The morning call., 1893-03-16

European power be invited to act with the
United States in putting an English girl on
the throne with United States guarantee
that she shall stay there ?
Mr.. b. Morgan, the attorney who has
figured so prominently in the Oakland
waterfront case, declares that the act
passed by the Leg gslatHrA confirming the
property in the possession of the city Is a
supererOgatory performance. The title be-
yond alienation already vests in the city,
and is neither added to nor diminished by
anything which the Legislature may do. If,
SAYS Mr.. Morgan, it was intended to fortify
the act of 1852 the measure was useless. II
II was intended to REL enact that measure il
was void. These are subtleties on which
the lay mind hesitates to express an opinion
but since the act which has lust passed
cannot do any harm it may be accepted as
an expression of good intentions quite
amlabe. Mr. Morgan hints that there are
hunters of people now ready to rush to the
front and claim credit for the liberation of
the water front. 1t always is thus in a
good n9ht They have not yet settled who
did win the battle of Waterloo. They are
only sure who lost it. Oakland understands
the bearing of this allusion.
An interesting point comes out in the
Blythe estate case as to the value of big
ranches. One of the items of property in
the hands Of the administrator Is a ranch of
10000 acres down in San Diego County.
To the ordinary dwellers in cities this pos
session suggests a fortune. and perhaps it
Is. If put up to auction unmortgaged; but
the report of the administrator is that in
stead OF being source OF prOfitit is a source
OF loss. How many ranches of vast extent
IN California are in the same predicament? Z?
The owners can speak of great areas in
timber and fertile valley. but they do not
put the capital into them, nor employ the
labor necessary to make them paying
investment. But If ranch of 100 coo acres
were broken up into farms of 80 to 100 acres,
and from 1000 to 2G00 families were settled
on them, both the owners and the State
would gain by the change. The advances
of fruit culture and the reclamation and
fertl!Zing possible through irrigation rem
der small farming hopeful, but the big
ranch kept back fer speculation is mistake.
The railroad companies are still cogita-
ting what fayors shall be extended to the
public in reaching Chicago this year They
will treble or quadruple their traffic and
they can afford to be generous From SO
TO $50 for the round trip for frst-class
tickets and $50 for secGnd-class are the
figures thought probable, but they may go
higher and are unlikely 10 be lower One
matter the companies may keep in view.
Many people who do not care a pin about
Chicago will he induced to go East this
year by low rates during the summer
months and probably far more will take a
trip from the East to the Pacific Coast. A
half or third rate is a great stimulus t0
travel and the wonder is it Is not encouraged
more over long distances. 1t would he
preferable to issue tickets Tor the single
journey to those who want to travel by one
route and return by another. This is a
courtesy which would not involve the COM
panes In less.
The highhinders begin to learn that
Chinatown is deficient in ratholes for their
accommodation. They are being hunted
around vigIlantly by the police, and the
better class Of Chinese are themselves CIV
ing a hand in the prevention of crime. Six
Chinese arc behind The prison bars on
charges of murder, and it will go hard with
some of them, because all the testimony is
net Monaghan and unreliable. All that
can be done TO improve the regulations for
admission TO bail is necessary in dealing
with highlander OilenseS. Where there is
no security that prisoner will answer 10
his bail, and that those who went on his
bonds have property beyond the rags they
walk in, quarters should be retained for
the accused IN a cell until wanted.
High license and other strategems are
being tried to improve the morals of
Pheniz, Ariz. SalOon-keepers are to pay
500, and gambling permits are expensive.
Music is forbidden to soothe the drinker's
breast, and If only a curfew- bell ordinance
were passed the city would slumber very
silently at night The fakir will have to
sprint TO some other capital. He cannot
treat with contempt the insult of a license
at SO.
In Australia they seem to understand
how to temper lenity with justice in deal
ing with swindling bank directors. The
Augo-A australian Bank went down with a
crash in 1892, and as is usually the case
everybody connected with it was uncom-
nlanly respectable and was not TO be sus-
pected Of dishonesty and crime. The re-
putabiity OF the management has now been
cleared up satisfactorily. The chairman,
who stood very high in the opinion OF So
ciety. goes to penal servitude for five years
the auditor will mourn his laches for two
years behind prison walls; and the accOun-
tant is to be corrected for six mouths in
prison. Justice seems to have been adj
mnistered with a hrmness and prompti-
tude worthy of imitation. 1t may be con-
cluded that bad the auditor done his duty
the crash would have done little damage.
Bad management IS Invariably accompanied
" uecl'SeuL duulIlHE.
The opening salyo TO slgnalze Santa
Barbara's flower tete may by the optimistic
of its inhabitants be supposed to have
come from the sky. A meteor of excep-
tional brilliance passed over the county on
Tuesday night and exploded three times
with q violence that made windows rattle.
This visitor from space, travelling perhaps
at twenty miles second, had doubtless got
warmed up in passing through the atm os-
phere, with the result that the irregulari-
ties Of temperature inside and outside
caused it to burst. Some of the fragments
might be considered appropriate for the
entertainment of Chicago as a specimen of
California products.
A convection has been secured against
Captain Deering of the schooner Louis
Olsen for smuggling Chinese into this State,
The jury found that he had twenty-nine
specimens Of this coHtraband commodity on
board. A very severe penalty may there
lore be inficted. Besides Imprisonment. a
fine OF $500 may be imposed for each
Chinaman. Even with moderate SEN
tence it is evident that the smuggling of
Chinese Is not paying speculation in the
long run.
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