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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-10-31

Signal Observer Smith informed re-
porter of the Pensacola News that at fifty.
one stations east of the Rocky mountains
reported 10 the Pensacola station Saturday
there was no trace Of rainfall. Sergt.
Smith states that during his long connec-
ton with the weather bureau he has never
known like occurrence.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-10-31
Monday. October %.

The United States has demanded
Ieparation from Chill for the attack on
Our sailors.
The Worlds Fair managers won't let
tne Harrison administration unload G reen
b. Raum Oh them.
a boiler explosion in Louisville, KY,
Aiied one man, injured several others
@c wrecked half a million dollars worth
aroperty.
Inc downpour of rain has been inces-
amt throughout England since Sunday
a'sernoon. The heavy gale on the east
0ast continues. There were many ex-
.Nng scenes at and near Yarmouth and
Aooorough. Many vessels were driven
AAaore, and there were several gallant
'escues by means of lifeboats and rocket
apparatus.
Ihe Frankfort Zeitung says: "The
Nople Of Samoa are enraged at the dicta-
0'ial attitude of Vice Consul Blalock and
~ .ae German agent in sentencing the
AAnoa rioters to six months imprison-
~ent for attacking natives who sup
Of'ed Malietoa. A fresh outbreak l.
.eAreo, !. Mataafa and his adherents reftls-
"g 70 submit to Malietoa."
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-10-31
Thursday, October 20.

The alliance members Of the national
house of representatives will, it is said, have
a candidate for speaker
A freight and passenger steamer was
burned twelve miles below Vic&sburg.
Twelve lives and a.large cargo of freight
were lost.
Forest fires are raging near Evansville,
Ind.
Patrick Dermott WAS elected to succeed
Sir John Pope Hennessy, deceased, in par
lament.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-10-31

Tuesaay, October ~.
o'eveland and Hill both spoke at .
''A'' meeting In New York. They occu-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
MR.. SPEAKER!

Mr. HATCH would make a capable and sat-
isfactory Speaker, but there is no possibility
of his election, because he lives too far
North.-&. Louis Globe Democrat.
THE Crisp policy of claiming everything
might be successful in its object of stamped
ing the timid, but for the daily exposure of
the fallacy of the cla1ms.-&. Louis Republic.
The Majority of the Democratic members
of the House are from the North, but a
Southern man will be elected Speaker,
nevertheless, the same as in the old days of
the slave-driving oligarchy-S. Louis Globe
Democrat.
SPRINGER is looking up. Really. There is
no doubt about it. His candidacy for the
Speakershiph has, until within a few days,
been regarded as the joke of the season; but
now he actually seems to be in the race, and
some of his competitors are plainly vexed
by the strength he is showing. What
great thing it would be-for Springer-if he
should succeed in downing Mills, Crisp,
McMillin and the rest! Stranger things have
happened, thbugh.-Ne,0 York Tribune.
CRISIS workers claim for him more votes
in the Democratic caucus than Mills and
Springer together can hope to secure. Mills
has boomers who think he will lead Crisp
and double Springer's best possible vote,
ana Springer's men in turn say that their
candidate will start in with as strong a sup
port as either of his rivals. Some ingenious
Democrats with q task for mathematics
ought to attempt the feat of making these
claims harmonize with sincerity and wis
dom on the part of the the three eminent
Bourbons mentioned.-C Cleveland Leader.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01

The proposition has been made by the
st. Louis Republic that the Democrats in
the coming Congress shall abandon the
policy of general tariff agitation and make
attacks on trust monopolies by separate
bills reducing or abolishing duties which
protect such trusts. This proposition
meets with opposition by the Philadelphia
Press which, while not enthusiastically
endorsing the Mckinley bill, thinks it
should be given fair trial.
Both views have foundation of right
and both arrive at a very wrong conclu-'
sion. There would be no attack on the
principle of protection represented by the
act OF 1890 in the policy of breaking up at
tempts to moDopolize or control domestic
industries by reducing the tariff so long as
combination holds THE DISPATCH has
frequently shown that this is defense of
the genuine purpose of protection. Pro-
lection is established for the sake of re-
ducing prices by the competition OF domes
tic producers This principle was de-
clared by Major Mckinley and his associ-
ates in The protective policy from one end
of the country to the other as the keynote
Of the protective policy. But the combi-
nations and trusts seek to defeat that pur-
pose by abclishing competition and main
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
PLAIN TALK TO HOME RULERS.

The action of a conference of leading
Irishmen in New York ought, if anything
can induce the quarreling factions of the
Home Rule party to subordinate their
differences, to produce that effect In
ment of the case is to be taken as last
resort to bring the snarling leaders to a
realizing sense of their situation.
The meeting, under the auspices of the
Irish National League, frankly warned
the people of Ireland that no further sup
port, moral or financial, can be expected
from this country, until they call halt in
the war of factions and reunite the forces
now engaged in the work of self-destruc-
tion." This is very plain talk, but it
comes from source which must impress
itself on the Home Rule leaders.
The United States has been the financial
backbone of the Home Rule fight from the
first, and, so long as its contributions were
applied by united party for the support
of the cause, has never failed to respond to
any emergency. But when the Irish lead
ers forgot the purpose of their party in or
der to crafty personal bitterness the
Irish-American public is no longer to be
counted on as furnishing the sinews for
such warfare. 1t is alike impossible to
induce the public to contribute for the
support of mere faction, and improper for
anyone to endeavor to collect such dona-
tions. So long as the quarrels of the
Home Rule leaders are kept up the United
States as the hacker of the party is dead
factor.
1t is to be hoped that this plain state
ment of the case will induce the Irish
leaders to promptly and thoroughly cast
their quarrels aside and devote their eff
forts entirely to the realization of the pur-
pose for which their party was founded.
But it remains to be proved whether the
vice of placing factional spite above ma
sional welfare, which has injured Ireland
to many times before, may not wreck the
cause this time just as it seems on the eve
of success.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
Social Chatter.

THE Art Society has issued invitations for
its one hundred and sixty-ninth reception
on Thursday evening, in the society's rooms,
Academy'of Science and Art building, Fifth
street. The Rev. George Hodges delivers a
lecture on that evening before the society
on Life in Medieval Monastery"
THE Afternoon Musical' holds its second
meeting to-day at 2:30 reading collated lives
of Gounod and Rubenstein, playing selec-
tions from their works, and those of Pitts
burg's noted young writer, Mr.. Nevin.
THE members OF the Young Women's
Christian Association of Williamsburg are
arranging for a reception to be given about
the holidays to four of their members who
have become brides.
A BOWLING contest was held last night at
the Linden Club House. between the Lin
den Club players and those of the East End
Gymnasium and the Bellefeld Club.
WALTER KEorEN, of Rebecca street, Will
kinsburg entertained theChautauqua Circle
of that borough last evening in an enjoyable
manner.
THE Women's Foreign Missionary Society
of the Methodist Protestant Church, gives
it's annual dinners on Thursday and Friday
G.F. MILLER, editor of the Bulletin, arrived
in town yesterday morning after a few days
visit in New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
PB1LANrRRoPIc INVESTMENTS

The idea of subscriptions to railway en-
terprises as contribution to charity is a
modern one. Perhaps some of the early
subscribers TO railway stocks in this coun-
try may think that their contributions
should be ranked in that class, in view of
The utter disappearance of their interests
under subsequent manipulations. But
even If they made the subscriptions with
out the expectation of direct returns the
money was invested to advance their in
ierests and improve their commercial sit
uation. One quarter of the world. how
ever, presents the aspect of railway sub
scriptions for purely philanthropic pur-
poses.
This IS in the railway projected to pierce
the interior of Africa. Some of the people
i'll those projects may be pursuing their
own fortune; but many subscription has
been made from purely benevolent i'm
pulses The Baroness Burdett-C -Coutts has
given S25, 900 for the survey of railroad
from the Indian Ocean to the Victoria
Gyanza. Stephenson, the Scottish mill
ionaire, has contributed largely to the
railroad from Lake Nyassa to Lake Tan
ganyika, of which forty miles are in opera
lion, and we can, while doubling Mr.. c. p.
Huntington's disinterestedness in his
American railway projects, credit his large
subscription to the Congo railway scheme
to a desire to see trade and civilization
open up the vast stretches of that great
river. Every steamboat except one on
the African lakes, and most of those on the
Congo, are the fruit of either public or
private generosity
The exhibition of such philanthropic
impulses is gratifying, as is also the as
sured fact that in spite of discouragement
and difficulty the work of civilizing Africa
is making steady progress. But the imme-
diate direction of the efforts referred to
makes it pertinent to suggest that the
philanthropic donors should take meas
ures to guard the future Africa against
the civilized evils of stock watering, ma
nipulatiOn, pools and preferential rates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01

law in question. s'The maxim of Major
Grant," says the San, "applies only to
cases wherein the persons affected by the
bad law have the power to repeal it. 1t
does not apply to the case of such law
as the excise law in New York City,
which was enacted at Albany without re-
gard to the wishes of the people of this
city, and which can be repealed by no
effort of theirs
As these remarks are made concerning
an act of the Legislature that the saloons
must stop the sale of liquor on election
day the characterization of it by the SIN,
presents novel view to the people Of
Pennsylvania AS this State has had such
a law for years, and as it has been for the
most part accepted by all except the
'sdive" element among the liquor interest,
it throws new light on the unhappy situ-
alton. We thus discover that Pennsyl-
vania has been suffering under "a bad
law" and the local liberties of our cities
have been infringed upon by the general
statute, for generation, and not creature
knew it!
Even this novel view is equaled by the
naive confession of the Sun that if the
subject of excise regulation were placed in
the jurisdiction of city legislation the
metropolitan saloon-keepers would have
the power to promptly repeal the obnox-
ious statute. On this showing the legisla-
tive power of the saloon-keepers of New
York is indisputable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01

tanning high prices. 1t is not an attack on
protection, therefore. 1t is defense Of it
TO abolish duties where the protected in
dustries have fallen under monopolistic
control.
But while the underlying principle OF
the proposed move would be indisputable
by sincere protectionists, the way of carry
ing it out is wrong. To apply it by q
series of separate bills attacking each
trust by itself would not decide the
question by the general principle. II
would be leaving the decision to the friend
ship or enmity of Congressman to each
individual trust. There is great danger
that Democratic Congressman might,
where combinations with Democratic
affiliations were at stake, repeat their attl-
tude with regard to the Sugar Trust-that
the little revenue duty of so odd per cent,
under which no refined sugar at all was
imported, ought not to be disturbed. OF
course, Republican Congressman would
exhibit the same amiable weakness, but
as the move is presented as a Democratic
one, it is pertinent to suggest the possi-
bllity that if any tariff legislation could be
devised to. attack the Standard Oil Trust
the friends of the William c. Whitney
boom would be of opinion that the gigan-
tic prototype of combinations was really
no trust at all "
There is but one way of applying this
principle impartially and unsparingly, and
that is to enact into general statute the
principle that protective duty shah not
be used to protect monopolies. 1t is not
necessary to abolish any duties at all or
leave the decision of whether alleged COM
binations are real monopolies to the log
rolling and wire pulling of Congress. The
decision whether an industry is monop-
olized or not should be left to be settled
by evidence in the courts; and this can be
effectively done by a simple enactment
making it legal defense for any i'm
porter against the collection of his duties
if he can show in the courts that the do
mestic industry with which his imports
come in competition is monopolized or COLI
troiled by q trust, combination or agree
ment to suppress competition, artificially
enhance prices OF restrict production.
Such measure could not logically be
opposed by sincere free traders or honest
protectionists. 1t could only be opposed
by the legislative agents of the trusts for
the adequate reason that as soon as such a
law is passed the trusts in protected indus
tries must make haste to wipe themselves
completely out of existence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
THE CORN CORNER.

An illustration of the blind way in
which the goddess Fortune distributes heI
speculative favors is found in the state.
ment that tie corn cornerers now squeez.
ing the market are the same clique that
opposed the attempt of Deacon White to
corner the market in September and
profted by his failure. The good Brook.
lyn Deacon can solace himself by the
knowledge that his failure was due to the
fact that he was in advance of his time
sixty days in advance. If he had cornered
corn in November he could have been a
great financial power; but he tried to
corner it in September and he is numosi,a1 :
among the lame ducks.
Of course, the public aspects of Deacon
Whites corner are identical with those of
the present manipulation, except that the
former failed and hurt himself more than
anyone else, while the latter, if it holds
through to-day, will squeeze the short in
terest to very liberal extent. As a
moral result, the failure to injure and i'm
poverish others is less obnoxious than the
successful accomplishment of that pur-
pose: bus in this case the men who sue
ceed will take rank as great operators in
that class OF business which makes it the
objective point to get the money OF others
without giving value received.
The press is inclined to proffer to the
people caught in the corner this advice:
Don't sell what you have not got" Sell
ing what you have not got, and under
these circumstances, is Just as bad as buy
ing what you do not intend to use. But as
both are simply methods of betting on the
fluctuations of the market, the advice
should be the impartial and sufficient in
junction: ''Don't gamble
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
AN UNsUsPECTED INFLICTIoN

The question of the moral status of the
man who goes into a saloon, orders a
drink under circumstances that make its
sale, illegal, drinks and pays for it. and
then turns around and has the proprietor
arrested has been the topic of much de-
bate. The view taken of such an act
varies from that of the liquor interest,
who regard it as meaner than the pro-
verbal stealing of coppers, to that of the
law and order element, who think it one
of the highest and holiest functions of
mankind. Under such circumstances we
tender our heartiest commisseration to the
New Workers who have had the discus
sion precipitated upon them in the action
of some young men who took thatmethod
of testing whether the law was observed
by saloon-keepers on election day.
1t would be useless to contribute tn the
already large stock of arguments on the
moral issue; but it is striking TO find in
the New York Sun novel view of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
PERSONAL NOTES.

THE illness of Edmund Yates is so far
not q dangerous one.
GOVERNOR CHASE, of Indiana, is a
Campbellite preacher.
SIR AMBROSE SHEA, Governor of the
Bahamas, is in New York.
MAJOR MCKINLEY arrived at his home
in Canton. O., from the East yesterday. He
will remain there until the Inauguration in
January.
REV. DIR. JOHN r. PAXTON, of the West
Presbyterian Church, is lying seriously i'll at
his home in New York from general debility
and nervous prostitution.
IT was at Oxford University that Lloyd
Bryce formed that friendship for Allen
Thorndyke Rice which resulted in his suc-
cession to the editorship of the North Amer
icdn Repietc
EMPEROR WILLIAM says a dispatch
from Berlin, met the King of Denmark on
his arrival at the railway station at Potsdam
Saturday. A grand reception was given to
th King at the castle.
DOM PEDRO has been granted a pension
of Sla0 900 per annum, and, on the whole
does not come out OF Brazil in bad form.
Anyhow, he needn't lose any sleep over the
revolutionists spatting at each other.
LORD HAWKE and his cricketers. who
are now at their homes in England, have re-
Gently given expression to the cannibalistic
sentiment that Philadelphia girls are nice
enough to eat. There is positively no ac-
counting for tastes.
WHEN the new heir of the house of
Astor, John Jacob, sixth, is baptized. that
important ceremony will be performed by
Bishop Potter and Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix. who
will solemnly invest him with his historic
name in old Trinity.
The late Lord Lytton, says cable dis
match from Paris, wRsa devoted Spir;tualist.
tnat he believed he had communications
with Joan of Arc, Balzac and Napoleon. and
that he complained that he was always baf.
fled by trying to have access to the spirit of
his father.
MRS. DELLA PARNELL and her son John
will sail for Ireland on the Majestic to-mor-
row. 1t is understood that Mrs. Charles
Stewart Parnell has relinquished all her
rights TO the Avondale estate, and John Par
nell will therefore become the owner. 1t is
for this purpose the trip is taken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
PITTsBURG, TUESDAY. DEC. ], 1891.
TWELVE PAGES
THE GIFT OF FIR R,NOHIsES.

The West End Street Railway ordinance
went through Councils with little difficulty
yesterday. The opposition by West End
ers to the occupancy of both the thorough
fares of that quarter by single corpora
ton was met by the argument that as
competing lines always ended in consoli-
dation, It was hardly worth while to keep
streets open for that consideration.
The history Of street railway enterprises
in Pittsburg gives good deal of founda-
ton TO the premise thus laid down. but
there is room for disputing the conclusion.
As the matter seems to be settled, how
ever, we will not do more than suggest
that if Councils had not exhibited such
facility in granting all available rights of
way TO engrossing corporations the tend
sncy to consolidation might not be so over
wheiming.
But that point can be waived in view of
smother more cogent one. The difficulty
Of impressing on the CouIcilmanic mind
the means of preserving competition in
service on-its public highways seems to be
insuperable; but the imposSib bility of show
ing what a revenue should be reserved to
the city ought not to be so absolute.
Since the conditions so clearly affirm that
the influence of competition in bringing
down the charges TO the public is TO be
abolished there is the stronger reason why
The enormously valuable franchises grant
ed traction companies should have been
made TO Yield some return On their valua-
lion on public revenue. The best eyi-
de!ice as to the value of these franchises
is The appraisement which the corporations
themselves put On them in their capitali-
zation When We find by this measure
that the city has given millions TO the
traction companies without securing any
public revenue worth mentioning, the
shortsightedness of the policy which has
governed these grants is self-evident
There was never an example of the
failure of municipal methods to protect
public interests more striking in its way
than the record of the grant of street rail-
way franchises in Pittsburg during the
past few years. The franchise granted
yesterday offered good opportunity for
turning over new leaf; but perhaps it
would not be reasonable TO expect Conn-
ellis to go back on its own precedents
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
POLITICAL POINTS.

GovERNoR-SENAroR DAVE HILL is the stick
| ing-plaster statesman of the Empire State,
and there will be some squirming when he
| is torn Philadelphia Times.
| MAJOR MCKINLEY goes on saying good
things the same as If the campaign had not
closed. His latest is that "a protective tariff
cheapens products, while revenue tariff
cheapens men, andit would be difficult to
state the case in a more distinct and sug-
gestive way.-St Louis Globe Democrat
THE tariff issue did not give the Democrats
their victory in 1890, but if they think it did,
they are at liberty to try it on again in 1892.
The Republicans are ready to meet them in
a square fight on the protective tariff and
reciprocity. These principles won in Ohio
this year. and will win in the nation next
year Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
A CAREFUL reading of Democratic organs
nowadays must convince the reader that the
Democratic party has of itself reduced the
national debt to its present comparatively
small proportions. Yet it was not so very
long ago that that same party was protest
ing that it must be repudiated because it
could never be paid.-Boston Traveller.
GROVER CLEVELAND made his grand politi-
cal mistake when he took refuge in the
Tammany tiger. Even the New York papers
like the Herald, the World, the Sun, and the
Adrertise, openly declare that he will be de-
feated if nominated. New Workers are
pretty sore, and they usually tear open their
wounds for the public to enjoy the dress
ing.-Chicdgo Inter Ocean.
THE Democratic newspapers that arose
fond of dilating on the Bardsley default and
charging it all up to the Republican party
might profitably devote little OF their at
tention to Defaulter Woodrutfs case in Ar
kansas Mr.. Woodruff stole between $780,
OOO and s2G0 900 from the State while filling
the Office of State Treasurer, and although
the transaction came to light about year
ago he is still enjoying his liberty and the
fr uits of his dishonesty.-Bedford Inquirer.
SECRETARY BLAINE seems to have struck
the keynote OF the coming political econ
o,ny in his reciprocity scheme. Statesmen
and writers on economical questions are
coming to see more and more clearly that
limited reciprocity between many countries
in unlike articles-that is, exchanging free
those things produced by us with a recipro-
cal neighbor for those things we do not pro-
duce-must necessarily be the next step in
the evolution OF universal trade.-Batimore
Herald