The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: rsily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.$0. CaLl, one year, by mall.. 'ALL, six months, by mail y mail .65 1.50 1.50 'ALL. one month, i elephone... EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.... .Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £20 Montgomery strget, corner Clay; open until £:50 o'clock. ¢ Haves street : open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin stre open until :30 o'clock. SW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open Epti et; open until § o'clock. pen until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: tes Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander Rose and Duane streets, New York City. cific & SATURDAY. protests too much. The mugwtimp boom for Olney seems to have peen only a summer’s flirtation. The The courts may not sustain the Mayor’s vetoes, but the people will on election day. The next Gra Jury report should sound like something that was lgaded for bear. Scanty grapes but high prices make the eyardists smile on both sides of the mouth. According to all reports, New Jersey will enter the Union this year by a big Repub- lican majority. have to join the people of ging the song about ab- We may yet the East in s normal weather. The Cleveland administration will be kept busy this winter answering questions or dodging them bition counties of Texas one id to have more lives than cats. mme il TR This is the day to leave orders for THE v CarL and make sure of good read- r the day of rest. In the prohil blind tiger is twenty blac ing Whatever may be thought of Cleveland as a fisherman, he is much better at that than at anything el The tariff will be enough of an issue this year at any rate to make the free-traders back down and crawl out In fighting the combine by every means known to the law, the Civic Federa- tion serves the people well. New York Democracy offers the State a Cleveland platiorm and Tammany candi- dates by way of a compromise. The French in Madagascarand the Span- ish in Cuba have probably a mutual sym- pathy just now in the tired feeling. Coxey’s only boast in these days is that he will carry two counties in Ohio, and even that is regaraed as a campaign lie. The single tax is something of a side issue in politics, but it is big enough to fill Delaware so full you can’t put the lid on. As Corbett has weak knees and Fitzsim- mons had his leg hurt by his pet lion, the affair won’t end in a cake walk at any rate. Acco}ding to some experts the South will get more money for the short cotton crop this year than for the big one last year. ARG R The Republican Congress can be counted on to enact measures that will put an end to the export of gold and the deficit in the revenue. In advocating the retirement of green- backs Mr. Cleveland has furnished Democ- racy with an issue that will suit it like a boil on the neck, Every time pretty Miss Cuba scores a success she looks at Uncle Sam, and the old man ought to lift his hat and bow a recognition next time. _— 1f it be true, as reported, that the power behind the throne in France is Mme. Lucifer, that country ought to be able to make a match for any nation. It is too late to predict a hard winter when it is known that we are going to have a baseball combination with us and every town in the league expects a soft snap. A Cambridge Judge has almost lifted the roof off Harvard University by declaring the next student brought before him for stealing signs should be sent to the House of Correction. The primitive condition of life in Okla- homa is manifest by the fact that a farmer in advertising for & wife says he wishes a blonde 20 years old who won’t object to cutting corn. The renewed interest given to the propo- sition to retire greenbacks will recall the saying of Hoke Smith that any attempt of the kind would add every Btate in the South to the Populist column. It is said the export of gold is due to a demand for that metal in Europe to pro- mote Sonth African mining schemes, and if thisis true the sooner California miners get in and turn the tide the better. Republicans and Democrats of the Great ‘West working together to promote the im-| provement by the Government of the rivers and barbors of this section of the Union will add a great deal to the public appre- ciation of the era of good feeling. In order to encourage art work in the rublic schools the Milwaukee Art Associa- tion has established in that city a course of free instruction for teachers in painting and drawing, and with a little assistance from the rich the same might be done here, e A story is going the rounds of the South- ern- press that Henry Watterson is really in favor of Blackburn for Benator from Kentucky and when asked by a friend why his paper did not support Blackburn re- lied: “Well, to tell you the plain truth, merely receive a salary from the Courier- Journal and am powerless to control its policy.” It is regarded asa confirmation of this story that Watterson has announced an intention of going to Europe and re- maining until after the next campaign, * CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 | A DEPLORABLE TA(T. The wicked papers still publish the lottery advertisements and the esteemed CALL says not a word.—San Francisco Post. The closing clause of the above para- graph requires no refutation to establish its falsity, nor the opening one any fur- ther evidence of its truth than the columns of the Post afford. Itisan undeniable yet shameful fact that certain members of the San Francisco press still publish lottery advertisements. This they do notwithstanding the utterly indefensible character of the nefarious trade; Notwithstanding the admittedly fraudu- lent nature of the business; Notwithstanding the confessedly evil effect of its influence upon all classes of society who are tempted to ' squander money in its delusive ventures; Notwithstanding the drain of money from the arteries of the State which this vampire accomplishes every month; Notwithstanding the open and earnest protest against the continuance of this vile traffic in the hopes and the savings of men, made by the pulpitand the unpros- tituted press of the State; Notwifhstanding the strong and semi- successful struggle of the Police Depart- ment of San Francisco to lessen the in- famous lottery trade. In despite of public opinion and in de- fiance of public decency *‘the wicked papers still publish lottery advertisements.” It is to be noted that not one of these debauched newspapers has as yet had the hardibood to attempt a defense of their seducer. In fact there is neither defense nor excuse available to them and but one of two alternatives possible in the presence of their offense. They must either be silent or they must glory in their shame. In the paragraph which heads this article the Post adopts the second of these alterna- tives and is welcome to the pillory which it has selected for itself. 2 AN ENCOURAGING SIGN. The very emphatic refusal of the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors to accept a piece of bad paving on Guerrero street is notice to contractors that the days for swindling the public are drawing to an end, and to the public that it is good policy to elect to office men who may be de- pended on not only for honesty, but for hard and intelligent work. This Guerrero-street matter is peculiarly interesting. The former Superintendent of Streets had accepted the work and his example had been fellowed by the present Superintendent. Meanwhile it had come to the hearing of the Street Committee that some of the residents on the street had dis- covered the faulty character of the work. The chairman of the committee sent his private agent to inspect the pavement—an expert whom he employs to assist him in the discharge of his public duties. This expert closely examined the pavement and reported against its acceptance. Further investigation confirmed the correctness of his report, and so the claim of the con- tractor was thus indorsed by the com- mittee: “The committee reports against the ac- ceptance of the street work on the ground that it is simply outrageous. Under no consideration can this street pavement ever be accepted. The foundation shows no solid concrete work, and the contractor is not entitled to receive §1 for the at- tempted swindle on the property-owners. In its present condition the street will never be accepted.” If this recommendation is not based on absolute facts itis libelous and the con- tractor can recover heavy damages. If it is true the contractor seems to have had very strong backing in his effort to secure payment for the work. Thisbacking came from a high and responsible officer of the City, in whom the people reposed confi- dence both as to his energy and intelli- gence and his honesty. In view of Street Superintendent Ashworth’s report that the work had been properly done and his recommendation that it should be paid for the committee’s action seems to place him in an unfortunate light and apparently calls for an explanation from him. If the contractor brings suit and it is discovered that he has not done the work according to specifications, Mr. Ashworth’s position will be made still more unfortunate. The public will watch the course of events in this seemingly small matter with a great deal of interest. The position of the con- tractor is not of o great interest as that of the Superintendent of Streets, and if the suit should be brought its determination either way would mean a great deal to Mr. Ashworth. The principle involved is as wide as that which governs the construc- tion and maintenance of every street im- provement in the City, and hence the pub- lic will await the outcome of the apparently trivial Guerrero-street matter with a lively interest. AN UNWISE PROTEST. The bicyclists of Oakland indulgedina peculiar and apparently unwise form of protest Thursday evening against the ordi- nance requiring them to ring a bell or sound a horn while traversing street cross- ings. Because the ordinance requires that they shall sound the signal “loudly and continnously” and because some of them have been arrested and fined for not hav- ing horns or bells they turned out ina great parade and in order to make the regulation obnoxious instituted a ‘“‘pan- demonium” by overdoing the requirement. They evidently overlooked the fact that in exaggerating the signals they laid them- selves liable to prosecution for disturbance of the peace. The very last thing that bicyclists ought todo is to create a popular antagonism for their pastime. Already the 'm which bicycles have brought to various businesses has reared an opposition to them and this has been somewhat strengthened by the apparent belief on the part of numerous wheelmen that they bave the sole right to the use of the high- ways. The bicycle is so useful an inven- tion and brings so much more health and pleasure than any other pastime ever de- vised that its promoters have need to guard its interests. 54 ‘We should not be at all surprised to see the Oakland authorities next make sorme move which will greatly restrict the free- dom of bicycling across the bay. It may come in the form of a burdensome license oran ordinance prohibiting wheeling on certain popular thoroughfares or put a total stop to it at night. The authoriiies bave the power and will assuredly use 1t if the wheelmen make themselves too ob- noxious by assuming an attitude which mesns that other people have no rights which they are bound to respect. THE STATE GRANGE. The annual session of the State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, which will begin next Tuesday at Merced, will be an occa- sion of great interest not only to members of the order but to thousands of farmers who were formerly connected with 1t, or who are accustomed to look to it for sug- gestion or guidance in the various prob- lems of rural life. Upon its first introdne- tion into California in 1872, the order of Patrons of Husbandry literally swept the State, its growth and display of energy dur- ing the first two years being really phe- nomenal. Its membership plunged into all forms of co-operative enterprises with a zeal which, if 1t had been backed up by wider knowledge and a sounder discretion, would have proved highly valuable to our farming interests. The absence of these qualities, however, in most cases brought misfortune to the enterprises with a con- sequent falling off in membership. Of late years interest in this praigeworthy and really useful order has been reviving, and many signs point to a renewal of its former activity and influence under more experi- enced and sober direction. If the mem- bers of the coming State Grange prove themselves equal to their opportunity the Grange will increase its power for good in the land. The San Francisco Carn will next Tues- day publish a concise but complete history of the Grange from its first organization in ‘Washington to the present day. This his- tor has been carefully compiled and written by Edward F. Adams, a well-known mem- ber of the order. No such history has hither- to been written or printed. It is believed that an account of this great farmers’ organization will be of material benefit, not only to farmers, but to all concerned in the prosperity of our farming interests. AN INTERESTING SUGGESTION. The San Jose Mercury sugeests that all the speculation as to how the Southern Pacific Company will evade the schedule of freights served upon it by the Railroad Commission may be idle. “The chances,’” says our contemporary, ‘‘are that the com- pany will take its medicine without a struggle. And, further, it will find that the medicine will afford it immediate and permanent relief from a good deal of the pain to which it has been subject in past years.” ‘The suggestion is as wise as it is humor- ous. Nothing droller could be imagined than a hint that the Southern Pacific would ever submit to governmental dis- cipline without a struggle, or that it could conceive the existence of any right from the people to take a hand in the manage- ment of its affairs. Mr. Lansing, the ac- complished secretary of the company, has already announced that he despises the opinion of the press, which is the opinion of a very great majority of the people. ‘Would it be unfair to assume that in that expression he declared the position of the company of which he is so large and able apart? If the company has ever acqui- esced in any measure devised by the Legis- lature for its proper conduct we cannot remember it at present. On the contrary, our impression is that a considerable item of its expenditures (charged up to the traffic and hence to the prosperity of Cali- fornia) has been that incurred by its hos- tility to interference. After all, why should not our contempo- rary’s suggestion be a good one for the company to heed? The company has probably spent more money and lost still more through enmities incurred in fight- ing a reasonable public control than it would have parted with had it been will- ing ever to reconcile itself to the fact that it should not be above the authority which created and the forbearance which main- tains it. Nothing under the sun but its antagonism to such reasonable direction and the accepted belief that it has used money largely to defeat it would have made *“‘cinch” bills in the Legislature pos- sible. These bills area call for money, and sometimes the suppression of them is ex- pensive; and yet theéy would have been impossible had the company been more amiable. We trust, therefore, that our contempo- rary’s suggestion may be heeded. We be- lieve it would be better for the company, as we know it would be better for the State. In its scheme for reducing ex- penses to meet the contingency of a re- duced income from hard times the com- pany has probably overlooked some very large and important items which need not be mentioned. An acquiescence in rea- sonable control by the State would render these expenditures unnecessary and the acceptance of the Commissioners’ schedule an easy possibility. All this, however, does not malke our contemporary’s sugges- tion any the less droll, and it will likely be regarded by Mr. Huntington as the fun- niest joke of the silly season. “THE SUNDAY OALL" A subject both important and interest- ing will be presented to the readers of THE Buxpay CaLL to-morrow in an article on “Qur Bacred Sacramento River,” by Joa- quin Miller. Tt is timely because of the deep interest now taken in the subject of river improvements, and being treated in the best style of the gifted author will take a high rank in the permanent descriptive literature of the State. W. C. Morrow furnishes an entertaining and instructive essay on “‘The Business of Authorship,” which can be read with profit by all who have inclinations toward literary work and which may be accounted one of the best contributions yet made to the discussion of the comparative vanities and glories of authorship and literature as a money-making profession. John McNaught continues his charming series of “Random Notes,” dealing with the affairs of the world with a gentle philosophy that is at once entertaining and instructive. Charles A. Keeler continnes his series of papers on *‘Bird Life in California.” The regular departments of Books and Book- makers, Fashions for Men and Women ate as usual full of excellent sub- jects for general reading, while the de- partment Childhood’s Realm is enriched this time with two stories of more than ordinary merit: ‘A Camping Out Story,"” by Mary Calkins Johnson, and “The Little Dog That Had the Last Bark,” by Mary W. Edwards. Particular attention is drawn to the fact that THE CALL is the only morning paper in the City that receives the dispatches of the United Press, the best telegraphic news service in the country. The other morning papers in their telegraphic dis- paiches duplicate one another, but those of Tue CALL are distinctive on this coast, being the same as those of the great New York dailies, the Herald, Tribune, Times, Sun and World. Special consideration is given by TuE CarL to Pacific Coast news, and in every respect it. is the paper that most prominently represents Pacific Coast interests and Pacific Coast men. TaE CaLn can be had wherever newspapers are sold. Leave orders for the Sunday edition to- day. 2 MENU FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 20. BREAKFAST. Fruit. ‘Wheat Granules. Milk. Erolled Lamb Chops. Stewed Potatoes. ‘Toast. Coffee. DINNER. Cream of Beef Soup. . Roasted Green Goose, Potaio ‘EE“’ Chutney. iled Corn. Stufting. * Mayonnaise of Tomato. rs. Coftee. Jelly. Whipped Cream. SUPPER. Hot Lobster in Chafing Dish. Brown Bread. ‘ Coftee. . Stuffed Cantaloupes. _ Wafers. —Housenhold News. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. C.C. Hutchinson, founder of the city of Hutchinson, Kans., and a man whose Eastern lectures on the agricultural possibilities of the Great West so captured Horace Greeley that the lecturer was engaged to write for the Tribune, has returned to California. Mr. Hutchinson comes now as the Pacific Coast secretarv of the University Association, an institution some- what resembling in its purposes theChautauqua Circle. The association is organized jor the systematic study of history, It is commended by Rev. John Henry Barrows, originator and organizer of the World's Parliament of Relig- ion; John W. Cook, president Illinois State Normal University; Henry McCor- mick, professor of history Illinois Uni- versity; J. H. Collins, Superintendent of Schools, Springfield, I1l., and many professors and instructors in Ohip, Wisconsin and Kansas. Branches of the assotiation will be organized in California. The fountain-head of the new association is in Chicago. Mr. Hutchinson is an observant traveler and noted incidents and examples of industrial de- velopment on the line of his journey through the States of the Mississippi Valley. Speaking of his trfi yesterday he remarked: “This year’s crop in Missouri 1s sure to be the greatest ever known. According to the Government stan- dard of agricultural reports it will rate 118. The maximum had been placed at 100, and most of the reports from other sections range from 75 to 90. There is great industrial prosperity in Missouri, and St. Louis is a growing clty. The advancement of Chicago is something won- derful. Itsgreatdevelopment now is on the lines of manufacture. Many manufacturing establishments within a radius of 150 miles are being drawn to the city. The railroadsen- courage this concentration. In my judgment it is & mistake. I think the development of many substantial towns, each with its own special line of manufacturing industry, would be better for the country than the great cen- tralization of wealth, population and factories in one city. However, indueements are pre- sented by Chicago which cannot be resisted by the manufacturers’ interests of that region, and everything seems to be centering there.” Alexander Mackie, secretary of the San Francisco and S8an Joaquin Valley Railroad, these days occasionally takes a little time to figure up what would be the profits on a sure cure for phylloxera. “Some time ago,” he said yesterday, I re- ceived a letter from a &ousin of mine, John Stalker, who is chéinist for the Roughfont Bleaching and Dyeing Company, Limited, & big concern in Belfast, Ireland. He told meof a discoyery he had made of a phylloxera cure which was being tried in France, Italy and Spain with very satisiactory resalts, and asked me to let him know about having it tried out here. I wrote him that people here were very skeptical about any remedy, but asked him to send some on. This he writes will soon be done. “I also communicated with those in charge of the agriculturai department of the State University about it. Mr. Hayne writes that he believes that some remedy will be discovered. From what Mr. Stalker writes I have no doubt that his ‘Rigstalk,’ as he calls it, is doing good work where tried in France.” There will be an opportunity again next spring for some one to write another “Inno- cents Abroad.” Fugazi announces that the Compegnie Generale Transatlantique’s big steamer La Touraine will make a cruise of the Mediterranean and the Orient, leaving New York with first-class passengers only. The itinerary will include Lisbon, Gibraltar, Al- giers, Malta, Athens, Alexandria, Port Said, Jaffa, Beyrouth, Sniyrna, Constantinople, Mes- sina, Palermo, Naples, Monte Carlo, Marseilles, Palma and Malaga. The whole trip will last about sixty days. A PREMATURE REFORM. The Supervisors in San Francisco are gener- ally several years behind the times in the mat- ter of reforms, but occasionally they get so far ahead as to become unnecessarily lonely. The modern art of constructing bigh fireproof buildings 1s only & few years old and has barely reached San Francisco, but the Supervisors NOW propose to suppress as & nuisance what has hardly yet reached the proportions ofa convenience. Other cities have waited before taking such action until the construction ot high buildings has reached a point at which it has threatened the public welfare or impaired the rights of property. In Chicago the height of future structures is limited to 130 feet, but Chicago rests on & crust of hard pan overlying a deep stratum of mud, and there has been serious apprehension that too heavy buildings might break through the crustand hamper the efforts of the Two-million Club by engulfing & portion of the population. New York is agitating a similar restriction, but the lower part of New York is a network of narrow alleys, which are being converted into sunless mountain can- yous by the unbroken rows of lofty buildings that border them. There are no such conditions in San Fran- cisco. Our streets are wide and sunny and our foundations would hold up the Tower of Babel. Our architecture hitherto has been poor and commonplace. We need the distinction of a few stately buildings. There is no danger of our getting them with such a rush as to over- whelm us before we have time to suppress them. There will always be plenty of time to pass such an ordinance as the Supervisors are now considering. If we ever get so many tall buildings as to threaten to deprive the pedes- trians on Market street of needed sun and air, it will be easy enough to forbid the construe- tion of any more. At present there is nota building in San Francisco whose height dis- commodes anybody, and there are no ‘indica- tions that there will be any such for years to come. The construction of such a building tekes time and money; it is an event that casts its shadow before; and there is no danger of our waking up some fine morning to find all the downtoyn streets shut in by marble walls 800 feet high. The construction of high buildings affords profitable investments for otherwise idle capital, good wages for all classes of workmen, and occupation and training for the highest order of architectural talent. ~ If the structures are properly designed they beautify ihe city and add to its protection against fire. From the latter point of view the Supervisors might well afford to tolerate them until they could succeed in stopping the construction of wooden houses within the fire limits.—San Francisco Examiner. THROUGH KAWEAH PASS: A party composed of A. G, Wishon of Tulare, George Hanna, John A. and Elmo R. Pirtle, of Los Angeles, end Dick Lane of Lemon Cove re- turned Sunday from a mountain tour of ob- servation and pleasure combined. All had an enjoyable experience, and the sights they saw repaid them for all their trouble and expense. Mr. Wishon was interviewed by a Visalia Times representative. “We went up to the headwaters of the main branch of the Kaweah River,” said Mr. Wishon, “and found great quantities of snow on the way. Itrained on us two days and we had one snowstorm. On horseback and with pack animals we went up the Tharp trail and came back by the Giant ¥orest and the great road built by the Kaweah colonists. “And Iwant to say right here that it will be & lasting disgrace if the Government ailows that magnificent mountain road to go to ruin. The people here should unanimously insist upon that being kept up. “The road is about twenty miles long and !oea up the east branch of the North Fork of he Kaweah. It has a first-class grade—in fact, it is a railroad grade. The grade is so easy that a team of horses hitched to a vehicle may trot along either up or down. I forgot my gun on the way home and had to gallop back after it on this road several miles and my horse took that gait easily. As the road runs most of the way through the park it isowned by the Gov- ernment and hence should be maintained by that authority. For about 13500 that splendid road could be put into prime condition and the wonderful Giant Forest would then be a ccessible to all kinds of vehicles. “The road ends at the m&:f the mountain covered by the pine woods that go to make up the Giant Forest. The scenery along l.h:r}nt part of the road and at the top is -lmrly nd and beyond description. You can look over the whole Mineral King country on _the south, and also over the vast stretch of mountain country drained by the mnorth fork. For this wnl nt view alone if for no else the should be kept in repair. What is & National park for if the people can't have 2 ‘Thi ‘t‘“:d it represent 1 $100,000, “That road must re nt 8008t 0 3 Ishould think, anditisa &lty 0 m.llt gradu- w destroyed, for the winter rains wash it ly in some places. Here and there on the lower side of the road are compactly built walls to hold the earth, The giant forest that this road taps is the largest and finest body of sequoias now in existence. From the head of the road to the heart of this forest is about ten miles, and this distance must be traveled on horsel but the Government could build a that ten miles for var‘llmn money, as it is nearly level up there,"—Visalia Times. WHAT TRADES UNIONS ASK. BY M. M'GLYNN, PRESIDENT OF THE SAN FRAN CISCO LABOR COUNCIL. A short while ago rumors of anticipated up- risings of the wageworkersof San Francisco wer e flying thick and fast. They were, Isus- pect, born of the desire of an imaginative space-writer's wish to lengthen his “string.” They certainly had no firmer basis, although it appeared they were sufficient to cause Brgadier-General Waifield to hasten to the City Hall and tender the Chief of Police the use of the State militia. The offer was declined with thanks, as Chief Crowley affirmed he had ample force to quell any probable uprising of the sansculottes. Truly, he had, since now, if ever, there is not the slightest sign of a pre- meditated industrial clash in this City or State. Items of interest among the unions are scarcer than hen's teeth. The dull times are not en- tirely passed yet. Idonot say that there is not a possibility of an industrial uprising all over this country, but I do say that when it comes, if it ever does, it will not be the result of secret plotting and planning among the trades unions. Aside from every other reason this is unlikely, be- cause the Anglo-Saxon race never was of the timber of which plotters are made, and, de- epite the taunts and insinuations that many of them are “foreigners,” occasionally applted to trades unions, their membership is Anglo- Saxon by a large majority. History proves that of all the uprisings of the Anglo-Saxon laboring classes not one was planned be. fore the outburst. They came like the light- ning stroke from a clear sky. Some trivial happening aroused resentment that spread like wildfire, and what was a petty local inet- dent became & mnational concern. ¥rom such & possibility we in America are not secure, and the materials for a great cataclysm are being piled higher and higher every day. I now re- fer to “the a1my of the disemployed.” Many persons are apt to term; the dtterances of & “labor agitator” calamity howlings and attribute his motives in calling public atten- tion to matters of grave portent to & desire for cheap notoriety. To avoid such aspersionsI will make no assertion not easily substantiated by unquestionable authority. There are to-day in the United States, accord- ing to the figures of Carroll D. Wright, Com- missioner of Labor Statistics, 2,500,000 men constantly out of employment and supported wholly or partially by charity. Estimating but three persons depending upon each man we have 10,000,000 constant supplicants for charity—or nearly one-sixth of our Nation's population are begears. Please remember these are the figures of a National official not likely to be swayed by the motives of the deridea labor leader. A visitor from Mars or any other planet, viewing the resources of the United States, would doubtless laugh to scorn the idea that taking care of such a trifle as 2,500,000 idle men would constitute a grave problem, but we certainly do not seem to progress very rapidly toward a solution of it. Why we do not is & question possible of being answered in many ways. The rapidity with which this army of disemployed has grown has not per- mitted the people to comprehend its portent nor to cast about for a remedy. The hetero- genity of our people is another obstacle in the way of & solution. The immensity of the eoun- try and the consequent lack oi familiarity by the citizens with its varied conditions is yet another. But greater and above all theseis the apparent apathy of the American people as awhole to the moral disgrace to eivilization and the stigma upon Christianity which the existence of 2,500,000 toilers forced to beg- gary must cast, If apathy were all, there would be cause for more vivid hopes of a speedy solution of the labor question, but to it is added the ridicule of the unthinking. They are not content to re- main inactive in the work of reform, but must exercise their wit to disparage the plansof those few who are striving as best they know how to betterand brignten the world. I am S0ITY to say the scoffers do not suffer from lack of influential newspapers to aid them. This is what discourages and embitters the reformers. lo have their accounts of the miseries and necessities of mankind accepted with the care- less remark that “it has always been so and will always be $0,” makes them doubt the wis- dom of further struggling to move the great mountain of apathy. Now, I do not intend to launch into a pane- gyric of any particular politico-economic theory, nor to join in the jeremiad over the in- difference of the public. Indeed, my idea when I started this letter was merely to protest against the uncalled-for and reasonless hostil- ityto the trades unions manifested in some quarters. The foregoing facts were adduced to emphasize the necessity of our statesmen doing something to relieve the men wiiling to work who seek in vain for an opportunity to earn a livelihood, and to remind the opponents of trades unions that between law and anarchy there is only one bulwark, namely, organized labor. You need not credit the unions with a soli- tary moral virtue; you may denounce their methods and their personnel, but you must ad- mit that they are the only force that has par- tially withstood the crushing and degrading influences of trusts and monopolies. Take awsy the trades unions; set the 2,500,000 disemployed competing without in- terference with the 8,000,000 employed; as- sent, as our laws and some newspapers do, to taking the children from school and place them in the fields and the workshops; picture to yourselves the industrial and moral status of your country after this has been done—then Iwill listen with petience to your diatribes against organized labor. And remember, too, that the trades unionistsare intelligent enough to know and realize that, unless something is dome to prevent it, these evils will surely come upon us with the march of invention and the growth in power and influence of trustsana monopolies. The trades union has its limit of resistance. We hope that limit will not be reached until the American people are sufficiently versed in economic science to formulate a plan whereby this country may be governed in a manner befitting its possibilities, its avowed purposes, and worthy of the civilization of the twentieth century. In this hope the trades unionists live and strive. So inaugurate your single tax, or remonetize silver, or start co-operative settle- ments, or secure municipal and State ownership of public conveniences such as water, light, railways and the like—but do something, do something. M. MCGLYNN, OPINICNS OF EASTERN EDITORS. A Topeka Conundrum. When a man is arrested for being drunk on the street is it because he is drunk or because he is on the street, or bgth? And does the de- posit of $5 make him sober or fitter to be on the street drunk? If not, why is he turned loose? Perhaps some city law-maker can and will answer these questions. —Topeka State Journal. Reed’s Chances. There is every indication that Mr. Reed will go into the convention with the solid support of the New England States. Outside of New England, however, he has considerable follow- ing, and it would not be surprising if the vote of New York was cast for him when the time comes to cease trifling with the name of Mr. Morton.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Blind Tiger in Texas. The blind tiger is causing great havoo in the prohibition districts of Dallas County. This is the only sightless animal that almost defies detection and appears to multiply in great numbers, despite the vigilance of the vigilant hunters ever on his track. The average blind tiger has seemingly more lives than twenty black cats.—Fort Worth Gazette. A Brooklyn View of Morton. ‘The nomination of Levi P. Morton as the Re- publican candidate for President is not im- possible, but, in spite of the indorsement of the Saratoga convention, it is highly improb- able. If he should be fortunate enougn to se- cure the nomination, however, it is hardly probable that Allison or any other of the men named above will be found willing to accept the nomination for Vice-President.—Brooklyn Times, Right Age for College. If thtee years are enough for Oxford and Cambridge and for the German universities, why are they not emough for Yale and Har- vard? The old answer used to be that boys were kept longer at school in England, and at the gymnasium in Germany, than was the prac- tice here. But this is true no longer. The average age for entering Yale, ins! of being 16, has risen to 18 or 19, 1f young men of that age have not learned a8 much at school here uhnnfhz in any other country, it is their own fault, or that of thumnu in sending them to taught by or instructors,.— New Haven News. THE SURFACE OF SHANGHAL Shanghal is & gay deceiver. Its European bund, or business street, upon the water's edge, makes it seem the most pretentioussmall city in all the world. It gives to tens of thousands their first impressions of China—all false ones, for Shanghai is not a part of Chins, butis arepublic by itself. As Mrs. Tieh saw to the unstrapping of her trunks in the great hallway of the semi-European, semi-tropical hotel, her spirits and her hopes came flying back. She looked over her trunks upon the palms and glorious flower-beds of the hofel court. Shelooked into her trunks with half her mind wandering back to the first view she had of Shanghai—its noble harbor, dotted with homelike steamers and preity men-of-war, before & noble avenue of stately merchant-palaces. And then she saw her beautiful new gowns and her cherished store of bridal linen and lace, and she remembered her mother’s handiwork in packing the boxes, the delighted exciamations of her girl friends as they handled and in- spected the treasures. Remembrances of her rst undimmed hopes swept into her mmdi and with them came a gol@en prospect O parties and balls and choice society in this new, undreamed of China, this Shanghai- China, which looked to her as civilized as London, and more beautiful even than Wash- ington. After luncheon she went for a drive with her husband; upon the Bubbling Well road they were going. Pretty name. Beauti- ful China! all sunshine and flowers and beauty. Lord! whata whirl her mind was in! Their carriage was a lordly Victoria. Upon the box sat two servants ina pretty white livery of cotton, broadly bordered with red. The clothes they wore were of Chinese cut, and their braided pigtails hung down_bahlnd,nl- most upon the front seat of the carriage. Vie- torias, Jandaus and cabs swept by upon the spick-and-span_boulevard beside the water in stately procession. She saw the public flower garden, the beautiiul bayside park, alive with Chinese nurses and barelegged Eug- lish children; saw the pretty bandstand, the red-turbaned Sikh policemen, fierce and swart and seemingly eight feet high. She saw the colossal business-houses and go- downs—not go tall as they would be in i- cago, but very broad upon the ground. She saw the huge, inviting ciubhouse, the English church, the more English City Hall, the end- less lines and swarms of Chinese coolies trot- ting along, bearing burdens on bamboo poles, chanting &s they walked and worked. And then the carriage turned into a side street full of very attractive modern European shops. Why! Shanghai was a little Paris transplanted to China, she thought. And she could not tell how much or how little was European, or how much or how little was like the rest of China. Sudden- ly the little street of jewelers' shops, great furnishing shops, photograph galleries, and all the rest broadened into the wide “maloo,” and became altogether Chinese—a fine boulevard bordered with low, white and black and red shops, hung with lanterns, capped with roofs of black tiling, swarming with Chinamen. And they were not the spare, bullet-headed, aged-face Cantonese that she had seen in America, but handsome, large, stout, pink-faced people, good to look upon. Soshe came to the racecourse, and in the middle of & colony of inviting villas in bowery gardens saw the Country Club, with its tennis swards and pretty ladiés sipping ices under spreading trees. On and on rolled the carriage over the smooth, hard road, under the trees beside the villas set in parklike grounds. Presently she found herself overtaking carriageloads of beautiful Chinese women, prettier far than the women of Japan, as she saw them riding, for many are very beautiful until they are seen to try to walk, Mr. Tieh seemed proud to talk of them. He did not say that they were sing- song girls, teahouse women, concubines—all slaves, and worse. She never could have guessed it, for in China all women appear mod- est snd shy and have babylike, calm faces. They wore splendid silks made into loose coats, little aprons, and broad trousers beautifully worked at the bottoms. Their dimpled faces were sometimes a trifie too much powdered, but their hair—that she really envied them. It was jet black, snd sleek and shining. In her coils, behind, each lady carried many pretty stick-pins of gold or silver or enamel; on the sides of each one’s head, above each ear, were glorious ornaments of tiny pearls and jade- Stones, in row upon row, making a fan-shaped mass that covered the whole side of the head. Many of these ornaments were made of tiny natural buds and flowers to imitate white pearls and green jade. Most of the women were bareheaded. A tew wore & band of black silk over their brows, with & jade-stone button or two in front. Three miles out there was a group of tea-gardens, end into the gates of these the pretty China women drove.—From “Alone in China,” by Julian Ralph, in Har- per’s Magazine for October. HOME RULE BOUND TO COME. Ihave no inclination whatever to dispute the greatness, the completeness of the Liberal de- feat. It was, as Mr. Ruskin once said ona very different subject, not a fall but a catastrophe. Yet Iam not particularly cast down by it. For the great reform measures in which I am chiefly interested it is a delay, and nothing more. The home-rule cause, for example, will have to wait. But the man who thinks that home rule and its movement have been put out of the way by this Tory triumph must be utterly incapable of understanding the forces of & national principle. Amid all our difficul- ties and dissensions the cause of home_ rule carried off two seats from the Tories of Ulster. In that Province, supposed to be the stronghold of Toryism, we have again & majority of the representation in the ranks of home rule. Therefore 1 feel not the slightest fear on that subject. I am sorry that the national cause should be delayed in its movement, but it will not have to wait long; its time will come.— Justin McCarthy, In the October Forum. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. It may not be too late to attach pertinence to the remark that England finds 1t much easier to wrest golden dollars than silver cups from this country’s keeping.—Portland (Or.) Tele- gram. ‘When a town’s inhabitants become strongly imbued with the idea that good streets, good sewers and plenty of them are a vecessity, the };msperig; of the town is assured.—Calistoga ndependent. Undeterred by all the silly objection to tall buildings urged by some people of antiquated ideas, we venture to say THE CALL will raise its loity tower serenely. San Francisco is not a provincial town and we have passed the '49 period.—Alameda Telegiam. Of course one swallow does not make & sum- mer, and a few determined and enlightened women do not prove that the majority of women are ready for suffrage. To obtain that oroof would be the most effective work that could be done for the constitutional amend- ment.—Oakland Times. Itis most earnestly to be hoped that the re- cent settlement of the Lux estate meansan early throwing upon the market of several hundred thousand acres of good farming land s i e or farmin; mean.—San Luis Oblipo Tribane, ke A producing population means wealth and prosperity. Few can realize the change there would be in Chico if some American syndicate would purchase the 6500 acres of gilt-edge 1and offered on the market by General Bidwell and place upon every 100 acres of the land an industrious family.—Chico Chronicle-Record. The voice of thesilurian is again heard in Ban Francisco. He is objecting to the erection of sky-scrapers and is demanding that an ordi- nance be passed limiting the hefght of b:fld- ings to 100 feet. If he had his way he would {e ;‘cfi s;l‘t.l F:l's‘t’:igo tos d;flily altflugonn and ts inhabitan e condition of troglod; ZStockton Meil. o ‘rhis is & year of plenty in Nevada. All kinds of crovs are greet. The hay crop is the best we have had for a number of years, Wheat is all tight, and there is an abundance of potat Iruit, vegetables, etc. The cattle n];nm&'é ranges are in firs condition, the mines are equal if not superior to those of any State, and we think the peog}o of the Silver State ll‘l‘zvsil:‘: cause to grumble.—Yerrington (Nev.) The rules of civil and criminal procedure are so numerous and 8o intricate that no man liv- ing up to his tables of mortality can master them. Precedent has been built upon prece- dent until the substantial element ln'.:- ad- ministration of justice has becn lost in the refinements of law.. The reform of our whole e B en, e o1 the people.—Stockion Magl, 0o huention The people all want Republican ‘prosperi to come back agaim, so we are quite safe huz suring the country elsewhere of two Republi- c]n:fleu(:wnmhom Utah. They need not feel alarmed on that score, for Utah ranks intelligence, according to the last u‘:x.:‘l‘x;drl‘n rt. Her people have education enough to 'w with which ty lo vote own ::q-wl:y. Utah F;o’publm.—?r:ve:fi)hh) ROYAR PERSONAL. Commander J. J. Brice of the navy I at the Palace. A. B. Miller of Marysville came to tovn yes. day, 8 3 u;lm';l E. Requa, a Sonora Mining max,is at the Lick. W. H. Taylor, 8 mine-owner of Glendaa, Or., in town. uJ. A. Webster, a fruit-grower of Vacaville, is at the Grand. ; Fred J. McWilliams of Eureka is sfayirg at the Occidental. W.F. Peterson, a Sacramento merchant, is registered at the Grand. L. P. Sage, the owner of Congress Springy, is at the Lick with his wife. *W. D. Tobey of Carson City, Nev., arrived yes- terday and put up at the Palace. T, W. Chandler, a San Jose lumber merchaat, is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. W. P. McFaul, Assessor of Mendocino County, came from Ukish yesterdey to visit friends (n town. 5 Charles W. Coglan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, registered yesterday st the Lick. Colonel Hugh McDowell, a mining operator, arrived yesteraay from London and is staying at the Palace. Judge P. S. Grosscup of the United States Federal courts of Chicago returned yesterday from the Yosemite with his wife. —_— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. _— MARRIAGE—A Constant Reader, City. The law of this State says: Any unmarried m‘uo of the age of 18 or upward and any unmarried female of the age of 15 years and upward, and not otherwise disqualified, are capable of con- senting to and consummating marriage. The law also says: Persons merried without the solemnization by either a Justice of the Su- reme Court, Judge of the Superior Court, ustice of the Peace, priest or minister of the Gospel of any denomination, must jointly make & declaration of marriage, substantially showing the names, ages and residences of the pacties, the fact of marriage, the time of mar- riage and the fact that the marriage has not been solemnized. All such marriages entered into before the 26th of last March are held to e legal. THE Last Drrca—D. 8., City. The phrase “to die in the last ditch,” indicative of determina- tion to persevere in a course of action to the last extremity. is eredited to William of Or- ange. When the destruction of the United Proyinces aPpeured unavoidable he, it isre- corded, exclaimed: “There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country’s ruin—I will die in the last diteh.” No MAN's Laxp—M. P., Alameda, Cal. “No Man's Land’’ 1s a strip Iying between Colorado and Kansas on the north and Texas on the south. It was ceded by Texas to the United States, and has been classed geographically with Indian Territory for convenience. Itex- tends from the 100th to the 103d meridian and is about seventy-five miles wide. GLACE nuts and fruits, 50¢ 1b., Townsend's. * PICTURE cards. Roberts, 220 Sutter. . FRENCH cnmafiownsend’l > Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street.* —————— PINEAPPLE and cherries, 50¢ 1b., Townsend’s.* —————— GENUINE specs, 15¢ to 40c. 81}4 Fourth st.,nr. barber.Sundays, 738 Market (Kast’s shoestore.)* Y —————— TowNSEND'S famous broken candy, 10¢ lb., Townsend’s. . - CHOICE cream mixed candies, 25¢ 1b,, in Japanese baskets, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel. * —_————————— @There is nothing so strong or safe in any emergency of life as the simple truth.— Dickens. 1 YoU want & good medicine to purity vour blood, give nerve strength and build up your en- tire system before the advance of the winter_ sea- son, take Hood's Sarsaparills, the great blood purifier. g Dr. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, a pure vege- tale tonic, makes health and health makes bright, rosy cheeks and happiness. EER e I Henry 0. Houghton, head of the publishing- house of Houghton, Mifiiin & Co. of Boston, died suddenly at his summer residence in North_Andover recently of heart disease. He was 78 yearsold. A son, associated with him in business, and three daughters survive him. A Good Idea, “Always Give the Other Fellow a Good Bargain” And have the knack of doing the right thing at the right time in the right way. We are giving the good bargains all right and doing the right thing at the right time by getting our Fall Goods in early. We are doing it in the right way by putting them on exhibition now and marking everything in plain figures. DON'T BUY Pictures, Frames, Easels, Piano and Banquet Lamps, Writing Tab- lets, Papeteries, Visiting Oards, Playing Cards, Silver Desk Orna. ° ments or LEATHER GOODS Until you have seen our new dis- play of new things. Ladies’ Purses in giraffe, seal, grained calf, etc., in all the fashionable colors, either plain or silver mounted. Cardcases, Billbooks, Visiting Lists, Picture Frames, Lap Tabletsand Traveling Sets. Whole showcases full of quadruple plated and sterling sil- ver noveities for desk and table ornaments. All welcome. None urged to buy. 2 SANBORN, VAIL & CO. 741, 743, 745 Market St. *. ~ HISTORY OF THE STATE GRANGE OF CALIFORNIA, BY EDWARD F. ADAMS. WILL APPEAR IN THE SAN FRAN- c1sco CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1895, This is the first time that a complete his- tory of the State Grange has’ been .at- tempted in this State. It. will ve illus- trated by portraits of someof the leading officers of the organization. Single copies 5 cents, posla; d. Address C. M. sublz’rn:'fie"u':,l Editor and Proprietor TrE Carr, San Francisco, Cal, A