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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
sTRAINING AT THE GNAT.

There is an undue tendency to hyper
criticism in the action of the House Of
Representatives cutting down the State
Departments contingent funds, on the plea
that that payment of $4,000 in the Italian
dispute should not have been made with
out authority of Congress. When political
opposition leads to raising such trivial
point it creates an inference that it is ex-
ceedingly hard up for something to
criticise.
The very name Of the fund from which
the payment is made shows that it is
placed at the disposition of the President,
to be used for unforeseen contingencies in
international matters. To use portion of
it in making small payment to settle
dispute that was hampering the Govern
ment in more ways than one seems to be
entirely within its proper scope. This is
especially so, since to delay the payment
for an appropriation by Congress with the
chance of its being made political stalk
ing horse by the opposition might have
defeated the settlement
The fact is that vexatious dispute
which brought into especial prominence
one of our weaknesses as diplomatic
power was settled at an extremely cheap
price. The attack on that step shows a
disposition to strain over a gnat in foreign
matters, while camels of a domestic nature
are swallowed without winking
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
RESTRICTION NECESSARY.

The action of the Immigration Bureau
in requiring its Inspectors to obtain statis-
tics as to the number of immigrants be-
coming charge on the public in one way
or another is highly commendable. Such
statistics are indispensable to the framing
of such measures as shall exclude unde-
sirable immigrants while permitting the
entrance of those classes for whom there
is still demand. Some action must GER
tainly be taken to remove existing evils,
but it must be we'll considered or the
remedy will prove worse than the disease.
Pittsburgis is excellently fitted as source
of information on the career of immigrants,
as the influx of foreigners makes this city
at the same time great gamer and large
loser by the present system of immigra-
tion. The best method of dealing with
the matter, as suggested by THE DIS
PATH, is the taxing of steamship compan-
les according to the number of passengers
they carry, in order to form a fund to in
sure the public against any expense
which the foreigners are liable to become
without such provision. Such facts as
are now being gathered should easily pro-
vide the basis for such scheme.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
REMEMBER THE YOUNG,

Deeply mistaken though he is on some
questions of the greatest national impor-
tance, Grover Cleveland is in one direction
at least far more perspicuous than any
man approaching him in prominence be-
fore the country. He has a peculiarly
happy faculty of realizing the immense
demand for a patriotic training of the
youth of America. His speech at Ann
Arbor contained words of the soundest
advice, and he lets slip no opportunity Of
emphasizing the importance of instilling
the duties Of citizenship into the minds
and consciences of the rising generation.
Apropos of a national public school cele-
bration of Columbus Day he asserts that
public schools ''are the greatest feature of
American life"
He is right in this, and it should be con-
stantly borne in mind that schooldays give
greater opportunities for the reception of
national sentiment than can ever occur in
later life. The responsibilities accruing to
this fact cannot be too fully acknowledged
and lived up to by those who have in hand
the rearing of Young America. Parents
can show no wiser patriotism than by set
ting an example to their children in the
proper discharge of their civic duties by
drilling them in national principles, and
by using their every effort to see that true
love of country and respect for its institu-
tions take place of prominence in pub
lie school education.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
CONVENTION SrRAWS.

As to the nominations at Springf1eld-but
what's the difference.-htcago Tribune
(Rep.).
THAT "anti-snap" convention in New York
will put razor edge on every tomah ahawk in
the camp OF the Tammany braves.-St Louis
Globe Democrat (Rep.).
THIS is the month of the New York Demo-
cratic White Elephant Convention. Senator
Hill holds the leading strap of the animal
that was given first prize.-Jotiet Journal
(Rep).
DELEGATES to the Springfield Convention,
while admitting that they are free-born
American citizens, confess that they are
subject to the rule of one man. And that's
what Hertz.-Chtcago Nail.
A GOOD many enthusiastic delegates
walked to the State Convention of the Peo-
pies party in Maine. The Republicans will
do their walking after the early part OF No.
vember in this particular year of grace
Detroit Free Press (Dem)
WITH uninstructed delegates from New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts,,
Maine and Colorado, the Minneapolis Con-
vention will not be devoid of interest. There
will be plenty of room to play politics.
Chicago Inter- Ocean (Rep).
WYOMING g female delegate to the Minne-
apolis Convention Is said to be charming in
appearance, but has little to say. A Repub-
lican National Convention will at least have
something material ut which to point with
pride. ."-CleueIand Plain Dealer (Dena).
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
FRIDAY, MAY G. 1892.
TWELVE PAGES
AN Unjust MEASURE.

President Harrison has signed the
Geary Chinese Exclusion Bill as amended
by the Joint committee. While the bill
has lost many of its Objectionable features
by the action of the Senate, it still con-
tains provisions which are unjust and sure
to cause friction between America and
China The clause likely to cause most
objection is that requiring all Chinese
laborers now resident in this country to
obtain certificate of residence from Col
lectors of internal Revenue. Though the
term ''laborers'' is popularly supposed to
apply only to limited class, dictionaries
would warrant a stretching of the word
to include all who work either by their
muscles, their brains, or both. The re-
quirement goes behind the conditions un-
der which the Chinese were admitted, and
is distinct abrogation of past treaties.
That there are reasons for limiting the
Influx Of Cinnamon is indisputable, but
there is no justice in discriminating
against Objectionable immigrants Of one
nation while admitting those equally un-
desirable from other countries. The
jeopardizing of American interests in
China, whether in the form of life and
limb of American residents or in the risk
Of a cessation of commercial intercourse,
is the height of reprehensible folly. A
policy that risks international courtesy
for vote-catching purposes is of a dis
honorable kind and unworthy the name of
craftsmanship.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
Mr. Bese's Explanation.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In your issue of May you publish an item
entitled "Put Himself on Record Will you
kindly publish the following statement Of
facts in regard to the matter:
On February 5 compromised with the
city in court, in accordance with the wishes
OF my wife. February 1 engaged D. E.
Sheridan, architect, to make plans and sneci-
fications to remove and remodel said houses,
and on March 20 1 received a notice from
Street Commissioner Samuel T. Paisley to re-
move said distractions in ten days. On
March "a / received in payment from the
city 81. .73S 15. Up to that time several con-
tractors submitted bids for the removing
and remodeling of said buildings. did not
obtain possession of the building which was
destroyed until April ]. On April was
compelled to bring suit to obtain possession
for another house which had to be removed.
On April II obtained possession of this
house. On April II the city authorities, not
by carpenters, but by street scrapers, de-
stroyed my house. On April 13 Mr.. Bgelow
assured me that they would not touch the
remaining houses, but give me time to re-
move them. April 16 the contract for re-
moving and remodeling all the houses was
to be awarded. 1t was impossible for me to
obtain possession of all the premises until
April IL. The city authorities destroyed one
of the houses on April II. appeal to public
opinion if it was reasonable to demand the
removal of a building 2Sx52 feet in one night,
and if it does not look as ii somebody had 1t
in for me. F. BEsE.
P1TrsBuRG May 5.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
THE Law OF RuSINESS

Mr.. A. J. Cassatt, in the North american
ReUteac for May, inquiries why the cheap
cab system of the European cities cannot
be brought into use in America He finds
that in London IL, 900 cabs earn an average
of five dollars per day on an average
charge of fifty cents per trip, while in
Paris 10000 earn the same daily average on
an average charge of forty cents per trip.
But in New York there are but 1,500 pub
lie carriages which make an average
charge of dollar per trip and earn an
estimated average of seven dollars per dav.
Such an inquiry from a gentleman of
Mr.. CasSatt's standing shows failure to
recognize the tendency of the day. When
great capitalists are combining to prevent
the necessaries of life and the transporta-
ton of commerce from being brought
down to competitive level, shall not the
hackman have the privilege of keeping up
his high charges? When the ethics of cor
porate management include the violation
of public policy and the notification of
law to prevent sugar, coal and light from
becoming cheap, it is mild adoption of
the fashion that the drivers of city convey
ances should turn up the nose of contempt
at the pauper cabs of Europe
So longas the great staples are to be made
costly by combinations of capital, it is
mild example of the law of compensation
that people who permit these things have
to pay steep charges for riding in hired
carriages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
BOSTON SPIRITS,

That Boston ladies are prone to theoso-
ply, esoteric Buddhism, and occult sci
ences which deal with spirits has long
been known to inhabitants of less enIight-
ened regions. But the announcement
that "a gorgeously fitted up liquor sa-
loon, exclusively for ladies' has been
opened in Boston, and is being literally
advertised" as made by the Boston Neaos,
comes as terrific shock to the ears of
people of less refined surroundings
Surely there is some error in the word
ing. Liquor saloon" should be replaced
by title more obscure and less vulgar.
The very highest aspirations of the nation,
as hitherto upheld by the learned women
of the center of the universe, are in danger
of falling into disrepute. 1t is impossible
to believe that the devotees of learning
and the arts, to say nothing of the
exemplars Of the graces, should condescend
to even permit the liberal advertisement
of such a place designed for their exclusive
patronage. There must be some error,
and it will probably turn out that the
place is really spirit chamber, OF some
thing intellectual of that kind. But the
error should be exposed and apoIogized for
by the mistaken News, or the fair fame of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
Social Chatter.

TOMORROW evening will bring to n close
the German Lutheran Evangelical fair that
has been so successfully carried on all this
week In Old City Hall. good musical pro-
gramme will be presented, and 1t is expected
that the German element of the two cities
will be largely represented on the occasion.
LAST evening the fourth annual tea and re.
ception of the Lady Gladstone Lodge No. 20,
Order of Daughters of st. George, took place
in new Turner Hall, Southside. There was
q large attendance and great deal of
pleasure for every one.
TOMORROW afternoon the one hundredth
Carnegie free organ recital will be given in
Carnegie Hall. Allegheny. Mr.. Ecker has
prepared Il particularly strong programme
for the occasion.
THE Carnegie Musical Society will give n
vocal and instrumental concert in Carnegie
Hall, Allegheny. next Tuesday evening. A
good programme has been prepared.
THE Allegheny General Hospital promises
to reap goodly benefit from "Belshazzar,"
judging by the large audience it has been
drawing every night at the Alvin.
Mr.. AND MRS. WILLIAM J. MoCANcE, nee
Hodge, the bride of two weeks ago, have
issued at home cards for tomorrow Their
residence is 1T Edgewcod.
THB annual meeting of the Children's Aid
Society of Allegheny county, will be held
this afternoon in the Dispensary building, at
4:30 o'clock.
The sixth annual meeting Of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary Society of
Pennsylvania was held yesterday in Nc
Keesport-
A CHARMINGLT appointed MONDAY lunch
con was given yesterday by Mrs. Theodore
Hostetter at her home, Western avenue, Al
1egheny.
The last of Madame Howard's Meister-
singer lecture-recitals was given last even
ing at the Pennsylvania College for Women.
LAST evening a concert, followed by a ball,
was given under the auspices OF the German
Verein at the rooms, Penn avenue.
Miss MARY SPEER entertained Is ladies' at
luncheon ut the Duquesne Club yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
the wearers of indigo hose will suffer
throughout the world.
IMPROVEMENT NEEDED ALL RoUN1

IMPROVEMENT NEEDED ALL ROUND.
The facts relative to an increase in fire
insurance rates in Pittsburg, as given in
another column, are in startling contrast
to the following remarks from the New
York Commercial Bulletin:
The recent Pittsburg fire reminds under
writers that this particular cemetery for fire
underwriting funds has done nothing in the
line OF rate raising, although tariffs there are
notoriously inadequate.
Underwriters make out good case for
themselves with regard to the increase OF
rates on business property, though their
arguments from the amount of losses are
equally effective on behalf of the estab-
lishment and maintenance of salvage
corps by their employers. Insurance COM
panies who intrust local business to their
agents are surely illogical in disregarding
or opposing the opinions of their repre-
sentatives, who are best qualified from a
knowledge of the circumstances to esti-
mate local needs and whose recommenda-
tions for salvage corps are supported by
the precedents of other cities.
The fact pointed out by The DISPATCH
OiiO OGiCI ddyy ouhb 1dtSo VII
houses are two or three times as high as
those on similar property in Philadelphia,
although losses in that direction have been
very small, still calls for explanation.
There is an apparent injustice which de-
mands investigation, for it is manifestly
unfair that householders should be exor-
bitantly charged in order that heavy losses
in business sections may be compensated.
While it is evident that insurance COM
panieS have not done all that is to be eX-
pected of them, there is also no doubt
room for an improvement in the appli-
ances used by our Fire Department The
welfare of Pittsburg demands liberal ap-
preparations for its protection from fire no
less than a thoroughly business like and
efficient application of the same. In this
matter, as in most others, economy de-
pends on the relation of results to expendi-
lures more than on the mere amounts ex-
Dended
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
PICKINGs FROM PUCK.

He (planning an elopement)-And at 12
YOU sneak quietly out OF the house and meet me st
the corner. 1 won't have carriage. as we nust
be as economical as possible.
she-on, I've made papa promise to pay for the
carriage, George!
He got a message from his wife.
1t knocked him off his pins.
With tears of JOY he read these words:
''Instead of trIplets, twins"
Bridget (new acquisition in a Boston
household)-Does the mantel want to be busted.
mum?
Mrs. Emerson-Inanimate objects cannot wasn't
ANYTHING, Bridget: but wish the mantel busted.
Pray, be careful OF the Yahses.
The grocer's the tailor's, the milliner's dun,
And things that distress us. all come a run;
" hile the gifts we're awaiting to add to our Joy
Are most always brought by messenger boy.
Peckham-The devil is an enigma to me.
Stickney-How sog
Peckham-With such a bad name as he has, and
such Legislature as the one just adjourned, why
he didn't get 1t changed.
Two pairs of lips just meeting
noise outside the door
1.-TWO persons quickly separate
As they would meet no more.
1t proves to be a false alarm
Two persons as before.
Miss Redbud-My mother tells me-,
Colonel, that you are a great traveller.
Colonel Alpenstock-Yes: Miss Redbud. sines
the war have done little else.
Miss Redbud dmpressively)-I presume that ""
what started you off.
Soon will each champion pugilist
Find II necessary
To bounce his trainer and employ
private secretary.
Kirby Stone-I won't be home to dinner
to-day. my dear. Job Lott has invited a dozen Of
us to a discharging bee at his house. tonight.
Mrs. Stone-DischarRing bee? What's that?
Kirby stone-He wants to tell his seryantr
that she's got to leave,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
NEWSPAPERS NOT TO BLAME.
Why the Church Attend ,nce Is Not Salts
factory to the Shepherds.

Why the Church Attend ince Is Not Salts
factory to the Shepherds.
Pittsburg Times.l
Two million people in the United States
read Sunday newspapers. This is the esti-
mate made by Colonel Mcclure of the Phila-
delphia Times. and he is a fairly trustworthy
authority. The effect of this reading is
great, but whether good or bad need not be
discussed. Assuming it to be bad, as the
Presbyterian Banner of this week does, when
quoting Colonel McClure's figures, the ques-
tion arises:
Supposing these papers all suppressed,
what do those who favor the suppression OF
them propose to offer in place of them?
Sermons? One hundred and fifty thousand
people in the two cities of Pittsburg and AL
legbeny arc said to be non-church-goers.
They would continue such If not Sunday
newspaper could be had west of the Allie
ghenies. Thousands of these people do not
more than glace at the papers, and many do
not even that.
The trouble is not in the Sunday newspa-
pers. 1t began before they did. 1t began
with the cheap literature, and will continue
SO long as literature is cheap-and the aver
age sermon what Is it now.
What is q sermon? A speech on a certain
subject. 1t would be easy to name subjects
and men who would draw thronging cong re-
cations every Sunday in the year. The men
would not be Ingersolls nor the subjects
agnostic, either. The men would be alive,
and likewise their subjects. Now, candidly
read the list of church announcements In
the Saturday papers and say If either
preacher or subjects are alive. Is n young
man, and many are young until three score.
going to leave good novel, an attractive
history, an engaging poem, to walk to
church and hear o speech on one OF these
subjects?
But going to church is not merely to hear
a sermon. 1t is to worship. Pardon, that
is what it used to be. There Is no use flout-
ing the fact that religion now is almost eX-
stone compared this age with the palmy age
of the Greeks when they ceased to pray and
began to inquire. He aSsuredly Is right, and
that is the fact which the churches have to
face, and not the Sunday newspapers. Do
they expect to successfully face it with the
sermons and subjects which the Saturday
newspapers announcer 1t appears so, and
therefore the chaos
The people like good sermons and will go
to hear them, whether they be on doctrinal
matters or merely those OF practical moral
1ty. Any preacher who car furnish such
will have hearers. There are some in Pitts
burg who do The age demands 1.-Two men III
alive A. century ago people sat piously
under the droppings of the santuary. very
few do now, or if they do, they fall asleep.
What churches need are preachers who
know the thought of the time, who recoy-
nize it, who have the ability to deal with it
need is supplied the non-church-going
class in the cities, which give character to
the intellectual and moral lire of the time,
Will grow apace in number and influence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
ARGuMENTuM AID PECuNIAM

An inquiry into the view by which the
business interests of Sioux Falls look at
the divorce industry of that thriving town
arouses unfavorable comment in the New
York Post That journal finds striking
evidence of depravity in the fact that the
revenue which the fame of the place for
sure and swift divorce is bringing in
causes the people benefited to regard it
with complaisance if not with enthusiasm.
One prominent suitor for divorce made a
prosperous season for the business inter-
ests by spending SO, 600 while waiting for
the favorable decree, besides making lib
eral gifts to the churches, and her new
husband also made the money market
easy. Consequently, the inquiring cor
respondent finds one lawyer declaring
that the notoriety secured by the attacks
On Sioux Falls does no harm, as sit adver-
tises us abroad and brings. thousands of
dollars here" and the popular temper of
that locality is exhibit ed by the fact that
correspondent who wrote scorching
attack OH the divorce business was
promptly invited to leave town.
1t is sad to learn that the, people who
make money by gross abuse of this
sort should find plenty of those stereo-
typed phrases by which to relieve their
innermost conviction that a thing which
swells the total of sales must be on the
whole tolerably good thing There is
something familiar about those pet terms
of bringing money here, spending thou
sands of dollars among the local mer-
chants, and the popular indignation at
any attack on the general vested interest.
These expressions, common to the wor-
ship of the pecuniary deity, awaken in the
mind memories of similar arguments from
other localities and with regard to other
things. Of course, they have never been
heard of in New York. The esteemed
Post would never be guilty of compound
ing the sins it is inclined to by damning
those it has no mind to. 1t would not
point the finger of scorn at Sioux Falls
for letting pecuniary motives influence
opinion, while using exactly the same,
though, perhaps, more skilfully wrapped
up logic with regard to combinations to
enhance the necessaries of life, to inject
values into dropsical stock, and to swell
the fortunes of manipulators of stock
gambling. Nevertheless, we repeat the
phrases havea familiar ring.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06

THE Archbishop of Canterbury believes
in throwing open museums and public build
ings on Sunday alter church hours.
PROF. BRANDER MATHEWS is not
handsome, but he is good ana he is admired.
He likes to write about the theater and
actors.
The ex-rancher, the Marquis de Mores,
denies that he is an Anarchist: he defines
his position as that of revolutionary So
cialist.
The name of the Postmaster General of
Siam is Somdetch Phra Chow Fa Bhaumangst
Swauguvusga Kooma Phra Bhaunhadda-
roongsee Vavadey.
GALUSHA A. GROW, who was once
Speaker of the House, has announced his
desire to be selected as the Permanent Chair
man of the Minneapolis convention.
QUEEN NATHALIE, of Servia, has finer
head OF hair than any other feminine royal
parsonage in Europe. She generally wears
IT hanging in two plaits down her back.
Miss IRENE G. WOOD has taught school
in Cochesett, Mon, without interruption In
the same room during a period of 72 con-
secative years. She is now taking her first
vacation.
In order to comply with some legal
formality. the marriage of Mrs. Dewolf Tay-
lor, an American, to Mr.. Austin Lee, Secre-
tary of the British Embassy here, has been
postponed for few days.
THE engagement of Count Herbert Bis
marck and the Countess Margaret Hoyas is
announced from Fiume. The Countess is
the granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, in
ventor of the Whitehead torpedo.
HUGO MUNsTERBURG, NJ D., Phi D., of
Freiburg, Germany, has been elected to pro-
fessorship in philosophy of Harvard Col
lege. He will have charge of experiments
in psychological research for advanced stu
dents.
MR.. BoUGUEREAU, the famous French
painter, is said to make more money than
any other living French artist. Specimens
of his somewhat artificial, though delicate,
talent are to be found in the drawing rooms
and galleries of most American millionaires