The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 189 —eeeeeeeeeeeeeee——— ¥ Spain had possessed any of ONE OF THE BEST. TUESDAY....... CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrle: Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall. ... Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. .65 Bunday CaLy, one year, by mall., 1.60 W EEXLY CALL, One year, by mal, 1.00 BUSINESS OFFICI 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone......... . ..Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone...... . .Maln—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £27 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 1:70 o'clock. £59 Hayes street; open until 9130 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. €W _corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open £nti) 8 o'clock. 4b15 Mission street: open until 9 0'clock: 167 Ak sireet; open until 9 0'clOCK. * Market street, open ull 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Eooms 51 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ————————————————————————— Congress talks business. ‘We may have a tariff bill after all. Tom Reed shows sizns of rushing things, ‘What the East yearns for and knows it not is the California novelty. The Senate has a sharp stick for Spain, but apparently no sword for Cuba. Fresno claims attention this week ana will givea good show to all who 'attend ber. A Dingley bill with amendments will be all right if a prover stress is placed on the amendments. Decadent journalism ceases to be dan- gerous when decent journalism comes forth to combat it. In a few more days you will hear the bunko journalists squealing of virtue and pretending to repent. It is better to shop during rainy weather | than to wait for sunshine and be caught | in the crush &t the end If Ambrose Bierce doesn’t look out “Long Green’” may detail him to act as bad-man | referee of the next prize-fight. The people of the blizzard-blown East will please take notice that our citrus fairs have begun and travel is cheap. Weyler seems to have returned to Ha- | vana this time simply to hold a ratifica- | tion jubilee over toe death'of Maceo. It is now reported that Barney Barnato is trying to form a gold-mining trust. Is there to be no end to that sort of thing? The statesmen are by no means in favor of an extra session if they can avoid it. They know what Washington is in the summer-time. In preparing for the work of Christmas charity don’t overlook the Salvation Army. It always carries help where help is most needed. Californians will fight for a Cabinet rep- resentative, bui they will not fight over it. There is & prospect of barmony in this as in everything else just now. Every lottery ticket sold in this City is just so much taken away from theactiv- ity of business, the comforts of the home nd the joy of the Christmas season. The Republican Senatorial committee appointed to promote a retura to bimetal- lism has begun its work, and the mone- tary cloud has once more a silver lining. “There are increasing evidences that Speaker Reed intends this to be something more than a routine session of Congress, and when beintends anything it generally happens. 1f some of our contemporaries had not advertised so many lottery swindles to de‘raud the people during the year they would not have so much need to he calling for charity now. It would not surprise anybody if “Long Green’” Lawrence should make the Ez- aminer declare it was Collis Huntington who put up Wyatt Karp as referee and | fixed the whole job. Now that Grover has gone duck-hunting again the State Department has an oppor- tunity to show some of the vigor it dis- played on the Venezuelan question when hé went on a similar expedition last year. In putting all the European consulates under the civil service Cleveland evi- dently had no other thought than that of making office-seekers under the coming administration as disconsolate as possible. The minority of the Pacific Roads Com- mittee of the House may prove to bein the majority when the vote is taken. Their report shows they couldn’t be left at the start and they may be all right in the end. —_— ‘Ths report that the House will under- take to pass a tariff bill this winter should awaken the attention of Californians. Our great sugar industry needs protection, and should be provided for in any measare of the kind proposed. As the Ezaminer has quit publishing the opinions of tbe enemies it is proud of, there is & possibility it may be preparing to dump upon the public something from the friends who are proud of it, thus giv- ing the slums another opening. —_— The Placer Argus is slightly in error in saying that by holding the mirror up to nature the people can ‘*‘discern plainly what a rotten concern the Ezaminer and Journal combination is for a fact.”” The combination is not for a fact, but for a fake. e g Mr. Onlsen, secretary of the West Indies committee in London, is quoted as having said recently that the planters of the British West Indies felt “‘they would be better treated it absorbed by the United States.” This is another hint of manifest desiiny. It is explained that the reason Reed did not call on McKinley when he passed through Canton was because the train passed the place at 2 A, M., and Reed did not know that Canton was on his route. This explanation is undoubtedly sufficient for the rest of the country, but it is rouch on Canton after all the advertijing it has had as a railroad center. THE “EXAMINER’S” OFFENDING. Nearly every journal of weight and influence in California has given within the past month expression to a feeling of abhorrenceat the disgrace brought upon the profession by the character of journalism exploited by Willie Hearst and his managing editor, Long Green Lawrence, in the Ezaminer. These expressions in the press have been cordially approved by the people. reached its limit, and if the Examner is Indecent journalism has to continue publication much longer it will be at the sole expense of the Hearst estate, for it will not derive patronage snf- ficient to maintain it even from the slums to which it panders. i The reasons for this revolt on the part of decency against the Ezaminer and its managers are many. The paper has committed every form of iniquity known to lying, fraudulent and btackmailing journahsm. It has repeatedly carried sensa- tionalism to the extent of indecency and has not infrequently made its indecency obscene. It has bulldozed and blackmailed where it could; and where it could not, it has slandered, maligned, libeled and belied. There is scarcely a section of the State whose citizens and whose industries have not suffered more or less trom its attacks and the repute of California sbroad has been foully injured by it in al- most every publication. When denounced by decent journals of the State it has had the shameless im- pudance to assert that they were hired to do so by the railroad. It has met every exposure of its offenses cither by an insolent swagger of shameless vice, or has endeavored to turn them aside by claiming that its vicious'and malignant attacks were intended merely for jokes and jests. The people of California have borne with these offenses for a long time. fact they have borne them too long. By In permitting such outrageous conduct to be pursued without punishment and almost without rebuke they have encouraged the evildoers in their iniquity and led them to believe they could commit with impunity even the greatest offenses. We have seen Mr. Hearst place in control of the Ezaminer a man so widely reputed to bedishonest that he is familiarly known as “‘Long Green.” We have seen the paper under the management of that man engaged in efforts to ruin business, dishonor reputations, pollute the public, defile politics and degrade society. To guard himself from outraged citizens we have seen that manager employ as & pro- tector a disreputable gun-fighter and in the boldness thus assured him continue his evil work, ‘We have seen the Ezaminer exposed in extorting money from the Bouthern Pacific Railroad and yet baving the unabashed insolence to accuse innocent men of the same offense. We have seen its managing editor not content with having a bravo for his protector and literary assistant, procuring the appointment of that bravo as referee in a prize-fight for the purpose of defranding bettors and swin the public. ing We have seen the Ezaminer sending women to report priz--fights, to wander at night through the slums, to interview criminals and thugs, to hunt and seek for sensations in places that reek with shame, indecency and obscenity, and then we have seen that same journal turn round and denounce with an assumed virtue the women who followed the example of 1ts lady reporters and went on their own ac- count to watch a contest in the prize-ring. ‘We have seen the managers of the Ezaminer denounce all persons who claimed to have seen the strange lights in the sky during the past month as drunkards, imbeciles or liars and at the same time send to their companions of the New York Journal a story declaring nesses who are reputable, creditable, reliable and thoroughly honest. that an airship was seen by wit- ‘We have seen the Ezaminer manager in this City recommend Wyatt Earp as an honorable man, while the Ezaminer's proprietor in New York, through the Journalof that city, denounced him as being utterly disreputableand capable of any kind of dis- honest dealing, from the running of a bunko game to the robbing of a stage-coach. All this and more we have seen. Iv is not strange, therefore, that at last the public revolts. The strong, straight Saxon speech in which the decent, newspapers of California are now denouncing this foul and unclean journalism is none too forceful for the occasion. We have compromised with the evil too long. Itis not a pleasant duty to expose all this vileness to the public, but in the interests of the public it must be done. So long as the Hearst éstate holds out and Willie Hearst has not fulfilled the New York prediction of changing his residence to Bing Sing and his name to No. 743 we may have the nity. Ezaminer still eirculating in the commu- It should not, however, be permitied to circulate in the homes of the people or in places of decent business. Let it go to the slums, to which it panders, and from which all its ideas emanate. THE LOTTERY EVIL. Rey. William A. Gardner, pastor of the | W est Side Christian Church, in preaching | upon “The Lottery and Other Forms of | Gambling,” took a most timely topic for his subject. Not long ago a vigorous crusade against the lottery swindlers abated the evil in this City to a great ex- tent, but of late they have become bold again, and once more considerable sums of money are taken away from tke busi- ness and from the homes of San Francisco by their fraudulent and unlawful prac- tices. Speculation in lottery tickets is the be- ginning of a career in gambling which not infrequently leads to the most disastrous consequences. Chauncey Depew isquoted as saying that a very large percentage of the moral failures among men with whom he was acquainted has been due to gambling. It is an evil which sooner or later corrupts the mind as well as wrecks the purse, and 1s the prolific source of defalcations, forgeries and stealing. One of thechief promoters of the lottery evil is the press. There are too many papers willing to sell their columns to advertise lottery schemes, although the proprietors well know that lottery com- panies are unlawful, and that nearly every one of them 1s as gross a swindle as ever was concocted by a bunko man ora gold-brick swindler. This being so, Mr. Gardner was fully justified 1n saying: 'Tisa shame that our daily papers are aid- ing and abetting these nefarious institutions by publisning their advertisements and carry- ing them into the homes of our people and thus acquainting our children with this crime that is wrecking homes and ruining men and women. TrE CALL bas repeatedly directed pub- lic attention to the evil, and is thank- ful for the assistance which the pulpit has given in the crusade against this insidious form of vice. Itisan offenseof a nature with which the police alone are unable to deal. It is difficult for an officer of the law to obtain evidence sufficient to con- vict the swindlers. If, therefore, the evil isto be suppressed the people themselves must take part in the contest against it. Public indignation should condemn every Dewspaper that publishes the enticements of the swindlers, and good citizens should be prompt and ready to giveYo our munici- pa1 autborities and the officers of our courts all the assistance they can in catching, convicting and punishing the rascals. MONEY AND INDUSTRY. Commenting upon the financial sitna- tion in that city the New York Herald says: ‘At present we have a glut of idle money. Rates of interest are lower here than in Europe, and the bankers and capi- talists of the Old World are borrowing from us.” On this showing the Herald exults, and declares with a display of local pride: *Thus, for the first time New York is formally recognized by la haute finance of Europe as one of the great money centers of the world.” In explanation of this condition of af- fairs the Herald goes on to say: This enormous gain has come from imports ot gold, the output of the mines, the increase ot National bank note circulation and the tressury’s expenditures in excess of what it has collected. As a result of the sound-money victory hoarded funds have come and are still coming into sight again, but men do not yet see their way clear to launch new enterprises which would employ vast amounts—hence the strength of our position, which permits us to assume the role of lenders where we have never before been anything but borrowers. The important point to be noted in this statement of facts is that ‘‘men do not see their way clear to launch new enterprises which would employ vast amounts.” New York may regard " this as a favorable con- dition of affairs, but it will not be so con- sidered in other portions of the United Statgs. It is by no means satisfactory to the great West that New York has money to lena to the bankers and capitalists of the Old World while she has none to send forth for the development of the resources of the great West. 1t New Yorkers do not yet see their way clear to launch new enterprises it is their own fault. Itistrue that solong asthe Gorman tariff remains in force American industry will be heavily handicapped. Nev- ertheless there are better opportunities in this country for the'investment of money than any which Europe can offer. As a matter of fact itis well known that Eu- ) ) i ropean capitalists are now sending their | money to South Africa, to Australia, to the Orient, and not infrequently to the United States in search of investments. It is a sarcasm on New York enterprise that her financiers should send their money to Europe, and then see the Europeans who borrowed it send it back to the great West and inyest it with profit. The American people will of course be glad to see New York “formally recog- nized by la haute finance of Europe asone of the great money centers of the world,” but they would prefer to see it show a lit~ tle more American energy and enterprise. Our finance and our industry should be inseparably associated, and New York is not doing justice to either herself or the country when she exults more in lending money to Europe than in using it to de- velop the vast resources of the United States. THE FRESNO FAIR. The Fresno citrus fair will make a pleas- ant holiday preparation for the people of the San Joaquin and all who are fortunate enough to be able to visit Fresno during the continuance of the exposition. It promises to be one of the most successful displays of the kind yet held and will give convincing proof of the orchard wealth of that section of tne State. Fresno has become so famous as a cen- ter of a raisin-growing cistrict that even to a great many Californians it will bea surprise to learn how capable the terri- tory around about itis of becoming a great orenge producing district. The fair which has just been opened will make evident the fact that Fresno’s prosperity aces not depend upon a single product, but is fed from abundant etreams of revenue flowing from widely varied resources. Itis to be hoped the attendance at the fair will be fully commensurate with the merits of the display. Such expositions ought to be made profitable to those who have {he enterprise to undertake them, as well as to the community generally. The amount of good done by our citrus ex- hibits is very great. They not only draw a large number of visitors from different sections of the BState, but attract the attention of tourists and through them increase the reputation of California in all parts of the Union. They deserve, therefore, the patronage of th= people, and should receive it in a measure sufficient to make them amply remunerative in every instance. There are good reasons for expecting that Fresno will have a large number of visitors at her fair. She now enjoys the advantage o! railroad competition, and peoble who wish to attend the expos:tion will therefore get the benefit of cheaper railroad rdtes than they would otherwise have done. Asfortheresidents of Fresno, it g oes without saying they will give a liberal support to the exposition. They are enterprising people and know the value of co-operation. They know that their town\'n on the berinning cf a new era of adva: cement and prosperity and can be counted on to see to it that all their local undertakings are heartily and cor- dially supported. FIXING THE PRICEs OF WH‘BAT. TR St. Louts Globe-Democrat. The leading organ of the British grain trade, the Mark Lane Express, suggests the formation of a “central chamber” represent. ing the wheat producersof the different na- tions, which shall keep its constituency in- formed of the proper time to withhold the product from the market. In this way, it is contended, the prices of wheat could be regu- lated for all the world and kept up to & profit- able point in spite of the conditions which now depress values from time to time and make wheat-raising a losing busin The scheme looks plausible at first glance, bus, like so many other projects thatlook well on the surface, it will not bear close inspection. There is no reason to believe that the millions of wheat-growers in different countries could be induced to act together in such & way and to be guided by the sdvice of such a body to an extent that ‘would make the undertaking a success. The planters of the South have tried several times (o apply a policy of that kind to the pro- duction of cotton, and it has always been a failure. It woul %o nfinitely more difficult, of course, to thus control the wheat output of all nations. The thiag would not work, in short, because human nature wonld be against it, and the law of demand and supply would continue to govern the markets. A similar proposition comes from the Czar of Russia. He would have an_internationsl con- ference, with uwat to fix the price of wheat at stated intervals. This is simply the bimetallic theory applied to wheat and. t insf of silver for obvious reasons, would be much harder to enforce as to the former than as to the latter. It does not involve the idea of the buying and storing of surplus wheat by the different gov- ernments—which would be & manifest ab- surdity by the way—and in the absence of such an arrangement the prices fixed could not possibly be maintained. Laws might be passed imposing penalties for buying and selling at other prices, but they could not be enforced. e natural laws of trade would prevail, notwithstanding these artificial barriers, as has been frequently de- monstrated in the history of that sort of legis- lation. An international conference might render usefui service in the collection and dissemingtion of facts concerning Crop pros- peets and the probable tendency of prices. but that is a t could not,in the nature of things, a the sunply to the demand with suflicient effect to ovércome the circumstances which now send wheat up or down. When the product is greater than the consumption the prices are bound to fall, and when there is a scarcity in some countries, 8s there is this year, they are just as certain to rise. This is the whole philosophy of the matter, and all attempts fo contravene it have failed and must continue to fail as oftem\as they are re- peated. PERSONAL F. Temple Lynch of Los Angeles is in the City. L. C. Carran of Cleveland is a late arrival here. 5 Ex-Senator A. F. Jones of Oroville s at the Palace. J. H. Deakin of Neston, Eng., is at the Palace. W. 8, Ball, a mining manof Grants Pass,Or., isin town. John Barneson of Port Townsend is at the Occidental, Dr. W. H. Davis of Detroit, Mich., is at the Grand Hotel. D. N. Carithers, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is in the City. A. R. Davis of the United States Marine Corps isat the Grand. The R2v. D. 8. Banksof Banta Cruz is a re- cent arrival here. C. H. Jordan of Pasadena is among the ar- rivals at the Lick, H. W, O’Melveny, an sttorney of Los An- geles, is in the City. H. B. Rice, a general merchant of 8an Miguel, is a recent arrival here. Ex-Judge 8. K. Dougherty of Banta Rosa is registered at the Grand. 0. C. Tiffany of the United States ship Mon- terey is at the Occidental. A. T. Rogers and John Hendy of Vancouver, B. C., are visiting the City. T. Barnes, a business man of Washington, D. C., arrived here yesterday. L. F. Moulton, the heavy grain farmer of Colusa, 1s here on a business trip. Deputy Sheriff Samuel Matthews of Monte- rey County is among the arrivals at the Russ. William Waternouse, a business man of Pasadena, is among the arrivals at the Palace. Charles E. Morden, an attache of the Klam- ath Indian Agency, Klamath, Or., is in the City. Frank Ireland, a wealthy horse-grower, of Paris, Ky., arrived here last night, and is at the Palace. W. L. Watts, istant engineer in the field for the State Mining Bureau, is among the ar- rivals here, Sheriff T. B. Hicks of San Bernardino County is here on business connected with his office, and is at the Russ. Ex-Superior Juage A. P. Catlin of Sacra- mento, who was beaten by the Bee for re-elec- tion, is on a visit here. Lieutenant E. P. Wood of the United States navy, Washington, D. C., was among the arrivals here last night. William H. Hunt and Fred P. Thomas, lead- ng attorneys of Cleveland, Ohio, are among those registered at the Palace. Franeis Doud of Monterey, who is director in three banks and who has large property interests at Monterey. Salinas and other places, is at the Lick. He is an old resident of Monterey, Among the arrivals at the Paiace is Herman Silver of Los Angeles, formerly Director of the United States mint at Denver, and long prom- inent in Colorado politics end in the financial affairs of that State. Mr. Silver has been liv- ing at Los Angeles several year: quired large property intere will probably be here several CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 14.—Herman Schuss- ler arrived from Genoa on the Fulda. E. E. Lassongue arrived from Bremen on the Spree. Atthe Manhattan, 8. Earp; Hoffman, Miss Clay, Miss A. L. and Miss M. Clay; J. W. Hart, M. W. Rosenstine, srs. W. Younger, Miss Younger: Cosmopolitan, Mrs. L. Sharpe; Astor, J. Rus- sell; Albert, M. J. Plaring; Grand Union, R. Hoppe; Broadway, W. Crye; Plaza, J. A. Volger. 8. Nathan is here buying. Mr.and Mrs. Oscar Buckheister left the Manhaitan to sail on the Spree for Bremen. LADY'S TEA GOWN OR WRAPPER With fitted lining that may be omitted. A graceful model which is fitted in back and hangs loose over a fitted lining front is much liked both for simple and quité elaborate tea gowns. The front is gathered to a yoke. The back is fitted. The sleeves are short puffs, Al with & ruffle cut in one, or & short puff, with ruffie of lace or other trimming. A plein, standing collar finishes the neck. A gown of pompadour silk had collar and bow of green ribbon to match the predomi- nating color in the silk. One of gray wool with flowers of rose color with natural foltage woven in nad rose col- ored ribbons. The sleeve ruffies were button- holed in scallops with rose-colored floss. A white and blue striped flannel had yoke of :ehlt. embroidery, with blue ribbon collar and A gown of brown and white challis had the yoke oatlined with lace of a yellowish tint over while satin ribbon. The same lace was laid in double-box pleats that flared out from the stock collar of whiteribpon. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Politics must be awfully hard to keep track of,” said Maud. “T think so, ton,” answered Mamie. ‘There are so many different kinds of votes to look after. There was the German vote and the Irish vote, and now there’s the Australian bal- lot, and I declare I don’t wonder that they sometimes guess wrong.” —Washington Star. Clara—Isn’t there some way by which they say you can see the face of your future nus- band on Hallowe’en ? Ida—If you have selected the party you might ask him to call.—Puck. “So you were defeated, John,” said the free- silver candidate's wite, “Is that what you call it?” hesighed. “I thought I was hit by & comet.”—North Ameri- can. “Louise was furious about her wedding.” “What was the matter!” “The organist was a rejected lover, and he played the bridal pie out ot church with the tune, “He's fla an Elephant on His Hands,”—New York Herald. San Francisco News. The San Francisco CALL is oneof the best jou all ihe news in a readable shape and is free from blackmailing sheet, like some on this coast. rnals on the coast. It gives the stench and filth of & THEY GLORIFY VICE. A.J. W., In Fresno Republican. It is not alone that both the Journaland the Ezaminer ar for, while tbis is not a characteristic of a high-class newspaper, may be laid at the door of journalism. Ivis rather that both void of what may be termed, for lack ofa better word, devoid of moral purpose as a fish of feathers. vicious element; they gloriiy vice by suggestion; they a a corporation to-day and damn the corporation when morrow; they take a fee from the bawds of the street conscienceless. ‘shameful business; they are e sensational, worse charges pavers are de- character. They are ? der to the lower an o ccept a subsidy from it is withdrawn to- for advertising their SOME BENEFIT. Berkeley G azette. Some good will come out of the Nazareth. The late prize-fight at San Francisco bas led to the bringing out of another fight—this time on the side of good morals as applied to journalism. The San some powerful blows in the cause of morality of the press, Francisco CALLis dealing and it is to be hoped that a better time will prevail throughout the land on account of :]c. There is no question but the standard of the daily press of this country needs much elevation. purged and a moral stamina established which will not pander to the the vicious. 1tis necessary first to have the supporters of iniquity tastes of California has suffered long enough from newspapers which are constantly working in the interests of depravity. By their continuance the good name of the State and country is blotched. If the morals of a community are to be established by some of the newspapers now published in S8an Francisco we can only pray that God will'help that community in its hours of disiress. IT HURTS THE MONARCH. Sacramento County Ledger. The roasting the Examiner has been receiving from the interior press is having some effect on the boiler-vlate hide of the Monarch (?). Its course during the campaign was most indecent, and to this cause more tban any other can be attributed the failure of the silver cause in California. - Many of the interlor journals which madea fight for silver were bampered by the unwise course of the Ezaminer, and the good effectsof their efforts were largely overbalanced hy that sheet in its endeavor to carry out its spite and punish some personal enemy. It lost sight entirely of the one great issue before the people in its mad endeavor to drag the Southern Pacific Company into politics, and expended its energies in abusing the officials of that company and all else who did not join that sheetin ite dirty fight. To be a friead of any one connected with that company was a greater sin in the eyes of that journal than to be a murderer, and all who had the courage to express friendship for or support any candidate favorable to the railroad company came 1n for their share of abuse in the columns of that paper. No depth of degradation was too iow for that sheet to stoop toif it could only carry its point, and the decent journals who supported Bryan now feel the degradation of being compelled to keep company with such. It has run its race and now it is running the gauntlet, and the interior press and the people of the whole coast are taking a whack at it for its indecent and scandalous methods. One thing is sure, that paper will be compelled to change its methods or else it will be obliged to close its doors. It matters not how much money its fortunate owner may have he cannot keep alive such an outrageously inaecent sheet as the Ezaminer has been for some time past. The good-natured people of California will stand a great deal from a big daily like the Examiner, but when it imperils the reputation of the good people of the State in its desire to be sensational, and strikes right and left with its abuse of everybody that it does not agree with, they will soon cry halt; in fact they have done so already. ous of the Ezaminer. The people are tired and disgusted with the meth- Its uncalled for and unwarranted attack upon our Supreme Court because, forsooth, that tribuaal happened to not agree with ils managers on points of law; its fight against the fouthern Pacific Company be- cause that corporation discontinued the payment of $1000 per month as hush- money into its coffers—tnese and many other like unjust attacks upon the in- stitutions of our State have caused the people to become awfuily tired and very much disgusted with that journal that once rightfuily claimed the title of *Monarch.” Ii it were only honest in its fight against the railroad company some whe are opposed to the company could, and would, tolerate that portion of their fight; but there is not a schoolboy in the land but what knows the rea- son of its opposition is attributable more to the fact that the company refused 1o be blackmailed turther by that paper than it is to its honest purpose to fight the company for the people’s good. Its charge that the interior newspapers are subsidized and controlled ¥y Mr. Huntington in the interest of his railroad is as false as the Ezaminer itself. No one with a grain of common-sense will place any credit in this charge, for they are too well acquainted with the meth- ods of the Ezaminer. The interior press have revolted at the treatment re- ceived from the Fzaminer, and have begun to give it the lambasting itso richly deserves, and it hurts that great big monstrosity, too, as is evidenced by its efforts to strike back. Letters From the People. CLEVELAND'S COURAGE. He Puts a Heavy Finger on the Finan- cial Sore Spot. To the Editor of the San Franeisco Call—SIR: Perhaps a majority of the American people do not regard President Cleveland as & man of courage, and they would refer you to Hawaii and Cuba; butI think they do him injustice. Ju his message to Congress, December 7, he boldly confronts 6,306,110 of his own country- men—being but 342,057 less than half'of the whole 18,296,334 voters—and flatly tells them to their faces that when they voted a month ago for an increase in the volume of money and against the issue of any more interest- bearing bonds he defies their convictions and proposes to contract the volume of money and issue bonds galore. And this in partis what he said: “lam more convinced than ever that we can have no assured financial peace and safety until the Government currency obliga- tions, upon which goid mey be demanaed from the treasury, are withdrawn from circu- lation and canceled. This might be done, as bas been heretofore recommended, by their exchenge for long-term bonds bearing a low raie of interest, or by their redemption with the proceeds of such bonds. This pian of issu- ing bonds for the purpose of redemption cer- tainty appears 10 be the most eftective and di- rect path to the needed reform. National banks should redeem their own notes. They should be allowed to issue, circulated to the par value of bonds deposited as sscurity for its Tedemption, aud the tax on their circulation should be reduced to }Z o!§l per cent.” I went every man who has a few dollars in- vested in business or has a job at which he earns a living to weigh well these words from Mr. Cleveland’s message and consider deeply what here follows: “This plan of issuing bonds,” he says, ‘‘certainly appears to be the most effective ana direct paih to the needed reform”; and the significance of what he says lles in the jact that he speaks for the so- on{led National banks and other fundholders of the country. With this plan adopted and carried out he undertakes 1o say that “we can have assured finaucial peace and safety.” 1 pass by the other obnoxious form of iov- ernment paper money known as ‘treasury notes,” issued in payment of silver purchased under the Bland-Allison act and the Sherman of 1890, amounting to $129,683,280, by remarking that $35,112,421 of it hus been “retired” and canceled, contrary to law, dur- ing the past year, thus contracting the cur- rency of the country when money is so scarce at the rate of $3,000,000 a month—a iact that ought to arouse the indignation of every man in business throughout the country; for at ears more the last dollar of this form ot fulllegal iender paper money will disappear, and this will leave the dead silver idle in the treasury. According to the treasury reports there are $346,681,016 1n oid legal-tender notes or reenbacks of the issues of February 25, 1862, uly 11, 1862, and March 3, 1863, still in ex- istence, though it is not probable that more than 00,005.000 do exist, for the act of June 21, 1879, estimated the loss of the fractional currency at that date to be $8,375,934 out of the $50,000,000 issued, which is about 6 per cent in seventeen years. The greenbacks would be destroyed by fire, by sea and by other ways quite us fast, and in thirty-four g:m the loss of only 10 per cent would leave ut $312,012,917. In a word, by the use of r money tne Nation has undoubtediy ained w,agl.me in thirty-four years, -Mr. leveland ana his banker friends then propose to place at least ,000,000 in bonds, bear- ing interest, in exchange for that sum in greenbacks in order to augply them with that amount in bonds on which to issue banknotes to the lnll' lhe- v-x&- :l 'E‘ bonds at one- [uarter of T cent interes! . Now why dpo:- he thus prave the expressed opposition of almost one-half of the yvoting popuiation of the country? Why does he tor- ture the patience of go many indignant peo- ‘ple? He claims that his object is to prevent Iurther raids on the gold of the treasury,and assigns no other ostensible reason. In order not to heap up $100,000,000 of idle gold in the treasury to redeem greenbacks as they are presented by ,money-mong: or_dealers uz oney he 1d destroy - jovernmen oney itself and let the bunks issue their bills in place of it, mmb"pnmn the whole vol- urme of money in the hands of private specu- lators in money. In the beginning of the war, hl‘ou 1861, Congress authorized the issue of ‘bonds and treasury notes to the amount of $250, ,000, “these notes to be of a less denomination than $50, not bearing interest, but payable on de- mand at the tant Treasurer’s office,”” and ,000,000 of &hm"nmdhnmu," as they ‘were called, were issued, but tl rused to receive them, and thus succeeded in discrediting them in that dark hour of the Nation’s peril. Congress was loyel to the peo- ple, however, at that time,and six months later, February 12,1862, an_act was passed making these “demand notes” & full legal ten- der for ali debts and dues, public and private, and authorized “the issue of like notes to the amount of $10,000,000 additional, d notes 10 be deemed part of the loan of ,000, ll};hoflzed by a(c:lt of .Ytnl 17, 1861."” oes any reader o E CALL, except the bankers, know the history of these "dZm:n; fiotes” 1rom that date? President Cleveland and the bankers know. Itisthe one form of Government money they most of all abomi- nate. Those ‘‘demand notes’’ went instantly to par with gold February 12, 1862, on the passage of the act making them full legal ten- der for all debts and dues, and there they re- mained absolutely at par with \gold when greeubacks were “worth” but 35 cents on the dollar measured in gold, because they per- formea all the functions of gold itself in the uffairs of the Nation and between individual citizens, aud hence they could not depreciate below the par of gold. The reader can well }llg‘ngli;\:dme ‘g‘m}nornnio: created by these s notes” amon 2 delllersln s g the goldmongers or 0 two weeks aiter the passage of thi; Feoruary 12, clothing tphe ‘“cemand 'n.o‘ut‘e:.;s with the full legal tender function, the bank- ers of Boston, New York and Philadelphia {uheredln Washington to deal a delthglo' o0 this new National money, *and another act i BSe on the edats ot the i LT A1o8 n of the United States, of $150,000,000 of Unitea States motes (i 6. greenbacks], not bearing interest, not less than 85 eacn,provided that $50,000,000 of said notes shall be in lieu of the ‘deinand treasury notes’ authorized to be issued by the act of July 17, 1861, which said ‘demand notes’ shall be taken up as r:‘yldly as possible and the notes herein provided for substituted for them; * * and such notesherein authorized shall be receivable in payment of taxes, inter- nal duties, excises, dezu and demands of every kind due to the United States, except duties on imports, and of all claims and dpe mands against the United States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and said United States notes [1. . greenbacks] shall aiso be lawful money and a legal tender in the payrent of all debts in the United States, ex ?:?igum on imports and interest as afore- There you have the twoinfamous stabs in the back on” the greenback, the “‘except for inter- est on bonds” and “except duties on imports,” the Government itself repudiating its own money wherein it favored bondholders ana dealers in gold, which importers had to buy to g-y duties with, and this alone made it possi- le, with the ‘‘demand notes” called in and exchanged for these *except’’ greenbacks, 10 force them down below par with gold. But the people clung to the *“demand notes” and would not exchange them for the poor crippled greenbacks, and so it became necessary to try so foree them to give up the demand notes by another act of Congress passed a year later, March 8, 1863 (section lg). withdrawing the privilege of exchanging them for interest- Dearing bonds by July 1 thereafter. In fact, there was the most determined effort made to t these “demand notes” out of the hands of usiness men, who found them as good as gold in paying import duties or for any other pur- pose which gold could accomplish. Here is out for President Clevels without di ro}jang & single dollar of &’o‘v::l- ment mo 't him call for an issue of suf- ficient treasury demand notes to redeem these crippled greenbacks or simply get pealed which contains ,mf t’w‘o ":‘;:el;&!;e': clauses, and then these greenbacks will ao all that gold can do, and that will end the raid on the gold reserve; but it will spoil the game of the money-mongers, the Government Other m of savin, money from ‘retirement” and cancellation are reserved for a future communication. JOSEPH ASBI 11 Essex street, December 9, i’g«:‘o“"" e “A NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS.” w HnrcYul Commercial Advertiser. emier Canovas of Spain is credited with saying that Spain “would never consent toask & nation of shopkeepers to guarantee the word rl Bz:ux‘.""r::d .2:.“ the United States of be- ing the authors” of the e War now raging Perhaps Canovas said this, but ve: likel; he did not, But if he did, whlloll?? Eoz else could the United States have reached their present greatness? Every great nation has succeeded because of the industry and thrift of its merchants, large and small, and 1o nation has for any length of time been solvent or steadfasi where its citizens e shiftless, lazy, careless of business affairs and lacking in "enterprise. England’s El,fifi:,::' !:;; hl:r:nn‘x': o; er art. 1t is her . e stren, of the is not in its cdnuuo'nu loho:lg.?;“l(t’l‘m. atfea of territory or in the magnifi statesmanship. It isin the 7(‘)?300““"0?1-‘;: and women who toil dail h hands, and who have lmmghye Q'h‘ I:h unxi'o.fln 8: the first mongmm nations of the world in enterprise, in ability,inloyaltyana in honesty 3§e&"§3§fiim she would not be humiliated as she is to-day, without prestige or power, and her internal economiesso. mismanaged that the fate of the empire is in the balance. i ————— THE LOLLS, ET CETERA. See the windows full of dolls— Christmas dolls! What a world of happiness Their presence there foretells! How they’re smirking and a-smiling As they look you in the eye, As if ardently begulling You to please step in and buy. With their keen anticipation Of the fun, fun, fun, Com ng 8000 to every one When old Santa Claus presents them to the childron He exiolls: They are longing to be some one’s petted dolls. See the dollies’ fellow-toys— Christmas toys ! Of what a world of merriment Ana iitle people’s joys Do they eloguently tell us From their wonderland so bright, 01 good Santa Claus. the zealous, Ana of juvenile deilght, And they whisper: “Time is flying, Her - we are, are, are, Christmas Isn't very far In the future, 50 you'd better be a-thinking Of the joys You are going to, give at Christmas with the toys." A —New York Evening World. —n ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, RusstA—M. D., Pheenix, Ariz. The Govern- ment of Russia is an absolute hereditary mox;- archy. The whole legislative, executive an jndmyml power is united in the Emperor,whose will alone is law. That is the only absolute Government at this time. THE ART GALLERY—S. 8., Oakland, Cal. The Art Gallery in the Hopkins Institute of Art at Pine and Mason streets, in San Francisco, is open to the “people of Kern Countyor the country around,” and to the public gonerllly‘ without admission fee on the last Friday of every month. RECITATIONS WANTED—One correspondent wants to know who was 1he author of a recita- tion entitled “The Picture on the Barroom Floor’”’; and another is anxious to ascertain who is the author of “The Orange and Green Will Carry the Day.” Csn any of the readers of this department oblige the correspondents ? CAN Vore—C. W. M., Eureka, Humboldt County, Cal. It has been held in this State that natives of California of Chinese parents are entitled to register and vote, and such have voted in San Francisco. There are no figures to show bow many sych voted in San Francisco at the last held election. There will probably be a compilation to determine that fact, but it bas not yet been attempted. AN Orp BrBrE—Constant Reader, Seattle, Wash. ‘A Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and the New Testaments, 1774,” has no special vatue other than that which & person who would like to be possessed of such a curiosity would be willing to pay for it. Youmight offer it to any of the libraries, giving a good doscr(}mon of it, and from tho Iibrarians you would no doubt get an offer forit. ReVENUE—J. H. 8, Alameds, Cal. The fol. lowing figures show the customs receipts for the fiscal year since the McKinley tariff bill went into effect: 1890, $229.668,585; 1891, 219,522, 2 1892, 177,452,964; 1893, 203,355,01 1804, 131.818,531; 1895, 152,749,405; 1896, $160,543,351. The re- ceipts under the Wilson-Gorman bill have not at any time exceeded those under the Mc- Kinley bilL TREASURY Nores—J, H. 8., Alameda, Cal The first issue of ‘“‘greenbacks” under the Lincoln administration was not for $60,000,- 000, as you state in your letter of inquiry. By the act of February 25, 1862, there was an authorization for the issue of $150,000,000 in United btates notes, of which $£50,000,000 was to be applied to the redemption of de- mand notes authorized by the act of July 17, 1861. These greeabacks fluctuated as did those of subsequent issues and did not aiways maintain parity with gold. The issue under the act of July 17, 1861, was $139,999,750. Prior to that by an act of March 2, 1861, treasury notes were fssued to the amount of $35,364,450, of which $22.469,100 was re- deemable in'two years, and $12,896,350 sixty days from date. These went atraies ranging from par 10 127. 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