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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
IMPROVING THE WATER.

The Arqonaot, an able and worthy jour
nal, has done The CALL an injustice. 1t
charges us of being engaged in crusade
against the water supply OF San Fran
cisco"
During the past week THE CALL did pub
hsh criticisms rejecting somewhat on the
management of the water company. Its
charges. however. were direct and specific.
We gave the names OF the parties who
complained and located the section in the
City where the evil was said to exist.
The complaint was made by honorable
gentlemen. Pure motives actuated them
and THE CALL also. The evil does
exist; the cause can he easily removed.
We are informed at this writing that the
water company is making all haste
to cure the defects in its system as
pointed out by the interviews in THE CALL.
When the proper improvements have been
made THE CALL will note the fact and will
make generous publicity of the good
deeds of the water company. We made
our charges direct and positive: moreover,
the charges were truthful and good mo-
tives caused their publication. We are
not engaged in a crusade against the
water company or any other company.
We are engaged, however, in the publica-
ton OF fearless, clean and independent
newspaper.
We hope the ArgORaut win upon investi-
CATION consider the position taken by THE
CALL to be truthful and considerate. We
hope 1t Will be generally conceded that
thus far the welfare of the people has not
been forgotten nor neglected. The plain
truth has been told, and we believe the
Aygonaut will find THE CALL is possessed of
sufficient honesty and independence to do
exact justice to the water company as
well as to the people, in whose behalf the
reports in THE CALL were written.
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win and in doing SO drive rival out of the
field and secure monopoly of the bust
ness. 1t is in the abuse of its power as a
monopoly that the Southern Pacific has
done so much harm and rendered itself so
odious.
Another matter which cannot be omit
ted from consideration is the heavy reduc-
ton in its revenues which the Southern
Pacific will suffer by reason OF this
war. 1t has recently repeatedly declared
that the reductions ordered by the State
Railroad Commission would be ruinous
and that in consequence it would have to
reduce the wages of its employees. Yet, in
order to crush e rival it is doing just what
it declared it should not be compelled to
do. We may be sure that however the
present war may terminate the Southern
Pacific will secure an advantage and the
State suffer an injury.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
EDUCATE THE MOTHERS.

| The women lnasS-meeting held Sunday
struck the keynote of reform when it an
| nounced that the education of mothers
was the best protection OF daughters. Had
the wretched mothers Of the Latin Quarter
better understanding of their obligations
| TO their children the frightful crimes which
have stirred the City to its depths would
never have occurred.
! 1t is almost impossible for human nature
| to have an elastic and adjustable point of
view. 1t is more natural to damn the
| depraved than to seek an understanding
| Of their depravlty and provide remedies for
| its cure. The prevalence of immortality is
far greater reproach to the enlightened
members of the community than to the
| depraved themselves. For in great part
! these evils are the product OF ignorance,
| and such ignorance would not be possible
if those charged with the duty of teaching
! did their whole duty.
| We need not be surprised if the coming
trials develop system OF traffic of which
| the members of the potter circles of society
can form no conception. OF course, pa
rental connivance would be no condone-
ment Of the crimes, but its discovery, if it
exist, would disclose an immeasurably
darker and deeper form of depravity than
the one charged against those under arrest,
and would impose a sterner and more IN
relenting obligation on the Intelligent
members OF society. To condemn parents
| for unfolding this traffic in their children
would be deplorable and dangerous shift
ing of the responsibility of those whose
duty it is to direct the moral tone of the
community.
The enlightened mothers of San Fran
cisco seem at last to appreciate the re-
sponsibiliGy which they owe to their less
| fortunate sisters in maternity, to them
selves and their own daughters, to the
| community at large and to humanity in
general. To uplift and inspire these sod
| den and sordid ones is duty calling for
exercise with an imperious demand. In
its discharge there will be required deli
cacy, a sympathy, tenderness, patience
and, above all, charity of the highest and
most unfailing kind.
| And as community, like the individual,
has the right of self-protection, it might be
profitable to inquire how many of these
mothers were born on American soil,
| whence they came, to what extent they
| have been able to appreciate and avail
| themselves of the influences OF American
| civilization, and in what measure, if at all,
| they, as aliens to these influences, stand as
| a menace to the security of American in
stitutions. The subject, in all it's aspects,
| is broad and deep, and it is believed that
| the wisdom (Which means the morality of
| the mothers of San Francisco will be able
| to handle it ably and intelligently
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
TYPE SET By HAND

San Francisco Typographical Union has
made arrangements with Mr.. Shortridge to
dispense with the use of type-setting machines
on The CALL for year and half This means
employment for about hundred printers who
would be thrown out if the machines were
introduced. When the Examiner put in the
machines it stated that they would not de-
crease the number of employees. but it did.
Fully hundred printers were thrown out. A
like number were displaced by the machines
on the Chronicle and the effect was the same
on oil the evening papers, and as a result the
newspaper printers were all compelled to quit
the business, leave the town or crowd into THE
CALL office. Mr., Shortridge's treatment of the
printers is appreciated by organized labor gen.
orally, and it is safe to predict that the few
dollars extra it costs to set the paper by hand
will be more than made good by the increased
popularity of the paper.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
LUCK IN NEW ZEALAND.
Auckland Newa

At recent ballot for sections on the Awarua
block, in the North Island, four members of
one family had sent in separate applications
for particular section, which large number
OF other persons were anxious to secure The
first name drawn out of the ballot-box was
that OF the head of the family, but as he was
not present to pay the first half-year's rent an
other drawing took place, with the result tha
the name of another member of the family
turned up This applicant was also absent,
and again the ballot-box was turned round
AT the third drawing the name of another
member OF the family appeared, and as he did
not attend a fourth ballot was taken, when,
strange to relate, the name of the remaining
member OF the family was drawn. He also was
absent, and eventually the section was secured
by another applicant
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
A MOTHERS. VOICE.

To the Editor Of the San Francisco Cdlt-SIR:
The subjoined protest, which hope you will
publish, is written merely from standpoint
OF justice or good sense.
have not been at the Durrant trial, nor ex-
pect to be at any other, as am busy mother
of a family. whose time is pretty nearly occu-
pied with private affairs.
Save occasional writing ] am not occupied
with public affairs, though take keen in
terest in all of them.
PROTEST.
AS progressive paper whose ultimate aim is
the good OF humanity, it is to be hoped that
you VIII uphold the mothers public right In
TINS City to act the part of humane parents. In
the case OF the moral murders committed here
among children, and recently brought to light,
passive endurance is criminal carelessness,
ana would brand every woman with moral
obloquy who consented to the same.
Inc law OF the land rates the passive. con-
senter as partner in the crime. Where is the
consistency then, in withholding the right of
acu0n, without which knowledge becomes
worthless and lapses into insensible indiffer-
ence ? 'Closed doors" in such an instance
OF It's natural prerogative OF yielding that
moral ala and support which has ever been
duty.
The consequences OF evil have ever been
more severely felt by women than by men
then what burlesque it is to say that the de-
tails OF these crimes are too revolving for their
delicate ears.
True modesty does not lie in prudish squeam-
lsnness or Ignorance, but in fearless innocence.
Men ana women are nerved to heroic action
by etort.not ease. The poorest atom of hui
mainly kindles into heroism while sharing a
responsibility and proving capacity by active
service. Alndle such spirit in all hearts
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
NOTED PERSONS.

On the last Of October the King OF Portugal
paid visit IN state to Queen Victoria and the
Prince of Wales. The King wants to borrow q
large sum of money.
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr has lived for so long in
America that many persons have come to
regard her as an American woman. She is g.
north of England woman.
Ex-United States Senator George F. Edmunds
Of Vermont has taken up his residence in
Philadelphia. He calls it 'the typical Ameri-
can city of this great country"
Hon. John Lowell of Boston has been elected
by the Peabody fund trustees as president, to
take the place of the late Hon. K. C. Winthrop.
1t is a notable but just tribute to ex-Judge
Lowell.
R. E. Peary, the explorer, is in New York
The writing of his book, which will tell the
story OF his entire work in the Arctic regions,
will occupy most of his time until he resumes
his duties in the engineer corps of the navy.
Its announced that according to the will of
the late H. o. Houghton, his interest in the
publishing firm of Houghton. Miffin & Co. is
to continue, and each of his children is to share
alike the profits. Ten thousand dollars is
given in trust to each of his three daughters,
the earnings of which they are to devote to the
benefit of the s'worthy poor" OF mbridge.
At their death their descendants are to carry
on the work forever. The remainder OF his
property is equally divided among his chill
dren.
Rev. Richard Roberts, ex-president of the
English Wesleyan Conference, has preached, it
is calculated, during forty-three years of his
active ministry, IL ,438 times, or 266 times per
annum, giving an average of over five times a
week. During thirty of these years he travelled
on an average of Is, 900 miles a year. This
does not take into account the vast amount of
preaching and travelling done during the later
years of his retirement. Mr.. Roberts is ~ years
of age, and still possesses the most buoyant
spirits.
By the recent death of General o. M. Poe of
the United States Corps OF Engineers, at Saulte
Ste. Marie, Mich. the country has lost a very
accomplished engineer. He was graduated
from West Point in 1856. He won seven
brevets and promotion by his gallantry and
skill during the war, being one of Sherman's
generals during the last year of the struggle.
For some years he has had charge of the new
lock under construction at the "Soo"-one of
the largest in the world, to cost about 81 ,0O0,-
600. This remarkable achieyemenI-to be
completed in year-will be his best monu-
ment. His death was the result of an accident
which befell him while he was inspecting the
lock.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
SIDELIGHTS ON SHERMAN.
philadelphia Item,

One of the most interesting chapters in Sem
ator Shermans book is that which relates to
the bond-selling when he was Secretary of the
Treasury. He says he found a contract exist
ing for the sale of bonds which "gave a
monopoly to the syndicate" and he immedi-
ately gave notice of change in that respect
The result of this action on his part, he points
brief period was able to terminate the con-
tract according to its terms, and to sell the 4
per cent bonds directly to the people at par,
without commission or the aid OF q syndi-
cate.''
1t is hardly necessary to specify the marked
difference between Senator Sherman's plan and
the recent exhibitions given by the Cleveland
administration
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
TOM MooRE's COTTAGE.

Margaret NJ. Halvey, in Donahoe's Magazine.
The cottage which is accepted by many as
having been Moore's temporary abiding-place
in Philadelphia ranks now as one of the MANY
attractions of the magnificent park which in
Its rapid growth has absorbed much of the
cltys historical ground. Some of the famous
buildings 1T contains, such as Grants Cabin, :,
which was originally the generals headquar-
tiers at City Point, Va, and "Letitia House, y
the old-time residence OF William Penn. have
been moved hither for purposes of preserya-
ton, but ''Tom Moore's Cottage" stands un-
altered since the days when aalone by the
Schuylkill wanderer roved' and the "flowery
banks" found favor in his eyes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
FREE TRADE CAUSED STRIKES.

The Commissioner of Labor has just COM
pleted q report upon strikes the period COW
cred being from 1881 to June so, 1894. Sum-
marizing briefly the results of recent years,
l891-94 we have the following results:
Number Employees
OF strikes. made idle.
1892, "a mont his. ........... 30l6 sos, 735
1864, Is months. ......... 22Ol 747,SS0
WAGE LOSS OF EMPLOYEES.
Strikes. Lockouts. Total.
,s @onsns ssaS,574,sss ss7ss,7sa sas,sl4o6s
months. 3s,l76,519 7,1l6,632 45,2s3, ISL
LOSS TO EMPLOYERS.
Strikes. Lockouts Total.
months. s. j, 322,s7s 1891, 1858 SIS, 1894, CAT
1S93-94, Is
months. 1s,s63.s61 1,63o9o4 2o,5s4, 265
During the years 1891 and 1892 the countr y
was under an administration favorable to pro-
lection. During the later period to June 80,
1894. we were afflicted with free-trade adj
min1stration Cor sixteen months and the GER
ta1nty of it during the other two months.
During the free-trade year and half there
were 242 ,245 more employees made idle by
strikes than in the two full years of protection.
During the free-trade year and half the loss
Oh Wages e tho 70 n S was $0Sa
During the free-trade year and half the loss
to employers of labor was $6,959,319 more
than in the two full years of protection.
Bringing the facts down to an average
monthly basis we have the following:
MONTHLY AVERAGES.
Protec- Free Free
tion Trade. Trade.
1898. 1S93-94. Increase
Employees made 81
idle ......-... 21,072 41,554 2o.4S2
Wage loss OF en-
pioyes 81 ,22l ,41s s2,5162s6 81, 1894, 1857
Loss to employ
ers............. 56s.l23 1,144,126 567,OO3
During the present free-trade administration
there Were 2O,482 more employees idle in every
month, through strikes or lockOuts, than dur
ing the protection period. The loss of wages
to employees was 81 ,294 1867 month more
under Mr.. Clevelands regime, and the loss to
employers was 1916, OO3 month more. Both
employers and employees have common ground,
and good reason, to oppose anything that will
ever help to restore to power an administration
favorable to free trade.-American Economist
Friday, November 49, 1895.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Nov. 1S.-Among the re.
cent arrivals are: A. Adeldorfer, S. L. Mennin-
ger, Hoffman; A. Zuckerman, Stewart; J. NJ.
Brophy, Grand Union; Mrs. ]. w. Brown, Hol-
land; Z. L. Cavanaugh, j. King, Cosmopolitan
A. b. Greenwald, Coleman; A. II. Hoadley, ].
wilson, Mrs. J. t. Fugazi, Aston; J. D. Isaacs,
f. P. Jacobs, Stewart; Fl, NJ Sherman, Park
avenue; J. r. Ward. Everett
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alike and it will subdue every difficulty, meet
every obligation and end In moral upheaval
that will elevate the whole State. Let it begin
In san francisco to-day. Where is there q bet
ter place for an example Surely by so doing
out OF evil will come great good
Failing in this let us nevermore fiaunt our
Doasted civilization; let us nevermore send
missionaries to the Orient to prevent Hindoo
mothers paying their tribute of innocent VIC
tins to tn cir sacred Ganges while this tenfold
greater evil is discussed with such privacy and
exclusion as tends to increase rather that OBJ
llterate the evil. MRS. K. A. MOSES.
4S1la Haight street, Nov. 10. 1895.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
THE LOTTERY FRAUD.
San hose Mercnru

Uncle Sam announces that he will no longer
be imposed upon by the lottery companies,
several OF which are violating the law by send
ing their matter through the mails. There
would be no lottery business done in this State
II every newspaper followed the example of
The CALL and the Mercury, which exclude all
lottery announcements from their columns.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
PHILADELPHIA Record.

Senator Sherman has a very poor opinion OF
the wisdom of General Grant as q financier.
Yet General Grant had the wisdom to veto the
100000. 600 greenback imitation bill, and
that is more than can be said for Senator Sher-
man, who was one of the supporters of that
measure in Congress. That Senator Sherman
has learned nothing and forgotten nothing in
tility to greenback redemption now, when the
greenbacks are used with such misehieyous
effect in undermining the specie basis of the
Currencv.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
New York Times.

NJ. Henri Rochefort opens the brilliant pref
ace to the Adventures OF My Life" Just be-
gunin LIE Jour, with this pertinent remark :
"To say to well-known man, you ought to
write your memoirs is a polite way of giving
him to understand that he is no longer good
for anything else" Whether any misguided
friend suggested to Senator Sherman to write
his "Recollections' or whether he made the
suggestion to himself, the Interpretation of NJ.
Rochefort seems to apply.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Relief Near at Hand.
San Jose Mercur,

san jose MtfCuTy.
mule train is in operation between Stock
ton and Fresno, and it is saving money for the
merchants. In the meanwhile the Valley Road
carry the relief that the Southern Pacific has
refused to give, and then it will no longer be
necessary to fall back on primitive methods
for hauling freight.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Here's a Tip From Oregon.
Pendleton East regonian


San Francisco is going TO capture the Repub-
lican National Convention, and Tom Reed has
cinch ON the nomina ton for President.
"From Maine to California" will be more than
q figure OF speech in few short months.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
New York sun.

Ridiculous as it sounds for the United States
at this period of their existence, We are on the
straight road to bankruptcy. The situation is
such that with Congress in Republican con-
troll, President of the opposition must accept
the revenue bill which is laid before him.
There is a deficiency i'll the National revenue,
and we must have money. 1t is condition
which confrontS US, not q theory.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Downfall of the Bean.

Salem (Or) Statesman.
The United States Supreme Court has finally
decided that beans are vegetables. At the Or
egon Penitentiary and in Boston they had be-
fore been regarded as fruit They will never
again dare assume place as dessert in the
class of the lordly prune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA FE ROUTE.

new train throughout begins October %.
Pullmans finest seeping-ears, vestibule reclining
chair cars and dinng-cars. Los Angeles to Chi
cago, via Kansas City, without change. Annex
cars on sharp connection for Denver and st.
Louis. Twentyseven hours quicker than the
quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been
put in fne physical condition and is now the best
transcontinental railway.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

THE Argonaut Whisky has been on the mar
ket great many years in bulk, but II is only
recently that it has been bottled. 1t is one OF
the brands of Kentucky Bourbon which are
famous for purity. Another staple WHISKY is
the j. f. Cutter brand of Kentucky Bourbon,
which has maintained an enviable popularity
for quarter of century. For both Z. Martin
& Co., All Market street, are Pacific Coast
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Things Have. Changed.

Salem (Or.) Statesman.
IL is said tea culture has been successfully
introduced In Arkansas We believe it would
lind encouragement now in Kentucky. The
use OF water will also grow in favor there.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
In Congenial Association
Seattle Observation-Disclosures

Seattle acknowledgement,
Mr.. Bayard, after he gets out of office, will
have as much of hankering to remain in
England as an ordinary comptroller of the cur
rency has to become the head of bank or trust
company in New York City.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Whoever in the future writes about the
period from 1855 onward will be compelled to
frequently consult Sherman's book, and to oc-
casionally draw upon it. He saw the greater
part of the political history OF the past forty
years made. he helped to make much of it,
and he tells how it happened to take the shape
1t assumed and who did the shaping.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
FROM WESTERN sANcTUMs.
Protection Will Cure These Evils
Fresno Renublican


Importatons of foreign lemons show an in
crease of from 5000 to 40 900 boxes over the
same month of last year. Lowering the tariff
on foreign fruits has given fresh impetus to
being made to regain possession of the
American market. In raisins and dried fruits
the prices of the foreign product have been
cut to a figure that makes domestic production
extremely precarious In the meantime this
country is trying the experiment. of getting
along without sufficient revenue to pay its
running expenses
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

CARTER HARRIsoN's DEATH-A. D., City.
Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, was MUIR
dered October 90 1893. P. E. ]. Prendergast,
who murdered him, was hanged in Chicago
July 10, 1894. Prisoners are not electrocuted
in the State OF Illinois.
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ONLY GOOD WORDS.

November Is, 1895.
To the Editor Of the San Francisco Calt-sIR {:
! hear only good words for THE CALL, and I
congratulate you upon the high moral stand
you have taken in its management and upon
your success. Yours truly, IRA G. HoITT.
Hoitts Oak Grove School, Burlingame, Cal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

Mrs. Frances E. Haekley of New York has
given $4,000 to the Young Mems Christian
Association of Scranton, Pa, which is supple
mental to donation of $25, 1000 which Mrs.
Haokley made TO the association some time
ago to found a manual training school.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Iowa State Register.

Mr.. Foraker was a little hasty in saying Sem
stor Sherman should have pos tponed the pub
lication OF his book until after the election.
Ohio went Republican, just as If President
the convention of 1880 had never been ques-
toned