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NY 138-148 West Tits HE «ss « New York City, No. Yo SECRETARY TAMILTON SPEAKS FOR OLEO Sensational Utterances Attributed to the State Secretary of Agriculture, FUSION FRIGHTENS QUAYITES. They Are Trying Wherever to Head It Off They Can—Chester Fu-~ sion Papers Refused ant Secretary Office—~The Dauphin Courts Are to Be Appealed To. of State's (From Our Own Correspondent.) Harrisburg, Sept. 4—The efforts that are being made by Secretary cof Agri- culture John Hamilton to get the farm- ers to believe that he is lying awake of nights scheming to knc out the ceting with s On Wednesday last at the Gran- Jesse cess. gers’ picnic at Williams Grove Cope, who succeeded Levi yells as dairy and pure food commiss read a paper prepared by S Hamilton in reply to the attacks Luther S. Kauffman, of the Pure But- ter association. And it was a picnic, indeed. Down in the front seats sat George G. Hutchinson, confidential clerk to Secretary John Hamilton. Hutchinson tried to play the part of a farmer in the audience, and would frequently inter- rupt Cope with questions, which, hav- ing been fully coached, Cope would reply to with apparent sincerit was a most remarkable and foxy pro- ceeding from beginr z to end. On the following day Secretar ilton grew enraged over Kauff- man’s attacks on him and tried to re ply, and in doing s Ss the Philadel- phia North Americ turday last declared, came out openly as the champion of oleomargarine. The fol- lowing editorial fr that newspaper describes the situatien from it point: HAMILTON ON OLEO. “Secretary of Agriculture Hamilton, having been driven from one trench of false pretense to another, has at last come out into the open as an undis- guised champion of oleomargarine. Be- fore the great assemblage of farmers at Williams Grove on Thursday he had the desperate impudence to s that they had no cause to complain of com- petition with the oleo trust. The sale of its product, he coolly informed them, does not injure the market for pure butter. Said this secretary of agricul- ture, whose sworn duty it is to sup- press the sale of oleomorgarine: ‘“ ‘Only 100,000,000 pounds of butter are made annually in Pennsylvania, and 200,000,000 pounds are consumed hore, 80 that we must import 100,000,- 000 pounds from some place. Until we supply our own market with but- ter it cannot be said th the sale of oleo is hurting the farmer s sale.’ “That is to say, d market has no effect in d tion—and a market crowded cheap and fraudulent competing art at that! INSULT TO INTELLIGENCE. “Secretary Hamilton i 1 telligence of the farmer: { ing the picking of their pockets by the oleo trust, which buys protection from the same political machine that owns him. They know, as Hamilton knows, that of oleo, as such, they have no fear. Were the stuff offered for sale on its merits they would not complain. Its cheapness could not overcome the pop- ular distaste for it. But it is colored as butter and sold as butter, and the dealers in it can easily afford to under- sell the dairymen. The coloring of oleo in imitation of butter is a crime, but a crime that goes unpunished, for the protection which the law refuses is extended by the Quay machine. “Oleo, unlike butter, ean be made equally well, and in equal quantities, at all seasons of the year. Whenever a short supply of butter would, in the natural course of things, raise its price, oleo is rushed in and the market stocked with what looks like butter and is dishonestly sold as butter. HARD ON TEE FARMER. “The development of the west has borne heavily upon the Pennsylvania farmer. He has found its competition in grain and cattle crushing. The chief industry remaining to him is the dairy, and he has a right to demand that the home market shall be preserved to him—not against fair competition with outside dairymen, but against the un- lawful competition cf counterfeiters, whose attorney Secretary Hamilton now makes himself, “This bold appearance of Hamilton an an apologist for a gigantic swindle upon the public that is ruinous to the farmer illustrates the power of the oleo trust in Pennsylvania. Even the state's governor does not dare to offend it, and he will retain Hamilton in office not- withstanding the latter’s disgraceful exhibition of himself at Williams Grove.” Reports from all parts cof the state where fusion tickets have been put in the field show that the Quay machine ifs doing everything in its power to halt the movement and throw obstacles in the way of the anti-Quay Republi- cans. The machine by this action shows that it is frightened. Two years ago the fusion in Chester, Blair 1 other counties did not attract tention or sxcite the fear bosses that the present movement is doing. On Wednesday Plummer E. Jeffries, of Chester ty, who has been named as the date for senator on the fusion last Representative coun- nomination papers. At the office of the secretary of state those in charge refused to issue a certificate or accept the papers as filed. The matter was placed at once in the hands of At- torney Charles W. Bergner, and if Sec- retary Greist persists in refusing to ac- cept them proceedings will be com- menced at once in the Dauphin counie court to compel him to do so. In speaking of his failure to ge the fusion papers flled, Representative said: “I filed papers precisely similar in character one year ago, and they were accepted without question, and the names of the nominees were printed upon the official ballot. Why Secre- tary Greist should make a special ex- ception against the present fusion movement in Chegixr county, the pub- lic can judge qui as well as I can. He has evidently heard, however, of our convention, and that it contained nearly 200 delegates, were some of the f busiuess and prof; county. His present 1 augurated, I supg much trouble a ‘Do you aj tary has it in his POW Serious trouble?” w “Not at all. We Jeffries not seeking fa- the at- | mong the | | choice of materi came to Harrisburg to file the fusion | | town wh vors. We ask for nothing outside of what we believe the law clearly guar- antees to us. If Mr. Greist has not the grace to give us so much the courts of Dauphin county will be appealed to. We are in the fight to the finish, and if the skirmish is to open in the sec- retary’s office at Harrisburg we shall be content.” The same feeling is manifested in other counties where fusion tickets are in the field. The Quay machine will be fought on this issue in the courts ev- ov time and all we ? time: fe OFT 6 SChool Mister. Our Schools of 50 Years Ago Com- pared With Our Schools of To-day. Have Our Schools Made Sufficient Progress During the Last 50 Years? Following we publish the contents of an old document left at Tie Star office some time ago by Mr. Frank Tipping, of Midland, Md. It is an interesting old document and will explain itself. SCHOOL ARTICLE BETWE M. WELFLEY AND JOHN KEIM. It is agreed by and between M. Wel- fley, teacher, and John Keim, president of the board of directors of common schools of Elk Lick district, in Somer- set county, that said Martin Weltley shall, under the supervision and ex- clusive directicn of the board of di- rectors of said district, and their sue- cessors, teach in the school house or building at or near Robert Patton’s, for the term of three months, and for the compensation of fifteen dollars per month, to be paid at the end of each month, if desired; reserving the right for the board of directors, for the time yeing, to dismiss said Martin Welfley at the end of any month or quarter or said term, and the actual possession of the said school house and buildings, and premises before mentioned, to remain and be considered by all par- ties as remaining and being at al times in the board of directors and their successors. In witness whereof we have here- unto set our hands and seals on day of December, A. D. 1850. N. B. Commenced teaching Nov. 24th, 1850. Martiy WeELFLEY, Teacher. [Seal.] Joux Ken, President. [Seal.] Attest, A. McKINLEY. We learn from the foregoing agree- ment that 50 years ago $15 per month was paid to school teachers in this lo- cality, and that three months consti- tuted the term. In pondering over these things, this question naturally arises: IHave our schools made suflicient pregress during the last 50 years? We do not believe that any reasonable or intelligent man would answer this question in the af- firmative, for it is only too true that the public schools of Pennsylvania have not kept pace with the increase in population, wealth and general de- velopment of our great state. It is but a few years ago that our school term was changed from only five to six months, and it was only last autumn that the minimum term of seven months went into eect. It will therefore be plain to all that in this respect progress has been very slow. And how about wages? In this re- spect, too, advancement has been very slow. Fifty years ago teachers receiv- ed $15 per month, and at this late date there are districts in this county that do not pay over five to ten dollars per month more. Considering the financial condition of fifty years ago with those of to-day, $15 per month was a prince- ly sum compared to the $20, $25 or $30 per month paid to-day. Fifteen dollars per month for teachers in this locality fifty years ago was a much greater burden upon the people than four times that amount would be to-day. Therefore in the matter of wages, our school boards of to-day, are not up with the times. Probably the greatest advancement our schools have made is in the matter of buildings, school house furniture, ete. True, we also have much better qualified teachers than we had fifty years ago. But are the best qualified teachers always hired to teach our schools? We say no. In many cases well educated, practical and good moral young men are turned down, and in their stead are hired those who hold poor certificates, those who are naturally dull, and in many cases those who are naturally vicious, debased, in- temperate, profane and generally de- praved. Im one respect, at least, there has been retrogression in our schools, and that is in the matter of hiring young men to teach who do not possess good moral characters. Fifty years ago the average school teacher ranked among the best moral men and women of the community, but it is at least guestionable whether such is the case to-day. Of course we do not argue that all of the old-time teachers had good moral characters. Bad men were sometimes given schools in ye olden time, but in those days teachers were scarce, and directors had little or no As Grover Cleve- land would have said, “it was not a theory, but a condition that confronted them.” But times have changed, and there is no longer any excuse for hiring young men to teach school who get howling drunk on both public and private oe- casions, young men who get into fights and get their eyes blackened, who dish out whisky and money on election days noted for ne words, to debauch voters, who are and their profanity obse obscene acts, ete. Teachers of this class are dear at any price, but some directors seem to think that they are just the proper ones to have for school scalawags sometimes elected to the high position of moral responsibility known as the and we be- been oceasions teachers. Yes, such are of school principal, very thing 1 in this town on more In fact we are a few school d ofiice lieve that this done than one. there now it has, and : in (his now it, too. me of them may not like these as ns, but we t care a straw whether they like nor not. The assertions are {rue nevertheless, and if any of them want to raise a howl about it, let them howl until their faces get as black as the hinges of hades. We will say in conclusion that if any set of school directors see a few in this article that fit them, they are welcome to wear them. To this we wish to add that the day is past when it is necessary to hire common drunks, toughs, ete., to teach school. There are enough good moral men and wo- men to fill all the teachers’ positions in the commonwealth. Directors who knowingly and wilfully hire the riffrafl of society to teach school, disregarding the protests of the best people of the community—we say such directors, no matter who they may be, no matter what their stations in life may be, no matter what their moral and religious professions may be, they deserve to be socially, politically and otherwise os- tracised from society and the body politic until they have thoroughly re- pented for the shameful abuse of their sworn duties. Such directors, by their own actions, belie their moral profes- sions and their claims to good citizen- ship. Such directors are as deaf as an adder to the pleadings of conscience, and as blind to the needs of the rising generation as are the eyes of a potato to the rays of the noonday sun. We cannot be too careful as to the kind of men we elect for school directors. ee DEAR BOY LETTER—No. 2. My Dear Boy—You say that you have read Mr. Bryan’s speech at In- dianapolis and that “there are some things in it that appear to be reason- able.” Well, Mr. Bryan is a very pleasant speaker and can make a plausible showing when be has a very weak case. He is a clever, respectable gentleman who “earns his bread by the sweat of his jaw,” and he has learned his trade very well. But let me call your atten- tion to a few solid facts for you to con- sider before you feel inclined to yield your mind to his brilliant generalities about imperialism. 1. Mr. Bryan’s record proves him to be an unsafe leader. He is a theorist rather than a practical man of affairs. In every campaign in the past and upon every issue heretofore presented to the people for settlement, Mr. Bryan has been mistaken. The results have proved that he was mistaken. The natural presumption is that he is mis- taken now. When a Democratic Con- gressman, and also when a Populist leader in 1892, Mr. Bryan was very sure that I'ree Trade was the thing needed to insure prosperity in the United States. He was sure that the “robber tariff” was making it hard for the farmer and the wage earner to live. IIe and those who believed as he did succeeded in convincing the people, and {the Wilson bill, a free trade measure, was adopted and became a law. Three years of bitter experience proved that Mr. Bryan and his friends were mistaken. Factories were closed ; laboring men were without employ- ment; capital found no productive in- vestment, and the produce of the farm brought no adequate return to the farmer from 1893 to 1897 while this Free Trade bill was the law. In 1898 Mr. Bryan and his Democrat- Populist following dropped the tariff issue like a hot potato and took up that of free silver. During that cam- paign he declared that if the free coin- age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 we not adopted, if a gold standard con- tinued to be the law and became the fixed policy of the country, “that prices will go down is as certain as the law of gravitation ;” that “there will be a decrease in the amount of money in circulation ;” that “the army of the un- employed will continue to increase.” Results have proved that Mr. Bryan was again mistaken. Every one of his predictions turned out to be false. We have now a protective tariff and the gold standard law. Prices have gone up instead of down, while the rich have grown richer, the poor have shared in the general prosperity, the amount of money in circulation has largely in- creased, and labor was never more generally employed nor more ade- quately rewarded than now. Is it not fair to presume that the gentleman who has always been mis- taken upon every other leading issue is mistaken about imperialism, which he declares to be the “paramount issue of this campaign?” 2. Your father remembers two cam- paigns before this when imperialism and militarism were the key note of the Democratic war ery. The first was in 1864, when the mighty Lincoln, whose name you bear, was a candidate for re-election. I was not quite old onough to vote for him, although I was carrying an Enfield rifle in the Union army, and I remember how unjust it seemed to me because I was old enough to fight and not old enough to vote. I remember that our Democrat- ic friends said that the re-election of Lincoln meant the downfall of the re- public and the establishment of an empire by force of arms. The same cry came to the front in 1872 when General Grant was a candi- date for re-election. “Caesarism,”’ “nepotism,” and “military tyranny” were the sum and substance of every Democratic speech, and the downfall of the republic was predicted if Grant should be elected. Well. the logie of events proved that our Democratic friends were mistaken. Lincoln and Grant were elected, but the republic lived on. established. No army tyrannized over the people. The nation grew and pros- pered. Free speech, free schools, and a free press not only continued but en- larged their privileges and powers. In this letter I have shown you that the presumption is against the Demo- cratic position. In every shoes campaign for forty year the logic of events has proved that Democrats were wrong and the publicans right. It is not presume that such is the case 2 year x OLX lo No empire was | Re- | unfair to this STEVENSON’S MONEY VIEWS. dlai Stevenson, Bryan's runn mate, was on the dential ticket with Grover Cleveland, he was a sound money man. Vhen A pres- ent Presi- has not presented to the any reasons for a change to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and a grave suspicion is being aroused that he is playing a confidence game on the confiding I ver Republicans. Here is what he said in his letter of acceptance of the Vice Presidential nomination eight years ago: “To the plain and unequivocal decla- ration of the convention in favor of sound, honest money I subseribe with- out reservation or qualification. A safe circulating medium is absolutely essential to the protection of the busi- ness interests of our country, while to the wage-earner or to the farmer it is all-important that every dollar, what- ever its form, that finds its way into his pocket shall be of equal, unques- tioned and universally exchangeable value and of equal purchesing power.” - A Resurvey of the Boundary Be- tween Maryland and Penn- sylvania. The resurvey of the Mason and Dix- on boundary line between Pennsyl- vania and Maryland has begun under a commission consisting of Dr. Henry S. Prittehett, superintendent of the survey; Dr. Wm. Bullock Clark, of the John Hopkins University and State Geologist of Maryland, and Major Brown of Harrisburg, Pa. Capt. W. C. Hudgins, of the coast survey steamer Blake, is also identified with the work. It is probable that large granite posts three feet in length will be used to mark the boundary line. About the only inscription on the posts will be an “M” on the Maryland side and a “P” on the Pennsylvania side, which will be chiseled in the hard granite. A reference to the authority under which the resurvey is made may also be eut on each post. The popular idea is that a post will be placed at the end of each mile, but this will not be done. It is proposed to place them so that a straight line from one to the next one nearest can be easily determined by the surveyors. Stones will also be placed at highways and important streams for the convenience of oflicers of the Inw. The stones with which the greater portion of the present line is marked were brought from England. In the western part of Maryland and in West Virginia, however, earth and stones were heaped up to a height of some- times eight feet. The work was done in 1767, and yet in 1865 there were still two feet or more of each mound, which purposes of determining the So far he pul £ be) opulists and free sil- served all boundary. Librarian Burchard, of the United es Coast and Geological Survey, is preparing historical data dealing with the Mason and Dixon line, whieh is to be published by Le Governments Boys Arrested fort Committing Ma- licious Mischief. Tast Sunday while Wm. Kaulbfleisch, a German citizen who resides a few miles east of town, was absent from home, two young sons of Mrs. Adam 3aker, and a son of Mrs. T. Broadstock, went to the Kaulbfleisch and proceeded to shed blood and destroy property after the manner of an Indian massacre. Of course they didn’t kill any people, but they killed a rooster and a dog be- longing to the owner of the premises, then smashed in the windows, tore some of the weather-boarding off the house, scattered vituals, clothes, ete., over the floors, also deposited on thing on the floors that would have been more valuable on poor land. The young rascals no doubt thought they were having fine sport, but retri- bution has already overtaken the vil- lains, and they now realize that “the way of the transgressor is hard.” Constable Krausse on Monday gath- ered in the offenders, but they were liberated after spending several hours in the borough lockup. However, the end is not yet, for they will have to make full satisfaction with the man they have who kindly con- sented to give them a limited time in which to fix matters up or suffer the penalty of the law. A special law should be enacted for the punishment of such young fiends. For the first offense we would recom- mend the whipping post, and for the second offense such fellows should be house wronged, sent “over Jordan” by the chopping block and broadax route. This, of | course, would be severe, but it would be most alllired efTective. ~~ — Chinaman if ASK President McKinley has 2D5] pos kbone. John it seems that x Totiois Democrats are organizing Byren Soldier Clubs. How terribly Imperialistie! . ir predictions only electoral votes Chairman Jenes would be able to elect several presidents fis year. > were Colonel Bryan the ear end of a Pullman car Former voter s of a regiment bound f ~~ for ghe front. Ar last accounts “Coin” Harvey was farm farm, having nie all ae money he co farming je farmers. = —- “Gexeran” Coxey is also too busy army of on to Washington with his steel plant to lead an the 1 discontent just now. Bryan's ( £ tance was devoted to explaining the en | om now it will be time to explain the el | i -—— | I's 1 ing | fio 1 to the intelligent colored | he North.” The Dem Ey Hei or as two policies for thern 1 v and a = to the head | IT appears that sixty-three persons attended the so-called Anti-Imperialist convention at Indianapolis. Prabably they were all there. -— . Joux Hay, the Secretary of State, is causing the Democrats lots of bother. They ean pick no flaw in his adminis- tration of foreign affairs. Mr. Bryax’s spceeh of acceptance may furnish a little encouragement to Aguinaldo and his followers, but it will not appeal to loy al Americans. Tie betting in the East is stated to be three to one on McKinley—based, no doubt, on the hard and cold ealcu- lation that prosperity will win. ———————— Mz. Bryan continues to talk shout money being the master. And Chair- man Jones goes right ahead colleeting the “master” for campaign purposes. Mr. Bryax says the Republican party puts the dollar before the man. 8o it does, and it is mueh better than plae- ing an empty dinner pail before him. ~~ Rep shirtism in North Carolina and Goebelism in Kentucky are omitted from all of Mr. Bryan’s speeches on “government without the consent of the governed.” har nl Mgr. Bryax needn’t worry about the safety of the Republic. There is not a good American in the whole country who would not give his life to save that same Republic. —— Bryax is fond of pointing to the faet that Lincoln always had great faith in the “plain” people. It should be ob- served, however, that Lincoin never tried to “fool” the plain people. ee —— Hox. Arrive SewarL, of Maine, who will possibly be remembered by some of our readers as having run for Viee President on the ticket with Mr. Bryan four years ago, is out for McKinley. a Jonx I. Avvcerp’s attack upon the war record of Governor Roosevelt is in keeping with the man. The friend of anarchists and revolutionists cannot be expected to admire robust American- ism. —— Joux M, Parmer has an- nounced his intention of working for McKinley and Roosevelt. The Demo- crats who favor an honest currency will not require a half-way station this year, (GENERAL Tiere is no reason to doubt that the Democratic National Committee will pay all the expenses of the Anti-Im- perialists and all other ostrich organi- zations calculated to support Bryan on the side. tee Sexaror Hoar’s logical reason’s for urging the election of McKinley and Roosevelt have had a rather depressing effect upon the Democratic editors. They have suddenly discovered that he is not a patriot. RE Tuere are over thirty thousand bank depositors in Colorado now, an increase of nearly a hundred per cent. in four years. Perhaps this is one of the many valid reasons why McKinley will carry Colorado Enis time. ———— Mg. Bryax has not yet said anything in the press of the economic independ- ence of the Nebraska hog, which is worth $4.50 more per head now than it was four years ago. It is really not nice of the Nebraska hog to be so very valuable. i AccorpiNG to Senator Tillman, stuf- fing ballot boxes and shooting negroes in South Carolina is all right. He would have us protect the brown man only when he is engaged in emulating the example of Aguinalda and firing on our flag. —— — It is.perhaps unfair, at least it would be embarras to ask the nominee of the Kansas City convention how he would apply the principles of the Declaration of Independence to the thousands of voters south of the Mason and Dixon line. . ee Ir is becoming evident that Mr. Bryan does not want much said about free silver before the election. The American people, however, are not so much concerned in what may be said before election as in what will be done after the election. le Tue total vote of Alshama in the re- cent election was 150,000. Alabama has two United States Senators and nine members of the Mouse of Representa- tives. According to the census returns there must be some “government with- out the consent of the governed” in that state. Mr. J. J. WILLETT, Of tue, thinks that Mr. Bryan is very strong. This is the same Mr. J. J. Willett whose un- erring judgment impelled him some time ago to insist that Augustus Van Wyck, of New York, one of tue chief of the Ice Trust conspirotors, was the only proper nominee for Pr esident. ——— Ix order to find a historic parallel to | the manner in which the Demoerats | treat the negroes in some parts of the | South, it will be necessary to search | among the records of the early Span- | ish conquerors in America. Yet Byran | would have the pecple believe that the as mantle of Lincoln has fallen npon his { shoulders, | Peruars the wot F efiorocs feature ign so far is contributed ny newspapers which claim at, notwithstanding the fact that Mr, i y aramounted the 16 to 1 plank ; forcing it into the Kan- it doesn’t mean any- > Republicans are of 30 cam ey aceept the to refute the n a party sets up a and then at- there is n of principles away from it ) ral
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