"EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OF POLITICAL," ) TERRS : $1.50 per Annum. VOL 10. BELLEFONTE, PA.. THURSDAY, MAY 4 J J, NO. 16. |RSS, The Centre Democrat, Terms, $150 Per Anuum in Advance. FRANK E. BIBLE, 18988, Democratic Count Delisfonte Centre Hall Howard Boy Millbelim Bor Mumburg Philipsbu rs Unionville 8 Benner twp rtin twp srg uson Gregg twj tw) | Haloes twp. KE Poe do twp. W. P Half M fu lwy Harris twp had been a | He was Known among a {er and favorabl printers cel 5 of the state *Tue Elk Demoerat surprised its patrons n-t long ago by cogning out with a red hot republican issue, and last week the editor was engaged in “explaining” to the uninformed and placating the indignant. It all came about through plaie matter which in some unaccountable way went wrong, the Democrat getting republican matter. — —— Gen HastiNcs was elected dele. gate-at-large to the Chicago Con- vention by the largest vote of any of the genidemen who ran. We are always glad to see a Centre county man come out ahead if he isa “rad” and the general has our congratu- lations, Sh ——— - MeLvitee W. Foner of Chicago has been appoloted Chief Justice of the United States and the appoint ment meets with the approval ies i hief Justice part Is to be one of the in the count: ed without brainiest law vy and will be conlirm opposition, A —— Tur Senators from Pennsylvania have sar silently in the seats they disgrace and allowed the memory of of Pennsylvavia's dead hero's to be insulted, by corn-cr er Ingalls. Th izod the arvy of the Potomae two nan who organ who broug: t order out of chaos iu Wem | Virginia, fought and muched every day for seven days and placed the army in safety onthe Jam s. Mc Jellan and the man whe made sacred toe soil of Gettysburg with "higsblood, the « ole Haneock., The voice of no Pennsylvanian is raised in defense of her sons | BE WATOHFUL While the d-mocracy rank and file of } are honestly and enth stastically for President '} Or renomination nothing else { would kn f was such w om it that there a thin existence g in | Trusts have grown up and will con : be expec ed from a party which ignores the existence of a conspira- ey against the consumer. The third slark is remarkable it is as follows : “Third. Inasmuch as we have a proved and fortifications in di cay, inadequate public buildings for the purposes of the government, and a navy incapable of commanding the respect due the dignity of a great nation, the democratic administra- tion is responsible for allowing the accumulation of a surplus in the United Btates treasury which should have been appropriated for these | purposes. Excessive revenues can land should be prevented by the re. 1or repeal of it i taxes.” arbor « wy tions in de ay * “and « of commanding the respect due !) nity of a great nalion Wi fession? Aftert unlimited sw ay, of unhb | cal powe woénly hn r of the most pi i i I | penditure of he ] ff they confess t ’ { again be put into pow | | You frave speat millions upon millions unmmp ottr harbors i npoa them, | cations decayed? You have appri jpriated millions upon millions to teem ¥V y have we A navy incapable ! of rr Bathory Clevel tii | tinue to grow up under the present | large debt unpaid, harbors unim. | Why have our fortifi. imanding the respect due a You have expended or appropriated billions of di that arm of warfare arty a ly and at { languis) prescoted industrie i Our AS Was in 1557. manulaciurers a as rule, have higher protection than ly protective tariffs of 1842 and | 1861, but protection bas ceased to | protect because it overtaxes both | labor and raw materials, and there must be relief to our manufacturers to our protective poliey~by | cheapening raw materials and there- ' by cheapening manufactured pro- | ducts and the necessaries of life. If | this is free trade, then was the pres | ent Senator Morrill the positive pro- {tection leader of 1861, a free trader [in 1857, and the practically solid | Republican Senators and Repre. {sentatives of New England were | free traders On ml it even a step in thatdirection the contrary, free wool: free ore Of! the y: ire ume nemp, have hanging coa- absolute industries {rec raw Nat) mm the manufac FREE GRR articles, but fully protecting : wages of home labor; cheapen- ! products; enlarged consumption throad, and cheapened i of life for workingmen, general indus. ion a most vigorous ut ' I 18 we would give the tries ana “ yu N i 1 Viele La) hie pi apeI iy, § weBubrcribe for the Cexrae Dewocnar, ro \s { they had under either of the distinct | monopoly tariff and nc relief can | Free wool is not free trade; nor is! WHO I8 RESPONSIBLE ? If #1: du of more than twenty cent per the cost of woolen fabri to con sumers without reducing wages or legitimate profits of manufacturers, and why shall it not be done ? With free wool, as the Republi can leaders practically made it in the interest of protection and domestic industries in 1857, not only would the consumers of the city save over $2,000,000 per annum and the consumers of the State over | $1,000,000 but labor would be doubly protected by cheapened necessaries of life and by enlarged markets and multiplied demand for industry, while the manufacturer would have full protection and in. creased markets Why shall not these advantages be attained ? | The wool product of Pennsylvan~ ia is steadily declining. It fell off ten per cent, during the last year, nd Hon i " Ss ly in : it is now less th : | au nan ' 3 : al nu Is apr . |to sgriculture, that does not bring | of everlasting immunity from thi | | ™ | fla i 8S SAKE nor Pa wademned Ww the pope's decree resolved to ound abra me rule a been th i pr claimed champioa of the working- i men of America Mr. Carnegic bas 0 ganization ard to cease ing to Peter's pence, > Having acquired The Fountain ners a lions in a few vears by bis ability mi gy and exceptional as " ¥ ¥ 3 5 E } - } The pride of Bellefonte for sev, | MaDsger of steel works, hc has eral years has been the fountain | Made many other large employers erected by the W, C. T. U. where! shudder at his public expressions in man, beast and bird have been {favor of the assertion of labor in wont to quench their thirst on sul. | the direction of great industrial es- try summer days. The fountain tablishmeats; but to-day Mr. Cars stands where once stood ye town | Pegie’s works are run in a slip shod » : : " N ‘ Ba y ¢ pump, an institution beloved of our | Wa) by non-union labor, wr h ' | . i via : 10 fathers and which in the days of our | Protects it against the possih R ia infancy graced the public square, lence of the strikers by Pinkerton’s Over the modern institution pre. riflemen. In is not the American sides an angel with arm outstretch | workingmen who are fear«d; bat it i : N $3 » me ed, blessing the thirsty individoeal | SC€ms that Huns have been while on the base of the pedesta] ployed in the past to cheapen la in beautiful letters is the following | bor; they are ready for violence “Whosoever drinketh | when they see Giner Huns come to ni. take their plac ¢ Ars i tle 1; irst | Me nia | inscription of the water that | shall gis ’ ’ . thirst,” Thi ' L thes 18 upon Mr. ( |a gross return of $500,000 to the | held out by the angel of the foun. | claimed Ad, Abad igrowers, On the pretext of | tecting this chiefly incidental indus. try the people of the State are tax LF for every man, woman and child, Take the woolgrowers of Pennsylvania as a body, and they would make vastly by free wool in the cheapen: ed woolens they consume, Is there reason or justice in such tax. ation ? The necessities of the past have perish d with the past, and the new duty of today is the largest latitude in free raw materials for our manu: facturers, They are paralized by pro- | ed $10,000,000 ] per year, or ’ AUREL last week has | 30d divs . ingmen’? An been a fraud, a suare and a delu- | Drop by drop the precious | tangin by t N fluid trickles down into the cup, but | unanswerable neither man nor beast can muster { the tariff system that y wait for a dering and the enrich employes little sparrows are dying of thirst | ; in the troogh where they used to | below living wages bathe Won't some one turn on | steel manufacturers the water or take off the ins ription. | down to legitimate pros jase questions which wee agitated or explained in ougress, i tain, for the pre sroam Sion. w %' OF cone it do abor « the : weed courage t . sumers and then LH Davio B. Hue Governor ol New York is not only not a candidate for president but he will head They are understood by the great mass of the le, and they are rap dly solviag the proolem of le- delegation to St. Louis in faver of itimate profits for employers and President Cleveland, - itimate wages for workingaen
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