The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1899, Page 4

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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until £330 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open. untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open unt!l 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, nka, the “‘Lady of Lions,' op and Ellis' streets, Specialtiea. ‘oncert Tuesday evening, January 3L eplechase. 1 acce Track—Races to-mOrrow. and Race Track—Races To-day. opolitan Temple—Plano Recital Monday evening, Feb- and Zoo—F Corner’ -Clay Hall Sherm. AUCTION SALES, n & Co—Monday, January 30, at 14 Montgomery street. at 12 o'cloc] R K, AN OUTBURST OF SPECULATION. S being the center of disturbance. It was one of the periodical outbreaks of speculation which” occur from time to time, when the public rush in and buy ing in it for no other reason than that k it is a good time for financial pyrotechnics. \e fever to buy began with stocks and merged into a rampant demand for wheat, which sent up the price The noteworthy feature of this movement was the avidity with which Wall ht wheat, for this feverish mart does not s run to speculation in grain. Crop condi- no part in this rush to buy wheat, and he different centers of trade throughout ger purchasers. The p ators were quick to take advantage of the boc and when the price had got high enough commenced to sell, which had the effect of checking the advance. The saime conditibn prevailed in stocks. The public rushed in and:the professionals gave them ) b Conservative concerns advised but their advice had PECULATION was the jeature of. business.all over the United States”last week, Wall street of this cereal at a rapid rate. street bo s ignored by the e nted. tomers to -go slowly London, too, saw its chance to turn-an effect. littie honest penny and sold Americans freely; but the rise went on just the same. Anot curious feature of the situation was that in the midst of all this wild buying the money market was remarkably easy and Americans were- actually Joaning funds to Europe meanwhile. In former years this condition was unheard of. Whenever there was f ion the New Yorkers went to money wherewith to operate, and the arket Herein possibly he explanation of the vast speculation of last a by hardened at once. we ¢ financial centers of the United States are known to be gorged with money, and interest rates arc being lowered all along the line, hence the public, conditions a chance to make a fine their finds in anything in sight that As far as the moment was cnt was certainly correct, for t up with a buoyancy to suit the 1guir The bank clearings re- led to the boom and showed a gain of 66.9 per er the same week last year, while of the clearings throughout , the = country d to the city of New Yorl:. rings of Chicago, which usually leads in grain on, were $13¢ ,000, and her gain was 56.7 hile that of New York ran up to 88.8 per dvance eculator. rainst 288 for the corresponding week in 1898. The n wheat kept up with the specula- ¢, being 3,813,300 bushels from st 2,071,300 during the same week sport movemen d were he antic ports, aga t ar. While this enormous speculation has been going on the leading commercial staples have shown little change. The iron trade still booms, and the heavy business is accompanied by an advance in almost all vith a desire for combinations which, amounts to a virtual craze. Lumber iintains the firm tone already noted, the dry-goods trade reports an improvement in several Eastern cities, railroad receipts are making surprising gains, and the treasury receipts are steadily increasing. Wool alone is weak, and the Western bankers are ad- vising speculative holders to sell, as quotations are con Co told | mportaat failures resulted from the boeni, | ict those of the whole country were only 246, | dered too high for the immense stocks on hand. | ditions here at home show no particular change | beyond the rise in wheat. The interior valleys have | been visited by a hot north wind, which is doing no good to the crops, and the abnormally hot weather is causing somie anxiety among fruit-growers, who fear thet the trees may blossom too carly and get caught t later on. It certainly is strange weather for ary. ~Otherwise there is little to remark in the local situation. There js every reason to suppose that our grand- chilcren ~will ‘be paying. pensions arising from the Civil War, and that by that time the total will have 1isen to imposing proportions. An attaxnfit i§ being ‘made to organize a Farmers’ “party. It will not be a succe Even if the farmers get together there will be the political gold-brick man in the midst of them. e Alfter a Sunday at home, soothed and sustained by the apprebation of lis neighbors, Speaker Wright cught to be in shape to face the ordeal the day holds for him. * The Wyoming outfit which offers $20,000 for a fight beiween Sharkey and Fi mmons would be wiser to devote the sum to the raising of steers. | should not be surprised at an effort to conyert Grant | | We hope that they may substitute right for Wright | subject. That report the people expect the Assembly | ‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1899. THE INNER CIRCLE OF CORRUPTION. N this State no Senatorial money has been paid l into the State treasury—mnot even the thirty thou- sand dollars needed to raise the credit of the can- didate from Mexico to par. Twenty thousand dolla.rs. supposed to have been used for Republican legislative tickets, has been traced to one purse, but first the closed life and next the illness of Milton J. Green have so far prevented the itemizing of this limited corruption account. Here and there a few hundred dollars have been placed. . A netv ticket office on the sixth floor ‘of the railroad building has been uncov- ered. But after all, when the investigation at Sacra- mento’ ended, the Burns lobby had been almost dis- credited. The unearned increment is the most effective ele- ment in that kind of politics that sets the faces of men like Dan Burns toward Washington. It is more real in itself, but even less apparent, than the unearned increment in real estate. ‘It eludes formalities, ac- | counts and inquiries under oath. Its jingle is rarely overheard. Its tence is solid and its sound metal- lic, but to the public ear it is as silent as the sleeping gold in quartz pockets. The Assembly committee at Sacramento has de- served and received “credit for its use of such ma- terials as it obtained. It exposed some corruption that struggled for or was pushed toward the light. It fully justified the cautious and exact statements of | The Call. But, after all, it only scratched the outer skin of Colonel Mazuma and drew a few drops of his blood. His less important operations, through raw and inartistic agents, in some degree were ascer- tained. But the inner circle of his influence, where experience and system work with the delicacy and | with the accuracy of a watch, was hardly touched. It was touched, however. There is no bond of | honor, of sympathy or of genuine friendship between | conscienceless politicians and an unqualified or dis- qualified candidate for Senatorial preferment. The only tie that'unites them is the uncarned increment. The manager for Ulysses S. Grant was certainly a novice, and his use of money was casily unveiled. We into a’scapegoat for Dan Burns. But the effort can- | not succeed for' many reasons, and chiefly and pre- cisely because, as we suggested yesterday and have | repeated to-day, the inner circle of Colonel Mazuma | was touched by the investigating committee. The Burns artists do not wear broad-brimmed hats and shaggy evebrows and invite detectives to fol- low them into dark places. They are at once deft and simple in their legerdemain. They are trained and inscrutable witnesses, and their skill is beyond the reach of a-brief and rapid legislative inquiry. They can thro a net over unsuspecting integrity with the dexterity of a Roman gladiator. The one | thing they cannot do is to hide their associations, their faces and their odor. They are so well known to interested and scrutinizing citizens that where they warning. They have escaped by very devious paths from the shame that has befallen. their exposed, col- escape again if another investigation should take place. If they are wise they will leave the Speaker to THE PURIFIED- JURY BOX. BY something like a formal ceremony of purifica- ! Deane and Chief Deputy Goddard have cleaned the box containing the lists of jurymen and: taken box and the consequent packing of juries will no longer be included among the scandals of the City The evil has been one of long continuance, and at times a good deal of attention has been directed to it requires that the names placed in the jury-box shall be selected by Superior Judges, it has been possible attempts have been made to discover persons guilty of such stuffing, but never with any success. adopted it is now likely we shall have juries honestly selected at any rate, whatever may happen to them chief deputy removed from the box all the old names, and the slips of paper on which these were written the newly selected names were placed in it. These were all written by one person, in a-peculiar -hand- determine whether any name hereafter drawn from the box has been forged or illegally placed there. league, and it is by no means likely that they could his fate and profit by the moral of his fall. tion by fire, Judge Daingerfield, County Clerk steps which justify the hope that the stuffing of the Hall. by reason of some flagrant offense. While the law for other parties to put names in the box, and several Thanks to the purification - and the new rules afterward. The Judge, the County Clerk and the were then burned. When the box was thus cleaned writing, and therefore it will be veasily possible to The cleaning out of the box and the substitution | of an entirely new lot of names written and deposited under strict regulations and supervision is a subject of no small importance to the community. Under our system of government the whole social fabric rests upon the honesty of jurymen. To them come all questions of property, of life and of liberty. When the jury-box is tainted with fraud the very founda- tion of our civilization is affected. The knowledge that the jury-box has been stuffed has long consti- tuted one-of the gravest of our municipal scandals, and there is good reason for general gratification over what has now been done to prevent any suchi offenses in future. A MISTAKE OF THE FATHERS. OMMENTING upon the scandals which have C arisen from Senatorial elections in various parts of the Union, and with particular reference to those at Sacramento, the Boston Globe points out that the whole project of the constitution for improv- ing the personnel of the Senate by requiring the election of its members by Legislatures instead of by the people “has been ridiculed by a century of ex-| hover conjecture hardens into fact. The following of Dan Burns is in itself a sufficient | disclosure for the people of the State, sound in | heart and sound in brain, who cannot understand how | a filthy political wave can land a political failure, with- | out a single qualification, in the Senate of the United | States. Even without legal proof every one knows | the source and the character of his support. And as we have already suggested, these generalizations were made specific and driven home by the fall of Speaker Wright. . His quintuple relation to corruption is a conclusive answer to the question of how Dan Burns captured him. And that demonstration projects itself with rational and unerring certainty into the inner circle, where the smell would have burst the nose of Cyrano de Bergerac as it arrested the progress of the | Assembly commiittee. The devil, it is said, marks his own. The gang surrounding Daniel Burns, fuller of babbling integrity than a rotten egg is of diseased meat, is marked be* vond the possibility of error. These are the men who | require caricature to identify them with humanity. They would be probably turned out of the lower re- gions for moral uncleanliness, but they are a pesti- lential concentration at the State Capitol. Considering their surroundings, the legislators who, like the venerable Judge Clough, are clean within and wear the rugged faces of unpurchasable integrity are almost entitled to rank as heroes, even if some of them do thirst for journalistic blood and seek to escape the gallery of legislative immortals. in the Speaker’s chair and sternly vindicate legisla- tive honor, but we also hope that before they destroy the press they may avert their own destruction by de- | stroying Dan Burns and by honoring the demand of | the citizens of California through the clection of a qualified Federal Senator in the person of a Repub- lican, a statesman and a gentleman. W pointed to inquire into the charges made against Speaker Wright and the manager of Grant’s Senatorial' campaign the accused parties were placed on trial; when, a little later, rumors of pos- | sible whitewash were circulated from Sacramento through the State the committee itself was on trial before the people; and now that the report has been submitted to the Assembly and reports are current that an attempt will be made in that body to rclieve | the Speaker of the condemnation justly put upon him the Assembly is on trial. While the investigating committee did not uncover all that it might Have brought to light had it pursued ! its examinations with more vigor, it certainly ob- tained sufficient testimony to confirm the charges | made against the Speaker, and it had the courage and | the honesty to make a straightforward report on the THE ASSEMBLY ON TRIAL. HEN the investigating committee was ap- to sustain. condemned. . When the report has been adopted it will then be the duty of the Assembly to go farther and mete out { to Speaker Wright the full measure of penalty his | offenses deserve. The culprit thus exposed, dis- credited, dishonored and disgraced should not be permitted to occupy for another day the Speaker's chair. Nor should he be permitted to remain in the Assembly. He is unfit to represent an honorable constituency, to legislate for California and to sit among honest men. His official career should be ter- minated before he can inflict any further disgrace upon the State. The signs and evidences that have been noted at Sacramento of a desire on the part of the Burns gang to save the Speaker from the consequences of his actions have increased the public indignation against the methods of the Mexican boss. No testimony was submitted during the investigation to show what inducements were given to Wright to vote for Burns, but .enough. was disclosed to create a moral’ certainty that he was moved by some underhand job and in- trigite; and the efforts of the Barns men to shield hint'| from just punishment increases the suspicion of cor- rupt collusion and strengthens the popular demand If it be set aside the Assembly will be perience.” It is an indisputable truth that where popular opinion governs the elections of Senators the best men are obtained, and where the elections are “farthest away from the people the Senate fares worst. The Globe very justly says: “In New England and the South, speaking gener- ally, the Legislatures choose men who would have no reason to fear an election by the people, but it is doubtful how much longer this standard can be main- tained under a false system. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, In- diana, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ore- gon at least have Senators who would be very re- luctant to submit themselves to the test of a popular election and who cannot be regarded as an improve- ment upon the men whom the people of these States choose for Governors.” It requires no elaborate review of Senatorial con- tests for a long series of years to find proof of the ac- curacy of that statement. Ample evidence can be found in the daily reports of the elections now going on. The most striking illustration of fraud comes irom Montana. When the legislative session opened at Helena Senator Whiteside announced that he had been given $30,000 to purchase votes for W. A. Clark, a candidate for the United States Senate, and in proof of his assertion laid before the Legislature thirty $1000 bills, The Legislature ordered the money to be turned into the State treasury and appointed an investigating committee. The Grand Jury of the county also took up the matter. The results of she proceedings were telegraphed yesterday. Clark was exonerated by the Grand Jury and Whiteside was unseated in the Senate by a vote made up of members of both parties. On that showing it appears that some one con- cocted a conspiracy against Clark, and in carrying it | out put up $30,000 as evidence that he was engaged in bribery. The fraud is as bad as if Clark himself had been the briber, and exhibits in a striking manner the extent to which money is used in Senatorial contests. The State of Montana, having confiscated the roll of $1000 bills, is to that extent richer, but the disgrace upon her Legislature and incidentally upon the Sen- ate of the United States is too great to be gilded over by all the gold leaf that amount of money could buy, no matter how thinly it were beaten out. There is but one remedy for these evils, which are | now so widespread and which threaten even the New England and Southern States. The mode of clecting Senators must be changed. We must return to the direct vote of the people. Tn 2 suit for recovery of damages growing out of the lynching of Click Mitchell in Ohio the telegraph | states briefly that the plaintiff did not get a bean. It is therefore plain that as a matter of speculation no- body can afford to be hanged by a mob. Advices are meager, as the dispatches do not state who sued, but as the Iynching was a success there is hardly a probability that it was Click Himself. SELETELRE Brandes and his wife want a change of venue. They would be wise to ask that it be to China, where the slaughter of the female is viewed with more noncha- lance than our more recent civilization has acquired. Dennery can’t be a Senator, but the blessed privi- lege of loafing around the lobby and 'telling how he loves the colonel is something which cannot be taken from him. g _— ‘When California sends people to jail for debt the necessity for enlargement of the jails will be manifest. Would it not be wiser to send the creditors to the asylum? ' RIS o Clark is to be the Senator from Montana after all. Thus will virtue, backed by millions in ready cash, win if the other fellow does not happen to have more. —c g n Now, why should a good-looking man like Cowan shy at the thought of a cartoon? As to Works, and even Johnson, the matter i3 easy to understand. ; BOSEE it The reason the oratory of Senator Shortridge has not stirred the multitude is that the gentleman cannot make it louder than his vest. for the expulsion of the Speaker from the Legislature. | “It is'time for Burns and his following to take Some of the bills sought to be put into circulation at Sacramento are counterfeit. AROUND THE CORRIDORS . W. H. Patterson of Reno is at the Lick. C. H. Bridges, U. S. A,, is at the Grand. Charles Palmer of Sioux City is at the Grand. Charles L. Young of New York is at the Palace. . D. A. Scribner of New York is at the California. Charles F. Tozer of Cottonwood is at the Grand. Dr. L. 8. Tooley of Willows is regis- tered at the Lick. O. J. Barrett of Washington, D. C., is a guest at the Grand. Miss Eda J. Matthews of St. Louis is a guest at the Palace. J. M. Jenks and wife, of Chicago, are Buests at the Palace. L. R. Payne of Fresno arrived at the Occidental yesterday. Mrs, Charles W. Waldron of Santa Cruz is registered at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Thompson, of Mead- ville, Pa., are at the Occidental. ' Mr. and Mrs. C. George Kroguess of Chicago are guests at the Palace. Mrs. W. H. Crawford and Miss Lillie Winch of Chicago are among the guests at the California. B. A. Ogden of Sonora and F. Thomas of Sacramento, extensive mine owners, are staying at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. R. §. Thoms and daugh- ters, of Washington, D. C., arrived at the Occidental yesterday. E. D. Easton and Lester A. Cramer of New York and George W. Lyle of Chica- 80 were among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday. 3 CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—H.: E. Lester of San Francisco is at the Savoy. Sco isial the Savoy.: NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Several armor clads in the Russian navy are undergoing alterations, among which the Peter Veliki, which is getting a new turret armor and 12-inch guns of 40 caliber installed. The Herzog Edinburgsky has had a new propeller put on, which unon trial gave a speed of 16.51 knots, against 15.2 of the old screw. The abolition of joiner work on British naval vessels has thrown a large number of joiners out of employment. The dock- vard officials put some at work usually done by shipwrights, with the result that the latter made a demonstration, cnd there promises to be a lively war of the unions against the Admiralty. The two most prominent torpedo-boat builders are Thornycroft and Yarrow. Since 1877 Thornycroit nas built 215 boats, from 59 feet to 230 feet in length and ranging in horse-power from 180 to 5800. Yarrow has built during the same period 143 boats, of from 56 feet to 220 feet in éz&glh and horse-powers from $§ to A robbery of $4500 to $5000 in gold from the paymaster’s cabin of the cruiser Niobe at Devonport is puzzling the naval adthor- ities, and there is not the slightest clew for the court of inquiry to work with, It is, believed, however, that the money was taken in installments, and the police are prosecuting the most searching in- quiries, N The cost of maintaining the several di- visions of the Russian fleet is given as follows in roubles: The Baltic and White seas, comprising seven stations, 2,700,328; Black Sea, 1,863,874; Casplan flotilla, 189,- 773; Siberian fleet, 492,380; voluntary enlist- ed men, 285,280, and ships on detached ser- vice in forelgn waters, 5982486, making a total of 11,514,230 roubles—equal to $3,865,30( in American money. The French submarine boat Gustave Zede made a successful trip from Touion to Marseilles on January 9, making the distance of about fifty miles in eight hours, the passage being completed with complete success, notwithstanding a very choppy sea. M. Lockroy, Minister of Ma- rine, warmly complimented the command- ing officer, Lieutenant Mottez, and the crew, on their successful voyage. In the Oceanica, recently launched from the yard of Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Great Britain will acquire a most efficient auxillary cruiser. She will be able to steam 24,000 miles in 81 days, at the rate | of 12 knots an hour, without recoaling. The next best auxiliary cruisers, so . far as relates to coal endurance, are the Ma- Jestic. and Teutonic, which can steam 21,600 miles in % days, at the rate of 10 knots per hour, without renewing their coal supply. M. Lockroy, Minister of Marine of France, has already done much toward placing the navy in an efficient condition. Many of the armored ships were abso- lutely worthless én account of their huge superstructures, which made the ships un- seaworthy. During the past year several of them have been entirely remodeled in their upper works, notably the Hoche, | where the medieval castle structure has been removed. The other ships similarly improved are the Richelieu, Colbert, Tri- dent; Redoubtable, Devastation, Indomita- ble and Tonnant. Even the Massena, only | recently completed, has some changes in her superstructure and armament, The London Times of December 27 has a one column summary of Secretary Long's report on the navy of the United States. The Times' comments are very complimentary to the navy and Secretary Long, remarking: “Mr. Long’s report is thoroughly interesting and admirably cal- culated to instruct and appeal to an edu- cated public opinion. As Sir Veasy Hamil- ton has lately pointed out, the advantage | of such lucid and frank statement is de- | nied to Parliament and the British peo- ple.” Commenting on Mr. Long's recom- mendation of a new system of reward for merit for naval officers, the Times says: “Does this presage the establishment of orders and decoratiohs in the great re- public?"” During the agitation on flogging in the British army some years ago a society was formed, called the Anti-Flogging League. In November last the secretary of this society wrote to the Admiralty | concerning an alleged severe flogging of a youth on the training ship Boscawen, said to have greatly affected the culprit's health. The Admiralty investigated the case, and under date of January 9 in- formed the Anti-Flogging Society that there is no flogging inithe navy, and that birching as a punishment is confined en- tirely to boys of a certain age, and is never inflicted except according to resu- lation and by warrant signed by superior authority. To the proposition made by the society that dark cells, with bread and water, be substituted for flogging, the Admiralty was of the opinion that such punishment would be entirely too much for boys for whom disciplinary measures of a prompt kind and less likely to in- jure health were preferable. BOARD OF EDUCA- TION ECONOMY Editor Call: Why does the Board of Education have so much to say about economy forcing them to get teachers out of the department? Why not acknowl- edge that they are prompted solely by po- litical or selfisa motives of their own? Although they have been in office less than a month, they have caused tne schools to be infested with a horde of idle workmen, who wander afmlessly around, hanging curtains that are never used, fitting keys In rusty locks that are not needed and patching knotholes in the fences. If this sort of thing continues, the teachers will all have to vacate in a body and leave the schools to the work- men and their friends on the school board. The last board, when they went into of- fice threatened to wipe out all the- ap- pointees of their predecessors, and preach- g reform, etc., with what result we all 0w. Does the present -board intend to emulate their example and consolidate and retrench, only to have more money in the school fund for so-called ‘re- pairs?” Can any one explain why teachers are bein; qu(ed’y placeé’ in vice-principal- ships without even the formality of an election, while others are being abol- ished? "Why is a gentleman holding or. Marks’ position at the Everett School Wh%.’has not been publicly appointed as such? The teachers will have cause to be thankful if the adoption of the new char- ter will relieve them from the tyranny of twelve inexperienced, merciless men who rush-into o&ce every two years so eager for spoils that they are ready to take the scalp of any one who stands in their way. Their actions upset the- emtire School Department and jeopardize . its useful- ness, Every one in the department real- ize by this.time what empty mockery this “reform and economy’ is;-s0 why .gf-fn up this senseless pa.radebolf'e:'lel;uixs efore the public when no one believ 3 it e . WAINWRIGHT, San Francisco, Jan. 29, 1899. THE CANDIDATE AND THE SMILE To the Editor of The Call—In your edi- torial column$ this morning under 1h§l caption “‘Hastening the Millennial Dawn you refer to Assemblyman Caminetti as either a joker or a joke because he has introducedsinto the Assembly a bill to pro- hibit candjdates bribing or attempting to bribe voters with whisky, cigars, ete. You do not refer to the practice as brib- ery, but it is certainly nothing else. When a candidate enters a saloon, announces himself as a candidate and invites those Ppresent to drink or smoke at his expense, | he does it with the hope of influencing them to vote for him, just as surely as though he were distributi ng double- eagles among them. To be sure, he does not exact a pledge to do so, but it is not the exacting of pledges, but the offering g( “considerations” that constitutes brib- Ty, The proposed legislation is not some- thing new_and unheard-of, as you seem to think. You say, “When Such a state of morals exists as will permit a candldate to wage a campaign without buying a few cabbage leaves and ‘smiling’ ~with his friends there will be no need of any law on the matter for the millennium will be here and drinking and Smon.ng will have become things of the past’’ A law similar to that proposed has been in force in Can- ada for many years, and yet drinking and smoking are by no means “things of the past.” "But the “whisky campaign” is de- | cidedly a “thing of the past,” tnanks to the aforesald law. I agree with you that the bill, if passed as at present drafted, will probably not be properly enforced, but that is no rea- | son why it should be voted down. TIt| should rather be amended by adding to the penal clauses one providing that con- | viction of the successful candidate of the infraction of any of the provisions of the bill_shall disqualify the candidate and void the election; or, better still, give the office to his opponent, provided he is not shown to have broken the law in his can- vass. This will make it to the interest of every defeated candidate to show, if pos- sible, that the law has been violated by the successful one, and so make the law virtually self-operative. | " If such an obviously necessary and ben- | eficial law as this cannot be enforced in | this State, we may as well paraphrase the | | oft-quoted sentiment and say that our | government is of the saloon. by the saloon | and for the saloon. J. B. HUGHES. Crockett, Jan. 28, 1899, THE BARBERS’ PROPOSED LAW | Editor Call: The interest taken by your | paper in regard to sanitary measures, as| | applied to barber shops, prompts us to in- form your readers in general and the bar- bers in particular that Assembly Bill 119— an act to regulate barbering, intended to insure the better education of such practi- | tioners in the State of Califorpia—was in- | troduced at the request of the Barbers’ Association of the Pacific Coast, who heldl an open meeting December 18, 1898, when it ‘was decided unanimously to declare in favor of such a law as Assembly Bij] 119. Similar laws ' are in force in Eastern States and there operate admirably well, both to the public and barbers, benefiting those who desire improvement and injur- | ing the ones that are degenerating, so we see by the official report of the Barbers’ State Board of Examiners of Minnesota, | | made to their Legislature. Our Barbers’ Association has members in nearly every town in this State. Those | of Los Angeles send a petition of over 300 to the Legislature, and in this city | the proprietors of the following barber | shops, who favor the proposed legislative | enactment,. are: Mr. Bernhard of the! Palace, Mr. Lanbenheimer of the Grand, | Mr. Lippert of the Occidental, Mr. Green- | berg of the Safe Deposit, Mr. Finney of the Merchants' Exchange and 763 others, including the journeymen. Believing this matter to be of public interest, you will please give it spu(‘vev n& yéour valuable PAPET: -} airman Legislative Committée. San Francisco, January 29. HAS EVERY MAN HIS PRICE ? | , = | Dr. Locke Discou:ses on Salable and Unsalable Men. Dr. Charles Eqward Locke’s subject at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church last evening was ‘“‘Wanted, Men! Has Every Man His Price?” Dr. Locke said in part: “The pessimistic Elijah, the lachrymose Jeremiah and the doughty Diogenes have started a cry which needs to be taken up by this fin de siecle period, ‘Run ye to and | fro and see if ye ean find a man.’ “Civilization in any age is but the in- crease of manhood. Nations have grown when they could produce men, but have declined as manliness has disappeared. ‘Woe be to that nation whose mothers do not bear men! National history is but the achievements of men. Grecian his- tory is the story of Pericles and Socrates; Roman history tells of Cicero and Julius Caesar, and so in modern history the blographies of Gladstone and Lincoln will include the great achievements of Eng- land and America. “The first and final purpose of Chris- tianity is the inculcation of manliness. Jesus of Nazareth was the manliest of men. Growth in good is but a growth in* manliness. True religion is known by the strong characters which it builds. Many good men vindicate the claims of the gos- | pel of Jesus in their honorable and blame- | | less lives. Such are the men which are | wanted to-day and needed in abundance. “Has every man his price? let me ask. I believe Horace Walpole's libelous wail, | which was the affirmative answer to this | question, has many notable exceptions. | George Jones, as editor of the New York | Times, was offered $5,000,000 by the Tweed | ring if he would suppress and simply de- cline to publish certain damaging , in- | formation, but he spurned the gitt; Abra- | | ham Lincoln could not be bought, and by his rigid adherence to principles of in- tegrity gained for himself the homely but honorable and immortal sobriquet of *Honest Old Abe.” Knox and Savonarola and Patrick Henry could not be bought, and with a host of others are described in | the lines of our own Lowell: I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to And when he has thought, be his causé strong or weak, ‘Will sink the other half for the freedom to speak. “But alas! how humiliating the con- fession that must be made. jome men do, indeed, have their price. And some of these who can be bought are residents of our own State, and have been chosen to places of trust. Can anything be a sadder comment upon the base corruption of modern political methods than the re- cent revelations which have shriveied the Speaker of the Assembly into a moral Liliputian? And while he is receiving his deserved punishment for his reprehensible and utterly sinful actions, let it not be forgotten that he is, in a sense, the scape- goat for a multitude of notoriously cor- rupt men. He is the logical sequence of a false and basely wicked system which should be flercely denounced and re- pudiated by all good citizens, namely the use of large sums of money to secure election to places of homor. N% Man ought to be elected to the United. States Senate from California who has pur- chased his seat by a lavish expenditure of money. . “Our citizenship should arise en masse and denounce these diabolical methods of hrihe?. The result is, of course, that the most honorable men will not become can- didates. Many of the noblest citizens are men without means, and an honest man | card of th | to becoming will not barter his birthright of integrity for the most distinguished /' position of honor in the gift of the people. “It {s to -be confidéntly hoped’ and ardently desired that some man will be elected by the present Legislature whose moral life will be without reproach. Oh, that some rpheaval of moral sentiment would startle our legislators into such a discharge of their duties as will preserve our .magnificent State from;being repre- sented by any man whose ‘hands have been full of bribes or whose life has been defiled with rascality apd corruption! Let moral lepers be driven without the gates and not sent to the United States Senate. “Politics will never be cleansed until men who cannot be bought shall seize the reigns of government.” LARGE CROWDS VISIT THE PARK AND CLIFF WARM WEATHER BRINGS OUT THE CITY PUBLIC. Minor Accidents on the Roads to the Beach—Exercises in’ Perspiration and Other Amusements for Pleasure-Seekers. The warm weather drew long strings of people to the Park and Cliff yesterday. Every avenue and green in the city’s pleasure ground was packed with men, women and children. The hottest part of the day was shortly after noon, when the mercury registered 72 degrees. It kept at this temperature for some time, forcing the pedestrians into the shade of trees and the ‘“bikers” to the faucet. The fat men shed perspiration and the lean did the same out of pure envy. One ‘“biker,” who outweighed everything else on the Park and Cliff hicycle line, lost his pedals at the head of the speed 'k and landed in a“heap a mile below. He was not injured seri- ously and refused to give his name. The big crowds on the beach and the hill to the Cliff were startled out of their repose about 3 o'clock by a wild runaway horse. The occupants of the rig were un- injured, but not so much can be said for the harness . and buggy, both of which were carried in pieces to the Park Police Station. At the Chutes over 4000 people passed through the gate: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. OXYGEN-K. C., C}ls'. Oxygen is the ingredient in water that assists combus- tion. P 3 DONAHUE ROAD-J. D. Vallejo, Cal. The longest tunnel on the¢ Donahue road measures 2250 feet HIGH TARIFF I)’. M., city. The arti- cle on high tariff inquired about did not appear in The AGE OF NAVIES-J. 8., City. nnage of the United and that of Gér- Tlotlo, in nounced as is ILOILO—J. D., Vallejo, the Philippine Islands, is y if written Eeloeelo. The population estimated at 12,000. AND, INDIANA AND TEXAS— e area of England Is of Indiana 36,350 square s 265,78 square miles. i—J. T. B., City. at the Mark Hopkins Inst tute of Art been changed to the st Sunday in month. No passes are re- quired. * B CRIBBAGE—L. and in_ the for 31 and 1 for the The Honolulu is the same yet as it was prior Byron, Cal. rate of postage to United ~ States territory, namely 5 cents for half-ounce letters, pre- payment optional; postal cards, large size, 5 cents; small, 2 add 1 cent stamp on card; newspape: cent for 2 ounces. NAVIGATION — Anambulus, Frénch Camp, Cal The navigator determines latitude dnd longitude as a rule"by the sun, the sextant, ‘the compass and the nautical’ almanac. Such can be ascer- tained approximately by the north or po- lar star. That was the guide of old time navigators, but is not such with modern sailers of the seas. . TEMPERATURE—J. E. M., Oakdlale, Cal. The record of temperature for twenty years at_Stockton during the months of June, July and August show for the months in the order given: Ma mum, 79. § minimum, 54.5, & 88.5; mean, 66.5, 72,5, 73. For Sacramento: Maximum, 83. 88, 8); minimum, 57, 59, 58; mean, 70, 73, 72. MARE ISLAND—A. K,, City. It de- pends on what the correspondent calls Mare Island. The United States claims all the high lands that the public knows as Mare Island and in addition the salt marsh lands extending ten miles west- erly to the mouth of Sonoma Creck. The highlands contain less tnan 1000 acres, The adjacent lands, forming the island under_the Governmént claim, adds more than 5000 acres to the highland area. GENERAL EGAN—J. C. P., City. The military record of General Charles P. Eagan shows: August 30, 1866, second lieutenant, Ninth Infantry; January 2, 1869, first lieutenant same regiment: Jan.. uary 1, 1571, assigned to Twelfth infan- try; June 23, 1874, captain commissary of subsistence; March 12, 1882, major commis- sary subsistence; subsequently he rose by grades in the subsistence department. For gallant service against the Indians in tne Lava Beds in California on the 17th of April, 1873, breveted captain on the 27th of February. 1890. He was wounded in the Lava Beds. TATTOO MARKS—Two Subscribers, California. Inquiry is frequently made for methods for the successful removal of tattoo marks in the skin. While those are generally supposed to be indelible, if produced by some carbonaceous matfer, the Chemical News savs that the marks will disappear by being first well rubbed. with a salve of pure acetic acid and lard, then with a solution of potash and finally with hydrochloric a¢id. A person not used to the handHpg of such ingredients should do so only under the advice of a compe- tent physician. The operation of removal it F‘roperly carried into effect is not' pain- fuf, nor is it expensive. GLACIERS—K. C., City. Glaciers are not necessarily peculiar to any country or zone, but wherever there are mountains of sufficient height they may exist. In Europe they are chiefly confined to the Alps and Norway. - Having their origin in the region of perpetual snow, they reach far down into the valley, the largest push- ing themsclves furthest down. That of Bossous, at Chamouni, comes from the highest part of Mount Blang and reaches a point 5500 feet below the snow line where it is embosomed among luxuriant wood. The Himalaya has its share and there are many peaks in Andes that are flanked by glaciers. Tceland and Spitzen- bergen abound in them. And there are also the glaciers of the Sierra Nevada Range, which have been described by John Muir. — Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsends.* Special information business houses v !Lg:)lied daily to ¢ and public men b; Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 :}\'10(1:1: gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * ———— Fir will grow at as great an 6700 feet above sea level, yo!lu:lv“:)‘:l?ee ;?.‘ 6200 feet, ash at 4800 feet and oak at 3350 feet. The vine ceases to grow at about 2300 feet. A AR e e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothine Syrup” Has been used over fitty --ears by millions of mothers for their children whils Teething with perfect success. It sgothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colie, reg- ulates the Bowels and is (ks Sest remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be eure and ask for Mrs. ‘Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. ——— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantazs of the round-trip tickets. Now oaly $60 by ‘l‘?‘a?nhlp‘ including fitteen days' board at e ll;::er stay $250 per day. Apply at Wlgomery street, San Francisco. ———— SICK HEADACHE ~ABSOLUTELY AND permanently.: cured by using . Moki Tea. A picasant herb drink. Cures constipation and gestion, makes you eat, sleep, work and happy. Satisfaction back. AL Owt itaics tnT e o