The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-30
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"Rixy'' Writes About . Large PsnnsylVa-
MIA City and Other Matters.

"RIxy'' Writes About . Large PsnnsylVa-
MIA City and Other Matters.
To II. L. @. FRIENDs-Some one has
asked me to tell all about Pittsburg. You
would not want me to take up the whole
page telling about this city of smoke, iron,
glass and all tribes and tongues? Since
natural gas gave out the industries have
returned to the use OF coal. and hence the
smoke cloud hangs over the place as of
yore-thick enough to cut and slice.
But all the factories are not in Pittsburg
that you read about, and may think are in
the city. You read of the Carnegie home
stead steel works, they are seven miles up
the Monongahela river, while the great
Edgar Thompson works are at Braddock
on the Pennsylvania railroad, twelve
miles out. The mammoth Pittsburg plate
glass company have only the general off,
ces in the city as their works are at Creigh-
ton and Tarentum, twenty miles, and at
Ford City, forty miles up the Allegheny
river. The tendency now for all factor
les is toward the country as the city is be-
coming hOt-bed OF all sorts of rascality.
Only recently the mayor of ALLEGHENY was
convicted OF apprOpriating funds and is
now in jail serving his term of imprison-
ment. Pity is that not more are there to
eniOy his prison life. The taxes are al
most uncomfortable, and a number of the
larger firms are looking toward the cOun-
Try for relief The trouble is to find sites
that are in sight financially. Suitable
land fOrs:tes is scarce owing to the broken,
not TO say mountainous, condition of the
land, uniting 1t for such use. For ex-
ample a small tract fifteen miles out, lying
between the river and railroad was held
st 81 900 per acre.
Vow go down into the city in the after
noon of fine day and try to go up or
down Fifthave. and get squeezed by the
crowds hurrying along, and then dodge
the cable and electric cars for half dav
ill you are ready to be carried home on
the half-shell, then you will conclude that
while Pittsburg is small in area she is
mighty In crOwding a small space. Her
buildings are OF the sky-scTsping order OF
architecture. the streets are narrow and
crooked, with numerous bridges across
both rivers which she lies between. Much
of what belongs to the city are over the
rivers and locally known by other names,
put when away from home everybody is
rom Pittsburg don'tyou know. ust so you
are in the county you can be from
The city who owes her prosperity
to a high protective tariff, by which
she has enriched a few at the expense OF
the many. You hear much twaddle about
the protection given to American labor by
Mckinley's bill. Only today / saw a
crowd coming out of a chemical works
valued at a million, and were they Amer
icans2 Not one in ten was SUCH Who
then? Poles, Italians, Hungarisns, etc.
don't know what all was In that crowd
OF men. On my way home l saw a simi-
lar crowd going from their days work
composed OF men, women, boys and girls
n a general mix Of nationality. This
makes YOU fairly shudder for our future,
especially when you take into considera-
ton the repulsive Russian Jew, whose
great desire is to peddle something. Why
this stste2 The highly protected brought
them here to make more money.
You say, then, Pittsburg is away ahead
Of the times. Not In the least is she, but
on the contrary quite late-in fact, ancient
In most all things. OF colleges she boasts
Roodlv numUer and after fashion has a
good deal OF technical training, largely in
the line OF mining and civil engineering,
but beyond that Is commonplace. There
are no great lawyers here. no noted
lecturers, no great ecclesastics, no
lteratuer, but many common folk. They
can tell you how TO manipulate iron and
glass They know but little of the West
and seem TO care less, but they keep a
Watchful eye on Washington. They are
republicans for. revenue only-thst is, for
tariff that Is high enough 10 bring in rev.
enue TO their pockets. They have no
sympathy whatever for the farmer. OF
him they can make no use but to buy
their products. Perhaps once in a while
they throw out a sop TO him TO hold his
vote. This was done several years ago
when they passed the oleomarearine law,
which was absolutely a prohibitory one.
Then the grocers took out u. s. govern
ment license to sell out of the original
pack age" and now the state agents are
after the grocers with a sharp stick, while
the over four hundred and fifty grocers
are waiting TO see If the state OF Pennsyl-
vania Is larger than the general govern
rnent 30 the war goes merrily on, and
we pay 25 cents for our 'oleo," which
keeps butter from going to 20 cents
pound.
They are trying 20 enforce prohibition
against an article OF wholesome food that
the poor man can buy for his family, but
voted down the prohibition OF tho in
ferna liquor traffic by large majority.
Consistency il a chunk OF plate glass set
N boiler IRON Poor old Pennsyl
Just word, don't emulate the East, my
Christian friends. but look westward
The Fast IL time-worn and Ii not COLI
scious Of IL. They think they lead all OF
the balance OF the country, and there Is
their mistake. You have by far a better
school system than they have and you
could give them lessons, but they would