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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
vigilance and intelligent concentration that
they can accomplish the great task which
they have undertaken.
THE RISE IN SILVER.

Although some of the financial authori-
ties in New York assert the recent rise in
silver is merely speculative, there are good
and substantial reasons for believing 1t to
be permanent. There may be nothing OF
real value in the talk of return to bimetal-
ism by international agreement, but the
very fact that such talk is heard from lead
ing men in all the great nations is proof
OF the existence of condition OF affairs
highly favorable to an increased use OF
silver as money, even if a comprehensive
system of bimetallism is not carried out.
The increased output of gold in the last
two years, together with the diminished
output of silver, has done much to restore
that ratio OF value between the two metals
which may be fairly described as normal;
and perhaps if there were no further legls-
latlon at all on the subject, the mere opera
ton OF economic law would in the end
bring about the establishment of the 16
to basis. In addition to this, however,
must be noted the probable effects of the
Oriental war. 1t is fairly certain that China
will soon have to become large purchaser
OF silver. Even if she is required to pay an
indemnity to Japan in gold, she will have
to buy silver for her own use; and it is very
probable that Japan also will use large
part of the gold indemnity to buy silver.
This opens prospect of large consump-
ton of silver in those countries before
long, with consequent advance of the
price all over the world.
Both gold and silver are SO much under
the control of banks and bankers it would
not be difficult for a strong syndicate to
cause fluctuation in either metal for a
time if they saw profit in doing it. We
do not mean, therefore, that the advance
in silver is likely to be steady and constant
from this time on; but we believe the ten
dency to advance will be marked, despite
temporary fluctuations. The world has
evidently turned the corner of the great
crisis, and we are likely to have better
times ahead for silver-miners as well as for
manufacturers, farmers and merchants.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
TURN THE RAsCALS OUT.

We are pleased to note that our great
Democratic contemporary, the Examiner,
is working with zeal and energy alongside
the CALL and with the people in the effort
to hasten the coming of the era of better
things for San Francisco and California.
This was particularly noticeable yesterday,
when, in addition to the steadfast advo-
cacy of the San Joaquin road, the Examiner
as well as the CALL denounced the offense
of Superintendent Harris in threa tening
peaceable workingmen with a pistol, and
also the job involved in the street-paving
ordinance for which eight members of
the Board of Supervisors voted.
With all the Examiner said concerning
: the rampant revolver we agree. 1t was
indeed but another form of expressing
what the CALL said. We also agree with
its terse exposition of the iniquity
of the paving order" but we cannot
agree with some of the conclusions it
draws from the evidence of jobbery and
trickery in the City government.
The Examiner holds that because of the
jobbery among some of the Supervisors we
cannot undertake at this time any extern
sive City Improvements, and says: "The
money literally for improvements, but
they have some decided objections to turn
ing it over to the kind of ring that is sug
gested by the combination of eight in the
Supervisors and the contractors ring that
stands behind it. When there is assur-
ance that the money will go into pave
ments and not into the pockets of COM
bine, there will be no tro1ble in getting all
the money that is wanted. 1t is evident
that we must wait for the new charter
before we can have any relief. Then we
shall see what can be DONE"
While there is much of truth in that
statement, it covers a grave error. Sup
pose the new charter should be defeated?
Suppose, if adopted, some dishonest men
should get into office under it? What
then? Are public improvements to be
postponed to the millennium? Can eight
rascals block the progress of great city?
Is there no way for honest men to enforce
their will? Can fraud go forever I'M
whipped of justice under our present
charter? Where is the Grand Jury, the
District Attorney, the Civic Federation,
the Reform League and all the forces of
municipal purity? The machinery of the
law is on the side of the people. They
have elected men upon whom they can
call to execute their duties. We see no
reason for awaiting a new charter which
may never come. The time to act is right
now. Arouse the people, awaken the
Grand Jury to a performance of its duty,
probe the scandalous jobbery to the bot
tom, indict the dishonest, turn the rascals
out and let progress and improvement go
ahead
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
REPUBLICAN, FAITH.

The splendid victories won by the Repub-
icans of the Eastern cities in the elections
on Tuesday, are full of encouragement to
the party. They give assurance that the
great Republican triumph of last fall was
an upheaval of solid ground, and not a
mere tidal wave that might ebb away
as quickly as it came. That triumph it is
now evident meant permanent uprising
of the people, and will form an enduring
landmark in our political history for the
rest of this generation.
If we look beneath the glow of this
splendid victory, to distinguish the causes,
they will be found centered in the great
fact that the Republican party keeps its
pledges to the people. There may be here
and there some Republican official who
fails in this respect, breaks his promises to
the people and betrays the trust the party
reposed in him. Such recreant officials,
however, do not remain in Office very long.
The Republican organization has an effec-
tive way of dealing with the men who be-
tray it, and their career in the public
service ends short and sharp.
We commend the moral of this truth
to the Republican members of the Board
of Supervisors. They were elected as
representatives of party which keeps its
pledges, and as such they will be judged.
During the campaign the Chronicle, as a
stalwart champion of the Republican
party, with other papers, made the I'M
answerable argument in favor of the Re-
publican candidates that, as representa-
tives of great party and responsible to its
organization, they would be more likely to
keep their pledges and give the City good
government, than Independents and Nom
Partisans, who, having no organization
back of them, would be responsible to
nobody. This argument undoubtedly had
weight with all intelligent men, and it was
largely on that ground the votes were cast
that elected a Republican majority to the
Board of Supervisors.
From that majority the party has right
to expect good government and the
party organization should see that it is
guaranteed. If any Republican official
shows signs of violating his pledges, the
leaders of the party should endeavor by
every means to bring him to recognition
of his duty to the party and to the people.
In this work the County Central Com
mittee, the Union League Club and every
other Republican organization should
take part. They should argue, reason, ex-
hort, advise, counsel, appeal and plead
with the official representatives of the
party to stand firm to their duty. and if in
spite of all this any official persists in be-
traying his trust then severe measures
should be taken. The pledge-breaker
should be read out of the party and held
up to the indignation of the people. The
CALL certainly will not recognize such an
official as Republican nor seek to defend
his iniquities. The Republican party is
honored because it has kept faith with the
people, and in denouncing pledge-breakers
the CALL will be serving the best interests
of the party as well as those of the City
and the State
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
EXOURsIoNIsTs ARRIVE.
A Party of Pennsylvanians who Are Do
ing the State.


ing the State.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has another
party of excursionists in this city to-day.
They are simply on pleasure trip, and
are making tour of the principal points
of interest in the State.
There are about forty persons in the
party, and of that number the following
are at the Palace:
John S. Bowers, Martinsburg, Pa. Walter P.
Colburn and Mrs. Colburn, Peoria Ill: Miss
Helen K. Eastgate, Elmira, N Y; William D.
Evans Ey. Miss Mary 9, Evans, Phenixville; Miss
Harris, Edison S. Harris, Miss Greta Harris.
Philadelphia; Miss Helen ]. lines, Canton, Pa.
Miss Mary A. Kent, Clifton Heights, Pa; Mrs.
Samuel Martin, Miss E. Meyer, Philadeiphia
Mrs MI Richard Miller, Chester, Pa. Mrs. M. N. o.
d%e drl ;. J. N n Pratt, South Ashburnham,
more, Miss G: Rushmore, Miss P. J. Rushmore,
Plainfield, N: j.; Mrs. Nellie R. Sondheim,
New York; A. B. Stuchfieldl and Mrs Stuch-
field, Brooklyn, N. Y; Miss Ida c. Webb, Miss
Caroline Webb, Miss Mabel R. Webb, Phila-
delphia.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
ATTENTION, GRAND JURY.

Important work awaits the Grand Jury
The last few days have brought to partial
light quite number of offenses and lead to
grave suspicious that still greater offenses
would be disclosed if more light were
thrown in the right place. 1t is to the
Grand Jury the people look for that light
and there will be profound dissatisfaction
if no efforts are made by the jurymen to
supply it.
1t is particularly important that an in
vestigation be made into the causes of the
peculiar vote on the street-paying ordi-
nance. There must be some reason why
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
Personal.

PA. Buell. of Stockton is at the Grand Hotel.
Aaron Dowd of Menlo Park is at the Lick
House.
George R. sperry and G. Gumpertz, of Stock
ton, are at the California.
Mrs. G. NJ. Bridgeman of st. Paul. Mimi, is
guest at the Occidental.
District Attorney C. E. Lindsey of Santa Cruz
is a guest at the Grand Hotel.
II. McMurchy of Syracuse, N. Y, a crack rifle
shot, is guest at the Grand Hotel.
L. B. Ulrey, prominent merchant of King
City, is registered at the Lick House.
Wheeler H. Peckham, prominent attorney
of New York and president of the New York Bar
Association, is at the Palace.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
HELD FOR MURDER.
Result of the Preliminary Examination
of Charles S. Rice.

nCSuib VI bne fTell1nindTy
of Charles S. Rice.
The preliminary examination of Charles
s. Rice, the variety actor, charged with the
murder of Cora Everett in their room at
1851 Broadway on the morning of March
II, was held before Judge Low yesterday.
Ferdinand Zeigelmayer, saloon-keeper.
testified that about o'clock that morning
he met Rice and Rice asked him where he
could find an officer as he had killed his
wife. Witness went to Rice's room, and
when he saw the blood he ran outside and
blew his police whistle.
Policemen Freel and Conway testified
that Rice told them he had killed his wife.
When asked why he killed her he replied,
~ did it, and that settles it. Later he
said it was all owing to that man Perkins
who runs a variety show. They found
a razor in bureau drawer covered with
blood.
DR.. Barrett testified as to the result of his
autopsy and the Judge held Rice to answer
before the Superior Court on the charge of
murder.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
Ecclesiastical Patients.

Rev. Father Vanderheyden of Boise CITY,
Idaho. who is a patient at st. Mary's Hospital,
and who came here to have an operation per-
formed, Is On fair way to recovery. The
operation was performed last week.
proved. He is now at St. Mary's hospital. He
was removed there to have an operation per-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

AT SchillgalIen, in Germany. lately an
old gentleman of Is named Jurklies, who
had already buried three wives, proposed
to fourth. She told him he was too old,
whereupon he went into neighboring for
est and hanged himself.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Pakoi, in China. exports over 100000
dried lizards, valued at f500, yearly. They
are used for making Lizard wine," a
medicine for eye troubles.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

1t is. reported from country district
that farmer observing neighbours hay:
rick on fire promptly summoned the en-
gines, although he had no interest in the
stack, His Intervention saved f16 worth.
of hay, but. the owner instead of feeling
grateful refused to pay the ire brigade bill
of ELI and the farmer who gave the alarm
found himself liable for the amount. =.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

The attempt of the monopoly to block
Santa Clara Valley against competing
road will be as futile as the attempt to
block all the streets of San francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

The1awful revolution is too big for the
lawless revolver.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Honest workmen on the streets must be
protected from corporation DULLES.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Hanford talks business as if she meant
it and intends to have it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

If it had been poor man who threat
ened Superintendent Harris with re-
volver, there would have been an awful
difference in the court in the morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

1t is evident the octopus can work one
of its tentacles Ikea sneak thief and an
other like footpad, while the rest are
reaching out for all the law in sight.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Sign the CALL pledge and never mind
the six-shooter.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Progress has too much Roadway on it to
be stopped by footpad methods.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Santa Rosa is trying to make herself
wholly roses for a time.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

If bulldozing pistols is not punished,
it will soon be game more than one will
play at.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

In early spring every one needs totake. Hoods
Sarsaparilla purify the blood and build up the
system. Hoods Sarsaparilla makes pure blood and
gives new life apd energy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

The monopoly bulldozers had better
shoot their guns.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Get the WEEKLY CALL that appears this
morning and post yourself on Pacific Coast
industries
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Stockton leads trumps and San Jose will
have to follow suit.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

2 The business Office of the CALL will be
found this morning and hereafter at 10
Market street, opposite the junction with
Third street. Call there and leave orders
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

When the festas. blossom out in the
south San Francisco will have many a rep
resentative to dance among the roses and
talk to the southern beauties of the delight
of living in aunited State.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Whatever may be the legal phrase for the
bituminous rock job in the Board of Sup
ervisors, in the literal meaning of the
words it was highway robbery.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

BY adding 20 drops Of. DR.. siegerts Angostura
Bitters to glass diseases from drinking pollu-
ted water are avoided.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

FOR BRONCHIAL AND AsTHScATIo CoMPLKrSrs
" Broten's bronchial 7roches" have remarkable
curative properties.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

The Grand Jury has lots of game ahead.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

LawBess methods are doomed to failure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Bulldozing cannot stop competition.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Notified bricks are coming into use for
building purposes. They giye.'a. house the
appearance of CASTLE soap.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

WOMEN avoid suffering by using PARKER's
GINGER Tonic as it is adapted TO their Ills.
HINDERco rms, the best cure for cerns, Is cents.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Men who invest in lottery tickets hardly
ever have money enough to pay their
grocery bills.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Never was there better time for reform
movements than right now, and never a
better subject for investigation than the
street-paying job.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Suppose one of the strike leaders had
endeavored to stop workmen on the
Southern Pacific road by threatening
them with revolver, would the courts
have let him go ON $40 bail?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Notwithstanding the report that Gresham
will stick, the country will continue to be-
Heve he is stuck.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

The foolish man buys lottery ticket,
but the man with business sense takes
stock in the competing road.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
The people win win

The monopoly is desperate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Reformers who have done SO much talk
ing should not lose the present oppor-
tupity to show themselves in action.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Public indignation against lawIess vio-
lence can be expressed neither too often
nor too firmly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
CRYsrALLIzED ginger, 25c ID, Townsend's. !.

BACON Printing Company, sos Clay street. {.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

The goldbugs say the rise in silver is
only a speculation, but the people will
consider it good business.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Even the monopoly shows signs of join
ing. the popular procession, for it has
agreed toreduce freight rates on refriger-
ated fruits.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

1t appears that none but Democrats met
defeat in the Eastern elections; the Popu-
lists were not in it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

S4OO sPslsa ssg ssg sds sfi ats.
lined all through with MORE
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

What is the moral difference between
holding up a train with a rife and stop
ping work on railroad with pistol?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

c. S0 Changeable Velvet Capes. extra
sDE big circle cut, silk lined, fancy
o color effects actual value 500 90
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

The spring elections in the East show
that the Republeansuccess last fall was an
upheaval of solid ground and not mere
tidal wave.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Southern Pacific road by threatening
them with a revolver, would the courts
have let him go on $40 bail?
The people have four brainy, brave and
incorruptible representatives on the Board
of Supervisors. and if the Mayor stands
firmly with them the rascals on the board
will be powerless to plumber the City.
Several Eastern cities have followed the
example of Boston in substituting paper in
place of states in the public schools, and
the time is evidently coming when the
phrase, ''Put it on the slate,'' will be lost to
the world.
Bear in mind that the best way to adver-
tise California and the Pacific Coast among
the right class of people is to send the
WEEKLY CALL to your Eastern friends.
They are the right people and the CALL is
the best way of reaching them.
The return of W. H. Cornwell to Homo
lulu with the intention of claiming pro-
lection as an American citizen while at
tending to his business there, will once
more make the islands storm center of
diplomacy and may possibly give Gresham
a chance to let the eagle scream.
The report that Japan will require China
to pay $3.50, 600 900 in gold to her credit in
Europe, and then useit thereto buy silver,
doesn't rebound much to the credit of the
Japanese financiers. 1t would have been
better for them to have required China to
pay the indemnity in the United States,
where silver is cheaper, and where Japan
can best look for military and naval sup
niles.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Perhaps the Southern Pacific will send
Superintendent Harris to Stockton to stop
the San Joaquin road with his big re-
yolver.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

If you have not yet subscribed to the
stock OF the San Joaquin road do so to-day,
and help to make a big record for the
week
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

Bizet's newly discovered opera, sDon Pro-
copio," will probably soon be heard in Paris,
and every one is eagerly looking forward to
hearing work from the pen of the gifted COM
poser of Carmen" that has never yet been
given to the public. The plot of ssDon Pro-
copio" is variation of Donizetti's "Don Pas
quale," the history of an old man who wants to
marry young girl, and is tricked and laughed
at by pair Of clever lovers who outwit him.
The first opera written on the plot of "Don Pro-
copio" was a very bright musical farce, COM
posed by Fioraventi, which amused whole
generation of dilettanti. What poet made the
libretto which Bizet and Fiorayenti utilized
is unknown.
Sir A. G. Mackenzie speaks of the conductors
stick as s'the most difficult instrument to play
in the orchestra" The fact is that year by year
the conductor is learning more to play that
stick, as If he were virtuoso playing upon an
instrument. As magazine writer recently OBJ
served: eff the orchestra, the soul-inspiring
tenors, the warbling sopranos, and the mighty
basso-profundos do not look at it, they will
soon all find their laurels encircling the con-
ductor's olympian brow"
The Chicago papers remark that one of the
most remarkable features of the Abbey,
Schoeffel and Grau season OF opera is the ad-
mirable acting of the mel and the absence of
histrionic talent on the part of the women.
The De Reszkes, Maurel and Tamagno as sing
ing actors could scarcely be improved upon,
while Media, Eames, Nordica and Scalchi, the
two former especially, are lacking in the attri-
butes of great actresses.
An Eastern correspondent, who was recently
admitted to rehearsal of "Die Meistersinger,'
by the Abbey, Scnoeffel and Grau company,
says: 81 wish some of the amateurs could have