The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1896. BUCKLEYITES AND THEIR FAVORITES, Candidates fer the Legisla- ture Named in the Districts. FIRST CONVENTION MOVE Candidates ‘or Convention Dele- gates Also Named, Subject to the Primary. FREE - SILVER CAMPAIGNERS. The State Committee of the Silverites Appoints Sub-Committees and Goes to Work. The Buckleyites of the various districts beld district club meetings last night, at which candidates for delegates to the mu- nicipal convention, for the Assembly and for the Senate in the five odd-numvered Senatorial districts were entered for the race. The nominees of last night are subject 1o the decisions of the primary election to be held on September 1, when twenty-five convention delegates will be chosen from each district, and eighteen Assemblyraen and five Senators declared the nominees of thia faction of the Democracy, the legis- lative nominees to be subject to confirma- tion by the municipal convention. The meetings were generally largely at- tended. In the Forty-second district T. Carl Spelling, Fleet F. Strother and other leaders of the faction got up a carnival of speech-making and, somewhat by con- trast, the meeting of the Thirty-third dis- trict jammed Mannerbund Hall at Twen- ty-fourth street and Potrero avenue, the forces being re-enforced by several wagon-loads of the exuberant boys of | the Potrero who came over mainly to for W. J. Bell for Senator. aced in nomination for the As- sembly were as follows: Twenty-eighth District—Lawrence J. Conlon. Twenty-ninth—James J. Meagher. Thirtieth—B. Conway and A. W. Brewster. -firsi—T. second—John A.Townley, J. F. Twigg, Kie . Crane. T. 0'Callaghan. T . J. Carr, James H. H. Penn, T. P. Minehan. y L. Mulcrevy. poned nominations, ninth—Lee Barnett, S. Hollweil, Jo- seph Kennedy. —Charles 8. Rosener. Owens. 0’'Halloran, Forty-fourth—Gabriel Nathan. fth—J. J; Phillips, F.Mulgrew, John The Senatorial nominations were as fol- lows: h District, composed of the hth and Twenty-ninth Assembly | s F. Egan, Lawrence Buckley. trict, composed of the and Thirty-ninth Assembly dis- tricts—Prentice Clarkson, D. J. McCarthy, Wiliiam Healy. Nineteenth Senatorial District, composed of hird and Thirty-fifth Assembly 7. Be , composed of the Thirty- ty-eighth Assembly districts hworth. y-fifth District, composea of the Forty- fourth and Forty-fiith Assembly districts Heury Hart, George F. Callaghan, C. W. Pope, John Fay. In most districts the names accepted for convention delegates far exceeded in number the limit of twenty-five which are 10 be elected. In some districts sixty names will go in the district ticket. Two delegates at large to be voted for in all districts are named from each district. LI e SILVERITES ORGANIZE. The State Organization Is Devel- oped for Business. The State Silver Campaign Committee met for the first time in its new head- quarters in the Baldwin Hotel last night. National Committeeman Charles D. Lane, M. F. Tarpey. chairman of the conference committee; George W. Baker, Frank J. Moffitt, W. P. Lawler ana several others were present. After much discussion the action of the silver conference committee in assenting to the deal between the Democrats and Populists was ratified, as it was certain to be, as the silverites had a merely formal concern in the matter. There were added to the general com- mittee Robert McKillican of Oakland, and Hugo Hornlein, J. P. Edoff and R. E. Kelly of S8an Francisco. The following im- portant sub-committees were appointed: >ampaign committee—W. P. Lawlor, chair- man; Robert McKillican, T. V. Cator. Organization of clubs—Frank J. Moffitt, Hugo Hornlein, Dominick Tarpey, Gabrie Cohen, R. E. Kelly. Literary—W. C. Price, William Pardy, M. A. Hurle; Finance—Charles D, Lane, Dr. W. M. Dickin- son, W. C. Price, William Pardy, J. P. Edoff. Expense—George W. Baker, F. J. Moffitt, William Pardy. The chairman of the campaign commit- tee was authorized to add to the commit- tee at his discretion irom any source, and the committee adjourned until next Sat- urday evenip, M’KINLEY VETERANS, They Congratulate the Party oh John D. Spreckels. _The McKinley Veterans’ League of the Fifth Congressional District held another enthusiastic meeting last evening in Swiss Hall, cozser of Mission and Fourteenth streets. In open meeting the chairman, Colonel E. McCormick, stated that he had called the league together to instruct the mem- bers to participate in the formation of Re- publican clubs in the various districts in this City under the auspices of the county committee. He urged all veterans to sign the ciub rolls in their respective districts and get their sons to do the same and aia in the organization of the grand army to give battle to the common eénemy of the coun- try in November next and gain a giorious victory for good government in municipal affuirs and the preseryation of the Ameri- can Union and the resurrection of our dead industries. He told those present that they must make a canvass from house to house and secure recruits for the patriotic legions which, underthe leadership of the Hon. John D. Spreckels, will confront the so- called Democratic party in this State and rout this enemy of the people and elect our comrades McKinley President and Loud Congressman, that the idle Ameri- can working men and women, who are starving while the English laboring classes are eating roast beef and plum Twenty nth and homas [Sketched from life wood City and Ban Jose, asking the league | to form branches in those places, which communications were referred to a com- mittee consisting of Chairman L. B. Marks, Captain Barrett, John Fairchild, J. Kelley, Frank Duffy, Frank Smith and. Alex Baldwin. The following resolutions were offered ana unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, Every political party must have an organization, end all organizations must have a head to guide them through the intrica- cies of an election, like an army which cannot | £0 Into battle and be victorious without a gen- eral; and, Whereas, Heretofore irresponsible men, who had no interest at stuke and who were only in olitics for their pecuniary benefit, become eaders of the Republicans; and, Whereas, Through this rule of practical pol- iticians the Republican voters oiten became | dissatisfied and cut loose from the Republican | perty in local affairs and voted for indepen- | dent nominees; therefore be it Resolved, That we congratulate the Republi. cans on the selection as their leader of John D. Spreckels, 8 rich business man of proved in- tegrity and ability, in which all classes, rich | and poor alike, have the utmost confidence | and assurance that he is in politics only for | the welfare of this City and State and its peo- ple generally without any sordid motives. WHEREAS, The Fifth Congressional District Convention which nominated Eugene F. Loud, our experienced, energetic and faithful servant in Congress, has also nominated for | Presidential elector that stanch friend of the farmers, the working classes and the people generally, the Hon. Claus Spreckels, one of our most respected citizens in this State, and one of the few rich meu who invest their wealth and show their confidence in our City, and use their money for the aevelopment of the resources and the employment of Ameri- can labor in Caiifornia; therefore be it Resolved, That we hereby urge every veteran and every workingman and every voter who has the welfare of this City and State at heart to cast his ballot and useall honorable means to aid in the election of Hon. Claus Spreckels for Presidential elector, that by his vote in the Electoral College for McKiuley and Hobart we meay have protection for American labor and prosperity for the people of these United States. WHEREAS, The Republican County Commit- tee of San Francisco has ordered the formation of district clubs and the enrcliment of the Re- puolican voters of the various assembly dis- iricts up to Saturday evening next for united action in fighting the common enemy of the country, and the working classes especially. to-wit: the Altgeld Democracy; and, Whereas, It is the duty of every veteran of the late war to come to the trontandenroll his name as & member of the official Republican club in his district, that we may make an or- genized battle for the working and industrial classes; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the McKinley Veterans’ League of the Fifth Congressional District, will individually and collectively urge every veteran in San Francisco to enrollin the Dis- trict Club before Saturday next that we may be able to do our share toward making good nominations and going with good men as candidates for the various offices on the Re- publican ticket into the battle in November nextand gain a glorious victory for the Re- publican party. After arranging for a big mass-meeting the league adjourned. with cheers for Mc- Kinley, Hobart and Loud, Claus Spreck- els, John D. Spreckels and the Republican party. —_———— THE PHCENIX CLUB. Enthusiastic Meeting In Scottish Hall With New Cam- palgn Songs. The Pheenix Club ably sustained its rep- utation as a successful entertainer by the Jarge crowd which it drew to Scottish Hall last evening and by the enjoyable pro- gramme of music and speaking which it presented. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Powers, with Andy Branch, he of the big legisiative voice, in the secre- tary’s chair. Under the head of good of the order, Daniel Irwin sang two cam- paign songs, written by Charles Orr of Santa Rosa. Mr. Irwin was accompanied by his daughter, Alice, on the piano. The audience joined in the choruses, Miss Ella Ellis, a young woman with a fine voice, sang two comic songs, in one of which she brought down the house by a clever allusion to the success of William McKinley. ¥ William H. Schooler was the speaker of the evening. His subject was tue free coinage of silver, and his talk was most interesting. He began by saying that four years ago laboring men received good wages and steady employment. He con- trasted that period with the present and with the widespread distress which now prevails, and added that they could look to the only party that can help them by protecting American industries and caus- ine the factory wheels to revolve once more, The speaker likened the silver-mine owner to a man who would take his wheat, worth $1 15 per sack, to the United States Mint and ask to have the stamp of the Government placed upon it, certitying that 1ts value was $2. e himself, if he owned grain and thought he cou'd succeed in increasing its value in that way, would vote for the free coinage of wheat. This apt illustration caused a roar of laughter. Mr. Schooler followed this telling hit with the argument that tne difference between the present value of 66 cents per ounce and the 16 to 1 value of silver, or $1 20.per ounce, would have to be paid by the tax- payers of the country for the enrichment of the silger mine-owners, because no man- made laws could ieverse the natural law oi';uppl_v and demand. he present ratio of silver to gold 31.56 ounces of silver to lonnce%? g;'lcai? It was proposed to change this natural pubbing, may find employment and have something to eat once more. Orderly Sergeant Thomas Regan read communications from Veterans in Red- ratio to 16 ounces of silver to be equal to 1 Alfred Duboe, One of the Great Wool Importers of Reims, Wno Is Now Here. by a “Call” artist.] business except that of silver mining, in order that the ratio might be kept up. S i THE BIG MEETING. Speakers and Topics Selected for Next Saturday Evening. All the preparations have been made for the big mass-meeting which will take place in the Wigwam, corner of Eddy and ones streets, next Saturday evening. George A. Knight has been selected as chairman. The speakers will be R. B. Carpenter, United States Senator George C. E’erkins. Irving M. Scott, Tirey L. Ford, J. P. Jackson and W. H. L. Barnes. The subjects will be “Sixteen to One,” “Crime o1 '73,” *The Republican Party on Silver,” **The Interest of California in_the Tariff,” “The G. 0. P.”” and “The Can- | didates.” s g iy The Republican Clubs. The rolls of the Republican district clubs were kept open last night for signatures, and the voters who had not been able to get places in the line on the evening be- fore had an opportunity of signing their names. The rolls will be closed at 10 o’clock to-night, and to-morrow even- ing permanent organization will be effected. —— Opening of Club Two’s Roll. Republican Club No. 2 of the Thirty- third District will open its rolis Friday, August 21, from 8 to 10 p. M., at Gately Hall, 301 Sierra street. ME LT BUANG WOOL Rich French Dealers Here on Their Way to Aus- tralia. A'fred Duboc on the Eff:ct of Free Silver—Will Go to Bullicn Value. Alfred Duboc, an extensive wool im- porter of Reims, is at the Palace, accom- panied by several other French wool- buyers, who have spent some time in this country and are now en route to Aus- tralia. In the latter country they hope to buy a great deal of wool. “I have long been engaged in the wool business,’’ said Mr. Duboc, *‘but hitherto 1 have mot attempted to handle much from America. My associates, however, have bought a great deal at different times in this country. “The wool grown in Australia is of a kind much in demand in France. We have handled large quantities from that country and expect to handle an unusu- ally Jarge amount from there thiz year. Our trip is directly for the purchase of ‘wool. 4 “‘I note you are in the throes of a great political campaign here, and that free sil- ver is involved as a question of the cam- paign. Iam unable to see how free silver will help the United States, for, if we have been educated rightly the silver dollar freely coined can only have its bullion value. As for the gold it will flee away. ‘On_the other side of the Atlantic we are all pretty well agreed that a gold standard is the thing. One reason, I su pose, is because our money is mostly gold and because we can buy more with it than with any other money.”’ Mr. Duboc and his friends sailed on the Monowai last night. They intend to re- main there several months and will prob- ably return home via the Suez canal. ————— ANDREE MAY HAVE BSTARTED. The Favorable Wind He Waited For Has 3 Come. BERLIN, GermANy, Aug. 19. — The correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger, who has revurned to Hammerfest from Spitz- bergen, telegraphs that he met Sir William Martin Conway of the Conway expeditipn, who, said he, on August 10, had seen M. Andree, the Swedish explorer, who set out to attempt to discover the' North Pole by means of a balloon. Andree thought it was then too late to starton his balloon voyage, and he woul rfiroblbly return home and go back in April to Spitzbergen, at which place the balloon voyage was to begin. E,ir William Conway added that there was a strong south wind blowing the day after he saw M. Andree, and, as that was the wind the explorer had been waiting for, he had perhaps started on the voyage. e~ Nansen Done Voyaging. CHRISTIANTA, Aug. 20.—The Aften- posten, in an article on the return of Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, declares that Dr. Nansen says he will not attempt again to reach the north pole in a ship, gut will, rhaps, lead a sledge ax‘plditlon from ranz Josef Land, from which place he re- gards the journey to the pole as not diffi- cult. ———————— . To Blow Up a Castle. MADRID, Spa1¥, Aug. 20.—The Herald asserts that the authorities have discov- ounce of gold, and the diffe: the natural ahd the flotitions valaes o to be paid by every man engaged in onryl ered a plot to blow up the Castle of La | grass and only a few stunted trees. Granja, the residence of the Infanta Isa- bella, aunt of the King. { EXHIBIT OF THE - MOTHER LODE Something Novel at the State Bureau of Mining, FROM OUR GOLD BELT. Spectators May Traverse With Speed Six Large Counties AND STUDY ALL THE ROCKS Without Moving More Than a Few Feet During the Entire Pros- pecting J:urney. It is inevitable that such a discus- sion concerning the precious metals as recently has been and still is in prog- ress should attract great attention to gold mining in California. One ar- gument urged by one party is that gold is so scarce that it can be cornered. Indeed, Mr. Bryan, the Democratic-Popu- list candidate for the Presidency, asserted in his ‘Madison Garden speech in New York that the gold product of the world could be represented by a 22-foot cube, while the silver product would make only a 66-foot cube. The official returns of the State Bureau of Mining show that during the year 1895 the Stat: of California pro- duced in gold $15,334,317 19 as returned to United States Mint, and the silver product of California in the same year as returned according to the same authority amounted to only $599,789 70. These figures show conclusively the preponderance of the gold interest in this State, and also indi- cate the important part that this State is now playing on the stage of international finance. The cube of gold introduced by Mr. Bryan in his speech has also large inter- est here, for in 1885 California sent to the exposition at St. Louis a cube of over four- teen feet, representing the California pro- duction of gold up to that time. All parties being agreed upon the in- trinsic value of gold, or, rather, that it has large intrinsic value, the gold produc- tion of this State becomes continually a more engrossing subject of concern. Sil- ver, since the slump in value of that metal. has cut a comparatively small figure in California production. The Inyo County production and the San Ber- nardino mines have a history which is too generally known among mining men and financiers to make repetition necessary here for common information. ‘‘Where can we successfully mine for gold?”’ is a daily question at the State Bureau of Mining. In response to this inquiry H. 8. Durdon, the curator of the museum at- tached to the burean, has prepared an il- lustrative object-lesson, which is compre- hensive, striking and novel. A large amount of the gold mined in California has been taken fromn the mines along what is known as the ‘‘mother lode” in Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador aud El Dorado counties. Some years ago Harold W. Fairbanks spent five months studying up the story of the #eology of the ‘‘mother lode,” of which three months were vassed in the field and two months were devoted to the making of maps uhowingh the course of the “‘mother lode,” the location of mining claims and the preparation of the speci- mens which were picked up along the loae, and also within a belt five miles wide, ex- tending on either side of the lode. The geological specimens in the ore-bearing lode and in the country immediately con- tiguous were carefully designated and numbered by Mr. Fairbanks, the numbers corresponding to numbers placed on the geological map, which was made a part of the exhibit. No scheme of greater accuracy or more definiteness could seemingly have been devised to indicate the characteristic rock of the lode and in the country adjoining within the counties named. The lode in El Dorado County was traced throngh to the Middle Fork of the American fiivar, but the inclosing rocks were only partially located. Consequently the position of the lode in ouly five counties was.completely resented. It occurred to Mr. Durden hat the geological slpecxmens collected by Mr. Fairbanks should be exhibited. A glass case has just been filled with the specimens and the geological map and the arrangement is such that inquirers can seein a study of a few hours more than they could learn in months of weary pros- peciing so far as an exhaustive examina- tion of the rock formations of the coun- tr{_-u along the lode 15 concerned. he specimens are arranged in order from Mariposa County onward, while di- rectly above hangs the map showing the lode in each ot the counties enumerated, and on the map are the numbers corre- sponding to the numbers of the speci- mens. Miners study these specimens and maps for knowledge of these counties. Of course, they are applicable to only those localities, but they are of value in that connection. Mr. Fairbanks had in view in making his reconnszissance to give a thorough knowledge of the occurrence of the ores and to scientifically explain what he de- scribed as “one of the most remarkable metalliferous deposits in the world.” The descriptions are to be found in the report 0f1890. The specimens which were act- ually taken from the lode and its vicinity are on exhibition. These give an approximate idea of the physical characteristics of the vein. The *mother lode,” according to Mr. Fair- banks’ description, and this description will be read with interest everywhere, “‘may be defined as a series of gold-bearing veins of definite characteristics and often of great magnitude; forming a nearly continuous line over 100 miles long. They usually occur in a belt of black slate, with either slate, diorite, diabase, serpentine or occasionally granite as wall rock. They are generally distinguished by a peculiar green vein-matter, known as mlri{mnte. and by the more or less rib- bon-like character of the quartz. As far as can be learned the term ‘‘mother lode’’ was first applied to the veins washed at Nashville, twelve miies south of Placer- ville, El Dorado County, in the latter part 0f 1850 or earlier part of 1851, The extent of the mother lode has been discussed and different conclusions have been reached. There are geologists who believe that it extends all the way to Alaska. The region traversed by the mother lode is characterized by vertical or steeply inclined rocks, which are either aruptive dikes or sedimentary ' strata. Each of the four formations,” granite, slate, serpentine and diabase, is char- acterized by a different surface. The ranite, according to Mr. Fairbanks, is st illustrated by that body of massive rock at the southern termination of the lode and is characterized by a rolling sur- face and by a light but fertile soil. The serpentine, unless lying in a valley where it receives the wash from other rocks, is uniformly distinguished by an almost barren surface with scarcely any soil, no Its rapidity of erosion is between that of the ery e and the slaty rocks. EZETA'S NEW HOME. SAUSALITO, CaL., Aug. 19,—Don Carlos Ezeta, ex-President of San Salvador, has leased the Monaco Cottage for two years. 1t is one of the most picturesque here. His family consists of his wife and four little daughters, and they have a retinue of ser- vants. After the revolution in San Salvador the President fled to France, while his biother Antonio, Vice-President, was brought to the United States on the gunboat Bennington, and was released after a most exciting trial, his Government having asked for his extradition. THE SIWGLE-TAX DEA A Letter From George W. Loehr Explaining the System. Believes It Would, if Put in Opera- tion, Be of Incalculabie Benefit to Taxpayers. The following letter has been received from G. W. Loehr regarding the single tax: To the Editor Daily Morning Call—Sir: The lmsaxflll position taken by THE CALL in fully and truthfuliy gub‘ntxhing all articles pertain- ing to the public welfare prompts me in ad- dressing you this letter, hoping it may be the means of establishing in the minds of the public the benefits resulting from the system of which it speaks. Asarule man seldom rises above his envi- ronments. The evolution of humanity. to a higher civilization has been a struggle be- tween ignorance and superstition on one side, and a few, who have with the aid of reason and the courage of their convictions risen above tieir surroundings and stood forth as everlasting heroes in the turmoil of progress. Those who have had the courage to do this have been termed ‘“cranks,”” and the works they have written iound but few readers. The world was not yet ready for the reforms which they advocated; it needed a practical illus- tration of the evils that would result trom a continuation of our landed system before the world was ready to see and then adopt the measures advocated. The immense strain between capital and labor must of necessity find its only relief in the measures herein ad- vocated. Now that the true political science known as the “single tax” (which, by the way, is & misnomer, the system being really no tax at all) is making such rapid strides, and must without a doubt take its place among the re- form measures in coming elections, a few words on what it is and what it is expected to do will not be amiss at the present moment. A large number of reform measures are being advocated in regard to taxation, nearly all having a tendency to the same end, name- 1y: taxation of land values only for ali com- munity purposes. To the ordinary thinker it must stand to reason that the more & thing be taxed the more tendency there is to discourage it. The natural tendency of everything, animal and vegetable, is to grow in perfect freedom. This is a divine law of the Creafor and an un- answerable argument. By putting an iron band around & young tree you retard its growth. Itisa well-known fact that the Chi- lese women retard the development of their feet by compression, Even the human mind, that grand faculty that distinguishes us from the animal and makes the nearest approach to our Maker, develops in & ratio to the amount of education it receives. Therefore it follows that in freedom, and in freedom on!y, c&n any- thing develop and attain its highest perfec- tion. The prosperity of any people is meas- ured by.their intelligence and their meansand facilities of productiou. Therefore, to tax or fine thut which tends to prosperity 1s 1o dis- courage production, and to discourage produc- tion is to lower wages and to increase the price of commodities and the necessaries of life. This is the policy the world has been follow- ing since time immemorial, and the only rea- son to-day that political economy is being given the attention that it is is because we have gone to the end of our rope, and if we don’t retrace our steps, we will hang ourselyes. ‘We stand on the brink of our civilized world; the next step westward takes us to the pagan world that we ran away from thousands of years ago. Surely no one can be so foolish as to think that this world could not support a hrier population than it at present has. The cry of overproduction is sometimes raised, and yet we see hundreds, aye, thou- sands, of people whose hunger and wants are not Appelws. There must be some incon- sistency here, Surely there can be no over- production when people have not enough fooa to eat and enougn clothes to wear. I should rather call it underconsumption. ‘We have now come to tkat point in our in- vestigation where we must seek the reason why, in a country of such large area, with a nominal population,and ground able to produce nearly everything the world desires, men are to-day seekine for something to do in order to earn their daily bread, and not finding it; and when they do, receiving such wages as will hardly support themseives, to say nothing of their wives and families. A great fault of the human family to-day, when starting out on reform . measures, is to Dbattle with effects and neglect the primary causes of the evil. What man, be he the most uneducated tiller of the soil, would start out to eradicate weeds by cutting them off atthe surface of the ground, would he not dig down and remove the roots; and yet all the great Teform parties, temperance people and labor organizations, are all fighting effects, all claiming to be right, while the “ignis fatuus” is luring them on to their own destruction. What then is the primary cause of the evil that is to-day filling jails and our insane asy- lums, making prostitiutes of women and plac- ing & premium upon drunkennessand suicide, while the products of industry are taxed to their utmost to keep up this damnable retro- grade movement of our civilization? Are these the results of man’s development in freedom, or are they the results of present con- ditions over which he has, or thinks he has, no control? Cannot this entire brood of eviis be laid at the door of poverty and want, the result of bad laws? Anything, therefore, that will better man’s condition will certainly lessen crime. Sucha state of affairs is what the single tax will bring about. It has already ‘been shown that taxing a thing has a ten- deney to discourage it, hence we are going to stop taxing industry and production, because these are the mainstays of existence, and to discourage them is to say that we have no right to 51-: ‘which nature ‘decreed should be ours, but our entire revenue, for all commu- nity purposes, we propose to take from land uflx& crpeo: by reason of the presence of the community, This will be a direct tax on land values as a location. The reason we claim this to be no tax is that the sum required by the com- munity must be equal to tne value which they give to land by reason of their presence and industry. By thus letting the land values furnish” the entire revenue as before shown, We naturally tend to discourage land specula: tion, which has been the curse of mankind in all ages, the worst of all gambles. It will also have the effect of throwing thousands of acres of good land at present held out of use for speculative purposes on the market at the annual rental value, according to its location, for when by taxation you destroy speculative value in land no one will hold land except for its best use, in doing which he must 'mphfi labor and use material, both of which wi assist in solving the labor problem. Regarding the wages of labor I would say this, that tie natural tendency of man is to work for himself in preference to working for 1se. With the land open to produc- tiou, and every able and willing to -y%y his labor to natural opportunities, labor would, as a consequence, become scarce. Capital, un- able to corner land, would be compelled to employ Inbor in the production of those things which supply man’s wants, at onee becominga beneflt to humanity instead of a curse, and labor being scarce on account of natural oppor- tunities being open to all, labor would at once fix the price of wages, instead of capital, as under present conditions. Here taen you have the solution of the labor question by the true and only science of political economy. These are only the superficial benefiis to be derived by this system of taxation; the mind grows dizzy trying to estimate the benefits this change would make in our own social and economic condition. ‘“Paradise regained’” would but feebly express it. Then in perfect freedom can man develop, ?hysically and mentally, those now dormaut aculties which his Creator intended should make him the lord of creation. The tendency undersuch conditions must be to.a nobler and better manhood, In conclusion let it be said that America sets the pace in this noble movement for the eman- cipation of her fellow-man, &s sne has in civil- ization. The American people cannot afford to slumber on the eve of their prosperity—such prosperity as the world has never seen. The European powerswould be compelled to adopt our policy for their own protection, as the influx into this country of capital under such conditions would leave them penuiless. Here, then, we have the means to an end. The desires of humanity gratitied. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness accomplished. A heaven on earth, peace and goodwill to men. The earth the inheritance of all mankind. The divine law of the Creator fulfilied. Yours very truly, GEO. WM. LOEHE. X BAYS TEST DUANOIS. Roentgen’s Discovery Used to Expose Faulty Setting of Bones. Many Applications of Radiography Explained by Professor Van der Naillen. The discovery, the history and the prac- tical uses of the X ray formed the sub- ject of an interesting popular lecture de- livered in Golden Gate Hall Wednesday by Professor A. Van der Naillen of this City, who, recently returned from Paris with apparatus and fine radiograph plates 1l lustrative of the most recent accomnplish- ments with the Roentgen ray. By the aid of the stereopticon enlarged pictures of radiographs were thrown upon & big screen. There was a wild duck that had been shot near Paris. Merely the out- line of the skeleton showed, but ali about were little biack dots where the shot was imbedded in the flesh or lodged near the bones. Another radiograph showed a compound fracture in the bones of a man’s leg. That man had paid to havethe bones properly set, and after the job was done be walked like a horse with the stringhalt. He went to Paris, had a radiograph taken of the bones, and ther started for home confident of winning & suit against the doctor simply by the evidence of the un- skillful work shown by the radiograph. There was a very rich lady of Paris who suspected that her jeweler had ‘‘changed the stones” in her priceiess diamond neck- lace. She mentioned her fearstoa pkif‘ sician who had an X ray apparatus. took a radiograph of the necklace and de- veloped the plate while she waited. Pure carbon, pure hydrogen, pure oxygen and pure nitrogen are generally transparent to the Roentgen ray. Only the settings of the necklace showed in the radiograph,for wherever there was a diamond the pure carbon offered no obstruction to the rays and only white spots resulted. But three of the large pendants near the front of the elaborste and many gemmed necklace came out as dark spots. The owner of the necklace brushed away a tear and prepared to go on the warpath. here was another case of a man who bad been shot in the foot. He paid his money to a surgeon ané had the shot Eicked out, but his foot grew worse. He ad a radiograph madeand it showed that the gurgeon had taken out all the shot ex- cept about twenty more deeply imbedded than the others. Several kinds of glass tubes may be used in the production of the Roentgen ray. The common pear-shaped tube has a small platinum plate inside the smail end, with its surface iacing the big end. An electric wire is sealed into the small end of the tube, near the platinum plate, which is the negative pole, cathode, or source of the cathode rays. The aurode or positive pole, is at the side of tne tube, another wire being sealed in ut that point. The interior is a partial vacuum. Dur- ing the passage of an electric current rays pass from the cathode on through the big end of the tube and out into the air. They are the X or Roentgen rays, but the cathode rays are not Roentgen rays. The constant attack of these straight raysupon the same spot at the big .n5 of the pear- shaped tube'in time destroys the glass. A professor of a Mississippi Valley college, with whom the lecturer was returning to America, exhibited with pride the fine ear-shsiped tubes he had purchased in urope for his laboratory. Every one of them proved to be badly damaged at the big end from use. g A little cigarette-shaped tube, named after its maker the Collardeau tube, is very successful in the production of s! 1mages of small size, but it cannot be u: for large objects. The Newton London tube is the one now in most general use in the hospitals and scientific institutions of Paris. : The center of the human eye is not transparent to the rays and that is why tuey probably cannot he seen. All other parts of the body except the bonesare transparent; but the bones composed as they are of various metallic salts offer an obstacle to the X rays. The lecture was illustrated throughout by electric aischarges through tubes, by pictures and by a fluoroscope in opera- tion, the spectators seeing piainly the greenish cathode rays through many thicknesses of boards inter, between the tube and the darkened room. ARCHITECT POLK - MAY GO TO JAIL Justice Groezinger Orders Him to Produce His Books. ORDER OF EXAMINATION Willis Threatened With Con- tempt of Court Pre- ceedings. CARES NOTHING FOR THE LAW, Admits Twenty Judgments Against Him and Owns no Property of Any Kind. Architect Willis Polk spent an exceed- ingly anpleasant half hour before Justice of the Peace Groezinger yesterday after- noon and incidentally excited the ire of the judicial light to the extent of a threat of a citation for contempt unless the or- ders of the court be complied with. The member of the four hundred was up on an order of examination procured by Collector J. J. Rauer, who holds a bill of $50 against the architect for board and lodging at the Hotel del Monte, contracted during the period when society was so- journing st the hostelry. Willis failed to ligunidate, and numerous demands for his board bill were unanswered. Then the managers decided on drastic measures, and put the matter in the hands of Rauer for collection. More demands failed to bring coin of the realm, and the order of examination followed. “What personal property have you?” asked Attorney George Perry, who repre- sented the plamtiff. “None,"” answered Polk. “‘Have you any real estate?” attorney. “None,”” was the answer. “Have you any solvent credits?’’ asked. “None,” was the answer. “Well, what have you?”’ query. “‘Nothing but the clothes on my back,” said the architect. “But how about the firm'of Polk & Polk, of which you are a member?’ queried Perry. “Don’t own a cent’s worth,” said Polk. “Qur last job was paid in advance and the money was spent long ago.” By this time the youthful looking Mr. Polk was palpably impatient and, when the question was asked whether any judg- ments were outstanding against him, blurted out: “Yes, twenty or thirty of them, but they don’t bother me a little bit. My business is designing buildings, not pay- ing attention to lawyers.” The attorney for Rauer tried to find out whether the books of Polk & Polk would show. any solvent credits that could be used to pay the bill of the Del Monte, but Polk answered that he had not kept books for eight months, in fact, since his father had gone to Pasadena sick, and that he did not know anything about the state of his business. “We would like to have the books in court, your Honor,” said the attorney. ‘I don’t know where they are. Idon’t propose spending the time to look for them,” said Polk. This aroused the court to a sense of its injured dignity and the Justice remarked: “You will have those books in court on Monday next at 10 o’clock, Mr. Polk, or I will have you locked up for contempt of court.” “But suppose I can’t find them?’ que- ried Polk. “I’ll send,a deputy sheriff to help you,” was the answer. “The deputy sheriff can hunt; I won’t,” said Polk.” “Books or jail,” answered Groezinger, and there the matter rested. Polk jammed his jaunty straw hat on his head and bolted out or court, vowing that he would go to jail first. : asked the was was the next Crushed Bodies in a Minc. BUTTE, Monrt., Aug. 20.—The bodies of the three men crushed to death in the shaft of the St. Lawrence mine by a fall- ing cage last night have been recovered, and by the clearing of the wreck it was found that there were no other fatalities. Dan Sullivan was found wedged between broken timbers, but aninjured —————— Parliament of Canada. 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