The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1898. \ FRIDAY......... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e A e A Address Al Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL cescesanes.-908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE...... ...Room 188, World Building NEW YORK OFFICE... DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Reprcsentative. WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE.. -Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. .-One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'ciock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. i941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—+*In Old Japan.” The Prisoner of Alglers. “Ship Ahoy.” Orphenm—Vaudeville. It Masonic Festival. oma Schr T on Edd; Show. y streets, Speciaities. POSTAL INVESTIGATION. ONGRESSMAN LOUD took a step which will be gratifying to the whole country when he moved for the appointment of a Congressional Commission to make an exhaustive examination into | the postal service. Such an examination has long | been needed. The postal deficit has been a scandal | for years past, and since there is so much disagree- | ment as to the real cause of the evil and the best | remedy to provide for it, the importance of the work | to be expected of the proposed commission will be | eevrywhere recognized. | The subject is one with which the general public [ is by this t: While the postal ser- | i f Great Britain, France and Germany yield | me surplus revenues to those countries, ours | en upon the national treasury instead of a | Two theories are advocated in reference to the | te. According to one the deficit is due mainly to | abuses of the clause of the law providing for second ‘ il matter, and according to the other it is due | cessive rates paid to railroads for transporting | On | C ne fairly familiar. mails. ch of these theories has a foundation in fact. all classes of mail except second class there is a sur- | plus revenue, and it is known that hundreds of tons | of matter is carried as second class that is not justly | entitled to that privilege. If this abuse were pre- | vented there would be no deficit. On the other hand | there is a large amount of evidence to support the | assertion that the transportation rates are excessive | and that if they were reduced to rightful figures the | Government could continue to carry as second class ‘ matter all that it is now carrying without having a de- | ficit at the end of the year. he discussion on the subject has been widespread and prolonged. The commission proposed by Con- gressman Loud is therefore one called for by public demand. It is time that all evidence on the subject should be gathered, digested and reported so that some steps may be taken to put an'end to a condition of affairs which is not only wasteful of public money, but a discredit to the business methods of the Goyern- ment. B An evening paper notable for stupidity not unsav- ored of malice claims that the Cubans have the Span- ish virtually conquered now, the intimation being the United States troops are being seht to the island simply to win glory for the commanders. Of course the assertion is arrant foolishness and but for its tincture of meanness would not be worth noticing. Certainly to reply to it would be a waste of space. Doubtless the Kaiser will “have something to say abeut the final disposition of the Philippines.” He has full liberty to make remarks concerning that or | anything else. In fact there is no reason for discour- aging his tendency to talk himself black in the face. But he must not get the idea that Uncle Sam is to be influenced by his chatter. EREE st ) At the risk of offending two large and muscular persons the fact is worth mentioning that nobody be- lieves either Corbett or Fitzsimmons intends to fight, nobody cares whether they do or do not enter the ring. Only the vague hope that one might kill the other and go to jail for it arouses a passing interest. The pang of having to go on the witness-stand day after day and evade the truth is not the only one to which Mr. Huntington 1‘ being subjected. There has sprung up a habit, which must cause him pain, of making the Southern Pacific pay for the privilege of killing people, a privilege once free. S i People on this coast have done 21l in their power to sustain the administration. They have found no fault and they have offered more service than could be utilized. But they do feel like saying now that they wish the Oregon had not been taken away. Reports that Spanish spies have attempted to poison the water used by the troops in the South may be unfounded. However, the fact that they are gen- erally believed shows the sort of people civilization thinks the Spanish are. AR T . It is too bad some of the troops coming from the Middle West cannot stop off in Arizona long enough to practice on the Indians threatening to uprise. The troops need actual experience and the Indians need to be made good. Attempts to make the climate of Manila appear fatal to white men are worse than idle. In the first place they are not founded on fact, and in the second place they may add to the distress of those whose brave boys are going there. There is a chance for the police to win approbation by arresting a few of the bunko men who are making life a burden to the greenhorn. In many instances the greenhorn should also be detained in some ins! tution for the feeble-minded. 'luyactufl OUR PROSPECTIVE CITIZEN, AH CHI S is known, the Hawaiian Legislature was fl elected by the annexation party, and is unani- mous for that policy. It has passed and re- passed, ratified and reratified annexation, and has threatened to offer the islands in the markets of the world if a taker is not found in the United States. Only recently we were assured of the intense anti- Chinese sentiment of this Legislature and its con- suming desire to welcome the Anglo-Saxon as a laborer and a citizen. The Labor Commissioner of California, who made an official pilgrimage to this shrine of anti-Chinese opinion, returned reporting the Legislature looking and longing for white hands in the cane fields and burning with a desire to send the pigtails back to the Flowery Kingdom. One would have thdught bil- liards taboo in Honolulu because the game is played with a cue, which might be confused with the Celes- tial queue. All this was profession, but it fixed public attention in this country and has permitted the oppo- site practice to go on riotously and profitably. Under the constitution of the Hawaiian oligarchy there is provided “a Council of State,” the analogue of the Privy Council of the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India. - These councilors are the ad- visers of President Dole, who seems frequently in need of advice. These councilors of state are elected by the Legislature. There recently occurred in this Council of State five vacancies; why is not explained. Perhaps they had grown weary advising the President to keep up a republican pretense in a government based upon the consent of only 2 per cent of the gov- erned. Anyway, there were five vacant chairs in the great Council of State, and under the constitution the annexation Legislature had to fill them. For the first vacancy Mr. George R. Carter was a candidate. He is a brother of Mr. Charles Carter, who went out with the Dole forces against the native revolution in 1895, and was the only one killed. Being the brother of the only martyr of the oligarchy, Mr. Carter ex- pected to win hands down in the Legislature, but he didn’t. Mr. Ah Chi, a Chinese gentleman, Celestial from top to toe, smell of punk and nut oil and all, was presented as a candidate and elected over Mr. Carter. Ah Chi sits now in Mr. Dole’s Council of State and advises the President. If Hawaii be an- nexed as a county of California we may have him as a member of our Legislature, or if the State of Hawaii come into the Union why may not Senator Ah Chi be sent to Washington? 3 Whether there is a new heaven or not, annexation seems to open up a new earth to this country in which there are great spectacular possibilities, and not the least among them is our prospective fellow citizen, Ah Chi. HARD TIMES AND REVOLUTIONS. A ODERN students of the philosophy of his- tory are virtually agreed that all revolutions, | whether political or moral, have been due to | ‘bad economic conditions more than to any dissatis- | faction with the politics or the morals whih they | overthrew. When crops are good, wages abundant | and the means of obtaining a livelihood are within easy reach of all, the average man will endure almost | anything rather than take the risk of revolt against the powers that be; but when hungry and homeless \ he is ready to listen to the voice of the agitator and | follow any leader who promises to overthrow the | established order of things and make a new deal. We had an illustration of the truth of this | philosophy in 1896, when the hard times of the three previous years produced so much discontent among | the people that the professional calamity howler had | an audience in every city, town and village, and when the desire of the people for a change was so great that large numbers of them voted for what would have been a financial and commercial revolution. Fromsuch an exampleof what tendencies to revolt are brought out by hard times even in a country so pros- perous as the United States and among a people so intelligent, it is easy to estimate how extreme is the | danger to European nations when a season of bad crops and no wages happen to coincide with the dis- cussion of some political or moral issue which di- vides men into parties or classes. Europe is just now going through such a crisis. Bread riots have occurred in Spain and in Italy, and in both countries the professional agitators and revo- lutionists have taken advantage of them to incite the people to revolt. The situation is bad in Spain, but even worse in Italy. Although there is reason to be- lieve that the censorship of the press at Rome has suppressed as much as possible the truth of the ex- tent and degree of the riots in that country, enough has been published to make it certain that insurrec- tions amounting almost to the dignity of civil war have broken out and the very integrity of th» king- dom is threatened. 3 The situation is the more serious because there is every prospect that economic conditions throughout Europe will grow worse before they become better. The wheat crop is scarce in all parts of the Continent. To prevent a further rise in the price of bread the French Government has suspended the duty on the import of wheat. Germany '. not better off than France, and according to recent reports the crop in Russia is so small that the Government of that coun- try proposes to prohibit the export of wheat in order that it may retain enough for its own reople. ‘With such conditions prevailirg and such prospects before workingmen the calamity howlers of Europe are having a season of triumph except where the strong hand of Government chokes them off. All manner of attacks are now being made azainst ex- isting social institutions. No nation in Continental Europe is free from them, and in all lands where the social fabric is not founded deeply on the abiding sympathies of the people the danger of revolt and civil disturbance is menacing in the extreme. Probably had Policeman Murphy discovered any- body on his beat so rich in the symptoms of inebria- tion as he himself the unfortunate would have been arrested as drunk. Without desiring to prejudice the case of Murphy, it may fairly be said that San Fran- cisco prefers its guardians to be sober. The first and best use to make of General Nunez when San Juan has been taken will be to hang him to a tree. Such a course would fittingly rebuke Nunez and render him serviceable as a horrible example. It is unfair to charge Spanish soldiers with coward- ice because they fled before a mob of women who were armed with axes and clubs. Perhaps they were influenced by a feeling of gallantry. Senator Elkins thinks the Government should sell the Philippines. Elkins has apparently been even more prompt than usual in the organization of a syn- dicate. Italy’s riots might almost be dignified by the title of civil war. So far they have been more fatal than war now in progress. ,of this city said: | pect that the end of the war is near. PATRONAGE OF THE CHARTER. pROFESSOR JORDAN of Stanford University on being asked a few days ago what he thought of the charter soon to be voted on by the people “I believe that the chief cause of the failure of municipal government in the United States lies in the conversion of the public service into patronage to be distributed among personal favorites and partisan workers. The proposed charter of San Francisco per- petuates this condition of the distribution of patron- age by individuals and cliques. It, therefore, offers mighty little promise of reform either in effectiveness or in economy.” Professor Jordan might have added to this a further fact. Not only does the proposed charter perpetuate the spoils system of administering the municipal government, but it concentrates in the hands of one official (the Mayor) upward of 80 per cent of all the spoils. Every vestige of authority has been taken from the people. The patronage of every elective office has been reduced to the lowest possible point, and the patronage of every board or commis- sion appointed by the Mayor increased. All political power has been centralized in a Board of Public Works, the Fire and Police commissions. These three bodies will expend nearly half the annual appro- priations. | Those who intend to vote for the adoption of the charter on the 26th instant should be advised of their responsibility. It is for the purpose of bringing home to the people a realization of the danger of fastening upon the city a form of government which will re- sult in greater abuses than prevail under the con- solidation act that we urge all intending voters to thoroughly consider the instrument. In the nature of things it can make very little difference to The Call whether the proposed charter is adopted or not. This journal can exist under any charter, but the peo- ple as a mass are vitally interested. If a great politi- cal boss is created here with unchecked powers the common people will suffer most. The corporations and millionaires will be able to take care of them- selves. They are always the last to feel the oppression of corrupt politics and maladministration. The proposed charter is the embodiment of cen- tralization. Under a centralized government it is always easy to put up jobs to rob the public. The check of diverse interest is absent in an organization where one-man power prevails. In order to rule San | Francisco completely, should the new charter be adopted, it will only be necessary for the corporations, | bosses, millionaires and associated villainies gener- | ally to combine on a candidate for Mayor whom they have stripped of his powers in advance. That men | of character can be found to head such combina- tions cannot be doubted. Vide, the blue-blooded Van Wyck of New York, the willing tool of Boss Croker. ————— A SHARP FINISH. UST before General Fitzhugh Lee and lhe‘ d American colony left Havana a correspondent asked a British officer whom he met in that city | for an estimate of the probable duration of the im- pending war. To this question the officer is reported | to have replied, “In my judgment it will take the United States thirty days to catch the Spaniards, and | then the war will be finished in thirty minutes.” | From present prospects it looks as if this off-hand prediction would be fulfilled almost to the letter. ‘We have already destroyed the power of Spain in the Pacific and frightened her Atlantic fleet from the seas. Our troops ire ready for the descent upon Cuba. Before thirty days from the date of the de- claration of war we shall have caught the Spanish forces in that island and then the war will be virtually over. The stars in their courses have fought against Spain. Economic distress has been more deadly to her than American guns, though handled by the bravest and most accurate gunners that ever went with a modern battle-ship into action.. The Spanish people, already dissatisfied with the existing Govern- | ment, have been roused to deeper discontent by the increase in the price of food, and bread riots have dis- turbed the Government as much as the dread of Carlist insurrection or republican revolts. With no chance of winning victories to rouse the military pride of the people, the Queen and her Ministers can hardly venture to risk a battle on land or sea, and will be glad to surrender every colony of Spain if only by so doing they can save the monarchy from overthrow and the country from a civil strife that will be very near a war of extermination. Under such circumstances it is reasonable to ex- When it is over we shall have to engage in the arduous and perplex- ing task of bringing order out of disorder in the former possessions of Spain which will then be in our hands, That task will require much more time than the war. In Cuba and in the Philippines everything is in such confusion that if we should withdraw our forces at once the result would be anarchy. We can- not in justice so far shirk our responsibilities to the people of those islands as to permit such an outcome of our destruction of Spanish power, and to that ex- tent we shall have some problems of the war con- fronting us for a long time to come. Such affairs, however, are for the future and will be dealt with as each newly arising emergeéncy re- quires. For the present the one issue is to settle with Spain as speedily as possible and put an end to war. This is evidently ywhat the administration aims at. There is to be no delay. The finish will be short and sharp. The chances are we shall celebrate the com- ing Fourth of July with rejoicings over a war which has been fought out and won, leaving the people iree to resume the industries and enjoy the benefits of peace. According to a Spanish Cabinet officer that coun- try wants peace, but nobody has the courage to ask for it. As any one making the venture would prob- ably be lynched by the chivalrous populace, this diffi- dence is not strange. It is easier to be a martyr at the cannon’s mouth than at the hands of a mob. —_— With priests and preachers resigning thelr charges so as to enlist, “the peace at any price” people are losing ground. The pulpit was the last leg, so to speak, they had to stand on, and, happily, it is wobbly. IR If the Government shall accept as authentic any new_s‘sent by correspondents such as Creelman it will not only be showing a lack of judgment, but courting trouble, of which it seems already to have enough. If Premier Sagasta really declared in favor of “open, manly and honorable warfare” that grim- looking old man must be even a greater joker than statesman. —_— Evidently Blanco when he took the reins of office THE SU NDAY VOLUNTEERS o o o ° o o READ THE oc00000O0OO0OO 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000000 § READ NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. 0000000000000 0000000000000000000C0O0000O0O D660V HDODOOO0HHDDEPOHEEDOD 909D HIOEDDDDOVIOHHDIVOIDODEDIPOVPOIDOOVVVDDOOOIDODH00H CALL. FOR MAY 15, 1898, AMONG OTHER FEATURES, WILL CONTAIN: - How Our Soldier Boys Are Preparing to Hold the Philippines. 00000000000000000O 00000000000 000000O0 GENERAL SICKLES ON SPAI CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB. When the *Hoist Sail” Signal Was Hoisted. WOMEN’ Their Use and Abuse as Seen by Prominent Women, THE HOUR GLASS. A Thrilling Story by ROBERT BARR. 900000000000000000O00 HOW T0 SUCCEED AS A TRAVELING SALESMAN. By HENRY CHAPMAN, the Oldest Dry-Goods Man on the Roat iMPRISONED IN MORRO CASTLE. Exciting Story of a Volunteer Now in Camp at the Presidio Who Served Under Maceo and Fought Hand-to-Hand Battles for Cuba. And All the Latest War News by Special Correspondents. OFF TO MANILA. READ THE SUNDAY cm.§ Our Former Minister at Madrid Tells What the Dons Think of Us. S CLUBS. SUNDAY CALL. 00000000000 o o 000 A A A A e a L L AR XXX T YT IR P PPN 000000090000 00900000009VPVVVIDD00DDIOOPPVOV0H9D99000P 9 COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS J. W. Henderson, the banker, of Eu- reka, is at the Lick. Dr. W. C. Grove and wife of Victoria, B. C., are at the Palace. E. L. Allen, head agent of a large New Yerk insurance company, is at the Bald- win. - Hugh Martin, a business man of Red- ding, registered at the Russ yesterday afternoon. Colonel D. B. Fairbank, N. G. C., came down from Petaluma and is staying at the California. George L. Hoxle, the well known at- torney of Fresno, will be located at the Lick for a few days. S. N. Griffith of Fresno and W. A. Shahan of Portland were among the ar- rivals at the Occidental. Z. A. Willard of Boston, who has ex- tensive land interests in Sonoma County, to which he the Baldwin with his wife. J. A. Fillmore, "manager of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific Company, has gone to Bartlett Springs on a much needed two weeks' vacation. Dr. P. R. Watts came up from Sacra- mento to attend the State session of the California Homeopathic Medical Soclety, and registered at the California. H. L. Frank, 0000000000 o O ex-Mayor of ° BOTH o Butte, Montana, and prospective © REDUCED O gouernor of that O THE RENT. O state, was din- o ing with a party o 0000000000 of friends at tho Palace, when the subject of conversation turned upon the many peculiar charac- ters there are in the world. Mr. Frank sald: “I think we had a notable one of that class in the person of a man named Paul Davis up our way. His pecularity lay in his gift of repartee, and hardly a day passed but Paul gave expression to some new phrase that was soon on the lips of every inhabitant in our local- ity. His broken English probably served to add zest to his sayings, and to us he was as good as some theatrical comedian, at least. “One day a member of the tonsorial fraternity came into Paul's place, and thinking to ‘jolly’ the old fellow, patron- izingly sald: ‘Well, Paul, business seems to be pretty good with you. How much | money are you banking these days? | Paul looked up at his fresh friend and answered quietly: ‘How is peezness in der barber shop?” The manuipulator of whiskers replied: ‘Oh pretty fair.’ ‘Vell,’ said Paul, ‘dat’s all you need to know.” And this method was effectually used thereafter to squelch any one of an in- quisitive turn o ind in Butte. “When Tom /Carter first decided to make the campaign for United States Senator, Paul thought it foolish of him to oppose several millionaire candidates for the same honor, saying that he had no show. However some one told Paul that Carter was going to put $100,000 in the fight, and the old man said: ‘Ah! dat is de reason dey ‘choiced’ him." “But the best joke of all, probably be- cause it was on me, occurred at the time or thne financial depression some years 2go, when Paul suffered with the rest. He was a tenant of mine and was pay- ing me $300 a month rent. I went into his store one day, and thinking to please him and at the same time help him out in his difficuities, I said: ‘Well, Paul, I guess T'll make your rent $250 from now on.’ He did not even give me an answer- ing nod, and supposing that he had si- lently acquiesced I took my departure. On the first of the next month he handed my collector a check for $200. The lat- ter said: ‘Paul, I guess you misunder- stood Mr. Frank. You know he told you that your rent would be $250." Paul replied: ‘I didn’t misunderstood him. He retooced der rent $50 und I retooced it $50." And Paul's rent remained at his figure ever after.”” Attorney W. D. Grady of Fresno regis- tered at the Occidental. E. D. Bannister, a prominent mining man of Redding, is a guest at the Pal- ace. ‘W. 8. Aldridge, a prominent shos mer- chant of Rochester, N. Y., Is stopping at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Parker are in the city from Minneapolis for an extended wvisit, and can be found at the California. got Weyler’s typewriter as’ part of the necessary equipment. Spain’s flying squadron seems to be rightly named. But whither does it fly? L. H. Severance and L. 8. Severance, two enterprising merchants of New York and Cleveland, O., are staying at the Palace. B. F. Shepherd Jr., a Fresno druggist, and Colonel J. H. Gysellar, N. G. C, a liquor merchant of Eureka, are at the Grand. T. R. Eckert of New York, who has been in Cloverdale for some time for the benefit of his health, 1s at the Baldwin with his wife. ——————— 2 OUR WOMEN PATRIOTS. Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: The spirit of patriotism so rife among the wome:. of our land, evidenced by their wearing on their breasts the national colors in minlature form, is one of the most hopeful auguries for the future of the nation. They cannot do the fighting, but the stamina and courage they impart to the sterner sex go far toward consti- tuting the latter in the fleld and on the sea invincible. It is not enough to say, on the part of the cynical, that the wear- ing of badges, so much in vogue to-day among the women, old, middle-aged and young, of California and all other States of the Union, is due to their love of dis- play and mania for adornment so inherent in their nature. No, the cause of it lies akes yearly visits, 13 at Ngeeper, and has its source in a much more noble and ennobling passion. They ‘re- member the Maine,” and they also remem- ber how inoffensive women and children in Cuba have been persecuted, tortured and ruthlessly butchered by Spain, and now that Uncle Sam has torn off the shackles that bound him and has entered the arena to battle for the cause of hu- manity and to avenge the dastardly deed of treachery by the dons in assassinating 266 loyal, brave and unoffending American citizens while they peacefully slept in their bunks aboard the Maine as she rode at anchor in Havana harbor, the humane, tender-hearted, sympathetic matrons and j.maidens of the land rejoice that American manhood is at last asserting itself to in- flict righteous punishment upon the cruel Spaniards for all their latter-day barbar- ism, and to liberate from thraldom to Spanish tyranny the courageous, liberty- seeking Cubans. This gladdens the hearts of our loyal mothers, wives and daughters, and they give outward expression to their feelin; Y weaflng the badge of patriotism. Al honor to them! and may the day speedily come when they shall be allowed to ex- ercise the highest rifht of American citi- zenship—the ri, 8‘}{“’\1 :Aué(ragé:.y ST D BR. . Fruitvale, Cal., May 12. — - PRESIDENT JORDAN AND THE NEW CHARTER. Editor of The Call—Sir: As some persons have misinterpreted “r. Jordan's written opin- fon on the prospects of the New Charter you will oblige me by explaining that his letter is strictly limited to the terms expressed, and that he was not prepared to give his opinion on any other point. His letter is as follows and speaks clearly for itself: J. H. STALLARD. XASMIN HOUSB, Stanford University. I believe that the chief cause of the faiiure of municipal government in the United States lies in the conversion of the public service into patronage to be distributed among personal fa- vorites and partisan workers. The proposed charter of San Francisco perpetuates this con- dition of the distribution of patronage by in- dividuals and cliques. It therefore offers mightly little! promise of reform, either in effectiveness or In_economy. DAVID STARR JORDAN. —_————— THE WAR AND THE EDITORS The victory won in Philippine waters will endear the navy more than ever to the American people, give it a stronger claim for liberal treatment and insure its writing another glorious page in Ameri- can history.—Philadelphia Press. “I can scarcely restraln my joyous emotions,” shouted the Spanish Minister of Marine when the first misleading dispatch was received from Manila. And then Madrid was placed under martial law. Funny fellows, those Spaniards.— Chicago Times-Herald. Not having found it convenient in sev- eral years to say a good word for any- body, the Hon. John James Ingalls is moved by the Manila battle to acknowl- edge that “Admiral Dewey is worthy of a place in history.” Probably John James is getting lonesome.—Chicago Record. “I see by the papers,” said the Splendid Specimen of Western Manhood from Ne- braska, ‘“that one F. Lee has been ap- pointed to a major generalship, but I can’t recall the man. There used to be & Hung Lee in Lincoln, but they say this person conies from Virginia. I will have to make inquiries.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. In time of war the President is the United States in person, and accusations against him are treason. Treason, be- cause every word spoken which will ‘weaken him personally will make obedi- ence to his orders more difficult to those who believe that word, and will thus weaken the power of the United States— for it is the very keynote of our Govern- ment that it derives its power from the willing service of free men.—Syracuse Herald. ‘What particular objection the European continental powers can have to our tak- ing the Philippine Islands is difficult to understand. We must have a coaling sta- tion in Asiatic waters, and we are entitled to seize Spanish territory to hold by way of indemnity. Russia, England and all the rest of our nelghbors know well enough that we do not desire to annex islands off the Chinese coast, and there should not be any question of our bona fides In the matter.—Washington Times. To speak of the United States as an un- warltke nation is nonsense, unless it is meant that we do not make a business of war or maintain great armies and arma- ments at all times. But we have repeat- edly demonstrated that our citizen s«i- diery can be recruited and mobilized in times to make it interesting for nations that have large standing armies. We do not keep vast standing armies, but our people spring to arms when there is need with an alacrity that shows a strong and virile character that aspires with good reason to the hegemony of the world.— Loulsville Courfer-Journal. —_———— WHAT ONE SOLDIER EATS. How many young men who are thirst- ing for war know what “emergency ra- tions” mean? In the first place, what is an ‘“emer- gency?” It is such an occasion as requires troops to subsist on food carried on their per- sons. Emergency rations are rations for All He Gets on an Emergency March. five days, that being the limit of the time during which the men can live on the ration and keep up their fighting strength. A day's emergency ration consists of 10 ounces of bacon, 16 ounces of hard bread, 4 of peameal, 4 of coffee or half an oun of tea, 4 gralns of saccharine, 64-1 ounces of salf, 4T ounces of pepper, half an ounce of tobacco. Put into fives day packages, the emergency rations are kept at all military posts ready for imme= diate use. —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib aL Townsend's.® At e AR hoadhetde Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Cl!pvlng Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monte gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_——e———— Last week we received 67 new patterns of moldings for picture frames, Flemish and old Dutch oaks, bone ebony, grays, Persian greens, seal browns, muhognnr. cherry, natural raw woods and fine gold lacquers. These are now on sale. lan- born, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. ¢ —_—————————— ““Here Is a short poem taken from the French,” said the would-be contributor. “The French should be everlastingly grateful” snorted the editor, as he opened the door and bowed a series of short bows.—Detroit Free Press, — e——— Excursion to the Yeliowstone Park. A personally conducted excursign will leave this city July 12 for the Yellowstone Park, via the *Shasta Route’ and Northern Pacific Rail- way. Tourists will be accommodated in first- cless Pullman cars, and tickets will be sold, including berths, meals and trip through the Park. Send for circular giving rate and jtinerary to T. K. 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