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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
AN ORGANS INDIGNATION.

Our esteemed cotemporary the Post
uses strong language in denouncing the
reports of THE DISPATCH from the
Democratic convention at Harrisburg as
untruthful. Its very heated challenge CT
the statements of our correspondent is
accompanied by qualification worthy of
a full quotation here:
But two incidents of a disorderly character
took place in the convention, aside from the
usual enthusiasm or noisy debate INSOFAR
able from an assemblage of 500 delegates
surrounded by 1000 spectators. One of
these was a heated controversy between
five or six delegates from this county about
credentials, which only lasted few min
utes, and took place when nearly all the
delegates and all the spectators had left the
hall, only few reporters remaining. In
this case we believe two blows were ex-
changed and one person was hit. The other
incident arose between n doorkeeper and
spectator about admission to the hall on a
questionable ticket and did not occupy
minute. Out of these trivial happenings
The DISPATCH seeks to cover the entire con-
vention with shame and disgrace.
"Any man. exclaims the indignant and
innocent card sharper, "who says that
held four aces up my sleeve is black
hearted and perjured liar. 1t was only
one ace"
Since the esteemed Post indulges in sar-
casms about THE DIsPATCH's eindepend-
ence," and since also it is the rule of this
newspaper to give political news without
partiality or prejudice, it may be peril
nent to refer to the corroboration of the
disputed reports by journals whose
Democracy is undisputed. The Harris
burg Patriot and the Independent of
the same city are recognized organs of the
Democracy, and in their columns will be
found specific corroboration of the reports
of THE DISPATCH touching disorder at
the convention.
If our indignant cotemporary continues
to dispute this evidence of the extreme
nature of the usual enthusiasm" we sug-
gest that it shall reduce the organs of its
own party to atoms before proceeding to
pulverize the Independent press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
NOTES OF NOTABLES.

THE condition of Mrs. Harrison is much
improved.
Mr. j. B. MARTIN, Mrs. Martin (Vic-
toria woodhulI), and Lady Cook (Tennie C.
Clafiinl, sailed on the steamship Trave on
Wednesday for New York.
A LETTER has been received from Repre-
sentative Springer, at Virginia Beach, stat
ing that his condition continues to improve
and he has gained u pounds since he left
Washington.
Mrs. JOHN W. NOBLE, of Pittsfeld,
Mass, has fallen heir to large estate left by
q bachelor uncle in Oswego, n. Y. She by
chance learned of an advertisement asking
as to her whereabouts.
SECRETARY FOSTER left Washington
yesterday afternoon for Ohio to go first to
his home ut Fostoria and then to Toledo to
attend the annual meeting of the board of
insane asylum trustees.
Miss JEANNE LAWRENCE, the we'll
known American cantatrice, q pupil OF NJ.
Criticos, achieved grand success on the oc-
Gu sion of her recent debut at Nice in the
part of Gilda in "RisoIerto."
THE Rev. Father John Slattery has
withdrawn from the Josephites and will
form q new order to carry on the Catholic
work among the colored people, under the
direction OF Cardinal Gibbons.
THE death of the widow of the tenor
Gardoni recalls the fact that she was q
daughter of the famous Tamburfni. or all
the fine stage artists OF Tamburini's time
not one is left but Nine. AlbonL
AMERICANS in Paris say that Mrs Arm
strong Chanlcr (Amelie Rives) has left a
trail of light behind her, and that the men,
ton of her mime in American circles is suffi-
cient to awaken fund of charming reminis-
cence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
CURES FOE CONSUMPTION.
Tho Government Not Yet Far Enough Ad-
vanced to Play the Doctors Part.
do Tn

Tho Government Not Yet Far Enough Ad-
vanced to Play the Doctors Part.
Philadelphia Inquirer.I
Within certain limits Senator Gallinger's
ideas of a Government santtarium for the
cure Of consumption might be carried out
with good results. The public has about
made up its mind that there Is nothing in
the so-called cures for this dread disease,
and they are probably right in that conclu-
sion. It may be doubted whether there has
ever been a really permanent cure OF we'll
developed case OF this disease. Changes OF
air, diet and tho like have resulted in tenn.
porary relief, the effects OF which have
sometimes lasted over an extended period
but in most of these cases q return to origin
al conditions has been followed by re-
lapse. thus efrectnally disposfng OF the
theory of III cure. A permanent change OF
climate appears to be the only hope, and
this ts notinfallible.
The figures which Senator Gallinger him
SELF cites clearly demonstrate the 1mpract1-
cal nature OF much that he proposes. The
deaths from this terrible cause amount to 26
New ENGLAND States, and only per cent less
IN the Middle States. 1t must be obvious
that the Governments could not begin to
handle all the persons SO afnicted unless 1t
proposed to 20 into the hospital business on
wholesale plan, and also intended to run
nurses. Desirable as this might appear It
would scarcely result in the establishment
OF wise precedent. 1t may be part OF the
functions of government to care for the In
df2ent and insane, but We are hardly far
enough advanced in Mr.. Beilamy's direction
to expect the authorities to usurp the privf-
leSes Of doctors and nurses. There are too
many other calls upon them as 1t is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
YARDSTICKs AMI DOLLARS.

Some remarks by General Brawley, of
South Carolina, on the subject of ''yard-
sticks" in connection with the silver
question, received the approving notice of
the Eastern press. The substance of
them was that any kind of dollar or
yardstick is honest if it applies only to
future contracts or measurements, but
that any change in the dollar or yardstick
forced upon people and applied to past
contracts is dishonest to one party or the
other. Supposlng that the rule of COM
mon honesty is followed, and that the new
dollar or yardstick is made applicable
only to future bargains, so that both par
ties have an equal and fair chance, the
only question to be considered is as to the
expediency of the change.
This was exceedingly pertinent, and it
put the whole question very concisely,
with the exception of one phase 1t
might, with regard to the introduction of
new dollars, or tardsticks, resolve the
whole question into one of convenience of
the coinage. But let us suppose that the
nation had been using in common yard
stick which grew an average of possibly
ohe-fourth inch year for term of years.
There cannot be. full and lair under
standing of the subject until it is recog-
nized that the gold dollar as a measure of
value has appreciated in some ratio since
1873. There may be dispute as to the
exact percentage of increase, but whether
ten or twenty per cent it is unquestionably
shown by the general fall of prices.
AS pointed out in General Brawley's re-
marks on yardsticks, this is just as much
of wrong as between debtors and
creditors as if the yardstick had been
shortened. The reason is the double action
of the increased need of gold by the gen.
eral demonetization of silver, and the de-
creased production of gold at the same
time. The remedy is plainly to seek the
reinstatement of silver on terms that will
involve no wrong. The Bland idea of per-
petrating another wrong to balance the old
one is inadmissible; but tshould be under
stood that the yardstick comparison has
an application to the course of the money
metals in the two past decades as well as
in the present one.
The idea growing out of General
Brawley's remarks of making the money
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
NOT REFORMED THAT WAY.

It is worth while to note that New
York's new street-cleaning acthas become
a law, and the metropolis, which has been
expecting much from this enactment,
will have chance to observe an interest
ing political experiment. 1t is as follows:
Given a condition of politics and legis-
lation which furnishes legal appropri-
ations, and officials for street cleaning
who do not do the work thoroughly, will
change in the legal organization and the
titles of the officials cause the streets to
be cleaned? There is an impression in
New York that the revision of the legal
enactment will cause the leopard to
change his spots to the extent that Tam
many will hire men to do the work instead
of to vote at primaries.
1t may be discreet to await the result
Of the experiment; but it will not be
hazardous to predict that the spots of the
leopard, or rather the stripes of the
tiger, will adorn the new street-cleaning
department as much as the old street.
cleaning bureau
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
THE BENEFITS OF PROTECTION,
Facts and Figures for Calamity shriekers
to Closely Consult.

EoCtS 1nO tIKureB IOr C8lamlty 6nr1eRor8
to Closely Consult.
Toledo Commercial.I
Calamity shriekers and other prophets of
evil bemoan the hard lot Of the American
citizens and predict dire disaster to the
United States If the protective system is not
abolished, yet the country is progressing
rapidly on the highway to wealth and pros
perity because of this same economic sys-
TEN. When men boldly assert as has been
done recently in the halls of Congress, that
America and the American people are in
much worse condition than they were just
after the war closed, they are either woe
fully ignorant or wiiful falsifiers. Facts and
figures belle their words.
The national debt in 1865 was 81 6s1, 900 900,
but in 1890 it was only $685., 600, OcO or reduc-
tion of 81, $50, 900 900 in % years. Before the
nineteenth century closes the debt will be
almost entirely discharged, provided our
protective tariff and monetary systems re-
main unchanged. The per capita debt Is
only $e5 and Is much less than that or any
other nation. In free silver France the per
capita debt is $2ls; Great Britain 500; Italy
SO: Germany $63. and in Russia s35. Between
1870 and 1880 the rate of taxation in the
United States under protection decreased 10
per cent, while free trade England has tax
per capita debt OF the United States was SIS.
and the reduction of nearly two-thirds or to
$2S now has been due solely to the Repnb-
hcan system of protection. Over 100000
of United States gold was last year exported
to Europe, but the stream has DETECTED
back. and the prospects from present 1ndtca-
tions are that it will bring with it $40, 1000
Of foreign gold If not checked by unfavor-
able legislation in the Fifty-second Congress.
Peace and plenty prevail throughout the
United States, while in many foreign coun-
tries there is destitution and famine. while
the constant menace of war in European
countries requires the mobilization of great
standing armies.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
MIR. GoDKIN's MISTAKE.

1t is to be regretted on behalf of Editor
Godkin, of the New York Eusntng Post,
that he has to admit offering the police
man who arrested him on that famous
Sunday morning warrant five dollars to go
away and leave him undisturbed until the
time came for the hearing. Mr.. Godkin
earnestly protests in an editorial in the
Post that he did not attempt to bribe the
policeman. There was an interval of two
hours before the hearing, and the police
man proposed to wait in the house until
the time came. 'It was to get him to go
away during these two hours and take
Mr.. Godkin's word for his appearance at
1870 that the five dollars were offered"
We fail to see that this explanation sue
ceeds in clearing Mr.. Godkin's skirts.
The construction by the policeman of his
duty called upon him to do one thing, and
Mr.. Godkin offered him pecuniary con-
slderation to do something else. 1t is
quite possible that the officials view of his
duty may have been vexatious and insin-
cere; but that does not at all affect the
point that the appeal to the pecuniary
argument rested on exactly the same
lHoidi udoio do any ooiiCI OuCi VI AuohCy
to affect official action. We have
no doubt that nine-tenths of the bribes
ever offered are inspired by the conviction
that the action which the money is in
tended to purchase is entirely proper.
But it will not do to make any moral
difference between buying an official or
legislator in order to have him do what the
purchaser thinks is right and paying him
to do what is wrong.
In his attacks on official and political
corruption Mr.. Godkin is entitled to
sympathy from honest people. But it is
to be taken as remarkable indication of
the spread of corrupt ideas that even the
reformer considers it justiiable to resort
to the venal methods of getting an official
to do what he wants. In this case, also,
it must be said that the representative of
the corrupt system shows to more ad-
vantage than the reformer, as he refused
to take the five dollars.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
A GRAVE REPORT,

The reports yesterday concerning the
enforcement Of the discipline of the
Builders Exchange in a building contract
on the Southside warrants public atten-
ton. According to reports a contracting
bricklayer had two men working for him,
and the relations between employer and
employed were perfectly satisfactory. The
men were union men, however, and an Of
ficer of the Exchange ordered their dis
charge. This was followed up by the re-
fusal to furnish material and the con-
tractor was forced to obey.
1t is to be hoped this report of the case
is inaccurate, although its statements are
circumstantial and apparently on author
ity. For if it be true the act amounts to
an invasion of private rights as bad as
anything ever attempted by the much-be-
rated walking delegate, with the addition
that the new form of dictation is backed
by capital and is supposed to be governed
by intelligence. If the members of the
Builders Exchange are willing to place
themselves on level which re-
quires no more intelligent and care
full respect for law and individual
right from them than from the working
men they can be allowed that refuge. But
even then the fact remains that they are
setting up their own edict in exactly the
style that has always earned the widest
and most complete disapproval when at
tempted by labor unions
These remarks are, of course, only ap-
plicable in case the reported attitude of
that organization is the correct one If it
is not it behooves the Exchange to place
itself right, for its reported attitude puts
it in the light of an attack on the rights of
property and labor alike.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
THE DESIRE For LAND.

Such a scene as that witnessed at the
| opening of the Sisseton Reservation yes
terday is a peculiarly American institu-
ton. The wild rush for the possession of
cheap fertile lands is a phenomenon due
to several and varied impulses. Here are
people, many of them unaccustomed and
some of them untitled for agricultural
pursuits, eager to begin pastoral ex-
istence, undaunted by the hardships which
others have suffered under similar circum-
stances in the past, and undismayed by
the alarmist statements of the croaking
pessimist
What is the leading motive among these
pioneers? In few cases, doubtless, it is
simply desire to make money quickly by
the chance of obtaining good price for a
claim secured by an early presence in the
field. With others it is a dissatisfaction
with former pursuits combined with a
spirit for vagrant adventure which longs
for novelty at any price. That the tillage
of the soil in itself plays but small part
in the attraction is shown by the unsatis-
fed demand for farm labor in many
regions. The handspring of the move
ment is therefore to be looked for else
where, nor is it far to seek. 1t is found in
two desires which often amount to pas
sions-the ardent longings to work for
no master and to possess a portion of the
earth's surface. These are wholesome de-
sires, for they lie at the root of most in
dustrial effort. That opportunities for
their qualification are infinitely more
plentiful here than in any other country
is matter for gladness.
But there is dark side to this picture
of glowing enthusiasm. The disappear
ance of our aborigines is slow but sure and
inevitable. Civilization is gradually driv-
ing cut the Indian, and his decay cannot
but give rise to vague regrets when it is
remembered that he ranks high among
savages and that he once enjoyed an un-
disturbed possession of the continent
These thoughts should be more prominent
in public opinion than they are, for they
inspire sense of duty to the remnant of
the Red Race which justice cannot evade.
Our civilization is responsible for the In
dams demise, and no effort should be
spared to make his lot as healthy and easy
one as possible while any representa-
tives of his race remain with us.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
THE WAR IN WYOMING.

THE "rustlers" must have controlled the
Wyoming Democratic Convention. Its del
egates favor Hill-Indidndpoli Sentinel.
THE reports from the "rustler'' war region
seem to indicate that the mythical MI.
Garza. of Mexico. has found a few fmitators.
~ Chicago Times. r 80 ~
THE rustlers and the cattlemen Of North
Wyoming have no use for the pacific meth
DDS Of modern diplomacy. They simply
mount, unlimber their Winchesters and
shoot to kill.-Detron Free Press.
The Fifty-second Congress is full OF ire
formers of various types and shades. The
Wyoming war and the needs of the farmers
offer an opportunity for them to exercise
their specialty.-Kansas City Star.
UNITED STATES troops have gone into the
war between the ranchmen and rustlers of
Wyoming, and have apparently stopped the
fighting. The rustlers will now have
chance to prove that they are in the right,
as they claim Cincinnati Chronicle.
The war in Wyoming is the result of the
concentration of cattle interests in O few
hands and the annihilation OF small ranch-
men. In the wild and woolly West the
small men protest against this sometimes
violently. In the East plutocracy and Pink
ertonism is too strong for them and they
usually submit.-S. Louis Post Dispatch
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
FORAKER As A LOBBYIST.
He Is Said to Be Using His Influence for
Two Doubtful Measures.

He Is Said to Be Using His Influence for
Two Doubtful Measures.
New York World Special.1
COLUMBUS, o., April 15-Ex-Governor For
aker sat in committee room adjoining the
Chamber Of the House Of Representatives,
to-day, wreathed in tobacco smoke and sur
rounded by politicians and lobbyists, and
interviewed member after member of the
House who were called one after another.
1t is charged that he is working to secure
the passage Of the Spencer street car bill,
which gives the company a 80 year franchise
on the streets of Ohio cities, and a bill to
permit pool selling on race tracks. The
Spencer bill, it is charged, passed the Senate
by bribery and it is said that $500 vote is
offered to secure its passage by the House.
The other bill Is n bookmakers measure.
Ex-Governor Foraker has appeared sew
eral times in the House under similar cir
cumstances this winter and it is n frequent
remark that he has become common lob
byist without pretense of concealment. A
Republican Senator said to-day: Governor
Foraker's strength before the cancus in his
canvas for the Senatorsh1p has at least made
his services in demand as an fnfluencer of
votes with his following, but hope he IS not
selling himself too cheap" With the ex-
Governor to-day were the rival political
"bosses' of Cincinnati, George B. Cox, Re-
publican, and Lewis G. Bernard, Democrat.
They seemed to be working with Foraker.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
MAGNRTIZED BY A B0WLDER.
Tho Surprise That Met Party OF Hunters
in the Missouri Iron Regions.

IRoNToN, Mo-, April ia discovery which
brings to mind the marvellous adventures
Of Sinbad the Sailor was made in the noun
tains about five miles from this city by
party of hunters. They had been roaming
over the mountains for several hours and
sat down to rest and eat lunch. They laid
their guns down on fiat rock near n
bowlder and had no sooner done so than
they were surprised to see the weapons
slide toward a huge bowlder which stood
few feet away. The guns were drawn to
the bowlder and there stuck with such
force that it was difficult to take them away
fr ON it.
On Investigation it was discovered that
the bowlder was an immense magnet and
with such power that it attracted pieces OF
iron and steel from n distance of many feet.
1t was found that knife would slide over
that flat rock distance of nine feet to the
big stone and remain sticking so tight that.
it was necessary to exert great force to sepa-
rate it from the rock.
Among the queer experiments tried was
one which shows the force of magnetic in
f1uence. piece of soft iron was held an
equal distance from the ground and the stone
at about four feet away, and instead Of fall
ing to the ground 1t would fly to the rock,
showing that the magnetism was greater
than the attraction of gravitation ut that
distance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
PICKINGs FROM PUCK.

Miss Charter Oakes-While Mr.. Spindle
was calling on me the other evening excused my
self for a moment; and when came back do you
know the fellow was actually asleep
Featherstone-Dear me what did you do-wake
him up?
Miss Charter Oakes-Oh. no: indeed let him
sleep until it was time for him to go.
Now doth the busy little hen
Work overtime each day,
And strive to break the record
With famous Easter lay.
wife-I opened bill of yours from the
club this morning for SIS. didn't know you spent
so much money at the club.
Husband-That was the month that baby was
teething.
Jack Potter-we had a meeting of the
directors of our company last night.
Mrs. Potter-What was the limit?
There lived in the age called pliocene,
When the air was warm and the earth was green,
A pessimist fellow, who wrote sad rhymes
About ''these degenerate modern lines
DIR. Fries-I have one improvement to
suggest with reference to the North Pole explors-
ton business.
Snow-Let's have IT.
DIR. Fries-It is to send the relief expedition on
month ahead. so as to have everything ready LOT
the rescue by the time the explorers arrive
Mr. Strokes-What course are you taxing
at college?
Charlie Rahrah-Oh, I'm especial student"
Mr.. Strokes-What studies do you have?
Charlie Rahrah-Baseba and Old Testament his
tory, with three cuts u week on the history.
The Kaiser may get even,
II he has objections.
BY writing of Poultney Bigelos
His school-day recollections.
Editor Ito sick reporter)-Are you going
to die, Hook?
Cope Hook.T'm afraid so, SIR.
Editor-If you do, try 10 get an interview with
Dickens a soon you arrive. on Howell's criti-
cisms OF his novels; and do your best to get it
through to uA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16

600, ,OOO, 900, 1000, 900 miles of road could be
built, the nation could save one-half its
present expenditure for roads and enjoy
the immense increase of facilities thus
offered
These facts brought home to the COM
prehension of the public must have their
effect in the end: When the agricultural
element is brought to the point of under
standing that they will gain by having
good roads made instead of bad ones their
demand will very soon produce the former
whatever system of work may be adopted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16

SENATOR GoRMAN is said to have re-
marked that he never denied or affirmed the
truth of any story about himself in refer
ence to politics. This supreme independence
of the peoples main source of Information
is q wonderful rarity in an age of puff and
interview. OF course. it is an extremely
convenient practice for man whose polit-
ical methods are not entirely reputable. But
1t is for that reason apt to suggest suspicion,
and popular suspicion is apt to be as disas-
trous to personal ambition as actual guilt
On the whole, silent tactics on the part of a
prominent politician are in the long run
likely to do his cause more harm than good.