The morning call., 1892-10-28

The voting register of San Francisco has
been added up. The number Of voters ap-
pears to be IS, 2S2, but 1867 names have been
stricken off, and the list stands at 67,Sl5
names AT least 5000 or 5000 more should
be erased. There is apparently no inten-
ton to PERFORM this work Of publication.
1t is much too insupportably OnerOus for
the officials who ought to perform it. The
question then arises, how can this R0rging
of the register with spurious voters be de-
feated on the day OF electon3 Every pre-
cinct will have to be watched closely from
the moment the poll is opened until it
closes. With the utmost care there are
numerous opportunities for the fraudulent,
because there Will be treacnery as far as
possible inside the polling places. The
bosses will stick at nothing. 1t is unfOr-
tunate that some OF the precincts have more
names on the register than can be voted con-
veuiently. There are some that have over
800 voters. But with care every voter has
time sufficient 10 mark his ballot, and
watchers have time to mark the process.
The arrival of a consignment of Canadian
livestock at Dundee has been followed by
the discovery that some OF the animals are
affected with pleuro-pDeumona. Canada
will now experience the hardship so long
inflicted upon the United States. A IL cattle
shipped will be killed at the port Of entry.
This means a diminuton In price to the ex-
porter, but the English consumer will
hardly know the difference. 1t is CON-
mon practice to sell the foreigners meat as
prime English-fed, and, of course, at corre-
spending prices. Even the small mutton of
New Zealand is literally busted with -four
and retailed as Sweet-toothed mountain
Welsh. SO the consumer Is perhaps indif-
ferent about the misfortunes of the Cana
dian exporter Of meat on the hoof.
The necessities Of Irish politics have at
last driven the contending parties to patch
up an agreement on how to utilize the funds
of the Irish party lying at interest in Paris.
Every dollar of this money was contributed
by the Irish in America, and provided the
contestants who have kept IL locked up can
agree upon terms for les liberation and en-
pIoyment nobody need complain. Quite
outside of Parliamentary uses there is a
good field for the money In Ireland itself In
supporting the victims of harsh eviction.
An agreement among the Irish Home Rule
parties at this moment is OF mOmeBtous
consequences to the future of the country,
and the removal of this feud about locked
up money will facilitate agreement
The French will eventually achieve vic
tory in Dahomeyland, but at what terrible
cost? What will France gain from such
conauests? Can it hold them or utilize
them? Suppose it had all Africa north of
the equator, what good would that do TO
Paris? Tonquin is in the hands of France.
Has it really been eolonized? Do French
men Frenchify the country or do they only
sparsely hold rule here and there and leave
to the foreigners of various races the utili-
Zation OF the country in It's numerous re-
sources? Algeria excepted, France is much
stronger at home than abroad, and IL needs
all its strength at home. A country decay
ing IN population and with the richest do
main Of Europe at It's command. may be-
come stronger by resisting the prevailing
colonization idea. Even Great Britain be-
gins to perceive the folly of nominal occu-
patton of wild territories.
The head of the Department of Agr-
culture in England has distinctly refused to
withdraw the prohibition against the impor-
tation Of live cattle from countries affected.
This decision may apply TO Canada as well
as The United States. but 1t certainly does
apply 10 the United States. Live cattle
from this country can only be imported upon
condition that they are slaughtered at the