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MONDAY MARCH 11, 1895
Look ahead.
Catch on to the revival.
Cheer up, cherries are ripe.
Set an example to your neighbor.
Truth hurts nobody, but it scares fools.
Give another lift to the competing road.
Every prospect pleases and only the
streets are vile.
Good news comes from all sides, and in
creases as it comes.
Give the silurian a show to reform by
showing him how to do it.
In a progressive community a good leader
never fails to get a good following.
The elevation of the community depends
upon the uprising of the right people.
The San Joaquin road must secure a good
terminus in order to make a good be
ginning. t
The competing road strikes while things
are hot, but it was the monopoly that made
them hot.
As London papers are advising Cleve
land to hold an extra session, we may
possibly get it.
Hollister is little, but she can crow $50,
--000 worth for the competing road, and
don't you forget it.
The new national party has already de
veloped enough questions of policy to split
it clear up the back.
A good many people may still go to Oak
land to sleep, but it is not a sleepy place
by any means just now.
The two things most needed this week
are a good spring shower and the adjourn
ment of the Legislature.
There are some statesmen who believe
the best way to get even with railroad bills
is to demand free passes.
Statesmen call Cleveland a fisherman,
and the fishermen call him a politician.
No class cares to own him.
Los Angeles is to have two competing
pipe lines from the oil district. That will
grease the wheels of business.
The Senate's spasm of economy comes
too late to do it much credit. Too much
death-bed repentance about it.
Every county in the State is getting into
line for progress, and a good many of them
are striving for the front rank.
By setting to work on the streets the
men who are now idle, the ways of life
would be made better for everybody.
Twelve Kansas counties have notified the
Governor that they need no more outside
aid. That promises Republican gains.
The few legislators who are opposing the
valley road at Sacramento are making bi
ographies they will be glad to suppress
hereafter.
About the time Lord Rosebery breaks
down under the strain of the Premiership
old Gladstone will be ready to step in and
relieve him.
We call the attention of the Silurians to
the fact that they could sleep easier if
there were fewer cobblestones to make the
car of progress rattle.
Rev. Dr. Parkhurst of New York is going
to clean out St. Louis. San Francisco will
do that job for herself without extra-State
or legislative assistance. t *
Who can doubt that the world is grow
ing wiser when he notes the number of
Eastern statesmen who are coming over
to the side of free silver ?
The fame of Trilby may not be perma
nent, but it will be stationary in this
country, for a railway company in Louisi
ana has named a station after it.
Now that everything is moving we
ought to have an extra session of Congress
to force Cleveland's hand and keep the
Government in line with the people.
The people of Alameda County will have
a good memory for the legislators and lob
byists who have combined to maintain ex
travagant salaries for their county officials.
. The big floating drydoek that will soon
arrive here from Benicia is an additional
commercial facility which we shall need in
connection with reviving California trade.
In deciding that whisky cocktails are an
American manufacture within the mean
ing of the law, the Secretary of the Treas
ury must have been guided by sad experi
ence abroad.
Boston sympathizes with San Francisco
in fighting for local self-government, for it
seems the Bostonians are not permitted to
regulate even Sunday entertainments with
out legislative interference.
Eastern exchanges that have found Cali
fornia references to midwinter flowers a
trifle monotonous, will take notice that we
have changed the subject and are now
talking of cherries and strawberries.
Whatever may be the backing of the
Napa Valley electric railroad scheme, it
offers a hint for many minor California val
leys in connection with' the building of
competing local roads throughout the
State.
Kaiser Wilheim will not assist the
agrarians in shutting out American grain
from the German market. He may not
always know which side of his bread has
the butter on, but he knows where to get
the bread.
They are having a lively controversy in
the East over this state of facts: General
Halleck died, leaving a widow and a large
fortune; General Cullom married the
widow, got the fortune, and, on dying, left
a large portion of it to build at West Point
a memorial hall to be called by his name.
The point in dispute is whether the hall
should not be named after Halleck, who
made the money, rather than after Cullom,
who spent it.
IT SHOULD BE PASSED.
The bill which empowers the Board of
Harbor Commissioners to lease the unused
lands of the State/ on the water front for
railroad terminal facilities is by far the
most vital measure with which the present
Legislature has had to deal. Its terms are
short and simple and easily understood.
Its scope is bounded by a single object,
which is the grant of a proper favor to a
competing railroad. By its limitations
the fullest safeguards ' are set up against
any occupation by foreign corporations or
by monopolies already possessing terminal
facilities, of the lands of the State. The
obvious and the only purpose of the
measure is to enable the new railroad to
obtain an adequate terminus in San Fran
cisco, and for that purpose to lease from
the State its vacant lands along the water
front for a term of years.
This measure, with such an object and
with such limitations, the Legislature will
have no excuse for failing to pass to-day.
No argument worthy of the name has been
adduced against it. None can be. To let
these lands lie waste and idle when there is
so desirable an applicant for their use
would be an infinite folly. To refuse to
permit the valley railroad to lease them
for a fair rental and for the purpose of a
terminus would, under present conditions,
be worse than a crime. The possession of
terminal facilities in San Francisco is ab
solutely essential to this great project
for a competing railroad, without which its
powers as a competitor would be hampered
and its ability to fulfill its object seriously
impaired.
The people of California desire that no
impediment 'be placed in the path of the
competing railroad and demand that every
aid be offered which the power of the State
can give. No member of the Legislature
can afford to be heedless of this desire or
deaf to this demand. The Assembly has
already shown its favor to this measure
and will doubtless stand by its strong
majority of Saturday when the vote
upon final passage occurs to-day. The
action of the Assembly has met
with the unqualified approval of the
people of California, and in that action it
is the universal demand that the Senate
shall concur. San Francisco, whose mer
chants have given so liberally in aid of the
competing railroad, wishes its terminus to
be here. The interior also desires the
new railroad to be able to bear its freight
and passengers directly into the heart of
the great city, where the centers of traffic
are. All classes of our citizens are pleased
to see the prospects of this great enter
prise advanced in order that at the earliest
day possible construction may be begun.
The people call upon their representa
tives in Senate and Assembly to give them
relief.
Pass the bill, and place it in the hands
of the Governor for his approval to-day.
BELIEF AT HAND.
Of all the news of the past week, hardly
any portion could have given more sat
isfaction and complete repose to the
general newspaper reader than the an
nouncement that Li Hung Chang has re
ceived back his peacock feather and started
off to make peace with Japan. This news
awakens sweet hopes of a cessation of
the interminable, voluminous, insufferable
reports, rumors, contradictions and re
contradictions from the Orient that for
months past have almost made newspapers
unreadable.
Conventional usage will doubtless com
pel history to record the fracas around the
peninsula of Korea • as a war, but there
never was any war. There was hardly a
fight or even a kick from behind. Some
drums were beaten, some powder exploded,
some yellow fellows ran and some others
ran after them, and behold the wonderful
battle was done! Over these unimportant
occurrences, however, for months past,
some highly paid gentlemen known as j
war correspondents have wasted a mass of
words and an eloquence, of description that
at times were almost worthy of an inter
national boxing match or a grand aggrega
tion of chicken fights.
The amount of journalistic energy thus
wasted and worsted in trying to infuse
something of the liveliness of a sensation
into the events in the Orient, would have
been sufficient if employed in that way to
build up a public sentiment in favor of the
anti-high hat bill and make a statesman's
reputation for every legislator who voted
for it. It was in vain, however, that
swelled head lines and nightmare cartoons
were resorted to to attract the^ttention of
the public to the wavering fracas. The
reader preferred even the tongue war of
Corbett and Fitzsimmons to the imbecil
ities in the. Orient, and it was not until the
I war correspondents got up a little riot
among themselves ana began to describe
the reports of one another in the hottest
I parliamentary language that the public
j took any interest in what they had said or
left unsaid.
About the only catastrophes of the ruc
tion that made any impression on Che pub-
I lie mind were the losses to Li Hung Chang
of his peacock feather and his yellow coat.
These occurrences did indeed cause little
thrills ot expectancy to run along the os
sified railway of the public backbone and
carry something of interest to the public
brain. People casually watched to see if
Li, having lost his yellow coat, wouldn't
lose his yellow head. They also took an
interest in reports concerning the peacock
feather. It is Known to be very difficult to
get the peacock plumage out of the head of
an American politician without cutting off
the head, and considerable curiosity was
felt to see what would come of the attempt
in China.
Li Hung Chang, having now recovered
his coat and his feather, all inter
est in the circus ends. Let there be
peace between China and Japan, and
peace also among the war correspond
ents. The latter, in particular, should
. cease their troubling and their vast
expanse of copy full of mutual contradic
j tions. The American people wish Ameri-
I can news, and it is time to wipe the Ori
j cntal fracas off the face of journalism and
give the space to live news of home affairs.
LOOKING AHEAD.
It is but a few months since the business
men of San Francisco were wrestling un
l successfully with the proposition to raise
$350,000 as a starter for the San Joaquin
I Valley Railroad. To-day, thanks to the
brains, energy and example of a few lead
ing men, they are gathering in the third
million of dollars.
It now becomes evident that California
only needs'an example to start her on the
high road to prosperity. Under the influ
ence of San Francisco's action Oakland
now comes forward with a subscription of
nearly $200,000 with the prospect of $500,000
in the near future. These figures make the
old $350,000 mark for San Francisco look
like a small matter, and so it was. It was
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1895.
not a question of ability at all, but simply
of waking up. Even little Hollister down
in San Benito County now pledges $50,000
with the prospect of doubling the amount.
As Hollister pays $600,000 annually for ex
port freight, she may expect to get back
her money tbe first year that the road is
opened to business.
Within two or three weeks surveying
parties will be in the field and then the
question of route will soon come up for
decision. It seems to be pretty certain that
the line will fork at Fresno, one branch
coming to San Francisco by way of the San
Benito and Santa Clara valleys, the other
continuing down the San Joaquin to tide
water. There is room enough for terminal
facilities on both sides of the bay.
Regarding this matter of terminals our
people should not lose sight of one con
sideration. They are working now for
both the present and the future of San
Francisco. For the present they will seek
to establish the best terminal facilities that
can be obtained under existing conditions.
For the future they must keep in mind
that all roads once led to Rome, so all
roads must eventually lead to San Fran
cisco. With the way open up the penin
sula to the south, and a cantilever bridge
from Goat Island the future of this city as
a railroad center will be assured. Our peo
ple will never again brook the cry once
raised that "San Francisco is on the wrong
side of the bay."
A FRIEND AT 00UET.
• Emperor William of Germany talks like
a statesman. He declares that he "cannot
help in making poor people's bread dear."
This was said in reference to the grain
monopoly bill directed against the impor
tation of American wheat.
The German agrarian party hopes to
push its ends by making the increase of
the navy dependent upon the passage of
its prohibitive measure. The Emperor re
sents its tactics. Perhaps he appreciates
the fact that with the passage of the grain
bill there would be little use for a larger
navy. Germany's coasts are of such a
character that she has little need of a navy
for their defense. Navy-building with her
is largely a question of the protection of
her merchant marine and growing foreign
interests. By subsidies to shipping and
cheap manufacturing she has won a large
foreign trade which she hopes to increase.
The Emperor evidently understands that
the existence of that trade depends upon
competition in prices with England and
other manufacturing countries in the open
markets of the world, and that in such a
competition German workingmen must
have the advantage of cheap food. The
question of the prohibition of American
meats will also enter into the discussion of
this question in the Reichstag.
Our Government should make a note of
the news from Germany in deciding upon
a retaliatory policy in defense of American
exports. The Emperor and the manufac
turing classes of Germany are on our side
as a matter of self-interest. Promptness
and decision in asserting our commercial
rights will turn the scale in our favor. The
German Government will not care to face
the double disadvantage of dear food and a
restricted market in the United States.
Let Secretary Carlisle officially notify the
Treasury Department of German discrim
ination and let Secretary Gresham issue
his notice of retaliatory duties, and we may
look for a vote in the Reichstag against
agrarian prohibition.
THE PACIFIC CABLE.
The incorporators of the Pacific Cable
Company propose to go ahead with their
enterprise regardless of the failure of Con
gress to pass their bill for a United States
charter. They have received liberal offers
of subsidy and patronage from France,
Japan and Russia. Hawaii has long held
out Government inducements for a cable.
It is desirable to push this matter with
out waiting for another session of Con
gress in order to get ahead of the British
cable scheme. Every nation interested
would prefer the American to the Cana
dian connection from both commercial
and strategic motives. There is not busi
ness enough for two systems and the one
first in the field will hold it.
France would no doubt especially favor
the American scheme because of large
French business interests, as well as the
desire to be independent of British lines.
A great French cable company started the
line by laying a link from Australia to the
penal colony of New Caledonia, mainly for
the purpose of making work for its idle
plant. Probably that company would con
tinue the system to Tahiti and Hawaii on
the lowest possible terms from the same
motive. The French Government will aid
the scheme for the double purpose of aid
ing French enterprise and establishing de
sired connections. There would then re
main only the link between Honolulu and
Monterey Bay. That should be the first
laid, as it would most effectively cut off the
British scheme. The route is already
charted and the cable could be laid within
a few months, while the route from Van
couver to Hawaii and thence southward
has yet to be surveyed.
ENCOURAGE -INVENTION.
A Santa Monica inventor is now exhibit
ing in this city a "wave motor," designed
for the development of electric power. It
is intended to beset up off the ocean beach,
just outside the line of breakers, where it
will get the full effect of the ceaseless roll
of the waves. Engineers are said to look
favorably upon it. ' • .
Without knowing anything about the
practical merits of this particular ma
chine, it is safe to assume that sooner or
later San Francisco will harness the ocean
to her industries. Wave and tidal energy
will be utilized for the generation of elec
tric power. Whoever comes along with
any invention to that end should have a
respectful hearing. If his plan has prac
tical value it will win its way. It not, it
may at least point by its failure the way
to the success of some other invention.
PERSONAL.
Dr. R. Mitchell of Fcrndalc is visiting in the
city. l&:f£ r'-'-, : V
Dr. Ord of Pacific Grove is stopping at the Oc
cidental.
F. P. Wickersham, the Fresno banker, is regis
tered at the Lick.
Aaron Smith, a railroad man of Los Angeles,
is registered at the Grand.
N. B. Ambrose, a prominent merchant of
Lockeford, is a guest of the Grand.
W. EL Jack, a wealthy rancher of San Joaquin
County, is a guest of the Grand. ?; 1
C. O. Johnson, a railroad man from San Luis
Obispo, is registered at the Occidental.
John M. Vance, an extensive lumber and mill
man of Eureka, is in the city on business.
Speaker John C. Lynch of the Assembly oc
cupied a room at the Baldwin Tlotel yesterday.
Captain L. C. Brant is over from Angel Isl
and, and is making his headquarters at the
Occidental Hotel. ; . ;.
Mrs. 11. F. Hubbard and her two daughters
arrived from Stockton yesterday and are stay
ing at the Occidental Hotel. On Tuesday. they
will sail tor Honolulu by the steamer Australia.
John C. Wray, legislative correspondent of
the Los Angeles Herald, was down from Sacra
mento. Mr. Wray was formerly Under Sheriff of
Los Angeles County and he is spoken of as an
available candidate for the Legislature from
the Seventy-third District next session. "
AROUND THE CORBITJORS.
"White-hat McCarty," the racing man, who
Is a good judge of horseflesh, has demonstrated
that the clothes' do not make the man, nor do
they make him different from his real self
when dressed other than in every-day apparel.
The practical demonstration occurred re
cently when Lord Talbot Clifton informed the
man of white-hat proclivities that he was about !
to give a banquet, and asked the pleasure of
McCarthy's presence.
"And do not forget, Mac, that it is a full-dress
affair."
"What?" exclaimed the invited guest. "You
are not living under the impression that I am
a dude, are you?"
"No, no, old fellow. Not by any means. It
is simply to be in form, that's all."
"In form, did I hear you say? Well, it don't
go, see? lam not the kind of a chump to put
up ninety plunks for a suit of clothes simply to
be in form. No, Clif, it gives me a pain to
think of it. Come off, please, for a few sea
sons."
Lord Talbot calmed McCarty down by prom
ising to get him a suit for that one occasion,
provided he would wear it and pacify himself
for a few hours by becoming a slave to custom.
"All right, Clif. I'll do it for you. Trot out
your togs and get to business. Where do I
dress?"
j The Lord's eyes beamed with joy, and grab-
"WHITE-HAT" M'CARTY'S BIG CHAIN.
[Sketched for the "Call" by Natikivell.]
bing his victim he dragged him upstairs to his
room where the rearrangement of the race
horse man began. "There you are now, old
man. How do you like that vest and that coat
and those shoes? Here you are for a swell
stand-up collar and a pair of link cuffs. How
does that strike you? Now get onto this watch
fob and see —
"Hold up, Clif; that fob don't go. I want my
gold chain with big links. You can't work off
no fob on me. Here, give me that chain,'? and
Mr. McCarty reached for the dream of his
make-up, which Talbot was attempting to hide
for the time being. He finally got hold of it
and coupled it on to his watch with there
mark, "Now-, that's something like, Clif. and if
it don't suit your aristocratic eye, why we quit
right here."
Talbot tried his best to get the fob on the
watch instead of the chain, which was pulling
the vest down like a dumbbell in a sack, but
McCarty was firm in the belief that he looked
all right until he got up in front of the glass.
At this point it struck him that he was wearing
the clothes of a man 0 feet high., and as Mc
carty is not much over 5 it naturally ruffled
him a bit. In a few moments all the wrath in
the race of McCarty came to the surface and
he began to toss broadcloth all over the place.
The storm of clothing lasted about one minute,
after which the man of "White Hat" got into
his own tweed suit and forswore dude blow
outs for the remainder of his life.
"We have become so accustomed to the sight
of beggars on our public streets that we fail
utterly to realize how disgusting and disgrace
ful they are," said Presiding Police Judge Low
in a conversation concerning the proposed
arrest of professional mendicants. "The Mer
chants' Association is doing splendid work in
removing inanimate filth from the streets, but
they are not removing the animate filth. That
work should be taken up by some association
or person and pushed to an issue. It is just as
necessary to the good name of our city as the
work done by the street-sweepers. Besides
some of these stump-legged and one-armed
beggars are vicious, and have often obtained
money by actual intimidation. If these beg
gars are arrested and the legal points in their
cases are finely balanced between them and
the people of this community, so far as I am
concerned, the people shall be given the best
of it, and the defendant may test the law by an
appeal. One of the most trying duties of a
police magistrate is the determination of the
question whether a beggar is a fraud or not,
but frankly, I don't take much stock in this
cheap subterfuge of selling pencils and so forth
on business streets. It is merely an excuse in
most cases. However, I do not wish to be
understood as prejudging the matter. My
opinion as a citizen is simply that the present
condition of our beggar-ridden thoroughfares
is a public disgrace."
"Such is fame!" mournfully remarked Preble
Jones in the corridor of the Baldwin last night,
accompanying the remark with an unusually
heavy sigh. "What is the trouble now?" quer
ied a sympathetic bystander. "Well," re
turned the pedagogue, sacrificing another drop
of heart's blood, "out at the school the other
day I was remarking to the class how many
great men had recently died. Among others I
mentioned General Benjamin F. Butler, ex-
Governor of Massachusetts, whose deeds in the
late war are matters of world-wide renown.
After speaking of liim I asked if any of the
scholars could tell me who Ben Butler was. A
little chap way down in the corner raised his
hand and 1 gave him permission to speak. 'I
know who Ben Butler is,' he shouted. 'He is
the one-eyed seal out at the Cliff House.' "
"An amusing incident happened on the
Berkeley train the other day," said Employ
ment Secretary Leslie of the Young Men's
Christian Association yesterday. "A long, lean,
lanky, overgrown schoolboy of 16 years travels
to and from school by that line every day. The
trainmen are not long in becoming acquainted
with regular passengers, and on the day I speak
of the brakeman attempted to 'josh* the lad.
'I do not see how your people dare to trust you
out without a chain,' he said. 'That is all
right,' retorted the boy. 'They will have you
in the pound pretty soon because you do not
wear a collar. 'Don't wear a collar, eh?' ejacu
lated brakie. 'I should say I do wear one. I
wear a Southern Pacific collar.'"
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
The Esterhazy diamond, which Helen Gould
gave her sister Anna, has long been famous
and has passed through many noble European
hands: It gained particular prominence when
in the possession of Prince Nicholas Paul Ester
hazy of Eisenstadt, Hungary. The Esterhazy
and Castellane families are distantly con
nected, and that the jewel should find its way
back to. its former associations after having
been on the market for a long period is a re
markable coincidence. Miss Helen Gould pur-
Chased the£jewcl from Tiffany. The Esterhazy
gem, which is probably the most valuable in
America, consists of a large diamond sur
rounded by eleven smaller diamonds, and
every stone is perfect in form and color.
Beardsley, he that has imitators, Beardsley,
the English artist that revels in the outlandish
but interesting, is coming over to talk to us in
the spring. He will first finish a book, "Venus
andTannhauser," that he expects will make a
stir. Beards'.ey Is 22, a consumptive, and was
first an architect's clerk and then tarried in an
insurance office. But the great Burne-Jones
and the great Puvis de Chavannes pulled the
boy out of such uncongenial environment and
made him take up art as a profession.
Abdurrahman, Ameer of Afghanistan, is one
of the most interesting despots in the world.
He is over 00 years of age, a man of great
stature and colossal strength, with a broad,
massive countenance and brilliant black eyes.
He is dignified and commanding in bearing,
and can be genial if he cares to be. He is a
man of great intellectual power and of a wide
range of information.
Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone were sitting in a
church at Cannes the other day. They were
near the pulpit, but when the sermon began
Mr. Gladstone turned to his wife and said irri
tably: "I can't hear!" "Never mind, my
dear," she replied in a whisper loud enough to
reach the pulpit, "never mind; go to sleep. It
will do you much more good."
Florence Nightingale is now 73. and a con
firmed invalid. For her services in the Crimea
her country gave her £50,000. With this she
founded the Nightingale Institute for Nurses,
and has had the satisfaction of seeing it the
parent of one of the humane movements of
the age. ________________
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS,
Watts— l don't know that there is anything
so awful in being drowned in a shipwreck. It
isn't half so horrible as being mashed to pulp
in a railway accident.
.Potts— That isn't it. The man who goes to
the bottom of the sea can't be taken home and
hauled to the cemetery behind a brass band.—
Cincinnati Tribune.
Slug One— Ain't there a copyright law in this
country?
Slug Seven— Of course there is. Why?
Slug One— Nothin', only I wish some one
would call the attention of that new reporter
to it. He's had his copy right only about three
times in six weeks.— Buffalo Courier.
Jikniks — The more a man has the more he
wants.
Biskit— Did you ever have twins at your
house?— Detroit Free Press.
"I wonder," said the burglar, slipping the
contents of the safe into a sack, "if I oughtn't
honestly to pay an income tax on this?" Ch
icago Tribune.
Tramp — I'm a loaferin' vagabone, an'
I'm not askin' you to waste any good money on
me, but—" \ _=;
Impatient citizen— what is it you want?
Tramp — But if you've got any Canadian 10
--cent pieces you can pass 'em on me, mister.
I'm no street-car conductor.— Exchange.
MAN'S DUTY TO HIMSF.LP.
The Rev. «T. G. Gibson Discusses the
Drink and Social Evils.
Rev. J. George Gibson preached to a
large congregation a stirring sermon on
the text: "If Sinners Entice Thee Con
sent Thou Not." Provervs, i:x. He said
the drink problem was a personal question.
The social evil was also a social question.
It was because individuals will not take
care of themselves that political measures
were necessary. The- multitude will get
drink and also live in vice, and the minor
ity wish to withdraw the temptation.
Around these two points all the bitterness
of party strife centers.
Now there is one point on which we are
all agreed, and in which there is party
strife — that it is the duty of every man to
take care of himself. Each man be
longs to himself. Each man makes
his own laws. If we cannot close the
saloons we can close our lips. If we can
not destroy the spider's web we can reject
the persuasive invitation of Mrs. Spider to
walk into her parlor.
We can take heed to this advice: "My
son, if sinners entice thee consent thou
not." First let us describe the sinner.
There is the religious sinner. He is the
worst of all, because he is an untrue man.
There is the skeptical sinner. He does
not believe the Bible. He says prayer is
not in accordance with the laws of nature.
He calls you holy when you go to church.
He tries to laugh you out of your sacred
hopes, but gives you nothing in return.
There is also the immoral sinner. This
person does not hide his vice. He tells the
younger boys evil stories. His boldness
fascinates thousands. There is a great
deal of the devil rolled up in the small
word smart. ]-:: •;: -.-'."
Secondly, let us consider the sinners'
methods. Entice means to open up the
way. The favorite enticement is, "Oh,
this is just a little sin." This idea has
caught many' a boy and girl. They forget
that the practice of little sins lead's to the
committing of great sins. Another entice
ment is "only this once."
If our tempter were to tell us we were to
sin the same sin a thousand times we
would not consent. All the wisdom of
hell is gathered up in this sentence. Just
this once is once too much. The most pop
ular enticement is: "Oh, no one will ever
know." If other people do not know we
will know. Memory will be a theater
peopled with the collected images of your
evil deeds.
When the sinner knocks at your heart
do not open it. This is the only safe plan.
If we part with our good life we may not
find it a second time. Character once
ruined can never be rebuilt so perfectly
that all the crack will be concealed. Those
who make a shipwreck of your soul 'will
never display any activity to set it afloat.
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GENERAL HOWARD ON PRAYER.
It Is Simply Asking God. for What One
Wants.
A large audience of young men gathered
in Association Hall yesterday afternoon to
hear what General Howard had to say on
prayer.
"It is the fashion to-day," said the
general, "to affect to doubt the efficacy of
prayer, but all Christian bodies recognize
that 'He who formed the ear can hear, and
He who made the eye can see.' Everybody
prays at some time in his life. It is a mis
take to consider that only the formal act
of devotion is prayer, for many pray in
public who see"m to pray mighty little in
private, and others never parade their de
votions, yet commune much in secret.
Prayer is the simplest form of speech, for
it is simply asking God for what you want
and the act may even be an unconscious
one."
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IT GUARANTEES
A STEADY JOB.
The Labor Exchange Offers to
Take Stock and Build the
S.J. and S.F. R.R.
A PLAN.TO PUT ALL TO WORK.
Propositions to Employers, the
Supervisors and the Board
of Education.
The Labor Exchange Association wants all
business men and workingmen to join for their
own protection.
The exchange will guarantee all business
men against bankruptcy and will guarantee to
every workingman a steady job at good pay
after he has been a member for one year.
Poverty, misery and crime must go!
The foregoing is from a circular calling a
mass-meeting Thursday evening at 1159
Mission street, under the auspices of the
association.
The banishment of poverty, misery and
crime is a consummation devoutly to be
wished. A guarantee of a steady job to
every workingman is very desirable and
something unheard of. The question of
living interest is, then, the -responsibility
of the guarantor — can it be done and how?
Something about what the Labor Ex
change is was given in the Call a few days
ago through an interview with the Cali
fornia organizer, Carl Gleeser. The ques
tion was put to him yesterday; "By what
right and how?"
"The association is growing so rapidly,"
he said, in answer, "it is reasonably cer
tain that within a year we will have se
cured such members and such a variety in
the number of tradespeople that steady
employment to all may be guaranteed.
That is the only 'if there is in our propo
sition. With numbers and variety to sup
ply each other's wants the thing is done.
The first great purpose of the Labor Ex
change is to get employment for the unem
ployed. In that we should have the sym
pathy of every body, should we not?
"Now we are practical men and come to
our purpose with long experience and
study. We have a plan. It is simplicity
itself. No vagary or illusion of any kind
is attached to it. With our great end in
view we are, at least, entitled to a hearing,
are we not? Our plan is simply this: To
exchange labor for a share of its product.
Money, therefore, becomes unnecessary.
Our association offers to build the sewers
of San Francisco or perform any other of
its public work. We will build the San
Joaquin Valley road, or we will string
irrigation ditches through the arid regions
of California and change them into market
gardens—all without asking a cent of legal
tender money from anybody.
"For city improvements we will accept
warrants that shall bear no interest, but
simply represent our labor; for building
the railroad we will accept its stock made
out in such form as to make it negotiable j
or exchangeable for other goods. Let our
offer be accepted and the subscription to
the competing road is almost doubled in a
twinkling. There need be no anxiety as
to a labyrinth of cumbrous details, for we
can show in half an hour how it all could
be perfected without trouble. We still
have hopes that tne proposition may be
taken up we submitted it to the Traffic
Association — and if so it could be carried
further than I have indicated, even to the
building and equipment of the entire road.
This is not a fancy, mind you. We mean
exactly .what we say; we know what we
are talking about, ami we have a practical
and successful illustration in railroad build
ing now going on in Oregon by one of our
branches. i
"Our fundamental principle, as I say, is
to get the unemployed to work. We do
not stickle just now about wages, although
on such \vork as the building of the rail
road or other competitive work we would
demand the market price. But our system
I once in amplified operation would secure
[ the best possible results to everybody.
The labor union as a body is not friendly
to us, at least the union having employ
ment, for the reason stated, but the results
we aim at and are certain to attain will
benefit every workingman, and merchant
as well* Take the vast body of the unem
ployed out of the problem and it don't re
quire much art to describe the result, does
it?
With all men employed, the ball and
chain slips off society and business, does it
not? and that half the community which
now preys upon the other half, because it
has nothing itself, becomes a consumer and
producer, and all the world grows richer
by leaps and bounds. Because there are no
unemployed and consumption has doubled,
wages go up, of course.
'*is'ow that is just what we are working
toward, and no man can offer one good
reason why, under our system, we may not
reach it in good order very shortly.
"Education is the measure of our ad
vance. . The hesitancy with which the
workingmen themselves accept the invita
tion to enter the promised land is our
greatest trouble. But that only reminds
us of how hard we, as teachers, must keep
working. It does not surprise us, for the
entail . of prejudice that has come down to
them through years is not easily overcome.
"Our efforts in this are also approved by
most of the employed, who, in no distress
themselves, refuse to think and only see in
persons willing to work without money
something to be feared. I was before the
Grangers at their meeting in Oakland, was
referred to the co-operative committee and
explained our plan, which certainly should
have appealed to every farmer on sight.
And it did so to individuals, but the chair
man of the committee, seeing something
in it to conflict with his individual inter
ests, did not report upon the matter at all.
We meet with such receptions in almost
every case of an organized body, but with
individuals we never fail to find favor once
our system is understood.
"Our methods have everything to recom
mend them to the good citizen. They
stand directly opposed to those of compe
tition, that impels to strikes, strife, misery,
waste, loss, poverty and starvation.
"They are also at variance with the com
munity or colony idea although colonies
are even now being started to work on our
principles. What I mean to say is that
colonization is not at all necessary to the
workings of our plan, its perfection being
more rapidly effected in a large city where
all the machinery for the creation of
wealth is already at work.
"We welcome labor-saving machinery
and all progressive elements in whatever
shape they present themselves, for it all
means quicker results, shorter hours of
labor, more leisure, comforts, ease for all.
"The Labor Exchange, in a word, is the
only association that combines the best of
socialism with the breadth, freedom and
independence of individualism.
"It is all done by simply going to work
instead of waiting until some one can bor
row money enough to employ us. There
is only a fraction of the money in the world
necessary to keep everybody employed,
and the little there is is panic-stricken half
the time and held out of circulation by
those who own it and profit by such jug
glery, careless of those who suffer. Every
man idle is wasted energy and incidental
suffering. Our plan will put every man to
work. What he produces is actual value,
is it not? — the best kind of security, accept
able at pawnbrokers' and kindred shops.
We give a check for its value at wholesale
a labor exchange check, which passes cur
rent at all other exchanges or for any other
thing in the exchange of like value. It is
simply an amplification of the store-order
system employed now by many big manu
facturing concerns to further rob the work
ingman, but, being run by the workingman
himself, he derives the benefits and profits.
"The Labor Exchange is in its incipiency
and our work is to spread its gospel and
get it into operation as rapidly as possible
; and we have propositions out in several
directions at once.
"Our committee is to be heard before the
Finance Committee of the Boar of Super
visors Wednesday evening on the matter of
issuing bonds in small denomination*
and paying them to laborers win, wonlrl
accept them as money, they being accent
ble by the city for taxes and so ne.-ot ahhV
"Then we have addressed the following
circular to manufacturers and emnlo ■• n .
offering to supply labor to be r aid fin
goods: F v in
?£"£= °l THE LABOK EXCHASGB )
_ ti ' rcnth street, San Francisco ' I
Dear Sir: Having been thrown out of em__U
ment on account of the panic of 1893, SnetS
the contraction of business going- on «u-I
the country; caused by the fack of mo ey'iti'
the channels of trade, we find it extreme ly Vifc
ficult to find employment for money wage! it
appears that the contraction of 1 usine*s 'v.*-.
pace with the contraction of money an.' leu?.
foSs laCk ° £ em^°>"^n?°coh eque,u':;
While . those have money to invent can
bide their time we and our deoendanS Tut
dire need of the necessaries offiffirealiS
the fact that any amount of work is to be done
but the lack of money obstructs the TO&sfbUltT
of the same being carried out. Possibility
We realize at last that money is not »«»„.
tial as a life preserver, and if we an obtain^
necessaries of life without it by our 'rand
are able to exchange our labor for anvthine in
the line of merchandise which can be used in
daily consumption we can dispei ... , v
money. ' " a
As no man can live on his own productions
only we are compelled to exchange with one
another, and for that purpose we have estab
lished a place where we can so exchange.
We now offer our labor in exchange for any.
thing useful in place of money.
If you are willing to employ men or worr.eq
on these terms address BCarl Gleeser,
State Organizer, Labor Exchange, 30 Tenth
street.
"We have also submitted the following
to the Board of Education, and it will be
considered at its next meeting :
a plan to Enable the Unemployed and Pes
titute of the clty am. county of .- vs
Francisco to Help Themselves.
At a meeting held by Labor Exchange Branch
No. 26, at 1159 Mission street, on February 21,
it was decided to make appeals to different
organizations for aid to help the unemployed
and destitute by providing them with means
for productive self-employment. Owing to the
scarcity of money it was decided to appeal for
contributions in small sums, such as almost
anyone is able and willing to give.
We therefore respectfully request the Board
of Education to ask the parents of the school
children, through their children, tocontribute,
according to their means, weekly a small sum
of money, and to continue such contributions
until the unemployed have been put to pro
ductive work and are enabled to provide them
selves with the necessaries of life. The money
thus obtained to be used as follows:
The money to be placed in the hands of the
Mayor to ba turned over to Labor Exchange
Branch No. 26 for labor checks which will be
redeemable in merchandise, labor and services
the branch may have on hand or can provide.
These checks to be turned over to the Superm
tendent of Streets for the purpose of paying the
unemployed for public work to be done for the
city.
The Labor Exchange will use the money to
buy the moNt urgent necessities of life, start a
bakery, a laundry, and as soon as its resources
will admit of it, a shoe and clothing factory and
other industries to furnish employment and
the necessaries and comforts of life to the
homeless and idle of our city and State. The
Labor Exchange will acquire land suitable for
farming and manufacturing purposes as soon
as possible, to enable willing workers to be
self-supporting and enhance the general pros
perity.
All goods produced by these workers shall be
stored with the Labor Exchange for distribu
tion by means of labor checks, which will be
paid to the workers, according to labor per
formed. Wages to those working with the ex
change system shall be $1 per day for eight
hours' work. The exchange will also maintain
a free employment office.
The undersigned were appointed a commit
tee to call this matter to your attention: Re»
spectfully submitted, Carl Gleeser,
W. H. Hap.tek,
Timothy Kilty,
Committee.
Following is a copy of one of the Ex.
change's checks good for $1:
No February Series, 1895.
IN labor WE TRTST.
Receivable for Goods at Branch No. 2d,
Certificate of Deposit Issued by the
LABOR EXCHANGE.
Depositor Deposited . .
Market Price One Dollar, Depositea with the
SAN FRANCISCO HA -VI II Nft 26.
124 Eighth Street,. San Francisco, California.
Date.... 1894. V ....Pr«B.
Local Accountant. Sec.
.... Signature of Depositor.
This certificate is received as face value by the
Labor Exchange Association In payment for mer
chandise for sale, for work, services and all debts to
the same.
This certificate of deposit is based upon, secured
by and redeemable in real or personal property in
the keeping of the Labor Exchange Association.
Property held for the redemption of this certifi
cate cannot be mortgaged nor pledged for debts,
nor can it be withdrawn except on presentation of
this certificate, but it may be exchanged by th«
Labor Exchange Association for other property of
equal value.
"We have also called the mass-meeting
to be held Thursday night at 1159 Mission
street, and the development of our plan as
the result of this agitation and education
is such that in our call we guarantee to
j every man who will join with us a steady
, job at good pay by the end of the year."
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