The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-02
OIT WRisSlnrt Scribe" SlRaEs.


1t may be, and undoubtedly is, just
little paradox for a Carbon county Re-
publican convention TO adopt the fol-
lowing resolution and at the same time
nominate for Assembly A. w. Rauden-
bush man of pronounced tree trade
views:
Resoived BY the delegates Of the Republ-
can masses in county convention assembled
! that we stand SQuarely aud firmly by the
! platform Of our National party. promulgated
at Chicago in 1894. and hy the platform OF the
party In State Convention assembled at llar-
/ rlshurg in the past year, and especially in
| their declarations and regard to the laws
| regulating imports known rs Tariff Laws.
= We, with them, declare ourselves in favor Of
| just such tariff laws that viii insure to our
| tuilcrs In mines, workshops, and all other
! positions, the full control of our whole mar
ket for All their productions, relying on home
! competitors to keep prices within due bounds
as has been demonstrated in all cases where
| home Industry has been protected: we pro-
/ clam uhdylng hostility to free trade because
/ II leads TO the destruction Of our industries,
| throws out of employment millions Of our
| happy people or plunges them into the mis-
/ cries that curse Continental Europe, Obligng
| the mother 20 work along side of the father
| and husband with pick and shovel TO keep
the absolute necessities Of life of the cOarseSt
| kind in the mouths of their of spring, against
all OF which we protest, as tie legitimate out
| come Of the Democratic party as especially
promulgated by the mouth piece of the party
In THIS county and In the state by MANY and
generally by the followers of Col VIM. II.
Morrison, OF Illinois, backed by the President
and his cabinet.
The inconsistency of the above pro-
ceedingi is too apparent to need comment
by us. Probably the true force of the
resolution has not been noticed by the
gentleman nominated. Be that as it
may, it only goes to show the peculiar
manner in which Republican conven-
tons are conducted in Carbon county,
and the almost superhuman efforts
which are being made by its votarics to
catch the labor vote. How successful
they will be depends entirely upon how
the laborer swallows the "blarney'
mixed by the leaders of that party and
distributed by the small-fry politicians.
*sss*
The need of fire department in
this place was never more severely felt
than about week ago, when the total
destruction of East Weissport was
threatened by the FIRE fiend. The fire
started in the Franklin House livery and
spread with startling rapidity to the
buildings adjoining and only by the
prompt response of the citizens of Le-
highton our town was saved from a con-
ilagration which would to-day leave
Weissport in heap OF charred ruins.
The thanks of our citizens are due to
our Lehighton neighbors for their mani
fold efforts to subdue the flames and
save us from the threatened destruc-
tion. The result of the fire has its
warning. will our people heed it? 1t re-
mains to be seen. 1t is in order for our
merchants and property holders TO agi-
tate and organize. Who will start the
ball rolling, and keep it rolling until
success crowns their efforts?
*a*.%
Scarcely have the sad echoes of the
terrible downfall of so many Newark,
n. j., young girls died away, ere there
comes to us the doleful news of the fate
of Mrs. Duffy, the mother of one of the
young girls, who was taken to New
Jersey insane asylum. You girls who
are tempted at times to disobey the
commands of loving parent, picture
the grief, the misery of this poor woman
when she heard of the downfall of that
daughter over whom she had watched
night after night, during days and
weeks of sickness, ever ministering to
her wants with the careful, ,loying hands
and in the sympathetic way mother
only can. How the scalding tears of
misery, flowing from a broken heart. |
must have dimmed her sight and coursed
in torrents down her cheeks as she pic
tured the fate of a daughter over whom
she had spent hour after hour of happy
anticipation as she watched her slowly
bloom into sweet womanhood, only to
see her brightest hopes become dead
sea fruit" Picture the wretchedness,
the remose of the daughter who has
brought, by her youthful indiscretion,
this pain and misery to loving mother.
Do not attempt to hide It's sadness and
its warnings under the veil of indiffer
ence, but let her lesson a lesson be to
YOU; one which you will ever keep in
sight as you journey on in life scattering
the seed of christian acts and sacrifices
as become good and true women.
Good name in man and woman, dear my
Lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls"
1t is a recognized fact that the COM
ing election is to be one in which the
laboring classes will play a very promi
nent role. In our own county they have
demanded and received recognition at
the hands of Democratic county con-
ventlon while the same demand was ig-
nored by Republican convention.
True, the Republican convention put
in nomination representative of the
Knights OF Labor, but not the gentleman
indorsed by that organization. What
will be the result of this deliberate dis |
reTsrd Of the request of the laboring
classes? 1t may portend much, more
perhaps than present indications go to
show. 1t shows the inconsistency Of
that party who have but recently dis !
covered the great, undying and loyal
love they possess for those who earn
their bread by the sweat of their brow"
Ii clearly shows that the friends of cor
porations and monopoly are at the head
OF the concern and that they will not
deliberately acceed to the demands of
the laboring classes. IL is the duty of
the Knights OF Labor to put their seal
Of condemnation on the actions of the |
late Republican convention by method
simple, sure and decsiYe-the ballot.
"s*F
The election Of Chauncey Forward
Black for Governor of Pennsylvania is /
the medium through which the inteln- |
gent farmers OF this State expect to have
justice melod out TO them. 1t is an in
disputable fact that owing TO the dis !
elimination i'm freight charges many of