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The morning call., 1890-05-23
MAKE THEM BID aIGH.~

John j. Butler testified in the Arnold
case that Garness tempted him to go to Co.
lusa and, under a threat of publishing a
story based upon the circulars defaming
| Arnold's family, to get what money he
could out of Arnold. "Make them bid
| high" said the proprietor of the scandal.
| Mr.. Butler, to his credit, declined to have
| anything to do with the Infamous work In
| respect to the effect this testimony may
have had on the jury in the Arnold case,
we have no comment to offer. We refer to
| the matter in its relation to the people of
this State. Has the old gang of blackmail-
erS as it existed some years ago transmitted
| It's methods to younger generation 1t
would seem SO. Nothing more infamous
| than this plot against Arnold characterized
! the early days of the sheet in which Mr..
| Arnold was to be made to suppose the scan
| dalous story would be printed. Knowing
the history of the papers, Arnold might
| readily believe that the scandal would be
printed. Arnold was rich; what was $1,000
| to him in view of the consequence of refus-
! ing it? Garness does not appear to have
| thought the Examiner sufficiently respecta-
BILE to throw the desired sting into the pub
LEGATION of the scandal. People are used to
reading such stuff in the Examiner, but the
| Chronicle in recent years has been more
cautious. The city departments of the two
| papers appear to have been advisers in
| the management of the scheme, but the
| extent OF their interest in the proprietorship
| in the scandal was not stated. Butler
| testified that he was to divide the proceeds
| with Garness, but whether Garness was to
| divide with his associates Butler did not
! say. According to Buffers testimony Gar
ness had the run of the Examiner Office
and was on easy communication with the
! Chronicle Office. Whether this backmail-
! ing scheme was concocted and carried along
| in the two Offices with or without the knowl-
edge of the responsible proprietors is a
matter upon which the people may draw
! their own inference. The evidence leaves
no doubt of the part subOrdinates played.
| Tall buildings cannot cover up these sins.
| They only serve as an object at which the
public may point and ask, how many lives
and how many regulations were sacrificed
| to build them? Does each brick and each
block of stone represent ruined life? No
| one Will ever know Bricks and blocks Of
| stone cannot speak. But these infamies
will be perpetuated as long as the people
| tolerate them and not day longer. 1t is of
little use for the public to yet excited over
one example. which differs from hundreds
| of others only in being exposed to public
gaze,
The morning call., 1890-05-23
INFLUENCE or THE PRESS.

Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of England
recently made speech about the press. in
which he said:
AS the sages OF Laputa kept men to remember
for them what they were themselves too sub
timely occupied to recOlect, SO our great nation
was content to keep and pay men TO do their
thinking and concluding for Them, aud adopt the
thoughts OF others for heir own. Who were
they who laid down the law for us day by day?
Where did they come from? What did we know
OF their characters? Sometimes by chance we
knew an editor, and generally he was found to
be much poorer creature IN the flesh than in
the pages OF his publication. People who quoted
printed works as words OF wisdom would often
be entirely unimpressed by The same sentiments
in the mouths of their authors, delivered person.
ally across the dining or drawing room.
This merely amounts to saying that men
who are used to talking with their pen
talk better with that implement than with
their tongues. 1t ignores the obvious fact
that the influence of an argument does not
depend upon whether it is heard in speech
or read in newspaper, but on its truth.
Commenting on the Chief Justices OBJ
servation, Mr.. Frederick Greenwood. the
well-known journalist, remarks that the
influence of the press is declining in conse-
quence of the multiplicity of newspapers,
which counteract each other ana bewilder
tue reader with their din. The proposition
appears to be a paradox. 1t few news
papers once guided public opinion. an in
creased number Of papers should guide it
more thoroughly still. The force. if force
there be, must be in the ratio of the fire.
quency of its application. The very fact of
the increasing number OF newspapers shows
how generally people lean upon them.
Both the Chief Justice and Mr. Green
wood appear to fall into the common error
OF surprising that the press yields influ-
ence through its capacity to present ideas
in printed words and sentences before its
readers. In fact, its influence, if it has
any, is derived, not from its ability to reach
the public mind, but from the truth its
printed statements contain. Error may be
printed day after day In ever so large type
without making converts. Indeed, there is
no better way Of exploding error than to
have it laid bare day after day by an ad-
herent. In these days of publicity the truth
is certain to have opponents, and in course
of time the public are educated to discrim-
mate between it and falsehood. When that
education has become general expositions
of false doctrines pass by as the idle wind,
and the newspapers which contain them
WELD little or no influence, but the sheets
which have been educators have as much
influence as the press ever had, whether
they are few or many and whether or no
their writers are able to defend their posi-
lions by word of mouth.
Mr.. Greenwood refers with pride to the
influence once welded by Mr.. Delane OF
the London Times. Into the secret of that
influence II is not now necessary to inquire
The morning call., 1890-05-23
THE HOME MARK EFT.

The Alta says in reference to THE CALI
market for wheat would largely disappear,
that 1t must be a remarkable tariff that
will make 6O,00O,000 people stop eating if it
is low cred" Our facetlous contemporary
apparently does not discriminate between
producers of breadstuffs and consumers.
Under free trade a large portion of the
persons who are now consumers would
become producers. They would, of course.
continue to consume, but instead of buying
the surplus of other producers they would
produce a surplus themselves. The Ameri-
can wheat-groWers now sell nine bushels of
wheat at home for one abroad. Should a
reduction in the duties on manufactured
goods close any considerable number of
our manufacturing establishments, the pro-
portion the farmers have to export would
be greater, and, as the price of wheat is
determined by the amount sent to foreign
markets, with larger export tile prices
would fall If, on the other hand, the pro-
portion of laborers engaged in factories is
increased, there will be larger number of
home con Sumers. and, consequently less to
export. While the wheat product of the
United States may be largely increased by
more expensive cultivation. it is not prob
able that there will be much change in Til 5
direction until the home demand is equal to
the home supply. With the gradual with
drawal of American wheat from the Euro
pean market, higher foreig n prices may be
pyueptpd
The morning call., 1890-05-23

Schemes to get rid of the race question at
the South by means of colonization to
Africa have an extrayagant fascination for
a certain class of minds. jefferson was an
ardent partisan of the plan, and pressed it
on the attention of his friends in many let
tiers and public documents. When the Col
onlZation Society was established Judge
BushrOd Washington was its first Presi-
dent He was succeeded in the office by such
d men as Charles Carroll of Carrolton, James
Madison and Henry Clay. Ii commanded
the approval of the best men South as well
as North. Quite large sums have been
spent by the society from first to last, and
yet couple of years ago the total number
of American negroes in Liberia was only
about 1900.
Nothing dismayed by the failure of this
experiment Stanley now comes forward
and proposes to solve the negro question by
transplanting the freedmen of the Southern
States to the Upper Congo country, where
every settler is to have a tract of land cap
able of growing anything In the world. 1t
is pretty scheme. The land is probably
as fertile as he describes it. 1t is unlimited
lii area, and the natives would not object to
new neighbors who would fight the slave
traders. There are in this country six or
seven millions of negroes who would prob
ably be better off in a commonwealth of
their own than they are in the South. Yet
it is the widest dream that ever entered the
brain of man.
Voluntary migrations of races from re-
gioDs where life is hard to regions where it
is easy have been common occurrences
throughout the historical period. Thus the
Huns migrated from the barren steppes of
Asia to the fertile valley of the Danube /;
the Cloths of the frozen north drifted down
to the sunny plains of Italy, Southern
France and Spain; the Mongol Tartars mi
grated from their pasture lands to the
smiling fields of China; and more lately
the English, Irish and Germans have foated
across the ocean from regions where they
could hardly find bread to a country which
offered them food. work and liberty. But
all these movements were very gradual and
covered long periods Of years. 1t took
centuries for the barbarians to establish a
fOothold on the Mediterranean and the rivers
of Southern Europe. The Tartars began
their inroads upon China at the time of
Christ; it was not till after the Crusades
that Genghis Khan took Peking. We have
been receiving immigrants from Europe for
three centuries; but our consumption of
this material has made no appreciable re-
duciion 10 the population of the countries
from Which 1t came. So, If tomorrow all
parties should agree that negro colonization
In Africa is the best policy to pursue, cent
uries would elapse before any such number
of negroes could be deported as to affect the
colored population here.
But there is no chance that anybody would
be in favor Of such an experiment. except.
perhaps, the authorities of Congo. The
Southern whites would never consent to the
expectation of the labor on which their cot
ton crop depends There are parts of the
South where mere suggestion of a negro
exodus leads to riots. And the negro is a
The morning call., 1890-05-23
REPUBLICAN oRGAN1zArIoN.

The pla1 Tor the organization OF Republ-
can clubs in the several election districts
enables the mass of Republican voters to
take part in the election of delegates to the
State Convention to be held in August
There will be in each district as many clubs
as the district has representatives in the
County Committee. The members of the
County Committee are to preside at the
temporary organization of the clubs on the
Sd of June, and to appoint temporary
President, Vice-President Secretary and
an Enrolling Committee of five. These ap-
poiDtments made the club rolls will be open
four successive nights, the rolls closing on
the evening of June It'll. All voters are
eligible for membership in the clubs who
voted for Harrison and Morton. The voters
who enroll themselves will elect permanent
officers OF the cluus. Under this plan the
voters who get on the rolls of the clubs
will hold in their hands the control of the
party during the next State and municipal
campaign. The County Committee will be
responsible for the temporary officers of
the clubs, as such officers will be appointed
by the members of the County Committee
who preside on the opening night. In the
four evenings there will be opportunities
for each and every Republican voter to es-
tablish his right to a place on the club
rolls.
Ii the $4,000 Republican voters in the city
will take the trouble to enroll, majority
can determine the character of the next
State Convention. This is the one hope
that is held out of reform in State ana
municipal politics. Mr.. Buckley controls
the Democratic party as absolutely as ever.
There can be no reform through him nor
through that party while he is at its head.
If he wins the next election the scenes of
1889 will be repeated in 1891 He will in
fact be in position to claim that the people
have Endorsed his methods. The taxpayers
who are complaining of State expendi-
ture as heavy as that imposed on the rich
est States in the Union will again be at
Buckley's mercy If the voters do not pro-
test against Buckley's methods when called
upon to review them they will not be en-.
titled to much sympathy when called to
foot the bills. 1t is entirely within the
power of the Republicans of this city to
elect through membership in the clubs
delegation to the State Convention which
will secure the nomination of men of char
acter for the several State offices, and
afterward to nominate municipal ticket
which, with the aid Of anti-Buekley Demo-
Gratis, will sweep the city.
The morning call., 1890-05-23
FEDERAL BUSINESS.
The Courts Closed-No Judge in the City
Ia AyhiIa

Tho Courts Closed-No Judge in the City
for Awhile.
The Appraisers Building yesterday pre-
sented deserted appearance. Early in the
morning Judge Hoffman convened the Dis
trict Court long enough to grant nolle
prOsequi in a batch of old cases that had
been in the records of the courts long
time. They were all cases of minor often
ses against Federal statutes and the princi-
pals in them had long ago disappeared.
They were dropped for the sake of cleaning
UP the records of the court.
Judge Hoffman shortly after left for his
Compromised summer vacation. His alb
sence will leave the city without a Federal
Judge, as Circuit Judge Sawyer is still in
the East, and no one as yet has been ap-
pointed to fill the place of the late Judge
Sabin. Those desiring writs of habeas cor
pus Will have TO send the necessary papers
to Judge Hoffman at Monterey.
The bondsmen In seven of the Chinese
habeas corpus cases we're rejected, and the
unfortunate coolies locked up in the County
Jail until they could secure other and better
bonds. The new system of requiring two
days notices of proposed bondsmen works
well, and 1t is expected that few straw
bonds will now be given.
In the other departments little business
seemed to be on hand, and, after the de-
parture of the Chinese, the silence of the
long corridors was marked.
The morning call., 1890-05-23
ROLL OF HONOR,
Leading Pupils of San Francisco
Schools.
Boys and Girls Whose Records During the
Past Scholastic Year Entities Them
to Special Mention.

As has been the custom for years, THE CALL.
again presents TO its readers the lists OF pupils in
the various classes OF the public schools whom
their teachers have selected TO be placed upon
the roll OF honor:
Eighth-Street Primary School.
C. f. True, Principal.
First Grade-C. E. Dunn. teacher.
Roll of Honor-EdwaId AntOnette, MAY Mapee
Emma Borel, Freddie Wltten. Emile Dscher,
Sadie Murphy, Louis Helbing, Mary Hurley
Edward Egeberg. Mabel Shehan, Evellne Wit
tenberg Jennie Levy.
First Giade-Leah Rosenberg, teacher.
Roll OF HonOr-Mary Brady, Mamie OCopnor
Otto Hilkin, Robert Pierce, Annie Munster Carl
Schmidt, Tina StrobeI, Henry Specier, Wills
Schaefer. Willie Finney, Minnie Welsh Pearl
Young.
First Grade-MIss Lille Simpson, teacher.
Roll of HOnor-ThOmas Higgins, Arthur STEM
burg Alice Grove, Mamie Radcliffe, Philip Frey.
Walter Hearon, Josie Lynch, Gilmore Wilson,
Louise de Barr. Alice Gay.
Second Grade-E. ScnOll teacher.
Roll OF HOnOr-Gracie Brat, Emma Brupneu.
kant, Nellie Callahan. Mamie Clancy, Annie
Downing, Wlihemna Neumann, Ida Overgard
Annie SNowran, Dan Letch. George Sherman.
Receiving Grade-Mlss Ada Martin, teacher.
B0sschaart, Maggie Hanson, Clara Bodenield.
Teresa sullivan, Otto Bath, Chauncey OShea,
Fred Reid, Alfred earns, Harry Racklife, Gyms
Hester, Peter Bosschaart
Receiving Grade-Mlss b. Roper, teacher.
Roll OF HOnOr-Mabel Burge, Sadie Daley
Blanche GoItung, James Hughes. Arthur Sic
Estis, LOttie Nelson.
Receiving Graded. S. Prescott teacher
Roll OF HonOI-Maggie Redmond, Mary New.
man, John Curran. Arthur MOrriSey, Edward
Myatt, Frank Heron, Charles Tointon, Aieck
Moore Joseph Rosenberg, Alfred Weiss.
Receiving Grade-A. L. Wright, teacher
Roll OF Houor-Susie BEunnenkant, Rosa Crock
Emma Carmody. Mary Carmody, Mabel Kent,
zell, Hermine Heck, Luln Brown, Daisy Cav
Anabel Mcclellan Maggie Tracey, Anna Goet-
gen. Amelia Barberei Cora Chapman, Maggie
Muller, Dora Hooper, lille kempner, Michael
Dillon, William Berry, James Jackson, Arthur
karner, Thomas Fitzgerald, Edward Wilson
Dennis Clancy, John Hood, Ed OHara Louis
Malafonta, John DAILY, Dan Foster. Ed Hoahan,
Louis Ross, Ed Salmi Harry Cunningha M
The morning call., 1890-05-23
REAL ESTATE SALE.
Valuable Lots Near the Park Fin
KeadY BuYers.

Valuable Lots Near the Park Find
Ready Buyers.
AT Won Rhein & Co.'s auction sale yesterday
the following lots, situated In the block between
Point Lobos. Sixth and Seventh avenues and
Clement street, found ready purchasers
Lot forming the northwest corner of Point
Lobos ana Sixth avenues, 32:6x1oO feet S4loO
Seven inside lots adjoining westerly on Point
Lobos avenue each 25x1oO feet, went al $780,
S1775, S1775 $1725, Sl725, S1725 and $1,000
respectively.
Lot forming the northeast corner of Point
Lobos and Seventh avenues, 32:6x1Oo feet
$500.
On The west side of Sixth avenue there we're
sixteen lots OF 25x120 feet each. OF this num-
Der one sold at Slo75, three at $1,000 and the re-
malnder at S1025 per lot.
On The east side OF Seventh avenue there ere
also sixteen lots of 22xl20 feel EACH Eight
went at S1o75, one at Sl10o and the remainder
AT S1025.
Lot forming the southwest corner OF Clement
street and Sixth avenue, 32:6&100 feet, $4,000.
OF the seven inside lots on the south side OF
Clement street, each 25Xl0o feet, Two brought
S1O75 ana the remainder SI05O apiece.
Lot forming the southeast corner OF Clement
street and Seventh avenue, 32:6X10O feet
$3.50.
The morning call., 1890-05-23
The Thirds Nav Co,ors

Major-General Nelson A. Miles, COM
man ding the Division of the Pacific, U. S.
A, has accepted the invitation of Colonel
Thomas F. Barry, commanding the Third
Infantry Regiment, n. G. c., to review and
receive the marching salute of the regiment
this evening on the occasion of the pre-
sentatiOn of a stand of colors at the Me-
chanics' Pavilion. The stand of colors con-
siSts of two magnificent and hand-embroid-
cred silken fiags-One the national and the
other the regimental-with two markers
flags and gudons. The money donated the
regiment by the Fourteenth of July Com
mittee of 1889 was us ed to pay In part for
the colors, than which no other battalion in
the n. G. c. has now a finer stand. Over
5000 invitations have been issued for tn G
presentation exercises
The morning call., 1890-05-23

man and brother, at least TO this extent.
that he loves his home and his birthplace,
and will not change either if he can help it,
The American negro is negro by his skin,
but an American at heart Africa to him
is no more than Hecuba was to Hamlet's
play-actor. He has no idea of going there
would not 60 there unless he were driven
on board ship with bayonets. Can any one
conceive so preposterous a thing as the
fOrcible deportation of half a dozen millions
of unwilling people-merely to fill up empty
places in Mr.. SANKEY'S dominions?
The morning call., 1890-05-23
Nor1cEs-coNr1NuE1


rS The Annual Meeting of the Stock
us holders of the Eliza Day Quartz Mining Com
pany. for the election of Directors the transac-
ton of such other business as may be brought be-
fore the meeting. will be held at 3O4 MONTGOMERY
street. San Francisco. Cal. on SATURDAY EVEN
ING, May 31st next, at 8 O'Clock.
my22 lot w. e. BAINBRIDGE
~ San Francisco CaIedonian
t>S Club-Grand gathering Of the n R ~
Cha ms in the "Garb of Aud Gael" on &ATM9
SATURDAY, May 81, 1890, Shell Mound ZS&
Park, Berkeley. The club Is determined to make
this the twenty-fourth annual gathering an games
the grandest and most enjoyable event of the sea,
son. New games will be introduced never before
seen in America. large list of exciting club
events is open to members of clubs from AN paris
OF the world, who will receive over $500 in cash
and other prizes, including two handsome gold
medals, value $500 each, for long-dIstance races,
Scottish national dances by expert clansmen and
lads and lasses In costume. Also. long list of
games open to all comers for which there are large
cash. as well as other valuable prizes. Delegations
from all parts of the United States and Canada will
be present to take part In the grand Flourish OF
Trumpets. The usual Highland hospitality is ex-
tended to all. Dancing from IL O'Clock A. M in two
paviltonS TO the music OF the celebrated Second
Regiment Band. There will be full CORDS of High
land Pipers in costume Games commence at $40
O'Clock sharp and close at P. NJ. No intermission
Trains connect with Oakland ferry-beats every
half hour Admission soc, children 25c Be sure
aud buy your tickets for Shell Mound Park
w. {. BURNETT Chief.
THOMAS WILSON, Secretary. nils lat
The morning call., 1890-05-23
EDIToEIAL NOTES.

Though the population of Massachusetts
during the past twenty-five years has in
creased but GO per cent, and its wealth so
per cent, the expenditures for the support
of pauDers have increased go per cent.
This is claimed to he the result of the prac-
tice of European and Canadian local
authorities shipping those who are public
charges TO this country. This declaration
is borne out by the statistics of insanity
commitments.
Secretary Window denies the sensational
report that the Cabinet rejected Britan's
proposals for the settlement of the Behring
Sea controversy. He knew of no PROPOSE
ton having been received. Orders were,
however, sent to the commander of the
Rush similar to those given to the COM
nander of the Bear regarding the service
Of the cutters in Alaskan waters.
The Quebec harbor Improvement has cost
between four and five million dollars, q
large portion of which, it is claimed, has
been diverted TO political channels. One
firm is said TO have paid quarter of mill
ion for contracts and Government favors on
this and other public works. A number of
prominent men have been involved in the
scandal.
Senator Stewards proposed amendment
to the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill, set
ting apart quarter of a million for the
Secretary of Agriculture to ascertain what
extent of the arid region can be redeemed
by irrigation and to select reservoir sites, is
designed to continue the work begun by the
Geological Survey.
To prevent fraud in the taking of the CEN
sus. the House has ralroaded bill through
making it misdemeanor for any Super
visor or enumerator to accept outside COM
pensation for census work.
The morning call., 1890-05-23
A Charge Dismissed.

The charge of perjury against William
Whigham was dismissed yesterday by
Judge Van Reynegom ON motion of the
District Attorney. 1t was charged that
during the trial of William S. Trexler on
November 20. 1885. for ENLIGHTENMENT he
swore that the accused paid the money in
Wilijamc - - -
The morning call., 1890-05-23

SIGNAL SERVICE. U. =. ARMY,O
DIVISION THE PACIFIC,
SAN Francisco May %, 1905 p. Nj
Synopsis for the Past Twenty four Hours.
The barometer is highest of the coast of Oregon
and is oweSt in Arizona the temperature has fallen
slightly in Southern California and has generally
risen elsewhere local rains have fallen in Washing
ton; elsewhere the weather has been fair.
Forecast Till $ =. NJ. Friday.
For California-Fair weather; variable winds
nearly stationary temperature in the southern por
ton; slightly warmer IN the northern portion.
For Oregon and Washington - Fair weather;
variable winds; slightly warmer.
J. L MAXFIELD
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AID WEEKLY CALL 50 SO per year, postpaid.
EEKLY CALL (eight pages), 81 % per year. post
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FOB Montgomery street, near Clay. open until IL
O'Clock N. BRANCH OFFICES: 10 Market
street, Kearny open until ~ O'Clock midnight;
$50 Hayes street, open until $50 O'Clock; 6o3
larkin street, open until $3.50 o'Iock, and 2S1s
Mission street. open until O'Clock p NJ