Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
ALoOK AROUND.


I REGRET exceedingly that such affairs
as the burning and blowing mp OF Martin
Reed should take place." remarked lead
ing banker who 10 slow to speak but says
many things worth listening to. "It is
deeper blow to PittsburR than many OF the
careless. thoughtless element Of the commu-
nifty imagine. If the newspaper accounts OF
the affair are correct, and l assume that they
are. 1t was as bad q case Of mob rule and
mob law as any Of those horrors which
have given Texas and other Southern
States or some of tho Western States
bad name. It is absurd to say that
this man could not have been arrested Dy
the proper authorities If they had shown
nerve enough to protect the man. He de-
served banging but it should have been
hanging by the Sheriff of Washington
county. Unless you are brought into con.
stant contact with Eastern business men,
men Of large means who are looking for new
ventures into which they can safely place
capital, you can form no notion OF the evil
effects Of such lawlessness. Already Pitts
burg has bad reputation as an unruly, law
less city, where strikes and labor troubles OF
some sort are constantly occurring"
'T KNOW two groups of men IN New York
who have been desirous of establishing two
large manufacturing plants here. They
have been looking into the labor situation
and they have decided to go elsewhere.
They would have employed several thousand
men and spent hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars in wages and for material, but they
say that there is too much danger of strikes,
too many complications Of one kind or an
other to be dreaded. It Is just the same
with Eastern men who thought this city was
growing rapidly and was good place in
which to invest capital in real estate and
buildings. The big strike among the build
ing trades last year cost Pittsburg mil
lions directly and indirectly and 1t will
be long time before the city recovers from
such a blow. Then the Homestead and other
labor troubles of this summer have been
added to the already heavy load. and unless
some active and concerted effort is made by
the leading men in various kinds of busf-
ness our city's name will be something foul
in the nostriis of the country. It is q matter
for the Chamber Of Commerce to take up
and show some interest in. or for the mon
who recently met at the loom banquet"
to take cogntzance Of"
'THERE is no use mincing matters or
pretending that there is nothing but grumb-
ling or scare in such talk as this of mine"
He continued: "There is not man In active
financial business in Pittsburg who does not
know ut heart that what say is true, and
that what 1 suggest is necessary. We not
need to gloss over or hide the truth. What
we should do is to dissipate the false impress
sion which Is growing abroad in regard to
us and to what is occurring here. Riots,
such as have occurred at Homestead,
are sporadic, and not a normal condition
and it is necessary to impress this on the
outside world. We have community
which in the main is law respecting and
self-controlled but this fact is not apparent
to outsiders. To sit down and calmly sub
init to such comments as I have read or
heard uttered in Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia and several of the Western cities,
is the height of folly. The press of Pitts
burg should take up this issue fairly and
squarely, show the injustice of many
charges against US as a community and call
q halt"
j. B. FINLEY. the banker and politician
of Monongahela City, WAS in town yesterday
and talked politics, among other things. 81
do not look for much trouble to Acheson
from the Greene county bolt" said he. "The
Republican majority Tor Ray was 1000. and
the boilers will not be able to pull away
more than 1000. Besides the party Is in good
shape in our district, and all the counties
outside of Greene are harmonious and united.
Andy Stewart is the logical candidate for the
short term, having been fairly elected by
Republicans in a Republican district. He
should be renominated and would be elected
by a majority too large to upset. think
that this will be DONE"
IT Is not unlikely that the Baker law will
be tested on the ground of giving unconsti-
tutiopal privileges to political parties. It
permits tho Republicans and Democrats to
make party rules which govern primaries
and other elementary operations under the
act, which Is something the Constitution did
not contemplate. Then the act declares the
rules, whatever, they may be and however
they may be changed, are good, and binding
on other parties and on the public at large.
1t is not improbable that test case will
come up after the fall elections.
A DRUNKEN, ragged man leaned against
q lamp post on Fifth avenue yesterday aft
ernoon, tired and silent. Several young fell
lows came up and began talking to dude
who began telling how he had won big
pile on poker. Il amt had no such luck in
years" said the dude. mo sir, I got more
money than I seen in years" The ragged
man braced up and in trembling tones ex-
claimed: "Mister, say, Mister, you take an
old mans advice and 60 and buy gram