The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1902, Page 4

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Here we are in the middle of | summer and from sections of the United S same reports of a good jobbing and demand for merchandise, with high prices ruling everywhere, and the public paying them with e This n has already existed for four or five years, and as far as can be seen at pres- ent the end is not yet in sight. There have been lulls, but they have all proven temporary, and even during their existence there bas been no depression in busi- ness all States come distributive con Last week was one of the best for 2 long time. The country’s bank clearings, which have for some time been smaller than those last year,, suddenly shifted around and recorded a gain of 9 per cent over the corresponding week in 1901, with Detroit the only important city in the country showing a decrease, and that only 84 per cent. The failures numbered | 209, against 198 last year. The railroad earnings thus | far in July show 2 gain over July, 1901, of 23 per cent, and over July, 1900, of 20 per cent, indicating a large merchandise all over the country. Con- moy sidering the prevailing high prices for everything cr;g:umrd by the public the showing made by thesp statistics is noteworthy - The leading staples themselves are also making a fine exhibit. The footwear trade, which is such an | immense interest in New England, has evidently re- i ceived a stimulus from some source, for the factories have returned to almost full operation, with shipments and contracts coming in freely irom wholesalers at the different trade centers. Iron | and steel are so active that manufacturers are obliged to eke out their scanty supplies of pigiron by impor- in- creased tations from abroad. As for hardware, Western wholesalers say that there will be no dull season this year. Wool is still irmer, in spite of the holding off of manufacturers, and hides and leather are reported in ers’ favor, with a very fair movement every- Meats of all kinds continue very high, with | insufficient supplies, Provisions are unsettled and irregular at Chicago and the market is apparently supported by the great packers, who, while keeping up the prices, are said to be realizing in a quiet way. Hops are 20 cents per pound here, or almost 100 per cent above the cost of production. This has been a year for hop growers. Coffee is about the only that is lagging at present, being handicapped large stocks and good crop conditions in Brazil. The fall trade in dry goods is rather late, but this is due to the season, which is backward, both in the | United States and Europe. The crop conditions in this country show a fur- ther improvement, which has had the natural ten- dency to weaken the grain markets. Exports of gold from New York have produced no unfavorable ef- fect on the money market, which continues easy. Railroad shares have been active in Wall street, owing to the announcement of new combinations on @ gigantic scale in the Western trunk lines. Thus it goes, all over the country. It is the same story of prosperity and activity everywhere. It is the same here in California and in San Francisco, where fine crop prospects and a rapidly increasing popula- tion keep things humming. Building in the city con- tinues very active, as the most indifferent observer may see by merely strolling through the streets. The banks all report money extremely plentiful and as a rule the lender is seeking the borrower. The farmers aré getting good prices as a rule for everything they produce. The scarcity of labor, which was such a menace a few weeks ago, has seemingly gone a-glimmering, and whiie there is work at good wages for every man in California that really wants it, few employers are suffering because they cannot obtain help, except in those cases, experienced every year, when the great grain and fruit districts want a large rumber of men all at once for a few days only. Then and there, of course, labor is scarce. This is a fine year, not only in California but throughout the whole United States. sel where Under the skilled instruction of American teachers the use of the English language is rapidly spreading in the Philippines. A visitor asserts that recently, n Manila, he noted a native blacksmith shop bear- ing the sign: “Americano Hoof Machinist.” What more would you ask? It is announced that there is on foot in Texas a prohibition movement of such formidable strength that the liguor men have had to raise funds to fight it. Who would have expected that of Texas even in an off year? FOREST FIRES. T is an old subject, but every year more needful I of attention, that our forests are being rapidly destroyed by fire. Californians should appreci- ate the fact that they have the greatest timber in the world. The teaks and deodars of India are not as grand. The forests of the north are not in the same class with ours. Within the last few weeks there has been discov- ered, near the headquarters of the Sanger Flume and Lumber Company, the king of the world’s trees. It is a Sequoia gigantea, with a diameter of more than fifty feet. That is twenty feet more diameter and sixty feet greater circumference than the Grizzly Giant, in the Mariposa grove of Sequoias. This im- mense tree is probably 7000 years old. But it is ex- posed to destruction by fire in a few hours, whenever accident, carelessness or design starts a forest con- flagration. Not only is it, but all its fellows of the forest, so exposed, and before them all is the cer- tainty of perishing miserably by fire. The newspapers have faithfully every season put this subject before the State. There are clubs, com- mittees and organizations here in great numbers dedicated to the preservation of the forests and the conservation of the waters which they protect. Sen- timent is abundant, but no practical work is done, for it is beyond the power of private citizens, no matter how numerous or earnest, to take the steps necessary to suppress forest arson. The timbered slopes of the Sierras are ablaze this summer, as they have‘been fvery summer for many years. Annually vast tracts are destroyed and their arboreal beauty is replaced by a burned and black- cned waste. The Federal Government, having charge of the forest reservations, has so far taken no steps for their permanent preservation and last year vast conflagrations raged within their borders. It is time that something practical was done. We spend millions to improve rivers and dredge harbors and for cther purposes required by the necessities of our commerce. Yet if our forests are destroyed and our mountains burned and laid bare the time will come when we will have no more commerce than the desert where— The lion and the lizard keep The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank Geep. Life depends on the soil and water. The forest guards both. To protect the forest is to protect the source upon which life depends. Commerce and all else flow from that source. Would it not be the highest and wisest economy for California to spend money in guarding the source of the life and com- merce of her people? The forests of the United States should be put in charge of trained foresters, to be protected and de- veloped along definite lines and to be made ulti- mately to pay the cost of the care required by them. California has more forests to preserve, and a greater stake in their preservation, than 4dny other State in the Union. The mountain forests are jour water reservoir. If they are stripped off there is no artificial process by’ which water can be stored that will equal their discharge of their natural function. ‘When they are gone the mountain soil will be washed off into the streams and lost.” The streams will be- come torrential and their waters will run to waste be- yond the power of man to prevent. Why permit the process when care and wise oversight will prevent it? There are hundreds of young men in this State | who would gladly seek a career as foresters if the State would encourage them. Let the Sierra Club, the Waters and Forests Society, the ladies of the California Club, the Agricultural Society, the Horticultural Commission and the many par- ties interested in the navigation of the rivers and all the commercial bodies of the State combine for this purpose, which is common to them all, and" devise such legislation as will render forest fires as infre- quent as they are now common. The measures taken may not be at first perfect. But time and experiment will perfect them. No mat- | ter how much they lack in the beginning they will be better than the present policy of looking on help- | lessly whiie the grandest forests in the world are re- duced tofsmoke and ashe A St. Louis Judge has decided that a dog has a right to bite any map or boy who ties a can to the dog’s tail and the owner of the dog cannot be made to pay damages for the injury done by the bite. It is a decision worthy of the name of Justice Dogberry and the world will approve it. DEBTS OF THE NATIONS oEEn OMPILATIONS of national debts made by ‘ Le Matin of Paris show that in 1801 the total indebtedness of civilized nations amounted to $3,000,000,000. In 1848, after the long Napcleonic wars were over and the nations had settled down to cgmparative peace, the total debt reached the sum of $8,400,600,000. The continuance of peace brought an inerease of debt instead of a reduction, and in 1901 the total for the world reached the vast amount of $31,800,000,000. The showing is at first sight almost startling. We generally regard public debts as the outcome of war. It is quite safe to say that in 1850 most people ex- pected national debts to diminish and to be well nigh paid off before the close of the century. Instead of that they increased more rapidly during the compara- tive peace of the latter part of the century than dur- ing the first half, which was so ‘incessantly disturbed by strife. Thus the increase from 1801 to 1848 was but $5,400,000,000, while the latter part of the century shows an increase of more than $23,000,000,000. The United States and Great Britain are the only nations whose debts were in process of reduction during the closing years of the Tast century. Between 1861 and 1891 Great Britain is credited with paying off about $1,000,000,000 of debt. The Boer war, how- ever, has since that time run the debt of the empire ' up to the old figures, and the British showing would not now be so good as that made at the date fixed by Le Matin for its calculations; The United States is therefore the only nation that has a really good record. It has the credit of reducing its liabilities between the close of the Civil War and the end of the century by over $1,400,000,000. Of the nations of Continental Europe it is said: “The Austrian debt, which in 1850 was but $600,000,- 000, reaches at present $1,700,000,000; the debt of Germany has grown from $116,000,000 in 1870 to $550,000,000; that of Italy, which in 1860 was $1,400,000,000, is now $2,583,000,000: the debt of Russia, which in 1853 was $400,000,000, exceeded in 1900 $3,000,000,000. France is easily winner in this contest; her debt, which in 1852 was a little over $1,000,000,000, amounts to-day to about $5,800,000,000, or almost six times the amount in the former year, constituting almost one-fifth of the total world’s in- debtedness.” While military expenses are the dirett cause of most of this increase of indebtedness, they are not ithe sole cause. A large proportion of the debts of i boy. Germany and Russia have been contracted in the construction of railways or in the purchase of exist- ing roads. Such debts are therefore sustained by something valuable in'the way of assets. France has something of the same material benefit, but will not obtain possession of her railways until-1954. In Spain and Italy the debts represent almost altogether ex- penditures for which the nation has no material as- sets to show. The figures go far to confirm the theory of De Bloch that military expenses are now so enormous that war between great nations is no longer economically possible. ~ Since the armaments of the nations cost so much in time of peace, only the United States and Great Britain are rich enough to afiord.a war, and they are not likely to venture upon it Devery, a Tammany statesman of considerable fame in his own locality, recently presented a famous phrase in this way: “Abraham Lincoln said you could catch some suckers all the time and all the suckers sometimes, but the minutes don’t come fast enough to breed suckers for a continuous perform- ance.” THE CZAR AND THE TRUSTS. HILE the American people have received W the Czar’s suggestion of an international anti-trust congress with but little interest, it appears to have been taken with great seriousness by the people of Continental Europe. With us it has been deemed hardly more than a new topic for dis- cussion during the silly season, but in the Old World it has been regarded as an issue of practical politics. It is quite possible, therefore, that something of im- portance may flow from it. % Washington reports say that our Government will not indorse the project, for it is the policy here to deal with trusts as a strictly domestic problem. It has not yet been determined in what respect the trust system of carrying on industry and commerce is harmful to the public, and until we have made that determination with regard to our own industries and trade, we shail not undertake a world fight against such trusts as may infest other nations. It is announced, however, that the officials at Washington have taken note of the recent statement in the Financial Messenger of St. Petersburg that “if no international agreement for the suppression of trusts can be arranged, the one remedy for Russia to adopt will be to increase customs duties.”” That may mean something like a menace on the part of the Czar's Government to bring about a commercial war with the United States should we refuse to take part in his projects. Should such an emergency arise we will know how to deal with it. We are not going to be forced into an international trust-breaking crusade by any such threat as that. As the attitude of our Government on the subject was clearly made knewn to the Russians there has been as yet no direct invitation to the United States to take part in the conference. vitation will be given, as in that way the two Govern- ments will be saved the trouble of making diplomatic explanations. Our absence from the conference would not occasion remark, for we were not repre- sented in the recent sugar conference at Brussels. It seems to be the design of the Czar to get along without us until he has formed a combination big enough to compel us to give heed to its decisions. However seriously European diplomatists may dis- cuss the project we are not going to be alarmed. We remember the results of the Czar's peace conference. That august gathering of official representatives of th® powers had hardly adjourned before Great Brit- ain grabbed the Transvaal and Russia grabbed for Manchuri. ething of the same contrary effects the anti-trust congress. In the will attend to our own troubles, and, letting others alene, devote our thoughts and ener- gies to.the task of protecting the American consumer from the foreign trust by customs duties and from the home trusts by some system of regulation that will curb their evils without weakening their efficiency. MAXIMS OF POLITICS. S brated the sixty-ninth anniversary of his: birth, and in doing so spoke like a philosopher teach- ing his disciples. He made plain to young politicians the path that leads to power and to office, and that they might not forget the way he embodied the whole in a set of maxims which he afterward gave out for publication. The maxims of successful men are always worth noting. They may not be correct; they may not be an expression of the means used by the successful; the very man who uttered them may have practiced something quite different from what he preaches; but none the less they are instructive. Even if they do not Tesemble in the least the real thoughts of the man, they show what he would like the public to believe, and that in itself is an exhibition of some- thing of his character, If it do not reveal what he is it discloses what he would like people to think him. Senator Platt's maxims for publication are these: “It is better to be wise than eloquent.” ‘It is better to be kind than polite.” “It is better to be useful than famous.” “Overconfidence is worse than cowardice,’ “Never make a promise if you can avoid it; but never fail to keep a promise when it is once made.” “Let no man say that you have ever broken your word to him.” “Honesty is not only the best policy, but it is the cnly policy that succeeds in the long run.” Those are excellent maxims, but it is questionable whether all of them are true. Wisdom is not always better than eloquence if the object be that of getting votes from a multitude or a verdict from a jury. There have been men of wisdom in a high sense that lived in poverty because they lacked the eloquence needed to make clear their wisdom to the under- standing of the people. Neither is it strictly true that kindness is better than politeness in the general af- fairs of life. Very few people whom we meet have any need or desire of kindness from us, but every one without exception demands politeness. How far overconfidence must be carried before it becomes worse than cowardice is an interesting question. As a rule the man who tackles jobs too big for him man- ages at least to do something, while a coward does nothing at all. In short, the Senator’s maxims are interesting be- cause of their source. One would like to know the experience from which he derived them. : ENATOR PLATT of New York recently cele- The latest novelty in the way of educating boys is reported from England, where a school teacher has encouraged boys to keep dogs. Each boy has a dog and is required to look after him, train him and keep his kennel clean. The teacher says the care of a dog has\been found to be a sound means of moral disci pline, and, moreover, Probably no such in- | is thoroughly/ agreeable: to the} lican dogs. and Aguirre. The dose is quite sufficient. the primary. are making his fight. Party Faces a Serlous Situation. On July 12 Governor Gage instructed Dr. F. W. Hatch to take charge of the Glen Ellen Home for the Feeble-minded in place of Dr. Lawlor, who bad resigned ‘“‘under fire’’ while charges against his management were being | investigated. Dr. Lawlor was In charge at Glen Eilen on Tuesday, July 22. Dr. Hatch has not gone there because the Governor, on the day after Lawlor's resignation, told him (Hatch) not to go. Dr. Lawlor was and is Governor Gage's friend. The charges against his managemant at Glen Ellen were found to be trie, and yet he holds on to his place with the knowledge and without summary removal by Governor Gage. The Lawlor incident is of this month's history. The recital of his deeds at Glen Ellen caused a protest from all sec- tions and from all classes of people in Califor- nia. In this instance has Governor Gage been “honest” to the poor feeble-minded children of Glen Ellen and with the people of Califor- nia to whom he 'promised and announced the retiremrt of Dr. Lawlor? It is another in- stance of his “‘obstinacy,” an exhibition which meets with indorsement only from the political push which forms his cabmet of advisers. Because of his acts of “‘omission and com- mission,” because of his attempt to send a defaulting State official to the United States Senate, because of his ‘‘kitchen cabinet” of “‘push politiclans’’ (many of whom have repu- tations full of blowholes) which has brought scandal to his administration and alienated | from him the confidence and support of many of his former warmest friends and adherents, because of his association with and support by the Southern Pacific Company’s political bu- reau, there s strong opposition within the Republican party to the renomination of Gov- ernor Gaz California and its interests are deserving of prior consideration from its Governor. It has not always had it from Governor Gage. And this State should ahve a Governor each term who will make his home throughout his term of office at the seat of State Government—be it Sacramento or Santa Cruz. This ‘what Governor Gage promised to do four years ago, and he has not done so. The Republican party of California is facing a serfous situation. Governor Gage, backed by a selfish machine, is endeavoring to compel a nomination for which the party is not call- ing and which it will not ratify at the poils in November. The party is threatened by a simflar situation to that of 1875, when Sargent and Gorbam compelied the Phelps and_were overwhelmingly defeated at the polls. The party has a majority at the polls in this State on square issues and equally clean candidates,’ but it has not unless the best meneare put forward. This i a time when the welfare of our State eturn of a national Republican party by the Washington solid Republican delegation _to before the ambition of any man to be Gov- ernor or other official of California. The -agricultural and manufacturing inter- ests of California and of all other sections of the American Union have been wonderfully developed_and made more prosperous by six years of Republican administration at Wash- ington, California Republicans should not make a mistake in nominating for Governor any man whose candidacy is apt to put a check to natfonal prosperity by aiding the overturn of the present national administra- tion. The renomination of Governor Gage Is apt to do it.—Watsonville Pajaronian. b it Gage Is Shirking. From the actions of Governor Gage in his 1ibel suit against The Call, it Is safe to say that he is in no great hurry for a speedy trial. The Call is ready to substantiate the charges made against Gage, but the Governor is taking advantage it seems as to the question ralsed in regard to his residence. Whatever may be the outcome of the suit, it will have a tendency to kill Gage politically.—Fort Bragg Advocate. —_—— Lawlor-Gage Dragnet. East for a competent man to fill Lawlor's place? If Governor Gage and his board of di- rectors are sincere in their efforts to get rid of Dr. Lawlor, why don’t they reappoint Dr. Os- borne, the efficient superintendent whom they displaced to make a place for the incompetent politician, Dr. Lawlor?—Napa Journal. il s W i Gage Is a Loser. 1t Gage is nominated this vear the Republi- cans cannot carry California. Republican is nominated for Governor, it wil only be a question of majorities.—Visalia Delta. —_— San Quentin Scandal. Attorney-General Ford has notified the Pris- on Directors that the board has power to con- HE uneasiness felt in the British navy over the fleet of 111 torpedo- boat destroyers as to their strength of hull has prompted the admir- alty to order a novel practical ex- periment to be made. The boat selected for this purpose is the Wolf, of 300 tons, 21¢ feet in length, 20 feet beam and 5 feet 7 inches draught, built at Birkenhead in 1897. The boat will be taken into dock where it will first be tried as to sag- ging by belng hung by stem and stern from two platforms and .with no sup- ports beneath. The second test, for hog- ging, will be by balancing the vessel over a pile of timbers so that the full strain of the unsupported fore and after parts will be thrown on the center of the boat. The experiments are those to which a vessel afloat is subjected when lifted at both ends by two crests of waves or when the middle body alone is supported and the two ends are over the hollow of two wave “Two boats have falled to stand these tests afloat, entailing a great loss of life and the proposed test In the drydock will result in nothing more serious than the ruin of the boat. This drastic method of ascertaining the strength of hull indicates a lack of con- fidence in the elaborate calculations per- taining to ship de!llnl.. 3 Ze e An exceedingly well written and evi- dently fair criticism of the ships-of-war assembled at Bimhua appears London Chronicle of July 3. Its length precludes any more than a brief sum- mary of the opinions of the naval corre- spondent. The Russian battleship Pobleda is pronounced as being years ahead of any British ship, and to quote the writer: *“Not merely In su ings as electric hoists, scientific disfosition of unprotect- ed guns, etc., in all of which things the French, Japanese, German and American ships are all ahead of us too—but also in ventilation, sanitation and so forth.” Of the American battleship the critic says: “The Illinois is a very modern ship in age, and she has many modern fittings. | But, despite these, one's ?M“l impres- sion of the American ship is that the American navy is the most conservative of any next to our own, and in some ways it is still less ‘advanced.’ .9 The American ship was the most ‘Brit- ish’ vessel in the foreign line.” . e The German naval programme for the ‘present financlal year provides for three battleships of 13,000 tons and 19 knots speed, at an estimated cost of $6,215,000 h, to be bullt at Wilhelmshafen dock- yard, dockyard _at Klel and Schichau at Danzig. The ships { nomination of | and the indorsement of the principles of the | should be considered by each Republican voter | Why should it be necessary to dragmet the | EPUBLICANS of the stalwart, independent type, of Wwhich the party is mainly composed, will not stand for a great deal of raw work. As a rule, the Demo- crat bows to the yoke of party bosses, but the Re- publican breaks away. In Pennsylvanin the mas chine gang of Republicans fancied that the party majority of 200,000 at a Presidential election would carry the dead weight of boss nominations in a State campalen, but to the surprise of the gang the splendid majority vanished, The result of the campaigr: was the election of a Democratio Governor. The lesson was repeated in Iowa, where a Heptib- gmajority of 100,000 was counted on to save the “yellow The lesson will be repeated in California If the “half breeds” succeed in forcing the renomination of Gage. ple of the State have had nearly four years of Gage, Kevane @®Gage is now making a big bid for Democratic support at Bosses and newspapers of the Democratis party Machine politicians do not digpute the 1t some Other | the end. | EXPERIMENT IN BR out party restraint. ular. The people vo Gage is unpopular. of many of the best The peo- put at the head of the land. It was May. follows: duct an investigation of the charges that have been made ugainst Warden Aguirre. This in- cludes the power to subpena witnesses and ad- minister oaths, This notice would not have been necessary if Governor Gage and his Prison Directors had been active in defense of this State institution. Not a day should have been permitted to pass more than was actually necessary in causing an investigation of the charges of wrongdoing. It has been stated that the directors were ready and willing to act more than one month ago, but they were re- strained by the Governor. Evidently the Gov- ernor does not desire an investigation until after tae convention has decided his fate as to a second term.—Mar e Democrat. e Reasons for Ignoring Gage. As we survey the realm of politics in Cali- fornia and note the general dissatisfaction that exists, it doesn't seem possible that Gage has any chance of being renominated for Gover- nor. And yet he is the tool for a lot of politi- cal rooters and bosses who are determined that he ghall continue to be Governor regardless of the wishes of the people. We have to say, and say it deliberately and dispassionately, that California’s star has been dimmed by the presence of such a man as Gage in the Capi- tol building. His policy of removing reputable men from managerial positions in the State in- stitutions in order to make places for ward heelers who rooted for him in campaign times :'ls a damnable departure from all decent prece- ents. The infamous signature bill, the veto of the water and forest bill, the grai tand libel suit play and the contempt of nife-tenths of the Republicans ought to bury Gagde in the swamps of political oblivion. Here in Tulare County there is no reason why any man should vote for Gage, but there are reasons why he should be ignored. It was Gage who commuted the sentence of Frank R. Donlan, the perpetrator of one of the most deliberate murders ever committed in the San Joaquin Valley, and whose conviction cost the taxpayers of Tulare County about $2000. From principle the Deita is against Gage and should he be renominated for Goverpor we will never retract one deroga- tory statement we have made concerning him.— Visalia Delta. —_——— Gag: Boorish Conduct. Like a volce from the grave comes that stinging repuke for Governor Gage, uttered not many months ago by the eloquent General Barnes, who died in San Francisco Monday evening. The orator par excellence of the West, he also had the keen insignt to read men for what they are, and this is his esti- mate of the Governor: 1 _spent $1500 of my own money stumping the State in the last campaign for Gage, yet this man never so much as thanked me for my work, nor did he move a finger to reimburse me for the outlay. Of all the men I ever met in public life, he was the most boorish. | Whenever we came to a town he rushed off and grabbed the best room, and never showed the slightest consideration for any other mem- ber of the party. I can't see how such a man can be renominated, for he has raised up an army of enemies.”—San Bernardino Sun. AE g Gage's Ingratitude. The Herald’s report of the death of General W. H. L. Barnes in cur news columns vester- day was slightly mixed. The news of the gen- eral's death was taken from the morning pa- pers, he having expired during the night, and | the funeral arrangements, et.., came to us by wire in the regular day telegraph report. Gen- eral Barnes' reference to Governor Gage's can- didacy was a soecial dispatch to the Los An-.| geles Times, and should be so credited, and rot made to appear as a part of the Associated Press report. The general's eriticisms of Gage therein con- tained, however, are not surprising. Governor | Gage's speeches during the last campaign, it will be remembered, were a distinct disappoint- ment to his party and his friends. They ran too much to vindictive tirades against Maguire. | It was readily seen that somebody was neede on the platform with Gage, and General Barne was ‘considered the best antidote with his pol- ished and pleasing oratory. All through. the campaign he traveled with Gage, attracting great crowds with his fame as a speaker and | delighting_his audiences and giving Gage the bDepefit. Certainly General Barnes' favors to the Governor were imvortant ones, but later. when the Legislature was in a deadlock on the Senatorial fight between Grant and Burns, and General Barnes was made a strong compromise candidate with over half enough votes to elect him, Governor Gage seemingly forgot all these obligations and remained steadfast to Burns to Tt was an ungracious exhibition of elfishness that will never be forgotten by Gen- eral Barnes' friends.—Santa Ana Herald. AR O Will Not Vote for Gage. The Tulare Register, edited by a conservative | but rock-rooted Republican of rugged hone: will cai the most formidable and effective batteries of their class, compris- ing four 1l-inch guns firing two_rounds every three minutes, eighteen 7.12-inch quick-firers, twenty-four smaller pleces and six torpedo tubes. The programme further includes three protected cruisers, two gunboats and six destroyers. The cruisers will be of 2715 tons, 8000 haorse- power and 22 knots, and of the following dimensions: Length, 360 feet; beam, 40| feet 4 inches; draught, 15 feet 9 inches. | Their batteries will consist of ten d-inch and ten l.4é-inch rapid-firers. Including | the vessels to be laid down there will be | on hand in various stages of completion nine battleships, of which six are to be finished before 1%03; three armored crufs- ers of %000 tons each, six protected cruis- | ers, two gunboats and twelve destroyers of 350 tons. The sums allowed for new construction and armament are $18,791,500 for hulls and engines, $7,519,000 for guns and torpedoes and $1,841,640 for miscel- laneous expenditures, making a, total of $23,152,140. The German torpedo boat S. 42, which was run down June 24 off Cuxhafen by the British steamer Firsby, was valued at ,000, but the German Government de- manded a_deposit of $125,000 before permlt- ting the Firsby to depart. The court has since acquitted the captain of the steamer of all blame. The torpedo boat was onc of thirty-nine built at Schichau during 1889-92 and is the third of the lot which has been lost. The Russian torpedo boat destroyer Kephal,, built by Normand, Havre, has exceeded her contract speed by one knot, making a mean speed of twenty-eight knots during trial. The Kephal is one of five boats building by Normand, all of which are tons, 186 feet length, 5 l, 20.1 breadth, 10.3 feet draught and 5000 horse- power. L, The use of oil in place of coal as fuel for merchant vessels 1§ no longer an experiment and it has been as- serted that it also be “util- 1zed In naval vessels. Ar a first gl practicable and the objections advanced Y the chief of the Bureau of Steam En- fineeflng could be easily overcome. Mr. Melville's chiet reason for asserting that ‘you will die of old age, my boy, before oll is used as fuel in the navy,” {s based on the fact that ccal is available the world over, while ofl is not. No doubt ofl tanks or reservoirs will be substituted for coal depots if the demand for ofl justifies lhil expense of keeping supplies of the lattel What the newspal mln::’n’ll:lrullun is very well expressed in the comment which | shadow of excuse. | months prior to his nomination. ITISH NAVY TO TEST - STRENGTH OF HULLS OF TORPEDO BOATS [REPUBLICANS WILL NOT ACCEPT A BOSS SLATE Spirit of Independence Is Abroad in the Land and Voters Stand Ready to Administer Another Rebuke to the Machine Manipulators. | common assertion that Gage Is unpopular, but they claim that the Republican majority of 49,000 will pull him through. The nomination of Asa R. Wells was forced by the same process of reasoning. The Republican local majority of 10,000 which gave Han Francisco the banner was counte: on te save the election for the bosses, but the resolute, independent, anti-boss Repub- Hans simply lgnored the machine nominations and voted with- Persorally, Asa R. Wells was not unpop- ted against him to rebuke the bosses. His unpopularity is due to his selfishness and known truculence to machine bosses. It is the judgment informed public men that the Republican Htate ticket will be swomped at the next election if Gage is it. vigorously expressed in the defeat of the bosses In San Francisco last November and in San Jose last The spirit of Independence is abroad in pers of influence think of Gage and his and one of the best informed on the politics of the State, says: ““The Hepublicans ot California cannot afford to 4gnore an opposition to a candidate even if it amount to no more than 5 per cent of the total vote, provided such opposition be of an irrecon- cilable character, as in the case of Henry T. Gage. A change of five Republican votes in, the bundred from the Republican side to the Democratic would be extremely hazardous, it is within bounds to say that there are many as five Republicans in each one hundred who will not vote for Mr. Gage if nominated unless the Democrats nominate in opposition to him an insane man, an Indian or an idiot. There is 50 per cent of the Republican vots in’the district comprising Pomona, Claremont. Lordsburg and San Dimas that will not vots for Gage should he be nominated, regardless of how they may be represented or misrepresented in the State convention.—Pomona Times. Gold Brick Industry. The Burns-Gage gang in Los Angeles is working the gold brick game on rural candi- dates for county offlces. The gang is promising the same office to three or four candidates in as many towns, in order to line the towns up for Gage. They are agreeing to give offices (as if the offices were theirs to give) to suburban candi- dates, when they have already made hard and fast trades to hand over these jobs to Los Al les candidates, Te is a solid fact that If the Burns-Gage ringsters can carry out their schems, not one of the principal county offices will go outside of the city. These tricksters encourage a man in Pasa- dena, a men in Pomora and a man in Covina to rim for the same county office. They go secrotly to sach man and promise him that he shall have the nomination if he will swing his town into line for Gage.—Los Angeles Times. —_— Party Must Be Preserved. We have seen the depressing spectacle of a Democratic Governor being elected in Penn- sylvania, which has a Republican majority of 300,000, through the medium of an unpopular candidate; we have seen the rock-ribbed Re- publican State of Iowa, with its 75,000 major- ity, elect a Democratic Governor in two suc- cessive campalgns. Here in California we know that the Democrats have always shared gubernatorial honors, as well as national re- sults. California, while nominally a Republi- can State, has always been so close that it has been legitimately placed dn the doubtful column, and while the immortal McKinley raised its Republican plurality to nearly 40,000, Henry T. Gage's plurality two years previous, with a united party behind him, was only half as much. Can any Republican, looking at the issue squarely and from a political standpoint. hope to see his party suecessful this year with a candidate who is certain to be opposed by a very considerable portion of his party, to say the least? It_matters not whether his name be Henry T. Gage; any man who is opposed and fought in his own party in California certainly has little chance of election in this State. at Henry T. Gage is being fought, and that bit- terly, too, by thousands of Republicans in Cali- fornia, cannot be denled. This is due to sev- eral causes, some of which cannot be blamed to the Governor, but his own patural aggressive- ness and pugnacity are certainiy responsible for a good deal of the opposition. His close alli- ance and obligations to Dan Burns are prob- ably the chief causes for the open hostility to his renomination, however, and that can hardly be patched up, no matter how generous- Iy his personal enemles may act in the event of_his success at the convention. The great mass of Republicans who object to Gage's renomination are pot his personal enemies—they are the loyal friends of the party who do not dssire to be forced into what they consider is a losing fight without any The Republican party of California_owes nothing to Henry T. Gage. It bas treated him handsomely and bestewed on him an henor which he never dreamed of six According to his own statement it was an Lonor which he prized higher than the Presidency itself. A man is pretty seifish, it seems, who would now ask for more than that, The chief reason, that the machine advances for the renomination of Governor Gage is that he engineered ‘‘the lowest tax rate in the his- tory of the State.”” Tkat is & good point, as his famous tax rate is oniy a fraction of a cent lower than Governor Budd's its weight will not be anything overwhelming to conduct a campaign on. Governor Cage owes some- thing to the great party whi has given him the greatest honmor of his : that party's success should be his chief desire. His per- sonal animosities and troubles he can settle to suft himself, but he cannot expect a sanc party to shoulder such a load and stagger un- der it to almost certain defeat, and he ought rot to ask it.—Sanga Ana Herald. such an inflammable article in place of coal. A ship like the Oregon ear- ries about 1600 tons of coal, of which 12,0 tons is stowed below the protective decx and 350 tons serves in the dual capacity of protection and fuel above the armored deck. It is probable that the capacity of the lower bunkers if converted into oil tanks would be equal to 1600 tons of coal and 350 tons weight thus saved could be utilized for additional armor with the fur- ther gain of 14,000 cubic feet of space above the protéctive deck, but the experi- ence of the German battleship Kaiser Frederick IIT is one that practically dis- poses of the use of oll on board ships-of war. That ship while cruising in the Bal- tic struck bottom on April 1, 1901, and the ‘“masut,” or liquid fuel, in her double bot- tom was forced into the firerooms where it ignited and at one time it was thought that the ship would have to be abanden- ed. The damage to the ship was about $720,000, the greater portion ich was caused by the fire. Similar res ht follow from a collision, a torpedo ¢ - ing the ship under the waterline beit or a skell finding its way into the interior of the ship. Ships-of-wdr must of neces- sity carry ammunition, but there is too much risk incurred in g oil when no other reason for its use i3 apparent than that it Is more economical than coal. Secretary Moody has decided against Captain Royal Bird Bradford,chief of the Bureau of Equipment,who contended that he was entitled to the seat at the right of Admiral Dewey in the meetings of the general board. Rear Admiral HenNry Clay aviga- tion, will now occupy the coveted seat. .. Japan's navy consists at the present time of eight battleships with 322 guns; ten coast defense ships, 9 guns: six ar- mored cruisers, 221 guns; fourteen second and third class cruisers, 30 guns: two first-class gunboats, 19 guns; fourteen second-class gunboats, 62 guns; four small craft, 3 guns, and one transport with § ns, making a total of 59 ships carrying 3 "n' rl;u-:"' l;:&dlgm’:l there are nineteen and fl{!yflhm laco:d, mrdl. and c; boats class torpedo boats. - i —_— Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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