The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1895, Page 6

SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Faily and Sunday CALL, one week. by carrier. §0.15 Teily and Sunday CALl, one year, b ail. 6.00 ¥ s. by mail 3.00 CaL1, threamonths, by mail 1.50 nday CALL one month, by mail .65 mail b . 150 NESS OFFICE: 10 Market Street, Selephone... BRANCH OFFICES: £7C Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. open until 9:30 0'clock. nth and Mission streets; open et: open-until 9 o'clock. until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway. EASTERN BFFICE: sdvertising Bureau w York City. he duck that flies dway is not a dead game sport. 0ld Utah may make a problem, but young Utah can solve it. The miners are making their convention interesting as we mportant. There is no movement in the third term proposition except when somebody kicks it. Nobody points with pride to the present except the fellows who wish to avoid discussing it. Reed, Allison and McKinley; these three, and the greatest of these is a mystery story. Whenever Democracy finds itself in a | s the ‘wo horns and calls emma it tal for another one. There will never be any filibustering on foot against Hawaii as long as she has any cholera on hand. W as “'s hit or re as shooting,” and still be only a iss racket. Cl Perhaps veland believes he must await an international agreement before | he reco Havwaii proposes to disband her standing | , and the nations of Europe may Y mple. The Episcopalians are manifestly re- ved to make their National convention as longas a honeymoon. There are just enough cooks in the Junta il the reform broth, even if some of them are not thrown into i The only fight we have in the coming Presidential campaign is for the National Convention and the best man. Sngland has as much trouble in picking a poet laureate as Democracy has in whether a Kentucky than the wk corporation is bigger e of California. If the Cub: Spaniards the Spaniards for the rest of the war would rely mainly on their legs. Mr. Huntington will find before he gets that the United States court, no than the competing road, is a toy. So long as she has 2 man like Tom Reed as a candidate for the Presidency we will count Maine as a part of the Great West. What kind of international equity is it that atlows all the world to supply Spain with a but makes it unlawful to sell them to ( a? st has candidates and the Missis- &iD) lley has candidates, and surely the Pacific Coast should have the conveation that is to name the winner. The Ea Notwithstanding the well-known fact | that there are four organized parties in whenever a new party starts self the third party. When it is so clear that Democratic s have no longer a show in this City it is astonishing why they should persist in making a circus of themselves. It may be taken as a sure proof of the | decline of pugilism in public favor that even a Boston paper has referred to John L. Sullivan as “‘a famous bully and drunk- ard.” ‘We hear a great deal about the prudence and caution of British capital, but what are we to think when it puts up millions | for South Africa and not a cent for Cali- forma? As it has taken Cleveland four days to go from Buzzards Bay to Washington it would seem he has not as much of an American movement on him as a Water- bury watch. It seems that when Buckley retired from politics he had an idea that he took the local Democratic party along with him, and finding out his mistake he has re- turned for it. If the Railroad Commission had followed the advice of THE CALL and made up a good record of evidence to sustain the re- dnction in freight rates, the people would feel safer now. Atlanta, like Chicago, has found that ex- positions attract the unemployed, and there are now so many idle men walking her streets it has become a serious problem what to do with them. The Democrats of Brooklyn propose to introduce a compaign novelty by using decorated trolley-cars to bear banners, bands and glee clubs up and down the streets at night. The innovation will probably be too killing for anything. Nathan Strauss will no longer furnish sterilized milk to the poor of New York at cost. His empioy s drank so much of the cream they reduced the quality of the milk and the authorities had to take Mr. Strauss to task, and so he has deterrcined to drop the task, Rhinelander | h many a huntsman a th ing may be | 1 determine | had as good arms as the | A DEBT OF GRATITUDE. The decision of the Circuit Court of Ap- peals in the suit of the Government against the Stanford estate will have one effect | which the people of California will wince | at, wkatever mgy be their present senti- | ment regarding the case at bar. It creates | a precedent behind which Collis P. Hunt- ! ington may safely shelter himself and his millions in the event of a similar litiga- ! tion. \‘ The debt of gratitude which Mr. Hunt- |ington owes to the Stanford estate for | establishing this precedent is very great. It is but another evidence of the kindness of fortune toward Mr. Huntington that |the action just decided had to be | brought against Mrs., Stanford in- | stead of against himself. The fact that | the accumulations of Senator Stanford, derived from the public through the medium of the Central and Southern Pa- cific railroads, have been turned back to the public through the great institution endowed thereby, coupled with the strong affection of the people of California for Mrs. Stanford, gave rise to a general feel- ing which favored the side of the estate of Stanford in the litigation, and in some places found vent in rejofcing when the Government lost its cause. { How diiferent would have been the con- dition of public feeling if Mr. Huntington | instead of Mrs. Stanford had been the | party defendant in the recently decided suit! Under such circumstances there would have been no sympathy for the de- fendant, but on the contrary the strong- est sort of sentiment in fayor of the | Government’s side of the controversy. | Against this daily augmenting tide of unpopularity it would have been ex- tremely difficult for Mr. Huntington to win his case. As it is, however, Mrs, Stanford has won it for him in advance, and his obligation to her is great. How | far a growing sense of gratitude may in- duce Mr. Huntington to repay this debt by the fairness and justice of his future dealings with the Stanford interestin the great railroad properties which he at pres- {ent controls is a problem which only | those who have studied closely Mr. Hunt- ington’s capacity for gratitude may be able to solve. OLD-TIME POLITICS. | H.M. La Rue, chairman of the Railroad | Commission and one of the leading Demo- | cratsof the State, made the following re- marks the otner day in a reminiscent talk with a CavrL interviewer: “In the good old days gone by we used to make cur political declarations for the sake of the party and for the sake of the partisanship which stamps the faith of the Republican or the Democrat. There was no gonnivery, no chicanery, no connu- | biating at the hands of that unscrupulous element that seems to have control to-day. In the past, after an election, the faithful went down into their pockets and ratified the election through absolute sincerity and delight at the outcome. To-day the spoils- men make a mad rush tor the party plun- der, and personal gain and greed hold the | reins as long as there is anything in sight. It is deplorable. Men won’t back up their party with money any longer unless there | is something in sight.” | The two points made by Mr. La Rue in | this discursive talk are that the conduct of | politics has fallen into the hands of shrewd i and unprincipled sharpers, and that the higher form of popular partisan spirit has | degenerated from a desire for the success | of vrinciples to a sordid scramble for the | spoils of office. Mr. La Rue is manifestly right to a great extent, particularly so far as the politics of San Francisco is concerned. Unprincipled manipulators in both the great parties have notoriously made bargains for the betrayal of party fealty and through cor- | rupt motives. This is sufficient to explain | the apparent lack of a high partisan spirit | among the respectable voters of both par- | ties; they are naturally unwilling to con- | tribute money which they have good | reason to believe will either be stolen or f | | | | used against the success of the principles | which they uphold, and to the disgrace and injury of the community. It is not true, however, that the spirt of | clean and stanch partisanship hasdeparted | from the ranks of intelligent and honest | voters of either of the old parties. That spirit is as strong as ever. Itsapparent | decline is merely a protest against such | politics as we have had and against the | persons who have conducted it. Of course, the honest voters are at fault in permitting | disreputatle men to assume the leadership, { but this does not mean that they would | fail to rally with all the old-time spirit and | energy if strong, clean, able men should step forward as leaders. The party which first adopts that method is reasonably as- sured of success, and if it should be adopted by both parties there would be no occasion for such popular protests and revolts as are | seen in independent citizens' movements and the organization of side parties hoping | to thrive on the discontent of the masses. A DIGNIFIED POSITION. The attitude of the California Miners’ | Association toward the two great questions of hydraulic mining and the attempts of | the railroad companies to secure mineral lands as agricultural lands was indicated | in President Neff's speech to the miners’ | convention. On the first subject he said: | “When we began this agitation there was | scarcely a single hydraulic mine operating legally in the drainage basins of the Sacra- mento and San Joaquinrivers. Now there are a hundred and more are being aaded daily, all under the protection of the law and injuring no other interests. It will be | part of our duty to obtain further legisla- tion which will remove some of the objec- tionable features, at the same time not in- fringing upon the rights of others.” On the second subject the expression was equally broad and fair. ‘“‘The position of the association,” he said, “‘is very simple. 1t has no fight with the railroad companies other than seeing that justice is done the mining community. It does not want anything that belongs to them; does not wish to interfere with any of their rights; does not desire to obstruct or hinder them in obtaining titles to lands which are prop- erly theirs, or to meddle in any way with the conduct of their affairs; but this asso- ciation does intend, if it is possible, to pre- vent these companies obtaining title to any more mineral lands in the State under the guise of agricultural land. By the iniquitous system which has been carried on for years in the patenting of these lands hundreds of thousands of acres of min- eral domain have passed from the posses- sion of the Government into the owner- ship of these corporations. This system is still being pursued, and will be continued unless we have the power to stop it.” These expressions are particularly valua- ble in that they are the sentiments enter- tained by all the high-class and responsi- ble miners and mine-owners of the State. Their moderation is based strictly on jus- tice and the public good, and the dignity with which they are presented challenges the admiration of the entire State. The great interest which centers in the action of this convention is shown by the large number of commercial bodies who sent some of theirablest members to repre- sent them in the convention. Among these THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 18905 were the San Francisco Stock Exchange, the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Asso- ciation, the State Board ot Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and the Los An- geles Chamber of Commerce. The close relation of the State’s prosperity to the growth of the mining industry is fully ap- preciated, and the determination of lead- ing men in other occupations to co-operate with the miners is a guarantee of better times ahead than the State has ever known. A CO-OPERATIVE IDEA. If the Monroe doctrine is good for the United States it is better for the other American republics in which its operation is intended to be effective. From the point of view of those republics our sup- port of that doctrine must have a second- ary interest. In view of their inferior re- sisting power as compared with that of the United States the doctrine should be a more important consideration with them than with us. It cannot be very agreeable to Brazil, for instance, to see England marching her troops across Brazilian territory for the purpose of harrying and bullying the weak sister republic of Venezuela. Not for a moment would England think of using the territory of the United States for such a purpose. Nor would England think of doing such a thing in Brazil or any other South American or Central American re- public ifall the republics of the Western Hemisphere were united to enforce the Monroe doctrine. Nor, for that matter, would there be any such thing as a dispute between England and Venezuela over the Venezuelan boundary if the republics of this hemisphere were united in a compact to sustain the doctrine. As it stands we are confronted with the curious anomaly of the United States Gov- ernment, for its own safety and interests, standing guard over the weaker republics of the south and preserving them from European invasion and dismemberment, without so much as a recognition of the service from the southern republics or an effort on their part to make an enforce- ment of the doctrine more thoroughly effective. A proper realization of this pe- culiar condition of things ought to be sufficient to move them toward a perform- ance of their manifest duty in the premises. By the way, is our Government really insisting on the enforcement of the Mon- roe doctrine? If so why is England per- mitted to march her troops through Brazil and harry and bully the defenseless repub- lic of Venezuela, with the apparent pur- pose of appropriating some of its territory ? PERSONAL. Dr. Knight of Marysville is stopping at the Lick. Rev. H. A. Brewer of San Mateo is at the Cali- fornia. Dr. Z. T. McGill of Healdsburg is registered at the Grand. H. E. Pickett, a mining man from Placerville, is housed at the Lick. Dr. Lowndes of the United States navy is a guest at the California. G. G. Kimball, one of Red Bluff’s merchants, is stopping at the Palace. Senator John P. Jones, the sllver champion, is & guest at the Palace Hotel. C. S. Ruggles, editor of the Stockton Inde- pendent, is at the Grand Hotel. Colonel Trevelyan, the fruit-grower of Fresno, is registered at the Palace Hotel, Frank B. Cornue, cashier of the First National Bank at Santa Rosa, is at the California. L. P.Sage, who owns and lives at Congress Springs, is at the Lick House with his wife. S. N. Rucker, the political necromancer of San Jose, is a familiar figure around the Palace. R. C. Terry of Clayton is a guest at the Lick House. Mr. Terry is one of Clayton’s moneyed men. Archer Baker, one of the leading mer- chants of Carson, Nev., is in the City from the silver country. Dr. A. E. Osborn, superintendent of the Home for Feeble-minded at Eldridge, is registered at the Grand Hotel. Captain W. H. McMinn, one of San Jose's capitalists, is at the Lick House. He isa vis- itor at the Miners’ Convention. - 8. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee reg- istered at the California Hotel last evening. Mrs. McClatchy accompanies him. Alexander McAdie, the Signal Service man, who will assist Mr. Hammon in forecast- Ing the weather, is at the Grand Hotel. Captain Temple of the English Royal Marine Artillery, 1s at the Palace for a few days. The captain is merely traveling for pleasure. CALIFORNIANS IN WASEINGTON. WASHINGTON , D.C., Oct. 15.—J. N. Russell Jr. and wife of Los Angeles are at the Ebbitt House, Senator Felton expects to spend December and Januery in Washineton. Mrs, Richardson Clover has returned to Washing- ton, aiter a year's absence, and again occupies her house on Connecticut avenue. W. J. Low- rie, a sugar man of Honolulu, is at the Riggs House. PASSED OMAHA. OMAHA, NEBR., Oct. 15.—Hsu Ukioh, secre- tary of Legation, Chinese embassy at Washing- ton, and family, took the overland fiyer for San Francisco to-day, en route to China. THE STATE ELECTIONS. Phiadelphia Ttem. Probably at no time in the history of this country has there been so large an instance of anited power in sufiport of oppression as a fixed policy under the control of the mmoney: :_endmg element as the present political situa- ion. No better illustration of this is needed than the recent platforms of the two old parties in a number of the principel States of the country, which is climaxed by that of the Democrats in Massachusetts, just formulated. New York Tribune. The governments of Néw York City and Jer- sey City, for the first time in many years, are both in the hands of men who are able and de- termined to secure fair and honest elections. All this means a positive loss to the Demo- cratic party, and no man can yet say how great & loss. For the majority which it has been able to manufacture for many years in these citles, and in some towns in this State, New Jersey and Connecticut are precisely whit has enabled the party of fraud {o resist so long the overwhelming hostility of the honest voters. Boston Jonrnal. The mugwumps in Massachusetts are evi- dently tired of their Democratic playmates. They want to come to play in the back yards of the Republicans. They can come, but they must_listen to some emphatic all-round de- nunciation of the Cleveland mal-administra- tion and of the general inadequacy and failure of Democratic attempts to manage the Na- tional Government. Republican candidates still stand for Republican principles. Cleveland Leader. Governor McKinley has taken occasion in several speeches to refute the glaring faise- hoods told by Campbell in his opening speech regarding the finances of Ohio. Now that it has come down to & 1uemon of believing the Governor, who is telling the truth, or Camp- bell, who is notorious as a falsifier on the stump, we are certain that the voters will not long remain in doubt as to who is the most en- titled to belief. Syracuse Standard. Itis not easy for & Democratic statesman in Ohio or in New York to hiton a question which he can discuss without antagonizing other Democratic statesmen or a host of Democratic voters, Reticence would adorn the Democratic party better these days; but the queer thing about a litical party is that, when it stops taiking, It stops breathing. . Fort Worth Gazette. In Maryldnd and Kentucky the effort of self- styled Democrats to defeat the Democratic ticket is made under the guise of loyalty to Cleveland. The Kentucky ticket stands for free coinage and the Maryland ticket for a gold standard. In other words, the question atissue in the Democratic party is whether or not the Czar is & czar. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. MERRY TALES FROM MERRY MINERS. The West produces no men who can tell so many interesting stories as the mining men, and they generally tell them well. The infre- quency with which they appear in the City makes their tales generally interesting and they are always ready to unload on & good listener. Major Frank MeLaughlin of Oroville is among. the best of the raconteurs and yesterday after- noon held the floor in one of the cosy corners of the Palace, “Just to show you how steadfast a miner is in his prospecting,” said the major, “I will tell you of an experience I had once with an old miner up on Big Butte Creek. He had in- formed me by letter on several occasions that he had the finest ledge of gold-bearing ore that Was ever struck on the coast. Ipaid no atten- tion to his appeals for s purchaser, because I never considered that the country he was Prospecting in contained any mineral-bearing ore. He kept on sending me word and offering the place for a low figare, 5o, in company with an investigating capitalist, I packed up some grub and blankets and went into the hills to see what he had. ‘‘Well, the old rascal met usata given point in a rocky, sandstone canyon and informed us that there was a trail to his mine, which was reasons now, and then you will have my per mission to get satisfaction in another way 10~ morrow morning at sunrise.”” “Make your charges, Captain Rodds, and I will deal with you personally efterward.” The major's eyes were blazing with a good old '40 fire, and the other gentlemen got up from thefr chairs. “It is simply this, sir,” calmly replied Cap- tain Rodda, folding his arms and looking straight at the magnate from Oroville, “You | are unnecessarily extravagant with the capital oi the Alluvial Mining Syndicate, which you control as its president. You have, while set- ing in thet capacity, deliberately squandered | moneyjof the company where it has done 1o good. I have heard of you before, but from something I saw when I last visited your mines on the Feather River I am now convinced that you ere a pillager of the stockholders and & wrecker of the company. You, sir, when I first met you, impressed me with the idea that you were a man to be trusted, and I am satis- | fied that you have deceived others in the same way. The manner in which these gentlemen receive you here leads me to believe thet you are looked upon as an honorable men, but be- fore I depart for Africa I will take this oppor- tunity 10 expose you. I had no intention of doing so up to within half an hour ago, but I am now satisfied that it is my duty. | "My friends,” Captain Rodds resumed, turn- i ing to the expectant throng which had gath- MAJOR FRANK McLAUGHLIN, THE EXTRAVAGANT MINING MAN FROM OROVILLE. [Sketched from life for “The Call” by Nankivell.] about three miles distant. Gentlemen, I give you my solemn word that it was nearer fiiteen, and the path he referred to was & mere scratch in the ground and steep. Well, bless you, we were walking most of the time with our heads down and had to grab roots to stay on the earth. Really, it was harder on my hat than it was on my shoes. Along about sunset, after one of the mules had gone over a precipice, he pointed outa ramshackle cabin on the mountain side and said that was the mine. It wasdark when we got there and we were so tired that we turned in without eating supper. Luckily, the mulg that escaped breaking his neck was loaded with the grub, so we had a pretty good breakiast. “After we finished and had a smoke the man with the mine said that he was ready to open up the whole worksand show us through. With great solemnity he guided us to a tunnel & few yards from the house, and, with a wave of his hand, invited us to enter. We lichted our candles, ducked our heads and crawled in, the owner following. The moment we brought up at the end of the tunnel, which was about twenty teet long, I became satisfied that we were in a marble quarry, and that it didn’t contain enough gold to fill a child’s tooth. I turned round and inquired what he meant by springing such a mine on me as a gold prop- erty. “Didn’t you know,’ said I, ‘that as soon as Isaw this hole in the ground I would quit right here? Do you imagine that Iam throw- ing money away on marble quarries sixty miles from civilization and & mile above' the level of thesea? I thought you said this was a gold mine. You have simply lied to me, sir. ‘Why, I wouldn’t have this thing if you would give it away. What good does it do you to misrepresent things to me like this “The fellow looked at me a moment,” con- tinued the major, “and then invited me to step outside, which I did. He took me by the arm with a serious expression on his face and pointed up and down the canyon. ‘Do you see the landscape before us,’ he said. ‘Did you ever see anything so worthless and uninviting inyourlife?” Iinformedhim thatI neverhad. ‘Did you ever see a spot on the earth so worth- less for mining purposes?’ he continued. And Itold him that it was the very heart of the bad lands. ‘Well, then, major, he answered, ‘don’t you think & man has a right to lie like — to get out of it?’ “We left the mule and the grub with him through pity,” continued the major, “and walked back to civilization.” When Major McLaughlin had finished his yarn Captain W. H. Rodds, the well-known mining man, who {s soon to go to South Africa to take charge of the Robinson mine, got up and walked away without even saying good- by, “take a cigar,” or anything else. Jacob Neff, president of the Miners’ Association, called him Lack, and Mr. Rodda returned re- luctantly. ““What's your hurry?” inquired Mr. Neft. “Well, my friends, if you want to know,” an- swered the captain, “I will state that Idon’t caretobe one of & party where Frank Mc- Laughlin is received on an equal footing with other men.” “Indeed?” retorted the major, rising, with a terrible ugly twinkle in his eye.” You will probebly state your reasons more fully. I de- mand, sir, an explanation or an apology right before these other gentleman, where you have had the bad taste to insult me.” Things were beginning to look dangerous, but the captain kept his temper, and made answer; “Maior Frank McLaughlia, I will tell you my ered, “this man here} has a flume crossing the Feather River,and in some places it is four hundred feet above the water level. Running along this flume isa plank walk consisting of two twelve-inch boards laid side by side. The yawning abyss below and the foaming tvater of the stre~m would make most any ane dizzy, and thosc who cross the chasm cling witha steadfast hold to the flume box. I watched some twenly people cross the day I was there, and they all hung onto the flume with & grip of death. It made no matter who it was, every- body hugged right up close to the box. ‘‘Now, Major McLaughlin, I would like to ask you who ordered that two-plank walk laid across the river?” “I did, sir,” thundered the major. “Is that what you call a sample of my extravagance?”’ “It is, sir.” “In what way, Ceptain Rodda?” “Why, simply by having two planks. Who in thunder ever saw anybody walk on the out- side one?” The major’s eyes melted into & soft child- like smile, the hard lines of anger left his mouth, and his lips curled up in a broad ex- pression of mirth that communicated itself to the listeners, and spread over the crowd like the tipple of dancing waves foaming over the sparkling sands of the Belvedere water front. Grant I Taggart looked up dreamily at the picture in the Miners’ Convention of the moun- tains, the cabin and the red-shirted miner standing near his box of unwashed gold gravel. A number of grizzled forty-niners surrounded him. “In 1850,” he began, reminiscently, “I was boarding with & family by the name of Fulkenson stGreenwood. Mrs. Fulken son was widely famous for her excellence in cookery and I was fortunate to be quartered in the fam- ily. Some acquaintances of mine, Jackesn Harrls, William Rhinewald, John Fairchild, Abe Childs and George Remnick, who were then prospecting in Birds Valley between the Middle and North Forks of the American River, came down one time to Greenwood and I in- vited them to dinner. Mrs. Fulkenson con- sented to prepare a sumptuous repast and she ‘went at her task with enthusiasm. “Chickens then brought $4 apiece in tne PLAIN TALKS WITH PARMERS, I hiave completed my argument to show that farmers are not holding thelr own as compared with other property-holding classes by reason of thelr ignorance and | that their best means of broadening their views is by co-operafion., Before leaving the subject for the present I wish to say that I think the farmer who 18 not in debt is to-day as well off as any other member of the community—perhaps better off, | Farmers are not the only ones who are in | distress. The trouble Iy that modern | methods and habits have invited, if not | compelled, & general indebtedness, of | which, when incurred, there was reason- | able expectation of repuyment. The tni- | heard mean insinuations which I am convinced never had any foundation what- ever. Most of these men have retired from the effort in disgust, but succeeding years unfailingly bring forth new men who engage in the work with the same kindly aspirations, pass through the same experiences and retire with the |same determination to mind their own business and let other folks mind theirs. Amid this band of retired philunthropists one can reacily de- tect those who hiave been actuated by pure benevolence by the kindly spirit which they evince toward their detractors. ‘““They know no better,” is what the wearied ben- efactors say. And that is true. The rem- edy is greater knowledge for farmers. We farmers are naturally no worse than others. We simply know less. versal fa'l of prices has rendered repay- ment in some cases difficult, in others im- | robable and in still others, alas, impossi- | le. The problem before the indebted | farmers is how to escape from that thrall- | dom honestly, p The only road is through education. must learn how. The worst enemy the farmer has is his | own suspicion, which is born of ignorance. He does not know how to distinguish honesty and ability from mercenaly We market and eggs sold at $6 a dozen. Itold her that the boys would pay her for any expense that she might incur, but she refused to re- celve anything zud was insistent about it. “We had oysizis and pies made from bottled fruit and all kinds of unheard-of luxuries. After the dinner the boys, according to the time-honored custom of the miners, cleaned each his plate scrupulously with a piece of dry bread and afterward turned it down, saying nothing of remunerating their hospitable cook. “They left, and when Mrs. Fulkenson turned up the plates she found beneath each a nugget of gold, the entire number weighing over nine- teen ounces. Gold was worth $16 an ounce.” LETTERS FRON THE PEOPLE ANOTHER BIG CHRYSANTHEMUM. BAKERSFIELD, Cal., Oct. 14, 1895. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: In your last Sunaay edition you gave the life size of the King of Chrysanthemums produced at San Rafael, and you wish for the edification of the public_any other larger variety reported if found. We have one grown on Stockdale Ranch, near Bakersfield, which measures ha!f an inch larger in diameter than the King of San Rafael. The name of this variety is Mrs. William Tevis and is the brightest golden yellow ever produced, with beautiful incurved owers erect on strong stems. Yours, very . - DavID P. CRESWELL, gardener, shrewdness. [t is doubtless true that the farmer is often deceived by professed friends, but in nearly every such case it should have been known that the promises | made were incapable of fulfillment. But | it bas always been true that the readiest | way to gain the ear of many farmers was | to hold out glowlng impossibilities. An example is the co-operating enthpsi— ast, who, usually in all honesty, promises | to market our productsat nominal cost. When we give them to him his expense of selling is pretty sure to be greater than we have been accustomed to pay and the farmer at once denounces the co-operating | manager and deserts co-operation. No such promises should have been made and the farmer should’haye known their fulfill- ment impossible. It costs money to sell goods and the inexperienced cannot do the work so cheaply as the experienced. There is no more earnest co-operator than I, but the gain to be looked for is not in increase of selling price, but in steady- ing the markets, the discouragement of speculation, the free banking accommoda- tions and the education in producing and marketing. The slight possible gain in price comes only with experience, an established reputation and good manage- ment. And yet the experienced man who fore- warns that co-operation costs as well as saves money and who insists on proper financial preparation is certain to be gen- erally believed to be contriving the accu- mulation ot funds in order to get hold of them, and stands no chance with the fool- ish enthusiast who proposes to get things done for nothing. The first step in ef- fective co-operation is to put up money. If wisely employed the investment is very profitable; if otherw: it is lost and co- operation receives a setback. The essen- tial preliminary to co-ogeration is there- fore the business knowledge which enables | the farmer to distinguish the possible from | the impossible and to trust or distrust pro- | posals accordingly. It is astonishing what a hold this nasty | spirit of suspicion has on us farmers. We do not seem willing to concede to any one the possession of ordinary public spirit and the desire to benefit his community. I know those who have spent in co-opera- tive work monthsof time and many hun- dreds of dollars without a cent’s compen- sation offered or expected whom people distrust simply because they say they must be after “‘somethin which they are determined they shall not get. That seems to be the first th.ng thought of | where one proposes a useful thing: “What | is he after? And how shall we keep him from getting it?” | lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulat and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, wh More knowledge will teach us that ex- cept in the occasional cases of rich men disposing of their accumulations, serious | and continued effort will seldom be made | for the promotion of useful public ends | without some expectation of private gain | behind it. The grange would never have | been founded had not O. H. Kelly desired | to be its salaried secretary. Camp Roache would never have been started had not the Highland people desired to build up their community., Te CALL would not devote the space it now doesto the farmers’ interests except from the expec- tation of helping the farmers to help themselves, thus benefiting the entire State and ultimately increasing its circu- lation. The question in such cases should be not how the proposer of useful things may be prevented from profiting by them, but how much he can properly be helped to profit. And it is not always material gain that is sought for. The motive power is often the spirit of leadership and the desire for the respect and esteem of our fellow-men. Occasionally it is pure benevolence. I am convinced that the latter motive inspired one who has spent thousands of dollars for the benefit of farmers of California, and who told me of men confessing that they had been deliberately sent to fish out what his real object was, for it was gen- erally believed ‘‘that he was after some- thing.” That everlasting “something,” which is always suspected! It is the bane and curse of farmers, and more than all else drives from their service the earnest and capable. My friend told me thatexperi- ence in sorrow and not at all in anger, but I confess it made my blood boil when I looked upon his kindly old face that such things should be said of him. A motive? Yes, there is always a mo- tive; but it may be noble, or proper, or ignoble. If the latter, the face, the con- versation, the character will disclose it. Ignoble men will have ignoble motives, but no such man lives who is not known as such. What we farmers need is the knowledge to distinguish the ignoble from the proper and the noble and the manli- ness to reward the deserving. If any have devoted their time and money to the pub- lic service have they not thereby earned the respect and esteem of their fellows? And 1f instead they get distrust and dislike are they not horribly cheated? If Highland Grange has estab- lished a useful school is not its community entitled to the advertising it gets? If TuE CALL spends good money in seeking to be | useful to farmers ought not its circulation | to increase among them? Do these things | which benefit them hurt anybody else? ' Do they not benefit the farmer? The fact | is that only very small men indeed seek direct individual advantage from the pub- lic promotion of farmers’ interests. The really capable men who are “after some- thing” know very well that they can get it easier elsewhere.” The immediate rewards which it is possible for farmers to give seem very trifling to a business man, and the expense of getting them would be all out of proportion to their value. Foxz my part I think the most honorable way in which men or communities can build up their fortunes is from the rewards natu.nuy flowing from the rendering of public service. But I fear the instinct of most farmers is to prevent any rood com: ing to any one as the result of public spirit. This is “plain talk,”” but has the observa- tion of any farmer been different? 1f so, I wish he would write me the facts he has noted. Iknow a large number of men in this Shtg who have sought to render public service to the farming interest. I do not know one who in confidential conversa- tion will not relate experiences similar to those have mentioned. Most of these men are thoroughly capable persons, many of them very ?:rge producers whose expected private gain was simply the feneul improvement of the business they live by. In re. gard to all o them have mantully and speedily. | » In these times I think the best friend to the farmer is he who tells him frankly what other classes think is true about him; and what I have said here is not merely what I have observed, but what is the gen- 2l obseryation and expression of busi- s and professional men and of all farmers themselves whose name one ever hears. One can hear it anywhere, Epwarp F. ApaMs. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. The Wine That Made Vina. Oroville R egister, ‘Watson Chalmers says the first wine made in this part of the State must have been made dug- ing 1852 by H on what is now Vina. In the fall of 18! erke presented Mr, Chalmers with & j choice wine from his vineyard and told him the wine was then seven years old. This make of wine afterward ettracted the attention of Governor Stanford and led to his planting the largest Vineyard in the world. The Noble Red Man, Yreka Journal. The Indian will be & warrior, 2 hunter and & loafer, but he will not be a laborer in the “white” sense of the word. He will drink the white man’s drink; he will learn to gamble with the white man’s cards, but he will not work with the white man's tools. Wouldn’t Suit Grover’s Syndicate, Whatcom (W ash.) Blade. If little Japan can buy and fight for silvey and then sustain it as redemption money, why cannot the United States sustain it as redemp- tion money when the greater portion of tho world’s wh{te metal is dug from out her preg nant soil? Room for Progressive People. Pendleton East Oregonlan. There is no room in this town for people whose minds are overburdened with {ll will and those who exhaust all of their strength trying to get in the way of those who are doing something. Oveproduction Doesn’t Go, Salem (Or.) 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