The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 'IMON'DAY, MARCH 11, 1895 (‘;HARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, or and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL-$G per ¥ wnall; by earrler, 15¢ N FRANCISCO | c States Adver- Rose and Look ahead. Catch on to the revival. Cheer up, cherries are ripe. Set an example to your neighbor. Truth hurts nobody, but it scares fools. Give another lift to the competing road. Every prospect pleases and only the streets are vile. Good news comes from all sides, and in- Give the silurian a show to reform by showing him how to do it. In a progressive community a good leader never fails to get a good following. The elevation of the community depends upon the uprising of the right people. The San Joaquin road must secure a good terminus in order to make a good be- ginning. The competing road strikes while things are hot, but it was the monopoly that made them hot As London papers are advising Cleve- land to hold an extra session, we may P et it. Hollister is little, but she can crow $50,- 000 worth for the competing road, and don’t you forget it The new national party has already de- veloped enough questions of policy to split it clear up the back. A good many people may still go to Oak- | land to sleep, but it is not a sleepy place | by any means just now The two things most needed this week | are a good spring shower and the adjourn- | ment of the Le There are some statesmen who believe | the best way to get even with railroad bills is to demand free passes. S atesmen call Cleveland a fisherman, and the fishermen call him a politician. No class s to own him. Los Angeles is to have two competing pipe lines from the oil district. That will | grease the wheels of business. The Senate’s spasm of economy comes too late to do it much credit. Too much hi-bed repentance about it. dea Every county in the State is getting into | line for progress, and a good many of them are striving for the front rank. By setting to work on the streets the men who are now idle, the ways of life would be made better for everybody. Twelve Kansas counties have natified the ernor that they need no more outside That promises Republican gains. The few legi: ors who are opposing the valley road at Sacramento are making bi- ographies they will be glad to suppress | b ter. aid. About the time Lord Rosebery breaks down under the strain of the Premiership old Gladstone will be ready to step in and relieve him. We call the attention of the silurians to the fact that they could sleep easier if there were fewer cobblestones to make the car of progress rattle. Rev. Dr. Parkhurst of New York is going to clean out St. Louis. San Francisco will do that job for herself without extra-State or legislative assistance. Who can doubt that the world is grow- ing wiser when he notes the number of Eastern statesmen who are coming over to the side of free silver ? The fame of Trilby may not be perma- nent, but it will be stationary in this country, for a railway company in Louisi- ana has named a station after it. Now that everything is moving we | ought to have an extra session of Congress to force Cleveland’s hand and keep the Government in line with the people. " { The people of Alameda County will have a good memory for the legislators arld lob- | byists who have combined to maintain ex- travagant salaries for their county officials. - | ock that will soon ia is an additional . The big floating d arrive here from Ben commercial fac connection v In deciding that whisky cocktails are an American manufacture within the mean- ing of the law, the Secretary of the Treas- ury must have been guided by sad experi- ence abroad. Boston sympathizes with San Francisco in fighting for local seli-government, for it seems the Bostonians are not permitted to regulate even Sunday entertainments with- out legisiative interference. Eastern exchanges that have found Cali- fornia references to midwinter flowers a trifle monotonous, will take notice that we have changed the subject and are now talking of cherries and strawberries. ‘Whatever may be the backing of the Napa Valley electric railroad scheme, it | i | shall concur. | are. IT SHOULD BE PASSED, The bill which empowers the Board of Harbor Commissioners to lease the unused lands of the State on the water front for railroad terminal facilities is by far the most vital measure with which the present Legislature has had to deal. Its terms are short and simple and easily understood. Its scope is bounded by a single object, which is the grant of a proper favor toa competing railroad. By its limitations the fullest safeguards are set up against any occupation by foreign corporations or by monopolies already possessing terminal facilities, of the landsof the State. The obvious and the only purpose of the measure is to enable the new railroad to obtain an adequate terminus in San Fran- cisco, and for that purpose to lease from the State its vacant lands along the water front for a term of years. This measure, with such an object and with such limitations, the Legislature will have no excuse for failing to pass to-day. No argument worthy of the name has been adduced agajnst it. None can be. To let these lands lie waste and idle when there is so desirable an applicant for their use would be an infinite folly. To refuse to permit the valley railroad to lease them for a fair rental and for the purpose of a terminus would, under present conditions, be worse than a crime. The possession of terminal facilities in San Francisco is ab- solutely essential to this great project fora competing railroad, without which its powers as a competitor would be hampered and its ability to fulfill its object seriously impaired. The people of California desire that no impediment ‘be placed in the path of the competing railroad and demand that every aid be offered which the power of the State can give. No member of the Legislature can afford to be heedless of this desire or deaf to this demand. The Assembly has already shown its favor to this measure and will doubtless stand by its strong majority of Saturday when the vote upon final passage occurs to-day. action of the Assembly has met with the unqualified approval of the people of California, and in that action it the universal demand that the Senate San Francisco, whose mer- chants have given so liberally in aid of the competing railroad, wishes its terminus to be here. The interior new railroad to be able to bear its freight and passengers directly into the heart of the great city, where the centers of traffic All classes of our citizens are pleased to see the prospects of this great enter- prise advanced in order that at the earliest day possible construction may be begun. The people call upon their representa- tives in Senate and Assembly to give them relief. Pass the bill, and place it in the hands of the Governor for his approval to-day. RELIEF AT HAND. Of all the news of the past week, hardly any portion could have given more sat- isfaction and complete repose to the general newspaper reader than the an- nouncement that Li Hung Chang has re- ceived back his peacock feather and started off to make peace with Japan. This news awakens sweet hopes of a cessation of the interminable, voluminous, insufferable reports, rumors, contradictions and re- | contradictions from the Orient that for | months past have almost made newspapers unreadable. Conventional usage will doubtless com- pel history to record the fracas around the peninsula of Korea as a war, but there never was any war. There was hardly a fight or even akick from behind. Some drums were beaten, some powder exploded, some yellow fellows ran and some others ran after them, and behold the wonderful battle was done! Over these unimportant occurrences, however, for months past, some highly paid gentlemen known as war correspondents have wasted a mass of words and an eloquence, of description that at times were almost worthy of an inter- national boxing match or a grand aggrega- tion of chicken fights. The amount of journalistic energy thus wasted and worsted in trying to infuse something of the liveliness of a sensation into the events in the Orient, would have been sufficient if employed in that way to build up a public sentiment in favor of the anti-high hat bill and make a statesman’s reputation for every legislator who voted for it. It was in vain, however, that swelled head lines and nightmare cartoons were resorted to to attract the.attention of the public to the wavering fracas. The reader preferred even the tongue war of | Corbett and Fitzsimmons to the imbecil- ities in the.Orient, and it was not until the war correspondents got up a little riot among themselves ana began to describe the reports of one another in the hottest parliamentary language that the public took any interest in what they had said or | left unsaid. About the only catastrophes of the ruc- tion that made any impression on the pub- lic mind were the losses to Li Hung Chang of his peacock feather and his yellow coat. These oceurrences did indeed cause little thrills of expectancy to run along the os- sified railway of the public backbone and carry something of interest to the public brain. People casually watched to see if Li, having lost his yellow coat, wouldn’t lose his yellow head. They also took an interest in reports concerning the peacock feather. Tt is known to be very difficult to get the peacock plumage out of the head of 2n American politician without cutting off the head, and considerable curiosity was felt to see what would come of the attempt in China. Li Hung Chang, having now recovered his coat and his feather, all inter- est in the circus ends. Let there be peace between China and Japan, and peace also among the war correspond- ents. The latter, in particular, should cease their troubling and their vast expanse of copy full of mutual contradic- tions. The American people wish Ameri- offers a hint for many minor California val- leysin connection with'the building of competing local roads throughout the State. Kaiser Wilheim will not assist the agrarians in shutting out American grain from the German market. He may not always know which side of his bread has | the butter on, but he knows where to get l the bread. They are having a lively controversy in the East over this state of facts: General Halleck died, leaving a widow and a large | fortune; General Cullom married the| widow, got the fortune, and, on dying, left alarge portion of it to build at West Point & memorial hall to be called by his name. The point in dispute is whether the hall should not be named after Halleck, who made the money, rather than after Cullom, who spent it. can news, and it is time to wipe the Ori- ental fracas off the face of journalism and give the space to live news of home affairs, P LOOKEG AHEAD. It is but a few months since the business men of San Fraucisco were wrestling un- successfully with the proposition to raise $350,000 as a starter for the San Joaquin Valley Railroad. To-day, thanks to the brains, energy and example of a few lead- ing men, they are gathering in the third million of dollars. It now becomes evident that California only needs an example to start her on the high road to prosperity. Under the influ- ence of San Francisco’s action Oakland now comes forward with a subscription of nearly $200,000 with the prospect of $500,000 in the near future. These figures make the old $350,000 mark for San Francisco look like a small matter, and so it was. It was T]xcI also desires the | not a question of ability at all, but simply ot waking up. Even little Hollister down in San Benito County now pledges $50,000 with the prospect of doubling the amount. As Hollister pays $600,000 annually for ex- port freight,she may expect to get bac}( her money the first year that the road is opened to business. Within two or three weeks surveying parties will be in the field and then the question of route will soon come up for decision. It seems tobe pretty certain that the line will fork at Fresno, one branch coming to San Francisco by way of the San Benito and Santa Clara valleys, the other continuing down the San Joaquin to tide- water. There is room enough for terminal facilities on both sides of the bay. Regarding this matter of terminals our people should not lose sight of one con- sideration. They are working now for both the present and the future of San Francisco. For the present they will seek to establish the best terminal facilities that can be obtained under existing conditions. For the future they must keep in mind that all roads once led to Rome, so all roads must eventually lead to San Fran- cisco. With the way open up the penin- sula to the south, and a cantilever bridge from Goat Island the future of this city as a railroad center will be assured. Our peo- ple will never again brook the cry once raised that ‘‘San Francisco is on the wrong side of the bay.” A FRIEND AT COURT. Emperor William of Germany talks like a statesman. He declares that he “‘cannot help in making poor people’s bread dear.”” This was said in reference to the grain monopoly bill directed against the impor- tation of American wheat. The German agrarian party hopes to push its ends by making the increase of the navy dependent upon the passage of its prohibitive measure. The Emperor re- sents its tactics. Perhaps he appreciates the fact that with the passage of the grain bill there would be little use for a larger navy. Germany’s coasts are of such a character that she has little need of a navy | for their defense. Navy-building with her is largely a question of the protection of | her merchant marine and growing foreign interests. By subsidies to shipping and cheap manufacturing she has won a large | foreign trade which she hopes to increase. The nperor evidently understands that the existence of that trade depends upon competition in prices with England and other manufacturing countries in the open | markets of the world, and that in such a competition German workingmen must | have the advantage of cheap food. The question of the prohibition of American meats will also enter into the discussion of this question in the Reichstag. Our Government should make a note of the news from Germany in deciding upon a retaliatory policy in defense of American exports. The Emperor and the manufac. | turing classes of Germany are on our side | as a matter of self-interest. Promptness and d n in asserting our commercial rights will turn the scale in our favor. The | German Government will not care to face the double disadvantage of dear food and a restricted market in the United States. Let Secretary Carlisle officially notify the Treasury Department of German discrim- his notice of retaliatory duties, and we may look for a vote in the Reichstag against agrarian prohibition. THE PACIFIC CABLE. The incorporators of the Pacific Cable Company propose to go ahead with their enterprise regardless of the failure of Con- to pass their bill for a United States arter. They have received liberal offers of subsidy and patronage from France, | Japan and Russia. Hawaii has long held out Government inducements for a cable. It is desirable to push this matter with- out waiting for another session of Con- gress in order to get ahead of the British | cable scheme. Every nation interested would prefer the American to the Cana- dian connection from both commercial and strategic motives. There is not busi- ness enough for two systems and the one first in the field will hold it. France would no doubt especially favor the American scheme because of large French business interests, as well as the | desire to be independent of British lines. A great French cable company started the line by laying a link from Australia to the penal colony of New Caledonia, mainly for the purpose of making work for its idle plant. Probably that company would con- tinue the system to Tahiti and Hawaii on the lowest possible terms from the same motive. The French Government will aid the scheme for the double purpose of aid- ing French enterprise and establishing de- sired connections. There would then re- main only the link between Honolulu and Monterey Bay. That should be the first laid, as it would most effectively cut off the British scheme. The route is already charted and the cable could be laid within a few months, while the route from Van- couver to Hawaii and thence southward has yet to be surveyed. ENCOURAGE INVENTION. A Santa Monica inventor is now exhibit- ing in this city a “wave motor,”’ designed for the development of electric power. It is intended to beset up off the ocean beach, just outside the line of breakers, where it will get the fnll effect of the ceaseless roll of the waves. Engineers are said to look favorably upon it. . Without knowing anything about the practical merits of this particular ma- chine, it is safe to assume that sooner or later San Francisco will harness the ocean to her industries. Wave and tidal energy will be utilized for the generation of elec- tric power. Whoever comes along with any invention to that end should have a respectful hearing. If his plan has prac- tical value it will win its way. It not, it may at least point by its failure the way to the success of some other invention. | PERSONAL. Dr. R. Mitchell of Ferndale is visiting in the city. Dr. Ord of Pacific Grove is stopping at the Oc- cidental. F. P. Wickersham, the Fresno banker, is regis- tered at the Lick. Aaron Smith, a railroad man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. N. B. Ambrose, a prominent merchant of Lockeford, is & guest of the Grand. ‘W. H. Jack,a wealthy rancher of San Joaquin County, is a guest of the Grand. €. 0. Johnson, a railroad man from San Luis Obispo, is registered at the Occidental. John M. Vance, an extensive lumber and mill man of Eureka, is in the city on business. Speaker John C. Lynch of the Assembly oc- cupied a room at the Baldwin Hotel yesterday. Captain L.C. Brant is over from Angel Isl- and, and is making his headquarters at the Occidental Hotel. Mrs. H. F. Hubbard and her two daughters arrived from Stockton yesterday and are stay- ing at the Occidental Hotel. On Tuesday they will sail tor Honolulu by the steamer Australia. John C. Wray, legislative correspondent of the Los Angeles Herald, was down from Sacra- mento. Mr. Wray was formerly Under Sheriif of Los Angeles County and he is spoken of as an available candidate for the Legislature from the Seventy-third District next session, ination and lét Secretary Gresham issue | AROUND THE CORFEIDORS. “White-hat McCarty,” the racing man, who 1s & good judge of horseflesh, has demonstrated that the clothes do not make the man, nor do they make him different from his real self when dressed other than in every-day apparel. The practical demonsiration occurred re- cently when Lord Talbot Clifton informed the man of white-hat proclivities that he was about to give & banquet, and asked the pleasure of McCarthy’s presence. «And do not forget, Mac, that it is a full-dress affair.” “What?” exclaimed the invited guest. ‘You are not living under the impression that I am a dude, are you?” “No, no, old fellow. Not by any means. is simply to be in form, that’s all.” “In form, did I hear you say? Well. it don’t g0, see? Iam not the kind of a chump te put up ninety plunks for a suit of clothes simply to be in form. No, Clif, it gives me a pain to think of it. Come off, please, for & few sea- sons.” Lord Talbot calmed McCarty down by prom- ising to get him a suit for that one oceasion, provided hé would wear it and pacify himself for a few hours by becoming a slave to custom. “All right, Clif. 'l do it for you. Trot out your togs and get to business. Where do I dress?” The Lord’s eyes beamed with joy, and grab- It a; o, . =1 “WHITE-HAT" M'CARTY'S BIG CHAIN. [Sketched for the “Call” by Nankivell.] bing his victim he dragged him upstairs to his room where the rearrangement of the race- horse man began. “There you are now, old man. How do you like that vest and that coat and those shoes? Here you are for a swell stand-up collar and & pair of link cuffs,. How does that strike you? Now get onto this watch ifob and see— “Hold up, Clif; that fob don’t go. I wantmy gold chain with big links. You can’t work off no fob on me, Here, give me that chain,” and Mr. McCarty reached for the dream of his make-up, which Talbot was attempting to hide for the time being. He finally got hold of it and coupled it on to his watch with the re- , “Now, that’s something like, Clif, and if it don’t suit your aristocratic eye, why we quit right here.” Talbot tried his best to get the fob on the wateh instead of the ehain, which was pulling | the vest down like a dumbbell in a sack, but | McCarty was firm in the belief that he looked | all right until he got np i front of the glass. At this point it struck him that he was wearing the clothes of & man 6 feet high, and as Me- Carty is not much over 5 it naturally ruffled him a bit. In a few moments all the wrath in the race of McCarty came to the suriace and he began to toss broadcloth all over the place. The storm of clothing lasted about one minute, after which the man of “White Hat” got into his own tweed suit and forswore dude blow- outs for the remainder of his life. “We have become 8o accustomed to the sight of beggars on our public streets that we fail utterly to realize how disgusting and disgrace- ful they are,” said Presiding Police Judge Low in a conversation concerning the proposed | arrest of professional mendicants. ‘“The Mer- | ehants’ Association is doing splendid work in removing inanimate filth from the streets, but they are not removing the animate filth. That work should be taken up by some association { or person and pushed to an issue. It is just as necessary to the good name of our city as the work done by the street-sweepers. Besides some of these stump-legged and one-armed beggars arc vicious, and have often obtained money by actual intimidation. If these beg- gars are arrested and the legal points in their cases are finely balanced between them and the people of this community, so far as I am concerned, the people shall be given the best of it, and the defendant may test the law by an appeal. One of the most trying dutles of a police magistrate is the determination of the question whether a beggar is a fraud or not, bat frankly, I don’t take much stock in this cheap subteringe of selling pencils and so forth on business sireets. It is nerely an excuse in most cases. However, I do not wish to be understood as prejudging the matter. My | opinion as a citizen is simply that the present condition of our beggar-ridden thoroughfares is a public disgrace.” “Such is fame!” mournfully remarked Preble Jones in the corridor of the Baldwin last night, accompanying the remark with an unusually heavy sigh. “What is the trouble now?’ quer- ied a sympathetic bystander. “Well,” re- turned the pedagogue, sacrificing another drop of heart’s blood, “out at the school the other day I was remarking to the class how many great men hed recently died. Among others I mentioned General Benjamin F. Butler, ex- Governor of Massachusetts, whose deeds in the late war are matters of world-wide renown. After speaking of hiim I asked if any of the scholars could tell me who Ben Butler was. A little chap way down in the corner raised his hand and I gave him permission to speak. ‘I know who Ben Butler is,” he shouted. ‘Heis the one-eved seal outat the Cliff House.’” “An amusing incident happened on the Berkeley train the other day,” said Employ- ment Secretary Leslie of the Young Men's Christian Association yesterday. “A long, lean. lanky, overgrown schoolboy of 16 years travels to and from school by that line every day. The trainmen are not long in becoming acquainted with regular passengers, and on the day I speak of the brakeman attempted to ‘josh’ the lad. “I do not see how your people dareto trust you out without a chain,’ he said. ‘That is all right,’ retorted the boy. ‘They will have you in the pound pretty soon because you do not wear a collar. ‘Don’t wear a collar, eh? ejacu- lated brakie. T should say I do wear one. I wear a Southern Pacific collar.’” PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The Esterhazy diamond, which Helen Gould gave her sister Anna, has long been famous and has passed through many noble European hands. It gained particular prominence when in the possession of Prince Nicholas Paul Ester- hazy of Eisenstadt, Hungary. The Esterhazy and Castellane families are distantly con- necied, and that the jewel should find its way back 10 its former associations after having been on the market for along period is a re- markable coincidence. Miss Helen Gould pur- chased thefjewel from Tiffany. The Esterhazy gem, which is probably the most valuable in America, consists of a large @iamond sur- rounded by eleven smaller diamonds, and every stone is perfect in form and color. Beardsley, he that has imitators, Beardsley, the English artist that revels in the outlandish but interesting, 1s_coming over to talk to us in thespring. He will first finish a book, “Venus and Tannhauser,” that he expects will make a stir. Beardsiey is 22, a consumptive, and was first an architect’s clerk and then tarried in an insurance otlice. But the great Burne-Jones and the great Puvis de Chavannes pulled the Dboy out of such uncongenial environment and made him take up art as a profession. Abdurrahman, Ameer of Afghanistan, is one of the most interesting despots in the world. He is over 50 years of age, & man of great IT GUARANTEES A STEADY JOB, THE LABOR EXCHANGE OFFERS TO TAKE STOCK AND BUILD THE S.J.ANDS.F.R R A PLAN.TO PUT ALL TO WORK. stature and colossal strength, with a broad, massive countenance and brilliant black eyes. He is dignified and commanding in bearing, and can be genial if he carestobe. Heisa man of great intellectual power and of a wide range of information. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone were sitting in a church at Cannes the other day. They were near the pulpit, but when the sermon began Mr. Gladstone turned to his wife and said irri- tably: “I can't hear!” “Never mind, my dear,” she replied in a whisper loud enough to reach the pulpit, “never mind; go to sleep. It will do you much more good.” Florence Nightingale is new 73, and a con- firmed invalid. For her services in the Crimea her country gave her £50,000. With this she founded the Nightingale Institute for Nurses, and has had the satisiaction of seeing it the parent of one of the humane movements of the age. SUPPOSED TO BE EEIOROUS. Watts—I don’t know that there is anything so awful in being drowned in a shipwreck. It isn’t helf so horrible as being mashed to pulp in a railway accident. .Potts—That isn’t it. The man who goes to the bottom of the sea can’t be taken home and hauled to the cemetery behind a brass band.— Cincinnati Tribune. Slug One—Ain’t there a copyright law in this country? Slug Seven—Of course there is. Why? Slug One—Nothin’, only I wish some one would call the attention of that new reporter toit. He's had his copy right only about three times in six weeks.—Buffalo Courier. Jikniks—The more & man has the more he kit—Did you ever have twins at your Detroit Free Press. “Iwonder,” said the burglar, slipping the contents of the safe into & sack, “if I oughtn’t honestly to pay an income tax on this?”—Chi- cago Tribune, Tramp—Mister, I'm a loaferin’ vagabone, an’ T'm not askin’ you to waste any good money on me, but—" Impatient citizen—Well, what is it you want? Tramp—But if you've got any Canadian 10- cent pieces you can pass ‘em on me, mister. I'm no street-car conducto: hange. MAN'S DUTY TO HIMSFLE. The Rev. J. G. Gibson Discusses the Drink and Social Evils. Rev. J. George Gibson preached to a large congregation a stirring sermon on the text: “If Sinners Entice Thee Con- sent Thou Not.” Provervs,i:x. He said the drink problem was a personal question. The social evil was also a social question. It was because individuals will not take care of th emselves that political measures were necessary. The multitude will get | drink and also live in vice, and the minor- | ity wish to withdraw the temptation. Around these two points all the bitterness of party strife centers. Now thereis one point on which_we are | all agreed, and in which there is party strife—that it is the duty of every man to take care of himself. Each man be- longs to himselfl. Each man makes | his own laws. If we cannot close the saloons we can close our ]i{x-: f we can- not destroy the spider’s web we can reject the persuasive invitation of Mrs. Spider to walk into her parlor. We can take heed to thisadvice: “My | son, if sinners entice thee consent thou | not.” First let us describe the sinner. There is the religious sinner. He isthe worst of all, because he is an untrue man. There is the skeptical sinner. He does | Rotibeliove fhe it He s s prayer is not in accordance with the laws of nature. | He calls you holy when you go to church. He tries to laugh you out of your sacred hopes, but gives you nothing in return. There is also the immoral sinner. This person does not hide his vice. He tells the younger boys evil stories. His boldness fascinates thousands. There is a great deal of the devil rolled up in the small word smart. Secondly, let us consider the sinners’ s. Entice means to open up the The favorite enticement is, “Oh, this is just a little sin.” This idea has caught many a boy and girl. They forget that the practice of little sins leads to the committing of great sins. Another entice- ment is “‘only this once.” 1f our tempter were to tell us we were to sin the same sin a2 thousand times we would not consent. All the wisdom of hell is gathered up in this sentence. Just this once is once too much. The most pop- ular enticement is: “Oh, no one will ever know.” If other people do not know we will know. Memory will be a theater peopled with the collected images of your evil deeds. ‘When the sinner knocks at your heart do not open it. This is the only safe plan. If we part with our good life we may not find it a second time. Character once ruined can never be rebuilt so perfectly that all the crack will be conccaletf Those who make a shipwreck of your soml’will never display any activity to set it afloat. GENERAL HOWARD ON PRAYER. It Is Simply Asking God for What One Wants. A large audience of young men gathered in Association Hall yesterday afternoon to hear what General Howard had to say on prayer. “It is the fashion to-day,” said the general, “to affect to doubt the efficacy of prayer, but ail Christian bodies recognize that ‘He who formed tie ear can hear, and He who made the eye can see.’” Everybody prays at some time in his life. It is a mis- take to consider that only the formal act of devotion is prayer, for many pray in public who se€m to pray mighty little in private, and others never parade their de- votions, yet commune much in secret. Prayer is the simplest form of speech, for it is simply asking God for what you want and ,t_h‘e act may even be an unconscious one.! —_— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * oo i CrEANM mixed candies, 25¢ Ib, Townsend’s.* e e J. F. CuTTER'S OLD BoURBON—This celebrated whisky for sale by all first-class druig‘sts and grocers. Trademark—Star within a shield. * e gl A CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; it rélieves pain and abates inflammation. * s st S s ot THOSE WHO CONTEMPLATE BUILDING can do so nd\'nmnfieously to themselves by entrusting their building improvements to Jas. E. Wolfe, architect, Flood building. Specialties in flats* L oL e i e Most peoEle talk about millions without realizing what it really is. An expert coin- counter can count about 3000 coins per hour. Ifheworks ten hours a day it will take him 3314 days to finish the counting of 1,000,000 THERE I8 no doubt but what Hood's Sarsaparilla is the most popular spring medicine. Words of praise for it are heard everywhere. It is the best blood purifier and makes the weak strong. e i e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’’ ‘Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Te thing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by PROPOSITIONS TO EMPLOYERS, THE SUPERVISORS AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Labor change Association wants all business men and workingmen to join for their own protection. The exchange will guarantee all business men against bankruptey and will guarantee to every workingman a steady job at good pay after he has been & member for one year. Poverty, misery and crime must g The foregoing is from a circular calling a mass-meeting Thursday evening at 1159 Mission street, under the auspices of the association. The banishment of poverty, misery and crime is a consummation devoutly to be wished. A guarantee of a steady job to every workingman is very desirable and something unheard of. The question of living interest is, then, the -responsibility of the guarantor—can it be done and how ? Something about what the Labor Ex- change is was given in the CALL a few day ago through an interview with the Cali- fornia organizer, Carl Gleeser. The ques- tion was put to him yesterday; “By what right and how ?”" “The association is growing so rapidly,” he said, in answer, ‘it is reasonably cer- tain that within a year we will have se- cured such members and such a variety in the number of tradespeople that steady employment to all may be guaranteed. That is the only ‘if’ there is in our propo- sition. With numbers and variety to sup- ply each other’s wants the thing done. The first great purpose of the Labor Ex- change is to get employment for the unem- ployed. In that we should have the sym- pathy of everybody, should we not? ‘“Now we are practical men and come to our purpose with long experience and study. We havea plan. It is simplicity No vagary or illusion of any kind tached to it.” With our great end in view we are, at least, entitled to a hearing, are we not? Our plan issimply this: To exchange labor for & share of its product. Money, therefore, becomes unnecessary. Our association offers to build the sewers | of San Francisco or perform any other of its publit worl We will build the San Joaquin Valley road, or we will string irrigation ditches through the arid regions of California and change them into market gardens—all without asking a cent of legal tender money from anybod “For city improvements we will accept | warrants that shall bear no interest, but | simply represent our labor; for building | can show in half an hour how it all could be perfected without trouble. We still have hopes that_the proposition may be taken up—we submitted 1t to the Traffic Association—and if so it could be carried further than I have indicated, even to the building and equipment of the entire road. This is not a fancy, mind you. We mean ctly what we ; we know what we are talking about, and we have a practi and successful illustration in railroad build- ing now going on in Oregon by one of our branches. 1 < “Qur fundamental principle, as I say, is to get the unemployed to work. We do not stickle just now about wages, although on such work as the building of the rail- road or other competitive work we would demand the market price. But oursystem once in amplified operation would secure the best possible results to every ‘The labor union as a body is not friendly to us, at least the union having employ ment, for the reason stated, but the results we aim at and are certain to attain will benefit every workingman, and merchant as welle Take the vast body of the unem- ployed out of the problem and it don’t re- quire much art to describe the result, does g it? With all men employed, the ball and chain slips off society and business, does it not? and that half the community which now preys upon the other half, because it has nothing itself, becomes a consumer and roducer, and all the world grows richer gy leaps and bounds. Because thereare no unemployed and consumption has doubled, wages go up, of course. ; “Now that is just what we are workms toward, and no man can offer one goo reason why, under our system, we may not reach 1t in good order very shortly. Education is the measure of our ad- van The hesitancy with which the workingmen themselves accept the invita- tion to enter the promised land is our greatest trouble. But that only reminds us of how hard we, as teachers, must keep working. It does not surprisé us, for the entail of prejudice that has come down to them through years is not easily overcome. “Our efforts in this are also approved by most of the employed, who, in no distress themselves, refuse to think and only see in persons willing to work without money something to be feared. I was before the Grangers at their meeting in Oakland, was referred to the co-operative committee and explained our plan, which certainly should have appealed to every farmer on sight. And it did so to individuals, but the chair- man of the committee, seeing something in it to conflict with his individual inter- ests, did not report upon the matter at all. We meet with such receptions in almost every case of an organized body, but with individuals we never fail to find favor once our system is understood. “Our methods have everythine to recom- mend them to the good citizen. They stand directly opposed to those of compe- tition, that impels to strikes, strife, misery, waste, loss, poverty and starvation. ““They are also at variance with the com- munity or colony idea although colonies are even now being started to work on our principles. What I mean to say is that colonization is not at all necessary to the workings of our plan, its perfection being more rapidly effected in a large city where all the machinery for the creation of wealth is already at work. | *“We welcome labor-saving machinery and all progressive elements in whatever shape they present themselves, for it all means quicker results, shorter hours of labor, more leisure, comforts, ease for all. ‘“The Labor Exchange, in a word, is the only association that combines the best of socialism with the breadth, freedom and independence of individualism. It isall done by simply going to work instead of waiting until some one can bor- row money enough to employ us. There is only a fraction of the money in the world necessary to keep everybody employed. and the little there is is panic-stricken half the time and held out of circulation by those who own it and profit by such jug- glery, careless of those who su%icr. Every man idle is wasted energy and incidental suffering. Our plan will put every man to work. What he produces is actual value, is it not ?—the best kind of security, accept- able at pawnbrokers’ and kindred shops. ‘We give a check for its value at wholesale— a lagor exchange check, which passes cur- rent at all other exchanges or for any other thing in the exchange of like value, It is simply an amplification of the store-order system employed now by many big manu- facturing concerns to further rob the work- Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ingman, but, being run by the workingman ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a | himself, hederives the benefits and profits. bottle. » “The Labor Exchange is in its incipiency and our work is to spread its cospe] anq get it into operation as rapidly and we have propositions out i directions at once. “Qur committee is to be heard Lo, Finance Committee of the Boa visors Wednesday eveningon th issuing bonds in small denoming and paying them to laborers whe accept them as money, they being a ble by the city for taxes and so ne “Then we have addressed the circular to manufacturers and e, offering to supply labor to be goods: OFFIC) THE LABOR Exc: o e EX E OF ¢ San Franc going on a lack of mo: nd it extremely money wages. | f business kee: money and ¢ the country, caused by the channels of trade, v ficult to find empl appears that the con pace with the con Tency, and lack of follows. While those wno have mor bide their time we and our dir f the necess 1i need of the fact that any amount of we but the lack of money obstruc: of the being carried o | We e atlast thatm | tial as a life preserver, and if w | necessaries of life without it by are able to exchange our labor | the line of merchandise wh daily consumption we can money. As 0o man can live on his own only we are compeiled to e another, and for that purpose we I | lished a'place where we can so exchar We now offer our labor in_exchange ic thing useful in place of money. 1 You are willing to employ men or we on these terms address LEESER State Organizer, Labor Exchange, 30 Ten: street. “We have also submitted the follow to the Board of Education, and it will ba considered at its next meeting: A PLAN 70 ENABLE THE UNEMPLOYED AND Des. F THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN €O TO HELP THEMSELVES. At a meeting neld by Labor Exchange Branch No. 26, at 1159 Mission street, on February it was decided to make appeals to diffe organizations for aid to help the unempl and destitute by providing them with m for productive seli-employment. Owing to scarcity of money it was decided to appeal contributions in small_sums, s as almost anyone is able and willing to We therefore respectfully request the Board of Education to ask the parents of the school children, through their children, to contribute, according to their means, w a small sum of money, and to continue tions until the unemployed have been put ro= ductive work and are enabled to provide them- selves with the necessaries of life. The money thus obtained to be used as follo ‘The money to be placed in the hands of the Mayor to be turned over to Labor Exch Branch No. 26 for labor checks which will redeemable in merchandise, labor and ser the branch may have on hand or can pro | These checks to be turned over to the Super tendent of Streets for the purpose of paying unemployed for public work to be done for city. The Labor Exchange will use the money to buy the most urgent necessities of life, start a ry, & laundry, and as soon as its resources 1admit of it, a shoe and clothing factory and other industri¢s to furnish employment and the necessaries and comforts of life to the homeless and idle of our city and State. The Labor Exchange will acquire land suitable for farming and mannfacturing purposes as soon s possible, to enable willing workers to be upporting and enhance the general pros- 283 o the All'goods produced by these workers shall ba stored with the Labor Exchange for distribu- tion by means of labor checks, which will be paid to the workers, according to labor per- formed. Wages to those working with the ex- change system shall be 1 per day for efght hours’ work. The exchange will also maintain a free employment office. the railroad we will accept its stock made | The undersigned were appointed a commite out in such form as to make it negotiable | tee to call this matter to your attention: Ree or exchangeable for other goods. Let our | spectfully submitted, CUarL GLeesr, offer be accepted and the subscription to Ll the competing road is almost doubled in a e, twinkling. here nee e no anxiety as 3 3 toa Inbysinth of cumbrous details, fo wa | Following is a copy of one of the Ex- for $1: February Series, 1895, IN LABOR WE TRUST. at Branch No. 28, ¥ the GE. Depositor . Deposited ... Market Price ONE DOLLAR, Deposited with the SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH NO: 26, 124 Eighth Street, San Francisco, Cali Date....1894. ... Local Accountant. change's checks goo No. = Receivable for Certificate of Deposit I LABOR E: ... Signature of Depositor, This certificate Is received as face value by the Labor Exchange Association in payment for mer- chandige for sale, for work, services ana all debts to the same. This certificate of deposit is based upon by and redeemable in real or personal pre the keeping of the Labor Exchange Assoct Property held for the redemption of this cer cate cannot be mortgaged nor pledged for de nor can It be withdrawn except on presentation of this certificate, but it may be exchan the Labor Exchange Association for other property of equal value. “We have also called the mass-meeting to be held Thursday night at 1159 Mission street, and the development oi our plan as the result of this agitation and education is such that in our call we guarantee to every man who will join with us a steady job at good pay by the end of the year.” E CIGA RETTES ARE THE BEST. pcxmum SMOKERS, who are willing ta fay, a little more than the price charged for the rdinary trade Cigarettes will find the PE CIGARETTES SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS. 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