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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

GOOD GOVERNMENT.

penalties The principle Of legal responsibility for
official acts is valuable one and wonder that it has
not been more resorted to. 1t has been the fashion
recently to at reformers who resort to- legal
remedies for Ills of this nature and one hears many
announcements to the impossbility of improving
anything by law. It is indeed impossible to accom-
plish anything by ignorant corrupt legislation
too much of is. But there are numerous and
striking instances of the effectiveness Of wedrect
ed legal action. A few lines in the constitution
practically destroyed the business of gambling in
mining stocks. The English corrupt practices acts
reduced a minimum bribery in elections which
viousy prevailed to a scandalous extent The Aus
traan ballot law rendered the ballot effective in the
hands of the employees OF large concerns. Legal
right kind effective enough and it
would not be difficult to draft law which would
prevent combinations between the Mayor and the
Councilmen
Theoretical considerations, therefore, in favor
of government by large Council Practical expert
confirms this. With the exception of the size or
the body the form of government is essentially the
that upon which private corporations sue
cessfully conduct business of vast magnitude The
difference in the size of the Council is the result OF
difference between private and public corpora
lions. The best regulated European cities gov
erned in this way and the real Government of the
British empire is upon much the same lines
But even this form of municipal government
would require the following safeguards, viz First
effective limitation upon the power of taxation;
second an effective upon the to
tract Indebtedness in of the revenue provided
except upon a vote of two-thirds of the electors;
third. rigid system Of civil service rules; fourth,
summary legal for the removal of officials at
the suit of any taxpayer for plain violation of official
duty; fifth want of power to pass any unreasonable
ordinance-the question of reasonableness being for
the courts SIXTH disposal of all public franchises and
privileges letting of all contracts the high
est responsible bidder under conditions the re-
cipent to be responsible not only to the city but to
any private person injured by his action; seventh.
referendum (not intiative) to any particular
measure under proper conditions.
ROBERT Y HAYNE.
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CTV HE dawning California brings its
duties well it's rewards. That the
O prosperity is coming, the signs of the times
portend. Whether it will be but passing revival
permanent blessing depends the people of the
State. AS the undisputed metropolis of California,
Francisco ought to share foremost in the general
welfare of the State. The development of the mines
the cultivation of the soil and transportation by land
look largely to this city for their CAPT.
support. Francisco in turn will look the
increased population and settlement of the
foster enlarge her commerce and industries.
The supreme natural location of San Francisco has
ulled citizens a fearful disregard o
their duties responsibilities. enjoying
no such natural advantages forge
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for supremacy Neither location climate
ates municipal superiority
To retain her high rank the queen city Of the
West, the people of San Francisco
sacred duties. Other cities bidding strongly
prize The united efforts of their inhabitants may
what the dsjonted strifes of people will lose.
unity there is strength" The duty therefore of
the citizens of San Francisco is to join hands
march shoulder to shoulder the
city's advancement. Nine hundred and twenty
firms linked together by the liberal ties the
chants Association nucleus for nvincible
ton. Let the citizens of San Francisco unite
them aside all partisan and class feelings a
unit advance the highest interests of metropolis
]. RICHARD FREUD.
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control her. San Francisco is notorious offender in
this respect The crimping institutions of port
the climax Of all that is degrading to the skill
aity of Our treatment of the seaman is
byword in the mouths of students and travellers and
renorse in the hearts of citizens.
While the commercial interests organizing let
them not forget this necessary of their creed that
the interests of the productive factor de-
mand consideration before those the purely sponging
element. 1t will always be found that maritime
premacy is co-existent with maritime spirit in the
whole people-in other words with for
by the people who live shore. San Francisco
needs to deal earnestly and theoretically this
question-not from the standpoint charity ma
tional prosperity. WALTER MACARTHUR.
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CALIFORNIA; sEABoARD is HER GREATEST SAFEGUARD.

VIZ HAT San Francisco needs is to be awakened to
w her potentiaites. Too many of her people ad-
here to the habits of thought that grew UP in the
wilderness
In considering San Francisco a seaport an i'm
portant correlatve is the seaman What
and future OF our seamen? 1 of those believe
that this question has important bearing upon every
phase of maritime discussion. There few, if any,
pursuits in which the quality OF the
essential part yet which has been unformly-I
might say Observation-Disclosures msdirected The
ship builder is careful quality of
workmanship in the business of construction yet
the completed craft is sent forth her native
ment, she is frequently and indeed generally lacking
in the genius of good seamanshp that should guide
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19

cTV HE great need of the city is good government.
The government of most American cities is bad.
i Their charters have been framed upon State and
Federal models, and their leading principle separa
ton into independent departments The justification
for this in the State and Federal governments the
danger of tyranny This danger does exist in
ncipal governments because they limited pow
ers But in their the principle has been only
applied but carried to extremes. officials elected
fixed terms and are not accountable to anybody The
accountability TO the good natured forgetfu public
at best remote and contingent but ap-
plicaton where the officer does reelection.
Our present system is bad owing to an utter
lack of unity of operation among the different
place the power in the hands Of a large Council,
the people and which would act through Mayor
and committees selected from the Counclmen to ex-
ercse their functions long they had the conf
dence of the Council AS this Council would have
through its representatives supreme control unity of
operation would result accountability of every
official to 1t, its representatives would insure eff
cheney of operation Of Zach part In that respect
1t would be at least equal the single officer plan.
In other respects it would be better because there
would not be the same temptation to sef-aggran-
dlzement The size OF the Council would prevent
this There would not be enough governorships SEN
atorships and other pums to go round Moreover
the Council would not be subject to outside infu-
ences 1t is more difficult and expensive to handle
large body of men than single man. If Congress
had consisted of only member Mr. Huntington
would probably have got his funding bill through
But it will be objected that the plan would re-
suit in combination between the Mayor and a ring
in the Council. But there remedies for this The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-19
OCEAN TRADE WILL YET YIELD
CALIFORNIA; BEST HARVEST


learnt
circulate
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greatest temptations to such a combi-
nation are the patronage and disposal
of public franchises and privileges. The
former could be removed by a rigid
system Of civil service rules, the latter
by requirement of sale to the highest
bidder after proper notice. And the re-
m oval Of the chief temptations
could be supplemented by the i'm
position Of certain legal pains and
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Italian, French and 3 American lido not Il
n overlook these % AmercansO, and that they carried
A away grain products alone valued $12191 upon
M which the freight paid support British ship
M yards at least 100000 this upon only one
- class OF products exported and for only five
months OF the These figures be yery &
I largely increased Cat least doubled) add the
freghts paid to foreign vessels the year on
N other exports And the imports the same story
w applies, with the single exception of such come
81 from the Hawaiian Islands, these being carried
IN principally in California owned vessels.
N This proportion applies generally to the entire
~ United States well California but when we
Al consider that the traffic largely fos-
III tered and managed by the States bordering the
M oceans by of the great of Atlantic and
I'D racine, and that the responsibility Pacific
~ trade rests at present almost exclusively on San
} that California will be chiefly con-
col unuance OF the foreign supremacy home
SI5 made and homeowned Pacific merchant ma.
A rine engaged in the foreign carrying True
xE3 In the coasting or domestic merchant marine we
SUI have factor of which may be proud this is
~ mainly engaged in carrying productions
~ other, between the ports of the valua
sd BILE and important exerting good upon
~ the otherwise an-powerful railroad monopoles
SN whose motto is and has been, IAN traffic
80 will bear" But need give no especial
"a anxiety regarding the coasng marine,
Sd wants at Washington have cared for that a gen
sd eral by protecting it from the consuming compe-
W. tton of cheap foreign labor by requiring that
"A all vessels engaged in this business Amer
81 built
Cd But as State encourage both domestic
$50 and foreign going American shipping by removing
80 the unwise burdens levied by law. duty to
ysSs posterity should be strong in making
S2H California leading maritime State.
~ cHAs E. NAYLoR.
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terprsing fruit grower, a university graduate who
in attendance at the late convention, to me.
Methods which year ago we thought practically
perfect, have since abandoned for still pro-
gressive methods The world never before saw" he
continued such rapid changes in the fruit industry
daily being made by wide awake and up
date fruit growers in the direction of higher, bet
ter and more economic modes of production"
1t should not be forgotten that however much
country may produce, unless it place that pro-
duce outside, it will ultimately suffer from
production The demand for markets cannot,
therefore, be repeated too often 1t be said that
in them lies our States salvation.
California has not only the soil and the climate.
such as few other spots the globe boast of,
but she has what is fully valuable; people with
to make the of the bountiful resources with
which a kind Providence has so generously blessed
her. We should keenly realize, however, that one
Of CALIFORNIA; great needs at this time is the broad
ening and developing of her markets. The world
a market is yet before Careful inquiry and in
vestgation has developed the fact that there
untold mutitudes of consumers in the densey pop
ulated countries of Europe ready and willing; aye!
eager to eat fruits, to fair price for them,
and thus confer a blessing upon US and them
selves.
Let us, then, call upon the brains, the energy
and the enterprise of the State to devote a share
of their thought their effort and their to the
exploiting of the great world markets for the sale
of the products of vast orchards and vineyards,
so that will hasten the day when magnificent
State will be still greater blessing to the nations
of earth, and may richly support within her
borders added millions Of happy, Industrious peo-
pie. II. WEINSTOCK
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THE DEMAND OF THE HOUR
NEW MARKETS IN OUR STATE

n wthh o o-day IS
~ il its tinf
b. clear
creased disposal o m III the wondas its
made
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-23

volumes of graceful and deep-hearted
oetry: "On the Road HJm9 ,""Little
Knights and Ladies'" and Home
Fairies and Heart Lowers She has
long been a prominent worker in the
Woman's movement for higher cul-
ture and freer opportunities, and yet
has always stanchly opposed those eX-
tremes of opinion and practice which
would rob women Of their own partic-
ular birthright of feminity. In the
pages of Harper's Bazaar she has re-,
Gently opened a department. devoted
to Women's Clubs; and her visit to the
South will afford an opportunity OF
renewing her old acquaintances and
securing new ones, and thus draw
herself and all the leaders of higher
culture into closer and more practical
relation. She will extend her trip to
Louisville, in order to be present. at a
Drawing-room Meeting; to Lynch
burg, where the object of her visit is
social; and to Knoxville, where she
will be the guest CT the city at the
forthcoming Carnival.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-23

Charles E. Osgood, of Boston. the
owner of the largest and most success
full furniture business IN New Eng
land, if not in the country, was one of
the few large buyers among furniture
dealers during the hard times of last
year, who did a great business. always
paying cash, moving on as II times
were good, while rival concerns were
going to pieces right and left all about.
His credit from Michigan To Maine
became so con%spicuously "solid" that
he was one Of the most talked of
young men in commercial circles.
With limited means, but well bred,
full of character. straightforward, and
well-educated, he started In business
only a few years ago in a very moder'
ate way in a little store On fremont
street in Boston. The city began to
know him quickly. His business
rapidly assumed big proportions GA
newspaper one day interviewed him
In the column of "Men Worth Know
ing
ITO what do you attribute your
s~uccess?" asked the interviewer.
Mr.. Osgood replied very shortly;
"When in doubt, buy the best goods >
He is known everywhere today by
that expression
Work told on Mr.. Osgood's health.
With characteristic judgement he
put his reliance upon natures best
remedy to make him we'll again. The
best of medical treatment was at his
disposal; there certainly was no physic'
ian that a nan in his position could
not e nploy. He got the right ADVICE,
and followed it. Today he is per-
fectly we'll, good tempered, aggressive
and energetic to the last degree.
In a letter to the proprletors OF
Paine's celery compound, written
Sept. %, 1897, Mr.. OsgoOd said:
81 have derived great benefit from
the use of Paine's celery compound,
and car unhesitatingly recommend II
for building up the system wheHIaFun
down" and tired out with worry OF
work, / first used this really great
remedy on the recommendation of a
riend whom it had cured of a fearful
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-23

case Of Insomnia, and whose wife, i
long-troubling rheumatism by the
same remedy"
Work is necessary to a healthy body
and brain; but when 1t run through
the same grooves through the twelve
months. year in and year out, the
effect is as disastrous as a fire in a
bundle of wood.
When the nervous system Is tagged
out none OF the organs of the body do
their duty; the purifying, e~XcretOry
organs do not thoroughly cleanse the
blood and the digestive and 'assimula-
tive organs keep the nerves badly
nourished.
The tired system needs help, Here
is where Paine's celery compound ac-
complishes its wonderful work. The
radical purifying of the blood and the
rapid feeding of the nerves by this
great remedy prevents the develop
ment of diseases that often Turk I'M
recognized in the system.
Every one who has taken Paine'sc eel
cry compound has noticed and re-
marked to Others It's wonderful
strengthening effect upon the entire
nervous organization and its cleans
ing action on the vltiated blood. Ii
cures the body of that nervous habit
eradicates headache, cures insomnisa
and wasting diseases, and quickly
drives out the poisonous humOrs that
cause the aches and pains of rheuma-
tism and neuralgia, For building uI
! the body against general debility poor
/ appetite and the tired lifeless feelings
that accompany 4 low nervous tone
Paine's celery compound is beyond al
question the surest, most responsible
remedy any n can use.
An ailing habit, with frequent bod
lily pains oyer the seat Of such vital or
gans as the heart, brain and kidney:
is serious and urgent. The descent
to fatal disease is easy, whenever the
! body becomes "run down." Build uI
the strength and resistance Of the
nervous and digestive systems with
Paine's celery compound, get rid OF
! unhealthy conditions Of these organs,
and get out of danger.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-23

at Is surmised that some of the
men who are carrying on the a ag-
ainst COrnmeal Ike would not furnish
any better meal than he did unless
they were watched.-From JOURNAL
of Oct. 10.
Senator /. l. Patterson, whose name
has figured so largely in the prints is
one of the most amiable and successful
of Oregon's public men From JOUR-
NAL Oct. l6.
Wonder if this n refer to one and
the same man?--Salem Independent.
The public can easily see how a mar
may be amiable in private life and sue,
cessful in public llfe,and yet be guilty
Of dishonorable transactions. We dc
not imagine that the Independent
sanctions the transactions charged by
DR., Lane against Senator Patterson,
tho the charge is eight years old, nOI
the turning down of TT. Geer, which
was so very recent. Personally one
may like Senator Patterson, yet de.
nounce his political practices and
methods.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-23

Colonel A. l.. Conger, oil ONO, who
has revolted against Hanna and Nc
Kinley, is IA republican, and a manu-
tacturer, He was formerly chairman
OF the state executive committee Of
his party. He explains his present
attitude without reserve. He says
that In 1887 Blaine told him there
was a difference between protection
and McKinleyism. The latter Blaine
interpreted as meaning that the pro-
lection given an industry you'd be
measured by the amount Of money it
would pay into the campaign fund,
Asked what effect this would have
upon the cause of protection, Blame
replied;
at makes it unpopular with the
people. Under high protection, or
class legislation, 10 per cent. OF our
people receive tine great benefits, while
80 per cent of the people pay the eX-
pense This 10 per cent. includes the
trusts of the country, while our farm
ers aud u ordinary laboring men
constitute 30 per cent. of our great
consumer ="
Conger says that all Hanna has to
do when he needs 10 replenish the
campaign fund is TO sit down and
make his drafts upon the trusts that
get exaggerated protection from
the Dlngley act. Hanna worked hard
on this act, and showed great poll
ical judgement In regard TO IL. il
really makes every man in the cOun,
try contribute indirectly to his cam
palgn fund. They may be innocent
and unwilling contributors, but they
cannot help themselves. CoBgel
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-23
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf.
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by AN
ln1amed condition of the mucous lin.
Ing of the %Enstachian Tube. When
this tube isindamed you have a rumb.
ling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness
Is the result, and unless the inflam-
NATION can be taken out and this tube
restored 10 its normal condition, hear.
ing will be destroyed forever: n'ne
cases out of ten are caused by c. earrh,
winch is nothing but an inflamed con.
dltlQn of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
Tor any case of Deafness icaused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured dy Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars: free.
+: J. CHEENY & Co, Toledo, O.
" Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-23
EDITORIAL.

Tie leading Populistic congress
man, Of Colorado, thus defines the
financial plans of his party:
Summarizing, L would say that the
Populists demand the coinage of all
gold and the silver that may come to
our minis at the ratio Of 16 to ], and
the issuance of paper certificates
thereon, in order that it may not be
necessary to circulate the metal in
specie. Ii this furnishes a sutfirient
volume of currency, then we shall
have no paper money not based on
coin. If there Is not SUFFICIENT me-
tallic money to meet the demands or
trade, and there never has been, then
we demand that sufficient paper
money be issued by the government,
receivable by it for all dues and a full
legal tender for all debts, public or
private, which may thereafter be In
Cured. This paper money shall o
be subjected to a forced redemption
in coin or any redemption, except as
the output of the mines automatically
supplant it with gold or silver coin.
If these principles are wrong, then
the Populist is wrong. If this party
is wrong, then the overwhelming ma
jOrlty of political economists have al
ways been wrong, for we are in har-
mony with the great thinkers n
writer's on governmental monetary SCI
ence. We are not in harmony with
the great bankers. They are mere
specialists in so organizing financial
systems and in so handling ready
money as to make the largest possible
private gains for themselves.
nNI,ar an no M moro for O0ln- as a
metal, than they do for silver. Gold
was first selected by them for demon
e~tiZation because with the large dis
~coveries in California and in Australia
il promised to be the more abundant
Germany and some other powers dem
onetized gold and went TO a silver
basis; but when the great silver mines
of the Hockey mountains were discov-
cred, silver promised to be the more
abundant, and by a concert OF action
among the bankers of the United
States and of Europe, wal was Waged
on silver. "DepTeciated silver" Is but
a deceptive rallying cry with which
TO divert the minds of the people from
the real issue.
The real conflict is not between
gold and silver, but between a
national currency issued and con-
trolled by the government for the
equal benefit OF all the people, aud a
tank currency issued and controlled
10y the banks by their special selfish
interests.
The bankers we'll know that gold is
so scarce that they can always keep
il cornered IN their valuts, then eX-
pand and contract their bank cur
rency lust as their interests demand,
aud thereby control the value of their
investments and the destiny Of the
world in their interests.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-23

thinks the title Of the act should
have"An act to levy duties aud create
an enormous corruption fund"
Conger argucs'that M'Kinleyism and
Hannaism are opposed to the welfare
of all who toll. He says: "There is
Just as much reason why the Amer
lean farmers should receive 10 cents a
bushel bounty on all wheat exported
as There is in bestOwing a bonus OF
sI5.O 600, 900 on the tin plate manu-
f~acturers of Ameria, or in causing the
farmers to pay millions to the leather
trusts"
Conger's plan Of action is to vote
the Republican state ticket and the
Democratic legislative ticket, so asto
defeat Hanna's reelection to the
senate. Whether he is sincere, or
whether he is only representing For.
aker's secret tactics. his talk is
straight and strong and sound.