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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

UNCLE DICK THoMPsoN's voucher for
the integrity of the Panama Canal dealings.
as far as he was aware of them,, is calculated
to arouse sarcastic inquiries as TO the extent
of the knowledge of that concerns affairs
for which Uncle Dick drew that fat salary OF
$4,000 per annum
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
HOLD 49,"


Old Forty-nine
Was an engine
On the South Pa0i6c line
AS dear to an Arab as his steed
Was old 40 to Richard Reed.
noInts
And he tpeyv everv rivet throughout her Joints
For u, along maintains and down the ''Great
-
No,,or Effective, , run o- roecttn0 rnishan.
. ~, -.,,a- s,,d vtnter tbrou1h wind fo0
and rain
ua had driven her hitched to a passenger train.
But there was one
Quite ugly run;
Reed was always glad when II was done.
Twas seyen-miIe climb up four per cent grade
nv the crookedest track that ever was laid.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
Captain Hugh Dennison.

Captain Hugh Dennison, we'll known in
Allegheny. died Saturday morning at the age of 81
years. The funeral will take place this afternoon
at O'Clock from the residence eff his daughter,
Mrs. William W. Powell OF Marshall avenue,
Allegheny.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
GONE ToaETHER.

.Julia-Well, leap year is almost gone.
Kate-so am 1. Harvey proposed last night and
/ am TO answer him this evening. Detroit FTes
Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

, WELL, there is no doubt of the white
ness of the Christmas; but the old supersti-
tion does not furnish half as good guaran-
tee against epidemics next year as a strict
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

THAT seventy-degree rise in temperature
has not been heard of in this section yet.
Perhaps it was frozen out in crossing the
plains.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
William s. Barker.

p William S. Barker, the contractor, died
yesterday afternoon at O'Clock, at his home 424
Pacific avenue. East End. The funeral services
will take place Tuesday, at o. clock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
REAL CAUSE OF HIS GRIEF.

"Yes, dabbled in futures once, " said the
man in the macintosh, rehectively.
''Wheat?'' inquired the man who had his reef On
the table.
mo. And II wasn't corn, or oats. or barley OF
mess pork, or potatoes, chips, or whetstones' II
was broom-corn- 1 thought there was money IN
broom-corn. ."
''Put much money In it2'' asked the man In The
shaggy ulster.
''More money than Judgment, ~ sighed the man
in the macintosh, gloomily.
''How much did you lose2''
II lost $4,000 had hoped to make out OF the
deal.n
''Was that all?'i
''Any No. lost s1s, 600 had borrowed from
friends-'
Have they got Il yet?''
'And that wasn't aII!'' groaned the man in the
macintosh, unheeding the interruption. and Uip-
ing his eye furtively with the corner OF his hand
kerchief. II lost ss7 IS Of my own moneyP'-cbt-
eaoo 1ftbams,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

The politicians who are most loudly cry
fng "stop thief" over the Western Senator
ships will bear fair amount of watching
themselves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
He Never Forgets Himself.

Los Angeles Times.l
Holman never objects to one thing, and
that is drawing his salary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

MoNrANA's claim that if she is pressed
she can produce enough gold to pay the
national debt should elicit general willing
ness to do the pressing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

Cor, smithfieId and Diamond Streets.
News Rooms and Publishing House, 7S
and so Diamond Street, New Dispatch
Building.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

The possibility of further duels among
the French legislators should warn the
French agricuIturists to lock up their live
stock,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

THERE seems to be renewed reason for
teaching those Mexican revolutionists that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 7s
TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where
complete files OF THE DISPATCH can always be
found.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
HUSBAND AND WEE

If you'd stop your wife in her scolding,
There's one thing You might do;
just make your wife an allowance,
And she'll make allowance for you.
-EnoiSh Paper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
RuSINESS OFFICE.

Vol. "A. No. S2s-Entered at Pittsburg Postofict
November, 1857, as second-class matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26

THE DISPATCH is on sale at LEADING HOTELS
throughoutthe United States, and at Brentano's.
6Union Square, New York, and IL Avenue de
rOpera. Paris, France.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
OUR COMIC CORNER
A PECUNIARY PoEl

A PECUNIARY POEM.
o roses, beautiful roses.
Roses so soon to be deadG
A wealth Of aroma TepOses
Inside your petals SO dead.
You tempt me to buy you and send
To sister. sweetheart and cousin.
D roses for which l expend
Just s24 a dozen.
Chicago TiHEs
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
THE UxyoRrUrATE's KNOWLEDGE.

When q man is in the soup he knows
how many carats fine the jewelry is that has been
left with his uncle.-HelO Orleans Pfcaylzss.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

arbitrary standard or unit Of value for
money, it cannot fix price or standard
for any commodity. The price or value
of all commodities are fixed by the laws
of supply and demand, and money has
nothing whatever to do with them. To-
day apples may be plenty and my dol
lar will buy two bushels; tomorrow
they may be scarce and my dollar will
buy only only one busheL Should /,
therefore, say that my dollar has depre-
ciated one-half? 1t is true it has pur-
chased only one-half Of what it did, but
it is not the fault Of the dollar. It is,
therefore, impossible to create money
that will have at all times the same
purchasing power. Neither has the
volume Of money any effect upon prices,
as is frequently stated, only in so far
that if every one is earning plenty OF
money, consequently must be creating
and exchanging much, there must be a
larger demand; and when the demand
is large and the supply inadequate the
money will not purchase as much; but,
Notwithstanding this fact, no one loses
anything, because if am willing OF
able to give more dollars or products 81
my labor than another, it simply proves
that created more than he did, or want
the article worse than he does.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
A PALTRY EXCUSE.

The Democratic Party Claims 1t Never
Had . Chance to Do Anything.
Below we present the political make
mp of congress, 1872 to 1892 The year
named which congress was elected.
Forty-third congress, 1872 Repub-
lean senate, democratic house.
Forty-fourth congress, 1S74-Repub-
ican senate, democratic house.
Forty-ifth congress, 1S76-Republic-
an senate, democratic house.
Forty-sixth congress, 1S78-Demo-
cratic senate, democratic house.
Forty-seventh congress, SSO-Repub
ican senate, republican house.
Forty-eighth congress, 18S2-Repub-
ican senate, democratic house.
Forty-ninth congress, 1SS4ERepub-
ican senate, democratic house.
Fiftieth congress, 1885
senate, democratic house.
Fifty-first congress, 1Sss-Republicau
senate, democratic house.
Fifty-second congress, 189O-Repub
ican senate, republican house.
In the senate of the Forty-sixth con.
gress there were So republicans, AZ dem
ocrats and independent David Davis,
who usually voted with the democrats
In the house there were ISL republicans
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
THE UNIT OF ACCOUNT.
It Is Mineral, Not Intrinsic; of Numbers,
Not Value.

It Is Numeral, Not Intrinsic; of Numbers,
Not Value.
There are many would-be financial
reformers who claim that money should
have stable or permanent purchasing
power and for that reason want onlv a
limited amount of paper money, and
that based on metal, gold and silver.
The gentlemen advocating this meas
ure have not yet mastered the first rud:-
ments of the money question.
Money being simply creation CT
law, and its money value fixed solely
by law. this monetary value is the unit
in which we express all other values,
and without which unit they could
have no monetary value, while their
intrinsic value might be of great i'm
portance You could not express the
value of horse in dollars and cents
unless you had unit Of value, or as
some prefer to state it, standard of
value, of dollars and cents. You could
not say this horse is worth 800 if Won
had no dollars. Dollars, however, are
not natural creation or product, they
are creation of law and are what the
law declares them to be. Dollars can
be created out of any material the law
making power sees proper to use and
the value of the material has nothing
whatever to do with the value of the
money. While governments can fix an
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
is THIS NATION A BRITISH DEPENDENCY
Money being only in reality stand
ard or uniform legal representative Of

Money being only in reality stand
ard or uniform legal representative Of
value, it 81 culd be classed only as such,
and not thought Of as something 81
value itself. There can be no money,
no representative of value, where moth
ing is produced or created to exchange.
Before anyone can get money, if the
laws are just, he must produce, create
or perform something useful and bene-
fetal to society. Suppose community
should create million dollars in money,
and no one had anything to exchange,
the money would be useless. 1t would
be of no value whatever, as it is neither
food, drink or clothing. It becomes
valuable only the moment some one
goes to the government and desires it
in exchange for his labor or products.
The money thus put If to circulation
represents actual value created. The
amount of money given for the articles
or labor thus given to the government
is not fixed by the amount of money
that may lie in the government vault,
but is fixed by the law of supply and
demand, and, when fixed and agreed
upon, it is represented by a fixed unit,
called money-Hugo Preyer, in Cincin-
natl Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
DON'T BE FOOLED.

The True Inwardness of the Proposed In
ternatiOnal Monetary Conference.
An international monetary confer
ence:
What for?
To establish the ratio between gold
and silver. you say
What has that to do with our settle
ments?
Nothing.
When the United States sends gold or
silver to England or any other country
in payment of interest, balance of
trade, or for anything else, the coin is
melted down into bullion and its value
ascertained in that manner and all set
Elements are made Oh that plan.
Then what reason can be advanced
for the calling of an international mon
etary conference?
No good reason on earth.
All that money loaners hope to ac-
complish by such scheme is to gain
time while they put up job to eternal
~ and everlastingly murder silver for
all time-which they will attempt to do
in case the idea is carried out.
The man or publication advocating
such a conference may safely be esti-
mated as traitor and sharper with no
higher motives than the perpetual en-
slavement of his fellow beings.
Don't be fooled by the Harrison
scheme. It means eternal debt and
desolation. -Denves Road.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

-Nationalism is reciprocity organized
on the basis Of equal rights.
1t is money versus muscle. In the
end money will not be in it.
Reid, the tail end of the republican
ticket, is best known as an enemy of
organized labor.
The man who can see any hope in
the republican platform for the toiling
masses has remarkable eye
According to the republican plat
form, the luxuries of life should be
placed only within reach of the rich.
Harrison and Reid represent repub-
lican ideas better than any other posi-
BILE bination.-Pittsburg Kansan.
No laboring man has right to say
one word against millionaires so long
as he votes for system that produces
millionaires.
The Minneapolis cat fight termi-
mated properly. It straddled the silver
question and renominated Harrison
Topeka Advocate.
The farmers on the one hand and
the city laborers on the other will gel
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
THEIR TRUMP CARD.

The Wall Street End or the Twin Frauds
Could Not Survive without the Force
Bill Issue.
The following jaygould dispatch fur
nishes pointer" for people who are
capable of reading between the lines:
WASHINGTON, June 9-Republicans and
democrats here agree about one thing. It is
the serious mistake Mckinley and Reed made
in their speeches in indicating that the force
bill would be a leading feature in the republican
campaign Southern members of congress to-
day say from the standpoint of pure politics
the presentation Of the force bill issue is big
card for the southern democrats, for it means
the white people will stand up for the demo-
cratic ticket and will not hazard white SUI
premacy for the chance of sub-treasury and
other Farmers Alliance legislation II this is
sue is made the leading one OF the republican
platform and on the stump the southern men
declare that the third party will be an insignif-
cant factor, and all danger that North and
South Carolina will not go democratic will be
swept away.
Senator Jones, Of Arkansas, one OF the ablest
men in the senate said that il the republican
party should take its ground for the campaign
on the force bill it would consolidate the demo.
cratic position all over the south The white
people regard their own supremacy as para
mount to questions OF sub treasures and such
legislation
same view. sit will tend to hurt the republic
ans" said he, land help the democrats in Ten.
nessee. 1t will solidify the opposition to the
republican ticket do not consider the ques-
ton so important. however, because do not
think any southern state in danger from the
Farmers Alliance movement II there are any
such, they are North Carolina and South Caro-
lima and the force bill would help us there"
OF course the force bill will be sslead-
ing feature of the republican cam
paign."
And of course it will be tendency to
unite the south.
That is why it will be done.
The Wall street bosses don't propose
to let one of the Siamese twins die If
one dies, both die. If both die, Shylock
dies.
In order to keep the republican Chang
alive the democratic Eng must be nursed
and fostered. The principal fodder
that Eng subsists upon is of the force
bill sort.
Shylock don't want any Farmers AL
lance in his Not much. Therefore he
employs yawpers of the Reed stripe to
howl about the force bill And this
sets the southern yawpers of the Jones
and Harris kind to bowling about ''ne-
gro supremacy''-and the work is done
It's the old game to keep the "solic
south" and the ''solid. north" arrayed
against each other, while the rascally
leaders flip cents for the ofices.-Chi
cago Sentinel.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08

$50 democrats and 10 greenbackers.
The democrats, therefore, had clear
majority of 10 in the house. They also
had the help of every one Of the IL
greenbackers on every measure intro
duced for the good of the people. The
democrats were elected to this house on
a pledge to reduce the tariff, abolish
national banks, pay off the national
debt and establish free coinage of silver.
They at once elected S. J. Randall, a
high protective tariff advocate and a
national banker, as speaker of the
house. They did nothing they prom
ised. They did the very reverse. 1t is
more than folly for them to say if they
had repealed any of the unjust laws or
passed any good one, Hayes would have
vetoed their action. If he had done this
the responsibility would have rested
on him and the republican party. It
was the duty of the democratic con-
gress to place itself on record in the in
terest of the people. But instead of
this it placed itself on record in the in
terest of the money power, the enemy
of the people 1t has had control of the
house ever since 1879, with two excep-
tions. It has always since 1860 had
enough in both the senate and the
house to block the passage of the worst
laws. Yet it has not only never stood
solidly for the people, but has vetoed as
largely in proportion to it's strength for
the worst laws-such as the funding
act of April ~, 1856, the rechartering of
the national banks in 1882, the pension
steals, land steals, river and harbor
steals, etc.-as the republicans. These
are the facts according to the congress
sional records. Judged by their past
record there is absolutely no hope for
reform through either old party. We
cannot depend on the democratic party
even for tariff reform in the interest of
the toiling millions. Their platforms,
the Mills tariff measure and their acts
in congress prove this. The peoples
party is the only proper home for all
patriots.-Fort Worth Exchange.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
THE REPUBLICAN, NOMINEE.

Plutocratic Tool Upon a Single Gold
Standard Platform.
Mr.. Harrison has many traits that
mark him as an astute politician and
statesman. In public utterances he is
peculiarly happy. In all the speeches
he has made, as a candidate or as presi-
dent, and he has made as many, per-
haps, as any of his predecessors, he has
never yet made remark that could be
effectively assailed. His administration
has been quiet, mild. conservative and
clean, speaking after the manner of
modern politics. 1t has been thorough
ly plutocratic, though, has strictly
adhered to the British financial pol
icy, and Wall street has been its
oracle. In this respect the administra-
ton has not held out a ray of
light or hope to the common peo-
pie for financial reform or freedom from
the gold power. The much talked of
international conference need not be
cited as contradiction of this, for as
yet that means nothing and there is not
the slightest indication that it will
lead, or that it is intended to lead, to
the reconciliation of silver.
In this connection, it is interesting to
note the source of opposition to the
president in his own country. One
class of his opponents are disappointed
political leaders who feel that the pres
ident has not given them their share
of the public patronage. In this class
may be mentioned Clarkson, Platt,
Quay, etc. Another class antagonized
the president from principle, on account
of his financial policy, his avowed oppo-
sition to the free coinage of silver. To
this class belong Teller, Wolcott, Jones,
etc. What course the latter will now
take remains to be seen. The state
convention of Colorado adopted a reso-
luton declaring that the republicans of
that state would not support candi-
date or a platform antagonistic to free
silver. They have been given both, and
we shall see which is stronger in Color
ado, party ties or principle.
Upon the whole, the convention is a
triumph for the money power, all that
the money power could ask, hope for or
desire. The platform offers nothing
new. Its financial declaration means
gold or it means nothing, and we take
it the republican party, as old parties
are apt to do, has missed an opportu-
nifty. 1t has smothered the strongest
available cry that it could have sent
among the people, that of ''Blaine and
reciprocity" -Progressive Farmer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-07-08
A SOURCE OF PROFIT.

The Debt Incurred for the Purchase OF
the Railroads Could Not Be Burden.
The proposition of government own
ership of the railroads startles many
people on account of the magnitude of
the investment, which might require
the issue of bonds of about six billions
of dollars. Even so sensible man as
Senator Carlisle has fallen into the alb
surdity of comparing such an invest
ment with the national war debt and
speaking of it as burden which the
taxpayers would find even more intol-
cradle.
Such confusion of thought is aston
ishing. A debt which is incurred in
order to purchase a paying business is
not regarded as a burden, but as a
means of enriching oneself, an oppor-
tunity not to, be neglected. The war
debt, although in large sense it was a
most highly paying investment, mas
much as it saved the nation, was in a
business sense dead loss, being repre-
sented only by dead men and wasted
material A debt incurred for the pur-
chase of railroads would on the other
hand be represented by a business prop
erty of the most profitable sort. The
interest on the war debt, which went
for waste, is dead weight on the
nation and has every cent of it to be
paid by taxation. The interest on the
bonds issued for the purchase of the
railroads, on the other hand, would be
paid, every cent of it, by the profits of
the business, which would also yield a
sinking fund to extinguish the princi-
pal. The more such property as that
the state can get hold of the bettes off
for the taxpayer.
Of course the same considerations APP
ply with equal force to the debts in
CURED by municipalities for the pur-
chase or construction of lighting plants,
water works or tramways. Such debts
are wholly unlike those incurred for
ordinary public expenditures, inasmuch
as they represent not OUTLAWS on which
the taxpayer must pay interest, but
sources of income which will take care
of their own interest and sinking funds
and pay the municipalities 1t the latter
see ft) profit besides. New Nation.