The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. B SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 150 er week. . WEEKLY CALL—$ The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and 3 MARCH 20, 1895 el OIS t d Business has the floor. ‘Watch the manufacturer: ance insures nothing. It never rains enterprise but it pours { profits. Cutthroat insu + A diversified industry is a living issue rand ought to be a dead sure thing. Antonio Terry evidently prefers the Cuban revolution to a woman’s tears. The proceedings of the convention will be something more than conventional. ed to note that Assembly- no u; attaches in his “new play. If we ever reach for Cuba we should reach out with both hands and take all the ‘West Indies. We need not only more money in this country but a livelier movement on the money we have. ma nd in literature the has done well, even in In art, in d genius of C the cobblestone a has discovered that besides a frost-shield Southern Californ it needs some to insure protec If the revol tions in Cuba w support castles in the planta- 1 enough to pain. From this time on we may expect thrill- fngreports of damage, disaster and death &n the Delaware peach grchards. ‘White wants probably be ertain where it was The next time Stephen to suck an orange ¢ care! first grown. to Itis to be hoped that the Sacramento Grand Jury, fh dealing with the bribery scandal, will not only turn on the lizht, but light on the turn. The absence of any information in regard to Cleveland’s success in his hunting trip leads to the conclusion that the live ducks are too wary for the dead duck. Editor Colnon’s old reputation as a man of independence and patriotism is a be- coming regalia for him to wear in his new position of Harbor Commissioner. It seems pitiful that a sweet, gracious and beautiful actress has to discover, sooner or later, by the very circums environment, that marriage It may be true that Archbishop Corri- gan's fee was 30 for the Castellane- Gould marriage service, but the mystery is where the groom got so much money. If S.C. Lewis of this city is right in his @eclaration that he has found a native wood thatis proof against the teredo, he is in a position to rid us of a terrible bore. Althoungh it is announced that Austin Corbett’s daughter is to ‘“wed” Prince YLubecki, a Russian, we are not informed that Long Island is part of the purchase price. Perhaps the Legislature passed the anti- theater hat bill in order to give their con- stituents a chance to see Brusie’s drama and realize what a legislator can do when e tries. With abundance of raw material, abun- dance of labor and a home market ready to support them, our manufacturers onght te find the basis suflicient for them to stand on. The evil repute of New York politics has crossed the ocean, and the London Chroni- cle has been denouncing the opposition party in the recent campaign by calling it the Tammany party. It is remembered, now that poor Stagg 45 murdered and his slayers so easily gone, that somebody at Sacramento recently ex- @ressed the opinion that San Francisco ‘had a sufficient number of policemen. For insisting on employing the tariff to aid foreign orange-growers at the expense of those in California, Senator Stephen M. ‘White is being painted in black colors by the orange-growers of Southern California. Granted the truth of the announcement that Marie Burroughs has brought suit against her husband, Mr. Massen, for di- vorce, is there an unmarried masculine Californian so blind as not to perceive his opportunity? The proposal to have the location of fire- slarm boxes marked by red lamp-posts and by red lights at night is a good one. It may look somewhat like painting the town red, but will go far toward prevent- ing conflagrations. Mr. Sutro must be a curiously complex organization of various and diversified rsonalities if we are to believe Julian alph's assertion in Harper's Weekly, that “he was elected on the merits of his own individuality.” Some Eastern criticsare commending the Vanderbilts for settling their divorce with- out publicity, but others are denouncing the secret process as a violation of law and & practical permission to the rich todivorce themselves when they choose and how they choose. From the vigor with which the bimetal- lists are conducting the campaign of edu- cation in the East, we may reasonably ex- pect the more progressive men of that sec- tion to be in thorough harmony with the ‘West on the silver question when the elec- tion of 1896 comes round. Every public-spirited citizen who invests his money in an enterprise which will bring vast benefits to California is sure to be maligned, for besi arousing the an- tagonism of those monopolists on whose corns he is bound to tread, he has to count on stirring up a nest of cranks. The device of the Stockton man who has invented 2 sweeping attachment for elec- tric cars which enables them to refrain from reducing the population by sweeping slow persons out of the way, would not be the thing for San Francisco, where si- iurians are so abundant. Better kill a few heedless persons than spare a slow e, s AN EARNEST BODY. The resolutions adopted yesterday by the Manufacturers’ Convention are as earnest as they are eloquent. The central princi- ples announced are co-operation between manufacturers and producers, and between these and laborers; the development of new enterprises and the encouragement of those which are languishing; the gathering into one fold of all who are concerned in the production and marketing of useful commodities; the fostering of good feeling and co-operation between shippers and transportation companies; the employment of labor (by the aid of the State, if necessary); the fos- tering of friendly relations between labor- ers and employers, and a preference for nome products. A wise and simple, though extensive, scheme for carrying out the organization (which is to be made per- manent) has been worked outand adopted. Other matters of comparatively minor importance, though essential to the com- pleteness of the scheme, have been decided upon, but for the purposes of understand- ing the broad spirit of the undertaking the foregoing summary is sufficient. The ear- nestness, ability and fidelity of the men who have assumed this vast undertaking cannot be doubted. The substance of it allis the harmonizing and co-operation of all the vital forces which go to the upbuilding of a commonwealth. Capital is not placed paramount. Laborers and artisans are recognized as essential members of the great human family, and as vital factors in the prosperity of the State and in the wholesome administration of the laws. They are regarded as members of the social and economic compact, entitled to respect and consideration, and to a reasonable share of the benefits and pleasures of life. A particularly pleasing phase of the whole matter is the determination to ‘break down the bitter antagonism which so long has existed between the people and the transportation companies. Evidently recognizing the fact that there is really but one transportation company—the great one—between which and the people there is any antagonism, the resolutions un- mistakably imply the encouragefnent of transportation companies which shall spring from the people them- selves. They recognize the fact that the old conditions have existed too long, and that if the State shall prosper a new order of things must be created. We believe that the sentiment of the conven- tion would have been expressed more forcibly and directly and would have ap- pealed more strongly to the people if a resolution had been adopted expre: approving the San Joaquin Valle, road. With due respect for the w the convention, and at the same time with a perfect understanding of the dignified popular sentiment on this subject, we re- spectfully “suggest that the convention adopt a resolution clearly expressing this sentiment. It is with the profoundest admiration, pride and gratitude that the CaLv extends its congratulations to the people of Cali- fornia for having their interests so wisely and broadly represented as by these men assembled in convention. The expression thus given is that of the organized manli- ness and intelligence of California, and comes in good time to wipe out the unde- served reputation under which we have suffered so long. « FRUIT SUPPLY RUMORS. With the approach of the fruit season come the first of the reports which are cir- culated every year concerning the condi- tion of the crop and the amount of stock left over from last year. These reports in many instances are undoubtedly intended to affect the market price and always have more or less influence in that way. For- tunately one set of reports are almost im- mediately contradicted by another set, for the effect of each is thus largely counter- acted and the unwary are saved from put- ting a too implicit reliance upon either. An illustration of these contradictions was found in the dispatches of yesterday. One report, contributed to the New York Journal of Commerce, stated that supplies of apricots on the Pacific Coast are known to be large at primary points and liberal in distributive markets. This stasement was contradicted in another dispatch on the authority of one of the largest dealers on the coast, who estimated that the en- tire supply in California at the present time would not exceed seventy-five car- loads. Well,informed men know which of these two reports is most likely to be cor- rect, but a grest many people do not and as a result some of the unwary may be led to sell at prices which are far below the real value of the goods. The evil effects of this confusion of re- ports are more likely to be experienced by the growers than by members of any other branch of the fruit industry. They are less able to obtain information for them- selves and are more readily confused by the multiplicity of contradictory rumors. This is one of the strongest inducements for co-operative effort. Through State ex- changes information can be obtained much more accurately and much more compre- hensively than individuals can getit. In that way the growers can find some sure knowledge to guide themselves through the mutual contradictions of bullsand bears and obtain for their crops a price commen- surate with their value in the market of the season. As a general rule, therefore, the fruit- growers of California should co-operate through the State or their county ex- changes as far as possible and should avoid making contracts in advance. Itis far too early in the season to determine what the prices will be when the fruit is ripe. They ought to be good. There is certainly not much dried fruit in this State left over from last year. If the fruit- growers then will act together and stand firm without regard to rumors and reports, they ought to have a prosperous year be- fore them. THE ORYSTAL PALACE. England is in danger of loging a building in which all the civilized world has an in- teress, According to the London Chronicle the Crystal Palace at Sydenham has proven unremunerative of late years and as the development of rapid transit from London has made the site valuable for suburban residences, the proprietors are talking of tearing the palace down, dividing the park into small lots and selling it. The chief interest in tl‘e Crystal Palace lies in the fact that it is the first great building of iron and glass ever constructed in the world. It stands therefore as a monument of the beginning of a line of architecture distinctively modern, which has since been developed in so many forms in every civilized country and promises to be the dominant architecture of the future. In addition to this, it has the ac- cidental interest of having served to house the exhibits of the first world’s exposition, and has therefore a double value from an historic point of view. ‘When the Crystal Palace was suggested by Joseph Paxton as a possible building for the first universal exposition in Lon- don, it was ridiculed. Paxton was neither an architect nor an engineer and the digni- taries of both professions scoffed at his idea as that of an unpracticed amateur. He was, however, neither unpracticed nor an amateur. As a professional gardener, he had erected a large floral conservatory for the Duke of Devonshire, and he knew as no other man of his time the wonder- ful possibilities of structure that lay in the use of iron and glass, and fortunately he was able to induce the managers of the ex- position to adopt his plans. Itis worth noting that his success was | due to purely fortuitous circumstances. No method of speedy travel on city streets was known at that time. A suburban ex- position was therefore impossible, for the people could not have reached it. Hyde Park was the only ground available in the city, but the park was covered with noble trees and the city authorities would not consent that the trees should be cut down. No other architect could solve the diffi- culty. Paxton’s bold and original scheme of constructing a vaulted roof of glass over the topsof the trees was therefore accepted of necessity. It proved to be the most ad- mired feature of the exposition and served to direct the attention of men to the use of iron in architecture, and thereby began the movement in that direction which has had such vast results in our time. Removed from Hyde Park to Sydenham at the close of the exposition, the Crystal Palace has been ever since one of the most popular pleasure resortsin London. Con- structed of the frailest of building ma- terials and serving as a palace for the people instead of for kings, it affords a marked contrast to the oldest extant archi- tecture, that of the pyramids. The one appears asa symbol of modern civilization; bright, beautiful, full of sunshine and open for the delight of all. The other dark, gloomy, oppressive, serving only as a tomb for kings, seems also a symbol of the des- potism of the past. It would have been well could this first Crystal Palace have been preserved as a type of the long en- during civilization of the people, but it seems that this is not to be. The palace of sunshine goes down before the rapidly ad- vancing city, while the pyramids of des- potism stand secure amid the .isolation of the desert for a thousand years to come. THE WEAKNESS OF SPAIN, In ability to hold dominion over her colonies, Spain has been the weakest of all the European nations. One by one her de- pendencies have slipped from her grasp, and yet those which were discovered and seized by her daring navigators and splen- did troops in the centuries gone were the richest in the world. All the magnificent empire lying south of the Rio Grande was once a dependency of the Spanish crown, except the comparatively poor areas which Portugal held. These all have been lost to her. The last considerable remnant of her territory in the West is Cuba, which has never been reconciled to Spanish domina- tion, and which is repeatedly making des- perate efforts to be rid of it. It is not likely that the present rebellion will be success- ful, as, having already lost so much precious territory, Spain is retaining a desperate hold on this wonderful island and will not give it up. Her treatment of her dependencies has been a warning to allof Christendom ex- cept herself. Her methods of subduing, governing and levying tribute upon them have been cruel, tyrannical and insatiable from the beginning. The unspeakable atrocities committed by Cortez in the con- quest of Mexico bore the same spirit that animates the Government of Cuba to-day. Her own history has taught her nothing, possibly because her racial peculiarities make it impossible for her tolearn. No sooner had she freed herself from the yoke of the Moors, which had galled her neck for 500 years, than she set out upona course of subjugation, pillage and oppres- sion that put the worst atrocities of the Moors to the blush. She learned nothing of humaneness from her own sufferings, and has acqunired no wisdom from her own failures or the success of her neighbors in Europe. England needed but one great lesson—the successiulf rebellion of her American colonies—to make her the most humane and the strongest ruler of alien dependencies that the world has seen. Had Rome shown but a fraction of her wisdom she might have remained the ruler of the world. It was much such a policy as Spain’s in this regard that brought Carthage, Greece and Rome to the dust. The condition of Cuba seems hopeless, and all civilization must look on helpless and pitying. It is altogether out of joint with the spirit of the age, and would be a dark picture even for the savage times that preceded the dawn of Christianity. The Spanish authorities rule the natives with a supereiliousness, an insolence and a tyr- anny almost incredible. Only an over- whelming swarm of bayonets to inspire terror, and cruel domestic taxation and both export and import duties that insure poverty, ignorance and humbleness, could make such a suzerainty possible. There is hardly a foreign power having citizens residert on the island but that must either keep gunboats in the Cuban harbors for their protection or be constantly in a broil with Spain for outrages committed upon them. Capital there is insecure and the profits of its investment uncertain. Al- though the island is known to be wonder- fully fertile and to be rich in vaiuable min- eral deposits the development of its natu- ral resources has been shamefully neg- lected. The question of the annexation of Cuba to the United States is too old to be inter- esting. If Spain should consent to sell the. island she would demand at least as much as would pay her an interest equal to her present net revenues from that source; and that likely is too large to bring the subject of annexation within the range of discussion. There seems to be no present hope for Cuba, 1If, in the good time com- ing, the great nations should agree upon an international policy under which some- thing like an international law of eminent domain could be enforced, the right to exercise such power as that under which Cuba suffers might be tried and con- demned, reasonable damages awgrded, and the highway of civilization and inde- pendence established. . rked that the venerable Nevada moralist, Sam Davis, is benignantly happy over the fact that the Democrats, who defeated Davis' silver party of Nevada, have permitted $80,000 to be stolen from the Carson mint. It may be re: PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The late Parisian dressmaker, Charles Fred- erick Worth, is described as “a tallish man, with 8 big, clever head, brown eyes and very prominent forehead.” He used to say: “If I had my way all women should be slight. grace- ful and pretty. Then dressing them would be an artistic pleasure.” Secretary Lamont has awarded a medal of honor to Miran H. Ranney, of Oceanside, this State, for most distinguished gallantry in ac- tion, while a private in Company K, Twenty- first'New York Cavalry, n sawing (he “colors at the second battle of Bull Run, August, 1862. Frank Wenter, the Democratic nominee for Mayor of Chicago, is 41 years old and a native of Bohemia, which he left when a boy of 12. He was a gemtege of Carter Harrison, and since 1891 has resid oLy en pl ent of the Drainage Canal Edward Everett Hale believes in the restora- tion of the old-fashioned town meeting, where the citizens can come together at intervals and discuss the town s affairs, - - 3 . AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Otis A. Poole, a Yokohama tea man, is in the city stopping at the Palace. Although Mr. Poole is greatly interested in the sale of the national beverage of Japan he takes & special delight in roaming around among the race of little brown men with his kodak and finds his recreation in snap-shot pictures. He has taken more photographs of the Japanese people than any other amateur in the country and is still stacking up his record. He can be seen any time plodding along a dusty road outside the city hunting for a rice-picker or laboring through a mudfiat in the hope of snapping a clam-digger. If any one ever had & hobby it is Otis A. Poole, the man who above all others in the land of chrysanthemums, has the camera craze. “Ialways try to get a humorous color to my pictures,” said Mr. Poole. “For instancel oc- casionally run againsta brand of so-called Cali- fornia claret in some of tne little inns along the wayside. The proprietor has slapped a bad imitation of an American label on the bottle and places it before you with a great display ol regard for your natiyity. Nine timesout of ten MR. POOLE LOADED FOR SNAP SHOTS. [Sketched for the “Call” by Nankivel.] it is impossible to make out from label whether you are drinking claret, port or white wine. I have a few of thelabels photographed and. transferred to glass plates which I use in magic- lantern exhibitions. Occasionally I like to go before camera clubs and exhibit some of the strange pictures I have been fortunate enough to get in Japan. “Frequently I find it very difficult to get even & snap shot, and generally carry my camera under my arm with a newspaper wrapped around it so &s to deceive the natives into the belief that I am carrying an ordinary bundle. The greatest difficulty to be met with is at festivals, where the people gather and load up on saki, the native wine. When they are full of good cheer and high spirits they de- velop & most decided hatred for the camera, and I have to take & great deal of care not to do too much open work, for fear of an assault on my instrument.” Mr. Poole spends most all his spare time and spare money in satisfying his thirst for snap- shots. A good story is told of him, which shows what a man will do to get the subject he really wants. He was anxious to obtain a good picture of & Japanese policeman, and while taking & walk in the morning stopped every one he met and made an appeintment with him, each one arranged for the same hour. When the time arrived some thirty or forty Japanese officers walked up to his house and lined along the sidewalk. Mr. Poole appeared on the front porch in his dressing-gown, se- lected the man he wanted, paid the rest a yen each and dismissed them. That night the Chief of Police called up the officers who had made appointments off their beatsand fined them two yen each. 3 “There goes a than I used to work for at $25 amonth,” said Isaac Upham, the valley road di- rector, yesterday, as a stoutly built, dark com- plexioned man walked out of the former’s office and started down the street. “His name is Paul Rauze,” said Mr. Upham, “and in 1860 he ran & blacksmith-shop and a store about thirty miles above Marysville. The store was a supply depot for the mining camps in the neighborhood, and I kept the books, delivered goods and made myself generally useful about the place. There was still another duty which devolved upon my shoulders, however. I was expected to act s cook, and in that capacity I looked out for the wants of four men. After working two months I received a raise of $5 and in two months more I got a similar raise. About this time I received an offer to teach school In Butte County at $40 amonth,which I accepted. The district was named aiter me and is still so called. I believe I am the only man in the State who ever drew pay for working thirteen months in one year. There are,as you may know, only four weeks in a school month and in one year I taught fifty-two weeks without a vacation. Yes, times have changed considera- bly,” remarked the gentleman in a meditative manner as he dipped his pen in the ink-bottle and placed his signature to a check for a cou- ple of thousand. M. H. Heyman, & gentleman who has until quite recently been largely interestea in to- bacco-growing in Cuba, and has made that island his home for many years past, is in the city,and in a conversation atthe Occidental yesterday referred to some significant facts re- lating to the present uprising in that country. “The information given out to the general pub- lic,” said he, “invariably is unfavorable to the revolutionary party, but when we consider that all this news comes from Government sources there is nothing surprising in the matter. In 1868, when the uprising occurred, it took the rebels four months to work from the lower end of the island to a point 500 miles to the north- west and westward; but in the present in- stances they have sitceeded in working their way 1000 miles into the interior. The island will yet be involved from one end to the other and the Spanish Government will yet be come pelled to acknowledge that it has & serious con- flict on its hands.” Dr. Leslie D. Ward, vice-president of the Prudential Life Insurance Company of Newark, N.J.,isatthe Palace. The organization men- tioned is & peculiar one in the insurance world. It was started about nineteeh years ago and it derives its principal business from insuring working peoplie and children. Youth does not bar an applicant for a policy, as the company insures children from one year old up. The plan has gained an immense support in the East because of itg cheapness, it being possible to secure & policy which will cost the insured only $2 50 & year in premiums, the payments being made in weekly installments aslow as5 and 10° cents per week. Tnere is Do such company doing busingss on this coast, nor is there likely to be, as Dr. Ward says that it is only where a very large population can be found in a small area of territory that the business can be made profitable. Colonel C. W. Tozer of Tulare last night said; “If the San Joaquin Valley road comes within ten miles of my place I will guarantee to have ten miles of the road graded free of charge to the road. My neighbors feel as much interest in this matter as I do, and intend to do all they can tofhelp what bids fair to so greatly help us.” 4 CarlBinder, a civil engineer and contractor of Chiago, is & guest at the Palace. He took & prominent part in the :construction work of some of the great buildings at the World’s Fair, having built Machinery Hail, the dome of the Horticultural building, the K d- ing and several other mu:gln; R bty . PERSONALS, Sam Rainey of Warm Springs is at the Grand. Dr.J.J. O'Brien of Los Angeles is a guest at the Grand. - C. W. Tozer, & mining man from Tulare, is at the Grand. Ex-Judge R. F. Peckham of San Jose is & guest at the Lick. Dr. C. E. Danforth of Marysville is registered at the Lick. = H. Manor, a merchant of Williams, is & guest at the Grand. Louis A. Steiger, a fruit man of San Jose, is at the Palace. Judge J. B. Campbell of Fresno was atthe Grand last night. C. B. Fraser, a merchant of Stockton, is a Buest at the Palace. E. W. Churchill, a banker of Napa, is at the Palace with his wife. ‘W. P. Harrington, & banker of Colusa, was at the Palace last night, George 8. McKenzie, Sheriff of Napa €ounty, is a guest at the Grand. J. W. Henderson, a banker of Eureka, is at the Lick with his family. _ Frank H. Bush, a fruit-grower of Vacaville, is registered at the Palace. L. M. Lasell, a merchant from Martinez, ar- rived at the Grand yesterday. g J. R. Trayner, a commission merchant, from Marysville, is registered at the Grand. George Johnston, a stockraiser of Pleasanton, was an arrival at the Grand yesterday. G. E. Goodman Jr., one of Napa's bankers, was registered at the Palace yesterday. W. D. Thompson, manager of Emeric’s ranch at San Pablo, is a guest at the Occidental. H. J. Finger of Santa Barbara, a member of the State Board of Pharmacy, is at the Lick. J.L. Gillis, coast superintendent Sacramento division of the Southern Pacific, with head- quarters at Sacramento, is at the Grand. Duncan McPherson, editor and proprietor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, is in the city attend- ing the session of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Honor. Mr. McPherson is supteme representa- tive to the Supreme Lodge, which meets in New York in June. HE PRESS. When a California Legislature cannot meet without the presence in its halls of bribers and bribe-takers the case has become & sad one in- deed, and shows that there is ample opportu- nity and necessity for honest men to takea hand in polities. The only remedy lies in this direction. Voters who sit at home and deplore the corrupt condition of affairs in the political field cannot expect to have the other fellows attend to the duty of running governmental affairs on a basis to suit them.—Pasadena Star. SPIRIT Bicyclers have rights, and among those rights is the right to one-hali of the road the same as aman with a buggy. Bicycles have become 50 common that people with teams should be ready at all times to give one-half of the road whenever they see & wheelman approaching.— San Leandro Reporter. They had mortal proof in Portland again the other day that alive wire makes a dead man. Municipal regulations concerning the string- ing of such wires should be strict and diligently attended to.—Salem Statesman. You occasioually find & man who realizes that he can’t sing, but you never saw one who didn’t think he was “onto the combination in the last campaign.’—Burney Valley Bulletin. Most California legislators get too far away from home during a legiclative session. They forget they have constituents.— Lemoore Leader. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Wife—The price of the clock was £2, but I got a discount, 5o it only cost me 30s. Husband—Yes, but you know very well you could have got the same thing at Beezle's for & guinea. Wife—That may be, but then Beesle wouldn't have teken off anything.—London Tid-Bits. Sympathetic 0ld Lady—Will you please tell me if the lady {5 in who writes the “Mother's Column” in your paper every week? I want to tell her how much pleasure I had in perusing her articles on “The Baby in the Cradle.” Office Boy—He's yonder, ma’am. That's him who is standing there with a pink shirt on and smoking his pipe.—La Semana Comica. Li Hung Changis a great diplomatist. He never refers to the fact that China invented gunpowder.—Hudson Register. The devil is the father of lying. Lying is in- vention. Necessity is the mother of invention. Necessity is therefore the devil’s wife.—St. Paul Globe. Eila—You ought to have seen Jack when he proposed. Stella (meanly)—Oh, I've seen him.—Bogton Courier. She—A woman at 30 has no future. He—True. No matter how long she lives she wi‘ll still be 30.—Detroit Tribune. The butcher thrives though Lent holds sway, For he has rajsed the price of meat, Thus making the nngodly pay For what the plous fail 1o eat. —New York Herald, THE STATUE FOR THE DOME. | City Hall Commissioners Make Small Progress With It. Though the Board of City Hall Commis- sioners has made many attempts to find out the exact composition of the white metal which the contract of F. Marion Wells to construct the statue for the new City Hall tower calls for, they have thus far been unsuccessful. Architect Shea had samples on hand at yesterday’s meeting, but was unable to tell exactly what the}v contained. E Mr. Wells explained that white metal was made up of antimony, zinc and tin, but that there was no exact formula for the mixture, the cost being large if a great deal of tin is used and small if antimony predominates. The Mayor suggested that the figure should be gilded; but the cost of such an undertaking weighed against it in the minds of the Commissioners. Mr. Wells explained that his casts were about finished and that he would like to haye the members decide on some metal before long, so that he could get the mat- ter off his hands. The committee agreed to give the matter full consideration at the next meeting. S e BAcoN Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * Sl A, STRONG hoarhound candy,15¢ Ib. Townsend’s.* Apcoci’s.—March 20 and following days will have opening of imported millinery. All in- vited. 10 Kearny. % CUR-1T-UP; —————————— eals wounds, burns and sores ag if by magic; one application cures poison oak; it relieves pain and abates inflammation. * . J. F..CUTTER'S OLD BoUrBON—This celebrated ‘whisky for sale by all first-class druggists and grocers. Trademark—Star within a shield. * 5 ————————— SUBSCRIEE for the popular fashion magazine, “The Delineator.” Price $1a year. April now ready. 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Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bottle. - e S B e Avorp baldness, gray hair, dandruff and thin locks by using PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC, the best cough cure, \ . THE MISSIONARY POWER IN HAWAL THOMAS G. SHEARMAN SAYS THAT IT IS A FAILURE AND A MENACE. ITS ACTION UNDER REVIEW. THE PROPOSITION OF ANNEXATION DENOUNCED as Furn OF PERIL. From the New York Times. At last Friday night’s prayer-meeting in Plymouth Church Thomas G. Shearman, in his characteristically forceful way, had something to say condemnatory of mis- sionary work in Hawaii, which has led to considerable discussion in religious circles. Mr. Shearman’s remarks were not re- ported in the local papers, and assome misstatements have been made concerning what he really said, the New York Times gives what he has to say about the matter. ‘“More than a year ago,” said Mr. Shear- man, “I told Dr. Abbott that in my opin- ion the proceedings in Hawaii reflected great discredit, not only npon the Ameri- ican name generally, but especially upon our American missionaries and the Con- g{]‘egational church, which had sent them there and seemed generally disposed to sus- tain the actions of the missionaries’ sons.” ‘At that time what appeared to be Dr. Abbott’s opinion ?” ‘‘He never told me what he thought about it, and expressed doubts as to the correct- ness of my information, and mentioned some names of persons who had been to Hawaii and approved of the action taken there. He wasopposed to any interference by the United States, although. admitting, as I understood, that it was dueto the inter- vention of the United States troops that the Queen and the native authorities had been deprived of power. “This was at the time when there wasan active controversy whether the United States should intervene or not. Irather desired to speak on the subject at that time at some of the minor-church meetings, but deferred to Dr. Abbott and to the advice of some friends, who, however, agreed with me in my general views. 1Iremained silent for much more than a year, but the recent establishment of court-martialin Honoluiu and the violent measures taken to suppress an incipient rebellion determined me to speak without consulting anybody. “On Friday evening, therefore, I rose and said I proposed to speak my mind on a suoject which I would not name, leaving it'to Dr. Abbott, who led the meet- ing, to tay whether I should speak then or a week later.”” “And what did Dr. Abbott say to that?” “He very courteously chressed his pref- erence that I should speak then, which I did. I said in gubstance that while it would not seem adyisable to bring into the church meetings a purely political ques- tion, yet where grave moral questions were involved and action taken which | affected the honor and good faith of the Chnstian churches of our own order it was | proper to bring such subjects into a church | meeting. | “Isaid that had Mr. Beecher been still | alive I felt perfectly certain that he would | long ago have expressed from Plymouth | pulpit most emphatic opinions upon this subject; that he would never have allowed a weaker race to be practically enslaved by white Americans—especially Congregation- alists and sons of Congregational mission- aries—without making a protest which would have been heard all over the land. I did not expect Dr. Abbott to do all that Mr. Beecher would have done, but thought some member of Plymouth Church should | take the responsibility of saying, as well as | he could, what Mr. Beecher would cer- tainly have said with much more eloguence | and far more effect. | “Ithen said, in substance, that seventy | years ago the American Board of Foreign fissions sent a few Congregational mis- onaries to the Sandwich Islands, who were received by the people with enthu: asm. They did not really have to convert the people, for they were all ready for con- version. # “The chiefs and the people threw away | their idols and embraced Christianity with | all their hearts. So complete was their | trust in the missionaries that, practically, | all government was placed under mission. | ary control, and the missionaries and their sons or their nephews had ever since had the practical government of the islands. ‘What had been the result? “They found 130,000 people there, and | now they report that they are only 34,000, But of these 34,000 they recently reported | that 18,000 were members of Congregational | churches—a larger proportion of church members than can be found in any other Protestant country in the worid. The mis- sionaries boasted that those natives were better educated, better behaved and more | peaceable, orderly and religious, in propor- tion to their numbers, than the people of many parts of the United States. : “The triumph of religion, and especially of Congregationalism, in Hawaii, was made the subject of endless boasts by mission- aries and managers of missiops, and was made the gmung of agpeals to American Christians for fresh subscriptions and aid for missionary work. - ‘“‘Suddenly their whole tone changed. The missionaries’ sons and some returned missionaries vehemently asserted that the native Hawaiians were filthy and ignorant and a debased, licentious and idolatrons race utterly unfit to be trusted with liberty, but must {e kept under- the control of a firm and unscrupulous but pious Congre- gational despotism. ‘‘Assuming this to be true, then the re- sult of between fifty and sixty years’ un- broken missionary government in these islands has been that the povoulation has been reduced in number by three-quarters tand that these three-quarters are as de- based, licentious and brutal as they were when the missionaries began their labors and that the whole missionary enterprise has been a disgraceful failure. ‘“Meanwhile there are some other facts, which the missionaries do not mention, but which cannot be disputed. During the fifty years the government of these islands "was nunder missionary influence most of the natives were deprived of their rights in the land, excepting about 27,000 acres, and all the rest was divided amon; the King, the chiefs and the families an§ friends of the missionaries. *‘The missionaries’ sons and their asso- ciates boast that they own four-fifths of all the property of the islands. Nearly all the rest is owned by the descendants of the former chiefs. The great mass of the people own nndnni. he missionary goy- ernment, finding that the natives would not work for less than 25 cents a day, com- plained of the want of labor, and insisted on the importation of scores of thousands of the scum of the human race, including Chinese and what are called Portuguese, a mongrel race, who never saw Portugal, but who speak something resembling the lan- g\ufé of that country. “In this manner the missionaries’ sons cut_down the wagesof the native Ha- waiians and compelled them to work on their sugar plantations at such ratesas seemed good to their masters. ‘“‘Before the missionaries gained control of the islands leprosy was unknown. But with the introduction of strange races lep- rosy established itself and Tapidly in- creased. An entire island was very prop- erly devoted to the lepers. No Protestant ‘missionaries would venture among them. “For this I do not blame them, as no doubt I should not have had the courage to go myself. But a noble Catholic priest consecrated his life to the service of the lepers, lived among them, baptized them ucated them and brought some light an: lmyé)meu into their wretched lives. “Stung by the contrast of his example, the one remaining missionary, a recog- nized and paid agent of the American Board, spread broadcast the vilest slanders against Father Damien. He said that ‘ather Damien was dirty. Much good missionaries can do among 4 wretched and degraded people if they hold themselves aloof from those who are dirty! Did the Apostles take care never to touch the dirty hands or sit against the dirty clothes of their early converts? % “He accused the good father of vile ractices. But the vileness was in the Congregational missionary’s mouth, not in the Catholic missionary’s life, and under threats of exposure and legal punishment the Congregational missionary sneaked out of the aceusation. Yet, after he had degraded himself in the eyes of every de- cent man, he remains, if I am correctly in- formed, still a _well-paid, well-housed, comfortably-cared-for agent of the Amer- ican Board in Hawaii. Of course, heisan ardent annexationist. “And now the very same men who by hundreds and_thousands have protested with pious indignation against the South- ern States for their practical disenfran- chisement of the Southern negroes, who are by the confession of their own best men vastly below the moral standard which the Hawaiian missionaries have until lately boasted as the particular attribute of their converts, are full of enthusiasm over what, with bitter ireny, is called the Hawaiian republic. 4 “A republic, forsooth, in which no man can vote unless he has property which would be equivalent to the possession of $5000 in Brooklyn, and in which no one can vote for Senator who is not worth 3000, which is equivalent to $20,000 in Brooklyn. hoa! “‘But even with this restriction of the suffrage our republican missionaries are afraid to trust their republican voters. Accordingly they did not care to allow the people, under any limitations whatever, to elect the President, but having got con- trol of the Constitutional Convention, they appointed Mr. Dole President, to hold cgme for six years, and just so much longer as the Senate and Assembly should fail to agree on a successor; restricting the choice, even then, to such persons as should be agreeable to a majority of the Senate, which will be elected by about 200 of the richest men on the islands. “Nor do they stop here. They passed laws severely punishing any one who dares to speak disrespectfully of any of their high mightinesses. Any one, whether a native or an American, who dares to say that this republican government is not re- publican, or that any of the missionaries’ sons who deign to govern the barbarous Christians of Hawaii is not well fitted for his post, is liable to a long term of impris- onment and a heavy fine. “And yet, after all, though they have the Government and the laws and the courts and the juries all in their own hands, they are afraid to trust any of them, and on the first sign of alarm and before a blow was struck, they shut up all the courts and proclaimed ‘martial law. And this is our pious Congregational mis- sionary republic. This is the fruit of sev- enty years of Congregational teaching and missionary government. 3 *Now it 1s proposed to amnex these isl- ands,with their barbarous, idolatrous, dirty, debased, Congregational heathen, Chris- tian idolators and the 100,000 Mongolians and hali-breed Portuguese to boot, and to bring them into our republic as one of the States of our Union to help govern us. Already one branch of Congress has voted to spend $500,000 in beginning to lay a cable for this purpose, whieh, of course, will involve us in about $3,000,000 more, in addition to that already incurred, to enable Hawaiians to plant sugar at a cost te this country of $30,000,000, taken out of the public treasury and put into the pockets of the planters to enable them to employ Mongolians and half-breed Portuguese. “But we are to spend many millions more in annexing them. Weshall have to build warships to defend.our possession when we get 1t. . *I consider this the most dangerous and disastrous proposition that has ever been made in this country. If successful it will launch us upon an era of colonization and of petty disgraceful foreign wars. It will bring into our Union sham republics, which will still further corrupt our a]renda corrupt Goyernment, and speedily destroy all reality in republican institut “We are on the brink of a precipice, and a very little effort is needed to push us over, If I were standing alone on this inent I would oppose and denounce this whole scheme of foreign wars, annexa- tion and colonial projects to the very last.” Dr. R. M. Raymond said he indorsed what Mr. Shearman had said, with the ex- ception of some criticism on the navy, Dr. A{)bol! did not agree with Mr. Shearman on questions of fact, but he did agree with Mr. Shearman in his opposition to annexa- tion. 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