LIVE QUESTIONS.
t-r'-r of Artlelea Contrlbntfd to ThM
Column by Advanced Thinker.
THK PEOPLE AND TIIR roUTlCUSS.
Between 1801 and 1805 our people
expended billions of treasure and sacri
ficed hundreds of thousands of lives to
ate the Union and to keep onr flag fly
lug. Eat a more subtle and a more dan
gerous crisis menaces free government
today. Democratic government in this
country is endangered, and there is
much reason to believe that it may be
destroyed.
Our people are being deluded by the
idea that they live under a froo form of
government ; that they are the rulers ;
that they make laws, elect candidates
to office and control publio affairs,
wfcile in truth aud in fact the forms of
democratic government are today being
employed by artful and designing poli
ticians to delude them into the belief
that they are shaping legislation and
controlling government A boss in New
York and a boss in Pennsylvania as
completely control all lawmaking is
those states as does the emperor of Ger
many control the making of law in Ger
many. But power is conferred upon the
emperor of Germany with the consent
of his peoplo, while the boss in New
York is a private individual, owing no
allegiance to the people and under no
obligation to perform their will. Much
more can be said in favor of a monar
chical form of government than can to
said in favor of boss rule. The constitu
tional monarch in Europe has every in
ducement to preserve his people and to
create and perpetuate them in prosperi
ty to his son as their uler, but no such
inducement exists with the boss. He
cannot hand down his power to his eld
est son. There is no inducement upon
bis part to give the people good govern
ment If the American people are to
relinquish to the boss their right to froe
government, a right purchased by a
struggle lommenclng with Runnymede
and carfied on continuously until our
own dayj why in the name of common
sense should they not moke the boss ship
a hereditary institution in .order to
create some motive in the
a for glT-
ing them good govern men
DO THK PEOPLE r,
We are not overstating
e case when
we maintain that the condition of gov
ernment which we have reached in the
last few years is more grievous than an
actual monarchy. When men who do
not bold official positions select the
members of our state legislatures, dio
tate the candidates who fill executive
offices, secure for their henchmen offi
cial positions and completely control
states and even the nation, and dictate
every law, throttle all legislation and
the interests of the people, is it too
much to say that democratic govern
ment is ceasing or has ceased in this
country?
In 1860 about 80 per cent of the
wealth of the country belonged to 90
per cent of its people. In 1890, 80 per
cent of it belonged to less than 10 per
cent of its people. In the city of New
York alone we have to exceed 1,100
millionaires. In the whole country we
have upward of 4,000 millionaires.
Never in the history of any country
during a like period of time has the
wealth so 6peedily changed from the
hands of the many into the hands of the
few.
Legislation in the national legislature
and in the state legislatures is almost
completely controlled by political boss
es, or, as too frequently occurs, pur
chased by great corporations. A careful
examination made in the state of New
York in 1893 showed that over 2,000
corporations in one year paid tribute to
a political boss who controlled the legis
lature either for legislation favorable
to their corporations or immunity from
hostile legislation.
WHT PEOPLE AP.E DISSATISFIED.
There is throughout all the country a
state of unrest The people have long
known from grievous experience that
the shoe pinched, but they have been
slow in finding out why it pinches.
Unrest among the common people al
ways means injustice, wrongs to be
righted, property wrongly diverted from
the handd of the many to the hands of
the few, unequal and unfair legislation.
Never has so much apprehension ex
isted as to the future as exists today
among intelligent men. Every student
of history, of political economy and of
finance knows that the policy of legis
lation pursued in this country during
the last. few years has Dot only tended
to divert the weath of the country from
the hands of the many to the hands of
the few, but has brought about a terri
ble condition of degeneracy and corrup
tion among publio men. Does any intel
ligent man for one moment believe that
you can safely place in the hunds of the
congress of the United States the right to
transfer tens of millions of dollars from
one part of the community to another
and not at the same time subject it
to temptations beyond the power of man
to resist ;
With all the legislation for the pro
tection of home industries which we
have had during this period of 80 years,
are the farmors of the country hnppter
or more prosperous than in the good old
dnys when our grandmother at their
wfteels were our only manufacturer?
Have the people the confidence iu their
publio servants which they felt in the
days before special legislation came to
be the rule in congress and in our state
legislatures? The fact is that every in
telligent man knows that our publio
mon and our politicians are neither sin
cere Republicans nor sinoere Democrats
not sincere in anything except to keep
themselves afloat on the tide of money
making at the expense of the taxpayer.
The Fifty-first congress cutoff $50,000,
000 of the publio income by the passage
of tariff measure which kept foreign
iirjports out of the oouutry. It added
$&0,000,000 to the expenditures of the
cokutry. It borrowed $30,000,000 of
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the national banks by turning the re
demption fund into the treasury, nud it
added over $160,000,000 of legal tendor
notes necessarily redeemable in gold,
while it diverted an eqnal nmonut of
publio revocte to the purchnso of pig
silver at don bio its real value to be
stiicked in the troat;ury vaults. . The last
Democratic congress, although the Dem
ocratio party had pronounced itself as
strongly as words would allow in favor
of the unconstitutionality of special
legislation for the benefit of the few and
to impose burdens upon the many, nev
ertheless passed a tariff bill which con
tinued the sugar trust aud other trusts
in power. The present congress was
opened by the prayer of the chaplain to
tho effect that the Lord would mnko us
"quick to resent insult. " He has con
tinned his praying by asking tho Al
mighty for "additional protection to
American manufacturers, so thpt they
might put an end to the privations of
the American workiugmen. And it
now appears that ho ought to close the
session with the general confession:
"We have done those things we ought
not to have done ; we have loft undone
those things which we ought to have
done. Spare us, good Lord, miserable
sinners." '
But the worst feaiuro of the whole
situation is that our people rightfully
conceive the idea that their rulers are
dabbling in unclean things, and the cor
ruption of the people themselves is
bound to follow this belief, for they
will reason thAt, if purity in office does
not pay, then purity at the ballot box
does not pay either, and every citizen
may as well sell his vote for what it will
bring.
Out of these conditions have come a
class gf publio servants who do not corn
man respect because they are not re
specable, who do not command confi
dence because they are neither honest
nor intelligent It was only the other
day that the Hon. Julius Caesar Bur
rows, who represents the state of Mich
igan in the United States senate, actu
ally introduced a bill to restore to the
dutiable list the articles that were taxa
ble under the McKinley law, but which
had been placed on the free list by the
tariff act of 1894. He did this in igno
rance of the fact' that the constitution
expressly provides that all bills for rais
ing revenue shall originate in the boase
of representatives. A few days later
Senator Tillman of , South Carolina, in
an outbreak of pulmonary eloquenoe and
noisy declamation, so vilified President
Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle that
even the sensational newspapers did not
repeat his language. It was while view
ing this senate that a traveler from oth
er climes has recently said that "if the
American people can stand that they
can stand anything."
With these humiliating spectacles be
fore us, it is not strange that there is a
general diminution of attachment and
reverence among the people for a po
litical system which betrays so many
grounds of infirmity and disappoints so
many of our flattering hopes.
BIGHT WILL TRIOIPn AT LAST.
Although the outlook is dork, I be
lieve in the ability of the American
people when they are face to face with
these evils and recognize in them a
great danger to our free government to
remedy them. We must, however, ap
preciate the fact that every law passed
for the benefit of a few men or of a cor
poration, that all species of special leg
islation are dangerous and destructive
to honesty and purity in publio legis
lators. We must step out of our inac
tion and do our duty fearlessly if we
would avert the danger. Courage, abne
gation, virtue and patriotism made our
country, and these qualities will alone
preserve it. In fact, before a remedy is
effected, we must become conscious that
we have been recreant to our publio
duty in these days of money making,
and solemnly vow to atone for such
recreancy.
The spirit which will redeem the
people in the breast of a few courageous
men must be that which Otway, in his
"Venico Preserved," gives to Pierre:
Pierre Yet, Juffler, for all this I am a vil
lain. Jaffler A villain?
Pierre Yes, a most notorious villain.
To boo the Bufferings of my follow creatures
And own myitclf a man ; to see our senators
Cheat tho deluded peoplo with a Bhow
Of liberty, which yet they ne'er must fauteof.
They Bay, by them our hands are free from
fetter,
Yet whom they please they place in basest
bonds;
Bring whom they please to infamy and sorrow ;
Drive us, like wreck, down the sough tido of
power,
WhilHt no hold is left to save us from destruc
tion. All that bear this are villains, and I one
Mot to rouse up at the great call of nature
And check the growth of these domestic spoil
ers. That make us slaves and tell us it's our char
tor. Fkanklim Pierce.
New York, Feb. 1.
TnE New Editor.
We hoar much of the new woman,
the new man (und even sometimes an
echo of the "old man"), the new edu
cation, new books, eta., ad infinitum.
Why not discuss the question of the new
editor or tho new newspaper?
The new editor is a man (or woman)
who is not only up to date, but is even
anticipating the future. He is both a
man of theory and practice. "He stands'
four square to all the winds that blow."
He is'iu touch with every interest of his
community, state and nation. He be
longs generally to Borne political party,
but is larger than any or all parties. He
sees things with his own eyes and writes
what he thinks or doos not write at all.
He kuows men and books, and urges
evory good move that looks to tho better
ment of the community in any sense. Ht
can muke a speech, tell a joke well, laugh
ul one thut you tell poorly, on joy the
bost plays, musicales, lectures and ser
mons. Ho has great power for good and
uses it for noble ends. Ho is a reputa
tion maker, for hundreds of men every
year soar into prominence on tho wings
of the newspapers. He is all this and
very much more. Along with the new
woman let us all hail the advent of the
nev editor. CuabLeb Marshall.
THE COLOMBIAN,
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THE JEWISH PAS30VEB.
A Religious Observance of Importance
In
yicbrew Circlet.
The anifual observance of Tassover
began last Saturday evening. For
eight days the Hebrews carefully
eschew leaven, although seven days
covered the original proscription.
During the captivity a doubt arose as
to the Jewish calendar, and in order
to avoid the possibility of abbrevia
ting trie prescribed time, for some
time subsequently they consumed
two days in special opening services
and the same in the closing observ
ances. While the calendar is now
well understood, the orthodox Jews
follow the old custom, but the reform
ed wing consume but one day in the
opening and one in the closing of ob
servance. The feast is commemorative of the
deliverance of Israel from the bond
age of Egypt, and the passage through
the Red sea. The ceremonies are
elaborate, and each house is a temple
in which service is held. The ortho
dox Jews observe the commemora
tion with much more detail than does
the reformed wing.
Pure, rich blood is the true cure for
nervousness, and Hood's Sarsaparilla
is the One True Blood Purifier and
nerve tonic.
The New York World, thrice-a-
week edition, 18 pages a week, 156
papers a year. Is larger than any
weekly or semi-weekly paper published
and is the only important Democratic
"weekly published in New York City.
Three times as large as the leading
Republican weekly of New York City.
It will be of especial advantage to
y ou during the Presidential campaign,
as it is published ever) other day,
except Sunday, and has all the fresh
ness and timeliness of a daily. It
combines all the news with a long
list of interesting departments, unique
features, cartoons and graphic illustra
tions, the latter being a specialty.
All these improvements have been
made without any increase in the
cost, which remains at one dollar per
year.
We offer this unequaled newspaper
and the Columbian and Farm News
together one year for $1.75
The regular subscription price of
the three papers is $2.50.
Drug envelopes, Nos. 1, 3 and 3
nianilla, white ot colored, coin envel
opes, and shipping tags, with or with
out strings, always in stock at this
office. tf.
Removed !
SCHUYLER'S
HARDWARE,
TO
MAIN and IRON STS.
Wh3 Sells tho list EhI!
That's the question. It is not the
roan who Is scouring the country
around to tlnd some old toothless
cows that have done good service tor
their owners, but being a little aed
now, they tlnd It Is cheaper to sell
them than to have them die upon
their hands. The beet you know
must be tough. It can be bought low,
but what you save then you will
need to pay dentist bills iater on.
We buy nothing but
Heavy Steer Beef.
This Is raised upon corn, aud killed
when the meat la good and tender.
Vie have the finest class of trade In
Hloomsburg. our customers are
pleased with the meat we sell.
LOUIS LYOKS. Mais St.. BLOOMSBURG.
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long, too, if you don't take enre
of those feet. Some of thej
newest, most desirable things Jgj:
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The Leading Consenratory of Amerlca-"o
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NL-tivinB full iafonumtion.
Frank W.Hals, General Manarer.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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and Hypophosphites. You should in
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mark of man and fish. Put up in 5o
cent and $1.00 pizes. The small size
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Our Spring Styles of Slices
are r early all.
25 years experience in shoe buying puts us in the tront
rank of shoe dealers.
Comfort, style and durability are combined in our shoes.
Cor.irrs Iron axd Main Sts.
What brings relief from dirt and
grease? Why don't
you know?
APOLIO
B. F. Sharpless, Pres.
N. U.
BLOOMSBUR
LAND' IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
Capital Stock, $30,000.
Plotted property is in the
town. It includes also part of
equal in desirability tor residence purposes.
CHOICE LOTS are offered at values that will be doubled
in a short time.
No such opportunity can be had elsewhere to make money.
Lots secured on SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS-
Maps of the town and of plotted property furnished on ap
plication. Call upon or write to the Secretary, or J. S. Woods, Sales
Agent, or any member of the Board of Directors.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
B. F. Siiarple3s; J. L Dillon.
C. W. Neal, A. G. Briggs, Dr. I. W. "Willits,
Dr. H. W. McReynolds, N. Xj. Funk.
11-19-
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For the finest and best stoves, tinware, roofing", spouting
and general job work, go to W. V. Watts, on Iron street.
Buildings heated by steam, hot air or hot water in a satisfac
tory manner. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty.
I have the exclusive control of the Thatcher steam, hot
water and hot air heaters tor this territory, which is acknowl
edged to be the best heater on the market. All work guaran
teed. W. W. WATTS,
IRON STREET. Kloomsburg,,
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Cut Chewing Tobacco
following brands ot Cigars-
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coming business centre of the
the factory district, and has no
f FOFUUia f&GAZIKES
3 rim itit uurcE,
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Contain encfi Month I Original Water Color
Matter: IOO Maw and High. data lllu,tra
tlonni Mora Lltrrarjr Matter and llluitra.
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COBHICTID WIIILT. BITAIL FBIOII.
Butter per lb $ ,24
Eggs per dozen 14
Lard per lb , .10
Ham per pound u1
Pork, whole, per pound .06
Beef, quarter, per pound .... .07
Wheat per bushel 80
Oats " " 28
Rye " " 50
Wheat flour per bbl 4 ao
Hay per ton ra to $14
Potatoes per bushel, .30
Turnips " 25
Onions " " .50
Sweet potatoes per peck a 5 to .30
Tallow per lb 4 J
Shoulder " " u
Side meat " " 07
Vinegar, per qt 07
Dried apples per lb 05
Dried cherries, pitted .10
Raspberries 12
Cow Hides per lb .3 J
Steer " s
CalfSkin 80
Sheep pelts , .75
Shelled corn per bus .50
Corn meal, cwt s.oo
Bran, " x.0o
Chop " 1.00
Middlings " 1.00
Chickens per lb new .12
" " old .10
Turkeys " " 12
Geese " " 10
Ducks " " 08
COAL.
No. 6, delivered a. 40
" 4 and s " 3.50
" 6 at yard a.aS
" 4 and s at yard 3.25
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Bclogna, &e. Free Delivery
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