The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1900, Page 6

P . X HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ATURDAY; JULY 21 1900. —-——M ABOLISHING GOVERNMENT. HE Democratic platform this year contains some features more objectionable to Democrats than that of 1896. Certain features in it indicate the insidious invasion of the party councils by those sinister principles which, pretending the elevation of man, mean the de- struction of government. At the close of our Revolution there were expressed some extreme views on the subject of government. The period of incubation of a representative Democ- racy, which occurred under the old Confederacy, had | by 1789 produced a public opinion that was the matrix of the constitution. That opinion favored just what ¥Jefferson wrote into his first inaugural, which ! was the Democratic creed until 1806, when the party | was inoculated by a strange virus, made up of a mix- | ture of the views of Fourier, Karl Marx and the | anarchists, socialists and nihilists, who, while differing | in motives and methods, all focus and agree upon the | destruction of government in all its existing forms. particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order : %o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. | Inasmuch as the Kansas City platform accudes the | o, SO LS | Republican party of imperial views and sounds the B e e o0 o'chsi. &1 | 2larm to rouse public fear over such a change in our untl] §:30 o'clock. 30 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. e iy o4 5 L McAliister, open until $:30 c'clock. 16 Larkin, open untll | cyctem of government as imperialism implies, it is well to see what change is introduced by carrying the +30 o'clock. 15 Mission. open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market. Democratic platiorm into effect. “orner Sixteenth, cpen untll § o'clock. 1086 Valencia. open wntll § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW cor- In 1896 the party was toying with the influence which is against all government, and gratified it by Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. proposing to destroy the courts and take away the judicial protection of property. That was gratifying to all the nihilistic cults in the country, for, as we have said, they all agree upon the destruction of government. - But the party in 1806 could not be persuaded to adopt the phraseology of the destroyers, which they have selected as a lure to the American voter, because it flatters him by ascribing to him the capacity to act executively, legislatively and judicially. At Kansas City, however, this last step was taken and the plat- form demands “direct legislation.” That is the refer- endum. It was proposed to the Populist National Convention of 1892 by a small anarchist and sociali group therein, but was rejected. The Populists in 1896 adopted it, however, and now, four years later, the Democracy takes it from them. | Direct legislation means something, and what it means should be inquired into. Its purpose was amply divulged in the stormy discussion of it which agitated the Populist party during the four years in which that organization was falling under the in- fluence of the furies porting Mr. Bryan SATURDAY. ~JOHN L. SPRECKELS, Fropretor. fddress All Communica‘ions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE Telephone Pres ;Bfl PUNLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 3. F. Telephone Press 20 EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press Z0Z. Delivered hy Carriers, 156 Simgle Coples. 5 Terms by B DAILY CALL (including 8 DAILY CALL docluding Sunday), § mont! CALL dncluding Eunday), 3 months. CALL By Single Month Cents Per Week. P ubscriptions. Sample ccples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in orgering change of address should be AMUSEMENTS. Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties eater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Autumn Leaves* Basebal all—Txhiby pen nights. on of Painting. AUCTION SALES. his ‘l; Vu 2 o'clock, Furniture, at 773 Thursday, July 26, at 11 o'clock, at 1782 Market street. PRCBATE REFORM. IT of the exposure, confession and punish- O ment of the wretches who have criminaily e courts there should issue yuch others who work the same Aiter all, Chretien took only he same result that is reached far as estates and rightful heirs nd fusionists who are now sup- It means, primarily, the abolition of Congress and the formulation of legislation by direct vote of the people. Its advocates found it easy to get converts even then the courts and the constitution were in the way. The courts pass upon acts of Congress, and if found obnoxious to the constitution they are void. The real quarrel of the proponents of direct legislation being with the constitution, they expanded their at- f the vi s of the perjury, | tack so as to leave no check upon direct legislation. \bstitution of which Chretien stands It is to be sacred. No judicial limitation is upon it. . It takes the place of Congress, the courts and the constitution. If the courts survive it, their decisions are not to stand unless ratified by direct popular vote. In another respect an important constitutional check is removed. The system abolishes the veto. It will be seen that the Kansas City platform pro- poses to complete the work of destruction that was ned at Chicago. obable that Chretien learned the cut- owing the regular road ) in court, under deliberate and long stribution is delayed and bate, their ¢ ¢ wasted, until the heirs find thelnselves of our courts are full of cases in pro- tates have dwindled down to the nd court costs. ms=ives have been moved to rebuke t is time that the bench put a stop rich e nal fees out When its policy is in action all judicial protection of the rights of person and prop- ne i the criminal processes by which expe obbed by fraud, we now insist that there n the means by which they are depleted This reform involves the vhich certain attorneys k into rich estates pose of them estate of Dr. Merritt in Oak- as a sample. In such cases a sort ck is made. he lay promoters get e, and the professional adviser gets gets depleted, and the rightiul ired passions of an inflamed majority. Mr. Jefferson was a stout defender of rule by the majority, but he by no means ignored the rights of the minoritys He recognized the fact that, by taking sovereignty from one and conferring regular processes by i the system to bri it upon : of man, and that the majority might act the tyrant as the king had. Therefore, in ‘the Declaration of Independence, he set up the doctrine of the “inalien- ‘gble rights” of man—rights sacred against kings and majorities alike—and in his first inaugural he said that the rule of the majority to be right must be rea- sonable. Under our system the courts, and they alone, rationalize the acts of the majority as these finally appear in the laws passed by Congress. But 1te THE TELEPHONE TAX CASES JICTORY in the first contest over the telephone nce 15 with the people and the law \ nst the tax-shirking corporation. Presi- | the Democrats propose to do away with the courts nd Secretary Eaton having been ar- and leave no authority to rationalize, to make rea- ers of the telephone company and sonable, the rule of the majority. ng the ordinance requiring a re- )i telephone machines in use, and » to pay the license on nickel-in-the- nts, met the charge by demurrer. The was heard by Judge Fritz. His decision over- he demurrer and sustained the validity of both The victory is therefore one of con- yortance, and will be so regarded not people but by the corporation that has at in its efforts to evade the law e fight against the ordinances the corporation st, that the ordi sing a tax on nickel-in-the-slot machines vy to telephones: second, that it was re- later ordinance providing that for each wone instrument a quarterly license of 50 cents and, third, that the telephone corpora- to transact telephone business and ot do so without the use of the nickel-in- ent been made. vet Within its possibility anarchy marches, torch in hand, and nihilism sneaks with poi- son in its fist for use in the springs whereat popular government has been refreshed. The Democratic army marches to battle crying “Down with Tmperialism,” with its purpose written to substitute anarchy for government. Tt is stated that the Treasury Department has ruled that tips given to the porters of sleeping-cars are a legitimate part-of official traveling expenses, and rightly chargeable to the treasury; and it will now i be hard to draw the line against fees for the hotel | waiters and drinks for the “crowd.” /:\ Chinese matters given out since the terrible outbreak of the Boxers at Peking is naturally irfused with the feeling of horror roused by reported massacres, and so colored as to be subject to the sus- picion of misrepresentation, it is worth while to give | attention to such accounts of the Chinese as were written before the feeling of abhorrence was aroused. A valuable contribution of that kind to the subject has just appedred in the work of A. R. Colquhoun, rmeys raised three points. does not ed by th app apy st be paid THE CHINESE TERROR. S the great mass of information concerning n has a lice: at the-slot atta In overruling each of these points the decision of the Judg: clear, logical and consistent with the law. He upheld the plain meaning of the original ordi- that in-the-slot machines shall be taxed, declared that a slot attachment is not an essential rt of a telephone instrument and is therefore rightly ect to , and. finally, that the tele- phone corporation carnot claim that such slot ma- kel . a separate ta chines are necessary to the conduct of a telephone 'who has made extensive travels in China and is b ess. On that point the Judge said: “The court | familiar with the situation that prevailed in Peking is very clearly of the opinion, as has been stated be- up to the time of the insurrection. fore, that the nickel-in-the-slot attachments are not necesearily 2 part of the telephone busines: that it ssistance to the telephone company in the collection of money, but it is clearly possible that the company can carry on its business without the as- sistance of these nickel-in-the-slot attachments. To cite an instance in that regard: A cigar dealer or a saloon-keeper pays a license to conduct his business as such cigar dealer or saloon-keeper: he is also taxed and pays a license upon each and every nickel- in-the-slot machine he has in his place. It is no more necessary for the telephone company to have nickel- in-the-slot attachments than it is necessary for the He attributes much of the disturbance in China to the actions of the European nations in grasping for Chinese territory immediately after the war with Japan. After referring to the harmony which had existed among the members of the foreign legations at Peking up to the formation of the French and Russian understanding, he says: “From that date commenced a change. The happy family circle was ! broken up into cliques; mines and countermines were | sprung; intrigues of all sorts spread bitterness and jealousy. The old-iashioned chronic questions of transit and audience gave way to fierce threats and demands for territory and special concessions. The cigar dealer or saloon-keeper to have nickel-in-the- | French and Russian Ministers alternated their daily slot machines in his place of business.” | visits to the Tsung-li Yamen, and bullied, stormed There will be an appeal to a higher court, of |and threatened, until the Chinese—who looked in vain ccurse, for tax-shirking is too profitable a trick to be ' for help from England—were completely cowed. . A abandoned so long as it is possible to evade the law. 3 rude awakening, indeed, from the old days of Sleepy The telephone corporation will fight a lon, Hollow diplomacy. Concession hunters, syndicates rather than pay taxes. Nevertheless the deci and adventurers flocked to Peking as vultures to a Judge Fritz is one on which the public can be con- | carcass.” gratiffated. The Judge has done his duty in defiance These aggressions naturally gave rise to discon- of all the influence and power of a giant corporation, | tents, which the Government was powerless to re- and merits the cordial approval of the people. ]nove or to hold in subjection. The members of the is of great to the substitution of Congress, but they found that | erty will be destroyed, and these will be subject to the | the | majority, there was no change wrought in the nature | It is the most revolutionary proposition that has | Government made use of the usual tactics of the weak, and tried by various evasions to placate both the foreigners and the turbulent element among the Chinese. Like every cne else who was in the empirz, Mr. Colquhoun saw the alarming conditidn of affairs and did what he could to arouse attention to the rap- idly augmenting danger. Speaking of the situation he said in 1899: “Entire provinces, especially in the Yangtse region, are seeth- ing with revolt, which meets with hardfy any opposi- tion. Nominally still alive and in full operation, the organism of the Chinese Government is hardly per- ceptible, and is unable to cope with foreign aggres- sions, barely sufficing to keep in restraint the three hundred and fifty miilions of its own people. The most cursory glance at any map showing the railway schemes and spheres of interest or influence, or what- ever they may be called, of foreign powers must shat- ter any belief in a responsible or organic Government in China. The trail of the foreigner is on the land from north to south. The Western powers have conie to stay, and the extension of the present spheres is merely a matter of time. Internally the forces making for rebellion on a grand scale are daily gaining strength, and once they realize that no power exists to suppress them will usurp in vast regions the office of government. In a word, China is being dismem- bered and broken up.” We are perceiving in a startling way the fulfillment of those words. The Chinese Government has gons to pieces. The civilized powers have entered the empire to stay. Whether they will divide it or at- tempt to govern it as a whole is something which events will be more potent in determining than all the plans of diplomatists. In the meantime it is to be remembered throughout all the difficulties that will confront civilized men in settling the enormous that precipitated the conflict. ——— By way of a pleasing summer variation from the usual run of editorials on the political situation and the war in China, the press of New England is en- gaged in discussing whether the girls of to-day make as good wives as those of fifty vear$ ago. and it is satisfactory to note there is a consensus that they do. A GRAND PARK PROGRAMME. NE of the most attractive programmes ever put O forward by a contributor to the Merchants’ Association Review is contained in an article in the current number on “A Park System for San Francisco,” by George Hansen. The project is alto- gether too extensive to be considered as a practical proposition, at any rate for the present, but none the less it merits consideration as a suggestion of a com- prehensive programme along which improvements may be made for years to come. As a first point of importance to be noted in plan- ning new parks and boulevards Mr. Hansen directs attention to the lack of direct and commodious com- munication between different sections of the muni- cipality. He says: “Market street should have swung into Mission at Eighth street, thence into San boulevard southward through San Mateo County. Instead of that, the latter avenue narrows at one place into a thoroughfare of sixty feet width. Montgom- ery avenue should have ended at the Ferry building. The now proposed widening of Washington street, to relieve the congestion of traffic in this overcrowded district, will be as much of a makeshiit as the unfor- tunate cut through Second street. not connect the manufacturing districts with North Beach any more than the latter opened traffic toward the Potrero.” 7 For the purpose of serving the double benefit of | parks and of broad avenues it is suggested that a | park area should be provided for the district south | of Mission street on lines similar to the panhandie. These thoroughfares, Mr. Hansen says, would touch the manufacturing districts, full room would be given | for trucks and traffic during the week, and they would serve on holidays for use as boulevards, while at all times they would afford shade on hot days and recrea- tion grounds in the evening. For the rest Mr. Hansen would have the city save as parks all the commanding and picturesque sites of the city. “Every knoll of prominence, every piece of ground expensive to build upon, should be set aside for a reservation.” Telegraph Hill is cited as thas | most important place of that kind. but other points | of scenic beauty are also specified as localities that should be saved for the park system. Another interesting feature of the programme is a suggestion for connccting the city with the country to the south. Mr. Hansen says: “Neither Mission road, with its severe artificial grade, nor San Jose avenue, with a double line of car tracks upon its nar- row width, affords a desirable connection and outlet to our neighboring county. The best way to overcome this difficulty is to establish a grand boulevard en- circling the hills of the Potrero and swinging around Bernal Heights, entirely ignoring the present line of the abortive San Bruno road. This boulevard should seek the contours of Islais Creek, with its grand suc- cession of noble outlines. In this creek San Fran- cisco. and more especially the Mission, finds the de- velopment of wonderful scenery. This boulevard would traverse property which is now marketed at a discount, and it would turn every foot along its line into desirable holdings.” It will be conceded that the programme is attrac- tive. There is a possibility of making San Francisco the most picturesque city in the world and providing for easy access to all her noble hills. How best to accomplish that is a subject that we cannot too soon begin to study. for every year of delay will of course increase the ultimate cost of any improvement under- taken. Tt seems to be conceded that” Russia is strong enough to play a lone hand in China and has a right to try it, but all the same the other powers will ob- ject. They have hands< of their own they wish to play out by way of enjoying the game-and having a share in the stakes. The suggestion that none of the civilized powers shall hereafter sell arms to the Chinese would be more valuable if accompanied by some plan for pre- venting enterprising men from setting up plants to manufacture the goods in China itself. skaives de, After all things are taken into consideration by ex- perts the conclusion is that the Paris Exposition is not equal to that at Chicago, and the belief is growin y that when it comes ¢o the show business the United States is the Barnum of the nations. g In the brightening skies of these times there are signs of redemption even in Missouri, for a farmer in that State whose wife recently gave birth to triplets has named the boys William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Marcus Hanna. Tn the organization of the Democratic clubs in this city all the slates went through as smoothly as if they had been tintypes. problem that it was their own aggressions and greed, Jose avenue, and shovld have widened into a grand | The former will | 1o QD F O GO 0O people or nation to another ready-made governments. This_business can hardly be called mod ern except In so’ far as it has been car ried on upon new lines and for alleged | new purposes: otherwise it is the most | anclent and primitive occupation of man. There has hardly been a nation In all his- tory that has not engaged in this practice and that has not also resented it when there has been an attempt to force it to take its own medictne. The Greeks suc- | cesstully resisted it at Marathon and un- Romans successfully opposed it at Metu- i@on_a hundred bioody battle-fields. In Immpara(lvely modern times it found its most legitimate and succesefiil fields in partitioning and dividing among the anointed of the old world the pastoral do- minion of the savage tribes of the newly discovered Western world. In its original | government, but was merely appropriating | territory but Httlé occupied and indefinite- ly possessed; but it ripened into a wider | field, untfl it was high tide in the history of colonial governments near the middle of the eighteenth century. The imperial system of government was most compiete, permanent and universal under imperial Rome. It was most widely diffused just before the Revolutionary | war, when England, Spain and France held undisputed dominion over the West- | ern world. It reached its Don Quixotic | and most absurd stage when two Kings | by divine right divided the world between | them. Why they divided it I can never | understand; it would have been so much more sensible for each to have taken it all. The policy orlginally was avowedly for { the glory and benefit of the conquering | power. In its later development it has been largely changed to a policy clailmed | for the benefit of the conquered or the governed people. Nations and individuals have done many noble and unseifish | things. ngoverned another for the other's profit and | ®@ood nobody believes, but it has been so | pretended a thousand times, which shows that we have not only advanced in many other things, but have also greatly devel- oped in hypocrisy. The new world proved a reactionary field in the line of govern- ment by the consent of the governing, and very soon it repudiated the governments monarchs, and one by one the communi- ties of the Western world took their places among the “free and independent nations of the earth.” This rendered it obviously & [ L3 [ | people or one government Tus and successfully upheld and enforced | article is written for stages this was hardly the furnishing of | | To-day or immeasurably they have supplanted, ey have supp 1.9t cannot be con- bad. On the other nane nded t they are good governments, or can ever become good governments in principle or in fact. e may, therefore, discuss the question, do they pay these who impose them? Not do they pay those they are imposed upeon, because that would be a usel discussion. Whether they pay the governed or not signifies nothing becauée whether they wisn such a government or not they cannot the benefactors of their loving U sistent fellow men. But docs it o imp: another? overnment or authority upon successfully attempteq it at Syracuse. The | Tt js not our intention to enter into a de- | tailed discussion of this ince this r p fous remarks a deration of but a the title and pre s another prelude to the col subject. It may be admitted that FEngland has long pursued the policy of furnishing gov rnments to those who did not obij too forcibly, and with moderate succ nd that England’s wealth, prestige and power to-day place them in the front rank of nations. But she does not possess greater wealth, prestige or power than the {'nited States, and nothing_like their national unity or strength.. The conditions of ail other’colonial powers is that they are cither weakened, dying or dead. ~With the sole exception of England, the only nations to-day possessing vigor, sirength or the elements of national greatness are those whose characteristics are chiefly central and national, and whose really in portant possessicns are all contiguous. the nations of the world stand | contemplating the greatest probiem in the t | had fo | which are | greatest natic | accompiished, | philosophers had t That one nation ever took and | | people. so kindly furnished it by the old worid | necessary for those nations government- | ally inclined not only to govern them- ives but to govern others to look around for a new world to conquer. But not finding any, they aid not foolishly, like Alexander, give up in despair, but | concluded to govern again the older parts of the old world. And it is this new phase of an old subject that we are to consider. Not wishing to be theoretical, but prac- ticai, we will consider, not, is it right?is it founded in prin i will It pay or has it paid It may be conceded that imposed gov- ernments are not always worse than those they have supplanted. That an Imposed government Is always a bad government | cannot be doubted, but in comparison as | to badness it may not be the worst. Imposed, or can only be excused on the ground of tem- porary necessity, or the existence, locally, | of such a low and depraved condition of men that any form of government will be better than they will give themselves. It may thus be excused; whether justified, is another question. A comparfson be tween carpetbag governments a_com| son between bad governments. The government in Canada, Australia, India and Egypt ma. pride in comparison with the government n Cuba under Spanish rule, or other mis- managed colonial enterprises, or even the | degenerate Oriental form of government | previously existing. But it is not, and will with any respectable form of self govern- ment, or that they are capable of develop- ment’ into really high “or meritoriously | good governments at all. We will not have to argue with any American who is an s a self government, and local self gov- ernment at that. Such governments have been demonstrated as capable of develop- | Ing the greatest national strength and unity, and the greatest individual liberty and advancement. Self government is not ciple? or'is it just? but, | | contempt, carpetbag governments, | is always | be pointed to with | | not be pretended that they are comparable | Amerfcan that the only form of govern- | ment correct in principle or true In form | | pose a form of lis opened up line of deciding to impose or not to im- overnment upon a people that the world ever contemplated. all things except military strength and active governmental functions, China to- day has the right of nations to called a nation. Tt was a nation before he Bgyptians, the Chaldeans or the Jews unded those governments, some of now but dimly traceable in our histories of antiquity. Some of China's al achievements had been and some of her greatest aght and passed away. efore our ancestors commenced to run wild in the woods of Saxony and Brittany Continuously and coherently with a di tinet civilization, selves, continued to maintain s ment ‘with greater length of ¥ stabllity of character than any other So much so that they alone can claim a contemporaneous existence with all other races and all other nations, and to embrace all history. But China admit- | tedly has not progressed. She has been content within herself and for herself to pursue the even tenor of her way. Whether this was wise or unwise, a mittedly, according to the law of nations was nobody's business but her own she wanted her own religion and nobody else’s that was a matter for her: could proffer her. perhaps should proffer her theirs, but could not and should not attempt to force her to accept. If, Instead of modern inventions and modern improvements she preferred her own antiquated ways an un- doubtedly the right lay T to choose. But being an existing nation, but supposed to possess nefther natural re- resentment nor national strength, nations have for years treated her as beneath not according her the respect due the living or the dead. pretty near true that China as a nation as been for a long time dead, but was unconscious of the fact. The same sumrllnn as to the Chinese people has re- cently proved to be quite erroneous. The world stands amazed at what has hap- ened, horrified at what probably has appened. If all that now appears to be true is true, history furnishes no paral- lel to the awful disregard for the rights and comity of natlons and of humanity that has occurred in China. Nothing that has previously occurred or could have oe- curred would excuse or paliaze it. That it must be avenged. and that blood must atoné for blood. nobody doubts. The Chi- nese nation must pay for its complaisance if not its connivance. But bevond thar, what then? It may be In the fuliness of time, and iIn the great aggregation of things. it will work to a beneficial end But for us and for our children, what good can come of this rousing of one third of the human race. and the awful blood atonement that may follow? e are told there are markets there. What kind of markets and for whom? The Chinese labor in its skill, industry and imitations equals any other on earth, as all of us who have observed it know. That as a_producer by labor, it is upon an equality with all others. That as a consumer, it I no more at the most in dent. Does anybody doubt that if China to the proportion of one to five is also evi- | There Is Money In It GREAT MODERN ACTIVITY IN THE EXTENSIVE BUSINESS OF FURNISH- ING READY MADE GOVERNMENTS FOR OTHER FEOPLES. | | | e n|f | be | In fact, it 13| as- | | [ 2' 0 3 Qb O OO DO OO R DO O DD O OF 04 OO OO OO O OO0 °{ ¢ its form, but by whether it is | world's labor it will open up and com- NQUESTIONABLY ‘one of the fested by ls o, emseives, or by one | pete? Docs anybody doubt that they can EMCRE extoimive Hucs) of IOmes § oo B On the one hand, | acquir: as good machinery and operate activity in modern mes has that imposed govern- | it as well as anybody else? Where, then been and is the furnishing by on Worse than those | is ‘the safe and permanent market for labor? Where the benefit to the rest of mankind? The opening up of China for a market for the world's labor is about as sane a propositic atting the levy a_reservoir with er levee above an adjacent ditch to d water from the ditch into the reserv Some special commodities we may fu nish China. but whenever the rest of tb world commences to sulely China with the standard products of labor and dem- onstrates that it can permanently hoid the market, it will be time for the world to take a rest and stop golng round. ‘An American market for Americ; has proven good in the past and for the future. But a not think w American in time equally skillful capest _and most servile in But China is likely to be opened s of foreigners have hably the Mi Doubtless bove all things, we the sell world, reat and pect v deplorable war wi pf‘"lln". Hundreds of millions nf{dulnvr‘ ¢ill be expended and thousands of guilt men and thes of innocent mer, Wo- children will perish. ™% Summing up who Is to blame, can it all justly be charged to the Manchurian aties and assassins? Have the n rded to the Chinese nation and acc Chinese people treatment comparable wit y 3 nd w what they exact for themselves an: wally aecord to each other? Since ;m war. which for diabolical comme nds unrivaled, and by which "3 ha deadly drug was forced upon th Chinese, no nation, big or little, pre- ded to respect the plainest rights o ed to trade with China, they have forcel ft. If they wanted to send missionarie ¥ ant to enforce their r a treaty conces- e . and China must " as the price of peace. ¥ s¥ea"a"port, they bombarded ft. ndt wanted to construct a rallwn{{, lh‘" iit it at the cannon's mouth. they inted a province. they occupled it - foree. If they wanted indemnit Kk it, right or wrong. As again able insults and indignities - by this country out of . of moral obligation) no apology (ex- a se r reparat 2 iy of na- or several years past the family o nf 4 with treaties recognizing :S}F?‘ ?: a nation and with ministers aceredited to er court. been_ope: :\(H‘;Lr "rll“ 1ssing what terms of trud: they would accord to each other as t China, and how and upon what terms they ,would keep her dcor open. The more common practice recently, however. has been for the brotherhood of ln"-rnallnr?l vultures (from which happily we have alone been excepted) to treat China as a corpse, and one and all they have stood arot growling at e her and dis- agreeing as‘to how they should “cut up’ the corpse. Ru was conceded the hind quarter of the north: England, with a good eve for good beef. was to take the sirloin from the center. and France to be satisfied with the fore guarters. s posed to be to the south. Japan wanted it all, but would shat the others did 3 was 1o have a & big llon's share. an veral were ex- There they and leking content to not rma from the smaller but pected to clear aw stood whetting_their b their chons, while we ¥ 100k through the “open door.” Is it to be so much wondered at that the dragon opened Its mouth and closed it on all that happened to be on the inside? In view of this plain and unexaggerated statement of the facts can we say. “my Christian_frie that the powers has not _caught a live Tartar because the tried to poach on a supposedly dead one® Are the misguided. brutal fanatics of the Orient alone to blame that the world is again to be cursed aith the scourge of war? Not the inspiring tug of war when Greek meets Greek. but the most brutal. revengeful, cruel war that ever cursed the eart war begin: in massacre and must end in disaster to ail concerned. Tn the long run of things. does it pay? Was the great Teacher mistaken, in a business sense, when he said unte others as ven weould that should do unto vou'? Tsn't f rise man and also a wise p ple that to the doetrine “mind vour own business " which compels or at least permits the other fellow to mind his? we not grow too practical even for actical purnoses, and may Wwe not faint- hove that by and bz mankind will learn hat liberty includes the right to be ecu- Har and different. and also the right of each of the great family of nations to de- termyne these things for themselves? ould-be_vultures y the offal aks others pen- Most potent. Eowever. of all arguments, 1y we not learn the lesson that all his- tory has tried in vain 4o teach, that Jt doesn’t pay for one natlon to try to gov- competition with the | ern anothér without thie other’s consent? PERSONAL MENTION. State Senator Flint is at the Palace. Judge F. D. Nicol of Stockton is a guest at the Lick. Congressman Marion de Vries is a guest at the Palace. B. M. Lelong of Sacramen tered at the Grand. V. 8. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee is at the California. S. N. Griffith, a well-known attorney of Fresno, is at the Lick. P. Dollman, manager Springs, is at the Lick. Loufs Aubrey, a_mining expert of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. B. F. Lute, owner of salt mines in Ne- vada, is at the California. T. L. Reed, a prominent rancher of Reedley, Is staying at the Grang. L. 8. Alexander, a leading merchant of Watsonville, is at the Occidental. Ben U. Steinman and wife of Sacra- mento are registered at the Palace. George 8. Kinney, a famous distiller of Nashville, Tenn., is at the Palace. W. M. Burkhalter, a leading citizen of Truckee, is registered at the Lick. ‘W. H. McClintock, a prominent mining superintendent, is a guest at the Lick. Robert G. Barton, manager of the Fresno Opera-house, is a guest at the California. Walter S. Parker s registered at the Grand. * Mr. Parker {s a member of the State Board of Examiners. A. F. Knudson and wife of Honolulu, prominent citizens of the islands, are reg- istered at the Occidental en route to their home, C. D. Hazard, a wealthy mining man of Plumas, has just returned from New York, where he has been for the promo- tion of his properties. He is registered at the Occidental, —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 20.—J. W. Edwards of San Francisco is at the Waldorf and iy. (:‘ Moran of Oakland is at the Nether- an 8 ’ —— HENARIE'S WIDOW ASKS FOR HALF HIS ESTATE She Demands the Immediate Dis- tribution to Her of Properties Worth a Fortune. 2 Mary A. Henarfe, widow of the late . V. B. Henarie, has petitioned the Superior Court to distribute to her one-half of decedent’s estate. Mrs. Henarfe avers that all of the property Involved is com- munity property, having been acquired by her husband since their marriage, to is regis- of Napa Soda bution to_her of 250 shares of the Mutual Savings Bank stock; 500 shares of the Eastern Oregon Land Company: 20 shares of the Dalles Military Wagon : 100 shares of the Pacific Telegraph and Telephone Company, and 975 shares of the capital stock of Martin & Co. et e e e ] FASHION BINT FROM PAR. } BR ot o S S o o B I SR S S S S SRR SORY SROR SO SR S = Y SPRING CASHMERE DRESS. The dress represented is of suede col- ored cashmere, cut in tMe princess style, with yokes and sleeves of string color guipure over white faille. TWe skirt is made with stitched pleats, opening at the bottom, over a finely pleated cashmere flounce to match. ° ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DIVORCE LAW—L., Crockett, Cal. The shortest pericd of time that a person months. The States in which that limit is fixed are Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. WAR IN CUBA—S. D. W, City. By the question, ““What was the date of the ten- year war in Cuba?” is probably meant the insurrection known as the ‘‘creole-: insurrection.” That broke out in 1868, Mowmumw @eord eI e ete s eseg must reside in a State of the Union before | commencing an action for divorce is six | | United States land offices | Susanville. | 639 Market street, Palace Hot: | gomery st. | Constitution. 074 54. She asks for the immediate distri-) cess and often with unexampled feroeity for eleven years. It was not until the end of 1879 that the authorities, partly by mil- itary energy, partly by terms of compro- mise, succeeded in quelling the rebellion. LAND IN CALIFORNTA—Subscriber, Winne, Tex. 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