The morning call., 1892-08-25

the profit by conveyance in huge barges.
tugged along a canal or towed by traction
engine ON the banks. There ought to he
good canals up and down the whole length
of the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys.
Railroads, of course, are not favorable TO
any Improvement of this nature.
The infinite littieness of the Southern
Pacific has cropped out in two petty exhbi-
tions of monopoly strength. One is down in
q southern part of the State, where the CON-
pany has the water front as it has in Oak
land, and has interfered to prevent man
from doing ferry business to spot where
the citizens can bathe. This man is to be
crushed because the company cannot tole-
rate even lily in the transportation busi-
ness. But the citizens do not propose TO be
cheated or dickered out of their rights to
sea bath. The remedy they propose is TO
condemn route 10 the water front across
the Southern Pacifc's tracks, and then the
ferry will go ahead as before. The other
dreadful exhibition OF corporate tyranny is
on the other side of the bay. where mer-
chant who has leased wharf is not allowed
10 land any thing in the shape of merchan-
disc He is compelled 10 use the other
wbarves, where toll to the Southern Pacific
must be paid. Merchants and citizens of
every grade must be slaves indeed If they
permit this despotism TO continue.
dispatch from New York says the
health authorities are not apprehensive
about the importation Of cholera. But ap-
prehensive they should be. number of
vessels are expected from infected ports,
and it win be strange indeed If some case of
cholera has not broken out en- route. A
l0dgment of the disease ib New York would
work widespread havoc In quick time, ana
no precautions could cOnfne the attacks to
the Empire City. With cholera at Ham,
burg, Hayre and Antwerp it is but ques-
tion of weeks when it will ramify into many
other centers. Presumably the health au-
thorities OF New lerk. Boston and Phila-
delphia VIII al least take care TO make
strict investigation Of the bill Of health
offered for examin alton by incoming vessels.
But from the disclosures made as to selling
rags which have been used in hospitals
there may be good deal OF skepticsm as to
the thor0ughness OF municipal sanitary pre-
cautions.
Military martinets In France have had an
exemplary lesson. Intensely hot weather
prevailed during the recent maneuvers, and
while the high temperature could not be
ooViated by any human command, it is OBJ
vlous that the exercise OF the troops could
have been stopped. The cases of snnstroke
were so numerous that ali inquiry was or
dered, and the consequence Is that two gen.
erals and one colonel find themselves on the
retired list, where they may keep cool until
&c be humane and very often they are brutes.
Poor Gladstone. who has just been re-
elected for Midlothian, is not allowed much
rest by the newspapers. He is told by one
OF the London dailies that he Is 10 give way
to Sir William Barcourt and Lord Rose
berry. Probably he knows more about his
seIf-effaeement than the journal in cues
ton. just as be did about Lord Rosebery's
int tpnl mt 70 fhA Il lin
be something OF blow TO his government
II John Morley, his Irish Secretary, is not
reelected for Newcastle-on-Tyne Morley
has run foul of the workIngmen on the
eight-hour question. but is man enough 10
say what he thinks. Some of his canvassers
have organized pTayer-meetings on his be-
half as friend OF justice. but his opponents
deride his manifestation of piety on the
ground that Morley is an agn0stic. Should
he lose the seat some other will be found for
him by raising a rich man TO the peerage
and letting Morley slip in for a safe con-
stltuency.