The morning call., 1893-09-08

A Napa rancher is said to be dis
appointed that the rainfall on Wednesday
did not reach his neighborhood. He had
hopes that deluge would destroy half his
crop of grapes and perhaps three-Quarters
oil the crops of his neigh bors, and then he
would be able TO command a higher price
Tor the remainder than Sc a toni Think
OF lt-S6 ton for grapes! That seems
little better than hog feed. Yet enterprise
can Go something TO make profitable the
o9untles OF na'ure in this State. Good
wine ana brandy are not too common and
grape jelly Is commodity less used than
II should be. AS to raisns, perhaps there
are enough with present transportation
rates. The misfortune about wine is that
the American consumptiOn does not ad-
vance. Whisky and beer go down fast,
but not wine. and the foreign market has
so much competition.
The liberties OF REPUBLICAN government
are sacredly guarded in Brazil, now by the
army. then by the navy, and occasionally
by both and mob of improvised in
sur2ents at the same time. Some little
pleasantly of this serio- character is
now being enacted. President Peix0to
has been requested by the crews of three
cruisers and three tOrpedO-boats at Rio TO
they may compel him. Dictatorism has a
bad effect on citizenship.
Ernest Hart is a fairly good medical
Journalist; trifie too orthodox Some al
lowance may therefore be made for his
Incorporate denuDciation OF homeopa hic
physicians as quscks. The honor of up
holding charlatanism is not excluded from
any branch of the profession, and il does
not follow that man is good doctor be-
cause he holds a diploma. though none
should be without one. There still is
considerable dose OF medicine admins
tered by rule and not on any teaching oil
experience. Food and hygienic regulation
are much more important than drugs, and
yet the drenr ching with drugs which still
goes on Is appalling.
A decided sririt of opposition cannot
but be aroused by any scheme to colonize
America with japanese under an immi-
grafton company with headquarters in
\ Yokohama. This is the modern method
of returning to slave labor, and is prac-
tlcal violation of the contra ct-labOr law.
There are citizens des pieable enough to
employ such labor no matter what befalls
their country and fellow-couUtrymeD, but
they should not have the chance. The
United States will soon interfere if this
goes on.
The attempted corner in iron is as auda-
cious a thing in corners as has ever
been attempted. 1t is bound to fail, for
there is too much of it in the ore fields OF
the United States, aud it is 10 more sus-
cepibe of being held in a corporation
sDuffbOX than coal, which also is fortu-
nateiy abundant though not in California,
In this State, as it happens, there is high
class iron ore suitabls for BeSsemer steel,
and the day must come when it will be
smelted, and help in building up the in
dustrieS of a coast. which is sadly too
much dependent upon the East.
AS rule railway company only CON-
plains of want of traffic. and rarely is
troubled with inability to handle IL. The
railroads in England are suffering from
coal famine, and are in straits to find fuel
for their locomotives. Trains are being
discontinued. Meanwhile, eolliers are on
strike, and mobs in distress are soaring
citizens by lOoting bakeries, grogshops and
breweries. These deeds are rare in this
generation of EnglishmeU, and indicate
degree Of evaporation and mOralization
which is apt to rutfie the complacency of
civilization. There is now demand for
some machinery by which resorts to strikes
or lockOuts 10 the coal trade may be
averteG.