ambiguity which Pennsylvania economist Henry C. Carey thought was a sign of weakness." Demand for tariff reform and tax reduction swept the nation by 1870, and their advocates were found in Republican ranks as well as in the Democratic Party. Congressman Garfield and Tariff Commissioner David Wells came to

Law and Order Society. The stated object was to "to secure, by all proper means, the enforcement of the laws against Sunday traffic of whatever nature and character the same may be, and of all such laws and ordinances as may from time to time exist in this Commonwealth relating to the liquor traffic

the farms of the map-owners. On 22 September 1857 The Historical, Agricultural, and Mechanics Society was organized. Then, as now, the availability of "federal" money was the primary motive for the establishment of this Society. Congress had enacted a law that provided $1,000 to each congressional

been applied to a local savings bank, a chapter of Phi Delta Kappa professional education fraternity, and the labels of a well-known beer brewed in Pottsville. This would be amusing and hardly worthy of serious notice if it were not accepted as fact by many students. From the days of the First

Eichholtz, 275 Northwest Ward Jacob Sherer, 315 �62 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Ingham Wood, 263 George Musser, 285 John Weaver, 258 Southwest Ward George Brungard, 264 John Christ, 168 Jasper Yeates Smith, 250 When the councils convened they elected John Hubley as president and