad T chronic invalids, and many who have able to holdout through the winter cumh to the chilling blasts of March One of our most eminent physic- Dr. Hodge, died this week. He lea ’ five sons, four of whom are clergymen^ A well known citizen, Gen, John L ney Jones, was arrested on Wed&esJj night, for setting bis house on fi re « I was found wandering oa the Darby r J* , and whefi asked what he was doing * plied that he had just been burning h house and was now looking for his * He Is k man of wealth, in the carpet bu? ness, and has for years had a hobby t w everybody should live in boats and Z land be used for agriculture only n wears “sandals, a long beard, and othtr strange garments, and goes up and down the river preaching about a fatnify boat He takes the texts about Noah’s ark f roa tho Bible, and constructs quite as good as argument in &vor of hia family boat aj do those who oppose Woman Suffrage be cause St. Paul said, “let woman be snV ject to her husband.” Kot long s!nde a man killed hi? two children and himself there in a dmnken spree, and the New York papers offered as an excuse for him that when his moth in*law died she wasn’t as rich as he ex pected her to be, and the editorials seed, ed to treat it as quite a natural feeling 0 f indignation on bis part. We have a gland spectacular show at the Chestnut street Theatre now with forty horses on the stage. Eizzil. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT We have received from oar Senator, Mr. Rolan, a copy of the bill read ia by him, called “An Act to establish an Insurance Department.” The propo sition, iota pendent of the propriety or im propriety tit provision of the bill, should receive the consideration of the Legislature. Peti'i>a V -) V3n j a> 80 f ar aS4 judicious distribution or »j, e pab ij c busi ness to be transacted is , -s vcr y far behind nealy every State in thbT; n j on We have not advanced an inch, but Su Q to regard the old mode of referring every thing to tlie Auditor General’s Depart ment for settlement and adjustment as admitting of no change whatever. We remember very well, years ago, when tbe proposition was made to in stitute a new department to be called the Bureau of Statistics, it was regarded as as attempt to entail on the tax payers i great expense and designed to feed some hungry office-seekers at the public crib. We drafted a bill for the purpose; had is referred to a committee, and after days o! consideration it was reported negatively, Massachusetts sad other SUtes is already organized similar departed and are an anally spreading before the country a detailed statement of tbe amount of business done within then limits. Pennsylvania, too stingy to ex pend ten thousand dollars annually fori similar purpose, is unable, although doing three times the amount of business, to even approximate to a truthful state ment. We remember, also, when a cer tain member of Congress from this Slate, was called upon lo state the amount of anthracite coal mined and sent to market, bad to make the humiliation confession’ that there were no official records at Harrisburgh showing the amount, anJ that he was unable to give the informa tion. The department proposed by Mr. Rutan ought to be established. Is is wrong w entail all labor incident to a thorough & animation of the accounts of Insurance companies on the Auditor General and bis clerical lorce. To make separate de partments incurs but little expense as we are certain the benefit to the public would fully compensate for it. Howerer, bad we the power we would mafceh de partment to be called the Department ot Corporators, with authority to lake charge of the affairs of all theicorporationsin State, settle and adjhat their accoua ts leaving to the Auditor General and SW? Treasurer a supervisory power over same. Such a department would the labor and insure a speedy transaction ot business. We are not certain that such a p r °i*’ sition would be favorably considered. our Senator might draft a bill for !UCS purpose and have it brought before Senate.— Butler Berald. VOTE ON LOCAL OPTION- The following table, exhibiting polled in cities, counties, and P counties that have voted on the l' ce ® question under the local option ® be relied upon as nearly correct: For License- Altoona (city). ••••••••■ Beaver Palls and New Brtgnton Blair connty Bradford Cambria Cameron Centre Clarion ; - • Clearfield Clinton ©k Forest—r Indiana (four districts). Jefferson Lock Haven (city) Lycoming McKean Reading (city) Schuylkill Sullivan Susquehanna Tioga • - v Venango (three districts) Warren...— Wayne Williamsport (city) Majority “Against License,” 300 I«US 5818 164