The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-10


trades unionism. But this calculation
failed to provide for the contingency that
England might at the date set for starting
this crusade be greatly excited by the men,
ace OF foreign war;
The scheme might have worked had this
been profoundly peaceful autumn. As
1t is, all England, since it awakened to the
realization of what was going on, has been
simply purple with rage at what seems to
be nothing short of a reasonable con-
splracy to wound her IN her most vital
part. 1t happens, too, that as the contest
shaped itself, arguments seemed to be
largely in favor of the men as against the
masters at Belfast, and unquestionably
dead against the employers, so that there
Is practically no dissent from the popular
demand that somebody in authority shall
make Earland 81 Wolff accept the best
terms that they can arrange with the men
| and open their yards. The fact that this
firm gave $4,000 to the Tory campaign
fund last July, and furnished even larger
sums at the more critical stages of the fight
against home rule, inevitably associates
them in the public mind with the present
government. and, in sense, makes the
Tories responsible for their conduct.
This feeling impelled Gerald Balfour to
| undertake the task of conciliating in ear
| nest, and even if he fails there are signs of
similar pressure in Scotland likely to
break up the Clyde masters combination.
The Duke of Cambridge, apparently,
has been checked by somebody in the
career of oratorical lamentation upon
which he embarked as soon as he learned
that he really had to retire. That he
| should feel very sore, and even say few
hot words on the subject, was taken for
granted, but to have him going around
the country splutJering denunciations of
his treatment by the Government at mess
tables and other military gatherings where
assembled officers, remem boring that he
is a prince of the blood, could do nothing
but feign a sympathetic air, was too much
of a good thing. The common explana-
ton is that the Queen babe him stop, but
it is doubtful if the Queen takes any part
| whatever in public affairs.
Her state of melancholia, precipitated
by the death Of young Clark, is understood
to grow worse instead of improving, and it
is obvious that her bodily health is failing
rapidly. Meanwhile, the whole army feels
glow of enthusiasm at the spectacle of
in office is praised honestly on all sides as
admirable in form and tone, and his selec-
ton of aids-de-camp to represent the
volunteers and the militia, as well as the
regular army, is hailed as a sign that at
last the British military spirit is to be
| utilized for the good of the country instead
of for the benefit of one small and not
overvaluable class.
This is. truly an age of change. To-
night, for the first time in history, mem
bers of the Middle Temple were allowed to
bring non-legal guests of their own to the
| regular hall dinner. The experiment thus
| inaugurated will be watched with great
| inter, st. at present laymen can only be
brought in on one or two specified nights
of each term. but if the innovation proves
satisfactory, proba bly, three other inns of
court will follow suit with expansion.
| Dunraven's pamphlet is printed pretty
| fully in the Times, but most of the other
papers only briefly summarize it. The
press comment on it is strictly perfume
tory, several journals having apparently
| quite forgotten what they said at the time.
One would think that as the ancient
corporation of the City of London ap-
proaches the long impending crisis in its
| existence it would strive to arm itself
against its enemies by strongly strengthen
| ing its personnel at the Mansion House and
other civic posts. To the contrary it's
chosen officials for the past ten years have
been an infinitely poorer lot than in the
previous decade. After the disastrous OK
perience OF Isaacs there is now the
melancholy spectacle of Renals, whose
| etc fn f0
evoked general groan of disgust.
| The papers are printing lists of the
guests in display type as sufficient COM
ment by themselves, but the Times goes
further and dignifes the event with SOL
emn editorial protest. The discovery that
Renals' famous visit to Bordeaux was not
unconnected with the commercial inter-
ests of certain great wine importers puts a
| finishing touch to his mayoralty which the
City men are ashamed of. His successor,
Wilkin, whose procession gave to Fleet
street and the Strand rather more ornate
show to-day than usual, is said to be an
ordinary respectable sort of man, but there
are evidences on all sides of feeling in the
City that this is no longer good enough.
William Watson's new volume of poems
this week broke the record at the BodIey
| Head for advance subscriptions. The por-
trait frontiespiece suggests, even more than
the poets face itself, an extraordinary re-
| emblance to John T. Hoffman, which I
| have commented on heretofore.
| A magisterial decision at Bow street has
| been obtained in case of the Exchange
and Mart, which upsets the whole conten-
! ton of the Internal Revenue authorities
about publishing fac-similes of postage
stamps. The proprietor of this paper. was
| summoned Thursday for the offense of
possessing dies initiating the Cape of Good
Hope stamp, and the treasury strove hard
| for conviction. The magistrate said that
the possession was prima facie an offense,
/ but that lawful excuse had been shown,
| and the case was dismissed. It is under
stood that Somerset House contemplates
carrying the thing to the higher courts
HAROLD FREDERIC.