The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1897, Page 24

THE SAN FRA ISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1897 CHARLES M. SHCRTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Sunda; CALL, one week, by carrler. .$0.15 CALL, One year, by mall... 6.00 s, by mail.. $.00 three months by mail 1.50 | one month, by mail.. Eunday CaLL, one year, by mail. W ERKLY CALL, One year, by mail Daily an Daily and 65 | 1.50 | 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone..... .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay S .Main—1874 Telephone. . BRANCH OFFICE 627 Montromery street, €0 :30 o'clock. 59 Hayes s 615 L SW. corner S until 9 o'clock. 8 Mission street: o] open untll | ; open until 9:30 o'clock. rkin sireet: open until 9:30 o'clo nth and N open 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 2 New York CIty. There is talk of the carnival. We are to have a City full of high jinks. It was a wet holiday, but enthusiasm wasn’t dampened. There will Bargain ast. soon be a spring i It begins to look e little bit as if the nhilda were an airship. Fourth street shouid whirl in and help itself to a few of the improvements it needs. We have rejoiced in the victory over the funding bill and now let us prepare for the next fight. The tempora: seems to have bee prophet as old Grover. oll at Sacramento s big a stuffed genuine officially yesterday, n't observe it. The Park Commission deserves a fair show, for 1t has the people one 1t was a real claimed holiday many people dic pro- but -a good ve People who are asking undue appropria- tions for their own counties bave little right to demand economy elsewhere. ishing touches are being rapidly on the Cabinet and the country can | see the shape it is going to have. As the coming Secretary of State Senator | Y emark about Cuba will op with a dull thud. | re getting more fun | es for the Senate than | could get outof three lovers The put now — | Idaho legi out of three candida; tors asumme in one notel 1f the Cubans haven’t taken the city of Santa Clara there is at any rate sufficient evidence for believing they capiured the | telegrapn wire. astern paragrapher asserts that no | or iuvention ever caused so much talk the telephone, but it is clear he over- looked the hat. There i who doe McKini of ma n’t a woman in the United States n’t consider all the guesses at ey’s cabinet asa mere exhibition ne curiosity. The best thing the visitor to the Home Products Fair at Los Angeles will see will be the city itself. That1s a home product the whole State 1s proud cf. of John Sherman to the office of y of State will leave an Ohio senatorship open to Mark Hanna or a fight and possibly to both. The purchase of new desks for the com- mittee-rooms at the Capitol confirms the suspicions of two vears ago that the last Legislature pocketed the old ones. We would have been more gratified by | the report irom Washington that t.e con- | struction of our postoffice building wili | begin in June if tue supervising architect had been good enough to specify which June. In his new book, “The Mystery of Sleep,” John Bigelow declares that ere long the art of sleeping will be taught in all our scientific schools. This seems to be another attempt of science to intrude on the church. If the Caledonian Club adopts the pro- posed resolution appropriating $1000 from the club funds for the Burns monument the success of the work will be virtually assured. A sum like that will be a pedes- tal on which everybody will be willing to build. The el i Se A story that the Pacific Short Line would soon in an extension of its road to San Francisco was reported about two weeks ago and then denied. As it is now reporied again it is evident there is some- thing in it, even if nothing more than an ability to keep to the front. The league recently organized by so- | ciety ladies in Los Angeles to exclude re- porters from social functions will flourish gayly until the firt big ball is given, and then eact particular member of the league will stand *dike quills upon a fretful por- cupine” because her gown wasn't de- scribed right. New York has not yet completed her new Capitol but she has outgrown it, and there is now a demand for an appropria- tion for a building for the library and the Court of Appeals. Thus the song in New York to-day is the same it was when the work began: “That’s the way the money goes; pop goes the weasel.” The proposal in Congress to refer the settlement of the Pacific roads’ debts to a commission, to be composed of the Secre- tary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney-General, will give a new interest to the make-up of Mc- Kinley’s Cabinet. Who are to be the men to whom the work is to be intrusted ? The efforts which will be made at this session of the Legislature to obtain an ap- propriation for the improvement of Sacra- mento River and the drainage of the swamp lands will deserve the most favor- able consideration which can be given them wxith a due regard for economy. Sooner or Jater this important work must | prompt response to their deserving, and | j impose such taxes upon that which is as | be undertaken, and if the State begins it we can with more reason ask assistance from the National Government. A MONUMENT TO BAKER. A bill has been introduced before the Legislature of California providing for an appropriation of the sum of §15,000 for the erection of 2 monument to the memory of Colonel K. D. Baker in Golaen Gate Park. The bill should be reported and acted upon early in the session, with no discussion save that which overflows with eulogy, an vote. If there is any name to which the St of gratitude it is that of Edward D ckinson Baker. words, whose heroic deeds and whose exaltes Baker1s that one. Born an Englishman, brought to Amerl d it should be passed without a dissenting ate of California owes a long overdue debt If there is any one whose eloquent d genius deserve tolive in marble Colonel ica in his infancy, reared amid those aids to culture which formed the atmosphere of a scholarly father's home, remarkable from his childhood for restlessness of spirit, quickness of intellect, power and felicity of expression, he naturally entered and mo: of the second quarter century of our National life. youth companion Trumbull and Wentworth and other great men of their rugged type. there in his his the genius; a flush friend of and found room for the exercise of his varied tal professional and political career. At the agi of Illinois and at 33 he entered Congress as a Representative from that State. forums his eloguence began to give him a N too tame for Baker's araent soul and when t regiment and went to the front. He was with Taylor at Matamoras and with Scott at Vera Cruz. ved along with the great westward current A pioneer of Illinois, he was and the earlier expansion of of Lincoln and Douglass and In the West he lent and rapidiv rose to eminence in his e of 26 he was a member of the Assembly In such ational reputation. Peace, however, was he Mexican War came on he recruited a He returned with the rank of colonel, and was again elected to Congress in the year 1849. Three years thereafter Colonel Baker came to California. age and was in the fullness of his intellecta practice of the law and speedily achieved a gies, however, were soon to be devoted great question of human liberty began He was then 41 years of al strength and vigor. He engaged in the State-wide reputation therein. His ener. to a nobler and a wider sphere. The to set the minds ana hearts of men aflame from ocean to ocean, and in its discussion Colonel Baker became the foremost figure on_the Pacific Coast. From 1855 to 1860 he was in fact the most powerful exponent and continent. He preached liberty from the of our Golden State, until men of less and his magic utterance and themselves became bold and great. learned to be right and Starr King to be without regard to race, color or conditions Baker did more to make and to keep California loyal to the Union in its time of | trouble than did any other man. When the hour of civil conflict ca the most fearless, the most eloquent apostle of freedom on this side of the hilitops and throughout all the valleys ardent souis caught the 1inspiration of From bim Broderick eloquent in the cause of liberty to all men of servitude. Itcannot be doubted that me and his counfry needed the sword more than the tongue, Baker was among the first to take up arms in defense of the principles of freedom he had so eloquently proclaimed. the toga of a Senator of the United Stiates to wear the epauiets of a colonel and organizing a regiment went to the neare might be found and fought. as one of the most illustrious martyrs st point where the enemies of his country It was Balls Biuff, and there he fell among the earliest to the Union cause. From the far East his TYemains were reverently borne to California, to be laid away among the people whoss ideal he had been. They rest at Lone Mountain, beneath a neglected stone, waiting for California to awaken to a sense of its duty to the orator, the statesman, the patriot and the soldier, whose name makes glorious every page of her history upon which it has been written. Will California permit herself to longer endure the reproach of ingratitude to the memory of Edward Dickinson Baker by refusing the request for the slight testimonial of a monument which those who rightly measure the greatness of his genius and the magnitude of his service pre fer? LITERARY OOULTURE. The City of San Francisco, though young in comparison with most of the large cities of the Union, has by the rec: ord of preference 1n books for the pas ear shown herself to be superior to| 1 others in general literary taste. The | testimony of the leading booksellers and of the officials of public libraries prove not only that in a general way books suit- able to serious, studious, we!l-trained minds are in greatdemand here, but by the specitic mention of what books and auth- | ors head the list of favorites they have en- | abled us to make a direct comparison | with other cities. The list is too long to name all of the popular preferences here and elsewhere, but when we consider two of-the most read books in this City, “Quo Vadis' { and “*The Honorable Peter Stirling,” and | set them in the scales to be weighed for their mental worth against the chosen fic- tion ot other cities, we find that nowhere | else are the master works of new writers s0 quickly recognized as here. This rapid recognition of the excellence of new books is one of the most crucial | tests of finely discriminating literary ap- reciation. Concerning e merit of | works long published, m ndes have Jearned much asa parrot learns a lesson, and they know what to read and what 1o praise by a sort of borrowed culture. When new books, however, meet with a | outsell in a city, as they did here, the| popular bat far inferior literature that | flooded other places till the demand | created for it was correctly called a craze, it shows that our reading people by a large majority know what is best without getting their knowledge et second hand. In addition to this fact of preference for the best fistion, the records of the Public Library prove that the proportion of | scientific, historical, philosophical and religious works read in San Francisco to the books that satisfy less thoughtful and stuaious minds is about 50 per cent, which | largely exceeds the ratio in other cities. With us “Peter Stirling” outsold “Trilby’”’ even in the. height of the | “Trilby” craze. Easterners may call us | wild and woolly, but the records of our | reading and book-buying show that we lead all American cities in literary culture and in appreciation of unadvertised ex- cellence. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. It is gratifying to note that a strong ele- ment in the Legislature is favorable to a | measure proposing to exempt the endow- ment of Stanford University from taxa- tion. It is indeed to be regretted that we have had to wait so long for such a meas- ure to be adopted. The university is for the benefit of the State and we are simply impairing its usefulness to the people by imposing taxes upon the munificent en- dowment which the generosity of Senator Stanford and Mrs. Stanford has bestowed upon it. It is stated that Mrs. Stanford is now so pressed for ready money to meet the ex- penses of the university that she has been compelled to use the means which she formerly set aside to sustain kiadergartens in San Francisco, The taxation of the Stanforc endowment, therefore, isvirtually a taxation upon children in San Francisco. It is not money drawn: fror private uses, but from public good. It is certainly neither wise nor expedient that we should beneficial to the general welfare as any in- stitution maintained by the State. California, it is said, has been more un- friendly to the founders of colleges and institutions of learning than any other State 1n the Union. This is in a certain sense a reproach upon our laws and those who make them. We ought to encourage such benefactions as that munificent one which has founded Stanford University. This view of the case wili, we doubt not, be taken by the majority of the members of the Legislature as it is by the people generally. Measures providing for the exemption of the endowment from taxes should be cordially supported and promptly passed. The State owes much to Senator Stanford and the least it can do to show its gr: tude to him is to take from his university the burdens which are now imposed upon it. AFTER THE BALL The celebrations of yesterday and the public rejoicing over the defeat of the funding bill were as large and as univer- sal as could be expected upon the short notice which was given. The Governor’s proclamation declaring the day a legal holiday was not published until the morn- ing when the celebration was to take place, and very naturs a general outpouring of the people could not be made. Nevertheless enough was done and said to show that the people sincerely rejoiced in the public victory and are well pleased with the prospects for the emancipation of the State from the control of the monovoly. Through all the celebration, however, it was noticed that a feeling of uncer- | tainty was among the people. Even the | most enthusiastic felt a consciousness that the war was not yet at an end, and that final victory is not assured. This feeling was sometiing more than an in- stinet. Itis well founded in reason, and it behooves those who have the interests of the State at heart to consider well what steps are to be taken next. Reports from Washington show that a strong sentiment exists in Congress in favor of a measure which wouid check all steps by the Government toward closing the mortgage on the defaulting | roads and refer the settlement of the debts to a commission to be composed of the Sec- retary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney-General. ch a commission would undoubtedly seek to deal justly with the people and to maintain every right of the Government against the defaulting roads; but, never- theless, tae people would prefer to have the present law enforced. There is no reason why there should be any further legislation or even negotia- tions in the matter. The roads have de- faulted in their obligations to the Govern- ment and - the Government should enforce its claim aganst these rich and powerful | corporations in exactiy the same manner in which it would enforce them againstan ordinary citizen who had taken up a homestead and then defaulted in his pay- ments, The ball is over. We have now to face that which comes after the ball. We have had our jubilee and have rejoiced in the accomplishment of one great victory. We must now, however, proceed to prepare ourselves for another issue of hardly less importance. Until this question is finally | settled the right of the Government main- tained and the interest of the people pro- tected we have no sufficient reason for lay- ing aside our watchiulness or ceasing to remember that we are still engaged in a struggle. THE POSTOFFICE BUILDING, We are promised that the work of con- cting the new postoffice building in this City will begin in June, and the man who makes the promise is not the man in the moon. To that extent we are encour- agea. The encourazement, nowever, we fear ends there, ior the promise comes from the supervising architect, and we | have heard his promises before and know too well how little trust can be placed in them. The early beginning of the work of con- struction is not the only promise which is given us. We are assured that the high towers on the proposed plan are to be removed. ‘That much isgood, but it would be better if the whole plan were to be obliterated and an altogether new and different building devised. Of the pro- posed structure it may be truly said, as Mrs. Poyser said of her chickens, “they ought to be hatched over again and hatched different.”” The structure with the towers would be a monstrosity. with- out them it would be hardly more than a commonplace warehouse. The people, however, will not be dis- posed to be critical. TkLey bave waited so long for “‘any old thing” that the promise the present building without the mon- strous towers will be begun in June will come to them as genuine good news. It will ada much to the gavety of the season and enliven usin our preparations for the coming carnival. Let us then put trust in the supervising architect for once and look for the building early 1n the coming sum- mer. . Kven if its construction does not satisfy us it will av least afford us the grati- He laid aside | Iy preparations for | fore- | fication of settimg a long-vexed problem and put an end to “that hope deferred which maketh the heart sick.”” FERSONAL. Dr. Armstrong of Stockton is in town. E. H. Story of Los Angeles is at the Palace. L. Williamson of Sydney, New South Wales, is here. Judge W. & short visit. Mark Purcell of Portland is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Senator J. H. Seawell of Ukiah is here for two or three days’ stay. W. F. Burden, a wealthy resideat of New- port, R. L, is in the City. E. H. Mills, 8 mining man of Nevads, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. 0. D. Boardman of Stillwater, Minn., is 8 late arrival at the Cosmopolitan. George F. Weeks, editor of the Bakersfield Culifornian, is at the Grand. D. H. Latimer and C, A. Weaver of Delano are staying at the Cosmopolitan. Shaw of Virginia City is here for Sacrimento County, is in the City. Daniel Shaw, proprietor of a hotel at Ross- land, British Columbis, is at the Lick. Martin Van Martyn of Hamburg, manager for Mme. Trebell, is at the Occidental, Daniel Smith, & business man of Baker City, Or., is on a visit here and is at the Russ. H. L. Borgwardt Jr. of Bakersfield, one of the under Sher.ffs of Kern County, is at the Russ. H. D. C. Barnhart of Senta Cruz, and family, engaged in the hotel business, is at the Russ, Joseph Maillard of San Geronimo, president of the California Dairymen’s Association, is in town. W. N. Halbert, who is interested in different enterprises at Juneau, Alaska, is registered at the Grand, W. H. Coats, a wealthy business man of Saginaw, Mich., is among the arrivals at the Occldental. Dr. P. Wolcott of the United States navy, Mare Island, was among last night's arrivals at the Palace. J. C. Flanders, who is a large ower in the Portland docks, is a recent arrival here and is at the Palace. Charles F. Wilcox, the well-known San Jose attorney, has been a sojourner in the City for the past week. Jumes A. Rankin and J. B. Scott, members of the Chicago Bourd of Trade, are in San Fran- cisco for a short stay. Colonel J. B. Overton of Gold Hill, long man- ager of the Virginia City and Gold Hill Water Works, is among the arrivals here. Henry $mith of the County Clerx’s office, for many years in business with Curry Bros., is dangerously ill at St. Luke’s Hospital. Alexander §. Irwin, & mining man ot Silver City, Idaho, and Arthur S, Hime of Toronto, Canada, were among the arrival from the north yesterday. They are at the Russ. T. G. Nicklin, one of the founders of the New Whatcom Reveille and ex-chief clerk of the Washington State Assembly, is in the City. Mr. Nicklin s one of the early residents of Bellingham Bay, T. W. H. Shanahan, the “Tall Sycamore of Shasia,” is a familiar figure among recent ar- rivals at the Grand. He is here only & brief day or two, pending the interval of the legis- lative adjournment. W. W. Gillett, A. Moncun and A. §. Riehl, who are among the leading orange-growers of | Palermo, Butte County, are in the City. Mr. | Gillett was formerly for some years in the | orange business at Lake St. Weir, Florida. | Wiliam Greer Harrison has decided to re- move either to New York or Chicago, severing | his connection with the imporient insurance | companies of which he has long been the head here. His family will go to Europe for a time. J. W. Searls, the veteran borax owner of | Borax Lake, on the edge of Death Valley, who | has been meny years in the borax business, | has arrived here from the borax beds and is staying at the Russ. Mr. Searls is one of the | California pioneers. | Walter Morosco left here yesterday, accom- | panied by a party of friends, in asix-horse | conch for a tour tnrough Marin, Sonoma and | Lake counties, to be gone a week. Those with Morosco are James Haswell, Louis Bishop, Louis Ohnimous, John Fosier and C. F. Pugh. Joseph S. Spear Jr., who was one of the early McKinley men, and who aspires to the office of Coliector of the Port of San Francisco, is | making his arrangements to go East. Mr. | Spear casc the only vote for Mr. McKinley at the Minneapolis convention which came from the Pacific Coast delegation. | Mr. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 16.—At the St. Cloud, . L. Bates; Metropolitan, F. D. Fraser; Stuart, | 3. W. Harrison; Imperial, J. R. Dwrer; Bar. tholdl, J. Gross. E. A. McKean, Los Angeles, left the St. Cloud to sail on the Lucania for England. Mrs. Anna Rosenberg and Albert | Herman Rosenberg arrived in from Bremen | on the Labu; so did Max Lichtenfield of Stock- holm. | GENUINE WESIERN HOSPITALITY ‘Washington Evening Star. “Talk about hospitality,” remarked a broken-down actor yesterday, “the place to fina it s in the tar West. The last time I was out there we were playing ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ | with a real mule. We piayed to fair business and paid our bills until we reached Red Bluff. There the owner of the opera-house hada Pp1ano for an orchestra, and it stood just betow | the stage. When the mule came on some one |in the audience got funny, and, throwinga | lariat around the neck of the animal, pullea him off the stage. The mule and the piano got mixed up, which ruined the orchestra, and when he got away from the piano the mule kicked down one of the boxes before he walked through one of the seats to where the | fellow with the lariat wanted him. I had a mouth organ, with which I went on with the orchestral accompaniment, and we closed the | play with the feliow that captured the mule riding him around the opera-house, “The manager of the theater claimed dam- ages, capiured all the box receipts, and we could not get out of town. Of course we ex- pected to walk, but I'il be blamed if the land- ord didn’t pack us all with our baggage in a boxear, give us plenty of lunch, and send us clear (0 Virginia City without our payinga cent. The most hospitable fellow I ever saw."” INVENTIONS FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE. Kansas City Times. There is no lack of inventions to diminish the cost of production or to save labor, but in- ventions which protect human life and limb are slower in forthcoming and in adoption, Yet in & progressive age humanity shouid rauk before gain. Every movement for the amelioration of the condition of the masses and the lessening of their danger marks more truly than manners or munuments the ad- vance of civilization. PARAGRArH> ABOUL PEOPLE. The Lord Mayor of London wears a badge of office containing $60,000 worth of diamonds. Sir Henry Irving is one of the best swords- men in England. He has practiced scientific swordsmanship for many years. Mme. Patti is much afraid of burglars. She has Craig-y-Nos Castle fitted up with electric alarm bells on all the window-shutters. Robert Burns’ “Jolly Beggars,” first edition, a pamphlet of sixteen duodecimo pages, un- cut, was sold recently for $105 to a Glasgow collector. Representative Messenger, who represents New Hartford in the Connecticut Legislature, is the largest man ever a member of that body. He weighs 330 pounds. One plan proposed for marking Queen Vic- toria’s longest reign on record is for every little community in Great Britain to establish a garden, park or playground in her honor. Rudynrd Kipling is in his country home in England, off the high road to Torquay, with terraced gardens shelving down to_the sea. His nearest literary neighbor is W. E. Norris. Hundreds of applications have been received for the place made vacant by the retirement of Herr Reindel, Prussia’s high executioner. Thirty-seven dollars and traveling expenses are paid for each execution. J. Whittaker. a general-store owner of Galt, AROUND THE CORRIDORS In the remote dun mountains of Lower Call- fornia, where a few years ago there was a wild real estate boom and later a placer excitement at Alamo, there is said to be now some solid mining progress. Gay Lombard, a stalwart young man dressed in a corduroy suit and topped with a broad- rimmed white hat, came up irom there yester- day and is at the Palace. He wasa banker and mining operator at Salt Lake, where he is yet as largely interested as before, and about a year and a half ago went to the Fortuna dis- trict, sixty miles east of Ensenada and 125 south of San Diego. It is the Fortuna mines, so_called, in which he is interested and of which he has the man- agement. He says his company put in $75,000 and did over 2000 feet of development before they began to get golden returns. They crush their ore by a ten-stamp mill. Mr. Lombard fall war will be seen that he had fal N cause for his action. FErRer ty SirRyAN, ittea of arrangements Vot of tne Mexican irman of the com O e Associated Veterans War. s Tha following are the 1:tters rc(e:r::afl;w X . Ta, PACIFI = My Dear Major Sherman: Thanks for the 2 0 Tom unwilling to take sides t x:b:S‘rflv,(nre ences which so unfor:unately cocurred to Giof fhS Barmony +f the celebration, 1 do not BUSHEIC 0 sny that, whoever was_responsible for, (he [ 0 biundérs and iscourtesies shown 10 WISLUR guests, and to myaelf and people under my Cov Thand, was either a vers rude man, 3 re than one was responsible. & e close copy of letter mailed to-day to M Duck worih, and am, YOURS UYL Ly 4 s H1P PHILADE] PHIA, e Fa or8Ca, ALz, October 21, 1896, } 3 ? tive Com- Mr.'S. J Duckworth, Secretary Ezecutive Goil- ittee, Semi-Centennial Celebration, Monterey, 2 Dean S+ I learn from ~Report on Committee of P —— — = T 7% GAY LOMBARD, Manager of the Fortuna Gold Mines, a Mile High, in Lower California. [Sketched from life by a “ Call” artist.) says his people are entirely satisfled with the | Arrangoments ot the Assoctated Veterans of the results thus far. These Fortuna mines are about twenty miles from the Alamo district. Hesays that while previously that was a placer district, the placer interest has led to the discovery o good ledges. They followed the gold up to its sources. Mr. Lombard is impressed with the quick- ness with which & man cen do things these days. He left the Fortuna minesat 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, drove sixty miles by team over a rongh mountain road to Ensenads, caught a steamer and reached Sap Dicgo; staid six hours there and caught a train 1o Los Angeles, got another there without delay and reached here Thursday morning. He says the winter is delightful m the moun- tains of Lower California. Whero he is min- ing it is 5000 feet above the sea. FAITH. I will not learr t> doubt my kind. 11 bread Is poison. what is f00d? 1 man is evil, what isgood? 1'll cuitivate a 'friendly mind. 1 see not far. but this I see— 1t man is faise, then naught is true; 1ffaith is not the goiden clew, To life then all is wystery 1 know not much, but this I know— That not In hermit's caim retreat, But In the thronged and busy street, The angels most do come and go. Who to the infinite would rise Should know this one thing ere he starts— ‘Ihat ail s steps are human hearts; To love mankind is to be wife. 1 will not Jearn to doubt my kind, If man is false then false am I; 1t on mysetf I can’t rely, Then where shall faith & foothold find * Chbristian Register. Letters From the People. BEARDSLEE SET RIGHT. ZLetters Explaining His Orders Concern- ing Souvenir Flags. OAKLAND, Cal., Junuary 9, 1897. Editors Call—GENTLEMEN: On Monday last (the 4th inst.) there appeared in the Examiner an article reflccting upon Admiral L. A. Beardslee, U. 8. N., in relation to an order is- sued by him to the officers commanding the flagship Philadelphia and the Monadnock not to receive the souvenir banners intended to be presented by the local committee at Monterey of the carnival and fiesta at that place inci- dental to the celebration beid on the 7th of July last. The admiral being absent at Val- paraiso and therefore ignorantof the atiack made upon him, I, as cbairman of the com- mittee of arrangements of the Associated Veterans of the Mexicany War for the celebra- tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the taking possession of California and the ralsing of the American flag at Monterey by Commodore Jonn D. Sloat of the United States navy, wrote a respectful reply and furnished data with printed copies of letters from the admiral to myself and to that local committee. This was on Wednesday last. The letter of reply by my- self was suppressed or destroyed by the man- aging editor of that paper, and the stigma in- tended to be fastened upon Admiral Beardslee still remains, and by sucn action the Examiner is made a party thereto. 1 therefore na)\eetlulli refer you to the article pub.ished in the Examiner and to the inclosed addenda to my report, with copies of letters from Admiral Berdsiee to mysell and 10 the local committee at Monterey of the same date of October 31, 1896, and it will be seen that there was no sudden cause for sur- prise and consternation on the part of the so- called “director general” and the commiitee at that place. It is a matter of justice to Ad- miral Beardslee that the truth should be known, and as chairman of the committee of arrangements of the Associated Veterans of the Mexican War, who inaugurated the cele- bration of the fortieth, as well as the fiftieth, anniversary of the raising of the American flag at Monterey, having made a trip (o Wasi- ington at my own expense and secured the co-operation of both Secretaries of War and the NlVy.l!lm?ly ask that the copies of Ad- miral Beardsiee’s letters be published, and it i | Mexican War” that from the funds contributed to beexpinied in items conuected with the semi- centennial celebration at Monteres on July 7, 1896, there Is a certain por-jon set aside for the purchase of “two souvenir banuers ordered last evening for the United States ships Philadelphia and Monadnock.” I have to request that as there is, and has been, among those who organize! a d managed the cele: b.ation, wide aifferen: esof opinion asto the proper distribution of the money coilected, not oue doilar of it shall be expended directiy or indirect.y on any of the forces under my command. I could not permit the acceptant unacr the circumstances. Y ours truly, L.A. BEARDSLEE, Kear Adwiral United States Navy. SHERMAN HONORED. Significance of His Being Made Secre- tary of State. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: On reading the news of the promotion of Sena- tor John Sherman to the first place in the Mc- Kinley Cabinet and the editorial views of THE CALL on the subject, I am led to attuch much significance to the fact that the honor was conferred on the Obio Senator. By this time it ought to be a matter of common knowledge that Turkish bonds smothered the pitiful appeals of the Ameri- cans for protection from the atrocity of the Turks. Likewise tLe Spanish bonds smother the cry of Cubans for help against the cruel- ties of Spain. The business interests ot the world demand the steady maintenance of the present status. My information is singularly misleading if Senator Joen Sherman is not the man pre-eminently qualified to fill the office of Secretary of State if it be the settled policy of the leading commercial nations to maintain international relations substantially on the present basis. The position takeg by Senator Sherman on the Cuban question) as reported in this moru- ing's News in an interview accorded to newspaper inquisitor aiter he had authorized the announcement that he was to be Secretary of State lends strong confirmation to this view of the matter, He is reported as having said: “It begins to look as though Spain would grant Cuba some kind of autonomy, which will speedily end the war. Iam in favor of non- interference with the affairs of Cuba. Alout all we want is to buy the products of the isiand and sell her all the goods we can.” 1f this does not seex 1o be the volce of hu- manity, the moving speech of a liberty-loving American, it certainly is the voice of the busi- ness interests. Indeed, if the head of the Rothschild syndicate had been Interviewed and he had spoken with brutal frankness it seems to me thal he would bave exyressed himself in almost the same words employed by the future Secretary of State. In a word, 11 money rules the leading commercial nations of the world to-day the ablest financial diplo- mat is the man needed now for the office of Secretary of State, and I think we can ali agree that Senator Sherman is our ablest financial diplomat. n the matter of the proposed international monetary conference it must bs conceded that Mr. Sherman in any eventwould have weighty influence. Accepting the view that business interests are puramount in internationa. rei tions, and remember ng that the President will appomt the American members of the conference, with the Secretary of State as his chief adviser, the peculiar qualifications of Senator Sherman designate him as the man for the place he has been chosen to fill. Tam notso hopeful as Senator Wolcott and other intern tional bimetallists appear to be asto any favor- able results from the international monetary of a banner conference; snd I understand that Senator Sherman tavors the maintenanceot the gold standard as the permanent policy of the coun- try. Iam well aware that_President-elect Me- Kinley has encouraged Senator Wolcott in going abroad to try o bring about an interna- tional monetary conference: butlam inclined tougree with the New York Journal of Com- merc of Thursday sfiernoon, December 31. editorial on “International Bimela ligm” the openi: g paragraph reads as follow: “Some importauce is attached to the words of Semator Wolcott, who has just_returned {rom Canton, declaring that Major McKinley is in favor of international bimetallism. Like a ereat many good people in the United States Major McKinley sees uo_objection to internn- Honal bimetailism. Really nobody should be in oppo.ition. The St. Louis platform ex- plicitiy declares in favor of it. Every wise man has something good to say of it. - Alto- gether it seems to be one of the most popular ideas, on paper, that we have ever had. But itis only on paper. And the Dest of it is it is going to stay there.” Iadmit that this s a rather blunt way of putting it and hardly respectful to Senator Wolcott and others; but let us read the sec- unto tk * These are the words ju they stand: “The Eurovean nations fi seives in thesame uttitude as the Uniied Sty 2 perfecily agreceble o international bin alifsm if it can be brought sbout, but u indifferent as to when or h come if, indeed, it ever comes. as the pledge in the platiorm cerned, everyboay ' understands not incorporated to be carried out. anxious some Americans may be aliism, the European nati finding p %o do in attending 10 their oWn affairs caring nothing et all about it, are conte lot the subject molder in ihe tomb. W should we care? Isnotour carrency th in the worid? Who is wise enough any of the changes suggested would ficial ? Is it not petter after all 1 standard alome? International fsdead as Jehosaphat. And itisa to let tne deed rest in peace. tired. They don’t want to be di Nation let us tarry no longer at t bellcve John Sherman ¢an read that and smile placidly. I think he s the rig ight piace. T here will be no shock to ihe ests in the appointment of Sen, £t he high piece of Secretar is equally certain that the 5 ests are confined to the and the certainty of remunerative ep ment will regard his appoint rehension. Srestelny JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNs San Francisco, January 16, 15 e A PUBLIC DUTY. Attend the Nicaragua Canal Meeting and Promote the Mensure. To the Editor of the Call Your journal hasbeen & consistent and steadfastiriend Nicaragua canal, and so I may cousistently re- quest you for the public good to call special attention to the public meeting called by the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Janua 19, 1897, at 1 o’clock P. X, at the Murchauts Exchange assembly ball, Califoraia \uen‘v‘.”; ition Congressor the prompt enactment o fisl“l;fl?cx:l:’ngu: canal bill now pending. The prospects for the passage of this measure of such vituk interest to the Pacific Coast were never so gdod, and it is a duty that our civic organizations and citizens owe to the com- monweaith to support by public encourage: mentand endowment the faithful services of our friends now working bard jorus in Con- gress. Letus show our appreciation of their efforts on our behalf; it is thus that public men are encouraged in the performance of espectiully yours, thelr duty. Respectiullyyours, =\ Sen Francisco, January 16, 18 s, HARRISON'S VIEW OF THE SENATE. ‘Washington Post. “If the Hon. Benjamin Harrison had allowed the persuasion of his friends to induce him to say that he would accept the United States senatorship the office would have been handed him on & gold piatter,” said one of the Desi- known Republican leaders of Indiana. “But General Harrison has firmly declined to entertain the idea of coming to the Senate for one moment. He is contented with his domestic life and his law practice, and no in- ducement could tempt him back to Washing- ton, where, in the last yeers of his residence, he experienced such bitter afiliction. “The general said to me once that during his service in the Senate he never met bul one man that was really s Senator, and that was George F. Edmunds.” All the rest were errand- boys or depariment messengers for their con- stituents. He was disgusted with the experi- ence, and would not repeat it for any earthly consiaeration.” HOW GULD GROWS. Indianapolis “ournal. There are gold miners who insist that gold grows.” This seems scarcely possible, but there can be no doubt but that the output of the yellow metal is growing from year to vear, as the increase of 72 per cent in the United States since 1592 proves. NEWSPAPER PLEaSsNIRY. Hewitt—I must tell you s secret, old man: I am going to elope, and I want to wear the cor- rectsuit. What is proper ? Jewett—A cutaway coat, Topics. 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