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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
TOO LARGE IN ALL THINGS

Chicago is proverbially city of size. Its
inhabitants pride themselves on the at
tachment of superlative adjectives to all
the characteristics of their undertakings.
This desire to excel all others in i'm
mensity Is the strongest feature of this
type of rapid growth. Herein lies source
of great weakness. he who makes ex-
travagant claims to vast superiority over
his fellows lays himself open to search
ing inspection designed to reveal his de-
fects Chicago has suffered a good deal
recently by the exposure of its failings.
Its dirt, its grade crossings, its defective
water pipes have all been pointed out as
inexcusable in a city which is not under
the control of Tammany. Severe
criticism has been made of the
difference between its boasts when
the Worlds Fair was proposed
and its actions when the funds had
actually to be provided. This variance
was due mainly to the immensity of the
scale on which operations have been con-
Quoted without proper preliminary esti-
mates of expense.
But the summit of Chicago's vastness is
found in the audacity and criminality of
the transactions charged against its Alder
men. These charges should be pushed
with maximum amount of thorough
ness. If proven, the Aldermen and their
bribers should be meted out punishment
to correspond in severity with the i'm
mensity claimed in other directions by the
city OF high-winds and overgrown struc-
lures. A searching inquiry, and q strict
administration Of justice in this matter
are the only means of cleansing Chicago
from this latest stain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
GERMANY'S YOUNG RULER.

THE Kaiser looks upon himself as an in
strument in the hands of God. He may be
the unwilling instrument in bringing about
free Germany.-Cinctn'aatt ITmesStar.
BIsMARCKs late master IS in the way of
getting q valuable lesson touching the diff
Guilty of "pulverizing" q nation that dis
loyalty fails to agree with him.-New York
Times.
BRIGHTER days are dawning for constitu-
tional liberty in the Fatheriand, If, as now
seems to be the case, the principle Of q Min
istry, responsible to the people rather than
to the Kaiser, has come to be recognized
Boston Traveller.
The resignation may serve to calm the ris-
ing tide of opposition to the Emperor's er-
ratio course for the time being; but as his
blunders are only limited by his opportuni-
ties no permanent advantage will be gained.
Rochester Democrat.
THIS is Bismarck's time co laugh, and the
understanding is that he is not straininp
himself to repress the Teutonic hilarity.
The young and energetic Emperor of Ger
many has not yet paralyzed Russia: but he
has knocked the Cabinet into . cooked hat.
-Ne,0 York Advertiser.
IT is very certain that If the Emperor
rules Germany by his whimsies and under
his extravagant prerogative pretensions,
the Empire which was proudly announced
in 1871 will experience a revolution. Even
phlegmatic Germans are aroused to that
point when their patience is abused.-Minne-
apolis Journal
IT is the misfortune of a monarchy that
the welfare and prosperity of the people are
dependent on the mood Of one man, and
from the results OF such misfortune the
German subjects are now suffering. A war
may be the consequence, not Of the Empe-
ror's best Judgment, but Of q persistent
earache.-Nes0 York Herald
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
ACTION LOUDER THAN SPEECH.

The publication of speeches made by
President Harrison in the last four wears.
naturally leads to comparison of his
theory and practice. That the President
has at his command language which ena-
bles him to express great and wholesome
truths in clear and vigorous language
fitted to the occasion is undeniable. That
much of his administration is characterized
by ability and cleanliness cannot be dis
puted- But in one matter, which is vital
to efficiency in the management of public
affairs, there is lamentable difference
between his pre-Presidental speeches and
his post-election actions.
Stronger words on behalf of civil service
reform have seldom been uttered than
those voiced by Mr.. Harrison in the Senate
in March, 1856. The following quotation
is typical of tine whole speech:
L do lift up hearty prayer that we may
never have President who will not pursue
and compel his Cabinet officers to pursue a
civil service policy pure and simple upon a
just basis, allowing men accused to be heard,
and deciding against them only upon com.
petenJ proof and fairly-either have that
kind of a civil service or, for Gods sake, let
MS have that other frank and bold, if brutal,
method of turning men and women out
simply for political opinion.
One so clearly defining his opinion, and
then succumbing to the fault he condemns,
is not in the right place when he occupies
the highest Executive Office. Yet this is
what President Harrison has done. In
the first year of his administration 1888
appointments were made to Presidential
postofices. Of these 4s were due to
death, 374 to designations, secured often
by request or demands from the depart
ment 81 on expirations, and 227 on
offices becoming Presidential. The re-
naming 613 direct removals are p per
cent Of the total number of such offices,
which was 2,27O on March 4, 1890 Inves-
tigation of causes for these removals was
hindered by the Postmaster General and
his subordinate officials. although their
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
A FREE TRADE OUTBREAK.

In the vigorous pursuit OF lCS 1ree CraQe
theories, the Buffalo Enquirer refers to
Mr. Carnegie's gift of a million dollar
library to Pittsburg, and then speaks of
the fact that THE DISPATCH on Sunday
''distanced its esteemed cotemporaries by
publishing an exclusive account of the
revolution in steel-making" by the direct
process at the Homestead works. Our
Buffalo cotemporary is particularly i'm
pressed with the belief that the reduction
Of one-half in the cost of steel-making will
give Mr.. Carnegie monopoly of the busi-
ness and cause the discharge of men no W
employed at the works. Therefore it ar
rives at conclusion that the multitudes
will not appreciate MI. Carnegie's grand
new library built out of the proceeds of
monopolistic imposts upon labor and pro-
ductive industry
1t is to be noted that the revolution in
industry which forms the sole basis Of
this dissatisfaction with protected indus
try is on account of an improvement in
manufacture which will immensely
decrease the cost of the man.
ufactured article. Are we to
understand the esteemed Enquirer that
its free trade policy is opposed to i'm
proved processes for cheapening manu-
factured products? Will the free ira de
party propose laws forbidding the use of
such processes? If not, what is the rele-
vancy of the Enquirer's attempt to con-
meet the adoption of such improvements,
or how much better prices and how much
more employment for labor would there
be if this direct process were adopted
under free trade?
Moreover, since the gravamen of the
Balquirer's attack on this improvement
consists in the belief that it will reduce
the employment and wages of labor, it
should more clearly define the free trade
position on that point Is it the belief of
that party that the adoption of improved
machinery from railroads down to electric
inventions has decreased the employment
of labor? The Enquirer has classed itself
with tolerable clearness since its remarks
have no possible point except on the basis
of such belief. But it would be important
to learn whether the whole free trade
theory takes that stand-which might be
excused in the agricultural machine
breakers of fifty years ago, but can hardly
be attributed without direct avowal to the
enlightened discussion of economic ques-
tions at the close of the century.
Our free trade friends should learn to
dilute their arguments with a little COM
mon sense-if such quality can be deemed
consistent with their theories
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
EIGHTEEN AZTEC MUMMIEs
Found in an Ancient Building Just d
earthed In Arizona.

Found in an Ancient Building Just Un-
earthed In Arizona.
PHOENIX, ARIz.. March 2A-A party of
Mexican laborers, while digging in the ex-
tension of the Santa Cruz canal, came upon
Que of the strangest of the old Aztec cities
They struck the first ruin in cutting through
the desert about 20 feet below the surface
where it had doubtless been covered up by
sand storms, which are very severe here in
the summer. Everything about the old
building had been wonderfully preserved,
owing to the alkali in the sand.
The first building consisted of triangular
structure, about 800 feet in length and 200 in
width. The roof, which had doubtless been
thatch, had caved in, but the wooden pieces
by which it was held together were as sound
as when put in, thousands Of years ago.
They were pulled out Of the old wall, and
are on exhibition at Tucson. In the build
ing was a stone trough, about the entire
width, and made in sections. held together
with a kind Of cement. There were Is bodies
in the building, all of them OF medium size,
and their flesh was mummifiod.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
COMMUNICATION WITH MARA
Tho Inhabitants Of That Planet May BE
Signaling to the Earth.

Tho Inhabitants Of That Planet May BE
Signaling to tho Earth.
Chicago Tribune.l
One OF the Eoldest OF the many bold sug-
gestions that have been thrown out by i'm.
aginative writers in the last few years is q
recent one bv Flammarion, the French
astronomer. 1t is in reference to proposal
made some months since to encourage the
formulation Of q plan for opening up COM
municatfon between the inhabitants of earth
and those of some other world. He argues
that as the planet Mars Is several million
years older in point OF development than is
our world its people are further advanced in
the scale Of intellectual progress than we
are, and that they may have been making
signals to us for the last 100000 years or so
without our being aware of the fact.
The reasons for the deduction may be
briefly stated. Even without supposing, ac-
cording to the Kant-Laplace theory, that
Mars was thrown of from a ring Of nebulous
matter much earlier than the earth, he must
have cooled down more rapidly because Of
his smaller bulk, his diameter being less
than 5000 miles. This reasoning is supported
by the ascertained facts that his atmosphere
Is far less dense than ours, and his land and
water surfaces are nearly equal, while with
us the proportion is nearly one to three. 1t
is inferred that both oceans and atmospheres
have diminished on that planet much more
than the per cent credited by some with
beginning OF geologic history. On Mars the
successive phases Of planet life have been
condensed into a shorter time than is the
case with us. Its people are therefore nearer
the maximum OF possible development, IL
they have not long since passed it, and all
animation will have disappeared there when
our earth is still the theater of intensely
active vitality. Hence it may be inferred
that the most highly organized Inhabitants
of Mars long since thought of the inter-
planetary commun ication scheme, which Is
yet novelty with us, and have during many
aware of the fact If they really have been
doing SO they have acted in the most simply
suggestive way possible.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

action was called to the Presidents atten-
tion. But enough evidence was obtained
to show that removals were far from al
ways due to ineffciency or misbehavior of
incumbents. Indeed the mere numbers
demonstrate that President Harrison
adopted the policy which Senator. Harri-
son condemned.
While human nature remains in embryo,
and integrity of purpose is not its ruling
motive, it will be hard to find man who
will keep out of the clutches of the octo-
pus partisan patronage, even though he
knows that its embrace threatens his very
life. Patronage, both Presidential and
Congressional, must be reduced to mini
Mum
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
THE LOCATION OF THE JINGoEs

The assertion of the English papers that
Mr. Harrison's ''threat of military
coercion" as the London Telegraph puts
it, is to be attributed to the impendency Of
elections, depends for its pertinence on the
question whether any such threat has been
made As no official documents are attain
able to the public on either side Of the
ocean, 1t will be well to retain a more
peaceful frame of mind than is indicated
by press reports from both nations
Supposing that the administration has
done a little parading with chip on its
shoulder, that is course which the
thoughtful and sensible masses Of the
American people would gladly see omitted.
But with that statement it Is well to sug-
gest to our British cousins that remarks by
the pot on the blackness Of the kettle will
not relieve the general sOOtiness. The
United States is not the only country in
which general election is pending, neither
is the term "Jingo" one of American
origin. The Salisbury Government has
held on to its last year of existence solely
in the hope of foreign issue that would
distract the already foreshadowed verdict
of the English constituencies on internal
politics. Whatever political motives may
inspire the as yet unpublished commune
cation of the Harrison administration, it is
not impossible that Lord Salisbury may see
in this dispute, which is entirely one Of
his own making, the means Of firing the
Jingo sentiment of John Bull to degree
that will defeat John Bull.
But all the speculations as to the mo-
tives and possibilities of the dispute can
be limited by one controlling fact. There
is too much solid sense IN the masses Of
both the British and American nations
to let their Government drift into war
over a lot of seals in the Pacific Ocean.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
CANALS RUN BY ELECTRICITY.
A Suggestion That Wires Be Stretched
Along the Ohio Waterways.


There have been many propositions for
the disposal Of the Ohio Canals, but the one
contemplating the use of electricity as the
motive power. the same as is used for street
cars, is considered the most practical. and
1t is certainly one of the most novel sugges-
ttons of the times. 1t has been proposed at
times to abandon the canals and sell them
out for right of way to railroads. At other
times it has been proposed to widen them SO
as to make it possible to convey ships from
the great system of lakes to the system of
river navigation that could be reached from
the Ohio river.
If poles are stretched along the canals the
same as they are now along the street rail
ways and q rapid transit established from
Cleveland to Portsmouth; it would certainly
be great invention and the public works Of
the State would become q formidable rival
of the railroads. A rapid system Of naviga-
tion from Duluth to New Orleans may be
among the possibilities of the future, and If
such IL the case the system Of great lakes
and the Mississippi river and it's contribu-
taries will be connected by an electric canal
system through the State of Ohio. What q
time that would be for excursions!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
RELIEF AT ITS DESTINATION.

Mayor Stuart, Of Philadelphia, Receives .
Cable Dispatch From Russia.
PHILADELPHIA, March 24.-Mayor Stuart,
Chairman of the Russian Famine Relief
Committee of this city, received this even
ing the following cable dispatch from Ru-
dolph Blankenburg. one of the Commission
ers that went to Russia to superintend the
distribution of the cargo Of the steamship
Indiana:
SARAToF, RUSSIA, March r.
Hon. Edwin 8. Stuart. Mayor and Chairman, Phil
adelphia, Pa:
Arrived all right and proceed at once in
sleighs 200 miles through the Samara famine
district. The suffering on the West Volga is
intense: in the surrounding districts,
greater, II possible. Send all kilograms care
Of Minister Smith. BLAHKENBURG.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

LITTLE Cincinnati is keeping its end of
the canal up by agitation, and shows its en-
ergy by securing q sum of So, 900 for its har-
Dor in the estimated appropriation for River
and Harbor improvements. 1t is about
time that big Pittsburg shook or its inertia
and became less of q .stick-in-the-mud in the
matter
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

THE mere suggestion that two immense
nations should even think Of coming to
blows over the possession of some migra-
tory seals is a serious reflection on the
vaunted progress toward International fel-
lowship and the brotherhood of man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

UNRELIABLE as Porter's census Is, it il
to be hoped that as much allowance is not
necessary for mistakes in his statistics as in
his estimate OF the funds necessary to COM
plete them. Twelve months ago he asserted
that sl.00o,00o would be ample for his pur-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

The callous brutality characterizing
anarchistio designs in Paris is several de-
grees worse than the barbarous ingenuity Of
the French officer who has invented q con-
trivance to throw a stream, of vitriol against
charging savages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

DEACON and Robinson may, by their &C.
tions, '1ead to wholesome respect for the
American husband abroad" but the causes
for their summary behavior will not add to
the general esteem of the peripatetic Ameri-
can wife.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

IT is not surprising that a man insane
enough to dance with q revolver in his
hip pocket should be fool enough to con-
tinue his dancing after bullet has been
lodged in the calf of his leg by the acci-
dental discharge of his weapon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

HILL will no longer be candidate for
the Presidency when the Chicago Conven.
tion has refused to indorse him. Until that
auspicious moment arrives he will continue
to initiate his boom with the full capacity of
his lungs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

THE Jingo press on either side of the
Atlantic is straining its Imagination in an
effort to attract attention by creating a war
scare. Notoriety can be gained in such
manner, but only ut a sacrifice Of dignity
and respectability.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

SUCH is the force of Andrew Carnegie's
opinions on smoke consumption that his
arrival in the city yesterday was graced by
an unaccustomed atmospheric brightness
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

THAT Boulanger's crockery and. Kitchen
ware as relics should realize high prices
from ladies of fashion is . fitting sequel to
his career Of notoriety.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

HYPNorIsM progresses, and we wish that
some of the physicians who are curing
nervous disorders by the suggestion process
would practice their skill on few Of the
self-constituted Presidential candidates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

FREE-sILvER men who expected to have
a walk-over were unable to clear the table
without dropping the Bland bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

THE currency question will never reach
satisfactory solution until it passes out OF
the hands of monomaniac monometallists
into the hands of common sense bi.me lists.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

CARA is still alive and uncaught, as the
death of one Of our scouts reminds us. The
more he is ridiculed the longer'it appears to
take to obliterate him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

TRULY the nation is on the road to wealth
by silver-purchasing policy which causes
a loss to the national treasury of nearly
nine and half million dollars in fifteen
rnonthS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

SULLIVAN and Mitchell have found their
parallel in Drayton and Borrowe. Much
bluster and no business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
Hill Took the Only Spoon Left.

ChlcdR0 Ilme6.
The South is in hard luck. Senator Hill
has captured about the only spoon that Ben
Butler left
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

In Allegheny Dr.. Clifford evidently
thinks that the Controller should himself be
put under control.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

CAPRIvI's resignation is nearly as long
drawn out as W hitelaw Reids.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

BELL1GERENr diplomacy is excellent
material with which to burnish ancestral
Surorda
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
PICKINGS FROM PUCK.

HELEN HYLER-Have you ever read
James Whitcomb Riley's beautiful poem. Knee
Deep in June?''
Jack Lever Cooking at his muddy trousers)-
No; but I've been ankle deep in March, all day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

poses. The investigating committee now
hnds that tho work cannot be finished with
out 81, ,7500 900 over and above all money
hitherto appropriated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

SPRING may now be expected to make its
appearance with q bound
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

CARR1NGroN-So Higgins has built him
an English country house near Yonkersi How
does he like it?
Harrington-very WELL he says with the ex-
cepton Of going out nights in his slippers let
visitors in at the porter's lodge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

EARNEsTINA WoRKER-If I give you
money. will you spend IL for drink?
Keggy Tom-No. Mum; I'm saving up to 20 out
West and try the gold cure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
Oh, I love the sweet old poets
Who sang of love so true!
But wish they'd left little
For me to sing of. too.

PAT-Fai1, Maggie, you'd besht be afther
takin' dose av DR.. Squills' Life Ixtinsionl
Maggle-Indade, an III not Pat. Whin I had
the grip. sure. didn't he drown with the horrid
stuff till thatl was terrible sick long afther got
well?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

o YOUTH! from evil turn away!
And trusting man. beware!
That water mixed with whisky So
Dilution and q snare.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

You say that I'm your sheltering oak
That win not yield when tempests crash;
But am SO consumed by love,
should in truth be called an ash.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

RICHES have @ings, people say.
True;-and it's.all for the best:
For, with their help, each one may
Pleasantly feather his nestl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25
SHIyER (after passino a

SHIvER (after passing q night in the
park)-Hello, Shakei You seem to be In luck.
shake-Yes; I've struck . warm, comfortable
berth, at last.
Shiver-What are you doing?
Shake-I'm night watchman In Q cold storage
warehouse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-25

CHAIRMAN DoCKERY, of the sub-com-
mittee of the House Appropriations Com
mittee, charged with the investigation OF
Worlds Fair expenditures. has telegraphed
President Baker, Of the Worlds Fair, that
the subcommittee will leave here for Chi
cago as soon as possible after the silver
question is settled in the House.