FRSMD TRIBUNE. 1 Published Every Thursday Afternoon -BY THOS. A. BUCKLEY, j EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. Address.all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. Office, Birkbcck Brick, 3d floor, Centre Street. Entered at the FreelandPoxtoJJice as Second ! Class Matter. FREELAND, PA., MAY K ISOi'. THE loss to the country of United j States Senator James B. Beck, who died suddenly at Washington on | Saturday, was unexpected and irre- j parable. He was honored among all } classes and conditions of men as an { honest, incorruptible Statesman, a j true patriot, and an earnest, sincere I friend of liberty and progress. There | is no region of the Republic, however | remote, where his death will not be j sincerely lamented. THE absurdities of the Republican I tarift bill becomes daily more apparent, j The country asks of Congress a ma terial reduction of the revenues of the Government; and this monstrosity j which Mr. Carlisle has shown, will in, | crease the revenue about $40,000,000 j per annum, is tendered them by the ) Republicans of the House. There is j only one good thing about this bill, ] and that is it will furnish a lot of tip top Democratic campaign material for | the coming Congressional lights. "THE most eloquent advocate of tariff reform in Philadelphia," said James M. Beck, of that city, in a speech at a Democratic celebration in Boston, "is the sheriff of our county, who has closed since the election of 1888, in this promised era of good times, over sixty-eight woolen mills and houses alone." Last year the failures of firms engaged in the woolen manufacturing in Philadelphia aver aged more than one in every week, and vet in the face of this disaster it is gravely proposed to further cripple this falling industry by heavier taxes on wool. THE Democrats of Berks county | are preparing to carry on the tariff I reform during the coming summer j and fall by a series of pic nics, to be | called tariff reform pic nics. They will he held in various parts of the county; and at each one of them a i part of the time will be devoted to j listening to addresses on the tariff by prominent advocates of tariff reform. We believe a movement of this kind would be popular in this county also, and would be productive of much good to the Democratic party. The matter is certainly worthy of con sideration. EX-GOVERNOR OSHORN is quoted as saying, "We have been rolling up Re publican majorities by pressing liorne on the farmers the old time doctrines of Horace Greeiy, that protection would build up factories at our doors and furnish a market for the sale of our products. Unless something is done to show Kansas people that pro tection, as practiced by the Re publican party, works out that result, we shall have trouble. We cannot any longer furnish the big Republican majorities and let the manufacturers down East, who are rich, get all the benefits, while we have nothing but mortgages to show for it." Discontent Caused by the Tariff. On the subject of protection and bank ruptcy ex-Speaker Carlisle writes in the Forum : There lias never been a time in 1 our history when there was so much dis content and as little prospect of improve- j ment as there is now among those classes that ought to be prosperous. Nearly | every trade, occupation and profession is organized to formulate and present its demand for relief, and the Republican j party responds to their appeals by pro- I posing to extend and strengthen the pro tection system of taxation under which they have been reduced to their present condition. This and the appropriation ■ of public money out of the Treasury for the benefit of a few favorite classes is | tlie only remedy it proposes. The evils ■ resulting from thirty years of protection are to be caused by more protection, and t lie over-burdened tax-payers are to be retrieved by having their forced contri butions given away to wealthy individ uals and corporations engaged in the foreign carrying trade. A Good Hill to Defeat. A hill which will not meet the ap proval of the newspapers, and which ought never come from the committee to which it was referred, is that of Con gressman Sweeney, of lowa, providing for the "exclusion from the mails of any paper devoted to the publication orprin- 1 eipally made np of criminal news, police | reports, containing accounts of criminal ! deeds, etc." The TRIIH-.XE lias never published sen- ! Rational matter, simply, because it was sensational, but, on the contrary, lias studiously avoided the publication of any thing that it was not fully warranted in giving to its readers as legitimate news, j Indeed, there never has been a vulgar or a suggestive line in the columns of the | IBIRVNK, and yet, under such a bill as | Mr. Sweeney lias introduced, it would be within the power of any one so inclined to prevent the sending of even the clean- ' est of newspapers through the mails. The publication of the lacts of a bur- : or a nyu'der, or any other criminal \ action, would be sufficient, under the bill, to exclude it from the mails Con gressman Sweeney probably intended tins bill to touch only such periodicals as i in his opinion, arc immoral in tone- but! there would be plenty of opportunities ' under the hill for personal enemies of 1 the most respectable and the purest news-' papers to cause annoyance and great j financial loss. Newspapers that offend public morality should be severely dealt with in the criminal courts, but it would be a grave mistuke, as well as a gross injustice, to enact such a law as Mr. Sweeney pro poses. Dictator pinny's Dilemma. The circumstantial narrative of the daring career of the Republican leader [ in the United States, which appeared | some time ago in the New York World, j was read by the people of this country ! j at large with much pain and some shame. { But inasmuch as the policy of silence in | regard to it was immediately adopted by | I the Republican press, it was impossible | jto measure its effects. In Pennsylvania ! the slighest possible public notice was taken of it. The Republican newspapers J studiously ignored it and the Demo- j cratic and Independent papers seemed j to doubt its authenticity or were afraid j Jto handle it. It lias been suggested that j ! many of tiie newspapers of this State have been forced to spare Quay as thev have hitherto spared AVanamaker, by ( the dread of loss in their advertising patronage. AVe prefer not toaecept this j view of the ease. It implies an imputa tion upon the honor of the press too gross to be tolerated and it would furnish a j sign, if true, of moral decay of the most ominous kind. Some newspapers may , have been throttled in this way. The suspicion, at all events, becomes very strong w hen a newspaper containing col- j umns of AVananiaker's loud advertise- ] ments, permits the most flagrant of that person's offenses against public decency and public morals to pass without a word ] of editorial comment, allowing its readers j to understand that lie is a public servant ] as well entitled to their conlidence and j respect as others who in the past have at- , tained to his official position, , But then came Henry C. Lea, a life long and distinguished Republican leader, a gentleman of the highest pri vate character, and lie personally adopts | the articles of accusation exhibited by ■ the World. He not only adopts them | as his own, but he republishes them sub- , stantially over his signature, and calls the special attention of the President of , the United States to them. He prnoti cally ask Harrison if lie does not know the character of the man who elected him, the notorious means by which he elected him, and the fact that all the j patronage of his administration available j for the purpose is being used to discharge J ! ihe infamous obligations incurred in the I j election and to support the licentious and | tyrannical partisan machine of which the Pennsylvania boss is the sole and con fessed autocrat. He tells him what every one else sees and knows, and what, no doubt, Harrison himself sees and knows quite as well, that in the State of Pennsylvania, where Quay must sustain | (lis offensive boss-ship if he would main | tain his authority in the party at large, the whole power and patronage of the J I administration is employed to crush reputable Republicans and to smother j honest Republican sentiment, and if the j Republican party lias no better excuse for \ existence,or a Republican administration ' i no higher purpose than the exaltation of such a boss, Mr. Lea, speaking for him self and for the large number of respect able Republicans who agree with him, informed Harrison that the time lias ar rived when liis party should be swept out and kept out until it can be at least partially purged. He speaks of Harrison's appointment 1 of "Quay's man AA'aiianiaker to the great office of Postmaster General as a very base prostitution of official trust, and as one of the worst offenses of the adminis tration against the Republicans of Penn ! sylvania," But if John AVanamaker is Quay's man, whose man is Benjamin Harrison? Had Mr. Lea any right to sup- J pose that one was less Quay's than the I other ? AA'hen he saw John AVanamaker j industriously gathering the fat of the | tariff beneficiaries with which to buy a | Presidential election, and carrying it I over to Quay, could he, with the fine sense of honor which he now develops, have conceived that the man thus elected by Quay would be less his I property than the man who furnished 5 the money? Could lie have expected Mr. Harrison, after having accepted . the services of Quay and AVanamaker and Dudley, to turn his back upon them and hand over the patronage of his administration, all tainted with the orig inal corruption of the campaign, to re spectable Republicans like himself ? It is a condition, not a theory, which con fronts the Leas and the Barkers and the Emerys, and the many other honora ble citizens who have remained in the Republican party, notwithstanding j the fact that it has passed bodily into the [ hands of a combination of mere monopo lies, represented in the management by notorious boodlers, who are there only j because they are boodlers. AA'hen they I undertake to remove the gangrene of corruption from their party they will find that they must cut away its vitals and destroy its life. Curiously enough, Sir. Lea's letter has produced a much more noticeable impres sion than the World's publication. News papers which ignored the one have printed the other, and it has started an agitation in this Suite for relief from the shame of the boss-ship which prom ises important results at the fall election. Quay has already nominated his man for Governor, lie cannot withdraw him or desert him. To do so is retreat and ruin. He must win everything or lose everything. If he nominates him, it is now apparent that he must encounter an opposition in his own party, which all the money of all the corporations and monopolies at his back cannot overcome. Should lie run himself, or name his man Wanamakcr or any other man known to be his, the situation would be the same. Quay has before him this year the struggle of his life. Unless he shall be able to nominate and elect the candidate fixed upon two years ago, the candidate whom every child in the Com monwealth knows to be his candidate, he must retire from the heavy game he has dcen playing, considerably worse than bankrupt. The country will look on with not a little interest, for the question to be j determined is the question between gov j eminent by bosses and government by the people. Advertise in the TRIBVXE, May-lluy at Romp and Abroad. | The last echoes of the international j May-day demonstration of Thursday last are dying away, and we are better able j to estimate the real strength of the movement and its influence upon social | development. In this country the May j day demonstration, wherever made, was confined solely to the eight-hour pro- I gramme. In the practical movement of j American workingmen for a reduction [ of the hours of labor there is nothing in | common with the Socialistic manifesta j tions on the Continent of Europe. While ; in France and other portions of Europe j the workingmen devoted the occasion to i appeals to governmental agencies in be ! half of labor, the self-rliant American workingmen invoked no power but their own. In some of our larger cities employers in the building trades have voluntarily conceded the demand of an eight-hour day. In others the jesult of the contest has not yet been de termined; but the prospect is decidedly in favor of the workingmen. Although the carpenters were selected to open the campaign for eight hours, the move incut among them is far from general. Many of them have refused to engage in a strike, on the ground that they could accomplish their purpose more speedily in another way. It may be conceded, however, that the movement has been attended with a large degree of success, although the programme of its promoters Ims not been realized. Such a revolution as this, in volving as it does the most important in dustrial operations, cannot be accom plished in a May-day or in a year. But what lias been most gratifying in this movement of American workingmen is the fuel that it lias not been attended by serious disturbance s of public order in any quarter. Nor has the first advance in the eight-hour campaign justified the gloomy predictions of an industrial crisis. The movement has revealed from the beginning the existence of a strong and growing public sentiment in favor of ! a reduction of the hours of labor wherever j this could be accomplished without en i dangering industrial operations upon which workingmen, as well as capital, must depend for employment. Thissen- I tiincnt has greatly encouraged the work ingmen in their peaceful campaign, and it will doubtless accompany them in each successive march of the labor army un til victory shall have crowned the move | mcnt. lii portions of France and Spain the May-day festivities w ere interrupted by riots and disorders, which the troops re pressed without difficulty. But gener ally throughout Europe the day was marked by joyous parades and pic-nics of the working people, and by increased vigilance on the part of the authorties— which for the most part seems to have been as unnecessary as were the solici tude and alarm among the wealthy classes. The dreaded phantom of Social ism refused to materialize, in spite of many provocations. In Germany the Socialistic leaders were too wary to provoke a conflict in which they and their cause would not only have been put in the wrong but crushed by superior power. Hence they counseled their fol lowers to refrain from every demonstra tion that might have afforded a pretext or an opportunity for the intervention of force. At the same time the Govern ment wisely took the unofficial advice of Bismarck and refrained from any inter ference with the popular celebrations. Yet, while the May Jay demonstration of 181)0 has passed olf without serious disturbances in Europe, it would be rash to conclude that the dangers which threaten its social and political institu tions have also disappeared. There is no doubt that the Berlin Labor Conference and its promises have inspired the Euro pean workingmcn with hope, and thus checked in some degree the sinister in fluences of Socialism. But should these hopes be completely balked by a denial of the reasonable demands of labor, the next May-day demonstration in Europe might wear quite a different aspect from the peaceful demonstrations of 1890. How It I'iU'il to lie. We are a bitter apponent of strikes, and can see a justification of them as a last re sort only against pure and undulterated oppression or injustice on the part of the employer of labor. Before entering upon a strike campaign the workmen inter ested should be sure that what they in tend to resist or demand is clearly what they understand it to be. Some call a certain grievance "oppres sion," "tyranny" or "despotism," which, upon strict inquiry, in no way belongs to that catalogue; and when reasoning, judicious and disinterested people Bee those epithets applied without a cause, it only weakens our position in their eyes and gives us the name of using strong language to prop a weak argument. This ought to be avoided. If we are wronged let us prove it bv a presentation of facts in simple saxon, suited to the subject, and it will carry more weight with it than a personal or vindictive at tack hurled with a vengeance that only excites those whom we want to do justice Any one who has studied himself can not have overlooked that prominent characteristic that makes one easier to "lead" than to "drive." If he has, then has he missed one of the most important springs in onr nature and cannot deal with men. It has been our custom since we re member, in our trade disputes, for us to deal witli our coal operators as if they were not human beings, but a species of animal, devoid of all the finest attributes of him whom the Creator made His crowning work of creation—man. On the other side they too often treat us as beasts of burden, incapable of thinking or doing what is right; and the moment a rupture of any kind takes place the lines are drawn between us, and we are in a day or two the mortal enemies, so to speak, of each other. Reason, judgment, wisdom, philosophy, all are thrown to the winds, and we are into the throats of those whom we want to remedy our j wrongs and they into our very vitals to ! starve us to submission—we whom they j expect will serve them faithfully and make wealth for them. Is this the proper spirit to cultivate by those who are dependent on each other? We think not. We know it is not. In most trades the employing interest and workmen have their quarrels and their strikes, but they are not as frequent as ours, nor do we think they are as bit ter. Why are they less frequent? We think there is more liberal disposition on botli sides to negotiate to heal up the wounds, to make terms and not to force tliein. It lias been the ruin of many coal operators, the desire to rule imperi ously and compel men to think and act just as they did. It lias been our great est folly, the thousand and one attempts, to coerce those who employ us to do as we desired. This basis of operation, in our mind, is resorted to nineteen times for once that there is any sensible reason why it should lie so, and many strikes that should not have an existence take their inspiration and means of sustenance from such reasoning, and not from any cause why it should be done. Thus such con tests are oftentimes failures, when, if by a judicious interchange of opinion on the part of the parties interested, a con flict might be avoided, but if no agree ment could be entered into, such a course would go a long way to smooth the path and keep the employer and employee in harmonious relations witli each other. The action of the industrial classes all over the world at the present time is be ing watched with great interest, and with none more so than by the coal miners of this anthracite coal region. These men, in years gone by, had to fight their hat ties single-handed and alone, with the result already known; and in the con test for shorter hours now going on they will remain passive spectators. Correspondence From the Capitol. WASHINGTON. May 0, '9O. if, in drawing his federal election bill, it was the aim of Senator Iloar to avoid the objectional features of the Lodge hill, he lias not been entirely successful. On the contrary, the Massachusetts statesman has introduced features which stamp his measure as not only impracti cal, but threatening to the very founda tion of popular government. If there was ever a general demand or good reason for the passage of a national election law, it would seem that the present is hardly the proper time to attempt it. In almost every State in the Union efforts are being made to revise and reform the election machinery, and it isalmost a cer tainty that wholesome changes will be effected. With this spirit abroad, it would seem indelicate, to say the least, j for Congress to enact such a radical j measure as Senator Iloar proposes. The I boom of self government has not ceased to lie 1111 attraction to the American peo ple, and all efforts in the direction of cen tralization of power will be looked upon I with suspicion and resented whenever opportunity offers. It will not do to assert that election re | form is unnecessary. Quite recently the country lias been treated to some very humiliating exhibitions of overthrowing the will of the people, but the people ' are capable of correcting this evil, and public sentiment will prove a strong i enough motive power in that direction. . The people of this country are not lack ing ill patriotism or honesty, and they will require similar traits in their public servants, anil this will ho accomplished without the aid of any monarchical or ■ centralized assistance. The Republicans of the Senate Finance | Committee are at work on a tariff bill to be reported to the Senate as a substitute for the McKinley bill. They expect to have all their work done and to he ready to report very soon after the McKinley hill passes the House. The understand ing is that the McKinley bill is to pass the House practically as it is, but there is no expectation of its becoming a law in that form. The Senate is expected to J paHH quite a different hill, and the whole | matter will he settled in conference on a | disagreement between the two Houses. His said that there has never been any 1 expectation among the party leaders that j the McKinley bill would become a law | in anything like the form it was reported. | It is understood that the plan was pretty j well settled on from the first, and that with tliis in view there will be no serious • difficulty in passing the hill through the House. It was not possible, for the party leadeis of the two Houses to agree upon ; a general plan for tariff revision, which I could he put through in the form of a | Hill adopted as a party measure, though | there was an attempt to do this. 1 A large number of protests are being received by the Ways and Means Com mittee from interests in varioim parts of the country, many of which conflict with each other. Over 500 formal peti tions of protest are very emphatic in their language, but the committee re main complacent and content with their i work. | Representative Bland, of Missouri, in troduced in the House a hill to reduce taxes by placing on the free list all im ported goods exchanged in foreign coun tries for farm products. It provides that in ull eases where it can be shown by proof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury that any goods, wares or mer chandise imported into the United States have been purchased abroad by ex changing farm products for such goods, or when such goods have been purchased with the proceeds or avails of farm products in foreign countries, such goods, wares or merchandise shall be imported free of duty. Any deficiency in the revenue caused by this act shall he pro vided for by the levying of an income tax upon all incomes of $2,000 or upward. * * A caucus or Republican Senators was hold Saturday to consider the silver situation. It is said that the views ex pressed were widely diverse. The sil ver men desire to have stricken out the provision in the hill reported by the cau cus committee, which gives the Secretary of the Treasury discretion to redeem in bullion the Treasury notes issued in pay- ] ment for bullion, should the holder of the note demand it. Tlicy do not want the bill to give the Secretary the power, under any conditions, to pay out bullion after it lias been once deposited in the Treasury. A suggestion was made in the way of compromise that the amount [ of bullion the Secretary might thus nay out in any one month he limited and be j replaced by additional purchases the I next month ; but this was not the less ob jectionable to the silver men. They are opposed to the principle of the thing. 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