The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1898, Page 6

. ; "THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1898.° ; e s S Call .....DECEMBER 29, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. Address Ali Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE ..Market and Third Sts., 5. F. Telephone Main -1865. EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 2i7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 18T4. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for i5 cents week. By mall $6 per year: per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL, 1€ page OAKLAND OFFICE. .One yegr, by mall, $i 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....... Riges Hou €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. 2 CHICAGO OFFICE...................... Marqdette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative, BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. G21 McAllister street, open untli 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o%lock. 1941 Mission street, open until i0 o'clock. 2891 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 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 Californta—*"Magda."” Columbta—Minstrel Jubllee. Alcazar—" A Midnight Bell." Tivoli—""The Yellow Dwarf." Morosco's—‘The White Squadron. Orpheurm—Vaudevill Comedy—""A Romance ‘The Chutes—Gorilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Olympia — Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Speciaities. Oakiand Race Track—Races. Metropolitan Hall—Rosenthal Piano Recital, Tuesday even- January 3. ¢ Coon Hollow." THE CEMETERY QUESTION. ing, T Tuesday's meeting of the Board of Super- fl visors the ordinance fixing January 1, 1902, as the date on which further interments shall cease in San Francisco was placed on its final passage and defeated. Devany, Sheehan, Dodge and Clinton voted to pass it; Haskins, Morton, Britt, Smith and Rivers voted against it, while Lackmann and Rottanzi visited the lobby and dodged. No reasons were as- signed for the action of the individual members. Ac- cording to all accounts there was no debate, and the order failed because the Supervisors had private rea- sons in each case for voting against it. However, the promoters of this movement need not despair at the result of their efforts so far. They have called public attention to the subject in a man- ner that cannot fail to bear fruit in the future. Four Supervisors in a board full of dodgers, politicians, trimmers and boodlers have put themselves on record as being in favor of the reform, and this, too, at a period when all public measures usually go by the | board, namely, the last hours of the legislature. The people of Richmdnd and its vicinity have every | reason to feel encouraged at the prospect. What they should now do is to prepare for a movement in force upon the new Board of Supervisors. To that body the subject will be fresh and interesting, and there is | no reason why, with a strong public sentiment be- hind them, they should not succeed in getting through an ordinance. immaterial. The point is to fix a-day on which burials in these cemeteries shall cease. That accomplished, tie rest will be ea: As soon as the cemetery lot cwners get accustomed to the idea of a change they will cease to oppose the reform. Eventually, of course, cemetery extension in San Francisco will have to come to an end. Within ten years property in the vicinity of Lone Mountain will be too valuable to justify its use for burial purposes. Some of it is already a loss to its owners. Therefore, the only tenable argument that can be brought against the position taken by the people of Richmqnd is that they have begun too soon. On this point, however, there is much to be said. For one thing, it cannot be successfully established that the time will ever come when the cemeteries can be moved more cheaply or with less difficulty than at present. Since they must inevitably be moved some time, it would seem to be good business sense to begin on them at | once. The people of Richmond should continue their agi- tation. While working for themselves they are also working for the best interests of the entire city. A WIDBER READY TO GO. T last ex-Treasurer Widber has bowed to the to make faces at it. Seeing that he must go to | the penitentiary, he expresses an anxiety to go soomn. | This is not hard to understand when it is considered that the County Jail presents a paucity of charms to the discriminating senses, and that time spent there does not count as part of the period forfeit to the State. Widber is still a young man. hope of a comparatively short stay at San Quentin, for the deductions for good behavior are generous, and there is always, for the gross offender, whose stealings have been of impressive size, the prospect of pardon. Neither is the future all dark. It may be that when he shall emerge from confinement his fel- low citizens will want to thrust political honors upon him. What more probable than that he will deemed fitting candidate for the place of boss, and later find that if he desire a toga all he has to do is to ask for it? 5 However, an experience in one jfiil only will hardly place him on a footing such as Burns now occupies. Burns, it must be remembered, has been the inmate of three jails, for three separate crimes, and in two republics. Widber can only plead that while his va- riety of experiences is more limited, he has done a lenger stretch, and perhaps he will be regarded as suited to the emergency, 4 b e 5 The Memphis shoplifter sentenced to three vears should sue her attorney. His neglect to establish her as the possessor of a case of: kleptomania cannot be excused. . X : SRS L o2 It can hardly be said that the Kansa: Legislature b-s been called in extraordinary séssio.. . Any ses- sion of that Legislature is recognized as extraor- dinary. 3 _Colonei Bryan had not been a civilian more than twenty-four hours before he .was \_xnder- fire, an_ex- perience which six months in the army failed to give him. As ardent as he is in support of anti-expansion, it must pain J. Sterling Mortofi of Nebraska to find himseli agreeing with Bryan. i In his inability to keep a Cabinet together; Aguin- aldo exhibits the statesmanlike qualities of an Old World diplomat.- g The actual date of closing is | inevitable instead of longer hiring legal talent | He can fairly buildl be | OUR SEMI-CENTENNIAL. AST winter The Call editorially suggested the L holding of a great exposition in this city in 1900-1901 in celebration of the semi-centennial anniversary of California’s admission into the Union. Acting thereupon a committee on preliminaries was appointed and organized, and many prominent citi- zens came to the front with their approval of the project, expressed in interviews published in our columns. The subject is now renewed by members of that committee with a spirit indicative of the growth of determination and set purpose to push the | project. to a conspicuous success. Pride in personal record and family history is a manly sentiment which safeguards the good order of | | society. Pride in the story of one’s State, in the recollection of its distant beginnings, in the men who laid its foundations, in the workers who have wrought to convert its natural resources into wealth, is a high element in the progress and prosperity of a com- monwealth. 4 Surely no'State more deserves such pride than ours, and no people are more capable of giving to' it the most impressive expression. When. the variety of our resources is considered, there is no part of the world with such a field of pro- duction to illustrate. Minnesota builds an Alhambra | of ice, Iowa a palace of corn, Illinois a castle of coal, Pennsylvania one of iron and steel. These illustrate | either an object of novel interest or the great industry | which is the main dependence of the people of those States. If that industry fail, or that resource cease, their foundations are disturbed and their people dis- | quieted by the agonies of a change to something else that will support population and commerce. It is not so with California. Here we can build palaces of the cerdals, of coal, of gold, silver, copper i and quicksilver, dug from our mines; of wine of many vintages and varieties; of oil ripened in our olive orchards. We can raise walls of onyx, marble, granite, sandstone, slate, basalt, soapstone and asbestos. We can build of the greatest variety of coniferous woods found in association and growing | from the same soil, in any part of the world, and we can ornament them with the greatest variety of ve- | neering woods found anywhere together. We can pile up pyramids made of 400 different varieties of grapes, luscious in many colors, and can fringe and ornament the structure with the guava, pomegranate, | date, banana, loquat, medlar and the Japanese kaki, the fruit of the gods. In association with these may be shown our great commercial deciduous fruits, the ;pcach in fifty varieties, the apricot, nectarine, cherry, | prunes and plums of so many sorts that they need | a separate catalogue. We can build a miniature city of twenty varieties of the orange, lemon and lime, the shaddock, grape fruit and citron, and can scent the scene with the cinnamon shrub, the camphor tree and the bay. California licorice and ginger, cotton and honey, our apples, almonds, walnuts, wine berries, and bewildering variety of what field and garden yield, | can be added to show the vast reach and range of our | resources and prove to the world that here is a| | Iaboratory in which- nature enables man’s labor to | produce from the soil and from the mine so much of use in commerce that no man can say which industry in the future may lead the rest, where so many offer themselves to the varying tastes and capacities of | man as a means of making a living and supplying the | wants of distant people. : | |~ Add to these the foreign production in which we | deal and for which we exchange our surplus, and the ! handiwork of our mechanics and shipbuilders, and the products of the sea, from herrings to whales, and the mind is almost stunned by the display made pos- sible in this fifty-year-old State. Rightly managed ‘?such an exposition will draw people from all over the world, and will fix California more firmly than ever in the attention of the nations. | When political turmoil needs a vacation in the | Legislature this subject should be brought to the at- | tention of that body, and along the lines of a definite plan it should extend such preliminary encburage- ment as is needed, and the mighty project should be- gin at once to take form and shape EXPANSION MENACES WHITE LABOR. N Monday last The Call invited public atten- O tion to the fact that it had been asserted by the Chronicle that the Philippines would neces- !sarily become a part of the territory of the. United | States, and the inhabitants “not subjects, but citi- zens,” and “on an equal footing” with ourselves. As a consequence of this status of the Filipinos it was pointed out that they would have a constitutional right, of which they could not be deprived, to travel | to all parts of the United States, and that the Chinese exclusion law would thus be virtuaily repealed and the | whole country open to cheap labor. The Chronicle of Tuesday . contained a long answer to our brief exposition of the situation, in | which our legal position is admitted, but its conse- | quences denied, on the ground that the Filipinos | will not avail themselves of their right to migrate, but | will stay at home. This is a practical confession of | the substance of the article to which the comment of | the Chronicle is directed, and an illustration of the | numerous inconsistencies with which the expansion- ‘ists are confrorited. “They can migrate, but they | won't,” is the pith of the argument. The main con- | tention being thus conceded, the prediction will have | but Tittle weight with citizens who realize that where | cheap labor is wanted and cannot be lawfully ex- | cluded it will be speedily obtained. Capital has never yet failed to provide for the transportation of | laborers when the national bars were let down. | It is said that the Mexican peons do not cross the ! boundary line and invade the United States. In the zfirs} place. it is not true that “the peons are the same kind of people as the Filipinos.” But, in the second place, Mexico is not a part of the United States, and therefore -the attempted analogy is absolutely false. If Mexico were conquered and annexed, then the question of the peons would come to the front. The proposition that there has been no “inrush of Chinese_and Japanese from Hawaii” is equally un- sound. -The number of the Asiatics there is limited, ‘and Hawaii has not yet received a territorial organi- zation, and, therefore, it has not passed under those | guarantees of civil rights applicable to territories, which are permanently secured by positive law. When the work of zhe late commission has resulted in legis- lation and the new territory is finally’ organized, and not before, there will be an opportunity to determine whether the Chinese and the Japanese will avail them- | sélves of their right to migrate to other parts of the | Union. It has béen repeatedly shown that there are more inhabitants to the square mile in the Philippines than in the United States. If, with our comparatively limited population and with our enormous wealth, ac- cumulated under the constitution, we need outlets so badly' that to secure them even the destruction of our form of government can be condoned, how much greater reciprocity of advantage would the Filipinos gzin in their new capacity of “fellow citizens!” But the Chronicle doubts the sincerity of The Call and betrays its old infatuation for “sugar.”” Its di- sweetness which is so agreeable to the palate, does not meet the plain truth that its attitude on the ques- tion of the acquisition and government of the Philip- pines is false to protection, which is a method of keeping up wages, and false to the laborers and me- chanics of the country, who are unwilling to have Chinese, Malays, and all the other elements of the dense population of the Philippines enrolled as com- petitors among their “fellow citizens,” with polygamy and paganism as social and religious institutions. This is an American and not an Asiatic republic, which has not so far been deprived of its constitution and converted into an empire, nor made subordinate to the colonization policy of Great Britain. The de- vices of the speculators who are willing to subvert their own government and to ruin their own country in order to drain the pockets of nine or ten millions of Asiatic pagans and polygamists have not yet quite succeeded, and the flag still waves “o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” THE DEATH OF SENATOR MORRILL. ENATOR MORRILL'S death will not strike S the country with such a sense of loss as would have been felt had it occurred when he was in the prime and vigor of his life. He had lived far be- yond the ordinary period of human life, and doubtless seemed to many younger men to be a veteran lagging superfluous on the stage. Under such circumstances his death does not come as a shock. He has passed away full of years and honors, his lifework fully com- pleted, leaving behind a memory which will long be cherished by the people he served. Notwithstanding his great age, however, the death of Senator Morrill is a distinct loss to the nation at this juncture. He was one of the conservative and constructive statesmen of the Senate. His political sagacity and wisdom had ripened with his years, and to the last showed no signs of decay. Such men are always needed under all forms of government, and they are particularly needed at this time in the United States, when so many radical innovations from fiat money to imperial extension are threatening the wel- fare of the nation and have so much support in Con- gress. It was the fortune of Senator Morrill to act a con- spicuous and important part in the great epoch of our history which transformed a Federal Union of more or less discordant States into a true nation; a period, moreover, marked by such progress that the popu- | lation increased from 28,000,000 to upward of 70,000,- 000, and the wealth and industries of the people ex- panded to a magnitude that was never dreamed of at the time he entered public service. During his career he was an able leader and a wise counselor in the settlement of all the complex is- sues of the war or growing out of it. His main work, however, was along the lines of financial and tariff legislation. On all questions of that kind he was one of the most learned experts in Congress and spoke with authority. His influence was potent in uphold- ing sound principles of finance, and it is in this re- | spect he will be most missed, for the currency prob- lem remains to be solved, and his continued presence inn the Senate would have conduced strongly toward a rightful and sagacious conclusion of the issue. A great and good and wise statesman has taken from the council of the nation, and Vermont will find it difficult to replace him with an equally worthy successor. The country, Lowever, remember- ing past services, will not be forgetiul of his teach..ig, and his influence will remain for many years in the Senate as a conservative and patriotic force. He is, therefore, not wholly lost to the nation he so ar- dently loved, so devotedly served, and from his tomb he still directs the people into the safe paths of peace and prosperity. BOTKINESE EMOTION. _CONTEMPORARY has taken to portraying A for the edification of its readers daily the emo- tions which surge through the bosom of the Botkin woman when witnesses make remarks per- sonal to herself. Without the least desire to discour- age enterprise or handicap a harmless form of Iunacy, we are bound to say that the information is not valuable. Botkinese emotions do not concern the public. In fact, it is callous to them. Its desire is to learn whether the woman is guilty of murder, and this is not to be ascertained through conning any vapid comment of her own. Tuesday there was on the stand a woman who is re- puted to have stolen from the prisoner the valuable affections of the male Botkin, and the prisoner freely expressed distaste for the person, presence and gen- eral tone of the lady. All this the contemporary sets forth at considerable length. Well, who cares? There is more than a suspicion that the plump Mrs. Botkin has done some stealing of a similar sort. her family was invaded, so was the Dunning family If another had borne away as a prize the love of Bot- kin, she swiped that of Dunning, such as it was, and dishonors would seem to be easy. The prisoner talks too much. She does not seem te realize it, but every display she makes of her tem- perament increases the prejudice against her. If she lack the judgment to keep her mouth shut she should hire one more lawyer to give her advice on this point alone. e e South Dakota cattlemen killed a sheep herder, were acquitted on the ground of self-defense, and then pre- sented the widow with $1000 in gold. It is impossible tc judge whether this was considered by her as suffi- cient recompense, but in some instances it would have been a palpable excess. Merchants are right in their opposition to the hideous signboard surmounting a one-story building at Bush and Kearny. The building, even stripped of the lumber monstrosity, would be bad enough to keep down the price of realty. As there are fifty-nine prisoners in the Kansas peni- tentiary under sentence of death, and as a bill is to be introduced forcing the Governor to sign the death warrants of all, it may be judged that there is a flutter along murderers’ row. For the offense of being a “badger” a New York criminal has been sentenced to nineteen years, but as to his female accomplice, the jury disagreed, a cir- cumstance demonstrating the utility of having a pretty face. e gl The saloon-keeper who sold whisky to three boys, the liquor nearly killing one of them, deserves to be deprived of his license and put in a place where a license would be useless to him if he had it. The San Quentin guard who followed the injunc- tion, “Search the Scriptures,” and found them packed with opium, didn't do much to forward missionary work at the penitentiary. < The actress whose sealskin was torn to rags by a rival seems too displeased to be grateful for the fact that she was not inside the garment at the time. There is something to ponder ‘over in the fact that Jockey Sloan has a bigger income than the President i version among the canes, however, in search of the of the United States. ; been | If | PASSING OF THE To the Editor of The Call: So many of those who have been voting with the People’s party, but who at the last election, with myself, supported the Re- publican ticket, have asked me whether 1 intended to take steps to reorganize the party, that I deem it best to an- swer all such inquiries at once through your columns. That party was com- posed of men previously identified with other political parties. The attempt in 1898 to finally annex it permanently to the Democratic party was equivalent ta dissolution and fully warranted ail who like myself were former Republicans in returning to and renewing their al- legiance to the Republican party. It is apparent that the main support of the People’s party came from those who thought free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one a desirable policy. A re-examination of this matter has led me with many others to modi- fied views upon the subject. The chair- man of the Omaha convention, Hon. H. D. Loucks, has returned to the Repub- lican party. Statesmen, jurists, and even scientists, find it necessary to re- vise or reverse their former opinions. To abandon error when it is seen is a virtue, a duty. To adhere to it is a T. V. CATOR. | vice and a lack of true courage. Mr. | Bryan says that the fundamental or | scientific basis of independent free ¢ | age at sixteen to one consists in giving to the debtor the option to pay debts in either coin; that if he have this op- tion he will pay in the cheaper metal, and by thus increasing the demand | raise the price and draw the value of | the metals together, and keep them at a parity; but if the creditor have the | option to demand the payment in gold this, by increasing the demand, draws the value of the metals apart. This proposition has not been proven tu be sound, but it does not require discus- sion here, for we find Mr. Bryan, in his celebrated Chicago convention speech, stating that it is not the pur- pose of the free silver advocates to pay gold debts in silver. Right here we have a paradox. There are several thousand millions of private debts in the United States, written payable | specifically in gold. If these debts are not payable in silver (and it is admitted they are not) then it is impossible that the debtor as to this enormous indebt- edness should have the option. The op- tion remains with the creditor and upon Mr. Bryan's own statement or dic- trine this must draw the metals apart, send gold to a premium and thereby suspend its circulation and place us at once upon a silver basis and contract the currency by the amount of gold in use. The country has decided against free coinage of silver and has justified the position taken by the National Re- publican party upon the question of | coinage. Free silver men frequently | urge that gold and silver are equally | recognized as money by the constitu- }lion. A limited amount of silver can | be used as money at the present ratio without driving out gold, but no coun- try where there is independent and un- limited free coinage of silver is able to maintain gold in circulation as money. Such countries have silver monometal- | lism. This would be the case in the United States. The conclusion is ir- resistible that the cause which pro- | duces this must operate alike in all countries regardless of their volume of commerce As such free coinage would therefore drive out gold the constitu- tion, in recognizing gold and -silver, must have contemplated the use of sil- ver in a manner which would keep gold in circulation as money and experience has shown that this can only be done when gold is the standard. Upon the question of maintaining the national banks of issue the Democratic party is seriously divided, but those who favor abolishing such banks as banks of issue favor a return to the system of issuing currency by State banks. The Chicago platform of 1896 was upon request of Mr. Bailey of Texas purposely modified in committee so as to permit this construction and the Democratic Legislature of Georgia has recently authorized the issue of currency by State banks and directed a test of the national tax which prevents such issue. This is a retrograde policy. As between the Republican policy fa- voring national banks of issue and such Democratic policy the Republican poli- cy should be supported. As to issues of additional greenbacks redeemable upon demand, such a policy must con- template a suspension of specie pay- ments or a perpetual increase in bonds issued to obtain means for redemption. ‘We have had abundant opportunity to observe tha. such legal tender notes which any holder may present to the treasury at once for redemption con- stitute an endless chain which com- pels the Government upon occasions to constant issue of bonds and purchases of gold to keep the pledge of redemp- tion. This is bound to occur as often as there is the least suspicion that such legal tenders may not be equivalent to gold. There can be no doubt that the legal tender notes have for a long time been maintained at a parity with gold only by the policy of -the treasury to pay goid for legal tenders upon de- mand therefor. This action of the treas- ury is warranted by the express policy of the law as declared in the act of 1893 to maintain the parity between gold and silver and it is not apparent how this policy can be safely changed while such legal tenders remain out- standing and subject to such redemp- tion. As to such other schemes for the issue of money as do not contemplate cain redemption they could not be law- fully adopted withaut an amendment to the Federal constitution. The legal ten- | der cases at utmost have only decided that when the Government issues its promise to pay in coin it may impress legal tender quality upon such a prom- ise. Such system of money cannot he ‘ladapted to the competitive system of | and Thomas V. Cator Writes Its Valedictory and Tells Why He and Others Iave Returned to the Re- publican Fold. PEOPLE'S PARTY. industry and commerce. The system of money based upon a fixed standard of redemption accepted by commerce | is logically adapted to the established | system of industry. The present order | of industry and its means of exchange have grown and developed together for centuries and have reached their pres- ent position by the consensus of the commerce and industry of the leading nations of the world, and are so adapt- ed and cemented together that they cannot be separated without revolu- | tion in the order of industry. It is for | this reason that the gold standard is | an accomplished fact. The movement for free coinage of silver and new sys- tems of money grew out of falling prices and the increase of the unem- ployed. Now a more careful examina- tion of this matter has led me to con- clude that the money question is not | the important factor in such resuit but that falling prices and displac ment of labor are to be attributed al- most entirely to improved methods cf production and distribution of pro- ducts, and this brings me to consider the question of production by corpora- tions or associations employing im- mense capital. The managers of the Democratic party are dropping the silver issue, and now propose tQ pretend to the people that the Republican party 1S responsi- ble for the fact that business enter- prises which employ large capital can produce and distribute products more cheaply than can be done by concerns with small capital, and that the Demo- cratic party will reverse this matter. This claim is wholly unfounded. The Democratic managers call these busi- ness associations “‘trusts.” As a mai- ter of fact, most of them are simply a single corporation with large capital. ‘Where separate concerns agree to act in restraint of trade they can be en- joined, and the Republican party hs been active in making and enforcing | laws to this effect, like the Sherman | law, under which some great combina- tions have been dissolved, but this can- not prevent the same persons from con- solidating their capital and business in one corporation or partnership to do the very same thing, and for this reason most so-called “trusts” are no longer such, but are in lawful form, and ull| may easily assume the lawful form; | nor is there any method by which men can be prevented from so doing unless it be proposed to enact laws absolute- ly forbidding individuals from engag- ing more than a small amount of capi- | tal in any given business or enterprise. This would be retrogression, and ths nhwgical destruction of all great enters prises; it would be industrial and com- mercial anarchy. The Republican party | is not responsible for the development | of those so-called “trusts.” It has done all that statute law can do in the mat- | ter. It might as well be said that| party was responsible for a department | store; or for the fact that a man, o» | men, who purchased 10,000 acres of land and by the use of steam plows, com- | bined harvesters and large capital can | produce wheat more cheaply than a| farmer without capital or improved | machinery can produce it on a small | farm. The fact is, that great capital | by producing practically the entire out- | put of a product can utilize land, labor, machinery, material and distribution so | as to undersell any small producer, and | | this inevitably leads to such combina- tion. This is clearly not the result of any statute law, or any party policy. It is the natural evolution of industry | and the course it thus takes under in- | dustrial law has been long seen and | predicted by great thinkers of the world. It is apparent from this that the proposed declaration of the Demo~ cratic managers against so-called “trusts,” or combined capital in pro~ duction and distribution, is to be a mere empty political harangue, an- other effort at a new and false issue. It often happens that persons of a generous nature believe that the hard- ships of life that so many undergo can be easily remedied, and under this im- pulse it is easy to mistake the mani- fold causes of a condition and to seek to apply a false remedy and to arraign | conservative organizations as the cause and protector of existing evils. But it| is not easy to find remedies for these| things. Notwithstanding the excellence | of natural law, nature presents many | enormous evils, or things that so ap- | pear. The best efforts of labor are| at times destroved by floods, droughts, | hurricanes, blizzards, frosts, disease of | herds and destructive pests. Famines ravish nations and valuable cargoes are shinwrecked by the elements. We see | and lament these things, but who can | suggest the remedy? & “g“_e observe in the evolution of so- clety and industry a natural law so | operating that great capital by produc- | ing more cheaply than small capital | advances to the entire control of a| given line of business it is unjust to | charge any political party or class of | men with this result. It is not true| therefore that the Republican party is| the friend of syndicates or combined | capital in any sense save that it de-| clines to promise that which no party | can perform, or to attempt to move | against the laws of industrial evolution i and by false remedies produce reac- | tion and enormous injury without ac- | complishing any good whatever. It is| not certain that this evolution of in- dustry is unfortunate. Evolution is scientific. Sclence is true, hence the evolution of industry cannot be bad in | a universal view. It must not be for- gotten that good frequently.evolves through things apparently evil. In progress along the line of matural law apparent evils find their own remedy. One thing is certain, repression of evo- lution is no remedy, but is an impossi- bility. But it is claimed by Demaocrats that free trade will prevent these vast enterprises. This claim is without | merit. These so-called trusts exist in England. Free trade will permit for- eigners to seil goods in our markets made by cheaper labor, at less than cost of production here, and this could destroy these large industries or reduce the wages of labor, but it could not put concerns with small capital upon their feet again, for these have already been displaced by the fact that combined | capital produces more cheaply than| they could. How then shall they exist | under free trade in the still cheaper production from other countries? The Republican party has elevated to the Presidency men who have sprung from the ranks of labor and many of these have commanded a world-wide admira- tion for wise statesmanship. It is a party of progress and within its ranks there is liberty of thought and expres- sion. Manifestly when its highest coun- cils have spoken its policy for the time is defined and its members acquiesced. Its platform pledges can be realized because Impossible matters are not promised and the party is not rendered impotent by fatal division. Great questions are pressing for solution which require ability, patriotism, cour- age and patience. That the country must look to the Republican party to solve these questions in their proper order seems beyond doubt. That party is not lacking in sympathy for poorly paid toilers or thé worthy unemployed. The masses which compose the party, including the wealthiest in its ranks, are full of compassion for all suffering or injustice, and while properly declin- ing to arouse false hope or to attempt dangerous impracticable remedies, they | from $1.50 to $9.50; are willing and desirous that the very best possible conditions may be reached, to this end I believe they are ever ADVERTISEMENTS. Lady Londongerry Has had quite a reception in Pattosien’s great two-acre store the past week—and you wouldn’t think it! Yes; Lady Londonderry’s “Rory O’More” Rockers have taken this town by storm, and indeed the State by storm, for that matter, for the wholesale orders are coming in so fast that it keeps the shipping clerks busy ! all the time on ‘‘Rory O’Mores.” And why it is hard to see. The “‘Rory”’ Rocker is in mahogany or golden oak finish, Xrim‘mtzd or plain—that’s all. The price runs several de- signs, to be sure; but Pattosien’s don’t boast of it. They have rockers just as good, but nobody wants anything for $1.50 but a “Rory O’More.”” The company is sorry they ever mentioned it, though, because it cost consider- able money to get the beautiful de- signs of Lady Londonderry. Now, to think it over, they find that the “Rory O’More” Rockers are standing in the way of all the other rockers of high-class, but of course not of the same unique and correct design, for be it known that the “Rory O’More’’ is the most reposeful ‘rocker ever human form fell into. The Pattosien Company directs very particular attention this week to their stock of Carpets— New Carpets—in frésh patterns, weaves and effects—Carpets the like of which you can’t find any- where in this city at anywhere near Pattosien’s prices. Axmin- sters, Velvets, Brussels, Ingrains, Linoleums, Oilcloths, Genuine Wilton Velvets (mind you, not the printed stuff), at $1, sewed and laid, instead of $1.20; Reversible | Brussels, a yard wide, 75c, instead of $1; Smith’s Tapestries, 50c, instead of 65c. Cor. 16th and Mission Sts. patiently saying in their hearts, “Lead, kindly light.” The more I have studied society the more I have become impressed with this important fact.” It is not true that the managers of vast enterprises are mere worshipers of money. They man- age their industries upon the same principte adopted by every man who does any business. They seek to ob- tain a good profit. Every man who invests or loans $100 does the same. It is not a matter of choice with an em- ployer in industry whether he will pay better wages than another. The mo- ment he pays more than another in the same line of business that other can and will produce more cheaply and un- dersell and bankrupt the payer of higher wages. I am convinced that the proper solution of grave questions requires more charity as to the motives of men. I also favor supporting the Republican party in its attitude upon the questions arising out of the late war. It is amusing to hear men say it is against our policy to acquire ter- ritory by conquest. We planted our flag in the capital of Mexico and ‘ac- quired California by conquest and une der a treaty of peace in the same man- ner that we now acquire territory from Spain. When we did this the shortest route of commerce to California was sea, as it still is to Alaska. The that laws cannot be made for a peo- ple, unless they all take part regardioss of fitness. has no foundation in our sys- tem; some of our States exclude illiter- ates, all exclude all persons under 21 years. ‘We have always determined who are competent for self-govern< ment. “Imperialism” just now is much used as a word of euphony. One Republican Postmaster General has recommended to Congress a postat telegraph; anether, placed in the Cabt- net by President McKinley, has recom- mended postal savings banks. This shows that the Republican party does not hesitate to elevate to high and re- sponsible trust men of advanced ideas. The last Republican State convention in California declared for a system of public irrigation bv. State and national enterorise, which is in line with what I have advocated for. yea: For the reasons stated and many others that might be stated I am convinced rhat the cause of human prosress can bese be advanced by remaining with the Re. publican party. THOMAS V. CATOR. San Francisco, December 27, 1508, a Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsends.® Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alen’s). 510 Mont- gomery street. 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