The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1901, Page 4

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NW. cor- ner Twenty-second and Kentucky. open until 9 o'clock. ~ AMUSEMENTS. Columbie—"The Little Minister.” Tivoli—""The Wedding Day.” Central—*The Gladiator.” Orpheum Alcazar— Olympta, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterngan and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville. Tanforan Park—Races. @:_ T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cal: subscribers contemplating n change of residesce during the summer months can have their puper forwarded by mail to their new addresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in | BUSINESS STILL GROWING. all towss on the coast. S -far as surface indications go trade continues fl on a sound and active basis. The country’s bank clearings continue to range considerably aboye those for corresponding periods last year, those last week showing a gain of 33.2 per cent, with Minne- apolis the only important city exhibiting a decrease. “This city has lately been lagging in this respect, which would indicate some lassitude in the flour trade. The country’s failures were 206, against 203 last year. It has been some time since the failures for the two of late a decided balance against the current year. It is expected that the figures for the first quarte: of the year will show a large increase in general busi- ness over the corresponding period in previous years. Barring wool and cotton, all lines have been more or less active, which is rather unusual during the last hali of winter, hence the sanguine expectation. At pres- ent, however, wool seems to be doing better ag:€@. Sales at the three FEastern markets have recently shown a marked inc. .se, while prices are exhibiting more tone. The sales at Boston alone last week were nearly 6,000,000 pounds, and shipments were also lurger. All attempts to advance prices, however, ved fruitless. Cotton still drags, and it has been iound impossible to maintain the smali advance es- tablished in the raw preduct a few days ago. Build- g operations throughout the country are being planned on a liberal scale, as shown by the good de- miand for lumber, structural iron and builders’ hard- ware. The West continues to lead the rest of the ccuntry in this respect. The extremely large earnings of the railroads and the continued scarcity of cars in- dicate an enormous movement of merchandise be- tweeh the different markets. The boot and shoe trade is again lookipg up, shipments outward from factories showing a marked increase, and though some New England shops report fewer orders the majority have enough to keep them employed for several months to come, while the heretofore unfavorable balance for the sezson has been materially reduced. The iron trade is still forging ahead, with sustained activity and a fur- ther advance in structural material. The dry goods trade, however, like cotton, is reported gloomy, with additional price reductions’in 2 number of descrip- tions, accompanied by a corresponding falling off in the demand. Wheat, per contra, is in decidedly bette~ shape, being quoted at an advance over the preceding weck, though little increase in the movement is ex- hibited. Some of this advance is attributed to sym- pathy with corn, which has been active of late, with rising quotations. Hides are weak and dragging, with accumulating stocks, but most kinds of leather are firmly held. The other staples stand about as before. : Tt will be seen, by looking over the preceding para- graph, that trade shows considerable irregularity. While the aggregate business is larger than last year, some lines are weak and dull, and others active and fi-m. The improvement is by no means general. Our local market shows little change. Farm prod- ucts as a rule are showing more stréngth, there being more firmness in several important staples, such as v heat, hops, prunes, provisions, hogs, barley and cer- Aain feedstuffs. Coal oil advanced Friday, but declined again Saturday. Grain bags are higher, showing expec- tations of a large crop. Ocean steamers are still pressed for room to accommodate all the proffered freight for export. No complaints are heard from any quarter, and the merchants as a rule report satisfactory commercial conditions. Funds continue plentiful and readily accessible to solvent borrowers, and collections are as good as they ever are. If there are any rocks ahead they are not vizible at the moment. The “State flower” agitation which raged from Caii- fornia to Maine a few vears ago has not died out, it seems, for the announcement is made that the Ar- kansas Legislature has just adopted the apple blossom as the symbol of that commonwealth. F. | rs have been so close together, there having been | | | ! | than there ought to be. FUNSTON'S PROMOTION. ORE than ordinary gratification will be felt /V\ over President McKinley's action in promptly promoting Funston to the rank of brigadier general in the regular army of the United States. It is always pleasing to see a hero rewarded under any circumstances, but in this case there are other segious reasons for gratification, for there have been rumors and reports that certain influences emanating from high circles in the army were adverse to Funston’s ims and were opposed to his promotion. While not one of those reports may have been we'l feunded, it is certain chey were not wholly disbelieved by a considerable portion of the people. Facts have appeared from time to time, showing that among somz of the graduates of the military academy at West Point and the naval academy at Annapolis there is it feeling of hostility to all who seek to obtain rank in either the army or the navy without having graduated frem those institutions. The number of officers who share in that feeling of hostility may be and doubtless is small, but unfortunately it is not uninfluential. The country has again and again had disagreeable illustra- tions of it in the treatment of officers promoted from the ranks in the army, and in the letter from Sampson concerning the promotion of seamen to the rank of commissioned officers in the navy. Those facts taken in connection with the scandals growing out of the quarrel between Sampson and Schley, and other evidences of jealousy here and there, have given rise to a fear that there is a good deal more of ill feeling and jealousy in the army and the navy Consequently when the re- ports came that certain influences at Washington were opposing the promotion of Funston it is not surpris- ing that they were widely believed, and that the public s more or less disturbed by them. THe prompt action of the President shows that if any such jealousy exists it is noc sufficiently poweriul to affect the administration. An honorable career in arms under the flag of the Union is not closed against any citizen who undertakes it with ardor and genius. We have therefore in this instance the pleasure of sceing a demonstration of the essential democracy of our Government, as well as the rewarding of a hero, and consequently there is a double reason for popular gratification. The merit of Funston’s gallant deed has beLn rec- cgnized in Europe as well as in Amegrica. British military experts have seen in it another evidence that in"that part of war where success is due mainly to indi- vidual initiative and daring the American soldier is superior to any other in the world. From the ranks of our volunteers there comes a spirit of valor and a skill in scouting and skirmishing that cannot be taught in the schools. We shall consequently lose something it there ever comes a time when our military com- miarders are chosen exclusively from among men who have been educated at the academy. We must have a v | career for talent in the army as well as in civil life, and < a fortunate thing for the country that in every war in which we are engaged there arise volunteers like Funston to keep the way open for such a career to those who are to come after them. 1t is announced that on a single day last week there were dispatched from the Department of Agriculture 2t Washington 1200 mail sacks, each containing 200 packages of seed, and it is estimated that the total number of packages to be sent out this year will ex- ceed 11,000,000, or about 2,000,000 more than last year. It will be seen that ‘he abuse is a growing one, and ither it will have to be stopped altogether or else every citizen in the country will soon expect the Gov- ernment to supply him with garden seed. 6 “home study” bill makes it now the law of California that in the public schools of the State “no pupil under the age of fifteen years in any grammar or primary school shall be required to do any home study.” The operation of the measure, which goes into effect on July 1, will be watched with close attention by all interested in public-school work, though there is little doubt that the results will every- where justify its enactment. That much seems assured by the tests made in this city and elsewhere by com- paring the work done by pupils from whom no home study was required with that of others upon whom the requirement was imposed. In our eagerness to provide in the public schools a comprehensive system of education, covering almost every department of human knowledge, we have laid too heavy burdens upon the minds of the young. it hos been a fad with some people to introduce into the schools instruction upon any and every subject that struck them as important. Now there are very few kinds of learning that are not important, and conse- quently, by adding one study after another to the school course, we reached at last a point where it was necessary to keep a pupil grinding away at work not only during the whole school hours but in the evening as well. The desire on the part of many well-meaning per- sons to make the schools a place of training in all kinds of instruction was recently illustrated at an edu- cational meeting at Manchester, N. H., when a prom- irent citizen complained that many boys in the cities oi the State are growing up without a knowledge of how to drive or even harness a horse, which every country boy knew; and advised that every school be provided with a horse and buggy, so that this very vseful information could be given. Fortunately for the children and for the State there is at present a reaction against the tendency toward overworking pupils. The law that forbids the impo- ition of home study is a manifestation of that reac- tion, and there are good reasons for believing that when its effects are seen and understood it will be universally approved. THE LIBERALS AND THE LORDS. ERE there -no other evidences at hand of the Wdemoralintion of the Liberal party in Great Britain, its weakness would be made amply evi- dent by the eager applause with which it has greeted the recent letter of Herbert Gladstone to his constitu- ents. A party is surely in sad need of a leader and of 2 programme that welcomes with acclaim such a pro- gramme from a man of such comparative unimpor- tance as a Parliamentary leader. In his letter Gladstone declares: “The war in South Africa will cost not far short of £200,000,000 ana the settlement seems as far off as ever. There are problems to be solved in the Far East of the first magnitude, and the Government appears destitute of a clear, settled policy. ‘Already the huge expenditure for the army and navy is going up by leaps and bounds and will force Europe to add to its ruinously large zrmaments. . Where is it to end? The Irish question is more to the front than ever, and the Government seems to view it with apayhetic impotence.” All of that is true enough, but party leadership must THE HOME STUDY LAW. OVERNOR GAGE'S signature to the so-called offer something more than a denunciation of the op- posite party. The British public will naturally ask what the Liberals propose to do to remedy the evil effects of the Tory blunders. To that question Mr, Gladstone has no definite answer. He covers his eva- sion by saying: “The advocates of the Liberals are not endeavoring to take up the Government’s burden until they have exacted conditions that their policy will not again be stultified by the rejection: of their measures by the House of Lords.” It may be that Mr. Gladstone means that the Liberal party is to make the abolition of the House of Lords or its domination by the Liberals the chief issue of the next political compaign. Should that be so he would still have to furnish the country with some sort cf a programme of action, so as to justify his demand that the Lords be set aside in order,to make way for it. Unless he furnish some plan of that kind and can convince the voters that it is not only good, but is so good as to make it*worth while to alter the constitu- tion of the country to bring it about, he can hardly call his scheme a matter of practical politics. Should some Democratic leader write a letter deal- ing with the policy of his party on the issues’ of the time, and after denouncing the administration for the cost of the occupation of the Philippines proceed to say that Democracy will not be willing to accept the burdens of Government unlgss the party is assured that the Senate will not stultily its plans, he would be regarded as a political freak rather than as a states- man; and yet such a letter would not be a bad parallel’ to the Gladstone letter. There has been an agitation in Great Britain for many a year to reform the House of Lords, just as there has been an agitation in this country to provide for the election 6f United States Senators by direct vote of the people, but the party that waits for that reform to be adopted before it accepts the responsibilities of government might as well dishand as a political organization. It may con- tinue to serve some purpose in conducting academic discussions, but it cannot be a force of any potency in political affairs. A meeting of the Boston Common Council was re- cently prefaced in a Boston paper with the headlines: “Riot at the City Hall—Wild Disorder Attends Mee:- ing of the Common Council—Presiding Officer defied —Attempt Made to’ Put Lights Out—Janitor Bodily Thrown Out.” Now, suppos: that sort of thing had happened in San Francisco what comments would we have had from New England concerning the woolly ways of the West! TWENTIETH CENTURY EXPEDIENCY. ROM the philosophy of the eighteenth century [: the nineteenth drew a high aspiration for the equality of man. The establishment of the in- cependence of the United States and the outbreak of the French revolution, the two greatest events which immediately preceded the beginning of the century, kad in common an assertion of the rights of men. The French declaration, “Liberty, Equality and Fra- ternity,” was in line with our own, “All men are created equal and endowed with ce-tain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” To bring about a realization of that philosophy by applying it in practical politics the nineteenth century worked long and fought hard. The results are among the most glorious ever achieved in human history. The suppression of the African slave trade, the eman- cipation of slaves throughout the British empire, the abolition of slavery in this country at the cost of a fearful civil war, and the gradual abolition of slavery and serfdom in all other parts of the civilized world, from Russia to Brazil, are deeds that will render for- ever memorable the generations of statesmen, heroes and reformers who brought them about. Such being the case it is surprising tp note that in every part of the globe the civilized nations have begun the new century with what appears to be a reaction against the doctrine and the practice of liberty. The ardent outcry against slavery that sounded so nobly throughout the century that has just closed has given tlace to a low but significant declaration that after al! it may be expedient to maintain slavery in Asia and in Africa; that all men are not fitted for freedom; that in the interests of trade and of industry and for the advancement of civilization it may be necessary to make the brown man and the black man work under the lash for the white man, who has taken up the burden of governing him. « The change of sentiment which has come over the dominant nations of the earth in this respect is not- able everywhere. Even in the United States men have arisen who are willing to sanction slavery under the United States flag and United States law in the Sulu Islands “because it is expedient.” A similar backsliding is noted among the British authorities in South Africa. It is there believed, and the belief is acted upon in practice, that a system of virtual slavery is expedient for the working of the big mines and the development of the country. % The most nqtable illustration of the change, how- ever, is one that has just been furnished in Germany. ‘What has been done by our officials and by the British officials has after all been excused and as far as pos- sible apologized for. Neither in Congress nor in Par- liament is it at all likely that a debate on the subject would bring any open defense of any sort of slave. system, but the Germans have had just such a debate in the Reichstag, and the supporters of slavery appear to have had the courage to speak out and speak boldly. From the reports that come to us it appears that Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, moved that “all chil- dren born under the German flag” should be declared free. The motion was designed to affect the blacks of the German colonies in South Africa. The support- ers of the Government, we are told, took the position that slavery is necessary to enable European colonists to carry on industry in tropical countries, and that to declare the freedom of every one born in a2 German colony would virtually mean the ruin of the colony. ‘When the motion was put to a vote it was defeated by a large majority. Matters of that kind ought not to be passed over as of no consequence. Tt cost civilization an immense sum of treasure and many thousands of lives to abolish siavery. Shall we now in the name of “expediency” permit it to rise in the new century? When Carnegie’s offer to give New York City $2,000,000 to build sixty-five new libraries was first anaounced the citizens of the metropolis were in rap- tures; but now they have been figuring out the cost of maintaining them and a reaction has set in. Emperor William intends to protect himself in public hereafter with guards on bicycles. He must expect to be run down by a horse and wants the as- sistance of its most notorious enemy. 1t is now reported that the throne of the Sultan is in danger, and we may soon hear that the old man has taken the precaution to lock the throne up every night in a steel-lined cabinet. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. Seventh Article of Series on “The Oppor- tunity and the Man,” Dealing With a Maine Millionaire. By A L. T. Cummings. COPYRIGHT, 1901 VIL—HUGH CHISHOLM. Of the men of Maine who have acquired power was so great that Mr. great wealth through their own efforts there is none with a career more interest- ing than Hugh Chisholm. His name has come into exceptional prominence of late through his position as president of the International Paper Company, a corpora- tion with $55,000,000 capital, which controls a very large proportion of the product of all the paper pulp mills in the United States, Mr. Chisholm's business career had its beginning in 1860, when as a, lad of 13 years he secured a ‘run” as a newsboy on a railway train. From that modest beginning, handicapped by force of cir- cumstances which had deprived him of educational advantages, he gradually de- veloped into a successful merchant, man- ufacturer, railroad builder, developer of water power and projector of industrial enterprises. When he left Maine two years ago to reside in New York City and there discharge the duties of president of the great paper company he was rated the second richest man in the State. Mr. Chisholm was born at Niagara-on- the-Lake, Canada, May 2, 1847. His parents were natives of Inverness, Scot- land. He became a train newsboy be- cause it was necessary for him to earn his own livelihood. His ~run’ was be- tween Detroit, Mich., and Toronto on the Grand Trunk Raliroad. At the Detroit end of the route he soon formed the ac- quaintance of a bright newsboy whose “run” was between that city and Port Huron. They became fast'friends. In their later years whenever these two ex- trainboys—Hugh Chisholm and Thomas A. Edison—have chanced to meet they have recalled with pleasure the days when they used to swap books and tales of ad- venture in their moments of leisure in Detroit. Newsboys on the railways were then paid by commissions on sales, as is the case to-day; but young Chisholm, having a keen eye for business, as soon as he had accumulated a few surplus dollars, invested in a stock of his own. There- after his daily earnings were four times as large as before. His next investment ‘was in a course in bookkeeping and pen- manship in a business college in Toronto, he taking the instruction on the weekday evenings that he passed in that city and studying at odd minutes on_trains and at_the western terminus of his “run.” He next branched out as a commission agent, getting control of the news routes on the Grand Trunk Railway as far East as Portland, Me., and taking his brothers into partnership.” The Chisholms contin- ued to acquire additional routes until in 1866 they had contracted to sell papers on trains from Chicago to Portiand and Hali- fax, and also in Northern New England, Northern New York and far up into Can- ada, as well as on steamboat lines, their routes having an aggregate length of more than 5000 miles. Their force of newlboys in that year had increased to 200. The Chisholms inaugurated the use of uniforms by employes on railway trains, their news agents being the first to wear brass buttons and regulation caps. The system of uniforming conduc- tors and brakemen was soon afterward adopted by the railroad companies. Up to that time they had had no distin- guishing mark in their dress except a badge or lettered ribbon. Hugh Chrisholm early in his career se- lected Portland as his place of residence and there established the headquarters of his business. In 1876 he sold out his Canadian interests and purchased the in- terests of his brothers in the New Eng- land States. Then In connection with his news agency he established a publishing business, turning out for sale by his own agents picture albums, pamphlets, tour- ists’ guides and souvenir publications descriptive of scenery along the principal lines of rafllway in the United States. These publications were largely handted by news agents on all transportation lines. His last book of importance was illustra- tive of the World's Fair at Chicago. Became Interested in Wood Fiber. In the latter part of the 'T0s Mr. Chis- holm became interested in an invention of a Portland man, it being a wooden lamp with a tin front. After experimenting for a time with the manufacture of this lamp from wood which was turned with a lathe he conceived the idea of fashioning the lamp from chemically prepared wood pulp. In working out this plan the durability of indurated fiber vessels was discovered. At the experimental factory in Portland some sample pails, tubs and other vessels were fashioned from wood fiber, and the enter- prise gave promise of great success. Then he established a factory for making in- cGurated fiberware in the town of Fairfleld, but just as the business was emerg}ng from the experimental stage the Fairflel factory was burned and Mr. Chisholm meét with a severe financial loss. However, in company with some other Maine capital- ists he established a fiberware plant at North_Gorham, fifteen miles from Port- land, but the cost of building the water KARRI A L IRELANDAISE (“IRISH STEW”). The British House of Commons was astonished recently by an Irish member, Kerry, wh Mr. O’'Donnell, member for West tongue. His words were: IRISH. ‘A uacharan, mar eireannach o ait go labharthar gaedilin blath, fear o nasum go bfuil teanga aicl, agus ata fos ag bruin cum saoirse d'-fogail caitfidn me labairt ins an feis sasanach so in mo thanga fein.” On being called to order he said: “Nao fior gaedhilin mo thanga, thanga mo thir, thanga do labharas o vehios og, agus ‘gur cearth dum labairt ins au thanga sau.” @it R b NEWS OF THE NAVIES OF THE WORLD. The French submarine boat Goubet is said to have made a speed of twenty-five miles an hour during a recent trial. The report, however, does not state whether the vessel was submerged or running on the surface of the water. . e The christening of war vessels is usually performed by unmarried ladies, and this custom has only been departed from in four instances at the launch of fifty-three ships of the United States navy, not in- cluding torpedo craft. In England, how- ever, the five ships launched last month were christened by the wives of promi- nent offictals. B % The German Government has hith pald Krupp $58 a ton for armor, or $100 more than the Carnegle and Bethlehem armor factories charge the United States navy; notwithstanding the fact that the American manufacturers have to pay a royalty to Krupp of $142 a ton. This ex- tortion, which would amount to $15,000,006 on the projected German navy up to 1916, will be met by the Government by en- couraging foreign competition and a threat of starting a national armor fac- tory. o iy At a recent sale of condemned articles at Sheerness dockyard some odd prices were realized. A 2i-foot whaleboat sold for $2 25, or at the rate of about 81-3 cents per foot, and a good steam cutter 21 feet in length, with engine, but minus boiier, brought $%. The latter sale reminds of a sale at Mare Island about twenty-four vears ago when a 28-foot steam launch AT HOTEL DEL CORONADO the season s now on at full tide. American and European plans. Best of everything, including the char- acter of entertalument. Apply 4 New Montgom- 3 M5 SR B came discouraged and sold ou - terest in the enterprise. The business turned out to be a paying venture. About this time Mr. Chisholm, in con- sequence of the knowledge that he had acquired in mianufacturing fiberware, became interested in the w pulp and paper industry. With others he organized the Somerset Fiber Company, which established a $200,000 pulp mill on the Kennebec River at Fairfield. He is still a director in this company. In 1881 he established at Livermore Falls, on the Androscoggin River, the Umbagog pulp mill, which cost $200,000. He was made president and general manager of the company. He was also the organizer, treasurer, manager and chief stockholder in the Otis Falls Pulp Company. This cor- poration was capitalized at $100,000. Its plant on the Androscoggin was at the time of its construction one of the largest in the United States, its daily output being about eighty tons of paper such as is used in printing newspapers. Developing a Great Water Power. Appreciating the value of the unde- veloped water power on the Androscoggin River at Rumford Falls, Mr. Chisholm, in 1892, in company with Charles D. Brown of Boston and Waldo Pettengill of Rumford, began quietly to buy tracts of land in that vicinity. Rumford Falls was then an in- significant country village, and before the townspeople discovered what Mr. Chis- holm was “driving at” he and his asso- clates had purchased, at practically their own price, extensive tracts of forest on either side of the river. The Androscoi gin at that place has a total fall of I feet tn less than a mile, furnishing the year round a minimum of 42,00 horse- power. In the nine years that have passed since Mr. Chisholm and_ his associates made those purchases of wild land Rumford Falls has developed into one of the most important manufacturing towns in Maine. The census of 1900 credited the town with 898 residents; the %pulamm as shown by the last census is 3770. Mr. Chisholm and his associates first or- ganized the Rumford Falls Power Com- pany, of which corporation he was made treasurer and manager. Dams were bullt, a system of canals was laid and other preparations were begun to harness the gigantic water power. Capitalists from other States speedily became interested in this great source of power, and soon two big pulp manufacturing plants were in process of construction. The Rumford Falls and Buckfield Railroad was then being operated only between Mechanic Falls and Canton, and its projectors saw no prospect of ever extending the line or getiing the road on a paying basis. Mr. Chisholm purchased the road and its lim- ited equipment, organized a new corpora- tlon—the Portland and Rumford ‘alls Rallroad Company—built a new roadbed, extended the line at both ends—from Can- ton to Rumford Falls and from Mechanic Falls to Auburn. The line was equipped with modern steel bridges and first-class rolling stock. Being principal owner of the road, Mr. and general manager of the company. The Rumford Falls Paper Company built the first pulp and paper mill in the new village, and then the Rumford Falls Sulphide Company established a large plant there, Mr. Chisholm being elected treasurer and a director of the corpora- tion. He was one of the incorporators of the Rumford Falls Woolen Company, the Rumford Falls Light and Water Company and the Rumford Falls Trust Company, in all of whici he has since remained a director. The plant of the Oxford Paper Company, now nearing completion, is to be the largest book paper manufactory in the United States. Its cost s said to be $1,500,000. In the vicinity of these big pa- per mills have been erected lumber mills and other smaller industries. Organizing a Paper Trust. Three years ago Mr. Chisholm was in- fluential ‘in bringing about the organiza- tion of the International Paver Company. Willlam A. Russell, one of the foremost paper manufacturers of Massachusetts, was also prominent in the project. The corporation, capitalized at $55,000,000, made short work of gathering into its fold most of the paper and i)ulp mills in New Eng- land. r. Russell was elected president and Mr. Chisholm vice president of the company. Upon the death of President Russell the Maine paper manufacturer was promoted to the presidency, with its salary of $50,000 a year. His election to that office necessitated his removal to New York, but he has retained his home on State street, Portland, and his family passes the summer months there. Mr. Chisholm has a fine face, a clear complexion, white hair, plercing eyes and a firm mouth. His carriage is erect his voice clear and strong. He is strictly tem- | perate in his habits and he has a constitu- tion of iron. He cares nothing for sports, except horseback riding. He has traveled extensively In this country and abroad. In 1872 he married Miss Henrietta Mason, daughter of a prominent resident of Port- land. They have a son, now 13 years of age. 0 addressed the House in his native Of which the translation is: “Mr. Speaker, as an Irishman represent- ing an Irish constituency, belonging to a nation having its own language, and still fighting for its freedom, I deem it my duty to address this allen Parliament in the language of my country. “Is it not true that Irish is my native lt%nglum‘ the }nngulge ?r my ancestors, e language of my country, the lan, that T-spoks from childhoad S complete was sold for about $200, taken up to Clear Lake on a truck and during this overland trip was capsized, rolling down into a steep canyon, from which it was recovered and flnally reached its destina- tion. The boat was evidently of good workmanship, as it was at once placed in the water and fitted up as a pleasure craft, doing service for many years after, g B A reclassification of vessels of the United States navy was authorized by the late Congress. The present system of naming and classifying is, with some modifications, according to laws passed in 1858 and 1862, and is entirely unsuited, so far as relate to rating, to vessels of the present day. The law of 1858 rated steam- ships of forty guns or more as first rates, those of twenty guns and under forty as second, and all of less than twenty guns as third rates. There were also to be four classes to be commanded in their order b commodores, captains, com- manders and lieutenant commanders, The latest navy register segregates the ships as firet, second, third and fourth rates; torpedo boats, tugs, sailing vessels, re. celving ships and unserviceable vessels, Among the first rates are the battleship Alabama of 11,565 tons, and the protected crulser Chicago of 5000 tons. Second rates include the converted cruiser Buffalo of 6888 tons, the old wooden cruiser Lancas- ter of 3250 tons and the five monlwn—' Monterey, Miantonomah, Monadnock, Amphitrite and Terror. The third rates include. the converted cruiser Dixie of gss3 tons, eight monitors of 2100 and 1875 tons the wooden cruiser Mq 1900 tons 1000 tons, take in collfers Chisholm became msldentr OTEST MAKéESPR s OF MORGAN The Call doés mot hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general Interest. To the Editor of The Call: Your article in The Call of this headed “Working in Si- lence,” and relating to Semator Morgan's views on the grave question of “Negro Dis- franchisement,” !s being re-ad l;y u:nh;n co':u;e‘: t pleasure, an shot gLl by all who Indnrsel the ‘s views with profit If not with pleas- et o "myeelt and on behalf Gf all our colored people, as well as for the principle presented and considered in the article referred to, I desire to thank The Call and to com- mend it to all our people as a journal fear- less in its advocacy of comstitutiomal liberty and freedom for the black man as well as the white man, not because he is either black or white, but because it is an inalienable right. guaranteed by the comstitution of the United States and written down deep In the hearts, consciences and convictions of every man and woman on earth who have any just comcep- tions of the rights of man In the struggle of Iife. Now, Mr. Editor, Senator Morgan advocates the disfranchisement of a race of people on account of color, distinctly drawing the “color line” by which a man’s rights are to be determined regardless of character, com- petence, capacity, fitness to perform the du- ties, enjoy the privileges or Teceive the bless- ings of our free Imstitutions, of which we, American people, all without regard to race, color or former condition, are o fond of g ored race did mot originate in the United States, they are mot aborigines. but were brought here, not willingly, but by force, by Semator Morgam's ancestors, and hence they, and not we, are responsible for our pres- ence here: but, nevertheless, we are here and it 1s a self-evident fact that we are here to stay unless the illustrious Semator And‘ his followers devise some “‘ways and means” by which they can exterminate the race or trans- late the entire race to some clime bevond the seas. Now, sir, we profess to be and are loyal to the Government which has given us our lib- erty and guaranteed to us equal rights with other citizens of our country and now, to deprive us or any of us of' the rights of franchise is but to take from us the one vital thing upon which all other rights and all lib- erty are founded. Again this cannot and will not be done with- out taking from us our guaranteed rights un- der the constitution. . How i3 this for & man or set of rienm, Who boast of their devotion to the constitution un- der which we live? Senator Morgan says: “So I think the least sald is the best just now. Secrecy—why? Because, says he, “When things are coming our way there is no necessity of clamorous discussion.” This reminds me of thé wily scheming and plotting in the South in ante-bellum days, Wwhen we were slaves and the leaders of the South wers all “agin the Government,” and planning for the destruction of the Union. We protest against the distranchisement of our race on account of color, Wa protest against all secret schemes against the rights and interests of a race of people Who are human, who have ambitions, purposes and aims in life as other people do, a people Wwho have helped and will still help to make up the world’s history, and will participate in the great events which go tofmake this world whatever it may be in the coming ages. In the name of common humanity, In the name of justice to and ong all mankind, give us a chance in the “battle of life” that is founded on justice among men, and then if we fall we must take the consequences, but justice and right will prevail, sooner or later, 2s it did (though long delayed) when the im- mortal Lincoln sald: ‘“Let the slaves go free.” WILLIAM TIPTON, 1718 Seventh st., Oakland, Cal 1901. March 29, PERSONAL MENTION, Dr. A. L. Tibbetts of Petaluma is one of the arrivals at the Grand. R. S. Sheridan, a banker of Roseburg, Or., is a guest at the Lick. Dr. W. A. Hendryx of Los Angeles is among the guests at the Palace. J. Weissbein, a banker of Grass Valley, is at the California with his wife. J. W. Fargers, an attorney of Santa Cruz, is staying at the California. Mrs. Willlam Hammond of Livermore is one of the guests at the Oeccldental. Paul Blades, a newspaper man of Los Angeles, has apartments at the Lick. T. J. Kenney, a merchant of Jackson- ville, Or., is a late arrival at the Grand. Joseph P. Junk, a raiflroad man of Chi- cago, is at the Grand with his two sis- ters. Thomas Flint Jr., State Senator from San Juan, has just returned from Mex- ico and is registered at the Palace. Fletcher Ladd of Lancaster, N. H., and Charles A. Willard of Minneapolls, who have been appointed Judges in the Philip- pine Islands, are at the California. They will sall to-day on the Buford for Manila. 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