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ONE OF HOLLANDS NEW WARSHIPS, THE DE RUTTEH, WHICH RECENTLY UNDERWENT REPAIRS AT
THE NEWPORT NEWS YARDS. THE VESSEL WAS COMPLETED IN 1901 AT A COST OF $1,737,500 AND 13
ONE OF FIVE OF THE SAME CLASS BUILT OR BUILDING FOR THE DUTCH NAVY. THE OTHERS ARE:
KONINGIN REGENTES. COMPLETED IN 1902; HERTOO HENDBIK, COMPLETED THIS YEAR. AND TWO
UNNAMED IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.
A Shawnee woman sewed $7500 in her bustle the
other day. lost it and then spent several harrowing
hysterical days in a finally successful effort to find
it. This should teach the fair sex that it is not safe
to sit on anything even remotely connected in any
way with things financial |iS3|
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City. When Charlie Mitchell fought John
L. Sullivan in Cljantllly, ; France, he
weighed 166 pounds. The record does not
give his weight on the occasion of each
of the many fights he had. His record
shows twenty-eight combats. . .:
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distance from Baker street at the en
trance to the panhandle of Golden Gate
Park alone the main drive to the Cliff
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A SECOND— A. C/8.. Oakland, Cal. A
second la the time of one swing of a
pendulum making S6.469.09 swings a day,
or the 1-86,400 part of a mean solar day.
.COTTON MANUFACTORY— N. M. V.
City. It Is said that the largest cotton
factories in tho United States are located
in Fall River, Mass.
CARNEGIE-J. S. M., Burllngame. Cal.
Andrew Carnegie resides at 61 West Fifty
first street, New York City, N. Y.
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In Hassard's life of Archbishop Hughes
it does not appear that the Archbishop
named oflered to the Government the ser
vices of the slaters of charity for mili
tary hospitals during the Civil War.
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City. The history of the electric rail
way in the United States dates back to
February. 18S3, when a short exhibition
line was built fn Chicago. This was fol
lowed by experiments In November of
the same vear on the Mount McGregor
and Lake Gcorce Railroad.
Dr. E. C. Dunn of Fresno Is at tha
Grand.
E. M. Woodman, a merchant of Oro
vllle, U at the Grand.
E-Assemblyman A. S. Mllice of River
side is a guest at the Grand.
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John McElroy, of the National Tribune
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. CHINESE SCHOOL— S. and T.. City.
The Chinese Public School on Clay street
In San Francisco is In the brick structure
on the north, side of that street, between
Powell and Stockton, in what for many
years was the residence of the late J. W.
Winans. It is not now and has not been
draped in mourning. The one referred to
In the- letter of inquiry Is a private school,
not under the control of the Board of
Education.
CAPER— J.. City. Caper is the common
name of the pickled ..flower buds of the
Capparis spinosa of Southern Europe and
Barbary. It is a trailing shrub, growing
on- rocks and walls and extensively cul
tivated in Sicily and the South of France.
The flowers are large and beautiful. The
buds are gathered every morning and put
into vinegar, after which they are sorted
and the best are sent to market in Jars. ¦
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY, August
15.— After a number of years epent
in work upon an Important new
book, Dr. Julius Goebel, head of the
department of Germanic languages at
Stanford University, has at last complet
ed the volume and it is now In the hands
of the publishers. The book, which was
prepared by Dr. Goebel at the request of
a noted publishing house in is
an exhaustive treatise on the conditions
and aspects of the Germans living In
America, and is one of a scries of similar
reports on the German colonies tn vari
ous parts of the world. The book is a
compilation of "facts gathered by Dr.
Goebel through many years of travel and
study; It will contain a great amount of
material heretofore unpublished, and in
effect will be a complete history of the
Germans in America, from the earliest
colonization until the present tfme, and
PERSONAL MENTION.
Other important books from Dr.
Goebel's p«n have been published from
time to time during the past fifteen years
and he is now looked upon as one of the
foremost contributors in this clasa of in
ternational literature.
Dr. Goebel was a student at the Unl*
verslty of Liepzig and received the degree
of Ph. D. at the University of Tuebingen
in 1SS2. He was instructor of German at
Johns Hopkins for several years and at
or.e time was editor o? the "Belletris
tisches Journal" in New York City.
into the western wilderness. Further
more, the important part taken by tho
Germans in the wars 0? the Revolutloa
and the Rebellion is pointed out with his
torical citations which simply substanti
ate the author's words. Lastly the influ
ence of German science and literature is
set forth to emphasize the scope of this
feature of American culture. The new
work is dedicated to President Roosevelt.
The book is entitled "Das Deutschthum
in den Vereinlgten Staaten von Amerika,"
and is a comprehensive work. Perhaps
the most imDortant thought conveyed by
the author is expressed in a. chapter de
voted to the winning of the West by the
Germans. It is slfown that the German
pioneers from Pennsylvania, Virginia and
the Carolina* were the first to push out
the latter part of the work, especially. Is
a consensus of German influence in this
country at the beginning of the twentieth
century. Among other things, the book
contains statistics to prove that almost
one-half of the present population of the
United States Is of German descent,
either entirely or otherwise. The influ
ence of this element in our civilization is
shown in the opening and extension of
the resources of the country; in the de
velopment of our higher intellectual life
as expressed in music, literature and ed
ucation.
WHAT is entitled in its corporate charter as
"The Cash Buyers' Union First National Co
operative Society" has just been incorpor
ated under the laws of New Jersey. Our Eastern
exchanges say it is believed to be a department store
trust. Certainly the name is long enough and big.
enough to mean almost anything and to do almost
any kind of business, for if ever the cash buyers^
achieve a genuine national union they will wish to
include within the scope of their activity all thing's
that are offered for cash from a scat in the Senate to
a pint of peanuts.
The objects of the corporation as specified in its
charter are as wide and as varied as the title is long.
They arc thus set forth in the New York Times:
"To establish, conduct, and manage general depart
ment stores in every State in the United States and
Europe. To manufacture, buy and sell all kinds of
merchandise, animate or inanimate. To manufacture
all kinds of raw materials into finished products. To
own, acquire and conduct printing, lithographing, en
graving and publishing business. To construct, own,
operate or lease warehouses in every State of the
United States and in foreign countries. To organ
ize and operate schools of instruction and libraries.
To carry on any of the business of house decorators,
sanitary engineers, electrical 'engineers and contract
ing in all the branches thereof; gas fitters; coal and
wood dealers; land, estate and housfe agents; builders,
contractors, storekeepers, "refreshment contractors
restaurant keepers/dealers in drugs and medicines and
mineral waters, barbers and hair dressers, perfumers,
dairymen, market gardeners, nurserymen and florists,
photographers and dealers in photographic supplies;
printers, lithographers and engravers; dealers in do
mestic trained and fancy antnfils and in every com-,,
modity sold in general department stores."
With a charter like that there will be well nigh no
legal limit to the activities of the corporation. It :
seems that perim«sion is granted to do everything
except practice law, issue marriage licenses and write
poetry. \ It appears' the start of the all comprehending
octopus is to be made in a comparatively modest
way, for it has an authorized capital of only $5,000,000.
As that sum would not run the department stores of
New York City alone it will be some time before
the outreach of the corporation will attain to this
city. '"'.".'
A curious feature of the charter is that it gives tta
directors of the corporation the right "to enter into
and perform any kind of contract with the company."
It will be seen that the directors are to have riot only
a big hand and agrasping one, but also a free arm
to swing it with. Altogether the Cash Buyers' Union
First •', National Co-operative Society has not only
given itself a large name, but intends to acquire a
1 larger reputation as speedily as it can.
THE LATEST OCTOPUS.
PARLIAMENT has 'been prorogued by a speech
from the throne which the dispatches describe
as of little interest to the world or even to
the British public. It was a non-committal address,
which pledges the Ministry to nothing, so the dis
patches say: "There has probably never been a pro
rogation of Parliament leaving the future of the
Government so uncertain as is the case in* this in
stance." By the King's speech the prorogation runs
to November 2, but in the debate upon it some of the
leaders of the opposition declared a conviction that
the present Parliament would never meet again and
ihat there would be a dissolution and a general elec
tion in the fall.
The uncertainty of the situation is due almost
wholly to the keen interest taken in Chamberlain's
proposal for the establishment of a system of cus
toms duties on imports which will enable Great Brit
ain to protect her home industries, give preferential
trade to her colonies and obtain commercial privi
leges in other countries by reciprocity treaties. Since
Chamberlain first submitted his plan it has been the
chief theme of political discussion in the press and
among the people. The education bill and the Irish
land bill, of which so much, was heard when Parlia
ment met, have been almost completely set aside by
the new issue. It is true there remains a faction that
holds the educational Dill to be the most important
measure before the country, but it is onlya faction,
and it is safe to say that if a dissolution take place
this fall the ensuing election will be fought out 'mainly
between the free traders and the protectionists.
The Prime Minister is to make a speech at Shef
field at the end of September and the nation is waiting
eagerly for the event. He has hitherto avoided a
definite statement as to his attitude toward the tariff
as one of practical politics, and as a conseauence he
has in his Cabinet, along with Mr. Chamberiain, sev
eral men who are in strong opposition to him. The
Sheffield speech is expected to clear up the situation
and it is predicted that when it has been made either
Mr, Chamberlain or the Duke of Devonshire and his
free trade colleagues will have to leave the Cabinet/
That would entail a reorganization of the Ministry
and tray compel a dissolution of Parliament.
While Balfour has not decisively expressed himself
upon the issue at point he has said many things
which give ground for the belief that he will favor
the Chamberlain scheme. Thus in discussing it in
Parliament he said on one occasion: "Many persons
have allowed themselves to be led into a belief that
this controversy is" simply a controversy as to whether
the food of the people should be taxed. That is not
the controversy. There is no logical or substantial
reason I know of why a policy, if it be wise and if it
be practicable in other ways, should not ; be carried
out without increasing the cost of living to the
poorer classes of the country." On -another occa
sion he showed that he is much influenced by Cham
jberlain's argument far a preferential tariff as a means
PARLIAMENT PROROGUED.
Professor Moses Assures us that the theory and
practice of our teaching in the schools of the Philip
pines are .eminently successful. Recent events indi
cate clearly therefore that this conclusion of an emi
nent educator proves that our instructors in the
islands of the Southern seas have not enrolled many
of the ladroncs in the public schools. . These rascals
appear to be imperious to sweetness and light.
IT is seldom that general business conditions arc
so thoroughly understood by the public as at
present. One reason is their simplicity, the other
ii that this is pre-eminently a commercial era and
commerce attracts more scrutiny and study than it
ever did before. History will probably designate this
as the commercial age.
\s for the first reason the situation is simply that
the merchandise trade of the country is proceeding on
quiet and well-ordered lines, while the great specula
tive mart of the country has been writhing in the
throes of an old-fashioned attack of colic. Legiti
mate trade, composed and well balanced, has been
contemplating this speculative convulsion with the
indifferent eye of a mastiff mother lazily observing
the antics of her puppy working itself up into a frenzy
over a newspaper or an old hat. Stocks have gone
down, down, down; recovered and gone down again,
and so on, while the farm and counting-room have
been as quitt as millponds. But, of course, this
cannot last forever; sooner or later, some time or
other, general business will be affected by these
stock-market spasms unless the country's legislators
provide an elastic currency adapted to the rapid ex
pansions and contractions of business characteristic
of modern times.
It is a case of tempora mutantur. Times change
and we change with them. Forms and methods of
business become modified through various causes and
the currency must conform to the demands of the
new conditions or there is trouble.
As far as individual staples are concerned there
have been but few changes during the 1 past week.
The clearings of the banks are just about what they
were a year ago, the difference being less than I per
cent. The failures were 175, against 148 last year.
The earnings of the railroads thus far in August show
a gain of about 8 per cent in favor of this year and
the railroads are becoming unable to handle all the
freight tendered them owing to insufficiency of cars.
This indicates an enormous distribution of merchan
dise, for the railroads have been stocking up with
new cars for several years back, and though the facto
ries have been working to their full capacity all this
time they have not yet caught up with their orders.
This condition says more for the state of business
than any other. The foreign trade, however, is not
making as good an exhibit as the domestic, as both
exports and imports have been decreasing of late.
The iron and steel trades are reported active without
any excitement and quotations show some slight
changes.
Fall business in the different descriptions of cloth
ing is expanding generally throughout the country,
which is a regular seasonal condition at this time of
the year. Hides and leather have been weakening
for some little time and provisions continue to drag
toward a lower plane of values, with the output of
hogs ?.nd other livestock steadily increasing. There
is nothing new of any consequence in the cotton and
woolen trades. The crop outlook of the country con
tinues excellent, though previous estimates of the
volume of the wheat yield have been materially re
duced during the past ninety days.
Wall street has shown considerable \ tendency
toward reaction during the past week. The general
trend of prices was upward, and on one or two days
?he recovery was very pronounced. The opinion is
growing that the decline, like the preceding inflation,
lias gone too far, and that a good many shares are
now selling below their actual worth as dividend
propositions. The public, however, has not yet re
covered from its recent nervousness and is not flock
ing freely to the bargain counter. The bankers are
reassuring them, but they arc like shy animals, slow
to approach.
Our local conditions remain about as before. With
excellent crop conditions, good prices for farm
products, a steady overland and foreign demand for
our State products, plenty of money, high wages,
labor fully employed, a steady immigration into the
State and active domestic markets, the condition of
affairs in California is not only cheerful but bright and
full of promise. Prosperity is still with us.
CONDITION OF TRADE
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navy that has not been more or
less seriously injured by running Into
some hidden rock or other obstruction.
The accident of the Massachusetts on
August 12 Is the third to that battleship
since her first commission— June 10, 1S93.
On December VI, 1898, the ship scraped' her
bottom on Diamond reef In New York
harbor, necessitating repairs at a cost of
$138,000. On March 21. 1901, she ran aground
in Pensacola Harbor, sustaining slight In-
Jury and now the ship has located another
rock by bumping against it and getting
seriously damaged. Captain H. N. Man.
ney, her commanding officer, is evidently
not afraid of his ship, but takes great
chances. He took the same ship through
Hell Gate June 20. 1901, narrowly escaping
grounding and the Navy Department re
buked him for his rashness. On June 20
last the Massachusetts collided with a
schooner off Boston Light, and thus the
ship is acquiring a record of bad luck,
largely due to poor or reckless naviga
tion.
The office of naval Intelligence estab
lished inJ882 has up to the present time
Issued many publications relating to
naval matters at home and abroad. Un
der the* title of "Information From
Abroad," a yearly volume has been issued
since 1883, giving a synopsis of naval con
struction in, all countries, which because
of the evident care bestowed In making
the Information as reliable rs possible,
and because of the limited edition Is much
Bought for. This set of twenty-one vol
umes contains the . record , of . progress
made In the world's navies from 18S4 and
is the only work of its kind in existence.
It has been somewhat' Inconsistent in its
scope of information owing to the fre
quent changes of secretaries of the navy,
chief of the office and personnel of the
staff. Up to 1S93 it dealt with all navies,
but In the year named Secretary Tracy
eliminated all the data relating to the
United States navy: in 1895. under Secre
tary Herbert, the edition was cut down
to 1000 copies, and now. for seme unex
plained reason, its publication 1ms been
discontinued.
President Roosevelt has written a letter
to the recently organized Navy L-a^ue
in New York cordially indorsing Its aim
t.o arouse public interest in the necessity
for building up a large navy. That gen
eral interest— such as Is manifested nota
bly in England and Germany— Is lacking
ACCIDENTS to our war vessels are
becoming rather frequent of late
and there is scarcely a ship In the
The reported! explosion of a water-tube
boiler, August 8, on board the British
cruiser Blake Is probably a mistake. The
Blake was built in 1S89, six, -years before
the introduction of water-tube boilers in
the British navy. She was, fitted with six
ordinary boilers of the Scotch type and
there Is no record showing that new style
boilers* have been substituted. The ship
is laid up in reserve at Devonport and has
The new system of teaching languages
by means of gramaphones has been in
troduced at the Naval Academy. One hun
dred and flfty-flve of these machines,
each containing ten records, have been
placed In the rooms of the midshipmen
to Instruct them in the French and Span
ish languages. The lessons of the day as
printed in standard books used at the
academy are repeated by the records, so
that the midshipmen have their eye and
ear educated at the same time In the
language they are studying. A trial of
this new method is said to have given
very satisfactory results.
There is no delay on armor contracts
for the eighteen battleships and armored
cruisers under construction. All the or
ders have been placed and the shipbuild
ers alone may be blamed for non-delivery
of ships at the stipulated time. On August
6 six hundred tons of armor was tested
and accepted for the battleships New Jer
sey and Rhode Island, the snips being
only 40 per cent completed. The plates
tested were for the belt, 11 inches thick
at the top and 8 inches at the bottom, and
the penetration of our 8-inch capped pro
jectile fired at a velocity of 1608 feet per
second was only three -and one-half
inches.
Jn this country is quite evident. There is
an utter absence of publications, entirely
or largely devoted to naval subjects, and
the only information the public at large
receives is an occaasional item about the
launch of a ship or disaster to some
foreign or United States naval vessel- Tet
there is a respectable number of persons
interested in naval affairs. The r.avy per
sonnel, rank and file, numbers upward of
40,000, to which add the navy yard farces
and the thousands of persons cn;?aged in
building ships for the navy. In England.
France, Germany, Italy, and even Spain,
public interest is stimulated through semi
official or official publications relating to
naval matters with good results. The
United States Government should ex
tend rather than curtail its information
on what is going on in the several navies
and should not have discontinued the
"Information From Abroad.'.'
DR. JULIUS GOEBEL OF THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY
WRITES A HISTORY OF THE GERMANS IN AMERICA
no occasion to use steam except In her
donkey boiler.
The British Admiralty haa placed con
tracts for four scouts with Laird. Vlck
ers, Armstrong and Fairfleld. The new
ships are to be duplicated or those now
under construction by the builders named,
and vary In dimensions and horsepower,
but are all to have a speed of 25 knots.
The Pathfinder, building at Laird's, is
360 feet by 38 feet. 13 feet 3 inches draught.
2610 tons and 16,000 horsepower. The larg
est, named Sentinel, is 260 feet length.
33% feet beam. 11 feet 2 Inches draught.
2900 tons displacement and 17.000 horse
power. They have all a normal coal ca
pacity of 150 tons and carry a battery ot
ten 12-pounder quick-firing guns.
The Londow Times of July 24 states tiet
the Euryalus, an armored cruiser of 12,
000 tons, had proceeded to sea for the pur
pose of trying her 9.2-lnch guns on Ions
range with an increased charge of 25
pounds of cordite. The gun stood the test,
but the mountings and ail the machinery
in the vicinity were torn up. On the fol
lowing day the Admiralty denied the
above statement, asserting that no such
trial had taken place and that the Eurya-
Iu3 had not fired her guns since June
20. The Admiralty Is, of course, loth to
have any news of a disquieting nature
become public and its contradictions on
several occasions have proved to be mere
quibles, notably In recent accidents to
ships In th« Mediterranean? In the
Euryalus case the Times has probably
again forestalled official Information.
All battleships and a largo number of
cruisers in the British navy are fitted with
wireless telegraphy, chiefly the Marconi
system. The present expense upon wire
less telegraphy is about 1100.000 a year,
and an agreement with the Marconi com
pany is pending by which the use of the
system would be greatly extended in. the
navy, as well as on coast stations.
The armored cruiser Donegal has at
tained the phenomenal average of 23.737
knots and 22.134 horsepower during the
eight-hour full power trial last month
and Is the fastest ship of her type in the
British and all other navies. The ves
sel's performance is so much more re
markable from the fact that the ship was
fully completed and ready for active ser
vice, a condition which the Admiralty
now exacts from the contractors. Her
maneuvering trials were also satisfactory.
The Donegal was built and engined at
the Fairfleld yard, near Glasgow, and Is
1 of 9S0O tons. Of the ten ships of this class
eight have been tried and accepted up to
the present time.
In fact public interest in the issue is now so great
that if the various industries injured by the fraudu
lent trades will, unite and present their demands
strongly before Congress it is well nigh certain an
effective bill on the subject wijl be enacted during
the coming term.
The Call has for several years been urging the
wine, oil and fruit men of California to look to Con
gress for a bill of the kind proposed by the wine
growers and has repeatedly pointed out the injury
resulting from the present license allowed to the
manufacturers of spurious goods. If nothing has
been done by Congress of a really effective nature to
prevent the sale of adulterated and falsely branded
articles it is only because the various industries af
fected have not yet combined to work for the common
good. The action taken by the wine men at St.
Helena promises good results because k represents
organization and union, but the prospect of success
would be brighter still if the fruit men and the oil
men of the State would form similar organizations tol
work for the same end.
It is not merely adulteration that should be forbid
den, but false labeling. A great deal of harm is done
to many industries by the practice of unscrupulous
manufacturers in labeling inferior goods as standard
brands. Comparatively worthless Eastern fruit is
sold in Eastern markets under the name. of Califor
nia fruits, and our oil men and our wine men suffer
similar wrongs. s
That the issue will be a difficult one to deal with is
conceded, but it is quite possible to frame a bill that
will injure no legitimate industry, while ridding the
country of the great mass of fraudulent food and
medicines now on the market. * The wrong affects
every consumer as well as the producers of honest
goods, and there is a strong public sentiment to sup
port the demands of the reformers. The conditions
of the time are therefore propitious to the movement
of the wine producers, and if they stay with the fight
they may attain the desired Federal law during the
coming winter.
CALIFORNIA^wine men have taken an oppor
tune time to organize for the purpose of peti
tioning Congress to prohibit the sale of adul
terated wines in the American market. The issue
has long been under consideration and in the general
form of a fight for pure food is now engaging the
attention, of leading. men in nearly every legitimate
producing industry in the United States. Dairymen,
flour manufacturers, fruit men, oil men, meat packers
and the manufacturers of pure drugs have all within
a comparatively short time declared themselves in
favor of- the; enactment of a Federal law which will
protect the honest producer from the unfair compe
tition of men whose goods are either adulterated or
are falsely labeled.
IURE WINE LAWS.
< It is seldom that Californians have so general a
community of interest in the movements of a band
of men now at large in our midst. The savage crea
tures who* escaped from Folsom prison and disap
peared no one knows where and apparently no one
knows how have become in our imaginations ubiqui
tous. We may meet them anywhere and at any time,
and under any condition they will be dangerous.
Reverence too will be given abundantly to the army
nurses, those brave women who left their homes to
minister to the sick of the camps and the wounded of
the battlefields. Their trials were not lighter than
those of the soldier at the front, their patriotism not
less. They too served their country well and the
story of their deeds will remain for all time as an in
spiration to the patriotic womanhood of the republic.
So for every grade and rank of the visitors and for
the families who have come with them to share in
the patriotic inspirations of the encampment and to
see the wonderland of California there will be a cor
dial welcome everywhere. San Francisco is not to
stand alone in the welcome, for from all parts of our
great State invitations will come to the veterans to
visit localities already notable for beauty and for
hospitality. Moreover thousands of Californians will
come to this city to take part in the events of the re
ception here; so that it is a literal Calif or nian wel
come that is extended to the veterans, and we may
be sure they will carry with them a thousand pleasant
memories of it when they return to their Eastern
DURING this week therchief business and the
chief pleasure of San Francisco will be that
of entertaining the veterans of the Grand
Army of the Republic. To that end the promptings
of loyal hearts and the ministrations of willing hands
will be given unceasingly until the encampment closes
and the veterans depart.
It is right and fitting that it should be so. In the
order of nature it is not likely we shall ever see again
a gathering of the Grand Army in this city. Many
cities will compete for the honor of entertaining the
veterans in future years, and their ranks are now so
rapidly diminishing that long ere it comes our turn
to again receive'them their numbers will be few and
it is doubtful if among the survivors there will be
many who can come across the continent from their
Eastern homes to assemble on this coast. Our wel
come this week therefore must be one of "hail and
farewell," and though it may not be openly spoken
the feeling will be in the hearts of all that we are now
as a city giving d\ir final greeting to the Grand Army
as an organization.
Among our visitors are many whose names are
familiar in. our mouths as household words. They
are the commanding ones on whose, lives and deeds
the light of fame has fallen. The youth of the city
will hold it hereafter as a precious memory that they
have seen and perhapslhave heard these famous ones
with whom history ana tradition will be busy. It
will delight them to recall that they have a personal
recollection of this or that man whose name they will
meet in reading the annals of their country. So to
the famous ones all eyes will be turned during the
week and San Francisco will feel a pride in doing
them honor.
It is not to the famous only, however, that the
hearts of the people will turn with affection. The
essential spirit of Americanism is that of a genuine
democracy that recognizes /worth wherever found,
and we know that in the ranks are many veterans as
worthy of honor as those whose high offices render
them more conspicuous. Americans have never
failed to give proper tribute to the privates in the
ranks, the men who bore the heat and the burden of
the day, whose pay was small, to whom promotion
never came, whose names are unrecorded save in the
annals of their homes, and who during all the years of
the war fought with an undimmed patriotism and an
unflagging courage from a sense of duty and of loy
alty to their country and to' the sacred cause repre
sented by its banner.
GRAND ARMY WEEK.
BATTLESHIP MASSACHUSETTS BREAKS
ALL THE NAVAL BAD LUCK RECORDS
of conserving the empire, for he said: "There is a
side to this controversy which is. beyond mere politi
cal economy and the wisdom to be derived from sci
entific text books. That question is the question of
closer imperial unity. * * * It is an idea very
alien to the palmy days of free trade. Mr. Cobden
had, I believe, little regard for the colonies. Mr."
Bright said it did not matter to us to whom India
belonged. We have all passed beyond that. We
have passed beyond it as political economists; we
have passed beyond it as patriots."
From utterances of that kind the protectionists
draw the conclusion that when events force the
Prime Minister to declare himself he will be found
on the side of Mr. Chamberlain. Then the issue will
have to be met by ParliamenUand by the people.
Such being the case there appears good reason fpr
deeming that the present Parliament will have but a
short career even should it ever meet again.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 3903.
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