« VOL IL. A a - BELLEFONTE, : PA dhe U Sewn, alent, "oe | LLB TD Pibsl CHAS. R. KURTZ, ~ - EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBBCRIPTION, Regular Price When Paid in Advance 81.00 When subseriptions are not pakl inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. These terms will be strictly adhered to in every case, There arte nearly 230 pending before the Senate, the most of them for There reason why they should not be conmmfirme ed except that the Republicans want to keep the places for Harrison to nil. - Tom Reed, of Maine, is much comfited at the manner in which Blaine is undermining his strength in the Speakership canvass. Blaine postimasters, 8 ti - never forgets or forgives an injury, and noth- | ing is to small for him to undertake in order to get even with people. - SA ys the dan Francisco Alta: “Why raise a religions fuss about spending | £100,000 on an inaugural ball and keep silent about the millions spent in buy- | ing votes? Have the days come again in which it is easier to swallow a camel than to get outside of gnat?”’ - AN amendment giving a bounty of one cent per pound on all sugar pro- | dueed in this country has been added to the Senate tariff bili,but it required a vigorous use of the party whips to bring the Republican Senators into line, and even then Senator Quay voted against it. — A PHILADELPHIA paper remarks that it would be much easier to adopt the proposed prohibitory liquor amendment in Pennsylvania than it would be to elect a Legislature that would pass the necesssary laws for its enforcement. In respect to legislative enforcement of the provisions of the Constitution thie peo. ple of Pennsylvania have already had some rather disagreeable experience. - WEDNESDAY was fixed by the Court | of Schuylkill for the granting of une: tested liquor license. Fow were passed and about fifty laid aside owing to informalities. Many remon- strances were filed against the applica, tions for new stands, and Judge Persh- ing gave his opinion that there were enough old stands in the county and intimat>d that the Court would grant any new applications unless the most convincing proof of necessity wens produced. i= not - Sf Tue Altoona Tribune wisely says that every child in a free State should be taught to read and write. If the par- ents refuse or neglect to do their duty the State should step in and do it for them. No parent who prefers to send his children to a private or a church school should be compelled to patronize the common schools. But he should be forced to send his childrén to some school or provide them with the [rudi. ments of an education. If the State would take a little more interest in the training of its children it would be at less © xpense for the maintenance of jails and almshouses. It comesa good deal cheap- er to put the children in the way of earn. ing an honest living than to make an. nually increasing appropriations for the maintenance of paupers and criminals. This is a fact which American law- makers should be swift to realize and to act on, but so far they seem to be grop- ing in an ignoranee which is prejudicial to the best and highest interest of the eo. shoul read carefully the following ex. tract from an exchange This is a good way to kill a town Raise the rents so that the Sheriff takes aninterest in other peoples business, and in a little while these will be store rooms to rent at almost any figure, As soon as a new business enterprise starts up goes therents on stores and dw ell. ing houses. This result is that working man who create the wealth are made to pay high rents for the priveliege of liv. ing and have but little money left to spend with the merchants who look to big end of the pudding, at the same time “killing the goose that lays the golden egg.” It is not much wonder that the establishment of nd ie by people generally take so little interes business nestion, new the nominations hundred | 0 VOTE AGAINST LIQUOR. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS DECLDES ON JUNE i ISTH ASTHE DAY. PA Sqanbhilo Over the “Good Faith” 1dede- The Question to be submiited to a Special Eleetiou-—N nator Coupes migniileant sireci. ' ile Prope A tits Commonwealth will roland onstitutional wend of the 18th of next June, if ibaiil in epublican joint obeyed, wah cages of the senate tin caucus the latter ron Wedn ’ I SRSRI 39 C8 f chub no | indulged in at ate debate as tothe Lime of people and as to whethor Lie party was ing the regard its intentions The tenor of that whether members indi- there at the Quay, had | determined to carry through to the end { Prohibition movement, | thespee or not the nes uttered showed senators and vidually favored the question, could be no doubt that the party, f i { earne it. advice of Leader {of the pledges that they made three | years ago that the people should have a : i chance t to vote on the liquor question. ALL ABOUT “GOOD FAITH.” i Prominent in the caucus the the way, | 1s losing its bright auburn hue, and was | urbane Cooper, whose hair, by { when he arose he smiled benignly upon { Chairman Harry Hall, and resolution ! read this tesolved, That the Republican mem- bers of the legislature, in joint caucus | assembled, pledge themselves to submit in good faith the Prohibition amend. ment to the constitution to a vote of the people. He had anticipated the passage of the resolution without friction smile faded away : ; hence his id looked a bit glum when Senator Grady arose and moved to strike out the words, “good faith.” The “good faith” idea then became rampant. { Chairman Hall had mentioned it in his i speech ;: Cooper had it in his resolution. essary and as reflecting, by implication, veloped that it was quite = j obstructing mountain I ul spe iY Ge liber Lhe Calin Al | ations of the stuck to th ! declared that aeciarea tha i CHIC us, Senator Cooper words, and frankly there were more ways than the Then Senator Grady { asseverated that-he had to very one by whi { show bad faith. cone | eancus in “good faith" and it to the self-respect of the party that the words should be stricken out of the resolution. Thus they argued and it looked for a little time as though the wrangle might me quite for | midable, when Dr. Walk, of Philadel- phia, poured oil upon the waters by sug- gesting that the words “good faith” be stricken out and the words “in confor mity with the pledges of our party” be bees the resolution was then adopted without a dissenting vote. over this resolution, offered by Senator Delamater, of Crawford : lesolved, That the chairman of the caucus Sphoint a committee of two members of the senate and three mem. bers of the house to prepare a bill to pro- vide for the conduct of a special election at which the prohibition amendment is to be submitted to a vote of the people, which election shall be held June 18, 1889, This resolution was framed and phrased in strict accordance with Sena- tor Quay’s directions ; and for a few minutes it looked as though it would pass without discussion. But Senator Newmyer broke the silence by declar- ing that he thought it would be better to have the amendment voted upon at a general election. Maefarlane, of Phila. delphia, asserted that the caucus should fix a date for aspecial election ; and then quite a colloquy occurred between New- meyer, Delamater, Macfarlane and Dearden. There was by this time a palpable fear that there might be another squabble precipitated, a fact which Senator Cooper noticed with growing nervousness, Finally when he thought the talk had gone far enough he arose and made an elaborate speech, in favor of the resolution. In the course of his remarks he sald : “Mr. President. U the Re Mica purty 10 the Tatars and it may be wise bring that future as close as possible. 1 will examine a aday of last week and | submitting the question to the | upon the honor of the party, it was de | Repul licans could | that | was dae | Republican | passed away. Sabsequent history, how- ever, proves that the party in both those states at thelr recent elections redeemed its past historic majority. What the Republican party onght todo when the question of high license is to command the improved temperament of the people of Pennsylvania is to submit the ques- tion to a vote of the people regardless of party interests,” That speech settled the matter, and the resolution was passed with only Mr, Newmeyer's vote against it. Chairman { Hall then appointed Senators Delumater { and Cooperand Representatives Stewart, | Dravo and Lytle as the committee to {preparea bill in accordanee with the | resolution. i hs ——; | A POSSIBLE EXTRA SESSION, i What Will be Neeossary if the Prohibition Amendmecrt is adopted. The Republican leaders of the senate and house of representaives have about decided that it would be necessary for them to make some provision for the calling of a special session of the legis- amendment to the constitution being adopted by the people. There is excellent { authority for the statement that they have been several conferences of leading Republicans upon this question. The result of these consultations is a decision | upon the part of the Republicans to in. | troduce in the house a bill authonzing | the governor to call a special session of | the legislature if a majority of the peo- | ple vote in favor of the prohibition am. | endment on June 18. This bill is now | peing prepared. It may be offered in the house next week orat she very latest | during the week following. In addit tion to the providing for the call of a special session, the bill will also havea section to the effect that all licenses that may have been granted prior to the adoption of the amendment by the peo. ple shall continue in force until the ex. i | | issued, .——— GRANTS, The new Immigration bill reported to | Congress proposes to exclude as danger | ous all “Anarchists” and “Socialists * | This is doubtless very well meant, it would be interesting to lear species of inquisition immig: ald { at howe or abroad din sort of contraband ide carry under his hat It is quite true that most { honestly entertain opinions in i ! + { Ing | honest to deny then, | Government government and society, however in orthodoxy, are gene: But to se lature in the event of the prohibition | i IA PROPOSED NEW TEST FOR IMMI. and when Grady objected to it as unnec- | i | ers 822 000.000 annually. { ted to say that every dollar of the duty | | on the duty on | into the Treasury for the support of the | Government, for paving pensions and | his benevolent regard for taxpayers in { tin-plates? piration of the time for which their were | { be to deprive the Treasury of 5.000.000 {or $6,000,000 of annual revenue, and to but | t ups | cinsorship]i over immi. | ; grants and to deny them the privilege of { landing on these sheres because of some | abstract doctrines of government and | polity they might smuggle in with them { In the same spirit Louis XIV and the A to substituted, which was agreed to, and | smacksof intolerance and proscription. | ! widow of Scarron banished the Hugue. | as in | hatred of their heretical opinions, these {the belief that people holding opinions could not be true subjects of the realm. Many a man might be an Anarchist in Russia when goaded to madness by ime perial despotism, or a Socialist in Ger. many when contemplating its semi.nili- tary, semi-socialistic system of govern. ment, Yet the same man, upon his set- tlement in the United States, would be likely to be converted into a good citizen under the influence of free institutions. “anarchy” should never frighten the people of this great country into a cow. ardly abandonment of the liberal princi. ples upon which thelr Government is founded,— Record, In granting the liquor licenses of Clinton county Judge Meyer said that proprietors of hotels in the coanty should understand that from now on no females should be admitted to their bar rooms, whether alone or with male escort, and that all barsrooms in the county must bo closed at 12 o'clock every night in the week, ‘Any violation of this will be attended by the revocation of the licenses by the court of its own motion, A Tioga county teacher who had nsked a girl to purchase a grammar, received the following from the girl's mother : “I do not desire that Mattie shall engage in grammar, as I prefer her to engage in more studies and can learn her to write and speak proper myself. I have went th three grammars, and can't war they id me no good, Tprefer Mattie to engage bn German of draw in’ or vokal ic an. the plana. " Li} MRRCS : : : Then there arose another discussion | hots from France ; not so much from | it { committee, will escape punishment for | They know nothing of political creeds, i | jugy on Tuesday said “the mere send. { servation, and from their point i ! | mument containing advice to bribe vot- | more wisdom and intellectual training | : : : SUGAR BOUNTIES AND rial Nothing more clearly betrays the apirit\ animates the majority of the United States Senate than the scheme to put a bounty on sugar and the proposition to double the bounty on tin-plate, It is plain that the educational work of the last campaign has been uiterly lost on most of the Republican leaders of that body. The solitary Republican vote of Senator Quay against the sugar bounty represents a sentiment of hostility which exists in the Republican party to such a measure while the vote of Senator Payne in favor of the bounty is typical of the reactionary spirit that still ling. ers here and there ln the Democratic party. In defending his bounty scheme Sen. ator Allison dwelt on the example of the sugar producing countries of Europe, in the face of the fact that nearly every one of those countries bas already enter- ad into the treaty arrangement for ab- andoning this policy. The ment sof Germany, Austria, Hungary and other sugar producing lands confess that the effect of the bounty system is to tax their own people for the sake of supplying foreign consumers with cheap sugar, and at the same time to drain their public treasuries. Yet Senator Allison quotes the exatople of these na. tions against the recorded results of their OWE experience, Senator Allison tells us that the re. duction of the sugar duties coupled with Govern. this bounty scheme would save consum. Y et he omit. sugar now reseived goes for reducing the public debt. Where is his ammendment to double the duty on The effect of this ammend- ment, if it should become a law, would w amount into the pockets of the of a manofacturing ittsburg. put ti members ingle firm in P So long the Government needed urce the tax upon bad its necesssity, | SCal measure the public Hurry ry. to many | But tx | would take the | asury and put it ury of Henry W. | iales, Why not | r. John Jarrett a | w United States iriching them by at the expense of | If the support let ng with the sagar pro- nd take their bounty in forma from the Treasury ab Washing. Record, I interests? them, .—— DUDLEY" CANE The probability is that W. W, Dudley | reasurer of the Republican national | the famous part he took in the bribing | of voters in Indiana during the recent | CRImMpaign. Judge Woods in charging the grand | ing by one to another of a letter or doe- | ers, or setting forth a scheme for such | | bribery, however bold and reprehensible | men to accent the belief that power is is not indictable. There must be shown lin addtion, an attempt by the receiver | moreintelligent, educated and well-to-do Apart from the tmpracticability of the of the letter, or of someother instigated | Degrees are naturally in sympathy with attempt to exercise an inquisition over | by him, to execute the scheme by brib- | their mee. Aside froma that, the more abstract opinions, the scarecrow of | ry, or attempt to bribe, some voters in | respect to the election of Congressman, | or in such a way as to affect such elec. | tion.” ! This construction of the law by Judge Woods will no doubt save Dudley from | state prison, but the fact remains that | the “floater” letter was written by him. | He ought to be despised by every decent person in the country for such men as he are enemies of honest government, honest men and honest measures, .-——— PROMIBITORY AMENDMENT, The amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors has been favorably reported from the committee to which it was referred and will come up for final consideration in the house early next week. There is no doubt of its passage by the legislature, and speculation has been directed toward the probable action of the people who will likely vote on the question at a special election to be held | some. of the most sudden and | The statement of the event must carry | asserted its power | legal rights and position | farm and day | perceptible removed from actual barbar- | which is the unre: repressible negro He enmaw know who will direct that vote or » ceive its power in municipal, State ws district politics, Lit he knows 1h The Yan to Wham G ners] Harrison Ap chances will always favor the moet a | serupnlous, cunning and reckless ed {the man who will promise Most 1e people unable to measure promises, =. nder most diligently to jee here they are most easily arowss| violent demagogue ean garry with him hosts of your thinking, self-respecting Nori a g people, what can be not uo material as he will have to there ¥ Let it be remember A is is not theory. In some 1. tw i the South the governments pes the solid negro vote in a short tin { up bonded debts, for which Len no occasion or actaal return, wh. 2a will not finish paying in treaty wera | in some militia companies, fully wras and equipped, were composed enbae of negroes, subject to be inflamed te +» atrocity by accident or design, ines pais {of understanding the results of Lei own acts, no more fit to be rusted wa | weapous than so many children. Ther | are serious facts and considerations wii They invels ouing, ignorant, 5 » vote, WHITE VS. BLACK. THE SITUATION OF AFFAIRS IN THE HOUT [illiams, an editorof Greeville, inn, was asked by General 4s to the best | a sued in the Southern rof Mr Willisms® re. from the following kh recently appears Routh Ca Harrison {0 policy to be States. The te ply may be infer communication, w ed in Harpers Week You recently printe honor to receive from Harrison, and spoke brief} cations that letter gave of € be used in the Southern Stat next administration. I ask of opportunity to put before the thoughtful among whem whic are he advice py Jetter I had the and conservative peopl your journal goes some facts generally unknown or forgotten, There is a an abnormal, unusual political condition, “Southern situation” demanding from statesmanship political methods different from those used in other parts of the cenntry where Wise | the Southern white man. | his business, histax rates, the devel ment of his country, and the peace wn safety of his family. They not only bee, tepublican jrsrts { they keep him inside the Demsociuis organization as the one power betwen | his State and black rule, and make Lie | as much the servant of that engauis.«f ioe, {and as prompt and zealous in soliea with it, as utterly debarred fiom tse with it conviction that it left distortions | 40m of thought and act, as if he was on the surface and dangers beneath it, | oidier of an army marching through « as surely as a voleanic explosion must leave earth eracks above and heat be | low. More by the teachings of instinct and the guidance of nature than by definite plancor with purpose, the South- natural and whole. The South was the the conditions ar scene of one violent revolu. Within five rich and arrogant people was made poor and beaten, and tions in history. years a | him away from the millions of men who had been held by those people as slaves were made freemen and voters and the political ruders of their former masters. The white people and the Deus | of the South are as eager asany Su { reljef of the situation, and for Lares from the strain of keeping the =»: vote down, and the fear of haw... again control and force blight sed country, Our condition for the Republic or #= ern people bave {o a degree restored the The | whites, owners of the soil and property lon the f freedom 1 wholesoue amd the | .o States and individuals, Sep represent- | the white wen stay away {rom the &« ing only musenlar labor, and descend. | \ : wy " | eral boxes aud allow the black bail « barbarism and i is { the population (0 send the Represcas. Hevedity has | conditions so violently reversed. descendants of generations « and civilization, rule, negroes, newly freed slaves, again ants of generations of slavery, are again ruined. A cabs : tives now sent by the white hall, ws that improve the position? No gues can giveassurance that the black we would be confined to the Federal bone | If there could be such an assurance | believe two-thirds of the whites wes | be glad to barter their rightsol pepaes | tation in the Federal Governmeast 54 { undispoted control of their Stads., counties and cities, for the pore other people have to divide away I | themselves on questions of local pei ism. They are all Republicans. They | a4 the personal position of the w ris believe the Republican party made them | 00 oy as light to those who thal | free ; they know the little lease of polit- | 0 wpe. 0: i0t as it is here presesied, 1. ical power that they had was under the | ooo 00 ve the information the 1 patronage of the Republica party, and | am the editor of a Soulih Caroling, ass i dr only . ] ; that in that party is their uly hope of | paper and a Der t, | diovitg. whlk. return to power. They also know that | the Democratic pariy and in its : the white men who fought so keep them | prineiple and theory, and loving # in slavery, and who have taken their | hoping to vote Alwaysin the feluse, 3o power from them, are called Democrats, | always in the past a straight Dassociad x | ballot, As love and believe in the Bless. cratic party, I lowe and beliove in the Republic and its people, and in ww they see and know within their own ob. | heart there is An earnest, enduring Tu of view | that the American people, ab the vis time and in the right way, will Sad sed use the solutionof the problem pores. ol to them hove, as they have solvedhisle Cmany dangerens and puzding guests which they have had to consider in 3» past, and will dispose of these tameihs wisely and justly. 1 have writ lsnwith highly developed the colored man isthe | the hope of humbly helping to Shat vw! mote bitterly he must chafe unde the bY directing public thought to. the tes stuictions put upon him by the envelop. facts that (1) there is a distinctio wi Beaman i | “Southern situation,” and (D)4hat it & ing conditions, Every hour in the day | : wl not to Le dealt with or disposed of by » he has to realize that he is thought of as infos . hi he | Single expedient or plan devised snd an inferior by the poorest white man he : a § u ecuted off hand, and will dommes care weets, Merchandise, independenst man. dad " wl afacture, law and medicine. are closed | S00Y, mature “hought, patience against him, because the patronage of mutual forbearance, that ght may = i al his own race 1s rarely enough Ww sapport | done onal Sides, a him in any of them. His secial life is | These two races are on the same terri peop, in all respects tory, nominally the same with equal, with the color line dividing them v. The mass of the negro race in the South is composed of intelli- gence varies over a scale from that of politically and soci laborers, whose the average white ms chanie to a barely principles, and platforms, or the charact ers or purposes of candidages, and care nothing for them. They reason by what they reason properly andiwisely, Much than they have is required to induce somedimes a curse to its possesor. The him, or to the very small circle of his | stabie Ira Hall, armed with & serra, race equal to him in acquirements. Hig | started for North Bead with a homseanit resentinent against the race holding | buggy to Ming up lis prisoner, a Indy itself above him, and keeping himdown of that place, for a hearing eles to rise, intensifies the tendency created | destination safe, got his by instinct and stand with the color, to started back : the lady look to it and to the Republican party | lines and upset the v for the fulfillment of his hopes and aun | S¢ BOI THE, ENC JURCH bitions, wiser ean, How is it with the white man? He Ee List of unclaimed letters. ey on the 18th of June, Then comes the tug of war, Verily the question “How will you vote!” is near at hand, © yet if he vols | | weber of the Repuldions party : South, he is part of aid : We learn (rom the Bosovo Daedly Dem. confined to those he feels to be beneath | ocrat that on Thursday aftersoon Can. while he feels the power and the impulse | Squire Colestock. He wrrived at hs
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