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The morning call., 1893-05-18
THE RAILROAD TAX CASES

The railroad people are the only ones in
the State who think that an evasion of the
main issue in the San Pablo and Tulare
Railroad tax case was smart. The main
issue was if there was a conflict between
the fourteenth amendment TO the Federal
constitution ana The provisions of the
State constitution in respect to the tax
alton of railroads. 1t was understood
that the railroad company would let the
court decide the main issue, but at the last
moment the company deposited the
amount for which that particular suit was
brought and thus left the court nothing to
decide upon. The action of the Southern
Pacific Company has intensified the teel-
ing in this State that the Southern Pacific
Company is a hostile institution and as
such should be disciplined. AT a time
when movements involving the invest
ment of millions in competing routes are
in progress it was hardly wise to remind
the people that the railroad company still
held itself above the law. The s., 900.
more or less, which the Southern Pacific
Company owes the Stale, is a small sum
compared to the losses competition will en-
force. The plans of competition are not
yet fully defined. 1t is not known ex-
actly to what extent the wealth of the
State can be enlisted in work of this char
ecter. But every fresh in stance the South
ern Pacific Company gives of its defiance
OF law will help competition. People will
see that it is only by competition that the
industries of the State can be made inde-
pendent of the greed of the Southern Pa
ciic Railroad Company.
The morning call., 1893-05-18
TRAININGS SHIPS.

On his return to Washington Captain
Mathews of the Navy Department will re-
port in favor of the establishment on this
coast of training g-ship for boys, who will
pass therefrom into the naval service.
There are two points of view from which
this work should be regarded. In the first
place it is good for boys themselves. 1t
provides them with useful career. In
the second place it is necessary for the
efficiency of the navy. With numbers of
new vessels being turned out from the
ship-bGilding yards and the pro speet that
the programme of adding to our tonnage
must be extensive for years to come, it be-
comes Increasingly difficult to find crews,
although the pay and allowances are much
more liberal than in any other navy. To
a great extent this difficulty can be over
come by establishing training-ships, put
ting capable. sympathetic officers in CON-
mand. and encouraging lads to learn a
profession.
1t is not advisable that seamanship pure
and simple should be the sole study on
such vessel. 1t is preferable there
should be & mixed training, suitable to the
conditions of modern wars hip service. A
training vessel should have sail and steam
power both, and be equipped with modern
guns, so that lad when he has finished
his training is able to undertake duty
afloat or on shore. Some of these appren-
tices would show taste for engineering
work or for gunnery rather than seaman
ship, and they should be encouraged in
their bent by both practical and theoreti-
cal training. Firm and judicious but kind
discipline would bring out the good quail
ties in ships company of 400 or SEQ
youths. very large proportion of whom
might be expected to have genuine lk-
ing for bracing nautical life. The Gov
ernment will provide ship and fit it for
its educational work, and the Pacific
States have certainly enough of lads whose
energetic spirit would be properly kept in
leash by men-of-war training.
The morning call., 1893-05-18
LIFE TENURE OF OFFICE.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York San has discovered purpose
on the part of Mr.. Cleveland to adopt rules
in the several departments tending to the
substitution Of the main feature OF the
English life system of civil service in place
OF what may be termed the American sys-
tenn OF rotation in office. This seems rather
a new departure for Mr.. Cleveland. He
has generally been considered as disin-
clined to give responsible officials second
term. He has been believed TO be opposed
to second term of the Presidency. except
for himself. 1t is possible that he NAV
have been convinced that the life system
Of Office holding is preferable to our own
republican system, but people will do him
the justice to wait for PRONUNCIATION of
such views over his own signature. A life
system naturally goes with a monarchy. 1t
is part of an hereditary form OF govern
ment. Where there is a reigning family
and nobility which inherits honors and
forms branch of the legislative depart
ment, it is quite natural that the subordi-
mates should hold their places under the
same tenure. The fact is yet to be demon
strated that the life system is preferable to
the term system. 1t is urged that the ae-
qualntance with duties which come with
continued service is an element of strength :;
but this contention is met by the assertion
that the life service promotes sloth, indif-
ference and incivIlity on the part of place.
holders. When man knows that he holds
his place for life, unless be commits a
crime, he is not apt to hurry himself in the
service Of the great people,
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able point. but it is we'll to understand
what is aimed at by this training. Boys
and girls are initiated into the arts of car
pentry on a small scale for the sake of
famlliarizing the hand and eye with work
of useful character 1t is technical
education of limited scope in wood. As
rracticed in Scandinavia, Denmark and
England, where lately it has come much
in vogue. pupils begin with common
knife and saw, and progress to the use of
chisel and plane. A few other tools are
occasionally in request. but the rule is
simplicity and not diversity in tools, and
utility and grace and an avoidance of
Whlm and useless ornamentatlon in design.
Thus clothespin is cut into shape. Its
primary object is TO clasp and to be dur
able, yet it should be neatly fashioned
without waste of time in decoration. So
with salad spoon and fork. A graceful
contour is desirable to please the eye, but
elaborate carving adds nothing to the
grace, If good, and will spoil it if bad
Simple objects are fashioned with simple
tools. and in a couple of years boy or
girl has acquired dextrous hand, cor
rect eye, and an educated taste which is
servlceable in all walks of life. Pupils
need no stimulation for this training
They fly to their tasks with ardor and
make the half hour very busy with happy
labor. From 10 years upward children
take to sloyd with evident willingness.
and this is the period when it is most
useful. 1t is not suitable for infants.
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thing to itself. The Chinese We as
sumed that a law the executive depart
ment had sworn to enforce would not be
enforced. The President has now to con-
vince the Chinese that American laws
mean something. 1t is partly the fault
OF the administration that the idea got
abroad that the Chinese registration law
would not be enforced, and for that rea son
II Tor no other he may recommend Con-
gress not to be too severe in its enforce
ment of penalty which was incurred
through too much reliance upon the power
OF the executive. The Chinese who are ig-
norant of our system of Government can
not easily comprehend how the will of the
executive should be overthrown by the
will of Congress. They do not under
stand the theory of three independent de-
partments of Government acting sepa-
rately, but yet for general purpose.
When their Emperor wills a thing it is
so. He does not have to consult legisla-
ture or court. An enforcement of the
Chinese registration law until such time
as Congress either amends the act or
grants money to enforce it will tend to
convince the Chinese that law in our coun-
try is supreme
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occasion fount of truth. Specific testi-
mony coming from several parties should
not be brushed aside on the ground that
the witnesses are unworthy of belief. The
inquiry which is being held in reference
to alleged police corruption demonstrates
the impolicy of enacting laws to be en-
forced or not at the discretion of the
police. The position in which large
body of presumably average men are
placed is one which most men would de-
sire to avoid. Quite portion Of the COM
munity will hold that if hundred men
are given opportunities a portion of the
hundred will profit by them. The whole
police trouble arises from the fact that
laws are enacted which a subordinate
force may enforce or not at their pleasure.
The morning call., 1893-05-18
GENERAL OR SPECIFIC.

a contemporary intimates that specific
evidence may be impeached by an assault
on the general character Of witnesses. II
this rule is to be adopted there is little use
investigating the conduct of the police
toward social outlaws. If class whose
general character is admitted to be bad is
to be declared unworthy of belief because
of general bad character, little is gained
by taking their testimony. The ordinary
rule of evidence is that the truth may
come from any source. But ii it purports
TO come from bad source it is more care
fully scrutinized than ii it purports to come
from good source. The source which has
the general reputation of being good may
be corrupt, and the source which has the
general reputation of being bad may be on
The morning call., 1893-05-18
SOLVENT BANKS THAT SUSPEND.

There has probably never been q time
in the history of our country when so
many solvent banks were closing their
doors. They all have an abundance OF
property, but a lamentable scarcity of
money. The same condition has fallen
upon Australian banks. All of the dozen
which have suspended have assets in ex-
cess of their liabilities. The meaning of
this condition is that assets are estimated
too high under the single gold standard
dispensation. The purchasing power Of
money is increasing. In other words, the
commodities that money will buy are de-
precIa ting. When depreciation has gone
far enough the assets which are now in
excess of liabilities will show a deficit
Then the suspended bank will appear in
its true character as an insolvent bank
This financial condition comes Just in time
to enlighten Congress as to the inevitable
effect of establishing the gold standard
That standard, while established by the
Treasury Department. has not yet been
established by law. The Treasury De-
partment has got pear the end of its power
TO determine the financial policy of the
Government. Congress must soon come
to its rescue or it will be forced to admit
its inability to maintain gold payments.
The executive department seems to need
some severe lessons in the science of gov
eminent. 1t has made several bad breaks
lately. When the Bland silver act was
passed, making the 412b-Grain silver dollar
legal tender for all purposes. the treasury
ignored its requirements. Gold was paid
out exclusively and has continued to be
paid out up to the present time. Another
bad bre ak was in the matter Of the Chinese
registration law. The Secretary of the
Treasury took upon himself to say that an
act of Congress should be suspended until
declared law by the Supreme Court. The
present. outlook is that both the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury will
soon discover that attempts to set aside
acts of Congress are attended with many
difficulties
The morning call., 1893-05-18
OUR NEW PRESS.

THE CALL is printed this morning on
the new press which has been for some
weeks getting into trim in the quarters
which have been assigned to it. This
press will prove a powerful auxiliary to
the already large mechanical facilities
possessed by THE CALL. 1t is a
wonderful piece of machinery-so won
derful that the mind is lost in admiration
OF the successive triumphs of mind over
matter. Of which it is an example. 1t is
not too much to say that even so late as
quarter of century ago mechanical en-
gineers of experience would have declared
it impossible to accomplish on one ma
chine the various complicated and intricate
tasks which it performs.
Nearly one year ago an order for new
machine for The CALL was placed in New
York with r. Hoe & Co., the only
qualification Of the order being that the
press should be the best of its kind-the
very perfection of the long and successful
experience OF It's manufacturers; that it
should combine all the latest and most
valuable properties known to its builders
art, and be what it really is, a perfect ma
chine.
Some conception of what this means
may be gathered from the fact that THE
CALLS new press is really four perfect
machines harnessed together. So COM
plete and perfect is it that it takes in the
web of blank paper and turns it out COM
plete as tits seen this morning at the rate
of $4,000 eight-page papers every sixty
minutes. It can be speeded up to $4,000 per
hour, which means 1000 completed eight
page papers every minute.
Printing, like everything else, is
progressive art; year by year the march
of invention supersedes good machinery
with machines which are better The new
press will enable US to print news a little
later than the old one. and will help the
carriers to deliver their papers a little
Barlier TO readers.
The DEVELOPMENT Of great newspaper
is the development and history of people.
In the growth of The CALL, in the in
crease of its business and the extension of
lto iulluouCo Aud4 U6 loulQ h0 outline and
sketch of the growth not only OF San
francisco, but of the whole State of Cali
fornia. In the purchase of these new
equipments for the more complete making
Of a modern newspaper. THE CALL gives
evidence of its appreciation of the needs of
the present and its unbounded faith In the
future.
improvements in THE CALL will not
end with the purchase of this splendid
printing machine. In every department of
the paper more complete and better SER
vice will be given. Hereafter as in times
past THE CALL will be found ready and
able to meet the growing wants of its con-
stituency. to be foremost in the field of
high-minded modern journalism, to do its
full share in the work of education. of
commercial emancipation and the perma-
.nent development of the city and State.
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Ceasing to Be a City of Homes.
st. Louis Globe-Dem ocr


'Flat-houses have at last got foothold
in Philadelphia" said John Favorite of
the City of Brotherly Love. 'It took
some time for the people to make up their
minds to accept flats, but they are now an
emphatic success. They are springng up
in every part of the city. A towering fiat
house, called the Gladstone, was the first
built. and that is now being enlarged by
the addition to its present towering height
OF two stories. Philadelphia, you know,
has always been known as the city OF
homes. 1t was the birthplace of the build
ing association, which is now so prevalent
everywhere. A great deal of money has
been put into small houses there every
year. and 1t got 70 be pretty we'll accepted
that every man in Philadelphia who was
able 10 earn wages owned or was paying for
his home. The fat fever that has broken
out will upset that idea, and it may be
that, instead of city of homes, PbiIadel-
phia will turn out to be city of sky
piercing flats"
The morning call., 1893-05-18
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Though in his SEA year and not physi-
cally strong, George Ticknor Curtis
remains capable Of several hours intel
lectual work daily.
Miss Fawcett, the young English
woman of recent "above-the-senior-w
ler' fame, has adopted the profession Of
electrical engineer.
one-legged man of Flushing, l.. l., has just
been sent to Jail for one month for thrash
ing neighbor.
Peter p. Ramsey of Ramseys, Bergen
County, N. j.. has provided himself with
a handsome white oak coffin for his final
rest. Mr.. Ramsey is nearly sc.
The pastor of the Central Nj. E. Church,
Detroit, is TO have as an assistant Miss
May Villa Patton of Muscatine, Ia, who
has taken course in the Boston Uni
versity Theological School.
Mrs. Julie Wyman. favorite for sew
eral years of New York concert-goers, has
recently made successful debut at the
Lyon Opera-house as Delilah in Saint
Saens' samson and Delilah."
Major Mckinley of tariff fame is likely
to be antagonZed in his next race for Gov
ernor of Ohio by Lawrence T. Neal,
author of the plank in the Democratic plat
form declaring in effect that all protection
is robbery.
The new Earl of Derby, formerly known
as Lord Stanley of Preston, is popular
and easy-going nobleman, n type of the
Jolly good fellow" While Governor Cen
eral of Canada he was distinguished chiefly
for his love of outdoor sports.
Ex-President Gonzales of Mexico is not
the first eminent patient whom the Ameri-
can newspaper obituary seemed to have
snatched from the jaws of death. During
his convaiescence. now reported. he will
have an opportunity of reading some
lively comments on himself.
John White of Warrenton, n c., who
was the Commissioner of North Carolina
in England during the war; and who pur-
chased for the State the celebrated steamer
Advance, although 7S years old, holds him.
self as erect and walks with as buoyant a
step as man of 80 years.
The morning call., 1893-05-18

The English civil service, which Cleye-
land is obviously said to have resolved to
follow in some features, removes all clerk
ships and even the higher appointments in
departments outside of politics. There are
few offices left to a Premier, but not
many. Even the diplomatic service is
continuous, but there may be favoritism in
moving diplomat from place TO place.
Sir Julian Pauncefote was in the Foreign
Office as permanent Under Secretary, with
a salary of $4,000, before being appointed
Embassador at Washington. He will pot
climb higher than S35, 600 in salary until he
gets to Paris, where the allowance is S5O,-
0o0 For the customs, excise, or any OF the
Government departments, all entrants
have to pass an examination, and for the
most part begin at the lowest rung on the
ladder in their class. They rise gradually
on specified salary aud are entitled to a
pension after certain numb Der of years or
II compuSorly retired by the Office being
abolished. These officials are independent
OF political influence. They have only TO
conform to the rules of the service in the
manner of private employees In banks or in
surance offices. with the guarantee that
they cannot be discharged without cause.
Down in Fresno a species of industry
has been developed worthy of reward in
the peniten.iary, but ludicrous in its quail
ity or knavery. a premium of IL cents
per pair is paid for the ears of jaekass rab-
bits, in the hope that the breed will be ex-
terminated. But it will require very
long purse. One rabbit suffires to make
ten pairs of ears. and provided there is no
inspection of the bundles rendered and no
rejection on the ground that a rabbit is not
all made OF ears, huge as they are in the
]aekass species. it is very profitable en-
terprse. The ingenuity displayed is un-
successful when the official who counts is
not blind or deficient in natural history
knowledge. The bounty system for every
species OF animal degenerates into un-
blushing fraud in short time. and the
higher the reward the less chance is there
The morning call., 1893-05-18
LAW IS SUPREME.

While 1t is probable that Congress will
give the Chinese another chance to regis
ter the fact remains that all the Chinese
Iaborers now in the country who have
not registered are subject to deportation.
Meantime the President is bound by his
oath of Office to enforce the act to the ex-
tent of the means at his disposal. 1t will
not do to say that because there is not
money enough at hand to deport all who
are subject to that penalty none should be
dAnnrted. The administration owes some.
The morning call., 1893-05-18
SLOYD.

An effort Is being made to bring under
attention in San Francisco as an adjunct
OF education the Swedish training of hand,
eye and Judgment called Soyd (slojdD.
The term is applied to artistic or skllful
capacity and dexterity. Whether there is
room for it among so many branches In
our public school curriculum is a debat-
The morning call., 1893-05-18
sUBsCRRTION RATES.

DAILY CALL dncluding Sundays sc per year by
mail, postpaid 10 cents per week. or 65 cents per
calendar month, through carriers. DAILY CALL,
five copies, three months. s6 %. SUNDAY CALL
tsixteen pages), 81 so per year. postpaid. SUNDAY
CALL and WEEKLY CALL, 1850 per year, postpaid.
WEEKLY CALI, Is pages), 81 per year, postpaid.
THE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts
nor viii the editor enter into correspondence re-
specting them,
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rg- g-vISITORS TO THE WORLDS FAIR will
find THE CALL on sale at the newsstands in the fol
lowing hotels: Palmer House. Auditorium Hotel
Briggs House, Clifton House, Commercial House
Gault House. Grand Pacific Hotel. Sherman House
Leland House, Northern Hotel, Rchelieu Hotel
fremont House, Virginia Hotel and Wellington
Hotel.
AT WASHINGTON. D. C.-The Willard, Airing
ton Ebbitt and Shoreham Hotels.
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AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.

FuRNlTuRE.-By NJ. J. Simmons, at lo57 Mar
ket St., at II clock
FURNITURE.-By T.. S. Spear Co., at 2010 Mis-
sion ST., at IL O'Clock.
FURNITURE.-By Frank W. Butterfeld, at $40
Seventeen III ST.. at O'Clock.
FuRNII URE.-By S. Basch, at 3l9-321 Suster st.
az 10 O'clock
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puRIICArIoN oFFrCE. i.

525 Montgomery street, near Clay, open until II
o'clock T. N. BRANCH OFFICES: 10 Market
street near Kearny. open until - O'Clock midnight;
S39 Hayes street open until 80 oclocll 6o3 Larllin
street open until :3Oo'cock SW. corner Sixteenth
and Miss on streets, open until o'clock; 25lS
Mission street. open until o'clock; and 116 Ninth
street, open until $50 o'clock.
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Grounds for Suspicion.

Police Superintendent-W is this man
arrested for? Officer McGobb-Mostly ON
suspicion, sor. I asked i'm where he was
from. and he says, Chicago, Illinois, No
body but New Yorker would a. put in
the Illinois par-r-t av it."-Indianapol
JOnrnat
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THE DAILY nroRNING CAII,

FOR SALE AT
New Yors. BRENTANO BROS. . Union Square
Chicago. b. SIZER. 1S9 State street
New Orleans. .GALLOT q JOUBERT, 115k Connnon
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MAY. 1893.
NOTICE.!

Any Of or patrons acho fail to find THE
MORNING CALL for sale by train6oys
soiu confer q facor By notifying this office
ef the fact, naming The date and train.
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, \
WEATHER BUREAU.
SAN FRANCISCO, May II, 1893.
OSicial Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Ending Midnight Thursday.
San Francisco and vicinity Fair weather;
slight changes in temperature: westerly winds.
p. T. JENKINS, Local Forecast O1iciaL
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rHE EAsTERN oFrTCE or THE CAIr..

90 Potter building New York City, is provided with
f'es of California papers. Visitors welcome. Ad-
yertising rates and sample copies furnished.
I. x. NISCH, Manager.
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THE MORNING CALL

Has a larger Circulation than any
other newspaper published in San
Francisco.
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STYLES In WASH FABRICS.
SILKS

Have advanced East. Our or
ders were placed before the
raise, therefore our prices will
be found 10 to 20 per cent
cheaper than elsewhere. These
quoted to-day are wonders.