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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
THE SILVER CONVENTION.

The controversy over the money ques-
ton continues in the East with unabated
vigor on both sides. Fresh from his nine
days debate with Harvey, Mr.. Horn has
engaged in another on the same question
with General A. j. Warner at Lakeside,
Ohio. Nor will this complete the list of
big debates. Arrangements are in prog
ress for discussion between Bland of
it takes place, will eclipse the others, for
the debaters will be much ADLER represen-
tatives of their creeds and parties.
In comparison with the zeal of the East
on the subject the Pacific Coast has been
quiet and apparently Indifferent. We have
been too much engaged in the revival of
industry and the formation of new enter
prises, to devote much time to political
questions. It must not be assumed, how
ever, that because little in the way of agi-
tation of the subject has been undertaken
here, that our people are really Indifferent
to the issue or without interest in the con-
troversy. Our silence has been due mainly
to the fact that there has been nothing to
bring govt an expression of public opinion.
This condition of affairs will soon be
changed. Beginning August 10 we are to
have bimetallic convention in this city,
and there is every reason to believe it will
prove one of the most important assemblies
of the year.
Interest is already widely taken in the
convention. The committee in charge are
assured of the attendance of men of emf
nence from all sections of the Pacific Coast.
Bimetallic leagues are being organized
throughout the State in order that dele
gates fifty representative of the people may
be elected TO the convention and the nu-
cleus formed OF permanent organization.
Every prospect, therefore, promises some
thing of important accomplishment by the
meeting and the achievement of results
that will have wide influence on the pol
itics not only of the coast, but of the Ma
ton.
With the meeting of the convention we
may expect the beginning of more active
campaign of education in the interests of
general bimetallism than we have hereto
fore had on this coast. In some respects
such campaign is hardly needed, for it
seems certain that the great majority of
our people are in favor of return to the
money of the constitution. Nevertheless,
it is not advisable to rely too much upon
that assurance. The fact that the Demo-
cratic Convention of Iowa has thought it
worth while to go into the campaign this
fall with platform adopting the old dodge
of bimetallism with every dollar equal to
gold shows that there is still good deal of
misconception in the public mind as to
what bimetallism really means. There
may be some misconceptions of the kind
on this coast, and for that reason a cam
paign of education in addition TO that al
ready carried on by the press may prove of
great value to the cause of honest, just and
constitutional money
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
WATER AND LAND.

Before the riot of criticism now raging
against the Ross decision on the water ques-
ton becomes ancient history "a few days more
will sufce), it is well to inquire if it is open to
criticism, or rather If it is not entirely con-
sistent with the land laws in vogue.
1t is said that the effect of the decision is TO
establish the doctrine that the people have no
rights that water-grabbers are bound to re-
spect. Why should they have? The people
have no rights that land-grabbers are bound to
respect, and since water is no more necessary
to human existence than land, why permit
land-grabbing to go unrestra1ned and yet make
an awful fuss about water-grabblng.
This needs explaining. Human existence is
unthinkable without land, yet we carefully
provide by law that whoever will may grab all
he can, and another may hire all the grabbers
to go off and let him reduce all the little grabs
to one "large holding" Public stupidity at
last begins TO perceive that there is something
wrong somewhere in this scheme, and so 1t IS
coming to be a bit popular to denounce "large
holdings There is not much agreement as
to what large holding is, so am entitled to
say that the largest 'holding" is where the
greatest economic value is. By this test few
hundred feet square along Montgomery or
Market street is larger "holding" than
whole county in some parts of the state. But
what is the difference TO the landless whether
one or few thousand hold all the land from
which all must live?
The water question, like the land question,
is simple-it is the land question. And this is
the way it arises: Some people, having the
land-grabbing fever in the acute stage, and
finding none better to be mad, grabbed a Dig
lot of land that was valueless without water
Others grabbed the available water, and when
the proper time came, demanded for its use
the customary rate, that is-all the traffic
would bear. Then the dry-land grabbers
asked the Legislature to loan them the power
of the State to compel the water-grabbers to
give up their water on such terms as they, the
dry-land owners, saw fit to give. And the Leg
islature did SO by enacting the Wright law.
Judge Ross decides in effect, that that is not q
good law among grabbers: that the water-grab-
Der may charge the dry-land grabber all he
can be made to pay for it's use, just IS the
owners of the land in California compel the
nonowners to pay all that can be got out of
them for the privilege of living within its bor-
ders.
Judge Ross decision is logically consistent
with private ownership of land, and 1 therefore
advise landowners and Landowners not to
press their objections to it too fart is loaded.
1t also has buzz-saw attachment; you don't
want to fool with it. JAMES s. REYNOLDS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

William J. Coombs Government director of
the Union Pacific takes cheerful view of the
effects of the interference with the silver in
dustry in the Pacific States and Territories.
Speaking at the Palace OF his trip up through
the Northwest on his tour of inspection of the
railroads feeding the Union Pacific, he said:
~ found Idaho Utah and Wyoming in very
cheerful condition. Iexpected from what was
said in Congress during the silver debates that
1 should find a nest of paupers, but found
communities busting with excitement and
everybody contented and happy.
'In relation to the silver States and Terri
tories believe that the interference with the
silver industry will in the end prove to be
blessing for this reason: ALI industries and
enterprises seem to have conferred around sill
yer, and no community can be lastingly pros
porous where all depend on one class of enter
prise. The decline in the prosperity of the
silver interests has caused the people to look
in other directions. do not believe that three
years will pass before those States and Terri
tories will be richer and more permanently
prosperous in all the true element of prosper
ity.
"Another feature in relation to this Is that
when all industries are concentrated in one
article most of the enterprises get into few
hands, and an ordinary man has no chance,
but when the industries are varied new fields
are opened up for greater number of people
to go in, not as employees but as principals,
George T. Root, who died last Wednesday, lit
orally sang himself into the hearts of his coun-
trymen. He was the author of more popular
songs than almost any other American. Here is
a list of his most important productions:
''The Battle Cry of Freedom" "Just Before the
Battle, Mother" "Just After the Battle" "The
Vacant Chair" "On, Boys, On" "My Fathers
Bible," 'May Moore emusic Far Away"
'voices of the Lake." 'She Has Told 1t to the
Winds" "The Quiet Days When We Are DID,"
"Within the Sound of the Enemy's Guns"
"Will You Come to Meet Me, Darling" eco
lumbia's CALI "The Old Folks Are Cone"
Brother, Tell Me of the Battle" 'Iay Me
Down and Save the Flag" Scan the Soldier
Forget" Farewell, Father, Friend and Guar
dian," SHOW it Marches, the Flag of Our
Union," "Comrade, All Around Is Bright
ness,' "Only Waiting" Chilly Brook" "Music
of the Pine" eff He Can," "Home's Sweet
Harmony" "Grieve Not the Heart That Loves
Thee" "Oh, Haste on the Battle" '"The Forest
Requeim," ''The First Gun Il Fired" "Don't
You See Me Coming "The Cottage in the
Vale,' "Rosalie, the Prairie Flower" "Drean
On, Lille" "Oh, Come You From the Battle
field" Comrades, Hasten to the Battle" "Kiss
Me Mother, Kiss Your Darling" "Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching" "On,
On, On the Boys Come Marching" "They Have
Broken Up Their Camps" "The Vacant Chair"
Gwen Fight it Out on This Line" sold Po-
tomac Shore"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
THE AID SOCIETY.

The twenty-first annual report of the
Boys and Girls Aid Society shows an
amount of good work done during the year
on which the society may well congratu-
late itself. In fact the whole City may re-
gard with qualification what has been ac-
complished, and find in the work done an
assurance of even greater accomplishments
when the society is more literally sup
ported and its work is carried on upon n
greater scale and under better circum-
stances.
Despite the business depression and bad
industrial conditions which during the
year imposed such heavy burdens upon the
charitable people of the City the president
is able to report that with but one excep-
ton never have the results of year s
work been so satisfactory. There have
been housed, fed, clothed, schooled and
instructed in mechanical work at the home
an average for the year of ninety-one boys
and girls, necessitating the employment of
eighteen officers, teachers and employees.
Much practical work has been done by the
inmates. The tailor and his boys have
made all the overalls needed and done
much repairing; the shoemaker and his
squad have mended the shoes, and the car
penter with number of boys working I'M
der him have erected shed, planked the
yard and made other improvements of the
kind.
While the results of the work of reforma-
ton and instruction in the home are good,
the managers are confronted with diff
cult problem in finding what to do with
the boys when the time has arrived for
them to leave. President Perkins says that
ranch work is not always open for them,
partly because all the boys are not fitted
for that work and partly because Japanese
are offering their services for $15 month,
and many people find it cheaper to keep a
Jap than to keep boy. 1t is not easy to
get them into mechanical employments as
the trade unions permit only limited
number of apprentices and the chances of
boy in the city, therefore, are very much
restricted.
To meet these difficulties President Per-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
PERSONAL.

]. F. Condor, a mining man of Verdi, New, is
at the Grand.
]. F. Mannon, an attorney of Ukiah, is guest
at the Grand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Yerington of Carson are stop
ping at the Palace.
Lieutenant w. s. Hughes of the navy is a
guest at the Palace.
A. B. Glasscock, hotel man from Yosemite,
is at the Occidental.
James H. Wadsworth, cattleman of Yreka,
is staying at the Lick.
J. F. Moore, a capitalist of Santa Barbara, is
stopping at the Palace.
G. G. Brooks, merchant of Colusa, registered
at the Grand yesterday.
J. R. O'Keeffe, prominent young attorney
OF San Jose, is at the Baldwin.
DR.. D. F. McGraw of San Jose was one of yes
terday's arrivals at the Palace.
George A. Goodman. banker of Napa, and
Mrs. Goodman, are at the Palace.
L. C. Trent, mining engineer of Salt Lake,
registered AT the Palace yesterday.
Major ]. c. Post of the army arrived from
Portland yesterday and is staying at the Pal
ace.
John W. Mackay, who has been in Alaska is
on his way here and will probably arrive to-
morrow.
Charles S. Grubbs, an attorney of Louisville,
KY, and his son, arrived at the Palace Hotel
yesterday.
Rev. Anna II. Shaw will return to California
next month, to begin an active woman's SUI
frage campaign.
S. A. Knapp, leading business man of Haw-
thorne, New, was one of yesterdays arrivals
at the Occidental.
President David Starr Jordan of Stanford
University came to town yesterday and regis
tered at the Occidental.
D. 81. Mercer, member of Congress from Ne
braska, who has been here several days, left on
yesterdays steamer for Alaska.
DR.. George B. Somers, until recently chief
physician at the City Receiving Hospital will
leave for Japan in few days to be absent two
months.
A. ]. Morrell, a pioneer and retired real
estate dealer, recently returned to this City
after three weeks visit to San Jose and
vicinity.
Rose Coghlan arrived here yesterday to fill a
six months engagement at the Columbia be-
ginning Monday evening, as Viola in Twelfth
Night" She is stopping at the Baldwin.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
THE LAW WILL PREVAIL.

If in the minds of the Solid Eight the
contest of the people to compel them to
obey the law is regarded as game" they
may congratulate them selves on having
won the first trick before the courts. If
they are wise enough, however, to take a
serious view of the question, they will not
rejoice much over their success. They
have escaped trial on technicality, but
the escape is only temporary. Sooner or
later they must confront the people in
court and answer directly to the charge OF
malfeasance in Office.
Judge Slack suggested that the proper
method of proceeding against offenses OF
this kind is by indictment of the Grand
Jury, and the suggestion opens an oppor-
tuhity to that body which it will do well
not to overlook. In the meantime the
people will not rely wholly upon the secret
methods of the Grand Jury. Law-ablding,
prospecting and law-enforcing citizens
have entered into this fight for the law
with the intention of winning it. The
issue is much greater than the particular
case now involved in it. 1t is not matter
of antagonism to the Solid Eight, nor even
of antagonism to the giant monopoly that
seeks Dy lT1CheTy W QUAIL d FdludDl0 lrdQ-
chise for next to nothing. 1t is the great
issue of law against municipal eruption,
and its decision will determine whether
the statutes of California form a code OF
laws binding equally upon all classes OF
people, or whether they are mere bundle
of false pretenses at which every rascal in
office or with money can laugh.
The dismissal of the case on technical
ity is of course disappointment to the
people, but in the disappointment there
will be no encouragement. The prosecu-
ton of the Solid Eight will continue. The
charges against them will be pushed until
they have been heard on their merits. The
time has gone by when official malfeas-
ance can be perpetrated in this City with
impunity and when public indignation
went no further than an angry protest. A
new spirit has arisen among the people
and they see affairs in a new light. It is
evident we can have no important NUM-
cipal Improvements until we have NUM-
cipaI administration that works honestly
and keeps the law. ALI the progressive
and intelligent elements of the people are
therefore arrayed against the violators of
law and they will not fail to find means OF
vindicating the dignity of our statutes,
preserving the honesty of the City govern
ment and Furnishing every official detected
in defrauding the taxpayers by any means
whatever
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09

gress makes the desired appropriation un-
der the Caminetti act; and as the Govern
ment engineers composing the California
Debris Commission have reported favor
ably on the matter, it is believed that Con-
gress will make the appropriation, which,
in conjunction with the State appropria-
ton, will amount to about half million
dollars.
In other words, this is plan to put to
economic use water held IN restraint for
another purpose entirely after it has served
its original purpose, thus giving it double
use of the very greatest value in both in
stances-the working of hydraulic mines
and the generation of electricity for manu-
featuring and other uses in the towns and
cities of the Sacramento Valley. On its
face the scheme appears to be stroke OF
genius and to present possibilities of an
extraordinary kind. The right to the
overflow water is entirely separate from
that of the impounded water, and can be
located under an act passed by the last
Legislature. Should the Deguirie scheme
secure the approval of Congress in the
shape of an appropriation for dam, the
electrical power company will be saved the
reawakenipg of the mining industry in
California and the inevitable restoration OF
hydraulic mining under some plan which
shall not injure the waterways will receive
a new impetus from this inviting prospect.
The expense of constructing dams in the
mountains to secure head of water for
the generation of electricity is the deterrent
cause of the delay in developing this great
resource. The use for this purpose of dams
constructed to impound the debris from
hydraulic mines will do away with that
difficulty for the entire central part of the
State, where is found the bulk of popula-
ton and industrial activity, for it is in this
region that the placer mines abound
In this connection attention cannot be
too often called to the fact that the climate
of California does not permit the obstacles
! which constitute so serious drawback in
the East. The worst of these is ice in the
streams in winter, which often prohibits
the utilization of water-power altogether.
The absence of ice in the streams of Cali
fornia eliminates this almost fatal objec-
tion and reduces the enterprise to GER
TO infU
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09

kins recommends the establishment of a
training ship for the training of boys for
the navy. He introduced bill to that
effect at the last session of Congress. 81
feel confident" he says, "that the senti-
ment, American sailors for American war
vessels. will find an echo in every loyal
American heart" The plan is certainly a
good one, and will doubtless receive the
support OF every Pacific Coast member of
Congress. In the meantime the people of
the State should not shirk the duty of as
slsting the society to obtain employment
for the boys. Outside of the morality of
the question it is a business proposition
that boys at work help to support the
State, but those who are idle become a
public charge that is often very expensive.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

Bachelor am told that a married man can
live on half the income that single man re-
quires
Married man-Yes. He has to.-New York
Weekly.
German Dizer-What do you do for living
when your summer boarders leave you?
Berkshire farmer-Waal, about the same as
I've been doin'-keep on fattening hogs
Truth.
'Curious how much more endurance women
have than men," said Jones, looking up from
his paper
"Yes?'' said Mrs. Jones.
eyes; here women can go on, day after day,
sticking hatpins right through their heads
and never feel it; but one of 'em stuck hat
pin in a minister's leg, and it killed him.
s'pcse woman's head is her least vulnerable
point"
ga mans leg is very delicate" retorted Mrs.
Jones. "At least he makes an awful fuss when
it is pulled."-New York Recorder.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
Loss OF PosToFFIcE REVENUE.

To the Editor Of The Cdll-SIR: In reference
to the dispatch published in this mornings
CALL regarding the falling off in the receipts of
the San Francisco Postoffice, desire to say the
deficit is easily explained by the fact that many
stamps outside of this city. Now these same
firms wish their mail dispatched and delivered
quickly, which can only be accomplished by
the aid OF extra clerks. This is of course denied
by the action of these firms. It was only few
days ago that the Postmaster of Oakland issued
an appeal to the residents of Oakland to come
to his Office for stamps, though all their bust
ness correspondence goes through the San
Francisco Postoffice MAILING CLERK,
San Francisco, Aug. 8, 1895.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
Reciprocity and Democracy.

When President Harrison and Secretary
Blaine inspired the insertion of the reciprocity
clause in the Mckinley law the Democrats
raised howl from one end of the country to
the other that the Republicans were stealing
Democratic thunder, and that reciprocity was
only another form of free trade. The fallacy
of this contention was manifest, and the insin-
cerity of those who made it soon became
equally clear. So soon as the Democrats OBJ
thew made bitter war upon the very system
which they had previously claimed to be DEM
ocratic property.-New York Mail ana EXPRESS
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
AN ORIGINAL IDEA.

That was an uncommonly interesting
piece of news which Assemblyman r. /.
Thomas gave in an interview with him,
published in yesterdays CALL. 1t is that
he has organized a strong company for the
purpose of utilizing the overflow waters of
the Deguirie dam, which is to be con-
structed on the Yuba River, six miles from
Marysville, these waters to be used for
generating electricity for industrial pur-
poses. The dam is to be used for impound-
ing debris from hydraulic mines if Con-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
IF Cleveland Was Sincere.

If Mr.. Cleveland was sincere when he de-
clareu againsta second term on his hrst en-
trance to the White House then he is false 10
the people today. If he was not sincere In MS
utterance at that time there is no reason now
to believe him sincere in anything, for NE mas
fooled the people once. But the Cleveland
logic and the Cleveland record are such that
we will not be surprised Il the President, when
he again consents to consecrate h1mself, shouIa
his repugnance was to second term, not
third, and that his countrymen having over,
come his unwillingnesS TO accept second
there exists nothing in his published utter
ances to prove that he should not take third
New York Mail and Express.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
FROM EASTERN EDITORS.
Democratic Fruit.

The prosperity of which the workers hear so
much has not yet reached a great many OF
them, and strikes are not unnatural. But all
this disorganizatlon of industries, with Unfair
and even cruel results to many, is part OF the
fruit of Democratic legislation, and neither
employers nor men can yet form the ieast 1uea
MANY establishments can Withstand the new
conditions, or how much strife and suHerlng
will be involved before the workers ana EN-.
nloyers in various industries can find out what
Is now possible or just. The harvest of Demo-
cratic success is trial and suffering even now,
as it was before recovery in business began
New York Tribune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
THE DURRANT CASE.

The San Francisco CALL has announced that
its reports of the trial of the Durrant murder
case shall be confined to the legal develop
ments in the case, and not the sensational,
blood-curdling stories in which the other
papers have INDUCED to such an extent. Now
the people of the State ought to show their ap-
probation of The CALLS policy by supporting
it and patronizing it. 1t is not whit behind
the other papers in enterprise, either.-Chino
Valley Champion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-09
Not Mnoh to Dump.

In answer to question of the London cor
respondent of the Post-Dispateh and the New
York World member of the leading London
firm of silver brokers' said that in sixty days IL
would be extremely hard to get together for
delivery f1,OOO,OOU, or about $5,000,OO0,
wo nth Of silver bullion, and London controls
the silver market of the world.
That unlimited quantity" of silver TO be
dumped on the United States in the event of
silver free coinage is phantom.-St. Louis
POst-DiSpatch,