The morning call., 1892-09-27

showing that responsible citizens are de-
termined to annihilate bossism and its long
train of evils at this election. The ticket
has been purgsd of certain men who allowed
their names to 60 on Boss Kelly's slate. so
that the issues are now drawn clearly and
sharply. It Is almost certainty also that
the Non-Partisans will get name on
the ticket. This matter is not to be left to
the Election Commissioners. who have
shown their bias in tagrant manner.
Secretary Of State Waite is at least In favor
of giving a heading 1t really is outrageous
that any obstacle should be put In the way
of masses of citizens voting In the most
taciIe manner possible, consistent with
honesty.
The Southern Pacific has been defeated
in its attempts to checkmate merchants by
one Of its little movements 0stensibly made
10 support the navigation laws OF the
United States. The United States Dis
trict Court at Los Angeles has pronounced
in favor of the legality of the shipment of
nails from New York TO Antwerp and from
Antwerp to San Francisco. That Is to say,
the shipment is not in the direct aud strict
sense shipment from one United States
port to another. The decision is test one,
and a large number of test suits are bound
by it. The Southern Pacific must feel in
Jured at losing the case, but it has only Its
own rapacity and conscienceless greed to
blame. Our merchants would never have
taken this roundabout way TO get merchan-
disc had they not been goaded into 1t by the
unprin eipled freight exactions of the CON-
pany. Every friend of California must re-
j0ice at the result.
Even with free trade and the utmost free
dom Of transportation in England it some
times pays merchants to adopt similar tao
tics where there happens 10 be no great
in Ill TO-,
New York often take freight at nominal
rates, the owner being almost glad to get it
as ballast. Thus merchant desirous of
delivering consignment OF iron IN London
may ship it from Liverpool TO New York
and thence to London. or vice versa. No
question can arise there about the naviga-
ton laws. Any foreign vessel may go
about from port TO port as 1t pleases.
Mr.. Cogley of Washington is determined
TO keep his name before the public as the
veritable discoverer of the fifth moon of
Jupiter. He resenis having his five-inch
telescope pooh-poohed. Calico actually
discovered the other four moons Of the biz
planet with a one-inch telescope, and why
should not a fiye-ineh telescope be equal to
the discovery of the fifth? Yes, but Mr..
Cogley forgets that you can almost see the
other moons with the nakedeeye. Perhaps
at great attitudes you can. But, be that as
Ii may, a very common opera-glass Will
show them anywhere. Mr.. Cogley has
true test of the matter in his own hands.
Let him show the fifth moon to anybody
else through his precious instrument But
he cannot do that, and unless he wishes to
be taken for blind preyaricator he had
better close the controversy.
The characterization Of the First Life
Guards at Windsor is only what may occa-
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nowadays. The men are too well educated
aud too well acquainted with what is pass
ing around them in very democratic coun-
try to submit to petty tyranny and abuse.
The Life Guards are supposed to be the
pick and flower of the army, but they are
not better cared for than other soldiers and
have very hard work in keeping themselves
and their chargers FURNISHED up. Extra
drills and haTasslng martinez regulations
inflicted by unsympathetic aristocTatic Off
GERS soon produce spirit of mutiny. OF
course there will be some inquiry into this
emeute aud doubtless some punishment,
but the effect Of the row on the public
mind VIII be as exciting as the revolt OF the
COldstream Guards few years ago. The
Coldstreams were eXiled TO Bermuda and
went off singing Annie RooneyW Queen
Victoria viii not relish the conduct OF her
Life Guards, for these are the men who al
ways guard her on state occasions
Trade is evidently in very stagnant con-
ditiOn in Lancashire, and it threatens to
become worse through lockout Of the
whole Of the cotton spinners. Firms repre-
senting IS000,000 spindles insist npon q
reduction of wages by per cent and the
workpeOple will not consent. A general
cessation Of work would be most disastrous
in county which has four millions popu-
lation. The workpeople fear that if they
give way the reduction will be permanent.
They are willing 10 accept a reduction of
hours, but not OF wages.
a decided sensation is under incubation,
if the Grand jury Of San Francisco pre-
sent the Mayor, the City and County Attor-
pfS and Ass1s sS as Smsy for wts from
pended money from the City Hall construc-
tion fund without warrant of law and, In
short in positive violation of the law. They
have undertaken lot of repairs and fur
nishiDg on their own responsibility. The
costs Of this work should have been pro-
vded by tie Board Of Supervisors. The
double responsibility. He not only passed
the accounts as Con missioner, but audited
them.
Salinas does not intend to be left out in the
cold as regards the benefits 1t may enjoy
from the construction Of the Fresno Monte
Tey Railroad The citizens have taken 120
out of $50 shares, which constitute the allot-
ment 70 Salinas. and very little difficulty
should be encountered in getting the re-
mander taken up. The region Is one of the
finest in the State for agriculture, and a
trans-yaley railroad to the sea will do won
ders for its development.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.