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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
FLOUR FOR CUBA.
Some of the Beneficent Effects OF the Nc
Kinley Reciprocity Clause.


Kinley Reciprocity Clause.
San Francisco Chroniele.J
The Spanish import duty on American
flour into Cuba is at present time sc 90 q
barrel. Under the commercial agreement
between Spain and the United States,
which is to go into effect on January 1, the
duty will be only 81 per barrel, and the ef-
feet of this coming reduction is already
felt. There is keen competition among
dealers, and the orders for flour to be de-
livered under the new tariff aggregate 30o,-
600 barrels. 1t is said that the regular
steamers cannot begin to carry the freight
and that outside vessels will have to be
pressed into service New York will ship
most of the flour, though many orders have
been placed in Chicago. whence the flour
will be shipped by rail to Baltimore, and
thence by vessel to Cuba. There will prob
ably be number of exciting races between
the New York and Baltimore vessels carry
ing this -four
This is but single instance of what the
reciprocity provisions of the Mckinley bill
have accomplished. It may be well to ex-
plain again that what is called q CONNER
cial treaty with Spain is only her formal ac-
ceptance of the suspensive clause of the
Mckinley bill reduced to writing and car
ried out into detail. As soon as Spain
learned that Cuban sugar would be subject
to import duty in the United States unless
she reduced her tariff on American prod
ucts she cast about for the wav to protect
herself from such disaster, and the reduc-
tion in the Cuban duty on flour is one of the
things to which she agreed
Our free trade friends no doubt will argue
that if reciprocity with Spain increases our
export of -four to Cuba, reciprocity with
Great Britain would increase our export of
flour to England. The argument looks
plausible, but it is fallacious. Our re-
ciprocity under the Mckinley bill is limited
to few articles which we cannet or do not
produce in quantity for ourselves, namely,
sugar, molaSses, tea, coffee and hides. We
may well afford to admit these articles duty
free upon reciprocal conditions, whereas it
would be the height of folly to invite foreign
competition in articles which we can pro-
duce or make for ourselves. We know of no
piece of national legislation which has been
more successful than the third section of the
Mckinley bill. 1t has unlocked many a for
elgn gate to American products and enabled
US to extend the market for our surplus
without having to make any unpleasant or
d1sagreeable concessions. Senator Aldrich
must have been genuinely inspired when he
framed the SuspenSive clause.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
WESTERN WATERWAYS.
Importance of Having a Carefully Devised
Plan to Work Upon.
Philadelphia Telegraph. .

Philadelphia Telegraph
Governor Pattison's appointment of 20
Commissioners to represent this Common
wealth in the coming National Convention
to consider the improvement OF western
waterways, is a more important act than
will be realized by the public generally,
though the number of Commissioners and
the high character of the gentlemen selected
by the Governor will necessarily attract
wide notice, The indiscriminate appropria-
tions made by each successive Congress of
millions of money for river and harbor i'm
movements are only too often wasted and
devoted to iliegitimate purposes. There is
no general design, no system or order fol-
lowed in undertaking these Improvements.
and the only plan Of operations followed IS
for each CONGRESSMAN or political leader to
get as much money as he possibly can secure
for his own district, irrespective OF what is
going ON elsewhere.
In the West, and the Northwest particu-
larly, this scramble for appropriations leads
to senSeless suuandering of the public funds,
resuItino in little else but scandals that an
intelligent people should be ashamed OF and
should refuse to tolerate. The National
Convention to consider the Improvement of
wnterwavS will take this matter in hand
and will endeayor to reform it altogether.
A carefully studied plan of work will be adj
Yocated devised by competent skill to pro-
mote the best interests of the whole cOun-
fry and a determined effort will be made to
induce the people of this country to put a
stop to the hap-hazard, Iog-rolling drafts on
the public treasury heretofore secured for
local political purposes under the name of
appropriatiOns for improvements to trout
hrooks md mill streams.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
THE JAIL REPORT.

The report of the committee of the
Prison Board on the escape of Fitzsim-
mons confirms the already clearly defined
public opinion that the murderer was
aided in his escape by the corrupt conniv-
ance of some officials and the general
laxity and incompetence of the Jail mar
agement.
The discharge of the watchmen whom
the evidence points out as guilty of con-
nivance in the escape is the least that
could be done. Indeed, it looks like an
insufficient penalty if there is evidence
enough to convict either or both of them
of aiding or permitting the escape. There
is little doubt that a public official who
permits defiant criminal to escape is an
accessory after the fact. If the evidence
is as availablesas it seems to be the case of
at least one Of these faithless officers
should occupy the attention of the Grim
inal courts.
Further than this, the report contains
one sentence which should have some
significance to a no less dignifed and i'm
portant body than the Prison Board it
self 1t is: "To our judgment the whole
management of the jail is and has been
for some time, loose and incompetent. 4"
1t is well to have the fact officially recog-
niged; but it will be pertinent for the
Board to ask itself whether it would not
have been within its functions to have
found out the fact before the most defiant
criminal of many years had escaped JUS
tice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
WATER AND CONSOLIDATION.

In view Of the appearance on the horizon
Of the future of the problem of water eX-
tension for Pittshurg and Allegheny, the
fact hat the same problem has been press
ing itself upon Philadelphia is of local
interest. The light that may be thrown
upon cur problem when it comes up by
studying the question as it occurs to our
ueighbOrs is already indicated to be i'm
portaut in one respect at least.
Discussion in Philadelphia shows de-
Cided tendency of expert opinion in favor
of taking water from high levels and
bringing it to the city through an aqueduct
by gravity in preference to pumping from
nearer sources. This is a radical departure
from the more ordinary pumping system
in two important respects. First, by going
TO mountain streams whence the water
would flow to the cities by gravity purity
Of supply can be assured for all time.
The water can be taken from streams
in which there is no pollution, and
Is even possible if necessary to
purchase at low cost the land from which
il would be drained. In the matter of cost
the departure is equally radical The es-
Inmates Of the first cost Of an aqueduct
system for Philadelphia are rather
stunning being placed at $4,000, 900; but
this Is less than the cost of pumping
water, if the annual expenditure on the
latter work were capitalized In other
words. the interest on the cost Of such an
aquedHct is less than the cost of pumping
water in Philadelphia, and fOrttOrf
would be much less than the cost of pump
ing to the higher levels of Pittsburg.
We believe the question of supplying
water To Pittsburg by an aqueduct from
the mountain levels was fully discussed in
tie report on water extension made by
experts in the early 7O's. 1t was rejected
then because the cost was greater than
tlen demanded by the magnitude of the
cJv. But il was shown according to our
recollection of that report, that water
could be obtained, from no less than three
sources within a radius of about fifty
miles and brought TO the city by gravity.
Whether the community has not now
reached the size that requires such a sys-
TEN Of supply is a question that may de-
u8nd consideration in the light of the
discussion OF the same topic in Phila-
delphia.
Such project would necessarily bring
Up another proposition. 1t would be the
worst economy to bringwater from mount
tain sources to supply the 100000 pOpula-
lion within the city limits of Pittsburg
when there are nearly 200, DOOM outside
the city limits who might be as well sup
Piled by that means. The project would
imply union for the purpose of water
supply, if not municipal consolidation
OF Allegheny and all the manufacturing
suburbs in the system. This idea would
arouse opposition at first blush; but if it
were demonstrated that the annual eX-
penditure necessary for pumping water
from the rivers to all these places would
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
STRANGE BEDFELLOWs.
Old Morality and His Connection With the
Liberal Party.

Toronto Empire.l
Politics makes strange bepfellows; the late
Mr.. Parnell and the Radicals, for instance,
before the trouble began in the family.
Quite as impossible a member of the ''Tory''
party, as some Liberals profess to under
stand it, was the late Rt Hon. W. II. Smith,
'Old Morality" he was facetiously named by
the wags of the House. He who by solid
British plodding and industry, attained not
only the leadership of the Commons, but
warm place in the hearts of all Englishmen,
was once snubbed by the Liberals refused
entrance, in fact, to the Reform Club when
just entering politics because his father was
q book seller and he, good honest man, car
ried onxhe same trade.
1t is character site of Liberals to sneer at
aristocracy' but when it happens that they
themselves are not "in trade" then they
can carry their noses very loftily indeed.
Such nonsense does not belong to Conserva-
tism in our day, the Conservatism of which
the late Mr.. Smith and the lato Sir John
Macdonald were types; both hard working,
one by application alone, the other with
wonderful faculty for craftsmanship. The
world is full of sham Liberalism. Where
may Sir Richard Cartwrich and Mr.. Goldwin
Smith be counted?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
NAVAL DEFENSE OF THE LAKES.

The questioned providing for the naval
defense of the lakes has been attracting
/ further discussion in the Eastern press
! The New York Commercial Ad0erttSer
has suggested, the filling up of some of the
lake craft, especially the whale-back
| barges, so that they could be armed at
short notice But as this would be an in
fraction of the treatyeof 1877, the Secretary
of the Navy comes to'the decision that 1t
cannot be done until the treaty is abro-
gated The Ad0ertSSer very correctly
says that the treaty should not be can
ceiled. and then comes to the incorrect
con elusion that nothing can:be done.
The error Of this asserion'is manifest
upon very slight study Of the situation.
The advantage England possesses over
this country in access to the inland seas
by armed vessels lies in the fact that
Canada has,inthe latterthalf of the GEN.
tury spent in the neighborhood
of s2O,OO0yOOO on canals, by which
armed vessels of II or 13 feet
draft can enter the lakes. The United
States has spent exactly nothing for the
same purpose. The Canadian canals pay
for themselvesI5y their commercial value
and provide a route by which England
could in case.of war fill the lakes with the
smaller class ofrsea-going warshfps. And
this policy has been so successful that
more canals are e'projected by which Lake
Huron can be reached through Canada
without passing through Lake Erie.
This constitutes thesole disadvantage to
our country in the control of the lakes,
and the way to rectifyit is plain. By the
expenditure of less sum in proportion to
our wealth. and the importance of the pro-
iect than Canada has spent, and little
over half what it is proposed the Govern
ment shallsinkin theSwamps of Nicaragua,
the United States can build two-canals ac-
commodating vessels of Is feet draft and
connecting the lakes with the Upper Mis-
sissippi and the upper Missouri With
those canals Ebuilta reserve Of war'vessels
from those rivers could be putinto the
lakes at two days notice. While the war
contingency is rather remote the CONNER
cial value Of the canals would more than
repay the expenditure on them until the
naval emergency came,-aS we may hope
it never will
Nothing to be done! The plain thing to
do is to build the Ohio River and Lake
Erie Canal atone end Of the lakes.and the
Hennepin at the other. With those water 4
routes open the way to defend the.lakes in
case of war would be self evident.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
LEVEL HEADED KIcKAP0os
They Cannot See the Benefit to Be Derived
From Selling Their Lands.

From Selling Their Lands.
Omaha Herald.l
The New York Times thinks that the Kick
apoo Indians must feel very much disgusted
with themselves. There are 2O6, ,466 acres on
the eastern border of Oklahoma which are
owned by them. Not an acre of this would
the KickapooS consent to sell. The Iowas,
their neighbors at the north; the Sacs and
Foxes at the east; the Shawnees and Potta-
watomies at the south all yielded to the per-
suasion of the United States Commissioners
and sold out But the Kickapoos remained
firm. "The obstinacy of :he Kickapoos was
mule-like," says the Times. "Now there is
great real estate movement there, and they
are not profiting by it." The Times forgets
that neither would they have prohted by it
if they had consented to sell.
An Indian does not profit by real estate
movements, nor by any other sort, because
he is not permitted to make bargains with
purchasers. He cannot reap any benefit
from a rise in prices. He must sell his tracts
of land at uniform price and conduct his
negotiations through the United States.
After that his dues are doled out to him by
the paternal Government, sometimes in
small periodical sums OF money; sometimes
in unWholesome food; sometimes in the
form of ill-fitting garments and various i'm
plements for which the Indian does not have
any particular use and always by rascally
rings that practice fraud. There isn't much
excitement about real estate deals thus con-
Quoted, and the kickapOOS probably feel
very well satisfied at having shown suth-
cient sagacity to hold on to their property.
II they have any cause for disgust it is at
the greedy and murderous hordes which
have raced across their dominion on their
Way to the free lands.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
JUDGES IN ROBES.
The Custom Is Not Regarded With Favor
Dy Americans

The Custom Is Not Regarded With Favor
by americans
1t seems the United States Court of An.
peals at Chicago was opened on Monday in
great form. ~ dispatch SAYS the three
Judges, Harlan, Gresham and Blodgett, en-
tered "with stately tread and dipnified
mien," ands 'attired in their robes of office "
The latter are described as "of black silk.
gathered in large ruff1es at the shoulders
forming cape that hung down over the
shoulders" 1t is to be regretted that the
opening of this new court has been marred
by such spectacular flummery as this
Every intelligent foreigner trav cling in this
country is impressed with the simplicity of
the courts ana the implicit submission of
the people to the majesty of the law without
even the appearance of any outward press
ure. In Europe, where the usages of the
middle ages still survive in many formali-
ties, it is still considered necessary
to awe the people with uniforms, par
aphenalia and the trappings of Office.
In some European countries everything
connected with the courts is uniformed
from the Chief Justice to the hanoman a
murderer would hardly consider himself
well hanged unless the job was done by a
hangman dressed in scarlet from head to
foot In England the judges envelope their
heads in powdered wigs to give them an air
of supernatural wisdom, a custom that has
come down from the middle ages, and which
the English people are too conservative to
change But when we read of such flum-
merry being introduced in the United States
in the closing years of the nineteenth CEN
tury we are led to suspect that the world is
revolving backward. The talk about "robes
of office" is nonsense. There is no such
thing in this country as robe of office. The
law does not provide for anything of the
kind, and the people have not authorized it.
The dignity OF judge is not increased by
ilt-Q n
ders in the reigning style of 1emalo gar
ments. The whole business is un- American
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11

PUBLIC faith in Mr.. Edison's electric
railway invention, which is to do away with
both trolleys and storage batteries, may
receive something of a check from the in
formation that the electric current is to be
picked up' by the cars from wire run
ming along underneath the rails. No one
will doubt Mr.. Edison's ability to success
fully run cars by this invention; but how
vehicles, horses and pedestrians are to be
guarded against picking up" the current
to an extent that may make them the re-
verse of lively is an interesting problem.
Perhaps the Edison idea will be that every
thing but electric street cars must keep of
the track.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11

pay the interest on the cost of superior
water supply and provide fund for the
gradual extinction of the principal, such
opposition would be converted into ap-
proval.
The advantages of a comprehensive
water supply for the entire community, of
which PittSburg is the center, form one of
the strong arguments in favor of consoli-
dation under single municipal govern
ment It.is one of the many respects in
which an enterprising and progressive
government could make the consolidated
city a magnificent advance upon the
preSent,one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
BAZAR BUZZINGS.

trWe'vs got to economize, Maud, said
| Henry ''It is absolutely necessary
| .'Very wel1S' returned Maud, II shall give up
your Cigars
| Henry.
Now the summer has departed and the
autumn days are here,
All the changing'color. and the silver lake
is drear,
And sweet Phyllis, standing lonely, wonders why
dear Mortimer
Found it lovely and enchanting to be left alone
with her.
For, she says IT find it stupid standing on this
rustic quay,
al alone here in my glory, all alone with little
me-"
''They say Mozart played on the piano at
the age OFF,"
ssThat's nothing. I've got little girl only7
years old who plays on the piano every day."
"What does she play?''
Dolls
"Clara," he whispered, as he came in
from the coal bin with a scuttle of COAL would
you not that it summer. and in the misty t'Ti
light we might wander hand in hand?''
mo. A6olphus, - answered the practical maiden
of the Jersey coast; ''think Of the mosquitoes"
"Who was Adams nurse when he was q
baby?'' asked bright little 4-year-oId girl.
''He never was baby" was the reply. HE
was created man Of dust. We are all made Of
DUST
'Then are Indians made of Jersey dust2'' she
querled.
She was beautiful type-writing maid,
And he susceptible youth.
She nun quiet and staid,
While he was devoted TO truth.
Daily they sat in the same ofice-room,
And daily she clicked the machine
Strange how the maiden dispelled all his gloom
And made the rough hours serene.
81 feel constrained to tell you, Fred, that
have been engaged before this, - she whispered
Don't mention it, - he said, gently; II too havs
been jilted.'
'Im going with Tom Trotter, the Yaie-
ward football player, to the reception tomorrow
night
How can you go with such a great oyergrovn
boy2''
why, just think how he can break through the
rush line for supper?''
II often heard you say you wouldn't
marry the best man in the world ~ remarked Gaz-
zam to his wife, teasingy.
''wer, didn'tr' snapped Mrs. Gazzam.
She-So you are lawyer? What splen-
did profession!
Held rather be clergyman.
She-Why?
He-Becanse then no one would answe. me back.
,Jack-Congratulate me, old feI; I'm en-
gagged.
Fred-Ah So anil
Jack-NO. That so? Who isshe?
Frcd-Lulu Smithers. And yours?
Jack-Lulu Smithers We're in luck, old man.
Shake!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11

THE Society of the Army of the Tennes-
see has under way the movement to raise a
fund for a monument to General Sherman.
This is right work in the right hands. No
one more deserves a monument from that
organization than the brilliant Sherman;
and no organization can more fifty under
take the commemoration of his services in
granite and marble. Under the direction OF
General Dodge the country will rest assured
that the Sherman monument will be no such
fasco as the General Grant monument.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11

THE information that young Ned Green,
son of the famous Mrs. Hetty Green, the
multi-millionaire, is determined to start a
big newspaper and sink 100000 in it at the
first send-off, conveys promise that there
will not be much concentration of that great
fortune after the young man gets through
with it. 1t also lets us perceive that young
Green is n very different person from his
frugal mother.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
PREPARING FOR RAIDS
Government Vessels Ordered North to Put
Stop to Depredations.

Stop to Depredations.
New York Times.1
The ordering of the Rush back to Bering
Sea- where the Bear also is to remain through
November, is very practical response to
the recent rumor from Victoria that one OF
the sealing schooners there was preparing to
raid the Pribilof Islands. 1t is fact at
tested by official authority that in former
seasons, after the departure of the revenue
cutters from the islands of st. Paul and ST.
George, poachers have landed there and
made sad havoc among such seals as were re-
manning.
The desire to get out of that latitude be-
fore the approach of winter and the closing
up OF the authorized catch at the islands
have naturally led up to the departure of
the revenue vessels as soon as possible. But
last year the Government was obliged to
send a craft in pursuit of two Victoria
schooners that made a supplementary trip
to Bering Sea, and this year, with the dimin-
ished catch both of the private sealers and
of the Pribilof lcssees, the temptation to
attack the rockeries may be increased. Ac-
cordingly the Rush, it appears, is to go north
again and round out her long and arduous
season of patrolling.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11

THE flyers have been putting in the last
few days of the season in some sharp con.
tests with each other and with time, But
the elements were too much for them and
they will have to be satisfied with coming
within a fraction of a second of the great
record of Maud S. Next year perhaps the
records may be smashed, but not this wear.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11

KANSAS has increased her population 43
per cent during the last decade, and her sur
plus products this year will foot up over
$780, 0,0O0. When certain prophets early
this year indulgeu in assertions of utter
ruin to Kansas The DISPATCH took the liberty
of doubling it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
An Educational Campaign.

Columbus PresSJ
We are now in the heat of campaign in
Ohio, and it is a matter of credit that there
is seen very little of the old-time hurrah,
which, with its torch lights, cheap uniforms
and transparencies, characterized the State
and national campaigns. 1t really seems to
be q campaign of education. May it con-
tinue so to the end
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
Free Traders Are Hedging.

Muskegon Chronicle
The Democratic leaders in Ohio are now
hedging and acknowledging their coming
defeat. The Mckinley law has not increased
prices, as the predicted, but better times
than ever have followed its application in
Ohio as elsewhere. Set down Mckinley's
majority as big one.