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The San Francisco call., 1899-08-20
STRIKES AND PROSPERITY.

IL ARDLY had the great strike in Brooklyn fin
| ished its course when another occurred in
Cleveland, and now, just that is about to be
settled, the report comes that strike OF the brick
makers in Cook County, Illinois, has stopped work
200 buildings in Chicago and thrown upward of
10000 workmen out OF employment
These occurrences are not OF a surprising nature
It has long been known to students OF sociology that
strikes follow prosperity just as certainly as over
speculation follows it. Were this not So the advance
Of the world in material wealth would go on with a
continually augn1enting force and rapidity Human
nature is SO constituted, however, that when once
flushed with it is never content. 1t reaches
eagerly for more, and too often, like the dog in
the fable, drops the substance in effort to grasp
the shadow.
During the depression OF the second term Of Cleve
land when the Democratic tariff left the industries of
the nation exposed to the runous competition of the
cheap labor Of Europe, there strikes and very
few speculative ventures. Capitalists were then well
pleased to obtain any profit at all from their invest
ments and workingmen only too glad to find
work at good wages No considerable number OF
people were tempted to hazard anything on a strike
or speculation All the industries of the people
were carried with extreme conservatism and labor
and capital too glad to be able cooperate to
give any heed whatever to agitators who sought to
stir up strife between them.
Two years OF prosperity have brought about the
seemingly inevitable results Speculation in industrial
stocks has reached point that verges on madness
and strikes follow another with rapidity almost
unparalleled. These OF course will tend to check
prosperity They in the nature of brakes applied
to the wheels OF progress and will prevent it from
going forward with anything like the momentum i,
would otherwise have
These things are but manifestations large scale
OF the course which Franklin noted in the case oil
tamiiies-work begets money, money begets pride
PRIDE beges extravaganza, extravaganza begets pow
! erty poverty begets work and work begets money
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AROUND THE
CORRIDORS

W. L. Clark of Benicia is registered at
the California.
H. j. Small has come down from Sacra-
mento and is at the Palace.
Joseph Durfee, a big lumber man or
Smartsville, is at the Lick.
Winthrop Fisk is registered at the Oc-
cidental from Fuente, Mexico.
Sig Davis is spending the summer
months in Alameda with his wife and son.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams are among
the late naval arrivals at the Occidental.
]. II. Call, a wealthy business man Of
Los Angeles. is a guest at the Occidental.
Enoch knight, capitalist of the East.
is registered at the Palace from Los An
geles.
o. ]. Gillespie of Los Angeles and E. w.
Frost Of Eureka are both staying at the
Grand.
H. Warren. one of Winnemucca's most
prominent business men, is a guest at the
Grand.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Trent Of Salt Lake
City are among the recent arrivals al the
Palace.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Stone have come up
from San Mateo and are registered at the
Palace,
w. S. F1emming, wealthy vineyardist
of Napa, is among the late arrivals at
the Russ
A. D. Coffee is at the Lick, accompanied
by his family. He is registered from Flor
ence, Ala.
H. c.. Short, travelling auditor Of the
Santa Fe, is among the recent arrivals
at the Russ.
P. McRae, the Hanford contractor, is
registered at the Lick on a short business
trip to San Francisco.
Judge Stanton L. Carter has come down
on a short visit from his home in Fresno,
and is staying at the Lick.
F. B. Pattee, leading business man OF
Valley Springs, is staying at the Grand
where he arrived yesterday.
r. U. Goode of Washington, D. C.' is
among those who arrived in the city yes
terday and registered at the Occidental
Fred Rafnville, a well-known mine own
er of jamestown, is one Of those who ar
rived here yesterday and registered at the
Russ
]. r. Hebron Of the State Board OF
Equalization is a guest at the Lick,
where he arrived yesterday from his home
in Salinas.
William Carson, the millionaire lumber
man of Humboldt County. is in the city
on business. He is a partner OF Capltal-
ist John Dolbeer
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i
| \ had brooded the Kentucky campaign It
was opened and the winds rushed theretrom
like cyclone.
The first day Mr.. Goebe tainted while expressing
himself in loud and determined voice to mass
meeting and his speech had to be finished by Senator
Blackburn On the same day Congressman Settle
tainted the stump and fell from the height OF his
climax, disocatng his oratory and sustaining severe
fractures OF the oburgatory parts Of speech and his
effort had to be finished by common pennyroyal
stunper from rural district
This is something new, and is substantial add-
ton to the dramatic features of the fight
There is one Kentuckian who does not faint nor
lose his wind and bottom. Simon Bolivar Buckner
keeps his head and his health and his pride in Betty
and the twins.
Referring to Altgeld's horror of the methods by
which Goebel was nominated, General Buckner says
they were merely copied from the methods used in
1896 at Chicago to nominate Bryan. The ousting OF
the Michigan and Nebraska delegations to secure
Bryans needed two-thirds was piece of criminal
politics, in which the party policy was reversed, its
own administration repudiated and the stamp OF
regularity stuck on Bryans candidacy and the reor
ganization of the party effected Buctner is justly
astonshed that the party in Kentucky should be crti-
cized for local application of that high example.
He commends Bryan for supporting Goebe, whose
nomination came by the methods which made Bryan
himself "the greatest OF Americans and tied him
to the affections of Dick Croker.
The anti -Goebel organization has selected Bryan )
picture as the official vignette Of the opposition S
ticket and when the OF the Platte goes there
to spellbnd the people he will be face to face with
himself on the boiling ticket
The Goebel people claim that it is unfair to make
such use of the standing candidates picture because
in the districts where ignorance is bliss thousands OF
Goebelites will vote the ticket from which that zinc
smile beams upon them.
1t is with proper sense of our distance and unfit
ness that we suggest to the regulars that they try
counter vgnette the picture of barrel OF Kentucky
Bourbon.
Mr. Blackburn's most statesmanlike oratory always
contains an ascription to the women, hosses and
whisky OF old Kentucky, matchless, gentlemen, the
bravery OF her sons 1t is opinion that the many
smiles in barrel OF Bourbon will outrun the single
smile on Colonel Bryan's face. The campaign will
go into history the battle of the smiles Bourbon
against Bryan"
We are sure that this suggestion will please Colonel
Watterson who has just expressed himself in the
New York Journal as of the opinion that Colonel
Bryan is not the whole thing anyway. A party that
opens its campaign by fanting all along the line
needs something keep up its spirits and what
be more inspiring than a barrel OF Bourbon, genuine
two-stamp goods? We anticipate the hope that will
sustain the opposition. Aware Of the back counties
where taxed whisky is unknown and the moonshine
article only is used at weddings christenings and
murders, the barrel OF Bourbon will have no more in
1uence than Siwash totem.
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THE EXTRA SESSION SCHEME.

c UFFICIENT evidence has now been collected
and published by The Call to make it clear that
- Gage and Burns and Herrin are spending
the holidays in pursuit OF health nor in considering
the welfare OF the State. They have been diligently
sounding members OF the Legislature to find out
whether an session would result in an election
OF Dan Burns to the United States Senate.
An extra session will cost the State great deal OF
money 1t will impose further burdens upon the tax
payers. and the diversion OF money will prevent the
undertaking OF many needed improvements The
people will ask what is to be gained by such expen-
diture OF public funds, and of course some answer
will be given The call for extra session will de-
clare certain legislation to be OF pressing Importance
and the legislators will be summoned together to
slider it. The real intent of the CALL however will be
to bring about the election OF the to whom Gage
and Herrin are committed no matter what it may
cost
In the silent secret work that has been going on
among the conspirators during the summer the one
object has been to find members OF the Legislature
who agree to vote for Burns if extra session be
summoned. Should majority be found for him we
shall have the extra session and the taxpayers will
have to stand the burden. Should there be no such
majority in sight Governor Gage will find no legis-
laton OF pressing urgency at this time, and there will
be no extra session.
to take big risks. The complete rout Of the Burns
push at the Republican primaries in this city the
other day shows his power is at end in San Fran
cisco politics He desires to go to the United States
Senate and it is OF now with him
He will not again have such gang in the Legsla-
ture he has in this one, no matter what else may
happen.
Gage is on all fours with Burns in the scheme He
has nothing to lose by it, for he has prospect Of
getting office again in California All the profit
he is to derive from politics be obtained now
1t will matter little him if the people denounce an
extra session in addition the other OF his acts they
already denounce. He has had experience and he
knows that man may just well be convicted for
stealing sheep for stealing lamb
Herrin is in much the same condition He has
made bunder of the business OF running railroad
politics. and he too, must achieve victory in order
to retain the favor OF Huntington. He has openly de-
clared Burns to be the railroad candidate and Hun
tngton has publicly snubbed him by denying that the
railroad has a candidate Thus Herrin must win out
there may be vacancy in the Southern Pacific law
department
Here have three rats in the pit with only one
way to get out. With them it is this Legislature or
nothing. Fortunately, the people understand the sit
uation and guard. An extra Burns session
will mean political ruin for any and every man who
for the Mexican, and the ruin would be poorly
repaid by anything that could be done for that man
by either Burns Gage or Herrin.
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again, and so the endless revolution goes on. We
have once more reached the point where the mass o
the people fat and kick
These are some of the effects Of prosperity. For
tunatey, while they check, they cannot hinder
progress. They local disturbances, and IN the
future in the past may bring about great national
depression but they never wholly stop the forward
movement of civilization. 1t is of to be re-
GREETED they occur but it is better have strikes and
speculations with prosperity than to have the con-
servatism of depressions.
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DUTCH HND BRITISH IN SOUTH
AFRICA.

u Y way Of warning to those British jingoes who
with gayety OF heart are ready to enter upon a
- war with the Beers, writer in the Fort
nightly Review presents certain facts showing the
comparative strength OF British and Dutch in South
Africa and revealing what kind OF contest Great
Britain would have her hands in that quarter OF
the globe if war should break out.
The writer points out that the Beers are closely
united to the Dutch of Orange Free State and OF Cape
Colony, not only by and sympathy but by inter
ests and aspirations A fight to a finish between the
Beers and the British therefore would certainly
against the empire the antagonsm of feeling OF all
the Dutch and might arouse their active enmity in
battle In other words, entered into lightly
against the Transvaal may move all South Africa to
strike for independence just all the American colo
nies did when in the last century ngo British Min
istry undertook to deprive New England of her rights
Such being the case showing OF the comparative
military strength OF the two races in South Africa is
interesting The writer for the Fortnighty estimates
in the different follows the figures repre-
senting the numbers of armed men on each side:
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The investigating committee OF the Alumni Asso-
citation OF the San Jose Normal School seems to have
committed fatal bunder in appealing to Governor
Gage to set aside the verdict in the case OF Dr. Nc
Naughton The committee should have directed It's
attention to the of gubernatorial authority
The appeal should have been made to Burns
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ADJUSTMENTS.

California-"As You Like It"
Columbia "A Southern Gentleman" Monday night.
Orpheum-VaudeviIe
TIvoi-'Troyatore"
Alcazar-'Under Two Flags"
Grand Opera-bouse-" Dorothy
Chutes. Theaer-vaudevile every
and evening.
Olympia. corner Mason and Ellis streets-speciaes
sutro Understanding Races etc.
Glen Park-Grand performance to-day.
Union Coursing Park-Coursing To-day.
Recreation Park-Basebal to-day.
Mechanics Pavilion-Filpno Wonder Show.
Chutes and Zoo-Beneft the Reception Fund Tuesday
Alhambra-Our Heroes Fund Benefit. Wednesday and
Thursday August 2s
California State Fair, sacramento-september to 16
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but Flanagan drove on. Farley's blood
was up and he pursued the deputy till
he overlook him. Flanagan was taken
to the City Prison, where Farley booked
him on charges of fast driving and re-
fusing to stop when ordered. When Chief
Lees was notified of the facts he released
Flanagan from custody.
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Deputy Coroner Arrested.

Deputy Coroner J. ] Flanagan was
driving along Market street in a hurry
yesterday afternoon in Coroner Hills rig
to get q witness for the Franey INQUEST
When he reached Fourth street Policeman
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CALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-R- Cailleau
of San Francisco is at the Martin. Frank
Palley of California is at the Grand. c.
A. Winsor of San Francisco is at the Gill
sey. Among the passengers for Liverpool
on the Cunard steamship Umbria, sailing
to-day, were A. G. Rowand and Mrs.
Stokes of San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-20

Nebraska is great corn State, but it does not
amount shucks when the hat is passed around for
funds to give her returning volunteers send-of Il
is remarkable, considering the number Of cyclones in
that region, that there should be any difficulty in
Rising the wind.
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Seized With Syncope.

Dr. Corryville, a retired physician. rs
wears of age, had an attack of syncope
at Pine and Polk streets yesterday morn
ing. He was taken to the Receiving Hos
pital and after being treated was sent
to his home at 1901 Pacific street.
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Very Low Rates East.

On August 20 and 80. the popular Santa Fs
route Will sell tickets to Philadelphia and re-
turn at the very low rate of SIS So. Occa-
sion, National Encampment G. A. r. Call az
62S Market st. for full particulars.
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The small boy OF Oakland is making nuisance OF
himself by throwing stones at Southern Pacific trains
AS the Southern Pacific is used to having things
SHE'D at it, serious complaint has been heard ex-
cept from the passengers.
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Governor Gage excuses his refusal to name legal
holiday in honor of the returning California Volun-
teers on the ground that he does not know the day
on which they will arrive. The excuse is good one
nobody ever accused Governor Gage of knowing
anything.
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land, Cal A half-dollar of 1856 and a
dime of 1854 are not premium coins.
ST. GERTRUDE-M. ]. T., Alameda.
Cal. The Catholic institute of learning
in charge of the Sisters of Mercy at Rio
Vista is called st. Gertrude's Academy.
MORMONs IN SALT lake.. ]. c..
City. In 1S47 band of Mormons seeking
refuge from interference went into the
State of Utah, where Brigham Young
and 143 followers in Jnly of that year laid
out the site of what became Salt Lake
City, in a then wilderness.
HAY-F. NJ, st. Helena, Cal. Hay is
grass or other plants cut and cured for
feeding to animals. The best of the many
grasses sown for hay are: Timothy, red
TOP. orchard grass, fowl-meadow grass
and June grass Meadow oat grass is also
valuable for hay, and cow pea and Lu-
cerne or alfalfa are grown for the same
purpose. Wheat, barley, oats; rye and the
like are not soWn for hay but Tor the
grain.
RIVER BOATS-M. ]. T., Alameda,
Cal. There are several lines of steamers
that touch at Rio Vista on the way up the
Sacramento River from San Francisco.
One dispatches steamers from Jackson
street pier Tuesdays and Fridays at .
p. m; another daily, except Sunday, at
p. m, from Market-street pier, ana sun
another daily except Sunday, from jack
son-street pier at IL a. m.
SAMUEL BRANNAN-E. ]. c.. City.
Samuel Brannan chartered the 370-ton
shin Brooklyn. fitted her up for trip
around the Horn to California and sailed
with 236 passengers, including sixty adult
females and about forty children OF both
sexes, the passengers being mostly MOT
mons from New York, February f. 1876,
and five months later stopped at the
Sandwich Islands, remained there snort
time, and on the 31st of July OF that year
he and his vessel arrived in the harbor OF
San Francisco.
ALIMONY-A. P. C. s., Port Costa,
Cal Whether a man who is divorced shall
nav alimony to his former wife is mat
ter of discretion, and the court may or
Dire such payment or not. When the or
der is made it must be obeyed. Ihe 1act
that a man left the State ana marTIea
again would not abSolVe him from thdL
Obligation, as the order would stand un-
til revoked, and If the man came PACK 70
the place in which the court WnIcn ILlafe "a
the order is located he would, IN case ne
had not paid the alimony, be orought
before it to show cause, ana III CdSe oL
non-payment he would be sent 10 jail Ior
contempt
yOLJJNTEERS-I NJ. H., City. This
correspondent writes: Il teel may take
the liberty to respond to the answer you
ya1-e in SUNDAYS Call August Is in regard
- +be states that sent volunteers to the
p Philippine lip me Islands. You eiaE mention the
i,,i.tle itSt te as II did not go to Manila but
tt5i' to Honoluiu. You omitted the gallant
Idaho regiment.
oorroot o The correspondent asked If the
states named in the answer had furnished
VoIunteers who were sent to the Philip
nine islands The answer was: The fol-
fPnIvinp named States furnished volunteers
9nrins the late war which were sent to
the Philippine Islands" and then follows
th9 names of the States. There was no
o,leetfon as to Idaho, and there is nothing
IN the answer as to the First New York
Reeiment. The Astor battery was a part
Manila.
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NO SPECIAL vALUE-T. S. M, Oak
land, Cal A half-dollar of 1856 and a
dime of 1854 are not premium coins.
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ST. GERTRUDE-M. J. T., Alameda.
Cal. The Catholic institute of learning
in charge of the Sisters of Mercy at Rio
Vista is called st. Gertrude's Academy.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

GERMAN EMPIRE-L. and G., City.
The population of the German empire is
50 ,279 ,901.
THE CENTURY-A Subscriber. City.
The twentieth century commences with
the first day of January, 1901.
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Cal glace fruit soc per 10 at Townsend's. .

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1912
Flags, shields. garlands, Japanese lant-
erns. bunting, red, white and blue tissue
paper patriotic pictures and all kinds Of
decorations for sale cheap at Sanborn &
Taips TAI Market street.
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MORMONS IN SALT lake.. ]. c.,
City In 1S47 a band of Mormons seeking
refuge from interference went into the
State of Utah, where Brigham Young
and 143 followers in Jnly of that year laid
out the site of what became Salt Lake
City, in a then wilderness.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-20

The number OF British troops in South Africa
has of been largely increased since that est
mate was made, and can be increased to almost any
number that may be needed. Ocean transportation
for troops in time is comparatively easy and
Britain rules the waves. She can send army after
army need be- for, as the jingo chorus goes "She
has the ships she has the men, and she has the money
too" The point of the warning not that the Dutch
can drive the British flag from South Africa it was
driven from the United States century ago. but that
they involve the empire in serious and make
her empire insecure that it will fall the first time
Great Britain has powerful enemy in Europe to
confront
1t isnot easy to set bounds to the degree of folly
nation may commit when flushed with the overween-
ing confidence that is born OF pride power and pros
perity 1t has been long time since the British peo-
pie have been engaged in of any difficulty, and
they may be foolish enough to enter upon the sub
ugation of the Beers without counting the cost but
it is hardly likely. Such warnings as the one given
are sure to have effect upon the minds Of intelligent
men, Mr.. Chamberlain is jingo, indeed, but there
is nothing in his career to justify belief that he is
fool.
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CHICAGO NEWS STANDS.
sherman House; P. O. News Co.. Great Northern Hote
Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel.
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NEW YORK NEWS STANDS.
. Wsldort-Astora Hotel A. Brentano 81 Union Square
Murray Hill Hotel
WASHINGTON ID. c.l OFFICE welline eton Hotel
j. L. ENGLISH. corre spondent.
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a GOVERNOR IN DIFFICULTY.

= OVERNOR THOMAS of Colorado is in df'
I fculties that would be novel in any other
- State
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NEW YORK REPRE- RESENTATVE.
PERRY LUKENS JR............... % Tribune BUILDING
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THE OPENING in KENTUCKY.

q FTER Atgeld broke the profane silence which
I \ had brooded over the Kentucky campaign 1t
was opened and the winds rushed theretrom
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-07
MURDERS ARE INCREASING
Cause Of lynehlngs. According 10 a Gecfgla
Judge, Owing 10 Courts.
Masses Have Lost sonndenec In the
Operations OF the Law In
th. south.

Havannah. Ca. Aprli ain the ocor-
Eia State baptist convention today
Judge George liiliycr. cx-mayor OF At.
ianta and formerly on tho superior
court bench. prevented report from
the committee on crime and lynchinEu.
After reading the report tho judge gave
some startling figures upon the Increase
of crime. urEing the consideration Il
the question upon the church ard aug-
sestlns that M ,hr law was slow. the
state legislative body b. appealed 10 TO
note tho facts aud figures. and take ae-
ton.
Judge iIinyer said that In the United
states there werv nOrc hOmloldca than
IN scotland. England ana Prussia. In
1884, there were 5000 homicidea Ia the
United States aud In istC there were
1900. IL tho past year more homicldes
were committed In tho United States
than men were killed In Cuba and more
than fcll at Gettysburg or IA the Phil
ipplnca. People We're ioaing confidence
IN the Law, The press has been ~.
mafkAbly quick In bringing the matter
20 tho attention 81 the public. but the
ease with which Nrrdictr an set aside
Ia tho court room and the facility with
which notorious criminals escape pun.
iahmcnt have brought much OF this
about.
The amount of crime In increasing.
and Il seems that the criminal u tho
only ono who has any rights, The pcos
pie lose confidence IN the effectiveness
Of the law 90 punish criminals Hence
the increase III iynchinFa. judge Hill
ycr said that although he had twice
brought this matter before the har as.
ISOLATION, the had taken no action,
lie now appealed from the bar 10 the
church 10 aid In correcting this great
stature To ~ amend tho code OF cfim-
inai pros edurc and enlarge the power
~ tho courts az 60 Jet all men know
that the law ~ willing and able 10 do
Immediate aud thorough Justice IN all
cases They assert that lynchlngn are
a result ~ dirtruHt IA tho promptnens
and efficiency 81 tin legal machinery.