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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 1 1897 Bl B s R THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Edit d Proprictor. CAL1, six months, ¢ hree months by mail 1.60 85 1.80 Daily and Sund: Daily and Sunday Ca Daily snd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. Bunday CaLL, one yes W AXELY CaLy, oRe ¥ BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Framcisce, California. Telephone.......... 3 EDITORIAL ROOM:! 517 Clay Strees. Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES: Montromery sieet, corner Clay: opem umtll open until 9:30 o'clock. farkin st open nnil 9:30 o'clock. cormer Sixteenth and Mission streels; opes, antil § o'clock. 18 Mission strest: open until 9 o'clocks 1 th strect; open until 9 0'clock. Polk street; open until §:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 968 Erosdway. EASTERN OFFICE: Eooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New Yeork Cltye DAVID M. FOL] MARCII 16, 1897 TUESDAY Read the President’s message. e is short and meaty. Kinley No one can complain that the Presi- dent’s message is too long. Now is the time for Californians to get together and work together. ongress should see to it that the session like the message 1s short and strong. The President’s message contains only aboul 1000 words. The new era is here. Mr. McKinley said nothing about the currency question. That is another story. Toe Ne lasts, b a mill will move lively while it fortunately, it won’t last Congress has started the legislative mackinery and before long the miils witl be movi We shall soon know what the new tariff bill contains, and the chances are it will 1 we wis| now said that Lotd Salisbury is ting Greece on the back with one hand e shaking the other fist in her face. wh How is that for diploma There is lots of new blood in the Senate and lots of young blood 1n the House. We may expect this Congress to show snap and vigor from the word “go.” The way to promote prosperity in Cali- fornia is to break away from old fights and ¢ er for new work. Congress sets the example and the peopie should follow it. t tos The scheme of the Czar to have a Rus- sian Prince appotnted to rule Crete doesn’t in the way of autonomy. n Princes are in office the The revorts of big goid discoveries in Oklahoma are mot wholiy unexpected. The boomers most always have a boom of kind, an 2 divorce business has récently had a collapse. some The only point in the policy of co- ercing Greece about which the powers can agree is that it serves to distract atten- tion fora time {rom the failure of their attempt to coerce Turkey. “In raising revennes,” says Mr. McKin. s should be so levied npon 2 products as to preserve tie home t as faras possible to our producers,” That is the talk that means business. The Spa authorities in Cuba have already shown that they understand the meaning of the changed administration at Washington and American citizens in the island will get better treatment after this. The deiegates to the convention of the Rail ce Benevolent Associa- tion will receive a cordial welcome in San Francisco. National assemblies do us d and we are al glad to have While the House of Representatives is enacting the new tariff the Senate will have a chance to settle the arbitration treaty, and thus business will move at both ends of the Capitol and the affairs of the country will soon be straightened out. Tt is already eviden t that in the Depart- ment of Agriculture Secretary Wilson is the right man in the right place. The policy which he outiined in an interview with Tue CarLu ws that be intends to advance our agricult 1 interests and knows how to do I a recent address before the Academy of Sciences at Bruss eral Erialmont estimated that at ng rate of in- crease the population of the earth would exceed the possibilities of food production in 176 years. This, therefore, is the time 10 bemn to save wheat. A New York clergyman in discussing social discontents recently maintained that there is more discontent among rich people than among poor. Lavish extray- agance, such as the Bradley Martin ball, does not much disturb tbe ranks of pov- erty, he said, but it makes all the rich folks who were not inviled envious, jeal- ous and dissatisfied with themselves and everybody else. The proposed gift of a park to Berkeley, by Captain R. P. Thomas, is another evi- denee of the generous public spirit which actuates so many of the older residents of the State, and which will doubtless bave its influence in molding the civic pa- triotism of younger men. The park will be a most notable addition to the attrac- tions of the university city, and it is 10 be hoped there will be no difficulty in the way of carrying out the intentions of the donor in the near future. Governor Hastings of Pennsvivania has vetoed a resolution requiring that ail architects, contractors and laborers to be employed on the proposed new Capitol shall be Pennsylvanians and that all ma- terials used shail beof Pennsylvania pro- ‘duction. The Governor is undoubtedly right in holding that one State shouid not seek to exclude citizens of others from sharing in her markets and her work, and yet it would seem that a Legislature might justly give preference to the workers of " iis own State in an undertaking which is {0 be paid for by the taxpayersol that te only. The President’s message is short, terse annual interest charge decreased by $11,684, shown a revenue equal to the expenditure. meet the total expenditures. for the Government. Government. He say: lieve and encourage agricultur develop mining and building, and to render to 1 this. throughout the country. No other subject is treated in the message. with after the important work of providing a revenue for the Government and protec- | bere and is at the Palace. tion to industry has been performed. No message could be more businesslike than It goes directly to the point, and having made plain the reasons for calling the extra session, adds not one unnecessary word. We have at last a President who is something more than a wordmonger, and the message will be read with satisfaction and vigorous. There is not one unneces- sary word in it. Every sentence tends to the direct object of setting before Congress the conditions of the country, the evils which affect our indusiries and the proper remedy for them. The whole document does not contain above a thousand wordsand vet it covers fully the issue to meet which Congress has been called in exira session. The President points out that under the Republican tariff revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, were sufficient to defray all expenditures and leave a sur- | plus of $0,914,453. - During that year $40.570, 467 was paid on the public debt and the 576. | Under the present tariff, with but few exceptions, no month of any fiscal year has For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, there was an excess of expenditures over receipts of $25,203,245 70. The total receipts of the three fiscal years ending June 30, 1896, were, insuthcient by $187,81,7.9 46 to Not only are we without the necessary revenues for the treasury, but with the in- crease in the public debt there has been a corresponding increase in the annual inter- est charge amounting to §11,493,414. These facts, as the President declares, abun- | terday. aantly justify the calling of an extra session of Congress to provide a new revenue law The President does not faii to inform Congress that in providing the new tariff care must be taken to provide for American industry as weil as for the needs of the In raising revenues duties should be so levied upon foreign products as to preservée the’ home market as far as possible to our producers, revive and increase manufactories 0 inerease our domestic and foreign commerce; to ald snd o re- abor in every fisla of useful occupation liberal wages and those adequate rewards to which skill and industry ae justly entitled. All other issues are left to be dealt | WELCOME GUESTS. The delegates of the Railway Mail Ser- vice Benevolent Association, who will meet in S8an Francisco this week, will be welcome guests in every sense of the word. The hospitality of the people of San Fran- cisco will give them the freedom of the City in all that the term implies. They are good men engaged in good work, and our people will be more than pleased to extend to them every courtesy and every help possible. It is always gratifying to hgve a Na- tional assembly of any kind in San Fran- cisco. We are so remote from the center of population that when any body of men representing all sections of the Union select this City as a place of meeting it is evident that they regard California and San Francisco with 1eelings of more than ordinary friendliness. Men do not come all the way across the continent for noth- ing. All questions of convenience, cheap- | ness of transportation and of time required for work are in favor of Eastern cities for National assembiies. Wnen such assem- | biies meet in San Francisco it is therefors | an evidence that they are willing to forezo { all those advantages for the sake of seeing this portion of the Uaion and cultivating friendly relations with its people. The work of the conveation will be of interest to all who note with gratification | the growing development of iraternal as- sociations among our people, and the steady increase of the practice of mutnal aid and co-operation. W hile the proceed- ings will directly concern only the mem- | bers of the railway mail service the action | taken will be indirectly beneficici to the | whole mass of people, inasmuch as it wili | be another_evidence of what tan be mc- complished by any sociely, commuaity or industry whose members work together with a com:mon object and for the general | benefit. v In the double cavacity, therefore, of | friendly visitors and of re presentatives of th> great principle of co-operation the delegates to the conventioh will be wel- come in this City. They will be every- where regarded as entitled to the bet that San Francisco can give. It is gratifying | to be able to announee that the arrange- | ments made for the reception of the dele- | gates give assurance that they will be re- | ceived, welcomed and entertained in true Californian style.” This is as it should be. | { California is gratifisd by the assembling | of the convention in 1s metropolis and | will show that gratification by a thousand | kindly courtesies to every visitor so long as he remains within the borders of the | State. ¢ | COBDEN 'AND LIST. The secretary of the National Associa- tion of Wool Manufacturers, in the March number of the Forum, has a clever paper | comparing the tariff policies of the Cob- den school in England and that of List in Germany. Fifty years ago Cobden was the leader in establishing free trade in Great Britain, and at about the same time List inaugurated tbe opposite system of high vrotection in Germany. Strange to say, the writer asserts that both of these statesmen were correct. The explanation of this paradox is that, in the secretars’s opinion, “the fiscal policy which is one nation’s meat may be another nation’s poison.” He does not believe there is any fixed economical law which predetermines what policy is best for every nation, and claims that the his- tory of the world’s industrial development shows that very widely differing tariff policies may be suitable to the same na- tion’s prosperity at different times.. He evén does not think it improbavle that within the next hfty years we may cee Germany changing to free trade and Eug- land going back 1o protection. In the last twenty vears England’s manufactored exports have decreased 22 per cent, and her manafactared imports increased 47 per cent. In forty years Germany, under her protective policy, in- creased her commerce 350 ver cent, as compared with England’s 150 per cent, and now, though Germany staried far behind the mistress of the seas, she has attained to an equality of industri al development with her great neighbor and rival, and promises to speedily .outstrip her in the race for supremacy. The distinctive feature of List's eco- nomic teaching was that he enunciated the principle of nationalism as opposed to the theories of free trade, by which he meant that the main purpose of a great national fiscal policy was not merely to gain material by exchanging goods for goods, but rather ‘‘to gain in political and productive power.” " The conclusion of the whole matter, ac- cording to this reasoner, is that there is no cast-iron rule as to the comparative bane- fits of protected ,industries or untram- meled trade, but it is a question to be de- termined by each nation for itself, accord- ing to the exigencies of that nation ata given period. List's opinions were chiefly derived from a study of the rapidity with which protection gave the United States industrial independence, and the result shows how wise he was in foilowing our lead. The women of Chicago have consented to remove their hats in theaters, but still the men are ndt satisfied. It is now com- plained that the girls are too tall for men to see over their heads. This, however, may oe only a trick of the Chicago fellows to make the world believe their girls can’t be overiooked. | the party SEORETARY WILSON. The policy which the new Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Wilson, outlined in an interview with our Washington cor- respondent is one which promises to be of great benefit to the people. The mere statement of it shows that the Depart- ment of Agriculture is now presided over by a man widely different from the un- popular Secretary Morton and in that fact alone there is good reason for public satis- faction. The new Secretary began his statement to our correspondent by saying that in general terms his ambition wiil be first to encourage the raising of the most remunerative farm products in this country and second to find foreign mar- kets for them. He will strive to remove all restrictions now placed upon the ex- port of our agricultural products to foreign countries and moreover will pro- mote the growth in this country of such | articles of farm produce as are mostin demand in the world’s markets. Coming down to matters of detatl' the Secretary pointed out that there was a chance to largely increase the mar- ket for American butter. Europe, as he says, does not and cannot pro- duce sufficient dairy produce to sup- ply the needs of its people and in this industry threre is a good chance for greater deveiopment in America. In addition to dairy products he hoped to .develop also a larger production of nitrogenous foods. These, as he says, are mow In great de- | mand in European countries ana can be produced in America‘in ‘much’ ' larger quantities than at present. s A particular emphasis was laid by’ the new Secretary on the importance of de- veloping the sugar-beet industry. That subject he elaborated in the interview to a considerable lencth. To use his own striking simile, “We are now Importing millions of dollars’ worth of sunshine from Germany every year.” Sunshine, as the Secretary says, makes sugar, and when we import sugar we are really leay- ing our own sunshine unused and iport- ing it from tho cloudy skies and gloomy climate of Germany. In order to promote the cultivation of nitrogenous foods and the development | of the beet-sugar industry, the Secretary | will introduce a new system of distribut- | ing seeds. He will not send out seeds purchased indiscriminately, but will dis- tribute among the farmers such seeds as are needed to produce the crops for which there is the best market in Europe. Pa ticular attention will be given to tte dis- tribution of sugar-beet seeds. and although the Secretary has been in office but a few | days, contracts have already been made for large quantities of beet seeds of the best varieties, and the work of distribut- ing them will soon begin. From the policy thus outlined it will be seen that the change from Secretary Mor- ton to Secretary Wilson in tne Depart- ment of Agriculture will be of great ben- efit to the farmers. We now have in that important position a mauy who will seek to advance agricultural interests, and who has evidently the required knowledge and energy as well as the intention to do so. Secretary Wilson is evidently the right man in the right place, and President Mc- Kinley has been fortunate in securing his services for the administration and for the welfare of the people. WORKING, TOGETHER. All reports from Washington show that the Republican leaders of the Cabinet, of the Senate and of the House of Revre- sentatives are working together cordially and in perfect harmo There is not the slightest sign of division or dissension ia ranks. We are to have an administration as different as possible from that of Grover Cleveland. Congress instead of setting an example of discord and strife will show the country what can be done by unity and co-operation. This phase of the situation at Washing- ton will have its effect upon the country. ‘W hen the peovle see the earnestness with which those who represent them in the National Government are laying aside mirnor disagreements in order to aet har- moniously together on those greater issues which tend to tiie general welfare they will be prompted to act in a similar spirit. Instead of having &n era of disturbance, agitation and annoyance we are to have an era of rest, business and the peaceful development of 2ll forms of enterprise from the construction of new railroads to the cultivation of new farms and orchards. To the people of California the example set by the Republican leaders at Washing- ton is of particular importance. Our people, by reason of causes which it is not worth while at this time to review, have been more divided than the people of any other State in the Union. For a long time the dissensions among us were so great that California could hardly achieve soything either by co-operation among her own people or from thke National Government. That time now seems to be happily passed. At present in the press of the State therq is but one discordant, wrang- ling and sianderous voice. In every other instance the press represents the popular desire to establish harmony and build up in the State that understanding of the mutual reiations of ‘its people with one another which is necessary to ihe| best resnits. This understanding we trus¢ will soon pervade every class of our people. Congress and the administration | are working together. The era of good feeling is begun. Leét us also work to- gether and our prosperity-is assured. PERSONAL, J. Newman of Oregon f&at the Grand. F. L. Boone of Madera is a visitor here. Chester Thomas of Tacoma i8 in the City. The Rev. Bamuel Hirst of Vallejodsin town. George P. Pollard of New York is i the City. il Webber of Boston arrived here yester- ay. E. J. Hill of New Whatcom, Wash., is in the Oity. 4 Inglis Jones of England igon a visit to this ity. D. B, Fagan of New Whatcom, Wesh., is in town. W. E. Barker of Washington, D, €, 1% at the Palace. James A. Reed of Philagelphis is at the Palace. Bam Slade of Santa Maria arrived here yes- E. Kusel of Oroville is staying at the Cosmo- politan. Dr. C. L. Nichols of Portland arrived here yesterday. 8. D. Magnes, a business man of Marshfield, Or., is at the Lick. s Captain Marion S. Maus of the United State: army isat the Palace. John F. Newton and Mrs. Newton of Boston are at the Occidental. J. Parker Whitney, wife and daughter, of Boston, are at the Palace. Sir Bache Cunard of England has returned. C. 0. Johnson, a leading resident of San Luis Obispo. is at the Occidental. W. E. Parker and Miss Elizaboth Parker of Washington, D, C., are at the Palace. D. McPherson and wife ot Santa Cruz are in the City aud registerea at the Cosmopolitan. N. H. Hawley, the extensive landholder of Santa Barbara, is among the arrivalsin the City. A. Hanson, a wealthy business man of Seat- tle, who is the owner of different vessels, s in town. W. 8. Lane, & prominent business man of Fresno, is here on a visit and is at the Cosmo- politan. George Fletcher, assistant manager of the Nevada County Narrow-gauge Railway, is here on u short visit, G ss Budd and Miss Boyes, missionaries to China, who have for some time been in the East, arrived here yesterday. Mrs. A. M. Cannon Jr. of Salt Lake, wife of United Btates Senator Cannon, was among yesterday’s arrivals here. She is at the Lick. Frank A. Vail, of the firm of Sanborn, Vail & Co., will leave to-day for Paso Robles. He has been in poor health lately, and he goes in search of rest ana recuperation. C. X. Larrabee, formerly prominently con- nected with mining and banking at. Deer Lodge and other places in Montana, and after- ward president of the Fairhaven Land Com- panyof Washington, president of the First National Bank there and founder of the Fair- haven Daiiy Herald, is smong the arrivals here. Mr. Larrabee was for several years in- terested in other and large enterprises on Puget Sound. He is accompanied by J. A. Kerr of Washington. Dr. J. P. Walsh of Idaho is at the Lick, hav- ing just arrived after a visit to New York. He 1s acoompanjed by Mrs. Walsh: The doctor is {® skilled expert jn mines as well as a physi- cian. He formerly owned the Minnie Moore mife, 'a big silver vroperty at Wood River, which he sold for $500,000. He also sold in 1881 the Lake Valley mines in New Mexico to William Wilson of this City. The doctor at the present time, owns mines in Butte County, Cal,, and elsewhere. He s now lookfng for & big mine and says if he could find one worth $5,000,000 he could place it in New York. Sol: Hirsch. of Portland, ex-United: States Minister to Turkey, is among the arrivals hiere. He is actompanied by Mrs. Hirsch and Sanford 4nd’Cleméntine Hirsch.. Mr. Hirach is one’of the best-known residents of Oregon. | He be; a merchandising business there many years when & younjgfaan, #5d for long time was lesding membier. #n the firm:of Flefschner, Meyer & Co. ~He wasseveral times a member of the Leglslature, and has served as chafznien of the Republican State Central Committes’ and filled pther offices. He has also been con- spicuously nominated for the United States Senate. For some time after hiis return from Constantinople a few years aze his health was bad, but it is understood to bs better now. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., ‘March 15.—At the St. Cloud, James D. Curran, 8. E Smith; As- tor, Dr. M. J. Block, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Coffin; Alber:, Davis; Metrapolitan, J. J. De- haven; Albemarle, Mr. and Mrs. R, H. Pease; St. Nicholas, E. T. Pinser; Grand, F. Reedner; Hoffman, W. F. Shaw; Marlborongh, Mrs. C. Sontag; Holland, L. F. Spruager; Barrett, P. 8. Bates; Morton, Mr. and Mrs. H. Jones; Wind- sor, Mr. and Mrs. T. Denigan, Miss F. Denigan. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D C., March 15.—Edmund Taughsky and wife of San Francisco are at the Shoreham; Mrs. W. B. Valentine and Mrs. J. W. Wait of San Jose are atthe Ebbits House; J. L. Fletter, chairman of the Alameda Repub- lican County Committee, is‘at the Ebbitt House. Mr. Fletter has been conferring with Senator Perkins regarding appointments on the Yacific Coast. A REVERSED PROVERB. “Be good and you will be happy"’ 14 a proverb that when uuderstood Menns, simply by cha iging :he wording, “Be happy and you will be good.” The child Iaughs out tn her giadness, No burden of care does she & noy God knew that the chlid must be happy 1n order Lo prosper and grow. Henlth, we nay, 13 the greatest of blessings, More pre- {oJs than béanly of wealth; And the doctors unite in declaring “Tliat happiness brings us good health. | So let us learn (0 be happy, Nor yied (0 sorrowial mood; And iet us remember the proverd “Be happy and you will be x00d.” - I sy1L¥Y in Boston Globe. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Grymes—The bride was quite & popular girl, wasn’t she? Gobsng—Yes, indeed. ‘The Daily Whoop sent their sporting editor to Teport it.. He printed s list of rejected lovers half a column long under the neading, ‘‘Among Those Who Also Ran."—Truth. “How is it that Wiidon comes to the clud every night now? It used to be that we.could not get Lim here once a month.” *Oh, he married last {all and settled down,”— Detroit Fre e Press. Auntie—You say you had a bad cold. Did you ever hear of & good cold?- Johnny—I had one once that kept me home from school. —Puck. : “Browning, dear,” said Mrs. Emerson to her husband, “what is a cutaneous pastime?"” “A cuianeous time, love? I neverheard of such a thing.’ ! “Well, I heard two men on the streetcar talking and one of them spoke of a skin game.”—Brooklyn Life. & “I wonder,” said tne Sweet Young Thing, *why a man is always scared when he pro- poses " “Tnat,” said the Chronic Bachélor, *is his guardian sngel trying to hold him back.’’— Inaianapolis Journal, % 2 “Why don’t you repeat of your sins?” “Well, 10 tell the truth,'m kept too busy regreiting those of my angestors."” —New York Tribune, 2 Visitor (gruffly)—Are you the editor 2 Elitor (without looking up from’ his work)— Iam. 3 5 Stranger (more gruffiy)—Do you bold your self responsibie for everything sppesring 1n the paper? §ocold Editor (rising to his six fest.three inches)— do. What'son your mind? § Visitor (meokiy)—Oh, nathing at all, I assure you. I was under the impression that the 1ittle man over in the corner ook All the re- s ponsibility.—Spare Moments. - A “THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.” Letters From Our Readers on Topics of Current Interest. A Garden Brigade. Editor San Francisco Call: Why doesn’t some one organize a garden brigade for the unem- ployed this beautiiul sunny weather? This has been done in a great many Eastern cities by utilizing tne vacant lots. The poor unemployed people of the City could in a few months provide themselves with vegeta bles 10 8 great extent. 1t is wonderful what a small piece of land will produce. Tne ground across the bay is very fertile, I know, because I have tried it. There are a great many people who would gladly sllow their vacant lots to be worked. A very few dollars would buy sufficient seed. Things that are substantial ana yleld well should be planted, such as potatoes, beans, peas, turnips and cabbage. 5 This movement needs to be organized. The poor should be helped to help themselves. Tools might be rented, or hoes, spade: plows, ete., might be loaned by people who have them. Last year I raised on a very small piece of ground, 25x75 feet, more green peas, string beans, onions, redishes and lettuce than my husband and I dould use, besides some sweet corn, pota- toes and summer squashes, all without water. 1 kiiow a man who has plowed up, steepest part of the Berkeler hills, and now h nd spaded what he could not plow, five.acres of the a promising looking crop of oats. He hasa few cows and makes a good living for his wife and five children. Don’t all stay in the city. Try the country—the hills if ‘you can’t get the plains. Very re- spectfully, Mzs. K. O. THE APPROACHING OLIGARCHY. [Fditor San Francisco Call—SIR: We are making rapid progress toward & new form of govern- ment. We are quietly passing under the contro! of a judicial oligarchy, the worst form of gov- ernment—in which the supreme power is pleced in the hands of a few persons—which has yet cursed the world, becsuse in our case the Judges, as we all know, are appointed and controlled by the trusts, combines and corporations, ““We are going out of politics, and our reliance hereatter will be uon the judicial arm of the Government'’ is the historical aeclaration of Mr. Huntington. Government by injunction is already familiar to the public. Annulling laws made by Congress and State Legislatures will probably be the more common procedure ot the courts in the near future for governing the country. A few days since, February 22, the Standerd Oil Company set aside the law, a most just anti-trust 1aw, in Texas through a decision of the Federal Court rendered by Judge Sweyne, prononcing the law null and void. Attentive readers will remember that after a great strug- gle the Texas Legisiature passed an anti-trust law early in 1895, considered the most compre- hensive, exhaustive and compiete anti-trust law ever placed on & statute book in this country. Indue time an agent of the Standard 01l Company, our greatest and best organized trust monopoly in the country, was indicted by the Grand Jury, and after a remarkable trial, was convicted. He appealed to the Federal District Court, which has just released him and pro- nounced the law null and void. 1t will be remembered that the interstate commerce law was enacted for the restraint and government of railroad corporations, but was never enforced until its provisions were con. strued by the cotirts so as to imprison Debs and his fellow-officers of a labor organization. The Texas law guarded aj inst such a dangerous misuse of the law by this explicit provision: “This act shall not be held to apply tolivestock and agricultural products in the hands of the raiser,” and to protect labor organizations added, “Nor shall it be understood or construed to prevent the organization of laborers for the purpose of maintaining any standard of wages.” A bad law this for trusts and corporations, which affirmatively in express terms protected labor organizations from assaults of any kind and iorbid the traflic of trusts and combines within the limits of the great S'ate of Texa: Nosuch law must be allowed to stand in Texas, for it destroyed trust rule in that State and was a menace to trusts in all other States, since the Texans were determined to enforce the law. Accordingly “the judicial arm” laid it low by one foul blow. Here is what the Judge had to say in support of his decision: “This law exempts four- fifths of the people from the operations of the act,” the four-fifths engaged in agriculture and labor, not interested in or connected with s trust or combine, which is always formed to fix prices and control trade in order to tax the helpless four-fifths of the population. S“Penalties are visited upon the remaining fifth, in the face of the constitutional guarantee of periect equality before the law.’” trust-appointed Judge continued: But this His statement is un- qualifiedly false, for it applies to all citizens, if all citizens engage in the formation and operation of trusts, just as the law forbidding theft or murder applies to all citizens without diserimination. But Judge Swayne ventures much farther. He goes 80 far as to write these words: *Even in the matter of labor, the iniquitous character of the enactment under discussion was appar- ent, for under its terms and provisions the laborer was subject to punishment for doing the very act the land-owner or farmer was a ment strikes one with amazement. orized to do. In absolute terms, as we have seen, the law says: The cooi affroutery of this state- “Nor shall it (the law) be understood or construed to prevent the organization of laborers for the purpose of maintaining any standard of wages.” American respect for courts will become contempt for courts with Swaynes for Judges. And the public misfortune is tnat there are others, not excepting Shiras, and including those who make laws by injunction. Respect for ccurts is & dangerous sentiment when their decisions insiaiously subvert the foundations of the Government. To consent in silence to the nsurpa. tions of our corporation-ruied courts is tamely to submit to the stealthy establishment of & judicial oligarchy. menacing that so few seem to apprehend it. cry in a great wilderness. 855 Market street, March 15, 1897. This I regard as a present impending peril. A solitary warniog here and there is but a lone The perilis all the more JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. ANSWERS T0 CORRESPONDENTS. Fipst CousiNs—A. B., Turlock, Stanislaus County, Cal. iIn the State of California the marriage_of first cousins who are of legal age to marry is not forbidden by law. THOSE INITIALS—A friend of this department volunteers the information that the lapel but- ton, having upon it _thé letters W. A. C. D., were issued by a Keely institute and stand for “Was & Common Drunkard.” BRYAN's PrECINCT—Subscriber, City. Tne announcemrent has been made and not denfea that William J. Bryan did not carry his home precinet in Lincoln, Nebr., on the occasion of the last held Presidential élection. DENMAN THOMPSON—A Subsetiber, Robinson, Calaveras County, Cal. Denman Tlhompson has retired from the stage and is living in the East. He had the exclusive right of produc- ing the “0ld Homestead,” but of late has al- lowed others to present it. ADELINA PATTI—A Subscriber, City. The last time that Adelina Patti was in San Francisco was in 1890, She came here with the Italian Opera Company that opened at the Grand Opera-house on the 10th of February of that year for & two weeks' engagement. REVENUE CUTTERS—, M., City. The offi- cers.of the revenue cutters are required to have graduated from the naval scademy. The sppointees 1o that service are generally from among thoee who, having graduated, were un- able 1o obtain a commission in the navy by reason of no vacancy. FREE DELIVERY AND PosTAGE—J. M. N., Moh- ler, Lincoln County, Wash. The system of free delivery of letters in the United States was authorized by an act of March 3, 1863, and went into effeet shortly thereafter. The rate of postage was reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents by an act of March 3, 1883, CORBETT AND Jacksox—F. H. H., City. Cor- bett and Peter Jackson met in San Francisco May 21,1891, ana fought sixty-one rounds, Declared a draw. Corbett met Sullivan in San Francisco June 26,1891, in a sparring exhib:- tlon, four rounds. ' Corbeétt defeated Sullivan at New Orleans September 7, 1892, in twenty- one rounds. AN ASSIGNBE—OId Subscriber, City. The ques- tion asked about the rights of an assignee to “fight one o1 the creditors with money coming out of the estate’’ is one that a court and not a newspaper should pass upon. The case to which you refer may involve questions of fact as well as law, and this depirtment does not pretend to assume the functions of & court. * PosITIONS FOR WOMEN—A. D., Stanford, Santa Clara County. There are many professions open to women who are college graduates, There is the law, medicine, in fact almost auything thata woman may fancy or has the ability to enter upon. This department can- not advise A correspondent which is the best without s knowledge ‘of the correspondent’s qualifications and inclinatiou; MoNEY IN THE WORLD—Frisco, City. The as- sertion of A that there is not a billion and a half of money in the world shows that he is not very well posted on monetary affairs. The smount in circulation in the United. States alone Is, ccording to the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,506.434,966. It1s estimated that the amount of money in the world is $10,- 575,800,000, . ASsAYING—Reader, Santa Cruz, Cal. It is impossible to tell how -long it would take a person of ordinary ability to learn assaying. Much would depend upon the individual’ aptitude and his desire to couquer ail’ the mysteries of assaying. The duties of an as- | sayer at & mine are to make tests of the ore. The demand for such assayers islimited by the number of minea that employ such. The business assaying is not prejudicial to health. There is Do fixed scale of prices for assayers. A MARRIED MaN'S WaGES—Bubscriber, Blocks- burg, Humboldt County, Cal. The law of this State says: Exemption — The earnings of the judgment deblor for h 8 personal services rendered at any time within (hirty days Dext preceding the levy, the execu.fon or attachment, when it appars by the «ebior's affiuavit or otherwise that such earn- ings are nece ssary for th+ use of his family resid- ing In thls State, supported in wliole or in part by his labor, but where the debts are incurred b any such person, or his wife or fam Iy for the common necessarivs of life, the one-nalf of such earnings sbove mentioned are nevertheless subject 10 exe- cution, garuishment or ¢ to satisty debts 8o incurred. TAXIDERMY—H, L. K., City. In the prepara- tion of birdskins taxidermists use a prepara- tion with which they wash the skins before preparing the stuffing process. After the skin bas been removed the surpius or adherent bita of flesh are scraped away and the skin is anointed with the paration composed of arsenic one onnce, white sosp one ounce, car- bonate of potash one drahm, distilled water -fldr:amn.nd “l“‘l"“f" lvod::hd-u. 'nu; keéps the skin supple and prevents decay an ihe sttack of lnmu. The pr.wu.lou’\‘llnfl in stuffing birds is composed of cimphor one ounce, corrosive sublimate one ounce, alum one-half punce, sulphur one ounce. all well mixed. These compounds are dangerous and should not be used with ungioved hands. FRATERNAL FELLOWSHIP. The Doings of Some of the Eenefi- ciary Organizations of the City. The ladies’ night and social gi Councli in its new quarters in n by Argonaut tive Sons’ build- | 10z last Monday evening was voted ‘& success by all present, - Extended notice has siready been glven it. . . Preparations are beiog made for the anoual ob- servance of Royal Arcanum day. Thisisa day which, In_the larger Eastern cities where the order is numbered as among the few that are chosen, Is made the occasion of a general celebra- tion. Argonaut Council proposes Lo do some_ob- serving itself and has in hand a programme which, it successtully carrted out. will eclipse anything t xiven by it. This year marks the twentleih anniversary of the order and ail over the country the uifferent councils e manifesting s degree of interest very gratifying to ail active members. Jonn Sevenoaks of Argonaut Council died in Pueblo, Colo., . ebruary 22 1as.. The death p; oofs are already on the war and the claim wil be paid immediately on receipt of proofs, makiag the time ailttle over five weeks from time of deathy which, considering the distance between this point and headquarters at Bo: 1on, Is prety fair indication of the financial standing attained by this order. American Legion of Honor. Grand Commander Filben otficially visited Los Angeles Council in the city of that name last ‘Tuesd and while there de ivered an address ex- planatory of recent changes in the law. v The s atement of the order issued on the ist I shows 80 deaths during February, 5 of which occurred In California, carrying beveficiary certifi- cates to the amouunt of $12,000. The receip:s dur- ing the month were $149,616 and the tisburse- ments $161,500. Assessment No. 375, class B, of one and one- third ra e, will be delisquent on the last day of the cusrent month. A sufficlent number having transferred to class A, assessment No. 1, one rate. was levied on the 1st. delinquent on the last day of the present month. ‘The new tab'e of rates adopted by the Supreme Couneil, which is similar to that now used by many of the beneficinry organizations, is being better appreciated as it 18 being better uuderstc ‘The grand secr-tary has been quiw bust of lat glving informution” to all who call on bim for an expianation of the new laws. The new rates were tecent y approved by the Grand Counciis of Illinois and of Wisconsin and in many o.her States by various subordinate bodies. Morris Goodbari, a cousin of Police Judge Joachimsen of this City, who w; an aciive and promineut member of the order and chairmaun of the supreme comuittee on laws, died suddenly in New York City recently. Grand Secretary Lurton visited Protection and Caiifornia councils at their last held meetings. Anclent Order United Workmen. Crockett Lodge will give an entertainment and ball on April 24. Frank . Poland, D. G. M. W., and E. Danforth, G. L, instituted Tiburon Lodge with twenty char- ter members. i The deputy grand master workman and the grand recerver'were present at the session of Champion Lodge, Piuole, when a number of can- didates were initiated. Leputy Graud Ma ter Workman Poland, Grand Lecturer bantorth and Grand Kecelver Booth paid a visit to Toue Valiey Lodge, Amador Louniy, on the 6th inst., and witnessed the wnf-relng of (he degrees 1 amplified form ugou twenty candic dates. A mostin.er suing meeting was heid, and afier the close of the lodze ihére was a banquet. In avout two months there wiil be & union mest- ing of ull the lodges in amador Councy under tha ausp! e Valiey Lodge, ana. tw candiduten will bo initiated. o DR n.versity 1ge uas been fnstituted at Los - geies. Wit (SOt 0uF harier mombers, ana a: rty-six o 5 Lot me&l’- ty-six appiications for mem- speciai Ueputy H. L Brewer Is doing n Merced: Last woek b somt. 11 sweb b pror tions for Merced Lo.ge. -Hanford Lodgs recently #dded fitieen names (o its roil of membersh.p, aud Sycamore Lodge bas sent in. six applications, Paciic Grove Lodge initiated nine candidates on Tuesday evening, the Sth imst.. in & mpiitied form with the aid of iis new driil team. uraud Master Workman Vinter was present. ‘The grand master workman visited Mount YView Lodge on suiurday eveniag, acoompunied by Mount Hamilton drill team, when the dogrees Jvere conferred on nine caniidates in amplifvd Native Sons of the Golden West. It is Teported tuat Comym odore Sioat Parlor, the second youngest in the order, locatsd at 1 ue Lakes, Humboldt Couaty, is dolng remarkabiy well. Next Wednesday It will act on a number of applications. Chico Parior will givea carnival and masquer- ade ball on the 19th inst. J. b, Sproul Is the chalrman of the commitiee of arTange.uenta. ar e Golden Gate DRl Coeps will give plonia 3 b AR, Santa’ Crus mountains on Teat prepurations have been made for the con- ferring of ihe Argonaut degreean s large class of candidaies In Coloma Hall Lo-morrow evening by a team from Sutter Camp No. 1of the Argonauts J. H. Coughiin, secretury of the camp, s"houacos {hacine team, hloh consiats of fourteen mem. Isted by from ten teen privat ©ome 10 thia ity and WOFk day and DiEheniis the oiguty candidates huve racen Not.more than sixtren candidates can be initiated atone acssion of the camp. Nacramento Purlor has & number of candidates who want to ba in. Itiated. The committee having charge of the mat terinthis City is composed of Heary Luustedt, W. D. Shea, W. W. Shannon, Al Davis, J. J. Jami 00, J. B, Stovail aud K. H. Morse. £ R. C. Rust, chairman of the board: of grand trustees, sccompanied by Grand Secretars Lun- stedt and other grand officers, visited Stanford Parlor Tuesday night, Bay Ciiy Parior Wednes- day nixht. I Dorado Parlor has elected the followlng- ved the degrees. and night anill. named as delegatos o the grand parlor: Dr. W, 1. Hawlkips, Lew. B Mayer and Jusepn M. Com- mings. ‘Hes erfan Parlor has elected. b e L. J. Fenn ab defegates to the o his arlor received a Vi night from Gy Hrustor Rus: ana Grand Necro ary Laus et poc ing the evening there was a0 adiress by eich of the visiors and then an Imprompu programme of song. Young Men’s Institate, The disric: meeting to be held in the Alcazar bu'lding on the evening of the 25th inst. has been cailed ty Deputy R. J. Dow:all aud E. J. Rourke the secretary of ibe district committee. The voard of airectors met on Saturday for the purpose of considering dates for future meetings. 7Mhe recent meeting of the Y. M. I day com- mittee for the purpose o1 closing up its affairs J0ws very satisfacLory results. ‘The prospects are that & new council will ba organized in the Sacred Heart perish. and that one wiil bs organized tn he ~t. Joseph parish "I'he members of Columbia Council are making arrangements for an euretialnment to be given ortly after Lont. J g lhl.‘nlhyl!drnl ‘Conncil has elected the following ofti- cers: Willlam Humphreys Presideni; John i1 Sahorby, first, vice-president: Charles T. McCar- thy, second vice-president; the Very rev. Father Prendergast. chaplain; A. P. Mul igsn, recording 3 M. Hyland, financial secretary; N. P, Mat - Henty, corresponding secretary : B erey: Tumes Reardon, marshal: Dr. C. e Pawlicki, medical examiner: N. P. Hannon, in- side sentinei: P. Giomez, ouiside sentinel: execu- tive commitiee, T. F. Ryan, N. k. Doru, Willlam O ATy, the council that was recently formed out of Berminghum Council and sdditiooal member- hip. At the mee fug bed last Toursisy night fourteen candidates wer: zdmitted. Order of Pendo. Santa Monica Covncil initiated twenty candi- dates during February. A new councit hes been organized in Montana and another is ia process of formation. Supreme Deputy L. Butler has organized a new couucil in Missourl. Gelden Gate Council will give an entertainment at un early day and a committee is at work on ths detalls. Jr. Order United American Mechanics. State Council Secretary Terry is st work on liis reports of the session of the State Council recently held in Sacranicnto and expects to have (hem ready for distributon at the end of the week. Siate Councilor H. C. Schaertzer expects (o have nis list of deputies ready to aunounce during the wesk. Starr King Council recently received s beautifal altar emblem from Alexander Hamilgon Council and last Thursday the council in a body visited Alexander Ham Lion Council to return thanks foc the elegant present. The visic was iollowed by & plensa .t cvenlng's entertainment. Order B’ne #'rith. Chis evening Grand President M. P. Steln and members of the general committee will pay an official vielt (0 Unity Lodge. Adter the closeof the lodge there wiil be & banquet in Benevolence Hall, B. B. bulding. Extraordinary efforts are being made to estab- lish & iodge at Fresno, and there is every prospect of orzanizing one, to be composed of young men, at Los Angeles. Speakers will be sent (0 these points o expiain the order and its workings. An_appeal has been sent to the varions lodges to assist the schoois in Roumania and the Orient tha are under the supervision of the Allisnce Universeile Israelite. ‘Ihis is known io the order 4s he Pusim appeal. The sixth death for the term was répor.ed at the oflice of the grand secretary last Friday. Grand President Stein of Stockton will make & tour of visitations in the northwest in the spring, and in the sutumn months be will Visic the lodges In the southern part of the State. The Chosen ¥riends. Owing to a press of business which will prevent his absence from New York Supreme Councilor H. H. Morse is forced to postpone his proposed visit to California. i Wasbington Council recently celebrated its four- teenth anniversary by an entertuinment offering a Pleasant evenins io all present Last Thursday Gran (ouncilor Boehm initiated a candidate for Crystal Council. The evening pre- vious be initiated one for Sumaritan Council. A number of the local couscilsare siriving for the prize that is off-red (o he council presenting the groatest number of candidates to be presented at the session of the Grand Council for nitiation. Catholle Ladies' Aid. The semi-annusl report of branch 19 of the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society shows the work per- formed auring the six months ending February i, and it 13 evidence tbat it is one of the active branches «f the visbursed by _cash, $167 15: by provisions, $231 40: medicine, $5 80} Tuel. #5 16: new clotbin, 388 25. Total, §487 70. Number of Visits to the needy, 109; to'the sick, 77: visits by physicians, 8: found homes ot 2 chiidren: £,r aged persons. 2: persons furnished with employment. 59: Ind{viduals assisied, 361: peces of old clothiug disiributed. 460; books and papars. 100; Visita to bospitals, 28. eyt - ~PARAGRAPH> ABOUT PEOPLE. Marje Corelli dressed a doll to represent Jgssamine Dale, a characier in one of her novels, and sent it to the London Truth dotl show. San The Souih does not monopolize 0dd names. This is evident from the divorce in Missouri of Buck Sigerflip, and the marriuge in Kansas of Peter Juggersnap. At Carthage, Mo., Miss Trott is secretary of the Keep Pace Club. A.C. Train, a graduate of Harvard, '96, and now a member of the law school of Cambridge, Mass., 1s soon to marry Miss Etnel Kissam, relative of W. K. Vanderbiit on his mother's side. Sheis the daughter of a wealthy New York banker. The Belvidere (N. J.) Apollo, in beginning its seventy-second volume, says that the firsc year's publication of the paper “oroke” iis founder, George G. Sickles, father of Genera Daniel E. Sickles. At the end of the year Mr. Bickles’ entire fortune coansisted o1 but 50 cents. The Schuovert exhibition iu Vienna was opened by thz}:mpflor in the presence of the members of the imperial family, the German Italisn and French Embassadors and the prin cipal local authorities, His Majesty delivered a speech extolling Schubert as the representa.- tive of the purest art and creator of the no- blest form of son CALIFORNIA glace fruit. Townsend’s, Palace, — e EpFCIAL intormation daily to manufact business houses and publie mon by the Pra; Clpping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * S A B HyssAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four first- premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other msg- nesia. For sale only in bottles with regis- tered trade-mark label. . — “Ttshall be my ambition,” seid the young man who had finished his education, and was ready to lift the cares of business trom the parental shoulders—+it shall be my ambition and my motto to keep th¢ family name free from stain.” “All Tight,” said the old man; “teli Mike to give you the whiting and ammonia and then you g0 out and polish up the signs.”"—Indian- apolis Journal. “BROWN'S BrRoNCHIAL TmocHEs" will quickly relicve Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh and Throat Diseases. Sold only in boxes. T 1I¥ your hair Is harsh, d and wiry, you will find Ayer's Hair Vigor of esseniiul service in ren- dering it soft, pliant and glossy. g o LR The novelty cf Mrs. August Belmont be- coming her husband's partner in the Belmont racing stable is aitracting some attention here, though it is very common in England, where horsey women are plentitul. Lily Langtry is one of the best known on the Eng- lish turf, ber entry-name being “Mr. Jerse ' Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavewl, healthfulness. Assures the 100d akainet alhm ang Ul forms of adulteration commou to the chesp rands. RoYAL BAKING POWDEE Co. NewYors Al