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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
AN ANTIPoDAL EXAMPLE

The statement that the Governor of the
province of Queensland has determined to
adopt the policy of prohibiting all immi-
grafton for an indefinite period, shows that
other countries besides our own are
troubled with the immigration problem. 1t
might be supposed that Queensland, which
was first settled within the memory of
middle-ageG people, and which must still
possess immense tracts of unsettled coun-
try, was far from reaching the point where
it could shut off immigration; but by this
report the decision seems to have been
practically made.
Complaints have been general in Aus
tralia that undesirable immigrants have
been sent to those provinces. 1t is natural
to think that countries which in their in
ception met and solved the problem of
convict immigration could get along with
out being so nice at an advanced stage.
But Australia has already adopted our
example in excluding Chinese immigration,
and Queensland is now on the point of
going far beyond our instructions by stop
ping all immigration and thence building
up system of regulations by which de-
sirable immigrants may be admitted.
The United States will not adopt so
sweeping policy as that of Queensland;
and the rule is So arbitrary as to create a
suspicion that it may be melted by the
great landowners to protect themselves
against having their estates cut up by the
free selectors, corresponding to the home
steaders of this country. But with this
example set by an English colony, Europe
cannot blame the United States if it
adopts stringent regulations with regard
to the character and sanitary condition of
all future immigration.
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PREMATURE DENUNcIaTIoN.

Some of our esteemed cotemporaries,
who are making a strong effort to combine
an opposition to free silver coinage with
Democracy; are very wroth with the Re-
publican minority in the House because
they did not vote With the minority of the
Democracy On the question of order last
week by which a day was fixed for the
consideration Of the Bland bill The es-
tetmed Philadelphia Record uses rather
strong language on Jfis point as follows:
Had they voted with the Democratic op-
pOnenrs o. free silver coinage there would
have been a majority of six votes only in
favor OF the measure. But by their shameful
betray al Of principle they have helped the
swindle to a majority of los votes: and with
this majority q prestige which it will be
difficult, If not impossible, to overcome. y
Should free silver coinage be ultimately
attained a large share of the responsibility
Tor it would rest with the Republican par
tisans who voted for its consideration on
Monday last.
Wha5 was the principle" at stake in
the votes Of Monday? First, whether the
Speaker was right in deciding that a re-
port from the Committee on Rules could
ne considered bef re the reading of the
journal; second, whether day should be
fZed Tor the consideration of the silver
act On the first point every Congress
man ought to have been honest enough to
vote for his views on parliamentary law,
although, probably, few were. On the
next it is entirely honest for man who is
opposed to measure to favor taking it I'D
and settling it one way or the other. In
neither OF these respects is there any
sound reason for blaming the Repub-
licanS.
When the Republicans vote in favor of
the Bland bill on its passage, there will be
some ground for talking of their s'be-
trayal Of principle" Any prestige"
that the bill gets will be by that vote on
its passage. Until then talk of the kind
quoted from our Democratic cotemporarv
mast be credited to anguish over the pros
nect of its own party getting on record
on the wrong side of the question.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
PITTSBURG. SUNDAY, MARCH ls.
OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IMPROVED.
The most notable feature of the nro.

The most notable feature of the pro-
ceedings before the New York Senatorial
inquiry into the Reading deal yesterday
was the superior knowledge exhibited by
the interested officials, as compared with
the ignorance professed on similar occa-
sions. But the knowledge was admitted
for purposes Of argument, and argument
Of such specious and self-contradictory
nature as is seldom met with. No one de-
nies that successful combination has the
power to reduce prices, but few sane per-
sons will believe that there is any inclina-
tion to make use of the monopolistic
power in that way. Were the question a
less serious one for the public, NJ. Nc
Leod'S claims that the purchasing public
viii be a beneficiary from the deal would
be merely ludicrous.
No one of sound sense can be gulled by
a special pleader who in one breath
speaks of lowering prices by combination,
and in the next says that the remaining
competition will prevent an increase.
Competition is here admitted to be public
benefit in one case, and everyone knows
that it is so all the time. But without
going further President McLeod's practi-
cal admission that the object of the COM
bination is to lessen competition is enough
TO show that the deal is contrary to the
Constitution.
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proposition, that is not its most glaring
weakness. The idea that the workingman
is not to be trusted with his own savings,
and that the Government must appropri.
ate portion Of his earnings and lay it up
for his old age, is the most paternal and
least progressive theory of society. If the
Government will protect the earnings Of
the people against the manipulations of
great operators and inculcate intelligence
and Independence among the masses,
there will be few workingmen who cannot
make better investment Of that $225-if
they are able to save 1t up-than In the
purchase of the Government annuity pro-
posed in the bill.
1t is much better to create state Of So
ciety in which workingmen can earn good
wages, and to protect their savings against
the raids Of corporate and stock-gambling
sharks, than to treat them like children
whose money must be taken away from
them for fear they will spend it foolishly.
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POINT AS TO TEUsTs.

The answer of the National Cordage
Trust to suits begun against it by parties
who had entered its combination suggests
a point of value to people who feel in
clined to enter combinations in restraint
of competition. The suits as stated in a
special article were to enforce the con-
tracts under which the output of cordage
was to be controlled and which the trust
after it had taken on the corporate form
found it convenient to repudiate. The
defense was that the contract was one
formed for the restraint of competition
and was therefore against public policy
and null.
The only novelty about this point is its
being raised in favor of Trust which, to
escape its own contracts, declares its own
illegality. The defense was a perfectly
valid one. The courts have declared time
and again that the law will not permit it.
self to be used to enforce illegal contracts
either for or against the parties which
make them. These decisions have gener-
ally been made when some combination
has sought the aid of the law to
make insubordinate members live up
to the agreement; but the novel
spectacle of q combination re-
pudiating its own agreement on account
of its violation of public policy rests on
exactly the same indisputable legal founda-
ton. The manufacturing concern which
goes into combination cannot enforce its
contract against the combination any more
than the com bination can enforce the con-
tract against the individual member.
This principle is we'll known to all who
have paid any attention to the law on the
subject of trusts and combinations; but
to judge from the hunger Of the business
world for real or Fictitious profits to be
secured from combinations it is not gen.
orally understood there. 1t may make
little difference to business men who are
thinking of joining Trust, if they know
that the Trust can at any time repudiate
the contract without the slightest legal
obstacle.
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cHAMBERLAIN's PENSION SCHEME

M. Joseph Chamberlain has taken a
leaf at once from Prince Bismarck's prop.
osition and from the ideas of the Socialists
10 the extent of drawing up plan for
pensioning aged workingmen. 1t is
rather strange to find a man allied with a
Conservative Cabinet proposing that the
Government shall take charge of plan
Of pensions for workingmen; but such are
the exigencies of politics. The immediate
Indictment seems to be that Mr. John
Morley. who is Mr.. Chamberlain's hated
rival, has proposed that the Government
pension aged workingmen at cost of
some S3G, ,0O0, 900 annually. This made it
necessary for Mr.. Chamberlain to develop
his plan.
MT. ChambeTlain's proposition is that
the 60 vernment shall take it in hand to
see that every pensioner provides his own
pension. Every workingman, when 25
years old, must deposit SIS, and every
year thereafter he must pay in S.. When
he reaches the age of 65, or has kept up
these payments for 40 years, he is to get a
pension of 81 25 per week.
If the payment of S25 in 40 years has
interest on it compounded semi-annually,
the resulting payment of pension Of Sos
for the term of the working mans life
VIII be little, if any better, than could be
got from almost any annuity company.
But whiie there does not seem to
be any especial liberality in the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
BLACK GOWN OR NO GOWN.
A Presbyterian Ministers Decision to We
One Creates Dissension.

A Presbyterian Ministers Decision to Wear
One Creates Dissension.
PHILADELPHIA, March 12-The action Of
Rev. Dr.. Charles Wood, Of the First Presby.
terian Church Of Germantown, in declaring
his intention to wear a black gown during
the opening services Of the new church, has
aroused warm discussions among the con-
gregarions Of other Presbyterian churches
throughout the city. The clergymen, as a
rule, side with the reverend doctor, while
many OF the laymen are equally as firmly
opposed to the innovation.
John A. Black, Superintendent Of the
Presbyterian Publication Society, is a strong
supporter of Dr.. Wood. He says: "There is
no reason why the congregation should take
exception to this action OF DR., Woods. He
has the privilege Of wearing gown II he SO
desires, just as several other clerRymen Of
our denomination have, who have worn the
garment in question for years. Rev. Drs.
Dickey, Macintosh and Munro are OF this
number. The question as to what a clergy.
, man shall or shall not wear should be left to
the good judgment of the person most in
terested. Certainly no congregation can
rightfully claim that the Doctors action is
in any way an Infringement Of the ecclesi-
astical laws"
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makes 1t important to note that the Brit
ish investors are already beginning to find
out the old lesson that the promise Of big
dividends and the payment Of them are
two widely distinct performances.
The Inpsstor's Rsvisss, Of London, points
this out In detail. Two Chicago brewery
companies have so far come up to expec-
tatlons by paying 10 per cent dividends,
but they have made nothing for reserves,
and written of nothing for de probation
of plant. The San Francisco breweries
have not yielded their ordinary share
holders any dividends for year. The
Chicago Grain Elevators, Limited, was for
its first dividend period short $4,000 OF
meeting its ordinary preference charges,
and nothing has since been heard Of divi-
dends. The Otis Steel Company, Of Cleve-
land, which was to have paid 20 per cent
dividend, paid per cent in 1880, and the
shareholders are now inquiring whether
they will get anything for 1891. An inn
proved cattle car company's bonds were
introduced to British investors in the most
glowing terms in 1889, and they are now
quoted at 10 per cent discount on the issue
price.
These facts are calculated to make
Englishmen shy Of American investments;
and yet the whole business was entirely
an English method. The only share
which the people Of this country had in
the matter was to sell their properties to
the English syndicates. The real lesson
is the very obvious one that watered stock
and remote ownership Of highly capital
lied industrial corporations cannot sue
cessfully take the place of the personal
direction and close supervision of individ-
ual or partnership ownership.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
LIGHT LITTLE LAUGHS

Edwin (amateur photographer )-That's
it! Another plate spoiled!''
Angena-What spoiled 1t?
Edwin-The light of your eyes.
T. .S.-Engaged.-Puck.
A woman might secret keep,
And safe forever lock it,
If she would only think to put
The secret in her pocket.
''You believe in signs, don't you?" said
the newspaper man to the actor.
'.Oh, yes, ~ was the reply.
well, what do You consider lucky sign?''
''Writing your name at the bottom of a contract
for good salary.-Washinoton Star.
''The sighs 1 am sighing," the poet had
written,
'.Are uttered for thee, dear, but uttered for
theer'
''The size of your sighing." said she who had
smitten,
'Is TOO utter for me. dear. too utter for me.''
Pomona Times.
Railroad Conductor-Two tickets, please,
for the dOuble-headed boy.
Manager-I've got only one and they'll ride on
that.
Railroad Conductor-No. they won't. If you
don't pay another fare IN put one Of them OIL
Judge.
To speed the buds the sun came out;
On this the poet wrote . sonnet
That praised the flowers but left out
The blossoms an Easter bonnet
-Paot,cket Times.
"I'm as happy as king, said Lottle IN
the nursery.
why don't you say ace. Lottie?' said her
little brother Jack. "A ace is Digger'n king"
--Ne,otOpa Nelos.
Miss Bleecker of New York; was just
uckled to death.
Miss Emerson Of Boston-I was also fatally
titillated. Judge.
This difference twixt the optimist
And pessimist you find;
One notes the clouds. the other talks
About the light behind.
-Nezo York Press.
inebriddle-Snively is dentist now.
Gidersleeve-And rich, of course?
..Wby, OF course?''
'.Because all dentists do pain busiuen."-
Smith, GRAY q Co, g Monthly
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
NEAR THE PERIOD OF GRACE
Prof. Totten Predicts Seven Years OF JUDI
ment Upon Mankind.

Prof Totten Predicts Seven Years OF Juds-
ment Upon Mankind.
NEW HAVEN, March 12.-Prof. Totten, Of
Yale College, said to-day with reference to
his work, "The Hope of History" just pub
dshed:
"My treatment Of the flood is chiefly chro-
biological and astronomical 1t proves that
Moses was accurate. account for the flood
in this way. The waters above the hrma-
ment were great ring of drift, vapor, SCOT
and smoke. just like that which surrounds
Saturn at this minute, and that, which was
once n belt about all the planets, fell. That
was the deluge.
"In 1888 and 1858 the stars fell according to
prediction. They we're the over-ripe fruit of
this tottering ring Of meteorites, which some
day is to come down upon the earth.
"a scientific spike through Noah's ark, I
deem to be the result Of my most important
calculations. We are at the edge of the
period of grace, and before us, from the end
of this March, there stretch seven years Of
Judgment upon all mankind. In many places
it has begun. Now, the Savior predicted
this to be as certain as the deluge was true.
believe the flood. in its vindication, is one
of the signs of his coming"
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SOCIALISM, IN ez1xAzY.
Members Of This Organization Cast More
Than Oue-Eifth Of the Total Vote.

Members Of This Organization Cast More
Than One-Fifth Of the Total Vote.
Portland Oresonian.1
Germany is already the most socialistio
State in the world. Out Of 24,oae miles OF
railroad all but ., ,4Se in 1880 were owned by
the Government, which. from owing 81 per
cont In 1s76 and 81 per cent in 1881, now owns
81 per cent. The State. partly by taxation
and partly by levyfng on employees and en-
ployed, paid to 1aborers in 1858 sick insur-
ance in l662 $40 cases, with total Of 40 62s ITO
days Of illness. Two years ago, January !.
$780, 1881, 248 German work1ngmen were en-.
5oyfng state insurance for accident, and the
sum paid to widows and children under this
law was s., ,b00.0 900 in 1859. When the old age
insurance law, which went into effect Janu-
ary1 l, 1891. is in full operation the German
Government expects to be paying out ST.
0O0,000 year in pensions to superanuated
workmen. The State socialism of the peO-
pie is merely an extension of the policy of
the Government.
The German public is growing strong and
conscious of its strength. The history OF
constructive Germsn socialism begins with
duel in 1868. just before his death the So
c1al1sts cast 900 votes at their first appear
anes az 9s IN a IN to In ISL they cast ia oo
reaction of the nobiling attempt their vote
fell OFF; in 1884, it rose to 550,000 in 1883 to
770OOO, and in 1880 the Socialists cast ,427.323
votes. or one-hfth of the total poll in the
German empire. During nearly half of this
time socialism has been under severe re-
preston. After two attempts to assassin
ate the Emperor, in 1878, Bismarck in
troduced and passed legislation against
Socialists and socialism which remained
u years on the German statute book.
Under it arrests were frequent, imprison-
ments constant. and the prescription of
socialist speakers and the press Of the party
unremitting. This legislation was modified
two years ago by those labor recripts Of the
young Emperor, which Cardinal Manning
thought "the wisest and worthiest act that
has proceeded from any sovereign in our
times" The German people were as de-
lighted as Manning, until it appeared that
the emperor intended the act as q mere
benevolence and proposed to rule as q mild,
but absolute autocrat, the father Of his
people, but their master. The role grows
vastly unpopular in spite of the good will
with which he plays it. The probability ia
that William will have a much less comfort
able reign than monarch with less benevo.
lence and more common sense.
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AFRICAN RAILWAY PROJECTA
A Remarkable Illustration OF the Progress
of Events in the Dark Continent.
New York Sun.

of Events in the Dark Continent.
New York Sun.l
Two railroad projects of great interest are
now developing in East Africa. The British
Government has been authorized by Parlia-
ment to pay large part Of the expense of
the preliminary survey for the railroad from
Mombasa to Victoria Nyanza. This insures
the completion Of the survey and ample
capital to build the railroad is assured. 1t Is
admitted that this road will practically end
the slave trade in the Victoria Nyanza
region. Slaves are still caught there in large
numbers, and are used as porters to take to
the coast the ivory and other merchandise
Of the Arab traders. The slave traffic is now
carried On chiefly to obtain porters, but
when railroad runs from the lake to the
sea the Arabs will use 1t as q quicker. safer
cheaper means OF transportation. The rail-
road will have profound influence upon the
that the resources Of that part of inner
Africa cannot be developed until 1t is built.
The other project will be completed first.
This Is the road from Port Beira ON the In
dian Ocean, about 25O miles west to Mashon-
aland. Tie capital for this road has been
subscribed, both the Portuguese, Mozam.
biQue and the British South Africa COM
panies are represented in the Board of Con-
troll, and the construction of the line is to
begin next month. Track laying will be ex-
tended far toward Mashonaland by the end
of the year. 1t Is a remarkable illustration
OF the rapid progress of events in Africa that
projects are soon to be realized which will
out discomfort regions that were 80 long O
great mystery, and the story of whose ex-
ploration has been followed by the world
with so much interest.
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Obituary Notes.

PROF. SrENBERG, the eminent specialist in
mental diseases. died yesterday in Copenhagen.
REV. DIR. CAIRNS, Principal Of the United Pres
byterian College at Edinburgh. and q prominent
Presbyterian divine, died suddenly yesterday.
BRIGADIER GENERAL DUNLEY STEELE4 of the
New Jersey National Guard. died yesterday morn
ing at Orange, N: j. He served throughput the
War Of the Rebellion rs paymaster's clerk. He
was born In Jersey City in 1859.
CAPTAIN W. D. NICHOLAS, one of the most en- :
terprising citizens Of Lexington. KY. died there
Friday. He had been cashier for years of ihe Sec
ond National Bank. He gained his title in the Con-
federate army under the command Of General John
H. Morgan
HARRIEr CovENEY, an English actress Of half a
century's experience, is dead at the age Of o. She
made her debut in her childhood, and in the sixties
she was noted as Coincidence, vocalist and
dancer. About 1873 she visited this county, and
wss quite successful in comic opera.
THOMAS BELL, comedian and general Variety
performer. died in Salt Lake City several days ago
aged "a. He was travelling with q vaudeville
troupe and was associated with John Shanndn as y
skketch team.n Bell was considered very clever
comedian, and had been in number ofluceessful
farcess
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Why Parson Jasper VIII wed Again,

RICHMOND, VA, March H.-Rev. John Jas
per, the most noted colored preacher in the
world. ana exponent Of the "Sun Do Move"
theory, announces that In few days he will
take his third wife. The old man has been
in bad health for some time and made his
will a few DAYS ago. In It he did not leave
all his estate to his married daughter, who
kept house for him. For this reason Dr.
Jasper says she and her husband plotted
to take his life, SO he sent them away, and
now he must have wife for housekeeper
The prospective bride is nearly as old as
he is.
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DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Bishop Bedell, of Ohio.

Rt Rev. Gregory Thurston Bedell, third
Episcopal bishop of Ohio. died at the Dakota
Flats. in New York, at noon Friday. Bishop
Bedell was over so years of age and had been an
invalid for number of years. He had lived in
quiet retirement at the Dakota building during
the past three years with his wife, Desth was due
to paralysis and old age. The funeral will take
place from the Church of the Ascension, and the
burial at Gambler: o.
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City Water Works Break Loose.

LEAvENwoRrH, KAN, March 12-Shortly
before noon to-day the weight OF the water
in the new water works reservoir on the
reservation north of the city forced out the
slush pipe, and nearly 100000 gallons Of
water went out in about an hour, washing g.
quantity of mud and debris across the rail
way tracks below the hill. 1t Is not thought
that the break will materially affect the
city's water supply, as the water company
will make use or the old reservoirs until the
break is repaired.
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Two Western Wolf Hunts.

wolf drive was great success yesterday.
Over 200 men took part, when the roundup
was finished there were within the circle 80
wolves, hundreds of jack rabbits and a soli-
tary bear, which finally got away. Seven
teen OF the wolves were killed. A dispatch
from Fergus Falls. says: A wolf hunt here,
indulged in by 5000 men, succeeded in round
ing up two forlorn specimens, one of which
escaped,
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Presidents and Potentates Iuyited.

CHICAGO, March R.-The Worlds Fair
Joint Committee on Ceremonies has ap-
pointed committee to wait upon the
President of the United States, the Vice
President Judges of the Supreme Court,
members of the Cabinet and represen tatives
of foreign nations, to invite their presence
at the dedication ceremonies in October.