The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1899, Page 3

IH ¢ FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST &, 1899 " McKINLEY AND HOBART AGHIN LIBERALS HOPE OR A VICTORY Prediction of <Ex-Mayor|Parliament Has All but Strong. G S ROOSEVELT NOT YET DU b WILL BE A STRONG MAN FIVE INCREASE OF MADNESS o YEARS HENCE. —_— Former Executive of America’s Mn-fcrnkur Denies That He Has Pur-| tropolis Says Greater New York Adjourned. e E|ELECTION NEXT | —_— JULY GREAT BRITAIN. e — | chased Muckross and Complains IN | | | | | 1 | | HAWAIIANS OPPOSE CONTRACT LABOR Planters and Citizens Alike Condemn the Present System and Point Out Remedies. BY HORACE WRIGHT. ONOLUL , July 29.—As every one Has Been a Disappoint- of New York Newspaper | tnterested is now discussing Ha- ment Thus Far. Tactics. | watlan labor problems I thought CErECS | s | that it would be a good idea to | ST | test the public pulse and scertain pecial Dispatch to The Call, | Copyrighted, 1899, by the Assoclated Press. | whether any practical solution could be e - | - | obtained from the collective wisdom of a SEATTLE, Aug. 5.—Ex-Mayor W. S.| LONDON, Aug. 5.—The sesslon of |some twenty score of representative men Strong of New York arrived here to- | Parllament practically ended yesterday | of “all sorts and conditions of men,” from day en route to San Francisco to meet | evening and the prorogation will take | the millionaire to the mechanic. 1 have gon, who is coming from Manila on | place on Wednesday. There seems to | addressed to them two simple qupsn:ns: the transport W 3 y s : of the : Are you in favor of retaining the Sl H:;;ubx\l‘i;.'x:‘n;?jnl,:; be a very general bellef that it Will be| penal contract labor laws? If not, have 2 the last full session of the present Par-| you any suggestion to make in con- next r will be McKinley and | liament, shrewd political prophets pre-| nection’ therewith to protect the em. Hobart. Discussing Governor Roose- | dicting that a general election will be| P iers of labor in thelr investments? e o | Have you any suggestion to make in York DU n i e e e witn e flcaleld CRCOPIC transforma- | 7 piantations and other industries? people of the whole country we think he tions occurring incessantly in foreign | x,u tnese very innocent and yet, me- SHould Serve Ivice aw Governor of onir politics, It Is difiedic to forceasts thed diviks mportait gusstions B wic At el e e ;'lg‘p,‘:‘m‘: make result of an appeal to the country, but a rumpus” By some interests they are h for t unless some coup rehabilitates the | regardea as being almost socialistic and e the Philippine question one prestige of the present Cabinet it is|as containing some deep laid scheme to iiherissues loft the mational Scampalen | ¢ Gifcult tolforatell a mbralldisaster | EUID o COMBEEY a";‘lhl‘l;;a?s;so;'r!:;:rl::‘:; c it e e el Snefins the shiabe OF am cnotmon de- | gratitude is expressed to The Call for en- D lden 1s Tot 8 Strong one:lcreased Conservatlye majority, al-}deavoring to: elicit iinformation.’ Cer- Jti-expansionists, but they though it is hard to indorse the opti- | tainly there are those who, like a wealthy d amount to very little »w | mistic views of the Libera who ap- | planter to-day, believe in an efficacious o parently are satisfied that a general | Private lobby rather than the expression tkeep it, must | Candid criticlgm, however, compels the | o¢ Hawaii will be respectably represented e to determine | Statement that there are too many shington during the next session of ment that | cross currents in the Liberal party to | Congress; but how the people will Is at he FIlipinos | aqmit of success until Lord Rosebery | present an unsolved problem, although a be will-| or another such Liberal Imperialist commi s talked of and be | arises to weld the various sections that | I think a sample of the answers recelved ol et now Followingl SiiCampbell Baxit | cver o slgnaiuresfolithe Bty s i rman, Sir William Vernon Harcourt Hon. P. C. Jones, ex-Minister of Fi- : e SR . nce, vice-president of the Bank o - and John Morley respectively, and to Rhec WIC-PIESCerd, Blalis "well known / | proclaim an aggressive programme in- iy his connection with the ancient and borough the taxp appointment etary of War h: ew York. DEWEY VISITED BY OFFICIALS OF NAPLES| Cruiser Olympia Will Remain in the Italian Port Eight or Hector D. thinks that in four | will have negative policy, ob- of stead of a narr which is con to pu structive tactics, so characteristic the present divergent leadership. The fifty-third report of the Con missioners of Lunac is unpleasant of | reading. It shows an appalling in- & e of madness. In England and o the lunatics on January 1 of the ,086, an increa present year totaled 10 of 3114 over 1898, the largest increase vet recorded. An analysis shows that this spread of lunacy is not confined to any one class, although naturally the largest increase is among paupers. The situation i rded so alarming that an e official inquiry is de- manded in and the best | means of ¢ | "'Richard Croker, before leaving Lon- TonDays don for Southampton, whence he sailed Aug. 5.—Admiral Dewey, Who | gor New York on board the American m Trieste on the | jjper St. Paul, said to a representative TonsLl of the Assoclated Press who asked him SsRsmD if there was any truth in the report ons, second sec- | that he had purchased the Lakes of Killarney: *I never heard of or knew anything about any sale of the Lakes of Killarney or Muckross Abbey until I read about it in the English papers. I expect to come back to London next spring for the usual three months’ ing. The New York newspapers won't allow me peace in my own country and I am compelled to come over here honorable firm of C. Brewer & Co., says: Steamship rac- | 1 am in favor of abolishing the pe- nal clause. T believe that employ be protected by adopting profit-sharing and similar means_of giving the la- borer an interest of some Kind in the enterpri 1 would have a fi 1ss man se- lected, to be paid a good, liberal sal- , to in tigate the labor problem i make reports from time to time, suggesting whence good men, who will sttie in the country, can be prc cured and the terms and conditions upon which they can be induced to come to the islan L. Wight, president Company, writes I am in favor of the present labor ws. The contracts are fully und, Jd by the laborers before they are rs of labor can of Wilder" entered There is no compuision used in the making of these contracts. Men who do not sign contrac ve no trou- ble in securing work on jlantations, but when work is scarce the free la- borer is discouraged. The contract insures to iaborers regular emplcyment, a house, fuel, water (where water s scarce), good medical attendance, all free of cost. 1t insures to employers a stated num- ber of men at stated wage 1 can no fault in our present sys- tem. Smart, pro nt men v noc need assistance in coming to this coun- 1 a contract with w of the | try, nor do tiiey ne Tt §s now | for it. English newspapers don’t med- | an employer to secure steady work at here only | dle with a man's private affairs, g(im! \\ugl; 2 A = while in America reporters are watch- mprovident, la; jmen I Ing my house and following me about | to be assisted to come to the cOun: EPIDEMIC OF YELLOW B e nd "o “penal contract tx “Why, 1 can’t even go out of town Young men who have not been able FEVER IS ABATING ! without having a lot of reporters on| to save enough money at the rate of the train with me, who are going to \ifing in the home country print the name body 1 speak torcas bece v e No New Cases and Only One Death | to and publish everything I do. [T '.’fr.\“u‘m'§u‘<'-¥:‘\"~lnff.‘f?\ Is the Day’s Record at the “1 was driven away from America t0| ,; jqvance in wages over those Hampton Home. find my pleasures and then accused of | 45,y ‘the contract. I am empl Sy 5 being un-American because I come| young men, Portuguese, who cam ON .—Surgeon Gen- | gyer here for a little rest here under contract, at_the following f e hospital ser-| ~ “] am perfectly s fied with my | salaries: $110, $80, $75, $70 and $10 per i 1 a telegram from | treatment here. I have not won many | month 8 the Hampton Soldiers’ | races thus far, but I am not losing any- | Hon. Willlam O. Smith, ex-Attorney he said the yellow fever | thing by my stables. It takes a long | Ger , s No mew cases| {ime to form a good racing stable, be- I am not in favor of refaining tha Wasdi use the only way to get good horses| penal contiact system which has her o the | i to breed them yourself. I expect to| tofore been enforced in these islands W He had con reed some good ones by and by from i i?'r‘o et io o the public 1 and Colonel | Dobbins and Americus, and I shall i N Yarirers lintro rd of Manag keep on racine just the same. win or | queced from foreign countries ha nat the situation was I have five horses racing now | mainly Asiatics without families. i vo cases a that will continue to run during the | class of people, as a rule, do not = etta, Domineer and Bowling Green.| FTOT0 nien and the difficulty of iden- STRIKE IS BREWING. Bowling Green is a three-year-old 1T| jigeation and their lack of knowledge bought at mu}nh,\’:nh! mTA\LluHSOX; of civilized institutions the ('u"ilrl ct ; Square Garden for $12 0-day System as heretofore enforced ha Stockton Street Railway Employes | 2013 ¢ take $1500 for him. The only | been of great benefit in maintai Have a Grievance. horse, Wishard, my trainer, bought for | law and order, and has been some STOCKTON, Aug 5.—Trouble is brewing | me over hers was a vearling filly, for SX\A‘_‘:"“”";*I‘"‘,";;FZ{ ;}rf“ e among men loyed by the local | which he paid £60. 1t O rutore for agricultural treet railwa il it wonid ot I believe that it is for the best a strike occurrec est of the planters and of the commu- he dissatisfaction BUSINESS MEN WILL N should be mada JODL o be donped to to encourage Amerlcan and Buropean thelmen annss giye FIGHT THE BOYCOTT | farm laborers to come here. Much, LSOt erse ybet doubtless, can be done to encourags P A T these classes to come by means of co- to what Operatives | o)y a Meeting and Passed Resolu-| operative and profit-sharing method company long employed i The Rev. Sereno E. Bishop, D.D., en- r"\I em ;mm.l. pensive. CLEV tion's Do IL', joys an international reputation as a sci- akes the give bonds the suret LEVELAND, Aug. 5.—About 250 repre- | entist and scholar, and also is the editor H mpany will Supply men {0 do the spying, | Sentatives of leading houses have signed | of one of our pioneer papers, the Friend. The men object to paying from thelr small | resolutions denouncing the boycott of the He is, furthermore, like W. O. Smith, of earnings for espionage upon them: striking street car men. pioneer missionary stock. He says: When the order is promulgated some d The business agent of the strikers is- The penal contract labor laws shouid eisive action by them may result. sued a statement this afternoon in which | be abolished. R o he says the strikers are not back of the No protection is needed if the em- Stringing Santa Fe Wires. | boycott movement. He says they are| ployers treat their laborers well and 1,08 ANGBL Aug. 5—The Santa Fe ful to their sympathizers who have give them good houses in place of the now has 165 own' wires {nto Bakersfeld ned from riding on the cars, but| present barracks. T stringing of wires from Barstow to they are not enforcing the boycott to pun- Assisted labor from Europe should Bikershield was completed yesterday. ' ish people who are willing to ride on the| be permitted to enter under con- gervice will at once k‘;n <-.-mmuo;£ from Ba- | 4[5 TobTiEE BeRinace S tine tract. 5 o k kersfield into San Francisco by way of - - e . W. F. Frear, Associate Justice o Stockton along the right of way of the |Statement from Mayor Farley about “pro- gh]:nsx:lprnmo Court and one of the Ameri- Bk i Baley road. The wire from | fessional labor men.” in which no names Ui% $iCENC " Gommissioners, writes: P erafiild "north will. it is expected, be | were mentioned. but in which the Mayor o operation within sixty days. Although | severely scored the agitators. This affer- The penal contract labor laws should the e hes proper are equipped | noon Peter Witt, a Populist orator, be abolished. The penal enforcement with Weste 'n telegraph offices the | brought suit for $10.000 damages against | of labor contracts is not necessary to fan Joaqy road has Postal wires | the Mayor and each of the two papers| protect employers in their invest- along th The completion of the | that published the statement, claiming| ments. Employers would have no dif- San Doint Riohmond thus gives | that the Mayor referred to him. Mayor | ficulty In retaining laborers in suffi to t | anoiher line into San Fran- | Farley says he does not know Witt and clent numbers and at satisfactory clsco | never saw him. wages on their plantations if there were a sufficient number of laborers — — in the country. In order to assure the existence of a sufficient number in the ADVERTISEMENTS. | enintry proper means should be em- e e T P saneae il lovedt;, fiTst; to” Induce themiito icome, and, second, to induce them to stay, especially the latter. One of the best [} means of accomplishing this is to change the labor system in such a way L as o make it attractive to persons other than Asiatics and then to ascer- Wise Words to Sufferers fain the best sources of such other classes of labor and acquaint them with the facts. R 5 | A scientific man should be employe FAEE | s and the sources of labor su X wil mail, frec of eny charge, this Tome Treat.| Slawhere 4nd (0 make recommenda. ment with full instructions and the history of my own | tions as to the best labor system to case to any lady suffering from female trouble. You be adopted here and as to the best can cure yourself at home without the ald of any | <gurces of labor supply to be drawn physician. It will cost you nothing to give the | ypon. A scientific man is needed just treatment a trial,and if you decide to continue it | »% much for the investigation of the will only cost you about twelve cents & week.| japor problem as for the investigation It will not interfere with your work or_occupation, of problems of cultivation and manu. 1 have nothing to sell. “Tell other sufferers of it— | {yecture. This man should not be mere- thatisall Iask. Itcures all, young or old. | fae e callaa “practical” man. He A~ If you feel a_bearing-down sensation, sense of | should be a thcroughly scientific man. impending evil, pain in the back or bowels, creeping | F. A. Hosmer, president of Oahu Col- feeling up the spine, a desire to cry frequently, hot | lege, states: flashes, weariness, frequent desire to urinate, or if you T am not in favor of retaining the bave Leucorrhea (Whites), Displacement or Falling | pefai contract labor laws. . of the Womb, Profuse, Scanty or Painful Periods, | “'The best solution of our labor prob- ‘Tumors or Growths, address MRS. M. SUMMERS, | jom appears to me to be co-operation, NOTRE DAME, IND., U.S. A., for the FREE | guch as can be found to-day on the TreATMENT and FULL INFORMATION. | Ewa and Kona plantations. Thousands besides myself have cured themselves with it. 1T send it in plain wrappers | g, pyul Neumann, also an ex-Attor- TO MOTHERS OF DAUGHTERS 1 wil expiain 'n/sllmpllerflfili;l‘;{z:x:“xztfi::flgx ysp.::n v and | ney General, saye: effectually cures Leucorrhea, Green Sickness and Painful ot Irre tr: oung_ladies. | It witl x!rt you anxiety and expense and save your daughter the ‘humiliation of explaining her h11w:l'fl ;;_ lx!:lttla‘-‘;nnl;:ahfl?flr:g‘:gun::; troubles toothers. Plumpness and health always Tesult from its use. | nes wall wegulated wepnbics, Yo ane Wherever you live I can refer you to well-known ladies of your own state or county whoknow and | o 'not favor them in the Hawallan will giadly tell any sufferer that this Home Treatment really cures all diseased conditions of our | Jglands aside from their being In con- deiicate female organism, thoroughly strengthens relaxed muscles and ligaments which cause dis- | travention of the laws of the United placement, and makes women well. Write to-day, as this offer will not be made again. Address States, 1 ?leg to refrain f;am sugges- tions for the protection of employers. MRS. M. SUTTIERS, Box 34, Notre Dame, Ind., U.S.A. | {05550 00y Rave hitherto been well able to take care of themselves, and will, I hope, continue to do so. T do, however, not object to being con- sulted upon that point in a professional way. Only this: Let Congress repeal the laws against contract labor and t- ad Immigration. There is no ‘*rason d’etre” for such legislative stupidities. James W. Girvin, accountant, formerly Hawailan_Consul at San Diego, and for the past five years in charge of Chinese {mmlgration to this country, write I am not Interested to one cent in the products of contract labor. 1 have en it in operation for over thirty ars and have seen it rarely abused %? the employer. Occasionally an em- ple abus er who has risen from nonentity hundred instances_to one the laborer s the trust reposed in him. In a takes advantage of his position to the loss of his employer. In over % per cent of contracts made the contract acts merely as an imaginary fence. The rare instances in which the par- venu or some one put In authority abuses his position have been so maz- nified that “‘contract system” has be- come a bughear. I think the system could be dis- pensed with if there no longer 1 A necessity for advancing the passuge money of the laborer. An unbiased Legisiature should have the deciding as to retaining the penal contract Liw. sidar a proffer to share the prof- h the laborer will be induce- ment sufficient to bring all the re- quired labor to the country. The world so full of laborers in need of work good agents could select from ev- nation thousands of men who would make good citizens and tillers of the soil. Occasionally the agents would be deceived, but to no greater extent than other employers now are. A dive of people is a desideratum. No one race should be brought in dis- proportionate numbers to others. Professor M. M. Scotf, principal of the High School, says: opposed to penal have no sug- I am emphatical contract labor law to the “protection labor” unless it is gestion to make of the employers protect themselves. tor of our to let the laborer; Monthly, Hon. H. M. Whitney, the Ne | press and editor of the Planter. | sayvs | I have always preferred free labor where obtainable. Whether this is prac- ticable or not in our isolated position remains to be seen. If the same method of obtaining la- bor from Europe is allowed to us as is the custom of the United States I see no reason why there should be any scarcity of labor in future from Japan | or the Philippines. This latter country may soon be the open door for us in this respect | Hon. A. V House of Representative No, I am not in favor of ref the penal contract labor laws consider that they were done aws with when the American flag was ed here, notwithstanding the de- cisions of the Supreme Court to the contrary. I believe that the employers of labor should look after their own protection in their investments and that with proper treatment of their laborers there will be no serious difficulties In the labor market Capital will command labor and the | problem of securing sufficient labor for the needs of our agricultural in- dustries is not a difficult one if labor- re properly treated and sufficient- a waiian the Ha say r of Wallace R. Farringt editor of the Evening Bulletin, write; Emphatically no. The best protec- tion 1 can suggest is the speedy ex- tension and strict enforcement of the constitution of the United States and n labor laws. Since our ni ettled the question of human t a cost of milions of dol- and thousands of lives it ill be- ny citizen of the United States t a reconsideration of the Ame tion ha! slavery 1 comes to reque problem. A purchase the value of which de- pends_upon penal contract labor laws | should be promptly confiscated like any other contraband American goods, Sugar production is the only indus / threatened by insufficient la- s yet to be proved that the institution of the profit-sharing system will not solve this problem. Henry Smith, attorney and chief clerk of the Judiciary Department and an Ha- waiian, sa I am not in favor of retaining the penal clause to labor contracts A. S. Humphreys, a leading lawyer, who ates that 11 investments are in sugar securities vs: Emphatically no. The emplovers of labor here need no protection in their investments except such is afforded to such employers in other civilized countries. Legislators are concerned in other countries about protecting la- bor against ¢ pital. The employers of labor in these i islands can easily stand an increase in wages of 50 per cent, and with such increase a sturdy Anglo- Saxon yeomanry can be secured for our plantations. In these islands, the laws now ex complacent officials. the laborer garded as neither worthy of his hire is liberty. not possible to secure self- respecting white men to work on our plantations, under penal contracts, for 15 or $20 a month. Plantations that ave paying 50 per cent on watered stock e it in their power to dispose of what they are pleased to call the “la- bor problem’ by paying better wages. Bruce Cartwright, general insurance agent, say I believe in contract labor laws with- out the penal clause. 1 further pelieve in vagrancy laws and their strict en- forcement. I have every confidence in the wis- dom and ability of the members of the Planters’ Labor and Supply Company, and believe them able to cope with the labor question intelligently. George A. Davis, another of our promi- nent lawyers, says: As long as Asiatic labor is imported and employed the penal clause is the only protection that capital has, and it should stand. If white labor can be employed and do the-work on the plan- tation the clause must be repealed. I must confess that I fear that the work in the canefields cannot be performed by white laborers. The business interests of the country must be protected. Congress should give the planters time in the matter of the penal clause as to Asiatic laborers. Corporal punishment should be done away with, and any manager who al- lows it on the plantations should be prosecuted. I would like to see the negroes of the South sent here in large numbers. They can do the work and would make good citizens if treated properly. Frederick W. Hankey is one of the bright lawyers who have recently joined us from the mainland. He says: No. Capital protects itself. The most engrossing prcblem of the age is as to how labor shall be protected, not alone from motives of justice, but to solve a question vital to the endur- ance of free government. Wipe out the disgraceful statutory laws called “penal contract laws.” They should have no place in the laws of American territory. 1 think free white labor can be se- cured and that proper wages can be paid and the stock companies still avold bankruptcy. The climatic con- ditions do not seem to me unfavorable. Fred Wunderberg, formerly very promi- nent in Hawalian affairs but now a capi- talist retired on sugar stock, says: I am not and never haye been in favor of the penal feature in the con- tract system. The vagrant laws if properly applied would in a large measure compensate for the loss of the contract system. This i a vexed question and has been talked and written about ever since T can remember. Numerous ox- periments have been tried and nearly all have proved failures with the ex- ception of the Chinese and Japanese. | tractor | and Stripes | home This is a tropical country and the only industries that have thus far proved successful are sugar and rice, and tak- ing our past for a standard it is safe to say that these could never have reached any proportions were it not for Asiatic labor. Hon. Alatan T. Atkinson, member Ol; the Hawaiian House of Represemauves.l ex-Inspector General of Schools and of the Census of 189% and now editor of the | Hawalian Star, writes: I am entirely opposed to the penal clause in labor contracts. 1 do not think special laws should be made with regard to the protection of employers. I believe that the law of supply and demand, which is above all human leg- islation, will regulate the matter sat- isfactorily. Wherever there is a demand for labor, if it is made known to _the proper sources, labor will come. I do not think that the Government should meddle in the matter. It should be left entirely to the energy and push of the employers of labor to supply their wants, Edmund Norrie, editor of the Independ- ent, writes The present labor laws are infamous and should be repealed at once. When employers of labor will be satisfied with reasonable interest on their in- vested capital and pay proper wages their investments will be amply pro- tected. All necessa labor can be obtained as soon as fair wages are offered and the words “‘cheap labor” stricken from the planter's dictionary. Dr. W. S. Noblitt, who has been a firm | friend to suffering ‘plantation hands and poor laborers, writes: No. Let the present law of no exemp- tion remain, and then if a laborer vio- lates his agreement let the planta- | tion garnishee the laborer's wages when he gets new employment in case the laborer has not paid the planta- tion all he owes it. Let the planters get laborers from America. There are thousands of able- bodied young men in the Middle States working for 312 and $15 per month during six months of the year and the remaining six months are practically idle. These men can be in- duced to come her Charles L. Rhode Hawaiian Star, writ I am decidedly opposed to retaining penal enforcement of labor con- Indeed 1 would like to see a city editor of the | special session of the Hawailan Leg- islature called at once to repeal that feature of the law. 1 do not belleve | the penal enforcement of labor con- tracts considered in all its effects and | influences is of any real benefit to em- | ployers of labor; hence the repeal of this feature would call for no legisla- tive substitute. The q f a supply of laborers will work itself out. During the work- ing out process and period there may be and doubtless will be rassment and difficulty. rassment and difliculty industrial administraf dealt with by the individual émployers of labor. The planters, for whom the greatest concern is expressed, seem to me embar- This embar- s a matter of detall to be be addressing themselves with hon- and sagacity to the subject. With- in the principles of freedom to con- tract and fair dealing they ought not to be hampered. 1 will close by borrowing an idea from | a distinguished friend, who for forty | years h fought the abominable penal law. He is of opinion that sooner or later there will be established a company of Americans who will guarantee the piant- ers against the desertion of their laborers | scure them against the loss of the ivanced to the laborers for their money. The field is open. -r 2000 Japanese have been landed in this port within the last thir s, 1500 more are on the road hither and 5000 others have been arranged for in Japan and are only awaiting the signature of the contracts to invade the island. In course of time these laborers desert the sugar plantations for the better wages of the coffee into town or tractors. An found in Hawaii, where has obtained value of $11,000 out of $1 both Hawaiians and Portugu are cheaper than Chin es and thence migrate road-building con- is to be g become instance in point A to underbidding , and the s not yet leaked out, but I have it from very good authority that the rep- resentative of one of our leading plan- tations calculated upon obtaining a_few from California, where the field labor is much cheaper than the wages demanded by the free laborers among the Chinese now here and who, in all grades of employment, are demanding higher wages. Believing that as the Stars now waved over his island an _integral part of the he proceeded to interview ates special agent for Chi- nese immigration, Mr. Brown, as to the best and most facile method of importing them from the mainland. He was astonished at learning that the flag cut no figure in this case. Hawaii I3 to all intents and purposes a _foreign -ountry with the ban upon it. Waile it is a part of the United States vet Chinese annot be imported from any other por- tion of the United States. No Chinese can land here except those permitted to land hundred Chinese it wa United Stat the United Si ADVERTISEMENTS. Thousands of sick and suffer- ing people are like the poor cripple in the Bible, who had no one to help him down to the life-giving pool before some one else slipped in ahead of him. So many suf- ferers feel that if they could only geta little | help to over- come their ex- treme weak- VRS ness they 2 would then be sble to regain their coveted health and strength. It is just these people that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is designed to aid. It is the strong, helping hand for those who are in the extreme of bodily weakness and nervous exhaustion. It promptly tones, nourishes and builds up the entire system. It gives keen appe- tite, good digestion, pure blood, muscular strength, nerve-force and renewed activity. “ When I first wrote you I was completely dis- couraged,” says Mrs. W. M. Satterly, living at Richford, Tioga Co., N. Y. (P, O. BOX 40), in a letter to Dr. Pierce. ‘I was in pain all the time, could not lie in bed on account of severe, sharp cutting pains i my back and right hip. Had pain all through the lower part of my body and my elbows hurt me so much I could scarcel: lit my baby. My skin was dry, harsh and scaly and hung like sacks on my arms. My husband called the doctor, and he said it was weakness, and m . His medicine did me no good. I kept getting worse and weaker. It seemed 1 should go crazy. One day I wrote you and received advice. I have taken Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, his ‘Fa- vorite Prescription ' and ‘ Pleasant Pellets,’ and now I can lie in bed with some comfort and can do a good day's work. " The most valuable book for both men and . women is Dr. Pierce’s Com- mon Sense Medical Adviser. A splendid 1008-page volume, with engravings and colored plates. A copy, paper-cov- ered, will be sent to anyone sending twenty-one cents in one-cent stamps, to pay the cost of mnhng only, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Cloth-bound, 31 stamps. i under the special exempt clause, such as merchants, etc. No Chinese laborer can land here no_matter whence he came. Perhaps evén a mrore Interesting fact connected with the labor system is the resignation of J. F. Hackfeld, the Consul for Austria-Hungary, under whose pro- tection the imprisoned Galicians were presumed to be. Mr. Hackfeld’s public explanation of his resignation is that he finds it embarrassing to be at the same time a stockholder in a sugar plantation and a Consul having to listen to com- laints of laborers embployed on that plan- ation. The affairs of the Consulate have been temporarily handed over to F. A. Schaefer, the Consul for Italy and dean of the Consular corps, a gentleman who is to a large extent in the same embar- rassing duality of responsibility. It is un- natural, of course, to presume for one moment that the revived story of the im- prisoned Galicians and the charges of cru- elty they have recently brought have any- thing to do with the ex-Consul's action; but while the Government remains very reticent as to its intentions I have grounds for stating that a careful but quiet inves- tigation into these charges of gross cruelty —which, curiously enough, were never brought at the time of the arrest nor until two of the Fr!nclpal witnesses had passed out of sight with a German friend of so- clalistic tendencies—is being made not only by the Government immigration offi- cials but also by private attorneys for the different interests concerned. I have conversed with the warden of the priscn, Mr. Henry, and also with the editor of the Independent, Mr. Norris, who first called attention to the gross in- justice attaching to the imprisonment of these men, and both state emphatically that until the interview with the editor of the Volcano no mention of such cruelty had been made by the men. Mr. Henry states that the interview was an honest one and honestly reported, but he thinks it strange that they had never told him previously that they had been brutally treated. e imputed the trouble to their being absolutely green hands at any kind of field labor and to the natural irritation of lunas who did not speak their language. His lunas had consider- able trouble to teach them road-making, but with kindness and patience they have become willing workers and expert at their work. But they will not listen to his advice to 0 back to work on the plantation, hold- ng that they understood before they left Bremen that they were to be emploved at their different mechanical trades and to have a house and lot of land. This matter has now reached such a stage that a demand has been forced for prose- cution either of those publishing the facts of the alleged cruelty or of the plantation lunas for committing it, and the resigna- tion of Mr. Hackfeld will probably expe- dite matters. I have been reliably informed this morn- ing that it is the intention of a number of the opponents to the penal contract labor laws and to the continued incar- ceration_of the imprisoned Galicians and other laborers to raise a fund by private subscription to send an attorney to Wash- ington to confer with the Washing‘on au- thorities in regard to the constitutlonality of this imprisonment under existing con- ditions. The name of George D. Gexr, formerly of the California bar, is men- tlrl}n'd as the special commissioner. An effort is also being made to induce the Government to call an extra session of the Legislature to repeal the penal law. SUMMONS SERVED ON LITTLEFIELD LYNCHERS Two Men to Be Tried for the Murder Committed Three Years Ago. COVELO, Aug. 5.—Deputy Sheriff Greenwell of Trinity County to-day served a summons on Fred Radcliff to appear on August 15 at Weaverville for trial for complicity in the Littlefleld lynching. Radcliff was employed by John Matthews of Eden Valley, fifteen” miles south of Round Valley. He is under a $10,00 bond flled about three years ago. Deputy Sheriff “‘Greenwell also served summons on Thomas C. Hayden, who lives in the southern part of Trinity County, on the same charge. ————— Crocker’s Offer Considered. SAN JOSE, Aug. 5.—A meeting of grape growers of the county was held here to- day to consider H. J. Crocker’s proposi- tion for a seven-year contract, $14 to be haid for all grapes except Malvoisie and Mission, for which $12 will be paid. A few signed the contract but the majority Wanted further time for consideration. A committee to obtain signatures was ap- pointed. NOT ONE PAYING CLAIM AT NOME Thus a Returned Miner Declares. Zali ENTIRE COUNTRY IS STAKED 2 — ARGONAUTS GET NOTHING FOR THEIR TROUBLE. B Twenty-Five Hundred Persons Are Camped at the Beach, With No Means of Getting Out of the Country. . BY HAL HOFFMAN. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 1 (via Seat- tle, Aug. 5).—The truth about Cape Nome, if anybody wants to read it, has come to the surface at Juneau. It came down from the far north last night on the Pacific Steam Whaling Company’s well-known steamer Excelsior, which has carried so much treasure from the north to San Francisco and which is now running from Juneau to the west- ward, along with a number of dlsap- pointed gold seekers from Cape Nome, Valdez and St. Michael. A sad feature of Cape Nome is that the experience of Copper River is likely to be repeated there. James White, an old miner and pros- pector of Juneau and well known here, came down on the Excelsior from Cape Nome. He went there with “Jack” Mc. Question of Yukon fame in the first rush from Dawson last spring. Mr. White said: “Cape Nome is a frost. There is not a clalm in the country that can be made to pay. At first two or three prospects went 75 cents to the pan at the rim, but that soon played out. There is not a paying claim in the dis- trict. “In Snow and Anvil gulches, on Snake Creek, there were a few good prospects at first, but that is all. The further down you go into the ground the worse it gets. You find two or three feet of loose chicken-feed gravel, then a layer of ice, then some more gravel and then some more ice, and so on. That stuff can't carry gold, and it don’t. “There isn’t any wash gravel in the country. The whole country is staked for ‘thirty miles from the coast. This is true of Snake Creek and another creek which heads up_ into the same range of mountains. Most of the lo- cations have been made by power of attorney. There isn’t a stick of timber in the whole country as big as your wrist. Willow switches sticking up out of the snow and gravel show the boundaries of the claims. “Down on the beach about 2500 peopls are camped. All the ground is taken. They don’t know which way to go or what to do. It's a case of stay there till the food is eaten—and then what? Many haven’t enough money to get out of the country. Food is cheap—eggs are 75 cents a dozen and potatoes 10 cents a pound. We went there to buy some claims, but concluded we did not want any of it.” “Jack” McQuestion went to San Francisco on the steamer Bertha. Varden Wins at Golf. LONDON, Aug. 5.—Harry Varden won the 18-hole golf competition at Buxton to- day by a score of 77. In buying clothes you have to depend largely upon the word and reputation of the merchant. Goods can look fine—the ap- pearance be first-class; but if they are not all wool the goods won’t wear as well. When we tell you that these $8 ready-made suits are all wool you can be assured that they are. Would .we give you the guar- antee that we do and not sell you what you think you are getting ? Certainly not. You can count on what you buy of us. Here’s your protection: Money returned if you want it; or Suit kept in repair free for one year, Can you buy clothes more favorably? Boys’ Sailor Suits. 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