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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
PROTECTION A SAFEGUARD.

Again the question of tariff is occupying
the attention of Congress, and once more
attempts are made to obscure the issue by
all kinds of irrelevant matter Within the
next few months the nation will be called
upon to repeat its Endorsement of the Con-
stitutional principle of Protection. Are
we to continue to grow in our self-con-
tanned independence, or are we to become
reliant on the outside world for our neces-
saries and luxuries? This is the question
which above all else led to the formation
of Constitution to enable us to supply
our own wants, and time has only added
to the arguments which were then used.
It is no mere discussion of temporary
expediency; tits of everlasting importance
to national vitality that a protective tariff
be maintained. Our industries to-day are
more extensive and more varied than ever
before, and it would be suicidal to adopt
legislation of retrograde character lead
ing to reduction of tariff which has been
invariably productive of disaster. 1t is
useless to attempt to conceal the facts by
pointing to temporary incidental evils as
resultant from measures which have been
most beneficial to the strength of the
nation.
Extravaganza following on full treas
ury cannot be laid to the blame of the
benefits which created the surplus.
The useless expenditures were the
result of mistaken policy which neg
lected necessary national Improvements
which loudly cry for funds. The growing
strength of trusts and monopolies is due
to an evasion of the laws for their sup
preston and an apathy in the admins
tration of the same-not to the policy
which fosters all legitimate industrial en-
terprise. Protection is for the national
welfare, and no evidence can be adduced
to show that it favors one class at the ex-
pense of another. 1t is as ridiculous to
suggest that temporary depression, follow
ing on over-production resultant from mis-
calculation of the market demand, is due
to protective tariff as it would be to make
the Government responsible for variations
of the weather.
All over the world the powers are
spending millions to perfect their arma-
ments, and it would be the height of folly
for US to neglect the best possible means
of defense, which is tariff that makes us
free from fear or favor OF any other coun-
try. And, while this policy provides our
best defense against tine world, it advances
our wealth and strength as no other meas
ure can. We are to-day the richest, health
lest and therefore the strongest community
on earth, and We owe it to Protection that
we are so. We wish to grow and not to
decay, and the good sense of our people
will see to it that there is no deviation from
the successful policy which alone can lead
us upward and onward.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
BERING SEA FUR FLIES.

THIS Bering Sea controversy is getting old
enough to know better.-Detron Free Press.
THE best way to end the seal controversy,
of which the country is heartily tired, is to
end the seals. Let them be killed of, males
females, pups and all, seals and seals kin,
and let us have peace.-Indianopotis Journal.
THE Bering Sea seal fisheries game of bluff
has been reopened, with Salisbury making
the opening raise-a loud one at that-and
Mr.. Blaine preparing to go it a war better, if
necessary. In the meantime there is likely
to be nothing left to bluff about.-fa,,sos
City Times.
THE position assumed by the British Gov
ernment throws down all restrictions on its
part to untrammeled slaughter of nursing
female seals, and in self-defense it will be
necessary for the United States to permit
Americans to obtain their share of the seal
plunder.-&. Paul Globe.
THE American people expect Congress and
the President to revoke the unhallowed bar
gain and to stand upon the nations rights.
They are tired of the wrangle. They would
have 1t end in peace or war, as England may
elect, but without another word of argu-
ment.- Washington Post.
IT cannot be possible that Salisbury wants
war, but if he does he skall have it! The
emergency that has arisen should be met
firmly, seriously, solemnly, as Americans
have always met the issues involving tre-
mendous consequences that have been
thrust upon them.-Neao York Recorder.
The Senate should not for one moment
hesitate, but should rather. on the contrary,
make haste to ratify the treaty of arbitra-
tion. The faith OF this Government to that
end is pledged and must not be withdrawn.
Let it do right in the matter, then insist
upon the other party to the agreement doing
what is right, Philadelphia Call
THE Senate indicates its purpose to pro-
ceed with caution and deliberation in re-
gard to the Bering Sea treaty and diplo-
matte correspondence. That is right. If the
administration makes no more than just
demands In the case and maintains those
demands with dignity as well as firmness,
the country will sustain it.-CleveIand Plain
Dealer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
WOMAN LEGISLATION.

Many and various are the onerous duties
of the Committee on Agriculture. Uncle
Jerry Rusk has recently been threatened
with the necessity of establishing matri-
moniai gency as an offset to the alleged
wife-killing propensities of some of his Gu
cumber seeds. And now the same COM
mittee IS called upon to consider the serious
question of the facial adornments of the
IJir sex. The law-msking gentlemen at first
probably considered the matter as a sub
iect for the indulgence of their humor,
else Uncle Jerry's committee would not
have been burdened with the matter. But
the energy shown On both sides of the
question indicates that it is no laughing
matter and will be fought to the bitter
end.
Mrs Charlotte Smith, authoress of the
bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale
OF feminine beautifieIs, yesterday backed
1t I'D by forcible argument before the
Agricultural Committee. She vehemently
stated thai all complexion improvers are
poisonous, and were marring instead of
beautifying the faces worn by her sex.
This will doubtless bring down upon her
Of cosmetic manufacturers, for humanity
is strangely ungratefuL There can be
no doubt, however, that some cosmetics
are injurious to compilations in the
long run, ana there is not one
man in a hundred that would not
prefer natural beauty unadorned by art.
But there is reason for much doubt
whether the passage of prohibitory bill
would effect any great change for the bet
ter.
Attempts to interfere with personal lib
erty are oxious, and, further, they are
easily evaded. We want more common
sense and less legislation. More exercise,
healthier food and less powder and late
hours We have the loveliest women in
the world, and we should have them love-
lier still if they would refuse to conceal
their beauty under the mistaken impulse
of unwholeSome fashion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
AN EXTRavAGANT ORDINANCE.

As has been customary for some years
the appropriation ordinance was yesterday
railroaded through Councils. The slight
cuts made by the Finance Committee in
the sums asked for by the most expensive
departments of the City Government SEEM
ingly satisfied the majority, who promptly
voted down all economic efforts made by
the few who see q menace in increased
valuations and higher millage. But, as the
will of the majority is law, the taxpayers
must bow to il, while the believers in
lavish outlay exclaim, "What are you
going to do about it?''
That there was no legitimate necessity
for the increase allowed in the expenses
of the leading departments has been con-
clusively pointed out by THE DISPATCH.
1t held and still holds that 10 instead of
a 12-mill tax levy On present valuations is
amply sufficient to economically and eff
GENTLY maintain the City Government 1t
has plainly shown by official fig
ures that the ratio of increase
in outlay is out of all proportion
to the ratio of increase in population.
This not in spirit of parsimony, but be-
cause it firmly believed that the present
and prospective needs of the municipality
required less lavish outlay than the esti-
mates of the Chiefs or the allowances of
the ordinance, which has been hastily
sanctioned by Councils in spite of the
protests of few who have the best inter-
ests Of the city at heart.
But what are you going to do about
it?'' This question voters can answer at
the proper time if they want to.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11

The family of Mr.. E. M o'Neill. of THE

The family of Mr.. E. NJ. O'Neill, of The
DISPATCH, has met with sad bereavement.
kilograms were received from New York
yesterday announcing the death of Daniel
O'Neill, loving son and afectionate
brother, young man for whom but little
while ago happy and useful career was
universally expected.
Deceased was but little over q years
old. He was a student at Yale University.
A cold that did not threaten seriously at the
start developed into meningitis, and. de-
spite the surgical and medicinal skill of
Drs. Gruening and Janeway and others,
proved fatal. Deceased was loved and re-
spected by all who knew him. His gentle
ness, patience and kindly nature made him
an ideal boy, and there was every promise
of his excellence and usefulness as a man.
The members of his family were con-
stantly at his side during his illness, as
were also other loving friends His thoughts
were for them more than for himself to the
last moments of consciousness. Thus a
young life, which was the realization of all
that was amicable, affectionate and upright,
ended peacefully and painlessly. But the
separation leaves sorrowing hearts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
DEVELOPMENTS OF ELECTRICITY

To say that the electric world is in
flutter is merely to note its normal condi-
ton. The students of this branch of
physics are the devotees of a science whose
inexactness is only exceeded by its prog
ress. But. the flutter now perceptbile is
suggestive of preparation for a flight more
portentous than any yet undertaken.
Hitherto thoughts of electricity have been
inseparably connected with conductors of
one form of another. Now there comes
news from the savants all over the world
that they are rapidly approaching the
solution of a problem TO eliminate existing
methods for the Transmission of currents
in manner to compare with that in which
electricity has so largely annihilated
distance.
The air itself is to become the conductor
of the future, its capacity for such pur-
pose depending on changes to be made in
the nature of the currents to be trans
mitted. Experiment has already demon
strated the possibility of passing currents
between two widely separated metallic
plates unconnected by any other medium
than that of the atmosphere. Blythe help
of concentrating apparatus of enormous
lens-shaped masses of pitch and similar
bodies it is expected that immense dis
tances will before long be traversed by the
subtle power without visible conductors.
II is as impossible to foresee the develop
ments which will follow this research as it
would have been fifty years ago to foretell
most of the scientific triumpbs of to-day.
But the field opened to speculative imag-
ination is bewildering in its immensity
and fascinating in its mystery.
Without going so far as to suggest that
these discoveries will lead to means. of
inter-stellar communication, there can be
no doubt that its effects ON our own planet
will be enormous. Here the way will be
opened for communication between light
ships and the shore without the inconve-
nience of submarine cable. Mountainous
peaks can be put in communication with
out the work of stringing a wire over
miles OF difficulties, and throughout the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
MR.. WILLARD As JUDAH.
A Notable New Play, With Miss Burroughs
in a Great Role.


in a Great Role.
The play of "Judah," by Henry Arthur
Jones, who wrote "The Affdd1eman," "The
Silver King" and other notable works, was
given at the Duquesne Theater last night.
A very largo and representative audience
filed the theater, and by their warm ap-
plause showed that they approved
the acting whatever they may have
thought of the play. The chief interest Of
the performance naturally lay in Mr.: Will
lard's ASSUMPTION of new part. as far as
the young Welsh Presbyterian preacher.
Judah LleDellyn, is only like that OF Cyrus
Btenhun in "The Middleman" in its inten-
sity. Mr. Willard personally and physically
youthful clergyman, for the garb is
becoming to his singularly attractive and
intellectual face, which no amount OF make
up can entirely spoil. But Judah as Great
not In the race with the old potter Bte1ahor1a-
Mr.. Jones has written, as usual with him, a
strong % and original play; but It lacks .h truth
melancholy mist of imposture and cheap
sentimentalism.
The story is briefly this: Vasha Dethic is
and lends herself to him to be used as a
stalking horse for his victims. Judah. the
young clergyman, first loves her as genu-
Inc faith cure priestess, and when he nnds
semtpublic confession of their joint impos-
ture. departs to live happily ever afterward.
The weakness of the play did not prevent
Mr.. Willard from showing the masterly
quality of his art. Miss Burroughs as TCrs7Rf
had q larger opportunity to win sympathy,
and played the difficult role with remark
able power. Her repressed ana delicate
methods produced very strong effects, and
except in SO far as the character
oversteps the line Of probability, for
girl so strong in her purity at one
moment could hardly be SO weak the next,
her VCIShi was as natural as she was a
beautiful picture always. Mr.. Wizards best
work, perhaps, was done in the last act,
where he showed in every line of his face,
his voice and in all his gestures the progress
of a great soul and guilty conscience
toward reconciliation. The triumphant
close by Mr.. Wizards wonderful acting was
made to seem. what it was not, high and
holy ending and the only proper one for the
play.
The company was decidedly successful as
a whole. Miss Craddock's recital of the in
valid girls dream was one of the best feat
ures of act II. and won her long and loud ap-
plause. Mr.. H Cane, as the fussy and ben
evolent Briton, who is always seeking to
puncture humbugS and show up Quacks, was
very clever, although he had the advantage
of speaking most of the smart lines in the
piece. Mr.. Royce Carleton was admirable as
Mfr. Dethic, the smooth fnstigator of his
daughters "faith- cure' swindle. A little bit
of grotesQue and very overdrawn comedy
was skillfully enacted by Mr.. Tyler and
Miss Tilbury. At the end of act II. there
were four curtain calls and much applause
at other points.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
OHIO LAWMAKERS AT WORK.
Ripper Bills and Other Local Measures
Being RaiIroadcd Through.

Ripper Bills and Other Local Measures
Being RaiIroaded Through.
COLUMBUS, O., March 10.-[SpeciaI Mr..
Alaman's bill providing for the reorganiza-
tion of the government of Dayton was to-day
passed by the House. The BILL as originally
introduced, gave the Mayor of Dayton the
power of appointing a non-partisan board of
city affairs. Mr.. Allaman sought to have
the power placed in the hands OF the County
Clerk, but consented to o compromise, and
an amendment was offered giving the ap-
pointment to the resident circuit judge.
The bill, as passed, provides that the resi-
dent circuit judge shall appoint a nom
partisan tax commission of six members,
who, in addition to their duties on the re-
vision OF the tax duplicate, shall appoint a
non-partisan Board of City Affairs of four
members. As the terms of the members of
the City Board expire their successors shall
be appointed by the Mayor.
porations No. considered the Sc. .0O0, 900 water
works bill for Cincinnati, to-day noon. As
was expected, there was q split and there
will be two reports. The majority report
will recommend the passage of the bill in its
present form. giving the Mayor the appoint
ment an amendment to submit the proposi-
tion to a vote of the people. The friends of
the bill claim the majority report will be
adopted and the bill passed just rs it is.
The laws of Ohio are SO constructed that
people and corporations in other States who
desire to use railroads running through Ohio
and other States bring their cases in Ohio
courts often Such litigation properly be-
longs in the other States. and the court costs
are paid by Ohio taxpayers. Mr.. Griffin's
bill putting stop to this kind of imposition
passed the Senate to-day, and is now law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
The Lights of Eternal Rome.

Last night Mr. Charles M. Adams began
a series of illustrated lecture travels his
listeners on this occasion being introduced
to the "Sights and Sounds of Eternal Rome" :"
and permitted to enjoy themselves there
above an hour and quarter. Beyond tho
views, which were magnificently thrown on
the canvas, the stereopticon never failing to
answer the cues, a great deal cannot be said
Tor Mr.. Adams. He has a pleasing voice.
though not captivating delivery, and,
though the lectures are announced as the
result of personal observation" there Is q
deal that smacks of the guide book: and
especially is this the case when the lecturer
ventures into the field of philosophizing, or
gentle rumination and sentimentalism.
His Rome was the Rome of the regu-
Iation traveler-mythologfca Rome, classical
modern and ecclesiastical Rome. But rs
his Lectures are addressed particularly in
Pittsburg to an audience which has been
going over the same ground hand in hand
with geography and history, undoubtedly
though less practical, Mr.. Adams choice of
subject is not less suitable.
The lecturer is to be cOmplimented on the
possession of q clear, ringing voice, which
was heard last night perfectly at every
point IN the theater, and needed to be, for
the audience nearly filed 1t. Mr.. Adams,
who comes here under the social wing of
Miss Killikelly, and as a sort of completion
to her European classes, will reappear at
the Club Theater on Thursdays, as follows:
March II, bay of Naples;' March a, "SicilY
and Maf1a;" March 81, SIN and Out of Lon
dom" April I, Homes of Queen Victoria"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
INCoNsIDERATE HARTES.

Senator ID. B. Hill will not be very
grateful for Congressman Harter's action
in writing an open letter asking him to
define his position on the Silver question.
Hill secured the apparent support of the
New York Democracy by recourse to
tactics which prevented free discussion
of mis- claims He knows The advantages
of haste, and equally realizes the value of
procrastination and concealment. His
utterances on the matter of free coinage
have been of such nature as to lead to
the belief that they have been designed to
bewilder rather than enlighten.
Hill is leader of the kind who will
On the one hand attempt to force himself
on his party where he has sufficient
power to do so, and on the other
he is unscrupulous enough to avoid
clear expression until he has ascertained
which way the wind blows. He had no
doubt intended to wait until BANDS bill
had been under discussion long enough to
enable onlookers to weigh the strength CT
the rival disputants. All this nice little
plan will be knocked on the head by Har-
ter's brutal lack of consideration, for the
Senator cannot fail to declare himself in
the face of so public demand. An honest
statesman puts himself on record in mat
tiers of national importance without wait
ing for compulsion, and even machine
politician will have to come down from
his perch on the fence when he is so un-
mercifully prodded by member of his
own party.
1t is ridiculous that man claiming to
be iEdorsed as candidate for the Presi-
dency by the Democratic party of the EN-
pire State should attempt to preserve am
biguity in his position on a question of
vital importance. Hill will have to speak
now, and it is well that the nation should
know just where he stands
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-11
BLUNDERING LOCATIONS.

An example of the principles on which
Government work is too apt to be con-
Quoted is afforded by report of Senator
Squire on the bill for the establishment of
a gun factory on the Pacific coast. The
report reveals that it is an agreed conclu-
sion between the authorities that gun
factory is to be located on the Slope, the
dispute having been as to whether it was
to be under army control exclusively, or
jointly controlled by the army and navy.
The location is determined under the plea
that the guns are to be used on the Pacific
coast. Senator Squire represents one of
the Pacific coast States and holds the
Craftsmanship of the Committee on Coast
Defenses, and by having his bill for the
gun factory referred to his own committee
naturally made it plain sailing for his pet
scheme
Everyone with even superficial knowl-
edge Of the subject knows that the raw
materials for the guns made in this fac
tory will have to be transported from the
centers of iron and steel manufactures,
and that the raw material which must he
transported will be of greater weight and
bulk than the finished guns. The differ
ence may not be very important, but the
fact furnishes a sufficient answer to the
argument that it is necessary to have
gun factory on the Pacific coast to manu-
facture guns to be used there.
A very much more important considera-
ton is that cannon foundries and arsenalS
located near the coast are, in case of war
with strong naval power, exposed to the
danger of sudden descent by force
which, while it could not keep its footing,
might destroy the works on which the
nation would have to rely for its means of
defense. The principle of selection has
already located one gun factory at point
reached by British force in the War Of
1872 and Senator Squire's bill proposes to
put another equally within reach of a
strong naval enemy on the Pacific. Intel