The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. PTION RATES—Postage Free Car1, one week. by carrier.§0.15 #nd Funday Carl, one year, by mall... 6.00 CaLL, s1x months, by mail 3.00 Taily snd Sunday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 CALL. one month, by mail .63 year, by mail. 1.60 ne year, by mail. .. .50 £vnday Ca1y, one WEEKLY CaL BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.... +...Maln—1868 EDITORIAL, ROOMS: Selephone.. Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES £70 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until £:3C 0'clock. £1¢ Haves street: open until 9:30 o'clock. %33 Lerkin street; open until 9:30 0'clock. orner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open Jl € o'cleck. 4638 Misslon street; open until 9 o'clocic S3UNiuik street; open uptil § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: ©U8 Broadway. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALl Make San Francisco a free port. Massachusetts women voted no on tke suffrage question, but perhaps they meant yes. tional conven- zen should go The movement for the tion goes well, and every cit withit. As ships do not pay a dollar in New York why should they have to pay many dollars p an opportunity by the some men only succeed in catch- ing a dilemma by the horn. i ] Dunraven is but a poor sport for a vachtsman, bat he has jaw and gall enough to make a champicn pugilist. There can be no doubt that the railroads in this State aie moving up, for we shall soon have one to the top of Tamalpais. It is an easy prediction that before the honeymoon is over either Marlborough or his Duchess will send in an ultimatum. Now that the British bave given Bayard thie freedom of one of their cities we can least give him the freedom of staying there. | The German festival was too big a thing to crowd into one week, and comes over to- day and to-morrow to start the new one for us. We are getting a great deal of credit in the Fastfor coming in with a verdict in the Durrant case before one was reached in the Holmes trial. The Cold Water party in New York can do a good deal for the people of that city, vrovided it uses strong soap and stiff | scrubbing brushes i The British will never enter a contest with us on the high seas so long as they | can capture so many millions fromus on the sea of matrimon If there is any Democrat who would like the Presidential nomination next year some of his friends should furnish him with a trumpet at once. There is little advantage to our com- merce in having a Golden Gate to come in at so long as the port itself is locked up by excessive harbor dues. The Pacific Ocean is the broadest road to prosperity, but we must let down the bars of heavy port chargesif we wish to get into the swim of it. Massachusetts is boasting of the fact that she has twenty towns of more than 20,000 inhabitants, while no other State bas more than thirteen. 5 An expert who has counted it up says France has had thirty cabinets in twenty- five years, but as long as she pays for them we have no right to kick. The deficit for October amounted to more | than $6,000,000, but the deficit party bas been heavily reduced and thatisa suffi- cient cause for thanksgiving. i The dispute over the Alaskan boundary comes just in time to remind the East that | Alaska is a part of this country and San Francisco is the central eity. Europe had no hesitation in carving up and dividing Africa, but she has conscien- tious scruples hbout taking a slice off Tur- key, for the Turks will fight. Asone expert declares that bread is un- healthy and another says potatoes cause dyspepsia it would seem to be high time | to enlarge the supply of prunes. It is noted in Boston that although they would have bad a right to vote if they bad registered, nota single disreputable woman in that city exercised the privilege. It is now asserted that the farmers’ boys in the prairie States ride bicycles to drive the cows home, and still there are people who say a farmer’s life is nota pleasant one. Under the Cleveland administration Uncle Sam has put on no style abroad nor made much of & show at home, and yet he has not been able to live within his in- come. As Secretary Morton declares the recent elections to have been a vindication of | Cleveland we may as well consider Morton the monkey of the menagerie—an amusing little cuss. —_— 8o bad has been the drought in the East it1s said the Ohio River at Pittsburg has sunk toa channel only six inches deep, and even large-sized catfish cannot navi- gate the stream. It is announced that the dispute between French Guiana and Brazil is to be settled by arbitration, and England would make a better appearance if she would adopt the French fashion. If it be true, as reported, that men of fashion will wear their beards this winter in the style of Louis X1II, we may expect something of a French air in the prevail- ing winds, eyen in Kansas. As the sidewalk ordinance is virtually a dead letter because juries refuse to con- vict it is evident the first step toward mending our ways must be a more thorough public education on the subject. ! THE OASE UNDERSTOOD. The campaign to secure the Republican National Convention for San ¥rancisco has at last been organized and every Californian understands his duty and the benefits which will flow from success. 1t remains to be seen what effort will be made by those who are not members of the commit- tees having the actual direction of the | campaign. Tue Caur’s Washington correspondent has telegraphed an exceedingly important. interview which he held with Chairman Harrty of the Democratic National Com- mittee. Mr. Harrity announces that early in December he wiil issueacall for tne meeting of the committee on January 2 at ‘Washington, at which place a selection of the place for the convention will be made. The convention is to bs held probably late in June or early in July. He added i that San Francisco, Chicago, Si. Louis, Milwaukee and Denver are bidding for the convention. This is the firet definite news that has the valleys are the result. This explains the action of the fruit-growers. Tt is the beginning of an inevitable con- test of very great significance. It is an old-established principle in Europe that the mountain Water stores’ shall - be guarded in the interest of agriculture in the valleys. This accountsfor the jealousy with which those nations retain possession of the mountain forests, and in some in- stances exercise the right to supervise the cutting of timber on private holdings. Neither of these principles has ever ap- peared in American affairs, for the simple reason that until the West was developed there was no occasion for their ex- ercise. The preservation < of ‘mountain forests is very closely allied to artif cial irrigation of crops, and the West is the only part of the country in which irrigation is necessary. This is a problem which this Nation must face and solve; Europe has shown how the solution should be accomplished. One of the most important things which a National convention held in Califordia come from the Democratic headquarters | would learn is the need for » proper Na- and it is very important. We have al- ways insisted that it would be easier to secure both conventions than one-and of course immeasurably better for the coast. The readiness with which leading Demo- crats in California are coming to the as- sistance of the Republicans in their fight for the Republican convention shows that the higher elements of the Demociacy ap- preciate the material benefits which wouid result. A similarintelligence of course must be presumed to exist among the Republi- cans of the West. For that matter there can be no doudbt whatever that the Republi- cans will cheerfully give all possible as- sistanee to the Democrats in the fight to secure their convention. This seems an excellent time for formu- lating a comprehensive plan for a com- bined campaign. As yet the Democrats have taken no definite organized action to that end. The method of the Republicans was to start the movement and ihen turn it over to the people at large. The Demo- crats could well dolikewise. Asat present constituted these popular committees rep- resent no political party and could as eusily make both fights as one, but it is nece: sary first that the Democrats as a party show their hand. 8o far as the fight for convention is concerned the needed money is the tasks. The people have already shown their disposition in that regard. The bat- tle is now practically transferred from California to the East, and as it will be some days before the California workers will start East the Democrats have time to begin their fight and effecta broadening of the original A WARRANTED PROTEST. Although it was knowh to well-informed residents that the excessiv rges im- posed upon ocean traflic at this port were the Republican the raising of smallest of the ope. an essential factor in the maintenance of | an oppressive overlana railway monopoly that the charges for pilotage were exorbi- tant and that the laws protecting the swindles which the local pilotage business represents proceeded from corrupt sources and were corruptly exercised; that a shamelessly wasteful management of the State’s concerns in port matters was in istence as the result of a disgraceful political spoils system, and that the port of San Francisco stood alone as the op- pressor of ocean traftic, it was not until last Friday that the strong men of tais City bave had the enterprise to rise as one man and determine upon an abolition of the evils. Here is an extract from the address made by George W. Dickie that every Caiifornian should ponder: “The enor- mous fortunes made in railways have drawn men’s attention away from the more conservative traffic of the natural highway. When their attention is again turned to it there will be more wealth { made from the Pacific than was ever dug No State has such an iron grip on ccmmerce as Californi San Francisco has a position un- equaled by any city in the world. The Golden Gate is San Francisco’s front door, but thre State has a watchdog there to drive away the commerce that would enter.” All 'this and more is eminently and shamefully true. It is so disgrace- ful a condition of affairs that the suggestion naturally followed, by W. L. Merry, that as the State has shown itself to be incompetent and corrupt it would be better to turn over our water front to the National Government. “‘Under this plan,” he declared, “the sea- wall could be completed in five years or less at a cost approximating, as I am in- formed, $2,500,000, whereas, under State management, with present conditions, it will take fifty years and cost nearly $20,- 000,000.” That is, the difference between these times and these amounts will represent the difference between the com- petency and honesty of the National and State Governments. So long as the State maintains control of the harbor means for defraying its ex- penses must be contrived. Evidently the prevailing sentiment of this great meeting favored a free harbor, or very low and strictly reasonable and honest charges. Mayor Sutro advocated the abolition of all tolls and taxes on ships and shipping, and the levying of a general tax to meetthe expenses. This would be so radical a measure that it might encounter fatal op- position. And yet what could be better for the whole State than the greatest pos- sible engouragement to ocean traffic? The one State 1n all the Union which most needs to encourage suck traffic is the one that places the harshest restrictions upon it, It is to be observed, however, that no dissenting voice was raised in this great convention of representative men against the charge that the existing condi- tions are ‘the result of corrupt politics. Thatis the underlying and overshadow- ing fact in_ all this murky business, and this should be the thing to be kept most prominently in mind. Have the eminent business men of San Francisco no respon- sibility for this condition of things? Mayor Sutro in his address gave a hint in that direction. ‘‘To get l2eislation,’” he said, ‘‘we must have honest legislators who cannot be bought by the powers which domineer over us. Such legislators we shall never have unless the honest and the better classes join together-to control the primaries,” So long as the lead- ing business fen permit corrupt poli- ticians to control the State legislation so long will the State be held against every natural tendency to progress. PROTECTION OF FORESTS. The State Fruit-growers’ Association has come to understand the vital relation existing between forests and agriculture, for it has adopted resolutions calling upon California’s representatives in Congress to take proper steps to secure the efficient and economical handling of Government and mountain forest lands in California. Under the system of reckless and extrava- gant denudation which is going on, often in violation of the rights of the Govern- ment, the natural stores of winter precipi- tation are injured and disastrous floods in from the Sierras, . tional treatment of this great subject of irrigation. At present most of the splen- did mountain forests of the State are held by private owners, and countless thou- sands of acres were entered by fraudulent means. These scandals have been no- torious for years. It is the Government'’s right and duty to,recover possession of these lands, and protect the remaining forests upon them from wanton destruc- tion, NEEDED CO0-OPERATION. Middlemen in business—that is, those who act as agents between the producer and the merchant, not between producer and consumer—are a proper institution only when they are necessary. It is a rare thing for such men to be seen between manufacturers and merchants, as the busi- ness of disposing of manufactured articles has become thoroughly learned and firmly adjusted. But while we observe an ab- sence of middlemen between manufactur- ers and merchunts we find them between farmers and merchants. Why should this be? That is the guestion which the fruit- growers of California are seriously asking themselves. Clearly the profits of middle- men operate against the profitable prose- cution of rural pursuits by taking so much from the producer’s earnings, for as there are many producers who do not reach merchants through middlemen it is clear that those wko do are pluced at a disad- vantage and must accept prices based on the smalier cost of marketing. ‘The prevalent plan of marketing Califor- nia fruits in the East is to place the vroduct in the hands of middlemen, who in turn dispose of it to merchants. This has grown to be an enormous business. The middlemen have acquired fortunes, while the producers are making nothing. But the middlemen are a pleasant and convenient agency. When growers need money the middleman advances it to them, takes a mortgage on their crop, charges a heavy rate of interest, and compels them to put the crops in his hands for disposi- tion. As a result there is no systematic | attempt to extend the market, and centers into which the fruits are poured under this system become glutted, the fruits them- selves are cheapened, prices are forced down, and the grower suffers. The mid- dlemen are sure of their commission. They becomerich and the producers poor. These are things which the California grower has learned from bitter experience, and it is this knowledge that is moving producers to organize for the purpose of dispensing with middlemen and coming in direct contact with merchants and con- sumers. Nothing wiser was éver taken up in this State. The proposed plan contem- plates a central organization whoily under the control of the growers and branch es- tablishments in all the fruit centers for doing the things which the middlemen had been doing, but in a much wiser and more beneficial way. The next question will concern the abil- ity of producers to display the necessary business sense to earrv out the plan and remain. faithiul to one anotherin its exe- cution. Farisersin this country are gen- erally charged with a lack of ordinary business sense, and this lack is advanced ain their inability to make their business profitable, At the same time it is a boast hereabout that farming in Cali- fornia is of so much higher and finer a character than that in the East that its prosecution develops its followers and places them . on an intellectual level with the best elements of the State. This mat- ter is now to be putto a test if the plan suggested at the Sacramento convention of fruit-growers is adopted throughout the State. It is the plainest of all propositions that if the farmers should unite and should act with the intelligence necessary to the success of any business they could easily cure all the ills which hamper the market- ing of their fruits and make a profit in their business possible. We believe that the necessary intelligence does exist, and that organization is'all that is required to make it efficient. — PERSONAL., J. C. Zuck of Gilroy was in the City yesterday. Raleigh Barcar, a Vacaville lawyer, {s at the Lick. ¥ Captain Wainright of Burlingeme is at the Palace. Dr. E. 8. Bogart of the United States navy is at the Palace. W. W. Post, one of Stockton's prominent citie zens, is at the California Hotel. W. F. Petersen, a merchant from Sacramento, isquartered at the Grand Hotel. J. W. O’Reilly, a Santa Rosa vineyardist, is in the City and housed at the Lick. Dr. Morris, a retired physician of the United States army, Is at the Occidental Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Camp are at the Palace Hotel. Mr. Camp is the father of football. J. H, Howell and wife of Merced are guests at the Lick House. They will remain in the City a few days. Dennis Spencer and family have come down from Napa to stay over Sunday. They are guests at the Lick. J. J. Gilbert of the United States Coast Sur- vey is at the Oceidental Hotel. Mr. Gilbert is accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Baldwin, who has been visiting in the East for the last few months, has returned to her apartments at the Occidental. Stephen V. White, one of Brooklyn's promi. nent divines and a minister of the tabernacle where Talmage used to preach, is at the Palace Hotel. He is making a tour for pleasure. FROM HUMBOLDT COUNTY. Arcata (Cal.) Union. The San Francisco CALL of last Saturday gives an account of an opera by children in aid of the District Nurses’ Association in which 200 littie ones took part. Among those re- celving special mention was Jessie Burns, a little Arcata miss. Of her THE CaLL said: Jessie Burns made a charming Puck, her pan. tomime being - particularly graceiul and clever. FAVORABLE TO MINING. Grass Valley Tidings. THE CALL is extremely favorable to the min- ing industry and is doing much good by its timely and able articles. Ukerdek--Do policemen always get their drinks without paying for them? . Bierstein—Yah. - You of a gopper.—Truth. RANDOM NOTES. By Jouxy McNAUGHT. The most careless observer on the streets who hassuflicient leisure in hiseye to note the passing show can_hardly fail to see on any sunny afternoon a thousand proofs that San Francisco is an Eden, where every woman not only has her own way, but her own style of zoing it. In other cities there is a certain uniformity and established fashion in walking costumes, but here we have all the infinite varicty of life and millinery that the whole round yea: affords. One woman goes by in furs and another comes along in & pink shirt waist; one is so brilliantly arrayed that her spiendor mashes the eye and another is in a dress so subdued the average man is liable to mash her by mistaking her for a shadow and stepping on her. Of course the cliniate does it all. Any race in this atmosphere is bound to evolve sooner or later into a go as you please. If the artist who drew up the pictures for the November Harper is correct, New York society is as variegated ata horse- show as ours on the street. In one of these pictures the women at the show wear high- necked frocks, puffed sleeves and stunning hats, while in anothera woman in a box- seat has an extremely low-cut dress with a diminutive bonnet for a headpiece. Ac- counts of the show state that a large num- ber of Western peopie paid high prices for boxes, and perhaps the Harper artist drew on his prophetic powers, and intended his dame of exposed shoulders for one of the Western annex. In that case we must as- sume she came from no further west than Chicago, for the picture is cut off at the knees, and if she had been a California girl there would have been room enough on the page to put in her feet. One advantage of having people from all parts of the world and wortby representa- tives of the art and culture of every nation whose culture is worth anything is that it enables us to enjoy festivals of all coun- tries without going abroad. It is not long since we had a French fete, and at present a German one entertains us and instructs us by pleasing us with music and revelry at the Pavilion, while enticing us to reaa Goethe and Schiller at home. A fetc of Italy or 8pain may come next. In fact, a vear of San Francisco is as good as a tour of Europe with a night in China thrown in. According to the latest computation the American heiresses who have married for- eigners during the last twenty-five years have carried abroad more than $161,000,- 000. This is a lerge sum and nota few are fretting about it, The loss of the money is, of course, a drawback to the country to that extent, but we have only ourselves to blame in the matter if there be any blame. An heiress does not care to tie herself toa man to whom lifeis a mere matter of business and a bundle of industrious habits. She naturally desires some man who will find time to dance at- tendance on herself a little bit. The for- eigner does that and the heiress takes him in preference to some home product whose enterprise runs in a different direc- tion. If we are proud of the fact that dur young men are not fortune hunters let us be coutent with that pride and not compiain because we lose the stakes when we won't play the game. A question of fashions is now being dis- cussed in Paris with great vivacity. Itis a question of stockings, and of course there is much in it. The discussion was begun by Gabriel Prevost, the art critic, in a pa- per vehemently denouncing black stock- ings on the ground that they are afterly inartistic and have “‘an attenuating effect.” It seems Prevost is a critic of high degree | and his opinion on this important subject was of sufficient weight to disturb the equiiibrinm of all Paris. Interviews with many artists, actresses and literary men on the subject have been published, but, like every other question widely discussed, it has become a muddle. It has been noted that 1n the whole controversy so far no one has advocated white stockings. The prevailing dogma among actresses is that black is the only classical color. We must let it go atthat. Perbaps everything classic has an atte ting effect. In a recent address ata St. Louis ban- quet, Lyman Gage of Chicago thought it worth while to say to his listeners with an impassioned eloquence: “Cultivate faith. Let the men of the East visit the plains | and mountains of the West, They will find everywhere wide-browed men who love justice and right. Skip Europe. Study America. Do not think that all intelli- | gence lies eastward of the great lakes, | You may have more culture, but you poshe®~ sess no more power of brain and heart."” Surely now that is pretty good from the voice of a friend. You may have more culture indeed? Lyman Gage, instead of | staying East to cultivate faith, you nad better come West and learn something of | the subject before you talk about it at another banquet where the wine inspires to a dithyrambic oratory. Herbert Spencer has descended from | the heights of his lofty philosophy and touched earth long enough to think out something of importance in daily life. He proposes & system of classifying colors that will be a boon to every mortal man who is sent by any of his womankind to | match a color. His planis todivide col- ors by subdivisions like those of a com- pass and thus give to each shade a specific name. This would rid us forever of such names as “‘clephant's breath,” “Vladimiroff green” and all other such abominations of nomenclature. The round of colors from red to blue, from blue to yellow, and from vellow back to red, could be easily di- vided into as many shades as humanity can invent, and as soon as & man once learned to box the compass of them there would be no further difficuity for man or woman, shopkeeper or artist. The illuminations of the tall-tower build- ings is now regarded as one of the sights of New York, There is one of these sky- scrapers that happens to be occupied by night workers from turret to foundation- stone, and the effect of the lights is so fine it has become a fad to go downtown to look at it. Thus it bhappens the high buildings which some people presume in their impudence to eall hideousjare having artistic effects and esthetic 'influences which were not anticipated. When the world gets fully educated up to apprecia- tion of the tall towers it will probably be admitted that America has evolved the noblest and most beautiful architecture the world has ever seen. Studying illumina- tions by night will not be conclusive that the buildings are beautiful, but it will lead & to an admiration that will eventunally re- sult ina just judgment of the aspects of buildings by day. : A STATE GRAND JURY. Carson (Nev.) Appeal. For some weeks past the San Francisco CaLL has been making an expose of the reign of ter- ror in Round Valley, Cal,, where & murderous Wretch named George E. White runs the entire valiey by hiring men to assassinate any one who is in his way. Hedrives $ottlers off their lands at will, and people do not dare to testify ! against him in court for fear of being found gan’t ged & pigkel oud l i Gead in the road. No Grand Jury would dare to indict any of \ the men responsible for these crimes for fear of the vengeance of the White crowd, and thus the criminals eseape justice. This is because the grand jurors live in the vicinity of the out- Tagesand don’t want trouble with murderers and assassins. Every small community is cursed with this same fecling; men in business fear men of .wealth and influence. 1f there Was a law providing for a State Grand Jury, to g0 from county to county and examine into cases overlooked by the county grand jurors through fear or favor, there wouid be many in- dictments and inyestigations which are now shelved. Ormsby County has not been exempt from this sort of fear. The Appeal ha’ called irequent attention to illegal acts in the county whlmh 10 Grand Jury has ever dared investi- gate. Were there a State Grand Jury some of these matters would be lined up in short order and the guilty brought to book. e AROUND THE CORRIDORS. _George S, Wright and wife of California and New York arrived in San Francisco yesterda The last journey from ocean to ocean was Cap- tain Wright's fifty-third trip across the conti- nent by rail. He has made the trip between the two cities by steamer nine times, and once came from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean by the stage coach. In his travels He went around the globe once &na now contem- Pplates another all-around journey. Capiain Wright is well known to old-time Californians. In the ’60’s he was interested in the steamship business. He brought the Olympia from New York to the Pacific and placed the steamer in the Puget Sound trede. Captain Wright owns a beautiful home on the shore of Long Island Sound, near New York, and it is his custom to pass half of the year in the East. The winter season of the Atlantic,or in California the “half-year of clouds and flowers,” is passed at the Occidental Hotel. Captain Wright recelved his annual greeting at the Bohemian Club yes- terday. He will devote himself chiefly to the science of whist, the study of books and the pleasures of conversation untit the vernal equinox comes. “We have a fellow named Walters near Warm Springs,” said 8am Rainey yesterday, when his mind was not running on political combina- tions, “who has so many children that it was impossible for him to keep track of the order in whieh they came, so he hit upon a happy idea. He got them &ll in aTow oneday and applied a number to each, commencing with one and proceeding in numerical order until the eleventh and last was reached. Now when any one asks him which boy or girl that is, he says, ‘Tell the gentleman your name,’ and when the answer comes, ‘Tom Three Walters’ or ‘Emma Seven Walters,’ he knows how to lo- cate thespeaker. Great scheme, that.” WHEAT AND CLOVER. On one side slept the clover, On one side sprang the wheat, And I, like a lazy lover, Knew not which seemed more sweet— The red caps of the clover Or green gowns of the wheat. The red caps of the clover, They noaded in the heat, And as the wind went over With nimble, flying feet, It tossed the caps of clover And stirred the gowns of wheat. Oh, rare red caps of clover, Oh, dainty gowns of wheat, You teach a lazy lover How in his lady meet The sweetness of the clover ‘The promise of the wheat. CHARLES KENRETT BURROW. Durrant’s Letter to ‘“The Call.”” San Luis Obispo Breeze. Durrant’s conviction seems to meet with uni- versal approval ail over the State. In all our long list of exchanges we have not yet found a single opinion dissenting from the conclusion of the jury, which is not only unusual, but in view of the fact that the publication of the evi- dence in full practically constituted every man a juror, is a pretty convincing proof that no theory opposed to Durrant’s guilt can be recon- ciled with the facts disclose!. Durrant’s let- ter published in yesterday’s CALL is & hid for sympathy. but is more likely to inspire con- tempt than pity. His whine about his mother loses force when the reader remembers the agony of griel suffered by the relatives of his innocent victims. The people of California await impatiently for the dawning of the day when Mr. Durrant will make his grand fare- well appearance on a modern sleight-of-hand platform and drop out of the world that has no room in it for such hypocritical, fiendish brutes. A Fervent Wish. Benicla New Era, November 9. Blanche Lamont, dead—Minnie Williams, dead—Durrant, dend. Thatis the story, what is the moral? First, let us hope that every Examiner and Chronicle, with its tiresome, sickening detail and disgusting picture s been consigned to the flames and hurned to ashes and the ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven, that nothing may be known of them smong men forever. Let every home with sons aud daughters free itself of their presence and clear its moral atmosphere. No Quail on Toast. Sacramento Bee, November 8. Theodore Durrant has become a writer for the press. This does not show so much the degeneracy of journalism as the vitiated tastes of the people. If the readers did not want that kind of rot no sensible newspaper manager would pay for it. The reading public usually gets what it calls for--its taste has always been more for the pickled corn beef and the stale Dash of literature than for its quail on toast. . A Ghastly Prophecy. Modesto Herzld, November 7. We venture the prediction thet Durrant will notdie on the gallows. He will die, after the law’s delays can no longer be invbked, by his own_hand. We verily believe that his own mother would furnish him with the instrument for self-destruction rather than he should go t0 the gibbet. ROUND VALLEY ECHOES. The Littlefield Lynching. Ukiah D¥pateh. THE CALL of last Sunday published the sten- ographic report of the testimony given st the second inquest held over the remains of Jack Littlefield, who wes lynched in the western part of Trinity County several wecks &go. Constables Crow and Van Horn testified that after arresting Littlefield and teking him sev- eral miles they were held up by a mob, who shot Littlefield and ordered the officers to move on. They testified that from twelve to twenty shots were fired. Two witnesses living in the neighborhood of the lynching testified that they heard three shots fired about the time of the lynching. After considering the testimony, the jury brought in a verdict to the effect that Littleficld came to his death by be- ing snot and hanged by unknown parties, but they believed thas the arresting officers were connected with the erime. It was announced last week that eight men were to be arrested by Sheriff Bergin for the crime, but up to last agcounts no arrests had been made. A Band of Desperadoes. Santa Rosa Farmer, ‘We agree with the Ukiah Dispatch-Democrat in the belief that sensational news and reports are objectionable, but in the case of the Round Valley erimes only the publication of full and startling details would open the eyesof the cople to the fact that almost in our midst ex- Ysu such a band of desperadoes and such stu- )endous crimes are being committed. *There s need that people should be aroused to the enormity of such things to make them realize the necessity for promot action in bringing these fiends to justice. If the local law 1s not of sufficient force to do this the State law should be brought to bear, and suiteble protection ve assured to the people in thatsection of the State. EGRAND ENTERTAINERS. Pheenix (Ariz.) Gazette, i It begins to look as though San Francisco would get the National Republican Conven- tion. The people of that City are the grandest entertainers on the continent, and we hope to see the big City by the Golden Gate receive this just recognitios THIS CITY HAS “THE CALL.» San Jacinio Register. San Francisco has ‘‘the Call” on that Repub- lican National Convention, even if it does lack @ few needed votes. THE PURE MILK CAMPAIGN. Dickery, Dockery, as fine as silk. 1 like your lactomoter milk. Dickery, Dockery, youdarling man, Nothing but pure cream is found in your can. ‘Dickery, Dockery, stick right to your trade, Or against you the babes will order a raid. REPLY TO COLONEL IRISH. OBSERVATIONS ON HI18 DEFENSE OF JUSTICE FIELD. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Imust take time at the outset to say that Justice Field has cause for pride in the true knight who steps forth and stands fast for his good name as the ablest jurist who holds that the constitution does not authorize the Govern- ment to make money out of taper instead of gold that of right will pay the debt one man owes another, for Colonel John P. Irish is easily the first Democrat in the State or on the coast in the use of tongue or pen, and I have not a doubt that he speaks and writes as he thinks of his own free will and not for pay in -gold or place; and he has the grit to state his views at a time when the wily politician dodges issues or skulks under ambiguities. Our contention is this: I assail and he de- fends *“Mr. Justice Fiel the other eight Justices of the court in themas jority against him—in his intent, guilty. In defense of him Colouel Irish is content with simply citing Madison, Polk, Walker, Til- den and Historian Bancroit as holding the same views as Justice Fieid: but it must haye been hard for him as & Democrat to have to omit the names of Jefferson (the father of De- mocracy), Jackson, Benton, Calhoun and Chase, who held, as the Supreme Courtgol_fls, that the Government has the fullest authority to issue treasury motes aud clothe thefn witl all the legsl tender fint of gold itself, and that in so doing it does not impair the obligation of contract Ti this is a question to be settled by anthorl- ties, let me add a few more illustrious names. Aristotle said, *“Mon s not by nature, but by law.” Frankl , “*Bills of "credit made a legal tender” had no equals asinoney, Victor Bonnet said that treasury notes werc better than gold and silver. John Studrt Mill, Browning Price, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay held like views. Clay said: “Whatever the'Government agrees to receive in payment of public dues is money, no matter what its form may be, treasury notes,ete. * * * such paper is money.” t I forbear. In these days of dukes, "’ and ‘“‘pugs’” we must be brief to find space in small type for & theme that goes to the very roots of our civilization. Let us turn fora moment to the charge that legal tender paper mpairs the obligation of contracts.” 2 yes, then what of all the debts h greenbacks during the war and for hirty years thereafter? According to Justice 1d and Colonel Irish, are these debts legally and moreally paid? 1Is the title to a farm bought and paid for with greenbac thirty years ago, or last year, still vested “constitu- tionally” and merally in the original owner? I must ask Colonel Irish questions on an- other point. Ii the Government cannot make lcfinl tender money out ot paper, and if all the gold we have is less than a third part of the money needed for transacting the business of . what ere we to do? Are the people to be yuade dependent upon the paper bills of our private and falsely so-called “National” ? Ah, this is the very theory that be- s our people into the hands of the money power and which has such charms for Presi- dent Cleveland and the great gold lords of America and England. If Colonel Irish is right in saying that Lin- coln wes converted by Tilden to the gold stand- ard and was led to believe, with Justice Field, that the Government had no constitutional authority to issue greenbacks and make them legal tender money for all debts, but ‘“was overiuled by his Cabinet,” he will have to bring forth proof of it, for all the evidence is against him, and I chailenge his statement | and resent the charge that Lincoln *‘was over- ruled by his Cabinet.” After baving cited Madison, Polk and oth- ers as holding like views with Justice Field Colone! Irish concludes by saying: “It ap- vears, then, that Justice Field is ‘guilty’ in {able company.” 1 concedeit. AIl {ability of hisday was o the side of Judas. All the rich respectability ot England tempted Arnold 1o his iall. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. EUGENE FIELD. DIED NOVEMBER 4, 1895, true and sweet and tender— Ah! we'll miss the voice that taught us Love of all things sweet and tender; Miss the music that he brought us Songs From a heart so warm and kindly. Such heart music is the dearest, For it moves 1o tears and laughter, Ana iis notes are aiways clearest. In the time of apple blossoms, Not the bird that then is singing Of the bounty of the summer; Not the day lark beavenward ringing, Not the wondrous bird he told us Dwells o'er gea, and far away, Has than had this silenced singer A more “gladsome ro.ndelay.” Flowers are fading, leaves are falling, Music’s beauty changes never— All the melodics he gave us Will be ours, the same, forever! L. MaRION JENKS. THE THIRD TERM TRADITION. Professor John Bach McMaster in the November Foram. We all remember how the dominating power of Conkling in New York, of Cameron in Penn- sylvania, and Logan in Illinois, extorted from the conventions of those States a demani for the nomination of Grant; how other States fol- lowed this lead; how the friends of the move- ment were denounced as “Restorationists,” and “Imperialists’”; how they persisted in their efforts to the very last; how in the Chi- cago convention they never cast less than 303 votes and once cast 313; and how by their per- sistence they forced that compromise which resulted in the nomination of Garfield. All these things are still fresh in our memories and, being so, itis not a little strange that a serious effert should be on foot to give a third term 10 Mr. Cleveland. The fears which tor- mented the founders of the Republic have long since vanished. We do not believe that our democratic institutions can ever be subver(ed by any occupant of the White House. We stand in no dread that the day will come when some spccessful general or some un- scrupulous politician will first seize the Presi- dency and then use its great power to set up & lifelong dictatorship or establish & kingdom on the ruins of the Republic. Yet there is no rea- son to believe that the old-time antipathy toa third term is one whit less strong than it ever was, Any sane man will admit that the bank, or the railroad company, or the corporation of any sort that should dismiss a tried end aole president merely because the stockholders had twice placed him in the executive chair would deserve financial ruin. No tendency in the business world is more marked than the ¢on- stant effort to find men ipnw:mincmly fitted to carry on certain lines of business and to place the management of such concerns entirely in their hands. But the common-sense rules which govern theselection of the president of a corporation do not apply in the election of a President of the United States. Our Presidents are Bot chosea because of their fitness, but be- canse of their availability. Some are dark horses; some are nominated because they alone can reconclle contending factions; some because they can carry vaomf States. Others are forced on the voters by the machine. In theory tbis is all wrong. Inpractice no harm comes from it. Under our system of Govern- ment we do not want, we do not peed a Presi- dent of extraordinary ability; the average man is good enough, and for him two terms ample. “We want a strong Government of the peopte by the people, not a Government of the veople by & strong man, and we ought not to tolerate anything which has even the sem- blance of hcrt’dllr The advocates of a third term for Mr. Cleveland will ao well to remem- ber the doctrine of the jllustrious founder of their party, that “in no office canrotation be more expédient. LIKE A POET. A REAL JoUrNAuIST Is BoRN, NOT MANUFAC- TURED. Can journalism be learned by rules ? Thig question as to whether journalism can ever be- come a normel career, like other recognized careers, hes always haunted and even, I may say, besieged me, writes M. de Blowitz. And, indeed, it wounld be strange if thiswere not the case. For the knowledge requisite to make & pair of boots or a hat or a pair of gloves may be taught according to established principles and fixed rules; py dissegtion of the dead human body may be discovered the laws of medicine and the best methods of curing the lving; alawyer may learn in the schools the modes of procedure and exact precedents of his profession; the art of war, its rules and 'sminority jopinion in the legal tender cases,” my charge.being that Justice Field was guiltyof betraying the peos ple into thehands of the money power by jus diclal decision, so far as he could decide with recepts; indeed, throughout the entire list of uman protessions there is for_each a special series o? laws and cpnditions by knowledge of which he who enters as an apprentice may go out, by slow degrees of advancement, a master. But in journalism alone Among prefessions this i not the case, In this career there is no body of doctrine, no series of fixed rules, ap- parently no possible methgd of instruction. Nowhere has there been an sttempt (0 estab- 1lish such laws, nowhere has there as yet been & school for journalist apprentices, where they might learn precise rules for their profession or obtain a recognized basis of prelimirary and indispensable knowledge; and yet jour- nalism governs the world and is becoming deily a more and more influential power. The roblem is renliy/pressing, and even beeause of ts very difliculty fascinating to the mind. Men” who cantiot make up their minds to follow another’slead along a path to be traced slowly, !l&f) by Step, often leave the slower and more regular professions to enter journalism, much as former!j mercenaries engaged them- selves to thisand that foreiga army, quite will- ing to fight at random on the morrow ageinst an_enemy whose very existence the night ore was unknown to them. Once become joumnalists they change their newspaper, as v they changed their profession or T jump from grave to gay, from the po- litical journal to the journal of satire. They become’ at will ‘reporters, chroniclers, art crit- ics, literary reviewers, not secking in any way to study the course of events, the driit of the time; but, on the other hand, fitting all con- temporary ideas and events to the measure of their own personsl tempergment, so that an eévent or problem, thus treated according to the igncy of a journalist,appears tragical or comic, without any sort of regard for its real char- acter. Instéad of describing it as it is, estab- lishing the principle which ?! jllustrates, th, segtter abroad confusion and produce in t phblic mind a condition off uncertain kale scopiceclecticism whichis the negation of all really authoritative opinion and the destroyer of all conviction. To obtain a place in journalism an entire series of capacities is required, all to be summed up. but not defined, in the single word talent. The absolutely ignorant men without imagination, without intelligence, without the gift of assimilation, without, let me add, audacity and gayety, canmot obtain a place, cannot suceeed in journalism. 7 The man who would enter a school of jour- nalism should feel a positive ‘“call” to this ation, should have in him the unwearying gilance which is an absolute condition of it; the love of danger—of civil daunger, that is— and real peril; » boundless curiosity and love for truth, and'a special and merked facility of rapid assimilation and comprehension, FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Best Argument for Equal Suffrage. Napa Journal. The Supreme Court of Minnesota has just de- eided that the husband is liable for damages for slanderous words uttered by his wife, even though he was not present and had not par- ticipated. If that i3 good law, no man can afford to let his wife gointo politics. He has sins enough already to answer for without eing subjected to this new danger. Every One of Them ‘“Innocent.’’ Corning Observer. Holmes was found guilty of murder. Like Durrant, he swears he is innocent! Bandit Brady is also innocent! In San Francisco® and other cities we used to attend, with others, the jails to give the prisoners some religious ad- Vice, but we never discovered ome prisoner that said he was guilty—they were all innocent. Journalistic Financiering. Sausalito News. The editor of the News has rented Magnolia ottage and will shortly make his home there. fhen he is once estabiished in general house- keeping delinquent subscribers who prefer paying in turnips, cabbeges, potatoes and beets can effect & compromise on such a basis. Bad Grammar Well Applied. Seattle Post-Intelilzencer. When & public man says he is in favor of the Nicaragua canal there are very few in these parts who will not answer “me 00, The Truth in a Nutshell, San Jose Mercury. When San Francisco gets rid of her excessive port charges she will have the gratification of seeing more ships in her harbor. Snap Coupon Journalism. Santa Cruz Sentinal. 1t 1s well known that papers that will not sell on their merits offer prizes as inducements to readers to buy them. CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50c Ib, Townsen(‘f —————— E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. D — Bacox Printing Company,508 Clay street .. e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * — NEGLECT OF DUTY. Philadelphia Youth—I wish I might kiss you, New York Maid—I don’t see any policemen around.—Life. Hoon's Sarsaparilla not only purifies the blood but also imparts new life and vigor to evers func- tion of the body. 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