The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1895, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1895. P —— e — CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. Postage Free: . §0.15 RIPTION RAT inday CALL, one week, by ca WEEKLY CALL, One year BUSINESS OFFICE : 710 Market Street. s Main—1888 EDITORI;L ROOMS: 817 Clay ef Telepbone ... Main—1874 Telephone... Clay; open until : open until 9:30 alclock. til 9 o'clock. 19 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the COUntry on & vacs €c, it 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to souraddress. Do not let it miss for yon will s given to the or left at 10 Market ! will recelve vou Ties Folsom street A cable to Ha form of annexat As long as the fruit-producers are divided the other fellows will get the profits. Don’t forget that after all the Durrant trial is only an item of the world’s news. ce the fish, is never so big when he is caught as when he gets away. Louis Sternberg’s plea for outdoor occu- pation might be granted in the Folsom quarry. The new Grand Jury has been intro- duced to an opportunity, and ought to recognize it. Mr. Ashworth might profit by learning to distinguish between official duty and personal antagonism. Let us congratulate the Grangers on ab- staining Camp Roache a “carnival of econo: The Salvation Arm; 8 oviding for the unemployed is a chal- e to the benevolent pretensions of the rich. The white wings of the California Yacht Club will give evidence to-day of the strength and constancy of our matchle: trade winds. It is vastly amusing to observe how the common law of England can be strained through our fourteenth amendment and serve as dust in the eyes of California’s progress. According to the latest account Emile Zola is writing his book “Rome’ at the rate of four pages of manuscript a day, and still he complains of being *‘cloistered in work.” 1f the present Grand Jury fails to profit by the shortcomings of its predecessors, the popular respect for this guardian of rights will fall and drag the institution down with it. ‘When the City needs money so badly, it is something like a crime to give the Market-street Company for $500 a fran- chise that, if fairly sold, would bring in many thousands of dollars. European capitalists can never be ex- pected to lend us their money with which to develop our resources until we devise some scheme for assuring them of the per- manent validity of our bonds. The Hawaiian situation is remindful of the fact that however easy it might be for & warship to destroy a cable, a great deal of news could be sent over the wire be- dore that disaster could happen. It is a sign of a returning prideand a prevalent sense of progress to learn that the chairman of the executive committee of the Yosemite Commission has gone to the valley to see if it is still there. It seems impossible to have an inter- national exposition in any part of this country without wasting a good deal of energy in discussing whether there is to be a bull-fight among the exhibits. According to estimates made by the ¥French economist Francois the wealth of the United States is about 313,000,000,000 francs, England 000,000,000, France £25,000,000,000 and Germany 161,000,000,000. If the Republican] National Committee decides to hold the convention in San Francisco, it will matter very little whether it is called in May or July, for our conventional weather is good at all seasons. Vo & R L In their preparations to give a fitting reception to the nephew of so great and humane a ruler as King Humbert of Italy the Italians of San Francisco will enjoy at least the respectful sympathy of all patri- otic Americans. In view of the exuberance and frequent excellence of the work of American carica- turists it is curious to note that according to the London Chronicle political satire in that country either with pen or pencil seems to be extinct. TrE CaLr would be very glad to heara full statement of the reasons why reporters are excluded from the meetings of the Présbyterian Ministerial Union and what may be done to avert the evils which their Ppresence represents. The commission of murder to obtain in- surance money on the lives of the victims has become so frequent in this country that an agitation has been started in the East to procure the enactmentof a law requiring a post-mortem examination upon the bodies of all insured persons, so as to make certain they did not die by foul means. The dramatization of the Durrant case, which is advertised under the name of *The Crime of a Century,” is persistently kept before the public. The managers of the Alcazar Theater declare that they in- tend to produce this piece in spite of Judge Murphy’s _interdiction. The Ezaminer has already made mention of this matter, and has pointed out that the play ought to be prohibited. Tue Carn indorses this view, and helieves that it will be approved by all good citizens. | both that the land listed by the railroad is AMERICAN JOURNALISM. Legitimate journalism gives to every item of news its rightful space in the record of the events of theday. Illegitimate journal ism makesof some act of vice or crime a special feature and by elaborating it, ex- panding it and exaggerating it, makes a sensation that discolors all other events. The one shows the world in its normal con- ditions, the other distorts it into abnormal viciousness. The one is a faithful picture, the other is a caricature. The one is wholesome, the other is morbid. The one instructs the intelligence of the people, the other excites the depraved curiosity of viti- ated natures. Clean journalism deals even with impuri- ties in a clean way. It treats them only as they appear in the cold, clear, uncolored light of law, of science or of history. Where they happen, there are they recorded; and exactly as the law or as science sees them, so are they described. Unclean journal- ism colors every offensive villainy until it glows with suggestiveness. The evil is presented in every form that ingenuity can invent and rhetoric describe so that those of depraved tastes may roll the vile morsel under their tongues as long as possible be- fore having to swallow and digest it. In the one there is truth, in the other there is falseness. The one keeps the mind pure even in the contemplation of revolting things, but the other renders the mind as corrupt as the foul thing in which it has been enticed to take delight. In that journalism which is legitimate and clean do we find the true expression of the American press. In the other do we find the evidence of that seeming de- generation, which according to Max Nordau is one of the world-wide phe- nomena of the time. American journalism is that which pro- duces the newspaper of the American home. The other is that which triesto rival the worst class of French novel in de- picting society, and has its wightful place nowhere in this country. To publish a genuine representative American newspaper faithful to American traditions and in sympathy with Ameri- can 1deals is the only laudable profes- sional ambition open to American jour- nalists. To publish the news it is not necessary to make a sensation of vice or crime. It is enough to make note of the evils of the world for the instruction of readers, and then go on to give due space and rank to those events of industry, art, enterprise and progress which after all are the evidences of the virtue which domi- nates it. That is legitimate journalism, clean journalism and American jour- nalism. AN ADVERSE RULING, The news that the Commissioner of the General Land Oflice has decided against the protest of the California Miners’ Asso- ciation in the case of railroad filings upon 200,000 acres of land in the mineral belt of Placer, El Dorado, Sacramento, Sierra and Nevada counties, and that these lands are to be confirmed to the railroad company as agricultural lands, shows one of the most extraordinary acts of the Cleveland4 administration. There appear 1o be two grounds upon which this action was based. Oneisthat the protest of the Miners’ Associ- ation did not give such a complete and spe- cific description of the various parcels as is required in the case of 2n adverse claimant, and the other is that the Miners’' Associa- tion is not an adverse claimant. The order of dismissal is not entirely clear, but these grounds appear inferable from the fact that in the case of W. C. Ralston’s protest he is an actual adverse claim- ant, and it is ordered that his contest therefore shall be heard. The ground upon which the Miners’ Association based its protest was, in effect, unfit for agricultural purposes, and that it is a lava deposit of 500 to 1000 feet in thick- ness, lying directly upon the course of an ancient river, whose bed has been found to carry rich deposits of gold wherever erosion or tunneling has exposed it. Noth- ing could be more rational or scientific. It is along the course of this ancient stream that the recent great discoveries of gold and investment of money for mining it have been going on. These operations represent to-day one of the most extensive, profitable and promising enterprises in the world. The setting aside to the railroad company of so vast a tract of land which every reasonable consideration induces us to believe covers inexbaustible stores of gold is not only the making of a present which may prove to be worth many mil- lions, but acts, to an extent, as a damper on the progress of mining by placing these particular deposits beyond the reach of investment and enterprise. The Miners’ Association may be able to devise effective means for preventing this monstrous outrage, but the insolent and overbearing attitude of the administration and the unpardonable manner in which it has refused to aid the people in arriving at the truth are discouraging aspects of the case. It is not surprising that the Com- missioner of the General Land Office gave the association no opportunity to conform its protest to any irrational or whimsical standard which he may have adopted. The evident determination to prevent the whole truth from being known is suffi- ciently discouraging. T0 HELP THE NEEDY. It must be gratifying to the Salvation Army to have the high opinions of its use- fulness that THE CaLL of yesterday pro- duced from leading San Franciscans con- cerning Ensign McFee’s proposition to conduct a farm upon which unemployed men may have ai: opportunity to makea living. The editorial columns of TaE Carn discussed this proposition” several days ago, when it was first suggested by Ensign McFee to Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald. At that time some opposition to the scheme was raised on the ground that it contemplated the giving of employ- ment only to single men, whereas men with families were most in need of its benefits. This objection evidently was not made with a full understanding of the wisdom with which the Salvation Army conducts its affairs for the benefit of the needy. When TrE CALL’s reporter asked Ensign McFee what benefits married men would receive from the scheme this practical philosopher answered that the benefits to married men would come in the remioval of single men from the field of competi- tion, thereby eiving married ‘men a better chance of securing employment. “Of course,”” he added, “in the near future we shall make arrangements for helping mar- ried men,” This seems to cover the whole ground so well as to render the subject unworthy of further discussion. This re- markable man and his equally remarkable wife have shown in the past a fidelity to the cause of wretched humanity and a wisdom in the devising and application of methods of its exercise that deprive us of the right to criticize their plans for an extension of their usefulness. Ensign McFee has stated clearly what ne needs—the free use of 100 acres of land, “although I should like 1000 acres,” he declares, “situated near the seacoast in some of the marine counties adjacent to San Francisco.”” It happens that the lands in this region best snited to Ensign McFee’'s purposes are very valuable and are yielding high revenues to their owners. Ensign McFee clearly prefers them be- cause passenger and freight charges to and from them would be less than in the case of more remote localities, and because they would be more easily accessible. CQonsidering the fact that this important item of expense will have tc be borne by the army, and that the nearer the farm is to the City the more valuable its products may be made, the ensign’s wisdom is apparent. Tor the sake of the great cause which he represents and its bearing on the credit of his society and its reputa- tion for never having failed in any of its undertakings for the good of the poor he cannot afford to indulge in wild and almost hopeless experiments. Already he has received offers of land, but he will be in no hurry to accept them. One is that he can have all the land he desires in the region to which he has restricted his offer provided ne clear'it. This probably means that the land is covered with brush, the removal of which may be estimated to cost $20 or $25 an acre. Other offers without so expensive terms came from the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, from which trans- portation charges to San Francisco would be dangerously heavy. He has said where he wants the land. We know what kind of land would be suit- able for his purpose. It must be fertile, clear and approximately level, and there- fore it must be valuable. Hence he seems to have put the benevolent pretensions of our people deliberately to the test. He ap- pears to desire that some of the burdens which the Salvation Army is willing to as- sume—and they are hard enough—should be borne by other members of the com- munity. It seems, therefore, that some movement should be started to raise a purse for the purchase or lease of sucha body of land as is required. While Mrs. McFee alone, with her more than wel- come entree to many of the homes and hearts of the kindly rich in this commu- nity, and her earnest persuasive tongue, backed by superior intelligence and an ad- mirable life of self-sacrifice, might be able to accomplish this tremendous task, it would be a serious reproach to the wisdom and benevolence of our people if the under- taking were thrown wholly upon her and her hushand’s already overburdened shoulders. OUR CITY'S INDUSTRIAL RANK. Bulletins recently issued by the United States Census Bureau give San Francisco a respectable standing as a manufacturing center. Instead of being a laggard in in- dustry this City ranks among the first twelve in the United States and holds a position corresponding to its population. By the census of 1890 8an Francisco was the eighth city in population in the coun- try. It was exceeded by New York, Chi- cago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Boston and Baltimore, and was slightly in advance of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pitts- burg and Buffalo. These twelve cities appear in a compara- tive table of statistics on manufacturing recently issued by the Census Bureaun as follows: owEx £E5E SESE g s&g’ e <} Dl I rrexasa®os o | muensman Buaonxo R0 DR |50 jo Jaquuy tozEasE et X E25E5EE85E288 PR R L S S e 23783883288 ZEE2ZEEE852E e egs23¢g8g88:s8 £5888883882388 muawo wexq 252352322232 2882288883888 EES5588888¢88 e roonsobE8tan £223%7825838 S83%iigzzaz: §E855588¢858: Cpe - G T LESBEE3EE883 £ £2 Sssssszzssss 88888 8888 8838 22 S3Ezzzssizs: 88583 888 | SR L asown 2855253 2878 g3z8% S25585858238:288 (: pasn s E2S38833838 33 |-Hewi o w0 Sissssssssss 888888888883 @ EEpdepa e EEE3EESISEEE SESEEZIIRIEE - 255222325535 -R-R-%-1 -R-8-1 -pold jo euje, 88338883388 |vwamown S2ssszzzzzss 888888888888 From this table it appears that San Fran- cisco exceeded Buffalo, Cleveland and Pitts- burgin the number of its manufacturing estublishments; Boston, Buffalo and Cleve- land in the direct capital invested; Buffalo and 'Cleveland in the amount of wages paid; Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburg in the cost of the materials used; Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburg in the value of the product. The most interesting comparison is that made between Baltimore and San Fran- cisco. In 1890 the formercity was credited with a population of 434439, and San Francisco with 298,997. With 5265 manu- facturing establishments Baltimore had a direct capital of $92,000,000 invested, while San Francisco had a direct capital of $75,- 000,000 invested in 4059 manufacturing en- terprises. San Francisco had 48,000 em- ployes, who were paid $31,000,000. Balti- more had 83,745, or nearly double the number of employes, and paid them $36,- 000,000. The cost of material in San Fran- cisco was $79,000,000, against $74,000,000 in Baltimore. The finished product of the Baltimore establishments was valued at $142,000,000, or $6,000,000 more than that of San Francisco. FALSE TO AMERICA, When in 1896 the Democratic party comes before the American people to give an account of the manner in which its leaders” have managed the affairs of the country, it will have many things to an- swer for. The sins of omission or com- mission of the administration are numer- ous and serious in every department of the Government, and one of the trials of the people during the canvass will be the exer- cise of a patience sufficient to listen to an- swers to them all. ‘While the talk will be long and tedious to those who undertake to defend these po- litical offenses, it will not be difficult for those who denounce them. Indeed, the whole mass of the charges against the Cleveland administration can be summed up in the statement that from beginning to end it has been false to the spirit of Americanism. Exactly as during the war Cleveland furnished a substitute to take his place in defense of the Union, while he himself stayed in the rear to practice ward politics in Buffalo, so now he seems to be antagonistic to every patriotic impulse, hostile to every great aspiration of the people, and lacking in sympathy with American ideas, American policies and American destiny. It matters not to which department of his administration we look, or under what aspect we consider it, we find everywhere 8 Wanifest desire to conciliate forelgn opin- ion, even to the extent of snubbing public sentiment in this country. American in- dustry has been sacrificed to European commerce, the Monroe doctrine has been put aside at the behest of England, the public debt has been increased to enrich a syndicate largely made up of London bankers, Venezuela has been rebuffed when she asked our arbitration in the settlement of the claims of England and Germany, and, finally, in order to bolster up a tariff policy that brought suffering to the homes of every workingman in the country, an attempt was made to establish a socialistic income tax that with its inquisitorial methods of collection would have been as destructive to Americanism at home as the pusillanimous surrender of the Monroe doctrine has been compromising to Ameri- canism abroad. All of these offenses are the result of a mind incapable of understanding the Americen people and indifferent to Ameri- can welfare, Democracy therefore must either repudiate Cleveland or go into the next campaign with the repute of being an un-American party. There can be on evasion of the issue. In the coming can- vass the cry will be for protection to Amer- ican industry and all American states—a true Americanism at home and a vigorous pan-Americanism abroad. SUNDAY READING. For the intormatiom of readers who have not the time or the inclination to fallow in detail the proceedings of the Durrant tral we will publish every morning a re- view of all that was done on the previous day in language so terse and concise that it can be read with ease in sixty seconds. From this review any one can determine whether there has been any event in the proceedings about which they wish fuller information, and should such matter be found then the complete information can be obtained by reading the detailed report, in which is given an accurate account of every step taken in the trial. Profound as is tne interest taken in the case, however, it should not be permitted to absorb too much of the attention of any reader. This is beyond doubt a beautiful world, and, whatever pessimists may say, it is also a good one. The mind is iealth- ful exactly in proportion as it meditates upon the good rather than the evil. That truth is beyond gainsaying. No one ‘is made morbid, fretful or despondent by contemplating the excellencies of nature or the virtues of humanity. Those weak- nesses come from thinking upon evil and from neglsciing thove brighter things which give to the mind not pleasure only, but also health and sirength. In the pages of TrE (aLL this morning can be found an abundance of reading that will go far to make ‘he day pleasant and one of genuine rest aud recreation to every reader. The range of subjects is wide and there is room for every taste to choose what pleases best, but the wise reader will not be narrow in selection. There is a gain in reading things that are not wholly to the taste, for in that way new tastes are cultivated and the sympathies are wid- ened. The most sedate and wearied busi- ness man can bring back something of the freshness of youth by reading the ro- mances and tales of adventure THE CALL offers him this morning, and though they be not to his taste at first, they will be pleasing in the end. THE CALL preaches no sermons, but on the day of rest it likes to come with a re- minder to its readers that the day should be well employed. Cheeriul thoughts and cheerful reading go a long way in making o day really restful and helpful for the work of the coming week. With the re- turn of work to-morrow every man and woman must confront whatever evil may come in their way, but to-day they can look to brighter things, live light in the sunshine, read TuE CALL and be at rest. THE TRUE NEWSPAPER. In an excellent article, under the above cap- tion, Henry A. Crittenden Jr., in the Illus- trated American, says: “It has grown to be fashionable, I know, for an occasiopal tread- mill college professor 1o sneer a newspaper, limiting his disciples to the read- ing of its headlines. Doubtless the newspaper is not the only reading or object of study suit- able for the student and for the graduate man of letters, although I observe that it is never to such & degree ignored by the alumnus who aspires to be anything more than a college professor. On the other hand, college profes- sors and college presidents, like many other classes of professional men, are not averse to reporting such facts as come within the range of their observation for the columns and read- ers of the ephemeral press. it is not, however, as a substitute for all learning with the fav- ored few that the newspaper s to be appraised. The crucial question would be, ‘Is or is not the daily newspaper of modern times, before all the other agencies of civilization, to be cred- ited with the approximate achievement of lifting the vast mass of civilized people nearly up to the moral and far aoove the intellectual level of the sages and statesmen of an earlier age? There can be but one answer to this question. Limited to the Unitea States, the afirmative answer would be still more em- phatic. The day of the world’s inteliectual glants, of this country’s gigantic statesmen, appears to have passed because the world’s average stature has advanced.” The American business youth, the mechanic and farmer of to-day, have a better knowledge of geography, astronomy, physics, politics, ethics, electricity, finance, political economy, yes, and of litera- ture, and a better quality of theology—mainly by reason of the daily newspaper—than was possessed by the chosen ones of earth in peri- ods not illuminated by the press.” PERSONAL. B. Courtois, & wine man of Santa Rosa, is at the Grand. Tom Fox, one of Sacramento’sinsurance men, is at the Lick. Judge 8. 8. Hall of the Secramento judiciary is at the Grand. Rev. F. Fennesey of Adams Springsisin the City at the Grand. .F. D. Ryan, District Attorney of Sacramento, is at the Lick House. Professor George Kriehn of the Stanford Uni- versity is at the Palace. : E. J. Lewis, superintendent of the Seattle Gas Works, is at the Pulace Hotel. C. J. McKinson, from Forbestown, Butte County, is a guest at the Oceidental. C. N.Falking and wife of Riverside have re- turned from a trip te the islands and are at the Occidental. Colonel N. D. Hodge, special agent of the New York Life Insurance Company, is back from the East. Ex-Harbor Commissioner C. F. Bassett has gone to Santa Barbara Mountsins on an ex- tended hunting and fishing trip. Bishop H. N. Warren, accompanied by his guest, Chancellor McDowell of the Univer- sity of Denver, is at the Occidental Hotel. T. W. King of Los Angeles, who has been on a visit to Honoluly, has returned to the land of sunshine and gold, and is at the Palace. M. Page Minor has returned from an exten- sive trip through the southern cities and re- vorts everything in better condition. He isat the Occidental. James Horsburg Jr., assistant general passen- ger agent of the Southern Pacific Company, re- turned yesterday from Honolulu, where he spent his summer vacation. E. N. Kay of Santa Cruz is housed at the Grand Hotel. Mr., Kay is the Sheriff who fig- ured s0 prominently in the much-to-be-re- gretted Evane and Sontag affair in Visalia. Commander Charles M, Thomas.who has been reléased from command of the Bennington, passed through San Francisco yesterday on his w8y to Washington to receiye further orders, the daily | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. John T. Ford of the Single-Tax Courier of St. Louis was in the City yesterday and left last evening for a flying trip to San Luis Obispo, where his relations live. It has been six ycars since Mr. Ford visited this State before. He is very enthusiastic in the single-tax cause, and thinks (hat the time is not far distant when it will be the living issue between the political parties of the country. “It has fairly reached the stage of National importance now,” he said, in discussing the matter with a CALL representative. “The Cour- ier circulates in every State of the Upion and in nearly every county in some of the States. This puts us in touch with active single-taxers everywhere, and from the knowledge thus gained we know that the doctrine of abolishing taxes on industry and taking ground rent JOHN T, FORD, MANAGER OF THE SINGLE-TAX COURIER. alone for public revenue is gaining converts faster than ever before. I am told that the petition to your Legislature for legislation to that end has been signed by nearly 3000 voters in this City, and byimore than that number of farmers in other parts of the State. Single-tax advocates do not aim to make noise, for that prevents thinking. “The movement is going fast enough; that is, just as fast as the mindsot men can be reached and the great economic truth under- lying it presented. Our correspondence shows this to be going on at a constantly increasing rate. New York has doubtless made greater advance and come nearer to attalning needed legislation than any other State. The move- ment there is for local option in taxation, with the repeal of taxeson personal property in view, and this will carry in New York City as soon as the necessary legisletion can be had. Chicago hasthe greater number of active clubs, butIam surprised at the amount of personal work going on in this City and throughout the State. Ifonly you had that ironclad provision in your State constitution out of the way, that everything in sight must be taxed, you would soom find tax reform an issue in politics. “What of the ‘On to Delawara’ campaign? It has become the settled policy of single-taxers throughout the country. The National execu- tive committee has taken the matter in hand and appointed a campaign committee and active work has begun. At my last advices from there over forty meetings had been held, ad- dressed by thirty-two speakers, with an aver- age attendance of over 150. Sixty thousand tracts have been distributed and many books sold. It is not in any sense acamvaign of party politics; it is entirely cut loose from the tariff question and has to do with local taxa- tion alone. The Democratic and Republican parties are pretty evenly divided, and I shall not be surprised to see them both declare for our measure In their platforms. I shall be less surprised to see the party that does not snowed under. Interestin that campaign will increase as the months go by. “As to the business situation in the East, it is slowly on the up grade. No boom in sight. But have you not noticed that the improve- ment going on is only for those who are in the swim—those who have a foothold in business? Poverty deepens with those who have not a foothold the same as before. Your Labor Bureau shows that; you can see it on every hand.” SCANDALOUS PAPERS SUPPRESSED- The police are suppressing the sale of the Indianapolis People, Police News, Police Ga- zette, the Illustrated Record and other sensa- tional papers in Richmond, Ind., says the New York Fourth Estate. These papers are what is classed by a new law as pernicious literature. This law was passed by the last General Assem- bly, and provides & penalty of from $10 to $200 for printing, selling or publishing books, papers or periodicals, the chief feature or char- acteristic of which is the recovd of crime or the pictures of crime committed, criminals, desperadoes, or men and women “in unbecom- ing costumes.” The newsdealers packed the papers up and sent them back to the pub- lishers. THIS IS SATAN'S SEAT, SAYS MR, VARLEY, Henry Varley, who is engaged in evangelistic work about the bay, signs his name to a letter appearing in the London Christian of June 20, in which San Francisco is denounced in un- sparing terms. Mr. Varley says: ““I have been in many cities, but this is the most extraordinary I have ever visited. It is honeycombed through and through with every nostrum under heaven. Every man appears to be & law unto himself—one might almost say lawlessness reigns. The tides of wickedness run with degrading violence. “The daily press is of the lowest t) 1 have ever seen; it abounds in coarse and low gensa- tionalism. Murders and horrors largely oc- cupy the columns., To see little boys and ‘hoodlums’ hawking these wretched sheets about with the ¢ a ‘fresh murder’ or some ‘horrible erime’ upon their lips is a pitiable d terrible training. The San Francisco press is distinetly injurious, morally considered. “ ‘Not worse than others,’ they say. By the way, have you noticed how this phrase ‘not worse than others’ is everywhere used asan excuse for tolerated iniquities to the endsof the earth. ‘Ah! well, we are not worse than Paris,’ said the Mayor of Melbourne to me some years since, when made aéquainted with abominable wickednesses being winked at by the police. It is high time thisassociated plea for the tolerance of depravity was everywhere challenged and cast out.” Mr. Varley disapproves of the number of religions on this coast which he terms *‘legion,” and writes, “There seems to be no room for new and fresh gods. The stock must be ex- hausted surely.” He singles out certain creeds in connection with this statement. In conclusion Mr. Varley says: *“‘Spian’s seat’ may indeed be described as found in San Francisco, and I could not allow the widespread infidelity here concerning his very existence to pass any longer unchal- lenged. I have, therefore, written a pamphlet entitled ‘Is there a persoual Devil?” which I intend scattering over a wide area—20,000 at least, if I can.” The New York Observer calling attention to this letter issues challenge, saying: ‘‘What aave the press and ministers of the Gospel to say of Mr. Varley's eriticisms 'he Occident of this City replies: “First—That as Mr. Varley himself draws comparison in denouncing the press and City of San Francisco, he should not, in the same breath, object to com] son on the part of those who make reply. ‘Not worse than others’ Mr. Varley says, ‘is everywhere used as an excuse for wlendng iniquities to the ends of the earth.’ True, but suppose one charges: Your City is the most wicked in the world ; lawlessness reigns. The tides of wick- edness run with degrading violence, May we not reply: ‘Not worse than others,’ without being also accused ol ‘ tolerating iniquity? “Second—The intensity of Mr. Varley’s des- cription of our City’s depravity, unrelieved by one word of acknowl ent as to there mg even five righteous ones in it, might call 0T comparison. “Third—We can scarcely suppose that Mr. Varley intended this sentence to be under- stood literally: ‘Satan’s seat may indeed be described as found in San Francisco, and I could not allow the widespread infidelity here concerning his ver; tence to pass any longer unchallenged.’ @ i finn as it rensl in the article this implies that Mr. Varley is the only prophet of the Lord in the City to cry against its iniquities. Of course the writer does not mean to ignore the vast number of earnest Christian laporers and ministers who are doing faithful service for the Magter here.” A PLEA FOR THE DOMESTIC SER- V. INTERESTING LETTER TO “THE CALL" FROM A WOMAN WHO WORKS, To the Editor of The® Call—Str; The writer of an article in Wednesday’s CALL speaks of a contrast between the laboring men and the laboring women which has come to light since the opening of the Free Labor Bureau. Now asIam one of this selisame laboring class I beg leave to sthte my views upon the subject also. He says that the men are eager to take up eny work offered them, no matter how hard it is nor how low the wages may be, while women hesitate and declare they will not work for less than $25 or $30 a month. Do you know the reason why? I shall give my reason, but a dozen others might give a better one if they only took the trouble of doing it. Take the unemployed when this bureau opened and you will find that the men regis- tered by the hundreds, while the women were a great deal less in number. A woman need never be without employment as long as she is willing to work like a slave for two or three dollars over her board and lodging; but the men have not even this privilege, and no doubt for the past year have had to turn tramp in the struggle to keep body and soul together. Icannot see anything very wonderful in the fact that they eagerly take any work offered them at any price whatsoever, can you? But the women perhaps for the whole of the past year have been toiling for very low wages, be- cause their employers tell them they cannot afford to give more these hard times. But, if the times are so hard, why do they not roll up their sleeves and do some of the work them- selves, and not allow the servant to toil just as hard for ten dollars as she does for thirty ? T do not see any unnatural contrast in standing back and waiting for better wages. How long do you suppose these men,if they have any ambition at all, will be content to work for small wages? And now, again, when a woman accepts’a situation she knows that she is dead to the outside world, and the ninety-ninth part out of a hundred of her time she must spend within the four walls of her employer’s home, always within hearing of the doorbell and ever at the beck and call of & (generally speak- ing) overexacting mistress. From early morn until 4 o’clock in the afternoon she toils like a slaye—upstairs, downstairs, sweeping, dusting, washing, serubbing, cooking, answering bells every fifteen minutes, and so on. You will always find a stiff, uncompromising looking chair in the kitchen, but this worker rarely ever finds time to avail herself of the privilege of testing its restful capacities, for each day brings enough work of its own without any left-over fragments from the day before. Four o’clock she snatches time to bathe her hot, tired face and hands and, just as the laboring man throws down his shovel, pulls on his coat and leaves off work for the day, the laboring woman is gathering up her tired forces to do battle with the almighty dinner. When it is well under the process of cooking, steam puff- ingin all directions and savory smells sharp- ening the keen appetite of the back-door trav- eler, she rushes to the dining-room to set the table. At last all is ready, and in and out she trips with course after course, becoming so Weary that when her time comes to break bread she cares not whether it be soup meat or chicken she partakesof. But this is not all; the china, silver, pots and pans must be thoroughly cleansed and everything putin order, and—weil ebout 9 o’clock a weary woman with candle in hand, may be found every night wending her ‘way to the attic, or to a hot room just over the kitchen. Can any one imagine such a woman sitting down calmly to read the newspaper at this hour? Ican’t; butif she has an aged father or mother or deformed sister to supvort, she will no doubt make and mend her own clothes between the hours of,9 and 11P.M. Suchis the life I have, in part, experienced myself, so that there is no mistake about it, and I am not talking through my hat, although many will no doubt think so. Now take the laboring man. He rarely ever has to cook his own breakfast, but after eating a good hearty meal, shoulders his shovel and marches off to work. There is no doubt, if he is & conscientious man, he certainly works hard, and sometimes has exacting employers to deal with also, but in digging a ditch, he digs 1t; in hoeing a fleld of corn, he hoes it; his brain is not in a constant turmoil as every one knows & woman’s must be when she is expected to do half a dozen things in one minute and be in half a dozen places the next. Atnoon the man always has his hour. He leaves off work, I will say, at 6 P. M., although I have often seen men between 4 and 5 o’clock jogging homeward, with their lunch-pails swinging from their strong, sun-burnt hands, Hels, of course, tired, but aiter eating e good hearty dinner—for outdoor exercise never fails to whet the appetite—he lights his pipe and strolls off whithersoever fancy leads him; heis free—iree as air; he has his evenings and his Sunday from Saturéay night until Monday morning. Buta woman is bound year in and year out the greater part of the time; the only sniff of fresh air she gets is in carrying the potato peelings to the garbage can, and it go- ing to church makes & Christian of any one she never, never can be one. The unjust slavery of her own sex is ever a dark blot on the fair page of womanhood. If the employing woman would earnestly set to work to regulate her own home life on a truth- tul, loying, whole-souled foundation her pres- ence at the polls might possibly work wonders. Now, where the social benefits come in that the writer in THE Caly tells us the laboring woman enjoys more than man is deeper than I can fathom, but as he has just as good a right in his opinion as I have in mine, the riddle may “gang its ain gait.”” I am not holding up the average domestic by any means, and can truthfully assert that if I had a home of my own I would rather do the work myself than employ any one out of the large number, employed or unemployed, I have come in con- tact with. Still, I can further assert that it is the employers’ fault that truthful, honest working girls are so hard to be found, for “like master like man’” may be aptly quoted as re- gards mistress and maid. If a mistress had to furnish reference from her last cook as the cook must from her, employer and employe might possibly come to a better understand- ing with each other. LT B San Francisco, July 26, 1895. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Father (coming unexpectedly upon the scene)—Ah! JustasT thought! In swimming on Sunday. Boy (pusting on & bold front)—I fell in, dad. Father (angrily)—Don't lie to me. You've got your clothes off. Boy—Well, you wouldn’t have wanted me to fall in this muddy water with my Sunday clothes on, would you?—Puck. He was hiding out.—"This map of your new railroad is imperfect,” said the Judge. «Imperfect, your Honor?” “Yes, sir. There’s your station, there’s your tank and there's your coal chute. Now, where in thunder is your receiver?”—Atlanta Consti- tution. “I don’t see,” remarked the man who doesn’t know much about such things, “why you two pugilists should scold each other and call names and publicly dislike each other simply because you're matched for a sparring con- test.” -“Humph. That shows how little principle some folks has. We gotter give the public something for its money, ain’t we ?”"—Washing- ton Btar. e PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. A Philadelphia preacher rejoices in the ap- propriate name of Isaac Settemrite. George Q. Cannon has translated the Books of Mormon into the Hawaiian language. People who have wondered how Richard Le Galienne, the decadent poet, pronounces his name, will be pleased to know that the London ‘World rhymes it with “battalion.” Mme. Rowstowska of Lille, France, is 112 years old. She served as a cantoniere of 8 Pol- ish regiment during the Russian campaign, was twelve times under fire, received three wounds and was decorated with the silver cross. She has survived her fifteen children. In a recent speech 1n London Sir Henry Irving mentioned his son as a striking instance of the social ban against the actor in England. His son is a barrister, and as such was eligible 1o be presented ata levee held by the Prince of Wales, but now being an_actor, though still & barrister, the honor is forbiaden him. “THE €ALL'S” CORRECT STAND. Berkeley Daily Advocate. Among the hundreds of readers of the San Francisco papers are a few who have been dis- gusted and even angered by the sensational and vicious accounts of the crime of 8 cen- tury, and they will hail with delight the an- npuncement that THE CALL makes in regard to the Durrant trial. It has promised to report the case simply as a matter of law proceeding, and not as a mor bid sensation, givingall the news, all the evi- dence and every notable feature of the trial. ‘but carefully abstaining from any tendency to pander to depraved tastes by giving exagger- ated prominence to that which is essentialiy vile, vicious and destructive of the best inter- ests of the home and the community. As a newspaper engaged in recording the events of the day it must, of course, report crimes when they occur, but it will not make vicious sensations of them. It will be always for clean journalism, legitimate journalism and honest journalism, defiling no home into which it goes mor seeking any approval save that of intelligenf, pure-minded men and women. In doing this the paper may lose a few nickels now, but in the end it will reap the reward that the decent element will gladly give to it. Because it is published daily and is a news- paper, there is no excuse for much of the vil- ‘lainous truck that is often served up by re- porters to catch the dimesof those whose tastes are perverted. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. There is something wrong in the internal economy of & ily when & father is obliged to admit that his young son is beyond his con- trol and must be put under Governmental dis- cipline to save him from a career of crime. If the boys of the land are given halfa chance there are few of them so innately and inher- ently bad that they will not make tolerably re- spec table citizens after they have passed through the green-apple stage; but they are, in many cases, so foolishly indulged in their childhood that license becomes a second na- ture, and it is impossible for them either to submit to control or to control themselves.— Los Angeles Times. At present jury duty is regarded as a sort of privilege by & lot of people who have nothing to do, whereas it should be a duty binding upon the capitalist and the day laborer. The performance of the duty would undoubtedly entail much sacrifice in many cases, but the sacrifices demanded by citizenship are very many. There seenis to be a general opinion that something must be done to prevent the jury system from falling into utter disrepute. We suggest to would-be reformers that tey direct their energies to compelling business and professional_men to do jury duty.—Seattle (Wash.) Times. Times are certainly improving. Secretary Hoke Smith has just given his cousin, who wes formerly a police court lawyer in Washington, afee of $24,000 for looking after an Indian claim for the Government. This is better than the cousin could do in Republican flush times. —Pheenix (Ariz.) Republican. The home-product idea is becoming an acute mania among Californians. San Jose has it badly, but it is a mania in which there 1s a large amount of profit and good sense. The home-product “crank’ is one that can well be tolerated.—Tacoma (Wash.) Union. The industrial wheels of this country will not be kept going round and round unless the Republican party is placed in power. And we firmly believe that the party is also the party that silver must depend upon for remonetiza- tion.—Ogden (Utah) Standard. When we have created a market for all our fruits, and have gotten in the way of buying home products in preference to foreign, every year will be a prosperous year, and the busi- ness season will last from January until De- cember.—San Jose Mereury. When a town’s inhabitants become thor- oughly imbued with the idea that good streets, good sewers and plenty of them are a necessity, the prosperity of that town is assured.—Vallejo Chronicle. BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * e e e RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* S g et GEo. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* - GOLDEN GATE DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION, under the auspices of the senior members of the Young People’s Christian Endeavor, A. M. E. Zion’s Church, will render theéwpnh\r tem- erance play, “Ten Nights in a Barroom,” at Tnion-square Hall, 421 Post street, Monday evening, July 29. 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