The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1898, Page 6

SENATOR PERKINS AND ANNEXATI‘ON. UCH has been said and sung recently to keep up the waning courage of the annexation- JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SIS A IS e i DTS B T S T Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE........Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1865. EDITORIAL ROOMS........... 217 to 221 Stevenson stres Telephone Main 1874, THE S8AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. .One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE . 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE... ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE ... Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9o'clock. 25I8 Misslon street; open until 9 o'¢clock. 143 Ninth street: open until9 o'¢clock, 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o’clock. e ———— AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—*The Henrletts,” to-morrow night. Columbla—"At Gay Coney Island."” Califorr An In tional Mateh." Alcazar Hrl T Left Behind Me." Morosco's Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Mother Goose.” m--Vaudeville. —HBoston Ladies’ Military Band. Oberon—Cosmopolitan Orchestra, Bush—The Thalla German-Heorew Opera Company. Ingleside Trick—Races to-morrow. Olympra:=s s Vienna Orchestra. drome—Corner Buker and Fell streets Baseball. o ‘AUCTION "SALES. —Monday, Jauuary_ 10, Horses, at corner Van o'clock THE OMNIPRESENT GERM. By Killip & Co: Ness ave 1L Y finding the oyster full of typhoid science is B lenigding ‘¢émiphasis to -a new. and ‘woful aspect of life heére below. If the oyster can ne longer be trusted-to comiort: the stomach lest it take into the:same a lot of-gérms warranted to create disturb- ance. and fanerals’ it-might as well stay in its shell. Nobody about to experience the joy ‘born of the easy downivard glide-of -a fat and bulging bivalve can reasonably -be expected to pause while science takes the temperature ‘and pulse of the morsel. There is nothing now:that the investigator has left us. fit to eat. - The oyster hung on manfully, but he has. had to. go. Everybody who reads knows that one by -one the articles on which ignorant ancestors thrived, not having had: the valuable information we possess,” have been found to be poisons. From a laboratory somewhere comes the dictum that meats are not only unwholesome, but deadly, Another dis- covers that ‘fruit swarms with minute organisms de- signed by a benign Creator for no other purpose than to-kill and destroy. All cereal compounds, we are told, ‘produce through fermentation a microscopic life warranteéd to bore its way through the strongest vita! True; there is still hay, but this does not ap- peal. The . only catmg. . seems To: -listen to avenue - of to be to escape from death refram from the every voice of warning man would’ " become " ‘afraid to - bite so much as. his own lip. _He would pine away unfed, his ribs projecting -in ‘silent and pathetic defiance of the de- vouring germ, and his stomach's concave front flap- ping idly against his spine by habit. THE JUBILEE PARADE. LL: péople who take an interest in the Golden Jubilee and the ‘mining. exposition to follow it expect San Francisco to make the grand parade a feature of notable brilliancy and beauty. As the pageant precedes the -opening of the exposition the fame of it sent abroad will have much effect in forming_ first impressions ‘concerning the exposition itself, and for that reason, if for none other, the peo- ple of the city: should see to it that the -parade is made imposing and impressive in every particular. A pageant: of the kind required for the occasion cannot _bé provided without ‘money. - The - United States is. rapidly becoming a country ‘6f grand par- ades. - Without counting the marvels accomplished at New Orleans and St: Louis in affairs -of this kind, there are a whole. host-of parades presented to the people every year. -In California itself there are sev- eral of these annual pageants that have become nota- ble. The country; therefore, has @ high standard by which to judge of such:mattérs and it is not going to be an easy’ task for San Francisco .to achieve something that: will-win applause -as’ a genuine triumph. Money for the grand parade. is needed and should be forthcoming without delay.. The directors of the enterprise are ‘compélled to:work rapidly and decide promptly ‘what .is to.be done.” They have not -the ample time of'a full year in. which-to- make prepara- tions, as is the case in annual parades in other citiés. The time at their disposal is counted by days, not. by months, “and: prompt -contributions are.therefore’ es- sential to" their work. = g The days of ‘the jubilee® will be’ virtually San Frah- cisco and California days at the -exposition. - The pageant _will ‘be the special’ entertainment we. are to provide fori those who: accept -our. “invitation to :join with us in"tlie celebration. ~Ogr civic pattiotism is at stake.. We must celebrate-the great discovery and open the exposition. with ‘a pageant that will ‘add :to the prestige. 6f ‘our city. The managers-should ‘be provided :with ample funds to. * make- the display gorgeous, golden aiid glorious, : The-time is. short. - The ‘énterprise-is important. ‘Make your contribj- tions liberal and: make them' now: - . Mr. Hearst seems to be much interested in the city which. he has so modestly enlarged, and under his direction it appears to be thriving as well as could be expected. Yet we.ican but wonder that the swollen municipality should have gone to the trouble of electing a Mayor. Possibly, however, Mr. Hearst . needs a few assistants. SO Uy It is. painful to observe that a Spokane divine who had worn out his welcome was atfacked in the church : by the opposing faction, gagged and fired from the sacred edifice. . There is almost a touch of worldli- . ness about the incident. 3 —_— Probably- it was' from knowing of the standing order that:-any one hauling down the American flag shall be shot on:the spot that the Mexicans selectéd a spot out of range. 1 : The Kaiser has been “inspiring” some -editorial again, but all this does is to arquse more curiosity as to what has been impirix_zg the Kaiser, - ...JANUARY 2, 1898 { | M ists, but it is all nullified and vacated by the 5\'ery frank admissions of Senator Perkins. He de- i clares the treaty foredoomed, though he supparts it, and-is firm in his conviction that the joint resolu- tion plan is so rankly unconstitutional that it cannot pass. Indeed, he is informed by several supporters of the treaty that they will oppose the joint resolution. It is imperative that this country take advantage of the situation created in the East by the presence of the European powers and their jealous contention over the Chinese carcass. Their disposition and their necessities make them all subject to our policy for the independence and neutrality of Hawaii. Senator Perkins knows clearly and approves every reason against annexation, and he knows with equal intelligence the reasons for the independence and autonomy of that country. California would advance to a very proud position in the Union if Senator Per- kins would prepare action for the Senaté instructing the President to proceed with a statement of our policy toward Hawaii, giving notice to the world that we abstain from aggrandizement there and that like abstention is expected of the other nations, and that any different policy on the part of any of them will be regarded as unfriendly and intolerable. Such action would be not only statesmanship oi the first order, but it would also regain our national prestige as a people not only free but just, and would secure for us just now the only honorable promi- nence we can possibly enjoy. While Europe stands with a carving knife over China and the four powers are disputing over the prospective spoils we may be distinguished by appearing with no stolen birthright in our possession. 1f Senator Perkins could take the leadership in this policy California would everywhere gain prestige that would advance her interests and dignify her people. This State should not appear to always follow some other lead. The position of Hawaii affects us more than any- other part of the Union. A majority. of our people oppose annexation. A very large ma- jority of them object to Senator Morgan’s offensive assumption of ownership or Jeadership of California. Then let our Republican Senator lead and we can assure him he will have the people at his back. e e THE LAW OF CONTEMPT. HE monograph upon the law of contempt con- Ttrihuted to the California reports the other day by the Supreme Court makes a rich addition to the literature of the subject:. The opinion of Justice Van Fleet and the concurring opinions of Chief Jus- tice Beatty and Justice McFarland are not interesting because they preserve the “liberty of the press” or reaffirm the doctrines of “free speech.” The liberty of the press and the doctrines of free speech were al- ready firmly imbedded in our constitution and laws. The decision is important mainly because it elabor- ates the law of contempt and places restrictions upon the power of Superior Judges to punish editors who criticize them. The power of a court to punish summarily for as- saults upon its dignity is left unimpaired. = Thus, when a person swears at a Judge or otherwise inter- feres with the orderly proceedings of his court he may be fined and imprisoned on the spot. The theory is that an offense committed in the presence of the court need not be the subject of inquiry. The Judge having witnessed the contempt may punish it at once without trial. But when some one “roasts” a Judge from a dis- tance, as was done by the Sacramento Bge, there are two courses open for the jurist. If the criticism is an interference with the proceedings of the court, as an attempt to influence a jury or intimidate a lawyer would be, the Judge may summon the critic, take testimony in the usual way and punish for contempt. 1f it appears that the criticism was not an interfer- ence with the business of the court, but was, as in Judge Catlin’s case, an attack on the jurist person- ally, the law of contempt does not apply. The Judge in that event may either sue for libel or club the editor, Whether the alleged contempt was actually an interference with the business of the court or a personal attack on the Judge is a question of fact to be determined from the evidence, subject to review by the Supreme Court. The mistake committed by Judge Catlin consisted in refusing to give Editor McClatchy a chance to defend himseli. In that respect his course was ty- rannical and inexcusable. The facts of the case in- dicate that the Bee's criticism was. well founded and that in upholding the attorney who launched the attack on the paper Judge Catlin gave way to his temper. Probably he had been stung by the Bee on another occasion and was still smarting. At all events his conduct of the contempt proceeding from hegihning to end proved his utter want of a judicial dispesition. : The decision of the Supreme Court is a valuable addition to the literature of contempt for the reason that it lays down a rule of newspaper criticism be- yond which no editor need ever go. The press may ‘| discipline the Judges so long as it does not interfere with the proceedings of their courts. It may express its opinion of decisions and comment upon testi- mony without fear of being hauled up and sent to jail. The only defense necessary in a prosecution for | contempt committed outside the hearing of the court is a spirit of fairness and a disposition to stick to the truth. To this extent the decision in the Me- Clatchy case improves the law of contempt. Amen- ableto well founded and honest criticism, the Judges will be more judicial, and with fine and imprisonment hanging over them editors will be fairer and less dis- posed to get excited. : SEp——— For the increase of diphtheria the Health Depart- ment blames the Board of Education. The latter body refused to heed the warning of the former or to close the schools that had been officially pronounced dangerous. Perhaps the educators think that the death of a few children is not so much to be con- sidered as the value of the little ones being able ‘to employ their last gasps in naming the capital of Tim- bucteo or locating the realm of the Akoond of Swat. This view can hardly be called humane, the opinion still ‘existing that a living child, even after missing a term at school, may be a real comfort. Three men detected in stealing sand have been dis- missed because of the impossibility of determining just when the sand ceased to be realty and became sand. To steal realty is an art, while to steal sand is larceny. All of which shows.the law to be the ac- ‘cumulated wisdom of the ages. A The pretense of Fitzsimmons that Corbett must make a record: before being worthy to meet him is extremely weak. Corbett has a record many columns long; representing much hard work on the part of his THE UNIVERSITY ' COMPETITION. HE issue of an invitation to the architects of Tthe world to co-operate in the preparation of a permanent general plan of buildings and grounds for the University of California serves to re- cull public attention at the beginning of the new year to the lofty hopes add noble purposes of the trustees and friends of that institution. It is most appropriate that the invitation should be issued just at this time. It will be another reason for the world to give consideration to California at this period, when her prospects are most bright and her attractions to home seekers and investors most promising. The material advantages of the State are set forth prominently in many ways at this junc- ture, and it is fortunate that the great plans of the university are made known also in order that the world may understand that California has aspirations for learning and art as well as for wealth and busi- ness. It is not worth while attempting to forecast the results likely to be obtained by the competition. It is sufficient to know that no better plan could be de- vised to accomplish that at which the trustees aim and what every patriotic Californian desires. From an artistic contest in which so many eminent masters take part it is a fair assumption we shall gain a group of buildings sufficiently original in mass and detail to constitute one of the notable architectural triumphs of the world. The terms under which the competition is to be conducted are calculated to excite the emulation of architects of all countries. They are fair to all com- petitors and promise rich rewards in the way of en- hanced reputation to all who are successful. The contest will be particularly attractive to young men of talent and ambition who are striving to win a name for themselves and to demonstrate their ability to-compose edifices of more than ordinary dignity and magnitude. The grandeur of the idea involved In this plan for arrunging the permanent edifices of the university is in harmony with the greatness of the State. Cali- fornia is in many respects an empiré within herseli. The possibilities of her destiny permit her to become within a time comparatively short the leading com- monwealth of the Union and one of the most re- nowned regions of the world. We have reason to aspire to a culture peculiarly our own, distinct in tone if not different in nature from that of any other land. The foundations of that culture will be at the two universities that have been already so well endowed. It is therefore fitting that each of them should be magnificently housed, and this is particularly true of that which bears the name of the State. Great hopes go out with the in- vitations sent to the architects of the world, and along with those hopes should go a resolve on the part of Californians to make right use of the best plans the world can give by living up to them and hastening the completion of the edifices designed. OUR SUGAR INDUSTRY. /E\ Orange Judd Company for the publication of a treatise on the sugar industry which is both valuable and opportune.. The work was written by the editor of the American Agriculturist, Herbert Myrick, assisted by Professor W. C. Stubbs, director of the Louisiana sugar experiment station, and deals exhaustively with the problems involved in the de- velopment of the industry in the United States. From statistics quoted in the book it appears that it required every pound of wheat and flour exported irom the United States in the fiscal year of 1806 to pay for the sugar imported. The barley, oats, rye, fruits and nuts, hops, vegetable oils, ocleomargarine, butter and cheese, pork and hams that were exported last year, all put together, represent in value only two-thirds of the sugar imported. While in order to buy sugar our farmers are thus compelled to raise staple crops and sell them in com- petition with the same crops produced in cheap land and cheap labor countries, their lands in many States are as well if not better adapted to sugar pro- duction than those of any other people. An acre oi land in the West will yield a corn crop which, when sold, brings a price equal to that of about 100 pounds of sugar, but the same acre of land, according to Mr. Myrick, when planted to sugar beets will produce from 2000 to 3000 pounds of the best refined sugar in the market. By pursuing this blundering economic policy of growing cheap staples and exchanging them for im- ported sugar the country has lost and is losing enormous sums every year. 1880 to 1883, inclusive, the people of the United States paid out for imported sugar almost $1,500,000,- 000. 1f the imports of molasses were included and the exports of saccharine deducted the figures would show fully that amount. One of the worst features of the business is the rapidity with which the imports are increasing. Our imports from Europe in 1806 were five times as much as during the preceding year. Almost as large was the increase of the imports from the Orient. Mr. Myrick says, however, that the worst and most in- excusable phase of the sugar situation is the unjust, unfair, illegal and unbusinesslike competition of sugar from the Hawaiian Islands, where contract coolie labor is employed on terms with which no American workingman can compete or should be re- quired to compete. Fortunately the outlook for the future is bright.’ The American people have begun to study’ the problem and have discerned the folly of importing sugar when they can produce it at home.. It requires no long argument to prove to a man that he is en- gaged in unprofitable business when he exchanges for the value of 100 pounds of sugar the product of an acre that would have yielded 2000 pounds. We have only to give the American sugar producer an adequate protection against the bounty supported industry of Europe and the coolie industry .of the Orient and Hawaii to assure the production in this country of all the sugar wé need. By that work we will accomplish-a saving of $100,000,000 annually, and at the same time by diversifying our rural products add to the general welfare of agricultural industry. ——— MERICAN agriculturists are indebted to the Probably the man who says that for $135,000 he will produce in court the woman for whose murder Luetgert is being tried is a plain but rather robust liar. But while many are able to compete with him in this line if his story is untrue, he is clear ahead in° the meansman competition if there is veracity in him. . Without venturing a conjecture as to what Mr. Mills said to "Major Winchell, it may be taken for granted that it was nothing of the sort once said by the Goyernor of North Carolitia to the Governor of South Carolina. : Perhaps Chicago is keen to secure the armor plant under the impression that it is a new kind of pig fac- It appears that from | | ing one of tweive who were acting as ~. | the prison cught to be sufficlent to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1808. WITH ENTIRE BY HENRY JAMES. FHPEEP e Last week I made a wholly futile endeavor to say something about Hall Caine’s “Christian.” The machine which sets copy, not according to the way it is written, but as it thinks it should have beéen written, simply re- fused to permit this duty to be per- formed. From somewhere in its iron inner consciousness it brought a jum- ble of words, eliminated the name of the book and the name of the author, leaving the reader to guess what the matter was. Just now, being engaged in an effort to forget the book, that I ever read it, and to lead a better life, I refrain from trying to recall what had been written. But the general ef- fect of it was to set forth the volume as being permeated from cover to cover with the.odor of decay. A B ) Without desiring to give a temper- ance lecture it may be possible to call attention to three items in the paper of the morning after Christmas. Each of the three records the fact that a man had been burned to death, and in each instance the man was drunk. Perhaps if all the trio were predestined to per- ish by flame it is as well that they should have been in this condition. It not only numbed their senses, but al- cohol being so inflammable, caused them to ignite more readily, burn with a finer glow and gettoanervelesscinder with the least delay. However, had they remained sober there is a prob- ability that they would have been stili alive and raw. O Sl Members of certain professions take pride in a code of “ethics.” This code to the world outside is often a puzzle, but to ask what it may be for is a violation of something or other not fully understood. The lay mind is sup- posed to be unable to approach it in a spirit even of respectful inquiry, for it is baffled at the threshold of pro- fessional entrenchment, and from with- in there comes no ray of light. A code which binds to honor may be compre- hended of all'men, but one which does not do this must fail to excite universal esteem. The mere possession of a sys- tem of ethics no sign of virtue, for thieves are thus so notably equipped that the fact has passed into proverb. Perhaps Attorney J. C. Campbell could explain a subject now shrouded in doubt. What is the ethical standard? If a lJawyer is bound to keep the secret of a client, though the revelation would | be useful to the state, is he not equally | bound to. keep the secret which comes to him unaccompanied by a fee? Mr. Campbell is a lawyer of standing and experience. Doubtless his lips have of- ten been sealed concerning themes on which the public eagerly sought infor- mation. Yet the tale told to him at a lunch, a place where the tongue is prone to looseness, was babbled about | and at last he made oath in court to | having heard it. It is true that his re- telling of a personal and private com- | munication had an apparent tendency to protect a criminal, but does this cir- cumstance, even appealing as it must to the instinct of his calling, serve as | & valid excuse? I do not ch~rge Mr. | Campbell with having done wrong, In proper humility I seek knowledge. But it is not too much to say that many a man who is not hedged in by a wall of *“ethics” would have scorned the thought of violating a confidence hast- ily and foolishly bestowed. S e If the object of a long and expensive trial is to determine the guilt or inno- cence of a prisoner my notion is that the truth being known in advance robs the occasion of usefulness and dignity, reducing it to the level of a farce. It seems to me there should be a short cut in such cases, and that proceedings ought not to occupy much more time than required for the passing of' sen- tence, or formulation of an honorable discharge. It is true that no constitu- tional provision exists making this pos- sible, but there is no proof that any constitution yet devised is perfect. The example of young Flannelly may be | taken as an illustration. Flannelly killed his father and the officer who undertook to arrest him for the crime. Yet there will be an elaborate trial, ap- peals, finally to the Supreme Court. And all for what? To keep a murderer from a hanging he- has earned twice over. My position is strengthened by the fact that not a lawyer in the world will agree with me in it. <iTEE S . Thefact that Trinityis to-have a new rector is cheering in that it shows the absence of the Rev. George Walk to be more than temporary. I have been in Trinity but once—on that occasion be-- pall-bearers at the funeral of Kate Fleld. Bight of the number were: newspaper meén. We were met at the | door by Walk, fully robed, but acting the part of a drunken, blustering bully, Wwith a perfeétion which bespoke long: practice. Something had occurred be: fore our arrival to awaken unpleasant emotions within his savage breast. What it was we did not know, nor | was Walk coherent enough to explain.. 8o we stood there in wonder while ha heaped abuse alike upon the living and. their silent burden. “We even refrained from reply, fearing to rouse his wrath to a more notsy indecency, and having for. the sanctuary a respect -wholly wanting on the part of the rector. When he had finished his tirade. he strode up the aisle, irdoning the words of the beautiful service, but the voice was the voice of a sinneér who wanted to swear, and his every footfall was’ emphasis to an unseemly anger. Walk deserved to have been knocked down and stepped on, and though at least eight gentlemen realized this they forebore, not for the fellow's sake, but because of the place and the presence of the dead his wanton tongue as- sailed. For one I have remembered ‘Walk and have intended, when indig- nation had been so mellowed by time as to permit the matter to be treated dispassionately, to make a few re- marks about him. Risoe The utility of the Coroner is a mat- ter to which thought is naturally di- rected by the fact that although he is constantly rendering verdicts none of them adds one whit to the sum of hu- man knowledge. When a man is found dead in a room locked from the inside, every gas burner unlighted and turned on, a note on the table explaining why he intended to kill himself, the suppo- sition of suicide is entirely safe. When a murderer is executed the records of I -| Tribune days and not only even the ‘sent. a- 40-cent . check to - President ‘a sorry day for this country when "a “President would sell himself for such a ‘tor ‘puts himself with much frequency 4n the position of needing to be abated. -Others with fads can follow their sane of the world. F things. for which he pines and secure | FRANKNESS. MafBERAAAS | show how he died. It is true that if carelessness on the part of a person or corporation is shown the Coroner sometimes makes bold to formulate a “censure,” the effect of which has never been observed. No verdict for damages was ever found on a Coro- ner’s censure, and by reason of it no corporation ever missed a dividend. ‘Whether the death led to criminal or civil action the part taken by the Cor- oner amounts to nothing, being abso- lutely ignored. The only thing accom- plished by this official, so far as I can see, is to Kkeep a mortuary record, which could as well be kept by the gentleman whose melancholy duty it is to issue burial permits. Yiie An actor named Ratcliffe has been sentenced to jail for six months for overindulgence in the habit of wife- beating. It must be remembered, however, that while doing this Rat- cliffe was not in his professional ca- pacity and in no way impaired his right to recognition as a matinee dar- ling. Indeed, he should be grateful for an incident the effect of which must be to stimulate his histrionic powers. As the duty of an actor is known to be that of pretending to be somebody else, if Ratcliffe has any sense he will find a new and particular joy in suc- cessfully carrying out the pretense of not being Ratcliffe, and thus .in his art be brought close to perfection. o e The questlon -of annexing Hawail does mnot particularly. concern thpse who have an abiding faith that the people of the United States after a short but honest career do- not intend to go into the business of larceny.. If they take territory to which they have no right they will be doing that which others are doing at the expense of ‘be- ing known as robber nations. Ther¢ is this difference: The others are.pre- pared to battle for what they want. The annexationists observe that theft has already been committed, and all they have to do is to divide ‘with the | original thief the plunder and. the | guilt. It 18 not a noble scheme. I can see no excuse for taking Hawaii which does not with equal force apply to pick- ing a pocket or raiding a henroost. That the power in the islands is held temporarily by the descendants of peo- ple who went there to save souls and compromised by grabbing realty does| not mitigate the contemplated crime. | If we must confiscate property towhich others have title let us dt least be man- ly enough to take some worth having, involving perhaps a fight, and by open method of brigandage such as civiliza- | tion regularly practices while on its glorious march. Senator Wolcott has earned esteem by his denunciation of what he de- scribes as something calling “itself journalism, but whose name is pander and color yellow.” When a man with Wolcott's vocabulary gets after yellow journalism or anything else: words are going to fall all around there, the thud being heard afar, and "the odor . of scorching fill the land: :The gentleman | said nothing but the truth in portray-| ing the object of his warm remarks to’ be all that is vile, dishonest and un- clean. It's ali right for Wolcott to feel this way. Perhaps he was provoked to it by that elongated monstrosity whose unpleasant head bow-wows in. New York, while its tail wears the tin can of contempt in“San Francisco. Or possibly he was trying.to smother a| qualm of conscience, for Wolcott once owned a paper himself. It ‘was not vellow exactly; the term had not been put to its present use, but looking back | to it I can recall a lémon hue which was graducl!ly assuming a more pro nounced shade. days in Denver when the Tribune Was | a power and Wolcott was the Tribuné. Ta be sure Rothacker, now dead, wrote the editorials that drove Congressman Belford out of public life, and. Gene Field was trying his sarcasm In roast- ing anybody who seemed too ‘Taw, - while Ed Cowen, afterward Benmnett's trusted lieutenant . in. Paris, chased | political it Newspaper illustration had not.reached its present distressing stage, yet ‘the boys -managed to.make. the Tribune pretty hot;. But for whatever course the paper- took Wolcott ‘was 'directly responsible, and the course was erratic, :suggestive of modern lcott . was ‘considerably younger. then, the: town was ecrude, others. wanted the same office he did, voters were - rated at 32 aplece and wouldn’t -stay = bought. Altogether there ‘was: much to annoy, and hence much to-mitigate. - Anyhow, Wolcott's tirade against yellow journalism was good enough to ‘set over against his score but leave a balance to his credit. L - . - - - I observe with a thrill of American pride that the autograph collector who McKinley in-the hope that he would indorse ‘it was mistaken, It would be sumy, and to an autograph collector at | that. - This particular brand of cellec- esires - without worrying anybody else. It a man loves old pipes, tea _canes, he goes about his junk without disturbing the rest He can find on sale the | 't -considering himself a bore but a benison.to the larger-. junk dealer. .But for him.the-ancient pipe | would go to’ the .waste heap, to the certain corruption of the .same, - and the teapot of antiquity be forgot and unregretted in the garret. ~However, I am speaking’ generously. for others, confessing in humility that up te date the autograph fiend has passed mé b: Occasionally, it is true, I have beén asked to leave my name with -gentle- men who seemed to keep a blank form for the purpose, and who .gave ample security and later returned the name, paper and all, without sign of regret This was.1n the“old-} news through. .the “streets, | | i withait counsel and: unable inures to the benefit of a criminal ::::; they view it as a matter of eourse, and ascribe the fault to the law They do not reflect that {uwyurs make the laws they afterwards. 1\'(-.1'[91'.11. When a law says plainly that.a’certain .offense shall be punished".in a. certain frenge -has . been that the .attor- penalty way, and when the o proved, I still contend 1 ney who tries to avert the. from his client seenis to me to- bg(‘nm; a participant in the client’s guilt, an no amount of sophisiry can- clear him or make his work appear hohest, or honorable. However, if hanging is \c_)'o severe a method of reforming the law- yer who professionally promotes the cause of crime tke less repellent scheme of fining him to the qxtent of his fee would serve the purpose and seem to him something really. more to be dreaded; . e : The Gerry Society, about which -all who read New. York papers are tnrced_ to observe frequent mention, seems to° be a queer sort of thing. It recently, : because of her tender y_ears.,estopp»e,d the daughter of Tom Edison from 'ap- pearing on the stage .at'a chafl_ty performance. The parents of the child had not worried about this, having, in- deed, been wickedly glad to see the child engaged in so sweet amd pretty a task. But of course a mere pair of parents cannot hope to be a Gerry So- clety, nor to feel for their . offspring that tender solicitude which causes an organized snout to stick into the busi- ness of other people. Edison is a great man, and those familiar with his ca- reer believe the zenith of his powers has not been reached. Perhaps in time he may contrive a new set of brains, and with the astuteness of one who realizes where they are most needed, present them to the Gerrys, who will thereupon be forced to pass a yvote of censure on their own tomfool- ishness and disband. P It is possible to make a few appro- priate remarks concerning almost any episode ‘of daily life. But were £ fittingly characterize the (hm_ves who looted the charity boxes put in public places for the benefit of helpless poor, the type-writer would balk, and the keys. thereof dissolve with a fervent. heat. - It :is & borrowed type-writer, and inherent ideas as to the sacredness ot property rights hamper an ambition perhaps-in itself not unworthy. E TR e o nat have some admiration for the thoughtfulness of the Guatemalans is impassibie; . Information -comes from that country that the natives are plan- ning- to .do ‘a. little more fighting as soon:as ‘the: coffee crop can. be gather- ed. - Hete. is an - unwontsd - kindness témpering -the ‘austere spiit. of . war. Pining ' for: battle; the .peovle relra_ln. e is. a luxury; coffee a necessity. an.‘instance of business: before pleasire. - In. other ITands toilers in the harvest field look forward ‘to the time the- last sheaf shail. -be in the stack, for then théy can celebrate with feast and song. But the festal season has as distinet ‘a’date & the harveést, and ‘1o do. any -jubilating. in -advance would be -an -anomaly. ‘Not 80" in - sunny Guateniala: - War is alivays . on’.tap. Ever there -is the tempting opportunity. to drop-the tools of tabor, grab. a.gun and_let ‘the soft southern breeze have & chanceto sough ‘through the-anat- omy. ofa person. of different political .cpinion.. | Yet: the: Guatemalians ‘go on getting-in the éoffee. They ure a pe- culilar: lot. with & passion for’ killing ond being killed; -but they won't ‘let this interfere with the eofféa; T move & vote.of thanks, and express the hope that €ach: to have: the joy of perishing ‘on thé field of carnage may go. therice with-the taste of the cheering bever- age. still upen: his tongue. =5 % .. £ - - M William Jones of Nevada has my sympathy. and. the ' “hope - that this knowledge miay. re&ch. and: cheer him. Hé has.received a certificate of char: aeter- siich-as ‘would seem:to mark him a8 a:valuable citizén in any commun- -but._attended by -some assertions amounting - almost to the usual fly in he: ointment. . The certificate is in-the £61 af ‘a ‘warning. from the lynchers of ‘Uber to: get ‘out’ of the State Tight soon,. and . infimates - that: the course suggested will be promotive of long- evity on the part-of Mr. Jones, whom it. familtarly ‘‘addresses. a§ Bill: If Jores is the 'sort of a‘man- the warning implies, he will ‘notleave the State. On the:contrary, he will stay there and- as long as ammunition holds out assist others to leave for a state the location and essential ‘features of which have never been determined. S —_———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS PRISONERS—H. 8., City. The prison- ers at San Quentin are not allowed beer or any liquor.. Under certain conditions they are allowed tobaceo. LORENZO—Constant Reader, San Ma- teo, Cal. ~W. 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