The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1895, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1893. NOT FOR HASTE NOW. Turbulent Feeling of the| English Very Rapidly Cooling. THINK ONLY OF POLITICS. However, the First Shock Is| Yet Rocking the British Islands. SEEK HONORABLE SETTLEMENT But There Is No Element of Cow- ardice in the Present Attitude. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York Times.] ! 1 | possible, but of a financial war, which | inothing now, in one way or the other, | could check for weeks to come. Every- body repeated the rumor for a fact that people were betting that gold would be at | a premium in New York before the new year, but no one knew of a particular in- | stance in which the wager was made here or there. Long-sighted men held the opinion that the ultimate result would be toput American finance on a better foot- ing, and so benefit everybody; but the | popular view was that America would be | drained of gold at once, forced into the‘ hands of the silver crowd and lapse into | a financial disorder which, even ut best, it | | would 1ake years to recover from. On all | | sides there was general indignation at Moreton Frewen's suggestion in the Times | | that America would begin Lostilities, if the worst came to the worst, by confiscating | five billions of British capital investedin | | America. { | An Armenian organizer wham I met last night and questioned as to the outlook | from his particular point of view wrung | his hands and turned away with a groan. | “It is too horrible!” was all he said. It | seems certain that England since Wednes- | | day has pract pulled out of the whole | | Levant business. It is nearly as certain | that Germany has fixed up a combination with Russia and France on lines similar to the Chinese association, which will admin- ister the affairs of the Turkish empure, or at least prevent anybody else from inter- | fering in them. At any rate the hope of | | England’s doing anything there has per- GERMANS' CRITICISM, Mr. Cleveland’s Venezuelan Views Viciously Assailed | by the Gazette. BY OFFICIAL SANCTION.| Spread-Eagleism Said to Require the Attention of European Nations. ATTITUDE OF THE EMPEROR.! Reported to Be Determined to Support England in the Boundary Controversy. BERLIN, GerMAxY, Dec. 21.—When President Cleveland’s Venezuelan message LONDON, Exo., Dec. 21.—It would need | 15164 altogether, and the Armenian sym- | to the United States Congress burst upon 8 big book to adequately depict the state of mind of London and of England at large since Wednesday morning. It would begin by the description of a moral earth- | pathizers here who were really earnest are plunged to depths of despair, but for the general British public since Wednesday the very name of Turkey in type offends Europe the semi-cfficial press of Berlin and the other German centers generally touched upon the subject with extreme caution. The Cologne Gazette certainly ing held to acclaim the proposal to declare Prince Luitpold, Regent of Bavaria, King on the tenth anniversary of his regency next June. Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia has been installed grand master of the Prussian Masonic lodges. This dignity was last held by the late Emperor Frederick when he was Crown Prince. United States Embassador Runyon's family group at Christmas will include Missess Julia and Evelyn Runyon, Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins and Mr. and Mrs. Bur- ton. The chemical experts of the Standard 0il Company who have been exploiting the company’s product in Germany have started for home. They are of the belief that they have succeeded in satisfying the the highest value. The American Girls’ Club will give a tea their elubrooms on Christmas day. the United States embassy, and his wife have gone to Vienna to remain three months, Lieutenant Vreeland is aiso ac- credited as na States embassy in Vienna. Germans that the Standard’s new oil is of | val attache to the United | and an *‘at heme” to all Americans at | Armenizns who are in possession of Zei- | Lieutenant Vreeland, naval attache to , nate regarding their surrender the bom- MRMENMISHREBSTINTE They Will Not Surrender, and Zeitoun Is to Be at Once Bombarded. Property Stolen From American Mis. sionaries in the Houses of Turkish Officials. LONDON, Ex6., Dec. 21.—Telegraphing under date of December 20 the correspond- ent of the United Press in Constantinople says the Porte has informed all the foreign diplomats at the Turkish capital that the toun having shown themselves to be obs bardment of Zeitoun will be begunat once. A correspondent writing from Marash | expresses the opinion, however, that the immediate capture of Zeitoun by the Turkish forces is not possible, and that the | ish Foreign Office s Armenians will be able to hold the place throughout the winter. A communication received at the Turk- vs that the Armenians who are holding Zeitoun have piliaged and buried dozens of Mussulman villages near Zeitoun and have killed 266 Mussul- mans, including sixteen women. The Foreign Ofiice is also issuing other stories of a similar character. The corre- spondent of the United Press learns that these statements are intended to prepare the public mind for the annihilation of the Armenians who are in possession of Zeitoun. An American who was for a long time a resident of Censtantinople writes from Harpoot that the furniture and other property stolen from the American mis- sionaries at that place are in the houses of the nighest Government officials there. The Turks adnft that tlie Armenians in the district of Sivas are scantily clothed and that many of them have died from starvation. The Sultan is reported to have said that he will feed these unfortu- nates if they will become Mohammedans. CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEY, Dec. 21.— The German Embassador here, acting un- der instructions received from his Govern- ment, has again urged the Porte to pre- vent a massacre of the Armenians at Zeitoun. Sir Philip Currie, the British Embassador, supported the German Em- bassador in his attempt to save the lives of the Armenians, but it is feared that the Zeitoun district has already been largely laid in waste. = > s CHINESE RIOTING. British Gunboat Esk Drawn Into a Quar- rel of Natives. SHANGHAI, Curxa, Dec. 21.—Riots which promised serious consequences oc- curred a day or two ago at Szechang, grow- ing out of the fact that a native official of that place was accidentally shot by a | Chinese servant belonging on board the | British gunboat E Public disturbances | ensved and tue local authorities made a | demand upon Lieutenant Ravenhiil, com- | manding the E: for the surrender of the | servant, which has not yet been answered. | Tt is expected that if the demand is not complied with, further riots will occur. | - M. de Burlet Very Ill. BRUSSELS, Beraroy, Dec. 21.—M. de Burlet, President of the Council and Min- ister of the Interior and of Instruction of Berlin, is suffering from congestion of the brain, and his condition is serious. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. the eye, and interest in the Levantine | gijq pristle up a little against Mr. Cleve- news is as dead as a door nail. land, but the Berlin newspapers, which All news indeed not bearing on this sin- | were awaiting instructions from the Minis- gle vital topic passes unheeded. Thereis | torg asto their treatment of the document, a most important official movement an- | refrgined from committing themselves to nounced which at any other time would be | an expression of opinion absolutely ad- eagerly discussed all over England and | yerse to the United States Government. quake, followed immediately by the Dblackest and densest sort of a mental fog. The shock of the former is 11 rocking | these islands, but the latter, by slow de- grees, is clearing off. Enghshmen still find their perturbed nerves quivering auto- matically, but their minds are coming under better control and they are already isi ing to forgst some of the v things which they said in the first Btages of their confusion. To give merely cne illustration, I hear men who on Thursday were sall for shell- ing New York within a fortnight saying to-night that after all England had unde- niably got into bad habits in dealing with smaller peoples, and perhaps some such vigorous, rousing protest as President Cleveland’s was needed to waken Down- ing-street consciousness to the fact. From this attitude it will be a short step now gets scarcely a word of comment any- where. The president of the Board of Trade is to have a conference in January with the chairmen of nine railroads enter- ing London to arrange a plan for a uni- form sweeping reduction of rates on farm products. he Great Eastern has already in operation a new system for assisting farmers to sell their produce here without the tremendous tax ot the middlemen, which, though hardly perfect as vet, is said to be working well. It is understood | that the coming conference will be invited | by Ritchie to extend this scheme to other | railroads and if this is done the results will tho B_L;gneinl request for a statement of | pe of incalculable benefit to the agricul- ow England, without undue loss of dig- | tyra] interest, but as I have said people are The Ministerial inspiration seems to have been finaily given and in pursuance of instructions the North German Gazette makes a vicious attack upon the message. The article which the Gazette devotes to the message declares that Mr. Cleveland has arrogated for the United States the Supreme Judgeship of all questions affect- ing the other States in the Western Hem- isphere. “No European,” the article says, “dis- putes the high position or the form of government of the United States, but this new phase of spread-eagleism requires the attention of the European nations. new and strained interpretation of inter- national law necessary to support the so- The nity, can meet America’s wishes on this Venezuelan matter, which nobody here cares a button about. This, I believe, un- reservedly, will be Englishmen’s real feeling a week hence, although hot words on both sides may obscure its expression or even silence it altogether. Unfortunateiy all England started ‘Wednesday morning with a profound mis- apprehension of what was really involved, and, for once, special correspondents in New York helped to strengthen this delu- sion. Englishmen have formed the rather conternptuous habit of supposing that evervthing in America displeasing to them nates in the desire of our politicians to pander to the Irish vote, and they | would have naturally jumped to this ex- planation of the President’s message had the President been anybody but Cleveland. | In the present case their respect for his character would have made them hesitate; | but unhappily, they were told from all | sides in New York that this mustnot be! taken into account and that the whole epi- | gode was strictly referable to the exigen- | cies of American politics. Upon this point | there isa quaint thing to record. Somehow | the City men got the idea that the Presi- | dential election came next March and the | theory based on this that the whole flurry would be over within three months was | B0 universal Wednesday that the markets | were .scarcely affected that day. The change of Thursday came when the word was passed round that the elections were not to occur until November. | As Englishmen in general have to nn-’ learn things and to comprehend that their | easy-going, half-informed notion about American politicians twisting the lion’s tail did not fit this particular case at all, it has dawned on them here that the matter is one in which the American | people are so profoundly in earnest that everybody, if necessary, will shoulder a musket to defend it. They have come to consider the matter respectfully and ask to be shown an honorable way out of the complication. There is no element of cowardice in this attitude, bear in mind; they would fight any European nation without any searchings of conscience at all, whether they were right or wrong, but | they do recognize that if the whole Amer- ican people stand out on a matter of prin- | ciple Englishmen must act on an equally high plane. Curiously, the news from the Continent | that the foreign press is pretty generally denouncing the Monroe doctrine has an | actual tendency to dispose Englishmen to think that it must be a better doctrine | .than tkey had supposed. This seeming | paradox is very illustrative of the Briton’s general state of mind. The very idea that | Frenchmen or Germans applaud and urge him on in a quarrel with Americans sug- gests to him that he is foolish to be en- gaged 1 any such quarrel. These Conti- nental press opinions may not express in full the attitude of the Continental Foreign | Offices. Perhaps in Paris the journalist 1s | closest in contact with dinlomacy, or rather | exerts the largest influence on it, but there 1 as elsewhere they do not mind saying con- | tradictory things for the sake of fun and ‘ to disclose sportive enjoymentat an Anglo- | American squabble rather than for a! serious policy. | It is said here that the Marquis of Salis- | too preoccupied even to give the mattera second thought. A friend who lives at St. Petersburg and who turned up on a visit vesterday says that an extraordinary change is al- ready visible under the new reign in Ru: sia, and all in the direction of liberaliza- tion. The newspapers officiaily show an altered spirit and now print news and comment freely, which had been un- dreamed of a year ago. Everybody ascribes to the young Czarina great political activity. Pobiedonostseff's downfall and a change of prefects at Petersburg, by which General Clayhills, the descendant of a Forfarshire Jacobite, who followed the Stuarts to the Continent, and a very liberal man, comes into con- trol, are both credited to her influence. If she can effect such important reforms 1n the domestic administration, which is the stronghold of bureaucracy, it is reason- able to suppose that she is not powerless in foreign affairs, where her feelings would be all for Germany and her favorite cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm, but as my friend says, people abroad know more of Rus- sia’s foreign policy than they do in Russia. Another member of the new Pariiament is unseated by a technicality in England’s corrupt practices act, an account of which makes the whole clumsy law more ridicu- lous than ever. It forbids the employment on election day of hired carriages, and, as a result, well-to-do men of both parties lend vehicles in large numbers on such oc- casions. One of these on the Liberal side came to Litchtield from a distance, and the Liberal agent unwittingly fed oats to the horses at noon on the day of the poiling. This was enough to invalidate the election, the judees decide, but the whole press rails at the decision, or rather at the law permitting it, as idiotic, and there is a gen- eral demand for immediate new legisla- tion. Wilson’s book on *[ronclads in Action,” | with Mahan’s introduction, appears at just the moment to have made a hit, even if it were a commonplace work, but the re- viewers hail it as scarcely inferior in merit to Mahan’s own epoch-making books, and the demand for it is said to be, considering the price, almost unprecedented in the trade. called Monroe doctrine demands the seri- | ous consideration of other Governments | besides England.” 3 Since this article appeared the report has | been circulated in the Ministerial circle that the Kaiser had told Prince Hohenlohe that he was determined to throw the influ- ence of Germany upon the side of England. No authentic information in regard to the ‘mperor’s opinion can be obtained, of | course, but the tone of the North German | Gazette's article, combined with the offi- | cial resentment and the threatened com- mercial relations, clearly indicates the probable attit ude of the German Govern- ment. The American colony here receive the adverse German opinion with equanimity, and 1s confident that it will not in any way affect the issues betweep Eng!and and the United States, as Germany cannot risk | any form of active intervention, nor do | the utterances of the semi-official press | represent the unanimous German senti- ment. | The Freisinnige newspapers take an im- | vartial line, regretting chiefly the possibil- ity of & conflict between sister peoples having free institutions and standing in the forefront of the civilized world. Some of the Bismarckian organs, notably the Hamburger Nachrichten, while condemn- | ing the message of Mr. Cleveland as an arbitrary assertion of supremacy on the vart of the United States, express satisfac- tion at seeing a strong power administer a severe check to the world-wide arrogance | of England. ‘When the Reichstag resumes its sessions | introduced by Dr. von Boetticher, Imperial | Secretary of State for the Interior, creating } a mixed chamber of artisans and employ- ers for the adjudication of differences and other purposes, will be speedily settled n committee. No party is committed to the | support of the bill, which, by the way, is not quite accurately described as creating | a mixed chamber of artisans and employ- ers. Itisacomplicated measure and is a pendant to the existing chambers of com- | merce and trades chambers measures, | having as a general aim the formation of | an institution representing chiefly the | which it willdo on January 9, the bill! Henry Norman’s “The Nearest,” which | interests of artisans. If the proposed is to appear in January, bade fair a week | artisans’ chamber shall ever come into | ago to be the book of the season, because | existence it is intended that it shall co- it would deal brilliantly with a lot of | operate with the commerce and trade Balkan and Levantine questions which | chambersupon questionsaffecting artisans, England was expected to be absorbed in all | collect annual reports of the condition of winter. This sudden lapse of the Eastern | workingmen and perform other kindred question in the Britisn minds may affect | functions. its sales, but it will be an important work The Vorwaerts, the Socialist organ, re for students of European politics, never- | plying to the challenge of the Conserva- theless. | tives in the Reichstag to the Socialists to Beatrice Harraden's novel of California | produce the Hammerstein letters, says: life called “Hilda Stafford”” has been se- “We are not sn simple as to produce them. cured as a serial by “Blackwood’s Maga- | The blade of the guillotine is more dan- zine” to appear next year along with a | gerous and dreadful when it menaces than romance by Blackmore entitlea “Daniel.” | after it hasfulfilled its work. Anguish is Harorp FrEDERIC. | more terrible when it is suspended.’” | The Kreuz Zeitung, formerly conducted under the direction of Baron von Ham- The Manner in Which Finances May Be merstein, respoum} to the article in the Disentangled. Vorwaerts by saying that no responsible WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—The Conservative me.rnber qf the Reichstag following is stated on the best authority to fears the revelations which the letters are ONE PLAN OF RELIEF. | be the plan of relief which will be dis. | capable of making, and urges the parties cussed by the Waysand Means Committee | Of order to combine in subport of the Government’s policy of enforcing t'e most bury has secured the general European during the Christmas holidays which, it is | assent to the repudiation of the Monroe | confidently expected, will be entered upon | severe measures of repression against the EFEHOW DOES THIS STRIKE YOU-®? We'’ve concluded to make one of the biggest sales the big store has ever made, but only for a couple of days. We've taken 5400 garments, comsisting of the cream of our Overcoat, Ulster and Suit stocks—handsomer or better tailored garments never left a tailor’s bench. Your pick of any, irrespective of former prices, for Monday and till closing time Tuesday night for doctrine, and as theoretical expressions of opinion there is nothing improbable in this, but in practice it is of little value. 1f the Continental powers saw & profit in it to themselves in any emergency of England’s, they would not be restraised for a moment by any such consideration. And on the other hand the knowledge | on Monday next. ; The programme which the Republican | leaders of the House have now tentatively | in mind is to. temporarily provide from [thirty to forty-five millions maqre | revenue by some brief amendments of the tariff—not involving general | tariff revision; these amendments that Salisbury had committed England to | to exvire at the end of thirty months; to & European league against a charter of | give the Secretary of the Treasury author- immunity to the New World from the | itV toissuea 3-per cent bond asa popular militarism of the old, which Canning loan to maintain the coin redemption funa socialists. | The lengths to which the Conservatives | are now ready to go in the suppression of | Socialism is frankly avowed in the Ham- | burger Nachrichten’s advocacy of the use | of armed force to wipe out the socialists. | The Nachrichten argues that it is inevit- | able that tie time will come when arms must be employed to put down social rev- olution and that the Government ought not to delay the conflict until socialism | pervades the masses. helped Adams and Monroe to formulate, | would raise an overwhelming popula: demonstration of wrath all over England. Nothing can be gathered from 'the Rus- sian papers as to Russian intentions, but the French politicians assume with cer- tainty that she will act in entire accord | with France. 1 spent yesterday in the City, among Phe bankers and brokers, who were getting bulleting minute by minute of the slaugh- | ter in American prices. I verified the fact that the mischief began by cabled sell- ing orders from the New York bears, but the heaviest share of the decline is ascribed to the throwing over of long stock. Ordi- narily calm investors piled in their securi- ties amid the general fright until no buy- ers could be found for anything. The talk among these men was not of a physi- cal war, which everybody scouted as im- and for no other purpose, with a proviso that the redeemed greenbacks shall not be used to meet current expenses, but be re- tained so long as necessary as partof the redemntion fund; to authorize National banks to issue circulating notes to the par of the bonds depusited as security, and to reduce the tax on National bank circula- tion; and to authorize the issue of certifi- cates of indebtedness to meet a temporary deficiency cf the revenue until the revenue can de provided. AEE Pensions for Californians. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—The following pensions have been issued to beneficiaries in California: George Oliver, Cholame; Edward Clunan,Soldiers’ Home; James D. Atterbury, Millbrae: Dennis H. Sullivan, Kernville; Nathan Strickland, San Jose; William B. Smith, San Fran- cisco; John W. Downing, Pasadena, “The sooner the blow is struck,” the Nachrichten says, “‘the less blood will be | shed. There is no effective remedy ex- | cept blood and iron.” The agricultural societies throughont { the country have been instructed by the central executive in Berlin to further agi- tation in favor of the introduction in the Reichstag of a bill imposing a tariff on wool. Already there have been thirty- tive petitions sent to the Reichstag in favor of such a bill. The Emperor has informed the Munici- pal Council of Frankfort on the Main that he and the Empress will be present on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument to the memory of Emperor William I in that city on May 16. The German anarchists will hold a con- gress in January at Carlsrube. Meetings of the peasant societies of Bavaria are be- ‘The pictures surrouding this advertisement give you a little idea of the styles of the gar- ments. . The fabrics are of the highest grades only. We have but one object in view for hold- ing this sale and that is: We inventory stock on the 26th and we want as few goods on hand at that date as possible. advantage to be with us You’ll find it to be to your Monday. RAPHAEIL’S INCORPORATED). 9,11, 13, 15 Kearny St. - TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS. FRISCO’S BIGGEST STORE.