M 3 " y ‘BX r JUSTICE * EN. O EVER ETATE OR PERSUASION, MELIGIO US ne » i F.E & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WIHATE ETATE OR PERSUABION, MELIGE I'ERNN: $1.50 Jer Annum. in Advaner. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1885. NO. 14. & VOLT. The Centre Democrat, Terms $1.50 per Annumin Advano FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor and in Kentucky, as Blue grass, whiskey, fast horses, and hand There is weeping and wailing gnashing of teeth Phil Thompson got left again. some women, sre all Kentucky pro- ducts that the world appreciates, but the greatest of all modern products of “The dark and bloody ground” Phil Thompson has no place whereon to lay his political head. > finds Jault with Senators Wallace, Hall and Qur peighbor the Watchman Wolverton for being absent when the outrageous 8¢ patorial apportionment was being discussed in the Senate ator Wallace is | that | Oil Of =€l The criticism as his health 80 poor his physicians bave prescribed a lute quiet and rest, and he was absent simply because his presence would have been positively dangerous t Wallace refused to perform the duties of Senator has 1 life. flice, nor has he ever shirk He is Florida ealth, which we now in may find. BOY IN THE SCHOOL. THF COW PUBLIC The cow boy in the public school is getting entirely too numerous for the safety of life and morals in that great nursery of American citizenship When a boy leaves the study of gram mar and arithmetic, turns himsel a perambulating arsenal, and engages in Cow boy antics and practices in the school room, that boy bas finished theoretically, his education, and should be allowed the privilege of days a week for a year. The five cent novel which recounts the adventures of mythical ures like “Slim Jim, the Rover, or | the Pirate of Logans branch” “Freck” | of Half! little “previous.” Moon Hill,” and kindred works, is |¢ 0 but the other fellows led Moll, or the Belle the parent of the Cow boy of the pub- lic schools. Nor is the country press free from this evil; many papers in order to create an extra village sale go into a Sunday edition filled with the sensations and scandals of the week, spublish the vilest scandal, the most indecent allusions, and personals and get them into the hands of the young. Itisonly a few years since a vile sheet came to our town eve ry Saturday which attacked the fair fa and tate ladies, bes innuendos of some of our purest whose correspondent did not the ymeerning our people. to throw out broadest It was “" - ire pressed, but the sensational paper has taken the place of the and while they are a de ent in every way on the ng sheet that used to ox re not proper reading i The five ¢ not wnd gicls news stand is than is the sensational, gering, gossiping, Sunday paper mate jourpalism. One is the growth of the other and the cow boy f the public schools is their joint production, The both would perhaps remedy the evil Of suppression Obscene literature is one of the grow ing the front and the local press in many places is aiding in its dissemination, It is not omly corrupting our youth but is drying up the pure fountain of the English language, and making sich a compound of philolog | Fics that one | had a mother tongu We ical vil ’ oka that gets hi ver | Of ! : : i sow Lhe seeds of mor 3 a ctual degradati n ey : tie 01 4 : : . Mmpping eirding up their! or murder after the Jd CRED James or Abe Buzzard TO finto | inuati 1 | comtinusalion o | as each breaking stone on the public road six | has been wholly evils which is forcing itself to | in vi THE VICTORS BELONG THE SPOILS, Our Republican friends have de- gylicitude for the veloped a wonderful Civil Service Reform since ad Demceratic administration, of Civil n is hailed as vent of a and every utterance the Service reform associati a special deliverance of those in oflice heads of tors bel: from the official axe of the “To the vic ng Departments, the spoils” was a principle carried out both in letter and spirit by Republi: can admiuistrations and Civil Sery Reform meant simp y the partisans of that The Republic party his publi carried out } ’ 1.4 betier qual {1 aud offensively “partisan | be removed and competent men put In can there bea reform in governmental in their places this way only In this sense we say emphati’ s bel mpetent Re 1b vo the sp "0 the viet _ can will not be filled by an incom p« tent Democrat, that would be a mere » £ | with Democratic workmen. The change must be complete and for the better. The political atmosphere will be fear. fully charged with electric profanity victor thinks he should have some of the spoils, but time will purify ! . . . { the atmosphere and the disappointed { lion will lay down with the Republican creat’ | lamb, as they both hunt new pasture, “To the victors belong the spoils.” The above We are the P. 8- “vic. get the “spoils” — OCCUPATION — FAX. The city of Williamsport claimed the right to collect a tax upon “occu pation” under an act of : 1875, under which ci person persqnal property, and all other ms 1ssemb CIAss, “all 18, ters and things which are taxable stale and county purposes’ 1 he ( the assessors to as taxed. ity thoritie Ciba tax upations Judge Paxon who delivered the « pin. on disp )s¢8 Of the case in the follow ing language “The tions is hopelessly, incurably vicious, fRssessment upon *“ i upa- Ihe plain mandate of the constitution 1" Ignored-"all | shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits v | will be necessary 1 of the authority levying the the tax Under the guise of an ‘occupation’ tax, the city of Williamsport has lev- ed, and is seeking to collect, one up on income, Of all forms of taxation this is the most ol ty the American ople. It wa 1 to du ie Wi { I ng (3) Me rr 0 Ww tile 3 ORK publican methods | taxes | ing the repeal bills, | formed may make that possible, we are considering is especially odious ty labor from the fact that it assumes Lax the income derived from and exempts the income derived from ecapi- tal, dons 48 the matter been to So crudely | that there seems have heen no uniformity formity. occupant 11) an ve Lhe the ARSEREO0 into neon NO sense An 1INcComd » time enough to assess the legislature | &0 10come authorizes i at present ao thority exists. The deeree « er court 18 reversed, and the record is instructions to issue ao | injunction as prayed for to the bill” The m their failure to stake the assessors made was discrimmate between 1 “occupation tax and an income | tax, and they scem to have laid an in | coume tax in this instance, Judge Pax " . 8 » p | n's opinion is worthy of perusal ard furnish a guide for our assessors P | ny | when Rssessing the different occupa’ HER] Auditor General Niles notifies the ! of the house of representatives that unless | ways and means committee [| | great care is exercised “the expendi | tures will greatly exceed the revenues,’ mn Mr. R M h ‘ zrass, chairman of the committee l'o this propositi on returns the flippant is auditor general Fortunately and means takes Mr pur committee of the house Niles' poses Lo remedy the view of the question and evil #0 far as that can he accomplished by defeat. But that not suffice to make the ends meet. will It y defeat some of the appropriation bills and the long rolling | combination which it is said has beer hn I'he of this have anything future to fh i people state into af but an attractive peer in the matt ate's fiscal fair Te ro ip them by ra there 12 not much danger of the mari. | tax | nes getting se sick, wealth $1,500,000,000, and the paid | pay one eighth less taxes than | time the . : | Saod- {Are | For y mam Taxing Private Corporations Public Purposes One of the most important bills now claiming the attention of our State he one ints Legislature is 1 Hon iy, [Leonard Rhone, to re gulate the taxation rorporations for public 18 well known and almost conceded that « represent a very withio property corporat annunily and more his late aur ¢. special atlent Legislature to the J ' ommends the enactment istribut rovernment citizens of But in order that there may be no misapprebensionon this subject in the mind of anyone, let us, for a few moments, look at thi of tax “ q esl iol ation from an impartial and unbias The of ed standpoint. total value the real estate of this entire Common the n in capital of the corporations in the State aggregates $1,000,000,000, or, in other words, the paid-in capital of Legisls the COrporations is one eighth less | . A be your than the total value of all ' real es tate. Now, according to every princi ple of fairness, the corporations should is as sessed upon real estate- of that 1s. eve ry real Cie owners estate pay eight dollars of taxes the ¢ wrporations But gr should pay seven dollars. he actual facts? The collected from these twxo & $33,000,000, and of which amou: real estate pays 83 corporations but as a fair, just weallh tions to cover the estimated of annual State expend support « F 4 an itare, lor Legiclative, E f the Goverament, including interest e Jd tive and Judicial branches the publie debt, pensions and gratuitic long, § idiers’ orph« : 1 } ' and National Guards, and entire "the support and mais la \ } 10018 Of Lh Nor common sel sand for apprepriations to mal Schools.” Compelling cot Riche Commonwe Livery farm Fr, 6vi n wi petition the sigus atur » Obtain an eq alization filed and progressive exchanges, Record. in our broad do- ierested in the pas fhy a uw Mak: muily il and When v J} |, see that you every the met Ur servants ire fa taxes they ur request an : Farmers — a — ir wishes { the brightest, newsiest, best dail I’ On Thursday last, is Lhe uadruple form w juadruj orm and population et land and Russia, “g furnish the steaks, irrence né rd - re, March ) | ir Wadst New York Mut INTFREST. wine th ng i © excent irier her stove last ve taken to the Penn. thirty vears, living at Cresc He of disag county, died recently »d a seclude | life be a1) 84 poiutment in love, from FOE Jeff Davis has been suffering 3 Ful A return of his rheumatism complicat- breaking ut of his old ceived Mexi re in rge ly | Peab n the death wid le: f his $1000, each to the Pennsylvania Workis g Home for Blit i Men and Mere t's Fund in Ph ladel] hia th a convict 1 the Maryland Penitentiary, esCAp- | Saturday by scaling the wall of f the ivantae advantag: He hail Hi Was One vk he prison vard X 1 convicts, and ¢ erty in the Fred J. W Insurance f New York, died ht at Fernandina, Fla his al oe n Fri h- His whit ' md gone for health. ww Anna S hin Yi Wid bing, William H., New Newbold, Miss Linda P. R id, Mrs ' | Sel moele, Miss Robins,
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