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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
ADECtDED ERROR.

There is a singular view of the purpose
of government in the definition with
which Mr. Cleveland opens his letter of
acceptance. "The protection of the peO-
pie in the exclusive use and enjoyment of
their property and earnings concededly
constitutes the especial purpose and mis-
sion of our free government" The gifted
manner in which Mr.. Cleveland recedes
from his platform has drawn away at
tention from this assertion; but it is
nevertheless worth while to examine it
both as to its accuracy and significance.
To set up merely individual opinion as
to the purpose of our government might
/ simply provoke dispute. There happen
to be some very authoritative declarations
on the point. When the independence of
the country was established there was a
very forcible declaration that govern
ments are instituted among men" to Sc
cure the inaIienable rights of 'life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness" Moreover
thirteen years later document called the
Constitution of the United States de-
clares in its opening sentence that
the purpose of the government
thereby established is to establish
justice, insure domestic tranquility, pro-
vide for the common defense, promote the
general welfare and secure the blessings
of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
In these authoritative documents there is
not word about ''the protection of prop
erty and earnings" 1t is true that such
protection is an essential incident of the
great purpose, but it is not "the especial
purpose or mission" 1t is indeed less i'm
portant than the protection of life, the
safety of the person, the maintenance of
liberty, and the advancement and inteili-
gence of health.
This is not mere hypercriticism. The
Republican party is charged in this cam
paign with subservience to wealth. Yet
the candidate of the Democratic party in
the document which he presents as sub
stltute for the formal declaration of princi-
pies of the party lays down as rule that
the especial purpose is the protection of
property and earnings The putting of
secondary and incidental purpose in the
first place is more serious departure from
the Democratic principles of our system
than any Republican has ever made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

If the American workman only received
as his share of the "division of the advan-
tages, ETC., - an increase of wages over that
paid to the foreign workmen equal to the
proportionate increase which the American
manufacturer receives for his finished
product over that received by the English
manufacturer it might be regarded as a
"fair division of the advantages, etc." This
would give him as his share 50 per cent rSAore
wages than his foreign co-laborer receives
for the same labor on a ton of bar iron; in
stead of which, however, he receives 236 per
cent more wages for the same work. l SUBJ
nit, therefore, that Mr.. Cleveland's state
ment that ''our workman still waits for a
division" is entirely unsupported by facts.
1t is the opinion of theoretical enthusiast
who has no practical knowledge of the sub.
ject, but who has adopted second hand q
system which MEBlaine has aptly described
as 'shaving been worked out by a past gen.
Grafton to meet the requirements OF a little
island in the North Sea- after it had by the
most high-handed protective laws made it.
self the manufacturer for the world" a
system which experience has shown to be
totally at variance with our needs, for dis
aster and depression have followed every
attempt at its adoption.
My experience of the wOrkingman leads
me to know that he is remarkably direct in
his methods of reasoning and in his conclu-
sions; he sometimes gets wrong but does
not often stay wrong; he knows what works
to his advantage and what to his injury.
The hundreds of thousands of worllmen OF
all sorts and conditions who annually leave
free trade countries and land on our shores,
and who continue to come. bear ample and
unanswerable testimony to the fact that the
Condition and home-life' of worllmen are
inmeasurably better in this country than
any where else.
Relative to "home-life" l may be allowed
to quote from the published statemens of
Mr.. Eberhart, the President OF the Amer
ican Windo W Glass Association. rs to what
he recently saw in Belgium, country which
enjoys the blessings Of free trade; he says:
women wheeling coal and doing other heavy
work in glass houses; they arrived in the
morning carrying babes .in their arms. The
little ones were wrapped in old clothes and
left ina corner whil Q the mother toiled or
a living" l will close by asking of what
kinds are the conditions and home-life"
which these facts indicatef
DAVID B. OLIVER,
PITTsBuRa. October l. 1892.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
rITTsBURG. wEDN EsDAY, OCT. s, 1892
TWELVE PAGES
MIR. oLIvER's OPEN LETTER.

No contribution to the campaign that
we have seen thus far is SO pertinent or so
powerful as the letter from David B. Oil
yer, General Manager of the Oliver Iron
and Steel Company, which THE DIS
PATCH prints this morning. Mr. Oliver
replies to Mr.. Cleve!and's assumption in
his letter Of acceptance th1t workingmen
have not been benefited by the protective
tarif-that they have not shared the ben
efits which protectioniSts claim for the
protective policy.
The arguments which Mr. Oliver uses
are the most convincing ones-the actual
figures of wages in the iron industry in
1853 and in 1892, and comparison of
wages in the United States to-day with
those for the same classes of skilled labor
in Great Britain. This data is copied from
the books of firms engaged in the iron
business. If it is question, Mr.. Oliver
pledges himself to verify it beyond any
possible cavil
We commend these statements to the
public, whose interest 1t is to know
the truth, and not to be misled by vague
and unsupported assertions even when
volunteered from high political quarters.
The question at stake in the protection
issue should not be one of partisanship,
but simply whether the protective system
or free trade, or tariff for revenue only,
as Mr.. Cleveland prefers to call it, brings
the best results for our industries and for
the workingmen engaged in them What
answer can the anti-protectionists make
to the array of wages and percentages
which Mr.. Oliver submits for their in
sDectiOn?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
CALAMITY FOR CALAMITY,

There is another subject for Democratic
discipline. The Philadelphia Record, the
most confirmed Free Trade organ of the
East, SO infatuated in its opposition to
Republican legislation that it tried not
long ago to deny that the reciprocity policy
has increased our exports to Cuba, throws
overheard the great Democratic con-
tentions and knocks the chosen posi-
ton Of the Democratic campaign into
chaos. While Free Trade organ the
Record prides itself on the accuracy and
reliability of its weekly review of business.
Its justification for doing so may appear
In the following quotations from its last
article of the sort:
The common complaint of unsatisfa ctory
prices and an absence of sufficient margins
of profit in business do nos comport with
the statistics of trade. The activity of pro-
duction and consumption resulting from the
abundant harvests of last year has been un-
equaled. Bank clearings, railroad earnings
foreign trade returns, and all the evidences
that are available concerning the condition
of domestic industries go to confirm this
statement. Each geographical divis-
ion OF the country shows marked improve
ment in its insolvency record.
But this is exactly the sort of thing that
Peck, the Democratic statistician of New
York, has been hauled before the courts
for saying. Peck reports that industrial
production has increased and that pros
perity is general This was high treason
to the Democratic calamity campaign. 1t
met with denunciations from the whole
Democratic press, the Record included,
and has resulted in indicting the wicked
Peck. If it was criminal for Peck to as
sert that prosperity exists is it not capt.
tai offense for the Record to say the same
thing?
The phenomenon of Democratic organ
going back on the persistent claim of its
own party is sufficiently remarkable; but
it is not SO much so as would be the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

spectacle of applying the same discipline
to the Record that they are trying to in
fltct on Peck. The idea of the eminent
Mr.. Singerly placed behind prison bars
and drawing checks to aid the Democratic
campaign while serving out the penalty
for treason to that cause is too painful to
enlarge on. We shall hope that the
peculiar criminal law which Furnishes
Democratic organs and offce-holders for
reporting the facts about business and
industry does not extend outside New
York. Thus Mr. Singerly may escape
durance vile. At the same time, this state
ment of the Free Trade Record furnishes
another evidence that the Democratic
calamity campaign is in bad way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
FLIGHTS INTO FUNNYDOM.

sIook here" said Mr.. Moovalong, 'tl
is the third time you have reminded me that
rent Is overdue"
Yes
..Weii. don't You think this overdue business
getting little over-done on your part?''-Bas
in2ton STIR.
80, I'll be true as the stars, my love-"
He sang but she didn't mind
He didn't refer to the heavenly ones,
But to the theatrical kind.
Brooklyn Eagle
Customer-This cloak Just suits me, you
man. If you are sure the trimmings will VIZ
well.
Clerk-The trimmings Otter. am sure.
Customer-Great land, know it oughter, but
question is. Will it?
Clerk-Yes. can assure you it Will be fur &c
time.-Chtca9o Inter Ocean.
Goodby to Gray Gables!
No longer will fables
And myths of 1.-THE claimant at home" be sent
The Aureole's hidden;
And till he is hidden
To seek private life, with the boys he viii shous'
No liquor he'll take him.
His thirst he will sake him
BY water untarifed and there find sweet pax,
Less in veritas vino,
He might cross the line. oh,
And forget that his cry is The tariffs . tax"
-PhibIdeLpht0 PTeSi
"Do you ever go fishing in winter
asked the fair girl.
''Very seldom. replied Isaak.
Don't you know" she said artlessly,
think biting cold wea ther would be the best Il
for It, "-Det7oit Free Press.
When the baseball players have ceased
play,
AS they do at the coming of autumn sere,
The ball they carefully put away.
But the bat they stick to throughout the year
-Aeao York Pres
Some men are born lucky" sighed
editor. ''our cotemporary across the way
just been bitten by rattIesnake.n'
'.Qon't call that lucky, do YOUR
why, certainly Don't you know that
antidote for rattlesnake bite Is quart OF pc
brandyy'-Atgont0 CoaStitution,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
FROM ORATOR TO CROAKER.


Class of '93 at Little Washington Arranges
Its Exercises fer Next June.
.WAsHINGToN. Oct, 4-[SpeciaL ]-Wash1ng-
ton and Jefferson College class of 1913 held q
class meeting yesterday to arrange Tor the
class-day exercises next June. The follow
ing members were elected for the several
honors: Master of Ceremonies, j: L. Diehl,
Irwin; Orhtor, j. F. Mayhem, Elizabeth;
Historian, j. W. Anthony. Kerr station;
derson, New Paris; Phrenolosist, J. &. i.
Gilbreath, Mansfield; Prophet, U. s. G.
Smith. Washington: Spoon Orator, K: W.
Knoll, Breneman; Souvenirs, W. W. Max
well, Wasnington: 1898 to 1885, s. v. Ben
dikian, Constantinople, Turkey; Croaker, j.
A. Stevenson, RaccoOn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
A VERITABLE WATER FAMINE.

Jeanette and Irwin Has 1t, and Green's
burg Is Threatened.
GREENsBURG, Oct. 4-[Speciol 1.-The long
continued absence of rains of any conse-
quence is seriously affecting the manufact-
uring interests in this vicinity. The wafer
company supplying Jeanette and Irwin
has shut off much of the supply, and as
consequence the Pennsylvania Plate Glass
Works at Irwin have been shut down 1ndefl-
nitely, throwing large number OF men out
of work
People who depended on the water COM
pany's supply are in desperate straits. 1t Is
stated here tonight that the company sup
plying this city will shut off water the lat
ter part of this week unless heavy rains fall
in the mountain region in the interval
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
Five Brothers Of,iciate at a Mass.

CINCINNATI, Oct Am event was recorded
at st. Edwards Church yesterday that has
never been duplicated in this country. The
rare sight of five brothers. all priests, off
ciating at service was the occurrence
Sunday morning al Mt. St. Mary's Seminary.
Father George Hickey was ordained by
Archbishop Elder, and he sang his first
mass. The celebrant was assisted by his
four brothers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
Obituary Notes.

REV. ]. V. MUMMERY. the Oldest Congregational
minister in London. is dead.
EDWARD J. BIDDLE, Il prominent and wealthy
resident of st. Louis for the past 20 years, died
Monday evening.
JOEL REAMANA, member of the Canadian
Northwest Government, is dead. He had just ac-
cepted office in the new Cabinet.
FRANZ BRACHEL Ii, the Austrian statistician.
is dead He began at the age of 10 to publish works
on statistical and geographical subjects.
CAPTAIN W. H. DEEM. for &c years engaged in
the Cincinnati and Memphis packet line. died Mon
day at Home City, North Bend, after lin
gering illness.
BRITISH CHARGE d. AFFAIREs MAUDE died Mon
DAY night of typhoid fever at Valparaiso. TIE
Chilean Government will be officially represented
at the funeral.
Rev. SAMUEL LoNGFELLow, brother of the late
poet, Henry W. Longieliow, died at Portland Me-,
Monday. He was 70 years old and had been In
feeble health some time.
A. STANLEY PINHoRN. wealthy stock raiser.
was found dead in bed at Winnipeg Sunday night.
The case is surrounded with mystery. The de-
ceased is nephew OF Sir Stanley Hall. NJ. +, Lon
don. England.
COLONEL LUCIUs FINLEY, prominent lawyer
and son Of General J. j. Finley. Of Gainesville,
Fla. Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit died sud-
denly in his office in Tampa Monday. He was
about so years old.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
POOR 10 WANTS SPENDING MONEY,
Houses, Mills and Schools Won't Satisfy tin
Show-Loving Spokanes.

Houses, Mills and Schools Won't Satisfy the
Show-Loving Spokanes.
SPOKANE, WASH, Oct. About 100 Spo-
kane Indians held conference on the banks
of the river in the ou tskirts of the city with
Special Agent Hardman. who is employed
by the Government to remove them to the
C9ur dAlene reservation. At present they
are vagabonds, homeless and landless, and
it was thought they would be eager to accept
the Governments offer at DOW WOW held
Saturday.
Chief Loui urged bis people to demand
spot cash instead Of houses mills and
schools, and at the conference with Agent
Hardman very unreasonable spirit was de-
veloped. The Indians said they would 60 on
the land, but must have money to spend
themselves. Their heads have been turned
by the display made recently by their old
time neighbors, the CHur d'Alenes. Special
Agent Hard!nan told them they had better
conference.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

HoNoRs-or dishonors-as to economy or
extravngance of administration are about
evenly divided between the two parties. At
least the record of Democratic Congress is
not by any means such as to warrant Mr..
Cleveland in claiming economy an attri-
butte of his party, as he did in New York
Yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
to correspond to the announced changes in
opinion of the man under discussion.

THE resolutions of sympathy with the
President in the anxiety caused by Mrs. Har-
rison's illness which the Democratic clubs
passed in New York yesterday was pleas
ant indication of the feeling throughout the
country. zone touch OF nature makes the
whole world kim" and party feeling is oblit-
Grated by personal aff1ictions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

AFTER all its gibes at the older parties
as selfish and corrupt organ izations, the
Third party is demonstrating as rapidly as
possible that its aim is to provide a new
medium for swapping votes and offices,
rather than for the expounding Of wild
eyed and illusory theories.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

BROUGHT face to face with the alterna-
tive OF losing every vestige of chance for
polling any considerable number of votes in
New York or forming an unholy alliance
with the Tammany spoil hunters, ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland accepted the latter evil as
the lesser. Thus he added to his discrepancy
between his civil service doctrines and his
political practice which had already been
indicated by his consent to share the Demo-
cratic ticket with one whose reputation is
based solely on his executive agility as a
partisan headsman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

LORD TENNYsoN is a man eighty-three
years of age, and his illness is therefore
likely to be his last. Die when he may, his
reputation will long outlive him, not as a
Lord, not ass Poet Laureate. bus as a poet
pure and simple, whose work is known the
world over ami admired by all who speak
and read the English language.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

A CoRoNER's jury at Beaver Falls, yes
terday returned the verdict: sGeorge Will
son came to his death through negligence in
shifting cars" But railroad company
does not care much for such an Insignificant
detail as this, SO long as its profits are kept
up to a remunerative level.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

THERE is one good feature of the bad egg
campaign in Georgia-it must obviate much
loss of temper on the part of resident house.
wives who handle only the fresh laid arti-
Gle now that there is so much demand for
the an tediluvian variety in political life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

THE great amount and variety of political
news published in THE DISPATCH this morn
ing provides literature of interest to readers
Of every faith, and demonstrates beyond
dispute that the real work Of the Presidential
campaign is at least well under way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

THOSE gentlemen who are desirous Of
inaugurating a tariff for rev enue only
would be converted by Mr.. Oliv er's figures
if they could understand the relation of
cause to effect, and had not blindly bound
themselves to eschew all consideration of
American industrial interests.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
These figures show for themselves. is

now pertinent to our inquiry to ascertain
the relative difference between the cost of
labor paid by the Pittsbnrg manufacturer
and his English competitor on a ton of bar
iron and the prices they obtain for it re-
spect1vely, in order to obtain more fully the
facts governing this division" for which,
Mr.. Cleveland asserts. our workman 'still
Waits:' ,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

UNDER the National bank system COM
mercial convenience, certainty and security
are the universal rule. Under the State sys-
tenn demanded by the Democrats all three
would be conspicuous only by their absence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

IF Allegheny citizens should refuse to
authorize the improvements necessary for
their city they would injure themselves and
benefit the real estate owners of Pittsburg, I
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

THERE are times at which and subjects
whereon i. becomes public officials to assert
their individuality as little as possible.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

THE prosperity of the country under pro-
lection is the misfortune of free traders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

PECK had better provide himself with
bodyguard if he really intends to publish
another report showing the advantages of
protection before November.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

NEW YORK was Just flooded with the
brilliancy of oratorical stars last night; and
the brightest were not in opposition either.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

AND still Europe continues to add to its
preparations for war in order that peace
may be preserved!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

POSSIBLY a numerously signed petition,
presented in a duly humble spirit to the
owners of the toll bridges, would facilitate
the city's laborious efforts to provide free
bridge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

oman AFRAID OF HIS PLATFORM
should appeal to the Tamnany braves as an
appropriate name for their Presidential can
didatel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

FOOTBALL fatalities have begun to make
their appearance as usual at this season.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

PITTSBURG has more than one Point
where there is room for Improvement
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

LEAP year is not the right time for dis
cussing the pros and cons of Episcopalian
celiDacy,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

THERE is a curious change in the esti-
mate of character made by political organs
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
Mrs. Agatha Schleich.

Mrs Agatha Sehleich, mother-in-law of
George Schad, Select Councilman from the Eighth
ward Allegheny, died yesterday, aged 62 years. at
her residence, 223 Main street. The funeral will
take place tomorrow morning at ST. Mary's
church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
Captain George f. Whale.
Cantain George r. Whale of Needhar

Mass, is dead. He was "a years old. At the be-
ginning OF the Rebellion Captain Whale was en-
ployed at the Watertown arsenal and discovered
that some of the officers in charge and a number
of the men employed did not sympathize with the
Northern cause and tampered with the cartridges
made for the service, so that when they were re-
ceived at the front they were useless. Captain
Whale reported the facts to Washington and the
guilty ones were removed. In regard to this mat
ter there are among the Captains effects letters
from Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of War Stanton,
Senators Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, Gov
ernor Andrew and other prominent men. Captain
Whale Joined q Massachusetts regiment and
served nye years, returning home captain. OF
Custom House,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
BTSTNESS OFFICE,

Vol. a., No 244-Entered at Pittsburg Postof1ce
November 1857, as second-class matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05

EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 70.
TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK. where
complete files of THE DISPATCH can always be
found,
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Finished bars, per ton. IS ss od-sS 81 IS q G
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