The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1895, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1895 THE CONTROVERSIALISTS ARE WAXIAG WARM ' Dr. Case Speaks on the Issue at Metropolitan Temple. ENTHUSIASM EVIDENCED Animated Addresses Made by Rev. F. K. Baker and M. T. Brewer. | REFERENCES TO FATHER YORKE A Listener at the Good-Citizenship | Meeting Rises to Question a | Speaker. 1 Enthusiasm and popular demonstration | grow in the Good Citizenship meeting the Metropolitan Temple. The hall was | filled yesterday afternoon with listeners | on the qui vive for some developments in father Yorke and Rev. Donald i | the controversy that is now in progress | between | Addresses were made more or 1 i cerning this issue by Dr. W. W. Case, | M. T. Brewer and Rev. F. K. Baker. | Chairman Quitzo w said in making the | introauctory remarks: Let us not be disconcerted by the vain clat- ter we hear ou the outside, but let us con- tinue as we have done, bringing patriotism to the iront and raising up our voices manfully in the utterance of true American principl Dr. Case was late and when he entered the room and stepped on the platform the audience greeted him vociferously. “I have heard thata person has said,” said he preliminary to his aadress, *that be wouldn’t train with such a crowd as congregates in Metropolitan Temple every Sunday afternoon, but I have made a study of faces for thirty-five years and I think that most of you can write your own name and read your own ballot. I venture to say that when you landed in Castle Garden you did not say ‘I am agin’ the Government !’ The doctor then entered into the subject matter of his address on “Political Roman- ism,” which follows in full: gschange! The Catholics have turned and_are protesting most asinustion that they are d y meetings held in this ha to declaim about their loy In their addre: show of love for this land. Has any t the Catholics did not lo rever knew any one to claim re not dead in love with v will fight for it, and they will death. They love it so much U'to take care of it for us in their Like the man who loved | oh the first six months that r up, and aiter that he was | had not d it. So the | untry so much that they rour it, and they never will be satis- v love it so want tc fied un for the ¢ ear, that they were the most meek and :and the most abused cherubs that always usc_ the cuttlefish method in controve wat fish has an ink-bag from ~which, 0 he is pursued, it throws out & dark fluid that clouds the waters, enabling it to escape observation. So the Romsmst in controversy always covers Up the main ques- tion with side issues. With & cloud of words he befogs the matier o that many unthinking people entirely sight of the issue involved. We have no grudge against the Catholic no ill-will towsrd them as immortal souls. W €0 8s to do them a favor and show & kindness as we will for any one else. with Romanis That there isa great sm cannot be denied. there is much that is good in Mohammedan. ism and in Buddhism; but as a system Roma ism is execrable in the extreme. As an ins tution it is 8 monstrosity, growing out of per- verted human nature. All denomiuations are more or less in- fluenced by human considerations, but none 0 much as the Papacy, which bears the mark of pagan statecrait and earthborn diplomacy. The whole tide of human history would have been changed had not Constantine proclaimed the union of church and state. Warsmight have been averted—Europe had peace and s and Africa the Bible, but for that unholy liance. Romanism exists not because it is holy but cause it is partly divine and partiy devilish. claim to temporal power on the part of the church of Rome is a pure fiction, and has no authority from the Bible or irom God. The only thing on which this claim is based is the antiquity of Rume, but Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria and meny other cities can claim supremacy on the score of age. Romenism maintains the delusion of diyine right-to temporal power by any means which the exigency of the time may demand to keep the people in subjection and perpetuate the power of those 1n authority in the church. Popery will scruple at nothing; it will tram- le both God and man beneath its feet to reach ts ends. It is mere willfulness, the one evil thing in the world which has no mitigating features. It hasno justification in reason, no eathority from the Bible, no sufficient end for its existence or action. ere Romanism has the power she compels submission. We hear about liberty of con- science in Spain, but missionary reports from that country sweep away such adelusion. Re- cently on one of the Romish feast days & pro- cession slowly wended its way through the streets of a Spanish town and before them was carried a huge wooden construction draped with blue silk around a lifeless image of tiie Virgin Mary in & recumbent position, borne by several women wearin: white veils and lit- tle girls dressed as angels walking alongside. Naval officers of the port, in fact all of the Government employes, were obliged (many ageinst their will) o walk and kneel in the procession on penalty of eight yesrsin a con- Vict prison. It seems incredible that such intolerance should be manifested in this progressive and enlightened age, but the fuct of its existence in Spain is vouched for by well known and reli- able authority. This is the kind of liberty ina country where the papacy can_still tyrannize, and this is the kind that Satolli represents and that Ryan and Gibbons and Corrigan and John Ireland_would be delighted to see in the. TUnited States. Spain ss still low in the scale of the nations and all on account of the tyranny of the Romish system. The papscy would “transform this Government and de- grade itto & like low level if it could get con- trol. Idonotsay that individual vatholics, with human and kind hearts like our own, would do this, but I do say that an_institution whose principle is that Romanism is an end to itself, and is therefore above the Bible and above God, will do this, and logically must do this or give up its principle. The priests are in politics; they have been inour politics for many years. Theyare a dangerous element in_politics, for they are monarchis 1must be so, 80 long as they bow down of all before the scepter of that seli-constituted monarch, the Pope of Rome. Fiity years ago Archbishop Hughes was head and earsin politics. He did all in his power at that eariy stage of our history to destroy the public school system in this coun- try. He was fortunately defeated in his nefa. Ti0us schemes, but Romanism has been s vowerful and wicked element in the politics of New York City ever since. During the eleven years preceding 1880 | $12,000,000 was given by the government to the Roman Catholics. Fifty years azo Pope Gregory XVIL said, They them So | Romish pr “Out of the Roman States there is no country where I ain Pope except the United States. Cardinal Manning adyi: the world to enter politics as Romanists and to do this especial in England and America. bent on the mastery. Millions are that this country is to come into the hands of Rome. 1s there no reasop for their hope? Think of twelve millions giten to Rome since Abraha n Cathol assassinated b ing to Rome surpasses belef. Toa ent she dominates the press of this She inyades the stores and factories. She iniects the air. The remedy is found in_ourselyes. Have we thesand in us to find it and use it when found? All are familiar with Mr. Gladstone statement that a man who joined the Romish system surrendered his conscience to anoth s might well use the exclama- tion of the South Carolina planter “You call this a land of liberty where a man does not have the liberty to lick -bis own nigger?” S0 say the priests. “You call thisa land of liberty where the Pope has not liberty to en- slave the people and decree the principles upon_which our Government and public schools shall be carried on? There is no liberty in Romanism. MeGlynn, who had an interval of sanity and honesty then went back to hug the delusion in h he had been raised, and again kiss the whi Pope’s toe, say! the Jesuit organ published to the effect that general ed Romaus throughout | Father Hecker,in his recent work on “The Church and the {ge,”’ deplores the sorry con- | dition of Romanism in all countries, | Hesays: “The Catholic church throughout | the world, beginning at Rome, is in a suffering ‘ state. There is not & spot on the earth where she is not assailed by oppression or violent persccution. All the gates of hell have been opened and every species of attack, as by gen- eral conspiracy, has been let loose upon the (Papal) church. “Countries in which Catholics outnumber all other Christians together, as France, Austria, i Italy, Spain, Bavaria, Baden, South America and, until receatly, Belgium, are, for the most part, controlled ~and governed by hostile minorities, and in some instances the minori- ties are very small. B “Ouradversaries, with the finger of derision, point out these facts and proclaim them to the world. Look, they say, at Poland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Bavaria, Austria, Italy, France and what do you sée? Countries sub- jugated or enervated or agitated by the inter- nal throes of revolution. Everywhere, among Catholic nations, weakness oniy and inca- pacity are to be discerned. _ “This is the result of the priestly domination and hierarchical inflience of Rome. What hes brought about this deplorable state ot thin How can we eccount for thisapparent of faith and strength on the part of Caiholics? Can it be true that, as their ene- mies assert, Catholicity wherever it has full sway, deteriorates society? “Perhaps the Catholic church hasgrown old, | others imagine, 'and has accomplished her task_and is no longer competent to unite her the conflicting interests of modern ety and direet g questions, Mr. Hecker, “are erions ones. answers must be sh with most weighty lessous.” ne these qu ns “are not difficult to If any one asks me why this condition vails throughout the world I solve. of things opular education was all a mistake; that | promptly There was & serious danger in it; that the has come, and the dark- comparative increase of ed on in this cen- wway. The dry of monarchies tury in Italy was one ief causes of the 1ips and priestly rule has come hurch’s troubles | A betterday 1s dawning upon us. “\What were 21 rch's troubles?” Mr. Me- | y are already tired of Hean ers his own question as hose tronbles were the aspirations of the men of the country; youne men, ardent, pat- riotic lovers of their ¢ . tor the 1itx the unity and the t Ty, goeson to say, “Is it not a pretty good | He argument from the stronghold of the enemy r | The ed vith our public institutions, | particulariy their interference with our public schools. as Dr. McGlynn has said, “The pub- lic school is an American titution, of which the people are justly proud. X ation of the people being indis- | pensable in a republican form of government, it would 1ot do to leave this important matter | in the hands of the people as individuals. The REV. DR. W. W. CASE. that education is a good thing for liberty and 1 independence, when these learned Jesuits write, time and agsin, that one of the chief causes of the troubles of Italy was the unres and discontent caused by educating thousand: and tens of thousands of young men above their condition 7 5 What has beep the result, the terrible, horri ble result of thee tion in Italy, according to this high autho: The result has come | about that nmow there isa great nation, free and independent, and the gooa writers of the | Jesuit paper are still wrapped up in holy hor- ror at_the terrible things that have come to Itely in the overthrow of the temporal power of the Pope! The same kind of people, no | doubt, would have sald it wasa terrible mis- take for the thirteen coionies to kick up such arow against the Governmentof his Majesty | King George IIT! | 1 repeat it, there is no liberty under Rome rule. The Shepherd of the Valley, published at St. | Louis, Mo., some years ago <aid: “The church | is of necessity intolerant. Heresy she endures | when and where she must; but she hates it, and directs all her energies to its destruction. If Catholics ever gain an immense numerical majority religious freedom in this coantry is atan end. Soour enemies say. So we believ The same paper also sa The most absurd of all doctrines is the doctrine of the right of private judgment.” Brownson’s Quarterly Review for October, , had these words: hi or can have are derived from the State, and rest on expediency. Asthey have in their character of sects, hostile to the true religion, no rights under the law of nature or the law of God, “hey are neither wronged nor deprived of liberty if the State refuses to grant them any rights at all. The sorriest sight to us is a Cath- olic throwing up his cap and shouting: -All hail democracy ! , and can oblige nobody in the name of God or religion to hear him. Our Protestant friends should bear this in mind. They have as Protestants no author- ity in religion, and count for nothing in the | church of God. * * * “They have from God mo right of propa- gandisi, and religious liberty is in no sense violated When the national authority, whether Catholic or pagan, closes their mouths and their w. Consul at Rome, wrote to the New York Tri- bane respecting the Roman Government, from 1861 t0+1865, as follows: “I know that spies were placed at the doors of the places of Protes- tant worship to see if any Romans went in, and that one friend of mine, a surgeon in the | French Hospital, was arrested for having | waited on his wife (an English woman) and carried at night to the prison of the holy office (another name for the inquisition), where he was menaced with severe punishment if he not only did not abstain from courtesies to Protestantism, but compel his wife 10 leave the Church of England and enter the Roman Church, and he finally escaped from them by | &n appeal to French protection, as an employe. “The brother of one of my most intimate friends was arrested in his bed at night, carried off by officers of the inquisition and never heard of again until years after, when a re. leased prisoner came to tell the survivor that his brother had died in the prison with him &nd was buried in the earth of the dungeon. “The Roman Governmentof my time was the embodiment of the spirit of tne papacy of the Middle Ages. 1t had itsrod over its subjects &s it always has done.” Said Castelar, the Spanish Cortes of 186! here is nota single progressive principie which hes not been cursed by the Catholic | church. This is true of Englana and Germany as well as of Catholic countries. The church cursed the French Revolution, the Belgian constitution and the Itelian independence; nevertheless all these principles have unrolled themselves in spite of it. “Not a constitution has been born, not a single prggress made, not a solitary reform effected, which has not been under the anathe- mas of the church. Such is the testimony of one brought up amid the horrors of papal domination. iberal orator in the Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE All the rights sects | laces of holding forth.” | _Stillman, Esq., formerly United States | state must provide schools for the education of her children. As to the extent of this edu- cation, it must be broader and better for our hildren than we or our fathers had. It must ceep pace with the growth of the country, it 5 { | 15t keep step to the stirring music of the sing century and must prepare the children or the problems of the twentieth century. As t0 what should be taught in our public schools, there is a general concurrence that it should be intellectual and moral. Here we stand on common ground. But we are diametrically opposed to the two great principles which lic ai the base of Rom- ish instruction; first, the domination of the Pope over conscience and secondly, the claim of superior direction in civil affairs. Itisim- possible out of such teaching to make a great nation that shall endure as a free people. Neither this country nor Great Britain could haye existed as they are under such influences. Years ago it was a maxim of the Prussian “Whatever you would have appear in the na- tion’s life” you must put into the public schools.” What we put into our public schools now will bear fruit in coming generations. Itisa sad thought that thousands of children now | gathered into Romish parochial schools are | taught to reverence the Pope as God, to pray to | saints, to believe in charms, in miracles, in i priestly power, in superstitious apparitions. But still more’ reprehensible is tne immoral teaching of Romanists. The Pope made St. Liguori a doctor of the Church. His chief ex- | positor and continuer in our day has been | Professor P. J. P. Gury, a Jesunit of the Roman | College, whose celebrated work entitled “Com- | pendium Theologie” is a standard Jesuit theo- ogical textbook in veri' wide actual use. A few amazing passages 1 cite in English from this volume: “Aglv.\‘ ecclesiastics obliged to obey the civil 0; not the laws which are contrary to their profession or to their sacred canons. The good of society demands that there should be a | means tlawfully hide a secret. Now there i no other way than py equivocation or restrie. tion, Jargely and improperly mental. One is ermitted to use this restriction even under A culpritinterrogated judicially or not lawfully by the judge may answer ‘that he has doue nothing,’ ‘meaning ‘about which you have the right to question me,or thatIam oblige to avow.’ “You must keegon confided secret even if you are questioned about it by a superior, a_judge, etc. You must answer them, ‘I do notknow anything apout it,’ because 1hat knowledge is for you absolutely as if it did not exist; and thus should the secret be confided expressly or tacitly.” “When is there a grave matter in & theft?” “It cannot be determined. In order thata thetf should be looked upon as grave relatively ic must be of the value: First, of one franc for the poor &nd a little less for the very poor; second, about two or three francs for the work- men who live day by day: three, about three or four franes for moderately rich people; four, about six or seven francs for rich people. ““In order that the matter should be absolutely grave two or three pieces of gold of the value of $1 each are necessary. But we must re- member that the more scaree the money the greater Is its value.” “‘Are small theits united to form a whole if they are separated by a long interval of time?” “No, according to the common, because after acertain lapse of time small theits are not supposed to_unite, and so do not constitute a common object in morality. ~Besides one does not see grave prejudice done to the owner, not being aware of it, and he is supvosed not o be gravely opposed to it.”” Whatis the time which must elapse between thefts? “According to the more probable opinion, no more than two months; according to others, one vear is necessary.” “May one take some of the property of an- other,” not only to help one’s self, but also others?” “Yes, according to the common opinion, be- cause in a way one substitutes himself for the indigent and shows by the act that one loves his neighbor as himself.” “In case of extreme need, or nearly o, what- ever may be the cause of it, can we steal an ob- ject of great value, or & large sum, if we are in need of it?” ‘“There are two opinions, The first one an- swers 110; the second -one, more probable and more common, answers yes, provided the rich oue is not brought by thal theft to an_equally needful situation and the poor one takes only what he needs.” “Cen a servant compensate himself if he does more than he ought to?” “Yes, if it is by the express or tacit will of the master that he works excessively; because, one who works must be paid in proportion to his work, by rignts. e value of this just compensation may be left to the judgmenti of the servent, provided he is prudent, careful and distrustful of self.” “‘Quirinus, wanting to steal some cloth, en- ters & store during the night and lights a can- dle, taking good care, however, to prevent & fire; but a cat upsets a candle, which, falling on goine straw, seis it on tire and the house is burned. The thief runs away and escapes. What is to be thought of Quirinus’ case?” “He is under no obligation to make restitu- tion, because he has not foreseen the danger. He IS 1ot even obliged to pay for the cloth he wished {0 steal, ever; had he run away with the goods, begause the damage is involuntary, since the fact of stealing the cloth is not the cause of the damage, and the fact of carrying the candle does not induce the dangér of fire when reassnable preceutions are taken.” +‘Ordinarily tne lies, ot even yerjuries, by which dealers affirm that their goods cost so mich to them, or that such & price was offered ought 1ot 10 be considered as frauds really prejudicial, because these frauds are so fre- qk:mnt with them that almost nobody trusts in them.” “Must a son believe a mother who tells him, under oath, that he is illegitimate?”’ “No, because by right and common sense, 1o one is obliged to believe one witness, even if there is no doubt of his good faith.” Is that the kind of teaching Americans stand inneed of? Do we waut godly (?)schools of that sort? Ithink not. Then let us be alert. Rome is a bad and dangerous teacher. There is a singuier tree [n Cubn—the yaguey tree— that affords a striking illustration of the insidious nature and singular fatal- ity of Rome rule. This tree begins to £row et the top, or midway of anoti er tree, The seed is carried by another bird or wafted by the wind, and, falling into some moist branching part takes root, and speedily begins to grow. Itsends along a kind of thiv, string- like root down the body of the tree that is oc- cupied, which is soon followed by others. In course of time e rootlings strike the grouna, and growth immediately commences upward. New rootlings continue to be formed and grown until the one tree grows asanet with the other inside. The outside one sur- rounds and presses the innerlike a huge girdle of suakes, strangling its life and augmenting its own power. Af last the tree within is killed, and the parasite that has taken posses- sion becon If the tree. What & picture this of the growing and insin- uating power of papal polities. It may have a small beginning, but asit_grows and strength- ens it strangles liberty, fetters justice, over- powers its victim and triumpbs over its prey. The Rev. F. K. Baker followed in a short addr He said in part: his work we are engaged in is a very needed work. The Roman bierarchy in i astical interference with secular affai given birth to the American Protecti ciation. The rope in one of his lettars says the Cath- olics should penetrate as far as possible into lmlil"cnlsfl'fiirs and endeavor to have the po- itical government of any State conform. The power the Catholi¢s have over the secu- lar press is appailine. The papers give columns to the work of the Catholics and et | eldom notice the progress of our affairs. uave popular demonstration that the Pope interferes with s Let us feel the resno v of each and the ation of all. TheRoman hierarchy it has had a wonderful twist. ~ | to piead and strive for higher | | | | is not dead, Let us and more periect education and purer govern- ment. M. T. Brewer next spoke alluding to en publications concerning himself. I discover,” said he, “that I have dis- turbed the slumbers of Father Yorke, but before I continue I desire to state that I | am not ‘Reverend’ and never was. Iam ! only plain M. T. Brewer. *The thought occurred to me while Dr. Case was speaking that the American Protective Association like Phebus in the | morning has been pouring a flood of light | on the darkness of the Roman Catholic | Church. | “Let me just a personal word to my Catnolic friends. This morning I| took occasion to spell out a communica- | tion concerning myseif to one of the | morning papers. I thought in my letter | to them I had bidden our friends good-by, | but I see I shall have to say a littie more. | “Iam quite a tenderfoot in California. I have been here but thirty-one years, and | during this time 1 ve pioneered one of | the greatest cnlcr[;rh of California—the fruit interests. Do you think that after | having lived in California for so long it is wonderful if I skould love my State and its flag and the public schools, when my children have been brought up in these | schools and are honored among men?”’ The speaker continued in an ironical vein about his lack of senolarly attain- | ment, and then changing the theme spoke eloquently of the principles of American- ism. In the course of his address he alluded to an event which he said took place in Boston on the 4th day of last July. “Is it fair,” asked Le, “to cut the traces of a harness when ladies and gentlemen are in the carriage, guilty of no offense gtheor than waving aloft the American | ag?” A man stood up in the gallery at this | juncture and proceeded to question the speaker concerning this event. Several moments of confusion followed, and the offender was asked to leave the hall. *This was a matter of history,” resumed the speaker, *and needs no explanation. Don’t allow anybody to throw dust in your eyes, and don’t allow any one to tempt you to throw dirt on the Roman Catholic religion. ““I favor ballots, not bullets, and ballots nightly wielded will, like snowflakes, fall gently and cover up all dissension and purify all wrong.” Boy Lost In the crowd at the Branch O1d I X L trying to get candy from Santa’ Claus. Boys’ clothing department, corzer Sixth and Mission streets.* ACADEMY’S CHRISTMAS. Pupils of the School of Our Lady of Mercy Give Their Annual Entertainment. The pupils of Our Lady of Mercy’s | Academy gave their annual entertain- ment yesterday at the school, on the cor- ner of Fremont and Harrison streets. An interesting programme was presented by the children, after which Santa Claus ap- peared and presented each of them with a gift from the Christmas tree. The follow- ing was the programme: Hymn, “Christus Natus est”; recitation, “The “ireat Day of Da vocal duet, *Christ- mas Bells”; recitation, “Fhe Very Best Gift”; | instrumental duet, “Marche des Phantoms,’ Mary Riley and Madge Boyne oru. Claus Is Comin nstrumental trid, “Marche Nationale,” May Cashman, May Moran and Julia McNevin; dialogue, “Santa Claus Out- witted”; iustrumental trio, “Camp of Glory,"” Alice MeNevin, Gertie Cook and Alma Tobir: dialogue, “The Quest of the Three Kings’ hymus and tableeu; recitation, “Uncle Ski fiint’s Christmas Gift”; vocal duet, “Chime on, Sweet Bells”; recitation, “Johnny’s Arith- metic Lesson”; mandolin duet, “Mazurka ” Nellie Ryan and Sophie Klevesahl: A Search for Santa Claus,” scene I, , evergreens, holly fays in the o ;, instrumental duet, “Attack of the Unlans,” Genevieve Cashman and Sophie Klevesahl; cantata, scene 1I, “The Arrival of Santa Claus.” g ——— TOILET CASES, silyer and celluloid sets, la- bums, wave-crest ware, handkerchief and glove boxes, manicure sets and all kinds of sil- ver novelties tor the writing-desk and dressing- table. The very pest goods and reasonable prices in every department. Open evenings, and everybody welcome. Senborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market stree e, - CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. A Pleasant Celebration by the French Institute. The French and English Institute gave a Christmas festival yesterday in Califor- nia Hall. Quite an elaborate programme of French and English nnmbers had been arranged, all the participants being pupils of the school. Two dialogues, one in French and the other in English, were the featurgs of the literary portion of the after- noon, and the band ot the institute play- ing National and patriotic airs led in the "‘Z’J”‘ILS‘Z?ZZ:‘“":’ “th bi of the programme a bi Christmas tree was plnces ugon the stay % and from its laden boughs innumerable resents were dealt out to the children. or some, however, these presents had a double significance, for besides being Christ- mas presents they were prizes for progress in the school. ’these prizes were all an- nounced from the stage and the prize-win- ners received applause. % Thrown From His Horse. ; William Cusick, a teamster living at 46 Silver sireet, died at the County Hospital yes- terday morning from the effects of injuries sustained on November 19. He was thrown | tee. | His Condition Is Said by Dr. Whitney from a horse on ti11 his donre. thatday, and was unconscious S ——————— MYSELL-ROLLINS Company, 22 Clay street. Patent back, f e 1 at opening blank books are FIGHT FOR IMMIGRANTS, A Bitter Contest for Their Trans- portation Now Being Waged. NO SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT. The Southern Pacific Company Pitted Against All the Other | Western Roads. One of the most {roublesome problems that has agitated the Western Passenger. Association for many a month is the im- migration traffic from New York. The disturbing factor is the Southern Pacific Company. The difficulty has been a mat- ter of consideration for several weeks past, but no adjustment has been possible owing to the stand taken by the Kentucky corpo- ration. It was expected that the Southern Pacific would present its case several weeks ago, but owing to Assistant General Traffic Munager E. Hawley being called elsewhere on important business he was unable to attend the meeting of the ad- visory committee of the Western Immi- grant Clearing-house held at that time in Chicago. As the matter now stands, the Southern Pacific is generally acknowledged to have the best of the situation, and it is the ob- ject of the advisory committee to so read- Jjust matters that the Southern Pacific will have no undue advantage over the other members of the immigrant clearing-house maintained by the Western roads on Ellis Island, N. Y., where the European immi- grants are landed. From week to week the Southern Pacific officials have promised to meet the advis- ory committee, and to-dav was finally fixed for the consideration of the question at Chicago. But from the tenor of the | dispatch from Chicaro published yester- day in THe CALL, it appears that the Southern Pacitic has again fought shy of the issue. At the lasi meeting of the advisory com- mittee a proposition was submitted which, however, proved tisfactory to the Southern Pa was expected that it would to-day submiit a counter proposi- tion. On Saturday, however, word was sent to the advisory committee that the Southern Pacific was not ready to go into the matter, and the Chicago meeting for to-day was declared to be off. This question is one of considerable im- portance to all the roaas involved, as 1t covers the transportation of every immi- grant who lands at New York and desires to settle in some other part of the United Stares. Lvery big city in Europe is scoured by the joint agents of the transatlantic steam- ship companies and the railroads of the United States, whose business it is to secure immigrants for this country. Their compensation is a certain percentage of the fares paid by the immigrants. Some time ago it became noticeable that the Southern Pacific was securing an ap- parently undue proportion of this business, and it was charged by the other members of the Eilis Isiand Clearing-honse with paying extravagant commissions to its European drummers. This charge, how- ever, Traffic Manager Stubbs says was not sustained. Then a new accusation was brought, as claimed by Mr. Stubbs, in order to secure an excuse for depriving the Southern Pacific of a vortion of this business. All the western roads except the South- ern Pacific maintain a joint agency on Ellis Island, the duty of which is to route the immigrant bound for points west of the Missouri. The Southern Pacific, however, keeps its own agent there, and he was charged by the rivals of the Southern Pacific with routing a larger proportion of Pacific Coast immigrants over the Southern Pa- cific Railroad than over the Central Pacific, thus depriving the intermediate roads be- tween New York and Ogden of their due share of the traffic. But this allegation was also shown_to be unfounded, asserts Mr. Stubbs, it being proved that the South- ern Pacific's agent at Ellis Island divided the business equally between the Sonthern Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad. In speaking of the contentions now be- ing made by toe advisory committee Mr. Stubbs became quite indignant over what he considered the untenable stand being taken against his company. His explana- tion of the present situation is as follows: “The advisory committee having failed to make its previous charges good and thus deprive us of part of the immigrant traflic, has now raised an issue that we propose to fight out with them. They claim that our agent at Ellis Island, wio | i< paid by us alone and who is entirely in- dependent of any other road, has no right to clearimmigrantsat Ellis Island for roads rot in territory reached by us. We claim he has, and that it is none of the concern of tue other roads what our agent there does. Iam certain they have no better ground to stand upon than they had in the two previous cases. *“Their sole object is to force us to be- | | come a member of the advisory commit- | tee, and to operate in conjunction with the | other Western roads comprising that or- | ganization. This would mean the abol tion of our agent on Ellis Island and en- | tering 1nto «n agreement for the apportion- | ing of the immigrant crafic between the | various roads represented in the commit- We are not adverse to joining, but | we want a certain percentage of the busi-- ness as our share, and this the others do not seem inclined to concede. The present arrangement suits us well enough and we | are not anxious to combine. Yet if they make us the right kind of concessions we will join them, simply to avoid friction.” On all other ma ters there is the yreatest good feeling between all the Western roads, but it is not unlikely that this immigrant business may yet lead to serious trouble. Just when the matter will come up for hearing is not known. As tie mat- ter now stands its settlement is prevented by the dilatory action of the Southern Pacific. o Divorce. If you buy your husband one of our house- jackets for a Christmas present you will keep | him home. Try it. Branch 0ld I X L, corner of Sixth and Mission streets. * EX-JUDGE BALDWIN. | | | to Have Improved Somewhat Yesterday. The condition of ex-Judge F. T. Baldwin of Stockton, which has been so precarious for the past few days, was somewhat im- proved yesterday. Dr. L. C. Whitney and other physicians held a consultation and they decided there was some hope for his recovery. The Judge is well advanced in years. So severe a thing as an apoplectic or para- lytic stroke was therefore very hard on him. Dr. Whitney said last night, how- ever, that he had been able to answer yes and no to questions and that he had in- sisted on getting up and walking. This he was able to do by the aid of a stout nurse. The doctor thinks row that Judge Baldwin will probably recover. This is by no means certain, however, as a relapse may occur, though at present it is not ex- pected. e There were many inquiries as to the con- dition of the Code Commissioner and ex- Judge yesterday, as there have been every day since he was stricken on Market street. — o Books for anything they will fetch at Auction Store, 747 Market street. 9 the . NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. HOLIDAY PRESENTS! THE LATEST NOVELTIES AT THE LOWEST PRICES! Our patrons are cordially invited to call and examine our magnificent stock of HOLIDAY GOODS of every description. We invite special attention to the following departments: NOVELTY DRESS FABRICS, NOVELTY BLACK CREPO! I\ SILK UMBRELLAS, FINE WHITE BLANKETS, IRISH POINT CURTAINS, EIDER DOWN COMFORTERS, FANCY SHK SKIRTS, FANCY LAWN APRON EMBROIDERED HANDKERCHIERS, LADIEN LACE NECKWEAR, ALED HANDKERCHIERS, NOVELTY RiBBONS, SILK HOSEERY, GENTS’ SILK MEUFFLERS, GENTY’ NECKWEAR, GENTN' HOSIERY, FEATHER SCARFS, REYNIER GLOVES, SILK HANDKERCHIERS, FANCY SHAWLS, SILK WANTS, SHK UNDERWEAR. T =SPECIATLI< = 350 NOVELTY DRESS PATTERNS, all wool and new colorings $3.50 Pattern 250 NOVELTY DRESS PATTERNS (Princeton Chev- iots), new colorings -~ $4.50 Pattern NOTE.---Our store will remain open evenings until Christmas. QORPORAQ' 7S ¢ 1892. Creno ! 111, 118, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. CHRISTMAS Keep your tree ornaments from- year to year— sort up—brighten up with new ones—they’re made prettier each year—and cheaper. Better buy to-day. Sold a ton of candy in one store last year day be- fore Chrismas—it will prob- ably be two tons in the four storesthis year. 35 cts. Elsewhere 5o cts. Two pound box deliver- ed free by express any- where, $1.00. All the good things must not be on the tree—the table is important too—es- pecially to the grown-ups. We have many inviting dainties in foods, sweets, ‘wines, delicacies. Figs, dates, almonds, raisins, citron, currants, plum pudding, pecans, mince meat, honeycal(u, stuffed prunes, stuffed olives, appetit sild, Bar-le-Duc currants, gorgonzola, roquefort, schloss, stilton, Edam, cheddar, Neufchatel, camembert, brie and parmesan cheese, Austrian prunelloes, Malaga raisins, Grenoble walnuts, glacé fruits, sweet cider. Pine Street Store will not be as busy as Sutter this week—only a suggestion. Afternoon teas afford op- portunities for graceful en- tertaining. Some are all brass, some wrought iron and brass— all pretty. $2.50 to $11.00. All pints champagne, $1.50. 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