The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, oue year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CaLL, six months, by mall.. 8.00 Daily and Sunday CaLi, three montha by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall.. .6 Bubday CALL, one year, by mail.. WERKLY CALL, OD6 year, by mall BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californts. Telephons e EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Stroet. Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Bontromery sireet, coruer Clay; open uatll 8:80 o'clock. 889 Hayes street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenih and Mission streets; opes snttl 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open untll 9 o'clock, 187 Ninth street; open until § o'clock. 1305 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICH: Rooms 81 and 89, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE FAKE AND THE FACT. —THE FAKE— The Eramfner published for several days at the top of its title page the following fake: THE EXAMINER PUBLISHED 249,757 Inches Of Ads During 1896. 5964 More Than were published by any other San Francisco newspaper. fake the Eraminer acareful record was ount in inches of its quence it could be In the publication of th a8 probabiy not aware th being kept of the actual an edvertising that in confronted with the followl; —THE FACT— THE EXAMINER FUBLISHED 236,528 Inches Of Ads During 1896. That is one fact and here is an- other: THE CALL PUBLISHED 239,551 Inches Of Ads During 1896. 3,023 More Inches were published in THE CALL than in the Examiner during 1896. It is to be remembered that during 1896 the Eraminer published approximately 800 inches of illezal lottery advertisements, of which THE CALL did not and would not publisn one. Ihe monarch of the fakers has doubtless suc- ceeded in securing thousands of inches of adver tising during the past year by duping and dec 10z advertisers through felse and rrogant asser- tions of the cnaracter of the foregoing fake. It would seem, however, from the facts that the merchants as a rule have not been misled by its sraudulent pretenses. The Ezaminer boasts that its books are open to fnspeciion, but we suggest that it inspect lts own books before it ventures upon the publication of another fake. We congratulate the public on the fact that the exrosure of this fake led the Ezaminer to drop it yesterday. In this the Ezaminer was discreet, and if 1t 1s wise it will make no mere such bold at tempis to decelve the publ Beware of the tarred boodler. Bragging of a fake doesn’t make it news. The Ezaminer will now try wo dig up some hush money for the Butler piiono- graph. In offering home-rule to Cuba, the Spanish play a good card, but it isn't trumps It Willie Hearst were not a sharerin the rascality of his subordinates he would prosecute some of them. A sign of the times—Hearst, Lawrence and Bierce; Turners, Twisters and Steal- workers. Ezaminer editorial-rooms, In several Legislatures bills have been introduced this winter to forbid football matches—and the cranks keep turning. The Chronicle yesterday wrung so much of the lie out of the Eraminer’s brag on its news service that there isn’t any brag leit. Huntington pays Hearst, Hearst pays Lawrence, Lawrence pays Bierce and the end is not yet; there is still the devil to pay. It goes without saying that the Ezam- iner's interview with Butler was received over the same wire as the Li Yung Yuen dispatch., Unless another subsidy is forthcoming from some corporation the Ezaminer will drop its telegrams altogether and rely on fakes and stale stories for news. To publish a dispatch a day after it b appeared in other papers and then brag of it as a scoop is Long Green’s idea of the way to run a fake paper when subsidies give out. The Ezaminer asserted vesterday that it sent Senator Money to Cuba as its repre- sentative, and if the report ever getsto Washington Money will talk war in a way that will make Willie crawl. The Chronicle was slightly in error yes- terday in charging the Ezaminer managers with an overuse of the pastepot. It is a tar-bucket they use in that office for news and advertisements as well as for business. Long Green is his name, And I will not deny In regard to that same ‘W hat his name might imply. But the way he works Willie is peculiar, And he isn’t too g¥een to be sly. Concerning the statement of S8am Jones that hell is within half a mile of Boston, all we have to say is that we have noticed an extraordinary eagerness on the part of the Boston fellows to incorporate their suburbs, SENSATIONAL METHODS. In exposing yesterday the sensational and fraudulent methods by which the Eraminer seeks to obtain a reputation as a newsgatherer the Chronicle threw a striking sidelight upon the course of the Eraminer in dealing with municipal af- fairs as exposed by Tue Cari. The methods of the blackmailing sheet in faking news are not widely different from those which it employs in faking public opinion in order to extort money from wealthy corporations. Among the recent frauds upon the public perpetrated by the Eraminer in its | news columns are the sensational Creelman dispatch unnouncing that the President of the United States had entered into a secret conspiracy with the Spanish Government for the purpose of crushing Cuba, the farcical report of a dispatch from the Emperor of China to Li Yung Yuen announcing that he had arrested all the relatives of the murderers of Little Pete, between midnight and 4 o’clock of the day following the murder; and last, the fake interview with the Australian suspect, Butler, which Butler has emphatically denied, both to the press and through the medium of a phonograph. These three salient fakes are a little more conspicuous than the others, but there were many published between the date of the Creelman dispatch and the Butler interview which were equally false and fraudulent, though not so sensational at the time. In addition to fake news the Ezaminer runs fake advertisements which it obtains by offering a “‘vard of daisies” or a *yard of pups” to any one who will bring them in. These advertisementsare not genuine. They are frauds upon the people, and any one who expends even as much as a postage stamp in answering them is to that extent swindled by the faker. Moreover, the Eraminer seeks to further defraud the people in its advertising, as it does in its news, by wholesale lying in its editorial columns, As it braggartly and impudently announces every now and then some worthless fake or stale story as a scoop in news, so does it exaggerate and lie about its advertising in order to deceive people into the belief that merchants regard it as a good medium for making known their business to the public. The faker of news and the faker of advertising is consistently enough the faker of principle and of public opinion. When it observes that any strong popular senti- ment is directed to a particular object it begins at once to devise a means of deriv- ing a profit from 1t. If the movement happens to be a general demand for a cheaper service by some public corporation, the faker at once becomes a black- mailer. It directs its energies tc inflaming the public mind by appesls to passion, to prejudice and to ignorance in order to work up a force which it can use to enrich the packet of its proprietor, or his subordinates, by extorting money for silence. The course taken by the blackmailers in the present contest for cheaper water and cheaper gas is an illustration of its methods. While Tue CArr urged the Supervisors to perform their full duty in making a thorough investigation of the affairs of the water and gas companies, in order that data might be obtained on which to buse an accurate calculation as to what would be reasonable rates for water and gas in this City, the Ezaminer took a different course. It began to de- nounce former Boards of Supervisors as boodlers, the corporations as extortioners, and to demand arbitrary reductions which in their nature would be a spoliation of the capital invested in the company. Here again it showed its capacity for fakes and its delight in sensationalism, as ithad done in its dispatches from Creelman and the Emperor of China. This time, however, it meant something more than to delude the public. It desired to obtain from the water and the gas companies subsidies like that which it ob- tained from the Southern Pacific Company when it received $1000 a month in payment for “fair treatment.” The exposure of these repeated fakes, frauds, swindles, lies and successfal and unsuccessful attempts at blackmail on the partof the managers of the Eraminer have long since disgusted the people, but it is the duty of legitimate journalism to expose them again and again as often as they occur. Vice cannot be crushed by letting it alone. It is never safe to overlook a stale egg until it has been buried, nor to ignore a skunk until he has been killed and his skin nailed to the wall as a warning to others of his kind to keep off the prem We are aware that Mr. Hearst has repeatedly endeavored to exonerate him- self from the shame and cisgrace of the f nates. The public, however, cannot permit him to excuse himself on such false pretenses. If his subordinates have not divided with him the plunder obtained by fraud and extortion, why has he not prosecuted them? Why bas he continued to keep some of the foulest among them in his pay? Why is 1t that he is forced to employ dishonest men to run his paper? Why does he keep men around him who have co little reputation to lose that they are willing to bear the odium and the odor of the Ezaminer when he throws it upon them? MATTHEW G. UPTON. THE NEW TARIFF, uds and blackmailing schemes which | bave been exposed in the Ezaminer office by throwing tbe blame upon his subordi- | | will be big bills to pay. Ry the deatn of Matthew G. Upton California loses one of the ablest, most forceful and most useful of that genera- tion of journalists which is now rapidly passing away. He was one of the pioneer editors of the State, and throughout his | life served as an exemplar of the virtues and talents which made the early journal- ism of California remarkable for the great- ness of its accomplishments and the power with which it molded public| opinion. Although he served the profession of journalism in many ways, his most dis- tinguished services to it and to the State were rendered as an editorial writer. For | this work he had a native talent which he | developed to its highest power by careful | study, incessant exercise and a high ap- preciation of its importance to the world. | With him editorial writing was something | more than a transitory comment upon passing events. He made it a means of public education, and in his hands it served the purpose of warning the people | of every danger which threatened their | municipal ana National life, and of direct- | ing them as to what course they should | pursue in politics to guard their personal interest ard their public welfare. His services to San Francisco are among | the greatest which have been rendered by any citizen. He madea careful study of | all municipal affairs, and being devoted to the cause of honesty and truth, as well as of municipal progress, he became & fearless and efficient champion of popular rights and interests against all forms of evil or of injury which threatened them. 1t is to be doubted whether any editorial writer of his time exerted a stronger influ- ence upon the community in which he lived, and it is to the credit of the people of San Francisco that they recognized his usefulness and were prompt to follow Lis leadership in matters of public concern. California can ill afford to lose a man of such character in the editorial profession at this time. His trenchant pen is needed now to redeem the noble profession of journalism from the taint and stain of those sensational and vicious newspapers which zre so aptly called *‘decadent.”” It 1s needed also to still guard the public welfare against the assaults of blackmail- ers and corrupt rascals of all kinds. Ttis true that there are still men to uphold the cause which he so ably championed, and that there remain great newspapers to set forth in California the principles of right and legitimate journalism, but none the less we can ill afford to spare the man who was 80 eminent in his service to the pro- fession and to the Btate. It the Ezaminer would expend more money, care and energy on its news service, it would not have to resort to so many fakes to keep subscribers and adver- tisers, nor would it have to brag so fre- | quently in its editorials to make up for | thediscredit of its local reports and foreign | telegrams. Fake advertisement given with a yard of pups for 15 cents may be profitable to the fake journal that runs them, but they are frands upon the public and swindle every man who is deceived into spending as much as a postage-stamp to answer one of them. ‘It is all very well for Willie Hearst to declare whenever a new Ezaminer scandal comes out that his confidence has been betrayed by dishonest employes, but if he doesn’t profit by their dishonesty why does he employ that kind of men? In order that he may throw the blame of the frauds and fakes in his papers upon his subordinates, Willie Hearst takes good care to employ subordinates who have no reputation to lose. 1t all the countiesget all they want there The work of framing the new tarift law has been so well advanced by the Repub- lican members of the Ways and Means Committee that it has been possible to make public a general ontline of the rate of duty which wil be imposed on the more important articles of import which come into competition with American products. The advanced report as given is full of encouragement to the industries of all sections of the country, inasmuch as it gives assurance that they will be pro- vided in the Lil with an adequate pro- tection against the cheap labor of foreign countries, Broadly speaking, the new tariff is de- signed to provide the country with about §50,000,000 mcrease of annual revenue, comprehensive protection to American industry and the re-establisument of a system of reciprocity treaties which will open for American produce profitable markets on equal terms in all parts of the globe. Each of these three things is in itseif good, and taken together they form an aggregation of industrial and com- mercial benefits whose value to the country and the people it would be hard to overrate, It is satisfactory to note that due atten- tion is paid in the tariff to the importance | of protection to the agricultural industries of the country. There will be no more of the folly of free trade in the so-called raw material importations. The country has now learned that what is called the raw material of one industry is the fin- ished product of another. Wool is the raw material of the manufacturer, but it is the highest form of the product of the work of the sheep-grower. 1t is necessary therefore to impose a protective duty on wool as well as on woollen goods if we are to deal fairly with farmers as well as man- ufacturers. The required protection will be given in the new tariff, not only on wool, but on all other farm products, and the agricultural interests of the country will be relieved by its operation from the long depression which has followed the adoption of the Democratic tariff. So far as the work of the framers of the tariff has gone the industries of California have received adequate consideration. ‘We sbare in the benefits which will be de- rived by the whole country in the restora- tion of the McKinley rates of duties upon the products of farms and market-gar- dens. Therates upon oranges and lemons have not yet been fixed, but it is reported they will be adjusted in & manner to meet the wishes of California fruit-growers. The duty provided for imported cattle will afford to the stock-raisers of California and the Soutbwest generally a sufficient protection sgainst the competition of Mexico. Taken - altogether California fares well, and along with the rest of the country has good reason to be satisfied with the terms of the proposed measure and gratified with the prospect of its speedy enaciment in an extra session of Gongress. PLUG-HAT OENTENNIAL. News comes to us from London that they have been celebrating over there the hundredth birthday of the plug hat. The inventor of this imposing style of beadgear was John Hetherington, and he made his first public appearance under it on the 15th of January, 1797. 8o startling was the innovation in head- gear that on the 16th of January, 1797, the inventor was arrested and brought before the Lord Mayor charged with a breach of the peace and with inciting a riot. The prosecution proved that several timid women fainted when they saw the strange «ight coming down the street, that chil- dren screamed, and that a young man was run over and got his arm broken in the panic that resulted. In his defense the inventor maintained as stoutly as tbe lidies of Chicago are now said to be maintaining the momentous | theater-hat question that he had a free- man’s right to dress as he pleased. That | his plea was sound is shown by the result. He succeeded, despite of fainting women | and the protests of the prosecuting offi- | cersof the Crown, in introducing the tall and shiny tile, and his service to fashion has merited commemoration in the cen- tennial just celebrated with glorious pomp and circumstance. London did well to celobrate the cen- tennial of the advent of the hat nick. named “plug,’” but rightly called *‘silk.” Its merit is proved by the fact that, unlike other fashions, it has not tired humanity in a hundred years. Without it modern dress would lack its finest touch. It is often ridiculed, but it holds its topmost place unshaken in the esteem of well- dressed men. PLRSONAL. The Rev. Dr. Alexander is at the Lick. S. Warburton of Tacoms is at the Palace. Dr. A. B. Cowan of Sauta Rosa is in the City. M. W. Stewart of Arizona arrived here yester- day. F.W. Sheffleld, & business man of Spokane, is in town. W. C. Hudson of Watsonville is a late ar- rival here. Dr. H. Vetterling ‘of Los Gatos isa late ar- rival here. J. B. Appling of Sonors is staying at the Cos- mopolitan. F. M. Brown of Vallejo is registered at the Cosmopolitan. J. M. Bassett of Fresno is registered at the Cosmopelitan. Lane C. Gilliam, a mining man of Spokane, ‘is in the City. W. G. Ross, an_attorney of Visalla, arrived Bere yesterday. V. Shastria and B. Schegrleft of Siberia are at the Occidental. John M. Streining, a fruit-packer of Santa | Rosa, is in the City. M. L. Graff, a general business man of Los Angeles, is in the City. W. P. Dwyer, a_steamboat owner of Sacra- mento, s at the Grand. Thomas P. Owens of Montresl, Canada, is & recent arrival at the Palace. T. Rasmussen, a rancher of Modesto, 1s a late arrival at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Stan- ford University, fs in the City. Mark L. McDonald, the well-known capi- talist ol Santa Rosa, isin town. F. M. Bachman and Mrs. Bachman of Indi- anapolis, Ind., are at the Grand. Superfor Judge J. F. Beard of Yrekaisona visitto the City and is at the Grand. C. F. Montgomery, owner of the Antloch Ledger, is gpeuding s few days here. Alexander Wood, a wealthy resident of | Providence, R. L., is at the Occidental. G. W. Sickeis, a mining man of Rossland, B. C., is among the arrivals at the Russ, | _A.B. Lemmon, editor and proprietor of the nta Rosa Republican, is at the Grand. John H. Gastside and John Gerdwood, of London, England, arrived here yesterday. George T. Myers, & salmon canner of the Columbia River and Puget Sound, is at the California. | J.C.Clay and R. Small, of Portland, Me., prominent gentlemen of the Pine Tree State, are at the Palace. T. C. White, the banker and extensive vine- yardist, of Fresno, is here on a business trip and is at the Lick. H. J. Mudge of Montreal, Canads, owner of coal properties near Banft, B. C., is among the arrivals at the Occidental. Henry R. Levy, one of San Bernaraino's fore- most business men, arrived in town yesterday with his family and is stopping st the Abbotts- ford. J. 0. Hayes of Eden Valley, who at one time was interested in a large copper mine in the Superior District, Mich., Is one of the recent arrivals here. Governor John A. Franklin and Mrs. Frank- lin of Arizona were 3mong the arrivals here yesterday and took their departure in the | lin in the Northwest for the past five years, is in the City for a week making the acquaint- ance of the wholesale stationery trade. He is a thoroughly Western man, having lived on this coast for the past twelve years. J.C. Kirkpatrick, a prominent attorney of San Antonlo, Texes, who for the past five months has been in Hawaii, and who aiter a short time here will return there for a month | more on the islands, is at the Grand. He says a good many people from the United States are going thereand engaging in the coffee business. The islands have quite an sbundance of money. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK " NEW YORK, X. Y., Feb. 6.—At the Plaza, D.J.Jordan; Netherland, Mrs. and Miss M. C. Brown ; Murray Hill, J. W. Watson, H. Dibble; Astor, B. Miller; Stuart, L. Robinson, S. 8. Small. R. S. Moore left the Plaza to sailon the Umbria. A “CALL” ARTIST AFPRECIATED. Alameda En Artist Culver of THE CALL is coming to the front in cartoon work. He made a ten-strike yesterday morning in his hit on the Exam- iner ip the “‘yard of puppies” take-off. News- paper men everywhere appreciate it as & good thing. NEWSPAPER PLEASANIRY. “This punishment hurts me asmuch as it does you,” said the parent. “Well, then, le’s compromise, pop,” pleaded the boy. ““There's no reason why either of us should sutfer.”—North Americau. ‘Were those cough drops benefictal?” “They worked like a charm. They have such a horrible taste that the children have all stopped coughing.”’—Chicago Record. Harlow—There’s a family up the street. Msmma—What's their name? Harlow—Dunno; but I've licked their boy | slready and sassed the sezvant girl.—Truth. “What's the matter?” said the wayfarer who was approached by a mendicant. “Something on your mind?” the reply. ain’t somethin’ on me mind. It's nothin’ on me stomach,””—Washington Star. Nibs—Debt is disgraceful. Squibs—Not betng able to get in debt is more s0.—Chicago Record. Adam—Eve, will you go to the cotillon with me this evening? Eve—Adam, you know as well as Ido thatI haven't & thing to wear.—New York Press. The good lady scrutinized him closely. “Didn’t I give you a whole mince pie & day or two ago?” she inquired in tones which re- sembled an amateur cold wave for iciness. “Yes, mum,” replied the occupant of the outcast overcoat, “I'm the same party; but I've recovered, and if yon'll mske it plain bread and milk this time I'll be heartily obliged.” “‘See nere, young man,” said thestern father: “if yon aon’t come home earlier after tnis I'll know the reason why.” “Glad to hear it, governor; that will save all explanations on my part.” —Detroit Free Press. He—1I suppose that sap-headed dude has pro- posed to you & dozen times. She—No; once was enough. us when we get settled Come and see Detroit Free Press. Sympathizing Friend—I am awfully sorry to bear that your work was rejected. Poster artist—I don’t mind disclostug the secret toyou; I know vou will keep it. The fact is that I am colorblind by gaslight, and I painted a group of green trees, thinking all the time that I was using pure red.—Indian- apolis Journal. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy strest. * e e il Guillev's, 905 Larkin. B e STRONG hoarhound candy, 15c. Townsend's® et e €rEcraL information daily to menufactarars, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e e James Murphy and Philtp Judkins, who three weeks ago were ordinary miners in Cripple Creek, have just shipped two carloads IcECREAM and cakes. | York. afternoon. They wero at the Grand. of ore which turned out $160,000 in gold. Charles Hopper, who appears in the title role of tne dramatization of “Chimmie Fad- den,” bea trong personal resemblance to Bob Davis, the well-known newspaper writer, formerly of THE CALL staff,but now in New EVERY house where there are young children should be supplied with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. In croup it glves Immediate relfef. —————— Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. —_———— BURNETT'S Corn Cure. 527 Montgomery. 25¢. * F. A. Kenny, who hes represented the Inter- national Art Company of New York and Ber- MR. HEARST’S HATCHETMEN. Abuse by Them Is Equivalent to a Certificate of Good Character, From San Francisco Town Toplcs. The day has long sifice passed when the blackguardly abuse of young Hearst's journalistic hatchetmen could injure any public man. As things now stand the enmity and abuse of these degraded journalistic drabs is equivalent to & certificate of good character, because it necessarily raises a presumption to the effect that the person who has drawn it has refused to discharge his public dutles in such a way as to eid that peculiar species of “modern metropol- itan journalism” with contracts with large corporatlons, against which it has been working up & hostile public feeling, for “fair treatment” at the rate of $1000 per month. It goes with- out saying that the Board of Supervisors should readjust and reduce the schedules of gasand water rates in this City, but it also goes without saying that in doing so the members of the board should exercise their own individual judgment as business men and refuse to be either led or coerced or cajoled into a course that is designed to aid the depleted Hearst exchequer rather than further the interests of the con suming public, TENDS TO A DISHONEST END, From the San Francisco News Letter. The course of the Examiner tends to a viclous and dishonest end. Itopens the door and makes more easy of attanment results that should be desired by no good citizen. A false public opinion would become a fulerum’ by which dishonest officials would be able to extort tribute from every corporation doing business in San Francisco. It would compel every corporation, as a matter of seli-protection, to resort to the corrupt use of money in order to sacure simple justice and save its innocent shareholders from disaster. It would bear to relation to the individual rights or burdens of the people. The parading of lengthy petitions proves nothing. The general public mind is so constituted that it will sign almost anything without hesitation, and the lists of names presented to the Supervisors are not entitled to more weight than the paper on which they are inseribed. Similar sheets placed sbout the streets, demanding a cut of one-half in the price of bread or boots or overcoats would without doubt be signed by every thoughtless passer-by. NO SECRET TO THE PUBLIOC. From the San Francisco Wasp. The purpose of the Examiner’s ferocious assault along the whole corporation line is self- evident. The public does not need to be told what it is. A journal which but a short time ago and under the same management which now controls it was drawing a large subsidy from the Southern Pacific Railroad cannot pose with much consistency as a reformer of corporation abuses. Nothiug in {ts course since it was stricken off the railroad company’s payroll has indicated an elevation of its moral tone. It is therefore to be presumed that if it got a favor- able opportunity to collect a few thousand dollars & month again in subsidies 1t would gladly avail itself of the chance. It would have been bstter for Dr. Clinton if his journalfstic ally maintained a discreet silence and permitted the investigation of the water company's affairs 10 be conducted {n a decorous manner. We do not see how the company could dare refuse to allow such a proceeding or fal to render any legitimate information requested by the Board of Supervisors. Any stockholder has the right to such knowledge, and certainly the Board of Supervisors, which exercises much control over the affairs of the water company, could not be dented the privilege which is extended to a stockholder, THE FAKER OUTDOES HIMSELF. From the San Fraocisco Chronicle. not looking for the exposure of the fact that all the truth in its “exclusive Madrid cablegram” of January 12 had appeared in the Chronicle during the Drevious month, resumed its bouquet throwing and catching with & complete sbandon of joy. Under the legend of the “New Journalism” it printed a facsimile ot the hesdlines and part of the text of its second-hand and moth-eaten 8coop and put near it a blank space to describe the Madrid news upon January 12 of the old journalism. Knowing that it had merely revamped dispaiches which the old jonrnalism had made stale with much use, it declared that it “had given the first news the world received of the plan of Spain to give to Cuba the autonomy pro- posed by President Cleveland.” Perhaps, in i1s soit-boiled judgment, it thought that the fake wouid pass undetected, but every one with half an eye saw its character at once. The story of what Spain was ready to concede to Cuba was as familiar as a thrice-toid tale, and its flaring repetition in the guise of & triumphant scoop simply proved again that what is new in the “new journalism’ is not true and what s true is not new. Nor is this all. The cablegram, so called, of Jenuary 12 was not only out of date when published, but the news given as i1s fifal verificationwas printed twenty-four hours after the Chronicle had it. To demoustrate this we print the Chronicle’s dispateh of the 4th and the Examiners of the 5th of February side by side on page 9. The Examiner's belated story appeared witha Madrid date line. Evidently 1t was sent from London instead, where the resident ‘‘commissioner of the n. J. found it in his morning copy of the Times, What he did was to paraphrase the revort and send it here one day after this paper had printed it. Where the Times sald “this assembly wiil bs composed of thirty- five uembers. Twenty-one of these members will be elected by the people of Cuba; six will be elected by the different corporations and the remainder will be selected, one a maglstrate ones university professor, one an Archbishop and five former Senators or Deputies,” the London rehasher for the Hearst publications wrote: “This body will be composed of thirty. five members, of which twenty-one Wwill be e! by popular vote and six by the leading municipal and provineial corporations. The remaining eight members wiil consist of a lead- ing magistrate, a university professor, an archieplscopal delegate and five ex-Senators or Deputies.”” Simflar points of resemblance or proofs of identity the curious reader may pick out for himselt. The text is full of them. 1t s but fair to observe that 50 long as the old journalism buys the news the naw journal- iem will have something anywhere from a day to & month after, with which to invade the privacy of its columns; but what would happen if the exchange system should bresk down or the new journalism shoutd be deprived of pastepot and scissors can only be surmised by those of vivid imaginations aud morbid tastes. ““Wot worries me | ART AND INDUSTRY SHOULD BE UNITED. By Professor Heary T. Ardley of the University of California. How few people pause to inquire how much the whole civilized world is indebted to the industrial arts for its prosperity and happiness. I refer to those professional industries that owe thelr value chiefly to art rather than the material used or the labor expended upon them — such, for instance, € ert furniture, carpets, wall-paper, drapery, book-bindings, fresco, mosaics, ceramics, stained glass, orna. mental work in stone, wood, iron, brass, gold, silver, leather, etc. The prosperity of man cities, states and nations depends almost entirely upon those arts which lif the raw m terials of & country from their crude, useless condition to their highest market value, and wherever these art industries are the mo pronounced we nnd the most lasting p perity, for in selling what they make and in making what they use their money is boin made and kept at home, while nature fur. nishes the material. Now, California is & very large consumar articles of art and luxury, and muste; make them at home or purehase them abroad, 50 that any one may see how very important this subject is to this great and growi where so much raw material is awaiting de velopment, or is sent East and bought back again at an enormous advance, while we pay the freight both ways. We sell our wool for a few cents a pound and then buy it back sgain at $2 per yard in a carpet! If we could but cut California off from the 3 rest of the world for a few years we should soon experience a great wave of prosperity | our industries. The wheels in our factories and the shuttles in our looms would soon be hum- ming all over the State, for we are blessed witn such & wide range of natural resources that we could mske ourselves independent of the world; but as long as communication makes it easy for us to buy everything elsewhere and we are willing to do 8o, ws shall continue to build up the industrial arts in other parts of the world and drain this State of millions o dollars every year while thousands of our own people are secking empioyment. If you enter any of our large stores selling art furniture, carpets, drapery, china, jewelry etc., you will find them loaded with the i.3ported products of Europe or the Eastern States and containing almost nothing made in California, and nearly all the applicc art work ths has been done here—from & simple mosaic to the decorations of the Mark Hopkins house—t been done by foreigners imported for the purpose. This is all wrong, for the great problem in the industry of the nations has come to be a esthetic one—how to give attractive and useful torms to their proauctions in order to gain and hold the markets of the world and supply the wants of their people at home. Professor Miller safd in his address to the National Potters’ Convention in New York: “Now, let us learn from our neighbors on the other side of the ocean who are beating us to-day {n our own markets. Constderation for the arts and for the methods of their advancement is & mat- ter of grave public concern. “The 1and rings to-day with the demand for forts and a navy, but I tell you there are things we need a great deal more than either, and higher industrial standards and more practical methods in education and purer tastes in art are some of them.” We only scratch the surface of the question of art as applied to industry—Europe digs into it! France and Germany were not fiercer rivals at Sedan than they are to-day in their efforts for promoting art education among their people. At the head of the Government Art has her minister as well as War, and millions are spent every year by the Governments of England, Germany and France in such education, while the United States Government spends nothing, but sits with folaed hands while millions of dollars 80 abroad for art work that should be done at home. Our manufacturers are progressive in many ways. but not in art. Mayor Phelan said some excellent things upon this subject recently at the Mechanics’ Institute Fair, when he poinled to the fact of foreign goods “forcing their way into oux reluc- tant market,” and the fault largely resting with our education. He pointed to the techulcal schools of Europe, where the young are trained in the usefal arts. This is in fact the keynote of the whole situation, and herein lies the remedy—to train the young mind on its native soil in pure art principles, and their hands to skill in applying them. We cannot tear up elsewhere a national art by its roots and replant it here and expect it to flourish. We might as well expect to tear up a full-grown tree and have it bear fruit just 8s well in a new hemisphere. But we may safely sow good seed in & new soil and expect it to grow into a healthy plant, adapted by nature to its new enviroument. Our Commissioner of Education in Washington says in a recent report: “It is evident from the history of the pastfew years that the people of the United States are large consumers of articles of art and luxury, and it is certain thet the consumption of these articles must largely increase. The question of who shall produce them is of vital importanco to the edu- cator, the taxpayer and the political economist. Shall they be made in other countries by foreign griists and artificers? *To have ouly the technical skill of the blacksmith or the carpenter will not suffice. It isa higher skill, @ more refined form of labor that can alone meet the coming demand. The training to qualify workers to meet this must be absolutely artistic, and in order to create men and women {o do this great and important work athome we must foster the germ of artistic thougnt ana feeling in the youthful scholar.” I must here quote a line or two by Professor I. Edwards Clarke of the Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.: “In this country we make too great a distinetion between ‘art’ and the “n. dustrial atts.’ They always flourish tne best when united—when Raphael and Michael Angelo made designs for the potters, the silversmiths, the weavers and the carvers, Designs that made the most costly materials a hundred-fold more valuable, until they are to-day exhibited in the great museums of the world, and treasured in the palaces of kings. What we need in America is more skillful artisans—artisans who are artists. We have enough picture paint- ers, but we need to bring together the useful and beautiful.” This we are not doing, for our artisans know nothing of;art, and our artists little of the {n- dustries. L Of course, we have some technical and “manual training’” are merely teaching old mechanical methods and simple pr elevating enough, and do not foster or encourage artistic tho: pupils learn to adapt their work to all kinds of materfal {n t periods of art. This exalts their work and eleva ally led to admire and to produce beautiful thin schools in this country, but they ocesses which are not mentaily ught and feeling. In Europe the he varfous styles of the different tes and interests the student, and he is gradu- gs. | cating the puvils,” for in that case they should certsinly be instructed in th Suppose you enter the woodworking depar tment of an average technical school—you will see that they are learning to,saw a board, make a jointor “draw” with rule and compass, and perhaps thes could construct a kitchen-table. Now, fuppose you ask them all, teachers and students, to combine their united efforts and adapt this same material to a Gothic, Renais. sance or Moresque table on original lines. Could they do {1? Ask them again to ornament it with the art work of the period - sents—not copled or altered, but original. They would be lost. ¥ Sl Then their product could only be valued at §5 instead of $50 or $100. XNow step inlo the room where the metal work is done; some are hammering pieces of ron, Qihers working at lathes. Ask them to design and:make a wrought-iron Renaissance gate. Would they not wonder what you were telking about? So with everything, from a Greek yass 1o s mossicinlay. i And just here lies the difference between the technical schools of this country and Eu. rope, and the three things needed here to balance them are frechand drawing. origioa; desies and the history of ornament. But as these three things require more study and siill than ci] the others combined no one is prepared to properly tesch them, and the mere mechanic can never become an artist—artisan. It is o use for the instructor to say that he is ‘not trying to make artisans, but only edu. forms of technical and historical work, for they are tho most eduoca tional. e In the history of art alone one gets the history of tie world—not in the matrow political {livisions of conguest, but in the brorder epochs of adwancing civilization, while orlginal work n design will certainly furnish the pupil with as much *4 t 2 in design wil pup! ‘mental gymnastics” as any subject Then think how useful and necessary this work decomes even as a mere “ac - ment.” Only recently a writeron *‘Household Decoration” advised front roams ox s Riney bouse to be “finished with redwood voards, the joints covered with flat strips and the bes e of plened lumber showing overhead.” Now inis 13 cxacty the way o bara i3 built or the lum- ermen’s cabin in the backwoods, There is no “decorailon” about i 3t - TSt s iy about it, and just imagine its dis. What we need here are regular conservatories of applied art and prof sense, with Vigor and ‘‘snap,” who will not be led astray by fads: who ean do wne areor oD talk about, and who will not talk around the subject in she meanineless platitudes and obseure parables of circleology in order to make shallow people think they are “deap.” butwie wni 2hit the nail on the head” every time fnd show the siudents what to do and how to do 1t, and make them work. For they caunot cultivate taste by mere y 'they £atisly their hunger by reading a caokbook. ¥ B1Q SSYA 0N taste a0y inte than they © very best thing that could happen to this State would be the endowment of & college of applied art. This is the one great crying need of Caiif y, e for the State than any one thing et Undertaken, i et woula s moreigeod All the great universities are beginning to take up this subject, a: dent (Lord Re, reat Internationsl Educational Confocorcn Lo said: “The idea of a unive:sity is not to ground a certain number of tudi limited number of studies, * * * butto supply the highest wants ot a nation in every dire tiom, not In ane. .Difcite vitm non scole. _If the best scientific teaching Is o be repsiien oy hy Dot the bighest technical education? The task of 1ia professors is 1o fill evers pestemia and every walk of life with men who will be able to grappie with the problems they have to face—to invent and to produce s ¥ aee tplearn and investigate; to make useful citizens as F Dot have the re; o B 8e oy universities stand in solitary grandeur, remote As the mind and nand, when united, are the factors of everythi; that we enjoy, et us train'them together and avoid s onesided. eduontion . 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