The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-10
CLEVELAND AND PITTSBURG.
The High-Tariff Belt--General
Decay of the Iron-Man.
Fortunes Made with the
Watering.PaiL.
Correspondence Chicago Tribune.


Dautesque city in the Western World,
a kind OF inhabited Eesuvius. But
Cleveland has much OF the same quail
ity and possessions as Pittsburg, more
orderly place to theeye. Its furnaces
and rolling mills, oil refneries and
noizy Industries, are set off from the
the inhabited place, which is fair and
green; aud up spd down the streets 60,
at slow pace, the Connecticut folks OF
the Western Reserve, in their neat
buggiss, driving email, tough horses.
The women are driving the babies;
the lads their mothers; 1t is Worces-
ter or Hartford lifted up and dropped
on the bluff OF Lake Erie.
No proximate towns differ more
than Pit,sburg and Cleveland. They
make beer in Cleveland, whisky in
Pitlsburs. The Decentralization is cor
responding.
THE PTrrsBURG POLITICIANS
look 81 if they never went to sleep,
ami never quite woke up. They bah
bic their caucus tricks and secrets as il
there was something lsudsble in small
chicauery. They puff this or that pet
ty leader loudly, yet generally deepen
the impression that he must be low
fellow. They are entirely confidential
and Detray an amazing want OF knowl'
edge of the general respect and conv.c
tiors OF men. They have 70 capacity
to esteem their public State folks for
moral, just, or iutellectusl attributes,
and run in droyes, and waste much that
they pilter.
What is your city debt?' said l to
the Mayor.
"IfsSl0,500.00O by Limitation. That's
what it is by Limitation. Aud guess
you'll fad it's al out up to thst mark.
But what our additional obligations
are on the new wster-vorks, street.
openings, and so forth, l think you
won't be able to fod out. | don't
know. It's big thing.
The Mayor pushed up his shining
hat,-he used to be the pressmsn OF
uevspaper,-and told the Revenue
Collector to take me up to the Coutroll-
er, or something. l didn't 60.
didn't want 10 know.
IN CLEVELAND
the politicisrs are personalities, with
separate identities; and many OF them
are critical, orderly men, governed by
strong party attachments, but not gem
orally to the extent Of abandoning self
respect. They take little dictum from
Columbus, are shy OF loose and shame
less iobbery, fear their press il it is just,
and If 1t is upjus. have another court
of appeal in tsat we!l-sdyised public
intelligence which lot even newspapers
can betray. Neither society Is perfect
Cleveland is too hard in morals; Pitts
burg has au equally hard creed, but no
ADEQUATE public spirit to impress 1t on
public order as IN Cleveland. They are
both provincial capitals Of the Protec-
tive Tariff, that great demoralizar OF
POLITICAL and commercial morality, and
tyrant over independent expression.
In the two Congressman representing
the two cities there is no great differ
eucs. Both are good-lookIng, thin: al
fable men.
TIE TARIFF AND IRON AT CLEVELAND.
Protection aud iron are accusing
each other in all tbs part of the coun-
Try.
"Ahr' said one positive, individual
old Clevelsnder to me, II tod these
| fellows, years ago, they were raising up
a giant to devour 'em in that Tariff.
Thew have had their prodigal aud riot
GUS DAYS, and they are now like the calf
that has been knocked in the head; 1t
kicks little, and has not yet learned
how to lie stlll but it will not soon get
up. The purblnd dupes now think
they want more Tariff.
Tell me the state Of things more
explicitly. Doctor" said I.
"Well, down here at the town oil
Nile.there were 81 800 coo invested in a
rolling mill. The Company iaiied,and
a short time ago, the whole concern
bro ght,under the hammer ,only$30OOo wv
The highly stimulated placeot Ioungs-
town, 10 the heart OF the Mahonlns
coal resiou, is IN q state OF absolute
cs,slepsy. Ii jumped up from WI
lsee 10 be a city, and now it is dead
alive, wondering i, Protection protects;
In Cleveland, the great Rolling Mil
COMPANY, OF which \. B. Stone, Amasa
: stones brother, is President, is uader'
s,ood 10 be in embarrassed circum'
tstancss. Those men at one time
thought they had the surest thing o
all in iron. They sent 10 Missouri
Tenn essee, Indiana and PennsylVsnis
and bous ht large tracts OF coal hme
and iron land, and established rolling
mills at Chicago and many otnei
noiuts: and their place at Newour.
near Cleveland, became powerful
looking town. They were perfectly
;ntolersnt on the subject of the Tariff
communicated with Washington and
Europe, and were drunk with then
prospects and profits. No" the pros
pect is quite the reverse. :.
The largest fleet on the lakes
said to be owned by the WinsioWs
They used &c. get, in the flush times
ala a ton for delivering Lake Superle
: ore here in Cleveland. Now, reckon
I thew would be glad to get $3.50 or 81
{ / don't kso. that my figures are e1sc'