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New-York tribune., 1873-03-17
THE PENNSYLVANIA REPORT.

Some of our Philadelphia friends, whose SEN
sitveness we are sorry to wound, seem angered
at THE TRIBUNE for speaking consciously
of their great railway corporation. They are
good enough to say that better things and
kinder words were expected from us. Surely,
they must have been inattentive readers of
these columns If they have not by this time
learned that not more steady is our faith in
that great system of social economy which
Pennsylvania cherishes, than is our antagOnism
to any and all schemes having for their aim
a monopoly of transit. We contributed not a
little to forcing the NewJersey companies to
loosen their hold, apd we sincerely regretted
that, after the grasp was loosened, the folly was
committed of surrendering their franchises to
an alien corporation, which is building up mo-
nopoly far worse than theirs Such is the cor
pOration which, nOminally local and Pennsylva-
MAN, now claims to dominate this whole land.
Except that its stock is not technically
in our market, and it is not directly
amenable to our laws, it is more NewYOrk
corporation than Philadelphia one. To say
nothing of its readiness at all times to absorb
any superfluous funds in Wall Street, it will not
be long, if its span of life be not rudely
wharves, and depots, and palatial stations
across the Hudson will make its presence more
papable. Our Philadelphia friends, in view
of the enforced silence of their own press,
ought to thank us for independent criticism
on q corporation which is SO grossly neglect
ing them.
The annual report of this Company is now
before the public, and, as a matter of general
concern. is worthy of attention. We have
room for but some cursOry remarks upon it. In
our judgment the document is q very alarm
ing one, both as to the parties pecuniarily in
terested and the public. AS to the former, it
is perfectly obvious that for them, after
scraping off the very thin varnish of ostenta-
tious rhetoric as TO the past and the future,
there is an ugly reality beneath. The great
part of the report is an exposition Of the rea-
sons for the failure of the Company to make
its leasehold interests "pay." Some are in alb
solute ruin and decay, such as those three
hundred miles of forest hidden railway from Sun
bury to Erie. Others, like the newly-acquired
New-Jersey property, are by no means
coming up to expectation. 1t is difficult
to evolve precise results from figures
purposely confused, but thus the matter seems
to stand. With total net income from all
the New-Jersey propertyOf less than $3,0O0000,
there cannot fail 30 be balance on the wrong
side of the account, when the enormous rent
or guaranteed interest and other charges are
taken into view. We should not wonder If
Col. Scott were willing 10 cancel his leases.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

of the men who drew and supported them.
One feebly says that the people who formed
the demonstration "wOuld like that some
"peaceful means would be devised by which
"eyery Chinaman in the land, brought here
"under contracts for term of years, could be
"sent home.n That's the rub. These foreign
ers are not wanted We have q free country,
open TO all comers, the asylum OF the OPP
pressed Of all nations, the refuge OF the mccoy
and home seeking; but nobody must come
here to work under a contract for term OF
years. The flag of the free hearts hope ana
home, by angel hands to ValOr given (and
all that sort Of thing) must not float over
contract for term of years, especially II one
of the contracting parties be an emigrant
from Far Cathay. We must sympathize with
the labOrer who sees his reduced wage taken
by an Asiatic who subsists on the poorest
food pays neither priest, pew-rent, nor school
tax; can live in drygoods box, and has
neither hope nor ambition for Office and SUI
frage. But putting the case even thus ex-
tremely, we confess our inability to see how
the Caucasian can help himself. If this
country is free in anything, it is free in its
absolute Openness to whoever Will come. NO
petty bubble about contracts extending over
a term of years can shut out immigration; !;
no test of pagansm can put up the bars at
the Golden Gate. Our sullen Beaver Falls
friends resolve to buy no knives and forks OF
men who employ Chinese labor. This is
free country, and they will buy where they
please. But the cheapest knives and forks
Chinese or Caucasian made-will find buyers
Meantime il is John Chinaman who asks
What are you going to do about ltf
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17
.TOHN CHINAUAN,S INTRUSION.

One hundred and ninety Chinese laborers
are employed in the Beaver Fails Cutlery
Works. near Pittsburgh, Penn. Ten white
men were discharged because they refused to
teach any part of their handicraft to the
almond-eyed Asiatics who had been imported
to give cheap Chinese labor to the cutlery
makers. ThereupOn there was much popular
indignation, which, however, has not taken
the form of bodily violence or assault. Only
one distempered individual of a sanguinary
turn of mind has ventured publicly to recon-
mend "making mince-meat" OF the bashful
strangers; and this was under pressure
of great excitement superinduced by
series of fervid resolutions. How to
get at the cure of this Mongolian evil
was problem demanding not only the highest
craftsmanship but the subtlest political
economy. So an industrial organization
known familiarly as the EcOnomites-was called
in to prescribe. The Economics diagnosed the
case, if we may be allowed the expression, and
reported that the Cutlery Company had violated
no law in hiring the Chinese, and that they
were obliged to mix some very cheap labor
with their more expensive sort; the works had
not paid expenses under the old plan this new
experiment was tried with the hope that it
might preclude the necessity of closing the
factory altogether Thus far the Economics.
Next, the citizens, greatly disappointed with
the moderate report of the Economics organ
lied a mass meeting, or, as it is called, "a
popular demonstrations The local orator
who led off on this occasion said that nothing
since Fort Sumter was fired upon had created
such an excitement among the citizens as the
arrival of one hundred and ninety Mongolans
at the Beaver Falls Cutlery Works. "We,n
he observed, suggestively, care not here to
violate any law of the land but to establish
"our rights as American cititizens." He did
not believe the Cutlery Company would tear
down their works and houses and 20 away.
But he did believe that ave should soon hear
"of the Great Eastern, in the Pacific Ocean,
sailing back and forth in this nefariOus
"businessp This prediction caused sensation,
in the midst of which a series of unique resO-
lutions were reported and adopted with en-
thusiasm. Let no man mock at the stammer-
ing utterance Of these men-labOrers and un-
cultured craftsmen struggling for voice. They
have a grievance which we ought to discover
and. if possible remove. One resolution said
that however the statute-b0ok might be silent,
there is a law craven on the hearts of
"Christian men which no human power can
ever repeal, guaranteeing that the Christian
domain shall never be usurped by the hea-
"then.p Another high resolve was as follows
Resoiped That we. citizens of Pennsylvania, liv-
ing where all should dwell In equity and harmony and
az Chinese labor s oontraband against citizen labor
deprocato all such labor dangerous 10 peace aud
safety.
These resolutions only show the helplessness
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17
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This is the state of the case without the COM
petition of rival roads. Need we wonder then
that the grasp of monopoly on the throat OF
New-Jersey is 40 desperately tenaciousf The
only business which seems substantially pros
nerous ia the legitimate business of its main
line ON Pennsylvania soil. All else are proving
Themselves very cancerous. AS we have all
along said, paralysis will be first felt at the
extremites. This report shows there is a lit
tie numbness now.
And yet-and here is the point which touches
the general weal-with all this warning, the
expansive, exorbitant grasping policy is to be
persisted in. More capital, mere debt We
remember once, when an impoverished Amerl-
can prelate said that in the cause of the
Church he "welcOmed debt" an irreverent
parishOner remarked he might as well say
"welcome burglary" Not so think these rail-
way financiers. The capital and debt of this
Company are now hundred and fifty million
and though the President says he only
wants S25, 900 900 additional, he admits he needs
more than that for immediate use and the
act of Assembly which was passed at his pro-
curement, and which the stockholders at his
bidding accepted, has no limit, and it is per-
fectly understood that another hundred and
fifty million will. if possible, be put aloat
1t is not in the least surprising that on this
exhibit of results, intentions and necessities,
while in the compact audience of a few huDd-
red picked stockholders, there should be, as
the reporters tell us, Enthusiasm and ap-
"plause,n the unsentimental outer world should
take less sanguine and hilarious view The
first effect of the publication of this report
was sharp fall in the price of the stock, and
we do not doubt that, if we could get at the
truth there is more than one thoughtful and
sagacious man even in Philadelphia who thinks,
as We do, that this thing has gone far enough.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17
amnssments. etc. ahie epsnina.

ACADEMY or Music. = Italian Opera Faust
Nine Pauline LpccA
Boorn's THEATER-"D Daddy 0'Dowd." Mr.. and
Mrs Dion BOucicaut. and shiel Barry
GRAND OPERA HOUSE," Uncle Sam"
NKw FIFTH AVENUE THEATER.-"A Alike" Miss
Clara Morris
NmLo's GARDEN Leo and Lotos"
OLYMPIC THEATER-" Humpty Dumpy." George
4 Fox -
UNION SQUARE THEATER.-"A A Business Woman" "
D. II HaTkibs and Miss Mary Griswod
WALIACK's THEGTER David Garrick" E. A..
Sohern.
STETNwAY HAIL~-Readings. Charlotte Cushman.
ST. JAMES THEkTER.-B -BurleSque Opera G. Swayne
Buckley and Sam Sbsrpley.
Tony PASTORS OPERA HoUSE.-Varieties.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17
NO EXCUSE FOR Any SALARY THIEVES.

NO EXCUSE FOR Any salary THIEVES.
There are a few men who voted for the In
creased Salary bill who seem to have become
unconsciously affected by the general cOrrup-
ton in such a way that they have temporarily
lost their moral perceptions. Eminent men,
TO whom public service has brought only la
bors and trials without that compensation in
wealth which they think, and perhaps justly
think, would have resulted from the exercise
of the talents and industry in some other field |;
these men seem to have thought for the mo-
ment that they were at liberty to go to the
public Treasury and help themselves to such
an amount as would compensate them at least
in part, for services nadequately paid for.
In taking this single and narrow view, which
has show of justice and propriety they have
forgotten that their way of repairing an
imagined injustice was none the less open
and fragrant robbery. They did bot get their
additional pay by any fair means. They
simply stole it. They believed, on review
of their lives, that the goods of this world
were not fairly distributed. They had not got
their share. They broke open Uncle Sans
strong box and took what would repair their
deficit. This is the highwaymans plea. The
robber is poor, the man to be robbed is rich; /;
it is only fair to restore the equilibrium.
But an honorable mans motive to embark
in public life is not to obtain wealth. 1t is to
gain distinction and renOwn. 1t is to advance
the public interest. 1t is to help create just
public opinion. 1t is to leave an honorable
name 10 his posterity. The man who has been
in affairs long enough to do this, or part OF it, is
not to be allowed at the end of his career to say
he has been unjustly dealt by, because other men
have made more money. If his object was
riches, we have no hesitation in saying he had
no business to enter public life. 1t is only
low man, and q mean man, and despicable
man, who enters public life to make money
And if a man is not ready to sacrifice his
greed at his entrance into it, let him stay
out, and engage in some cOngenal employ
ment that will minister unto that passion.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17
Aetu'Ilotk Dailu Gribm,te.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
NtONnAV MApCII ~ 1879
MONDAY. MARCH II, 1873.

Mr.. Disraeh aud Earl Derby decline 10 take Office
go TIE French war indemnity IS to be paid before
Sept g.
1t Is not yet made known with certainty who will sue
ceed Secretary Boutwell,. =- brutal wife murder
occurred at Philadelphia.
Supervisors clerk implicated in the Ring frauds
g. Postmaster Jones has resigned. - Prof. r. W.
Raymond lec,ured on " The Seven Senses" - suit
was decided against exCOector Murphy for excessive
duties. Gold, ll4t, u.s. Thermometer, 44o 46o, 40o
t3o, 40 36o.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

Another joke here is on step-mothers-unjs bot
amusing At Mission Sunday-schOol in Hudsops
little pupil was seen crying bitterly Upon inquiry
the teacher learned that he had lost his mother and
remarked to the boys that no one knew, until they
experienced it, how hard TO bear was such loss. A!
this pathetic moment wicked lad cried out: OH
let him wait till he gets step-mother-then you'll
hear hun cryw The wicked Lad did net conclude
with a statement of his personal experience; but
perhaps that was because he was suddenly called 70
order
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

Delaware is little State, but it must be a livelj
one for taxpayersthat is if they do not care about
stealing or about being ogged if they do steal for
the small Commonwealth has, we are told. more
money in its Treasury than it knows what to %
with. and upon the present basis of taxation the
embarrassment of riches promises to be greater sad
greater in the future. 1t has been suggested tba
the only way to remedy this evil is to import fes
politicians from Pennsylvania or from Washington;
surplus revenue wouldn't trouble the Delswsr~
much after that
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

The Second Edition of THE TRIBUNE AL
aANAC for 1878 has been nearly exhausted, the
sale this year being remarkably large and
prompt. A Third will be ready in time to
supply further orders.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

We hold that man who steals from the mails is
guilty of the meanest and most mischievOus kind of
theft. We should like, therefore, to be informed
upon what grounds Leo Canman of Chicago, who
was recently convicted of mail robbery and sem
fenced to ten years Imprisonment, has been par
doned by the President. The dispatch which gives
us the information only tells that the pardon has
been granted upon the intercession of Canman's
wife, and that it was recommended by the leading
citizens of Chicago, probably upon the interceSson
of the same lady. 1t is not strange that the wife
should desire her husbands pardon her feeling was
natural but many wives to-day are feeling in just
the same way, whose husbands will not be pardoned
any the quicker upon that account An offense
which demanded ten years expiatory imprisonment
must have been grave one if of like weight under
State jurisdiction, it would not have been dealt
with so tenderly. But there seems to be notion
that all crimes committed against the Federal au-
thorities of trivial nature, and that the cul
prts after decent interval, are to be pardoned
a matter of course. We had an instance of this IN
the defaulting cashier who walked out of Dedham
(Slass.) Jail the other day; aud now we have
another
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

1t is expected that Mr.. Gladstone will TO-
day request further adjournment of Parlia-
ment until Thursday, to give time for the
construction of Ministry which shall last at
least to the end of the session. We print the
contradictory rumors which agitate London in
regard to the intentions of Mr.. Disraeli, Lord
Derby, and the Conservatives; but any con-
lectures of the sort are idle until Mr. Glad
stone has announced his final determination.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

A gentleman of an original turn in Ohio though
that he would celebrate Washngtons bftbdp
after an entirely new fashion. SO he attaehee'
medal to the neck of an American eagle and thcnsa
the proud bird o. freedom at liberty. uniOr'"
pately that eagle did not appreciate the honor $40
responsibility of his mission he still loved mutton
and entering sheep-pen in search thereof he WIZ
jgnominiouSy shot, just two days after he was
uobly decorated, ---~
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

It is announced that the Countess Nontiio. motb.,
of the ex-Empress Eugenie has suddenly Loot her
eyesight This is not strictly true, she has been
almost wholly blind for many years, though it hs
been point of etiquette in her palace never to refer
to this infrmity but to address hor as if heT eys
were as bright and good as they were half ceniur
ago, when they shared the wandering sOul Of ii,
young and dissolute Count Of Teha. The sam,
curious etiquette prevails in the tituar court Of tn
exiled King of Hanover at Hietzing. He has beez
stone blind for years. yet the subject is never mes
toned in his court and His Majesty keeps mp u.
dreary comedy by complimenting the ladies whs
are presented to him the freshness Of their con-
plexions aud the tasto of their toilets.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

The successorship to Mr.. Boutwell, in the
Treasury is all afOat. On the whole, the most
respectable suggestion seems to be that for
Gov. Morgan.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

These hair-pins seem to be extremely dangerous
things. We have already mentioned the case Of
lady wounded by one of them while enssged %
falling down stairs. Now we read of poor eln
who has suddenly died in FOrtyille, y. Y In hs'
stomach was found a medium-szed hair-pin
appears that she subject to fits of SomnamDuISD
in one OF which she is supposed 10 have swallow"
the pin in question.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

of gentleman who was found druggod in IN.
room of grog-shop, he having written dsso.''s 'cs
letters to friend asking for small loans 70 !. Sas
by the bearer. Being rescued, the gentlem,n 'Ht
expired, snd it is supposed from poison. Uch. "%
goes on at this rate, there will probably bo
big fire there soon sAoF
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

We spoke the other day of the enormous price paid
for Meissonners last work, $4,000 comparison
with the prices paid for the works of the great
artists of the past will give some idea of the extent
of this infatuation At the sale OF Lord Dallng and
Bulwer's gallery. a fortnight ago, fine mythology
cal picture by Greuzo brought l16 guineas two Of
Goya's powerful portraits. Charles Ill and Elirs
beth Farnese, 6S guineaS Murillo's BuenayeOtnn'
245 guineas; Guidos Head Of Diana, So guinea
NJ. Bouguereau would not paint an opera-comiqGs
peasant-girI for all these sums combined-and hs ID
quite right, if he can get more.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

Mr. EdOua.d Loclroy. a distinguished Rad,.,
journalist of Paris, has no moro reverence in a.
composition than to Use such language a. thi,,-
gard to the Dukes of the Assembly: II am too
spectful to compare them to mites in a cheese r.,
when the Dukes enter the Republic, that u;.'
which appeared solid, and which represented Rios,
Justice, aud Liberty, disappears aud makes way b.,
multitude of white erlbs which crawl abont. de,o..
each other. and grow fat. What was appetizib,h
comes disgusting and one turns ones eyes from r..
mass of decomposition which walks about the t,A.
at the command Of directing class" Madansa
Pompadour once said that when a nation lost rssr.
for rank, it became the shame and reproach Of "a.
universe, II we may trust this dictum Of tho yiro
Gus Marquise France is in dOlsful case when seh
strong metaphors are shied with impuuity at TIA
coronets of Versailles.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

There are bad stories ailoat sbout creltio, pa.
tced upon the prisoners IN the State Prison Of M,
sourl-Such as nnmercifTl hossine'. confinement. !.
insufficient diet. One particular kind Of nn.' 'aa
ment, known as the "bevel ring" is mentioned y
consists in placing the convict, strapped, in snch
way as to compel him to SIT with his legs Hat on ,h
floor; then his hands are tied together aud dr,,a
toward his feet the effect being tremendous str,,a
on the muscles Of the legs and back. Commits.
of Investigation has kindly recommended 70 "a.
Legislature the abolition of this form Of disc,0a.
To cap the climax. the prison is 30 badly m,n,n.s
that within the last fifteen months it has COS, n.
State over $4,000 above the receipts. Them |. -
intimation. however that this last is 4. o..
sided and partisan story aimed at the State Ad,on.
tratiOn.
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

We give space elsewhere to letter from al Nv
torney of the Midland Railroad, attempting !" .,
plain the proposed increase of its capital stock %
explanation is plausible but unsatisfactory "ns
the Midland mainly needs is to finish iS roah' 70 y
financial agents promised and get to work ms'e~
of trying to borrow more money for which II Is nA'
to see honest necds and TO keep in the newSp'P'''
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

The proprietor of hotel at DensOn. town q
the southern terminus Of the Missouri Kansas. and
Texas Railway thus makes a new and irreyoreai
edition of the Ten Commandments:
Thou shalt drink and eat at no house but miae lest
thou he called barbarian.
H. Thou shalt not make unto thyself any bItten.w
any likeness Of anything that Is spiritual, FOR | am
Jealous man. visiting all sorts OF inlquY upon thoss
who never visit me- but treating kindly those that love
me and keep my commandments
III Thou shalt not take the name of my house In vain
w Six times day shalt thou drink.
" Three times day shalt thou eat
VI Thou shalt use no prOfane language m my h0Is
VII Thou shalt not steal of and eat or drink IA aaJ
house but mine.
Will Honor the best hotel in the city, that thy da
NAV be long in this land.
TX. will not credit.
X Thou shalt not bear false witness against tbs pro
prietor but smile with him aud pay Tor all you yet
New-York tribune., 1873-03-17

Having heard that to pour kerosene oil tne o'%
mon kind on the fire was dangerous, MTs. HeruoV'
of Cairo ILL.,, tried. for that purpose. "a noneApy
sve" mixture, and. strange TO say, it exploded VIZ
all the energy of the other kind. We think sh''
woman is called upon to sacrifice her life as Mrs H.
did for the purpose of making scientific test