©he (Centre getiwrrat. M.. BBLLKPONTE, PA. Tka L*r|Mt,Chakpeit and Beat Paper PUBLISHKD IN CKNTHK COUNTY. The Issuea of the Campaign. Extract* From a Speech by Benjamin Whit man Before the Democratic (.Sty Committee of F.rit, Wednesday, Eveniny, Sej>t. 6th, In every political campaign public at tention centers upon one or more issues which become the vital topics of the day. In the contest to lie fought out in Pennsylvania on the 7th of Novem ber, the main and essential questions are honesty and capacity in State of fices, faithtul enforcement of the new constitution, and the overthrow of that system of pernicious machine rule which is best kuown by the expressive term, "Bossism." Our Commonwealth has now been ruled by the Republican party for nearly a quarter of a century. Dur ing this long period the Democrats have not had a governor; they have rarely had a State officer; they have never had more than one branch of the legislature. To all intents and pur poses, they have had little more part iu the government they are taxed to support than it they lived on the shores of the Pacific. Like all associations and men long accustomed to the use of power nud pat ronage, the Republican party has lie come insolent, corrupt, and defiant. I nder its administration the excuses of the State government have doubled and quadrupled. The taxes wrung from the hard earnings of the people have been largely wasted in extrava gaut appropriations, or squandered upon measures intended to enrich a conniving few at the expense of the in dustrious many. In December, 187'5, the citizens of the State, by a vote of more than two to one, adopted a new constitution, the self-evident aim of which was to check the lawlessness of the great corpora tions and restore to the jieople the rights of which they had been robbed. This instrument—one of the noblest codesof civil conduct ever conceived bv the mind of man—remains practically a dead letter. legislation has been demanded each year for the enforce ment of its most important provisions, and persistently refused by the Bosses at Harrisbuig. The odious discrimina tion on our lines of transportation con tinue without hindrance. Vast inter ests have been crushed to suit the ob jects of corporation officials and those of their partners and favorites. A healthy competition is frustrated in various leading liues of business. The cost of food, light and fuel; the pros perity of cities and towns; the rates for freights and passengers, are no longer subject to natural laws, but are influenced, engineered and directed to fill the purses of millionaires uud stock- j gamblers, without regard to the wel- j fare of the lines that may lie affected or the rights of the communities that live along and are dependent upon them. These may be strong statements, j but they are no more forcible than the truth requires to lie told. The proofs j of them are to be seen everywhere ' throughout the Common wealth in crip- ! pled enterprises, stunted towns, bank- i nipt business firms and a discontented | populace. While these evils have afflicted the i Htate at large, the Republican j>arty i itself, which claims to have been fouu ded as the special champion of Free dom, has fallen under the control of an olcgarchy as arbitrary in its meth ods as the Czar of Russia or the Shah of I'ersia. It is no stretch of the imagi nation to assert that, so far as its gene ral management is concerned, .Simon Cameron, .J. Donald Cameron, and Matthew S. Quay are the Republican Crty of Pennsylvania. No governor a been elected since 1 Bf>.'{ who they did not name in advance. No candi date whom they seriously opposed has been put upon the Republican Htate ticket during the same period. For upwards of twenty years they have shaped the legislation, fixed the ap pointments and dictated the politics of the Htate almost without a protest in side their party. When Himon Cam eron became weary of Henatorial hon ors they had only to give the command and an obsequious Legislature made haste to choose his son Donald to fill his vacant place at Washington. When the Riot bill bribers were tried, convicted, and sentenced by an up right judge, the Pardon Board obeyed the order for their release withouteven a decent delay. Under their sway talent and devo tion to principle have well-nigh be come a crime in the Republican |>arty. The 400,000 Republican voters of the Htate embrace scores of pure and bright men who would fill almost any position with credit. These have been syste matically crowded to one sideand cool ly given to understand that their servi ces are not wauted. New York makes governors of her Heymours, Dixs and Tildens; we of Pennsylvania have to accept of a Geary, a II art ran ft and a Hoyt. The time was when a Gibson, a Black and a Woodward, sat upon the Supreme Bench. Compare that illustrious trio with the Republican members of the body to-day. (The question is no longer asked of a Repub lican candidate for hitrh office : "Is he honest? Is he capable?" He must be a cringing tool or the Camerons and Quay, who take pood care that he does pot possess sufficient merit to become a formidable rival in the management of the party.) Other States send Rep resentatives to Washington whose commanding talents win fame for themselves uud shed lustre upon their constituents. Tlio notable men in our Congressional delegation during the lust twenty years may bo counted upon one's fingers. lusteadofthe re spect and influence which the State should have on the national field, we are habitually referred to bv the press and public men of other States in terms that compel every true Pennsylvauiuu to bow his head iu humiliation. After these long years of plunder and shame, it is encouraging to see that a respectable portion of the Republi can party have wakened to a sense of the condition into which their organiza tion has drifted. They havo met in convention, declared their indepen dence of Bossism and nominated a highly creditable ticket, and it is not too much to trust that the year 1882 will be the dawn of a happier career for the Commonwealth. At this auspicious era in our State politics, reason, principle and patriot ism demand that every honest voter should stand firm and fuithful by the cause of genuine reform. Tim late Democratic convention at llarri-burg was marked by rare harmony anil good sense. In Robert E. Pattison we have a candidate for governor who fills the Jeffersonian requisite to a let ter. Twice elected to a responsible office in the banner Republican city of the Union, he need no further endorse ment of his honesty and capacity. lb will conduct the executive office, for the firSt time in many years, on sound business principles. Waste will be stopped and taxes reduced. Reckless appropriations will be headed off and blundering legislation fitly rebuked. A close system of accounts w ill lie com pelled in the several departments and the books will always be open for prop er inspection. The new constitute n will be respected and the people will be protected against the encroachments of greedy coporate power- 11 is associ ates upon the ticket are uli worthy men, each one of whom is specially fit ted for the place to which he has been named. All who call themselves by the honored name of Democrats elmuhl give this ticket their best (dibits during the two months that yet renia n of the campaign. We have the strongest incentive that can spur an American citizen to earnest action, and, it we fail to win the victory that stands ready to our hand, we will richly deceive the wrongs that Bop-i-ni has entailed upon us in the past and will he certain to visit i/Jhiu us with renewed vigor in the future. Philadelphia Bi-Centenoial. A peculiarity markel a tie ugh by Providence, is that our natal year be gau on a Sunday and it will end on a Sunday—a sacred helxiomadal a year long—turning the mind constantly to William Peon's immortal principles, of right, justice ami absolute civil uud religious liberty. What more appropriate then than to inaugurate our programme on Sun day, October 2'2d, with religious ser vices in every Church in Pennsylvania to begin our feast with devout grace to God for I lis mercy and goodm-a*. By the bye, the suggestion has been made, and it is an excellent oup, that every clergyman should write out the sermon he delivers ou that Sunday and send it to some designated institution for preservation. Such a mass of manuscript would doubtless, in times to come,afford rich final for the searcher after thought" ami idea". And when Pennsylvania's centennary book is again opened, these discourse" will lie esteemed a in estimable mental treasures and price leas archives. On Monday. October 2-Id, Cheater, where Pcnn first landed, will com memorate the event with n landing and other ceremonies of an inqiosing and appropriate character. There, a" in Philadelphia, are anumtier of spots sacred by reason of their association* with the great founder of the State of On Tuesday, October 24tb, the land ing of William I'enn in Philadelphia will take place from the ship Welcome at Dock Street wharf, which was iu 1682 called Dock creek. The Secre tary of the United States Navy has promised to send the vessels of the North Atlantic Squadron to Lake part in the ceremony. The Secretary of War will doubtless order such portions of the regular army as can be s|mred to be present. The President of the Uuited States, his Cabinet, distinguished foreign dip lomat* ami all the various departments will receive invitations, and all or nearly all will undoubtedly accept and be present at the opening ceremonies. Large numbers of civic associations will add variety to the display by their presence, and it is confidently expected that there will lie a column of forty thousand men. The butchers will parade at least fifteen hundred men, ail mounted, and will have float* on which to display the several pro cesses of their trade, except killing. President Klinefelder promises that it shall be the grandest demonstration the butchers have ever made. An in teresting feature of this division will be the representation of the ancient batchers of Pennsylvania. The most interesting proposed at* traction about the Landing Day cere monies will be the Indian boys and girls from tho United States Training School at Carlisle with their own brass band, tliat performs in a manner sim ply wonderful. The ancestors of these same children were among those who welcomed William lYiin to tho shores of the Delaware two hundred years ago. And now by these sumo children we will give a practical exemplifica tion of the wisdom of his peaceful methods of treating A Startling Increase. The (irowlk qf Afcntit Malaily i/i t <* I nt. If I >Sta'rt. PliiUiMi'hU North American. It is probable that not many people are aware that the number of lunatics in the United Slates is increasing with extraordinary and porteiitious rapidi ty. Such however, is tho unpleasant fact, us the incontrovertible evidences of official statistics abundantly testify. Kvery year cases of insanity are be coming more frequent in proportion to the total number of inhabitants which the country contains. When the cen sus of I*7o wits taken, it was found that the insane population amounted to 117,442, which gave a ratio of one to each 1,100 of the aggregate population. This is a ratio which in 1880 had near ly doubled, for in that year it was dis covered the army of the insane had in* creused until it was not far short of one hundred thousand strong. During the ten years ending 1880 it has in creased much more than two-fold, and the ratio had risen from one in 1,100 to one in "20. Though this is a re markable and most unwelcome stale of tilings, it is one for which it is not a matter of any great difficulty to ac count. The struggle for the comforts of life and for the nece.—arics of exis tence,which is every year growing #har|>er and more strenuous was esjieci ally severe during the decade which these statistics cover. Tho period of inflation and of tin substantial prosperity which reached its culmination 1872, had IM-CII fol lowed by the !<>iio--.t iiud most disas trous panic through which this nation I lias ever passed and to the pn-sure id - that memorable period which began in ' the fall nt 187*1, and continued with | more or 1* -intensity until the close of 1878, much of the increased insanity ! which has l>t n noted may pro|s rlv b< attributed, in to live y* ars thou sand* of people who had always lived at their ea-r, and who during the flush time bud contracted habits of extrava gance, found themselves being swiftly and irrcsi-tihly pushed to the wall. Their wealth disappt nr* *1 aa though by magit*; financial foundations which -.-l ine. l to Im a- -o|id as tin cvcrla-ting hills decayed and crumbled away, and with a despairing sense of helpl---ne and bewilderment rich men found themselves sinking into i .vcrty and want. Nor did those who were p<>or at the beginning > - u|w tin* blighting influence of the gr at ie. uI-ioii. l o every deep there is a doe|K-r still, and men whose hart work had maintained them in a poverty which was at lea-t decent and not wholly de void of comfort, were driven to des pair by finding themselves without the means of subsistence, because the work at which their livlihood and that of their families was earned had per force been discontinued. It is not surprising that during the decade in which the hardest of hard times was comprised, insanity should have increased. There is however, cause to fear that tho increase which the statistics reveal is not wholly to bo explained in this way. The spirit of American civilization is not con ducive to the preservation of the men tal equilibrium, and that very educa tion iijnin which we justly pride our selves has a tendency to ex|**o the weaker minds to the attacks of the mental malady. This appears from the figures which show the relative frequency of insanity in the different sections. In the New Kuglami States where the average of education is highest, the ratio is one to three hun dred and fifty-seven; in the south, where the education standard is low est, it is oue to seven hundred and 20. Itut it does not follow that edu cation is a bail thing. _ - . ♦ Murdered by Burial. "Topics of the Time" in the Octo ber Century, contains a bold demand for reform in the manner in this coun try of conducting funerals, and also the following disquieting statement: No scientific discoveries have leen made in our generation of greater im portance than those ofAM. I'astcur. As many of our readers arc aware, they relate to the propagation of disease through living organisms those known as bacilli and bacteria being most fre quently connected with the morbid pro cesses of disease, M. Pasteur finds that these microscopic forms of life ex ist especially in dead bodies ; that they work their way up through the noil to the surface, arc taken into the intes tines of grazing cattle or are distribu ted by the winds, and to, it would seem probable, progagate a whole school of disease—such as amail-pox, scarlatina, typhiod and typhus fevers, diphtheria, tubercular consumption, pneumouia, erysipelas, etc., etc., and perhaps yellow fever. M. Pasteur mentions the splenic fever which pre vails in Prance and other countriea of Kurope, and which annually destroys thousands of cattle and |wep. In one such case he discovered that an epi demic of this disease was followed af ter some years by its fresh outbreak among cuttle tlmt had been grazing in the fields where, previously, victims of' the Fame disease imd been buried uu- j der the pastures. The little bacteria \ had worked their way from the buried j carcasses to the surface, und were found in swarms in the intestines of earth-worms gathered there. It ought to be the business of scien tific people to show the relation of these j facts —if they can he accepted as facts ! —to our present method of disposing) of the dead. I f the breezes that blow j from Greenwood, Mt. Auburn, and Laurel 11 ill, are laden with germs which propagate the diseases that have already slniu our kindred, then the most expensive feature! of those cities | of the dead is not their costly menu- j merits, it is worth while to ask our* I selves whether the discip'n s of creation 1 have not a truth on their side, and whether some amendment is not need ed in the modes of burial, which, in this country especially, seem designed to resist the operations of nature as long as possible, and so to make a dead body a source of eiidcfinite evil. Indeed, the whole matter of our burial customs is one which urgently j needs revision. It is u.t nishing that, ' in connection witli risks so many and, various as are involved in our modes j of burying our dead, there should have been, in modern times, so little care and forethought. The dwellers in proximity to grave-yards who have ! been poisoned by their drainage, in- j elude a vast multitude whose number lias never been reckoned. Burlett'a Solomonhsm* Mv son whi'ii vou hear n man growling Irccau-e Moody get* 82W R week fur preaching Christianity, you will |j< rceive that ho never worries a miuuto because Ingcr-01l ff t- s2 a night fur preaching atheism. You will HOC tlint the man who i unuttern lily shocked because Francis Murphy get* 8100 a week for temperance work -eem* to think it i- all right whou the harkef|>er take* in twin- HO tiiuoh , money in a single day. The laborer is Wi rthy of his hire, my Imy, ami In i* just a- worthy of it in tho pulpit a lie i-i U|HUI tho stump. I ih<- man who i- honestly trying to Have your | immortal noil worth |m< than tin man who i* only trving hi* h vol Ik-hI to g*> to CVngres? I-n't M<*ly n ! good at Ingersoll ? I-ri't John 1. • i 'tigh a* much the fri< ml ot' humai • Ity ami society 11- the bartender? Ito : you want to git ail tho good in th 1 worhl for nothing, H . that you mar be I ahlo to |>ay a high price lor tho had. li' tiu miter, my hoy, th*- go I things in thin worhl nro alwai* the cheapest, npriig wnt'-r CM* !• - than corn! w ; i-key ; n ho* of cigar* will buy two or three bible.-; a gallon of ohi bran* 11v co-t* more than a burn lof ll itir, a "full hand'' at pokerofun conta anion more thao hi* church Mil>*cripliALI) KAULK VALLEY IIAIL I J feO4P-TiB Tkhb, April P, iWKi: Kt{ Mftit. lAirAftP. Ftp Moll. AW. P. M f B. A. ■ * J'l 7 t2 A rrW at Tjrmtt* 7&2 A4* - I A IA.I TJS.II' ? 3m M. : • • *ti •* v*n •• ... tit * K : t: •• Haii r.*gi •• ...: T E* :♦ t, Mi - r..i - _; ui 4 e-i ...... 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