FREELAND TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon -BY THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. AdQruus all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. Office, Rlrkbock Brick, 3d floor, Centre Street. Entered at the Freeland Postoffce as Second Class Matter. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. For Governor, ROBERT E. PATTISON, of Philadelphia. For Lieutenant-Governor, CHAUNCY F. BLACK, of York. For Secretary of Internal Affairs, WILLIAM H. BARCLAY, of Pittsburg. FREELAND, PA., AUGUST 21, 1890. TnF inhabitants of Wilkes-Bnrre have the sympathy of the entire State during their sad affliction. It is one of those calamities over which human ity has no control, and all must bow in humble submission. THE Graphic, an illustrated weekly published at Scranton, is the lntest creature of the State campaign, start ed presumably in the interest of the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor. If its first issue can be taken as a criterion of the course it will pursue it will enjoy a short life. THE effect of the Force hill would he to destroy Ballot Reform in every State in which the Australian system has been introduced and to prevent its success in every State that is pre paring to adopt it. Is this one of the reasons why the Force hill is so strong ly supported by the covert enemies of Ballot Reform ? SENATOR DELAMATER continues to express great confidence of his elec tion to the office of Governor of Penn sylvania, in spite of the widespread manifestations of popular repugnance to his candidacy. In this Mr. Dela- ! mater betrays a child-like trust in the power of machine politics and Boss Rule. He will he likely to have a rude awakening from his dream next November. THE tariff tax on spectacles remains at its maximum, as fixed by the Mc- Kinlcy hill. The failing sight of old age and the defective vision of fewer years must continue to pay from $2.50 to $5 for an article that could he pro duced and sold at a profit at 50 cents. Death alone relieves the American from the exactions of the favored manufacturer, and even in death his widow and children are robbed to bury him. WHEN a Democrat demands tariff legislation which gives the American farmers a more extended market abroad for their products, the nar row minded protection bigot shrieks himself hoarse crying "free trade," but when James G. Blaine advocates the common-sense principle it is called "reciprocity." Strange that such a difference there should be 'twixt twee dledum and twecdledee. IT is in the highest degree credit able to the Southern Representatives that their protests against the grow ing Csesarism of the dominant party in Congress have been uniformity in moderate and patriotic tones. In fact, the utterances of a majority of the Southern press in what is to Southern people a crisis in their affairs can be favorably contrasted with the reckless and even riotous partisanship of some Northern journals. THE New York Tribune condemns the German tariff' as a tyrannous sys tem of taxation, while daily lauding the tariff of this country as an insti tution of the highest wisdom and benevolence. It is curious that the same system should work so different ly in different countries. The official facts show, however, that the German tariff is mild and merciful in its exac tions in comparison with the tariff of the United States. TnE latest in Pennsylvania politics | is the Republican Labor League, which is the outcome of a movement started by Quay about a month ago. The League is nothing more than a myth,with figure heads like A. A.Carl ton and Fred. Turner playing Presi dent and Secretary. When those two men were officials of the K. of L. they tried to throw the power of that order to the Republican party, but failed. Two professional labor men all the way through, and will not mislead anyone. THE charge of Senator Kmery that Delamater is in the habit of buying up votes in Crawford County, for cash, the Meadville Messenger says is nothing new for that locality. The corrupt use of money to carry elec tions is a common practice in Craw ford. The Messenger says: "The hungry roosters demand cash, and the ambitious politicians furnish it. If they paid it out of their own pock ctß it would not be quite so bad. But they filch it from the people by hook or crook. About SIOO,OOO of the tax payers' surplus in the State Treasury is handed over to Delamater's bank, and loaned out at 7 or 8 per cent, in terest. This furnishes a fund of S7OOO or SBOOO a year. The county deposits are always put in the same bank." Delanittter'i Self-Vindication. During the past week Delamater pub licly entered a denial of the chargeß pre ferred by Ex-Senator Emery, whose accusations of bribery, perjury and forgery against Quay's candidate are well known to our readers and their rep etition is unnecessary. At a Republican meeting in Chambersburg on Thursday Delamater made a speech and at its con clusion was asked by one of the audi ence why he failed to deny the serious charges made against him. Here is his answer in a condensed form : "I take this occasion to enter my most positive, emphatic and unequivocal deni al of each and every charge preferred by Senator Emery. I enter this denial to all charges, by whomsoever preferred, which assail niy honor as a man and my integrity as a citizen." With this sweeping denial Delamater would have the people of Pennsylvania declare him innocent of charges in which names, dates and places were specifically | mentioned. Newspapers friendly to him treat this denial as satifactory and con clusive . To impartial hearers of the case, however, the denial lacks force. It is true that as between Emery and Dela mater there is now a question of personal veracity. There is assertion without proof-, and there is fiat denial. It is Emery's duty to bring forward such proofs and particulars as he can of the disreputable transactions which he ascri bes to Delamater. Those proofs are forthcoming, according to a statement made by Emery on Saturday, anfl they will include facts "as undeniable as Delamater's Chambersburg denial was broad and inexplicit. The day in which unscrupulous politicians could sweep away with a wave of the hand Btains of j corruption with which they are tainted lias gone by with me and should be with every thinking and well-meaning citizen in the State." Whether these proofs will be present ed or not, there are few who will not acknowledge that Delamater has not made a grave mistake in not making his denial sooner. For nearly five months he has refused to plead to charges made by a man of character and position. For nearly five months he has kept silent though accused by a responsible accuser of corruption, bribery, tampering with public records, forgery and perjury. During that time the natural if uncharit able explanation of his neglect was that he could not deny the charges, and now his denial comes BO late that it seems forced from him by the pressure of his political friends to counteract the bad effects of his delay. What Delamater should have done j promptly, what he would have done if I he had been aa jealous of his good name as a candidate for Governor or any other honorable man should be, was to prose cute Emery for libel as soon after April 4 as the machinery of the Courts could be started. Instead of that he lias rested quietly under infamous charges, and no amount of deferred indignation and pro testation about his honor as a man and his virtue as a citizen can alter the fact that he has shown remarkably bad judg ment in not calling his accuser to account in the Courts long before this. He has not behaved as a man sensitive about his reputation. Why I'utttson Should He Supported. At the last session of the Legisla ture the Republicans defeated a bill de signed to equalize taxation because it was for the interest of corporations to have it defeated. The Republican party get their money from these corporations with which to carry elections, and the la boring classes need look for no relief from this organization. The legislation of the Repnblican party for the past twenty live years, both in the State and nation, has been in the interest of the rich, and this system of legislation is to be perpetuated if the Republican party is to be continued in power. Delamater, the Republican candidate for Governor, belongs to the corporations. He is a creature of the Standard Oil Company and "Boss" Quay, who claims to own him, and, of course, he will be controlled in the interest of corporate wealth as against the rights of the people. If our farmers and others who arc suffering from the burdens of taxation desire re lief, they must support the party and candidates who are in their interest; whose acts have been in accordance with their declarations.— Wyoming Democrat. Thouttamltt Killed l>y Republican Policy. Physicians and all authorities on the subject of health are unanimous in as serting that good woolen clothes and underwear are absolutely essential to the preservation of health. This is so self evidontly true that no one can deny it; yet in the face of this universally accepted truth McKinley and hiß fol lowers not only insist on retaining the present death-dealing tax but would almost double it. People were horrified at the awful death-roll at Johnstown —something over j 20(10 human beings—but if the countless thousands of those who suffer sickness, resulting in lingering disease and ulti mate death, every year from want of proper clothing—a want caused mainly by this brutal tax—could be enumerated the loss at Johnstown would seem insig nificant. Local, State and Federal Govern ments have Boards of Health and quarantines to guard the public health; and yet the McKinley bill main tains and proposes to increase a tax which would cause more misery and death than all preventive meas ures combined could avert. This is not idle fancy, but fact. Defenders of this horrible blood tax say that if sufficient protection should be given to American sheep farmers they would be enabled to raise enough wool to supply the whole nation. That may, or may not, be true; but grant that , it is true, what then? Why simply this : If the "protection" should be sufficient F the price of wool would advance to such a figure that the profits of sheep farming I would be enough to cause so many men to engage in it that we would raise all the wool we need. Again granted, and what would follow ? Merely that the price of pure woolen gar ments would be so high that none but the comparatively rich could buy them; and every year a vast death harvest would be reaped among the poorer peo ple, a harvest the seed of which would be the wool tax, levied in order that a few men might make money. Cannot humane men and women, on this point, cast aside the chains of "party" and unite in demanding that this awful blood tax be repealed? In other matters of the tariff there are just grounds for differences of opinion; but no one but a heartless savage can defend a tax the sole fruit of which to the nation at large is rheumatism, pneumonia, bron chitis, consumption and death.— Ex. The New York Central Strike. The great striko on the New York Central Railroad, which startled the cor poration of that name as well as the industrial world, is about drawing to a close, leaving thousands of its employees without work. In District Assembly, No. 240, Knights of Rubor, the men had an almost perfect organization, having nearly every employee, from switchman to engineer, under itß banner. It was, in fact, a counterpart of the organization which existed in this region a short time ago. A few impulsive leaders failed to secure redress immediately for wrongs real or fancied we do not know, from which they claimed to suffer, and a tie up was ordered. True to his organiza tion's call every man deserted his post' of duty on the line ami the business of that road was completely paralyzed. Their strength was a surprise to every one. The company had 110 idea their power was so great. Here was an im mense railroad system, with the Yander bilts, Webbs, Depcws and their millions behind it, unable to move a wheel. Or ganized labor was supreme for the time being. In a situation like this people may wonder why the employees did not win. They not only lost their strike, bnt from the time they ceased work the company's officials treated them with the utmost indifference, having full con fidence in their ability to fill their posi tions with men from the army of unem ployed. Neither was this confidence misplaced. When thousands of men are looking for work and are driven almost desperate by the sight of hungry wives and child ren, capital in a struggle with labor al ways holds the winning hand in the end. That was the condition of affairs in New I York and the territory covered by the Central road, and is the explanation of the sudden collapse of the great strike. Labor leaders are in New York by the score at present, threatening many dire things, but as far as the corporation is concerned the strike is certainly a thing of the paßt. It went the way of thousands of its predecessors, benefitting no one but the organized force of ruffians anil thugs known as Pinkerton's Detective Agency. Iu railroad centres like New York there are alwnys thousands of men who have at times had experience in rail road work. Thus there is always a large surplus of skilled men upon whom cor porations can rely, and though thousands may go on a strike, their places are very soon tilled. So long as the present system con tinues, whereby one-tenth of the work ing population of the country is com pelled to live in enforced idleness, just that long will the laboring class be kept in their present position. It matters not how just his demand may be, the toiler must not leave his work, for there are two or more persons always ready and anxious to take his place. How long this condition will last depends on how soon op portunities for all to work is granted. Until then the laboring man can ex pect nothing but temporary relief from any of the many measures promulgated by his friends. When every person who wishes to work can enjoy the privilege of doing so and when the natural oppor tunities of this great country are opened to all alike, then a permanent change will take place in the life of the workingman. Under present conditions the growth of the country cannot provide employ nent for its own inhabitants, yet every .rans-Atlantic steamer is constantly pour ing a foreign population upon us, keep ing the labor market continually over stocked. With the new arrivals not only will ing but anxious to replace the American workman at a lower rate of wages than he is receiving, there is absolutely no protection for the American masses. It is the law of supply and demand that ] regulates wages. At present the supply exceeds the demand, and under this condition capital has an unassailable ad vantage, which makes it impossible for labor, no matter how just its cause, to wage a successful battle with rich and prosperous employers. Farmers of Pennsylvania 1 The present delegation in Congress from the State of Pennsylvania con tains twenty-one Republicans ami seven Democrats. When these twenty-one Re publicans shall come stumping among you this fall, and shall tell you that the McKinley Tariff bill was devised to bet ter your condition, you should reply : "There is not a section or a line in the entire bill that will open a market for another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork." And if they want to know your au thority for that statement you can tell them it is James G. Blaine, the chief Apostle of Protection and the Secretary of State of this Administration. Two Republican Opinions. 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