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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
JOURNALISTIC JAVELINS.

THE Prince Of Wales was 50 years of age
yesterday-old enough to know BETTER
Washington Post.
COUNTING Presidential chickens is the pres
ent political "Iad."-NeD York Recorder.
MILLS seems to have done Mckinley a very
good turn by his stumping tour through
Ohio.-Cgeueland Leader.
WHEELER's addresses to the deaf and dumb
voters of Iowa probably reduced Democratic
majorities somewhat.-kunsds City Times.
THE United States Government is now ex.
perimenting with unsinkabIe ships, but
whether as means of defeating the deadly
aims of hostile gunncrs OF guarding against
the little errors of Annapolis graduates is
not specified Chicago Nescs.
Down in South Omaha the City Council
meets in "the old JAIL" In Omaha an effort
is making to locate some OF its Council per-
manently in jail.-Omahd World Herald
WHO shall give bonds for the straw-bonds-
men and who shall examine the bank ex-
aminers? These be the all-important ques-
tions of the day.-Chicdgo Times.
BUILDING toward heaven in Chicago has re-
suited in the developments of a three-pound
pocket fire escape, which every citizen Is to
carry about with him. But what he will
need most will be an elevator to hoist him
self out Of the mud into which he Is sinking.
-NesU York CbaYmerctal Adue1ttser.
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PERTINENT AND PERSONAL.

FREDDIE GERHARD spent the season with
his sister, Mrs. Nelson, at Lenox.
THOMAS MAST, the great cartoonist, is
living quietly in Morristown, n. ].
HON. WILLIAM H. ENGLISH. the In
diana politician, is preparing history of In
diana.
SORROW does not agree with royalty.
Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia has grown short
and stout.
THE Earl and Countess of Aberdeen are
in Chicago, where they we're given recep-
tion by the Hybland Association on Monday
evening.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's private secre-
tary, E. w. Halford, has returned to his du-
ties at Washington. He has been i'll for sew
eral weeks.
JOSEPH Cook finds that prophet has no
prestige away from home. He has been
drawing poor houses in the West, where he
has been lecturing. :.
EVEN preachers live to good old age.
The Bishop Of Chichester, England, is SO
years old, but he still performs his regular
round Of diocesan work.
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BRAZII,s CIVIL TROUBLES.

The situation in Brazil is becoming
more serious and Fonseca will probably
find that his experiment of declaring him
self Dictator is more costly than he anticil
pated. Already the most populous State
in the nation, Bahia, is considering the ad-
visibility of throwing off the yoke of al
legiance. Other States have taken this
step and if Bahia follows in their footsteps
it Immediately raises what might have
been merely a revolution to the dig
nifty of civil war of no small proportions
Descended from the Portuguese who,
when they settled Brazil, were brave and
warlike people, the Brazilians possess a
capability for fighting which, when turned
against their own countrymen, is bound to
be productive of long and fierce conflict.
1t will be pity if this should take place
Brazil is fast coming to the front as a
country Of great productiveness and posi-
bilities, and civil war, such as is possible,
is disaster more serious than earthquake,
fire or famine
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
ON socialism

An aspect OF the road question which
has probably occurred to very few people
is none the less worth the consideration
of thinkers. 1t is the illustration it gives
of the much vaunted theories of the State
Socialists
The theory of the State Socialists is
that present social evils will be much
mitigated, if not wholly suppressed, by
placing in the ownership of the public the
means of transportation and inter-com-
munication, and all the branches of ser
vice which supply an entire community
from single plant, like gas and water
works. Railroads and street railroads are
especially marked for public ownership
BY this school-the railroads by the State
or.nation, the street lines by the city Or
town.
Now it happens that in the country
roads there is splendid illustration OF the
actual workings of this theory. They are
owned by the public. They are univer-
sally used by the public, and the duty of
maintaining and caring for them is also
laid upon the public. The result of the
latter fact is that, not in isolated locali-
ties, but as a rule all over the nation,
from Maine to Texas and from Florida to
Oregon, the work of maintenance and re-
pair is not done. Public money is spent in
the pretense Of doing it to a certain extent:
but the vital fault of system of manage
ment in which the penalties of bad work
and the reward of good work are not i'm
posed on those directing it is that we are
practically nation without roads.
While the railways furnish gigantic
illustration of many modern abuses in this
respect they show the opposite effect of
the system of interested management.
The system requires the Sailroads to keep
their tracks in repair, otherwise the cor
porations operating them would speedily
be wiped out. Where there is CONNER
cial demand for a new railroad capital
sends line, sometimes in anticipation of
the demand. The abuses of the railroad
system, like preferential rates, local dis
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PITTsBURG, WEDNESDAY. NOV. II, 1871.
TWELVE PAGES
THE JURISDICTION EVASION.

The significance of the action Of the
Senate in resorting to the plea of "no
jurisdiction" which yesterdays proceed,
ings showed to be the slated programme,
is that the case is one in which that body
hardly dares to do the whitewashing work
outlined in the report of the majority OF
the Legislative Investigating Committee.
In order to evade action by the jurisdic-
ton plea the Senate has to stultify itself,
nullifyits own precedents and misread the
Constitution. But deliberate considera-
ton has brought it to the conclusion that
it is better to do that than challenge pub
lie criticism by vote declaring that the
accused officials have done nothing to call
for their removal
In the first place, the Senate took jurls-
diction by proceeding with the case. If it
had no jurisdiction every days session for
the past three weeks was a monstrous
waste of time and money. Next, as the
Attorney General clearly showed, jurls-
diction in exactly similar eases has been
taken heretofore without hesitation, and
it is only when the party managers are In
desperate straits that it is questioned.
Finally, the language of the Constitution
is clear answer to all pleas as to Jurls-
diction, and it is only by ignoring the
plain meaning of the section under which
the Senate is called upon to act that the
cover of this jurisdiction plea can be re-
sorted to.
The plain meaning of the Senates ac-
ton is that the party management has
issued its edict that the juggling with the
State funds shall not be punished, or the
officials whose favoritism and neglect OF
the laws have caused an immense loss be
removed from the power to do further
harm. In carrying out that edict the fly
ing in the face of public opinion involved
in noting that nothing has been done
worthy of removal is avoided by the dodge
of declaring that the Senate has not juris-
diction. There is really little difference
between the two lines of action; but the
politicians idea that the people are easily
hoodwinked leads to the device of this
shallow evasion.
1t is discreditable to Pennsylvania that
the vices of its political system should
lead to such official jobbery as has been
exposed by the Bardsley scandal. 1t is
still more discreditable that the majority
of the Senate is so subservient to political
dictation that it evades the public duty of
stopping such abuses by the pitiful and
transparent evasion that has been de-
cided upon.
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REcIPR0CITY's SUCCESS
The New Treaties are Bearing Abundant
Fruits and Increasing Trade.

The New Treaties are Bearing Abundant
Fruits and Increasing Trade.
Lewiston Journal.l
The new reciprocity treaties are already
bearingstruit. Our exports to Brazil have
increased, and the shipments to Cuba are
improving. The steamship company run
ming from New York to Havava has been
obliged to put on three extra steamers to
carry the freight offered. A leading pro-
vision merchant Of Havana estimates that
when the treaty provision as to the reduc-
tion of the duty on flour takes place JAN
uary next, the imports from the United
States to Cuba will reach 100000 barrels
per annum. or more than double the pres
ent total consumption.
These reciprocity treaties, which are in
the line of the protective policy that puts
on the free list what we can produce for our
selves, but secures from the nations produc-
ing such articles important preferential
privileges for American surplus products in
return for the free admission of their sur
plus which we don't produce, are proving to
be most valuable Treaties have already
been concluded which cover Brazil, Cuba
Porto Rico and Germany's sugar, and it is
understood that other treaties are in prog
ress which cover Venezuela, the Argentine
Republic and the sugar of France.
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POINTED PlCKINGs.

She-Ah, Jack, I'm afraid I'll make you
. sorry wife.
He-Tve no doubt. Any one who marries me
will be sorry.-Colorud0 Sun.
Peace reigns throughout prosperous land,
Our labors renew with zest,
The orator is silent and
The campaign liar takes rest.
-Eeao York Press.
Clarissa-You had your likeness taken at
Cameras, you say?
Ethel-Yes.
C.-why did you 60 there? He is not much of an
artist.
E.-He took very handsome portrait of me.
C,-He did? Then he must be very cleyer.-Los
angeles Times.
Lasher-Dasher says that you are fool.
Masher-Deah me! shall certainly cut him when
meet him.
Lasher-Don't. He will feel more insulted If you
recognize him.-Puck.
When Gould was boy-our own jay
Could
He lived on farm. they say.
And teeded the flock and watered the STOCK
In q most commendable way.
Now e,ouId Is a man-our own Jay Could
And his farm-life recalls. they say.
Since he shears his flock. and waters his stock.
But not in the same old way.
Doortender-Very sorry. sir, but can't
let Won 90 in The lecture is exclusively FOR ladies'
Long-H aired Appllcant-Ia anu Browning reader.
Doortender-Oh, pardon me, pardon me- pass
right in-Boston Courier.
.sWhat bright lot of darky boys?'
..Yes-all but that little one over there-a regular
little pickaninny. isn't he!''
s.WeIl, yes. If were going to pick ninny out
of the lot should take him. m.''-Phiiadephia Press
o, obituary writer most uncanny are thy
tasks;
For thee the devil shudders, and st. Peter never
Against thee lost souls well may rail; and pale
ghosts wildly vapor,
For while they lie within their graves, thou liest In
thy paper. -Seao fork herald.
Twynn-I do all my writing with my left
hand.
Triplett-Thea, of course, you cannot obey the
Scrtptural injunction,
.sWhat injunction?"
LET not your left hand know what your writs
hand uoes.' ''-Smith. Gray Co. . Monthly.
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o the Editor of The Dispatch:

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
1 saw by your paper short time ago that
the manual training school of this city was
giving satisfaction and that it promised to
be as great success as it has proven in
other cities. 1t is evident that at no very
distant time more of these schools will be
needed. Considered in the light ofexperience
they are becoming a necessity and they
should be so distributed about the city as to
give the youth in all the localities chance
to be benefited. 1t is only by means ofmanual
training schools that we can restore the
ancient pride of the workman in his work.
These schools will do more for the artisan
of to-day than did any of the guilds for
those of the past. They will make
work q noble, intellectual pursuit
instead of routine OF drudgery. They will
work toward the brotherhood of man by
bringing the rich and poor boy into gener-
Gus rivalry, and they will beget honesty in
work, beauty in design, just appreciation Of
the relations between labor and capital ant
an infinite confidence in the prog ression of
the human race. By all means let us have
more than one manual training school in
the chief industrial city of the Union.
PITTsBURG, November TO- L.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
VIRGINIA ROAD MAKING.
Over . Million Dollars Raised by Taxation
by the State.

,
Washington Post.l
One of the problems to which the Legisla-
ture of Virginia is about to address itself is
the building of q system of good roads
throughout the State, and the making Of an
ample provision for their efficient main
tenance. One of the plans to be considered
is that which Captain Browne, Of Cape
Charles county, presented before the
State Agricultural Society. This scheme
contemplates an expenditure Of s1oss, ,s69,
which it is proposed to raise by a State tax
of half mill on the dollar, by q county tax
of tenth of a mill on the dollar, by per-
sonal road tax of 80 cents q year, by q tax of
81 q year on each horse and mule in the
State and by one of so cents each on all it's
vehicles.
It will be noted that while the amount to
be raised is quite considerable, yet the bur-
den of taxation to be incurred is so distri-
buted and apportioned that it will not be
felt in any quarter as serious inconveni-
ence. The portion allotted to the counties,
which is one-third of the entire sum re-
Quired, is left to the counties to be
raised in the way most convenient to
them, and to be controlled by them, in ac-
cordnnce with a general plan. Money spent
in this way will be money well expended,
and will yearly save farmers and others
more than four times the amount in the
wear and tear of vehicles, in increasing the
facilities of transportation, and in many
other ways.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
A Distinctive Festival.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Cannot some one suggest plan for fes-
tival that shall be Pittsburg's alonef Ex-
positions, chrysanthemum shows and the
like are all well enough in their places, but
they don't fill the entire bill. What Pitts
burg needs is festival as distinctively its
own as the Carnival is to New Orleans, the
Ice Palace is to ST. Paul, or the Corn Palace
to Sioux City. No city, Pittsburg included,
i. so prosperous that it needs not to adver-
tise itself, and this is one of the best methods.
Besides, it gives the people something new
to talk about and to work for with all their
energies. Expositions and the other minor
shows are common to every city and they
only attract within certain prescribed limits,
whereas festival like the New Orleans
Carnival or the others mentioned will draw
visitors fl ON all over the world, The first
of the Pittsburg Carnlvals, or festivals or
whatever it may be called, could be given
next year, and by the time the Worlds Fair
is in progress it would be SO widely known
that It might not take laborious effort to
draw the majority of the mighty. crowd in
the direction just to see it. Such q plan is
worth trying. FEsrUs.
PITTSBURG, Nov. 10.
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Hotels and a Hall Needed.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The suggestion first made by THE DISPATCH
for Pittsburg to reach out for the Republican
National Convention has borne good fruit
No better place could be secured, provided a
guarantee could be given that all would be
"taken in and cared for" 1t is q well-known
fact that Pittsburg's hotel accommodations
are not sufficient, nor have we hall of
proper size If Pittsburg's offer is rejected
these wbacks will be the ones to blame
Would it not be well for the committee to
stir about and place itself in position to
guara1tee both2 There's time to build hotels
and hall, and our enterprisingI capitalists
have the means, too All that is needed is
cure the convention only leads to move
ment in the direction indicated we will
profit, even though we lose the convention
In 49, TAXPAYER.
PlTTsBURG November 10.
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Dom Pedro and Brazil.
Buffalo Express.

BuHaI0 EXprCSs.J
There can be no doubt there is one Brazil
ian who is a patriot, whether there are anv
others or not. Even those who have no
sympathy with kingship as an institution
cannot read what ex-Emperor Dom Pedro
says about his relations toward his country
without feeling of admiration for the
brave old exile. He loved his country and
its peace and welfare better than he loved
power for himself. Believing in republican
institutions, it was easy for him to see that
he could do his people more service by pro-
noting the bloodless revolution than by op-
posing it. There are few kings who will
stand higher in history, so far as honor is
concerned, than Dom Pedro.
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It Is His for the Taking.

Wheeling Intellgencer.1
II Mr.. Blaine will accept the Republican
nomination for the Presidency it is his for
the taking. He never was so strong with his
party as he is to-day. Men who have always
opposed him have voluntarily wheeled into
line or been forced in by the pressure Of
popular party opinion. The one man who
can defeat Mr. Blaines nomination is James
G. Blaine. What he will do the party does
not know,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
scramblins for the Corndodger.

New York AdvertlSer.J
There is great excitement in the corn
market in Germany. We hope that they are
finding out over there what q fine thing our
corndodger is, and as the boys say on the
Stock Exchange, "are scrambling for it,.
We have been telling our German friends
all the time that our corn is as good "as
wheat" so to speak. Next thing we hear
from Germany there will be a bear panic in
American pork.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
The late campaign was more than usually

The late campaign was more than usually
prolific of libel suits. for an OFF year. Judge
McAdam, of New York, has sued John 1.
Davenport for defamation of character, in
some remarks made by the latter with re-
gard to the formers conduct Of naturaliza-
tion proceedings. And the Judge indicates
that he is in earnest by bringing suit after
the election.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

End and the city is just the time for such
indulgence. People who live close 70 tne
Duquesne prefer to walk few squares IN
order to secure the smoking facilities az
forded on the other line Would the man
agement not profit by setting apart a 1ew
great many think it would pay. The dlrec-
tory should put this matter in their pipe
and smoke it. GARCIA.
PITTSBURG, November 10
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

THE remarkable contrast between the
prices asked for postoffice sites and the
valuations of the same land for taxation has
attracted the attention of the assessors in
Allegheny. A similar discrepancy with re-
gard to the land wanted for a Jail extension
may have a corresponding effect ON this
side of the river.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

THE antipodal people are determined to
lead the world in new political ideas. New
Zealand proposes to leavy progressive
land tax and an income tax either pro-
gressive or proportional. The theory of the
new scheme of taxation, which is urged by
the labor party, is attractive, but the rest of
the world will be likely to wait and see what
its practical results are after some years of
trial before following New Zealand's ex-
ample.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

Now we are invited to give our attention
to the tradition that on Martinmas Day,
which is to-day, certain infallible weather
signs are to be noted. If the trees have re-
tained their foliage until to-day there will
be a cold winter; and if the geese slip on ice
to-day, they will walk in mud at Christmas.
The geese and trees will please take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

JERRY SIMPSONS prediction that the
Peoples Party would cast 10000 votes and
the reality of 1900 warn the cometary
statesman from Kansas that the political
prophet, who makes a success, is he who re-
strains his prophecies until the vote is
counted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

NOTICING comment in the Buffalo
Courier about an experiments in the fax in
dustry to be conducted by ga Scotchman
from Egypt" the reader is irresistibly lead
to the inquiry whether the enterprising ex-
perimenter must not be distantly related to
the proverbial italian from Cork.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
For devout believer IN the principle

For devout believer In the principle
that its political opponents are desperately
wicked, commend us to the Elmira, N. Y,
Adetiser. Here are a few Of the evil deeds
which it charges to the desperate "free trade
advocates: "They have stirred up trouble
in Chile. They have created a baseless
panic in Brazil. They have undertaken the
same thing in Cuba" Under which circum-
stances we should say that the task Of sup
pressing them lay decidedly with the Span
ish American peoples.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

THE naval court of inquiry has exoner-
ate6 the officers who wrecked the Despatch.
Nothing further remains to be done unless
the court should adopt vote of censure on
Assateague shoals for getting in the Des-
patch's course.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

How can California expect to get the next
Republican National Convention when in
order TO get there the delegates are forced
to pass through one prohibition State and
by some routes would have to pass through
two?-Chicdgo Times. California need not
worry. The delegates won't pass through
prohibition State this campaign.