+ (Lal, The Cruire Fema EDITOR CHAS. R. KURTZ, - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 5 Regular Price . $1.50 por year, When Paid in Advance £1.00 When subseriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be char ged These terms will be strictly adhered to in | quest on of every Case | Democratic County Committee, 1880, | Bellefonte, N. Won nnn (. M. Bower “ SW won Patrick Garrety codtteph W, Gross wd. W. MeCarmick wend. 1. Gardnre “ W. Won Centre Hall Borough... Howard Borough....... a Milesburg Borough wasensdd, Willis Weaver Millheim Borough ees ome C0 W, Hartman Philipsburg, 1st W..... senssnennnd 1). RESEER " - a J. H. Riley WW. Jackson Gorton | wough.. PIII, # Bing a John Mechtley Phillip Confer [. F. Adams | Unionville Be Barnhart aniel Grove site . 8S. DeLong John T. MeCorn ~Samuel Harpsie College..cu Curtin : hari Ferguson, E. Po 4 Ww Pr Gregg, S. Poe Whe p Haines. E. PV “- wr Halfmoon Harris Howard... Huston Liberty Marion Wan ufact ely under-consi rer ficial prices extracted ever of the country’s ir motive for seeking Gove ies in the way of rests competing products be in reality an o long as machiners of the home and work be furnished for Kings should take a leaf from perience of tl buildings ‘ and mankind, 1 Stand the only monopoly w country. The Standa: ularzed oil ing the market for it. by ¢l - We endorse the Altoona T chise is not a natural thu WW lege confered by vernment upon Common free to When certain conditions. n this wealth the ballot all native or naturalized citizens 21 given practically a native reaches the age of comes a citizen and is without regard to his intel knowledge Thereafter solong as he complies with or his moral the conditions of residence and pays a sinall county tax every two vears, hel AS the privilege of helping to choose oun officers from to Inthis country the tax on is about 40 President Constable, ON-Property he who pays this sum in two years may Surely the man who cannot contribute twenty-five cents a year toward the maintenance of the county Government ispoor indeed. We hold that who gives nothing towards the sup. port of the state, ordinarily, is not in. terested in the prosperity of the state and has but little appreciation of the necessity for good and honest officials, | Of course there are some good citizens | who have. been unfortunate; proision could be made for these, But there are many who have regularly looked to have their taxes paid who add nothing to the dignity of eltizenship or the se. Surity the state and whos disfrach ise. would not be followed by disast. rous results. holder cents, and vole, a man ARE WE GR {A NEW YORK DIVIVE ANSWERS THE we | tind BELLEFONTE, BETTER. ALARA | i RAL QUESTION, | Great Improvement in all Departments of Morals | 8 ciety nud Better, Crime Decreasing, The New Yori prominent 4 / ul pendent Aska the writers, in an. sweor Rev. Crosby of that city, has the following to say on the subject : Is New York growing better? compare New York today with York fifty years ago from ny observation. I was then preparing to enter college, whieh I entered the ensu. New personal ing yeur. At that time the city did not extend beyond Union Square, and it contained only 200.000 inhabitants. There were no street cars, and omnibuses had been runing tt a few vears, The streets were lighted with whale-oil lamps, rad but lately haid as tinder for lugifer matches. and le the flint and There was but pumped our water no Croton: from wells, Gas Ling some oat ’ we, A boy who wa ¥ ntattl ue ploked up the wall, It bougiit an empty oi ew ita 1st nents into the oats. Mr. he took the oats home and fed part of it to one of his horses, The animal died and an investigation showed that the cut a hole through its stomach. broken into fra £11 and the pieces fell Ling did not know this, and gl 5H had ER a «Sam Joues, the revivalist, has been attracting iarge audiences in San Fran- cisco gince Sunday. The other night in his address he said : “Look here! When I was a boy. a little feller, I used to play town ball. But I never got so lowdown a8 to play base ball. Why, if I had a yeller dorg that went over and saw one of your Sunday base ball games I'd kill it just as soon ay it got back.”’ : which framed the present constitution I can | PA., THE TAX QUALIFICATION The proposition to wmand the const itu. tion of the state so as to eliminate the tax qualification of the voter will be submit. ted to the peaple at the same time that the amendment is to be When the convention prohibition Yi ted upon, was in session the Patriot opposed the adoption of the clause which makes the pavinent of a state or county tax a pre- requisite to the right of suffrage. Every one ought to pay his just share toward the maintenance of government, but the taxation of voters is utterly un. equal in its effect. At least one-sixth of the voters of the state refuse to pay a state or county tax and political com. of compelling all voters to pay a tax the mittees pay it for them. Instead constitution merely opens a way for the corruption of the ballot-box by making it possible for politicians to control SOCIALISM AND PROTECTION Thelr Relations Pointed out by Judge Grin nell of Chicago CricaGo, March 17, —A large audi ence at the Kenwood Club listened to a paper on “‘Socialism in America,” by Judge Grinnell, who was the states At, torney in the Anarchist trial, Grinnell said : “The eager desire of party leaders to obtain and retain office keeps socialism and its attendant evils alive. In Chica- go Anarchism is exaggerated out of all proportion to its power for no good pur- pose, and some members of both politi cal parties seem inclined to actso as to catch this element. In my opinion the talk about the Anarchist during the last winter has been a wilful, wicked exag- Judge geration of their power, an injury to the fair name of ment to its business Chicago, a serious detri- interest, and I con- fidently bel eve the purpose of such ex. aggeration was purely political, the voter through the payment of his to be Every voile ought it is true; but voter in every one he ma How any « ’ 1Uery Zisiature f ou vis J NNSYIVARLIA .——— CONSTABLES FEES unty for whic Com nissioners miileagy h he claimed for making his saonth. He alleged that he iT i Albright decided 1 favor of Mr. Semmel, and I ‘ounts to th iy inspection. trav | twenty-five miles each time trip Judge g { LE Commissioners appealed <upreme Court, which last week rev The inte; edd the decision of the lower court, decision was watched with great eat, as it effects every Constable “tale in the are under the y make these ons without receiving pay therefor. In Mr. Hen. week in. . #ince these officers low { {ne pec. sion required t ins Pennsyvivania, of Lehigh cos troduced a bill providin Senate of ninger of al ww the the g for bios fi then by cents an’ mileage to Consta : work imposed upon conse law. «At a meeting of minors amd tors in the Clearfield region last Satur. day a remonstrance against the Shaw | bill was adopted and a committee was | appointed to present it to the Ligisla. jture, It was estimated that the feost of putting in the apparatus, its maintenance and the extin expense of royalty of two cents per ton on all conl mined would aggregate $1.900,000 an. ually. operas ase SIA Ss. There are twenty-six pritoness in the a tax. | | ar i“ | America i r former st OC Ialism, “Hell it ? Well. you he march “What's the serge Then the xs WN the ant. pol i mnt of the ea im criminals Cen who wer their dungeon handed the Sergean you may retarn to 3 Sergeant, and the students filled out. bearing the pole proudly. Two blo away another policeman stopped them. { Then followed the same dinlogue, an. other arrest, and the same scene at the station. And so it went on until the | young men had been arrested six times, | They might have been arrested twelve | times had not a general notice been sont {out to the police not to molest the party of young men parading about Boston bearing the barber's pole, on ———— ~<ur first invoice of Boy's and Chil, drens clothing from Jacob Reed & Son will be opened on Saturday, Mueal 16¢), Montgomery & Co. vks THURSDAY, MARCH 2I, 1889. TIRED OF PROGIBITION. THREE YEANS OF IT ENOUGH EHODE ISLAND. Yon It Has Incremssd Drankenness and Taxation | and Demoralized Politios-Seeking to Re. poal the Law Provipexce, R. I., March 15, ~The decision of the General Assembly to re people of Rhode Island Amend- submit to the the Constitutional Prohibition ment is the first necessary step in a de- termined effort to repeal that measure, Another Legislature must approve that move, and then the people will have a chance to vote on the question of Pro. From indications they will reject it very hibition again in 1860, present de. cisively, but it is too early yet to pro phesy the event, DEMAND RITHMISSION, FOR has been failure drunken 1885. which ja have been expected Crom the population, and a the common drankards have doubled during the tae three years un der the peculiar operation of Prohibi tion, WITNESS THE POLICE OFFICIALS, Chief of Police Benjamin H. Child, of this city, is authority for the statement | that Prohibition fs a fallare in Provie (dence, and Chief of State Police Ed- | ward H. Curtis makes the same remark about the State as a whole. I “The Prohibitory law is almost per the spectacle is Providence contraband { of a saloon while the dealer is laying is ed or tl COCTe Ww . iction of illegal ir. but ti QUEER SPECTACLE. As a result of this very peculiar Jaw sometimes withersed ip of the liquors olice carrying out » Gro the from he A a fresh supply from a wagon at the back door, The confiscated liquor is destron thrown away, but the saloon keeper goes scot free, and the only effect of the raid is to make him keep a sink stock of his course, bring utter contempt upon thw law its provis stuff, such sights, of and they incite others to violate ons, EFVECT OF PROITIBITION OX POLITY There is another element of de nor Proh I. When the Repel greed to submit the zation introduced bs bition. swf at is the politica HEADS A question fe the people a disgraceful dea was made ite Pe lice vos raves iment. Pray ister of Prove in bosx of ceeded fo TTLILRER In aioe, A Taw £ capi i deacon g Fuller was quoting from heddeth man’s hall be shed.™ ombshell to his til his Lime ang to lus take the noted and } n woul one man kills him, and =» the asl man on to Kill him ? lie { saleide, for that same Now. deacon,” continued ue you going tode with The boy's logic called pplause and vanquished 4 ' iv ul wi ne that last man oul rouipds of a the deacon. i. John and Mike Ivan amd George Marin the Hungarians charged with tie order of Jueph Loken, at Houts. | dale, some four weeks ago, were taken Louton a wit of habeas corpus on inst - Friday afternoon and given a hearing, i fefanlt were recomm itted to jail, A il for Mike and John Ivan was | fixed at 83.000 each, while 8300 wal + fyctan aluied niaiiat the wor! Mr, | Curtis said to ie J sa al thought sufficient for Murin, %
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