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The morning call., 1893-09-03
COLORADO REPUBLICANS.

The Denver NelCS says that the Repub-
licans of Colorado are going to vote with
the Democrats when the tariff bill comes
w for consideration. The Denver Repub-
ticdn, which presumably speaks for its
party, says:
Inasmuch as the Eastern Republican eaders
have seen fit to abandon the coinage plank Of
their party's platform there is no earthly rea-
son why Western Republicans should STICK to
the protection plank Of the same platform
Platform reputation is game that TWO can
play at very nicely.
Western Republicans should stick to the
protection plank Of their platform for the
reason that they have as much to gain
from protection as the East. The protec-
ton policy gives American manufacturers
OF all localities a certain advantage over
foreign manufacturers. The East has OBJ
tanned the greater advantage from it in the
past, but the West may in the future.
The West has an advantage in the pos
session of raw material, which will more
than overcome the advantage the East has
in the way Of capital. Under the protec-
tive policy Alabama has become a more
dreaded competitor of Pennsylvania than
Europe. The duties keep foreign iron out,
but OF course leave the home market open
to the products Of all the American States
There is another reason why Western Re-
publicaDs should remain true 10 their
party. The Democrats make no secret of
their purpose 10 put raw material of all
kinds on the free list. ALI the recognized
leaders Of the fIee-trade movement agree
that beginning should be made on raw
material The tariff bill to be reported
will most undoubtedly put wool. iron and
coal on the free list. The Eastern States
were won to tariff reform by the promise
Of free raw material. While it is possible
that the West and the South may combine
to defeat bill that exposes raw material
TO foreign competition. it is none the less
the avowed purpose of the administration
TO give the Eastern manufacturers free
raw wool, free iron ore and free coal.
If Western Republicans remain true to
their platforms a combination may posi-
bly, be made with Southern and Western
Democrats to save the duties on raw ma
terial. Such a coE bination may not pre-
vent the administration from forcing some
kind of tariff bill. but it may be able to
dictate to an extent as to what that bill
should be. We can understand that Colo
RADIO Republicans are hurt at the treatment
they are receiving at the hands Of Eastern
Republicans on the silver question. But
resentment is not a wise cOun selor. Will
it not be better for Western Republicans
generally to adopt policy which will pre-
vent further sacrifice of Western inter-
ests to the demands Of Eastern capital? II
the protection policy is maintained. capital,
which has no sentiment will 60 where
raw material, which constitutes a large
item in the total expense of manufacturing,
is cheap and abundant.
The morning call., 1893-09-03
CHOLERA ALARM. IN THE EAST.

The cases of cholera which are said to
have occurred at Jersey City appear to
have been sporadic. There is no tier
course between Jersey City and the places
in Russia and Galica where the disease is
reported to be epidemic; and, though some
medical authorities are inclined TO believe
that the cholera bacili may be carried for
great distances in the atmosphere and
may cause deaths at points far remote
from the disease centers, yet as matter
of fact the march of the plague has always
been traceable from one spot to an ada
cent spot. and each stage in its journey
has been from one inhabited place to an
other not very far off. There is no in
stance where cholera has leaped distance
of thousand miles to break out in an un-
infected locality.
at the present time the disease appears
to be epidemic in the valley of the Danube
and in parts of Russia which are not speci-
fed in the dispatches. Isolated cases are
reported from Rome, Palermo, Naples and
Rotterdam. All these points maintain
steam intercourse with the ports on the
lower Danube, and it is quite possible
that the plague may have been commune
Gated in tho usual way. at Smyrna,
where several cases are reported, cholera
is constantly present. a steady supply be-
ing derived from the stations on the Ash
atIc caravan routes. The eases reported
from Grimsby, in England, if real Asiatic
cholera, may be set down as sporadic. 1t
The morning call., 1893-09-03
BOARDING GOLD.
A gold contemporary says:


Public confidence will be strengthened by
the returning gold, but she will not have en-
tirely recovered from her collapse until some
thing happens 10 release the imprisoned golden
eagles 10 this country.
The best way TO strengthen public con-
fidence is to broaden the metallic basis
People would not hide gold more than
silver If silver were invested with the same
debt-paying power as gold. One of the
greatest dangers that arise from a narrow
metallic basis is the facility with which
IL may be Withdrawn from service. The
100000 people of the United States
might easily put all the gold in the coun-
try In their pockets. A bank may be re-
CURED TO redeem its notes in gold, but no
law can compel man who has gold to
exchange 1t for bank notes The induce
ment TO hoard would be the greater as the
scarcity of gold would make its possession
a possible source of profit. Instead of mar
rowing the metallic basis down to gold,
as is now proposed, all possible encourage
ment should be given to the production of
both gold and silver and both be- made the
basis Of currency
The morning call., 1893-09-03
GIVE SHEEP A CHANCE.

A Democratic contemporary enumer ates
the advantages the Canadian Pacific line
has over American lines in the way of sub
sides, but instead Of proposing to place
American steamship service on the Pacific
on an equality with foreign service. it
urges Congress 10 make haste to put wool
On the free list that the comparatively un-
subsidized American steamship company
may be supplied with freight. Australia,
The Argentine Republic and other wool
growing countries will applaud this argu-
nent. The United States now produces
sbout nine-tenths of the wool needed for
home consumption. Under free wool
!ariff the home production would fall off
probably 80 per cent the first two years and
would con tnue 10 fall off until wool-grow-
Dg ceased to be an industry.
1t is intmated sometimes that the wool
industry is not worth preserving. Land,
t is said. is more profitable for other uses
10 the extent to which land Is more pro-
table for other uses the sheep pastures
will be curtailed without the aid of legis-
The morning call., 1893-09-03
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Christine Nilsson has given 5000 TO
found hospital in France for diseases of
the throat.
Lord Harris. present Governor of Bonn
bay, is the man who gained fame on the
cricket field ss captain OF the Kent County
eleven.
w. Ii. Bishop. the novelist. and a Yale
graduate, has accepted An appointment as
Spanish and French instructor at the uni
versity.
lola now wants to be elected to the
French Chamber Of Deputies. Ii he can
not have the fame Of the Academy he will
be content with the notoriety of politics.
Miss Eva Lowering Shorey, the new pres
ident OF the Woman's Aid Societies of
Maine, is only q years old. She is also the
editor of the Bridgeton News. published by
her father.
Prince CantacuZene, the new Russian
Minister 10 Washington, is an inyeterate
traveller and chess player. lie carries a
pocket board with him. and Is always ready
and anxious TO make move.
King Humbert recently had sold at pub
lie auction IN one of the courtyards of the
Quirinal all the old furniture, porcelain,
glass, etc, that had gone out OF fashion
since Victor EmmanuePs day. He made
it veritable clearing out sale.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria lately
added codlcil to her WILL choosing Corfu
as her last resting place. The codicil says:
II wish 10 be inferred In Corfu, near the
seashore, so that the sound of the break ing
waves may ever be heard at my tomb"
The morning call., 1893-09-03
WELCOnE THE STRANGER.

A correspondent protests against the
disposition often manifested by the people
OF this city to pay large sums to foreign
actors, and especially at a time when bust
ness Is stagnant. He disclaims any pre- iu-
dice against foreign actors, but simply
thinks II would be better at the present
time to help our own people. The view
taken is quite natural, but il does not
cover the whole ground. The money Cali
fornia pays to actors of the Patti, Booth
and Irving class is trifie compared 10 the
money California expends in going abroad
to see things that are denied them at home.
The closer we come in touch with the best
there is In the Old World the more con-
tented will be our rich people to remain at
home. The visits of Patti were worth
much more to the State than they cost.
They placed within our reach one OF the
chief luxuries Of foreign capital. Patti in
San Francisco was as good as Patti in
Paris. But il Patti had not come to San
Francisco how many of our woll-tO-do
people would have gone to Paris to see
her? How many others would have be-
come disconnected with life in city which
had no share in the enjoyments common
to the great Iclties Of the world? One OF
the drawbacks we have 10 contend against
is absenteeism. Too many Of our property
holders spend their incomes abroad. This
is right they have. but the city has the
right to prevent it by making home
more attractive, all things considered,
tLan Europe or the East Against travel
nothing can be said. Everybody should
see as much of the world as circumstan ces
will permit. But taking up a permanent
residence abroad iDflcts an injury upon
the State. And the best way 10 make
California property-holders live in the
State is TO place within their reach as many
of the attractions of foreign lands as pos
sibe. 1t should also be borne in mind
that most of the money that foreign actors
take away with them comes from people
culate that would otherwise be locked up.
There will always be a sum equal twice
over 10 that paid for tickets expended in
the community. The dry-goods stores get
portion, he hack-drivers, florists and like
occupations get a share. And a good
deal of the money paid in at the bOx-office
will be distributed in the community. IL
the Irving season is a financial success the
amount carried away will be small COM
pared to the amount that will be distributed
in the State. Everybody VINO comes TO
California wants to see as much of the
State as possible, and it is certainly to our
advantage that a dramatic or operate
troupe of hundred or more intelligent
men and women should see for themselves
what California really is.
The morning call., 1893-09-03
GLADSToNE'S VICTORY.

So the home-rule bill Is at last through
the House of Commons, after more than
eighty days discussion, and is actually
read first time in the House of Lords.
1t is an historic event Of great moment in
the future Of Great Britain and Ireland
1t means, as Mr.. Justin Mccarthy says it
does, that Ireland will not receive less
than this degree of autonomous govern
ment, and will perhaps next year be in the
enjoyment of it. The measure is not ideal,
and is not complete. Like all such vital
measures involving power ana dominaney
in relationship Of empire which has been
strained, it is a promise, and there are
yet details which time and experience will
correct, and which will cordially be cor
rected when absurd fears are disSipate6
Ireland has long been the victim of party
struggle among English parties, and her
progress has been visibly retarded by the
rivalry and the pieremeal nature of all
Parliamentary remedies and concessions.
This triumph OF new policy is to
be attributed to the greater power
that Ireland acquired under the eX-
tension Of the franchise which enabled
so many Nationalist members to be re-
turned under Mr.. ParnelPs leadership.
The old representation of Ireland was
almost wiped out and the whole question
of the future Of the country assumed a
new phase in practical politics. Coercion
and resolute government in the fashion
approved by absentee landlords became
doomed, and the consent OF the governed
necessary. The wonder is England has
not long ago adopted conciliatOry manner
to Ireland. but the real opportunity never
came until the franchise reached the
masses.
Mr.. Gladstone has had a magnificent
ovation over his success, but he has yet IA
hard battle. The Lords will preciptate a
campaign on the abuse of their privileges
when they reject the measure. War will
be waRed on a body which never forgets TO
be selfish about its own interests in land
owning or game rights and numerous
anomalies of an aristocratic view of life.
But the LORDS. above all things, know the
real nature of their tenure of power. AS
long as they do not go to extremes they are
tolerated. An election is doubtless neces-
sary to convince them that home rule for
Ireland is an indisp ensable reform. They
will give way eventually, but not grace
fully. The fruits of the present victory
will surely be gathered.
The morning call., 1893-09-03

must always be remem bered that when
cholera alarm prevails severe bowel com
plants are classed by inexperienced prac-
titioners as cases of the plague. Some OF
the people who died in Jersey City had
been eating crabs and washing them down
with beer and whisky. In people with
constitutions enfeebIed by debauch such
a diet would produce symptoms easily con-
founded with those of cholera.
1t is satisfactory to know that the au-
thorities at Jersey City are alive to their
duty. The ablest minds among physicians
and sanitarians are at work. Quarantine
Doctor Jenkins, SurgeOn-General Wyman.
DR.. Bal Clarke, DIR. Bond aud DR.. Cyrus
Edison are all In permanent session; what
ever science can do to isolate the disease
will be done. Every railroad train enter
ing or leaving jersey City is examined for
symptoms of the disease; suspects are con-
veyed to hospital erected for the pur-
pose OF keeping them in quarantine. Ac-
cording to the reports everything is being
done which could be done.
Cholera cannot effect a Judgment in a
healthy locality unless conditions favor its
domcilation. In parts of the world il
never ceases to rage. 1t is endemic in
parts of India, yet the British Government
maintains its environments there. and the
mortality among the troops is not startling
1t prevails every year and almost in every
month of the year at Kobe in Japan, and
throughout the deDsely peOpIed rice cOun-
try between Hiogo and Kioto. Most of the
China steamers touch at Kobe, but they
bring no cases of cholera to San Francisco.
Last year il rayaged Hamburg. but ii
proved on examination that the people of
that city had for generations been drink
ing sewage and that they had
lived in huts which at high tide
were submerged by the waters of
the Elbe, and dried out when the waters
subsidized. Such locality did not need
any imported cholera to become a cradle
of pestilenee. In the Asiatic cities where
the plague takes its rise and has estab-
lished its foothold, there Is a chronic alter
nation of moisture and extreme heat, with
no drainage and no facilities for ablution.
Such conditions are sure TO generate
diseases; on the coast Of Africa and South
America. they produce yellow fever; in
Asia they give rise to cholera. Where the
conditions do not exist neither disease will
spread.
The laws of health are So simple that no
intelligent community need fear the
spread OF an epidemic. No such disaster
can be destructive in a community where
people eat wholesome food, and abstain
from excess in alcoholic stimulants /;
where they inhabit well-ventilated rooms.
and dispose Of decaying animal AMI vege-
table matter through an effective system
of drainage; where they drink pure water /;
where they practice bodily cleanline ss.
and help the skin 10 discharge its func-
tiOns; where they lead regular orderly
lives. Disease is the inheritance of man.
and probably never can be eradicated.
But locality which observes these rules
need never fear decimatipg epidemics,
however they may rage elsewhere.
The morning call., 1893-09-03

age of Christ. Libraries have been
written about the period of the Twelve
Casars and the first century OF our era
but 1t is not too much to say that that mo.
mentous epoch was yelled in fog till Wal
lace painted it in the raw. SO Gibbon' s
admirable condensation OF the Byzantine
historians enables us to follow the Eastern
empire through its thousand years OF
spleudor; but he who wants to thoroughly
understand the nation which succumbed
to the Turks will have to read tile "Prince
of India" The Prince imself is a SUPER
fluffy, sort of Greek chorus; his nosions
of universal church may amuse ecclesi-
sstics; but the pictures of ByzantIum and
India and of the life Of their inhabitants
ara acquisitions 10 historical literature
which will never lose their value. Gen
eral Wallace's work will be classed with
the "Cloister and the Hearth, Westward
Ho! Alfred de Vigny's "Cinq Mars" and
above the last productions Of Scott or
Dumas.
An historical novel cannot be master
piece unless it combines several requisites
The subject must De interesting. Here is
where Wallace failed with his Fair God, p"
The writer must master his subject in its
smallest detail; here is where Scott came
TO grief; his knowledge of the times he de-
seribed was too limited. He must possess
the dramatic instinct; for want of this, no
novelist in this country has ever written a
work Of the first order on any period of
our history. he who chooses a theme
which interests his public, studies it till he
saturates himself with its spirit. and pos.
sesses the gift of discriminating between
its dramatic aspects and the aspects which
are commonplace, can write novel which
will beggar history.
Are the Byzantine empire and the fall
OF Constantinople in teresting TO the gen.
eral public? That Is a question which can
only be answered by and by. That the
WORK will delight scholars goes without
saying. But people who write books for
scholars go hungry in their lifetime. and
are forgotten after they are dead. Sue
cessful books are written for the butcher
and baker and candlestick-maker. Ben
Hur" is book which delights people Of
vast learning and people of no learning al
all; the old and the young. the believer
ana the agrostic. That is because it is
well done as a work of letters, but its
literary merits would not have made it the
success of the day if it had not dealt with
period of exhsustless interest to Christsn-
dom. Does the same interest attach to the
fortunes of the Byzantines or the Turks
or tie HindOos?
1t is not easy TO define the secret of sue
cess in historical woodworking. George
Eliot appeared to combine the elements
for a masterpiece in "Romola" She i'm
bued herself with the spirit of the time S
she described. she possessed the dra matte
instinct. The Medcean age is full of color
And yet she made failure. Who reads
"Romola" to-day? With precisely the same
grounds for success, and with a far less
ample store of material, Flauoert wrote
'Salammbo," which will live as long as
long as fiction endures and the history OF
the past retains its charm.
The morning call., 1893-09-03
John c. PeIton's Book.

John G. Pelton, the pioneer teacher of
San Francisco. who recently published a
book entitled 'Life's Sunbeams and
Shadows" and placed it before the public
with the idea of selling enough copies to
enable him to obtain little sum to clear
eff mortgage and give him an opportunity
TO live in peace until the end of his days
has met with good deal of encourage
ment from the teachers Of the State, who
have recommended that the book be
placed in the sch DOL libraries. This recon-
mendation, however. does not place I'll e
work In the libraries. 1t requires the
action OF the school trustees to 90 that.
1t is to be hoped that he trustees will take
some action in the matter. and in that way
help the old teacher along.
The morning call., 1893-09-03

command confidence or admiration. and
there is no other way out OF the difheulty.
Some exhibits have been Withdrawn, and
all because in so simp matter as TIE
appointment OF judges an eccentric ana
uHsound course has been followed.
The scenes around Palace Yard when
the home-rule bill passed the third reading
after midnight must have been stirring.
Popular demonstrations of the character
described are very unusual. but OCCASION
ally they have been witnessed at the conf
meucement of a sitting. There are more
Irish in London than Dublin. and thou
sands no doubt assembled to celebrate an
occasion so tull of historic interest. The
crowd broke into singing "The Wearing
of the Green" to which there is o longer
any official dislike. This is the song In
Boueieauli's Colleen Bawn," which was
lnterdicted in Dublin short time before
the Fenian outbreak. its repression has
made it popular ever since, and the air is
musical.
General Kapus. United States Consul at
Sydney. is anxious to see closer relations
with Australia, and wonders why they are
not established. Americans generally
may feel surprise, because this country Is
so much closer TO Australia than Europe
A seml-monthly line of steamers To Sgd
Dey would no doubt improve the relation
ship, and give US good deal OF the trade
which now drifts TO Europe. But who Is
to lead the way, and what have we to give
Australia in return for her raw materials?
Australia neither needs fruit nor raw ma
terials. She has market for cloths and
manufactured wares of many kinds, but
In manufactures California is laggard.
A real live prince is in this country
a-chasing the deer, and possibly when he
returns 10 the destinations of city life the
dear may chase him. This is Prince Eisen-
berg. who has been summering in America
and has oceasioned much gossip as 10 the
heiress who will lead him to the altar and
divest him of as much of his title as he
can bestow upon adoring woman. A
rumor got abroad that he was to we'd Miss
Florence Pullman, daughter Of Mr.. George
Nj. Pullman. 1t was malicious and men
daciOus rumOT, too, as the young lady does
not know the Prince, and might care
nothing about him if she did. The Prince
is perhaps annoyed at publicity TO an in
vention, but men of his station are accus-
toned TO tattle.
A live heir presumptive to the throne o.
the Hapsburgs is expected in San Francisco
from Japan. The Archduke Francis Fer
dinand d'Este is young man on his
travels. The story of how ne comes to be
in the succession is sensational il not
romantic. The late Crown Prince Rudolf
is generally believed to have committed
suicide. because of liaisou. Here is
another version of his fate. to the effect
that a Frenchman whom be had wounded
with a revolver knocked his brains out
with a champagne bottle. Many other
princes have died in brawls, but the
fashion was supposed TO have gone out in
these fierce times of democratic tendencies.
The morning call., 1893-09-03
A WELL-SPENT LIFE
Death of Moses Lyman, a Prom
inent Merchant.

Moses Lyman, pioneer business man,
died in his room at the Occidental Hotel
yesterday morning. His illness was of
nearly two years standing. having It's
origin in stroke of paralysis. which in
ouced complications that defiad medical
skill. He was a native of Bavaria. 90
years old. He leaves widow and four
daughters. one of whom is married to
Jesse Levy.
Mr.. Hyman was the confidential agent
OF Heller Bros. for over ten years. and
afterward became associated in business
with A. Goodknd. and the partnership
continued until the death of Mr.. Hyman.
Mr.. Lyman was particularly active in
all social and charitable undertakings Of
the Jewish people here, and for fifteen
years was treasurer of one of the syna-
gogues. He was also q prominent men,
Der of the San Francisco Verein and the
Concordia Club. In his nature he was ex-
tremely charitable and his lifework
abonnded with good deeds. The fun eral
will take place tomorrow and the inter
ment will be in the Jewish Cemetery.