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The morning call., 1894-04-02
WAGES AND PRICES.

A free-trade speaker at the Midwintsr
Fair Congress is reported as saying that
the idea that high prices bring high
wages was absurd from the outset" The
speaker did not inform his audience what
does bring high wages. Leaving out of
consideration such conditions as existed
in California for some years after the dis
covery of gold. the possibility Of high
wages can only be found in high prices.
1t is high wages that make high prices for
the reason that low prices are impossible
where wages are high. The principal
item of cost in the production of all COM
modities is labor. and If labor is we'll paid
prices must correspond. On the other
hand, If labor is poorly paid ordinary
competition will force prices down.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson. in a speech in
tended to show the benefit to the public at
large Of the gold standard, said that "the
general interest of the community is in
low prices and high wages" While it
may be true that low prices and high
wages would be conducive to the general
welfare, they can exist together only under
exceptional conditions. A machine may
be invented which does the work of four
men with one expert to run it. The ex-
pert gets good wages. What do the four
men whom tie machine displaced get?
The answer is furnished in the continu-
GUS tramp of men in search of work. But
Mr.. Atkinson and his followers have their
eye OF the expert who gets good wages
and on the employer who finds good profits
in dispensing with the labor of four men.
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CENSUS FIGURES.

The first thing the free-traders should
have done when 10 possession of all de-
partments of Government was to abolish
the census Office. Figures cannot be ed
tied. They have an obstinate way of re-
cording results, no matter how anxious
the manipulatorg may be to make differ
ent showing.
The census of manufactures for 1890 has
at last reached the public. 1t is the
strongest argument that has yet been ad-
vanced in support of the protective policy.
There are no opinions in it, but startling
array of facts. When the summing up
shows that the wage-earner received in
1880 S347 Sc year and that his earnings
advanced in 1890 to S4S5 10, he does not
care what Mr.. Grover Cleveland thinks
about it. He knows what he thinks about
it, and that is enough for him. But an
increase in wages is not the only thing to
be considered. How many men were re-
ceiving that increase? What was the total
value of products? Was capital so well
satisfied as to increase Its holdings in that
department OF business? These questions
all receive affirmative answers. From
1880 to 1890 the increase in capital invested
in manufactures was lZ0.I6 per cent, the
increase in the number of wage-earners
was 65.74 per cent. the increase in the
wages paid was 1918 per cent, increase
in the cost of materials AIT per cent ana
the increase in The value of products sc. q
per cent. These are eloquent figures.
They show a healthful increase all round.
They show that while the increase IN cap
ital was 80 per cent the increase in the
aggregate of wages was 131 per cent.
That shows an advance in the condition
of the wage-earner that no sophistry can
explain away. The comparison between
the aggregate Of wages paid and the value
of products shows that up to 1890 labor
had not been so deeply affected by the fall
in prices of commodities as capital But
three years later capital gets even. Since
June last the cut in wages has been heavy.
how heavy census figures have not yet
shown,
The morning call., 1894-04-02
The Naval Battalion.

On the 4th of April Company A of the
Naval Battalion. N. G. c., stationed at
San Diego, will leave that place by steamer
for this city, arriving here on the 9th inst.
at Broadway wharf, where it will be met
and welcomed by Companies B. G and D,
of this city. and escorted TO the armory of
Company c on Bush street, which they
will make their headquarters during their
nine days stay in San Francisco. On
April 7th the Naval Battalion, accom-
panied by their visiting San Diegan BROTH
ers, will attend the performance Of "Ship
Alloy" at the Tivoli, in which production
they will take an active part by giving an
exhibition gun drill and going through the
different maneuvers peculiar to their
branch of the service. San Diego day will
be the occasion for the four companies to
parade out to the Mid winter Fair grounds,
and they will take an active part in the
exercises of the day. one Of the principal
features of which will be sham battle.
Everything will be done by the Naval
Battalion Of this city to make their visiting
bretheren's visit a success, and to that end
a high jinks will be given by the local
companies. Company B is making ar
rangements for banquet, at which the
guests for the occasion will be the men,
bers of Company A, but the date has not
yet been definitely decided upon. but will
be announced shortly. A farewell ball
will be rendered the visitors by Com
pany q at their armory on April II.
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

A contemporary estimates the amount
dispensed in charity In this city WITHIN
the last four months at 100000. Nearly
one-half Of this sum was fairly earned by
the men receiving it. But the fund would
not have been sufficient il there had been
no other incentive than to have the work
done. The immediate purpose was to
provide work for men who without such
provision would have suffered. There
was easily 100000 distributed in other
ways, the most important OF which was
the far-reaching work of the Salvation
Army. The municipality also provided
food and shelter for several hundred men
at the old City Hall. There is no means
of closely estimating the extent Of public
charity. Hundreds of families have had
their rent paid during the time when the
ordinary brea d-winner was unable to hnd
work. One cannot help the conclusion
that there Is a screw loose when In
State like California such demands are
made upon the eharitablY inclined. There
ought to be work enough for every body.
Tie products of other peoples labor ind
ready sale in this city. The very men and
women who were helped through the win
ter were clad in cloth made elsewhere.
They wore boots and shoes made IN Massa-
chusetts. Doubtless some of them had
seen the hides of which their boots and
shoes were made shipped East TO be
tanned and made iato foot covering. a
very large proportion of those who had
Christmas dinner fed upon Eastern tur-
key. s good deal of their butter and
cheese came from abroad. There are large
sales of foreign canned fruit in this city
and elsewhere in the State. And yet the
facilities abound for providing ourselves
with all the comforts of life. We plant
nothing that does not grow; we can pro-
duce everything from a warship to bottle
of rose-water. The California product is
also the best of its kind. Our turkeys sell
for a little more than Eastern turkeys.
The products of our diaries are certainly
not inferior to those imported. Why then
these idle people who ask nothing better
than work? Is the business ability that
combines the forces of industry lacking,
or are men who have accumulated money
too much inclined to live on its earnings
at high rate of interest and with album
dant security?
The morning call., 1894-04-02
SENATORS AT THE WHITE HOUSE

If we may believe Washington CORE
spondents Of Democratic newspapers there
is an area of low atmospheric pressure be-
tween the Senate chamber and the White
House. With two or three exceptions
when the President wants to confer with
a Senator he has to send for him.. Several
Senators are never sent for and many
others rarely. The Worlds correspondent
says none of the real leaders of the party
ever go to the executive mansion. Morgan
OF Alabama only goes when he is sent for.
II is probabl that the Senate Foreign Com
mittee's report on the Hawaiian Islands is
uppermost in the mind Of both President
and Senator when they come together. and
has a depressing effect upon conversation.
The Senators who are mentioned as in
cordial relations with the President are
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THE SINGERS FESTIVAL.
One of the Coming Musical Events
at the Fair.

The German choral societies of the city
have united for a grand festival of music,
to be held at the Vienna Prater the las
of next week. The festival now promises
to be one Of the notable musical features
of the fair.
1t is to be known as the Singers Festi-
val. The music will be entirely for male
chorus, which wil consist of 600 voices.
the pick of all the German societies of the
city. They Will be assisted by the now
famous Prater orchestra.
The affair is in the hands of Professor
Franz Fischer, assisted by Herman Holz-
hauer. The songs have now been in prep
arati0n about six weeks.
In addition to the local singers delega-
ti0ns will be present from San Jose, Stock
ton and Sacramento, and others are ex-
pected from Fresno and Los Angeles
More than twenty societies in all will take
part.
The festival will begin on Friday night,
April IS. with a grand rehearsal in the
Prater with the orchestra. On Saturday
night will be given the first concert, and
on Sunday afternoon at o'clock the last
concert, which will be the star perform
ance of the festival will take place.
At the rehearsal yesterday afternoon in
Teutonia Hall fully 400 singers were 10
attendance, and Professor Fischer is well
satisfied with the progress that is being
made by the chorus.
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WHERE. DO THE NEWSPAPERS
GET OFF?

Periodically the courts take delight in
having a shy at the newspapers. The
Federal courts were at all times the most
active in this business. There seems to be
a notion prevalent among some Of them
that unpopular voice was always unruly.
But there has been very little of
this sort of thing since the impeach-
ment of Peck, that led TO more exact
definition by Congress of what contem pt
Of court means. The State courts do the
most. of this work now. 1t is mostly con-
fined, however, TO the Superior courts.
AS rule they are reversed by the Su-
preme Court.
TheIatest case of this kind that has come
to public notice occurs in a snit for dam
ages against the Sacramento Bee. 1t had
published the arrest of a citizen for an
alleged crime. In doing so il had not gone
beyond the allegations 10 the warrant.
80 be on the sure side it interviewed the
accused and published simultaneously his
denial. The latter sued tor $4,000 dam
ages. The case was tried in the Superior
Court@at Sacramento without a jury. by
stipulation. The Judge returned verdict
against the Bee for $500 damages. BE
found that there was no malice in the pub
licatIon except the malice which the law
presunes in all cases of wrongdOing.
For all that Judge Catlin is generally
regarded as one of the purest and most
upright Judges on the bench.
The decision referred to, if approved by
the Supreme Court, would render the pub
-licatien of a great part of what the public
caIls.news, and which it strenuously In
sists must be served I'D for its informa-
ton: impossible. Apparently case can
not be touched, with the new view of the
law, until the verdict is rendered. and then
ifthat verdict should be reversed, as the
manner of courts frequently is. it is hard
to say if liability is not also incurred. Sc
far as Judge Catin is concerned, no un-
worthy motive can be alleged. But the
Q rule thus laid down can hardly stand. Il
there be a chance for appeal it will mos1
likely be submitted to the court OF last re
sort There ought to be no antagonist
between the bench and the press. Both
are TO be presumed to be DESTROYS of pro
noting the ends of justice. But there are
Judges. who get more out of case thar
law. though we do not think that Judge
Q Catlin is one of them, and there are news
papers which sometimes, we are afraid, d.
not contend for the eternal verities.
The morning call., 1894-04-02

Gray of Delaware, Mills of Texas and
Villas of Wisconsin. Neither of these is
leader In popular sense. Mills goes to
the extreme on the tariff question,
and while an acting member OF the
Finance Committee his radical views
caused trouble between the committee and
the body of the Senate. The lack of cor
diality between the President and the
Senate is attributed mostly to the Presi-
dents evident consciousness of personal
superiority. The average Senator does
not rank high in his estimation. Neither
has he the tact to conceal his estimate of
them. AS Mr.. Cleveland's incapacity as
the leader of dominant party becomes
apparent the Senators are not slow to let
their estimate of the President become
manifest
The morning call., 1894-04-02
THE RAILROAD QUESTION IN
CONGRESS.

The introduction of Boatner's resolu-
ton I'D the House judiciary Committee on
Wednesday looking to review of the
relations between the Government and
the two Pacific roads is an event of consid-
siderable magnitude. There have been
investigating committees before, but they
have done nothing effective. This COM
mittee will have to frame line of action.
In January of next year the first of the
subsidy bonds, amounting to 50. 1862, 900,
will fall due, and will have to be paid by
the treasury dollar for dollar. Between
next January and the fall of 1899 the re-
msinder of the bonds. amounting to
S25. aga, $50, will have to be paid in like
manner, and the: only funds available for
the purpose are; the moneys held in the
sinking fund created by the Thurman act
and the sums due to the railroad for Gov
ernment transportation. When Mr.. Hurt
ington was asked what his company
would do toward assisting the. Govern
ment to IiQuidate a liability incurred for
the benefit Of bis road, the only PROPOSE
tion he could offer was that the Govern
ment should double its loan to the road
and postpone payment of the whole for
a century or so. Ii need hardly be added
that this scheme did not commend itself
to the.approval OF Congressman.
With regard to tie rstmortgage bonds,
which amount to S27.s500O0. no difficulty
arises. They can be extended at per
cent for an indefinite period, especially
as they are mostly owned by the railroad
men themselves. But the Government
claim, which with interest amounts to
about .$70.0OO.000. cannot be disposed OF
by any such simple method: and the more
-arefully 1t is studied the more plain does
The morning call., 1894-04-02

When the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge Is found
praising report prepared by PETER let us not
despair of Senatorial coHrtesy.-Chicago Times.
q Kcssurh is dead, but his soul goes marching
on. The lesson of his life is great inspiration
for the patriots OF every struggling nationality.
IN. Y. Recorder.
Mr.. Reed is right In saying that "tbe dignity
of the House is not very large" In fact IL is SO
small that great many people are unable to
get glimpse Of it.-GloDe- Democrat
England will retire its troops from Bluefelds
and keep its hands out of American affairs un-
less 1t wishes TO learn what new generation OF
tail-twisters can do about it.-N. Y. World.
Talking OF location for new Mint, some are
of opinion that TWO streams one coming out oil
the present building, the other going in, would
make beautiful sight.-Phiiadelphia Times.
1t Is said that Senator Chandler will not be
returned TO the Senate, a powerful railway
company being opposed TO him. 1t Is interest.
ing TO know what makes Senators In enlight.
ened New Englanc.-St. Louis Post-Dispateh.
1t is reported that the Southern Farmers Al
lance is going out Of politics. Have the agrf-
culturists accepted General Bragg's principle
that 1t Is more profitable to raise corn aud cot
ton than TO raise the neither regi0ns?-Pittsburg
Dispatch
Commencement at Harvard without punch Is
likely to be dull and colorless affalr.-Proyt
dence journal.
Oh, no! There will be beer and champagne
and eloquence In several languages, just the
same.-Boston Herald.
Coxey says that his army may be compelled
to pluck ears of corn for sustenance. II would
be pretty hard thing TO 90 at this time OF year
unless he could steal into farmyard at night
and pluck them out of crib. indianapolis
News.
When priZe-fghters begin appealing to the
law to settle their differences instead of argu-
Ing matters with upper-cuts, swings and
straight punches, there is hope for the COM
plete regeneration of the pugilstc fraternity
Chicago Herald.
The last OF the Hawaiian correspondence
touching the use of force 10 compel the rein
statement OF the eX-Queen has been sent to
Congress. There never was more disgraceful
episode In our history than this correspondence
reveals.-N. Y. Mail and Express.
Kossuth's nams does not mean much to the
young men OF 1913, but 1t was enou Oh to affect
International politics forty years ago. England
was almost afraid Of his enthusiastic reception
among the English people and the United States
was Gne great body OF Kossuth votaries. Tie
Ko,suth hat has never quite disappeared from
the fashions. And Hungary is not yet Free
ST. Louis Republic.
1t was mistaken clemency which permitted
Da Cana and bis officers to escape from Rio in
the Portuguese warship. Nothing can now
prevent them from Joining the insurgents in the
southern provinces Of Brazil ano prolonging
this unfortunate internecine conflict indef-
nitely 1t Is as II Jefferson Davis had fed on
an English cruiser In '65 and gone to stir up
trouble along the Mexican frontier.-Boston
Journal.
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it appear that it cannot be got round
by any legal device or financial legerde-
main. All such schemes must come to
nothing. Debts which are secured by
mortgage must be collected in the way
provided by law. namely, by foreclosure
of the mortgage if The property mort
gagged is still in existence. The companies
may beat about the bush as long as they
please, but in the end they will ind that
foreclosure is the only outlet from the
dilemma
The morning call., 1894-04-02

so WATCH THIS NOTICE.
Until further notice the rates via the Central
ana Union Pacific Railroads will be $40 to Coun-
Gil Bluffs and Kansas City, S32 so to Chicago and
$46 so to New York.
The Union Pacific is the only line running Pull
man drawingroom sleepers and dlning-cars from
san Francisco to Chicago without change in only
three and half days
Upholstered tourist cars TO Chicago daily with
out change.
ID. w. Hitchcock, General Agent, Montgomery
street, San Francisco CAL
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Phillips, Rock island Excursions

Lea We San Franc every ednesday and satur.
day via RIO GRANDE AND Rock ISLAND RVS
Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Bos-
ton. Manager and porter accompany these e1cur-
sions through to Boston. For tickets sleeping-car
acc ON N odatioDs and further information address
CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Ry,
S6Mon tgomery street. San Francisco
The morning call., 1894-04-02
Found i'm the Ray.

The remains of Edward Tburston, fire.
man, who had been employed by the
Alaska Packing Company. were taken
from the bay at Broadway wharf yester-
day morning. Thurston had been missing
about two weeks. The BODY was badly
decomposed.
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over,,rd poutA

The Shasta Route and Northern Pacific Rail-
road 10 points In Washington, Idaho, Montana,
the Dakotas. Minnesota. Wisconsin. Illinois
and all Eastern States Is the most comfort able
| and picturesque line of all. Daily tram SER
vice, with dining, Pullman Palace and up
holstered tourist cars on all trains. L. d.
| STATELER, General Agent 63S Market st.
The morning call., 1894-04-02

DA1T,y CALL dncluding sundays>, &c per year by
mai. postpaid: Is cents per week or 65 cents per
csfeDdsr month through carriers. DAILY CALL
g. coniee three months. S6 25.. SUNDAY CALL,
81 30 per year postpaid. SUNDAY C iALL E anI
WEEKLY CALL $3.50 per year, postpaid " i---iAA
CALL, Il Per year, postpaid.
THE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts
nor viii the editor enter into correspondence re-
kleC1nk them.
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"Mrs. Winslow,s Soothing syruu

Has been used fifty years by millions of
mothers for their children while Teething with
perfect success. 1t soothes the child softens tho
Gums. allays Pain, cures Wind Collie. regulates the
Bowels, and is the best remedy Tor Diarrheas
whether arising from teething or other causes.
For sale by Druggists in every part OF the world
Be sure and ask for Mrs Winslow's Soothing
Syrup 25c bottle
The morning call., 1894-04-02
ArCTION SAILS TODAY.

FURSITuRE.-By VIM. Hutterfeld. at 728 Union
ST. 81 II O'Clock and S14 Marker St AT = olocn
JAPANESE GooDs.-By Percy l. DaFlS, AZ 440
Suffer ST, at II o'clock. -
.FUBNITURE-By Frank w. Butterheid' at SUI
Ellis ST.. at II O'Clock.
CRoCKERY. ETe-By II. J. Leutholtz, at AIS
HAYES ST. at 10 O'Clock.
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prRIICATToN oFFICE.

foE Montgomery street. near Clay. open until II
O'Clock p. NJ. BRANCH OFFICES: no Msr rSa
street near Kearny open until II o'clock midnight;
Hayes street open until $50 o'clock 5o5larAli
street open until 930oclock; SW corner en- u
and Mission streets, open until . ocIoGhi ,,;
Mission street. open until 8 O'CLOCK anu 1A' -
street, open until 80 o'clock.
The morning call., 1894-04-02

MORE than $4,000 people read the Pacific
States Watchman''; 10000 bona fde subscrib.
ers; largest legitimate circulation OF any
monthly west OF the Rocky Mountains. A few
dress WIN. "a. BARNES, ST. AIMS building,
San Francisco, Cal.
The morning call., 1894-04-02

You know man by the company he keeps. If
he is taking Hoods Sarsaparilla regularly you can
rest assured that his blood is pure. his appetite
keen and his health the best Try 1t yourself.
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THE DA1LY moRNrNG CALL
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New York .BRENTAN0 BROS, Union Square
CHICAGO .........W W. Z. SIZER, 1S9 State street
New Orleans. GALLOT & JOUBERT, 115Z Common
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THE MORNING CALL
Has a larger Circu' alton than any
other newspaper published IN San
Francisco.

rHEEAsTRRN OFFICE OF THE CALL.
90 Potter building New York City, is provided with
files of California papers. Visitors welcome. al
Vertising rates and sample copies furnlshea.
T. K MISCH, Manager.
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

DKrAKTNFNT OF AGRICULTURE
WEATHER BUREAU.
SAN Francisco, April !, 1884
CficiaT Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Inding Midnight Monday.
san Francisco and vietnity-Fair weather;
nearly stationary temperature; fresh TO brisk
wes&sto north WINDS.
b. S. PAeUE, Local Forecast oGiciaL
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j. f. CUTTERS OLD BoURBoN-This cele-
brated whisky for sale by all first-cass druggists
and grocers. Trademark-Star within a shields
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NOTICE =!

.A,ly Of our patrons sgbo fail to find THE
MORNING CALL for sale by trainb0yS
siA conter a favor by notifying this office
At the fact, naming the date and train.
The morning call., 1894-04-02

THE GOOD REPUTATION Of "Broi0s's Bronchial
1roches" for the relief of Coughs Colds and
Throat Diseases has given them . favorable
notoriety.
The morning call., 1894-04-02

SOUVENIRS of the fair are cheap In the sta
tionery department OF Sanborn s. VaiPs, TAI
Market street.