Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, May 15, 1890, Image 4
FRffiLID TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon _nr- THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PElt YEAR. Address nil Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. Oflleo, Ilirkbeck Brick, 3d tloor. Centre Street. Entered at the Freeland Postoffice as Second Class Matter. FREELAND, I'A., MAY 15, IS9O. J AVeij, to use a homely phrase, the J Republicans have bitten off more than j they can chew*—tho Tariff bill is too j , much for them. They cannot agree | j among themselves; ami they are liable to go to pieces. All the Democracy ' have to do is to play "a waiting game," to use Mr. Tiiden's language. We ' must win. The country is rapidly, 1 now, becoming awakened. — Henry j \WUtersO", in the New York /Steer. EXTRAVAGANCE is the Repuplican synonym for economy. The enor mous surplus in the United States Treasury has been a problem perplex ing two administrations. The Demo cratic plan was to judiciously conserve the public money, but to prevent its excessive accumulation by diminish ing taxation. The Republican plan is to squander what is on hand and in crease taxation so as to provide hun dreds of millions more to scatter to the winds. THE Republican party has become anxious concerning the large appro priations for public buildings, etc., which have already been made or for which bills are pending in the present Congress. The subject of pensions is also a troublesome one, for the claims on behalf of the soldiers are so many and will withdraw such a large sum from the Treasury if allowed, that the much-talked-of surplus must entirely disappear. The Service Pen sion bill which has passed the House and is pending in the Senate, will, ac cording to Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, who advocated the measure, absorb $150,000,000 yearly, or 43 per cent, of the gross revenues of the country. WHILE the new ballot reform act, i which has just received the approval j i of Governor Hill, in New York, is j, without some of the features which | have been regarded as important in | the sense of real reform, the measure ' will he welcomed as offering something ! in the right direction. Uuder the circumstances it is a good deal to get j as much ns this hill concedes, and having made a beginning it will not be so difficult in the future to secure amendments which will make the sys- j tern in New York something near j what it ought to be. The popular sentiment in behalf of ballot reform has become irresistible, and the State I that refuses to adopt it now will be heedless to the intelligent demands of the time. WHAT lias become of the! boom which was started by the j people of the Five Points some ! time ago for the annexation of their territory to the Borough of Freeland ? The town coun-! oil of the borough gave their ! assent to the measure, and it! now lies in the hands of those | who favor the movement and are residents of the Points to j urge the project to a final con- j elusion. Weare of the opinion 1 that the measure proposed 1 would be beneficial to all con- j cerned. Why not the advocates j of annexation include Pine! Knot Hill and part, or all, of South Heberton'i Let us hear from those people. The col umns of the TKIBUNE are free I to all for a discussion of the question. THE Chambersbnrg Spirit has the following to say on behalf of ex Gov eraor Pattison and the success which the Democratic party would encounter ' with him as their next candidate for Governor : We would not belittle Mr. Wallace's past. 'We would not decry j his party work in the years when the party needed help. We would not j refuse to award him all that he de serves at the party's hands. But at the same time we dare not shut our eyes to the truth that he would enter the coming contest handicapped in a i dangerous way, while Governor Patti- 1 son would be a candidate equal to him j in his faithfulness to Democratic prin- I ciples, equal to him in ability and in j earnestness of devotion to public! duty, while at the same time, to go no further, he would be able to take from the Republican ranks the votes which Mr. Wallace could under no circum stances get, and without which there is no chance for Democratic success. ISN'T it a rather singular spectacle j which the country presents to day, 1 and one which shows the self confessed impoteney of the ruling classes to govern, when we see large commnni- j ties convulsed by labor troubles, caus ing paralysis of business and industry, and the solution left to haphazard. Never was a country more governed and yet, in the true sense of the word 1 less governed. We have national government, State government, county government, city and village govern ment, yet strikes, lockouts and indus trial disturbances flourish unchecked without its being anybody's business to provide a solution. Is it any won- j der that many men call themselves anarchists and proclaim the useless- j ness and harmfulness of our xnul tiplk'itv of governments when they | : see a system which vaunts itself as j the best in the world—and really has j no superior—so powerless to interfere I in matters which so closely concern j the well-being of the community?— ; Journal of the le nights of labor. I A $<10,0(10 Bribe Takes for Governor. j Quay's candidate for Governor of | Pennsylvania is being pretty thoroughly exposed to the public, even by Republi- I can politicians and newspapers; in fact, as this is a struggle for the Republican nomination, the Democrats have had no occasion to discuss Delamater, and must wish that the Republicans would do so suicidal a thing as to nominate this vul nerable person. The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph (Rep.), under a display head in bold type, throws down this defiance : j "We ask the Republicans of Pennsyi | vania to consider the fact that we charge that the defeat of the Billingsley hill by the last Legislature was worth $00,(100 to j Senator George AV. Delamater, now a I candidate for Governor. A\'e agree to in stantly withdraw this charge, and hum bly apologize, if Air. Delamater o: any of his friends will convince us that this i statement is not true. The facts are j known to many persons. The allegation is a most serious one. Can the Mead ville candidate afford to remain silent? Our place of business is at 42 Fifth Avenue, where letters or processes will find us." l The Democratic Course in Congress. | Advices from AVasliington announce I the determination of the Democratic minority of the AVays and Means Com mittee to refrain from proposing a sub stitute to the AlcKinley bill, while oppos ing mercilessly the deformities of the Republican "What is it." The reason given for this determination is that it would he useless to frame a measure on Democratic lines which, if for no other reason than on account of its Democratic origin, could not pass the present Con gress. The Republicans are welcome to all the enjoyment they are getting from I their present responsibility as the ma jority party in Congress. By their dis sensions and the exposure of the incon | sistencies and absurdity of their quickly shifting attitudes, they are doing re markably well as things are, if not for j themselves, for the country and Demo | cracy. It would he utter folly in the Democratic members to go out of their j way to formulate an opposition tariff which could have no other result than to drive their opponents together or en able them to conceal from the people the bickerings and heartburnings in their own ranks. We congratulate the Domo . crats of the Ways and AleansCommittee | on the determination, which is in the j right line of practical statesmanship and j will commend itself to the good judg ! raent of Democratic politicians and busi ness men of all politics throughout the I country. It will bo likely to prevent ; oppressive and unequal tax legislation and to hasten the return to power of a conservative but enterprising Demo | cratic administration, upon which our commerce, industries and tax-payers can j rely for a rational and enduring solution of the problems of Federal taxation. Shako (ho Fliei^Off. i This is a progressive age. The busi- I ness man who sits down and expects [ business to come to him is sure to get left. The time when the mere hanging : of a sign, and standing behind a counter | constituted a merchant has passed. The business man to-day who wishes to make money must he active and pushing. In ' stead of waiting for people to come to | him he must go to them. He must in ! vite them, he must compel them to come to him. People like enterprise and rightfully so. They don't wish to go where they are not desired. They care | not to buy of a merchant who has no in \ ducementsto offer them. The merchant ; should take advantage of a paper going I into many houses. He should go into j these houses with the paper. He should tell of the bargains he has to offer. If you fail to see a man advertise, you can set it down that he lias nothing to adver tise, or else that he is too indolent to do ' it. If he has no bargains to offer you his neighbor has. Watch the columns j of the papers, and trade with live men. How She May He Recognized. We have, in our time, adverted, re verted, and animadverted to the fact that when a young lady puts 011 her fall ulster and her Derby hat one can not tell whether to offer a caramel to her or to beg a hunk of tobacco from him. The girls and the hoys have a way of getting themselves up so much i alike that we have until now been un able to tell t'other fm which. How profoundly we, at the present writing, rejoice may he imagined when we say we have at last solved this vexing problem, mastered this perplexity And it is simple, too, when you go at it aright. All you have to do is to watch the person pass a plate-glass show window. If it is a man he will j sidle along sort 0' sheepishly and look j to see if anybody is watching him; then if the coast is clear he will take a quick I sly peep at himself in the reflecting window and, lest possibly somebody I may he watching him, he will look up anu down the front of the building as if all in' wanted to know were whose J ! store this might be. If it is a woman j | she will look squarely into the window, stop, look at herself leisurely, calmly, j turn clear around to see that every- i thing is all right, give this a hitch and | that a yank, press it all down smooth- | ly, and sail on, conscious that she has not shown any of that petty little van- J ity that the man displays when he I wants to look into a mirror and dares not have it known that he wants to. j A man doesn't object to being alone J with a mirror, but when it come to j standing before one right out in pub- j lie and confessing that it is a pleasure j to look at one's self it takes a woman for that. And this is how you can tell . them apart.— Washington Post. San IJiego's Park. San Diego, Cab, has a public park ( 1 1,400 acres in extent, and the ever vig ilant despoiler is now striving to get j hold of it and to cut it up into 6,000 | building lots at an annual rental of I I f2d, which would yield $1.10,W0. I A Thing Slireil, and Patches. | After over four months of tinkering J the tariff bill of the majority of the Ways I J and Means Committee lias been pre-1 sonted to the House. The popular de-1 mand for a reduction of taxation has j | been responded to by an increase of tax ation. Every schedule but one increases existing rates. The sugar duties are wiped out, but this reduction is offset | many times over by increased taxes on j other articles. The bill will not even re duce the revenue taxes, and the amount j ! which the people will be compelled to j pnv for private benefits, if the bill be J j enacted, is increased to an indefinite but [ I enormous extent. With all their efforts to secure harmoni-1 c ous action the Republican members of | '• the committee were unable to agree, j j Mr. McKenna, of California, dissented { ; and presented a bill protesting against; < the sugar schedule and the proposed ' bounties on that product and raw silk, i j "The bill in its sugar schedufe," he j, savs, "makes an arbitrary and invidious i distinction between the sugar industry * and other industries, a distinction incon- i ( sistent with the principle upon which ! , the bill is framed and upon which it can < alone be justified. Protection, asunder- 1 stood politically, is the clear right of all , industries or none. A tariff may be a tax; i a bounty certainly is. A tariff tax les-1 sens with the production it encourages, while a bounty increases with the pro-1 tection. A bounty is as useless as it is I burdensome, and as odious as it is use- [ less. It lias no justification in either the I practice, the principles or the professions j ' of the Republican party. If a bounty I is useful for sugar, why not for other | things? In all the range of articles with ! i which the bill deals are none fit for the | ; bounty but sugar ? 11 a bounty is a tax ! of less burden than is a tariff, why arc ' sugar consumers selected for favor? A j Republican House of Representatives should not set this example. Who can say where the contagion of it will stop?" Speaking of tiie best sugar industry of California, Mr. McKenna says : "Must an industry he aide to supply the home consumption before it is entitled to pro tection? Other industries have not done this, industries that have been protected in every tariff bill ami are protected in ; the present bill. It is submitted, then, upon every principle upon which a pro tective duty can be applied to an Ameri- j can industry, it must be applied to sugar. Upon every principle upon which a pro tective duty can be denied to sugars it niust be denied to every other American industry. Protection must be universal or not at all. It must be national or not I at all. This bill presented gives a bounty to silk cocoons and raw silk. It is as ob jectionable as a bounty on sugar." Of Air. McKenna's argument it issufll cient for the present to say that from a protectionist standpoint it is utterly un- [ assailable. No protectionist can success fully attack Air. McKenna's position. He is wrong, not because be dissents from | protectionist doctrine, but because lie I agrees with and upholds it. He is wrong j because the carrying out of his theory ' that tho benefits of protection should be equitably distributed is an utter impossi bility, and it is this fact that makes pro- 1 tection the gigantic fraud that it lias j proved itself to be in practice. The committee lias vacillated to such i an extent that it lias lost the confidence even of the Republican party. Nobody would venture to predict whether its bill I will receive the approval of the House or ; undergo further changes in that body, j If it ever goes to the Senate the proba-! bility is that when it comes back Ale- [ Kinley would not recognize it. If the bill shall pass the House it will get through by leg rolling with the silver in-! flationists. llut it is uncertain whether i there is really a serious intention on the part of the majority to enact it at this session, or whether it is offered merely for the purpose of catching votes in the ; fall elections. i Democrats need have no fear of its effect. One thing may be regarded as certain; Nothing that this Congress will be able to agree upon will take the tariff question out of politics even temporarily. ! Popular education on this subject has j gone so fur that the tariff fight will end j only when the principle shall be rccog- j nized and acted upon that government lias no right to levy taxes on the people j for other than purely governmental pur poses; that the taxation of the many for 1 the purpose of enriching the few is notli- j ing less than legalized robbery. They Don't Know Their Real Enemy. A number of farmers of Montgomery, Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties held a meeting at Norristown last week and completed the preliminary steps for the formation of a Farmers' Union. The object is to obtain relief from the present excessive taxation which they declare is a burden upon the ngricultur j ists of the country. Some"" time ago a j number of the brightest men engaged j in farming in Alontgomery county, real ] izing that there was something radically J wrong in the existing state of affairs j among the farmers, proceeded to investi- J gate. Failures among them were fre i qucnt and steadily increasing in number, j The valuation of farm land was also j found in some sections to be very low. In ! the northern section, it wasstated, farms 1 ; could be bought for less than the cost of the buildings upon them. As a result of this investigation it was felt that some I steps should be taken by the farmers for j self-protection, and the organization was ; effected for that purpose. They are still | laboring under the delusion, however, J : that the heaviest exactions from which they are suffering are those from local j taxation, when tho real fact is that a war j tariff which nearly doubles the price j of clothing and a large number of other articles consumed by them is tak ing out of their pockets much more than | they are compelled to pay for roads, schools and other local purposes com [ billed. They are clearly justified in de j mand ing better and more equitable tax | laws from the Legislature, but they should go further and insist that Con | gross shall reduce tariff taxes to peace 1 basis.—Allentown Item. Correspondence From tlie Capitol. WASHINGTON, May 13, '9O. | Why there should be any exalt- 1 ation 111 the diplomatic rank of our Itep- j i resentatives abroad, with a multiplication j of pay to go with it as has been suggested j from some quarters, is an incomprehen-1 | sible thing to the average American mind. 1 The United States stands for itself in all the elements of power, wealth and j j progress. It requires no adventitious I aids to emphasize its standing. Were all j our ministers embassadors there's not one among the nations that would stand | | in greater awe for us or care a farthing ! i more for our opinions. American in (luence rests upon 110 such grounds, and if it is handicapped at all it is by unwise legislation and not from lack of titular parade. If reforms are to be inaugurate 111 our diplomatic intercourse with foreign countries let it begin with the consular service—at the business end of the sys tem. Ministers may go or stay; it makes 110 material difference. But the consuls are always worth looking after. They don't need any new title, hut they need better pay at all important points. The service should hold out one inducement to men of ability and fitness, and it should be so arranged that competent men of moderate means are not neces sarily barred out of the minor positions, j Here could Congress find an opportunity j for useful legislation. Whatever can he | done to improve the efficiency of the consular service is in accord with a I sound public policy; and the best means to this end—or the first best means—is to make every consular position in the Government worth taking. On the first Monday in December the Republicans organized the House of Representatives with a majority of eight —the membership consisting of IG9 Re publicans and IGI Democrats. Since then the labors of the committee on elections have increased the Republican majority to 17; the figures being; Re publicans, 172; Democrats, 155; Inde pendent, 1. The places held by Wilber (Rep.) and Randall (IJem.) who died are still vacant, but these two elections are not likely to make any change in the political complexion of this House. Of the seventeen election contests eight have already been decided, three Demo j crats being allowed to retain the seats to | which they were elected, while four Re publicans and one Independent have taken the places of five Democrats. The other nine Democrats will undoubtedly he removed to make way for Republicans 'as soon as the majority of the House feels the necessity for increasing its num -1 hers. But seventeen is a pretty good working majority. If Speaker Reed had j had it at the beginning of the session } lie would have hardly laid down the doctrine of the visible quorum. It is a noteworthy fact that the whole seven j teen contests were raised against the Democrats. No Democrat contested a seat to which a Republican was elected. Election contests are expensive to the people. Besides paying for the contestee i a Congressman's full salary for the time he serves—that is to say, from the fourth of March till date of his removal—and besides paying the successful contestant a Congressman's full salary for the full Congressional term, Uncle Sam is called j upon to pay the legal expenses of the J contest which may amount to as much as | $2,000 011 each side of each contest. Aml as it sometimes happens that the matter | is not finally disposed of until near the i close of the Congressional term, an elec j lion contest may cost the Treasury $14,- ! 000. There is hardly one that doesn't cost over half of that amount. j Representatives buyers, of Texas, and Bland, of Missouri, have covered into | the Treasury the money stolen by Sil- j cott, which the Court of Claims deter-; mined was due them. During the dis-1 cussion of the Silcott hill in the House j these gentlemen held that the members ! and not the Government should suffer the loss of this money. As there was J 110 other way for the Treasury Depart | ment to accept the money it was turned | over into the "conscience fund." The other members who believe that they are not entitled to this money propose to in troduce a bill authorizing the Sergeant \ at-Arms to cover into the Treasury at j the end of the session any money re- I maining in His hands. They will then decline to draw the money to their I credit for November salaries. * # * A pleasant event of the past week was I the visit to Washington of ex-President Cleveland. The many friends and ad mirers of the distinguished gentleman I were glad to perceive by the brightness | of his eye and general vigor of his ap | pearance that he was even in better health than when he left the White House. R. Tlie Agricultural Situations. A number of farmers, reputed rich men, in the wealthiest farming region of Pennsylvania, have lately made as | signments. Everything with which the | farmer is connected has gone down in ' the past few years except taxes, and they I are tlie same where they have not been increased. | There is no doubt of it, the farming J interests are in a bad way. There is so ! much distress among agriculturists every | where that their case have been brought to the attention of Congress. 111 Decem ber, 1889, the price of corn was lower than has ever before been reported, by II per cent. Senator Voorhees said in a speech not long since that tlie average price ol corn to the farmers of tlie coun try is only 10 cents a bushel; of wheat, 50 cents a bushel; of hogs, 2J to 3 cents a pound, and of fat cattle, 14 to 2 centsa pound. Worst of all, a frightful burden of debt hangs over many of these farmers, con , traded in the time of high prices, and ; now, tlie prices going down drop by drop, the prospect is ruin and dispair. | One doctor says there is overproduc tion of food. Farmers have gone on in creasing their area of production till they ! have grown enough oats for a hundred ■ million people,enough wheat for seventy- J nine millions, and enough pork for sev enty-six millions. That, says this doctor, j is tlie cause of the agricultural depression. But this theory is nonsense, with due respect. There are in Europe, America, | India and China thousands starving every day for want of the very corn Kansas farmers burn for fuel, because it 1 is cheaper to burn it than to sell it and buy coal. Meat, corn and wheat are no whit cheaper to consumers than they were when farmers got living prices. Whatever tlie cause of agricultural de pression is, it is not overproduction.— j Ktroudsburg Timet. Advertise in tlie "Tribune." I I NEffSPAPER if IJII Ul 111 till giving more information ADVERTISING ISH.H'S the name of every newspaper published, hav ing a circulation rating in the American News paper Directory of more than 25,000 copies each issue, with tin- cost per line lor advertising in them. A list of the best pa|M-rs of local circula tion, in every city and town of more than r>,OUO population with prices by the inch for one month. Special lists of daily, country, village ami class papers. Bargain offers ot value to small advertisers or those wishing to e.\|>cri nient judiciously with a small amount of money. Shows conclusively "how to get the most ser vice for the money," etc., etc. Sent post paid to any address for IMI cents. Address, (JKO. P. Row KM, & Co., Publishers and (Jeneral Adver tising Agents, 10 Spruce Street, New York City. To Horse Owners! o _ Blankets, Buffalo robes and all WINTER GOODS, reduced away down to rock-bottom prices. All goods needed by horse owners have been reduced to the lowest possible price. GEO. WISE Centre Street, Freeland, and Jeddo, Pa. O'DONNELL & Co., Dealers in —GENERAL— MERCHANDISE, Groceries, Provisions. Tea, Coffee, Queensware. Glassware, &c. FLOUR, FEED, HAY, Etc. We invite the people of Freeland and vicinity to call and examine our large and handsome stock. Don't forget the pluce. Next Door to the Valley Hotel. J. J. POWERS has opened a MERCHANT TAILOR'S and GENTS' FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT I at 110 Centre Street, Freeland, and is not in partnership with any other establishment but j his own, and uttcnds to his business personally. Ladies 1 outride garments cut and fitted to | measure in the latest style. PATENTS ! Caveats and Re-issues secured, Trade-Marks registered, and all other patent causes in the 1 Patent Office and before the Courts promptly and carefully prosecuted. I Upon receipt of model or sketch of invention, I make careiul examination, and advise as to patentability free of charge. With my offices directly across from the Paten t Office, and being in personal attendance there, 1 it Is apparent that 1 have superior facilities for making prompt preliminary searches, for the more vigorous and successful prosceution of applications for patent, and for attending to all business entrusted to my cure, in the shortest possible time. FEES MODERATE, and exclusive attention l/irrn to patent business. Information, advice and special references sent on request. J. It. I.ITTELL, Solicitor ami Attorney in Patent Causes, Washington, U. C., (Mention this paper) Opposite U.S.Patent Office. PKITCHARD A WILLIAMS, —Dealers in— CI &AIIS, IWBA CCO, Temperance Drink, Candies Etc. 47 Washington St, Freeland. B. F. DAVIS, Dealer in Flour, Feed, Grain, HAY, STRAAV, MALT, &c., Best Quality of Glover & Timothy SEED. Zcmuny's Block, 16 East Main Street, Freeland. CARPETWEAVING By P. A. Carey, In the roar of J. P. Carey's BARBER SHOP, No. 83 Centre Street, A. RUDEWICK, GENERAL STORE. SOUTH HEBERTON, PA. Clothing, Groceries. Etc., Etc. Agent for the sale of PASSAGE TICKETS : From all the principal points in Europe i to all points in the United States. Agent for the transmission of MONEY To all parts of Europe. Checks, Drafts, i and Letters of Exchange 011 Foreign i Banks cashed at reasonable rates. CLEARING SALE! GOODS MUST GO. 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