The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1901, Page 6

TH E SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1901 MONDAY....-....... -......SEPTEMBER o, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicstions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 A L PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. .00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. . 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 mionths. . 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. = . 65 SUNDAY CALL, One Year. .1.05: A WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters rre authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail 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. OAKLAND OFFICE. ++..1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Faveger Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chisago. (Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. ...... v++....Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. BRANCH OFFICES—52] Montgomery, corner of Clay, open ntil 8:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 8:30 o'clock. 633 Ilister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until , open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 8 o'clock. 109% Valencia, open until 8 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 3 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-sccond and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. P AMUSEMENTS. M 5:30 o'clock. 1911 Missic Central—*A Voice From the Wilderness." “The Taming of the Shrew.” ase—*'Quo Vadis.” Barbara Frietchie.” eum—Vaudeville. A Royal Family.” 2d Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and udeville. AUCTION SALES. By Sam Watkine—Tuesday, at 11 o'clock, Horses, Wagons, at 1140 Folsom. e 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew nddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all mmer resorts and is represented by a local agemt im NIl towss on the cos THE PRESIDENT AND BUSINESS. HE close of the week was distinguished by a | pronounced drop along the whole line of se- curities in Wall street. This was not wholly the attempted assassination of President Mc- ng day, but was largely the vorable bank statement, aggravated, e crime of the anmarchist. A poor had been expected, and the leading ts of New York had already met and tand under zny bad break in stocks on Sat- urday rning before it was known that the Presi- dent had been shot. The break came along on time and the market went off from two to ten points, but the | bar ounced that everybody would be protected, the ¢ ng-house was prepared to issue millions of | certificates to tide over the emergency, and what | might have been a bad piece of financial business was | softened down to the proportions of an incident. | But there was a curicus feature to this. This pon- | toon bridge over a financial flurry was made possible | by exceptionally sound business conditions all over the country, brought about by that same President who lay under the surgeons’ instruments at Buffalo. President McKinley's election had built a solid foun- | dation of prosperity on which the nation rested se- | curely when the founder of that prosperity was laid Ic It was precisely like inoculation in advance of an epidemic. No such occurrence has ever before been witnessed in the history of American commerce. Had any other political party been in power it could ot have happened. Everybody recognized that the President had created such prosperity that even when | the assassin’s hand struck him down that prosperity held the country tp. It shows what a_wise adminis- | tration of public and financial affairs will do in an | emergency. Nor will the negative side of the ques- | tion be lost on the community. Aside from this distressing and startling close, how- ever, the week made 2 fine record. The bank clear- ings gained 35.2 per cent over the corresponding week in 1900 and every city of note except Omaha showed | a gain. The staples were firm as a rule, pork prod- | ucts being firm and advancing, hides and leather also on the up grade and wool and woolen goods firm and in dema The regular fall demand for merchandise was reported brisk all cver the country, with a marked expansion in the South. The railroads reported a heavy movement of goods and complained of contin- ued scarcity of cars. Leading Western centers re- ported improved collections. The great iron strike continued to ease off with the opening of still more works and the demand for finished iron and steel products showed a marked increase, with a good deal of business ordered, but necessarily postponed. The business already booked promises continued activity throughout the winter. The inquiry for boots and shoes is so brisk that many wholesalers and jobbers are insisting upon having their contracts closed at once so as to insure delivery. Briefly, from all over the country the commercial reports indicate that the present activity in trade will continue over into the next year at least. The tide of prosperity shows no signs of ebbing. In our local market there is little change to report. Our farm products are still in demand for a vast area, though one or two are slackening from their recent abnormal activity, as the later crops of the Western States are beginning to compete with the California products. This happens every year. But we have sent so much of our farm produce out of the State during the past two months that if the stream kept up we might run short ourselves. This has been a great year for California farm products and trade is feeling the beneficient effects thereof. If we had made the season ourselves we could hardly have improved upon it. Perhaps we might not have done so well. a | per offices. | and was paid for. | 1ed by ev | have forfeited the good will AN EVIL ADVISER. F the strikers do not go, and remain, wrong in I respect to their relation to the law, it will not be for lack of false, evil and incendiary advice given by their organ, the Examiner. b That paper, knowing the statement to be a lie, pub- lished that Levi Strauss & Co., the firm that it ad- ed to be boycotted, had suffered so in its trade that it had been compelled to discharge 400 employes. This it did after it knew the falsity of the statement, and when the firm asked it to publish a respectful let- ter in denial it refused to do so. The publication of this lie was to encourage the strikers, by making them believe that following its advice to injure employers of labor was effective and would coerce employers to yield. of 400 employes discharged through a blow struck by a newspaper at their employer’s business. No hu- mane man would rejoice at such a calamity to labor, if it occurred. But such considerations do not affect the Examiner any more than the obligation of a man or a newspaper to tell the truth. In the same reckless spirit of falsehood the Ex- aminer speaks always of the strike as “a lockout,” to give the impression that employers were the aggress- ors and wantonly locked out their employes to de- stroy labor unionism. Of course the statement is false. No fight is made on labor unionism in any of its relations to the welfare of labor, to hours or wages. In all such respects unionism had been will- ingly recognized by the employers, who, relying on the good faith of union labor, had in numerous in- stances made contracts with their union labor, as such, in crder that labor might be assured of con- tinued employment and wages on conditions agree- able to it as union labor, and that the employer might safely plan for the future on the basis of stability in his relations to the labor employed. The question at issue is not the existence of union- ism, but the attempt of union leaders to usurp the place of the employer by compelling his employes to obey their orders in the transaction of his business. These leaders, who are now in alliance with the Ex- aminer, ordered members of the Teamsters’ Union not to Haul freight or baggage for customers of their employers to whom the leaders objected. The right of these leaders to exercise that absolute domination over the business of employers is the sole question at issue. Tt is a question which the Examiner in its own case would settle exactly as the employers have done. If the pressmen of that paper refused to run off an edition that contained the advertisement of a non-union firm they would be instantly discharged, just as the teamsters were who refused to haul non- union baggage. Such discharge would be no more a lockout than this widespread strike is a lockout. Such action by pressmen would be in all respects ex- actly like the action of the union teamsters, without the faintest shade of difference, and every newspaper proprietor and every business man knows that the Examiner would do exactly what the employing dray- men did. Now, one need not search fagr for proof that this new policy of the autocratic leaders of union labor means just such interference with the lawful rights and business of newspaper proprietors as well as of other business men. The Employers’ Associa- tion has advertised generally in the press of the State for labor to take the place of the strikers. This was sent out and paid for as a regular advertisement in the usual and daily course of business in ail newspa- This advertisement ran in the Examiner It also appeared in the Herald of Grass Valley, and the labor unions in that county, which have been recently addressed by Organizer Pierce, immediately ordered, instituted and are now by such order maintaining a boycott of the Herald to punish it for taking that advertisement. Here is the assertion of a discrimination and the power to de- stroy one man's business and at the same time build up the business of another, though both have done the same thing for which this new union policy or- ders the ruin of another! The Grass Valley paper must be ruined by the order of men who cheer and support the Examiner, though it did the same iden- tical thing! It is this erratic and tyrannical use of power with- out responsibility that is at issue, and not beneficial | unionism at all. We say in all candor to the strikers who are mis- counsel and lying that no community ever yet surrendered to force and fglsehood as long as it had the means of resistance. The Examiner is making ready to falsely claim for itself the credit of an end of the strike, and to deceive its dupes into the belief that they have gained what they sought. What their leaders seek. is the right to dictate to the wage-paying employer in the tran- saction of his business, to whom he shall sell and of whom he shall buy. When the struggle ends, as it will end by the denial of this right of dictation, labor unionism in all its legitimate purposes will be just where it was before, untouched and unharmed, and the Examiner lies about the real issue in order that it may claim that undisturbed status as a victory. It will deceive but a few. When a majority of the wage- earners go. back to work upon the same terms on which they could have continued in unbroken em- ployment they will hzve gained nothing that their leaders contended for. But they will have lost many weeks’ wages, to the injury of their families, and will of thousands of pro- ducers all over Califorria whom they have béen led to injure and in many cases to ruin. The Examiner has instructed them that they have all the powers of government, and many that govern- ment has rot and dare not exercise. It has led them into- weakening the good rights they have by fantas- tically claiming those which are at war with law. r— THE TRADE OF JAMAICA. Fhas been issued a summary of a report of the trade of Jamaica taken from British colonial re- ports for 1809 and 1900. It affords a striking evidence of the fallacy of the doctrine that trade follows the flag, for, while the flag that floats in Jamaica is Brit- ish, the course of trade in the island is strongly and increasingly in our direction. The summary shows that of the exports of Jamaica 57 per cent were sent to the United States in 1896, while in 1900 the share was 63.6 per cent. To the United Kingdom the share in 1896 was 27.6 per cent and in 1000 19.2 per cent. The report says: “The value of the exports from Jamaica which go to the United States continues to increase in total value and in proportion to the whole amount of the trade. The exports to the United Kingdom diminish steadily. This tendency is largely due to the development of the fruit trade, fhich has hitherto been almost exclu- sively with the United States.” Not only does Jamaica's export trade refuse to fol- low the flag, but her import trade is becoming equally ROM the Treasury Bureau of Statistics there idisregardfnl of that mighty symbol. It goes along the To right-minded men would occur the misfortune lines of commercial expediency and is increasingly made up of imports from this country. Thus the re- !)ort shows _that in 1896 the percentage of Jamaican imports taken from the United States was 41.8 per cent and in 1900 43 per cent, while the proportion from the United Kingdom, which in 1896 was 48.1 per cent, Wwas in 1900 47.2 per cent. In neither imports nor ex- ports does the trade with Canada show any increase. Of the exports 1.6 per cent went to Canada in 1896 and the same proportion in 1900; while of the imports 7.5 per cent were taken from Canada in 1896 and 7.I per cent in 1900. It is to be noted that the chief products of Jamaica are sugar and fruit, and of these the exports are mainly to this country. The report says: ‘“Sugar was shipped almost entirely to the United States and to the United Kingdom in the proportion of eight to one. Fruit almost exclusively to the United States.” The imports ffom this country were made up mainly of coal and cotton goods. Of the latter the increase of imports has been quite striking, and it appears our manufacturers of cheap cotton fabrics will event- ually have the bulk of the trade. Jamaica is but a small island and her trade is in- significant in comparison with that of the United States; nevertheless it will bear watching. It affords a good opportunity for applying that peculiar kind of reciprocity that some Eastern people have lately advocated. It supplies the Eastern market with sugar and fruit and takes manufactured goods in return. Thus, if reciprocity could be arranged, the East would get the benefit and California would" have to bear most of the competition, and there are a number of Eastern people who would be quite willing to make that kind of arrangement. While the Transvaal is being harried by war the province of Rhodesia is said to be doing a flourish- ing business in selling provisions to the army. At Buluwayo, which but a short time ago was the kraal and virtually the human slaughter pen of old Loben- gula, it is said there are now all the evidences of a prosperous civilization, including six schoolhouses and a public library. A MOURNFUL HOLIDAY. ALIFORNIA’S annual festival in celebration < of her admissicn to the Union will be kept to-day with more of mournfulness than of re- joicing. The thoughts of the people are turned not to the scene where the celebration will be observed by the Native Sons and Native Daughters, but to the bedside of the stricken President. It is true that the first dread shock caused by the attempted assas- sination of the President has passed away and san- guine hearts have hogpes for his recovery, but the danger of death is still too imminent for any one to feel in a mood for gayety; and, moreover, whether the President rally or fail during the day, the feeling of grief and rage that stch a foul offense should have been committed in our republic against the chief magistrate is still burning too deeply and too hotly for any one to put it aside for a holiday. There is something almost maddening in the thought that in a land of freedom and of prosperity like this such a malignant spirit as that of anarchy should ever find lodgment in the breast of even the most vicious and insane. The evil spirit is here, how- | ever, and its appalling mischief has been wrought. It will be for the people of California on this holiday to ponder deeply upon the significance of the tragedy and consider well what steps should be taken to expel from our shores the spirit that caused it. The instinct of the people roused to activity by the crime has unerringly detected one of the most potent of the many causes that have led up to the develop- ment of anarchy among some of the lower grade of the foreign elements among us. The people now per- ceive that the Emma Goldmans of the time are not alone in their responsibility for the crime. A’reckless and pervert journalism too long tolerated among us has been hardly less pernicious than the anarchist teachers themselves. In that judgment the reason of masses. in emphasizing that 1esponsibility. Thus the issue is presented to serious and earnest patriots whether or not they will any loager give even an indirect sup- port-to that evil which has now proved itself so ter- ribly dangerous to society. This lesson of the time should be the chief theme of the orations of the day and of the thoughts of the people. California can afford for once to turn aside from exultation in her greatness and heryincreasing wealth and power to consider seriously the duty which her people owe to themselves and to the laws of the great free republic under which they live. There are some offenses which statutes cannot effec- { tively deal with, but which are amenable to the bar of public opinion, and by that powerful authority can be,' if not suppressed, at least so checked that the evil will be greatly diminished. One of those offenses is that of yellow journalism. Dr. David Starr Jordan summed up the moral of the whole lesson in his state- ment of yesterday: *“We cannot suppress the agitator or the journal, for force only increases the danger; but we have a moral duty to stand¥against all move- ments of whatever kind which seek to accomplish their ends through intimidation or murder.” That is the lesson and the moral for the people of California to take to their hearts on this anniversary of the State festival. If they sink deeply into the hearts of the people and take root there to gro‘w into a firm resolve we shall not have had our mournful holiday in vain. The Boston Globe, in reviewing the early organiza- tion of labor unions in Massachusetts, notes that in 1849, during the first strike on record at Lowell, the women were as vigorous as the men, and states that a girl only 11 years old was characterized as the “ring- leader.” That case might be truly classified as a part of the infancy of strikes. L Bryan ccntinues to announce that he is still stand- ing on the Chicago platform, but very few people pay any attention to him. In fact, while he has been standing the world has been moving, and has now got so far away from him it can barely hear his voice even when it listens closely. The gossiping tongues of Washington and New York are wagging because Wu Ting Fang went in swimming in a conventional bathing costume a few days ago. What would have happened if the gentle- man’s costume had ‘been unconventional? A revolution, it is reported, is brewing in Brazil and adding fuel to the flame of war which is scorch- ing the South American republics. Sonie of these days Uncle Sam may go down to the scene of trouble and spank the whole outfit. The hair wash on the head of a New York girl ex- ploded the other day and three persons were se- riously burned. It might not be unwise for admirers 1 of Gotham young ladies to go round bomb proof. the wisest and the best confirms the instinct of the | The presidents of our universities have united | | CELTIC UNION 'S CELEBRATION ARRANGEMENTS ARE FINISHED or—— 75S ENN/E N AL L O Va4 S e S S O Cavnor_- 18 EXPECTED, % —r ) A QUARTET OF IRISH DANCERS WHO WILL BE SEEN TO-DAY AT GLEN PARK, WHERE THE BIG CEI BRATION OF THE CELTIC UNION WILL BE HELD AND WHERE AN UNUSUALLY LARGE ATTENDA . VERYTHING that experience can suggest or ingenuity devise has been made use of by the executive committee of the Celtic Union to make its first outing a grand suc- cess. The gates of Glen Park will open this morning at 8 o'clock and from then until midnight merriment will have full sway. The committees in charge have prepared, as the result of weeks of earnest work, a programme that is bound to furnish enjoyment for every one. Iritish games, Irish dancing and Irish essays and poems will be a few of the things that will interest the expectant throng. Colonel T. F. Barry will deliver an address and a short programme of lit- erary exercises will follow. Great inter- est centers in the literary competition in the Gaelic language, for which special prizes are offered. Five essays and one poem have already been submitted. Oth- ers are expected to be handed in to-day. The judges selected are Rev. P. C. Yorke, Father Foley of Alameda and Jeremiah Deasy, chairman of the executive commit- tee. A competition in Gaelic football between B e e e o PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. J. M. Archer of Redding is a guest at the Grand. Dunning Rideout of Marysville is a guest at the Palace. F. A. Hihn, a prominent citizen of San- ta Cruz is at the Palace. Judge E. C. Hart is down from Sacra- mento and is registered at the Grand. Thomas W. Patterson, a banker of Fres- no, is spending a few days at the Lick. W. B. Bannister, a mining man of So- nora, registered at the Lick yesterday. Senator E. C. Voorhels arrived from Sut- ter Creek yesterday and is at the Palace. M. R. Plaisted, proprietor of the Even- ing Democrat of Fresno, is a guest at the California. E. P. Dunn, proprietor of the Arlington Hotel at Santa Barbara, is registered at the Palace. F. A. Dorn, District Attorney of San Luis Obispo County, is at the California, accompanied by his wife. D. M. Riordan, the well-known electri- clan of Los Angeles, is in the city on business. He is at the Palace. A. H. Ashley, a prominent attorney of Stockton, is in the city for a few days and had made the Lick his headquarters. J. A. McElfresh, high chief ranger of the Foresters of America, arrived from Los Angeles yesterday and has made the Grand his hea:lquarters. Thomas H. Williams Jr. and wife left last night for their country home on the McCloud River to be absent for two weeks. As their guests they have Mrs. Williams' mother and sister, John W. Ferris and two sisters and Louis Lissak. Gage’s Criminal Act. Scbastopol Times. The summary dismissal of Dr. A. E. Osborne from the position of superin- tendent of the Home for Feeble-minded at Glen Ellen is an outrage on the people of this State. Petty politics prompted the action of the trustees in dismissing the superintendent on Thursday, and all who are familiar with Dr. Osborne’s rec- ord will be anything but pleased with the discourteous, unjust treatment he has re- ceived. ‘When the home was founded, fifteen years ago, Dr. Osborne was elected to the position of superintendent, and the duties devolving upon him have ever since been faithfully, honorably and efficiently exe- cuted. He is_a man of very few equals in his profession, especially in the line in which he has engaged for the past fifteen years. He has been superintendent through Democratic and Republican ad- ministrations and never was his ability or faithfulness to duty questioned. Dr. Osborne made the tralning of feeble minds a life study, and the high standing of the home to-day is due to his untiring efforts. His successor, Dr. W. M. Lawlor, has had no experience with those unfortu- nates afflicted with a blighted intellect, and, it is criminal on the part of Gover- nor Gage and his henchmen, the trustees of the institution, to turn Dr. Osborne out. - At present the Home for Feeble-minded is in charge of a political ring and the institution is being used to enhance the political welfare of the selfish trustees. Dr. Osborne was dismissed for the sole purpose of making way for a physician who has political influence. The trustees have committed a crime against the State, for Dr..Osborne was the right man in the right place, having had so many years' experience in caring for the feeble- minded. In an institution of this kind politics should have no place. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. AGUINALDO—Evangeline, Rich Gulch, Cal. Aguinaldo was captur 2 Funston and his men. o o0 bY General HER WEIGHT-C. L. A, City. The weight of the young woman who did the bicycle act at the Orphe Y rpheum is 116 pounds. THE YACHT RACE—-B. K., Bartlett Springs, Cal. The daté for the yacht race for the America’s cun has be: the 21st of September. i — - CORONADO TENT CITY, Coronado Beach, Cal, Will be ihe popular summer resort this season. It became famous last year for com- fort, entertainment and health. Its splendid cafe was a wonder, the fishing unexecelled. elevens drawn from the various Irish so- cleties will be warmly contested. Captain T. J. Mellott will command one team and Secretary Alford the other. The best kickers in both teams will be allowed to enter for the place kick. In addition there will be hurling, high kicking, hop-step- and-jump and other purely Irish athletic events. Professor Larsen will lift himself in his balloon, Shamrock II, about 2 o'clock. A final rehearsal of those who will par- | ticipate in the specially prepared pro- gramme of Irish dancing was held yes- | terday afternoon at K. R. B. Hall. There was a large attendance and Fiddler Mec- Mahon had to resin his bow many a time to keep up with the dancers. A special feature of the afternoon will be a four- | handed reel, in which Miss Julia Malloy and Miss Anna Kavanagh and Professors J. J. O'Connor and J. P. Kelleher will participate. This will be danced in cos- tume, and promises to be one of the most interesting features presented. A grand fireworks display in the even- | | through the court: met, Parnell and other Irish heroes and a grand final pilece, “The Dawn of Free- dom in Ireland,” together with fligh rockets, batterfes of stars and plenty colored fire, will illumine the grounds a adjacent hills. The dancing platform be brilliantly illuminated with lights and variegated lanterns. Arrangements have been made with the Market-street Railway Company and San Francisco and San Mateo Railwa Company for an extra car service. ars of both lines will be run at intervals ten minutes direct to the grounds. T last car from the park to the city wi leave promptly at midnight. During the afternoon bulletins were read announcing the apparent improve- ment in the condition of President Mec- Kinley. Many of these were supplied of The Call. Each one indicating a change for the better was received with applause. Arrange- ments had been made in the event of an unfavorable outcome to postpone the af- fair, for which preparations had so earn- estly and carefully been made. The good a 1 ing will precede the ball. Busts of Em- | news was therefore doubly welcome. B e ] KING EDWARD WILL RESTORE NAVAL RANKS Two ironclads, the Audacious and In- vincible, have been struck from the active list of the British navy and are being ccnverted into depots for torpedo-boat de- | stroyers. The Audacious was built in 1569 at a cost of $1,315,940 and her repairs up to 1899 foot up to $1,495,935, an excess of $179,995 over the original cost. The Invin- cible, built in 1871, cost $1,268,045, and $665,- 815 in repairs during her thirty years of active service. Three third class cruisers —the Garnet, Ruby and Tourmaline—of 2120 tons, which were struck off the list three years ago, are being converted into coal hulks. They were built during 1875 and 1877 and were of the composite class— that is, iron frames planked with wood and copper sheathed. Their usefulness as cruising vesse!s averaged about twenty | years and their good and reliable speed of thirteen knots, together with the moder- ate expense of repairs. made this type a | very popular class of vessels in the Brit- ish navy. € eiie The ranks of vice and rear admiral of the United Kingdom will probably be | re-established upon the occasion of the | coronation of King Edward VIL. The ti- tle of lord high admiral dates back to| 572, King Alfred being the first bearing that title. John, Earl of Somerset, be-| came admiral of England December 23, 1406, and the titles of vice and rear ad- miral of the United Kingdom have con- tinued up to a few years ago. Sir Michael | Culme-Seymour, who died in 1894, was the | last vice admiral of the United King- dom, and Sir W. F. Martin, whose death occurred In 1857, was the lasy rear ad- miral of that title. The extra salary as| vice admiral was £439 1s 9d, and that of | rear admiral £32 9s. The offices were | simply sinecures and ceased on the pleai of economy. | g A The tonnage of foreign naval vessels in Chinese waters in July last was distrib- uted among Great Britain, Russia and France, as follows: Great Britain, 170,000 tons; Russia, 150,000; France, 9,300, Twelve | months earlier the respective tonnage of the powers enumerated was 107,000, §2,000 and 40,000 tons, showing an aggregate in- crease in one year of 181,300 tons. A Jap- anese naval officer felicitates his country upon the fact that it has built six battle- ships and six armored cruisers of 144,500 tons since 1896, all vessels of the latest naval development, and that as matters stand at present Japan would have noth- ing to fear against a combiration of Rus- sia and France, as many of the ships of the two latter powers are obsolete and no match against the up-to-date vessels of Japan. . et The steam and gunnery trials of the Russian battleship Retvizan, building at Cramp's, are to begin on the 1ith of this month. The thoroughness of tests is far more searching in the Russian than in any other navy, and unless it is perfunc- | tory, as is frequently the case with gov- | ernment work, would Semonstrate the | perfection of the ship in all its details. The contract, signed April 23, 1888, stipu- lated delivery in three years, the ship to make a speed of eighteen knots for twelve hours under natural draught, whereas in all other navies the speed is limited to a | duration of four hours under forced draught. . The engines of the British battleship ‘Hannibal, completed in 1897, were built by Harland & Wolff, the world renowned builders at Belfast, and cost less than | those built by other contractors for ships of the same type and power. During the recent naval maneuvers the Hannibal proved herself the best and most econom- | ical ship in the contending fleets, as her coal consumption was less by four tons a day and her speed half a knot greater an hour than her sister ships. The Hannibal demonstrates, like the Oregon in our | navy, the value of good workmanship. when . Great Britain's new naval programme provides for the construction of three bat- tleships of 16,500 tons each, six 10,000-ton . THE ISSUE IN THE STRIKE The full report published by the Con- ciliation Committee of the Board of Su- pervisors reflects credit upon their mo- tives and upon their power of deliberate expression, but it proves conclusively that they were not justified in formula:- ing the conclusion “that the pesition of the Employers’ Association as expressed to its officers is an absolutely untenable one.” An exactly opposite conclusion re- sults inexorably from the facts as de- tailed by the committee and illustrated by the correspondence. They fail to per- ceive that, as a condition precedent to the proposed meeting between the represen- tatives of the labor unions and of the Employers’ Association, they required the surrender of the only péint in the contro- versy. The leaders of the striking unions de- mand that, instead of conducting their business directly with their employers, the employers shall enter into immediate and permanent relations with the unions themselves as organizations—in other words, that the striking unions shall have the exclusive power to represent thelr members. There is no other substantial ques~ tion involved in the present strike, and, primarily or otherwise, to deal officially with the striking union in and of itself wouid settle the issue. The right of the unions to exist within the law is univer- sally conceded, and their supremacy, as between themselves and 'their members, on all matters within their jurisdiction and obligations it is for them to decide. But it would be contrary to elementary principles of law as well as right, it would be a total reversal of the principle and ruie which guarantee individual con- trol of individual business, to force em- ployers to yleld to union dictation in the management of their own affairs or in their agreements with their employes. The Employers’ Association is only col- lectively interested in the strike and therefore on that ground alone it might well have declined the suggested inter- view. But, waiving that point, it is a fact that the conciliation committee and the public ought to perceive at a glance that in a conference the very first point to be considered is which would be the power of the representatives if the strik- ers could coerce employers into the recog- nition of striking unions to the extent of dictatorship would in and of itself settie the strike in antagonism to our system of government or would be necessarily fruit- less. The Draymen’s Association and the Em- ployers’ Association, acting purely on the defensive, are protecting the rights, not merely of employers, but of all labor unions pursuing lawful ends by lawful means and of every nop-unionized wage- earner in the United States. AMERICAN. @ bl et @ A armored cruisers, two third class cruis- ers, ten torpedo-boat destroyers, five tor- pedo-boats, two sloops and five submarine boats. Of this fleet, two battleships and one armored cruiser are to be built in the dockyards, the other vessels to be con- tracted for. There is not a single new ship of any description allotted to any of the navy yards in this country. . . The old receiving ship Vermont was moved from her berth at the Brooklyn Navy Yard August 27, and the Columbia will take her place. The lack of room on the latter will necessitate the erection of a building on the Cob dock as guarters for the officers. e e On April 1, 199, the total force of work- men in British dockyards numbered 28,833, and on January 1 last the number had in- creased to 30,330. . 4 it Desertions are more frequent in the British navy than in the army and the reward for arrest is double that of the army. ————— Cholce candies, Towrsend's. Palace Hotel® Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* Spectal information supplied daily to business Bouses and public men by tne- Press Clippmg Bureau (Allen's). s10 Momce | gomery street. Telephone Main 1048 &