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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
THE MAYORS VETO.

The Mayors veto of the tax levy may
prove to be invalid, but it is neither I'M
timely nor useless. If the Mayor is not
clothed with the veto power in cases of
this kind he certainly ought to have it,
and since there is doubt upon the subject
the sooner it is brought to the test of the
courts the better.
1t must be clear to every rejecting citi-
zen that some means should be provided
for testing questions of legality affecting
any portion of the tax levy. In the pres
ent levy, for example, provision is made to
raise money to pay back salaries of City
officials. Money for that purpose was
raised last year. but was taken from the
salary fund to pay certain claims against
the City. This process involves an evasion
of the law, and may be held by the courts
to be illegal and to vitiate the entire levy.
Cases of a nature more or less similar may
occur any year, and it is certainly advisable
to provide in the City government some
means of testing them before it is too late.
We regard the veto, therefore, as most
timely and wise proceeding on the part of
| the Mayor. 1t may possibly have the effect
of saving more than million of dollars TO
the taxpayers and putting check to the
schemes of the Supervisors combine, but
even if it fails in that it will result in good
by testing the legality of the levy and
making more clear the need of clothing
the Mayor with the power which he is now
attempting to exercise.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
DANGEROUS ROCKS.

Congressman LIQUIDS statement With ref
erence to steps taken and needed to be
taken in the matter of the removal of rocks
from the San Francisco harbor is reassur-
ing. He denies that Congress has been
flooded with petitions which have been
ignored, and indicates the best method for
requesting an appropriation for this pur-
purpose. He declares that Congress is
always willing to make any needed ap-
preparation for the improvement of the
harbor. He advises that leading bodies
of citizens send memorials TO Congress
asking for an appropriation for the re-
moval of dangerous rocks. These will at
once receive attention in the shape of an
appropriation for survey and report by
Government engineers. Upon the presen-
tation of the report the appropriation will
be made.
AS the one great harbor on the Califor-
MIA coast the bay of San Francisco GER
tainly should be made as safe for vessels as
possible. Now that the people of the City
have been informed that they themselves
are practically chargeable with the neglect
that has been ascribed to Congress, and
have been instructed as to the proper
method of procedure to secure the needed
appropriation, they must blame them
selves in the future if these menaces to
navigation are permitted to remain. The
rocks which should receive first attention
are those that stand in the way of the
ferry-boats between San Francisco and the
Marin shore; Blossom Rock, which is in
the path of large ships from Port Costa; the
Mission Rocks, near the City water front
Anita Rock, in the Preside blight; the
Three Brothers, near Point San Pablo, and
the MONDAY Rocks, near the Farallones.
Other matters affecting the integrity of
the harbor might receive better attention
than is accorded them at present. There
is a proposition in Oakland for the disposi-
ton of the garbage OF that city by taking
it out to sea beyond the Heads and there
dumping it. This would likely cause the
Cliff House beach to be strewn with dis
gushing debris. The present method of
disposing of the mud dredged from the
San Francisco water front might be i'm
proved upon by utilizing it to fill the
marshes in the neighborhood of the
Potrero and thus assist not only in abolish
ing what malaria may be bred there, but
also in filling out the front to the official
shore line. At present it is taken into the
middle of the stream and dumped, the idea
being that the swift ebb tide will carry it
to sea. Undoubtedly much of it is so car
ried out, but likely part goes to the
shoaling of the southern end of the bay,
which should by all means be preserved as
the natural waterway to the rich Santa
Clara Valley
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THE WRIGHT LAW.

The report that the United States Su-
preme Court may decide the cases now be-
fore it involving the Wright irrigation
law without passing judgment upon the
constitutionality of the law is one that
will give no little concern to the people of
every section of the State where irrigation
is needed to obtain the best results from
the cultivation of the soil. The issue is
one of the gravest Importance to the State
and for a thousand reasons it is desirable
that the question should be taken to the
court of last resort and settled as soon as
possible.
In the arid regions of the country irriga-
ton is as much public necessity for farm
ing as is a water supply to a city. 1t is
straining the technicalities of the law too
far when distinction is made between a
water supply for farm lands and water
supply for kitchens, laundries. stockyards,
parks, gardens, lawns and other accessories
of city. We are confident the Supreme
Court will recognize that the law is living
principle growing with the growth of
human institutions and not dead formula
incapable OF adaptation to new needs and
new conditions. Irrigation is necessity
of Western America which the law must
recognize in the end We confidently ex-
pect the recognition to be made by the
Supreme Court as soon as the constitu-
tional question comes before it, and this
should be provided for in the case appealed
from the decision of Judge Ross.
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THE SCOTCH TRIO.

But in spite of points of likeness we must see
that Maclaren and Barrie ana Crockett do moi
use their material in the same way. Each vii
lage preserves its own individuality of eharac
ter and story.
These men have revealed to US much that 1:
truly interesting in the native traits of the
race to which they belong, and have preserved
to q remarkable degree the natural coloring in
the bits they have gathered for us. They have
inspired us with respect for the sturdy meu
and women they bring to our acquaintance
making us half afraid to laugh even at the
humorist himself. AS to the theology of these
village people, we are rendered helpless tc
contend where every peasant knows his
catechism with all the reasons why, where
men of everyday parts are able to sill
interested under a sermon several hours lone
and then go home to recount the heads of the
discourse and the main arguments, adding o
little personal criticism of the entire per
Torrance. together with a close comparison OF
the sermon with another preached upon the
same text some years before by another
"body.'
Whether these stories or others like them
will much longer retain their popularity who
may say? The vein may be nearly worked out
it were pity to qnite exhaust it. 1t is deli
cate point to know when to stop that it NAV
be short of WEAKNESS TO the reader and where
limitations are discouraged But surely these
three men are masters of their art, and it would
be as foolish to attempt to excel them in their
own department as it would be vain to DENY
the charm of treatment of every subject they
touch.-Springfield (Ohlo) Womankind.
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HUXLEY AS A LECTURER.

1t is very singular that, although, as admitted
by all who heard him, he was one of the clear
est and most eloquent OF scientific lecturers of
his time, he always disliked lecturing, and the
nervousness from which he suffered in his early
days was never entirely overcome, however
little apparent it might be 10 his audience.
After mis- first public lecture at the Royal Insti.
tuition he received an anonymous letter, telling
him he had better not try anything of the kind
again, as whatever he was fit for, it was Ger.
tainly not giving lectures! Instead of being
discouraged, he Enthusiastically set to work
to mend whatever faults he had of style and
manner, with what success is well known
Nevertheless, he often told me of the awful
feeling OF alarm which always came over him
on entering the door of the lecture room of the
Royal Institution, or even the College of Sur
geons, where the subject was most familiar and
the audience entirely sympathetic He had a
leeling that he must break down before the lee
ture was over, and 1t only by recalling to his
memory the number of times he had lectured
without anything of the kind happening, and
then drawing conclusions as TO the improba.
pity OF its occurring now, that he was able 10
prace himself up TO the effort of beginning his
discourse. When once fairly away on his sub
lect all such apprehensions were at an end.
Such experiences are of course, very common,
put they were probably aggravated greatly in
Huxley's case by the Ill health, that miserable,
nypochondriacal dyspepsia which, as he says
himself, was his constant companion for the
last hall century of his life. Bearing in mind
the serious inroad this made in the amount OF
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PANAOEAS FOR POVERTY.

Perhaps there has never been an age in
the world in which there did not live some
reformer who proposed simple formula
for abolishing poverty and establishing
among men an equality of conditions. In
our own age such reformers are numerous.
They live in every nation. They are heard
in every town and village. Their books
are everywhere. In the oldest nations of
Europe and in this new State of California
they are equally active. They offer a wide
variety of remedies, and where any two
agree upon the remedy they differ as to
the means OF applying it. Thus there is a
sufficient diversity of plans TO suit almost
every form Of discomfort, and as a conse-
quence not few unrefecting people are
led to trust in them and not infrequently
to lose by them.
One of the most notable of these re-
formers is the Scottish workman, Keir
Hardie, who is now with US, and who in a
speech on Monday evening has made
known the general outlines of his scheme.
That what he has to say is we'll worth
hearing is unquestionable. Every man
who has plan that promises to advance
the welfare of the toilers of the world has
W pIdtlOIIA iISC opCcCu
merits an attentive audience. Mr.. Hardie,
moreover, has special claims on public at
tention. He is one of those men who, by
force of industry and intelligence, has
risen from the ranks, and by natural
leadership has become director of the
energies of the workingmen of his country.
He is not mere talker. He has been a
worker, q student and a thinker, and the
words of such men are not to be confused
with the general babble of noisy takers
for notoriety.
When the fullest attention has been
given to Mr.. Hardie, it is not likely that
he will have much influence here. He has
nothing new to present to us. He urges
the old familiar plea that the one relief
from existing evils is to be found in state
socialism. Against this remedy the in
stincts of men rebel. Socialism cannot
endure, even in carefully selected circles,
much less in such widely extended COM
munities as modern nations. We have
had soclalistic experiments in this State
over and over again, and one after another
they have passed away. 1t is undoubtedly
true that the welfare of workingmen of
the world has advanced in the past, and
will continue to advance in the future; but
it has been, and will always be, by slow
progress from precedent to precedent
There is no panacea for poverty.
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cooperative efforts which have not always,
as such, been very successful. 1--WE learn
to do by doing" is very sound motto.

cooperative efforts which have not always,
as sueh been very successful. 1--WE learn
to do by DOING is a very sound motto.
1t is easy to see, and / have endeavored
to point out what ails the farmer how he
got into his condition and the only rem
edy. What none of US know is, whether
he can be got to take the remedy. Isola-
ton seems to beget sluggishness. The
tendency OF the farmer when shown his
condition is to acknowledge the facts and
do nothing about It. The same showing to
city workingmen Immediately begets &C
ton. Nobody but themselves can save the
farmers, and it is not generally believed
that they will make the effort. Some
think that the natural selection of the
bright and forceful who drift to the cities
leaves residuum incapable of .spontane-
GUS action for its own welfare. Others
claim that ability is abundant and needs
only to be excited by the mutual contact
OF individuals. Still others. conceding
that this is true, deny the possibility of
producing the contact; they say that
nothing can draw the farmer out of his
shell, and that he is doomed to extinction
and to be replaced by class of ADLER men.
AS have said. do not share this be-
ing who will go under just as there always
have been, and their number, l think, is
larger than ever before, but can see such
progress in class organization that l am
led to believe, as l of course hope, that the
vigor of the race will assert itself and over
come the unfavorable conditions. This
progress is probably nowhere better illus
trated than in California. In the early
seventies a wave of cooperative effort
among farmers rolled over the State
under the leadership of the Grange.
Everywhere there was organization,
the beginnings of cooperative business
and the anticipation OF independence,
wealth and happiness for farmers. The
result in nearly every instance was blank,
hopeless failure, involving great loss to
individuals and discredit to the organiza-
ton promoting the movement. The rea-
son for the failure was the fact that the
movement was directed by enthusiasts
with no practical business sense or expert
ence. Within the past three years another
movement has been in progress, not so
noisy as the first, but with wiser direction,
and in many and perhaps most cases
managed with prudence and Judgment
upon sound business principles. The
result of this movement, while including
many failures or partial failures. has been
the establishment of many successful en-
terprises, with capital invested and man.
agement educated, doing large business
and giving every prospect OF survival.
The difference between the measurable
success of the later organizations and the
utter failure of those of former period
shows the progress made in quarter Of a
century. 1t is encouraging.
EDWARD F. ADAMS.
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foods. Within recent wears there has been
great advancement in the preparation of
such foods and they have certain use.
The radical defect with the idea is that
it does not take into account the demands
of the palate as well as of the stomach.
Unless food is palatable it is generally
idle TO regard it as nutritious, no matter
how much nutriment it may really con-
tain. Science pretends to have ascertained
to an absolute certainty what is required
as nutriment to sustain the vital forces,
but, strangely enough, it has ignored other
matters equally as important.
The evolutionary position of race may
be accurately measured by the variety OF
its foods and the manner of their prepare
ton. The lowest known race is the Terra
del Fuegans, who eat their fish raw. Even
the savages of the Congo Basin when they
eat meat invariably cook it. Now, cook
ing serves not only to make food more
digestible, but it produces chemical changes
that have the nature of pleasant condi-
ment. This is particularly the case with
broiled beefsteak, which, by direct contact
with the fire, develops highly seasoned
chemical constituents that are exceedingly
grateful to the palate. No education is
required to prefer it to raw meat. The
preference of the lower animals for cooked
meat is proof.
Condensed foods are clearly beneficial in
illness, where little food is regarded and
where it is accepted as medicine In
such cases there is rarely a longing for
food, and hence the situation is wholly
unlike that presented by the case of well
and hearty person. Condensed foods
which are highly palatable may be accept
able in part, but they likely lack the de-
licious odor and other tempting attrac-
tions appertaining to ordinary foods. The
imagination is so potent factor in diges-
ton and assimilation that it needs to be
regarded.
1t is this that makes poverty so hard. 1t
would be easy for laDoring man to pro-
vide himself with amply nutritious food at
a cost of 10 cents day, or even less, but it
would not be SO palatable as more expen-
sive food, and hence he would not eat as
much as he ought. This is exactly the
position of soldier required to subsist on
condensed foods. Derangement of the
stomach is bound to ensue and then come
weakness and dependency.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
PROMPT SUPPRESSION.

The shadow of the Haymarket tragedy
still hangs over anarchism in Chicago and
it will be long time before the red flag of
no government will be permitted to take
the place of the National colors in that
city. When Charles w. Mowbray, the
English anarchist, began last Sunday at q
public meeting to preach the downfall OF
our Government and the substitution OF
the red emblem for the stars and stripes
the police promptly hustled him from the
stage and held their ground against the
fierce followers of Mowbray who attempted
to force him back upon the platform.
It is inevitable that the people Of the
United States will come to realize with
Europe the necessity of laying a heavy
hand on professional agitators from foreign
countries whose mission it is to disrupt ex-
listing governments. And it is very in
structive fact that even in republic like
this, where sympathy for monarchical
form of government is impossible, there is
as deep-rooted a sentiment against an
archism as can be found under the most
oppressive rule of monarchy in the Old
World. The main and particularly in
structive difference is that while in Europe
the organized expression of opposition to
anarchism comes from the constituted au-
thorities, in this country it is the people
them selves, rather than their government,
who are arrayed on the side of law.
This might naturally have been ex-
pected Patriotism under a monarchy is
more an expression of love for the native
soil than for a government which the
people have not wholly created. There
fore, the sentiment of patriotism must be
stronger in republic than in monarchy,
and it must be more concentrated in the
form of that special creation of the people
which represents their idea of self-govern-
ment. A failure to understand this prin-
ciple induces the immigration hither of agi-
tators who have rendered themse
intolerable to Europe and who mistake
the liberality of our laws and the indulg-
ence OF our people for an indifference to
government and as an opportunity for
anarchistic operations.
Had these agitators the wisdom neces-
sary to leadership they might reflect that
America is the least inviting field for
anarchists in the whole world. Our people
had the opportunity to establish an anarchy
when they broke the bonds which held
them to monarchy, but they preferred
an orderly Government of their own de-
vising and control. and were moved to its
organization by wisdom that was stronger
through instinct than experience. That
sentiment persists to this day, and will
continue in force for an indefinite time to
come. Foreigners who come hither to
overturn this sentiment have assaulted a
task beyond human power to accomplish,
and the sooner they learn that lesson the
better it will be for the cause which they
represent. We may be foolishly COM
placent people as a rule, but we know
when the limit of forbearance is reached
and are never slow TO apply the remedy
which serious occasion demands.
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cAL1FoRN1ANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept. 24.-Californians
registered at the hotels to-day: San Francisco
S. B. Carleton, Daniel O'Callaghan, Hoffman
H R. Brown, Murray Hill; Mr.. and Mrs. G. E
Butler, Mrs. L. l.. Baker, P. S. Baker. w. A
Foster, C. Loring, Holland; E. H. Holmes
Aston; Mrs. L. Mayer, st. Cloud; II. Plourky
Stewart House; NJ. Bauer, Marlborough; Mr.
and Mrs. A. w. Drown, Misses Drown, Murray
Hill; Mrs. Berger, Miss H. Berger, Gerlach
Los Angeles-Mr. and Mrs F. w. Branner, Hol
land. Saeramento-Mrs. Siddons, Miss N. Sid
dons, Bartholdi; c. w. Reed, Astor.
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HINTS FOR ADVERTISERS.

Newspaper space may be compared to gar
den; it is success or failure just as it Is cul
tivated.
The first requisite toward convincing the
public that your goods are superior TO others is
to believe 1t yourself.
The principles of economy are not best fol-
lowed by stopping your advertising, but by ad
vertising more judiciously.
When the days are stormy and people stay al
home, your advertisement in the proper me
dunn is right there with them.
A gold mine ceases to pay the instant you
cease to work 1t. No one has ascertained wher
an ad ceases to pay dividends.
Advertising has long been considered the
business magnet to draw trade. But ii seems
not always to be understood that it is like the
electromagnetic: it draws proportionately u,
the current is strong and continuous.-N. Y
Printers Ink.
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FOOD AND APPETITE.

A curious story comes from Denver to
the effect that private soldier in the Sew
enth Infantry, q. S. A., committed suicide
because he could not eat the scientifically
condensed rations with which the army is
experimenting for use on long or forced
marches. The idea of such foods is that
they contain nourlshment in its highest
form, that all waste which is a burden to
the system has been eliminated, and that
it is much more portable than ordinary
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time available for active employment, 1T Is
to accomplish When the time comes for form
ing Just estimate of the value of his scientific
work, and if quality as well as quantity be
ennnarison with, if it will not exceed, that of
any of his contemporaries "Reminis-
ceIices of Professor Huxley" by Sir William ID.
Flower, in North American Review Tor sep
temher
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The summer home of Professor Bell, the tele-
phone inventor and millionaire, is on an estate
of Is, 900 acres in Cape Breton, on the Bras
dor. The professor seems to have all the in
stincts of the true fisherman. On one of the
neighboring lakes he has a houseboat propelled
by steam launch, with trapdoor cut in the
floor of his dining-room so that he can fish, If
the fancy strikes him, while at the table.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
DISCOVERY OF GoLDIN CALIFORNIA

LETTERS REGARDING THE CALLS RECENT ARTICLE
ON THE SUBJECT.
Editor San Francisco Call: send you for pub
lication communication from myself and a
letter from I. L. Given of Oakland, concerning
the first discovery of gold in California. If you
can find space, please publish them. I think
they have considerable historical value.
j. M. QUINN
Secretary Historical Society OF Southern Cali
fornia.
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Ferrari, the celebrated composer, relates the
following anecdote in his memoirs: On cold
December night man in little village in the
Tyrol opened the window and stood in front of
it with hardly any clothing to his back.
"Peterp' shouted neighbor who was passing,
"what are you doing there?" "Tm catching
cold" "What for?" $50 that I can sing bass
tomorrow at church. "-Baseler Nachrichten.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25

The questions involved in the Nicaragua
canal, the affairs of Venezuela and Cuban
independence will give Congress great
deal of Pan-American politics to attend to
this winter.