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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-23
OUR EFFORTS IRON FRANCE.

During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1881, the total imports Of the United States
from all foreign countries amounted to
SSA,9lG,000- OF these it appears from
recent table compiled by the Consular Bu-
reau that S75.658, 600. or as nearly as pos
sible 9 per cent, were imported from
France. As France is the second nation in
Europe in respect to foreign commerce it is
interesting to observe what classes of goods
we received thence.
Il may be observed, by way OF preface.
that nearly half our importations from
France, OF S35, 84l 600, are invoiced from the
consular district Of Paris. Lyons comes
next, with exports of S101s8,OO0; then
Rheims, with exports of S7,5l7,000; then
bordeaux. with exports Of S. $1,000; then
st. Etienne. with SIS, 900: then Mar
seiIles. with S3.4l4,oOO. and Havre, Rouen.
RouDals and other districts follow with
smaller amounts.
a large share of all these goods are tex
tiles. Paris sends US Sc, 937, GOO OF merinos,
cashmeres and dress goods. and g., 297, 900
OF artificial feathers and flowers and MILL
merry. Lyons sends 81. 395. 600 of silks, and
st. Etlenne Sl,769,000 Of the same class of
goods. Rouen sends as Sl,7il 900 OF grapes,
1888, 663 of meTinOs and cashmeres and
Sl77,000 OF upholstery goods La some Of
these gOods-as in grapes, merinos. laces
and tulles-our manufacturers are as vet
unable to compete with the French, but the
silks. especially the black silks, of New
Jersey and New York are equal to the fur
eign article. and really control the market.
The 100000 Of foreign silks which we
MT frgr Lirae ILL
called in the trade nouveautes. They might
just as well be made here, and some day
they will. In merinos the French beat us
through their superior skill in dyeiug. We
can make as fine and as durable a cloth, but
1t viii not hold its color like the French
This is defect which is susceptible of
remedy.
vi wines we imported in the year under
IeVie" s7,479,00o worth from France. OF
Tue 'o'ai over two-lhirds or S5,602,0 600 worth
were ehaihpagnes imported from the con-
sutSI dlStrict OF Rheims, and nearly quar-
Ter OF the "hoie. or 81 .613O were Bor-
deauX winess imported IRON the district of
that name. Our importations of Burgun-
dies were very light; OF French brandy we
took about one million dollars worth. from
The district of Cognac. There is no reason
why this brandy, as well as the red wines,
should not be supplied by California. There
Is no better brandy made in France than
the brandy to which the late General Nag
lee gave his name. and some of the choice
wine made in Napa, Sonoma and Alameda
IS unsurpassed in the Medoc district of
france. The organ of the wine trade in
New York reports that the really choice
brands OK California wine are beeon-
ing scarce in New York, and that an adj
vance 10 The price OF the vintage of 1891 is
unayos 'aoie. Attention TO quality is begin
ming 10 ell
Ii seems iudicrous to find that we took
from France in the year under review 81
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-23
RAILROAD HUMRUGGERY.

Our citizens few years ago were told
by the then president of the company that
all Of our wheat and -four would be shipped
to Europe by way of New Orleans when
the Southern Pacific Railroad should be
completed. This was when assistance was
wanted from San Francisco to build the
road. Since the railroad has been COM
pleted the public hear no more relative to
the advantages that il will be to California.
Now We are told, however, that Messrs.
Huntington IL Co. are going to do great
things by cutting off middlemen in Chicago
and New York who make commissions on
the sale Of California green fruits. Just as
if our green fruits can be sent through the
sultry climate of Louisiana and the Gulf of
Mexico. arriving in good condition in Euro.
pean markets. Transportation will cost all
our green fruits are worth, even If they are
shipped via New York direct TO European
markets. And then it will not avail to
tell persons who know all about European
fruit supplies that peaches sell for 20 to 80
cents each in London, and that Jersey pota-
toes sell for cents a pound there also. One
of the blowers for The railroad company
gave the following as the prices of fruit in
the Tsr,rr,lou markets
In London ! found tomatoes were considered
cheap at 2 cents pound; Jersey potatoes at
5 cents pound; grapes sell al 81 so, and are
served 10 you in The shape OF two or three ber-
ries shipped OF with silver scissors; indifferent
peaches sell al 20 10 80 cents each, aud they Will
continue TO do so IN spite Of our shipments.
Why? Because Of the mddeman.
This talk about shipping green fruit to
European markets and selling it at profit
is put forth to wheedle voters at the APP
preaching election. Our railroad men wish
to place their minions in Office again. SO as
10 avoid reduction of freight rates for an
other two years. That is all there is in the
idea Of sending green fruit via Kew Orleans
TO rot ON the WaV
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MIR rEcK OF the PECK REPORT.

Since Labor Commissioner Peek published
his now famous report showing how the
present tariff had advanced the wages of
workingmen in New York there has been
something like q concerted effort 10 dis
credit the man. The figures being unas-
ssilable the opponents of the tariff were re-
duced TO the necessity OF turning their guns
upon the man who made them public.
When Grover Cleveland was elected Cover
nor of New York Mr.. Peck was hard
working newspaper man. For reason per-
haps of conspicuous ability Mr.. Cleveland
appointed Dir. Peck Labor Commissioner
for the State Of New York. Mr.. Peek has
held the position ever since. The excep-
tional feature of Mr.. Peck's late report is
that 1t substantiates statements emanating
from Republican sources. The Senate
Finance Committees report covering all
the States, showed a similar condition of
things, but the Senate Finance Committee
is composed of majority of Republicans.
The free-traders assumed that it had been
twisted and turned in some way t. help the
party in the present canvass. Though not
able TO show where the twists and turns
had been made it was deemed fair to as
sumo that the report was full Of them.
When, therefore, the Democratic Labor
Commissioner Of New York came out with
a report corfoborating the Senate report SO
far as the Senate report applied TO New
Y ork. the free traders could find no other
answer than that Mr.. Peek was a stupid
prevaricaior. 1t has seemed probable from
the time chosen for issuing the report that
il was not intended in the interest OF Mr..
Cleveland. Seldom has the candidate OF
great party received such a blow at the
hands Of one of its members. The con-
clusion was that If Mr.. Peck was too con-
scientious to tumble with figures he might
at least have delayed the report until after
thu alaotion
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WOULD CONTROL ALL.

The Record Union has just found out
that cities with harbors opening to the
ocean have advantages which are not pos
sessed by towns which have no communi-
cation with the outside world except by
means of the Central and Southern Pacific
railroads. San Francisco has the ocean to
rely upon, but for a time the managers of
these roads blocked up the Golden Gate by
subscribing steamers and sailing vessels
There was an attempt to prevent San Fran
cisco from receiving merchandise from New
Y 0rk by sailing vessels, even via Europe
This blocking up the Golden Gate has failed,
but there is still a desire to keep our rivers
and bays closed. except by means of steam-
ers owned by the Huntington Company
The moment an opposition steamer is en-
ployed to take freight to or from interior
towns on the San joaquin and Sacramento
rivers an effort IS made to run 1t off, Resort
is made to State officials to deprive such
steamer Of proper landing place, SO that it
may not interfere with the steamers of the
monopoly. The Stockton controversy is a
case in point
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go. coo worth of preserved fruits ana Veset-
ahles This is fashion run mad From Bor-
dpsux alone we imported $685. 0l worth OF
euch goods, when every article could have
baen duplicated here, superior in quality
and cheaper in price. Our sugared fruits
are better than the glaces of Paris and half
the price; but we bought from Paris $780,
5S3 The best grades of our olive oil are
finer than the French oil. but we bought
from France in 1891 half million worth OF
French oil, one-half Of which came from
Bordeaux.
For some of the articles which go to make
up the volume of exports from Paris to the
United States we shall probably always be
dependent on the French capital. We shall
always be glad to buy from it works of art,
books and engravingS, millinery trimmings.
corsets, ornaments, jewelry, fancy goods.
artificial feathers, scientific instruments,
toilet articles and perfumery, and such artl-
eles Of exquisite taste in which the French
excel. But even in these articles or luxury
American competition viii develop as the
wears roll over. And as TO the great bulk
of our importations from France ii is clear
that we can even now dispense with most Of
them
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rAx.EArEEs, CONVENTION.

W menting upon The CALLS article
saoa z the material Of which the Kelly
Crit inside Young convention was COM
posed Al indignant CORES pondent wants TO
kuo~ I d man loses his citizenship by be-
comm city official. May not a man be
depn-5, cOpyist or a janitor and still be
deeeI. sort Of man? The first question is
cheeTIaily answered in the negative and the
last cheerfullY in the affirmative. a man
may 0rk for the city and retain all the
privileges of citizenship, aud if be is origin
ally composed OF the right kind OF stuff
confines an honorable and self-respecting
man But il does not follow that City Hall
piaceH en- acquire such superiority over
their iell0Wmen as to warrant an entire
sunru Ter Of municipal affairs into their
hands. The Calls article gives the
names and positions Of ninety-six City Ball
placemen Ia the Crimmins-Kelly-D Young
coav@n ion. There are seyenty-one others
whose 1ames have not yet acquired place
IN the directory. The County Clerks Office
is largely represented in the municipal con-
yentoH. In this relation the fact may be
noied hat the Republican convention, IN
Ike tas two conventions that preceded it,
did nct limit the County Clerks Office to
Se9o0 per month.
ASSUMING that all these employees OF the
city are citizens and possess . legal right to
represent their several districts in conyen-
ticn- . does not follow that it is good poll
ties make up convention so largely from
the tax-eating class. The tax-paying class are
also citizens and have right to be present
Il col entions chosen to nominate men in
whose hands the affairs of the city may be
placed. The personal interests Of these
niiety-six city employees will be promoted
y g liberal expenditure Of public money.
Inc reforms their own platform calls for
would abolish places now held by some of
these n'nety-siX delegates. It is not TO be
supBos that men viii lie awake nights
thinking bow reforms may be effected which
VIII turn them out Of Office.
70 tie history of San Francisco politics
thefe mas never been such a fragrant exam
pls u b2ss rule. The three or four men
VINO run the Republican local machine
saatheh their OWE employees to indorse
elcAet already agreed upon. The conven-
tl99 Sias 10 sense as a court of record II
mas 10 othei Glty than to vote for the sspir.
tuts "hom me BOSSES may name. One NJ
ne bosses, VINO aspires to tina ofi.o 30
niled States Senator. is represented In Tho
eohTeD1sG by relatives and dano,'5a,,.
VIC vii vote for aspirants for tho 80
79m the bosses will name Tba,stsIo
grotesqus. The proyisi.D IS 80
.asoa which subjects ticket ST. no,,
la 20 10 the eleetors-at-large is the featpro
~ en renders such a convention tolerable.
~ 'oters viii have a chance to get even in
November.
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covers the remotest localities with its postal
service, often at cost per letter hundred
times greater than the postage on the letter.
Postage also is made uniform all over the
United States, the sparsely settled districts
being served at the expense of the central
States. The postage on letter between
San Francisco and the most easterly post
Office in Maine is no greater than between
New York and Boston. The same principle
was applied to the distribution of school
moneys in this State. Under this rule the
counties OF population pay more money to
the State than they receive from the State.
But this excess enables sparsey settled
counties to maintain public schools. 1t pre-
vents children in remote localities from
growing up in ignorance. Who shall say
that this money is not we'll expended? The
remote localities are made habitable there
by, and in proportion to population become,
in business sense, tributary to the city.
AS the party has always been steadfast in
its support of our public school system the
public is not likely to approve the PROPOSE
ton,
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Senator Coke is Familiarity known in Texas
as "Old Hams"
Adirondack" Murray is about to return
to the lecture platform.
Gladstone recently assembled Mount Snow
den, the highest peak in Wales.
Kaiser William is only SO years old, though
already the father Of seven children.
Mrs. Darlington Booth is said to receive
but 81 per week for her services to the Sal
walton Army.
Archduke Albreeht OF Austria is consid-
cred to be one of the best generals OF the
Austro- Hungarian army.
Charles A. Collin, legal adviser to Gov
ernor Flower Of New York. is also a pro-
lessor In Cornell University.
Friedrich krupp. son Of the great gun
maker, Alfred Krupp, has for the second
time refused letters patent of nobility.
Oliver T. Morton, the son of the War
Governor" OF Indiana, is about to publish
a book entitled "The Southern Empire"
j. r. G. Pitkn. American Minister to the
Argentine Republic, is enthusiastic about
the development Of trade between the two
countries.
DR.. George S. Burroughs, professor of
biblical literature at Amherst, has accepted
the presidency of Wabash College, Indiana.
He is graduate OF Princeton. class '73.
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Brown Davis, who
computes the ephemers of the sun for
the Nautical Almanac, is less than so years
old. She is one Of the leading mathemati-
clans OF the world.
Two Of the popular novelists and play
wrghts Of the day in London. Robert Bn-
chanan and Arthur Conan Doyle, are men
of splendid physical proportions. They are
big, robust, hearty, with the stature and
development of soldiers.
Emperor William of Germany has sent a
gold watch. bearing fiattering Inscription,
to the Marquis Manoel Mancebo, Brazilian
naval captain, as a reward for the aid whic h
he gave the captain of a German bark
which was burned in the harbor of Rio
.laneirO.
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the purpose of controlling California for In
diyidual profit. Has there ever been any
thing approximating the threat OF MI
Huntington in the United States preyl-
ously? And how is the Central Pacific
Railroad managed? a work which was
built by The public and with public money!
and which was intended TO be used for the
public good. This property was tnLheu
over to e company-the Southern F 99II,-,
organized. il seems, to defraud the on't 80
States. 1t was turned over to me sa'iiv ~
dyiduals who claim to own the Cehtlal l q,
c!fic, and is it a stretch Of the llnas'nA,ioil
to say it was done for the very pufp 3g,o .,
cheating the iph"oitantS oil 'he oplt ,,i
So Emf Of me money advanced to tuIld
,,I'-a;,ra.dg Had not Mr. Huntington bet
tn llo stoy making threats to run the politics
If ,ass State through the instrumentaliiy OF
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THE BAN ON DECENT VOTERS.
Evening Bulletin. sept. %.

The Election Commissioners yesterday
failed to reconsider their ruling which
makes it great deal more difficult for a
Non Partisan to vote than Republican or
Democratic rOunder. Sanderson Mayor.
burst Attorney and Tilton Surveyor orig
inally set up this startling distinction.
The intensely judicial mind of Smiley.
Auditor, led him yesterday to join the trio
They profess to have found provision of
law which reduces to all inferior position
in the suffrage all those who revolt from
boss rule.
According to them the ingenious rock
roller can vote his whole ticket by stamp
ing single cross at the head of it. But the
Non-Partisan, to do the same work, must
stamp upward OF forty crosses. And to
discharge his political duty fully and thor
oughly he must have in mind all the names
on his ticket. We are inclined to think that
Sanderson Mayor, burst Attorney and Til
ton Surveyor, together with recruit Smiley,
Auditor, have taken q step that they will
regret as long as they live. BY strained
construction OF the law they are striving to
curtail the electoral privileges of the best
men In town. Under their ruling the round
ers and bummers are preferred voters.
1t is certain that this question should not
be allowed to stop at the point which it has
now reached. 1t Is not settled that these
Commissioners have control Of the ticket at
all. II they have, the question still remains
whether the Legislature could so interfere
with the equality of the suffrage as to make
1t more difficult for one class of voters to
cast their ballots than the other classes. III
the Legislature can do this, it can destroy
the electoral franchise altogether by per-
uniting its exercise only to select few
There appears to be time enough to get
these weighty questions determined, IL the
courts are found to be at all accommo-
dating.
The Issue before Us is one of popular
rights. These-SandersoD, Mayor; burst,
Attorney; Tilton, Surveyor, with Smiley,
Auditor. as a recruit-propose to trampe
under foot in the interest of Kelly and
Crimmins and all other bosses present and
to come. The movement OF the Non-Parti-
sans is considered by the new City Hall,
now in convention assembled. as an uniusti-
fable mutlny, which must be crushed at
all hazards. 1t is not expected that any
properly constituted Deputy County Clerk
or other subordinate is going to submit to
that sort of thing
Ii the Nom artisans are allowed to ave
their way the noble army Of supernumer-
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WHAT THE THREATS MEAN.

= vas a bold step for Mr.. Huntington to
TAX zen he threatened the inhabitants Of
q ffeal city ike San francisco and told
tIen mat they were selfish and did not
kao" lat was good for themselves: that
thsy ma stood at the Golden Gate exaeting
'rioute from every vessel which passed in
u ou' u the harbor; that in fact, we were
OF plnndereTs. because we proposed
eve Ys5siliDg vessels and steamers to re-
TAD nm - aNy from the expressions which
,a g . ossn p.ESeiiced upon US. Mr. Hupting
:. VIC nlainest of language that his
EN- is e cit1sens t. fight this cty-yes
: beck. And how is TIN. 70 - i a IN
e uss Of money pad to bases to corrn by
~ tei ans TO do the bidding e the ra ILL,
pany. Is not this the situaaonp 0 0Tr
H 81, snQ State have been actually paying Mr.
100. 49,. g gion and his associates milIioes 81
ssass annually in the way of outrageous
-. N,a-. tparges. and portions of this Yery
nave been turned over to bosses for
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aries may be turned out on the cold chart
ties of the world. This is contamination
which the new City Hall, now in convention
assembled, is bound to prevent by all the
means in Its power. The idea that office
holders should have to earn their bread as
other people is unthinkable to Kelly and
Crimmins and the statesmen who sit at
their feet and absorb something besides their
ms pired words.
In connection with this subject attention
Is called to the able communication on the
subject published elsewhere 10 the Bulletin
from ex- Justice Currey. What is left by it
of SandersoD, Mayor; Burst Attorney;
Tilton, Surveyor, and recruit Smiley is not
visible under the microscope. This COM
municatlon leaves nothing further to be
said on the question. In the light of the
law laid down in it the Election Commits
sioners appear in sorry plight. Even the
alleged judicial mind of Auditor Smiley APP
pears to have been dreadfully at fault.
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an UsEmENrs THIS EVENING.

T-7l OPERA HOUSE, Eddy street, Of Market.
D5Er-f )ltvette.'
STREET THEArER Grove street. above
am2--OliFer Twist"
-tCs PAyILIoS--Grand Kirmess. fer the
Resent ~ the German Peoples Home.
ysr E-STEEET THEATER. Bush street, between
htaIE and Montgomery. Daddy Nolan"
sTrcKEF-I's THEATER. Powell street. near Mar
~ lsraua-"The New South
fstpWIN THEATER. Market street, near Powell
EfatG opera-"The MOunlsbank."
IcHCs0e's THEATER, Howard street. between
Ialrd lud Fourth. Drama-"The Two v anderers."
fsEIEoGNIA THEATER. Bush street, above Rear1y.
CeMecy The JguI0r Partner"
&GcsEAR THEATEB. OFarreu street, between
sf1est % and Powell. Drama-''In Spite Of All"
~ THEATER corner Stockton and Geary
ariety entertainment
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SCHOOL TAXES.
The Republican local platform saws:

We believe that school taxes sboald be spent
within the counties where they are levied and
collected. In the city aud county OF San Fran
cisco, State OF California. this policy would bring
The fund up to the requirements of our public
school system without any increase of taxes, and
would furnish ample and healthy school room
for our children and would meet promptly the
salary demands OF that able and hard W king
corps of teachers which our party has MAN.
taiDed In charge OF our schools.
The proposition that each county should
look out for itself is In conflict with the
general policy of the nation and of the
State. The United States Government
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.
IMPAIRMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WEATEER RT~RFAT

IFPARTMFNT OF AoRICTLTURE- !
WEATHER BUREAU. 800
san FRANCISCO. september - Ie1-''
Omeisl Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Finding Midnight
Northern California Fair weather.e1cep' showers
st FTnrefa. nearly stationary temperature. except
s-t, cooler along the ceast; south to west winds
s.-r,SsrT Califoruia-Fair westher: nearly sta
ttonsT- temperature; westerly wiRds.
frsrr- and Northumberland rains; nearly
srarior.-g temperature; south to west winds, high
aiczg ras coast.
Nersa Fair weather: slightly cooler; south to
Hes, DIS
Guitar weather; slightly cooler; southerly
winds
san franc sco-Fair weather; slightly cooler;
gfesler wiads. JOHN Z. FINLEY
su,euaHt Ninth infantry. officer II charge
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ACTS WORTH KNOWING.

TB CALL has had San Francisco care
fuNr -lnvassed in order to learn what city
morn newspapers were taken by the
peep The result is that THE CALL cir
cu.at fully One-fOurth more copies than
any Ter paper. THE CALL circulation
lead- 3 fully One-quarter. The Chronicle
conc next after THE CALL and leads the
Ele eer. The above facts show why THE
ca so strong in San Francisco.
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stBscR1?rInN RATS;

pAfIy CALL Gncluding sunda.'' ., - ner
EraN postpaid; 10 cents peT.-~ many CALI,
l'ehtaT month, .h.oeS SIS % SUNDAY CALL
1s5,slso ,ss - "a per year. postpaid 81
CsIIa86 y, EEALY CALL. 8 90 per eAi' 80 'i'-
vEEKLT CALL . lages). - per year p'''F'--
,rur I'LL cannot return rejected manuscripts S
- - me editor enter INTO correspondence TO
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THE CALL CALENDAR,
SEPTEMBER. 1892.
ea @e1r.E.iies,- !.
NOTICED

Az Of our patrons tsto fail TO ind THE
nor ING CALL ior sale bV t'ain-b0ys
r..e 8sr fQror by notifying this Q6ice o.
STAG naming the dote and tram,