The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-13

Of rates, at least for favored persons who
viii bend the knee TO If, by the 1st of Janu-
airy. This is distinctly a compliment to the
efforts carried on by the Traffic Association
of San Francisco merchants to break loose
from the bonds and wiles of the Southern
Pacific forever, and to institute a reliable
competitive system which will smash the
power OF that monopoly. The company is
at Its Old game OF divide and cOnauer. IL
hopes TO pit merchant against merchant
and allow certain traders 70 secure a prefer
entail footing in the interior or wherever
they want to 60. 1t hopes TO excite the
interior against San Francisco. If II should
gain its point, by and by it would resume the
lfe-grinding policy Of charging extreme
rates.
1t is obvious that the only safety OF San
Francisco merchants is TO hold together in
an honorable association to secure fair
rates of TRANSPORTATION and TO utilize ell the
advantages of situation on San Francisco
Bay that nature has supplied. With the
ocean routes kept open and free the mer-
chants Of this city may defy the through
haul Of the Southern Pacific, and may take
up a great volume of local trade on fair
terms over the whole Of the Pacific Coast.
The way to do this has been clearly pointed
out again and again. Some of the means
are already within the hands of our mer-
chants. aud others are within reach if they
keep true to one another Resides loeal
railroads this State Will soon take posses.
sion OF other overland routes on e0mpetl-
tive basis. and in the near future there is
the probability of the Nicaragua canal
being constructed.
The French papers are giving a good deal
OF advice on the manner in which the Pam
ANA investigation should be conducted. As
the most influential of them were bribed.
both through the proprietors and editors,
the advice is not disinterested. A Partisan
paper is simply a literary hireling, aud the
most shameful feature of the degradation is
that when exposure is made there Is no
shame. The public link the newspapers
and the politicians all In string like BAN
dts. Meanwhile IL is interesting to tote
that Prince Bismarck comes 30 the assist
ance of NJ. de Lesseps. He depores the ar
ralgnlDg OF this grand old man in a court of
Justice, and cites his exploit of constructing
the Suez canal as emitting him TO the eter-
nal gratitude OF mankind. Yes. but a div-
dend of 10 or 20 per cent is fair pperdon
And what about the deluded shareholders
who have been Swindled out of hundreds of
millions Of francs by the Panama canal Z?
Are they to attend the funeral of this man
with Grape In their hats?
A good bit of capital has been obtained by
the socialists and unemployed in England out
OF battue or pbeasants on Lord Dudley 5
estate in which the Prince of Wales. the
Duke of Devonshire and six others assisted
The shooting OF pheasants is not In any
sense higher sport than the shooting of
barndour fowls. A very large proportion
OF the pheasanEs are Matched in coops by
fowls. and the feeding of the pheasants is
generally grain thrown down by hand.
Water is also supplied. On some estates
the cost Is Teekoned at about guinea a
head. The Prince of Wales and his friends
shot down IN one day over 1000 head Of this
Kind OF poultry, or about 500 EACH II NAV
all have been merciful work, and pheasants
are undoubtedly good ealing, but what n
spectacle in the name Of sport! Why do not
some OF these "highest in the land0 and
lowest in moral feelings 90 into the butch
ering business, say at Deptford, where IL is
very brutal
The important statement comes from
London that the British Government has
practically decided to adopt penny post
age for the whole of the British EN- pire
a letter would therefore not only go to its
destination, as at present, TO any part of
the United Kingdom, for two cents, but to
Australia; India. Hong-K Kong, the Straits,
Cansda, Vancouver Island. Jamaica, tn e
Cape and number of other regions on the
globe. At present the postage to any coun-
try In Europe or to the United States is
Eve cents per half ounce letter. But Malta.
Cyprus and Gibraltar will get the benefit
OF the reduction. One result of this must
be to force the hands OF other countries.
Until the changes are effected there NAV
also be contraband business In packages
of letters TO be remaied in England. The
change is in the right direction, for postage
up and down the world should be made as
little as possible business of profit.
A beginning has at last been made In the
construction of steamers for the trans
Atlantic trade. Messrs. Cramp have laid
the keels OF two steamers and three m ore
are to follow. The company already has
the purchased steamers, the City OF Paris
ana City OF New York, In its hands, and
one oil these vessels has made at least one
unrivaled voyage across the Atlantic. There
IS no GOOD reason why the company should
not succeed IN its venture of hosting tbe
american nag once more in this trade.
lhirty years have passed since American
vessels were engaged in II, but our carrying
trade on other routes has expanded encour.
agingly. We must be prepared to face