a ————————————————— @he Center Aomori, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - ‘= =~ EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price $1 When Paid in Advance LIBEL When subseriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged MW per year vy f Fditorial. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For Delegate to Constitutional Convention ELLIS L. ORVIS. Subject to action of district conierene Jury Commissioner—~GEREORGE BOWER Tre Prohibition state meets at Harrisburg this have not heard of the liberations. convention week. - It pays to advertise when trade is | brisk, because you are strengtin very roots of your business for the de rtd that may come. pp DEMOCRATIC commitieemen in every district should seelto it that every dem- | ocratic voter before September 2rd. We need every vote this year to elect our state ticket, LEMEMBER that you have but a short time to get registered. If you do look after your own name being on ti list no one else is likely to attend 2 . hh ’ war} for you. See that vou are registered, Tie Chronic Insane Commission that has been traveling about the state to select a suitable location for the new hospital, will make their report Oct. 22 to the Governor and Board of Public Chanties. Bellefonte people are hope- ful of seeing it located near here. —— -— Tue republican convention at Har- risburg last week, as usual, was a Quay affair to the end. he nomination of David M. Gregg, of Berks, for Auditor (ieneral and John Morrison, of Alleghe. ny, for State Treasurer, was all that Quay desired. The platform was a bundle of self praise and great promises. - - Cow or no cow,on the streets, con. tinues to be an absorbing issue with the citizens of our town, Wedoubt if there is & town of the size of Bellefonte to be found anywhere that will allow herds of cattle to roam itsstreets from early dawn till dusk. Bellefonte is a model town in many respects, but this tolerance is a disgrace to the community. Re Tue initials “G. O. P.” at one time | meant the “Grand Old Party,” but since the Rebublican State convention met last week and adopted platform of promises and pledges that not one member will ever live to see fulfilled, the meaning has changed from the “Grand Old Party’ to the more suggestive expression of “Great On Promises.” ————— We | result of their de. |i het al ning the is properly registered | i t | the war, until al | THE ILLS OF HIGH TARIFF HOW IT OPPRESSES THE PEOPLE. The Folly of Restriction. Neecossary Parchas ers Impoverised So They Can't Afford to Bay of American Producers interesting address ered to the voters of Iowa than that giv. reform by Con- NO plaine has been deli Or mmorpg in the present eampaign en in favor of re gressman WW, CO, Kentucky, lust wins i long one und we publish some of venue P. Breckinridge, of Saturday. The speech | the prominent points of his remarkable should he carefully every voler { utterance which ul taxpayer ¢ re and studied by and country the Announcing the subject of his address “The Tariff,” Mr. Breckinridge “It would be uncandid in me to con. that 1 am, on the questions which s before you to-day, an intense san. I am, from the bottom of my wart, a democrat. Not only in the par. the | hig! er and nobler meaning that I do be- ¢ in the equality and wisdom of the | people; in the limitations of govern. | mental powers to the utmost limit con. | sistent with the grant of power suffi. | cient to preserve public order and to i prots ot the y sense of that word, but in life, liberty and happiness.” Reviewing the public extravagance | and prodigality that prevailed in the from 18:0, 1865, at the close of Mr. showed how such dominant qualities had naturally tended to the monopolis. development of high tariff taxes upon all classes of consumers, The era of reform that was in 1875 about to be inaugurated by the unquestionable elec- tion of Samuel J. Tilden to the Presi- dency was checked, he said. because the | Government Breckinridge tie | democracy, rather than put to the strain | the principles of constitutional govern. ment, submitted to evident wrong and { trusted to the ultimate sense of justice | | ame ng the people to right the wrong. | This confidence in the people had not been misplaced. From internal disa- greements as to the wisdom of reforms | that should be thorough, the Democrat. jc party bad at last reached a unanimity { of purpose, until. these reforms in the | of taxation had become the hief,the only great issue before the Touching the iand wisdom of Tariff ba i i Breckinridge said A PRINCIPLE OF SLAVERY. | matter Low Ba Reform Mr. “The basal principle of all forms of | slavery is that there exists in govern. | ment the right to take one man’s labor and give the benefit of it to another, | Under whatever name or whatever form | this has been its essential principle that | man, as man, is not entitled to equal | rights, but that for the benefit of the community, of which he forms a part, there exists in the Government the pow. { er to take from some and give to others citizen in the enjoyment of | righteousness | prosperous our purchaser the better able is he to pay good prices. It is, there- fore, the most shortsighted and foolish policy for him who has to sell to impov- erish him to whom he must sell, “Our system, whatever else it has commerce. what we sell and buy that is shipped upon the ocean is controlled by us, One seventy millions of dollars a year goes into the pockets of foreign transporting companies for carrying our commerce, and no subsidies can change this, We cannot deadhead freight by contribu- tions from the public treasury. WHEAT TELLS THE STORY, “We export about 28 per cent. of our wheat, and this will give a fair illustra. tion of the entire system, That is, we could feed, in round numbers, 20,000,000 more on the breadstufls we now raise, We could also’produce with the present manufacturing population more manu- facturers than we consume, and if we had 20,000,000 more they would be com. pelled to enter into agricultural or me. chanical pursuits. If they become farmers they would become producers as well as consumers of wheat, and the difference between our consumption and production would become greater in. stead the wheat grower would be more and more compelled to depend for his sales upon the foreign market. and the alleged hone market would become more illusory: but if they did not become farmers, but entered upon mechanical pursuits, then the amount of manufacturing product would be more than doubled, and the home market would still become illusory. Be- fore they could purchase from the farm. er they would have to find sale for their products, and that market would have to be found abroad. We must export all our surplus, and those exports can best be paid for in the main by imports needed by us. “It has been estimated that the addi. tional éost of railroad construction from f less, and | 1872 10 1887 was over 150,000 000, caused { by the duty on steel rails. This was paid | for absolutely nothing. The companies | merely advanced their large sum; the people paid interest thereon and have, Lor will, pay the principal in increased freight rates. It has been a burden on your wheat: on all you sell and buy. | But a few persons made enormous for- { tunes with the ‘nail.parings’ of which free libraries were endowed, FOREION WORKMEN PROTECTED, “It has been estimated by Edward | Atkinson that the iron and steel con. { sumed inthe United States for the past | ten years cost Americans in excess { of the cost of the same materials to con. sumers supplied in Great Britain not lesa than $700,000 000, or an average of 70000000 a vear, which is the sum added because of our protective tariff, and is the protection actually given by be American law to the foreign work- men over the American workmen “Bat it is said that these tariff doties, the Tae man who attempts to floor Jerry without direct compensation either the | no matter how onerous, fall upon the Simpson when he is “doing the oratori- cal” attempts the impossible. stance, the other day Simpson, in one of his speeches, while eulogizing Daniel Webster, referred, in complimentary terms, to his dictionary. A friend on the stage pulled Simpson's coat tail and whispered, “Noah was the man who made the dictionary.” Simpson gave Lis friend a scornful look and whispered back, “Noah built the ark,” and went on with his oration. ——— — Ture London eorrespondent of the New York Times furnishes some strik- For in- | whole or a part of their labor. If the whole be taken we call it slavery, but if only a part be taken we give it many | different names, and in America the I name we give it is ““protection,’”” by which some are required to purchase from others at prices fixed not alone by | the intrinsic value of the goods, but in | part by the provisions of statute, the | necessities of life, and are compelled to sell, not in the market of their option, | but in the market of the aw, that which | is the product of their tofl, Any system | | based upon that principal must, in the end, work harm, “I freely admit that the development ink figures in regard to the possible say. | ing in Europe by a reduction of one-half | of America during the past thirty years in the military force and expenditure of | may fairly be call marvelous, and 1 the chief powers. He points out that | shall not be guilty of the absurdity of “for the past nine years alone it would | ciaming that the protective tariff has or | The Lord has |! nearly 8,000,000 men in the prime of given and will continue to givesun, rain | have amounted to $2.400,000,000, while | can make America poor. {and dew—seed time and harvest. No youth would have been restored to labor and production. Counting the value of their labor, not their wages merely, at the low rite of #1 each per day this! would have amounted to $900,000 000 a year, or 8,100,000.000 for the nine years, making a total net loss to the people of these six countries in that period of $10.500,000,000, This Is equal to the total value, at #1 per bushel, of the wheat crop of the Umted States for from twenty to twenty-five yeurs.” Poor harvests and dear bread would not bear so heavily upon the people if they had a nestegg of this size in re. serve, What a striking contrast the United States government is with these mili. tary-burdened countries of Europe. With greater resources than any and many thousand miles of border, our standing army is not more than 25,000. Is this not a lesson for the seudy of foreign nations? legislation ean extract from the ores lying in our mountains their wealth, or from the land «ubject to our cultivation ite fertility. We will produce greater sums by our future labor, It is, there. J fore, no proof of the wisdom or folly of our economic legislation that America has grown richer unless it can be estab. ' lished that it is because of that legisia. tion. It is not so much the amount of the income as it is its distribution. CANNOT LIVE TO OURSELVES, “This country cannot isolate itself from other countries. Climatic influ. ences are not controlled by statute, and the wants of mankind have relation to the differences of climate. His necessi. ties seem to require the products of every degree of climate, and no statute can change these wants of men, “Barter is the necessity of the world, and between fair and honest traders both parties receive benefit. The more | foreigner and not upon the consumer; | that they are taxes upon the foreign { product paid for entrance into the Amer- | jean market. Of conrse, the foreigner | does not pay 1 cent of the cost added to | the domestic article becanse of the tariff, { and as our foreign commerce is about 7 { per cent. of our entire commerce, 63 per | ent. of the burdens imposed by the tar. 11 1s beyond dispute borne by the Amer. | jean consumer, ! THE SUGAR BOUNTY EVIL, “The bounty given to the sugar pro. ducers of America for the term of five years is wholly indefensible and unre. publican: granting of bounties is a kingly, not a republican function, and has no place in a free government: and to make the payfhent of any public moneys except for debts properly con. tracted a permasent charge on the Treasury and practically irrepeaiable is an outrage. ‘It may be demanded that in an ad. dress like this I should not omit refer. ence to th®atest trinmph of Protection wrociprocity treaties, out of which is to come the foreign markets which we peed. | was glad that the distinguished Secretary of State forced his party, con- trary to principles, and in the teeth of their leaders and against the House of Representatives, to put this ‘reciprocity’ into this uct. It is a meagre, confined "and miserable substitute for freer trade, but it is an acknowledgment that we ean pever achieve that Hlusory ‘home market! It admits the necesssty of foreign markets, “1 congratulate you of Town and the country that we have at last reached a point where the issue between the par. ties is one which appeals equally to every industry and to every condition, and that affects the whole Republic and every part of it, and that our triumph done, has destroyed American control of | Less than 14 per cent. of | hundred and sixty to one hundred and | gives to ouradversaries better opportu. | nities for their future, secures to them, i as to us, more comfortable homes, and | preserves for their children, as ours, the principles which we received from our | fathers,” ti - Grain Shortage Abroad, The Emperor of Russia has issued an | edict prohibiting the exportation of rye, on account of the shortness of the grain crop, and consternation has thereby been created in Germany. It came asa | surprise. The Radical newspapers have | called upon the Govrnment to remove the duties on grain in order to preventa peal. What more pungent comment | could there be on the protective system, | The grain crops are short in Germany, other parts of Europe; Russia, | in order to ayert suffering among her { own people from the same cause, pro- hibits the exportation of rye, which | largely supplies Germany; this cuts off | much of Germany's supply of bread. | stuffs, and she is asked by her own people to remove the duties on grain to keep | the wolf from the doors. refuses, and, apparently, would rather allow her own people to wait for bread than abate a jot, or title, of her abominable protec. tive system, some of it quite as oppres. {sive as the McKinley scheme in this country. When will trade be freed from the shackles of stupidity? As the case | now stands, the farmers of the United States command the situation, and are looked to, to feed the starving millions of the Old World. With our abundant crops, and wide prosperity, with brilliant prospects there would be for the country were the oppressive tariff duties re moved from trade. Bat light is grad. unlly breaking, and the time js soming when our oppressive tariff systen will be changed, and our intercourse with the rest of the world be governed by the healthy laws of trade. To this we must look, and this alone, for a rehabilitation of our foreign commerce. When this comes to pass, the sails of our merchant marine will again whiten every sea. as In most she Turning on the Rain Perhaps it may have been only a streak of go 4 Juck to the rain.making party of government experts that has deluged the Poetions of Texas in which they have been operating during the week with a downpour of main, It would not be judicious to jump to the conclusion that min can be produced to order in any quantity desired by the simple meth. od of exploding dynamite in the air because x aifigle experiment has proven successful, I'ne suecuss of General Dyenforth, or the coincidence which made his Texas experiment seem a success, will certain. ly encourage further experiments in his line. There are large portions of Texas, Western Kansas, Nebraska and other western states and territories that are rainless and consequently valueless for agricultural purposes, If rain can be invariably prodnced by detonation these sections, comprising millions of acres, will become as valuable as any part of the agricultural arew of the country. Better still, the drought sea. sons that afilict all lands at times can be provided against and a failure of the crops become unknown. The government will certainly be justified in pursuing the rain.making experiments to the limit allowed by ex. isting appropriations and in asking for more money for the same purpose at the hands of the next congress, If rain can be produced by artificial means it will prove cheaper and more satisfactory every way than irrigation by the ordi pary methods now in use, Kentucky Grit as an Example, Bedford Gazette, If the people of Pennsylvania were offered an opportunity to manifest their sentiments upon a constitution contain. ing such meritorious provisions as those contained in the one recently adopted in Kentucky, itewould be carried by an overwhelming majority. The Austra. lian ballot system is universally desired, and especially in this state, where such | a system is so much needed. There is as much difference between the Austra. lian ballot system and the proposed Baker ballot reform us there is between honesty and trickery. The former isa true reform system nrriving at the puri. fying of the elections in the interest of the people, while the latter is arranged so that machine bosses may trol of elections and the blinded under the pretext | American wool-growers by | famine, but so far it is deaf to the ap- | BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 189L WOOL FALLS IN PRICE. RESULT OF THE McKINLEY TARIFF. | Foreign Wools Advance while the Home Product Drops Lower-Facts for the Farmers, onably correct estimate of the practical effect of the McKinley tariff on home and foreign wool, It increaséfl the tariff tax on wool ostensibly to protect neréasing the market value of their wool, but the effect has been just the reverse, and it is logically so. Our urers are now paying less for American | wool, than they did under the old tariff, The latest wool quotations from Brad. street's, a most reliable antharity, are as follows: AMERICAN WOOL. Grade Ohio XX and above Ohio X and above Ohlo No. 1... Michigan X Michigan No.1 FOREIGN WOOL-CARPET. Value Grade, Aug. 1 Best white Donakol Aleppo white... Best Vieanier Kandahar «ones American wool of rom two to three the McKinley ill, and that foreign woo! of the cheap- alk grades has declin cents per pound under er grades, usually imported for carpets and cheap woolen fabrics, has increased in cost in about exact proportion When it is remembered that we import nearly or quite ninety per cent. of the carpet and other cheap wool we manu. facture in this country, thes‘ ‘the brain. less blunder” of the wool and woolen schedules of the new tariff, as the Chelago Trine calls it, will be ap- preciated by the people who pay the needless taxes on one of the commonest necessaries of life. The Western wool growing States were promised increased prices for the product of their wool growers by the supporters of the McKinley bill, and now when it has cheapened domestic wool simply by diminished demand, it ia claimed by the supporters of the Lew tariff in the East that it was inteuded to rednoe the price of wool by increased taxes on the foreign article. How Me. Kinley will explain the matter in Ohio, and how his supporters will explain it in the Western wool growing States, is one of the unsolved political problems of the present. The only practical effect of the Me. Kinley tariff on woolis to redoce the price of American wool about three cents per pound and to increase the price of foreign wool that we must have to about the same extent. Is that pro. tection to American wool.growers? or is it protection to foreign wool.growers. — — yp Firemen s Tournament at Atlantic City The firemen ’s tournament to be held at Atlantic City on September 20th, 30, October 1st and 2nd, promises to be one of the most Interesting events of its kind ever held in this country. Invita. tions have been sent to all the prom. inent fire companies of the east to be present. Horse racing, team races, steamer trials, prize drills, and other firemen contests, together with concerts torch light procession, and a grand e. For better accommodation of visitors and contestants the Pennsylvania Rail. road Company will sell excursion tickets to Atlantic City at a single fare for round trip. The tickets will be sold September 25th to October 2nd, valid for return until October 6th, 1881, For State Treasurer, Mr. 8. L. Getter, an enthusiastic democrat of Middletown, Pa., was a pleasant caller at our office last Friday. The gentleman is much interested in having the Democracy of Pennsylvania place C. W. Raymond, of Middletown, on their state ticket this year as a can. didate for State Treasurer. From what we have read of Mr. Raymond, he would make a strong man for that position and we hope the convention will give this candidate due consideration. There are a number of democratic aspirants for the position, among them being Stephen McCandels, of Pittsburg, for thirty years past Clerk of the United States Circuit Courts, It is also reported that Hon, Harry Hall, of Elk county, would accept the same position. We are glad to say that any one of the above gentlemen would be a strength on the Democrstic State Ticket this yoar, Next Thursday, September the 3rd is the last day for the registration of voters. - {in Pennsylvania is 82, We are now able to form some reas. | woolen manufact- | | Mr EVERYBODY WORTH %1.000 The census Bureau has issued a bulle tin on the assessed valuat 1! and personal property which seems to justify the estimate that the absolute wealth of the United States is 862.610 00 nearly 81,000 per capita, The total srs of ¢ 0, on assessed value of property 41.082, an mn. of #005 382.16 in 4 BA, a The decrease 5, Nevada and South Carolina. little in the shoring arnegie’s millions, accu under the Protec. make anothers riches. paupers are becoming HZ. crease in ten Maryland decrease sii YEAS the is 8482.1] ice 1590 of $15,122,851 vill tie only other States that show a are lllinoi There these 8 very consolat ion { 11 gat } HEUPes wien of C poor men think mulated tion,” which taxes him poorer name of mie man t to increase Millionaires and | plentier than ever. a lI Heclas terns rented a nd will abiding place for a lobison has hnstonbaugh 1 il nnie and Grace Ogden, of parents, and Mrs. M. R. Ogded last week. The Penn Cave campmeeting was well represented on Sunday from Hecla. Messrs, Markle and Evans rivile Kes of tix Sunday, king down while goi mountain. Miss Carrie Ogden and her Miss Blanche Ogden spending parents This quiet community was startled a few days since, by the report that we had a female pugilist. She having tackled our champion, while stooping «=! a well to get a drink of water—whethes Queensburry rules were adbered to or not, we cannot say: but rather think not, as we are informed that she used an iron brake-lever from an old hay rake, and, losing that after striking hes antagonist several times, she grabed him by the whiskers, and held her grip until she was chocked sufficient to relax the hold. Both parties are getting bet ter of their bruises and scratches, de. claring what they will do the next time. Clearfield, were visiting their were Penn by thei ng up the deprived Cave campm wig v4 cart bre cousin, of Clearfield, are the with the formers week i A A —s Seven Deaths in Sixteen Months, A strange fatality has attained those connected with the banks of Tyrone, during the past sixteen months. In that time seven deaths have occurred among those engaged in banking or im their families, as follows: April 24, 1800, William Guyer, book-keeper in Tyrone bank; Oct., 17. 1890, John K Morrison, president of First Nationay bank: Jan. 3, 1801, Robert McCoy , book keeper in Blair County bank: Jan. §& 1891, Clande Burley, book keeper in First National bank; Feb. 3, 15881, Mas, Emma McCoy, wife of Gen. R. A. Me. Coy, cashier of Blair County bank: March 25. 1801. J. F. Van Valzah, vies president of First National bank: Aug. 7, 1801, Charles A. Study, bookkeeper in Blair County bank.—Tyrone Herald. a ADDITIONAL LOCALS, —Have your clothes fit you by leaving your order for a suit at the Philsd. Branch tailoring establishment. ~Mr. T. A. Lucas, of Chicago, is visiting friends and relatives in this section. He will return some time next week. ye Philad. Branch is now Jprepar- ed for the fall trade and they have un- packed an immense line of clothing new styles, new goods, new designs and the very lowest prices. ~The Daily Patriot, a bright nowsy and ably edited paper published at Atchinson, Kansas, was received this week. We were more than pleased to pote that Wm. G. Hoffer, formerly a Centre Hall boy and for a short time an employee on the Bellefonte can, is associate editor of the paper is gaining prominence in his line. Our farmers are more than delight. od with the progress of their cornfields during the past few weeks. It stands thick and is large and in many instances the stalks will bear two and threo well matured ears of corn. Some farmess claim that portions of their fields will give from 125 to 150 buskels to the acre. That ought to make mush and com cakes plenty. «Dr. Dorworth and family will not
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