The morning call., 1892-08-30


The Shively complaint stands over for
FIVE weeks. Meanwhile the Railroad Com
missioners 90 into training during two weeks
Of vacation TO recruit themselves for the
exhausting intellectual labors they must
encounter when they hear the complaint.
They have been the recipients of a most
loyal and dutiful communication from
Colonel r Z. Morgan, their expert TO do
business they should do themselves. lie
specifies CARLOAD Of documents he has re-
ceiyed, and indicates another caTtlOad
which might improve his judgment when
aSsimilated, Among other documents be
would like 20 get hold OF is ''the full text Of
the Judgment Of Judge Mccormick of the
United States District Court of Texas. re-
Gently rendered in respect 10 the right of
the Railroad Commissioners of that State 10
regulate freights and fares" Truly If does
look queer If the opinions of Federal
Judge In a remote State-a Judge ho takes
his Office and retires from the emoluments
OF the bar on a salary of less than 5000 a
year-aTe 10 govern the local railroad situa-.
tion in California. And 1t may be asked.
what concern has this expert with that de-
cision? The Southern Pacific viii no doubt
supply copy-paSs copy IN TACT ail:round
among the judges and officials of CALI
fOrDia.
The University OF California has added to
It's course Of studies one on pedagogics.
which may be taken TO mean the best means;
Of teaching what you know TO circle of
students varying in intellectual or receptive
ealiber. 1t may be called the knowledge 0f
the art Of teaching. There is room for:
much Improvement in this field, for no.
t0rOusly some teachers are conspicuous
failures, while others enlist the attention OF
their listeners with feverIsh interest and
stimulate them to initiate studies OF their
own. Tie request preferred by over FIVE.
-.
University is therefore reasonable. a series
of University extension lectures IS to be
undertaken by the professors In the pODu-
lous eenters of the State. and the teachers
ask that a course in pedagoSics should BE-
included. 1t should.
The Pacific Mail Company appears to be
getting between tie devil and the deep sea-.
1t is threatened with relegation TO its own
resources by the Transcontinental AssOcia-.
ton, which sees no use in backing up the
pernicious and useless but spoiled game Of
the Southern Pacific. 1t is likewise threat
ened With competing limo OF steamers
between the Isthmus Of Panama and san
Francisco and New York, the Panama
Railroad Company itself taking the initia-
tive upon the expiration at an early date Of
the present foolish agreement, by which the
railroad makes itself the slave of the Pacific
Mail and the Southern PacifiC under one of
the most corrupt trafic-siifiing bargains
known TO trade. Lastly the company is
menaced with competition by the Great
/ Northern Railroad. which is Withdrawing
from the Transcontinenlal Association and
means 20 do business with San Francisco
by sea when it reaches Puget Sound at the
end Of The year. The Pacific Mail may also
have a bit OF competition eventually with
the AtchisoD. Topeka and Santa Fe Conn
paRy. That railroad will not always keep
out OF San Francisco, either by sea or land,
to accommodate the Southern Pacific, which
has aTTaiGned Itself as the hereditary en-
emy Of San Francisco and the Unsuitable
oppressor Of the State. Tie Panama Rail-
road Company could render its opposition
exceptionally powerful. 1t could charter
any class Of vessels 1t pleases, foreign or
home built both between Colon and New
York and Panama and San Francisco, and
trade could be done in these vessels at
every point Up the coast.
The Great Northern Company is said to
be in this position, that its line has cost less
than that of any other transcontinental
company and so it can afford TO give rates
far below its rivals. Its stock Is not watered
fctitioasly and corruptly. as is Dotorionsly
the case with the Southern Pacific, which
began in fraud and lives en- fraud. aud ex-
tortion combined. Mr.. i'll, the president
| of the Great Northern, is bent upon giving
|, fair accommodation TO the districts aud
cities through which the line passes and
favors legitimate expanding business
| rather than squeezing policy backed no
| by accounts that few can understand. On
! fairdealing basis he expects to pay divi-
| dends, and If be is as good as his word he
may expect to strike terror into all compe-
| titon with high grades. eXoTbitant rates,
| corrupt agreements and a method of work.
| ing contracts and manipulating the stock
market for the advantage of few, who be-
| come c0rpulent 10 wealth and sneer at other
| business men as wanting In enterprise.
| There are few grand old men left in the
world, and long may they continue TO
| leaven the mass Of mediocrity. The United
States has at least two Of these immortal
worthless Wendell Holmes and John
g. Whittier. DIR. Holmes yesterday reached
his eighty-third year, and is in good health.
He was the recipient OF showers of congratu-
lations by letter and telegraph, and he must
have been especially pleased with a cordial
| thought in verse from his friend Whittier.
incidentally, DIR. Holmes discloses tha fact
that he is engaged on "reminiscences III
they are to be published only after his
death long may they be kept on the shelf.
Florida. Capitalists have secured a strip of
land 80 miles long and two or three miles
wide on the banks Of two rivers. They paid
only lew cents an acre, but when they
have drained it and rendered ii it for fruit
or sugar. they may hope to realize thou
sands per cent. They will have to work for
their money, however. to some extent be-
fore they get their drainage scheme per-