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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07

district like HyaTtsviile desiroas of al
tracing residents who will build their own
homes, the policy may be very good one.
But if the adoption of the single tax prin-
ciple to the extent of leyyiIig total OF
two and half mills on the valuation OF
real estate apani from Improvements is the
real single tax theory, that much talked
of cult has been wofully misrepresented.
If this is what Mr. Henry George has been
hurling at us these half-dozen years it is
the most stupeDdous case of laundering
in The beginning and sinking to a. soft and
sweet murmur in the ending, ever yet
placed on record.
We can find thousands of land owners
in Pittsburg who would hail with delight
the adoption of the single tax theory IN
Pittsburg by a levy of % cents on the
S1OO-provided the single takers will show
how the revenue from that levy can be
made to cover the expenseS'of the city
government.
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THE ALABAMA RESULT.

The Alabama election mixes things up
to the extent that party views Of Southern
politics are forced to take something like a
somersault. There is still some dispute
about the fact; but the weight of testi-
mony is that Jones, the Democratic candi-
date, was elected by the negro vote. The
majority of the white voters supported
Kolb, the Peoples party candidate, but
the black vote came in strongly for Jones,
and elected him.
Now it is curious fact that not only the
Peoples party leaders, but the Republican
organs who sympathize with all third party
movements which hit the Democracy, find
in this result something wrong. 1t seems
to them an impeachment of the Democ-
racy that it owes its success to the colored
voter. The idea that only white voters
should govern may be consistent with the
Southern Alliance people; but since Re-
publican organs have made it a reproach
to the Southern Democracy for genera
ton that it would not give the colored vote
its fair weight, the appearance OF case
in which the colored vote is cultivated to
the extent of winning an election by it, the
vindication, from Republican point of
view, is on the Democratic side.
On the other hand, the old Democratic
views are subjected to similar operation
of being turned upside down. White su-
premacy standing on the foundation of
colored support really obliterates race di-
visions. The cry of NEGRO domination"
raised for Democracy is also overturned.
When Democracy in Alabama is success
full by the negro vote, the bugbear of negro
domination is saddled on the wrong horse
to make Democratic campaign cry.
On the whole, the Democratic success
in Alabama is one that, from the Northern
point of view, can be regarded as quite sat-
isfactory. No gain to the protective cause
could have resulted from the Peoples
party's success. But when the Democ-
racy owes its supremacy to colored voters.
it demonstrates to its own satisfaction that
negro suffrage is not so destructive thing
as it has been held up to be for twenty
years or more. The color line is obliter-
ated by such results, and with the color
line gone, the dissolution of the Solid
South is but question of time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

LILLIAN RUSSELL sailed from Liverpool
yesterday on the City of New York.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL, of Massachusetts,,
their salmon fishing trip to New Brunswick.
CONGRESSMAN DALzELL left Washing
ton for Cape May yesterday afternoon and
will return to Pittsburg in about two weeks.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw can sleep for
IS hours out of the "a when on an ocean
steamer. This explains why he is not popu-
lar with the stewards.
THE Pope has appointed Archbishop
Clasca, an Augustinian, to be Pro-Seoretary
of the General Propaganda and the future
successor to Archbishop Persico.
MRS. MARY B. WILLARD, mother of
Frances e. Willard, Is slowly dying at her
home in Evanston, Ill. She is not expected
to survive more than one day longer.
Mrs. GUILD, an American sculptress, has
recently completed a bust OF Mr.. Gladstone
which is very highly commended by the
critics as portrait and work Of art.
LORD ALFRED TENNYsoN celebrated his
SD birthday yesterday. He received many
callers at Hazelmere, besides a large num-
Der OF congratulatory letters and kilograms.
THOMAS E. WATSON, of Georgia. who
has created the rumpus in Congress- is tall,
lean and lantern-jawed, something Of wit
and one of the readiest takers on the floor
of the House. He is S6 years old, lawyer
by profession.
WHEN Prof Asaph Hall discovered the
two moons of Mars he showed his apprecia.
ton OF che fitness Of things by naming them
Deimos and Phobes, after the two Homerio
attendants of the god of war from whom the
planet takes its name.
NJ. CHARLES DE STRUvE, Russian En-
voy Extraordinary hnd Minister PIenipo-
tentiary to the United States, has been
transferred to the Hague. He will be sue
ceeded in Washington by Prince Contacu-
zene, at present Chancellor Of the Russian
Embassy at Vienna.
GEORGE MOORE, who, like Oscar Wilde,
fs an Irishman, has announced his intention
of forsaking England and writing hereafter
in France and in French. Mr. Moore, whofs
the son of the late George Moore, NJ. p, has
written several notable books. among the
number being "a Drama In Muslin" and
"The Confessions of q Young Man."
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rITTsBURG. SUNDAY. AUGUST :. Is9..
MAXIMUM ENGLISH WAGES.

The letter on London labor published in
this mornings DISPATCH makes COM
pariSon of the wages of bricklayers and
plumbers in England with those in the
United States. 1t is one of the parallels
between the countries that bricklaying
and plumbing are among the best paid
classes of labor in both. But there the
similarity ends.
The bricklayer and plumber of London
belongs to what has been described as the
aristocracy of labor. Nevertheless. their
wages are by no means aristocratic. I'm
agine the scorn of the American brick
layer and plumber if called upon to work
week of 52T hours at the rate of 10 cents
per hour! Yet that Is the wage rate which
the London bricklayers have succeeded in
obtaining as an improvement on the
former rate of Is cents an hour. Plaster
prs. stonemasons and carpenters closely
approach this maximum, and thence the
scale declines to wages of II cents per
hour for common labor in the building
trades, and as low as 20 shillings, or 81 so,
fer full week of hard toll on the streets
at Greenwich.
These comparisons give striking view
of the differences between the status of
.--irfS hundon and the chief cities of our
own country. On the other hand, it is no
more than justice to recognize one point
in which England is in advance Of this
country. The reference in our correspond
ent's letter to Toynbee Hall, the educa-
tional center for London workingmen,
which one of them describes as his
alma Mater" gives US glimpse of
private effort for the mental eleva-
ton of labor, in which London sur
passes anything that this country
possesses, the nearest approach to it being
the Cooper Union, of New York. With
all due recognition of this splendid work,
however-and it is but mere side issue
every American workman will agree that
the advantages of such splendid philan-
THRONES are no compensation for half
wages.
American workmen also find here a
comparison between wages under free
trade policy and under a protection policy
which is more instructive and convincing
than any quantity of special pleading from
theorists and doctrinaries seeking Office
and offering free trade in exchange 1t is
a gift whose effects for the workingmen
may be estimated by the contrast of Lon
don wages and those of this country.
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ENGLAND DOING NOTHING WRONG
When She Establishes n CoaIing Station In
tho Harbor Of Pago-Pago.

WASHINGTON, Aug. every little interest
is displayed in official circles in Washington
in regard to the report that Great Britain
has arranged to establish a coaling station
in the harbor Of Pago-Pago, Samoa, for the
simple reason that such q course of action
is in strict accord with the terms of .
treaty concluded between Great Britain and
Samoa in 1879, and does not interfere with
or impair the rights. or interests of the
United States in any respect. Section Of
the British treaty provides that Great
Britain may establish coaling station any
whore on the shores of O Samoan harbor,
except at Apia, which is a neutral harbor,
at Saluafata, which was previously ceded to
Germany, and that part of the harbor of
Pago-Pago which may be selected by the
Government of the United States under its
treaty of 1875 -...- e.,--......s
The United States has already selected
the site for its station and acquired full
legal title to the property, and arrange
ments are now being made for the con-
struction of q wharf and necessary build
ings. So far as known Great Britain has
not attempted to interfere with our rights
in the least in this matter, and in prepar-
ing to establish a coalIng station in the
same narbor is merely doing what she has
q perfectly clear right to do under the
treaty.
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PosroFFIcEs AND DEMOCRACY.

1t can hardly be expected to escape COM
ment that the postoffices occupy an ex-
ceedingly prominent position in the view
of the Democratic campaign organization.
The work of organization has not gone
very far but it has gone far enough to
present the following summary of post
official politics in the Democratic cam
paign.
The Chairman of the National Commit
tee is William. F. Harrity, ex-Postmaster
of Philadelphia; and famous for erecting
in that institution very active political
machine. He is seconded by Don M.
Dickinson, ex-Postmaster General, in the
position of Chairman of the Executive
Committee. In the subordinate positions,
George T. Parker, ex-Assistant Postmas-
ter of Philadelphia, will act as auditor Of
the campaign committee, and VIM. D.
Haynie, ex-Chief Clerk in the Postoff1ce
Department, will act as the Chief of the
Bureau of Information. The list of minor
ex-postmasters who will run the campaign
on local committees is too encyclopedia
for conception. But it is a central fact
that the former tenants of the postoffice
will unite their efforts to elect as Vice
President the ex-Assistant Postmaster
General, whose only claim to fame was
his industry in chopping off the heads Of
$4,000 Republican postmasters, and putting
$4,000 Democratic postmasters in their
places thereby reducing the pledges of his
chief to by-word.
The postoffices have never occupied an
especially modest place in politics, Demo-
cratic or Republican, except perhaps in
1884, when the civil service reform attitude
of tie former party won its only national
victory for thirty-two years. But the post
Offices never were more evidently the
largest thing in the Democratic coup
d'oeua than at present
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
TIE GRAND OLD MAN.

Mr.. GLADSTONE was on hand in grand
shape at the opening of Parliament. Appar-
emily there are ten years of good. solid work
in him yet.-& Louis Globe Democrat
THAT wonderful old gentleman, Mr.. Glad
stone, is pretty nearly as we'll as usual again
and has resumed work. The great dream of
home rule may bear him on until it is ac-
complished.-BaHfnpor Neacs
Mr.. GLADSTONE, the Grand Old Man, is to
be congratulated on having sufficiently re-
covered to be present at the opening of
Parliament. So is his party to be congratu-
lated. Likewise his country.-Detrot Free
Press.
CHANGE of15S votes denotes radical revo-
luton in public sentiment, which needs but
an effective concentration Of its power to
afford Mr.. Gladstone the greatest and prob
ably crowning triumph of his life.- Washing
ton Post.
In again taking the prodigious burden of
Government at an advanced age, Mr.. Glad
stone is honored with the cordial good will
OF enlightened Christendom and the bitter
enmity Of the British Tories.-Ctcinnati
1imesStm.
The antique forms which attended the
opening of Parliament yesterday paled in
public interest before the fact that Mr.
Gladstone was able to be present, to all ap.
pearances fully recovered in health.-Nei0
York Press.
THE Irish members were enthusiastic in
greeting Nj. Gladstone, and we trust that
for their own sakes. and for the sake of their
country, they will be equally so in the sup
port they give him in the present Parlia-
ment.-Boston Herald
GLADSTONE received an ovation as he en-
tered the house of Parliament and he GER
tainly deserved it. Members regardless of
party crowded around him and offered their
congratulations upon his splendid victory.
Gladstone is, indeed. a "Grand Old Man,
Philadelphia CdH
MR. GLADsroNE,s reception in the House of
Commons was such as to bode no good to the
Queen in case sho should permit the Sails
bury Government to remain longer in power.
Whatever the outcome of this sitting OF
Parliament may be there is no doubt that
Gladstone Will be Premier -Lsdfanopoits
Journal
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THE SECRET OF THE SINGLE TAX.

The alleged single tax policy of Hyatts-
vile, Maryland, is again brought to public
attention by the decision OF a Maryland
court in favor Of its constitutionality.
Certain citizens of the town questioned in
The courts the power of the town commits
sioners TO exempt improvements from tax
alton. Since they were empowered by
express statute to do so, there is room for
a suspicion that the suit was mainly in
spired by the wish to obtain further
advertisement for the hitherto unknown
suburb of Hyattsville, or to lend further
eclat to the claims of triumph for the
single tax school
We have never had any doubt of the
authority of the Legislature under gen.
eral constitutional principles 10 exempt
Improvements from taxation. We can go
q step further and say that for suburban
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
Secretary Noble on His Vacation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-Secretary Noble will
leave Washington tomorrow for his summer
vacation. During the last year the Secretary
has been very closely confined to his desk
by the press Of public business, and the re-
suit is his health has suffered so that COM
plete relaxation and a change of air and
scene are imperatively demanded. The Sec
retary will be accompanied by Mrs. Noble,
and after spending a week or two with st,
Louis friends, at Cedar Island, in one OF the
interior lakes in Northern Wisconsin, trip
will be made across the continent to Wash
ington and Vancouver. The return will be
made in September over the Canadian Pa
cifc by way of Montreal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
LAKE SUPERIOR SHIPPERS NERVOUS
Over the Threatened American Retalia-
tiop in the Canal Tolls

Over the Threatened American Retalia-
tion in the Canal Tolls.
DULUTH, Aug. 6.-There is decided opposi-
ton here among the heaviest wheat ship
pers and vessel brokers to the imposition Of
tolls on Canadian boats passing through the
500 Canal. 1t will knock vessel men. so they
claim, ont of a large amount of business,
and will cripple heavy wheat exporters by
removing Canadian competition for carry
ing business. This will be particularly so
this year. because tonnage is in great de-
mand at stiff rates.
1t Is probable that the President will be
memoralized either to defer action or at
least give interested parties due notice be-
fore Imposing tolls as provided in the bill
lately passed by Congress. Parties inter-
ested in the lake-carrying business claim
this end of Lake Superior will be more in
jured than benefited by such a measure. as
there Is very little of our tonnage passing
the Welland Canal anyway.
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enlarged and whence it goes to China and
then IL finds its way back to London. Thus
this widely separated family is kept in
formed OF each Others movements and
thoughts. This is a common practice and
some hill station in Bengal, post in Natal.
a rancho In Dakota, mine in Borneo,
tea house in China, a sheep run in Australia,
a lumber camp in Canada, and home in
Kentish hop fields or Umbrian moors mingle
in this mute family messenger. WALTER
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
THE OBSERVED OF ALL OBSERVERS

Public interest in observations of the
planet Mars continues to increase rather
than diminish. Astronomers, American
and European, are all making the most of
our nearest stellar neighbor's visit. Nor
are the astronomers with their scientific
methods of investigation by any means
alone in the matter. Something closely
approaching enthusiasm has been awak-
ened even among the unlearned. ANA
teurs possessed of varying degrees of
knowledge or ignorance are ready with
theories for the enlightenment of their
wiser fellows, which are for the most part
better fitted for private conversation than
for scientific consideration.
The observations now being made will
need good deal of editing and collating
before they can serve as basis for sound
reasoning. 1t is extremely doubtful
whether the present course of inspection
will actually establish or confute the idea
that Mars is Inhabited. But one fact at
least has been demonstrated by the knowl-
edge definitely obtained, and that is the
improvement which has been accom-
plished in the manufacture Of astronomic
instruments and methods of research. And
it is worthy Of note that this country, the
newest on this globe, is contributing more
to the knowledge of the scientific world on
this subject than any other, by reason Of
its possession of telescope at the Lick
Observatory which is superior to all others.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07

= SINCE sockless Jerry Simpson has as
sumed all the outer signs of polished and
cultured gentility. it becomes painfully evil
dent that he will have to take his coat off
and do some remarkably hard labor to per-
suade his constituents that he is worthy of
reelection.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07

condition. But when 1t Is accompanied
by decrease in the shipments Of British
exports of the same nature to the South
American countries the significance of the
change is unmistakable.
Such records as this Of extending trade
with the Spanish people as
they grow in magnitude form the most
eloquent demonstration of the statesman
ship of the Republican leader who urged
reciprocity upon Congress and by his vigor
and earnestness secured its incorporation
as an integral part of. the Republican
policy. Retired as Mr.. Blaine may be at
present his work as Secretary of State in
combining reciprocal trade with the pro-
teetive policy still goes OF. 1t was one of
the criticisms of his Congressional career
that he never as legislator originated or
pushed to completion any great measure.
But while others may have theoretically
urged the reciprocal policy prior to Mr..
Blaine, he is fairly to be credited with
putting the policy into active operation.
Partisanship has inspired the assertion
that the reciprocity policy was sham;
but the utter baselessness of that assertion
is sufficiently demonstrated by one such
statistical fact as this increase of over one
fifth in the shipment Of single class of
manufactured goods to South America.
The same gratifying support is given to
Republican policy by this fact. Exten-
sion of trade goes hand in hand with pro-
lection to home industries. Prosperity at
home is united with increase of dealings
with neighboring countries in the settled
Republican policy. A party which stands
on these actual achievements need not
fear the attacks of free trade theorists.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TENNIS
Occupy the Time and Attention of People
Scjournine at Chautauuua


CHAUrAUaUA, N. Y, Aug. 6.-[Special. 1.-The
English language as 1t is spoken in the best
society furnished a good theme for Mrs.
Florence Howe Hall, this afternoon. There
are two errors OF conversation she says,
talking too much and too little. or the two
she prefers the former. The main points to
be followed in conversation are truth, good
sense and goodhumor. DR.. J. N. Buckley lee
tured on Aaron Burr, to-day. He anafyzed
his character as man who pursued an OBJ.
ject to its utmost limit, whethe it be good
or bad; that it was bad and ended with Burr
as the opponent of Hamilton on the duelling
field, was worse for the former than the lat
ter. as it cut off his political advance
ment and prevented him becoming
President while Hamilton's fame was as
well established as though he had reached
that high office.
The annual tennis tournament ended to-
day, after some very fine exhibitions of the
sport Tho prize for singles. tournament
racket, was won by Chris. Payne, OF Titus
Vile. he had several hard struggl es before
his final battle for the ChautauQua cham
pionship.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
A RESULT OF RECIPROCITY.

A striking and unquestionable evidence
of the success achieved in extending our
commercial relations is given by statistics
on the expectations of cotton goods from
the United States to South America. It
is gratifying fact that cotton shipments
to the Southern continent have increased
twenty-five per cent in the past eleven
months If this fact stood by itself it
might leave room for a claim that the in
crease is due to an enlarged demand in
that country or to some other extraneous
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
GOING TO VOTE FOB GROVER.
Pennsylvania's Single Tax Theorists VII
Stand by the Democracy.

Stand by the Democracy.
READING, Pa, Aug. 6.-GSpectoL lover 100
single tax delegates, representing the lead
ing cities and towns OF Pennsylvania, held
their first State convention here to-day.
Charles 8. Prizer, of Reading, was elected
President, John Tilard, of Altoona, Vice
President, and Edmond Yardley, of Pitts
burg, Secretary. A-large number of dele
gates made speeches in favor of Henry
Georges single tax idea. A platform OF
principles was adopted, the principal points
OF which are that no one should be per-
mitted to hold land without paying to the
community the value OF the privilege thus
accorded, and from the fund so raised all
expenses of the Government should be paid.
Resolutions urging single tax believers to
vote the Democratic national ticket were
enthusiastically passed, as "the platform OF
the Democratic party urges the abolition OF
the protective tax and the tax upon note
issue" Tonight public meeting was held,
at which 5000 people were present.
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CURIoUsLY enough, in speaking of the
has hitherto thought Of mentioning the ir-
reparable loss which Pennsylvania would
suffer by the barely possible and highly fm-
probable resignation of William F. Harrity
from that rumerative position of RESPONSE
bilitY.
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A FusiIade Among Sunday Schools,

BoLroN. MISS. Aug. 6.-The County Sunday
School Convention Of the colored Baptists
met to-day Mt Chappal Hill. A dif1culty
occurred over the riding Of a flying
machine" which resulted In riot. Some 10
OF SO pistol shots were fred, one man being
killed and seven wounded. including two
women and q child. Several arrests have
been made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07
ARCHBISHOP 1REL AND DENIES RuMoRs
That He Is to Get q Cardinals Hat, and
Thinks They Do Much Harm.

InfnRB They DO MUCH narIn.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 6.-Archbishop Ireland,
questioned as to the renewal OF the old
story that he is soon to be made q Card inal,
to-day said
"l am much panied by these constantly re-
curing rumors about me. Whether they
originate with well-meaning, but impru-
dent, friends or with sinister enemies, they
result in giving deep displea sure and harm
ing the cause Of religion. 1 repeat what 1
have previously said, that for all these
rumors. those who speak them have no
foundation for their words. Matters grow
worse when it Is sought to implfcate in the
matter persons of prominence"