The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-09-08

6iksatsd ~ IL party In tasir aUo.oV
lions for once. II 10 more IKE . q.
mand from Spain that Dewey and
Schley shall be not promoted. but
dismissed from their commando
Mr.. wanamaker's speech at his lit
tie gathering. A . matter Of fact. was
disappointing. although Il was much
admired by the city papers, which set
from four to six columns Of good ad-
vertising from him every day. 1t was
brilliant and vigorous. but It was the
brillIancy Of the will-o-the-wisp. and
the improbable vigor OF kicking
mule. 1t was full Of Htuperative
abuse OF Republican administration OF
state AFFAIRS but alleged nothing spe-
rife, and only repeated in general and
more picturesque terms the OLD ana
discredited charges for which Dr.
Swallow, when he put them In definite
form, was criminally convicted In the
Dauphin county court. II set up ghost
OF dishonesty in state affairs. and then
scared at 1t. although not one dollar
has been lost or stolen from the state
treasury by mismanagement or dis
honesty In all the years OF Republican
administration, and II cried out against
alleged eNtravagance and oppressive
taxation under which the people are
groaning, although not man In all the
state of Pennsylvania. except he has
money at interest, pays special IL
cense for conducting a particular bus
mess, or Ia a stockholder In bank. a
railroad company. or some like corpor-
alton, pays one cent Of tax toward the
support Of the state government, d.
rectly or indirectly. II anyone Will
take the trouble to look at the official
records he will see that there Is only
one county in the state. that OF Phila-
| delphia, which does not get directly
back from the state In appropriations
for local purposes. and which go to
tighten the burden OF local taxation
thousands of dollars more than II
pays In. running In some OF the poorer
counties as. high as eight times as
much. There are only two counties
Philadelphia and Allegheny. which dc
not get back more money for common
school purposes alone than all tina
their citizens pay in. The individual
citizen In Pennsylvania, under the leg
islation which the Republican party
has made, pays nothing as an individ
ual toward the support OF the stat
government. The corporation taxes an'
the special taxes and the license fee
upon particular classes OF business foo
the entire bill. and amount to owe
s., ,O0O. 600 besides, which Is divide
among the counties to tighten the bur
dens OF local taxation.
This Is the sort of a Republican rec
ord which anybody has to go up agains
who undertakes TO make anti-Republ
can fight on state issues. The truth
that the state OF Pennsylvania Is nc
the oppressor OF its citizens. but the
benefactor. and nobody Is ''groaning
under anything worse than an unsa
: isfied ambition to hold Office, or som'
thing he has eaten that doesn't agrt
with him There are a good many PEI
pie. you know, who mistake their Il
active liver for an active conscience
Mr.. Wanamaker's speech was bri
, 7iantly composed. however, and as
!. piece OF vituperative English refec
credit on the man who wrote 1t. "B,
that" as Mr. Kipling would say. ''
another story"
GEORGE II. WELSHoNS.