The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1895. NEW POLICE CAPTAINS, They Are G. W. Wittman, H. S. Robinsen and John Spillane. THE FOUR NEW SERGEANTS. Sergeant Gillen to Take Command of the Second Division, Vice Wittman. The suspense in police circles over the retirement and successions is ov t last. The Commissioners met last night in ex- ecutive session, and after it was over Clerk announced the result of their de- ions. The resignations of Captains A. W. Stone and John Short and Patrolmen A. B. Asher, James Haroid and James L. ct yes- Gallagher were accepted to take ss and terday. Captain William Y. Dou Sergeant Edward Cohrn, whose resigna- tions were requested but were not tendered, were dropped from the roll. Sergeants G Wittman, Henry S. Robinson and were pro- moted to be cay and Short. Capt stationed at the Captain Spill and Captain Robi To fill the vaca tions of W will be 1 Police station, at the Southern station Centr at the City Prison. ed by the pro- binson and Spil- at of Sergeant Cohrn p v;uivwd to be ser- were is, Albert . Donovan and Cor- e fact that it had i on good authority that en wasto have been one of the substitution of Spil- xplained. None s when questioned in at it was expected to appoint leaving the clear inference urth man been appointed it n Gillen. ace to Gillen’s disappointed feel- e has_been assigned to fill the va- y caused by the promotion of Witt- he will be in command of second d ion at the Central Police ion with the rank of lieutenant. It is v believed that when the new dis- ' will be made its captain, pend upon the passing of tion for the seventy-tive new e Board of Supervisors. derstood that the three appoint- rolice captains were made by the mmissioners as follows: Witt- ssioner Gunst; Spillane, by ord, and Robinson by in George W. Wittman is 38 years of He was born in Hastings, Minn., but State when six months old. He e police force on April 25, omoted sergeant on August 1 this year, when ser- :d, he has been in charge 0 at the Central Police He is recognized as one of the ablest atio and mo n January 1, 1846. d was appointed 19, 1 H¢ ywes appointed on ber 18, 1856, and made 16, 1858. X ne 30, the force on Dec captain on Captain Short, retired, was born in New York on November 28, 1807. He was appointed on the force on Décember 18, 1867, and made captain Deeember 1, 187 Captain Stone, retired, was born in Millbury, | Mass., He was appointed on , snd made captain ) CHNGSE TIOTHPILLE, Thomas Y. Kim and His Can- ton Dental Parlors on Clay Street. Methoas That May Be Primitive, Yet | Satisfactory to the Elite of Chinatown. A Chinese dentist has o for the reception of molars extracted aite S The pened ‘““parlors” nts that desire most approved excellent English and al dress of Western and the manip! or of the Canton al parlors, as well as the Asso- ciated Asiatic shoestore, is one of the cleanest shops in Chinatown, and is patronized by the attaches of the Consu- late, by the clerks and secretaries of the Six Companies and by the functionaries, the dignitaries and the rich storekeepers and merchants of the quarter. Neverthe- less there is apparent in the interior ar- rangement of this joint shoeshop and dental parlor that economy of superficial area for which the Chinese are so justly noted. The shoeshop 1itself 1s not a roomy apartment, yet the dental ““parlors” occupy but a limited square in the southeastern corner of the room. Itis an elevated cor- ner, just large enough to permit the oper- ator and the patient to occupy it at the same time. And to prevent—in the possi- ble struggles incidental to Cantonese dental surgery—either the operator or the patient from ‘slipping off the platform an iron railing has been placed around it, and from this railing depends a clean white curtain that shuts out the mysteries of the dental “parlors” from the vulgar gaze of those who may be merely purchasing foot apparel, or from those who may be ex- pectant victims. ’ Indeed, about the largest thing in con- nection with Mr. Kim'’s dental parlor is its great glaring sign on the eastern wall of the building. Itis in white letters on a black ground, in both English and Chi- nese, and read: Dental Parlors. The sign takes up more space than the “‘parlors” proper, but this is nothing to the detriment of the parlors, for the shoe- shop makes a good waiting-room, and the raised and curtained platform is well ap- vinted with the implements of the trade s practiced now and for hundreds of years in the past at Canton. “I learned my profession at Canton,” said Mr. Kim, “and the methods I employ are those of Canton.” All of which makes ult to reason out the appositeness / ew York’ part of the black and white sign until you come to know that Mr. Kim previously and until recently practiced his profession in New York. He does not administer cocaine, vor laughing gas, nor any manner of anwms- thetic. His instruments are the steel vrobe and the tweezers, and if bis methods are somewhat primitive compared to those in use by the fashionable dentists of San ired, was born in New | | were truly prophetic: rlors” are at 760 | }e Kim, a Mongolian young | | ruled by the worst elements. ation, is the proprietor of the dental’ $2,655,000,000; Australia, $425,000,000; Cana Francisco, they are at least entirely ortho- dox and have the sanction of the venerable customs of ancient Canton. In a word, they are fashionable in Chinatown. INCREASE IN BEER TAX. Local Brewers Do Not ¥ear Washing- ton Rumors to That Effect. Local representatives of the beer-produc- ing md_ustry appear to be taking very little stock in the reports contained in dis- patches from the East to the effect that ‘“‘the brewers are in warpaint,” and are preparing to make a vigorous fight in Con- gress next winter to prevent an increase in the internal reverue tax on beer. Neither do they heed 'the rumor coming from Washington that President Cleveland will recommend an increase in the tax, or that he will let it be known that he would sign such a bill if passed by Congress. They appear equally indifferent as to whether or not such a law is passed, saying it will not affect the interests of the brewers. Rudolph Mohr, secretary of the Brew- ers' Protective Association, said yesterday that the association had received no in- timation that the next Congress would make a move to increase the beer tax, al- though 1t was generally understood that certain Washington politicians favored it. I hardly think, however,” said he, “that there is anything to fear in that line, as I do not belive any political party will have the hardihood to so openly oppose the brewery industries, controlling as they do so large a vote. Some individual poli- ticians or members of Congress may en- deavor to get such a bill passed, but I have no idea that any party will wish to incur the antagonism of the brewers by espous- ing such a cause. The possibility and probability of such action being taken was discussed at the convention of the United States Brewers’ Protective Association held at Milwaukee 1ast month, but what steps it was decided to take, if any, to defeat the movement if undertaken, I will not know until I receive the report of the proceedings of the convention, That will be some time yet, and until then nothing will be done by the local associa- tion, and not then unless we are requested to do so. All operations of that nature are directed from the headquarters of the United States Protective Association at New York, and this body, as a member of the main association, will receive notifica- tion if it is expected to co-operate in any concerted action to prevent unfayorable legislation. “I hardly expect that we will take any notice of the matter in any event since it is not true that our brewers would be af- fected even if an additional tax of a dollar a barrel is placed on the manufacture of beer. The breweries would simply add another dollar to the price of beer and the public as consumer would have to pay it, as the retailers would use smaller glasses and put less in the ‘pail.” For this reason more than any other I think there is little fear of the tax being increased.” VIEWS OF A SOCIALIST. |{Rev. G. W. Henning Regards the United States as a Fallen Nation. Lecture at the Third Congregatlonal Church on Impending Evils and Dangers. Rev. G. W. Henning delivered the first of a series of lectures on socialist themes at' the Third Congregational Church on Tuesday evening, under the auspices of the Institute of Applied Christianity. Mr. Henning opened his lecture by quo from one of Abraham Lincoln’s last addresses these words which he said As a result of the war, corporations haye been enthroned, and an_era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the eople until all wealth is eggregated ina few ands and the Republic is destroyed. exercise the funetions of government through their chosen representatives, but has it not turned out in fact that it is & representative government in this sense only, that it is of, and for the representatives and not of, by a1 for the people? Indeed, who feels that t people are represented y department of nment, State or National? Whence arise upon which we vote? How much do political platio s the real issues in conflict or the r sof their framers? Who plans our c: nominations of d Is S to we As to resuits in the action of our representative bodies, how ao they express the sentiment of the ? It they do, then indeed is our Nation u please the gerieral, if not quite rruption of our municipal govern- rts are not merely VAporings of tic parties whose inspiration is not plunder. We rely upon resuits of s of Lexow committees and eivil ened with the mass ming utter- nt Municipal Reform Conven- tion, whose dlegates from all the cities of con- siderable size between New York and San Fran- cisco agreed that the cities represented were e of the re 1 we look into our State Legis] strations of fair representatio ture of 1895, forexample, What frauds we: covered in the contested election cases. Remember the great uumber of attaches employed, the number of bills dupli- cated, the days wasted in jangling over frivol- ous measures, the general loot of the treas- ury through extravagant appropriations, and cheme revealed by Sen- teen members were as- ether for plunder to the The sessions of '91, Biggy sociated to smount of $8 000 apiece. &9, ’87 and backward into the early history of the State furnish an almost unbroken record of ill-conceived and never-punished exirava- gance, jobbery and bribery. The Congressional Record of the past thirty years is a record of plunder and special legisla- tion. The speaker read an extract in point fiom Hon. W. W. Howard's article on “Debauchery in Congress.” Mr. Henning said he could fill a volume with citations from the statutes showing the legal ina- bilities of the poor by reason of their pov- erty, and referred to the *‘costliness of liti- gation, the truculency of officers and the venality of jurors.”” He expressed the opinion that even the Supreme Court lies open to the charge of partisanship. The speaker deplored “the decreasing propor- tion of marriages and the increasing disin- clination to child-bearing and the alarm- ing increase of divorces.” Mr. Henning quoted statistics to show that 8414 per cent of the citizens of the United States, in- cluding mortgagors, are tenants. He con- tinued: In June, 189 aggregating , there 3,146 298,880 mo~tgages and covering an area of 26,590,7 5 in Kansas. In Iliinois there were 297,247 morigages, amounting to $384,299,180 aud a per capiia debt of $106. He gave similar statistics in regard to Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, and said such computa- tions in the Southern States told the story of the establishment of landlordism of the feudal type. In closing the speaker said: It is not asserted that all are utterly corrupt and gone out of the way, but !hroug{ the ac- tion of the Government the highest intelli- gence, the purest morality and the truest con- science are perverted and subjugated by the worst. The lesson of history” is that Provi- dence deals ‘with social and’ political organ- isms as wholes. The rigkteous minority goes down with the unrighteous majority. This Na- tion too recently weded through a sea of blood to have forgottén it. The redness of the hori- zon toward which we travel may be the refiec- tion of another sea beyond. And still the peo- ple slumber! ——————— Capital in Banking. The capital employed in banking in the principal countries is as follows: Great Britain, $4,020,000,000; United States, Germany, $1.425,000,000; France, $1.025.000,000; A ustria, $830.000,000} Russia. $775,000,000; Ttaly, $455,000,000; da, $175,000,000, | the withering food | played under the very noses of the men { who had been forbidden to buy. THE CHINATOWN BOYCOTT, Hungry Mongolians Cast Long- ing Glances at Forbid- den Pork. PURCHASERS ARE ATTACKED. The Police Actively Defend the Ta- booed Meat Stores of Sam Yup Men. The Chinese butchers sat in their stores yesterday, through the heat and burden of the day, with the usual array of pork, rice and vegetables spread out to tempt the Mongolian palates, but purchasers came not, and the venders of pork knew, to their sorrow, that the boycott threatened by the See Yups was in active progress. Nearly all the butchers are Gaw Gong men, and belong to the Sam Yup Com- pany, and they declared war against the See Yups by the posting of notices over Chinatown, which were torn down by the police on Tuesday morning. Chong Wai, who was shot a few weeks Ky Wl TR - BT — L e L% lice as a consequence; for though the ighbinders are not actively interested in the quarrel, they are liable at any time to be employed by those who are. Vice-Consul King Owyang denied yester- day that the notice to boycott the Sam Yups had been issued by five of the com- panies. *“According to the best of my be- }iei," he said, “‘the order was made by some one who wanted to stir up trouble in Chinatown."” The readiness of the mass of the Chinesa to obey the order, however, proves beyond a doubt that the order came from men in authority. Should the dispute be carried home to the Chinese Government, the Sam Yups would undoubtedly get the best of it, as their president, Lee Li Chun, wears a large button, and has besidesa “pull” in official circles. Inthe meantime, however, the Sam Yups are relying very heavily on the police for protection. e In an English Criminal Court. Battered females who weep, who have come to it through drink, who courtesy with moldy gentility when they get four months; a pianist at a free-and-easy in a red shawl, who, merely to oblige a friend, sold a stolen watch; a shy servant-girl in a broad straw hat, for breaking and enter- ing her late master’s house and carrying off clothes and clocks; a decent postmis- tress in black, with comfortable, cook-like air, who, trade being bad at her little shop, had been abstracting coin from the letters intrusted to her. Counsel delivers a flow- ery, debating-society harangue in her be- half, by which he makes it clear tbat the veal criminals_are the public for putting temptation in the way of respecta- ble officials by sending registered letters. A7\ 1 i ol £ n ¥ U5 L bt i efa THE CHINESE CONSULATE. [Sketched by a “Call™ artist.] ago at the corner of Washington and Stockton streets, was also a native of the | Gaw Gong district, and the butchers, as | well as the rest of the Sam Yups, have | steadfastly expressed their \mlie?in the | guilt of Mook Ta1, who was arrested by the | police half an hour after the murder. This aroused the indignation of the See Yups, Mook Tai's company, to such an extent that many of the leading men have been drawn into the quarrel, and as a con- sequence the Six Companies are threat- ened with disruption. All morning yesterday the Sam Yup butchers sat in their stores and waited for the castom which did not come. Most | of the members of the other companies, | particalarly those of the tribe of See Yup, preferred to go hungry or purchase from a white man’s store rather than break the boycott by buying the goods of the Sam Yups. But there are many delicacies that can- | | not be procured out of ®Chinatown, and some of the laundrymen were unprepared | for the siege, and had been relying upon | credit at the butchers’ stores, so as the day wore on hungry glances were cast upon so temptingly dis- At 3 o'clock the despairing butchers, who saw their goods going to waste, held a council of war in the new store of You Chong, 823 Dupont street. No sooner had | the rumor of their assembling spread | abroad than the greater part of China- | town surged out of doors and almost | blocked Dupont street. The adjacent windows were full of yellow faces, and even the balconies and verandas | that commanded a good view of the situa- | tion were filled with interested spectators. The crowd, that was thickest round the Yow Chong store, scoffed and jeered at the butchers’ deliberations for a few moments, and then suddenly falling upon the cucum- bers, the pork and the rice, they threw them into the street and executed a war- dance on the fragments. | 1t was only for a moment, for at the first indication of trouble the police came rush ing down the street. The dense crowd, | however, impeded their progress to the | extent of preventing them from arresting | the culprits. After that began a lively game for Sar- geant Shea, his 6wn posse, and his four- teen extra policemen. Emboldened by the | activity of the police, hungry Chinamen belonging to the four companies that are ostensibly neutral in the quarrel began to | buy pork and rice, timidly and furtively. In’ all instances this proceeding aroused the fierce indignation of the majority who | stood firm to starve rather than raise the boycott, and the police were kept busy rushing from one store to another to pre- vent the merchandise being trampled un- der foot, and the goods snatched outof the purchasers’ hands. | & Sing Shun, 809 Dupont street, had his cucumbers and pork very roughly handled in the exciting game of hide-and-seek that | took place between the police and the more uigresbive of the boycotters, some- where about 4 o’clock. The police rushed at express speed, wherever there was a sign of disturbance, but with all their num- | bers they were only a mere handful in the | throng.” Just on the stroke of 4, how- | ever, they captured Ah Wong in the act of striking a piece of pork out of the band of a purchaser, at the Tai Yick store, 727 Du- | pont street. Ah Wong was arrested, and this salutary example had the effect of | preventing further demonstrations for the | time being. | Every one acquainted with Chinatown realized, however, that the strained con- ditions are very serious. This is no war of rival tongs; in fact, the most reputable and wealthy portioh of the Chinese community is involved, including the Consul-General. Neither Chong War, the murdered man, nor Mook Tai, the alleged assassin, belonged to the high- binder class. It is common gossip among the Chinese that if Mook Tai were the culprit the | crime was not entirely unprovoked. Chong Wai, so tiie story runs, had been paying undue attention to a married woman of the See Yup tribe. The husband wrote, commanding him to have nothing to do with the woman, but Chong Wai still continued his attentions, and the Sam Yup gossip is that Mook Tai, who belongs to the See Yup tribe, took the case in hand. About a third of the merchants take this view of the case. The remaining two- thirds would like to see Mook fi‘nl ac- quitted, and they resent the action of Con- sul Lai in exgreuing his neutrality, and desire to see the law take its course, The consulate has to be guarded by the | it was called,) before them. | medieval Ita | Wm Giover. Ru f there were no registered letters there would be no thieves. . Counsel gives me the impression of think- ing a good deal more of the selection of his phrases and the rounding of his periods than of his client, who, when at last he sits down, gets twelve months for his pains. Succeeded by a sturdy rogue, who, bein, benighted, broke into a church and dran the sacramental wine (any port in a storm) and, not content with that, made himself up & bed in the vestry on the crisp and im- niaculate surplices.” Impudent fellow! Eighteen months. And yet sacrilege seems a heavy gun to bring to bear upon a man just for procuring himself a night's lodg- ing.—The Cornhill Magazine. o The Term Bankrupt. The term bankrupt originated in connec- tion with the money changers of [taly. Thev sat in the market place with their money displayed on a bench (or banca, as When one of these financial gentlemen failed his banca (or bench) was said to be broken and he was styled a ‘‘bancorotto,” or bankrupt. The modern bank inherits its name from the unimposing money-bench (vanca) of el S To prose once signified to write in prose rather than in verse, and a prosy man was one who preferred to clothe his ideas in prosaic rather than in metrical form. ik et b HOTEL ARRIVALS. RUSS HOUSE, I H Thomas, Rio Vista John J Hamlvn, Butte Ross Campbell. Sta Rosa C B Vanderbilt, S Rafael 3 4 Rosa Frank Wiltse, Sn Ratnel ndrew City akland A F Pacheco, San Rafael attle Frank C Patten, Helena acto G Davis & chlidren, Sacto riord T W Johnson, Sacto P A Emith, Stockion s J F Bariholomew, Grass as Armstrons, M J Sawyer & w, JE MH S J A Pridout, Auburn Mrs Luckee, Yuba City R P Houseman, Vina mour, Petaluma W J Johnston & w, Oak- tersen. Galesbg land Mra J S Moody, Wis Mrs 1 Roach, Martel, Wis CH ictoria P M Brads, Wheatiand Valley W P Harkey & w, Yuba City P J O'R K C £ Edelston, Los Angeles H D Sp fonticello A K Prather & W, L A s Richar Mont'o R A Frater, lone frs A Haynes Sac W Blalr, Vallejo E McGettegan, Valleio T R Wilson, Portland T sen & w, Portld M Cordero. S Barbara Tameson, Bakersfd L K Grim, San Rafael J R Duvis, Lower Lake J D Wangh, Visalia B S Healy, San Jose M S Doyle, San Jose S G Littlé, Dixon J E Mills, Portland GRAND HOTEL 3 H Maxwell, Cal L Schillig, Yuba City D G MacLean, Salinas J H Logan, H Hawley & w, Grass J Laner, Cal Valley W H Maben, Los Angele: © N Cape, Gilroy R A Cooper, Gilroy H B Reed, Chico J W Gago, Chico 8 H Lu Shells, Biges Mackay, Ls Angeles A W Reed, Cal L Lonnikson, San Jose W L Eaton & w, Cal 8 W de Witt.Wash, D C nge'es B L Devera. Sn Ls Ublspo W I Ross & w, Sposane F V Flint, Sacramento J B Strange, Los Angeles D J Pratliers, Ark W H Simons, 5t Lou's C M C Peters & w, NI J M Lance & w, Eureka MissL Henderson, Fureka S A Seamance, Lompoc A J Mellow, 1. Rev S Hirst, Vallejo Mrs M A Garthle, Nev John P Grozier, Napa. T L Reed, Ridley A R Cheeseman & fy, Tulare Dave Dealy, Sacto PALACE HOTEL. C M Momer &, London A Hilbron, N Y IL P Lanester, N ¥ H 1 Plicher, Livermore S McMurten, Denver Lieut-ColM Hunsiker,Nov H G Williams, Pa A E McLen Denver iss @ Garthie, Ney I' Barton, Sacramento Fresno I3 CB Jefirie: D Joftries, Toronto T'W Jeftries, Toronto 8 A Leake, Dallas Mrs kd Price, Chicago H B Tenney son R 1'Thomas, Ney R McLaughlin, N Y James McLaughlin, N Y W M Alexander,w,c,Tex H D McDonald. Tex | T A Baker & £, Houston F X Mulford, Everetf N'A Corarrybias, Ls Ang R Donnizue, Los Ang J C Hubbard, Boston T Meliroy Jr, N M Rosensheim, N Y. A F Wainwright, Cal Mrs M Curtis, Fresno William Gillette, N ¥ F Blackwell, N ¥ H L Hunt, N Y J D Williams, Oakland H H Hinshaw, Burlngme Miss Bateman, Tulare €S Fay, Santa Barbara J M Léwis. w, Del Monte B Fennell & w, Tehama LICK HOUSE, Rev M Coleman, Mrysvl C C Fisher, Oakland C B Warndorft, Chica:o E Fulmer, 111 Mrs W Fowell, Elmira J A Douglass, Woodland E W Allen, San Jose J Klein, Lompoc 1 E Coil &fy, Woodland A 1 Barlett, Oroville € D Wright & fy, § Jose Mrs C L Steiner, Nev W H McMinn, San Jose E I Barnard, Lick Obsyy W H Clary, Shieep Ranch P J McCormick, Los Ang W H Clary'Jr, Sheep Rh P McRae, Hanjord J Robinson, Rio Vista ¥ D Wa:kins, San Jose F K Ledyard, San Jose L L James, Mill Valley LT Hatfleld, Sacto ¥ B Chandier, Elmira S Livingsion & {y, San Miss M L McIntosh, Sta Bernardino Rosa BALDWIN HOTEL. OB France, St Joseph C A Lesser, St Joseph H Chicaco H T Dyer. Madrone Spgs J G Sutton, Tacoma J T McNeeley, Los Ang B Luxen, Stockton A J H Todd, Secramento R A B Dowdell, St Helena E W E Burgess. Chicago A Howard & sstr, Omaha G H_Robinson, Chicago W E Clarke, Sacramento J B Hickok, Cal W M Dale, Philadelphia DOES NOT CARRY ARMS,| National Labor Army Holds Weekly Drills in Two Halls Now. ITS PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTS. Regiments Being Formed In Various Citles—Los Angeles to Have One. The National Labor Army, recently formed for the purpose of amalgamating trades unions into a military organization and which holds weekly meetings for discussion and drills, has finally adopted a preamble, which Messrs. Rose, Knox and Farquhar, the committee, have been preparing for some time, and it has also made a declaration of principles. Drills are now held in two halls, and to- night the ordinary military facings and movements will be practiced at 1159 Mission street and 818 Howard. President E.D. Marlatt said yesterday that the army was organizing all over the country, regiments having been started in Chicago, Cincinnati and other cities of the East. A mass-meeting was held in Los Angeles Jast Sunday at which a regiment was enlisted. Ed Layler of Los Angeles wrote to Mr. Marlatt that there were about 800 men in that city ready to begin drilling. % : “A mistaken impression has xne out,” explained Marlatt, “tothe effect that weare arming oursclves. Such is not the case at all, and, so far as we are concerned, there was no occasion whatever for Governor Budd’s proclamation against organizations drilling with arms. “If the Governor aimed that proclama- tion at our organization, he must have acted upon mere presumption, or else he was greatly misinformed. Perhaps he thought it was a necessary precaution, but it strikes me as extremely unwise for any executive in this country to act with un- warranted haste. Besides, his_proclama- tion, if of any effect at all, strikes a great many more societies than the Governor had in mind at the time. ““We have about 1100 men enlisted in this National Labor Army in this City al- ready, and there is not a weapon of any kind drilled with. All we do is to go through the ordinary military tactics with- out arms.”’ The observation was also made by Mr. Marslatt that Governor Budd received 1800 votes from the American Railway Union. Mr. Marlatt is president of the local union, and quite a number of the members of that organization are in the National Labor Army. He thought the Governor “should think of his obligations to the working eople before rushing into type with proc- amations, the effect of which was to throw some stigma upon organized bodies of wageworkers.”’ Following is the preambie adopted, and it speaks for itself: In this great age of progress the universal tendency is toward organization and combina- tion. The wealthy capitalists, combined and consolidated, monopolize the products of the world, while the rapid concentration ofjwealth and power in the hands of the moneyed classes has had an extremely injurious effect upon all branches of honorable toil. With the aid of their money and the power it wields over the masses, capital has been able 10 defy the will of the people and has prosti- tuted our Congress, the Legislatures and the judiciary. In vain have we searched for relief. The ballot, it has been declared, is the great and only remedy. We have tried forced to a_realization of the fact that the ballot, as it is used to-day, does not express the true verdict of the will of the people. 1t s & notorious fact that corporations and trusts compel their employes to vote directly against the various interests of said employes, thereby depriving the workin%men of the only Feacenble means of solving this great struggle. With the power of his money does the capit- alist control the very existence of the men that have made him rich, being able to confront the worker and his family with the menace of starvation, unless said worker consents to add more links to the chsin of slavery that already binds him. Now does this condition of affairs demand our most earnest attention. From a bitter past experience we have come to the conclusion that as individuals, or as individual trades unions_acting independently, we can never successfully fight against the great and massive ageregation of wealth. Never can we right this great and crushing wrong until & body composed of all wageworkers of this country shali come into existence. The time has arrived when we can no longer permit ourselves to sink lower and lower until bevond all possible hope of redemption. The labor of this country must organize as one union of all the working classes. We must stand shoulder to shoulder and upon election day march to the pollsand castour votes as frée men, not as hired slaves, and we must pro- tect the purity of the bsllot at &ny cost or sac- rifice. Then once more shall the American flag_occupy the proud position for which our forefathers fought so valiantly to give it—the flag of a free and independent people. Never more will we as a nation bow to the will of the money-bags and allow property rights to be considéred paramount to human life. We must call a halt when our railroad | magnates ean get behind their property rights, | asinterpreted by our supreme courts, for this | they do now, showing conclusively that life is regarded by the tribunais of this country as secondary to property rights. The capitalist does not have to arbitrate or make any concessions to labor. He simply degrades the emblem of this country by wrap- ping it around himself. and he then ealls upon an army, composed of the working classes and maintained and supported by the wageworkers of this country, to enforce his views of the rights of property as against the natural rights | of human life, which we know, to our cost, is | readily and inyariably done. | “When we ask for bread and shelter we are fed with bullets and housed in jails, and are shot down for simply ssking recognition of our natural rights; and ali thisin a country more blessed by nature than anv other on the face of the carth; ina country whose Declaration of Independence sets forth that all men are born free and equal and are entitled to the in- alienable rights of life, liberty and the pursnit of happiness. Therefore it is imperatively the duty of every man who has the weliare of this country at leart to do all in his power to securé, through the organization of this army, the power and freedom guaranteed to all true eiti- zens of these United States; the rightof a true and honest verdict of the people at the ballot- box; thedueand proper regard for human life by the powers of government in all contro- versies wherein_both life and property rights determined to keep the streets of the City clean, and would aid the court in every way to effect that object. All the associa- tion desired was for the court to reprimand the defendant, but if any other cases of a similar nature occurred the full penalty shoulid be inflicted. Justice Kerrigan severely reprimanded the defendant and dismissed the case. NOTORIOUS THIEF ARRESTED. Pete Cramer, Alias * Frenchy,” Had Burglar’s Tools on Him. Pete Cramer, alias “Frenchy,” a notori- ous thief, was arrested yesterday by Po- licemen Reynolds and Donovan. They wereon a McAllister-street car and saw Pete acting suspiciously on the corner of Van Ness avenue. They jumped off the car and_unobserved watched his move- ments. He attempted to go into & house on McAllister street near Franklin, but was scared off by the children coming out of the school close by. He then tried to enter two houses on Grove street and the officers thought it was time to stop him. As soon as he saw them he ran, but was caught on Fulton street and taken to the ity Prison. ‘When searched a “jimmy’’ and three skeleton keys were found in_ his pockets and he was charged with having burglars’ tools in his possession. The officers ex- pect to be able to connect him with some of the recent burglaries. In his pocket was found a pocket-book and in his room a number of trinkets. The officers will try to find who the owners of the articles 'IJI'EEHANI[IS' INSTITUTE, Why Directors Bush, Fisher and Bardet Resigned From the Board. Mr. Fisher Was Deposed as Chalr- man of the Committee on Fish Exhibits. The resignation of three members of the board of directors of the Mechanics’ Insti- tute was due to causes widely different from those formally assigned. “The reasons I got out of the board,” said Alexander Bardet yesterday after- noon, *“‘were numerous. [ had supposed when I was elected that I was expected to work for the good of the institute. Ifound, however, that I was expected to advance the interests of a certain clique, and that my vote was not my own. The members of the clique? Well, Mr. Cumming is very active in it. Mr. Hallidie? No, I do not think so. “Then there were other reasons—per- sonal ones—which made my position in the board disagreeable. For instance, one member, Mr. Formbhals, told me that I was put in by means of ngob. My name was proposed by Charles E. Mooser, and seven members of the eight present voted for me. “As an example of the way individual interest is allowed to interfere in the work- ings of the board I may mention the bids for the candy, icecream and popcorn privi- leges. Three bids were received. One offered 27 per cent of the receipts, another 3314 per cent and the third a lump sum in cash. Now it does not require a mathe- matical head for a man to see that of the two percentage bids the one offering 33%5 er cent was the more advantageous. Yet E{r. Cumming actually championed the 27 per cent bid. Who finally got the con- tract? Mr. Thane, who offered $2290 for the candy and icecream privileges. That was more than by the percentage plan was realized from all three privileges at the big citrus fair. Mr. Thane afterward paid us $360 for the popcorn privilege. I believe that when a member has sup- plies to purchase Mr. Formhals goes around on the outside and gets figures so as to know what they ought to cost. The directors are making it very uncomforta- ble for him—in hopes he will resign, I uess. “About the decorations? It was this way: A week ago Friday the board held a special executive session to consider plans for decorations. The board met again on Tuesday and at that time, on my recom- mendation, adopted Mr. Tidball’s plan of ornamenting the Pavilion with paper flow- ers. Wednesday morning I told Tidball to start the work, and on Thursday I wrote my resignation. “*As a matter of fact the whole transac- tion was not business-like, for there were no drawings or designs submitted, and the contract was awarded simply upon the written descriptions in the bid.” Mr. Fisher could not be found last night and Mr. Bardet was asked the reason for that gentleman’s resignation. “T do not know positively,’” was the re- Ely, *‘but I presume it was because of the oard’s action concerning the fish com- mittee, of which Mr, Fisher was chairman. Mr. Fisher had arranged to have the Fish Commission supply the trout for the exhibit. The commission wanted one of their regular keepers employed to care for the exhibit, and to this X\?L Fisher agreed. The board, however, decided to employ some one else, and as a result they will get their trout where they can. Not only that, but at the following meeting, at which Mr. Fisher was not present, they deposed his committee and appointed another, of which Mr. Camming is chairman.” “My reason for resigning,” said Mr. Bush, ‘“‘were those assigned in my note. I have been so engaged with private busi- ness that I have not been able to attend a meeting for three months.” Daisy was originally the eye of day or day’s eye. are at stake, and the protection of our rights by the Government as guaranteed by our Na- tional constitntion. To accomplish these objects and_the objects set forth in our declaration of principles and constitution have we organized the National Labor Army of the United States of America. James W. Rose, Harry A. Knox, Frank Far- quhar, committee on preamble. The declaration of principles contains the following: 1. An honest ballot at any cost. 2. The value of human life before property rights. 3. Government ownership of land and all public utilities such as railroads, steamships, telegraphs, mines, ete. h\ /1 KNOWLEDG Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly uuc{ The many, who live bet- ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to 4. Reduction of the hours of labor in propor- tion to the progress of production. 5. Municipal ownership of ail municipal utilities such as strect transit systems, %u, electric light and water service; all public work to be done by day’s labor. 6. Executive officers’ of the United States to be elected by a direct vote of the people. 7. Ultimately the establishment of & co- operative commonwealth. FOR COLEAN STREETS. The Merchants’ Association Determined to Stop Abus The Merchants’ Association seem deter- mined upon making San Francisco a clean City so far as the streets are concerned in more ways than one. Frank Franger, a teamster, appeared be- fore Justice Kerrigan in Judge Low's court yesterday to answer to the charge of driving a garbage wagon on the streets without a cover. The attorney for the Merchants’ Asso- ciation said there was no desire to punish the defendant, but the arrest was made as a warning to others. The aseociation was the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative nrinciples embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. 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