The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1896, Page 22

2_— FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1896. THE TRUE LEADER. The influence of the personal character of leaders isone of the most impértant factors in the making of history. The course of events in every crisis is largely determined by the confidence or lack of CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALI, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CavL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .85 | Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. . 150 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mall 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation? If | #0, 1t 15 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will Mmiss it. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt sttention. NO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San ¥Francisco, California. Telephone.... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 8:80 o’clock. BW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § o’clock. 316 Ninth street; open until 9 o’clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN QFFICE: Booms $1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. BUNDAY... ..AUGUST 23, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohfo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. Prosperity is surely coming. There is no longer any uncertainty. The party of the best wages is the party of the best men. The meeting at the Wigwam made the Democratic wig warm. Woman’s suffrage means a double vote on the side of home industry. . In the voice of McKinley there is heard the sound of reviving industry. Every industry in California needs pro- tection, and Bryan threatens us with free rade. Don’t let the excitement of the cam- paign lead you to neglect getting ready for the State Fair. The Republican party speaks for the whole Nation |and the Nation will speak for Republicanism. And the Democrats are now complain- ing that the Republican plan of campaign educates too much. The duty of every man is to make his income equal to his expenditures and it is the same with a nation. If you wish to be in the company of buoyant, joyous, sanguine men, attend Republican mass-meetings. A McKinley victory is now so well as- sured the iron and steel men are already talking of opening their mills. The Republican campaign is now fully opened, but the only thing open on the Demcecratic side is Bryan’s mouth. The true issue of the campaign isto pro- vide American goods for American homes and American mills for American labor. It is clearly evident that the rank and file of the Republican army is under the direct command of general enthusiasm. Even amid the comforts of his home to- day the workingman will feel the pressure of Democratic hard times and see the need of voting for prosperity. The voice that champions the welfare of the people and the honor of the Nation will ever be eloquent in the hearts as well as in the earsof Americans. kLT e The Wyoming Republicans have very properly nominated a woman on their electoral ticket, and of course she will count as a mascot for McKinley. Eastern people have reached the con- clusion that Bryan is not equal to his reputation, and it will be remembered his reputation in that section wasn't much. Experienced political campaigners in the East say that never beforein their rec- oliection have there been such large audi- ences as this year thus early in the can- vass. Senator Vest is reported to have said “a good Democrat is one who votes the ticket first und reads the platform afterward,” but neither Vest nor any one else will say that such a man is a good citizen. The plea made at Saratoga by the Lord Chief Justice of England for international arbitration was well received by this coun- try and there is reason to believe a plea for international bimetallism would be equally well received in England. There is comfort in prospect even for Democrats. They can take part in the Stockton frolic on Admission day, and as soon as they pick themselves up after elec. tion they can have their due share in the Thanksgiving rejoicing over the return of protection and prosperity. It will not be overlooked by the work- ingmen of California that all the work- ingmen of the Mississibpi Valley are .or- ganizing McKinley clubs and sending dele- gations to call on McKinley. They know the man, they know he is iheirfriend and they are going to support him. The threat of Democratic free trade par- alyzed American indusiury, reéduced the amount of wages paid out, pat a check on the circulation of money, cut down the profits of merchants, ruined the market for farm products; and still Bryan and his crowd have ‘the nerve to ask the peo- ple for their votes. The people know that the Republican party will keep its pledge to promote an international agreement for the free coin- age of silver; they know also that Demo- cratic campaign pledges are always broken when the party gets into office, and it is in accordance with that knowledge they will vote on election day. confidence which men have in those in authority over them. It is there- fore most vital to the welfare of the Re- public that the supreme exacutive should | bea man of well-tried character, one whose deeds are known to all, whose personal | influence is of a nature to steady and con- | firm the resolution of the people in the verformance of great actions. With a strong man at the head of affairs the people never despair, but with a weak one losing all their contidence in the ability of the leader to deal with it with wisdom and courage. It cannot be questioned that the evils of the past years of crisis and panic would have been much less than they were had | Cleveland been able to retain tne con- fidence of the people or even that of the leaders of his own party in Congress. When they began to distrust him con- fusion ensued at once, and every evil of the time was augmented by the bungling legislation of wrangling factions in the Government. With the disasters result- ing from such leadership still in evidence in every trade and in every home the American people will need no argument this year to convince them of the folly of making an experiment with an untried man in the Fresidency. The leader who cannot hold the support or retain the con- fidence of the best men of his own party is certainly not the kind of man to whom an intelligent people will intrust the delicate and difficult task of shifting the basis of our monetary system from the gold standard to bimetallism, fraught as that task is with danger to every trade and to every industry. In every crisis of its history the Repub- lican party hasbeen singulariy fortunate in finding exactly the right leader to hold the confidence of the people in the work beforeit. That good fortune is well illus- | trated 1n the leadership of McKinley at | this juncture. His personal influence growing out of his charateter and his record as soldier and as statesman has had the effect of arousing the ardor of Repub- licans and of drawing to the party a mighty host of business men, wage- earners, war veterans and conservative | citizens of all classes from the ranks of those who have been hitherto in opposition 1o the party. This presages something more than victory in November. It gives assurance that when inaugurated as Presi- dent Mr. McKinley will have the support of the people at large, of a strong majority in Congress, and that every crisis which | arises in finance or trade will be met with the prompt mastery of a united, harmoni- | ous and resolute Government. It is no orator untried in statecraft or in i war that the Republican party has named | for the high office of President of the | United States. McKinley is not an acci- | dent in politics whom the people are urged | to accept as an experiment in government. | A southful volunteer in the war for the | Union, his record of public service con- | nects us with the great days of Lincoln i and of Grant. Trained in legislation | during the reconstruction period, when lour finances, our trade and our tariffs were | reorzanized, he was the associate of Blaine and Garfield and Conkling in that vast work, and rose to a splendid eminence among the younger leaders of the country. | He now stands forth the rightfal leader at | this great juncture. The people trust in | him. They know that he will right the evils of legislation and restore the pros- | perity the Democrats hava destroyed. FOR HUMANITY'S GOOD. The address of Lord Russell, Chief Jus- tice of England, before the American Bar Association at Saratoga Springs will no doubt cause the nations to take along step in the direction of providing ways and means for adjudicating disputes and | disagreements between themselves by ar- | bitration. The distinguished jurist so im- pressed those who heard him and those who have read his address with the im- portance of providing for arbitration in all treaties between nations that only good must come of it, the more so because the suggestion comes from the judicial head of not only one of the strongest military nations, but of a nation that is always equipped for war. Lord Russell made a pronounced de- parture from the beaten path when ne de- clared that the standard of right and jus- tice between nationsshould beethical. The doctrine that might makes right the Chief Justice renounces and proclaims the gospel of peace, and that he voices the sen- timent of the people of his own country there isno reason to doubt. But it isas he said. There might arise complications which would justify war more than peace. No nation could afford to accept peace at the cost of its honor. A nation might have an unrighteous cause thrust upon it and then war for the right would befar nobler than to accept the wrong for the sake of peace: War Is honorable In those who do thelr native rights maintain; In those whose swords an iron barrier are, Between the lawless spoi er and the weak: But is, in those who draw the oftensive blade For added power or gain, sordid and despicable. There is unmistakable significance in this coming tozether of many of the lead- ing jurists and lawyers of the two English- speaking nations to declare to the world that the highest duty of a nation, next to giving ample protection to its own people in the enjoyment of their rights, is to avoid as far as possible complications with other nations that would necessitate war. Were these two English-speaking nations numerically weak in population or poor in purse, their demand for peace- ful arbitration instead of war in adjusting differences between nations would be re- ceived with little consideration by the other members of the family of nations, but together the United States and the United Kingdom may be said to control the wealth, the commerce and the indus- tries of the world; besides their people are, generally speakirg, far ahead of the other peoples of the worla in inventive genius, in learning, in science, in art and in the elevating influences of home life. The English - speaking people of the world are quicker than any other to resist advances upon their personal liberty. They set the pace, indeed, for humanity everywhere to higher and truer conditions of national and individual freedom. They lead in civilization’s advance upon lines of human brotherhood and in those ways of peace which spring from sincere devo- tion to the principles of right, justice and personal liberty. .Hence the influence of the Saratoga Springs meeting for good must reach far and wide, and the seed of peace and prosperity for all humanity there planted cannot help bearing fruit that will ultimately gladden the beart of mankind. GOING TO PIECES, -It is probably true as reported that Hoke Smith has left Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet. He could have done nothing | else and retained the respect of friend or they lose half their energy in a erisis by | foe. It is the unwritten law of politics that no member of the President’s Cabi- net has the right to remain in the official family a moment after he disagrees with his chief on any public question. The President is responsible for the official as well as the political conduct of his ad- visers, and no man of character would want to remain in the Cabinet if he were not in full sympathy with the administra- tion’s aim and purpose in all things. Mr. Smith has a perfect right to differ with Mr. Cleveland upon any question, but he could not remain in the Cabinet end supporta man who is vilifying his chief on every occasion without compro- mising his own dignity. It does not mat- ter whether Mr. Smith: 1s supporting Bryan on principle or for his own political advantage; the fact that he is advocating the election of the Chicago nominee and espousing a cause that President Cieve- land believes is antagonistic to the best interests of the country makes it obliga- tory upon Mr. Smith to relieve the Presi- dent of such a handicap as his own pres- ence in the Cabinet would be. Rumor has it that one or two other members of the President’s official family are likely to re- sign on account of political differences, and they should make haste to do so if they disagree with the man who made them Cabinet officers. A FEW FACTS. Mr. Bryan may know all about the tricks of oratory, but he knows nothing what- ever about the science of economies. Ina speech the other day he undertook to prove that silver bullion would have a market price of $1 20an vunce if this coun- try declared for the free and unlimited coinage of the white metal, independent of other countries, and as a clincher he said: “Any purchaser who stands ready to take the entire supply of any given article at a certain price can prevent that article from falling below that price.” How very very little the man knows. Certainly one might prevent the price of an article going below a given point if he would take all offerings at that price, but what has that proposition to do with the bullion price of silver under Bryan’s plan of opening the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver? The words “free and unlimited”” mean that thereis no buyer for silver bullion at any fixed price. They mean that the Government must take anybody’s silver bullion, coin it into disks called dollars and return the product to the owner without making any charge for converting the bullion into disks. The Government does not buy the builion, therefore it fixes no price upon it. It would be a matter of no consequence to the Government what the market price of bullion was. It would simply act as the machine of the owner of the bullion to convert it into disks. Bryan’s theory is utterly worthless as an argument, that by opening the mints the Government would become a purchaser of all or any offerings of bullion at a given price. To be sure the disks that were made of the bullion would be a legal tender for debts in this country, but they would not be a legal tender in current transactions, nor would one be obliged to agree to take them at some future time in liquidation of a current contract. In fact, the owner of the bullion would not be a whit better off after he had it coined into dollars, ex- cept that he could pay his old debts with it, and to that extent only—to the extent of paying debts previously contracted— would the free and unlimited coinage of silver, independent of other nations, in- crease the volume of the Nation’s metallic nioney. Not a few believe that Bryan’s plan of free coinage would make the Gov- ernment a buyer of silver bullion at its debt-paying value as coin, but they are mistaken. - As we have said, the Govern- ment would be nothing more than a ma- chine to change the shape of silver from bars into disks ordollars and make them a legal tender for debts previously con- tracted. The difference between Bryan’s plan and the Republican party’s plan to open the mints to silver is very great. The plan of the laiter is to have the commer- cial nations agree that silver shall bea money metal; that it shall be coined upon its own merit; that it shail be made ulti- mate as well as present redemption money; that it shall be accepted in all in- ternational commercial transactions at its face value; thatitshall have nothing what- ever to do with gold except in so far as itis necessary to determine the ratio of differ- ence in the market price per pound; that it shall be & money metal as full and com- plete as gold, and that it shall be received for coinage at the mints of all the com- mercial nations. Naturally that would keep its bullion and coin value substan- tially the same, because there would bea demand for the world’s production for coinage purposes, and, moreover, the vol- ‘ume of the world’s metallic money would then be increased in an amount exactly equal to the world’s production of silver and gold, less the amount that would be required in the arts and sciences. That is true bimetallism. FIRST OATCH THE HARE., When his old comrades-in-arms called upon him the other day Major McKinley said: “I do not know what you think about it, but I believe it is a good deal better to open up the mills of the United States to the labor of America than to open up the mints of the United States to the silver of the world.” Borme of Bryan’s organs are trying to make it appear that Major McKinley evaded the money question on that ocoa- sion because he is committed to the gold standard and did not wish to expose his opnosition to silver to his old comrades. If Bryan’s organs are too obtuse to under- stand what Mzjor McKinley meant, or are too dishonest to give a fair interpretation of his words, the fault is theirs, and it would be time wasted to bother with them, Major McKinley was not talking politics, religion or ethics when he addressed his old war companions. He merely sub- mitted a business proposition which calls for an answer from the experience and ob- servation of business. The question is, Is it better to apen the mills tuat Jabor may have employment, or keep the mills closed and open the mints to the free coinage of silver and not give labor employment? Mr. Bryan says it would be better to open the mints than the mills, but he does not say how labor womdd be benefited by transforming the silver of the world into American sllver dollars. Labor may be very stupid in Mr. Bryan’s estimation, but, nevertheless, it canust get it through its bead how any silver or any other kind of dollars will find lodgment in its pocket unless it earns them. If Bryan kaows of another way labor would be obliged to him for the information, for dollars are what American labor is needing very much just now. The idea prevails pretty generaily inlabor circles that if wage-earners could get plenty of employment their wages would be forthcoming on payday and in a very satisfactory kind of money, too. Major McKinley is harboring the same idea that labor is, and hence he and labor are of one accord on the proposition that it is better to give labor an opportunity to go to work and earn dollars than to let it loaf around a mint and see dollars turned out by the bushel, but not one of which would come labor’s way. BryaL seems to have the 1dea that feasting the eyes of labor upon bushels of new silver dollars should satisfy the demands of labor's stomach for food, but as Mr. Bryan does not belong in the field of labor and has bad no experience in feeding the-stomach through the eyes, he is not a good au- thority on the needs of labor. Major McKinley is just as vehement in his demand for more silver dollars as Mr. Bryan is, but he does not see how more dollars are going to benefit labor unless labor has a chance to exchange its services for them, and hence it is that he demands that the mills be opened tirst so that labor may have plenty of oppostunity to earn dollars, and then increase the 'volume of dollars just as much as iabor requires it to be increased. Major McKinley would catch the hare before he cooked it, but Bryan would first get ready to cook it and then “trust to luck” for the hare to come and jump into the pot. PERSONAL. J. B. Finley of Tueson s in town. George W. Jones of Fresno is in the City. Dr. C. W. Doyle of Santa Cruz is at the Bald- win. 2 ey o Judge L. W, Blinn ot Los Angeles is atthe Palace. » & F. J. Lowrey, & business man of Honolulu, 1s in the City. oz H. G. Burton, a business man of San Diego, 1s et the Grand. deat ‘William Niles, the politician of Los Angeles, is at the Occide L 8. P. Rose, secrotary of the Wilder Steamship Company, is in town. General B. H. Grierson of the United States army isat the Palace. Raleigh Barcar, proprietor of the Vacaville Reporter, is in the City. The Rev. M. K. Hyde of Honolulu is here, ac- companied by Mrs. Hyde. , John W. Mitchell, the attorney of Los An. geles, arrived here yesterdsy. John B. Echoeffel, a wealthy coffee merchant of New York, is at the Palace. J. A, Scott, secrétary of the Hawailan l3oard of Education, is at the Occidental. State Senator D. A. Ostrom of Yuba County is among the arrivals at the Grand. W. Mecklenberg, a leading business man of Denver, was among yesterday’s arrivals. J. A. Hopper, who owns a large rice-mill and planing-mills at Honolulu, is on & visit here. N. B. Wells, manager of a large sugar planta- tion at Wailuku, in the Hawaiian Islands, is at the Occidental. Mrs. Paul Neumann, wife of ex-Attorney-Gen- eral Paul Neumann of Hawaii, arrived here on the Australia yesterday. C. J. Falk, one of the officers of the Hawaiian Railway Company,was one of the arrivals here by the Australia yesterday. C. A. Peacock, a wholesale merchant of Honolulu, arrived here on the Australia yes- terday, accompanied by his family, Hon. Cecil Brown of Hawail, who is the at- torney of James Campbell, the Honolulu capi- talist, arrived here yesterday and is at the Oc- cidental. A. B. Glasscock, manager of the Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley, is in the City. He says this has beena quiet year in the Yosemite, with travel very light. J. Marion ooks, formerly United States District Attorney for Southern Californis, and noted in the ranks of the Democratie party, arrived here yesterday. H. W. Patton, editor of the Los Angeles Capi- tel, and formerly Register of the Land Office at Los Angeles, who, a few days since, received the Democratic nomination for Congress, is on a visit here. W. R. Vice of the Union Pacific Railroad pas- senger office was yesterday presented by ex- President Barillas of Guatemala with a unique pair of gold sleevebuttons, each of the buttons bearing the regulation “arms” of the railroad. The Hon. James Mills, member of the New Zealand Parliament, and one of the owners in steamships connecting with the Spreckels line, who has been visiting this country and Europe fox some time, has taken his departure for home. W. E. Baines of Stella, on the Columbia River in Washington, who some months since brought the great Joggins raft to this City,is in town. He has constructed another great raft and launched it. He expects it to arrive on Monday. Charles Doie of Pasadena, nephew of the President of the republic. of Hawaii, coast champion pole-vaulter, champion all-round Y. M. C. A. athlete of the West, captain of the Stanford track athletic team, and haifback on the Stanford football team, returned here yes- terday from the mountains in the northern part of the State, where he has been for nearly three months “roughing it” and training for the coming football season at Palo Alto. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y. Aung. 22. — At the 8t. Cloud—P. J. Sully; Continental—A. L. Baker; Astor—Miss F. Green; Sturtevant—Dr. G. B. Richmond; Murray Hill—H. W. Hawley. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Isn’t she a queer girl? She keeps a parrot, four canaries and a monkey."” “That's nothing. Iknow a girl who keeps a secret.”’—Detroit Tribune. “There is not a woman in the whole block.” “How do you know?"” ‘‘Every piazza has a man on it, smoxing, m his shirt sleeves.”’—Chicago Record. We wish & man could preserve joy in cans, like tomatoes, and use it when scarce. When & man does find joy he usually finds more than he can use all at once.—Atchison Globe. “I don’t see why you asked Mr. Bohr to sing,” said the popular girl's sister. “Ihated to do 11,” was the reply, “but it was the only way to make him stop talking”— Washington Evening Star, ‘es,” said she, “we married forlove alone.” can easily believe it,” said the aged single gentleman. “I thought there couldn’t have been any exercise or judgment connected with the transaction.”—Cincinnat1 Enquirer. “This car,” said the surly passenger, ‘“re- minds me of an organ. It hasso many stops.” “Reminds me just now of a streetorgan,” retorted the tired conductor. “It goes with a crank.”—Philadelphia Record. “Bay not that we are lost,” she exclaimed. “There is yet hope. Yonder essassin has to #ing high C as he strikes us dead, and he may swallow his palate.” g There were obvious advantages to being heroine in opera over being heroine in some other old tHing.—Detroit Tribune. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Princess of Wales on her travels fs always accompanied by a favorite white cat. Herbert Spencer is hard at work, at 76, on the third volume of his comprehensive “Prin ciples of Sociology.” W. W. McEwan of Jackson, Mich., has the distinction of having made more balioon as- censions than any other living American. Sir Edward Clarke’s retainer on receiving the Jameson b was 500 guineas, while every day he had fresher” of 100 guineas, Aaron Hayden of Robinson is one of the largest poultry-raisers in Maine, At present he owns 2000 chickens and 1000 hens. His daily average of eggs is about 700. The oldest living ex-State Treasurer of Mass- achusetts 18 Moses Tenney of Georgetown. He was chosen to that office on the ticket with (lig;;mol Gardner and served from 1856 to The Princess of Wales, who was brought up in the most democratic fashion by the sensi- ble Danish King, has found that actually milk- ing cows at Sandringham and superintending the dairy gives her better health than all the medicines of the court physician. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Ex-Probate Judge Terrell of Moberly, Mo!, hall way between St. Louis and Kansas City, is at the Russ, accompanied by Mrs. Terrell. Moberly is one of the most important manu- facturing towns in Missouri. Itis on the line of the Wabash Ratlroad and there are located the exteusive shops of the Wabdsh system. Ex-Judge Terrell has been on the bench there a number of years. He is & prominent figure in that part of Missouri. He has been visiting Colorado Spriugs recently and will be tons and 10,000 horsepower, carries 18 line officers, including 4 cadets, but only 3 en- gineers and 2 cadet engineers. The Cas- tine, of 1177 tons and 2200 horsepower, Car- ries 8 line officers. but only 1 engineer. There Lare line officers enough to take their regular watches, but thé two. engine-rooms in the Castine are left Lo the supervision of a solitary engineer; and on the Raleigh only two en- gineers act as wateh officers: It is, of course, a physical impossibility for engineer officers to be in the engine-rooms for twenty-four hours, or twelve hours, at one stretch; yetin ! CAHILL [pealait EX-PROBATE JUDGE A, P. TERRILL.OF MOBERLY. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] here for several days. From here he will go to Santa Barbara. He discussed briefly yesterday the action of Governor Stone and Senators Cockrell and Vest at the recent National conventions and added: “I presume every one has a good i1ea of how Missouri will go in the election, and therefore Iwill only allude to it. ‘Other States which may be called doubtful are Indiana, Wiscon- sin and Michigan, and finally Illinois, which may be called very doubtful. But I am not a practical politician in the sense that the meaning of the term is understood, and there- fore I leave the matter to the result of the campeign, and with it I have no dgubt Ishall be satisfied. “The great State from which I come has enormous crops of oats, wheat and corn this year. The yield of corn will be very heavy, indeed. <The fruit yield is large, too. “But business is quiet, money being scarce, with a lack of new enterprises. Tliscondition should not, however, continue long.” The Judge will go to Santa Barbara and re- main some little time. THE LINE AND THE STAFF. The thirty years war between the line and staff corps of the navy may terminate during the next sesslon of Congress. The feud began under Secretary Borie, and has grown more bitter, until the strained feeling between the two corps threatens to impair the efficiency of the service. The long years of inactivity after the close of the civil war had much to do with this condition of affairs, for the military branch, or the line, so called, for want of legitimate employment has sought to absorb the functions of the pay corps, engineer corps, constructors and civil engineers, and has suc- ceeded in making the last-named corps sub- ordinate to the line branch. The bureau system of the Navy Department, under which each branch of the naval service has conducted its own affairs since 1842, has been a source of great solicitude on the part of the i or satlor officers, and they have always argued that these bureaus, in orderto be efficient, should be under the control of the line. Numerous at- tempts haye been made to create a board of admiraltfy, or a board of advisers,to the Secre- retary ot the Navy, to be composed of high- rank line officers, whose functions would be an absolute controi of the Navy Department, making the Secretary of the Navy an official figurehead, and the bureaus entirely subordi- nate to the board of high-grade line officers. Under Secretary Borie Admiral David D. Por- ter virtually obtained control, with the result that while millions of dollars were spent the navy was left in a worse state of inefficiency than when the admiral began his work of re- form. It was not alone that mouey was wasted on ships to gratify the hobby of this self-ap- pointed ruler of the navy, but he inaugurated & system of persecution against the staff which has been continued by other officers of high rank up to the present time. To carry on the work of the navy efficiently it is requisite that fixed responsibilities with corresponding rank and pay must be allotted to each individual in the service, but it was not until 1846, after thirty-four years’ agitation, that the surgeons receivea military recogni- tion in obtaining relative rank with the line, and in the following year the pay corps was similarly recognized. The engineer corps was created in 1842, but it was not until 1859 that Congress conferred rank upon that branch of the naval service. On March 13, 1863, the staff corps were graded with the line, and this continued until 1869, when Porter, taking aa- vantage of the fact that the order of March 13, 1863, had not been legalized by Congress, had it revoked, and more than 600 staff officers, conisisting of surgeons, paymasters, engineers, professors, chaplains, naval constructors and civil engineers, were humiliated and degraded. The stripes, indicating their relative stand- ing with the other officers, were stripped off, and those who had hitherto ranked with ca; tains were reduced to commanders, comman: ers to lieutenants and lieutenant-commanders to masters, while others had to resume their civilian clothes and had no military standing. By act of March 3, 1871, increased rank was conferred on all staff officers, and this law still operates, subject, of course, to such modifica- tions as it is possible for the line branch to ronstrue and enact to the disadvantage of of- ficers not of the line. Yet, notwithstanding the plain provision and meaning of the law of Congress, the line practically ignores the staff as officers and treats them, as they term them, as civilian oficers and non-combatants. The line con- siders itselt as the “salt of the earth,” and, as graduates of the Annapolis school, to be the military aristocracy of the country. By sneers, words and acts they have humiliated staff of- ficers, notably the engineer corps, and are constantly endeavoring to influence legisla- tion by Congress to the disadvantage of the | engineers. Through the persistent system of an unre- lenting contempt of what,a few years ago, they denominated “the greasers,” some of the brightest talent in the engineer corps has been driven out of the service, and sixteen have resigned from the navy during the past eight years and entered 1nto civil pursuits. While there ere a sufficiency of line officers detailed to every vessel of the navy, the engineer lorce, so far as officers goes, is short-handed to a ridiculous degree. The Raleigh, of 3200 the event of accident that officer is held re- sponsible, and a court composed of line offi- cers 1s sure to convict him of neglect, and either recommend his dismissal or sentence him to years of suspension. As a natural result quite & number of mid- dle-aged and even young engineer officers have succumbed to the strain, some dying and others forced to retire from active service. Political and navy influences were, until within a few years ago, important factors in obtaining admission 1o the Naval Academy. There are officers in the line corps whose presence can be accounted for only on those grounds, but every graduate in the engineer corps is there on hisown merits and because he made higher percentages in all the studies. It is from the cream of the academy that naval constructors and engineers are selected ; the next skimming makes ensigns or line officers, and the marine corps takes what is left. Yet, for all that, the line officer still cherishes the tradition of inferierity on the part of all other officers not of the line corps. With the advent of the new navy, its modern armament and various intricate contrivances, the Ba]].!cfmbmelll guns and o!d-style evolu- tions and fignting have been discarded. The old shell-back sailors have been replaced with men who know more about their several parts than the officer in command, for it is a curi- ous fact that the captains, commanders, lieu- tenant-commanders all entered the service between 1854 and 1863, many years before the new navy vessels were bailt. It was 100 late for officers on the wrong side of 40 to start afresh in the modernized pro- fession, yet these same officers are either com- manding officers or “executives” on the new flomn% war machines. As for the engine- room, the simple engige of 1000 horsepower and the boilers with forty poundsof steam have been displaced for engines exesedlgs 20,000 horsepower and boilers with 16 pounds of steam, and with the exit of the old engines the engineers of the old days are also disappearing. Chief engineers who rose to that grade and never run even an ordinary compound engine gracefully retired, and taoeir places are being filled with men who know all about the modern engine. While the days of study for the line officers terminate, as a rule, with their leaving the academy, the engineer is placed in a quite different position. 8till, promotion goes on in the line regardless of fit- ness, and thus, while the iine corps suffers from the presence of “‘deadwood” or the pres- ence of officers unfit for various reasons for the grade and thusexcludes the young, meritorious and ambitious elément, the engineer corps has little or no cause to complain of deadwood in 1ts ranks. ‘The progressive portion of the line has long lel‘ogniua the necessity of younger blood in the higher grades, There are now lieutenants 50 years of age, which in other navies would be close to the rear-admiral’s grade. The pres- ent bill before Congress contemplates a re- organization of the navy personnel, a general weeding out and consequent promotion of subordinate grades to higher itions in the line, and the stafl corps, likewise, come in for reorganization. They demand actual instead of relative rank to make them safe from the petty persecutions of the line, and the en- ineer corps demands an increase adequate to glndle the work of the new unvgv. Its present force of 173, against 205 _in 1887, is to be in- creased to about 350. With equalized rank and pay in the line and staff corps, with duties strictly defined and within the proper sphere of each corps, a_better feeling will naturally result among officers and tend to improve the Wholemavy. . LE LADY'S WRAPPER OR TEA GOWN. A semi-fitted wrapper is a most comfortable garment, and is preferred by many to a tight or entirely loose gown. The one shown here hangs in graceful lines from a yoke back and frout. These portions are rounded et the side: and further fitted by an unfier-arm gore. The sleeve is unlined, making it altogether an ideal model for washable fabrics. The same design serves for hamdsome tea gowns. One was seen of blue crepon. The yoke was of ;r:m satin covered with creamy guipure lace. @ epauleties were of bine satin ribbon (six inches wide) joined by a wide &pr at the top ol’i‘o,finlna’u in tro:l:. At e A gown of pink Dresden silk, with narro lines of black satin two inches apart, ha satin yoke covered with. chiffon. Around epaulettes, which were of the silk, was a nar- TOW pleating of chiffon. A biack satin ribbon wes ught forward from the back of the under-arm gore and partially confined the / little below the waist line in front z:“l:};g‘r.ufin ‘adorned the sleeve e A gown of dimity, in stripes of green and white, had green ribbon epaulettes, with a of the same. ’°“’§xf?§"fmze Iawn gOWNn Was exquisitely having lawn with 1nsertions of nar- TOW alenciennes set 1m. A ruffle of lace to match finished the edges. The ruffles on the sleeves wére of lawn and insertion. A white Tibbon with rose-colored flounces and & tin black satin edge formed # folded collar an bow with long ends at the lower edge of yoke g — DOING GOOD WORK. Santa Rosa R'pnl:lllt;ln. B Fooa The San Francisco CALL is doing mu 00! éampaign work, Its editorials are generally pointed and patriotic. They areé clear and convineing. THE CALL is givin; the %eop]g an array of valuable factson sl verlng pro- tection questions that must largely influence the inteiligent voters of the State. P 3 — E. H. BLcK, puinter, 120 Eddy streot. e e e A NicE present—Townsend’s California Glmg ¥ruit, 50c. 1b., in Jap baskets. 627 Market. ———————— DR. C. O. DEAN, dentist, formerly of 12? Kearny street, has reopened at 534 Kearny. —————————— SPEWL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. * ————————— Maurion de Ro’s Will. The will of Marion de Ro was yesterday filed for probate. The testatrix died at Benson- hurst, Long Island, July 22,1896, and leaves $10,000 to a brother, Andrew J. Birney; $10.- 000 to & brother-in‘law, L H. Ogilvie; $5000 to a nephew, Jumes Atkins, and several minor bequests, A.J. Birney resides in Marysville. Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern Paclfic Rall- road has been selected as the offictal rou:e toai- tend the National Encampment of the G. A. . 4% St. Paul, o be held there September 2t05. Ths excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacrs- mento August 26 at 7 P.3. Rates $67 90 forchy round trip. The above rate is open to all who wisa tomake the lrip East. Send your name andal dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 838 Markes treel, dan Francisco, for sleeping-car reservauloid ————— Are You Going ¥ast? Tha Atlantic and Facific Raflfond—saniq = route—is the coolest and most comfortable snme mer line, owing to its elevation and absenos »! alkali dust. 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