BE HP rn tet. « nire — 1. (t] it3 % a 4 BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY al, 188K. NO. Ad The Ceutee 3 emoceat, I THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. CHAS. R. KURTZ, ~ -~ = EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price $1.50 per year, When Paid in Advance $1.00 When subscriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. These terms will be strictly adhered to in every case. Mifflin county, is shipping walnut logs to Europe. sii ——————— It is reported that the Pennsylvania railroad has taken up the fight for the Grangers’ beef bill. Those who are sup- posed to be representing the railroad say the company can transport cattle with much more profit than dressed beef, and the company is therefore interested in the passage of the measure shutting out the Chicago dressed beef people. Tie Maine farmers are making des perate efforts in the Legislature to effect the repeal of that clause in the liquor law which prohibits the manufacture of the juice of the apple. This is a pointer for our own Legislators. Is the cider clause to go into our own law ? If 80, what are the farmers todo with their surplus of apples. Then again, there is any amount of solid headache in a gallon of hard cider. — ExsexATor William A. Wallace is reported, as saying in Washington a few days ago: *‘I am dowa here on private business,” he said to-night. **There is no politics in my business. Iam out of pol- iticsand I mean to stay out. I am not making it a business to correct news- paper surmises, and for that reason I have not denied the story heretofore that I will re-enter politics. I propose to devote my time to business interests, If I were cotemplating a return to pel- itical life this would be a very inoppor- tune time on threshold of a Republican administration. I am not going into polities, but I am still 8 Democrat.” eg KaAxsasrolls up the biggest Republic can majority of any of the states, while Texas the next State south, rolls up the biggest Democratic majority. Kansas has a state debt of 8800,000, while Texas hasa surplus in her treasury of $1,000,000 Kansas has the poorest school system of any of the states, while Texas ranks only second in its number of institutions of learning to any of the States of the Union. Wages in Kansas average #16” 50 per month. Wages in Texas average #27 20 per month. Is there any moral to be drawn from a comparison of the two states ¥ There certainly is. It means that a free, liberal, and enlightened gov- ernment has made of Texas,a prosperous, happy and intelligent State. It means also that Kansas, like Towa, is pressed to the earth with a load of debt and that its government like Iowa's also, is administered by a set of bigoted, puritanical cranks. ATTORNEY GENERAL KIRKPATRICK has published an opinion endorsing the construction of the law by Superintend- ent Higbee, p ying teachers for their time while attending the County Teachers’ institute. The substance of the opinion is that teachers are entitled to compensation for Institute attendance in addition to their regular wages, ac cording to their perdiem pay for actual pay, but compensation as authorized by the act of Assembly cannot lawfully ex. ceed #2 a day, which is the maximum allowance provided by the Act, The time of attendance cannot be reported and credited as part of the 20 days’ actual teaching required to constitute a school month, but in addition thereto. Teachers who are employed forthe current term, but who have not begun teaching, are tobe paid by the district employing them, for their time attending the In- stitute, the same as teachers whose schools are in operation. ————— AIA “News venders, recorders, reporters, bidtasians, mbmionation WS 468 by vocu. pation—and citizens equal, alienable rights of our fellow.citizens, and none have broader opportunities or brighter encouragement to industrious usefulness than we. What more and better we may become than writers and printers and salesmen of current events; what happy deeds we may join to the words that we weave in the fashions that Je ous build don what yart tnay To ours In the ucts. that, Sowevet i | NEWS ITEMS AS GATHERED BY OUR CORRESPONDENT. Wil We Have War With Germany Cleve. lands Topuinrily— Republicans Want a Tarif¥ Compromise, “Is there really danger of a war with Gertaany ?" 1 asked one of the leading members of the House Committee on Foreign Aflairs. is," was the reply given in a very thoughtful, deliberate tone. “Do you think that Secretary Bayard is in any of affairs 7" I then asked, “No, most decidedly I donot. On the contrary I think he has managed the know he will have to give way shortly to Blaine that causes me to believe there is danger of a war between the United States and Gemany.” “Can you give me vour ideas, in a nut shell, of this whole Samoan diffi. culty *» “Yes ina very few words, Germany covetous eyes on the Samoan island, And with Bismark to want is to get or to try to get, so that he has for a long time been quietly working to establish a German protectorate over these islands, and things have now reached a stage when he is prepared if necessary to fight for them if he cannot gan his point through diplomacy. Ifthe United States is to defeat him through diplomacy, it is absolutely necessary that we should have the assistance of England, and with Blaine Secretary of State I do not believe that is possible. Nor is it possi. ble for the United States to stop Germany by force unless we can get at least six months time to prepare anavy. If war should be declared in sixty days it would be disastrous to the United States. That is why I view the situation with alarm.’ The Senate has passed its tariff bill, it has been sent to the House and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and Mr. Mills and other prominent Democratic membegs of that Committee have been promised that it should be re. ported back to the House at an early day so as to give that body an opportu- nity of voting upon it. A notable feature of the debate in the House attendant upon its reference to committee was the speech of Mr. Me- Kinley, of Ohio, who is believed to rep. resent the views of Gen, Harrison. He made an appeal to the Democrats to re- lieve the present situation by agreeing to some sort of a compromise which will reduce the Treasury surplus by thirty or forty millions of dollars. What effect this appeal will have is of course at this time a matter of conjecture, but there are many Democrats who believe that a compromise will be effected whereby a bill that will meet the approval of the most conservative members of both parties will be agreed to, If an agree ment is reached it is probable that the most of the reduction will come from the internal revenue. The sudden death of Representative Burnesof Missouri, on Thursday morn. ing caused an adjournment of the House, which prevented a vote being taken on the Oklahoma bill that day as had been previously agreed upon by vote of the House. An attempt will be made to get it up this week, and if that fails it will be called up next Monday under a sus. pe the rules, As 1 of the present administra” tion draws nearer the popularity of Mrs. Cleveland seems to increase, if that were possible, Saturday afternoon, not. withstanding a disagreeable rainstorm, nearly two thousand people attended her publie reception, The sixth candidate for Public Printer under Harrison has made his appear ance in this city. Representative Butterworth, who it is sald, expects to be the next Governor of Ohio, made a speech in the House last week bitterly arraigning the Knights of Labor for their manner of doing things. The speech was the political sensation of the present session, and everybody is talking about its probable effect upon his political future. Senator Beck's absence from the Sen- ate has been felt by both sides of the Chamber, and especialy during the de. bate on the tariff bill. On this subject “Yes. [| think there | way to blame for the present condition | matter very ably, and it isonly because I | for some years has, for both commercial | and political reasons, been looking with | IN OTHER COUNTIES, | Clearfield county people have $1,468, {882 in bonds, mortgages, money and judgments, Clearfield county claims a population {of 75,151, based on the assessor's returns of 1888, The Clearfield Public Spirit has com- | pleted the first year of its existence under | the present management. It is an ex- cellent paper. Albert Baum, son of Jonas Baum was | accidently Killed near Westover, Clear. field county on the 21st, by a tree falling: The new Reformed church at Markles” burg, Huntingdon county, has been com. { pleted. It cost £5,000 and will be dedi. | cated on Sunday February 17. | Dr. E. J. Miller, of West Providence | township, Bedford county, is the owner {of a Jersey calf that has two tails. It is { well armed against fly time, | The saw mill owned by the Clearfield { lumber company, limited, and W, A, { Hoover & Co., was burned Wednesday | last with 81,000 shingles. Loss, 84.500; in. | surance, 21,500. On the night of the 15th inst. about | sixty pounds of honey were stolen from {from a bee scap belonging to Stewart | Foster, of Henderson township, Hun. | tingdon county, and on a subsequent | night 100 pounds more were abstracted, Forty-five persons have professed con. version during the revival at Alexandria, Huutingdon county, under the ministry of Rev, C. T. Dunning, of the Methodist Episcopal church. Jacob Stayrook, of Bratton township, Mifflin county, while cutting wood in the mountains recently, attempted to cut a limb with an ax in his right hand, when the axe glanced and struck his left arm, nearly severing it. At the re-union of the old boatmen recently held in Liverpool, Perry county, alist of seventeen boatmen was read who had died during the vear 188%, Mrs, Jarob Grove, of Walker town ship, Huntingdon county, gave birth to twin babies last week : these added to the already large family makes seventeen, Samuel Flegal, of Moris township, Clearfield county, was kille1 ‘ust Wal. nesday while walking on the track of the Beech Creek railroad. He was a highly respected farmer The Dauncannon nail mill, recently de. stroyed by fire, has partially resumed op. erations. Fifteen new machines have been put in, and by spring it is expected the works will be restored to their former capacity. A few days age a tramp entere! tle residence of Elijah Marsh, about a mile east of Ebensburg, during the absence of Mr.and Mrs. Marsh, and abused the children in a beastly manner. Mr. March subsequently, pursued the tramp and gave him a sound drabbing Geo. W. Shenefelt, while working in Jacob Hammon's ore bank in Cromwel] township, Huntingdon county, on the 19th inst., had a leg broken by the ore cars laden with lumber jumping the track and throwing the lumber upon him. Rev J. Max Lantz, while returning from a wed ding at Lewistown Junction a few nigats ago, his horse took fright, upsetting the buggy and throwing Mr. Lantz out. He was dragged some dist. ance, but escaped with a bad shake up and a sprained ankle, In considering the 109 ations for licdhse in Clearfield county, the court groumd out this grist: Granted-—Hotels 49; restaurants, 4; breweries, 3; distillery, 1. Refused—Hotels, 21; restaurants, 2; wholesale, 6, While the family of Mr. H. L. Miller, of Houtadale, were sitting around the table reading, on last Saturday night, street. She was 50 badly burned that she expired in a few moments, ville yards, was struk by a coal train on Wednesday night and instantly killed, He waa so terribly cut np as to be almost there is no abler man in either House of | place, RESPECT THE FLAG, It is not worth while to discuss all the vagaries that find expression 1 the bills proposed in the Legislature, but some. times these foolish bills become enacted into laws and do no end of mischief simply because no one has had the fore. thought or the courage to oppose them, Such a one is that which passed toa third reading in the House providing that the flag of the United States shall float above every public school in the Commonwealth. At first sight this may appear simply a plece of harmless patriotic sentiment. A little reflection will show that it is not only foolish, but mistaken. Those whose memory will go back to the time “before the war” can recall how in their youth the sight of the Unit. ed States flag floating from a fort or arsenal aroused a sentiment that it no longer has power to produce, now that the proud ensign has become the com, mon adornment of every shop and build- ing and the medium of every kind of ad. vertising. One must now go abroad, to Some part of the world where the flag is seldom seen, to feel again the pride and elation that the national symbol only can excite when its appearance is felt to have a significance. For aflag is nothing if not a symbol and the common use of the stars and and stripes, upon every or upon no oc. casion, and without reference to the savereign ty it symbolizeshas cheapened its effect and obscured its real signifi. cance, Ifit Is used without meaning it is used unworthily: if it is ment to have a meaning in this common use, it must be to extend the jurisdiction of the United States far beyond the purpose of the Constitution. It is the business of the public schools to teach, and especially to teach the principles and nature of American in. stitutions. Tee flag is the symbol of the Federal Union, of a government of resrulated powers whose greatest strength and title to respect is in its elear restric. tion to the powers committed to it for the common defense and welfare. It isn sovereignty that does not deal di Testly with the Individual and that is 1 the more honored becanse it stands apart frome the dally concerns of local government. This power through which we present a united front to the world is fitly typified hy the flag that floats above our ships, above the forts and arsenals. the Mint and other depositor. les of the Federal power. But the Government of the United States has not and onght not to have anything to do with our pubdie schools, The foundations of our free instititu. tions is in local self-government. Our public school system is indissolubly knit up with the right and duty of the peo ple to control their own local affairs and the scheme of putting it under Fed. eral control or patronage would be its destruction. This is what makes the measure pending in the House import. ant. If the United States flag above the school house is merely a piece of sentiment, it wonld much better be left to the individual school boards It is designed as an assertion of Federal au. thority over the schools, it is to be fought to the uttermost by every friend of ed, ucation, of every friend popular govern, ment, every friend of the Constitution of the United States, The flag of our country is too sacred a thing to be used without meaning or without respect. Our school system is too important to be trifled with and its influence too great for us to allow it to be made the medium of propagating political ‘fallacies and misconception, This is not a question of disputed doc. trine, for every intelligent man in Penn. sylvania, whether Federalist or Demo, erat, will view the matter alike if he will but give aserious thought. This is all that the members of the House are asked to do. If they will but eonsider the pending measure carefully they wily not fail to vote it down, both for the honor of Pennsylvania and for the hon. or of the flag. Times. API ML \EE SPEECH COLUMN. THE DISCUSSION OF ALL \ QUESTIONS. RT OPEN YOR We Boll ve in ¥ All Buljeets, | Want Prohibition, [As the Prohibition 3 mitted to the people for It just that both sides open the columns of the R purpose, All communicati signed and sent not later thi next week's Issue, 1000 words ticles. —Ep.} The following article ta ken'Crom the North American Review was habded us for publication. Next week an article on “Personal Rights and Liberty will appear in same column. be Heard: Do ow, i will be ab pit of all ar. Whether it be right or wrong, per se to buy or sell intoxicating liquor, is a ques, tion which loses its interest to me in the face of the acknowledged and appall. ing evils with which the liquor traffie confronts us. It is not easy to exaggerate these evils, even if this were possible. There Is not 4 single channel through which such depths of misery flow over the human race as through this. No ravages of disease, no devastation of nature, no kind of vice or crime work so much woe as this. Such a statement no intelligent person will be likely to doubt, and no honest one to deny, The liquor traffic is responsible for four-fifths of our poverty, seven-eighth of our erim® and for a proportion of our disease, and wrong—tosay nothing of taxation, which makes every other evil almost insignifi- cant. Now, it is undoubtedly true that all these evils have a moral source. They root themselves in the choices of free will. They would all disappear if the moral purpose of man's life were set upon virtue. And it is equally true that virtuous purpose must be free. Noman is made virtious by compulsion. His virtue is not put upon him or placed within him, save as he himself orrigin. ates it in his own choice. Ihave no dis. pute, therefore with one who tells me that the law is not sufficient for virtue. I know very well that good laws tio aot make goodness. Evil remains in the human heart and in society under the best laws. But itisa prodigious mis take, therefore, to argue against all con- straint of human conduct except by moral means. One ignores the actual facts of human nature who denies the necessity of physical coercion among men. If the Infant Hercules could strangle the serpent in his cradle, un. puwmbered other infants, with a genuine life, would be strangled by the monster unless he were kept from creeping upon them by a power stronger than he. While we would do everything we can to bring men to control their appetites by their own self-mastery, Jet us not ignore the need, or renounce the privilege, or throw away the power we have of helping thein, by all means, to this self. control. Inthe present condition of the world we may not adjust our laws to the resources of the actual heroes, and forget the requirements of the possible ones. Most persons, however, admit that men, as they are, cannot be governed without force, and that the lignortrafiic needs to be regulated by law. The Western Liquor Dealers and Manufact- ures’ Protective Association not long ago expressed itself as decidedly con. vineed of such a need. The question, therefore, relating to the liquor traffic, is not between law and no law, but be. tween one kind of law and another. Awd, practically, the progress of discus sion has narrowed us down to the ques tion, whether we should license the | trafic, or prohibit it. : Now, I compare all possible good which may come from the trafic with its actual evils, and the preponderance of the evil is %0 enormous that any con. ceivable gain is obliterated by the over whelming loss. 1 therefore disregard the gain ~questionable at the best,— and, addressing myself to the enormity of the loss, I would do my utmost to re pnd Falr Discussion of | abolition of places where the liquor is sold, yather than their reduction, is whay we need, anid ought to seek. we sed high or low, takes sway iat ought to be, aud, in a healthy com fhuunity, would be, an important mos restriction, from the seller. It removes from him the condemnation of the cour munity, and justifies him, It makes Lis act legal. His morn] sense, easily bloc? by the gigantic proiits of his tad thus paralyzed. He becomes thus, wis we find him to be, obdurate, rapacas | an evil man and reducer, whe wastes worse and worse. 1 do not wish Lo co. demn him,or any man, but I do wi know of any trade so demoralizi wv t the trader—any class of sales wb does the seller so much moral mischi? + as that in intoxicating drinks. Awe w this damage the community contsibutes by licensing him iu his trade. 3. To license the liquor teaflic on tle view that the enormity of its evils can be thus regulated. —impossible, as ex- perience has thus far shown thiste be.- to sanction the opening of its fleodgah » of woe on the pretense that to keepthess shut is to infringe upon the liberty which a wise government should ever gua, is not only, as it secs to me, the ea siavement of the multitude forthe foes. dom of the few, —an attempt whose m- sult is likely to be the bondage of ali, but it makes the commumily tsell « party to wrong doing. Thiscannot be done withont lowering its own smu! tone. 4. The revenue from license fal. heaviest where the burden ougid to bv the least. The cost of the license, wid - it may add to the price of the ligm sold, does not, so far as I can lesrm, &- minish the amount of the liquor boug! 2 and consumed. Practically, the costs ~ liquor within the limits whichany iw ~ is likely to put, seems to have ltth 106 with the consumption. Amn interns se man is not likely to drink more be. wes it is cheap, nor less because it is lw The difference between hove ors + . glass and four makes no apprecisld - 4 _ ference with him. But thefamily « i drunkard ! Alas! alas! the goa w- enues for high license, the enone taxes on intoxicating drinks are w rus from the wretchedness of worse thas widowed wives and worse than oglu! children. The presence of the prohibitory ye ty in our national politics is in ted =» moral education. I hold that the en 2 seeks is wise statesmanship asd sow. ethics, and while I do not asticipete «+ » immediate victory from the use of ¥ » weapon, nor an ultimate victory, if »» do not employ other weapons sie: while I do not believe that Prohil min alone will stop thesale of strong @rist any more than it will stop the contin ance of gambling, 01 of theft, or of 34% other crime, believing, with Mr. Ghd. stone, that “it is the® duty of Gove ment to make it as hard as possilie Sou a man to go wrong, and aSeREy as puss - ble for him to go right.” . Junivs H. Semiyis. ted em— A Personally-Conducted Tour te Fi side ups Pennsylvania Rallrosd. Following up the policy 30 sucoessinl. ly inaugurated last winter, the Fess. sylvania Railroad Company snnesmes-. that a seriesof tours will be arrupgw! this season for points in Florida sw Georgia, The first is fixed for Monde January 28th, On that date a speeni train of Pullman drawin g-room sh eping - cars, under the superin tendence of the Tourist Agent and Cha peron, will kare New York 6.30 P. M., Newark «09, Elizabeth 7.08, Trenton 85.06, Philadel | phia 9.20, Wilmington 10.04, Raltimme 11.40, Washington 12.50 A. M., and run through via the Atlantic C cast Line to Jacksonville and Thomasville, srriving at the former in the morning and the latter parly in the afternoon of the secon! day. The round-trip tickets, which will admit of a two weeks visit in the South, including Pullman ac c ommodationssnd meals en route in both directions, willbe sold from New York at 45.00, Philadel. phia, 846.00, and at rates in proportion from the other nrincipal stations on the and Jacksonville are the same, but the system. The rates to both Themsaville
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