The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1898, Page 6

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E] Campo—NMusie, dancing boating, fishing, every Sunday, California Jockey Ciub, Oakland—Races to-day.| 1 HELP THE RED CROSS. HE red cross represents the noblest form of charity, not the giving of alms, but the bestowal of gifts which are the right of the recipients, at once a token of generosity, of friendship; gifts | which mean a godspeed and a benison. Brave boys are going to the wars. They may be | called to Cuba or to the Philippines. In either case they go to meet a foreign foe and the more deadly | enemy which lurks in tropic swamps. Some of them will never return. They should be sent away know- ing that their State honors them, holds them in ten- | der regard, intends that when they reach alien shores they shall lack no comfort which thoughtfulness can .provide. ® The Red Cross League of California has been or- ganized by earnest people. It must be said to the credit of the women that they are its most active members. Their hearts have been tcuched, and the | warmth of their sympathy has infected all about them. It is not that men lack any measure of sympathy, but they are busy. They are ready to give, but they wait to be ask They will not have long to wait. Sub- | scriptions will be received from this time on until | there shall be no further need. It is not for a2 moment feared that these will be slow in coming. The First and Seventh regiments of California vol- Within a few days they are to | The time for pro- | | unteers are in camp. be started on a perilous journey. viding-them with all they need is short, yet it will be long enough. But this will not end the work. The work must go on until the war has passed and the | boys, safe home again, have turned once more to the pursuits of peace. NO TIN SOLDIERS. | _ | HERE has been a tendency at times to poke fun | Tal the National Guard. Just why this should | have been so has never clearly appeared. It is | true that men who ordinarily are devoted to the arts | of peace and who don their uniforms generally for | parade pugposes could not be expected to meet a | sudden emergency just as trained soldiers would have | met it. Their leaders ofttimes have been incompetent. | The men in the ranks might be willing to obey or- ders to the utmost and be baffled by weak-kneed offi- cers. Now that the country has made a call the men of the guard are ready and eager. They realize that . the prospect is not for a holiday. The stern business of | war confronts them, and they offer themselves. They | come so freely that the service cannot use them all. | There have been a few instances in which the men have allowed themselves to think that war was a scheme for the advancement of the individual, while, indeed, it has a purpose much more serious. Some guardsmen in this State, in Colorado, in New York, and possibly elsewhere, have refused to serve unless they were given the privilege of naming their own officers. Happily the vacancy they thought to create was filled too quicklysto be appreciable. to the tin soldier. But the young patriots come for- ward, full of courage, brimming over with en- thusiasm, anxious to endure risk and hardship. The tin soldier may remain at home. The ‘boys at the front will not miss him. Naturally enough, the bulletins received from Washington during the day are not always absolutely accurate. They necessarily embody rumor and opin- ion, neither perhaps well founded. The one stating that the California volunteers would be sent to Florida may be taken as a sample. If troops are to go to Manila it is morally certain that the Californians will be among them. The manifest absurdity of ship- ping them eastward and bringing others from the East to take their places, entailing as it would addi- tional expense and delay, at once stamps the report as groundless, —_— Another evil of prize-fighting is that every plug- ugly who becomes a professional thumper drifts from the ring to the stage. It must be remembered that there is in progress an effort to elevate the stage, and this habit of the sloggers is a heavy handicap. The public may be conscientious, but there is a limit to its lifting powers. The people of the United States are not gratified at the opportunity to shed blood, Still, the sudden death of the Spanish who hoisted flags of truce and then shot at Americans who accepted the signals in good faith will not create in this country an appre- ciable amount of mourning. French papers are deeply chagrined by the Ameri- can victory at Manila. They had been so certain that Dewey was bottled up in the bay. They apparently A It is no | time now for log-rolling. War offers no opportunity | lost sight of the fact that Dewey went equipped for blowing out the cork. Perhaps some of the politiciaus scrambling for generalships do not realize that the gold braid they THE CHARTER CAMPAIGN. T is a part and parcel of the highly edifying cam- l paign which is now being conducted in favor of the proposed charter to charge that the corporations are “against” it. Thus, the ex-Mission-street Boodler calls on the people to ask themselves why certain in- dividuals who have read the instrument and demanded explanations from its advocates, in the absence of satisfactory answers, have usurped the privilege of opposing its adoption. The Boodler does not deign to explain anything. It does not tell us why it thinks an autocratic Mayor is just the thing we want. It merely alleges that the corporation organs are “against” him and urges the people on that ground to vote for the charter. This would be a weak position to assume even if the premises upon which it is based were true. But, as a matter of fact, it is notorious that neither the cor- porations nor their organs are “against” the charter. The Evening Post, the regularly retained and author- ized representative of the Southern Pacific in this | city, is a strong advocate of the adoption of tl}c in- strument. Up to date the Post has complimented the charter- makers for two features of their work. One is the | clever manner in which they have fixed the present monopoly in street railway transportation. (We imagine that Market-street railway bonds will go up several points if the charte: is adopted.) The other is the skill with which they have placed the saloon- keepers of the city completely in the hands of the Mayor and Police Commission. In order to suppress the “saloon vote” and abolish the saloons the Post says the people under the charter need only pledge the Mayor to appoint a temperance Police Commis- sion. No other corporation organ has said a word about the charter. The fact that the organs are all devoting strict attention to the war to the exclusion of the subject plainly indicates the character of their “or- ders.” The Boodler thinks the sugar trust is “against” the charter. For the purpose of answering this averment we assume that the sugar trust is in- terested. The Boodler’s evidence on this point should be conclusive. It is the business of the Boodler to ascertain the interests of corporations for the purpose of blackmailing them, and it certainly ought to know whether or not the sugar trust is interested in the adoption of the charter. But if the sugar trust is “against” the charter it is certainly out of its mind. Centralization of municipal power is exactly what the trust ought to desire. By combining with the rail- | road, water, gas and other corporations, it may, un- der the proposed charter, easily capture the Mayor, and, thus, by electing one man, accomplish what is now accomplished by electing several. The truth of the matter is, however, none of the corporations are “against” the charter. On the con- trary, they are hard at work winning the “push” over | to it. The extreme quiet which overspreads the poli- | tical horizon indicates that the plans for its adoption are well matured. But if the people, with the aid of the ex-Mission-street Boodler, fall into the trap it will be their own fault. Perhaps Huntington and the Boodler have again got together. The former has not yet been asked by the Railroad Commission concern- ing that $30,000 “advertising” contract. Can it be possible that a new contract has been entered into, a covenant of which is the creation in this city of a Lord Mayor to be owned by Huntington? P POSOTFFICE ECONOMIES. MENDMENTS made in the Senate to the postoffice appropriation bill, though designed in the interests of economy, will not be popu- lar with any portion of the people. It is even doubt- ful whether the House will agree to them, and prob- ably the only effect they will produce will be that of reviving the discussion over the postal deficit, which occupied so mnch of public attention during the past winter. All parties are agreed that the annual deficit in the postal revenues is the result of wasteful methods em- ployed at present, but differences exist as to the proper remedy to apply. In the House two plans of economy were put forward. One of these aimed to reduce the expense of carrying second class mail mat- ter by restricting the privilege of that class of postage to legitimate newspapers. The other aimed at re- ducing the cost of transporting all classes of mail by diminishing the rates paid the railroads for transpor- tation. Either of these if adopted would have put an end to the deficit, but both were rejected and the bill | went to the Senate framed in such a way as to make it certain another deficit would result from the oper- ations of the year. The Senators in seeking economy nave adopted neither of the plans proposed in the House. Their amendments will restrict the postal service in cities by limiting the mail deliveries to a number not ex- ceeding four each day, and the country service by striking out the appropriation for rural free delivery. This means not economy in the true sense of the word, but a saving of money by lessening the service rendered. We are not to have under the Senate amendments a more economical administration of the postoffice, but a cheaper and poorer mail accom- modation for the people. Nothing can be said in favor of the reduction in the service except that it will save a considerable sum of money, and when the burden of war taxes begins to be felt that may perhaps be accounted a good ar- gument. It will not be forgotten, however, that if the Loud bill had been adopted the deficit would have been overcome and the necessity for reducing the service would not have existed. As the matter stands the whole question comes up for reargument and possibly for settlement by some plan which will diminish the cost of the service without in any way diminishing the service itself. The ministers of this city deserve praise and thanks for the manly attitude they have sustained from the first in relation to the duty i this country to subdue and in a measure. civilize Spain. Only one or two of them have talked “peace at any price,” and happily no attention has been paid to these. p ARSI Of courseitis pleasingtotalkof the Spanishsquadron as “Sampson’s prey,” but it is 4 trifle rash to consider the squadron as being taken. There are doubtless men aboard those ships who have 1 prejudice against being the prey to anybody, and they have some guns wherewith to express disapproval. — e 3 The recent interview with the Queen Regent was a fake, and the one with Mrs. McKinley was a fake. This was their only excuse for being printed. Had they been true, to neither would have attached the least interest nor importance. : — Probably reports that yellow fever had broken out in the South arose from the presence there of stray copies of one of Hearst's joumfls. Some question has arisen as to the politics of Dewey. Possibly heisa bimetallist.. He seems to be- guasin sivenlating steel and jr A SIN OF OMISSION. ECRETARY PORTER has found it necessary S to issue through the Associated Press a state- ment warning the public against alleged inter- views with the President and. Mrs. McKinley pub- lished in the unscrupulous yellow journals. Referring to certain recent fakes of the kind, which were false both in text and in substance, Mr. Porter says: “The President made no such comments either to repre- sentatives of the press or to individuals. Since his inauguration he has adhered strictly to the policy of not talking for publication, and this will continue to be the invariable rule in the future. Any other course would be injudicious, for reasons which need not be dwelt upon. The same applies to Mrs. McKinley, who has several times recently been misquoted as having granted authorized interviews.” The warning is timely and will be well received by the public, and yet in making it Mr. Porter was guilty of a regrettable sin of omission. He should have made his reference to the offending journals as definite as he made his denial of their fakes. He should have named the papers that concocted the lies and thus made his warning and rebuke doubly effective. Mr. Porter doubtless thought the general public would know to what papers he referred without his naming them, and the thought in the main was well founded, but none the less would it have been better for him to have been clear and specific. A vague charge leaves a certain sense of vagueness in the minds of all who read it, no matter how well posted they may be. Moreover, a lying journalist cares little for a general charge against lying journalism. The only way to make him wince is to point him out to popular scorn by naming him. An illustration of the defectiveness of Mr. Porter’s method of dealing with the evil is to be found in the fact that his statement was published yesterday by The Call and the Chronicle, but not by the Examiner. The reason the latter journal did not publish it is be- cause it is one of the offending journals that circulat- ed the faked interview with Mrs. McKinley. This fact, however, was probably noted by a comparatively few persons, whereas, if Mr. Porter had named the Examiner and the Journal as the fakers of the false interviews the point and object of his statement would have been fully understood by all. It is high time for the line between true journalism and the daily publication of lying fakes to be clearly and impressively drawn. This can never be done by issuing disclaimers in general terms. Men who have occasion to notify the public of faked and false inter- views should never neglect to give notice also of the paper that did the wrong. The alleged interview with Mrs. McKinley was for example a gross and indecent outrage, and the President’s secretary in correcting the injury as far as he could by denial should have gone further and made the liar that concocted it feel the lash of public scorn by giving both his name and that of the journal that employed him to do his dis- reputable work. Tis for the purpose of exploiting theories and making politics. The fiatists propose that the Government shall be left without revenue in this war emergency unless they have their way and try their crude experiments with the public credit. The ex- perience derived from the financial legislation of our Civil War teaches that the costliest method of emer- gency financiering is the issue of legal tender paper as credit notes like the greenbacks. It is also the easiest method for fooling some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, as it did in 1862. The Government must pay soldiers and sailors, provide transportation and commissary, equip a medical staff and hospital corps, buy arms and munitions of war, build or buy ships and man them. It must, in other words, be continually buying some- ghing and can no more control the price of it than can a private person. When it pays in paper credits like the greenbacks the more it issues the less is their purchasing power and the more i. has to pay in its promises to pay for what it needs to use. As we have said repeatedly, this method doubled the cost of the Civil War. The people have ever since been paying two dollars for one dollar value received, together with the interest on the exira dol- lar for which they got nothing. Now the fiatists in the Senate are holding back the war revenue bill until they can so amend it as to call for an immediate issue of $150,000,000 more credit notes like the greenbacks. They do this in order to lend consistency to their incendiary howl about the bondholders. The Government can borrow $500,- 000,000 on 3 per cent bonds which will sell at a premium of 4 per cent, and can with the proceeds buy what it needs to carry on the war, getting a dollar’s value for every dollar paid. But this does not suit the fiatists. They have been the most per- sistent detractors of Spain and have done most of the inflammatory appealing which has excited our people. But now, taking advantage of the public necessity, they propose to compel the Government to imitate the Spanish financial methods, which are part of the evidence of the decay of that nation. They might as well insist that the strategic boards of the army and navy imitate the military methods of Spain, and that we adopt her ideas and plans of armament on land and sea. The method they propose is the costliest and most extravagant. It is'adopted by Spain because by that kind of financiering she has so depleted her credit that she has no other resort. She is like a starving bankrupt who issues his notes of hand and sells them for what trifle they will fetch. But we are under no such necessity. Our credit is high; we do not have to resort to the methods of the defaulted and insolvent nations, and least of all need we imitate the unhappy and unscientific methods of our moribund enemy. If this Spanish financiering succeed in the Senate it will be the beginning of domestic troubles of the most serious and far-reaching character. It will put upon_the President the necessity of vetoing the bill and leaving the treasury without resources to supply the drain of war, or he will be compelled to sign it and double the cost of the adventure. In either case more harm is done to the people and taxpayers than Spain can inflict if the war were to last a dozen years. SPANISH FINANCIERING. HE delay of the war revenue bill in the Senate ———— e ‘When the primary Red Cross move was made in this city several people had the nerve to attend the meeting and decry the whole matter. The way in which they were swept aside must occasion within their minds about the same degree of conviction a person is said to have when a house falls on him. It is to be hoped the Governor of the Philippines will not interpret his order “to resist to the last” to mean that he is to poison the water supply of Manila. Admiral Dewey seems to be a “V - -~ggen of wagior, both i3 acsion nd e pccpunt pf i THE PRESS OF OTHER LANDS. SPAIN EXPIATING HER SINS. ‘We have consistently deprecated a resort to hostilities crisls. We believe that the war will ruin Spain; that it will den the finances of the United States; that it may injure the su bans more than it can benefit them; that the American people will suffer more than they expect; that our own interests may be compromised; and that Bureopean complications may be set up which will constitute a new and lasting danger to the peace of the world. But, once the war has be- gun, there is no doubt on which side our sympathies must be. Spain is incompetent, corrupt, decadent; she is expiating. the sins of centuries. The United States is intervening in the cause of humanity, and setting a sal- utary example to Europe. The pity is that it should be so easy for Eu- rope to misrepresent its true significance.—The Speaker, London. throughout the seriously bur- ftering Cu- CANADIAN GOVERNMENT'S RAILROAD TO THE YUKON. The announcement that the Provincial Government has perfected its plans to secure the immediate construction of a railway from a coast port, in this province, to the headwaters of the Yukon, at Teslin Lake, will be recelved with entire satisfaction on the coast. The measure is such, we believe, that it will meet with the approbation of every right-thinking, fair-minded, unbiased man. The Government administration is certainly to be commended for its action in this matter, as it has risen to an occasion forced upon it, in consequence of the Senate rejecting the arrangement made between the Federal Government and Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann. Having already referred to the importance of this work to British Col- umbia as a whole, and to the coast cities in particular, as well as to the farming community, it Is not necsssary now to repeat that which we have already stated. This, we can say, however, that (®e action to be taken by the Government and ,the Legislature will mark a new era in the history of the province. It ili give a stimulus to business generally, and will have for its effect the continuance of a period of prosperity, the parallel of which has never been witnessed on the coast before. It is believed now that many who have hitherto been hostile to the scheme being undertaken by the Government, will’give their adhesion to the proposition.—The World, Vancouver, B. C. PUTTING THEMSELVES IN OUR PLACE. It is difficult for Englishmen to follow with any real appreciation the development of opinion in America. We cannot realize the impression Wwhich has been made by the destruction of the Maine, but we may conceive it as a flash-light which has made a vivid reality of the atrocious regime in Cuba. Until the Maine was destroyed, the tale of Cuba pricked the con- sclence from a distance, but there were a dozen reasons for postponing or avolding active measures. After the destruction of the Maine, the Iniqui- ties of Spain have seemed urgent and actual, a crying cause for immediate intervention. There are no doubt questions of policy intermingled, but none of us can doubt the emotion is natural and humane, or that we ourselves should in like position have been equally inflamed. Let us, then, be care- ful how we pose as critics of American behavior at this difficult moment. ‘We confess that from this point of view we follow with singular vexation the tone and manner of the communications which the Times correspond- ent sends daily from New York. “The public toleration of Congress,” he tells us this morning, “is a thing almost more disheartening than Con- gress itself.” Why say anything so gratuitous and so offensive as that? If Americans like to say it themselves, let them say it. But for the Times to print this and much like it day by day as from the correspondent of 4 Brit- lsl’:tp.per is to do mischief which is not easily repaired.—Westminster Ga- zette. NEVER STRONG ON THE SEA. But even when circumstances made her the first of naval powers Spain was never equal to the task she undertook. A great Italian sailor se- cured for her the empire of the West. The fighting prowess of two great military captains won for her Mexico and Peru. Her splendid armies con- quered Portugal and brought her the widest colonial dominion of the nge. But it was not by sea that Spain won her supremacy, and not by naval victories that she laid her grip on every quarter of the globe. Even when her power and wealth seemed irresistible, when her military reputation was at its height, when the world was strewn with her territories and the ocean laden with her argosies and fleets, her real naval power was utterly incommensurate with the astonishing pretensions which it made. As soon as England and Holland laid a finger on it, her maritime empire crum- bled into dust. The Armada only revealed a fact which English sailors had long suspected, and the consciousness of which explains Drake's sub- lime contempt for the menaces of Spain—the fact that, even at the zenith of their fame, the Spaniards had no mastery of the arts by which the sea is held. Is there on record a battle which shows that Drake and Blake and Jervis and Nelson were mistaken in their low estimate of Spanish sea- men? Can any of us recall the name of a Spanish ad- miral of genfus, or of any great Spanish naval victory since Lepanto, which was won largely by Venetian crews? If we look at the history of Spain since the Armada, we find only a succession of naval disasters, a succession of triumphs for any state which has ventured to grapple with the Spaniards on the <eas. Take the history of the seven- teenth century and follow the career of the Dutch admirals and of = the greatest of Nelson's predecessors, Blake. Take the eighteenth century and notice how even Alberoni and Patino failed, with all their efforts, to resuscitate the fleets of Spain. Take the modern war in Chile, and mark how few antagonists Cochrane could find there worthy of his steel. Even in the days of her greatest power at sea, Spain was notoriously deficient in the capacity of her saflors, and since those days she has steadily de- clined. To-day Spanish gunners and Spanish engineers. are confessedly among the worst in Europe. It would be little short of a miracle if it should turn out that Spain, within the last two decades, had bred a race of sea- men capable of reversing the unvarying misfortunes of the past. It 1is when we consider the temper and traditions of the opposing nations, far more than when we study their resources and their fleets, that we'ren!. ize how little probability a war woutd offer even of a transient Spanish victory, and how much there is to justify the American people’s expecta« tion that from the very beginning of the contest they would sweep the Spaniards from the sea.—The Speaker. PERU A HELL-LIKE REPUBLIC. Teikichi Tanaka of the Morioka Shokal has lately returned home from South America. He has brought home a contract agreed upon between the Peruvian republic and his firm for the supply of 30,000 Japanese emi- grants. The terms are that the emigrants are to be males between 20 to 45 years of age, are to undertake farm work of ten hours a day, except on Sundays and national holidays, and are to receive 25 yen per month. The contract period will be four years. These are very favorable ter::s to Jap- anese and doubtless many emigrants will be forthcoming. But there is an- other attraction. The Peruvians are said to be strong Japanophiles. A law was in force forbiddi: the marriage of Peruvian subjects with for- eigners, but this law is said to have been repealed, specially in view of encouraging the arrival of Japanese and their marriage with Peruvian wo- men. The President himself is a thorough lover of Japanese. He asked Mr. Fanaka to bring, when the latter revisited the republic, a batch of Japanese carpenters and other mechanics to build for him a model Japanese house. The “Union Club,” a club organized by fashiondble gentlemen, wanted to engage twenty Japanese boys to wait upon them at the club at a monthly salary of $12 with food and clothing. All these are so tempting that we needy editors at first were strongly inclined to cast away our pen and to sall to Peru by the first ship. But a dismal tale about that republic which a friend of ours submitted to us stopped us from taking the rash step. This gentleman had been to Peru several years ago and stayed there long enough +- learn much about the country and the people. He told us that Peru is a vory unhealthy country and the Peruvians are little better than ruffians, th: horrible crimes are committed in broad daylight and the police itself is almost the den of robbers, that life and property are in perpetual danger and that even the omnipresent Chinese do not dare to penetrate into this hell-like republic. Maybe there is a little exaggeratio. in this story. but it is quite true that the republic Is in a very unsettl 3 state and the country is very unhealthy. When we recall how some tsn years ago a big Japanese capital was invested In a certain silver mine and went into the pockets of some fraudulent Peruvians we can not free selves from the suspicion that there might be some fraud in the emi, ‘:?(: n enterprise. It is reported that the Morioka Shokai is contemplating sge;nd‘ = out to Peru as first batch 1000 emigrants by May next. It is highl dng sirable that, before this is done, the Government will make a clo§ ly 2 tigation into the matter.—The Hansei Zasshi (Japan). e g COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Lieutenant J. H. Lee Holcombe, U. S. A., is at the Occidental. George Foster Platt, manager for Lewls Morrison, is at the California. kurai, who will remain here to ma.rg of the new Japanese war \tr:::elmt:; Chitdse, lately bullt and launched at t Union Iron Works, and Captain N. K; shiwabara, who will proceed to Philadel- phia to assume charge of another ery built for his Government at Cramp's. ';':ar others are J. Ushida, T. J. Nakagaws. Who goes to the Legation at Washington: M. 0. Kunomiya, T. Hi, B. F. Hake, the wealthy cattleman of , T. Hirabe, H. Hirae, M. Omaha, is registered at the Lick. Aighing, H. Aurahashi, K. Invrichi and L. A. Spitzer of San Jose, the County Assessor of Santa Clara, is at the Grand. |©© © 0000000 A pleasant little ° Charles Monroe, an attorney of Los An- G scene served to geles, and partner of Senator Stephen M. | © A © relieve the mo- White, is staying at the Palace. o PRETTY o notony and light- Rear-Admiral J. N. Miller registered at | O© TRIBUTE. Q ! the prosalc the gdccddemn.ld ;;,tfl" t:odllouten‘;m-—-s“. o 5 o rout;::l in the 8. Rodgers an p Andrews, U. S. o gen freight 9909900000 omie: ot . the Martin Wallace, City Councflman of Portland, Or., and Dr. B. E. Miller, a | Southern Pacific Company in the Unfon prominent physician of that eity, are at the Grand. Dr. M. B. Campbell is at the Californt: from Patton, Cal., to attend the Congress ot the California State Medical Society, which will meet on the 11th, 12th and 1ith of this month. T. A. Grady, manager of excursions for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail- road, with headquarters at Chicago, has arrived in the city on business connected with his road. " Mrs. Kate J. Willats, one of the leading spirits of the falr in aid of the Masonic ‘home, and a prominent member of the Or- der of the Eastern Star, is at the Bald- win, together with her daughter, Miss §. M. Willats. A distinguished party of Japanese ar- rived last night on the City of Peking from Yokohama and registered at the Palace. In the patty ate Captain K. Sa- | Trust building yesterday afternoon. It appears that Willlam L. Wall, one of the many genial clerks in said office, who has been indulging in mimic warfare as first sergeant of Company M, First Regiment, had volunteered his services in behalf of his Government and had enlisted to de- fend our glorious flag in the more serious duties of active and real warfare. Arrayed in his regimentals he was down bidding his former superiors and the boys generally good-by, gnd was about to take his departure and the good wishes of his associates when he was unceremoni hustled into an adjoining office, where H. A. Sully proceeded in a kindly manner to Impart -iaerly advice to the young pa- triot, telling him how all his friends were SOrTy to see him go, but that they all gloried in his patriotic inclination and that they intended to “watch” for his ad- vancement to a gens to view a handsome gold watch, suitably inscribed, which he presented to the blushing defender of his country’s honor as a mark of esteem from his former fellow clerks. The gallant Willlam was | too much overcome to make a suitable reply, but he took the watch and mum- Dbled a heartfelt thanks to the spokesman. It is said that when he returns his posi- tion will be open for him, which appears to be contrary to the impression that pre- vails In certain quarters as to the pol of the big corporation in such matters. Samuel Bissinger left Sunday evening last on a six months’ tour through Eu- rope. Mr, Bissinger goes to attend the celebration of the golden wedding of his parents, which takes place in Ichenhau- sen, Germany, toward the end of August. H. C. Bush, general agent of the Santa Fe, is in Milwaukee attending the trans- continental freight bureau meeting hav- ing for its object the establishing of rates between Eastern points and the Pacific Coast. He will return in the course of twi eeks. \&‘5. Walshe, L. T. Shepard and N. C. Warner of the San Bernardino Press, the last of thir‘w-five delegates from the southern part of the State, who attended the convention of the Foresters of Amer- jca at Healdsburg, and who have been at the California for two weeks,will leave for their homes to-morrow. —_———— FALLACIES OF THE CHARTER. It is said by the advocates of the new charter that: *“We have now a governing body of twelve members, and if we multi- ply it by ten, you get 120 of the same kind. You take them from the same source and must have the same result.”” But, if we divide the number by two or twelve, you will still have six or one, also of the same kind. You take them from the same source and must also have the same re- sult. If the source of power is corrupt, you simply concentrate corruption by re- ducing numbers. Now the fact is, there is not a single instance where large pow- ers have been conferred upon a Mayor, as in Brooklyn, Boston, Cleveland, In- dianapolis, Quincy, Cincinnati, and other citles, in which that power has not been abused as often as any power possessc by Supervisors, and the experienc many cities has proved that it is e: er to elect a bad Mayor than a bad Board of -Supervisors, some of whom are certain to be honest. All the machine has to do is to concentrate its energies upon the ; election of a Mayor, which it does with uniform success, except under conditions of unusual excitement, or when the Mayor is powerless, Under a storm of public excitement, Seth Low_ was elected as a model Mayor in Brooklyn. He was fol- lowed by Whitney, Chapin and Moody, who were creatures of * lin, For eight successive suffered frightfully from corr travagance, inefliciency and Boston, Mayor after Mayor h been elected, only to disappoint the hoges of municipal reformers. The public debt was increased, employes were hired at more than the market rate of wages, and the reatest frauds in executive contracts ave been pernetrated by the Board of Public Works. In Cleveland, the concentration of power has not brought about the application of business metimds. In Cincinnati, Boss Cox still rules the Mayor. Philadelphia, under the Mayor and six of his appointees as heads of departments, has the wo government in the United States. This city has not had a good Mayor since 18§7. Civil service rules are a dead letter. The city is controlled by politicians, who live on patronage and are both corrupt and extravagant. In Quincy, the author of the conce trating charter admitted its failure, an, states that local jobbing and caucus’ pol tics are as rampant as ever. Indianapolis had a brand new charter of the San Fran- | elsco type in 1891, which started up under i ideal conditions. Sullivan, Denny and ]Tflfigart have been the successive Ma; and the last was re-elected Civil service and charter ordinances hav been_systematically ignored. The offices are filled for personal and partisan gain, and before election three times the need- ed number of laboreps were empl . The Department of Public Works was in- vestigated, revealing gross inefficiency and corruption in contracts ard the exe- cution of pubHe works. Mayor Taggart has made wholesale removals and reap- pointments in his own interest. Men are not trees, which by increased number_do not alter the nature of the fruit. The fruit of associated numbers is altogether different from that of a small number or a single man. A large number discourages corruption, for it is more costly and difficult to buy 61 out of 120 than 7 out of 12 or 10 out of 18. When men act together in a corporate capacity their power is enormously in- creased, while that of the individual is lost. This is the essential condition of all good government. The greatest feature in a city government is the appointing TS, power. In a corporate body, no one has personial power to appoint his fricnds and relatives or political associates. There is no patronage and politics cannot count on spoils. Patronage 18 the food of “bosses,” who cannot thrive without it. The elected ‘“bosses’ barter their patron- age with Supervisors for more priations, and with outside. ‘‘be the Buckley stripe for electoral support. Patronage is the maln cause of corrup- tion and extravagance, and is the curse of city government. It is perpetuated and extended in the new charter. Under such conditions there is no promise of im- provement, either in efficiency or econo- my. J. H. STALLARD. —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —e— fim’lr¥V E. 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