Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-07-23
Our San Francisco Letter.

AuS NuOSe iiu-
portaton of Celestas to North Adams for shoe
making purposes has given rise to such tumult
of protests certainly deserves credit for having
brought Il nese question into national prom
inence. On Friday night the Knights Of St.
Crispiu called meeting of aboring to dis
Cuss this al-important topic, and the answer to
the invitation was mile of banners and tran
sparencies Platts hall crowded to suffocaton
and fifteen hundred processionists unable to OBJ
tain admittance. When such a large portion of
San Francisco's creative wealth publicly meets
| to denOunce what they consider threatened
danger to Republican liberty and Christian civil
izaton, they certainly deserve better treatment
than to be afflicted with the stale oratory of a
Winn, Mooney Sumner, but those three
gentlemen got possession of the platform, talked,
preambled and resolutioned as if they had a
wager to cram the greatest number Of words and
the smallest number of ideas into unlimited
number of minutes, and they did this in such
satisfactory manner that those who were capa-
bic of advancing an original idea retired into
reticence. Every man who attends public
meeting in San Francisco goes there expecting to
be Wnned and Mooney, but this Charles A. Sum
ner is comparatively a new nuisance and bids
fair to complete the trinity of bores by becom-
ing chronic spouter. The immediate result Of
tuN duti-COOllt hBllhllOu III luiS CIbO-dHu may
almost say the State-s undoubtedly going to be
the formation Of workingman's party that will
! swallow up both Democrats and Republicans as
easily as Moses rod swallowed up those uncon-
sdered trihes of the Egyptian astrologers, and
the leader Of that party if ] mistake not, will be
the Hon. Philip A. Roach, of the Eraminer.
Whether Mr.. Roach has Congressional or Guber-
material aspirations has yet to be developed, but
if he wants to succeed Axtell or Haight, very
careful review of the situation convnces me that
IA desire on his part would be almost equivalent
to an election, and if we must have Democrat
in either of those positions it is cheering to know
that in Mr.. Roach shall also have gentle
man. But hold "I am willing to offer my self
to the people of this State as their Governor in
big capitals and protector bigger still against
the Chinese barbarians and local thieves" Thus
says Thomas Mooney. "With the militia and
the powers of the State at my command, to-
gether with hundred thousand volunteer citi-
zens drilled and armed, | may safely promise to
reship most of the Chinese to their own country
in less than three months after my accession TO
Office. "-Thomds Mooney. Could litany of an
athemas do justice to this man Gould the Pope
and the Ecumenical council sufficiently damn
him2 Could the gallery gods of the Bella Union
invent a curse sufficiently comprehensive to meet
the occasion2 My pen is handled so tendery
carefully, oOnscientously, uprghtly, scrupul-
ously land half a column more OF moral adlec-
tives) that feel it would be polluting good
No. 3O3 elliott and ruin my private reputation
as suayst, even to make an attempt at ex-
pressing an opinion on this manifesto, so having
neither the tongue OF the wickedest man in New
| York, the pen of Bolice of the NeWS Letter,
| am compelled from hopeless, helpless inability
TO torgo the pleasure of denunciation and "moye
on' to other matter.
Mr. Marriott, proprietor of the News Letter,
was knocked down and severely hurt oy "Major"
Jack Stratman, at Franks saloon, Montgomery
street, on Saturday evening. The assault orig
mated from certain articles published by Mar
rott in reference to Stratman's connection with
the Fourth of July committee. This is the sec
ond attack made on persons connected with that
paper within the last three months. Fonnel, Of
| the U0rhtngmdnS Journal, unpleasantly inter
viewed the editor recently with bit of "A stick, ,
and now the proprietor comes in for share of
the same experience. Few men in San Fran
! cisco have larger circle of personal friends
than Mr.. Marriott, and no one in the State II
greater number of determined enemies. The
NeWs Letter has for years been the Arab of the
| press-its type against every other journal and
| every other journal 5 type against 1t. While un-
hinchng in its denunciation of many wrongs
and edited with an ability that has attracted the
attention of the most prominent journals in the
East and Engknd, it is VIGOROUSLY open to the
influence of money and attacks individuals with
IA severity that far exceeds the license of caustic
wit. Mr.. Marriott has actually nothing at all to
do with his paper. lie neither edits its nor
writes for it, and seldom knows its contents un-
til published copy is placed before him. His
age alone ought To have protected him from
savage assault.
1t is one of the cherished delusions of the age
that the power of the press is the nearest ap-
proach to ommpotence yet attained by any
earthly institution. Occasionally the notion
ceives some rude shocks and is likely soon to be
entirely dissipated. For the last two months
nearly every city and interior journal, irres
pective of party religion, has been opposing
proposed change of text books in the schools of
the State and yet the Board of Education so
wholly disregards all structures as to cOnsummate
! the alteration. Incredible as 1t may seem, the
! cost of changing the readers alone will cost par
ents near one million dollars. The publishers
price for the set is SO 80, the retail price is
Sl3 3S. The number of pupils attending school
in the State is officially computed "A, 1922, and
simple sum in multiplication will authenticate
my figures.
1t is three or four years since the streets of
San Francisco were so thronged with excited
people they have been to day The news of
the declaration of war between France and Prus-
sia spread like wild fire, and the newspaper
and telegraph offices We're quickly surrounded
by large crowds reading aud commenting on the
| dispatches. The excitement has not been
edualled since the close of the rebellion, and the
extras of the Bulletin sold as fast they could
be printed War was declared at ten minutes
before two oclock this afternoon, and the news
was received here at half past one, local time.
! An erroneous belief prevails amongst many
peope-and it is always so stated by anti-Coo-
! iieists-that Mr. Chinaman is totally unable to
| assimilate with Western manners and customs.
While hardly prepared at present to contest that
point-though~ the impression is a wrong one
he certainly shows adaptability for Western
crime, that proves him very apt pupil in wick
A., IL. n,s .ts,vaE
| lis having occasion to call on Baker, the litho-
grapher and engraver, casually picked up
steel plate engraved with the figure 8, and com
mented on the beauty of its workmanship Ba-
ker told him that a Chinaman had called and
ordered it as trade mark for superior quality
of tea he was imDortinn W bich set Mr.. Ellis