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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
NATIONAL BANK SAFEGUARDS.

There is a great deal of food for public
instruction in the facts with regard to
national bank failures of recent years.
They are that every national bank that
has been wrecked or plundered of late has
Ibeen wrecked or plundered by its execu-
tive manager; that in most cases the direc-
tors were figure heads; that there is no in
stance where the robbery would have
taken place if the directors had performed
their duties actively, and, finally, that all
these wrecks would have been impossible
if the national banking law had been
scrupulously enforced
These facts, which e-the history of the
bank failures of the past decade, place the
responsibility clearly whereit belongs In
the first place it is the duty of directors to
direct Apart from their legal response
bilities they cannot afford to incur the risk
of being made figureheads for wholesale
plunder. Next, it is the duty of the Gov
eminent to make its supervision active and
thorough. If either incapacity or favorit-
ism creeps into the enforcement of the law
the strength and stability of the financial
institutions of the countrysare weakened
by the vices Of our politics.
The same facts show the necessity of
keeping the legal requirements with re-
gard to the national banks up to the high
est standard We need not discuss the re-
markable reasoning by which the United
States Supreme Court in the Buffalo case
held that directors are not responsible for
the loss of assets through their negligence.
That decision fixes the law for the pres
ent, but an intelligent perception of the
importance of the subject should inspire
an amendment at the next session placing
the duties and responsibilities of directors
beyond question.
With the national banking system kept
up to its true standard, it is one OF the
best safeguards of the solvency and sta
bility of the business interests. That is IN
itself sufficient evidence that the admins
tration of the law and the management of
the banks should not be permitted to fall
off into weakness and recklessness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
RATHER RIGID POLICY.

The Governors veto lightning has struck
a Pittsburg institution in way that causes
people interested in other measures to re-
gard the outlook as rather unpromising.
The Governors logic in the veto of the
West Penn Hospital appropriation is unim-
peachable if looked at solely apart from
sentiment. An institution supported in
part by State funds may by the rules of
executive policy be expected to keep its
expenditures within its income, or at least
to refrain from calling upon the State to
make up the deficiency.
But on the other side there is no doubt
that the case is one where the strict and
passionless rules might be stretched lit
tie. There is no question that the institu-
ton is deserving one. Its use of the
State funds brings relief to the suffering,
and its present deficiency is caused by
work in that direction. No breath of sus-
picion exists that the money thus appro-
priated will be unworthily used. With
such situation in the case of a public in
stitution before him, the Governor could
not have been blamed if he had enlarged
his strict principles OF action sufficiently
to permit the hospital to be relieved from
its present burden.
At the same time the Governor cannot
be blamed for rigid adherence to the rule
he states in his veto of this appropriation.
But if he is so unyielding in the case of a
hospital, it makes the outlook very un-
promising for some measures still under
his scrutiny, and which must rely mainly
on the circumstances of hardship which
they are intended to relieve.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
DWINDLING POPULATION.

The habit of regarding our country as
constantly growing, and the great eXpan-
sion which has actually taken place as a
whole, makes it less easy to realize that
there are large sections Of territory in
which there has been a steady diminution
of population during the last ten and in
some cases twenty years. The largest Of
these comprises an area of $4,000 square
miles, or more than One-third larger than
the area of Pennsylvania, and lies as far
west as the junction of Illinois, Iowa and
Wisconsin, in which every county outside
the cities has lost. Another section nearly
as large lies along the Ohio river, COM
mencing near the Ohio and Indiana State
line, and stretching across Western Ken
tUcky and Tennessee. The northern half
Of New England from Maine across New
Hampshire and Vermont to Northern New
York reveals the same story, while the
tidewater half of Virginia and the section
Of New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey lying at the headwaterS of the Del
aware are smaller areas, where there has
been the same diminution of population.
The probability is that a variety of
causes contributes to these phenomena.
Unfertility or exhaustion of agricultural
land is prominent cause in two instances;
although it would seem that the proximity
of water transportation ought to make it
more economical to enrich the lands than
to carry the products of Western farms
half way across the continent That a
protective tariff is not the cause is shown
by the fact that the loss frequently ap-
pears in sections close to the manufactur-
ing industries, while growth has been the
rule in sections remote from the interests
stimulated by protection. The railroad
policy, either by discriminating against the
sections where population is dwindling or
in smothering water transportation, ap-
pears to a greater or less degree in nearly
all such cases.
1t is certainly a feature which deserves
grave consideration that large sections of
country are steadily losing the population
which is at the foundation of all our in
dustries 1t indicates an error of policy
somewhere. If the matter is thoroughly
investigated the errors of our transporta-
ton system will be found, more than any
other one cause, to contribute toward this
undesirable result
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
PITTsBURG, TUESDAY, JUNE ., 1891.
CONSOLIDATION OF COMMUNITIES.

The project to unite Minneapolis and St.
Paul under a single municipality arouses
some sarcastic comments from Eastern
Journals Nevertheless it is clearly the
course which an ambitious and pro-
gressive community like that making
up the population of the two cities would
pursue. The cities are closely adjacent,
identical in interests, and their common
progress will be best subseryed by uniting
under a single government With cOnsoli-
dation the energy now spent in jealouSieS
and quarrels will be directed toward
their mutual progress. The thinly-settled
space between them would be quickly filled
up by manufactures and residences, and
the united city would take its proper rank
as one of the leading centers of trade and
enterprise in the country.
The gain of such consolidation to the
Northwestern cities has an especial interest
here, because the arguments in its favor
rpply with even greater force to Pittsburg.
The group of boroughs and cities extend
ng from McKeesport to Ellsworth is
more closely adjacent and identical in in
terest than any other separate municipal
ities in the country. United they would
appear before the country as city approx
mating the half-million mark; and, even
4 the most difficult aspect Of the problem,
! may be believed that a city government
representing that entire population could
be made TO take broader and higher pol
icy than the governments that represent
the smaller divisions.
1t is another interesting point that if st.
Paul and Minneapolis consolidate first, they
will stand far above Pittsburg in popula-
ton, and will take rank among the eight
leading cities of the land; while if Pitts
burg united its population under one COM
munity it will be the fifth city of the
Union.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
A REMARKABLE VIEW.

A singular indication of the measure of
intelligence brought to the discussion of
economic subjects is presented by two
Pennsylvania papers. The Scranton Re-
publican refers to "the consolidation plans
and mOnOpolistic tendencies of the Pro-
ducers' Protective Association" and the
Harrisburg Telegraph speaks in like vein,
with a sarcastic assertion that, "what is
perfectly reprehensible in the Standard is
perfectly proper in j. W. Lee, Lew
Emery and others. But you cannot make
people outside of the oil regions be-
lieve it."
Probably not, if they are as obviously
determined to PREJUDICE the case in favor
of immense wealth as these two journals.
But people who take any pains to judge
them as it is may be able to see what these
leaders of public opinion ignore-that the
character of commercial organization is
determined by its purpose and effect. The
policy and success of the Standard has
been in crushing out competition, and its
immense wealth represents the triumph of
its edict that no one but itself shall dare
to engage in the refining and distribution
of petroleum. The producers organiza-
ton is simply for the purpose of establish
ing competition in an industry which
under our laws ought to be equally open to
every man. No possibility exists of its
driving the Standard out of the field and
establishing monopoly in its stead One
organization stands up for competition;
th other represents monopoly and the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
A FIAT PROFIT.

In discussing the silver question, or one
of its numerous phases, the New York
Commercial AdUertiser gives utterance to
an idea which finds general acceptance
even in financial circles. 1t refers to the
profit or seignorage which the Government
makes by coming given value of silver
bullion into nominally greater amount of
dollars, and thence proceeds to say:
During the last administration the average
seignorage profit upon the coinage of silver
was sS,OOO.0OO a year. Secretary Foster does
not wish to see this source of revenue cut
of. 1t may be he. proposes to increase it.
The law of 1890 compels the purchase of
100000 ounces of silver a year. At the
present market price this would cost $53, ,000-
600. If coined it would make 70, 900 600 silver
dollars. Certificates for this amount would
be added to the currency, and seignorage
profits of 81, 100000 a year would be paid
into the Treasury, involving no taxation of
the people.
This idea that profit accrues to the
Treasury by taking S53,0O0,00O worth of
silver and stamping it $4,000, 900 is very
often met with in quarters which have no
sympathy with the fiat money idea. Yet
its only foundation is on the fat money
theory. 1t is true that the Government
makes its silver dollars circulate at par
with gold dollars. So it does its paper
dollars, and for the same reason that it
makes them exchangeable into gold No
one ever thinks of saying that the Govern
ment makes profit or seignorage. of
ss9, $685. 900 by printing s1oO,oOO,OOO of
greenbacks at cost of say s25, 900, and
making them circulate at par with gold
Yet the claim would be just as valid in
one case as in the other.
The fact is that the profit so often re-
ferred to is only temporary and apparent
one. The Government makes it for the
time being by promising to pay it back to
the holders of the coin. If the time should
come when the Treasury cannot maintain
that promise, or, in other words, resorts to
silver payments, the seignorage would dis
appear on the silver coin held in the Treas
ury, and the holders of the silver dollars
outside the Treasury would lose exactly
what the Treasury had previously gained
by the difference between the bullion
value of silver dollar and its acquired
parity with gold.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
CURB AND CORRIDOR.
Prohibition in Cincinnati-No Bribery for
Him-Bsit Beat the Fish-A Carload of
Cranks-Duquesne Theater Will Not Be

Prohibition in Cincinnati-No Bribery for
Him-Bait Beat the Fish-A Carload of
Cranks-Duquesne Theater Will Not Be
Sold-Stories of the Day in Town.
"CINC1NNATI is not exactly the place for q
man to choose as temperance resort" said
Horace Graves, a travelling man, at the
Seventh Avenue hotel yesterday, "but q
friend of mine found it worked pretty well
in that line for him a week or two ago. The
fact is he travelled little too fast when he
was in Pittsburg the last time, and 1 guess
the water didn't agree with him, or it may
have been the weather, or just possibly the
beer. Anyhow when he took the night train
for Cincinnati he had q large head, and the
would have been bad enough by itself, but
at the end of it he knew he was pledged to
meet his best girl the day after his arrival
The next morning brought more remOrse
and more headache-the two hunt in pairs;
and the only solace my suffering friend had
in view was the COO, refreshing cocktails that
he knew he could find at q favorite dispen-
sary in Cincinnati. His mouth was fairly
watering at thought of the reviving draughts
in store when the train drew into the depot
at Cincinnati Imagine, then, his disap-
pointment when the first thing he heard as
he stepped off the car was: 'Oh! how are you
George? You've got to come right home
with usr and there before him stood his
fiancee and her mother. All the visions of
cocktails galore vanished; his head throbbed
with extra viciousness, and his tongue was
SO dry he could hardly speak. But speech
less or not he had to keep in the path of
virtue, and he enjoyed prohibition in its
fullest sense all the time he was in Cincin-
natl"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

JOHN HENRY REGINALD SCOTT, fourth Earl of
Clonmel died at London yesterday. The Earl of
Clonmel was born in 1888, and was elected repre-
sentative peer for Ireland in 1874.
MRS JANE DUFF died at her home in Moravia,
late Sunday night, aged 90 years. The deceased
was the Oldest person in Lawrence county. She
was born in Beaver county in 1872 and has resided
all her life within 30 miles of New Castle. Mrs
Duff was very well known by all the old settlers.
She leaves four sons and two daughters.
BRIN. GEN. ALBERT G. BLANCHARD died Sum-
day evening. He born in Charleston, Mass,
in 1870 and entered West Point at the age of Is. He
graduated in 1922 in the class with Robert E. Lee
and Joseph Z. Johnston. In 1s4o he left the army
to enter commercial life in New Orleans He was
in the Civil Var where he served officer of the
First Louisiana Confederate Regiment.
ALEXANDER FLEMING, one of the old-tlme resi-
dents along the Yough, died Sunday in his 10Th
year He was the father of George Fleming, who
operates the Fleming stone quarries, which are
located at Deadman's IS Hollow, where the McConkey
gang murdered Mcclure, and where George Flem-
ing was shot in the leg by one of the gang when
crowd of citizens were trying to capture the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
SOME SMALL SMILES.

s'Mamma,' said bright little girl, mn.
Jones down at the corner doesn't have to put n
that about daily bread when he says his prayers"
''Why not, my dear?'
ssBecause he's a baker. Washington Post.
Mr.. Ann-There is one thing that like
about your place over in New Jersey.
West Field-What is that?
Mr.. Anu-there is a train back every 20 minutes.
-Heso York Herald.
"I see by scientific paper" said the star
boarder ''that butter is very sustaining
eyes murmured Daggitt, this ought to hold
up eO-pound dumb-bel. '-Neto York Istegrum.
A nuisance 'tis, ah, who can tell
OF Others half as bad,
Thai story which starts in so well
And winds up an ''ad."
-Wdshfn0ton Poet.
A drummer in Grand Rapids merchants
store was making some inquiries about his business
.syou run the establishment alone, notice >, he
began.
Yep"
Anybody in with youP'
YEP"
..His name doesn't appear on your sign9''
Nope
..Ah! silent partner?''
mot much! It's my Wife Detroit Free Press.
Jaspar-There are men in the world who
argue that electricity is life.
Mrs Jaspar-Then it is no wonder that so many
men live shocking lives.-ND York Hsvrth.
"Chollie can't get over his old drygoods
habits now that he's in real estate"
'swhat has he done nov?'
..sold man a house the other day and asked him
II he wanted ft sent. "-10Toato Nail.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
THE MOST PHENOMENAL.
A F1attering Testimonial Which Came
Without the Least Solicitation.

Greensburg Pa.) Argus.
The success of THE PITrsBURa DISPATCH,
one of the leading journals of the age, is most
phenomenal. Each recurring year adds to
its worth as newspaper and to its value as
business enterprise. The crowning feature
of The DISPATCH proprietors is the recent in
PRODUCTION of two mammoth Hoe presses of
the latest improved pattern, and capable of
printing the enormous edition of the Dis
PATCH in an hour. Its average daily edition,
it may be here stated, is over $1,000. The
plant is one of the largest and most com
plete in the United States, and the new and
handsome structure recently erected by the
company at Smithfield and Diamond streets,
is an ornament to the city. The ability
shown in its editorial columns, the perfect
and comprehensive system of news-gather-
ing it has adopted, the fairness and frank
ness with which it treats all individuals and
issues, certainly entitle it to all the favor 1t
has won from the public. Its past success
has not been more marked than it has de-
served. 1t is indeed paper to be proud OF.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
PEOPLE OF PR0MIN ENCE.

EUGENE ARAM'S great grandson is a law
yer in Alameda, Cal, and has just been ad-
mitted to practice in the State Supreme
Court.
JAY COOKE has gone with his entire
household to the Adirondacks. A Pullman
car was chartered for the convenience of the
26 tourists.
HEINRICH SCHMILINsKI, a Hamburg
millionaire, has decided to leave his fortune
to the city for the erection of an asylum for
unmarried women.
SIR CHARLES RUSSELL, counsel for de-
defendants in the baccarat case, has a sister
in San Francisco who is mother superior of
the Order Sisters of Mercy at the St. Mary's
Hospital in that city.
HER collection of costumes, photographs
and armor will be Mrs. James Brown Pot
ter's chief trophy when she returns home to
New York from her variegated wanderings
in India, Australia, Ceylon and Japan.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY the younger, who is
only 80 years old, and yet has published IL
books and plays. In personal appearance
he is tall and thin, and has q noticeably
small head.
PROF. LAZARUS RODNEY, London, is
said to give in q course of I6 lectures such an
insight into the arts and mysteries of beg
ging in all its phases that his graduates are
assured of an easy living at the expense of
the benevolent
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUMMINGS
favorite beverage in the field is brandy and
soda, huge tumblers of which he used to sip
in the evening. Sir William was present at
the death of Captain Burnaby, the heroic
soldier and traveller, and with his sword cut
down one of Burnaby's fiercest assailants.
COUNT JOSEPH LEBAT'S present of
marble statue of Leo Kill (executed in
Italy by Luchetti) is about ready for ship
ment to the Catholic University in Washing
ton. 1t represents the Pope in the rich
robes of his Office and crowned with his
tiara, his right hand held out as if extending
q blessing.
BROWNING once said of Disraeli: "He
is the greatest liar living" But Mr.. Glad
stone put a more charitable construction
upon his rivals conduct, and said: 81 don't
agree with you, MIR. Browning, that Lord
Beaconsfeld is q deliberate liar. Certainly
he does not always speak the exact truth.
He will take extraordinary liberties with
facts when he could have no object in doing
so, but, on the contrary, runs q risk of dam
aCinp him yelf.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
A Good Play Well Rendered.

"Only a Farmers Daughter,"a a domestic
drama by Elliott Barnes received its initial
performance at Harris Theater yesterday
afternoon. A pleasing incident was the
presentation of a life-like doll to Little
Gracie an exceptionally clever child actress,
it being her birthday. Miss Josie Woodruff,
as Justine. Miss Nathalie Churchill as the ad-
venturess and w. r. Walters as Jack Hdrtlu
deserve special mention. The specialties of
Miss Sargent and Mr. Robinson were met
with considerable favor, and this capable
company, in a strong play, will doubtless
meet with remunerative houses this week.