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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
THE CUBAN SITUATION.

The inability of the Spanish army to put
down the Cuban rebellion has been ex-
planned on the ground of the climate.
which operates fatally against the fighters
imported from Spain. Hence the Spanish
authorities on the island declare that with
the coming of winter, when improved
meteorological conditions will place the
combatants on equal terms, they will be
able quickly to suppress the uprising. At
the same time great uneasiness on the part
of the rich Spaniards on the island is evil
dent. They are now asserting that if the
rebellion succeeds their property will be
confiscated. 1t may seem singular that
the rebels have not tried to overcome this
impression.
Ordinarily the abstract principle OF pa
triotism does not attach to capital, and
under average conditions it will seek safety
on any terms. The united and fearful an
tagonism of the Cuban rich toward the re-
bellion is therefore significant. 1t is true
that as yet they are under the protection
and enjoy the sympathy of the Spanish
army, but their attitude is so conspicu-
ously hostile to a change in the political
administration of the island as to force
some important considerations to the
front.
If it means nothing more it is an &C.
acknowledgement of the fact that the native
race is oppressed, and that prominent
agency in this oppression is the local
aristocrats from Spain. These wealthy
ones seem to regard themselves as stand
ing for all that makes Spanish domina-
ton hateful. This being accepted as q
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
UNEQUAL BENEFITS.

In exchange for the opportunities which
we give Chinese in this country to amass
wealth and take it out of the country we
enjoy the privilege of sending missionaries
to China. Our non-judicial consideration
of the treaty is to blame for this. China
makes no such mistake. She holds US to
the strict letter of the treaty so far as our
citizens in China are concerned. That is
to say, American enterprise and capital
may not invade China and compete with
the natives as we permit them to compete
with US. Probably such competition on
our part in China would be as hurtful to
them as is Chinese competition with US in
this country injurious to Us. II SO, China
displays wisdom which it might profit US
to initiate.
We might have been content, in our
easy-going philanthropic way, to give
China the benefit of her superior wisdom
were it not that she has failed recently to
protect our missionaries from mob yio-
lence. It has become necessary to send
gunboats to the vicinity of the outrages to
force China to observe her treaty obliga-
tons. 1t is not to be supposed for an in
slant that China is DESTROYS of engaging in
war with England and the United States,
but it is imaginable that her Indifference
with regard to our missionaries means q
greater desire on her part TO be rid of them
than to preserve treaty relations which
permit so many thousands of her citizens
to fatten on our indulgence.
For that matter, the Government of
China has never desired to encourage its
people to emigrate to the United States.
Their intercourse with considerable frac-
ton of our population has been SO unpleas-
ant as to lead to embarrassing interna-
tional complications at times. and the
imperial Government dislikes annoyances
of that character. 1t has sufficient worry
over keeping its own uncounted hordes in
subsection.
The suggestion presents itself, Would it
not be wise to bring about new treaty
which, while maintaining trade relations,
will prohibit the residents of one country
from settling in the other? 1t would be
interesting to speculate on the result of a
vote on that question submitted to the
people of California.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

fact, the situation appears somewhat
cleared of many befogging conceptions. 1t
explains, for instance, why the rebels have
never tried to enlist the sympathy of the
rich Spanish residents. At the same time
it points to the conclusion that if the
rebels succeed the grandees from Spain
will be expelled and their property con-
fiscated. This lends a peculiarly savage
aspect to the war.
AT the same time it explains the extra
ordinary pluck and pertinacity of the
rebels. The tercest revolutions of history
have been those precipitated by the ag-
gressions of the rich. Abstract principles
of government have been mere incidents
and conclusions of the struggle. And it is
an interesting fact that the success of such
revolutions has been followed by the adop-
ton of a republican form of government.
The burdens which the Spanish monarchs
have laid upon the natives of Cuba are
identical in kind with those which the
itch who are in power lay upon the poor,
and Spain's attitude toward Cuba is that
of wealthy, scornful and overbearing
aristocrat. Never since their subjugation
have the natives been treated otherwise
than as subjects, in a manner that keeps
alive the idea of subjugation and subjec-
ton in its most irritating form.
Thus far the warfare conducted by the
insurgents has been almost entirely
of a guerrilla kind, and the history of
wars shows that in the end it is generally
unsuccessful. The insurgents are poorly
armed, are forced to fight in the noun
tains and brush, have no gunboats and no
capital and seem to have the worst of the
situation. Unless the wonderful love of
freedom that transforms common men into
heroes continue to fire them they must
succumb at last.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
SIR CHARLES HAS IDEAS,
The Baronet Railway Man
Talks on Central Pacific
ConfiscatiOn.
He Also Favors Pooling and Says
It's All Right Since England
Sanctions 1t.
Sir Charles Rivers Wilson has been tall

Sir Charles Rivers Wilson has been talk
ing again.
Sir Charles is the British Baronet who
was sent out here year ago as the legal
representative of the British stockholders
of the Central Pacific Railroad. He came
and saw, and Mr.. Huntington conquered.
He was commissioned by mass-meetlng
of indignant stockholders to come over
here and see how it was that the builders
of the Central Pacific had all acquired
independent fortunes while toiling stock
holders could get no dividends. His re-
port, after he had been escorted across the
continent by Southern Pacific officials
and lulled to sleep by reading Southern
Pacific literature, or the Mutations OF
Southern Pacific oratory was not in the
highest degree satisfactory to his constl-
tuents.
1t was a marvel as showing the hyp-
motto influence of strong mind upon
weak one. 1t was plea for allowing the
Pacific railroads more time to pay the
Government and all the rest of their debts.
Shortly after making this report, and
while resting on the laurels it gave him
among railroad men, Sir Charles was
chosen president of the Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada. The other day he
visited Chicago, and the Board of Trade
there gave him reception. According to
the reports Sir Charles, with his mutton
chop whiskers and statuesque smile, was
as unctuous and bland as ever. He talked
about California, among other things, and
said that the people there talked about the
confscation of the railroads which had
cost millions of dollars to build, and added
that he did not believe that any such
movement could be carried out. The in
telllgent people should induce Congress to
pass measures to relieve the railroads by
permitting pooling, as it is the only sure
way of maintaining rates. 81 know that
pooling is not looked upon with favor by
many of the gentlemen" he said. "but
there is nothing wrong with it. 1t is per-
mitted in England without bad effect. You
should see to it that such laws are passed,
as they will be for the best interests of the
railroads, and also for yourselves, as rates
will be maintained better"
All of which will interest those British
holders of Central Pacific stock whose &C.
ton started Sir Charles on his mad career
as railroad man.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
MANUFACTURERS MEET.
They Will Send Delegate to the
National Association at
Chicago.

They Will Send a Delegate to the
National Association at
Chicago.
Julian Sonntag presided at a meeting of
the Manufacturers and Producers Asso-
citation at which the State development
committee of the Half-million Club Of
fered to assist the association in adYer-
Using the products of the State.
1t was decided to send delegate from
the association to the meeting of the
National Association of Manufacturers to
be held in Chicago on the 10Th of Novem-
Der.
The management of the State Asylum
for the Insane at Agnews promised to in
clude in its schedule hereafter articles of
California manufacture instead of Eastern.
The secretary was instructed to COM
municate with Mayor Sutro with regard to
a report that the railway company is pro-
curing articles in the East for the equip
ment of the road which can be obtained in
this State.
The secretary was also instructed to
ascertain why the Board of Prison Direc-
tors neglected at its last meeting to take
action on the associations letter in regard
to convict labor, after having promised to
do so.
The association will meet in two weeks,
when the committee on incorporation will
present its final report.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
PERSONAL.

B.F. Aver OF Chicago is guest at the Palace
Hotel.
w. S. Leake, Postmaster OF Sacramento, is at
the Palace.
Joseph D. Strong, the artist, has returned
from Fresno.
J.F. Wilson of Boston is guest at the Hotel
st. Nicholas.
Isaac Levy, merchant, of Lower Lake, is at
the Lick House.
George Allen Hopkins of New York is regis
tered at the Palace.
C. P Smith, Supervisor of Mendocino County,
is at the Russ House.
Dr. Joseph Williams of Boston registered at
the Palace yesterday.
George w. King, a me reliant of Los Angeles,
is guest at the Russ House.
DR.. ]. R. Cromwell, Washington, D. O., is a
guest at the Occidental Hotel.
A. Montgomery, manufacturer, Boston, Mass,
is registered at the Russ House.
Milton Mobiles of Brooklyn, N. Y, registered
at the Occidental Hotel yesterday.
William NJ. Kennedy, capitalist, of Wynne,
Ark, is a guest at the Russ House.
A. J. Smith, q prominent mining man of
Alaska, is stopping at the Russ House.
Dr. NJ. F. Cuthbert, Washington, D. c., regis
tered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday.
J. C. Campbell, a mining man of Browns
Ferry, is stopping at the Grand Hotel.
Victor L. Gerster, prominent cofee-planter
of Guatemala, is guest at the Lick House.
D. H. Mercer, member of Congress from Ne
braska, is soiournlng at the Hotter st. Nicholas.
W. R. Clark of Stockton, Railroad Com
missioner, registered at the Baldwin yesterday.
Jack Wright, division superintendent of the
Southern Pacific, was at the Palace last even
ing.
Colonel J. McNasser, a real estate man of
Sacramento, registered at the Russ House yes
terday.
H. Block of Redwood City, superintendent of
the Moses Hopkins ranches, is guest at the
Grand Hotel.
A. Markham, well-known lumberman of
Santa Rosa, was among the guests registered at
the Lick House yesterday.
Count des Gareto Quizos of Paris Is guest at
the Palace Hotel. He is interested in patented
process for separating ores.
Russell A. Alger Jr. of Detroit registered at
the Palace Hotel yesterday. He is son of ex-
Governor Alger of Michigan, owner of large
tracts OF timber land in California.
State Senator J. NJ. Gleaves of Shasta County
arrived in the City yesterday and registered at
the Grand. Mr.. Gleaves is holdover Re-
publican and will occupy place in the next
Senate.
John Bradbury and wife registered at the
Palace Hotel yesterday, Mr.. Bradbury re-
Gently returned from a speedy trip around the
world. He did not break the record for speed,
but made good time for his first run on the
course.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
Hunting fer His SON

Andrew Spooner OF Cincinnati, Ohio, arrived
in this City recently and at once requested the
assistance of the officers of the Society for the
prevention of Cruelty to Children in finding
ms wife, Effie, and their sixiyear-old boy AL
bert He said that about six weeks ago Mrs.
Spooner lett her home with the child and came
to San Francisco. He has learned that the
woman Is not leading life that he approves
OF and he desires to secure the boy before the
little fellow can be influenced by his surround
lsngs. The society will help Spooner. Mrs.
Spooner's maiden name was Brett
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
AGAINST THE BICYCLE.

The refusal of the Oakland Council to
grant the request made by the Chief of
Police to mount certain officers on bicycles
instead of horses has discouraged the
Police Department of that city. The
Chief declares that bicycles are more con-
venient and efficient than horses. The
objection made by the Council was that
the cost of repairing bicycles is too great.
This sounds amusing in view of the fact
that some of the armies of Europe have
adopted the machine for the mounting of
corps engaged in certain kinds OF service
If it is true that the cost of repairing
bicycle is so great then the machine has
developed radical defect. This evidently
is because the demand for light machines
has forced manufacturers to construct
them on too fragile lines. Had the Oak
land Council taken the trouble it might
have ascertained that the machine used
in the army is heavier and stronger than
that employed by amateur wheelmen, and
that in any event manufacturer could be
easily found who will undertake to con-
struct durable wheel for police use. The
experience of most amateur wheelmen is
that the cost of maintaining bicycle need
be no greater than that of keeping horse.
1t should be remembered, however, that
the amateur use of wheel is very different
from the hard service required of it at the
hands of policeman or soldier.
Certainly the bicycle should be far more
useful to mounted policemen than a horse.
Its noiselessness is a peculiarly strong
recommendation, to Say nothing of its
sufficient speed and the celebrity with
which it may be mounted and dismounted.
In a level city like Oakland there seems to
be every good reason why strong bicycles
should be superior to horses for this pur-
pose.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
MADE OVER $1,000,

The Official Returns of the Fair Show
a Good Balance.
The board of directors of the Industrial
Exposition met last night at the Pavilion.
The total expenses for conducting the
fair were estimated at $4,000; the exact
total receipts were 1913, 4O3.
The matter of awarding the medals was
referred to committee of management,
which will meet next Thursday night at
the Pavilion and review all reports OF the
previous committees and ascertain the
average percentages.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
cAL1roRN1ANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept 17.-Californians
at the hotels: San Francisco-Mrs. G. Patter-
son, Metropole; S. III. Selano, Imperial; W. I.
Smith, Grand; Miss Mead, Sturtevant; L. D.
Owens, Hoffman,; w. ]. Dutton, Astor; w.
Feirbeck, Stewart. Los Angeles-Mr. and Mrs
G. w. Baker, Mrs. W. Baker, Astor; Miss NJ. A.
Jordan, st. Denis. Oakland-W. D. Cation,
Netherland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
CALIFORNIANS IN UTAH.

SALT LAKE, UTAH, Sept. 17.-At the Temple
ton-Mrs. Isabel A. Smith, A. L. Wymen, Mr..
and Mrs. 4. E. Norton, San Francisco; C. NJ.
Henderson, Pasadena. At the Cullen-W. A.
Cooper, Los Angeles. At the Knutsford-Mr
and Mrs. 8. A. Mcdonnell, George II. Young,
A. W. Somerfield, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

B. Bennett to sell for $1,000 her equity in q
$4,000 piece of real estate, the mortgage being
$4,000. Bennett transferred the deed to his
sister-in-law, Julia Haag, and received the
$1,000 from the latter. He paid no money to
Miss SIZZLING and has not been seen since.
Judge Hebbard yesterday gave the servant girl
Judgment for the full amount against Bennett,
but he granted q motion for nonsuit in the
case against Benefits sister-in-law.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
+" MRS. Winslow's Soothing syrup"

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"
Has been used over fifty years by millions OF moth.
ers for their children while Teethiug with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child softehs the gums al
lays Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether
arising from teething or other causes For sale by
Druggists in every part Of the world Be sure and
ask for AIRS. Winslow's Soothing Syrup 400
bottle
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
MENU FOR THURSDAY. SEPT. 10.

BRAkFAb
Fruit
Wheat Granules, Milk
Omelet Toast
Coffee
LUNCH.
Corn Oysters Milk Biscuits
Sliced Tomatoes.
Fruit
DINNER.
Cream of Pototo Soup
Broied Chops, Brown Sauce
Lima Beans Stewed Turnips
Mayonnaise of Tomatoes
Waters
Apple Pudding, with Cream
Coffee
Household News,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The maintenance of the law is the first
step toward municipal reform.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

Advertising home goods is the only way
to invite people to the home market.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

There must have been good deal of
truth plainly stated in the paper on "Poli-
tics and Crime" read by Professor Warner
of Stanford before the Prison Congress, for
it is said to have caused a, sensation and
been vigorously disputed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
MoLAssEs Buttercups, Csc lb. Townsend'ss
BACON Printing Company, sos Clay street..
swindled Out of Her Property.

TYPOGRAPHICAL elocution. Making the types
speak! The Roberts Printing Co., 220 Suffer. =
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

If Chattanooga is wise she will take a
city census while the Chickamauga cele-
bration is with her.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18
IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Sept. ITO. ]. Wan
nick and wife, San Francisco, Ebbitt House
L. r. Hardesty, Los Angeles, The shoreham.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

HOOPS sarsaparllla cures dyspepsia, scrofula and
salt rheum, and by vitalizing the blood strength
the system TO resist the bad effects Of the vary
ing temperature Of the fall season.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The fight against the corrupting power
of the monopoly will be long and hard, but
it can be won in the end.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

One advantage to Spokane in her double
set of policemen is that one set viii keep
the other set swaka at night.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

China promises to reform and Turkey
promises to reform, but the Solid Eight
stays where it stuck.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The adjournment of Parliament has in
tensifed the silly season in England, and
the prevailing discussion at present is
"What is the proper age for lover"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

There is prospect that the biggest issue
of the next campaign will be over the
question of retiring greenbacks.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

If the Republicans carry Kentucky and
Maryland the Democrats will hardly
trouble themselves to hunt any longer for
candidate for '96.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The sight of eight forfeited seats on the
Board of Supervisors would comfort the
people nightly just now.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

1t may turn out to have been themselves
the Solid Eight gave away on Monday
night.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The only noise in the world that the
South Carolina Constitutional Convention
has made so far was a threat of free fight
on the floor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The vigorous foreign policy has begun
to show itself. Two gunboats will make
demonstration of it at Ku Cheng.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

We expected our wine exhibit to take the
Atlanta folks, but it seems they were too
early for US and took it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The powers would divide Turkey at
once if only they were sure there would be
enough of it to go around.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The best way to call Dunraven's bluff is
to send the Defender to British waters and
give him a trial over there.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

You get all the essential details of the
Durrant case in our reports without any
of what Falstaff called the "damnable
iterationsn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

Sport is speedy, but trade keeps up with
it; there is already a Defender souvenir
spoon on the market.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

It may be true that the America cup
cost only $3.50, but the interest taken in it
all these years has made it very costly by
this time.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The San Bernardino fiesta was a bull
frolic, but no fight.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

1t is now asserted, and with considerable
show of reason, that it is the competition
of the Sunday newspaper that has forced
the publication of cheap editions of stand
ard books
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

County fairs and festas are the life Of
the State.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The surest way to bring other manufac-
tories to San Francisco is to render pros
porous those we already have; and the
best way to do that is to make home
market for them
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

If the law stands the Solid Eight must go.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The reported discovery of rich gold fields
in Ontario may have some effect in divert
ing the mining capital of London and Paris
from Africa to this continent, and then it
will come our way.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

Platt's victory in New York, like that of
Quay in Pennsylvania, is a triumph of
organized Republicanism over the faction
fighters, and will be hailed with gratifca-
ton all over the Union.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

The recent statement by DR.. Paul Gibier
before the Medico-Legal Congress that a
criminal by pricking his intended victims
with pin containing few deadly bacilli
on the point could kill them and leave no
trace of crime has put horrible sugges-
ton in the minds of the vicious and it
viii not be long before some of them will
try it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

If the tariff proves dull and silver ceases
to divide the people, there will be good
enough issue for the Republicans in 1895
in the desire of the people to wallop the
Cleveland Democracy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18

Bryan of Nebraska will find a cordial
welcome in this City. Republicans will
join with Democrats in doing honor to his
splendid talents as an orator and his ster-
ling services in the cause of bimetallism.