The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 15, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Fre: v and Sunday CaLL,0ne week, by carrier..§0.15 and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 and Sunda; , six months, by mail.. 3.00 and Sund ., three months by mail 1.50 Daily Daily and Suriday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CALL, vear, by mail 1,50 WEEKLY CALL, one y v mail. 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. 5 Telephone.... ........ Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone..... ...Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICE! gomery street, corner Clay; pen until °s street; open until 9:30 o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. b and Mission streets; open open until 9 o'clock. il 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : §08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 1 32, 34 Park Row, New York Ci DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1895 CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. H a part of v the to the conve e California market should be for the product of free labor and not of Eastern s business to tion fund. prisons. nman is undoubtedly more aging to Buckleyism than to true acy. Demc The country would now be all right if Cleveland otic resi, 3 coin for the convention | ptly and let us show the East how ia does it. | e will any man of means | the convention here if hv‘r ! What pleast e in se ould only repent with a patri- | | | | hours above v STREET-RAILWAY PROFITS. The incredible profits which corpora- tions that are essentially monopolies are permitted to earn in this country are the outgrowth of a sentiment that in a country where freedom is the watchword it is an interference with individual rights and vrivileges to put a severe curb upon the manner in which a man may choose to handle his own property. But the coun- try is slowly learning the unwisdom and danger of permitting that sentiment to run away with common-sense and imperil the public safety. Already the cities are beginning to take charge of certain kinds of public service, including water and lights. Next will come street railways, for the profits which they are drawing from the public are unjust, unreasonable and out of all proportion to the public benefits of the service. Toronto, as is already known in the United States, made an investigation a few years ago and was amazed to discover the enormous profits which the street rail- ways of tkai city were earning. It promptly had the lines appraised and bought them. After operating them a few months it sold -them practically at cost and gave the purchasing company a twenty-year franchise. For this privileze the company pays the city annually $800 a mile of single track, and in addition the following percentages on the gross. re- ceipts of each year: Per cent. £ 100,000 000,000 The franchise prohibited the operation of the road on Sunday until such time as the people should declare in favor of it by a popular vote. It provided for fares of 5 cents, with free transfers to any vart of the city, and night fares (from 12 until 5:30) of 10 cents; it farther provided for the sale of eight tickets for 25 cents, good on day cars until 8 a. a. and from 5 to 6:30 P. M., and for other tickets, good any time during the day, at twenty-five for §1, or six for 25 cents; besides these, school tickets are sold fcr use between 8 A. x. and in the week, at ten for 25 are limited by the franchise to ten a day. The company agrees to add 2 per cent, right through the scale, to its payments on gross receipts if it is at any time re- leased from its obligation to sell eight ickets for 25 cents, for use during the med. does nothing to bring it? Of the four 1 Presidency thr two of them e: ng candidates for the | were porn in Ohio, but e has the that when he olities, nobod onsolation of knowing t retiring from boycott on Na- s only a paper best paver will win. i vereign reaffirms hi bank b re improving and are ven the Golden Gate eway is to be lighted to the nz of Korea is another potentate »und out how much easier it is to | » than to get out again. though Uncle Sam is decidedly inter- d in the Venezuela affair, Olney con- tinues to r d it with indifference. shworth’s trial may not convict him, but it will convict somebody and show the | people where to be on guard hereafter. The K who | gar Tt seems to be conceded that among the gs the Receiving Hospital should re- ive is a change of base and a new build- that Carnegie is scattering art leries over a smilingland, it might be adyisable to offer him the freedom of this City. It is encouraging to good citizens to watch the Board of Health in these days. | It isdoing lots of excellent work all aronnd town. The mau who is not encouraged by the outlook in San Francisco at present has no stuff in him that encouragement can take | hold of. Gold Democrats and silver Democrats in | Kentucky are now disputing whether | Hardin ran ahead of his platform or | behind it. There seems to be some doubt in New York City whether the Tammany victory is a serious matter or simply a joke on Roosevelt. Ohio Democrats are now admitting they expected defeat, but all the same they call the big Republican majority “an exag- | gerated brutality.” The Postmaster-General claims a saving of §1,300,000 1n one department of the ser- | vice during the past year, but that won’t help the deficit muck. Since Marlborough bought his wedding suit in New York, the chappies are coming to the belief that the tailors of that city are better than those of London. Boston concedes the Repub lican National Convention to us, but she wishes the next meeting of the National Educational Asso- ciation, and she certainly deserves it. The National Government should require eve ate to put a brand upon its prison- made goods, so that no State could unload its products of this kind on a sister State. Strangely enough the Democrats emerge from the crushing defeats of the recent elections with an actual gain of one Congressman to fill a vacancy in the New York delegation. Now that the returns are all in and have been accurately footed up, Henry Watter- son can go to Europe with the conscious- ness that hisprophecy about the “slaugh- ter-house” and the “‘open grave' has been literally fulfilled. The demand of the Railroad Commission that all transportation companies in the State should submit annual reports of their business is one that should have been en- forced long ago, for without such reports how is the commission to understand the work'it is paid to attend to? In the work of the Railroad Commission, the Board of Health and of Inspector Dockery, in the Ashworth trial and in the improved street sweeping, we have abund- ant evidences of an awakened public spirit on the part of officials, and can draw there- from good reasons for believing the new efa has really dawned on us. The San Francisco Journal of Commerce has issued a special “Manufacturers’ Edition and Semi-Annual Review.” It 1s well got up, and the subjects treated are those of an extremely pertinent character. Considerable space is de- voted to the home industry ques- tion. Referring to the Manufac- turers’ and Producers’ Association the; Journal says: **We take no small amount of pride in the association’s past work and trust that their efforts in behalf of home goods and home products will never lag. Let California be for Californians.” | of only 181 i lines and publish them alongside the pay The rev this ues received by the city from ve been as follows Percents ross eints. $22.9 Is on *September 1 to December 31, only. a wonderful showing for a city 220 inhabitants and with roads not operated on Sunday, when the largest business would have been done. It might be interesting for the Civic Federation to ascertain the profits of the San Francisco ments made by the companies to the City for the privileges which they enjoy. 0UCK00 LOGIC. The latest evidence of the existence in some human brains of a stupidity against which the gods themselves “war in vain” is afforded by the Cuckoos. They stand up in the face of the tremendous Republican victories in the late elections and declare that by the vote of the people Cleveland has been vindicated and his policy of free trade, monometallism and subservience to England has been indorsed by the people. It is almost incredi that such claims can be seriously made, but they are made seriously. The Cuckoos have no humor in their composition. They never joke. They claim that Cleveland has the people with him and they think it is so. The argnment of the Cuckoos is very simple. They recall the fact that Hill, Gorman, Brice and Gibson formed the Democratic combination in the Senate that defeated the Wilson tariff asitcame from the. House, and forced unon the re- luctant free-traders the compromise tariff of perfidy and dishonor, which Cleveland allowed to become a law without his sig- nature. .These Senators have all been de- feated. Brice and Gibson will lose their seats in the Senate, and it is.very probable that in another year Hill and Gorman will join them in retirement. The defeat of these leaders, say the Cuckoos with glee, is an approval of the President, whose policy they opposed. From the defeat of Democracy in Ken- | tucky also the Cuckoos draw comfort. In that State Hardin, candidate for Gov- ernor, and Blackburn, candidate for the Senate, are both silver men, and in their rejection by the people the friends of | Cleveland see an indorsement of the gold- money policy of their favorite. They feel a similar consolation in Nebraska. The vote 1n other States the Cuckoos ignore. Sati: fied in the defeat of so many Democratic leaders who refused to surrender their in- deperdence to the Presidence, they look no further and are now before a mocking world, gravely singing the Cuckoo song | and arguing that Grover should havea third term. If anything were needed to make doubly sure the assurance of Republican success next year it would be furnished in {his dis- play of downright, blockheaded stupidity and obstinacy of the Cleveland wing of the Democratic party. That faction cer- tainly will agree to no compromise in the interests of party harmony. Absurd as such a scheme would be, it need not sur- prise us if an actual effort is made to bring apout a renomination of the President. The Cuckoos already proclaim him the logical candidate, and while the proclama- tion is certainly stupid it must not be for- gotten that stupidity is always a very strong factor in a Democratic convention. TYRANNY AN; REBELLION, The report made by Grand Master Work- man Sovereign to the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, besides charging the misuse of the power of capital with rob- bery and oppression of the laboring classes, pays a great deal of attention to the internal dissensions of the Knights of Labor and makes astonishing disclosures of treachery in the ranks. But it fails to indicate the methods of cure which the or- der proposes to adopt, and yet seemincly this is the most important matter that should have received his attention. Thus far organized labor in Americrhas aimed largely to cure by violence what it might have prevented with the ballot. When we reflect that for every capitalist who uses his wealth to ovpress the poor there are hundreds of poor men with com- mon interests and each with a ballot as strong as that deposited by the most un- scrupulous millionaire, and that there is nothing in' the election laws of this coun- try to prevent the free exercise of the elec- tive franchise, we must admit that if other laws and the courts and industrial con- cerns are used in the interests of capital and to the injury of the laborinz classes the original fault lies with the voters of the greater numerical strength. By an in- | telligent exercise of that power the evils of which they complain could be cured. If not, there is no cure. 5 The history of revolutions against exist- ing governmental authority discloses no parallel to a supposable revolution of a similar kind in this country. The very essence of such revolutions in the past bas been the disqualification of the masses from participating in the direction of the Government. In those cases it was as- sumed that if the whole people had such a right they would be able to exercise it for their good. Such a right exists and has always existed in this country, and yet we find it charged that the Government is conducted in the interest of the rich and to the damage and oppression of the poor. Clearly, then, the great aim of labor or- ganizations should be to exercise in har- mony and with intelligence and justice the enormous power with which our laws have armed them. This power if properly exercised is immeasurably greater than that which a combination of all the mil- lionaires in the country could show. How to accomplish this result must be the aim of the labor organizations if they hope for succe Education and the high- est sense of patriotism must be the begin- ning of everything. Money would have no power for evil if human nature were bonest, intelligent and patriotic. Men ac- cumulate great wealth dishonestly and abuse its power only because the masses permit them to do so. And no opposition to these evils can have any permanent suc- cess in the absence of an intelligence which s able to match the shrewdness that makes their existence p FRANCHISES ABUSED, A franchise for a street railroad i granted for the purpose of assuring a pub- lic convenience. The people of Richmond District are righteously indignant because a street railroad company is hsnnil(ed to hold a valuable nchise covering Sev- enth avenue by running one car a week, and the company claims the right to do this because the franchise does not speci how often tne cars should be run. This avenue connects the Presidio with one of the main entrances to the park, and in time will be very valuable. Now would be an excellent time for the peovle of the Richmond District to test the matter in the courts. The case is somewhat clearer than that of the Bush- street franchise, and no time need be lost in tedious litigation over its merits, This City needs to ascertain as soon as possibie what the law is in the premises, for if it is so wretchedly absurd as the company holdi the Seyventh-avenue franchise would have us believe, it should be reme- died at once. A simple complaint filed by any citizen would present the case in court and force a trial on its merits. If a franchise may be held by running one car a week it may be held by running one a year; if it can be held on any tenure except that of a public benefit it has no right to existence. Tke running of one cara week is not a public benefit. It®is not a defense to say that there is not traffic to warrant a regular service. If this is admitted as a valid defense 1t places street-railroad franchises on a spec- ulative basis, and that would be: ruinous as weil as absurd. If a franchise may be granted on any ground other than a fre- quent and regular service, whether or not there is traffic present or prospective to warrant a railroad, every street may be covered by a franchise and the franchise held indefinitely for speculative purposes. There is no argument on the score of public benefit or policy which could be strained to uphold such a franchise, and as the laws are intended to guard those matters of public concern they ought to be applicable to the Seventh-avenue case. If they are not, we need to ascertain the fact and provide the remedy:. PERSONAL. Major W, A. Gett of Sacramento isat the Lick. Dr. J. I. Stephen of Petaluma isat the Grand Hotel. R, E. Hyde, a banker of Visalia, is a guest at the Palace. F. Levy and wife, of Halfmoon Bay, are at the Lick House. Dr. J. D. Nichols of Sutter Creek is registered at the Grand. Charles R. Drake,a Tucson banker, is stop- ping at the Lick. Charles Cunningham, a merchant of Ukiah, is at the Grand Hotel. J. M. Williams, a mining man from Newman, is a guest at the Lick. Vernona Jarbeau is back in the City again and registered at the Palace. 5 J.P. Sheridan, a capitalist from Roseburg, Or., is at the Lick House. J. L. Delano, the owner of the granite quar- ries at Rockland, is at the Lick. Charles J. Nickerson, a miner from Forbes- town, is & guest at the Occidental Hotel. E.V.Johnson of the United States revenue cutter service is housed at the California. E. P. Rogers, freight agent of the Southern Pacific at Portland, is at the Palace Hotel. W. H. Harris of the United States navy is on land for a time and is at the Occidental Hotel. Charles M. Coglan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick House for & few days. B. Campbell, a railroad man from Portland, is in the City for a few days and registered at the Palace. Dr. Thomas W. Huntington, the railroad phyaician, with headquarters at the capital, is at the Palace. H. J.Small, superintendent of the construc- tion work of the Southern Pacific Company, is at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. Scott, widow of the late James W. Scott of the Chicago Times-Herald, is in the City and stopping at the Pleasanton. J. H. Morton, one of the leading lawyers of Los Angeles. is at the .Lick. He reports the convention project booming in that town, Dr. Charles H. Gardner of the United States Marine Hospital in this City has been ordered to Chicago. He has been on the Pacific Const for about three years. Dr. Thomas Flint arrived yesterday from San Juan, to attend the meeting of the committee of promotion at the Chamber of Commerce, He is registered at the Grana. Governor John E. Jones of Nevada is in the City, recuperating from & severe illness from which he suffered lately. Mrs. Jones is with him. They are at the Palace Hotel. Mrs. E. W. Townsend, wife of the author of “Chimmie Fadden,” is in the City, stopping with her sister, Miss Lake, on Sutter and Oc- tavia streets. Mr. Townsend is in London. IT WAS A MISTAKE, ‘Tulare Register. It was stated by the Examiner last week that Juror Smyth had taken the liberty to visit Emmanuel Church on his own account to see if Durrant could have done all the things to the barners he pretended to have done. Now Juror Smyth declares that he never went to the church except when the other jurymen went, and 1 custody of an officer of the court. DISFIGURED !'EHCEB_. Pasadena Star. San Franciscans are moving against the flash advertisements on fences, some of which are offensive to decency. Thatisan argument in favor of newspaper advertising. If that is ob- ieclionlbls the patrons can stop it; but the fence is persistent and stays in_sight any way. People of good taste will sustain the paper and abolish the aead wall. . TOO MUCH LYNCH LAW. Alameda Telegram, The law should purify the vicinity of Round Valley. Lynch law has become so common that even the Indians demur at being forced HOW PARIS LAUGHS WHEN AT THE PLAY. [Reproduced by the Echo from Le Rire.] Philadelphia Ledger. The University of Pennsylvania reached an- other stage of development yesterday in the laying of the cornerstone of the new dormi- tories, and wheu these buildings and others in contemplation are completed the university will be one of the most admirably equipped educational foundations in the country in every feature of university for & university to reac frout rank as a center of learning without dormitories, as the | history of our home institution strikingly de- monstrates, but, with this important adjunct | of collegiate life, the university is destined to enter upon a career of still moreabounding in- fluence and prosperit. AFFAIRS IN THE COLLEGES. ’ | | | | | | fe. It is possible Evening Wisconsin, At Appleton town boys and students at Law- rence University played the mischief by way of celebrating Halloween. Asaresult of one of their brillidnt jokes the chief of the Fire De- partment and several of his men are suffering }rom severe cuts and bruises, and might have been killed. The jokers set fire to an old shed and deliberately placed a truck in the middle | ot the street where it would block the path of | the fireme: The chief's wagon and the hose- | cart collided with it, the former being smasned | into kindling. Eleven Lawrence University students are in jail, charged with complicity in the cowardly plot. Buffalo Commercial. The Cornell students are taking their foot- | ball tribulations very hard indeed. A dis- | patch says they are “frantic over the record | made thus far, and at Saturday’s game the erown 0f 1000 or more students leit the grounds | actuaily groaning.” But, then, all the leading | universities were clothed with gloom as with a | garment on Saturday. Points were scored against Harvard and Yale, and Princeton beat | & minor team by 16 points whom Penn hed | scored 54 against in the same week! These are all tragedies in their way, but such is life. | Philadelphia Times. Dr. White’smction in forbidding the Pennsyl- vania team to go to New York to meet the team of the Boston Athletic Association comes at an unfortunate time, but the motive will not be misunderstood. The university is re- sponsible for the health of its students and the judgment of the medical adviser to the team must be final. The games of this season have | proved unexpectedly severe and next year a different plan must be pursued in arranging them. Milwaukee Wisconsin. | | Young Miller of McDonald, Pa., a student in the freshman class of the Peansylvania State College, 15 of the stuff of which great men are | made. With pistol in hand he stood oft a crowd of sophomores who had assembled for the purpose of hazing bim. The hazers were hezed. Somoteit be. Hazing is a cowardly practice, based upon the assumption thut it is perfectly safe for a crowd of bullies to set upon one victim and subject him to indig- nities. Gleveland News. | The University of Michigan is likely to take rank this séason among the foremost colleges of America in football. Itsteam isso big and strong that there may be a great surprise in store for Harvard when the largest university of the East meets the biggest one of the West | upon the fateful gridiron. Rome (. ) Sentinel., Last year there were in our schools, colleges and universities 15,530,268 of the youth of the land. That is nearly a fourth of our total population. No other country spends so much money for education and no other country can show a higher average educational standard | among the peovle, Boston Journal. | A great many classes of Harvard men will view with alarm the manifestations of racial prejudices at Memorial Hall. The race ques- tion has been reduced to ®_matter of menu— the sons of John Harvard have cried, “Hold! Enough!” at Irish stew. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. The Opportunity Finally Comes. San Diego Sun. Aiter all our talk about the desirability of establishing & beet-sugar factory in this county, where there is an almost unlimited area of just the soil needed, the opportunity is NOW very near if we have_the people who will reach out for it. Claus Spreckels proposes to establish three more beet-sugar - factories throughout the State. Do we want one? Have we the men who will contract to raise the beets required? Who will take the lead in se- curing this new industry Simply Followed Grover’s Example. Spokane (Wash.) Spokesmau-Review. Administration Democrats are condemning Hardin and Blackburn for not standing by the Kentucky plank on finance. The less they say on that score ihe better. Grover Cleveland is conspicuously guilty of the same breach of party discipline. He has repeatedly taken nomination from the National Democratic Convention only to repudiate parts of the plat- form in his letter of acceptance. Haywards’ Prospect of Reduced Freight. Haywards Mail. One of the most valuable of the proposed railronds that are to center in this city is that which is to connect this place with Mt. Eden Landing. It will reduce the cost of bay freightage fully 40 per cent, and open upa line of transportation that will certainly prove profitable. First Entry for Piemelon Record. Los Angeles Times. Nearly a ton of melons produced by a single vine in one season is the proud record reported by an Alpine rancher in San Diego County. This vine produced forty-two plemelons, weighing from forty to eighty pounds each. The Cheerful Confession. Pheenix (Ariz.) Gazette (Dem.). “How ta Vote” is the title of a little volume recontly issued by Kensas Populists. “How to get out from under the wreek” is what Ari- zona Democrats are studying just at present. Any One of the Big Four. FPortland Oregonian. Morton for diplomacy, Reed for decision, Allison for counsel, McK{nle{ for enthusiasm +Any one of them will do_well enough at the Whiie House in case of a foreign war. Americans Must Own and Control It. Portland (Or.)Telegram. British boodle in the Nicaragua canal pro- to stay on their reservation. This isindced tough. 5 ject is just as much to be guarded against as krllhh bayonets in Venem‘elu. = 1 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PRESIDENTIAL SuccrssioN—H. M., Oakland Cal. The constitution provides for the suc- cession by the Vice-President in case of the death, removal, resignation or disability of the President, and gives Congress power to pro- vide what officer shall succeed in case of the th, removal, etc., of the Vice-President. In 3 Congress provided that in such n case the President of the Senate should succeed, and then the Speaker of the House of Representa- tives. This wasof doubtful constitutionalit and attended with some inconvenienc | therefore Congress in 1886 provided that in such case the succession should pass to the Secretary of State, then ively to the Secretary of the Treasu of War, the Secretary of the Navy, tmaste General, the Secretary of the Interior and then the Attorney-General To PRODUCE TINTS—S., City. In mixing paints for tints: Red and black make brown; lake and white make rose; white and brown make chestnut; white, blue and lake make purple; blne and lead color make pearl: white and car- mine make pink; indigo and lampblack make lead color; black and Venetian red make cho olate: white and green make bright green; purple and white make French white; light green ard black make dark green; white and green make pea green: white and yellow make straw color; white, biue and black make pearl gray; white, lake and vermilion make flesh color; umber, white and Venetian red make arab; white, yeliow and Venetian red make cream; Yellow, white and a little Venetian red make buff. NINETEENTH CENTUR C., Centerville, Alameda County, Cal. The nineteenth cen- tury will terminate on the night of December 81,1900, at 12 o'clock. The first century be- gan the first day of the year 1 and ended ith the iast day of the year 100. Tt could not have ended with the last day of the year 99, as it takes 100 years to make a century, and the 100 years were not finished until December 31, 100. By iollowing the centuries it will become manifest that the ninetcenth century cannot end on the 31st of December, 1899. HANDSOME—K. ‘Handsome is that bandsome does” is from the first chapter of the “Viear of Wakefield,” and occurs in the remarks of Primrose in speaking of his family. He says: *“When our visitors would say, ‘Well, upon my word, Mrs. Primrose, you have the finest children’ in the whole country,’ ‘A neighbor,” she would answer, ‘they are a leaven made them—handsome enough, if they be good enough; for handsome is thathand- some does.’ ORPHAN AsyLuM—Readers, City. There is no such place in California as “Santa Fell,” conse- quently there can be no orphan asylum there. You probably mean the orphan asylum at San Rafael, Marin County. That is supported by the State to the extent of 96 a year for each orphan, the same as all other orphan asylums in the State. The State does not make any allowance for the adults in the institution, nor for adults in any other orphan asylum. Ourves—A AL, City. What are known as ‘Queen olives” are prepared as follows: The lives are gathered when full grown, but stiil quite green, kept for twenty-four hours ina weak solution of lye of wood ashes or lime water. They are then placed in fresh water | and drained every twelve hours for four or five days, or until they have lost their bitter flavor. They are then placed in salt brine in closed vessels until required for the table. Two StacEs—New Yorker, City. The stage of the Metropolitan Theater in the city of New York is larger than that of the Auditorium in Chicago. The dimensions of the first named are: Opening, 35 feet; width, 65; depth, 45; gridiron, 82, Those of the last named are the same a8 to depth and gridiron, but the open- ing is but 33 feet and the width but 61, PAY FOR JURORS—Subscriber, Bear Valley, Mariposa County; H. M., Oakland; and Reader, City. There is so much doubt as to the mean- ing of the act passed by the last Legislature re- garding pay for jurors in criminal cases that the Supreme Court will be called upon to in- terpret its meaning on that point. LoNGEST TUNNEL M.P., Colusa, Cal. The longest tunnel is the one through Mount 3t Gothard in the Helvetian Alps. It is 49,170 feet Jong, or ten feet less than nine ana a haif miles. It was commenced in October, 1872, and was finished in February, 1880, It cost $45,000,000. Lora MonTEz—M. B, City. Lola Montez, | actress, was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklvn, N. Y. The stone over her grave bears the following inscription: “Mrs. Eliza Gilbert, died January 17, 1861.” Boss—T. L. C., City. The word ““boss” is ae- rived from the Low Dutch and in that language means master. N ALEXANDER III—A. J., City. Alexander I11 of Russia was crowned at Moscow May 2; 1883. e CALIFORNIA ADVERTISERS, Los Angeles Times. Agein we print comparative statements show- ing the quantities of advertising matter con. tained in three San Francisco daily papers and one Los Angeles paper last Sunday, November 10. The comparison shows the following re- sult: Los Angeles Timos.... San Francisco Examiuer, San Francisco Call. .. San Francisco Chronicle. “LINERS.” Los Angeles Times (5 1-7 pages) San Francisco Examiner. San Fraucisco Call. .. San Francisco Chronicle. The above figures show thet indisputable and remarkable fact that the Times alone printed advertising matter last Sunday equal in amount to 93 per cent of the com{inea adver- tising Pi the three Sen Francisco morntng papers! he Times begs to explain to its esteemed but outdistanced San Francisco contempora: ries that these knock-down figures are not publishea merely in & wanton and measy l;)lrh, nor through a base and unworthy de- sire to mount the tottering frames of the aforesaid 8. F. e. ¢'s, nor yet for the sole pur- pose of further elevating the horn of rejoicing of the Los Angeles Times; but they (the deadly comparative figures) are laid bef’:’)rc an admiring constituency in order that the busi- ness, the greatness and the glory of the city of Los Angeles and of the fair and prosperous land of California del Sur may be truly set forth when lined up with the big though éevih;rlglc city by the bay of San Francisco ele. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE MISS FRANK CHALLENGED. HER POSITION ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSAILED . SOLOMONS OF THIS CITY. To the Editor of the San Francisco 1l—SIR: In view of the broed and liberal policy of THE CaLL with reference to matters of public inter- est, Isubmit the following in reply to the ad- dress of Miss Ray Frank on the suffrage ques- tion, which, as reported in the Examiner, is a tissue of misconceptions and fallacies: She states that *if woman is given the ballot the home becomes divided and has two heads.” This is an absurdity, Does Miss Frank mean to advocate the ma tership of the nusband—that exploded medi- | eval doctrine—at this end of the nineteenth century? | Husbands and wives who are disposed to quarrel will be much more likely to make their “casus belli” a missing button or un- derdone beefsteak then a difference in polities. Sensible men and women will permit each other freedom of political opinion as well as any other without bankrupting the home. In the States that already have woman suf- homes are still stanaing, and | jovernors of Wyoming have cial results | 'hen as to the stat that *home is the basis of the State:” s0, how does it_happen that the thousands of homes presided over by women have no representation, and all the male loafers, bachelors and callow youths of | twenty-one march to the poles on elcction day te is a “covenant with its eiti- | he Nation is a “Government by the omen are citizens, vomen are they have no direct voice. le, no evasion, no sentimental ob- | jections have yet been able to controvert this | Simp proposition, and they never will. According to our famous Declaration, ‘‘all Gov- ernments’ derive their just powers from the | nt of the governed.” Taxation without representation is tyrauny” to-day just as much asit was in 1876, and as long as _there is one woman in these United States (and the writer is willing for the sake of argument to assume that position) who is denied the wished-for | representation, then this Government is not a just one, it is not what it professes to he—it is 2 fraud ! Miss Frank is misinformed again in stating, as reported, thatin all commurities the women outnumber the men. In most Western com- | munities quite the reverse is the case. _ | She charges the speakers at the late Women's | Congress with descanting upon the “iniqui- ties of man.” - As a constant attendant at the sessions, the | writer can testify that our brothers were not abused, except in having a littie good-natured fun poked at them,of the sort their sisters | have sweetly endured for some hundreds of | years. i “Miss Frank wonders “when the suffragists | are going to talk about the rights of children instead of their own.” Would she expect a | temperanee orator to grow eloguent upon the Chinese question, or & fereign missionary to engage in college settlement work : Most suffragists are enthusiastic believers in the rights of enildren, because they are be- | lievers in human rights, and the subject of “trained mothers” received a greatdeal of at- tention at the Congress. ? That “there is no profession in the land which they cannot enter’ is true—owing to the heroic Iabors for half & century of the pio- neers in this movement which Miss Frank | condemns. This is histor: Were she cons cut she would seek some domestic outlet for her talents, for women speakers were more | bitterly condemned a few years ago than she | condemns the suffragists to-day and on exactly the same grounds S, SOLOMON | 1707 Scott street, San Francisco. | iR ) HISTORICAL REPETITION. | To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: History repeats itself the bookmen say. Well, we will have a gigantic era of that on this newer soil if we don’t wake up amazingly fast. It is becoming a curse to read our daily pa- | pers if there is any patriotism left in a man. | Every day the newsmen tell us of more of our National shame. | Who wants to read of our flag’s dishonor, our | statesmen’s puerile weakness, our fast waning | hold on commerce and the seas? Who wants | toread of it and sit still? There’s the curse. Up and polizh the guns and hurry up some new | ones! What a golden chance in Cuba and we stand idly by! What a terrible advantage lost in Nicaragua! | New Brunswick erying for aid, Hawaii laughed at, Alaska stolen, our gold freighted away on the European ships, our own people ready to \ rend each other! Stuff and nonsense. Don’t call this pessimism. It’s strict:y another matter. It's “‘strictly busines Here we loll and récline easily like the an- cient Romans, flattering our rich ones and mighty, pleasing ourselves with vistas of rose- colored’ future and crying, “What mighty things we have done i Shame! Shame! But history doesnot repeat itself in one respect. New troubles and cir- cumstances demand new adjustment gress must be met in all her advance repetition only is found in the loss patriotism and sterling manhood Pro- The true | PaTrIOT. THE GROCER EDITOR. M. McGlynn in the S. F. Voice of Labor. I see my good friend Shortridge of THE CALL | waxes wroth at the opinions expressed by the Grocer and Country Merchant anent the pro- | posed capture of the Republican National Con- | vention by San Fraucisco. Pshaw, Charles, | the editor let you off easily. The ice trust | couldn’t furnish material sufficient to keep | you cool if you only heard him talk on other | topics. You don’t know the editor, eh? Well, | he is a stanchly patriotic American, born and raised to middle manhood in Germany, of course, but thoroughly imbued with the true principles of American patriotism—and let himtellit. I have heard his views on the question of his State’s prosperity (or lack). He | wasin a hurry that day,so he had time to typewrite only five folios of foolscup. After carefully and minutely explaining where he was born, of rich but honest parents, how | thoroughly he had been educated, what vast commercial enterprises he had conducted, how varied and extensive had been his travels, he vroceeded to enlighten an awed and waiting | world as to the causes of California’s depres- { sion. First, our vicious anti-Chinese legisla- tion prevenied the manufacturers from secur- ing the cheapest labor in the world. Second, we were insanely opposed to £0ld as the only money of legal tender. Third, we waste our money by spending it for public school purposes. Public tuition | leads to expectations of and demands for pub- | lic employment, and should be given only as | is public employment now %i\'en—lo paupers, | incapables and ‘criminals. Fourth, we allow voters without property a say in our Govern- ment. Fifth, we have failed to_invite the editor of the Grocer and Country Merchant to accept the helm of Government. There were other reasons, but the foregoing will suffice to indicate their tenor. Maybe you think I em guying you, Charles; but nay. That letter is ontile and can be produced at most any time. — THEY WANT TO COME. Fresno Republican. A queer drift of emigration is noted among the people of blizzard States. Nebraskans are Roing to Georgia, Kansans are going to Ne- braska. Dakotans are seeking homes in Kansas and many Norwegians are leaving Minnesota for the Canadian northwest, . Of course, such moves benefit nobody and people who wish to #void blizzards must come to snli(orniu.—flan Francisco CALL. Even so, but if they cannot come at one move they mustimake two or more, Itis not lack of inclination that prevents many people of the Middle West from coming to California. It is lack of financial ability. Any man who has come to this State in recent years from that partof the country knows how frequent are € tlers expressive of a desire to come also which follow him. The pecple write inquiring sbout thisState and its inducements to fmmigrants and telling how anxious they are to move Irere, but, as they urge, financial inab lity to meet the cost of (ransportation is an insuper- able obstacle. It is a fact that the people of the Middle West are prepossessed in favor of California as a place to live, for no patt of the National domain so appesls to the fancy of the gitizen of the frost-bitten countries of the North. But transportation rates are prohibi- tory to men of limited means, and so ihey do not come. Instead, they finally drift on in some of the courses which THE CALL has indi- cated. Itmay be that this is the best thing for Califoria. 1t may be that men of but moderate means are not to be desired as citizens of this commonwealth. But, whefher this is the case Or not, it is very certain that the condition of affairsis as we represent it. A multitude of eople would like to live in this most wonder- ul of States. They do not do so simply be- cause they cannot well get here. —_— LANDS FOR SAINTS« Quincy Independent. Henry Miller and Charles Lux, natives of Rhenish provinees of Germany, and ‘now ort tlemen of the Pacific Coast, own more than 14,000,000 acres of land in the United State: Their property is four times the area of Alsac b':ll']uiua And twice as large as Belgium.—S. F, | depicted as_attendan | Sarsaparilla, | niv and top sawyers in the saintly outfit and enti- tled to & high place in the calendar. ToWNSEND'S famous broken cardy, 10c a Ib. * e Bacox Printing Con e AN “CARDS by the million.” Roberts, 220 Sutter.* el iv oo B oliinaniion: Tris week fine eyeglasses,specs;15¢. 8134 4th, nr. barber; Sundays,738 Mkt (Kast shoe store). sl iopca e - Professor Rufus B. Richardson, director of the American school at Athens, who has been traveling in Arcadia, visited the region made famous by the Styx and Lake Stymphalus re- cently, His experience with the water of river and lake suggests that the horrors the ancients on drinking the water are due to fever germs, which make both lake and river dangerous to thi visitors, The American visitors are stricken with fever after their visit to the sacred spot. —_— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * S 5 S Caleined Magnesia— HUSBAND'S Four first- { premium medais awarded; more agreeable to nd smaller dose than other magne- stered Asphalt Pavements in Berlin. Only asphalt pavements will be laid in Ber- lin, Germany, during the fiscal year 189697, according to a decision of the Board of Alder- men inthat city, reported in the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger of September 18. An excep- tion is made in the case of streets where condi- tions of grade or extraordinari heavy traflic make stone pavements necessary. The resolu- tion is the result of a large number of petitions irom citizens favoring asphalt pavement, and itis further stated that in the future bids for uch pavements will be received from any ontractor and not, as in the past, from & se- lected list of contractors.—New York Engin- eering News. CATARRH in the head is a constitutional disease and requires a constitutional remedy like Hood’s , which purifies the blood, makes the weak strong and restores health, iz . CHICAGO LIMITED, VIA TA FE ROUTE. train throughout begins A new October Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestib nin chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Chi- cago, via Kansas City, without change. Annex cars on sharp connection for Denver and St Louls. Twenty-seven hours quick u the quickest competing t The Santa s been | put in fine physical condition and is now the best transcontinental railway. = blabo s i “ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fifty years by ers for their children while Tes success. 1t soothes the child lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regul: and is the. best remedy for Diarrhceas, arising from teething or other causes. For salo by of the world. Pesureaal ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrip. 254 & bottle. e o Golden Gate Excursions. It is the intention of the Pennsylvania Rail- road people to resume this winter what it terms its Golden Gate excursions. Two of them will make the grand tour of the United States during the coming winter and spring. The first will leave New York on February 12, ch New Orleans in season for the Mardi as festival and arrive in Southern California February It will leave San Francisco on the return trip via Ogden on March 22. The second will depart from N rk on March 11 and come west via Ogden, arriving in South- ern California in time to give the exenrsionists an opportunity to witness the great floral car- 1 at Santa Barbara. It will be in San Francisco on Aprii 17, and return East via Portland, leaving San Francisco on the 20th of April. Tremendous Reductions. Crockery and Chinaware, Cups and Saucers- Blue, Brown and Rich Gold Spray Decorations, Set of 12 pieces— 45c, 50c, 60c, 75c per set. DINNER SETS. 60 Pieces complete for 6 Persons. Pure White, Blue, Brown aed Rich Gold Spray Decoration. Prices per Set— $3.50, $4.00, $4.25, $5.25, $6.15. |DINNER SETS. 100 Pieces complete for 12 Persons. Pure White, Blue, Brown and Rich Gold Spray Decoration. Prices per Set— $5.50, $6.50, $7.25, $8.75, $9.50. WATE TEA BUUQU Great American Importing Tea Co, 140 Sixth st 965 Market st. 333 Hayes st. 1419 Polk st. 521 Montg'y ave. 2008 Fillmore st. 3006 Sixteenth st. 2510 Mission 218 Third st 104 Second 617 Kearny st. 146 Ninth st. 13259 Mission st. 1053 Washington 917 Brondway. Oakland. 131 San Pablo s 616 E. Twelfth s (Park st. and Alameda i Alamedsaave. Headquarters—52 Market St., S. ¥. A&~ We Operate 100 Stores and Agencies. SETS (8 pieces glass). S (6 pieces glass). ' HOLDER 40 cts 35 cts (little beauties)..10c each (ity Stores. ‘We never brag about how cheaply we can sell goods, but do like to talk about quality. Here’s a Dressing Case that has_ quality. The design is novel, attractive and con- venient. The Beveled French Mirror swings to any angle and is supported by octagon standards. Instead of the con- ventional “ pull out’’ drawers it has small doors opening at either end leaving re- ceptacles for toilet articles. In mahogany beautifully inlaid with Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA It is said somewhere in Holy Writ, “The saints shall inherit the esrth.” If the land- hoidings of Miller and Lux are to be taken as evidence of their saintliness they are king pins FURNITURE COIMPANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) n7-123 Geary Street