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The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
AN ADVERSE RULING.

The news that the Commissioner of the
General Land Office has decided against
the protest of the California Miners Asso-
citation in the case of railroad filings upon
900 acres of land in the mineral belt of
Placer, FL Dorado, Sacramento, Sierra and
Nevada counties, and that these lands are
to be confirmed to the railroad company
as agricultural lands, shows one of the
most extraordinary acts of the Cleveland
administration. There appear 10 be two
grounds upon which this action was based.
One is that the protest of the Miners Associ-
alton did not give such a complete and spe-
cifc description of the various parcels as is
required in the case of an adverse claimant,
and the other is that the Miners Associa-
ton is not an adverse claimant. The order
of dismissal is not entirely clear, but
these grounds appear inferable from the
fact that in the case of w. G. Ralston' s
protest he is an actual adverse claim
ant, and it is ordered that his contest
therefore shall be heard.
The ground upon which the Miners
Association based its protest was, in effect,
both that the land listed by the railroad is
unfit for agricultural purposes, and that it
is lava deposit of 500 to 1000 feet in thick
ness, lying directly upon the course of an
ancient river, whose bed has been found
to carry rich deposits of gold wherever
erosion or tunneling has exposed it. Moth
ing could be more rational or scientific.
1t is along the course of this ancient stream
that the recent great discoveries of gold
and investment of money for mining it
have been going on. These operations
represent to-day one Of the most extensive,
profitable and promising enterprises in the
world. The setting aside to the railroad
company of so vast tract of land which
every reasonable consideration induces US
to believe covers inexhaustible stores of
gold is not only the making of present
which may prove to be worth many mil
lions, but acts, to an extent, as damper
on the progress of mining by placing
these particular deposits beyond the reach
of investment and enterprise.
The Miners Association may be able to
devise effective means for preventing this
monstrous outrage, but the insolent and
overbearing attitude of the administration
and the objectionable manner in which it
has refused to aid the people in arriving at
the truth are discouraging aspects of the
case. 1t is not surprising that the Com
missioner of the General Land Office gave
the association no opportunity to conform
its protest to any irrational or whim sical
standard which he may have adopted.
The evident determination to prevent the
whole truth from being known is suffi-
GENTLY discouraging.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

San Francisco" 1t happens that the
lands in this region best suited to Ensign
McFee's purposes are very valuable and
are yielding high revenues to their owners.
Ensign McFee clearly prefers them be-
cause passenger and freight charges to and
from them would be less than in the case
of more remote localities, and because
they would be more easily accessible.
Considering the fact that this important
item of expense will have tc be borne by
the army, and that the nearer the farm is
to the City the more valuable its products
may be made, the ensign's wisdom is
apparent. For the sake of the great cause
which he represents and its bearing ON
the credit of his society and its reputa-
tion for never having failed in any of its
undertakings for the good of the poor he
cannot afford to indulge in wild and
almost hopeless experiments.
Already he has received offers of land,
but he will be in no hurry to accept them.
One is that he can have all the land he
desires in the region to which he has
restricted his offer provided he clear it.
This probably means that the land is
covered with brush, the removal of which
may be estimated to cost $40 or $25 an
acre. Other offers without so expensive
terms came from the San Joaquin and
Sacramento valleys, from which trans
portation charges to San Francisco would
be dangerously heavy.
He has said where he wants the land.
We know what kind of land would be suit
able for his purpose. 1t must be fertile,
clear and approximately level, and there
fore it must be valuable. Hence he seems
to have put the benevolent pretensions of
our people deliberately to the test. He ap-
pears to desire that some of the burdens
which the Salvation Army is willing to as
sume-and they are hard enough-should
be borne by other members of the COM
munity. 1t seems, therefore, that some
movement should be started to raise a
purse for the purchase or lease of such a
body of land as is required. While Mrs.
McFee alone, with her more than well
come entree to many of the homes and
hearts of the kindly rich in this commu-
nifty, and her earnest persuasive tongue,
backed by superior intelligence and an ad-
mirable life of self-sacrifce, might be able
to accomplish this tremendous task, it
would be serious reproach to the wisdom
and benevolence of our people if the under
taking were thrown wholly upon her and
her husbands already oYerburdened
shoulders.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
SUNDAY READING.

For the inform atom of readers who have
not the time or the inclination to follow
in detail the proceedings Of the Durrant
trial We will publish every morning re-
view of all that was done on the previous
day in language so terse and concise that
it can be read with ease in sixty seconds.
From this review any one can determine
whether there has been any event in the
proceedings about which they wish fuller
information, and should such matter be
found then the complete information can
be obtained by reading the detailed report,
in which is given an accurate account OF
every step taken in the trial.
Profound as is the interest taken in the
case, however, it should not be permitted
to absorb too much of the attention of any
reader. This is beyond doubt beautiful
world, and, whatever pessimists may say,
it is also good one. The mind is health
full exactly in proportion as 1t medltates
upon the good rather than the evil. That
truth is beyond gainsaying. No one is
made morbid, fretful or respondent by
contemplating the excellencies of nature
or the virtues of humanity. Those weak
nesses come from thinking upon evil and
from neg]scting thoge brighter things
which give to the mini not pleasure only,
but also health and Strength.
In the pages of TIE CALL this morning
can be found an abundance of reading that
will go far to make tke day pleasant and
one of genuine rest and recreation to every
reader. The range of subjects is wide and
there is room for every taste to choose
what pleases best, but the wise reader will
not be narrow in selection. There is gain
in reading things that are not wholly to
the taste, for in that way new tastes are
cultivated and the sympathies are wild
ened. The most sedate and wearied busi-
ness man can bring back something of the
freshness of youth by reading the ro-
mances and tales of adventure The CALL
offers him this morning, and though they
be not to his taste at first, they will be
pleasing in the end.
THE CALL breaches no sermons, but on
the day of rest it likes to come with re-
minder to its readers that the day should
be well employed. Cheerful thoughts and
cheerful reading 60 long way in making
c day really restful and helpful for the
work of the coming week. With the re-
turn of work tomorrow every man and
woman must confront whatever evil may
come in their way, but to-day they can
look to brighter things, live light in the
sunshine, read THE CALL and be at rest.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
FALSE TO AMERICA.

When in 1886 the Democratic party
comes before the American people to give
an account of the manner in which its
leaders have managed the affairs of the
country, it will have many things to an
swer for. The sins of omission or COM
mission of the administration are numer-
Gus and serious in every department of the
Government, and one of the trials of the
people during the canvass will be the exer-
else of patience sufficient to listen to an
swers to them all.
While the talk will be long and tedious
to those who undertake to defend these po-
litical offenses, it will not be difficult for
those who denounce them. Indeed, the
whole mass of the charges against the
Cleveland administration can be summed
up in the statement that from beginning
to end it has been false to the spirit of
Americanism. Exactly as during the war
Cleveland furnished substitute to take
his place in defense of the Union, while he
himself stayed in the rear to practice ward
politics in Buffalo. SO now he seems to be
antagonistic to every patriotic impulse,
hostile to every great aspiration OF the
people, and lacking in sympathy with
American ideas, American policies and
American destiny.
1t matters not to which department of
his administration we look, or under what
aspect we consider it, we find everywhere
manifest desire to conciliate foreign opin-
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

From this table it appears that San Fran
cisco exceeded Buffalo, Cleveland and Pitts
burg in the number of it's manufacturing
establishments; Boston, Buffalo and Cleve-
land in the direct capital invested; Buffalo
and Cleveland in the amount of wages
paid; Baltimore, Buffalo. Cleveland and
Pittsburg in the cost of the materials
used; Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburg in
the value of the product.
The most interesting comparison is that
made between Baltimore and San Fran
cisco. In 1890 the former city was credited
with a population of 434, ,439 and San
Francisco with 29S,997. With 5265 manu-
featuring establishments Baltimore had
direct capital of $92, 900 invested, while
San Francisco had direct capital of $751;
600, 900 invested in 1859 manufacturing en-
terprises. San Francisco had $4,000 en-
pIoyes. who were paid $31000,000. Baltl-
more had S3,745, or nearly double the
number of employees, and paid them $780,
600, 900. The cost of material in San Fran
cisco was $79,O00,0o0, against $4,000, 600 in
Baltimore. The finished product OF the
Baltimore establishments was valued at
$142 100000, or $6,OO0,O00 more than that
of San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
THE TRUE NEWSPAPER.

In an excellent article, under the above cap
ton, Henry A. Crittenden Jr, in the Illus
trated American, says: "It has grown TO be
fashionable, 1 know, for an occasional tread
mill college professor to sneer at the daily
newspaper, limiting his disciples to the read
ing of its headlines. Doubtless the newspaper
is not the only reading or object of study suit
able for the student and for the graduate man
OF letters, although observe that it is never to
such degree ignored by the alumnus who
aspires to be anything more than a college
professor. On the other hand, college profes-
sors and college presidents, like many other
classes OF professional men, are not averse to
reporting such facts as come within the range
of their observation for the columns and read
ers of the ephemeral press. 1t is not, however,
as a substitute for all learning with the fav-
ored few that the newspapers is to be appraised.
The crucial question would be, is or is not the
daily newspaper of modern times, before all
the other agencies OF civilization, 70 be cred
tied with the approximate achievement of
lifting the vast mass OF civilized people nearly
up to the moral and far aoove the intellectual
level of the sages and statesmen of an earlier
age?' There can be but one answer to this
question. Limited to the United States, the
affirmative answer would be still more en-
phatic. The day of the worlds intellectual
giants, of this country's gigantic statesmen,
appears to have passed because the worlds
average stature has advanced. The American
business youth, the mechanic and farmer of
to-day, have better knowledge of geography
astronomy, physics, politics, ethics, electricity
finance, political economy, yes, and of litera-
ture, and better quality of theology-malnly
By reason of the daily newspaper--than was
possessed by the chosen ones of earth in peri
ods not illuminated by the press"
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
PERSONAL.

B. Courtols, q wine man of Santa Rosa, Is at
the Grand.
Tom Fox, one OF sacramento's insurance men,
is at the Lick.
Judge s. S. Hall of the Sacramento judiciary
is at the Grand.
Rev. F. Fennesey of Adams Springs is in the
City at the Grand.
F. D. Ryan, District Attorney of Sacramento.
is at the Lick House.
Professor George Kriehn of the Stanford Uni
versity is at the Palace.
E. J. Lewis, superintendent of the Seattle Gas
Works, is at the Palace Hotel
c. ]. McKinson, from Forbestown, Butte
County, Is guest at the Occidental.
c. n. Falking and wife of Riverside have re-
turned from trip tc the islands and are at the
Occidental.
Colonel N. D. Hodge, special agent of the
New York Life Insurance Company, is back
from the East.
Ex-Harbor Commissioner C. F. Bassett has
gone to Santa Barbara Mountains ON an ex-
tended hunting and fishing trip.
Bishop II. N Warren, accompanied by his
guest, Chancellor Mcdowell of the Univer.
sity OF Denver is at the Occidental Hotel.
I. W. King of Los Angeles, who has been on
visit to Honolulu, has returned to the land
OF sunshine and gold, and is at the Palace.
NJ Page Minor has returned from an exten-
slve trip through the southern cities and re-
ports everything in better condition. He is at
the Occidental.
James Horsburg Jr., assistant general passen-
ger agent OF the Southern Pacific Company, re.
turned yesterday from Honolulu, where he
spent his summer vacation.
E n. Kay of Santa Cruz is housed at the
Grand Hotel. Mr.. Kay is the Sheriff who fig
ured SO prominently in the much-to-be-re-
gretted Evans and Sontag affair in Visalia.
Commander Charles NJ Thomas.who has been
released from command of the Bennington,
passed through San Francisco yesterday on his
way to Washington to receive further orders.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

Legitimate journalism gives to every item
of news its rightful space in the record oi
the events of the day. Illegitimate journal
ism makes of some act of vice or crime a
special feature and by celebrating it, ex-
pandinG it and exaggeratlng it, makes a
sensation that discolors all other events.
The one shows the world in it's normal con-
ditions, the other distorts it into abnormal
yiciousness. The one is faithful picture,
the other is caricature. The one is
wholesome, the other is morbid. The one
instructs the intelligence of the people, the
other excites the depraved curiosity of viii
ated natures.
Clean journalism deals even with impuri-
ties in a clean way. 1t treats them only as
they appear in the cold, clear, uncolored
light of law, of science or of history. Where
they happen, there are they recorded; and
exactly as the law or as science sees them,
so are they described. Unclean journal
ism colors every offensive villainy until it
glows with suggestiveness. The evil is
presented in every form that ingenuity can
invent and rhetoric describe SO that those of
depraved tastes may roll the vile morsel
under their tongues as long as possible be-
fore having to swallow and digest it. In
the one there is truth, in the other there is
falseness. The one keeps the mind pure
even in the contemplation of revolving
things, but the other renders the mind as
corrupt as the foul thing in which it has
been enticed to take delight.
In that journalism which is legitimate
and clean do we find the true expression
of the American press. In the other do
we find the evidence of that seeming de-
generation, which according to Max
Nordau is one of the worldwide phe-
nomena of the time.
American journalism is that which pro-
duces the newspaper of the American
home. The other is that which tries to
rival the worst class of French novel in de-
picting society, and has its rightful place
nowhere in this country.
To publish genuine representative
American newspaper faithful to American
traditions and in sympathy with Ameri-
can ideals is the only laudable profes-
sional ambition open to American jour
nalists. To publish the news it is not
necessary to make sensation of vice or
crime. 1t is enough to make note of the
evils of the world for the instruction of
readers, and then 60 on to give due space
and rank to those events of industry, art,
enterprise and progress which after all are
the evidences of the virtue which domi-
mates it. That is legitimate journalism,
clean journalism and American Jour
nalism.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
HUMoR OF THE DAY.

Father coming unexpectedly upon the
scene)-Ah! Just as thought! In swimming
on Sunday.
Boy quitting on bold front)-I fell in, dad
Father (angrily)-Don't lie to me. You've
got your clothes off.
Boy-Well, you wouldn't have wanted me to
fall in this muddy water with my Sunday
clothes on, would you?-Puck.
He was hiding outA''This map of your new
railroad is imperfect" said the Judge.
Imperfect, your Honor?"
eyes, sir. There's your station, there's your
tank and there's your coal chute. Now, where
in thunder is your receiver?"-Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
"I don't see," remarked the man who doesn't
know much about such things, "why you two
pugilists should scold each other and call
names and publicly dislike each other simply
because you're matched for sparring con-
test.''
,"Humph. That shows how little principle
some folks has. We gotter give the public
something for its money. amt we e?'-Washing-
ton Star
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
OUR CITY's INDUSTRIAL RANK.

Bulletins recently issued by the United
States Census Bureau give San Francisco
a respectable standing as q manufacturing
center. Instead of being laggard in in
dustry this City ranks among the first
twelve in the United States and holds
position corresponding to its population.
By the census of 1890 San Francisco was
the eighth city in population in the coun-
try. 1t was exceeded by New York, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, st. Louis,
Boston and Baltimore, and was slightly in
advance of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pitts
burg and Buffalo.
These twelve cities appear in compare
tive table of statistics on manufacturing
recently issued by the Census Bureau as
follows:
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

John T. Ford of the Single-Tax Courier of st.
Louis was in the City yesterday and left last
evening for flying trip to San Luis Obispo,
where his relations live. 1t has been six years
since Mr.. Ford visited this State before. He is
very enthusiastic in the singIe-tax cause, and
thinks hat the time is not far distant when it
will be the living issue between the political
parties of the country.
1T has fairly reached the stage of National
Importance now,' he said, in discussing the
matter with CALL representative. "The Cour-
Ter circulates in every State of the Union and
IN nearly every county in some of the States.
This puts US in touch with active single-taxers
everywhere, and from the knowledge thus
galnedw know that the doctrine of abolishing
taxes on industry and taking ground rent
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

Philadelphia preacher rejoices in the ap-
propriate name OF Isaac Settemrite.
George @. Cannon has translated the Books of
Mormon into the Hawaiian language
People who have wondered how Richard Le
Galienne. the decadent poet, pronounces his
name, will be pleased to know that the London
World rhymes it with battalion"
Nine. Rowstowska of Lille, France. is 112
years old. She served as cantoniere of Pol
lsh regiment during the Russian campaign,
was twelve times under fire, received three
wounds and was decorated with the silver
cross. She has survived her fifteen children.
In a recent speech In London Sir Henry
Irving mentioned his son as striking instance
OF the social ban against the actor in England
His son is barrister, and as such was eligible
to be presented at q levee held by the Prince OF
Wales, but now being an actor, though still
barrister, the honor is forbidden him.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
scANDALous PAPERS SUPPRESSED.

The police are suppressing the sale of the
Indianapolis People, Police News, Police Ga
zette, the Illustrated Record and other sensa-
tional papers in Richmond, Ind, says the New
York Fourth Estate. These papers are what is
classed by new law as pernicious literature.
This law was passed by the last General Assem-
bly,, and provides a penalty of from $40 to
5000 for printing, selling or publishing books,
papers or periodicals, the chief feature or char
acteristic of which is the record of crime or
the pictures of crime committed, criminals,
desperadoes, or men and women sin unbecom-
ing costumes" The newsdealers packed the
papers up and sent them back to the pub
fishers,
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

There is something wrong in the internal
economy of q family when father is obliged
to admit that his young son is beyond his con-
troll and must be put under Governmental dis
cipline to save him from a career of crime. If
the BOYS of the land are given half chance
there are few of them so innately and inher-
ently bad that they will not make tolerably re-
spec table citizens after they have passed
through the green-apple stage; but they are,
in many cases, so foolishly INDUCED in their
childhood that license becomes a second ma
ture, and it is impossible for them either to
submit to control or to control themselves
Los Angeles Times.
At present jury duty is regarded as sort of
privilege by lot of people who have nothing
to do, whereas it should be duty binding
upon the capitalist and the day laborer. The
performance of the duty would undoubtedly
entail much sacrifice in many cases, but the
sacrifices demanded by citizenship are very
many. There seems to be a general opinion
that some ething must be done to prevent the
jury system from falling into utter disrepute.
We suggest to would-be reformers that they
direct their energies to compelling business
and professional men to do jury duty.-Seattle
wash Times.
Times are certainly improving. Secretary
Hoke Smith has just given his cousin, who was
formerly police court lawyer in Washington,
O lee OF Y24,0OO for looking after all 1ndlan
claim for the Government. This is better than
the cousin could do in Republican flush times
Phoenix tAriz.) Republican.
The home-product idea is becoming an acute
mania among Californians. San Jose has it
badly, but it is q mania in which there is a
large amount of profit and good sense The
home e-product "crank' is one that can well be
tolerated.-Tacoma (Wash.) Union.
The industrial wheels of this country will
not be kept going round and round unless the
Republican party is placed in power. And we
firmly believe that the party is also the party
that silver must depend upon for remonetiza-
tion.-Ogden (Utah) Standard.
When we have created market for all our
fruits, and have gotten in the way OF buying
home products in preference to foreign, every
year will be prosperous year, and the busi-
ness season will last from January until De-
cember.-San Jose Mercury.
When towns inhabitants become thor
oughly imbued with the idea that good streets,
good sewers and plenty of them are necessity,
the prosperity of that town is assured.-7Vallejo
Chronicle.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

The bandit, Ike the fish, is never so big
when he is caught as when he gets away.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

Let US congratulate the Changers on alb
staining from calling Camp Roache a
carnival OF economics"
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

Don't forget that after all the Durrant
trial is only an item of the worlds news.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

The new Grand Jury has been intro
duced to an opportunity, and ought to
recognize it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

Mr.. Ashworth might profit by learning
to distinguish between official duty anc
personal antagonism.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

Louis Sternberg's plea for outdoor occu-
patton might be granted in the Folsom
quarry,
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

AFTER long Illness and for general debility
Hoods Sarsaparla is unequaled for building up the
weakened system. 1t does this by purifying and
vitalizing the blood Take only Hoods
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

As long as the uit-producers are divided
the other fellows will get the profits.