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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
BUSINESS MOTIVES ONLY.

1t is difficult to say what basis of actual
capital there is behind the mooted project
to start a new steel works at Homestead,
to be run by the workmen who were pre-
vious to the scale dispute employed at the
Carnegie works. Whether there is much
or little capital ready to be put into such
an MISREPRESENTATION the project is
imagination or has substance-it is one that
could be given entire Endorsement, pro-
vided it were put upon the proper basis to
give fair assurance of successful man.
agement
The idea of cooperative concern in
which the workingmen shall he partners
is one well worth cherishing. The Phila-
delphia Press in noticing the report refers
to the fact that cooperative aud profit
sharing plans have not always worked
smoothly, basing its unfavorable opinion
of such plans upon two cases in which the
men were dissatisfied with the share of
the profits allotted to them, or with the
actual profit or lack of it, in an unfavora-
be year. If any organization of
human design ever worked with
out jars or differences of opinion
we did not know it. But while every effort
to make workinpmen partners in the con-
cern for which they labor will be subject
to such friction, the fact remains that
such plans more closely identify the inter-
ests Of employers and employed; that
they increase the reward for good and
faithful work, and that they stimulate
buslness-like habits by making the work.
ingman capitalist on small scale.
If the locked-out men at Homestead
can start works of their own it will be
step in which they should receive encour-
agement. Indeed, tits so plainly the wisest
course for labor, that if the men have
shown an ability to get along without
wages for some months the conclusion is
that they would have done better to have
worked for those months and put their
wages into the new investment. But to
give a hope of success the enterprise
should be started solely because careful
review of the field shows that the union
of money and skill that can be COM
manded for it can turn out the manu-
factured product SO as to make fair
profits.
Every such cooperative enterprise
should beware of the motive of revenge
on some other concern with which the
new establishment will compete. 1t
should abjure any approach to that motive
in The present case for double reasons.
First, the idea that new concern can in-
fict any serious injury on the Carnegie
interests is absurd. There is room for new
steel works in the country; but it is self
evident that no new establishment could
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
NOT BAD PATERNALISM.

| The cons titutional restriction of the
amount of debt which may be contracted
by a municipality is termed by the Phila-
delphia Ledger 'paternal legislation"
which it asserts Gin practice is not only a
great inconvenience but may be menace
to health" In support of the last state
ment it cites the cases of Philadelphia and
Coatesville, both of which are in need of
new water supply, but are prevented by
the constitutional restriction from issuing
bonds to pay the expense.
This way of putting the case presents
two questions. One is whether it is pa
ternal legislation for the State to place a
limitation on the ability of a municipality
to plunge into debt. If it is paternal leg
isation it is of the sort which received the
support of some of the best minds the
State has ever possessed, in the Conven-
ton of 1873 and has been indorsed by an
overwhelming majority of the people. But
it is to the point to say that it is no more
paternal than for the Constitution or the
Legislature to prescribe any other rules
for municipal government The Ledger's
argument that "thc municipality being
quite as wise as the Legislature might be
trusted to manage its own affairs" would
apply just as cogently to any other par
ticuiar. 1t would be just as convincing
to establish the claim that the Legislature
should grant charters permitting Councils
to prescribe the entire form of govern
ment; to levy taxes when and how they
choose; TO say what officers shall be
chosen by themselves and what elected
by the people. II it is paternal for
government to limit the debt-foating
power of cities, it is paternal to lay down
any rules or conditions whatever in the
granting of charters.
As to the statement that the provision
becomes menace to public health in the
two cases named, the circumstances per-
nit it to be presented in another light
Ii city goes into debt to the full limit
for various purposes more or less neces-
sary, and then finds itself unable to bor-
row money for something absolutely vital,
is it the Constitution or the city that is to
blame? The question is likely to have
cogent bearing for Pittsburg. If we
should exhaust our borrowing power now,
and then few years hence find ourselves
unable to issue bonds for an absolutely
necessary water extension, we would
have hard work to blame anything but
our reckless policy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
THE UNIVERSAL DUTY.

The Presidential campaign of 1892 will
close tomorrow evening. and on Tuesday
the popular verdict to which the efforts of
both parties for the past two months have
appealed will be cast. The arguments and
appeals intended to affect the action of
voters, so far as they are able to do it,
have probably done their work by this
tine. The expenditure of campaign am
munitiOn is certainly nearly over: but one
suggestion to voters without reference to
plrty lines is pertinent at this time.
The election of Tuesday will decide the
economic policy of the nation for the next
four years at least Upon such clearly
defined and important issues as are at
steke every voter should take the oppor-
tunity-o cast his vote in accordance with
his homes convictions. The franchise is
the greatest and most powerful posses
sion of American citizenship. 1t should
always be exercised intelligently and
faithfully. There may be an excuse for
neglecting to vote in elections where moth
Ing seems to be involved save the pos
session of the offices by one set of poll
ticians or the other But no such exc use
Is to be found for a failure to vote this
week. The man who stays away from the
polls will simply exhibit neglect of the
duty of an American citizen which proves
his mworthiness TO possess its privileges
In an election where the issues are so
positive and clear as at present every man
Intelligent enough ought to have his con-
victions and express them by his vote. We
are not here urging men to vote for one set
Of convictions or the other. Our belief as
to which side is right is well known, and
the work of putting our opinions before
the public has been DONE The present
eXhOrtation is that every man shall per-
form his duty by going to the polls on
Tuesday and voting exactly as his honest
convictions tell him. IL he believes in free
trade let him vote the Democratic ticket;
If he believes in protection he must vote
the Republican ticket; if in prohibition,
the Prohibition ticket Whatever his
convictions let him honestly give them ex-
preston by his vote and, above all, not fail
In the universal duty Of casting his ballot
unactuated by either fear or self-interest.
This is the most important point of all,
no matter how important the Issues to be
settled by the election. If all voters ex-
ercise the franchise intelligently and
faithfully, the country will be governed
b3~tbe7delfDerate and honest will of the
people, no matter whether tariffs are
kept up or thrown down.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
NULLIFICAT1oN's THIRD EDITION.

Perhaps, since the Democracy have
adopted notification In their platform,
they are consistent in trying the same
policy in New York State. But expert
ence should teach them that the job Of
setting aside and defying the United
States is more than likely to be all expen-
sive and losing game.
A certain portion of the Democracy un-
der leader whose ideas now dominate
Democratic declarations on the tariff
tried notification over half a century ago.
The effort happened to run against a
Democrat in the Presidential chair whose
sterling loyalty and vigor crushed it in its
inception. Thirty years later the attempt
was renewed under the name of secession.
This time the Democrat occupying the
Presidency lacked the backbone of Jack
son, and the attempt went to length
which cost four years of war. But the
ruin inflicted on the section which under
took the task of setting at naught the
Federal Government, and the damage to
the Democracy for the twenty years sub
sequent, were incalculable.
Do the Democrats of New York think
that the third and reduced edition of nulli-
fication simply for the sake of letting their
heelers fix up the election to suit them
selves will be any more successful? If so,
and they foolshly persist in their recent
attitude, they will pc likely to appreciate
their mistake by the middle of the week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
Obituary Notes,

NJ. MAssIcAULr, resident General OF France In
Tunis, died yesterday.
MARQUIS DE SAINT DENYs. the distinguished
French arientalist is dead.
NJ. EDoUARD VALERY GREssrER, the distin-
guished French statesman, Is dead.
JUDGE JOHN COLLIER OF Atlanta, is dead. He
was one of the pioneer citizens OF the place.
Hon. MIR. MACBAIN, President of the LegIsla-
latve Council of Victoria. Australia, died Friday
N. GORDON B1GELow. Queens counsel, menu
Der of the Ontario legislature and one Of the best
criminal lawyers in Toronto, died there Friday
morning.
DOLLY b. WARD. daughter OF James Ward, the
wealthy iron man of New Castle. formerly Of
Niles. o.. died at the family residence in that city
Friday, aged "A years.
HOWARD LOCKWOOD, of the firm OF Howard,
Lockwood Co.. printers and publishers, and
founders of the Paper 7ruds JOurnIl died at his
residence in New York City Friday.
WILLIAM II. WILEY. a prominent manufacturer
of Hartford for quarter OF century, died FRI
day lie was the originator. of overgaiter manu-
featuring in New England and filed large Govern
ment and State contracts.
Miss PAMELA WRIGHT died In Benton Har-
Dor. Mich, Friday night aged 1O2 years. She re-
was born near Fairfax Court House, Virginia. and
orren met General George Washington, Thomas
jefferson and other noted men OF that time.
JUDGE JOHN X. CRAvENs one OF the leading
lawyers and most widely known jurists of Mis-
souri,. died in Kansas City WednesdIy Iy night OF
malarial fever, aged a.. He had practced law In
Wisconsin and Missouri for over 30 years. He was
leading Republican and had held many important
Offices
LIZZIE b. WARD, daughter of James Ward. the
wealthy iron man OF New Castle. formerly of
Niles, o.. died ~ the family residence in New
Castle Friday. aged "a years. The funeral Will
M e BODY aod ne 81
where the burial will take place.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
TAMMANY TIGER TYRANNY.

THIS is going to be q fair election, or there
will be trouble for those who make it other
wise.-NetO York Tribune
WE scarcely think that even Tammany
will go to the length of defying the Govern
ment of the United States.-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
BILLY SuEEHAN wants blood. He can find
it Tuesday in the slaughter house through
which Grover Cleveland will march to the
grave.-7oledo Blade.
Mr.. sHEEHAN should be requested by the
United States Marshal to withdraw his proc
lamation or he should be placed under ar
rest.-Rochester Democrat
THE howl of the Democracy against Fed
eral supervisors sounds very much as if it
realized that its frauds could not be worked
this year.-B,1dlo Express.
THE Democratic leaders in New York will
blow and bluster, but they will not dare to
go the length of resisting United States Of
ficers in the discharge of their duty.-hdian-
apolis Journal
IT is quite likely that a serious conflict
may occur, but it is to bo hoped that the au-
thority Of the National Governments will
have undisputed sway and secure an hon.
est election.-C1eUefdnd Ledder.
TAMMANY's attempt to prove herself big
ger that the United States comes little
late. There was o man named Calhoun who
tried that once, and alter him there were
several others. The last round showed the
United States very largely OH top.-Phltddet-
phid Inquirer.
THE appointment Of a horde of sherin's
deputies to compel United States marshals
to abandon their duties would be to call
upon the heads of tho local Offenders the
penalties OF the national laws, and these
laws are not good buzz-saws to monkey
with.-Elmird Advertiser.
THE authority OF the United States is being
exerted to protect the suffrage in Now York
against til q gigantic fraud, and every loyal
citizen is behind the authority of the United
States. 1t is useless Tor Cleveland-Tam-
many rascals to talk OF evadfng or defytng
1t. Let the criminals beware!-NeU York
pre,R
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE LIARS

The Baker ballot law roorback appears
o be as persistent this year as our more
familiar friend, the Presidential campaign
roorback. Down in Montgomery county
a couple Of specimens of the class have
been circulated, which are peculiarly
salient examples Of the policy of lying
about the law. One of them is the cIrcu-
lation among the Mennonites and kindred
sects with religious scruples against TAX
ing an oath that if citizen does not
know how to prepare his ballot che is
obliged to swear that he cannot do it in
order to get help" The other is an
equally high-colored assertion for the
benefit of the illiterate, that if man
makes an error in marking his ballot he
will be arrested. The consequent conclu-
sion is that the people to whom these
stories are addressed have either got to do
violence to their conscience by taking an
oath or suffer Imprisonment for conscience
sake.
The motive in circulating these fabrica-
tions about the law is something more
than the ordinary politicians desire to
bring the law into contempt. The Mont
gomery county Democrats place the re-
sponsibility for the law on the Repub-
licans, and by circulating these lies hope
to defeat the Republican legislative ticket
in that county. 1t is not likely that their
roorback campaign will be a success in
that particular 1t illustrates, however,
the perseverance,. of the liars in politics
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

THE Emperor of Germany has ordered
that bronze medal be struck to commem-
crate the Wittenberg Festival.
LOUIS XAVIER, the Partisan sculptor,
has been telling st. Louis reporter that
the feet of American women are too small
Miss ANNA HAYDN WEBSTER, the ad-
vocate OF Greek art in modern dress and
manner will go abroad this month to spend
a year in Greece.
REV. DIR. MORGAN DIX has an income
from Trinity Parish IN. W estimated to be
fully as large as that paid to the President
of the United States.
EDWIN BOOTH has returned from Lake
wood to New York and will make his home
with his daughter, Mrs. Grossman. instead
of at the Players Club. as heretofore.
MAvRoYENI BEY, Turkish Minister at
Washington, a particular social favorite at
the Capital, is very fond of getting up thea
ter parties. He is a Greek by birth, and un-
married.
COLONEL HENRY ATTERsoN has shaved
off his luxuriant mustache and intends to
depend upon f1owery whiskers rs facial
adornments through which the sweet South
winds can whisper Its ideal messages.
NJ. ONANoFF, recently deceased in Po-
land, was regarded as one of the most prom
ising savants of the day by NJ Charcot, whom
he assisted at the Salpetriere in Paris, where
his experiments on locomotor ataxy at
tracted profound attention.
TsUI Kwo YIN, who for more than four
years past has been Chinese Minister to the
United States. is preparing to return to
China in few days. 1t is customary with
the Chinese Governments to change its rep
resentatives abroad every four yerrs.
FREDERICK SION, the brave sailor who
planted the first French flag upon the soil of
Algeria on the 14th of June, 1880. died recent
ly at the age of IS years. The French Gov
ernment rewarded and cared for the old
man, and he was loaded with decorations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06

AFTER all, it is hardly surprising that a
party unwise enough to prefer Calhoun to
Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jackson,
the Constitution, should be so fatuous as to
threaten and advise opposition to the exer-
else of incontestible Federal authority at
the polls. A party that would endangcr
American prosperity by relinquishing the
national system of currency and returning
to the evils of wildcat banking and f1uctu-
ating money. cannot be expected to pay
much attention to such q detail as obeying
the country's laws for the sake of public
policy. And an organization erratic enough
to pledge itself to upset American industry
by inviting European com petition little
cares how much social uproar may arise
from an attempt to revive dead issues and
arouse the defunct spirit of sectionalism.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06

start competition that won d injure the
Carnegie mills, without injuring itself
equally. The other reason is for the sake
of the success of cooperation. Revenge
is not business motive; and to be success
full cooperation should be based exciu-
slvely on business aims.
We wish to see cooperative concerns,
prcfit-sharing concerns and small concerns
in which the partners do much if not all OF
the work. Such enterprises will furnish
the most Democratic condition OF indus
tries as we'll as promise solution OF the
labor problem. But all such concerns
must be based solely on the desire to
manufacture and sell goods at profit;
and must know no other motive or senti-
ment whatever.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
WHERE COMPETITION WAS sousIcHED.
An Important Hearing In the Suit OF the
State A1ainst the Reading.

An Important Hearing In the Suit OF the
State Against the Reading.
HARRIsBURa. Nov. Din the Common
wealths suit against the Reading combine,
an important hearing was had this after
noon before Examiners Bergner and Nc
Alrney, in which n large amount of evil
dence. documentary and otherwise, was
submitted. showing the location and
physical relation of the Lehigh Valley, Jer-
sey Central and Philadelphia and Reading
Railroads to each other, and the points at
which they are alleged to compete for busi.
ness. together with statements as to the coal
rates from the various anthracite regions
before and after the Lease OF the Lehigh Val
ley and Jersey Central Railroads. Attorney
General Hensel and George Nauman. OF Ian:
caster, appeared for the Commonwealth, and
NJ. L. Olstead for the defendants
There were also filed to- day supplemental
answers of the Port Reading Railroad Com
pany, Central Railroad Company, of Now
Jersey. Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany and Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road Company to the Attorney Generals
bill OF complains. The answers show that
the lease of the Jersey Central Railroad has
been surrendered.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Rev. William Macmillan, Cincinnati.

Rev. William Macmillan, o widely
known Presbyterian divine. died Friday at Gin
cinnati, aged 65 years. His remains will be
brought to this city and buried in the Allegheny
Cemetery. Mr.. Macmillan was born in Pittsburg
about 1877. the present site of the Yost building
on Fourth avenue. For some years he attended
the famous school of ''Old John Kelly,' finally
graduating a: old Duquesne College. Shortly af-
forward he entered the ministry of the Presby-
terrain Church and has been In active service SINCE
In 1852 he married Eleanor Gray, daughter of the
late Hon. John Morrison, of Allegheny BY her
he had two children. G. NJ. Macmillan and Mrs.
W. ID. Bell. His first wife died in 1851 and in
1854 he married Miss Wade. a daughter of Judge
Wade of Cincinnati. Two children survive this
union, Dr. Wade Macmillan and Miss Mary L.
Macmillan. For the past year he was pastor Of the
church 1t Lancaster, o.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06

Tammany Democratic candidates in one
or two past municipal elections
1t would be just as accurate to say that
the Independent Democrats defeated the
Republican candidates in those elections;
but it would not suit the Post as well.
Since it has temporarily bowed the knee
to Tammany for the sake of the anti-pro-
lection candidate, it is high treason for
anyone else to object to the Tammany
reeimei and as consequence everything
that such people have done in the past
falls under suspicion.
The species of reform party which
brings the Post into subsection to Tam
many needs no further characterization.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06

Now that the eve of the election has ar
rived, there is no longer the least doubt as
to the deep interest taken in its ou utcome
But when will Americans learn that to secure
a government ana administration they must
pay perpetual attention to politics? If the
amount of time wasted on puerile parades
and idle speculation during a Presiden tai
campaign, were distributed over the inter-
vening four years and devoted to a close
study of public affairs. this nation would
save enormous expense. minimise corrup.
tion and obtain servants of maximum ef-
ficiency.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
FOURTEEN STUDENTS EXPELLED.
They Belonged to a Secret Order in Spite
of the College Rules.

They Belonged to a Secret Order in Spite
of the College Rules.
JACKSON. MISS. Nov. 5.-General Stephen
D. Lee, President of the State Agricultural
College at Starkville, Is in town to-day and
brings news OF the expulsion of IA students
ut that institution on Tuesday because of
their connection with q secret order, the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Eight of the young men were seniors, two
juniors and four sophomores All are men,
bers OF the Lee Guards, one of the crack
military organizations of the State. 1t
appears that, though strictly against the
rules of the college. the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
had been in existence five or six years. 1t
was only made known this week through an
anonymous letter to President Lee. He
offered the students the alternative of dis
bandment and the surrender of their charter
or expulsion.
During the investigation President Lee
found that tour members of his faculty. in
addition to the IA students, were members
of the society. The tutors renounced allegi-
ance however, and retain their places.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
Mime. Morel, Prima Donna.

While Morel, the well-known prima
donna, was singing on the stage at socrakarts,
Java, before a distinguished audience, among
whom were the Javanese prince and the Dutch
president. and just when she bowling and
smiling her acknowledgements OF a bouquet Of
flowers her face turned liyid. and with n cry of
agony she fell to the stage. The audience rose in
CONSERVATION and the members of the troupe
rushed TO the assistance of the stricken woman.
when they attempted to remove her she seemed to
suffer so much that 1t was thought best to wait
awhile. In a few minutes. Notwithstanding
prompt medical attention. the prma donna died in
full view of the audience. All were greatly shocked
and some Of the women tainted from distress. The
cause of death was found to he sudden and yio-
lent attack of Asiatic cholera.