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The Bossier banner., 1892-08-18

Seven-eighths of the bread used in
London is made of American wheat
The Bossier banner., 1892-08-18

Contractors Gibson & Oliff are
pushing work on the Court house.
The Bossier banner., 1892-08-18

Kansas wheat acreage has increas-
ed from 1000, 900 to 4, ,OOO, 900 in two
years.
The Bossier banner., 1892-08-18

Illinois leads in railway mileage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
A SUCCESSFUL MUDDLE.

Another complication is added to the
Official ballot matter by the decision OF
Attorney General HenseI. The Secretary
of the Commonwealth having issued bal
lots in which the groups" are divided to
the extent of making Congressional, legis-
lative, judicial, groups, and group for
each county office, Chairman 81 d. Pat
ton, of the Prohibition party, writes to
point "a plain violation of the law"
If the law had been construed to mean
that the entire ticket of any party for the
State constitutes group, the total of the
Prohibition vote in the State would not
entitle it to nomination by certificates
On that basis it would be correct to pre-
sent the candidates of that party as nomi-
mated by nomination papers. But Mr..
Patton points out that when a group is
made for every legislative, Senatorial or
judicial district the Prohibition candidates
are entitled to recognition as nominated
by certificates in every district where the
Prohibition vote reaches three per cent
of the total vote. Chairman Patton
points out no less than 81 such cases in
which the official ballot illegally describes
the Prohibition candidates as nominated
by nomination papers" when they are
entitled to recognition "with the party
descriptive words or political appellation
at the head of each group"
This may seem like quibbiing on small
point But it is just as important point
as those quibbIes by which Messrs. Reeder
and Hensel got the official ballot into its
present muddled form. 1t is the natural
result of the hair splitting that defeats the
purpose of the law, that an elector should
vote straight ticket by single cross,
and makes him make cross for each can
didate, down to the clerk of Quarter Ses-
sions and Coroner
II the men who had to settle this matter
had stuck to common-sense construction
they would not have got into the muddle.
At present it is good deal easier to pick
flaws in the official ballot than it was be-
fore Messrs. Reeder and Hensel performed
their great amending act II their pur-
pose had been to muddle the operation of
the law and make it unpopular, they could
not have succeeded better.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
DEMOCRATIC STRICT CONSTRUCTION.

One of the interesting phases of the
campaign was presented by David Ben
nett Hill in his speech at Brooklyn in the
statement that 'the fundamental differ
ence between the two parties" is "that
one believes in a strict construction of
the Constitution and the other in loose
one"
Having set up the first claim for the
Democracy, the immortal David gives an
illustration of the strict construction in
dulged in by eminent Democrats. The
Democratic platform declares that to levy
tariff duties for any purpose except for
revenue is unconstitutional and the astute
Hill after cogitating the matter for four
months comes to the conclusion that the
degree of unconstitutional protection in
volved in an incidental protective tariff is
all right In other words, the Hill method
of strict construction is to construe Demo-
cratic platform utterances strictly by con-
traries.
Another point is pertinent in the same
connection. The strict construction adopt
ed by the Democratic Convention is that
of Calhoun, which construed the Consti-
tuition down to the status of a mere COM
pact to be dissolved by the parties at their
pleasure. Here is something which may
throw some light on the construction
adopted by the Democrats of sixty years
ago. 1t is the plank adopted by the DEM
ocratic Convention of 1882, which nom-
mated Andrew Jackson and Martin Van
Buren for President and Vice President,
respectively:
Resolved, That adequate protection to
American industry is indispensable to the
prosperity OF the country, and that an aban-
donment of the policy at this period would
be attended with consequences ruinous to
the best interests of the nation.
With these contrasts it is an obvious con-
clusiOn that the exactresult of Democratic
strict construction is something past find
ing out
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
POWER IN THE WRONG PLACE.

There is one feature of the agitation
among the Chinese against the Geary act
which makes the reverse Of a favorable
impression. That is the attitude Of the
Chinese Six Companies, to the effect that
they can nullify the United States statute.
The Geary act was in the opinion of
THE DIsP ATCH when it was passed an
extreme and reactionary measure. But
that does not warrant the Six Companies
in asserting their power to veto an act of
Congress. While these organizations may
not be the strict counterpart of the Ameri-
can corporations, the resemblance in the
matter of multiplying the law is altogether
too strong. The Six Companies declare
their power to assess every Chinaman in
the United States, at the same time that
they deny the right Of the United States
to require the Chinese to take out certif-
Gates of residence and be registered.
In other words. the Six Companies vir-
tually assert that they possess governing
powers over the Cinnamon in the United
States which they deny to the United
States Government. If they maintain
that course long enough they may succeed
in convincing the public not only that the
Geary law is necessary, but that all the
Chinese, and especially the sovereign Six
Companies, must be expelled from the
United States territory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
WALLED IN BY CORAL,
Natives Found on the Hidden Plateau of a
Very Little Island.

Natives Found on the Hidden Plateau of a
Very Little Island.
A curious discovery has been made on the
Island of kitaba, one OF the Trobriand
group, Off the northeast coast of New
Guinea. A great many sailors passing
this little island have imagined
that it had no Inhabitants because
they saw no evidence of human occu-
patton. Sir W Willlam McGregor, the Admins
traitor OF British New Guinea, says the island
has an area OF only five or six square miles.
On all sides it presents low and slightly
sloping margin, usually about a quarter OF q
mile broad, covered by heavy timber. Within
assembled only at few places. The bank
rises to height of 800 to 400 ieet. Once at
the top the visitor finds within wall q
plateau which occupies the who's of the
center of the island and is from SO to 100 feet
below the coral wall surrounding it.
There about 1000 natives live and till their
gardens. The rich, chocolate colored soil
are completely protected from the
their plateau. The island seems to
tea the m feet ss
that the atoll ring now forms the coral wall
surrounding the plateau. On this elevated
and almost inaccessible plain are l3
over rse sS houses saS Sir william Moaresor SaasoT
says the natives gave him most pleasant
reception. He found it difficult to travel
through some villages on account of the
yams cocoanuts, mats and other arti-
cles that were laid down before him
for his acceptance. There are no in.
ter-tribal hostflities. and it is not possi-
BILE Tor the natives of other islands to
oppress the people, because on their plateau,
naturally fortified ns it is, they are inacces-
sible to hostile tribes. The drainage of the
plateau is excellent There are great cayi.
ties in the coral wall, through which the
rainfall filters and makes its way to the sea-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
STATESMEN AS ACTORS.

The recent assertion of an English
writer, that Mr.. Gladstone would have
been great actor if he had taken to the
stage, is discussed by the New York Sun
with decided opinion in the negative.
the Sun thinks this country possesses
two political leaders who would have been
powerful on the stage, Mr. James G..
Blaine and Mr. Bourke Cochran. Our
cotemporary even goes 80 far as to desig-
nate the character in which those two
gentlemen could make hits; but Mr.. Glad
stone, either in tragedy or comedy, it will
not have at any price.
1t is not certain whether either Mr.
Gladstone or the American leaders will be
fiattered at the intimation that they are
suited to the mimic stage The sugges-
tons seem to be offered in good faith and
prompted by admiration of their versatile
talents. But it is not without rea-
son that for many generations the
deadliest sarcasm which could be
leveled at statesman was to
intimate that he was an actor. The gibe
may have carried additional odium from
the low social standing of the stage in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
A TOO LOFTY PROJECT.

That English railroad plan which is to
span the continent from ocean to ocean is
announced on a scale that awakens long
sleeping memories-eXcept perhaps in the
minds of those who had to settle up the
complications of the last project of that
kind. This railroad is to be built on the
grand scale of 100000 being spent
between New York and Chicago and
$500, 900, 900 between Chicago and San
Francisco. 1t is to turn neither to the
right nor to the left for any city, but as it
runs within few miles of Chicago and
Cleveland it will graciously admit those
cities to its facilities by connecting them
with side-tracks "When. we come to a
river we will bridge it," says one of the
promoters, "and if we cannot go over
mountain we will bore through it, no mat
ter how long it may be"
This is very imposing-to those whose
memories do not run back into the SOS.
For in that decade another railroad enter
prise made a temporarily imposing i'm
preston on the country. The Atlantic
and Great Western Railway was the pro-
totype Of this latter-day project. 1t was to
of thousands of dollars were no object In its
construction. Like the new scheme it
would not go to the cities. The cities
were to come to it, as the protector of
1892 puts it The elder line turned neither
to the right for Buffalo nor to the left for
Pittsburg; but by the time it reached the
latitude of Cleveland it began to recognize
the importance of going where the busi-
ness is to the extent of leasing branch
road which connected it with Cleveland.
It is significant fact that this branc
road is the only part of the system which
has ever paid profit The whole road
has since then been struggling with the
various phases of bankruptcy, and the
dates when the condition became too
much for it are marked by its various
changes of name.
Railroad constructors as class have
been wiser since then. They have seen
the necessity of going for business to the
points where the business originates.
That is the reason for their struggles to
reach Pittsburg, which originates larger
tonnage than any other city in the coun-
try. But it seems from this late announce
ment that after a quarter Of century
the old foolishness is revived-at least on
paper. 1t requires no gift of prophecy to
foretell the results if such an enterprise
were really carried out. The railroad
which undertakes to reconstruct the traffic
of the country will itself be the only SUBJ
ject of reconstruction. If this project
were not too loftily minded to come to
Pittsburg it might have chance of sue
cess. But, as it is announced, the investors,
if there should be any, will be proper
objects of sympathy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25

times past; but there is deeper reason
than that. The essential characteristic OF
acting is that it is the representation of
counterfeit sentiment and emotion. Now
the essential feature of genuine leadership
in politics is that, while the sentiments
may be forcibIy expressed and the politi-
cal arguments dramatically brought out,
they are genuine. 70 say that a woman
rejecting an attempt on her honor or be-
wailing the loss of her child was fine
actress would be little short Of insult.
The same logic applies to certain degree
in the intimation that the force and fire of
the political orators are histrionic.
Is the fact that we find Gladstone,
Blaine and Cochran spoken of as possible
actors to be taken as measure of the rise
in the social status of the stage or de-
cadence of the belief in the genuineness
of political sentiments and professions?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
WEIsSERT THE VETERAN.

CAPTAIN WEIssERr's selection as Com
mander will be indorsed by every soldier in
the country.-Batttn,ore American.
CAPTAIN WEIssERT Is popular man in the
Grand Army circles of the Northwest and
his selection will be universally approved
Ohio State Journal.
IT Is one Of the pleasant features OF Com
mander Weissert's election to the chieftain-
ship Of the Grand Army that the choice was
made by acclamation.-Boston Globe.
MILWAUKEE, gets therel The National En-
campment OF the G. A. R. has done well in
elevating A. G. Weissert to the proud post
of Commander in Chief.-Eventtg Wtsconsi..
CAPTAIN WEIssERT, the new Commander in
Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, is
the kind Of man that democratic organiza-
tion delights to Philadelphia Ledger.
WEIssERT, the new Commander of the G.
A. R., was born In Ohio. If there is man in
this country who was not born in Ohio he
has successfully concealed the fact from the
people.-Chicd0o Mail
WE have no doubt Commander Weissert
will vindicate the wisdom of those who
chose him, by acclamation, to this high and
responsible post, and that his administers
tion will be entirely successful.-Neto York
Press.
ALL alike recognize the appropriateness of
the selection, not only in view Of the
splendid record which Commander W eissert
made during the war, but of his long, active
and ever-efflcient devotion to the interests
of the Grand Army Washington Post
CAPTAIN A. G. WEIssERT has an experience
in responsible positions in the affairs Of the
Grand Army and a legal eminence which
will qualify him admirably for the duties
of the station; and the fact that he was
chosen to it by aoclamation, without dis
senting voice, assures an harmonious ad-
ministration which should rebound to the
best interests Of the organization.-Ptfla-
delphtd Record.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
I.ABoUCHERE's sOREHEADEDNEss

Mr.. Labouchere's last deliverance on
English politics is an indication that the
| versatile but soreheaded journalist is pre-
pairing to flop into opposition. His criti-
cism of the proposed policy of the Liberal
Government shows that the editor of
| Truth is animated by that spirit which
vigorously searches for things to be cap
tious about
Mr.. Labouchere's first point is that it
will be difficult for any sane man to vote
that the Irish after they have their own
Parliament shall remain full members of
the English Parliament. 1t would be diff
cult for q sane man not ruled by a
grievance to assert that because a country
or section Is given local legislature it
shall have no representation in the i'm
perial legislature. If the argument is that
Ireland, having control of her own local
matters, should not share in local legisla-
ton concerning England or Scotland, the
manifest conclusion is that England or
Scotland should have local legislatures
also. 1t is now admitted that a great de-
feet of Mr.. Gladstone's first home rule
bill was that 1t left Ireland without repre-
sentation in the British Parliament, which,
Mr. Chamberlain was ready to point out,
meant complete separation.
Mr.. Labouchere goes further and asserts
that the people are tired of home rule
and only voted for it as the manifest
method for reaching other reforms. This
Is different story from what we heard
from Mr.. Labouchere while he was fight
ing for Liberal success as possible Lib
eral Cabinet member; but it recognizes
that the English people voted for home
rule as coming first on the list of reforms
while Mr. Labouchere wishes the other
reforms. To wind up, Mr.. Labouchere's
assertion that Lord Rosebery needs
watching in connection with the British
East African Company completes the pict-
ure of the man with the sorest head on
the face of the known earth.
This writer has made game of the weak
nesses of other people with great success;
but he never presented more striking
picture of human frailties than in his
own departure into captious criticism
since he failed to get that Cabinet position.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
PITTsBURG. SUNDAY, SEPT. 25. 1892.
TWENTY PAGES.
AN EXAMPLE FOR PITTsBURG.

1t is interesting to notice our neighbor-
ing city of Buffalo putting on speed in the
procession of American cities. An ad-
vertisement in yesterdays DIsPATCH
gave Pittsburgers some pointers upon
Bufalo's claims to present greatness and
dreams of a roseate future. To city
so like Pittsburg, which possesses the
greatest natural advantages for manu-
featuring of any on the continent-but
has not vet awakened to the desirability
of informing the world of them-the
claims of Buffalo, boldly put forward,
should serve as stimulating example.
Buffalo is great lake port and point of
distribution. Without doubt its impor-
tance in that particular will enhance. In
ten years it has doubled its population;
and now, besides its commercial attrac-
tons, it talks Of getting 10000 horse
power from Niagara Falls, which its pros
pectus declares will be sold for f'less than
one-fourth the cost of steam-power." We
might well look to our laurels here in
Western Pennsylvania if that claim could
be substantiated
But, however Buffalo may grow as
shipping point, its expectations of cheap
power for manufacturing are doomed
to sure d.Sappointment The water-power
OF Niagara, transmitted by electricity, is
in the hands of a private corporation which
is not limited to any special charges. Not
until now haveN we seen the claim
anywheESZnade that the, .water-power
r. q, 's+t +>be furnished by electricity
to Bufalo at anything like "one-
fourth of the cost of Steam-poweT.
But no matter how cheaply it may be pro-
duced, the fact remains that the corpora
ton which owns the power will charge all
it can get in the market In other words,
if there is now 10000 horsepower pro-
duced by steam in Buffalo, the Tunnel
Company will prefer to dispace that by
furnishing it a little bit cheaper, instead
of going out to hunt new patrons at one
fourth the price The Tunnel Company
will make all it can out of its power, or it
is different from any corporation of mod
ern times.
PItts5urgers, therefore, can read Buffalo's
prospectus and fully believe there is a
good future before that city without los
ing any sleep over possible rivalry. The
ineXhauStible coal at our command
which happily no corporation has yet sue
caeded in controlling-guarantees that
Western Pennsylvania must remain the
commanding site for manufactures. The
growth of Buffalo in ten years has been
great; but the growth of Pittsburg and
Allegheny in the same period has
been far greater-while, as evil
dence of the business done, the
Clearing House returns of Pittsburg
are nearly double those of Buffalo But
Buffalo has enterprise and pluck, as its
tunnel project and its free advertisement
Of advantages show. If Pittsburg had
half as much determination and activity
in getting sbip-canal to the lakes, we
would have a growth here to which only
Chicago could compare.
1t is from the intelligent efforts of places
Of less natural advantages to advance
themselves that Pittsburg must learn the
path of progress for Itself in the future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
CELEBRITIES IN CLOVER.

AMONG the new cadets at West Point
are o son of General John Pope and grand
sons of General Sherman and General C. F.
Smith.
MRS. HANNIBAL HAMLIN, the widow of
the late Vice President who served with
Lincoln during the war, is a most intellectual
and lovely woman. She lives IN the old home
stead at Bangor, Me.
THE marriage of Prince Ferdinand of
Roumania and Princess Marie. daughter of
the Duke of Edinburgh, will take place on
January l. at Sigmaren, Prussia.
MISS JESSIE HARLAN LINCOLN, the
daughter of the Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, has
entered the Iowa Wesleyan University in
Mt. Pleasant, 1a., and will take the classical
course.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, the Southern
dialectician and littera teur, sails for Africa
in December, it being his purpose to revisit
the little coast town of Joel, where he
was born of missionary parents January l3,
ls42.
DIR. HEINRICH PUDoR. once director Of
the Dresden Conservatory, and popular
writer on music, thinks his country is be-
coming de-Germanized, and has there
fore started an extreme nationalist weekly
paper. s.. NJ
DIR. WILLIAM PERCY AUSTIN is claimed
to be the Oldest Bishop of the English
Church in point of service. His field of
labor IS the diocese Of Guiana. He is s.
years old, and has been q Bishop for half a
century.
Mr. T. B. BLACKSTONE, President of the
CHICAGO and Alton Railway Company, Mrs.
Blackstone and Misses Snow and Jones, of
Chicago, have arrived at the Savoy HOTEL
London. They will sail from Southampton
for New York early in October.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has had return of
his old ear trouble. His general health is
excellent, bue His Maiesty's spirits are
much depressed. Several specialists have
been called in consultation and pronounce
tho cause of the return of the old trouble to
be the effect of cold.
GUS HARRY, believed to be the last of
the Narragansett Indians, died last week at
Old Mystic, Conn.,, and was buried in the
burial ground of the tribe, near the village.
Till the last he would have no dealings with
the Pequots of whom there is large reser~
walton near by, because they were enemies
of his tribe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-25
suLLIvAN's LATEST a SUCCESS.
London Takes Kindly to the Comic Opera
Produced Last Night.
fBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH

~-~-- ~--SS AAiuAJ W enc OOIulC oPCHes
Produced Last Night.
rBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH
LONDON, Sept. 24.-GCopyrioh. J-"Haddon
Hail." Sullivan & Grundy's new comic
opera, was produced to night, at the Savoy,
and was enthusiastically received by a
crowded house. The Duke of Edinburgh,
suffering from bad cough, and the princi-
pal society people in town were present.
Sullivan, who conducted, received an ova-
ton, but his pallor was relic of his illness
The scenery was delightful, representing
Telbin's old English hall, q dream of pas
toral beauty. The stage was parterre of
flowers, and the costumes were bright and
pretty. Grundy's cynicism. an abundant
example of satfric humor afforded by the
Puritans. who strike for 'eight hours moan,
eight hours sigh, eight hours groan and
eight hours pay" made the opera success
before the end OF the first act Sullivan be-
ing at his best and the music full of Incl
dental charanter.
Carte invented something altogether new
in stage thunderstorms. and Sullivan u new
orchestration accompaniment. This was
the feature dnring the second elopement
when forked lightning played throughout
the scene, thence a sudden transition into
the most brilliant ballroom scenes ever pro-
duced. The Puritans provide the fun of the
opera, this part being a hit at the radicals
and social purity faddists. All the artists
acquitted themselves well, Rutland Barring
ton, as Restiue, q disguised Roundhead being
fitted to life, and Lucille Hill, as Dorothy Yer
non, being very effective.