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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
SINGLE TAX IDEAR
Tho Platform on Which the Disciples of
Henry George stand.

Tho Platform on Which the Disciples OF
Henry George stand.
NEW YORK; March 1.-The active agitation
in regard to questions of taxation has re-
suited in the formulating of a new platform
Of principles on the subject, which has been
signed by a number of influential men, as
preparatory to a wider circulation through
out the country. The platform is as follows:
Believing that public attention is con-
cerned IS never before with the solution OF
the social problems which confront US, We
declare our adhesion to the following princi-
pies, and we urge upon all American citizens
a careful examination of them with a view
to their embodiment in the law.
"Taxes should be simple, just definite and
easily collected.
"They ought not to restrict production or
saving, nor to favor individuals at the ex
pense of the community.
Labor should always be able to find suit
able employment, and for this purpose only
the use of land Is absolutely necessary.
"A tax on the rental value OF land exclu-
sfve of improvements, is direct, equitable
and certain, it would encourage production
and industry, and hinder the withholding of
availa BILE land from use. 1t would take for
public purposes only the value created by
the public growth, leaving to labor and
capital their full earnings free from all tax.
"Therefore, a single tax on the rental
value of land alone is the best possible tax"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
NERCER REPUBLICANS
Request Voters at tho Primaries to Declare
Their Preferences for Senator

Request Voters at tho Primaries to Declare
Their Preferences for Senator
MERCER, March L-[SpecidL lin pursuance
to the call issued by County Chairman Coch-
ran, the Republican County Committee
met in the Court House to-day, there
being only three committeeman absent
Monday, April II. was the time set by the
committee upon which the primaries should
be held and the Tuesday following as the
time for holding the convention.
The committee. appointed by the last Re-
publican Convention to prepare rules to
govern nominations under the delegate sys-
tenn, made a report, which was accepted.
Hon. Thomas Perry then offered the follow
ing resolution. which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Chairman of tho
county committee be instructed to request
the Republican voters at the coming prim-
aries elections to express by their votes,
their choice for United States Senator,
and that the chairman furnish blank
ticket as follows: "For United States SEN
ator," and the result of said vote be sent
with the credentials of delegates to the
chairman of the county convention
A set of strong resolutions were adopted
by the committee indorsins the candidacy
for CONGRESSMAN at large. Two candidates
Phillips, of Lawrence county, being
Hon. S. c. Koonce, of Clark,
and DR.. Caldwell, OF New Hamburg. For
State Senator, Hon. James S. Fruit, of
Sharon; DR.. j. M. Martin, of Grove City, and
Captain p. +. Simpler, of this city, have an
nounced. For the Legislature there is at
present i've announcements.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
sc1EHcE and DECENTRALIZATION.
Electricity to Aid in the. owing Of the Social
Problem.

Electricity to Aid in the owing Of the Social
Problem.
et. Louis Post-Dispatch.l
Economists have expressed the belief that
ecentralizatfon is likely to- follow. the de.
velopment Of electrical science. That the
belief is not wholly speculative is shown by
the use made of electricity in Switzerland.
but more especially at st. Esienne, France.
The industry at that place is the manufac-
ture Of silk ribbon. The independents looms
number $1,000, while the steam factories
have 5000. Although laboring under heavy
disadvantages, the bsndworkers have held
their own against steam power, because of
the superior quality of their ribbons The
city of St. Etienne has undertaken to supply
these handworkers with power by electric
.fty, the cost to be borne by the city, but to
be collected from the users in the shape of
a charge of cents day for a loom and
motor.
This experiment. is very suggestive If
successful it will lead to a radical revolu-
tion in the factory systems of the world,
perhaps to the destruction of the system.
The dream Of krapotkine, the industrial
village of the future, is realized i'll St.
Etienne. There cannot be two opinions
about the desirability OF such a change.
The individual will be put on his feet again.
His integrity will be restored. The home.
lie In cottage and cabin of which we used
to read SO much will again be possible. The
herding OF men in unwholesone neighbpr-
hoods is one of the worst evils from which
we are now suffering. 1t need not be en-
dured If people can get power at their
houses, and electricity seems destined to
solve this social question, rs it has questions
of other sorts. Hands will disappear, and
men will reappear. The'home which. under
the factory system, is hideous sarcasm,
may be established under different and
more cheerful conditions Every home will
be factory and every factory a home.
It is pleasing speculation. OF course it
Is little more but that the experiment at st.
Etienne does suggest the possibility of i'm
provement must be admitted. Philan-
throphy has worked at the social question
and has utterly failed. Politicians have
tinkered at it and lave probably done more
harm than good. 1t is not too much to hope
that science will solve it. Future revolutions
will be wrought ont by chemistry and elec-
tricity. Politicians can do no more than
utilize the forces of nature and place them
at the service of the individual man. Gen.
tralization mas gone on unchecked because
tho individual has had no means of dra wing
to himself his share of the benefits arising
from the diffusion of Knowledge DecentraI-
tzation will set in when. as at ST. Etienne,
the community is able to procure the CO
operation Of nature for the common good.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
HUNGER AND CRIME HAND IN HAN


Every report from Russia brings new
accounts of the sufferings from starvation,
That the peasantry have in many districts
become transformed into bandits and
beasts of prey is all that could have been
expected. Ignorant in all things, and
frenzied by the absence of life's necessities
for themselves and those dependent on
them, there would be cause for wonder
only if they abstained from violence. But
next to their ignorance is the devotion
they pay to their church under all ordi-
nary circumstances; so that the extremity
of their want is clearly indicated by the
fact that even cIergymen's houses have
been robbed.
That present evils are the result of mis-
government cannot for moment be
denied. That reforms should be under
taken speedily and in earnest is certain.
But it is equally sure that many years will
have to pass before any great improve
ment is discernible. The most pressing
question of the hour is how the sufferings
can best be relieved now, and their
immediate repetition be prevented. The
famine extends over an immense area and
means of communication are scarce.
These are the two greatest difficulties.
But that the Gar is not doing all he can
is shown by his boarding grain, for puf-
poses best known to himself, while
thousands die for lack of food and whole
tracts of country are without seed for the
sowing which should already have COM
menced. -
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
RHYNKLED RHYMELETs,

Saidso-I had a check this morning on q
bank where I wasn't acquainted; the cashier
wouldn't give me the money, but he said 10 was az
good as the wheat.
Herdso-what did you say?
Saidso--I told him i thought il was just about -
handy y.-Sonersst Ns,os. p '---~-----
The modern man acknowledges
This paradox so grim,
When he can't .'raise the wind'r 1t Is
An awful blow to him.
-.- Boston Courier.
Mr. Lotos-Have you any idea what are
the relations between that young Rivers Ide and
our Lena?
Mrs. Loto.-I dom know; the young people seem
to be very close-monthed-
Mr.. Lotos-H' m SO thought when discoveries
them on the parior sofa this evening.-Pucs-
A Pennsylvania girl loved me
Far more than tongue can tell:
And. oh. that Pennsylvania girl.
You bet, Iloved her well-o well.
-reD York Herald.
"Thev say that truth is stranger than
fiction. you know
'.Yes; but you ought to read Kipling. Judge
Eat, drink and be merry, philosophers say:
This advice may he all very well in its way.
But the merriment part OF it. some people think
Depends upon what you may eat or may drink.
London N,os
Jake-You are the shore, darling; am
the ship that hugs you.
Old Bellows (entering,-Yes, and am the
breaker. I
And Jake passed into the darkness with an IN
cl:nation to stand up.-Ponaona Times.
How does it happen, one would like 70
know,
That when the bin
Shows that the coal supply is getting low
The cold sets in.
4 -Eep rork Press.
Seeker observe that Prof Stagg mas
been iecturing on How to Become Christian
Athlete wonder what that means.
Sagenan-Thst's an easy one. A Christian a1n'
lete is one who is continually jumping from one ~
ngious faith 70 another.-Boston Courier
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
COMMON TO BOTH PARTIES,

The fact that New York organization
for the purpose of getting legislation
passed in the public interest had to go to
Mr.. Richard Croker and secure his in
dorsement of the measure in order to gain
the bill even the favor of a hearing,
arouses the indignation of the New York
Recorder. That journal quotes the asser-
ton of the Secretary of the organization
that this course was taken ''because we
had been told by several Democratic men,
bers of the Legislature that they dare not
introduce such bill without the consent
of MI. Croker or Mr.. Murphy" and there
upon Indignantly exclaims: "This is not
Democracy
1t is not. 1t is bossism. 1t has been re-
served for the devices of practical poll
tics to secure for politicians holding no
public position and assuming no official re-
sponsibility greater control over legisla-
ton thanis given to any monarch of Europe
except the Gar 1t furnishes a fresh il
lustration of the utter destruction of re-
publican government that is worked by
the discipline of party machine.
But the esteemed Recorder when it ex-
claims: "The body is Legislature only
in name; it is mockery, sham and a
fraud" should confine its denunciations
to a single example of the sort 1t recent
ly, with regard to some of the less fragrant
misdeeds of Democratic government in
New York, declared that it would be Just
as prompt to denounce equal wrongs on
the part of the Republicans. 1t has in
this case an opportunity to prove the faith
that is in it by pointing out that when Re-
publican Legislatures have been carried
in the pockets of boss, as has been the
case in both New York and Pennsylvania,
it is an equal violation of every principle
of honest representative government By
so doing it will point the way to the real
source of the evil; that is, the partisan
discipline against the independent action
which can alone break down the domina-
ton of the bosses, whether Democratic or
Republican.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
BLAINE'S LATEST LETTER.

Now we know better than ever before tina
Secretary Blaine is not q candidate for th'
Presidency. Like careful Martha, his mne
is numbered with matters of less import
Philadelphia Record.
WHILE Mr.. Blaine adopts manly course il
defending his wife, the fact remains that thu
proper place for meeting the charge mad,
against her was in the court in which the
suit for divorce was brought.-Bufdlo En-
quire,.
IT: is apparent that Mr.. Blaine does moi
care whether FatherDucey turns in and help:
him i'll the ne xJ campaign or not. The fact
is, the clerey and Mr.. Blaine do not get along
as we'll together as we would like to see
-New York Advertiser.
Mr. BLAINE has shining abilities as a spe
cial pleader, but he can hardly hope to gain
credit Dy using them in behalf of a son who
for several years left a helpless wife and
child to depend upon friends for support
81. Louis Post Dispatch.
In behalf OF Mrs. Blaine, as a man, a hus.
band and father, Mr.. Blaine had no right to
be silent He could not leave the judicial
aspersion passed upon her unchallenged.
He has met the attack fully, frankly and
Philadelphia Press.
So long as Mr.. Blaine maintained his reti-
cence with regard to domestic complications
we did not feel at liberty to make any COM
ments on the situation. Family secrets, even
when they are open secrets, should always
be respected by the press.-Ne,c York Herald.
The Secretary of State can hardly be
blamed for defending the good name of his
wife, but it is doubtful if subsequent rcvela-
tions do not go to prove that it would have
been wise to have treated the comments OF
the Deadwood judge with silent contempt
Detroit NeUS.
BLAINE will receive the sympathy of every
one who has sense ana cour esy enough to
distinguish between his personal and his
public relations A man who is narrow
minded enough to drag private matters into
political contests Will rejoice ut this oppor-
tunity to stab Blafne.-Detroit Journal.
THE place to stop controversies of this
kind is before they are begun. There is no
disputing that the stories set afloat concern
ing this unhappy marriagehave been bur-
den for the B:aines to endure, but is it not
better to bear those ills we have than fly to
others that we know not of?"-Cincinadti
Ifmes-Star.
IT is very natural that Mr.. Blaine should
publish u lie .ense of his son. But although
he seems to have bent the full energies OF
his acute and lawver-like mind to making
out the best possible case, the very admis-
sion which facts compel him to make seems
to leave the matter where it was before
-Roctester Union.
The conduct of the Dakota judge has COM
PEELED him to break silence, aud his stite-
ment, which is the first and only one of
public character that las been made in all
swer to the charges OF Mrs. Blaine, Jr., may
we'll command attention as III expression of
the grief Of u husband and father whose do
mestic life has been free from reproach.-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
THE INCEPTION OF RECIPROCITY.


A special from Cleveland in this issue
points out that the reciprocity policy owes
its inception to the Garfield administra-
ton, and makes the assertion that the out
lines of the policy were sketched by Gen.
eral Garfield at Mentor during the winter
before his Inauguration.
Except for the interesting details which
are given, this is stating what was pretty
well understood already. Indeed the
leading feature of the Garfield admins
tration during the few months it had to
develop a policy was the beginning by
Secretary Blaine of the Pan-American
policy, Of which reciprocity is the main
feature. After General Garfield,s tragic
death this policy was abandoned, and
while partial efforts in the line of reci-
procity have been made both before and
since, the real Inauguration of that policy
was left for Secretary Blaine to perform
in the present administration.
1t is quite probable that the broad mind
of Garfield, with an especial aptitude for
fiscal subjects, originated the reciprocity
idea. But it is certain that its resumption
and its final incorporation into legislative
enactment was the work of Secretary
Blaine. 1t is more than doubtful, too,
whether Garfield unaided by Blaine could
have displayed the boldness and vigor
with which the Secretary compelled the
attention of Congress to this far-reaching
measure.
The reciprocity project is thus the
product of years of contemplation and q
few weeks of energetic action at the vital
moment. Due credit can be given to the
Garfield administration for its theoretical
inception without in any way detracting
from Mr. Blaine's unique position as the
man who has brought it almost unaided
into actual existence,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
NOTHING FROM NOTHING.

The temperance of the single tax cult
in the form of a circular bearing the sigma
lures of large number of estimable gentle
men is an example of the survival of mod
erately good idea pushed to the verge of
crankism. The circular states the plat
form of the single-taxers in four resolu-
tions The first three recount the truisms
that taxes should be simple and definite,
should not restrict production nor favor
individuals at the expense of the COM
munity, and that labor should always be
able to find adequate employment After
these indisputable propositions, it pro-
ceeds to inform us, among the other vir-
tues of the single tax on the rental value
of land, that it will leave ''to capital and
labor their full earnings free from all
tax"
The circular processes to state stnew
platform of principles" but the only new
thing we can find about it is the assertion
that it can produce something from
nothing All taxes must be paid from
earnings and all earnings must be those of
either capital or labor. The assertion,
therefore, that this system of taxation will
release the earnings of capital and labor
from taxation is tantamount to the allur-
ing promise to furnish the revenue of the
National. State and municipal govern
ments from nothing at all r.
The idea of making the rental value Of
real estate the basis of taxes on real es-
tate is a good one, confined within proper
limits and protected against abuse. But
our single tax friends should restrain
their enthusiasm sufficiently to ponder the
fact that a revenue amounting to thou
sands of millions cannot be raised without
some one paying it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES,

J. FRANCIS GALToN has invented an
apparatus for measuring thought.
AFTER the Queen, the Duke of Edin-
burgh, is the richest member Of the Royal
family.
DIR. Won HoLLEBEN, the new German
Minister to Washington, is said to bear a
striking resemblance to Commodore Walker,
commander Of the White squadron.
tor. Dawes, Of Massachusetts,. recently
visited Vassar College, and gave an inter
esting talk on the Indian question.
The story from Washington to the
effect that Senator Hill is to marry Mrs.
friends of both Mrs. Manning and tho Sem
ator.
ASHER CARUTH, the Kentuckian, is said
to be one of the most indefatigable members
of Congress. He is the special attorney of
every constituent he has-man, woman and
child, black or white.
FREDERICK SCHwATKA, the traveller,
once experienced a temperature of TO be.
low zero in the Arctic regions, near Burk's
Great Fish River. 1t is said to be the cold
est ever endured by civilized man.
PRINCE VICTOR EMANUEL, heir to the
italian crown, is one, of the handsomest and
most accomplished men of his station in
life. Although near 80 years of age and
widely travelled, he is yet unmarried.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES has a much
smaller head than his father; and London
paper suggests the probability of the crown
being reduced in size when it is passed
along to the son Of the present heir-ap-
parent.
The Baroness Won Zuyllan, of Paris, has
the finest stables in the world for her mag
n!ficent horses. Even those of the Car
himself do not equal them in splendor. On
Sunday afternoon she takes her tea in the
stables, where, down the center of the great
building, thick pile carpetis placed lead
ing up to the tea.room.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02

ing the unfortunate little misadventure of
Ives early career, he is bound to success.
Patience and perseverance will conquer
all things, even to the Intervention of the
criminal law, when backed by Sufficient
number of such half-million dollar opera
tions. After Ives has piled up $50, ,Ooo, 600
or 500, 900 by industry in this line, he
can levy tax of from half to five mills
on the dollar for the benefit of colleges or
missions, and thus enter into the full odor
of sanctity. Y.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
P1TTsBURG. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2
TWELVE PAGES
THE TOTAL TAX LEVY.

The report of the City Assessors show
ing the gross valuation to be $266, ,000, 600
together with the semi-official intimatior
that the tax rate will be Ii mills, gives the
public the first approach to clear idea OF
the amount it is proposed to raise by taxa.
ton. The unknown factor is the reduc'
ton of the valuation by classifcations,
which cannot make very great change in
the aggregate of taxation.
The expectation is that the reduction by
classification and correction will not be as
greats as on the last assessment. Supposing il
to be the same, it will leave net valua.
ton of $240, ,00O, 600 against $3.50 900, 600 last
year. 1t is thus apparent that the levy of
13 mills on the new valuation instead of
being a reduction from the levy of ID
mills on the old one is actually an increase
of $4,000, over 15 per cent in the
amount of taxes levied on the people.
There is no justification for any such
increase. A Is per cent increase of taxa
ton is admissible only to meet exegencies
of vital importance, or when exceptional
prosperity permits new and costly works
to be undertaken. Not only are these
conditions absent. but the proposed in
crease is made additionally unjustifable
by the fact that it follows upon long sue
cession of years in which similar en-
hancement Of the burdens of taxation has
been made. The proposed increase of
$4,000 was preceded by growth in
city expenditures of $419, 900 in 1891, of
$531, 900 in 1890, of $243 900 in 1889, of $685.
600 in 1883, and of s5Os, 600 in 1887, making
growth of s., 2s9, 900 is these six years, or
more than nine-tenths of the entire city
expenditure at the beginning of that
period. Add the fact that the increase
has been outside of the" expenditures for
sinking funds and interest, for the De-
partment of Charities, and for education,
and it will be seen that, according to this
estimate, it is proposed to increase the
other city expenditures to three and one
third times their total in 1885,
These figures make it evident that if any
change is made in the tax levy it should
be in the direction of reduction. The ap-
preparation ordinance should be held
strictly down to the total of last year; and
whatever alterations are made should be
for the purpose of giving back portion of
the million-dollar increase in taxation dur
ing the preceding two years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
I'M THE SAME SICK ROOM
Lie Senator Snyder and His Wife at L.eto-
mia, Near East Liverpool

Lie Senator Snyder and His Wife at Leeto-
mia, Near East Liverpool.
EAST LIVERPOOL, March 1.-[Specid1 l-Scn-
ator Charles N. Snyder, OF the Twentieth
Twenty-second district, lies in bed at his
home in Leetonia, this county, unable to do
more than raise himself to q sitting posi-
tion. He has lain thus for the last Il weeks.
In the same room with Senator Snyder lies
his charming wife, who has for ten weeks
been unable to raise her head from the pill
low and could do nothing but look at her
sick husband and speak to him on occasions
She Is suffering from an aggravated Gaze of
inhammatory rheumatism, and is now seri-
ousiy i'll with that trying disease. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder have three small
food Tor their own Little mouths, but many
kind friends in Leetonia watch over the. sick
bedsides and see the little ones we'll cared
his physicians say he cannot even venture
out Of doors before the roses bloom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
A Prospective Consolidation.

CHICAGO, March la railroad Official who
is not given to idle gossip said to-day: "That
there is deal on loot looking to the con-
solidation OF the Lake Erie and Western
road with the Iowa Central needs
no other proof, than the fact
that certain Eastern parties are buying
large blocks of the stocks of these two cor
porations. These stocks have advanced
about 3 cents within the past week. Vice
bury and Traffic Manager Parker, of the
Lake Erie and Western, recently made a
three days tour OF inspection over the Iowa
Central" ,f.-, ..-.-