The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1897, Page 1

» f f L SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1897—THIRTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CEN THOUSANDS CAME AT FREEDOM'S CALL Ardent Meeting of Friends of the Brave Little Nation Struggling for Independence. ELOQUENT VOICES UPLIFTED FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. Prominent and Gifted Speakers Tell of the Cruel Wrongs Which Spain Has Wantonly Perpetrated. A patriotic American audience, goth- | plished speskers. It was & erowd in en- ered in sympatiy with a struzgiing peo- | thusiastic earnest, ple who suffer taat they may be irec, was| The audience listened esgerly hat assembled at Metropolitan Temple | words of the speakers. evening. | indignantly during oratorical pauses in ever was the spirit of liberty more | the recital of the crimes and oppressions evident. It was represented in the fes- | of the Spanish Goveroment.and soldiery. toons of red, white and blue, and in the | They-applanaed 10 the echo the names of star of Cuba libre, which were the main | Gomez, of Garcia and of Maced. Thev features of the decorations. It welled | cheeréd until the wally seemed to vibrate from hearts throbbing with the ardor of | at the mention of America's National patriotisu and the compassion of hu-| heroes, Washington and Lincolu, Gomez manity. | and Maceo—ali honored names in the It was voiced in the eloquence of gifted | cause of liberty. In the struggle for free- sneakers, whose art is never so noble, so [ dom all men are copatriots. effective and so sublime as when inyoked | § laom has a San Francisco audience in the cause of down-trodden people bat- | listened to such eloguence. tling for freedom. were at their best, inspired by the just- The hall was crowded—crowded with | ness of their canse and the keen sympathy such an assemblage as that auditorum | of their auditors. It is donbtful if many bas seldom witnessed. There was a notice- | of the latter considered the poetic perora- able absence of the scoffers and the curl- | tions, the powerfui periods, the striking ous who formed a material element in re- | climaxes and the timely metaphors of the cent campaign meetings. There was not | orators. They only knew that their in evidence to any considerable extent | hearts were stirred, that- before them the impassive faces of those attracted only to the They murmured | cal, neither were they new. The speakers | of & crust despotism, ‘the deeds of brave men «nd the hope of liberty’s triumph. These things they saw portrdyed in the brignt colors of vivid_imagery, and from breasts filled with that love of justice and of right which is ‘strong in every true | American burst forth the indignation and the sympathy which the tales of Spanish atrocities have beern engendering day by day. There was not an address during the evening which did not appeal strongly to the audience. To the scholarly address of the Mayor, the keen arraienment by | Attorney William H. Jordan of Spanisb iniquities, the patriotic remarks of Henry E. Highton, the polished eloguence of Samuel M. Shorridge and tne powerful apveal of Colonel T.V. Eddy—all were reeted by the audience with ardent en- thusiasm. A brass band furnished music for the occasion and its selections were heartily received. The numbers were not clas: For such an andience. “The Star-spangled Banner,” Ameri: “Marching Through Georgia” and kindred airs which recall the names of patriots and the acts of - heroes, were plenty.good enough. And for an audience assembled in the uame’ of humanity and Ireedom the b-st is searcely good enough. It was nearly 9 o’clock when Mayor Phelan called the meeting to order. His appearance was the signal for the first round of appisuse, which was repeated many times during the course of his ad- dress. The chiefexecative of the muniei- pality spoke as foliows: Ladies and Gentlemen: The duty has de- volved upon me of calling this'meeting to or- Qer. About amonth ago Iwas in receipt of a communieatiof from the Cubau League of merica, with headquarters in New York, sking that this remote City of San Francfsco form & committee for the purpose of co-oper= ating vith the parent organization. The or- ganization had buta single objcet, and that Wwas 1o stir up the American people to a reali- zation o their duty in helping by their moral suoport and by material aid the patriots of Cubs to regain their freedom and their lib- [Applause.) No American’ comimunity d possibly be deaf to such an appeal, and with the co-operation of the Cutan League of San Francisco, nlready formed, I was enabled 10 select from your fellow-citizens fifty gentle- men who promised their active support and co-operation. That commities of fifty bas called * this demonstration. Such meetings have been held throughout the country, and the organization in New York is 8 most repre- sentative one. Every man who ioves justice 2nd bates iniquity belongs to that society in the metropolis of our country—in the city of New York. ([Applause.] I will not tell you, because you are already informed—it is current history. The story of they saw the picture of Cuba bleedine | Cuba! how for vears and years the people by the entertainment afforded by accom- | but defiant, the vicious but impotent rage | have been dissatistied with the yoke of Spain; that their condition is parallel to the condition of America before the Revolution. A foreign | Government sought to_impoge upon it a yoke which was gailing and’ which freemen could not bear, and when they so imposed taxation upon the- American coloniestn those days—a taxation to which the American colonists not only refused to consent, nor had they any means in & parlismentary sense of consenting, Dbutsgainsi- which: they repeatedly protested, stating the justice of their cause. After the parent Government in Eugland, in accordsuce with its world-wide aud hie-long policy of ex- aciing tribute {rom dependencies, liad refused to give them justice, they Tose P in arms. Well, of what use were the arms of America against the first power in Europe? It would seem a very unequal struggle, but as Edward Evereit said, it was the spirit of the cause which supplied the place of arms and munitions of war and gave them victory, be- cause when men believe themsetvesto be right in any cause they are thrice armed. Thrice armed is he who has his quarrel just,and they but help it, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustic is tatnted. We'sce the same struggle to-aay in Crete and Greece of aucient renown, Wesee in Cubs & people struggling for freedom and if is impossi- ble that me! be free under a yoke of & Goy- ernment against which they rebel, because liberty is impossible without order and order is impossible without government, and gov- ernment in any sense of the term is impossi- ble without a settled conviction on the pari of the people of. its legitimacy and their obliga- tions in conscience o obey it. Now, 50 long as that Beurbon folly, the folly of those men of whom weare told they learn nothing and never forget, of trying to rule a people. which is anmated with a spisit of freedom in that ragjote corner uf the globe; the beautiful islandd.i Caba: soloug as they persis: In thas foliy, hydwiil ot oney iahorl themselves in am international irouble, but they will fail'in .their ‘purpose of governing those people and of exacting that tribute from them, in which they alone are concerned. They ‘hold it as a dependency, s tributary state. Thelr only interest in Cuba is' to ex- tract tribute from the labor and the industry of the people, in which we are free to admit that the fiscal policy of Spain is & wise one, because they have 1o other means of support, but these-Cubans tell’ them that they canuot Jook to Cuba, for ill-gotten gains. [Applause.] Ladies and gent'emen, this is 50 old a story, this struggle of a people not numer- ously stroug, but strong in their love of Iree- dom, that it can have but one solution. Freedom’s battle once begun Bequeaths from b eeding sire to son, Though baitled of: Is always won, And the Cubats' battle fs slready won because the people are determined; becase the spirit of the cause and their love of freedom have given them that strength which the lack of arms aud the munitions of war has demed them, and it is the duty of the Unitea States. mindful of its own history, to hold out a hana 10 a suffering people and aid them to a real- ization of those great principles of freedom whicn we ourselves enjoy. [Applause.] Out of our bounty we rust give, and on this account we are here to-night, simply repre- sentiug & part of the American States doing ourlittle—a mite it may be—to give courage and hope and support to the people of Cuba. California is & new State, but she hus done much for the cause of freedom. She put free- dom into her constitution at the very incep- tlon of her history, when it was a question whether she would be for slavery or against it, and so true has she, been to these principles that when the black man was despised as & human chattel she offered him the same privileges which the white population en- joyed. She recognized the blacks as human beings entitled (o freedom, and that freedom was ultimately given o them after a most terrible war, costing a million human lives and mil- Tions of treasure, and probably the best type of man who went to that battle from this coast— aud heisa Californian we will always claim as the type of the soldier of freedom—was, you will remember, Edward Dickinsou Baker. [Avptause.] Baker was inflamed with the love of liberty, aud haviug been sent to the Senate of the United States he threw aside the honors of peace and seizing the sword rushed into the foretront of the battle and died figiting at the very beginning.of the war. But not alone bas he bequeathed to us his example, but he has bequeathed to us golden words of eloquence which tell so beautifully the story of freedom and iis invincibility that 1 am moved to repeat them, because they have been with me since schooldays almost as household words. He'said: ‘Long years ago I took my stand by freedom, and where in youth my. feet were plnted thers my man- hood and my, age shall march. I for one not ashamed of ireedom; I rejoice in her cause; I march beneath ber banner; Iglory in ber strength, But I have seen her siricken down on & hundred s of battle; I have secur et Trienas fly from Ner; Ihave scen her foes gather round her; I baye seen them bind her 'to the stake, gathering her ashes that: they might scatter them further yet, But when they .turned to exult I saw her meet them again face to face fully clad in complete steel and brandishing in her strong right hand a sword red with insufferable light” [Applause]. That is the story of freedom. She cannot be put down nor exterminated. ~Her friends, even, may desert her; her foes may gather round her, and even in the darkest days of the Cuban struggle you and 1, who knew the life- long history of freedom, knew that it was merely deferring the giorious end that ulti. mately these men must triumph, and triumph they will. And such support aswe give her to-night, and sueh as Congress has given, merely advances the glorious day when Cuba will take her place among the free natious of the worid. [Loud applause.] William H. Jurdan, who came next, said: Ladies and Gentlemen: The story of Cuba and her struggle for release from the rule of the Spaniard is the oft. repeated stoty of cruelty, of tyrauny and of curruption so often met with in the war of Spain, once a vast nation, but now a meager empire. Ttisastory of the weak sgainst the Continued on Ninth Page. At Times During the Meeting at Metropolitan Temple Last Night ‘the ‘Audience Aros e-and Cheered for Cuba . Libre. Enthusiasm Prevailed From the Opening to the End of the Great Demonstration. i o BOLD SEIZURE OF SENSATIONAL TELEGRAMS Legislators Head Off a Box That Was on the Way to Nevada. WESTERN UNION PEOPLE AND WELLSFARGO DEFIED. Captured Dispatches Packard Sent Out Showing That Bert Appeals for Money to Pass the Coyote Claims Bills Are Read in the Assembly. Powers, However, Is Vindicated. SACRAMENTO, Can., March 20.—The Assembly Committee on Retrenchment received at the Southern Pacific vepot at 6 o'clock this morning the box containing the telegrams for which a duces tecum subpena had been issued, and took the box to the committee-room in the State Capitol. The door was locked, and in ex- ecutive session the committee opened the | | was listened to 1n a silence slmost painful box and proceeded to examine the thirty pounds of telegrams therein contained. About two hours later Suverintendent Jaynes of the Western Union Telegraph Company appearcd - with his attorney, Judge R. B. Carpenter, and demanded ad- mission. This being denied, Mr. Jaynes kicked the door and broke the lock, over- turning and breakinga table which had been placed there asa barricade. Tue com- mittee ordered the sergeant-at-arms to place him under arrest, but did not insist upon the order after Mr. Jaynes had with- drawn. Alter a gession of eral hours the committee presented its report to the Assembly. Wboen Burnett of San Luis Obisno entered the House with a big bundle of papers on his arm, all eyes were turned toward him. His aspect was grave, as though he felt e bad a solemn duty to perform. The interést with which he was regarded was heightened by the fact that it had become known that fourteen tele- grams were made a part of te report. Ataluil in the proceedings Melick an- nounced that his committee was ready to report, and the announcement at once stilled the noise of conversatiom. Clerk Duckworth received the bundle of papers, from the bottom of which pro- truded some green and yellow sheets. These were the fourteen dispatches men- tioned in the report, and if the fire of the concentrated gaze of a large number of people could buin there would have been nothing left of the report but smoke. - The introductory part of tne document was rather tame and formal. It recited the resolution under which the committee bad beer appointed. It followed with the pames of some of the principal witnesses examined, reciting the fact of the refugal of the telegraph people to answer certain questions, and then came down to the issue, which the Clerk read in a clear, de- liberata voice. After reciting the fact that the com- mittee nhad examined ‘varicus members of the Assembly, the repori says: “Oun March 19, George Senf, manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company in Sacramento, was subpenaed. He refused to answer certain questions. Taken be- fore the bar of the House he partielly answered the questions and was remanded to this committee. Before this committes he refused to answer other questions and has not yet done so. “In his testimony, Mr. Senf testified that all telegrams sent from Sacramento since March 5 had been shipped to Super- intendent Jaynes by Wells-Fargo Express. “We then subpenaed Felix Tracy, man- ager of the Wells-Fargo Express Com- pany in Sacramento, Who gave your com- mittee the information that this box of telegrams had been exprassed to F. Jaynes, Reno, Nev., by the 11:40 train, March 19. “Your commiitee immediately tele- araphed C. W. Long, Constable at Truckee, to take this box fom Wells- Fargo’s messenger on arrival of the train. On service of this subpena said box of tele- grams was returned to Sacramento in charge of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express. Your committee directed Constable Long to accompany the box on the train, which arrived in Sacramento at 6:20 A. M. to-day. “Your committee, pursuant to a resolu- tion adopted by the Assembly last night, met at the Southern Pacific depot and took possession of said box of telegrams, your chairinan signing for said box on Wells, Fargo & Co.’s books at the depot. Immediately upon gaining possession of said box of talegrams your coramittee pro- ceeded to its regular committee rooms, number 72 of the Capitol, opened said box and looked over the ‘telegrams contained therein. “From all the telegrams your commit- tee took out fifteen telezrams, which we believe have a very direct bearing on the investigation of -bribery in connection with the passage of Assembly bill 410. “Except these fiteen telegrams all others were replaced in the box carefully, and by advice of the Attorney-General were delivered to Superintendent Jaynes of the Wesiern Union Telegraph Com- ‘pany in person. “The fifteen telegrams which your com- ‘mittee believe have a direct bearing on the charges of bribery, are herewith appended, asa part of thisreport. Your committee is not able to do more in the short time al- lotted to it. From these telegrama we be- lieve money was used in connection with the passage of the same bill. We here- with submit the above facts for the consid- eration of the Assembly, for whatever ac- tion it desires to take.” The concluding paragraph, in which the committee expressed its belief that money had been used, without mention- ing where, how, by whom or on whom, in its intensity. Tbere remained nothing more of the report but the little wad of dispatches. Clerk Duckworth paused and looked if- quiringly at Speaker Coombs. Wright of Alameda, Cutier of Yuba, Cross of Los Angeles and others were standing besiae their desks with their attention riveted on the Speaker. The peopie in the frout row in the gallery leaned over the railing, fearful lest they NEW TO-DAY. AN AWFUL SORE A Bahe’s Untold Suffering And Mother’s Many Sleepless Nights. ' CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS. 1 herewith write out in full the beginning and end of that terrible disease, Eczema, which caused my babe untold suffering, and myself many sleepless nights. 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