The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-03

dollar will be created, the object in view being
the facllitation OF commercial transactions be-
tween the various republics. Each country in
terested is TO coin quantity proportioned to lis
population. One side VIII contain a common de.
sign, possibly the likeness of Columbus. and the
diverse will bear the stamp of the nation issuing
the coin. The conference at Washington having
agreed upon the standard OF the dollar, sub
sldiary coins are to be added.
The ptiful condition of the female workers OF
London, toillng from early morning I'LL late at
night for scarcely enough 10 keep body and soul
together, is not exaggerated In the dispatches
General Booth estimates the pauper popu-
latiOu of Great Britain at 100000. Mr.
Chamberlain Increases the number 10
100000 or 10000 Free trade demands
cheap labor. Owing to free trade there are
thirty Prussan locomotives In service on one
of Englands railways, and the iron beams OF 81
Thomas Hospital, located near the house oi
Parliament, were made In Belgium III Is estl-
mated that the loss 10 England from the compe-
tition OF Germany and Belgium IN the iron ana
steel trades alone has been In four years $780,.
600 600 In fact President AdamsOn OF the
British Iron and Steel Association has declared
that unless The iron masters have protection or
pay lower wages this industry will soon be de-
stroyed. Abiding TO The restitution and suffer
ing prevailing, Rev Stafford Brooke declares
We are pre- eminent in London in these mat
tiers. There is nothing so terrible In any DINER
civilized city-no, not III Paris or New YORK
There is nowhere else in the Christian "oIiu
such mass of wrelchedness, squalor ana uesta
dalton as in England"
Portugal is evidently far from a condition OIL
prosperity. There was time when ii foItueal
did not 'hOld the golden east in fee," she at
least divided possession OF IL with Venice. She
then had great fleets and armies at her COM
mand, could have bought large area OF Europe
and still have money to spare. Her debt is esti-
mated at about $40 per capita OF her popua-
tloD of nearly 100000, or. in all, somewhere
between S6O0,Oo0,00o and S700,000,o00. he
interest charge Is about S25 900. OO0-consider
ably more than half of her revenue. To tide
her over her difficulties 1t is understood she has
secured loan of about $50 ,0oo, 900 from syn
dictate of capitalists. The English intimate that
Portugal might do well 10 realize now on her
African possessions. They would net her good
sum, and nation thai has neither gold nor steel
cannot hope to hang on TO her colonies long
when such powers as Germany aud England long
for them. Tie people. however, are manifestly
inclined to repudate any suggestion OF this
character from this source.
General Miles. IN discussing The Future of
the Indian Question in the January number of
the North Anle, lean ReUielC, refers 10 the Sioux
trouble as promising TO be more serious than any
that has occurred during the whole history OF
Indian warfare. In summing up his conclusions
outbreak, FIRST. on the white men who compelled
the Indians 10 live upon limited tracts OF lard
and allowed them to GET into a condition OF dis
satisfaction, ana at the same time equipped for
war; second, on the preachers OF the Messiah
craze; third. the Indian traders who have sold
rifles and ammunition 20 the Indians, and
fourth, upon the Indians themselves, who in
their savage frenzy hesitate at no atroclty to
ayenge some imaginary wrong. The inference
OF the casual reader is that The General
believes the military is the only branch OF the
Government strong enough TO control the In
dians and keep them of the war-path.
Bankers and brokers in the East complain that
shOrt-welght gold coins are becoming annoying
ly common. Investigation discOses the fact
that the theft is being conducted by the electric
process of sweating" on quite an extensive
scale. The gold Is removed by this process uni
foTmly from all parts OF The coin, tie charac-
ters being but slightly blurred 1t is estimated
that fifty cents worth Of gold can thus be re-
moved from ten-doliar gold piece without ex-
citing The suspicion of The casual observer. One
prominent importer recently rendered at the
New York Gus tOni-houSe nearly $500 in light
Two aud half dollar gold pieces and this fact
led To lie detection OF numerous CONS OF short
weiaht.
Like San Francisco, Chicago desires a new
posIofhce, the condition of the present building
being pronounced supremacy dIsgraceful," and
Philadelphia wants ian appropriation for a new
mInt. 1he Philadelphlans fear that unless their
congressman redoube their efforts tile BIZ, which
names 100000 as the maximum amount
which may be expended, VIII fail, ultimately re-
sultlng III the Mint being removed TO Washing
ton, where many believe it should be located.