HAND" TRIBUNE/ Published Every Thursday Afternoon -BY THOS. A. BUCKLEY,! EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR, i Address all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. Office, Birkbeck Brick, 3d floor. Centre Street. Entered at the FreeUmd PostoJJlce as Second Class Matter. FREELAND, PA., MAY 14, 1891. The Mangled Ballot Reform Hill. The Senate Election Committee re ported the ballot reform bill last week j with several amendments whicli practi cally destroys the whole measure. The j bill was recommitted and that is the ; last probably to be heard of it. Ballot reform in Pennsylvania is dead, killed by a Republican Legislature. The Ballot Reform Association lias issued the following address to the voters of the State : The Senate Elections Committee (Crouse, Keefer, Mylin, Porter, and Steel, Republicans, and McDonald and Monaghan, Democrats) have done their best to kill the Baker ballot reform bill. Whether they shall succeed or not de pends on whether the people and the press of this State can force a majority of the Senate to undo the committee's work. Every possible influence should at once be brought to bear upon the Senate for that purpose. The committee's amendments are to the following effect 1. Independent nominationsand nomi nations by parties just forming cannot practically be made. This is unconstitu tional. The Australian form of ballot is a public ballot, and political organiza tions have no exclusive property in it. 2. The form of the ballot unfairly favors the majority party, and would unfairly discriminate against indepen dent candidates if any such could con ceivably be nominated. 3. Secret voting is destroyed not only for illiterates, but for every man who is willing to say that he is illiterate or dis abled . 4. The number of voting compart ments is trebled. This trebles the ex pense of fitting up the rooms, and neces sitates much larger rooms, so that it would be impossible to apply the law in many parts of the State, except at enor mous expense, for hundreds of temporary voting rooms. The object of these changes is evident. It is to kill the bill. The Baker bill, in its present shape, would be worse than useless if it were capable of being carried into effect, which is probably not the case. It is an utter breach of the pledges of the Republican party, whose members constitute five-sevenths of the committee, who have played such havoc with the bill. It would disgrace that party before the people. The illegal and utterly ob noxious amendments should be stricken from the bill at once, and no man who refuses to help to restore the bill to its proper shape—the shape in which the people want to have it—should he allow ed to re-enter public life. We ask all patriotic citizens to inform their Senators directly that the bill must be restored to its former shape and passed, We ask every newspaper to publish this appeal, and to advocate the cause of honest elections as originally provided for in the Baker bill. H. L. FOSTER, President. CHARLES C. BINNEY, Secretary. Standing Alone In Disgrace. Ballot reform is progressing favorably in the Illinois Legislature, there being no reasonable doubt that a satisfactory bill will pass both branches and become a law. The differences are only the most minor details, BUCII as the hours for opening and closing the polls, and the grouping of the names on the ticket. The present week will probably see a bill in tne hands of the Governor." Then, if the Pennsylvania Legislature does not pass a ballot reform bill before it ad journs, this will be the only Northern State between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississsippi River still adhering to the old system of voting, and before the Legislature meets again there will pro bably be no Northern State east of the Rocky Mountains without a ballot reform law, and only one State, Nevada, west of the Rockies. Tliis is a distinction which it ought not to be the ambition of Penn sylvania to possess.— Phila. l'rem. Crushed Once More. It is the same old story of a long, fruit less struggle on the part of labor against solidified wealtn. Instead of granting the request of the underpaid coke workers for living wages, the companies in the C'onncllsville district let the poor fellows remain idle week after week, until starvation stared them in the face. Gaunt poverty is a terrible weapon, and the purse-proud monopolists, who have grown rich by the sweat of oppressed toilers, used it to the fullest extent. Evictions from the miserable hovels their penurious souls had provided for the helpless victims of "pluck-me stores" were brought into play. The scenes in Ireland, over which mankind has shud dered and grown indignant in denounc ing British tyranny, have been repeated ill the great Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania within the past month. Miserable ' half-clad, hopeless, despairing men' ' women and children, many of them imported to this country to drive out self-respecting American workers, have been turned into the streets and fields to perish if they must. This damnable work has been done—how and by whom? The sheriff of Westmoreland, in obedi ence toa system which compels obedience to laws which disgrace civilization, has been forced to do this ugly business! Nay more—Pennsylvania troops, paid by the State, have been quartered in the m-idst of the down-trodden people to see that the coke millionaires are not re sisted in their effort to get possession of the shanties in which wretched Huns and Poles herded like animals ! Yet the twentieth century is at the door, and this is a Christian age and nation ! So the unequal warfare was waged. On one side massed the motley crowd of needy miners and coke burners, three fourths of them ignorant foreigners and all without money to hold out long. The great companies, whom years of enormous gains have enriched almost beyond dreams of avarice, merely sat back and awaited the outcome. They could afford to shut down every mine and let every oven stand idle. Hungry and homeless men could not endure forever. The result was hastened by traitors in the ranks—men wearing tlie livery of Judas Iscarlot, who deserted their com panions for the mess of pottage promo tions would bring them, if they would but betray the confidence reposed in them. Unfortunately some yielded, such is the weakness of human nature and the greed for the Almighty Dollar. Gradually the Strength of the coke workers melted away. Day by day the ranks thinned and "despairing men re turned to their hard tasks. Again the worker is the under dog in the fight, crushed under the iron heel of a despot that knows not the meaning of mercy and is an utter stranger to the Golden Rule. Thus it goes, the world meanwhile jogging along, heedless of the terrible significance that attaches to recent events in the Connellsville coke regions. What shall be the next turn of the whirligig ?— Harrusburg Telegram. The Abolition of Poverty. The following address of O. F. Roller, before the Germantown Single Tax Society, may prove of interest to those who wish to find a means of elevating mankind and giving to all only that to which they are entitled. In it is briefly outlined some of the advantages to be bad by applying the proposed single tax on land values : The greatest curse which has ever be ■ fallen a civilized people is that condition of poverty which at present prevails, not only in this land of the free, but through out all the world, and particularly where civilization is at its highest state. It is tiie cause of the Buffering of humanity, the cause of depravity and of all the misery and crime of the world. The increasing wealth of the country and its prosperity of which we hear so much, is but a sad fact and little to boast of when I it can be seen that it is an increase which enormously enriches a few and unjustly impoverishes the masses. That there lias been a steady increase in the wealth of the country since the time of its discovery is indisputable and that the increase has been proportionately greater during the last quarter of the century than at any prior period is also true. Furthermore, we have every reason to believe that the future will bring forth an increase of wealth far out of all proportion to what it has been in the past. We are living in a wonderful age. What once was considered impossible now seems mere play. Men by their in telligence have brought into action the workings of nature in a manner wonder ful. This evolution is scarcely noticed; it has been so gradual that it has been al most imperceptible. Only when we contrast the present with the past can we mark the progress which lias been made. In the industrial world we have before us a different scene from that of a cen tury ago. The small workshop where the journeyman and his apprentice, by the slow process of manual labor brought forth his product, has been transformed into the factory, where with the aid of complicated machinery and steam liun | dreds of men are now at work. Such is the progress of industry—inventions and discoveries simplifying the mode of production and making the laborers' toil less difficult to perform. Such ad vancement can only be beneficial. Under it society should prosper. The welfare and happiness of the worker should increase, in fact, in the ratio as the science of industry advances. Yet is it true that social conditions have im proved as steadily us the science of in dustry has advanced ? Is the laborer's condition better? Is lie happier, and doeß lie find it easier to ob tain a living than when production was carried on with much greater effort? Has he to-day less need to fear want, and above all, does he stand more inde pendent than ever? The average work ingman lives belter and enjoys greater comforts than formerly. This is true, because inventions and improvements in machinery have not only enormously decreased the cost of production, hut have also greatly added to the comforts and conveniences of the laborer, because certain improvements are necessarily universally beneficial. The present mode of production enables even the lowest laborer to enjoy comforts which a cen tury ago were unknown. The improve ments in machinery and facilities for production also lessen the effort required to produce. But the comforts and happiness of the worker have not increased in proportion to the advance made in the industrial world. The increasing wealth of the country does not mean increase of general prosperity. It gives no hope to the al ready poverty-stricken, but bringß fear and anxiety to many who are clear minded enough to see into the future and to understand the workings of our present social machinery and the con ditions it produces. They can see that it is no longer the sober and industrious worker whose welfare is secured and who by his toil can obtain a com fortable existence, hut the Bhrewd and cunning and those who have se- j cured special privileges, such as exclu sive ownership of the earth and its natural opportunities. They can see from past experience that it is not the worker who becomes rich, hut the idler who lives by the labor of others, and that he who produces all wealth retains least of it in his possession. That poverty exists, nor that it is con fined to the intemperate, thriftless and I indolent, is unnecessary for me to prove. | Its results appear constantly before your eyes, in fact, so much are you surrounded by tlie conditions produced by poverty thnt you have become accustomed to it and that it seems only natural. Such conditions anil results are sufficient proof of the existence of poverty and should bring men to consider the cause and not to rest until that cause is abolished. If life is at all worth living it is that all should enjoy peace, happi ness and contentment, and if man has a duty to perform on this earth it certainly ! is the one which will enable all to enjoy I these. Why is it that those who are the work ers, the producers of all wealth, are in comparative poverty, and many who would gladly work and produce wealth, but have no opportunity to employ them selves, are in actual poverty. The cause of the actual poverty is plain to be seen. When men are out of em ployment and idle they produce nothing, consequently they have nothing and are in poverty. The cause of the compara tive poverty is equally plain to be seen. When men are at work, if under natural conditions, with no interference from otliers, they are wealthy to the extent of what they produce. But when any por- I tion of their product is taken from them they are in poverty to the extent of that of which they have been deprived. Then if we would know the cause of poverty we must first find the cause which keeps men in idleness. The great majority of laborers would willingly work if they only had an op portunity. This can be readily seed by inserting an advertisement for help of some kind, the result of which will be about twenty applicants for one oppor tunity. It is then clear that at present I there are more men willing to work than there are places for them. Again, how strange it seems that there Bhoula not beenough work for all. Does not every human being have his own work to perform? Does not the mere existence of man necessitate his own work in order that he may live? From tlie day an infant comes into the world work for the infant comes with it, and when it arrives as maturity it naturally would perform this work. To provide food, clothing, shelter and tlie gratifica tion of other desires is tlie only work for man, and UH all men have these to satisfy all naturally have work. But how is this work to be done? By the exertion of labor? Yes, and more than labor is necessary. I.abor must I have something upon which to labor— land. Labor, with free access to land, can produce all it requires, be employed and contented. Why then, under our present conditions, are there unem ployed? Not because the labor is want ing, but because the land upon which to lab or, seems absent. Is there a scarcity of land? Surely not, when we see it lying vacant and in abundance all around us. But this land, though it is vacant, we dare not touch, because it belongs to someone who is not using it yet holding it idle and preventing others from work ing upon it; waiting for someone to re munerate him for the privilege of being permitted to work upon it. But iB this right that one human being should prevent another from using a portion of the earth's surface even though he does not use it himself. This earth which no man made, no onoshould have a greater right to than another. This earth, which is the abiding-place for all while they live, out of which they shall extract such things as they require to sustain life. It is the great natural reservoir of wealth, and all men, from the mere fact of their existence, have an equal right to its use, for without it man cannot live. The cause of poverty is the monopo lization of the earth, and if we would abolish poverty we must abolish that which is the cause—the monopolization of the earth. How best can this lie ac complished? THOSE sow IN POSSESSION OK LANDS UPON WHICH THEY ARE WORKING SHOULD NOT BE DISTURBED, fur they liave an equal right to them with all others. But those who are holding lands out of use, merely preventing others from using them, should be disturbed. They are keeping men in idleness and poverty and forcing a portion of humanity to vice, crime and starvation by preventing honest men toil; for the fundamental ! cause of vice and crime is poverty. ! founded upon the monopolization of i land. They are acting the "dog in the i manger" and their hark must he sup-! pressed. The holding of land out of use makes 1 land scarce, and things which are scarce I increase in value, especially if they are essential to life. By holding land long j enough the population is forced to pay j w hat the holder demands, so long as it is not more than labor can produce upon it. If the demand w ere greater than the product it simply could not be had. therefore the price which labor is com pelled to pay the landlord is the differ ence between what can be produced and what he requires for a scant living. But the land speculator would not hold this land idle if it were nut more profit able to do so than to put it to use. So wihat we must do is to make it un profitable for him to hold land idle and for this we have a simple and just remedy. We would tax all lands to their full rental value, and discriminating whether they are vacant or in use. We would tax the holder of a vacant city lot equally as much as one holding an equally valuable lot who had erected a handsome building. We would tax the man holding a traci of farming land va cant the same as the farmer whose land | had been cultivated and upon whose land had been erected buildings and im provements; provided, tiie value of the bare lands were the Hame. This would at once make the business of land specu lation unprofitable, and an unprofitable business is soon abandoned. Either the speculator would put their lands to use and produce wealth upon them or they would abandon them. If they put these to use they would re quire labor to work upon them, and the army of unemployed would soon di minish. The result would he that the unemployed would then have an oppor tunity to labor, and when men labor and produce wealth unrestricted poverty would disappear, and with it all its had results—crime, vice and the misery of the world. Consider a state of society where man need have no fear of want. What a happy world this would he to live in under such conditions. Yet such a state of society is possible even in this world. And when all will learn that they are here only for a time and that their claim on this earth is no greater than that of another, and that the only right to it is tiie moral right whicli would secure possession only of what he required, this better state of society will have been attained. How labor interests liave fared in this session of the Legislature can be seen in the synopsis of Secretary Cafl'rey's report, published in another column. Betrayed again by its sup posed friends! And this will always be the verdict until men diave some thing nobler than the Almighty Dol lar to live for. While labor is content to remain bound hand and foot its representatives can legislate until doomsday without attaining the de i sired end. Legislate next time to bo I free. Cease begging for charity, but I demand justice. COTTAGE HOTEL, Cor. of Main and Washington Streets, MATT SIEGER, Proprietor. Having leased the above hotel and furnished It In the best style, I am prepared to eater to the wants of the traveling public. &T GOOD STABLING ATTACHED. Where to Find Him! Patrick Carey has removed from the Amcri- ! can hotel to John McKhea's block, 95 and 97 i Centre Street, where he can be found with a full line of Medtcul Wines, Gin, Brandies, Hum, Old Hyo and IJorbon Whiskey. Any person : who is dry and wants a cold, fresh large schooner of beer will be satistled by calling at Carey's. Good Accommodation For All. SIX DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEEK ON TAP. ST-A-TiEIMIIEasrT of the Condition of the Citizens' Bank, of Frecland, Pa., May 5, 1891: ASSETS. Bonds $1:1,500 00 Car t rust certificate 1,000 00 Bills and notes discounted.. 77,901 87 Premiums 828 17 Furniture and fixtures 942 12 Expenses l 75 Due from banks 9,004 14 Cash cheeks, etc 7,004 97 $110,87:1 02 LIABILITIES. Capital stock $50,000 00 Gen. deposits £12,008 71 Sav. " 27,5120 77 59,384 48 Due banks 728 83 Dividends unpaid 497 50 Surplus stock 144 04 Earnings 113 17 $110,873 02 I hereby certify that the above statement is true and correct. B. K. DAVIS, Cashier. B"*OU SALE.—One lot 43feet,9inches front by 150 feet deep, containing one large double block of buildings and out-houses 28x32 feet, also tine house on rear of lot 14x24 feet and stablo 14x14 feet, all in good condition and fenced, situated on lower Main street, near the Cottage Hotel. The property of Frank Mc- Shea, a good title guaranteed. For further par ticulars and terras apply to T. A. BUCK LEV, Frecland. Pa. Mirkheck Brick *FREELAND* READY PAY! J. C. BKRNER, Proprietor. j Flour, $2 85 percwt I Corn Meal, Gold Dust 2$ " lb | Oat Meal 5 44 " j Oat Flakes 5 11 44 I Farina 13 44 pk. j Rolled AVheat 13 44 44 j Tapioca 9 44 lb | Buckwheat Gritz 9 44 44 jWheatGritz 9 44 44 Corn Chop 1 75 j Mixed Chop 1 70 Whole Corn 1 70 Screenings 1 70 Middlings 1 50 Hay, per 1001b 75 Straw, 44 44 75 Straw, bundle 25 Granulated Sugar 201b for $1 Standard A 44 21 It) 44 $1 : 44 C 44 221b 44 $1 Rice, best 8 per lb. Rice, broken 5 per lb Barley 5; slb 25c Beans 8 Dry Corn, 7; 41b 25c Peas 5; sqt. 25c Lima Beans 8; 41b 25c Valencia Raisins 7, 8 and 10 Muscatells 44 13 per lb Dry Peaches 10, 124, Dry Apples 124 per lb Dry Pears 18 44 44 Citron 20 44 44 Lemon Peel 20 44 44 Prunes, French 10 and 124 Currants 7; 41b 25c No. 1 Mince Meat 10 Jelly, pail 95; lib 6c Jelly, 51b jars 40 Jelly, small glass 10 Apple Butter 35 per jar Lard, home made 9 per It) llams. small 1 1 44 44 California Hams 8 44 44 Long Cut Shoulders 74 44 11 Green Bacon 8 44 44 Dry Beef, chipped 18 44 44 Smoked Bacon 10 44 44 Bologna 64 14 44 Fresh Pudding 10 44 44 Scrapple 8 44 44 Tripe 8 44 44 Pigs Feet, sour 7 44 44 I Cheese 124 Saur Kraut 3 per lb • Tub Butter 25 44 lb ! Roll 44 28 44 44 | Baking Butter 15 44 44 j Codfish, Large 8 44 44 j Codfish, boneless 8 44 44 Mackerel, No. 2 10 44 44 44 1 15 44 44 44 101t) tubs, No. 2.. 1 25 44 44 1.. 1 60 Smoked Herring 25 per box Hollander Herring 90 * 4 keg Russian Sardines, 1 keg 50 Salmon 124 14 15 Souced Mackeral, 31bs 30 Sardines 5;5f0r25 Canned Herring 15 44 Oysters 15 4 4 4 4 small 10 FRESH FISH OF ALL KINDS. Others as They Come in Market. Potatoes, flue cooking $1 20 per bu Onions, scarce 50 " " Canned Beef 15 " can Roasted " 22 " can Oranges 15 " doz Lemons 20 and 25c English Walnuts 15 " " Filberts 15 " " Mixed Candy 15 " " j Gum Drops 10 •' " | Clear Toys 12 " " Rock Candy 16 " " i Mint Lozengers 20 " " ; All kind of box candy.... 60 per box CANNED GOODS. | Canned Corn, good 10; 3 for 25 " " best 12J and 15 Tomatoes, Berner's Brand. 10c per can " Peas 10 " " " " best 121 " " String Beans 10; 3, 25 Canned Peaches 25 " " " Pears 25 " " Baked Beans, canned 20 '• '* Gloss Starch 8 Corn Starch 9 3 for 25 Loose Starch 6 Hops 20 per lb Stove Polish, Rising Sun... 5 Stove Polish, Electric Paste 5 Coffee, loose 25 per lb Coffee, prize 25 " " Coffee, Rio 25 " " Coffee, Java 32 " " SOAPS. | Soap, 31b bar 13; 2, 25c Soap, lib bar, full weight.. 5; 22, $1 j Octagon Soap 5; 11, 50 [ Tom, Dick & Harry Toilet Soap, 3 bars 10; 30, $1 SALT. 2001b, coarse $ 90 1401b, coarse 70 81b, fine 6 51b, fine v 4 1 peck of Salt 10 Washing Soda, 21b 5 Gold Dust, 41b package.... 22 Soap Powder, 41b package. 20 Ivorine, spoon in 12 Soap Powder 10; 31b, 25c Lye Balls 8 Lye, Red Seal 12 Canned Lime 10 Lye, Rorax 10c a can All Kinds of Cooking Ex tracts, Etc. WOOD & WILLOWWARE Buckets, 2 hoops 15c " 3 " 20 Baskets 10 Wash Tubs 75 Syrup No. 1, perqt 10 per qt Molasses, per qt 15 " " m Soda Biscuits, loose, by bbl, 5 per lb. Coffee Cakes 9; 3, 25 Ginger " 10 per lb Mixed " 9 " " Oyster Biscuits 7; 5, 25 3000 rolls wall paper 9 " roll 2000 rolls wall paper 11 " roll 1000 rolls wall paper, gilt... 15 and 18 Tinware —All Kinds. Complete Line of Stationary Reduced. ! LADIES' and CHILDREN'S SUMMER COATS. Dry Goods and Notions. Everybody knows what we keep. This spring we will endeavor to suit i very body in style and at prices away down. Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes. Cannot tell you prices in this paper; it would take up the whole paper. Carpets and Oil Cloth I have 70 rolls of CARPET up stairs. Do you need any FURNITURE? Well my room is 110 feet long, 2,") feet wide and loaded down with new goods. We can please you if in need. If you need anything not men tioned in here call and you will find it here. FRATERNALLY YOURS, J. C. BERNER, Cash Merchant. PENSIONS THE DISABILITY BILL 18 A LAW. Soldiers Disabled Since the War are Entitled Dependent widows and parents now dependent whose sons died from effects of army service are included. If you wish your claim speedily and successfully prosecuted, " per pair and upwards. CALL AND EXAMINE Hi STOCK BEFORE EDM ELSEWHERE. JOS. NEUBURGER, QR\CK STORE, Centre Street, - - Freeland, Pa. BOOTS AND SHOES. A Large Stock of Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, Etc. Also HATS, CAPS and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds. A Special Line Suitable for This Season. GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRICES! HtTGH DVC-A.XiH.O~Sr, Corner Centre and Walnut Rts., Freeland. AM X4H|VtvUvi FOR And Hardware of Every Description. REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil, selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpasssed. Samples sent to anyone on application. Fishing Tackle and Sporting Roods. B\RKBECK'S, CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA. Clothing Department. Good suits for men, $5.00. | Boys' Suits, $4.00. Children's Suits, SI.OO. Children's knee pants, 25 cts. Undershirts and drawers in all | sizes, 40 cents. Sweet. Orr & Co.'s Overalls as 1 cheap as the inferior make i can be bought for elsewhere.