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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

DIR. MIGUEL, Prussian Minister of
Finance is suffering from Inflammation Of
the throat. He has q slight fever and is con-
fined TO his bed.
Miss SoPHoNIsBA BRECKENRIDGE,
daughter of Congressman Breckenridge, has
been admitted to the bar and is pracricing
law in Kentucky.
AT Brussels few days ago Mile. Mar
guerite Gombart was awarded her degree as
doctor of philosophy and letters. She is the
first young girl who has obtained this de-
gree.
GovERNoR-ELEcT MCGRAw, of the
State of Washington, was born in Maine and
is only ~ years of age. Sixteen years ago
he was driving bob-tail car in San Fran
cisco.
AUSTIN CoRB1N is now said to be the
donor of the $500, 900 reported to be given to
the fund for building the new Episcopal
Cathedral OF st. John the Divine, on Harlem
Heights. New York.
HERR Won WERMUTH, German Imperial
Commissioner to the Chicago Columbian
Exposition, with some members OF his stan,
will sail for New York on the steamer Co
lumbia on December IL
The actress, Eleanor Duke, who is en-
has made great hit in Berlin. She is held
to be a rival of Sarah Bernhardt In the
Dumas-Sardou school of plays.
The Duke of Westminster in his youth
bore so close q resemblance to Cruikshank's 3
picture of the famous boy burglar that his
college mates nicknamed him Jack Shep-
pard," and by this name he is still known
among chums of his own rank.
NINE. MILLET had but partially recov-
cred from the shock of the death of her hus-
band (painter OF 1.-THE Angelus") when her
Youngest daughter Marianne died. and since
then Nine Millet has so completely given
up all desire for life that she is slowly dying
at her home in Barbizon. ...
JULES SIMON thinks that pretty woman
will make q very dangerous lawyer. He
says that women demanding equality with
men are often asked; "How can you de-
mand equality when you are weakf" But
it would be az least only justice to add:
"How can you demand equality when you
are prettyf"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
BEsOTTED CLEMENCY.

1t was supposed that when West Vir-
ginia Judge was beguiled into af1xing his
signature to a petition that he himself
should be taken into the public square and
burned at the stake, that the utmost posi-
bility was attained, of the proneness of
people to sign petitions just because they
are asked. Yet the assertion that petit
ton for the pardon of the men under sem
fence for ballot frauds in Jersey City, has
been signed by hundreds of the best citi-
zens, including ten clerpymen, very nearly
equals if it does not surpass it in the ex-
hibition of the same quality.
For here are hundreds of men alleged to
be interested in good Government and
morality, who have been wheedled into
signing petitions that no man can sign
consistently, with desire for popular
Government or political honesty. The
men under sentence were persistent and
defiant perpet rators of frauds on the
ballot which made honest Government i'm
possible. They only presented themselves
for sentence because they did believe that
the Judge dared not send them to prison. To
pardon them at the very beginning of their
sentence W ould be to proclaim that frauds
on the ballot can be committed with i'm
punity. Yet we are told that respectable
men and teachers of morality are signing
a petition which practically means that
the last protection for an honest ballot be
utterly nullifedi
Yet we need not look to the petitioning
abuse exclusively for illustrations of the
proneness to extend indemnity to notori-
GUS and deliberate offenders. The recent
pardons of Simmons, the bank wrecker,
and his associate, was an equally fragrant
example. These men employed the ma
chinery of the stock market to get con-
troll of banks for the express purpose of
wrecking them. The burglars who blow
open bank safes at night, or the outlaws
who enter them in daylight and over
power the clerks, do not attempt more de-.
liberate or lawless robbery than these
men. Upon what mistaken idea of Glenn
ency, or on what misrepresentation the
executive pardon was founded, has not
been made public; but it would do less
harm to proclaim that gangs like the Dali
tons or the Youngers shall 60 unpunished,
than to make it clear that clemency is
ready for robbers of the Simmons type.
1t should be clearly understood that
there are two classes of offenders which
this country cannot afford to have en-
dowed with immunity. One is composed
of the ballot box thieves, who undermine
the very foundation of popular govern
ment. The other consists of the men who
reduce business transactions to the science
of deliberate robbery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
TrIfiing With the Cash.

My legal friend never dined at q certain
Broadway hotel among the sportsi actors,
theatrical managers and whatnot. Other
wise he could see some of the very worst
walters right here in New York and wouldn't
have to seek them in Mexico. have dined
there pretty often, for it is a good place to
study character and has good cook. Four
times out of possible five the waiter or the
cashier will raise your check-will charge 5,
10 or 20 cents more on items than the price
on the bill of fare. This is a clumsy trick.
however compared to the favorite one of
adding up the items wrong. For. curiously
enough, most men who would see at once an
over charge will never detect theserror in
the footing. The fact is, men are not always
at their artthmetical best Immediately after
dining. Every waiter knows that and takes
advantage OF 1t. IL is so easy to add the tip
into the total and If he gets anything else
he is SO much ahead. II he Is caught 1t Is q
mistake" easily explained. The other ways
of cheating are familiar here, TOO. once
came back shortly afterward and blandly
laid change for - before me saying
81 believe You gave me two dollar note"
"You mean ten," suggested.
He Immediately laid down IS, which he
had concealed in his hand.
This cheating in footings Is so common
that no householder is safe from it unless
the figures are carefully gone over.
A bright little sales woman in one OF the
biggest retail houses in the city once
dropped me for 30 cents as neat as wax by
this process of addition, and this In q bill of
less than S.. Since that time have gone
over their fguring, and in several cases
have tbund from 80 cents to 81 included in
the footing that dfdn't belong there These
xiulaare very quick at figures and q pretty
girPcan Aim-nam man OUT OF oohaF OF
'" CzARLEs THEoDoRz MURRAY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
A REFRESHING REQUEST.

A refreshing example of the manner in
which the Bell Telephone Company's mo-
nopoly is defended was presented in the
United States Courts the other day. In
the suit of the Government against the
company the latter's attorneys asked for
more time to take testimony and coolly
requested that the extension of time be
till November 4, 1893. The court thought
that there should be some limits to the
game of procrastination and was not quite
prepared to give them an entire year at a
jump, but granted them three months.
AT this rate it is easily to be foretold that
the patents will run out before these pro-
ceedings are brought to judgment,
The prospect Of any material benefit to
the public from this suit is by no means
encouraging. But the case of the Bell
Telephone Company should afford suff-
cient reason for Congress at this session
to pass a bill putting an end to the fraud
of prolonging a monopoly indefinitely by
means of fictitious interference proceed
ings in the Patent Office. The favorite
method Of extending the telephone mo-
nopoly has been by interference disputes
between patents both of which are owned
by the same company. 1t is a scandal
that such fraudulent suits have already
been permitted to drag over the course of
years, but with the prominence which has
been given to this method Of using the
patent laws to prejudice public interest,
it will be greater scandal if Congress
permits it to go unremedied.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
THE WIZARD OF WALL STREET.

A MASTER OF finance.-Detroit Journal.
HIS career can not be deemed a success
Toledo Blade.
THE greatest financial genius of the age
Buffalo Inquirer.
THE deceased financier was q bold and, in
deed, desperate eoperator.-New York World.
AT homo he was IN American OF whom his
countrymen can well be proud.-Chfcago
Mail
He was an animated nntithesis, the like of
whom the world may never see again.-Cin-
oinndH Times Star.
For more than ~ years the most potent
flgure in the worlds financial affairs.-&.
Louis Globe Democrat
The greatest money maker ever known
was the least known money maker that ever
lived or died.-Brooklyu Eagle.
1T may be that the world has never done
justice to him who is now, materially, poor
as the poorest Washington Star.
So long as he is remembered It will be
only as the sharpest and most successful
"speculator'' Of the century.-PhiLadelphi
Bulletin.
HIS will was ipdomitable; his courage was
illimitable; his energy was tireless; his
knowledge of human nature was perfect
Rochester Union.
FROM first to last the business career Of Jay
Gould was an unparalleled story Of success
full and wonderfully endowed avarice. -
CeUeL1nd Leader.
u Mr.. GoULD's death simply removes q dis
turbing element in the financial world-an
element whose influence was fnrreaching,
powerful and always used selfishly.-W Wheel-
ing Register.
WE say that the late Mr.. Gould cannot be
for ,.;a
his fault needs expiation it can be given by
the balance in favor of the prosperity his
railroad improvements Created Columbus
Disndfch
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.
REGULATIoN OF IMMIGRATION.

An impressive illustration Of the evil ef-
fects of unregulated immigration, and one
that comes near home, is given in special
article which appears in to-day's DIS
PATCH. The assertion that large pre-
pOnderance of the crimes in Allegheny
county are shown to be among the foreign
born population will strike everyone as
an exceedingly cogent fact. The corre-
lated facts with regard to the additions
made to our pauperism from the same
source amount to powerful demonstra-
ton of the necessity of effective regula-
ton.
Of course such facts as these convey no
imputation on the foreign born citizens
of energy, industry and intelligence. The
United States have by experiment on the
grandest scale demonstrated the immense
gain that can be made to a new nations
progress by extending welcoming hand
to immigrants of that class. But when
the liberality of that policy leads
on them. The work of organizations
in different parts of Europe, whose func-
ton it is to secure the deportation
from these countries Of criminals and
paupers, is the most emphatic exponent of
the need of action on the part of our Gov
ernment Its effect is emphasized when
we find Germany trying to frame meas
UreS to keep her desirable citizens at home.
The net expression of the European de-
sire that the United States shall only re-
teive immigrants of the class that swells
our totals of vice, pauperism and crime, is
exceedingly conclusive as to our course
Such facts as these leave no room for
discussion that the time has come for the
United States to establish strict and ef.,
fective regulations of immigration, with
regard TO the character of the immigrant
As to the details of such regulation there
may be wide room for debate; but THE
DISPATCH is firmly Of opinion that in
spection and examination in the foreign
lands, whence the immigrants start, is the
ultimate and complete solution.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
THE BRIGGS CASE AGAIN.

- a. -. m - -
THE brlggs neresy srAl 70 nos nHe tne
comet-lt Is concrese, IN e4ui'ooai GU anu
stern actual1y.-Ad''s"S0 " "'0'
PRos. BRIGGS is ms own lawyer IN tne ner-
esy case nov .,e. ha ,s 1.r,, oIa, Irom
ms eheni,es D..s.s oiob. wy o-o'e-
arg eiiieii Va ''- 1''''o'
WE are sorry LOT III. briggs less ON ac-
count OF his trlal ior heresy than because OF
the various oennitlons OF II ne VIII ma IN
she theoioglcaI coluinns " she uat'y news
papers'-"e~ @"~ Au0,' '''
WHETHER ne wiz take MS ptace IN tne
ranks along with hu1,ey anu Angerson or
IN tne most wn.o Iouoms - 'n1 Teaaar ,osu VI 'ne
POPE Is oouotiui nia'or Aogioahy, ne
must go 70 the one siue or '"e o'ner'-"eO
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
THE LAUREATE ISSUE.

An interesting symposium Of opinions
from a large number Of writers on the
question of poet laureate for the United
States finds place in THE DISPATCH to-
day. 1t will be seen on perusal that the
variety of views which might be expected.
takes place from utter disapproval 10 en-
thusiastic Endorsement with the usual
scope of nominations from Oliver Wen,
dell Holmes to the Sweet Singer of Mich.
igan.
The supporters of the poet laureate idea
fail to appreciate the fact which one of
the opponents brings out that no laureate
could occupy the position permanently.
The place must from its nature be one of
the spoils of a national campaign. Civil
service reform in its most extreme scope
could not claim it 1t would be a politi.
cal Office more indisputably that the Cab
met offices. 1t is clear that the poet who
indited a panegyric to Mr. Harrison could
not be allowed the poetic license of turn
ing around and constructing an ode to Mr..
Cleveland on his inauguration. Nor could
the muse which had prompted an
economic lyric on the benefits Of the Nc
Knley bill easily reverse its machine to
produce blank verse on the advantages of
a revision of the tariff on the Calhoun
plank.
The conclusion is plain therefore that
each change of party mnst l, new
laureate; and, of course tst q must
60 to the verse-maker who con'ri 'tes the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
ORIGINAL AND JoCosE.
HEsPIAN's LAMENT.


For many years I've trod the boards,
In parts both sad and gay;
Have played Id0o and Macbeth
In quite bank up way.
Have played the melancholy Ham,
Likewise the ''Tramp's Retreat;"
Have made hit IN ''Romeo;"
My Moor you could not beat.
I've PLAYED In many modern plays,
But here my story ends.
To-day need . dime and find
That I've played all my friends
IHoPE SO, TOO.
'I hear you have written an opsrsf
yes"
''Wen, hope it will be sung to DEATH"
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TALK AND sAIAkh
"wil I offer Bummly $226 to play tho
partY''
mo, Of course not"
81 DON'T suppose we can get him for less; IL wa
only Yesterday he told me he had signed s"e
years, contract at 500 per week.
HE told you that, did he2''
YES
''WeI offer him $50 and watch him come"
IT'S WORK.
Beside the fire in an easy chair
His pipe Of meersehaum he smokesi
Forgetting himself he inhales Bit
And then, As expected, he chokes.
Think to myself as watch him there,
He enjoys IL not bit;
I'm surs frcm the way he eyes that pip4
He Is smoking 70 color it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04

most successful campaign poetry. We
need not go into the narrowing details of
a poetic competition with the laureateship
for prize, such as the New Yorld World
inflicted On itself and its readers during
the last campaign. That would not afford
the principle of selection. The origina-
tors of those campaign rhymes which i'm
press themselves on the public mind, so
that they are heard all over the land while
the craze lasts, are the ones who would get
the plum. Thus the poetic genius which
produced that chaste and classic verse
could claim priority:
Grover, Grover,
Four years more OF Grover.
In we go, out they go,
Then we'll be in clover.
The terse, forcible and comprehensive
expression Of the whole situation in these
lines marks the author as the man whom
political selection would make the poet
laureate. Moreover, in the absence of
definite information, the opinion is we'll
founded that he would be a better, because
less wordy, laureate than many of Eng
lands official verse-makers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
A TEN MILLION LUXURY.

The sum total of the last Chinese legis-
lation up to the present is given as fol-
lows: In the six months since the passage
of the act exactly five Cinnamon have
been moved to sit for photographs as the
law prescribes. There are 107, 800 China
men left in the country, who by the re-
quirements of the law are to be deported
to their native land and left there. The
expense of deporting Cinnamon is esti.
mated at the average of 800 each, which,
considering that they have to be trans
ported halfway around the world, looks
like very moderate estimate. The United
States therefore stands pledged by its
legislation to spend the neat total of S1O,-
of the country. Moreover, unless the
moon-eyed leper is to understand that he
can fiount his queue at our legislation
with impunity, Uncle Sam has got to go
down into his pocket and pay the bill.
What will be done in this conjuncture
may prove an interesting question. The
United States Treasury has reached
point where it cannot stand drafts at the
rate of ten millions without serious con-
sequence, political and otherwise When
the use of this ten millions will necessltate
placing the burden Immediately on the
people in the shape of increased taxation,
the public may conclude that it is hardly
prepared to pay that sum to get rid Of the
Orientals who blandly pursue the purif-
cation of soiled linen.
Nevertheless it looks as if the ten mill
ions must go with the Chinese. The
United States has pledged itself by statute
to this course. If it backs down the
heather sojourner will be likely to con-
firm his belief that American law has no
application to him. After we have got
rid of the $1O,0OO,0OO and the 100, 900
Chinese, our legislators may profit by the
lesson sufficiently to see where legislation
Of the demagogic character will end.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
WHAT popuLArEs OUR JA1Is
Ex-President Hayes Speaks on Immigration
to the Prison Reform Association.

Ex-President Hayes Speaks on Immigration
to the Prison Reform Association.
BALTIMORE, Dec. AT the annual meet
ing of the National Prison Reform Associa-
tion held in this city to-day, ex.President
Hayes delivered an address reviewing the
work of the society and the growth OF crime
through immigration.
"From the time of John Howard down to
the present day." said he, "prison reform
ers have never enjoyed a large measure of
popular favor. They have never been
gladdened by any sudden, rapid, sweeping
success of any part OF their work in any
country, but we shall be stirred and cheered
as We discover the beneficient changes
which a few decades have wrought. The
greatest improvements have been made in
the common jails Cruel punishments not
long ago were deemed essential TO maintain
discipline in prisons. They are almost
gone.
1.-THE prime object of the true prison re-
former is the protection of society and indi-
viduals by the prevention of crime. The
means by which we seek to attain this end
are: First-The speedy and certain arrest,
conviction and imprisonment of the guilty.
Second-The reformation of convicts by the
valid reclaiming forces. religion, education
and productive labor. Third-fhe perma-
nent Incarceration OF all prisoners who are
not reformed Fourth The most effectual
Ineaus to prevent crime Is an unceasing,
conscientious and wise care in the training
or the young.
"Immigration, as it exists to-day. is the
lion in the path of the progress OF America.
Formerly the love of liberty and the lauda-
Bile desire to better the condidition were
the leading motives OF Immigration from Eu-
rope to America. Now, employers of large
bodies of men wanting cheap labor, the
in land in the thinly settled States, stimu-
lated by their greed for gain, and, worse
than all, the increasing efforts of European
communities to send to America their
chronic paupers, lunatics and criminals,
have given to this question n gravity that
has not before belonged to It."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
Obituary Notes.

COMMANDER ROSWELL d. HITCHCOCK, DR.,
limited States Navy, died yesterday morning In
New York after few hours illness.
A, R. BAKER, OF Indianapolis. is dead at Boston.
Mr. Baker was the senior member Of the hrm OF
Baker & Randolph, printers and stattoners, and
was connected win a similar large estaolsn-
ment at Chicago.
MISS MARY ALLEN WEST, an American temper
ance missionary in Toxic, Japan. died Thursday.
she had intended to return to Chicago this week.
Miss West was the senior edItor Oh Tue O"to" S'e-
nal the organ of the W. q. t. U.
SYLVESTER f. EAGAN, one Of the best known
liouor dealers in Buffalo. died Friday. He was
President of an electric light company director In
the Peonie's Bank and Citizens Gas Company, and
n life member of three library associations. he
was prominent in church and benevolent work.
BENJAMIN WILLIAMSON. ex-Chancellor Of New
Jersey. died FRIDAY at his home "a Ensaoetn In MS
s5tb wear. He came Of distinguished New Jersey
family. his father having been Governor OF the
state from fsI7 to 1872. Mr.. Williamson was State
ChancelIor from 1852 to 1850, and was FOR years
leading counsel OF the Jersey Cantrsi Railroad,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04

do. They simply concentrate the capital
already in the industry and condemn a
large share Of it to idleness for the pur-
pose of exacting arbitrary prices by arti-
fetal scarcity. A detail of the same dis
tinction is that the capital which comes
into industry TO compete adopts and de-
velops new ideas and improvements; the
monopolistic combinations frequently sup
press them. The history of the trusts Is
replete with such cases.
The organs of the trusts will try their
best to keep the confusion between the
legitimate organization of capital for ac-
tual industry and the illegitimate COM
bination of it for the purpose of putting
industry IN bonds. But the evasion is too
shallow 10 long impose on the public
mind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04

REPRESENTATIVE W. G. P. BREoKEN-
RIDGE, of Kentucky, makes proposition
likely to meet with general approval. 1t IS
that the drafting of tariff bill shonld be
left to Mr.. Cleveland, and prepared by him
for presentation 20 Congress. That would
be logical outcome of Mr.. Clevelaud's
really personal victory, andit would prac-
tically insure the exclusion Of any radical
measure, the very consideration of which
would be productive of that uncertainty
which is the first step to commercial trepi-
dation and confusion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE
General j. II. Potter.

The death has been announced at Colum-
bus of BrigcdIer General Joseph Hayden Potter,
United States Army (retlred). He was born in
East Concord, n. H., in 1921. He served in the
army Of occupation under General Taylor at
Corpus Christi till March. 1876. and was in Fort
Brown, Texas. during the bombardment from May
3 to o. Is46. He was in Worth's division at the
battle Of Montery and was severely wounded while
storming Fort Solado. General Potter served
through the battles Of Fredericksburg and Chan
cellorsvilIe. being severely wounded and taken
prisoner at the latter place. He was mustered out
Of the volunteer service January Is 1885. He
was commissioned Major of the Nineteenth in
fantry July 4. 1863 and was successfully breveted
Lieutenant Colonel and Brigadier General for gal
iant and meritorious services in the War of the
Rebellion. In April, 1885 he was appointed
Brigadier General.