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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1900. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. PR LR S R SR o W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Ttl{" Pm-l Address All MANAGE) PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .... 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Communicatio: OFFICE. . Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. 1. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (i DAILY CALL (inc! DAILY CALL (including Sunday) DAILY CALL—By Singe Month. o One Year. . One ters are wubscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. ordering change of address should be NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order correct compliance with their request to ineure & prompt and OAKLAND OFFICE... «....1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Maneger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Tele “‘Central 2619."") none NEW YOF . €. CARLTON. . NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribune Building S STANDS: A. Brentano, 51 Unfon Square; JRRESPONDENT: < Herald Square NEW YORK N Waldort-Astoria Hotel; Murray 1 Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: P. O. News Co.; Great Auditor: Ho w Northern Hot WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., N. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. omery. corner of Clay, open untfl $:30 o'clock. 633 until 93 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until cpen untfl 10 o'clock. 3261 Market. 109 Valencta, open t Bazaar, Thursday afternoon. AUCTION SALES. This Gay, Horses, at 1722 Market day, at 11 o'clock, at evening, COMPLETING THE COAST RO@AD. Barbara ce on the “gap” of the on the last big viaduct reported on good author- over the track closing the , that when the i the S announce final uthern ill be a glad long the coast and, indeed, to 1 the change in the overland e the construction of the Val- h the Santa Fe system the udicial to the intgrests of t great valley has the ad- scontinental routes and will comes to the coast of that enterprise is of C er step forward ith and preg rnia have reason for in the ad- res the ight to be the construction Francisco monw 1 coast from S ich territory of that re- ion with the munica € etion of the gap has been long waited A have elapsed since the s of that time promised that 1e construction of the road continuously prosecuted. was made the people way have been almost ointed hopes it seemed as mpleted. All those fears The completion of the work is at ng season will be propitious to coast people long ago decided road was finished. e old gap is said to be an excel- Our reports say: “The wood and Santa Barbara is begun to straighten the nta Barbara. The old ghout with standard moun- Ma * il the r are now The ho cc The road acr lent one every respect El ine betwec being Wor ne between Ventura 2 iron is being rep throu entire old removed c tain steel. Curves being climinated for fast time. A force is at work at either end of the Santa S a tunnel and along the Chatsworth Park line. s will shorten the distance to Los Angeles, cutting ut heavy grades through a hot section, and places the Oxnard district on the main line.” The new Jine will be one of the finest scenic routes in America and will help to attract travel to the State. It will open up a rich region of territory and pro- mote the development of the varied resources of the coast. A picturesque and fertile section of the State which has been so long sidetracked will now be along one of the main lines of travel and traffic, and t benefits resulting are sure to be felt throughout Ca fornia. Chief of Police Sullivan intends to cripple Chinese gambling dens by forcing them above the ground fioor. He possibly reflects that some members of the force have proved their ability in connection with Chinese gambling “to get in on the ground floor” in more senses than one. It has been argued in one of our courts that local civil service is superlatively absurd because it places San Francisco governmentally out of California. The lawyers seem to forget that the Phelanites have been consistent in looking upon the city as a private reser- vation of their own. Judge Morrow has defined the meaning of “more or less” in law. It is interesting to observe that he differs from the experience of most of us that the meaning is “Jess.” 7 i REDUCTION OF WAR TAXES. | ASHINGTON reports announce that Secre- : Wlary Gage will probably recommend a reduc- | tion of about $15,000,000 a year in the war rev- | enues. The report is in harmony with statements re- ! cently made by Mr. Payne, chairman of the Ways and | Means Gommittee of the House, and is doubtless re- | liable. Further reductions can hardly be expected from this “Co'ngress, partly because the session is going to be I'too short to undertake a radical revision of the rev- | enue laws in connection with the other business be- | fore Congress, but mainly because there is likely to be an increase of expenditure which will materially reduce the surplus revenues, and no one knows ex- actly how much will remain. Appropriations for the current year aggregate $700,- | 720.476. For the coming fiscal year estimates will amount to $750,000,000 or more, incluging the expense of the postal service. The principal reason given for this increase instead of a possible reduction is that the continuation of the war in the Philippines has made it impossible to reduce the expenditures for a military establishment. Estimates for this object will approxi- | mate what they were last year in round figures—$128,- 000,000. An extensive ship-building programme being carried out by the navy also requires increased expenditures, and naval estimates for next year are more than $28,700,000 larger than for the last year. | An estimate will also be submitted for about $235,000,- 000 for river and harbor improvements. Although a reduction of $15,000,000 is not much in tself, it can be made a considerable relief to the pub- lic by arranging to produce it by a repeal of those ! taxes which while yielding comparatively little rev- enue are either unjust or are harassing and annoying. An unjust tax is that levied upon the native table wines without respect to value. most exclusively upon California, since in no other part of the Union are wines used at meals by the general mass of people. We have evaded the tax somewhat by serving wine in pitchers or in glasses, but the evasion is not satisfactory. The revenue raised in that way cannot amount to much, and the tax should be repealed. A more important issue is that of the taxes on ex- press and telegraph receipts. Those taxes are fair enough in themselves, and could they be enforced as Congress, intended, so that the corporations would have to pay them, there would be no objection. In operation, however, such ta have had no cther effect than that of promoting fraud on the part of the corporations and discontent on the part of the public. The Call has exposed the trick by which Wells-Fargo sought to dodge the tax by offering to take a whole wagon-load of papers as one package, giving one receipt for it and thus cheating the Gov- ernment. The Call refused to be a party to the fraud, " | but doubtless it has been extensively practiced, never- thele It is clear that in any revision of the law the tax on express companies and telegraph companies should be either so framed that the corporations cannot, evade it, or else it should be abolished. It is folly to maintain a tax that cannot be honestly enforced. It is not necessary to go over the whale list. The instances given show that even a reduction of .so small an amount as that fixed upon can be made in a way that will give no little satisfaction. There is nothing | gained by having a surplus revenue. The people have need of all their money in the channels of trade, and it can be much better employed in private business than in the vaults of the treasury. An English skipper has reached port with the startling information that he has discovered an island | of the South Pacific twenty-three miles out of place | on the map. He ought to congratulate himself thar, after the stir of the last two years, some of them werza | | not off the map altogether. RACE PREJUDICE IN CANADA. SHORT time ago Sir Charles Tupper, who for /i many years has been the leader of the Conser- vative party in Canada, announced an intention to retire from politics. He stated at the time that he would have retired before the recent election had not | his friends urged him to continue at the head of the party until after the campaign. He declared a feeling of gratification in the fact that he was defeated for re-election, inasmuch as it made his retirement easy, | and added he would not accept a seat in Parliament if one were offered him without a contest. All of that was very fine, and it appeared the “old man eloquent of Canada,” as he has been called by his admirers, was about to retire with dignity and grace. The appearance, however, was deceitiul. The old man has been nursing a grievance, and has not been zble to keep it concealed from the public. He holds the belief that his rival, the leader of the Liberals, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, owes his success to the fact that he | s of the French race and the Catholic religion, and he has at last said so in a public speech which his friends will long have reason to deplore. He is reported to have said that Laurier carried Quebec by appealing “to the base passions of his ig- norant French Canadian compatriots,” that he “is breeding bitterness and unhappiness and strife,” and, | in what is described as a voice of passion, he added: “French Canadians rule Canada to-day. Men of 3ritish blood, how much more are you going to stand?” A speech of that kind is something worse than an { offense against fair politics and the dignity of high | position. It is a distinct menace to the welfare of the country to which Sir Charles owes his highest pa- triotic duty. Nothing that Sir Wilfrid Laurier or any of his more reckless supporters in Quebec may | have said could amount to a more potent appeal to racial and religious prejudices than this speech of Sir Charles. The evil effects of it are certain to be | long lasting and deeply pernicious to the politics of | the country. | The offense was the more grave because the speaker | was compelled to resort to something like an absurd- | ity when trying to find specific illustrations of French | rule in Canada. Thus he is quoted as having. said: “French Canadians are all-powerful at Ottawa, and none but a Frenchman can obtain an appointment or | secure a contract for any public work in or out of Quebec. Even in the old British Columbian town of | New Westminster, the people entirely being English |or Scotch, a French-Canadian from Quebec was given ;the contract _for the new federal buildings now in | course of construction there; every stonemason, every plasterer and every carpenter working on that building is a French Canadian, brought 3000 miles from Quebec to New Westminster to do work which | should be given to Lome mechanics, but the latter possess the unpardonable offense of an English tongue, and no favors need be expected by them.” ‘When a man of the high position of Sir Charles Tupper warns his fellow countrymen that the French are about to rule over them, and then has to come down to petty charges about contractors’ jobs, he has ‘uflfinly outlived his usefulness. The Conservatives That tax falls al- | of Canada have no reason to regret that Sir Charles has retired from politics. A man with that kind of temper is unfit for leadership. He has led his party to defeat, and now in his rage he has closed his career with about as grave a political blunder as was ever committed by any statesman of any age. e ————————— The South Sea cannibals who gave one of their weird dances on the water front the other day are said to have excited considerable amusement. It is all in the point of view; the effect of the dance would have been very different if the spectators were being enter- tained at the home of the cannibal. S velopment of a sentiment in the Eastern States in favor of the Panama route over that of Nica- | ragua for the construction of the interoceanic canal. Commissioner Schlect, who had just returned home | after an examination of the routes, was reported to | have intimated a preference for Panama, and the same preference was expressed by several influential papers. Upon that showing we pointed out there was likely to be a prolonged contest between the advo- cates of the rival routes, and that as a consequence a danger exists of an indefinite postponement of the en- terprise. While the danger of such a controversy has not wholly passed away, the gratifying report has been given out in Washington that the commission will | report almost unanimously in favor of Nicaragua. It | was added in the dispatches of yesterday: “There is | no reason whatever for believing that the Panama | route will be recommended, and it is said on good | authority that President McKinley has been given information as to the most practical route, which he will use in his messags. This, in line with the report, will advocate the adoption of the Nicaragua route; the satification of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty; the construction of the canal without fortifications and the adoption of tolls discriminating in favor of the United States, Costa Rica and Nicaragua only so far as coastwise vessels are concerned, and leaving the canal open to all the shipping of the world.” There is of course no desire to have the Govern- | ment take “snap judgment” on a matter of this kind. } The construction of a canal by either route will vir- | tually prevent the construction of the other. It is ! | therefore a matter of the highest importance that a wise selection be made in determining the route. When full allowance is made for all considerations of | that kind, however, the fact will remain that it would | be foolish to stand forever hesitating between the two | routes and constructing no canal at all. | Hardly anything could be gained by a further post- !ponemem at this time. We have had commission | after commission to cxamine the routes, and all the | facts in connection with each of them so far as the } ablest experts could comprehend have been laid be- “ fore Congress. Differences of opinion exist as a mat- | ter of course, but they will always exist, and therefore | it will be just as easy to settle the matter this winter as next winter. ‘ The country desires an isthmian canal. The great mass of the people are not advocates of any particular route. They wish only that the work begin promptly [ and be prosecuted with vigor. There would be a gen- | eral gratification if the.coming year, the first of the E new century, should see the enterprise begun in ear- | nest. The late dispatches from Washington give encour- agement that the wish will be gratified. The report of the commission may not show such divergencies oi | opinion as were feared; and with the earnest support | of the administration given to a definite line of policy we may see the long debate ended this winter and the | big canal undertaken within a year. s s e THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. OME days ago we directed attention to a de- Lord Rosebery has puzzled Englishmen, the dis- patches announce, by a speech in which he mingled common sense, sentiment and rhetoric. And it is safe | to say that there is not an Englishman alive who would not be mortally offended if one were to pick out the puzzling element of the speech. 1 | { THE STATE FRUIT GROWERS. | ALIFORNIA fruit-growers are to hold their C annual convention in this city beginning De- | cember 4 and continuing for four days. It is expected the gathering will be the largest that has ever yet assembled, and many issues of high impor- tance, not to the fruit men only but to the whole State, are to be discussed. The convention is to be held under the patronage of the State Board of Horticulture, and a cordial in- vitation has been extended to all fruit-growers and others interested in horticulture and kindred pursuits to be present and take part in the proceedings. It is of course desirable that every branch of the fruit in- dustry be represented, for the problems to be dis- cussed concern them all. A circular issued by the State Board of Horticul- ture outlines some of the more important issues af- fecting the fruit industry at this time by announcing: “California fruit-growers demand an improved ex- pedited freight service for Eastern fruit shipments. Unity of action upon the part of the growers is much desired. In order to prevent the introduction of the dreaded Morelos orange maggot into California the citrus-growers demand that all cars carrying said fruit East be disinfected by live steam before entering the State.” It is also announced that at the conven- tion the California Cured Fruit Association, the Citrus Fruit Exchange, the State Raisin Association and other similar bodies will make reports of the sea- son’s operation which will be of special interest. For the purpose of encouraging attendance at the convention it is announced that the Southern Pacific Company and the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company will issue excursion tickets to all persons going to the convention and returning at reduced rates from all points on their lines to San Francisco, provided a receipt for the tickets purchaged- be taken at starting point. This will be counter- signed by the secretary and will entitle the holder to a return ticket at one-third the regular rate. China, it is announced, is willing to pay $10,000 as its first installment of indemnity for the horrifying outrages which have excited the civilized world. Is this the sarcasm of the Orient which is to conclude the varied activities of the allied powers? RS AR %, The allied powers have undertaken the gigantic task of cleansing Peking of its filth, If the job takes proportionately as long as our efforts to cleanse Chinatown another generation must judge the resuft. A New York girl thief has pleaded in excuse for her offense that she never was trained to hard work. She appears to have an excellent chance to make amends for lost opportunities. IS JUST oo STAR SERVANT “GIRL” Mary Cuthbert Holds Medal of Honor From the Chicago Home Science Club. SEVENTY-TWO | 1 e | HILE women's clubs in all the English-speaking na- | tlons, especially in the L‘mmi“ States, are holding conven- | tlon on top of convention in | the effort to solve what is termed ‘“the| servant girl” question, there comes out | of Chicago a bright object lesson. It is| embodled in Mary Cuthbert, aged 72, un- | doubtedly the star domestic of the land. | She has served one family well and faith- fully for fifty-four years, and she lsn't| through yet. | . Mary Cuthbert is the proud possessor of | the prize presented b¥‘ the Home, Science Club of Cglca o for the servant with the | longest record in cne family. She has | been with the family of Mrs. Charles | | cook “and housekeeper. Steel since 1846. A miller’s daughter, Mary Cuthbert was born at Hemmingford, Cantda, Novem- ber 9, 1828. When her father died she de- termined to go out to service and was en- gaged as nurse by Mrs. John Mack for ber little baby girl. Mr. Mack died and the widow in_time married and became Mrs. Charles Steel. The baby girl grew up to womanhood and married one of her stepfather’s sons, Charles_Steel. n rs. BSteel died Mary Cuthbert kept right on with the family, and_she is with them to-day as Yesterday she celebrated her seventy-second birt and all the family sent her presents. S expects to end her days with the Steels, who look upon Mary Cuthbert as one of them. on Matters RED BLUFF SENTINEL-It {s high time for our people to shake off the old inertia and move encrgetically along the lines of progress. They have here a lovely country and one of the finest cli- mates in the world, but the land is gen- erally put to mo better or more profitable uses than those of which the plains of bleak Siberfa are capable, where wheat is now grown to the extent of millions of tons. Tha Sacramento Valley, under in- cessant wheat culture, is stagnating, and some parts of it have actually gone back- ward through decrease of population due to the comtinuance of old ranch methods. There must be more small farming, dairy, irrigation, bezl-sxnlfxr producfion, bee- keeping, poultry raising, horticulture and other rural industries of a varied nature, if the country is to make any progress. FRESNO REPUBLICAN—It s well, in- deed, for Stanford University that the enforced resignation of Professor Ross was not made public ten days ago, be- fore the people had voted on the amend- ment exempting the university from tax- ation, for there is no question that, in that 'case, the amendment would have been overwhelmingly defeated. The oniy ossible excuse for cxempting Stanford {‘Jniverslty from taxation is the conten- tion that it is in everything but name a ublic institution. Nothing s a public Pastitation whose essential policies are subject to the whim of any private per- son whatever, and still less if that whim is nothing but an old woman's crotchet. SANTA ROSA REPUBLICAN—It is not pleasing to learn that a professor in Stan- ford University has lost his place because of his utterances in regard to economic questions. Professor Ross would be of no value to the institution in which he has labored if he were without decided con- victions concerning the subjects taught by him. He is an original thinker and is outspoken in the declaration of his views. Whlra ‘we have not infrequently differed from him In his discussion of issues and have noted his change of attitude concern- ing economic questions, we have not doubted his honesty or his ability. SONOMA COUNTY FARMER—Owners should manage orchards on their own ac- count or rent them to competent white men. Those who have tried Chinese rent. ers have generally found them to be un- rofitable tenants. When the American By birth or adoption tries frul{ farming he generally learns it well. If he does not succeed the first year he compares notes with neighbors and fmproves in his methods or seeks some other fleld. It is far better to leasé land to one who natu- SPIRIT OF CALIFORNIA PRESS | Editorial Opinion From All Parts of the State of Interest. rally seeks after practical knowledge than to take a large rentai from tenants who skin the place and hunt a new one when the owner objects. SOLANO REPUBLICAN—The changes which have recently been made in the Australian ballot law in this State seem to have been good ones and to have worked with perfect satisfaction at ths election just passed. The new method | of registration worked well and there was no inconvenience or trouble caused by there being no great register. The sep- aration of the names of the candidates in- | to party columns also seems to have beeu | a good thing and a great accommodation | to the voters, enabling them to prepare their ballots in less time than it took formerly. It also facilitated the counting of the votes. | SOLANO COURIER—The ‘“paramount” subject for discussion at the forthcoming | State Fruitarowers' Convention will ba transportation. During the past season | the freight service was inadequate and | the results are too well known to need | recapitulation. The same subject has been brought forward at previous con- ventlons, but mo practical results have | emanated therefrom. At the forthcoming convention care should be taken in select- ing a committee of energetic and deter- mined men—men who will act in the in- terests of the growers and who will fight for an expedited freight service. NILES HERALD—Now that the electioa is over and people are settled down to | business, everyone should take a hand to advance their local communities. The | time is good for improvements, and ail that helps to put a town in trim will at- tract the stranger. When a movement to | bulld is advanced encourage it, and don't under any circumstances run down your own community. UKIAH DISPATCH-DEMOCRAT.—This election is settled, right or wrong, and it is now the duty of all to do everything in our power to make the next four years as happy, peaceful and prosperous as possible. Support the President in all that is right. If he is not right, try to | place him right. Be patriots, not parti- sans. Be one great family of true, loyal American citizens until the gext election. STOCKTON MAIL—A Belgian haro | show 1s in progress at San Jose. An ex- | hibition of high-grade bucks and does | owned in San Joaquin County with affi- davits showing the prices pald for the same last winter or spring would be one of the mgst amusing shows on record. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. J.'J. Miller of San Jose is at the Occidental. R. B. Butler, a Fresno oll man, is reg- istered at the Grand. : Charles Teague, a prominent Fresno oft man, is at the Grand. J. 8. Phelps Jr. of the United States navy is at the Palace. Sol Rosenfleld, a Portland merchant, is stopping at the Palace. J. 8. Lowenthal, the Selma hotel man, i8 stopping at the Russ. B. U. Steinman, formerly Mayor of Sae- ramento, is at the Palace. J. 8. Ostrom, a rancher of Wheatland, and his wife are at the Grand. E. L. Lindemann, a large contractor of Oregon, is stopping at the Palace. Former Congressman T. J. Santa Rosa is stopping at the Lick. F. F. MacWilkie of the United States navy is registered at the Occidental. George C. Roeding, a prominent Fresno fruit-grower, is registered at the Lick. W. H. Davenport of the Colorado Mid- land is spending the week at Los Angeles. ‘W. B. Lardner of Auburn, whom the Republicans elected to the Senate by one vote, is at the Lick. Former Judge E. D. Ham and wife of Napa have taken apartments at the Grand for a few days. v J. M. Stanley, formerly deputy sherift of Mendocine County, is at the Russ, hav- ing just returned from four months in of The rains are not sufficient to assure the field crops of next summer, but they have raised a pretty good crop of expectations for this fall, Nome. He says the country is greatly ”J h Duu:!' of Bmartsville, ¥ osep! e of the Excelsior Mining Oumm quartered at the Lick for a few days. He is here attending the convention of the California Miners' A&soclation. FEdward Worcester and _Charles M. Woods, merchants from Pittsburg and New York respectively, are registered at the Palace. ——— | AN OPPORTUNITY.<Take advantage of the round-trip steamer tickets, only $60 during No- vember, including fifteen days’ board at Hotel del Coronado, the ideal summer and Winter re- sort. Apply at 4 New Montgomery st., city. ——— e A HAND IN CRIB-X. X. Y., East Oak. | land, Cal. In the game of crib “two three Spo; two nine spots, with | u] counts l'el!%o 98 & Lyres tirand RALSTON'S DEATH—W., *Santa Cru: Cal. The Bank of California _closed fig doors on the 26t 1875, and W ERailton ied the Aortasy! o REGULATIONS AND LAWS—J. J., Pitt River, Cal. For rules, regulations and laws for ferry boats on rivers, you will have to communicate with the office of the United States Supervising Inspeetor of lteu'nd:'cunl-. Appraiser's bulding, San 0. POETRY—Joe, Watsonville, Cal. 1¢ t pPoems written by you are all of the -ty':: SPhich 15 Btkea Tor "a. cacmata Joparrment; or A can forced to tell you that those "em‘fllgn‘.’.»; have told you that ynx can write ?:,':‘ g::vv: m to ‘a’mr your vanity. You 3 m‘r:yv leas, but the “sample™ EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY CHICAGO TIMES-HERALD — Signifi- cant condemnation of divorce as an of- fense against the Christian standard of sthics is conveyed by the proposed radical revision of the laws governing the Pro- testant Episcopal church in this country. The special committee appointed by the last general assembly of the church to re- port upon this matter has adopted can- ons which forbid rectors from performin the ceremony of marriage when either o the contracting parties has been divorced, and also excommunicates Episcopalians who have been divorced and remarry, “except when the person so remarrying is the innocent party to a divorce secured on the ground of adultery.” ATLANTA CONSTITUTION—The peo- ple of_the South are part of the people of the United States, with certain rights which they propose to exercise regard- less of who wins in an election, and this, too, without stopping to argue whether they choose to entertain the one political opinion or the other. They are not in need of the patronizing sufficiency of a few men who think they know it all. In the meantime the cotton mill is going up all over the South, and if there are any Phil- adelphia capitalists who want to invest they will find better concerns in Georgia than in Pennsylvania. NEW YORK SUN—In the war with Spain we had not a single boat to spare. The country was in a_ condition of pro- found peace when the New York, the Ore- gon and all the other vessels of which we are so proud were built, and it was al- ways something of a struggle to secure the authorization of new ships. Every addition to our navy adds not only to our abllity to care for our vast interests as a nation but directly makes for peace in the councils of the world. It is undeniable that it is largely through the efficiency of | our navy that we shine as a world power. NEW YORK POST-To an American one of the striking things in France is the way that everybody buys flowers. No matter how poor the owner, every market garden must have its little nosegay. With us flowers are rather the luxury of the rich. In few of our great cities do cheap and abundant flowers add, as in Washing- ton, to the attractiveness of the markeis., It is strange that florists have so gener- ally neglected the possibilties of flowers for the multitude. If it pays to print yel- low journals, why not to pick yellow dais- fes, which grow wild almost at our door? RICHMOND TIMES—Talk about a re- united country, talk about the oblitera- tion of sectional prejudice, there is ona great obstacle in the way—the same that caused friction between the two sections and brought the war, even the negro prob- lem. The negro was a marplot first as a slave and later as a voter. The slavery question, thank God, has been settled and retired. 'If now we can get rid of negro suffrage the same influence which control politics in other sections will control in the South, and the South will no longer necessarily be solid for any party. PHILADELPHIA NORTH AMERICAN ~The time has not yet come, though it is probably not far distant, when the Gov- ernment will see the wisdom of doing something to save much of the water that now goes to waste in the States of the Rocky Mountain region. Irrigation has long since passed beyond the experimental stage. It has even reached the point where little more can be profitably done by private capital. Yet vast areas of the public domain remain unreclaimed in lo- calities where land would have a high value If an artificial water supply were assured the year round. PITTSBURG DISPATCH—The total im- rts for the year will not fall much be- ow $550,000,000, while the total of exports will go well up toward a billion and a half of dollars. lese figures are tremendous when compared with the statistics even of ten years ago, and tell the story why Great Britain and Germany are worried about their own commercial welfare. The excess of exports over imports to the end of October was £ a tidy sum to the credit of the country abroad or to ba paid in the gold that Europe is seeking in vain. NEW YORK TRIBUNE—The Fllipinos are a bright yeopla, with some Japanese traits. If their youth sent here to learn should show the Japanese adaptability and receptivity they might transform the Philippine Islands. and make them a cen ter of Western civilization. At any rat the training of Filipinos here would g us a body of intelligent natives in sym- pathy with American life, who would be most useful as assistants in our admin tration there and as Jeaders of their own people. CHICAGO INTER OCEAN—To Ameri- can insistence upon fair play and equal trade rights China will owe the preserva- tion_of fts territorial and political entit for Europe has agreed to these. Straig forward American diplomacy has pr vented not only a bloody struggle with China, but probably a general European war. At the same time it has preserv American rights and interests. o gacity of the American course is now ad- mitted everywhere. MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN—If tha navigable channel from the lakes to tha gulf, by way of the Mississippi Riv should result from the movement of th Chicago drainage canal trustees and the shipment of material to Europe by the St. Lawrence River route should increasa in volume, the ports of the Great Lakes would become great centers of manufac- ture, for they are centrally located as to raw material, fuel and transportation fa- cilities. PHILADELPHIA TIMES—After all the outlay, the Transvaal is still unsubdued: the restoration of peace and productiva industry is still in the dim future, and England_has no compensation yet in sight. Even Kruger's flight to Europs only makes the political sitnation mors disquieting. As a lesson in the dangers of imperial ambition the -xgorhncp of Enz- land in S8outh Africa ought not to be lost upon other ambitious nations. —_————— Chofee candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.® —_———— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a ound, in_ fire-etched boxes or Ji bas. Rets. 639 Market, Palace Hotel bul?sing. ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery st. Telephone Main 1043. . In China criminals and political prison- ers are beheaded. Some of the execution- ers are so_expert that they can arrange and behead a man In 18 seconds. When the hair is thin and gray Parker's Halr Balsam renews the growth and coldr. 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