The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1902, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m, W COMPETITION IN SIGHT. | ECRETARY SHAW in a recent address at S Boston reviewed the various remedies proposed as a means of curbing the aggressions of trusts, and after pointing out the weakness of each of them in turn declared a conviction that when all had been said and done the remedy would come of itself through competition. That view has been repeatedly presented by The Call, and is shared by many of the most careful students of the economic conditions of | the time. Secretary Shaw's statement, therefore, de- rives its ifiterest not from any novelty in the declara- | but from the arguments given to support it. From his position at 'the head of the treasury the | Secretary has had opportunity to study the problem | as presented in official statistics, and his conclusion, therefore, is that of one who ‘speaks with authority. Referring to his study of the question the Secretary said: I suppose more objection has been made and more anti-trust sentiment created by the United | States Steel Corporation than any other one concerh. 1 confess its organization staggered me. Since then I have investigated somewhat and I have found a few facts which are quite a consolation, at least to me. One is that the United States Steel Corporation pro- duced only 43.9 per cent of the iron ore dug in this country during the year 1891, and only 42.9 per cent ” He then went on to cite other fig- roduction of such articles - as rails, plates, . and he pointed out that the proportion of such production by the big corporation was less than in the previous year. After going over those facts the Secretary said: “I believe competition is in sight Last year the en- | tire rolled iron and steel products of the United States was 12,000,000 tons, of which ' the United States Steel Corporation produced less than 51 per cent. The Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company is building @ plant near Buffalo, costing $26,000,000, and it proposes to be able to produce 1,250,000 tons a year. The independent concern with which Mr. Frick is concerned is being increased to a $20,000,000 plant. I have a letter from James Swank, secretary of the American Iron and Steel Association, in which he says that when the plants now in process of con- struction are completed the capacity of this.country will be fully 24,000,000 tons a year; you can draw your own conclusions. In my judgment we are to have competition, and it will be the kind the Ameri- can people have learned to appreciate. It will be American competition, and our own artisans will not be forced upon the street again to beg while foreign workmen supply the limited needs of a paralyzed country.” Those statements, coming from the Secretary of the Treasury, and giving names, localities and fig- ures of the capital available to compete with the greatest of all trusts, are worthy the attentive con- sideration of all who have been alarmed by the de- velopment of seeming monopolies in-the management of our great indl'iltfif.i They justify the expectation that if the Government will keep its hands off the natural law of competitiofi will provide a remedy for whatever evils the trasts may bring. Thomas Jefferson maintained that “governments govern tco much,” and there is danger our own Government may fumish_fa new illustration of the truth of the saying. A number of experimental statu- tory regulations are more likely to frighten off com- petitors than to suppress trusts already in existence. If American energy and enterprise be given a fair field in which to operate they are quite capable of taking care of themselves. This is a vast country. Natural resources of all kinds are abundant. No combination can monopolize all of them. Competi- tion will spring up wherever it is assured of a fair chance in.the struggle, but'if Congress is to regulate tion wire, etc | ciency of the Sherman anti-trust law to pusish {and reopen the Pennsylvania mines! everything, if business is to be disturbed by.tinker- ing statesmen at Washington, capitalists secking in- vestinents are likely to hesitate before entering a’ field in which they will be subjected first to the ri- valry of the existing trust and second to the handi- cap of statutes, . 2 3 — The fact that a St. Logis court has sent a rich mu- nicipal.beodler .to prisgn for five years leads to the conclusion that:the Judges are getting ready to put themstlves up as models at the coming exposition. ¢ r ST i The latest. physical, culture fad.is to blow soap bobbles. Tt is said. the practice develops the lungs, but to the average man the theory-will seem hardly better than an iridescent dream diidy e e P THE SAN THE SHERMAN LAW. OHN SHERMAN of Ohio filled a large place J in history from the time he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Speakership of the House, be- fore the Civil War, to the close of his life. As.Sec- retary of the Treasury he refunded the national debt and caused the country to resume specie payments. His perseverance and his conviction of principles and public duty impressed him upon all the great meas- ures undertaken by his party. That he believed (hat his services entitled him to the Presidency, and that. he died a disappointed man, does not at all weaken or impeach his work. Clay and Webster both wanted the Presidency, both sought it and failed, and the dis- gppointment invested their old age with that pathos which is around all honorable ambition ithat fails of its object. A The Jast great measure promoted by John:Sher- man was the anti-trust law. It was considered ‘and’ passed at a time when financial combination.wasgin the green stick: It was intended to defend the coun-: T try against what might be rather gfian against i_l_:‘:t;: was. It was to set up legal safeguards and limitations as a warning to all men that in thes¢ protective com;, binations for profit and power they’ must avéi violation of certain principles. * That it ‘hhs been nfis- applied is not the fault of its author. Thére is'no evidence that it was believed ‘to’*be applicable to”all the phases of the transportation ‘probfém;’bat' it was intended. to control commercial combination *and] manufacturing trusts. Transportation’ problems of merger and combination present a different series of legal questions, derived ultimately from the’law of common carriers. o % This great work of Sherman is of constant interest. Since it was made the law Democfatic-- Congresses have met at Washington and none of them have added to or taken awzy from it. They left it turbed and thereby admitted its sufficiency for 'the purpose for which it was devised. But from the time it passed and was sig_ned it has been the object of partisan denunciation by those whose inzction, wheu they had a chance to change or substitute it, was either a confession of their own unfitness or an admission of its perfection.. In.every campaign the Sherman anti-trust law has been de- nounced as a sham statute, a wooden gun, a legisla- tive pretense, and the Republican party has been:| bullyragged for not doing better by men-who did nothing at all when they had the chance. The party that lives on a grievance and must have one or die { has made a grievance of the Sherman act, and has been at pains to make it permanent by offering nothing feasible in its place. They are glib of speech in denunciation and in declaring that they want a law that will send American capitalists first to the poor- house and then to the penitentiary, but’ when in power they shy from such legislation. Aifter all these years of flinging and flouting at the Sherman anti-trust law it is more than reireshing to read, ir: the Examiner, interviews with Democratic candidates, accompanied, and let us say embellished, by their pictures, in which they declare the suffi- the hard coal combine, put the combiners behind the 'bars It is a° dis- tihguished tribute to the genius of John Sherman, or would be if these pictured and picturesque inter- viewed gentlemen would give bonds never again to denounce the law as a sham. Since it was the law there have been Democratic administrations in New York and New Jersey, and, we believe, a Democratic Attorney General in° Penn- sylvania, Mr. Lewis Cassidy. There has alsobeen a | Democratic national administration, with Mr. Rich- ard Olney and Mr. Judson Harmon, successively, in the office of Attorney General of the United. States. If the Sherman law is so effective as these Demo- cratic candidates admif it to be, why did not their party enforce it against the hard coal trust? Mr. Olney emerged from sepulchral silence the other night to tell a Massachusetts audience that the coal operators are criminals under existing law. There is no other existing law on the subject except the Sherman law. The coal operators were organized while Mr. Olney was Attorney General just as they are now. They had the same relation to interstate commerce in one of the necessaries of life that they have now. Why did not Mr. Olney bring them to terms? The question answers itself. There is more politi- cal prejudice in accusing the other party of not put- ting somebody “behind the bars” than in doing it himself. We advise our readers to remember now, and henceforth, that the men representing the Democratic party as candidates, in this State and elsewhere, affirm the excellence, applicability. and sufficiency of the Sherman anti-trust law. e e e A “Thomas Jefferson Association” has been formed in the East to erect at Washington a memorial of the author of the Declaration of Independence. It seems his party is about to die out and #is admirers think he ought to have a monument to keep his- memory green. T try are endeavoring to secure a' livestock de- partment in the Census Bureau, through which a complete livestock census can be taken in 1905 and at regular intervals thereafter. - The Government keeps continuous, seasonal and annual statistics of crops and manufactures. By this means a crop shortage or.manufacturing surplus can be foreseen, and buyers and consumers can avoid in- jury by a preparation for conring conditions. The statistics of the receipts of cattle at the slaughtering centers cf the country-show an immense decrease of range cattle. The range being destroyed by overieeding, the production of beef is forced back to a more costly source on the high-priced pasture lands and farms of the agrigultural States. In this way over 60 per cent of the supply is transferred from the cheapest to the costliest source of pro@ction, with a resulting rise of beef on the hoof from $2 50 per hundred to $8 30, and a greater rise in cut beef on the butcher’s block. It is now known that high prices on the hoof are to be perpetuated by another factor The ‘owner of farm-bred cattle, tempted by high prices, is rush- ing fat heifers into market. The steer crop is already short, and is to be made shorter by beefing the heifers. This has never happened before, and could hardly happen in the case of rangt. breeders, who e e e LIVESTOCK CENSUS. HE various livestock associations of the coun- know that their business depends on saving the cows, It is one of the deplorable resuls of the neglect to protéct the range by a lease law which will fn"uerve the forage and make ranging of livestock a perma- nept industry. These conditions make a livestock census impera- S FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1902 TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON J : WILL OCCUR TQ-M'ORROW NIGHT e e e ! tive. The capital ‘in this business reaches the enor- mous sum of five billions of dolfars. It is a business. that supplies an important export trade, and it is being destroyed by the primary error of turning the range into desert, and the resulting policy of slaught- ering heifers. - 2 o ' The Department of Agriculture favors this live- stock census department, and so do the American Cattle-growers’ Association and the National Live- stock Association,'and Congress should pass the amendment to the census bill, so that a census can be had in 1905 : ——— Mr. Boies, who hopes to succeed in getting elected to Congress on the Democratic ticket, has pledged himself that he “would not touch the protection on any ar‘liél:"t!;nt has domestic competition.” Evi- ‘dently the free tradg idea is not so strong in lowa as dome folks think. * i 4 elience of the paper as an advertising i have been of 50 pi convincing proof: e San Francisto public has witnessed the growth through advertising-of. several.of. the city'slarge stores from small establishments, barely attracting atten- tion of the passer-by; | p. to, immense areas, covering, in a numbet of instances, several acres of floor space and presenting to_visitors a bewildering array of every, variety of wares, - It may be argued that bargains alone will attract a geeat patronage, but this is not true of any business .hichA springs rapidly-into public favor. There is‘one-Magic Key which opens wide the gatewayleading to early and lasting success—that is Pripters’. Ink. But e;cp Printers’ Ink, to prove effica- cious, miist ‘have an indisputable quality and be judi- _cidgsly abpl}cd.: . The indiscriminate use of the columns of the daily press has resulted in many wrecks along the highway ‘of mérca‘plile life. The expenditure of large sums in- judiciously has weakened the finances of many an ad- vertiser knocking at the door of public approval and wrecked his faith in*the efficacy of’ newspaper pub- lieity. ™ 74 4% The first essential of advertising success is the se- lection of a proper medium in the columns of which to exploit the undertaking. It has.been so widely proven it now goes without saying that the news- paper to be of value to the advertiser must be strongly intrenched in the homes of the people. This selection, however, is only one important step in an advertising campaign. The goods must be right. The matter presented to the public must be a state- ment of absolute truth. ' 4 4 Flaring and misleading headlines, calculated to ex- cite the jnterest while they have no direct bearing on the business exploited, tend to arouse a feeling of distrust regarding the status of the advertiser, just as certainly as scare heads in the ‘news department un- settle confidence in the reliability of the news. " Also, the truth must be told in a conyincing ‘man- ner. It is just as important to make people believe it’s true as to have it true. It is just 'as importznt to make people believe it’s true asto have it true. F An artistic as well as a log%cal sense is a requisite of advertising success, The recognition of a special ap- titude in this direction has resulted in the employ- ment by nearly all large establishments of an adver- tising specialist or manager, to whom is intrusted the important work of reaching the public ear. Art in advertising has elevated that department of newspiper and magazine work to a plane where the advertising columns are frequently of equal attractive- ness with the literary features of the publication. With the right medium selected, the goods right, the truth-telling habit -firmly fixed, the convincing faculty fully developed and the artistic sense properly cultivated, the final step is -persistence.. “Keeping everlastingly at it brings success.” = .‘An occasional advertisement does as little toward establishing a lasting demand as would a bucket of water toward the irrigation of a field. The public must not be permitted to forget that you are alive. The Call has now entered upon the forty-seventh year of its career. Its columns are an index of every really successful advertiser in San Francisco. From its inception it has been essentially a news- paper which appealed to the home-loving, law-abid- ing class. It has.been the aim of the paper to present to its readers every day of the year all the news that’s fit to print. 5 The acquisition of the paper by the present propri- etor was speedily followed by the purchase of in- creased. press facilities, the establishment of an Art Department: unexcelled by that of any newspaper in the world and superior to any on the coast; the em- ployment of. the latest, best and most rapid methods in its composing and stereotyping rooms, so that (Call readers are supplied with the news of the world up to the last moment before going to press. The present attitude of the. management in relation | to The'Sunday Call is to present to lovers ‘of litera- ture the very latest and best novels of the day, com- ding advertising patrons | SECTIONS OF EARTHS e THE PHENOMENA IN THREE SHADOW. PROGRESSIVE STEPS. - _ DRAWING TO ILLUSTRATE THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE SUN, EARTH AND MOON TO-MORROW NIGHT WHICH WILL CAUSE A TOTAL. ECLIPSE OF THE LATTER. THE SMALLER DIAGRAM SHOWS S O-MORROW evening at a very con- venient hour the people of San Franeisco can, if the sky is clear, enjoy the sight of a celestial phe- nomenon which our friends on the Atlan- tic side of the continent’ will have to sit up several hours later) to view. We are to have a total eclipse of the moon, the first since 1898, If our astron- omers' calculations are correct. The total obscuration of our pretty, freshly full faced satellite will last just a lttle less than one and 'a half hours, but the whole display will occlipy some five and a half hours, The order znd time of the occurrence of the several steps are approximately as follows: 3 Moon will enter the penumbra or partial shadow of the éarth at 7 hours 7 minutes p.’m, October 16 Moon will enter the umbra, of full shadow of the earth, at 8 hours 8 minutes p. m. Total eclipse will begin at 9 hours 9 minutes p. m. Total eciipge will end at 10 hours 38 minutes p. St m. Mocn will leave the umbra at 11 Lours 40 minutes p. m. Moon will leave the penumbra at 12 hours 40 minutes a. m., October 17. Local mean time is used above. Standard time is ten minutes faster. The magnitude of the eclipse will be 1.4, the moon's diameter being considered unity. As is generally understood a total lunar eclipse can only occur when the moon is at the full, or on the opposite side of the earth from the sun. Now, our next full moen will. occur at 9 hours 50 minutes p. m., October 16, or Jist about the time of the middle of the echipse. Tnc moon will pass almost centrally through the earth’'s shadow and, as stat- ed above, remain entirely out of sight for about 1 hour 30 minutes. Until the moon is well into the penum- bra the diminution of her brightness is S0 slight as to be scarcely noticeable; but when she enters the. umbra her light fodes away until her outline is barely visitle and at times not at all. Some- times even in the umbra the refraction — of the ‘sun’s rays by the earth’s atmos- phere will show her disk in a wierd, un- natural coppery light. As‘the moon enters the umbra a notch appears on the edge of her disk, growing larger as she advances, until, as in this in- stance, her whole face is obscured. The fact that the shadow of the earth as shown on the moon is of efrcular form is one of the proofs of the spheroidicity of cur planet. Interesting as they are to the ordinary observer, lunar eclipses are of no great use to astronomers, on account of the difficuity in determining the exaet time of contact of her disk with the edge of the earth’s shadow. The black cone stretching out to the left of the earth and coming to a point about a million miles off in space is the umbra. Within that cone is absolute darkness as far as sunlight is comeerned,, The lighter shaded portlon expanding as it recedes from the eafth is the penum- bra. Space of course forbids the drawing be- ing made to scale. DESCRIBES AIMS OF NORTHERN ~ CITRUS FAIR ———— The Thanksgiving Citrus Fair exhibi- tion of all the counties north of Tehacha- pi will not cost the counties taking part anything for. space, -lights, musie, -decor- ating or janitor service, nor will there be any other charge by the management. This statement was embodied in a re- port of the committeée appointed to make arrapgements. The State Board of Trade met yesterday and recelved the report | of the committee. Manager Filcher es- timated that, the cost of. the fair to the board would, be $1100. The board decided to have the committee together with Manager Filcher visit the merchants, asking for subscriptions to the amount of, $1000, giving them the assurance that the money would.beé spent judiciously. © W. H. Mills moved that no band be employed to furnish’ music. He said in support of his motion that the ferry build- ing nave, where the fair would be held, iz visited daily by thousands, and that ali overland travel passes that way. For that reason there is no necessity for the band. It would be better, in his opinion, 1o spend the money in other ways bene- ficial to'the exhibition. His motion was carried. In an announcement furnished by the committee on {fair, consisting of C. M. ‘Wooster, James A. Barr, A. Sbarbor E. D. Sweetser, Craigie Sharp and J. A. Filoher, the aims of the‘fair are set forth as follows: “This fair will demonstrate that the very best oranges and lemons and other citrus fruits are produced in Northern and Central California. It will demon- strate that these fruits are cleaner and less subject to rust than the same char- acter of fruits grown farther south. 1t will prove conclusively that oranges, now a great staple article of production in this State, ripen from five to six weeks earlier in Northern and Central than they do in Southern Californfa. It will show that citrus fruits in Northern Cali- fornia can be gathered for the Thanks- giving market. It will demonstrate that the area suitable for the successful pro- duction of such fruits is very much greater in Northern and Central Cali- fognia than it is in Southern California. its being a conclusive evidence of climate, it will demonstrate. what is diffi- cult for people in other countries to un- derstand, that practically the same cli- matic conditions exist throughout all Northern and Central California that prevail in the southern part of the State. Ir will affirm what the thermometer shows, that the maximum and minimum temperature for tHe. year .are precisely the same at Redding, in the upper end of .the Sacramento Valley, and Riverside, in Southern California. While not. de- tracting in the least from one part of | the State, it will emphasize the attrac- ‘tions ‘in other parts.” plete in:two’ or, at most, three issues of the paper, free of charge beyond the regular subscription price. This has met with instantancous and substantial recogni- tion. The Call now guarantees to advertisers an average daily circulation in excess of 60,000 copies, the bulk of which large circulation is in the homes of the Pacific Coast. 3 Attention is especially invited to a letter’from one of San Francisco’s lurge advertisers regarding the value of Call advertising space, printed in another department of to-day’s issue. It is only one of several similar commuuications from San Francisco advertisers, placing The Call at the head of the list in drawing power. To intending advertisers, or to those who may con- clude they can get along without Call publicity, this communication 'is ‘of ‘more than passing importance. Such letters are just as sure a guide to commercial success as the lighthouse at Lime Point is a safeguard to the storm-tossed mariner. & ¥ What The Call can do for one advertiser it can and will do for any other business house whose goods are right and whose business methods are such as to in- ‘spire public confidence. H < It is announced that a toy trust is to be formed, and now we shall see what Santa Claus will do to meet tlze cy 7 Queer Origin of Forest Fire. MARYSVILLE, Oct. Ti—A forest fire started above Sugar Loaf yesterday even- ing in a remarkable manner, and only an opportune fall of rain prevented a spread qt .the conflagration. Jerry Logan, a miner, was driving. over the rough road in a light wagon. A small can of giant powder forming part of the load exploded, throwing him to the ground and starting the horse on & wild run. The was soon ablaze and in its cpurse after the horse set fire to ‘the dry underbrush, which in turn communicated the flames to the timber. The fire had gained consider- able headway when the rainfall came. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. TO KILL 'rnmm. [DRUFF GERM | Is the Only Possible Way of Having : 2 Permanent Cure. with it to n ‘There are hi Due ot o But Newhros Horph A s B Slde tells vou. that tha of dan 8f it permanent cure aruflc:.nl its | be: :u,mmu‘:vwmnn Shacserm Bl Newbro o Herpiciae: dandruff is the resuit | PERSONAL MENTION. E. P. Lynch, a Stockton mining man, is at the Lick. F. A. Cressey, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. Charles Fine, a Chicago railroad man, is at the Palace. Fred Grotefend, a mining man of Red- ding, is at the Grand. J. P. Dougherty, proprietor of a hotel at Dunsmulr, is at the Grand. L. V. Dorsey, an attorney of Grass Val- ley, is registered at the Lick. ~ Augustus Magnus, a wealthy hop dealer of Chicago, is at the Palace. E. W. Hale, the.prominent dry goods man, of Sacramento, is at the Palace. Charles Keflus of the “Hub” leaves to- day for New York on a thirty-day busi- ness trip. Jhn C. Kirkpatrick, manager of the Palace Hotel, returned last night from the East. Railroad Commissioner E. B. Edson ar- rived yesterday from Gazelle and is at the Occidental. E. W. Sandborn, the well-known brass manufacturer, of New York, arrived yes- terday and registered at the Palace. Major W. A. Gett, candidate for Attor- ney General on the Democratic ticket, ar- rived last night from his home in Sacra- mento. He is at the Lick. He will pe- main here several days attending to polit- ical business. —_———— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_——— This week genuine reading glasses, specs, 20c to 40c. Note 81 Fourth (front of barber and grocer). - —_——— Townsend's Californid Glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern frienda. €39 *&rnl st., Palace Hotel building. * —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 220 Call- fcrnia street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ Eight new theaters will be opened in New York City within the gext eighteen months. MINERS’ PLEA IS CONSIDERED BY HERMANN Etate Mineralogist- Aubury is much pleased that Commissfoner Hermann of the General Land Office at Washington has decided to hold up all entries of pub- lic lands in the Susanville district, In Piumas County, pending an iavestigation. Not long ago the Sacramento Valley De- velopment Association and the State Min- ralogist memorialized President Roose- Vveit relative to the actions of grabbers in the mountain counties of this State, who are getting possession of timber lands on mineral entries and mineral lands on timber claims. There are three ways in which the min- eral lands of the State, including many claims upon which assessment work has been performed; are being seized upon, namely, by location as timber claims, by the use of foest reserve scrip and by illegal placer locations. The Government has given prompt heed to the complaint from California. News was also received that the Fed- eral Government is preparing to prose- cute more than one hundred dummy lo- cators, who have been identified with frauds in land matters in this State. The Government has placed J. N. High, a spe- cial agent, in the fleld in the Susanville district to investigate the facts. Inter- esting developments from the north may be expected soon. Horace Stevens, rep- resenting the State Mining Bureau, Is pursuing his Investigations, but no report has been received from him yet. ——— Former Treasury Secretary Hurt. NEW YORK. Oct. 14—Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles 8. Fairchild was knocked down by a trolley car to-day while he was on his way to his office. His injuries are severe, but not sefious. D — Many causes induce gray hair, but Parker's Hair Balsam brings back the youthful color. Hindercorns, the best cure for coms. 15cts. Mas[crpicccs from Virginia Harned’s Great Play “Alice of Old Vincennes.” authors that they are always most unaccountably fearful about their best work. When Maurice Thompson finished “Alice of Old Vincennes” he was so discour- it determined to ‘withhold it from the T is a strange peculiarity ! aged over it that he had publishers altogether, when a friend read- it, convinced him of its " merits and persuaded him to let the public be the judge. The result has been literature. “Alice of Old Vincennes” truly extraordinary in American created a big semsation from the vmfingmdmwnyruhdumaomfith'!rflfll York. Thebnklhcuh-hohnnnnmin, mflmtyulnndh‘mw-t. The Sunday Call icy of publishing the latest and best $1.50 novels of the plete in two or at the most three editions of the in Europe, and now its When, therefore, began its new literary pol- day com- thereby working a surprising revolution in Western not only secured the exclusive ‘weeks to get it. The photographs in folio -mmm‘mmu-n,mm graphic illustrations for 15 cents. That offer was never before only the beginning. in Flower,” “The Judas Iscariot,” which is the to-day, are to follow. 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