. 4 ‘al y v4 » CHAS. R KURTZ, - EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION wepnlay When Paid When sub 6 will be tn Advan ription years § The 1 HYOTY Case Democratie County Committee, 1880 NW WW Wo rerneins Bellefonte, % W entre Ha wou How ard Boron h Milesburg Borough... MilThettn Borough omens Phillipsburg, 1st W C. HEINL] Ac icians for fair weat doubt and a great variety to the in Washington actual her on Moda id teak 3 Wola iw ORDING Ie €©rs no Ing, be : Lt) nd Dude id the Bepubli tem buffal 108 for great tha fore the have lost its ANEw HaMPSHIR] had solved the temperance pn He We SON his son at least. made his such a way that t 000 every ten years =o sober. If he allows himself to become intoxicated he loses all. The heir at present engaged in trying reak the will oni the ground that his father was insane. for his suit. his madness, can draw 22 mig as he Is : VO There is - * Me. CLEVELAND received last No. vember not only 100,000 majority of the popular vote of the country, but he re ceived 950,000 majority of the vote. He was the preference over Mr Harrison of nearly a million white « zens. It is calculated that the negr vote cast for Harrison were not than 850 060), The colored troops ried New York, Ohio, and Indiana for | fim. The Pittsburg Post thinks their «lain for recognition by the appointment of some of their race to a cabinet pos. ition is placed on strong party ground. And as the average mind the Post sizes it up about right. less | Car > Tne voters and tax payers of Centre county, are slow but surely learning what it means to have their affairs man. aged by a republican board of commis sloners. Inthe Gazette of last week an | attempt was made to garble figures and facets insuch a way as to mislead honest | men, but it sadly failed to do the work, as the votere are asking whether or not | the charges against the commissioners are true, and to those we say the facts | as given out by the CEXTRE DEMOORAT are correct and can be verified by going to the County books and looking it up as has been done by a number of gentlemen since the county statement was printed, then they will find the expenditures of public conveniences in “88” not more than one sixth the amount expended in “877 for the same purpose yet the same total for the year just closed is more than #8.000 in excess of the previous year under the democratic rale. Still the Gazette will insist and boast of republi- can honesty and economy in their, man agement of public affairs. Let not the tax payers of Centre county be deceived buy the ery of this blatnat sheet which a ——— —— ke eps i He seems to have small ground | evident method in | white | : | ble to i ; | duty has been faithfal his conduct hon. | BEL LEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1889. NO. 0. COMPULSORY EDUCATION, HILL BCENTLY INTHODUCED HARRISUTURG Al ni wstir ey that Should be ae Foatures of the and always at the mers { and those who seek Lo att | {hy d and violence Arab may pick {does it at th his { his parents respon sod er [ §) up a few pence, expense of his educati of guardians sh chances achievement; and wld be sible for not doi As nt from | publie to private life | phia Ledge Teveland the Pi hilads ie the Preside passes ¢. SAY . it is but merest | tice for men of all parties to cordially | concede that his administration, though { not free from errors of judgement has been one honorable to him and credita his country. His discharge of his industry and zeal | unque stioned and unquestionable, courage too great for his succes. Dur. { ing his entire term of office neither his personal nor official integrity impugned; his conduct affairs, eign and domestic, has been conservat. ive, and has resulted in the common prosperity of the country. President est and patriotic, of | whorthy the continued respeet/and con. | | fidence of the people whom for four | os he has so faithfully, devotedly | served, and we do not doubt that in the | coming years the general respect of his | | countrymen for his courageous and np- right administration of the affairs of | i the government will increas, and that | into his retirement he will be followed | | by the grateful sense of their apprecia- { tion of all the good he has, with high conscience and patriotic purpose, wrought in their behalf. > CAN PROMIBITION WIN. Hatimates of a Man Who Has Visited Forty Countios of Pennsylvania, A gentleman of Pittsburg after visit- | ing forty counties in all parts of the State to look after the prospects of the prohibitory amendment, returned home yesterday. He says the opinion is gener ally entertained that the State west of the Susquehanna will give 60,000 ma- jority for the amendment, and that Philadelphia will give about the same majority the other way. The rest of the State will be close. It is hin opinion y AT | his ] has been | for- | Cleveland retires from his high office | RUSSIAN VETROLEUM, 1 Russi verage flow of pete O00 barre! rio Ix? per the 25 barrel hief who have in drawbacks wi been lack of 1 Lhe Interio Jit r fuel m : iv pie FT » BB 11 Pailin N + 4b ie Batoum Railway, that American 4 i that it will even Ix Ln pr inet to N : ni FRYING TO JANE BA . FARNMIES ACAINT TRHOBIBITION jus. | at At a publ Schaeflerstown rks couniy, last IArmers week it was that amend. {the drift We Arguine: Prohibi lead to bankruptey ruin the agricultural ck Another meetis be held in days, when steps will be taken to hold meetings in township in county, and effect a thorough anti-Pro hibition ovganization. .--——— IT seemes to be an | the passage he tion | ment would among AREN, ig will a few every the an writer | leam | irked |} ] offer tot Ole 1 1 eentage. in Eu. lj and | * | reduction | party then not in power. assured fact that the children gttending the McAllister. | | ville school have been systematically starved. One of the ex.students writes the Philedelphin Press that the boys and { girls are fed on bread and molasses ; that | atly reduced and impov- | | they become g | erished on account of being obliged to | subsist on poor diet, and that the stu. | dents are not permitted to make known | their treatment to visitors, | circumstances it is time for the Soldiers | Orphans’ School to go. .——— { Yet there ! politics or party connections, Come { ton, Ya 4 j odd clad | DLITes CLAIM AGENTS AT WASHINGTON, Some interesting facts evelopment of the « onecerning i Le 4G faim busin ave cotoe to light in the discussion in In unknos 8 during the past week, ars a class of lnwvers An capital before the Wil HAY Washing known ey hunt up all th Lo be very munerous in These “Claim what Agents.” Ti the wre are ms Department. gol » it of persons possibly be due. O Whom Money mas nd them circularsand tnount fora small led that thers HiT ATE DOW 3] the department claims Lovera hand pensions H . ’ : COR [lave Bourished new sprung up on every hand. Hing to work ming an the Ave That this will be gu four years hence, Aire workingmen Ww we hs ady can be heard the nt of the of 8 and broken promises made against ages, threats to few monthsago by those who saw and point td lo working to American iadustry, should the admin. istration fail to pass into the hand of the mill a out men destruction. To intelligent men this was an argument that was met with the contempt it so richly deserved. and there still is, an- other class who were misled and whose lot it will be to suffer, should misfortune overtake our now prosperous institu tions, that this may not oceur is the wish of every true man regardless of Yet by was, | the corrupt practices of the past the peo. | Under such | ple of this nation have causz to fear, as | the unrelenting spoilsmen of the repub- | lican party have again make their ap | pearance and will soon Tix threat that the liquor dealers | loudly to plunder the national treasury. will defy the prohibitory amendment | and continue to sell liquor in the event | a - General Goff, the Republicancandi- | of its adoption should have no terrors | date for Governor of West Virginia and | President Carr, of the Senate, the Dem. [x temperance people. They daily violate the present license law, and it is | difficult to detect them, because they have a right to sell to certain persons, | But it will be difficult under an arrange- | ment which makes every sale of liquor as an beverage an offense against the state, Tur death of James c. Flood at Heidelberg leaves his daughter, Miss Jennie Flood, who was with him at «he time of his death, probably the richest woman in the world. When the bon. } oeratic candidate, both took the oath of office on Monday and demanded from Governor Wilson possession of the of- fice. The latter sad that he was of the opinion that the Legislature, asa co- ordinate department of the government in joint assembly, had exclusive juris. diction to ascertain and declare the re. sult of the election and no title would come from any other source. He there fore felt it his duty to continue in charge . NEAL DOW ON PROHIBITION. £ los, | | we HOW A LIFE LONG Ir, WORKER YI Prohibition Needed The It Can be Licwusse i « in England. | People are § Favor of it, A Fallur Faloreed wise policy ¥ # all the civilized world moving against the liquor traflic 7 I'he answer 1% simp because it is in nt with the every COnSIRL 1 HOUT) general good. egitimate It HUGS industry langu disinclines to work and fin who ally u no interest, in from whatever Many what worst from that ? That the de be fully COs olhing more will nee, however NO one 118 matier, « who ithe ignorant iv the law may be drawn. wy kn [IAs Ww edge of t rom books, can be hat the l quot traflic licensed free country in rum.” There is no world has been more or where the is practically the where the other policy of license firmly established. laws relating to it) elaborated as in England. At every ses. of Parliament there bills brought in with a view fo the changing in some way the law under which the country has become one of the most drunken nations in the world, the condition of a large proportion of the working population there having be. ve been so carefully studied and are son of Heense, | some as the result of this policy almost unendurable., Looking the ground all over carefully, “fanatical” temperance men and | women have come to the conclusion, une animounsly and irrevocably, that under no circumstances nor for any consider. { ation #ill we consent to any policy giv. be clamoring | | ing legal status to the saloon. So far as our voice and vote are concerned, it shall have no standing onder the law, but shall be put under its ban. If we cannot have it forbidded and suppressed we will not consent that it shall have legal permission or protection. Whatever evil to society may come from it, let it be without sanction of the State, It seems to follow from all this that | we are quite ready to declare prohibition tobe a wise policy ; that it is the only | wise policy and that no other has even a suspicion of wisdom init. I do not forget that many able men affirm that prohibition has been a failure every where and must always continue to to bo #0, and that it is a folly to Jitiet in policy wa question. I widely {Limes all ye the As it]''® think, upon which soch nr would venture an opinjon without & knowing something about it, Prohib L hus ever been adopted ; 1 ition has failed nowhere 13 hat iy eve thw trathe, and from t ha an house t % diminished volute iarge are ven owt entire drinkis hw These H pling Hits of prohibition have sled] and published a thous; English spud 8 not that he HCH I accredit to any is ignorant of a » ie | th Ln man any of sts of nut then be intere Et] Whey EEE bl LE g from tix id be answer cons rod public opin penalties we cessities of WAR re made mod r. All othe DON ore or ew mm. But all om forcement of thes we fact, that then ng insufficient pe tting such discretion many localities the Why thes, properly inquire, do imperfections cm wants supplied ? ountry, in natien, iS DOW A mere SCrm- ble fq rewards, with wm reference whatever to the public welfsae The liquor traffic is a tremendous pow r, from its magnitude, its wealth, its large vote, which is a unit, employed only in its own interest, and fromm its ability to corrupt voters with its money and party leaders by its ballots. Feom now, so far as its are concerned, it controls sb. the legislation of the nation and of the states and cities ; so we find it dificult everywhere, and ia Mai impos for the moment, to oblxin such legislation as we require fortheex. termination of the fraction of the liguw traffic yet remaining. This trafic now wtoriously controls the polities of ti country. In the near future two grent parties will be openly and squarely «i vided upon the question—Rum or Ns Rum ¥ and the battle will be fought om at the ballot-box on that line. AN otha questions of public policy of whatewe: Kind are insignificant when comps with this, Protection to the labor of the county from foreign competition, so that ew people may have larg er wages, looksenly to this point, that eur homes may peaceful, prosperous, thrifty, happy — a larger expenditure upon the nec essaries, comforts and refinements “of life, The suppression of the liquor trafic, which politicians resist, would insures! ilified, these of the 1 wr office and its this it happens that interests solutely 8.4 nae, this bey ond the wildest dreams of the warmest imagination, since it would | invelve a saving to our fivesides of more than fifteen hundred million dollars an nually--a sum 80 vast as to be incom. | prehensibile—now spent, lost, far worse than wasted in drink. Near Dow. AT the late election in Lancaster county the Republicans nominated in one of their strongest towns hye & color el mas for a township offen He was defeated and the Democratie candidate elected by Republican votes, A | Republicans raised the race Sue to dee foat the man and brother ans
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