VOI, LXII. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR Democratic State Ticket, For Treasurer, Edmund A. Bigler, OF CLEARFIELD, Democratic County Ticket. for Associate Judge, Thos. F. Riley. For Prothonotary, L. A. Schaeffer. For District Attorney, J. €. Meyer. For County Surveyor, Geo. D. Johnson. For Coroner, Dr. James W. Neff. ETAT Sn, Where does Henderson sleep now ? is often ssked. Why with Fiedler of course. CE ——————————————— The Democratic ticket in this county is composed of such excellent material that it deserves to be elected by 2,000 majority. ——————————————————————— Henderson says “by —— 1 know the value of mules, | was raised among em.” True, for he plays the part of one ouls and-out. ———————————————————— There is a decline io sugar. While there is no connection bet ween sugar and Henderson and Decker, yet the latter should resign now. BE la —— Why don't the board of couaty cong missioners hand in their resignations the people are anxiously looking for them ? The charge is imbeeility. Instead of raising the essessed value of Soow Shoe mules from $60 to $80, it would bave been better if Henderson bad stood behind a mule and got a little raise himself from the heels of the crits ter. I ST There are nearly one dozen newspap- ers in this county, and only one, the Ga- zeite, defends the county commissioners, and it is influenced by a printing con- tract from the board which had a steal in it. STITT —— Surely that was a dark affair down in Jacison, Miss , the other day. The first Republican State Convention held for several years met there with 60 counties represented by 254 delegates only 60 of whom were white, IIIS, Besides raising the value on real estate, we learn now from a good repablican that Henderson raised the assessed value of $60 upon mules in Snow Shoe to $80. Los of Republicans sre denouncing the course of the present commissioners. Taxpayers, how do you relish the con- dition of our county affairs, under Hen derson and Decker ? The county in debt. The valuations raised near half a mils lion. About $8000 more taxes to pay. Schaeffer, Meyer, Johnson, Neff—these compose the Democratic county ticket, Every one is a geotlemsan of spotiess character and capable. The opposition ticket is a hoes concern, made up against the wishes of the Republican masses, and to do the bidding of the bo ses only. The boss business is played out, Voters should not swap a ceriainty for an uncertainty, You now have an effi. cient district attorney in J. O. Meyer, who has rendered entire satisfaction. Will you run the risk of having the pab- lie service suffer by electing a green one like Chambers ? Don’t do it—when you have a good man, stick to him. Vote for J.C. Meyer. From the encouraging way in which Senator Quay winks at big General Hast ings, while still smiling sweetly upon little Senator Delamater, it looks aa though a big wagon load of “relief sups plies” might override all the promises made the statesman from the Northwest And Hastings has his team harnessed, Not a single objection can be brought against the re election of L. A, Schaefler as prothonotary—so well and faithfully has he discharged the duties of that im~ portant office in the last three years. To make a change, and elect an in xperien ced gentleman like Mr. Fleming would be a grave mistake and the public would suffer thereby. Yon have a fit man there now, and hd should be retaived three years more, “CENTRE A Few Pointers, It would be well for our protectionist friends if they wonid more closely study the subsidy system of England and the tariff laws of Germany before commit- ting themselves to either, To judge by the expressions in the tar- iff monopoly press, Evgland has a mint of money ready at all times to be lavish- ed upon English ship builders who will condescend to try their luck in the cars rying trade between Eogland and the outside world; and to this supposed ill- begotten system of subsidies, our mo- nopoly breeding protectionists would commit the present administration, Pe- titions have been prepared and congress- men are to be flooded with appeals for appropriations "0 restore cur commerce and rebuild our merchant marine,” It is time the taxpayers—and thisis a term which includes the reat payers as well as the rent collectors—sh uid prepare coun ter petitions against this contemplated ill advised raid upon the treasury; and if they will but devote a little time to the study of Euglich ship subsidies, they wili be convinced that the merchant marine of that country is not now, and never was, indebted to government boun- ties or existence. Not one ship in a bundred has been granted a subsidy, and of those to which a subsidy was granted, the carrying of the mail has been the only consideration and not the extension of commerce Not only this, but all grants of money have been in the nature of pasment for services and cot for the creation of a merchant marine, aod in bidding for such mail contracts competition has been free and open to ships of all natiopali- ties, Ifthe United States were blessed with ocean going ships, their owners could to day compete with the owners of Eoglish ships in carrying the mail of that country, and thereby securing what is called a subsidy, which, in fact, is but a well regulated payment for services, There is a broad distinction between a 80 called subsidy of this kind and the contemplated raid opon the United States treasury for fhe sole ben fit of a few speculators who, debarred from any participation in foreign commerce by our tariff and pavigation laws, seek to reim- burse themselves for all aoticipated los Ses in any new commercial ventures, by thrusting their pickers and stealers into the treasury. It will be no credit to the American people if they should be hoodwinked in a matter of this kind where a little inquiry would enlighten them, and it is to be hoped and expec. ted that they will inform themselves on the sabject of ship subsides before con. gress meets, because knowl.dge of the subject means sure defeat to the new brood of spoliators. As to the “German tariff laws which have done 82 much to baild up the em pire of Bismarck,” our “American system advocates sre as deep ia the mad of ig- norance as they are in the mire of pre- varication on English ship subsidies There ia nothing in the tariff laws of Geymany that would please the tariff boodlers of the “American system” who insist upon lévying fines and penalties upon the importation of raw materials; increasing the fines and pen- alties at every stage of manufacture. The tariff laws of Germany are based upon the sound and sensible idea that raw materials should enter duty free, If our woolen manufacturers had such a tariff, there would be more mills in oper- ation, more persons employed and more general proeperity among all branches of the wool trade. Even the tanfl on half finished products which Germany levies is but nominal, the whole force and ef fect falling upon the finished articles for the benefit of the manufacturers, Such a tariff system, if there is any protection at all in a tariff on imports, is highly pro. tective, and is in no wise to be compared to the protective abortion of this conatry which fines the manufacturer for buying raw materials and robs the consumer for purchasing the manuafactured product. How the tariff on raw materials affects the consumers, may be jodged by the fact that one paper manufacturing firm in Connecticut pays $20,000 annually at the custom house for the privilege of being permitted to make manilla paper from jute butts, a product of India, How this fine of $20,000 ensbles the paper mill owners to pay high wages to “American workingmen” would puzzle a conjuror, and why they would be able to pay better wages if they paid no tariff fines and peoslties is a matter requiring no demonstration. As it is, howeve the mill owners pay the fine, deduct the amount from wages, and then, by having a tariff fine imposed upon American citi zens who presume to buy foreign made paper, they get even with the people; but is this protection ? We had Republican commissioners be- foro—~A, Gregg, H. C. Campbell and Sam’l Gramley, and all served eraditably, but the present set is a disgrace to their party snd the county for utter incompes tency. The present year farnishes a chgpter of exlamities in the history of the world that is unprecedented. Every but that of famive seems to its deadliest. The floods scourge at Johnstown Spokane Fails, the explosion in Antwerp, the cholera in Mesopotamia, the storms list been comprise a horrible the lives lost have carelessness or negligence Fork Dam unsafe before the Conemaugh flood, the cartridges at Antwerp were declared dangerous before the explosion, and the cliff at Quebec sacrificed The Bouth was declared was declared In 1880 Quebec nusiable nearly ten years ago the chief city engineer of recommended that $27,000 be expended to make the cliff safe to the in- The and habitzsnts below recommendation as disregarded property has been destroyed and nearly two score persons have death. If a building being told that bis structure is unsafe, persists in disregarding the warning, he goes to State prison when contractor, his building collapses; but a city or town may ignore of its aud gy unpunished when the threatened calamity What having engineers and inspectors if their advice is not to be followed 7 Shall we ever to esteem forethought, or the recommendations OCCurs. is the use of come must we always be lamenting and eriti~ cising on the hither side of calamity 7? week from beneath the debris at Quebe for hours after the rock had fallen, have pierced the hearts of those who res fased to avert impending disaster. The cries for help weress piteons, an some cases as unavailing victims of the Conemaugh were swept away to eyes of their friends. flood death before such disasters is in the heroism. - week on Wednesday of this ceplance the of the constitutions made for them by the conventions held in the past summer, and will choose state offi cers and The Dakotas on prohibis congressmen, and Washiogion will pas? tion as a seperate article of the consti iution, andl Washington will also give verdict frage. its for or against we At the election of 1888 the four ymen sof States threw over 200.000 voles lor ter- The plaralities ritorial delegates. Republicans ranging 18,000 carried all four by from in Montana to South Dakota, The Democrats making a strong fight to carry Mons tana, and Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt, who recently retorned from an extended Western trip, is quoted as saying that the Republicans of Mons tana are not very hopeful of success, The Republicans claim they will have a walk over in the other States Wash. ington is entitled to ona congressman, North Dakota to one, South Dakota to two, and Montana to one. Each State will choose legislatures lo elect United States senators. The Demo. eratic cand date for congress in North Da. kota, Captain D. W. Maratta, a river man formerly of Western Pennsylvania, it 18 said, notwithstanding Republican confidence, stands a good chance of bes ing elected. In Boath Dakota the cane vases on the State capital location has ab- sorbed all other issues, There are four towns aspiring for the honor and profit. 5 100 in are two The dressed beef law, which came very near being enacted at Harrisburg last winter, bas received its quietus by the decision of Judge Nelson, of the Uni- ted States district court of Minnesota, He held the law is unconstitutional, on the ground that i: encroaches upon the power of congress to regulate inter State commerce, and violates the provision that each State must concede to the citis zens of other States the priviliges and immunities enjoyed by itaown citizens. Judge Blodgett, of the Northern district of Illinois, had previously rendered a decision to the same effect. A decision on appeal to the supreme court cannot be reached in less than three years, and it is improbable that the judgement of these two prominent Federal judges will ever be reversed. - oo. When the Democratic commissioners, Greist an 1 Wolf, went out of office, the county was out of debt; there was a large balance in the treasury; taxes were gels ting lower, Now, under Henderson and Deckers wo have the reverse in each of these points, Taxpayers, what do you think of such housekeeping ? ss Wn The Republican primary election held in Clearfield on Saturday last was a heat. ed, bitter contest for delogates te the State convention of 1890 between the sapporters of Hastings and those of Del emater, The result is not yet dufinately Ee mtlantic Coast Storms, | The storms that do such incalculable} damage along our southern and eastern coasts are generated in the boiling hot atmosphere of the Caribbean sca. They! are usually known as West Indian hur ricanes, A peculiarity of them is that] they follow the general course of the What is known of them definitely is that immense! gull stream northeastward. volumes of heated air rise among the islands east of They! rise around io the Caribbean sea. whirl around and and great eddies, sucking up in thelr course more and more hot air, circling eastward and Why why northward as they whirl they move in these vast circles, and they travel eastward and northward will m for future scientists tc ce this te Gulf 1 there is a terrific storm along ches Lhe ithern shores, Destruction and error are in the wake of such a harri- stands off the Gulf 13. \ i. A twardly, then, suddenly Again the cyclone COAST, WHIrIS Cis drawn northward, follows the line of the Atlantic « Arn t his Lid wast from Georgia fo British rica. rice cotton flelds are wrecked further north, town in the watering place hotels and s are damaged, houses are splintered foundered and The My, season is from Aug. 10 to Oct, 2 8 Bre £ Ll fn driven upon the coast. hurricane It is then thatsthe accumulated heat develops rey. It J oy ul at least ond is rare for a sen these i A Lesson of the Grea. Strike, The London dockers' strike was the most remarkable event of the kind in the history of labor, ture of The extraordinary fea~ that the dock laborers should strike at all, and still more extra- ordinary it was that, having struck, they gained their point and bad their wages raised. it was The London docker belongs to the very lowest and most wretched class of labor- ers, partly by his own fault, partly by the fault of en the great corporations that y him. He is one type of the vast throng of white out of which civilization slowly squeezes the life and the manhood. y pio slaves There is nothing in bar- barism so degraded, so apparently hope- s, as this lowest class, which product of civilization. Yet in of these creatures there is for something higher every one a desire snd better, dockers they demanded something bet- ts and, to the In the case of the london surprise of everybody, Bot it, How? We read that the dockers pathy of the working people of Great Brits in ployments connected with theirs, who Thousands of laborers em- had not thelr grievances, went out with them, all the The tailors also struck; the he rail BER “noted others were moved A spirit of restiveness pervaded trades’ societies on the island. bakers, the cab drivers, t employes and dis- floated The wave by the wave of insurrection that ey » i content ana from the London docks. dis- wed all England, even the millionaire All the Americas, Mr. Blaine's devicej i and disagreeable sig as is easily under. ks La Epoca, a paper pub ! anish journal e three Amer. opens ita sessions in Wash- It not s idea originated with week, docs Appear, wee scheme first begun Garfield's ad- late ( linois, - k 8 bac NOS but the Townshend, of it. JOngressman first introduced It is entirely commercial in its ob Mr. Townshend plan, which the An in ono « had a favorite was that all the countries of wrican continent should be joined wtows union, against the rest of the world, The German word Zoll- verein expresses the meaning of such a union as Mr. Townshend wanted. At this very important congress the great with both North nd South Americans will be to increase and facilitate trade, nerce of amounts to object in view 3 The annual and South America £700,000,000, The United States gets only a small fraction of the Com Central whole vast sum. This is not because the Spanish republics do not want our trade, for they do. Itis a fact that many of our manufactured products are first sent to Europe, repacked and labeled, and then shipped anew to Bouth America, where they are bought as European goods, The great difficulty in the way of di- rect trade with these countries is lack of facility of transportation. There are very few lines of steamers in the North and South American trade. Merchants and those interested say that steamers enough can be maintained regularly if the United States will pay increased sums for rapid mail transportation. But there is in the United States a strong feeling against subsidized steamer lines, so that the question will not bel easy to settle, Other topics discussed at the congress will be arbitration of international dis-| putes, the acceptance by each govern-| ment of a common silver coin which shall be legal tender in all the countries, and the adoption of uniform customs regulations and of uniform weights and, measures, Undoubtedly Texfis is a great state, She can produce annually cotton enough) to supply the world, she raises Onoaiyth} of all the cattle produced west of the Mississippi river, and she is also said to) raise cane considerably. Besides all) these she will not permit a silk hat to be worn within her borders, Within the past quarter century the Protestant Episcopal church has grown in America as at no previous period in its history. It is mentioned as a curious fact that as the taste of the American poo ple for artistic decoration and mathetic ceremonials has been awakened and in- tensified the Episcopal church has in- creased proportionally, The taffy Emperor William of Ger many gave Minister William Walter Phelps is something unspeakable, He always admired the United States, quoth the emperor, and the study of our “his tory of peace” had excited in him the grontest interest. Thissounds very swoot,| coming from the most warlike ruler in, Christendom. Well, most of the nations of Europe are beginning to find it hea $0 admire our country as much as trying to devise ways to spend their The strike was managed with consume. tact tempered é mate by the large brained, led ft, He began his career as an be good John eng {e ngineer who Burns, end it as such. neer; will not specialty is conductor of strikes. To by any one man, is owing the success of Burns, as far as it can be claimed he great strike. But there is a deeper, grander reason efforis of any one person, or any dozen That reason is this: The labor ers held together as one man, and the working people of all Great Britain stood i That was why they succeeded. by them. persons. It was standing together, co-operation, that did it, Utilizing this one idea, working people can rule the world, From their perfect union will grow a giant that all the cap- italists tn Christendom cannot down. This is the thougitt of John Burns, in his attempt to form a federation of labor. Jute. Once more the guestion is discussed of cultivating jute in the southern states, since the cotton farmers in many locali- ties are using cotton bagging for their bales rather than patronize the jute mills bagging trust. But cotton bagging is not as well liked as the other, and now the farmers say: Why cannot we raise our Why not, indeed? It is true, in case they did, the product would have still to pass through the mills of the loathed combination, or, if other mills started up, it would not be long till they too joined the trust, but still a little thing like that ought mot to stand in the way of raising the raw material. We should be just that much more independent of India and England. A calculation has been made that jute can be produced at a cost of one and a half cents a pound on the same soil that will grow hemp. Our improved machinery of culture would produce vastly more than is done by the rude and primitive methods of India. When the mothers of the present gen- eration of young people were girls they used to do their hair in long curls, wear hooped gowns, tinkle on the piano and sing, “I love it, I love it, and who shall dare, chide me for loving that old arm chair.” They sang, likewise, “The Last Good-by,” “The Old Farm Gate” and “Home in the Heart.” In their school Cook, who wrote the songs named, Miss Cook and Mrs. Hemans had a littie school of poetry all to themselves. It was the domestic school, chanting the praises of gentle, faithful family loves and virtues. Well, Miss Eliza Cook, who wrote so many of these gentle, musical poems, whose name the irreverent young gen- eration hear with a half smile, has just died in England, at the age of 71. She for so many years that few thought her to be living still. She received from the British government a pension of $500 » year, Mrs. J. C. Croly (“Jenny June”) has started in New York the publication of ope cs ei the o and organiza. tions. Mrs. Croly“hopes her publication will help to join isolated units into a An Important Law For Borrowers. By the act of the legislatu «, approved June 1, 188% it is declared that after the | passage of raid act it shall be unlawfol for any persons, corportiooe, ete, in loaning money at interest, whether on bond and mortgage or otherwise to require the pers son or persons borrowing the same to pay the tax imposed thereon by the first section of the ack, avd io all cases where such tax shall have been paid by the borrowers the same shall be considered usury and be subject to the laws governing the same. Section 1 ime posses the tax of 3 mills on the dollar, as to which, it isstated, that a failure of | the assessor to assess the same shall not discharge the owner ibility for payment, As the uspal printed forms of bonds and mortgages are dravghted so 88 to ‘require payment or bolder from of be lax by the morigager or obliger this act chenges such priuted forms and the system formerly pursued by real es tate lawyers and conveyancers, snd should be noted by the public. -— Elections in the New States. On Tuesday elections the four new states, were held North and Dakota, Montana and Washington. First reports gave the two Dakotas to the Republicans. Later advices say South Dakota is probably Democratic. In Montana the election was conducts in South ed under the Australian law, and to surprise of every one voles were the polied rapidly, nearly all the voting being done by noon. The Australian balloting sys- tem has proved, so far as heard from, complete success. one and it a long of returns are in to know 11 e result on gov- The ticket is a will be late before enongh | ernor and congressmen, claim the state From Washington there was no pews oa account of the storm. The Democrats id — Here is a diagram in figures that illustrates President Harrison’ s fidelity to his civil service pledges: Daring the four years of President Cleveland's administration, when the railway mail sevice was not under civil service rules, there were 725 removals, 768 resigna- { tions, 340 dismissals for inefficiency and {166 for drunkenness, a total of 1,909 | changes. Under the Harrison adminis. | tration, from March 20 until May 1, {there were 1524 dismissals and 210 | resignations in the postal railway mail | service. From May 1toJaly 1 there { were 23 dismissals and 147 resignations, {besides 530 clerks dropped from the i service “after a trial” making a grand | total of 2,434 in a little more than three months. This record of four months {removals from the railway mail service ‘exceeds that of the entire four years of the Cleveland administration by 435. - a Beribner’s Magazine for October con- tains an exciting exploration article, in | which Joseph Thomson deseribes his re- markable and famous journey through equatorial Africa ; a very practical paper on the best way to improve the common roads of the United State: ; an end paper by “Ike Marvel” the author of ‘“Reveries of a Bachelor ;” one of the most attractive electric articles, showing ; modern applications of electricity to war, ‘on Jand and sea ; the end of Stevenson's {great romance,” The Master of Bally ‘ antrae ;” an unconventional travel article {on Iceland ; the second instalment of Harold Frederic’s romance of Colonial New York: with other interesting fiction and poems. Most of these articles are richly illustrated. The people of Centre county will pay about $8000 more taxes, under He der- eon and Decker, than under Greist and Wolt. The Republican onmmissioners do this by raising the valuation. They now have the county in debt—when the Democrats left it in bands of Henderson and Decker, the county was out of debt and a large balance in the treasury. sss A Linden Hall Major George Tums retumed from a week's hunt for squirrels on Monday, and had & num ber of very Iarge black and grey squirrels. The Major isa boss shot. So Is Samuel Kern, who shot a hog for Will Meyer, on Wednesday morn. ing. Afer be shot the hog, he then stock it and after be had that done, the hog jumped up and commenced eating apples, =o P. HM, Meyer said: 1 did not sed it but sapposs it is trae. Joe MoClellan will have a large fine straw stack to work into manure, as PH. Meyer could sot near keep all the straw in the barn, owing to the large crop he had, We notice Mr. Thomas Willinms, of Lemont, as counter jumper, at J; i. Rows’. J. W. Keller got the £. b. Bactoess to him, Mr. M. ¥. Nagle, of Shamokin, and J. Slaymaks er, of Sunbury, are sponding & few days at Meck & Nagie's lumber oamp we Fad lueaivy How hove 8, D. teach es school at Abdera, Clinton co. nm o
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