The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-16

The time has arrived when the United
States Government should develop the ship
building yards il now possesses for modern
war vessels Al present the greater number
of such vessels are built by contractors. and
naturally there is much rivalry to obtain
the contracts The country needs both
methods Of getting ships constructed. One
method is check upon the other, as re-
CARDS efficiency and cost. The United States
at present provides fair proportion OF its
own guns The Washington factory is capa-
bic OF supplying nearly all our Notifications
aud ships with the best designs of heavy
guns known. 1t is not at all advisable that
all work should be executed at national
establishments. Contract work could stu
De let as requirements suggest England
has her dockyaTds at Chatham, Portsmouth
and Pembroke, but private shipbuilders get
large share OF work.
At the jubilation over the arrival of the
Charles Z. Moody. the first of the Grace
clipper line of ships round the Horn, one
significant passage occurred In the speech
Of Mr.. L. L. Baker. president OF the Mer-
chants Shipping AssO citation. He remarked
that '0ur Government has assisted COM
merce between the States by grants OF land
to overland railroads, but seems TO care lit
tie for ocean commerce. However, If II as
siSts the building and early completion of
the Nicaragua canal, we shall try to take
care of ourselves in other respects" The
people OF the Pacific Coast are hopeful that
the canal will be completed as soon as pos
sible, because It will sever for ever the liga-
lures OF oppression tied round commerce
by the very railroads that the Government
assisted with its credit The Government
can now make atonement by helping for
ward the shipping and trading interests or
the whole country. The Nicaragua canal
will rectify many things that are wrong.
Russia is supposed to be civilized coun-
try, and It's population very devout, hu-
name and patriotic, adoring the Car, EXCEPT
when they have joined the nihlists. So
much may be inferred from the result of
trial for the murder OF infants. A sage
femme has just been convicted of the
murder OF III babies. which, as soon as
born, were smothered. That Is the actual
number OF the murdered counted beneath
the floor of the fiend's cellar. but it is be-
iieved she disposed of hundreds of infants
in some fashion. In Russia there is n great
adherence of capital punishment. So this
monster is let off with a sentence Of one
years imprisonment She is entitled to
claim the title Of being the champion MUIR
deress of the world.
The report from Berlin that the Lebel
rife of the French army was discovered to
be defective during the campaign in Da-
honey will be taken as a wild remark pro-
pagated by some one TO offs set the disclosures
about the defects of the German LOewe
rifie. 1t is quite natural this Interchange
of chickering's should arise between nations
which pride themselves upon being perfect
In their military preparations. But the re-
ports about the Lebel rife may be doubted.
a weapon suited for France is not likely to
be all that is requisite for DahOmey any
more than for the IsthmUs of Panama,
where rust may form on iron or steel within
few hours.
The jog trot of tie Election Commission
ers continues at a remarkably uniform
snail's pace. 1t will be some time after the
new year. probably. before any one knows
what the result is for particular Offices All
the rest Of the United Estates is acquainted
with the results in the hundreds of thou
sands OF precincts of the republic, and San
Francisco has the proud pre-eminence of
being the last TO announce the figures, such
as they are. A few recounts are inevitable
and when the work will end perhaps only
Crimmins and Kelly and a few others can
tell. The city must make the best of the
situation for the time being and resolve to
do better next time. There is so little ag-
talon now on the subject that 1t almost
looks as if frauds will go unpublished. How
mercifui we are as suffering peopleI
The throwing open of the Hudson to the
Canadians for free navigation is aspropos-
throw open the Mississippi TO foreign trade.
Ii we were to adopt the principle of tree
navigation laws applicable to coast ports
all other countries, and not alone Canada.
would take their share OF the trade, But
no country which has ADOPTED free nayiga-
ton allows its internal transportation TO be
interfered with. Great Britain allows for
egn vessels on the same terms as British
to go from port to port, but it would soon
draw the line at canals from river to river
II the foreigner attempted trade on gen.
eral scale in this fashion. The examples of
the Danube aud Scheldt do not apply 10 a
case like the Hudson River.
The dangers which may attend burial
without the fact OF death having been posi-
lively aseertained are well illustrated by a
case which has occurred in a New York
hospital. A patient who had been over
come with what is popularity known as sus-
pended animation, c0matose state which
only shows that the evidences OF life are
not apparent TO ordinary tests, was actually
Cured TO the morgne. laid out on marble
slaD aud covered with sheet He woke up
IN Inc dark and shivered and howIeu for re-
lief, but Tor hours he failed to procure
assistance. His howls. in fact scared peo-
pic away from him under the Impression
mat as ghost he was a manifestation 10
De avoided. When he did get release. he
bounded back to his ward. Struggled him
sell hetween the blankets aud went to