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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
MORAL OBLIGATIONS AND LEGAL.

The assertion is made by the Baltimore
San that for men of business there are
obligations apart from those enforced by
the law which are "even more binding,
although there is no recognized court in
which to enforce them" The moral obli-
CATION of the strong to protect the weak,
of the rich to care for the poor, are speci-
fed as among those imposed by the spirit
both of Christianity and civilization.
This is good morality, but it fails to solve
the social problem for two reasons: First,
obligations for which there are no methods
of enforcement give an advantage to those
that choose to ignore and violate them.
Second, the reliance upon moral obliga-
tion does not touch the real source of our
social differences, namely, that the great
examples of egregious wealth-the for
tunes counted by the scores of millions
are also examples of gigantic and sys-
tematic denial of legal obligations. The
case in which the Constitution of the
State and the DEGREES of our courts were
defied in order to enhance certain corpo-
rate interests is but an example of the
kind. Varied by the methods of discrimi-
nation, combinations TO raise prices, con-
struction company contracts, stock ma
nipulation from the inside, corners in
stocks controlled by select few, and the
floating of fictitious stock, we have in all
of them the distinctive feature of wealth
gained by methods in all cases obnoxious
to the theory of our laws, and in many
directly in defiance of the legal enact
mentS.
1t is matter of demonstration from the
financial history of the past few years
that if the spirit of our laws had been
faithfully observed the necessity of in
sisting on the moral obligation of the rich
to care for the poor would have been very
much lessened by the fact that wealth
would have been more equally distributed.
II will be millennial achievement to get
men to recognize their moral obligations;
but much more pressing problem is that
of making everyone, rich or poor, respect
his legal obligations
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
rIrT-RURG. WEDNESDAY. AUeUsrs 5 ,sgz
TWELVE PAGES
CHICAGO,S EXAMPLE.

Pittsburg should take notice that Chi
cago has proceeded in the matter of abat-
ing the smoke nuisance to the length of
enforcing an ordinance which imposes a
fine on users of bituminous coal who do
not so construct their chimneys and fur
naces as to consume the smoke. While
Pittsburg is fitfully discussing the matter
and a portion of our citizens are refusing
to acknowledge that smoke can be con-
sumed in the face of actual demonstration,
Chicago is abating the nuisance.
The effect of the Chicago ordinance has
been not only to diminish the smoke, but
to stimulate inventions for consuming ii.
A late and very efficient device for con-
suming the smoke by means of steam jets
mixed with air has been put in operation,
demonstrating perfect combustion. But
the important feature of what has been
done in Chicago is the demonstration, not
that smoke can be consumed, but that
owners of boilers can be made to consume
it The first has been proved long ago.
1t is given practical proof daily at score
of places in this city. But the ability to
force those who continue to blacken the
town with their smoke 20 spend the few
hundred dollars necessary for the abolition
of the nuisance is som ething to which
Pittsburg has not yet attained.
Yet this is something that must be done.
Pittsburg is wasting millions of dollars an
nually by the loss from smoke that is en-
tirely preventable If our city is to be
worthy of its possibilities the sooner we
set to work in earnest to abolish the smoke
the better it will be for all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
A COURT ON THE COAL DEAL.

The statement that the Reading COM
bination has scored the first point by the
refusal of the Northampton Court to issue
preliminary injunction may be technica lily
correct, but at the same time the language
of the court leaves the combination with
little to boast of. The court declined to
appoint receiver for the Lehigh Valley
and to issue a preliminary injunction
against the lease, on the distinct ground
that interests of the plaintiffs would not
be injured by the refusal In stating this
fact the court took occasion to remark:
SIT is one of the peculiarities of the case
at bar that the lease was in violation of
the Constitution" and further on the
ruling says:
"We are free to admit that we would
willingly have reached different concIu-
sion,' for the reason that '.the working
men, anxious to work, with families de-
pendent, on their earnings, are being
turned out of their places by scores and
hundreds with as little ceremony and
apparently with as little thought as if
they were so many cattle"
The judicial logic which predicates that
complainants are without grievance
when a lease is made in violation of the
constitution is one of the idiosyncrasies of
the day. The idea is that the complain
ants are not injured because they are
shareholders in the Lehigh Valley road,
and that under the lease their dividends
are kept up. But cannot the judicial
mind, even in the lower courts, rise to the
height of recognizing it as right of share
holders to have their dividends legally
earned, and as an injury to them to have
their property placed i'll an attitude of de-
fance to the constitution?
Apart from this, if the corporate COM
bination wishes to plume itself on winning
a decision which declares it to have vio-
lated the constitution and treated the
working masses like so many cattle, it is
at liberty to do so.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
FAR MORE THAN THAT.

In ridiculing the plank of the Peoples
Party platform that call lands now held
by railroads and other corporations in ex-
be reclaimed by the Government" our es-
teemed cotemporary. the New York San,
makes the assertion that ga railroad is
only a collection of men and women hold
ing railroad stock" This is the view of
the railroad corporations taken by the
journals which are apt with ridicule at
those who see anything to reform in pres
ent conditions. Yet there is no more shall
low view of one of the remarkable crea-
tions of the modern system. A railroad is
corporate entity, holding franchises Gre
ated by the most extreme acts of sover-
eighty and therefore charged with the
highest form of public obligations. By a
mistaken line of judicial decisions for the
last half century it is charged with the
duties and liabilities of public highway.
By the disregard of the obligations created
by its public character it has displayed its
power to raise one man to financial great
ness and to condemn another to business
extinction. In these exertions of the rail-
road power to distribute wealth it may be
noted that the men and women holding
railroad stock do not necessarily assume a
commanding position.
1t is principally important to correct the
very imperfect notion of the public char
acter of railroad expressed by our CO.
temporary. 1t may further be remarked
that no idea is more clearly supported by
all considerations of public policy than
that corporate creation of this sort
should not be permitted to add to its
powers that of great landlord The Peo-
ple's party platform is wild in matters of
sub-treasuries and Government ownership
of railroads; but the words quoted are
good American doctrine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
MKINLKrs BLOW AT FREE TRADE.

MKINLEYS BLOW AT FREE TRADE.
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, yesterday,
sounded pean of Protection which was
as truthful as forcible, and as logical as
brilliant The words which he uttered to
$4,000 people in Nebraska-almost the
geographical center of the land-wlli
reach every corner of this Republic, and
cannot fail to carry conviction wherever
they meet with reasoning readers. He
emphasized the fact that the issue OF this
campaign is more clearly defined between
Protection and Free Trade than ever
heretofore. He showed how the DEM
ocratic party almost went out of its way
at Chicago to express its contemptuous
disregard of American industries. 1t de-
liberately struck out all consideration for
American labor in the discussion which
resulted in the most radical free trade
plank ever adopted in the platform of
party claiming national Importance.
The ridiculous plea that Protection is
unconstitutional is unanswerably refuted,
and the pleaders appear hardly less fool
ish than inconsiderate of national welfare.
Chapter and line are quoted with display
of the opinions of illustrious patriots to
show that the absolute constitutionaiity of
Protection not only is indisputable, but that
it has never been seriously questioned by
loyal American citizens The curious
analogy between this years Democratic
Free Trade plank and the ordinance of null
LITIGATION passed in South Carolina sixty
years ago, together with the Confederate
Constitution of some thirty years past, is
so strikingly pointed out that its mere CO.
incidence becomes an impossibility. And
the Democratic party asks, forsooth, that
the war shall go for nothing and that the
prosperity directly induced by Protection
shall be counted as naught.
But Mr.. Mckinley and the friends of
Protection and American industrial inde-
pendence do not confne themselves to
mere proof of its constitutioLality or
asseverations of its advantages. They
adduce an array of statistical facts which
can be answered by no simple assumptions
of might-bes. They do not confne them
selves to verbal contradictions of the
party of negation and calamity, but ex-
hibit the condition of the country and
trace back its prosperity step by step to
the cause of it all in Protection. The
country can have no excuse for mistaking
the question before it, and must in all
reason again commit itself to Protection
and affiuence, rather than to Free Trade,
false economy and a competition with
European wages that would be ruinous
even to the verge of industrial nullifica-
ton,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
CELEBRITIES IN GLOVER.

JOHN MAHIN has been editor of the
Muscatine, Ia, Journal ever since July II,
1852
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is re-
ferred to nowadays in England as "a man
with a brilliant future behind him."
Mr. CLEVELAND writes all his letters
between 10 o'clock at night and 2o'clock in
the morning. This habit the ex-President
contracted at the White House.
The Duke of Manchester surprised his
physicians by evidence of vitality when it
was supposed that his death was matter of
a few hours. He slept well night before last
and took food yesterday morning.
QUEEN LILLINOKALANI, of Hawaii, has
only an allowance of 81 900 u year, and on
that income a woman can cut a pretty wide
swath in Honolulu without having creditors
bothering about their little bills.
Mr.. GLADsToNE'S condition was so
greatly improved yesterday morning that
he rose from his bed at II o'clock and joined
his secretary in his study. Acting under lis
PHYSICIANS advice, however, he remained
indoors.
BARON HIRsCH is coming to America.
He is now completely restored to health,
and, according to Paris letter in one of the
local Hebrew newspapers, the famous phi
lanrhropist intends to spend several months
in this country.
KARL EMIL FRANCIS, the brilliant
German novelist, is middle aged, with large
dark eyes. square forehead, sparse black
hair, Hebrew features and stout figure. Herr
Frances best works ale "For the Right" and
"The Chief Justice"
NINE. MARCHEsI, the celebrated teacher
of singing, is something OF a cosmopolitan,
as she was born in Germany, educated in
England, married an Italian and lives in
France while her financial success has been
due in no small part to the American dollar.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK and his
bride are to live in Austria, if a rumor from
Vienna is correct. The parents of the
Countess are said to have inspected the cas-
tie of Radkersburg, in Styria, beautiful es-
tate, with view to buying it for the newly
married couples.
THE man of modern times is Hans Won
Buelow, who is endowed with an extraor-
dinary musical memory. He directs many
orchestral works without notes, and the
piano scores of Bach, Beethoven, Liszt,
Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, a re as clear
in his mind as they are to a pianist on paper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
MARS MYSTERY MASTERED.

In the Mars observation the Lick tele-
scope promises to lick all the others.-Ne,o
York Recorder.
THE planet Is called Mars, perhaps, be-
cause it mars the peace and comfort of this
world.-Ph,ladelphfa Record.
ASTRONOMERS now state that the great
canals of Mars are not canals at all. This
disposes Of the fancifuI theory that the in
habitants of Mars were advanced enough to
provide against railroad combines.-NetO
York Herald.
SOME scientists say that the recent hot
wave was all the fault of Mars. If that is
true, it is all we want to know of that planet.
Anyone who tries to find out anything more
should be cast out from among his fellow
men.-Butdlo Express.
THE great Lick telescope shows that there
are no canals nor nything resembling them
on Mars. Star-gazers would do well to heed
the advice OF Emerson, "Hug your fact" or
of Davy Crockett, "Be sure you are right,
then GO ahead.-C Cincinnati Times-Sdr.
THROUGH all time Mr. Licks name will be
associated with the studies Of our most inti-
mate neighbor planet, Mars, about which we
are destined shortly to make some wonder.
full discoveries. Tile triumphs of science
may not be SO striking as those of war, but
they endure for all time. Nes0 York CONNER
cidl Advertiser.
The astronomers at the University of Cal
1fornia are unable to ind by the aid of the
big Lick telescope the slightest trace of the
so-called canals on Mars, discovered, or pro-
jected, by the Milan astronomer, Schiapar-
ELI. 1t may be that somebody had scratched
those canals on the lens of Schiaparelli's
telescope.-Ph Philadelphia Ledger.
MARS is said to have two moons, one 8
miles in diameter and the other 20. The
planet itself has diameter of l. 400 miles.
To get graphic illustration of Grover
Cleveland's appreciation OF himself with ref
erence to things mundane, try to imagine
him in the role of Old Mars with the country
and the Democratic party respectively as the
Cleveland Leader.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
sCIssoRED FROM SETTINGS.

Gus De Smith-What is the matter with
youP You look as if you had been exposing your
self to the elements.
Colonel Yerger-I have had two colds new, one
right after the other.
..Didn't you do anything for them?'
..Oh. yes, 1 had no trouble getting rid Of the
second cold in my head. but the first sticks to mo
YETI
Fashionable wife-Did you notice, dear,
at the party last evening how grandlJ our
daughter Clara. swept into the room?
Husband with a grunt)-Oh. yes, Clara can
sweep into any room grandly enough, but when Is
comes to sweeping out room she isn't there.
Judge Dufy-You say you are innocent
What then were you doing with the watch If yoa
ddn t intend to steal 1t?
sam Johnsing-I jest wanted ter wind 1t up for
him. OATS de solemn troof. can't tell lie Ell
wus ter try for week.
Artist-The public makes me sick.
Critic-Why. what's the matter with the publicf
~ obody will give even much rs $40 for my
last picture. I've nonon 10 tnro" "' OfuS"o'
out of the window
..Don't do that Keep the big ones at least"
s'Why should keep the big ones?''
''You may need them some OF these daysn
painting fences"
First Lawyer-If the moon could talk
what interesting disclosures there would be. She
is the only witness to many crime
Second Lawyer-Yes. and just think how much
she would get for witness fees If she could testify
in court.
aAin't Won ashamed ter be seen in der
Tabernacle in such raggerdy pants?' said Whang-
doodle Baxter to Jim Webster.
.sNo. indeed, parson. 1 amt ashamed. Dey
don't belong ter me. What's got ter be 'shamed
of?''
A lady in New York hotel corridor fell
unon the neck of entire stranger. and after
impriuting a kiss upon his mouth drew back sud-
denly and exclaimed:
..Dear mel thought 1t was Charley!'
s.Humph." growled the stranger, ''Charieyb
in luck to-day"
Tommy-Pa, may I ask you question:
Pa-Certainly. my child.
Tommy-welL where is the wind when 1t doesnr
blow?
A Houston, Tex, gentleman is too
modest to use the word garter. A friend asked
him:
what kind Of present are you going 10 buy
your wifel''
II think IN get her honi soiti gu maly penss."
was the reply.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
DEATHS HERE AND ELSE WHERE,
General Michael p. Small.

General Michael P Small, Assistant Com
missary General Of Subsistence at Governors
Island, N. Y, died Monday morning after ILL
ness OF three weeks. He was for a long time
afflicted with Bright's disease, and that, with
catarrh of the stomach, caused his DEATH He was
born in York, Pa, 81 years ago. In 1855 he gradu-
ated from West Point and. as Second Lieutenant
Third Artillery, was stationed on the frontier in
California. The next year he served against the
Seminole Indians and in 1853 he was in the Harper's
Ferry expedition to suppress the John Brown raid.
In 1861 he was made Captain and Commssary of
Subsistence. He served with distinction during
the war, and was on the staff of General Sheridan.
He breveted Colonel of volunteers for services
in the campaign of 1858 and 1854. He was after
ward breveted Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel and
Brigadier General in the regular army.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
CONGRESSMAN CRAIG LAID TO REST.
Tho Joint Committee of the Senate an
House Attend the Obsequies

Tho Joint Committee of the Senate and
House Attend the Obsequies.
CLAYsvILLE, Pa, Aug. 2-[SpeciaL 1.-The
funeral of Congressman Alexander K Craig
took place this morning at 10 o'clock from the
Presbyterian Church, of which he had been
an elder for 3S years. The services were
conducted by Rev. Frank Fish, the pastor,
and Rev. j. W. Miller, pastor of the church
which he attended while in Washington, as
sisted by Rev. John NJ. MeaIy, of New Will
mington, Pa, and Rev. w. H. Lester, of
West Alexandria. After the services con-
Quoted by the pastors, Congressman Giles
pie, of the Twenty-fifth district, made few
touching remarks, during which he said
that early in the present sessisn he had
learned to love Mr. Craig for his integrity.
and finished by saying:
"Jn addition to what has been said of the
deceased, can only add, here lies good
and honest man." .
The remains were then taken to the Claws
Vile Cemetery, where short but imposing
ceremonies were held. Senator Cameron
and Representative Gillespie, OF the COM
mite appointed by the Senate and House,
arrived on the A. M. train, but the remain.
der, consisting of Messrs. Huff and Kribbs,
Of Pennsylvania, johnson, OF South Dakota,
Zarlay, of Iowa, and Sergeant at Arms Yo-
der, did not arrive until II o clock, being inst
in time to join the funeral procession as it
was on its way to the cemetery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
HARRITY,s NoN-REsIGNATIoN

MIR. Harrity's explanation of his course
in omitting to esign the Office of Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth on assuming
the Craftsmanship of the National Com
mittee deserves more attention than it
generally receives. He takes the ground
that Colonel Tom Carter's resignation of
his Office was necessary because it was
position under the National Government;
and for the present, at least, Mr.. Harrity
recognizes an incongruity between the
holding of national office and running a
national campaign. But as he holds a
State Office, and is going to run national
campaign, he considers that his withers
are unwrung.
This statement of the position has an
adorable application which it is to be
hoped Mr. Harrity will bear in mind. In
the first place, it carries the implication
that Harrity is not going to interfere in
State politics any more. The deduction is
clear from his views on Carter's position
that, holding State office, he must not
undertake to run State politics. The re-
form indicated by this position will be
radical; but the indicative conclusion that
the Secretary of the Commonwealth will
eschew State politics promises decided
changes in the future. Moreover, we per-
celve in the same view an indication
that, if Mr.. Cleveland is elected, Mr.. Har-
rity must decline national office or else re-
sign his Chairmanship
The necessity of making decision on
that dilemma is, however, likely to be
postpo1ed as shown nv an nother aroumant
which Mr.. Harrity advances. That is
that he can run over to Harrisburg one
day in each week and perform all the
duties of Secretary of State without inter-
fering with his Craftsmanship. One more
fact should have been stated to make this
argument final, namely, that the emoIu-
ments Of this very pleasant situation are
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
Obituary Notes.

SAM G. WRIGHT. Superintendent Of United
States mint at Carson City. New, died yesterday
EARL BATHURST is dead In England. He was
born in 1892 and succeeded his uncle as the sixth
Earl, February a. 1878.
DANIEL MCGOwEN, 3 well-known farmer of
Jefferson township, died in his 4oth year yesterday
morning. He had been suffering from a sunstroke
ROBERT l.. DAVIS, formerly United States
weigher and Gauger, dropped dead in Boston
Monday. He was one of the most prominent
Masons In Massachusetts,, having attained the sd
degree.
NORRIS c. TowNE died Monday at Elgin. ILL.,,
at the age of "a years. He was a director Of the
Elgin National Watch Company and President of
the First National Bank OF Elgin and Of the Egin
City Savings Bank.
JOHN BLEAKIE, of Hyde Park, Mass. died Sum
day, aged 30. He was one Of the first persons to
begin the weaving Of fancy cassimeres in this
country. He arrived from Scotland in 18E and be-
gan that industry at Amesbury,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
Hurting Their Own Cause.

Chicago MaiI.l
Tom Carter has not gone to work for Har-
rison yet. He doesn't have to at present.
The filibusters in Congress are doing ten
times the work against Cleveland that he
could do with his little committee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03

WHEN notoriety is the aim of so many
lives it is quite surprising that the abandon
ment of an old suit OF clothes on the bank of
one or other OF our rivers does not form the
preliminary to more departures for sum-
mer vacation. A supposed suicide is an in
expensive form of self advertisement easily
arranged by q few circums tantial details
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03

AS an opening for some person with
mania for statistics, calculation of the
amount of steel and iron apparent on the
surface of Pittsburg streets offers unrivaled
opportunities for mental exercise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03
A Hard Nut to Crack.

New York Press.1
Chairman Harrfty, of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee has announced his plan
of campaign. "The thing to do is to get to-
just what Mr.. Harrity means by "Demo-
cratic principles it will trouble the best
stump speakers he will put in the field to ex-
plain"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03

CONGRESS has run to seed. And it is
Uncle Jeremiah Rusk's duty to see that
none Of the product escapes destruction, as
8 perpetuation of its principles would be
ruinous to the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-03

AS an example of the self-sacrifce to
which q man will submit for money making
purposes, the man in Monroe county who is
breeding skunks for the profit of their pelts
is q conspicuous subject for pity.