The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCI O CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrie: Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail . Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CaLi, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 1.50 W EEKLY CALL, Oue year, by mal. 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation ? If #0, 1t 1 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL t0 your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt sttention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telepbone........... .. EDITORIAL ROO! 517 Clay Street. n—186% Telephone....... 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Whatever action is taken at St, Louis will be cordially ratified by the whole country. “Free silver and Grover's record” is the way the Democrats will fit the war cry to the straddle. e There will be many stalwart fighters at the Republican Convention, but they will not be there to fight. The Democrats will probably put up Boies to be defeated this year, on the ground that he is used to it. It may be traly said of the Eastern windstorms that they travel in circles, for there seems to be no end to them. 1t is patriotism to protect the homes of Ameriea, and it is also patriotism to pro- tect the wages that maintain the homes. About all that Pattison or Russell can aspire to at Chicago will be that of serving as a golden tail to somebody’s silver kite. It is =aid that unless all signs fail Con- gress will adjourn this week, but we have not heard that any one is betting the odds on it, — If Cleveland bolts the Democratic party he will bave to go to England. There is no place in this country for him to break away to. The Republicans of Kansas adopted no plank on the money question. Whatever is done at St. Louis will be good enough for them, The golden promises of fruit crops in the East have begun to fade away, but in Cal- ifornia they are brightening with every ray of supshine. Now is the time to look out for roor- backs and canards, for the silly season has begun and is setting in with more than usual severity. Between the cyclones and the floods, life in the prairie States is as full of vicissi- tudes as a melodrama and as uncertain as -a Democratic convention, The Republican Convention will not throw away its golden opportunities for the sake of pleasing a few goldbugs. This is going to be a bimetallic year. The Dreibund cannot agree on the Arme- nian question nor on the Cretan question, and would now be much obliged if some one would ask another conundrum. bl B When Congress adjourns and Cleveland goes fishing, the country will enter upon its summertime rest and get ready for the grand march for protection in the fall. The municipal campaign is some dis- tance off, but the people are already be- ginning to ask what has become of the public money and those pledges of econ- omy, 1f it be true that the Cubans have en- listed women in their army the defeat of the Spaniards is easily explainea. There are very few soldiers who can resist a woman. The earth whirls through space at the rate of nineteen miies a second, and even at that rate it hardly moves fast enough to keep up with the Democratic party going down hill, The rapidity with which the Republican clubs of the State are increasing their membership is one of the best signs of the time. Tt means that Californians aretobe in the van for progress and prosperity. As the British expedition up the Nile has got far enongh along to win a victory over the dervishes, the ice of the campaign may be said to have been broken, and we may now look to hear that the expedition is in hot water. There wiil be more trouble and friction in the movements of the Democratic State Convention at Sacramento than in the great Republican National Convention at St. Louis. The one will come together for a fight and the other will assemble to or- ganize victory. RSN A The weather record of the prairie States this season has been something terrific. Cyclones, tornadoes, cloudbursts and floods have followed one another with appalling dpidity, and the destruction of property has been almost as great as the cost of a considerable war, while the loss of life equals that of a great battle. CONTEMPT OF COURT. The circuvustances under which C. K. McClatchy, managing editor of the Sacra- mento Bee, was sentenced by Judge Catlin to a fine of $500 for contempt of court are such as tq justly excite comment through- out the State. From the facts as reported it seems clear the Judge has carried too far the power of the courts to punish for con- tempt, and has trespassed not only upon the lawful liberty of the press, but upon the constitutional rights of citizens. The facts of the case as published are these. In the suit of Talmadge vs. Tal- madge, a divorce case being heard in the Superior Court of Sacramento with open doors before Judge Catlin, one of the parties to the suit, C. V. Talmadge, under cross-examination made charges reflecting upon an attorney for the other side, who s cross-examining him. The Bee pub- lished what it claims to have been a fair and true report of that portion of the testimony, The next day the attention of the court was called to the publication, and the Judge, speaking from the bench, declared it to be “a grossly false state- ment—a gross fabrication.” He added, moreover: ‘““There was not the slightest ground 1n the testimony of Mr. Talmadge upon which such a statement could be based.” To this declaration of the Judge the Bee retorted by affirming the essential truth of its report, and added: “There isno paper anywhere that has a higher regard for fair and impartial courts than has the Bee, but there is no paper anywhere that has a supremer contempt for a Judge who will approve the unmitigated falsehood of an attorney as Judge Catlin to-day ap- proved the brazen misstatement of Judge J. B. Devine.” For this “‘attack on the court” Editor McClatchy was summoned to answer for contempt. He claimed the right to prove that his publication of the testimony was an accurate and true report. His wit- nesses to prove the fact were the witness Talmadge who had given the evidence in dispute and other personsin the court- room who heard it. Judge Catlin, how- ever, refused to accept the evidence. He would not permit the truth to be proven or even inquired into, but pronounced Editor McClatchy guilty of contempt and subjected him to a fine of $500. This arbitrary action of the Judge not only ignored or set aside as of no force the Barry law restricting courts in punishing for contempt to such acts as are committed in the presence of the court, but also deprived the accused of his right to jastify bimself by proving the truth and fairness of his publication. In proncuncing judgment in the case— the full text of which is published in the Bee June 6—the Judge made the curious remark: “The answer of the defendant in this case does not present anything in the way of diminishing or extenuating the charges. It merely reiterates and justities them.” Merely justifies them! What would Judge Catiin have in bis court? ‘What is he paid for but to hear evidence and do justice? When a man can justify himself by proving the truth he certainly has a right to do so, and it is an extremely arbitrary action on the part of a Judge to forbid it. As the Judge ienored the Barry law, it seems he regards it as unconstitutional. If the Supreme Court should uphold himin this it will then be in order to amend the constitution. The principle of that law is essential to the liberty of the press and the rights of citizens, and Editor McClatchy is fighting for the common good of all when he opposes such arbitrary action on the part of the courts. THE TAX DODGERS. A very much needed reform movement in San Francisco is the organization of a taxpayers’ league. There are men who are honest in the everyday affairs of life, but who appear to think it no wrong to commit perjury to evade paying an honest debt to the City or State; as a matter of fact, bowever, there is no difference be- tween lying out of a debt to an irdividual and lying out of a debt to a municipality. Some men regard il as an exhibition of guod business sense to undervalue their property holdings to the Assessor, but, in fact, it is an exhibition of dishonest pur- pose. When a railway corporation is assessed less than 25 per cent of its value as secur- ity for loans the presumption is that it has deceived the Assessor or the money- lender. In swearing that the Market- street Railway system is worth only $4,- 000,000 when it is to be assessed for taxa- tion, and then swearing thai the property is ample security for a loan of $17,000,000, the inference is that an immense amount of perjury was indulged in, The man who returns bis personal property at a valua- tion that is two-thirds or four-fifths below its real value may find consolation enough in the saving of taxes to justify the act, | but be is, in the inner meaning of the term, a refugee from justice. The tax-dodger does not lessen the re- quirements of the Government for expense money. He merely shifts the debt he owes the Government to the shoulders of those who could not, if they wonld, and would not if they could, lie out of it, It is the great middle class that have to make good the underassess- ments of those who-think it smart to rob the Government, and it is this class that should inaugurate a taxpayers' league movement. There is law enough to com- pel the equalization of the burden of maintainiug the government of San ¥Fran- cisco, but it needs an organization that will see that the law is enforced without fear or favor. — COME TO OALLI’OENIA. ‘With nearly every day come accounts of the ravages of the cyclone or the tornado in the valleys of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. [t is not surprising, perhaps, that people will persist in living in a region that is likely to be storm-swept any mecment, for it is a pretty good agri- cultural country and a very large percent- age of the people are fairly well circum- stanced. Grain crops, however, are not always certain to escape drought, grass- hoppers, hot winds and the several other ills that prairies are heir to, but when all goes well life there is worth living. The surprising thing is, though, that after the people have been caressed by a blizzard or two; blown up and down and across the wild, bleak and treeless prairies by a cyclone: struck two or three times by lightning, and washed away by a cloud- burst, they do not come to California, where the climate is faultless; the air pure and wholesome; seeding and harvest time coming without variableness; where crops are always bountiful, and where peace, joy and good health come to all without the asking, The only drawback to Califorma is that people live so long that they are deprived for so many years of that biissful peace which awaits the righteous when the mortal co1l is shuffled off. The penple of California overflow with sorrow when they hear how those who live beyond the mountains are being storm- swept and grasshopper eaten, and they Jare ready with their gold and siiver to repair the wrecks of the wild-rushing tor- nado, but they urge those living over there to come to one of the valleys of the golden coast country and live as human beings may and should live. TROUBLES OF THE DEMOCRACY, The pronunciamento of Chairman Har- rity of the National Committee, com- manding Democrats everywhere to get ready to rally to tbe support of the Chi- cago nominees without stopping to ask who they are or what they stand fqr, is not meeting with the hearty and cheerful obedience that was expected. The Phila- delphia Record says the Democracy ‘‘can- not be spitted and held fast to the wall” under any and all circumstances. The Record admits that as to “‘matiers of prin- ciple” the majority should govern, but it is quite different when it comes to ‘‘mat- ters of fact,” and then it clinches its argument for a bolt if the silver men control by saying that “there can be no submission of judgment. When a major- ity shall essay to convert the National Convention into a Populist ratification meeting, true Democrats must be counted out.” The Record points out the predeter- mined course of the single standard wing of the party if the silver wing shall control the convention, The Record stands very close to the administration, and therefore we may conclude that it speaks by au- thority when it says in effect that the will of the majority is not always binding. This is a new Democratic doctrine, but it appears to have a good many converts already, and no doubt it will draw still more to it after the Chicago convention. The theory of the Cleveland following is that while as a rule the will of the ma- jority should govern, there may be times when the majority persists in devarting from the faith, and that at such times the minority must take the bull by the horns, s0 to speak, and rule or ruin. No doubt Cleveland believes that the party, which he delivered from its hiding, has fallen under the baleful influence of such per- sons as ex-Republican Boies and ex- Democrat Bland, and that no self-respect- ing Democrat would help them wurn the Chicago convention into a Populist ratifi- cation meeting, or be bound in any way to submit his own sound judgment to the vagaries of such peovle. =X This means that the only way to prevent a bolt, and hence the destruc- tion of the party, is for the major- ity to submit unconditionally to the will of the minority. The withdrawal of the gold standard minority would not mean a coalition of silver Democrats and Popu- lists. The Populists have aiready de- clared that they will receive recruits from other parties, but that 1n no event will they form a copartnershin. Of course, the Populists could not alone hope to carry the country, nor could the silver Demo- crats, hence to convert the Chicago con- vention into a Populist ratification meet- ing would be the consistent thing to do. No one sincerely believes that were the Populists and silver Democrats to consolis date their forces they could elect their candidate. But 1t so happens that the leaders of the silver movement in the Democratic party draw their inspiration from a desire for personal political prefer- ment, and that the doctrine of free silver coinage is merely a meéans to reach the desired end, and the same is true of the leaders of the Populist organization. Thus, it will be seen, there could be no coalition. But notwithstanding the contemplated bolt of the sinzle standard minority of the Democratic party, and the impossibility ot an offensive and defensive agreement between the Democrats and Populists, the | Republican party should prepare for the coming battls just as though all the oppo- sition parties would be in the field and as ailies, It will notdoto trust to anything for victory but the party’'s own strength. There may be one chance in ten thousand that the Populists, the free silver Demo- crats and the National Silver League will join their forces under one banner, but if there be only one chance in a million that such a combine will be made, it matters not. The Republican party should take no chances at all. ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS, Most likely Congress will adjourn to- day. The deficiency bill passed yesterday, and as that was the only really important measure pending no doubt Congressmen will be seen examining their fences in a few days. It is unfortunate that the Nicaragua canal and the Pacific railways biils counld not have been disposed of, but on the whole Congress accomplished a great deal. At the opening of the session the Repub- lican majority in the lower house tried very hard to relieve the strain upon the treasury, and passed a most admirable bill for that purpose, but the Democratic and Populist members of the Senate refused to let it go to the President, The Republican side of Congress is not, therefore, re- sponsible for the inability of the Govern- ment to meet current expenses from rev- enues received by the operation of the Wilson tariff act. If it shall be found nee- essary to sell more bonds to maintain the gold 1eserve before Congress meets next winter—and tnere will be occasion to se- cure more gold, without a doubt—Demo- cratic and Populist Senators will have to assume the responsibility of it, Passing the rlver and harbor bill over the President’s veto was a great victory for Republican principles. The party has always stood for internal improvements, which, together with a protective tariff, has raised the Nation to the very front rank in numerical strength, individual wealth and National prosperity. Inad- journing, therefore, with so mueh unfin- ished work on hand there will be no cone demnation of the Republican majority, for they did al! that could be done for the country. With a hostile Presiaent and an obstructionist party, composed of Demo- crats and Populists, in the Senate, it was hard to do much for the people, but after next March the work of building up the waste piaces will be taken up in earnest by true representatives of the people. —_—_— A curious illustration of a waste of food for lack of transportation is given by the London Chroniele in the statement that last season on the coast of Essex 2000 tons of sprats were sold for manure at a shilling a hundredweight, when they were selling in London for ten times that sum. Itis believed that electric roads connecting the metropolis with the coast will stop the waste and provide the people with cheaper food. If Judge Catlin of Bacra mento is right in declaring what is known as the Barry law of 1891 to be' unconstitutional, then the constitution must be amended. The principle of that law is essential to the liberty of the press and the rights of men. A constitution which denies it is a con- stitution unworthy of an American com. monwealth, ——— In the cases now being tried aganst Siebe for the assessments made of the property of Judge Wallace and the Market- street Railway, it would seem there ought to be a fair chance for honest men to get their dues of just assessments hereafter. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Allen P. Brown, a rich Philadelphian, who has recently been at a notable dinner in Paris at which sat Bartholdi of the Bartholdi statue, New York, Eiffel of the Eiffel tower, and other great men connected with the world’s exposi- tion of 1900, is at the Occidental Hotel. He says the work at Paris is going on rapidly and that there is no doubt that the exposi- tion will immeasurably surpass any and all others in the world. He said yesterday: “I found that France was giving much atten- tion to preparations for the exposition. Itis understood that two palaces will be substituted for the Palais de 'Industrie. “The extension of the exposition grounds to the Champs Elysees, with & bridge constructed over tne Seine, has been virtually decided upon. A French syndicate and the city of Paris have united to carry these projects into was bad politics and midsummer madness, and so it was arranged by our real rulers— the money lords—to let the silyer men in the Democratic party control their National Con- vention at Chicago, and thus divide the silver forces and, if possible, thus also prevent any reunion of silverites and Populists at St. Louis. This brief retrospect brings us fairly to the present moment, and face to face with a criti- cal situation in the affairs of our connzr(. Candor compels the admission that the gold men are at present masters of the situation. They will all vote the Republican ticket. Like Jay Gould with railroad pelitics, they are Hill Democrats in Democratic ‘States and Wolcott Republicans in Republican States, but in_all | States they are for gold. ere is no lack of union nor good generalship in the gold ranks, while there is lamentable lack of union and :x;-]:l third-rate generalship in the silver To complete the statement of the present sit- uation, it must be set down here with all possi- ble emphasis that the gold men have for years been quietly getting resdy for the final con- Allen P. Brown, Now Here, Who Dined Frenchmen, and Learned Strange (Sketched from life With Bartholdi, Eiffe] and Uther Great Details of the Exposition of 1900. by a “Call” artist.] effect. This will be incidentally advantageous, for it opens an avenue which will require the demolition of many old structures, at the end of which the golden dome of the Invalides Church would spring into view from the Champs Elysees. So far itlooks practical and would remain as a last great monument to the already existing embellishments of the city. The opening of such & street in a crowded metrovolis is a gigantic undertaking, and after the colossal work of Mansard, Haussman, Eiffel and others nothing would seem to brook the audacity of the French architects. “Invitations have already gone out to all the netions of the world, and, whether choice or necessity makes exhibitors, all without par- tiality or distinction have been asked to join France in commemorating the close of the century, with good will from every order and condition of man, and in signalizing the ad- veut of the year 1900 with the crowning efforts and’products of Christendom. “The only question is, whetner the exhibi- tion shall be held on both banks of the Seine. “It is proposed to bring all the converging lines of transportation—express and freights— as near to the center of the city as possible. The cost of this will be 75,000,000 francs or $15,000,000. It is proposed to raise the money by the Government issuing directly lottery bounds without any indossement or gusarantee. “‘The French are noted for grand coups, and ‘we shall see how they will startle us by the ad- vances they bave made in the eleven years from the time of the last Paris exposition, The people are living in expectation, and the tradesfolk of the nation, who reach oug aiter the money expended by visitors, are exuberant, The tramways and buses of Paris will be taxed to their utmost in the ecarriage of pas- sengers during such a popular influx, and if it 1s among the possibilities to equip and furnish the projected tubular underground electric tramway as planned by BerMer from the Bois de Vincennes to the Bois de Boulogne, all dif- ficulties in this regard wilt have vanished. “The road will extond more than eleven miles in length and wiil be accessible from eighteen stations. It will pass through one of the most densely populated sectioas of Paris, viz.: Place de Bastile, Rue du Louvre, Palais Royal, Rue de Castiglione, Place Victor Hugo, Gare de Lyon, Place de 1a Concorde, Avenue de 1’Alma, Arc de Triomphe, etc,, and will .be one of the municipal engineering triumphs of the time. The purification of the water of the Seine is one of the reforms which is occupying the health bureau, and which will also im- prove the sanitation of bolh banks of the river. One hundred millions of francs have been ap- propriated by the city. The system employed isintricate. It1scalled the bonclier or shield, and is worked by hydraulic pressure,” LETTERS FROM 1HE PEOPLE. POPULISTS AND SILVER. As 10 DEMOCRATIC FREE-SILVER NOMINEES AT CHICAGO- To the Editor of the Ban Francisco Call—SIR: In the judgment of candid and ingelligent men of all political parties the Populist vote now numbers not less than 3,000,000, and an estimate based on the gains in Oregon would make it 4,000,000 at least. But let us assume for presemt use that the\nrnight Popuiist vote will not exceed 2,000,000, though any politician who bases calculationson that figure will get badly left in his reckoning and his error will come home to plague him in his day of disappointment, At the present moment the question is anx- iously aebated by silver men in both parties, as well as by gold men, ““Can the Populists be induced toindorse the nomineesof the Chi- cago Democratic National Convention if the well-known free-silver men,such y and Tillman, and the piatform adopted is a piain and uncompromising des mand for the free and unlimited cotnage of silver at the old and well-tried ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the alliance or consent of any other nation?" It is the purpose of this letter to lay the foundation for a fair and re- liable answer to the foregoing question. The importance of a reliable answer be- comes manifest when it is conceded that a solid union of all the honest and earnest sil ver forces {8 necessary to secure a certain vie- tory at the polls next November for free coin- age. Popuiists realize the undeniable fact quite as well as other silver men do, and for this reason they made open and honest over- tures more than six months ago to all silver men in all other parties for & complete and honorable union of the silver forces on joint candidates, with separate and independent but not antagonistic platforms, Unconditional silver men in the old parties, who place country ahove silver and silyer above party, atonce accepted the overtures made by the Populists for such a union, and, by concerted action, after due notice, met in the city of Washington on Japuary 23 last, adopted & onal platform on the whoie mone; broad issue—not merely a free silver llngle plan. platform—and then effected u Bnlim tional organization, selected North A nary N . J.J. Mott tional chaitman and 1 National convention based on and fixed thesame time and place for the nominating convention as that of the Populists, namely: July 22 in 5t, Louis, Naturally enough the old parties ignored this Fr Fwa union of silver forces on joint candidates as much as possible; but it gained headway so rapidly that it soon became a serious ‘mennce to ihe old method of conduct- ing a National campaign, and when it became an accepted iact that Lgc gold men would con- trol the Republican party, slthough for & blind to the public a show of distrust of Mc- Kinley and a sham opposition to bim by the gold men was kept un, it was apparent to all men who are intelligent enough to yote un- derstandingly that to have two gold candi- dates for the Presidency before the people Carolina as flict, which now seems inevitable in the pr ent campaign of 1896 between the conce: trated wealth arnd the unorganized industry and commercial forces of the country, by gain- ing control through ownership of all the chief avenues of intelligence by which public opin- jon is molded, including the great daily newspapers, the leading magazines, the reli- gious journals and iarmers’ papers; and by founding great universities, ning seats as regents in our State univer- sities, with = power to discharge any Frnfeuor who dares to teach the new econom- cs end whose heart yearns for the welfare of the common people, and finally by becoming the main support of the churches so s to check any undue expression of sympathy with the struggling masses by the high-salaried “preachers of righteousness,” who too often seem inclined to inculcate contentment “with whatsoever lot the Lord in his providence” has seen fit \c assign ‘‘the poor whom we are always to have with us.” Under these adverse conditions is there any hope that the industrial or commercial inter- ests of our country, represented by the free-sil- ver forces, can be united? Can they be united on the nominees of the Democratic Convention at Chicago if they are iree-silver men on & free-silver Plntlorm‘! I can only say now that out of not less than 2,000,000 straight Popu- list or People’s party voters they will:not get & single vote, 8 in my next Jetter I will give convin¢iug reasons for making this unquali- fied statement. JOSEPH ASBURY JONHSON. 11 E__ex street, San Francisco. TO MY CYCLE. Dear other self, so silent, swift and sure, My dumb companion of delightful days, Might fairy fing rs from thy orbit rays Of steel strike music. as the gads of yors From reed or shell, what melodies wonid pour On my glad ears: what sones of woodland ways, Of summer’s wealth of corn, or the sweec lays Of April’s budding green; \while evermore ‘We twain, one living thing, flagh like the light Down the long tracks that stretch from sKv to sky. ‘Thou hast thy music, t00; what time the noon Beats sultry an broad rosds, when, gathering night, We drink the keen-edged air: or, darkling. fly “Twixt hedgerows biackened by a mystic moon, —Adriel Vere, 1n the London Spectator. DAINTY NIGHIGOWN OR LOUNG- ING ROBE. The charming gown shown here shows the impress of the Empire style. It isa model used both for lounging robes and nightdresses. For the latter it may be made of a variety of fabrics from muslin or flannelette to china silk. In the latter material it is shown for trousseaux trimmed with butter-colored or ‘white lace; ribbons of bright but delicate tones are run through the lace which confines the front below the bust. A very dainty gown in nainsook had trim- mings of narrow yellow enciennes lace with bands of fine Hamburg embroidery. Colored lawns and batistes with white em- broidery or lace, either white or yemwow, are very dainty. The batistes especially will be found quite satisfactory, for they launder beautifully. A lounging robe of twilled Freach flannel of a medium pink,is dainty with trimmings of white lace with blue rlhiolu run under, A violet and white checked flannei with white lace and violet ribbons is another pretty com- binstion, A gown of pink and green siriped wool had the square yoke top of green satin ribbon, with grilll of pink chiffon. One o alounging robe was seen in an elaborate trons. seau. It was of white flannel, The ag‘n er edge a yoke was of white satin ribbon, with a of sable on either edge, and at the euter frill of white chiffon hung. T White ronen B Tt vt b — — -] NOT THIS 1IME. Bodie Mining Index, Republicans seldom poll their yote. They split up into “isms” and “ists,” while Demo- erats pull together like a well broke mule- team, which expiains h elect & minority i"taudanz' e XL e PERSONAL. E. B. Baker of Topeka, Kans., is in town. Frank A. Stone of Seattle js at the Palace. James H. Kirk of Nogales, Ariz., is in town. Louis P. Wardle of Virginia, Nev., is in town, General T, B. Bunting of Santa Cruz is in the City. Frank A. Miller of Riverside was among yes- terday’s arrivals here. H. G. Rowland, a merchant of Puyallup, Wash., has arrivea here. Colonel J. B. Hammond, a wealthy resident ot Portland, is at the Palace. J. Humphrey, a miner of Gold Bar, Oregon, is among recent arrivals bere. Alex Neilson, one of the owners of the Union Iron Works, Sacramento, is in town, R. B. Canfield, the land-owner and business man, of Santa Barbara, is ou a visit here. W. 0. Chapman, a business man of Tacoma, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. J. H. Sloan, a newspaper man of Santa Fe, N. Mex,, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. E. Downs, proprietor of the Wilson Hotel, Salem, Or., is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. . H. Burrows, a prominent residentof Port- land, Or., is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. William R. Cochrane of Philadelphia, ac- compsanied by Mrs. Cochrane, is at the Occi- dental, ‘W. Jacobson, a wealthy young business man of 8alt Lake City, is & guest atthe Cosmopoli- tan Hotel. M. J. Wright of Sacramento, ex-Surveyor of the Port here, is on & visit to the City, and is at the Grand. Colonel Ely E, Weir of Chicago, president of the largest match company in the United States, is at the Occidental. W. W. Burton, a socicty man and real estate dealer of S8anta Barbara, came up from the south yesterday for a three days' visit with friends in this City. D. D. Davidson of Sonoma, who has been here for several days in the interest of a cele- bration to commemorate the raising of the Bear flag at Sonoma, left for his home yester- day. Dr. Michel Revon, philanthropist and editor ot the leading Polish 'paper of the country, who has been studying the civilization of Japan for some time past, and who arrived here Saturday, has gone to New York and Washington, Tracy Russell, the Stanford baseball catcher, who graduated at Palo Alto last year, has re- turned to his home in this City for & three months’ vacation, having successfully com- pleted a year's work in the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in New York City. 'W. B. Wilshire, president of the Wilshire Safe and Lock Company, formerly of this City, and now of Los Angeles, is herc on a visit. He savs | the building permits issued by Los Angeles are | more numerous now than at this time last year, The value of the buildings is not quite Up to last year, but there are many more resis | dences. A large new hotel, the Van Nuys, | with nearly 300 rooms,will be finished in time for the winter business. - CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., June 8.—At the Grand— N. D. Hodges; Holland—K. Maddox, E. Mc- Cutchen; Astor—H. E. Smith; Broadway Cen- tral—J. H. Taylor; Grand Union—F. Watson; Marlborough—Mr, and Mrs. H. M. Wolf, Miss E. Wolf; Albert—W. B, Van Vorhees. DESERVES SUCCESS. 2 Vancouver Register, The San Francisco DAILY CALL, the leading THE POOR ARE SNUBBED. Dr. Warren Scores Churches That Have No Needy Com- municants. Rev. F. H. Mooar Expresses Strong Disapproval of the New Bible. At the Presbyterian Ministerial Union yesterday a paper was read by Rev. J. B. Warren, D.D., of Berkeley on ‘The Dea- conate.” The speaker said tbat the office of deacon has to a great extent fallen iata disuse in Presbyterian churches and that deacons have only a nominal existence. It is true that in a few churches dea- cons are employed in the Christ-like work of using the alms of the church for the re- lief of its poor communicants, and not only carrying to them financial help but spiritual aid and comfort. Itis true also that in the reports of sessions it is notin- frequently said that fleedy communicants would be relieved if there’ were any in their churches, but there were none such among them. As the deacons have been reduced to the narrow duty of attendin to the poor, if there are no poor and suf- fering brethren in the congregation what is the use of having deacons?"’ Dr. Warren said he shrank from enter- ing nto the question of how far the churches were to blame for the appalling fact that the poor and needy are seidom found among their members. ‘It will not do to say that the poor are welcome 1f they come, they are not welcome and they know it. Bhould one enter a city ehurch in his rough dress he is instantly measured by the brisk usher and coldiy placed in some back seat, wnile the next stranger, if well-dressed, is politely ushered into Mrs. Society’s pew. 1t will not do to say the pocr need not pay pew Tent and can sitin the galleries. These are words and three-fourths of those who utter them would not recognize or welcome & reglly poor man if he should come to church. The speaker expressed his velief that this state of thines would end if deacons were assigned moreactive duties. He de- cried the idea of having trustees who were not church members and urged the handing over ;0 tus;;lenuqns of all the tem- poral affairs of the church. In discussing the paper, Elder T. B. Roberts denied that the poor are neglected in the churches. Rev, J. Clark said that the poor came to the churches in rags, but such is the elevating influence of the gospel that they did not remain in rags. Rey. J. Cumming Smith thought it was the duty of the churches to look after the poor snd 10 see that there were iew‘erApoor. Rev. Mr. Harris, a visitor from Chicago, objected to the dictatings of the wealthy members of congregations. Congregational Club, The Congregational Monday Club, which grew smaller by degrees and beautiiully less during the trouble in the First Church, is now showing signs of resumed vitality, There was quite a large attendance of members in the parlors of the Grand Hotel yesterday morning, many prominent Con- gregational pastors, both from this City and across the bay, beinx present. A paper was read by Rev. F. H. Mooar of Niles on the “New Bible,”” now in process of publication under the direction of Pro- fessor Paul Haupt of Johns Hopkins Uni- daily pewspaper of the Pacific Coast, has de- | versity. The speaker argued in favor of clared for woman suffrage, Friends of equal rights on this coast will rejoice in the fact that they have secured the aid of so able and fear- less & champion of their cause. THE CALLisa leader, not a follower. It waits not for others to mold public opinion and then trim sail to catch the popular breeze. It takes sdvanced ground as a great metropolitan newspaper and hews its way to succ the right. THE CALL is a champlon of free coin- age of silver and has the bravery to stand by its colors regardiess of the immense pressure now being made throughout the country to coerce the rank and file of the Republican party into the adoption of the British gold standard system of finance. THE CALL has opened its columns to a fair and impartal hearing of the principles advo- cated by the People’s party, and this last move in espousing the cause of equal rights regard- less of existing public sentiment confirms to it the title of a great, independent newspaper. The Register hopes to see THE CALL stand un- flin('hiuglydurin% the coming campaign for the party which champions the cause of free coinage of silver, greenbacks and no further issue of bonds. This is the paramount issue of importance before the people, and mere party snecess is 8 consideration secondary an ial comparea with the triumph of the above principles. THE CALL surely deserves thesplen- did success it is achieving in the fiefil of National journalism. ) PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Signor Crispi will shortly undergo a surgi- cal operation at Naples, as the cataract in his eyes is spreading. There is & rumor in Vienna that ex-King Milan of Servia is coming to America to begin life over again as a gentleman farmer, Among the students graduated this year by the Baltimore University Law School was ex- Judge George W. Lindsay, who has just cele- brated his seventieth birthaay. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, who is making a reputation as & lawyer in Washington, is the widow of the late General R. D, Mussey, who make a creditable record in the civil war, One of the guests at the ceremony of unyeil- ng the statue of General William Henry Har- rison In Cincinnati on Saturday was Bernard McDonald of Grant County, Ind., now more than 80 years old, who acted as pallbearer at the funeral of General Harrison. The birth of & son to Count William Bis- marck is a very welcome fact to the family of the ex-Chancellor. There are plenty of grand- daughters, but for a long while it looked as if there would be no male descendant of the third generation to transmit the name of the principal branch of the house. Tt is said that James Lafitte Smith, a clerk in the Washington Postoffice, is the postoffice clerk who sold the first postage stamp and the first stamped envelope ever issued by this Government, and who registered the first letters that were presented for registry when the daintiest creations in the way of |- that system of mail protection was introduced in the United States. He cntered the post- olfiéce as aclerk in 1847, and is now 79 years old. CURRENT HUMOR. He—It seems to me that, under certain cir- cumstances, & minister mignt be justified in using another minister's sermon. She—Under what circumstances? He—Well, for instance, if it was & very short sermon.—~Puck. Dyer—What is your business, may I ask? Boorish Stranger—1'm a gentleman, sir, That is my business. Dyer—Ah! You have failed, I see.—Truth. Emperor William’s latest freak, that of ap- pointing the chief ke ttle drummer of the Ber- lin cpera, on his retirement after fifty years’ service in that arduous post, to bs *Royal Chamber Musician,” is numbered among the eddest of his Majesty’s 0y odd actions, “This here new light of Ed would be a good thing to hev in hotels, I'm thinking,” re- marked Mr, Hayseed as he blew out the a8, “I wonder if I shall live to see it.""—Chicago Dispatch. Teacher—And how, James, was the hosiery made in former days ? James—Don't know, Teacher—Next! The Next—Er—er—er— Teacher—Next! The Next—Dunno. Teacher—Master, Flipp, do you know? J“hé:‘mr Flipp—Nit. (Is sent to the head.)— ‘I presume you carry a memento of some sort in that locket of y:{m “Precisely. It is a lock or my husband's hair.” :vsm your husband is still alive,” “Yes, but his hair is all gone.”—Hartford Times. by sturdy blows for | | | the Bible now in use. “Why must the Bible, the gooa old Bible, go? Has the | worla outgrown its precious words? Has | the time come that we need another? Must this good old book follow the wake of human things that need remodeling?"’ A number of arguments were used to prove the needlessness of the revised edition of the Bible. The spirit in which the work is being undertaken was also decried. “The new Bible is to upset the old teachings and promises revelations that will astonish the world. While we welcome light we cannot see the word of God itself brought into question.” e . CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. 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