The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1898 SPRECKELS, Sl el USRS T TR R T ) Address All Commu ICWKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFIiCE ..Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 186 EDITORIAL ROOMS... ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per month 66 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL... OAKLAND OFFICE ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room [88, World Buildiag DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE. Marquette Buflding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertiging Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 8:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. jungles, as in Cuban chaparral, the fighting blood of | AMUSEMENTS. s-Oceante Star Specialty Oo. s Love tington and Her Son Ike.” <neisel Quartet, Thursday afternoon. le. and “Visions of Art. ' ason and Eddy streets, Specialties. n boating, Sshing, every Sunday, d—Races Friday afternoon. AUCTION SALES. his day, May 25. Furniture, at 11 ock. Also, contents of ay 25, Horses, 3t 827 Sixth v, May 25 Agateware, at 414 McAllis- & Co.—Thursday, May 26, Rugs, at 106 2, Horses, at San Mateo Stock aN OVERESTIMATE. R UF esteemed evening contemporary, the ern Pacific Post, says that a cogent rea- n for the adoption of the proposed charter 1 Francisco is represented in the State Senate by eleven Senators and in the As- When it is con- sidered that San Francisco is represented in the Sen- »nly nine Senators and in the Assembly by this reason is not so nd in the fact that San sembly by twenty-one Assemblymen. ate by c een A t as it appears at first pleased to note that our r on en, oad contemporary is i However, we are guilty of overestimating. usually shy on everything. All through the campaign they have been shy on taxes, shy on facts, shy on appropriations, shy The fact that they are hy on legislative delegates from this city is a hopeful sign. If the charter election were a few days further away we might get them to estimating on the finances of the document and thereby induce them to realize some of the enormities of the system which they are endeavoring to fasten upon the unsuspecting n law. people of this city. s s e r— WHY BE TRICKY ? > HE new charter is a terrapin. It professes to provide for the voter any kind of meat he likes, from chicken to pork sausage. To illustrate: In the provision for the purchase of | pu utilities it is provided that the same may be done by issuing bonds “payable in lawful money of the United States,” and that “the Supervisors shall de- cide at the time of the issue of the bonds in what lawful money of the United States said bonds shall be payable.” This is one of the tricks of the charter. It is in- tended to secure the votes of all sides of the financial issue, and to fool all but one side. The silver and legal tender men are expected to vote for it, and it is of course expected that if adopted the Supervisors | will decide that the bonds issued under it shall be made payable in gold. The gold men are invited to vote for it in the belief that gold only will be made the basis of the bond issue. It will be seen, then, that in this most important of its provisions the charter is not honest and is a sort of shell game,and in such games everyone knows that it is the most trusting who arethe most deceived. If the charter had been honestly made and frankly intended it would have plainly recited that such bonds should be paid in such lawful money of 4he United States, cither gold, silver or paper, as the city might choose the moment of maturity. Then at such maturity city would select the cheapest of the three forms Jawful currency. This reservation of the option to the city of the kind of money of final payment would have been honest with all parties and none would have been deceived, while the charter as it stands solicits the votes of all parties with the inten- tion to betray finally all of them but one. An instru- ment so artfully framed for deception in one of its most important features is not deserving the support of honest gold, silver or greenback men. One trait betrays character, and this one feature is a revelation of the deceptive character of the whole instrument, and it should be beaten in the interest of good and honest government. o i e ——— 5 School Director Waller does not manifest the joy that might have been expected at the opportunity to demonstrate his innocence of the charge of having <olicited a bribe. It would seem that an honest man thus accused would have rushed to the courts and demanded a thorough vindication. There is considerable nonsensical jabble about street car employes being forced to oppose the charter. People are aware that under the Australian ballot system there is no way in which anybody can be forced to oppose anything. Labor organizations oppose the appointment of Otis to a generalcy, but there may be consolation for them in the fact that if sent to Manila he will take a chance of permanent elimination from local affairs. A Gérman paper is most unkind to charge Ameri- cans with securing titled husbands for their daugh- ters. Any nation hates to be twitted on facts. Admiral Dewey seems to have an idea that the gen- tlemen who happen to be in his vicinity with gun- bo: re not running Manila. 3 Spanish plans for exterminating the Cuban people seem to be confined to such of the Cubans as are unarmed. The charter advocates are | THEY SAILED INTO HISTORY. HE first regiments of American soldiers to go Tfighling beyond seas have sailed out of the Golden Gate into history. When time and the records deal with soldiers no question is asked why they fought. It is enough to know that in some cause | and obeying some command the men offered their lives under the banner of their nationality. How many know why the Spartans were at the pass of Thermopylae? But all men know what they did there. How many know why Xenophon and his 10,000 Greeks made their march back to the sea? But millions who never saw the Anabasis know the story of that exhibition of Grecian pluck and valor. We do not discuss the politics of war, but we thrill as the soldiers go to battle, and melt to sympathy as the cloud of carnage passes and the sun kisses the ;dcad and dries the red fountain of their devotion. The American soldier needs no testimony to his qual- | ity. The certificate of his fighting virtue is written from Lexington to Appomattox. We have learned that Jo Wheeler’s cavalry and Stoneman’s saddle bri- gade were Americans, and all fought with courage worthy their common ancestry. The same pick of men have sailed away from us and more will follow. The orders of their country are upon them and have been obeyed. In Philippine | our cotntrymen will be freely spent, and our soldiers | will go on Fame's eternal bead roll. As these regiments sail away the strength of their ranks is in the hardened thews of fair-browed boys given by their mothers to their motherland. Many a lad among them looked his last upon his native land Jas the green shores of California merged with the | fading horizon. But when they fight they will fight | like Americans, and if they fall they will die like men, | and their memories will be cherished to the end. ! California feels a new honor in having been their | rendezvous, and her soil is hallowed by their foot- iprin!s. When her orchards blush and her vineyards | purple under her autumn suns the story of their pa- | triotism will be told while men rest from their labor | h their children to be men by the | and women teac! | story of these young heroes who go from us to glory !undcr the flag that never sheltered a coward mor ‘ waved over a tyrant. | This State feels a mother’s interest in these thou- | sands of young soldiers and will thrill with a mother’s | pride while they fight and weep 2 mother’s tears when they fall. THE ELECTION OF SENATORS. HE vote taken in the House of Representatives | Ton the proposed constitutional amendment pro viding for the election of United States Senators | by direct vote of the people resulted in 184 ayes to 11 noes. This was so near an approach to unanimity that it has had the effect of rousing public interest in the subject notwithstanding the war, and it is now being discussed in the East as an issue likely to be pressed to settlement in the near future. The overwhelming majority in the House in favor | of the change is certainly surprising, for, while it has | been under consideration for a long time, the general | supposition has been that the conservatism of the country was against it and that there was little pros- | pect of its adoption. This view, however, has been 1 apparently ill-founded. The Republican party repre- | sents the conservative element of the people, and the House the conservative branch of Congress. There- fore, when the House, with its strong Republican ma- jority, goes almost solidly in favor of the change, it | | is clear that conservatism itself is ready to accept it. A multitude of considerations have combined to bring about this unexpected agreement among men of all parties in the House in favor of what would be a radical alteration in the constitution. The charges of bribery in Senatorial elections have become so com- mon and some of them are clearly so well founded that many would like the system of election by Legis- latures abolished for the sake of getting rid of the attendant corruption. In other cases ambitious men | in the House who aspire to the Senate believe they would have a better chance of success if the vote were left directly to the people. A third class is so discon- tented with the Senate as at present constituted that it would welcome almost any change in its mode of election as a means of obtaining some change in the kind of men elected. Along with these reasons for: desiring a change there is the further and more important one that the Senate has now become in every respect the most potent and notable branch of Congress. By reason of the pressure of business upon it the House has long since given up all attempts at genuine debate. prepared in committees and when reported - are put prompt transaction of business, has deprived orators of all opportunity for the exercise of their powers and the display of their talents. A man who cannot speak at all has as much chance for success in the House to-day as would one who had the eloquence of Clay and the logic of Webster. Tt is different in the Senate. In that body alf im- portant bills are thoroughly discussed. It is through the Senatorial debates that the country learns the nature of the measures before Congress. This of course increases public interest in the Senate and gives the Senator a more commanding position than is enjoyed by the member of the House, who is per- haps never permitted to speak at all on any subject whatever from the time he enters Corgress until he squits it. From this condition of affairs there comes 2 desire to bring the Senate into direct responsibility to the people. This desire seems to be shared by al- most every man in the House. Certainly a vote of 184 to 11 is a sufficient evidence that the change will not meet with any great opposition among the states- men and the politicians of the country who, being now out of the Senate, have an ambition to enter it. Colonel Cortijo does not speak with kindness of Americans as hosts, and yet he fared much better while a prisoner than any American in the hands of the Spanish will. He got plenty to eat. and the Span- ish style of placing himt against a stone wall and fill- ing him full of rifle balls was carefully avoided. As rats desert a sinking ship, it is not likely that Spain will just now find any active supporters among the powers. France may indulge in hysterics and Austria talk from a safe distance, but this littfe affair between the United States and Spain will be con- ducted without regard to them. 1t is understood that some of the “feather-bed” coldiers of the East enlisted on the supposition that war was a long-drawn-out picnic. One of the few pleasing features of the campaign will be to observe them during the process of being undeceived. It is no longer a deliberative assembly. TIts bills are | through with a rush. This system, necessary for the | THE MAYOR OF THE CHARTER. E scarcely credit the rumor that Dr. O'Donnell | \/\/ intends to resume the cultivation of his mayor- | alty aspirations in the event of the adoption | of the proposed charter. Yet stranger things than that have happened. The doctor is an American citizen —a descendant of the Carrolls of Carrollton, in fact— and he possesses the inalienable right of all American citizens to run for office. He is entitled to have his name placed upon the official ballot, and when it is there all registered voters who choose may vote for | him. In short, if the people want O’Donnell for Mayor, under the proposed charter as well as under the consolidation act, they can have him. Nor are we entirely clear that the doctor would make a bad Mayor. On the contrary we feel safe in saying that he would perform his duties better than Kalloch did and as well as Sutro attempted to. Under the proposed new charter, indeed, it would not be difficult to discharge the functions of the office. If Dr. O'Donnell should be elected Mayor, defeating Hon. James D. Phelan after a hot contest—which he might easily do by making a greater number of prom- ises than the congscience of the latter permitted—he would suffer little or no inconvenience in administer- ing the duties of his important trust. The doctor al- ways said it was not the emoluments but the honor ofi the office which he coveted. Such being the case, he would naturally desire to retain the honor per- manently, even if he did not desire to establish a baronial family in San Francisco and inaugurate a new line of blue-blooded Carrolls. How easy it would be for him to turn the Fire De- partment over to Sam Rainey, the Police Department over to Martin Kelly, and the Board of Public Works over to Phil Crimmins. Doubtless these gentlemen would make a contract with him to manage his cam- paigns for the remainder of his life. With Mr. Buckley in charge of the School Board and the doctor himself personally attending to the Department of Health, there is no question in the world that the city would have for two years at least a model and efficient government. That the Chinese would “go” under such a government is almost certain. Possibly other people would “go” also, but in the end all would return. The resumption of flush times at the City Hall would ultimately cause everybody, like the cat, to come back. Nor is it necessary in surmising what result would follow the election of Dr. O'Donnell, should he re- sume his mayoralty campaign, to assume that he | would not be governed by the highest and purest mo- | tives. An official invested with such unparalleled | powers as are conferred by the proposed charter upon | the Mayor would have to depend upon somebody. What more natural than that a man possessed of the doctor’s soaring ambition should turn to the king- makers—the Raineys, the Kellys and the Crimminses? They might not be able to keep him in office forever, | but they could by making promises get a two years’ whack at the treasury. | It is well known that Dr. O’Donnell aspires to be- i come Governor. He ran for the office once and made a respectable showing. On another occasion he came within 1000 votes of being elected Mayor of this | city. He has always maintained that he was counted cut. There is reason to believe that he was. But he never would be counted out under the proposed charter; nor would any Mayor unless he happened to be a fool Mayor. The power to appoint the Elec- | tion Commission would insure us an honest ballot d a fair count—at least so far as the Mayor was | | | | an | concerned. e ettt e THE PHILIPPINE EXPEDITION. S the first American military expedition for the fl invasion of a foreign soil the departure of the troops for Manila inevitably appears both to | ourselves and to other nations as an act marking a | new era in our national development. Its effect upon the world will largely exceed any that may be pro- | duced by the coming occupation of Cuba, for the }West Indies are within the sphere of the influence | we have long exerted, but the extension of that in- | fluence to the Orient is something wholly unforeseen and unexpected. | | discussion concerning its probable consequences. In Continental Europe it seems to be regarded as an evidence of a newly developed greed on our part for conquest and is there denounced as a menace to the peace of the world. trary, it is looked upon as a step which will lead the United States to take a prominent part in the larger politics of nations, and as the British need the aid of some strong power to enable them to make head against the coalitions of the Continent, our appear- | ance in the field is regarded with sanguine hopeful- ness and the highest favor. In our own country the expedition is the object of | as many different opinions as in Europe. Some of the most influential papers of the country regard it as | the beginning of a colonial expansion which will ad- vance our commerce in the East and start us along a path that within a few years will give us the maritime supremacy of the world. Others see in it a danger to ourselves of portentous magnitude. They regard it as a temptation to break away from the wise counsels of Washington and the principle of Monroe to follow the practices of Napoleon and the policy of Britain, with the result that we shall have to take part in all European quarrels and surrender much of our in- dustrial prosperity in order to maintain a military prestige. Which of these views is right must be left to the future to determine. At the present juncture we can do nothing but go forward. We cannot forego reaping the advantage gained by Dewey’s splendid victory, nor can we leave him at Manila without re-enforce- ments sufficient to maintain his hold on the islands and drive back any force the Spanish may send against him. On that point there are no differences of opinion. The expedition sails to the Orient bear- ing with it the desires, the hopes and the blessings of all. It is certainly a most unexpected development of his- tory which has so ordered affairs that our first military expedition across the sea should start from California and move westward; that while circumstances have checked and baffled the movements of our fleets and armies in the Atlantic, a broad, free way should have been opened for us in the Pacific. The forces which have brought about this result without our planning it may have other surprises in store for us. The twen- tieth century may see this coast the principal seat of our expanding enterprise and the Pacific Ocean the | scene of our greatest activities. | i | | | 1% P ] Several days ago the Oregon was reported at Key West. Now it is said not to have been there. While there are many correspondents anxious to tell the facts just as they are, it must be admitted that of late the wires have developed eccentricities. There is said to be another crisis in Spain, but to unbiased observers it appears to be the same old crisls, The new departure has given rise to a far-reaching | In Great Britain, on the con- | AN ENGLISH-A little affair with Spain. up the cry: gression of these boastful Americans! how? .c.el\'gd prejudices against France. which depends largely upon America: gone 1oo, far.”—New York Herald. TWO TO MA an Anglo-Saxon alliance, and that su at the cost of war. from one of the most influential me Anglo-Saxon alliance unless such an country. In this connection it would ly feeling toward Great Britain has beginning of the quarrel with Spain. orous foreign policy and alliance with Great Britain would pre The battle of Manila, with its con: alllance a distinct possibility, and, sh tinental Europe assume a d then be a decided probability. NATIONS OF pathy with the United States made place? It would simply mean that F' land as Spain will be by the United any other European power except Ru power. France, Germany, A the water to a much greater exte: vessels and men would show. In have often whipped much la ocean. The only nation of t nt t! the AMERICANS WILL * It would not be in the nature of t . e Fe a wide difference. Chamberlain would not talk so glibly Ministerial orgars in England so enc pine Islands for an American colony, this administration; but between the long way. As to the British, it do | of semi-savages of the Philippines. Philadelphia Record. THE EMPIRE world.” Mr. Chamberlain’s speech, American alllance, is an awful deton: and the beginning of a new epoch in | against each other; all | against the Anglo-Saxons. ens to take on. It is theless, is to be the issue; that is to admonished us, if we desired the per of closet scholars and patriots. War rides out of the shades, the empire is TOUCHED B England. We have no hesitation in tional good feeling, peace and progre: | | | our traditional, time-tested policy of | 1 friendship for the United States evol this country. | earth. | | World. MAY GIVE A Nobody can doubt that England the world” for our blessings. The C other flag could have brought them. standards of humanity are those of come, we shall be found helping the the earth.—New York Tribune. COMBINATION &n alliance that is defensive. other nations. and Express. ported to have said: “Closer Anglo. take to call the Americans Saxons.” it. The Americans have never calle: tion. Prince Bismarck says it does might have cited the authority of the to talk about the Anglo-Saxon race. character of any people. CHAMBERLAIN Just at this time it will be a moral ‘We appreciate the kindness and shall Colonies of Great Britain would be stars and stripes and the crogs of St l France is dreadfully annoyed with America. ably representative of French national sentiment, One after another the leading “Europe must unite, and France in the lead, t Then Mr. Chamberlain makes a speech that rings th Great Britaln sides with America, eh? Perhaps we have been too sudd creeps up and down the spinal column of the B Debats in a leader admits that America is entering upon tional career, and it is important that America does no ‘“Business, of this quasi-campaign against the United States in £ In 2 speech delivered Friday to his consti berlain, Colonial Secretary in the British Ministry, This is a very important stat course, it takes two to make a bargain; hence be idle to deny that Should the result of the present W the retention of the capturt omptly become as ne against a combination of all the Englis! ecided pro- —New Orleans Picayune. Some Paris papers are hysterically erying out tl mean war between England and France. case, of course, England would be ove in ships and men, a stronger navy th Her superiority, indeed, is even greater England is the only European nation ustria an duced great naval fighters is the Uhite: between the Cabinets at Washington and London. question of ambitious longings for an imperial system under the auspices of | | concern the rest of the European nations. i about it, and while thinking about it they are not to be cajoled into an Anglo- | American alliance by the fulsome flatteries of the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.— pet blast ringing from heaven to hell, that arrays the nations o the nations of Latin, or German, or Slav origin Are we prepared for it? phase the war with Spain the American land pirates have inaugurated threat- & monstrous rific in its possibilities that men refuse to contemplate it. The enthusiasm which Mr. Chamberlain’s frank and cordial amounts to a notice to the nations of the Great Britain is ready to wake its thunders in d if they elect to interfere fn the trouble now on beetfm %tu:h:o:::l; :n MERICAN ALLIANCE. The French press, presum- is bitterly against us in our journals of Paris took o check the ag- rough the world. “So h America’s policy, en”—and a feeling of nervousness oulevard thunderers. The an enlarged interna- t begin with precon- » continues this specious pleader, has already felt the effects avor of Spain. We have And agrees Wit n patronage, KE A BARGAIN. tuents, the Hon. Joseph Cham- declared that he favored tion was desirable, even ement, coming, as it does, British Government. Of be no hope of an t should be popular in this. an extremely friend- Americans since the ch a consummal mbers of the there can arrangemen sprung up among o the adoption of a Vig- ed Spanish colonies, an cessaty to us as it 1d probably greatly ar force us int is admitted to be to Great Britain. Combined Europe cou v damage both the United States and Great Britain, if acting index:enden:'layi.l but pot all the forces of Europe and Asia combined could hope to pre’ es. dered an Anglo-Saxon f the powers of Con- alliance would h-speaking peopl sequences, has ren ould the attitude o Spanish tinge, such an NAVAL FIGHTERS. hat the expressions of sym- by Messrs. Salisbury and Chamberlain Well, what if such a war takes 1d be as badly beaten by Eng- A war between England and ssia would be a naval war, and in that rwhelmingly victorious. England has, an any other three nations in Europe. than those figures would indicate, for whose sailors show skill and fighting d Italy are weaker than England on han even their inferiority in numbers of wars of the past 200 years British fleets rance Wou States. rger armaments of Spanish and French on the he modern day besides England which has pro- d States.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. THINK ABOUT IT. he American people to be ungrateful for the friendly expressions that come from Great Britain in this crisis; and this British sentiment is all the more gratifying in its contrast with the decidedly fnimical tone of the people of the Continent of Europe. ing of grateful recognition and a desire for the Anglo-American alliance sketched In the Birmingham speech of the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain there is | It is (by Europe) assumed that But between a feel- Mr. Joseph | of an Anglo-American alliance, and the ouragingly of the seizure of the Philip- if a perfect understanding did not exist sosca s Thered i no desire and the accomplishment it is a es not matter to them what follles the American people may commit in inaugurating a colonial rule over the millions Nor does such an experiment seriously But the American people will think IS UPON US { At the beginning of hostilities we suggested that these fearful complica- | | tions were likely to occur, and the only answer was, “Oh, we can lick the | in England, declaring for an Anglo-| ation that marks the closing of the old | the history of the world. It is a trum- | f the world | This is the tremendous | contemplate. So ter-| But that, never- All the principles that un- thing to be the war. derlie our governmental policy; that Washington and Jefferson taught us and petuity and glory of our country to ob-| serve, are to be “turned down” or to become the mere clap-trap of schools and and conquest be before us, the republic is fading away; war and conquest confront us and the man on horseback | upon us.—New Orleans Daily States. | Y CORDIALITY. As we are neither supercilious nor ill-mannered we are much obliged to | saying that her cordiality has touched | us, and that we are ready to meet her half way in all that makes for interna- ss. That Is, all that is consistent with avolding entangling foreign alliances. and practical | ked in England is no greater than the outburst of generous appreciation which it has received and is receiving in| In this connection It is interesting to recall what Thomas Jef- | ferson once said on the subject of a good understanding with England: “Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one or all on With her on our side we need not fear the whole world.” was sald when our revolutionary wounds were still smarting.—New York And that FRIENDLY HAND. has been the missionary of civilization, and that taking our part in her tasks we should be “repaying something to ‘ontinental politicians may call the Eng- lish talk of duty to the dark races hypocrisy, but no man who looks at Eng- lish rule in Egypt and India, who compares English with French, German and Russian colonizing, can doubt that with the English flag have gone bless- ings never known before by the barbarians over whom it floats, such as no ‘Whether we are to have a “far-flung | battle line,” or, keeping close at home, are to exercise only a moral influence on the rest of the world, as our ideals of liberty, our promptings of duty, our England, we may well give a friendly hand to the “weary Titan” and be glad if, when the fullness of our time has English to enlighten the dark places of OF PEOPLES. On the question of a direct alllance, governing future action, publicists across the border draw a distinction between an alllance that is offensive and They may not be prepared to enter with Great Britaln Into wars of an aggressive character; but they speak with satisfaction of a combination of both nations to resist aggressive action from one or more Nor do they view such a step with feelings other than of pride. They would like to stand side by side with the old mother land.—Toronto Mail CONSIDERED AS ANGLO-SAXON. Speaking of Chamberlain’s Birmingham speech, Prince Bismarck is re- -American relations are doubtless feasi- ble, but an alliance is improbable, unserviceable to both. Besides, it is a mis- It would be quite as hard to substantiate this assertion as to refute it, while the burden of proof is upon him who makes d themselves Saxons, but they have al- ways considered that the Anglo-Saxon element predominated in the popula- not. To substantiate his assertion he late Edward Freeman, who asserted that there was no such a thing as an Anglo-Saxon, and nothing so irritated him as The Angles and the Saxons both hav- ing been overthrown and finally subjugated by William the Norman, it is p;”““‘s m;"""t to speak of the English of to-{iay as Anglo«eSaxom, but the phrase to-day is used synonymously with “English”; and as applied to the Amerfcans it means descendants of the English. * * * * There are no sta- tistics to determine exactly this question of what race predominates in the United States, but there Is no question that Anglo-Saxon political ideas pre- dominate, and the political Oig:eu &nd ideals are what really determine the er races t & in very small degree the political ideas c’:“i‘m:”im‘?fli'y" s.fiorzlo:‘ n:{]e “}32{&2‘? purposes it is pre-eminently Anglo-Saxon.—Salt Lake Herald. Y WAS GENEROUS. That was very generous talk on the part of Mr. . Chamberlain at Birming- ham, when he spoke for an alliance of the Anglo-Saxon peoples of ther:lu:.: support to us in the Old World, for it Continent that every battle-ship of d stripes nd Spain. not forget it when the war shall be over. All those expressions are filed away. But who would h: While ago that In this year of our Lord, the Frenen meoms woms Soe 2 latlo Americans from the sidewalks in Paris, and the Secretary of State for 12:' recommending an alliance between the George?—Salt Lake Tribune ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM-—tT. t:&. ;Sl Resa, Cal. According to e - fnaal:!t:c h de Gotha, Kink Leopold of Bel- gium is a Catholic. VALKYRIE-VIGILANT—-A. W. B, City. This department is unable to find any record of the Vigilant having been defeated by the Valkyrie in British wat- ers. A MINER'S INCH—B. S. S., Liver- more, Cal. A ‘“miner's inch” is the amount of water that will pass in twen ty-four hours through an opening or inch square, under a pressure of si inches. Rl QUOTATION WANTED — C.-B. 8, Fresno, Cal. This correspondent wants to know where is_to be found ‘‘My heart is as gray as my head.” Can any of the readers of this department inform the correspondent? POLL TAX—A. V. J., Point Arena, Cal. The question asked about poil ta: answered in The Call of Saturday 34, 1898, in reply to a similar que propounded by another correspondent. SERVANT'S WAGES —D. M., City. Whether a servant working for a private family, discharged without cause before the end of the month, is entitled to a full month’s pay, Is a matter of contract at the time the servant accepted the posi- tion. THE MONITOR—E. H. W., City. The little ironclad Monitor which defeated the Confederate ironclad Merrimac in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1 was built by John Ericsson, engineer and invent- or, a native of Langbanshyttan, Sweden, born July 31, 1803, died March §, 1889. KRAG-JORGENSEN RIFLE—E. F. T. May ion F., City. A recent test with a Krag- Jorgensen rifle demonstrated that the penetrating power of the rifle was through sixty inches of seasoned pine, while that of the old army rifie was but twelve inches. WEDDING PRESENTS—H. G., City. Wedding presents have engraved on them the initials of the newly wedded wife. They are intended as gifts to the wifa and not to the maiden, therefore, it would not be proper to place the initials of her malden name upon them. TROOPS FOR THE PHILIPPINES— Petricio, City. The reason that cav: is not being sent from the National of California to the Philippine Island because such branch of the service not included for California in the a: ing of the quota for .the several St under the President’s call for volunteers. WASHING:ON—S. A. M., City. When George Washington died the family homestead at Mount Vernon went to a nephew, Bushrod Washington, who lived from 1762 to 1829, and was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1798 to 1829. At his death the homestead went to John A. Washington, a nephew, who disposed of it to the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association. WHITEHEAD TORPEDO—O. W., City. The Whitehead torpedo is driven by a propeiler moved by compressed air. It has a speed of 32 to 33 knots an hour for 432 yards, and 30 knots an hour for a run of 75 yards. The torpedo can be pro- jected from a launching tube or started by hand. It is capable of regulating or preserving its depth and direction within narrow limits in still water; but cross- currents or seaweed may obstruct and in- troduce large variations. It can be set to explode on contact or after a definite time, and to either sink or rise to the sur- face after finishing its course. PRINTING AND WRITING—O. O. Y. 8., City. The difference between a sSpy who comes to the United States to obtain information of the fortifications in order to transmit in writing the same to the Government that sent him, and the writ- er for a yellow journal who gives infor- mation through such a paper of the con- dition of the fortifications, is that the spy is always an intelligent man, well versed in the particular line which he is sent to obtain information about, while a writer for a yellow journal is one who knows nothing about the matter he writes about, and, therefore, what he furnishes is so_ unreliable that a hostile nation would not be misled by it. A hostile na- tion wants better information than what can be found in yellow journals. —_————————— Finest eyeglasses, specs; 15¢. 65 Fourth, ——————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_————————— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Tclephone Main 1042 —_—ee———— Among women who have oifered thelr services as nurses during the war is the beautiful wife of Lieutenant-Commander Marix, Judge Advocate of the Maine Board of Inquiry. She is best known to the public as Miss Grace Filkins, the leading woman of Charles Coghlan's company during this season. e e Excursion to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. A select party of educators and sclentists will leave San Francisco Monday, cune §, for the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in charge of Professor Emory Smith of Palo Alto. Very low rates have been made, and a pleasant and profitable trip 1s -sured. Full particulars at Santa Fe office, 64 Market st. —_— e e———— «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by milllons of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. 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