The morning call., 1893-06-07

SSS'oo 'hOhucu W give lHS Qd Wa'idu pOo-
pie better terms than the treaty MIR. Cleve-
laEd recalled secured them. After the
two parties had once come to an agreement
Mr. Blount wants both to make some con-
cessions with view to another treaty.
The long and short of this is that Presi-
dent Cleveland wants to make the acqui-
sltion OF the Hawaiian Islands an act OF
his administration-only this and nothing
more.
Pacific Grove and other resorts around
Monterey Bay are said to be suffering
from the Chicago fever to certain extent.
Signs are not scarce that rooms are vacant,
and the Del Monte Hotel is not crowded
during the dinner hour. 1t is. however.
early In the season. and as soon as the hot
weather sets in East an ebb toward Cali
tornla may be expected to offset the flow
toward the exhibition. Chicago offers
nothing in scenery and rest that can COM
pensate the traveller who is accustomed to
the seaside or the lounging life at
fashionable spring. People do not go there
Ior recreation so much as sight seeing.
They get glimpse of how the world has
been moving since the great exhibition at
Philadelphia or other displays in Paris and
London, and they consider that by so
doing they keep abreast of the times. 1t
IS not too dear to pay for ones whistle II
good use is made of the visit. but where
one studies, twenty pick Up transient
impression and come away confused with
perhaps memory of headaches.
An impression prevails in Paris, and at
least one newspaper gives it voice. that
the Panama conspirators and swndlers
have got all the punishment they are
likely to undergo. and that in the name of
justice they are to be liberated. The
Court OF Cessation is said to have dis
covered crop of flaws in the proceedings
before the tribunals, and as law must be
respected in due form it is of no conse-
quence that wrongdoing gets only gen.
tie whipping, especially as the majesty of
law has been asserted in principle. To
the yictimized public it is doubtless true
that no good can possibly accrue from
more punishment They have got all they
are likely to fall heir to from a bottomess
pit OF corruption, and must be contented
with the exposure which has sullied so
many good names. But with all the eXpe-
rience which has been gained it would be
no surprise If equal facility we're shown in
launching some other commercial bubble.
Venality in the press leaves the public at
the mercy OF the corrupting promoter.
The rumors industriously fabricated that
the tran sportation movement IN California
is losing strength do not harmonic with
facts. That was possibly matter of in
difference to those who started them. The
Keweenaw not only brought to port the
heaviest cargo a steamer has had OF general
merchandise but is loading with positive
glut of freight for Central American ports
and the East via the isthmus. The bar
gain between the North American Com
pany and the Panama Company holds just
as firmly as the day it was made. The
animus of these reports is further indi-
Gated in the announcements that the clip
per ships are TO be withdrawn. This is
foolish invention. There are too many
ships for corner, and they have good
enjoyment. Another cause of irritation
to the monopoly is the progress made with
the Stockto and Bakersfield Railway.
The project is being backed with funds
literally and will be pushed through.
That line will achieve wonders for the
State.
The estimate of 100000 being spant
by Europeans in visiting the Worlds Fair
would only imply visit from 10000 per-
sons at $500 each. A very large number
will not spend more than half that amount
even in Chicago. so that perhaps 10000
might see the exhibition and depart salts
fed. Most of these visitors will come
from the British Isles and Germany.
Frenchmen are supremeiy happy at home,
and have at least little love for the ocean.
Austria may be we'll represented, but the
other countries OF Europe stir abroad very
little on pleasure tours. The exhibition,
as has long been foreseen, must depend on
home patronage. Lack of enthusiasm in
Europe may seem moor return Tor the
500, 600 more or less left annually py
Americans in Europe, but there is no
remedy. People spend very little money
on altruistic principles. and refuse to be
hectored or cajoled into doing what they
dislike and can avoid.
There Is now prospect that the dives of
San Francisco are doomed. Vested inter-
ests have fought hard to sustain this
abominable inf1ction of vice on the COM
munily, and great has been the ingenuity
displayed by lawyers to nullify any action
taken. But the recent ordinance passed
by the Board of Supervisors has now been
pronounced valid by the Supreme Court
and the prisoners whose cases were taken
before il on habeas corpus are remanded
into custody. 1t does not apl ear that there
is much more to do than to close all the
Objectionable places. The sooner this is
done with firm and inflexible hand the
less will be the outcry. The propretors of
these dens deserve no consideration. They
can tran sfer their energies to pursuits not
positively demoralizing.
Hot weather having set in, the beer
drinker for wager has begun to convert
his stomach into barrel. 1t is not prac-
tice to be encouraged even by brewers
Some OF their customers go to the under
taker. Such was the journey taken by
Herman Plamann of Milwaukee. who tried
to swallow fifteen glasses of lager in the
same number Of minutes. He got ten down
in less than half the time, and prepared
himself for the remaining five bv gnlping
down two glasses of whisky. Then he
dropped dead. A Coroner's jury will prob
ably find that his death was accidental
but the same sort of accident comes to a
man who swallows prussic acid or lauda-
mum.
The ourang-outang which got loose at
New York did not play all the pranks over
the roofs Of houses and on telegraph poles
expected of him. nor did he rerpetrate any
atrocity such as Poe described in the mys-
terry of the Rue Morgue. He is domicied
in cage once more, and may be thankful
that he did not fall foul of live electric
wire. His holiday ought to have added
few words 10 his vocabulary and increased
his respect for man as builder of struc.
lures much higher than the trees he has