} Va % The 1 i. VOL IL BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1889. NO. 7. The Genre Denacrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, ~ ~ ~- EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price $1.30 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. ————————————. 5 An A A AA —————— Pemocratic County Committees, 1889, ven send, M. Bower JFatrick Garrety Joseph W. Gross J. W. McCormick veeeennne ML, 1 Gardore J. Willis Weaver CC, W. Hartiaan weed. DD, Ritter Bellefonte, N. W. " 8S. W. “ WW, W.. Centre Hall Borough... Howard Borough Milesburg Borough. Miltheim Borough. Philipsburg, 1st W.. u J. Bly Lesantigy ween Philip Conrer hiusomms T. F. Adams wee H. LL. Barnhart weseDaniel Grove wenn ses Ts 8. Delon ohn T. MeCormie FP. Samuel Harpster Jr. wensssvar sumac sone. 000, B, Crawford EN. Poss weinssnness of . C. ROSsman Haines, BE. P... J. A. Bowersox “xr J, A. Weaver «Wm. Balley 0. C. Meyer ~ Franklin Dietz ceed ORD Q. Miles «Jr. W. Herrin PORN ce rcnsivnsesn Potter, N.P.. «.Fatrick Kelly R. J. Haynes, Jr «J. N. Brooks Wm. T. Hoover Aaron Fahr wed. H. McCauley Levi Reese WM. C. HEINLE, Chairman. a Talegislature could do many worse things than the adoption of a law provid- ing for compulsory education. Tue New York Herald estimates . that the recent strike of the car drivers cost New York nearly a half million dol- lars of which the loss to the men in wages was nearly $70,000. Ex-Senator Thurman's health con. tinues good, and he admits that it was far better for him personally that he was not forced to reenter public life. He eats well. sleeps soundly and digests his dinners easily. Ir the rumor that President Cleve- land will resume the practice of law in New York city be true, Gotham ought to feel proud. In Grover Cleveland New York will have one of the brainiest and most fearless men in the country, THE contract price of the Vesuvius was $350,000, but it cost the contract. ors $450,000. The appropriation asked ~ for by the naval authorities for another cruiser of her class is $450,000, as the contractors are too wise to be caught : A contract in which the gov- iment gets the best of the bargain is something new and refreshing in the recent history of naval construc. tion. ame ——_— Tue State has already paid $25,000 for the advertisement of the proposed am. endment of the Constitution prohibit. ing the sale or manufacture of liquor and abolishing the poll-tax qualification for voters, and it will require at least #30,000 more to again advertise the two 11 State not less than $300,000. When all the expenses connected with the sub. mission of these two questions are count. ed it will be found that they will exceed Michael Rezzillo alias ‘‘Red Nosed Mike,” one of the murders of Paymast. ers McClureand Flaniran, has been con- vieted of murder in the first degree and there is no doubt that he will suffer the full extent of the law. Judging from the evidence submittad at the trial of the cube the verdict was a just one, and seems to give general sat- isfacttion. Rezzillo and his pals committed their crime after the true fashion of the Ital and it is quite likely that pe Mm have followed if the THE HAPPENINGS AT THE NATIONAL CAPINY Newsy Items ns Gathered by oar Regular Mexico be Admitted, Representative Springer thinks his Omnibus bill will yet get through in spite of the facet that the conferees have failed toagree upon it. He says that three, if not more, Republican Senators will vote with the Democratic Senators to admit New Mexico. 1 shall only be Heve it when they do it. The report ot the Treasury experts on the tariff bill show that outside of the internal revenue features the meas. ure will only make a reduction of from three to five millions of dollars. . House wwe +" Means Copimittee will report the bill this week, with a receome- | mendation that it be rejected. Just what will follow If It be rejected it is diffienlt to say. The internal revenue features number of Democrats in the House, and unless they can be satisfied that the Cow. les bill, repealing the tobaceo tax, now in the hands of Mr. Randall's committee or a simialar one will be surprised to see the Senate bill adopted. that its adoption would create far more dissatisfaction among Republicans than Democrats, Senator Vest is going to have some fun when the Republican Senators con. ferees on the Springer “Omnibus” bill make their report to the Senate. Mr. Vest will prove by the Record that in 1875, when New Mexico was thought to be Republican, that many Republicans now in the Senate voted in the House for ths admission Now he wants to know why these men oppose the admission of that territory. The inference is very plain to Senator Vest and everybody else; New Mex. ico is now Demeeratic. Whatcare these Republican Sénators for chinsistency when party interests are at stake, There is a movement here which is said to have the President’s approval, to have Senator Kenna withdrawn from the contests in West Virginia. The | idea is that it is imposible to have Sen. | ator Kenna re-elected, and that some | other Democrat may be elected thus | saving the seat to the party. As a com- ident shall nominate Mr. Kenna Inter- State Commissioner, *“‘Senaterial cour” tesy’’ making it certain that he would be immediately confirmed. Se after the fourth of March Mr. Cleve. land will resume the practice of law, in New York city. Itis said that this is the preliminary step to his being sent to the Senate as suecessor to Senator Evarts whose term will expire in 1801. This is very probable if the Democrats can succeed in capturing the legislature of New York as they expect to do. At any rate, it is safe to say that a man of Grover Cleveland's experience pluck and back-bone will net be allowed to remain in private life. Such men are too rare, and too badly needed in public life. The President has sent the bill making an Executive Department of the de- partment of Agriculture to the Attor. ney General for an opinion as to its con. stitutienality. This action has eaused the circulation of the report that he was contemplating a veto of the measure, General Longstreet and Mosby are here presumably fixing up things to get something from Harrison. ’ The story that twentyfive boys, soldiers’ orphans, connected with the McAlisterville school, had become in. sane, was published a day or se ago, and speculation has since bear: rife os to the cause of this remarkable state of things. While the form which the disease has taken is of the harmless type, the infer ence drawn from the fact by Dr. Banks, OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. | Correspondent The Tarlf Bill Will New | The : of the bill are satisfactory to quite a’ And 1 believe | of that Territory along with Coloraao. pensation it is proposed that the Pres. | CROTECTION AND WAGES, { Ata meeting of a number of Knights of Labor held in Philadelphia afew days [ ago Mr. O'Keefe after refering to the { work of the order, in reference to tariff said: “we are misléd because we allow | others to do the thinking for us, They { preach protection, saying that it in- | creases wages but the politicians do not j care for you. All they want is your vote, | This country suffers from a lack of legis- | lative power in the interest of the whole people, because a great number of those | chosen to makethe laws are the repre. sentatives of corporations and trusts, In the United States Senate alone there are thirty-seven representatives of railroad corporations and trusts. They see that | these interests are taken care of.” James ** * ald aU TERY eee [ of protection vat protects the working. man, not the manufacturer.” He cited {an example of how working men are protected, stating that mechanics whose manufactures are unprotected estn | from £2.75 to 83.50 per day while labor in the Collieries which are protected make but 76 cents a day. “These are factsthat cannot be disputed. A num. ber of people shout protection who do i not care for the workingmen, They are after your votes.” | These two laboring men's remarks, jeontain great good sense, and no doubt { show the feeling, indicate the sentiment, {and drift of opinion among many of the labor organizations. There is one thing, | | above all others, that labor wants and | must learn before it can find gny relief, That is that the Republican party is own. fed, body and breeches by the trusts and i monapolists of owr country ; that the | monopolist sand trusts are the inveleratl: | enemies of howest, free and well pai labord, Had the same sentiment expressed above predominated in the maks of labor | before the late Presidential election { trusts and menopolies wonld have been | crushed beneath the voice of a free and | mighty people. The Demwocraticiparty. | always the friend of the laboring man. { would have been retained inwpower. An | relief, the relief, so much needed, would { have come to every department of labor | and industry, and trusts and monop- | Olists and bounties for the rich soon be. |! come a thing of the past. - —-— UNMPFRACTICED PRACTITIONKIS : se — i Theoretically a graduate of the High | School should be able to read and wiite | the English language correctly, and a medical practitioner who has the dejo. ma of a medieal college in his posses. sion ought to be able to amputate a leg or properly prescribe for a case of ague. But neither the High School graduate nor the graduate of the medical eolleg- es are all qualified to savcessfully stand these tests. Among the reasons urged for the estab. lishment of a State Board of Medical Examiners in this State is the fact that similar Boards in other States have found over 20 per cent, of the persons asking for license to practice medicine to be incompetent. Inthe Naval Board 68 of the applications are rejected. Such disclosures are sufficently alarming to justify precaution. There is doubt enough about the propes treatment of hu- man ailments when a skillful practition. and feeling his pulse, proceeds to ad. minister upen his condition. It is in. deed, the opinion of many physicians that, aside from surgieal operations for apparent hurts from known causes, the death rate would hardly be increased if there should be neither doctors nor drugs to be obtained. Nature and skil. ful nursing are the great restosatives. If this opinion is corset, a State Med. cal Board that should cut dewn the number of licensed practitioness would fulfill a function of obvious beneficence Too mueh care casnot be exercised in keeping the medical professiomup to the highest possible standard of excell. ence The stsnwberry erop promises to bea month easlier this season than last, ow. ing to the mild'winter, which has proved especially beneficial to the early erop in Georgie. The plants are in bloom already and a large yield is . | Jooked for, The senson for berries opons about the middle of Mareh, but in 1875 when the winter was mild, strawbesries were placed on the market before Feb. ruary 1. Early berries #1 per box. IY wasn favor and handed the er after looking ata sick man'stongue | sell readily for | | A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMEOT. Remarkable Fight for the Custody of A { Two Children, | Oneof the most remarkable cotests jover the possession of two children at Lewisburg occured their last week, Wes ley Stark, employed on the Willinmsport { Sun and Banner, a man of good stand.- | 10g, took his two children to his mother's | house In Lewisburg. Mrs. Stark alleges | that her husband drugged her in order i " {to abduct the children, ing of | their whereabouts she drov Lewis- {burg to secure them. She applied to { the elder Mrs, Stark in vain for them, ‘the latter locking up her daughter-in- { law and the children in the house with | herself in order to prevent their depart. ure, ' Young Mys, Stark becoming des | perate kicked out the sash in a winded i two children to hersister through the aperture. The two sisters then drove off rapidly for Mrs Stark’s home. Friends of Mr. Stark in Lewis | burg organized a pursuing party, and, | telephoning ahead had the occupants of the carriage halted at a toligate nears Milton where they were overtaken and brought back to Union county without a warrant, United States Marshall | Dill, of Philadelphia, who continues his law practice at Lewisburg, had been re- tained as counsel by Mr. Stark's friends and he advised the pursuers to get pos- | session of the children at any risk, | w hieh they did. Mrs. Stark engaged Charles 8, Wolf, the famous Republean kicker, and the ehildeen were rekidnapped. Judge Bach. eronfiered the mother to produce the childsn in the evening at a special ses. jon efeourt. Meantime Mr, Stark had | arrived in Lewisburg. and as Wolf, the | women and children were returning to | Wolf's office Stark and several of his i relatives rushed out of an alley and at. ; tempted So take the children from the | woman by force. A free Bight ensued. William Guin. | ter, a member of the Methodist Church caught My. Wolf by the coat eollar, and | ouly Jet go when young Joe Wolf, the athletic son of the lawyer compelled him to do so. My. Leiser threw a large law {book at Guinter which hit bisn on the | head. In the evening the Court House was crowded with the best people of the place | soli! pear midnight, listeniag to evi eri ing a habitual drunkard. Mrs Stark denied this but admitted that she took | liquor oe usionadly for pulmonary trou- j ble, She also charged ber husband with | being to free with a good look ug domes. | tie, and at the comelusion Judges Bacher nade nun order, giving the two chiklrento | the custody of the grandmother, This | created great dissatisfaction among the | spectators. The ehildren screamed, the | women eried, load. murmurs of dissent { arose from all sides, and the court rap. | ped vainly for oder. Then the judge changed his mind and awasded the youmger child to her mother, { Another outbmeak occurred, and a | free fight in the pwesence of the court | was averted only by officials, Judge | Bucher made a third decision, giving 1 both children to their mother. Mr. Wolf furnished $300 for their ap- {peasance in comrt next Wednesday, when mors sensational testimony will be given. Two Man Badly Hart, Huntingdon Local News: Mvery dis astyous explosion occurred at the lime. stone quarry in Black Log Valley, one mile from Orbissmia, owned by the Rock. hill coal and irom company, and operated by Jacob Brodbeck, Friday moming. Two. men named William Seller and Judson Thornberg had filled a. ten-foot hole with black powder and applied the fuse; The blast failed to go off, and they were in the act of taking out the charge, when an explosion ocourred and both men were struck by the flying rock and seriously injured. Judson Thom. berg, who had hold of the duill, received the full fosee of the explosion. His wight arm, left hand and left Jeg were blown off, and his body is so badiy muti. lated that be cannot recewer. He is a title man and resides at Orbisonia, William Heller, who had the hammer, had his loft eye knocked out and face badly bruised. His ovescoat was blown off and clothing badly tern, eis over FREE SPEECH COLUMN, ANOTHER ARTICLE ON PROHIBITORY LAW AND PERSONAL LIBERTY. A Number of Articles Handed in for Publi. ontoin-The Amendment as some see |, Is Prohibition a Socoess, [This column will remain open for the discus | sion of the Prohibition Amendment question { until the election. All articles must be signed | by writer and limited to 1000 words. ] It is evident that the flowing tide is at last with the temperance reform. The solution of the very great and complex | problem involved in this reform is next in order ; it stands next on the calendar | of time. Austin Phelns has said nn event wr ——— gg I soelal evi! has begin to amend ever until | it has reached the point of suppuration. | The liquor evil has assuredly reached this point, and there is well grounded | reason for the belief that the day of | amendment is at hand. | Two methods of cure are presented : One, restriction by lieense, or taxation | made higher and higher ; the other, pro- i hibition. | There was a time, back in the twilight of civilization, in almost every country, | when stealing was common and little | thought of ; and theft, in one way or an” other, was licensed. In France and in { Germany still it is thought wise to at- ‘tempt to control the bawdy.house by | license ; and, even in parts of this coun. | try, the same Is true of gambling, The great question in that early age was shall | the law be put against stealing ; shall | theft be made an outlaw at all times and at all places, or shall the privilege of (stealing be purchaseable by the few ? { Then, as now, doubtless, it was argued that “license is restriction ;” it is “partial | prohibition.” But, finally, when theft | was made an outlaw—completely, un. { equivocally so—s mighty step upward | was taken, The time will come when to legalize a saloon will be thought ashurt- | fot to social order, as is deemed to-day | the legalization of a bawdy-house or.a | faro-bank : and then an open saloon on a | | public theroughfare will be as rave a | { sight as will be a house of ill fame or a | gambling hell. ! It is a frightful blunder to plaes educative power of the law on the sidy « ¢ awrong., Let the thunder of the jes code be like that of Sigal, “Thou al not.” Back yonder, in that distaste light, Moses might have said, “0 Lon! Fight here rests the strongest argu. ment for Prohibition : with the masses | | is right and that which the law forbids | {is wong. The law is the great school” | | master for the masses. We may spin | {ever so fine theories touching license, | this will remain true in all of its tre. mendvns educational effect over She minds of the multitude, The selling, busy. | ing and drinking of ligwor as a beverage | is ob wrong, for it # permitted by law, That was a monstraes wrong done by the New York legislature two years ago, the enactment of the Ives law, whereby pool-selling was made legal. After the passage of that law, said a prominent pool seller, “I now feel like a gentleman ; my business is legal.” A saloon-keeper points to his neatly framed “Permit,” signed by Swell-known, re. spectable citizens, and says, “I am ina legal business nd can claim for my pro- rection all that the fag of my country tepresents.” The Nevada Liquor Deal | ers’ Association several years ago passed this resolution : “Resolved, That so. Joag as our business is able, and do not think that we deserve thecen- sure whieh is constantly being heaped upmus.” In Paris the educational effect of the law on the side of prostitution is Morri. ble beyond thought. According te. Von Oettingen’s “Moral Statistik” ©d ed. 1882), fifty per cont. nearly of the fifty thowsand children born annually in that city are born ous of wedlock. A gentle. the people are not ready for these hibitory laws. Pubiic séutiment is » » educated sufficien ly. They will The x... steal and worship idols, Let us goat ts. reform gradually. Give then lees laws, low license for worshiping a cx § high license for worshiping a full gros cow.” Xo; “thon : thundered down th» age, # the time up towanl its that when the Roman with the gladiators, lea used. A license law 28 prop i" NE . - rea wreeu - Re —— Oa ew— — “the powers that 1.0." | 58 the dag -* government to make th path upws: plain as possible nd cally as ay and the way to wrong da ie “But,” it is objected, | + force a prohibitory law i arguments sake, that the law cannet > enforced, perfectly enforllid. “HB #0 »+' advantageous, exceeding $50, to put ©» educative power of the ly evil. An unenforced righite infinitely better than ag that gives half sanction §§ is never wise to les ilize | #rong in order to su presi In the end the experiment will be always disastrous. P “But you comfoond things that = simply dangerous. We hohibit a = we regulate things that le dangers A bawdy-houseis wicked; a saleos + dangerous.” Amin, for angwmes sake, grant this di-tinction. It is » true that we never ;rohibit things 1b: are dangerous. We prohibit the bnitd. of frame houses inside the fire Tine: Why ? Not because the building of s= a house is sinful, bit because it is ds gerous. In Jocalivies we {okibit =i lutely slaughter howses, bone factors powder mills; ete. ~olely beesuse tie things ame dangercas. Prove thesal to Ue alwys a mens ce to the public v fare, and you have ground sufficient » prohibition. And is & not such a meus * Permit me to quote what I have gui lished elsewhere : The liquor trafic is a sdupendons injury Sn clety and our Government, and is a pastes | tous and continuous mermer Lo both ; Tempe Stark charged his wite with be. | the most potent sdueator is the Jaw, | ble, according to Chief Justice Noah Bass, | Wish them that which the law permits | elghty per cent. of all evime ; accoslimg > Premier Glafstone, for the infliction of see harm on man “than the three grest Mister » soourges, war, famine and pestilence, cossbis ed according to the late eminent plopsisinn Dr. Willard Parker, for 55 per cont. of lasses. 4 per cent. of idiocy, 77 10% per cent. ol pom ism, 10 per cent. of deaths ; acomrding So Be New York Tribune, “this trafic les af She eos tre of all palitical and socind mischiel, pase res energies in every direetion, i sessile > educational agencies, it silences The wale « religion, it bafes penal reioren, 88 seteew political reform according te Les The Justice Coleridge, so intimately osmmebed the traffic with crime in Eng land and Shaun Is certainly true In almost ogusl Sages America~11 we could make England selere would shut np nine tenthsof her prises ; ao according tothe London PTmes, # sam ould ow such vast and growing magnitnde that 2 sow crash and rain us all.” If a government was ever justified » prohibiting a thing that was dangers: our government would be jostified mer tainly in prohibiting the liquor Swill Since this traffic is such a monster wil. what wisdom is there in keeping 3 tremendous educating power of the lw on its side ? Whatever else is Some »+ left undone in reference to this taal let the business be rade an outline. [I K. FUsK, in North Amersons Ji view.)
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