The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1899, Page 6

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HERE is journalism and journalism. Let it be | admitted that the control of publicity by a news- paper can be abused, and is often abused. But sistently abused it carries its own remedy in ¢ loss of reliability and sacrifice of public‘ i en per 1ce. | on was much subjected to mere pcrsonal‘ abuse by the press-of his day, but when solicited in easures to limit the freedom of the press, t it might be shorn of the power to abuse jom, he responded that as between govern- | in or that mer the without freedom of the press, and freedom of | ress without government, he preferred the latter. e House 2 mento has passed a bill affixing canor penalty to the publication of cartoons in a newspaper. It has been urged to passage by in members whose experiences in public life have | ded cartoon attacks on them that were without | the element of humor and, as they conceive, \\'cre'i merely malicious and malignant. These members | seem to be unaware that as far as these cartoons were | ous they were without influence upon the cartoon that is extravagantly malig- ‘coffin handbill” circulated against An- | n, that does not graphically represent a really ineffective, and no upright man has truth, ever been permanently harmed by it. The injury has aiw; been reactive in its nature and has fallen upon the paper itseli When Samuel J. Tilden entered upon the prosecu- tion of Tweed and Tammany in the Courthouse by which $29,000,000 had been stolen from the | ers, his most powerful coadjutor was Thomas , the father of American cartooning. His pic-: of Tweed had in them the element of humor, together with a savage sense of justice, and did more tc break the power of Tweed over public opinion than anything else. The Tammany Judges, even, flinched in protecting their patron in the presence of Nast's ayenging pencil. The lampoon long preceded the cartoon. It was used in leaflet form. That prince of pamphleteers, William Cobbett, was also the master of lampoon- ing, but his art was used in the merciless flaying of those who deserved to be flayed, and it did not em- barrass his advancement to respectable literary repu- tation, even when his talent as a lampooner appeared in his “History of the English Reformation.” Butler's Hudibras is nothing more than a lam- poon in doggerel, and to Hogarth’s illustrations pub- lished in it may lie precisely the same objections which members of the Legislature make to the news- | paper cartoon. That the caricatures of Gilbert, issued in London in sheets, before the processes for printing pictures in newspapers were invented, were useful in their day in exposing the follies and vices of the Eng- lish court and the corruptions of politicians, was a fact of current acknowledgment, and after a century has gone by they are now accepted as a valuable part of the history of the time in which they were issued. There is no doubt that his whimsical and malicious cartoon of Burke drawing a dagger and flinging it upon the floor of the House of Commons as the | climax of a speech annoyed that statesman, but it did not affront him hali as much as the exclamation of a fellow member, “Yes, there's the knife, but where's the fork?” The reputation of Burke, however, sur- vived both. That the reading public discriminates in its accept- ance of cartoons, and, while discriminating, desires and does not repudiate their use, is proved by their popularity, which required the founding of art schools of newspaper illustration. This general fact may be affirmed of the practice, that no upright and strong man whose injury would be harmful to society and the State by abridging his usefulness, was ever hurt by a cartoon, while -many a rascal whose exile from public life is a distinct pub- Iic benefit has been run to cover by them. The Califormia Legislature cannot afford to pass a law that would have taken from the pencils of Ho- garth, Leech and Nast their power and usefulness. It cannot in justice to itself affirm that the people are without judgment and sense. It cannot, in view of its own reputation, afford to say that its members are s0 vulnegable or so weak that they can be destroyed by a picture. Therefore, it will rise above the importunities of a few whose thin skins have been punctured by a pen- cil point, and will aseribe to the people their just merit of the power to sift evidence, whether in words or pictures, and reach a just conclusion. i e s s The bill for extension of the seawall southward has not passed the Senate, but merely to a third reading. However, the merits of it are so generally recognized Call SUNDAY""'“-~--~~-»-.»..JAXUARY s L ~ | Speaker Wright. that it is not expected to encounter any serious ob- stacle when put upon its final passage. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. JANUARY 29,.1899. THE CALL VINDICATED. S we have often said heretofore, it is not a pleasant task to go sternly and firmly to the duty that fell to The Cal] in the case of . A It would be a pleasure to know that in the legisla- tive incidents collateral to the election of a Senator there was no call to such a duty as we have had put Its discharge has been unaffected by any personal rancor, and we have been vindicated by the upon us. report of the investigating committee, in the appoint- ment of which we had no choice, and by an investiga- tion that The Call did not direct nor influence even in the calling of a witness, except by a plain statement of truth and facts made by Mr. Leake, which of | necessity divulged the lines along which the investi- gation must follow, if projected in the direction of the resolution which ordered it. In Mr. Leake’s tes- timony he very carefully separated the information which was primary and secondary. The latter, being hearsay, was given only its legitimate place in the rarrative, and, as is the fate and fortune of secondary evidence, some of it has been affirmed and some has been denied by subsequent revelations. This primary evidence has been vindicated to the letter. Not a jot of it stands impeached, and the conclusion reached unanimously by the committee stamps it with the offi- cial seal of perfect credibility. That testimony presented Wright in the attitude of a conscript in the Burns camp and a spy and confi- | dence operator in the ranks of Bulla, a hired and paid parasite of Grant, and a suppliant to The Call for help and confidence which he betrayed. We put the coat on the back of this man, and the committee report is that it fits him and it will stay buttoned to him alwa, What we have done in the matter was for the honor of our State and party. The good name of neither can long survive such conduct as Wright's. The | committee has appreciated this and did not evade its | duty to cut to the line. But the report tells more than it tells. It paints Wright as he is, sneaking into five antagonistic camps, swearing allegiance to five antagonistic poli- cies, making himseli a polygamist of pledges and | plighted faith and binding implications. Having be- trayed The Call, after seeking voluntarily our help in his ambitions: - having betraved Grant, after taking his mn;wy: having betrayed Bulla, after using his friends ‘as a footstool to the Speakership, does any one believe that this five-ply intriguer inscribed his name on the Burns black list from any innocent mo- tive> Does any one believe that virtue rose in him ! and took his hand and led him into the Burns camp | and washed his sins of betrayal away? Such a belief | would be inconsistent with common sense. Picking | up votes by pledges to/Bulla, and influence by volun- | tary promises to The Call, and money by professing support of Grant, what did he pick up by crawling into the Burns tent under the canvas? The situation illuminates the Burns campaign and exposes it as mercilessly as if words and phrases had been used to do it by the committee. To those who hope for a Republican future, for the good name of the State, for the elevation of public life and honor in high places, The,Call sends greeting and warning that the fight for these is not won until it is won. We are merely the instrument of public | opinion in making that fight. The people must sup- port it. Speaker Wright may be plucked from his chair by the hand of justice, or he may sit there to defile the place, as the people choose to have it. We believe they don’t desire to share his disgrace by per- mitting its parade in a high station, and it is for them to burst through the asbestos of selfishness and design which encrusts the carcasses of managers, touts and tools at Sacramento and insist that judgment fall upon | this culprit to the end that fear may fall upon any who @ COMING VISITOR. would imitate him. ROM a personal letter received from the Hon. [:Johu Barrett, late United States Minister to Siam, it is learned that Lord Charles Beresford, now on his way home from an extended tour of the Orient, will probably be in San Francisco at some time during the month of February, and Mr. Barrett suggests that arrangements be made to invite him to | address the Chamber of Commerce upon the possibili- ties of commercial extension in that part of the world. The reason for the suggestion is the growing impor- tance of the Oriental trade, and Lord Beresford's ac- curate knowledge of the situation there. He has just made a prolonged visit to China for the purpose of investigating the political, industrial and trade con- ditions of the people, and Mr. Barrett says, “No other prominent foreigner has had such opportunities for getting at the truth.” Our interests in the trade of the Orient are so great that no opportunity of learning the latest phases of the situation should be neglected. It is unquestion- able that a2 man of Lord Beresford’s known ability, who has made a comprehensive study on the spot of the trade affairs of Chinese ports, can give us much information that will be of value to us. Mr. Barrett has been one of the most zealous offi- cials who have represented the United States abroad. ‘While in Siam he was ever vigilant in watching for commercial chances, and pronipt to report them as soon as discovered. His letter shows that he is_still as keenly interested as ever in such issues, and de- sires to arouse in San Francisco the energy needed to profit by them. The eminent position held by Beres- ford in Great Britain entitles him to distinguished consideration when he arrives in this city, and it would be doubly gratifying to obtain from him an address on a subject of so much importance to our commercial welfare as that which Mr. Barrett sug- gests. s ] It now appears that it was Miller of San Francisco and not Merrill who introduced the bill for the im- prisonment of debtors. Being thus absolved from the responsibility of this act, Mr. Merrill may yet be brought to a proper realization of his obligation to Mexican Burns on account of those railroad tickets. PR Senator Cutter need not at this late day howl that there were no Grant men on the investigating com- mittee. The Grant men had every opportunity to be represented, and declined. Sl . If there are any Senatorial candidates who can demonstrate that Wright had not promised to support them, they will have on hand plenty of raw material for a boom. Wright was one of the presiding officers of the joint session yesterday, but there is nothing in the report to show that he looked happy, AMERICANISM VERSUS IMPERIHLISM, HE rise of Americanism against the Imperialists was at first slow, but it is now rapidly spread- ing and becoming more and more effective. Its latest expression in both houses of Congress will at- tract the notice of the civilized world. A number of arguments have been made by Senators and Represen- tatives that recall the Augustan days of the republic, and, without detracting from the merits of others, it may be truthfully said that the speech of Mr. Johnson of Indiana almost deserves to rank as a classic. The extraordinary feature of the annexation® scheme, fomented by mercenary greed and by that vaulting ambition which “o’erleaps itself,” is that, under our constitutional Government, it should have had any serious advocates. And, whatever might be said about other parts of the country, that, in the State of California, it should have attracted either popular or legislative support is doubly unaccount- able. The inconsistencies and the glaring disregard of our most important interests, into which the local attorneys for the znnexationists have been betrayed, are alone sufficient to repel the sympathy of our in- telligent citizens, and especially those who are not variciously speculating upon the wealth of the Phil- ippines. The Chronicle and the Examiner; in many respects antagonistic, are a unit upon Asiatic annexation. They profess themselves to be strongly opposed to the retention of the Philippines as colonial dependen- cies with the “open door” policy far the special bene- fit of Great Britain, but favor their incorporation into the territory of the United States, with citizenship and all other rights flowing from that relation to the Government. The Pacific Coast has been and is unanimously against Asiatic immigration, and, in the face of long-continued opposition in the East, after vainly clamoring for years, succeeded in having the exclusion law passed. In this State a special vote on the subject was taken, and only a few straggling bal- lots were cast in favor of the Chinese. gent discussion of the danger threatened by peaceful Mongolian invasion, the practical experience of cities ir other States, to which the aggressive Chinese rap- idly spread, and the excellent results of the exclusion laws, even when inefficiently and dishonestly admin- istered, converted every other part of the Union to ocur policy, and it is true that when war with Spain was declared there was no sentiment in the country in favor of the Mongolians except among a few monopo- lists who desired cheap labor. George C. Gorham once publicly canvassed the State for Governor, but his friendship for the Chinese swept him into political oblivion. . C. P. Huntington always wanted cheap labor for the railroad, but in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, in more places than one, his Asiatic employes were not permitted to leave the track. In 1860, at a Fourth of July celebration in Qakland, Senator Stewart of Nevada delivered a philippic on behalf of the Chinese. But, for some years, this entire nation has been held together for the benefit of the white race and of our fellow citizens of African descent, upon whom the inestimable boon of freedom was conferred by the Civil r, and thus our national life brought into harmony with our in- stitutions. The Chronicle and the Examiner were forced to express and to maintain the settled public opinion and the legislation that warned Asia against any at- tempt to evade America. It is not so long ago, in- deed, that the tocsin of alarm was rung against “the little brown men” of Japan, elated by their victory over China; and suspected of the preposterous belief that they could compel us to receive them in unlim- ited numbers. When, however, the war with Spain began, this Caucasian republic had presented an im- pregnable front to the hordes of Asia and the paupers and criminals of Europe. America was for Ameri- cans, who combined the best strains of the great races of the earth. 2 Now, however, the Chronicle and Examiner—par nobile fratrum—in their desperate effort to justify the uneonstitutional annexation of Asiatic territory, have | deliberately turned upon the people, whose rights and whose interests they have pretended to represent. So far as we are apprised they antagonize the administra- tion, which in the Examiner is not so remarkable, and they antagonize every member of Congress who has so far spoken for expansion, by insisting upon the investment of the Philippines with the full legal right and privileges that belong to American territory. They know that absolute freedom of locomotion is an element of American citizenship of which, even though the constitution has been “outgrown,” it can- not yet be deprived. They know that the Filipinos, once received as American citizens, can spread them- selves over every part of the republic. The facilities of intercourse with the Philippines in these modern times, when steam and electricity have become the handmaids of man, is one of the chief arguments used to justify the American people in plunging headlong into the Asiatic maelstrom, and these papers know that, when cheap laborers are available, capital will speedily devise means to bring the demand and the supply together. It follows that all the arguments against annexation in Asia that grow out of the legal framework of our Government, the history and the character of our people, and the spirit of our civili- zation, in a purely utilitarian sense, are overtopped by the danger to industry involved'in the forcible absorp- tion of the Filipinos, under a claim of divine right, purchased from Spain, and that onshe borders of the Pacific these arguments, specialized by the Chronicle and the Examiner, repudiate our uniform policy and our uniform demands and constitute the deepest treachery to our people, who are ready for the com- mercial and financial supremacy of the twentieth century, but are welded in the determination to pre- serve our existing standard of race and of blood, and equally to reject political and individual contact with Asiatic barbarians and polygamists who could never assimilate with us, and who could only be ruled by us as slaves and through a standing army. We shall observe with interest, in the midst of the distressing revelations at Sacramento, the future course of the Legislature in reference to the Asiatic question, that has been brought so nearly home, and the expansion or contraction of the revolutionized policy of the Chronicle and the Examiner in pitting the Philippine archipelago against California and the Union. y B — It is to be hoped that Senator Morehouse can pos- sess himself in patience for a little while. He would create trouble for himself by killing any newspaper men now. In the interval before the passage of his bjll he might profitably devote himself to target prac- tice, The fact that the Works anti-cartoon bill got through the Assembly demonstrates that Assembly- men are not averse to a joke. But for the knowledge that the measure would be smothered in the Senate it would not have had a ghost of a show. The mere fact that the other fellow got more votes has been sufficient to knock Dennery out. Naturally he feels aggrieved, and thinks justice is dead. To the members of the joint Assembly: “Now will you be good?” The intelli- | To resume work in this department, which has made for me so manyjfriends and so many enemies, is a genuine pleasure. Greeting to beth and to the latter confusion. For several weeks I have been among the statesmen trying to learn of them and finding they have little to teach save that which is con- veyed through their attitude as a lot of terrible examples. My impression that the professional politician belongs to a low order, that his word is worth- less, his ambition mercenary, has been fully confirmed. !When a set of men get togethér and have not sense and principle enough among them to elect a United States Senator it is time for the matter to be taken out of their hands. When they are afraid to vote on any measure without first having consulted their owners it is time to keép them at home and try the effect of intellect and honesty in public places. But this condemnation does not by any means include all the legislators. There are in both houses members above sus- picion or reproach. S That there is corruption at Sacra- mento is beyond question. Its agents are on the spot. So gross and palpable are the workings af evil influence that a man can hardly mingle with the leg- islative mob and escape the suspicion of being dishonest. This truth shines with particular effulgence in connection with the contest for Senator. When a band of lawmakers stands by Burns and declares that nothing can weaken its fealty it must be there is something wrong. I would not deny to Burns the possession of many good qualities; \but he is not adapted by training to take a seat in the Senate of the nation. As to his record, I say nothing. To me it is a matter of hearsay. But when Burns on the stand swears he has not expended a cent to promote his own candidacy, credulity braces up and de- clares that it has endured to the limit. Even with Gunst, Herrin and Me- Laughlin to back the 'story it still seems to lack the most essential ele- ment. Yet in a business transaction the word of any of these men would be accepted without bond. “In social re- lations there would not rise occasion for questioning their veracity. In poli- ties it is different. e te iR As this is written the report of the investigation committee has not been received and I have no idea as to the character ot it. Nevertheless, the fact is clear that the Burns people captured the committee, whether with or without the consent of the prisoners I do not say. There was mnever better politics than they exercised, and there was never politics more shameful. The terms are equivalent. Politics as now operated constitutes an organized sin. The regrettable feature about the in- vestigation has been that it set rumor in motion, and rumor spares none. Honest Assemblymen, honest Senators and honest journalists have been as- salled. Perhaps this will not harm them, but it Is far from a desirable ex- perience. But for all the theory of a “sack” my three weeks at the eapital led to the helief that the talk is based largely on hope. Money has doubtless been expended, but to go into the open market now with bids for votes or in- fluence would require the courage to face exposure and disgrace. e It seems to me that of all the people summoned before the committee to ex- plain, Grant was the gentleman. He acknowledged having spent money and considerable of it. He did not think there was anything reprehensible in having done so, for his manager had been instructed to expend it legiti- mately. There are certainly legitimate expenses connected with a campaign— fare and compensation for speakers, printing, carriage and the hire of halls. Yet as Grant told the truth about that which he had done he blushed, and the witnesses who on the stand before him and after had smoothly lied while every listener knew them to be lying had never turned a hair. It was a strange exhibition. Grant went upon record condemned by his own words. The others had a moral bill of health sworn to by themselves, but perforce, accept- able. In the minutes of the session they stood unspotted. How were their consciences? I do not propose either to rehash or to prognosticate. The story has been told day by day, and as for the future, one has as much right to peer into it as another. I simply give the guess that no Senator will be elected, and since Burns and Grant are out of it, Bulla never in it, Scott a vain hope and Barnes with only his intellect and the charm of his oratory and his fine presence to commend him, there seems nothing left but a continuation of the deadlock. Barnes would be a credit to the State. The Southern Pacific does not want him. He is scholarly, decent, dignified, able, and with no golden coin wherewith to pave his way. Therefore does he fail to appeal to the senses, not of the people, but of the material the people have chosen to represent them. If Burns secures a caucus this is all off. The caucus is the refuge of the coward and the shield of the pur- chased. Burns might come out of a caucus triumphant. . . An amusing feature of legislation is the attitude of the mighty toward the newspapers that made them. There is Senator Ashe, a Democrat whom the papers helped because of the notorious unfitness of his rival, now trying to curtail the freedom of the press. There is Morehouse, whom the papers have never wantonly abused, trying to secure for himself the privilege of slaying such editors as may fail to pay him the deference he deems proper. These fel- Jows make me tired. I do not use the term in the ordinary and perhaps vul- gar sense, but to see the assumption of superiority on the part of men who are in no manner superior is a bit trying. My belief is that the ayerage reporter does more brain work in a day than the average Senator, partly because he has more brain. . Assemblyman Works of San Diego has been induced to puil out of the fire the chestnuts of Grove Johnson, by in- troducing the aW®urdity known as an anti-cartoon bill. Possibly Johnson has suffered some, for his whiskers ap- peal to the artistic instinct, but he was selfish to ring in Works, for now the latter does not merely suffer, but en- dures agony. Works is inoffensive, and had he not projected himself into the open would never have become a tar- get. The best thing he can do is to (have the bill withdrawn and plead men- i i/ 0000000020000 900008 0000000000060 090000 i WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. % :/ By HENRY JAMES. : 0000000000 0000000000 000000000600068606660 tal aberration as an excuse for having ever let go of it. . To write concerning a Legislature and its hangers on is a duty I would have been glad to have escaped. To tell the truth is to wound, as there are many things which do not look well in print. I found at Sacramento that there was necessity for attacking friends, for they were on the wrong Snw side and employing methods upon which Heaven could not smile. The politician has a dual existence, but I am unable to trace the dividing line. In whacking the politician I more than once bruised a good fellow, and it was in the latter capacity that he came to me later to protest. - There has been so much ba-ad talk at Sacramento that it is a wonder no- body has been thumped, cut or shot. The climax of hostility seems to have been reached when Major McLaughlin spat In the face of Goucher. Like many others the major is there in a double capacity. As chairman of the State Central Committee he is working for the glorification and advancement of the party. As plain Major McLaughlin he is whooping it up for Burns. I do not know in which capacity he does his spitting. Senator Simpson has introduced a measure which will in all likelihood be killed, as he will advocate it himself. But it richly deserves’this fate for the principle of it is bad and vicious. This bill & a Sunday law. For many re- formers one can have respect, but the ultra-Sabbatarian is ignorant, narrow- minded and selfish, a crank whom the impulse to thrust from the lobby, speed- ing his departure with a kick, is natural and laudable. I have neither space nor patience to go extensively into the question he raises. There is only one argument in favor of a Sunday law and this is that everybody is entitled to one day of rest in seven. There is not a craft nor calling in which the employe cannot get a day off, and when he gets that day I believe the attempt to dictate to him what he shall do with it is a piece of inexcusable imperti- nence. The ministers think that if on Sunday they could close every avenue to pleasure and recreation thre multi- tude could be forced to go to church. They would have the parks shut up, the trains to suburban resorts stopped, an outing deemed a grime. Now people will not go to church, because there usually is neither profit nor, joy in go- ing, and they do not propose that the voice from the pulpit, to which they do not listen, shall dictate to them as to the conduct of their daily lives. They will continue to take the children Sun- day and go out to the beach or the woods, and the effort to prevent them will not be tolerated. For my part, after six days of toil, I am grateful to get into the blessed sunshine and the country air, and do not propose to turn from this scheme to a sanctuary where- in gathers a highly reputable social club, somewhat exclusive, listening to doctrines the members do not practice, and pretending to worship a master from every tenet of whose sublime teachings they have departed. For the sincere Christian, who follows as close- 1y as he may the footsteps of this great teacher I have a warm regard, but it is not this type which is now demand- ing a Sunday law for California. On the contrary, it is the canting, snivel- ing, hypocritical, holier-than-thou va- riety, who constitute a burden to the church itself and a nuisance to all without the fold. Unless Simpson shall succeed in talking this iniquitous meas- ure to death I shall take the liberty hereafter of making a few remarks abaut it. it If the Legislature has done anything tending to the restriction of races I have overlooked it, and yet the subject is important. Racing as conducted in this town and in Oakland is wicked, representing not sport but gambling. It thrives through the gullibility of suck- ers. It has lured countless young men to ruin and dragged women to shame; broken up families, caused embezzle- ment, suicide and murder. Racing sup- ports an army of touts and vagrants, and fills the pockets of a few con- scienceless speculators. On its local basis it is intrinsically a fraud, a me- nace to public morals, a drain on in- dustry. There is no good to set over against the ruin it accomplishes, but it fattens the bookies and other grafters and is permitted to go on unhindered. This is an outrage and a shame. If the money the race tracks take in could appear to the promoters as it is, stained with blood and dishonor, they might not spend it so gaily. If the victims could see themselves, flies struggling helpless in a web, they might abandon the game. But neither will see. The | races should efther be regulated or pub- Hc indignation should. close them. As all the year round temptations they blight and curse the community. s = s One Greene has arrived at Vancouver with a wild .tale of cannibalism to which eleven of his comrades fell vie- tims, while he, possibly being less suc- culenf, escaped. Among other evidences of his veracity Greene points to the fact that the horrors he witnessed while | awaiting his turn to go into the pot changed his hair snow white. With | every possible sympathy for Greene I | take the liberty of thinking that there | is not a woed of truth in his tale. The hair climax spoils the whole business. | The only circumstance under which | hair turns white all at once is when the dye runs in the wash. & Ve | I do not believe the members of the | First California would approve of all | this yowl for their speedy return. They enlisted for two years, they are not children, and glad as we would all be to see them back we do not want it | thought they shirked any possible duty. | They have acquitted themselves well and may have a chance to add to their record for bravery. Certainly when put in the attitude of begging to come home they are adding nothing to it. | S e Supervisor Perrault says he is not a | reformer, which leads me to the belief | that he is a genuine one. The men who go into public life preceded by a banner inscribed with their good in-i tentidns and a brass band for empha- | sis always excite suspicion. | T s General Eagan seems to be in a sad state of mind, but owing to the rotten | beef fed the soldiers in Cuba many of | them seem to be in their graves. To | lebt see a public man fall is always pitiful, | | yet rather than have any escapé who | ADVERTISEMENTS. Dmooooooo + 04040404040+ fi(_)t Be Persuad by over- persistent salesmen to buy until you have visited our warerooms and examined our FURNITURE, CARPETS, CURTAINS, ETC. You will be a welcome visitor whether you buy or not You are sure to get some good ideas and valuable information “at least. 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The contractor who sells- unfit rations for the use of sol- dlers is a traitor who ought to be hanged, and the official who aids and abets him ought to be hanged twice. . iw e One remarkable bill introduced at Sacramento provides that a railroad employe having been on duty for twen- ty consecutive hours shall not be re- quired to go on duty again until he shall have had eight hours’ rest. I would like to know what sort of a con- cern would keep a man on duty for such a length of time. Certainly, by so doing, it would forfeit the regard of all workingmen, and such regard is worth having, since most of us toil. Sia . The new Board of Education is in the delicate position of having suc- ceeded to a lot of which scoundrels and thieves who looted everything in sight formed a majority. Economy is necessary and yet each stroke of econ- omy is bound to hurt somewhere. De- spite the protest raised I am willing to believe that the board is doing its best. The abolition of the Normal School was doubtless a rdship, but the school was of no particular use and ought to have been abolished on general prin- ciples, and the same is true of the spe- cial® branches, such.as cookery. Th mean part of the situation is that faith- ful teachers have been robbed of their salaries and have not even the sz faction of knowing that the larcenists are in jail. - . At last the report of the investigation committee has been received, but I do not see that it makes necessary the scratching out of anything written above. The condemnation of Wright was inevitable, and there was no way to ayoid rebuke of the methods of Grant’s manager. Although some of the guilty may have escaped the effect of the investigation must be salutary. If Wright does not resign from a po- sition he has dishonored he should be expelled. The Assembly owes this to jtself. As to the Influence of the verdict upon the Senatorial fight I leave that to the wise men, of whom there are great numbers at the capitaly IN WAYS THAT WE KNOW NOT. I sometimes think God lets our sorrows ather Till Jls;y is hidden by pain’s heavy clond, That in the darkness we may find “Our Father’'— We need Him so when heart and head are bowed. I !ome;irlnes think He lets friends fail and alter, To show us earthly props are insecure; The broken hearts we lay upon His altar, Of healing and of solace may be sure. I sometimes think He strews our path with roses, And when we find that each one hides a thorn, He takes us by the hand and gently shows us That not to 'live to self has man been born. I sometimes think, when He seems all un- heeding, Turning deaf ears unto our wild request, In silent pity His great heart is bleeding Because to grant us it were not the best. I always think, in His divine compassion, Not one will perish from His loving hands; Knowlni our weakness and the strength of passion, He pities us—He understands. M. Hedderwick Browne in Good Words. Not So Green, After All One night Green came home very late and found his wife evidently prepared to administer a Caudle lecture. 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