The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1807. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE . 10 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS... .517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents o week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.... ..One year, by malil, $1.50 veeeeess.. 908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE... e NEW YORK OFFICE.... BRANCH OFFICES— Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open unul 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'cloe! 8 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open u NW. corner Twenty-second snd Kentucky sireets Roowms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. E ney-General McKenna with the contemptaous phrase, “It is all bosh.” The answer is worthy of the man, the su occasion. In noother way cou'd a self-respecting official reply to such charges from so irresponsibie a thing as the organ of an editor who evades responsibilities of all kinds, even those IS IT ALL ‘BOSH? VERY charge made by the yellow journal of the absentee of answering in court when summoned to appear. The facts of the settlement of the Government claim against the Union Pacific are familiar to the public. It is well known that the Cleveland ad ministration, by the support of the Demo- crats in both branches of Congress, made arrangements for the foreclosure of the Government claim and the sale of the road. The terms were not favorable to the Government, but they were perhaps the best that cou!d be made during the Democratic depression. The Republican administration on entering office found the case in the hands of the courts, and at once set about doing what could be done to save the Government from any loss. These efforts have been crowned with complete success. It is now assured thas when the sale takes place every dollar of the Government’s claim against the property will be paid in et e heieton against the Union Pacific goes, the charge of the yellow journal is certainly bosh. An arrange- ment which in advance of the coming sale secures to the Gov- ernment every cent of its claim: is not a conspiracy, but a | stroke of business, and a very good stroke at that. journal, however, being as evasive in argument as its editor is in person, slides away from the original charge snd makes a new one to the effect that by this arrangement the administra- tion has sacrificed the Government claim against the Kansas Pacific. Over that issue it is now howling in as many tones as a coyote of Howling Hollow. It will be but a short time before the event will show that the new howl of the yellow howler is as much bosh as the old | one. The Government has obtained a postponement of the sale of the Kansas branch of the Union Pacific, and the admin- istration is sure that when the sale takes place not one cent of the claim of the Government will be lost. As the absentee editor has had to change his charge of conspiracy in the case of the Union Pacific, so will e have to make another change when the case of the Kansas Pacitic is settled. So far then as the administration is concerned the .clamor of the yellow journal is bosh, but there is another point of view from which the subject can be studied to advantage, and from that point it is not so slear that the absentee is dealing wholly in bosh. The reorganization committee of the Union Pacific represents a railroad movement to which Mr. Huntington is opposed. It was not for pleasure only that Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Depew made their recent visit to this coast. They are not men who proclaim with brass bands the things they cesire to accomplish, but it is the general betief 1n New York that the Vanderbilt interests are behind the reorganization committee | and thatthe intent is to secure a through-line to San Francisco. 1t the opinions of those who have studied the situation are not wholly wrong Mr. Huntingion sees a strong com petitor coming toward San Francisco, and is fighting to head him off. Tte line of battle is to prevent the reorzanization committee from getting possession of the Union and the Kansas Pacific roads. To accomplish this for Huntington the cry is raised | that a conspiracy exists and the people are being robbed. From this point of view it will be seen that the absentee editor is not dealing in bosh. It is apparently another ease of an advertis- ing contract. The runningofa yellow journal costs money, and it does not howl for nothing. There is always a tendency to feel sympathy for 8 woman | who is swindled, but in the case of the one who paid a sum to get her husband a place on the police force this natural im_ pulse works with difficulty. Itis such an old game thatany one falling a victim to it now ought to be grateful to have escaped contact with the gentleman having a fine go!d brick to sell on reasonable terms. Of course the policeman who permitted the escape of Bennett, acov.rnxuly brute caught in the attempt to kill his wife, deserved to be fined. Yet it seems only just that the policeman be given the privilege of collecting some portion ot the fine from the relatives who assisted Benvett, even though forced, asan old expression has it, to take it ont of their hides. The Fresno wooer who brings suit to test the new divorce law is taking a more dignified course than the usual one of merely defying it. Most likely be will come out victorious, however, for no law that happens to be found inconvenient has much show to be pronounced constitutional. Maguire goes into his fight fatally handicapped. deny that he has the friendship of the Ezxaminer. e e o He cannot RAILROADS AND PROSPERITY. CTIVITY in any department of railroad work isa very Asurs sign of activily in nearly all departments of indus- try. It is money that makes the mare 20, and much woney is required to make the locomotive go. When the train moves many other things are moving, passengers are traveling, Ireight is going to market, money is circulating and business is humming, These things being so the report recently published in THE CaLL of the activity in the workshops of the Southern Pa- cific Company was cheerful reading for the people of California. ‘We have had many signs and evidences of activity and reviving prosperity in the State, but none more conclusive than that disclosed in the fact that the sbops of that company alone are now keeping 3044 men busily at work repairing cars or building new ones. Railroad work affects a greater number of people and a wider reach of territory than the work of any other industry. Its employes in one way or ano'her are in touch with almost all classes of industrious men and women. When railroads are extending their lines or inoreasing tneir equipment they are distributing moaey into a thousand channels of trade and help- ing to build up business of all kinds. Thus as the revival of trade calls for increased energy on the part of railroads to handle it. so does the exercise of this energy in turn help to im- prove the business of the communities from which the railroad draws its revenues. Itis significant that this increased activity in the shops of the Southern Pacific comes at & time when the Valley road has just begun to exert its force as a competing line, Competition has rubbed some of the moss off the old monopoly. It is to be no longer a silurian blocking the way to progress, but is put- ting itself in condition to serve the needs ot our growing trade. It can no longer, in the San Joaquin at any rate, charge all the traffic will bear, but it can by getilng a move on itself do some business, and, by giving employment to thousands of men in increasing the number of its cars, add to the general prosperity it has so long either neglected or opposed. editor against the adwinistration in connection with the | “proposed sale of the Union Pacific 15 answered by Attor- | ct and the | The yellow | WHY NOT FUSION ALL AROUND? HE action of the Republican County Committee yesterday in proposing a fusion by which the Democratic and Popu- list committees will probably unite with it in nominating a non-partisan Board of Freeholders brings up once again the entire charter question. It is plain to the most casual ob- server that unless the Committee of One Hundred now enters | into the spirit of this fusion and takes advantage of itin b-ehalf | of its charter a contest will ensue which will be certain to finally result in the defeat of any charter. This is true, whether it is a fact or not that the Election Commissioners will recognize no one but the regular County Committees in the appointment of precinct officers. The uppsrmost fact is that the practical politicians can defeat any charter against which they combine. THE CALL has no other interest in a new charter than | such as proceeds from a desire to see the city honestly and economically governed. It believes that the consolidation act | is obsolete and that a revision of the organic law is demanded | by the exigencies of the times. San Francisco has been limp- |ing along for many years with a government which is a com- { promise between special and general laws, Supreme Court | decisions and ordinances of the Board of Supervisors. It is ! certainly true that some of the modern theories of municipal administrations should be put into effect in this city, and it is | equally true that unless this is done—what with dollar limits and confusion in the law—the city will itself soon become obsolete. Therefore, we feel that at this time a disagreement be- | tween the Citizens’ Charter Committee and the regular political committees would be a public misfortune. There have been | no indications of a disagreement except such as appear in the ' efforts to promote dissension of a disreputable worning news- | paper, which is never so happy as when covering up its own corruption by charging some other person with fraud and con- | spiracy ; and while it is true that the members of the Citizens’ | Charter Committee deny the leadership of this sheet, there is danger that some of its members may think the adoption of its charter can best be furthered by believing what it says and following its advice. Such a course, in our opinion, however, | can lead to but one result—namely, the defeat of any charter. | We have no hesitation in saying that the Committee of One Hundred should make overtures for a general fusion by | which a Board of Freeholders may be eiec’ed favorable to their work. If the committee has made a good charter it need have no fear of submitting it for non-partisan consideration. The | bosses dare not rejsct an honest instrument, and public opin- | ion may be safely relied upon to prevent emasculating amend- | ments. Compromise in charter making is the secret of success. The greatest legal work, according to Mr. Giladstone, ever | turned out by man at one time—the constitution of the United | States—was a compromise document. In fact, the history of charter making in San Francisco shows that only a compro- mise document can be adopted. Why cannot the Citizens’ i Committes send the County Committess a list of 50 or 100 | names and ask them to select therefrom a non-partisan Board | of Freeholders? Would this involve any sacrifice of self- | respect or be considered improper by anybody except the dis- reputable newspaper which is attempting to lsad the Citizens’ | Committee to the destruction of its work ? | When yellow journalism grows serious in the endeavor to | be impres:ive it exposes a wealth of ignorance of magnitude more imposing than even it was supposed 1o possess. Its argu- ment that the Kansas Pacific ought not to be old separately from the Union Pacitic shows, in a word, that it does not know | what it is talking about. It says that the Kansas Pacific is largely dependent upon the Union Pacific for an outlet in eituer direction. This statement would be important if true, but it having not an element of truth in it loses a measure of its value. The Kansas Pacific is to the Union Pacifica parallel line, and for the best good of the public ought 10 be a com- petitor. It runs from Denver to Kansas City, and at either point has connections giving it free access to all points east or | west. In this respect it has every advautage that the Union Pacific possesses, and is as well equipped to be an independent line. This information is for the benefit of the vellow fellows, for everybody else who knows a locomotive from a right of way is aware of it already. | SAN FRANCISCO AND HER TRADE. | OST gratifying in every way has been the success attend- ! ing the movement to provide San Francisco with ship- ving facilities sufficient to hold her trade with all points | along the coast. We have reached a critical stage in our com- mercial history. The opening of Alaska coinciding with the general revival in trade and industry bas made for the Pacific i Coast a flood tide in commerce and if neglected we are likely to | be bound in sballows for many a year to come. It 1here is any one feature of the new movement more grati- | fying than another it is the promptness with which the mer- | chants of the city have agreed to co-operate to advance it. The | old charge that the peovle of San Francisco can never work | together will have to be abandoned before long, at any rate es | far as our merchants are concerned. In several imporiant | undertakings of recent years the merchants of the city have shown not only a civic pride, but an ability to organize for action not inferior to that shown by the merchants of any other city in the Union. We have seen the Merchauts’ Association accomplish many # things in the last few years and we are now to see a new move. i ment and one of greater import carried to succ:ss. There | is now little or no doubt in any quarter that we shall have ship- ping facilities equali to the demands of our trade with the north in a comparatively short time. By means of the improved transportation service we shall not only hold the trade we have, but extend it in proportion to the development of the Pacific Coast. It would have been a great blunder on the par: of our mer. chants and manufacturers to permit any other city to take from us the trade of Alaska, or to win the fame of being the best outfitting port for the gold regions. The only way to be a metropolis is to act as 8 metropolis. If we are to have the trade of men who are going to Alaska we must furnish them with the best and most economical means of getting there with their | supplies. To achieve this the new movement was begun, and it needed no campaign of education to make its meaning, its purpose and its importance understood. ‘What has been accomplished, however, is hardly more than the preliminary work. The ardor which has carried support to the movement so far should not be relaxed until the full measure of the hopes of the promoters of the enterprise have been realized. There is big business in the movement, for toa certain extent the future of San Francisco is in it. There is not unnaturally an interest in the manner in which the Pullman millions have been disposed of, as every- body who ever gave a sieeping-car portera fee has a right to feel that somewhere in the goodly hoard he is represented by his mite. Of course for the gay boys to get only $3000 a year apiece is a little bard on them, but they can draw consolation from the fact that there are many really worthy people who toil a lifetime and never dream of earning half thatsum an- nually. At last Poet Milier hns sent a letter with news in it, some being good and some being bad. He declares that be will write no more, an item coming under the first head. But he also says that he is soon to return, an item not only under the sec- ond, but compietely overskadowing the first. Still, gloomy in- formation from the Klondik to be expected, and to repine is useless. Suspicions that the man arrested in M-xico as Dunham is somebody else have been confirmed. The facility with which men not Dunham can be srrested is not surprising when it is considered that there is only one Dunham, perhaps less, and there are so many men who are not distiuguished by having killed half a dozen people. It1s arather uninteresting year in Colorado when some ex- cuse cannot be found for killing off a few Utes. | mna of many learned societies and is espe- THE SEARCH FOR THE GIRL FROM WHITTIER. I've been looking for a girl from Whittier. Not exactly a girl, but any girl from Whittier. I wanted to find out what becomes of the giris the State sends to the Reform School—whether the Whittier Reform School reforins, in short. My search began with that great chemlical changer of bad into good—the Salvation Army. If any one were 1o agk you, by the way, what you'd expect to find the army people doing at their barracks yow'd say praying, probably. And if you had one more guess you'd say working. And then you’d be right. Ifound them scrubbing. The great hall was redolent of soupsuds, and - ed man was wielding the mop with as much vigor and earnestness as he gould put l:)rlgln!clnny:(ylhu drum when the time comes for praying. But the S8alvation Army deople couldn’t tell me where to find the gir) irom Whittier, With all their knowledge of the terrible side of life, 1he reormed g1 trom the Reform School is & stranger to them. “We've never had a girl from Whittier come 10 us,” said Mrs. Winchell, whose work is at the employment bureau down on Howard street. “Idon’t know of anybody or of any organ. ization whose place 1t is to care {or the girls when they leave the Relorm s«ng I'll tell you where you might inquire. At the Girls’ Tralning School arouud the corner.' kngButthoe Gizls’ Training Scheol, though it mey barbor the waywardest ox wayward girls, noWs not th Whittier. _ 1 Iollowede l’l}:l:‘lrxol‘:\ hohunlncked the street door up the stairs and into the matron’s room. She could tell me of girls who were to be sent further on the path of disgrace—girls whoss ex- TN | d ARE WE NEVER HAD A (IRW FROM WHITTIER HERE erience and knowledge of 11fe’s ugliest phases and wnose conduct at the school haa been spurh as 10 warrant uufu promotion to something more nearly resembling & prison—but the Whittier gir1 ? “We'v se from Whittler. 1don’t know why. During my time, anyway, no D RS Tn there We've a girl who was sentenced to Whitiier, but they asked girl has come to us from there. me to take her instead.” 1 went 1o the agen in |r‘|‘nxx,\' homes, but never a girl h"oln Whittier. He had not heard of & case from there. 2 At the Boys’ and Girls’ Aid Societ¥ it was the same. There are girls, reiormed and not in need of reformation, but none from Whittier. And the matron told me that she knew of no one, had never beard any one spesk of being interested in the girls who leave the Reform School. I went 0 Beunlah, the Rescue Home of the Salvation Army, as a last resort. To get to Beulah you must wnke four kinds of cars and ihe ferry-boat, and’ you must allow an_hour and a half's time from ihe jerry on this ride. But the expenaiture of time is worth while. Igot to Beniah when sun was setting, and I could imagine the impression the place must pre- duce on one who is world and sin weary. If ever in a reincarnation it shell pe my lot to be oue of those Is condemned (o atone in some institution for my sins or some undisciplined ancestor’s, I shail pray to be allowed to g0 to Beulah. The place is so peacefui. It is so iar ont of the way of the worid. The air is so mild and sweet. Tue moral almosphere is 50 fragrant with cheerful kindliness. But the girl from Whittier is not here. Not for her the balm of the country air, the salve of busy duvs well employed, the comfort of sympathetic encouragement. Adjutant Hefferman, who has seen enough of sinful suftering to make a dozen women pessimistic, is cheery good-nature personifisd. She talked with me for a moment on the 1t hildren’s Home-Finding Soclety. He had placed girls and boys s m He kn!ew of no girl from the Reform School. hi broad veranda oi the Hom far off there in the still s pretense, . U've mo girl from Whittier in my charge,” said the adjutant. “I’ve several that were ~entenced to go there, but they wers allow to come to me instead. “Yes, they do consider themseives fortun. and, perhaps, they'il not need ever to go there. 1hop” not. 1really dow’t know what becomes of the gir's when they leave Whittier. ee! Yes, once some time ago there was a #irl from Whittier here.” s sthe—was sie 0 hard case ! 1 asked, not knowing how else o express it. jutaut wrinkied up her roynd fuce in a deprecating smil % i€ was—rather. But she didn’t stay, She wouldn't stay with us, Sheleft,and I don’t Kuow where she is now. When she first came to us she complained of the trextment she had received at Waittier, but siterward, when her mother was speaking of removing her brother, who was also at Whitter, the girl said to me: “Idon’t know why mother wants to take him away from there. beaten every day at home and he’s beaien every day at Whittier, too.’ Evidently there are some homes as well as schools that need to be reformed. “Tcan’t tell you,” said the adjutant as I was leaving, “‘where 1o find any one who knows about girls who leave Whittier—unless iv's the volice. ~For, unfortunately, they—the girls— sometimes go back—are committed over again, you know.” Eol didu’c find the girl from Whittier.' 1 rather think the girl from Whittier is not to be found. She s not among those for whom the wonaer-working unselfishness of true charity spends itself. She is notone who has been salely placed in some home, where she can regain sell-respect in finding her work apuréciated, in beiuw assured \nat every small improvement in herself is noied and treasured. Sue i< not one who has tound pacein that strong self-reilance that ensbles some to do for themse:ves what others have not aone. The girl from Waittier, made weaker, more dependent, by the habit of being guided and controlled, steps out into the world again. Butshe seems tosink out of sight whea she teaves the Reform Scnool. Sne is nevermore heard of #s a retormed onc—as & jenitent. Does she fall back into the mud. whence society nas plucked Ler, like a flower whose white petals were only a trifle smudged at first, but whose fairness is defiled forever now that ths opportunitv for rehabilitation is pussed? MIRIAM MICHELSON. esce, or some such name, which seemed quite appropriate etness of the soft evering, and altogether devoid of csut or b He's all right. He was WHY DUFFIELD WAS RETIRED,, INDIAN SUMMER SONG. A lulling soug of locusts—the hum of golden bees, And yon seem to hear the sup flow through the thrilied veins of the trees; And the bazv, wazy, daisy, dreaming world around you seems Like a mystic land euchanted—ilke & paradise of dreams! The retirement of General Duffield from the head of the Coast Survey will mark the end of acontest between him and the various scien- tific men connected with the bureau and its work that has bzen wagea ever since General Duffield’s appointment, says the Washington correspondent ot the New York Sun. It has been repeatedly charged that his great age and utter lack of executive ability rendered him incompetent to properly perform the duties of the officz. These charges were substantiated by documents laid beforo the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time, showing that he wasactuated by political ressons in making removals, and that with regard to tne scientific work of tce office he was guided very largely by the advice of non- scienufic employes, who were more interested in the distribution of the patronage of the bu- reau than in its accomplishments and general usefuiness. Scientific’ men throughout the country have been interested in the fight, and while they admired General Duffield for his qualities us a_man, an engineer and a soldier, they were practicaily unanimous in testifying 1o his inability, both on account of his age and ot his lack of scientific knowledge, 1o properly supervise the important executive and technical work of the bureau. Matters were brought (0 a_head Wednesday, October 20, by the extraordinary action of General Luffield in formally submitting to the Secretary of the Treasury written charg against three of the most capable and d tinguished men copnected with the coast survey—O. H. Tittman, assistant in charge of the oflice, the next ranking official o the superintendent; Char.es A. Benatt, chief of the computing division, and J. F. Pratt. one of the oldest and most efficient officers | of the survey. Under the now iamous Biue smoke from happy huts— A rain of ripened nuts, 2 Dd far away, o'er meadows ringing, Sweet sounds. as of A woman singing ! “ omin’ Lurough the rye. Cowin’ through the ryi And the faint, uncertain, silver tenor of a ball That summons all the winds 1o prayer in maoy a clustered deil Ana then a thr.sh's music from groves with golden gleams. The wila note of a mockingbird, and still the dreams! the dreams! : Blue smoke from happy huts— A 1aln of ripened nuts, And far away, o'er meadows ringing, Sweet souads, as of & woman singing! “Comiu’ through the ry: Comin’ through th —F. L. btantou, iu Ausnta Constitution. ————— FLASHES OF FUN. He pamnted “No Admittance” upon hisdoor, he did, In 1etzers one foot high, or thereabout; And then bebadto.ock and bolt and mail it up, he dig, To keep the blooming crowd of dlers out! —Cinclanatl Commercial-Tribune. “There’s no fate so bad that it might not be worse,” remarked the man who had been walking the floor from sunset till aawn with his paby. ! treasury circular No. 122, promulgated by | ' " " Secretary Gage under orders Itom presigen| “I'm glad you are 5o philosophie,” replied McKinley, copies of the cuarges were fur- | his wife. pisied the accused men in order that thes might make repiy before action could be taken. The exact nature of the charges is not yet known, but they were evidently intended as a | pretext for having the men either removed or reduced in_sainry and ordered to ficld auty | outside of Washinglon. The accusations which hinted &t incompetency and conspir- acy dgmust the discipline and efficiency of the burean were so unwarranted on their face that they acted as a boomerang and resuited in the determination of the President and Secretary Gage to ask for General Duffield’s “Yes. I have a great deal to be thankful for. Ihave been told that away up north the nights are six montns long.”—Washingion Star. 2 5 “Tell me, professor,” said the inquisitive student, “are the three elements, fire, water , political elements 0, nut exactly,” replied “but the poiilical elements a: similar.” resignation. SR z ;‘\:::ll are they, professor ' asked the Oune of the accused men, Mr. att, is a | ¥¢ 3 » member of the Nationai Academy of Scienge |~ “Fire-water and wind,” was the reply.—Chi- cago News. clally distinguistied for his great labors ifi the field of geodesy, magnetism and meteorology, and his name is known among seientific men throughout the world. Mr. Tittman’s zealous periormance of duty and devotion to the in- teresis of the Coast Survey during his inirty years’ connection with it ure generally recog- nmized. Mr. Pratt has served for twenty-six years, engaged mainly in work on the west coast, and he 1s widely known. “All 1s over between us,” sald the young msn who had found = richer girl and was trying to tage leave of his oid love. “You are mistaken,” replied she. notover. In fact, my breach-o: has not yet been begun.” He postponed the transfer of his saffections, — Tit-Blts. “*Mother,” said the little Boston boy, his voice quivering with emetion, ‘‘why isu’t Bunker Hill Monument round like a baseball bat 2 As for the mother, she could say nothing. But sealding tears dimmea aer spectacies,— Detroit Journal, —_—_— MOSCOW FOUNDLING HOSPITAL New York Post. Moscow has & foundling hospital large enoueh to hold 7000 persons. 1t was founded in 1764, aud at present takes {n children at the rate of forty a day, or about 15,000 a year. There are twenty-six physicians and about 900 nurses. Iu the period 1764-1864 the num- ber of caildren received was 468.660. Moth. ers desiring 1o take back their caildren can d. $0. On his retreat from Moscow, in 1812, Na. mm gave special orders 1o spare this buils “All is -promise suit “LAND COMPANIES.” Junean (Alaska) Miner. We warn intending investors in Alaskan Pproperties that no prospectus is reliable which asks for contributions to steck for the pur- pose of devetoping thousands of acres of d said to be owned by the company. We have before us an advertisement of a New York company which say: is compaay now 0wns 2000 acres in Alaski and asks the pub- lic to subscribe money for the development of i nt property. Tae statement put forth @ b sis of vaiue s untrne. No company owns 2000 acres of lanad in Alaska, and money obtained upon this representatioa is obtained by frauduient methods. ALASKAN Hawthorne was 5 feet 10}g; Lincoln, 6 feet 1; Peter the Great, 6 feet 10'4; Sir Walter Scoit, 6 feet; Snelley, 5 teet 11; Thackeray, 6 feet 4, and Washington, 6 feet 3. 1 | 3 299909292229922002922290202200022202020000000080000000000900000000000200000000000000000002R8RR020R0222902020222220229R20088, beautiful and free. include these islands of the sea. went there not so much to consider views. state. are the source or the mainstay of error. tree and independent. is fixed by years of precedent, and know what to depend upon. Pacific Coast is 1700 miles from it. lllllnfl!l!l‘d6lBlD‘U85!llUIUBHIBSHUUHIUU!UEUUIHKBHrzflflUEUBEUEBBHUI!UUE55!ll5Ui55'65lfllb’li!!lllll!llfi!nfillfi.IIUU! ANNEXATION UNJUST TO HAWAIIL, UNJUST TO AMERICA. Philadelphia Times. The last of the Congressional picnic party who have been down to Honolulu have now returned home or are on their way, and have not brought the Hawaiian Islands with them. of the ocean, somewhat disturbed by the mighty volcano at times, troubled by the leprous taint among their psople, but otherwise quiet, It is possible the visitors have performed some diplomatic incanta- tion which shall presently result in a great transformation scene and which will widen the maps of the United States by over one-half to seek means to bring it about, and if there were any among them who had some little doubt of the advisability of the measure that it proposed to carry out there were in Honolulu and on the steamship that carried them there men of plausibility 'to deal with these honest and creditable It might be well for the Federal Government to ask itself at ,this time, has this country not got already more diverse and opposed races under its flag than it can deal with successfully? Why should it seek to receive into citizenship at one swoop 80,000 people who are tainted with an awful and ineradicable disease, whose customs are alien to those of this republic, who are idle if not vicious, immoral if not criminal, and at the same moment keep guard at the ports of the Atlantic Coast so that no single objectionable immigrant shall set foot on these shores? Are these Europeans who are thus debarred refused admission to this country solely because they would cheapen the price of labor in a market which is already overflowing? Not at all. and important ones, but there is a greater principle in the background. It is that they have come in numbers too vast to be assimilated in our republican life and that their increasing presence is a menace to the Then why should these people of the Sandwich Islands be brought into the Union? Their social life is as antagonistic to ours as that of that flood of immigration we are now stopping on the Eastern coast. They have a country, itis true, that is rich with possibilities, but it is far distant, exposed to attack in case of war—indefensible, requiring great outlay for administration purposes—and out of touch everywhere with the genius of the American people. Does any one think that the great colonial possessions of England They are a source of outlay, of trouble and concern. colony under the English flag to-day that may not without her let or hindrance, or even remonstrance, hoist a national flag and declare itself The colonies are loyal, it is true, but they are loyal because the mother country is a protectress in fact, that her policy The people of Hawaii can have no such assurance of steadfast support; they must always feel that they will be but nominally, not actually, Americans. There is no commercial profit to be looked for that is not ours already, or that the legitimate efforts of trade cannot secure. no strategic value in an island which if regarded as protection to the island of St. Helena serves that end for the Cape and South African colonies. It can be of no value as a coaling station, because there is no probability that the great fleets will ever maneuver there. ation would be unjust to its people and our own. They still rest in the bosom In fact, it is all too possible. They the feasibility of annexation as to Those are reasons her power? If so, he is vastly in There is no by reason of it the colonial people There is One might as well say that the Its annexa- E’ E | PERSONAL. F. M. Brown of Vallejois at the Cosmopol- “:‘l.' J. Smiih of Ansheim is registered at the m;:.}t. Carithers,s Santa Rosa merchant, s at the Lick. M. C. Isle of San Jose is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Rev. Edward L. Parsons of Menlo Park isat al. m‘:!f);f‘g'::‘aerhunl, & merchant of Salinas, is at the Grand. Dr. D. M. Livingston of San Jose is registered at the Baldwin. E. B. Dana, a wholesale jeweler of New York, 18 & guest at the Lick. W. H. Clary Sr., a merchant of Stockton, is registered at the Lick. Freuk H. Buck, an orchardist of Vacaville, is a guest at the Palace. Mrs. M. MoMurtin and family, of Stockton, are at the Cosmopolitan. J. Dannenbaum, & merchant of Vallejo, is at the Lick for a short stay In town. James Collins, & well-known orchardist at Courtland, is a iate arrival at the Lick, Wililam B. Frue, & capitalist of San Jose, is among the late arrivals at the Baldwin. J. R. Houghton, a retired merchant of Chico is in town with headquarters at the Lick. Jesse D, Carr, the capitalist, is in townagaln from Salinas and has & room at the Occidental, Gabe Mitcheil of New York, well known in the dry-goods importing business, is at the Palace. Aundrew R. Castro, who owns land near Cas- tro station, in Santa Clara County, is at the Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Westadack of Monterey, Mex., arrived bere last night and are guests at the Grand. Thomas W. Wells of Sonora, banker and the Treasurer of Tuolumne County, is at the Bald- win, accompanied by Mrs. Wells. W. F. Reid, ex-president of the University of California, and vice - prineipal of Belmont School, is & guest at the Occidental. Emil H. Bridenbach of St. Louis, who makes his home at the Grand in this city, is confined in Dr, Derth’s Sanitarium in Los Angeles and is recovering from & long illness. William B. Storey Jr., general superintena- ent of the Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company, left here yesterday for Stockten, to be gone until Monday, on of- ficial business. J. Shepphard, a prominent dairymsn ?of Point Arena, and L J. Morse, the ex-Repre- sentative of Mendocino County and a prom- inent merchant of Point Areus, are both in San Francisco on a visit. Princess Kainlanl dined yesterday at the California with the Misses Parker, daughters of 8am Parker, the wealthy Honoluiu planter, and late in the ening 100k supper at an up- town cafe with the Parkers. . Colonel Peyton, superintendent of the pow- der works near Sinta Cruz, arrived here late last night from the East, and earlier from Gi many, where, since last April, he has been king the Carlsbad treatment. William R. Wing of the great whaling-ship firm of Wing & Wing, of New Bedford, Mass., is s recent arrival at the Californis. He has come bere from the East to pay off the whalers now returning from the Arctic, Shinsaku Kodera, formerly connected with the Japanese legation at Washington, arrivea here yesterdsy from the Xast en route to Japan. He is at the Palace, bat will depart in the steamer that sails to-morrow. General John L. Kittrell, the well-known Fresno attorney, was in the city yesterday, on his way home atier & sojourn of & month at Springs, where he recovered his health. uite ill when he left Fresno. “Tommy” Code, the Reliance quarterback and for four years Stanford Varsity quarter- back, now in the mines in Calaveras County, hes been teiegraphed for, as his services are idered necessary to the success of the Reliance team iu its hard msich with Stan. ford at San Jose to-morrow. Dr. H. C. Bagby, a physician and dentist of Santa Maria, arrived bere yesterday and Is at the Grand. He brougnt Mrs. Lucas here to be operated upon at the Waldeek Samitarium to- aay by Dr. Wemple. Mrs. Lucas is the wife of Dr. Lucas, past grand master Mason, who pre- ided over the latest session of the Grand Lodge in thiscity. Mr. and Mrs, C. H. Jordan of Staniord Uni versity arrived at the Palace yesterday ir the course of their bridal tour. Mr. Jordan fs the only son of the president of the German Benevolent Society in ihis city, and was for- merly astudent atStanford, and his youtnful bride was Miss Sadie Rice of Santa Cruz, oniy daughter of C. A. Rice, an Arizona mining man, Professor D. E. Spencer of Stanford Univer- sity is a guest at the Grand. He Teports that when he left the campus yesteraay afternoon all was bustle and excitement incident to the interior decoration of the big museum to pre- pare for to-night's grand Kirmess festival and vaudeville show to be participated in by pro- fessors and students and attended probably by 400 persons from this city, who will go down on the special train thisevening and returnat midnight. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—At the Holland, F. J. Carolan; Park Avenue, C. J. Swift; Grand Union, Miss Betts; Devonshire. J. T. B ne- steel; setropolitan, T. R. Corbett; Stuart, Miss G. Platt; St. Cloud, J. 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