The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-01

with them, would a month ago have
amazed the whole country. Now it is but
one of the many incidents crowding upon
the dazed public consciousness day by day.
1t is predicted that Herr Sonnonemann of
the Frankfurter Zeitung will be arrested for
laying stress this week on the violation Of
the constitution committed by the Govern
ment in granting aid to the ire-ravaged
Harz village by chartered ordinance in
stead of through a Parliamentary grant.
The revival of the chartered ordinance,
which was favorite weapon of the Hohen-
zollerns in their fight with the Parliament
forty years ago, properly excites suspicion,
and Sonnonemann has been particularly
fervent in protests against it. Although
no longer in the Reichstag, he is the most
important radical figure in Germany, and
the prosecution of him will do much to
bring matters to climax. The Reichstag
meets on Tuesday, and the air is full of
prophecies that there will be numerous
Ministerial changes and violent Pariiamen-
tary scenes.
= The general conviction that the College
OF Cardinals as yesterday completed will
elect the next Pope gives special interest
to its composition. It is now slightly
larger than usual and the Italian members
have bare majority of three, whichmight
easily disappear from natural causes at
the critical moment. The most interest
ing fact about yesterdays list of additions
from the point of view of Vatican
politics is that Dominic Jacobini, the
Nuncio at Lisbon, has again failed to be
included, despite the eager organized
efforts to get him in and make him can
didate at the next conclave. Mgr. Boyer,
one of the two new French Cardinals, was
the son of a poor provincial carpenter and
proudly bears on his episcopal coat of
arms two jackplanes as supporters.
The Rome correspondents all have a
story that the Pope, after his allocution,
which he delivered very hoarsely, COM
mented smilingly to those nearest him on
the likelihood that some of them will
preside over the next consistory. His i'll
ness during the week, which gave rise to
alarming rumors, was only a bronchial
cold, which he often gets by persisting in
getting up at nights and writing in an old
flannel dressing gown. The doctors de-
clare that he may easily live into his
ninetieth year. but Rome has settled down
to a contrary impression.
1 understand that private arrangements
have been made with the Armstrong firm
at Newcastle to begin three battleships
for the Japanese and wait little while for
payment of the first money on the con-
tract. 1t is also declared that there is no
danger OF the ship. building trouble touch
ing Tynesde. My informant represents
the masters side in the controversy and
his view is that the men are already
beaten and will possibly submit next
week. From his STANDPOINT the com bina-
ton of masters had become absolutely
necessary if the industry was not to be lost
to the British altogether, since the trades
unions had pur sued the policy of concen-
trating the national forces on the job of
beating the employers in detail, one at q
time, until the situation became impos-
sible. The latest reports from Glasgow
and Belfast show that the expectation Of
settlement is again uppermost.
In response to recent threatening
speech by Richie. president OF the Board
of Trade, about the exclusion of pauper
aliens, the Jewish trades unions have
issued circular denying that they were
cutting down English wages. They
enumerate numerous shoddy trades that
they introduced here, which the Germans
formerly monopolized, but which now
benefit England instead, and declare that
the wages in these would be all right if it
were not for the English women-workers,
who underbid even the poorest sweated
Jew by 80 per cent in their fierce competi-
ton for bread.
Such interest as exists in domest pol
itics remains 1ocused on the educational
issue. Lord Salisbury received the Wes-
leyan deputation this week in rather
cavalier manner, with the result that the
question seems considerably further away
from q peaceful arrangement than ever.
A great deal is said about certain
church catechism by one Gage, vicar of
Great Barring, full CT bitterly offensive
illusions to the nonconformists, and said
to be widely used in the public schools
controlled by the church. To-day cler-
ical authority writes to say that Cages s
foolish book was long ago denounced by
the Bishop. He denies that it is in use in
any school, and, moreover. declares that
its large sales are due exclusively to the
nonconformists, who unfairly circulate it
everywhere as a weapon against the
church.
The final sentence of Jabez Spencer Bal
four to fourteen years of Imprisonment is
accepted everywhere as merciless. but still