The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, oue year, by mail... 6.0 Daily snd Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily and Eunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. .85 Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail 1.80 W 3EXLY CaLL, One by mi 180 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone, R Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montromery sireet, corner Clay: epen untll 9:50 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteench and Misslon streets; open 1 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock, 167 Ninth strect; open unti) 9 o'clock. 1305 Polk street: open until 9:30 o'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Nooms 51 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Cliye DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. -MARCH 9, 1897 During the week ending Sat- urday last THE CALL published 4613 of advertisements, which is 4. inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper during the same time. inches Remember that to help the unempioyed is to help the City. Viclous journalism is progressing rapidly on the toboggan-slide. A protective tariff will soon bring out the money needed to make the mare go, and after that progress will be rapid. With a sufficient tariff to protect the stigar industry in' this country California would have a future with millions in it. diplomacy may yet have to 1 armies to keep the peace, It is evident the navies canzot do it alone. California will have many interests at stake during the extra session of Congress and now is the time to prepare to look after them. Once more they have had disastrous blizzards in the East to remind us that what we call storms out here are only | beneficial showers. When a newspaper adopts the nature of a serpent it will be treated like a serpent, end every man will seek to crush it in the dust where it crawl. Let Europe attend to Crete. Our busi- nese is with Cuba. Until we have secured the rights of patriots in America we ought not to interfere elsewhere. There has been no declaration of war in i Europe, but to the Greeks and the Turks no declaration of intention is necessary. They understand one another. The silent Mr. Heitfelt of Idaho may not get a seat in the United States Senate after all. He seems to have paid too many legislators to saw wood for him. Some of the Democratic organs have be- gun to attack the new tariff, although it has not yet been drawn up. The habitual kicker kicks because he cannot help it. The Legislature will please take notice | that an appropriation for a California display at the Hamburg Exposition will not be an extravagance, but an economy, and the people desire it. Minister de Lome is another statesman who wrote a book that gives more pleasure to his enemies than his friends. Ashe disapproved of some things in San Fran- cisco it goes without saying that he lacks o'h judgment and vera It is to be regretted thata number of strikes have been started in the East just at this juncture. The new administration will do much to revive prosperity, but labor and capital must work together in barmony in order to make it certain. The Cuban mass-meeting will give the people of San Francisco an opportunity to show how thoroughly they share the sym- pathies of the rest of the country with the struggling patriots of theisland and Amer- ican citizens who are imprisoned there. Massachusetts 1s raising $20,000 to erect a monument to General Warren, and Mis- touri is raising $1800 to erect one to Daniel Boone. The difference in the amounts shows the difference of ideas in the two Btates as to what constitutes a monument. The work of the members of Carpenters’ Union No. 433 in building a home for a fellow-member 1s an example worth imi- tating. 1f the whole community were actuated by an equal “spirit of mutual helpfulness San Francisco weuld be the most prosperous City in America. The Mechanics’ Library of this City, the libraries of Portland, Or., and Newark, N. J., have set the example of excluding vicious journals from their reading-rooms, and so great is the popular approval of the action that it cannot bedoubted that other | libraries will soon adopt a similar course, Decadent journalism isrepulsive to Ameri- can ideas of decency and will not be tol- erated. The action of the organization of the unemployed men in this City in ovening a bureau for the purpose of providing work for unemployed women is in every respect commendable and ‘merits the co- operation of all who have any means of aiding the movement. This is not an issue of charity, but of public expediency. There should be work for all willing workers and good waees at that. Can a Governor appoint a Senator when the Legislature refuses to elect'one? That is the conundrum on the solution of which the organization of the Senate depends. 1f the appointments of theGovernors of Oregon and Kentucky a e valid the Senate will have a Republican majority, but otherwise the mujority will be scattering and the result will be confusion. The Senate has heretofore held that a Governor could not appointa Senator under such circumstances, but this seems a good occa- sion for revising the old rule and making a better one, THE CLIMAX OF IMPUDENCE The audacity, impudence and brazen shamelessness of the Fzaminer are now re- vealed to the public at the climax of their effrontery and at the lowest depths of their cowardice. The proceedings at Sacramento e£hibit the foul slanderers in their true nature. Brought to bay on their charges against the Legislature of “Bribery in Aid of Thievery,” the whole Ezaminer gang gives evidence of nothing but cowardice in | aid of lying. Confronted recently in Sacramento by an indignant man, Long Green Lawrence | submitted tamely in public to the accusations of being *‘a liar, a crook and a boodling | blackguard.” Confronted by the Legislature, which he has foully libeled, Lawrence | by bis own mounth confirms the truth of the accusations to which he tamely sub- mitted. He makes no manly effort to prove that he spoke the truth, nor shows any sincerity or belief in his own utterances. His sole effort -has been to get away from the corner in which he has been caught. He hus lied, he has evaded, he resorted to trick after trick, but in vain. Long Green Lawrence at bay is even more contemptible than Long Green Lawrence at large. Its own foulness being fully exposed ths Eraminer now seeks to defile others. Having no character to lose it shrieks lie after lie against the members of the Legis- lature in the hope of inducing them to turn with disgust from further prosecution of the case. Brazen audacity, shameless impudence, lying effrontery are the masks under which its cnnning seeks to conceal its cowaraice. All these, however, will ba useless. The Ezaminer and its managers are cornered, and they will not escape until they have been branded as slanderers of the commonwealth and turned over to the lash of public scorn. NO SHUFFLING. [ Like an abandoned thief in the dock, a branded slanderer in the | toils of the law, a whining miscreant exposed to the scorn and con- | tempt of honest men, the EXAMINER, inspired by the unspeak- |ably infamous Lawrence and deserted by the cowardly absentee Hc.arst, is making a d:sperate but futile effort at Sacramento to | evade the issue of bribery which itself raised. | This blackmaili g mongrel of decadent journalism made a direct, | specific, positive charge that “bribery” had b:en employed “i n aid of thievery.” Given the amplest opportunity to prove this grave and secrious charge affecting alike the individual | honor of the Legislature and indirectly the reputation of 1llulifurnia, the Examiner prates of “privileged communications,” | declines to furnish proof, and, adopting the despised methods of the | b.ackguard, now seeks to a aate the men who indignantly asked | for facts, not rumor—truth, not lies. Let there be no shuffling. Let the issue be met face to face. It is hoped and believed that the Legislature will stand firm and reso- lutely assert its constitutional rights and power. as THE BEET - SUGAR INDUSTRY. Among the interests California will have at stake in the new tariff none will be greater than that of the sugar industry. - The remarkable adaptability of our soil ana climate to the production of the surar beet is well known. Tbe yield in tons per acre is immense, the per cent of saccharine contents of those grown here excends that of any other known locality, and there are three-quarters of a million acres within the | limits of the State where the soil, water and climate have been tested as to their beet- | growing powers and pronounced perfectly fit. This acreage, it fully utilized, would | produce -fourth as much as the present entire world’s beet sugar output and yield | a revenue of a hundred miilions. The magnitude of the opportunity needs only to be investigated to be appreciated. It needs only to be reached out for strenuously in order to be realized. The abundant profits of its culture have been proven. Concerted action to advance the industry would add vastly to California’s prosperity and, inasmuch as the special session of | Congress is s0 soon to meet to revise the tariff, now is the accepted time for aciion. | There are now about 22,000 acres in California devoted with gratifying results to | beet culture, but this is not quite a third of one per cent of the vast area adapted to it. | The price paid averages about $4 per ton for good beets, and with a protective tariff | there would be chances for even better prices. | Some of our beets have averaged 23.05 per cent of saccharine matter, which is a world-surpassing record, and the average over the whole acreage is one ton of sugar to seven tons of beets, while the average in Europe, with all the advantage of their long | experience in its culture, is one ton of sugar to seven and fifty-eight hundredths of raw beets, The people of the United States consume annually 2 500,000 tons of sugar, and for that part of it which comes from foreizn nations we pay $120,000,000. Califor- nia is capable cf producing more than half of the amount of this enormous consump- tlon and nearly the whole ofthe amount for which we send our gold abroad to buy. | California herself pays $6,000,000 annually to foreigners for sugar. The great need is to induce capital to come tc the farmers’ ald in this matter. We have all else. A proper plant is immensely costly and capital is proverbially timid. Let the Government make our moneyed men sure that foreign nations are not to be permitted to rush in with their bounty-cheapened sugar to make thelr larze invest- | ments in American factories profitless and then the last essential of success will soon start this great industry toward the :ealization of all its splendid possibilities. Read the great expose imn THE CALL to-morrow, *“The Hypocrite Unmasked.’’ AN EMERGENCY BILL A bill has been introduced before the Legislature and made a special order for this evening, having for 1ts object a reduc- tion in the cost ot holding freeholders’, or charter, elections. It provides for such a grouping of election precincts at the time of a charter election as would do away with a very material amount of the expense incident to such an election. The measure, although i VOLUNTEER WORKERS. The publication in THE CALL yesterday ofa report of the action of the members | of Carpenters’ Union No. 483 in building a home for one of their feilow-members, | Louis Metter, is another of those illustra- tions of co-oparation which show how use- ful to society is the fraternal fexling en- gendered among workingmen by their organized unions. The publication of yesterday is not the first time THE CALL has had to record the construction of a home for some working- man in this City by the members of his union. It is in fact no unusual thing for workingmen to assist one another in that way, and many instances could be cited where the homes of mechanicsin this City | bave been built without any cost to them | for lubor. Over and over again the work- ingmen of 8an Francisco have shown that they are actuated by a genuine spirit of mutual helpfulness, and have set a gzood example to wealthy citizens of how to ad- vance the welfare of a city by working together for the general zood. Such eviderces of cv-operation among workingmen in San Fraacisco mie the more notabie because this is a compara- | tively new city. The men who thus as- | sist one another in the consiruction of homes have come to San Francisco from all parts of the Union, and possibly from all parts of the world. They are not bound together by ties of kinship or mar- risge, nor have they been friends from childhood. Many of them are compara- tively strangers to one another. The only cord which holds them together is the bond of organized labor, and the work they do is, therefore, conciusive proof of ingmen and to the community at large. That which is given by these volunteer workers to their fellow-members of a trades union is worth more than the money value of a day’s labor. It counts | for more than the actual labor performed | because it is an evidence of friendship and an expression of resolute determina- tion to advance the welfare not only of the man who receives the direct benefit of | the work, but of all workingmen who nave sufficient interest in the eause of labor to join the unions and take part in the battle for the upbuilding of the wel- fare of industry. THE CALL is always well ploased to re- cord such events. The work done on the home of Louis Metter sets a good examplo to the wealth of the City. Weare now engagea in the task of providing work and wages for the unemployed men and women of San Francisco. If the citizens generally had anything like the generous spirit which prompted the carpenters of Union No. 483 that employment would be given instantly. It would require no solicitation or urging to obtain the funds necessary 1o give every willing worker the employment he needs. The examiple set by the carpenters should not be lost on the community. Let us all act together with a like spirit of mutual helpfulness, and San Francisco will soon become the most prosperous community in America. the value of such organizations to work- | general in terms, evidently applies in a special sense to the City and County of San Francisco and would benefit it mn a most material way, in view of the pros- pect of another charter election. The act is an emergency measure, and having been introduced too late in the session to | be entitled to passage without a joint resolution of the Eenate and Assemoly permitting it, should receive the impetus of such a resolution. It isa patent fact that San Francisco needs anew organic law. It is equally clear that every unnecessary expense of another charter election should be avoided to the end that the peovle may have an opportunity to vote upon another charter relieved of the objections which defeated the one most recently proposed and at a slight expense in the way of taxation. The S:ate at large is not materially inter- ested in this measure, but the City of San Francisco and those who bear the burden of its taxes are. The bill which bas been introduced has been officially approved by the Merchants’ Astocigtion of this City and will doubtless meet with t.e univer- sal support of its citizens. Itshould re- quire no further argument to induce the Legislature to pass the joint resolution essential to the success oi this measure and to give it the preference accorded to emergency bills. It is to be hoped that it wili receive favoranle consideration at the hands of the Legislatare to-night. THE HAMBURG EXHIBIT. An appropriation for the purpose of making a California exhibit at the Ham- burg Exposition is one which the Legisla- ture could well afford to make without Jaying itself open to the charge of ex- travagance. It wo provide a means for opening a new market for California fruit, woods and minerals, and therefore would be of benefit to the people of every section of the State. Hamburg is one of the largest centers of European trade. Itis the eate tbrough which access is gained to Germany and all Northern Europe. There isa consid- erable demand there for fruits and for fine woods us-ful for artistic purposes, and we herdly need more than an opportunity to . show our products of that kind in order to occasion a demand for them which would be profitable to our producers. The advantage ct such an exposition is recognized by the leadérs of industrial and commercial enterprises in this State, and tbey have given a cordial approval to the bill for the proposed appropriztion, There can be no quesiion of their fitness o judge of its possible value to the State, and their recommendations deserve the careful consideration of the members of the Legis ature, Taken in connection with the provosed exhlbit at Guatemala the one at Hamburg would round out a complete display of California products in the places where such displays would be most beneficial. It would, be useless to show our fruit and fine woods in Guatemala and equally use- less to display our machinery and manu- factured products at Hamburg. A display of mechanical industry at Guatemala, however, agnd a fruit aisplay at Hamburg could hardly fail to wiaely extend our markets for both classes of our products. In each case the displ~y would be made in a place where there is a promising mar- ket for it, snd we ought to have both in ordet that all industries may have an equal advantage. PER ONAL W. C. Wyman of Chicago is in the City. Dr. C. T. Poore of New York is at the Palace. R. J. Bickels of New York is & late arrival here. W. A. Gett, an attorney of Sacramento, is in town. John McMullin of Fresno is at the Occie dental. W. J. Farrell of Grass Valley is here on s brief visit, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint of San Juan are a1 the Grand. T. J. Relly, a business man of Eureks, Cal., is at tho Russ. Professor 0. P. Jenkins of Stanford Univer- sity is at the Palace. D. R. Cameron, a commission merchant of Hanford, is in town. E. A. Warren, a fruit-grower of Chico, ar- rived here yesterday. Harry A. Ackerman, an attorney of Portland, arrived here last night. R. Crowe and wife of San Luis Obispo sre at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. M. S. Lucas, a.prominent rancher of Hum. boldt County, is in town. §. H. Friendly, business man of Fugene, at the Occidental. P. Hoefer, a business man of Pheenix, Ariz., is a late arrival here. Mrs. J. A. Costello and daughter of San Jose are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Sydney Crocker, a leading insurance man of Toronto, Canada, is in the City. H. M. La Rue of Sacramento, State Rallway Commissioner, is in the City. A. M. McDonald, a mine-owner of Sonora, Tuolumne County, fs at the Lick. R. B. Davidson, & prominent business man of Stockton, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Henry Newell, s business man of Park City, Utah, is among the arrivals at the Lick. C.R. Gilbert, a wealthy resident of Butte, Mont., is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Gllbert. 8. F. Black of Sacramentn, State Superin- tendent of Pubiic Instruction, arrived here yesterday. . Alfred Kutner, the wealthy merchant, of Fresno, Hunford and other places on the coast, 15 in the City. J. N. Miner, owner of a large lumber-mill at Arcata and of extensive timber interests near by, is at the Grand. T. M, Brown, the old-time Sher!ff of Hum- boldt County, has arrived here from his home in Eureka. He is on offictal business. Budd Hatton, one of the carly residents of Kiamath Falls, Or., is among the arrivals at the Russ. He is here on a business trip. William J. Sloan, the millionaire merchant, of New York and San Francisco, arrived here from the former city yesterday and is at the Palace. Mrs. Sloan accompanies him., Colonel Willlam Forsyth, the widely known raisin-grower of Fresno, is at the Occidental. In his particular line he is as prominent probably as any grower ou the continent, Richard Swasey, the wealthy merchant and ship-owner, of Eurekn is at the Grand. Heis the owner of the steamer Humbeldt and of other vessels, and of various other {nteres G. F. Swili, the milllonaire pork and beef packer and speculator of Chicago, who is in- terested 1 the yards and packing-houses at Baden, arrived here last night from the East. He is at the Palace. Miss Laura Millard, formerly of the Tivoll Opera-house, who has for some time been ap- pearing bxfore audiences in New York, Boston aud other cities, has returned here and will shortly begin o six mon'ths’ engagement as prima donna at the Tivoli. E. Jacobs, the wealthy pioneer, of Visalia, who owns & 65,000-acre ranch and raises an- nually many thousands of acres of wheat and other grain, is in the City. Mr. Jacobs comes here rather frequently, as his large business interests demand it, and he is known from one end of the State to the other. Captain William E. Dougherty of the United States army, agent of the Hoopa Valley Iu- dlans, is at the Occidental. He has come down, eccompanied by his secretary and one or two other persons as witnesses, in con- nection with some cases of selling whisky to Indians. These cases are to be tried vefors the United States court tiere, Captain Dough- erty came on the Pomona and had arough trip, as the weather along the coast is very wild. CALIFORNIAN> N NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., March 8.—At the St. Cloud, A. W. Martin; Sturtevant, H N. Tuneila; Continental, 8. Bove; Barnett, P. §. Bates; Manhattan, J. H. Borland; Imperlal, R. Bonestell and W. F. Clarke; Grand, W, F. Scott; Holland, J. Liebes and wife; Metropoli- tan, A. F. Lyons; Gerlach, A. D. Moore; Hoff- man, H. B. Maxon; Vendome, E. Walden. I. Meyersteln is here buying. M. M. Luiers left the St. Cloud to sail on the Aller for Germany. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “I don’t hear you complain any more about the cats in our neighborhoo1.” 0, I have rénted my best room to a theclo- gical student who is studying vivisection.”— Cleveland Piain Dealer. o “His atm in 1ife seems to be a poor one. “Yis; hednherits that from his mother. I once saw ber throw a stone at a dog in the strect and hit her husband in the back -yard.” —Belfast News. “Our cashier’s defalcation was a great sur- prise to us.” “Why?" He wrote such a beautiful upright hand.” —Chicago Record. Mrs. Jackson—Dat’ benteen lies yo's tole me toe-day, all diffrunt. Yo’ am a reg'lar rap- skillion. 'Rastus Jackson—W-whad am & rapskillion, mammy? Mrs. Jackson—A rapskillion am & young 'un davs got his fadder’s blood in him—dat’s Whad arapskillion am.—Judge. PARAGRAPHS A(OUT PEOPLE Senator Hawley’s vaper describes Senator Chandler as “an incorrigible, irresponsible mischief-maker.” During the balloting for United States Sena- torin the Utah Legislature Mrs. Martha Can- non received as hizh as four votes. She isa member of the State Senate. President Felix Faure will visit Algeria. He will be the guest of M. Cambon, the Governor- General, during his stay at Tunis. This will be the first visit of & French President to A .ge- ris. The last visitof asovereign was that of Napoleon il It is the custom in the Rothschild family to purchase six pearls, each costing £100, at the birth of each girl baby. Upon each birthday six more pearls are added to the original nest- egg, S0 that when the young woman makes her debut into soclety s casket of magnificent gems is presented to her. Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin cites in the Inde- pendent some amusing fragments from Long- fellow’s journal. “AsIwas standing atmy front door this morning,” said the poet, “a lady in black camo up and asked: ‘Is this the house where Longfellow was born? "*No; he was not born here’ ‘Did hedie here? ‘Not yet.' ‘Are you Longfellow?’ ‘Iam.’ ‘Ithought you died two years ago.’ " THE “CALL” SPEAKS FOR ALL. Letters From Our Readers on Topics of Current Interest. Notab'e Thinkers. Editor San Francisco Call—Ste:: 1 have just 1aid down the March number of the Arena. after readiag the papers by Professor Joseph Le Conte, John Clark Ridpath, Pro essor Frank Parsons aud others, impressed With an imperative sense of du'y to spesk an earnest word to the larze number of our most intelligent men and women who I am sorrowfully certain seldom if ever see this great magezine, no one of whom should fail to read Professor Le Conte's paper on the moot Question of our time, here bearing the title, “The Relation of Biology to Phi osophv,” which he says is “‘the key to whatever is distinctive in my own views.” or the raper by Jobn Clark Ridpatb, the profoundest living historian, on “Democracy—Its Origins and Prospects,” to say nothing of such contributions as those of Professor Parsons on “Compulsory Arbitration,” and Mayor Quincy’s on the “Development of American Cities,” and a dozen others of moving iuterest in this single number of tho Arena. For the alert minds of our day, such as find satisfaction only in the new primary thought of the time, not in the echo of the former thinkers who have left their impress upon the world, Professor Le Conte has a word to say which to me comes with the inspiration of the latest and most profound religious truth given to men. But it is given for those who have learned to think, though in time it will passinto the speech and into the hearts of the people. I cannot undertake to review the eighteen pages here. 1might aswell try to review the multiplication table, in one sense, so logically and compactly is the subject presented. True, I could say “‘seven times seven are forty-nine,” and therein give tne law of the whole table. So I may transeribe a sentence or two, which will indicate the whole purport of this latest revelstion. He sees that “evolution in a vague form has besn held by philosuphical thinkers from the earliest dawn of thought,” and he identifics it with all the revelations and intimations of “the all-embracine and ali-righteous wi'l of God.” “Why? Whence? Whither?” find fundamental answers in this brief paper of eighteen Arena pages. Le Conte leads the religious thought ana molds the philosophy of this last decade of the nineteenth century, and the spirit which animates him in all his work may well be expressed in these noble words of Rev. William Rader: “I regard a true belief in God as the best corrective of superstition, and the first thing every child should be taughtis a true estimats of the Supreme Boing.” Read Le Conte. The light that led him astray from the mechanical theory ot Paley was light from heaven. Ishall be satisfied it Iawake in the here- after where Le Conte feels at home. In “Democracy—Its Origins and Prospects,”” John Clark Ridpath touches another side of life with all the profound significance of Le Conte and all the sympathy of Lincoln. The ordinary reader can follow Ridpath with ease and delight, though the tremendous sweep of his deductions and the all-compreheriding grasp of his generalizations will startle any reader unaccustomed to his maryelous mastery of human history. No thoughtful man in any broad sense an American can read this single snort paper by Ridoath, filling but filteen Arena pages, and not fecl himself somewhat more a man and much more a patriot. The responsive heart thrills over his glowing periods, and he grows stronger in the thought of being an American citizen'on the threshold of the twentfeth century with the possibilities near at hand to be made concrete realities by that mightiest agency at work among men—a democratic patriotism based on the rights of man. Ridpath traces the democracy of man, not thatof a party, to three sources, the gentle Nazarene, the great Greek of ancient Heilas and the Teutonic barbarian of Northern Europe, and finds in it a threefold development. True, antedating all these, in the far valley of the Indies the followers of Guatama held human fraternity to be the law of life. The Nazarene teacher “tolerated the political order established by Rome in his native country,but he passed it by as something in which he found no interest or delight. He told his hearers to pay their taxes and say nothing, As to secular government and its methods he said neither yea nor nay. ‘The institutions of society he virtually ignored. The keynote of all he said and taught In nis random ministry was tho brotherhood and equality ot men.” Of Greek democracy Ridpath tells us that it antedated by several centuries the Asian re- former of Palestine. *The sons of Hellen, as we first discover them in the ZEcean Islands ana on the coast of fonia, were equalizers and levelers; thev leveled upward” In anclent Hellas “rose and reigned the most inteliectnal race of men that ever inhabited the world, the most artistic and literary race,” g “‘people whose language and arts and learning was borne north, south, east ana west, touching we might say all the existing institutions of mankind” to enliven and glorifs. But the essential element of Greek democracy was political or institu- tional. On the other hand T:utonic democracy was mainly social. ‘The theory of tribal organization among the ancient Germans was democratic in the extreme. The chiefrain was never more than a leader of equals.” But I forbear. Icannot summarize Ridpath. He must be read line by line. Read this paper on democracy. It will show you wherein “the story of democracy in its issnance from its threefold source down to its present aspect and condition among the nations, truly and pathetically told, would surpass the Iliad and all other epics of race-life and human tragedy.” It will open an outlook it were well to contemplate. It goes to the heart of present condition It is & good thing for us all to see that “it must needs be that the advocates of aespotism shonld suffer fear; that every evil thing in the world is now afraid and that evers good thing in the world hss courage.” The reader will also discover that Dr. Ridpath is the editor of this Arena Magazine, assisted vy Helen H. Gardener, the peerless woman thinker, and he will one | day thank me for writing this letter. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, March 7, 1897. i The Squirming Faker. It is amusing to see the Examiner trying to squirm through a very small hole. The public understand what it means, after faking to get up & small sensation ora big 85 they wouid call t. . Tt is absurd to think that Superintendent Jaynes can be compelled to look through a pile of 100,000 or 200,000 telegrams to pick out those called for, if any are there. In other words, they are fishing and only fighting for delay, as the Examiner weil knows that it would con- sume several weeks to accomplish what they have asked for. The Examiner has made a bold and dasstardly criminal charge. The proprietor of that paper should be made to tell where he got the information to make this whoiesale charge of bribery or pay the penslty of his criminal act. The best evidence that the whole thing is an Examiner fake is that no man would be fool enough to expose himself through a telegram if he intended such a thing. Telezrams under the law are as sacred as sealed letter and the managerof a telegraph company cannot be compelled to produce them unless there is eworn evidence that these messages were used for a criminal purpose, and then it must be stated who sent and received them. Tt looks to me as though if there has been any bribery done in the case it has been done by the Examiner, which has evidentiy bribed a telegraph empioye, for which they are erim- inally liable as well as the employe for exposing the contents of any message passing over the telegraph line. The Examiner has boldly charged the members of the Legislature with bribery. Let that paper produce the testimony or suffer the penalty. I heve no interest {n this matter one way or the other than that Iwnould like to see this Iying sheet squelched. The course of the Examiner has been todrive capital from the State by advocating strikes and stirring up discontent between emplover and employe, so that people who have money are afraid to invest itin any kind of manufacturing business that requires skilled or unskilied labor. Capitalists do not dare to invest money in any kind of & “corporation,” no matter how many men this corporation should employ, for they well know that the business would not get well under way before this boodle sheet would make a raid upon the company and charge it with oppression of labor. This is a well-known fact, and there wisl be but littie mcrease in manufacturing upon this coast while such = state of affairs exists. A WAGE-WORKER, Oakland, Match 7, 1897, 5 Help the Idle to Find Employment. To the Editor of the San Franctsco ¢all—Str: Workingmen, and especially those out of em- ployment, ought to be grateful to THE CALL for allowing the use of its columns for intelligent discussion tending to the solution of the surplus iabor problem. In THE CALL of March 5 Mr. Orr suggests that some arrangement should be) made whereby idle men could reach placer mines in different parts of the State, and there for a time make a living, at least. This seems very feasible, ar.d if the suggestion wereacted upon, with the assisiance of the Mining Bureau, would result in something reallr practical. Of course ail of the unemployed could not, or would not, leave the City, but meni of push and independent character wouid, and these are the men who rre deserving of assistance. In vésterday's CALL “Patrick McGinnis” asks why so many married men are out of em- ployment, s married men are usually preferred to single men when work is to be given out, {hereby encouraging improvident marriages and tending still more to overcrowd tne labor market. | the City of Washingtoa, D. C. “provident single men like myseif, a Tusty taken seriously even ~when sober and the fittest backs up an se qualities would benefit the race. I trust THE CALL will continue its activity in helping to devise means whereby so many idle men in our City may find employment. San Francisco, March 6, 1897. He th'nks tiis is all wrong, and thet employment should be provided only for crusty, ofd_bechelor.” or not, there is nevertheless some truth in what he says. pathy will go toward a married man who has a family to suppost, and the fingle industrious, essavist savs we live In & time when and under conaitions where the law of the survival of cely be eaid to be in operation, but rather the ron-survival of the fittest. is assertion by the number of thoughtless and improvident peopie who got mare ried, regardless of the future either as to the likelthood of their making a ¢ of the physical or mental condition of the children they may bring into class, it i3 clalmed, survives, crowding out men and women the transmission of whose good Whether he intends to be Naturally, sym- must stand aside. A well-known He mfortable living o the world. This A TRADES UNIONIST. THE MONARCH SLANDERED. Stockton Independent. To those who read of the legislative investi- tion into the Examiner’s charges of bribery in passing the bill for the disqualification of the judges 1t is plain that the “new” journal is doing its utmost to obstruct the work,, While boidly professing its ability to'prove what it charges, it does everything possible to prevent the giving of evidencs thai will reveal any- thing, even to withnolding leave to fts em- ployes to testify as they were required (0 do. This is not the course that would be pur- sued by a paper having the evidence it pretends to possess. Its charges were made boldiy, but the evidence on whilh tley rest appears to be as vague as that of Polly Gray in the old song of Jack Robinson. When reproached by Jack for faithlessness she answered, ‘Somebody said that somebody read in some newspaper how you was dead,” whereupon Polly mar- ried. No one has been produced (o assume the responsibility for the charges, and on the vague assertions of some persons who are oo cowardly to come forward and refterate them the Examiner's correspondent charged dis- tinetly that money had been paid for the passage of the bill and that paper indorsed the charge 1n editorial articles. Now when it is given an opportunity to do what it boasted it could do it employs attorneys to aid it in avolding the necessity that the legislative in- vestigation imposed upon it. Takeu ia con- nection with its charges and its bousts the course of the Examiner is both cowardly and dishonest. FIE. Chicago Inter Ocean. A Democratic organ says “McKinley is sick for & lack of ple to goaround.” If plenty of pie would do it the Democratic party would be the most robust and rubicund animal alive. It has placad 75,000 extra offices under civil service rules, but failed to do it until Re- publican heaas were careiuily gathered in the poiitical baskets. REALLY A :iG 1HING New York Sun. It s 3a1d that Mr. McKiuley is well contént with his modest forbears, and does not ap- prove of the efforts of some to magnify his an- Gestry. Atany rate it can be said with confi- dence that to bring the Presidency into a family is about as big a contribution to its greatness as it is possible to imagine. THE NEW JOURNALISM. 2 Portland Oregonian. The new journalism is in trouble ail afound. Two or three of iis professors are in jail or on the way there for sending indecent matter through the mails. Several of its most con- spicuous examples have been excluded from public libraries as unfit for general reading. These papers always have been excludea from the houses of refined and cultured men. It is a fact of common knowledge that the New Yorkers one meets fn deceut soctety know no more of the Journal than they do of “Little Egypt,” and that Californians traveling with credentials that admit them to the company of gentlemen make haste to declare that they neither subscribe for nor read the Examiner, Thissentimentis spreading so fast that many persons who see nothing objectionable in these papers themselves are beginning to drop tnem out of deference to the judement of their betters—jor business reasons, if for no higher motive. One of the most responsible journa.s of New York lately declared with all delibera- tion of & particularly dastardiyjand brutal per- formunce of the Journal thet no jury would punish a male relative of the young woman outraged for killing the editor. Fursued by the law, rejected by the best pub- lig opinion, to which in the long run all pub- lic opinion tends to conform, and menaced ovpenly with the punishment of lynch law, the daily papers which outrege decency and in- vade the most sacred p ivate rights are. al- ready in presence of an impending doom. The movement of which these things are symptoms has just begun. The Federal power is slow to move in uew channels, but it is untiring and relentless when it has started. All the black- guard publishers are trembling bafore it. gl L A, ANSWERS TU (OKRRE.PONLENTS THE ADJUTANT - GENERAL— S 1bscriber, City. The pay of the acfu snt-geueral of the of California is $3000'p r annum. ke LA BLANCHE AND DEMPSEY—N. N., City. After La Blanche knocked Jack Dempsey out with a swinging blow the 1wo never met iu the ring again. CAPITAL OF ARIZONA—E. A. F., Voleano, Ama- dor Cou :ty, Cal. Tue capital of the Territory of Arizona fs Pheenix. Prescottis the County seat of Yavapai County. To FIGHT FOR CUBA—P. C., East Oakland, Cal, This department has no knowledge of what 1 became of the men named in your communi- cation as baving left San Franeisco tcgo to Cuba to fight for the nsurzents. Goa1 ISLAND—P. C,, East Oakland, Cal. The unemplosed could not go on Goat Isiardin the bay of Sa. Francisco and culiivate it wi out permiss.on of the Government. AMMUNITION—C. W., Berkeley, Cal. A round of ammuni: 0: is whatasoidier uses to fire one - Orainarily a soldier carries sixty rounds of ammuni DEBATING SoCTETIES—J. J. O'L, City. Thero is no puvlished |ist 01 d. ba'11g societies of the United S'ates. You may find the names of a number of these in the direc:ories o' e vari- ou~ cities. Manv_ of these directories are in the library of the San Francisco Directory. SIGNING DEEDS—F. W. ity. The proposi- tion conteined in your communication rela- tive to the manner of signing deeds, releases of morteages and the lik: has some good points, bui it is a matt r that tuis depariment cannot express an opinion upon. You ought 10 submi it to the L-gis ature, THE WASHINGTON Mox The base of the shaft is P at the base of ches squnre. It was completed in nehes, 514 inches square, and the the pyramid 1s 34 feet 51 was_commenced in 1848 1885 aud cost $1,18 THE FRATERNITIES. Inspectors Appointed by the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons. The grand master has appointed Inspectors for the severa districts as folows: First district, comprising the counties of Dei Nortc and Hum- boldt, John M. Melendy, Eureka; second district, Siskiyou County, Charles W. Nutting, Etna Mil's; third district, Modoc County and part of James T. Laird, Alturas: fourth district, Tebama and part of Shasta countles, James L, Barbam, Ked Bluft: fifth district, Lasien County, William Brockman, Susanville: sixth distriet, parts of Piumas and Sierra countles, Arihur W. Kedaie, Quin venth dis rict, parts of Plumas and Serra counties, Joun M. Hussey, La Porier eighth district, parts of Sierra and Yuba conn ties, “tanley A. Smith, Downieville: mnth di trict, Nevada County, except ‘Cruckee, Ianthis ) Roife, Nevada Gity; ‘ten:h district, Placer Count and part of Nevada, Micha-l b, Lininger, Auburn; eleventh district, Butte County, Wendeil P. Ham- mond, Biggs: tweiith dls'rict, Yuba and Sutter counties, except Grave! Ra ge No. 59, Campton- ville, Charles E. stone, Marysville; thirteenth dis- trict, Colusa and Glenn counties. Jos-ph E. Rath- bun, Wiliams; fourteenth district, Mendocino County, William W. Cunningham, ' Ukiahi fif- teenth ‘district, Lake County, W ods® Crawfo Lakeport: sixieenth district, Sonoma Count’, Charies 0. Perkins, Peta uma; seventeenth dis- trict, Napa County and part of Solano, Henry Knapp, Napa; eighteenth district, Sac- ramento County aud part of Solano, Edwly_Glover, acrament. neeenth district, Yolo County ana part of Solano, Byron Ball, Wood and; Twentieth di + kI Borado County, Francis Nichols, Cooma: Twenty-firs ‘Amador County 'and part of Calavera: Kay, Jacksoni Tweniy-second district, Tuolumne County ani part of Ci Sonora; ~ Twenty-third Stockto Conira Costa County an Sewall Wells, Maruines: eda County, Joun 2 district, San Fran nd_ Marin George' M. Perine, San Fraveisco; Twenty- seventh district, Sam Mateo County and part of Santa Clara, Ralph Low, San Jose eigh b afstrict, Santa cruz Monterey. and parcof Senta Clara County. Frederick Lucss, Santa Cruz: Tweniy-ainth dis.ci posa County, William Adams, Horniios: district, Merced, Sta George 'ace, Knights Ferry: Thirty-first district, Inyo County. A.bert O. Coilins. Bistop: Thirty-second district. Fre: Kinss and part of Taulare C ounty, Juilus L. Gilber;, Seima: Thir ty and pari of ‘i ulare, Zartman, 1ulare City: Thiriy-fourth dis- and part of Santa Barb ra Marks Fleisher, Santa Maria: thirty-fifth Ventura County aud part of Santa Bar- , Ventura: thirty-sixih wenty- W. Mari- Chiride h aus and Maders counties, third distriet, Kern Cou G W district. bara, James F. s district. part of Los Angeles c Charles L. Ennis, L0s Angeles; thirt:-seve striet. San Bernarding and Riverside counties, Coustaniin -eighth district, Sun Diego , ~an Diego: thirty-ninth and part of Los Angeles, U’Lten, Colsol C unty, James Wel distri Jrange Cou; Charles K. Mitchell, Clea water: fortieih district, Hawaiiah Islands, Andrew krown, Hono.ulu: forty-firsc dist.fef, Aono County, Hugh Me Caghren, Bodie. Degree of Pocahontas. Aifarata Council No. 10 of the Degree of Poca- hontas, Iwproved ‘rder Red Men, will give a so- clal in Washington Eull ou the eveming of next Friday.~ This 8 01€ of (ke Drois easi¥s cowactis of - the order. which has a repuistion for hodpitality and excellent entertainments. Sons of Benjamin. The following named officers of Golden Gate Lodge, Independent Urder of the Sous of Benja- miu, have been installed by Grand Deputy Louis Kraus for the eusuing term. the lodge having been recently Instituted: J. Gensler, past prosi- dent; L Woif. president: Willlam samuel. vice- president; Martin S. Meyer. se retary; L. Zier, treasurer; C. Nathen and Daniel Zelmer, trustees. Alta Yarlor’s Tin Anniversary. Alta Parlor No. 3, tive Daughters of the Golden West, will celebrate its tin anaiversary on Saturdsy nght by au entertalument in Shast Hall, Native Sons’ building. Thecommittee ha ing charge of the A rrangeaients Proposes o have & pleasant evening's entertaltnment. ihe Invita- tions are printed on cardboard faced with a thin corting of tin. Order Eastern Star. Ok Leag Chapter of Oakland Is to give minstrel entertainments 4n Masonic Hall on the uights of the 15th and 16eh, tn atd of tue Masonic home st ecoLo. TouR1sts, try Townsend’s glace fruit; 50c Ib., in fire-etched boxes. Palace Hotel bldg. * = S e EPECTAL intormation daily to manufacturare, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. T HuspAND's Caleined Magiesia—Four firste premium medals awarded. More agreeable t6 the taste and smsller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with regis- tered trade-mark label. - —————— Albert W. Landon of Chicago, who died last Sundav at the age of 57 years, broks up the cruel practice which prevailed at the stock- yards of permitting animals to stand in their pens from Saturday till Monday without water, and that alone made his life worth liv- ing and will ennoble and glorify his memory. *“The Overland Limited.” Commencing Sunday, March 7. the Union Pa- cific will carry both first and secon ! Class passen- gers on the “Overla:d Limited,” leaving San Francisco every day In the week at 6 P. through to Chicazo without change, and all Eastern cltles vis Niagsra Fails. Pittsburs, Washington aund Philadeélpbia, in twelve Lours quicker time than any other line from California. Tickets and sleeper reservations at 1 Montgomery street. D, ‘W. HITCHCOCK, General Agent. e b “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” give rellef i all Bronchlal Affections. A simple and safe remedy. Avold imitations. FuibelBUT AXNY one troudled at nigkt with a persisten cough can procure much-needed res: by taking a dose of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, porL I i b S F. A. Richards of Hartiord, Coun., has taken out altogether 437 patents—the largest num- ber taken out by anyoae invemtor except Tuomas A. Edison, who has about 725 to his credit. Most of Mr. Richard's inventions have been improvements in machinery. His princ pal inventions have been in the line of machines for making p per POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrited forit greut leave: in healthfuiness. Assures the 1oud ey e ang ail Zorms of adul.erat.on common 1o the- shesy brands. #o¥aL BAKING POWDEER Co.. New York . oy 1 TS e et