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to be born without the consent of the ruling
powers.
The force of this logic is somewhat marred
by the presence OF other conditions which
distinguish poverty from wealth. The poor
are likely to have large appetites as we'll as
families, and their digestion is by no means
weak; while among the rich, dainty appe-
tites, dyspepsia and gout are characteristic
features. The logic employed in the one
case fits the other exactly; and the con-
clusion is plain that the large appetites OF
the poor are the cause of their poverty, and
that it is the duty of Government to pass
laws restricting the amount which the poor
shall eat. The same logic might be e1er-
cised with regard to the shabby clothes
worn BY the destitute, or their uncomfort-
able lodgings. . Indeed, the same class OF
reasoning is employed in this country BY
the profound thinkers who, discovering that
certain people have made immense fortunes
by forming combinations which secured to
them the profits of practical monopolies,
argue that everybody should form COM
binations and become monopollsts, with the
result that everyone will be immensely
wealthy.
The trouble with DR.. Drysdali and his
class of theorists is that they look only on
one side of the subject. Had the studious
doctor perceived in the small families of the
wealthy cause of the inequalities Of for
tune and proposed that government should
interfere to impose fine or other penalty on
that evil, he might have burrowed into the
foundation strata of great social solution.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
'osrAeE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, NOV. Il, 1890
INSTRUCTION IN OIL,

If the reports which are ahoat in we'll
informed circles about the influences
that are showing the petroleum market
down toward the level of the sixties have
any foundation, it gives good deal Of color
to the assertion that if the Standard lost
anv money in the Delamater campaign, it is
going to get it back out of the producers
with large increment OF usury.
The assertions are definitely made that the
Standard has been unloading on the market
all the way down from the go cent level, and
has got matters in comfortable position to
squeeze any Of the unwary producers who
have loaded up in reliance on the assertions
of the Standard organs that the man who
said the market could possibly 60 down was
a liar and a traitor to The State. At the
same time intimations are rumored from the
inner circles that what is left of the premium
in any locality will be subjected to another
trimming, leaving the smaller producers to
work for the Standard with feeling of de-
vout gratitude if they get day wages out of
their labor.
All this is demonstration of the power
Wnlcn can De e4erIeQ over mOnopoll1eu
product. The squeezing process may, when
it has been completed, be varied by an up
ward turn. 1t is certain that it cannot go
much further without driving the producers
en- naSSe, from the mere instinct of self
preservation, into the movement to establish
competing rehneries and pipe lines. If
that movement should develop any definite
proportions, the next move on the board
would be the new form of Standard device
to buy off the producing interests from the
only policy which will ever free their inter-
ests from its present remorseless control.
Experience is dear teacher; but it is
giving the petroleum producers some very
positive instruction just at present on the
subject Of monopolized market
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
HIGH PRICES FOR JUDGEsHIPs.

The feature of the new election law in
New York, which requires candidates to file
with designated officers sworn statements of
all expenditures connected with their can
didacy is already producing definite re-
suits in the exposure of the scandal of large
expenditures to obtain judicial positions.
1t is thus revealed that each OF the success
full candidates for the City Court bench in
New York paid $4,000 to Tammany Hall,
while the candidate for the Superior Court
Judgeship gave up 5000 in his own per-
son, and fourth confesses that SIC. 900 more
was paid on his behalf by other people.
Anything like an enlightened view of the
bench will always recognize that it should
be kept as far as possible free from politics.
But by these statements it is shown to have
been closely connected in New York with
one of the worst phases of politics, namely,
the payment of large sums to an organiza-
ton Of professional politicians, for the con-
sideration of Offices. 1t is impossible that
Judges who owe their positions to such in
f1uences can be superior to the ''pulls"
which give some of the worst characters in
New York immunity from punishment
No more severe characterization of such
payments as these is needed than one al
ready given by no less an authority than
the New York Court of Appeals, in an ex-
actly similar case. A candidate for one of
the same positions having been assessed
81, 900, the Court of Appeals declared the
assessment not only unlawful, but criminal.
The decision declared that the statutes for
bade all expenditures of money to secure
the election of a candidate, except for GER
tain specified purposes; and that the legal
expenses could not possibly reach two thou
sand dollars. ANY assessment or contribu-
tion beyond the purposes named by law, the
Court declared to be criminal, void and
contrary to public policy and the welfare OF
the community"
In view of this declaration by the highest
legal authority in New York, it would seem
as if some very emphatic action must be
taken in the case OF candidates who have
paid from 81, 900 to SIS, 900 for judicial posi-
tions. But New York politics have won.
derful capacity for covering scandals with
the cloak of forgetfulness. 1t will not be
unprecedented if these expensive judicial
elections are allowed to pass with few
sharp comments and then forgotten through
the appearance of some fresh sensation.
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THE CRoNrN CASE REVIVED.

The publication in Chicago of statement
that Iceman O'Sullivan, who is undergoing
Imprisonment for the murder of Dr. Cronin,
has in private conversation told the whole
story OF the murder, is a remarkable sequel
to that murderous conspiracy. 1t empha-
sizes the failure Of justice, which took the
form of that famous compromise verdict
which sent number of men to the peniten-
tiary for short terms, who. if they committed
any crime at ali, committed the most cold
blooded and premeditated murder known
tor many years. There are intimations that
the O'Sullivan disclosures may lead to
tracing the crime to higher people who have
not yet been indicted; but inasmuch as Chi
cago justice has not yet been able TO reach
the people who tried to bribe the jury at the
Cronin trial, it is not to be expected that
Chicago justice will vindicate itself by pun
ishing the inspirers OF the murder. The
Cronin case is likely to go on record as one
in which organized crime successfully set
the law at defiance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17

THAT is an interesting illustration OF the
different views of things taken from different
standpoints presented by Mr.. Stephen Fiske's
"reminiscences of Stanley. Published in yes
terday's DISPATCH. Mr.. Fiske relates
that. when Stanley returned from find
ing Livingstone, he took the rising ex-
plorer to the Vaudeville theater, the
Albino and other Bohemian resorts, where
Stanley was so Ignorant of the convention
aliries" that Fiske finally left STANLEY to his
book, his lectures and his fame" 1t was
generally supposed that a leading Characters
tic of the Bohemian resorts of which Mr.. Fiske
acted as a master Of ceremonies was their
utter freedom from conventionalities. In view
of the fact that Stanley could not conine him.
self even to the conventionalltles OF those
places it is reassuring to learn that
''since then he has learned the pro-
prieties. the conventionhlities and the
amenities" which permits Us also to hope that
his instruction will keep him from setting up
as social standards the manners that obtain in
places OF amusement whose chief attractions
are their improprieties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
A NEW CURE FOR POVERTY.

Among the various theories illustrated BY
social theorists on the causes of poverty,
that which has recently been elaborated by
a Scotch physician named Drysdall-whose
theories as well as name are suggestive Of
Sir Walter Scott's DryaSduSt-is entitled to
pre-emInence for unconscious hunor. After
considering the whole field of human ills,
including inequitable land laws, overpro-
duction, competition, corporate monopolies,
and unequal taxation, DR.. Drysdall con-
cludes that none of these furnish the real
cause of poverty, and announces as his
peculiar and especial discovery that large
families are the main cause of low wages.
The statistical foundation on which the
Caledonian theorist erects his assertion of
the social enormity of this class of overpro-
duction is simple, if not convincing. He
finds that in the West End of London,
where the classes reside who have good in
comes and are supposed to be well educated
and of good morals, the annual birth rate is
only 20 in the thousand; while in the East
End. where poverty rules and the inhab-
itants are wholly ignorant of the high stand
ard of manners and morals established in
Mayfair, the birth rate rises to 45 in the
thousand. The fact is indisputable, and the
law is generally apparent wherever the con-
ditions of poverty and prosperity can be
sharply contrasted with each other. His
conclusion, consequently, is that the cause
OF poverty is to be found in the large fam
lilies of the poor, and that legislation should
be resOrted to, making it illegal for child
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
DIR. KOCH,s CAREER.
His Brother at st. Louis Relates the Story of
His Boyhood.


His Boyhood.
ST. LOUIS, November 16.-Dr. Robert Koch.
the German scientist, has brother living IN
this city. DR.. Koch is the third son, while the
t1rst is MI Arnold Koch, president of the Red.
heffer & Koch Art Company.
Il cannot saw much of my brothers recent
life." said Mr.. Koch to-day. "as have lived in
this country many years. My correspondence
with him has been kept up constantly. Robert
is the third of the children, the first nine of
whom were boys. According to the laws of
Hanover. when a mother gives birth to seven
male children in succession the King must be
godfather to rhe seventh, and the mother re-
ceives elegant silver present from the
Government. While the rest of us
spent our leisure time fishing and hunting.
Robert devoted his hours to study and observa-
ton, and one of his faVorite pastlnes was to
study lichens and MOSES under the microscope
At II he had completed his course in the High
School of Clansthal, Hanover, but was unable
to enter the University of Cottingen until he
was Is. At the University he wrote prize
essay in his second year, taking it away from
hundreds of senior students His course as a
physician at Posen, where he first began the
study of bacteria, his service during the
Franco-German war, his investigation and eS-
tablishment of the cholera germ, are all mat
ters of record"
Mr.. Koch bears striking resemblance to his
distinguished brother.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
PERSONAL JOTTINGS.

THE last words of James Lille, the ball
PLAYER. who died in Kansas City few days
ago. were: I'm afraid that it's three strikes
and out"
CHIEF JUSTICE ROYCE of the Vermont Su-
preme Court Bench, who is in his list year, has
announced his intention of resigning, owing to
physical indisposition.
AWAY off in an obscure part Of Texas, near
Hampstead, lives Elizabeth Ney, grandniece
of the famous Marshal Ney, of France. She is
both pretty and talented, and a sculptress by
profession.
AMONG the unpublished Thackeray manu-
scripts now offered for sale in London are a
note book containing 1900 fragments of un-
published verses. a scrapbook with 400 tracings
and sketchings, and an album of sketches.
MRS. WHITELAw REID, wife of the Amer
Ican Minister to France, is very popular with
society in Paris. Her house is sumptuous, her
hospitality unbounded, her dressing costly and
in perfect taste her manner simple, kindly and
elegant and her French irreproachabe.
]. A. MCKAY. of Kansas, has never stu died
law, never been admitted to the bar, never
served in any capacity in a court, and yet the
farmers elected him judge of one of the district
courts. The Farmers Alliance will send him
to Ann Arbor for 60 days to fit himself for the
bench.
ANAsTAs1Us the chief of the brigands who
capsared the son of the Sultan recently, is
described as a very handsome and well-informed
maR, who speaks four languages and be-
haves like a born gentleman. He preserves
strict military order among his followers, and
treated his prisoner in a manner befitting his
rank.
SENIOR Don MIGUEL SUAREz GUANEz. the
newly-appointed Spanish Minister to Washing
ton, informed President Harrison on Friday
that his august sovereign regarded the wonder
full progress made by this country with the ut
most satisfaction. For a 4-year-old king this
isn't SO bad and can give even Baby Mckee
points in precocity.
Mr.. BURNAND, editor of the London Punch,
was asked to write burlesque on 'Rav ems
wood" but, before he undertook the task he
went to see "Ravenswood," and was so much
impressed with the acting of Mr.. Irving and
Miss Terry as Edgar and Lucy that he refused
to entertain the idea of taking part in anything
that would turn either the one or the other into
| ridicule.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND.

Philadelphians must wake up.-PhiLa-
detphia Record.
Runaway couple from Philadelphia Gin
Camden)-Say, Parsou, will you Join us7
Parson-Thanks. Don't care If do."-Tszds
SJrtings.
The Attorney General has been asked
whether newspaper guesses is a lottery, and he
guesses philadelphia Record.
Senator Ingalls, has been offered position
on the New York Sun at a salary OF $40. oOO year
Dana mas been dead stuck on Ingalls, ever since
he said that the election OF Grover Cleveland made
the pretensions of the humblest citize to the
Presidency respectable.-Kdnsds City Star.
Whv don't you join our athletic club. The
initiation fee is only hundred and the monthly
dues only $40.
am afraid that could never be an athlete.
Why not-shortness of breath?
All. no; merely shortness OF funis.-Tsrds
SUtfH0S.
81 hear yer lost yer whiskers, Captain
Reilly" said good-hearted-looking individual
to the captain of the Nineteenth precinct yester-
day.
Eyes, the barber did shave them of while hap
pened to be asleep, but I've grown some more"
''SoI see, but here's a set III give yer ter use
in case yer should fall asleep 'other time"
Thanks
Don't mention it. "-Hs1 York Journal.
Counsellor John Griffith, of Brooklyn. re-
signed his seat to a lady goiLg uptown in Kings
county elevated train the other day, when, TO his
astonishment a man slipped into the vacant place
and the lady didn't say a word
Here" said the lawyer, 81 gave that seat 70
this lady. WHAT
'Oh, that's all right; she's my wife. " and the
follower of Blackstone had to leave the train at
the next station to get some air.-Ns0 YORK Jour
nal
REVISED VERSION.
Where are you going, my pretty malor
'I'm going to church, kind sir, ~ she said.
''Who is to preach 70 you, my pretty maidE'
''OId DIR. Prosy, kind sir. ~ she said
t'How can you stand the man. my pretty maidf'
''You see, he's my papa, Kind sir. - she said.
-EsD York Herald.
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Militia as a National Guard.

The department has endeavored by its CO.
operation to encourage and aid the National
Guard so far as possible under existing law.
Officers have been detailed to assist in their in
struction, and detachments of regular troops
have been ordered to participate in some of the
larger State encampments. The department
has endeavored to cooperate more especially
with those States which have manifested the
most interest in the matter by their own liberal
appropriations and earnest efforts. The results
have been very satisfactory. Its direct benefits
are palpable, and its indirect influence perhaps
even more impor ant.
ANY money which the National Government
expends for our citizen soldiery goes to help
those who help themselves. and Is bound to
give proportionately large returns. Under the
present law there Is annually appropriated for
the benefit of the militia S400 600, while the in
diyidual States appropriate in the aggregate.
so far as known, over S20O0 900, and in many
States the militia receive also a considerable
support from local and private sources. If the
appropriation of the general Government
should be increased, and l wish it might be,
beieye that IL would be generously met by
corresponding increase by the States them
selves. heartily commend every intelligent
effort to increase the efficiency of the National
Guard and TO bring them into closer relations
with the War Department and hope that
measures to that end may receive favorable
consideration of Congress. One of the most
useful directions which can be given to the
drill and training of the militia of the seaboard
states Is in connection with coast defenses
ubere its services are most likely to be needed
If At all In that particular training the gen.
eraI Government must do more than cooper
ate: il must take the initiative.
The report also contains information and
recommendations on the subjects of promo
tions court-martia1, ordnance, military evolu-
t;ons artillery, retirement Of officers, signal
corps, military posts and number OF other
matters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.
A Congressional Committee En- Route to
the Pacific Coast.


the Pacific Coast.
CHICAGO, November l6-At the Grand Pa
citic there arrived to-day Charles b. Reade, As
sistant Sergeant at Arms of the United States
Senate. Mr.. Reade comes TO Chicago with the
Joint Committee of Congress on Immigration
and Naturalization, of which committee upon
the part of the Senate is Hon. William E.
Chandler, of New Hampshire, Chairman. and
upon the part of the House of Representatives
Hon. w. B. Owen, of Indiana. Chairman.
The first business which this committee had
in hand was the establishment of immigra-
tion station in New York, to take the place of
Castle Garden. Subsequently this committee
visited Chicago. Cincinnati, st. Louis and De-
troit. and obtained testimony upon general
matters intrusted to them.
At meeting of the committee during the
last session of Congress a subcommittee was
appointed to take testimony on the Pacific
coast upon the subject of Chinese immigration
and other matters. The committee are now en-
route West. At Spokane Falls the first meet
ing will be held. From there the committee
will proceed to Seattle, Port Townsend, San
Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego. The
committee expect to finish their investigations
in order to be back at Washington by Decem-
har
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17

WITH Republican majority of 3s,5Oo
on the Congressional vote, the Republicans of
Pennsylvania appear to have held their own
pretty WELL" remarks the Philadelphia Press.
So it seems: but then what value are we to place
on the repeated and strenuous assertions of the
Republican orators and organs just before the
election that the victory of Psttison would
work an unmitigated smash in the tariff
DOlicy?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17

Now that Wall street has learned by ex-
perience that the United States Treasury can
not always be relied upon to pull it out of the
troubles caused by its own speculation. prob
ably the New York banks will reach the con-
clusion that the proper function of their re-
serves is to be kept to protect their depositors
instead of being loaned out to support specula-
tive bubbles.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17

Mr.. JAY GoULD's advice to the public
that this is good time to buy stocks produces
general disposition on the part of the public
to sell stocks the principle that it Is sale to
copper Gould's advice. But sometimes the
willy Jay says what he means with the irten-
tion of deluding the lambs who act op the pre-
sumption that Jay is lying. In view of these
distressing uncertainties the best way to beat
Gould is to let stocks religiously alone.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17

The New York stock broker, who COM
mitted forgeries to the tune of $3.50 900. partly,
it is asserted, to reimburse customers who had
lost money by following his pointers, showed
exceptional regret for the losers at speculation,
which, if generally shared by the stock-broking
fraternity, would make the lot of that interest
a most narrowing one. But the sequel shows
that he would have preserved his customers
from loss Just as effectually, and with much
better results for himself and his firm If he had
advised them to keep out Of stock speculation
altopether
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17

THE assertion of Maxim, the inventor.
that we are on the verge Of an era of aerial
navigation, together with the announcements
of that highly watered stock company out in
Illinois to the same effect, are interesting but
not convincing. The child may be living who
will see realized Tennyson's dream of airy
navies graphing in the blue; but single air
ship lowering over our cities will do more to con-
vince us of the fact than all the promises Of the
inventors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
AN EAGLE TRAPPED.

Capture of a Monster Specimen of the
American Bird Near Logan, Ohio.
LOGAN, O., November l6.-Ezra Bowers, liv-
ing seven miles from Logan, caught a gray
eagle yesterday in steel trap set for dogs. He
brought it to Logan to-day, and sold it to
Colonel Rempel, VINO sent it 10 Warden Dyer at
Columbus The eagle measures feet inches
from tip to tip. 1t is a beautiful specimen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
The Serpent's Loss.
~, the philanelnhIa Times. ]

From the philadelphia Times.1
While the circumstances of the Serpents loss
do not directly prove the alleged faultlness OF
build of herself and her sister ships OF the
British navy, the disaster, ADDED to the already
long list that England must deplore, will open
afresh the catalogue Of criticism upon the
British Admiralty, and by this we should be
careful to profit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17

liberation of the slaves. This proves that the
Arabs have little respect for the Sultan's de-
cree abolishing their trade; and that the
European powers can do more in this way than
by their late race with each other for the
gobbling of African territory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-17
EXToRTIONATE IMPORTED WATERS.
Chicago Dining Room Men Work the Thur
man Banquet ProfitabIy.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.t
COLUMBUS, November 16-The regulation
kick has followed the Thurman banquet and
this time it seems to be in reason. There is
loud complaint of the plunderers who came
here from Chicago as alleged walters, everyone
Of them insisting on his fee before he would
wait on man, and even then the victim was
not certain of being attended to.
The walters and caterers of the city are in
dignant that they were not given a chance to
serve a local banquet and cite several instances
where the imported Chicago article worked
the guests to perfection. One man, for in
Stance, found it impossible for himself or
rriends to get cigar, and in mere shame sent
hut and bought box Others paid as high as
20 cents, in fee, for cigar he should have had
for nothing. while other articles came fully as
high.