The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-02

The social revolution cannot take place
in France fer the present 1t is indefinitely
POSTPONED. Parisians can take dinner
quietly and go to the theater in the evening,
and that is great matter for people who
are popularity supposed to regard dining as
the most serious business Of the day and
amusement as the next. The raid upon the
anarchists has resulted in a discovery that
befouls their cause lamentahly. Other
agents than criminals are needed for the
regulation of society, and the police have
just laid by the heels an anarchist who
bears INDUSTRIOUS character as a criminal,
and Is IN fact actually under sentence of
death for murder. The antecedents of
Ravachol go to show shat he has been
s;eeped in crime from boyhood, and various
murders are attributed TO him besides the
one of which he stands convicted. How he
has succeeded in keeping at large while
posing As an anarchist and secretly engaged
IN the manufacture of dynamite is a strange
thing, somewhat detIacting from the repu-
tatlon OF French detectives for sagacity in
criminal tracking. Before this self-can-
fessed villain is led out TO the guillotine the
authorities may worm out of him few
useful secrets for their guidance Mean
while The anarchists have given up prophe-
81 ing about the awful doom awaiting So
ciety. They are more concerned about the
tate which hangs over themselves. So the
ZltlOn are again uppermoSt
The Indians will have cause to be grateful
to Congress if, as appears probable, the
clause in the appropriation bill becomes law
allowing army officers to act as agents on
the reservations. This change should afford
reasonable guarantee that the red man
will be treated fairly, with a toerabe I'M
Outstanding of his nature aud wants.
Agents have frequently been corrupt, and
have studied rather how to enrich them
selves than administer affairs in the interest
Of the Indians. II through lOng-cOntinued
injustice and populations reyoits occurred
the agent had no share in the fighting 10 re-
store harmony. Il was then the turn of the
army officer TO settle QuarTels he had no
share I'D originating and might have avert
ed AS the officers OF the American army
spend good deal Of their time on duty In
the Indian country they know the savage
nature and pecullaritleS well, and the pre-
sumption IS that they will make excellent
agents aHd give satisfaction TO the red man.
Ii is In favor OF good service that their pro-
fessiOnal position is secure and that honor
IS one Of the distinguishing traits of the SOL
diers character
The latest newspaper aspect of the Bor-
rowe-DraytOn scandal involves, if true,
nearly all the parties concerned in shame.
1t is openly proclaimed that Drayton has no
means OF his own aAd is living apart from
his wife on an allowance given HIM upon
condition that he keeps up the appearance
Of domestic felicity. Drayton has exacted
one condition. that Mrs. DraytOn shall not
meet BOrroYe, with whom at ole time the
husband was on terms of close friendship
AS TO B0TrOWe, the character given him is
very fishv. He is described as drunkard
who has been under the bi-chloride of gold
4.aff 4.
living on what his father allows him end
what he can extract from friends OF both
sexes. Report credits him with the design
OF marrying Mrs. Dray ton the moment there
IS divorce, but apparently the husband
has no intention of going into court Mrs
Drayt0n had SG00,c00 settled upon her, and
her annual income Is S35. 0OO but 10 is al!
secured in such a manner that it cannot be
touched. William h. Astor's millions may
be left IN any manner. There IS no GER
taiIty that be may leave Mrs. DraytOn a
single dollar. 1t is altogether a vulgar,
sordid row, with scandal enough for a novel
by Zela.
What bargain was struck afresh between
Jay Gould. c. p. Huntington and other rail-
road officials on ;he Mexican frontier has
not been allowed to transpire Nobody can
believe, however. that Gould and Huntington
were closeted together for a couple Of hours
without very important business indeed 10
IL terest them, especially as the services Of a
lawyer were alteTwaTd invoked. The public
viii judge of the matter hereafter by devel-
opments. Mr.. Gould, Of course, wonld say
nothing. He understands Talleyrand's sar-
casm that language is intended to conceal
thought, fer lie calmly assured a correspon-
dent that he is only travelling Tor his health.
81, perhaps, Is Mr.. Huntington, AID how
very odd that they should meet, and that
half dCZenRdministrative railroad officials
should also be at the rencontre Senator
Stanford is now on his way 10 the coast.
de Is said TO have the university business
on hand, but the chances are he will have
time to see his associate in railroad enter
prise.
A North OF England paper this year, in its
annual revision Of the shippiES trade,
warns British ship-owners and shippers TO
expect serious competition in the carrying
trade from the United States. pointing out
that our Government is bent upon encourage
ing maritime enterprise. 1t does appear an
ignominious position to occupy that the vast
BODY OF shipments across the Atlantic
should be made in foreign vessels. Not one
OF the fiTst-clasS lines of steamers crossing
the Atlantic In the passenger service flies
the stars and stripes. There are numbers of
English lines and few German, Belgian and
french, ont not one to represent the United
States. The time must come when we shall
overcome the difficulties that have beset us.
An American line Of fast steamers we'll
equipped and designed "a luxuriously as
possible for the better class OF passengers
would at once obtain large proportion of
the transatlantic patronage. That the
trade is profitable, when crack vessels are
employed, may he inferred from the fact
that the IeutOnic Of tie White Star line has
already paid for her cost. although she has
only been running three years.