OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES XXI. FRED KURTZ, - = EDITOR National Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT, GROVER CLEVELAND. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ALLEN G. THURMAN, County Ticket. FOR CONGRESS, J. L. SPANGLER FOR ASSEMBLY, JOHN T. McCORMICK. J. H. HOLT FOR CORONER, JAMES NEFF, M. D FOR JURY COMMISSIONER, GEORGE BOWER. The Democrats carried Arkansas with great gains. The Republicans carried Vermont on Tuesday, by the old majority, 27,000. A I AAT Henry Meyer, Esq, of Allegheny county, was nominated by the Demo cratic state committee in Harrisburg on Tuesday, for anditor general. Near Worthington, W. Va, two men John Wilson and George Johns, were murdered by a republican named Hare because they hurrahed for Cleveland, Both men leave families. ——— The iron master te!ls the laboring man that he can’t vote for Cleveland because be wants to reduce wages, To this the laboring man can reply that the iron master always baviog favored putting down wages, must certainly favor Cleve- land according to his own judgement The Democratic the war tax. The years ago, and when passed the promise was made they were only to meet the war expenses. Now why shall the high war tariff remain and the benefits of it go to add to the wealth of the million: aires. Don’t be fools, taxpayers. In Dakota the wheat crop is injured much more thao has been expected or supposed. The injury results not alone from frost, but from heat, wind and dost. Many fields which promised twenty bushels per acre run from eight to ten. One farmer said he had straw enough to yield twenty five bushels, but gets but five per acre. Some fields are not cut at all. The grade is runnicg from Nol Northern down. There will be but lit- tle No. 1 hard. is to redace over 20 position war closed It is at least partially true, as General Harrison sneerivgly says, that the war taxes are “so indirectly and so subtly” taken that “plain people don’t know that they are payiug them at all” But the American farmer bas lately learned that a plow, or a harvesting machine, or a shovel, or a hoe, or any implement he buys, is sold (by the American manus facturer to foreign purchssers for one third to one half less money than he (the American farmer) is obliged to pay. The American housekeeper has lately learns ed that American cutlery is sold in Eng- land for twenty to thirty per cent, less in foreign countries than they have to pay for them. And so the consumers of dome tic goods which are not made for exportation have also discovered that they are fined from twenty to fifty per cent. on their purchases in order to make up the annual boanty of One Bil lien of Dollars (One Thousand Million) to the bevy of tariff ecoddled capitalists, General Harrison is likely to discover that his sneer at the presumplive igno~ rance of the American people will be re- sented at the polls. Senator Allison fignred out in the sen- ate the other day that the appropriations for the ourrent year would be $421,000, 000 or within $19,000,0000 of the estima~ ted receipts for the year. Bat he forgot to state that there are $132 500,000 cash in the treasury, which with the excess of receipts (819,000,000) would leave a surplus in the treasary at the end of the year of $151 500,000, The same senator corrected his former figures so that they showed that $5,000, 000 more has been appropriated for the government duriog the last four years than during the four years of the Gars field-Arthur administration. But he again conveniently forgot to state that this year $40,000,000 more have been ap- propriated for pensions than during the last year of Arthur's presidency, nor did he say a word about the redemption 0 bonds, or the construction of vessels of war, which have been accomplished by the present administration. Nor did Mr. Allison refer tothe fact that the present administration has re- covered more than eighty millions o acres of public land given away to irre. railroad corporations by the CENTRE POLITICAL "GUSH." Political “Gush"” in common arti- every campaign is meant the meaningless and trashy articles which fied their way into print without a grain of trath to begin with ard used only to deceive and lead astray men who are nol posted and ney- er trouble their minds to think for them- Political ** " is always a sure indication of when facts at ia political a cle used By “gush” selves, gus! ik ness and id Ti never wei used only gon yond reac hurts anyone ceptthe party using it real condition and frail methods used. uary notice by exposing lesperate the « It is exagerating an obit i like in the few gi painfully silent It has but id that is in gi = qualities and remaining i over the many flagrant evils, one use we know of a ving consolation to the leaders of a weak cause last stages of di As an illastration of genuine political gush ia its sintegration. we clip a portion of the resolutiovs adop- ted by the ¢ last Tuesday: unty republican convention in his age of disabil This in the wor It isa silly out a factt “an insult to intelligence.’ misrep i resent o sub- staniiate a si is extreme- ingle ly amusing to noti to, ensure platform. verly for under the ods resorted fATe & hem too se ine bett shonld not « have d ? Platform e even if it who could er they ? wed of ol circhmstances must hav er 18 COm 18 and rotten timbe and what isa fair and manly substantiated by fac From Dem Ane ther resointion attracts our atten tion wh orted foreign sirongly wo this evil they labor and declares against it To break d the laboring men to ass voles y g “Harri. son and our commanders,” Laboring men of Centre county are not as gues 2 call upon ist them by their 5 in November for electis Morion as int as the kid glove geatry of the tepublican party They are ir interests and know whol immagine, awake to the their friend. Every voler in the land is aware of the fact that Harrison was a stro; inthe U. 8 advocate Senate to permit the rat eat- of Asia to awa? couniry and drive the ing Chinese m American laborer Over our bor, Is he the real friend of theAmericar laborer or a political impo sitor barteri’ g for your votes? Morton is another ¢ e- my of the American laborer as he ym» pioys hundreds of foreign coatrar la- borers who drive the American workmen by cheaper labor, Bearing the above facts in mind read the following clanse from the Rep, county platform: out Resolved That we strongly urge the enact ment of stringent laws to prevent the wholesale importation of foreign pauper labor, and we con- demn the present National administration for not properly enforcing the existing emigration laws, possessing se it dogs plenary powerssoto do Laws enacted tn obedience to the sentiment of the peo. pie who are pny proper teprasented by the Re publican party of the Union as it was, as it is and as it will be-Harrison and Morton as our com- manders. Ifyou expect to ree Harrison and Morton as the friend of the American workmen and “as our commanders” of the laboring forces of this country you might as well expect to see John P. Bt, Jolin manufacturing old bourbon whis- key from a moonshiners ranch, candi date Fisk slinging heer at a Coney Is. jand summer resort or the Devil holding a religious revival in Brooklyn Taber. uacie, Neither of which will take place and the American people are not fools. It is polit ical “gush” only. Et Congressman Scott stole a march on the republicans by introdocing a prohibi. tory Chinese bill, which was ab once passed. The Mongolian cheap John is to be prohibited from coming to these shores and crowding ont our American laborers. This won't euit the Harrison idea, but it will go thro all the same. Harrison, when in the senate, voled against such a bill~be was for cheap PA., THE NEED OF TARIFF REFORM. No protected employer ever in hia life paid out of his own money one cent of wages to a protected workman, Lvery cent of wages paid in every pro tected industry is paid by the people through the employer, who merely ucts a8 their agent. The labor in a!l protected industries is cost to the employ er under all eircumstances, snd he usual. ly steals from his workmen to nine-teaths the money him by the public to p These three propositions are intrusted ay wages, capable impeached that can be understood or; by controverted, any person twelve years of age who read, and that can be verified newspaper office or library. WHAT PROTE( Can in any | TION 18, condition upon Protection is the result or brought about by a tax levied to the American consumer, 80 that American manufacturer with the kind of goods may be enabled to pay gher wages thao the foreigner and sell his goods to his countrymen at vance covering the difference the Eame ad Wag Bn in es, This is, of course, unjust to his coun-| wer apd st by giving clion his men; bat it is asserted th for a be the foreigner, mana ’‘acturer this prote number of years he will in undersell jus this Mexican forced il be repaid. Whether { ever be repaid does not enter {ime en- abled to and an {oo him wi 18 loan will into the It is an assertion that has not been proven | and is taken on faith, This protection enables the present question. )¥ any one American manufacturer, if he is 80 dis posed, to ad vance his price by the exact amount of It is admitted that where he is 0 get control of the market and where the taxed foreign goo: in freely, i% Come { pen does add It is entering into direct and own, ; e | amount of the : asserted that when he American market and the full protection. hits obtains control can keep for. hen lowers the price ntrymen even below the for sign price without the This on has yet to be proven, but does not J fax. BEBO one pro- scted industry, so far as I know, has ev neceeded it all foreign 1 n of the FOOGH 81 igar-rel Roing in barring ot 1 taking absol market—the = ite contr American industries, Let us examine so gee how Much eof gut duds istries and protectic n they re. ceive to pay the difference in wages. of po i], lows export Total wages paid Yal \’al Auulviot fone wma Vale ded g wages Wages Incressed ite value less thar This, as a protective indus, absolute control of the Ap; having ican market special attention t pays a duty mills on the z« material, bot tected on 7 refined prodact 35 mille or 80 per cent), the of 15 wv ls being paid by the give Va workmen higher wages than are pail’ abroad. This difference of 15 mills la year amounted to $46 63 880, over #7 4d above all its legitimate expenses and smxes except labor, of 20 itig =o by stax difference | 8 ol SEPTE] WOOLEN GOODS, Value of product 1580 Total wages paid (1,990 mills) Value without wages Wages increased the value 19 per cent, We imported in 1887 manufactured woolen goods valued $44,825,243 Merely to have increased the price of these foreign goods by an amount equal to the difference in wages a tax of 7 per cent, would have been ample. To the woolen mills their labor free of a tax of 19 per cent, was not neces The foreign product included cost Au additional burden of than ithe whole amount of wages paid in this iconptry. An addition of 10 per cent. to after dedocting [forei ign wages would exactly cover American wages and their labor free of at give all 19 per cent, would more cover the foreign value even the The actual amount of protection aver- aged over 66 per cent,, and on woolen was 70, on dress goods 72, on flan On only items did it below BO, to 51 and 59, 00 worth o els 70. two small fall Every 81.4 f American cloth made in an American mill was protected $670 [average]. The wages paid raised that it was worth $1,190 the beicg given the mill-owner in trust wa its value $100, i) It wus sold for gr B70 $670 for he mill-owner stole $450 and pais For every $1 Pp iid he stole $2 Oe. If he handed w oh PUA & TF ¥ ‘ mf 2% ow Bae amount of wag- last year ib the es fo his orkmen at stole $65,107,707 of m for his work- men and a'so had their labor free, This om terial, T woolen in banded in 1880 be the wages intrusted to hi its the tax he pai Was, lustries, hat for all the com $5,126,108 for all and £2 it for granted that ion of 10 cents per pou much, This of the woolen goods imported, takiog eet wool 8500000 on domestic, farmers’ pre raised the price that of $334 $41 4 tolal platy A100, which share of the 1.900 was not more than 40 per cent, t w hole not ppo ed to be but we will deduct the amonn in does inclu le protectes 1 IT Wages, from The net amount stolen last vear after deduct gos by the woolen mills in all and iaterial §R1 50 $ the labor gallthe tux on allraw nn len industries, was $31 y 1.980 owners had free of 00 workmen, is only astraggl What it will do = it market we may only surmise, 4 ef verry rapt OL § il Total wages paid Val Yaioe witho Wages incressc 3 the value 27% ent, We protect eotton with taxes raving from 35 to 208 per cant, but only those vanging from 35 to 568 come in free ly,and ‘he average tax on those impors ted (29,1)0058) isa trifle over 40 per the highly taxed (cheap) goods it wages prt goods oh i ithe foreign material out. It is asserted iby mill owners thaton a few lines com- petition among themselves has redoced largely aod undersell in foreign markets however, to 857 workmen paid £2.87 and prodaced ploying bf wages, pounds, same proportion was 3 1123259045, re- quiring 9,123 workmen and $4 484308 since 1880, Every cent of thin $46,690,880 was paid by the people to the Bogar Trust to be does not keep the foreign goods out, as the average protection afforded our dos mesatic mills, It is far too low, but let The raw material is not tax- ed. A duty of 27} per cent. on the foreign tof all cost; but we will be generous and its workmen: If it had paid the 0,133 workmen every cent of it every refiner would have bad his labor absolutely without expense. It collected this 844. 690,889 solely as the difference in wag- es between this country and the West Indies. . Protection or bounty from people... Total wages paid 9.133 workmen... . 4.454.830 Amount stolen from wages, 1887... $52.25 5% During the past ten years this indastry has not only had all its labor free of ex- pense, bot it has stolen from the bounty intrusted to it by the people for wages more than all the thefls of all the erimi- nals in the United States doringa quar. ter of a century. More than all the losses by defalcations and breaches of trust and more than all the losses by all the political rings and jobs in addition. It has averaged over $35,000,000 yearly, for the theft was greater in proportion before 1883 than since. Go to Brooklyn, Jersey City, Philadelphia or San Fran cisoo if yon wish to know where the money has gone and see the millions put into acres of fourteenstory buildings. In 1880 the total capital invested in the whole country was $27 432,500; to-day the one Trost in New York bas a capital of $60,000,000, $46,000 25 ‘and bas his labor free of cost. Then for mestic product is enhanced $400 and sold for $1,400. This is labor's tax for wages, The employer pays $275 and keeps $125, The total amount he receives ysarly from the people in trust for his workmen is $66,134 385, of which he steals only 20, 519.966, or 32 per cent. He is modest. Every worker in a cotton mill has 32 per cent. of the money given by the pub. lie for his wages stolen by his employer, who has his labor free of all consi. It must be a consoling reflection on Ratur- day nignt when he takes hispanper dole to remember that it is on'y 68 per cent. of what belongs to him without any la- bor, and that he has worked daring the week without pay. : ROLLING MILLS, Value of product. 1850........c.. common S156, 708. 574 TOA] WREE...coovussirimmvinsmsvimmaioss SO004,709 Taloe without Wages. owes eos S100, 798,775 Value increased by wages, 56 per cent. Our importationsof rolling-mill pro ducts were not large, but every item was represented, whether the protection was 35 per cent, on slabs and loops, or 58 per cont. on flats, The average protection on the imports was 51 per cont. If any] MBER 6, Amount received for wages Amount paid for wages. Amount stolen from wages. rai The rolling mill owners stole 28 per cent. of the wages intrusted to their care for distribution and paid 72 They had their labor free of all course, per cent. cost, f FURNACES Value of product, 1480 Wages paid ors Tons of plge made... Cost per ton, The protection on pig The Beaver Fall is &4 14 per Lon (Pa) Tribune protection Sign authority) says the price would drop from $17, its } if the duty certainly “fron {high thas Pred should be The less than ent price, to $10 2 removed: and it would. price abroad on board" that, Their trust for wages for every ton he pays $3.35, steals $3. free of all cost in ou-master receives $6.72 in makes 37 and pets his labor There is no reason why there should not be many Carnegies in a business where labor can be had without cost and the steal to Gast) ing amounis $12- 03 {or more) yearly. In 1880 Pennsyl fur 1.950 811 sieal was vania paid in 275 paces $4,752,838 for producing tons, or 82.48 per ton. The $4.20 per ton, with free labor. Is it any wonder that the production of uubled ine Penusylvani a has de In 1886 ight years? it was 3.203 2586 tons; in ) 385 402 There were was 2435496, in 1 it was 2 i Yel capital eondensed, hy against yuld pot asters prosper and stland when they conld the labor they wanted free of steal $14.02 i rece fr Jil ved for the t 6 sud Crome men io trust fron It must Pann enn iously gives hin iw dole for the expens legislation and the campaign for per cent 1 Keeping 6) percent, $s Mon Pennsylvania editors are « heap —8is mon Cameron ones said he bay all {B.F.H. Lym: State for $40,000 bat Pennsy iva gressmen are ‘ that but one dear. itl ith fa ustry w The foreign protected for ot That is the meaning of tion, It takes then,a duty of cent, on the importations to so their cost as to give labor for nothing. They more, The $13 and bleached paid $4,7 or 35 per that our five mills could s output, worth only five linen-mill labor his owner gels ITB, per incresse these five men their it, and brown last wear cent , their little , for $602 451. or $156,191 more th an it was worth, on con dition that it should be paid to their workmen for the difference in wages. They stole $32,140 out of this and paid their workmen not one bronze cent. Their bands worked without pay, and were cheated out of 20 per cent. of the pauper dole from the people, Verily the little industry is the same as the great industry, when both are protected. get ASB 418 worth of inens imported 6,206 duty, 80 «11 #1 $4446, Wei MATCHES, Vale of product - 3,8 BER Ab Tolal wages Value o f product Jose WARE... Valueling reased by wages, i3 3 per cent. Oar foreign matches come from pro- tected countries and are made in pro~ tected factories where the protected em- ployer has his labor free of cost—a bso- lute pauper labor, for his countrymen pay for the support of his workmen-—so the American employer must also have pauper labor which costs him nothing in order to compete, He asks for and re. ceives a protectionfof 35 per cent. The people hand $1,212340 yearly to this industry in trust to pay the workmen, and the employers distribute $535,911 and steal $676,420-56 per cent, This article concluded in our next is+ sue, AP A A The Democratic legislative ticket, Holt and McCormick, will receive the united Democratic vote, which means that these gentlemen are going to be elected. The ticket gives entire satis faction, aod Mr. McCormick will res ceive Republican votes in the section where he lives and is best known and the same is true of Mr, Holt. REDUCTION IN PRICES. At Wolf's store you will find a big reduction in Dry Goods, Hosiery, Gloves, ete, etc, NO. 35 ONE DOLLAR A DAY ENOUGH. AFFIDAVITE OF MEN WHO HEARD GEN, HARRIBON SAY BO Ever since Harrison's somination the Indianapolis Journal has kept astanding notice offering a reward of $2,000 for proof that Hacrison had said during the strike of 1877 that one dollar a day was enough for a workingman, or that he said that be would force the strikers back to work, were he Governor, at the point of the The Executive Board of District Assembly Knights of Labor has been making investigation ins to the matter and has secured the affids- vits of fifteen persons to the utterance of such a sentiment, the affiants differing to some extent as to the exact langusge used, but sgreeing on all essentials The following is the substance of the affida- vits preceded by the names of the men who made them: bayon el. Thomas McHugh: “Harrison threaten- od the strikers with the militia and to force the men back at the point of the bayonet, said the wages were fenfii- the railroad companies and cient and all could afford.” wiley: “Harrison did say were unable to pay i per a the men ought to d, as that amount was enough or any workingman.” Ben. Zahm: *] quote Benjamin Harrison's exact language: ‘If I were Goy- i118 State or Sheriff of the coune id have every train running ifI ) wade in blood up to my finger Can liam Hugo: militia “Harrison did com- company during the He claimed the wages sufficient and that the men had no right to even on” “Harrison insulted the He said they were and that many were yn less than that amonat” Charles A. Fogarty was chairman of relief committee in the 1877 strike. to attend the meeting Harrison's remarks were made, but he sent others there who re- ported to him, corroborating the above statement.” Sol Hughes: “Harrison did say that $1 was enough for the workingmen who struck in 1877 and characterizes the trikers as lawbreakers and unworthy of Lizen's night Martin J, Murphy: “Harrison did say that strikers had forfeited all claims to recognizance by g & sing g on strike and he claimed i that the railroads could not pay any more and the strikers were not jus tified in asking for more, and that $I Was §t affie] ient for a workingman and he ight to be satisfied.” " Patrick H. King: “Harrison did say that the wages of the strikers were suffi cient; that the men must return to work or the militia would force them to sub- claim arbitrati 1.E strikers in 1B77. { yallahan: 8s gelling abundant, obliged to live « 4} ie He was unable where Ben. illiam B. Miller: “Harrison at the conference said on two occasions a dollar a day is enough for a working man, and that if the strikers did not return to work that they would be put down by the mil- itia at the point of the bayonet.” William Shook: “Harrison said the men bad better work for a dollar a day than do what they were doing, and furth. er, that a dollar a day was good pay fora workingman.” John Hackinson: “Harrison did say say that one dollar was enough for any workingman and they should accept that and be satisfied.” The board will make a formal demand for the $2,000 reward, but of course it will not be paid, asthe Journal intended the offer simply as a blaff. os ps COAL ! COAL! Woodland Coal. Buckwheat Coal. Pea Coal. Chestnut Coal. Stove Coal, Soft Coal, Just received at the Centre Hall Rol. ler Mills’ conl yard Terms strictly cash. Cash paid for all kinds of grain, FOR RENT. A new house, with six nice rooms and kitchen attached, vacant, within a few rods of the picnic woods, Tor Jout dur. Ing Hicnle week. Apply at the Aas —————c MARRIED. On 25th, Sit: St Spring Mills by Rev. Jacob H, Oxenrider, Kil Nor: Northumberland co., or, of Lock Arial ingle, of near Spring Mills, rey at the home of the \s on North Royer, both of this When Baby was sick, we pave her Onstort, When she wae 8 Child, abe cried for Castoria, When she became Mise, She clung to Caster 3
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