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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30

hibit simultaneously with the clothes This
Dill OF sale shows conciusively that the suit
was purchased at retail in Vermont for Is 80.
The goods show that IS represents the proht
and 80 cents the cost.
Armed with his little bill of sale and clad
in the English suit made in Vermont, Mr..
Wakeman went forth to say the free trade
dragon. think 1t was in Jersey somewhere
ter. 1t was some place where it rained. In
the morning he awoke and yawned when he
thought of 1t. The English clothes made in
Vermont were hanging across a chair. A
horrible Thought struck him, and he leaped
from his Jersey couch of shucks and corn.
cobs and began to put them on-the
clothes, not the cornoobs. He might as well
have tried the latter, however, as the En-
glfsh clothes made in Vermont. The trou-
sers were all riyht-they could be worn as
KIN owledge any previous acquaintance with
the trousers and lacked several inches of
meeting around the waist. As for the coat,
1t had crept up foot higher in the tail and
shrunken six inches across the shoulders,
while the sleeves were about right for ten
button gloves.
"Can it be possible" so!iloquized Wake
man. that have suddenly swollen to this
grcatness?"
You see, he was reluctant to find fault with
the clothes. He know that he made good
speech the previous evening, and had ex-
hibited the clothes and the receipted bill for
81 80 to an enthusiastic multitude. and per-
haps he might have swollen, don't you
know. But his imported English underwear
gave the lie to this. 1t fit his manly form
same as usual. The proof forced itself upon
his brain with something equivalent TO a
dull, sickeninx thud. While he was lying in
bed waiting for his other clothes he men,
tally resolved upon reform, Henceforth he
would travel with two suits.
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.
NEW YORK, Oct 70.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
EGAN VERSUS M'VEAGH.

Mr.. PATRICK EGAN cut into the tender spots
| on Mr.. MacVea2h's skin.-Tbledo Blade.
WAYNE MAovEAaH has q sharp tongue, but
Patrick Egan has sharper pen.-1roy
| Times
NKw.CoNvERT MAcyEAaH showed alto
| gether too much zeal in attacking Minister
Egan to suit old-line Democrats.-BuDdlo
| Express.
As job OF digniied Mugwump skinning.
the letter of Minister Egan to Wayne Mac
veagh cannot be improved upon.-hsdfa1-
| dpois Journal
IT is difficult to tell which hurt Wayne
MacVeagh the most-the letter he wrote
| himself or the one written by Patrick Egan.
Rochester Democrat.
PROBABLY one Wayne Macveagh is now
convinced that he made great mistake
when he stirred up cne Patrick Egan.-
Baltimore american.
IT seems probable that Mr.. Egan and Mr..
MacVeagh intend to establish reciprocal re-
lations by regarding each other as unworthy
of further attention. Washington Star.
CERTAINLY Mr.. Macveagh has done moth
ing but expose his own venom against the
Irish cause by attacking Mr.. Egan for his
patriotic efforts in behalf of that cause
Ne,o York Press.
Mr.. EGAN's letter to Mr.. Cleveland's law
partner, Mr.. Wayne MacVeagh, will give the
whole firm something to think of from now
on to the election two weeks hence
Detroit Journal
Mr. EeAN makes a dignified but none the
less efrectual reply to the scandalous attacks
made on him by Mr.. Macveagh. There was
not the slightest excuse for this attack
Philadelphia Press.
MIR. EaAN does not deal in diplomatic
MacVeagh and then enters upon his own de-
tense in such an able way, that 1t is certain
he will make his point among 1rish-Ameri-
cans-Coitrn,bus Dfspdtch.
MAcvEAaH threw boomerang when he
attacked Patrick Egan. The Irish-American
who is q political refugee is not to be in
suited with impunity by the Democrats. 1t
is an honor to be sacrificing patriot in any
country.-EpentnO Wisconsin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
LABoUCHERE ON PROTECTION.

Mr.. Labouchere's declaration that If he
were an American he would vote for pro-
lection is an interesting reinforcement to
the protective cause. Mr.. Labouchere
may not bring many votes to the party
but his way of putting the case is such as
to have a decided effect on thoughtful
minds. He says:
cit is certain that at the present mo-
ment America is the most prosperous
country in the world, despite our asser-
tons that protection is ruinous II ! had
been an American myself l should have
advocated protection. The prouf of the
pudding is in the eating. Protection pud-
ding has provided more plentiful meal
for Americans than free trade provides for
u.s."
There is little doubt that one of the
chief attractions to Mr. Labouchere in
stating this view is the shock he will thus
administer to the most firmly fixed ideas
Of the British mind. One Of John Bulls
most thorough convictions is that it is
best for all the world to administer to his
prosperity. 1t being for the English ad-
vantage to have the United States adopt
free trade it is plain as pike staff to the
average Englishman that the United
States will be benefited by not doing so. Is
it not the mission of humanity to consume
the output of Brummagem and Manches-
ter?
Mr. Labouchere delights in putting
forth propositions that perplex and
amaze the conventional Briton, which may,
perhaps, be the inspiring motive in his
statement of the case as above quoted
But the statement has just the same force
on one side of the water as on the other.
The United States is the most prosperous
nation on the face of the earth. There
are reforms by which this prosperity can
be increased and more widely distributed.
But the abandonment of the policy under
which this prosperity was built up is not
among them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
BRAG AND BLUSTER.

The last few days of a close political
canvass usually bring out some bluff and
bluster. 1t is not surprising that Cover
nor Campbell, Colonel Mcclure, Chair
man Harrity, and other Democratic lights,
are making noisy claims in the hope of
influencing the wavering vote. But the
people are used to that sort of campaign.
ing. There will be few among them so
weak and credulous as to be influenced
against their convictions by clap-trap
prophecies of interested partisans.
1t is good sign for the Republicans
that so far they have been prophesyinp
less in the market-places than their
opponents. Usually Republicans work
hardest when not too confident. If the
wOrkingmen, merchants and manufact-
urers, whose wages, business and profits
depend largely upon the tariff, 90 to the
polls and vote according to their interests,
the friends of protection need have no
fear of the result 1t is this silent vote
that will count-not the ante-election hur-
rah.
The effect of prediction boasting by
the Democrats will undoubtedly be to stir
the Republicans in every doubtful State
to the greatest possible effort 1t will
bring out the full Republican vote.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30

So long as the average citizen allows the
love of money to take precedence of the love
of country, government will remain to a
great extent in the hands of spoilsmen. So
long as spoilsmen are allowed to have their
own way, efficiency will be q little consid-
cred detail in the appointment OF public
servants and the framing of legislation. A
big business suffers from bad managers no
less than q little one and SO long as Offices
are regarded mainly as rewards for partisan
services, the administration Of the country
will fall short OF economic ideals. In proper
tion as the individual exercises his right OF
suffrage according to his honest opinion of
the fitness OF mon and things voted upon
in Just that proportion will the whole coun-
try be the gamer by the removal of power
from the hands OF the self-interested few
into those of the public spirised many. Let
every man cast his ballot on behalf OF what
he believes TO be for the greatest good Of the
greatest number.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
THE PURPOSE OF PRoFIT-sHAR1NG.

The article in The DISPATCH this morn
ing from a member of publishing firm,
who has made a years experiment in
proft-sharing with his employees, sets forth
the great object to be attained by that
plan. 1t is to make the interest of the
employees of an establishment in its pros
perity more direct and evident than it is
under the wages system. q
OF course, in certain sense the interest
of employees under the wages system Is
bound up with that of employers. They
are concerned Just like the seller of ma
terial or the business man whose trade lies
with the industries in question, and no
more. Such relati does not comprise
the identity of interest which is needed to
make employees 20 hand in hand for the
common purpose of increasing the pros
perity of the concern.
When employees know that every effort
of theirs to improve the quality OF the
work or to increase the results to be OBJ
tanned from their labor will return as
fixed and specified increase of their wages,
the incentive to faithful and intelligent
work will be immensely increased. The
great drawback of the present system Is
that this incentive is always indirect, gen.
orally remote and sometlC S enaseiy j., X
ing. The article ppbIiss:a Jo' n
tains evidence that emplH WEl r-r d.
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A POSSIBLE DISCOVERY,

The manner of the theater- party as
varie d by locality is the subject Of inter
esting discussion between New York and
Boston organs of public opinion. The
Boston Adcertiser complains that the
theater-party of that city is an evident
descendant of the sewing-circles Of New
England's past generation. Its converse
ton makes it impossible for people in the
vicinity to hear themselves think much
less hear the dialogue ON the stage.
Whereupon the New York Tribune comes
forward with expressions of surprise and
CONSERVATION that such things can be in
Boston, mentioning by way of contrast
that New York theater-parties are models
of decorum and respectful attention to the
performance. There might be suspicion
that, like Artemas Wards jeu d'esprSt,
''this is sarkassm," if it did close with a
reference to Lord Bacon's vantage
ground Of truth"
This of course renders 1t impossible to
exercise doubts, and, the phenomena being
thus established, we may by the synthetic
process discover underneath the contrast
an important social law. Boston society
is staid, formal and lf-contained; yet its
theater-parties chatter like the gossiping-
bees of generation ago. New York So
ciety is giddy and portly, but the theater-
parties-which must by no means be con-
fused with the occupants of the boxes at
the opera-are decorous and silent In
this apparent reversal Of the usual charac-
teristics may we not perceive the reflex
action of dramatic personification on the
habitual spectators7 The actors represent
other characteristics than their individual
ones; and the theater-parties are by the
example led to assume the opposite to
their usual qualities. This results in
making Boston put an antic disposition on
while New York society for dramatic
quick change assumes the counterfeit pre-
sentiment Of quiet and decorous manners.
There is support for this interesting
theory in the study Of the average Pitts
burg theater-party. That development Of
modern society is not remarkable either
for its loquacity or absence Of assumption.
1t is more apt to take the attitude of sit
ting for its portrait, or the air Of rapt alb
straction with which the Circassian beauty
submits herself to the gaze Of the commoa
herd. Yet posing is not an everyday oc-
cupation of Pittsburg society. The reflex
action of the dramatic art is undoubtedly
responsible for this reversal Of the usual
Pittsburg nature.
If further observation should demon
strate that Chicago theater-parties are
modest and free from assumption, and
Philadelphia's expansive and democratic,
the operation of the law would be estab-
lished beyond question. Great results
might be obtained from the scientific ap-
plication of the discovery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
THINKS ROBINS A PEST,
The Rev. DIR. Thomas Dixon Says That -Four
of Ills Birds Were Sparrows.

The Rev. DIR. Thomas Dixon Says That Four
of Ills Birds Were Sparrows.
In answer to the story published rew
days ago about him, the Rev. DR.. Thomas
Dixon has sent the following letter to the
New York Herald:
have just returned from Pennsylvania hunt
ing trip and on the train read the reports o. my
alleged killing of song birds Staten Island.
These reports. particularly those fsthered by the
United Press. +" are mostly melodrarhatic fiction
and my alleged utterances pure Invention.
The facts are as follows: Tuesday noon went
over to staten Island to my old home to practice
wing shooting. practiced on sparrows and robins,
snpposng them both pests. l killed 81 of these
birds in three hours practice. Mr.. Lisk arrested
me for killing ''song brds.' This arrest was made
with most feverish haste aud brutality. He was
trembling from head to foot with the excited in
stincts of vuture. thinking of his possible share
of the spoils, and when asked him for his author
ity he drew his club from beneath his cloak and.
drove to Justice Acker's house The bIrds were
swearing for the sake Of sic that four common
sparrows were thrushes! did not remain in the
Justices private offce more than Ave minutes, and
NOT one syllable Of the alleged conversation took
place.
considered a song bird. is REGARDED disreputa-
BILE, Rluttonous pest. On Staten Island, however.
he mas been deined. In my soul am sorry for the
divine the cry Of the robin. repent in ashes. I
would not knowingly ruffe the feelings Of saw
age by taking the brass ornaments from his nose.
for he doubtless thinks them beautiful.
The man who can discover music in the cry OF q
robin could doubtless find q symphony OF Beethoven
in the movements Of sand fiddler Ii given encour-
agement: and doubt not that such a man would
succeed at last in locating the 'ost chord in the
bray OF an ass Genius should be encouraged.
For the next few days / shall devote myself
strictly to tiger hunting. and If successful as
with robins I'h not complain at the expenses.
THOMAS DIXON, JR.
NEW YORK, Oct. %.
Right below above statement the Herald
publishes the following poem:
"A-RoBBIN' OF HIMsELB."
He stopped their little carol
With his shiny double barrel;
The number that he killed was thirty-one.
He stopped the wee heart throbbin's
Ofjust one and thirty robins,
And didn't realize that wrong he'a done.
But he got himself q fix In,
Did sporting Pastor Dixon.
That cost him good sum Of ready pelf;
For each little heart he stopped
A five dollar bill he dropped,
And he was but a-robbin' Of himself.
M. O,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
WHAT SHOULD BE COMPARED.

The New York World prints in parallel
columns extracts from President Cleve-
lands tariff message of 1887 and from his
recent letter of acceptance to prove that
be has not changed his position. Both ex-
tracts express the opinion that the changes
which the writer urges can be made with
out inflcting any serious disturbance upon
industrial interests. In other words these
extracts are cited to prove that the Demo-
cratic candidate does not propose, as Sem
ator Vest alleges, for the party to "wage
a war of determination on protected in
dustries."
So far so good But what the World
omits, and what would make very inter-
esting exhibit in parallel columns with
Mr.. Clereland's utterances, are the dec
laration adopted by the Democratic Ma
tional Convention, and also the resolution
which that body voted down by about five
to three If those utterances were placed
in comparison it would be found that the
Democratic party formally committed it.
self to the doctrine of Calhoun, that to
adjust the tariff duties so as to yield any
measure of protection to home industries
Unconstitutional" and with equal
vigor voted down resolution conveying
the assurance, extended by the candidate,
that the tariff was to be reduced without
inflicting undue injury on industry and
wages.
The case therefore stands as follows:
The candidate first. when tentatively
urging his policy and now in the midst of
a campaign when seeking to conciliate the
business interests, protests that he Is not
going to reform the tariff enough to hurt
anyone. The party on the other hand re-
fuses to give any such assurance, virtually
declares that they would smash the pro-
tected industries, and improves the oppor-
tunity to revive the long defunct theory of
Calhoun. Which is the authoritative dec
laration of Democracy? There is no
doubt that both urge the nation to put
Democracy into power, although they
make very different representations as to
what Democracy will do if 1t gets into
power Would Mr.. Cleveland or the tariff
smashers In the House frame the tariff
bills if the nation should give them the
chance?
The Democratic party is the one on
trial. As it chose to put itself distinctly
on the platform of Calhounism and the
most destructive variety of free trade it
must take the consequences. 1t cannot
get out of it by the device Of letting the
candidate make a new platform in the
middle of a campaign.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
rITTsBURG. SUNDAY. OCT. 90. 1899.
TWENTY PAGES.
PROTECTION VERSUS WHAT

No new arguments are available now
on the issue before the people in the Presi.
dental election. All else having failed it,
the Democratic party is at last reduced by
process of exhaustion to the sheer neces-
sity of basing its appeal to the nation on
nothing more logical than the personality
of ex-President Cleveland. The free trade
fulminations launched forth at Chica 60
have died away in the solitude of neglect
and fear into indefinite murmurs and un-
definable echoes of an abstract something
named tariff reform"
Irrefutable evidence has been produced
that in place of the calamity foretold by
Democrats for the latest legislative en-
bodiment of Protective principles, pros
perity has already resulted therefrom, and
by analogous reasoning there can be no
legitimate doubt that under continuance
of that policy the prosperity will increase.
Factories have multiplied, productions
have been diversified, wages in general
have been raised and the cost of living has
not been increased, the home market has
been secured from foreign competition
and the foreign market has been en-
larged.
No silver-tongued orators, no pyrotech-
meal publicists and no book-learned col
lege professors have been abe to damage
this array of facts or establish conflicting
evidence. The Democratic nominee, In
COMMON with several of his most brilliant
pporters, has forsaken the national con-
yention of his party which called in un-
mistakable language for free trade. He
has substituted for that demand a plea
for tariff reform which-in the utter ab-
sence of any intelligently expressed or in
telligIbly defined schedule-can at its
best mean no more than ariff-tinkering,
with consequent unsettlement of the
business of the country.
1t is upon this summing up that the
business intelligence and common sense of
the country must return their verdict The
DISPATCH has every confidence that the
voters of these United States viii indorse
and demand the continuance of a policy
whose benefits have been experienced,
and doom to defeat an estimable gentle
man with programme, the very indefin-
1teness of which-while it is its least dam
ger-would be enough in itself to involve
the country in an uncertainty that is the
precursor of commercial instability and
all the evils which that entails
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30
GOLD IN THE REGION OF SNOW,
Explorer Guvreau Paints q Glowing Pictur,
of Mining Wealth in the Far North.

Explorer Guvreau Paints q Glowing Picture
of Mining Wealth in the Far North.
SEATTLE, WASH, Oct. 29.-Explorer Guv-
reau and party have returned from their
trip up the Skeena river. Guvreau, speak
ing of his trip, says:
"Our journey was a very interesting one.
There is plenty of gold and many opportuni-
ties for placer mining. The miners I met
told me they made from g to $40 per day on
bars. and in a few years many more men
will be there. Our work during the summer
has been largely a tract survey and making
general notes OF our observations for the
use OF the Land Department.
"Therc Is some good land there which
might be used for agricultural purposes but
for the frosts. 1t Is too far north. When
at Skeena this summer 1 heard of the re-
suits Of our work last year. Some 90 or 70
families have gone in there as a result of in.
formation We obtained, and understand
there are applications continually coming
in for reports and maps. The report on this
years trip will be given to the Governments
OF British Columbia as soon as possible"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30

mitted to the profit-sharing plan, appre-
ciate the change and fully recognize the
Inference that it binds them to the most
earnest and loyal efforts to increase the
common prosperity.
Of course there are many questions Of de-
tail, such as the basis on which the distri-
button shall be made, whether employees
should share losses as well as gains, and
so on, which must be settled by expert
ence. But let the main purpose. of profit
sharing be adopted, and the details will
certainly be worked in due time.
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THE GROWTH OF WOMAN.

A statement is going the rounds, with q
mixture of scientific and woman's depart
ment gossip, to the effect that the Ameri-
can woman is steadily growing in height,
weight and comeliness. The latter part
of the statement conveys no news to the
male American who has the fact forced
on his susceptibihties every day. But that
lovely woman is increasing in size, both
perpendicularly and horizontally, is news
calculated to make glad the heart of man,
with the exception, perhaps, Of him of
diminutive stature.
Of course this is the result of physical
culture. As woman's mind was dwarfed
by the pettiness Of female education SO
her body was dwarfed by the vices of fe-
male dress. The progress of the age to-
ward giving women the same educational
chances as men reveals to us the proba-
bility that woman's mental development
may eventually become the same as that
of men, and here we have similar
intimation that il female physical
culture is carried far enough the woman
may by taking thought add enough cubits
to her stature to be the physical equal Of
man as we'll The probability has its dis
advantages; for as woman represents the
leisure class Of America, and is therefore
able to give the most exclusive attention
to these pursuits Of culture, it may wind
up by letting woman get beyond man in
both intellectual and physical growth,
which would be unpleasant for the lords
of creation.
Nevertheless we cannot have too much
good. The more thereis of the American
woman, both physically and Intellectually,
the better the American male will like her.
The growth Immediately holds out the
pleasing hope that woman will grow, in
both mind and body, sufficiently to keep
the skirt of her dress above the dirt of the
etrf.ate
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THry are making experiment. in adver.

THEY are making experiments in adver-
tising on the clouds in London by means Of
an electric light. This innovation is won
derfuiiy significant Of tho utilitarian spirit
of the age. 1t is too much to hope that the
invention will tend to popularize astron-
omy, and it is rather an extension Of the
earth's diameter than an incentive to in
creased study Of the beautiful. There will
be some interesting legal arguments If rival
advertisers aim for the same cloud, and
seek to prosecute one another for trespass.
Probably the partition Of the heavens
among individuals will form q companion
picture to the partition OF Africa among
the nations.