The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1896, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1896 e e e Y e —— CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Edi(or:nd Proprictor. Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 5.00 nd Sunday CaLi, three months by mail 1.50 65 Dail Dally and Sundsy Cavr, one mopth, by mail.. Sunday CaL1, one year, by mail. WERKLY CALL, one year, by mafl . THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona_vacat 80, it is no trouble for us to forward THE your address. Do not let It miss yon for you will miss it. Orders given to the cerrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. San Francisco, California. 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Why not get the merchants to run a fes- tival for us and make a wholesale thing of it? The Presidential campaign is like no other, and io that respect it resembles them all. ivery time Cungress gets ready to turn loose something else comes along for it to take hold of. Shakespeare’s remark about “the sessions of sweet silent thought’’ had no allusion to the Senate. . 1f the Populists are able to carry Texas, as they say, they ouzht to carry it out of reach of another cyclone, The amateur always has a double pleas- ure in yachting—once when he starts and once when he gets home again. Thisisa good day to try to think outa fitting name for the gorgeous festival that is to come 1n like a dream through the Golden Gate. During the whole of the coming cam- paien you will get the fullest and fairest reports of the proceedings of all the par- ties in THE CALL. — Since Massachusetts presents Russell to | Democracy as a candidate with the assur- ance he is himself a platform he ougit to be accepted. It would save labor. The invention of new guns has put France and Germany to the expense of equipping their armies all over again and the coming war must wait until the con- tract is finished. It is said the Government of Saxony hos realized durine the past fourteen years over $400,000 from iruit grown on trees planted for shade along the public high- wa There is no doabr the money question is the greatest issue in the campaign, but it must be consirued as including everything from National finunce to the wages of the people. Asitisclaimed the delegates to the cent Electrical Congress and Exposition in New York representea a capital of $750,000,000 it appears that money makes the motor go as weli as the mare. Those who think electricity is engaging most of the inventive geniusof the world at this time are mistaken. The records of the Patent Office show that it is mainly directed to improving the bicycle. Cramp thinks the Oregon had a better stretch of water for a trial trip than East- ern buiit ships have, whieh is only another way of saying the victory of California shipbuilders is » matter of course. Asitis esiimated by European experts that the festivities at the coronation of the Czar wili cost about $10,000,000 there would seem to be a good chance for some California festival promoter to undertake the contract for hali the money and make a fortune out of it. Commissioner Roosevelt has again dis- tinguished himself as a reformer in New York by rebuking a police inspector for lodging a complaint againsta policeman for having his hands in his “pants pocket while on patrol.”” Roosevelt insisted he should have said trousers pocket, According to a Pennsyivania prophet, who claims to know, McKinley will be nominated at 8t. Louls, Cleveland at Cbi- cago, the silver men will nominate Don Cameron, and then State pride leads the aforesaid Pennsylvania prophet to add that Cameron will be elected; so there you have it all. Ohio has a man named Dingbatis Ter- wiliger, and what is more, she has a woman who was willing to exchange her name for it and it was the publication of the marriage notice which first informed the world of this new illustration of what names Ohio men can bear without re- maining singular. —o—— Chief Justice Bleckley of Georgia, who sometimes writes poetry, took occasion on a recent address to exalt the Atlanta Law 8chool and said: 1In legal education We may utilize the lesson Of common observation— That contraction is depression And expansion elevation, The merit of this poetry is that it fits the financial question about as well asit did that of jurisprudence, and the Chief Justice bowled over two birds with one rocky vert SPEAKING FOR ALL. During the whole course of the campaign now approaching it will be the aim of the editor of this paper to keep it true and faithful to the motto, “Tue (AL speaks tor all.” The standard of the news service will be one of impartiality during the con- test, as it bas been before. The heat of the conflict will not warp Tue CaLL from its established course of publishing the truth, and it will give the public the fullest and fairest reports of the proceedings of all parties at every stage of the great canvass. The fair, accurate and complete reports given by us of the Populist State Conven- tion during the past week may be taken as an example of the method in which we shall treat every important feature of local news, and the fullness with which we have vublished the estimates of the friends of all candidates for the nomination at 8 Louis of the relative strength they will have on the first ballot affords an illustra- tion of the impartial way in which we shall record all that happens in the East. The readers of Tre Carr will get the news from both sides on every issue and will get it as accurately as our own reporters or the United Press can obtain it in the rush of daily events. In holding to this course of publishing fairly and honestly the actions of all par- ties, Tur Cary will not in any way depart from its stalwart Republicanism. In its editorial columns it will maintain with all the force it can command those great principles of government identified with the Republican party and those measures of politics which for the purposes of this cumpaign are summed up in the phrase, ‘‘patriotism, protection and prosperity.”’ Any party opposed to these principles and measures will find in us an honorable but an unceasing foe. We will not misrep- resent their conventions, their mass-meet- ings or their orators, but we shall inces- santly do all in onr power to warn the people o the folly of supporting in this contest any party whose principles have not been proven beneficial by the test of experience and whose leaders have not shown their worthiness by the performance of great duties in official administration. THE CALL is 8 newspaper devoted to the Republican party, Asa newspaper it will give all the news. Democrats, Populists, Probibitionists and Independents as weli as Republicans will find in it their party affairs reported with the one clear aim of making them known to the public as com- prehensively and correctly asitis humanly possible to do. As an advocate and cham- pion of Republicanism it will in short edi- torials comment upou ail events and show their true bearings upon the issues before the people. In this part of its work, more- over, it will aim to convince by argument and to convert by reason those who differ from it, rather than to denounce them, an- tagonize them or even misrepresent either the opinions they hold as honest men or the leaders whom they believe worthy to represent them in office. The Republican party has no interests opposed to the truth or the welfare of the people. In advocating it there will be nothin - to tempt us to deviate from the great policy of honest news-gathering in all parts of the world and its impartial publication. In this campaign therefore as ai all times men of all parties may look to us for the full truth. THe CaLL speaks for all. NORWAY'S LIBERTY DAY. Zighty-two vears ago to-day the people of Norway ratified the constitution which was to give them a greater degree of indi- vidual liberty, than was ever before en- joyed by their countrymen. The people generally did not take kindly at first to the idea of being an annex, so to speak, of Sweden, and being subject tot .e authority of a Bwedish King, but it was considered such a long stride away from the rule of Denmark, which had oppressed Norway s0 long, that the more conservative of the Norwegian political leaders advised the ratification of the new constitution which was to bind Norway and Sweden in one nation. Norway secured so many concessions in the direction of personal liberty and prop- erty rights, however, that 1t was a great victory after all. One of the leading if not the most important features of the new constitution provided that the King should have no right to alter or prevent the altering of the spirit of the compact. No doubt Norwegian statesmen had that provision inserted so that the people might of themselyes chance the constitu- tion from time totime as new and better conditions were demanded. Butanyway it is very certain that but for the deter- mination of the Norwegians to resist an- nexation to Sweden, except upon terms which guaranteed them a very much wider range of liberty than they before enjoyed, Sweden would have made of Nor- way little if anytbing more than a depen- dency. Hence, in celebrating May 17, Norwe- gians commemorate an event in the his- tory of the land of their fathers which im- plies as deep and as positive a principte of individual sovereignty as does our own Fourth of July, and it may be said that these sons of the Scandinavian peninsula have been the leaders for more than a thousand years of the advancing thought of Europe toward greater freedom and better conditions of living for the common people, and a corresponding curtailment of the alleged “divine right” of kings. But the true Norwegian could not be other than a loyal and enthusiastic friend of buman liberty. He isof the Aryan race, and to that race civilization has always looked for strengtn anda encouragement to reach higher and better levels. THE LOGIO OF THE PAST. Tn ratio to the increase in farm and ranch products in the countries that are in com- petition with the United States in the markets of Europe will Europe buy less of us, and naturally so, for to do otherwise would be to contradict the authority of the unwritten law of commerce. Great Brit- ain, more especially, gave ovr cereals and provisions the preference so long as we were content to remain a strictly agricul- tural peopie and buy our supplies of goods and wares of the manufacturers. It wasa most satisfactory arrangement for Great Britain, for the balance of trade was con- tinually in her favor. Shecould well af- ford to pay good vrices for our breadstuffs and provisions, because the powerand the commercial right remained with her to determine what we should pay for the prod- uct of herindustries. < Before America became a country of farms and livestock ranches England had an immense trade with other nations, hence America only furnishedan additional de- mand for British money and British mer- chandise. But it was very different with this country. Being a producer of grains and meats only, our people were obliged to seek buyers in markets alreaay estab- lished and as a new competitor. In otner words, being a new country, Europe’s mar- kets, particularly those of England, were absolutely necessary to us, but the things we had to sell, and which we were obliged to find buyers for, were not necessary to Europe. Great Britain more than any other country found in us a most yaluable customer, in that she had an additional source of breadstuffs and provision sup- plies, and a demand for her own products which left us with an annual cash palance to pay. These trade relations were maintained about eighty-five vears, and under them the total wealth accumulation of our peo- vle reached the sum of a little over fifteen billion dollars, About thirty-three vears ago our people concluded that if Europe could grow rich by converting raw ma- terials into merchantable commodities America could do it too. The product of that resolve is not only seen in the tens of thousands of industrial enterprises that dot the whole country, but 1n the output of these industries, which is competing for supremacy in the markets of the manu- facturing centers of Europe. Meanwhile the material wealth of our people as a whole has increased nearly four times over what it was when we resolved to try the home-industry experiment. In view of these facts—facts that are authenticated by the census returns of the Nation—it is hard to understand how any sensible person would ratber see the coun- try abandon the economic principle of protection and return to a Nation of a purely agricultural people. The logic of past events in the country’s business and social life, the now widespread opportunity for individual effort at home-making and the enormous increase in the wealth of the Nation all testify that the doctrine of pro- tection and National progress are synony- mous. THE OOIIEGE COMMENOEMENT, It has been said, “A college education is merely the index of an encyclopedia of general knowledge,” but it should be more than that. [t should be a stimulant to seek knowledge in all the fields of experi- ence. To the young eraduate, however, the world beyond the campus is too apt to appear to him as a great orchard whose trees bear goiden appies in all seasons, and that all he has to do is to hold out his “sheepskin,” shake a tree and walk away laden with fruit to the uttermost of his heart’s desire, and it is better so, perhaps, for it is easier to recover from the fatigue of seeking water in a mirage in youth than later in life, and somehow man seems predestined to pass by the real in a wildchase after the will-o’-the-wisp at some period in his eartbly existence, But the young man of to-day is far better equipped to stem the currents of the outer world than his forefathers were. They were isolated from passing events, but the introduction of steam and elec- tricity puts the college boy these days in touch with all the world. His morning newspaper tells him of the happenings 1n every land for the preced- ing twenty-four hours, whiie the monthly and quarterly magazines teem with the truest and latest information from all the fields of science, philosophy, art and liters- ture. The college boy of to-day has oppor- tunities to acquire knowledge that were not enjoyed by the collegian in any former ave or time, and, generally speaking, he is wiser, mentaliy stronger and more thor- ouzbly educated than boys were a century, ves, a half or even a quarter of a century, go. And it may be said that boys quitting college tiese aays, our California boys cer- tainly, are better prepared every way to enter upon the stern and exacting activi- ties of lifs than their fathers were. More- over they, for the most part, have higher aspirations and more fully realize the im- portance of the responsibilities they as- sume in the world of independent being than the youth of a few decades ago. And too, more clearly than 1n any former pe- riod, the young graduate understands that while there alw.ys is room at the top it is reached only by that ladder whose rounds are moral worth, honesty of purpose and business integrity. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. We all become enthused and anxious in State and National political contests, and, whether we are moved by party pride or not, good comes of it. Generally speak- ing, the people turn down the party in power whenever it gets too far from funda- mental principles in State and National administration, but almost always the re- verse of this is true in municipal govern- ment. And yet the government of cur cities on lines of honesty, economy and moral strength isin some respects more important to the social and business inter- ests of the people than good State or National government, The city is the objective point of all the highways of travel and trade. It is the center of accumulation and distribution of the products of industry and it is the mar- ketplace where the goods and wares of the territory tributary are bought and sold. Tae city is a center of virtue and vice; of intelligence and ignorance; of bonesty and dishonesty; of social splen- dor and social squalor and degradation; of houses of God and the haunts of Satan; of men and women of the highest ana of the lowest character: of affluence and poverty; of pleasure and pain; of high art and of bare pictures; of everything, in fact, that goes to make an earthly paradise and an earthly sheol. Our cities supply the bench, the bar and the puipit with great and wise men and the penitentiaries with criminals. They are the center of publication of great news- pavers, magazines, books and journals for the enlightenment of the people, and they also harbor publishers of the vilest kind of literature. In short, the city is at once the keeper and defender of purity and right- cousness and the patron of everything that is low, vile and degrading. Now, it will not ve denied that the bet- ter element of society in all cities is in the majority—that those who rule are weak numerically as compared with those who represent the business and social strength of the community—but it is a fact thatin nearly all American cities the majority permit the minority to rule, rob and plunder the public, It is not an uncom- mou thing to see a hall crowded with prominent business men to hear a noted speaker discuss National economic prob- lems or international law, but nothing would move them to attend a primary to belp overthrow the ward boss and his following of toughs, who will, later on, control the nominating convention. No city government need be nor would it be in the hands of bad and dishonest men if the better class would do their duty. Municipal reform is very much needed in all American cities, but the work of reformation must begin with the business men and taxpayers. Now is the time for Kepublicans to or- gauize and begin to bring in recruits, IN LESS SERIOUS MOOD. BY CHARLES D. SOUTH. Eugene T. Sawyer, author, actor, dramatist and all.round newspaper man, has written & play which may soon appear on the boards of a San Francisco theater, and this play, without 8 doubt, will excel four-fifths of the alleged dramas that are annually forsted upon us from the East. Sawyer is a genius in his way. Had he been content to abide in the field of humor, fame and fortune might have blessed him Years ago. As a comedian, too, he is said to have been & prince of mirth-provokers. It is told of him that a body of Good Tempiarsin a country'town studied up “Solon Shingle” and got Eugene to play the title role. The re- hearsals were carried on without the star's presence, the local actors learning their re- spective ‘“cues” to a nicety. The eventful evening cume, and with it came Eugene, The play ran along all right until Sawyer’s turn came to say something. He said it, and kept right on. Eugene’s previous stage experience had been Wwith people who were never troubled by the loss of a “‘cue,” ana his fatal facility of words dumfounded the Good Templars. They weited for the “‘cue” that never came. Once in a while Eugene would stop and look around, asif to invitea word from somebody else. No word coming, he started in sgain, and acted the whole play. He told all the funny stories he could recall, and the play was enthusiasti- cally applauded from beginning to end. The sudience finally became so interested in Eu- gene that they stamped and called for him whenever he wasn’t on the stage, But the Good Templars never again invited Eugene to assist them. While the sun waus shining the stars could not be seen. Suwyer didn’t realize a satisfactory income from his humorous skeiches, and he got started on stories of the sensational type. As Eastern periodicals offer inducements for that sort of literature Eugene has been reeling off serial after serial for the iast twenty years. His storles are full of action, and thriliing inci- dents abound. From Sawyer's scrapbooks, by the way, a very good history of California could be compiled, for he bas pasted away everything he bas deemed worthy of preservu- tion since his career as a writer began about thirty years ago. He is a rapid worker, and in the space of a couple of weeks may turnout a tale that will bring him from §150 to §300. Joaquin Murietta and Tiburcio Vasquez, the bandits, were among Eugene's earlier heroes, but latterly he has been reveling in mystery stories, liberally besprinkled with ruddy gore. He is capable of better things. But the mention of the new play recalls Sawyer’s first venture in the dramatic line. It was some fifteen or twenty years ago, when Eugene was the shining light oi newspaperdom in the Garden City, that he put into effect his idea of a war play. It was written from a neu- tral standpoint, belng entirely devoid of sec- tional prejudices and relating & story wherein the Northerner and the Southerner might find equal pleasure. The best home talent avail- able was secured. There were two heroes and two heroines in the cast. For the Southern hero and heroine Eugene selected Jobn T. Malone (who afterward played with Boothand Keene) and Miss Eleanor Calhoun, who has but recentiy made a brilliant success on the Enropean stage. The Northern hero and heroine were repre- sented, as it happened, by lesser lights among the amateurs. This blunder laid that drama on the shelf. The production wa€ under the auspices of 8 Northern patriotic organization. Despite the fact that impartial crities praised the play it was tabooed by the very people who had been counted on to boom it—and all for the reason that the Southerners seemed to have too much the best of it. lad Mr. Malone and Miss Calhoun been cast for the other two heroic parts the play would have received an ovatlon. But Eugene T.Sawyer may vet give to the country a play that will win popu- lar plaudits, and it is just possible that he may do that very thing before long. ‘We've got the tallest trees that grow, The biggest trees in girth. On every hand are scenes as srand As wnywhere on earth. In vines and wines and fruits and flowers, We're Number One in these! "Twere al Justice to be called ‘The new Hesperides. The bigzest crops—the biggest men— We raise 'eiv in the West! The fairest women 'neath the sun— We've goi’em with the rest, Here Music, Artand Poesy Are to the manner born, And Plenty always drops to us The best that's in her horn. And now we've built a battle-ship— The best tha: plows the main! The worid may take its hatoff now To Western skill and brain. n the mighty Oregon Glides up the Eastern coast, And statesmen of her matchiess form And warning grimness boast, To keep those statesmen posted— Don't you think it would be best “To hang some placards on the sides— “This Ship Was Made Out West"? She was & passenger on & Sausalito ferry- boat. As to her further identification it can only be opined that she was distantly related to the Malaprops. She stood on the deck ina drizzling rain while the boatapproached the Sauselito landing. By chance the captain stood at her side. Within speaking distance on one hand several vessels were being un- rigged. Nothing escapea the woman’s obser- vacion, and she seemed eager for &1 Oppor- tunity to display her intelligence. “Disbanding the ships, eh?” she said, half- interrogatively and with a side glance toward the captain. As nobody else responded the officer bent an obliging ear and exclaimed, ‘‘Beg pardon, madam ?* “‘Disbanding the ships,’ I remarked,” the woman explained, in somewhatlouder tones. “Excuse me, I mistook you to say ‘dismant- ling.’” “I'm not of the blundering kind,” quoth the woman, with & smart littie laugh. “‘But, gracious me, just look at all those vessels headed into port!” she continued, as she surveyed on the other hand a score of deep-water ships which have been lying at anchor in Ssusalite harbor for a twelvemonth, ‘At that rate, I venture to say it's awfully squally out at sea!” “Madam,” seia the captain, “you would make an excelient pilot. You grasp & situa- tion instinctively. To demonstrate your cor- rectness in this instance, let me tell you that there hasn’t been asquall at sea during the last year but what those vessels have had their heads turned in, justabout us you see them now.” The latest scheme of the rejected lover is to send a letter to the Coroner, informing that official where he may expect to find the cold, dead body of the author of the epistle within forty-eight hours, detailing the reasons which impel him to suicide, and furnishing the name and address of the girl who isthe declared cause of the desperate resolve. The girl is sup- posed to read the agonizing story in the daily papers, and hastily relent, in order that sbe may not have to answer morally for the de- struction of a human life. Under the admin- istration of & new woman Coroner the writer of such letters will be jailed for lunacy, and the silly girl thus saved trom becoming the life victim of a temporary aberration, caused by the shuddering consideration of an im- aminary responstbility. A warrior I, a bold brave man; My sword fs whetted sSharp. My deeds I plan for youth Lo Bcan, And for the bardic harp. Let Spain beware my wrath to dare! For, give me once & start, T'll Cuba free, and then, by Gee! Tl wipe Spain off the chart. 1 thirst for gore and tame galore! My martial pose behold The land’s uil right while I'm in sight— 0, I'm a warrior boid! Pale and thin was the man's face. Soiled and rent were the veteran clothes that scant- ily defended his limbs from the assaults of the wind. Hestood at the curb with his back to the entrance of & fashionable hotel and gazed down at the cobbles of the street. Near the gutter 1ay & bit of bread. Suddenly he cast his eyes about him, and evidentiy concluding that he was unobserved stepped from the curb, snatched up the morsel, moved back again to the sidewalk and began to eat the dirty crust. The action of the pale, thin individual was not unseen by an eye of pity. A well-dressed young man, having witnessed the psinfal spectacle, was quickly at the side of the as- sailant of the bread crust. ““For God's sake, man, don’t ent that,” cried the new actor in the scene. And while he spoke he fiched a half-dollar piece out of his trousers, and offering it in his extended palm added: “This wiil buy you at least one good meal.”” Josh Billings once said that “jndging a man by his looks was ltke judging how fara man can walk in a day by looking at his boots.”” Looks and actions in this.case were deceptive to an amazing degree. The pale, thin man pushed the last of the bit of bread into hisface, then looked straight into the eyes of the man of charitable intent and grinned, and as he grinned he hauled out of & pocket of his pantaloons a fistful of gold tens and twenties,shook them in the other’s face and exclaimed in a miserable attempt to be sar- castic at a most inappropriate time and under circumstances that should in decency have forbidden it: “Save your bits, chappie; I've got encugh to buy you twice over.” The kind- hearted man retreated in deep embarrassment. The human enigma walked off laughing to himself and chewing at his crust. Fiction would not dare create a character like that. It would seem too unreal. How regrettable then that the character exists and that the story is true. Misiah Andro’ Jaxin's dorter she’s a duck: My! de swagger dat she cuts yo' or.er see! An’ dis nigguh ain't ashamed ter say he's stuck On Mess Jaxin—an’ Il bet she's stuck on me. Fo’ I'se got an invertashan in ma coat— O, it makes me feet lak walkin' on de air!— 1t's Mess Jaxin's sweet perfumigated note, “Cum an’ jine de peanut soclal,” I declare. O, Mess Jaxin’s yaller beauty strikes yo' dumb; An’ y0' nevah seen 'er peanut social’s beat. 0, yo’ orter hear ’er make de banjo hum— Fo' de music’s lak 10 hist yo' off yo' feet. Ter Mess Jaxin's peanut social am I gwine? 18 ter-morrer gwine ter foller on ter-day? 0. yo' nevah seen a swaller-tail so fine As I rented 10’ de *casion right away. 0, de peanut soclal beats de *possam cnew ! My, It's fun er shuckin', plekin' by de sack! Den y0' dump “em In der’lasses candy stew, Let ’er cocl, and den der niggabs 'gin ter smack. Ef yo' see dis niggah smackin’ lak it’s nice, Doan’ yo' lay it on the peanut-candy hunks— Fo' it means a kiss 'at means a culind splice: Den yo’ know I'se gobbiin' joy in mighty chunks. Den ¥9' know de combernashun am combined— An’ Mess Jaxin's f0' pertecshun dat pertects; Yo'll be fed on peanut pudding wen we'se jined In de joyfuliest affecshun dat affects. That old controversy about whether or not & coyote “howls and howls" is recalled by a line in Joaquin Milier's “Sappho and Phaon.” The judgment of the poet of the Sierras may be ac- cented as final in the matter. A coyote “wails and howls.” The “homeless, hungry, hounded tramp” of the backwoods and deserts has never been so taithfully describea in words so few and fitting as those in which occurs the line to which reference is made: A gray coyote, monkish cowled, Upraised his fuce and wailed and howled, The while he made his patieat round, A bicycle decorated with gold and having diamonds inlaid at the handle-bars has re- cently been built, and there is on record an- other bicycle, of which one of the wheeis is of gold aud the other of silvar, while the handles are studded with opals and pearls. However, these instances of excessive luxury are not, as some argue, an indication of the Decline and Fall of the Bike. The case of nations bas an antithesis in the case of the bicycle. Whosvever remembers his first lesson on the wheel will bear witness to the fact that the fall of the bike happens at the start, Why shouldn’t the man who invented ppker be termed the father of the X-raise? TWO POPULAR SLEEVES. The bishop sleeve 1s one of the most popular for round waists, whether of silk, velvet or woolen fabrics. It is & distinctively new feature of this season, an old waist remodeled by & pair of new sleeves and needs noknowl- edge of dressmaking, thus making an oppor- tunity for any woman to have an extra waist ifa well fitting bodice be left of last season’s wardrobe. A black, brown or blue, or in fact any plain waist may be made stylish and use- ful by making sleeves of plaid. Add a collar and belt of the piaid and the waist is done. A plain fold of tiie piaid down the cenver front may beadded, or a strip laid over each shoulder seam endlnf ip a point over the sleeve. Sleeves of chiffon in a silk or satin bodice make a dressy waist. A handsome bodice of silk or satin may be made to do admirable service by adding sleeves of rnmed velvet, or of the checked or striped velveteens. The upper sleeve 1sthe melon sleeve. It is principaliy popular for evening and house wear. It{s cut in sections and over the seams joining these is laid a narrow jet of gimp trim- ming. A lace is used from the narrowest to four or five inches in width. A beautiful waist of pink peau de soie had the seams of these sieeves covered with sable. One of blue China silk bad ruffles of blue.xnunw and rose chiffon, an inch in width, and all gatherea together sewn iu each seam. A BIG VICTORY. San Diego Su The big feature of the Sacramento conven- tion was the manner in which John D. Spreckels went to the front. He began with & fight in San Francisco, and had opposition all along the line. Even the Los Angeles Times was against him, and went so destructively far as to call him John “Dough” Spreckels. It was also supposed that Spreckels was against McKinley and in favor of Allison, which was a hardicap. But Spreckcls went in and won everything he appeared to want to win, and was elected delegate at large by a vote of 564 out of a total of 635—lacking less than 100 of the entire vote of the convention. Thatis a blg victory for a man who has been called “Dourh,” ‘and the result of it allis to make John Dough the boss of the Republican party in this State. In the case of McKinley's final success it also may mean a place in the Cabi- net, or & United States sehatorship for John Dough. PROGRES3 OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE Santa Barbara El Barbereno, It must be with teelings of gratification that the noble women, fighting so bravely for sui- {rage, view their success. True, their rights have not yet been accorded them, buton eve: band reeruits are found; ana_it has remaine for California to furnish ihe first great metro- politan daily paper that dares come ont and ke a firm stand for equal suffrage rights for all the people. The San Francisco CALL, one of the most influential journals of lha‘fian, has deciared that woman’s suffrage 1s the comin, ue; and, moreover, it states the fol- Jowin; ‘he Republican party should give s help;nv hand to the woman's'suffrage move- ment.” A HOUSEHOLD FAVORITE San Franclsco ific Ensign, The friends of equal suffrage were rejoiced at Sunday’s CALL coming out boldly andina masterly way declaring in favor of the pro- posed amendment. THE CALL is looked upon being the most progressive and liberal E.px in the City and is a favorite in many oustholds, &s not so much objectionable mai- ter Is fouad in its columns, We congratulate the suffragists on the acquisition of this able champion, as their cause will be strengthened by the great influence wieided by this Influ- ential paper, A PARALLEL CASE. New York world. This country caught many blockade-runners unylng arms and ammunition to the Confed- erates during the Civil War. Bui who ever thought of puttin the lhl%lemcg g one of them to destb for LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THEZ SINGLE TAX. How to Promote the Prosperity of All the People. Editor Call: The Manufacturers’ and Pro- ducers’ Assooiation of California is engaged in & leudable effort to encourage home industries by requesting, through means of circulars, local dealers to use domestic products and thereby keep the money from goiug ebroad. But the folly of dealing with the effectsinstead of the causes of financial depression, which have given birth to such associations, prompts me to ask you for space in which to say some- thing upon the subject. The broad and llber!}l view of THE CALL upon economic auestions is my excuse for offering you this. It is surprising to me that the prineiples of political economy, which are so essential to the promotion of business industry and wealth, should be entirely overlooked by associations earnestly endeavoring to promote the public welfa There can be but one political science, just as there is but one science of mathematics, one of astronomy, or one of chemistry, That none of the Govern- ments of the worid have adoped this one sys- tem, but are all governing on different lines in conformity with what custom has be- queathed them, shows that something must be wrong, more especially as the industrial de- ression is limited to no particular people. guch being the cuse, it follows that it must be & common evil that confronts us. 8o long as natural opportunities were open to the masses, and the great West was unset- tled, the tramp was unknown and the man who was willing to work conld always find something to do; but the westward march of civilization has at last brought us face to face with the utmost boundaries of our couniry, be- Eond which we cannot go—we turn backward. y natural opportunities I mean land, which is the parent of us all, and to whom we must look as the child to its mother for sustenance; and why ina country of such vast area and productive qualit.es, with a population of less than seventy millions, should there be want and stagnation of business? The land is the inheritance of mankind. The community by reason of their presence give to land a certain value in direct ratio to the pop- ulation. What thet land is worth to the one who uses it that person should pay annually to the community for community’ S‘" oses ac- cording to the location occupied. The com- munity made the value, hence they have the right to demand of the person using it the economic rental which the privilege is worth. In no other Way can man be {ree. Jn no other way should thi§Government exist. In no other way can you prevent the making of mil- lionaires on one end of the line and paupers on the other. That we have been running on wrong lines these many years is no argument we are right. Two and two made four before the science of mathematics was promulgated; the planets re- volved around the sun before the science of astronomy was known, and the true science of political économy existed before to-day. Wy weste time and paper in 5ghfln§ such ‘8 we are now experiencing w. parent cause is so plainly to be seen? Why tax I‘u’aflucuon and fine industry and build tarifl walls to hamper trade and commerce when the annual rental value of land is more than enough to cover all governmental ex- venses? This Government cannot be free until its people are iree. We cannot and must not tolerate industrial slavery in these United States. For further light upon this subject I would refer the reader 1o the “Theory of Human Progression” by Patrick Edward Dove, *Prog- ress and Poverty” by Henry George and “Soeial Problems” by “the® same author. Most re- spectiully yours for reform, GEORGE W. LOCKE. PROTECTION. They Meet the Tariff Issue in a Busi- ' nesslike Manner. Editor of The Call—S12: About two months since (March 20), my “letter” to THE CALL bore the title “Populists and the Tariff,” in which it was said that: *‘Heretofore it has been the policy of the Populists as a party to ignore the tariff issue, and individuals have had absolute liberty to hold and cherish any views they please on the subj There are protectionists as strong as MeKinley and free-traders as rank as Henry George in the People’s perty ail over the country who work effects en the POPULISTS ON side by side in the utmost harmony; but I | think the conviction is general among Popu- Llists that the tarif should be taken out of poli- tics entirely and placed in the hands of a great non-partisan National tribunal, equal to the Supreme Courtin dignity and character, the members to be chosen by a direct vote of the people. and each Siale to have at least one member.” It was also further seid that, “‘as the tariff Is a purely business matter it shouid be left to business men of the highest attainments and character to fix the schedules and adjust the rates, who should hold office as long as do United States Senators, if not longer; one-half of the members should be holdovers. The in- terests of trade and manufacture would thus never be subject to sudden and radical changes with a change in the administration. The temptation as it now exists to use the tarift issue for partisan advantage would thén cease forever. So far as I know both the protection- istand free-trude Populists are now ready to accept this disposition of the much bufféted and mischief-breeding tariff question as an issue in politics.” Some ten days after the publication in THE CALL of this prospactive disposition of the tariff issue by the People’s party, the news dis- patches contained the announcement that 200 of the leading commercial bodies of the coun- try, Boards of Trade and Chambers of Com- merce, had united in a call for a congress of business men and representatives of farmers’ organizations and trades unions to be held in Detroit, Mich.,, on M 26, to devise some method by which the ff issue can be taken out of politics. In & word, it has become a burden to business too grievous to be borne with dumb endurance through another Presi. dential campaign as a political issue. It must be settled in some way. In the People’s party State Convention, as- sembled in Sacramento” May 13, the following declaration was adopted by an almost unanimous vote 8s a part of the party plat- form: We request our delegates to the National Con- vention to present the followiug for its considera- tion: We favor genulne protection to American labor by the restriction of the immigration of foreign labor, and by a irue American system of finance which will render justice to labor and in- dustry and restraln the evils of usury; and we demand the creation of a National non-partisan tariff tribunal of experts by Congress which shall be subject to the control of Cougress, to the end that tariff agitation may be taken out'of politics, and to the end that tarifi schedules shail be so ad- justed that the benefii derived therefrom shall re- sult to labor and not to trusts, and we denounce the Democratic an: Republican par:ies for refus- 1ng o properly restrict immigration of forelgn labor when having power to do so in Congress. As a delegute to the National Convention of the People’s party, to be held in St. Louis July 22, itis my purpose todo all I can tosecure the adoption o this plank of our State platiorm, with the insertion of the single word “elect: ive” between the words “non-partisan’ and “tariff tribunal,” thus amended, as a plank 1n the National platiorm. Such action would lay the foundation for a safe and well-balanced revenue sysiem for the People’s party, which will commend it to the good judgment and confidence of the business men of the Nation, as well as to the wage-earners and laborers in every State of the Union—a most satisfactory revenue policy as contrasted with that of bor- rowing money on interest-bearing bonds to meet the necessury expenditures of the Goy- ernment in a time of profound peace, which Cleveland Democracy has adopted and which is about to turn that party out of power and relegate it to the outer darkness of political hades, where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. SANTA MONICA. Senator Frye Says He Originated the Idea of Making a Harbor There, Boston Herald. In view of the evidence interest in the mat- ter in New England the Herald correspondent asked Senator Frye to make a statement about it for publication in the Herald #nd he con. sented to do so. “This matter has been pend- ing,” he said “for about six years. There has been & dispute as to whether the deep-water harbor in Southern California should be at 8an Pedro oratSanta Monica. We have had exhaustive hearings before the committees of Congress on the subject and three reports by the army engineers and ¥ myself have person- ally examined the two harbors. At first the strongest demand was for the improvement of San Pedro. The army engineers recommended it, Mr. Huntington and the Southern Pacific Railroad wanted it, because they had invested #3,000,000 there and other influences were at work to bring about theselection of San Pedro. 1 took occasion, when visiting California, to examine San Pedro and also Santa Monica Bay and was satisfied that it would never do to try to make a deep-water harbor atSan ‘E(’lerd‘r‘o. while Santa Monica was quite suitable £ the next board of army en- “I supposed giueers which I had sent out_there wou.d take taken, but it reported in the view which I haa favor of San Pedro, chiefly because the en- gineers were thinking more of the fortification ?\llltlhl:e :n‘;ibx:a‘h.n of {:xvul\luo l:flpr‘ln'. s’ reports have n in favor of San Pedro for thnpr:uon, as General Craig- hill, the chief of engineers, admitled when he i ently. was before the commerce committee rece: And, as a matter of fact, the reports ;hzq“nmn the engineers did not master the conditions as they would affect a decp-water harbor, “Xfler 1 had determined that San_ Pedro would not do, Mr. Huntington sent th e i ;\0 gineer Hood of the Southern Pacific ruudfl;Je make an examination of San Ped:o, and he re, orted that it would not do ior a deep wi o Kurhnr. and that, although the Southern < cific had 3,000,000 invested there, they b Letter abandon San_Pedro and go elsewhere. So, upon his recommendat.on the Eouthern Pacific went to Santa Monica bay and bufltn pier right out into the water, costing $1,000,- J00, which has been gtanding for four yests, and’ which has not been seriously damege et. This shows how well sheltered the A‘;- of is naturally from the prevailing winds of the coast. 'efi\\gilffifii 10 SBtisty m{sell that1 was right, I asked E. L. Corthell, the well-known en- ineer, who was with James B. Eads, and who f Perhaps, the bast expert on barbor work, to examine Ssu_Pedro and Bants Monica re: cently, and he reported strongly in favor of S Monica. e e Upon such facts that the commerco lttee acted in reporting this amend- ot The opposition to it &ppears to come chiefly from the opponents O the Southern Pacific Railroad, and _from the owners of & lit- tle Terminal road at San Pedro. Itis difficult to see why any objection should be made on the ground that tne Southern Pacific has its terminal at Santa Monica, for it only has 3 50-foot right of way, and any other Tailroac can have the same, and, besides, th;re is an express proviso in our. amen ment that before any part of_the = appro- priation is expended the Southern .f cific Company shsll file withthe Becretary o War an agreemen; that any railroad company may share in the use of 1t pier and the ap- uches thereto, upon paying a proportionate E:?IEO[ the cost oflhe same and o‘l the ex- penses of maintenance. Under this, for exdlm- ple, the Atchison and Santa Fe, which I under- Stahd is near to Santa Monica Bey, can share all the benefits of the improvements of the h'f-rslfioxfia Moniea Bay is the right place for the ep-water harbor of Southern Californis, and e her be there of nowhere at all. "1 do not see how it can possibly affect New England unfavorably, mor why there should be any opposition o it there.” PERSONAL. A. Basore of Paris is at the Palace. Henri Solomons of Paris is at the Palace. The Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo t the Grand. 2 R. English and wife of Arroyo Grande are at the Cosmopolitan. W. P. Tisdale, a railroed man of New York, is at the Occidental. J. H. Warren of Fort Spokane, Wash., is reg- istered at the Cosmopolitan. Frank J. Parkinson, a mining man of Crip- ple Creek, Colo,, is at the Grand. Ralph Tompkins, a wealthy gentleman of Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, is in the City. H. Moore and F.M. D. Dorland of Helena, Mont., are guests at the Cosmopolitan. Clarence Louderback of Urbana, Ohio, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. Dr. Joaquin Yela of Quezaltenango was among yesterday’s arrivals by tne Panama steamer. Dr. Padilla of Guatemala, medical director to President Barrios, was among the &rrivals at the Occidental yesterday. Evan Williams, who is largely interested in mining and also in the Bullion Bank &t Vir- ginia City, is among recent arrivals here. A. C. Dauphiny, a leading merchant of Eu- reka, Humboldt County, who is engaged in both the wholesale and retail business, is in own. ¥ Ge’:nga H. Daniels, general passenger agent of the New York Central Railroad, is in the City, accompanied by his family and several iriends. A. M. Smith and John H. Gyselaar, business men of Eureka, and A. C. Edson of Fortuna, all delegates to the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, are in town. Samuel Merrill, the wealthy resident of Los Angeles, formerly Governor of Iowa, is at the Lick, accompanied by Mrs. Merrill. The ex- Governor was formerly heavily interested in orange lands and irrigation euterprises at Rialto and. Riverside. Among the arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel are A. A, Canepa, J. M. Early and E. A, Aggeles of Eurcka, delegates to the twelfth Grand Council of the Y. M, I, which convenes at Haywards on the 19th ins Dr. Luella Cool, the originator of diamonds in front teeth, who went from here to Central America a year ago, has made much advance- ment. She is dentist to General Barrillas, ex- President,and a number of the best Spanish families there. Her one object to make money has been to be able to finish the musical edu- cation of her little daughter. In a short time Dr. Cool expects to take her to Paris. The daughter is said to show rare musical ability. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 16.—At the Devon- shire—M. Blanto. Holland—C, N. Felton Jr. Astor—G, Greenzweig. Grand Union—D. E. Newell. Savoy—A. C. Slewin Jr. Marlbor- ough—A. C. Baldeman. Imperial—T. J, Emery. * A GOOD CHANGE. Los Gatos Matl. It is charged by his enemies that J. D. Spreck- els is the new political boss of the Republican party in San Franclsco. The proot of the charge would be very hard to produce. Mr, Spreckels evidently has great ability as s leader, but it is eqnally evident that he is far too much of a gentleman to be a sutcess as a political rounder, a ward politician or & boss, But even if the charge were true, the change of bosses from Martin Kelly, Dan Burns and Senator Mahoney to John D. Spreckels is so great as to leave great cause for thankfulness and congratulation. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * e CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ a Ib. Townsend's.* ———————— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.* e e = Stranger (in a far Western town)—Did & trav- eling book agent pass through here the other day? Native—No, sir; he tried to pass through, but he only got half way, when the Citizens’ Com- mittee disposed of him.—Philadelphia North American. EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * —————————— MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE OF ART—OTgan re- citals Sunday afterncon. 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