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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1896. POSITION OF THE A P , _‘It Is Defined by the State Presi- dent of the Organiza- tion, SCHOOLS AND IMMIGRATION. Two of the Great Questions That Are to Receive the Particular At- tention of This Body. In calling to order the citizens who as- sembled yesterday afternoon in Metro- politan Hall to attend the good citizenship meeting, Chairman H. W. Quitzow, with a recollection of what had occurred at the meeting of 2 week ago, made the following remarks: “If there are any persons present who intend to create a disturbance I would advise them not to do so, and I would also ask that there be no cries of ‘Put him out,’ as'the nshers are prepared to handle them,” The feature of the preliminary exercises family ties behind; and they have none here, and they do not identify themselves with our institutions, and never even learn to read. In fact a_large percentage of them do not even take interest enough in our country to learn our language. i *‘These concentrate in the large cities and are used by an elementin politics that threatens our’ existence—the bosses and boodlers, whose existence is being assured by this class of immigration. ‘‘“Now do not understand me as saying a word against a man or woman on account of where he or she was born. 1t is the class of criminals, paupers and vicious- minaed that I am opposed to. “‘In a republican form of government we must look well to our citizens; we must look well to the standard of citizenship. There is no form of governmens that is not in danger 1f its standard of citizen- ship is not high, and the republican form of government is the most dangerous form of government under such condi- tions. “Let us see if there is not a large per- centage of paupers and illiterates among the immigrants coming to this country. In 1869 9 per cent of the immigration came from the countries that I stall name— Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Rus- sia, while 73 per cent came from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Scandi- navia. In 1894 the 9 per cent from the countries named had increased to 43 per centand the 73 per cent from the other countries named had decreased in propor- tion. Hence we can account for the ele- ments that have come in upon usin recent | years. “From the census of 1800 of the United States we find that 56.81 per cent of all the prisoners are foreign born, and that they also comprise 332 per cent of the insane B. F. HUDELSON, STATE PRESIDENT OF THE A. P, A. [From a photograph.] was a vocal duet entitled, “Patriotic Edu- cation,” rendered by Miss Anita Schmeid and Miss Myrtle Watkins. B. F. Hudelson, State president of the American Protective Association, made | the address of the day, taking as his sub- ject “The Proper Definition.” He spoke as follows: “I shall make no effort at oratory thi: afternoon, but shall as a plain man and in | a plain way discuss questions relating to and setting forth the principles of the American Protective Association. “We have heard much from our friends on the other side about one plank in the platform of this organization, but you will notice, and probably have noticed, | that they have not discussed the other vlanksin the platform. They have held to the one question, and that the question which relates to the church. This is the question doubtless they are most inter- ested in. “The American Protective Association isin America to remain until the purpose for which it was originally organized has been accomplished. This might as weil be understood now as-later. The American Protective Association is not a theological seminary nor a political organization. “When I see an organization fighting political organizations through the press and from the platform—fighting them by day and fighting them by night, bringing forth the very best talent in that orgami- zation—it is useless for that organization to tell me that it is not in politics also. “The American Protective Association is an organization which stands first and foremost for the fundamental principles underlying the republican form of gov- ernment. It is an oreanization which has no prnciples to surrender or to com- promise. “We do not make an attack on any man because of bis religion. It is beneatn the dignity of this organization to atiack individvals. We deal with principles and discuss systems, and we are persuaded that there is good reason for our existence. “I shall submit to you this evening some facts and figures.” I propose to sub- mit to you the proof of what I shall have to say, and if there is a man of the Roman Catholic church within the sound of my voice, I want to say to him that he has no better friend in the State of California than Iam. I would not do any injustice to him, and I would never intentionaliy wound the feeling of any man of that church. ““We believe that the politics of our eoun- try needs purifying, and we think that for your side the politics of the country needs purifying. And organized effort is neces- sary to bring about this result. ‘‘We believe in our public schools. We believe that in every State there should be alaw that would be forever a bar to the instruction of anything of a sectarian char- acter in our public schools. “We believe in the restriction of immi- gration and in discussing the questions so as to settle them. I shall deal with the question of immigration first. “Prior to 1820 we have no accurate sta- tistics bearing on the subject, but it is es- timated that from the close of the Revolu- tion to 1820 only about 250,000 immigrants arrived in this country. From 1820 to the present time we have accurate statistics, and they teach a lesson. For the decade ending with 1830 there arrived 128,393 im- mignnu in this country; for the decade ending with 1840 the arrivals numbered 539,891; for the decade ending with 1850 the number was 1,423,337; for the decade ending with 1860 it was 2,799,423; for the decade ending with 1870 it was 1,964,061; for the decade ending with 1880 it was 2,834,040; for the decade ending with 1890 it was 5,246,630. “For this last decade the aggregate im- migration was one-third as greatas for the entire sixty years preceding. If the average for the decade ending with 1900 is maintal on the basis of 1802, the arrivals will number 7,000,000. “Now, with this vast number of immi- grants coming upon us, is it not proper to ask who and what they are? “We find that a very large percentage of those who have been coming in of recent years are illiter- ate, criminal and destitute, who care nothing for the Government from which they came, and nothing for the Govern- went to which they come. They leave no and 58.443)131' cent of the paupers. When we consider the comparative numbers of native born and foreign citizens, we can readily see that the immigration is com- posed very largely of the people of the | very lowest grades of society. “We also have figures to show that this mmmigration is largely on the increase. For the six montns from May to October nclusive of 1894 the arrivals at New York f immigrants were 92,673, while for the same period of 1895 they were 142,164. ‘*‘Another great problem in the United States is the labor problem.” The speaker then called attention to the appointment of a commission in Massa- chusetts whose duty it was to investigate this question. He stated that their report was to the effect that the evils that re- sulted from the large body of unemployed was due to ill-advised immigration laws. This commission also stated that the United States was attempting to solve the %ues(ion for Europe as well as for the nited States, and stated that the only solution could be found in a law for the proper restriction of immigration. The speaker then continued: “The American Protective Association believes that this 1snota Fropcr condition of things and that it should be remedied. It holds that the United States of America shall not be and must not -be a dumping ground for the paupers and the criminals. [Applause.] *I believe that this isa political question and do not think it is a religious question at all. Thisis one of the questions never toucked upon by the other side. *‘We have figures to show that in 1895, quite recently, you see, 72 per cent of the immigration was destined for the four States of Illinois, Massachnsetts, New York and Pennsylvania. In 1882, 79.5 per cent of the immigration was destined for andlocated in the following seven States: New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massa- chusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin and Ohio. ‘*Ask yourselves if there is not a plan in this. These are the strategic States. If they stand together they can hold the bal- ance of power in Congress. Why are these immigrants being strategically located where bossismi and boodleism are thriving? We ought to look into this. We ought not leave this question until it becomes to big for us to grapple with. We ought to look after it now. f’sm afraid of that man who says, “I owe nothing to pos- terity.” What will this country be in half a century if this thing continues. Look but a few years ahead and you can see the handwriting on the wall. “The politicians have known these things for years. WLy is it it has not been made a strong plank of one of the two great parties? Is it not time that Americans should come together and or- ganize in their own interests? ““There is another question that some of us are interested in and that is the school question. [Applause.] Some of us are Yery much interested in our public schools. We believe in them and send our children to them. There is the test of one's belief. They come and tell me that they believe in the schools that thef never send their children to. This school question isa ques- tion in the United States to-day. It has never been settled.” President Hudelson then called attention to the attempt made in 1893 to pass a bill through the Legislature of New York pro- viding for an apportionment of the State school fund among the Catholic parish schools as well as among the regular pub- lic schools, and referred to the dilemma of the politicians in regard to this measure. He declared that they had a poker that was redhot at both ends and even hotter in the middle. And this he declared to be the condition of the public school question to-day. Continuing, he said: ““That bill was eventually withdrawn, and so the matter rests at present. But we don’t want a question like this to rest any longer; we want it settied. The public school 1s 100 dear to us. It means too much 1o our children to ailow the question to rest. It must be settled once for all. The catechism is never coming into our public schools. [Cheers and applause.] ‘Friends of San Francisco, it seems to me that these are questions of & political character. They are not theological questions, “The American Protective Association {I am "“finfi; this officially, as all I have stated is official) does not care wnat your tenets are, but we do propose to see that nothing of a sectarian character 1s intro- duced into our schools. It is not against the Roman Catholics alone in this respect, but against every denomination. ““Tnere are other conditions with which we are confronted that ought to cause Americans to think. I need not relate to you that a priest of the Catholic church, out of deference to his being a priest, has been allowed to go on the stand and give his testimony without taking the oath in compliance with the law. This, you all know, occurred on April 3, 1895, in Judge Troutt's court. This was a gross and un- warranted violation of the law. Two women were also witnesses in this case, but no one made an effort to have the oath dispensed with when they took the stand. The judiciary is a part of our Gov- erment, and when we see the judiciary recognize a man because of his religion it is time to usk, Where are we traveling 2" The speaker then referred to what he called the recent riot in Boston, and said that the incident that there took place ought to be kept constantly before the American people. Continuing, he added: “Ivindicated the presence of an element that must be put down by American workers.” = He then related how the Catholics in derision had a float in the procession, on which was represented an old hag, on whose back appeared a placard inscribed with the words “I am a teacher in the m%e red schoolhouse.”” Continuing, he said: “In the afternoon there wasan Ameri- can procession and it was attacked by a mob. Some one—I cannot call him a man—he was a traitor [cheers and hisses], a damnable villain, seized the sacred folds of Old Glory and tore her from the mast. The battle-flag was torn to shreds. “Where has there been a Catholic who has discussed any of these points as an American citizen? They discuss them from the standpoint of a Roman Catholic. “Let me call your attention to another fact. Father Caraher in his recent lecture made a statement more damaging to the ngu!em of the Roman Catholics than any- thing said by any member of the A. P. A. He spoke of “the defensetess condition of the Catholic nuns in reference to the at- tacks that had been made ujpon them and stated that they were unable to use voice or pen or move hand or footin their own behalf., “If this be true, don’t you think it was about time that the A.P. A. was coming forward and seying: ‘Open up your mon- asteries and nunheries to public inspec- tion.” Under the constitution of the United States the right of self-defense must not be denied to any man or woman, boy or girl.” PR A e FATHER M’NALLY’S WORDS. The Oakland Pastor Eloquently Comments on the Controversy. Catholics Loyal Citizens. Rev. P. McNally, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, West Oakland, spoke to his con- gregation last evening upon the Yorke- Ross controversy which is being conducted through the columns of THE CarL. The church was comfortably filled, and it was apparent that those present were deeply interested in the eloguent and at times keenly satirical words of the reverend gen- tleman. It was a digression, so he said, but the temper of the times demanded that refer- ence be made to not only the controversy itself, but to the accusations and argu- ments contained in it. Father McNally spoke plainiy enough, for he went so far as to exclaim: “I can swear with my right hand raised that I owe no civil or political allegiance to the Pope of Rome; and every one of you can do the same. Every Catholic can swear it.” The speaker did not confine himself to the controversy. He took advantage of the opportunity to make concise and clear sitions of Catholic doctrine regarding points that have been assailed, and to pre- sent distinctly the Catholic attitude to- ward Rome and to America. He declared with unmistakable emphasis that Catholics were taught nothing or required to belieye nothing that would make them a disioyal citizen. “In faith and morals,” said he, “we owe allegiance to the sovereign pontiff. We have nailed our colors to the mast and the world can see them. “Dr. Wendte comes’out in the paper and ives credit to Father Yorke that he is a oyal citizen. For nis information I do now proclaim as I stand here on this aitar as a priest of the living Goa, we are in obedience, 1n the allegiance of the strict obedience, which never fails or falters, to the vicar of the church of Jesus Christ in the matter of faith and morals. ‘‘In regard to the controversy Father Yorke is in it alone; nobody in the world is helping him at all. He would not be in it at all only he was placed there. Just at the time he assumed the editorship of the Monitor A. P. A.-ism began to come out. Father Yorke was thrown into it; and then when those itinerant preach- ers came around, and st the Metropolitan Temple and other places began to calum- niate Catholics and talk against the Cath- olic. Church he was forced to reply to them. These men accused Catholics of being everything that1s bad, of being in civil and political allegiance with Rome and for that reason we couid not possibly be good citizens of our country. Does not truth and honor and justice require some man to stand up and refute these slanders? “This gentlemsn from Canada said such and such were ihe teachings of the Catho- iic church. ‘Prove it,’ snig Father Yorke. ‘I say there is no such doctrine in the Catholic church and that you are aca- lumniator. Show me the book, tell me the page or the name of the book from which you took your authorities’ The gentle- man from Canada could not give the proof. And yet Father Yorke would have to preach with him for several nights in the Pavilion in San Francisco and help to sell tickets— yes, sell tickets—to please him. *‘These gentlemen who later dropped into the controversy no sooner showed their heads than they were driven back into their holes. Dr. Bovard, Dr. Case and the other doctors—all have gone and are silent now. Why? Have they proved any- thing? Have they proved their assertions? “Then Dr. Wendte came upon the scene, and people said: ‘Now, Father Yorke, you have a foeman worthy of your steel. In letter after letter Dr. Wendte said so- and-so, ve quotations as proof, and Fatuer Yorke showed him where he was wrong. Nextday Dr. Wendte replied: ‘I haven’t time to look for quotations; Ionly took my notes I had at sthool.’ 'Father Yorke’s reply was: ‘Dr. Wendte, you should not come into this controversy with schoolboy notes.’ ‘“We are accused of being in such a i- tion that we can't be good citizens. Where are the proofs? I say unhesitatingly that §°°d must come from this controversy. rotestants had not heard the truth of the Catholic church, and there were many things they would like to hear. Now they take an interest in the subject and read what they would not have noticea before. Father Yorke has siiown them all these things, which have madea wide and deep impression. The people have heard there is nothing in Catholic doctrine that would cause Catholics to be disloyai citizens. “Father Yorke has sworn he owes no political or civil allegiance to the Pope. 1 swear the same thing with my right hand up, and so do you ail. “Dr. Case in’ San Francisco comes out and declares that we adore the Virgin Mary. A thousand million times the world has been told that Catholics do not adore her, that they adore but God alome. Dr. Wendte comes to-day with an apology to Father Yorke that his notes were taken at school. A year hence he will make the same charges and use the same notes. Whatare we to do tnen? I must n{l Saw more poison in Dr. Wendze than I be- Lieved would come from a Unitarian min- ister. He throwsa sop to Father Yorke, saying that Father Yorke’s father and mother were Protestants. The utter child- ishness of a big man putting forth such a statemeut!. The truth of the matter is the condition of the Christian world to-day is a struggle. “Dr. Wendte has his Sunday-school, 1 suppose. Other Protestant ministers have theirs. That is very good; they teach their children half an houra about . We have our Sunday-schools, too, every day in the week except Saturday, and our children are taught every day about God. = % & ““There is no such thingas a Catholic with political and civil allegiance to the Pope of Rome. These charges are false and have been proved io be false. “Enough of this theme, only to say I'm glad of it, for the respa table, educated, intelligent Protestants have no A. P. A.- ism. They are with us hand in_hand; they wish us godspeed, and we wish them godspeed, and we will be loyal citizens together shoulder to EEoulder.' STABBED IN THE LUNG. Thomas Barnes, a Blacksmith, Badly ‘Wounded by a Stranger. Thomas Barnes, a blacksmith living at 17 Russell street, was severelv wounded last evening by a stranger, who jabbed him in the left lung with a large pocket- knife. Barnes was in a saloon on Hyde street and Broadway, when the stranger entered, and after taking a drink or two ke- came boisterous and insulting. His con- duct caused Barnes to give him a thrash- ing. _The man left the saloon, but returned a little later and plunged the knife blade into Barnes’ body, after which he made his escave. The man is not known in the neighborhood. Sergeant Anderson and posse began a search for the fellow. The wounded man was sent to the Receiving Hospital for treatment. —— e e A PAHIEA FOR POVERTY, T. Frickstad’'s Proposed ‘Act of Congress for the Remedy of Evils. COLLIS DID NOT SWEAR, Mayor Sutro.Denies Huntington's Remarks About a Row at Lunch. EXPLAINS THE WHOLE AFFAIR. How the War Was Started Over a Five-Cent Fare—A Plain Statement, In yvesterday’s Carn the following ap- peared in a Washington dispatch regard- ing the Senate committee’s inquiry into the merits of the funding bill: Collis P. Huntington, president of the Cen- tral Pacific, said that he would prefer to de- fer the statement which he desired to make until the committee’s next meeting, showin, that the Central Pacific was a little better than it appeared to be. “That will be very agreeable news to the committee,” said €. he Senator also added pleasantly, “They do say that you have Efld large sums of money to Sutro to tempt im to stop theseattacks in'the press. Is there any truth in that 2 i untington replied that Sutro asked him to lunch at his place one day; that he told him I'he wanted to build a road from San Francisco to his place, about eifht miles; that he (Hunt- ington) said he could not o it then, but would some time; that then Sutro said: ‘I am goin, fofight you,” and that Huntington replied, By Why Stanford P—Why l‘iot Socialist University Since Socialists Built It ? T. Frickstad has submitted to the Amer- ican socialists a bill which he believes pro- vides a remedy for the troubles of the un- employed, and, indeed, all the ills of pov- erty. It may be called to the attention of the National legislature soon. The bill was read by the author in the course of a paper on “The Problem of the Unemployed,” at a meeting of American socialists and met with great fuvor at the hands of the audience. It was entitled “An act to enable citizens of the United States to co-operate, Junder Government supervision, in the production and ex- change of wealth,”” and provided: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer- ica in Congress assembled,” that: Section 1. The Secretary of Agriculture shall hereafter be known ss Secretary of Industries, and he shall be the official chief of the Bureau of Industries, composed of the following officers: The Secretary of Industries, the Com- missioner of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Manufactures, the Commissioner of Commerce and the Commissioner of Public Improvements, Sec. 2. The Secretary of Industries shall have general supervision of all departments connected with the Bureeu of Industries, and shall be the official representative of the said bureau inthe President’s Cabinet. Sec. 3. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall be the chief of the Department of Agri- culture, and he shall periorm such dulies as ere now required of the Secretary of Agri- culture (except that he shall not be'a member of the Cabinet), and he shall firform such other duties as mey hereinafter assigned to him by law. He shall have supervision-aver the production of all agricultural products and such other industries as usually come in connection with agriculture, so far as it may be wise to engage in such upon a Government industrial reservation. _ Sec. 4. The Commissioner of Manufactures shall be chief of the Department of Manufac- tures, and he shall have supervision of the con- struction of machinery and all articles to be manufactured \l?on any Government indus- dustrial reservation. Sec. 5. The Commissionerof Commerce shall be the chief of the Department of Commerce, and he shall have supervision of all imports into and exports from any and all Government industriel reservations; and he shall have supervision over the exchange of goods be- tween the several reservations and fix the relative values of articles, Sec. 6. No individual, company or corpora- tion shall be permitted to trade_or transact any business With any person living on a Government industrial reservation, except such a transaction be done through, or by the consent of, the Commeicial Department. (Any person who trades, buys or sells in violation of this section shall be punished by fine or im- prisonment, or both. The fine shall not be less than $10 or more than $1000 for each offense, and the imprisonment in a common prison, where the offender shall work for hisor her own support, shall not exceed one year for each offense.) Sec. 7. The four Commissioners shall each furnish a bond for the faithful performance of duty, to be approved by the Secretary of Indus- tries. Sec. 8. The Commercial Department shall have charge of all statistics relating to labor and production. : Sec. 9. The Commissioner of Public Improve- ments shall be the chief of the Department of Public Imfvrovemenls, and he shell have supervision of the construction of public build- ings and cther improvements on industrial reservations, and the construction and man- egement of steamships, railroads, telegraph and telephone lines. Sec. 10. The Secret: of Industries shall appoint the first four Commissioners to be associated with him in the Bureau of Indus- tries, and they shall be so lpsofinted that he and they shall each represent different States of the Union, and they shall hold office for one, two, three or four years, ¢o that their terms shall expire one each year on the last any of June. All subsequent Commissioners of the bureau shall hold the office for four years, un- less appointed to fili an unexpired term. The Bureau of Industries shall select three Industrial Commissioners for each State and, Territory of the United States, and these Com- missioners must have been residing in, and qualified electors of the State they are to serve in, for at least three years %x;eceding their selection, and one must_have been a farmer at least ten years; one a practical mechanic at least ten years; and one & practical book- keeper or merchant at least three years prior to their appointment. The Comm:ssioners shall make the reservation their home, and so far as practicable have personal supervision of the reservation in their State or Territory, and see thet it is conducted in harmony with gen- eral laws. The bill provides for the establishment of an industrial reservation in each Siate, to be secured by the Government. It pro- vides that buildings shall be erected there- on at the expense of the Government. Any person who has attained his majority and 1s of good iroral character may be ad- mitted to residence therein. L. E. Beers, a student of the University of California, gave his experience in tramping from the southern partof the State to Berkeley. ‘“Why should we call the institution at Palo Alto Stanford Uni- versity ?” he exclaimed. **Why not call it Bocialist University? The socialists built §t. All men who worlk for others are social- ste. M. E. Morse read a paper on “Govern- ment’s Right of Eminent Domain.”” John H. Burke will address the Ameri- can socialists ou Thursday evening. His theme will be the ‘“Central and Southern Pacific Railroads.” A Long Walit. They have been printing recently some of Henry Labouchere’s experiencesas a diplomat in the United States. He was an attache of the British legation in Wash- ington once upon a time. One day Labouchere was sitting 1 his office, when a rather noisy individual came in and asked to see the Minlsier. “You can’t see him. He's gone out. You must see me.” “I don’t want to see you; I want to see the boss of the ranch,'’ said the noisy in- di‘v‘iglmht," ed Labouch re| uche: with his writin, ?u.“'!'nke a chail The visitor sat and waited for an hour. Then, with several Rictnmquc extracts from profane history, heinguired how long. the boss would be. “I should think about six weeks,” re- lied Labouchere, carelessly. “Yousee, he :u just sailed for England.” ——————— ‘When it is noon in Greenwich it i 11 hours 341/ minutes A. M. in Dublin and inburgh. 1 hours473 minutes A. M. in Edi “Commence your fight now, — you,” and got up from the table and went away. Yesterday Mayor Sutro made the fol- lowing statement regarding this incident: The Call : In regard to the questions put to Mr. Huntington by Senator Frye of Maine be- fore the Senate Pacific Railway Committee and Mr. Huntington’s replies thereto I will say the following: I well recollect when Mr. Huntington was out here to lunch on the occasion referred to in his remarks. He was accompanied by H. E. Huntington. The conversation did not take place atthe lunch table, for I did not propose to talk about business matters while at the table. It was after lunch that I called him and his nephew into another Toom and broached the subject about fares. I told Mr. Huntington that I had kept Sutro Heights open as irce as air for TMeny years,atAn expense to me of $25,000 per annum, to' all the Deoi)le that chose to come here, to white and to black, to the pgor more than to the rich. Itold him that it was a hardship on poor families to have to 8ly & double fare of 10 cents to go out and 10 cents more to go in, and as I desired Sutro Heights to be open par- ticularly to mechanics and laboring people, I thought it an imposition that people should have to pay this double rate. I told him that San Francisco City and County cousists of thirty-six square miles, and thata nmgle 5-cent fare existed, and now ex- ists, in thirty-four uare miles, wnile the two square miles embracing Sutro Heights, Sutro Baths, the C1iff House and the Richmond District were subject to double fares. lappealed to him to reduce the rate to a single fare. Mr. Huntington says, according to the tele- graphic aispatch, that the distance is eight miles. Alookatamap of SBan Francisco will at once show that the distance from the bay to the ocean is seven miles. Existing cable roads then covered more than half that distance. What I did say in_that conversation was, raising my finger as I s{'oke: “If you do not give us & five-cent fare I'll make you do it.” It is stated that Mr. Huntington said: “Com- mence your fight, — you.” That is not so. He may have said, “Go ahead,” but he did not swear, nor did he go away in anger. This is a general statement of what happened at that particular time. But there is another story that underlies all this and which Mr. Huntington takes very good care not to tell. Several years before that occasion I had Senator Stanford, Ch arles Crocker Sr. and C. F. Crocker Jr., if m y recollection serves me right — Mr. Huntington, also—out at Sutro Heights, and 1 took pains to show them the beauties of the neighborhood, which 1s simply unsurpassed by any other place on the Pacitic Coast ?or its grandeur, its view, its salubrity of climate and also for its accessibility, being within the City limits and but three and & halt miles from the geographical center of the City. They were simply astounded at the beauty of the ecenery, the lay of the land and its eminent adaptability fora public resort. They cast their evil and envious eye upon it and 1 could see by their actions that they had made up their mind o possess the property. ghnvc later on called that corporation, the Southern Pacific of Kentucky, “The Octopus,” for it would grasp everything it determined to ss. It had thrown out one of its tentacles rasp what 1 0wn. E 'l’h are not possessed of any fairness in their dealings and instead of coming straight out and proposing to purchase at a fair price they started out to depress by underhand means the value of the property they wished 10 secure. Nothing would have been easier than for them to extend a cable road to the seashore for a single 5-cent fare. But they thought that by maintaining a double fare they would pre- vent the people from improving and settling this seetion. That is the true inwardness of this whole affair. Twenty years before thet time I was located in Nevada. I contracted for a number of car- loads of railroad iron to be used in the Sutro tunnel. The shippers were rolling mills in Ohio. They were instructed to contract for the lowest rates of freight. When the bills for freight were presented the charges were mede at through rates to Bacramento, and from Sacramento back to Reno, Nev., at local rates, which were amost as much as the rates charged across the conti- nent. I called at the office of the Central Pacific Railroad Company and had an interview with i)(r. Stanford and Mr. Crocker, Sr. I remon- | strated against the extortionate freight | charge and declared 1t to be an outrage. But they said they could not reduce their rates as their contracts with Eastern roads compelied them to charge for through rates to Sacra- mento, and that they were compelled to carry the freight back again across the Sierra Nevada Mountains at local rates. I had no doubt that this was a subterfuge to enable them to extort extraordinary rates over the Central Pacufic road. From that day on I watiched their proceed- infil through all these vears, and of all the villains that éver existed in the United States Iconcluded that they were the worst. I found that their system was one of extortion and op- pression. - They und our farmers down to the last stage and impoverished not only them but our merchants. This little incident about the 5-cent fare was but a culminating point. Just as the existence of the United Staies, uow the first nation of the | world, grew out of & trifiing circumstance, the levying of a tax of 3 pence on_a& pound of tea which caused the ‘Peoyle of Boston to throw that tea overboard, so this 5-cent fare has grown inio a mighty war against the Southern ‘acific of Kentucky. This Government started out with the best constitution that has ever been framed by man. and the republic has gone ahead pros- perously as long as the citizens of this country exercised their franchise without the inter- ference of money powers. But this is all changed now. Corporations to a large extent run toe elections, and with their money con- trol them by corrupt means. The result is that our Government has e an_oligarchy, consisting of the concentrated wealth now ex- isting in all parts of this c_eumrx. 1 The best example of this kind 1s presented by the Southern Pacific of Kentucky. They have not only impove the people of the Pacific Coast by these extortionate charges, but they have grasped the reins of govern- ment by a system of bossism, bribery and cor- ruption, 2 “Fliese facts which have become more forcible tomy mind year by year have caused myatisck on the Southern Pacific of Kentuéky and the head manipulator of the concern, Collis P, Huutington; aad especially now that this uestion of refunding is gendln: ‘before S REiest an the passage of which would not only @efraud the government of its just right, but would enslave the people of our coast for half & century. ADOLPH SUTRO. THE NEW BIBLE. Dr. J. L. York Claims It to Be Science and Enowledge. Dr. J. L. York, the liberal lecturer, de- livered an interesting address last evening in Scottish Hall. Theattendance waslarge. | tTeated His subject was “The New Bible,” accord- ing to Darwin. In the course of his re- marks he said: Itisonly a short time since the crude idess and fables concerning God and the creation of things have been sub; to the eritical test of an age of learning and books. Moses, the ancient lawgiver, and Charles ‘Darwin, the ‘modern scientist, represent two it schools umwznm.m of the m:ul‘.i Ono‘u resen traditions and superstitions of the Hebrew Bible. The other rej n! vancement of science and knowledge of our day—the new bible of natural development or the evolution of all things. The new bible of natural science téaches us that all things are the subjects of growth and not manufacture, and thai this planet in its Khyslcll growth from the atom to the rock, 88 been the subject of endless change:,and was not created in six days. Evoiutign teaches that the animal life of the world from the simple to the complex, from the monster to the refined, from radiate to man is the re- sult of an eternity of matter and force. The religions of the world have grown from one parent stem, and all take root in Lhuman i{nonnce. fear and superstition, but the peo- ple are eliminating every year their childish crudeness as they come in contact with the nol‘mo]mutez and lose their grip on the priest. The new bible is, indeed, & gospel of hope for tnis world. It gives a more rational concep- tion of nature, man’s place in nature, life, duty and destiny, and tells of better conditions on the way for mankind. It makes no heaven of bliss for saints and hell or woe for those who use their brains for thinking, and it holds out the rainbow of promise to &ll mankind., Nor does evolution stop here, forif there is another higher, brighter, _sweeter life, beyond the grave, the same beneficent law of progress prevails there. And we are glad that the new gospel of science and common seuse is finding its way into the schoois, colleges and pulpits of our land, and helping to ?lh’lt a brighter picture on the foreground of human hope and en- eavor. THE FGHT WAS STOPPED Holbrook Won't Allow Horses to Be Cut in a Sword Contest. Sergeant Davis Given One Contest. The Second Is Declared Off for Foul Play. Fouls and vicious fighting were the features of yesterday’s sword contest be- tween Baron Ivan Malchin, champion of Russia, and Sergeant Owen Davis at Cen- tral Park. Officer Holbrook of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruehy to -Animals stopped the contest on horse- | back. The fight, dismounted, ended in Malchin’s refusing to fight further with | Davis because of the continuai fouling in- dulged in by the latter. | The men were quite evenly matched for ; weight, Davis being somewi:at the heavier. Several hundred soldiers from the Pre- sidio were present prepared to yell them- selves hoarse for their hero. In the grand stand were many fashionably dressed ladies, whose favors were bestowed on the handsome and lithe young Russian. Iil feeling was engendered between the | men early in the tight. When struck, the | contestant is expected to acknowledge the | fact by lowering his sword point. Both indulged in sundry lunges when the other | was off his guard, but those of Malchin | never seemed to be given in cold blood. In the fiith attack Davis received a severe cut over the head, making quite a_gash | over his left eye. -This discommoded him considerably. In the eleventh attack Malchin be- stowed a sératch on the eye of Davis’ horse. Otficer Holbrook at once stopped | the fight. As Davis had seven points to | Malchin’s four, and wounding an op- ponent’s horse constitutes a foul, the Pre- sidio man was awarded that contest. .The men thén fought on foot. Each won five points. - All this time Davis in- dulged in foul thrusts that caused the ref- eree to continually shout, “Be a gen'.le-‘ man.” Malchin’s seconds made no pro- test_though, and the referce, Sergeant Moffett of Company B, Iourth Cavalry, allowed the fight to proceed. In the elev- | enth attack Davis made a particularly nasty cut at Malchin’s head wien the lat- ter’s sword-point was down in acknow edgment of a point. At this the Russian | threw off his mask and gloves and refused | to fight further. | Davis was carried off comrades. Many sirangers entered the | ring to assure Malchin of their sympathy. The referee decided the contest oé because of the violation of rules on both sides. i ——— Rooted by His Neighbor's Hogs. Down in Hardinsburg, Ky., a’ few days ago a lawyer was brought to conrt charged with shooting and - killing a pig belonging toa neighbor. The lawyer made an elo- quent defense, in which he s#id he had been” driven almost crazy by the rooting proclivities of the neighbor’s’ hogs. He declared that they had entered his parlor and rooted over his piano, and, further- more, that neither he nor any of his family could get down on their knees to offer their devotions without being in constant dan- ger of being rooted up by a hog. by 'his shouting | A GREAT PIGEON MATCH, Leydecker’s Alameda Pigeon Won the Gold Medal in Fairly Good Time. MADE VERY REMARKABLE TIME Marsh’s Bird Won Second Prize—Five Carriers Liberated at Marysville. The most notable sporting event cf yes- terday was the 100-miie carrier pigeon race from Marysville to San Francisco and Alameda.” Five of the best homing pigeons on the coast were h_hcmted,'um‘l one of them covered the distance in 3 17 minutes. ho;l::::is T. W. Leydecker’s bird of Ala- meda, and the time it made, though not a record-breaker, won for its owner the gold medal and cash prize offered by_ th_e Ala- meda Poultry and Pigeon Association to members of the Pacific Coast Pigeon So- ciety. Tie entries were made by Edward G. Koenig of this City, who sent m‘reo pigeons, and by George T. Marsh of San rancisco and T. W. Leydecker of Ala- meda, each of whom sent one bird. The pigeons were sent to Marysville Saturday night Jby the Wells-Fargo gger{t, who liberated them yesterday morning in the following order: Marsh’s pigeon at 9 o'clock, Leydecker’s at 9:30, Koenig’s at 10. The respective air-line distances, as given by the Surveyor-General, are: rom Marysville to Leydecker's cote, Santa Clara avenne and Ninth street, Alameda, 101 miles; to Koenig's cote, Jackson street, | near Broderick, San Francisco, 103}¢ miles; to Marsh’s cote, corner Twelith avenue and Clement street, San Francisco, 1043 miles. Ciogld Leydecker's bird came home at 12:47, which was nearly three hours better than the time made by any other pigeon in this match. 3 . k Marsh’s bird, which came in at 3:46 o'clock, won the second prize, consisting of a silver medal. Two of Koenig's birds were only a few minutes later. One came in_at 3:58)4 and the other 3:59. The third pigeon came in quite late. The weather was perfect and the atmos- pheric conditions all that could have been desired, yet the time made by the fastest flyer is not considered fast for the Ant werp carriers, of which breed were all the birés entered in the match. One of Koenig’s carriers has. covered the 100- mile air line from Tres Pinos to this City in 150 minutes. The time-keepers for yesterday’s match were: For Leydecker, Mr. Brewitt; for Marsh, Mr. Henrichs; for Koenig, Mr. ‘Whiteside. The reason given for the com- paratively slow time made yesterday was that the birds have been forced to remain inactive through the bad weather for the last three weeks, which has made them “soit,” as the fanciers call it, Mr. Richards of Vallejo bas challenged Mr. Leydecker to a 400-mile match, and the latter very promptly accepted it. This | big match is down on the boards for early in June. “T wanted to take a bath this morning, but the water is so infernally munddy that I nad to postpone it,” said” an acquaint- ance to a Washington Star reporter. “Best fluid in the wide world to bathe in,” said an old department clerk who bathes occasionaily. “It beats the cele- brated baths of the Oid World, and has all themedicinal qualities of the baths at hot springs.” . A “But the water is so muddy,” said the first speaker. The dirt is so——' *That’s just what makes it valuable. Just fill your bathtub, jump in and enjoy your bath, but don’t use any towels.” “Not use towels.” “Noj; let the water dry on vonr body. Then all you have to do is to take a dust | broom and—" Bat the first speaker had fled. e The Russian painter, Verestchagin, ad- vises the people of Moscow to build houses and stores only in the Russian style, to at- tract and please tourists. NEW TO-DAY. It costs you dearly to overst race with the fleeting ruined nervous system are very not feel your loss for years until of life, but then it comes with a ness, loss of vital energy, which pleasures of this world. ep the limits of prudence in your The effects of a pitiable. Of course, you may you have approached your prime vengeance. The signs of weak- come early in life, are only mes- sages of warning from the impoverished nerves, which are slowly but surely being drained of their vital force. You have wasted nerve force—laid the foundation for Nervous Debility. 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