FREELAND TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursday Afternoon —BY— THOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. Address all Communications to FREELAND TRIBUNE, FREELAND, PA. Office, Birkbeck Brick, 3d lloor, Centre Street. Entered at the Freeland Postofflce aa Second Class Matter. FREELAND, PA., JULY 9, 1891. IT is about as good as settled that Alfred Darte will be the Republican opponent of Judge Lynch. Had tlie Democrats been given the privilege to select the nominee they could not have presented a weaker candidate to run against the present incumbent. Darte has had two terms in the District At torney's office, but his political life will end when he meets Lynch in No vember. A NUMBER of Republicans have formed an organization in Philadel phia to oust Quay from the leadership and to ' purify the party." They have two stupendous contracts on their hands. It is within the limits of the whirligig of politics to accomplish tlie first, but the latter —never. Purify a party that is sustaining life only by using the most corrupt and demoral izing agencies I The thought is ridicu lous. When Republicans talk of puri fying the Republican party it bears a striking resemblance to Satan quoting Scripture. THE daily reports of the financial I condition of tho treasury, as given out , by Secretary Foster, is not misleading ] anyone, unless it be those officials who think they are fooling the public with their ingenious and new-fangled system of book-keeping. Doubling up and recounting the funds several times until a respectable amount is obtained (on paper) seems to be a pleasant pastime for Washington peo ple, but when it comes to handling available cash it requires a search light and a double-barreled telescope to find even a scent of that surplus. FROM the Philadelphia Press down to the humblest backwoods organ of the Republican party comes a loud clamor for the removal of State Chair man Andrews. But the chairman doesn't move. He lias M. S. Quay at bis back and whatever this shining examplo of Republicanism says is law. He is still the boss and dictator of every man who wears the G. O. P. collar, and every citizen who considers himself a Republican must bend his knee to the contaminated hand of Quay. Poor political serfs! May the j Goddess of Liberty have pity on you. PATTISON is receiving a little atten tion as a Presidential possibility from those who wish to harmonize the Cleveland and Hill factions of the ■ party, hut to the majority of Demo crats the name falls flat. As a Gov- 1 ernor he is a phenomenal success and the right man in the right place, but I the next nominee of the Democrats must be a man of the Cleveland Btamp, j with definite ideas regarding the tariff. Pattison has yet to state his views upon this all-important subject, and unless he takes advantage of the op portunities to do so before the conven tion is held it will pay better to keep him at Harrisburg. A YEAR ago when the McKinley bill was the leading subject in politics the high-tariff organs were telling then readers how the great American army of unemployed would all have plently to do when the new law got in proper working order. The country has had nine months of the most severe form of protection—-greater than any nation in the world has ever had—and what is the result? The army of tramps (so called) increased from one million to twelve hundred thousand, daily failures in every branch of protected industries, and the cries of the op pressed rising far above the cheers given by Fourth of July celebrants. THE tin-plate talker is now vehe mently in operation. He remembers that the new duties are in effect and every day he declaims anew the price less advantage of a tariff on tin. The "protection" of a few phnnto n indus tries will increase the erst of every American workingman's dinner, hut this troubles not the tin-plato talker. For, he avers, the money which we once sent abroad for the purchase of tin will now be spent among Ameri can employes of tin manufacturers. Ho also says there are many native tin factories. To put it mildly, even as Horace Greeley would have done: He is a good liar.— C/iicaijo Nevis. THERE are few men who dare claim that the workers of this free and glori ous country are as prosperous as they should be. The general impression that something is wrong gains strength with every rattle given forth by tlie chains of industrial slavery. The clanking of these invisible links which bind the strongest men of the land is commanding the attention of people outside the ranks of the common la borer, ami those who try to fathom the secrets of the future give out warnings of the results which are bound to exist if the social conditions of to-day are carried to their logical conclusions. "The land of the free and the home of the slave" has good prospects of being realized unless a radical change soon takes place. —Edward Kelly was fatally hurt by a fall, on Monday night, while trying to escape from tlie jail in Sunbury. Restricting Immigration. To tlie theorists who claim that the cause of the ills of society and the in creasing poverty of the masses is due to the country being overcrowded, and who therefore demand the restriction of im migration, we beg to submit a few figures for their mastication. According to a recent census bulletin, the quantity of land and water surface in the United States is 98.16 and 1.84 per cent, respectively. So whatever we may lay to the land, the water will not trouble us much at any rate. Taking the land surface alone, the average number of persons to each square mile is 21.06; surely not a very strong indication of crowding. In the State of Texas alone there are (in round numbers) about 181,000,000 acres of land area. Taking, for sake of illustration, the population of the country at 60,000,000, we could place therein our entire people, giving to each man, woman and child Sacres on the average. Group ing the population into families of live each, we would have 12,000,000 families with 15 acres of land per family. Khode Island is said to be the most densely populated State in the Union. Well, l'f Texas alone was to be as thickly settled as Rhode Island, it would have 83,523,628 inhabitants, or one-third more than our present population. And by tlie time the entire United States becomes populated in the same proportion, we shall have the splendid aggregation of 945,706,300 souls instead of the paltry sixty millions of the present duy. How silly, in the face of these figures it is to talk of overcrowding ! It is true, too true alas! that hundreds of thousands of men and women are in idleness for lack of work, but the trouble is not that the great opportunities for work are ex hausted, but that we have built up a system of landlordism by which the great natural resources, the very fountains of production, are held out of use and men denied access to them. Thus it is that the land area is to all practical purposes reduced and exhausted, for that which is held out of use might just as well not exist at all. The remedy for th is cursed condition does not lie in restricting men in their natural rights to go and come where and when they will, but to make men pay for holding valuable opportunities out of use by charging them for the value of the privileges they enjoy and monopolize. The surest, easiest and speediest way to do this is by means of the single tax upon land values. When this is done land will be thrown open for occupancy and use, and with men dispersing themselves over the land, as they naturally would do, we shall have no occasion to burden our brains with schemes for restricting immi gration.—l'hila. Cable. The "Cat" In Pastures New. The North American, of Philadelphia, is earnestly advocating the building of an elegant boulevard in that city, to ex tend from the Public Building to Fair mount Park. The project has received the commendation of the people in general, but it requires years of coaxing to induce Philadelphians to adopt any thing proposed for their benefit. Yet the North American is undaunted by Quaker fogyism, and has gone so far as to prove, not only its great advantages, but how the cost of this mammoth un dertaking can be defrayed, equally. Its plan would be to tax the increased value of land along the new avenue, claiming that such is the only just and equitable manner of assessment. And Philadel phia or any other community will never iind a better and fairer method of rais ing revenues, yet the North American is one of the last papers in the country we expected to see so vigorously supporting i the fundamental principles of George's theories. But they all discover, often unconsciously, the true solution of tax ation when partisan bigotry is dropped. Still, if anyone should insinuate that this hide-bound monopolistic organ was | advocating single taxism it would in dignantly resent the accusation and the i ghost of Colonel McMichael would rise i from its grave to check the spread of | education. They map call it what they i may and disguise justice as best they can, ' hut there are those to whom the single tax is ever welcome and just as sweet i under any other name. The Exhausted Treasury. Mr Foster lias decided to extend tlie 4} per cent, bonds. He cannot pay them without defaulting on current de mands against the government. Ten years ago, when Mr. Windom funded the accruing debt, there was plenty of money in the treasury, and it was admitted by all who were then famil iar with the condition of the treasury that the government could easily pay the 4j and 4 per cent, bonds, due in 1891 and 1907 from the sinking fund—the first from the fund of the year in which they fell due and a small part of the sinking fund of the previous year, while 4s would be wiped out by the subsequent annual contributions to the fund. ltut Mr. Foster can make no contri bution to the sinking fund this year or next year. The Billion-Dollar Congress has made that impossible. He must, therefore, extend the bonds instead of 1 paying them. For many years the treasury has been more than complying with the sinking fund law. Now it has not a dollar for it. And the Demo cratic party has a stupendous task, well-nigh impossible, to so reduce ex penses that tlie treasury can meet the 4 per cents when they fall flue in 1907. N. Y. World. Democratic Societies. It is anything but an easy task to effect political organization of any kind at this season of the year, but Senator Calvin S. Brice, chairman of the Nation al Democratic Committee, in two recent circular letters earnestly calls the atten tion of Democratic voters to some mat ters which they cannot safely neglect much longer. Senator Brice strongly urges the necessity of forming Demo cratic Societies everywhere for the pur pose of discussion and the dissemination of political information upon the issues of the next Presidential campaign. The Republican system of clubs is being rap idly organized upon a most thorough basis, and it is essential to Democratic success that it should he met by an equally compact organization. Chairman Brice recalls the fact that the overthrow of the Federalist party, the election of Jefferson to the Presi dency, and the inauguration of the long and prosperous era of Democratic ascend ency in the Government, were largelv ! duo to the DemocraticSocietiesand their resolute defense of Democratic princi , pies. Though nearly one hundred years , have elapsed since then, the political conditions are not so widely different as may appear on the surface. The ancient Federalism, which the Jeffersonian De , | raocracy overcame, sought to establish a . strong centralized government, and to ( exclude the musses as much as possible . from participation in its management as 1 well as from its benefits. By somewhat 1 different methods the latest successors [ i of the Federalists are endeavoring to at tain much the same ends. The McKin ley tariff is the corner-stone in a govern ment system of favoritism for exploiting the many for the benefit of the few—a system directly at war with the Jeffer i sonian doctrine of the greatest good to the greatest number. From the mono polistic beneficiaries of this system of spoliation are. drawn the supplies for or ganizing and subsidizing the partisan clubs which sustain its power in the Government. The only effective means of combating such a power is in an orga nization having its initiative and its im pulse from the people. This organiza tion is provided by the National Associa tion of Democratic Clubs. These clubs should be organized effectively-and made ready for action in behalf of Tariff Re form at as early a day as possible in every village and township in the land. If the people will not attend to the po litical business that most nearly concerns them, they need not expect anybody else to do it for them.— Record. The WageK of Protection. A staff correspondent of the Pittsburg Post writes to his paper as follows: While taking a trip recently I came to ' a massive building of huge stone, located ; on Antis creek, in Lycoming County, in j the great Republican protection State of t Pennsylvania. The noise caused by the | working of the machinery within made me stand in fear of passing this monster j building. The windows being open the rattling and clattering were all the more | audible. However, my curiosity was raised and I ventured nearer and ac- j costed one of the employes of the estab- j lishment. He was a very pleasant fellow ! and ready for all interrogation. I asked I him what the great institution was. He answered that it was the Nippenose woolen mill. I passed the day in this place, and gathered some facts relative to the wages paid the employes of the woolen mill, which I will give below. Michael Barner, after 18 years' service in the mill, receives $1.12 per day as j cloth dyer. This is his reward for strict attention to duty—an increase of 12 cents in 12 years. The weavers receive | 3 cents per yard for weaving the finest j goods, and if they wish to purchase j enough cloth for a pair of pants they have to pay at the company's store from | $1 to $2 per yard. The heavy price, I presume, is caused by "protection to American labor." ('loth speckers re ceive 50 cents per day. Cloth finishers get 75 cents per day. Warp drawers get 75 cents per (lay. Mule and jack spinners get 50 cents, and the engineer, who must certainly be a responsible man, receives $1 a day. Samuel Shutt, who is loom repairman, receives $1.50 per day. Mr. Shutt, who formerly got but $1.25 for the same ser vice, was discharged for some cause and an Englishman secured to fill his posi tion. The Englishman informed the owners that his salary could be nothing less than $2.50 per day. This paralyzed the management, which let him go at once, and was forced to seek out Mr. Shutt, who refused to return to work at the old wages, and the owners were forced with broken hearts to rehire him at increased pay. The working hours are from G A. M. to 6 P. M., and the employes have, some of them, to walk three" miles to the factory. Some keep large families on their small pittances they receive as wages. Henry Halfpenny riink*nnesH, or tin? Liquor Habit, FOHl tivi-lv Cured by Hr. IluiiicH* Golden Specific. It is manufactured as powder, which can be given in a glass of beer, a cup of coffee or tea, or in food, without the knowledge of the pa tient. It is absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent ami speedy cure, whether the pa tient is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. It lias been given in thousands of cases and in every instance a perfect cure has fol lowed. It never Fails. The system onee im pregnated with the specific, it becomes an utter impossibility for the liquor appetite to exist. Cures guaranteed. 48 page book of particulars free. Address GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., 185 Race St., Cincinnati, O. T7K)R SERVICE.—A Jersey bred Bull. For T particulars apply to JOHN SCHNEK, South Heberton. TWO LOTS FOR SALE, SITUATED ON I Washington Street, Five Points, Freeland. For terms apply to PATHICK MCFADDEN, Fckley, Pa. IjX)U SALE.—One lot 43 feet, 0 inches front by F 150 feet deep, containing one large double block of buildings and out-houses sßx32 feet, also one house on rear of lot 14x24 foot and stable 14x14 feet, all in good condition and fenced, situated on lower Main street, near the Cottage Hotel. The property of Frank Mc- Sliea, a good title guaranteed. For further par ticulars and terms apply to T. A. BUCKLEY, Freeland, Pa. Birkbeck Brick. PENSIONS THE DISABILITY HILL ISA LAW. Soldiers Disabled Since the War are Entitled Dependent widows and parents now dependent whose sons died from effects of army service are included. 11 you wish yoiircluim speedily and successfully prosecuted, JAMES TANNER. Late Com. Of Pensions, Washington, D. C. Washington House, 11 Walnut Street, above Centre. A. Goeppert, Prop. The best of Whiskies, Wines, Gin and Cigars. Good stabling attached. ARNOLD & KRELL'S Boer and Porter Always on Tap. B. F. DAVIS, Dealer in Flour, Feed, Grain, HAY, STRAW, MALT, &c., Host Quality of Clover & Timothy SEED. Zemany's Block, 16 East Main Street, Freeland. Where to Find Him! Patrick Carey lias removed from the Ameri can hotel to John MeShea's block, 05 and 1)7 Centre Street, where lie can be found with a full line of Medical Wines, Gin, Brandies, Bum, Old Bye ami Horbon Whiskey. Any person who is dry and wants a cold, fresh large schooner of beer will be satisfied by calling at Carey's. Good Accommodation For All. SIX DIFFERENT KINDS OF BEER ON TAP. Wil Ikidj Pay. A GOOD THING. That's What the People Say. 1 have a special drive in chil dren's hose. 4 pair black hose 25cts. Children's seamless hose 3 pair 25cts. Ladies' silk brad ed wraps reduced from $4.50 to $2.50. Ladies summer vests 3 pair for 25 cts. I would like to tell you more about notions but can't in here. Did you see Our Ladies' Kid Button Shoe for SI.OO and others cheaper than any where. I am positive I have the best and cheapest stock of shoes in town. Wall paper is the worst of all; can't keep up with the de mand. 8 cts double roll, etc. We are selling anything and everything in tinware. Wash boilers 75 cts, etc. In carpets we are bothered a good deal in matching hut get them daily just the same; 17 cts a yard to any price you want. Furni ture seems good property when they get