The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1897, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1897 M ...NOVEMBER 23, 1897 TUESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. TION UFFICL’i .Market and Third streets, Ban Francisco Telephone Maln 1868, i’l‘lil_lc +ev. 517 Clay street EDITORIAL ROOMS... e Gnd Sy . Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by 1 this city and surcounding towns for 15 cents a week. $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ....One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... .908 Broadwey Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN, NEW YORK OFFICE ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC s L Mias Houso C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. Montgomery streot, corner Clay; open until ) Hayes street; open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 open until 9:30 o' clo W. corner Sixteenth and | ets; open until 9 o’clock. 18 Mission street; open | 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 il 9:3G o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second open il 9 v'clock. BRANCH OF 30 o’clock. Le OF INTEREST TO 'ALL VOITERS: VERY voter in California whose name and address can be earned irom county registers or from any other source will receive a copy of the special edition THE CALL is pr in celebration of the completion of its new home and the revival of prosperity throughout the nation. Itisthe intention that every man cuharged with the responsibility of voting on issues affecting the welfare of California shall have opportunity of learning from TsE CALL the conditions of the iniustries of the State and how the interests of all can be best maintained, promoted and advanced. In an imporiant respect THE CaLr's new edition will differ from the holiday numbers and special editious it is customary to issue at this time. Itis notdeSigned primarily as an adver- tising scheme. Itwill not be a huge mass of paper whose udinous pages are freaked in such confusion that no read take the trouble even to look through it. It will be a full but compact, well ordered, well written, well arranged | compendium of intormation showing the conditions of Calfor- | nia under an administration of protection and sound money, setting forth clearly therelation of Tue CaLL to the State and the people, and marking out the broad policies in journalisms politics and enterprise THE CaLL will advocate and support. not to be confined to California. > to every State in the Union and to The circulation will be as wide as hag Tae flourishing condition of the marvelous extent of the m is he iss of coul yusands o copies every nation on earth. ever been gi n to & newspaper. dustries of the State and ces of mines, fields and foresis that remain undeveloped the resot e known to all the world, so that home-seekers and ous of ninding profitable avenues for the invest- ment of wealth will learn that California is still the richest El Dorado on earth for every man who has the means to earn a and the ene: to employ them. Whaile the edition will thus be given the widest distribution t remains thatit is designed mainly for Califor sts and Calitornian readers. It i3 to carry to the nhomes of the p-ople an evidence of the prosperity of the State ifestation of the broad, progressive policy of THE \ling with every interest of the commonwealth, It 1terest of all voters to read and study this new a edition which will mark a new era in the history of such | editions, and thereforaitis the intention that each of them shall receive a copy. THE FUSION FREEHOLDERS. of a certain boodle newspaper in this city to e it appear that the Board of Freeholders nominated will b capitalists del possible, the and a mar CaLLin llbetot | prize court. WE NEED NO ISLANDS. ENATOR MORGAN is out in an interview on strategy as an argument for annexing Hawaii at the request of 2 per cent of the people of thatoligarchy. He is positive that the continental nations are in danger unless they own islands. He is sure that from Esquimalt Great Britain “can cut the. Pacific Coast in two” unless we own Hawaii, 2000 miles away, in the tropics. : . Now let us look at our martial history as a continental people owning no islands out of sight of our own coasts. In the Revolutionary War, when we met Great Britain, the greatest naval power in the world, in a struggle which we began with no ships at ail, while she had that navy which fought later on at the Nile and Trafalgar, we lost only 24 armed ships, while she lost 102, and we captured in addition 8co of her merchant ships, while she took none of ours. Againin 1812 we beat her on the ocean and on the lakes, though she had then in the Atlantic ail the islands she has now, and we had none out of hailing distance of our shor: In our own Civil War the Confederacy had no islands and no seaports which its ships could enter. It had no coaling sta- tions and shared with us only perfect equality in neutral ports. Yet the Confederate cruisers destroyed our commerce at sea to the extent of $15,000,c00, though there was not a port in the world where Confederate prizes taken at sea could go before a The Alabama alone, between her launching in the Clyde and her burial in the sea by the Kearsarge off Brest, destroyed more of our merchantmen and our commerce than did England in our two wars with her. : Yet she had islands, while the Confederacy consisted principally of a Great Seal and great expectations. If one could susp=ct Senator Morgan of sinister motives, which heaven forbid, one might say that he remembers the overthrow on land of his side in the late Civil War and desires to betray the country into a policy that will weaken it and leave us :he prey of some power strong enough to avenge the Confederacy. Our history has proved that continental nations as dominant as we are have nothing to fear from the outside, and that they nesd no distant islands nor far outposts to se- cure their commerce or to defend their coasts. The English are an insular nation to begin with and their policy is insular. The British isles had hardly a single natural harbor. Their harbors had to be created artificially, The English policy naturally was to acquire jurisdiction of islands where there was natural anchorage and fortify that. This policy originated i) the weakness of the home position of Great Britain. Had her locus been continental, the policy | which is now both h:r strength and weakness would never have besn followed. It is folly to talk of the strategic necessity for our acquisi- tion of Hawaii. In strategy it will be weakness instead of strength. In in'ernational policy it will b2 folly instead of wisdom. In national morals it will be a crime rather than a credit. PROBABLE CA(INET CHANGES. EPEATED reports from Washington to the effect that R Cabinet changes are likely to occur this winter recall to Cslifornians the nece-sity of a vigilant watch on the situa- tion, lest the State should lose the prestige of having a repre- sentative in the councils of the administration. It seems to be definitely settled that Atiorney-General McKenna will be ap- rointed to the Supreme Court, and as THE CALL pointed out some time ago, the vacancy in the Cabinet caused by his retire- ment should be filled by a Californian, According to the latest reports from the capital it is proba- ble there will be changes in the Department of State and the Postoftice Department, as well as in that of the Attorney- General. Secretary Sherman is expected to retire on account of old , and Postmaster-General Gary is believed to have an ambition as well as an opportunity to enter the Senate as the successor of Gorman. If all these changes take place there wiil Republican, Democratic and Populist county | on conspiracy are sufli- | Not | such | ult of a corporat isther to rend even a yellow journalist’s heart. one scintilla of evidence has been produced to prove ar irresponsible pe reporter can be called “evidence.” Every | sane person in San Francisco knows that even if the local cor- porations were able to form a political combination capable of working in harmony, they never could succeed in controlling the action of three county committees and in securing the will- ing obedience of fifteen such men as have been selecied by the fusionists for Freeholders. The fact is, the boodle newspaper referred to aspires itself to political boss-ship. In the name of *the people,” whose champion it insolently claims to be, 1t desires to conduct the government of San Francisco. *The people” are itand its friends and supporters—those who bring it advertisements and subscriptions and who, when it is hard up fot money, will sub- mit to blackmail or make contracts with it for its “‘forbear ance” in business and politics. Every political organization, as well as every maa who declines to pay tribute to its treasury, is marked regularly for the slaughter. The curious thing about it all is that this boodler imagines itself possessed of influence and deludes itself with the idea that a few people pay attentivn to what it says. No reasoning person familiar with municipal politics need why the fusion Freecholder ticket was nominated. These nominees issued out of the necessities of the local situation. There was a demand for non-partisan action, There is a strong popular belief that the people of San Francisco will never adopt a partisan charter—tbat is to say, acharter made by and rep- ] resentative of the interests of .any one political organization. What more natural than that, in view of this feeling and for the purpose of giving 1t expression, the leaders of the three neipal municipal parties should get together and name for Freeholders fifteen citizens divided among their respective political beliefs ? < If there is any foundation for the public sentiment to which we have referred the fusion Freeholders will be elected on De- cember 27 by a huge majority. In point of character, ability and qualification ne single party can name a set of candiaates at all comparable with them. Notwithstanding the wealth of material at their command the Citizens’ Committee has not chosen so able a board, nor one so palpably free of corporation or politicel influence. Moreover, the fusion ticket is thoroughly anti-boss; itis anti-newspaper boss as well as anti-political We think the people of San Francisco are sufficient to discern the motives of the Mission-street railroad boodier, and they are not likely to pay much atiention to its harrowing stories of corporation ‘‘conspiracies,” especially since they already understand the selfish purposes which lurk behind them. boss, keen D Out at the City and County Hospital, 8 place supposed to be for the benefit of the poor, the internes are said to each have fifty patients in charge. It must be remembered that the in- ternes are young doctors just acquiring their first practical experience, and it will be understood readily that they are get ting it 1n too large doses. Also tender-hearted reople might think that the fifty patients have reasons for kicking while they bave strength enough. To watch the outcome of the trial of Captain Lovering will be interesting, even to a civilian who never in his life ciaimed be three vacancies to fill, and surely California may rightly ex- Dect to receive one of them. Thue issue is oue of immrdiate importance. It will avail us little to have gained representation in the McKinley Cabinet if we are to lose it before the year is over. The reasons which made our claim for a Cabinet place valid when the administra- tion was organized last spring are equally valid now. No changes have occurred in the political situation to weaken in any way the right of California to expect the hivhest official recognition from this administration so long as it continues in office. In polities, however, as in business success comes only to those who work for 1t diligently and in the right way. If the prospect of a vacancy should lead to a scramble for the posi- tion and a fight among rivals for the office we wiil be sure to lose it. Caiifornia has had more than enough experience of that kind to teach her the wisdom of unity at home in order to accomplish angthing at Washing on. We must agree upon a man whom all ara willing to support and have our Repubiican delegation in Congress unanimously recommend him to the President. The issue eannot be postponed. If the reported changes | are to takeé place they will probably occur shortly after the as- sembling of Congress. This, therefore, is the time for the Republicans of California to take counsel with one another and determine wuat man shall be put forward for the position. Tue CALL has no favorite. It will support any man who can be counted on in the Cabinet to reflect credit upon the | Republican party and do honor to California by rendering dis- tinguished service to the nation. Let us have harmony as well as promptness in this movement, remembering that while Cal- ifornia is entitled to a representative in the Cgbinet it depends upon the Republican leaders in the State and Representatives in Congress to obtain it. According to a correspondent of Durrant's official organ the “toxin’’ now *sounds” in Wyoming. Toxin is known to possess some remarkable powers. Itis much in vogue for the mitigation of human ills. It has been tried with some success in the treatment of smallpox, diphtheria, cancer and various other maladies less virulent than vellow journalism, but of course there is a limit to its capabilities, and this diseass is believed to be beyond them. However, it would be interesting to observe the toxin in its new role of “‘sounding.” Those English papers which take for granted that this country will annex Hawaii seem to be guid-d by the idea so prevalent in their own territory of grabbing everythingin sight. Such has never been the policy of Uncle Sam. With com- mendable consistency he has thus far refrained from stealing, and there is hope of his stili being abuve entering into a scheme of robbery, even when counseled to do so by the original 1ar- cenists, who are fearful that unaided they will be unable to retain their loot. Perhaps it would be as well to permit old General Clay to settle his own matrimonial rows. Nobody asked him to marry a bali-grown girl, and if he had bad much sense be wouldn’t -have doneit. There are plenty of people who deserve sympa o thy, and who did not deliberately create their troubles and then howl about them. Ther: are evidently a few things that the San Jose ring considers too sacred to be laid before the public, for the public is apt to be critical, and its way of calling a spade a spade can the right to kick a fellow man in the ribs or jab him with a piece ot steel as Lie was being drazged bound to a place of pun- ishment. If soldiers are expected tosubmit to treatment of tuis sort they ought, as a matter of snlf-mlpe’ct. to resign from the army and go into some honorable employment like picking rags. Certainly it is an unfortunate coincidence that anybody named Fake should have been found to sign a sort of petition that is being boomed by the Eraminer. It casits over the scheme a color of bad faith. Fake was supposed to be editor of the sheet. Still, as Mr. Fake is ably seconded by Ah Sing and Suey Wan he may be all right. under certain circumgtances be very distressing. ‘While Miss Cisneros hes a guardian now itisto be regretted that the yellow journalist who is responsible for much of the senseless noise made about her is still without one. —_— It Spain ishaving trouble in arranging for paying for more rifles the cheapest- way out of the difficulty is to take the nec essary number away from the Cabans. President Eliot of Harvard has come to the defense of foot- ball, and rhere is no denying that as generally played it needs a defender. PER-ONAL H. H. Seaton, a merchant of Arbuckle, is at the Grana. Judge and Mrs. 8 M. Buck of Eureka are guests at the Lick. T. J. Field, a banker of Monterey, is stop- ping at the Palace. Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is & guest of the Grand Hotel. George L. Hoxie, one of Fresno County’s offi- clals, is visiting at the Lick. Professor E. H. Griggs of Stantord Univer- sily is registered at the Grand. E. 8. Babeock, proprietor of the Hotel Coro- nado, Coronado Beach, is at the Palace. John W. Howell of Merced, surveyor for the German Bank, is registered at the Lick D. W. Hitchcoek, general agent of the Union Pacific Railway, left yesterday fof Los Angeles. Mrs. John P. Jones,wife of Senator Jones, of Santa Monica, and Miss Jones are at the Pale ace. Perry L. Shuman, the mining man from Chicago, who is interested in mines in Sutter County, is & guest at the Palace. George M. Clayton, general passenger agent of the Wabash Railway, who has been in tne city for several days, left yesterday for Los Angeles. R. R. Ritchie, general agent of the North- western Railroad, who has been East for almost a month, is expected back at his office here to-night. 1liam E. Dougherty, U. 8. A., from ian Reservation at Hoova Valley, is at the Occidental. He is superintendent of the Indian school there. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday were Mr. and Mrs, Russell E. Sewall, Miss Sewnll and Miss Willis of Portland, Or. They have come here to attend the Thanksgiving footbail game. Andrew Hamilton, an attorney of Albany, N. Y., is at the Palace. He has been repre- senting an assurance company in a suit for a heavy life policy that was recently heard by the courts of Tacoma. ¥red Feigl, editor of the Tammany Times of w York, and Mrs, Feigl arrived in the city last night on the overlend train and are at the Palace. Feigl is visiting the West on a holi- day trip and in search of a rest after tie hard work of the recent New York wpolitical cam- paign. CALIFORNIAN> IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 22— At the Tmperial—R. Graham, Mr. and Mrs, . H. Buck; Holland—J, W. Aliyne, Mlle, de La Montanya; Nether- land—Miss F. G. Dean, Miss O. Holbrook; Astor—F. E. Hesthal; Stuart—F. P. Jacobs; Bartholdi—F. A. €hepard, CALIFOKNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. 22 —At the Auditorfum— 8. M. Stoip, fan Francisco; Auditorium An- nex—Thomas H. B. Varney, San Franci co; Great Northern—J. Q Dixon, Jonn A. Gull, San Sherman—L. F. Francisco; Francisco. Blackburn, San CALIFORNIANS IN .. ASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Shepherd of San Fraucisco are at the Welling- ton; J. P. Gilion and wife of San Francisco and J. F. Gillon of Los Angeles are at the Ebbitt House; R. F. Harrison of Grant, Cal, is at Willards, THE PIFEs OF LARGAL OctonER 20, 1897 [In the lead of the cnarge were the pipers, one of wiom was shot through both ankles. He coo- tinued piping, sitting where be fell, amid a bail of buliets.—Daily Paper]) *Tix a ball In my heel, and the pipes cannot go Where iLe ‘Lartans €0 awarmiug. *Tis & ball in the other and Root Whiie th- Gordons are stormin Olads, can v« fight if the pibroch he dumb? © lads, has Your Robbie ye: throttle and thumb? Thea it's after and after and afier you come My piping and I to the stormi tes low, Rob's down ou the dust, in the pelt of the balls, _While the Gordons are storming The bonnets & # in the reek of the squalls Are fal iIng—are 1ormiug Ob, Kob has no oot with the Gordons to go, But breah in his cueek has their Robbie 10 blow, And the pibroch goes on with the bonnets a-row, And the piping 8 first at the storming. J. H. SKRINE, In the Speaker. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR New York Press. A woman's willingness is often her best pro- tector. What worries most girls Is just how fara man wiil let them go without getting scared. No girl knows how much she thinksofa man til she begins to wonder how much he thinks of her. Hairplns are used principally to cut the leaves of new macgazines and 10 buiton up long kid gloves with. If there isanything that makes a man mad it is & woman that leaves out all the pronouns when she writes to him. The only reason why en old bachelor doesn’t know how to sew on his buttons is because he can always afford (0 hire some woman to do 1t for him. FLA-HES OF FUN. “But you might learn to love me,” pleaded the young man (o the elderly heiress. “One is never too old to learn, you know.”—In- dianapolis Journal “These shoes you sold me last week squeak 50 that they keep me awake nights,”’ said the customer, entering the shoestore. “My dear sir,” replied the shoe-dealer, reas- suringly, “you shouldn’t sleep in them.”— Yonkers Statesman. “What has become of Julia? I haven't seen her for reveral days.” *Well, you won't see her for several more. The last time I saw her she was plucking petals from & chrysanthemum and sayin ‘He loves me—he loves me not.’”—Chicago Record. “‘An old bachelor,” said the sweet girl, “isa man who confesses that he does not think he is smart enough to take care of anyone but himself.” “To my mind,” said the mean man, “he shows that heis too smart to take care of any one but himself.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. ““We might as well consider our engagemen as broken, Reginald.” s “I dou’t see why! Your father sald post- poned. *‘Postponed until vou arrive at years of dis- cretion. Andin your case, Reggy dear, you know what that means.”—Harlem Lile. Bullett—Lambley made $50,000 by a single transaction in oil yesterday. Bearett—Is {t possible? How did he man- age 1t? Bullett—A rich aunt of his tried to start a fire with a cin of it. —Chicago Daily News. SEEING WITH A GLASS EYE. Jt seems a little funny that a man ghould be able 10 see with a false eye; but a recent surgical discovery bas made even this possi- ble. It can be accomplished only by a diffi- cult operation, which is but rarely performed. This consisis of an incision in the sclerotic, or ouler, coating of the eye, and the insertion in the wound ot a false pupil. A peculiarity of the persons whose eyes have necessitated this operation is that darkness makes but little difference to them. They ure, in fact, In a coustant twilight, as only a limited number of rays, as compared with the normal eye, con- verge on the ceunter. But even these are use- ui, and without them blindness would ensue. e ROSE-TINTED SNOW. Montreal St The rosy light which tinges so beautifully the summits of lofty snow-clad mouutains in Alpine regions, before sunrise and after sun- set, is due 1o the circumstance that the yellow and red rays of light nave more penetrating power than the biue. They make their way ihrough stretches oi the aimosphere which entirely arrest and turn back the blue, and they do this the more especially if the air is Iaden at the time with extraneous particles that augment their opacity. When the sun is below tie horizon the red and yellow ra: struggle through the Air as far as the snow. heights, dropping their associates by the way, and thus paint their fleecy surfaces with red and yellow tinted light. This roseate after- giow is very beautifully seen exnibited b ihe Jungireu. The brond-based cone is sud- denly covered in the deepeuning twilight with the erimson hue of the rose, and this then gradually fades until the whole has almost vauished into darkness. Low’s horehound cough syrup cures bronchitis, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. * Q‘n’amvnxmmmmnunuuaHHND‘NWW PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF HAWAIL 2 DISGUSSED By HON. HENRY E. HIGHTON. = txumnmnmm&muunuumumummfi BAN FrANCISCO, November 18, 1897. To the Editor of the Cali—S1R: In the discussion uron the proposed aunexation of Hawail there are some points which ought to be more conspicuously presented in the journals of the country. The necessity for internal reform and development before the United States reaches out toward foreign countries, if the proper time for such a movement can ever come, Appears to me to be ¢ ear. The aifference between our theories and our practices with our present fer- ritorial possessions is painfully apperent. What would become of us if we attempted to absorb the population of Mexico and Central America, which, at all events, belong to this continent, it is difficult to predict. But if we adopt the policy of Imperial Rome or of Great Britain in modern times and attempt to extend our possessions 2000 miles off into the Pacific Qcean, and, indeed, 843 miles beyond that, in the direction of China and Japan, any infelli- gent and thinking man, who has observed the African question in the south and the Asiatic question in the west and who has studied ancient and modern histery, can easily foresee a result destructive to the Repubi‘e. The annexation of Huwaii, under the pretext of & treaty with the Dole Government, | would be a ruinous precedent, directly in the teeth of our Declaration of Independence, and contrary to the most essential vrinciples upon which our national and State institutions rest. It would be a breach of faith towards the fathers of this republic and a menace to every citizen wiio values his birthright, which wou!d not be compensated by any commercial ad- vartages, even if they could not be otherwise secured, nor by the concentration of imsginary naval power in the center ot the Pecific, while our own coasts are virtually unprotected, The Government of the United States was established for the development of a republic on this continent, with a hicnded population, representing the best strains of blood in the civilized world, and not to conquer or colonize foreign tesritory. It was warned by Washing- on against entangling alliances and, so far, it bas heeded the admounition. The Monroe | doctrine, which wes a policy originally adopted in aid of constitutional objects, was framed ‘and-applied, upon the assumption that we had a sort of protectorate over North and South America, and, by versistent adhererce to that doctrine, which has also been tacitly or ex- pressly recognized by foreign powers, it has nardened into law. What does it mean and what isits extent? It means that empires and monarchies shall not extend their dcminion upon this continentand that as American States or countries, Dbetween the two oceans, and outside of the United States, successively separate themselves trom Europe and establish republics, more or iess assimilated o our own form of government, they shall not be subjugated nor jorced to retrograde. 1t means definite and effective resist- ance to the palicy of corquest or of enforced and divided colonization which has prevailed in Asia and which has now materialized within the tributary states and the “spheres of influ- ence” in Africs. Itmeans that America shall be dedicated to individual freedom along the lines of genuine democracy. It means firm and unrelaxing opposition to every principle which is or can be fnvolved in the conception of Hawaiian annexation. Thus interpreted. ihe Monroe doctrine was and is more thar & policy—a necessity for the maintenance of our own republic. It became, so to spesk, an integral part of our constitu- tional system. It guaranteea the safety and the orderly advancement of political communi- HENRY E. HIGHTON. ties in North and South America. And it slowly gained universal recognition because of its territorial limitation, and because while, in & certain sense,we held America within our grasps we followed the injunction of Washington and held aloof irom all European and Asiatic entan- glements—and waile we warned foreign powers from interference with us or our neighbors, we held ourselves eloof from all interlerence with them in Europe, Asia, Africa or the islands of the sea. This doctrine, ripened into law ernment. ragua. . Butif, with the expressed or implied consent of the powers, we stretch our arms acress the Pacific 2000 miles or more and grasp Hawali with its native and Asiatic population con- stituting 98 per cent of the whole, what wculd become of jthe Monroe dcctrine? It would be practically aunulled by our own act. We should then enter, doubtless as an honored member, into the family of nations, European and Asiatic, and not only would we ourselves repudiate tne Monroe doctrine, but we would abandon everv line of argument that has ever been addn ced in.its support. This proposition, thus briefly outlined, seems to me incontrovertible, It)s true the repunlic of Hawaii is small, but the precedent of annexation subverts the oid law and estaplishes the new. imall beglnning. It is said that the Declaration of Independence itself was a manifesto agains: a preambie, and such was the fact. Nevertheless it transformed America. And the precedent of annexing Hawati, once fixed, can be followed everywhere so long as our constitution survives the shock. We may yet aunex Turkey through the treaty-making power, and, in that outlying portion of the Union, become the buffer of Europe. 1c laim, then, thet the annexation of Hawaii, logizally and inevitably, would be the aban- donment of tie Monroe doctrine. But I go beyond this and insist that it would be & revolu- tionery actand & breach of our national compuct. " On the question of power, as distinguished from that of mera policy, ons: First—That, upon the face of and by fair implication from the language of our Federal const itution, &s applied in our practice and interpreted by the courts, so far as territorial ac- quisition apart from military and naval stations is concerned, both Congress and the treaty- making power are limited to this continent. . Second— That, except ior military or naval purposes, namely, for the national defense, our Government cnnnot acquire, constitutionally and ju just subordination to the cbjects for which it wes formed, and cannot bring into political union with the country, auy tarritory which is not capable of being erected into States on a precise equality with the other States in the Union and within the specified purposes for which the republic was established. In all our history territories have been simply the womb of States. When the Northwast- ern territory was céded it was on the conditions preseribed in the ordinance of July 13, 7, of which Justice Story wrote that it was *equally remarkable for the brevity and the exact. ness of its text and for its mu(erlydis})hy of the fundamental principles of civil and re- ligious liberty”—(2 Story on the Constitution (Fourth Edition) Section 1318, p.191). That ordinance, which is among the most famous recorded pieces of legisiation, pro- vided for the erection of States, 1n all respects corresponding to the original thirteen. In subsequent acquisitions of territory, by purchase or otherwise, its provisions have been rigidly followed. They were substantially incorporated into the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. Under these guarantees aud on this apoiied interpretation of the Preamble of the Federal Constitution, and of Article 4, Section 3 of that instrument, the Middle and Western States, to the verge of the Pucific, have been sdded to the Union, and no territory hasever been ecquired or politicaily united to the country except for the purpose of being converted into Awerican States. . Thesole power of admitting States into the Union has been vested in Congress by the sec tion of the constitution above mentioned, and, ss bas been observed by & great writeron the constitution, “no State once admitted to the Union can ever be deprived of its equa! suffrage in the Senate, without its consent.” If this be true, as it is, and if it be also true that, in the acquisition of territory, the treaty making power is restricted to such territory as can be converted into States, then, unless foreign territory, with foreign populations, and espe- cialy when composed of servile races, is fit material for the erection of States such as those nOw composing the Federal Union,'the proposed annexation of Haweil is unconstitu- hen, as I have already said, thus defined and circumscribed, has gradually , innmimerable applications of which can be found {in the archives of the Gov- Itserved us in Venezuela. It will serve us in the Isthmus of Darien and in Nica- 1 offer two proposi- tionsl. I have not the time, nor has THE CALL the space, to amplify and fllustrate'this’ argument, as may be done in the Senate. But, before I end this eommunication, let me furnish a few extracts from periinent authorities, which pass upon the question. Speaking of article IV, section 3 of the Eedernl Constitution John W. Burgess, professor in Coiumbia College, says (volume IT of his *Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law, py. 161,162): *“The languages of the principal paragraph of this clause is not well chosen. ltappears to confer upon Congress the power to connect foreign States with this Union by an act of legislation. Nothing of this sort was intendea by the framers.” And, says the same author in the same work (p. 107), “‘while there-is no express imita tior on the power of the President as to the scope or the terms of the treaties which he may make, yethis authority is subject to certain restrictions necessarily implied from various parcs of the constitution. There is'an implied limitation which would prevent the political depart- ment {rom entering into any stipulation ealculated to change the character of the govern ment, or to do that which could only be done by the constitution-making power, or which would be inconsistent with the pature and structure of the Government or the objects for which it was formed.” The same author, like many others, denounces the acquisition of Texas, by joint resolu- tion, in 1845, though 1t was a part of this continent, unconstitutional, and George Ticknor Curls. in his “Constitytional History of the United States” (volume II, p. 257), spenks of that annexation as having “‘brought a foreign slave-nolding republic into the Union.” Referring to the territories in his work on_*‘Constitutionsl Law” (Second Edition, p. 20), Mr. Black uses this language: “It may be said that they are held in tutelage by the General Government; that their territorial condition is transitory, and that their system of govern- ment is temporary and provisionel only. For it Is always unders:ood that the people of & ter- ritory are destined to create and maintain a State Governmen soon as, in the judgment of C&ngr;ss,l they are prepared therefor and be admitted to the Union on an equallty with the older States.” 3 These extracts are gathered up and applied in the following passage from one of the lec- tnres delivered between 1893 and 1896 bex'n'e the graduate students g] the Johns Hopkins University by James Schouier, & noied professor of law and author of the “History of the United Siatés Under the Constitution’”: ‘“Under our present Coastitution the diseretion to admit new States is lodged unreservedly in Congress, like ordinary legisiation, and ever since the Lonisiana purchasze of 1803 that Qis- cretion, whnich had cleariy comprised the original terrilorial area of the United States west- ward to the Mississippi, has been repeatedly extended in practiee so as to compre- hend without constitutional change whatever adjicent foreign territory on this continent. between the two oceans mu{ be ncquired at any time by war or peaceful purchase. Both as to policy and constitutios right, so vast and unreserved a power to Congress, or to the treaty-making department, without limit of popular referendum, cons:itutional amendment or unusual consiraint whatever, to chenge the wncle scope and characrer of this Union by the incorporation of foreign soil snd foreign populations or races. is worth challenging on every new oceasion; for 1t is & power regnant with the gravest dangers, such as debauched and finally destroyed the Roman Empire. This confederated system of ours recognizes no permanent political condition auye where but that of co-equal States.’” These citations.express the accurate constitutional doctrine, and coula be enforced by cases and by exiracis from the messages of our Presidents, from the opinions of the Attorneys- Geueral, and irom many documents in the archives of the Government. 1 close by adopting ihe words of one of your contemporaries, when it says that “the United States Lias no cause whstever to interfere in Asiatic politics. It has quite enough to do tokeep European hands off the two Americas without trying to buraen itself with g similar obligation in the far East.” HENRY E. HIGHTON. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS FEMALE INFANTICIDE—M. M., City. Female infanticide in China wes prohibited by law fu June, 1872, RoMoTA—M. G., Hanford, Cal. Romola pronounced as Rom-o-la, with the second 0 as “o” in move aud the final “a” as “a” o fate. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY—E. J. C., City. The year 1900 will close the nineteenth centurs and the twentieth will commence with th year 1901. & EVERGREENS—C. O. K., City. Ome who is well versed in such matters says in reply to your question “I know of no evergreens that do not bear fruit or flow TARESHING MACHINE—M. F., City. The credit of having invented the first tnreshing ma- chine for use in the fields is given to Michacl Menzies of Edinourgh, who built such a :ma- chine in 1732, PEROXIDE—N. N,, C1ty. If you have in con- tempiution the use of hydrogen peroxide, the adyice of this department is, that before you do 0, you consuit some reputable physician, who will tell you all about its effects. PLAYERS' PAY—R. H., City.. The parties in- terested in the particular ball games !h:‘ were played last month do not desire to make ]vubm}:) tlie amount paid to each player, consc- quently the information asked for canunot be furnished. Mangr-GoppArp—O. S, Suisun, Cal. dPetcr Maher was knocked out in a three-round con- test by Joe Goddard December 8, 1892 Maher weighed 175 pounds and Goddard 187. 1hs concest was for a $7500 purse belore the Couey Island Athletic Club. Haxover—P. H. M., City. In 1714 G_eorga Louts, the elector of Luneberg, ascended the throne of Great Britain as George L After that, until the reign of Wililam 1V., Luneberz or Hanover had the same ruler as Great Britain. It was in 1830 that Hanover sepa- ruted from the crown ot Great Britaln. PEER OF GLAND—M. M., City. A peer of England is free from all arrests for debt as being of the sovereign's hereditary counsef- ors; therefore a peer cannot be outlawed & any civil action snd no attachment against his person; but execution may be' taken upon his lands and goods, For the same reason he is free from all attendance at courts leet or sheriff’s turns, or, in case of riot, from a tending the posse comitatus. He can act as a justice of the peace in any part of the king- dom. Castxo—H. W. W., Oakland, Cal In the game of casino a player cannot build from the table—that is, if & seven and two be upon the table and the player putan aceon the seven and call it eight his opponent cannot employ the two upon tne table to build it up to ten. Ifaplaver build up a card to a certain de- nomination and his opponent decline to build it up higher he, the first player, may not alter hisbuild, but must take it with a card of the denomination of the build. That s, A and C are partners agaiust B and D. A plays, places an ace on & two and calls it three; B, whose turn is next, does not capture the bulld or increase it; C, who is A’s partner, cannot alter the build by adding toit. 1f D does not takeit or aiter the build, which he has a right to do, as had B, who followed A, if he could have done so, A'must take it with a three. Generallya partner aiters the build of his partuer if the preceding player has not done 8o, but that is contrary to the rule lxid down by Hoyle. NOTES AcOUi NOTABLES. George W. Cable has resigned from the po- sition of editor of Current Literature. Bret Harte's new book, “The Three Part- ners,” is the thirty-third volume bearing his name, Lafeadio Hearn, who has lived many years in Japan, says that the grotesque pictures made by Japanese artists now seem to him to be true. Richard 8. Croker J on of the boss of Tammany Hall, is a student at Brown Uni. versity and is making a name for himseliasa first-class tullbuck on the football field. Ex-Senator Edmuuds of Vermont, who is now making a visit to Macon, Ga., has been much impressed with the resourcesof the South and predicts for it a bright and promis- ing future. When Tennyson, in 1830, wrote this in «“Locksley Hall,” “Let the great world spiy forever down the ringing grooves of change he stipposed that the wheels of raillway cars ran in grooved rails. Henry R. Pritchard of Indianapolis, who is the oldest living preacher in the Church of the Discivles of America, has preached 6000 ser- mous. He has known General Harrison ever since the latter was a boy. Dr. Samuel Willard of Chicago, an fold-iime friend of Abolitionist Lovejoy, to whose mem- ory a monument bas just been erected in Illi- nois, said in speakiug of the death of his s body was carried along the main street to his home, and a man, whose name I will not give, tecause I wish 1t forever forgotten, said: ‘If I only had a fife I would play the ‘Dead March’ for him.’ That was civil war.”” REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. A wedding is life’s prize package. 1f eyes were the windows of the soul there would be more people that squint. Marriage is & lottery in which men have to wear the blanks hung around their necks. If some men were in business for their health they’'d take the doctor into partmer- ship. The aversge man doesn’t know much about women; if he did he'd think he knew more. Babies are helpless little things; every woman that comes along can grab them up and kiss them. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's.* S aegte EPECIAL information daily to manufscturery business houses and public men by the Prest Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery, — e GuILLET Thanksgiving mince pies. 905 La kin. Tel. East198. . .. “GOLDEN POPPIES,” & California calendar of 1898. Also “Chinese” calendars now. reasdy for mailing at Sauborn & Vail’s, 741 Market. * Sl o e Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. The first concert of this season will be given on Wednesday evening and every following Thursaay evening. Admission reduced to 23 cents. Open daily, inciuding Sundays. * —— Hetty Green’s appearance has much changed oflate. 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