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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
PITTsBURG. SUNDAY, JAN. is, 1891
OUR INDIAN RECORD.

Two striking illustrations of our Indian
First is the fact that the appropriation for
the Indian Bureau, to do the necessary work
in managing Indian affairs, has been ma
terially cut down BY the Appropriation
Committee. The extravagances of the last
session result this year in cutting down the
expenses necessary to do common justice to
the Indians and protect the country against
such outbreaks as that just suppressed at an
expense many times what the original ap-
preparations honestly administered would
have come to. This is one of the results of
what is digni6ed by the title of practical
politics.
The other fact set forth by THE DIS
PATCH Washington correspondent. after an
examination OF the records of Indian
treaties, is that there is "not treaty be-
tween the Government and the Indians that
has been kept absolutely in word and in
letter" This is IN accordance with the gen.
eral understanding, and furnishes full
explanation for the periodical outbreaks
which have formed the mile-stones
OF our Indian policy. Yet the prevalence
Of the view which finds q palliation for this
blot upon our civilization, in the ignorant
and savage character of the Indians, is
shown by the elaboration of that theme by
our correspondent 1t is beyond dispute the
cotem poraTy Indian is savage, degraded and
vicious. If any class of whites had been
subjected TO the long record OF bad faith and
broken bargains which our correspondent
sets forth, they might exhibit a departure
from the higher standard of morality. But
whether that would prove true or not, the
low character of the Indian does not furnish
any mitigation for the bad faith toward him
on the part of the whites
A complete answer to the sneers at hu-
manitarians who urge decent treatment for
the Indians, is that there are abundant ex-
amples in which an approach to justice has
enabled the Indians to make fair advance
toward civilization. When large tracts of
land can be found in this country and
Canada, cultivated by Indians who are as
industrious and peaceful as the average
white man, the evidence that fair treatment
can produce similar results with the present
savage tribes, is conclusive.
But OF course it is not to be expected that
there will be steady advance in that direc-
tion while spoilsmen's methods and appeals
10 prejudice are permitted to lead to the vio-
lation of treaties and the wholesale cheating
Of the Indian out of his due.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
English Publishers Are Slow.

''The English publishers are dreadfully slow, ="
said Librarian Stevenson. of the Carnegie Lii
brary yesterday. '.1t takes, them on the aver
age three months to fill an order for books. 1t
has been necessary for mo to get certain pro-
portion Of the books from London. and some
that I ordered more than three months ago
have not reached me yet 1t is not because the
books are rare, or for any other reason hard to
obtain, for the works refer to are mostly En-
glish editions of standard authors of very re-
cent date-the complete works of Browning for
example. The delay seems to arise from old
fashioned methods and abundant red tape
which prevail in the English publishing houses.
According to American ideas a month ought to
be enough time for the whole transaction, and
that leaves liberal margin, allowing II days
for the orders passage and another IL for that
of the books across the Atlantic. But 1t is no
use expecting an English publisher to excel
the average of three months.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

In a recent speech Mr.. Abram S. Hewitt
is reported to have said that he knew but one
rich man in New York-and by rich he meant
man worth at least $40, ,0O0 0O0-who was doing
his duty. That man. he said devoted his entire
income, above the sum required for the neces-
saries of life, to charity. This shows decid-
edly high standard on Mr.. Hewitt's part, in two
respects. That man must have $40, ,0O0, 900 be-
fore he is rich reduces the vast bulk of the
population to a common level of poverty; while
if the rich man gives all his income above the
necessaries of life to charity he will do very
well-unless the necessaries for a millionaire
include yachts, racing stables and cottages at
Tuxedo and Newport. But as there is only one
rich man who does his duty, the crowd of CON-
mon millionaires and half-millionaires must be
reconc1ed to, their poverty and their superior
virtue,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
AVE CESAR.

Hail, Caesar! crowded on the plain
Men, women, babes together lie;
Stark in their shrouding sheet of snow
Cold as the frozen earth below,
Beneath the grim Dakota sky,
The stifened corpses Of thy siainl
Hail, Cesar. thine the victory!
But these have died for libertyI
All we who live cry '.hail!' to thee,
But these, but these at least are free.
From lip to lip, like some slow fame,
On altar or on funeral pyre,
Crept the rude death song, low and sad,
Or leaped with louder note and glad,
AS sudden leaps the dying fire,
Or freedoms sudden flush of shame.
Hail, Casarl Lips forever mute
Thus gave to thee their last salute.
Hail Cesar!" living myriads cry:
But these, but these knew how to die.
A hundred freemen, face to face.
With circling death, stand on their graves.
Nor shrink, nor blanch, nor turn away.
Nor bend to Cesar's power to slay,
When to die free or live as slaves
Is all that Cesar gives OF grace.
Hail, Imperator! count thy dead,
That thou mayst see that none has fed,
Or scaped from that Thermopyle,
To brave thy might and mock at thee!
Such grace at least high heaven has given,
Above all might grace of thine,
That freemen thus may break thy chain
When death is hope and life is vain,
Through blood, libated thus as wine,
In might of heaven and shackles rIven.
Hail, Cesar! All thy victory
Is but an empty mockery.
Though we who live cry 'hatl'' to thee,
All these, all these at least. are free
W. Y. Byars tn st. Louis Republic
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
From the Cultured East.

II am the lady who's come to see If like the
place." was the way an applicant for vacancy
in the kitchen announced herself to the lady OF
the house. The parley that ensued took its
tone from the opening note, on the part of the
lady sin search of a nice home where she'd be
treated as one of the family.
The funniest part of the long list of condi-
tous reeled off.was,that she should have oppor.
tunities to mingle with cultured people as a
member of the family.
''You see, ma'am," she explained. Tin the
East where I have lived there was no such
ignorance as exists here; and have been &C
customed to -"
Il don't think you will suit me-" said the
cooks victim, who had been hypnotized, so to
speak.
'pm sure you won't suit me, said the prod.
uct of Eastern culture, and the interview then
closed with this question from the lady of the
house: what part of the East do you come
fromT
"From Adams county," said the culinary
autocrat proudly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
SILVER AND ELECTIONS.

Net0 York World DEM: The Senate. having
voted for free silver, proceed at once to vote
against free men and to take up the force bill.
Ney York Herald, Ind. Dem: The recent
attempt of the Senate to make so cents in silver
equal to a dollar in gold seems to be case of
Congress versus the Almighty.
PHILADELPHIA Press, Rep: Free silver coin
age will turn S7OO 000.0 900 of gold into a COM
modify. What a chance for speculators such a
contraction of the currency will give!
Philadelphia Times Dem: 1t is alleged
that a lot of the House Republicans won't per-
NIT any silver legislation there till the Senate
takes a vote on the force bill This looks like
a case of money or your life"
Nsw York Star, DEM: Latest news indi-
Gates that the Imperialists are more than ever
determined to crowd the revolutionary election
bill through the Senate under the pressure of
administration power and patronage.
Philadelphia Record, DEM: Senator Hoar
will try to pass the force bill after the method
adopted by Mr. Bob Fitzsimmons to subdue
Mr.. Jack Dempsey. Tired Of argument, he
will try physical force and test the staying
powers of the obstreperous Democratic Sena-
tors by a continuous session. What bald
headed faree such proceeding is!
Neu York Sun. Rep. Dem: To flibuster
against this revolutionary measure, to block, IL
necessary, the whole course OF legislation, to
suspend all other business, no matter how i'm
portant as long as there is danger of its pass
age, to procure its defeat by any policy calcu-
lated to divide the Republican vote in the
Senate, is legitimate warfare under the circum-
stances, and patriotic duty.
Nev York Tribune, Rep: For it is clear
enough that the strong arguments against the
pending measure by Senator Sherman on Tues
day were only open to criticism as too moder-
ate and mild in statement. The measure would
not only tend to push gold out of monetary
use in this country after time. but in all
human probability would do SO very quickly,
through the operation Of laws well known in all
the markets, and practically universal In their
influence.
Ne,D York Times, Ind: The free coinage bill
is one upon which debate and differences that
will not follow the party line cannot be
avoided, and the appropriatioubills are in the
way, with only six weeks of the session left
Nothing but the perverse pertinacity of Sena-
tor Hoar has kept the force bill from dying In
the Senate. and IL 1t gets through alive ir will
hardly survive the struggle in the House. .
body which is much more responsive to public
sentiment than the Senate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
WORLDS FAIR EXTRAvAGANCE.

The Gambler Committee is clearly of the
opinion that extfavagance marks the opera
tions OF the Worlds Fair Commission, and
there is little doubt a majority of the great
public will agree with it. With compara-
lively economical management the Expo
sition will cost great deal of money. But
as the expected benefits are great there will
be no grumbling about necessary expenses.
1t is to be expected that the commission
may, mentally at least, meet the criticism
regarding salaries by the question, what
are We here for?' Under the prevailing code
of political ethics the principal use of great
public undertakings is to provide sinecure
positions with fat salaries for the favorites.
The report of the Gambler Committee will
hardly prove death blow to such practices,
but it should have the effect of curbing the
disposition in this particul case.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

small and unworthy motives as their op-
poneuts; while the second, as an example of
political tactics, is puerile. If the Re
publicans intended to defeat the confrma-
tion OF Pattison's cabinet, is it likely they
would be deferred by the fate of this batch
of appointments?
This display of partisan pettiness should
suffice for our lawmakers. They will do
much better for themselves and their parties
by disposing of appointments and measures
solely on the merits of each.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
THE LONGEST CONTINUOUS SITTING.

u.
Legislation by physical exhaustion is the
problem now before the Senate. The pluck
OF the old, grave, reverend seigneurs in stay
ing up all night to wear each other out is
astonishing, considering how well the men,
bers of what has been sarcastically called
the miIlionaires' club are reputed to love
their ease and comfort! But the spectacle
of the normally rosy Mr. Hoar haggard in
the morning sum-. of sIeepless Mr.. Ed
munds pale with the fatigue of an a!l-night
session, while uniquely impressive to the
national eye, affords no new argument for
the force bill, upon whose fate they so per-
severingly insist the future of the country
depends.
The session finished yesterday extended
over thirty hours, and was the longest con-
tinuous one of the Senate on record. If the
Republican leaders had, in the course of
their abundant opportunities for wise and
patriotic legislation during the past two
years, shown as much interest and determi-
nation as they have exhibited in standing
up for the force bill, which is clearly de-
signed for partisan advantage, they would
not need that or any other special device to
keep them in power. AS the case stands
now, the wisdom of this bill is gravely
doubted and combatted even within the Re-
publican party. Even should there be
machine success in carrying it through Con-
gress, the chances are altogether that it will
lose more votes for the party than it can
gain, even though it were worked with its
elaborate machinery for all it might be
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
Sisters Seven.

never had a sister, no
An unkind fortune willed 1t So
That is, a real one, you know
To call me brother.
But woman, bless her charity,
Has always seemed inclined to be
A sister-so to speak-to me,
Somehow or other.
The first was Lucy, silent, shy
village maid. who used to sigh,
And fi-t little on the sly
Beneath the beechcs.
asked her hand, but she replied
She would my sister be, and cried.
saw the school last Christmastide
Where now she teaches.
Iloved her well, sweet Number Twol
like brainy GIRL don't you?
And she was smart; her billets douX
Were rarely dainty.
She ran away with-never mind!
This note was all she left behind:
81 still may be''--how very kind
''Your sister, mayn't I?''
Since then I've wooed-let's see: There's Jess,
And Jane, and Nell and little Bess,
And Susan, and-that's all, guess,
Upon my life, sirl
Are they my sisters? Rather noti
They're buried in a lonely lot.
The undertaker?-I forgot
Was-weil, my wife, siri
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
poration and the country members Of the State
Legislature. Talk about ''home rule'-rats.
Theater Ticket Fakirs.


7 WENT to see Mr.. reilly and the 400' at
Harrigan's new theatsr Saturday afternoon.
In order to be sure of a good seat, and as the
place is near my office, looked in as soon as
the box office opened. ''Standing Room Only"
was displayed in big letters by the side Of the
box office window. Outside. along tine SIDE
walk. were dozen fakirs with tickets and dia-
grams. Not seat was sold at the box Office to
a bona fide customer. They had been disposed
of en- bloc to the spectators, who held them at
from a quarter to half dollar advance over
the regular price. Everybody who goes to that
theater must go through this mob of street
fakirs, who are as impudenr and noisy as q lot
of cab drivers, and submit to this extortion. It
is perhaps useless to suggest that this method
of swelling the receipts of the box office will
not pay in the long run-for it is a recognized
box Office affair-and that 1t is offensive to all
theater goers. The real way to stop it is to do
as did, decline to buy of the fakirs and go of
to some pther theater. Had that been done on
this occasion, Mr.. Harrigan would not have
had a single person in his house. Yet such a
remedy can be applied by the public at any
time. CHARLES T. MURRAY.
NEW YORK, Jan. II.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

illegally controls, and only vests it with
claim which amounts to very small part
of its alleged $50. 900. 900 capitalization.
If there is any stamina whatever in the
enforcement Of the rulings of the New York
courts, the sugar refneries will be taken out
of the hands of the new corporation in short
order, But the apathy with which this
evasion of the law has been permitted war
rants the conclusion that the New York law
has no disposition to assert itself against an
alleged $50, 900, 900 of capital, and that an
organisation of that magnitude will be per-
mitted to prosecute its criminal enterprise"
without letor hindrance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
BIG GRAIN ELEVATORS.
The Movement to Ship Wheat by Way @

The Movement to Ship Wheat by Way of
the Gulf Well Started.
WICHITA, KAN, Jan. H.-At a meeting held
yesterday the capital necessary to erect stor-
age grain elevators sufficient to handle the crop
of the territory within large radius of Wichita
was arranged for.
Behind the project is syndicate of st. Louis
Chicago. Galveston and Wichita capitalists,
who are indirectly connected with the Pan
American transportation Company, which is
now seeking a charter from Congress. Work
upon the Galveston end. both in wharf i'm
provements, elevators and railroad trackage.
is already under way, and |: is expected to have
a large elevator capacity ready here for the
next harvest as the crop promises to be the
largest ever Known in Kansas.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

across. The theater used to be packed all the
time, and to degree that sPittsburg managers
dare not approach even on a holiday. Once
when James T. Sherry came to town-and he
used to come often, for he was great favorite
and sometimes stayed two or three weeks at
time-there were SO many men still clamoring
for admittance when the evenings perform
ance ended that he gave the play, blood and
thunder drama, over again right away and
packed the house a second time. Now
travelling bear or patent medicine band is
enough to exhaust the supply of amusement
lovers of Petroleum Center"
HEPBURN JOHNS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

The plan for an underground railroad in
New York is objected to on account of alleged
danger of accidents and darkness, smoke and
dust" In view of the recent illustration of the
possibility of plunging off the elevated struct-
ures which present the alternative, and as
the underground roads would be run by cleo
tricity, this objection is a remarkable example
of alarm-like stupidity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
To Elect Senators by Popular Vote.

1NDIANAPoLIs. IND. Jan. 1.-THE House
has passed resolution which provides that
Indiana shall cooperate with Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio Ken
tucky and Pennsylvania in an inquiry as to how
much foreign capital is loaned in these States,
with view of taxing this capital. The resolu-
tion includes the other States named for the
reason that if one State began taxing this caDi-
the State.
A resolution'has passed both houses calling
on Congress to amend the Constitution of the
United States so as to provide far the election
of United States Senator by popular ballot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
IN SEVERAL LEGISLATURES.
Bills Passed and Under Consideration of
General Importance.
The Corporations Under Fire.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Jan. 1.-THE great
drift of proposed legislation is against cor
porate capital, and there is great danger of ex-
treme measures passing. There are bills
pending to annul contracts and seize the
property OF individuals, reducing the legal rate
of interest to 6per cent and prohibiting dis
counts. denying creditors the process of law to
collect contract debts, and opening the private
business of every corporation TO public gaze.
From the temper exhibited by many or the
members there is reason to believe that severe
legislation will be enacted in spite of protests.
There has been SO much demagogery over cor
porations that many well-meaning members
honestly bslieye that they are an evil in gen.
eral way and should have the life squeezed out
of them by statutory enactments but the cor
porations know SO well how to manage things
it is not probable they will be deprived OF any
real rights.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

THE appearance of seals in New York
harbor suggests that those intelligent animals
have taken the settlement of the sealing ques-
tion in theiI own fins. Being impressed with
the vigor of the State Department in urging
their protection they have come to the con-
clusion that the harbor of the commercial
metropolis of this country is the safest place
for them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

The farmers, like great many other
people, think there is something wrong about
the jury business here. But as the farmers
complaint is that they are not asked to serve
often enough 1t leaves the question wide open
whether they consider the Jury fixer" bad
institution in the abstract, or only when there
are no farmers on duty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
Petroleum Center in It's Pride.

Talk about your crowded houses here in
Pittsburg," said an old oil man to me as we
came out of theater which could hardly have
held more than.it had that evening, ''they're
nothing to the crowds I've seen jammed into
the Opera House at Petroleum Center, when
the old venango field was at the top of its
boom; along about 1865 You'd never
believe 1t to-day, IL you were to see
Petroleum Center with Its paltry hundreds of
population. But at the time speak of there
were Is, 900 people or more in the town, and it
was the gayest place of its size ever ran
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

GOVERNOR PECK, of Wisconsin, strikes
out in his first State document for the repeal of
the compulsory education law. The Governor
evidently believes that, if everyone is edu-
Gated, the result will be a serious lessening of
the demand for literature of the Bad Boy
stripe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
THE introduction of a bill into the House

THE Introduction of bill into the House
at Harrisburg to appropriate $4,000 for cred
table exhibition of the resources of Pennsyl-
vania at the Columbian Exposition is step in
the right direction, but it does not go far
enough. If the vast industries OF Pennsylva-
mia are to be properly represented the amount
should, as the Philadelphia Ledger says, be
largely increased. The work should be
thoroughly and effectively done, or it should
not be undertaken at all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
Few and Feeble.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.1
Senator Cameron's vote in favor of free coin
age may give some aid and comfort to his Re.
publican foes in Pennsylvania, but as they are
so few and feeble, they will hardly be able to
nreyent his reelection.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

LET us see. With revolutions in Chile,
Peru and the Argentine Republic. and mill
tary dictatorship in Brazil, is not the South
American outlook calculated to give pause to
investments in that Pan-American railway?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

Voluntary contributors should Keep copies OF
articles II compensation is desired the price
e7nectcd must be named. The courtesy Of re
ftu7linq rejected manuscripts tCiH be eztended
Icl.eR stamps for that purpose are enclosed Dat
tie Editor Of THE DISPATCH tCfU under no
circumstances be responsible for the care Of an
solicited manuscripts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

SENATOR QUAY is reported to be in poor
health. Perhaps the idea brought forward by
the opposition that the United States Constitu-
tion can be permitted to interfere with his own
particular force bill has made him sick.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
To Take a State Census.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 1.-THE Legisla-
ture to-day passed bill which provides that
the Governor shall appoint commissioner in
each county in the State, who shall enumerate
all the male Inhabitants 2l years of age and
make returns to the Secretary OF State within
20 days after the 1st day of February. 1891. The
report Of the enumeration shall be the basis Of
apportionmsns of Representatives.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

GENERAL MILES success in bringing
the hostile Indians under subsection seems to
be complete and gratifying. Thelarge number
of able gentlemen who have been telling why
he should not do things In that way will now
recognize the pertinence of silence on their
part.