The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1901, Page 6

HE SAN FRANCISCO OAi‘L, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1901 ....JANUARY 15, 1901 TUESDAY.. prietor. " JOHN D. SPRECKELS; Pro - .Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201. CDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Incinding, Postages DATLY CALY, (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (inciuding Sund DAILY CALL (including Sunday), DAILY CALL—By Single Month. EUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receiv: subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. L e 2 thecribers o crdering chanze of address should de part to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o msure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFIC ....1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Meseger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chieago, “‘Central 2619."") (Long Distance Telerhone NPW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON..... 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MAYCR PHELAN @AND THE PRESS. ade of his banquet to the on Saturday evening an upon (ke r renewing his slurs , he went out of his way to be dis- nd exposed the fact that he has during d little of good manners cs. he was more marked dress from Mr. Dohr- ants’ Association, his the implication that sentiment. That intent was Dohrmann, whe in begin- mphatically as a clearly un- “ entlemen, I am a in a reference to what and whose mission is so 1ot get down to the level of th: or meant by saying the press e level of the common peo- has certainly managed at times "W s level long enough to note ner of political muck and mire he bee 1 ng in ever since he was in- Sl S jarge powers conferred by ew « upon the chief executive of the m time to time noted the manner in llites have distorted the plain 1 service provisions of the char- verted the municipal government into a bureau of the worst kind, entered office under what seemed te ons favorable to good government. It ap- 1 the surface that he had been elected by a te and that he was free to administer under the new charter fairly and a very short time after the charter went however, it was seen that worst elements in the city. he was Instead of any direction there has been a movement and downward. His administration began over the Police Department and has teadily from bad to worse. He is now so scredited that he could not be elected to whatever. His downfall dates from the issue of The Call of January 16, 1900. the loss of his former credit in the city he Because it does not descend to and that of his gang he grows sarcastic nd charges it with being above the level of the com- mon people. As 2 matter of fact, its only of- fense to him is that it does not descend to the Jevel ©f the toadies upon his official power who have flat- tered his head until it is swollen with vanity and be- trayed his feet into peths that have led him to po- refort t kward d any office his polit When the people of Oakland began to intimate to the engineers who were employed to suggest improve- ments for Oakland’s water front that a further delay in the report might be followed by an indefinite de- lzy in paying for it the report was immediately forth- coming. A hint is sometimes as good as a kick. e Occasionally we are able to see ourselves as others see One of our prominent local lecturers told us th: other day what our visitors ,are never tired"of sssuring us—that in Golden Gate Park we have one of the greatest pleasure-grounds in the world. gt R The cattle king who is trying to divide Santa Clara County, no matter what the cost may be in commer- cizl disaster to his neighbors, evidently doesn’t care whose ox is gored as long as it is not his own ....Herald Square 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. €33 | ies expected of a host at | slurring tone toward | ress, or the interested edi- | == A DUTY OF THE BAR. NCE more the Bar Association of San Fran- O cisco is on trial before the bar of public opinion. Nothing was done by the association to redeem the legal profession in this city from the stain put upon it by the conduct of Chretien and of | Rogers. It now remains to be seen whether any- thing will be done to investigate the charges made upon good evidence against the professional honesty of James Alva Watt in his dealings with his client, Mrs. Fannie A. Underhill, as published in The Call on Sunday morning, In one important respect the duty of the associa- tion in the Watt case is much more imperative than ir: that of Chretien or in that.of Rogers. Those of- fenders were in the hands of the courts held to answer to charges of crime. It was therefore pos- sible for the Bar Association to make the specious plea that those cases should be left to the courts alone. No such plea can be advanced as a reason for ignoring the charges in the case that has now been brought to light. James Alva Watt has not been summonsed to | answer at the bar for crime, nor can he be sum- monsed to answer in that way for the particular of- fenses charged, since they were committed so long ago | that the statute of limitations prevents prosecution. Under these circumstances about the only way in hich Watt can be tried for the alleged dishonesty toward his client is for the Bar Association to sum- mons him to answer the chafges and investigate them impartially but thoroughly. The public has a right ’ to w expect the association to perform that duty. It is to be borne in mind that the charges against : Watt are not vague and indefinite. He is specifically | harged with having given to his client, Mrs. Under- | hill, 2s security for money borrowed from her, two ; mortgages, each of which had been satisfied and dis- | charged long before Watt made use of them as a pretended security for his loan. It is further charged that while Watt was acting as attorney for Mrs. Underhill, she being in New York and he in this city as her agent and legal adviser, it { became his duty to remit certain sums of money to her, hut instead of remitting the money or valid drafts { he sent her three checks drawn upon the American | Bank and Trust Company of this_city, each and all of them being valueless, so that when presented for pay- ment they were dishonored and returned unpaid. | Finally it is chargsd that Watt, still acting as at- torney for Mrs. Underhill, undertook to look after | her interests in the Latham Company in Chicago, | and while he was in that city obtained from her the sum of $30,000 ostensibly to maintain the Latham | Company and so protect her interests in the firm, but up to this time has never given his client an ac- counting of what he did with the money, notwith- | standing the fact that the Latham Company went into dissolution. So far as appears from the record the only defense | made by Watt is that all claims Mrs. Underhill has against him are offset by his serviees as attorney. | Can any honest member of the Bar | doubt that such charges should be investigated? “ Under our system of law the relations of attorney | and client must of necessity be based upon confidence on the one side and integrity on the other. There e at the present time in the United States interests rounting in value to- many millions of dollars rest- ! ing solely upon the word of lawyers. Something like commercial chaos would ensue if the bar should fall below the standard of honor established in the past, and to which all clients trust when they seek couns | The number of scandals in this city resulting from dishonesty on the part of attorneys has become a ce- rious injury to the community. It is time for the Bar | Association to take actior Association | | BOSTON BLOWS HER HORN. B | i OSTON, as was to have been ekpected, has met the new century by blowing horns metaphorical rather than literal. Instead of contenting her- self with an uproar in her own streets, she has waited ! vntil the racket of the occasion in other cities has died away, and now she is blowing a great trumpet blast in honor of herself and her glory. The claim of Boston is that she has within a ra- dius of fifty miles a laiger population than any other equal extent of territory in the United States with the exception of New York. According to the figures of the last census there are within the Boston district 2,849,000 people; in the Philadelphia district 2,545,000; | | ir. the Chicago district 2,167,000. Thus while Boston | | holds the fiith place in the list of American munici- palities, it is the center and the market place of the second most populous territory in the country, Population, however, is the least of the claims of Boston. It is asserted that her superiority in wealts is much greater than her superiority in numbers, and that within a radius of fifty miles she has the “best | purchasing community in the world.” It is pointed out that: “The census shows that on a basis of full and equal valuation Boston is the richest city in the country, with an average of $1942 for every inhabi- tant, while New York has a per capita wealth of only $1337: Philadelphia $1127, and Chicago $1016.” It is added that while the average earning capacity of ths men, women and children of the United States is onty 40 cents a day, the average for the people of Massachusetts is 73 cents, or 80 per cent above the general level of the country 2s a whole. Finally, the information is derived from a commercial agency in New York that of the $35,000,000 distributed from | that city in interests and dividends at the beginning of the year, upward of $zo,900.ooo was assigned 10 Boston, leaving but $15,000,000 for the rest of the Union. In all such blowing on the part of Boston there is nothing for us or for any other portion of the people of the United States to complain of. The rule laid down by Joshua at the siege of Jericho is applicable | here: “When I take the trumpet and blow, then take ye your trumpets and blow also.” If any other city has done as well, the air is free for blowing and the country will be glad to hear the sound of it. The matter is of more interest than that of a passing rews item of the time. It is worth while for the peo- ple of San Francisco to consider how Boston attained all her wealth in order that a profitable lesson may be drawn from her example. « The New England States are not rich in natural resources and Boston, has no monopoly of Atlantic coast commerce. Nevertheless in the savings and co- operative banks of Massachusetts alone there is stored up one-fiith of the savings of the American people. One-thirtieth of the population of the United States is within fifty miles of Boston, and one-twentieth of the | national wealth is held and one-thirteenth of the clearing-house business of the country is done within fifty miles of the New England metropolis. This marvelous accomplishment has been attained first by the thorough education of the people of the State, second by an industrial energy which has made full use of every manufacturing and commercial pos- sibility, and third by a moral and mental culturc which has prdmpted the people 1o aspire to the high- | | | Ir-ngiug to Morocco, and, moreover, Morocco herself | to annex any considerable portion of the territory of | gins to conquer weaker nations and take possession | of their territory the expansion must keep on. Great | It appears, however, that the “psychological moment” | the remedy will affect other things in the body politic est attainable level of life and to work steadfastly o achieve it. Massachusetts early learned the value of manufac- turing enterprises, and of the technical schools which fit young men to engage successfully in carrying them on. She has had to bring from a distance nearly all of the raw material upon which her factories worked. In California we would have a great advantage over her in that respect, for our natural resources are abundant. It is, then, worth our while to see if we cannot surpass her in the future. We have a better climate, more abundant water power and are equally as well situated for commerce. Why not beat Boston? FRANCE AND MOROCCO. ISPATCHES from London announce that the Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary ¢ State for Foreign Affairs, has about completed negotia- D tions with the French Foreign Minister, M. Delcassz, | for settling the long and vexatious controversy be- tween the two nations concerning tl‘e French rights in Newioundland. Far away back in the eighteenth century a treaty was made between the British and the French whereby the fishermen of France were to have certain im- | | portant privileges not only in the Newfoundland fiskeries but on the Newfoundland shore. Those privileges have fretted the people of Newfoundland for many a year, and time after time an earnest peti- tion has been sent to the British Government to put an end to them. The French, however, have clun; to them persistently—more, perhaps, from sentimental than from industrial reasons. It is the last vestige. of their former great possessions in that part of the world, and woe would have befallen any French Government that surrendered it to Great Britain for any consideration whatever. 2 It now appears that a sufficient consideration has been found; that at last Great Britain has a price t¢ pay which France is willing to accept. It is not a money price. France would scorn that. It is a con- cession of territory many hundred times larger and richer than the barren shore France claims in New- MOUSE CAUSES WORRY IN WAR DEPARTMENT Endless Red Tap> May Follow His Demise " in Mess Hall Hash. ?filikl il m:iimnl VISTA of awful official possibilities is opened by the tragedy of the Fort Thomas mouse which was found in the mess hall hash, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. An of- ficlal inquiry into all the circumstances may be expected, at a heavy cost in ink and paper. Once the official Investigation is started Captain Rowell, in command of Company A of the depot battalion, Sec- ond Infantry, will take his pen in hand and address an official communication to the assistant adjutant general of the De- partment of the Lakes, something as fol- lows: 1 have the honor to report that on January 4, 191, Private Brown of my company, while at mess, discovered a mouse in the hash, which was a part of the regular day's ration. The mouse was dead and Private Brown reports that it had apparently been cooked with the hash. Following the discovery several mem- bers of the company became fll. Private foundland. It happens, moreover, to be territory. which Great Britain can concede without loss to her- self, for it is territory belonging to' Morocco. & Of all the partition schemes the great nations have undertaken at the expense of the weak this is perhaps | the oddest. For a long time the French have been | looking with longing eyes upon a portion of Morocco | bordering the French province of Algeria. Once or | twice there have been conflicts along the line, and | readers with good memories may recall that last year | there was a little war scare in Europe brought about | by the extension of a French railroad toward the oasis of Twat, in the cesert of Sahara. The best way for the road to reach Twat was across territory be- ciaimed the oasis. So there was prospect of war, and diplomatists were busy in every capital in Europe. ; It is not clear what claim the British have in Morocco, but it is quite certain that neither Grea: Britain nor Germany was willing to permit France the Moors. Consequently the advance of the French in that direction was suspended. The situation, haw- ever, has continued critical ever since. The experience | of the world has been that when once a nation be- Russia has found it so Germany will- find it so in Africa as soon as she begins to develop her possessions in that continent. When the ciyilized man comes into contact with the barbarian or the savage it is impos- sible to draw a line beyond which there shall'be no aggression. Morocco holds a most important strategic point in North Africa, and neither of the great powers has been willing to see it pass into the hands of another. Britain found it so in India. in Central Asia. has come at last. The nations are agreed. France is | to give up her rights in Newfoundland and Great Pritain is to give up all opposition to France in | Morocco. What concession has been given to Ger- | many does not appear, but doubtless the Kaiser has | been satisfied in some way, and so the new century begins with another of those bargains by which great pations make friends with one another at the expense of tlie weak. A REMEDY THAT FAILED.- LMOST any man can_perceive an evil and de- f\ termine somethiug of its nature; a considerable number can go sc far as to devise a remedy for it, but they are few, indeed, who can foresee how and know beforehand whether it will be better or | worse than the disease it is designed to cure. We are having an illustration of this lack of fore- | sight in the operation of the statute enacted to pro- tect delinquent taxpayers from the old system of sell- ing their land for taxes. The remedy adopted for what was thought to be an evil is that of having the State take possession of land on which taxes are un- aid, giving the delinquent owner five years in which to redcem his property by paying the taxes due, to- gether with interest npon them. It is a good remedy for the evil it was aimed at, but unfortunately in sonie respects it is worse than the evil itself, and the Legis- lature is to be asked to remedy the remedy. It appears that under thes operation of the present law the State is rapidly becoming a very large land- owner. When taxes upon a lot of land once become delinquent the charges and the interest run up so 1apidly that before the five years are out in which the owner has a right to redeem they exceed the value of the land. Under such circumstances the owner naturally refuses to rgdeem, and it is said that an out- sider would be foolish to buy it because of a possibly defective title. By reason of these things many thousand acres of land have already passed inta the possession of the State; and of course, unless some safe and easy method be provided for disposing of them, the amount of land in the hands of the State will event- ually become a serious evil. * Since the Legislature is to be asked to provide 1 remedy for the new evil, let us hope that care will be taken this time to avoid the former mistake, and that the new remedy shall be so devised that its operation in the complex affairs of modern lye will not be worse than what we have now. ———— One might suspect in reading of the wholesale re- moval of political officers in Oakland that civil ser- vice reform had been instituted in the town across the bay. But our experience reminds us that in patronags the spoils system and civil service act in identically the same way. We have simply adopted a different name for the same result. Some satisfaction has been expressed that the rub- ber grust in New York has cut rates, but in discus- sion of a concern so elastic one should not too quickly indulge himself in congratulation. Brown made complaint of the circumstance to the mess seggeant, who confirmed his report. I, stherefore, ordered Private Edward Parker, assistant cook, confined to quarters and tried by court-martial. He appeared before a duly organized court-martial on the following day. | and after a hearing in the regular form, was | convicted of neglect of duty and fi Very respectfully, FRANK L, Captain commanding Company A, Second In- fantry. When Captain Rowell's communication has reached the headquarters of the De- partment of the Lakes the trouble will be- gin. It will just be indorsed as follo Respectfully referred to the judge advocate general to know if allowing a mouse to enter hash in the process of cooking constitutes neg- ned Q | lect of duty on the part of an acting assistant | cook. The judge advocate general will, after a few days of deliberation, return the doc- ument to the assistant aajutant general of the Department of the Lakes with the following indorsement: The question of neglect of duty is.mot neces- sarily involved. The matter is respectfully referred | to the quartermaster general of the department with the suggestion that proper inquiry be made concerning the incident with regard to loss or destruction of property of the United States Government. The assistant adjutant general of the Department of the Lakes will then send the document back to Captain Rowell through the proper channels, after indors- ing it as follows: Respectfully returned to the gfficer command- ing Company A, Second Infant?y, with the rec- ommendation that he request a board of survey in this case to fix the money value of property of the United States Government lost or de stroyed. By command of the quartermaster general. Captain Rowell will then swear softly and think. He will subsequently hunt up a clean spot on the much traveled and widely indorsed document and will in- dorse furthermore: o Respectully referred back to the quartermas- ter general with the report that there were no modes of identification to indicate that the mouse was the property of the United States Government. 2 In the course of a week or a month or so the paper will return with a new indorse- ment, as follows: Respéctfully referred back to the officer com- manding Company A, Second Infantry, with the recommendation that a board of survey be convened at once to ascertain the money value of the hash, mot the mouse. Captain Rowell will then grit his teeth and write another indorsement, as fol- lows: Respectfully forwarded to the post quarter- master with the request ‘that the p may be communicated in order to formation to the board of survey In case one is to be convened, there being no data in the hands of the company commander to cover the case. But Captain Rowell will not thus easily bring the incident to a close. The paper will come back to him with the signature of the post quartermaster and the follow- ing new indorsement: with the re United St Government was lost. At the time of its loss it had passed from the posses- sion of the Government to individual members | of Compa | until after the hash had been eaten. No extra { ration w rved on the occasion, and especial- | 1y no extra bash. The beauty of the “paper” system of the War Department is that at this point Captain Rowell will not be permitted to tear the paper up. Once more he will take this time he will write: Respectfully forwarded to the assistant ad- jutant general-of the Department of the Lakes with the request that the funther pleasure o | the department commander may be indicated. Tn the meanwhile Company A will ha been gradually broken to hash once more. Newspapers and Congressmen, however, will continue to assert that the army ought to be reduced because its officers have nothing to do. PERSONAL MENTION Louis Aubrey of Los Angeles is at the Grand. R. M. Green, druggist at Oroville, is at the Grand. ; W. H. Peck, a Kansas City capitalist, is at the Russ. s James McCudden and daughter of Val- lejo are at the Grand. Dr. L. P. H. Bahrenburg and wife of ‘Washington are at the California. J. J. McGrath, owner of the Juneau Hotel in Alaska, is a guest at the Russ,, J. A. Muir, Southern Pacific superin- tendent at Los ‘Angeles, is at the Palace. F. W. Thompson, general agent of the Rio Grande Western, left last evening for Los Angeles. E. A. Hamilton, ticket agent of Southern Pacific at Sacramento, town on his way to Los Angeles. D. W. Hitchcock, general passenger agent of the Union Pacific, has returned from a pleasure trip to Coronado. the is in o < FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS, [ £l o i L3 3 SAPPHIRE VELVET DRESS. The dress represented here is of sap- pbire volvet, embroidered with black chenille. The bolero and skirt open over a frill of sky blue mousseline de sofe, and the bottom of the skirt is composed of wide flounce of yellow Venice guipure. — e EKnights of Honor. Last week the officers® of Norman Lodge of the Knights of Honor were tinstalled by Grand Dictator Archibald, Grand Vice Dictator C. H. Holcomb, Grand Reporter Johnston, Supreme Rep- resentative Crowe and Grand Guide Sum- mers. After the instaliation Mr. Cauf- mann, a member of the lodge, who has just returned from a visit to the principal points of Central Europe, gave a very in- teresting account of the sights he had seen. The officers of Yosemite Lodge w % staljea by Deputy B. B. George, nssisted by Grand Guide Summers and other offi. cers. The event was followed by a ban- quet and a ime_for all. nitiated e last week, - Hiaates for the lodge there. . Lo oty can The Past Dictators’ Association has ap- pointed a onmmittee to arrange for the en- tertainment of the representatives to the rand Lodge that is to meet next March. e assoctation will hold an open meeting on the last Saturday in February, when ollthen members f he dn-. of tl lodges. All have been invited to ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A CONDUCTOR'S SUICIDE—C., City. O. F. Bernhard, a conductor on the Mis- Francisco August 25, 189. Fort Logan, Colo. For the booklets named in your letter communicate with Seymour Eaton, 1319 Walnut street, Phila- delphia, Pa. POINTS IN WHIST—J. A. B., Campton- ville, Cal. If two partners at whist take the thirteen tricks, these count thirteen if honors are counted; seven if honors are not counted. LOST COLOR—L. M., City. If a wool- len dress has been splashed by some ma- terial that has destroyed the color spots, the best way to improve it is to send it to a dyer and have it dyed the same color or another. EASTER—C. O. L., City. When Easter falls on April 9 (or § in leap years), Ash Wednesday falls on February 22. In the nineteenth century this occurred only in 1860, 1871 and 1882, In the twentieth cen- tury it wll occur only in 1928, 1939 and 1950. QUOTATIONS—E. Falls, Idaho. E.. A., American The market quotations in are the wholesale prices. You cannot pur- chase “one sack of beans, a hundred pounds of sun dried apples or a side of split leather” at the prices quoted. CARPETS—A Reader, City. The way to prepare old carpets to be reversed and shellacked is to have them thorough- Iy beaten, tacked in place and then trcat- ed to two or more coats of shellac. To keep such carpets in condition they have to be shellacked frequently if much used. LARGEST STEAMER — Subscriber, City. The Oceanic is the largest steamer afloat. Lloyd's Register gives the fol- lowing figures of that vessel and of the Deutschland: Oeceanic — Length 65.7, breadth 6.3, depth 445, nominal horse- power 301 Deutschland—Length 6627, ! g;adth 67, depth 44, nominal horsepower 7. TO ABATE A NUISANCE—M. M., City. In the first place, if the nuisance you com- plain of is prejudicial ta the public health, and the Board of Health will not take any steps to abate it, go to the Police Court and obtain a warrant for the arrest of the oflending ;ar!y under section 370 of the Penal Code, and then after you shall have obtained a vonviction after the Board of Health for neglect ofluty. RAIN WATER—L. M., City. This de- partment is not aware that rainwater has any particular property for darkening the hair by using it. If you have faith in the story that you héard that it does, when the next rain comes.catch some of the moisture from the clouds as it comes down the spout of your house and for a month or two. To preserce v At its purity bottle the sa Wi other liquid. b SIGNATURE—S., Ukiah, Cal. who writes-a letter to a A man ranger should 4| be very careful to make the signature very plain and also SrTolnla sl danms be caretul to gt ghould not feel disappolnted it h g a reply. € people the body of a letter as plain as co:pre,:: plate, but> the name is a scrawl, which the writer understands, but no bmne n& acquainted with it can make § out. . H. N, DAINTIES TO SOLDIERS—C, Blaine, Wash. Packages containing dain. ties intended for soldiers or sailors in the ‘;ror.m ml-Ii rre :I'inl Not more than 30 unds, will, if delivered store: of the quartermaster’s s ent n'twlg arded ve city not he e does Jessie street, San Francisco, orw: free of charge to amln-ll:n.bemt.mh age must be distinetl; name of the l:dlvtd:ll.m;r.::c:‘;f ::: umtrizlmenll and company or shi SRS here’ 8 il EIGHT-HOUR LAW—A., City. The act | of August 1, 1592, restricts to elght hours tv; v{orklu ld-zd o;;lt laborers and me- chanies employ the United Government, by the District of Collu:xli: or by any contractor upou any of the public works. andolation of this law is punishabie and Isonment. It you are for vernment any of the wfi. and - pelled to work more than D y lay vour | States District Atts _...."::‘.s‘.'fi'-m Respectfully referred back to Captain Rowell | rt that no hash belonging to the | The mouse was not discovered | I his well worn ven in his weary hand and | of | a sion-street line, committed suicide in San | HOME STUDY BOOKLETS-L. B. K., | n| the commercial department of The Call| 1 it in | EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Travel Coming Our Way. Inereased trans-Atlantic travel is shown in_the statement that the number of cabin passengers landed in New York in 1500 | was 107,415, and in 1898 80,586, This increase | of 50,000 in two years was undoubtedly due in_part to the prosperity of the coun- try. The Paris Exposition. the desire of foreigners to visit this country and our | | growing commerce are also causes for the increased travel to and from the United States.—Providerce Sunday Telegram. Homes for Millions. There is one sort of “colonial expan- | ston” to which no man can object. It has no politics in it. It offers a problem that should be studied and solved by all Ameri- cans. It is the reclamation of the a deserts of the West. Out there Is a la ,of perpetual sunshine and of amazing fertile soil. All that nature needs to mak | it an Eden is water. There is plenty | water to be had, but the construction of great Irrigating system is a matter millions.—Cincinnati Post. “Crokerizing of England.” The Rev. John Clifford of London has put on his blue spectacles and sees the “Crokerizing of England” as plain as day In the course of a heartening address on moral decadence in general he takes occa- | sion to say: ‘“The triumph of indUstrial | progress has led to the steady degradation of public life, the steady failure of charac: | ter and the steady decline of decency | The unfortunate fact that the fame of Mr. Clifford does not extend across the Atlan- tic makes it difficult to estimate his ut- terance at its true value.—Florida Times- Union. | Australia on the American Plan. The Earl of Hopetoun was inaugurated Governor General of the new common- wealth of Australla January 1. This was the final act in the proceedings that vir- tually transformed the six British colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queens- land, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania into a federal republic The six colonies became States in the ne federation, each reserving all rights n delegated in the constitution of feueration act to the National Government. It significant that in organizing a scheme for national government the Australlans fol- lowed the American rather than the Cana- dian plan as to State autonomy and as to | Senate and House.—Chicago Inter Ocean. New Railroad Policy. The total raiiway mileage of the United States is 190,000 miles. Of that over 4,080 miles is owned by roads whose policy is | controlled at this time by J. Plerpont Mor- | gan by virtue of his own holdings and the | confidence reposed in him by English bondholders and by certain Americans who are large holders of rallway securi- tles. E. H. Harriman and his associates | control rafiroad systems, chiefly west of | the Mississippi. which have a mileage of 24700 miles. There are roads which ject fo the cantrol of either of t but_ whose managers approve of their policy. The Pennsylvania and Santa Fe are the more important of these outside roads. The object of this | coneentration of raiiway control in a few ands is the prevention of rate cutting.— Chicago Tribune. A Newspaper’'s Mission. If the mission of a newspaper is to | right wrong, the Boston Herald is entitled to congratulations upon having aceom- plished it. David L. Stain and Oliver | Cromwell, two men long past middle age, were confined in the Maine State prison on life sentences for a murder committed eleven years ago. Six months ago evi- dence came into the possession of the Herald which showed that a doubt existed | as to the guilt of the prisoners. The pa- | per instantly set an_investigation on foot, followed it its own expense, and finally foynd conclusive proof that these men werd suffering punishment for a crime committed by other persons. The proof was laid before the authorities, a | pardon secured, and on the day after New | Year's Stain and Cromwell were released from prison.—Chicago Journal. Salaries That Should B= Increased. Members of the Cabinet receive $5000 a year, and the ame amount is paid to the | Vice President of the United States. Rep- resentative Loudenslager of New Jersey has introduced a bill increasing the sala- ries of the Cabinet officers to $15.000 and that of the Vice President to.$25,000. is a bill that ovght to be adopted. The history of the United States is full of in- stances where the services of brilliant men have been lost to the country be- ause of the failure of Congress to pro- vide adequate compensation. The soclal conditions of Ligh official life in Wash- ington are such that few men can go into | the Cabinet unless they have independent | fortunes. The salary does not begin to pay the expenses. A President must, therefore, as a rule, make up his Cabinet from among the wealthy classes, and therefore he is restricted. The only fauit we find with this bill is that it does not go far enough. It should include the Em- bassadors. Only rich men can represent this_country in London, Paris, Berlin or St. Petersburg. Out of their salary they must rent expemsive housas and must meet their own expense There are few more extravagant places than St. Peters- burg, and it is very seldom that a Minis- | ter has remained at the Russian court for | & tull term. Not only should our Embas- | sadors be better provided for in the way | of salary, but in the great capitals the | Government should own the buildings oe- | cupled by its representatives.—Philadel- | phia Inquirer. 1 } Post, Corps and Circle. The officegs of Appomattox Post, G. A. R., and those of Appomattox Rellef Corps were installed in Syndicate Hall, Oakland, for the current term. The offigers of the corps were installed by Mrs. S. G. Smyth, after which the members of the two or- ganizations had a social time for several hours. The presentation of flowers was a feature of the evening, after which an emblematic pin was presented to the re- tiring president and a token of esteem was presented to Mrs. Abbie Weeks for her untiring devotion to the 109 Club. which resnted to the corps a little In excess of 20 @s the result of the sale of articles contributed to the club. The officers of Seven Pines Circle were installed with imposing ceremontes in the Alcazar building. The installation was public and was attended by a very large number of people. During the evening there was a programme of gntertainment and the presentation of a handsome em. blematic pin to Mrs. Lizzie Whiteside, the retiring president, in recognition of fath- ful and earnest work done by her during her term of office. The several numbers of the entertainment were contributed by Mesdames Pyser and Ayers, Blel and Bertha Traner, Ii?r‘;:’ Avers and M. Daly. Rev. Mr. e delivered an elo- quent.address on the work of the mem- Ders of the cirele for the old soldiers. The circle presented a token of esteem to Mrs. Lena_Sholten, the treasurer. dance closed the entertainment. ———————— Young Ladies’ Institute. Young Ladies’ Institute No. 1 has elect- ed the following named as its officers for he ensuing term: Annie E. Nyhan, prest- ent; Margaret Peacock, first vice presi- Sadle Flaherty, second vice presi. van, outside sentinel; mret Hill, Winnle Byrne, y_ Driscoll, trustees; Lottle O'Dea. ganist. 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