Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-07-15
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the SWEETEST sort of houses, while the
office-buildings are from five to eight
stories high and replets with style.
If the REGISTER fails to turn up some
of these fine days, just hunt for it In
Pittsburg. The papers are surely In
the swim in that town.
OF course, Pittsburg's great wealth
is i'm the iron business. The great
rolling mills, and all the various plants
for converting the metal into every
form If merchantable product,
stretch up and down the river long
distance, and the flames and smoke
pouring from the chinneys and cupolas
day and night are outward indica-
tions of perhaps the busiest part OF
these United States. The thousands
of men employed in them earn big
wages, but the profits to the manu-
facturers are immense else they
could not live like princes, nor regard
dollars as we do pennies. 1t is not at
all wonderful that the Pennsylvanians
are in favor of a high tariff-who
wouldn't favor an addition to his in
come Of from so to 70 per cent? 1t is
rank heresy to argue for tariff re-
form in Pittsburg-especially when
Chris Magee is "ag'in" it.
Just across the river from Pittsburg
is Allegheny City, which would be a
big and notable place of itself were it
not in the shadow of the former city.
Other big towns and smaller villages
are all around it, forming Allegany
county, one of the richest and busiest
portions of the world.
The main topic of conversation at
the present time is the Homestead
strike. While the strikers have the
sympathy and support of their fellow
laborers, they are not altogether APP
proved of by the people generally,
who say that their lot is not such an
unhappy one as the outside public is
led to believe. The dreadful treat
ment of tie Pinkerton men can only
bring reproach upon the strikers, who
behaved in manner that would put
Sioux Indian to shame. Pretty
nearly everyone OF the forty or fifty
thousand able-bodied men in Pitts
burg feels mean when he thinks that
he remained at his ease in the city all
of that fateful Wednesday, while just
up the river few miles couple OF
hundred of his fellowmen, cooped up
defenseless in those Unprotected
barges, endured the agonies Of hell
for twelve long hours. The horror OF
this performance has harmed the
strikers cause, who otherwise were
not being so severely blamed for try
ing to obtain a share Of the great
profits they were making for MIR. Car
negie and his associates. The work
men, it seems reasonable, are just as
much entitled to receive the benefits
of protection as Neutrality-suspicious.
has as much right as the other to the
free gift given by the government in
the form of protection.
1t would be hard to find more
pious place than Pittsburg is on Sun
DAYS. The blue laws of Pennsylvania
are enforced with a vengeance. You
can't buy beer, or ice-cream, or soda
water, or cigars, or ice, or supplies of
any sort on the Sabbath-you can't
get shaved. Every place Of business
is kept tight shut. It's very fine
thing, too. 1t gives people in every
sort of business chance for rest,
and there is no real hardship to any
one because they cannot buy and sell.
1t tends to morality and decency and
shows that Sabbath dissertation in the
large cities is entirely unnecessary.
Take it all in all, Pittsburg is very
fine town. Work is plentiful and bus.
mess opportunities abundant, while
good pay and profitable prices are
the rule in almost all branches Of bus
mess. The people are energetic and
clever and hospitable. The place, in
spite of all that has been said about
it, has more beauty and greater at
fractions than many places that are
usually regarded as model cities.
Pittsburg is all right.