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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
A Defender of Trusts.

To the Editor of The Dspatch:
cannot agree with your editorial in Sun
days DISPATCH on "The Courts on Trusts
The rulings and decisions of the courts in
all our States, as we'll as those of England,
have been in harmony for many long years,
hence the Tilden will case gives nothing
new or different from those of scores of de-
cisions in other trust cases: and if you will
look into the decisions you will find "as
rigid views of the courts on the subject OF
trusts in every instance in which their
protection and aid have been invoked, as
you could desire.
II the Standard and Sugar trusts
Flourish untouched it is fair to assume
that the public or no individuals, have been
injured or aggrieved by either of these COM
panieS to an extent that will Justify them in
calling for judicinl interference, and so far
as the general interests of the people are
concerned, we are inclined to believe that
no case could be made out az ainst either of
these great trusts" And for the very plain
reason that oil was never so cheap before as
it has been since the Standard got control of
the business: and We are quite sure that
never, since our Government was founded,
was sugar so cheap as at the present time.
These two facts are conclusive proof that,
whatever may have been the original de-
sign, neither company has put up the prices,
and hence have not done the people any
wrong Z,
PIrTSBURG, November H.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
BAZAR BUZZINGS,

Parkins-My son is smart fellow. He'll
be rich man some day.
Marrowfat-What does he do?
Parkins-He Is an ice-man in summer, and in
winter he runs combination business of plumbing
and coal.
cts little things that count, said Hicks.
''Ye-es, ~ returned Mawson. but very inaccur-
atey My boy can't count IL without making
about 40 Mistakes
The odor of hay in the meadows green
Is token of summer fair;
And we know autumn's here when camphorine
Doth permeate everywhere.
"Say, Bronny," said Hicks, enthusiastic
ally, '.you never my baby, did
No. returned Bronson. shortly. But I've
seen plenty Of others. Let's go play billiards"
"Look here" said new tenant, "this
house was to have been furnished, and 1t is abso-
lutey empty
Il have kept my agreement, sir, replied the
owner. II have furnished the house, ana eApees
you to furnish the furniture"
'.Is he clever man."
''Well, L should say SO. He can raise money on
a personal note and then borrow enough from the
same man to pay the interest upon It,
Mrs. Hutchings-How are you getting
along now Mr.. Duncan, in the literary line!
Mr. Duncan-Poorly enough. All my articles
have been rejected
Mrs. Hutchings-Oh, well, 1 shouldn't mind.
Why. sometimes good articles rejected.
Churchill Showing friend his pen and ink
sketcbes,-Wha hat do YOU think of them, Gassett?
Gassett-They are good-very good. But know
a fellow who can draw eagle without lifting his
pt.n from the paper. He is n professor In busi-
ness college.
The odor of roses on April's day
Betokens the coming of spring:
The odor of cracking logs, they say.
shows that winter is on the wing. s--
Miss Klinker-I saw you out riding yes
terday with Miss Wellthy.
Mr.. Softer (hurriedly) me. Miss Klinker,
you are mistaken. That was that homely, cross
eyed little shrimp, Guy Manners
Miss KIinker-Dear mel could have sworn 70
WAS YOU. Such striking resemblancei
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
A Halt Should Be Called,

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
If the Rebecca street electric cars are not
run more carefully there will be trouble be-
fore long. Some OF the motormen and con-
ductors do not stop the car when asked to at
crossings. To-day was standing at the gas
works on Rebecca street at about o'clock
when car Sc approached. held up my hand,
but the motorman did not even sIacken up
and had to make wild leap at the Car as
it swung by. 1t was going ten miles an hour,
and complained to the conductor, whose
only reply was an insolent grin. This ought
not to be. If the Rebecca street cars are not
to be stopped at street intersections, some
appliance of the cow-catcher kind should be
employed to scoop up passengers who are
not aerial artists. j. II. PITTsBURG.
ALLEGHENY, November ii.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

greater allegiance to the Trusts than to
the administration, owing to the much su-
perior compensation paid to the legal pro-
fession for the monetary powers? Or is it
the unanimous opinion of the District At
torneys that while Attorney General Mil
ler issued his directions in clear terms he
did not really mean it? That view would
seem well grounded if the subordinate
legal officers of the Government can nignore
the orders of their superiors without any
ulterior consequences.
At all events the question The, DIS
PATCH raised when the order was first
published-whether the power of the ad-
ministration and the law combined would
prove equal to that of the Trusts-has
very nearly got an answer in the negative.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

To the Editor of The Dispatch:


1t is a long time before the regular session
of the Legislature, but not too long to begin
an agitation for the reformation of that part
of the State's game laws relating to birds.
The true sportsman in this part of the coun-
try gets more pleasure from hunting quail
than any other game, and for that reason
they should be protected. The existing laws
permit the shooting OF pheasant on and after
October l. The season for quail begins No
vember !. The season for both should begin
on the same day.
If all who go into the fields for game were
sportsmen the change would not be neces-
sary. The trouble is a gre it many men go
out in October ostensibly to shoot pheasant,
but really to kill any kind of game that gets
sportsmen get out in November they find
the coveys of quail decimated. Early this
year the reports were that quail was abund-
ant. SportSmen who have been out the past
two weeks find comparatively few of the
noble game bird, especially in the mining
districts. During the miners strike the
fields were secured by pheasant hunters
all such hunters are not to blame, for
when quail or rabbit gets up it is not every
man who has the hunting instinct that can
resist taking n shot. But the temptation
ought not to be permitted.
Prosecution by the official who gets COM
pensation for such work or by the Sports
mems Association does a great deal of good
whole army of October hunters, especially
as pheasant hunting is legal. The law should
be changed so that any man out with gun
in October need not if caught with q quail
in his game bag be convicted.
PITTsBURG. November1L. 8.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Edison's Philosophy Not New.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The philosophical ideas OF MFR. Edison
published in Sundays DISPATCH. are by ne
means novel: yet, if he has not been stu
dent OF Greek philosophy, it is remarkable
that he should have brought to light these
old ideas through his own researches. we
read in Neberweg's "History of Philosophy
section ii: "The philosophy of the earlier
Ionic physiologist' is Hylozoism, 1. e., the
doctrine OF the immediate unity OF matter
and life, according to which matter is by
nature endowed with life, and life is 1nsep
arably connected with matter"
Thales of Miletus, born B. C. $40, was the
father OF this philosophy. Anaximander
who followed him, taught that living
beings arose by gradual development out of
the elementary moisture under the influence
of heat" That the in trinsic life of matter
is conscious life, is not altogether new. for
Empedocles. about 500 B. c., taught that two
ideal principles were joined to the elements
of nature, "love as a uniting and hate as
separating force. During certain periods
all Heterogeneous elements are separated
from each other by hate: during others they
are everywhere united by love-" 1t was not
long, however, before these crude notions
gave place to the grander philos-
ophy OF Plato, who recognized not
only the distin ction between the soul of the
world and its material framework, but also
between tho animate world and the GOD
from whom it came. The philosophy OF ma
terial life reached, as think, its culmina-
tion when Origen, in the third century,
taught the immanence of God. "God, who
in Himself Is spaceless, is by His working
power, everywhere present in the world,
just as the architect is present in his work,
or as the soul, as organ of sensation, is eN-
tended throughout the bodv." (De Orat., p.
233: De Prime, IL, 172.)
am glad that Edison, along with Herbert
Spencer, recognizes the "infinite and eter-
nal energy" Then il this energy is imma-
nent in his orks. there is no need that
atoms should be alive and conscious, any
more than that brick should be alive and
conscious which a builder joins to another
brick in erecting a house.
Your readers will see by this that Edison s
philosophy is nothing new under the sun,
but that he is a sort of q philosophical nee
romancer, bringing up ghosts which modern
philosophers have thought were long since
laid. But If he will invent flying machine
all will be forgiven.
1ngersolfs comment was about the most
sensible of any; but let me ask him. please.
not to become sarcasI site in his old age. L, as
minister, would like to agree with him in
not knowing anything about "life." only
know til human life, us Walter Besant
says, is serious, and that the old philoso-
phies of Plato and of Christ, with their at
tendant godliness, are the best PHILOSOPHERS
by which to live, ''having the promise OF
the life that now is and of that which is TO
come" Il. Tim. iv. 81 j. D. HEBRON.
TRINITY CHURCH, NEW CASTLE, November IL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
Need for Public Baths.

To the Editor Of The DisDatch:
New York has public bath houses, why
can we not have one in Pittsburg? Surely it
is not for lack of water. There is plenty of
this, such as 1t is, and it need not be drawn
out of the reservoirs. 1t could be taken out
of one or the other of the rivers and filtered,
and then it would answer all purposes. If
the outlay is too large for q city the size of
Pittsburg, then let some benevolent citizen,
or several of them, club together and build
a suitable public bath house. Cleanliness is
next TO godliness, 1t is said. If this be
the case, then a large part of the population
is Iar from the desired state. BANJO.
PTrTsBURG, November II.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
MODERN ARMS FOR CADETS.
At Last They Have Been Provided With
Weapons of the Age.


Weapons of the Age.
New York World.j
The naval cadets at Ann apolis have at last
been provided with modern weapon. A
six-inch, IS calibre high-power gun has been
mounted on the shore. 1t has the protec-
tive shield, which is an attachment familiar
to all who have visited cur modern ships.
In II few months this gun will be mounted
on board ship, and the cadets will be prac-
tIced in the art of shooting at a target with
q gun that can really accomplish something
in modern warfare. With the exception of
a modern field piece which was some time
ago put on exhibition at West Point, this Is
the first effort made by the United States
Government to instruct its future officers in
the use of modern arms.
Having been taught with the utensils of
the old-iashioned, smooth-bOre ordnance,
the fledglings are put aboard new vessels
and told to teach tile sailors how to handle
new guns Suddenly it has dawned upon
the authorities that a smooth.bore officer
cannot etfectually command breech-load-
ing gunner. The Government is to be con-
graduated on its belated perspicuity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
TALK OF THE TINES.

The more the Republicans hug to them
selves the delusion that McKinleyism, in
consequence of the result in Ohio. can now
safely be made the essential plank in the
platform for the whole country. the brighter
will grow the prospects of the Democrats
Providence Journal. There things are easy
to say but somehow they are very hard
to prove.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
Anxiety In the Northwest.

Portland, Oregonian-1
In no part of the United States is there
more interest and anxiety felt in the out
come of the Chilian affair than in the lumber
producing regions of the Northwest. The
effect on theemarket for our lumber was
very seriously felt all through the Balma-
ceda insurrection, and now it will be felt
still more until an understanding is arrived
at and the trouble ended. While it may be-
come necessary to cut Off relations with
Chile, and recall our Minister, and all that,
that course will never get the sanction of
the large lumber concerns. They would
any of them prefer Il short war to long
lnv-off
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
"GovERNoR PArr1soN's experiment of

Governor PATTIsoN's experiment Of
calling an extra session of the Senate will
cost the State not less than $40, 900, and proba-
bly, more,' remarks the Philadelphia B,dle-
tin. And as $4,000 is just about ~ per cent
of the sum that has been wasted by Treasury
management, the expenditure would be
cheap If the Senate had Independence
enough to do It's duty. But on the Bulletin's
basis of estimate it is worthy of notice that
$50, of this 49, 200 was wasted by this Sem
ate itself in taking testimony on a case in
which it now declares it has no Jurisdiction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
PROTECTED INDUSTRIES FOSTERED

A striking illustration of the progress
made in the manufacture of glass is given
by contribution to the New York Press
glass for forty-siX years. At the outbreak
of the war fine goblets sold at 50 so and
the price was raised by the war to So.
Now the same goblet can be bought for
seventy-five cents The common tumblers
which then sold at 81 10 are now put on
the market al IS cents; and proportionate
reduction is noted in all the designs and
styles of glassware, which are made in
this country of better quality than the
European goods of like price.
This has bearing on the tariff ques-
ton in the proof of the splendid progress
that has been made in this industry by the
stimulus of protective tariff. But it is
worth while to remember that the pro-
cesses for turning out large quantities of
glassware atlOwer prices, for improving the
quality, and all the other devices by which
this gratifying result has been reached,
were developed under the stimulus of
domestic competition. The building up
of competition in the home industry
is the purpose and justification of
protective tariff. If glassware
or any other protected interest, therefore,
puts itself under the control of combina-
tion by which domestic competition is
suppressed and prices are raised ten,
twenty-five or fifty per cent, as the case
may be, it puts itself in opposition to the
tariff which has foStered it. 1t does so in
a double sense as trying to defeat the pur-
pose of protection, and as affording to the
free traders the most powerful argument
against the tariff.
Such striking examples of what can be
effected by domestic competition in the
protected industries make those who seek
to stifle competition in those industries
more dangerous enemies to protection
than free traders will ever succeed in
being.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

New York Tribune.1
The British Postmaster-Genera takes a
gloomy view of the outlook for universal
penny postage among the English-speaking
peoples of the world. No doubt this will be
a virtual impossibility for a long time to
come, Lut some steps in that direction be-
tween Great Britain and the United States
may easily be taken in the near future. Why
should it cost two and half times as much
to send a letter from New York to London as
from New York to San Francisco?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

Now the ingenious correspondents from
Monte Carlo are telling the world about an
Englishman "with system This own who
has won $500, 900 there and will shortly go to
Monaco to repeat his conquest. The adver-
tlsing agents of the European gambling con-
Germs are evidently in close touch with the
correspondents.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
THE work of defending Mr.. Egan from

THE work of defending Mr.. Egan from
the criticisms of the American press in
duces the Buffalo cypress to remark: ga dip
lomat in a foreign country ceases to be n
partisan" He should do so. And especially
he should cease to be partisan of an execu-
tive who usurps legislative power, which
raises the question whether Mr.. Egan can
claim the title of diplomat.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

WHEN we read the reports of broken
limbs and SCARED faces from the college
sports, it creates the impression that tine
one athletic game which is innocent Of
maining and dismemberment is the gentle
one of priZe-1ghting.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
THE point of view with regard to ballot

The point of view with regard to ballot
reform is admirably illustrated by the Al
bany Argus, whick, after praising Mississippi
for adopting the Australian ballot system,
proceeds to assert that Sin Pennsylvania
Quay has defeated the proposition for con-
vention which would have adopted the Aus
traiian ballot" Since Mississippi has already
AIKEN pains to keep the negroes away from
the polls altogether, it does not require very
much of an advance for her to give the
whites a secret ballot. But with regard to
Pennsylvania, the Argus provokes a couple
of interested queries. Where did it get its
early and exclusive information of the in
tention of the Pennsylvania Constitutional
Convention with regard to ballot reform?
And what has it to say to the fact that Penn
sylvania already has ballot reform law
which, however defective, is superior to the
one that was mutilated in New York to suit
the fastidious taste of David Bennett Hill9
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
RESULTS of elections in two States are

RESULTS Of elections in two States are
construed by a certain class of politicians to
mean that they can do as they please. In
New York the victory of Tammany permits
the appointment OF Grady. the old assailant
of Cleveland's personal comfort, to a judicial
position, and in Pennsylvania the Senate
takes heart to vote that the Constitution
does not mean what it says with regard to
the correction of official misconduct
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

Even the postal service IS demoralized by
the Louisiana Lottery.-New York Commercial
advertiser. Is it possible to find anything
that is not affected that way by the lottery?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

WELL, since the days when Jack Robin
son declared in the House that he swas not
prepared to endorse the Constitution, it has
been prevailing opinion among some Re-
publican politicians that the Constitution
did not amount to much.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

CONSIDERING that The kangaroo ballot"
was objected to by Ohio Republicans, the
| fact that it has put them on their hind legs
and the Democrats on the jump should vim
dicate the title and reconcile the Repub-
licans to it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

II the nobility of Europe are going to
marry all the American girls in this country
the native American man is going to suffer-
Chicago Ne,Ds. No he is not. He is q lucky
man to escape being tied to one of that kind
of girls.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

THE manner of Saving the republic" ex-
emplified by Dictator Fonseca's abolition Of
the liberty of the press in Brazil, indicates
that when the republic is saved that way it
will not be enough of a republic to swear by.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

A CHINAMAN in San Francisco with
$40o saved killed two men and wounded a
third for fear they would get his money.
The irony of fate now appears in the fact
that lawyer will get the money.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

Secretary Blaine will see to it that Ameri-
can interests are protected in the Brazilian
and Chilean difficulties, as he did in the
Italian and Samoan matters.-S. Louis Globe
Democrat That is exactly what everybody
supposed he would do.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

A BOOK is to be published on ''The Plat
form, Its Rise and Progress" II political
platforms are referred to. truly modern
history should include a second part on its
decline and fall to the point where poll
ticians do not consider it worth while to re-
deem their platform pledges.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

TwENTY-EIGHT Senators record them
selves to the effect that it is an easier dose
to vote that they are donkeys and the Con-
stitution unconstitutional than to plaster
the whitewash onto the State officials
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

IF. as the enthusiastic Rochester Demo-
crdt and Chronicle claims, "every one Of these
beautiful autumnal days has Uncle Jerry's
trade mark on it," has not Uncle Jerry also
to bear the onus for those scorching au.
tumnal days of September, and the far from
beautiful autumnal days which may inter.
vene between this and Thanksgiving?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

UNCLE JERRY RUsK SAYS he has no data
on which to base conclusions concerning
the rain-making experiments. Uncle Jerry
evidently thinks that data is a new name
for rain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

The increase in farming products in 1891
over 1890 is 500, 100000. 1t is too bad the
country is going to the demnition bow-wows.
Boston Ne,cs. Such signs of decay are posi-
lively alarming-to the calamity croakers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
Novelty in Prison Business.

Detroit Free Press.1
1t is novelty in prison business to make
the convicts build their own prison, as is be-
ing done in Philadelphia. There should be
snug watch kept on them to see they do not
leave any loop holes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

THE Senate prefers to vote that it has
wasted its own time and the public's money
for the past three weeks rather than put a
check on official juggling with public funds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

The ventilatinR apparatus of the United
States Senate chamber has been overhauled
Boston Herald. This is as it should be.
Many of the Senators have opinions they
want aired.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

THE fact that Powderly received the low
est vote in Philadelphia among the delegates
to the Constitutional Convention is not so
crushing as the fact that the convention it.
self received the lowest vote in comparison
to the vote against 1t of any measure ever
submitted to the people of the State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
San Francisco's Rival.

Seattle Telegraph
The claim of San Francisco to the Demo-
cratic National Convention cannot be al
lowed II the convention comes to this
coast, Tacoma has the first application on
file and should win.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

DEAR LIvsEY:-Come back, and the Sem
ate will pass resolution at its next session
that all shall be forgotten. ms.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

THE Glove plays the most important part
between the acts at the theater.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12

BIG hauls can be secured in Pittsburg, but
they only offerseat capacity for the fellow
who handles the reins.