FREELAND TRIBUNE. Published Kvery Thursday Afternoon —BY— THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEA it Address all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, I'A. Otlioe, Birkbeck Brick, ltd floor. Centre Street. Entered at the Freelanrf Postoffice as Second Class Matter. FREELAND, I'A., JANUARY 20, 1891. j IN view of the near approach of the I?urough Democratic Convention it would be well for that party, be fore casting their votes fit the primary convention, to first consider the stand ing of those seeking nominations for j the several offices and to ascertain their fealty to the ticket made by. former conventions. It is a matter of history that many of those in the Borough of F Iceland, who claim al-! legiance to the Democratic party, do it only in name. Those men can be seen at every municipal election in t lie Borough of Freehmd working against the nominees oil the ticket, and yet, many of them have the effrontery to ask the support of honest Democrats when they themselves are looking for office. The rules adopted by the Democratic voters of Foster Town ship, in reference to candidates for office, would be a good one for the Democratic voters of the borough to adopt. It is as follows: Candidates i for township officers must be men > who have voted the Democratic ticket j for at least two years preceding their | nomination. i The ••Trent," Coal Miner. < t flic Philadelphia Press is publishing a < series of articles from the pen of one of j 1 its correspondents who has been in this • < region for the past live weeks. Many of the people in the big cities believed > when anything was written from the j coal fields describing the miners and the ( treatment received by them at the hands I of the coal operators w ere written to or- i der, and by parties living in this vicinity, t so as to place those men before the pub- ■ ] lie as suffering from innumerable wrongs. I In order that the exact status of the i miners he made known, and for purposes : t which will hereafter appear (the exact' t nature of which would not he prudent to . mention just yet), the Press, with that pusli and fair "play which characterizes its management, determined to make a thorough investigation of the matter. J Mr. Brown came into this region about j live weeks ago an entire stranger to its ; • residents, and after making inquiry j'' found that there were many men who ] feared to speak about their work to a ! stranger. To the Editor of the TUIIU NE Mr. Brown disclosed his plan, which ap-1 peared to be to get information as to the i cost of mining coal, the cost of store I goods, mine supplies, etc. That he I would enter the mines as a laborer was never even suspected by those to whom { lie spoke about the state of affairs exist- ! ing here at present; yet, with that thirst for knowledge, which can only be gained ; by experience, he sought and procured i ' employment as u common laborer. The result of his investigation has been laid before the public through the columns of the Press during the past week. We trust that they may be productive of j good results, and that eventually a 1 change may take place that will be of a : lasting henetit to all who work in and 1 around the mines. Air. Brown came here as the duly ac-1 credited representative of the Press, j whether he lias pictured the success and incident too highly we leave to those I who read them to decide. A Prediction. Mr. Thomas (1. Shearman has an ar ticle in the January "Forum" on "The j Coming Billionaire," from which the following is an extract: — In the reaction which has already, be- j gun, but which will he all the more 1 sweeping the longer it is delayed, all j taxes imposed upon the poor for the direct benefit of the rich will Vie swept away. The duty on raw wool is known to he doomed and the rich wool growers correctly predict that the duties Oil woolen goods will vanish almost as speedily as ! those on wool. How long will pig iron taxes throttle New England after wool and woolens are free? How long can ' any protective duties stand after the key- : stones of the arch have been knocked out ? The protective featuresof the tariff will soon he destroyed. But before that time shall arrive direct taxation will have been resorted to as a partial source of government revenue, and the masses, \ finding themselves exempt rrom it, will insist upon its extension and eventu- ; ally upoq its substitution for all other taxes. Vor will there he any powerful eoiicentiated interest to resist this de mand after the protective system has ' been destroyed. Nobody will purchase j votes in favor of a tariff for revenue I only. Direct taxation, on a large scale, is near at hand, lho men who bought I and paid for the present Congress caul now choose w hat its form will he. ' They can have a general income tax, or | 1 hey can have something less open to! fraud, less inquisitorial in its nature, less oppressive upon honest men and offer ing no premium to perjury. But they know nothing about the science of taxation, and they do not care to learn; so that the whole matter will be leftover to the new Congress, and a general in come tax, objectionable as it is, seems most likely to he adopted. It hasalroady been proposed by Senator Plumb and Mr. Mills. It is one of the demands of the fanners' alliance everywhere. It will bo very popular in tile West, be cause it w ill be collected chiefly in the East; and it will he very popular among farmers in all sections, because incomes under ? 1,000 will he exempted, and so Hcui'i-ely any farmers will pay it. The protected manufacturers and mine owners may have a harvest for four vears, but it w ill not he so rich as they have imagined, because consumption will fall off. After that time the men of wealth who bought the soldier vote by the promise of enormous pensions, which tie \ expected to saddle upon the poor, will have the great pleasure of paying most of the pension bill themselves, through an income tax. The billionaire seems to he coining; yet In- will not come, because the reign of the extortioner is fast drawing to a close. Subscribe for the ''Tribune." I'nttlaon on Ballot Reform. : The most important public question j before the voters of Pennsylvania at present is how to at tain that much-needed reform—the purity and secrecy of the ballot. Being, as it is, the foundation of all proposed reforms, it is necessary that the subject should receive nothing but the most careful consideration at the hands of our legislators. The voters of the State, as they have voiced their opinions through the public press, are almost unanimously in favor of ballot reform to its fullest extent. That the Democratic Executive at Ilarrisburg is abreast of the times on this issue is clearly shown in the following portion of his inaugural address, which treats wholly upon ballot reform, which can ! only be had in its entirety through a Constitutional Convention : BALLOT REFORM. The Constitution requires that all elec- ! tions shall be free and equal, but such I elections arc not secured by existing laws. Nor is our ballot secret. Fierce political conflicts between parties have given birth here as elsewhere to many phases of : corruption, to the lavish use of money j by rich candidates, to fraudulent regis-1 i tration, intimidation by corporations and j i by large employers of labor, to false ' counting, and to marked, altered and | i suppressed ballot. These political con tests have revealed the existence of a) • pttrchaseable element in our midst j evolving all forms of ballot debauchery. , The sovereignty of the people depends ; for its efficiency upon the co-operate in telligence and the incorruptible integrity of the sovereign. To make sure of the ; former we have established our public ; schools; to make sure of the latter we 1 have adopted the ballot-box, and have thrown around it the protection of pecu liar laws. But the abolition of the viva voce vote and the adoption of the ballot have proved to be only a step toward pure elections. Now, at the ballot box THE EQUALITY OF ALI. THE CITIZENS must be sacredly protected; the free man's franchise must be preserved. But when law-abiding voters are con- j fronted at the polls with the corrupt hirelings of leaders who scorn the law they are degraded to an equality insult ing and dangerous. For the purchaser of votes is a repeater by proxy; to him the commercial and industrial interests j of millions are of far less moment than his hold of power. Hence his gangs of organized ignorance and purchased vice; hence his sneers at the decalogue in politics, his defiance of the law, his bold i j attempt to thwart the popular intelli- j ; gence and to defeat the popular will, j lie is the most insidious foe to our in- j stitutious, for he aims at the overthrow of virtue, liberty and independence. ' Every dollar used to defeat the tin- j bought will of the people is an attack not only upon free institutions, but upon ; every vested interest. When money shall be king at the American polls i money will be king at American Capitols. It is not a mere local agitation that I underlies the present demand for A THOROUGH REVISION of election methods. A great popular movement for ballot reform has set in, and tifteen States of the Union have al ready responded to it. All political par-1 ties in Pennsylvania have made open profession in favor of securing the most j perfect attainable expression of the pub- 1 I lie will, and the only question that we j j now deal with concerns the most expe i ditious and efficient method of its ac ! eomplishment. An Australian ballot ; system is the best agency yet devised for j purifying elections, It is neither an tin- i tested experiment nor a questionable ex pedient. Upward of eighty-five millions of people conduct their elections by its ! machinery. It is not the method of any j : one country or people, but finds a home : wherever a free and accurate ex- I pression of conviction is desired. ITS CARDINAL FEATURES ARE t ! First. Compulsory secrecy of voting. .Second. Uniform official ballots con [ tabling the names of all candidates I printed under State or municipal au thority. ! Third. Official equality of nomina tions when made either bv party con vention or by a paper signed by a given number of voters. Under this system all qualified voters j have equal facilities for voting, and all j candidates have equal facilities for re j ceiving votes. ' Wherever tried, the Australian ballot j system has completely changed the as : pccts of the elections. It secures the tranquillity, purity and freedom of j choice, and there is abundant testi -1 mony that it is the best, the most rapid and facile mode of obtaining the un biased wish and mind of the voters. The Australian system has produced i effects far wider than the mere achieve- 1 ment of a single reform. When oppor tunity is given to put honest and capable men in public ollice and keep them there, then is the standard of public service 1 elevated and made worthy of the honor- j able ambition of our best men. Ballot reform offers not only free and pure elections, but free nominations. It offers a method of nomination tnut is open to ■ all, ami frees us unmistakably from the rule of political bosses. 1 will heartily favor any well-considered legislation which will secure these or any portion of these results. A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. But it is manifest that the deep-reach ing and effective ballot reform for which the popular mind in Pennsylvania lias been fully preparod by recent discussion i must go beyond the present restrictions of the Constitution. The complete ad vantages of what has so widely approved i itself as the Australian system can not be realized while the ballot-number- I ing provision remains in the Constitution. That provision requires each ballot to lie numbered for identification. It is ex posure, in certain contingencies, of the contents of the ballot, while the Aus tralian system is expressly designed to prevent such exposure in any contin gency. The dependent voter will never ; feel the security to which lie is entitled, and which the general welfare requires , he should have, while the danger of ex posure, even by ,ludicial inquiry, hangs over lus head. But the numbering pro , duces other and far greater evils. It is done by the election officer, who, there fore, must handle the ballots and drop [ them into the box. When, again, the ; ballots are counted a reference to cor ! responding numbers on the list of voters • reveals to the election officer how any ' and every citizen lias voted. el THE OATH OF SECRECY 1 lias been found of little avail. Itissys '' tematically violated. The industrial and ! j political boss almost invariably secures ' the information he desires concerning ! the ballot of his victim. It is for this 1 reason, because of their long and disas trous experience under the numbering ; system, that the people demand itsaboh • tion and the restoration to them of their lost right to u free and unintimldated ', vote. The reason for the existing con stitutional provision lias in great measure i ceased. Corruption and brutal coercion have taken the place of ballot-box stuff ing in our elections. To reform the , nhuses in question a Constitutional Con vention is necessary. There is no reason ' | why such a convention should not be | assembled at an early day, its delibera- tions completed, and the results sub mitted to the people and approved or rejected within the present year. PERSONAL REGISTRATION. Additional warranty and necessity fur this are to he found in the demand for a system of compulsory personal resist ni tration. .Such a system coniiot be se cured without an elimination from the 1 Constitution of the provision that ''No elector shall be deprived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being registered." Like the numbered ballot I clause, this provision was inserted to avoid an abuse which no longer exists; while this provision remains it is an ob ! struction to a reform now uigently need ed and popularly demanded. An act of : Assembly may establish in Pennsylvania ; the official ballot, the booth secluding the voter, and the open count, all of ; which are important reforms; hut we cannot establish compulsory registration I or give to the people the one thing which ! they most want and are determined to 1 have —a secret ballot —save a Constitu- ; j tional Convention. 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