The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1899. .JANUARY 16, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. " Address PEBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. P ¥R, i ‘Telephone Mafn 1868, EDITORIAL "ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is “Served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for IS cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents THE WEEKLY CALL, 18 pages OAKLAND OFFICE.. One year, by mall, $I ....e08 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, Worid Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertlsing Represcntative. “WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFKE...... iioeo...Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCE OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open unul 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open until 9:30 oTlock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strcet, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS * Monday night. wo Married: Men. —Pianka, the “‘Lady of Lions.” r Mason and Elils streets, Specialties. he Steeplechase. Track—Races to-day. Hali—Gerome Helmont, Park: side Race nan- Clay Violinist, Tuesday AUCTION SALES, anuary 16, at 10:30 a. m. Geary street. day, January 17, at 12 o'clock, STILL "IN FULL 'BLAST. HE past week in trade showed no unfavorable indications., Here in California the continued rains gave the outlook for 1809 a rosy aspect, the East a heavy foreign demand for American products kept national trade in fine tone. The busi- ress of the country, as reflected by the bank clearings, showed a gain of 34.5 per cert over the correspond- ing week in 1898, and the failures were 318, against 349 last year. “urrent opportunities for im’cst-‘ ment being better in the United States than ope, Americans are doing considerable pur- chasing in Wall street, where the best previous record | tained bullish movements has been broken, | T and i in for the transactions averaging 1,000,000 shares per day throughout the week, and, best of all, at rising quo- ta This buying is not professional, but public, as private investors are doing most of the purchas- ing. The complexion of speculation has changed, and whereas bonds have been preferred to stocks for months the transactions in the former are now d at rather easier prices, if anything. The mar- ket at present seems to be speculative rather than pe manent. Exports of wheat and cotton are still heavy, and wheat and corn both advanced slightly during the week. The iron trade is still booming, the mills are crowded with orders, and while the production in- creased 8000 tons above the estimate last week there a decrease of over 34,000 tons of unsold product in December. Further advances in quotations are noted. The wool men do not appear to be pressed for money, for they are stiffly holding their stocks | above what the engrmous supply on hand justifies. The other industries are more than holding their own, hides and leather being stiff, boots and shoes steady and the lumber trade in excellent shape, with a fine spring demand expected. All local signs are promising. While the rains are | assuring abundant crops later on, the immediate effect is a quieting down in trade, especially in the country, where muddy roads and swollen waterways interfere with transportation. But the tendency in the general run of products is toward higher prices. Beef, mut- | ton and pork have all advanced during the week, as the rains, by promising feed in the near future, encourage stockmen to hold on to their cattle and sheep, in ex- pectation of still better returns later on. Hides have gone up somewhat and are firm at the advance. Hay shows ‘a slight decline, owing to the rain; barley is | ady and oats are higher. Potatoes are scarcer at advanced quotations. Wheat has not varied much during the week. Provisions are moving off fairly at previous prices. The tendency in oils is upward. Grain bags have gone up since the rains changed the complexion of affairs. Wine, too, is firm and a fur- ther advance is expected by the local trade. But, best of all, the bankers are taking a rosy view of the fu- In a series of interviews published in The Call last week several prominent financiers expressed the opinion that henceforth more attention will probably be paid to investment in real estate, owing to the good farming outlook; as such loans, when times are good, vield better returns to capital than almost any other class of securities. The fact is the rains which ushered in the new year have revolutionized the commercial aspect of the State. The out'ook, which in December was dubious, is now brilliant; the State has had a good soaking, and with the usual spring .howers California, will again resume her place well along in the van of the onal procession. wa stea ture. Ex-Sheriff McKenzie of Napa as a prisoner in the jail over which he had presided for years presents a While the outlook for him does | not seem bright, there are many who would be glad to learn that he is the victim of circumstances and tly accused. melancholy figure. General Eagan says he is.ready to apologize to the Investigation Committee, but not to General Miles, but as he has insulted the War Department and the "“'people of the country, such an apology as he is ready to project into the situation would be inadequate. B Shafter is to be protected by a hundred policemen during his reception. There must of course be some adequate guard between him and the wrath of the Examiner. It can be noticed that the gentlemen who are cer- tain the army was supplied with good beef were not among the ones who had to eat it. e I Another woman has killed another man in San Francisco, and if this thing keeps up something ought to be done about it. % RAEE g People of California are willing to slosh around in the mud because it has beer a long time since they had had a chance. | must be said that, judged by his conduct, Speaker | wake them up to a realizing sense of what California SPEAKER WRIGHT'S TREACHERY. HE exposure which has followed Speaker TWright‘s allegation that he voted for Dan Burns in the joint Senatorial convention be- cause certain Justices of the Supreme Court favor the candidacy of that individual throws light upon a method which is often employed by the politicians to encompass their ends. . Wright's action in betraying his constituents needed explanation, and he knew it. He could not say with any prospect of being believed that his con- stituents desired him to vote for Burns. He could not, with any prospect of his sanity going unques- tioned, say that the public press or an respectable portion of it desired him to vote for Burns. He could make shadowy references to phantom “busi- ness” men who favor the candidacy of Burns, but this would bear so many evidences of fake that he was loath to employ that method of befuddling the pub- lic. So he brought to his aid the Supreme Court, a tribunal which is always out of politics and the mem- bers of which usually pay little or no attention to Senatorial campaigns. Speaker Wright's idea was to give his flop a re- spectable appearance, and he thought that if he said the Supreme Court as a body favored the election of Burns a great many people would consider that in changing his vote he had selected the best man. It was scarcely necessary to inform intelligent people that Speaker Wright's statement was false. All ob- serving persons know that the last thing the members of the Supreme Court would do would be to favor the election of such a candidate for Senator as Dan Burns. These Justices are educated, respectable men. It is their business not only to decide the disputes of civil litigants, but to see that criminals are jailed ! and justice done. For them as an organized body to favor the election of Dan Burns to the Senate would be to practically subvert the purpose of their ex- istence. Instead of adjudicating the law when ap- plied to criminals they would have entered into the business of promoting the political aspirations of those whom they are often called upon to discipline. But Wright's subterfuge shows to what lengths un- scrupulous politicians go in making what they call their “fights.” Doubtless when a member of the Legislature votes for Burns he ought to have some respectable backing. Certainly the act itself is un- justifiable. Dragging the Supreme Court into the | controversy, however, is scarcely permissible, and the criticism to which Speaker Wright is being sub- jected for his falsification is eminently proper and should be made severe. There is but one influence in the State of Califor- nia which favors the Senatorial candidacy of Burns, and that is the Southern Pacific Company. Every | other influence claiming the character of respccta-: bility is against him. The people do not want him; the newspapers do not want him; -the churches do not want him. Except a few gamblers, politicians and the railroad, nobody wants him. However, it Wright is in appropriate company. The air of re- | spectability which he has heretofore assumed havingi now been dissipated, we shall in future estimate him | at his true value. He should be known hereaiter as | Howard E. Wrong. Company to the frfit dealers of New York City ASTONISHING THE EAST. i T the annual dinner given by the Fruit Auction | a prize-fight bureau of the State House and a comic valentine of the Governor’s office.” There is a sting in these words because of their truth, and like the sting of conscience it should arouse men to right action, The Republicans of Nevada have now an opportunity to serve their party, their State and the nation by taking the lead in the contest against the corrupting forces that have so long domi- rated the commonwealth. It is a fight in which they will have the support of the great mass of the Re- publicans of California, for in this State also public indignation has been excited by the brazen boldness with which the Southern Pacific and its corrupt allies are attempting to dominate politics and elect their tools to the Senate. : 3 A terse and significant warning is given to the Southern Pacific by the Gazette in the declaration: “Never before was such ‘open disregard. shown for fl one of the speakers declared: “The fruit, trade, in the year just past, has undoubtedly been amazed | at the performance of California. We have received oranges from that Staté during every month of the| year, and when we consider that five years ago | scarcely a box of California citrus fruits could be dis- | posed of here to advantage the growth of this trade | alone is beyond the comprehension of man.” That the Eastern trade should be so much amazed | at the prodigal profusion of our fruit crops is onIy[ another evidence that they do not understand Cali- fornia. The year just past was rather a slack year | in fruit production with us, owing to the severe frost | of the late winter and the lack of spring rains. If in | that season we amazed the East we may expect ini the coming one to electrify the people over there and | is and of what she may become. With cheaper and better. transportation facilities to \ the East California could supply the markets of the | big cities with all the fruit required at every season of | the year. Moreover, the desired facilities are certain | to come. Railway improvements are going on all the time, and steadily and surely the cost of transporta- | tion decreases. Competing lines, moreover, are mak- | ing their way to the State, and their coming will have ‘l a potent effect in rendering the Eastern markets more | accessible to our fruits. £ z The outlook therefore promises that our fruit trade will furnish a series of surprises for the East. There | is nothing in the situation, however, that is “beyondi the comprehension of man.” If the Easterners will make a study of Californian conditions they will find; that the increase of our fruit trade is a natural devel- | opment and perfectly comprehensible to any one who knows the nature of the soil, the beneficent effects of the climate and the energies of our rural population. O made in Nevada against the re-election of Senator Stewart it is probable there may come something like a political regeneration of the State. Many evidences point to the conclusion that the in- dependent manhood of the people resents the can‘gf- dacy of Stewart and all that it implies. There is a growing demand that Nevada shall no longer be'a pocket borough by which non-resident millionaires may obtain seats in the Senate, but a true American State managing its own affairs and electing a man of genuine citizenship and sterling worth to represent its interests and its patriotism in the United States Senate. £ We recently directed attention to the vigor and force with which the Silver State, an organ of the | Silver party, resents the interference of Colonel Chinn of Kentucky and other outsiders in the Senatorial contest, and now comes the Reno Gazette, a Repub- lican paper, with a still more emphatic and compre- hensive utterance on the subject. In a ringing edi- torial, a column long, and every line of it full of verve and vim, that journal declares the time has come for Nevada “to place herself among the honored mem- bers of the republic” and to elect to the United States Senate a man “who is free from the badge of slavery te corporations (so prominent in the candidates of the Silver party), free from cranky fads and crooked schemes.” . % B To accomplish the great reform which means the political redemption of the State the Gazette points out that Nevada must rise above “being bribed by Black Wallace to send attorneys for the Southern Pacific to be her Senators at Washington under a NEVADA AROUSED. UT of the strong and earnest fight now being Jilson and Wright are still on the black list and show no inclination to scratch themselves subterfuge. She must rise above the contemptible career she has had under the Silver party, which has degraded the State, lowered the Supreme Court, made | We are getting some experience now in the cost of ing the policy which he now deprecatss and con- demns. When the treaty is ratified and peace is assured will | ensue a period of calm discussion and intelligent the good name of the State, for the honest convictions of citizens, for the needs of good government or for to force Sadler upon the State for Governor, with all the ills that such an administration carries with'it, object, to hire gun men from abroad to overawe us or shoot us down in our own dooryards. This is it has come to.” ‘Whatever may be the determination of the Sena- sending to the State House of Nevada not only bribers and corruptionists but notorious gun-fighters to bully far. The manhood of Nevada has revolted and the long supremacy of fraud in the politics of the State is AN IMPERIAL MISTAKE. WE are convinced that the country has been led President concerning the Philippines. The treaty of Paris provides for the payment of the sum sovereignty over the islands. There is nothing in the treaty that compels or fore- United States of the sovereignty that has been sur- rendered. It may be admitted that we were under | Spain, but that implies no obligation on our part to retain them. It is this view of the case which per- for ratification of the treaty of Paris, and thereafter consider what is to'be done. To this after considera- the people, unfermented by the enthusiasm of war and the rage for conquest. subjection. There is little in the history of colonial | administration to commend it to people who have | United States will enter as a novice, there are no | guides, there is no experience, by which the future After the treaty is ratified there are many ways in which we may with honor give up or modify our the islands have recouped us in the amount paid | Spain we may give to the people the sovereignty and | they have fought. This will take us out of Spain’s | shoes and save us the use of the strong hand, which quillity in that grchipelago. The application of power there is to be dreaded for its effect upon us, if not for common decency. ~Black Wallace comes with orders to force Stewart back upon us as Senator, and if we what it looks like and this is what the people believe torial contest the final result is sure to be good. In| the Legislature the Southern Pacific has gone too evidently drawing to a close. nto error as to the ultimate intentions of the of $20,000,000 to Spain for the surrender to us of her shadows a policy of permanent retention by the obligations to prevent the islands falling back to | mits even the most extreme anti-imperialists to vote | tion will come the aid of the sober second thought of The Filipinos no doubt object to further colonial | long endured it, and as it is a policy upon which the may be predicted. sovereignty in the Philippines. After the revenues of | self-government to which they aspire, and for which | any outside power must use if it secure internal tran- the consequences- it will inflict upon the islanders. distant administration, and are witnessing some of the demoralizing effects upon ourselves. Already in- trigues and heartburnings and rival ambitions are champing like furies in our civil and military circles, and the most hopeful and sanguine can see but little to encourage the experiment of a distant administra- tion of the affairs of ten million alien people at a dis- tance of ten thousand miles from the seat of our gov- ernment. ) The well considered speech of Senator Mason is no doubt due to the working of the sober second thought. During the last session the tendency of every utterance of that Senator was toward further- thought, and out of that may well issue a policy in line with our scheme of government, our history and the spirit of our traditions. For this every patriot can better afford to wait than the country can afford-to clinch a colonial policy now, and:wait for the costly reaction and the overwhelm- ing!disappointment which will be sure to follow. ~ The literature of the question is gathering volume every day, and information, long lacking, is enlightening the country. The commercial expectations are shown to be inflated, and when they are further examined in the light of the experience of the temperate zone | nations in the management of tropical possessions, they will entirely disappear. o —r—————— DAN BURNS' SENATE. l fications to wear the toga a National Committee should replace the Senate of the United States, and then, if elected, he would become the Committee- man from California. But even more far-reaching consequences are involved. The universities must take notice that the ages of oratory and of debate are over and that public discussions between Ameri- can s!'e‘clents are a stupid waste of time. Open trials in courts of justice should also cease, and all litiga- .tion, civil and criminal, be decided by committees, whose decrees should be formulated and awarded in secret. University training should include detailed instruction in the art of working in committees and of making the acquaintance and securing the friend-; ship of Colonel Mazuma. The text-books in the commop schools need revision, and every reference to orators and statesmen, ancient and modern, must be erased as obsolete. The rules of arithmetic can be easily adapted to the methods of calculation that prevail in political committees. The Burns plan of government, in one respect, is like the processes of creation. They are not noisy. they are.free from the turbulence of public meetings -or of ordinary legislative bodies. They end in di- visions that, unlike parliamentary divisions, occur in silence and in obscurity, and are sweetly lulling to the mind and to the conscience. F Dan Burns has correctly defined his own quali- It must be remembered that while Spain has ac- .cepted articles of peace, there have been no articles of veracity presented for her signature. ‘When women take to the habit of hanging them- selves it is manifest that the imitative faculty of the sex is almost too highly developed. —_— That portion of the Supreme Court which is at Sac- .+ “Wot's y'r pame and age and station, “Doe’—be damned—it's Poe. [Last night a seafaring personage, quaint and poetical, intoxfcated and thunderous, wan- dered into the City Prison. He gave his name as Poe—‘first name, Bill T. Sherman’—and 'his references to the “bird” of his “Cousin EQ"” have inspired the following story of the odd incident]: Once upon a “late watch,” nodding, as I heatd the kéepers *‘codding’” éne an- other on the ‘“hobos” they had caged the night before. . Suddenly there came a thumping, a loud banging and a bumping, like .a Dbattle-ship a-dumping ten-inch shells'against the door—smashing showers of mighty ten-inch shells against the door. Though 'twas hot as mid-September, every single burly member of the force shook as_he never shook before. The “Key-cop’ started quaking, all his blood within him caking, with a wavy motion making for that clanging iron door— with a queer, uncertain motion for that trembling iren door. AN, distinctly I was feeling as I heard that awful peeling, hot and cold and chill | and fever clear into my bosom core. “Do they,” I began to wonder, “often have these scenes of thunder loud enough to rip asunder this whole place from roof to floor—rip the whole shebang from roof clean down to concrete floor? “Sure,” I thought, “‘this Is some fellow full of brown-brew come to bellow through the prison for the chum they locked up several hours before; or some coin-depleted ‘Jamie,’ the sad player of a game he had tackled with a dame he trusted till she ‘rolled’ him o’er and o’er— one he met and loved and trusted till she ‘rolled’ him o'er and o’er. “Or some rounder at the wicket drunk and swearing that he'd kick it to the mid- dle of next summer if théy didn‘t ‘Ay* that door; or some bank cashier deflected | from the right and then detected, just about to be dissected by the men he'd plundered of their store—by the victims he had plundered of their hard-earned golden store. “‘Or some new official fleeing through the gloomy midnight being hot pursued by | voters he had promised jobs galore; or some warrish ‘jaggy lady’ who had chased out from the shady south-of-Mar- ket-street and made a bee-line to the jail in search of gore—to the jail in a search of some policeman’s blue red gore." Then they flung ajar the portal and a wintry looking mortal, roaring and indig- nant wafted through the open door. At | this howling visitation, filled with storm and thunderation, every “peeler” in the station left his seat and hit the floor—| hoisted from his cushioned, easy chair and struck the floor. 'Twas a weather-beaten rover of the | billow half-seas over, and many seas oft | under drifting to'rd the lock-up door— which brought the lumber was wrecked in the bay, and the work has necessarily been delayed. ™ y R. F. Lewis and wife returned from Juneau on the Queen and are at the Oc- cidental. H. W. Johnson and wife came down from Sacramento last evening and regls- tered at the California. Tom M. Sehumacher, vice-president .of | the Continental Fruit Express, arrived-at; | the Palace yesterday from:Los Apgeles and will remain in this city 'four’ weeks. Howard J. Ball, general western passen- ger ent of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, with headquarters at Buffalo, New York, {s at the Palace. With him is W. F. Holwill, general pas- senger agent of the same road in New | York, ‘who is aeccompanied by his two daughters. They came on the late Over- land last night. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The keel of the Bulwark, another bat- tleship of the Formidable type, was laid at Devonport December 17. Some of the Turkish war vessels have not been dry docked for twenty years and are consequently unfit for actual service. The Admiralty Pler extension at Dover was begun December 21, when the first pile was driven. The piles for the coffer- dam-are 105 feet in length and 20 inches square. Turkey has sent two armor-clads to Genoa to be reconstructed., The ships sent are the Messudiech and Assar-i- tewfik, and it IS contemplated - to send other ships In the course of time to be | similarly modernized. The Tkadsudchl, one of the six torpedo | boat destroyers to be built by Yarrow | for the Japanese navy, had a prelimi- nary trial on December 15, and averhiged over 31 knots with a load of thirty-five tons and seventy-eight persons on board. She is 220 feet in length, 20 feet 6 inches beam and has engines capable to work up | to 7000 horsepower. The Proserpine, third-class cruiser of 2135 tons, bulit at Devonport dock yard, made her eight-hour trial last month un- | der natural draught, developing 5000 horse | power and a speed of 19 knots. Under forced draught she is to develop 7000 horse power and 20 knots. She is fitted with | Thornycroft water-tube bollers, which were made at Keyham, The British cruiser Diadem made the voyage from Gibraltar to the Nore last| month In three days at an average speed of twenty knots an hour. This is the best | record of long distance steaming of any war vessel. The Diadem is one of eight cruisers built during the past three years of one size and type; they are sheathed | ships of 11,000 tons, 16,500 horse power and | have a speed under forced draught of | 20.5 knots. The Russian admiralty will once more endeavor to make Poti—a town lying north of Batoum—a naval station. Fifteen million dollars were expended some years | ago-to make it a safe anchorage, but the work had to be abandoned owing to not so beaten by the weather as by fate Jacky, whether wrecked awave or tossed | ashore—whether wrecked awave or tem- | pest tossed along the shore. Oh, he was an exhalation of a fervent | fermentation, swith a starboard eve in | mourning and 'his headplece battered o'er; | his slack standing gear was dragging in| his wake, thei was a bagging and a| ‘“‘down-to-leeward” "+ g<ing of the tat-| tered togs he wore—of the one-time blued “Long there's been a separation, Jack, | from any reputation you might have | had,” I muttered, “in your tender days of yore. Rudderless and lost of ‘bearing,’ | too far gone now for repalring, or for | ‘coming-to’ or ‘wearing,’ in you blow hard | on the shore—without compass, without | ‘bearing,’ in you blow hard on the shore.” | height and. color, build and nation, and W'y the divil are ye here a-banging on | me door? Can’t ye find a board to sleep on or a vacant lot to keep on, have ye | got a gun or ‘weepon’'? and I'll have none of y'r dommed roar—in me prisince,” quoth the captain, “I'll have none of y' dommed roar. “Down it goes ‘John Doe’ for eny name will fit so bad a penny, and it's the one ye gave last time and many times before. | Tell me, John, are ye a sailor, a seafar- | ing man or whaler; were ye blowed up | in a gale or did ye leave the sea and! walk ashore—dld ye jump overboard at| sea and tramp it to the blessed shore?” “Avast, belay, go bend a stopper on your jaw gear, my fine ‘copper,’ my name is known in cleaner places heretofore. Hear, man, my front name’s Bill T. Sherman, heir presumptive, cousin-german to a bird called ‘Nevermore' — bird my kinsman Edgar Allan caught and labeled ‘Never- more.’ “In fact, I'm that bird, my joker; the identical old croaker that once sat roost- ing like a buzzard up above his bedroom door. We were bosom comrades ever— (but that old tale T never care to tell)—we chaps together loved the girl known as ‘Lenore.’ But I found he was more solid with the girl known as ‘Lenore.” “I flew to sea, a crazy lover; soon my mates were cranky over my bad case. “The bloke's got wheels and off his base,’ they swore. What did that infernal crew | do? Just what men whose brains are few | do. Said I was ‘a proper hoodoo.’ Sank | me in the sea forevermore—chucked me in | the sea with ‘Denis’ as my name forever- mere. “Down in Davy Jones' haven for dead | sallors, to a raven I was changed and | I'm a blooming bird forevermore. So I through the night go flving when the ghostly winds are sighing, like a spook, a banshee crying out my title, ‘Evermore’ —a night hawk in the darkness croaking, croaking ‘evermore.’ “That's my ocean transmigration and my submarine translation—a ‘Jonah on the water and a hoodoo on the shore.’ So whether I'm a sailor, a seafaring man or whaler, or a chap blown up in a gale or walked to land, I am a ‘tough one’ ever- more—mortal or immortal, I'm a ‘tough one' evermore.” Then that raven soon was hitting the midnight road—soon was flitting down the rainy, cheerless avenue once more. For the captain stole up to him, swearing, bird or ghost, he'd *do” him—grabbed him by the neck and threw him from that open {ron door. The cops said they smelt sulphur as he shot out through the door. TOM GREGORY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. S. Solon Holl of Sacramento is at the Grand. A. L. Bell of Belfast, Ireland, 13 at ths Occldental. C. R. Tilton, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. G. Wingate, a mining man from As- toria, is at the Lick. George BE. Goodman and wife of Napa are guests at the Palace. H. Hirschfeld, a merchant of Bakers- fleld, is a guest at the Lick. J, Barnes and C. H. Wessels of Chicago are registered at the Grand. Easton Mills, the banker of San Luis Obispo, is at the Occidental. R. 8. Benhardt, a mining man of Eu- reka, {s a guest at the Grand. Ex-Judge George E. Nourse of Fresno is one of the arrivals at the Lick. H. A. French, a newspaper man of ‘Worcester, Mass., 18 at the Palace. Eugene Germain, United States Vice- Consul at Zurich, Switzerland, is at the Palace. A. W. Jones, president of the Monterey and Fresno Railroad, is at the Palace. He states that his road was about to bulid | ramento ‘touting for Burns ought to reverse itself. | cers on ‘aceount of “thelr appearanee of heavy western gales to which the road- and grog together, two dread foes of | stead was exposed. One and three-quar- | ter million dollars has been set aside to recommence the work, and Poti will be- | come a naval base for the Black Sea fleet. The French superior council of the navy, corresponding somewhat to the British admiralty, has been reconstructed. It now consists of the Minister of Marine as president, vice admirals on the active list who have been in command of squad- rons, the admirals commanding in the chief of staff, the sub-chlef having con- sultative voice. To this large number of officials are furthermore to be added the naval prefects or commanders of shore|them. In order to secure a wide trade stations. The Austrian torpedo boats Boa and Cobra recently called at Gibraltar and ex- cited the attention of British naval offi- strength. The general opinion was that there was ‘*‘more ship and less tin box'| full of machinery,” and they were con- | sidered to be eminently practical boats, | capable of standing a great deal of | knocking about without deteriofation. | These boats were built by Yarrow and | are 135 tons. 1 The French submarine boat Gustave | Zede, it is claimed, has just passed | through some successful tests at Toulon. | She is said to have torpedoed the French | armor-clad Magenta twice, once when | the latter was anchored and the second time when she was moving. The only drawback, it is pointed out, is that the eddy caused by the boat betrayed her | movements at 1500 yards in broad day-| light. The principle of the invention is | that the boat is no longer *blind,” two | lieutenants having Invented an ‘“eye,” | which facilitates submarine progress. An- other French submarine boat, the Gym- note, is now armed with torpedoes and a | third, to be named the Morse, Is to be ready in March. The Chataurenault, rated a first class cruiser in the French navy, but really a commerce destroyer like the Columbia and | Minneapolis in our navy, is approaching completion at Toulon. She was built by contract at La‘Seyne, begun May 23, 1896, i launched May 12 last, and is to be finished | next July. Her dimensions are: Length, 442 feet; breadth, 55 feet 9 inches; draught, 24 feet 6 inches, displacing 8018 tons. The hull is sheathed and coppered and the en- gines, driving three screws, are of 23,000 horse power, calculated tp give a speed of 23 knots. The armament consists of two 6.4 inch, six 5.5 inch quick firers and ten | 3 pounders, and the complement is 17 offi- cers, 10 cadets, 50 petty officers, 114 engine | room staff and mechanics and 500 blue- | jackets. The coal bunker capacity is 2100 tons and the estimated cost is $3,033,000. The United States cruiser Minneapolis is 737 tons, 20,862 horse power and 23 knot speed, carries 1891 tons of coal and has a battery ot one 8 inch, two 6 inch, eight 4 inch quick firers, -twelve 6 pounders and four 1 pounders. Her cost, including armament, was $3,849,966 4. While the Minneapolis has a heavier battery and better gun pro- | tection. than -‘the Chataurenault, the | sheathed bottom of the latter gives her | a decided advantage over the American ship in ‘ecqnomlca.l .and reliable steaming. A Warm England. _.The extremes of outdoor temperature in’England vary more‘than 122 degrees, , Theé greatest heat probably on record was | registered: in the valley ‘of the Medway on July’ 2271868, when the thermometer | © at Tonbridge stoodin ‘the shade at 10034 | degrees Fahrenheit. Eleven years later, | in December, 1879, 55 degrees of frost were recorded at’ Blackiadder, Berwickshire, i. e., 23.degrees._below: zero Fahrenheit. 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Now only 380 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at Rotel: longer stay 3§230 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San ACKER’S ENGLISH REMEDY I8 BEYOND | right. INPERILISM IS A PERIL TO - THE REPUBLL 'Able Address by Rev. J. T. Sunderland. | WHAT IT MEANS TO AMERICA | PRINCIPLES MORE IMPORTANT THAN . COMMERCE. At Present We Are a World Power for the Promotion of Human Liberty and Man’s Rights. Oakland Office San Franclsco Call, 908 Broadway. Rev. J. T. Sunderland, pastor of the First Unitarian Church, delivered an in- teresting and instructive address to-day on “Imperialism as a Peril to the Repub- lic.” In the course of his remarks he said: ‘“What is imperialism? Two definitions may be given. In the more specific and limited sense imperialism is that form of government which seeks to increase its power and dominion by the conquest (or purchase) and annexation of colonies, ruled -without their consent, as Spain ruled Cuba and the Philippines, as Great Britain rules India, as France rules 2l glers and Madagascar. s “In the more general and {inclusive sense imperialism is the rule of any peo- ple by another without the consent of .the ruled. The essence of imperialism is ruie from' without and not from within. It is government imposed upon a people by conquest ‘or superfor force, and not gov- ernment instituted and maintained itself, of its own free will, to secure its own de~ sired ends. “Thus we see that imperialism, so far from being republicanism or having any- thing in common with republicanism the exact opposite of republicanism. In its very nature it is the foe and destroyer of republicanism. One can grow only ac the other declines. One can live only ac the other dles. 1If a re?nbllc‘lnywhe{u adopts imperialistic principles or methods just in so far as it does so it ceases to be a republic. It passes from the rankr of freedom to the ranks of tyranny. if it shall happen to us In this country in | connection with the exigencles that are now upon us as a nation that we shall adopt a colonial system or a policy of national expansion which shall be in any degree imperialistic in character, that is to say, which shall set out to rule any nauo:i or people, large or small, without its congent, or for ends or by methods not of its %hoosing, then, just in so far, we shall Have given up-our republican meth- | ods and principles. “Is ouy country ready for such a change, ) such a reversal of her past history? For | one I do hot believe it. The signs at pres- | ent looking in_that direction I believe are | temporary and passing. What are the ar- | guments used in favor of imperialism, or i a national policy of expansion by annex- L |2 “EUeTeL tha: I wke: | Mediterranean and the Channel, and the | ing outlying golonies? The one that seems | to be urged much more than any other is | the necessity of trde. Trade, we are told | follows the flag. In order to get the tra | of the Philippines we must own and r the world we must build up a colonial system. “May we dispense with justice for the sake of securing trade? May we turn our ‘back upon our republican principles in or- der to get control of the subject J)eo&l_cs lwpon whom we may .force our goods? No, i,to honorable men and ' overnments—dand especially to Republican Governments— there ‘is” something higher than dollars and cents. Justice is first; honor is first; the principles of liberty for which as & overnment we stand before the world are firs!. Dollars and centS are second, and must be kept second. “But for one I believe it is not true that we need to own and govern other coun- tries in order to secure trade. The coun- try with which we have the largest trade of any in the world is England. Is it be- cause we own England? e’have a vast trade with Germany. Is it because our flag floats over Germany? We have trade amourting to $60,000,000 a year with Asia. But we do not own or govern an inch of land in Asia. “If we want increased trade with the Philippines and the world in general, ths way to get it is not by entering upon a career of military conquest and imperial- istic rule of colonies, but by attending to simple trade conditions. But there are other arguments in support of an im- perialistic policy besides that of the ne- cessities of trade. One is that it is time for us as a nation to get out of our isola- tion and become a world power. I eould inquire whether extending our commerce over the world, as we are doing, is not get(lng out of isolation? What is it to ecome a world power? Is it to be all the while on the lookout for lands to grab or weaker people to conquer? .Is there no other way to become a.werld Tower except by arms or physical force? s there no such thing as a world. influ- ence of a moral kind? Suppose we should ‘set out-to become a worl power in the direction: of peace and justicei and en- lightenment! “ Would not that be worth .our while? Is there any one who doubts that throughout all our national history thus far, we have been the greatest ex- isting world power for the promotion of human liberty and the rights of man? Is this nothing? Shall we relinquish this, to grasp -t something lower? g “There 2re even those who tell us that Dewey’s victory shows that it is ‘the will of God' that we shall hold and rule the Philippines. It is the will of God if it is Not otherwise. ‘I think few peos le fully realize what a national policy of mperialism and expansion into . distant parts of the earth involves. ‘It involves a very large increase in our standing army. Already we are asked to quadruple-pur military strength, ralsing the number. of our. regular soldiers to 100,000 instead of the 25,000 which we have had heretofore. !t]‘li? esum?ltledb!hat so.oog of these. 100,000 soldiers ~w e wanted for i ab’lr‘gadf' g ks service e speaker contended also th: nature of the case will breed endless Hiny and jobbery; the men sent abroad to ad- minister the civil affairs of our colonies will_have to be selected by the political methods commonly in vogue among us, and that means that offices will be spofls of party and spoilsmen will be too far away from home to be watched. Then toe, ‘an imperialistic policy will open the way, at more points-than we can foresee to diplomatic complications with other powers. 1In conciusion Rev. Sunderland “Finally, an imperialistic policy for the nation means abandonment of the golden rule as applying. to nations; abandonment of the principles of the Declaration of | American Independence; abandonment of the ideals of our forefathers of the revo. lution; abandonment of our whole hun dred years of advocacy as a nation before the world, that government of the people for the people and by the people, is: the only right government. “Said John Sherman, late Secretary of State, a few weeks ago: ‘My hope is that the Senate will reject the present treaty and leave the people of the Philippine fslands free from the shackles of Spain and the distant domination of the United States.” . “I believe that here is the only way, clear_and straight, out of the confusion, the difficulties and the humiliations into which as a people we have been drawn by the war and its unforeseen fssues, = This right way and the way of imperialism %e before us as a nation, asking us to choose between them. 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