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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
AN ENEMY OF PROTECTION.

If the movementin in the East to secure the
abolition of the half-cent duty on refined
sugar should be successful, the American
Sugar Refneries Company, which has
monopolized the entire plant at present
existing, will have no one to blame for
that result except itself.
When the half-cent duty was retained on
refined sugar in the Mckinley act it was
done as a means of protecting and encOur-
| aging domestic competition in the refining
of sugar. At that time there was grow
ing competition in the refining industry,
! and the eXorbitant prices established by
! the transient rule of the Sugar Trust were
pulled down by the growth of the compet-
ing concerns recently absorbed. The
maintenance of protection on refined sugar
was based on the purpose of encouraging
further competition by domestic concerns,
which would lower prices in the end.
That was the principle on which protec-
ton was defended in the campaign of
1890; and it is the principle by which it
must be upheld in the more decisive battle
of 1892.
In its persistent combination of all the
refineries under greatly watered corpora
ton the Sugar Trust not only makes that
argument ineffective, but it attacks and
defeats the purpose of protection. Every
defender of protection who maintains its
purpose of cheapening products by do
mestic competition will have the Sugar
Trust thrown in his teeth and there will
be some pertinence in doing so. No free
trade advocate, however gifted, is so dead
ly an enemy of the protective principle as
the combinations in protected articles
which pervert the public purpose of pro-
lection to the enrichment of their own
members.
There is no surer way of defeating this
attack on protection than by the public
declaration that no trusts or combinations
shall enjoy the aid of the tariff in main-,
tanning their monopoly. If Congress should
unite in repeating the sugar duty it would
be no more than the trust deserves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
PRoTFoTroN's ABLE CHAMPION,

The vital interests of PENNSYLVANIA and
the country yesterday received the sup
port of a most able Sreech from Hon. John
DalZel. There was presented to the House
an unanswerabla array of facts couched in
fOrcefui and logical oratory. Pennsyl-
yania needs men who can show a knowl-
edge of American industries and who have
the ability and inclination to argue on
their behalf. Mr. Dalzell, too, received a
great and deserved compliment, for one so
young in legislative experience, by the
unanimous vote for a continuance of his
speech beyond the limit of his allotted
hour
There is not a vulnerable point in the
argument he delivered, from the declara-
ton that no one has vet dared to propose
tae wholesale repeal of the Mckinley bill
TO the assertion backed up by telling sta
tistics that such repeal, were it possible,
would accomplish vast injury to cur
national trade and independence. A
vision which is clear enough to read the
signs OF the times without bias or preiu-
dice cannot fail 10 discover the great ad-
vantaGeS enjoyed under protective tariff.
Anyone capable Of learning the lessons of
history must see the bitter experiences
which have attended a revenue tariff in
the past. Protection should have the sup
port Of every clear-minded man Of affairs,
and John Dalzell is eminently fitted to
rank with its Older standard bearers. The
speech, which is presented elsewhere in
these columns, will undoubtedly be read
with feeling OF pride by Pennsylvanians
il general and Western Pennsylvanians in
lariinnlar
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
DESIRABLE DEVELOPMENTS.

To-day will, in all probability, see the
Inauguration of local cricket league.
Amateur athletics now occupy position
OF greater prominence in Pittsburg than
they have done heretofore. We have in
the city and its suburbs four full-fedged
and prospering athletic clubs The num-
Der of cyclists, young men and maidens,
is on the increase, and muscular develop
ment is attracting some of the attention
its Importance warrants. We are to have
two meetings here this year under the
auspices of the Amateur Athletic Union,
and they will no doubt still further foster
the interest in physical training.
All this is a very hopeful sign. The sub
ject cannot well receive too much thought.
As the physique of our population is i'm
proved inclination to vice is removed, and
the process of improvement itself lessons
temptation by leaving fewer opportunities
for idleness. The culture of the body is
apt to improve the mind, and the more we
have of it the better for our health in
every department - mental, moral and
physical alike.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02

ments In country roads. Pittsburg has
had experience of street railway tracks
laid OF unpaved streets Those who re-
member the condition to which the space
between the tracks would be reduced by
the tramping of the horses or mules will
recognize the necessity Of some improve.
ment of the surface to make 1t possible
for vehicles to use the proposed tracks
with advantage.
It follows that the proposed track must
be used In connection with an improved
surface either by macadamizing, gravel
ing, cindering or planking. This would
make it the most expensive kind of road;
but there would be decided compensation.
In the first place, the tracks would so save
the wear upon the rest of the road that
less cost IN the Macadam would be re-
quired A road costing 5000 per mile
might serve where $4,000 construction
would otherwise be necessary, or the
$4,000 construction might last twice as
long. Then, although the road might be
expensive, it would pay the best interest
on its return by its complete economy Of
power. Say that it cost $4,000 per mile to
macadamize and iron road in the best
style. Such a highway would furnish an
outlet to the country for at least two miles
on each side. In other words, every $40, 900
would reduce by two-thirds the motive
power required for hauling the products
of 1850 acres of land to market. Can any
one doubt that such an improvement
would add to the value of the land at least
four dollars an acre, or in other words de-
crease the cost of its hauling by at least
5000, or $50 per year for each farm of 200
acres?
We believe that the road of the future
will be the macadamized road, with tracks
of iron or steel. When these tracks are
properly laid it may also appear that they
will furnish the means for an almost in
finite expansion Of transit by electric, COM
pressed air, or steam motors wherever
such roads are built.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
TIE GERMAN AIR-SHIPs

The confirmation of the report that Ger
man war balloons have been sailing at will
over the Russian camps anG fortifications;
| proceeding from one point to another
either against or with the wind; coming to
halt notwithstanding the air-currents
and scrutinizing the Polish cities at night
by electric search lights, lends credence to
a story which at first seemed incredible.
Yet even with Its circumstantial repetition
the details make such drafts upon the pub
| lie faith as to require us to believe that the
Germans have secretly reached perfection
in science of which other nations have
not as yet mastered the rudiments.
The first of these astonishing assertions
| is not only with reference to the progress
of the German air-ships against the wind,
but with regard to their ability to remain
stationary when the wind is blowing. The
most enthusiastic eronauts of other
countries have hardly got further than to
claim that certain materials and power
might be found that would propel
a flying machine in the direction
contrary to the current of air
in which it sails. Yet here it is asserted
that the Germans have not only accom-
plished all that the rest Of the world has
hoped for, but have attained such practical
exactitude in its use that on their first
public appearance they can so balance the
new power against the force of the wind
as to come to dead halt That is diff
cult feat to accomplish in steam naviga-
tion after two generations Of use, while
sailing vessels after centuries of scientific
practice are scarcely able to prevent drift
ing while coming to a halt.
An even more remarkable assertion is
that with regard to the use of the search
light. The search light implies electric
power, and electric power implies stor-
age battery. But storage batteries in
other countries are so heavy that their use
to propel wheeled motors is of doubtful
economy. We are therefore driven to the
inference that the Germans have got air
ships that can not only carry the operators,
but in addition transport a weight meas
ured by the thousands Of pounds. The
only alternative to this is to suppose that
German science has discovered some
means Of storing a powerful light without
a weight corresponding to its power.
1t these statements are true the rest of
the world must take off its cap to Ger
many in a scientific as well as military
sense. But before doing so tine majority
of expert opinion may prefer to await
more authoritative explanations of the
size, shape and propulsion of the vessels,
and an adequate explanation Of Germany's
premature disclosure of her wonderful
secret
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
Obituary Notes.

Mr.. RYAN, President of the New Brunswick
Legislative Council, is dead.
JOHN E. THAYER, one of the oldest jockeys of
the turf. is dead at his home in Camden of pneu-
monta.
THE Duchess of Pastrana, Spain, who has just
died. has bequeathed the greater part of her
nous fortune to the Jesutts.
ISAAC T. MILLsPAUGH, fireman of the first loco
motive operated in Illinois, died yesterday at
Joliet, H., of paralysis, aged y.
FRANK WEsTAwAY, a musician and comedian
is dead at his home in Detroit. aged % years. He
had been on the stage since 1888.
ETHEL PRESTIGE, daughter of the well-known
actress Fanny B. Prestige died in St. Paul several
days ago, aged 10. She had been on the stage sew
eral years.
COLONEL CHARLES F.THoMPsoN, aged SO years.
died Friday at Pluma Junction. near Deadwood
He a leader of the South Dakota Democracy,
and was wealthy.
MRS. MARY RIoRDAN, mother of Archbishop
Riordan. of San Francisco. died yesterday of old
age in Chicago. She was 81 years of age and was
one of Chicagos Oldest settlers.
JUDGE GEORGE N. LESTER, Attorney General Of
Georgia. is dead. He was Confederate soldier
and had held many positions OF prominence. He
was in the Confederate Congress.
DR.. j. W. RUSSELL one of the oldest and best
known homeopathic physicians in Eastern Ohio
died Yesterday afternoon at East Liverpool. He
born at Emlenton Pa. and was IS years Of age.
JUDGE JOHN w. NowLIN. who resigned from
the bench several months ago on account of falling
II
Thursday morning Judge Nowlin was an able
jurist and prominent leader in the Democratic
party.
ALFRED NEDDo, an acrobat and manager, is
dead at his home in Providence, aged 81. He had
been OH the stage sincs 1883. and had been a stage
manager acrobat, roller skater ard circus per-
former. The Actors Fund betrayed the funeral
expenses.
PROF. E. G. BUCKLY, noted horse trainer, is
dead in Chicago, at the age of IS. He a de-
scendant of the famous family of horse tanners of
that name and at one time had one of the finest
troupes of trained horses in the country. He had
Travelled largely through the West.
REV DANIEL F. BUCHER, a prominent minister
of the Methodist Church, and one of the weathiest
in Adams county. died at his home
Abbottsuown last evening. aged II years. He had
left the ministry and gone into other pursuits be-
ing shrewd and very successful business man.
COLONEL CHARLES FREDERICK THOMPSON died
suddenly Thursday at Deadwood, S. D.. of heart
failure, aged So. He was born in Pennsylvania in
1925. but was reared in Wisconsin, where he lived
until 1870, when he came to the Black Hills, He
was member Of the Wisconsin Legislature in 1868
and 1862 and was nominated by the reform move.
ment to Congress in 1874 but was defeated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02

to restrain themselves from leaking, they
are unable to find any other way to mark
their disapprovai of the general leakiness
than by turning Mr.. Young into scape-
goat
Nevertheless, it does not follow that the
proposed course is the only one to take.
If the dignified Senators will impartially
view the subject they will see that the ul-
tirnate cause of the disclosure of the secret
was the executive session. If there had
been no secrets no one could have be-
trayed them; and that no one would have
been the worse if the executive session
had been conducted in public is plainly
shown by the fact that not the slightest
injury has been done by the publication Of
the secrets. Let the Senate, instead Of
dismissing Mr.. Young, dismiss the execu-
tive session, and it will hit the real culprit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
DYNAMITERS IN PARIS.

In Paris the art of being legislator is in
separately interviewer and combined with
the art of dodging dynamite bom0s.-ChicagO
Nesos.
If dynamite Is to become the favorite
weapon in Paris the French duel will soon
be deadly affair and will speedily 90 out of
fashion.-Chtcago Tribune
THE French anarchists are getting in their
work with deadly effect. 1t would not take
a great many dynamite affairs like that re-
ported in the dispatches this morning to
make Paris ruin.-Detron Free Press.
THE dynamitards in Paris are showing an
amount of energy and q careful attention to
business which would easily put them in
the position of dynamitees if they turned
their attention to productive work.-Chicago
Nail
THOSE dynamiters who have established a
reign of terror in Paris would not be long at
large if they attempted such things in any
big city in this country. They do some
things better in the United States.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
WE are in position to advise France how
to deal with anarchisn. The mere profess
sion of anarchist sympathies should place a
man beyond the pale of the law and expose
him to execution without trial.-N Y. Com
nercidL Advertiser.
THERE is nothing strange in the alleged
discovery that the French anarchists are
preparing to resort to poison in place of
dynamite when they can in order to 'tre-
move Objectionable people," When an
archists are found with manly weapons in
their hands it will be time for surprise
Brooklyn Citizen.
JUST now the real old dynamite anarchists,
who explode the genuine stuff, seem to have
captured and terrorized Paris 1t would be
a good idea for the Partisan authorities to
hunt them down like rats and wipe them
out Fiends in human shape have no claim
to the liberation of authortty.-Ml?naedpoti
T0ur1ndL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
THE SEAL SITUATION.
Editor Dana Says Uncle Sam Has Certainly
Backed Down.
New York Sun.l

New York Sun.l
The arbitration treaty respecting our al
legged rights in Bering Sea was ratified by
the Senate on Tuesday. 1t provides for
tribunal or seven arbitrators, two to be ap-
pointed by the President two by the British
Government, one by the President of the
French Republic, one by the King of Italy,
and one by the King of Sweden and Norway.
Each arbitrator will thus be the representa-
tive of a maritime power. The questions to
be determined by the tribunal are in these
words:
First-What exclusive jurisdiction in the sea
known as the Bering Sea. and what exclusive
rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia as
sert and exercise prior and up to the time of the
cession of Alaska to the United States?
Second-How far were these claims OF jurlsdc-
ton as to the seal fisheries recognized and con-
ceded by Great Britain?
Third-Was the body of water now known as the
Bering Sea included In the phrase Pacific Ocean. -
as used in the treaty of 1875 between Great Britain
and Russia. and what rights. if any, in the Ber-
ing Sea were held and exclusively exercised by
Russia after saic treaty?
Fourth-Did not all the rights of Russia as to
jurisdiction and as to the seal fisheries In Ber1ng
Sea east of the water boundary in the treaty be-
tween the United States and Russia OF the Both Of
March, 1867. pass unimpaired to the United states
under that treaty?
Fifth-Has the United States any righ1. and. if
fur seals frequenting the islands of the United
States in Bering Sea when such seals are found out
side of the ordinary three-mile limit.
From the decision of the tribunal there is
to be no appeal, and it is to be binding upon
both the United States and England. As the
tribunal is constituted it is morally certain
that every essential point in the five ques-
tions, except the fourth, will be decided
against the United States. In other words,
the effect of the treaty is to abandon all the
claims that have been put forth by the Gov
ernment of the United States since the seals
first became subject of controversy. This
truth must be perfectly familiar, not only to
the authors and negotiators OF the treaty.
but to all the Senators who have voted to
ratify it. They have voted in substance to
surrender the right our Government has
hitherto claimed, to protect the seals of Ber-
ing Sea against poachers outside of the three
mile limit.
The treaty, with all its ceremonies and
formalities, is accordingly nothing but an
elaborate and pompous remuneration of what
the people of this country have been led to
regard as q valuable right acquired with
the purchase of Alaska.
Can anybody tell us what has been gained
by taking so tremendous a method of ma k
ing this acknowledgement, and of backing
down from an assumption upon which only
q few days ago we were preparing to stand
and fight?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
TIE SENsTES DILEMMA

The resolution of the Senate to mark its
disapproval of the leaking out of the Sc
crcts Of executive session, with regard to
the Bering Sea correspondence, by dis
missing James r. Young, its executive
clerk, is evidently founded on the same
idea as that with which the man passed
Ground the hat for a collection when the
vessel was going down. Something must
Nhe done, and the Senate does not clearly
sEe its way TO doing anything better. This
is the natural result of the dilemma in
which the learned Senators find them
selves. Being charged to the point of
saturation with the secrets of the execu-
tive session. and being moreover unable
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
IDYLLIC HUMoREsoUEs.

I
First Shade "a concert goer whlle on
earth)-Nha nat are 'hose "onorouS harihohleS 1
near!
second ohade-Ihat Is the mnslc Oh the spner's.
First Shade-It is divine! What piano do they
auNe
lie VINO Woulo Thrive snould rise a1 nFes
but I've notced. now ana then.
That the millionaire don't take the air
Much carrier tnan ten.
-br'cH"'H'-
"Say, Dudikins, whv do YOU write your
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
HALF A CENTURY IN TRANSIT.
The Time It Took Letter to Go From
Mobile to Kalamazoo.

KALAMAZOO, MICH, April L-James Nc
Nabb, of this city, has just received a letter
that was written by his brother from Mobile.
Ala, December 29 1s4O The letter was for
warded from Caledonia, Livingstone county.
n. Y, to which place it was originally adj
dressed. but there was no explanation as to
where the missive had been for these 81
years.
The writer of the letter died three years
years ago, and every one mentioned in the
epistle except Mr.. McNabb is dead. The
velopes and WHEN it cost % cents to send a
letter. the money being paid by the re-
cipient-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
Campbell Captivates tho East.

Ex-Governor Campbel's opening speech in
Rhode Island fully sustained the reputation
won by him in the magnificent canvass last
year in Ohio as the best stump speaker In
the country. Others may be more eloquent
in the oratorical sense, but for 'capturing''
an audience and making telling points in the
most effective way Governor Campbell is
unsurpassed. 1t is good thing for the East
to become acquainted with the bright and
breezy way in which Western Democrat
gets at the hearts and impresses the minds
of the people. And nobody can do it better
than James E. Campbell.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
Samuel s. Meauor.

Samuel S. Meanor, SO years of age, was
buried yesterday at Sharon Church from his late
home at Stoop's Ferry. The deceased was born in
Allegheny county. He member of the
Forty-niners who went to California. and he was
delegate to the organization of the Republican
party in LAFAYETTE Hail. Pittsburg. He was char
ter member of Dexter Lodge of Odd Fellows,
ganized in 1870 and the Acme Shoustown and
Coraopos lodges in body attended the funeral.
Coroner Mcdowell acted as marshal of the lodges.
He leaves wife and six grown children.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Prof. Lemuel Stephens.

Lemuel Stephens, Professor Emeritus
of Girard College. died in Philadelphia. Friday.
25th ult. He Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Sciences In the Western University, in this
city, for five years. from 1SH, when he went to
GIrard College. He was there for So years. He
will be remembered by many of Pittsburg's citi-
zens who had the privilege of coming under the
instruction of man of such ripe knowledge.
dead professor. He died at the age of Y, and was
buried at Plymouth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02

places vacated by the rerirement Of his
predecessor. Senator Chiffon He will thus
be member Of the Committees on Coast
Defenses, Mines and Mining, Patents, and
Postoff1ces and Postroads. Senator Mills
also appointed as his private secretary
O'Brien Moore, the head OF the Washington
bureau Of the st. Louis Republic. Mr.. Moore
was one of Mr.. Mills most earnest sup
porters during the Speakership contest, and
one of his most tnconsolable friends after
his defeat, and his appointment is regarded
as graceful tribute for his loyalty to the
Texas leader.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
TRIED A MADsTONE's CHARMS
1t Works Strangely on an Arm Bitten by
Vicious Canine.

IT works Strangely on an Arm Bitten by q
Vicious Canine.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, April l.-Herman E.
Shwear. who was bitten in the arm by q
vicious dog Monday, to-day returned from
Terre Haute. where he went to have the
famous maidstone, owned by Mrs. Peiner,
applied to the wound. He comes back firm
believer in the efficacy of the treatment.
When the stone was first applied it re-
manned firmly attached to his arm for four
hours and 40 minutes, when it dropped OIL.
second application of one hour and a third
Of 80 minutes was made, but the stone did
not take the same hold, having apparently
absorbed all the virus The sensa tion while
the maidstone was absorbing the poison was
stone was afterward placed in milk. which
extracted the poison from it. This has tho
appearance of water with a sediment of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02

THE infant seeking to instruct maternal
ancestor Of the second remove in the art Of
abstracting nourishment through a small
aperture in an eggshell should be sup
pressed. But the precocity Of youth Of
9years vino seeks to extinguish his grand
maternal relatives vital fame is as alarm
ing as it is extraordinary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02

1t is to be hoped that some one of the
Montana horse-thief Denomination e1pedi-
tion is gifted with literary inclinations, for
there is promise of wild adventure and ex-
citing incident which should afford enter
tanning and romantic reading.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-02
GOVERNOR MCKINLEY is doing yeom;

GOVERNOR MCKINLEY is doing yeoman
service for the party of protection in Little
Rhody. The battle raging there shows
plainly that the tariff is to be the main issue
of the national campaign. The prestige of
the first notable victory of the year is worth
fighting for, too, and with such able advo-
Gates OF protective tariff as Messrs. Nc
Kinley and Aldrich in the field it is not hard
to pick out the winners.