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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
LABOR MEMS PLATFORM.
The Patrons of Industry Makes Known 1t
PRINCIPLES to the World

The Patrons of Industry Makes Known Its
Principles to the World.
TOLEDO March 25.-The Supreme Council
of the Patrons of Industry to-day concluded
their work on the revision of the constitu-
ton. A long Declaration of Principles was
discussed and adopted, OF which the follow
ing is the substance:
Legislation should check the advance of
corporations in power and wealth and crush
out trusts. All stockholders of corporations
should be individually responsible for cor
porate debts. Heavy specific taxes upon
corporations should be imposed. Public
lands should be reserved for actual settlers
Federal revenue laws should be so amended
as to protect farmers, laborers and produc-
ers from the ruinous competition of foreign
production and cheap labor. Rebates OF
duties to corporations or individuals should
be. abolished, Internal revenue taxations
on spirits or tobacco should not be repealed
or reduced. A graduated income tax should
be adopted. The Secretary of the Treasury
should be prohibited from aiding Wall street
in case of monetary stringency, while
neglectin9 to relieve the stringency of farm
ers for 26 years. The enactment of more
stringent laws to prevent food adultera ton
and to prohibit the manufacture and sale of
oleomargarino. is demanded. AL public in.
stitutions should be made self.supportin9 as
nearly as possible. The union Of farmers
and laborers for the general welfare is rec
commended.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
POINTS ON THE TRUSTS.

The absorption of the Philadelphia
sugar refineries by the Sugar Trust under
its New Jersey cognomen of the American
Refineries Company, together with the an
nouncement that new enterprise has
been at once set on foot with a capital of
S5,0OO,00O, illustrates three vital points in
the trust or combination policy.
The first point illustrated is that the
purpose of the trusts is to cheaper the
cost of their product by dint of their large
capital and improved methods. 1t is true
that sugar has been comparatively cheap
for year past, but the fact is disclosed
that this cheapness was due to the pres
ence at Philadelphia of three competing
refneries not much inferior in capacity to
the trust. If the trust combination were
a factor in cheapening the product it
would not have been necessary for it to
buy out its competitors If its purpose
were to suppress competition in order to
have the power to advance prices, it
would have to buy up the competing es-
adjustments at the long prices it is re-
ported to have paid.
In the same connection, the statement
that the owners of at least one of the re-
fineries were given gentle jog in the di-
rection of selling out by the sales of
sugar in their district at less than cost, fur
nishes another illustration on the standing
combination plea that free competition is
ruinous. If there had been no hope Of
forming combination the persons who
sold sugar at less than cost would have
simply thrown away their own money.
The hope of getting back this loss with
interest," through combination, was the
genesis of this sale below cost as it is Of
all other cut-throat deals In other words,
the cut-throat competition, of which so
much is heard, is not competition at ALL it
is a well-defined method of the combina-
ton policy.
The weakness of all combinations which
have no extraneous means of shutting off
outside competition is evident in the case
The palmy days of the Sugar Trust raised
to their present magnitude the establish
ments which it has just absorbed, and the
latest acquisition is no sooner made known
than new 100000 competitor steps
into the field. So long as this is the case
the ability of the trust to advance prices
will be but temporary, while the day will
surely come when it will discover that it
can no longer pursue the policy of offering
a premium to anyone who can build
sugar refinery by buying it in at very lib
eral prices
Finally, 1t is worth remembering that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
SAN FRANC1sCo,s COMPLAINT.

The long-standing grievance Of Caltfor-
MIA shippers against the Southern Pacific
Railroad for its determinations is reported
by an eastern contemporary to have shifted
to complaint against the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, which, to use the
words Of our informant, "discriminates
against San Francisco in the fine old COM
mon carrier style" "Of course" con =
tinues the journal from which we quote,
ga city with only one railroad entering its
gates and only one steamship line enter
ing its harbor cannot expect any very
lively competition for its favors."
Here is an involuntary but correct state
ment of the source from which vital dis
examinations grow. It is the railway
dogma that they are created by competi-
ton; but the facts, when frankly recog-
nized, show that they are rooted in monop-
oily. The further features of this case as
cited show that the real cause of this COM
plant lies in the exclusive control of the
situation by the railroad. "The San Fran
cisco merchants wish to see San Fran
cisco made a port of distribution for
coffee, among other things, and have
discovered that it can be shipped from
Central American ports to Europe and
then back to the United States at cheaper
rate than it can be sent from Central
America to San Francisco and thence
East"
1t is clear to anyone giving moments
consideration to this case that the control
of the railway corporation is its strong
hold The Pacific Mail is subsidized and
owned by the Southern Pacific; but, if rail-
road competition would permit living rates
for the San Francisco coffee trade, the
steamship company could not forbid it.
The tramp steamer which, though Will
pended by the regular lines, is the real
governor in the rise and fall of ocean
freights, would hasten to carry tn freights
to any railroad line that would make a
joint through rate at living percentages.
The difference is that the ocean route is
open to the vessels of anyone who wishes
to conduct that class of transportation.
The railroad, public highway in law, is
subject to the exclusive use of the railroad
corporation. Hence, determinations can
spring from the latter monopoly, which
could never be maintained in the free
competition of transportation by sea.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

THE SAME EARTH CAN HOLD THEM.
Now that 1t has been demonstrated to
the satisfaction of an agitated aristocracy
that Messrs. Borrowe and Drayton can
exist within the confined limits of an At
lantic stea mer for a week, the conclusion
is evident that the same earth will be large
enough to hold them both for the rest Of
their natural lives This is matter of
mathematical demonstration. Take the
square feet In the two decks of the Ma
jestic, and suppose that the two antagon-
lists could not have stayed longer in that
space without telling blood; and the rules
of proportion will show that the area Of
the earths surface is sufficient to let them
live together on it something like thou
sand years longer before it becomes abso-
lutely imperative to wade in each others
gore.
The ability, therefore, to get along with
out high-toned murder, should be utilized
to let the heroes Of the scandal retire to
that privacy which they are both better
fitted to adorn than the excessive publicity
in which they have recently been posing.
Considering that the fame of the sensation
does rebound especially to the credit of
either the male participants, and that the
trumpeting of its details is at the expense
of the reputation of woman, who, by the
nature of the case, is debarred from de-
Tending herself, it is permissible to con-
clude that there will be no loss to the
public if Mr. Borrowe and Mr.. Drayton
are permitted to cease to occupy the first
place in the public attention and to sink
permanently into obscurity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
NO THREAT oFwAR.

In the editorial columns Of THE DIS
PATCH yesterday, it was suggested that the
talk of reported threat in the communica-
ton to Great Britain of "a resort to mill
tary COERCION might well be regarded
with suspicion until the official document
containing such a threat was given to the
public That article was written and sent
to press before the dispatches containing
| the communication were received. The
text shows that there is nothing which
| can be distorted into threat of military
coercion.
In fact the Wharton dispatch is forci-
BILE but entirely proper statement of the
objection of the United States Governments
to the course pursued by the Salisbury
| Government There is nothing in it that
cannot be endorsed by the most conserva-
tive of American citizens, except the sem
tence asserting that Lord Salisbury's
latest step makes the question to this
Government "no longer one of pecuniary
loss or gain but one of honor and self
respect
This we think is an erroneous view. The
question in its entire character is one Of
commercial policy affecting an interest
from which the United States gains a GER
tain revenue 1t is pecuniary and CONNER
cial in all its bearings, and while a shift of
position or failure to maintain the modus
vivendi during an operation may affect the
self-respect of the nation if it were accept
ed without a murmur there is no question
of honor in connection with it that is not
fully covered by such a protest as this
communication contains.
After thus putting itself squarely on the
record the administration can afford to let
the arbitration drop, or else adopt the sug-
gestion of The DISPATCH to end the whole
subject by letting the lessee company kill
all the seals at the rookeries, and corner
the seal-skin market There is no ''threat
of military coercion" in the communica-
ton nor will the sober sense of either
nation permit their Governments to get
into war over such a dispute.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
PENNSYLVANIA IN THE LEAD.
No Other States Exhibit at Chicago So Fal
Advanced.

Advanced.
HARRISBURG, March 25.-Although it will
soon be year since the appointment of the
Pennsylvania Board of Worlds Fair Mana
gers, the appropriation of s5CO,000 remains
practically untouched despite the fact that
the work in the State has been rapidly and
Systematically pushed forward. The Chica-
go authorities state that Pennsylvania has
made more progress in the Worlds Fair
matters than has any other State. Execu-
tive Commissioner Farquhar, in order to
disabuse the public mind of the erroneous
idea that the State board has been extrava-
CANT, issues the following financial state
ment:
Resources: State appropriation, s300,000
expenditures OF members of the board in at
tendance upon board meetings, 81, 095, IS; ex-
penses of Committees and attendance at
meetings thereof, 81, 40; salaries of Execu-
tive Commissioner and employees OF the
board S., ,464, SO: Executive Commissioner for
incidentals. $500: Pennsylvania buildings at
Chicago 81 SS734; miscellaneous, SAT- go: cash
in hands of treasurer, sI,5ll,5S; balances,
SIS, ,OOO Some $40 Pennsylvania firms have
been granted space already for exhibits at
Chicago. An important meeting of the Exec
utive Board will be held on April IA.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
FAvORlTES OF FAME,

THERE are people mean enough to hope
that Miss Frances Willard may never re.
cover that gripsack full Of lectures.
THE best evidence that the Emper OF
William is improving in health Is the fact
that he is getting ready to go on hunting
trip.
DURING his recent visit to Salt Lake City
President Eliot delivered an address to an
audience of 1000 people in the Mormon
Tabernacle.
JUDGE PETER TURNEY, Democratic can
didate for the gubernatorial nomination in
Tennessee, is 6 feet 1 inches in height and
weighs $50 pounds.
PULLMAN's daughter Julia selects the
names for all of his sleeping and palace cars,
and he is said to pay her S, 900 year for the
exercise Of her ingenuity.
BRONSON HOWARD will remove to his
sunmeS home at New Rochelle, n. Y, April
dialogue of his new play.
IT was announced last night that on his
recent visit to Ann Arbor, Mich, ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland was elected to membership
and initiated into the Sigma Chi, college
secret society.
Mrs. SARAH 7. BOLTON, who was famous
40 years ago as the pioneer poet of Indiana,
still lives at Indianapolis, in her 77th year.
Her most famous production perhaps is
paddle Your Own Canoe" published in
1850.
THE Georgians just now are reveling in
the possession of what they describe as the
most magnetic and eloquent orator of the
day. This young man is Nj. Seaborn
Wright, and some of his friends want him to
nominate Hill in the Chicago Convention.
Ex-OoNGREssMAN JoHNR. REDING, of
New Hampshire, who first took his seat in
Congress at the extra session in May, 1s4l,
and enjoyed the acquaintance of Daniel
Webster, Henry Clay, John c. Calhoun,
Thomas H. Benton and Silas Wright, is still
living at the age of s6.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
THE BOND OF LANGUAGE.
English . Hundred Years Hence VIII b
Universally Spoken.

Universally Spoken.
Portland, Oregonian.1
Robert Johnson director OF the Colonial
College, London, has been making this
prophecy about the English race:
Looking forward but a few short years, is
not the following probable forecast? Can
we not see the great English family occupy
ing the whole of North America, Australia,
New Zealand, great part Of South Africa,
and many other parts of the world as wellf
In Americs, Canada and the United States,
hand Joined in hand, command alike the At
lantio and Pacific. The United States Of
Australia and New Zealand and the United
States of South Africa command the Indian
and Southern seas, while all are united in a
firm and indissoluble alliance with the
motherland from which they sprang, the
United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ire
land"
The activity of the great English-speaking
family throughout the world is immense,
and fs spreading with an ever-increasing
rapidity. But great as it is now, it will be
incomparably greater in that future time
when America shall have reached an ad-
vanced stage of development, and shall find
it necessary to obtain employment for her
energies in all remote parts of the world. In
America. within 200 years, we shall have
200 OOO,o 900 Of people speaking the English
guage will have gained so much over every
other as to be practically the one language
of the world. The commercial energy of the
race, emanating thus far chiefly from Eng
land, is carrying the language and planting
1t everywhere: but the time will como when
the United States will be the head and center
OF this species of conquest.
History proves that language Is the great
bond among men. 1t sets in motion forces
that triumph over differences of situation
ana distinctions of race; it brings through
progress OF time, the most diverse elements
OF population into homogeneous conditions
and relations. One hundred years hence
the man who would be citizen of the world
must know English: culture and business
will not be possible without it. The lam
guage will spread everywhere among peo-
pie Of intelligence and commercial activity,
and will be unknown only among those who
are fixed and provincial in their ways, have
little or no intercourse with the world and
are quite unprogIessive. The spread of the
Language, worldwide, will, moreover, create
an alliance among men stronger than any
bond OF International treaties. Wars be-
tween peoples speaking the same language
are not impossible, of course, but they are
rare, and the interests of commerce, and
feeling of kinship that language creates, will
make them rarer. The civil wars in Eng
land and our own civil war do not contra
dict the position, because these wars were
incidents in the evolution of the inner life
Of nations, not conflicts Of opposing nations
with each other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

The Opera House at Atlanta had been
used as a courtroom for murder trial. In
the evening minstrelsy performance was
interrupted while the Judge mounted the
stage to charge the jury. The jury with
drew, but the lawyers remained, with the
prisoner whose life was at stake, to enjoy the
humorous performance. This is suggestive
incident for Allegheny county, where capt.
tai punishment is treated as farce. Muir
derers could be tried to the accompaniment
of variety entertainment and be permitted
. to leave at the end of the show.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

COMMISSIONERS RAUM has a discrimln.
ating intellect. He sees no injustice in dis
charging officials himself without giving
them a hearing. But, when the same prin.
ciple is applied by another to his own son
he is under the impression that it is a very
improper one. 1t Is the old story wherein
the ownership of the OK makes all the differ
ence as to its being gored.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
j, b. wickersham, Inventor.

j. B. Wickersham, well-known Phila-
delphian, died in Philadelphia yesterday. Wick
ersham had a genius for invention which de-
veloped in early life and continued to the last. He
obtained patents for Improvements on a number of
useful arts and was successful In their introduc-
tion For many years he was extensively engaged
in New York in the manufacture of ornamental
farm railings and fences. as he was afterward
again in Washington and Philadelphia. becoming
Crystal Palace. While in that city he conceived
the plan of elevated railroad in order to relieve
question he was the pioneer in this Improvement.
As early as 1854 :he illustrated newspapers in New
Terrace. with ample description of the benefits IL
would bring to the people: but the time was not
Others afterwards reaped the credit and the re-
ward. He turned his attention to the perfecting of
fire escapes of which he became an extensive
manufacturer,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

KAISER WILHELM is going to hunt.
Germany may expect peace while he has
good sport. But should he be forced to find
occupation in affairs of state, owing to ab-
sence of game or bad craftsmanship. riots
and ructions will again become the order of
the day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
USEFUL ECONOMY.

The county is to be congratulated on the
economic management of the License
Court Its promptness in dealing with
ppiicants and remonstrants is achieving
\marked saving. The cost of running
court is S1O6 day. In the five days
@ring which it has worked at present. it
hA accomplished business which hereto
fo4 required two weeks, and by SO doing
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

IT is said that Sewickley has not yet
learned that road-making is O science. Sc
wickley does not stand alone. Yet road
making is one of the simplest Of sciences if
only the people interested will take the
trouble to inquire into the results of the
experience of others.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

THE prosecution of the charges against
Judge Maynard should be just about enough
to annihilate Hills Presidential boom. Fame
and notoriety have some features in COM
mon, but they cannot exist in one individual,
and the former never follows the latter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
How the Tariff Is a Tax,

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.l
The tariff is q tax. of course--a tax on for
eign manufactures for the benefit of do
mestic industry and enterprise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
iowa Republicans Against rrohibition.

KEoKUK, IA, March pa petition was cir
culated here to-day and signed generally by
Republican business men, asking the Lower
House of the IowaIesislature to reconsider
its action and to pass the Catch local option
bill. delegation Of Republicans will take
this petition to Des Moines for presentation
to the LEGISLATURE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

MAYOR GoURLEY, as the author Of sew
eral school "readers," and ex-Mayor Wyman,
who never read his city's charter, stand out
in noticeable contrast.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

If the Memphis grand jury succeed in
indictlng the lynchers they will have set on
foot movement which will tend to remove
the disgrace of lawlessness from their city
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
Oh. sanity one, have vou FORGOT

Oh, sanity one, have you forgot
That shadowy nook where faint perfume
OF hot-house flowers came floating in
And gave your cheek an added bloomp
Have you forgot the way gave
The longing Of my heart free vent
And touched 1t too? All, me! 'tls past:
The sermons done; this psalm IS the last
She's keeping Lent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

"YoUR daughter is very substantial
girl ~ said the proprietress of the young ladies'
school. ''She has no liking for what is light or
frivolous
1T seems so'' replied her mother, regret
fully. Even her bread is ''-B7othe,ton
Herald
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
Content to Retain the Chair.

Chicago News.1
Mr.. Thayer, of Nebraska, still retains his
claim to the Governors chair. Mr. Boyd, of
that State, will be contented to retain merely
the chair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

even the temporary ability Of the Sugar
Trust to extort high prices from the con-
sumers of sugar is much restricted by the
fact that the moment it exceeds half a
cent beyond the natural prices, foreign
competition will step in. That indicates
very effective method of shearing. the
power of any trust that maintains excess
sive prices in tariff protected industry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
Will Have the Same Old Smell.

Chicago Tribune.1
Exit the Standard Oil Trust. But kero-
sene by any other name will have the same
old smell.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

WIREPULLING can do good deal, but it
requires q strong arm to carry Armstrong g
county.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

SHARPsBURG is fifty years old and just
in its prime.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

THE bodies ofsthe Hill Farm mine vic
tins are buried, but the heroism called out
by the disaster will live for many years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

If the Bland bill should become law the
laborer would have to work the harder for
his living
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
RHYNKLES AND RHYMELETS.

"WHERE were you last night?" asked
Jolliboy, addressing Chappie. who was looking
very much out of sorts.
my mind is a blank, " said Chappie.
'sThat's not what I'm talking about :" said Jolli-
boy; II was asking you where you were last
night ,,-Ne,o York Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

GUESTS at the farewell banquet in White
law Reid's honor Jared well.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

SURPRISES in Allegheny affairs have be.
come so frequent as to be expected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

THE fact that this is leap year probably
accounts for the jumps in the weather.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

manders whose vessels are to patrol the
neighDorhood of the Bering Sea will set out
under sealed orders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

CHICAGO will be in lamentable position
ii there is failure to bring the boodlers to
justice on account of dissensions among the
prosecutors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26

ECoNoMY'S the road to wealth;
But what we'd like to have revealed
Is some sly path where we by stealth
Can quickly cut across the field.