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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16
ENCOURAGING WORDS.

We publish this morning additional evil
dences of the favor with which the pro-
posaI to hold the next Republican National
Convention in this city has been every
where received. Those coming from the
East are especially gratifying, as they as
sure US the support of strong champions,
where such champions are most needed,
and no Californian can read them without
feeling encouraged to enter upon the con-
test for the convention with the ardor of
men who are sanguine of success.
The tenor of opinion among the mem
bers of the National Committee is well ex-
pressed by Senator Hansbrough, who
says: 81 congratulate you upon the en-
terprising spirit displayed in the endeavor
to secure the next Republican National
Convention for San Francisco. The con-
yention could not be held in more de-
ightful place" The Hon. J. c. Burrows,
Senator-elect from Michigan, says: 1.-The
Republicans of California are deserving of
anything they may desire, even the Ma
tional Republican Convention for 1896, and
the hospitality of Californians would
make the delegates forget the incon-
veniences of time and distance"
These kilograms, taken in connection
with that of General Clarkson, published
yesterday, show the quality and the nature
of the support we may expect from influ-
entail men in the East. They are sufficient
to arouse our energies to immediate action.
No time should be lost. Let US have the
committee appointed at once to organize
the work and begin the campaign of edu-
cation
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FIGHTING AN INFAMY.

The more familiar the people become
with the intent, the scope and the pro-
cesses OF the income tax, the warmer
grows their indignation against it. The
intent of the law is to make distinctions of
classes among the people with respect to
taxation. The scope includes not only the
rich but the poorest widow and orphan
whose fragments of fortune may be in
vested in stock company or corporation
earning $4,000 a year, and its processes are
inquisitorial to an extent that DESTROYS all
privacy of business, and makes the affairs
OF every well-to-do man subject to the pry-
ing and spying OF Government officials.
The law is of doubtful constitutionality
1t is certainly un-American. 1t is not a fit
law for just Government nor free peo-
pie. 1t is odious to every instinct of Ameri-
can manhood. Its very inception was
political monstrosity inasmuch as it was
the outcome of a bargain between free
trade Democrats and socialistic Populists
Stalwart Democrats like Senator Hill de-
nounced it. Intelligent Populists are op-
posed to it. The universal voice of the
people condemns it, save where few
cranks, in despair of defending it, are heard
to apologize for it as a necessary measure
to raise a revenue during the temporary
depression and hard times.
We will not content ourselves with de-
nouncing such a measure as this. We
propose to fight it. The proprietor of The
CALL will not make statement of his in
come nor will he pay any sum of the
ubiquitous tax which may be assessed by
the Internal Revenue officers until he has
been compelled to do SO by the decision of
the highest tribunal in the land. Only the
Supreme Court of the United States can
force US to submit to this infamy, and not
even that court can compel us to accept it
as just law worthy of place on an
American statute book.
Constitutional or unconstitutional, the
law Is an offense to liberty and Justice and
must be repealed. The Congress that en-
acted 1t mas already been repudiated by the
people. Hardly man who voted for it
was reelected when his constituents had a
chance to pass judgment on him by their
ballots. In the light of that indignant
protest OF the American people and en-
couraged by it, we shall refuse obedience
to the officers appointed to enforce the
infamy. We have already engaged our
lawyers and will fight the inquisition to the
end in the courts as well as through free
press before the greater tribunal of the
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The British Commons have asked their
Government what it is going to do about
the passage of the Morgan Nicaragua canal
bill through Congress: The Parliamentary
Secretary for the Foreign Office answered
that the Government would take whateve r
steps seemed advisable TO secure interna-
tional control of the canal, but saw no rea-
son why the United States should not
maintain It's treaty engagements.
Some opponents or weakened friends
of the Morgan bill may seize upon this
occurrence to urge the danger of interna-
tional complications against its passage by
the House.
There is no excuse for any such course.
By the terms of the Morgan bill the Gov
eminent simply becomes controlling
stakeholder in the canal in exchange for
its guarantee of bonds. That will enable
it to direct the business policy of the canal
without assuming any governmental func-
tions in Central America No violation of
treaty engagements is involved. 1t wa to
avoid that very point that some such
measure as the Morgan bill was to be pre-
ferred to absolute Government construc-
ton and ownership of the canal. The
DlItioh ooNSiHihonb cdhiiob consistently
object to such control by our Govern
ment in view of its own similar relations,
by purchase, to the Suez canal. In time of
peace the canal will be open to the COM
merce of all nations on equal terms. In
case of war its temporary control. under
any circumstances, would fall to the near
est and strongest hand. The quickest and
most effective way to disarm British oppo-
sition to any bin involving Government
control of the canal is to put it through
both houses of Congress. by majority
which will assure Great Britain and the
rest of the world that we mean business.
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SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Dusty Rhodes-Didn't warn you last fall no 5
to get naturalized?
Fitz William-Well, what's the harm?
Dusty Rhodes-Harm? Why, under the new
law you're eligible for q job cleaning the
streets Puck.
Little Gregory-Papa, why do you say that
the pen is more powerful than the sword?
Papa-Because you cannot sign checks with
a sword. Revue Anecdotique.
Mr.: Baldy-Am 1 to apply this hair restorer
every day?
Barber-For heavens sake, no. Do you want
to look like the wild man from Borneo inside
of week2-Texas Siftings.
Mamma" said Willie, edo you pay Jennie
$15 month for looking after me?"
''No, $l6," said mamma. "She is good
nurse and deserves it."
''Well, say, ma I'll look after myself for
$40. You'll save So by it."-Harper's Young
People.
Thinny Goggs-Elucidate.
Fatty Woggs-Wen, you see, I'm so big that
1 have to get off streetcar backward and the
conductor often jerks me aboard and carries
me two or three blocks past my street, thinking
l am just trying to get on.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
Wife (at midnight to her returning husband
How can perfectly sober man get drunk like
that?-Fliegende Blaetter.
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START THE INVESTIGATION.

The officials of the city owe it to them
selves and to the people to take some ac-
ton III the direction of investigating the
corruption alleged to exist here This is
particularly true of the Mayor, the Sheriff,
the District Attorney, the Chief of Police
and the members of the Grand Jury. It is
an old saving that the law is condemned
when the wicked are acquitted, and if it be
true that crime and fraud go UNPUBLISHED
in this city. then are the officers whom we
have elected to arrest, prosecute and pun
iSh criminals condemned in the mind of
every good citizen.
1t does not matter whether all the allega-
tions of fraud are true or not. A wide
spread public opinion which makes itself
manifest with all the force of moral con-
viction, cannot be ignored by public Off
cial or carelessly put aside with indiffer-
ence. The moral convictions of the masses
of Intelligent men have all the force of
facts and, they must be dealt with on that
basis If there is no corruption in the city,
the officials must make that truth known
and draw the irritation from the public
mind. If corruption exists and there is no
law to punish it, let.that be known SO that
the remedy can be provided.
There is no use mincing words on the
subject. The people believe that there is
something wrong and they demand
official action. They will not be turned
away by any contemptuous asking, "What
are you going to do about it?" They pro-
pose to do something about it, and they
propose to do it soon. What is more they
propose that the city officials shall do
something about it. The taxpayers wish
to know what these officers are drawing
salaries for, and why they do not perform
the work they are paid to perform.
We call the attention, therefore, of the
Mayor, the Sheriff, the District Attorney,
the Chief of Police and the Grand Jury to
the fact that every day they remain silent
and inactive they fall further in public
esteem. They must act. The District At
torney and the Grand Jury should sum-
mon before them the men who are making
these charges of corruption and get their
evidence. They must start the investiga-
ton. There has been too much delay al
ready. Let US have all the affairs of the
city inquired into, all the scandals probed,
all the evidence of wrong made public, add
all the criminals arrested, convicted and
punished, so that the people can be freed
from all fear of corruption and wrong, and
go forward confidently with private bust
ness, public enterprises and municipal
improvements.
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THE RAILROAD.

The San Joaquin Railroad enterprise
proceeds in a deliberate business-ike way
The articles of incorporation are before the
public, for approval or criticism, and will
be voted on at meeting of the subscribers
on Wednesday next at P. NJ. at the rooms
of the Chamber of Commerce.
The directors are men whom every
San Franciscan knows-men not only of
substance, but of character, and with a
reputation for succeeding in what they
undertake. There is not one of them who
requires to be introduced to the public
When they embark their means in an en-
terprise, it may be taken for granted that
it is feasible, and that the whole undertake
ing from its first inception to its final COM
pletion has been thought out, and all pos
sible bitches and obstacles foreseen and
considered Claus Spreckels, John D.
Spreckels, J. B. Stetson, w. f. Whittier,
Antoine Borel, a. II. Payson, Charles Hol-
brook, Louis Gerstle, Alvinza Hayward,
Isaac Upham and Thomas Magee are not
the kind of people who go into an opera
ton without counting the cost and reckon
ing how it can be carried out to fruition.
They are not given to chasing rainbows or
building railroads on paper
AS to the line of the proposed railroad
the articles of incorporation are intention
ally vague. Nor has anything been deter
mined as to the route beyond the fact that
the new line is to follow the San Joaquin
Valley and probably branch line through
the Santa Clara Valley. A section which
is traversed by well-built and well-man-
aged railroad generally becomes prosper
Gus, and locality which new railroad
passes by is apt to be neglected and may
vegetate for a long term of years.
Therefore The CALL says to those cities
and towns and districts which may or may
not find themselves on the line of the new
railroad, Now is the time to make it an
object for the new company to take you in.
Inertia at this crisis may pretgure stag
nation hereafter. When the great railroad
system of the grain States in the Upper
Mississippi Valley was projected counties
and municipalities, corporations and in
dividuals gave all the money they had
and bonded themselves for more to secure
the passage of road through their neigh
borhood, and though many of the railroads
have failed the consequence is that Hi
nois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan are
now among the richest portions of the
country. Dc not neglect the example.
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they are seen in light and shade. 1t is evil
dent that this is not fair to the artists.
Their work cannot be seen to advantage.
AS Mr.. kunath says: ssYou cannot Judge
picture If one half of it is dark and the
other half bright. Mrs. Chittenden, the
flower artist, holds the bad light of the
building responsible for the failure of art
lists to sell pictures at the two last exhibit
tons, and though this misfortune is prob
ably manly due to the hard times, it may
be IN some degree the result of disappoint-
ment at our exhibition, which did not sat
isfy visitors
IL Is now proposed to construct a new art
gallery, Tor purposes of exhibitions, by ex-
tending the conservatory on the west side
OF the house and roofing the whole with
glass. Such room could contain the
Whole annual output of the studios. and
each picture could be hung in a light
which would enable it to be seen to advan-
tage. The improvement would cost $10 coo,
or something like that sum. which some
millionaire will probably be led by love of
art and CIVIC patriotism to contribute.
There are many good pictures in San
francisco, as the loan exhibitions demon
strate, and there is growing up fine taste
in art Still, our rich men, when they
want to set up gallery of pictures, go to
New York or Paris to choose them, and
the native artists suffer accordingly
Wealthy San Franciscans owe it to their
city to patronize home workers. If they
do not, young men and women who
possess genius and who might some day
reflect glory upon the city will betake
themselves to other callings for the sake
of bread. 1t was we'll to buy foreign mas
terpieces for the art education they sup
piled; but all the foreign schools are now
adequately represented in this city, and
the time has come when every one who
can afford it should distribute among his
fellow-citizens at least portion of the
money he sets aside for art purchases.
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fault car be found with the defeated reso-
luton; it is right and proper that the
Government should retain. the privilege OF
reducing the interest on the new bonds, if
the original holders raise no objection;
but the whole proceedings of the Treasury
Department have exhibited so contemptu-
Gus disregard for the opinions of Congress
that the latter felt naturally indignant and
rebuked the administration accordingly.
Some men are so constituted that they
cannot see stone wall without wanting to
run their heads against it. Such man is
Grover Cleveland. There was no call for
the insertion of the word gold in the
resolutions. United States bonds have al
ways been paid in gold, and always will
be, unless, what is quite possible, silver
should come to be the more valuable
metal, relatively, when the treasury might
pay in silver. Nothing could possibly be
gained by describing the new threes as
gold bonds. But the use of the word was
one to irritate that large body of West
ern and Southern members who are IN
favor of the free coinage of silver, or of its
coinage at the arbitrary ratio of 16 to l,
and, therefore, Mr.. Cleveland insisted on
its being employed.
Again, the private bargain concluded by
Mr.. Carlisle with the London banking
houses of Rothschild and J. s. Morgan &
Co. was probably as good bargain as the
Government could have made. But any
one who is familiar with the temper of the
American people could have told Mr.. Cleve-
land that such bargain was certain to bring
down upon him American Indignation.
The relations between American bank
lighthouses and English banking-houses
are so close that it is hard to say what pro-
portion of their capital and means is
American and what part is English, but to
deal directly with Englishmen when Ameri-
cans stood ready to supply the Govern
ment with all the money it needed was
putting slight on our home institutions
which was certain to be resented.
Mr.. Cleveland saw his wall and ran his
head against it, 1t is to be hoped that the
country will not suffer from the results of
the collision.
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

BY unanimous vote the Senate Judiciary
Committee has decided that the suffrage can
not be given to the women of California by q
simple act OF the Legislature; a constitutional
amendment is required. Let the Senate and
Assembly submit that amendment and quit
wrangling and joking over ''the woman ques-
tion." There can be no objection to permitting
the voters to say whether they want the
women to vote, and in the face of the all but
certainty that no statute could alone confer
the suffrage, the time spent in debating such a
measure has been clear waste.-oakland En-
quirer
The law of California provides that cities can
arrange with the counties for the COLLECTION of
taxes. This is a wise provision, and would
save the public much annoyance, as well as
money, if it were enforced and they had taxes
to pay in but one place each year.-Redlands
Facts.
No one who has ever had occasion to borrow
money on mortgage security can underesti-
mate the importance of the action of the Legis-
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COMPLAINTS OF THE ARTISTS,

The predictions which were made when
the Hopkins home on California street was
dedicated to the uses of art are being veri-
fed. Artists are dissatisfied and are indis-
posed TO contribute to the spring exhibit
ton. Their reason is the one which was
Urged against the acceptance of the build
ing by the Art Association: the house
was not erected for art purposes and is
unsuited to house an exhibition of paint
ings.
The main hall, which is the only room
large enough to contain collection of
paintings, gets its light from lowered
glass ceiling situated in WE'LL with the
roof rising steep and high around it. Elk
cept at high noon this roof casts shadow
over the hall and throws it into obscurity.
The least projection of the frames throws
another shadow over the pictures, SO that
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THE SCHOOL BOARD RECOUNT.
No Further Developments of Importance


Appear.
The recount for places on the School
Board dragged lazily through five pre-
cincts, the remaining four precincts of the
Twenty eighth District and the First Pre-
cinct of the Thirty-frst. Matthew Sulli-
van, who represents Carew and Barrett,
opposed the proposition to skip any of the
district, but Judge Trout decided to allow
it. He said, however, that he would allow
no skipping of precincts in any of the dis
tricts and intimated that if upon further
consideration he decided it was not good
policy to skip even districts, he would
order the recount to take up the Twenty
ninth and Thirtieth, which were skipped
yesterday.
The figures, as was the case at the close
of court Thursday evening, were changed
but little, and the developments in each
were few and uninteresting. On one ballot
the name of "Dog-faced Kelly appeared
as candidate for the unexpired term of
Supervisor, and upon another Dan Burns
and Sam Rainey were proposed for the
unexpired terms of the School Directors
The net figures for yesterdays count are
as follows: .Ames gained 2, Barrett lost 5,
Carew lost 10, Hawley no net gain or loss,
Henderson gained 7, Maxwell lost 3, Nc
Elroy lost 1, Murdoch gained 4, Scott
gained II, Symmes gained 13.
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ENJOYED TO
4 Montgomery Street,
UNION TRUST BUILDING, COR. MARKET.
SMALL INyESTNTENTS

Howard ST., near Ninth; 25x85; 2-story build.
ing, rooms and bath in upper fiat and store bust
Bargain; Fourth St. $4,000; 25xso; 2-ssory
building, store below.
water front; Lombard St, near Sansome; level
lot and grade; 137:6x137:6; $12,500; has rear
front also.
Townsend ST., \. side, near Third and the rail-
road depot II :4x275 only $19,350.
Steuart St., bet. Market and Mission; 355sx
Fine corner on Van Ness ave-, 37x1O0, and good
dwelling, $4,000; cheap; near McAllister.
FINE RESIDENCES AND RESIDEN CE
LOTS.
Broadway residence, north side; magnificent
view large lot; on the best portion of the street:
Broadway north side, bet. Laguna and Buch-
anan; 4oxl37 IS; fine view; $4,000:
O. Pacitic ave. north side near octavia; 40x1S7:6;
Very cheap; elegant residence and northwest
corner; Eddy and Cough 137:6x120 to rear
street; faces Jefferson square very fine residence
in first-class order: $4,000
Pacific ave. near Scott St; 6s :sx127 IS; $40 OOO
HOUSES AND LOTS ALL PRICES.
Bush, near Mason, S. side; 3-Story and basement:
modern house; rents $40; $4,000.
stevenson ST.; 70 feet nom Sixth; 24x75 and 2
$5OOO-FuIton st., n side bet. Cough and Octa-
via; blocks W: of new City Hail: 27:6xl3T:6
and 2-story dwelling; street in good order
$6OO0 nearly new fats, and rooms and hath
eacn; rents $ao; Folsom ST., bet. Goth and 2Ist.
=, Saoo9; OAK AK St. n side. bet. Webster and Fill
more; 2oxl37:6 and comfortable 2-story house
rooms, bath and modern conveniences; attic and
cellar; cablecars pass.
Howard st-Cottage and lot S0x122 :6 bet. 22d
and Esd sts; one OF the best residence portions OF
the street; cabe-cars pass; $500
LOTS FROM S70O UPWARD.
only. %OOVO
Broadway, near octavia, 34:61127:s; only
Cheap; Waller ST., n: side, few feet from Market;
lots 25x137:6; only $4,000 each
$l150-Castro-st. lot, 25xlO5 near 23d. lot ready
for buiding cable-cars pass
POLK and Filbert, Sc. corner; 25x1OO; S325O;
then be extended.
Cheap corner; 37;6xl00; $24o0 sW. cor. Sac
ramento and Maple; cable line passes
Reduced to $1,000; lots 25xI27:S: Jackson or
magnificent view; bet. Locust and Spruce; street
work done: any size front.
$700-California ST.. N side bet 10Th and 1o,h
aves.; cars pass; 25x100
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son, but it's not to be exactly pastoral play.
What want you to write is something sylvan
-fmpTegnated with the forest"
He spoke so seriously that began to think
he meant it.
SIS this an order, Warde?' asked.
"Yes, it is" he answered. 'Tell me when you
can get into the woods to write, for 1 want TO
produce that play the next time come to San
Francisco"
That was in the latter part of April. On the
2Sth of June I went down to stay at Charley
Josselyn's home at Woodside, near Redwood
City. There found my forest and in it / wrote
'Runnymede.'
Josselyn posed as Friar Tuck and his little
girl Marjory gave me the idea of Marjory
Josselyn, which is to be played by Miss Fannie
Bowman. Later on 'Solly Walter, the artist
Bohemian, Joined me, and 1 grouped all the
scenes just as they will be played.
Mr.. Josselyn's family kindly made the groups
and Solly Walter sketched them from life. 1t
was surprisingly easy to write in the depths of
that forest. Indeed, the play was in Warde's
hands by the 2Sth of August-just two months
after had begun to write it.
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will be made here. The monuments will
be placed at every change of course, or at
every three miles when the course lies
straight for above that distance.
"This is an innovation" remarked Mr..
Green, "and will possibly be adopted
for the corners of townships in the general
survey of the State, as their utility will be
so great and their cost so little"
''It is these three southern reserves that
are to be surveyed just now" said Miss
Pratt, "but it is likely that the Sierra re-
serve will need it very soon. In that
100000 acres in the heart of the State is
comprised the great body of our best tim
Der. But it is admitted that the boundaries
were carelessly drawn. For instance, the
line runs within eight miles of Bakersfield,
while everybody knows there is no timber
within eight miles of Bakersfield. There
is an agitation. to have the boundaries
while the forest men-you distinguish
the difference?-are opposing it."