OLD SERIES, XL.
NEW SERIES XXII.
THE CENTRE REPORTER,
FRED KURTZ, EDITOR
National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEVELAND.
FOR VICE FRESIDENT,
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.
True to the undeviating course of the
Democratic party, we will not neglect
the interests of labor and our working-
men.—Cleveland’s Letter of Accept-
ance.
The continuance, upon a pretext of
meeting public expenditures, of such
substance of the people 8 sum largely in
excess of public needs,
thing which, under a government based
upon justice, and which finds its strength
and vsefulness in the faith and trust of
the people, ought not to be tolerated.—
Cleveland's Letter of Auceptanc e.
The value of the Pennsy vania wool
crop is now about $1,250,000;
woolens consumed by
State is about $60,000,000;
would reduce the price of woo'ens about
20 per cent., and 20 per cent. reduction
in woolens consumed in Pennsylvania
would be about $12,000,000. In
free woo
19
bay
$12,000,000 annually to protect $1,250,000
of wool, in the production of which there
is practically no labor.
assemblies
contempt
Three labor
showed their
Harrison on Monday
ter the big
over.
principal streets the men saw ajHarrison
for
warch under it until the band
a dirge. Nearly all
fused to
struck up the men
they know that Harrison is the enemy
of organized labor and
and they did not feel justified in walk-
ing under bis banner with flying flags
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IRISH - ~AMERIUANS FOR
}
§
CLEVE
The Irish-Americans of New York
city who supported Blaine four years
ago are now enthusiastically advocating |
the election of Cleveland and Thurman.
Edward J. Rowe, president of the Irish-
American Independents, and other
prominent leaders of patriotic Irish or-
ganizations, are whole-souled support-
ers of the Democratic ticket, and ata re
cent meeting highly ealogistic speeches
in favor of the anti-monopolist ticket
were made,
The Democratic party is before ‘he
people with able and honest candidates
and sound and pure principles, and vies
tory is certain. The monopolist must
take his band from the tax-payer’s
CLEVELAN O's LE LEITER OF ACCEPT ~
President Clone letter of accept
ance, which was made public Monday
has the merit of being consistent. He
sounds no retreat in his position on the
tariff assumed in his message at the
opening of congress, but rather repeats
it, and emphasizes it with illustrations
which every voter can easily unders
stand, He distinctly draws the issue be-
tween the reasonable tariff reduction
from a protection standpoint, which he
advocates, and the free trade attitude
which is charged against him by the war
tariff Republicans,
He assures the business men of the
country that the Democratic party has
no fatention of sacrificing their interest
and to the workingmen he gives the as-
surance that no reduction in the tariff
will be made without retaining to them
their protection against the panper labor
of Earope, As additional protection to
labor he strongly advocates restricted
immigration and a carefal selection of
immigrants who will make good citizens
of their adopted country. Mr. Blaine's
support of trusts he characterizes in a
« few sentences and he denoun-
ces the Republican disposition, not only
to keep up prices to consumers by a war
tariii. but to advance them farther by
these unjust combinations.
He repudiates the charges {hub he
sympathizes with England and shows
SD the whole of the document
the i of the
CENTRE
PENSION REPORT.
ANNUAL
RECORDS BINCE
EVER MADE
COMPARISON OF THE 1861,
LARGEST INCREABE
The Commissioner of Pensions in his
annual report shows that there were dar.
ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888,
added to the pension rolls,
names, (the eargest annual increase in
the hisiory of the bureaun,) making a
2 557 pensioners on the rolls at
total of 452
the close of the The amount of
00,252 new
VEar.
pensions paid during the
770, 862, an
year o f $5,308,280
increase
A new feature of the
acts and their relation to the administras
tion of the general pension laws,
It shows various stages through
which a special act passes from its receipt
the
addition a table is
the total
have
In
furnished showing
which
the certificate.
pension acts become laws
since 1861, as follows
SPECIAL PENEION ACTH SINCE 1561
Lincoln,
1 —Johuson,
OF 4g 400
il
186510 1
1869 to | Grant,
RET 4005
1877 to 1 Hayes,
fire
ALT
1881 to 1885, 736 Garfield and Art
otal, 2.001
8 1.360-C1
1885 to 188 eveland,
am
Grand total, 3.370.
3
pe
NG FACTORIES,
talk
-»>
KNITTI
Because
prominent'y
land aad his 1
at Miliheim
Dail ] Nev 4
It would be ¢
for the same reason,
free trade
nlged in by
the hosiery factory
down, ~
of
iE
art
Ys
has 1
Yorn closed
snaistant to
rotund
ton for an immense hos-
at
factory
and Lewisburg the Mus
recently destroyed
{Lon
expect 0
ser knitting
by fire is being rebui
scale. They evidently
heap w their
From what
ment referred to at Millhel
: ,
and ship
We oan earn,
343;
properly manage
ind SOREN: erected
iu
d
liberal
sted other
much
i ding, ant
but bas never
Ways
/ OC , and
to
is respon
$1 «4 ¥y
BLiLY Pak au Lhe
now the
blame oun Grover sible
tion of ting factories
nd
creci
ad je
for the ¢ koi
for the new establish-
conntied aod he is
Pat the Millheim
r
control of
ments in ining
one ahead anyhow,
je go yd busis
yarish also, Give
with busis
will fi
it free wool and it will boom
Walter Aiken, of Franklin, N. H., owns
hosiery mill in that State
(N. H) Union says Mr.
the largest
wiery indos
having been engaged in
sre than thirty years, In
a letter to the Union Mr, Aiken discusses
the effect of tha tariff on the hosiery in
dustry, We make the following extract:
We are continnally referred to hosiery
Now, what is the reason?
How
stated,
ng,
Overproduction, pure and simple.
Briefly
Years ago, when our high tariff
operation, made money
and Harry, who were looking
“These fellows are making
Let us build hosiery mills and
help them” They did so, and the re
salt is that more goods are made than
our home market will take care of. Then
we began to cub prices, every ma ufac-
tarer wanting to sell his own goods, till
prices have reached that point where
there is little orno money ino making
hosiery, We have even got the prices
on someol our coarser grades lower than
they are abroad. Last winter I was in a
store in Besrmuada where the proprietor
was opening a lot of goods, and to my
surprise he opened some of the lower
grades of hosiery of my own make, I
asked him why he bought them, and Le
said they were cheaper than the foreign.
That was considerable of a nul for me lo
crack. 1 knew I was paying as good wa
ges as any mill in the State, and here |
was competing wilh pauper labor and
beating it at that! 1 honestly believe
that with free raw material we can beat
the world inthe manufactars of most
kinds of goods, .
This talk about low wages if the Mills
bill passes is nonsense, pure and simple
To whom do I have to pay the highest
wages? Why to the carpenter, the stone
mason, the brick mason, the painter and
to every other non-protected trade, It
secme strange to me that our working
people can’t wee thess things in their
true light.
comes overproduc tion?
itis this:
went into
Tom, Dick
on, said
money.
we
-
1t seomn perfectly clear that when the
Government, this instrumentality ereat
ed and maintained by the people to do
their bidding, taros upon and, through
an utter perversion of ite powers, extorts
from their labor snd capital
largely in excess of public »
oreatare | :
PA.
453 AGAINST 84,
be of i
Any
opinion
in another column will nterest
veterans and soldiers, oue who ls
bors ynder the false that
present administration 18 not in sympn-
thy with the soldiers of the war and
refuses to to who
have returned bearing the scars and dis
late
grant pensiovs those
ablements received inthe service need
only read this report. Comment is un-
necessary;
I'he present
the facts speak for themselves,
passed
ae dmigistration in
three years 1360 special pousion acts or
¢ Repub-
lican administrations from 1861 to
The total nnmber passedby ti
1850 ag
’
in twenty-four sears oran
sions per year
of 453
84 ole
An average gpecial per
against arly proves that
mocracy while ia d
ever five times as wh fi the poor
deserving soldier asthe
an BAYS 8
of the ve
mind cannot ¢
louds
faced liar
eye
wil
if aking
assertion but he who isso lost
justice
its the truth
not
IH worthy
thousands to day
means to draw thoes
dier and especiall
the Republic
This method
vicinity and he
I8 not wise,
foryes
iron
in 1
t
ing
that is
ARES
prociamation tae operal
and regulations permitting
goods, wares and merch
or over the territ
Cross
States to or from Canada
He also recommends t
the Canadians discriminag
vessels navigating
iog tolls
mitting tolls upon ¢
our government
discrimination
sels navigating our
By this
completely
1eir Own vessels
adopt th
n
game ru
towards Canadian
lakes and canals
messages the Pre
eiron
?
vith PE itt 34 tin Sloan
CAR partisans of the denale
the Republican
New Eng
with the cry t}
en from
power Lo arouses
country
Administration is
dignity and that it
taining the
President, in discussing the
volved, shows great fami
subject in all its phages,
of a treaty he
th se measures of retaliadon.
Naturally there will
as a resultant. Canadians ¢
object $0 the application of
ritles which they apply int
civl intercourse with us,
not well refuse to sunply
quest of the President,
generally
i
frie
jaal to
vights of ot
igi it
ACRIDE 10 LY
i Dot main
RoR,
gestions
AvilY with th
in the atwence
is justified in calling for
be soma’ irritati
But snnot
the sam
heir commer
withh the re
the Repudlican partisans
ces the whole coun‘ry will cordially ap
prove and justify the action suggested
-
THE MAINE ELECTION.
Portland. Baptember 10--The interest
dented, and the result
creased vote,
i" a4 largely
The majority for Govern:
TARIFF REFORM.
{Continued from last issue |
CARPETS
roduct
581,702 802
6 885 218
Value of p
Pola! wages
824,957 504
increased by wages, 27 per cent,
What they bought and what they
made is a carious study and worth an ar-
ticle by itself; but time and space forbid,
[heir lowest protection was 46 per cent,
I'lieir tax on both imported and domess
tic mills
But we will be more than generous, The
tolnl value of the wool they used
$4.0975,120, f increased 20 per cent,
$2,830. 734
in trust
Deduct the duty
foreign carpet wool and credit their do-
mestic with an equal advance in cost and
they still stole 23 per cent. of the wages
and had their labor for nothing. The
York and Pennsyivania carpet.
rs, perhaps, are thankful for the
which compels
out pay in pauper
3
ait
extended
Value of product, less Wages...........
Value
wool is included in the woolen
was
by
out
for
on
the tariff then they stole
of t
he $20,015. 952 received
NOW
biessiogs of protection
them to labor with a
here the manager steals
of the public charity
house w per
cent.
$41 G23 040
9,146,700
$51 mnt 300
The {
ar was $31.264276. It came
reign v
Miniries believing in protection
here the manufacturer is protected
giving him his labor free, so that
areign pri¢
y exclude any wages.
net level with our own and to give
ifactarers thei
our
r labor free of cost
ve been taxed £0.006 640,
d exactly
* DY B
market.
irk |
the
10 stole
or 42
American in the American
Ameri ik-maker had his we
n and workwomen supported by
wiple of the United States and |
y from the pauper dole,
Can 8
per cent.
HALT
It does not
indostries are taken, they
These taken bap-
ut thought of what any ex-
wpt sugar would show. The figur 8 are
of course. But no
yn will make any change in
lesson they teach, and actual figures,
we had them or could get them, would
mably make a much worse
Ifthe refiners should prove
only stole $2,000,000 instead of
$42 000000 from wages last vear,
welcome to, It makes no dif-
Why beap up instances?
matter what
are slike,
ail were
(d, witho
open to correction,
strech i
[unquesti
&h
that they
Wing.
the
sed, which are:
The employer pays not one cent of
wages oul of his own pocket.
2. The workmen aresupported by a
private tax levied by him on the general
pablic
He steals from this public support
all thet he can—ranging from 5 or 10
per cent. in struggling indostries to 90
per cent. in the industry that has obtain.
ied all that protection asks for—the abso-
{lute control of the home market.
Can any Protectionist ecantrovert, or
even modify, one of these statements?
Has any unfair assumption been made
anywhere? [fit has, wonld any modifi-
cation that might be asked for in any
way affect either of these propositions?
Ig it not admitted that where an iodose
try, like the five little linen mille, is
struggling for existence that it charges
[the foreign price ruling the market? Can
(it be denied that where the country is
aooded with the foreign goods, duty add-
led as in silk, that the American does
{uot receive the market price? Who will
‘deny that the only Northern protected
industry that has ever grown to perfect
i manhood-——the sugar-refining industry —
majority in the off year of 1850 was 13.
700
| «ith others—the woolen indostry with
the farmer, for instance-and the tax on
Representatives. All four
al districts are Republican, the closest
fight was made, Reed, however, is elect
ed, as everybody expecte |,
No Democrat was sanguine enough to
believe that the
from the Republicans and the onlf ques.
tion was that of majority. The Republi.
cans have been doing their best to keep
20,000, and Democratic energies have
five hundred platforms,
pablican plurality is being brought
down as the back towus are heard from.
As pear us can be estimated to nigh
twice over— once incladed with cost of
the product and again deducted from
wages 7
THE PROTECTED LABORER A PAUPER.
Every person sopported by the publie
as a public charge is a public pauper. Ev.
ery workman in every protected indos-
try is a public charge and therefore a
public pauper turned over to the
tected employer to get what work be can
out of him. The pauper is no expense to
the employer. The public see to it that
an ample sum shall be put into his
hands to pay all expenses of support.
From this sum the employer usually
steals one-half,
Por conviet labor the employer must
pay the State something, no matter how
«ma'l the sum may Le, if only one cent a
day.
Forslave labor the employer mun
{hartge himself with the sapport. of the}
lave and is family.
|888,
nothiog
ing it,
Truly, the New England manufacturer
down slavery to build up protection
Imagine a Bouthern planter, the owner
of 100 slaves, receiving yearly from his
Btate Treasury $460 998 bounty because
he furnished them with work—$44,843
being for the support of his slaves and
$422,162 being for himself, to pay for his
philanthropy, in addition to having the
produet of their 31,000 days’ labor,
But the sugar refiner of Brooklyn, New
York, Jersey City or Philadelphia re
ceived exactly thissum yearly, under ex-
nctly the same conditions, for every 100
workmen employed.
The cotton-mill the woolen-
mill owner, the iron master, the protect
owner,
ed employer of high and low degree re.
under
precisely similar circumstances for every
protected pauper in bis pablie
house called a protected industry.
SLAVERY AND PROTECTION,
ceives a proportionate amount
pan per
and nail
prevent th
pauper
a ployer is fighting tooth
this tariff campaign to
slightest encroachment on
labor, or even his stealings? It
id slavery question revived, but
maintain and
Northern pauper labor instead
| Southern slave labor.
his
i
proposes to interfere with New
land's pauper labor, but merely to
merely
Th é
reduce
stands,
ers” in trust for their workmen.
man who proposes in any way to
it or interfere with it as it now
ted as a crank and faaatic by Jboth
ical parties.
Every protecied employer
shoulder to shoulder, for the interest of
one is the interestof all. The “fat,” as
they call the stealings from wages, is
contributed liberally to subsidize pews
papers, hire special advocates and pay
enormous printing bills to circulate the
mest ouiragecus misrepresenialions con.
cerning everything connected with tariff
reform. The protected mill~owners are
not threstened in any way, but they are
more sensitive than even the slavebold-
ers were to any discussion that will per
haps let light in apon the minds of the
workmen whose labor they now bave
without paying for it. The slaveholder
would pot let his slaves hear of freedom;
the protected employer makes like ob
jection to his workmen being taught po-
litical economy. That is what explains
their howling and their screams that a
reduction of the tariff from 47 to 42 per
cent, means free trade. To make it
means discussion that will open the eyes
of their deluded employees,
Even as the slavehoider declared that
every limitation or regulation of slavery,
whether the Missouri Compromise or the
Nebraska bili, was a direct blow at that
institution, #o the Republican party has
now taken up the position that every
change in the tariff is a blow at Proteo-
tion,
polit-
etands
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.
Not an honest argument has ever been
made for any inorease in this pauper and
unpaid-for labor by the protected mill
owner, It is a fouler blot npon civilize
tion than slavery ever was, for that did
the African savage, while this degrades
the white man. It will prove a greater
curse, if allowed to spread all over the
land without legal control, until 100 000
protected tariff lords own, body and
ed by public charity and dependent upon
their lords’ nod whether they shall live
or be turned out of his pauper house to
die of starvation,
The arrogance of the slaveholder was
as water to wine compared with arro-
gance of theses tariff lords and their sub
sidized newspapers. They decline to
argue. They assert the most ridiculous
propositions and denounce as liars and
slanderers, paid with British gold, who
ever gainsays them. They demand that
any false statement they may make con-
cerning the tariff shall be accepted as
holy writ, and that he who gnestions it
shall be deciared an enemy of his ooun-
try and of his racé, It isa game of un
limited bluff, far beyond the slavehold-
ers wildest dream, for none may see or
call these players. They will not permit
any one to even question the divise na-
ture of this doctrine of pauper labor and
unlimited theft from wages,
There is only one thing to be done,
That is steady, persistent, untiring mis
sionary work for years to come by every
one who loves his fellow-man; by every
one who wishes to leave the world a
little better for his Baving lived tn th
| task, Bat
definite and practical prrpose, and that
is to secure Federal and Btate supervis-
ion of every protected industry under
the Federal and State Labor Bureaus. It
may be a condition of protection, and
without it protection may be withdrawn,
This supervision should require from
each industry:
L. Quarterly reports, showing the ex-
act amount of protection received, cost of
product abroad, the enhanced American
price and what was done with every cent
of the difference between the price on
the open foreign market and the closed
market here.
2. Quarterly reports of wages paid in
every branch of the industry, how much
was in excess of wages abroad, and how
much the cost was enhanced by the difs
ference in wages,
8. Quarterly reports from foreign
Ministers and Consuls of corresponding
wages paid in similar industries abroad,
These reports should be compiled and
condensed so as to show the exact cost
tothe people, as near as it can be ascer-
lev
ied for protection, tnd this condessation
This is not an extravagant demand. It
of justice
and fairness, It sppeals even to the
If every cent paid to
collected by the protected mill-owner
To obtain
It is feamable. All work to acooms
factory return,
A LOOK AHEAD
The protected employers would howl
they would object in the
nounce it as unjust, inquisitorial; they
would combine and defeat measure after
measure; but in the end it would pres
vail,
Then we would have the facts. Then
we would bave, if not the exact cost of
every item of protestion, at least an ap~
proximation that could not be denied.
The bevefits would be shown side by
side with the disadvantages, Faith
would be eliminated from the discussion.
If it should appear that the five linen
mills had stolen too much of the money
intended for the wages of their employ.
ees and refused to make a fairer divis-
ion, the protection could be removed,
and their workmen could be put on a
special pension list at full average wages
for life.
Such legislation would be followed in
a short time by the limitation of every
employer to free labor, He would have
to be content with public support of his
workmen. He would be compelled to
pay them the full amount collected for
their wages, including that which he
now steals. Protection would then make
wages in protected industries high. as it
cannot now when every iron master like
Carnegie can steal $4.26 out of every
$6.72 collected from the public for
wages and langh at any one who objects
to it.
Such a millenium is pleasant to think
about; but it never will come except by
years of unremitting toil by this genera.
tion. The next will have come too late.
T.E. Wiuson.
isin ostincutuin
We publish Cleveland's letter of ac
ceptance in faollon another page. This
letter is considered the ablest document
that has come from the pen of a presi-
dential candidate for MANY years. Every
one should read it and Preserve this ise
sue and compare this letter with that of
Harrison which is just out, and will like-
ly appear in our next issue.
MAINE.
Maine cut down the Republican ma
A FINE FARM AT PUBLIC SALE_THE
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saTURD Y OCT. 7, a fine farm Bromine oo
,, Containing 71 sores, more ©
erected a
REDUCTION IN PRICES
At Wolf's store you will find
a big reduction in Dry Goods,
Hosiery, Gloves, ete. etc,