The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1898, Page 4

MOA"DAYT................SEPTEMBER 26, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. P. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. .2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telep! Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a wesk. By mail $6 per year; per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . C. C. CARLTON, Correspon: CHICAGO OFFICE... .Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year. by mall, $1.50 nt. BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS —~Trilby ‘Romeo and Juliet.” Orphenm— Vaudeville. New Comedy Theater—* What Happened to Jones.” Alhambra, 7 and Jones streets—Vaudeville. es—Pletro Marino, Vaudeville and the Zoo. —Corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. wimming. Hall—Durward Lely, Monday, September 26 ng in February. OUR GROWING FINANCIAL POWER. URING the past year frequent mention has D been made of the rapidly growing importance of the United States as a money power, instead of a purely producing power, as it has been for several generations. The transition was sharp, and took place | before even the best posted financiers of the country definitely knew what was going on. It suddenly appeared one day that we were loaning large sums in gold coin to German banks, and since then our posi- tion as a creditor instead of a debtor nation is begin- ning to be acknowledged everywhere. The latest tes- timony to this effect appears in the weekly review of R. G. Dun & Co., which says: “Europe will have to consider possible American needs for money much more anxiously in the future. Doubtless there has been for many years a feeling that the new continent could not be put off with promises. But the control of this country over money markets in the Old World is coming to be that of a master. Our banks lend over there heavily when it is the most conveni market for them, but they draw on Europe whenever they want money, and no longer have occa- sion to limit their drafts.” So it appears that our money as well as our navy is asserting itself abroad. The conquest, though peace- ful, is not less effective and permanent. If we continue this financial advance, who knows that we will not soon be in a position to dictate to other nations whether they shall go to war or not? The hypothesis | is not nearly as far-fetched as it might seem at a hasty glance. A little further progression on our present lines is quite likely to place us where, by giv- ing or withdrawing our support from expectant bel- ligerents, we may frequently impel or prevent hos- tilities, as we choose. *If we become the greatest producers of both food and money in the world we thereby exercise a predominating influence on both | the stomach and the pocket of the world, and, as these are the principal organs of the body politic, the | power that controls them controls the body politic. | In other words, we shall rule the world. This financial condition was the leading feature of rade last week. The current of gold began to set so { strongly toward the United States that the Bank of | England was forced to advance its rate of discount | from 214 per cent to 3 per cent to check it. But no | earthly power can check the law of supply and de- mand, an] if we feed Europe it has got to pay us for it, and in one form or another the gold will flow in just the same. It is doing so now. The center of commercial activity continues in the West and Northwest, where the rush of business is remarkable. Indeed, we are told that the East finds it hard to realize how very active the West is, though the East itself is enjoying a satisfactory trade. The iron and steel trade leads all others in point of pros- perity, as there is a steel famine in Germany, and Great Britain is in our market for 10,000 tons of plates. The domestic orders are simply immense, and the works are crowded for months ahead. The other staples are unsettled. Wool and cotton continue dull, but wheat is again rising on account of better foreign buying, induced chiefly by poorer crop prospects in Russia. This quickened demand has largely increased the exports of wheat and flour from Atlantic ports during the past week, and the wheat trade is now in better shape than for some time back. The bank clearings of the country continue rather unfavorable, showing a decrease of 3.2 per cent last week from the corresponding week last year. On the other hand, the failures were only 182, against 237 for the same week in 1807. On this coast conditions show a pronounced im- provement for the week. Primarily, there was the ad- vance in wheat, which carried with it better prices for most of the minor cereals. An advance in hay con- tinued the improvement along the same lines. The dried fruit trade, which had been dull for some time, exhibited signs of doing better, as the Eastern de. mand slowly improved, giving increased = tone to prices, which were already good. The demand for canned fruit, too, continued brisk at firm quotations. A diminished yield of grapes stimulated the inquiry for this important staple, and the week closed on a rising market. Hops were also strong, owing to a re- ported shortage of 50,000 bales in the world’s product this year. Government orders for provisions kept this market from stagnation. In fact, while there wag no particular activity in any branch of local trade, the conditions certainly showed visible improvement. | | | | | 1f the husband of Mrs. Esqueda can be found it is to be hoped that he will decline to be arrested, and during the ensuing argument get a few ounces of fatal lead in his system. Even if the fellow is not a mur- derer, many a better man has had to go to the gallows. Germany’s ruler seems to think he can bring the Philippines within his jurisdiction, but there is no in- dication that he has yet secured the consent of one Dewey, a diplomatist with an inclination toward scrapping. — There is a growing belief that Governor Budd shaved because Phelan insists upon wearing whiskers, 4 . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1898. THE SATURDAY-EVENING SPEECHES." ATURDAY evening was in this city something S of a field night for both Republicans and Dem- ocrats. The Republicans were addressed by one of the most eminent citizens of the State, Morris M. Estee, and the Democrats by J. Hamilton Lewis, one of the most conspicuous of the new leaders the new departure of Democracy has brought to the front. The arguments of each side being thus presented by men who are thoroughly representative of the poli- tics and the parties they support, the readers of The Call had on Sunday an opportunity of studying both sides of the campaign. It was an interesting study, and one which should have engaged the attention of every voter whose mind is not yet made up on the issues before the people. Mr. Estee made his points clearly. The national issues of the canvass are: The maintenance of sound money, an early reform of the currency, the con- tinuance of the protective tariff, and the upholding of the administration, which has so well served the na- tion both in peace and in war. The local issues are the preservation of the welfare of the State by the election of safe, conservative men to office, and the defeat of candidates who represent only the discon- tents of the unthrifty, or the vagaries of radicals who regard land-owning as a wrong and desire to virtually | confiscate land by imposing upon the owner the whole burden of taxation for all purposes. Mr. Lewis gave much of his speech to an attempt to prove to the Democrats before him that Maguire has not been neglectful of his duties as a Congress- man, and attacked the war revenue bill at some length, but made as his main argument the extraor- dinary assertion that the Republican administration has not kept its pledges made in 1896. It is unfortunate for Mr. Lewis and for the fused factions he has come here to help that this charge of his was made on the same day that Estee spoke, and that the two speeches were published together next day. To the question of the Democratic orator ad- dressed to Republican leaders: “Can any one of them point to a single issue or promise of the last cam- paign that has been carried out?” Mr. Estee’s elab- orate review of the benefits accruing to the country from the Republican protective tariff, and the virtual settlement of the money question, affords a complete answer. The campaign is young as yet, and it is not known what resources may be at the disposal of the Maguire | managers; but if they have any orators capable of giving dignity and earnestness to the canvass for their single tax champion it is time to bring them to the front. The gentleman imported from Washington is eloquent indeed, but has as many vagaries as Maguire himself and will never win a conservative or indepen- dent voter to the side of the factions for which he | does his talking. UPS AND DOWNS OF LI HUNG CHANG. OUBTLESS it was with a prophetic foresight | D of the political adventures of Li Hung Chang | that the old-time poet wrote the rattling chorus, “When he was up, he was up; and when he | was down, he was down; and when he was just half- way, he was neither up nor down.” For the last ten years the old man has been on the | most uncertain teeter-board of fortune that was ever ridden by a statesman; his yellow jacket and his peacock-feather have been alternately donned and doffed with the rapidity of a lightning change artist, and he must have long since come to the conclusion that life is a game in which it is impossible for even the most skillful player to stack the cards. The most singular feature of this career of vicis- situdes is that it has been lived out in China. For ages the Flowery Kingdom was the land where all things were stagnant and where changes came only | with the processes of nature—where men grew old in the station in which they were born, and were safe from everything except death and taxes. All the old- | time conservatism, however, seems now to have passed away. A new order of politics prevails. The | Chinese administration is more variable than that of France. In no other capital of late years have states- men experienced such quick turns of popular or im- perial favor as in Peking. That China is undergoing the throes of a far- reaching revolution affecting her social structure and industrial organism even more than her government all the world knows. The extent and degree of the fluctuations caused by these new forces are revealed by the effect they have upon the heads of the state. As Li Hung Chang goes up or down, so does the tidal wave of a new movement in the empire ebb or flow. | It is an indisputable evidence of his consummate un- derstanding of Chinese nature and his cool-headed mastery of court intrigues that he has managed to escape shipwreck in the stormy waters over which he has to make his way. It is one of the curious paradoxes of history that at this closing epoch of their old-time stagnation the Chinese, who of all races have the highest veneration for ancestry, have at the head of their government a Dowager Empress who was once a slave girl, and a Prime Minister who was once a poor fisherman. These two old people, whose lives are more remark- able in their swift changes from poverty to affluence and power than any known to the United States, where the Presidency is open to the aspirations of every boy, are to-day directing the conservative, su- perstitious, stagnant Chinese in the paths of change that will lead no man knows whither. Great as is the just fame of Chang, the Dowager Empress seems to have a more virile brain and a greater force of will even than him. Her career, how- ever, has not so largely attracted the attention of the world. Chang is the Foreign Minister, and it is upon Chang the eyes of the nations are fixed. To-day his teeter-board is bearing him once more up, and curious diplomatists are watching to see whether he will not start downward to-morrow. et —— THE WASHINGTON PRESS. NE of the best—if not the very best—special O editions ever devoted by a newspaper to the sole purpose of making known the industrial and social conditions and resources of a single town- ship in California, has just been issued by the Wash- ington Press of Irvington, Alameda County. Many a more pretentious journal aiming at an exploitation of a great county or of a wide section of the State, has produced an edition by no means comparable to this, The showing made for the township attests that its industries, its buildings and its energies are worthy of the special edition devoted to it. It is one of those fruitful regions adorned with schools, churches and homes amid orchards and vineyards, which the peo- ple of California are fond of, regarding as typical of the whole commonwealth. - The edition is worthy of a wide ciruclation, and the residents of the township should see that it is given. e —— While T. Carl Spelling and James Barry are call- ing each other names, Julius Kahn is understood to be industriously sawing wood. Arrests for cruelty to animals seem to be more common than trials and penalties for the same of- fense. THE EXCLUSION OF AN@ARCHISTS. WING to the activity of the European police in O enforcing the laws against anarchists since the assassination of the Empress of Austria, the danger of a large influx of that class of criminals to the United States has become imminent. This is fully recognized in the Eastern cities, where incoming | anarchists would be most likely to assemble, and a | strong agitation is now going on to arouse the immi- gration inspectors to a greater vigilance than ever in excluding them. That a sufficient cause exists for the agitation is be- yond dispute. The time has gone by when any man of fair intelligence and right sympathies could believe that anarchy has its origin in despotism; that it aims only at the destruction of tyranny, and that on ar- riving in this country the dangerous madman of Europe would be transformed into a good, peaceable and industrious citizen. We have had one disastrous experience with the class in Chicago, and have come near having others in New York. We have learned the lessons taught by these experiences, and the de- mand for a thorough exclusion of anarchists is a proof that we know how to profit by them. The anarchists aim at the destruction of existing society, and strive to attain that end by the assassina- tion of any one who stands as a representative of law or of property. Their blows fall with an equal hate upon the Czar of Russia, the police of our cities, or, as in the case of the Empress of Austria, upon a woman entitled to respect for her years and her sor- rows as well as for her high station. That a few demagogues in this country such as Altgeld of Illinois and James G. Maguire sympathize with the spirit of anarchy and do not hesitate to ex- tenuate its offenses, renders the coming of anarchists to our shores even more dangerous than it would | otherwise be. Maguire as a member of Congress has | insisted upon the right of anarchists to enter the | United States, and Altgeld as Governor of Illinois | pardoned those who in that State had been sent to prison for life for complicity in the murder of the Chicago policemen at the Haymarket riots. These deeds show the extent to which that class of | demagogues are willing to encourage the spirit of | anarchy among the lawless criminals of Europe who | may seek admission to the United States. It is there- fore evident that the danger of anarchy is of almost as | much concern to us as to the people of the most despotic nations in the Old World, and the best way to guard against the menace of the assassins is to ex- clude them from this country altogether. ELIMINATE THE KENVILLES. DOLICEMEN need to be brave and strong. They do not need to be brutal. Unless they have the sense and decency to make proper use of the authority conferred upon them they constitute to the community as serious a menace as the evil- doers whom it is supposed to be their province to hold in check. Give a bully a pistol, a club and an exaggerated notion of his rights, and you have a bully of the worst type. Policeman Kenville is believed to have broken the skull of a little boy, a lad too small to have wrought him physical harm. The statement is made that the patrolman threw a club and struck the child, who had had the misfortune to annoy him. He pleads not guilty, and denies the commission of the act. We are willing to hold the verdict in abeyance until he shall have been heard. If he can overturn the evidence of reputable witnesses, which now seems conclusive, all the better for him. If he cannot, the sooner he shall be expelled from the force, together with all of his kind, the better for the department. There are occasions when violence on the part of a policeman is justifiable, and, exercised properly, will receive general indorsement. He is armed for emer- gencies. He must run the chance of coming in con- tact with desperate characters, and it is his business to subdue them. In this manner he protects the pub- lic, and if he crack the crown of a dangerous hood- rather weigh in his favor. But no boy of ten years, even though disporting himself noisily, earns the dis- comfort of a fractured pate. No policeman can ad- into a crowd of youngsters, knowing, as he must, if not a fool, that a fatal impact may result. And if he is a fool there are other callings in which he would B THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR. pRESIDENT McKINLEY is reported to have gate the conduct of the war that while their at- tention should be particularly directed toward the | service of the departments of the surgeon general, sired that our entire military organization should be made the subject of investigation and full reports sub- mitted upon any deficiencies noted. cute its work with success, the President promised every assistance in obtaining evidence. He is quoted as having said: “If the commission should have obtaining access to papers thought to be essential to the prosecution of its labors, I hope the matter will be brought to my attention, when I will do all in my mission to have a clear field, and I will do all that is possible for me to do to see that it has.” The country will note with satisfaction that the in- in the most thorough manner. An investigation of such scope is sure to yield good results. It is al- ways of advantage to go over any important work better. Only by making such inquiries and by profit- ing by the lesson they reveal do nations improve in the art of war. handling armies is beyond dispute, and the President has acted wisely in authorizing the committee to make its field of inquiry as wide as is necessary to determine lum or a professional criminal, the circumstance will vance a shadow of justification for throwing his club constitute less of peril. informed the committee appointed to investi- quartermaster general and commissary general, he de- In order that the commission may be able to prose- difficulty in securing the attendance of witnesses or in power to overcome the difficulty. I want the com- quiry is to be made on this comprehensive plan, and r and take note of points where it could have been done That there is much for us to learn in the work of every shortcoming in our military system. Now an instance of the sending of poisoned candy through the mails is reported from Texas. It was the common stick candy, which can be bought at any cross road store, and the necessity for sending such stuff through the mails is so far from obvious that the recipient ought to think twice before eating it. He should concentrate his reflections on the problem, “Is life worth living?” If he concludes it is not, let him tackle the sweets. One of the policemen accused of cowardice at the murder of Lieutenant Burke explains that he did not know how to shoot, having fired a pistol but three times in his life. What business has such a greenhorn to carry a pistol? Pando is incorrectly reported as having made a fool of himself in New York. All he did was to keep right on being the same old fool. Augusti announces that he has saved his honor. Evidently in the hurry of his flight he did not have| time to grab anything valuable. THEY HAD NO VOICE NOR VOTE. The writer of the following letter is only one of hundreds of Democrats whose sentiments regarding the Committee of One Hundred and its sponsors are similar to those expressed here: Editor Call: I am one of a very large num- ber of old-line Democrats who have bolted the party for the present, at least, and am now énjoying the veritable Kilkenny fight being Waged among the Gallaghers and Maguires and Phelans and Harneys and all the other Celts of high and low degree. The present dis- graceful proceedings being enacted by the Place-hunting vultures seeking places on the municipal Democratic ticket causes honest Democrats to bow their heads in shame, and they are showing their indignant disapproval of the high-handed outrage of the Committes of One Hundred by openly avowing that in this campaign they will bolt the party and teach the leaders and promoters of the Committee of One Hundred a lesson that will last them for the next four years. The rank and file of the Democratic party of theis city, the men who do the shouting, the cheering and furnish the funds for carrying on the campaign, thereby bolstering up the weak-kneed and faltering ones, and Keeping the party organization intact, ‘were horrified and astonished when it was given out that a mere handful of political picaroons had in- duced the Democratic State Central Committee to ignore the time-honored custom of holding primary elections to select delegates to the tate convention, and instead to place the se- lection of such delegates in the hands of the Committee of One Hundred, who were them- selves selected by Gavin McNab, Mayor Phelan, ex-Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee Alford, Governor Budd and a few other politicians of smaller bore. Thess men did not realize that they were fooling with a boomerang. But they are now feeling its ef- fect. This 1s the reason I have left the party. It I can have no voice in the selcetion of the men sent to the State convention, then let the party get along without me at the general election. If the party can get along without me, most assuredly I can get along without the party—a party that I have labored with for yea: in the spoils of victory. sh'f";ee comic mpm of nm;mocmtlc.row é: the attitude of Governor Budd. The Governor is greatly concerned all at once over the fate of the Democratio State ticket and in & PUb; lished letter in an_evening paper of the 224 inst. he warns the Committee of One Hundred that if the sald committee resolve itself into a “‘municipal nominating convention, then e Salt River boat may as well be built now in November, for it will be manned with Demo- cratic candidates and with the Populist nomi- nee for Governor, Mr. Maguire, for captaln Now the Committee of One Hundred shou heed the timely warning of the Governor, for he is a prophet of no mean order and can peer further into the future than Professor Ro- aine. ™Hat 1t really makes one laugh to see our phetic Governor holding up the warning Rreot et this Tate day. In my opinion, and it is shared by many other Democrats, it is no worse for the Committee of One Hundred to resolve itself Into a munlieipal nominating con- vention than it was for the same committee to select delegates to the State convention, thereby distranchising the rank and file of the Democratic party of this city, a fact the Gov- ernor will realize when the Senatorial seat that is to be made vacant by the expiration of the term of Senator White, and for Which Mr. Budd has been hankering and planning after for the past two vears is gone from his gaze forever, But the war is on and Mayor Phelan and Governor Budd_are ‘“forninst” one another, and we bolting Democrats are looking placidly on, caring but little which one wins. It is gratifying to know, howeve- that three months more will see the close of Jim Budd's political career. Yet as a Democrat who work- ed late and early to elect Mr. Budd to the high position he now holds, I feel a keen regret that with his outgoing he is pulling down the Democratic pillars and leaving the party that hes honored him so often and so long nathing but a pile of ruins. IVANHOE. The writer of the foregoing letter is a business man of this city. His name and éd&litess are In the possession of The all. MAGUIRE AND THE SINGLE TAX Editor Call: quote his exact language: “It is not a proposition to conflscate land. “would pyt an end to the single tax.” Mr. Maguire has the gift of his race in invective. He says that the writer of the plank in the Republican platform, over which he has had so much worry, is an ignoramus, and the newspaper which quotes his speeches is a dozen kinds of a liar. Now the Republican press, in its treatment of the combination candi- date for Governor, has been more than liberal. record, and with your permission I will give him a small part of it. admits that he is an apostle of single tax, but denies that it means the establishment of communism In the holding and occupation of land. On the 10th of March last Mr. Maguire made a speech in Congress, a copy of which he kindly sent me and which I now have before me, & document of sixteen pages and is all devoted to the advocacy of single tax. On page 4 he says: “Equity, therefore, does not permit property in land; for if one portion ‘“of the earth's surface may fully become the possession of an individual “and may be held by him, for his sole use and benefit, as a thing to which “he has an exclusive right, then all other portions of the earth’s surface “may so be held, and our planet may thus lapse altogether into private “hands.” On page § he says: “this matter. ‘“customs and laws notwithstanding. “an indefensible origin, but it is impossible to discover any mode by which “land can become private property.” He then proceeds to elaborate this point by illustration, and on page 6 he states his case as follows: “The world is God’s bequest to mankind. “You are among the number, and because you have taken up residence ‘“‘upon a certain part of it, subdued, cultivated and beautified that part, im- ‘“‘proved as you say, you are not, therefore, warranted in appropriating it At least, if you do S0, you may at any moment be “Justly expelled by the lawful owner, soclety.” . These infamous sentiments are not original with Mr. states on page 4 of his speech that they are quoted from Herbert Spencer, and he calls them an “unanswerable argument” in support of the single ‘“‘as private property. tax and adopts them as his own. He denounces the Republicans in his choice language for saying that the single tax doctrine is confiscation of land. speech in Congress, which I have quoted. landless tramp a farm—a very commendable idea; but it is not a donation of I quote his words: “How can this be done, since we have sold the land? “it subject to the unlimited right of taxation, reserved by the State and Exercise that reserved right of taxation by concen- “trating all taxes upon land values, and the only incentive that men now “have to own land will be instantly taken away.” If this is not socialism and communism I do not know the meaning of It panders to the spirit of anarchy and encourages the law- less elements who war against civilization. Now, Mr. Maguire, calling names is not argument. explanation to make, you now have the floor. the public domain. “Federal Government. the terms. I was present at Metropolitan Hall and heard Maguire de- liver his opening speech of the campaign. firm believer in the single tax, and explained how it will bring the millen- nium. He criticizes the Republican platform for saying that the single tax doctrine tends to socfalism and anarchy, and then spoke as follows. I ‘“Whether it may be altogether expedient to ad- “mit claims of a certain standing is not the point. We have nothing to “do with considerations of conventional privilege or legislative convenience. “We have simply to inquire what Is the verdict given by pure equity in And this verdict enjoins a protest against every existing “pretension to the individual possesion of the soil; and dictates the asser- “tion that the right of mankind to the earth at large, is still valid, all deeds, He announced himself as a The conflscation of land He loudly calls for the He It is Not only have present land tenures All men are joint heirs to it. Maguire. He Hear him on page 14 of his He proposes to give every ‘Why, we sold If you have any A. P. VAN DUZER. PASSING OF THE MONOPOLY. Editor San Francisco Call: railroad line was an assured fact. ant railroad link. goods. raw product thus taxed? tected to some degree? much space and are more valuable. We feel like congratulating you that the Bakersfleld and Los Angeles Railway is about to be built. The Call never stated a fact so potent in its effects upon the welfare of this State as its statement this day that the connecting link in a competing through The writer will not allude to the inter- ests which so closely. surround The Call and the construction of this import- ‘Without this link California remains in slavery to the greed of the Southern Pacific Company. Sixty dollars per ton for malleable iron castings which have been nick- eled over by a battery is the enormous charge this company is now collect- ing from the manufacturers of this coast on goods on which the charge was $15 per ton for the last several years; $30 per ton for the commonest iron How can any community prosper in a manufacturing way with its Should manufacturing not be nourished and pro- Then look at the many articles manufactured in the East brought in here at one-half the above rates, goods which take up Should these traffic hishwaymen not be compelled to respect the people’s needs in their efforts to establish facto- ries here? If we have no proper timber nor malleable iron works, who fur- nish iron castings, etc., to go Into our work, should these commodities not be brought in cheaper than the made-up finished goods? No one class of business men can prosper under the Southern Pacific freight schedule but those who buy and sell. develop and establish his business. The manufacturer is ignored in his struggles to The rates into California are not based on equity, ad valorem or common sense. Should this supreme power be put into the hands of a few men to raise or lower rates at their own voli- tion; breaking down established business, upsetting all legitimate business calculations, business that was based upon established rates? Is there much difference between their “hold up” of the people of this State and the “hold up” of the train robber? Freedom is what California needs from this regime; and as I gaze at night upon that modern architectural tem- ple, The Call’s home, with its/electrified dome piercing the clouds, it strikes me that it is “writing on the wall” that a new power and influence is at hand, and that this railroad monopoly in this State will be broken up. San Francisco, September 20, 1898, ‘W. DAVIS, 11 Front street, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Senator B. F. Langdon of Stockton is at the Lick. Dr. J. W. Ashley of San Jese is a guest at the Grand. Rev. J. C. Jordan and wife of Bakers- field are at the Grand. A. Bonnheim, a merchant of Sacra- mento, is at the Lick. C. H. Schiveley, a mining man of Oro- ville, is at the Baldwin. R. E. Jack, the banker of San Luis Obispo, is at the Palace. C. W. Evans and Charles Maze Jr. of Modesto are at the Lick. E. 8. Mainhart, a mining man of Grass Valley, is at the Grand. DMLY A peadler with theatmosphere of = HE WAS @ alcohol about him o 5 A dPfllfted lsflttordflle 'al u) % MERCHANT. ¥ atternoon through o % the entrance on o Montgom- PERIDEREI Y A XF New street. Besides a burden supporting uid responsibilities he catried the tion number of potatoes which all § 2 5 ] / peddlers of that earthy product have stowed away in their right hand. The peddler was out to sell, and ag he ‘was impressed with the size of the Palace he ventured inside for the purpose of dis- posing of all his stock on hand He little thought that he was placing himself in a very dangerous position. for the very first man he met in the office was the Chesterfleld of the hotel clerks. “Ab,” the handsome and urbane clerk sald as he caught sight of the unseemly visitor, “I must end this at once.” With that he approached the canting vendor and sald with full command of his Ches- terfleldian grace: “My dear sir, don’t you know that we do not allow peddlers in here, and I think you must have neg- lected to take notice of the sign on the door, ‘Peddlersinot wanted.’ " “If your exalted highness will but listen }‘wfll tell you a tale,” replied the peddler, ‘But I will not be so unmannerly as to gonsume your time. Sir, I am not a ped- dler; I am a potato merchant.” P. Sweed, a merchant at the Grand, 50 Telaiome e John Fennell, a rancher of T ama County, is at the Palace. - G. H. Fox, the promin, stock rafser of Clement, is at tge Llck',n t De Vries van Dusenburgh, a Vineyardist ot Bt. Helena, 1s & it 5 L&Mm’fl.fi%‘ufixn‘;‘&m British North Bornee Company arrived in this city yesterday morning and are registered at the Occidental. State Treasurer W. 8. Green of Colusa 1s at the Grand. ‘Willlam M. Petrie, a merchant of Sacra- mento, is at the Palace, Mr. and Mrs. Sinion H. Stern of New York arrived yesterday and are guests at the Palace. T. W. Page, the well-known mining man, returned to the city yesterday and is stopping at the Palace. Dr. '‘G. R. Moore, E. Graham and H. ‘Wilkins Wilkinson of Kobe, Japan, are registered at the Occidental NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. A Vicker's armor plate, 8.8 inches thick, was recently tried at Shoeburyness. Three Holtzer armor piercing projectiles, weigh- ing 38 pounds, were fired from a 9.2 inch gun at velocities ranging from 1870 to 1900 feet per second, but all the shells broke up and there were no cracks in the plate. The British cruiser Terrible’s sea trial of 60 hours, terminating September 1, was very successful. The ship was down to a mean draught of 28 feet 5% Inches, and the engines, with 233 pounds of steam and 98 revolutions, developed a mean of 515-horse power, giving a speed during the first thirty hours of 20.1 knots against wind and sea, and 20.5 knots during the second half of the trial with wind and sea favoring. The Mermald, a torpedo-boat destroyer built by Hawthorn & Leslle at Newcastle- on-Tyne, from designs by the firm, had her initlal trial at sea September 1 The boat is 300 tons, 210 feet in length, 21 feet beam and 12 feet 6 inches in depth. She has four water-tube Thornycraft bollers and the engines are to develop 6000-horse power. With 3% revolutions the highest speed was nearly 30% knots and the aven age of all the runs was 30 knots, whish is the contracted speed. English papers comment on the Ruws- slan shipbuilding orders in France as prompted by a sentiment of friendship with no elements of business considera- tions, as the ships could be built for less money and in less time in Great Britain. The sum to be paid for the vessels order- ed at La Seyne will foot up to $10,200,000 for the battleship, armored cruiser and the three torpedo-boat destroyers. The Marine Engineer estimates that there is a clear profit of $1,500,000 to the builders in this order and regrets that the orders were not placed in England. During the past two years there have been several serious cases of seamen striking, or attempting to assault, their superfor officers. In 1887, with 51,358 blue Jackets and marines, there were 45 cases of that kind and in 1897, with a total of 82,241, the number of offenses of this de- scription had increased to 97. Under the heading of “Violence to Superfors and Insubordination,” there were 30 in 1857 and 57 in 1897; under “Disobedience of Orders,” the comparison stood 10 and 18, and for desertion there were 20 in 1887 and 5 in 1897. Including all offenses there were 151 court-martial cases in 1887 and 278 in 1897, but it will be observed that serious offenses are on the increase in the British navy. Germany is coming to the front as a bullder of ships for foreign navies. Since 18% forty-six vessels have been com- pleted or begun at the three yards at Elbing, Stettin and * 2. The list in- cludes: Three torpedé gunboats for Bra- zil; 8 cruisers, 5 torpedo-boat destroyers and 6 torpedo boats for China; Austria has had 1 torpedo-boat destroyer and 1 torpedo boat, and Norway 1 of the first- named class and 8 torpedo boats, and Sweden and Turkey each one of the latter. Italy has ordered 4 torpedo-boat destroy- ers; Japan, 1 torpedo-boat destroyer, .8 torpedo boats and 1 armored cruiser and the latest Russian order is for 3 cruisers and 4 torpedo-boat destroyers. The valus of these forty-six vessels is placed at $24,- 000,000, which means an approximate clear rofit of $5,000, to the firms of th Pards Telerred iy tha{lTe Of the threa housands of skilled and URSKiled worie men. Russia has placed orders in France for nine vessels including six torpedo boats, The Forges et Chantier de la Meditrean at La Seyne will build a battleship of 13,110 tons, 388 feet 8 inches in length, 75 feet 3 iInches beam and 26 feet mean draught, to carry four 12-inch guns, twelve 6-inch, twenty 1.8-inch and six 14- inch. Tne engines are to develop 16,300 horse power and give a speed of 18 knots. The same firm 18 also to build one arm- ored crufser of 7800 tons, 16,500 horse power and 21-knot speed to carry an armament of two 8-inch, eight 6-inch twenty 2.9-inch, and seven 18-inch guns. The dimensions of this vessel will be 442 feet 11 inches in length, 57 feet beam and 21 feet 11 inches draught. Three torpedo- boat destroyers of 185 feet 10 inches in length, 320 tons displacement with 5700 horse power and a speed of 27 knots are also to be buiit by the firm named. At Havyre a cruiser similar t. 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