The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1896. FATHER YORKE ON SISTERHOODS Their .Noble Lives and Deeds Elcquently Extolled. PRAISE BUT NO APOLOGY Protestant Preachers Blamed for the Shattering of Moral Forces. TWO QUESTIONS FOR FLEENOR Editor Barry as Chairman Pays His Comp!iments to Leaders of the A. P. A, Rev. Peter C. Yorke was again greeted with a full house at Metropolitan Hall last night, where he delivered the fourth of the series of six lectures he has under- taken to give under the auspices of the American Women'’s Liberal League. The subject of his lecture was “Ministering Angels.”” The usual hearty applause greeied the Catnolic champion’s entry upon the platform. He was accompanied by James H. Barry,'who acted as chair. man of the evening. In makiag his open- ing remarks Mr. Barry said: “I understand full well that you are not applauding the individual, and therefore 1 appreciate those cheers. I knowitis the cause I humbly represent that you ap- plaud—the cause of civil and religious liberty.” After paying a tribute to the work of the American Women’s Liberal League for its work in the cause of true liberty he said: “Of all the factors that have been op- posed to the A.P. A.—conceived In in- famy and carried on in shame—none have been more potent to bring them into con- tempt than the American Women’s Lib- eral League. “Let me instance what these A. P. A.’s are. Only a few months ago I was stand- ing up against the best patron Ihad. I denounced the Supreme Court for its de- cision. Suddenly I discovered he wasa member of the A. P. A.—that he wasat their meelings and saying, ‘We must keep these proceedings secret while we are try- ing to free the country from the red hand of the church of Rome.’ *‘The very day 1 found he was an A, P. he visited my house with his wife. I talked of nothing but A. P. A. and told bim how bad it was to be an A, P. A.; how bad it was for an aspirant for office to be an A. P. A.; how bad it was a man who desired to sit in judgment on his fellow- man to bean A. P. A., and all the reply he made was to nod his head.” His reference to Winthrop, who was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Wallace, as an A. P. A. elicited great applause. *It is a pity,” he con- tinued, ‘‘that they were not all sent in one job-lot to prison.’”” He placed Quitzow, who defended Winthrop, and Price, who was convicted of dealing in obscene litera- ture, in the same category with Winthrop. Price boasted, he said, that 1t was impossi- ble to convict kim; “but we shall see that this lecherous scoundrel is punished,” added the speaker. *The man who could live ou a woman’s shame only ten vears ago—and he is 40 years old now—and say it was only a boy’s indiscretion, is a repiile worse than any other on this_earth. This is what I think of Benjamin F. Hudelson, the grand presi- ligion would lay down their lives for the honor of these women. My object this evening is merely to ex- plain to you something about these sister- hoods, their origin, their governments, their work and their lives, so that those not Catholics may know them as we do. *“Let me first tell them what the nun is. She is sister to every Catholic man, to every Catholic woman and to every Cath- olicchild, They all reverence her and loye her and would die for her.” 5 . He explained the need of organization in doing good, as in other matters, and said that among the organizations created for doing good those composed of women were far from being the least important. Aister showing how the Catholic sister- hoods sprang into existence in order to better perform charitable work he ex- claimed : ““Who is Case that he should take the place of fathers and brothersr Are not these fathers and brothers able to protect their women? Are tney migrating preachers like this Case? Who is this reverend blackguard who takes it upon bimself to do whart you are perfectly able todo? *“Who are these gentlemen of the beetle- brow who object to the vow of the postu- lant? They are a cross between an Oregon boot and & handcuff. The only things these gentry are acquainted with. ‘“The vow these women take is only one of obedience, chastity and poverty, and before they are allowed to permanently attach themselves to the sisterhood they are made to thoroughly understand what they are about to do; their vows are made in public and they are i{ven every oppor- tunity to turn back. if they find that they have made a mistake, 4 “One thing which greatly disturbs these defenders of our institutions is that the sisters do not live on theroofs. They talk of how the sisters are locked behind bolts and bars, and of having tbe Legislature appoint men to inspect them asif they were pesthouses. “The A.P. A., remember, will not in- dorse'any man for the Legislature who will not take a pledge to secure the passage of a law providing for such in- spection. “Every man’s house, according to the Magna Charta, is his castle. And are we to allow these curiosity-seekers to poke their noses 1nto our houses? i “Ihere is not a man or womsan who can- not go to any convent in this City, as a friend to another’s house, and be shown through it from garret to cellar with the greatest alacrity and pleasure by the sis- ters, wp ink of such men as Hudelson and Price and Quitzowand Winthrop trying to vledge men to pass a law for the inspection of convents.”’ “They can’t do it,’’ shouted a man in the audience. “Noj; they can’t do it as long as there is an American man in the country,” re- sponded the lecturer, laying special stress on the word ‘““‘American.’” The noble ana charitable work of the Catholic sisterhood was reviewed at some length. H- told of their labors amoug the lepers of Alabamaand Molokai and among the aborigines along the Yukon, in the hospitals, in the day homes and other places where suffering exists. “To the Catholic sisterhood,” he said, “‘belong the credit of establishing the present system of free schools, which were inaugurated in Cork. We have our mag- nificent hospitals and other charitable in- stitutions, but they have been provoked oy the glorions works of our sisterhoods. **And the hardest thing to us is to hear these noble women reviled by these scoun- \ drels ot the A. P. A.” His concluding words were: ‘“They are to us—even their very presence among us —a blessing and benediction from on high. A sight of them is acall to higher and holier thoughts. They are our fallen na- ture's hignest, purest boast.” WAS EMMA ASHLEY SANE? Her Sister Thinks She Was Crazy When She Shot at Baldwin. | Unblemished Family Recora Opposed to Some Scathing Allusions by the Millionaire “I think that my sister was undoubtedly insane when she fired that shot,” said Miss Lillian Ashley in tremulous tones as dent of the A. P. A" continued Mr. Bar: *““Give it to him,” shouted some one in the gallery. am sorry,” responded Mr. Barry, ‘‘to say that in this case I am euchered. I can’t find words to describe him in the English language. Nearly three years ago there stood on this piatform a man called the Rev. J. Q. A. Henry and a man named Slattery, who siandered the purest women on this eartn. The only reason, they said, they could see for my action1s that I have been hyono- tized by Father Yorke and that [ am in the pay of the Catholic church. “1 never realized the infamy of the A. A. until my attention was called to an a cle printed in the A. P. A. organ attacking the purest-minded women we know.’’ He read part of the article which broadly impiied, be said, that four laaies who took the oath of noviates were to_ become in- mates of a religious brothel. He next read his defense printed in the Star of the women who had thus been attacked. It was these women, he said, that Father Yorke wonld talk about, and this was his excuse for bringing up these unpleasant matters. Cheers and wild applause greeted Father Yorke's appearance. “Where, oh, where has Fleenor fled?” he began. . *‘Only a short week ago he was rampant on this platform. Can it be that only the single question why he left Oakland caused him to flee? If thatis so, then I will ask him two more questions, so that he may continue to flee. “Why does he sign himself from Seattle when he knows all about Ukiah? “And the second question is: Did he ever have anything to do with insane asylums? **RBy the time he answers these questions there may be a story to tell. “Even the honorable Mr.. Quitzow was compelled to hold his nose yesterday and to apologize for oneof hisorators. Every one of these reverend and irreverend men connected with the A. P. A. have bistories which stink in the nostrils of decency. *The Rev. Dr. Goodwin was in evidence vesterday. giving the parting kick to the Pope of Rome. He nicknamed me the Czar of San Francisco and paid me the compliment of saying that I had exiled him. Itisapoor compliment, though, to call Los Angeles a Siberia. I want to tell him that I am not a poundkeeper of preachers. The Methodists seemingly be- lieved that a change of climate would do him_good. “Who is responsible for the shattered condition of the moral forces of this City 2"’ ““The preachers,” came from an auditor, “The preachers. You have said it, and said it well,” shouted the speaker. “But they are not altogether responsi- ble. There is a certain time in the dog days when all the camines go mad and there is a period a few months before elec- tion when the wheels in the heads of the preachers begin to go round and hate takes the place of patriotism. The men and women—our brethern, our friends, our neighbors, members of the Protestant churches who permitted their pulpits to be desecrated by .montebanks—-they are responsible, and they are to be pitied, not to be blamed. Let them look over their desecrated and ruined churches and let them know that this is God’s judgment. “One of the peculiar means to protect our American institutions is this war upon women.” He referrea to the discourses of Henry, Blattery, Case, Fleenor and others directed against the sisterhoods of the Catholic chureh, and continued : *Ido not come to-night to make any apology for tue Catholic sisterhoods. Their lives and their work speak for them, True men who makeno profession of re- - p she turned and faced the jury yesterday afternoon in Juage Bahrs’ court. And | that was the key-note of the testimony { duiing the fifth day of the trial of Miss { Emma Ashley, charged with taking a shot | at *‘Lucky”’ Baldwin. | The matron of the jail, Mrs. Letitia Gilmore, the first witness of the morning | session, said that when the defendant was puat in her charge she seemed oblivious of | the sct she had just committed and-only asked for her Bible, and then sang *Nearer My God to Thee,” and sang it very beau- tifully too. 8. M. Van Wyek, one of the defendant’s counsel, who had also been counsel for the sister, declared that judg- ing from Miss Emma Ashley’s excited condition at the time of the shooting, ‘he believed her mind was unhinged. Miss Lillian Astley told something of the family history and of ber experience with “Lucky’” Baldwin. The Ashleys had always lived quietly on their old farm in Vermont. In 1884 the father died. In 1889 Lilhan pbecame ili and went to a Bos- ton hospital for skilled treatment and there Emma came to attend her. The oid home was sola for debt. In 1890 the mother died. In 1894 Emma came to | California to visit Lillian, to learn for the | first time of her sister’s difficulty with | “*Lucky’’ Baldwin and of the child. Emma eagerly absorbed all information | relating to the trial as it progressed. She had never given any sign of planning to shoot the millionaire, and when her sister went to her afterward at the jail the pris- oner only looked up at her in a dazed sort | of way and said, ““God is love.” A thick volume, the Ashley genealogy, was incidentally offered in evidence an declared to show that never in the 200 years' family history it contained had a criminal blot disfigured the escutcheon of the Ashleys. Baldwin had told Miss Ashley that she should be his darling daughter and ulti- mate heiress, as one of his own daughters had shamefully disobeyed him, and the other hedidn’t speak to; she should be a star in society and should have and com- mand anything that money and position could obtain. The defense finally offered in evidence a series of editorials that had appeared in the Los Angeleu Porcupine. They roasted “Lucky” Baldwin fearlessly. Twelve of these articles Baldwin had considered libelous, and had sued for $5000 damages on each. The case will go on agsin to-day. Both sides will introduce expert testimony on insanity. The defense ho; to put two new witnesses on the sllnm prove that Miss Emma Ashley was temporarily in- sane. The prosecution may begin argu- ment late in the afternoon. —————— New Stations on the Valley Road. Three new stations have been opened on the Valley road, and grain rates, in cents per ton, are quoted from the new points as follows: B 86 2 190 ' ‘2"3 216 265 e e Burchell is just north of Le Grand, Lauge- nour is north of Sharon, and Bullard is about seven miles north of Fresno. e Patterson Nonsuited. A nonsuit was yesterday granted in the case of James L. Patterson against Bartlett Doe et al. Patterson sued for services ren- dered in connection with the Silver King Mining Company deal. ——————— Loaxs on diamonds. Interest low. Harrls, 15 Grani avenue At Uncle l cisco? NEW TO-DA DRY GOODS. OURNEW FALL STOCK JUST OPENED COLORED DRESS GOODS! At 25 Cents. 92 pieces 44-inch ALL-WOOL NAVY STORM SERGE, will be placed on sale at 25c a yard. At 50 Cents. pieces 52-inch ALL-WOOL SCOTCH HEATHER SUITING, in diagonal and mottled effects, will be placed on sale at 50¢ a yard, At 75 Cents. pieces 46-inch HEAVY ALL-WOOL NOVELTY BOUCLE SUITING, ele- gant assortment of colorings, will be vlaced on sale at 75¢ a yard, At $1.00. pieces 50-inch ALL-WOOL NOVELTY "FRENCH BUITING, rough effects, two-toned colorings, will be placed on sale at $1 a yard. 87 SILK DEPARTMENT ! At 75 Cents a Yard. 30 _pieces BROCADED IRIDESCENT TAFFETA SILK, elegant designs, rich colorings, good value for $1 25, will be placed on sale at 75c a yara. At 75 Cents a Yard. pieces BLACK FIGURED GROS GRAIN SILK, new designs, extra good ‘value for §1, will be placed on sale at 75¢ a yard. At $1.00 a Yard. pieces 24-inch BLACK DUCHESSE SATIN, heavy quality, good value for $1 rf)g, will be placed on sale at $1 a yard. BLACK DRESS GOODS. At 37} Cents. 2 cases FINE FIGURED ENGLISH MO- HAIR, worth 60c, will be closed out at 373%c a yard. At 50 Cents. 2 cases d4inch KXTRA HEAVY ALL- WOOL STORM SERGE, worth 75¢, will be closed out at 50c a yard. At 50 Cents. cases 43-inch ALL PURE WOQOL FRENCH NOVELTIES, worth 85c, will be closed out at 50¢ a yard. 2 Having received the great bulk of our MAMMOTH FALL IMPORTATIONS we open the week with THE MOST EXTENSIVE, THE MOST EXCLUSIVE AND THE MOST ARTISTICALLY BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF NEW STYLES AND NOVELTIES ON EXHIBITION, and in inviting an early inspec= tion of this PEERLESS DISPLAY we offer an additional attraction in the shape of the following UNMISTAKABLE BARGAINS from the GREAT $300,- | 000 STOCK NOW BEING CLEARED OUT and various lines of NEW GOODS AT UNMATCHABLY LOW PRICES! T I HANDKERCHIEFS | At 5 Cents Each. {600 dozen LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S COLORED BORDERED HEM- STITCHED, white hemstitched and revered, and white hemstitched with lace insertion or edged Handkerchiefs, regular price $1 per dozen, will be closed out at 5¢ each. | At 10 Cents Each. dozen LADIES' WHITE SCAL- LOPED EMBROIDERED SHEER | LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS, regular price $2 40 a dozen, will be closed out at 10c each. At 25 Cents Each. 200dozen LADIES’ WHITE SCALLOPED EMBROIDERED SHEER LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS, regular price $6 | adozen, will be closed outat 25ceach. MEN’S FURNISHINGS! | g At 12} Cents. 125 dozen MEN’S HEAVY MIXED-WOOL SOCKS, with double heels and toes, in sanitary gray, extra value for 20c, will be closed out at 12}¢c a pair. _ At 50 Cents. 9 dozen MEN’'S SANITARY WOOL AND HEAVY MIXED CAMELS’ HAIR UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAW- ERS, special value, usual price 85c, will be closed out at 50c each. At 75 Cents. | 76 dozen MEN’S AUSTRALIAN LAMBS’ | WOOL UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAW- ERS, warranted undyed and thor- oughly shrunk, worth $125, wiil be closed out at 75¢ each. i At $1.00. | 55 dozen MEN'S MIXED AUSTRALIAN WOOL AND CAMELS’ HAIR UN- DERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS, war- | ranted non-shrinkable, regular price $1 50, will be closed out at §1 each. LADIES’ KID GLOVES. At 35 Cents. 300 dozen 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in black only, regular value $1. will be closed out at 85¢ a parr. At 75 Cents. 284 dozen 4-BUTTON ENGLISH WALK- ING KID GLOVES, embroidered backs and . large buttons, colorsand black, regular value $1 25, will be closed out at 75c a pair. At §1.00. 124 dozen 4BUTTON DERBY KID GLOVES (extra quality), colors red, brown and tan, regular value $150, will be closed out at $1 a pair. RIBBONS! RIBBONS! At 5 Cents. No. 7 ALL-SILK, SATIN AND GROS- GRAIN RIBBON, assorted colors, val\lda 10c, will be closed outatsca yard. At 7)¢ Cents. No. 12 ALL-SILK, SATIN AND GROS- GRAIN RIBBON, in assorted colors, value 15¢, will be closed out at 7}4c a yard. OSTRICH FEATHER BOAS. | BLACK REAL OSTRICH FEATHER COLLARETTES, finest quality feath- ers and at lowest prices. | | BLACK REAL OSTRICH FEATHER BOAS, 36, 45 and 54 inch, best quality | and at lowest prices. i | COQUE FEATHER BOAS, 45-inch, at §1, §1 50 and $1 75 each. HOSIERY! HOSIERY! At 20 Cents. 175 dozen BOYS' BLACK RIBBED COT- | TON BICYCLE HOSE, extra heavy, made mechli{v for boys’ wear, worth $4 per dozen, reduced to 20c a pair. At 20 Cents. 150 dozen LADIES’ BLACK MACO COT- TON HOSE, extra high-spliced heels, double toes, Hermsdorf black, always 50133 pair for $1, reduced to 20c a pair. At 25 Cents. | 200 dozen LADIES' 4THREAD FINE| MACO COTTON HOSE, extra high- | spliced heels, double toes, Hermsdorf | biack, regular price 40c, reduced to 25¢ i a pair. At 33% Cents. 180 dozen LADIES’ EXTRA HEAVY | BLACK COTTON HOSE, double heels | and toes, made with unbleached and | black feet, our regular price 50c, re- | duced to 3 pair for $L. LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS. At 50 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES’ WAISTS, made of good quality percale, in all fancy shades, latest style goods, with bishop sleeves, worth $1 and $125, will be| closed out at 50c each. | [ | ) | | i At 75 Cents. | LADIES’ WAISTS, laundered collar and cuffs, “‘Stanley waist.” all fancy shades, | regular price $1 25 and $1 50, will bel" closed out at 75¢ each. ! At $1.00. { 60 dozen LADIES' LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in dimities, lawns and striped and figured percales, this sea- son’s goods, regular price $2 and $2 50, will be closed out at $1 eazh. I CLOAK DEPARTMENT. At $3.50. LADIES' VELVET, SILK OR CREPON CLOTH RIPPLE CAPES, fancy lin- ing, trimmed with lace and jet, resu- lar price $10; Special Bale price $3 50. At $1.50. LADIES' CLOTH JACKETS, in black and navy blue Kerseys and black clay worsteds; fronts faced with silk, worth $6; Special price to close out $1-50. At §4.90. LADIES' MIXED CHEVIOT CLOTH SUITS, box jackets lined, skirts lined with canvas, colors gray or brown mix- tures, regular price for these suits was $750; Special gale price $4 90, At §$6.00. LADIES' HEAVY SEAL PLUSH RIP- PLE CAPES, lined with silk, siorm collar trimmed with marten fur—a stylish Fall wrap; price $6. At $5.00. £ LADIES’ BEAVER BOX JACKETS, in black and navy, high collar, lap pock- ets and new sleeves, value for $7; Spe- cial Sale price $5. BLANKETS! BLANKETS! GREAT SALE of the FINE WHITE BLANKETS at less than miil cost. These goods are slichtly imperfect. The imperfection consists of an oil spot in their manufacture, or irregularity in the weave. For practical purposes they are perfect, first-class goods. 104 FINE WHITE OREGON BLANKETS, a fine fabric, beautifully made, mill cost $4 3. Onsaleat........... 11-4 EXTRA GRADE FINE EXHIBITION BLAN- KETS, a large double-bed width and first class in eyery respect, mill cost $612)4. Onsaleat......... SUPER° QUALITY LAMB’S-WOOUL BLAN- KETS, almost finest weave produced, mill cost $8 10. $3.65 $4.75 12-4 $6.00 On sale at. 1144 WHITE EASTERN BLANKETS, very heavy and fully 66 inches wide, value for $2. On saleat.... 81-20 SPECIAL! SPECIAL! Abont 2 cases FINE MISSION- MADELAMB'S-WOOL ‘WHITE BLANKETS, fully 68 inches wide, an elegant fabric, value $750 a pair. On sale at $4.90 About 50 pairs 13-4 Mission Mill’s finest grade LAMB'S. WOOL WHITE Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts Murphy Euilding, Market and Jomes Streats. | A7 / Murphy Building, arket and Joues Streets. I Murphy Building, Market and Jows Steeels. | ETS3, bound n; deep s ribbon, value $15 a pair. On 8216 8w e 10.00 \) ? A, Murphy Euilding, Market and Jones Strests ' T0 MAKE THEM TOE THE MARK Determined Action of the Railroad Commis- sioners. MATTER OF LOW FARES. An Interesting Session of the Board Expected To- Morrow. SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS, They Are Asked of the Attorney- General — Steamship Companies Receive Attention. There promises to be some interesting proceedings at the meeting of the Rail- road Commission to-morrow, as will be seen from the following communication addressed to Attorney-General ‘W.JF. Pitz- gerald, by Becretary Samuel Newman, since the last meeting of the board: At & meeting of this commission held on the 8th day of July, 1896, it was determined to proceed with an investigation of the effairs [ of the Market-street Railway Company, a cor- ration organized and existin, Ay aws of this State, et , owning and operating vari- ous lines of street railwaysover and upon the streets.of the City and County of San Fran- clsco, upon which passengers are transporied and fares for such transportation collected, with a view to the fixing by this commission of rates of charges to be culiécted by said Mar- ket-street Railway Company for such services, and accordingly such investigation was regu- larly set for hearing before the commission for the 7th day of September, 1896, at 1 P, M. &t the office of said Commissioners, in the Caronicle building, in said City and County. On the 13th day’ of August, 1896, this com- mission issued its subpena in form as prepared by you directed to Joseph L. Wilicutt, secre- tary of said Market-street Railway Company, requiring him to sppear as a witness before said commission for the time fixed for the hearing of said matter and to produce and bring with him at said time to be used on said investigation cert books and papers of said Market-street Railway Company then in his possession as secretary thereof, containin, mattersand evidence material onsaid investi- gation. Said subvena was regularly served upon said Joseph L. Willcutt prior to the time set for said hearing and return thereof duly made. Said commission met on said 7th day of September, 1896, at 1 o'clock P. M., at its office and then proceeded to take up said in- vestigation, at which time said Jose, cutt appeared before this commission, accom- panied by Foshay Walker, as his attorney, and then and there denied the authority of this commission to enter upon said investigation and its authority to subpena him as such wit- ness or require him !n‘)roduoo £aid books, ete., and then and there refused o appear as such witness or to produce such books, etc., on the rrounds that the commission had no anthor- f 1o enter into any investigation of the af- fairs of sald company or 1o fix rates of fares to Dbe charged by it. 7 . ‘Whereupon said board directed me to obtain from you your opinion upon the following questions: First—Has the commission the power, and is it its duty to fix the rates to be charged by said Market-street Railway Company for the transportation of ngers over the various lines of street railways operated by said Mer- ket-street Railway Company upon and over the streets of the City and County of San Fran- Second—Has this commission power to pun- ish for contempt of its power in a case such 85 that of Joseph L. Willoutt, herein before set forth, and if so, what proceedings will it be necessary to take in that regard? 1 was also directed to ob the following matter: Has this board the power to provide tHat the rates of charges now or hereaiter fixed by it for the transportation of passengers upon the various lines of transportation eomp.n’i’fa con- ducting busiress in the State shall include the | Ight to any person paying such fare as a pas- | senger to take with him, without the payment | of additional compensation, & bicycle in place of the lugga‘fe now ailowed by law? lsmalso directed to ascertain what if any | steps have been taken by you concerning the e:g?.ls‘:ol‘% steamboat E:Dmp‘;nies to report to , 85 commun 0 - | der date of June 5, BT by e | "Itis expected that the re torney-General will be received in time to guide the action of the Commissioners, and it is understood tnat the Attorney- General will recommend that a writ of mandate be asked toissue from the Su- preme Court to test the question of the commission’s jurisdict on over street rail- ways, and that the matter of contempt be 1gnored, so as to get at the real issue with- out unnecessary deiay. . In the matier of bicycles as baggage it is believed that the wheelmen will be al- lowed to work out their own salvation through the medium of the Legislature. Summary proceedings, bowever, are likely to be recommended against the recalcitrant water transportation companies, DENOUNCES FREE SILVER, Dr. Stebbins From His Pulpit Declares It Would Bring Disaster. n your opinion on ply of the At. Common-Sense Must Again Save the Nation When the Crisis Comes in November. Dr. Horatio Stebbins, from the pulpit of the First Unitarian Church on Sunday morning, denounced the free coinage of silver as a measure fraught with both moral and financial disaster. He said that the experienceof the world hasshown that the inflation of the currency of a nation has always been followed by distressing results. To his mind this is the most im- portant public question that has arisen since the Civil War, and he relies upon the common sense of the people, that tradi- tional power, to decide, after the first furor has passed, against the contemplated Wrong. He spoke also in very strong terms of condemnation of political efforts to array ~ rise above what is commonly called polities, into the realm of reason, National sentiment and of that sense which we call common. Par- ties are shaken and men look for the great guides of conduct—justice and truth. % The question beiore the country, than which nothing more important has risen since the Civil War, is the inflation of the currency, which has social and moral bearings far be- yond the bounds of what we call politics. Money is materialized ethics, the measure of the value of the property of the peopie. To counterfeit it or adulterate 1t is one of the highest crimes. 1t has been common for us as citizensof a iree State to say that a National election, with all its noiseand tumult, is an education of the people. Never was that truer than to-day, and never was there greater cause for conhdence in the judgments of the common mind, b not on learning but on the instincts of co: mon sense, backed by tions and mankind. famous saying of & great “The voters of the Un“eg States have several times in dealing with financial questions ap- glrcull)’ been about to do the wrong thing, utalways at the critical moment the great common sense of the people has asserted it- selfand the wrong thing has been put down and the right thing made to prevail.” Aud what is this experience of mankind ont of which philowghy is made as the teacher of nations? That the inflation of the carrency of a uation has always been lollowed by na- tional and moral disaster. It plays a hocns- pocus, a kind of dark-lantern flash, on the mind, and men think that money is wealth and that because money is plenty tney are rich. The mind is intoxicated as when real estate is sold to the sound of a fife and drum, aud town lots seven miles from anywhere are seen in the dizzy future s the center of thick- peopled cities. The industrious, frugal, busy man is led to believe that if there are more ard-sticl. there will be more cloth, and that weights and measures are multiplied there will be more tea, coffee, sugar and wheat. This is the old story over and over the worla over. Washington, Hamilion, Jefferson, Cal- houn utter the same voice, and all experfence, whether of National necessity or of personal ambition, from the Dog currency of the Middle West to the war necessities of the Gov- ernment, which knows no law but the law of war, to the “fiat money,” which Garfield, of illustrious memory for tnat, dashed into the nh{su of nothing, all consent in the same re- sult. Emerson deplored it, for it corrupted the public morals, and Georg: Bancroft ae- Elond it. for it increased the hardships and istresses Of the poor. SENT TO SAN QUENTIN. Hannah Landridge Committed to State’s Prison Instead of County Jail., Hannah Landridge, the woman who was last week returned to the City Prison in a state of intoxication, after having pleaded guilty to a charge of graud lar- ceny, was yesterday before Judge Beichex for sentence. ‘While recovering from the effects of her debauch the Landridge woman intimated to the prison officials that she would, when up for sentence, tell the names of two po- licemen who had induced her to commit the crime and who bad shared the pro- ceeds. Judge Belcher read the statement as published in Tue Cari, ana when the prisoner appeared yesterday asked her if she wished to make any statement or class against class, poor against rich, and characterized iLe man employing such methods as a foe of his kind, mining at the walls of society. During his discourse he said: The idea of this new generation is indus- trial, economic and anti-spoil. To abolish the spolia opima of berbaric warin the ad- ministration of civil government, to just laws of tradeand exchange to gn and domestic commerce, to determine the na~ ture of money as the visible instrument of right and wrong. to abolish the strange ab- surdity of overproduction hand in hand with starvation; these are the problems of the mod- ern time to be decided for the peace and ‘fi“‘ ty of country and mankind. The manifest ts” of the modern time are that power is ray {rom the hands of the few to the hands of the many; that nationsare becoming more human, and tnat &l questions of human actions and relations are finally moral questions. Even Li Hung Chang, the great Viceroy of China, as he mekes the cir- cuitof the werld tells about ‘‘the welfare of humsan kind.” 'was when naiions were as natural enemies. y they are ing counsel together how they cafi be just without a qu :r‘h- quul.iom‘ now'beme ug- wmry uot merely matters of party the Qquestions of human weliarg hat alvige hore on lines of National epinion and Ihl,ld d polities into 3 '?Ml:’:m times wm&n%ot 8 Natlon withdraw her plea of guilty. The pris- oner had nothing to say, but her attorney in her behalf remarked that she belonged to a respegtable family and that she had never before been arrested. He said thatshe did not receive 5 cents of the proceeds of ber crime; that she did not deny that she was guilty. The clemeney of the court was therefore asked. The argument seemed to have had little effect on Judge Belcher, who sentenced the prisoner to two u&n half yearsin Ban Quen ———————— Addresses on the Charter. At the next regular meeting of the delegates to the Citizens’ Charter Association, to take place at the Academy of Science Hall, 819 Market street, on nex: Thursday evening, ad- dresses upon the charter willbe delivered b, A'.B. Bu‘ilodio. Coionel E. A. Denicke. r.w’. Dohrmann, James D. Phelan and Charles Wes- ley Reed. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to be present and ladies are espe- cially invited. 5 A Housewarming To-Day. The new premises of the California Girl's Training Home will be opened to-day at 147 Natoma street. The public is invited to at- tend a housewarming to-day between 1 and 3 p. X, and inspect the new quarters. The umpire now decides that “BATTIE AX"” decidedly bigger in size than any is not only - other 10 cent piece of tobacco, but the (- quality is the finest he ever saw, and - the flavor delicious. - know just how ’ You will never good it is until i | R. GUX HERB PHYSICIAN of the FLOWERY KINGDOM. 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