Zh it + "QUAL AND EXACT JUSTIOE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL.” @& es — TERRS : $1.50 per Annum ” VOL 10. NO. 8 The Centre democrat, Terms, $1 50 Per Annum in Advance. FRANK E.BIBLE, Editor, 1888, Demoeratic County Commi ties, sonmne asses Be ML Mungo, Bauer, « Meck, veined. W MeCormick sas Abe Wober Samuel Walser, «A. M. Batier. Jerry Sankey, creed omaph Realy, Jackson Gorton, wal. U Smith weOornelins Hagel, Henry L J. F Adams, «surge Brown + Wihiliam Hipple senacdbOOr ge Roun, «David Brickiey, wo. W. Miller, wlaml, Harpster Jr William Lose, William Hanna wluhn OQ. Orudort, wes Caivin Weaver Half Moon twp... wed. HH. Grafiin, Hartis twp coon wills C. Moyer Howard twp ereenrice ree va enaans George D Johnston Huston twp William U, Irvin. Liberty twp....c.c. Last. W Herring Marion twp. John 8. Hoy MEIm EWP ovine rarmnsnns coalition J. Gramley Patton twp... . PF. A. Sellen Peon twp. N. P wedohn W, Conley Go twp. B. Pocnriiiiiinismmisnrninss WoW, Spangler, Rush twp. N, Poin asses Orn Vall, do twp B P.ooiviinicimne wesndohn Kenoedy Snow Soe twp, B. weed. &. Bwing dotwp W_P. «Frask Tarberty, Spring LWP. crdsi crim Perry Ge ntael Taylor twp Wm. T. Hoover Union twp...... . «ionses Anron Fuhr Walker $W Poon cummins inns essen ALG. Kreamer, Worth twp - Levi Reose W. F. Renna, Becretacy Bellefonte Centre Hall cov coiiiine Howard Bore .. Millheim Boro Milesburg Bore ) Udon ville Bot Oem os iosiss Betiner (Wp... coon Bogxs twp BP. aa wv twp BL Poin do twp NM. Ponisi Burnside twp... College twp... Curtin twp Ferguson twp, EB. P. do twp, W. ¥ Gregg twp, N. uo twp, 8 . Haines twp EP. dotwp. Wp Philipsburg Aanoy Wintiams Chairman Ler the Reading Railroad Fyn thorities adjust the differences b tween themselves and their aq- | mon BELLEFONTE, PA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1888. nal negligence, rarely the poverty | of the parents. If the advocates of the Blair educational bill will take another tack they can accomplish more than by the expenditure of millions of the governments money through the States. Ask each State to pass a compulsory educational law, keep children out of factories, off the | " [ during the school term and illitera- | shops' stores and streets { cy will be banished very soon, It is that | Ta parents are indifferent, or negligent { not that States are poor, but rs— WC —— What of Michigan, Baruhart, | The res ! 11th Congre 3S dIs iit of the election in the trict 18, whether, Seymour, Republican or Breem, ted on the official tariff a pleasant pointer Demo rat, be ele count, a victory for the re- | formers and for i the Western Congressmen to take { hold of. Tha district is naturally | Republican by from 6oootojo {in 18884 was carried by the Repub- | by In administra over seven thousand. ( lev | licans | 1886, afte lands, r tion had demonstrated to the world Interests o in the hands of Republican levenue re Issue In the was i» i reduce reauced Lo in a spirit of fairness to all. Let [ti arbitration settle disputes in future and let the men rid them selves of the miscreants who them into a strike through a or even through bribery Get rid of the Jonahs that i stroying the order and pauperizi the labor of the country — a — worse, Tue Gazetle afhdavit mi Lk in a run last wee pablican sheriff much stock in time and we would | to brother Feid would have | halibi.” and an a time possibility marrow of goes to the aA Case, works an acquittal before the of the public that cannot be rea ed by an affidavit. But where alibi cannot be established we thin that an affidavit will by the public for what it It is fair to say for the Repul : sheriff that the scandal has sewhere in the fixed up. EI will be found a statement charges against sheriff affidavit concerned. the — - , —— ] — Tue Blair Educational bill passed the Senate by a very meager has majority and if it gets through the house at all we hope will be fronted with Presidential When any State in this Union can't educate her children she should ask to be relegated to the realms of teraitorial dependency, The facts concerning the education of childien in public schools are against the assumption of poverty on the part of the States. There is not a child in the United States today deprived of the privilege of con- a veto secaring an education through the inability of any State to snpport its public schools. Poverty of the individual child, of its parents, negligence on the part of the par- ent to send his child to school, opposition and a dozen other causes cannot be cured by a lavish expenditure of money by the United States goverrnment. As well might the governmant feed and clothe the child while attending school. We have right here in our own midst children growing up in dense ignorance but it is not from any lack of school facilities. It is crimi- order | i¢ | whim | the {" ber. Tariff revis was compelled by his to party ge himself to vote for elected strongh I'his action —— 4 in Penngy vania that there | on the first He says, if statements contain. ed in them aie found to be true, work will be stopped in the entire Schuylkill region within three days, and should it come to this the order twill include not only miners, but engineers, firemen, pump men and | everybody connected with the | mines. When Lewis was asked if | he possessed a full authority to order the men out again, he stated | that he did I" —Amocrated Press Dis pateh February 21, 1888, When we remember that in the | Schuylkill region the Reading Coal land Iron Company has in its em- ploy over 18000 miners, and includ. ing engineers, firemen and pump. men, over twenty thousand men, | who are dependent upon their daily | labor for the support of themselves and their families, the statement that one man has the power and authority to order them all to quit work, and they must each and every one obey this order on pain of be. ing boycotted is a startling one. It makes no difference how well satis. fied the laborers may be with their wages and treatment, how willing they may be to work, how anxious they may be to earn food and cloth ing for their suffering families. Master Workman Lewis, by a sim. ple order can compel morg than ng imination resumption the can, 00, and | mn wasagain theissue and Seymour | a revision | twenty thousand men, who ought to be freemen, to remain idle until he sees fit to give them permission Any or ganization which thus ens'aves its to carn their daily bread members deprives them of liberty and freedom to act for themselves, and puts them absolutely under the anti-Ameri not the sympathy respect, or good will of control of masters, is and does deserve {any free born citizen of a republic Laboring men have rights which every one ought to respect. They are sometimes sul which all right thinking men de- plore. Their most sacred right is the right to labor and earn for them selves and their dependants an hon est living, when they are willing and anxious to work, and the most foul wrong that any power can in- flict upon them is to deprive them of this right. —— —— The Btrike The strike of bie rains Labor iamst ’ ‘4 HLS Knig abandoned men to their will never get employment under the > ~ % X Reading ( ympany, and the leaders and violent element among both will get no work. These are fuel andthe Does Ihe men ¢ back wn ind they cannot out in the Are order the who the Assembly Ir d yes he tired 7 fell who toils not neithe spin, whose hands are strange pick and shovel, bent to hard to whose is never il and who stands around the street corners railing at capital at law and order. It is this viass of men who order strikes and entail untold misery on their fellow men. Will organized labor learn a lesson from the cold facts forced on it by this Reading strike ? Will it get rid of its politicians, its loaf ers, its agitators and put af the head of every Assembly men who earn their bread by hard and honest toil, men re- | spected by both capital and labor, aad with whom every fair employer will consult on matters of wages, or arbitrate diffcrences. By arbi. tration almost any difference can be settled between labor and capi. tal to the mutual advantage of both, It has come to that now in the late contest and on the terms of Capital. Cool level headed sons of toil at the head of the miners organization would have adjusted the differences by arbitration two months ago. There is another fact that should impress itself on every member of the Knights of labor or- ganization, and that is the right of the people who constitute the labor ing classes of this coantry they i one jected to wrongs | {only at the maximum constitute seventh, that the other six ! . sevenths are to a certain extent affected by strikes that at least a sixth of unorganized labor is willing Lto take the place of the trikers and render thes trike unsuccessful. That | (THE MINERS’ STRIKE OFF. i | THE QUESTION OF WAGES TO BE ARBITRATED. THE RAILROADERS LEFTOUTI IN | iHE COL evry man has a perfect right to sell | his labor for the price that suits him, to whom he pleases, when, where and how he pleases, as long as he violates of { That interference with no law his country this tright on the part of any one, or of very {any organization is a violation of [rights guaranteed under the con the United States, and an interference I stitution of every State and of that public opinion will condemn The cardinal principle then with of Labor Avoid means they never pay anybody the Knights should be Arbitration, strikes by all ex cept the fellow who orders them I A— Desirable Changes I'he Government Printing Office had become under Republican rule ip $v i : 3 ’ ir aecayed polticiar of Congressmen ally unwilling nehicent an elemosyenary | a Demo appointed who and when Ot on, rat Printer was deter m ned 0 turn business he Re it into a department naturally became a target for publican marksmen Mr. abused as Benedict has been as offic C= Among Democratic any holder in Washington pounds Democratic office the Was public depar ments. It was for this that Dem wer ratic party was clevated t I World Tne Democratic National Convention D.C. Feb. 18. The Representatives of San Fran- WASHINGTON, cisco claim to have secured twenty- seven votes in National Committee for the selec. tion of their city as the place for the next Democratic National Con. | vention. They offer free transpor- tation to delegates and newspaper correspondents and free entertain. | ment to delegates. Cuicaco, Feb. 18.—A big delega- tion of Chicago Democrats, headed | by General R. J. Smith, left this afternoon on the Pennsylvania | limited for the purpose of captur- | ing the Democratic National Con- vention. The delegation is an im- posing one, including bankers, hotel men, journalists, lawyers and representative local politicians of the party, and it has gone to Wash- ington with confidence in its ability to secure the coveted prize. The subscriptions to the required fund already exceed $25,000, and guaran. tees have been given beyond this { amount up to the possible limit of heed. The Jackson League will i send a large delegation forward to- , Wrcow evening. well the Democratic | {AND THE LEADERS OF THAT STRIK} | SAID TO BE INDIGNANT AT THI AFFAIRS HAVE TAKEN | TURN | | : i | Puauaoperrsia, Febroary ay { Every indication points to a re { sumption of work in the mines of by Monday Master the Schuylkill region {morning next. { Lewis, who has absolute control of | all matter pertaining to the miners, was in the that the Lilds 10 work by ‘cbruary HAVE naection with the 15 not i such undaersto Co men as 1a mped to make person saults upon the men remaining at work, and provided further that in any conference over wages the miners are not to expect us to pay a higher rate of wages for | than those paid by the other coal- | produbing companies in competi- Lackawanna and Western, Dele. | ware and Hudson, Lehigh Valley, | Lehigh Coal and Navigation com- pany, and the Lehigh and Wilkes. arre company, but withthe under- standing they are willing to adopt the basis that we give our miners as much as are paid by either of these companies. that the wages to be paid on return. ing to work will be on the old $2.50 basis, and will remain under that basis until a change shall be mu- tually agreed upon. Yours truly, (SMgned) Avstix Cori, IMMEDIATE RESUMPTION TO BE ORDERED, Porrsvitig, February 17. —Meet- ings of the joint committee and also of the district assembly of the the pumping and hauling engineers, were in om dun here ds the day, and after aljcuramoat the members of both bodies denied any infor na. tion of the reported ordering off of the strike and declared their unbe- lief in the authenticity of the re — however, by the arrival this evening from Philadelphia of Master Work- man Lewis, who immediately went into consultation with the members the joint committee, with the re- will be issued immediate re This sudden turn in af- fair produces the liveliest gratifica- i the thus i" sult that an address at once, ordering sumption, tion among all classes except why Lf wWilo art leaders Workman de- iv ‘y ation i furious railroad Master ig In fnew d perfic and are | bey Cy = i! CIOS communi Workman ] fi mining | {tion with us, namely the Deleware, It is understood | to-night, persumably striving to de- | vise some expedient to meet the : 3 ' phisse Of the situat but the he out O10, railroad St Cause scussed mn ever —— A Billy Maloney Sails for Bagland | Haurax, N. S. February 19.~ | Billy Maloney, the New York ‘boodler, arrived on the Quebec ex- press yesterday afternoon and im: mediately sailed on the Vangover | for England. The train was three | hours behind time and the steamer was awaiting her arrival. Maloney | was quite civil to the newspaper !men, but firmly declined to say | anything of consequence. His a3 year old boy went with him to England, but the rest of the family remained in Montreal. Knights of Labor, which embraces | illegal port. All doubts were discoived, | killed
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