The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 15896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, , Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Telly and Sunday CALL, 0né week, by carrier..$0.15 and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail., 8.00 v CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 .65 Daily and Sunds Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail., Bunday CALL, one year, by mail., WXEKLY CALL, ODe year, ESS OFFICE : 10 Market Street, Ean Francisco, California. Telephone.. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 8:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W., corner Sixteenth aud Mission streets; open antil 9 o'clock. 18 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. FEERUARY 1 TUESDAY , 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Paderewski doe: 2 vt call it “playing. Arizona v proudiy boast that she has the sand to stop a p The funding bill fight has become warm enough for even so cool a citizen as Hunt- ington to find it sultry. The only advice to be given to prize- fighters in is to go Eastand up with the stag p to date the Cleveland loans have taken almost as much gold out of the re- serve as they have put into The Senate may be called slow, but the people wilk take notice that it has served e on goldbug legislation. The extension of Japanese commerce threatens to overrun Hawaii, and unless we protect ourselves our turn will come next. The Pattison boom just about as quiet at that begins in 1S tov committee will 1 deals virtually e same as digging the grave of Cleve- Between the harsh measures of General ler and the retaliation of Gomez there soon be no non-combatants in Cuba except the dead. wi Quay d the Presidential race last week, this week Senator Eikins comes in, there are several weeks before the convention meets. Ii Oakland had carr of getting Ysaye to lish a school of withia her borders she would now have a good card to draw Paderewski. d out hLer scheme B can. If all the workingmen in the country cannot stand on the platform adopted by the labor convention iu this City it will not be f lack of bigness in the platiorm. s about time to get out tally cards of Republican candidates for the Presider The list is too long for the unaided memo: 10 keep the record and know how the list stands. Wi outrage s as it would seem ng peace at too an eartbquake addition and comes up smilingly 1y that the tourists were these es attison of Pennsyl- h o the.silver ques- if issue, the Monrge doctrine, B 1f the report is to our having a dispatch-boat at ( tinopie comes from Russia, i the bear is hu, tight a squee: »w that coid mining tis booming and the output increasin there is a little flutter of a movement among the money kings to prepare the way for the restriction of gold coi With the retirement of the prize-fighters the only disturbances in sight are the Sen- atorial contest in Kentucky and the fund- ing bill fight in Washington, so the era of peace is at hand. i See! i our Venezuelan Commission, the British Government is talking of appoint- ing one of itz own, and if so, Venezuela should appoint one also and make it a three-handed game, The three things that should be empha- sized in the Senate debate on the tariff bill are that the Government needs a revenue, industry needs protection and the people demand a tariff that will supply the needs of both. There is a prospect that the carnival to be given by the Art Institute will achieve a success brilliant encugh to illume the popular mind with the idea of having one next year that will take in the whole City nd all the merry people. The discussion of the reported discovery of the north pole has had the effeci of raising a dispute over the existence of the Jeannette current, and, as it always hap- pens in this world, in trying to’settle one problem we have raisea another. According to a report issued by the Duke of Westminster, president of the London committee of the Armenian Relief Associ- ation, §1 suffices to supply food in that country for one person for two months, and from this we can judge of the wretch- edness of the people and understand to what conditions Turkish rule reduces a subject province. The French Cabinet has refused to re- sign in conseqrence of a vote, of want of confidence in the Senate because it had a favorable vote in the Chamber of Deputies, and now if it can only manage to .reverse the thing some time when. the Deputies are in opposition, it will be able to play see-saw with every crisis that comes and hold the midale of the teter board. e third tern. and several | | THE PLATFORM OF LABOR. The platiorm adopted on Sunday by the | convention of labor organizations in thi City is more iike a declaration of princi- ples of a new system of sbcial philosophy than a manifesto of issues to be dealt with as matters of practical politics in the ap- proaching campaign. It must be consid- ered in that light in order that its full sig- nificance may be vunderstood. The men who adopted it are too intelligent to in- dulge in the bope that its demands could be carried out by political parties as now organized, and they musthave designed it, therefore, less for present election purposes than as a body of political doctrine to | which they consecrate themselves, and for which they propose to enter upon a cam- paign of education. 1f it is considered merely as an ordinary political platform, declaring the demands of the convention in regard to existing is- sues, it will be found too far reaching to have any egreat practical value. It sweeps over the whole domain of economic poh- tics. National, State and municipal, and outlines policies in each which, if they were to be enforced immediately, would be radical to the verge of revolution. Considered on the other hand as a declara- tion of general principles of political phil- osophy rather than of practical politics, the platform is of more than local or tem- porary importance. Itis significant of the trend of thought among the thinkers of one of the most powerful classes of the Re- public, and is therefore deserving of study by all who wish to have a clearcompre- hension of the public opinion of our time. The preamble declares that the competi- tive system, upon which the whole struc- ture of modern industry and nearly the whole of modern society is based, no longer subserves the best interests of civilized man, and that the time has come to sup- plant it by substituting a system of uni- versal co-operation founded upon the so- cialization of the means of production— lands, tools and capital. The various planks which follow declare the means by which it is the intention, or at least hope, posed substitution of co-operation for com- petition. They cover a wide variety of de- mand hip of all railways, canals and tele- graphs to the equalization of women’s wages to those of men where equal service is performed. It is in short a platform that makes a near approach to state so- cialism, and is drawn up with a degree of consistency and harmony. between the variou rts that would have done credit to the learned vrofessors who constitute in Germany what is called the “Socialism of The platform is the more peculiar be- cause the American people are much more addicted to practical politics than to ab- ot philosopby. Even in this case, for le, the age citizen will be more sted in-guessing what the labor or- ons may do in the coming election in wbat they have resolved concern- g the competitive stem. That 1s a question, however, which not even the or- zations themselves could wholly answer, for while men may agree on ab- stract propositions there is sure to be more or less division among them when |it comes to maiters of detail and the | election of office | Itissufficientto noteat this time that the | workingmen of the City -are, on the whole, favorable to co-operati work, and that they will be inclined to support public im- provements and municipal developments as far as it is practicable to go now. There much of encouragement in that fact. | We have long needed a more intelligent inistration of public business, a more progressive government, more civic patri- | otism in office and better men to manage maunicipal affairs, and in the platiorm is- d by the Labor Convention there is to be found reason for believing thaf in work: ing for the abstract principles enunciated | therein, members of the organized unions of the City will, in matters of prac | tical volitics, combine with the party that nominates the best men for office and gives the most reliable promise of overthrowing rolitical bosses and carrying on the muni- | cipal government strictly in the interests of the whole people. 4 REIGN OF TERROR. General Weyler, the new Spanish com- | mander in Cuba, has not only tried to con- | Cuban belligerency would assist the cause of Spain, but has issued a proclamation requiring all Cubans to take the cath of al~ | legiance to the Spanish queen. These two are singularly inconsistent. Cuba is pposed to be already in allegiance to | Spain, and hence the requirement of such | an oath is an acknowledgment that the | allegiance has been severed and that a { recognition of belligerent rights is in | order. Butisevident that the requirement of such an oath isintended as a measure | mot only to test the loyalty of all Cubans to Spain, but as an excuse to treat as trait- ors all who may decline to be sworn. These things sometimes have a violent reaction- ary effect. It should be reflected, however, that a promp visitation of the death pen- alty is the surest of all means for the sup- pression of a rebellion, Napoleon Bona- parte demonstraied this when he crammed his cannon with canister and opened them upon the rising populace of Paris. Queer things are nappening both in Cuba and Spain. The Cuban revolution has stirred the Republicans of the Iberian Peninsula to surprising activity and Gen- eral Campos, who pursued a humane pol- icy in Cuba, is now the mainstay of the throne in Spain. The Spanish Republi. cans are fighting for the principle whici stirred the Cuban revolution, and that in- dicates the possibility of a secret under- standing and assistance that bode nothing good to the Spanish throne. In Cuba ‘Weyler finds the military arrangements ‘*disorganized.” That is an unfortunate reflection upon the ability of Campos, who is admittedly one of the ablest gen- erals of bis country. The strong men who | served under Campos in Cuba are dropping out of the field—General Luque, who is an able soldier and was in every engagement against the rebels, who would not stand and be killed, goes to Spain with a sore wound in the leg; General Canella goes to Spain with a wound in the heart, General Navarro has the fever of the isiand and General Cornell has a rebel bullet in his body. © Meanwhile the indefatigable Maceo has not only broken General Weyler's new line and invaded the sacred province of Havana itself, but cool and daring old Gomez, the most picturesque figure in the history of modern wars, takes his seventy years and his formidable machete butch- ersand squats grinning at the walls of Havana. With all his threats of blood and iron, General Weyler has succeeded only in eliciting the derision of the rebels and the sympathy of the outside world for Cuban independence. WHERE THE EVIL LIES. The familiar cry of those who earnestly desire good government is for stringent laws to prohibit official rascality. How- ever beneficent such laws may be—if hon- estly followed by executive officers and | acts | of the convention to bring about the pro- | | ranging from governmental own- vince the United States that recognition of | enforced by the courts—nothing 1s more evident than that laws governing official conduct are entirely idle in the absence of honest public officers. ‘It is 1mpossible to frame laws which dishonest men charged with their execution cannot circumvent. Unhappily there is a wide margin between the letter of the law and ingenious means for its subversion without the incurring of penalties. The whole basis of a republi- can form of government is the honesty and intelligence of the elective power'as represented in the persons and conduct of those elected. No better illustration of the fatuity of laws in the absence of honest and intelli- gent persons to administer and enforce them can be found than in certain prom- inent chapters of California’s history. In the turbulent days of the mining excite- ment, when men, individually controlled by 2ll manner of diverse honest and dis- honest ideas, were assembled from the four corners of the earth, and when the written law as the exposition of any gen- eral principle of right had not come as the product of organization, there was, never- theless, such a meting out of stern and righteous justice.as the written law of the United States, with all the intricate ma- | chinery for its exercise, has never been able to accomplish. The justice enforced by the unwritten law of the border was of that kind which sets individual accounta- bility and the universal rights of liberty, life, rightful possession and honest agency above any possible concealment behind a hidden power or any appeal to technicali- ties whose successful use runs counter to general ideas of right. It is admitted that the municipal affairs of San Irancisco are grossly mismanaged that burdensome taxes, inevitably work- ing to retard the progress of the City, are levied, collected and squandered or stolen. This would not be possibie if men who were both honest and intelligent controlied | the affairs of the City. That our public affairs are not so conducted is proof of the fact that men who are both honest and intelligent have not been elected to dis- charge the duty. The whole trath is that they are creatures | of unscrupulous political machines. To | crush these machines is the supreme duty of the hour. Let that first be done, and then we may talk about improved laws for | the public good. It is the corrupt poiitical boss whose hand isin our City treasury. The City Hall is his picklock to every private purse in town, and he laughs at ail laws present or prospective. When these corrunt machines are destroyed there will be time to think of improved laws for di- recting the actions of honest officers. THE AGGRESSIVE BIOYCLE. An open eye should be kept turned | toward the wheelmen. Although at their recently held National meeting they passed a measure which, because it sharpens the definition between ‘‘professionals” and amateurs, turned all attention to that reso- lution, nevertheless showed their fangs against the pad roads that everywhere pre- | vail. The following principles are in logi- cal order: Iirst, the bicyclists of the United States are better organized than the representatives of any other interes second, theirnumerical, financial and com- mercial strength is unmatchable; third, good roads are necessary to them; fourth, they already have the power, if they exert it wisely and intelligently—not selfisnly, but for the good of all the people—to com- vel the public construction and mainte- nance of good roads; fifth, such roads, in reasonable numbers and constructed where they would advance the prosperity of the communities which they traverse and of | the peovle at large, would add greatly to the welfare of all; sixth, in the absence of the exercise of such an influence or power | we shall hikely remain without roads nec- | essary to our prosverity; seventh, as the expense of constructing and maintaining public roads must be borne largely by pub- | lic funds created by taxation, and as the machinery for the levying, collection and disbursement of these fundsis elective, it | follows naturally that the wheelmen, in | order to secure good roads, will see that | candidates friendly to their interests are | nominated and elected. This sequence of ideas and events is fore- shadowed by the San Jose Letter and the San Jose News. Tney give this concrete | statement of the case: The Garden City Cyclers has 300 active members, each of whom represents five votes. This makes a total of 1500 votes in San Jose, and, as a factor operating outside party lines, that is sufficient to throw the election to one party or the other if the choice of the wheelmen is nominated by either party. In addition to this organized strength is a | very large unattached cycle vote that would 20 to the choice of the organized wheel- men. The great temptation which will now assail wheelmen—assuming that they ap- preciate their power and are willing to | exercise it wisely—will be to proceed in- dependently of organized politics, and thus make a new political party of them- selves. Not only would it be far more ad- vantageous to them to hold the balance of power and compel one or another political party to nominate cerrain candidates of their choice, but it is their clear duty to assist in making the established parties as efficient as possible in promoting the wel- faze of the people. It is well enough for them to concentrate their efforts on the one proposition that concerns them, but they will run a serious risk of ruinous an-. tagonism if they set about the task of creating a new political party from their ranks. CURRENT HUMOR. “Hannah,” seid the mistress to her new girl, “you can take that brown serge dress of mine and put it in soak.” “Yés'm,” said Hannah; “who's your fav'rite pawnbroker?’—Detroit Free Press. A California town has a “female ghost that wears bloomers.” And yet Colonel Ingersoll would have us believe that there is no punish- ment after death.—Grand Rapids Press. Jack and Jill went up the hill, ‘With merry shout and laughter; Jack swept down and through the town, And Jill came “scorching” after. e —Chicago Post. Cold day when he got left: “I hear Juck For- tescue is ill. What is the trouble?” “‘He was frost bitten.” “While he was skating 7" No: Le provosed toa Boston girl.”—Datroit Free Press. ‘Do you really think one commits & sin to ride a bieyele?” | “Well, U've seen bicycle-riders who were far from upright.”—Detroit Tribune. Patient—I've a horrid cold, doctor; it seems to me mostly in my head, however. Doctor—1 em afraid you are not careful enough of yoursell. When you are out in the air these cold days youshould keep your mouti closed and breathe through your nose. Patient—Keep my mouth closed, doctor? Then wouldn't I talk through my nose more than ever?—Boston Trenscript. One view of the case: “Mamma, teacher whipped a boy to-day for whispering in school.” ““Well, that was right.” “But, mamma, he hollered ten times as loud as he whispered.”—Chicago Record. Visitor—Do you think the baby resembles his pa? Mother—On, ves; he keeps me up late every night.—Cincinnati Enquirer. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Jim Gillis, the miner, of Tuolumne County, Who was the associate 8 Mark Twain and Bret Harte just alter the rush in the early fifties, is at the Lick. Mz. Gillis’ mustache has become frosted to whiteness in recent years, and his hair is sprinkled with gray. He lives on Jackass Hill, near Table Mount- ain. It will be remembered that it was from Table Mountain that the famous archwmological relies were obtained which according to the latter author caused such a sensation in scien- | tifie circles. Mark Twain used to loaf around Table Mountain & great deal. As he tells in “Rough- ing It,” he took a hand in searching for gold there. Twain did not find much himself, for he was strongly indisposed to labor. He did delve a little in quest of gold pockets, but never prospered to any extent. The rising experiment in testing postal facilities. There 13 money in it. It has commercial value. It is the living seed of the future business crop. The most successful business men of to-day recognize this fact, and geep the silent drum- mer in perpetual motion. Those who neglect this means of soliciting trade are the losers thereby. Advertising is not a fad, nor can it be & failure, if due prudence is taken in put- ting the right thing in the right place.—Age of Steel. CAT LANGUAGE. Since the domestication of the enimal there has never been & doubt that cats possessed a language that they sometimes employed with more liberality than the occasion seemed to command. But it is & new theory that the smooth and liquid pessages in our poets are founded primarily on the accent of cats, and James Gillis, the Miner of Jackass Hil (Sketched by a 1, the Old Associate of Mark Twain, “Call artist.”] author felt more comfortable looking on and leisurely smoking his pipe. Mr. Gillis preserves many lively recollections of Mr. Twain. Heis inclined to resent the re- port circulated in different places that heis a writer. He knows how to mine, he says, but as for the pen he will have none of it. Mr. Gillis is enjoying his regular winter va- cation here. For many years he has come down here at least ance a year and spent sev- eral weeks here. His present visit will not be shorter than usual. The veteran miner is kept pretty busy meet- | ing friends, old and new, from different sec- | tions of the country. His cabin at .Jackass Hill has entertained many of them hitherto, for the latchstring always hangs out there. J. A. Farwell of Chicago, connected with the Farwell family of which United States Senator Farwell is at the head, is at the Palace. » He has for about two weeks Dast been visit- ing and examining some placer mines in the famous Cow Creek Canyom, near Glendale, Or., which are managed by Colonel W, H. Tay- lor, who is here with him. Mr. Farwell is a young business man of the Windy City, who has, like & great many of the J. A. Farwell of Chicago, Who Is Inter. | ested in Cow Creek Mines. [Sketched from life by a “Cald’ artist.] people of the East at present, become interested in gold. Instead of going to Crippie Creek he has come to the coast. . “1 have been looking at the mines,” he said yesterday, ‘and they appear to be good. They are in Cow Creek Canyon,only a few miles from Glendale. I havesince my arrivdl there been the guest of-Colonel Taylor. “It is most delightful in the canyon at this season of the year, I never saw a plessanter place. It was quite unlike what it wasin Chi- cago when I loit there only s fortnight ago, and snow lay deep on the ground.” Mr. Farwell will be here for several days. AN ETCHING. I stood upon a stretch of sandy shore; Around me hung the shadows of the night, "The rising tide came creeping o'er the beach. Far out along the mighty ocean fell The garments of the dusk, fold after fold, And turough the ebon barriers on high The stars looked down upon a sleeping world ; Fresh from the waves a rich sea incense came, Salt-sweet and pure, and dritted dly past, To wander in the midsc of distant woods, ‘Where violets and sweet wood-flowers grew. ‘Then from the darkling seas the moon rose up, Up from the unsoundeq denths, and 1ay across The black expanse of waters like a shield; And suddenly upon its paliid sheei A ship,was etched, 1n ciear-cut, stately lines, ‘And seemed to hang, & picture in the sky, With sails all spread, with pennant far out- stretched, - Spars, masts and rigging, all in form exact, Held for & moment in a silver disk Ytched by the wayward touch of fiitting chance. 80 for an instant did I see it thus, And then it vanished. quickly as'a dream, Dropped from its shining frame 0 nothingness, ¥rom shadows born to shadowiand returned. So men are etched upon the glass of fate; So gleams and yanishes the ship of life. ERNEST MCGAFFEY. THE SILENT DRUMMER. The greatest commercial drummer of the present age is the rightly placed advertise- | ment. Itnever tires, has no hotel expenses, needs no mileage ticket and finds its way everywhere. A slight charge pays for its trans- mission from ocean to ocean, and from the Canadas to Mexico. It travels to the outposts of civilization for the merest trifle of cost. It is & veritable globe-trotter. An ad. printed in St. Louis, New York, Chicago or Cincinnati can be read, thumbed and noted in Cape Town, Calcutta, Melbourne, Tokio, Hongkong and everywhere else. The carrier-pigeon fails to travel so far, the navigator cannot overtake it, and even the ubiquitous telegraph wire has its terminal behind the footprints of an aa. Nor is this & useless race with distance, or a mere | est decoration he can bestow, that the latter is the completest illustration of | vocal and lingual harmony which nature affords. The popular idea hiss always been the contrary. notion is seriously ced by- Professor Marvin Clark, who is said to be & blind author, and argued upom | with feline emphasis aud prolixity. Cat lan- guage, he says, is like Chinese, “both being | musical, mellifivovs end pleasing to the senses,” a proposition which will command at- tention on a and may be concurred in by the cats and the Chinese them- selves, but is certain of indignant and sponta- neous rejection by all other animals and men. 1 other respeets, the similarity between the two dialects may possess a higher degree of vlausibility. For instance, the same means several hundred di ding to the inflecti asserts that the sax various yowls word in Chinese crent things, ac- Tofessor Clark e thing may be szid of the through which. the cat en- deavors 1o press its emotiol Sometimes they mean one thing and sometimes another, according to their pitch and cadence, and in cuse of un error of interpretation on the part he adjacent cat, there is nlweys the exp nt of batile, giving rise to new vocal e: periments and new misunderstandings in a chain of unbroken succession since the first midnight cat appeared upon che first back fence in history. So far as the inhabitants of the Flowery Kingdom have been observed, their conversational habits partake of the same general character and often lead to the same results, und there may be a plausible rea- son for tracing an analogy between them. Of the 600 primitive Words which the pro- fessor claims to have traced home to the cat by far the larger proportion bear & noticeable similarity to those employed in the colioquies of the Oriental laundrymen and the light re- puriee of the fan-tan table. But it isnot possi- ble to concur in the theory that they form the ultimate basis of poetical literature, or that to unravel them is to untwist all the chords that tie the prisoned soul of harmony. Giving-the cat note its proper value in the phonetic and lingual scale, it is possible to conceive another origin for otlier tongues and sounds, There is no evidence that it has materially inflnenced the development of poetical literature in any period. There is a trace of it here and there in verse to be seen, but it is & mere accidental similitude, a trifle more marked in the case of the new laureate than in common, but in that, 100, 'tis but a casual concord. Itis not wise to claim for the animal more than properly be- longs to it, and any judicious cat would reject tne pretensions thus put forth in its behalf with a much louder yowl than belongs toits usual vocabulary, w York Tribune. THE LAND OF SLEEP. Eternal silence! World forever dumb! “Ten thousand wons 11e within thy cold Inexorable arms—and they unfold Rich argosies of human lives, thai come From out thy frigid breast into the hum Aud fever of our thought, with weaith untold Of Arctic secrets—nevermore. Bells tolled, Unhieara, their exit: and the muffied drum Ot soundiess under-heaving waters rolled Its sullen ice-cold music through the vast Unsympathetic waste of frozen breath That spans the brazen Northland, when the bold “True hearts grew strangely still, aud, shudd'ring pussed Into the bosom of this double death. EDWARD A. JENKS in the Granite Montuly, ORDER OF KING WILLIAM. Upon the occasion of the celebration of the tweunty-fiith enniversary of the foundation of the German Empire the German Emperor cently created a new decoration, the “W helm-Orden,” or “Order of King William.” It consists of & gold medal bearing on the face the portrait of Emperor William I and the in- scription, “Wilhelm Koenig von Preussen,” surrounded by an oval laurel wreath. This is suspended from a cloverleaf shaped ring, which in turn is held by two clasps, wide in front and tapering toward the back, where they are {astened together by means of & catch. The Inscription_on both clasps reads in Latin, <Wilhelmus I Rex.” These clasps terminate in frout in crowned eagleheads, the beaks holding the ring supporting the medal. The obverseof the medal bears the initials of Wil liam II, the “R” denoting his character of hin% of Prussia, the whole surmounted by a royal crown and the date of the creation of the order, January 18, 1896. The inseription means: “Work in Memory of Emperor William the Great.” The “Willelm-Orden” is worn around the neck, and, accerding to Emperor William’s own words, it will now be the igh- LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. COXEY'S MONEY SYSTEM. NON-INTEREST BONDS OF STATES, MUNICIPALITIES, ETC. : - To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIRg Bankers, above all other men, have ceased to laugh at Jacob S. Coxey. *Keep off the grass, Coxey,” was amusing to many people in 1894, who are now coming to take the man some- what seriously. It turns out that these people did not discover what lay beneath the Coxey movement. The uprising all over the country to join his Commonweal Army was as much of & surprise to him as to the public; but he seems about to afford a greater surprise to the country in his movement for the adoption of & new financial system because it appeals to the common sense of all men, regardless of pre- vious views on the money auestion, and, al- though his recent tour of the Southern States | hag not been reported in the daily newspapers. his work will yet bear a harvest of news which will be daily reported. 1f any one who reads this statement regards it with incredulity he has only to wait a little and ke will see the point, Every thoughtful man is prepared to admit off-hand that there is no power in modern society equal, or anywhere near equal, 10 the money power, and in close alliance with it are all the great corporetious, the telegraph, rail- road, standard oil. sugar trust and flour trust. These allied corporations rule the country, as we all see, und the master monopoly of all is the money power. In this we are all agreed. We are quite as well agreed that the rule and control of these allied corporations, inspired and led by the money power, have brought our country and ell other commercial countries to present deplorable and disastrous conditions through the enactment of laws favorable to their interests and oppressive to at least 90 Der cent of the entire population. The spectacle of a great Nation so conducting its affairs as to become a dependent borrower from a small number of its wealthy ciiizens and placing bonds upon the next generation iUT itS current expenses in e time of peace, and the deadly struggle of this great State and other states with a gigantic railroad corpora- tion, now going on at the National capital, should arouse the patriotism end kindle the wrath of eyery man worthy of American citi- zenship. We have failen on evil times and rm- Tiss effective resistance is made by an awak- ened and outraged people, a worse fate awaits us. He serves his fellows and posterity best in these times who comes forward with measures for the relief and redemption of the Nation | from the oppressions and exactions of our souliess and greed-inspired masters, the cor- porations, and his.place in history wili be one of honor and fame and the enduring gratitude of posterity. No one need feel surprised, | though jusi now he may not be pleased with the suggestion, to find that among those who are to be held in high esteem and gratitude in | the near future by & grateful country will be | Jacob 8. Coxey of Ohio, the author ot the non- nterest bond bill, comprised in three short paragraphs, which he is diligently bringing to the attention of the people by Speeches and through. his newspaper named “*Sound Money,” and which is winning its way to the hearts of-| the masses just es qui as they hear its provisions. Those who have not even heard of it will perhaps diseredit the fact thatmen of | ail shades of political faith as weil gs nev papers are accepting this bill in vast numbers as a certain and simple means of breaking the | power of money to oppress and rob the people and of bringing in an era of prosperity and heppiness unkmown to the people of any nation. K Among the recent converts to the non-in- terest bond bill is the Philadelphia Item, one of the great daily nowspapers of the country, thé average daily circulation of which for the | year 1395 was 191,606, and_the average Sun- BASED ON | day_circulation 221,019, and probably 2000 | weekly papers are advocating the same prin- ciples. | “Aiicthree sections of the bill may be thus stated: | Section 1. That whenever any State, Ter- ritory, county, municipality, township or in- corporated town or village deem it necessary to make any public improvements they shail | | deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States & non-inferest-bearing twen- five year bond not to exceed one-half of the assessed valuation of the property in said State Territory, county, municipality, etc., and_se | bond to be retired at the rate oi 4 per centumn per annum. 5 Sec. 2. That whenever the foregoing section | of whis act has peen complied with it shall be mandatory upon the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to have engraved and printed treasury notes in the denominations of $1, $5 and $10 each, which shall be a full legal tender for all debls, public and pri- { vate, to the tace value of said bond, and deliver to snid State, Territory, ete., 99 per *centum of said notes and retain 1 per centum for expense of engraving and printing the same. Sec. 3. That aiter tbe passage of this act it shall be compulsory upon every incorporated town or village, municipality, township, county, State or Territory to provide employ. ment t6 any idle man applying for work, and that the raie of wages be not less than $1 50 per day for common labor and £3 50 per day for team and labor, and that eight hours shall constitute a day’s labor under the provisions of this act. A fourth section could be added providing for the deposit of like bords to secure money for the purchase of any public utilitiés, such as the streetear system, lighting plants, water works, ete., and by setting apart enougl of the Tevenues to make 4 per cent on the purchase price of the water works; for example, in twenty-five years the City would own the water works without ever having paid out a nickel in interest, while the payments jor the prop- erty would be divided into twenty-five parts, to ‘be paid annualiy. In the same way the streetear system could be bought and paid for outof the earnings, and not & cent of interest Esid to acquire and own the property. After eing paid for, the revenues from these great public utilities would be turned into the City treasury and would probably pay al! the run- ning expenses of the City and eliminate all other taxes, or be turned into other public utilities, such as scientifically constructed ten- ements on a grand scale for the poor of the City, the rent of which at a low figure would bring in an enormous reyenue. This system, when fully adopted, would end in the reign of the money power, for it would destroy usury and cbmpel the owners of money to engage in some useful work. JOSEPH ASEURY JOHN: 11 Essex street, San Francisco. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HoMEsTEAD—C. P. §., Rex, Cal. A piece of land taken up under the United States law as a homestead cannot be attachea for any debt that was incurred before final proof was made. After that it is the same as other property. In selling a United States homestead a wife is always asked to sign the deed, because pur- chasers will not buy without such signature. LADY PHYSICL B., Berkeley, Cal. This correspondent is one of many who address letters of inquiry to this department on mat- ters that are of a strictly personal character and who.are so negligent that they do not sign their names. Letters of this character will not be noticed unless the writer gives true name and address. In such cases it an answer can be furnished it will be sent by mail. SeLLiNG LiQquor—P. R., City. If you keep a public house & customer who 15 “decent ap- pearing, sober and has money to pay for what he calls for” has a right to call for what you have to offér for sale—wines, liquors or cigars— and you are bound to supply his demand. The Jaws of this State prohibit the selling of liquor to Indians and common drunkards, and a City ordinance prohibits the sale of Liquor to minors under the age of 1¢ BROWN'S WAR RECORD—J. G., City. The offi- cial record shows that C. O. Brown, now pastor of the First Congregational Chureh, enlisted in the Third Ohio Cavalry, Company C, on the 18th of February, 1864, as a corporal. He was 16 years of age at that time and was mustered out August 4, 1865. His father, Oliver M. Brown, was major of the regiment. Before his enlistment C. O. Brown was a bugler in the regiment, having joined when 14 years old. BRITISH AFRICA—Ing., City. The population of British Africa according to latest returns was: Cape Cdlony, 1,527,244, ot which 376,- 987 were Europeans; Natal, 46,7 i 455,983 native Zain and 41,14‘28811;'21‘355-‘ Bechuanalend, 5311 Europeans, 55,165 natives; and Basutoland, 578 Europeans and in New Jersey known as the Delaware lc!;l(lifiglu]:}tlr‘n, between Trenton and New Bruns- wick. Exelusive of feeders its length is sixty- six miles, 1t has fourteen locks and a depth odl Soven feet of water. Tt cost 84,858,749, and Was completed in 1888, This s’ the chanuel of stearboat communication between New York and Philadelphia. —_— PERSONAL. Joseph Gavin of Denver is here. T, C. Prime of Canton, Ohio, is in town. Dr. Z. T. Magill of Healdsburg is at the Russ. The Rey. Dr. Alexander of San Anselmo is in the City. Chsrl)es Edward Locke of Portland, Or., is at the Occidental. J. H. Sherman of Waterman is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Richard Hye, a business man of Santa Bar- bara, is at the Russ. G. 8. Kimball, the widely known banker of Red Bluff, is at the Palace. % S. Hammond, a business man of Silver City, N. M., arrived here yesterday. Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City has rived here for a few days’ visit. Dr. J. M. Gooawin and George N. Merriam, of Minneavolis, arrived here yesterday. Frank Sheppurd, one of Fresno’s prominent real estate men, is at the St. Nicholas. Frank A. Rowell, Deputy County Clerk of Fresno, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. Guy S. Palmer of the United States army, Fort Douglas, Utah, is at the Occidental. William A. Pinkerton, the Chicago detective, has returned to the City from suburban points, and is at the Baldwin. Charles F. Cutter of New York, who has had charge of the Fulton-street noon prayer meete ings for some time, is at the Lick. Michadl Hanlon, a prominent miner of Auck< land, New Zealand, is & guest at politan, accompanied by his wife an David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University and the Academy of Seiences, are rived here last night. He is at the Occidental. J. H. Martin of Woodland, who is engaged in raising cattle and sheep and who has >ad large experience in the business, is at the Russ. Andrew Kinaston and John Cormack, two prominent mining men of Australia who ar- rived on the steamer Monowai, are stopping at the Cosmopolitan, John T.Sullivan, the propri: Grand Central Hotel, who wa: charge of the Sea Beach Hotel at Santa {for many years, is at the California Hotel. CALIF‘ORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Feb. 17.—Dr. D. T. Calla- han, Ashland; C. L. Fair and wife, Holland; Miss A. Groman, W. L. Hughsen, St. Denis; J. 8. Hiller, Venaome; A. T. Johns, St. James Merks, Belvidere; A. Rouilier, Murray Hi F. G. Ryan, St. Clond; Miss Crocker, Miss Rals- ton, Netherland; H. S. Eilis, Hoffmann. Mr, and Mrs. J. H. Johns left the Plaza Hotel and sailed on the steamer Aller for Bremen. MISSES’ WAIST WITH SAILG COLLAR. r of Fresno's formerly in & Sailor collars which form revers in front are a favorite shape. The waist shown above laps at the waist line and this, with the revers, makes a fichu effect that is particularly stylish. The collar may be made separate or sewn ta the waist. Collars of black silk mvslin trimmed. with rufiles or pleatings of the same are worn, with bright colored silk waists for evening. A green and black dress of wool had e collar of printed velveteen in the same colors, the V' between revers being of green silk braided with gold. A narrow gilt belt was worn with this. “A dress of tan alpaca had a collar of brown eatin with a V of plaid silk in bright colors on & tan ground. 5 The model is very well adapted for making up washable materials. The brown shome- spun linens and cottons which suggest dish toweling are very fashsonable, and service- able as well. One scen had a sailor collar of white lawn of the sheerest kind. This was edzed with & ruffle of the same. The V was ‘of ‘white piquet. A dress of brown hollands had collar of batiste of the same shade, which was infer. sected by lines of green and rose color. The V' was_of ihe plain goods, finished by a collar of the batiste. Pleid or fancy ginghams are pretty, with collars of plain gingham. such as pink, iith a checked gingham in which there is 'a little ink. . White lawn collars are also dainty on ging. bems and cambries. The waist is made with & yoke top which forms the V. The lining is cnt like the ont. side, which is gathered at the waist line, back and front. For the heavier wash goods mno lining is necessary. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Prince of Wales has his life insured for $3,250,000. Queen Vietorie has a magnificent collection of the photographs ot celebrated actors. Anold Jady of 70in Atlantic, Me., recently walked two miles to & pond to go skating. The Crown Princess of Denmark has the dis- tinction of being the tallest woman in Europe, She is six feet two inches in height. Benjamin Liverman, who died in Minneapo- lis the other day at the age of 95 years, claimed to be the first commercial traveler to go on the road in this country. He traveled fora jew- elry house. A rich Armenian banker of Pera, named Dicras Karageusian, was assassinated by his fellow-Armenians because he refused to sub- scribe to the fund for the relief of the victimg of the massacres. Paul Kruger receives a salary of $40,000 year. His way of life, however, is distinctly plebeian. Astory is told of some fashionable ladies who cailed to leave their cards with the President’s wife. They discovered the dis- tinguished lady standing on the doorstep with & half-devoured orange between her lips. One erm was immediately placed akimbo, the orange carefully balanced, while the free hana was stretched out for the cards, — 218,324 natives. The nutnber of burghere | the Tepublic of Transvaal will not exceed 16.- 000 out of & population of 100, i Which 60,000 aré alions. o kL n s CONCEALED WEAPONS—F. W. D. and J., James- town, El Dorado County,Cal. At this time there is no State law that prohibits the carry- ing of concealed weapons, except one that de- clares it a-misdemearor for a person to CAITY & weapon eoncealed with intent to assault an- other. The State law prohibiting the carryin of weapons was %_uaed in 1863 and rapenleg April 14, 1870. There are City ordinances that make it & misdemeanor for any one to CArTY weapons concealed without permi i the police authorities. - BERE in fron, JERSEY CITY—E. G, 8., Livermore, Alameds | County, Cal. There is but one Jersey City ana that is the one in the State of New Jersey. The terminus of the Morris and Essex canal is at Jersey City. It is 103 miles long, has thirty- three locks and a depth of water of five fece. It was completedHfn 1836 t a cost of £3,100,000 A NICE present for Eastern friends—Town. send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c I1b. 627 Market st, * ————a—— EPECIAL information dally t0 manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— “I have a notion to turn you over to the Po- lice,” said the prosperous citize “I don’t see no sense in that,” said the beg- ging gentleman. “It wouldn’t do you no good, it wouldn’t do me no good, and it wouldn’t do the police no good, 'cause T ain’t took in a cent to-day.”—Indianapolis Journal. —_— Hoov's Sarsaparilla cures catarrh by purifying the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures rheumatism. by purifying the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla has benefited others and can benefic yoa. e Dr. SIRGERT'S Angostura Bitters possess an ex- quisite flavor and are a sure preventive for all and since then: improvements have i thie cost 10 §6,000,000. " Tt Connects with 1ha coal regions at Easton, Pa., and its terminus jo that Siate 1s Phillipsburg. There is another diseases of the digestive organs. ————-— A CoveH SHOULD Nor BE NEGLECTED. “Brown's Bronchial Troches” are a simple Temedy and give immediate and sure relief, —