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THE TURNING POINT.

The turning point ia the history of rep
resentative government. will always be
found where the ruling power succeeds in
converting majorties into minorties. The
people may be educated up to the point OF
submitting to the rule of majority when
such expression is clear. but they never can
be taught TO submit to majorities obtained
by force or fraud. Just at the present time
the powers that be in the United States are
yenturipg upon dangerous ground. In sew
eraI States the result recorded Is not the
will of a majority of the legal voters. 1t Is
the result of force, intimidation and fraud.
Neither the Congress now In existence nor
the Congress which comes into existence on
the 4th of March fairly represents the will
of majority of the voters of the United
States. There are from thirty to forty
members of the House elected by small
minorities of the legal voters Yet these
minority members como into the House and
determine the policies of the nation by their
votes, The Democratic party is pledged to
the perpetuation Of this moDstrous injus-
fce. 1t says to the people Of the United
States that they shall not carry out the
provisions of the Federal constitution In
States which choose to deny legal voters
protection in the exercise Of their legal
rights. THIS is rebellion in new form. IL
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women whose homesteads have been jeopar.

women whose homesteads have been jeopar-
died by boodlers in the Legislature and
booders in the Board of Supervisors. The
method adopted Is what is known as street
extension schemes. These schemes are for
the most part propositions to make owners
of city property pay for the extension of
streets into country property. The street
cut through intervening hills, graded and
paved at the expense of property-owners on
the settled end, undoubtedly adds to the
value Of land it thus connects with the city.
But the men who pay for the street extern
sion are never the men who own the lands
the value Of which is doubtless trebled or
quadruped, as the case may be. 1t Is
refinement in the art of robbery to make
the man who is robbed pay the fellows who
do the work. Yet this Is what Is going on
in this city at all hours of the day aud
night. The process is simple. Owners Of
outside lands make an arrangement with
the bosses by which men shall be sent to
the Legislature who will give Supervisors
power to extend the streets. The same
bosses nominate men to the board who will
do the work the Legislature has authorized.
Between the two boodlers the robbery is
carried on in legal manner and is assisted
by commissioners, who receive high salaries
for seeing that it is done according to law.
And this is what some of our contemporaries
call propress
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HOW ARE WE GOVERNED?

The political situation in California and
particularly in San Francisco is peculiar
How are we governed? Are we governed
by the honest voice Of the people or by a
cOmpaeted horde which represents the
worst elements in the community and de-
liberately defrauds the citizens of their
votes? The fraud in municipal government
is now so braZen that the wretches who are
guilty DO not seem to care for the opinion
Of the public al all. The public are pawus
on a chessb0ard, of quite subsidiary con-
sideralion. The question arises. How long
can this 90 on? Can the community prosper
under frauds of the vilest kind? Can this
State make progress under the rule of men
who count the votes of citizens out and who
make arrangements to stuff the ballot-box?
In all conscience there have been frauds
enough In the past surrounding elections in
California. Are we never to get clear of
balloting iniquity? The fragrant outrages
Of the last election can hardly be described
In measured language. Fraud was one of
the things studied from the commencement.
The public werenot considered. They were
defed contemptuously.
The aim has been to keep gang Of cor
rupt hirelings In Office. The County Clerks
Office has been used for this purpose. The
fact that some men are employed who ought
TO be in the pententiary is VIGOROUSLY not
a surprise. And how stands the Sheriff's
Office? Men are employed who can control
juries. Jurymen are summoned and sworn
who can be controlled, and trials are so
fixed as to avoid convictions. This Is the
logic of The slang word "pull," so potent in
municipal affairs, as every decent citizen has
found out.
The system Of mlsgovernmentha has become
so braZen that the people cannot endure it
much longer. A stop must be put to the
fraudulent methods OF the past or we shall
drift into anarchy. 1t is almost anarchy
now. The late election Is only an ilIustra-
ton of what has been going on. In Califor-
mia, but especially in San Francisco, the
whole machinery of politics has been man.
aged in such way as to count out the
people in giving voice to their own govern
ment. Thus it comes about that il Is not
the peoples government for the people. 1t
is government by parcel Of disreputable
bosses and officials, and fair proportion of
these ough: ~ be under long terms in the
penitentiary.
The community cannot stand this rotten
ness of administration much longer. But
what is the remedy? There is no remedy
except by the people banding themselves
together and fighting lawfully for honest
elections and honest management of city
and State affairs 1t will not do to leave
the administration OF affairs in the hands of
rascals. Were there a powerful organiZa-
ton formed Of the best men In the city the
existing effrontery in support of fraud
and boodling would have to give way. The
citizens movement has been started, and 1t
must be kept up for local affairs. There is
no other chance for reformation, and there
must be no reyoking in prosecuting dIscoy-
cred scoupdIeis,
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DUTIES ON RAW MATERIAL.

CoDgressman-elect Mcguire is reported
in the Examiner as saying:
The duties should be removed from wool and
whatever enters into the necessaries OF life, and
there should be a corresponding reduction 10
manufactured articles made from these raw ma
terials.
Why should the duties be removed from
wool and only reduced on the manu-.
features OF wool? Why should one class
of American labor be protected and
another class left TO contend on equal terms
with foreign competitors? These questions
have often been asked, but never answered.
Perhaps the only answer suggested is that
the raw material OF wool does not to any
considerable extent represent labor. II Is
true that nature provides the pastures upon
which sheep feed. But nature does not
grow or make wool. Between the pastures
and the article which enters the market as
WOOL even In its mos. unfinished state, there
are many stages, all of which require work.
In fact. the pasture is less factor In the
product of raw wool than machinery Is in
the conversion Of that wool into cloth. But
1t may be said that the machinery costs
money. So do the pastures. Even where
Government land is converted into a sheen
range the herding OF sheep involves con-
siderable outlay. The position of Mr.. Ma
guire in respect to the relation of raw ma
terial to finished goods is substantially the
position that manufacturers have taken Ia
the manufacturing States. Give US free
raw material, the manufacturers said, and
we will consent to corresponding reduc-
ton In the duties on the manufactured
product. But they propose to still have an
advantage over the roducer OF the raw ma
terial, inasmuch as duties are removed
from the latter and only reduced on the
former. This jug-handled proposition will
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TOO MANY OF THEFT.

An evening contemporary is disposed TO
be 5ubilant over the fact that Supervisors
are seldom reelected. Two or three minor
ity members, who did not help ring frauds
along, are the only ones ever heard of after
their terms expire The consolation to be
derived from this fact is not of positive
character. The supply OF men who are
content to make fortune Ia one term and
then retire will never give out. Assuming
that we consume ten men each two years
there can be no real hope that the kind of
punishment now administered will have
even considerable Influence in securing
honest Supervisors. At some point in our
history we must begin to punish crime with
out regard to the social or official position
of the criminal. 1t will not answer to say
to a successful boodler that he has had his
share and must now give way to another
Of his kind. The official who sells fran
chises and in other ways serves to rob the
public should be made to understand that
he does so at the peril. not only Of his good
name. but of the money he has made at the
expense Of his good name. There are now
in this city several thousand men and
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STATE RAILROADS.

Dir. Elwood Cooper, in presiding over the
Fruit-growerS' Association, advocated the
ownership OF railroads by the Government
in order that transportation rates should be
fair aud should be removed from the caprice
of private ownership. There are obstacles
to the carrying out of this proposal, whether
put in operation by city or State or by the
Federal power. but they can be overcome
A number Of European countries have over
come these difficulties with success. England
has no state ownership of railroads, but
on the other hand il Keeps a very strong
hand, indeed, on their management in pri-
yate hands, and the grievances are few.
The railroad situation in California is
peculiar. To enter into particulars would
only traverse well-trodden ground. Both
THE CALL and considerable proportion
Of the press Of the State have advocated
the construction of railroads by the city
and State, 10 be held and managed in
the public interest and not for mere
gain. The reason is plain. There is
no other remedy which gives the same
share of advantages. The whole amount
Of money needed for the construction of
railroads TO be owned by the people is
mere bagatelle when placed In comparison
with the advantages we should gain.
Those advantages would come in the shape
of increase of population and wealth. All
our products would 60 to market at a
reasonable charge. and all commodities we
require TO import would come to US at fair
rates. It would be no great task for this
city to vote ten million dollars. and like
sum from the State would go far to provide
US with all that is needed to give the COM
munity lis own railroads. There should be
no bargaining with the Southern or Central
Pacific The State railroads should be alb
soluteiy independent. If the people are
prepared to put this project into effect they
viii reap great reward. In ten years they
will have all their outlay returned by the
prosperity which will flow into the State as
consequence of this Independent enter
prise Both San Francisco and the State
would be benefited.
THE CALL believes there is no other way
TO save ourselves from being kept back in
pinioned prostration save by going into the
building of railroads. We would have had
railroads in the hands of the people now
had it not been that in 1872 we listened to
the false promises of the Central Pacific
that it would deal fairly with the State.
There were millions OF dollars available to
push the work ahead, but promises which
were never meant to be kept STAYED off
competition, and soon the Central Pacific
resumed its role of oppression. The South
ern Pacific must be conquered if this State
means to prosper. The company has this
season made pretense Of expediting the
transportation of fruit to Chicago and New
York, but the work has not lasted long. In
fact the promises of this company amount
to nothing. San Francisco and California
must enter upon new courses If prosperity
Is TO come. No trust whatever should be
put in the Southern Pacific, and not dol
lar nor an acre should be donated to it
gratis for any purpose.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

General Butler did not vote this year.
pasteur. the famous scientist, will be 20
years old on Decem Der %.
Vics-President MoTtOn's daughter will be
introduced 70 Washington society this win
ter.
Major General Alfred Pleasanton lives
life OF hermi,-iike seclusion in a Washing
ton hotel.
L. L. Beadle OF dime novel fame has been
elected TO Congress from one OF the New
York districts.
Jay Gould, since his recent Illness, ap-
pears content to allow his sons, George and
Edwin, full swing in the management of
details.
Private Pretzchan, feet ~ inches in
height, the tallest soldier in the German
army, was lately photogra pied with the
smallest private in the army standing by
his side and copy has been hung in the
Emperor's study.
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is an assertion of the rights of States to
send representatives to the Federal Con-
gress chosen in utter disreg lrd of the clear
stipulations of the Federal constitution.
Every Democratic journal in the country
and every Democratic public man de-
nounces as an unwarrantable interference
with the rights of States the degree OF Fed
eral supervision which will assure a full
vote and a fair count The Democrats now
think they have settled the issue forever.
but issues of this magnitude are never
settled until they are settled right.
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FACTS MoRTH KNOWING.

THE CALL has had San Francisco care
fully canvassed in order to learn what city
morning newspapers were taken by the
people. The result is that THE CALL cir
culates fully one-fourth more copies than
any other paper. THE CALL circulation
leads by fully one-Quarter. The Chronicle
comes next after THE CALL and leads the
EIGntiner. The above facts show why THE
GAIL is so strong in San Francisco.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

sTocKwEIL's THEArER, Powell street. near Mar
kCt-"The Shaughraun."
TIvoLT OPERA HOUSE Eddy street, of Market.
Comic Opera-"Martha"
GROvE-STREET THEATER. Grove street, above
TOlk-"1 he ages OF SIN"
NIswAM THEATER, corner Stockton and Geary
Streets ariety Entertainment
Bush STREET THEATER. Bush street. between
Hearny and Montgomery Skipped by the Light OF
ehe Moon"
BALDWIN THEATER. Market street, near Powell
a'CIsiTe."
CALIFoRNIATHEATER, Bush street. above Kearny.
1.-THE Still Alarm"
oRPHEUM, o'Farren street, above Stockton
Ell IN in Toy Shop"
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Lieutenant Peary Is anxious to return to
the Arctic on voyage of discovery if any,
body will provide the money. He has al
ready had some experience of the far icy
north on the Kite, but wants more. There
are some indications that he will lose his
position in the navy if he does attempt this
expedition. So he will probably stay at
home. What gain is there to the navy or
mercantile marine OF any country by these
hazardous exploits in the Arctic? If every
acre around the North Pole were surveyed.
mapped and photographed what would be
the gain to commerce? And very little
would be the gain TO knowledge. All Arctic
travel has resulted in hardship and very
little benefit. IL is almost time the craze of
exploring regions worth nothing was ended.
When there are no whales in the north hat
else is there worth catching?
California is sending strong delegation
to New Orleans on the Nicaragua canal
question. There will probably be twenty
five delegates, and il they stand firm on the
question they will make an Impression
The Importance Of the Nicaragua canal to
America. and especially TO the Pacific Coast
can hardly be overestimated. Once the
canal is made it will break all railroad op-
preston like so much paekthread. Not
ouly the country but the world needs this
route. 1t is a utilization Of natures adyan-
tages. The canal will be made some day
soon, anu tue sooner the better Tor the
Pacific Coast. Selfish railroad interests
must not be allowed to stand in the way.
A few years hence, when we look back ward,
we shall smile at our own remissness in not
tackling transportation oppressors with the
energy needed to put them down.
The LodOre. an English vessel, has Just
arrived in San Francisco after an excep-
tiOnally long voyage. She left Newcastle
on-Tyne in March last. She had to refit at
Montevideo, and il took her sixty-five DAYS
TO clear Cape Horn, The insurance men
have made well out Of the voyage, 80 per
cent advance on premiums having been
paid. British shipping is in rather bad case
at present. There are some vessels in port
which have been idle since January. Here
they have been at anchor, unable to get a
cargo during ten months, and the wages of
captains, officers and crew have had to be
paid. The men who desert are benefactors
to the owners. With freights down to
twenty shillings a ton, owners may we'll
feel paralyZed at the turn of affairs marine.
Some of the disconsolate might we'll follow
the example of the captain who recently
bought cargo of wheat on owners ac-
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b9a Montgomery street. near Clay, open until IL
O'Clock P. N. BRANCH OFFICES; 40 Market
street, Kearny, open until u O'Clock midnight;
33s Hayes street. open until 8 so O'Clock; sos
Larkin street. open until 80 o'clock % 8 Mission
street. open until o'clock ?. NJ; and 116 Ninth
street, open until 80 p. NJ
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THE DAILY MORNING CALL

FOR SALE All
New York -. .BRENTANo BROS. 3 Union Square
Chicago .................News Stand Palmer House
New orleans ALLOT & JOUBERT,
ll5lS CommonSk
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~. Professor Pred Boil. Sonv-Lec,

80 Professor Pred Boil. Sonv-Iec.p..r
20 the Humanitarian Spiritualists will sneak
snu sing tomorrow at the Metropolitan Tempie "a
IoEoWs: Morning III o'clock) subject: :. ire
greatest problem OF the nineteenth century ,olyeJ
III man die shall he live again P'' sfrarnoon
ix:Iol-Ihe lnimitable John Slater will give nos
i,ife proof OF spirit return. Evening Is o'cloct1
slI. pen VIII continue bis popular lectures To rhe
peopie; subject: Martin Luther or The No.
Ihat SHOOK the World" Special solos Eyerthodv
welcome. Admission free 100 o oouy
NJ annual Meeting-The Regular An
Val meeting or the stock hoders OF the Qcri-
dental Mining Company Will be held ar the n@ oce
the .a company, room 80. Nevada block. 3oe Mont.
gomery 81, San francisco. Cai on Nt,Sna " nv
2lst day OF November, 1892 az the bonr q, 'h9
Ueaocs tor the purpose OF elecsng Board OF Di
action OF such other business as NAV co,na ha ss
the meeting Transferbooks VIII close on Fridsw
November 1S. 1t 3 O'Clock r. NJ Aiaas'
nos I'd ALFRED X. DURBRoW. seeretarv
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THE OUTLOOK FOR SILVER.

When the international conference was
agreed upon at least one party to it was an
active friend of bimetallsm. the Harrison
administration had stood firmly by the
proposition to purchase the current prod
ucts Of the American mines In the hope that
the relief this policy would afford would
cause silver to rise. President Harrison
appointed TO the conference some of the
best known friends OF silver in the country.
The conference will meet under somewhat
less favorable auspices. The Democrats
have no silver policy. The President-elect
is gold man, but a good many prominent
men in the party are friends of the white
metal What will be done no one can
know. Cleveland seems to an extent to
have absorbed his party. At least ideas
which Mr.. Cleveland does not entertain are
not much likely to obtain recognition under
the Cleveland administration.
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To show new table appointments In china
crystal and ornaments, Thanksgiving tables are
displayed for Inspection at Nathan, Dohrmann &
Co.'s, 122-32 Suffer ST., below keaTDy.
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THE CALL AR,
NOVEMBER, 1892.
Moons Phases.
notice.

Any Of our patrons 1cho fail to find THE
AORNING CALL for sale JV train-bogs
Sfacoyer fdror By notifying this office OF
HGact. naming the date and train.
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not work; labor sbonld be protected where
ever it comes in competition with foreign
labor or not at all.
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REV SYLvANUs LANE OF the Cincinnati NJ. Z.
Conference says: 1--WE have for years used II o0d's
sarsaparila IN our family OF five, and fnd st equal
to all that Is claimed for It."
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HALF wine-glass OF Angostura Bitters before
eals viii restore the appetite Manufactured only
by DR.. j. G. b. siegert & Sons.
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THE MORNING CALL
PUBLICATION OFFICE |:

Has larger circulation than any other
newspaper published in San Francisco.
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wFATHER PREDICTIONS.

DEPARTHFNr OF AGRICULTURE. }
WEATHER BUREAU,
FAN Francisco November Is, 1897
Official Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Ending Midnight Saturday.
Northern Caifornia-F1ir. but cloudy along the
coast and over mountains in the eastern portion;
variable winds; generally warmer.
Southern California - Fair; northcrly winds :;
continued warm weather.
san Francsco-Partly cloudy and hazy; north
erly winds: warmer. JOIN p. FINLEY,
First Lieutenant Ninth Infantry, officer in charge.
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EXTRA Mince Pies.
Ms. 2I3 Suffer street,

AGE robs of the locks that graced orr youth
To get them back with their youthful color and
life use PARKER's HAIR BALsAM
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THE EASTERN OFFICE OF THE CALL.


Sc Potter building, New York City, provided with
fl,sof California papers Visitors welcome Ad-
ssrtisng rates and sample copies furnished.
4 X MISCH Manager
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Dr.. A. S. COOK & MRS. DIR. Cook removed 10
lS7 Hyde street Accommodation for PATIENTS
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1t is estimated that of the 4,0O0 600 inhabi-
Iants Of London. 1,jo0. 600 were born In the
cnnntrY-
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NOTICE OF MEETINGS.

E1957 The San Francisco cottish
Thistle Club Will hold its second n ~ III
weekly social THIS SATURDAY. G,*Tf
EFENiNG at Its rooms. lis Minna ST lS&
commencing at O'Clock Admission. gent. Ok
ladies' free. DONALD MCKAY, Royal Chief
GEORGE w. PATTERSON. Recordar
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L" First Presbyterian Church Corner
~ OF Van Ness ave. and Sacramento st-Tba
pastor, Rev. Robert Mackenzie, D. D.. viii preach ar
II A. NJ and 1880 p. n Rev. John Res generai
superintendent sundays school at I2;ab ~
Young Peoples Society for Christian Endaavor
at $3.50 r. NJ. Prayer. meeting Wednesday evening
az q 40 P. " All are welcome 70 these services
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Ok RAILROAD TRANSFERS, FREE FARE. 10
~ tiemakers. II cents each; 10 shIngle-boit
makers, 81 25 per cord 3 farmers. $Z6 o scrapcr
teamsters; 10 IAborers, $50. r. I. WARD q co.
COS and o Clay ST.
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RUTLER WITH REFERENCES, PRIVATE
- family, $35; laundryman TO run collar, cuff aud
bosom machine, hotel laundry; meatcutter. $40,
young butcher country shop. see boss here: butter
maker, mixer and ruu cream separator $35 AMI
found; 10 scraper-teamsters, country, SO aud
found. C. r. HANSEN Il CO. 10 Gcary st
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MAN AND WIFE FOR RANCH: THE MAN
IVA must understand the care and mana cement OF
stock and general farm work and the wife must be
a good cook: state references. Address MR. Will
SON. bax 90 this ONCE noI9 3tt
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Va ANTED-SUPERINTEN FOR RAISIT
w vineyard and orchard, 500 month: butter
maker. $50; miner blacksmith. 81 IS day; dairy
man. with references private place 800 to So, boy
for drugstore. Sl5 TO S2U buffers $50 and s55;
cooks, walters. dishwashers and others. ApDIy to
j. r. CROSETT & co, 62S Sacramento st
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MALE HELP WANTED

COOK AND WIFE, COUNTRY HOTEL. $50.
- second hotel COOK, S45; baker and second eook
S40 city; spinners on operators. 81 per day; 3
boardiHg-hOuse cooks. $40, $50 4 hotel walters
$50: waiter for Nevada, $40. r. I. WARD 4 co
COS and 61p Clay st.