1} F. E. & G. PP. BIBLE, Proprictors. EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN OF WHATEVER ETATE OR PERSUAKION, RELIGIOU? TERMS: $1.50 yer Annum, in Advance - s VOLT. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1885. NO. 14. The Centre Terms $1.50 por Annumin Advano Aemocrat, FRANK E BIBLE, Editor and Kentucky, as There is weeping and wailing gnashiong of teeth in Phil Thompson got left again. gra:s, whiskey, fast horses, and hand some women, are all Kentucky pro- ducts that the world appreciates, but the greatest of all modern products of “The dark and bloody ground” Phi whereon to Thompson has no place lay his political head. - Our peighbor the Watchman find {fault with Senators Wallace, Hall and Wolverton for being absent when the outrageous senatorial apport was being discussed in the Wall bill The eriticism of Sevator abso his physicians have prescribed lute quiet and rest, and he was absent stimply because his presence would have been positively d Angerous t his Wallace refused to perform the duties of f He is Now life. Senator has Hoe fice, nor has he health, which we WAY find. BOY IN THI} SCHOOL. THF COW The cow boy in the public echool 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 himself int a perambulating arsenal, and engages in Cow boy antics and practices io the school room, that boy has finished theoretically, his education, and should be allowed the privilege of breaking stone on the public road six | days a week for a year. The five cent novel which recounts creat 1 the adventures of mythical ures like “Slim Jim, the Rover, or | the Pirate of Logans branch” “Freck” | led Moll, or the Belle of Half Moon Hill,” snd kindred works, is | the parent of the Cow boy of the pub- lic schools. Nor is the country press free from this evil; many order to create an extra village sale o into a Sunday edition filled with the papers 8 the sensations and scandals of 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 every Saturday which attacked the fair fame ; | of some of ladies, and whose correspond to throw out 4 | meerning our people |, but the sensational in every way on et that used to « t prope r reading ticle. The fi news stand is ian is the sensat gering, gossiping, Sunday mate journalism, One 18 the out growth of the other and the cow boy f the public schools is their joint production, The both would perhaps remedy the evil ol suppression Obscene literature is one of the grow ing evils which Is forcing itself to the front and the local press in many laces is aiding in its dissemination, Corrul pting our youth | It is not only but is drying up the pure fountain of the Eoglish language, and making sich & compound of philological vil ’ 1Mhies that one forgets that he eve ad a mother tongn sow the al deg AGaLion ex I fn murder alter of Abe Buzzard, Jesse James in i : £ ot " thority of t AW an der the VICTORS BELONG THE SPOILS. THE Our Republican friends have de- gsylicitude for the Demceratic administration, veloped a wonderful Civil Service Reform since ad vent of a and every utterance Service reform associati a special deliverance of those in office from the official axe of the belong Departments. “To the victors g the spoils’ was a principle carried out tier | can admiuvistrations and Civil the retent both in le and spirit by t simply > Reform meant sim lat party The Re 11 pub | his pub itterances will be | ' carried ! ut to fulll in their places can there be a reform in governments In thi 0 LN affairs can will not be filled by an incom pe tent Democrat, that would be a mers coutinuation of Republican methods | with Democratic workmen. The chang: must be complete and for the The political stmosphere will be fear. { fully charged with electric profanity } as each victor thinks he some of the spoils, but time will purify 1 - . the atmosphere and the disappointed | lion will lay down with the Republican | | lamb, as they both hunt new “To the victors belong the sp pasture . 1s.” wa We are the tv " but the other fellows get previous,” “spoils” — OCCUPATION — TAX The city of Williamsport claimed the right to colleet a tax upon “occu pation” under an act of 1875, under which cities of A88€n class, “all persons, real persqual property, and all other mat ters and thiogs which are taxable slate and county p Irposes ’ could The « the assessors to assess all taxed. ty authori ion disposes of the case in the follow ing language “The tions is hopelessly, incurably vie assessment upon ! upa JUS, ,..4 I'he plain mandate of the constitution has been wholly ignored—‘all taxes | shall be uniform upon the same class | of subjects withio the territorial limits | of the authority levying the the tax.’ Under the guise tax, the city of Williamsp wrt has lov. of an ‘occupation’ { ed, and is seeking to collect, one up on income. Of all forms of taxation this is the most od y the American It Wal {i in view : heads of better. | should have | ] MR | we are considering is especially odious from the fact that it assumes to labor tax the income derived from and exempts the income derived from ~api- tal, done that there seems 80 crudely has the matter been to heen have no uniformity formity. “The tax gave the right t mneome Lax. right to ir Juire NO sense an ime enough tos an ind when the legislature TI1zes | at present ao such a The 8 reversed. {auth d Criw | {thority exists | the Lae | er court and the rec remitted, with instructions t 18s it njanctior he The n t their failure to discriminate 1 as prayed for to stake the assessors made was between tax and in come {an "occupation an { tax, and they seem to have laid an in | come tax in this instance, Judge Pax. n's opini wn is worthy of perusal ard nay furnish a guide for our assessors when assessing the dif Auditor General Niles notifies the ! mea mmtles f the Ls A 101140 way# and f representatives that unless | i “the ceed the revenues,’ expendi R. M. Bood. | the an | tor gener returns ways and means house takes Mi pur far we accomplished by defeat. But ' to make the ends meet. committee Of the Niles' view of the question and poses to remedy the evil } 0 HE that can will It he appropriation bills and the | ng rolling | combination which it is said has beer The | people of this state have anything but an attractive future to ing the repeal bills that not suffi will be nece ary to defeat some of t | formed may make that possible, peer nto in th iscal af fairs AY matter ate fin salor t ip them by ra here 18 not much danger of tax upon occupations, The tax !npes getting ses wick, ed standpoint. time the Taxing Private Corporations For Public Purposes One of the most important bills now claiming the attention Legislature is the Hon ty. tO re gulate th of ur Sate one int Leonard Rhone orporations for is well known ai conceded that represent ao Prop riy wi * MAY Le no misapprepension on this subiect 1a the mind of any ne iel us, for a flew moments, Jook at this question of tax ation from an impartial and unbias of non The total value the real estate of this entire C wealth i» $1,600,000 000, aod the paid in capital of the corporations in the State aggregates 81 000 000,000, or in other words, the paid-in capital of the corporations is one eighth Jess than the total value of all the real es tate. Now, according to every princi ple of fairness, the corporations should pay one eighth less taxes than is as sessed upon real estate—that is. every owners of real estate pay eight dollars of taxes the corporations uld pay seven dollars. But what erament, wablie debt charitable it Ans sch also eniire upp rs tenance of the common sel State and for apprepriations to N mal Schools,” Compelling Commonwealth every farmer » eve Ww Ke i ir broad do- main is in the pas undersiar rake You backs on vi vesterday he excent } again n, and ODDO i every the mem Ur servants , ving at Legisia rese He of disaj vour will, see that vou are determined roe cout lied ently to obtain an equalization of taxes they pointment in from suffering nienog i — — imatism complieat- Oue of the brightest, ited and progressive is eXchanges, Lhe eacl fn a! 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