The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRAN CiSCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1900 The Talsie Call. AN L ... ofeis cashbmm «sss-.s.APRIL 20, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. tddress Al C“mmun‘cn‘m;s‘ to W. S. LEAKE, Manager | {BLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, . F. Teleph Main 1S6S. 17 to 221 Stevel Main 1874, DITORIAL ROOMS... Telephone Delivered by Carrfers, 15 Cents Per Week. Sinzle Coples, 5 Centa. 11, Inclnding Postage: A 3.00 A 1.50 A e3c : 1.50 Y CA e Year 1.00 All postmasters mre authorized to receive eriptio be forwarded when requested. Sample coples w VAKLAND OFFICE .111S Broadway KROGNESS. . Marguette B lephone “‘Central 2615.”") ng, Chica SPONDENT: _Herald Square SENTATIVE: .30 Tribune Building CHICAGO House: P. O. WS STANDS: News Co.: Great Northern Hotel: Waldors-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unfon Square; Hotei. (D. C.) OFFICE ... Weilington Hotel ON £ CRANE, Correspondent. OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 800 Hayes, open untfl 8:30 o'clock. 639 open until 9:30 o'clock. 815 Larkin, open untll SRANCH 11 9:30 o'clock Me. $:80 c'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner nth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 3 a. open unti § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until . NW ner Twenty-second and Kentucky, o' clock elor's Romance.” koff and Hambourg this afternoon. of the Nile.” An Arabian Girl.” House—"'Cavalleria Rusticana.” Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and mpia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—! Park —Gentry’s Tralned Animal torium—Lecture. ng. ing, fishing, etc. n—Races t ialties. Show, entra every Sunday. at § o'clock, CHINESE BUREAU RECORDS. rers from China arriving i of twenty days China there pe ese ) claimed to be n ric brought 200, out of which num- ves of this o thas tor ad ives. On the Nippon are 200, port ssion, ng to be mn bee made of these Chi- have been admitted as merch he United State In these d, for the mat- No answer, how- Jackson, who but a ngness to have the ied and published for the infor- d who did, in fact, permit The igures which reveal the extent of ation duriry g the last three years, has ve access to the records he partment, and that hereafter he wi that respect. The order upon which the Collector relies for | authority to refuse to make public the extent of Chi- nese im on runs thus: “To Collectors and other officers of the customs: The department finds it mecessary to invite your attention to article 1166 of regulations 1892 (section 12,498), and o the portions in relation to inspection of rds and documents, or information ob- from, shall not be made or given except the cu or to person or persons interested therein or titled to such privilege the foregoing is enjoined Assistant Secretary.” The order is not grammatical, nor lucid, but ap- pears designed to prevent the private business of im- porters, contained in the records of the Custom- house, from being exposed to examination by rivals in business, or by any one not concerned in it. Su a rule is undoubtediy right, but it seems a strained A strict compliance with gned), O. L. Spauiding, ( construction to hold that the order denies the right of | the people to have information of matters which are of a public nature and which do not relate to private business any rate the language of the order con- fers upon the Collector the authority to determine who are.and who zre not interested in the records or itled to the privilege of inspecting them. It is upon him. therefore, the responsibility for the refusal rests. The people of California are undoubtedly inter- ested in C They are undoubtedly interested in the manner in which the exclusion act forced or evaded. To them the records of nese burcau are matters of public concern, they or their representatives of the press ation they are entitled to the privilege jese immigration. is being e ask for i of inspect of the I s of the bureau. be doubted that Collector Jackson received his new light on the subject and discovered | that he ¥ iolated orders in permitting The Call to is only after he became aware of the records are not creditable to his adminis- pect the re fact that t I ration gration of Chinese, and of the large proportion of the immigrants admitted as natives and therefore citizens of the United States, and confronted by the resulting play of popular condemnation, he now seeks to her exposure. The people of Califor ‘e from fu are not to know how many of recent importations | have been admitted. That is the sitnation, and intelligent men can their own conclusions of of Chinese :at it signifies The Democrats and Populists seem to have som- fficulty fusing. There is a difference of opinion to which shall play dog and which the tail. d i Carnegie’s recent donation to the Boston Library only $:100. and a suspicion is abroad that he is getting down to his small change. w He declares that when he | € the records and learning the full truth | z2ced with the proof of the enormous immi. | MR. CLEVELAND'S LETTER. HE activity of the anti-Bryan element in the T Democratic party is not confined to those who followed the National Democratic Convention ’oi Indianapolis. It is found among those who sup- | ported Mr. Bryan in 1896 on the score of regularity. | Both classes were represented at the dinner of the | | Brooklyn Democratic Club. Mr. Cleveland's letter | I‘clcarly indicates that his position is unchanged, and { that he stands where he was four years ago, and pre- | fers the defeat of Bryanism, which he regards as { Democratic only in name. He says: “There has | never been a time when false leadership of our party and a departure from simple Democratic faith have not been quickly discovered and ruthlessly rebuked by listless support, pronounced defection and bitter de- feat.” | Put against this Altgeld's declaration in his Albany | speech, and you have the great gulf that divides the Democracy of the country. The ex-Governor said: 1 “In 1884 and in 1892 we won. not by reason of anay thing we stood for, but simply because the Republi- | cans themselves were weary of their jeaders. But we stood for nothing, and were despised. We turned our | backs on Jeffersori and went chasing after the swamp lights of Hamilton, and men arose in their disgust and spat on us. The universal verdict of the Democ- racy is that our national triumph in 1884 and 1892 was a misfortune for both the country and the party, and I believe that a majority of the Democrats of | America would rather be defeated for all time than to have another triumph of that character.” Mr. Cleveland in his letter refers with severity to the Bryan-Altgeld Democracy as “a party of oppor- tunity, with sails spread for every transient breeze of pop! sentiment or excitement,” and that “the healthiulness of the party may well be questioned | when it shrinks from such an examination of its po- sition as will enable it to avoid disaster,” and that if those who claim to be the followers of Jefferson “i tlar in this time of doubt and temptation neglect such ex- | amination, these conditions should not continue with- out a brave and early Democratic protest.” It would seem that the leaders of the two wings have thus served notice upon each other and that neither will surrender. A very significant interpre- tation of Mr. Cleveland's letter was given at the Brooklyn dinner in the speech of ex-Governor Camp- bell of Ohio, a supporter of Bryan in 1896, who said: “The party of Jefferson cannot survive half Demo. cratic and half Populistic, but must repudiate the socialistic theories brought into it by the Populists. he 16 to 1 theory is dead, and as long as the Demo- crats proclaim their intention to resurrect it their own resurrection will be postponed.” He also reminded the company that “the army of voters have plenty of work at good wages, and it will be hard to enlist their co-operation to destroy oppression in Porto Rico or stay imperialism in the Philippines unless we first abandon the menace to th€ir own prosperity.” Bryan is an Against this is Altgeld’s declaration: idol, not a hero. I hear some men say, “Why could not Bryan consent to modify some features of the Chicago platform so that we could unite and then win? The moment Mr. Bryan consents to modify the Chicago platform in any particular, that moment he is destroyed There you have it. The position is more irrecon- cilable than in 1896. The party is to remain semi- | Populistic; is to go to the cemetery as a body | snatcher to resurrect a dead issue, and stay dead it- | seli. Tt is to remain a menace to the prosperity of the | great army of voters, and be “ruthlessly rebuked by listless support, pronounced defection and bitter de- Mr. Clevel nd won fairly his title of prophet in American politics, and the country is glad to agree with him in this latest expression. There is but a single drawback in the matter, and that is that he is betting on a certainty. The steamship China brought 137 coolies to this port. The Doric had 132 on board, and now the Nip- pon Maru is in the harbor with 266 more of “mer- | chants, students, tourists and native sons.” If this | procession keeps up Collector of the Port Jackson will soon have enough with which to open a new par- lor of native sons. The express companies have won a victory worse | than defeat in the decision of the United States Su- | preme Court that patrons of the monopolies must pay the war tax. The people do not readily forget or for- give robbery, even if it is official | | THE MORMCN INCREASE. HE clergy of other denominations have recently Ton several occasions girded severely at Mor- monism. The secular student of history and affairs always shrinks from an attack upon any form of the religious idea, for such attack invariably is fol- | lowed by the accession of converts to the idea that is | assatled. The annual conference of the Mormon church, recently held at Salt Lake, reported the past { twelve months to be the banner year in the history of the church. Its membership increased 20 per | cent. It extended its influence and its increase in numbers over Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. Such | marked progress, closely following the rigid enforce- | ment of the anti-polygamy laws and the escheating | of its secular property to the Federal treasury, stands in evidence of the value to the leaders of a religious cult of any policy that can be construed into perse- | cution. Of course the Mormon leaders will deny that | the progress of their church is due to such purely | material influences, and will claim that it is a mani- | festation of that supernatural favor of which they | claim to have been the beneficiarics ever since their | settiement in the wilderness of the Utah basin. | Still, from the clear-eved sccular view, it may ,be | claimed that the other sects make a mistake in dwell- ! ing too much upon their notion of Mormon imper- fections and too little upon the merits of their own belief. A | In these days a church makes but little headway by | devoting its time to telling how bad others are rather than in proving how good it is. The Mormon church is, in its essence. the greatest co-operative institution the world has ever seen. It can drop polygamy and flourish, as long as it adheres to the principle of co- cperation, about which so little is known or said by the outside world. The success of every Mormon settlement in the irtey-mountain region is due to intelligent direction of the settlers in the materialities which furnish their | daily bread. They are not permitted to make mistakes | in the character and fruitiulness of the land they take, | and do not lack intelligent direction in its tillage. They have but one responsibility, and that is the obli- gation to work. Industry, directed by experience, has produced a general condition of prosperity and comfort, and these, with a large percentage of man- kind, make easy the acceptance of any sort of politi- cal or religious vagary. We by no means intend to characterize the Mormon idea as a vagary, for that l would be injustice to the attitnde of several hundred thousand intelligent Americans who have found re- | ligious peace in its acceptance. Still, its success is [ | features in the measure. greatly due to the shrewd paternalism so wisely put in action by as intelligent a company of leaders of men as have been on the earth since the Hebrew na- tion flourished and expanded, largely by the same policy. Fortunately for them their church is safe from schism as long as its people are held together by external attacks. When these cease, the individuality, which no religious fervor can banish from mankind, will be asserted, and the Mormon church will decline from internal causes, as is the habit of all organiza- tions. /E\ gress is one by Representative Marsh of II- linois designed to extend military instruction to the public schools of the country. It has been fa- vorably acted upon by the Committee on Military Affairs and may possibly be brought before the House at this session. The bill provides that whereas the national defense must depend upon the volunteer service of the peo- ple of the several States, and whereas those cities and towns which shall adopt a system of military instruction in their public schools are entitled to the assistance of the Govern- ment, therefore the President may assign re- tired officers and non-commissioned officers, ser- geants, corporals, etc., “in the public schools of the various cities of the United States where such instruc- tion shall have been authorized by the educational authorities thereof, and where the services of such in- structors shall have been applied for by said authori- ties.” It is further provided that the city or town au- thorities shall pay the cost of commutation, of quar- OVERDOING THE SCHOOLS. MONG the bills recently introduced into Con- ters and the extra duty pay of the officer so assigned,, and that the Secretary of War shall issue ordnance stores to the public schools of any city or the nor- mal schools of any State which shall adopt military instruction as a part of its public school system. On the face of it the bill seems eminently com- mendable. It appears to fill éomething like a long felt want. There is undoubtedly a general yearning for military instruction, and it may be one of the things we need most in our national life. Beneath the surface, however, there are many objectionable In the first place it would be difficult to give in the public schools any military in- struction that would be of value in time of war either to the country or to the pupil. In the second place the -adoption of such an act would tend to start a rivalry among cities to have as much as possible of the new instruction, and schools that need all the money they can get to carry on the present courses of instruction would be,tempted to make expenditures for military tuition. Finally the children of our pub- lic schools are already overworked, their attention is scattered over too many different subjects, and they have now mbre studies than they can carry on with any profit to themselves or to the community. There are limits to the mental and physical powers of school children, but that fact appears to be over- looked. Efforts are being made to teach in the pub- lic schools every kind of knowledge and skill. Of course all knowledge is good. It would be very ex- cellent if during their schooldays our boys and girls could be taught everything about evérything, trained in morals, manners, industries, trades, lan- guages, music, art, gymnastics, golf and the art of war. If a child’s mind never flagged, if he could keep at school twenty-four hours a day, and if his child- hood continued for about fifty years, it might be pos and | ble to teach all such things with success. human nature being what they are, however, there must be some things left for people to undertake aiter they leave school. At this very time, while this Congressman from Tilinois is seeking to impose a new and additional training and burtlen upon the schools, there is a wail coming up from Chicago because the pupils in the schools there are not taught enough of grammar to write the language with a fair degree of accuracy, nor enough of any of the elementary branches of learning to have the basis of an education. A~ multitude of fads or fancy studies take up the time and the ener- | gies of the children, and they fail to acquire correct- ness in anything. Much the same complaint can be heard in all American cities. The public schools are being over- loaded with studies all along the line. Military in- struction may be a very good thing, but so is indus- trial instruction, and until we have taught the arts of peace in the schools it is not worth while to venture upon the arts of wa e As a challenger Collector of the Port Jackson is i eminently a more glittering success than he is as a | defender of his official conduct. Several days hav | passed since The Call defied him to throw the records of the Chinese bureau open to inspection, and the Collector is still silent. The activity displayed by John C. Lynch, Collector of Internal Revenue, in the affairs of Mexican Dan ought to suggest to the Collector or to the authori- ties at Washington that Mr. Lynch could be much more serviceable to the Mexican if he went south to join his chief. Democratic voters of this city can have at least one consolation in the plan of their managers to rob the rank and file of the right to choose delegates to the State convention. The delegates will have the un- comfortable sensation of sitting at their own wake. It is an even wager that if the unfortunate girl who poisoned herself in the park a few days ago had lived to-accept any of the proposals of marriage made by sympathetic swains she would have exchanged ons evil fate to accept another and worse one. —_— The military authorities at the Presidio will soon have a splendid opportunity of studying the work of the ambulance corps under most favorable conditions. The freshmen and sophomores at Berkeley are going to revive the annual “‘rusk The careers of three clergymen of this State, who are at present enjoying an unenviable ‘notoriety, indi- cate somewhat clearly that the path has some strange twists, even to those who know the foad. The local painter who discovered a new way to pay old debts by having himself registered as dead at the Morgue ought to celebrate his return to life by hav- ing his name placed in the list of births. The New York bricklayer who hanged himself on hearing that he had fallen heir to a great fortune probably wanted to prevent himself from dropping dead when he received the money. The Board of Education intends to make a study of municipal government compulsory in the schools. ‘What a frightful possibility this scheme presents for the development of countless Phelans. The Paris Exposition is open, but the exhibits are not open. The visitor can pay his money to go in, but will have no opportunity to take his choice about what he will see. Time and | straight and narow | PASTORS D of F has declared that in his op eled and revised. He says:* “We want a will not meet the necessities of the to do as much as it is doing with as we are tottering under in our pre keep in touch with the church throughout the the entire coast. but they say the principles annunc are they any the less in harmony with those. upon the coast: O+++ 4444444444444 4444 They cannot revise the confes- slon of faith. It has stood too long and too much to be changed now. Twelve years ago, at the Saratoga Assembly, it was decided to revise the confession, and the leading men of the church were glven the work. The revision was submitted at a subsequent assem- bly and it was rejected. It was found when the diction of the nineteenth century was placed be- side that of the seventeenth cen- tury that both were spoiled. The new was not so good as the old, and this was recognized at once. I am sure nothing will come from this demand for a revision. There are some points about the confes- sion which are hard for some peo- ple to understand, but it is only the officers of the church that are required to subscribe to it, and for them it should be something more than a few simple doctrines simply set forth. They need a confession of faith that deals with details; that covers minute points of doc- trine and that is comprehensive. The one we have covers everything and it covers everything minutely. It will not be revised. O s e e Y ] 4444444444444 444 4440 b3 + EVEREND JOHN HEMP- <+ R HILL, pastor of Calvary z Church: e S e e e e e e e e e e e R S st ] +- EVEREND W. E. DUGAN. 4 | R paster of the Memorial 4 | Church: . There seems to be a tendency in the East to revise crecds and con- fessions of faith. but the same de- sire does not seem to exist here. It might not be a bad plan to have a “working creed” for the use of the church members, the laity, but we should not think of doing away with the old confession for the ministry. Times haye changed since the Westminster Assembly and the application of the dec- trines annunciated have changed, but the doctrines themselves have not. For ingtance, at the time the confession of faith was adopted the doctrine of predestination was emphasized and was made the theme of most of the sermons. Now we seldom preach of it. Tn former times the various doctrines IFFER FROM PARKHURST Would Not Revise the Present Presbyterian Confession aith. Its Doctrines, They Say, Are the Same Now as Ever, and They Cannot and Shouid Not Be Changed. HE Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of New York, not being entirely satisfied with the Westminster Confession of Faith, inion it should be renewed, remod- new creed. Amending this one case.” He advocates a creed simple and concise, and, the inference is, omitting much that is in the present confession. He believes the creed should be brought up to date, as he says “it is surprising that the Presbyterian church is able such an incubus strapped upon us esent confession.” The sentiments of Dr. Parkhurst are not the sentiments of the Presbyterian ministers of this city nor of the State, for those here It is the opinion of some of the leading Presbyterian ministers here that the confession cannot well be revised. three centuries ago and was a reflex of the times they do not deny, That it was framed nearly iated then have not changed, nor with these days than they were Following are four ‘interviews that show the sentiment of the body of the Presbyterian church mn San Francisco, and probably 4444444444444 44 44440 EVEREND H, H. BELL, pas- ¥ tor First United Chure 1 We have no criticism to make of the confession of faith in this church, and we would not see it changed. Dr. Parkhurst has been quite on the liberal side of things for a long time, and it is quite pos- sible that there are many things about the confession of faith that he has never fully accepted, and from the report of his words it 1s hard to say just how far he would &0 in his revision. The confession in some ways is not up to modern conditions, but T would not change its sentiments nor its substance. T accept God as it has given him to me, and as I know him I give him to the world. I have seen no de- sire to have the confession revised, nor do I believe there exists such a desire to any great extent, at least out here. The confession as we have it has stood a long time, and it has not been found wanting. It has been found equal to all de- mands so far made upon it, and Jjust as it is I belleve it will do very well. It might be modernized in one or two ways to sult modern conditions, but the revision is not necessary, and I do not think it is generally desired. C+4+4+ 4444444404444 440@ O+++44444 4444440444440 > AR RS R R R R R R Ry ) R R O R R e = EVEREND EBER G. MA- 5 3 R-rm VA, pastor Olivet i Chureh: 1 can see no desire on the part of the Presbyterians here to change the confession of faith in any way. It has served every purpose, and any attempt to change it would arouse a_great deal of opposition. Among the ministers of the Pres- byterlan churches In this State I have heard no criticism of the con- feséion of faith. This may be at- tributed to the proximity of our San Francisco Theological Semin- ary at San Anselmo. There the teaching must adhere absolutely to the confessfon, but it is harder to here are loyal to it. The effect of this loyalty is naturally noticeable on the congregations. It is easy to criticize such an instrument as the confession, but it is harder to get another to put in its place. It of the confession were taken up in the pulpit and sermons were built upon them; now we use them in our sermons as principles, but we do not take them as subjects. Then the favorite topic was the justice and vengeance of the Lord; now it is his infinite love and mercy. So it is with the confes- sion. The doctrine of predestina- tion is emphasized: that of God's Jove is subordinated. The only re- vision possible is to change this form. vl‘he principles cannot be changed. 3 YT s R e s Y PERSONAL MENTI/ON. ISR RS SR 2 S SOPPPOY SN S O PP D @444 4444444440440 40000 HHEPEE4 4040 C+4++ 4444444444444 4444444444404 4444 W. Wahrlick, a merchant of Salinas, at the Russ. Digby Bell, the light opera comedian, is at the Palace. D. H. McEwen, a contractor of Pomo- na, is at the Grand. Phil M. Keefe, a mining man of Sonora, is at the California. Louis Dean, a_wealthy cattle man of Reno, is at the Russ. . Fred Cox, a banker of Sacramento, and his wife are at the Grand. Colonel W. W. D. Turner and wife of Spokane are at the Palace. A. L. Burbank, a real estate man of | Los Angeles, Is at the Grand. H. A. Hansen, merchant of Fortunza, Humboldt County, is at the Grand. L. A. Spitzer of San Jose, Assessor of Santa Clara County. is at the Grand. Professor Henrl de Regnier of Paris, the famous lecturer, and his wife are at the Palace. M. G. Mery. a merchant, and L. A. Me- Intosh, a mining man, both of Chico, ure at the Grand. A. C. Luke of Austin, Nev., manager of mining, ranch and railroad properties, is at the Palace. —_—————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 19, — Henry Schritzzebel of San Jose, F. W. Kemp of California and W. G. Felker of Santa Cruz are at the St. James. e r— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 19.—Willlam Beck- man of Sacramento is at the Gilsey. Rob- ert Oxnard of San Francisco Is at the Buckingham. Al e Camera Club Exhibition. The California Camera Club will give its regular monthly exhibition this evening. is made up of principles, and these cannot be revised. There are those in the church who would not for- sake the old beliefs. It would be interesting to know just what point in the confession Dr. Parkhurst would revise. He says the whole thing needs revision, but he says nothing of any special point or doe- trine, nor does he offer anything as a substitute. I think the con- fession is good enough as it is. 2 % .»¢¢¢¢4¢¢¢4¢4¢4¢¢4m; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BY REMBRANPT—T., Marysville, Cal, The plcture known fas “The Anatomical llénzszcture" was painted by Rembrandt in PEEE PP PP 4444400t 0440404 0404 THE NEILL-McCONNELL FIGHT— Subscriber, City. The fight between Neill and McConnell on the 224 of March, 190, terminated at 11: fi MARRYING SISTERS—W. E., Oak- land, Cal. If two men not In any way re- lated marry two sisters brother-in-law ta, his wife's sister, but there Is no relation by marriage between the men. LORD LYONS—Vallomrosa, Mendocino County, Cal. The late Lord Richard Bick- erton Pemmell, second Baron and Earl Lyons (IS11-15T7), was appointed Beii ish Minister to Washington, D. ¢ n i cember, 1838, PROBATE PROCEEDINGS — T., Va- llejo, Cal. If a man dies and a party has reason to believe that he or she is a ben- eficiary under the will o information on that subject may be o tained from the court in which i B ich the will THE PRESIDENCY—C. 8., City. The question of religion does not cut any fig- ure as to the eligibility of a native born citizen to become a candidate for the office of President of the United States. A man is not barred because he is either a Cath- olic, Protestant or member of any other church. HISTORY OF THE BOERS-L. M. C., City. If you will go to the Free Public Library and consult the monthly bulle- a list of books and periodicals that will give you all the information you desire about the Boers, their origin, rise and ;:‘t‘her matters of interest in relation tc em. MARU—C. W., Santa Cruz, Cal. The word maru used in connection with Japa- nese vessels means merchant. When the word maru follows the name of a vessel that signifies that the vessel belongs to the merchant marine, and if the word The pictures to be shown are from the Buffalo, Syracuse and Detroit Camera clubs. After the exhibition the following rogramme will be rendered: Tenor solo, &eor‘e A. Rice; elocution, humorous, .:h.n\?ench a iss Madge Ci ‘orcoran; fessor Be minyf the tes with kahn follows, that means that the vessel belongs td the Japanese navy. . LONDON—W. H. M., Laws, Inyo Coun- ty, Cal. There Is no certainty as to the foundation of London, England. Some :;:ert that a city existed on the site of present city of London 1107 years be- fore the m?: Christ and 354 ;eau be- fore the foundation of Rome. The Fa- MARSAAAAA RS S S S S S R D D DS PGP each becomes | f the deceased,{ - Gonsumption tin for November, 1899, you will find there | h state that of Geoffry of Monmou ® » g‘:r’\don was founded by Brute, a du?c%r::v ant of the Trojan Aencas, and called D o Troy, or Troy-novant, until the time of Lud, who surrounded it with IW:IE‘SL\‘:;"'; Lud gave it the name of Caer s “s. D., 61, it was known to the DL Bk B or Colonia Au- dinfum ur}‘\li\f residence of the mer- id that the name is de- the “town on the Romans as_Li gusta, and the ¢! chants. It is sal rived from Llyn-Din, lake.” e FOR OLD PEOPLE-S. L. R., Oakdale, Cal. There are a number n: hfln;r.;pm isco for the care of aged 0= i ent of the Old Peop Pine and Pierce streets, you wil i With & circular of informatio | Dished w o tfons under which guests are received. 5 S CONSTITUTION OF CALIFORNIA— T. M. L., City. The election for the -lP.;'- gates to the convention that rramial(;l: present constitution of the :S“’“?Tr?e - | fornia was held June 19. 1533. The Ceioc ates met in_ Sacramento :vpl:}r‘n > ollowing _and adjourned on the 3d of March, 1879. The ew const \:}‘va;‘r"f — ratified by the people on the ith of My following and it went into effect of Fourth of July. [STRIKE OF ITALIAN LABORERS From L'Ttalia. e Apropos of the strike of the Italian la- bur:rs pa: Croton Dam the San Francisco { Chronicle publishes a leader wherein it eritizes very bitterly the action of the | Italian workingmen who struck because | the contractors they worked for refused | to raise the wages from $1 25 to §1 0 a | have reported it | day. As the telegrams seems that in order to prevent d\sorde;: among the strikers a company of t i Vi f New militia from Mount Vernon, State o York, was called out, and untortunmelg one of the soidiers kiiled by an unknow: party, probably one of the strikers. No civilized and wise person would 897 prove this kind of killing of a so 4 who is summoned to the discharge of hi duty. We all agree to this point, but the Chronicle, which once more has been 1. spired by its ungenerous and stupid hf\ against the [talian people, in commenting on the fact which we ourseives condemn throws low insults and outrages against the Italian laborers in general. It prints that they are not good citizens; that they are not worth more than $125 a day; that they introduce into this country the prac- tice of assassination and defy the const tuted authorities in their efforts to main- tain peace, and rl‘ina_ll)"jpmles that its sym- athy is with the soldiers. X It A)S bad erough for a respectable Amer- jcan paper to take the part of contractors against honest workingmen, no matter | what may be their nationality, especially { when these strike for a most legitimate and reasonable motive, as it seems is the case with_the Italian laborers of Croton | Landing; but even admitting that the lat. | ter are wrong in_their action, this is mnot a good reason why a wholesale condem- | nation should be st upon a nationality | whose people, among tneir faults, have shown themselves to be very good citi- zens, obsequious to the American laws and constitution. Perhaps the writer of the Chronicle got his information agaipst the Italians from some barkeeper or 10w poil- tician who could not fool the Itallan voters and get their support. 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