4 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MARCH 1, 1900, The Centre Demorrat, CHAS. A. KURTZ, - - EDITOR & PROP Aotual, average, sworn elrculation, of this Paper, for the past year, 180, was OVER 2475 COPIES PER WEEK, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price . $1 50 per yoar HM pald in Apvaxce $1.00 © ' Special Club Rate THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT will be sent one Year with any one of the below named papers, At the following low rate With Olnetnnatt! Weekly Enquirer $1.50 New York Jtimes-a week World $l EDITORIAL. I¥ Porto Rico isn’t part of this country, of what country is it a part - ANDREW CARNEGIE seems to think | that nothing is better for a young man | than poverty—and the blessing of a pm tective tariff THE Demo was unanimous member 1 nominated and would win GERMAN not madden Thank G fallen as granted pope The enligl places dutie rales Porto Ri island Tue pansio us with but backs on the | backed dow about abs inter ocean down mn the Has all these que that have come before President, Mr. Carnegie holds Mi Kinley differs vastly fi an Phil who began drunk and only ended wr. The President, according to Mr. Carnegie's estimate, began sober and ended drunk He was right at the start, but lacked backbone, courage or honesty, and end od fearfully in the wrong. To govern wisely and well Congress is therefore advised 10 jump with the President's first impressions, and not wait for his inherent and chronic weakness and lack of courage The joke of Mr, Carnegie letter is that while lauding the Presi dent's intention in gue sentence, Iu makes manifest his irretrievable weak pess when he comes to act foe coun try. will appreciate the letter, as it thor oughly understands McKinley's way from his silver gyrations down. Post When a man’s love grows cold, he should put bis arms around ber and keep her warm, A girl stapds before a mirror while dressing so she can see what's going on, PUBLIC OPINION, Opinfons From Various Sources om Questions of the Day, If the promises of the Quay machine are carried out there will be several speakers of the next house at Harris burg It 13 reported that the bosges have been liberal in their pledges to gmbitious seekers who are willing to give suport to the machine in exchange for the position If political and personal favorite were sent to govern the Filipinos thelr cupidity and inefficiency would in time become as intolerable to the natives as the maladministration of Spanish of- ficials befor President McKinley adopted his policy of giving the Fili- pinos freedom by shooting them to death Baltimore Sun New York The Den- to know why the not get at the root of demand that McKinley will \ a M ear In ry when on an ensive ile It appears from a response of Secretary Gage to a resolution of cone gress In regard to the expenditure of the $50.000 000 war fund that It cont the United States 5106.144 to white wash former Secretary Alger: and It was a poor Job at that, Of this sum $42,500 waa expended as compensation for the embalmed beef commission, pome of whose members were also In the enjoyment of large salaries He. ides this, 312.000 was expended for their meals, to say nothing of several odd 1) sands for cost of travel. Pull man necommaodations earriage Although the full report of this luxurious commission, which was 1 by the government at a cost of has never seen the light, the commissioners were supplied with fountain pens costing $12 each In order that they might make precise notes of testimony. As Alger has recently pro. nounced William J. Bryan a “curse to the ~ountry.” Is he to be accepted as a slessing ? Pittsburg Post CURRENT COMMENT, Notes and Comments, Politienl and Otherwise, on Matters of Publie Interest, It is claimed that Marcu Aurelin Hanna in of Quaker descent If true, the fact goes a long way toward proy ing that hereditary tendencies do no count for much, for Quaki« | are mode truthful uw} his t} 1tteal served er N Aller passing gtanda aw and » Heing all the leading papers of both § parties in sounding the praises of mu ometallism it Is hardly likely that g£. 0 p will consider It necessary parade the same old lie about favoring bimetalliam, though the loaders are very much concerned as to what the effect will he when they throw off the mask and declare to the country what infernal lars they have heen all thes years in pretending to favor the double standard The platform In 1882 de clared "The United States from trad tion and interest” favor bhimetallism Thin statement is true. but It should have heen followed with the axplana tion that while the United States fa vors bimetalllam, Wall street and the money trust are opposed to It, and as between the two the United States must take a back sent as long as Hanna years rule The Kansas farmer is getting about 456 conta for his wheat, and he Is pay ing three times as much for his nalls as he wan before MeKinley came Into office. But he gets good dollars for his wheat Strange, isn't it, that those dollars do not buy more nails ?—Cloves i land Recorder, PUBLIC OPINION, Opinions From Various Sources on Questions of the Day, The Democrats of this state need a firmer discipline and a more assertive leadership and the sincere, honest. de termined, unpurchasable element the party are re lor [4 fa 3 The Be h war edhe war authorized by congress vd ed to our renown by the splendid vk tories of our forces by land and sea and gave us at least two new naval heroes of the first rank George ew ey and Winfiald SBeott Schley But no man who kas any reputation for vera ity to lose will assert that the Philip pine war | 1 to either our glory a8 a people the strength of the republic When the Spanish WAr elosed we could have oe npled the mont enviable position ever held by any na tion since creations dawn, and all we had to do was to do that which we owed It to ourselves to do. and that was to say to both the Cubans and the Filipinos The Bpaniards are beaten Your chains are broken, You helped us to do this thing. Now set up any port of government you want, and we will make the other nations of the earth keep their hands off you, or we will shoot them off.” -~Hon. Champ Clark, Tonight Hoou ss Pills 01S 01 6000S and More Goming. FAIRNESS AND SQUARNESS alll, The Glolhiei. Make or Break, What we the printe 4 vou hemd Fairness and Squareness With this end in view, socoess must CHOWN Youn Moxey Back ron FIER ASKING al that we may prove to you that every statement is a veritable fact Again we apologize for not having our entire stock on hand. althe y fandt of ours rather blame the Eastern manufacturers for thei Miness, Give us a call : we may have you want, and if we haven't pow we will | plenty of ik in the near future Hespeot | Yours oll, The Glothier.
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