The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1898, Page 6

1898. | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 1, MAY 1, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAIf\EJAanagev. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. ‘EDITORIAL ROOMS. ...2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per montb | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL -One year, by mail, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE 5 ..908 Broadvsay | NEW YORK OFFICE Room [88, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ...Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE ...Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertlsing Representat BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery sreet, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, omen until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Misston street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street. open untll 9 o'clock. (06 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Pelk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. | Baldwin—«The Purser " | he Nancy Hanks " | and Concert. \ > Gay Parisians H klow Postman.” sday afternoon, | eville. and “African Lion Hunt” | 3 and Eddy streets, Spectalties. ad Pony Show to-morrow night. Ming, every Sunday. Races 10-morrow. AUCTION SALES. d-To-morrow, May 2, Furniture at | By G. H T Montgowery absen & Co. et 4812 0'c Monday, May , Real Estate. at 14 THE HER(:)ES éF THE HOLD. B ORD CHARLES BERF ORD is quoted as having stated in a recent speech that since he joined the navy ‘“the proportion of non-com- batants on board a ship of war has risen from 7 to 57 per cent by reason of the increased use of tnachin- ery.” These so-called non-combatants are the men who have charge of the engines and the fires on which the power of the ship depends, and by way of illustrating how complex is the machinery of a war- ship and how important is the work of the men who operate it he pointed out that in a ship “‘of the type of the Magnifice gines and seventy-c there are sixty-eight single en- ight double engines.” The conditions of our own navy are of course al- most identical with those Lord Beresford describnd as prevailing in the British warships. Among the men who are now serving the nation in the fleet off the coast of Cuba are a gallant host of workers in vhe holds of the s s who will see none of the fight- ing and have little or no share in that fierce delight | of battle which is so thrilling to the hearts of the | brave. Their work is down in the hold of the great ships. Their care is to keep up the fires and watch the steam gauges. The safety of the ship and its crew is dependent upon them not less than upon the fight- | ing force above that is handling the big guns and training upon Spanish ships or forts the fire of battle. When the war now begun rages in earnest and sea fights are fought on a scale commensurate with the magnitude of rmodern armaments we shall hear much of the valor of the marines and the gunners of the fleet. The names of the officers will become familiar as household words. All the combatants of the ships will have glory and honor from loyal Americans | There is danger, however, that we may | then overlook the heroism of the men of the hold and forget how important is the part they perform in everywhere. every naval battle. only They are non-combatants in name Whether engaged in the task of directing the | engines or in the more laborious toil of shoveling coal | into the furnaces, they will be fighting for the flag and | will deserve to be remembered among the heroes of | the war. For about ten days the public has been treated daily to the announcement that the fleet has sailed from the Cape Verde Islands. Possibly it has, but Spain manifests a disinclination to. take the world into her confidence. ' If the announcement ever-come from her officially then may we know the fleet to be anchored | right where she says it isn't Germany's warlord seems to overlook the important | fact that siobody has asked his permission as to the | conduct of American vessels at Manila. The gentle- | man has a large territory in which to indulge his fad | for warlording. When he puts “Keep off the grass” | signs.in the Philippines he is getting out of his juris- diction. Sharkey expresses a willingness to fight Spain, but | he must remember that Spain is not in the heavy- | weight class and has yet to win a reputation. How- | ‘ever, if technical points be mutually waived and Spain consent to a go the fight must be to a finish, and no ‘Wyatt Earp for referee. | If by any strange circumstance the Spanish were ever to achieve a victory, however slight, they would be utterly at a loss for language in which to express | their joy. They have lied so heartily already that there could be nothing left to say. —— Profound ignorance as to the movements of war vessels is professed by the Navy Department, which | knows all about them. Profound knowledge is pro- fessed by yellow fellows without number, who know nothing about them. When the Spanish capture a coal ship and tow it into the Philippine Islands they are going to unneces- sary trouble. The United States will merely take the | islands, and any collier tied to them will naturally be | included in the haul. ‘ The people are disposed to leave the management of the war to the administration, yet there would be much satisfaction at the spectacle of Sampson re- peating his Matanzas affair on a larger scale before Merro. Spain declares she will not issue letters of marque unless her war fleets shall be destroyed. This being the case, she might as well be having a rough draft of the letters prepared. . One reason the United States battle-ship the Span- ish reported aground was not injured seems to be that the battle-ship wasn't there. l | ject of railroad charges. | books is plain. | tecum all well and good; | against another. SHOW THE BOOKS. HE Railroad Commissioners will not do their Tful[ duty to the State in the proposed investiga- tion of Southern Pacific accounts unless they serve a subpena duces tecum upon Mr. C. P. Hun- tington. The constitution expressly confers upon the board the power to send for persons and papers, and in this inquiry it is absolutely necessary that Mr. Huntington should be compelled to appear, when he appears, with his books. The Commissioners will | never be able to ascertain how much the corporation has paid out for newspaper silence until they get a look at the accounts kept by its auditing and dis- | bursing officers One great point to be settled will be how much the Southern Pacific has from first to last paid the Ex- aminer for its services in pretending to be an anti- railroad organ, while in fact it was a subsidized at- tache of the monopoly. If Mr. Huntington's books have been kept in such a manner as to cover up the transactions with this sheet, the Commissioners may | ascertain the truth by serving a subpena duces tecum upon Mr. Hearst’s representative in this city. It is true the constitution does not authorize the commis- sion to regulate or fix newspaper rates of blackmail. But we understand the power to send for persons and papers extends to all questions germane to the sub- It is not unlikely that the best evidence that can be obtained showing that the Southern Pacific has been wasting its money on news- papers will be found in the Examiner’s books. 1f a rule is established by the Commissioners in the matter of showing books it may embarrass the own- ers of other newspapers in this city. We are assured that the Examiner is not the only local journal which has succeeded in breaking into the Southern Pacific’s treasury. But this should not influence the Commis- sioners. They are bound to do their duty without | reference to the interests or feelings of any class of Their duty to inspect the Examiner’s It is a notorious fact that that journal had a contract with the corporation for thirty months of “advertising” at $1000 a month. It is also charged that its proprietor held the corporation up on other occasions for amounts aggregating $15,000. The Examiner’s books may be brought in to establish the fact that this was railroad money wasted. If that journal employ attorneys to resist the subpena duces the duty of the Commis- sioners will have been performed. We do not think we misstate public feeling when we say that there is a general desire for the showing of books all around. The people want to see Huntington’s books, Hearst’s books and . all other books which tend to explain why the Southern Pa- cific does not pay dividends to its stockholders. We blackmailers. | are informed that if the officers of the First National Bank of this city are subpenaed they will be able to give testimorry concerning the Examiner’s contractual relations with the Southern Pacific. It is said that they have in their possession interesting correspon- dence upon the subject. They should be summoned to produce this correspondence and those entries in their books which show that the Examiner’s “adver- tising” contracts with the Southern Pacific Company were hypothecated with them for overdrafts. The Railroad Commissioners must do their duty in this matter or there will be a vociferous demand to know the reason why they evade it. T policy of the Kaiser is affected by the number of Germans in America. With inconsiderable exceptions the men of German birth and blood in the United States are American citizens. They are not subjects of the empire, but citizens of the republic. So it is with the bulk of our immigrant population. They are not English, Irish nor Scotchmen. They are Americans. Their service is due and will be freely rendered to this country, not because of European ties or antagonisms, but because it is their country, and their allegiance to any other is forsworn. While there has been some unwarrantable talk about religious aspects of the present war, it is not true that we are fighting Spain because of the re- ligious beliefs of her people. Religious wars are over. The grudges of the centuries have long been probated and are not to be reopened and pleaded in a modern struggle. This country and England have caused it to be understood in the world that religious and poli- tical allegidnce have no relation to each other. Men of antagonistic creeds have the same civil rights and find them protected by a common flag. Inthe United States there is no Catholic patriotism and Protestant patriotism. It is plain American patriot- ism, felt by all alike, no matter by what form and ritual they worship. Government. To it all the creeds of Christendom are alike, and Jew, Gentile and infidel have precisely equal standing. They all fight in our armies, trade ALL AMERICANS. “HE statement has been frequently made that the |in our marts and toil in our shops and fields under the obligations of a common citizenship, and the same requirement of honor to uphold the Govern- ment which gives them equal rights of conscience. Other Governments may have to play one creed Ours commands them all in the name of that equality and toleration which it secures to them. 5 Nationalities on our soil are elevated to the same plane of equality. They sought this country freely. It compelled no man to come. They receive its citizenship and enjoy it equally with those to whom it is a birthright, and must equally defend it. If the Gérman empire and this republic should clash the Kaiser would look in vain for Gérman subjects. The spirit of our people in this respect had final illustra- tion in our Civil War. The State in which a.man was born and.whence he had migrated did not hold his allegiance. Thousands of families had soidiers in both armies. They were at war over an idea, and ‘its importance obscured ties of birth 'and blood. What native Americans did then is expected now and for- ever of naturalized Americans, and they will not fail. We cannot assert our private judgment as to what country ours will fight nor what alliance it shall make in its own interests, nor can they. We may fight a people with whom their native land is in alliance, but they cannot therefore put off their allegiance like a worn garment and, staying under our flag, refuse to defend it or to follow where it leads in aggression. They may quit our jurisdiction and abandon our pro- tection for another if they choose, but that must be settled with their individual conscience. These re- flections are of - importance, because it is evident that through this war the United States will rise to a policy that increases our contacts with the diplomi- acy and affairs of the nations and enlarges the risks of friction that may chafe any or every nation.whose subjects we have received as immigrants with whom we have freely shared our American birthright. What- ever adds to the power and prestige ‘of this nation its Government will do, and therein will command the person and the purse of every man under its flag. Herein is the strength of our. THE BOND ISSUE. ROM the vote taken on the war revenue bill Fin the House of Representatives, as well as from the tone of the debate on the measure, it appears evident that the Democrats and Populists have de- cided to make a fight against the administration in the campaign this fall upon the proposed issue of $500,000,000 of bonds. That was the only feature of the bill strongly opposed, and the vote to strike it out was supported by every Democrat and every Pop- ulist in the House, with but six exceptions. The issue is one on which the Republican party can willingly meet its combined opponents when the time comes to submit it to the people in the Con- gressional elections. It is one which involves directly the controversy between the silver and the gold men and indirectly the Democratic proposal of an income tax. Both of these questions are familiar to the peo- ple, and there will be little or no confusion in the public mind on the new phase of the contest. The bonds provided for by the bill as adopted by the House are to be issued as a popular loan in va- rious denominations, some of them being for sums as Jow as $25, so that they will be in reach of all who wish to subscribe for them. They are payable .in coin, but it is important to ‘note that Mr. Bland, the veteran leader of the silver forces, stated in the House during the debate that “payable in coin” means at this time “payable in gold,” since, as he pointed our, the country is at this time conducting its finances on the gold standard and will borrow money on that basis. The objections made to the issue by the combined opposition were of three kinds. First, that no bonds should be issued at all, but that the Government should use the silver in the treasury for present ex- penses and impose an income tax to provide a future income. Second, that if bonds are to be issued the amount should not exceed the sum of $150,000,000, as the prospects of the war from the present outlook do not justify a larger loan. Third, that whatever bonds are issued should be made specifically payable in gold or silver, at the option of the Government, so as to retain the right to- pay them in silver if the people should ever vote for the remonetization of the white metal. It will not be difficult for Republicans to meet these objections with complete refutation. The Govern- ment cannot fight the war on silver, since the people at the last election declared by a large majority for the gold standard, and, moreover, to do sc would be to largely increase the cost of the war. Neither can it impose an income tax, even if one were desirable, in the face of the recent decision of the Supreme Court on that form of taxation in the Wilson tariff. A large bond issue is better than a small one, since it is not wise to underrate the foe nor to send our | fleets and armies with all their brave men to the field ill equipped by reason 6f parsimony in providing stip- | plies. Finally, no provision should be made for pay- meént in gold or silver at the option of the Govern- | ment, for the Government when it borrows in gold | dces not desire such an option. This is a gold coun- try, and will remain so. On that issue the Republican | party is ready to go to the country at once. It/ means victory complete and triumphant. - A QUESTION OF NAMES. | Y all odds the Congressional Record is the Bgrcmest compendium of. useless but interesting information ever issued by a civilized Govern- ment. This is well illustrated by the number for April ‘21, which contains, among other entertaining | matters, a discussion in the Senate on @ bill regulating | the appointment of professors at the Annapolis Naval Academy that developed into a debate on the ad- | visability of calling things by their right names. | Senator Lodge made a very learned speech in favor | of the present system of selecting professors of math- | ematics at the academy, and on its conclusion Scu-‘ ator Chandler asked him to state to the Senate the employment in which those professors are now en- gaged. To this Lodge replied, “The Senator under- stands as well as I do that the term ‘professors of | mathematics’ is a mere technical designation.” He | then went on to point out that one of these “pro- | fessors of mathematics” teaches ethics and English, another teaches the Spanish language and a third teaches drawing. | In reply to further questioning Senator Lodge said there are six professors of mathematics*of the naval academy who are bona-fide professional mathema- ticians. It appeared later on, however, that one of these is engaged at the naval observatory, one in the Nautical Almanac office, one in the War Records office, one in the Bureau of Ordnance, one in the Bureau of Docks and Yards, and one teaches mathe- matics at the academy. Thus of the nine dignitaries | who are carried on the payrolls of the nation as pro- fessors of mathematics at Annapolis only one is ac- | tually employed in that work. | On this showing of facts the discussion over names | took place.. Senator.Lodge asserted that the anomaly of calling a drawing-master or a superintendent of docks and yards a “professor of mathematics” did no harm, and should be continued, as it has now become | a venerable precedent of Annapolis nomenclature. | He was supported by Senator Morrill, who declared | at the title of the observatory at Washington is it- self “a misnomer for a name. It might just as well | be “entitled an agricultural observatory as a naval | observatory.” 7 To all this Senator Chandler replied: “It is always a great deal better in public and in private life to call | things by their right names, and there is not any sort of propriety in calli_g a professor of ethics and English. a professor of mathematics, or calling a teacher of languages a professor of mathematics.” He added by way of clinching argument, “The Sen- ator knows the teaching of modern languages is not an exact science, which mathematics is.” Z The conclusion of the matter is not the least in- teresting part of it: Senator Hale of Maine agreed with Lodge and asked for an immediate vote, where- upon Chandler said: “Only one word. The Senator from Maine was called out of the chamber and asked | me to defend this clause against the junior Senator from Massachusetts. I have done:it as best I could. Now that, the Senator from Maine has given in I gracefully retire.” The vote was then taken. The | drawing-master, the teacher of Spanish and the in- structor- in ethics at the naval academy and several bureau officials in Washington will continue to be | known as professors of mathematics. - A It may be stated as practically certain that if the Supervisors find a “job” in the bids for furnishing sustenance to prisoners, and are not in on it, that “job” is as good as dead. A 2 The historian will find difficulty in writing an ac- | count of the present war which will be acceptable to | such of the Spanish as are able to read. | eration due a snake. tonishment and indignation of the treatment Americans are subjected to wherever within reach of Spanish in- sult. It is a matter for surprise that some Americans are exhibiting a spirit fully up to the Don’s standard of meanness. I refer Farticularly to the forced resignation of Carlos Sobrino, who had been engaged as pianist to tour with a certain fiddler, a foreigner whose love for this country is meas- ured by the dollars he can woo through the mystic melody of vibrant catgut, and who faithfully takes his winnings back to Belgium. I have known So- brino for a dozen years. It is true he is a native of Spain, but America is the home of his choice and his affection. He is a skilled musician, lis standing ‘being shown by his touring Europe re- cently as the companion of Sarasate. He is of a gentle and extremely sensi- tive nature, a. gentleman in the com- plete sense, and to be hissed off the stage because of his Castilian blood was an affront which must have been a bitter blow. Sobrino is married to a charming woman whose voice was a delight to the public in the old days when the Boston Ideals were in their prime. She happens to be a native of Germany, but has become as thorough- ly American as her husband. The pi- anist is an unusually handsome man. His picture, which the Sobrinos to- gether did me.the honor to present in seasons past, attracts the admiration of all who chance to see it. It is es- sentially the face of the artist, the man whose world is the world of music, and whom a jeer would cut like the lash of a whip. T feel disgust for the narrow- minded hoodlums of either sex who thought they were expressing patriot- ism when they hooted off the stage a gentleman whose offense was that he had been born in Spain. They should be ashamed of themselves. ol Cibe e After having determined once to say no more about the poetry fired at me, but to stack it in the corner with a view to its ultimate sale by the cord, I am induced to recant. In the presence of the war song of the esteemed Exam- iner, admiration sweeps stern resolve away and the heart beats to the lyric strain like the drum of a Salvatiomn corps. It is not permitted me to know the name of the poet. I am told that it was Mr. Thomas Garrett, who had never been suspected of inclination to “bust into werse.” At least he has been the war editor of the Examiner’s bulletins, a. position in which he has covered himself with glory, and this poem constituted one of the bulletins. If he were not the architect. and build- er of it, he recognized its merits and a portion of the fame shall ever be his. The real poet must in fairness snatch a few leaves from hic own crown of bay and decorate therewith the brow of Garrett. I cannot refrain from repro- ducing here the last stanza of the im- mortal five: The Mangrove canght the Panama, Helena caught the Jover; We'll have the entire Spanish fleet Betore the war is over. So there now! It was only last week I expressed a hope that some one would arise to voice the sentiment stir- ring the country. Apparently he has ariz. Far be it from me to refuse to recognize merit, even though its habi- tat be the camp of the énemy. &0 ez “The “purple cow came into existence with the Beardsley school of freak art and went out on a tide of derision. But the bright blue horse is with u A glance at some of the current war pic-' tures not infrequently discovers a cav- alryman bestride a beast of this de- scription, the hoofs of the steed lost in a carpet of red grass, a pink stream babbling _ merrily alongside, yellow trees nodding in the breeze, and over all a rich green sky. = There is no particular reason for commenting at length on the death of a pugilist from a blow received in the ring. If to hurt a man is good, to kill him is better. . A little spitfire named Emma Gold- man, by the laxness of law and the for- bearance of Providence permitted to be out of jail, has been shrilling her nonsense hereabouts and has attracted more attention than deserved.. Some have gone so far as to speak of her re- spectfully. Even deference to her sex ‘would not permit me to do this. Ihave for the Goldman creature all the ven- Of this unlovely entity she has every quality, aggra- vated because she possesses an intelli- gence denied the serpent. To attempt to combat her absurd theories, to class- ify her various iniquities, would be to pay her undue attention. It is enough to say that any one who could be mis- led by her venomous drool would be a scoundrel, and certain to reach the penitentiary or the gallows through the natural process of evolution, so she is incapable of acute harm. The woman, to express her worth mildly, PR | has all the elements of the assassin, save the single one of bravery. She is despicable as the villain who applies the torch, who outrages innocence, or thrusts a dagger into the back of the unsuspecting. She is unfit to live ig a civilized country, and there is only one such country in the world which would tolerate her unrestrained presence. She is unfit to live among savages, because they know and practice a form of jus- tice. The beasts of the field are above her. She is an accessory to all crime, a teacher of immorality and treason, | an insull to decency, a travesty on womanhood, an example of black and irredeemable obliquity. Such is the opinion I am pleased to entertain.of her, although in expression of it ham- pered by the desire not to use terms as harsh as befit her character.. I think | she ought to be hanged by the neck un- | til dead and considerably longer. . s % A gentleman who says he “Loves boys better than horses” writes a pro- test against the never-ending races | which are doing so much to corrupt youth in this city. He says'the races | are teaching the boys to be dishonest, idle, and leading them .into aetual crime. Mare than this, he avers that | the Supervisors know these facts. All | of which has the merit of being true | and timely. He suggests as a remedy | that a purse be, subscribed to induce the Supervisors\to limit the racing to reasonable bo s. The remedy does not appear feasible to me. The racing as conducted is an offense. If the Blanco seems inclined to make concessions. - { admits that a mule has been Killed: 1‘_1 - Supervisors were honest men, enter- €' taining any regard for the morals of * 4 the: community, they would need no usssfissassssusassasfiauusassuaguansg g‘ WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. : g By HENRY JAMES. : RSN ENEEN SRR RRNRRLRRRRRIRRRNRIIRNS People of this country read with as-|cash inducements to give the book- makers a long rest. Being the men they are, I am afraid they could not be purchased from vice by any purse virtue could offer. I regret to have noted that virtue is often more ready with an admonition than with coin. It is a matter painful to contemplate that it is prone to rely on the precept which costs nothing, and the prayer which, however effective, is free. There will | be no reform while the present Super- | visors are in office. It yould not even be wise to buy them, for not a man in the lot has clear title to himself, and would stay bought. The only way I can see is to lay for the fellows when they try for re-election, and try to put creditable men in the places oc- cupied by a set who constitute a dis- grace to San Francisco. If they could not only be defeated, but a majority of them sent to jail, there to pick jute beside a lot of School Directors, the youth would kave a better chance. s et i There is a familiar story concerning a notice posted in a wild western the- ater: “Please do not shoot the or- chestra; they are doing the best they know how.” It seems to me some friend of the Examiner, if friend it has, ought to advise that concern to fling from its outer walls a banner bearing a legend of similarly benign import. In its frantic effort to present the news of the war that paper is doubtless do- ing the best it knows how; and the demonstration of the little it knows is painful. One would, if not moved to pity by the spectacle, have a heart ot stone. But, although scooped on the blowing up of the Maine, and forced to steal its account of the first battle from the columny of The Call, it could be in a measure consistent. Saturday morning it stated editorially the fact that Matanzas could easily be reduced "had been shown by Sampson’s brush with the batteries. In one news col- umn it told of the brilliant engagement, the courage of the navy, the perfec- tion of discipline, the terrible execu-¢ tion, and said 300 shots were fired, 104 of these from the New York. In the next column it set forth that the en. gagement amounted to nothing, was not, in fact, serious enough to disturb the good people of Matanzas; that sev- enty shots were sent into the city, fail- ing to explode, and that no harm was done. Of course all this gives to the reader the advantage of a wide rangs of choice, but it is possible that some readers would like to find out what ia happening at the front. e e In the absence of veneration for the flag and respect for the men defending it by land and sea, there should be, for the sake of decency, some method of enforcing at least the semblance of a due regard. It is now unlawful to de- face the national emblem by advertis- ing device, and properly so. But pic- tures of the flag are woven into adver- tisements of all sorts, “Remember the Maine” exhibited like a piece of junk, the personnel of the army and navy made to do duty as dummies onwhichto display the latest styles of cheap cloth- ing. Just at present there is a consid- erable feeling of friendliness for these men, and about them center immediate hopes for the welfare of theé country. To employ their faces, now grown fa- | miliar, to boom a line of goods. I be- lieve to be an exhibition of taste worse than merely bad. It is prostitution to the commercial instinct of a mighty patriotism which should be at least as sacredly secured against the vandal as are the stars and stripes which wave as its visible token. . P A gentleman known as “Stingy Jim"” writes totell of a number of inventions he would like the world to know about; and really, although the spread of such information is a little out of my line, I think the world ought to know. As may be common with inventors, the geniuses whose heads are in the clouds, Jim scorns all recognized styles of spell- ing and composition, the combinations of letters he builds being but another evidence of a lofty impulse to break away from fixed rules and contrive better ones of his own. However, this i$ immaterial. The burningtruth is that he has thought out a machine which is at once a churn and an icecream freezer. He has a posthole digger of great local renown, a nail-puller which tackles the carpet tack -reedily, nor pauses in the superior presence of the railroad spike. He can set up a unicy- cle which can be ridden by a child or anybody else. In very truth Jim’s mind seems full of wheels and other me- chanical fragments. I do not feel cer- tain that these few remarks will be.of distinct use to him, but hope they may. In conclusion he explains that he once contributed to the press, but quit when his poem on “Predestination” was re- jected. I have a distinct admirdtion for Jim, and he has reason to be proud of what he has done. Any of us could write a poem on ‘“‘Predestination” and get it rejected, but how pitifully few of us are authors of a posthole digger? To whom among us had occurred the idea of combining in a beauteous whole the wuseful churn and delightful freezer? Would not the unicycle be be- yond us and the nail-puller above our intellectual reach? “Stingy Jim” is a credit to the Shasta and Igo Cross roads. It had always been my Iimpression that the Spaniards would fight, but this . impression seems to have been wrong. They like to cut a throat when they catch a wounded enemy asleep, and to dabble in any amount of gore that can be safely shed. But if they are not cowards they are playing so deep a game of diplomacy that it can | lation. tion such as must rend the kingdom overturn the throne, and make place for a new form of government. Even the new form will not be stable, as the populace, wont to g0 abroad and ma- chete half-starved subjects, deprived of this benison, will turn the blade to the throat nearer home. At last, who}- 1y incapable of domestic control, Spain will become a prey to the mven{ng powers ever ready to take that —hich does not belong to them provided it can be safely accomplished. As the glory of that land is but a memory, so will be Spain itself. PR I cannot believe the Gavernoerf the Philippines is such a fool as his pro- clamation would stamp him. That the Spanish are grossly ignorant, that few of them know their letters, that they are fairly bursting with pride about nothing, we all understand. But a man in the position of Governor would _nat- urally be supposed not to be a drivel- ing idiot. I am inclined to L-lieve that the Governor's secretary is a partially reformed yellow journalist who put up a job on his employer. Somebody ought to set that Governor to music and call him a comic opera. i A HERE'S TO YOU, PAT MALLON. t Mallia, who fired nao.uhvllle.—Pnsl dis- (1t was Patrick Mallon, n the first shot from the N patch.) Paddy Mallon! Paddy Mallon! that it was you! 2 When they said it was a ‘“Mallla’ ting “twas not true. Sure a Mallon took that trick— or no Mallia is a Mick— O The Irish are:as happy as the cutthroat dons are sick! When vou 'listed on the Nashville, and you held your hand on high, | Swearing to defend Old Glory, from out the sky, With its stripes of red and white— White for truth and red for might— - You were praying you could fire the gun signal of the fight! Then_Irish luck stood by you, Pat, as you stood by the gun— For an irishman thinks fghting for America is fun! It's a way he has to tell That he loves this country well— This country gives him ~freedom, fight for that through hell! Lad, I knew I was bet- with its stars and he'll Paddy Mallon! Paddy Mallon! proud the day ve_heard the news! 2 For Irish dead lis in the Matne! No dang'rous task refuse! Though life or death betide, Fight by the Yankees' side Till theyve freed another nation and humbled Spanish pride! —Edward W. Townsend, EDUCATION IN SPAIN. To the Editor of The Call: An article appeared in the Sunday Call of the 24th inst. in reference to Spain. The article in question stated that the *Census re- turns show that a very large proportion of the inhabitants of Spain arve {lliterate, nearly 12,000,000 in the kingdom can neither read nor write. In the whole of Spain it was found that but 5,004,460 persons could read and write, 608,005 persons could read only, and yvet Spain supports 24,529 public and 5576 private schools.” In matters relating to education Spain is ahead of England; those classed as illiterate may not be able to read or write Castilian, the national language, vet they understand and are familiar with the language of their own province in which they reside, being able to. both read and write. It is therefore very unfair to class these people as illiterate. Kindly allow me to quote from the Monitor of the 23d inst.: “Spain has four different languages, the Basque in the northwest, the Galician, Castilian and Catalan. These are not mere dialects; they differ widely. Castil- jan is the national language and a per- son not able to read or write Castilian is returned as illiterate. Suppose the valleys of California were colonized by different races speaking different languages. Now, if all who were not able to read and write the language of the dominant race were Teturned as illiterate, the statistics would show the inhabitants in a false light. This is precisely the case with Spain. ~ Over 40 per cent of .the population do net speak Castilian, and although they may be able to read and write their own language, they figure as illiterates. Primary educa- tion is compulsory on -all children of school age and is free to the poor. Mul- hall, the greatest living authority on sta- tistics, gives a table of the average at- tendance of school children per 1000 popu- Spain is credited with 106, while Great Britain and Ireland have 123. 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