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The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
THE CALL" AND THE LOTTERIES.

We have noted with interest and sympathy
the strong stand taken by THE CALL on the lot
terry question, not, we are told, without very
decided effect upon the nefarious business.
If, as is claimed, the sale of lottery tickets in
this City has been reduced fifty per cent, there
is surely encouragement for pressing on in the
good work. We do not wonder that the ex-
posure which this newspaper has made of the
methods adopted to cheat people out of their
money without giving them even their small
chance, one In tens of thousands, which the
lottery ticket buyer ever has of drawing a
prize, should have resulted in opening the
eyes of some OF the dupes. 1t seems as if in
this age and country the fools must be scarce
who will persist in investing in an enterprise
where they are liable to be cheated outright
there being nothing to draw, with only bogus
ticket in handl
1t is pity that THE CALL should be left
alone of City newspapers to carry on this right
eous warfare. Others publish advertisements
for the gambling concerns, not, We must be-
heve, without injury to their reputation
among respectable citizens who are lovers of
law and order.
We can only wish The CALL success in its
vigorous crusade. There is plenty of room for
it yet. We happen to know of ladies, so called,
who go about still from house to house dressed
in respectable black, and make an honor
able (?) living by the sale of lottery tickets
Pacific Churchman.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
THE COMING YACHT RACE.

Now that the Valkyrie is fairly at sea on
her way to America interest in the coming
race will rapidly increase in both countries
and intensity until the great event comes
off and the match is decided. The contest
promises to be one of the closest and most
exciting on record. There is every reason
to believe the yachts are the speediest ever
launched, they seem to be well matched in
all respects and both have crews and cap
tains capable of getting the uttermost out
of them.
One feature of rivalry conspicuous in all
past races of the series for the America
cup will be absent from this one. 1t is to
be no longer contest between the Ameri-
can centerboard and the British keel.
Although the American yachts have won
every race in the past it seems to be con-
ceded by our builders that after all the
British had the right idea. The Defender
is built mainly on the British model, but
and the issue in this race is simply one of
yacht-building, the style of the rival boats
being about the same.
The abandonment of the centerboard
system in the Defender has given good
deal of dissatisfaction to a considerable
number of Eastern yachtsmen. In the re-
cent trial of the new yacht with the Vigi-
liant it is said the prevailing sympathy
among the crowds that watched the race
was with the Vigilant. 1t is even asserted
that some of the excursionists made it clear
that they grudged the Defender her sue
cess from start to finish and did it in way
that left little room for doubt they would
prefer to lose the cup rather than have it
won by an American boat which had no
centerboard.
The argument for adopting the keel,
however, seems to be unanswerable. The
contests for the America cup have now
reached point where such enormous sail
carrying power is developed as to require
the use of seventy tons of lead in the keel
and to represent that power in center
board is apparently physical impossi-
bility. The centerboard, therefore, has
passed out of the rank of cup challengers
or defenders. The issue now is to see
whether we can build better keel yachts
than the British and sail them with more
skill and nerve during the race. 1t is on
this basis the coming contest will be made
and there are good reasons to believe that
the victory will be with the Defender.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
PERSONAL.

Frank Cox, an attorney of Phoenix, Ariz., is a
guest at the Grand.
J. D. Biddle, banker of Hanford, registered
at the Grand yesterday.
R. M. Green, merchant and mine-owner of
Oroville, is at the Grand.
General Superintendent Fillmore of the
Southern Pacific is in Los Angeles.
81. L. Lowden, civil engineer of Weaver
vile, and Mrs. Lowden are at the Lick.
Rev. ]. NJ Taulbee of Covington, KY, has re-
turned to town and is staying at the Grand.
]. w. Kaseberg, a capitalist of Sacrame nto,
came down yesterday and put up at the Grand.
Andrew Rocca, one of the owners of the
Great Western quicksilver mine, is at the Lick.
w. B. Cahone, cashier of the Tehama County
Bank of Red Bluff, and Mrs. Cahone registered
at the Lick yesterday.
A. C. Hamilton and Miss Hamilton and Mrs.
John P. Jones and her two daughters arrived
from the East yesterday and are staying at the
Palace.
Mr.. and Mrs. 81. Darwin McIlrath of Chicago,
who are travelling around the world ON bicycles
for the Inter Ocean, arrived in the City yester-
day and are staying at the Occidental. They
will leave here for Yokohama in q couple of
weeks.
E. T. Statesbury of Philadelphia, connected
with the great banking firm of Drexel e. Co.,
with his two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Henry S..
Grove and two sons and Miss Lockwood, ar
rived here from the Fest yesterday in pri-
vate car on q pleasure tour.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
A SOANDAL0US AFFAIR.

It has been declared by the Oklahoma
Supreme Court that the 900 or 700 divorces
which have been granted by the Probate
Judges of that Territory within the last
two years are illegal. The matter is to be
appealed to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and in the event the Terri
torial court decision is upheld Congress
will be asked to pass bill legalizing the
divorces. All this must necessarily oc-
cupy long time. Meanwhile number
of the divorced persons have remarked.
AS the present decision is the law and
must remain the law for some time to
come, the position of these persons is as de-
plorable as the methods in Oklahoma are
disgraceful.
The affair is as scandalous as that which
occurred in Arizona several years ago,
when the infamous omnibus divorce
bill" was put through the Territorial Leg
islature. The Southwest at that time was
filled with men who had left wives in the
Eastern States. 1t was an open scandal
that any one who wished to have his name
included in the bill could accomplish his
desire by paying stipulated price. All
formalities of suit, service and publication
were omitted. The simple act of the Leg
islature granted the divorce and that was
the beginning and the end of the proceed
ings. Hundreds of wives, many of course
with children to support, were divorced
without their consent or knowledge, and
doubtless many of them died in ignorance
of their freedom to remarry.
Oklahoma has been for years pursuing a
course hardly more respectable than that
of Arizona. The ease and celebrity with
which the courts of Oklahoma have been
granting divorces drew thither thousands
of disaffected persons from all parts Of the
country. 1t is not possible to imagine
that the dispatch with which divorces
have been granted was uncontaminated
by crookedness in the proceedings, and it
is more than likely that the severest
wrongs and the graveSt hardships have
followed the Oklahoma plan.
This is not matter in which either the
expediency or the morality OF divorce is
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

charges, which do not burden the cities of
the East. A still more serious draw back
is the indifference of our consumers to the
welfare of our manufactures and to the
superiority of their products.
An incongruous condition of affairs is
seen in the fact that while we are bringing
from distance considerable proportion
of the material for our manufactures we
are content to observe Eastern and English
manufacturers using raw material which
we produce and which we neglect to turn
into manufactured products. 1t is evident
that however successful we may be in man.
ufacturing material shipped from the East
our possibilities as manufacturing city
can never be fully developed until we have
employed the resources which our exclu-
sive soil products represent. AS these are
generally of the character of luxuries, in
the production and manufacture of which
there ought to be larger profits than where
staple articles are concerned, particularly
in view of the fact that by the wise hand
ling of these advantages we could make 1T
impossible for Eastern manufacturers to
compete with US, it is evidently our most
important duty to pay attention to the
matters out of which virtual monopoly
might be produced.
Attention is called to these considera-
tions out of a very high regard for the
splendid work which the Manufacturers
and Producers Association is doing. Its
main scope at present is to arouse interest
in the importance of consuming the prod
ucts of our manufactures. This is an
essential task to accomplish, but the one
to which attention is herein called is i'm
portant in itself. All the efforts which are
now being made to advance the interests
of the State must produce the most valua-
BILE results, and the discovery that the City
already occupies so high a position as
manufacturing center makes the task of
pushing its position still further all the
more cheerful.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
THE WANAMAKER FEAST.

Young Rodman Wana maker, son OF
John Wanamaker the good, has recently
served to certain Partisan counts and
barons dinner which, while not at all
typical of America, was clearly represen-
tative of certain characteristics OF Amerl-
can plutocracy. The dinner is a nine days
wonder in Paris, and is not without in
terest here, for John Wanamaker has
been mentioned for the Presidency OF the
Nation, and it is worth our while to con-
slider what kind of ideas he has inculcated
in the mind of his son and heir.
Twenty-Five guests were invited to the
dinner, and probably from fear that
some of them might come in cab, a street.
car or even on foot, if left to themselves,
the gilded Rodman engaged twenty-five OF
the finest equipages in Paris TO call for
them. The decorations of the dining
room, we are told, were sumptuously beau
tiful, and the air was cooled by luminous
fountains scattering spray radiant as
many colored Jewels over crystalline masses
of ice. The dinner itself was prepared re-
gardless of cost, of appetite and OF human
capacity to eat. Each guest was served
with whole leg of mutton, whole
salmon. truffled fowl, basket of peaches
and double magnum of champagne, be-
sides several bottles OF other wines of rare
vintage and fabulous cost. At the close of
the dinner silken grabbag was passed
around and each guest drew from it
souvenir such as an emerald pin, ruby
links, pearl studs or golden cigarette
holder gemmed with diamonds.
Taken altogether the feast was remark
able example of the grossest form of
"going the whole hog" IL was an at
tempt to dazzle Paris by display of
wealth and lavishness, but its result was
simply to disgust Americans. The futlllty
of the thing is evident from the fact that
some of the guests were members OF the
Rothschilds family, who could buy out
the Wanamakers any day, but who would
never think of showing their greatness by
trying to eat leg of mutton, a salmon, a
chicken and a basket of peaches, and
washing the mixture down with gallon
of champagne.
John Wanamaker is evidently another of
those men of gushing goodness who, in his
ardor for the redemption of the heather,
has neglected his own son. He may have
taught him many things, but he did not
teach him the difference between culture
and vulgarity. The Digger Indian giving
dog feast to his friends must have been
the model young Wanamaker had in his
mind when he prepared his extraordinary
layout, and in the one case as in the
other, the only idea seems to have been to
see how far a guest could be induced to
stuff himself after he had enough.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
THE PASSING INDIAN.

The War Department may prove correct
in its belief that no extensive bloodshed
will ensue from the Bannock uprising in
Wyoming, but the present indications are
otherwise. The Modoc War taught
the American soldiers a lesson which
induced them to shoot first and par
ley afterward. for it is impossible to deal
with Indians on the lines of "civilized war
fare" and sooner or later will come the
fatal clash that will send the Bannocks
and their allies to their long account.
The Indian question must conform to
the universal rule that where naturally
antagonistic races battle for the same ter
ritory the weaker must be either wholly
exterminated or changed into some sem
blance of conformity to the civilization of
the stronger. Where such conformity is
impossible determination is necessary. The
Cherokees and other omparatively amia-
bic tribes of the Indian Territory are alive
and thriving solely because the possibility
to conform was within them. This is i'm
possible with the Apaches of the South
west, and all efforts to tame them will be
as futile as attempts to make domestic
pet of tiger or a barnyard fowl of an
eagle, All the fierce old tribes which a
century ago opposed the invasion of Euro
peans and their American descendants
have disappeared, leaving here and there
a degraded progeny, who are to the con-
querors what the wretched poems of Mex
of one of the noblest and
finest races that the world has known
are to the ruling invader from Spain. The
Bannocks and the Apaches will inevitably
suffer the fate of the Creeks, the Semi
noles, the Blackfeet, the Crows and the
Sioux.
Such war of determination would have
inevitably occurred between the Ameri-
cans and the Chinese on the Pacific Coast
had not Congress seen the formidable
cloud gathering and closed American
ports to the swarming of these stinging
ants from the Orient. Humane considera-
tions in all such conflicts serve only to
delay, never to destroy, the operation of
instinct. The gregarious nature of races is
transformed by the struggle for existence
into tribal animosities. The claim that
the peoples of all races and nations are
members of one great family falls to the
ground in the presence of the universal
fact that the nations most strenuously
urging the doctrine have the most formid-
able war preparations to refute it. 1t is
not question either of sayagery or civil
iZation, but of an instinct handed down
through countless generations, and neces-
sary to the development as well as the
preservation of races that have survived
to the present time.
Our people would not be true to some of
the qualities which make them admirable
if they should cutsthe throats of all living
Indians. Those inclinations which lead
US to treat these poor savages as creatures
worthy of humane consideration find ex-
preston otherwise in many benign ways.
But the antagonism between them and US
is ineradicable, and however much we
may delay the end. something is sure now
and then to happen in the conduct of the
weaker ones themselves to give US both
excuse and reason to hasten the exter-
mination that awaits them.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
AN ENCOURAGING FACT.

Many San Franciscans were amazed to
read in The CALL of Sunday an abstract of
the most recent bulletins of the Federal
Census Bureau showing the high rank
which San Francisco holds as a manufac-
turing center. They were not prepared to
learn that we have more direct capital en-
ployed in manufactures than Boston,
which is a much larger city; that although
Baltimore is at the gate OF the cotton
region of the South and Pittsburg is SO
easily accessible to the iron and coal mines
of Pennsylvania San Francisco invests
more in material for manufactures than
either These are not all the points of our
superiority which the reports disclose, but
they are sufficient.
All this is in spite of the fact that fuel
here is vastly more expensive than in any
of the Eastern cities and that many of our
largest manufactures use material brought
from a distance under heavy freight
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

residents. If anybody has an idea that Guy
can be built up by tramps and Coxey army
socialistic spouters, it shows that they DeloiAg
to class that depend upon jawbone raeher
than capital and industry to build up city
Oakland Times
Since the growth of industry business, ana
property from 1880 to 1892 was greater, much
greater, than at any other period OF the coun'
try's history, and the country had been under
protective tariff policy all the time, what was
the sense in the assertion on whick the cleo
tion OF 1892 was carried, tnat the policy OF
protection was depressing and running the
country? The mistake has been apparent
more than two years.-Portland Oregonian.
1t would be interesting just now to have
the 'opinion" of Judge Ross on the various
Opinions of his opinion; but then, there IS
limit to life and capacity. The people should
give his opinion the weight it deserves, for the
reason that while he interposes an obstacle he
may at the same time tacitly suggest way out
of the difieulty.-Fresno Expositor.
When Republican President resumes cons
troll in March, 1897, we may safely predict an
era of prosperity equal to our palmiest dayss
OF course until this time all we can do is to
hold the present maladmtnistratlon in check.
We can do that with good grace, and take extra
Argus.
England has decided to appropriate the
island of Trinidad. Brazil protests and in
auires about the Monroe doctrine. We are
panied to inform Brazil that under the present
administration the Monroe doctrine is in q
state of innocuous desuetude, to use Presi-
Dental expression.-Tacoma( (Wash.) Union.
oh, If we could only have law passed by
the Legislature, and made operative, COM
pelling the Supreme Court to pass upon the
constitutionalty of every law as soon as it is
approved by the Governor, what an amount OF
annoyance, and cost as well, would be saved to
the people.-Alameda Encinal.
Now that the locomotives for the Valley Rail-
road have arrived, that there are ties and
rails enough in Stockton to build twenty miles
of the road and the work OF grading is going
ahead at rapid rate, the croaker should cease
to croak.-Stockton Independent.
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lite, but he had played with Booth and Barrett,
and that had made him ambitious to enact
great roles. The first thing he decided to put
on was the forum scene from "Julius Caesar" He
cast himself for Mark Anthony and wanted me
to play the first plebeian.
''Look here" said, "they have engaged me-
for comedy roles and want to make good
impression. Let one of the amateurs play the
plebeian and can appear first in pink Domi-
noes.'"
"The part which I have given you in
comedy-Shakespearian comedy" he answered,
and although I begged and pleaded with him
not to put me on in such lofty walks of the
drama nothing would satisfy him but that l
must play the first plebeian. "You can make
it just as funny as you like" he said.
"Do you mean that you want me to make
Shakespearian comedy funny?" I asked and
the manager answered me that he did.
With that permission / knew that there
would be no difficulty about making hit in
the part. The fellow who played Brutus was
in with me and so were the musicians. You
remember the scene where Brutus is on
rostrum four or five feet high and the citizens
come filing down the street Mark Anthony
knew that his turn was coming and he was
waiting eagerly in the wings.
We citizens made our entrance very melo-
dramatically, exclaiming, ave will be satis-
fed, let US be satisfied" Bending over the
rostrum and addressing himself pointedly to
me Brutus asked, "What would'st thou, o
first citizen?"
"Most noble Brutus, would a chord in G" I
answered. AT that cue the orchestra struck
up "The Wild Man From Borneo,' and sang
it, and got seven encores, with Brutus nodding
approval from the rostrum, and Mark Anthony
shaking his fist and almost having a fit in the
wings.
The show went on when the last strains OF
the seventh encore had died away, but Mark
Anthony did not make a hit OF the Forum
scene, in fact "The Wild Man From Borneo''
had killed his part OTIs HARLAN
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

concerned, but solely one of decency in its
method and of legal justice in its results.
The Oklahoma method has been SO strong
an invitation to rascality and injustice that
in view of the very creation and prosperity
of the system it is not permissible to sup
pose the absence of these Accomplishments.
The whole affair has heen standing dis
grace TO the Nation. The repeal OF the act
authorizing Probate Judges to grant dl-
vorces was legislative inadvertence, and
the power to grant such divorces after the
old plan still abides with the District
Judges. Oklahoma can never hope to
occupy respectable position In this coun-
try until the whole shameful system has
been swept out of existence.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

We do not see why California may not be-
come the seat of vast manufactures. That
which creates manufacturing center is cheap
power. California is getting this to a remark.
able extent. New England beat the world for
many years and is still unsurpassed in the
matter of her manufactures because of her
cheap power. But the announcement is now
made that at Fresno power is to be furnished
as cheap as 1t was ever to be had in New Eng
land. What is possible at Fresno is possible at
fifty other points in California This is sure TO
De very important factor in the future well
fare OF California.-Alameda Argus.
There have been In the past two months III roe
murders and two combined murders and sui
cides in this city and vicinity, besides num-
Der OF attempts to kill where the intent was to
murder. In iact, we have had what the new
reporter would call carnival of crime and
there appears to be no surcease.
That such condition should be found in
this charming region, where every prospect
pleases, is a curious and displeasing anomaly
ihere must be some microbe of murder, some
Daclilus OF Dloodthirst abroad in the land that
tne olvlnes and moralists should study and
aevlse means OF extirpation.-Los Angeles
Herald.
Silver is still the money of EIGHT hundred
millions OF the people of the world. The OPEN
ing OF the m1nts OF the United States to the un-
restrlcted coinage of silver would make New
iork ana San Francisco the clearinghouse
iof ali slIver-using countries; and why should
not the United States trade directly with South
America, India, China and Japan, with silver
as the medium OF exchange instead OF trading
SECONDHAND through the gold channel of Brit
lsh exchange ?-San Francisco Silver Advocate
Ii the people of this city have any interest in
lne iutnre prosperity and greatness of their
city, tney Will do all in their power to attract
capital and capitalists to the city as permanent
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30
OUT-oF-TOwN PERSONALS.

New York, N. Y. July Californians reg
istering at hotels to-day were: San Francisco
c. NJ Beale at the Gilsey; G. s. Bradley and G.
Lewis at the Stewart House; j. T. Cutting at
the Grand Union: MT and Mrs. A. I. Greycourt
at the st. James; L. Willard at the Imperial;
J. o. Whitney at the Gilsey; D. M. Steindler at
the Holland. Los Angeles-W. B. Blackstone
at the Murray Hill; n. c. Bennett at the Hol-
land: Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Wiley at the Astor.
Oakland-H. Griffiths at the Astor.
Salt Lake, CAL, July 29.-Andrew Car
rington of San Francisco is registered at the
Knutstord. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred A. Hines, just
returned after two months trip in the East,
are at the Templeton. They will leave for their
home in San Francisco the last of the week.
A. J. Goodrich arrived from San Francisco this
morning and left tonight for Des Moines to
work up California tours from the Middle
States.
Washington, d. c., July 29.-Among to-day IS
arrivals are C. H. Harris and wife, Miss Harris
and J. C. Harris of San Francisco.