Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12
THIS WEEK is TO DECIDE
When Parliament Will Adjourn and
the Election Take Place.
IEIItSCO OF BRENNAN'S TORPEDO.
The Poor Earl, as Usual, Secures q Wealthy
Bride With Ease.
GERMANS BELIEVE ENIy sTILL ALIVE
rBY CABLE TO THE DIspArCH.1


LONDON, June III Copyright 1T Is
now settled that Balfour will announce on
Monday the actual date of dissolution, and
on the following Wednesday he will in
sugurate the Tory campaign by a great
Ipeech at the Conservative demonstration
to be held in London on the evening of that
day. He will be answered by Mr.. Glad
stone in q speech which the Grand Old Man
has arranged to deliver in Chester previous
to the start on his Midlothian tour, and
thereafter for two or three weeks the big
guns on both sides will pound away at each
other daily.
The Grand Old Man is as restive and
eager for the fray as mettled war horse.
Scarcely day now passes upon which he
does not fire off little speech or a letter re-
plying to some inquirer or encouraging a
Liberal candidate selected to lead the at
tack upon some Tory stronghold. By way
of relaxation after the political fight be has
promised TO preside over one of the sections
of the Oriental Congress to be held in
London early in September, an deliver
an address on "Orchaic Greece and the
East" and in the following month he will
lecture at Oxford, on 1.-The History of the
Universities
Move to Sque1ch Betting.
A determined effort is to be made in the
next Parliament to put down betting. Edi-
tor Stead, who as all the world knows or
should know, e1udes morality and benevo-
1ence, has, with the assistance of several
muddle-headed nonentities, drafted bill
which, should it ever become a Law, will
sweep into one penal net the small boy who
PLAYS pitch and toss in lhe street and the
noble lord who gives or takes the odds at
Epson or New Market, the lad who sells
newspapers containing ordinary sporting
news, the journalist who edits them and the
printer who prints them. Even Her
Msiestv's Postmaster General, who, by his
employees, accepts and transmits letters aud
kilograms relating to betting, may find him.
self in the criminal dock and in danger of
being fined and imprisoned.
, But Editor Stead and his friends are des-
perately in earnest, and they have been
promised the support of a number of Radi
cal and labor members in the House of
Commons These mad moralists' monstrous
measures will in all probability attain to the
dignity of being debated and rejected.
When one considers the constant efforts
that are made or sought to be made by leg
islatlve enactment and municipal regula-
tion to Puritanize this merry England the
wonder is that people don't resort to sinful
ways out of sheer disgust and revulsion of
feeling, as in the time of King Charles IL
Late Victories for Alleged Morality.
The latest victories for the so-called cause
of morality are the prohibition by the Lon
don County Council of the playing of dance
music on Sundays by the bands in the pub
lie parks, aud the refusal by the corpora
tion of the city OF London to open Guild
Hall Art Gallery on the Sabbath.
,,ala l.
ing was accomplished by the House of
Commons on Thursday night, when sitting
in Committee of Supply for a period of
about eight hours. 1t voted the enormous
sum Of SIS, ,622,01 In other words, it
sanctioned the expenditure of public money
at the rate of e., 327, 752 per hour, or $685.
795 lis 4d per minute, or e646 lis 111zd per
second. Altogether, no fewer than IS votes
were agreed to. the largest being e3, 1885,
213 for education in England and Wales,
and the smallest go, to complete the amount
required for the bankruptcy department of
the Board of Trade.
Lady Somerset's Latest Slogan.
Lady Henry Somerset, invigorated by her
American trip, has thrown herself into the
electoral struggle with unbounded enthusi-
asn. As fighting leader of the temper
ance party, she has impaired novelty to
British political campaigning by urging
snti-liquor men and women to held plenty
of meetings on Sundays, on the grounds that
they are engaged in a religious crusade, and
that the unregenerate masses can best be
reached on the Sabbath. Staid people,
however, regard this method OF work as
American, and are not certain that it does
not SAVIOR OF atheism. Her ladyship will
have to moderate her enthusiasm if she
does not wish to set the temperance people |
by the ears and SO play into the hands of
the enemy. The liquor party is working
with great energy on the Tory side, and |
has undertaken to spend s10O, 900 during |
the next few weeks to help defeat Liberal |
candidates identified with temperance prin- |
ciples
Lord Randolph Churchill exhibits no
sign of interest in the coming general cleo |
tion. He will seek reelection for Padding |
ton, but has no intention of taking the |
stump on behalf of the Tory party. Only |
two items of news relating to this erratic |
genius and disappointed politician have ap-
peared in the newspapers this week. The |
first is to the effect that be lost lot of |
money at the Lewes races, Thursday, by |
backing the wrong horse IN the chief race, |
and the second records that he has given to |
the Natural History Museum a very fine |
stuffed lion and lioness which he did not |
shoot in Africa.