The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1f¢ 1897. (A FAGTE DISTRESS Farmers of Ireland Who | Will Be Compelled to Face Famine. i SUFFERING IN A VERY ! LARGE SECTION. f Demand Made for the Early| Assemblage of Parliament to Provide Relief. DUBLIN CASTLE MAY BE| FORCED TO ACT. Reports Indicate That There WIII | Be Destitution Along the West and Southwest Seaboards. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 18.—A special to the World from London says: Reports irom Ireland are to the effect that owing to a shight improvement in the weather | during a few days early this week some- | thing was done toward saving the out| crop in those districts where it had not | been already destroyea by rain; but pota- | toes are gone beyond retrieval, and no ap- preciable hope of averting acute distress | over a large part of the country and actual | famine along the west and southwest sea- | boards exists. Public bodies throughout | Ireland have passed r ons imploring the Government to ta ely steps to | establish relief work, and Dillon has sum- | moned 3 special meeting of the Irish | National Federation to secure support | from all sections of Irish representatives for a demand for the early assemblage of Pariiament to adopt measures to cope | with the disastrous situation. The Gov- ernment has given no sign of hearkening | to the warning of the crisis rising from all | quarters, ana owing to the effects of dis- organization 1n the Nationalist ranks an agitation to force the Goyernment’s hand seems impossible. Thus the plizht of the poverty-stricken peasantry is grievous in the extreme. It has always been the policy of Dublin Castle to remain deaf to the wants of the Irish people tiil either by violent agita- tion or by criticism of other countries the government is compelled to act. S POVERTY IN IRELAND. i | | | Wretched Condition Revealed In a‘l | | Letter From a Dublin Lawyer to His Brother. CHICAGO; IiL., Sept. 18 —A New York | special say-: A private letter bearing upon | the much-disputed condition at present | existing in Ireland was to-day shown a correspondent by James Kavanagh, the eminent Dublin lawyer, who has been in this city for the past two weeks, prior to bis departure for the West, where he has teen called to look into some important legal matters. The letter was from Mr. Kavanagh'’s brother and may be taken as reliable. “The conditions here,” he says, writing | from Dublin, ‘‘are as bad as thev well can | be. It isonly necessary for me totell you | that they are worse than usual for you to realize the state of the poor. I fear our friends over in the country where you are do not.conceive one tithe of the misery that is existing here. ! “There 1s not a street leading out of | Dublin that is not lined with bezg.m,§ who from very weakness are forced to sit upon the ground and solicit aims. The | only thing that keeps the unfortunate | wretches from the city limits is the knowl- edge that they would be arrested, though it always has been a mysiery to me why | this should be a deterrent. I am surethat a prison would be like a palace to many of them. “In the country districts it is even worse, and from reports even more suffer- ing must come before relief shows its face, The crops, as some of the statisticians say, bave not been a failure, but they have | beep ruined by constant and heavy rains, | so the resuitis the same. This sort of | quibbling is heard every day and is re- | gorted to to blind the eyes of foreign na- | tions to the real state of things. It you are invited to speak on the sub- ject, for God’s sake tell the truth and let | tbe people know what the misery and | wretched suffering of the voor on this Jitfle island really is. While you are in America you mignt disabuse the pubiic mind over there that Irishmen are on the | verge of an uprising. The time is not ripe and will not e in this generation. There is too much poverty among the oppressed and too much power among the oppress- ors.” LCST IN THE FOG. Two Steamers Go Ashore in Thick Weather and Are Both a 7otal Loss. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 18.—Duringthe | dense fog that prevailed last night two steamers were lost between here and Cape | Race. The British steamer Rhodera, from | Boston, Eng., September 5, for Philadel- phia, is ashore at Renowes and is a total | wreck. Her crew tookto the boatsand | were picked up by the coast steamer Grand Lake this morning. The Rhodera,owing to 2 strong current, was thrown out of her reckoning. The captain thought himsell thiriy miles south of Cape Race, but on Friday night, the ship zoing at full speed with her sails 2ll set, d-ove on Hornhead, near Renowes. She struck stem on with great force, stav- ing in ber bowsand tcaring asunder her whole bottom. Within three minutes after the whole crew had taken to the boats the boilers burst and blew up the deck. The engine cylinders fell through the ship’s Dottom, and the bunker coal shifted and falling on tie furnace fires set the wreck afire. Later advices siato that the second steamer which went ashore was the Norwegian steamer Eugenie, from Shields to Louisburg, Cape Breton. Her crew has been rescued. R TG Middleton’s Leave of Absenec. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.—The leave of absence granted Lieutenant-Col- onel Middleton, deputy gurg_ean-uanernl, Department of Calitornia, is extended one montb, CANNOT BE | intensified, or on the other hand defrrred | other farm products will not be as low as | | to mainta:n wneir hold on the Democratic | experiences of tariff agitation which they | attempt to carry an election against pro- | purpose of avoiding the payment of new or increased duties provided by the pend- STATED BY ANY MEANS Prosperity and Protec- tion Are Bound to Be Permanent. NELSON DINGLEY SO DECLARES. Conditions of the Country That Knock Out the Free-Silver Fallacy. CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT PROMISED. In Time the New Tariff Law Wil | Cause a Disappearance of the Financial Deficlency. LEWISTON, Mz, Sept. 18. — There seems to be a concession on all sides thata genuine revival of business has set in dur- | ing the past two months, which promises | eraduel but solid improvement until the | country reaches the great prosperity of the | period from 1879 to 1893. | The fact that this country has again | started on the road to prosperity, from which it was so disastrously thrown in | 1893, can no longer be denied. While it is | undoubtedly true, as has been so well said by Speaker Reed, in his letter last Sunday, | that the primary cause of the business | swing from activity and boom to| lethargy and depression are to be found in alternating tendencies of human na- ture, from the height of confidence to the | extreme of distrust, yet, as justly regog- | nized by that eminent statesman, on one hand these tendencies :re hastened and and moaified, by many influences, some of whieh, like currency and tariff, are under | the control of legislation. It is more than coincidence that the be- ginning of the industrial and business de- pression was immediately after it became known the Presidentialand Congressional elections of 1892 nad resulted in a com- plete triumph of men pledged to over- throw the policy of protection. It is inev- itable that s change from such a policy to the policy of encouraging home produc- tion and manufacture determined upop at the recent session of Congress would tend to dispel distrust and establish confidence, and these results are quickened and strengthened by the conviction among business men that the scheme to depress the currency was given a fatal biow by the result of the elections last Noyember, and | also by the concurrent rise in the price of wheat and other farm products. 1t is probable that dollar wheat is not to be expected in the future when the wheat crop is abundant, for the reason that reducing the cost of handling wheat | by machinery and the competition of Russia and Argentina will make it possi- ble in ordinary years to profitably grow wheat at a lower price. But wheat and they have in the past four years of de- | pression, for the simple reason the res- | toration of the purcuasing power of the | people means an increase of consumption and consequent maintenance of better prices. And with this demonstration that the prices of farm products as well as of everyihing else are made by the cost of production and supply on band, and | the demand on tne other hand, and | not by the price of silver, the 16 to 1 free- | silver fallacy will be dealt so serious a blow that it must eventnally give way to the teachings of experience, just as the fiat-money fallacy gave way in 1879-1880 to | the object lesson of the vivifying effects of a return to sound money. It is too much to expect the 16 to1sil- ver tallacy will not be an issuein the Con- gressional elections of next year, especially if, as is probable, wheat is lower next year than now and free-silver leaders are able party. But the importance of making an end to this source of distrust and mischief is so great that business men cf the country will be found in solid opposition te this iallacy, as they were last year. There is no good reason to believe that we shall have another tariff agitation to disturb the business of the country for many years. In the first place the pro- | tective tariff just passed has been enacted | s0 early in President McKinley’s adminis- tration that any attempt to.repeal it} would be useless for four years to come. In the sccond place, the industrial and | business interests of the country, aiter the have kad in the past four years, will demand a tariff repose. And in thesecond place before any active stens could be taken to revolutionize our tariff, our 1n- dustries and business will be so thoroughly adjus-ed by the new tariff, and will have vefore them so complete a demonstration of its beneficence in comparison with the resuits of the tariff of 1894, that any tection would be futile. There can be no doubt that the protec- tive tariff is stronger to-day than it ever has been before in the history of the country. Ifany one doubtsthis, let him interview the average citizen as he meets him, and he will find an abundance of | evidence that protection has come to stay. What took piace during the four months the taciff bill was being considered in the Senate is well known. Not far from one hundred miilion dollars worth of mer- chandise in excess of the amount im- poried in the same period of the previous year was imported i1n advance of any demand for consumption, simply for the ing bill. If the new bill had not been pending, not one dollar of this would have been imported after July 24, and the $32,000,000 paid in duties ac the rates of the old law prior to July 1 would have all appeared as revenue for the present fiscal year, instead of the last fiscal year, and the deficiency for the last fiscal vear would bave exceeded $50,000,000 instead of being only about $18,000,000. But there nas been a large loss of revenue by the importation of merchan- dise like wool, free. of duty under the tariff of 1894, and dutiable under the new tariff, and of merchandise like sugar, on whica the duty is increased by the new tariff. This loss is absoiute, and is esti- mated at nearly $40,000,000. There will be no revenue from sugar and wool and-many other articles imported the new tariff became alaw. Itis d the loss of revenue from an- ticipatory importations under wool and woolens, sugar, silk, manufactures of flax and tobacco for several months will reach nearly $10,000,000 a month. But by | them do unto you.’ | sir. January, and perhaps earlier, the stock ot sugar and many oiher ar'ic'es imported in advance 1o avoid the new duties will be exnausted by the consumption of these imports, and we will begin to receive the revenue demanded. No doubt the revenue from the new tar:if and other sources for the fiscal year commencing July next will be ample for all purposes. NELsON DINGLEY. WHAT JOEN L. SULLIVAN WOULD D0 Continued from First Page. find, if 1 were Mayor, and they wouldn’t be politicians and ward-heelers, either. T’d select men who had a record for busi- ness and honesty and brains, 1f I looked a candidate for office straight in the eye and asked him 1f he was on the level, I ain’t got much doubt but that he'd tell the truth. There aren’t many men who'll tell a lie to old John L. when he gets right up close to em und puts the question good and square. The only race or class prejudices that I have would be to bar Chinamen, dudes and dagoes, as well as all other unfit specimens. “I think the big $7,000,000 subway that they’ve just built hers in Bosion is one of the biggest pieces of robbery perpetrated. They couldn’t get any such scheme.as that throagh if I was Mayor. I believe it’s time tc go underground when you're dead. Itain’tno place for live folks, and I don’t believe in it * ‘Do unto others as you_would have 1 beiieve in that old saying and it’s one of my mottoes. How many people are there who act according to this precept? “Here's another one: ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.” How many of them are there who live up to this one? These are my sentiments, and if 1 was| Mayor I’d run the city on principles which would wake the people to the fact that this was the correct way to live, to live right and square and on the level and to | do justice to every one, the poor as well | as the rich. The firemen would get better pay if I were running the city. The poor | fellows run great risks and display con- | stant bravery, and what do they get for it? Just a bare living. They save mil- lions of doilars’ worth of property and get a pittance i return. “The little children would have more places to play inif I was Mayor. It gives me a big pain to see a great city expend- ing millions of dollars on bicycle paths and horseback parks and golf links and all that kind of business and then putting up a big cry of socialism and anarchy when anybody has the nerve to demand a little land where the children can romp and play by themselves in safety. 1'm tirea of this business of driving the chil- dren off the grass in the parks and forbid- ding them to play baseball in various places. I1i I was Mayor and caught any- body doing this I'd chase’em down and give 'em a little practical demonstration of what I thought of him. “Live and let hve That's my. motto. Justice to everybody. Why not govern cities according to these principles in- stead of runninz them for the sole benefit of corporations, as is done almost every- where to-day. Ishould fix some deal by means of which the burden of taxes would come more upon the rich and less upon the poor. 1tisn’t fair for the poor people 1o be taxed on the same basis that the rich are. The result of the present system is that the poor people and the middle classes pay the running expenses of the cities while the rich people are underassessed and dodge a great aeal of their taxes. What chance does a poor man have of dodging his taxes? Did you ever hear of a workingman who had a modest little home being underassessed or escaping a single cent of his tax? No, They can’t do it. They chase up the peor man and get every cent of it, but the rich man can dodge haif of his taxes. “I don’t think I'il be Mayor of Boston; I began wrong. 1’ve been the worst enemy to myself, Ican’t shake a man’'s bana and pat him on the back ana pre- tend to be the best friend in the world to him and then go and do him dirt when he ain’t looking. That's not John's way of doing business. I never have done it and I never can. If Idon’tlike a man I say so right out, and that’s one of the reasons why I can't compete with these sly, double-faced politicians. “I believe that all monopolies, corpora- tions and trusts should be driven out of existence and I’d do my part toward it if I was Mayor. What chance Lasa man ot for jus:ice if he’s only worth 8 cents? He can’t hire any of the gilt-edged law- yers and drag cases through the courts for years. But the man with $8,000,000 can have all the lawyers he wants, and with their heip he not only gets justice, but he gets free, or pretly near it, no matter | what he has done. These trust men and monopolies and boodle politicians have, some of ’em, been sent to prison, and more of 'em will be. Tney’d all go there, every one of ’em, and in short order, too, it I was at the bead of the municipal ma- chize. Give the under dog a chance. Scare the thieves. Do everything in the open. That's what John L. believes and that's what he’d do. That's the way to run a city, too. “I don’t believe in tbis scheme of gov- erning a city oy one board. Preserve the common council. The Lord knows the people get little enough now, but what would they get with thewr council abolished and the reins of city govern- ment in the hands of only one body. All the gambling places in town will be licensed when I am Mayor of Boston, if I ever become Mayor. They chatge trom $1000 to $1300 for al.quor license, and if they do this and make so much money from the liquor licenses why should they not make some money from gambling re- sorts? You can’tstop gambling to save your life, and if you are going to have it why not get some revenue from it? I should issue licenses with this express coudition: That the proprietors of these resorts shouldn’t take the money of any man who covld not afford to lose, that is, any man with a family and chil- dren depending upon his labors for sup- port. For a violation of this condition I should for the first offense impose a nomi- nal fine of $25; then if the offender did it again I sbould make him forfeit his license and be debarred from taking out another license in this city. I should bave this as the invariable punishment for thie second offense. “I should discourage chronic kickers if I were Mayor, but I shoula hear every complaint and. investigate all cases. If youare anxious to stop the increase of the number of thieves in a city you musg treat the poor little children right. It is the neglect of this principle that mukes so many criminals in the cities. Whea they grow up with the feeling that the NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. Good-by to the GREEN TAGS. How different the streets look sinee the Green-Tag Sale. How dijfferent the people dress. So many swell dressers on the streets. Most of ’em Green Tags. $8.50 has been the price. Yow'll see’em. Values up to $18, in Bilue and Black Worsteds, Faney Cheviots. Gaze into owr corner window. Yow'll see’em. They have been our $16 to $18 Suits—our $16 to $18 Overcoats. A richer and handsomer lot never assembled under one roof. Garments that do yow credit to wear. Never again will they be equaled at the GREEN-TAG PRICE, —-$8.50.— THE CLOTHING OPPOR- TUNITY OF THE AGE IS WITH YOU NOW. WILL YOU SEIZE IT? EARTH Are the celebrated Bannockburn Cheviots, known to wear boys one vear. Nothing cquals their strong wearing qualities, no matter what price is paid. The same in ali color- ings, in plain effects, in neat plaids and checks. The patterns are very pretty, in reefer style, double-breasted style, ages j to 15 years. Long will you remember their values, and the price during this GREEN-TAG SALE is =Huns LONG SAILOR TROUSERS For the cute tots. Those pretty Long Saitor Pants, in blue yacht cloth, worth $250 per pair; all ages up to No. 12. GREEN-TAGGED ---95¢ No Better Yalues! No Prices Will Talk as Loud as the Green-Tag Values To-Day! How we’ve tumbled prices. How the masses have been clothed for the winter with bright new darments at mnext-to- nothing prices. We call a halt. The last days of the Green Tags are at hand. Long will yow remem- ber ‘em. o4 ™ ) What joy the Green Tags have been to moth- ers that have children to clothe. What money they have saved. A Tiny Green Tag To-day on some pretty Reefer Swits. Not many of ’‘em. Deep sailor col- lar, prettily braided. Green-tagged, at --95¢.-~ English Corduroy. That's what they are, these swell Cor- duroy Pants for the tittle tots and big tots. Ages 4 to 14 years. You krowwhal they’re worth. Green-Tagged To- day WINDSOR TIES. 500 dozen all Pure Silk Windsors, hemstitched ends, handsomely embroidered. Al colors. GREEN-TAGGED S, T 7 Values On Earth! Never have yow and never will yow again see such valwes, such pretty Overcoats, swch All-wool Suwits, new patterns, new styles, | tailored most excellently, in | pretty plaids, neat fancy mia tures, in blues and blacks, in |single and dowble breasted | sacks. Double the money won’t | purchase ’em agdain. But the | Last Days of the Green-Tag | Sale will be great ones—long to | be remembered. GREEN-TAGGED -—$5.00.-- |GOOD-BY TO 'EM. WHAT PRETTY SUITS. WHAT PRETTY STYLES. Who'd ever duwess the price? What pretty Reefer Suits in blue all-wool cheviots, in pretty plaids, deep sailor collar, many rows of sowtache braid, all sizes, S to 1/ years. Never would yow guess their valwe. See ’em in our windows. The Last Daysof the sale are at han. GREEN-TAGGED —$1.95-- pr (U GREEN-TAGGED. Six new shapes in the new fall style of Fedora. That swell Soft Hat, in black, brown, pearl and many other colors. $2 is about the price. GREEN-TAGGED To-day e world is down on them it hardens them and makes them feel that they must go along the best they can, without regard to the law of right and wrong. Make them understand that the city and the Mayor take an interest in them and are trying to make life happy and healthy for them. That’s the way to do it. * *Live and let live.” I don’t care who is the map, or where he is, or what he is doing, if ae has that principle at beart he is all right. I think that the shcoting of the miners in Pennsylvania was entirely uncalled for. Nothing of that sort couid happen in a city of which I was the chief executive. [ am willing to admit, how- ever, that there was considerable provoca- tion and that the Sheriffs did right to try to preserve order, but they were not justi- fied 1n shooting, as it was proved after- ward that the miners were unarmed. “In my opinion the mayors of cities should do something to prevent the peo- ple who are totally unfit from going to the Klondike gold fields. Most of the people who go up there now are crazy. I wouldn’t go. A person should not go to Alaska unless he knows sometiing about mining and about gold. Ivs ail foolish- ness to try to do anything in that line when you don’t know anything about it, just as itis in any other line of life. “The proper thing for a candidate for | office to do is to declare his principles and ! then let the office that he wants come to him. That’s what Iam doing. As far as speechmaking zoes as 2 qualification for a candidate for Mayor I'd be all right. Lung power is the principal thing in an orator and Idon’t believe that there are many men with more of that sort of thing than myseif. Why, Ioften spoke to crowds of 10,000 people in London and only used one corner of my mouth. I'd never seen the crowd so big that I would have to use the whole of my mouth to make myself heard. *I shall be boss when Iam Mayor and 1 won’t be run by any of your machines or corporations either. I shall be on the dead square and give the poor people justice and plenty ot it every time. I sban’t steal money by the thousands as other Mayors have done in Boston. I've handled over a million dollars of my own money and seen it goto the bad, and if I ever get to be the Mayor of a city I shall take care of the people’s stuff and see it don’t go the same way. “The people have had enough of these aristocrats for Mayors and it is aboat time they had one of themselves for a chief ex- ecutive, some one who can look at things from their standpoint and see that this money goes somewhere else besides into the pockets of the corporations. If I had any one of the ten fortunes that [ have won and lost I could enter into this con- test with the certainty of being elected. 1'd do it, too, and I'd do it in a way that would make some people’s eyes stick oat, too. *‘For a quarler of a century I have been fighting the best fichters in the whole world and if I was Mayor I guess that I could keep it up in a style that would mean defeat for some of the boodlers that are robbing the taxpayers now. They can’t pull the wool over John L.'s eyes. Boston wouldn’t keep on heaping up her big debt way beyond the debt limit estab- lished by the Lecislature if I had anything todo with it. Here they are increasing the debt every year and ye: giving for nothing to one corporation the exclusive franchise for the nse of all the streets for a street road. Why, that franchise is worth millions, and the city don’t get a cent for it. Why not? Because some- body is getting a good thing out of it, of course. “It's a case of the public be — now, but it would be just turned about when I getinto power. We'll see what the voters think about it, I'm willing to abide by their decision. They know that John L.’s heart is in the right place, whatever his faults are, and I am confident that they will say so at the polls. I may not get elected, but I'll get enouzh votes to cook Mr. Quincy’s goose, and that’s all I want. We'll see who’s the best man, John L. or Josiah—the dude or the big fellow. We'll see who has the most friends, who i really first in the hearts of the people, the man wno has blue blood in his veins or the man who has licked the champions of two worlds. And then if I get elected we’ll ses who'll make the best Mayor—the one who never refused to shake hands with an honest man or the man who let corporations steal millions from rhe city treasury. JouN L. SULLIVAN.” FIGHTING THE DREAD SCOURGE. Continued from First Page. than four miles an hour, whereas the roid bas been ordered to run their trains through here at a twenty-mile rate. Not only was this order willfully disrs- garded by the road, but the train actualiy | stupped in the heart of the city. Indigna- tion'is at fever heat here, and the peopie say that if necessary to compel observance of their reasonable quarantine reguiations they will burn every bridge between here and Vicksburg. 'Ihe city authorities say that if vellow fever is introduced hereit will be by the unlawful disregard of their rules, a in this case. VICKSBURG, Miss, Sept. 18. — Gov- ernor McLaurin has instructed the State troops at this place to be ready to move, and has wired the superintendent of the Que'n and Crescent to ask if he can bandle them, to which the latter re- sponded favorably. The Jackson outbreak has created much excitement here. Superintendent Bond corrects the report from Jackson that he had instructed the engineer of yesterday’s train io run as he pleasec through Jackson. On the con- trary, in view of the threats reported from there that the bridges would be burned, the tracks torn up and switches thrown, tue engineer was ordered to run through the town carefully and with his train un- der full control, the only orders thata | prudent man would give under tha cir- cumstances. The doors of the train were lockad. 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