The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1900, Franc BRE wild ¥ Call. DECEMBER 4, 1900 The TUESDAY JOHN D SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Al Communications to W. S MANAC PUBLICATION OF) B - May Teiephone Pre: EDITORIAL ROOM 217 to 221 Steven Telephone Press 202. LEAKE, Manager. et and Third. S. ¥F. 201 St. Delivered hy Carriers. 156 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Centa. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: I nday), one year " nday). § months. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Matl subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request CAKLAND OFFIC ....1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising. Marquette Building, Chicago. i Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619."") NEW CARLTON YORK CORRBSPONDENT AMUSEMENTS. 5 Musketeer " Sady streets—Specialties. sudeville every afternoon and day afternoon. rack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. December 12, at 13 o'clock, r—Wednesday Sutter street HERE is 1 t that the great contests of come in the con- 1 and shipping bills. Both are at last alive to the fact tha 1 only emphasizes the need oi We lost our lead While ngress wi ercial marine. ng of the Civil War. ose economic revolutions iront of affairs. This was or wood in the construction g can remember when it was ron ship could not be made to sion was without interest to us, for gland at once forged to oi the new craft. She had shed by the condition in which she found he Crimean war, when she had to char- clippers for troop transports to carry to the shores of the Black Sea. English anship never forgets a lesson of that kind, and, ng us when our enterprise was either paralyzed ely n a civil war, she made the most of her opport and so it came to pass that “Britannia Rules the Wave” soon outpiped “Colum- bia, the Gem of the Ocean.” We find ourselves now able to feed the world, to clothe it and to manufacture for it, but able to carry only nine per cent of our foreign trade under our flag! or i occupied ity, The building of an isthmian canal is almost second- ary to the need of our own ships to carry through it our own commerce The pre ted by United States Minister Merry w and Costa Rica, and signed last week at W gton, fairly open the canal ques- tion. It seems now that the canal is to be neutralized All the rights we need nian republics are provided be secured in the treaties The construction of the canal should be a matter of months rather than years. If pushed with the energy which was shown by the build- o5 of our first overland railroad ships built under the encouragement of a revival act could hardly be ready in time to take cargo and steam through it at the fin- ish. The engineering problems are simple, and it is only a question of money and energy. Let this be borne in mind, that construction of the canal will bz a great in transportation and will be fcllowed by a great expansion of ship-building. This was the result when the mapping of ocean currents @nd winds, and the development of Great Circle sailing, by Maury, sconomized ocean transportation “4, the amount of sev-ral millions a year. The revival <ue to ¢ 1 construction will be greater than that, since the actual economy in time and distance will be greater and the commerce economized is vastly larger in volume. The Pacific Coast is now in a position to profit by re-creating cur merchant navy. We build ships here, and the canal and the Pacific trade will re- quire fleets of them. With us it is a question whether these fleets shall be nunder the flags of Great Britain, and Norway, or under our own. ipyards can be kept busy here for years to come, and marine architecture and construction be made per. manent industries for cur people if we now make our- selves felt in favor of the canal and shipping bill. These are the great business measures of what promises to be a business session of Congress. If a and under American control economy an disappointed minority attempt to fritter away the time mw frivolous discussion and bombastic appeals to the country, let it be remembered that an appeal on these issues has just been heard by the country and decided against that minority. The maritime States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- necticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, California, Oregon and Wash- ington, joining the lake States of Minnesota, Wiscon- sin, Iliinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, have de- cided the appeal, and there can be no motion for a new trial entertained until 1904. folly it would be to pause now and wait, as the mi- nority will demand, until they can reargue the issue! In its strictest sense there is no minority, and we are sorry for it. The leaders like Jones and Stone, and newspaper organs like the Examiner, Journal and World, and the Southern press, are busy as- suring the country that they were not sin- cere in their support of the “paramount” and “immediate” issues of the late campaign. No one i bound to heed their protests as to any issue, since they have no proof that they mean what they say. A yeal minority must issue from the chaos on that side, led by men who will be believed by the country when they take a position upon any of the great questions. For these reasons the majority should not pause _nor falter in accomplishing all that it put in issue and risked in the ballots .Herald Sanare vere enlisted in that great strug- | What unspeakable | THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. RESIDENT McKINLEY’S message is much p longer than necessary. Much of it is devoted to an historical review of the events of the year, and while it is gratifying to have an official statement concerning the action of our Government in them, it |is to be noted that the statement contains little or ‘S OFFICE........Telephone Press 20¢ nothing that is new. I[nformation has been fully given ! out to the press and through the newspapers to the | public, so that virtually all the President has had to | say of an historical character has been fairly well | known. | The chief interest in the message not only to us but | to the world at large centers in what is said of the | crisis in China and our relations to it. On that sub- | ject the President writes with elaboration and narrates the proceedings that led up to the Boxer outrages |and brought about the present situation. He an- nounces that the disposition of the Chinese Govern- ment to admit liability for wrongs done to foreign- iers. and “to act upon such additional designation of | the guilty persons as the Foreign Ministers at Peking | may be in a position to make,” gives hope of a com- | plete settlement of all questions involved. He fur- | ther asserts it to be “one of the essential factors of a durable adjustment” that there be given secure and | adequate guarantees for liberty of faith for natives as | well as for foreigners. Finally he expresses approval of a suggestion put forward by the Government of Russia, “that in the event of a protracted divergence | of views in regard to indemnities to be demanded of China, the matter be relegated to the court of arbitra- tion at The Hague.” As to the indemnity itself the President says: ‘Measured in money alone, a2 sufficient reparation | may prove to be beyond the ability of China to meet | All the powers concur in emphatic disclaimers of any | purpose of aggrandizement through the dismember- ment of the empire. I am disposed to think that due | compensation may be made in part by increased guar- | antees of security for foreign rights and immunities, | and, most important of all, by the opening of China | to the equal commerce of all the world. These views i have been and will be earnestly advocated by our rep- resentatives.” | Another question of indemnity for international | wrong referred to in a different part of the message may well be considered in this connection—that is | the demand of Italy for redress for wrongs done to | her citizens in this country by mob law in Louisiana. The President says: “Notwithstanding the efforts of the Federal Government, the production of evidence tending to inculpate the authors of this grievous of- fense against our civilization, ani the repeated in- quests set on foot by the authorities of the State of | Louisiana, no punishments have followed.” Commenting upon the evil resulting from this con- dition of affairs he adds: “I renew the urgent recom- mendations I made last year that the Congress ap- | propriately confer upon the Federal courts jurisdic- | tion in this class of international cases where the ulti- [ mate responsibility of the Federal Government may | be involved, and I invite action upon the bills to ac- complish this which were introduced in the Senate and House. Tt is incumbent upon us to remedy the | statutory omission which has led and may again lead | to such untoward results. I have pointed out the ne- | cessity and the precedent for legislation of this char- | acter. Its enactment is a simple measure of previsory | | justice toward the nations with which we as a sov- | ereign equal make treaties requiring reciprocal ob- | servance.” | Some law of the kind recommended by the Presi- "dcnt is imperatively required if we are to retain a reputation as a just nation. | President has occasion te refer to claims for indem- nity made upon various foreign Governments for | wrongs done to American citizens, and it is clear that | if our Government cannot grant redress to others it | will have but a poor showing on the score of justice | and consistency when it makes demands upon them. | Upon the subject of the Nicaragua canal the Presi- | dent contents himself with the announcement that the | State Department is now considering claims made by | the Maritime Canal Company and the Eyre-Cragin | Company against the Nicaraguan Government, and | overtures for a convention to effect the construction | of the canal, and closes by commending to the atten- | tion of the Senate “the convention with Great Brit- | 2in to facilitate the construction of such a canal and tc remove any objection which might arise out of the | convention commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer | treaty.” : The length of the message should not deter any citizen from reading it as a whole. It is an important and interesting summary of the history of the year so far as it affects the United States, written by the man who has been the most potent factor in directing the course of our country. Upon the side of domes- | tic politics it abounds with recommendations of legis- | lation needed to confirm existing order and prosper- | ity and to make improvement better still. He asks | Congress to insure the continued parity under all con- ditions between our 1wo forms of metallic money, | internal revenue tax, the upbuilding of our merchant marine, the regulation of trusts, legislation for Porto | Rico and the Philippines, the construction of the Ha- | waiian cable, and the enactment of many other meas- ures for the general benefit i THE STOCK CONVENTION. H ITHERTO California has had but little to say in the conventions of the National Livestock Association. This should be changed at the | coming session of that body, which meets in Salt | Lake in January. The decline of the stock industry, brought about by | destruction of the feed on the free range, has at last | reached the consumers of meat in the form of a | higher price for that food. The marketing of range | cattle for 1900 is about over and shows a progressive | decrease. The receipts at Chicago of range cattle exhibit a de- cline that is common to all slaughtering centers. In 1895 Chicago handled 429,300 head; in 1896, 272,000 | 1900, 142.600. This is a decline in range cattle of 66 per cent in six years. No wonder that butcher’s meat is higher on the block. The consumer has a direct interest in increasing the supply. There is but one way to such increase, and that is by restoring the carrying capacity of the ! ranges. They have now only one-third the capacity | they had six years ago. Two-thirds of the area is ; obsoleted by absolute extirpation of the forage. The cattle industry has vanished and leit drought and desert behind it. The only increase of the forage, and therefore of the carrying capacity of the range, is in Texas. That State leases the ranges, and the Agri- | cultural Department has aided the leascholder in re- seeding the ranges and renewal of their forage. The great range area west of the ninety-ninth me- ridian must resort to leasing and restoration, or the Aonly industry for which much of it is fitted must pass In this very message the silver and gold. He recommends the reduction of the | in 1807, 236,300; in 1808, 195,175; in 1899, 177,300; in | away. The question has passed beyond the stock men themselves, who ate divided in sentiment and quar- reling over what feed is left. sumer now. The present rise in meat is 20 per cent. There is no natural reason why it should not go on till it equals the 66 per cent decline in range stock. The consumers will soon demand a policy that re- news the raising of range cattle. They have rights which the Government and all concerned must heed. The mealt-packeu and exporters are allies of the con- sumers in urging a leasing policy that will restock the ranges, as are all the Western railroads, which depend on livestock for an important part of their The shortage ramifies in many directions. If the railroads lose tonnage in one direction they must meet their fixed charges by making it out of a rise in other articles transported. The issue, viewed in all its lights, becomes a serious one, and the rem- edy should be sought with intelligence and energy. It is to be hoped that California will be heard at Salt Lake in favor of some policy that will save a great industry and stop advance in the cost of living. tonnage. C orchards. up. much. who attend. W writer said: | Company. disposition. man soldiers, =~ convention. it to the consumer. in the work, spoken of California 23 time to drop all that sort of comparison. injuring the State when we use it, for there is nothing in Italy that in amy way equals the charm of a Cali- fornian winter. Here is a case in point. Westminster Gazette of London published a letter from a private correspondent in Milan, in which the “What a wretched place is Milan in wintry weather! Lately the streets have been deep in slush or sticky with mud. days the fog has been of the thin, peasoup variety. To step in and out of a cab was enough to condemn any poor creature in petticoats to a deep mud trim- ming at the hem of her garment, and all Milan seemed to cough as if it had but one choked lung.” Just contrast that with the weather we are having all over California since the rains came to start the grass growing in the valleys and on the hillsides. is true the reference to the “one choked lung” sug- gests Los Angeles; but that is not because of any defect in the Los Angeles climate. The one lungsters in that place are not natives, nor are they persons of long residence. There, as elsewhere in California, the winter season is one of wholesome air and general joyousness. Let us hear no more talk about “the Italy iof #America” in connection with this State. | may have that title if her people wish it. | but one California on earth, and it has no rival. OUR WINTER CLIMATE. On November —_—— Florida There is It concerns the con- CALIFORNIA'S FRUIT-GROWERS. ALIFORNIA'S fruit-growers will meet to-day at Pioneer Hall for their twenty-fifth annual Were they inclined to do so the gathering could be made the occasion for a review of the work accomplished by the pioneers and up- builders of the industry that in a striking way would illustrate the progress that has been made in scientific horticulture and in the production of wealth It is not for history, however, but for busi- ness the convention meets, and accordingly the pa- pers and discussions will deal with the present and the future and not with the past. Despite the many advantages of soil and climate, fruit-growing in California has not been easily built Our orchards are far from the great markets of the country, and the cost of transportation has too | 1 often been all that the traffic would bear. the conditions of the industry here are so different from those in the Eastern or Southern States that the beginnings of the industry were largely experimental. Many a man planted an orchard without knowing whether it would succeed, and in not a few cases failure resulted. Thousands of dollars and much of time, energy and skill were required to establish the industry upon the basis it now occupies, and to the pioneers who led the way chances and overcame the difficulties California owes from Moreover, took the It is now fairly well understood what sections of California are best adapted for what kinds of fruit can be most profitably cultivated in each, but now a new set of problems confront the progressive men who lead the industry. increase in the output renders it more and more im- portant to provide economical methods of handling the product, preparing it for market and supplying These are large problems and re- quire a business sagacity of a .high order to prop- erly solve them. Fortunately our fruit industry is in the hands of men quite capable of dealing with all matters of that kind. The California fruit-growers as | a body are perhaps the most advanced class of rural workers in the world. They have a fuller knowledge | of the scientific side of their industry and a larger experience in business affairs than other classes en- gaged in the cultivation of the soil. well prepared to understand the problems that arise in their industry from time to time and to deal with them in the most effective way. At present the most serious questions with which our fruit-growers are concerned in the line of their | work are those of procuring a speedier system of transportation to the markets of the world and pro- viding for that co-operative method of doing busi- ness which now seems destined to prevail for years to come in almost all departments of industry. with those issues the convention will deal, and it is safe to say there will be no lack of sound counsel pre- sented on every point under discussion. ix to be one of the most important industrial gather- irgs of the season, and the results will well repay all fruit-growing and The rapid Thus they are It The meeting E have in times past sought to impress upon the reading world the delights of our winter climate by comparing it to that of Italy. We have written of our “Italian skies,” of our days as “charming as those in the Riviera,” and we have the Italy of America.” We are It 14 the * * * Everywhere for The Board of Supervisors has under consideration a proposition which it is safe to say will be met em- | phatically with disfavor by the Market-street Railroad The Supervisors have made the highly | sensational suggestion of forcing the company to give school-children cheaper carfare. Uncle Sam has been quietly negotiating for the pur- chase of the Danish West Indies. Perhaps one of his shrewd agents may be able to make the bargain good | ir trade and swap a few of our South Sea islands for the desired possessions. The Michigan woman who married a man after an | acquaintance of two weeks and was robbed by him oi all she possessed is probably convinced of the fallacy i that Cur@d is rather more thiéving than lovable in French eritics are insisting that Von Waldersee is notoriously unfit to command the allied forces China. It was generally believed that Frenchmen had & most wholesome respect for the prowess of Ger- 2 PLANS A CAN BE PUT INTO PRACTICAL THE LEWISTON (ME.) DRY GOODS MERCHAD THE THEORY OF EDWARD BELLAMY'S “LOOKING BACKWARD"” BRADFORD PECK OF MAINE - “PEOPLE’S TRUST” Under It the Whole United States Will Be One Grand Co-operative Concern. ——_ - T WHO AVERS THAT ' OPERATION. | MILD mannered man, whose aim in grand ‘‘department store,” Is guest at the Everett House, says the New York World. His name is Bradford Peck. He s wealthy and an en- thusiast on the subject of solving all so- cial and economic questions by the forma- tion of “The People's Trust.” Peck comes from Lewiston, Me., where he is at the head of one of the largest dry goods houses in New England and president of the largest real estate com- pany. He is also president of the Joliet (I1L) Dry Goods Company. He believes that Bellamy’s scheme of life outlined in “Looking Backward” can be put into operation. Indeed, he is con- fident that before the first quarter of the twentie: 1 century shall have ended the entire United States shall have become one grand co-operative concern, with ev- ery man, woman and child a shareholder; all enterprises shall be under national ownership, all middle men, stock jobbers, agents and drummers shall have been done away with; every commodity shall be made and sold at the lowest cost and the lowest price, and every citizen shall enjoy to the fullest the resuit of his la- bors. According to Peck’s great scheme, no person who is willing to work shall be in fear of want through illness or lack of work. “In Matne,” said Mr. Peck, “the apples rot on the ground, yet here people starve. Throughout the country there is more food produced than could ever be consumed, yet men and women go hungry. The bar- gain counter is the result of undercon- is distribution. “You may buy clothes at less than the cost of manufacture—yet many men have to go about with ragged clothes. Why? Because of lack of system. “I belleve that by the conservation of energy—by the elimination of the middle men and of the idea of competition, every man, woman and child could live well, without money or overwork.” This new movement has been started in Maine by the organization of “The Co- life is to make of the world one | ' 'Protest sumption, due to lack of proper system otq e operative Assoclation of America,” a against competitive waste and stic greed.” Under a charter a organization has been started in where the 250 members dine at | cost price in a buflding donated for the purpose. | . “The movement so far,” sald Mr. Peck, | “has proved successful and profitable—the profits going entirely to the cause. The next move will be to build apartment houses, where the fullest degree of com- fort and health may.be enjoyed at the lowest cost; after that a co-operative store will be established.” Peck’s big dry goods store is co-opera- | tive in the sense that the employes share in the profits, but he wants to go further. { *“All the members of the association | should profit by every enterprise. All de- | partment stores begin small. The shoe- maker and the dry goods man pool their | interests, and then the milliner joins them and the clothier and the furniture | man, and finally you have a store where everything can be bought. “Now, that Is just how we expect our movement to grow. When, as we hope in the near future, an organization shall | control not only restaurant but model dwellings and stores, and the feople of | Lewiston see how one-quarter of the city has developed, it is safe to say that they will soon fall into line. “From the city of Lewlston, we hope, the movement will soon grow over the en- tire State, and within twenty-five years redict the entire geople of the country will be in one grand co-operative organ- ization. ““There will be no trust but the people’s trust. Everything will be under national control, just as the postoffice is now. “Every man will do his share of work, according to his ability, and shall receive for life enough to support himself well. “The movement will tend to depopulate great cities like New York, for men will not have to herd in tenements. The farm- er, like the doctor, can live in a com- fortable apartment and go to and from his work as easily as do the merchants of New York who live far up on the Hud- son's banks.” Mr. Peck {8 In communication with prominent ministers, teachers, leaders and capitalists and expects soon to interest them in the movement. He began life as a cash boy for Jordan, Marsh & Co. of Boston. | monopo | prim: |1 PERSONAL MENTION. Judge F. A. Cutler of Crescent City is at the Lick. Dr. Thomas Powell of Los Angeles is at the Palace. W. H. Durst, a Wheatland newspaper man, is at the Grand. Frederick Warde, tragedian, arrived at the Palace last evening. R. T. Burr, a cattleman at Los Angeles, is stopping at the Russ. Joseph McCormick, the cattleman Stockton, is at the Lick. ‘W. M. Irwin, who has ofl Interests at Bakersfield, is at the Russ. H. B. Vall, an Oroville mining man, is registered at the Occidental. R. Robertson, proprietor of the Gilroy Hot Eprings, is at tha Lick. Joseph D. niddle, an oll man from Han- ford, is registered at the Grand. Judge J. M. Brooks of Los Angeles reg- istered at the Lick last evening. Datid Horn of Hornsville was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Dr. W. L. Whittington of the United States army 1s at the California. Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Btockton, a mem- ber of the State Board of Health, s at the Grand. 8. N. Androus, iticlan and racehorse man, Grand. E. E. Harlow, who has been prospecting in Nome, returned yesterday and is at the Grand. . is of It prominent Pomona pol- is at the on Sunday last. James McCudden of Vallejo, a well- known naval contractor, is stopping at tne Grand for a few days, “Pony” Moore of Buffalo, the well- known sporting man, is among the late arrivals at the Occidental. C. A. Macomber, vice president and sec- retary of the Northwestern Mining Com- pany, leaves to-day for an extended East- ern trip. 5 Thomas Daisey, chief of the Victoria Fire Department, registered at the Russ yesterday. He is on his way to the south- ern part of the State for his health. the Southern Pacific has received a letter from Charles M. Hays, the new president of the company, that he wiu arrive in this city in about four weeks. I S. Rauck, W. J. Healy and C. M, At- wood, who are connected with the audit- ing department of the Santa Fe Company at Topeka, arrived in the city yesterday for the purnose of inspecting the com- pany’s new terminals here. H. C. White- head, the general auditor, will be here next week for the same purpose. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 3—The following in ara in New York: From San | A.'A. Moore Jr. and his wife, heiress to | the Blythe millions, returned from Europe | General Manager Julius Kruttschnitt of | Francisco—R. Auzerals is at the Herald Square, Miss S. Blanding and Mrs. E. B. Coleman are at the Holland, Mrs. J. Cur- tis is at the Murray Hill, P. L. Davis is at the Imperial, H. Flammer is at the Met- ropolitan, Miss Gotting and Mrs. L. Got- ting are at the Union Square, R. Hickmott | 1s at the Imperial, Mrs. G. Hohm s at the Grand Union, H. 1. Kowalsky is at the Hoffman, Miss Mackenzie is at the St. Denis, H. Munz is at the Herald Square, Mrs. L. Sussman and L, E. Van Winkle are at the Netherland, B. M. Goldstein is at the Herald Square, Miss G. Hopkins, Mrs. H. S. Scott, Miss Scott and P. A. Williams and wife are at the Holland. | “From Los Angeles—E. Knight and wife | are at the Holland, Mrs. Nicolal is at the Sturtevant. From San Jose—A. R. Hunter {s at the St, Denis. —————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A DIMB OF 18%—A. 8., City. A dime or 1892 does not command a premium from dealers In coins. FREIGHT STEAMER—S. H., City. The largest freight steamer that ever e tered the harbor of San Francisco is the Algoa. PHILIPPINE STAMPS—S8., City. United State postage stamps that have printed on the face the word Philippines are good for prepayment of postage when required. TEN-DOLLAR PIECE-D. S., Felix, | Cal. A ten-dollar plece of 1849 does not | gorfimnndflar g;e;:fi;m rhm? fiuen, The lealers offel such at prices rangin; | from $13 50 to $15.- sing CHICKAMAUGA—D, E., City. The word Chickamauga is Indian and means the “stream of death.” Chickamauga Creek is located twelve miles southwest of | Chattanooga, Tenn. THE CALL BUILDING—A. P., City. The statement has been repeatedly pub- lished in this department that the height | of the Claus Spreckels bullding, geneuflly | known as The Call building, is 327 feet, | ?:e‘: that the height of the flagstaff is 33 MONT BLANC—Subscriber, City. The height of Mount Blanc in the Swiss Alps is 15781 feet. The summit was first i ;:fi:emy! Saussure, August 3, 1787, he 5 | being assisted in the ascent by a guide CAMILLA URSO CONCERTS—A. S, City. The Camilla Urso concerts given in the Mechanics' Pavilion, on which occa- sion cannon were fired by electricity dur- ing the rendition of the Anvik orus, :reyre uf_)l‘-)om the 224 to the %th of Febru- hCAng'NG—D. S., Felix, as a friend visiting h. like to take her to call on anothos frons it would be proper for her to send word that she pro‘)oses to make a call and would take pleasure In bringing and in- troducing her friend, who is visiting her. A lady is not supposed to know that her friend has any one visiting her until noti- and it is not her place to call on the one entertaining company until she has such notice, Cal. If a lady EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY How to Reorganize. Democratic reorganization is hardly ne- cessary. What Is necessary is a resump- tion by Demccrats of the direction and control of the party. Democrats lost this easily. It can be regained easily.—CHI- CAGO CHRONICLE. The Lagging Leonids. While their aberration at this late day awaits solution, it js Interesting to note that the displacement of the I eontds their normal track explodes and shatters the old dictum of the skeptics that “all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”—NEW YORK HERA' Motives of the Powerr We cannot avoid the conclusion that those powers which seem to contemplate excessive and inordinate demands in the way of pecuniary indemnities are secretl prompted by motives irreconcilable wit their alleged desire to leave intact China’s territory and present administrative structure, and to hasten the return of tranquillity and order.—NEW YORK SUN. The Horse Will Stay. The invention of the locomotive 4id not displace the cart and dray from use. The discovery that steam could be used to Ero— pel vessels did not result in the aba: A ment of salling craft. The wide vogue of the automobile will not lead to the ex- tinction of the horse, but merely to his application to new usefulness. Persons who once could not afford a horse for driving or for traction will find it possible soon to own their own “steed.”—PROVI- DENCE JOURNAL. Treatment of the Negro. The unfairness with which the n treated in the North and East in his a tempts to earn a living is strong contrast to the consideration a colored laborer re- cefves in the South. The black man who honestly desires to work is always ac- commodated south of Mason and Dixon's line, and no restriction is put upon the kind of employment in which he may en- gage. Industrial equality is the rule in every case where as good work is done by men of one color as by those of an- uihexr.—LOL'ISVILLE COURIER-JOUR- NA England and Civilization. England has not offered one word of conciilation since the capture of the Transvaal capital, and the war is now de- generating into utter barbarism. Lord Kitchener Is even imitating some of the fiendish methods of Weyler in Cuba to force submission, and the Intensity of Boer hatred against Britain,s increasing every day. The Ealnl seems to have been reached when ngland’s peaceful su- remacy in South Africa can come only v the utter annihilation oféhel drl.hh this the civilization that Englan as taught the world?—PHILADELPHIA TIJES. Theoretical Economy. Theoretically econom wealth; practically and as a matter of fact the economizers remain poor. We know something of the ople of China and India—nearly one-half the population of the world. They are sald to sustain life on a per capita expenditure of less than 10 cents a day for food. They ousht to be perfectly healthy and immensely rich. In fact, they are as poor now as when they started, and if they are healthy they don't look it. At any rate, if the choice is given to the average American between his present wasteful diet and the ideal economy held up to him as a means of health and riches he will probably, and wisely, prefer his own scale of iiving to that of China or India—NEW YORK WORLD. 1s is the road to ‘What Partition Would Mean. We think that the partition of China is considered by the leading governments of Europe and that of Japan ¢s at present an undesfrable solution of the problem, largely use, as has been stated by the German Chancellor and the French Min- ister cf Fcrelgn Affalrs, it would greatly interfere with the ordinary development of well established foreign trade. Be- sides this, a partition would bring up new contentions and prepark the way for grave controversies in the immediate future: hence_those interested could bardly fail to look upon it as a worse condition than that which now exists. 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