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The Social Democracy.

The movement inaugurated by Mr.
Debs and his coadjutors Is worthy OF
great respect That it will succeed now
beyond A in the alphabet of reform Is
hardly to be expected. But it will attract
attention to the fundamental idea OF
social progress which is friendly, neigh
borly feelings among the people in their
civil and political relations.
These great reform movements are
intended eventually to apply TO people
in the larger spheres of life where an
endless variety of details are to be looked
after, and it Is in the matter OF details
that men and women do most differ. A.
community, like a sect or party, may
agree in the main about a particular
proposition while the individual men,
bers quarrel concerning details.
The aim of the Social Democracy Is
high and its projectors are moved by the
purest and best impulses. They have
undertaken to plant democratic colonies
among the people where it Is expected
good seed sown will germinate and bring
forth fruit, some thirty, some sixty,
some an hundred fold"
Of course these good people know they
are dealing with problem whose fac
tors are the various elements of human
character, and 1t is not to be doubted
that present and prevailing conditions
have had due consideration. Life IL
real, life is earnest, 1t is a struggle from
beginning to end. Quoting from The
Way Out, "the great problem OF life Is
to live. To nlnety-flve per cent. OF the
men and women horn into the world the
struggle to live is continuous from the
cradle to the grave. The first effort of
the newborn babe is for breath--to live;
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4,6S5 bids were offered and their average
was $113,693.
But we do not now need bonds at all.
In our great war among ourselves, when
we were not half as rich as we are now,
we got along well with money that we
coined with printing press at the cost
OF labor and materials, which was a
trifle over six-hundredths OF per cent.
OF the face value OF the money.
In order not to create a panic by with
drawing too much money from the chan
nels Of circulation, 1t is proposed TO issue
at one time only part OF the amount au-
thOrized-say $5O,000OO0. This will give
time for the money paid for the bonds
to get out again when another block will
be put on the market, and when the
money paid for them is again paid out
into circulation, another block will be
sold, and so on until all our bonds are
in the hands of people who make a living
out of not what they earn, but out of
what some other people earned. The
interest that the people will have to
pay on these bonds will be $4,000, 900 a
year. But 1t Is to be paid quarterly
four times a year, which gives the bond
holder nine months use OF rs per cent. of
the annual interest every year, six
months use of so per cent. Of It, which Is
to him equal to $l75,OOO a year on the
whole principal.
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It's first cry is for fOod-tO live, and after
that on, ON, on, as the minutes, the
hours, the days and weeks and months
and years come and go, the fight for lifc
continues. From the beginning to the
end it is one ceaseless effort to obtain
what we have not, one long season Of
dread lest we perish from want. Starv-
ing, starving, starving all along the way;
and endless, unsatisfied hungering an(
thirsting for something to feed upon
something to sustain the body and tn
soul"
And the Social Democracy, like all
movements for the upbuilding Of clean
and stable social structures, begins
must begin, with and among the poor
No rich man or woman ever entered
such crusade as a private In the ranks.
The object In view is 10 help the poor
The rich can take care Of themselves
And the poor means poor people, people
with human passions, ambitions and
hopes. They are just like other people
on the same level Of life The struggle
is theirs-not that OF the men and women
at the head of the column.
Every good man and every good wo
man will pray for the best possible sue.
cess Of the Social Democracy, well know
ing that whatever may be the extent OF
its development, 1t will be worth all it
costs In time and effort, for It Is an up-
ward and onward movement.
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The Proposed Bond Issue.

At the time of this writing, April 2S,
bill is pending in Congress authorizing
the issue and sale of $500, 100000 of ten
twenty 3 per cent. bonds at par, and
also, as an emergency measure, provid-
ing for the preparation, OF 500, 900 900
8 per cent. certificates Of indebtedness
payable In one year from date of issue.
Plates are being prepared for the print
ing Of the bonds and certificates.
It Is intended to offer these bonds to
the people at large on the supposition
that the people have the money and will
be glad to invest it in government bonds
Who are the people to whom the bonds
will be offered and who are the people
that will buy them?
If the bonds are to be issued 1t is well
to go through the form OF submitting
them to the people at large, even though
everybody knows that not one man or
women in thousand could raise Orspare
money enough to pay for a fifty-dOllar
bond. It will be interesting at this time
to recall the popular loan of 500, ,OOO, 900
submitted to the people in January, 1896,
and to submit some facts connected
with it.
The amount of bonds then to be sold
was $1OO.0O0,OO0 and the bids amounted
to $526, $40, ,000-mOre than five times the
amount Of the loan. These bids were all
regarded as having been made in good
faith. There were six bids in addition
to the above, amounting to $161, ,O3O, 900,
that were deemed to be spurious.
The bona fide bids, divided among the
States, show up as follows:
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Senator Teller's Memory at Fault.

~'~NSSA ANhSA y WSHNpAy NS A&hhts
The rules Of the Senate do not allow
any explanations Of votes after the roll
call has begun on yea and nay vote.
Whatever a Senator wishes to say in that
behalf he must say before the question
is finally put. However, he is mot
estopped from avaiIing himself of the
rules and the modifying unotion of the
Senate's courtesy to say whatever he
wishes to after the vote has been taken
and the result announced.
Some Senators voted against agree
ing to the conference report on the Gu
ban resolutions last week and they went
to explaining their votes the next day.
Senator Teller, as part of his explana-
tlOn, referred to a statement made by
Mr.. Hale, OF Maine, to the effect that the
President would veto any measure rec
Ognizing the independence OF the Cuban
government at that time, and said IL was
the first time in his (Teller's) long ex-
perience in the Senate that he had heard
Congress threatened with an executive
veto, or had heard the Senate threat
ened with deadlock with the House Of
Representatives.
Mr.. Teller's memory is at fault. On at
least two occasions, neither OF them very
long ago, he heard just such threats
One Of them was when he and others
were laboring to get a silver coinage
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amendment attached to the bill to repea
the purchasing clause of the Shertnal
law. The other was when the Sehati
was putting some four hundred amend
ments on the House tariff bill in 1894.
1t Is not uncommon, though Ii Is II
gross violation Of the rules of the Sen
ate as well as those OF parliamentary
law, to throw out such threats more O
less plainly as the speaker has more 0l
less respect for or knowledge OF thcsl
rules.
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In all there were 4,641 bids, six Of
them being, as was supposed, not made
In good faith, leaving 4,635 honest bids
OF these, Just sixty-four were for $50
each; that Is one bid for $50 to seventy
two bids for larger amounts. The av-
erage bid was $113,693.
The number Of accepted bids was about
$50. The largest amount given to any
one bidder was $37 7,915,S5O to ]. P. Nor
gan and associates little over three
elghths Of the entire amount. The av-
erage was S117,644.
These figures show where the bonds
go. The average man cannot buy bonds
at all. Out OF 100000 voters, and as
many adult women, in the country, on
an opportunity to buy $50 bonds, only
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Georgia POpullsts and the Bar-rOOm

ueOTBla POpWbIStS ana Ghe barSfOOms
At the recent State convention OF the
Peoples party in Georgia, plain, spe-
ciiC platform was adopted, beginning
with these two declarations:
Il. We indorse the 81. Louis platform,
20. Civilization, to say nothing of re-
ligion, has entered up judgment OF con-
demnation against barrOoms.
THE public conscience Tevolts at the
license system, which fosters the saloon
and generates its manifold evils In con-
sideratiOn of revenue that pays less than
a tithe of the public burdens 1t entails
1t Is mOnopOlistic and essentially i'm
moral. We favor the passage Of an anti
barroom bill which shall close the bar
rooms at once, which shall make secure
the local prohibition already obtained
and provide for the sale OF intoxicating
liquors, otherwise than in barroOms un-
der public control"
In that State, as in nearly II not quite
all, the old States, what we In the new
West call saloons, they call barrooms,
because under the old regime every hotel
had a bar In 1t where liquors were sold,
and the room in which the bar was kept
was known as the barroom.
The Georgia POpulists are not only
against the barrOom, but they say so in
their creed. They have learned in tina;
State what we in Kansas seem to have
forgotten, that the way to suppress the
dramshop is to suppress 1t. How neatly
and how well the proposition is stated:
Civilization, to say nothing of religion,
has entered up judgment of condemna-
tion against barrooms." And then tn
scathing rebuke to lawgivers who au-
thOrize the license system" and the
bold, manly stand of the party against
the place where the accursed business
carried: 1--WE favor the passage Of an
anti-barroOm bill which shall close the
barrOoms at once, which shall make Sc
cure the local prohibition already OBJ
tained and provide for sale of intoxica&-
Ing liquors otherwise than In barrooms,
under public CONTROL"
If the Peoples party in Kansas would
adopt policy like that and elect officers
in sympathy with 1t, the way to pOwC
and usefulness would be long open to
them.
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1t is proposed that the new bonds shall
be coin bonds, as If that were anything
new. Every bond that has been issued
since 1870-and there have been over
1850 million dollars of them, were coin
bOnds-coin of the STANDARD value OF
July IA, 1870; but the treasury officials
have uniformly construed the word coin
to mean gold coin, when silver dollars
were coin as much as were gold eagles.
That is the way the word in the new
bonds will be construed If there Is not
something done by Congress to forbid 1t.
1t is matter of very great Importance.
There Is no more need of bonds now
than there was year ago. If the gov
ernment credit Is good enough to insure
a high premium on bonds, surely 1t can
float all the treasury notes required to
purchase army supplies from its own
people.
What kind of money do they expect to
get for their coin bonds? When the
last administration was selling coin
bonds for gold it did not get One-half
the amount in gold, because, 1t was said,
there was no sense in demanding gold
when the purchasers Of the bonds would
pay for them with gold taken out OF the
treasury in redemption of gTeenbacks
and treasury notes. And when 1t was
stipulated in the contract with the syn
dicate that at least One-half of the gold
to be paid for the bonds would be
brought from abroad, an easy way OF
avoiding 1t was discovered
And so now. The money paid for these
new bonds will be the same kind Of
money that Is paid in at the custom
houses for duties on imports and in the
bonded warehouses and other places
where internal revenue is collected-gOV-
ernment paper, silver certificates and
national bank notes. (Bank notes are
receivable for internal taxes but not for
duties.) If the Secretary Of the Treas
ury insists on gold payments for the
bonds, the purchasers will only have to
present greenbacks and treasury notes
at the subtreasuries for redemption.
That will draw out gold now In the
treasury and they will then pay 1t in
again for the bonds. Hence, to save the
trouble of handing out the gold and i'm
mediately taking 1t back and gaining
nothing, the notes will be received in
the first instance, and there will not be
a dollar more money in the country than
there is now.
Let, the Secretary redeem notes now
and henceforth in silver or gold, as will
best serve the interests OF the govern
ment. That will leave him with large
fund Of gold on hand for use in case of
emergency, and If anybody undertakes
to bring on panic because of this ac-
tion, let him be imprisoned as a public
enemy until the war is over.
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Civilization and Decay .

Civilization and Decay.
Mr., Brooks Adams, In his excelleni
work ON the Law OF Civilization and De
cay, concludes that after social growth
has reached stage where acCumulatiOrl
and concentration OF wealth has collected
civil and political powers In the hands
Of few persons, decay has begun.
While his researches have doubtless
thrown much light on the subject, and
while there are some indications Of thai
condition in modern life, yet 1t would be
hard to prove that Great Britain has
reached the climax of her glory and ID
about to start downward That country
has come through all the processes that
Rome did, save one, and there are not,
evil and decaying symptoms enough
among the English people to Justify the,
application OF this rule laid down byl
Mr.. Adams.
The exception above noted is moral
and social degeneracy corrupting pOlli
tics. The political condition OF the
Roman empire was the result of social
decentralization following conquest and
the Illicit gathering of wealth. The DEF
cline and fall OF Rome proceeded as theI
public men became weak through social
vices
England's leading men are strong, and
while there Is much proRigacy In certain
"sets," the body Of the people are clean
and the government of the United King
dom was never as strong either relatively
or comparatively as 1t Is now.
Social conditions In all the great cities
Il r Al l,,oT Hn
plorably bad In spots, but these do not
in all or In most cases, denote national
decay. Take London, Paris, New York,
Chicago, and Berlin. Among these Paris
alone may be said to be at least not
growing. All the others named are
London Is better governed than ever
before. So ia Berlin, and as to our
American cities with their rapid growth
and cosmopolitan population, though
they are taxed heavily, and while there
are some unsavOry eXhalations from
their moral atmosphere they are all
growing larger, stronger and better.
Municipal reforms are going forward In
all OF them, slowly It Is true, but quite as
fast as the people are ready to adopt
them. Our people have been 80 lntently
engaged In making money that they have
grown reckless in many ways and the
speculatOF and usurer have oppressed
the people. But they do not impf1sOn a
man in Chicago for advocating the single
tax, nor is the life OF an anarchist un-
safe anywhere in the country II he be-
haves himself we'll.
With all our evil habits and with all
our wicked ways, the hearts Of the peO-
pie are clean and the lives Of the vast
majority are neither corrupt nor show
ing signs of decay. While our public
men may be no better than their prede-
cessOrs, they are no worse. We are liv-
Ing faster and the consequent Ills we
suffer, are teaching us how to treat the
diseases as they come. There has never
been as much attention given to reforms
of conceded evils as is now apparent.
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what win Be the New War SOngq

Some Of the newspapers are asking
and bidding for new war songs. The
songs will come but the best ones will
not be the first. The enthusiasm OF the
first rush to arms Is evanescent and is
soon gone Songs written during that
period are not, usually, inspiring any
more than is the irregular tramp Of new
recruits marching for show. After the
rush and gush have passed and the men
have become Injured to hardshlps, when
marches, countermarches and skirmlshes
have sobered the boys, when army life
begins to tell, when battles are fought
and surgeons are busy and hospitals
filling, and home seems 80 far away,
and when-when war, real, cruel war Is
on and the soldiers have learned it.
then will come the songs that will wear,
songs full Of pathetic harmony, full OF
spirit, full OF the inspiration OF war.
Wheat exports since September have
reached 45,OOOOO0 bushels In excess Of
the exports during similar time one
year ago. The exports for last week
were, wheat 2,S47, 900 bushels, corn S,247,-
292 bushels, -four 21S,54S barrels, oats
1917, ,637 bushels, rye $4,000 bushels,
peas A5,325 bushels.
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CURRENT DISCUSSION
BY EX- SENATOR PETER

3gA
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-12
POLITICAL EXILES
RETURNED TO HAVANA
Three Hundred Cubans Brought Back
From the African Penal
Settlement

SAN JUAN DE PORTO RICO, Aug. II.
The Spanish steamer Isle de Panay
from Cadiz, arrived here to-day with 292
Cuban political prisoners on board bound
for Havana. The prisoners left the At
rican penal settlement of Ceuta October
2S and left Cadiz on the Goth They have
served sentences from two to three years
Imprisonment and were given emigrant
accommodation on the Isle de Pahay. On
board that vessel they were constantly
under the guard of Spanish soldiers. The
prisoners are very badly off in the way
OF clothing, none having been supplied
them by the Government. There were
few sick men among. The Isle de Panay
is due to arrive at Havana November 15
The Spanish Government is paying the
transportation charges, but the prisoners
complain of the presence of the guard of
soldiers, declaring they are now free men.
They admit. however, that they have not
been Ill treated on board the steamer.
The Porto Rican papers have been noti-
fed by the authorities here of the deci-
sion of the authorities at Washington to
accord them second class matter rates,
and they are greatly pleased
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-12
CABINET DISCUSSES
FEVER SITUATION

WASHINGTON, Nov 11-At the
Cabinet meeting to-day there was a
prolonged discussion of the sanitary
conditions at Havana, largely brought
out by a dispatch which was read an
nouncing two yellow fever deaths in
the regular army. The fever situation
at Havana is conceded to be very seri-
Gus and the administration is cognizant
of the necessity Of a thorough sanitary
overhauling Of the city before its oc-
cupation by our troops is safe. Else
where than Havana there is also need
for assistance of this Government along
these lines, and it is asserted that
chartered steamer of the Government
will soon be dispatched to the island
laden with supplies. including food. The
report made On the discOuraging con-
ditions at Havana was Of a general ma
ture. but it showed that an immense
amount Of work in cleaning UP the city
will be necessary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-12
TROOPS PATROL
HAVANA STREETS
utiny Of the Police
Ouelled.
0RDEN PUBLIC0 PACIFIED
ENTIRE FORCE LAYS DOWN ITS
RDEN PUBLIC0 PACIFIED
ENTIRE FORCE LAYS DOWN ITS
ARMS.
Deaths of Two Americans From Vel
low Fever Causes a Profound
Sensation in the
Capital.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

HAVANA, Nov. n.-Following the
example of the third company, part of
the first and fourth companies Of the
Orden Publico (poIice) demanded
their pay, now several months overdue.
AS a result of this attitude upon the
part of the police, regular Spanish
troops were quartered in the streets
and General Arelas, at the head Of two
battalions, patroIled the thoroughfares.
AS an extra precaution, in order to
prevent a demonstration of the
mounted division, General Arelas sta
toned two field pieces in front of their
barracks this morning.
This afternoon the entire force &C
cepted a peaceful solution of the diff
fcuIty and laid down their arms. The
Orden Publico will be disarmed and dis
solved immediately
At the palace it is asserted that the
measures adopted by the Military Gov
ernor, General Arelas, are merely ''evi-
dence of his zeal to guarantee absolute
order and quiet in the city," the atti-
tude of the Orden Publico being de-
scribed as simply in the nature of a
protest, in noWise affecting the order
and quiet Of the city"
The steamer AlaVa, which left yes
terday for Neuvitas. carried $780, 600 to
pay troops about to embark at that
point for Spain. The Government has
also ordered the payment Of $4,000 each
to seventeen battalions of regulars.
w. A. Williams, chief quartermaster
and F. T. Stewart, clerk attached to
the quartermaster's department, died
of fever this morning. The condition
of ]. B. Caldwell, the third of the
American party who has been suffering
from fever, is unchanged.
The body of Colonel Williams will be
embaImed and will be carried directly
on board the Ward line steamer Sc
guranca, which is expected here this
afternoon from Vera Cruz. for ship
ment north. The remains or Mr..
Stewart will be buried here this after
noon. The deaths have caused a pro-
found sensation. It is a strange CO.
incidence that the only cases of yellow
fever among foreigners e.lately have
been those of the members of the
American commissions and stats.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-12
BLAMES NO ONE
FOR THE DISASTER
Verdict Of the Coroner's Jury in the
Case of the Steamer J. D.
Peters Victims

SAN RAFAEL, Nov. u.-Coroner Eden
held an inquest to-day over the remains
of the six Chinese discovered in the hold
of the Stockton steamer J. D. Peters,
which was sunk in collision with the
steam collier CZarina on the evening Of
November 2. None of the officers of the
latter steamer were present and all the
testimony given as regards the circum-
stances of the accident was furnished by
the officers of the Peters.
Mcneil, the pilot, became nettled when
Coroner Eden questioned him closely re-
garding the signals given and the lights
on the boats. He asserted that he blew
two whistles and was answered by one,
which meant for the Peters to go to star
board. Again he blew two whistles and
was answered by one. He said he could
not change his signals or it would have
resulted in running the Czarina upon the
island. He claimed that the Czartna
steamed away after the accident and did
not prefer any assistance, although the
whistle on the Peters was kept going as
long as there was any steam. He said
he saw the sidelights burning on the
Czarina.
The jury brought in a verdict immedi-
ately stating that the Chinese came to
their death by accidental drowning while
the steamers were in collision on the even
ing of November 2. Nobody was criticized,
and it was clear that the jury believed
the deaths to have resulted from purely
accidental causes.