The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RAT] E: Postage Free: Taily and Sonday CALL, one week. by carrier. $0. en 5 #nd Sunday CAL, one by m: y and Snnday CALL, SIX ¢ by Tally and Sunday CArL, three months, by matl 1.50 Laily and ¥ CALL. one month, by mail .65 €unday Cary, one year, by mail 1.50 W REKLY CaLL, one year, by mail.. 150 BUSINE OFFICE : 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Selephone. Main—1868 Selephone..... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £50 Montgomery sirect, corner Clay; open unul :5C o clock. £5¢ Haves street : open until 9:30 o'clock. %17 Lerkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. AW ¢ s L und Mission streets; open Tl € o'c 818 Mission street: open nntil 9 o'clock. 31eNinth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, d DAVID M. FOL ...OCTOBER 30, 1895 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e Give your coin a chance to distinguish itself. tories, but war has all Peace hath her v the spoils. Has grim-visaged Buckley smoothed his wrinkled front? The Nation watches to Francisco will do it. z Tt looks as if the Durrant case might end in a surprise party. see how San If you wish to see a Presidential con- vention, catch on and pull for it. If China takes any interest in the pro- posals to regenerate her she doesn’t show it. It would be truly Californian to bave that $100,000 in sight before the week closes. Keep a little lookout all the time lest the lottery fiends try to get their work in agal The movement for the National Conven- tion has certainly started in the style that gets there. bard to tell whether Corbett and zsimmons are sparring for wind or free rtising. Probably when Sherman’s book is pub- lisbed we will find out it isn’ta mystery story after all. If Cleveland wishes to make his message sensational all he will have to do is to write a confession. Let Chicago consider how beautiful Bos- ton looks 1n the attitude of joining hands | h San Francisco. Suppose the Turks should give the Sul- tan the grand shake and set up for reform within the party, then what? We are capable of making a National convention as instructive as an exposition and as attractive as a carnival. Fortunately the Monroe doctrine was born before this administration and will have no trouble in surviving it. If there be any Kentucky colonel in the City, he may sample our milk without a shudder; there is no water in it. Prairie fires in Oklahoma may injure the fall bay crop, but nothing can ever scorch her stock of newly made grass widows. According to reports from Gorman has registered nearly man in the State and mtends to vot First the milkmen, then the laundry- men and now the butchers. Iiow many more must we overhaul to purify the town ? A Kansas orator is quoted as having re- cently said of Ingalls: “ Up was he stuck, and in the very upness of his stucktitude he fell.” It is rather rough that Corbett should have to put up $100 alimony every week and then not be allowed to take it out of anybody’s hide. If there were not so many able leaders ahead of him in the Republican party Mayor Pingree of D2troit might becounted on as a coming man. If Cleveland knew what the Venezuela fuss is about he might take some action in the matter, but the people should remem- ber he has been fishing all summer. Leavenworth, Kans.. proposes to hold an apple carnival, but the weather is probably too coid at this season to reproduce the Edenic scene in its primitive costume. Now then perhaps Mr. Flint and Mr. Jeter will start a talking-match just to save the country from losing the knack of con- troversy. It is doubtful if the Czar and the Kaiser themselves could read the reports about their projects and then tell what they in- tended to do. The only wonder is that Dallas and Hot Springs have not each of ‘them set up a claim for a National convention as a re- ward of virtue. It is claimed that upward of 15,000 names have been frandulently added to the list of registered voters in Baltimore and in the voting of everv name there is seen something of the fine Italign hand of Mr. Gorman. As the Government officials claim to have discovered a lotof bogus silver cer- tificates manufactured in Italy and sent to New York in macaroni boxes, it is evident that even the home counterieit industry needs protection. Because he has been snubbed by a ballet~ girl, warned off the grass and arrested for bicycling, Marlborough has been ungrate- ful enougn to forget that he got a free pass on the Vanderbilt roads without having to interview Chauncey Depew. According to Bishop Ludden of New York, Syracuse is in a worse condition than the wicked metropolis. He isquoted as saying: ‘I bhave come to the conclusion that this 1sa ring-ridden city. Itistightly clinched in the mouth of the ring; it is misgoverned, mismanaged, and corruption permeates.” The people should come west and grow up with an honest country. . THE BETTER PLAN Although it is not conceivable that any gocd citizen of San Francisco would cher- ish any feeling of jealousy if the manage- ment of the fight to bring the Republican National Convention to this City had been led by the Republican 1 1e Club, still it was best that the club should refuse to ac- cept the direction of the affair and make it a popular movement. The expressed fear that in the absence of some such leader- ship there will not be a concentrated ac- tivity and responsibility is groundles This is to be a citizens’ movement, not a Republican, and that is the great point. There will be no trouble on the score of ac- tivity and responsibilit; The plan adopted is highly commenda- ble. A meeting of representatives of all the commercial and other influential or- ganizations of the City has been calied for next Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce. At | this meeting arrangements will be made for a grand mass-meeting, which will formulate a definite plan of campaign. | It will be everybody’s meeting, not held un- der the auspices of any political or com- mercial organization. It will be an oppor- | tunity for the display of public spirit. It seems to be taken for granted that San Francisco should bear the burden of the fight and of its attendant expenses. While this may not be altogether justit will have the good effect of localizing the responsibil- ity and placing the City on its mettle the guardian of the interests of the entire coast. We may be sure, however, that the other cities of California will not be con- tent that San Francisco should have a | monopoly of all the responsibility and | credit, and that before the fight is over we shall receive some stirring returns from them. Although over $60,000 of the $100,000 called for has already been subscribed in San Francisco alone, it was secured with- out any organized effort, and merely through the desultory efforts of two or three newspapers simply to test the senti- | ment of the community. Only an exceed- ingly small fraction of the people have | been approached in this way. The aston- ishing success of these meager efforts indi- cates clearly what will be theresult of the organized work to be done by the commit- | tees which the mass-meeting will appont. : It is now in order for the other cities of | California to exhibit a similar spirit and | proceed systematically after the method | in San Francisco. Tug CALL'S correspon- | | dents are instructed to give the fullest at- tention to all such efforts. = | A HUMILIATING SCENE. | An extraordinary spectacle is presented in this country, with its Government ‘‘for | tie people” and “by the people,” in the | attitude of supplication with which the | representative of a great body of me chants of San Francisco begs the assem bled representatives of railroads running | between Chicago and Utah to make such | rates in Utah as will be fair to the mer- chants of California and not discrimina- | tive in the interests of Chicago. It is a| confession of the fact that the railroads of | the country are exercisi the right to | | determine whether one section of the | country shall prosper at the expense of the | other. The terrible significance of this confession cannot be exaggerated. | Thecase is this: For strictly private | reasons of their own the railroads are em- ploying rates which make it impossible for | California to compete on equal terms, or at all, with the merchants of Chicago in the markets of Utah. The people of Utah have no voice in the matter; they must accept whatever the good railroads are | pleased to give them. The people of Cali- | fornia have no voice in the matter; all| that they can do is to kheel and supplicate | for a justice which any court would grant them. Nothing has ever arisen in the history of transcontinental railway operations which has so direct a bearing on the nropo- sition now before the country with regard | to the means which the Government should Lemploy to protect its debt owed by the Union and Central Pacific roads. Itcan | be realized at once, from this pitiful exhi- bition at Salt Lake, that the debt to the Government is of the meanest considera- | tion when compared with the broad prin- ciple of the power exercised by transconti- nental railways to build up or repress any section of the country at will. It seems almost providential that this alt Lake incident should have occurred | at this time, when discussion over the debt of the aided railways is going on. The millions of dollars whi the Government might secure by enforcing its claims have an insignificant value in comparison with the emancipation from railroad tyranny which would result from the taking of the roads and operating them in the interest of fairness and the general good. Such a course would eliminate entirely the causes which make necessary such disgraceful spectacles as that to which the Salt Lake conference is treating the country. ONE HOUR OF BLAINE. It pleased the Eraminer vesterday to give about a column and a half of its ed- itorial space to an attempt at showing that Blaine's management of our foreign affairs was not more inteiligent, vigorous or pa- triotic than the mismanagement of them by the Cleveland regime. The article was | interesting as a novelty of theoft year in politics. The country has been so accus- tomed to hear Blaine denounced as a bold, bad Jingo, seeking a fight with every na- tion on the globe, that there was all ihe chance of a unique originality in the K- aminer’s argument to prove that, after all, he was only the exemplar of the modern cuckoo. To maintain the new view of Blaine sev- eral guotations were given from the diplo- matic correspondence concerning the con- troversy between Great Britain and Ven- ezuela. From the quotations given it is evident Mr. Blaine was not at that time in favor of immediately declaring war against England without first proposing arbitra- tion. From this the Eraminer concludes he was not a vigorous supporter of the Monroe doctrine, and feels itself justified ! in mdintaining that he did not make this | country more intluential in South Amer- ican affairs than it has been under Gresham and Olney. The Eraminer, however, overlooks the change that has taken place in the condi- tions of the Venezuela controversy. In Blaine’s time 1t had gone no further on either side than diplomatic discussion. At the present time England has commit- ted actual aggression and is reported to be preparing for the immediate estabiish- ment of her claim to the disputed terri- tory by force. \hen the discussion was under way Blaine could do no more than recommend arbitration. Had England then, as now, showed signs of scorning onr interference and entering upon the annex- ation of Venezuelan territory does any in- telligent American doubt that Blaine's recommendation would have been soon changed to the language of an ultimatum? Blaine’s policy in regard to the rela- tions which exist between the United States and all parts of both North and of Syracuse | South America constitutes one of the most conspicuous features of bis statecraft. He is not more familiarly known as the cham- pion of protection at home than of pan- Americanism abroad. Under the Pres dency of Garfleld one of the noted acts of his administration of the State Depart- ment was the effort to bring about a great peace congress of all American States for the purpose of preparing a way for settle- ment of all international questions that might arise among them. Garfield was killed and Blaine went out of office hefore that plan could be carried out. Under Harrison he succeeded in getting together a Pan-American Congress on a broader basis than the one suggested in Garfield’s time, and in that congress the foundation was laid for the building of a great Ameri- can policy. Before the edifice wgg com- pleted, however, the master whose genius, patriotism and courage were needed to erect it in fit proportions, died, and since then we have not even heard of pan-Americanism. We have heard only of Clevelandisi. It is in vain that any argument or seem- ing argument is urged to defend the foreign policy of the Cleveland adminis: tration, but the aff becomes a down- right absurdity, even when most fresh and original, if the upon a comparison between the policy of Gresham and Olney and that of James G. Blaine. The blunders, weaknesses and futilities of this administration will soon | be forgotten, but for all time to come the people of this conntry will remember the great Pan-American statesman, and when- ever our foreign affai re in the hands of incompetent or unpatriotic men there will arise in the hearts of the people the wish so often uttered now: *‘Oh, for one hour | of Blaine!” INTEGRITY IN FRANCE. Again has France been shaken to the center by one of those official scandais which produce ministerial crises in that nervous nation. Tnhe Chamber of Depu- ties, by a majority which has astounded and thrilled the country, has passed a vote of censure on the Ministry, and that | auzust body has promptly resigned. The wording of tlie measure is the most. interesting feature of the overturning. 1t is this: “The Chamber of Deputies, con- sidering it proper to interdict its members from taking part in the operations of financial syndicates, is resolved to throw complete light on the affairs of the South- ern Railway, and invites the Minister of Justice to fulfill all his responsibilities.” It is the principle expressed in this pointed interpellation thatis most signifi- cant. It is a proclamation not only that certain Deputies have used their positions to foist swindling schemeson the publie, but that the central Government itself has been conniving with them and assuring them protection. This an exceedingly grave matter, but a majority of the French people believe the charges to be true. It would be an astonishing thing if the question of interdicting the members of an merican Congress “ifrom taking part in the operations of financial syndicates’” hould be raised, and it seems too much to hope that even France, with all its intelli- gence and patriotism, is quite ready to adopt that proposition in its scheme of government. present that while undoubtedly the people of that country,as of this, believe in the soundness of the principle, the power of money is as still too great to permit the expression of the popular will in the con- duct of the Government. Ana yet the principle on its very face is vital to the health and stability of any re- publican Government. Being so, it sooner or later must prevail or the Governments must go to the wall. 1f the members rep- resenting the influence which financial concerns are able to exer in the Con- gress of the United States were suddenly removed, particularly in the Senate, the Government would be practically left without a legislative body. PERSONAL. Dr. &. L. Bleke of Weaverville isat the Grand. Dr.J.J. Hogan of Vallejo is at the Occidental. Senator E. C. Voorhees of Sutter Creek is at the Grand. Carl E. Lindsay, an attorney ot Santa Cruz, isat the Grand. Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Grand. General J. W. B. Montgomery of Chico is staying at the Grand. R. E. Jeen, a capitalist of San Luis Obispo, is a guest at the Palace. 1. C. Smith, a big lumber man of Fresno, is aying at the Palace. Jesse D. Curr, capitalist and politician of Sa- linas, is at the Occidental. Jacob Schramm, a big vineyardist of St. Heleng, is at the California, J. F. Devendorf, a real estate man of San Jose, is & guest at the Grand, T. 8. Merchant, & fruit and wine man of Healdsburg, is at the California. George Johnston, a cattle man of Pleasanton, registered yesterday at the Grand. Ex-Judge 8. M. Buck of Eureka wes one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Frank D.Ryan. District Attorney of Sacra- mento, regisicred at the Grand yesterday. John M. Vance, a capitalist of Eureks, and his wife registered at the Grand yesterday. Theodore ers of New York, and his wife are at the Palace. J. W. Minturn, a large land-owner of Min- turn, came in yesterday and registered at the Palace. Ex-Sheriff Joseph P. Standley of Mendocino came down irom Ukiah yesterday and put up at the Li Ex-United States Senator and Mrs. A. P. Williams returned from the East yesterday and are staying at the Palace. H. M. La Rue, president of the Railway Com- mission, came down from Sacramento yester- day and registeted et the Occidental, GOOD FOR MORE. Haywards Review. Metropolitan journalism is evidently a profit- able business, and the public spirit of the shining lights in that field is often shown. The San Francisco CALL recently offered a sub- scription of §5000 to secure the National Re- publican Convention for that City, and the Examiner has followed with one for £1000. The Chronicle has not yet been heard from, but on aceount of the position of its proprietor in the party councils and the fact that he is a standing candidate for any honors that can be given by that party will doubtless cause it to come to the front with the biggest subscription of the lot. Since the above paragraph was put in type the Chronicle has come to the front with a subscription of $7500, thus making it for a &hort time the largest subscriber to the fund. Its envious contemporaries would not allow it to hold this proud position long, however, for the Examiner promptly increased its original offer to $7500, with a promise of more if neces- sary, and THE CALL hastened to round off its contribution by making it $10,000, at the same time intimating that it is good for a few thousand more if necessary. SCHOOL VACATIONS. The institution of school vacetions dates back considerably further than has been as- sumed. Vacations were first introdueed in old Hellas, and Anaxagoras, the philosopher, wes the founder of the custom. He lived at Lamp- sacos, on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont, honored and loved by old and young alike. When once asked what the city could do for him he replied: ‘‘Close the schools annually for one month and give the children’s time over to play alone. I wish you would choose the month I die in for that purpose.” His wish was granted, and as late as the third century of our era the children of Lampsacos enjoyed a month’s vacation_every year, beginning with the celebration of the anniversary of Anaxa- goras’ death. defender ventures / We may assume for the | . Starr, one of the leading jewel- | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Colonel Sutherland is still telling stories on his friends at the Palace Hotel. His latest is on Captain Hulse, the mining man. “I'll tell you how it happened that Hulse drove a Nevada newspaper proprietor out of the town of Tybo. Some years ago he was looking over a mining property in the eastern part of Nevada with ex-Governor Kinkead as a traveling companion. When they arrived at Tybo they found a fellow there who had just struck the town with a few cases of type and an old Washington press. He had already got out one or two editions of his paper, and the appearance of Hulse accompanied by an ex- Governor putitinto the fellow’s head that a CAPTAIN HULSE, THE MAN WHO PLAYED A EAGEBRUSH EDITOR [Sketehed from lije Jor *The C2ll" by Nanki g [ 20.] very important mining deal to the hotel and demanc inon tae ground flo that he wanted the info It so happened that ti guired would have inj much to give out, and him to sgy nothing ab: man promised to let the next morning—lo and 1 tained two eolumns of interview with Hulse. start to finish, and Hu pleased with it. e ever, to say nothing, bu town that after- noon for a trip to the northern part of Nevada. Inabouta week he returned and the mews- Paper man fell upon him again. Hulse re- cefved him with open arms and showed him the greatest deference. Here the colonel went into a violent fit of laughtér, from which he was some moments recovering, atter which he resumed: cuse me, gentlemen, but it’s so funny to think of. Well, Hulse took him off to one side, and aiter buying him a few drinks told Lim that he had the finest piece of mining property ever heard of, and that there was any quantity of unclaimed land all around his, waiting for some one to come along and take it up. He | stuffed the newspaper man for about an hour, | and the next day it all appeared under flaring | headlines. Itdrove the whole town into the | wildest state of excitement, and half of the men took their blankets and left for the new camp. The result was that they found noth- ing, end after a few weeks began to drift back. In the meantime Hulse had leit for California, and the frenzied inhabitants fell upon the editor and smashed his printing office all up. They next fell upon himsclf and he was or- dered out of town on the run. him was when Le headed down the road for Beowawe, which town he is said to have passed through without stopping. There | stands Captaiu Hulse over there now. Isn't he a peaceful-looking fellow?"" n. He went i that Hulse let him ation for his paper. information he re- d the eaptain very 10 politely requested it. The newspaper matter rest, but the 10ld the paper con- purported to be an was fiction from ras thoroughly dis- d enough, how- THE “JACKPOT” Fresno Republican, 1f the people of San Francisco display sound | business judgment they may secure the Na- tional Republican Convention at smail ex- pense to themselves. All they need dois to encourage the morning papers a little. The Examiner subscribed $1000 to the fund. Then THE CALL called attention to the fatt that it had already subseribed $5000. he Chronicle saw THE CALL'S $£5000 and went it $2500 bet- ter. The Examiner came in and called the Chronicie. Now if the people are wise they will encourage Tig CALL (0 Taise its competi- tors §2500. Then the competitors will see THE CaLL and go it a few better, and nobody can foresee how much there would be in the jackpot at the end of the game. But the peo- vledown at the bay want to see that interest in the game does not lag. LATer—Since the foregoing was written we learn that Tue CALL has made the $2500 raise. The game grows interesting and the jackpot enlarges, GROWS. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. To Warm Up the Frigid North. Bakersfield Caltfornian. It is rumored tbat the people of a city not 8 thousand miles from Minneapolis &re to be regaled with choice chicken tamales this winter, prepared by a lady well known in Bakersfield. A red-hot tamale would go about | &8s weil on’ & cold Minnesota winter's night as anvthing that can be imagined, and doubtless a good profit wiil result from the venture. Three Moral Debts. Benicia New Era. As en individual & man owes to himself such duties as will contribute to his perfect happi- ness; A A member of o community he owes such duties to his neighbors as will afford the greatest good tothe greatest number, and &8s a. citizen he owes such duties to his country as will give to it the best government. Standing in His Own Light. Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. The wage-earner who refuses to work for the silver cause is like the invalid who screens the sunlight from the bed of pain, and refuses the gheering ray that would bring heslth and light in place of the pain and gloom so bitterly moaned. It Ts a Descent for the Stage. Tulare Register. Certain newspapers of California are weari- some in their drooling over the Douglas woman going upon the stage. They talk of the English aristocracy as if it were a descent for this woman to appear in & drama. A Good Word From Utah. Salt Lake Herald. We hope San Franciseo will get the Republi- can National Convention. She would provide sll who witended with ample accommodations and make them sv at home that they would want to remain forever. On the Wave of Prosperity. Oakdale Leader. Just keep your eve on Oakdaie and watch it move aloug when the canals on both sides of the river are in working order. The last seen of | THE PRESS AND DURRANT. Stockton Mail. Durrant, whether acquitted or convicted of the awiul crime of which he stands accused, has been subjected to an extraordinary ordeal. Not only has he been compelled to answer be- fore the regularly organized tribunals of his county for the murder of Blanche Lamont, but he has had to face an arrogant, unscrupulous and infamous inquisition represented by the San Franeisco newspapers, He has had one trial under the forms of law and another in utter disregard of the principles of decency and justice. One has been in progress only since he was arraigned in the Superior Court; the other began from the hour the bodies of the two giris were found in the desecrated church on Bartlett street. In one he has had the benefit of the presumption of innocence, the right to be conironted by witnesses, the privilege of being represented by counsel and al. the safegunrds to which, in a free countr: ndmrwn accused of crime is entitled. In tl other he has been condemned from the start without a hearing, puton the rack, tortured by gossip-mongers, lampooned by caricaturists and malignantly assailea by sensationalists. Notning in the history of the press of San Francisco has so fully exposed its disgraceful methods as its coursé in reporting the police and court proceeaings against Theodore Durrant. THE CALL mav be left out &s & con- spicuous and honorable exception since that journal passed under jts new management. It there be a failure of justice in this celebrated criminal case the responsibility for thatfailure will have to be charged to thé brutal, vicious and demoralizing conduct of its City contem- poraries. Allsense of honor and decency in the news treatment of the atrocious crime and of the alleged relations to it of the medical student seems to have been ignored bv the managers of those journals ever since the hour of his rrrest. An ‘event of an exceptionally appalling character, which has shocked the moral and spiritual foundations of society, and which should have influenced all righ minded people to contemplate its develop- wents witn horror, has been made by these managers the occasion for pandering to the morbid appetite for sensationalism. It has been regardea by them as a great opportunity tocreate from day to day spectacular effects, In a grotesque spirit they have attempted to make sport out of the incidents of the crime and the trial of Durraut. Many of the sketches made of the court, the jury and of the witnesses have been drawn in tiie spirit of bur- lesque. Asfor the defendant, but one motive seems to have inspired the so-called artists, and that was to contend mnnn%lmflmsel\'fi to see which could draw the most forbidding and brutal portrait of him. This rivalry has been kept up from week to week until the ideal pro- duced is that of a typical murderer. Surely the depravity of journalism has no deeper depth than that which has been sounded by these papers. The crowning capsheaf of press infamy is the obtrusion of the Cunningham woman into the case. This androgynous reporter, it may be safe to sey, has in 110 sense promoted the ends of justice. She was detailed to spy on the de- fendant and extort a confession from him. That she failed is very clear, yet we find this vain and ridiculous fémale posing on the wit- ness-stand, trying to swear away the life of a man whom she had epproached in the guise of & good Samaritan. Byen the unscrupulous newspapers that cmployed this women as a dirty hireling seem to bé ashamed to own her. THE POET. Each secret wish the major poet knows, And reads each heart and hears each weary sigh, And notes all thoughts however deep they lie Within men’s souls. Beneath their mock repose He sees each grief, all sorrows and &1l woes Which make men faint and long to sieep or die, And so find rest beyond yon peaceful sky In morning lands where days nor flowers close. With watchiul eyes he sees the human race By steady toil attain a higher place Than that which 1t but yesterday was given; And when his heart can bear its load 1o more | It bursts in song, and thus, with rhythmic roar, ating in substance | Uplifts it hence to God’s own feet In heaven, San Francisco. Howamrp V UTHERLAND. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE, AN INDIGNANT CITIZEN. J. A.JoxEs RELATES 1118 EXPERIENCE AT JUDGE MURPH COURTROOM DOOR. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: I am & native-born American citizen and a taxpayer, and I would like an opportunity to chronicle a scene of which I was an eye-wit- ness at the City Hall this afternoon. In com- pany with three ladies I made my way to the corridor nearest the door leading to the court- room in which the Durrant trial is being con- ducted. It was balf-past 1 o’clock. But few persons had been admitted to the courtroom; there were many unoccupied seats therein. 1 made application to one of Sheriff Whelan’s deputies to go down to the courtroom door. Was grufily answered, “We don’t allow 1o peo.. ple to go to the door now.” That very instant I saw oneof the numerous courthouse attaches crowd by with several persons, women and men, and not only go to the courtroom door but through it. At this time the crowd of vis- itors in the corridor was not very great, but in a few minutes it sweiled to larger proportions, and the toughs who were clothed with brief authority—mnot regular policemen—began or- dering respectable, orderly men and women to “get back,” and accompanying their orders with most burly, ruflianly shoving. Meanwhile, though, 1 observed scores of persons being pilot- ed through the crowd down to the courtroom by various attaches. In a word, Mr. Editor, that courthouse was in possession’ of “ihe gang,” and only the friends of the gang could gain admittance to Judge Murphy’s courtroom. Such an outrageous usurpation of the rights of respectable tax-paying American citizens by a lot of burly, ignorant, irresponsible, pap-ted creatures it has never heretofore been' my gall- in? experience to have to witness and enaure. By what right, let me ask, could those ruf- fiarilly minious deny to my lady friends and myself admittance to that courtroom and per- mit others to enter it who ap‘!flied for admis- sion at the same time as we did? Actually, sir, Isaw one of the Sheriff’s under- strappers wedge by brute strength several peinted and bedizened damsels right through the crowd of respectable citizens who had been for some minutes standing (Lulefly await- ing an opportunity to get to the courtroom door. Such a disgraceful, high-handed pro- aeeding on the partof our hired servants calls for some rigid disciplining at the hands of an untrammeled press. J.A. JONES, San Francisco, Oct. 29. BIRTHDAY OF CHRIST. RELIGIOUS SCHOOL, DISTRICT GRAND LODGE No.4,1. 0. 8. B, H. P. BUSH, SUPERINTENDENT, SAN FRANCISCO, October 21, 1895. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIr: In your yesterday’s issue Mr. H. Kramer, in order to conciliate certain conflicting chroni- cles regarding the birth of Christ, advances the theory that the so-called “Christian era” sig- nifies the date of crucifixion. But how is this hypothesis to coincide with the fact that the Christian persuation from its incipiency has been celebrating the recurrent anniversary of that epoch in commemoration of the rite of circumeision performed upon the founder of their creed? Also, I respectfully beg to call the attention of the previous contributor on the same subject that, in my opinion, the proper English translation for the Hebrew word “Tzemach” would be “Bud,” in con- formity with the preterite verb “Tzomach,” signifying “Sprouted,” and not “Branch”’ Very respectfully, VICTOR HARRIS, Teacher in above-named school. TRANSMIGRANT. She sat far back. A few pews ahead of her was Miss Sear. The sermon was middle style, being neither strong of brimstone, nor ultra-poetic. The spoaker was a& quiet, thoughtful man whose characteristicutterances were audible to about half the congregation. The church was overheated. She wondered drowsily why Miss Sear still wore her well-burnished hair strained back over her head into a “French twist.” Also why she clung to the small, plain “cottage bonnet,"” so close-fitting and prim. The pleasant monotony of the sermon grew faint. Then it became so far away that she was hardly conseious of it, and another scene slid before her mind’s eye—a dull, indistinet scene. By straining her eyesshe could just make out two figures, a man and a girl. Now she saw more plainly; they were stand- ing at a gate, and it was twilight. ‘hey were very sad. 1twas a farewell. She conld not make out the man, but the irl was Miss Sear, only much younger than now. His arm was about ber. And he was stroking her hair, which was exactly as she wore it now, and he was !lyillg how fine it was, and how he loved the way she did it and the little bonnet she sometimes wore, and how well it revealed the fine shape of her head, and how he should picture her thus when he was far away making the fortune which would bring them both happiness. Just then she awoke, They were rising for the benediction, She glanced at_Miss Sear. And a softer ex- pression_was in her eyes than usuall evoked, by Miss Sear's smooth head and old- fashioned bonnet.—F. Maude Smith in Life, ENGLAND AND VENEZUELA. Philadelphia Record. There is no doubt that Great Britain and Venezuela will come to terms by peaceful arbi- tration, to the grievous disnx-poimmum_ol_ the Jingoes. It is quite likely that negotiations for fixing the basis of arbitration are now progress. Great Britain has too many unse tled questions on hand to go to warin Ven- ezuela over this territory, and Venezuela cannot afford to fight; but impartial arbitrs- tion would give to each party sll that it could justly claim. As to the real merits of this con- troversy, including the rathershadowy Schom- burg line, nobody in this country knows an thing about them—always excepting, of course, the Jingo Senator Lodge oi Massachusetts. Boston Post. The purpose of Great Britain in pushing its claims upon Venezuela is notoriously the gain of a strip of territory next to British Gulana by advancing the boundary line. This territory is vaiuable because of its mineral treasures. American citizens already hold concessions there. No clearer case for the application of the Monroe doctrine has ever been presented. The British claim is nothing but a grab. It is the old, old story which has been repeated wherever Great Britain has obtained a foot- hold. Butin this instance there is authority in the United States to check the aggrandizing spirit. Pailadelphia Ledger. A dispateh from Loundon sums up in a terse way the cause of the Venezuela boundary dis- pute, though incidentally. It sav: “It is generally believed here that the British colony of Guiana is in & bad way, and that her salva- tion lies in exploiting the goldfields which are in the disputed area.” Precisely so. ngland has found that certain neglected territory has some riches in it, and purposes to seize it, and depends upon being able to browbeat Vene- zuela out of any pretensions to sovereignty over it, refusing to have the claim she makes submitted to arbitration. Chicago Record. The probabilities are that Great Britain will eventually accede to the substance of this Na- tion’s demand. At least, she is more likely to find some diplomatic channels for getting around the trouble than to take steps looking toward an actual sundering of relations. The strip of territory involved in the imyending dispute isnot worth any such violent infrac- tion of international peace. Strained though the situation may be at present, there is no feature of it which may not be expected to yield to diplomatic negotiations if discretion and judgment are exercised. New York Commercial Advertiser. If Great Britain, relving on the general supineness of the Cleveland foreign policy, sees fit to challenge this principle, to deny the right of this country to protect Venezuela from dismemberment and to fnsult the American Government, she 8 running very grave risk A Republican Congress, ropresenting the man hood and patriotism of the American Nation, will not tamely submit to this indignity, nor suffer the Salisbury Ministry to make British power dominant in’ South America by raising the British flag over the mouth of the Orinoco. Indianapolis News. The Venezuelan question appears to be noth- ing more nor less than the old British game of land-grabbing. All that the United States wants is an arbitration of the matter; wants the question settled by reason and examine- tion, and not by & powerful country like Eng- land pouncing upon a weaker one like Ven- ezuela, constituting herself judge, jury and officer, taking her own_testimony, making her own verdict and executing it herself. If Eng- land’s claim is true,as she makes it now, she has nothing to fear from arbitration. Nashville Banner. This is one phase of the Venezuelan question that may force England to agree to an arbitra- tion. The territory she seeks to sequire in Venezuela is pold-bearing. This is the secret of her movements in that quarter. There is no principle and no sentiment involved. It is purely & matterof greed. If England discovers that she is likely to lose more in other quarters than she will gain in Venezuela her inclination to forcible seizure of the territory will very likely yield to the demand for arbitration. ‘ew York Times. The actual intertionsof Great Britain toward Venezuela have not yet been announced. The signs and portents which usually appear when she {s about to engage ina dirty and ignoble piece of business are already visible, however. One of these signs is the swaggéring and truculent tone suddenly assumed by some of the minor London newspapers. Philadelphia Times. The refusal of arbitration is en acknowledg- ment of the lack of rightful title, and itis, moreover, in the face of the resolutions of Con- gress and of the representationsaf «his Govern- ment, an open offense to the United States, to which the administration is justified in offer- ing a strenuous opvosition. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SoLDIERS’ VOTE—An Old Subseriber, Presidio of San Francisco. A man does Dot either gain or lose a residence by reason of having en- listed in the army or navy of the United States. He can always claim his vote in the place in which he resided at the time he enlisted, pro- vided at that time he was a citizen of that place and entitled to vote there, and that since his enlistment he has not elected to be- come a citizen of another State. For example, if a man enlisted in New York, being a voter of that State at that time, and should he be as- signed to duty in San Francisco, he could not vote in this State unless he had been in the State one year, in the City and County ninety days and in the election preeinct in which he claims his vote thirty days before an election. If he did not register and thereby change his residence then the only place in which he could vote would be in the State of New York. Thesame rule applies to soldiers in the matter of voting which ap- plies to persons in civil life. A soldier in order to vote therefore must have acquired a resi- dence in the State or Territory in which he desires to vote. 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