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The morning call., 1895-03-04
THE TRANs-sIBERIAN ROAD.

In an interesting article in yesterdays
CALL on the trans-Siberian railroad Frank
g. Carpenter enlarges upon the CONNER
cial and Industrial future held out by that
enterprise. Il penetrates country rich in
natural resources. There are great iron
deposits at various points where factories
will spring up. There are rich gold mines,
not only in the Ural Mountains dividing
Europe from Asia, but also in Eastern
Siberia. There are great areas of fertile
soil and abundant timber. Mr.. Carpenter
predicts that the road will build up an en-
pire in Southern Siberia. He expects that
it will carry the bulk of the Chinese ex-
ports of teas, silks, etc, to Europe when
connection is made with projected Chinese
lines.
This is very probable, but it is also prob
able that there will be business for Califor-
MIA growing out of this Siberian develop
ment. Siberia is great country. Even
its southern portion, that will be penetrated
by this road, approaches the whole United
States in area. In natural characteristics
and resources it is very much like scope
OF territory including the mountainous
mineral country of our Northwestern Ter
ritories and the forest and agricultural re-
gions Of our Northern and Eastern States.
Such country is the natural antithesis in
products OF sub-tropical California and
consequently our natural customer. With
cheap sea transportation to Vladivostock
or some other Siberian terminal point, and
a railroad thence tapping a growing coun-
try, there should be trade opening for US.
Nor is this proposal SO far off as to be
out OF definite calculations. The road
is being pushed from both ends. The
Eastern section has been built between 100
and 200 miles from Vladivostock. There is
talk of completing the whole line in five or
six years. Settlement will follow the road.
Natural commercial inducements will
probably be supplemented by the opera
tions of Russias political and penal sys-
TEN. The Siberian colonists may have to
be educated to the use of California
products, but that is no disheartening
task. Russians of the better class like the
luxuries OF life as well as any people in the
world. The masses are more open to
civilizing influences and habits OF con-
sumption than the average of our Mexican
neighbors, and We know what few years
OF railroad development have done for
American trade in that country. It is,
therefore, quite within the bounds of
practical BUSINESS policy that our mer-
chants should be looking forward to a
market for the products of our orchards,
canneries and factories along
the line Of the trans Siberian railroad.
The morning call., 1895-03-04
A LUCKY GAIETY GIRL.

1t is luck pure and simple that has helped
me ever since | went on the stage, and every
one will say SO, too, after hearing my story.
You know l cannot speak English without an
accent, although II is six years now since we
went from Vienna TO live in London. Ny
mother always reminded me OF my accent
whenever went into raptures over the stage
as q profession. ''You cannot succeed in Eng
disappearing parts, and in order to do any
thing in Vienna you would need a special
training" she always said, but the fact was
she did not approve of the theater at all
One day was in the underground railway,
coming back from singing lesson at theRoyal
Academy of Music A whole group OF girls got
in al one of the stations, and found out from
their conversation that they were on their way
to the Prince of Wales Theater to have their
voices tried for the chorus of a new play, ga
Gaiety Girl"
''Now's my chance thought, and, without
saying anything, l followed the girls to the
theater, and had my voice tried, too. The cho-
rus-master accepted me at once, and l went
home and astonished my mother by proclaim
ing that was engaged as an actress at the
weekly sum of well, never mind the
amount. 1t was more than Tommy Atkins
thirteen pence day." at any rate.
By good LUCK, which, as l say, has helped
me all along, there was the French maids part
in "a Gaiety Girl" which requires a foreign
accent. was allowed to learn it as an under
study, and for three months / sang in the
chorus and kept my eye on that part, though
scarcely hoped TO play it. One night, five min
The morning call., 1895-03-04
ANOTHER NEW" CONSTITUTION.

A joint resolution has been introduced
in the State Legislature providing for the
submission to the people of the question
whether the State of California shall hold
convention for the purpose of framing a
new" constitution. 1t is to be hoped that
the special spirit of wisdom which is sup
posed to possess the members of the Legis-
Iature during its closing days will suggest
to them the folly of any such step at the
present time.
1t is fifteen years since California adopted
and put into effect her present constitu-
ton. The time seems shorter because of
the many months occupied in litigation
over what the various sections of the con-
stitution OF 1879 really meant. Most of
these issues, however, have been settled by
the courts, and most of the people OF the
State have also settled down to an accept
ance of the constitution in general as a
fair to middling document, especially
since the Supreme Court has smoothed
away its most obnoxious parts. This being
SO, the State has just reached a stage
when it can live comfortably under it's
present constitution. 1t would be the very
height of folly to have framed another,
which, if adopted would keep California
stirred up for another fifteen years.
There are certain features of the pres
ent constitution which doubtless require
amendment. The judicial system of the
State should certainly be readiusted in or
der to expedite the altogether too leaden
heel of justice in the court of last resort
The provision as to the Railroad Commits
sioners should also be amended out of ex-
istence. These things may be accom-
plished easily and without either subject
ing the organic law to a complete revision
or awakening the spirit of partisanship
which always surrounds constitution-mak-
ing. Let US see such amendments as are
essential urged by the Legislature, but let
not the State be plunged again into the
discord and confusion incident to the franz
ing and adoption OF another "new" consti-
tuition.
The morning call., 1895-03-04
WILL SOON CALL FOR COIN.
COLLECTOR WELBURN WILL BEGIN
TO APPROVE INCOME REPORTS
TO-DAY.
SECRECY Is ONE OF THE BAD
FEATURES OF THE INCOME
TAX Law.

The income tax will soon be ripe for
picking. Collector OF Internal Revenue
Welburn and his chief deputy, l.. Loupe,
will to-day begin to examine and approve
the voluntary reports that have been
handed in. After the work of examining
and approving-all OF which must be done
by the Collector and his chief deputy
without other asslstance-has continued
for ten days, the work OF collecting Will be
commenced.
The law in the case gives persons liable
for the tax until April 10 in which to hand
in their reports of income and expendl-
lures After that the Collector will send
out a number of deputies and house-to-
house canvass will be made throughout the
district until every mans income is
known. Two expert accountants will be
employed and held in readiness to ex-
anime and expert books of individuals and
corporations who are suspected OF having
withheld the true facts and figures OF their
incomes.
The natural curiosity of the public to
know the incomes and amounts of taxes
paid by the wealthiest men in the commu-
nifty will not be gratitied, at least not so
long as the law remains as it is at present
In an interview on the subject OF the in
come tax last night Chief Deputy Loupe
said:
"There is one bad feature in the income
tax law. 1t prohibits the Collector and all
his deputies, and all persons in any way
connected with the collection of the tax,
from giving information to any one con-
corning the amount of tax paid by any in
dividual or corporation, on penalty of
$1,000 fine and one years imprisonment.
This provision will in many cases assist
and abet fraud. For instance, Smith knows
what Browns income is. Brown reports
himself for $4,000, whereas in reality his in
come is $4,000. Now, if Smith should
learn that Brown had made false reports
he would in all likelihood make the fact
known to somebody, and eventually the
facts would reach the Collector, thus as
sisting him in preventing fraud and the
evasion of the law. As it is, we are not
permitted to give any information what
ever to the public as to who pays income
tax and who does not, nor how much or
little any one pays.
II will say this much, however" con-
tinued Mr.. Loupe. There have been cries
loud and deep about hard times during
1894, but the income reports that have
come in do not justify those lamentations.
From all indications, so far as incomes go,
1894 appears to have been very prosperous
wear"
The morning call., 1895-03-04
THE VOICE OF THE PRESS.

1t has been TO rs a source of more than
ordinary satisfaction to be able to publish
day after day words of approval and COM
mendation from the press of the State
upon our course in separating legitimate
Journalism from coupon schemes, lottery
advertising and all the multitude of those
current denominations which, in the terse
and expressive language of the streets, are
summed up in the word 'fakes."
Our satisfaction in these approving words
is in no degree mixed with any element of
unexpectedness. We never had any doubt
OF what the voice OF the press would be-
The great majority of American editors
believe in legitimate journalism They
strive with more or less success TO attain
its highest ideals, and never deviate from
it even under the pressure of a popular
craze without laying plans to return to it
as soon as the public mind gets back to its
normal condition and alues a newspaper
for its own worth and not for some give
away that may be connected with it.
We have published the approving words
therefore mainly in order that the public
might read and learn what the press of the
State thinks and breaches on this subject
The popular mind is so often deceived IN
regard to journalism by the fake papers
that 1t is sometimes led to believe that all
or nearly all newspapers are equally ire
sponsible. The comments which we have
published, however, too, will go far to give
the public truer conception of the real
aims of the press, and it is from that fact
we have derived satisfaction in publishing
them.
Legitimate journalism is indeed the only
journalism for America. No other can
long exist among a people who have such
a highly developed intelligence and are SO
broadly educated. The very sentiment
and sense that have made lotteries impos-
sible in law will make any advertising of
them impossible in respectable newspa-
pers. They must go. The coupon
schemes, the drawings for town lots and
mousetraps, the "take-in lodges" the
''give-away snaps" and fakes of all kinds
must 60 with them. In short, the faker
must be faker and the journalist must be
a journalist. This truth practiced by the
CALL is preached and practiced also by all
those men who are extending the in1u-
ence of the American press and making it
even more respected and honored than it
ever was before
The morning call., 1895-03-04

in the valleys are awaiting the coming of
gold in order to be profitable to their own
ers. Capital is tinid and labor is unem-
ployed because of the gold famine. In
dustry lags and enterprise haIts because of
the dearth of the great metal which alone
is money since silver has been stricken
down and deprived OF its rightful function.
Reopen the mining industry, therefore,
and you reopen all industries. One per
cent of the profits that would result to
California and to the United States from
the revival OF hydraulic mining would de-
fray all the cost of caring for the rivers
and the valleys. 1t is an easy feat of en-
gineering to impound the debris or sweep
it away. Nothing is needed but money.
Let the State and the Nation supply that
money at the start, and the mines will re-
pay it a hundred fold in the end.
The morning call., 1895-03-04
A LENTEN MESSAGE.
st. Luke's Rector breaches on Chris
tian DUTY.

st. Luke's Rector breaches on Chris
tian Duty.
Rev. William H. Moreland preached to a
very large congregation at st. Luke's yes
terday, his text being from the story OF
Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar. Break off
your sins, " was the burden of the sermon,
which he said was the clear, ringing mes
sage OF the Lenten season.
Mr.. Moreland drew a vivid word picture
of the splendor of the court OF Babylon,
the prosperity of the King, his troubled
dreams, his summons of Daniel and the
sermon which the man of God preached to
him on the text, Break off your sins. -
He said:
"Unrest and anguish of soul are a sign
OF secret sin. The true Christian is at
peace, because he is reconciled to God. He
must meet af1iction in the world but he
need not have anxiety and carking care
Wherever these are it is a sign that one is
trying to serve two masters, God and pleas
ure, God and riches. There is only one
secret of happy life, to repent People
think by travel, by attending the theaters,
by social revels, to gain happiness. They
cannot, because it is the hidden sin that
poisons their life and kills their Joy. Re
pentance is the only infallible remedy for
an unhappy life"
Mr.. Moreland made many and vigorous
applications of the text and urged his hear
ers to make Lent period of self examina-
ton which would reveal to them their sins
and send them to the cross of Christ to
confess them and to ask strength to break
them off forever.
The morning call., 1895-03-04

utes before the curtain went up, the manager
rushed up to me with telegram, saying that
the girl who had been taking the French maid
was i'll, and 1 must play in her stead. In the
hurry and rush of getting into her dress I had
not time to think how comical I looked for she
is a little bit of thing, and her dress was ab-
surdly short for me. The one thing kept re-
peating 10 myself was: ''This is your chance;
make the most ofit," and I suppose I did, for
the part has been in my hands almost ever
since.
When I got home that night the whole
family had to be aroused to hear the good
news, and the next morning we found-luck
again, you see-that there had been a number
of critics in the theater, and they had said
all sorts of kind things about me in the papers,
The luck continued, when 1 got an engage
ment to tour round the world, and if you
won't be shocked, I will tell you its San
Francisco manifestation. / went to the races
the other day for the first time in my lite.
backed a horse. He came in first, and l won
S100-the biggest sum 1 had ever owned. 1t
seemed too bad to break into it, so I posted it
home to mother outward and visible
proof that luck still follows me-
The morning call., 1895-03-04
AN ARTIST IN TROUBLE,
G. ID. Robinson Mixes Theology With a
Street Preacher.

=. ID. Robinson Mixes Theology With a
Street Preacher.
c. D. Robinson, the artist, was on Bren-
ham place in crowd yesterday afternoon.
He was also in an excited state of mind
from causes that were not clearly specified
when the climax came. The climax ar
rived in the shape of Police Officer Chris
tenson of the Chinatown squad.
The scene was Brenham place. the
dramatls persona street preacher, a
crowd of people and Artist Robinson. The
preacher made some points in theology to
which Mr.. Robinson entered vigorous OBJ
jections in rather forcible language. The
preacher talked back, so did the artist. A
friend and companion of the preacher, who
was holding horse near by, took turn in
the quarrel
Suddenly and without any warning
signals from either side blows were ex
changed. 1t was mixture of fists made
so rapidly that it was impossible to tell fist
from fist and who from which Certain it
is that Mr. Robinson received couple of
telling blows in the face, which caused the
blood to flow from his nose and lips. The
man who struck him made his escape, but
Artist Robinson was arrested and taken to
the old City Hall Prison, where he was
booked for disturbing the peace.
The morning call., 1895-03-04
NEW TO-DAY.

The shortest distance between
two points is a straight line, not
a zig-zag course like the above.
Let us say that an" is manu-
facturer Of clothing, "W" is a
wholesaler, %" is a jobber and
'<R" is retailer. If you buy
your clothing OF the latter it
comes to you by the "M.W.J.R."
route. Four stopping places,
profit and an extra cost added
to the price of your suit at each
stop. Buy it from the manu-
facturer and you get it over a
direct line-straight from the
maker to you. Buy it that way,
at &holesale prices, and you
save at least two profits. We
are the only wholesale manu-
facturers of clothing in San
Francisco.
The morning call., 1895-03-04
BOND THE CITY.

Bond the city for the welfare of the CITY.
| Borrow S5,0O0,000 and begin public i'm
provements. The sewers, the streets and
the sidewalks are unworthy of our civiliza-
ton. Badly devised, badly constructed
| and badly maintained, their condition is a
disgrace to the city and menace to health.
To put them into a fair condition will re-
quire Improvements amounting practically
to reconstruction. That will cost money.
The money cannot be raised at once by tax
alton. The only way open therefore is to
bond the city.
We are well aware that the proposition
TO bond the city will startle from their
slumbers all the silurians. They will arise
chattering and jabbering after their kind.
This, however, is not a matter to be re-
GREETED. 1t is good thing to wake the
silurians up once in while and make
them take notice of what is going on. tits
time for them as well as for every other
citizen to see that the sewer system is in
adequate and the sewers are foul; that the
street-paving is incomplete and much of
what exists is a relic of the barbarism of
the cobblestone; that the cutters are not
well made nor kept clean, and, finally, that
the sidewalks exhibit in many places about
every abomination of sidewalk construction
and destruction that has ever been devised
by ignorance or brought about by neglect.
1t matters little, however, whether or
not the silurians wake up to the condition
OF the city and the proposition to improve
1t by issuing bonds. 1t is to the progress
i've element of the people we appeal, and
On that element we rely not for approval
merely, but for cordial support. Every
intelligent citizen knows if we would have
San Francisco keep pace with cities of
equal size and opportunities we must
carry forward our public work with vigor
and energy. Municipal development is
largely dependent on municipal govern
ment. Individual endeavor cannot do
everything. Sewers, streets and sidewalks
must be laid in order that private enter
prise may have scope to extend its work
and construct its buildings.
1t is not repair work only that is needed.
New streets, new sewers and new side
walks are required. San Francisco as a
growing aud expanding city must have
her streets and sewers pushed forward into
new districts. Improvements of this kind
will be profitable in every respect. They
will make opportunities for new edifces,
thereby giving work to all the building
trades, as well as providing new homes for
the people and increasing the taxable
wealth of the city.
To effect these great benefits it is GER
tainly worth while to bond the city for
S5,0O0,O00. The subject is one OF the most
important that can engage the attention of
the Chamber of Commerce, the Half
million Club and other Dropressive organi
cations. The surest way to increase the
population, add value to real estate and
augment business, is to improve the city
and raise all its public work to the stand
ard of true metropolitan excellence.
The morning call., 1895-03-04
NAq 2MM
PERSONAL.

Fred NJ. West of Stockton is registered at the
Grand.
Judge and Mrs. William Foster of Honolulu
are at the Occidental.
Sidney Newell sr., wealthy Stockton banker,
was in town yesterday.
Louis James, the well-known actor, is stop
ping at the Occidental Hotel
Frank H. Gould, chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee, is at the California
large party of Raymond tourists from the
East are provided with quarters at the Palace
Hon. B. F. Faris of Clinton, Mo-, is in town
Mr.. Faris was candidate for Secretary of State
at the last election.
A. D. Summerwell, hydraulic miner from
Placer County, was seen in the lobby of the
Palace Hotel last night.
w. w. Dixon of Butte, Mont, is at the Occi-
dental Mr. Dixon is an ex-member of Con-
gress, and was recently candidate for United
States Senator from his own State He has inst
returned from trip to Honolulu with his wife
and daughter.
The morning call., 1895-03-04
SPECIE PRODUCT.

According to Washington advices expert
authorities put the worlds production of
gold for last year at about $175 000, ,00O and
expect nearly 5000, 900, 900 for the present
year. The comparison is suggested that
last years product was greater in value
than that of both gold and silver twenty
years ago.
1t is possible that the estimate for last
year is excessive. The exact figures have
not yet been received. Yet with very
liberal margin for over-estimate another
suggestive comparison is possible We
have been told from time to time that the
worlds gold product is not what it used to
be in the flush days of California and Aus
tralia, and that no such product could be
looked for in the future. We have been
prone to accept this statement without
challenge because our own product is so
small in comparison with that of early
days on this coast. Yet the fact is that in
1858 when the placers of California and the
alluvial diggings of Australia were in their
glory the worlds product of gold was only
$155, 900 900 in round numbers according to
the most reliable authorities
At that time and for many years there
after the worlds output of silver was about
$4o,0Oo,o 900 annually. If the anticipated in
crease in the gold product holds good for
the current year it will exceed that of both
gold and silver for 1853. In 1875 the product
of gold was estimated at about $110, ,OO0, 900,
of silver at $82, 100000. Since then the
silver output has increased to over $780,
000,00 coming value.
Perhaps the most obvious deduction
from these facts and estimates is that we
are in no danger of specie famine at
present and that the monetary question
The morning call., 1895-03-04
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

An eminent European scholar, Professor Rit-
ter of Germany, says that the Americans have
outdone Europeans in the field of chronological
education at least regards its practical bear
ings. The technical branches are believed by
Professor Ritter to be less complete and solid
on the theoretical side in the United States
than in Germany, but he sets opposite this in
teriority the truly grand achievements in en-
gineering and machine construction in the
United States.'
William Dean Howells, in blue Melton over
coat, stood for some time ankle-deep in the
snow in New York recently gazing with the
eye of a gourmet at possum in butcher
shop, which he bought for his table, remarking
that he was fond OF them and that they were fit
for feast of the gods.
w. W. Fuller of Durham, n. c., is to receive
salary OF $50 900 year as chief attorney of the
American Tobacco Company of New York He
is a son OF Judge T. C. Fuller, of the United
States Court of Private Land Claims.
Congressman Tom Johnson has purchased
the palatia1 residence at the corner OF Euclid
avenue and oliver street, Cleveland. 1t is one
OF the handsomest on the avenue
The Sioux Indians propose to erect a monu-
ment to their late chief, Iron Nation and mean
to have it up ahead OF New York's Grant
monument.
According to rumor Mrs. Edmund Yates car
ries about with her the ashes of her husband in
a casket fitted into little travelling bag of spe-
cisl design.
Prince Bismarck is partly of Slav origin. His
ancestor emigrated to Russia in the eighteenth
century and eventually became Governor of
Liyonia.