The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1900. WEDNESDAY _.NOVEMBER 14, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. . . Market and Third, Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. Teleph . F. T to 221 Stevenson St. ress 202. Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Delivered by s Cents. $5.00 3.00 1.50 DA ¢ e SUNDAY 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, « r ks e 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be ed requested should be | R in order e with their request OAKLAND OFFI . €. GEOR Manager Foreign Advertising, L1118 KROGNESS, Marquette Building, Chicago. entral 2619.") Broadway Long Di PONDENT Herald Square Unlon Square; at Northern Hotel; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE MORTON .1406 G St., N. W, . CRANE, Correspondent. fontgomery, corner of Clay, open 9:30 o'clock. 633 rkin, open untii k idy streets—Specialties ville every afternoon and AUCTION SALES. 2 o'clock, at cor- THE CHINESE SETTLEMENT. RO pear ces it would seem that e to take blood ieu of money ra aughter of non- France ted an eye for an eye as they went marching on. ed the execution of Chins of soon be glutted with ng indemnity in money, ng, destruction of prop- 1 North China, ought It e is no punishment he nation in its overcrowded ly sensitive nerve in the is in the pocket. cerned with the effect of all this co e set up the shambles blood of thousands of people of and reddened h the innocent women and children the horror, the pleading of s in the ag i torture and murder, and s of Chinese infants being tossed Above missionar the weak bayonet to bayonet in retaliation, conscience is heard declaring that the cause of it all is the deliberate inter- polation of a forgery by a missionary .in the treaty 1860. Ch of n ostrate under the iron heels of France king had been looted and partly b e treaty in its best aspect was ths fruit of duress, and China was not a free agent at the moment of her assent. Her helplessness was further taken advantage of by the forger who adulterated the treaty by a provision giving missionaries access to the Middle Kingdom, with the right to own or rerit property in which to carry on a propaganda. In all the Christian world is there not a Xavier or a a Heber to rise and vindicate the true spirit of Chris- | tianity by declaring the truth and admitting the wrong? The author of Christianity said that his fol- lowers would be known by swearing to their own meaning that they would tell the truth when it meant their own undoing. It is a matter for pride in this country that our has kept the nearest of any to Christian s in its dealing with China But American Christians are not pleased that many missionaries who are Americans have criticized our Government injury Governmen idez for this attitude and have openly voiced their preference for the truculent attitude of the Kaiser. It is 2 hard world at best, but the hardest part of it should not be found where Christianity is professed. i e s The comment of most foreign newspapers upon our recent Presidential election has at least one interest- ing and entertaining phase. It removes all argument n reference to the assertion that our foreign friends e delightfully ignorant of our affairs. When Alameda gives us the silken emblem which will mark San Francisco as the banner Republican city of the State ske may console herself with the thought that she has made a gift which will be for keeps.” Luck seldom falls to the lot of a young woman as it lias to that three weeks’ bride of San Jose, who was deserted the other day by her husband. It is the es- 1ce of good fortune to get rid of a scoundrel so ickly While the cry of reorganization is in the air and attered political fragments are being collected after the smash, Kelly, Crimmins and Herrin might be well employed in an effort to discover themselves and re- rm. s —_— Mayor Van Wyck of New York swears that during e campaign he was not in the slightest degree in- “rested in ice. This is no indication, however, that ¢ isn't deeply interested now. 61 Market. | in- | and | But the Westerr: | is impressed upon the | from | @ NEW PARTY. T is reported that a conference at St. Paul has de- | cided to form a new party, of which Bryan is to | ® be the leader. The conferees were Towne, Petti- ! grew, Mr. Shively of Indiana, and several other West- f ern committeemen of the Bryan Democracy. i There has been a great dezl of hysterical ascription | to Colonel Bryan since his second defeat. His per- sonal demeanor and his expressions by no means ex- hibit the elements of greatness. He has made no large-minded comment on the result, and indulges in | aspersions that are unbecoming a leader of American | | thought. The country is evidently tired of him, but he is not tired of himself, and announces that he will | continue to direct matters along the line of his two disastrous campaigns. The builders of the proposed new party announce, as the first part of their pro- gramme, that they will prevent Democratic reorgani- zation, and when that is done will form a new party. It is time to say that artifice cannot achieve or pre- vent the reorganization of an old party, nor create a new one. These things must originate | tancously, in the nature of things. The leaders of the | Bryan movement cannot reorganize the existing | Democracy. It would be writing their own epitaphs. | They would have to meet and vote themselves wrong | on every issue they have offered to the people. They | would have to drop every line and letter of the Chi- cago and Kansas City platforms and admit that those { documents presented no enduring principles, but were framed only on the line of temporary expediency, in the hope of catching votes and getting power. Their whole movement has been inspired by mere politicians. Bryan himself is only a politician, and a | very poor one at that. Neither he nor any man who is only a politician or the mere agent of politicians can ever be President. The people in selecting for that office have always turned away from a politician and chosen a statesman. In the first year of the century Aaron Burr and De Witt Clinton, both politicians, aspired to the Pres- idency. They sought the prize as politicians seck it, | but the people averted their favor from both and turned to Jefferson. | Towne and his companions may fulminate and may form parties in vain. Principles precede parties, and the unprogrammed agreement of men on principle is the nucleus of parties. In the Bryan movement there is no enduring principle. It is a body without a soul [ts repudiation by Democrats is more extensive and general this year than in 18‘)6. spon- Compared with it the Debs movement is a hign | alism is not representative of principle. Though soc favored by the rugged American spirit, yet it is a principle, and one that this and other countries must reckon with for many years to come. | At this timeit is more likely that the Democrats who have a second time repudiated Bryan will prefer the Republican party to a reorganized Democracy, and that the artificial formation of a new party will simply. increase Republican strength by repelling more Dem- ocrats who are tired of the shallowness, the froth and fury of Bryanism. There ar { which will go forward regardless of the plans of poli- ticians, and promise a new alignment and a fresh par- tisan cleavage. No fact in the late campaign stands | out more clearly than the favor in which the Presi- | dent and his policies were held in the South. Only the race question prevented that section giving its | vote to the Republican party. In the South multitudes of men voted for Bryan while not conceal- ing their fear of his election and the hope of his de- feat. Scores of such men did not scruple to offer material assistance to the Republican campaign in the North to offset their compulsory support of Bryan | ac home. That section of the country is enjoying its first real prosperity. Its old order under slavery was not prosperity, but now business and industry are laid on lines that represent true business principles, and an industrial structure is being built that must depend for its endurance upon the principles and poli- cies of the Republican party. Governor Pingree of Michigan gave a mot to the campaign by announcing that he would hold his nose and vote for McKinley. Throughout the South | voters did not hold nor hide their noses while voting | for Bryan, but used them in an impressive sneer at the | candidate they supported while praying for his de- | feat. | The vote in West Virginia, Maryland and Dela- wafe means that this is the disappearance of the solid South, and that in the future Republican majorities may be looked for in the manufacturing States of the South. Physical environment is the final cause of | political preference, and the climate that produces cot- ton, rice, sugar and tobacco and transmutes them to be used by man is a strictly Republican climate. It is claimed for the battleship Kentucky that she | | vy, Baving usde 3he voyaue Giom: New Wik its | Gibraltar in exactly twelve days at an average speed | of 14 knots. As the distance, however, is only 3186 | knots between the two points, and not 4000 knots, the | actual average speed simmers down to 11.07 knots, which is quite creditable for a ship with engines not | yet worked down to their bearings; but the Oregon'’s run in 1808 from Puget Sound to Jupiter Inlet, Fla., plished at an average speed of 11.17 knots. It is 2 | record not yet beaten by any naval vessel, and the | Oregon is still the queen of all navies. NINTH IRRIGATION CONGRESS. C the National Irrigation Congreéss will be held in Chicago beginning November 21. The motto of | the congress, “Save the forests and store the floods,” of the United States. Arid lands are confined to the West, but problems of forestry and water conserva- | tion are common to the whole Union. Consequently | whatever is done for the redemption of the arid lands will serve as valuable lessons for the people of States | where there is abundant rainfall. { The plan of the congress is a comprehensive one, | and ample opportunity is given for the representation | of all interests. The circular announces: | authorities on irrigation and forestry have been se- cured to speak and give illustrated lectures, and men of national fame and renown as orators and statesmen | will address the congress.” { In order that the gathering may be made thor- oughly representative it is provided that the Gov- ernor of each State and Territory appoint 7 delegates; the Mayor of each city of less than 25,000 population, 2 delegates; the Mayor of each city of more than 25,000 population, 4 delegates: each Beard of Trade and Chamber of Commerce, 2 delegates; each agri- tion, agricultural and horticultural association, 2 dele- gates; each society of engineers, 2 delegates; each irrigation company. 2 delegates. In foregoing the following persons are de egates by vir- tue of their respective offices: The duly accredited | epresentative of any foreign nation or colony, the great forces at work | has deposed the Oregon as the new queen of the | covered a distance of 14,510 miles, and was accom- | TRCULARS have been issued directing atten- | tion to the fact that the ninth annual session of | is one that may well be adopted by the whole peopie | “The best | cultural college, 2 delegates; each organized irriga- | dition to the | Governor of any State or Territory, any member of the United States Senate and House of Representa- tives, and member of any State or Territorial commis- sion. There has long been a controversy whether irriga- tion shall be undertaken by States and Territories or by the National Government. That controversy ought now to be closed. It is certain that in many respects the problem is too vast to be solved by separ- ate State action, but in some ways the States might help. Thus there is ample room for a basis of agree- ment among all who sincerely desire to see the great | and needed work begun at once. It is to be hoped the present congress will devise a plan of operation vn which all can agree. @ DEFEATED SCHEME. ! ETURNS from the interior of the State make it R certain that the scheme for establishing !h‘ree courts of appeal, embodied in Senate constitu- ional amendment No. 22, has been defeated. This is another evidence that the voters approached the polls this year with a clear understanding of all the issues before them. The scheme had hardly a single | argument in its favor, and the objections against it | were overwhelming. Corsequently the people re- [ jected it. | The Call has a just right to feel gratification in the | defeat of the amendment, since it took the leading | part in the campaign of education against it, and.re- | peatedly pointed out the objections to it, while at the | | same time giving ample opportunity to its advocates | to make what defense they could. Thus The Call | published in full several letters from persons favoring | the plan, so that no complaint can be justly made of | unfairness in presenting the issue. The readers of | The Call had both sides of the controversy submitted to them, and after a comprehensive study of the sub- | ject decided The Call was right in opposing it. Such reforms as are needed in our judicial system can be effected without the establishment of new | | courts. There is no necessity to reorganize the whole judicial system, throw everything into confusion and add to the burdens of the taxpayers, nor is there any need to give the Governor the appointment of nine additional Judges. Upon those questions the people have passed. The vote against the scheme is decisive. The victory is one upon which the State may well be congratulated. POPULARITY OF EXHIBITIONS. FTER all reports of the comparative failure of /\ the Paris Exposition comes the final state- ment of the authorities, showing that so far as popularity is concerned it has been the most success- ful exposition ever held. Notwithstanding that wars in South Africa, disturbances in China, racial antago- nisms growing out of the old wars in Europe, and trade rivalries, tended to keep many foreigners from visiting the fair, and notwithstanding that royalty held aloof and not a single great sovereign visited the city, the attendance was enormous. The summary of the official statistics telegraphed yesterday states that the total number of visitors was double that of the exposition of 1889, when 25,121,975 persons passed the gates. When the gates of the ex- position of 1900 closed more than 50,000,000 persons had passed through. The British headed the list in 1889 in point of numbers, but this vear the Germans were first and the Belgians sec- ond, with the British behind. The Americans also formed a very noticeable contingent. Indeed they were immeasurably more numerous than at the! pre- vious exposition. The record paying day this year brought out more than 600,000 visitors, as compared | with a maximum of 335,377 in 1889. | Such a showing refutes the theory that expositions have lost favor with the people. In fact, it proves | that nothing is so attractive to the masses of civilized men of our time as expositions of art and industry. }A]l classes delight in seeing with their gwn eyes what has been accomplished for the advancement of hu- pman welfare by the attainments of science and the improvements of mechanism. Consequently the out- look for the expositions projected in this country is most favorable, and it is well nigh certain that those cities that have made plans on a grand scale will reap an abundant reward for their energies. Buffalo, New Orleans and St. Louis have an- nounced expositions for the near future. There will be no use for any other American city to undertake one during a year in which one of those is to be held, but when the expositions at St. Louis and New Orleans have fitly celebrated the acquisition of the vast Louisiana territory by the Unioh it will be the turn of the Pacific Coast to have a national celebra- tion and an international fair. It will be worth while for our people to keep the subject in mind. Since expositions are so popular, why should not San Fran- | cisco begin to plan one of the first magnitude? A LESSON FROM BOSTON. BOSTON is feeling proud over the forty-eighth annual report of the trustees of her famous public library. There is nothing in this particu- ilar report that renders it distinguished above others, | s0 that the pride Boston feels in it is due merely to the fact that it once more reminds her of what she | has accomplished in the way of building up a library, and how much better in that respect she is than any other city in the country. | The library building at Boston with its artistic deco- | rations cost $3,000,000 and it contains upward of 750,000 volumes; yet the whole institution is the out- | come of public taxation willingly borne by the people. It is stated that private contributions to it after nearly fifty years of existence amount to only $273,740 in all, of which sum one-half has been contributed with- in the last eleven years. The Bates gift, made in 1853, was of $50,000, and only two other giits of equal size have been received since, one in 1880, the other in 1807; there are seven gifts of $10,000; the others are for much smaller amounts. The institution thus built up by the people without aid from millionaires is not only a reference but a | circulating library, and every effort is made to render | its books accessible to all the people. Books are | taken home from the library by a system of cards, and 63881 persons out of Boston’s population of 500,000 make use of the cards—that is to say, one per- son in every eight. A record is kept of the holders, classified by age and sex; 26,480 males took books home, of these 14,003 were over and 11,587 under 21 years of age; the number of females using cards was 37,401, divided into 23.012 over 21 years of age and | 13,48 under that age. Among these were 919 gram- mar school boys and girls under 12 years of age. The | total number of volumes taken.from the library and | its branches during the year was 1,'.35!.54(. 1f the people of Boston can do all that, San Fran- cisco surely ought to be able to do much more for the public library of this city’ than has been done. Our library is inconveniently located in the City Hall, laving no building of its own whatever, and as long as it remains there it will never be so widely used as it should be. The Boston example is worth im- | itating. and Belgians | AN “AGGIE”- NIZING MOMENT. || e FOLLOWERS OF THE FILIPINO LEADER, BE HE DEAD OR ALIVE, FIND LITTLE CONSOLATION, ACCORDING TO THE PIONEER PRESS CARTOONIST, IN READING ELECTION BULLETINS. 3 ool |# CHICAGO LADIES TAKE THEIRS : WITH A LITTLE “SPIKE” IN IT e A Feminine Wink in a Windy City [rug Store Converts a Harmless Beverage Into a Biting Serpent. “Drunkenness Among All Classes of Women in Chicago” was the text for a special dispatch recently published in the New York World, which went on to say that the alarming increase of the vice was made the subject of discussion by the national executive board of the Woman's Rescue League. Proprietors of drug stores and candy stores were condemncd for the al- leged practice of selling ‘spiked” drinks to young girls, many of whom, it was sald, were often induced to drink intoxicants when under the impres- sion that they were partaking of a harmless beverage. “It is this practice of mixing intoxicants with soda-fourtaln drinks,” said Mrs. M. Palmer, editor of the Banner of God, the official organ of the league, “that causes many of our young women to become :ddicted to the habit, and that s greatly responsible for the frightful increase of inebriety among our sex.” Mrs. Ida Cole, natlonal corresponding secretary, sald: “I am surprised at the amount of liquor sold to women residents of Hyde Park, where I live, un- der the cover of groceries. Several times men have called at my house solic- iting orders for beer, wine and whisky, assuring me that I need have no fear of detection. 1 was told at a grocery store that every grocery dealer in Hyde Park sold liquor, not only at retall, but at wholesale." o S o e B B e e B B B S R R M M | PERSONAL MENTION. |+ " o B W. Wells of Humboldt is at the | FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. || | Grand. | Mrs. John G. Muir is registered at the | 5 Occidental. | 1 Joseph Goldman, a Merced merchant, is 1 registered at the Grand. Professor N. 8. Keith of New York is registered at the Palace. | August Busch, a_prominent St. Louis | merchant, is at the Palace. | | Thomas Couch of Montana, a mine | owner, is at the California. Mrs. L. B. Henderson and daughter of Denver are at the Occidental. Frank Hazen, attorney at Healdsburg, is at the California with his wife. | O. O. Webber, District Attorney of Santa Rosa, is registered at the Lick. Dr. B.'R. Ward, surgeon in the United | States army, is stopping at the Grand. | A. F. Turner, a New York capitalist, Is among the late arrivals at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Eastman of Albany, N. Y., have taken apartments at the Pal- | ace. | John A. Gill of the New York Central coast oftices went to Sacramento yester- day. Arthur Gosliner, land owner at Wheat- ley, is stopping at the Grand for a few days. Hon. R. Bovle and wife of Mountain | View are stopping at the Occidental for a | | few days. | | Adolph Fleishman, a prominent fruft | shipper of Los Angeles, is in the city and | is stopping at the Palace. | Richard Theophilus, resolution clerk in the House of Representatives at Wash- ington, is visiting friends in the city. E. J. Coyle, assistant general passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific, and whose territory embraces the entire Pacific slope, is a guest at the Palace. | Miss Genevieve Green, daughter of Will S. Green, editor of the Colusa Sun, who has been traveling in Europe for the past three years, will arrive home next Sun- day afternoon. Mrs. David Starr Jordan, Mrs. John W. Mitchell and Miss M. de B. Roberts came up from Stanford University yes!erfiay and registered at the California. They attended the grand opera last evening. e | | | DRAB CLOTH COSTUME. The costume represented is for travel- ing. It is of drab covert-cloth. The point- ed lapels are edged with embroidered de- slgns in braid to match, and the skirt is trimmed in the same style. The waistband | is of violet silk, draped. i ——————— | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON | e —_— | FOREST RESERVES-F. H., Covelo. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—James R.| There is no law to prohibit a person from | Dunn and wife are at the Shoreham: E. | Prospecting on Government forest re- | Beck and wife are at the St. James; Rob- | SCTVes. S ert C. Lincoln is at the National—all from | HALED AND HAULED—Oaklander. San Francisco; A. P. Stephens and wife | Oakland, Cal. Haled is used instead of’ of Coronado are at the Raleigh: G. W.| hauled by some writers because it s cor- Worthen and wife of San Jose are at the | rect and is not obsolete. National; G. M. Dungan of California is gy at the Ebbitt. LONGEST CAR—A. P. G., City. The longest street cars in San Francisco meas- A CHANCE TO SMILE, 5 40 feet in length. Such a car will turn any curve of the Market-street system. : PASTURAGE_B. Mrs. Givern—Isn't Mrs. Loudleigh rather STURAGE—B., Bowman, Cal. It a ostentatious about her charitable works? erson leases pasturage to another on a Mre. Robinson—Ostentatious? I should Romestead hofore obtaining a. patent cay so. Why, that woman would like to | thereto that will not In any. have pler glas over her mantle of char- | natriane Proving up of th ity.—Baltimore American. wWay interfe 2 homestead, providing the homesteader has complied with all requirements. TO BE AN ENGINEER-C. R. §., City. preatic For a young man who desires to hecome | Yes: when people call on me I exert |, engineer on a steamer he munc:ll:fl T on’t."— | serve as an oller and then he will be 13t | \‘ann'od. For service in the United States E “Now ";": ydan.%,e marr}e?"’duld her | V8VY make application at Mare Island. intimate friend, “do you inténd to hy- e [ phenate your name and call yourself Mre, | o WHPAT QUOTATIONSFarmer, Mo- Jumb-Duft ? lesto, Cal. eat quotations . for 1893-94 were: Average $1 014, highest $1 161, low. . hi| “Have you any definite outline for con- versation, Clementine?” myself; when 1 call on them Indianapolis Journal. “No." replled the lovely bride, with a hy glance at her fond and proud voung | st %0c: in 1394-95, average 87i4c, ghes: | BEband. “This is mot a consoltdation e in average It's an absorption.”—Chicago Tribune. 2-5, hix’;lnt $1 lgzs.h Io:ve’;t 88%c; 1896- %%, highest $1 5714, | ! I shouldn't be surprised if T done sold ! average $1471-5: " highes dat mule aftuh all,” remarked Uncle Ras- | § h‘,‘;;.’:;g okt s, average | 4 . lowesf e i You got any offers?” last figures include up to July.’!lxu.u e | “No. but I's gwinter git one purty soon. Deacon Thompson stops hyuh = every thuh day an’ was'es half an hour tell- n' me ‘bout whut a no 'count animal it is. | An’ de deacon doesn’t put in his time | wifout'n he's got 2n object.”—Washington | MONEY ORDERS—Subscriber, J. .| and M. D. A., Raymond, Cal. The *lavw * uiring t n‘r‘d‘;‘l‘;‘ 'o! R,f!'btl for u‘»:: office money’ ent into effect dur. rt of i®. It was put into operation in different postoffic, Star. ks | ent times; according to the time whon e i —Don" | supply of old form: Mrs. Highblower—Don't forget. my dear, | SUPPLY of old forms was exhausted. 'In that in conversation the interest myst not be allowed to flag. Clara—But I'm sure I do my best, mam- ma. “‘Maybe so, But while the planist was laying 1 thought, once or twice, that I etected you listening to him.”—Life, ‘‘There is safety in numbers,” said the trite conversationalist. ““There answered the man who talks cn politics “If you can't convince a man | by your argument you can always silence | Kmeows abolutEls: hothing about - Wessn othing about.”— - | ington Star. ” > o | the 7th of November of thar s 2tion York City it beca: before that date. CHRISTMAS PACKAGES—Su City. Packages intended for lold?::!::rni sailors at the Philippines weighing m':' at on year. In N me operative some ll;:: more than' thirty pounds if the quartermaster’s demmt::."{!"id A 156 Jessie street, will be forwarded § i chnf; The next tr: Tt carrying m:u will leave on Friday. Packages must be |d€nt“t“d m’trtl.:r:lrl than to-morrow. The next transpo also ¢ o carry such pack- | its Latin, | sition of the United States | There was, indeed. an actual su | tion of business affai | sive power of | Ing vice. |EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN—Ths municipal campalgn in New York City will come next year, but the fight against Croker may be said to have already be- gun. That nothing will hinder Croker's overthrow may well be the wish of all good citizens, Yrrespectlve of politics. NEW YORK TRIBUNE—Nothing can be more obvious and more reasonable than that, since the United States has in- tervened in Cuba for the establishment of a certain sort of government, that gov- ernment must be formed and established in a manner satisfactory to the United tates. WASHINGTON STAR—The retention by Lord Salisbury of the British Premier- ship insures a vigorous Ministry. It hs been suggested that he alone of his party couid hold together the elements which comstitute it. It has been a successfu coalition and has accomplished some re- markable results. RICHMOND TIMES—If the party will | now purge itseif of Popullsm and Bryan- ism and return to those principles upon which it was founded and fight its own battles without alliances with alien arties and line up under leaders who be- ieve in and represent its cardinal prin- ciples, it will, in our opinion, turn its de- feat into a glorious triumph. CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN—Congress has made a good beginning of the new task by upbuilding our navy. But our naval growth must continue i{n an order- ly and systematic fashion. Immediate at- tention should be given to providing trained officers, for we are now bullding ships which, if action be not taken soon, n;xust e idle for lack of men to command them. OMAHA BEE—President McKinley un- | derstands better than any other man can do the great and grave responsibilities resting upon him. No one more clearly apprehends the significance of popular | verdict. No citizen is more solicitous for the maintainance of the honor, the integ- rity and the prestige of the republic. No one is more profoundly and patriotically devoted to American 'institutions. Ths country may cenfidently expect from him a wise conservatism and moderation. NASHVILLE AMERICAN—Most of the New England States have educational tests as a qualification for voting—100,000 illiterate voters are disfranchised in Mas sachusetts alone—and to reduce represen- tation on this score would affect them as well as the South. An educational quali- fication is desirable. It elevates the bal- lot, and no step to degrade the ballot by giving it indiscriminately to the ignoran: and the venal would be tolerated by pun lic sentiment. PHILADELPHIA TIMES—Among tha uses of war in foreign lands is an extend- ed knowledge of geography, and also the introduction of new words into the Eng- lish language. In the old wars were grafted upon the Anglo-Saxon stem all of and in later wars we got Blucher and Wellington. a pattern of foot- | wear; Magenta and Solferino, colors used in dress goods, and khaki, a cloth first made in Indla and now extensively used by all armies as tropical dress. PHILADELPHIA INQUTR E R—Tha country hasn’t, in spite of the extraordin- ary outlay due to causes wholly beyond either our anticipation or control, been runhing into debt. There is still a hand- some amount to the good at the dispo- Treasurer. lus of more than three million doilars du n’ the month of October, which is a gratifying circumstance indicating a healthy condi- NEW YORK TIMES-Opposition to Bryanism involved no risk of negro su- premacy in any Southern State. And cer- tainly the South would have paid uncon- sclonably dear for whatever advantage may accrue from maintaining a solid front against negro rule if its votes had actual- ly elected a President who had A;)lerllved himself to policies that woul have brought widespread disaster upom its prosperous industries and checked its development for a decade. PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER—Now that we have gone abroad to sell the products which we have the capacity for producins beyond the domestic capacity to consume. it is imi ible to set any limits to our prospective development. With inexhaus- tible supplies of coal and fron and of all the other staples which successful manu. facture requires, and with an inventive capacity which is nowhere even approach- ed, the ition of the United States as the greatest nation upon earth seems to assured beyond peradventure. NEW YORK POST—Croker and his con. federates begin by stealing the name of Democrats; they end, through the cohe- ”ubuc plunder, with what they call a political organization, but What in, for and b; 2. t drinks the blood of the Eooh It grows fat on the ransom pald y_the rich. Croker, the chief bandit, is a llving embodiment of the spirit which animates the whole—his ignorance, his d, his brutality, his afliation with he stews, spreading llke a dread Infec- tion to corrupt every man or institution touched by his polsonous breath. ———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend's* ——— Special information suppiied dally te business houses and public men Press Bureau (Allen‘e). 10 w gomery st. Telephone 1042 The leader of the Marine Band at ington, D. C., gets $1500 first and $50 a month, 3 lowed ration money In all cases. —————— An Eastern Trip via Washington. Orportunity for a visit to the National Capi- tal is afforded by tickets via Washington at same fares as apply over direct Pennsylvania Line to Philadelphia and New York. An ad- aitional stopover of ten daye at Philadelphia is granted on tickets to New York whether they read via Washington or direct. For fur- ther information apply to A. 8. J. Holt, Pacifle Cosst Agent, 30 Montgomery st.. San Fran- ciseo, Cal. —————— AN OPPORTUNITY.—Take advantage of the round-trip steamer tickets, only $80 during No- vember, iIncluding fifteen days’ board at Hotsi del Coronado, the ideal summer and winter re- sort. Apply at 4 New Montgomery st., city. ————————— Many causes Induce gray hair, but Parker's Hair Balsam brings back the youthtul eolor. 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