The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1903, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. MAR CH 23, 1903. TRGRS R MARCH 23, 1903 MONDAY % JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Bropriefer. i @ddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Mancg e | communism. The Government pays old age pen-| Ask for THE CA_‘LL.fi T e Operator Will Connect | You With the Departme-t You Wish. arket and Third, S. F. to 221 Stevemson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE. . EDITORIAL ROOMS. ... 2 Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. 1 AY WEEKLY CALL, One All postmasters are anthorized to recelve subscriptiol rwarded when requested. change of address should be » NEW AND OLD ADDRESS iz order ltance with their reques:. ...1118 Broadway : NEW YORK REPRESE) STEPHEN B. SMITH. NEW YOR . €. CARLTON, NEW K CORRESPON C YOR! Square; 'man House. rthern Hotel; | corner of Clay. open $:30 o'clock. 638 . open until k. 2261 lock. 1095 Va- open until 9 . cpen CURRENT COMMERCIAL FEATURES s far as i the the end nd there f the of the cor- g a al de- in- | at San lures for , and were } s and bad roads in | volume of threatened labor terial, are parts of the demands of Iabor cessions are begin-| y about em- kely to be es. The throwing hundreds and even emplo; s out of e an impairment of the pur- he country; fewer goods are ve to be cut down to al- siness of the ed by any par-| ion is the most present and is beginning to his cond nges, generally slight. 2 new busines ter grades of woolen goods s being in the s of new order s ard al 0 ) wev are reported more ladies are still able to dress ported firm ies are reporting have been easing off les. Provisions Western centers, though live stock con- | on the Pacific Coast, where sheep and hog e bringing | gher prices t r years. e des are still in excellent condi- age in cars, while acute in some sev:-jl Jess felt than last vear at this time, whether | ¢ more cars or less freight to be| 2 10 be ascertained. Fuel is grow- | and long idle for want | y returns continue | iraging as far as the gross figures are concerned, | of March showing a gain of lzs over the corresponding period in 1902. The | ncreased cost of material and labor, however, cut into | this gross gai v sharply, and often, when the net| e eached, it is seen that there is no real gain | { i | re farming outlook is good all over the country. ! is very firm, wheat, corn and other grains are wing satisfactory prices, live stock, as mentioned sbove, is booming, dairy products are above the nor. mal, and crop prospects are excellent from the Atlan- - to the Pacific. Aslong as the farmer does well the of the country prospers; and certainly the Ameri- farmer has nothing to complain of at present. e 4 Roosevelt has notified the San Joseans 1hiat on his visit to that city he would prefer a drive through the orchards rather than a recepttion, and at is just where he makes a big blunder; for in -driving through the orchards he cannot see prunes jull of people, but at 2 reception he would have seen a people full of prunes and thus got the whole thing 2t one glance. re % Something like 2 revolution is expected in Rome, ‘for the Mayor has decided to clear the streets of beggars. T | marvel | sponded to. SOCIALISTIC PATERNALISM. HE rapid propagation of paternalism and so- in the latter especially the most extraordinary experi- ments are in progress in the form of socialism ‘and sions to everybody, is in the insurance business and acts as a general landlord and Lord Bountiful. In the Australian colonies the same system is in operation, and includes state railroads, relief works, care of the unemployed and such numerous subs tutes jor seli-help, personal thrift and forethought and the desire for independence self won that the people show the perfectly human tendency te be taken care of by the Government rather than take |care of themselves and the Government, as they | the Pr should. As this individual helplessness has extended the independent reverues of the Government have declined. The power of the Government to take care of the people decreases as the number demanding care increases, since those who look to the state for cease to be supporters of the state. s emergency the Government has become a borrower. In 1870 the Australian public debt was £28,300,000. Now it is £215,000,000, equal to £29, or about §. per capita of the population, and 1 the borrowing geces on. The Government has become very nearly a working model of Gronlund’s rative republic. It Utopian dream of sccialism in practical operation. All of the experiments demanded by enthusiastic re- rmers in the United States are in working order the Antipodes, and money is being borrowed to carry them on with no prospect whatever of repay ment until the whole feather-headed scheme falls in pieces and the people are compelled to go to work again and take care of themselves and of the Gov they should. The scheme of direct legislation and judicial substi called by the seductive names, “initiative and referendum,” has destroyed both legislative and judi- ial d eration, and the people rush into eve scheme that is proposed for “relief.” It is observed that the measures devised to end di produce more discontent that must be met by more relief. It is probable that when all are re- lieved the measure of relief will be found insufficient and there will be more discontent, to be placated by , until the state will be paralyzed, with no further credit to pledge, and then, after chaos, will come a return to sanc and safe ideas. But the advocates of this system in the United States are not at all impressed by the unfavorable and adfonitory aspects of the antipodean experiment who do not know how to observe, go with bor- ernment tution con ore rel Observers, there and find old age pensions being pa f works going on, with borrowed preca of prudent insurance, being paid by the state, with borrowed money; labor fixing, by vote and political influence, its wages to be paid by the state, with borrowed money; the initiative and refer- jum in operation to secure measures for more state relief, to be paid by borrowed money—and they write books in enthusiastic approval of the ideal conditions, h they recommend for imitation at home. It is as if 2 man mortgage his estate for its value, nd then, quitting work and keeping his family in idle- ness, proceed to live in luxury on what he has bor- rowed, making no provision against payday, to find estate taken from him by his debt and 1self 2nd his household expelled from their fool's paradise and compelled to work or starve. The light- headed enthusiasts who commend the paternalism of the crown colonies would look upon such a man as a wisdom, whose should be fol- w at of example lowed. A lady who went with the socialistic experiment in te that was established at Kaweah declared all over that it was “most delightful, you th was kno the most charming life, only the managers neglected to provide a large enough food supply, and when that was gone we had to quit, and it was such a charming way to live, no care on a pity, for it w earth, till the food gave out. That is the end of all such provision for the lazy free of the responsibility of seli-support, whether t! experiment be tried in any > our modern of our modern Altrurias or in any o States. The time when the food gives out; the capacity to money is at an end, and then the discovery is made that men are made only by the necessity for exertion, and that the law that bread must be earned before it is eaten and clothes before they are worn is inex- es barrow [ orable, and that it produces in this life the ultimate | ticians are skirmishing for position with respect to | of happiness and contentment. Vith the rapid arrival of immigrants who may be expected to make their homes in the State California has the prospect of something like a boom in popu- lation, and it is evident the work of the promotion committee and the railroads has begun to tell. MORE FUNDS NEEDED Y the California Promotion Committee there has been issued a circular letter whose appeal should be promptly heeded and liberally re It is an sppeal for funds to carry on the work undertaken for the advancement of the welfar: of the State. It is directed therefore to every pro- gressive and public-spirited citizen, and it is to be hoped that every one in proportion to his means will | subscribe to the required fund. In explanation of the situation the circular says: Up to the present time less than $2000 per month has been pledged for the second year by about 230| firms and individuals. The plans in contemplation provide for a judicious expenditure of many times this amount, and it is hoped that those who have not responded to the invitation to subscribe will do so promptly without solicitation. From all sides come expressions of satisfaction with the results so far ob- tained, and the consensus of opinion is that the ef- fort of the last year should be broadened. Money is needed for this purpose. The building up of the city and State means more prosperity for all of us, and to this end the committee is bending its energies and giving its valuable time gratuitously. The liberal support and co-operation of our citizens are essential to make the work a complete success.” Were there no question of State patriotism in- volved, an enlightened seli-interest would prompt a ready and favorable response to the appeal. A great deal of work has been done in the direction of adver- tising the State and attracting public attention to its resources and possibilities. The effects of the adver- tising are beginning to be manifest. It is therefore imperative for us to go on, for to stop now would be to lose the very thing for which the preliminary work was done. A farmer who, after plowing a field, planting good seed and carefully cultivating through the spring, should then abandon it just as . cialism in this country has been assisted by the | progress of both in Australia and New Zezland. | is an example of the| hhe harvest was ripening, would be accounted a fool; | but he would be just as wise as a people who, after | advertising the attractions of their State, should stop | the work of promotion just as the eager crowds of | homeseekers were making up their minds to go to | the State and see for themselves. | There 1s a great prosperity before California, but it will not come to this generation unless earnest | efforts are made to advance it. A good start has been | made by the Promotion Committee. No one can }question the efficacy of the work. There is but one | thing to do, and that is to provide the committee with unds sufficient to carry out all of its far-reaching {plans. A vast migratory movement is now agitat- ‘ing the people of the East. They are moving by | thousands even into the wilds of the Canadian North- | west. They can be turned this way if we try, and | omotion Committee is trying. Give a helping | hand. | | The first effect of the British army bill upon the | taxpayers has been that of converting a Tory strong- hold intc a Liberal constituency. Parliament may i stand by the Miniétry, but the country has evidently made up its mind to go the other way. | NEW YORK TAXATION. OVERNOR ODELL of New York is trying G to induce the Legislature to adopt a system of taxation which if carried out as he rec- | ommends will in his judgment render it possible for !lht State to abandon direct taxation permanently. | The proposition has naturally provoked earnest dis- ' cussion and merits attention elsewhere, for it is per- | | haps the most comprehensive scheme of State taxa- tion that has ever been put forward as a matter of | | practical politics by a statesman of first-class rank. In order to enable the State to abolish the gen- | eral property tax the Governor estimates there will be needed $5.500,000 new revenue. To obtain that he recommends a tax upon mortgages, upon direct | inheritances of real estate and an increased tax on the sale of liquor. It is estimated that the direct intheri- | tance tax would yield upward of $300,000 annuall The liquor tax, if paid by all the liquor men now in | business, would yield $5,000.000 annually, thus making | up the total amount of new revenue required. It is | estimated, however, that an increase of taxation would drive a good many of the liquor men out of business, and therefore the revenue would not equal the estimate. To make up the deficiency the mort- | gage tax is suggested. | As was to have been expected the main point of contention is the liquor tax. At the present time | liquor taxes in the State yield a revenue of $12,000,- | 000, of which the State gets one-third, or $4,000,000, nd the lecal treasuries the remaining $8,000,000. The new plan proposes to increase the tax by 50 per cent, so that if paid by all liquor men now in business the revenue would be $18.000,000. Of that sum the Gov- | ernor proposes that the State take one-hali, or | $0,000,000, thus increasing the State revenues from that source by the $5,000,000 required, while at the same time adding $1,000,000 to the amount now dis- tributed among the local governments. It will be seen that the whole programme hinges { on that tax, for if it be omitted or greatly reduced there will be no means of raising the revenues | needed to permit the dropping of the general prop- | erty tax. | Authorities differ as to the effect likely to be pr duced by the law. The Tribune says that even aiter | ! the 50 per cent increase proposed liquor will be sub- ject to less taxation in New York than in Boston and other cities, and adds: “It will raise the tax in the borough of Manhattan from $800 to $1200 Rochester and Syracuse, from $500 to $750; in cities | of from 10,000 to 30,000 inhabitants from $330 to $475; in villages of from 5000 to 10,000 inhabitants, from $300 to $450; in smaller villages of over 1500 inhabi- tants, from $200 to $300, and in country districts from $100 to $150. Boston, with only one-third the popu- !ation of Manhattan, and with far less of wealth and | with far less extravagant habits among all classes of | the people, imposes a tax of $2000. Worcester, with |a population of little more than half that of The | Bronx, levies a tax of $1500, more than three times ent for | and dependent, who want to live in idleness and be | that proposed for The Bronx. In St. Paul, Minn,, the | | liquor tax is $1000. In Des Moines, Iowa, it is $1200. | Georgia, Nebraska, Missouri, Utah, ~ Massachusetts {and Minnesota all impose liquor taxes much higher | than New York under the proposed measure will im- pose in communities of corresponding population. | | Yet in no one of those States is money spent so| | freely or the profit of the liquor business so great.” | The issue has become of such importance that poli- | {it. Tammany of course is against it. One of the| Tammany chiefs described it as a “brazen attempt byé | indirection to deprive the great city of New York of the revenue that properly and legitimately belongs to it.” He predicted that the passage of the act would | | increase the Democratic vote in New York by at| least 200,000. On the other hand there are many poli- | | ticians who are sanguine that the Republicans would | gain by a system of taxation that got rid of the gen- ! eral property tax. The fight, however, is by no means on strict party lines, and the experiment may well be watched and studied by other commonwealths. e e e According to a Texas 'scientist every drop of rain must have as a nucleus a particle of dust; conse- quently the more dust there is in the air the more | rain there will be. Hence the eruptions of Pelee and other volcanoes in the neighborhood of the Gulf of Mexico are responsible for the heavy rainstorms in Buffalo, | § NEW FRENCH CRUISER TO BE FASTEST OF ALL THE VESSELS OF HER TYE | | i and 12,000 miles at ten knots. As custom- |ary in the French navy with all larze | | | | | | * HE plans of the French armored cruiser Ernest Renan have been radically changed in complia with the order of M. Pelietan, Min- ister of Marine. The original design was for a vessel of , 27,560 T power, 22 knots speed and a ba four 7.6-inch, sixteen 6.4-inch, twenty-«wo | three-pounders and four pounder guns. The new plans are for 13.362 tens, 33,000 horsepower and 23 knots. FBhe main battery is to consist of two 9.4-inch and twelve 6.4-inch guns, with the secondary battery as first designed, and also five torpedo tubes, of which two are tu be submerged. The dimensions are, 515 feet 19 inches length, 70 fect 6 inches beam and 26 feet 10 inches draught, with 1520 tons of coal. The bunker capacity is 230 | high-powered ships, the Ernest Renan will have three screws, giving each en- | gine about 12,7%® horsepower, sults in some disadvantages in incre. weight and space | pensated for in t | With the advantage of | gines working in the event {ing down. The new ship | greatest power and speed which re ed but is more t com- ion of power, ring of one break- will have the of any two vessel yet designed, one-third more power toan the Britsh cruisers Powerful and Terri- In tble and one knot greater the latter two vessels the m in having only two engines, thus reducing | the power by one-half in a case of break- down. 7 Only fifty-five naval cad tered at the Naval A during the present smallest number for T S not compensate for the te by deatis, retirements and resignations. M. Pel tan's policy is, however, to provide for the annual contingent due to bo causes by the prémotion of petty offi s to one-third of the vacancies in the list of commissioned officers. Py The British torpedo-boat destroyer Wolf has passed through the severe or- deal of testing her structural strength without any apparent permanent injury to the hull. The vessel was placed in dock and tested for ascertaining her sag- ging resistance by removing the blockmng | and supports from the body of the bout, | I a condition in which it would be in aticat when at sea in the hollow between iwo waves. The hogging resistance was te ed by leaving the vessel unsupported at stem and stern, as if riding the top of a wave. The Wolf has been refloated, and the experiments.will form the subject a long report with elaborate calculations, which will not be made public for several rionths. Progressive speed trials took place last month with the British arn Kent, which while fa failed to demonstrate t to attain her calculated i MINISTER OF MARINE WHO IS S | FRANCE, AND WHO HAS PL CRUISER TO BE THE FAST au hoxt exceed 21 knots as an aver; urs, which is two kr the anticipated speed. age Ausal three knots. At the elght hours’ full Mareh 14, 1 horsepower trial four months ago the offered a large Kent averaged only 217 knots, although apd another ship of the same clas in excess of the con- tract. Since then every known expedient to obtain better res s has been resorted to; the pitch of her screws were made coarser and the underwater hull and peller blades were po duce the resistance to the smallest possi- ble minimum No race horse ever entered for the Derby was better groomed than the Kent when she was ready for the recent short run speed trials, the results of which were as follows: the horsepower was time of eighteen mc of comp! contract contractors are capabl task, but as the Argen governments have c for practical disarmament, be finished leisu: y and sold if pu h: ers can be found. The two armored er! ers are of the Garibaldi type, an imp: ment on the Spanish cr re des off the bay of Santiago July are of 7700 tons displacement, 13, power and 20 knots speed. - he armor belt, extending all around the shi is 5.9 inches to 3 inches in thickness, an e battery is composed of ope ld-inch, fourteen 6-inch and ten l4-pounder guns. One re- markable feature about these ships is Revolutions. this, that they are fitted with th: old type of Scotch boilers. — The Fifty-seventh Congress was very The above tabulate trials four runs over 2 measured mile course, comprised generous to the navy. At the first session it made appropriations amounting to $18.- to two, entitled tite first three taking place in Stokes Bay, 6,351 and in the second session jdst the other off Cecil Beach. in deep water. ciosed $81,57 . a total of $180,727.682, That under full power was therefore a against §143,055,452 27 during the preceding distance of only four miles accomplished in a little over 15 minutes, or to be exact, each cne mile run was made in 3.768 min- utes. A trial of such short duration with bottled up steam, polished hull and pro- peller blades is grossly deceptive and fails Toward the increase of the a ppropriated, again $42540,69% for and authority given to build seven battleships, tw armored cruisers, two gunboats and thre training vessels of an aggregate tonnage pass a satis otion and w xt year, pending which he nas been a signed to the League Island navy yare paymaster. If he fails to pass th as to establish even approximately the of 140,%) and a total cost, e.c v ext examination the laws of 150 a actual speed of the ship When under armor and armament, of $38.932,(00. The 1582 prescribe that the officer shall be service conditions and out of dock for a sum of $500.000 was left to the Secretary’s .dropped from the service with one year's couple of months, the Kent is not likely @ il e PERSONAL MENTION. A CHANCE TO SMILE. dicretion for tle pur ’-\.\'SWERS TO QUERIES. Judge J. M. Mannon of Ukiah is at the “Still she is undeniably older.” “Yes; Lick. . ‘ time has dealt with her 'kindly, but|bo Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Newman of Detroit | fy1e ' pycic place in which prisone: are at the Palace. : 1 another name for a ce ‘William V. Smith, a capitalist of Phila- delphia, and his family are registered at fie Baisese | sinner in min’ er de hereafter."—Atlanta Willlam Merten, director of one of the| Constitution. German banking institutions of W York, is at the Palace. i J. C. Stubbs and family returned from Southern California yesterday morning and departed in the evening for Chicago. . R. Dering, assistant general pasasn- ger agent of the Pennsylvania lines, and wife arrived yesterday from Chicago and are at the Palace. ! S. S. Sharp and H. P. Kremer, two oi- ficlals of the operating department of the Pennsylvania lines, arrived yesterday and are at the Palace. i Angus Sinclaire, editor of Railway and Locomotive Engineering and an authority | on matters pertaining to engineering, is at the Palace with his wife. Thomas Schumacher, acting iraffic manager of the Oregon Short Line, and Mrs. Schumacher, arrived yesterday from Salt Lake and are registered at the Pal- ace. Captain E. A. Lewis of the Eighteenth Infantry and wife arrived yesterday from Fort Logan and registered at the Occi- dental. They are en route to Manlla with the captain’s command. Commander A. Marix, U. 8. N, and wife will arrive here on the next steamer “I don’t like steam heat in fis worl". Hit takes a hot, open fire ter keep de _ TRANSPORTS— fice, Folsom-street wharf, San Francisco, Bilkins—Softhead, I thought you told | Cal. ‘me you had a chance on hand to elope with old Moneybag's daughter last night? Softhead (dolefully)—Yes, 1 did tell you | that, but it appears that another fellow had a better scheme than mine. He got there first.—Tit-Bit. THE FORGERS-O., C The ced Aug: 238, 1898, dge Wallace on James Creegan Charles Becker for forgery ! erment for life. ty. avd was impris- Contains Articles Everybody Will Be Talking About | Texas this spring. What Texas wishes now is a Monroe doctrine that will compel Central America and the West Indies to cork up their craters when | Texas says so. The Rhode Island practice of paying a voter for his time when he goes to the polls shows how' nimbly | the New England people can convert into a virtue at | home the thing they denounce as a crime when prac- tised elsewhere. Judging from the itinerary arranged for President Roosevelt’s visit to California he is going to do the job like a sprinter trying to make time instead of looking at the country. Sir Thomas Lipton says the America’s cup is “get- ting homesick for Britain,” but he is mistaken. The cup has long since become naturalized and cannot think of crossing the ocean without getting seasick. Once more Henry Watterson has dipped his pen in | his gall and jabbed it at Cleveland. So long as Cleve- land lives and Henry can write the jabbing will go on, but Cleveland doesn’t seem to be aware of it. From the way Balfour’s majority in Parliament is crumbling there is every appearance that Joe Cham- berlain may yet be Prime Minister before he gets too ! old to wish the job, from the Orient. ke has just been re- lieved from duty as captain of the port and commander of the port guard in Ma. nila. The Etiqgclle of Divorce By KATE THYSON MARR. The second inslaliment of THE THIRTEENTH DISTRICT Shows a strong man’s struggle againsi a beawtiivi woman. The Brunette Tragedies By COLONEL KATE Colonel Griffin Prather of St. Louis, president of the Mississippi Valley Trans- portation Company, is a guest at the Pal- ace. The colonel is one of the famous characters of Missouri. Years ago during the palmy days on the Mississippi “Grit” Prather, as he was then familiarly called, operated steamers up and down the river dnd figured conspicuously In many of the exciting incidents along the big stream in that historic period. Ex. strong hoarhound candy. 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