The San Francisco call., 1898-07-31
DECEPTION IS
 RECOMMENDED Wells = Fargo's Disloyal Request of The Call. TO EVADE PAYING THE TAX SUGGESTION THAT ALL COPIES BE PLACED IN oNG BUNDLE. This Paper Will Compel the Express Company to Do Its Duty
 at All Haz-
 ards.
SUGGESTION THAT ALL COPIES
 BE PLACED IN oN-G BUNDLE.

Wells. Fargo & Go. is going through series of distressful contortions in its unpatriotic efforts to evade payment of the war tax. After having insisted that its patrons shall pay the tax when the law says that the cor poration must pay it. it is now prepar- ing soft place upon which to fall when the courts shall force this recall citrant company to do it's duty ana obey the law. Yesterday the company sent an official around to The Call busi- ness office with the following notice:
 Commencing August l Wells, Fargo & Co. will issue a receipt for each bundle or package or newspapers delivered to them for transportation, and to each receipt a one-cent "I. R." stamp will be attached and cancelled, for which the shipper must pay. Any number of bundles or packages, regardless of thelr size or destination, may be made into one gen ceipt and stamp will be required
 To avoid delay at time of shipping, Wells, Fargo X Co. propose to count the the tally to make out the receipts al their earliest convenience, and at the end of each week to deliver same to the ship pers and collect for stamps.
 Provided, that but one bill of lading shall be required on bundles or packages for newspapers when inclosed in one gen. eral bundle at the time of shipment
 In other words, the company wishes The Call to assist it in defrauding the Government out of it's dues by sending The Calls whole edition in bundle as big as a house and to accept from the company one bill of lading for the whole with a 1-cent stamp-even this cent to be paid by the newspaper. When Manager Doyle was asked for an explanation of this proposition he replied that the wording of the proviso relating to newspapers admitted of this interpretation, and that newspaper bundles designed to be sent to Alaska, Mexico, Los Angeles, Siskiyou and Sac ramento could be covered with a big sheet of tarpaulin and tied around with rope. This would make one bundle, he ingeniously explained, and there would be only 1 cent to pay, don't you see?
 The Call will not enter into such a dishonorable arrangement or conspir- acy with the express company to de fraud the Government of a war tax which should be paid honestly, cheer fully and not be evaded. It proposes to mail it's copies for San Diego In one bundle and it's mail for Fresno in an other and so on, with the bundles de- signed for every town wherever the paper may go, and to demand a bill of lading upon each and every one of the packages, as is provided by the law It proposes also to make the express com pany pay the tax, for that is what the law says and what the courts have de- cided that 1t says and means If 1t should happen that the shipper must pay 1t The Call will produce the money and the stamps willingly and cheer fully. Because Wells, Fargo & Co., desire to shirk -sponsibility The Call does not propose to be placed in the same category.
 This is the stand The Call has taken from the first, and 1t will adhere to it to the last What we said editorially on May 1 of this year we repeat to- day. Here is the article in full: