ffHTlirTTTT V. l- SECOHD PART. NOT IHBSO BLACK Is tlie General Cholera Situa tion in Europe, as It Was a Week or So Ago. 200,000 YIGTIMS TO DATE, According to BestFigurei Obtaina ble From the Czar's Dominion. PARIS MOST FEARED BI ENGLAND. So Far the fconrgi Has FroTed a Great lenefit to the Briton. ., LAX IXTTSTIGATION OS THE FRONTIER IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. Loxdost, Sept. 10. CopyrigKC "While ctill alarmingly serious the general cholera situation is by no means as black as a week ago. The deaths by the scourge according to the figures tarnished by the press in the last seTen days number more than 15,000 for Russia and 'Western Europe. EeTised official figures hare come from Russia, which number the death roll in the king dom from the outbreak of the epidemic to September about 100,000. Beyond the Czar's dominion we have heard of 30,000 victims. Adding Hamburg's 5,000 and several hundred more in Prance and the grim total of human lives sacrificed to the insatiable plague monster amounts to about 200,000. A quarter of a million would be much nearer the truth, but the crisis for this season at least has passed. At every point where the epidemio has been raging save one it is on the decline. The exception is Paris. That is where anxiety and danger now center. It is Paris, not Hamburg, that England fears. It is because the truth has been long concealed in tbe French capital that fear is probably exaggerated. Cholerine Kotbinc bat Cholera. The authorities still keep up the criminal follv of describing as "cholerine" the disease which kills In a few hours 40 per cent of those whom it attacks. The doctors in the hospitals long ago abandoned the base subterfuge. At the hospitals it is readily admitted that they have many cholera patients in their wards. At the Bureau of Vital Statistics the presence of the pestilence under that name is denied with tine scorn. If the epidemic can be confined to its present ccope, Paris will be able to con gratulate herself on a practical escape from the scourge, ior 500 deaths which is about the number up to date is a very small mortality in a population of 2,000,000. But the only encouraging feature of the situation is the approach of cooler weather. The disease is of a very virulent type. The mortality in the number of cases returned is terrific. Thus, on Thursday the number of new cases was 47 and the deaths SO. Yesterday their were 65 and 49 respectively. This proportion is hardly credible. "We have probably been deceived about the number of new case", and we may be sure the deaths have not been exaggerated. The Dise Jfot Kept In Limits. It is known also that the disease is riot confined to one locality. Some of the pa tients have come from the best quarters of the city, some from the worst, and the im pure water snpply from the filthy Seine Is the greatett menace of alL JIanv strange stories come across the channel about the progress of the disease in the gay French capital. Some of them are fo alarming as to be incredible. Some of them are full of pathos and heroism. There is one which may be relied upon. "When it became necesiarr, more than a month ago, to create special cholera wards in the hospitals, volunteer nnrses were called for. One of tbe first to respond was Madame Hiederlander. "Let me have the hardest position," was her request She was as signed to night duty, ana she often had as many as GO patients in her charge. She was a small active woman, delicate in appearance, but tireless and wonderfully efficient in her work. The strain told upon her, and she seemed about to break down. The house physician noticed how feeble cbe seemed, and sent for her one morning. He begged her to take a few days rest, and insisted teat atheist sne snould leave the cholera ward. A Faithful Nurse Falls a Victim. She thought the doctor had taken a po lite way of telling that she was not efficient, and she burst into tears. Dr. Lesage, in immediate charge of the cholera patients, declared that he could not spare her, and she insisted on returning to her post. She went on working wonders amid the agonies of the cholera until last Tuesaay. Then, as she was following the doctor on his rounds, book in hand, was suddenly taken by the dreadful pains of the plague, and collapse came quickly and it was pro posed to revive her by a transfusion of blood. A hospital attendant offered himself for the purpose, and more than a pint of his blood was transfused into her arm. She revived temporarily, but the next day death came in earnest Her funeral yesterday was as quiet and simple as possible, but many of the hospital staff lollowed her to the grave. The Chairman of the Hospital Board wrote to her husband, saying that the martyred woman would be buried at the expense of tha city, that she would have a perpetual grave, and that her name would be written i n what is known as the "golden book" at the Hotel de Ville. England's Caus 1 for Congratulation. All England has been congratulating herbell, this week, over the escape from the pla?ue which is now popnlarlv re garded as assured. London has even been talking for a day or two About "our friend, the cholera," in a cold commercial sense. The epidemic has indeed been a friend to England, thus far, as it will be be even more so in the future, if the pres ent immunity continues. The financial loss to Hamburg, Paris, Antwerp, Berlin and other continental points, on account of the epidemic, can hardly be estimated. Hundreds of American tourists alone who had planned to spend September on the continent, have fled precipitately to Eng land. The capacity of the Channel boats bound Britainward has been severely taxed for more than a week, except, of course, the routes via Dieppe or points under cholera suspicion. England's escape from an invasion of the plague up to date is a matter for wonder. Iot even the boasted policy of inspection and registration as a substitute for quaran tine has been strictly followed. Some doors have been guarded, others and those the widest and most used have been left wide open. "Within my personal knowledge three men have come from Hamburg to London this wetk by the more frequented and direct route via Flushing and Qaeensboro, and not a ques tion was asked them on the English side of the channel. Keither was there any repre sentative of the British Government at the embarking point In Holland. They traveled on through tickets from Hamburg to London. They carried considerable hand luggage, and they neither saw nor heard of any health officer or individual who ques- tioned their right to land and go where they pleased. "Why iCngland Has Been So Lucky. The fact is that England, who only in a last great extremity would allow anything to interfere with her trade with the conti nent, has relied for protection solely on her internal sanitary arrangements -and the safeguards adopted by other countries on their frontiers. The only reason why cholera has not oome to England from Hamburg it has come in about a score of isolated cases is because tbe pre cautions of France and Beleium andHolland on their frontiers have proved efficient. It is true, probably, that boats coming directly from Hamburg to English ports are sharply looked after by the sanitary inspectors, but by any .other door tbe cholera is free to enter Eng land and to distribute itself whither it will. As for the internal preparations, probably a great deal has been said; cer tainly tnera has been plenty of talk about it, out ngnt nere in London tne nospuais for contagious diseases are so overcrowded by scarlet fever patients more than 8,000 being cared for this week that it has been necessary to close their doors against further admissions. It is significant that the newspapers say nothing about this lack of precaution and preparation. The papers land the author ities for their activity and efficiency, con gratulate the country upon its escape from the invader, and criticise President Harri son and the Americans for their absurd quarantine regulations. Eaiy Enough to Travel to London. A Dispatch reporter who left Hamburg on Thursday night traveled rigtit through to Flushing and tbence by boat to Queens boro and on to London without the slight est delay en route. At Haltern, where we changed for Boxtel, a medical inspector entered our car riage before we alighted from it and in quired if we had been tronbled with vomiting or diarrhoea, and, upon being in formed that we were well, tronbled us no more. At Boxtel, on the Dutch frontier, the customs officer seized soiled linen in the baggage of Hamburg passengers, took their names and addresses and promised to send their property on after disinfecting. This was the only precaution taken. At Queensboro nobodr seemed to care whether we came from Hambmg or not, and we trav eled on to London wltaout a question being asked. A great deal is heard in these times abont new weapons for fighting the great enemy. Pasteur insists that his newly discovered cholera virns by inoculation provides abso lute protection for two months to those who resort to it. He has tried it upon everything bnt hnman bsings, and two of them, Russian physicians, have submitted to inoculation without un pleasant results so far. M. Pastenr has written to Prince Damrong, brother of the King of Siam, who is interested in his ex periments, asking him to permit one of his assistants to go to that country and try the virus upon the inhabitants of a Siamese Tillage where cholera Is epidemic. Agitation In Favor or Cremation. 'The agitation in favor of cremation in the case of all cholera victims is increasing. Sir Spencer "Wells, one of the greatest En glish experts in germ diseases, sends to the Graphic this afternoon the results of some experiments which have a startling bearing npon this branch of the subject. He says: "Some persons donbt whether poison can be ear ned through the earth for any considerable distance, but the fact has been experi mentally proved as to saline solutions. A salt of lithium was sown over a plot of land more than 150 yards distant from a well, the water of which contained no lithium. Re peated examinations were made, but it was only on the eighteenth day it was proved that the solution had percolated tnrouph Itne sou roto tne well. 'Instances of contamination ot water by auiuiw.i lujpunucs nave Jong oeeu too weu known, and now the specific germs of in fective diseases are known to propagate in the same way. Quite lately what Is known us to typhoid and cholera has been proved as to consumption and the bacillus of phthisis. In the Botanic Gardens of Lyons flower pots were filled with earth on June 16, 1891, and some earth worms were added in each pot, with some of the sputum of tuberculous patients and fragments of lnng from their dead bodies. A month afterward it was found that the earth worms contained tubercle bacilli in large numbers, and that guinea pigs inoculated with them soon died with treneral tuberculosis. "Whatever the bacilli may be, -whether tubercular, ty phoid or choleraic in bodies buried in the earth, it is incontestable that earth worms, everywhere so numerous and active, may preserve the bacilli in their bodies during many months, still living and losing none of their virulent properties and power of rapid germination or reproduction. These are the grounds on which we assert that bodies after death from cholera ought to be cremated, not buried." C0ERCION AT AN END. That's "What John Morley's Visit to tbe Green Isle Meant A Most Trying; Problem on Ills Hands Mr, Morley Fortifying Himself. tBT CABLX TO THE SISFATCH.1 LoNDOir, Sept. 10. John Morley went to Dublin this week and undertook his task of introducing a new way to rule Ireland. This means that the reign of coercion in tbe Green Isle is ended. Coer cion laws, of course, still hang over the Irish people, and Mr. Morley cannot repead them, but he can and will refuse to enforce them. His task is delicate and difficult Home rule has not come yet. It will not come to-morrow or next day. ItB coming will be contested and delayed at every pos sible point. In the meantime the Irish people will be slandered and villified as they never were maligned before and by toes both within and without With a large proportion of his people evicted from their homes and destitute, and with no adeqnate legal measures at bis command for dealing with the situation, Mr. Morley has upon his hands a most try ing problem. Fortunately with relief in sieht, he can rely upon "the patience and forbearance of the long-suffering Celt The attempts to provoke a revolt against the Gladstonian Government will not succeed. The manifesto of Redmond's Kational League and Parnellite party this week fell flat It has provoked scarcely a word of comment, either way. Mr. Morley will at once fortifv himself with facta shnnt th destitution in the eviction districts, and public opinion will unquestionably uphold his hands in any plan for dealing with the Biiuauuu uuicii nisjuaement snail dictate. By the death of Mr. "Winterbotham, a member of the Circencester division of Gloucestershire, the Tories have a capital chance of winning the first of the bye elec tions caused by a death in the new Parliament The Liberal ma jority at the general election was only 153 on a poll of over 10,000 and the Tories at the time declared "Win terbotbam's retention of the seat was due mainly to his personal popularity and great cloal influence. The contest will be watched with great interest and some anx iety, for Mr. Gladstone with a majority of oniy joriy, cannot anord to begin losing seats before the great battle has commenced. COMHO WITH HIS MUD MADE UP To Investigate Canadian and United States Matters as They Are Not. BT CABLE TO TBI DISrATCH. LosDOir, Sept 10. George Parkin, a very able gentleman, who for some time past seems to have been the real leader of the Imperial Federation League, sailed for New. York to-day. He has been commissioned oy tne London Times to write a series of articles on Canada and tbe relations of tbe Dominion with the THE MTSBIMTpiSPlTm ' THE PITTSBURG DISPATOT1 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER H 189a " United States, but it is well understood here that his minion Is to collect facts de signed to overwhelm writers in American newspaper and magazines who have dared to argue that Canada is destined to be ab sorbed into, its big neighbor. There is really no reason why Mr. Parkin should proceed to Canada, because he has already made tip his mind on the subject which he is to "investigate." In truth, he has been lecturing and writing at the ex pense of the Imperial Federation for years past upon, this very Cana dian qnestion, and has over and over again demonstrated to his own satisfaction' that Canada must and will remain "the brightest Jewel in the British crown." If there Is any donbt at all in Mr. Parkin's mind, it is as to whether the United States is not destined by Provi dence to be absorbed into the Dominion. Obvionsly, Mr. Parkin belongs to the order of independent observers and unbiased critics, beloved by the Timet in particular and Tory Imperial FederatlonUts in gen eral A STRIKE IN POLITICS. Tha Situation at Carmoux' Unions as Wall ae Serious Peculiar Cause of the Trouble Opponents of the Government Miklnj Use oML tBT CABLX TO TOT DISrjLTCH. LOXTD02T, Sept. 10, The strike at Car moux is something unique among modern labor troubles, and it has suddenly sprung into an affair of national interest and im portance to France. Great strikes in Amer ica sometimes grow out of trifling causes, but never one had so absurd an origin as this. Carmaux is tbe headquarters of the Tarn Mining Company, which employs 2,000 men. The majority of the municipal coun cil holds Socialistio views, and they have this year elected a Socialistio Mayor, M. Calvifrnac, who is, or was, an employe of the mining company. Since his election his employers have granted him long leaves of absence to visit Sooiaiist conven tions and to attend to his official duties. Finally, M, Calylgnai aspired to the ad ditional political post of District Coun cillor, and be absented himself from his work for a long time to attend to his can vass. He condescended to explain his ab sence. He had been ill of bronchitis. The disease had been of an intermittent charac ter, which enabled him to deliver Sooialistio speeches to bis constituents at certain hours daily. Real Cause of the Carmoux Strike. "When he proposed to return to his post with the mining company his employers called his attention to the fact that he had given them only 17 days' service in the past three months, and they mildly sug gested that he should give assurance of regular service in future. This M. Le Maire indignantly refused to do, and a week's notice of dismissal was given him. France to-day is ringing with the griev ance ot Monsieur Calvignac. His fellow workmen struck, looted the company's premises, and forced the offending man ager to sign a paper resigning his post. Tnis was more than two weeks ago, and ever since the strikers have been receiving the thanks of their fellows throughout France. The strikers have been and still are mas ters of the situation in Carmoux. Their well-organized patrols prevent non-union men from taking their places. Cowardice of the Government. The Government is very prompt and very severe in dealing with enemies of public order when they are unpopular, but there has been a ahamefnl cowardice in the treat ment of this manifestation of anarchy. The prefect of the district has visited, Carmoux and notified M. Le Maire that the Govern ment would be compelled to arrest him and his confederates if they did not draw the unlawful patrols. Loud defiance has been the answer to the threats. The Paris labor exchange voted its sym pathy and support on the. aide of the strikers, and the Carmonx mob responded yesterday wit a resolution declaring that if the government of the Republic, misunder standing as it does its primary duties, means to use force qgainst them, they will defend themselves with force. This embarrassing situation still exists, and the opponents of the Government are making all they can of the incident fo political effect, A WONDERFUL OLD MAN Is air. Gladstone, K Judged Only From Bis Homeric Studies Valuable Aids to History In the Oriental Congress Some or the Dark Places Blade Light. 1HT CABLX TO TBI DISPATCn.1 Lokdok, Sept 10 The Oriental Con gress which has been in session inLondon this week has put on record a series of recent uncovered signs of a dead past which cannot fail to amaze the civilized world. Records In imperishable clay and stone, going back to the very infancy of the race ot man, have not only been brought to light, but the lan guage and signs in which they are written prove not unintelligible under the analysis of modern scholarship. ' Tablets thousands of vears old have been found, whioh bear reference, quite inde pendent of the record in Holy Writ, to the creation and fall of man. "We are told bv the learned borrowers into tha history of the dead ages that the Chinese language, of unknown origin till now. has been distinctly traced to its Babylonish source: that the Pharaoh who was plagued until he let the children of Israel depart from Egypt tb the promised land, B. a 1493, was not Barneses IX, but Thothnies IIL; that the daughter of Pharaoh, who rescued Moses from the bulrushes, has been identified as Qneen Makara Hatasu, daughter of 'lhothmes X; that the splendid t.omb of Alexander the Great has probably been dis covered; that the exact scenes of some of the greatest events in the life of Ch rist have been more accurately fixed than most visitors to Palestine have yet learned. A Narrative That Covers Everything, The student of ancient history will find more interesting and important items in the overwhelming category of recent discover ies thau those I have named. The narrative covers every nook and corner of the old world. The promises which are held out of stupendous revelations almost within reach will undoubtedly stimulate Oriental 'ex ploration and inquiry almost into a craze. Not the least interesting and important of the papers presented to this Congress of savants was that of Mr. Gladstone, upon "Archaic Greece and the East" It is an achievement which may well challenge the wonder of the world. A man well advanced in his ninth decade of life, burdened with the government of one ot the greatest na tions of the earth, finds time to prepare a mesis requiring a aepm oi tnougnt and In vestigation such as only the best scholars of the age have been able to give to the sub ject Gladstone on His Hobby. It is well known that Mr. Gla dstone is one of the best Homeric scholars of the day. He is an ardent admirer of tbe great master of ancient Greek, and his enthusiasm finds expression in his remarkable essay which it would require a full page of The Dis patch to reproduce. In the face of such a spectacle of states manship, scholarship and virility, how puny, how contemptible appears the atti tude taken by the journals which long ranked as the greatest of English newspapers? The Timet, which never sees anything good in Mr. Gladstone, streets Jiis essav with ill. concealed ridicule. Its leader re viewing the . aaaress opens oy saying tnat Mr. Gladstone "begins with an apology, of course." It declares that Mr. Gladstone has had to do with Homer, not for his art, but for the archaeological matter that can be extraoted from him, and that the address is a desoent from heaven to earth, from the bright fairyland of poetry to a region of mists and shadows. 'VMHW. l-"raS- if': BREEK ON THE ISSUES. A Bacj Letter Accepting the Nomin ation to Bun Against, Dalzell. BIS PICTURE OF THE TARIFF And the Democratic View of tha Mationa of Labor and Capital A WEAK CASE FORCIBLY PRESENTED John "W. Breen, the candidate for Con gress against John Dalzell, yesterday gave out his letter accepting the nomination. It is as follows: To Messrs. Walls, Howley and Hullen: Pitsbueo, September 9, 1892. GxxTLXicEa' I am in receipt of yours of the Stn Inst., notifying me of my unanimous nomination for Congress by tbe Democratlo Convention of the Twenty-seoond district For the nomination thus tendered and the too nattering terms of yonr notifloation, please aoeept my grateful acknowledge ments. Whether the nomination shall be an "emjity honor" or a further vindication of tbe tariff principles endorsed by tbe "poople" of the United States in three re cent Presldental elections, It Is for you to say by yonr suffrages after a fair dlsousslon of the one naramount Issue. It Is a matter of congratulation In this oontest that at least one great political party in this country has the courage of 'its con victions and is consistent enough to nomi nate a candidate Grover Cleveland who on such an Issue is a platform in himself. Dismissing for the present collateral is sues, I may say by way of Inaugural that as this Is to be a "Campaign of Education," X Indulge the hope that parties lntereited will "attend school" and at the proper time stand up and be counted on issues on which American citizens, having a common Inter est may honestly differ. Not only Is the majority of the American people in favor of tariff revlston.but the"law and tbe prophets" are with us. Tbe Claim of Unconstitutionality. The tariff under Bepublioan ansploes is not only an economic misfit, but it is with out oonstitntional warrant Justice Miller, of tbe Supreme Court of the United States, says: "To lay with one hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow It upon fav ored individuals to aid private fortunes, Is nonetheless arobDery because It Is done under tbe forms of law and is called taxa tion. This Is not legislation. It Is a decree under legislative forms." The Demooratlo doctrine to "revise and amend" Is not only in the line of true prog ress, but it is the creed of the Intelligent masses every where, and it has the distinct merit of having compelled tlie Bepublican party In Its platforms, Presldental utter ances and Tariff Commissions to reoogntze the necessity of "revision." As an abstract proposition ultra protec tion is not only an economic fallacy, but it Is at war with experience, and In less than SO years the believers In a high tariff will be classed with the believers In witchcraft. or the Illiterate artisans of London who in 1918 inaugurated riots In order to keep out "foreign competing goods." A high tariff is essentially discriminating and to that extent unjust, and tne Historian Llvy points with pride to the fact that even Nero proposed to abolish "discriminat ing" taxes. On the other hand, Wendell Phillips, the Bepublican idol of the anti slavery period, well said: "Protection does not protect. If it did we would all be pio tectionlsts." If a high tariff were the un mixed blessing that protectionists claim, if labor got an equitable share or that tariff, there would be no tariff Issue, as such, as the American people are not willing to vote themselves poor if they know it, and the RVerage eleotor Is Intelligent enough to know a good thing when he sees It Bnt the "wisdom of the ages" bids us Judge a tree by Its 'fruits. Thus tested, either an a pros perity maker or wage protector high tariff is a conspicuous failure. A Few Questions Propounded. If protection could make higher "wages how is it that the highest wages In tbe civil ized world are raid in a dependency of tbe , British crownt irprotectlon ts a good thing In the United States, why is it not equally as good in Franoe, Spain, Germany, Mexico and other protected countries? Austria has the highest tariff lu Europe and nays the lowest wages. Mexico has the highest tariff In America and pays tbe lowest wages. Tbo wage rate In Enzlancl has Increased 60 per cent under fiee trade. There Is more tonnage on the Tyne under free trade than In all protected Prance. The most destructive panic la American History was during a period of the highest tariff. Fifty yeais ago when England had a pro tective tariff her laborers did not receive two-thirds of the wages tnat are paid to-day. ' Are these statements disputable? And If not, what is the Inference? The most extraordinary fact about this is that men of sense who nave lived through the fearful period of depression from '13 to '79, when, for tbe first time, legislation against tramps was needed, should giavely listen to the assertion that nothing is needed to secure prosperity but lust suohahlzli tariff as we had then and have now. On this Issue the Democratic party and the Peo ple's party stand on unmistakable ground, while the Bepublican paity bus shitted and shifted its position until It may bo charac terized as the Artfal Dodder of American politics We do not have to go outside of Pennsyl vania to-day lor wage statistics to show that protection does not protect We have In our midst to-day 72 tariff made millionaires and multi-millionaires and 83,000 Idle men In this dUtrlct,and the why and the wheretore of this Is a pertinent Inquiry that must be answeied. Has pot the notion that tbe tariff is a protection or laoor looiea tne American people long enough? Governor M Einley declarcdatthe Repub lican ratification meeting In Madison Square. New York, June 21, 1893, that ei erythlng had fallen In this country except wages. He need only have taken tlie Homestead mills' sworn payroll, as presen:ed by Carnegie & Co. tot tne uongiessionai uommittee, to show to the world the utter fallacy of any such state ments. I appeal from the Governor of Oliio to Henry Clay Frick's pay loll, and ask If tbe dollar or Jane, 1893, or the Homestead billet -nakros was not split In twain in July, 1E92? Have not hundreds of men at Homestead had their wages reduoed, not an ordinary 10 percent, but SO to 75 per cent while many others were reducod over 100 per cent ail under a McBtlnley tariff, with an unpatented nage protector attachment? Harrlion's Eight Thousand Word letter. If this be true, what is the propriety of a President of the United Spates writing an 8,000 word letter to defend a system which is at war with faots and is indefensible in tbe forum of reason? I can take a ton of ore or of billets aud trace the gigantic tariff profits directly from the schedule to the pockets of tbe protected millionaires of this district, but I ask in a community where, in a broad sense, all are laborers If any laborer bere can traoe even a moderate competence to tbe tariff schedule? Lite long Republicans freely admit ttmt protec tion In the vicinity or Pittsburg is found chiefly in the party platforms and on -the campaign banners, but It is em phatically not found on the payrolls of our millionaire manufacturers. How long would tbe tariff last if working men properly understood It? If every woman in Pittsburg knew that there was enough tariff in her last dress to buy her a new bonnet, how long would she permit her husband to shout himself hoarse abont a tariff he did not understand? If every man knew there was enough tariff in one suit of clothes to buy him a nice pair of thoes, bow long would he vote to keep up that Jiggle? How long wonld he swell a "tin plate" chorus If he knew tbat for every man who gets employment In tbat industry 12 other men are taxed to sustain that one, Tbe unchallenged fact in Plttsbuig to-day Is that the best brains of the manufacturers here are employed not so muoh in enlarging tbe market for their product as in reducing wages, and the most thrivlnr lndnstrv bv all odds to-day In the royally protected State of Pennsylvania Is that of "reducing American wages to a pauper basts." What is the situation right here In tbe center of this highly protected distriot? nearly all tbe tariff millionaires are banded together to destroy labor "organizations" which alone maintain wages, and men are discharged lor Joining labor organizations. Is not this a tree country, or is It free only for certain people? Under the specious plea or (Tunning" our own business, most of these tariff-made millionaires are Introduc ing obeaper labor, and the best skilled labor in the world Is now compelled oelore it can get employment to surrender the "organic ration'' which John Jarrett before the Be publican Senate Committee declared is the one tiling tbat maintains wages. Cato tells us that the Boman augurs could not look eaoh otber In the faoo without laughiocr.and I marvel muoh If these political tariff fakirs can look eaoh other In the faoe wltbout fcu dulging In the broadest of grins at the cred ulity of the American "sovereign." The People'Are Asking Questions. Our home people know these things and are now more than ever In an Interrogative mood. They want to know why labor is forced to protect Itself, If it is already pro tected by tbe tariff? Have the wages of labor advanced as the profits of manufact urers increased? If not what becomes, of tbe theory tbat the tariff protects the work lngman? The tariff In glass has Increased from (0 to GO ner cunt? htivn tha wares of the glassworkers Increased? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Whom does protec tion protect? The few or the many, and is this a Government of the few or the many? Is not labor treated by proteoted capital as a commodity, while politically It Is ialtely claimed to be a beneficiary of the tariff? Is It not home competition rather than free trade tbat oauses most of our labor trou bles, and does not the tariff make tbe home competition keener every day? Is not the cost of living one-third higher than a gen eration ago, and has tbe wage rate under tbe Republican tariff increased 33 per cent? Has not the wage rate in all new countries naturally Increased without reference to tariffs? Are not the most highly proteoted commonwealths and cnmmiinltiea In the United States the yearly battle ground for wages? Are not the best wages paid in the non-protected Industries and have not wages really deoreosed in the pro tected Industries? Does not monopoly get the cream of the tariff, while labor haidly gets a chance to tick the plate? Does not a tariff of "special Interests" breed strikes and lock-outs and disorder as natur ally as a green pond breeds malaria? Have not Carnegie & Co. been reducing wages for 13 yearapast under tlie hlgbest tariff in the world? Has not the list of bankruptcies In this district and in the United States shown bow under high tariff insolvency and so-called protection may go Jauntily band in hand? Even tbe humblest toller knows that under an ultra tariff it is alternately a feast or a famine, eras of prosperity, followed by eras of depression. He knows also tbat his prosperity does not depend on lilzh wages for six months, followed by six months of strike or idleness, and tbat steady employ ment Is bis best "protection" when the rent roll and tbe grocery bill have to be met Attitnda of the Presldental Candidates. With a Bepublican Presldental candidate, who practically dictated his renomination through officials of bis own aDnolntment. and with a Vice President whose death-bed repentance is poor atonement for bis bitter opposition to labor in the past, the well worn tariff cry, "Help Cassinsor we sink." in again nearo in tne lana. w uat would tne Bepublican party do without that conveni ent raft the tariff to cling to In every storm? In 1872 the Bepublican party cried, 'Never mind Grant's blunders, vote for his re-election and save the tariff." Grant was le-elected, the tariff was saved: '73 camo, and wages went down. In 1876 they cried, "Never mind tbe whisky frauds, the post tiadershlp sales, tbo growth of monopolies; vote for Hayes and save the tariff." Hayes was elected, or at least drew the salary of the office, tariff was saved and waues again went down. In 1880 they cried, "Never mind the imbeoillty of Hayes, never mind the growth of trusts and millionaires and tramps; vote for Cobden Club Garfield and save tho tariff." The tariff was again saved and immediately strikes and indus trial depressions set in all over the country. Labor was fooled again. Wages In 1870 averaged $115 per man. In 1S80 $J1J 75, tbe difference 27 per cent In favor of tbe period piecedlng the three successful "savings of the tariff." In 18S8 I was told tbat tbe Bepublican party would now at last look after the in terests of the worklngman. But labor ws again ensnared. The tariff was raised on glass and iron and steel products, but 1 ask any manufacturer In Pennsylvania to pro duce a pay roll showing an average increase of wages proportionate to the Increase in tbe tariff. If the tariff was lower the cost of rails and railway transportation wonld be lower. The farmer and the business man would get cheaper transportation, and If Carnegie could get bis ore here cheaper from the lakes he conld afford to pay the "differ ence" in wages instead of Investing it in gunboats and barricades. Estimate or a Country's Wealth. Eighty years ago the tariff on iron was 7)i per cent, and we had "happy homes and altars free." Now we have a tariff nigh 10 times higher and still we are not happy., Instead of tbe prosperity and content'of the nlderdav" what bave we now? Colossal fortunes, strikes,the"red speotre," and com- J munuios ana wuoie cnxnmonwcauus uis turbed by the roar of mobs and the tramp S2ff $ UR PRICES AND TERMS SUIT THE PEOPLE, ONE AND ifcH W Aft y$L m jfc all- As evidence of this, our immense and constantly increasing trade $,&&,gJ . certainly conclusive. Our stock of Furniture, Carpets and House furnishings of all kinds was never as complete as now, and cannot fail to please the most fastidious buyer. Having the goods to please, our prices and terms do the rest & COURTEOUS SALESMEN FOR SEE OUR S18 SIDEBOARD. $18 $18 SIS REMEMBER, OUR PRICES AND TERMS SUIT THE PEOPLE, ONE AND ALL. HOUSEHOLD CREDIT CO. 414 WOOD STREET-t-414 r PITTSBURG'S1 MOST RELIABLE AND LEADING CREDIT HOUSE.v9fe of armies, and peace is only maintained by the kind of "order whioh reigned in Warsaw." 1 Is very true tbat the wealth of tbe country has .grown enormously, but who has got It? I do not mean in a sooialistio sense. If we estimate the prosperity or the country oniy by the overgrown fortunes or Individ uals specially favored by law. then Indeed Ireland Is prosperous as well as America, for there, as here, the lezal machinery lain perfect order which makes the rich richer, wbllelt grinds tbe poor down Into deeper The mass of the peoplo realize tho tariff shams bnt have been tardy to avail them selves of the remedy. Let American fair play assert itself and let poople say with their suffrages what they sav with bated breath and these problems will be so much nearer solution. . . . The phrase "We the People," which is used in onr national and nearly all our State constitutions, ha almost lost Its meaning. Stop and think! Instead of 60,000, 000 of selr-governlng people making their own lawn, here aro the dittnguilied, very able, but highly Interested citizens who kindly make your tariff schedules lor "reve nue only" the Iron sohedule. Oliver; wool. Garland; sugar, Dymond; blanket!". Hays and Whitman; drug. Powers and wright man; Bussia Iron. Woods; nickel, Whar ton; copper, Hnssey; salt Folger. Every one of these interests is highly protected. Nearly every one la making war on "organized labor" wblcji alone maintains wages, and when the toller ascs ror a small snare oi tnat proicuuuu which is guaranteed by the Bepublican na tional platiorm, be is, told that labor is a commodity, and, like the negro on the auction block in the South before the war, he is "worth what he will bring." And If he unwisely becomes unruly, Wlnohester rifles are brought in by capital as arbi trators. The military and the strong arm or the law is Invoked, tho Jails are filled, and he Is tried under laws enacted mostly by "boodle" Legislatures in tbe interest or corporate chicane. The Abase of Corporate Rights. A word as to corporations. Under modern business conditions tbey serve many use ful purposes, asaggregate capital may often times do what individual capital cannot do. Bnt corporations are abused. The trans portation business of this country and the vast coal and oil producing Interests of our State are at the meroy of glgantlo corpora tions. Congress should be able to afford a legislative remedv that wonld elve the in dividual producer, at least, some portion of that "equality" which the law seems to con template. Corporate capital rales as abso lutely here as does the Czar In Bussia, and unless the people restrain corporate rapacity tbat is eating out the substance of the peo ple at the rate of 0 to 100 per oent dividends yearly, there will soon be no Bepublio to preserve. Since the "morning stars sang together" no country has ever prospered or will long endnre under snch a system of legalized wrong. The remedv forthis is not violence, not the denial of Individual or corporate rights as such, not the violation of even op pressive laws, butbythe ballot.whlch alono can unmake vicious legislation and sham tariffs. It Is for you to say whether tne peoplo are still "sovereigns," and wbether or not The rightful lords of yore Are tbe rlgbtful lords no more. And now a word as to the Force bill: A "blocks of five" party is truly a .nice party to ohatter about pure elections. So far ai it Is an issue, the policy- of tbe tariff party Is best described by the remark of the Hon. Stephen Elklns, that "tbe protective tariff party pays more for votes than for laborers." His statement of His Position. I am not ithla contest to lndulgo In any Illusions or to formulate phrases or plati tudes tor men without beliefs. I am not laying down a platform to exclndo any thing to which anybody may objeot I am not seeking to make converts by conceal ments or evasions. I entertain opinions on economic isnes not formed yeiterduy and not to be abandoned to-morrow, and lam not going to trade them now for vote. If the opinion of the ma ority of the distriot is against the iioue I represent I will labor with some fidelity to convince them of their error, and if tbe majority is with me I want the will or that majority to find con stitutional expression. I ask in conclusion tho voter to now vote his convictions not his prejudices or the wUhes of bis employer. If he favors a. sys tem which multiplies millionaires and strikes and brings about lower wages let him so say by bis ballot. I want no votes on lalse pretences or on misleading Issues. I simply ask for a verdict on tbe evidonce. With the electors is tho remedy and-the responsibility. Very respectfully. James W. Bbiex ousehold 414 WOOD 'SEE OUR $15 BEDROOM SET. $15 15 $15 HsMsssBlSmsi fWwii?'2t?"S;ft purmur TETJKBLET SOUS TJ?. He Is Probably Fatally Stabbed in a Chi cago Jail by a NegTo. Chicago, Sept 10. Jerry Trumblsy, the prize fighter, was probably fatally stabbed in jail to-day by a negro prisoner, Michael Prince. Trumbley has been in confinement for an assault with brass knuckles npon one of the best-known merchants in the city, Joseph Fish. The prize fighter maintained that the attack on Fish was because the merchant pushed against him on the side walk, bat there has been a suspicion that Trumblev was hired by a jealous woman to disngure'Fish. Prince, the negro, professes to have been avenging an insult to his race bv Trumbley when he stabbed the pugilist The weapon was only a pocket knife, but the blade made a cut tour inches long in the pugilist's neck. CAEXEB HABBIS01T TJKH0S3ED. His Horse Slips During His Morning Bide and the Ex-Mayor Is Injured. Chicago, Sent 10. Carter H. Harrison, editor of the Timet, had a narrow escape from fatal Injury this morning. As it is, he is laid up in bed with a broken arm and some severe bruises. The ex-Mayor was out on his thorough bred Kentucky mare tak'ing his regular be fore breakfast ride. He came at a sharp canter and turned his horse into Ashland avenue without drawing rein. Her feet no sooner struck the asphalt pavement of the boulevard, made glassy by rain, than she slipped and fell and Mr. Harrison was thrown -over her shoulder. It will be a lortnigbt before he is able to be about A CBEWr07 19 I0ST. The Canadian Fishing Schooner Cashier Goes Down In a Gale. HAiipAX, N. a, Sept 10. A schooner just returned from La Have from the Grand Banks, brings the report of the loss of the schooner Cashier, of the same place. The vessels were fishing close together on the evening before the heavy gale of August 22. Next morning after the storm had abated, nothing was to bs seen of the schooner but pieces ot wreckage floating about "With out doubt the Cashier went down and her entire crew of 19 persons perished. Thomas E. Cbaio, editor and publisher of the New Haven, Ma, Notes, says: "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with great satisfaction for the ailments of my children." For sale by druggists. MAKE YOUR SELECTION. Men's Fins Custom Made Salts at 810 Equal to Any S3S Garments Ever Prodnced by the Best Tailors P. CO. C Clothiers. For Monday we offer an elegant assort ment ot men's fine tailor made salts in all the newest fall fashions at (10 eaoh tailors charge $25 and $30 for their equal. This Is what $10 vtlll bay at our store while this sale lasts: Men 3 stylish cassimere and silk mixed suits at S 10, the newest patterns. Men's plain block cheviot snits and dressy cOikscrew suits at $10. Mon's rouh-faced double breasted Shannon tweods at $10. Men's fash ionable checks and wales at $10: also fancy worsted suits, fancy casBlmeres, rough Ban nockbnrns and ribbed cheviots which aro all the rage at $10. Any style yon want single-breasted, straight cut, double-breasted, and cutaways. We want fashionable dress ers and people who usually have their cloth ing made to order to attend this sale and see how much they can save Monday. P. a a (i. Clothiers, Cor. Grant and Diamond streets. FXPO'ITION "Never defer until to morrow that whioh should De done to-dar. Excellent advice. Why not attend the Ex position to-day? To-morrow you may not De able to do so; besides, yon will enjoy yonr visit so much that you will be snre to eo again. Credit STREET 414 BOTH LOOKERS AND SEE OUR $10 EXTENSION TABLE. $10 610 $10. " PIGES9W3P?! i Fssw WANT A FREE Wm PittBburg Delegates to NationJaB63 - of Steam Navigation ' ; f WILL PDSH THE SHIP GAM14 The j Will ilso Becommend ths PnreStMi of L0&3 and Sams PE0P0SED PETITION TO C0HQEJBI:, The twenty-first annual meeting of the National Board of Steam Navigation will be held in New York on "Wednesday and Thursday of next wesk. The meeting will attract all the prominent river and steam boat nun in the United States, and it is contemplated that important action will be taken regarding the improving of tSs Ohio river between Pittsburg and Ohio. Among the Pittsburg steamboat men who will attend will be "W. "W. O'Niell.Addison Lysle, who is now Treasurer of the board, "W. J. "Wood, John Moran, Harry McDon ald, Harry Brown and James A. Hender son. The Pittsburg delegation will advocate the purchase by the Government of the Monongahela Company's locks and dams. This subject has been considerably agitated in the organization within the past year, and it is highly probable that the entire board will unite in a petition asking Con gress to purchsse the locks and dams. The proposed canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio river will also be considered, and the Pittsburg delegates are confident that the board will unite in recommending the canal's construction. The construction of two new dams on the Ohio river between Pittsburg and Cincinnati will also be rec ommended. James A. Henderson who returned yester day from an extended Western tour with his family is spoken of as President of the National Board. Mr. Henderson said yes terday that he was not a candidate for any office on the board, but he was anxious to have tbe Ohio river improvement recom mended. He believed that if the boatd would unite in their petition to Congress the Erie Canal scheme would be assisted very materially. WON'T TAKE THE EESPONStBtLlTT. Treasurer Dennlston Will Let the Courts Pass Upon Exonerations. . No claims for tax exonerations were pre sented to City Treasurer Senniston Fri day, and he expressed satisfaction tbat the assessors hare finally decided to grant no more until the cases now in court aro dis posed of. The Treasurer has departed for Berek Iey Springs, W. Va., lor a short rest and to secure relief in the springs' healing: waters from tbe pain he has been suffering lately in his crippled leg. During his ab sence no exonerations will be allowed. His attorneys have advised him in the matter, and he says he would be individually re sponsible for every dollar exonerated If the court should sustain the claims made in the tax suits against the city. Got Burled in a Chair. Hezakiah Shepherd, an eccentric and wealthy old farmer who died in Drakeyille, la., last week, had requested that he should not be buried in an ordinary coffin, but in one'made in the shape of a chair. The curious'casket was built of white oak, with walnut trimmings, and a glass panel in front that exposed the face. The body was placed in the chair ixa sitting posture, the wrists were strapped to tWarnxTof tha chair, and the legs fastened to the rungs. -1 -ft. uat 1 I K BUYERS SEE OUR $24Pi7eceBEDR00MSET. $24 'J'jB --n K5teisSss2saEM'i fi Jrnfrg i . lE5Capi (v & IT egggweaa Jsgfc T $24 $24 . - - N '? M
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