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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
THE PROPER TAX LEVY.

1t is reported that the presentation OF
the appropriation ordinance will be again
postponed for the reason that further
time is needed to determine the tax rate
which will be required. This reason is
not valid against presenting to Councils
the ordinance with a statement of the
amounts appropriated, leaving the tax
rate blank until the factors which deter
mine it are settled. Indeed, on the theory
that Councils will exercise their own dis
cretion in fixing the amount of the appro-
priationS, this is the only course that can
be taken. If Councils should increase or
diminish the appropriations reported by
the Finance Committee the tax rate must
be increased or diminished also. For that
reason the appropriations should be re-
ported at once in order to permit a thor
ough scrutiny of their amounts.
In the meantime, it is to be hoped that
the additional time will be utilized in
gaining a clear perception of the degree
to which the new valuation must decrease
the millage, if it is not to be used for the
purpose of effecting an actual increase of
taxation. This can be seen most clearly
by comparison Of the rates and amounts
raised by taxation during the past six
years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
A POSSIBILITY OF MONOPOLY.

The subsequent reports as to the i'm.
pending coal strike in England cast con-
siderable doubt on the previous statement
that it was a movement agreed upon be-
tween the coal miners and operators to
raise the price of coal On the contrary
the latest statements indicate that it is
bona .Jide attempt of the latter to force
ten per cent reduction in wages, and the
prior statement was probably an inven-
ton to cloak the actual purpose
1t is plain that no such universal sus-
pension as the first report indicated could
be carried out unless the entire coal in
dustry were controlled by single organi-
zation. One operator would get tired Of
having his. capital stand idle, and his
miners would get tired Of going hungry.
After one or two had led the way to re-
sumption the rest would follow like
flock of sheep.
It is worth noticing that such control
as the Reading railroad deal proposes to
establish over the anthracite industry
would make it possible to employ this
method Of squeezing the consumers Of
coal And in that method it is also worthy
of mention that the miners would do all
the going hungry while the monopoly
would take all profits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
STANFoRD's STAB AT SILVER,

1t is little difficult to Judge from the
telegraphic summary of the Hon. Leland
Stanfords new silver bill exactly what the
multi millionaire soft money statesman
wants to accomplish. 1t is stated to pro-
vide that the Secretary of the Treasury
shall purchase at the market price such
silver bullion as may be offered, but he is
not to pay over a dollar for BIZ grains.
He is to issue for the purchase of this
bullion such money as may be necessary
without regard to the material of which
the money thus put into circulation shall
be composed Nothing is said in the sum-
mary of the manner in which the money
is to be redeemed, and the inference is
that the Senator does not contemplate its
redemption at all
That the Senator wishes to have the
Treasury buy all the silver of the mines of
his section, and that he wants a general
and unrestricted issue of paper money has
been evident enough in his previous acts
That is the price which he desires the
nation to pay-at least so far as the intro
duction of bills goes-for the luxury of a
Presidential nomination for Leland STAN
lOIu- Dut "hd1 diC hC W hldhC VI tllc
provision limiting purchases to the price
of 81 for 371H grains of silver? The
United States statutes epdeavor to enact
that 4121z grains of silver shall constitute
dollar, and the complaint of the silver
men has been that the Government has
failed in its duty to make the obstinate
markets of the world respect that law.
Yet, here comes a Senator from that
silvery section who, while proposing that
the United States Treasury shall load
itself up with all the silver there is, and
load the country up with an indefinite
amount of paper money in exchange, also
says the price of silver shall always be ten
per cent below its statutory coinage level.
When the Senator's constituents learn
that he has gone back on the great cause
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
PITTSBURG. SATURDAY. MARCH 5.
TWELVE PAGES
LESSONS TO LEARN,

While the iron market is at present in a
critical condition there is no reason for
any great dependency. The result
duction, and that of course has been
involved by miscalculation on the part of
those investing their capital in this in
dustry. The existing condition cannot
last long and change is bound to take
the form of an improvement.
Meanwhile there are other lessons to be
learned besides the most obvious one that
caution should be exercised in making
investments which are likely to en-
danger glutting of the market
For one thing, our iron manufacturers
have not turned their attention
sufficiently to the extension of their mar
ket in foreign fields. There has not been
enough enterprise in bidding for the de-
mands of South America, while there is
nothing like foreign trade to tide over
temporary depression at home. Then,
too, the unusual competition should show
once more that necessity is the mother
of invention, and lead to economical i'm
provements in many of the existing waste
full uses of fuel Expenses again can be
reduced enormously by increased facili-
ties for transportation, and there should
be strong and earnest effort made to
push the improvement of our waterways
and urge the building of the ship canal to
connect lakes and rivers.
If attention be paid to these matters, in
proportion to their seriousness, the un-
SatiSfa ctOry state pf affairs will haStan
toward its end, and its repetition may be
prevented by little more foresight than
has been shown in the past.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
HE OUGHr To RE WISER.

If it be true that the British cabinet has
refused to continue the naodus csoe,dS to
suspend sealing operations in Behring Sea,
pending arbitration, it has put itself pains
takingly and provokingly in the wrong.
Of course such step would indicate that
the effort to reconcile the Canadian de-
mands with the obligations of international
negotiations was too much for the Tory
Ministry. It would, however, be no less a
notification. of the understanding upon
which arbitration proceedings were begun.
The course of the United States, if the
report should prove true, would be diff
cult. Talk is heard of resuming the seiz-
ures in Behring's Sea, which would of
danger of an armed collision with q
naval power greatly our superior. An
other proposition is to shut out Canadian
railroads from our territory, which, with a
great crop to be moved to the seaboard,
would be biting off the agricultural nose
in the interest of the American trunk
lines.
1t is highly improbable that the Tory
cabinet would so clearly repudiate its own
arrangement unless it was desirous of pro-
voking enmity between the United States
and England. As that course on the eve Of
a general election would place an ad-
ditional seal on the certainty of his own
defeat, we must be permitted to doubt the
probability of such folly on Lord Salisbury's
part. The common sense of both England
and the United States recognizes that all the
seals in the Pacific Ocean would not COM
pensate for month of war between the
two nations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
ADAY OF PHILANTHROPY.


Professor Swing Favors > Cross Between
the European and Puritanic Sunday,
Rochester Union Advertiser.I
Prof. David Swing, of Chicago, contributes
to the March Forum q highly Interesting
paper on "What the American Sunday
Should Be-" in which he attacks both the
European" and tho 'Puritanic' Sunday,
but points out the merit in both. From his
standpoint he Is incapable Of being as fair
to the European as to the Purftanio Sunday,
although he says expressly that "the United
States cannot. As nation, deal heavily In
religious ideas. The Sunday Of those who
worship Creator, must add to tho beauties
Of tho citizens Sunday acts and hours Of
worship and deeds of charity" This is q
principle worth examining. in q secular
way, Of course, for Sunday has its secular
side. If Sunday is to derive its main sacred
ness from the deeds of practical benevolence
with which it is to be associated, it will be
time to inquire what becomes Of its dtstinc-
tive association with sacred things. Religion
and philanthropy are supposed to be nearly
akin; but great philanthropist may have
NO fixed religious views; SO that in the case
of free thinker there seems no reason why
he should take Sunday for deeds Of philan-
thropy, since Sunday Is q Rev Testament
day pure and simple and derives its sole i'm
portance and sacredness from what is
claimed for it in the New Testament.
II this principle-that 10 the conservation
Of q natural and customary leisure day to
mark a certain memory-were adopted, we
should soon have no Decoration, Fourth of
July. Thanksgiving or Christmas DAY. The
proper days for those national or religious
oDservances would be the last Sunday in
May, the first Sunday in July, the last Sun
day in November and the last Sunday in De-
cember, respectively. But Decoration Day
has been fixed by the unanimous appoint
ment for the a0th of May. Independence Day
would be no anniversary II it fell other than
on the 4th of July. Thanksgiving Day falls
by an old and honored custom on the last
Thursday in November, and as for Christ
mas the clock Of the world would seem to be
out Of order if it fell other than on the 25th
Of December. This is an interesting thought
the idea Of Sunday as philanthropic day.
and looks very fair on the surface; but the
objection is a very ready one. People can
not rest and work for others at the same
time. A little time devoted every day to
works of charity and mercy" would equal a
whole Sunday Of exhausting exertion. Prof.
Swing evidently wants . cross between the
European" and the puritan" Sunday. 1t
is q want which 1t may take some time TO
see supplied.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
HIGH ON THE LADDER.

PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard Univer-
sisy, started on Tuesday for two months
trip to the Pacific coast.
MRS CLEVELAND is said to live in appre-
hension that her little daughter will be kid
naped by some ruthless villain.
The Rev. Joseph Cook believes that not
enough ''topless heaven and bottomless
hell" is preached in the churches nova
days.
THE splendid gifts of Mr.. Hotchkiss to
Yale include building fund of $50, 900 and
an endowment of $4,000 for the establish
ment of preparatory school.
MAJOR s G. BROCK, Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics. is authority for the statement
that the farmers of this country are not
greater borrowers than other classes of bust
ness men.
SECRETARY BLAINE is still confined to
the house with q cold, and was compelled to
deny himself to visitors yesterday. He ex-
poets to be able to resume business at the
State Department to-day.
PRESIDENT MCLEOD, who is now in a
position to water not less than $780, OOO, ,OGO of
coal railroad stock, wasi less than 20 years
ago, borrower of 500 with which to lay in
q stock of mineral water as q starter in busi-
ness.
Ex-SPEAKER REED once defined q
statesman as a successful politician who is
dead. This week a Boston man telegraphed
him, asking, "Why don't you dieF" This
was the reply he received: 'Not yet; fame
is the last infirmity Of noble minds."
DIsRAELI had no rival in the art of
making graceful compliments. When the
Chinese Ambassador once conveyed to him
through an interpreter his regret that ne
could not speak English, DisraeH replied:
"Pray tell His Excellency that hope he will
remain in this country until can speak
Chinese"
COUNT DOUGLAS, one Of the members of
the German Reichstag, is rapidly rising in
the estimation of Emperor William, and
may, according to reports become a mem
Der of the Imperial Cabinet. He is exceed
ingly wealthy, and, as his name indicates, is
descendant of the famous Douglases of
Scotland.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
A,notint

In view of the latest estimates that the
change in classifcations will bring the to-
tai valuation up to $3.50, 1000, 900 or $780,
600, 600, it is evident that a nine-mill rate
will raise the average revenue of the past
six years, during which period eXpendi-
lures outside of interest, sinking fund, ed
ucation and public charities, were two and
a half times greater than at the beginning
of the sos. 1t is true that the levy for the
last two years exceeded the average stated
above, but there are very obvious reasons
for the decrease of expenditures, as well
as tax levy, this year. .
In the first place the increase of revenue
from licenses will this year equal mill of
tax levy on the most conservative esti-
mate. This will about balance the de-
ficiency of last year. Next, the past two
years have included liberal expenditures
for praiseworthy objects, but which do not
now require such large appropriations.
The parks are not only paid for, but they
are furnished with miles of well-con-
structed roadway. Their further orna-
mentatlon is work of class which can
best be done by gradual expenditure. The
principal avenues have been repaved, and
further expenditure in that line can be
confined to streets in which the old pave
ments are broken up. Enough can be
saved on these two items to reduce the ex-
penditures to the very liberal average of
the past six years.
In addition the prosperity of the city in
1880 justified liberal expenditures. But
prosperity can be taxed out Of city. The
indications for business this year require
relief from taxation. Councils should see
that appropriations are held down to the
point which will require no more than
ten mill levy on the present estimate of
valuation
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
MEXICO A BUYER

Tho First Shipment Of Corn to that Coun-
try Has Been Made.
ST. LOUIS Mo-, March 4.-The initial step in
what is expected to prove q large business
was taken on the Merchants$ Exchange to-
day by call for 1900 bushels of corn for
shipment to Mexico by the Tampico
route. This sale. although not of
great importance regarded as single
transaction is the first of its kind ever
made. During, former years Mexico has
raised q corn crop ample at all times for its
own use. Last year there was a failure of
the crop, and the United States has been
called upon to supply the deficiency. The
sale to-day is understood as signifying that
the Mexican reserves have been exhausted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
UNCLE JERRY'S BOOM.

From Washington comes the pleasing
news that the dissentient Republican lead
ers have settled on a man with whom
they intend to capture the Republican
nomination. He will, according to the in
spired declaration of the Washington cor
respondent of the Boston Journal, ''com-
mend himself to the Republican leaders
and to the rank and file as 'vote-get-
ter" His 'record and popular quail
ties'' are such as will secure the support
of t'the agricultural classes and he would
be certain to have very large following
among the farmers" Also 'his quaint
personality would make him picturesque
figure in the national campaign and would
stimulate enthusiasm" Which appears
to be the development of a boom for Uncle
Jerry Rusk.
There have been reasons to suspect the
presence of a Presidential bee in the bon
net of the Hon. Jeremiah Rusk since he
accomplished the great work of getting
the Weather Bureau transferred to
his department. The pull, which
would be possessed by Secretary of
Agriculture who operated the Weather
Bureau in strict accordance with agricul-
tural requirements, was an evident fact.
The Secretary's determination to have
nothing but Republican weather mani
Tested early in the reorganization was
clear indication of his desire for the politi-
cal usufruct of meteorological administra-
tion. But the proposition to realize on it
this year sounds little premature. The
Secretary of Agriculture should get his
bureau into better shape in order to pre-
serve more unvarying harmony between
its predictions and subsequent events in
the line of temperature, wind and pre-
cipitation before he essays to capture the
Presidency withal.
Besides which Uncle Jerry, with other
members of the Cabinet Is understood to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
THE ETHICS OF sAvAGERY.

1t is an interesting indication of the pos
sibility of turning an exponent of civiliza-
ton into champion of barbarism to find
Texarkana newspaper defending the
burning of negro at the stake in that
place. The precious argument is as fol-
lows:
In all ages of the heather and Christian
churches the faith has been propagated by
burning unbelievers, and those who ordered
the burnings were at the head of the moral
and religious classes of their ages, regarded
as good, pious, moral and often of extremely
tender and sympathetic natures.
In other words this newspaper, which
might to be supposed by its very nature to
represent modern civilization, places itself
and its community on the platform of the
witch and heretic-burners of two and
three centuries ago, and upholds the prac-
tice of demonstrating religious truth by
the convincing argument of incinerating
alive all who will not be otherwise con-
vinced. This is pleasing illustration of
the possibilities of an unrestricted and en-
hghtened press
But even that weak defense is not true:
The cruelties of the dark ages had at
least the semblance of law People were
not burned to death until they had under
gone trial under laws which were
stupidity savage and barbarously unfair.
The Texas and Arkansas reaction into
savagery acknowledges no law except the
cruelty and violence of brutal mob.
1t is very clear from this formal revival
of the crime and cruelty of the dark ages
that no one with any desire to live in a
civilized atmosphere, and to enjoy the
protection of law, can be guilty of the
folly of living or investing in any prop
erty in section where the ethics of saw
ages have survived throughout the nine
teenth century.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05

CHICAGO, March 4-Vice Chairman Donald.
of the Central Traffic Association, received
advices this afternoon from General Passen-
ger Agent Schulz, of the Baltimore and Ohio,
and General Passenger Agent Ford, of Penn
sylvania lines, to the effect that the con-
ference at Cincinnati resulted satisfactory
to all parties, and that the passenger fares
between Columbus, Chicago and st. Louis
will. be restored to fnll traffic rates, taking
effect March Is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
TO ABOLISH GRACE DAYa
The American Banking Association See No
Reason for tho Custom.

The American Banking Association See No
Reason for tho Custom.
NEW YORK, March 4-The Executive Coun-
Gil of the American Banking. Association
has decided to draft bill to abolish days of
grace, and to have it introduced
into the Legislatures Of the different
States. Days Of grace are as old as
banking itself, but under present facilities
for doing business, bankers think there is
no reason for their existence in law or
custom. There should, they say. be at least
uniformity in regard to days of grace in the
laws of the different States.
As it is now, Alabama, Arizona. North and
South Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine,
Massachusetts,, Nebraska, New Jersey, North
and South Carolina, Rhode Island and other
States allow days of grace on sight drafts,
while in New York, New Hampshire, Mary
land, Pennsylvania and other States
they are not allowed. In some States days
of grace are allowed on one kind Of drafts,
and not allowed on other kinds. while in
other States exactly the reverse is true.
Hence the necessity for uniformity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05

have pointed the finger of apprehension at
Secretary Blaine for permitting his boom
to swell to dangerous proportions while he
remained in the Harrison Cabinet. If
this sort of thing goes on, Mr.. Russell Har-
rison will have the duty of demanding
statement of Uncle Jerry's intentions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
EVEN at, the cost

EVEN at the cost of a serious illness, 1t is
a relief to have a lull in partisan chickering's
and hear a man praised for his amiable
characteristics apart from his political be-
liefs. 1t is now hoped that Mr.. Springer will
recover, and that his return to health will
evoke much rejoicing is evidenced by the
warm expressions Of feeling which have
emanated from members of all parties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05

WITH the increased competition which
viii follow the establishment Of the Siemens
and Holske Electric Company in this coun-
try, a great cheapening in the prices of elec-
trical appliances may be expected in the
near future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05

THERE are at the present time consider
able differences of opinion expressed in the
newspapers as to what constitutes states
manship. As affording at least negative
definition, the following quotation from
Macauley is highly pertinent to the ques-
tion: ''Tne petty craft SO often mistaken
for statesmanship by minds grown narrow
in habits OF intrigue, jobbing, ana official
efinnetteO
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05

THERE is no doubt that the deterrent
effects of capital punishment are much less
than could be desired. But when the New
York Recorder says in that connection that
murder is just as certain under certain cir
cumsrances to-day as it was in the Garden
of Eden," it is very difficult to understand
what is meant. For our only record of that
agricultural estate contains not the slightest
remark on homicidal crime within its bor-
ders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05

The SIN all minority which indorses the
Law and Order prosecutions in Allegheny
county will find food for thought in the
clear, emphatic, sensible utterances OF the
bishops and ministers who guard the spirit
ual welfare of this community. Read and
reflect, -ye of the saint ly few who would
block progress and stif1e happiness to
crafty shallow sentiment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05

of boosting the price of silver to par, he
will have to introduce several more land
loan bills and purchase an additional State
Legislature or two before he can consider
himself fully rehabilitated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05

LET the citizens party, or the independ-
ent voters, do all they can to obtain COM
plete organization for that is the only way to
insure their interests in the city govern
ment. Organization and energy, replacing
tho spasmodic efforts and the general apathy
Of the past, can work incalculable reforms.