4 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1896, DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, The Centre demoeval, | AM ERCANTILE APPRAISEMENT FOR 1804 Hosterman & Stover... HArd Ware .... The vondors of foreign and domestic merchandise will take notice ‘ we JE ORRICE, A. crn ‘ . Clothier a tn . “ Maize, J Merchant The recent Democratic State Conven- hot + rp : Mer a " == | tion which met at Allentown, Pa., adopt. nel ¢ 1 A at is w ; . © By ’ Merchant CHAS. R. KURTZ - . ED. & PROP ed a platform that is worthy of the care FREE RAW MATERIALS. | Aaronsburg... Mensch, BR W ans Merehant hey 7" ful perusal of every reader. We here. | ‘ Philips, W Hoos ood : pi 19 7 . Yoroiture | with give it entire : Te [| Axemann... Meyers, Henry Pitan ia 770 Nittany..Peck 8 & Sor . Meret { : v *rodue ’ sr Pric Bellefonte Allison, Archibal ' Nteam fitter 1 "re ’ . “The democracy of Pennsylvania by its Batter Products For the Sse Price—A ‘ S nis) on, John A peryeat. | representatives assembled, declares its Saving of 0 Per Cent to Domestic Manu- | o Anderson, John LS oor t Names lusiness Class, Tax. ; 4 Sra Druuggist Aan TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Oak Hall Regular Price $ i Peunn'a k 1 If paid DVAN . $1.00 CLUB RATES: year | for $1.70 ear | for $1.40 | DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE, 1800. 1 CHa \ ww, W on max 6¢ them. sauce, | be campaign nearly all the leading Republican news. papers of the country published the story that E. MH. Van Ingen, an American merchant in London, had brought $500. ooo from England, contributed by the Cobden club, to elect Cleveland presi. dent. The story was a lie, and the papers that published it knew it was a lie. Mr. Van Ingen has been bringing these papers to account for the slgnder, He has recovered £4,000 aud costs from the New York Mail and Express, £1,000 and coets from the New York Recorder, and the New York Press has paid $3,000 and costs, and expressed its regret for publishing “such false and unfounded charges.” And Dalzell's news agency in London has paid £4,000 smart money for sending the story out, This Cobden club busiuess don't 50Ci 20 be very pros fitable to Republican newspapers. Mr. Van Ingen should call on the Republican uewspapers elsewhere. | adherence to the fundamental principles | it has taught and enforced from the found. | ation of the government, and which it be 1 ‘It declares for a ¢.rict construction of constitutional grants of power to the government that infringe upon | of communities or the liberty | citizen; for a liberal interpretation | Il reservations of rights to the people; | i edom of though needful for the | government, honestly onomically administered, within | sphere of granted powers, posed to all schemes of taxa lly upon individu. | * the profits of ma * few those burde should be borne under which it was e 1 : 1 * DeoODie } »d on pstitutional | Won’ | come specially ade sedto any backward lished. ate t P ple emand a repeal ing the issue or reiss easury notes of doubtful - i nally, orriginally issued vor the most ent with the enforcement of standard, we are absolutely of 1 to the free coinage of silver and to 1ase of silver bullion that the interests of the | 1d that the earningsoftrade 1 ture and commerce, es of labor, should opposed mes for the debase , and toall eva a question so cl i Is and national cre | honor, “We heartily indorse the administra land, and congrat ry upon the firmness, wis- } » interests of the country. pecially commend his wise, deter- and successful efforts to maintain national credit, to avert financial business disturbance and to protect » country's honor, ned “We refer with sorrow and shame to | » reckless prodigality with which the Republican leg ture, supported by Republican state administration, has quandered the money of the people. The multiplicity of offices for no other irpode than to pension professional pol jans, the unnecessary increase in the salaries of state officals at the expense of appropriations to worthy public pur. poses, the abuse of the power of the political faction, are matters of record which form an indictment of the political conscience of the state, “The Democracy of Pennsylvania pre. sents to the national convention as its unanimous choice for the presidency the name of Robert FE. Pattison. Twice chosen controller ofthe city of Philadel- phia and twice governor of Pennsylvania, in the face of large adverse party major. ities, he has steed by these elections, that the people trust fim and that their confidence was well founded. Knowing him to be honest, able, unas- suming, fearless, a consistent Democrat and in harmony with the highest purposes of his party, we present him for the nomination to the Democracy of the nation, confident that this declaration of principles and of our choice for the presidency express the sentiments of the united Democracy of the state, and to the end that the vote of Pennsylvania may be most effectively felt and heard, the delegates to-day chosen are directed 10 vote as a unit in all matters intrusted to their charge, said action to be deter. mined by the vote of the majority. "Resolved, That the delegates-at-la this day elected shall have power to fill any v that may occur reason of lhe Sea \ or failnre of any delegates selected from gression- al district. 8a Son “ lieves are essential to the continuance of | { our system of free popular institutions, ' 3 inst the central- | : | | are able to compet hown by him in all mat- | factarers—FPlea For Protection Has Lit. | tle Standing —Faots About Revenues, i not require much attention to efits derived from free | h in only a littl r aro no l imntitios and fine qt them, It is sa rice Un the In manufacturer w | irate, have had t« pay n 00,000 in duties—a tax of near y 0 per cent upon the total value of all products of woolen manufacture in the domestic industries Manufacturers claim to have a griey ance against the new tariff in that they o with wreigners i 3 4 f r only a few kinds « the greed of the woolgrowers upon the domestic market was and it could hardly be ar : In mths acl radios sould be wronght as the home manufacture to and successfully the | That h imports ural In the year 1504 restriotoe what was ¢ mar) maa bo better ganged. Not neods of the market possibilities and the sh wero to be provided for therefore the year 1805 shoul been not only a year of large im tions but of impartations which 1 parison to previous years might appear excessive. How far do the statistics of mports bear out this conclusion? The total imports of manu wool for tho two years 1801 and 1802 were valued at $73,500,000, and for 1804 and 1500 at $76,100,000, It doas appear on this showing that the tures of fac mportations of 18505 were excessive when taken in their troe relation to the {imports of other years. The same cdin- parison can be in pecial lipes f goods. The imports of carpets 891 and 1802 valued at 0, at $3, most of the {tems on which the greatest tariff contes have been held, cloaks, hats of + iit fabrics and shawls, tho imports ¢ 800,000: in erimportats ¥ wxis the 0 square plushes and nearly three times greater in quantity in 1801 and 1592 than they were in 1804 and 1505 In the single item of woolen or worsted cloths have the im- ports increased remarkisbly in quantity as well as in valoe The imports for 18005 were as large 1 we imports of the three years from 1861 to 1803 inclusive Taken as a whole it cannot bo said that on the returns of y imports for the five years there has been any such increase above a normal average as would threat | en the existence or prosperity of a great domestic industry. The plea for higher protection of woolen manufactures has little standing in the face of such statis. tics, Nor can much be said on the plea of greater revenue, In 1892, which was the year of largest imports of woolen manu. facturers under the McKinley tariff, the amount of duties collected was 836,560, 539 on a valuation of imports of §37,. 17. This was equivalent to an ad vaiorem of 97.80 per cent. In i505 the duty collected was $25,102,048 on a valve of imports of $61,018,570-the equivalent ad valorem being 46 per cent. This shows that with the rate of duty 5575.08 reduced more than one-half the revenue | was reduced only 28 per cent. It is an | impudent demand to nsk congress to re- impose the high duties on raw wools to | gain a revenue of £6,000,000 or $7,000, 000 and to increase to an oven greater degree the duties on manufactures of wool for a similar sum. At the end of February the defleit in the national ae connt was only $900,000 more than i was at the end of November. The goy- ernment is, therefore, very nearly pay- ing its expenses out of current revenue, and there is no reasonable ground for tinkering with the tariff, and least of all in the direction of higher duties on raw wools and manufactures of wool, where the consumer loses $2 every time the government gains $1.-~New York Post, Maryland Being Reformed, The Republicans have reformed Mary- land in their usually effective style. Says the 8t. Louis Republic: ''Govern- or Lowndes has been compelled to with- draw the appointments to judgeships of embezaler and a thief. The mayor and the council of Baltimore are in a quarrel over a distribution of spoils, a2 1 threatens to carry off all the out the places itself. have learned sin is death." henbrch, B¢ chenbach, W 1
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