The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1895. . ———— e e e SR e b s 0 e S R e s e e e e et e S s e R e e 11 SUTRO BOILER PURCHASE: Partly of Eastern Manufac- ture That Is Covered by a Patent. FRANCHISE IS NOT VIOLATED.| The Rallroad Company Resents the Complaint of the Manufac- turers’ Association. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- iation is after the Sutro Railroad Com- The board of directors of that as- sociation, whose sole purpo: r existence is the protection and defense of home in- lustry, complains that the Sutro Railroad Company, whose head and front is the or of 8an Francisco, has violated, or is about to violate, the franchise granted 1o it by this City This violation. e of §0C] pany. t is claimed, rests in the cor Sutro admits the pur- r, but denies the violence claimed to have been made to the fran- chi; > complamnt made to the board of directors of the Manufacturers’ and Pro- ducers’ Association inspired the following letter from the association: 1 95.2 TLE! D PRODUCERS ATION OF CALIFORNIA. At a ors held last that MANUFACTURERS Company f our board of dir t was brought to their attent for an_Eastern-make operation of said railway. structed to communicate with subject and most respectfully ion 1o section 9 of the franchise company permission to con- operate & railroad, which section in is privilege is granted on the condi- achinery, iron and cars required in iction «nd operation of the railroad shall fornis manufacture, except such as are ured here or may be governed by a wise the grantee. his successors or acquire no rights hereunder, as in fon of this condition the privilege and reby granted shall become null aud , on behalf of this associstion, to call on to the fact that theré is no r manufactured anywhere else d States that is not manufactured nd State of equal guality, and re- srder be given to the California nd if the order has already e East that 18t the conditions set forth in ted section be rigidly compliea ur immediate reply, I am, for the on, yours truly, Frep H. DINGLE, Assistant Secretary. Iroad Company, by its sec- : promptly responded in the fol- Association to infer what may not be set 1t in sufficiently specific detail: * and Producers’ Associ and 3, sixth floor, Mi »nor to acknowledge re that the Sutro Railroad Company has not purchased anything other than of Califor- & manumacture that could be made here or was not governed by patents. I might add that in the purchase of some s company has also been guided only to have them of such construction as ntee perfect safety to the public while ng that misstatements have been concerning the company, 1 am, with ry truly yours, W. C. LitriE, Secretary Sutro Railroad Company. v Little of the Sutro Railroad y stated yesterday that the com- y has erdered what is called a sectional ater-tube boiler, 70 per cent of the con- ruction of which is of Eastern manufac- ure and 30 per cent of California manu- are. ast,” said Mr. Little, “must be made onstruction. ‘Our franchise admits of the purchase of onted articles, and this kind of boiler is ented. The California-street mpany, which is operated under pre- the same franchise as the Sutro lroad Company, secured the same er in preference to all others at an ad- ed price. The same desire actuates —that of securing the utmost safety. \ese hoilers are actually explosion-proof, one of the most essential items to be considered in the selection of a boiler for a plant such as this is to be. “The cowmpany would gladly have made the entire purcfiase here could it have been done, but as that is impossible, and as it is determined to procure the very best, the purchase has been made asI have The records of the United States overal years an average of 200 »sions annually, with an aggre- ives lost each year. This ought gate of 600 | to be a sufficient incentive for the purchase a ive ought to be appreciated. These are used in the majority if not all boile of the street-railroad plants in San Fran- cisco and adjoining towns. p “Besides these recommendations, Mr. has his entire satisfaction. But to As a mere {-nin!er[ will say that the Risdon Iron | Vorks, 2 company that is largely a mem- ber of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, has its warehouses full of Tastern-manufactured goods, for which it is agent. % “The order for the sectional water-tube boilers for the Sutro Railroad Company was placed with the Fulton Engineering and Ship-building Works, which has the contract for the power plant.” THE WALKERLEY ESTATE Charges of Fraud Against the Trustees Were Filed Yesterday. A Sensation Is Promised When the Case Comes to Trial In the Circult Court. The trustees of the Walkerley estate— Frank Barker, Harry D. Hawkes and Columbus Waterhouse—are accused of mismanaging their trust and suit was be- gun in the Unmited States Circuit Court vesterday by the English heirs to have Barker and Hawkes removed and a re- ceiver appointed. The estate has been in litigation for years, and after being tried in the Superior courts of Alameda and San Francisco counties and the Supreme Court of California has at last been carried into the Federal courts, and may in time reach the Supreme Court of the United States. The suit is entitled John Walkerley, Martin Walkerley, Jane Capes, Jobn John- son, Hannah Allison, Mary Smith, Annie Sinley and Mary 8. Doughty, residents of Great Britain, vs. Frank Barker, Harry D. Hawkes and Columbus Waterhouse, trus- tees of the will of the late William Walk- erley; Mary E. Bacon and Harry D.Hawkes as the executors of the last will of Martin Bacon, a deceased trustee under the last will of William Walkerley, and William R. Bacon, Mary L. Bacon, Lizzie M. Bacon, Annie M. Bacon, Mabel B. Halnan, Frank Barker and Betsy Walkeriey Newman. The property in dispute is the Walkerley block on the northwest corner of Post and Stock- ; a boiler not made by Califor- | atly given an order or | it be counter- | nsive thereto beg leave | “That part which is made in the | ere, because there is no factory here for | Cable | utro and the company in this pur- | on-explosive boiler, and the in- | 1sed these boilers in other plants | ! ton streets, and which is now occupied by the Pacific Union Club. The complaint made is a very long one. n it the trustees are charged with having neglected the property placed in their keeping and through mismanagement al- lowing it to go to waste and ruin. It also asserts that the trustees, one and all, con- verted much of the funds of the estate to their own versonal use. { A fair sample of the charges made is the | following: “They only pretended to carry | out their trust. They had no authority to take possession of the Walkerley estate in this City or the residence of the deceased |in Oakland; yet, without warrant or ! authority, they took possession of both, | disregarding the trust made in them.” | Other charges of a similar nature are | made and then the complainants ask that | a receiver be appointed for the estate and that Trustees fiarker and Hawkes be re- | moved. They also demand an accounting and ask that the defendants be compelle to turn over to the court all the funds of the estate now in their possession. William Walkerley died on the 16th of September, 1887, leaving an estate valued at $730,000. The plaintiffs in the case were his nieces and nephews, and it is they who | have been fighting the. trustees for the last ven years. It is that when the case comes to trial it will become very inter- esting, as Mrs. W.J. Burbank, who was the dead millionaire’s wife, is going to take a band in the action. She evidently | thinks that her interests are suffering and that she should do something in the matter. All the papers in the case have now been served, and when the action comes to trial some interesting developments are promised. AN ESCBOSS AND CLUB Buckley Meets the Occidental and Chides the Lagging | Members. | A Fatal Omission of Steam Beer in | the Fortieth —The Coming | Entertainment. There isnot much downg in politics just | now beyond the efforts of Buckley with the aid of the Occidental Club, better known | as the “‘Home for Poltical Incurables,” | to make some little show. He tried to get a meeting in tbe Fortieth District last | week, but the secretary carelessly omitted | the words “steam beer” from the printed | iuvitations, and all the people who came could have assembled under an umbreila. | Then they attempted on Wednesday to | organize the Forty-second District, and | orders were given to the political revolvers to be there. Garibaldi Flynn was in- | structed to bring a delegation of ‘‘stew | bums,”” and Hugh Crummy was ordered | to bring some of the boys from Butcher- town. With all this exertion only six peo- ple signed the roll. These discouraging results nave depressed the Livermore viticulturist very much, and he has had several conferences with his friends. One result is that it is announcsd that his head- quarters will be at Langdon’s saloon, on Stockton street, near Market, in the line of approach to the Occidental Clab. _ The ex-boss does not desire “de push” to immediately jump to the conclusion that be is dispensing free drinks for politics. Times are not as flush as they used to be. It is hard to get money, and until there is some way of raising campaign funds ‘“‘de push’’—‘‘stew bums,” ‘‘hopheads’ and all—will have to go dry and husky. Another scheme which did not work was when he had Aleck Greggains and ‘‘Feet” Maloney lead him about the districts to see the boys. It is said that Buckley in this trip around talked in a very confi | tial way, intimating to various would-be | leaders " that, although. in the pastcam- | paign fands had been expended. by him- | self persoually, it would be different here- | after; that district leaders would handle any campaign money to be expended in their districts. Where he expected to get the so-called campaign funds he did not say. The trip was a failure. He did not suc- ceed in bringing to his standard any per- | sons who had political goods to deliver. Another scheme of Buckley’s advisers is to have an entertainment at the Occidental Club at an early date, for which invita- tions will be profusely scattered over the town. There will be refreshments galore, a large supply of stew for the “stew and ‘“‘samshu” for the “*hopheads.” It was proposed to have Sheriff Whelan sing his favorite song, “Pat Malone Forgot That He Was Dead,”” but Pat Dundon ob- jected., He said that it was Whelan who forgot that he was dead. This rivalry between Whelan and Dun- don has threatened to split the club, which | is too small already to stand any farther | defections. Dundon, whose resolutions when a member of *he Board of Supervis- ors to reduce laboring men’s wages so en- | deared him to the working classes, prefers | to have his friends style him next Sheriff | Dundon, but Whelan, whose deputies con- stitute the principal support of the club, | considers that destiny marked him out for | two terms and insists that Dundon’s title | should-be spelled “necks,”” because he says | that's where he will get it. It is said that Whelan had a talk with | Buckley about these rivalries. The ex- boss is said to have stroked and caressed his leg in a way familiar to some very prominent members of the Democracy in | this town. It is said tohave had the effect of making Whelan think he was all right. But Dundon says that Buckley wasn’t caressing hisleg but simply pulling it. There was a meeting at the Occidental Club on Thursday night. For two days before, Billy Harrison, Buckley’s nephesw, Tommy Glynn, Sheriff Whelan’s deputies, Dick Creighton, Dundon, Sam Newman, whom Buckley affectionately terms “Ola Faithful,” John Burns of the Whale lodg- ing-house, Eddie Farrell and the “Banjo- eyed Kid”’ had been working industriously to have an attendance of revolvers. The gathering was not what was ex- pected nor what it_should have been after | such preparation, but it gave Buckley the | opportunity he had been seeking to give them all to understand that the work that had been done was not satisfactory. | All the members of the club present | united in impressing on one another that the fact of Iailure must be studiously re- pressed. Another matter considered was the motto to be adopted by the club. Sam Newman proposed *“When Buck is aeain in the sad- dle.”” Dundon preferred ‘“Buck is a good shepherd; he cares for the lambs,’”” and “Feet” Mnloney offered, “Buck for us— see!” Final action on this important sub- ject was deferred to another meeting to fiive Garibaldi Flynn, president of the tew Bum Society, and Hugh Crummy of the Slaughter-house Cleaners’ Brigade, an opportunity to present their views. COCOANUTS AS COSMETICS. | If Your Complexion Needs Brightening Try This Method. Does your complexion need brightening up and cleansing? If so, here isa simple home-made cosmetic which is harmless and almost immediate in its good effect. Buy a fresh cocoanut and grate it; squeeze the juice through a piece of white muslin. The milk which comes after the straining is the cosmteic. Wash the face and hands with it thcroughly, rubbing it well into the skin. It will speak for itself after being used. Z In using any cosmetic or cream upon the face always rub the skin up, not down. This will have g tendency to drive away wrinkles, and if done faithfutly will give to the face a fresh and youthful look.— New York World. ——————— How liftle the population of France moves about isshown by the last census. Out of 38,000,000 inhabitants, 21,000,000 live in the town or village in which they were born, and 30,500,000 have not moved out of their native departments, Only 1,500,000 nave immigrated to France from colonies or foreign countries. | THE STORY OF THE WRECK, Judge McKisick’s Graphic Peroration in the Stan- ford Case. A TELLING BIT OF HISTORY. Judge Gllbert Says the Court Will Give the Case as Early a De-~ cision as Possible. Judge McKisick, for the United States, made a brilliant finish to his argument in the Stanford case yesterday. His was the concluding argument in the matter. He | consumed all the morning in going o\'cr{ the law points raised by Judge Garber m his argument the day before. After the noop recess he dropped his | books and notes and swung into a splendid peroration, which, while covering all the law of the case, reviewed ih graphic })eriqu the story of first the supplication or aid to build and then the wrecking of the Central Pacific and the conspiracy to $55,000,000 from the first mortgage and from the Government, and with more than ?3,000, 000 from the people of the State of California— what did they do with it ? This bill teils you what they did; it tells you that Leland Stenford, C. P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker, having the Cen- tral Pacific in their clutches and by the throat, made it contract with Leland Stanford, C. P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker, by the name of Charles Crocker & Co. and the Contract and Finance Compans, for the Central Pacific to pav them what they chose to charge, and the only link missing in the whole transaction is the books of those in- stitutions. The treasury of the Central Pacific Railroad Company was depleted absolutely, and what do we find in the place of its treas- ure. Magnificent private palaces, splendid pri- vate fortunes, beyond even the hope and dreams of Crassus. There is where it went, as we all know and &8 this record shows, in the estate of Lelana Stanford. Was there no wrong in that? It was argued here that these bonds when issued and granted to these railroad corporations were extended under the laws and statutes of 1862, without wrong. Does not the law condemn, in the most fierce and energetic mauner, the contract which Leland Stanford made with Leland Stan- ford to wreck and ruin this corporation? And yet the Government has no elaim against them! “The toughtnotto be allowed in a court of justice to set up any liability against these stockholders, because it was not in the contemplation of Congress to collect this money.” Now, if the court please, the Attorney-Gen- eral, on behalf of the Governmnent, has come into a court of justice and asks the court to compelrestitution, at least to the extent which Leland Stanford is responsible. As his humble Tepresentative I am here representing the United States. I have broughtinto this eourt of justice and laid upon its altar— Here the counsel cited his authorities from the constitution, and the supportin, acts of Congress, of the Legislature of Cali- ATTORNEY JOHN GARBER MAEKING HIS ARGUMENT IN i STANFORD CASE. [Sketohed in court by a “ Call” artist.] THE wrong and rob its benefactor, the United | States Govern ment. In the course of his long address Judge | McKisick said: | Ishall devote only a few minutes to answer- ing that argument 5o earnestly and 0 stzenu- because Congress charfered Railroad Company without 1mposing liability upon the stockholders, there- fore Congress did not intend to look to the lia- | bility of the stockholders of the Central Pa- | cific Railroed Company of California under the lizbility that the Stajo of California imposed | upon them. | 'There is no provision in the constitution of the United States imposing any liability upon | the stockholders of a corporation; theré is no general law of the United States Congress im- | posing any liability upon the stockholders ofa | | corporation. The word ‘‘corporation’ mentioned in the constitution of the U States. Therefore when Congress char: {-the Union Pacific Raiiroad Company it left the | stockholders just where the law left them; it | said nothing about them at all. But counsel appealed to your Honors to per- sonally put yourselves in place of members of Congress,or to go into Congress and look for | | yourselves at this matter, and see what you would fcel about it. Granfed. You are now in Congress in 1862, when this scheme was first inaugurated. You saw there | with what anxiety the Congress of the United | States wanted to have this road built. Would | you not have seen some anxiety also on the | partof the California corporation to get as | much out of Congress as it could to aid itin building the road? | 1f you had not seen it then would you not haye seen it when they came back to you in July, 1864, and wanted you to do—what? To | give them the privilege of mortgaging the | railroad to the extent of the bonds which the | | Government had sgreed to loan them under | the act of 1862. Not only that, but they | would want you to give them, in addition to the land grant, just double the amount that | the act of 1862 gave them. | And standing in the halls of Congress and looking down the corridors of time you wonld haye seen great armies of men engaged in | building that road from the Missouri River to | the West, and from Sacramenio to the East. | You would have seen the inception there of the | greaxemndusuial improvement that had ever | een ineugurated in the United States. u | would have seen great loads of United States | bonds going out of the treasury of the United | States — 27,000 $1000_bonds—coming West. | You would have seen 27,000 other bonds taken | {rom the treasury of {he railroad company on their first mortgage—$55,000,000. You would have seen the City and County of | San Francisco, to get out of iis entanglement | with them, had paid them $400,000. You would bave seen that Sacramento had paid | them $300,000; that Santa Clara, San Joaquin and Placer counties all paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars more. You would have seen that they persuaded the State of California to donate and pay the interest on $1.500,000 for twenty years. When you came to pile it up | together you would have seen about $60,000,- | 000 given to these corporations or loeried 10 them to baild these roads with. And;when, in 1869, they came together at Ogden, you would have'seen the road completed. But what then occurred? You are still in | Congress. You would have heard in the at- | mosphere something clamoring to look aiter this money that the United States has loaned to these péople, and you would have been there and passed the act of 1871—two years after the road was completed—by which® the Govern- | ment of the United States was attempting to secure the money which it had loaned ther, And when the Supreme Court had decided the case in the ninety-first U.S. you would have found that that had done you no good. Then in 1873 you would have passed another act looking to better security to get the momney | 1 ack. And while that act was pending in the Su- preme Court of the United States and was re- orted in the ninety-eighth U. 8., after having Peen onice artied and 1iotadelded, you. wanld have found yourselves o earnestly desiring to make it absolutely certain that the Govern- ment should not lose its money that you would pass the act of 1878. That act, if the court pleases, has not been discussed here at all or in the Circuit Court, nor did the Cireuit Judge give to it any con- sideration whatever. But yet it isone of the most important acts that have been passed by Congress. And, furthermore, if you had remained in Congress, only for a8 year more. what would have happened 2 You would have found these meun, C. % Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, coming to Washing- ton in their private cars and coming into the nalls of Congress and whining there, “We are ruined; the Central Pacific is ruined. You ust give us 100 years within which to pay this debt and reduce the interest.” It was wrecked—the Central Pacific was al- ready wrecked ten yenrs bejore. And now they whine for time. That is what you would have seen there, and when you left Congress and came West, when you reached the Central Pacific Railroad you would have found indeed a wreck. ‘The beautiful silyer-palace cars are one. All along the route you would have ound wreck and ruin strewn. Haw has this happened ? You would have heard of smoke, what was in the atmosphere, but you would not have known the fscts. Now you have been transferred from the halls of Congress to the bench and the United State- comes here to you and tells you who worked it and why and how it was worked. With the | Tne engineer fornia and decisions of thecourts. Con- tipuing he said: T have brought in in support of the claim of the United States this eontract between the parties, and ! have pointed out to you that the contract is paramount. I have shown that in breaking that contract not only the corpor- ation but that Lelapd Stanjord broke it. And 1 am here asking on behalf of the United States that you bind the ligaments and restore that coutract to its unity, and in support of that I nave laid at the foot of that altar— . Here the counsel named over his author- ities touching this point. 1 have, to_protect them, brought here the in- terests of the Government furnished by the Supreme Courtof the United States to guard as sentinels these things that I nave lald bare upon that altar. What hes the appellee brought here? A de- murrer cupported by a rhetoric so briiliant and scintillating thatit has illuminated the darkest continent, gone to Africa, and by & torrent of eloquence that poured out of this temple and resounded through the halls of this building s if 8 mountain had been lifted. _And then what did it bring for them? Poor little French vs. Teschemacher and the little diminutive which is labeled by the Legislature and the Supreme Court, *‘Statute of Limita- tions,” upon the liability for this action. Will this court strip from the altar what T have placed there as offerings in support of the United States and’enshrined there by the code and the constitution, or will it say as the Supreme Courtsaid to Mr. Butler in a certain Your eloquence is vain here. The halls of Congress is the proper theater for that, We caunotswerve from the letter of this contract for eloquence. We do not possess the pardon- ing power. We cannot condone your fault. We cannot and will not look to consequences. look through all this transaction and sec it from our position in the halls of Congress. We have seen the wreck and ruin brought on this corporation. We have seen in the contract which you made with the United States an ob- ligation to pay this debt. We can see on this altar the laws and contracts which require yon to pay it. We cannot entertain you here at all. Goback to the halls of Coneress, where you have been pleading for ten years—not because you deserve it but_because you have gotten so much from the United States that you have confidence you can get more. We will examine these gquestions and if we find you liable we will adjust that liability so that you will not be wronged nor will ‘the United States be wronged in the relief we give.” Whatever conclusion you may come to, whether it visits upon this appeliee the over- ruling of this demurrer, you will say to this counsel who has so eloquently argued this case: “We must and we will administer jns- tice though the heavens fall. We do not look to consequences, We will simply investigate and determine the law of this case as if it were but a trifling thing. We cannot look to widows or children. We cannot look to the magnitude of the case. We look simply to the Iaw of the contract and will administer it.” in conclusion Judge McKisick asked that the case, because of the interests in- volved, be given the consideration of the court in the hope of an early decision. Judge Giibert said the court would take the matter under its immediate study and | would render a decision as early as pos- sible. PHOTOGRAPHY IN MUNICIPAL ENGINEER- 1¥G.—An interesting use of photography is found in the iast annual report of the City Engineer of Rochester, N. Y. To meet the requirements of construction his de- partment had found it necessary to prepare 196 photographic negatives, 300 prints and 156 lantern slides. Photography was used for many purposes. 1In the first place, for a record of old structures, which may have had an important place in the early local history. Secondly, as a record of construc- tion, for the purpose of study and also for the purpose of spurring the inspectors and contractors to greater care. Flashlight pictures are taken of the inside of com- pleted sewers, o that the details of the work can be examined at leisure. Many photographs are made for the law depart- ment, to be used in cases of suits for per- sonal injury by reason of defects in walks or pavements. Copies are pasted into sub- stantial albums, and are of constant use in discussion with Aldermen and other officials, as well as taxpayers. On one oc- casion it was necessary to educate the pub- lic of the city to a better comprehension of the question of beauty in bridge design. repared a lecture on city bridges and illustrated it by 140 lantern slides made from photographs. The slides were selected to show existing structures which are failures, in direct comparison with successful and beautiful specimens of bridge building. The lecture had a good effect, and the engineer had the satisfaction of securing a bridge that was artistic as well as useful. el GaRu g The United States produces 12,000,000 bushels of buckwheat a year. AGRICULTURAL STAPLES, The Subject of Their Pro- tection Discussed by David Lubin. FOR A BOUNTY ON EXPORTS. Lucld Explanation of Views Show- ing the Inadequacy of Free- Trade Remedles. The following communication on David Lubin’s proposition for the protection of agricultural staples will be read with in- terest, more especially as the writer is the author of the proposition and a Califor- nian. His plan for the amelioration of trade and agriculture has been held by some of the leading thinkers of the United States as worthy of more than the usual consideration, and the Home Market Bul- letin of Boston—a recognized market authority—has discussed it at length, In reply Mr. Lubin states: Editor Home Market Bulletin; Boston, Mass. Your September issue contained a lengthy edi torial review of the proposition for the protec- tion of agricultural staples by an export bounty in reply to a letter from Alex R. Smith, the editor of Seaboard of New York. With your permission I will briefly review some of your statements, in the hope that free and impartial discussion of this quession must in the end serve a useful purpose. On pages 3 and 4 you quote from a speech whieh I delivered on this proposition before the Portland (Or.) Chamber of Commerce, as follows: Summing up we find that becanse we Imprt we must export. We caunoi export protected manu. factures, because foreign naiions will not accept them on account of the artificial enbancement of their prices caused by protection. We must, there fore, offer them some commodity in exchauge for our imports at the world’s free-trade prices. That commodity is agricultural staples, and this Is veri- fied by the United States statistics, which show that our exports are as follows: Mining, forestry, fisheries, manufactures and miscellaneous, 26 per cent: agricultural staples, 74 per cent. To dimin- ish or to cease exporting agricultural staples at {ree-trade prices would compel us to diminish or to cease exporting, or to bankrupt the conntry by paying in bulifon. It was shown previously that 25 5001 as we accept the world's price for the ex ports of our agricuitural staples we must also ac- cept the same price for the greater quantity sold for home use. Those, therefore, who assert that agricultural staples are directly or indirectly pro- tected are in error. We must conclude, therefore. that mannfactures are protected at the expense of agricuitural staples, and es the cost of protection Is very great the un- instice therefore is very glaring and without a par- allel in economic history among civilized nations. The remedy Is clear. We must place all Ameri- can industries on an equal footing. We must pro- tect none or we must protect all. In protecting an industry producing a surplus for export we must adopt adifferent method than that for the protec- tion of home manufactures against imports. The latter requires a tariff against imports, while the former requires o bounty on the exports. The bounty on the exporis will o for staple agriculture precisely what the protection tariff does for home faotures. and the operation of the two will tlie cost of protection. At the conelusion of the quotetion the Home Market Bulletin seys: The one grand assumption upon which this theory rests Is that staple agricultural products are not and cannot be protected, directly or indirectly, by duties on imports when there is a surplus for export, and its only other basis is that protection enhances the cost of the manufactures and other products which farmers buy. - Yes, this one “grand assumption,” or rather the two assumptions above specified, once proven groundless would render this proposi- tion of no value whatever. I may be permitted toadd right here that if the Home Market Bul- letin has proven its case by the arguments given against this proposition then it has ren- dered the protection wing of our political party a great and lasting service. If on the contrary it can be eclearly shown that the premise, argament and conclusion by the lome Market Bulletin will not stand the test of fact, logic and experience it may reasonably be expected that it will the more readily be in a mood to plece this proposition to rigorous test best calculated to determine the real truth at issue, regardless of any bias engen- dered by proconceived notions, Continuing, the Home Market Bulletin says: Doubtless Mr. Lubin nnd, Mr. Smith will agree that if these premises are proved nntenable the whole theory must fall. As & partial answer (o the first, take this extract from the Chicago Inter Ocean “The farmers of Americ: 1890 and 1892 by the 1 cry, ‘Liverpool fixes the price of wheat,” now have painful leisure ch to discern that Liverpool fixes the price in accord with the American demand. When our factories are running fufl time and when wages are high the price of wheat is bigh in Chicago, and cousequently verpool.” o then, according to the Inter Ocean, “When our factorles are running full time and when wages are high the price of wheat is high in Chicago, and consequently in Liverpool.” With the permission of the Home Market Bulletin I will reverse the order of this state- ment, nsing the words “agricuitural staples” in place of “wheat” and let us see how it will reach the mind’s eye: “When the prices of agricultural staples are high in Liverpool, consequently in Chicago. then oar factories sre running full time at hich wages.” The two statements are clear enough as far as simple words can make them clear. There should not be any misunderstanding as to their meaning, vet they convey a diametri- cally different idea and lead to a radically dif- ferent conclusion. The question is which is right? Upon a proper understanding of this rests the solution of the greatest economic question confronting the American people, and in the solution of which is involved the tendency of the republic. If the Home Market Bulletin and the Chi- cago Inter Ocean have any doubtsin the mat- ier let them take these two statements to the capable and honest political cconomists of our country; to the men of experience in the wheat pits or eotton exchanges; to experienced man- ufacturers; to men having a wide range of business experience in this and in foreign countries, and in almost every instance they will find that the first statement is wrong—the second is right. So evident and clearis the proof present that I am spared the task of copying @ mass of facts and figures by the timely appearance of & most convincing article in the, very same issue of the Home Market Bulletin itself. The article in question is on page 9andis reproduced here: ARGENTINE AS AN AGRICULTURAL COMPETITOR. The Arzentine Republic produced in 1894 more than 2,000.000 tons of wheat. In 1878 it im- ported $10,000,000 worth of wheat. These two statements will show at what pace the country is being developed. A single railway that fifieen years ago did not CArry & ton of wheat now trans- Dorts 427,000 tons a year, and others in propor- tion, and yet no one who knows anything ef the country will deny that but a smail fraction of land has been sown even in the wheat belt; so thai If all should be sown which 1s adapted csecfally to wheat the 2,000,000 tons would be 20,000.000; in- deed, it will not be long before 10,000,000 per a num’ is reactied. We are speaking now of the northwestern belt, but we must not forget the far south, where nothing has yet been done in the Wiy of corn-growing, but which 1s as fertile s country as that which has been planted. These figures are from the Buenos Ayres Herald. That paper expresses great hope for the country and adds: “:All wa have said of wheat would apply to barley, oats, rye and maize, and we may with confidence 100k forward to the time, and that not & distant one, when Argentine wiil export more cereals to Europe than are now sent from the Unitea States. The great wheat scctions are none of them more than 150 miles from ships which will carry prod- uee abroad, while in_the United States the whest fields are 1000 miles from shipping. The cost of transport, handling and loading is here less than inthe United States, 50 that the latter may well regard Argentine as {ts most formidable compet- itor in feeding the millions of Europe.” ‘What is here said of Argentine may with al- most equal force be sald of other cheap land and labor countries. The United States has been exporting agri- cultural implements and machinery mostly for the cheap land and labor countries at the rate of about $5,000,000 & year. Yet this only s small portion actually exported to those coun- tries. Agricultural machinery is now belng exten- sively manufactured for export to the cheap land and labor countries by England, France, Germ: Austria and Beigium. The writer knows this to be a fact, because in 1888 he visited many of these plants in the countries named, with the exception of Belgium. A couple of weeks ago Mr. Beriah Wilkins, editor of tbe Post, of Washington, D. C., told the Writer of this article that he (Mr. Wilking) had received information tnat more agricultural machinery had been bought for use in Russia on next season’s crop than all the agricultural machinery ever bought for use in that country. Will $1 5‘;)’- day protectior wages buy agricul- tural staples at a higher price in our country than 80 cents free trade wages? Yes, if there were no surpius in our country. As soon, however, as there is then in that event the worid’s price must not zlone be accepted for the exrnm. hut also for the much greater quantity sold for home use. Before our protected workingmen, through high protective wages, can raise the home price of agricultu staples they must first who were deluded in aders’ buy so largely as to raise the world’s price, for as long as there is a surplus we cannot obtain any more for it than the world’s price. The Home Market Bulletin must have had some misgivings as to its statement that high protective wages and full running factories were sufficient to maintain high prices for agricultural staples. It would seem that the question of a surplus was a disturbing element to overcome; hence it properly quotes some remarks made at a New York fair in 1892 by Dr. Peter Collier, of which the following is an‘excerpt: ‘It scarcely appears asa hazardous prediction that within five years, and perhaps even soon- er, the home demand ‘may fully equal the sup- PI¥ of our agricultural products, and then, if they are wise, the farmers of our conntry will be'the mesters of thesituation, and those words of Napoleon, that ‘Agriculture is the basis and strength of all national prosperity,’ will be recognized as sober truth.” The above is evidently indorsed by the Home Market Bulletin when it says, “Since there is likely to be no exportable surplus soon, is it worth while to grant & bounty?” So then, as s00n &s we no longer have a sur- plus we will begin to “recognize as sober truth” that ‘“agriculture is the basis and strength of our National prosperity.” What prevents this necessary recognition mnow? The surplus, of course. and according to Dr. Peter Collier, whom the Home Merket Bul- letin so approvingly quotes, when there will be no surplus, “if they aré wise the farm- ilrs of our country will be masters of the situa- on.” In other words, having no surplus the staples of agriculture can then be protected by a tariff onimports. At the present time, and because we have a surplus, ““the farmers of onr coun- try’”’ cannot “be wise,” nor can we ‘‘recognize as sober truth” that “agriculture is the basis and strength of our National prosperity.”” This may have been true in 1892, when the doctor delivered his speech, but since that time the farmers of our country have ‘become wise,” for over a million pieces of literature on this very subject in very blain language have been scattered among them, and this proposi- tion has been a serious matter of study and de- bate in the grange, in the alliance, at home and in the papers of the country. They now fuily agree with Dr. Peter Collier and the Home Market Bulletin that aslong as there is a. snrl)lus the staples of agriculture can- not be directly or indirectly protected by & tariff on imports. Let us now _see what would happen if Dr. Collier’s “prediction” was realized. The United States statistics show that on an average we pay for our imports in export com- modities, of which about 75 per cent is in the staples of agriculture and the remaining 25 Fer centis in mining, fisheries, manufactures, orestry and miscellaneous. Now, can Dr. Collier, or the Home Market Bulletin, tell us with what other commodity we would pay for our imports should we no longer have u surplus of ugricultural staples ? Will forcign nations accept our highly pro- tected manufactures? Is it not safe to say that they will not take them any more readily in the future than in the past ? If they will not accept highly protected manufactures, and should we no longer have a surplus of agricultural staples, we would have to pay for our imports with bullion or in in- terest-bearing bonds, and this kind of payment must ultimately iead to National bankruptey. There is, therefore, but one way out of the dilemma. If we are to have no surplus of agricultural staples we must have absolute and unrestricted tree trade in order that we may be able to produce manuiactures cheap enough to make them generally acceptable to the foreign nations in payment for our im- ports. 1f weare not to have free trade we must produce a su?nlns of agricultural staples for export, and sell this at free-trade prices. As soon as we do we are likewise compelled to accept the same free-trade prices for these staples for the much greater quantity con- sumed at home, because the exporter and buyer for home use buys at the same time, place and price. When this is done we find that the producers of agricultural staples must foot the costs of the protection system, which, ata conservative estimate, must foot up to %$1,000,000,000 & year. Or, they must ha artificial enhancement of the price of their product in our country to offset the artificially enhanced prices which these producers pay by reason of protection to manufactures. Such rotection, it is now evident, cannot be had v & tariff on imports, but by & bouuty on ex- orts p(?nutinuing further, the Home Market Bul- letin says: We already have an exportable surplus of manu- factures in certain lines: will they not be entitled to a bounty under the theory and arguments of Mr. Lubin and Mr. Smith? The surplus must be sold in foreign markets in competition with the products of the cheapest labor in the world, therefore, it these gentlemen’s theory is right the manufac- turers must be sustained 1n that competition. The enswer to the above is evident and clear, The purpose of protection is to preserve the home market against the competition of cheaper labor. To protect an industry in the foreign market is outside the scope of the theory of protection and as practiced by pro- tection nations. The home market of manufacturers can be and is protected by & tariff on imports, and the fact that “we already have an exportable sur- plus of manufacturés” cuts no figure in the matter at all as the following 1show. Manufactures are soid at private sale; mer- chants in various countries, or cities, or those on the same street in a city, pay various prices for the same article; theretore the quantity of manufactures sold in the United States may readily find a market at protected prices, and the surplus exported to foreign countries can also find 2 mearket at free-trade prices without interference, . Should the Home Market Bulletin conclude that an export bounty on agricultural staples would be & measure for the protection of these staples in the foreign market it will then be in error, and for the following reason. The eunhancement on that portion of the product w! exported, and on which the export bounty is paid through enhancing the price to the producer to the extentot the ex- port bounty, is in reality only paying back to these unproiected prodicers a portion of their own indirect contribution into the United States treasury. For, being the only great un- protected body of producers in_the United States, they necessarify and indirectly con- tributeall the tariff funds. The profitable portion of protection to the producers of agricultural staples under the ex- port bounty I.l.n will be in the higher prices they will receive for the much grester quan- tity sold for homwe use, and on which the Gov- ernment will pay nothing; or, in other words, they will be protected in ihe home market. From what has been said above, let us hope that the Home Market Bulletin is now con- vinced that “one grand sssumption upon which this theory rests” has been proven, which is “that staple agricultural products aré not and cannot be protected, directly or indi- rectly, by dutles on imports when there is a surpius for export.” Continuing further, the Home Market Bulle- tin says: As for the second “postulate” upon which the Lubin theory is based, namely, thal protection to manufactures increases their cost and thus operates inequitably upon farmers, a little investi- gation will show ihat it is only partially true, if atall. 3 & % & Here is a partlal list of Such articles, taken from the Home Market Club's pamphlet, entitled +Prices, Wages and Duties.”” A portion of the list is given below: PRICES THAT ARE LOWER THAN THE DUTIES. ARTICLE. Duty. Price. Ladies' wool dress- per y Workingmen 05 peryd Flannel shirts. . 80 each 69 each Cotton ana wool dresses 1 79 each 1 80 each Boys’ pants. . . 43 eacl 27 each Cloak (cheap) .51deach 898 each Workingman'strousers _ 92 each 89 each Boy’s suit . .....124each 120 each Girl's dress, cotton and wool ... ......179each 180 each Workimg girl’s dréss, _wool .. /413each 398 each ‘With all due respect for the intelligence and integrity of the Home Market Bulletin, I wish to remark that the above list, while of political value in & !;Elleml average mass-meeting of “the people” end before some members oi & Congressional committee, is of absolutely no value to the practical importer, manufacturer or merchant; no more, in fact, than a list stat- ing that houses are $2000 in Fhiladelph $2§oo in Boston. If the Home Market Builetin is still in doubt as to the utter lack of value of 1he above list to destroy the second “postuiate” let it submit this article to such houses as Jor- don, Marsh & Co. or H. B. Claflin & Co. (both of whom I believe are protectionists), and it will be surprised to learn how qui¢kly these merchants snd importers will agree with the writer of this article. 1f the business house of which 1 am & mem- ber was given the exclusive right to import iree of duty the above goods, it would soon earn enough to buy Sacramento County. If fiiv.n the same right for all lines that it now andies it could soon buy the city of Boston, and in time all New England. % To ascertain the actual total cost of the arti- ficial enhancement caused by protection would be a difficult task, but this total can be approxi- mately reached. Every dollar received as pro- tective duty represents several more dollars of enhancement in home manufactures, jor this is the very objectand purpose ol protection. A conservative estimate would be to treble the enhancement caused by the tariff. This would give us the following: Protective tariff revenue, $200,000,000, to which add 15 P" cent, 20 per cent and 25 per cent for the mporters’, jobbers’ and retailers’ profits on the gz‘%',ooo , making a total of $345,000,000. his trebled gives a grand total of £1,035,000,- as the cost of the proteciive system. The Home Market Bulletin asserts that agri- culture is protected by a tariff on imports. ROYAN Baking Powder Absolutely Pure ve protection by an | This is true as far as the non-staples are cone cerned, of which we have no sufplus for ex- port. This has_been clearly stated in every article published by the writér, Itis not true as far as the staples of agriculture are cons cerned, and the stapies form the great bulk of agricuitural production in on; country. The Home Market Bulletin further states: Forelgn competition is now increasing, nearly as much in agriculture s in manufactures, and the next tariff must afford adequate protectfon or the farmers will suffer as they have never suffcred be- fore. It was an outrage to repeal the duty on wool, and nearly all the woolen manufaciurérs are 1o favor of iis restoration. On whom was the repeal of the duty on wool an “outrage”? Wasit on the wheat or cotton grower? Oh. no. Itwas an “outrage’’ on the sheep- raiser, because protection was swept away from what he had to_sell and was not also swept away from what he had to buy. Now, unless an equal measure of protection be given to the producers of agricultural staples, of which we do and must have a surplus as long as we have protection, will it not then be an ‘‘outrage” on these to re-establish protection onwool? Is there not a standing “outrage” for these producers as long as there is any yr(r tection at all and they are left unprotected In the conciuding portion of its article the Home Market Bulletin correctly says: “The world is after us and we must take care of ourselves.” Yes, the world is “after us.” The employment within recent yearsof agris cultural machinery in the cheapest land and labor countries of the world has produced an effect on our economic condition which it ‘would be unwise in the extreme to ignore. To remedy this new and adverse changed economic condition by free trade would be like jumping from the frying-pan into the fire, For ihe introduction of manufacturing machinery into Japan, India and China would be rapidly promoted thereby and the resuit therefrom must be the fixing of our rates of wages by those cheap labor eountries, just as surely as other and equaily cheap labor countries now fix the price of our agricultural exports. ‘The remedy in our time is protection, but not in a one-sided protection. We must protect the home market of manufacturers by a tariff on imports and protect the home market of ag- rieultural staples by & bounty on exports. This will be justice and equity in protection. DAVID LUBIN. Bacramento, Cal., Sept. 17, 1895. NEW ROAD 70 THE CEAN. One Projected to Run South of the Park AlongJ Street. Southside Property-Owners Pre= paring to Ask the City to Establish Grades. If the plans of the property-owners south of the park are consummated there will be shortly another driveway from Stanyan street to the ocean boulevard. It will be along J street, past the site of the Affiliated Colleges. The grade for this thoroughfare has already been fixed by the City as far west as Twentieth avenue, and the property-owners of that district are now preparing to submit a petition to the Supervisors on Monday providing for the establishment of the sireet grade through to the ocean. The petition reads as fol- lows: he.undersigned, property-owners south of Golden Gate Park, rearectlully petition your honorable body to make an agrropriation of 53500 for the purpose of establishing street rades on 116 b{ocks in the following described istrict: Bounded ou the north by H street or the Golden Gate Park, on the south by L street, on the east by Twentieth avenue and on the west by the ocean boulevard, being a strip four blocks wide. We desire this work done =o we can open J street to the ocean. We would remind your honorable body that the property-owners of the Southside district pay nenrl{' $100,000 in taxes annually, and so far scarcely any money has been appropriated in improving this dis- trict, and as we desire to improve our property, we respectfully ask_you to give us the 0ppor- tunity by establishing the street grades in ac- cordance with this petition. The above amount, £3500, will be the cost of the work as given by the City and County Sur- veyor. A keen interest is being manifested in | the enterprise, and already the petition has received quite a number of signatures, Speaking of the matter, Charles W. Pope, president of the Southside Improvement Association, said: All we ask of the Cityisto establish the grades on these streets. This will cost but $30 a block. We will do the rest; that is, the actual work of grading and macadamizing the entire length of J street from Stanyan street to the | ocean. This is very little to ask of the Super- visors, considering the large amount we pay yearly for taxes, and for whick we have here- tofore been benefited very little. If the petition is granted, and there is every confidence expressed that it will be, the work will be pushed forward with as little delay as possible. —————————— A Bricklayer’s Sudden Death. Samuel Davis of 404 Sixth street, a brick- layer, probably 65 years of age, and & native of New York, went visiting some friends at 1228 Hampshire street yesterday afternoon and was taken sick there a little before 8 p. trol wagon was. called from teenth-sireet police station to eonvey him to the City and County Hospital. On the way to the hospital he died and his body was res moved to the Morgue, where an autopsy is to be held to ascertain the cause of death, ———————— A Benefit Concert. The Burnaby and Pickwick lodges, Sons of St. George, will tender a reception to Alfred Wilkie to-night at St. George's Hall, 317 Mason street. A concert and operetta will follow the reception, which will be open to the publie. The following soloists will appear: Miss Flor- | ence Doyen, soprano: Miss Daisy M. Cressy, contrglto; Alfred Wilkie, tenor; Charles M. Elliot, beritone. KNOW THYSELF. From the Fra, Bradford, Pa. Too few people are acquainted with the rapid advance o medical science, and too many doc- tors sre still plodding in the old paths. Once it comes to pass that peogle know themselves, that all physicians are abreast of the world's knowledge, much of our suffering will come to an end. Medical scientists are not delving into the depths of knowledge for the mere benefit of brother physicians, but for the bene» fit of the world. They place in the handsof the well man a means of keepiug well; in the hands of the sick a means of recovery. To the arent they give the }mwer of saving the chiid. Ecience is workln} or you—will you acecept the profiered help? 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