FREELMJD TRIBUNE.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
—BY—
THOS. A. BUCKLEY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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FREELAND TRIBUNE,
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Entered at the Ereeland Postofflce as Second
Clata Matter.
FREELAND, PA., APRIL 17, 1890.
READ the lecture of Dr. John L.
Wentz, on first page, entitled "Sur
gical Emergency." It contains a great
deal of useful knowledge to the mine
worker.
THE tariff fight is going on finely,
though the fun is only just beginning.
As soon as Congress takes up the bill
now in preparation, the howl that will
go up will shake the country.
IN the first year of his administra-1
tion, Harrison has made or sanctioned
over 34,000 changes in postmasters
for political reasons. This is the same
Elder Harrison who said in his letter
of acceptance that "fitness ami not
party service should he the discrimin
ating test, and fidelity and efficiency
the only sure tenure of office.
A REPUBLICAN organ says the mild
winter is the cause of all the trouble
in the mining regions. Is it the mild
weather which takes millions from
the miners in the shape of royalties *
This reminds us of the farmer argu
ment : IVhen crops are bountiful, the
trouble is over production; when the
yield is poor, "short crops" is the cause
of all the trouble.
TnE United States Senate in one
half day last week appropriated $885,-
000 to the construction of nine public
buildings in as many cities. Two
towns in Oregon got SIOO,OOO each
and two Rhode Island towns another
$'200,000. A few more months of the
present Congress will leave nothing
for future generations but gorgeous
public buildings and a huge pension
list.
Tim Republican party is thorough
ly committed to and controlled by the
incorporated capital of the Northwest.
Republican voters may demand tariff
reform. They are free to talk as much
as they please, but in the Republican
party money acts. "The tariff is in
the hands of its friends," and they are
not likely to lower it while it offers
them a hope of an average bonus of
45 cents on the dollar of their in
vested capital.—St. Louis Republic.
BR'ER Clarkson will take his depart
ure from his place in the Post Office
Department with the spring flowers
and the last run of shad. The first
day of June is the day fixed for his
exit. The pay of his place is said to
be unsatisfactory. He did not get
over ten cents a head for decapitat
ing Democratic postmasters—about
S4OOO a year - . The supply of post
masters having run short, the pleas
ure of swinging the axe has been
greatly diminished. Mr. Clarkson
will make way for some ambitious
substitute.
COMMON sense should suggest to Mc
kinley and his tariff committee that
they would be wise to stop this folly
on the subject of trusts which are
sustained by special duties. By do
ing what they are doing in VAu- Me-
Kinley bill, they are cutting the throat
of the Republican party. They are
surrendering all the advantages se
cured by the last national election;
and unless they turn about face and
make an honest reduction instead of a
monopolistic tariff', they will not only
lose the Republican majority in the
next Congress, but they will elect
Grover Cleveland or another Demo
cratic President in 1892.—Philadel
phia Eoenimj Telegraph {Rep.).
HON. SAMUEL J. RANDALL, Congress
man from Philadelphia, died at his
residence, in Washington, D. C., on
Sunday morning. Mr. Randall was
one of the greatest Statesmen of this
country, and by his death the Demo
cratic parv, with which he had been
so long connected, loses one of its
most intelligent and earnest advocates.
While not, in accord with his party on
one of the most important questions
of the day, namely, the tariff, he was
otherwise a true supporter of Demo
cracy. His death was not a surprise
to the nation, but it will be s. great
loss as much was placed in the power
of Mr. Randall on account of the aide
manner in which he filled his official
position.
THE farmers have a good deal to
learn on the subject of taxation.
While they are complaining of State
and local taxes and the crushing
weight of their mortgage, they forget
the national taxes and the blessings
of the protective policy for which they
are paying. It is in reality the na
tional taxes that are crushing them
They sell the products of their land
at prices fixed by competition in the
markets of the world. They pay for
what they buy at prices fixed by a
tariff that enables monopolies and
combinations of manufacturers to
draw enormous profits from the con
sumers of their products. That is
where the farmers' burden comes
from.—New York Times.
Where I Oh, Where ! Will Thai Surprise
Be !
Ex-Speaker Carlisle has made a most
alarming statement which fully snstains
predictions made several weeks ago. Ac*
cording to Secretary Windom's estimate
of receipts and expenditures a surplus
of $411,569,522 was anticipated. But tlie
Secretary esstimated that the expendi
tures, including the Sinking Fund, would
amount to $344,440,477, whereas it has
since been announced by a member of
the Appropriations Committee that they
will amount to $442,099,110, an increase
of nearly $100,000,000, leaving a pro
spective deficiency of $57,090,110. This
is bad enough, but there must be, besides
proper expenditures, a number of loot
ing schemes added to it which the Re
publican party lias promised the tax
eaters to put through. The repeal of
the arrears of pensions limit will cost j
$471,000,000; the Grand Army Pension
bill will call forssl44,ooo,oooa year; the j
pensions for prisoners, $10,000,000; the
Dependent Pension bill, $50,000,000; a
bill increasing certain pensions from SSO
to $72 a month, already passed, $400,000;
pensions for the loss of a leg or an arm,
$25,500,000; pensions for nurses, $4,000-
000; and these are not all the pending
general pension bills, and alone add
$708,000,000 to the ordinary pension ap- '
propriations. Besides these wholesale
pension raids there are other bills, not |
counting the cost of the Public Buildings
"pie," which provide for the expendi- j
ture of nearly $600,000,000. This tre
mendous looting is all within the con- i
tcmplation of the party now in absolute i
control of the Government. The House !
was organized with a view of it, and its
unconstitutional rules were passed for
the purpose of facilitating it. If the
Republican party keeps its promise and
has the courage to do what it may the
next Congress will be obliged to authorize
a creation of a new debt of at least $2,-
000,000. A dreary outlook indeed.
The Secret llullot.
Soino professed friends of ballot reform in
Pennsylvania are doinj? their level best to help
the politicians defeat the Australian system by
insisting that we cannot put it in operation here
without an amendment to the constitution.
The constitution of this State provides that
all ballots shull be numbered before they are
deposited in the ballot box, and this, it is urged,
prevents secret voting.
So far from being antagonistic to the Austro
' Jian system, this provision for numbering each j
ballot would be a most valuable feature in the '
detection of fraud, and if it were not already j
in the constitution, it would be worth while to !
put it there. Under the proposed system the i
voter marks his oflicinl ballot in secret, folds it
so that only the reverse side can be seen, and
then proceeds to the ballot box. Even if this
official should aiterwarus count the ballots \
there would be practically no danger to secret |
voting, but in order to make it safe the ballot j
boxes should be immediately sealed when the |
polls close, and the votes counted by other of- j
I llcia.'s, ufter which they should be preserved, .
and in case an investigation is afterwards ncccs- '
sary, it would be possible to identify each bal
lot. All such objections arc, after all, mere
quibbles and attempts to defeat an honest bal
lot. The great objection to our present system
is that men can be voted like sheep by handing
j them a ballot and watching them until it is de
; posited. By this method the briber is shown
j that the bargain is carried out, and this is the
| basis of the purchase of votes. All the legisla
tion in the world cannot prevent the payment
of bribes, but we can prevent the delivery of
the goods. The two great features of the Aus
tralian system are the official ballot and its
preparation free from intimidation.
When this is accomplished, bribery is prac
tically killed, and other features are mere mut
ters of detuilof secondary importance.—Justice.
The Policy of a Decaying Party.
In the creation of new States of the
Nevada pattern of Republican politi
cians see the only means of maintaining
their hold of power. With the two Da
kotas, Washington and Montana giving
them eight Senators and thirteen more
electors for President, they did not feel
| quite secure; and hence these are to be
followed by the admission of Wyoming
j and Idaho. New Mexico, with double
i the population of these Territories, is to
i be kept out of the Union because New
Mexico is Democratic. Utah is refused
j admission for the same reason, with the
canting pretense over Mormonism; but
no Kaueamisbness is manifested over
Wyoming Territory, whose control is
, about equally divided between the Mor
mons and the Woman Suffragists.
Even though the nineteen new electoral
i votes should be of no weight in deter
-1 mining the result of the election for
j President, there is another important
consideration which dictates this "rotten
borough" policy of the Republican party
managers. The twelve new Senators are
j expected to keep the Republicans in
possession of one branch of the Federal
legislature for years to come, and thus
enable them to obstruct every meas
ure which the Democratic party may
urge in the interest of the masses
of the people. This is the main
desideratum with the great corporations,
monopolies and privileged interests that
hold sway over the Senate of the United
States. It matters little to them whether
the prematurely created States should
, vogetato like poor Nevada, or develop
into communities of aquarian fanatics
and woman suffragists like Wyoming,
provided that they control the Senate,
and thus prevent the complete restora
tion of the Democratic party to power.
To the managers of the Republican Na
i tional Committee all this is of quite
o f tle concern, so long as they can grease
their machine with the "fat" fried out of
the coiporations and monopolies which
they serve with so much assiduity. j
Rut the very desperation of this rotten
borough policy betrays the precarious ;
foundation 011 which it rests. While the i
Republicans may create a brace of States ;
out of Wyoming and Idaho in the Rocky 1
Mountains, they feel that their power is
slipping from them in the great centres j
of American population. They have lost
lowa and Ohio, and it will be hard for
them \o regain these former strongholds,
while tluy have to contend inch by inch
( to maintain their footing among the
workingmen of Massachusetts. In a
single election hv that of 1874 the people
eould sweep away, v with a cyclone, the
fabric of power cuniriqgly reared in the
Senate of the United There is
not enough territory on th IK continent to
be carved up into rotten-borongh States
that can stay the popular tempest when
jit shall arise. To him who observes the
I political skies the signs of its coming are
I not wanting,—Philadelphia llecord.
Correspondence From the Capitol.
WASHINGTON, April 15, '9O. !
Mr. Ilenry Cabot Lodge's bill to throw
a halo of personification about the head
of tlie American postmaster will hardly
become a law. While there may be some
valid objections to the present manner of
selecting this class of officials, Mr. Lodge
has made a failure in his attempt to de
vise a practical substitute. Should Mr.
I Lodge's bill become a law the country
would be divided into postal districts,
I and a postmaster inspector in each dis
| trict would inspect the patriots who
! should offer themselves and pass on
; their qualifications. It would then be
' the duty of the inspector to prepare a
j list of the applicants, placing their names
in the order in which he regarded their
respective merits, and this list would be
tiled with the Postmaster (Jenoral. Then
the latter official would be called on to
send to the President the name which
heads the list, or else furnish in writing
sufficient reasons for such refusal. But
what Mr. Lodge and other reformers pre
fer to designate the "spoils" system of
choosing postmasters has many advant
ages over the visionary and romantic fad ;
which is now being considered by the :
' 11ouse post-office committee. Under the I
present system, the member of Congress I
practically names the postmasters in Ins j
I district, and he in turn is responsible to j
the voters of such district. If he fails j
to recommend good officers, and the ser- ;
vice sutlers, the people have the remedy j
in their own hands. They can turn the
Congressman out and select a representa
j live who would give them competent
postmasters. While under Mr. Lodge's
I proposed system the district post-office
inspector, protected by inconsistent and
j complicated rules, could appoint whom
i he pleased and laugh in the faces of the
people when they saw fit to object.
There may be some room for improve
ment over the present mode of seWtin*r
postmasters, but Mr. Lodge ainl his re
form colleagues have failed to present it
in a practical form.
The Capitol has never known a quieter
season than that of 1890. But if the
months usually devoted to gaiety were
dull, lent, sarced to sackcloth and ashes,
has been gay in an extreme way never
countenanced here before. There have
been breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, teas,
theatre parties, coaching parties, riding
parties, driving parties, walking parties,
literary symposiums and what not. But
for the warning church bells the
fashionable West End would hardly
have known lent existed. Paradoxical
as it may seem, this lent has been es
pecially rich in dinners of the epicurean
sort, where there have not been only a
! "feastof reason and a flow of soul," but
' fat canvas-back ducks, delicious terrapin
! and forced vegetables. The President
j gives few dinner parties, but he has
j many friends to dinner informally. The
Vice President's family have been away
during nearly the whoi© £ lont, but
since their return they have had one
large ollicial dinner and many small
ones. The Pan-Americans have been j
feasted to satiety, and whatever else I
they take home with them they will ;
carry back an excellent opinion of Ameri
can hospitality.
* *
i The informal afternoon "at homes" j
among the official people have been very '
popular. It is astonishing how many i
busy men find the opportunity to drop I
| in for a fifteen-minute chat with the |
l women who are attractive because of j
j beauty, cleverness or the excellence of i
their maderia. Messrs. Blaine, Cabot I
Lodge, Reed, Hitt, and all the foreigners ,
can be met any pleasant day on their |
way to or from making a call. It is es
pecially pleasant for a statesman to sit
behind the tea table with some pretty
women and listen to her remarks about
his policy and politics in general—a mild
I sort of dissipation that is much indulged
|in by our great men. Mr. Blaine is de-
I voted to driving in the country, and he
j is often seen in the State Department
carriage with one ot Ins daughters or
Mrs. Hitt or Mrs. Cabot Lodge as a com
panion. Cabot Lodge is fond of riding.
He owns a magnificent animal and has
investigated all the roads in the vicinity.
Riding grows in popularity here every
year. Most of the society women ride,
and cavaliers are in such demand that
men who have heretofore had no social
i standing, but who own a decent animal
| and can sit it well, have been known to
i ride straight into the sacred precincts of
vanity fair.
* #
! The tariff bill will be reported to the
; House this week, probably as early as
Wednesday or Thursday. The bill and
i the report of the majority of the Ways
and Means Committee are now ready,
and probablv by this afternoon or to
morrow the report of the Democratic
majority of the committee will be ready.
I Mr. Carlisle is now engaged in drawing it
' up. Atone time there had been some
• intention of submitting a minority bill
: on the lines of the Mills bill, which
| passed the House in the last Congress;
; but that intention has been abandoned.
! The majority of the Democrats on the
I committee and three-fourths of the
< Democrats in the House regard that
| politics are altogether inadvisable. They
; are satisfied that the McKinley biil
is wholly indefensible and as opponents
of that i>ill merely think they can afford
'to stand before the country. Some of
i the leading Democrats regard the Mc-
Kinley bill as so bad that they cannot
| believe it is intended to stand alone.
They believe that Secretary Blaine has
I had a hand in preparing it, and that high
i duties have been put upon raw hides
! and some other things, in order to facili
tate a dicker looking to free trade with
i South and Central America.
1 Senator Blair is not readily discourag
ed over the lack of enthusiasm with which
: the most of his great legislative proposi
; tions have been received by the United
States Senate. Immediately after the
| defeat of his famous educational bill lie
re-introduced it in a somewhat changed
j form. Saturday he sent to the desk a
; great batch of reprint bill, which had
been previously introduced by him in
various Congresses. Some of these
measures are sweeping. For instance,
to prevent any person, corporation or
partnership from owning more than 820
acres of agricultural land, or more than
! 040 acres of land of any description.
Another one of these back-number bills
provides for the settlement of disputes
I between railway companies and the cm
| ployes by arbitration. Senator Blair is
I a good stayer.
! The friends of the direct tax bill are
beginning to show anxiety in regard to
it. It was the popular opinion that it
would have a safe and easy passage
through legislative channels, but it ap
pears to be grounded somewhere. Six
weeks ago it went through the Senate
without difficulty, and has been on the
House calendar for nearly a month.
. The majority and minority reports are
j ready and in the hands respectively of
Representatives Caswell and Dates. The
former is exceedingly anxioustocall it up,
but it is hinted that Mr. Cannon and
the economists on the Republican side of
the House, who are interested in pre
venting a treasury deficit, have an anchor
fastened to it that will keep it right where j
it is for some time to come. R.
Old newspapers for sale.
ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF THE
BOROUGH or FREELAND
IFor 1889-90.
DR.
I BERNARD MCLAUGHLIN, Col.
j To ain't of duplicate. slsOl 71
I " dog tax..) 84 00
[ " supplemental tax. 1 20
I $ 1.586 91 '
I CR.
' To ain't of exonera
tions 8 81 41
To ain't exonerations
on dogs 27 00
i Hot. to County Com... 104 11
I Abatements 10 20
Am't paid treasurer.. 1000 00
Collector's com 77 90
Am't due treasurer.. • 280 23
8 1586 91
PAT'K BURKE, Treas.,
In account with Freeland Bor.
DR.
To balance on hand
March 1, 1889.. 1... 8 30 58
Rec'd from Collector
Collins 10 98
Rec'd from Collector
Williamson 199 47
Rec'd from County
Treas. as liquor li
censes 2183 90
Rec'd from Col. Mc-
Laughlin, taxes'B9. 100000
Burgess Davis, fees.. 121 10
T. A. Buckley, J. P.
license 50
Daniel Daubert, rent
of Council room for
~Wiono to oo
8 3556 53
CR.
By cash paid on vouchers as
follows:
Condy Boyle, work on
streets $ 241 50
Peter Carr 28 14
Frank Thomas 74 48
John Haggerty 76 28
Manusßrennan 14 50
(ieorge Filby 37 15
Hugh Trimble 16 88
Neat McNelis 15 00
A. B. Howe 4 38
David Davis 3 75
Solomon Backert 1 25
Albert Goeppert 1 87
Timothy Boyle 7 13
Joseph Gallagher 7 50
Patrick Maloney 2 50
Wm. Stivers 03
R. M. Rinkor 7 "75
Ennest Cornelius 22 44
Wm. Johnson, team. 121 75
A. Donop, team 68 11
Isaac Ashman, team. 1 12
David ItioUovt, " 100
I A. B. Howe, stones.. 59 45
j Penna.Globe Gaslight
Co., rent of street
! lamps 423 00
j Freeland Water Co.,
j rent of fireplugs... 221 25
| M. Halpin, repairs... 12 40
Geo. Wise, one wagon
jack 6 00
William McGettrick,
lighting fires at
Council room 50
Chas. Schooner, sup
plies 2 20
Schoener & Birkbeck,
supplies 5 50
C. L. and A. S. Keck,
lumber 27 70
Jno. M.Cunnius, lum
ber 22 31
A. K. Burger, lumber 956
Wm. Williamson, sup
plies 14 74
T. A. Buckley, print
j ing circulars, Bur
gess' notice and or
dinance 11 75
T. A. Buckley, pnb
lishingstatement... 25 00
T. A. Buckley, mak
ing duplicate 5 00
T. A. Buckley, for
freight on lumber.. 3 45
T. A. Buckley, salary
and postage 26 00
' Geo. Krommes, stones 2 18
Jas. E. Griffith, labor
on Council r00m... 21 75
II David Rufe, labor on
I Council room 11 00
Weider and Boyle,
| mason w0rk........ 500
i Owen Fowler, pub
s lishing annual state-
I j ment 25 00
s I Owen Fowler, Bur
, gess' notice and or
i- (linance 4 50
c 1 Ada Powell, cleaning
j cells 400
it J Mrs. Daniel Brennan,
e j cleaning cells 400
II | 15. F. Davis, locks 1 60
h j Coxe Bros. A Co., snr
s; veying 18 00
I. Jno. M. Powell, dry
-0 I ing hose 3 00
e Jno. Burton, drying
11 hose 300
y ; Jos. 11. Lindsay, dry
li j ing hose 300
s James Gallagher, in
-1 j terest 12 00
f! Birkbeck estate, in
; terest 42 00
11 Jno. Herron, interest, 24 00
.. | ICline Bros., lime.... 50
s | Patk. Burke, time to
i | Wilkes-Barre forli
s I cense money 500
. ' Jno. Turnback, audit
i [ ing 400
Jno. C. Reich, audit
ing 4 00
Frank Depierro, au
'* j diting 400
' l John M. Powell, jani
" tor 32 50
1 J. D. Hayes, salary... 25 00
1 j " " expense
J in taking proceeding
' j to open Centre street 12 50
j [ A. A. Bachman,glass. 105
' | R. M. Rinker, assess
-1 j ing dogs 285
" I W. D. Cotven, police
• ! fee 300
'' | Wm.Gross, police fee. 300
Evan Wood ring, po-
I : lice fee 300
• { John Shelhamer, po
• I lice fee 200
' ( John Zeisloft, police
fee 2 00
I I Adam Sachs, piece of
land 250 00
j Hugh Malloy, piece of
■ ' land 185 00
, j R.M. Rinker, serving
, j notices 200
. ! R. M. Rinker, bury
. I ing animals '.. 375
j Two borough bonds
| redeemed 200 00
j Old orders of 'BB series :
[ Chas.Vandusky, team 16 20
Patk. McCole, work
\ on streets 03
J M. Halpin, repairs on
[ hose carriage and
new jumper 288 75
R. M. Rinker, assess
ing dogs 5 65
Penna. Globe Gas
light Company 30 00
Freeland Water Co.,
rent of plugs 110 (JO
T. A. Buckley, salary,
postage ana freight, 44 30
I Bal. in treasury 447 57
Treasurer's com 60 90
8 3556 53
RESOURCES.
Due from Bernard Mc-
Laughlin, Col., '89.8 280 23
James Sharpe, 1884.. 10 04
Thos. Brown, 1883... 1 11
Council room and
lockup 1075 00
Fire apparatus and
house 2202 75
$ 4235 73
LIABILITIES.
Bonds of 1883 S 300 00
" " 1885 900 00
$ 1200 00
Resources over liabilities $3,036 73
We, 11ce undersigned, Auditors of the Borough
of Freeland, after liclugcluly sworn according
to law, doth say that weexaniincd the accounts
of the Borough officers as presented to us, and
found 11]c-lii correct tend true, and the ton going
Is a true statement of the same.
.lOHN C. HEICII, )
II HUMAN Sll KI.HAMK.It, ■ Audit.us.
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GOGH MATERIAL! LOW PRICES!
HUGH MALLOT,
Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland.
THOMAS BIRKBEGK, 35 P ,
"\A7"liclesale and detail.
All kinds of plumbing and spouting done at short notice in
the most approved style. We carry the largest stock of goods ir.
Freeland and extend an invitation to the public to inspect them.
DOWN GOES MCGINTY!
Up Goes the Stock at J. C. Berner's!
I All new goods. 10,000 ROLLS OF WALL PAPER, odds
( and ends, 5c double roll New styles, Oc 10c 12c 15c etc. New
) drygoods and dress ginghams 10c. Cliambrays 12ic. Australian
ginghams 13c.
1 Carpets ready for spring trade 18c, 25c, 30c, 35c, 40c, 50c etc,
, Groceries; 3 cans tomatoes for 25c; 3 cans corn 25c; Soda biscuits
. sc—by the bbl—etc.
Furniture and Beddings; slat springs $1.25, etc. I have the
i largest store in Luzerne Co., therefore can sell cheap. Call and
see our stock. Yours truly,
j". c. BEirasnEiß
ßlP VAN WINKLE RECLINING
CHAIR.
"GREATESTIH EARTH"
fcVU furniture.
POSITIONS. HAS NEW ROCKING PRINCIPLE.
I -sSNOISELESS, PERFECT ACTION, MODERATE PRICES.!*-
A BEAUTIFUL PRESENT, A COMFORT EVERY HOUSEHOLD NEEDS, BUY ONE.
BEST INVALID'S CHAIR IN THE WORLD!
B ENo^oß o cmcm.Aß 9 j WALTER HEYWOOD CHAIR M'F'B CO., HEW YORK.
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