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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
MR.SSPRENGER'S PROGRAMME.

Mr.. SPRINGER guesses there will be num-
Der of changes in the Mckinley law. The
President and the Senate may ask Mr.
Springer to guess again. Washington Post.
SPRINGER is an expo subventionist first, an
"itenat-a- time tariff reformer next As
subyentiors and reduced taxes do not 90 to-
gether, Springer need not be studied in the
second role He will never play it to win.-
Cleveland Press.
THE difference between the tariff policy
of Mr. Springer and that of Mr. Mills is that
Mr. Springer believes in taking the tariff
wall down stone by stone and Mr.. Mills be-
lieyes i'll butting his brains out against it
Springfield Register.
SPRINGER would be safer man than Mills
to put at the head of the Ways and Means
Committee in this exigency, but his promo
tion over Mills head just now would further
anger the latter's followers, and produce
something like split in the party.-N. Louis
Globe Democrat
Mr.. SpRINeER's views on the tariff policy to
be pursued in Congress are sound. He ad-
vocates an effort to put certain necessities
on the free list and opposes the introduction
of a general bill which could not pass, but
would furnish ammunition to the enemy
birmingham Age Herald.
MR.. SPRINGER has the right idea Of hand
ling the tariff this W inter-. No general law
can be passedanyway, and so the Democrats
should endeavor to get relief along lines
where the sharpest necessity exists. Give
the common people free salt, free lumber,
free fence wire, free binding twine, free cot
ton ties and free wool-Sionz CftD Tribune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
PERSONAGES OF PROMINENCE.

PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard, is ex-
tremeIy sensitive about the bright red birth.
mark on his right check.
ONE of Mr. Springer's conspicuous char
acteristics is his invariable habit of wearing
q flow er in his buttonhols.
SECRETARY FOSTER was reported to be
stronger and brighter yesterday, and may
be able to leave his room this week.
Mr. AND Mrs. CLEVELAND are expected
to visit Mr. and Mrs Pembroke Jones in
Wilmington, n. c.. during the winter.
GEORGE n. CUEzoN, the new Under Sec
retary for Ireland, is said to be the best
dressed man in the House of Commons.
MRS. BARRETT, of Newport; Mrs. and
Miss Roberts, of Philadelphia and the Misses
jackson and Barker, of Washington, are in
Berlin.
EUGENE D'ALBERT, the pianist, having
obtained a divorce, is about to marry Mme
Teresa Carreno, the American pianist, who
has also succeeded in securing decree of
divorce in suit brought against her second
husband.
THE Czarewitch will visit Paris in Febru-
airy and will remain in the city ten days,
after which period he will proceed to Lon
don to attend the wedding of the Duke of
Clarence and Avondale and Princess Vic
toria Mary of Teck.
WILLIAM MORRIS. the English poet, who
is deemed probable successor to Lord Ten
nyson in the laureateship. is the manager of
factory for wall paper, has a profitable
bric-a-brac shop, and owns several shares in
q successful magazine.
Miss GERALDINE MORGAN, the Ameri-
can violinist will sail for New York from
Berlin on the North German Lloyd steamer
EIbe. Miss Morgan will make her debut in
America at Carnegie Music Hall, in New
York, shortly after her arrival in that city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
THE NEWEST PARTY,

The formation Of new party is an
effort which always has charms, but has
not been very successful of late, excepting
the case of the Farmers Alliance. Seven
gentlemen of Boston are, however. using
the mails for the work of forming a new
party BY circular letters, the platform of
the party being gold basis for currency,
a tariff for revenue only and the abolition
of the spoils system. The original feature
of the plan is the system of classifying the
principles of the members by numerals
which signify their adhesion to certain of
eight different declarations. Thus E. NJ.
Farnsworth, 245S, asserts that he is
former Democrat joins the New Party
with enthusiasm, would support Grover
Cleveland without Democratic nomina-
tiGn. and will circulate the documents Of
the new organization. The idea is novel,
hut hardly likely to WOO many voters from
their sUbjection to Republican or Demo
cratic organization merely to be classified
as numeral in four figures This New
Party may he seiecf, but it is not likely to
be effective.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
JOHN WONT EXHIBIT.

No one can blame China for taking no part
in the Worlds Fair-China is not in it,
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Chinese Government gave us civil SER
vice reform, but they do not propose to give
us an exhibit at the Worlds Fair.-Ne,0 York
Press
CHINA's official declination to take part in
the Chicago fair shows that Caucasians have
no monopoly on national self-respect.-
Ciepelund Press.
IT may be n little hard on the Worlds Fair,
but we cannot help admiring the spunk of
China in refusing to participate in the Expo
sition on account of our anti Chinese laws
indianapolis Sentinel.
NOBODY can blame China for standing on
her dignity in this matter. 1t is pity, too,
for the Chinese exhibit at the Philadelphia
Centennial was a verv interesting one
Louisville Commercial.
THE Chinese Government refuses to make
an exhibit at the Worlds Fair. Visitors
who are interested in the principal industry
of China will have to visit the opium joints
in Chicago.-lfl,0dukee Sentinel.
THE Government of the Celestials has sent
word that if its people are not good enough
to land here they are not good enough to
make an exhibit. The Chinese evidently
have long memory.-MIlUdukee NeUs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
PRINCIPLES OF TAXATION.

The correspondence between the New
York Tax Reform Association and Rt.
Rev. John j. keane, of the Catholic UNI
versity, published elsewhere, isinstructlve.
The New York Association presents the
Henry George theory of taxation with a
number of propositions well enough IN the
abstract, but which might, if tried. be
found very difficult of application. The
answer of the clerical gentleman indorses
some of the principles in the abstract but
points out the qualifications and difficult
ties which practically make it necessary
for the Government to do the best it can.
The trouble with all these propositions
to raise public revenue by direct taxation,
especially as they generally take the form
Of single tax, is that no single interest
would yield the necessary revenue. The
single-taxers have urged the taxation of
rental values with the declaration that this
would eliminate the speculative value
from land. But they have never been able
to refute the fact, pointed out in The
DISPATCH some time ago, that when the
speculative value is taken out of land, and
all the additions to its value made by
human labor and expenditure are ex-
empted, as they propose. there will not be
enough value left in it to support decent
township government. Rev. FIR Keane
refers to the good policy of taxing not tie
agents of products but their net proceeds.
This looks toward the taxation of profits
or income-ar ideal tax in the abstract.
But the practical difficulty is intimated in
the further rule that taxation should not
invite fraud or perjury.
The rules laid down bv the correspond
ents on both sides are very good in the alb
stract and should be applied as far as cir
cumstances permit, except those which
contradict each other. Thus the Tax Re
form Association holds that the agents of
production should not be taxed, and then
proceeds to the dictum that land should
bear the main burden of taxation. But
land is an agent of production in the real
sense, as it will produce if worked by
human labor and intelligence, and not
otherwise. To tax idle land and disused
machinery might be wise discrimination
in the abstract, but how much revenue
would it yield?
To thesa ideas, which systems of taxa
ton will do well to apply SO far as prac-
ticable, THE DISPATCH will add some
others which may be limited at in Rector
Keane's letter, but whose importance de-
mand a specific statement. They are per-
haps just as hard to apply practically as
the rules laid down in the correspondence,
but they are also as well worth bearing in
mind.
Taxation should, so far as possible, be
levied so as to make the burden on the
subjects of taxation the least 1t should
place its weight on certain classes or
relieve others so as to create taxed and un-
taxed classes 1t should not make the
products of taxed industry compete with
the products of an untaxed industry.
Finally, an ideal, but so far impracticable,
scheme of taxation would seek to encour-
age the distribution of wealth among the
masses and discourage the accumulation
of great estates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
NATURAL YEAST DISCOVERED.
A Fermcnting Substance Bettor Than the
kephir of the Caucasus

A Fermcnting Substance Bettor Than the
kephir of the Caucasus.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 20.-A species of yeast
closely resembling the kephir found in the
regions of the Caucasus Mountains, has been
discovered in California. Like the kephr,
this American product causes alcoholic fer
mentation of milk, atfording n beverage that
is pronounced refreshing and delightful.
Many Canadian housekeepers always have
on hand this saccharomycite in a jar half
filled with sweetened water and the ferment
product, known as California bees beer, is
drawn and used as tonic. The kephir
grains ferment deXtroSe as well as lactOse,
and it is the dextrose or grape sugar fer
ment product that has been used mostly in
this country.
In Germany and Russia the milk fer
mented by kephir grains has become popu-
lar as drink, and an enterprising firm has
recently opened n factory where the fer
nent will he manufactured for the beyer-
a2e-loving Germans The American kephir,
in the process of fermenting milk, does not
cause the milk to sour in the ordinary
sense. The mixture is acid, but no cOagula-
tion takes place. The ordinary beer yeast
has not the property of fermenting sweet
milk, although it does produce alcoholic fer
mem ntation in sour milk. 1t also inverts cane
sugar, another point of difference between
the beer yeast and lephir, the latter having
the power to ferment dextrose and lactoSe,
but not Saccharose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
A HIGH TIME FOR CONGRESS,

There is decidedly Chicagoan magnifi-
cerce in the proposition to take the whole
of Congress on visit to Chicago to view
the progress OF the Worlds Fair enter
prise, and, inter pocula, or, to use the ver-
nacular translation, "between drinks" to
settle the question of that s5,OOo,OOO loan
or gift. Congressional committees have
frequently enjoyed junkets of less broad
gauge dimensions, and railroad corpora
tions desirous Of iegisla tive favors have
been known to give State Legislatures
very enjoyable trips. But this is the first
time it has been proposed to take the Con-
gress of the United States into camp.
There would be wide appreciation of
Chicago determination to cut wide swath
in this matter if the $4,000, 900 appropria-
ton did not loom up in the background,
and of the intimation that Congress though
enjoying a free blowout must not be
deadhead in the enterprise. If that loan
business were settled before the excursion
then the main drawback to the affair would
be the natural disability of the national
lawmakers to attend to business for some
days after the junket was over.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
AN ANTIOUATED IDEA.

Senator Turpie's recent though rather
reiterated speech in favor of electing
United States Senators by direct vote of
the people has been commented upon with
a degree of favor, that indicates the trend
of popular opinion in that direction.
There is nothing in the Senator's speech
which differs materially from the argu-
ments in behalf of that change heard at
intervals for years. The new feature is
the growth of sentiment toward accept
ing it.
The important phase of the change is
that it would be formal reversal of the
theory of the United States Constitution.
That theory has been clearly avowed for
years. 1t contemplates one branch of the
Legislature elected by the people for short
terms, and which is distinctively the pop
ular branch. 1t then sets up another,
elected for longer terms. and removed
from the fluctuations of popular opinion
by being elected by the State Legislatures.
Finally, it tries to remove the Presidency
from direct reliance on the popular vote by
vesting it in an Electoral College. the men,
bers of which were expected to exercise
a lTeo cHOtCe. lI6 IlleOTy VI llle ELECTORAL
College has been abandoned long ago, but
the othe- part of that theory with regard
to the Senate has more life to-day
The proposition, therefore, is to displace
the last remaining fragment of the origi-
nal idea by removing some of the CO.
ordinate branches of the Government
from direct dependence on the popular
vote. As the separation, even in the case
of the Senate, is more theoretical than
practical, the change will have to be con-
sidered mainly question of time. The
dynamic force of popular institutions
brings Senatorships as well as Presidenc
sooner or later down to the expressed will
of the people. The change might prove
an unexpected benefit in relieving State
Legislatures from the complications and
nominations that grow out of their duty
of electing Senators.
But if this old theory of the Constitution
is to be abandoned, the formal change
should not omit a clause abolishing the
effete, cum5rous and purely formal Eec-
tn.rI Coll" @. :" - +i'c Pros dent and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
THE LOTTERY MUDDLE.

THE Louisiana lottery muddle has reached
that stage where splits are being played as
winners Washington Post.
The entering wedge of the lottery influ-
encc has already split great party in one
Stately. y. Commercial Adre,fiser.
LOTTERY and anti-lottery are the gon-
falons down in Louisiana. Republicans and
Democrats are nowhere.-Boston Herald.
THE Louisiana lottery may do some good
yet. 1t appears to have split the Demo-
cratic party of that State from neck to
heels.-B0ston Ne,oS.
WITH the Louisiana Democracy split in
two on the lottery question, it is not easy to
foretell just who, at the next election, will
win 'the capital prize. ."-Boston Globe
THE Iotteryites are ahead in Louisiana, of
course and will dictate the Democratic NOM
nations. That is to say, the old story of
Democratic affiiiation with fraud and scan-
dal is to be repeated.-SG Louis Globe Demo-
crdt.
The lottery campaign in Louisiana has
opened with a flourish of trumpets and a
disrupted convention. 1t Is thought that
the usual heavy odds against lottery
ticket winning do not apply in politics.
(J;ar,,so TIN
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21

measures were taken to ensure that the
Government shall not omit to press the
loan on the company. The fortunes of
corruption are not showered so spontane-
ously as to urge the profits of $4,000, 900
rake from the public treasury on people
who do not stretch out their hands for it;
nor do the gentlemen who vote for such
jobs in Congress confer such enormous
wealth unless very active and judicious
work is eXerted to secure their votes.
We do not believe the Nicaragua Canal
Company will get that 1oO,0Oo,O00 job in
any event. But We can assure Mr.. Miller
and his associates that they certainly will
not get it without energetically pulling
the wires for it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
TERMS CT THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBUCG. MONDAY. DEC. q. 1891.
TWELVE PAGES
FORCIBLE WARNING.

Senator Plumb's sudden death yesterday
is typical at once of an erroneous natural
characteristic and a political vice. A man
of immense energy and striking physical
vigor, he had given himself up to the work
surrounding his position until his brain
gave out He had warnings that he was
tasking himself to a degree which no
strength could resist, but confidence of his
strength. and his ambition to do all that a
Senator of the United States could be
called upon to do, kept him at his work
until The end came suddenly and deci-
sively.
OF course, when confronted with a case
like this, we recognize that the aims to be
secured by such efforts are not worth the
sacrifice. Where great aim was to be
accomplished the peril to health and life
may be justified. If Senator Plumb had
been in the position of Lincoln or Stanton
during the war. his death would have had
the noble character of a soldier who dies
at his noSt. But men like Plumb, Man.
ming and Window had not sufficient reason
for the overwork which caused their deaths.
We can all see. after the fact, that this is
true: but the Americ;, characteristics are
such that men will keep on working them
selves to sudden deati in the absorption
of their aims
Another lesson must not be overlooked
i'm Senator Plumb's case. The report of
his death, in describing the labors which
caused it, SAYS: "He looked after the in
terests of his constituents" This is very
well understood to mean that he sought
appointments for them, and devoted
large share of his energies to the passage
of bills in which they were interested
Here we have an explanation o. the over
work. A man Of Senator Plumb's vigor
could probably have borne the labor at
tendant on legislation of a national char
acter But when in addition he under
took the work of looking after offices,
pushing private bills, and doing all the
errands the political system imposes on
the men who are designated by the Cor
stitution to simply legislate, the strain
was more than human strength could
stand.
The warning of Senator Plumb'S death
is a very strong one against the American
error Of overworik and is especially forci-
hle against the political vice of turning
national legislators into patronage-clerks
and private claim attorneys without fee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
SENAToF, MILLER'S PROFESSIONS.

The position taken by ex-senator War
ner Miller, as President of the Nicaragua
Canal Company, iD his speech to the New
York Chamber of Commerce, would, if
fully maintained in good faith, relieve that
enterprise from the character Of an eror-
nous job. Miller there declared that the
company does not ask the aid of the
United States, as proposed in the Presi-
dents message; and expressed his belief
that the enterprise can be carried through
by private capital. On that basis Mr..
Miller is wholly justified in bringing his
scheme to the consideration of New York
capitalists on its merits.
This is a verbal fulfilment of the pledge
given when o charter was secured from
Congress that no financial aid should be
desired from the United States. The Mica
ragua Canal people are to be credited with
a little more than the ordinary tenderness
respecting pledges in the profession of i'm
partiality as 10 whether the proposed loan
passes Congress or not. Perhaps that at
titude is stimulated by the conviction that
the proposed measure will have the
slightest possible chance of passing
the lower branch of the present Con-
gress. But so long as the disavowal
confines itself to the form in which
Miller puts it-an abstract asser-
ton that the canal company does
ask what the President is represented as
urging upon 1.-THE people will regard
such q fulfillment of the pledge as keep
ing the word of promise to the ear but
breaking it to the sense.
Indeed, it is not censorious to suspect the
canal company's disavowal of asking for
the loan, to be of the same generic rank of
Quay's disavowal that he is a candidate
for the Pennsylvania Senatorship. The
Nicaragua people may not formally ask
for the Endorsement of the Government;
but it is hardly credible that the admins
tration would be so anxious to have them
enjoy the Government credit to the tune
Of 500. 600, 900 on a job estimated by the
t,r; ,7-., q, g. &C. naa n@G r-rl~es '--,~crt
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
OLD BANDITS HIDDEN PLUMBER
Unearthed by Two Hunters Beneath Stone
Near Marietta

MARIETTA, Dec. eO-[Special l-To-day two
young men named James Kendall and Peter
Reilly, living few miles above Marietta. on
the Muakngum river, while on hunting
expedition came upon large fat stone of
peculiar shape. certain marks on which ex-
cited their suspicious. They removed the
stone disclosing circle in which was n guam
titY OF clothing some old-fashioned and
weli-rusted arms, and finally small iron
kettle filled with silver coin. The men de-
found further than to say that it will be a
very comfortable sum for each OF them
when divided.
1t is supposed the plunder was concealed
where it was found by members of the noto-
rious Slower gang that infested that part of
the country years ago. and who committed
many crimes, and that this particular cache
was but one of many others. Parties are be-
ing Organized to search for buried treasures.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21
A TAXATION CoNUNDRUM.
State Ohhcials Puzzled Over the Meaning OF
the Word Manufacture.

the Word Manufacture.
HARR1sBURa, Dec. 20.-[Speciall 1.-The Audi.
tor General has submitted to the Attorney
General number OF tax cases which in
wolves the legal Interpretation of the word
! "manufacture," and are of importance to
nearly every large manufacturing concern
in the State. Under an act of 1899 the tax of
three mills on the capital stock of corpora
tions is not collectible from those concerns
organized for and exclusively engaged in
man ufa cturing. A number of corporations
have claimed exemption under this act,
among them the Pittsburg Bridge Company.
This concern purchases the iron, steel ana
wood used in the bridges they build, simply
performing the work of construction. The
Auditor General wants to know If "manu-
featuring" and constructing" are synony-
nous terms. so, the company is exempt;
If not, it must pay the tax. Another case is
that of the Delaware River Dock and ship
building Company. This concern builds
docks ana ships and repairs vessels. TEe
State officials hold that repairing boat
surely cannot come under the head of
manufacturing"
Other cases in which still more money is
involved are those of iron manufacturers
who operate their own coal mines, coke
ovens and lime quarries, and producers OF
refined Oil who lease or buy oil lands ana
drill wells thereon. The question in these
cases turns upon whether the mining of coal
and lime is manu- nufacturing" as spec1hed in
the act, and whether the ownership of oil
lands is necessary to the manufacture of re-
fined oil. Under a Supreme Court ruling 1t
has been decided that mining is not manu-
featuring, although it has not been clearly
established that this ruling would apply to
the mining of coal. ETC., for tine sole purpose,
and by the same concern, for the manufac-
ture of iron.
Another difficulty confronting the State.
in case the questions should be decided
against the taxpayers, is that the act gives
no procedure which may be taken to deter
mine what portion of a corporations capital
stock is invested in mining operations and
what in the manufacturing. The corpora
tions might determine this question for them
selves, but they may not care to give the in
formation to the State.