The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1902, Page 6

6 A | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1902. The=oadoin: Call SATURDAY........ ... 00c00050.. . JUNE" 21, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. 2¢éress Al Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. Ack for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You W ivh. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. & Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sundey), one.year. DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 8 months. EUNDAY CALL, One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are cuthorized to recetve subscriptions. Eample coples will be forwarded when requested. Maf! subscrfbers in ordering cha:-e of address should be particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o inure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE......1:0.+42.1115 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mansger Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Building, Chieago viang Distance Telepnone “Central 2619.) - . €. C. CARLTON..................Herald Square NEW YOREK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B, SMITH.......,50 Tribune Building YORK NEWS STANDS: - -Astoria Hotel; 81 Union Sguare; BRANCH OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open uotdl $:80 c'clock. 800 EHayes, open tntil 9:30 cclock. 633 McAllister, open ustil 9:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:80 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o’clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, cpen until § o'clock. 1006 Va- jencia, open until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, c¢:=n unti] o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER, Call subscribers contemplating = change of LABOR CONTRACTS. HE question of validity of contract with skilled T labor is on at Melrose, a suburb of Oakland, where an Eastern firm that makes a specialty such work is building 2 number of enormeus oil tanks to hold fuel oil. They brought their boiler- makers from the East with them, the men voluntarily making a contract to work for a certain wage per day. Upon that basis their employers took the job of building the great tanks, which will require an oil trai enty-three miles long to fill. When the work got under way the boiler-makers found that they could get a hali-dollar more wages here than in the East, and as they had entered into a contract to do this work at the Eastern rate they were ‘ordered to quit by the union to which they belong, and the work on the tanks is stopped. The contractor is appealing not to the courts to enforce his contract with his boiler-makers, but to the national headquarters of the union to order the men to keep their agreement or not compel him to pay more than they agreed to work for. of The right of contract is the most necessary right In its very nature it: is free. Our laws protect freedom of contract, and the idea of compulsory contract is so repugnant that no judieial or legi ive body has ever dared promote it. Com- pulsion upon parties to enter into contract implies a condition of slavery and not of freedom. If men in considerable numbers surrendered their personal lib- erty so far as to submit to the compulsion of others in entering into the contractual relation, it might well be doubted if political ireedom could long endure. That freedom is composed of 2ll the elements that constitute personal liberty, and these are all included in freedom of contract. The important rela- tions of life depend upon this. The state cannot ex- ist without the family. The family depends upon marriage, and marriage is a contract that' must be freely entered into by the contracting parties. Every business transaction rests upon actual or implied con- tract. The relation of buyer and seller is contractual, witnessed by the delivery and receipt of the thing bought, the receipt of which obligates the receiver to pay its price. It is freedom of contract in making the bargain, and when the implied contract is entered into the courts enforce the contract. To none is this freedom of contract more neces- sary than to the wage-earner. He enforces the pay- ment of his wages by resort to the courts, which im- ply a contract between him and his employer, into which both freely entered. As the appearance of compulsion in making a contract would destroy per- sonal liberty and imperil political freedom, what is to be said of compulsory violation of contract? This issue is raised in the Melrose incident. mechanics freely entered into a contract extra!egaé compulsion may compel them to break. If the fifm which employs them, when it came to begin building the tanks, shad found that it could employ men for a half-dollar 2 day less’ than it had contracted to pay them, and had turned them adrift and employed labor at lower wages, the courts would have protected the wage-workers by enforcing the contract. But when the shoe is on the other foot, and the men repudiate a contract voluntarily made, if the courts attempt to compel them to fulfill their contract it is regarded by their organization as judi- cial compulsion upon their labor, and then it is said - that 2 man cannot be compelled to work, the morality of the matter being lost sight of. The employer, however, can be compelied to pay the men the wages agreed upon for the full time of the contract, whether they work or not. If he hire cheaper labor to do the work and pay it, he mast still pay under his contract the wages agreed upon to the men with whom he contracted. A contractor must be responsible. The price he is to receive for his job is open-to the judg- ment of the court on his contract. 3 It will be seen that contracts cannot 167ig be so one-sided. The employer will not long consent to be considered the only responsible party to contracts, and the organizations of employes which insist upon enforcement of contract against the employei, and with equal force insist that the employe shall be as free to violate his coutract as he is to make it, are teaching a lesson and establishing a principle of which they will finally be the victime enjoyed by man. most The which | FOR SENTIMENT ONLY. Y- the official organ of Henry T. Gage in this city the public was informed yesterday that in making his complaint against the proprietor and the manager of The Call 2t a point far removed from the residence of the defendants and the homes of the witnesses, Gage was moved by sentimental considerations solely. The yellow organ asserts: “The Governor says he sued out the warrants in San Pedro because of sentiment. It was in that town he began his career in California.” The excuse is ingenious, and is commended to the attention of the public. A heavy expense is to be imposed upon the taxpayers of Los Angeles County because the Governor is sentimental. Witnesses and public documents are to be carried hundreds of miles at great cost and inconvenience solely to gratify the fond fceling of Gage for the town in which he began his career. It is a case where a tender passion is projected into |- an affair of law- and politics, and throws over a prosaic event something of the glow of poetry and of fiction. Under the circumstances the defendants have perhaps good rzason to feel thankful the borders of Lower California. | that Gage did not begin his California career in Modoc, Inyo or zome: remote point on Since sentiment is to rule in matters of this kind, they might have had to go farther and find less conveniences than are afforded at San Pedro. . Theissueraised by the sentimental prosecutor is one that merits consideration of the press and indeed of the people generally. If the proprietor and the manager of The Call can be compelled to go upward of 500 miles to stand trial for the purpose of pleas- ing the sentiment of the prosecutor, any other citizen of California is liable to the same mishap. “A critic of the Governor may be taken from Siskiyou to San Diego, or from the mountains to the sea, to answer for the criticism, on a complaint of criminal libel, and the only reason given for the summons to attend the far-off call to court will be that the Governor has a sentimental liking for the place because of its associations with his early and innocent years. | { ment to the public. | granted that it will pever agree It is just as well that this explanation of Gage’s curious course has been made public. To all outward appearance it seemed that the prosecutor in making hlS com- plaint had sought that far-off point for the purpose of providing a tieans of delaying the trial and preventing a speedy submission of the evidence to the court and to the public. It is known that the defendants-have been urgent in calling for an investigation of the case; that they sought to get the Prison Directors to take it up at once; that they are eager now to have the examination go forward in the first court in which it comes up for a hearing. Consequently the action of the prosecutor in flying from the scene of the offense—from the place where the 'trial could have been conveniently and speeedily pressed forward—naturally appears to the public as an evasion. It will therefore come as a surprise to many to learn from Gage’s organ that he is evading. nothing. He flies to the distance solely because in the distance he sees the place where in early years he was once. happy. Sentiment rules his gentle breast, and, laying aside all eagerness for a prompt meeting with those who he says have-assailed his good them to meet him there in the sweet by and name, he summons by. Concerning ‘matters of sentiment there can be no dispute. We all love the land of our birth, the localities where youth was spent and manhootl begun. Gage, however, is perhaps the only man that ever lived who would permit seatiment to dictate to him in a question of this kind, and who would refuse to fight even for his good name in any place except one to which he is bound by sentimental ties. Itappearsindeed to be his resolve that the place that saw his beginning shall see his finish. His California career began at San Pedro and there he wishes it to end. 3 THE ISTHMIAN CANAL BILL. ITH the exception of the comparatively Wsmall class who upon the isthmian canal question have been for “Nicaragua or nothing” the American people will be well content with the passage of the Spooner bill by the Senate. If it be not all that was hoped for in the early days of the session, it is much better than has been feared to some extent in the later days. ~There have been times when it seemed quite probable that the division of the supporters of the canal between the two routes would enable the opponents of the enterprise 4o yirtually defeat it by bringing about a prolonged deadlock. That danger is no longer threatening. Had the Nicaragua men in the Senate succeeded in procuring the passage of the House bill the meas- ure would now have gone to the President and the beginning of the work would be in sight. The adop-{ tion 'of the' Spooner amendment forfeits that advan- tage. The Senate bill must now go back to the House, and possibly it may be held up there for the rest of the session. That would mean perhaps a year or more of delay, and would carry disappoint- Still even under those terms the result is not so bad as it might have been. Some- thing at least has been achieved. The promise of the Republican platform to provide for an isthmian canal has been partially fulfilled, and it is not likely that a Republican House and a Republican Senate will fail to reach some basis upon which they can come together in agreement and fulfill the pledge completely. Because the House passed the Nicaragua bill by a virtually unanimous vote it has been taken for to the Spooner amendment, which provides for a canal'by that route only upon condition that the President canuot make satisfactory arrangements for the Panama route. It is to be borne in mind, however, that the House bill was passed before the latest offer was made by the Panama. compaiiy, and that the situation was then quite different from what it is to-day. Had the same terms been before the House as have been be- fore the Senate, it is quite likely there would have been a strong support to Panama in that body. Con- sequently the prospects for an agreement between the two houses are by no means so dark as they ap- pear at first glance. Should there be no agreement at this session the | people will insist that the measure be made the chief subject of legislation next winter. Having now come within sight of an isthmian canal bill, public in- terest in the measure will be keenly excited until the route is definitely decided and the great enterprise is begun. Under such circumstances delay further than next winter is hardly to be accounted among the possibilities of legislation. The country, therefore, will be fairly content with the Spooner bill. It is a step toward an end which cannot now be very far off. We shall have the canal, and a Republican Con- gress will have the honor of inaugurating the great work. e The authorities and citizens of our tiny neighbor Salvador are very wroth over the conclusions of an American board of arbitration. Perhaps the angry gentlemen might feel worse if we resorteéd to meas- ures somewhat more strenuous than those indicated in arbitration. The Board of Public Works has shown startling symptoms of desiring to clear the streets of the city of their hideous signs. 1If this spirit be contagious San Francisco may soon be good to look at and ad- mire as a thing not of ugliness. The Chicago scheme to get Oom Paul to visit this country seems to have fallen through. Chicago, it seems, is a ‘“‘get there” town, and poor Oom Paul got left, so Chicago has no use for him. The Oregon murderers who escaped after a series of desperate crimes are still uncaptured. When caught they ought to make excellent specimens for a museum after a proper stretching process. TILDEN CLUB SPEECHES. OME days ago Bryan was reported to have S written to a Populist that he intends to do all in his power to “aid those who are determined to prevent the Clevelandizing of the Democratic party.” There can be no question that in coining the | word “Clevelandizing” Mr. Bryan thought he was inventing a term that would rouse antagonism to the reorganizers, by exciting against them all the popu- lar prejudices supposed to exist against Cleveland. It is therefore a curious fact that just at this juncture the reorganizers should have invited Gleveland to be the chief guest and speaker at a ‘grand banquet ar- ranged for the purpose of promoting the reorganiza- tion movement. It appears, then, that there is the widest possible difference of opinion between the Bryanites and the reorganizers concerning the per- sonal influence*of the ex-President and the effect of his name. What Bryan. uses as a term of denuncia- tion the other faction uses as a spell with which to' restore courage to the Democratic camp. It is uscless to speculate as to which of the two fac- tions represents the dominant element in the Demo- cratic party. We shall not know that until they meet for the decisive struggle in the national convention in 1904. There can be no question, however, that present appearances tend to the conclusion that Bryan is discredited in his own camp while Cleveland bas regained much of his former prestige. The Democratic State conventions of the year have been silent on the points of issue between the factions, but that silence is seemingly a victory for Cleveland. The Chicago and Kansas City platiorms have not been re- pudiated, but at the same time they have not been re- affirmed. Virtually they have been abandoned, and with them appears to have gone the leadership of the man personally identified with them. Bryan was invited to the Tjlden Club banquet, but he did not attend, neither did he deign to make a re- ply. His conduct was not unnatural, for the club in inviting him had not ircluded him among the speak- ers. A man who has twice been the leader of his party in a Presidential contest and who has polled a larger popular vote than any other Democrat can hardly have failed to perceive an intentional slurin an invitation to attend a notable gathering of his‘party at which he was to be given a back seat and denied the right of speaking upon the party policies. In the absence of Bryan, Cleveland and Hill had everything their own way. We are told they met one another cordially and shook hands like old friends who are glad to meet again. Their speeches were harmonious. Cleveland, as usual, was solemn and ponderous. Hill was lively and aggressive. The former President renewed his declaratigns against the tariff and advised another fight for that free trade which proved so disastrous under his last term, Hill was equally insistent upon that issue, but added to it an attack upon the Republican administration in Cuba. Cleveland, amid cries of “No, no,” declared himself permanently out of politics. Hill gave no-* tice that he was still in the ring. That was the net result of the great banquet. It is a foregone conclusion that through the col- umns of his Commoner Bryan will review the speeches ard pronounce emphatic judgment upon the speakers. He will have no difficulty in exposing the hollowness of the plan of campaign proposed by the reorganizers. It is nothing more than an attempt to tecall the past. So far as practical politics is con- cerned thy Tilden Club might as well have called up Tilden or even Jackson himself as to have recalled Cleveland to the front. For good or for evil Democ- racy has gone forward. Bryanism may be crude and absurd, but it represents what is vital in the masses of the party. The reorganizers may be excellent gen- tlemen, but their talk is a platitude. That much is made evident by the Tilden Club speeches. Cleve- land has been recalled to the front in vain, e —————— Mayor Schmitz has swung his sword of economy, and weeping and wailing fill the corridors of the City Hall. It does seem a hardship to force some of our ~istinguished citizens to earn an honest livelihood. : PRINTERS' INK. PRINTERS' INK. % ve $100 Rewards The great newspapers of Chicago, Philadelphia, Bostfm, Cincinnati, St. Louis and San Francisco allow the actual figures of their c1rcula}t10n to be !(nowr.\. The great newspapers of New York do more boasfmg aboqt cnrculatnpn than is practiced in any other city, yet not one of them will allow its actual issue to be known. The New York Journal for Sunday, May 25 h, prints a conspicuous line, across its. first page, which reads: The Circulation « « Sunday American = Journal = Greater m PRINTERS' INK wil pay a hundred e Combined Circulation « «- World, Tribune, Press -« Times co'lars for an honest circulation statement from any one of the five papars named, or five hundred collars for a complete set of such statements. By an honest statement is meant such an one as is furnished regularly by the Philadelphia Record, Chicago Rocord-Hzrald, St. Louis Glob:-Democrat, Cin= cinnati Times-Star, Bosion Globz or San Franciszo Call. This offer will remain open for one month. NEW YORK, June 3, 1902. GAGE IS O SHUF FLING FOR FURTHER DELAY G OVERNOR GAGE has overreached himself. of the law to stave off preliminary examination. After three weeks of swaggering delay he caused the arrest the proprietor and the manager of The Call on a charge of criminal libel. He is now resorting to every device The defendants are demanding an immediate trial in a court within easy reach of State records and witnesses, but Gage is shuffling for an extension of time. of The influen- tial independent newspapers of the State know that he is not meeting the true issue in manly style, and they do not hesitate to express their opinions, as the following comments indicate: SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: It Governor Gage, in lodging his complaint against the proprietor and the manager of The Call in the seaport of Wilmington, sought to inconvenience the defendants and the witnesses they Will be obliged to summon, he over- reached himself, for it appears that in spite of the care taken to remove the hearing to a placs remote from the State Prison and this city, whence most of the evidence in the case will be derived, his attorneys have so managed matters that the preliminary exam- ination will take place in San Francisco. ‘We Infer this from the fact that the de- fendants, after having warrants served upon them and giving bonds which Judge Fritz ac- cepted, promptly invoked that section of the Penal 'Code which reads as follows: ‘826, If the defendant is brought before a magistrate other than the one Wio issued the ‘warrant, the depositions on which the warrant was granted must be sent to that magistrate, or, if they cannot be procured, the prosecutor and his witnesses must be summoned to give thelr testimony anew.’ ‘The attorney of Messrs. Spreckels and Leake has already asked tnat a time be set for the preliminary examination of the defendants for the misdemeanor of which they are accused. and the Judge has declarel his readiness to hear arguments in the matter. The people Will note with interest whether Governor Gage is equally anxious for a speedy examination in a place where evidence is easily obtainable, or whether ke will try to impede progress and hamper the cause of justice by dragging the defendants and a multitude of witnesses to Wilmington, & proceeding which wiil result in expense to the citizens of Los Angeles and em- barrassment to the State Prison Commission, which will be called upon to submit to an in- vestigation condycted under other auspices and along dffferent lines than those which have in the past resulted fn covering up-a great variety of irregularities and much downright corrup- tion. E (S TN, SACRAMENTO BEE: The people of the State of California, as & whole, are not very much interested whether Gage shall win his libel suit against J. D. Spreckels and W. S. Leake, or whether he sball ‘lose. But the people of the State of California, as a.whole, and cach and every cit- izen of this State, in his own entity, have a direct personal interest in this matter in this way: If Henry T. Gage can hale J. D. Spreck- els and W. 8, Leake, citizens of San Francisco, way down to a little seaside resort in Los Angeles County—which happens to be the ra~- ticular home of Governor Gage's partic chums and friends—any other citizen with plenty of money, such as Gage has, can do the same to any other citizen whom he may ac- cuse of having libeled him, This is not the first time this has been done in the State of California, but it has been, in all cases, a viclous precedent. The place to sue the San Francisco Call is where the San Francisco Call is published. If Gage can do these things to J. D. Spreckels and W, S. Leake. who have plenty of money with which to fight back, he could do the same thing to W. S. Green, of the Colusa Sun, or to some other independent and fearless Journallst, who has not. This attempt on the part of Gage to take men hundreds of miles away from their home to answer to a libel—if any libel there has been—which was perpetrated at San Franelsco, does not seem very much like seeking a vindi: cation. It looks more as though Gage were determined not so much to vindicate himself @s to put his critics to all the expense and trouble possible. If Gage shall be permitted to sue J. D. Spreckels and W, S. Leake outside of San Francisco, the suit should be commenced in the city of Sacramento. which, according to the statutes, is the officlal retidence of the But then the statutes can hardly count in 9® PERSONAL MENTION. Marion de Vries is at the Palace, L. R. Fancher of Merced is at the Grand. A. F. Jones, an attorney of Oroville, is at the Palace. Jesse D. Carr is registered at the Lick from Salinas. Dr. Stanley Newhouse of Kansas City is at the Palace. John A. Mcintire, a Sacramento mining man, is at the Lick. J. H. Batcher, a mining attorney of Sacramento, is at the Grand. Samuel Davis of the Carson Appeal is spending a few days in the city. Judge George F. Buck of Stockton is among the arrivals at the Lick. E. G. Chaddock, a fruit grower of Fres- no, is at the California, accompanied by his son. e e ) Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townszend's." —_——————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend's California giace fruit, ijc a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. §39 Mar! . street, Palace Hotel building. . —_—— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 250 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 103z . —_——— Since 1879 France has spent $120,000,000 on canals, and there are new schemes in- volving an expenditure of $100,000,000 more. —————— Cheap Rates to Minneapolis, Minn. N. E. A, Convention, $81 50, San Francisco to Minneapolis and return, going direct lines, returning Northern Pacific Raliway, On saie July 1 and 2, good sixty days. Only requires six days for entire trip through Yellowstone National Park. Just the season to visit ‘Na- ture’s Greatest Wonderland.” The Northern Pacific frain “North Coast Limited,” is unex- celled by any other. Seelng is believing. T. K. Stateler, general agent, 647 Market st., S, F. e el s To neglect the hair Is to lose youth and come- liness. Save it with Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 1Scts. this matter, for Governor Gage has frequently shown that' he is not amenable to them. Another point in this connection. Why does Governor Gage bring that suit hundreds of miles away from tNe evidence? The Controiler’'s office and the records at San Quentin will furnish the evidence for both sides, The Governor has not helped his case by getting away from the evidence. —_— MARYSVILLE DEMOCRAT: When Governor Gage announced a determina- tion to commence an action in the courts against John D. Spreckels and Sam Leake, in an effort to convict them of criminal libel, we had expected to see an earnmest move on the part of the plaintiff along the usual lines of procedure. But we feel disappinted in the action of the Governor and acknowledge that faith in the man has been materially weaken- ed. If Governor Gage is innocent of complicity in fraudulent practices at San Quentin prison, why not meet the issue squarely and at once? There is an appearance of farce comedy at- tached to the complaint issued out of the office of a Justice of the Peace in Wilmington Town- ship, Los Angeles County. The records are in Secramento or at San Quentin, and so are the principal witnesses. Does the Governor intend to compel all witnesses to travel to Wiimington and back at the expense of the people to vindi- cate his honor? NAPA REGISTER: The San Franclsco Call editorially speaks of the warrants issued at the instance of Governor Gage for the arrest.of its proprietor upon a charge of criminal libel. It sees no good reason for sclecting an ‘“‘obseure township, remote from the scene of the offense,” as the place for trial. That there will be some contest over this is intimated in the following paragraph: ““Whatever be the meaning of the Wilmington Township move, it matters little. If the courts decide that Wilmington Township is the place for the hearing The Call will be ready to meet the issue. The Call stands by its record. It will prove the truth of all of its charges and slatements. 1t meets the prosecution with a demand for a speedy trial and a full investi- gation.” - L0S ANGELES TIMES: Governor Gage in his ridiculous ante-election pronunciamento talks as though he would dic- tate to courts and jurors, and coolly assumes in advance of a trial that he will “‘punish”” and ‘‘chastise” De Young, Otis, Spreckels and Leake in the courts. He does not even say that the punishment shall be with the consent of the courts, but implies that it _shall be by the will of Governor Gage solely. The Governor is not the court nor the jury, as he will find out. Two years ago Governor Gage in his des- peration invented the idea that the San Fran- cisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Call and the Los Angeles Times, with malice prepense and with the purpose of doing him great political harm, had constituted themseives a dangerous newspaper “‘triumvirate.” The idea was purely an invention of his Excellency’s heated imagi- mation. But he exploited the absurd and ground- less charge, and his henchmen and quick newspaper servants throughout the State re- peated the cry, shouting it from their totter- ing tripeds throughout the commonwealth. Once for all let the truth be known and the foolish charge be exploded for good. There is no newspaper triumvirate, no journalistic alli- ance, no political partnership between the newspaper editors and publishers named, so far as the Los Angeles Times has any knowledge on the subject. Speaking for itself, it can as- sert without fear of possible cohtradiction that it never has had any friendly relations with Mr. Spreckels and The Call, and that gentleman will doubtless substantiate the truth of this as- sertion. 'The course, the policies, and the per- sonal relations subsisting between the two journals last named have aimost invariably been antagonistic for years past, and that an {agonism hag forbldden any alliance of any n This infantile whimper was deliberately in. GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS When the war broke out in South Africa, it may be remembered, there was considerable discussion as to its probable | effect upon the publishers' trade. It | seemed to be generally agreed that it would be deleterious, if not disastrous, even when a continuance of war for six months was not considered likely. Yet it has lasted more than five times that period, but nothing has been heard of any Publisher who has had to file his petition. As a rule, publishers do not like to say | how muclt they have suffered, but, how- ever much or little that may have been the case, all seem to have weathered the storm remarkably well and are now look- | ing forward to a boom in the book trade, ‘which all prophesy. Pubiishers are likewise hopeful that be- fore very long there will be a considerable demand from South Africa for new books | for this reason: While the war has been | in progress the book trade in South Africa has necessarily suffered to a very great extent, and, indeed, its effects have ex- tended to all the Eritish colonles, even to far off Australia. Apart from this, the means of cigeulat- ing books in South Africa came to a standstill. For instance, there was no better medium for the circulation of British books than the Rand Club, which possessed one of the flnest and most ex- tensive librarles in South Africa. It wil now have to make up the leeway for near- 1y three years' publications. The same re- mark applies to all lbraries in South Africa. The Bible on which the King will take the cath of coronation is being beautiful- ly bound in red polished levant moroceo. Both covers are to have the Tudor rose | border. On the front cover there will be a cottage roof design and on the back the arms of Edward the Confessor, Oxford University, Cambridge Universit: i Westminster Abbey. — There will ‘b ng vented for the sole purpose of creating a false prejudice among the peaple of the State and frightening them into the belief that a great danger hovers like a pall over the com wealth—the danger of a newspaper despot the danger of government by newspaper stead of government by the people. The tation” about which so mueh cant has indulged in by hypocritical demagogues been does not come from the three newspapers complained against; It comes from Governor Gag shouters, henchmen and parasites of the Bu Mackenzie, Lynch, Parker, “Johnny" Wray “Dan” Kevane stripe, joined in and repe parrot-like, by that small portion of the thoughtless and irresponsibie press which does not even stop long enough to consider that in repeating such a cry it is degrading its ow profassion and lowering the standard of dignit honor and integrity which should characterize a free, brave and homest press. This_talk about a ‘‘mewspaper triumvirate' is the baldest sort of bald nonsense, VISALIA TIMES: The Call made a political mistake when it accused Governor Gage of dishonesty and the Governor will find that he gained no sympathy when he brought his suit for libel in an ob- scure township in Los Angeles County. The public wants this case trfed promptly, and It should have been brought in some court where the reeords of the State Controller and of San Quentin could have. been easily and quickly obtained. his S s SAN BERNARDINO SUN: If John D. Spreckels had secretly fled to Honolulu, as some of the newspapers reported, it would have been the biggest feather In Gov- ernor Gage's cap in the tail of his opponent’s rooster. But Spreckels has not fled. and what's more nof - to_flee, A The Call, e reiforatcs all hio: dhdbgen: abebust Gage, says he “has him in & hole,” and cries “Lay on, lay on, Macduff, and damned be he who first cries Hold, enough!” Oh, it's going to be a beaut of a serimmage. UKIAH DISPATCH-DEMOCRAT: It turns out that Governor Gage's threat of arrest and criminal prosecution of John D. Spreckeis and Sam Leake of The Call, which so tickled the Gage press last week, has not frighténed these gentlemen in the least. Tues- day’s Call reiterates the charges already made, and adds the very s- lous charge that for the preceding week Gage had been at San Quentin holding a “'star chamber’” investigation behind locked doers and forcing employes and inmates of the prison to sign and swear to depositions and affidavits to fix up a whitewash. Governor Gage never in his life made so great a mistake as he did in going to San Quentin to make his secret investigation. It proves that he either had a guilty knowledge of crookedness or a strong suspicion that The Call's charges were true and that he wished to cover something up. LIVERMORE HERALD: The Call's expose of the mismanagement and corruption at San Quentin prison will put an end to Governor Gage's hopes for a renomin- ation. The Governor was weak before with the rank and file of his party and now even the leaders who were attempting to force his nomination will probably decline the added re- sponsibility of apologizing for the sins of Gage's political household. POMONA PROGRESS: The people are not so much concerned about the damage suits—the courts will take care of them—as they are about getting at the truth regarding The Call's charges. The latter has invited prompt investigation and has al- leged that it is ready to prove all the charges that it has made, and to produce a good deal more evidence ti 1t told the people @bout. The duty surely rests upon the Prison Board to investij , at once and thoroughly, the administration of San Quentin and inform the people regarding it. clasp or metal corners on the Bible, but the edges will be of solid giit. The Bible used for the coronation of Queen Victoria was also an Oxford Bible. It is now in the possession of the descendants of the then Bishop of Winchester, Dr. o who was_entitled to the volume by virtue of his office as Prelate of the Garter. Andrew Lang is writing_a beok on that singular episode of Scottish his- tory, the Gowrie conspiracy. Whether there actually was a plot by Earl Gowrie against King James has been a matter of contzoversy on which Mr. Lang has found new light. The volume, which is entitled “James VI and the Gowrie Mystery,” will be published by Messrs. Lorgmans. It has come rather as a g rise to t literary world that Gabriel e toun, who has been most noted for his novels deal- ing with Scottish' life, has recently been occupying himself with verse writing. As a result there will be published before long a book of ballads, referring chiefly to the sea, linking Scottish character and life to the sea, :nd‘ln tg::- Way striking quite a new note, for otlan poor in her sea ballads. S Wy But an even greater ing out of that serious Nel(l“Munhr& as a lhmnonln. reading novels would have tho he had within him a reserve ott hu“l::: such as he has exhibited in a skit which purgon; to give the opinions of various authors on typewriters. Here, as an in- stance, is one: Rudyard Kipling Is rep- resented as writing that he has of late done all his poems on a beautiful two- horsepower brazed tubular cam-action half-silent typewriter of American inven- s, tion. “It's he characteristic enthustaam, Tty ertih M Joy in 1:;; is to rise sy my;ll oil it. T poems on this machi h- out the trouble of thought. Rave b seen m{ latest contribution regarding the S)Olg:,zln representatives at the corona Since thy house to my house none lesser can mx;‘ gz house to thy house, King counseling Ana mz""hwuu to thy house none greater can sen . Than th; - an thy house to my house, friends counsel: “That is a fair specimen of what I can do with my new beauty. I just start the cam action, open the throttle valve, 80 for a walk around Rottingdean, anc, I e e e St ety ma- chine, fi: g e T mp, walting mod- se is the com- ttish novelist, No one from